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Vol. 1, No. 23 Thursday, August 10, 2017

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PLANNING BOARD

Seymour approved
Downtown arts mecca gets go-ahead
BY LINDA MOSS project, slated for Lackawanna development. But the board set a
[email protected] Plaza, still pending and needing number of conditions on its ap-
township approval for its rede- proval, including having the de-
This week the Township Plan- velopment plan and then later veloper consult with Township
ning Board gave one of Mont- its site plan. Pinnacle Cos. of Engineer Kimberli Craft on some
clair’s two major redevelop- Montclair is a co-redeveloper on of the changes in traffic flow that
ments, Seymour Street, approval both Seymour Street and Lacka- will accompany the project.
to go forward, a project meant to wanna Plaza. It wasn’t until shortly after
create an arts and entertainment In the case of Seymour Street, 12:30 a.m. Tuesday that the plan-
mecca near the Wellmont The- following a five-hour-long ning board took action on the
LINDA MOSS/STAFF ater and to help revitalize down- meeting the planning board vot- application for the property, a
The Township Planning Board saw updated renderings for the Seymour Street town Bloomfield Avenue. ed 9-0 early Tuesday morning to
redevelopment before voting to approve its site plan early Tuesday morning. That leaves one other massive approve the site plan for its re- See PLANNING, A-6

MONTCLAIR MONTCLAIR JAZZ FESTIVAL

PUBLIC SCHOOLS

Pack Perfect forecast

it up!
Montclair
groups collect
backpacks,
school
supplies
BY ERIN ROLL
[email protected]

August is zipping by,

which means the start of
back-to-school shopping for
many families.
According to the Nation-
al Retail Federation, a retail
trade association, the average
family will spend more than
$660 for school supplies.
Several groups in Mont-
clair are asking people to pick
up a few extra supplies for
area children in need, and
while one drive has just con-
cluded, others will continue
through Labor Day.
The Human Needs Food RICHARD CONDE FOR JAZZ HOUSE KIDS
Pantry is collecting school
Dee Dee Bridgwater, Melissa Walker and S. Epatha Merkerson perform with the Jazz House Collective in 2016, before the rain comes down.
supplies this summer, up
through Labor Day.
HNFP board member El- Montclair Jazz Festival on Saturday
eanor Walter said that the
school supplies drive is one BY GWEN OREL region to the festival.” again bring back A Christian McBride
of a number of themed give- [email protected] The eighth annual Montclair Jazz Fes- Situation, an electro-funk project that
aways that Human Needs tival will also be live-streamed on Face- includes DJ Logic on turntables, Rachel
does at different times of the Dee Dee Bridgewater and Memphis book. Last year, Walker says, it Z on keyboards, Antoinette Henry
Inside
year. Others include a cos- Soulphony will tear off the roof at the reached people in 12 countries. on vocals, Adam Rogers on guitar
Activism
tume giveaway at Halloween, Montclair Jazz Festival on Saturday, The festival is presented by and music and Bernard Purdie on drums.
a baby supplies giveaway on Aug. 12, Melissa Walker says. Jazz House Kids, a nonprofit com- at the Other headliners include Louis
Mother’s Day and Father’s Only there is no roof. munity arts organization, which festival Prima Jr. and the Witnesses; trum-
Day, and so on. The free festival takes place outdoors, Walker founded in 2002. Page B-4 peter Ted Chubb, playing with
“Anything that we have in in Nishuane Park, from noon to 9 p.m. Bruce Williams on alto sax, Seth
hand, we’ll give away,” Walter “She’ll figure out how to tear it off any- THE PERFORMERS Johnson on guitar and Tom DiCarlo on
said. She said the pantry will way,” Walker said with a laugh. “She’s Thirteen acts will perform on two bass; and keyboardist Cyrus Chestnut,
accept school supplies at any one of those great entertainers.” stages. The Bravitas mainstage will have playing with Michael Hawkins on bass
time of the year, but that the Bridgewater came to the jazz festi- music from noon to 9 p.m. The headlin- and Neil Smith on drums.
pantry prefers to have school val last year, but rain cut off her per- ers, “all of the two faculty students, two Actress S. Epatha Merkerson (“Chi-
supplies in stock by Labor formance. This year, says Walker, the faculty ensembles, will be swinging up a cago Med,” “Law & Order”) will again be
Day so children can be outfit- weather looks like it’s going to hold. storm,” Walker says. mistress of ceremonies, and WBGO Jazz
“When that happens, we are going to In addition to Bridgewater, who is
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MONTCLAIR PUBLIC LIBRARY

