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By Jason Cohen

Growing up in Long

Valley, Michael

Burton dreamed of

playing professional foot-

ball. On May 2, his dreamcame true when the Detroit

Lions selected him 168th in

the National Football

League Draft, making him

the first student from WestMorris Central High

School to get drafted.

“When you love some-

thing you want to be able to

perform or work in that

field at the highest level,”Burton said.

Burton, 23, said his love

of the gridiron traces back

to his father, Peter, who

played quarterback at

Susquehanna University.

Additionally, his brother,

Drew, 27, played basket-

ball and his sister, Lindsay,25, played at Johns

Hopkins. Not only did he

bond with his father, but

most of his friends played

as well. His mother Anneshowed great support for

him and his siblings while

they played sports, he said.

“They (his family) set

examples of how you

should act and what a stu-dent athlete should be,” he

said.He played flag football

and was a member of the

Long Valley Raiders fromfifth to eighth grade.

His hard work paid off

WMC Alum First Drafted Into Pro Football as he was the first freshman

to start on varsity at WestMorris Central in school

history. Burton, who was a

tailback in high school,

said he learned a lot from

the upper classmen and hiscoaches. As a senior, he

had 200 carries for 1,769

yards and 20 touchdowns

and helped the Wolfpack

win the state championship

in 2009.“The way coach Kevin

Hennelly runs that program

is first class from top to

bottom,” Burton said. “Inever focused on goingpro. If you focus on that, it

can take away of what your

responsibility is. You can’t

worry about playing at the

next level.”

He missed most of his junior year due to an ankle

injury, so many colleges

passed on recruiting him.

However, Burton attended

Rutgers University, wherehe was a walk-on player

and switched from tailback

to fullback. The transition

to college was a bit difficult

at first because guys were

stronger and faster, but he

adjusted quickly, he said.

After red-shirting his

freshman season, Burton

worked hard and became

one of the team’s five cap-tains for the 2014 season.

Scouts began calling him

this past year and when he

had a pro-day on March 11,he knew his chances of get-

ting drafted were real.

“I love Rutgers and I’m

glad I went there,” he said.

“I knew the role that I had.”

Burton watched the

draft with his parents andgirlfriend Kirsten Oddo

with an open mind and

when he got the call from

the Detroit Lions he wasoverwhelmed and it was

one of the proudest

moments of his life.

Now that the hysteria of

being drafted has passed,

Burton has moved toDetroit and fallen in love

with the organization. Hesaid the biggest adjustment

will be the speed of the

game and learning theplaybook, which is much

more complex than college.

“I’m going to be the

best football player I can

be,” he said. “There’s a lot

of work that still has to be

done, so I’m just taking it

one day at a time.”

Many people have con-gratulated him on making it

to the NFL including

Coach Hennelly.

Hennelly said he is notsurprised Burton got draft-

ed and said he was privi-

leged to have coached him.

Burton not only had the

talent to succeed on the

field, but was a leader andalways put the team first,

Hennelly said. He said heand his staff knew there

was something special

about Burton from themoment he stepped on the

field.

“Everything he did was

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by Jason Cohen

The Mendham High School girls track

team won the school’s first ever New

Jersey Athletic Conference champi-onship on May 6, at Morris Hills High

School, accumulating 70 points. Their clos-

est competitor, Roxbury, had 58 points.

Roy Hamblen, who has coached the

team for 30 years, said this was a remark-

able accomplishment. They won the PennRelays on April 25 for the third time in four

years, but this was the icing on the cake, he

said. Competing in the NJAC was a chal-

lenge because the team had just won coun-

ties two days before.“We had a really good season this year,”

Hamblen said. “They are a great a bunch of

girls and they will always do what they need

to do to win. I was surprised we won. I told

the girls we’re not worried about points; just

go run a few events each. That was their bestmeet of the season.”

Sierra Tonneson won both the 400-meter

sprint and 400-meter hurdles and Audrey

O’Neill and won the 200-meter dash and

came in second in the 400-meter hurdles.

