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By Cheryl Conway
T
hanks to a local groupof volunteers, morethan 700 economical-
ly disadvantaged studentswill be walking into schoolnext month with new schoolsupplies, stylish clothes andmore confidence.
The National Council of Jewish Women, EssexCounty Section(NCJW/Essex) held itsannual Back 2 School Store(B2SS), Sun., Aug. 2, atB’Nai Shalom in WestOrange. Children in gradeskindergarten through fourthfrom Newark, East Orangeand surrounding areasshopped from 9:30 a.m. to 4p.m.
As advocates for women,children and families, theB2SS has been an ideal pro-gram of the NCJW since itbegan participating in 2009.
“This project fits in sowell with our mission,” saysLisa Blumert, director of
communication for theNCJW Essex chapter. “Wewant them to have a betterstart; a healthier start.”
Children who are eco-nomically disadvantaged
tend to start off school witha disadvantage if they do nothave proper supplies andeven clothing to succeed.
“There are a lot of disad-vantaged children in ourbackyard,” she says.
The B2SS has benefittednearly 3,000 children andutilized more than 2,000volunteers during the pastseven years. This year, 700children with the aid of more than 400 volunteers,including one-on-one per-sonal shoppers were expect-ed.
Hundreds of childrenfrom kindergarten throughfifth grade are identifiedannually by partner agenciesand invited to “shop” cost-free for new school supplies,clothes, and personal careitems in a department-store-type setting with 4,000square feet set up just forthem.
Throughout the year,local individuals, families,
and businesses donate thebrand new clothes and sup-plies. With financial contri-butions made, NCJW volun-teers also shop for brand-new clothes and supplies in
major retail stores.With the assistance of
NCJW volunteer “personalshoppers,” each child isescorted
through the store to selectand try on clothing to createan entire new outfit includ-ing a shirt, pants, sneakers,socks, underwear, winter
jacket, hat and gloves.Volunteers also act as shoefitters, staff private fittingrooms and restock invento-ry.
In addition to the clothes,children are given a newbackpack which they fillwith school supplies andpersonal care items.
The event is not open tothe public as children arerecognized by more than 30local social service agenciesas needing additional finan-cial support.
“We partner with about32 agencies,” says Blumert.“They identify the childrenbased on need and we sign
them up.”While the children are
shopping with their personalshopper, parents do not gointo the store, she adds. It isthe goal of the program to
“empower these children tomake choices and go shop-ping,” says Blumert.
By shopping without aparent, children “gain confi-dence and make somechoices on what they wantto wear and what colorbackpack they want.”
Parents and caregivers,meanwhile, are invited tovisit the onsite GaelenFamily Resource Center atthe synagogue for freehealth screenings for chil-dren, blood pressure screen-ings, glucose tolerance test-ing, eye exams and properdental care for children.Information about health,community and career serv-ices, as well as educationalopportunities, is also acces-sible through the center.
For more informationabout the Back 2 SchoolStore, visit the NCJW/Essex website, www.ncjwessex.org/volunteer/back-2-school-store/.
The NCJW is a grass-roots, non-sectarian organi-zation of volunteers andadvocates, inspired byJewish values that strivefor social justice by
Volunteers Help Disadvantaged Children ShopFor Free School Supplies And Clothes
improving the quality of life for women, children,
and families and by safe-guarding individual rightsand freedoms. With morethan 3,200 members, EssexCounty Section is thelargest of the more than
100 NCJW sections aroundthe country. The section
was founded in 1912 andmaintains offices inLivingston.
For more informationand upcoming events, logon to www.ncjwessex.org.
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It is tempting to compare our brains to computers, butwhen it comes to speed, a neuron takes its time, sendingsignals at a maximum of 180 miles (280 km) per hour,
the top speed of a Formula One racecar, or a quarter of the
speed of sound. In comparison, an electrical circuitapproaches the speed of light, which is 671 million miles(1.08 billion km) per hour. Clearly, speed is not our strongsuit when we are pitted against a circuit board. Our advan-tage is understanding ñ not mindlessly crunching ones andzeros. Yet for some reason, math educators continue toemphasize speed at the expense of humanity's greater giftsof interpretation and problem solving.
With schools choreographed by hourly bells and stan-dardized tests timed to the second, we seem to be convincedthat the clock is as instructive as the blackboard. Severalchains of after-school learning centers reflect this philoso-phy, notably Kumon, whose students drill math worksheets
repeatedly under the unforgiving supervision of a stop-watch. A quick search of YouTube turns up dozens of stressed, frustrated Kumon students venting their rage, evenburning the worksheets in one video. Clearly, this type of approach has emotional ramifications, especially for a gen-eration of students who already bring home record amountsof homework.
