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VIVA PERU!
Not even the threat of thunderstorms could keep away throngs of people who came to the 2017 Peruvian Civic Association of New Jersey’s annual festival and parade Sunday, July 23. Here, a massive crowd at Doyle Pavilion, Kearny, watches as dancers perform. Later on in the day, many more lined Kearny Ave. For the annual parade. Despite the grey skies, the weather held up — and there was no rain throughout the afternoon.
Photo courtesy Anselmo Millan
Lyndhurst teen girl’s dream: to play for the N.Y. Yankees By Laura Comppen Special to The Observer LYNDHURST — As the old adage goes, “Sugar and spice, and everything nice — that’s what little girls are made of.” For 13-year-old Alexia Jorge, you might want to add “baseball, guts and raw determination” to that recipe,
because she has set her sights on becoming the first female to play for the New York Yankees. Alexia, who recently graduated eighth grade in Lyndhurst, has been the lone girl on the roster for the (usually) all-boys’ baseball teams she’s played on since she was 5. Initiated by parental convenience, “My mother didn’t want to run all
over town, so she signed me up for baseball because it was just easier for her since my brother was playing, too,” she said. Perhaps the seeds of comfortably playing alongside boys were planted even earlier, at age 3, when she attended her older cousin’s rock wall-climbing birthday party. While 11-year-old boys were too afraid to
climb the entire 40-foot wall, Alexia urged her parents to let her try it. Although her father, Victor, thought she was “too little,” her mother asked the attendant to slip a harness on Alexia. “Before I knew it, she had climbed all the way up the wall and everyone in the place had stopped and was See BASEBALL, Page 22
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