Mendham Wins School's First NJAC ChampionshipTonneson, 18, a senior, of Chester, start-

ed running track in second grade, butstopped in eighth grade and her freshman

year to play lacrosse. While she liked

lacrosse, her heart was with track, she said.

She played soccer when she was younger

and was one of the faster players. Her

endurance and quickness made transitioningto track easy.

“I knew lacrosse was an up and coming

sport and I might as well try something

new,” Tonneson said. “I was really comfort-able around the track girls. I liked the idea

that track has a lot of individual accomplish-

ments.”

When she was a sophomore, her sister,

Skye, 20 and senior, Laura Papilli, 20, who

both ran on the team were her mentors. Asshe got older, she made sure underclassmen

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were prepared just like she was.

“You kind of calm everyone down and

try to comfort them by saying after the race

you will feel 10 times better,” she said.She credits a lot of her success to her

teammates and coach Hamblen. She will be

running track at Boston College in the fall.

“Sometimes people don’t think of track

as a team sport, but I think we have a pretty

tight knit team,” she said. “A lot of our con-fidence comes from him. We all lean on him

for comfort.”

Junior Julia Mszanski, 16, of Mendham,

took third in the pole vault with a height of

10’6”. Mszanski, who was a gymnast when

she was younger, fell in love with pole vault-ing when she first tried at the age of 13 at

Apex Vaulting in Fairfield. She went there

with her brother, Adam, 20, who pole vaults

at Bucknell University.“Literally, the first time I picked up a pole

I realized this is awesome,” Mszanski said.

While it is similar to gymnastics, the

transition was a bit difficult, she said. She

had to work out much more and constantly

do agility and strength training.

“The second you clear the bar, you can

feel yourself falling and you have a sense of

relief,” she said.

She has gotten better each year and is

proud the team won counties, the PennRelays and NJAC.

“That championship means a lot to me,”

Mszanski said. “It means I’ve progressed as

an athlete.”Katie Wisotsky, 17, a junior, of

Mendham, came in third in the discus with a

throw of 107’1”. Wisotsky began throwing

the discus and shot-put at the age of eight,

when she joined the Mendham Magic team.

Her love for the sport traces back to herfather Dave, who played when he was

younger.“Before he suggested it, I never really

heard of it,” Wisotsky said. “At first I didn’t

know much about it, so I figured why not tryit.”

She said she thought it was a cool sport

and worked hard to become one of the bet-

ter players on the team.

“I had a natural ability for it,” she said. “I

kind of connected with the sport and I kindof always enjoyed doing it.”

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By Cheryl Conway

Ten years have passed since Maggie

Doyne of Mendham Borough tookoff with her backpack on a one-year

adventure with 12 other students to theSouth Pacific Islands through a college-

affiliated semester abroad program.

As a teenager, Doyne was not sure whatshe wanted to do with her life when her

undergraduate years came to an end so she

set out to a find a world that has become

her “slice of heaven.” If there is a ten year

reunion for her graduating class atMendham High School, this remarkable

28-year old woman will surely win awards

for “most children” and “greatest heroine.”

As the co-founder of the BlinkNowFoundation, Doyne considers herself the

mother of 350 orphaned kids fromSurkhet, Nepal. Through the foundation,

she has established a house for currently

51 kids, a school for 350 students, a

women’s center, a store with local goods,

and is now working on expanding theschool and a vocational center.

Everyone “deserves a home and a safe

place to live and their basic needs,” Doyne

said in a previous speaking engagement.But when she set out ten years ago, she

learned first-hand that there are millions of

children around the world that are starving

for even the basic necessities for survival.In her trip abroad, Doyne traveled allaround N. Eastern India as a volunteer

when she got connected with Nepal

through her work with Nepalese refugees.

“I said I wanted to work with kids,”

Doyne describes in an interview with NewView Media during her visit to NJ in May.