Zoning Board special meeting
Reading for lunch In order to comply with
the Open Public Meetings
Act, Chapter 231, P.L. 1975 of
Wednesday, Sept. 27, at 7:30
p.m. , according to a notice at
montclairnjusa.org.
the State of New Jersey, the The meeting will take place
Library staff, Montclair Zoning Board of in Council Chambers, first
Adjustment has scheduled a floor of the Municipal Build-
Toni’s Kitchen special meeting to be held on ing, 205 Claremont Ave.

serve up meals
for local kids COMING SOON...
BY ERIN ROLL
[email protected]
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The Montclair Public Library MO N Lo cal
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from Partners for Health Foun-
dation and Toni’s Kitchen.
The program provides lunch
each weekday to children and
teens in Montclair who are in
need. It also provides opportu-
nities to participate in the Mont- COURTESY ANITA PETERSON
clair Public Library’s summer MPL summer volunteers Kimoni DePass and Daniel Albarron stand behind the
reading program and other en- counter in the Isabel Rose Café.

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richment activities.
On Monday, Library Director culture’s Summer Food Service Kitchen staff members prepare
Peter Coyl said the program had Program provided meals to 2.8 the lunch in their kitchen at the
given out more than 1,400 lunch-
es in the previous six weeks, and
million children a day, according
to the USDA’s website.
church and delivers them to the
library.
or Call
862-277-5200
he said that the program expect- This is the first year for Nour- Earlier this year, the library
ed to top 2,000 by its end. “There ishing the Mind and Body. In ran a program during spring
is a need in Montclair to bridge June, the MPL Foundation re- break that provided lunch to 145
the gap for children who, once ceived a $4,776 grant from Part- children and teens. That pilot
school ends, don’t have access to ners for Health, which according program was funded by private
the free and reduced lunch pro- to a statement on its website, donors, according to Partners
gram in the school and we are invests in programs that lead for Health.
glad to be that bridge,” Coyl said. to healthy communities and In a statement announcing
“While the library is about books healthy lifestyles in 15 commu- the program, the library not-
and learning, it is also about con- nities, primarily in Essex County. ed that nearly 1,000 children
necting the community.” The library provides a lunch qualify for free or reduced-price
For families who rely on the each weekday from noon to 2 lunches in the Montclair School
school district’s free and re- p.m. Each brown-bag lunch in- District, and that six of Mont-
duced-price breakfast and lunch cludes a sandwich, a drink, a clair’s 10 schools are considered
program, the summer months piece of fruit and a dessert. Reg- Title 1 schools.
can be a difficult time, since chil- istration is not required. The Nourishing the Mind and
dren no longer have access to the lunches are prepared by Toni’s Body runs through early Sep-
school-provided meals. In 2016, Kitchen, the food ministry of St. tember. The first day of school is
the U.S. Department of Agri- Luke’s Episcopal Church. Toni’s on Sept. 7.

