Thursday, May 23, 2013
DEP officials say the handicap ramp at Graydon Pool in Ridgewood won't be ready for summer.
With work on a handicap ramp at Graydon Pool not expected to begin until at least the fall, Fair Lawn officials have opened up the borough's sand bottom pool to Ridgewood residents with physical disabilities this summer. Mayor John Cosgrove emailed Ridgewood Mayor Paul Aronsohn Wednesday to inform him that Ridgewood residents with disabilities will still have the option to spend a day at a beach in Bergen County after Fair Lawn's council decided Tuesday to offer Villagers with special needs non-resident rates at Memorial Pool. "The Council discussed the fact that the accessible ramp at Ridgewood’s Graydon Pool has been delayed, and I am happy to report that there was unanimous consensus to allow disabled residents from Ridgewood and their…
Tuesday, June 12, 2012
Friday's ADA dance will run from 7 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. at the Community Center.
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Tuesday, June 12, 2012
Time to break out the Hawaiian shirts. The Fair Lawn ADA Committee will host a luau-themed dance this Friday, June 15, at the Community Center gymnasium from 7 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. The dance, intended for Bergen County adults (18 and over) with developmental disabilities, is sponsored by the ARC of Bergen and Passaic Counties. The Fair Lawn ADA Committee launched its series of ADA dances last September with the intention of increasing Fair Lawn's recreational and social opportunities for individuals with disabilities. Admission is $5 and covers refreshments. Music will be provided by Tom Tunes, whose appearance is being sponsored by the Cosmos Club, Fair Lawn Democratic Organization and the Fair Lawn Republican Club. For more information …
Tuesday, April 17, 2012
Marianne Pettineo has been awarded the Elizabeth Boggs Family Advocate Award by the New Jersey Council on Developmental Disabilities.
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Tuesday, April 17, 2012
The New Jersey Council on Development Disabilities will recognize Marianne Pettineo Wednesday for her advocacy work on behalf of individuals with developmental disabilities. On Wednesday, Pettineo, who was nominated for the award by councilwoman Lisa Swain, will receive the Elizabeth Boggs Family Member Advocate Award, which is given annually to the family member of an individual with a developmental disability who has shown outstanding advocacy efforts in the area of developmental disabilities. “I’m sure that there’s numerous other people more deserving, but I was very honored to be recognized by my council people for the work that I did in our community,” said Pettineo, the current ADA Committee co-chair and municipal secretary. “Having …
Wednesday, March 7, 2012
The Helping Hands Committee at Fair Lawn High School works with the high school's Bridges II students to ease their transition to the building.
The jump to high school can be tough for anyone, but it has the potential to be especially daunting for students with special needs. So when students from the district’s Bridges program -- which serves individuals with cognitive disabilities -- aged out of Memorial Middle School and moved up to Fair Lawn High School for the first time last year, the school’s student government officers took it upon themselves to help ease their move. “We wanted to help them kind of transition from middle school to high school and get involved in school activities and get involved with the rest of the school community,” explained senior Laura Wagner, who chairs the committee that was formed last year in response to the Bridges students’ arrival. This year, …
Friday, March 2, 2012
Additional dances are scheduled for May 4 and June 15.
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Friday, March 2, 2012
The Fair Lawn ADA Committee will hold its second dance of the new year on Friday, March 2 at the Community Center from 7 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. The dance, intended for Bergen County adults with developmental disabilities, is sponsored by the ARC of Bergen and Passaic Counties. Admission is $5 and covers refreshments. Music will be provided by Tom Tunes, whose appearance is being sponsored by the Cosmos Club, Fair Lawn Democratic Organization and the Fair Lawn Republican Club. Additional dances are scheduled for May 4 and June 15. For more information contact The ARC of Bergen and Passaic Counties at 201-343-0322 or the ADA Committee at 201-794-5314 or via email at ADACommittee@fairlawn.org.
Tory
12:38 am on Sunday, May 26, 2013
I love the pool and am sad that so many individuals are being so incredibly petty. I invite friends from all over to join us and I am sponsoring a few as well from towns such as tenafly and edge water, which I hope people here are ok with. Most my fair lawn friends as well joinmemoria. And I wouldn't trade a sand bottom pool for a blue over chlorinated pool any day. I never can understand why … more ›