Doyne spent a month in the local area

speaking at various organizations about

her foundation and seeking medical atten-

tion to her adopted one-year son, Ravi, she

saved from dehydration and a bacterialinfection in July 2014 after finding him

when he was about two months old

“wrapped in a rag” in Nepal. She was told

his mother died in childbirth.

“He is perfectly healthy now and justcelebrated his first birthday today,” says

Dekker.

What led Doyne to Nepal was her

curiosity about the civil war.

During her first trip to the North

Mendham Graduate Dedicates A Decade To Children In Nepal

Western Region of Nepal, Doynes says “I

was curious about what was going on so I

went on a trip on my own with my young

friend” Funita, a 16-year old refugee who

left her home eight years prior.The pair traveled through the

Himalayas, “walking along the dirt roads

of Nepal’s most poverty-stricken villages,”

looking for an area to relocate and found

that Funita’s home was no longer there and

the area was converted into a camp in a

remote village.

That was when Doyne met a six-year-

old girl named Hima, one of the hundreds

of child laborers struggling to survive.Instead of going to school, Hima was

breaking rocks in a dry riverbed and sell-

ing them to earn a few dollars to feed her

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This was “when I started to feel a con-

nection to the village,” says Doyne. There

was a “huge orphan crises.”

She enrolled Hima, and slowly otherkids, into school at a local trading post.

The $7 per child included admission fee,backpack, and books.

It was a very “luxurious thing to go to

school,” explains Doyne. But to her, shesays “it was really cost effective.” She

could not walk away.

That was when Doyne called home and

asked her parents to wire her $5,000 life

savings, mostly from babysitting.

“Over the next two years, the dream of building a safe, clean, stable home became

a reality,” as described on the BlinkNow

website. Doyne purchased land in Surkhet,Nepal, with her $5,000, and the home’s

foundation was soon poured thanks to thesupport of the local Nepalese community –

led by BlinkNow Co-Founder Top

Bahadur Malla, and supporters from

Doyne’s hometown of Mendham and oth-

ers around the world.“Brick by brick, walls began to rise.

The roof went up. And in 2008, the front

door of Kopila Valley Children’s Home

opened,” providing a stable environment

for now 51 kids ages one to 17 years old.

According to Ruth Dekker, director of Operation in BlinkNow’s U.S. headquar-

ters,The land for the home cost $5,000; the

first floor of the house cost $20,000; and

today the house appraises for $300,000.“There are three couples that live in the

house with Maggie and help care for the

children,” says Dekker. “There is also a

full time "fellow" assigned to the house.

The home is three stories. The girls are on

the first floor, the boys on the second andthe staff are on the third.”

Next came the school.

The problem with the schools in Nepalis they are “old fashioned,” says Doyne. “I

wanted a center, nutrition, clinic, tutoring,support, different curriculum so they can

succeed.”

In 2010, BlinkNow completed the

Kopila Valley School for “really needy

children and orphans.” Built out of locallyharvested bamboo, children from Surkhet

and surrounding areas are enrolled, along

with all local teachers and administrators

to operate the school.

“There are 20 teachers and 350 students

in grades nursery to tenth grade,” saysDekker. “The curriculum is based on

International Baccalaureate and incorpo-rates Montessori principals” similar to

those of the Blue School in NY and Peck

School in NJ, two of the school’s partners.“It is highly interactive and doesn't

focus on teaching for standardized tests,”

says Dekker. “The curriculum is heavily

enriched with drama, art, poetry slams and

the best distance learning we can find. The

children feel fortunate for the opportunityto attend and work very hard.

“Nearly all of the children are the first

in their generation to attend school, thepost war literacy in Nepal was very low,”

says Dekker. Also, unemployment in thearea is 80 percent. There aren't jobs so

many of the men leave their families to

work abroad. We do job training and liter-

acy building through our women's center

and will soon develop a vocational centerto prepare people for the work force and

create more opportunities.”

Today, the school “is one of the highest

performing schools in the region,” says

Doyne.