TOWNSHIP FINANCES

S&P affirms AAA rating

$17.7 million that have contributed to its con-
secutive operating surpluses over
bond sale saves the past four fiscal years.”
The township also benefits
town nearly from “very strong liquidity, with
total government available cash
$1 million at 36.5 percent of total govern-
mental fund expenditures” and
BY LINDA MOSS an “adequate debt and contingent
[email protected] liability” profile, according to the
ratings service.
Standard & Poor’s Global Rat- “Our upgrade from AA- to
ings has reaffirmed the town- AAA in a little more than four
ship’s stellar AAA bond rating, PADMAJA RAO years is unprecedented,” Mayor
which municipal officials claim Robert Jackson said in a state-
helped lead to a successful sale of reaffirmation helped make the ment. “The rating affirmation and
$17.7 million in refunding bonds township’s recent bonds attrac- bond sale validate our position as
last week. tive to buyers, according to Rao. a top community nationwide for
The bond sale will end up The ratings agency cited sev- financial strength, credit worthi-
saving Montclair more than en credit factors for reaffirming ness and fiscal management. This
$972,000 in principal and inter- the AAA rating, including what could only be achieved through
est, the municipality said earlier it called Montclair’s “very strong” efficient and effective fiscal poli-
this week. The sale followed the economy in the New York metro cies put in place from the begin-
Township Council passing a re- region that is broad and diverse ning of this council’s tenure, in
funding bond ordinance in No- with “ample” job opportunities. order to ensure the responsible
vember, which provided for the “Although primarily residen- management of taxpayers’ fi-
advance refunding of 2011 series tial, the township maintains a nances.”
general improvement and school healthy retail and commercial The mayor expects the town-
bonds, the municipality said in a component,” S&P said. “Although ship’s total debt will be reduced
press release Tuesday. mature, we expect the tax base to by $3 million in 2017, approach-
“The refunding ordinance increase modestly over the near ing $175 million.
let us position ourselves to act term as re-development occurs. “Moving forward, council’s re-
quickly and refund the bonds for There are no significant tax ap- cent resolutions establishing mu-
a lower interest rate when market peals pending that could be a det- nicipal debt and municipal fund
conditions become favorable,” riment to the township’s finan- balance policies will help ensure
Township Chief Financial Offi- cial position. the township’s fiscal strength,”
cer Padmaja Rao said in a state- The ratings service also cred- Acting Township Manager Tim-
ment. “Such significant savings ited the township with having othy Stafford said in a statement.
reduce the township’s borrowing strong financial management
costs, thereby allowing us to allo- policies in place.
cate the savings to infrastructure
projects.”
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Festival 2017 Montclair

Jazz Festival
from page A-1
Saturday, Aug. 12, noon - 9 p.m.

88.3 FM’s Gary Walker will be Main Stage Schedule

the stage host. Noon: 52nd Street Big Band
12:30: Philly Soul Big Band
And the festival will also 1: Bright Moments Big Band
present local talent: students 1:15: Afro-Latin Big Band
from the Jazz House Kids Sum- 1:45: The Big Solid Sax Mob
2:15: Jazz House Vocal Large En-
mer Workshop will perform semble
throughout the day, and The 2:45: The Ted Chubb Band
Jazz House Collective, directed 3:45: Jazz House Collective: The Cen-
tennial Project
by Nathan Eklund, will pres- 4:45: Dynasty Big Band
ent faculty members teaching 5:15: Jazz House Big Band featuring
in the summer workshop. Dee Dee Bridgewater
6: Cyrus Chestunt Trio
The festival is curated by 7: Dee Dee Bridgwater and Mem-
McBride, artistic director of phis Soulphony
the festival, artistic director of 8: A Christian McBride Situation
the Newport Jazz Festival, and Family Jazz Discovery Zone Schedule
Walker’s husband. 12:30: Jazz House Alumni Ensemble
1:10: Jazz Storytime with Christian
McBride
HONORING JAZZ OF 1917 1:35: Jazz House Alumni Ensemble
And this year the faculty 2:05: Webop, a Jazz at Lincoln Center
are doing something special, program
2:40: Jazz Storytime with Louis Pri-
Walker says. ma Jr.
“I don’t know what was in 3:30: Jazz Storytime with Dee Dee RICHARD CONDE FOR JAZZ HOUSE KIDS

