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The Day: Good Neighbors
On the first Thursday evening of March, a group of 12 people, including two from Maplewood, sat around a toddler-sized table at the Harmony Day Care in Irvington. They had gathered to plan the next phase of an out-sized ambition to raise Irvington up by getting people involved in a series of community-driven initiatives. Maplewood resident Lucila McElroy would never own up to masterminding the project that brought everyone together around the tiny table. But she will take credit for “planting a few seeds,” as she says. In a ...
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Adding Literacy to Harmony
For the last 11 years, the Jefferson PTA has helped the fifth-grade class develop a service project to support others in need such as school children in Afghanistan and the St. Josephs Food Pantry. This year, the fifth-grade class reached out to help young children in a neighboring community. By Mary Mann Every year, the entire 5th grade at Jefferson School in Maplewood chooses a Service Project and works to help a charity or organization in need. This year the students chose Harmony Day Care in ...
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Kids Learn Litter Lesson from Playdate Earth, Oscar the Grouch and SHU
One way to get to Sesame Street might be by not littering. At least that's the latest word from Playdate Earth and Oscar the Grouch. "We want to teach kids to carry out the right thing," said Giada Litner, founder of the nonprofit that teaches kids about the environment and not to litter, and the host of Tuesday's event in South Mountain Reservation. "We want to use the environment to inspire them and teach them that the world should not look like their backyard." Litner organized a two-day, no-litter event Tuesday and Thursday to help teach kids about the consequences of trashing ...
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Rotary to present service awards
The Irvington Rotary Club will be holding its first-ever awards ceremony on Dec. 5 at 11 a.m. in Hanover Manor on Eagle Rock Avenue in East Hanover. The Service Above Self Awards will recognize outstanding individual service to the Irvington community in the categories of protective service; education; business and commerce; health care; religion; and community service. The list of community members who will receive awards at the event will be Fire Chief and Director Gary Shumlich with the Irvington Fire Department and Police Director Joseph Santiago, for the protective service award; Ketty Michel, ...
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Getting Irvington Organized and Headed in the Right Direction
Irvington, N.J., is known to many of its neighbors—including Maplewood—as a town to pass through quickly or be avoided altogether. Overcrowding, poverty, crime, narcotics, corruption—these words are often associated with Irvington. But a group of Irvington boosters are looking to make other words synonymous with Irvington: community, hope, education, commitment, opportunity. Afiah Atakora represents an Irvington that many outsiders do not know: a young, educated professional woman, she lives in Maple Gardens, a large and well-maintained market-rate apartment complex off Springfield Avenue near ...
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PARENTING; Reaching a Milestone, and Looking Back
(Page 2 of 2) The economic collapse is particularly hard on poor parents. In March 2007 I wrote about a popular parenting program run for 25 years by the Cornell Cooperative Extension in Riverhead, on Long Island, that taught parents how to discipline without screaming and hitting; it was recently eliminated from the 2009 Suffolk County budget. Harmony Day Care in Irvington, N.J., which I wrote about in October 2006, stays open to midnight to serve poor single moms who work late shifts at the malls and McDonald's; its enrollment ...
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PARENTING; A Child’s Long Nights, Waiting for Mom By MICHAEL WINERIP
NAKIA ALEXANDER felt she had to take the promotion at McDonald's from a crew member to a second-shift manager. Though she would lose daytime hours, she believed she'd get more respect. ''If a crew person tries to say something, who are you? Just a crew person.'' As second-shift manager, she'd supervise eight people. ''It was between me and someone with no kids,'' said Ms. Alexander, a 27-year-old single mother with a 2-year-old boy. ''I felt like if I didn't take it now, no telling when.'' Second shift is from 3 to 11 p.m., but her day ...
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Adding Literacy to Harmony
5th graders from Jefferson School in Maplewood at Harmony Day Care in Irvington, March 22, 2011. Credit Dawn Yoselowitz
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Update: New Gallery