Beyond schooling, students are provid-ed health care, a daily nutritious meal, a

sense of community and confidence.“Over the years, our passion and com-

mitment have turned into a home, a school

and a successful grassroots organization,”as described on the website. “The vision of

the BlinkNow Foundation is to sustain,

grow and support Kopila Valley Children’s

Home and School in Surkhet, Nepal; serve

as a vehicle to share ideas with others,

especially children and teens in the U.S.;empower young people to become pio-

neers in developing their own solutions to

world poverty.”A Health Clinic and Women’s Center

has since been added in Kopila Valley. Atthe Women’s Center, 70 women are cur-

rently being trained as seamstresses to

make uniforms for the students. A lot of

the kids have single widow moms, who

cannot read or write. The Women’s Centercreates employment opportunities for

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“This empowers women,” says Doyne,

adding that women are treated as “secondcitizens” in Nepal, without having access

to education nor jobs. “Suicide is the lead-

ing killer for women in Nepal.”

The BlinkNow Foundation is now

working toward construction for a highschool.

The lease for the current school proper-

ty is expiring, exlains Doyne, so her efforts

now are to build a larger, second facility

nearby. There will be more classrooms,

and the rooms will be bigger. It will be a“green sustainable school” that is “earth-

quake proof” and operates off of solar

energy.

The school will be situated on five

acres, expand to grade twelve, with hopesto add a vocational center “so they can

gain skills,” Doyne says.Through generous support from the

Mendham community, including the

schools, rotary clubs, neighbors, friends,

classmates, local kids with their cupcake

sales and team fundraisers, Doyne hasbeen able to pour her sole and energy into

her work in Nepal.

The BlinkNow Foundation has set up a

group effort called the Tri for Kopila, a

triathlon team that will be participating inthe July 18 New Jersey State Triathlon at

Mercer County Park in West Windsor, one

of the fastest, flattest courses and top 25

largest triathlons in the nation. For more

information or to join the team, go to:

http://www.blinknow.org/page/outreach/login/tri-for-kopila-2015.

For other ways to volunteer, donate or

fundraise to the BlinkNow Foundation, go

to http://www.blinknow.org/get-involved.


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By Cara Connelly

Summer vacations don’t have to involve trunks and

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mail and newspaper delivery. Staycations are becom-

ing a common term where people enjoy their own neighbor-

hoods and communities during down time. Backyard poolsand community pools are great staycation activities and can

be a safe and fun experience for all ages.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and

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drownings for children 14 and younger: lack of swimming

ability, lack of barriers and lack of supervision.To avoid a tragic summer, reviewing basic water safety

tips is a smart way to start off the pool season. Never leave

little ones unattended near water and children should learn

basic safety such as staying away from pool drains, pipes

and other openings to avoid getting stuck and never swimalone. It’s never too late to learn to swim- everyone should

know how to and lessons are available at local community

pools, YMCAs or private pools.

Neighborhood or backyard pools don’t have life guards

like community pools do. Keep CPR skills for children andadults updated regularly. Install a four-foot or taller fence

around the pool- some communities have specific require-ments. It’s a good idea to check with the local building

inspector to see what rules apply to the neighborhood. Use

self-closing and self-latching gates, pool and gate alarms and

use a lockable safety cover. Consider using a surface waveor underwater alarm. Especially with younger kids, alarm

doors and windows that face the pool area. It’s great to invite

the neighborhood kids over but, don’t let the kid/adult ratio

get out of hand and never leave any kids unsupervised.

Visiting the local community pool is a great way to spendthe summer. It’s fun for all ages, a great way to meet other

families and omits the worry and hassle of maintaining a

pool. The Hackettstown Community Pool (HCP) is part of the recreation department established in 1948 and offers

something for everyone. The pool is handicap accessible and

accepts members and non-members. Admission season ratesfor residents are: family, $105; individual, $50; senior citi-

zen, $10. Non Residents are welcome to join too. Rates for

Summer Swimming Safety 101non-resident family, $180; individual, $100; senior citizen,

$10. Daily, weekday, weekend and holiday passes are avail-

able for residents and non-residents and range in price from

$2 to $10.