the water 100 years ago, but Bridgewater Bernard Purdie plays with A Christian McBride Situation in 2016.
4: Chica Power presented by Jazz
some of the greatest pioneers House Kids
of this music were born 100 4:45 Louis Prima Jr. and The Wit- perform, a new event this
years ago this year. nesses year. Girls from Chica Power,
5:45: Webop, a Jazz at Lincoln Center
“They are putting together a program a program in which Jazz House
special project to honor them. Art projects presented by the Mont- Kids hosts young women in
If you take out these artists, clair Art Museum throughout the day jazz during Women’s History
jazz would be changed forev- post-festival jam at Egan & Sons, month, will also perform.
er.” West Orange There will be two “webop”
Ella Fitzgerald, Thelonius classes, a program of Jazz at
Nishuane Park
Monk, Mongo Santamaria, No Tickets Required Lincoln Center for children
Dizzy Gillespie, and Lena jazzfestival.org ages 2 to 5. MAM will have an
Horne were all born in 1917, art mobile. There will be close
she explains. to 50 vendors, of food, cloth-
“The list goes on. This proj- Zone Stage presents music ing, different kinds of busi-
ect will celebrate their contri- and child-centered activities, nesses, she says.
butions to this art form. in partnership with the Mont- “I’ll read a book in the fami-
“There are celebrations go- clair Art Museum and the ly jazz zone,” Walker says. This
ing on across the globe. With- Montclair Public Library. year, she won’t be singing: “I
out them, you would have a Louis Prima Jr. , who per- will be meeting and greeting
very different landscape for formed last year with a Jazz people in the audience.
this music.” House Kids big band, returns “I love learning and hearing
“It’s an extraordinarily tal- this year to play on the Family about where they come from,
ented and dedicated artist fac- Jazz Discovery stage, with his what they like, any ideas. I
ulty,” Walker says. Every year group The Witnesses. want to hear their stories.
the faculty do a special project: “It’s all geared to our young- “One year a gentleman was
last summer the project cele- est be-boppers, throughout there who was 105. He talked
brated the late artists Prince the day. It goes to about 7 p.m. ,” about how he saw Louis Arm-
and David Bowie. Walker says. Artists, including strong in person.
Walker, will read. “There are so many backsto- RICHARD CONDE FOR JAZZ HOUSE KIDS

THE JAZZ FAMILY Jazz House Kids’ alumni, ries. I will be saying thank you Louis Prima Jr. performs with the Jazz House Kids Big Band in 2016. This year,
The Family Jazz Discovery students now in college, will and thank you.” he will play with The Witnesses.

BRAViTAS MAIN STAGE

PERFORMANCE SCHEDULE
MISTRESS OF CEREMONIES
S. EPATHA MERKERSON
WBGO HOST
GARY WALKER
52ND STREET BIG BAND NOON
PHILLY SOUL BIG BAND 12:30PM
BRIGHT MOMENTS BIG BAND 1:00PM
AFRO-LATIN BIG BAND 1:15PM
THE BIG SOLID SAX MOB 1:45PM
JAZZ HOUSE VOCAL
LARGE ENSEMBLE 2:15PM
THE TED CHUBB BAND 2:45PM
JAZZ HOUSE COLLECTIVE
THE CENTENNIAL PROJECT 3:45PM
DYNASTY BIG BAND 4:45PM
JAZZ HOUSE BIG BAND featuring
DEE DEE BRIDGEWATER 5:15PM
CYRUS CHESTNUT TRIO 6:00PM
DEE DEE BRIDGEWATER
& MEMPHIS SOULPHONY 7:00PM
A CHRISTIAN McBRIDE
SITUATION 8:00PM

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NEWS IN BRIEF Newest Montclair Eagle Scouts