Is this stress necessary when a calculator is rarely out of reach? Timed repetition does show some improvementwithin its narrow focus ñ an observation going back to class-room studies from the 1970s ñ but drilling scores of similarproblems encourages students to develop algorithmic think-ing and mental shortcuts that distance their minds from the
underlying logic of the equation. In psychology, thesecrutches are called heuristics (from the French word for
ìhour). Heuristics save time when solving familiar prob-lems, yet rule out analysis, making unfamiliar ones seemimpossible to solve.
Math has become a race, and more like a 100-yard dashthan a marathon. The latest fad in math class is the ìMadMinute,î an exercise for which students scramble to answeras many problems as possible in 60 seconds with no optionto poll the audience, phone a friend, or even raise theirhands. It seems hardly coincidental that the Mad Minuteshares its name with a World War I military drill, whichtrained British soldiers to shoot their rifles so quickly thattheir enemies could mistake them for machine guns.
The mindset of timed drills treats each problem type as aseparate race to be won with reflexes. This approach is dis-
jointed and ultimately ineffective, because math is a contin-uum of topics. For a deeper understanding, students need a
bird's-eye view of how the pieces fit together. The startinggun and the finish line are immaterial.
Though computing power has doubled every two yearssince 1971, a single processor circuit can still only handleone bit of data at a time. A human brain, however, compris-es as many as 100 trillion connections working in parallel.We are hard-wired to put concepts into context, to fit whatwe are learning into the web of what we know, and then toapply that knowledge to tackling real-life challenges.
An idea learned in isolation slowly fades away withoutthe reinforcement of related knowledge to hold it in place.The champions of memory competitions know this well.They link the digits they memorize with familiar objects or
people, then store them in the imagined rooms of ìmemorypalaces.î A stopwatch cannot teach a student to contextual-ize and apply new knowledge. That would require thepatience and attention of a human teacher. Only through dis-cussion will the numbers come alive.
The idea that long-term learning brings long-termrewards is gradually gaining ground. James and JodiRalston, who own Mathnasium learning centers inChatham, Summit, Westfield -- and now Livingston, com-pare the process of learning math to the growth of a tree,which expands outward ring by ring, held up by the woodfiber in its core. If we want students' understanding to lastpast their next report card, this is a better metaphor to runwith. After all, a race ends as quickly as it began, but a treenever stops growing.
© 2015 DREW CAYMAN. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.Drew Cayman is a freelance writer focusing on math- andscience-related matters. Drew can be reached at drew.cay-
[email protected]. For more information aboutMathnasium's locations in Livingston, Westfield, Summitand Chatham, New Jersey, please contact Jodi or JamesRalston at 973-377-MATH (6284) or [email protected].
About Mathnasium:
Mathnasium Learning Centers offer year-round and sum-mer-only programs for mathematics enrichment, tutoringand regular academic support. With local centers inLivingston (by ShopRite), Westfield, Downtown Summitand Chatham Township owned/operated by Jodi and JamesRalston, Mathnasium offers an attractive and supportive set-
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It’s been almost 14 years since 911, but
through real life accounts in print,
details can be remembered about that
most tragic day and howlives have been forever
torn apart.
One Livingston
woman who goes by the
pen name, Hope Brooks,describes in detail how
she and her students wit-
nessed and were affected
by the Sept. 11, 2001, ter-
rorist attacks in a chapter inher book, “A Mother’s
Survival: Finding BalanceThrough The Storm.” Self-
published in Aug. 2014,
Brooks’ writes her first and only book, a
non-fiction memoir of her life story.Based on true events, Brooks changes
her name and the names of her characters
to protect their privacy. In her book,
Brooks shares her life story on how she
found the strength to “rise above” sexualabuse as a child, marriage to a man with
mental illness, consequences of a bitter
divorce, remarriage and challenges of blending two families into one, and adver-
sities working as a teacher in the New York
City school system.In chapter 34 of her 235 page
paperback book, Brooks recounts
what she and her students wit-nessed and impacted by 911.
Described as “one of the most
emotional days of my life,”
Brooks had been working in a
Staten Island elementary schoolwhen “suddenly we could see
New York City and the smoke
over the towers. Suddenly we
hear from the principal there isa lockdown. We don’t know if
there’s terrorists! It’s real ter-ror! Then the parents come to pick up their
children and bring them to a safe place.