The HCP is an outdoor pool that has showers, lockerrooms and a lifeguard always on duty. It offers lap swim-

ming, water exercise, open swim (recreational swimming),

private swim lessons and lifeguard training classes. There

are eight lane lines to swim, a fun water slide and several

diving blocks. Adjacent to the pool area are several fields,

baseball fields and practice areas and a track and field area

for organized teams as well as pick- up games or just to have

fun.

For more information on the HCP, call 908-852-4095.

Their season starts on June 20 and the pool is open sevendays a week from noon to 8 p.m.

Swimming is great exercise, fun and a wonderful activi-

ty for all ages. Reminding kids, friends and family of a few

swimming safety tips will keep the fun in summer. Safe

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By Cheryl Conway

It’s only in downtown Chester, but with just one step

inside Fresco Mexican Restaurant guests will be sweptaway into a world that is easy to describe as charming,

inviting, fresh and bright.

From the warm welcome by owners as customers walk

through the door, to the bright, bold décor with its colorfulpaintings on the walls, bright blue tables and chairs – along

with the relaxing music and the tasty, fresh cuisine, Fresco

Mexican offers a wonderful atmosphere for dining day or

night. But the experience does not end there as right next

door, customers can shop for the most fabulous collectionof handcrafted art at their Boutique Random Acts of Fresco.

Voted top three in the 2015 Readers Choice Awards for

Best Restaurants and Food by “Morris Essex Health andLife” magazine, Fresco Mexican restaurant on Main Street

in Chester offers a distinctive menu with a variety of

favorites from Mexico.Opened in Chester since 2010, the first restaurant-

Fresco- had been located in Flanders since 2006. Owners

Marco Rojas and Carlos Cervantes joined their years of

passion to establish one of the finest Mexican area restau-

rants.Rojas, from Guadalajara Mexico, developed his region-

al style of Mexican cooking in his mother’s kitchen. It was

there where he learned how to use the fresh produce,

cheese, and meats from the local merchants.

Relocated to New Jersey in the late eighties, Rojasexpanded his skills of international cuisine working as

executive chef at The Black Horse Pub in Mendham andThe Short Hills Club in Short Hills.

“I named our restaurant Fresco (fresh) because there

really is no other way,” Rojas says on his website.

Cervantes, from Key West, started his career in hotels at

the famed Pier House Beach Club and Resort. After mov-ing to NJ in 1988, Carlos managed various restaurants

throughout the northern NJ area; including 15 years at The

Madison Hotel in Morristown as a sales and catering man-

ager.

The two joined forces in 2006 with Fresco in Flanders,moved to Chester four years later, and then one year later,in 2011, opened up a unique gift shop right next door-

Random Acts of Fresco - featuring hand-crafted artisan

imports from countries such as Mexico, Peru, Guatemala,

Haiti, India and Ecuador.

Unlike various countries represented at the boutique, therestaurant features all Mexican specialties. For drink, cus-

tomers can bring their own alcohol, and add to the restau-

rant’s fresh made non-alcoholic margarita mix. Mexican

sodas are available, but the Hibiscus Iced Tea made from

the dry flower is most refreshing. Guests can buy a bag full

of the flowered leaves at the restaurant and at Random Acts

of Fresco to make their own at home.

The best, homemade tortilla chips with salsas such as

mild chipotle and tomatillo salsa with cilantro comes next.

Chilled Gazpacho, a cold tomato soup with cucumbers andchopped vegetable garnish of peppers and onions is popu-

lar to start.

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If dining with another, the Bocadillo Platter appetizer is

a great one to share as it includes three specialties- ChickenEmpanadas, Beef Taquitos, and Guacamole that is chunky

style and as fresh as it gets.

The Sangrita Chicken Salad comes marinated in home-

made orange-tomato dressing, and includes crisp greens,grapes, avocado, fried plantains, spiced pecans and freshorange.