BOE receives feedback on
proposed homework policy
Troop 12’s newest Eagle
Scouts, Peter Brown, left,
and Jacob Skorzewski,
In July, the board of educa- policy posted on the district’s were awarded their rank
tion invited parents to submit website and submit comments at a Court of Honor held
at St. James Church on
feedback on a proposed rewrite if they saw fit. June 9.
of the district’s homework pol- The board has been discuss-
icy. ing a revised homework policy To earn the Eagle rank, a
Nina DeRosa, secretary to since early this year. Scout must earn 21 merit
badges, serve in various
the superintendent, said Mon- At board meetings in the leadership positions and
day that the district had heard spring, several parents report- complete a community
from about 12 people regarding ed that they thought that their service leadership proj-
the homework policy. She said children were getting too much ect. Peter, a rising senior
at Montclair Kimberly
Pinsak and the board would be homework, and that home- Academy, collected 172
discussing the feedback at the work was interfering with fam- pairs of used eyeglasses
board’s next retreat, the date of ily life. Other parents were of which he donated to
which has not yet been posted the opinion that regular home- charity. Jacob, a rising
senior at Montclair High
on the district’s website. work was good for enforcing School, built a vertical
Board of Education Presi- study habits. garden for Toni’s Kitch-
dent Laura Hertzog said Mon- The draft policy currently en, helping to provide
day that she herself had not available on the district website fresh fruits, vegetables
and herbs for the soup
yet seen details of the parents’ includes guidelines on how to kitchen.
comments, but she expected assign homework by grade lev-
that the board would be dis- el. Teachers were also advised Troop 12 meets each
cussing them with Pinsak and to take other classes, extracur- Friday evening at 7, at
St. James Church. For
incorporating the feedback ricular activities and other out- information, contact
into the homework policy. side factors into consideration scoutmastercarl@troop-
This summer, families had when assigning homework. 12montclair.org.
until July 31 to read over the —Erin Roll
COURTESY SEAN LEONG
draft version of the homework

