Friday, October 12, 2012
Special delivery will mean more than 220 meals for the needy.
Despite the fact that Morris County and Parsippany are among the most affluent places in New Jersey, hunger can be found here too. To help struggling families in the township, Mayor James Barberio and online grocery delivery service Peapod made a special delivery Friday to the Food Pantry at the Parsippany Community Center. Using white pushcarts, the mayor and Peapod representatives Mike Wagoner and Sean Ashe delivered $500 in groceries—the equivalent of more than 220 meals—to the pantry. “As a committed member of the Morris County business community, we feel it is important to support our neighbors in need,” said Bart Bednarz, Peapod's New Jersey district manager. “Donations like this can make an immediate impact as well as inspire …
Monday, September 17, 2012
Off-Broadway veteran enlivens cast of musical at Women's Theater Co.
The Women’s Theater Co. launched its 20th anniversary season in classic style Friday night at the Parsippany Community Center with a respectful nod to another theatrical institution—“The Fantasticks.” Director Barbara Krajkowski was a fan of the original production of this beguiling little musical, which spent a record 42 consecutive years Off-Broadway (from 1960 to 2002). It took her this long to finally direct it herself, and she’s gifted us with a production that not only pays tribute to its past, but manages to put an appropriate — and successful — Women’s Theater Co. spin on what so many of us have seen before. Jerry Orbach famously starred in the original cast as El Gallo, the dashing bandit who also serves as the narrator. Through …
Tuesday, September 11, 2012
Women's Theater Co. opens anniversary season with 'The Fantasticks.'
This week marks the opening of the 20th anniversary season of the Women’s Theater Co., and producing artistic director Barbara Krajkowski has come up with a fantastic way to celebrate. The milestone season begins Friday with the premiere of the record-setting musical, “The Fantasticks,” which launches a music-heavy 2012-13 schedule for the professional company in residence at the Parsippany Community Center. After wandering from space to space for more than a decade, Krajkowski’s company finally found a permanent home in her home town of Parsippany, in the cozy 99-seat theater vacated a few years earlier by a community-theater group. Nine years later, the WTC is entrenched as an essential part of the Morris County and Parsippany cultural …
Monday, September 10, 2012
Parsippany's working poor may be hard to find, but they exist—and a new Morris County effort is underway to help them.
To address the crucial need in area communities this September, which is Hunger Awareness Month, the Morris County Youth Center is launching a new initiative: the Morris County Municipal Action To Curb Hunger. McMATCH is a county-wide drive to gather food to help restock the shelves at Morris Plains' Interfaith Food Pantry and other local food providers, including the Parsippany Community Center's Food Pantry. The initiative also offers an incentive to promote donations. Organizers are turning the food drive into a competition that pits the county's municipalities against towns of similar size. Food donations will be weighed and financial contributions will be converted to pounds ($1 = 1 pound) to determine division winners. Winning …
Wednesday, September 5, 2012
'I don't see things getting better,' Parsippany's human services director said.
Give a hearty shout in the warehouse at Interfaith Food Pantry in Morris Plains and you just might hear an echo. That is because a 13 percent increase from May through July in demand for food staples—everyday things from bread to milk, cereal to soup—has nearly stripped them of supply. "We recently had to temporarily adjust our intake policy to accommodate all the new people," said Carolyn Lake, director of community relations and development. "On top of all this, we just completed our weekly inventory and the situation is bleak." The organization's dearth of donations comes on the heels on the release of a United Way of Northern New Jersey study five years in the making that shows more than a third of New Jerseyans, 34 percent, do not …
Wednesday, April 11, 2012
Barbara Ievoli recognized for her work with the Parsippany Community Center.
The Garden State Woman Education Foundation honored a group of New Jersey women for their civic contributions on March 23. Among those paid tribute at Florham Park's Park Avenue Club was Parsippany Human Services Director Barbara Ievoli, who was recognized for her work with the Parsippany Community Center. The organization's website defines a Garden State Woman of the Year as a woman who "exemplifies the highest personal commitment to supporting women's efforts to develop and excel and to affecting positive change for women throughout the state." Given annually since 2005, Garden State Woman's awards program seeks to honor New Jersey women and organizations that show exceptional leadership in their chosen professional lives, have a …
Citizen Jane
3:57 pm on Saturday, September 8, 2012
As a moderate who votes for the person rather than the party, it is really dismaying when political discussion devolves to calling the president a socialist muslim and one of our political parties is referred to as democraps. Both parties have people who are capable of greed and misusing their position, let's not pretend that's not true. more ›