For an entrée, the Shrimp Al Pastor Molcajete is a house

specialty served hot in a bubbling Aztec Stone Dish, which

can also be purchased at the boutique next door. Enjoy

fresh, full of flavor shrimp combined with chorizo, andfresh pineapple with poblano peppers, and onions in a spicy

ancho chili sauce; and accompanied with Mexican rice,

refried beans, and homemade tortillas. Preparations of this

dish change weekly.

Some other entrees on the menu include burritos, pani-

nis, tacos, and wraps all popular for lunch; and a variety of dishes like enchiladas, chimichangas, chile relleno, nachos

and so many dishes varying chicken, pork, steak, shrimp

and vegetarian.

On the kid’s menu, young guests can enjoy favorites like

salchipulpo, quesadillas, nachos and more.Whether an appetizer, entrée, dessert or a drink, presen-

tation is eye appealing.

The Pastel de Tres Leches which is a moist vanilla cake

soaked in three types of milk and brandy, with a layer of

white icing, swirled chocolate sauce on the plate and two

sliced strawberries. Sharing is not recommended, as it is

that good and definitely worth the calories.Fresco Mexican also collaborates with The Sweet Spot

Bake Shoppe down the street in Chester, offering their

Chocolate Coffee Brownie Pops and Lime Margarita bars.

Cervantes is working on adding Margarita Cheesecake tohis dessert menu.

Once the owners were settled in their new restaurant,

they started to research the idea for a boutique next door,

says Cervantes. Just one year later, Random Acts of Fresco

opened its doors.

Random Fresco started with Mexican art, so he and hispartners visited Mexico and came back with fabulous finds,

all purchased from wonderful artists throughout the region.

Random has since expanded to other countries and filled up

the boutique with Ecuadorian jewelry; textiles and embroi-

dered pillows from Guatemala; scarves from India; Haitian

metal art made from discarded 55 gallon steel oil drumsrecycled into wall décor like a giant sunflower; Impressive

pottery; and upscale jewelry with gold and pearls featuring

artists from New York and Boston.

Customers stand in awe at the selection and variety, such

as heart sconces made from iron, Day of The Dead Art likethe painted ceramic skulls and skull wine stoppers, a fan

favorite, Mexican mirrors with tin roses made out of recy-

cled aluminum, leather and fabric handbags, woven belts

from India, a pig sculpture with four pigs standing on top of

the other, iridescent glasses made from blow fused glass in

Mexico, authentic Mexican saddle purses, printed scarves,

decorative plates, candles, table runners, picture frames,statues, vases, colorful necklaces, earrings, bracelets, and so

much more.

Customers will also appreciate the later hours and out-side dining in the front patio open as the weather permits

from spring to the fall.

“Eat, Eat, Eat… Shop, Shop, Shop,” Cervantes stresses.

Hours are Sun. – Thurs., 10:30 a.m. – 9 p.m.; Fri. and

Sat., 10:30 a.m. – 10 p.m. For more information or to viewthe menu, visit Frescomexican.com; or call 908-955-7222.

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by Michele Guttenberger

Today there is renewed

curiosity about whowas the best visionary

of the 20th Century now thatwe’ve entered the 21stCentury. Which of thesetwo legendary geniuses wasit – Thomas Edison orNikola Tesla who best pred-icated the world’s powertechnology for marvelousmodern day living?

Retelling this legendarystory of the battle of thesetwo rival inventors oftenpresents embellished or mis-leading facts that attempts torepackage history in a morecomposite way for today’spopular appeal. The fact isthat Thomas Edison did notinvent the light bulb. Hemade improvements to theincandescent bulb that itspioneering designer (JosephSwan) even admired.

Thomas Edison made theincandescent light bulbpractical, economical andefficient to get people toaccept electricity as thesource of power that lit thesebulbs. The electricity thatEdison endorsed to powerthese bulbs was DC - DirectCurrent and that is where hecame into conflict with hisformer snappy employeeNikola Tesla.