“We all leave school and we can’t
leave,” she continues. Brooks, who had
her car, could not drive over the GoethalsBridge to get home as there was security
everywhere. Next day when she returned
to school, Brooks learned of three of her
students who lost a person close to them in
the attack. One student lost his father whowas a firefighter trying to rescue others;
another student faced the death of his soc-
cer coach killed as a passenger on one of the planes that hit the tower; and another
student who lost her aunt who was trapped
in a blocked stairwell of one of the build-ings she worked in during the attack.
As horrible as those days were for her
students and for her as a teacher, Brooks
says she was left with a lasting impression
of hope.It was during show and tell months later
when Michael, the student who lost his
father, brought in his father’s firefighter
helmet and explained how he keeps it onhis nightstand and touches it every night
before he goes to bed. He says to the class,“My dad is a hero who gave his life for us
in America.” With that, the students all
stand up and start cheering and clapping.
“I went home with great serenity,” says
Brooks, “that the students, with their loveand encouragement, there is hope for this
world. One day you will make the world
better than it is today. The children really
understood. It was a beautiful day.”
Although completed one year ago,Brooks is now promoting her book in
hopes that readers would want to purchase
especially in time to remember Sept. 11,2011. The book is available through
Amazon in paperback for $9.99; and kin-
dle $3.99. She has sold 400 copies so far.Her first book written, Brooks took five
years to write her memoir. As a mother of
two daughters and a step son while work-
ing 38 years as a New York City teacher of
second graders and special education,Brooks found more time to focus on writ-
ing when she retired in 2008.
“One day when I was alone I sat at my
computer and began to write,” sheexplains. “Releasing my thoughts on paper
became my therapy.”Her other challenge, Brooks admits,
was “I didn’t know how to write; how to
organize my story. So she took an adult
writing course at The Adult School of the
Chathams, Madison and Florham Park, inwhich aspiring writers met in small ses-
sions to provide input. Her writing teacher
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“taught me to write in conversations; he
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every single page. I learned so much.”
Through her book, Brooks is “hoping
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had to overcome so many challenges.” She
wants to spread the message “to don’t give
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thing.
“People should read my book,” she
continues. “They could find the strength tosucceed and overcome any challenges that
they have. There is always hope.”
For her next book, Brooks hopes to
write about mental illness and how it
affects people’s lives. Married at the age of
21, Brooks’ first husband was eventuallydiagnosed with bipolar disorder.
For more information about this author,
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Evariste and his family
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2001, moving back toFlorida after completing
his sophomore year at
WOHS.
“I loved my high schoolexperience,” beganEvariste. “During that time
in my life I was very
focused on being a trumpet
player. When I was 10
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Evariste’s passion fortheater grew, and in addi-
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Pacific,” “Hair,”
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original musical,
“Amazing Grace.” Toursincluded “Fame,” “Rent,”and “The Book of
Mormon.”
“Amazing Grace” tells
the story of John Newton,
an 18th CenturyEnglishman who worked in
his family business – the
slave trade, and how he
ultimately became an abo-
litionist preacher and
penned the iconic spiritual,“Amazing Grace,” in 1779.
Evariste still has “a ton
of family and friends” that
live in West Orange. He
resides in South Harlemwith his wife Tiffany sever-
al blocks north of Central
Park North.
When asked what
advice he could offer to
aspiring actors, Evariste
noted, “Continue to train.
Take voice lessons and uti-lize vocal coaches to workon material for
auditions/callbacks. Take
dance and acting classes.”
“Whatever song you
sing at auditions make sureit's a song you absolutely
love to sing,” he went on to
say.
“Every song in your
book should be a song you
know inside and out. If youare truly connected to the
song and truly genuine then
that's what will make you
stand out and at least, hope-
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you aim for. The rest is out
of your control.”
Evariste concluded by
saying, “Be nice and
respectful to everyone you
work with in this business.
It's a very small circle andeveryone knows everyone.You never know who
you're talking to.”
To find out more about
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a secular Jewish community, where we can
come together for holiday observances,
adult education events, and family activi-ties. We’re hoping to attract a new burst of
alumni families as well as interested
adults.”
