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Selfless service to community BELLEVILLE – Two longtime Belleville civic activists were feted by the Kevin G. Kennedy Civic Association at the organization’s 22nd annual scholarship breakfast held May 17 at The Chandelier. Grace Purdue, recipient of the 2015 Humanitarian Award, and Edward J. Saegers Sr., winner of the 2015 Community Service Award, were congratulated on their accolades by a resolution adopted by the Belleville Township Council May 12. As noted by the council resolution, Purdue, a graduate of School 4, Belleville High School and the Berkeley Secretarial School, was involved in school-related activities serving as a class mother, Den Mother of Scout Pack 307 at School 7, president of the school PTA, vice president of the Junior High PTA, and charter president of the Belleville High School Home and School Association. In 1973, Purdue received the Belleville High Special Award for Outstanding Service and in 1982 she was elected to the Belleville Board of Education where she served as board president. Purdue is a charter member of the Belleville Music Parents Association, Belleville SEPPO (Special Education Parents
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East Newark students got to use part of the Harrison High athletic field for part of their Saturday Academy.
By Ron Leir Observer Correspondent EAST NEWARK – For kids like Perla Orozco,
Gabriel Arias and Miguel Villalpando, it was the chance to exercise the brain and the body. And, really, that’s what the
big experiment was all about. students looking to squeeze It was “Saturday Acadsomething extra from the emy,” designed by the East public school experience. Newark Public School as an enrichment project for those see ACADEMY page
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Public event safety eyed in new rules By Ron Leir Observer Correspondent
roast in memory of Staff Sgt. Edward Karolasz. Local scouts are seeking approvals to run a campout at KEARNY – Kearny’s VFW post is asking Veterans Field for the weekend of Aug. 8-9. the town to divert traffic off And the Ganesh Pariwaar Belgrove Drive, from Bergen Ave. to Afton St., on July 7 for of N.J. and Indian community 10 hours so it can hold a fund- proposes to conduct a procesraising motorcycle run and pig sion/parade from the Hindu
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