Food Pantry/Ample Harvest
Please join any Sunday with the veggie delivery at the Helping Hand Food Pantry in Hillsdale at 11:30.
We could still use some strong muscles to help lift the crates. Teens who look for service hours will get all necessary paperwork signed.
For the kids:
We will take a look at the garden we planted last spring, and harvest any vegetables that are there. We will also have another activity and some refreshments.
For the parents:
The meeting will last until 4:45. For this first meeting, though, please plan on coming back 15 minutes early, at 4:30, for a short parent’s meeting and re-registration. We will be working in the garden, so bring gloves for your kids if you’d like. Also, please bring 2 or 3 pine cones per child for a project we will be doing.
The Paramus Post
TEANECK GIRL SCOUT TROOP 19 LAUNCHES CAMPAIGN TO REDUCE THE USE OF PLASTIC BAGS IN TEANECK
Self-Produced Campaign Video to Screen at Teaneck International Film Festival
Teaneck Cadette Girl Scout Troop 19 is launching a campaign to reduce the use of plastic bags in Teaneck. As part of the campaign, the troop is showing a self-produced video called Every Bag Counts to classmates, teachers, parents, and friends, and at the
Teaneck International Film Festival, November 7-9, 2014.
The troop is also collecting signatures for a petition with the goal of persuading the Town Council to ban, or charge money for using, plastic bags in Teaneck.
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For information and updates about the Troop 19 film and all TIFF 2014 programs, go towww.teaneckfilmfestival.org.
For information about Troop 19 & Every Bag Counts: Kelly Sheehan and Jean Myers: Kelly@rainlake.com; 917-701-2899, jeanwmyers@hotmail.com, 201-658-2779.
For information about TEANECK FILM FESTIVAL: Judy Distler, jam1026@aol.com
For information about Hackensack RiverKeeper: Captain Hugh Carola, Program Director. –Hugh@HackensackRiverKeeper.org, 201-968-0808
Read full article:
http://www.paramuspost.com/article.php/2014082812524569?xrs=RebelMouse_fb&1409230931
Kids for Earth, a local nonprofit dedicated to learning to live sustainably in modern society, offers a co-ed scouting program and K4E classes.
Children in elementary and middle school can participate in environmental learning activities.
To learn more about K4E, visit www.unitedforearth.org or call 202-630-2013.
James Leggate, Pascack Valley Community Life
A project to build five tennis courts to be shared by Pascack Valley High School and the county has drawn concern from some Hillsdale residents about the impact on the nearby Sapienza Gardens.
Representatives from the county and school made an informal presentation to the Hillsdale Planning Board Oct. 8 after board members said they hadn’t been properly notified about the project. The work took down about 100 trees in the county-owned woods between the school’s sports fields and the borough-owned gardens, which are named in honor of former Pascack Valley principal Barbara Sapienza and are maintained by volunteers.
“Once it started, most people had no idea that the project was going on, and that prompted a lot of safety concern” Meredith Kates, the environmental commissioner and a member of the planning board, said.
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Read the full article:
http://www.northjersey.com/news/residents-raise-concerns-about-tennis-courts-project-1.1110053
James Leggate, Pascack Valley Community Life
Trash-disposing company Waste Management has closed its Hillsdale facility and borough officials need to find funds to cover the cost of sending garbage out of town.
The company stopped using the Brookside Place transfer station in February after heavy snow caused part of its roof to collapse, according to Waste Management spokesman John Hambrose. Mayor Max Arnowitz said they informed the borough last week that they would be formally closing the facility Aug. 1, though Hambrose wrote in an email that the company is continuing to evaluate whether they will reopen the Hillsdale station.
The closing comes just as the 10-year “host community” agreement between the company and the borough ended Thursday.
In exchange for hosting the transfer station, trash collectors were able to drop off Hillsdale’s garbage for free, under that agreement. Arnowitz estimated it saved the borough between $250,000 and $300,000 per year.
Waste Management began billing Hillsdale for taking their trash after the February roof collapse, but the borough hasn’t been paying because the agreement was still in effect, according to Arnowitz. Hambrose, however, wrote in an email that the agreement to provide the borough with free waste disposal was contingent on the transfer station being open there. Hillsdale’s trash has been going to Waste Managements transfer station in Fairview since the collapse.
Borough officials may need to make emergency appropriations to cover the cost for this year and were planning to meet to address the issue, Arnowitz said.