The initial events for JCSS are the fall
holidays. Both Rosh Hashanah and Yom
Kippur are hour-long celebrations the
evening before (Erev) in rented space at
the Universal Unitarian Congregation of
Montclair, 67 Park Street.The Sun., Sept. 13, Rosh Hashanah pro-
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Children are welcome at both if they can
sit quietly with their parents. The Sukkot
celebration on Sun., Oct. 4, 10 a.m. in
Tulip Springs Grove of South MountainReservation, West Orange, is more active
for all ages. After building a sukkah there
is an official program and then a pot-luck
picnic and informal games. All JCSS cer-
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raised are used for visitations to the
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where Bingo is enjoyed by both men andwomen residents. Special gifts are alsodistributed to our Veterans.
b) Bus trips to casinos where the
monies raised are also disbursed to our vet-
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Veterans Museums and gifts of $500 annu-ally to a deserving high school student in
West Orange known as the “Olympiad
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Space is limited. Register by [email protected].
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the members of the Nursing
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are up to date with immunizations.Otherwise, students may not be allowed
to attend or stay in school until the
required immunizations have been com-pleted. Find updated immunization
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Children receiving the flu shot for the
first time will require two vaccines 28days apart. It is recommended that every-
one six months and older receive the flu
shot. Statistics show that the Flu is the
leading cause of death in the United
States from a vaccine-preventable dis-ease.
Vaccines for school are required start-
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the way through college-bound students.
Livingston Health Department Recognizes August As National Immunization MonthFor more information about childhoodvaccines, visit the New Jersey State web-
site at http://nj.gov/health/cd/imm.shtml.
Adults need immunizations, too.
Annual Flu shots, the Pneumonia vaccine,
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booster every 10 years help ensure that
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The Livingston Health Departmentoffers year-round Pneumonia, Shingles
and Tdap vaccines. This fall’s Flu Clinic
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Levithan’s latest novel, “Another Day,”is the enthralling companion to his best-
seller “Every Day.” This NJ author lineup
will be sure to please a diverse audience
including foodies, gardeners, bakers, and
animal lovers.
The all-day free main festival takes
place on Sat., Oct. 3. More than 25 award-
winning and best-selling authors willspeak and answer questions in one-hour
sessions at five locales, all within walking
distance of each other along South Streetin historic Morristown, including St.
Peter’s Church Sanctuary and Parish
House, The Church of the Redeemer, the
Morristown/Morris Township Library and
the Starlight Room at the MayoPerforming Arts Center.
Book sales and signings will occur at a
tent on the grounds of the historic Vail
Mansion. The free all-day Sat. Festival ispresented by Towne Toyota and Hyundai
and Kim and Finn Wentworth. MorristownFestival of Books is a not-for-profit organ-
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Come out and support the amazingwriters who hail from the Garden State.
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Recently retired WestOrange High SchoolPhysics teacher
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President Barack Obama’sPresidential Award forExcellence in Mathematicsand Science Teaching alongwith 107 other educatorsacross the United States.The award also comes witha $10,000 prize. A panel of scientists, mathematiciansand educators determinedawardees following the ini-tial selection process at the
state level."These teachers are
shaping America's successthrough their passion formath and science,"President Obama said in theJuly 1 press release. "Theirleadership and commitmentempower our children tothink critically and cre-atively about science, tech-nology, engineering, andmath. The work these
teachers are doing in ourclassrooms today will helpensure that America stayson the cutting edge tomor-row."
With a B.S. in mathe-matics from the New JerseyInstitute of Technology, aM.A.T. in mathematicsfrom the University of Florida, a M.S.T. in physicsfrom Rutgers University,and an Ed.D. in scienceeducation from RutgersUniversity, Lawrence was abeloved physics teacher atWest Orange High School,
teaching honors andadvanced placementphysics C to 11th and 12thgraders for 40 years untilhis retirement in June 2014.
“There are no words toconvey how special my 40years teaching physics atWest Orange are to me,”began Lawrence. “I amboth honored and fortunateto have spent my entirecareer in the West Orange
School District. I havemore deeply pleasant mem-ories than any one persondeserves. The classroom, inparticular, was, to me, a
sacred place (primarilybecause of the students);somewhere where I wouldexperience pure being on adaily basis! The studentsmade that happen... theygave so much more to methat I could ever give backto them. I miss the dailyinteractions with students,both in terms of teachingand simply chatting about
things they are involvedin...that's the hardest part of being retired,” he said.
In addition to his workas an educator, Lawrencespent over 20 years inphysics education research,serving as a co-director andexpert lead teacher for theRutgers AstrophysicsInstitute from 1998-2013;consultant for theAssessment of Scientific
Abilities from 2003-2006;consultant for theInvestigative ScienceLearning Environmentsfrom 2002-2005; and
expert lead teacher for theVideo Assessments inScience Teaching Institutefrom 1991-1996.