Newark man arrested Supplies office. ‘Detective Nelson, do you

have any notebooks? Do you have
on suspicion of harassment from page A-1 any paper?’” So she keeps extra
supplies in her office at the school
A Newark man was arrested dling in an aggressive manner for that purpose.
on suspicion of harassing near the Dunkin’ Donuts. ted for the first day of school. Sometimes the giveaway or-
passersby on Bloomfield O’Dowd said the man was Walter said that a lot of the ganizers will receive extra back-
Avenue on July 27. also walking out in traffic, and donations, such as crayons and packs. At the midway point of
Police Lt. David O’Dowd as the officers brought him brightly-colored backpacks with the year, Nelson-Edwards said, a
said last week that on July 27, back up onto the sidewalk, he cartoon characters, tend to be student may need a new backpack
police on patrol on Bloomfield said, the man attempted to spit geared toward younger children. because their old one got torn.
Avenue noticed a man yelling at the officers. While those items are welcome, “They’re walking around with
at passersby and aggressively Carl Reevers, 50, of New- she said, Human Needs is espe- books in a plastic bag,” she said,
panhandling. He said that the ark, was arrested and issued cially in need of supplies for mid- which often results in that student
man matched the description summonses for disorderly dle- and high school students. It is being teased. And one year, the
of a man who had been behavior and panhandling. during those years, she said, that giveaway was fortunate to receive
reported to have been panhan- students start to need three-ring a donation of scientific calcula-
binders for each class, special- tors. “That was a treat,” she said.
ized items such as calculators, and Besides the supplies giveaway,
book sleeves for textbooks, and there will be food and drinks,
Food Pantry dropoff day Saturday the cost of those items can soon
add up.
games, prizes and face-painting.
“Just so they can have a full day of
The Human Needs Food for donations of brand-new Walter said that many families COURTESY KIMYA NILSEN fun.
Pantry will hold its next Satur- school supplies, such as back- that Human Needs serves find The Montclair Community Operation “And we don’t allow the par-
day dropoff day on Saturday, packs, binders, filler paper, themselves in the position of put- Backpack drive brought in at least 55 ents into the room to pick out the
Aug. 12, from 10 to noon. calculators, pencils, pens, etc. ting food on the table, or buying backpacks as of Aug. 3. Several Mont- bags,” Nelson-Edwards said. Each
clair-area groups are still collecting
In addition to donations The Human Needs Food school supplies, but not both. backpacks and school supplies for child gets to go in and pick out
of nonperishable food, Pantry is at 9 Label St. Regular Walter said the supplies are children and teens whose families what color and style of backpack
diapers and wipes, toiletries donation days are Tuesday and given out cafeteria-style. All of may have trouble affording supplies. they want, which notebooks they
and personal-care items, pet Thursday from 8 to noon. the backpacks and supplies are want, and so forth. Supplies will
food, and tall paper bags with For more information, go to spread out on a table, and chil- Montclair High School, has been be arranged by grade level; there
handles, the pantry is asking humanneedsfoodpantry.org. dren and their families can come overseeing the drive since its in- will also be small supply bags
through and pick out which items ception. “We’re looking to service suitable for pre-K students.
they would like. “We don’t fill up a minimum of 500 kids,” Nel-
Montclair student attends the backpack and hand it out,” she
said. “But we let them pick out
son-Edwards said on Monday.
Each year, the Sentinels work
OPERATION BACKPACK
Montclair Community Oper-
Space Camp in Alabama which backpack they want, which
notebooks they want.”
with several community groups,
including the Montclair Educa-
ation Backpack wrapped up its
summer drive on Aug. 4.
Chris Borgen of Montclair experiments and successfully Human Needs also requests tion Association, the Montclair Operation Backpack, organized
recently attended Space Camp completed an extra-vehicular that backpacks and school sup- Community Pre-K and the Mont- by the Greater New York chapter
at the U.S. Space and Rocket activity (EVA), or spacewalk, plies be as gender-neutral as pos- clair Neighborhood Development of Volunteers of America, collects
Center, NASA Marshall Space and returned to Earth in time sible. All items must be new or Corporation, to help identify backpacks and school supplies for
Flight Center’s Official Visitor to graduate with honors. gently-used and clean. Items must families who could benefit from children and teenagers living in
Center. Space Camp operates year- be dropped off while the pantry is the supply giveaway, and to en- homeless shelters and domestic
The weeklong educational round in Huntsville, Alabama, open; there will also be a desig- sure that those families are made violence shelters in the New Jer-
program promotes science, and uses astronaut training nated drop-off time on Saturday aware of it. sey-New York area.
technology, engineering techniques to engage trainees from 10 a.m. to noon. Families will be asked to prove Kimya Nilsen, the local co-
and math (STEM), while in real-world applications While she was not aware of Montclair residency for the event. ordinator for Montclair’s Oper-
training students and adults of STEM subjects. Trainees the exact numbers, Walter said However, Nelson-Edwards will ation Backpack, has been par-
with hands-on activities and sleep in quarters designed to that Human Needs is definitely accommodate a small number of ticipating in the effort for three
missions based on teamwork, resemble the International seeing an uptick in the number out-of-town families after Mont- years. As of Aug. 3, the next-to-
leadership and problem Space Station and train in of children and teenagers need- clair families have been provided last day of the drive, she report-
solving. NASA-inspired simulators. ing school supplies, since Human with supplies. An example will be ed that the drive had received 55
Borgen spent the week For information, go to Needs now has a larger number of if a Montclair family has cousins packs, with more expected over
training with a team that flew spacecamp.com or call 800- families among its client base. or other relatives from another the next 48 hours. The drive also
a simulated space mission to 637-7223. town in need of supplies. raised at least $1,500, she said. By
Mars. The crew participated in SENTINELS GIVEAWAY As at the Human Needs Food Monday, she said that the drive
The Montclair Sentinels will be Pantry, Nelson-Edwards said sup- had brought in 160 packs, and a
holding their 10th annual school plies for middle- and high school company from Lyndhurst was
supplies giveaway on Sunday, students are especially needed. expected to deliver an additional
Aug. 27, in Glenfield Park on Ma- It is not unusual for high school 23 by that evening. She said that
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74 Church
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Montclair, NJ 74
NJ 07042 Church St., Montclair, NJ 07042
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