Jodi Weinberger/The Ridgewood News
Pools of golden honey formed in a tray, flowing down in a thin, glistening stream from a whirring centrifugal extractor, where inside the intricate work of thousands of bees was being harvested from their combs.
Roll your eyes at the wordplay if you want, but the employees at Valley Hospital were buzzing with excitement watching the demonstration on Sept. 18 of how honey is collected from the hospital’s rooftop hives.
Or maybe they were just feeling the sugar rush of having too many syrupy samples of the honey-laden foods made from the hospital’s sweet bounty: the deep purple hibiscus honey mint water, the creamy goat cheese balsamic honey dip, and the smooth yogurt honey cinnamon spread.
The employees gasped when beekeepers Joseph Lelinho and Eric Hanan, co-founders of Bee Bold Apiaries, unveiled an observation hive – a see-through colony of 30,000 wriggling insects contained by a wood frame – and inched closer slowly, nervous the bees might suddenly escape.
The bee scene looked chaotic to an untrained eye, but the experts could easily identify the queen and the drones around her.
Valley Hospital’s rooftop hive project took flight last year with two hives installed on the hospital’s Robert and Audrey Luckow Pavilion in Paramus and expanded this year with two more hives on the roof of the Ridgewood facility.
Read full article:
http://www.northjersey.com/news/health-news/honey-has-employees-buzzing-1.1096740#sthash.sNmOKysM.dpuf
Hillsdale officials are considering applying for a grant to purchase the “Tandy Woods” property on Hillsdale Avenue near Pascack Road at the behest of a group of residents trying to preserve the land as the deadline for the grant approaches and the owners consider development. The council is expected to vote on the issue during their Oct. 14 meeting.
The property is owned by the descendants of the Tandy and Allen developers, who built about 200 homes in the borough starting in 1948. It is the largest undeveloped piece of land remaining in Hillsdale. Nine acres of the 12-acre property are wetlands, but the owners have started the process to apply for a subdivision which would allow them to build three new houses on the other three acres if approved by the planning board.
However, residents who live near the Tandy Woods and local environmental advocates want the borough to purchase the land in order to preserve it, and the owners said they also prefer that plan.
“My siblings and I would prefer to have [the property remain open space] and urge the town to accept ownership of the property for that purpose,” Meredith Tandy-Spangenberg said, reading a letter.
During a public session at the Oct. 7 council meeting, many people spoke in favor of preserving the property, which they said is home to numerous kinds of plants and animals.
“Their habitat is shrinking and we wonder where they’re going to go,” Sachiko Goodyear said. “They have as much right to live here as we do, even if they don’t pay taxes.”
Rosemary Dreger-Carey, the chair of the Pascack Sustainability Group, listed the potential disadvantages of development: increased burden on schools and other tax-supported services, a decrease in quality of life and property values in the surrounding neighborhood, the destruction of a diverse ecosystem and the loss of flood mitigation provided by the open space.
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Read the full article:
http://www.northjersey.com/news/hillsdale-officials-to-consider-purchase-of-tandy-woods-1.1104808
Mark your calendar for October 13th – 19th, 2014, when the Wildlife Conservation Film Festival comes to New York City!
Among the 75+ films series highlights this year:
– WHITE GOLD narrated by Hillary Rodham on 10/13
– GAME OF LIONS narrated by Academy Award Winner Jeremy Irons on 10/14
– BORN TO BE WILD in IMAX on 10/15
-ISLAND OF LEMURS: MADAGASCAR narrated by Morgan Freeman. In IMAX on 10/15
– MAPPING THE BLUE presented by the Living Oceans Foundation on 10/16
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SPEAKERS INCLUDE:
Dr. Nan Hauser, Director of the Cook Islands Whale & Wildlife Centre
Dr. Tara Stoinski of the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund
World-renowned primatologist Dr. Birute Galdikas
Anti-poaching ranger Matt Bracken.
And 25 additional Q&A sessions with award-winning film directors, producers, leading scientists, and conservationists.
Go to http://wcff2014.tumblr.com/ to explore more films!
PLEASE NOTE LOCATIONS INCLUDE:
AMC Empire 25
NYIT Auditorium
The Helen Mills Theater
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New York’s Wildlife Conservation Film Festival 2014 provides a platform to inspire, engage, and educate audiences through film. The festival promotes programs and projects that contribute to biodiversity conservation and celebration of the natural world.
Hillsdale Environmental Commission 