Lawrence wrote and co-authored six published jour-nal articles and presentedhis work at regional andstate conferences as well asnational meetings of theAmerican Association of Physics Teachers. He has
been recognized by theMassachusetts Institute of Technology, Princeton, andthe College of New Jersey.Lawrence was one of 29winners of the MITInspiriational TeacherAward in 2013.
In speaking of thePAEMST award, Lawrencesaid, “It's extremely gratify-ing to receive recognition,especially recognition of
this magnitude. It's alsoquite humbling, becausewhatever I did to win thisaward, I had a lot of help indoing.”
“The administration atWest Orange High School,both principals (JerryTarnoff, Art Alloggiamento,Hayden Moore) and super-visors (Sandy Antoine,Alex Rosenwald, StephSuriano) were always therefor me, providing the sup-port for what I was trying toimplement in the class-room,” he continued.
He credits RutgersProfessors Eugenia Etkina(science education) andTerry Matilsky (physics)for his growth as an educa-tor, as well as his students atWOHS.
“I enjoyed year afteryear of wonderful, interest-ing, talented, and uniquestudents who inspired medaily, and who I missimmensely as students, and
more importantly, as peo-ple,” he commented.
Lawrence concluded his
comments by saying, “I'dlike to take this opportunityto say that the town of WestOrange is lucky to have theteachers that they do. Thelarge majority of them don'tget the pleasure of beingrecognized for their efforts,but make no mistake: theyare all deserving of recogni-tion for what they do. TheWest Orange HS faculty issimply outstanding.”
Former WOHS Physics Teacher Receives Prestigious Presidential Award
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Family operated and owned since 1988,Vista Parking has been providing the most
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sored by the City of Orange Township, is
set to be held Sat., Aug. 15, from 11 a.m.
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Concerts are held at accessible sites.
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Sara Zambelli, a recent
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“It is quite an honor to receiveTripAdvisor’s Certificate of Excellencebecause the reviews come straight from ourvisitors,” said Essex County ExecutiveJoseph N. DiVincenzo, Jr. “It’s gratifying toknow that Turtle Back Zoo has become adestination that people enjoy coming to andare recommending it to others as a place to
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Teams For Kids Foundation is a non-
profit organization that enables chil-
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recreational sports programs.The foundation is the brain child of Abby
Bauer, a senior at The Pingry School in
Basking Ridge and a resident of Long
Valley.“I started the organization last summer,
which is when we received our 501 (c)(3)
nonprofit status,” Bauer said.
The foundation is still growing and mold-
ing to the needs of the children residing in
shelters and temporary housing facilities inMorristown, but the success stories are
flooding in of kids who are now providedwith the opportunity to participate with their
peers in recreational sports programs.
For Bauer, the start of the long yetrewarding process of running a nonprofit
organization began while she was volunteer-
ing at Homeless Solutions, a homeless shel-
ter and low income housing program in
Morristown.
“I’ve been kind of running a children's
program there since I was 12-years-old,”
Bauer said. “Two summers ago I was run-ning my children’s program at the shelter
and we were making s’mores and playing
kickball with the kids at the shelter and this10-year-old boy named Giovanni
approached me with his baseball glove andasked if we could have a catch and so I said
sure. We threw the ball back and forth a few
times and I realized that he had a really great
arm and he could toss really well so I asked
him if he played on a little league team and
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explained to Bauer that families at the shel-
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recreational sports teams because they need-ed to save money for rent and living expens-es when they left the shelter.
“That kind of just resonated with me and
it really bothered me that he didn't have the
same opportunity to play sports that I had
and so many other children have, so I reallywanted to help kids like Giovanni to have
this opportunity which is why I started the
Local Teen Helps Kids Join Sports Teams, Asks Businesses To Contribute
Teams For Kids Foundation,” Bauer said.
Bauer and the foundation distributedtheir first grant of $2,500 to Homeless
Solutions in March. Teams For Kids then
gives the money to Homeless Solutions and
they allocate it to the needs of the families
living in the shelter.
“We have had some success stories sofar,” Bauer said. “I know for a fact that cur-
rently there are four kids signed up to play
sports who have utilized the funds for equip-
ment and for team registration and thingslike that, so the funds are constantly being
used.”
Included in the updates that Bauer
received from Homeless Solutions were sto-
ries of a boy who was able to join a track
team and placed fifth at a meet, a boy who isnot only signed up for football in the fall but
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