The popular myth onTesla was that he led thecharge on electrical currentpower. This is misleadingbecause the use of AC wasused in medical devices longbefore Tesla was even born.The earliest big discoveriesand experiments in electrici-ty go to Michael Faradaywhich dates back to the1820’s. Nikola Tesla wasthe big power electricity sortof thinker employed byWestinghouse to furtheradvance AC AlternatingCurrent power as the way tomodernize the world. Thinkof miles of utility lines of

power and this is the trans-mission of Tesla’s ACCurrent. It is that big net-work grid that connectspower to every home in theUS.

So Edison did not dis-cover the light bulb andNikola Tesla did not discov-er AC power. Both menmade phenomenal progressin their area of research anddevelopment.

What really separatedEdison from Tesla was theapplication of these inven-tions. Here is where ThomasEdison has a stronger con-nection to modern day livingas we know it today.Edison’s research was donefor practical benefit. Hisvision was to bring safeelectricity to the home thatdid not cause a family’s lifeto be at risk in using his

home inventions. There ismore safety in using DCpower even though it can’tgo the distance. Edison didnot think of transmittingpower over long distances.Edison’s mind was off thebig power grid. He believedin local generating stationsembedded in neighborhoodsthat served electricity toeach home. He even proved

that a home could have itsown standalone generatingstation. Inside his owngated estate community atLlewellyn Park, he pur-chased a standard size fami-ly home in 1905 on

Honeysuckle Ave in WestOrange. He made this houseinto a demo model home of electrification. The househad its own electric generat-ing station. It is here thatThomas Edison tested outthe practicality of his vari-ous new Edison householdappliances, inventions, anddevices for his vision of themodern day family home. In1912 he issued a newsletter

to his employees that statedthis model home wasinstalled with several new“moving picture machines”in the billiard room of thishouse. Can it be said thenthat Thomas Edison promot-ed the first home theaterconcept that is now a trendin the 21st century.

When we flip the lightswitch to light our home,this is a Tesla concept of AC

power. When we rechargeare battery powered person-al electronic devices we areusing DC power. So, wecan say that PC users are inthe Thomas Edison state of mind on power.

Visit the Thomas AlvaEdison Museum – NPSwhere home innovationswere made - Open Wed.,through Sun., Hours 10 a.m.

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will not seek renewal of his contract when it

expires in Aug. 2016.

Yaw told the college community of his

decision this morning at CCM’s springProfessional Day for faculty and staff.

“I want to express my deep sense of grat-

itude for what we have been able to accom-

plish here,” said Yaw. “I am especially proud

of our faculty. It is because of their dedica-tion that our academic programs are so

widely recognized in the state and evenaround the nation.”

Yaw was appointed the second president

of the college in 1986, following the retire-

ment of CCM’s first president, Dr. ShermanH. Masten. Yaw first joined CCM in 1980 as

Dean of Academic Affairs. Prior to that, he

served as Associate Dean of Academic

Affairs at Adelphi University in New York.

Under his leadership, CCM has becomeone of the state’s leading community col-

leges. As a result of his vision and guidance,

the college has one of the highest combined

transfer and graduation rates among com-

munity colleges in New Jersey. Students and

faculty also are regularly presented with

awards and honors for their accomplish-

ments.In addition, Yaw has played an instru-

mental role in shaping higher education in

NJ through his work on professional and

educational councils. During his service as

chair of the NJ Presidents Council – repre-senting all of the state’s colleges and univer-

sities – he led the effort to enact a statewide

transfer agreement to ease the process for

students seeking to pursue their educationsbeyond an associate degree. An active com-

munity leader, he has served on the boardsof numerous organizations, including the

Morris County Chamber of Commerce and

the Urban League of Morris County, offer-

ing his time and expertise to improving the

lives of others.Yaw earned his Ed.D. from Columbia

University, his M.S. from Southern Illinois

University and his B.A. from Harpur

College, SUNY Binghamton.

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