NAACP FREEDOM AWARDS 2016

2016 NAACP FREEDOM FUND AWARDS
Saturday, October 29, 2016
Beverly Johnson & Lucy D. Walker 
were awarded 
The Nellie K. Parker Education Award 

Beverly Johnson (left) Lucy D. Walker (right)

Nellie K. Parker 

Nellie Katherine Morrow Parker

"..Nellie Morrow was born in Hackensack, NJ on August 27, 1902. When Nellie came of school age she was required to attend a predominantly black elementary school outside of her neighborhood due to segregation. Her father fought for and obtained the right for his children to attend school in their own district. Nellie and her brothers were often ridiculed and threatened as they walked to and from school, making their childhood uneasy. Nellie entered Montclair Normal School and received her teaching certificate in 1922 after graduating from Hackensack High School.

Nellie Morrow’s goal had always been to become a teacher in Hackensack. In spite of community and Board of Education members’ outrage over the hiring of an African-American school teacher. Nellie was supported by school superintendent Dr. Stark, who had given her a practice teaching position during her senior year in college, and finally a teaching contract once she graduated.

The Morrow family was often tormented and isolated over the next three years. They received hate mail and negative press commentaries, and the Ku Klux Klan staged an angry night parade.

Through all of this, Nellie Morrow never wavered in her desire to teach. For many years, it was suggested to Nellie that she should relocate and teach at a southern school for the betterment of her career. Nellie replied, “It’s too bad if one little colored girl can be such a bother to you.”

Nellie remained in the Hackensack school system for 42 years. Even after she married William Parker in 1928, she continued to teach. During this entire time span, she moved only once from First Street School to the Beech Street School. Her entire career was dedicated to creating a loving classroom atmosphere and instilling a sense of pride in all her students..."

In 1981, the Hackensack Board of Education renamed the Maple Hill School, The Nellie K. Parker Elementary School in her honor." http://www.d837868.com/nkp/child_pages/about/nkp_main.htm

Beverly Johnson, President of the NAACP Anthony Cureton,
Lucy D. Walker, Robert Robinson

Beverly Johnson,
Robert Smith - State President of the NAACP,
Lucy D. Walker

Emma C. Williams, Lucy D. Walker
Curtis Caviness, Candidate for 4th Ward Council

Seated: Crystal Brown, Emma C. Williams,
Betty Griffin - EPSD School Board Member
Lucy  D. Walker - Nellie K. Parker Education  Award Recipient
Bill Feinsten - Candidate EPSD School Board
Curtis Caviness - Candidate 4th Ward  Council
Dorian Milteer - Director Curriculum & Instruction EPSD
Howard Haughton - Former School Board President

Lucy D. Walker and Reverend Dr. Olivia Stannard (recipient of the
Religious Affairs Award)

Robert Smith - President State NAACP
Tristan Anderson - Impressive Youth Recipient of the
Julian Bond Community Service Award

Rumble in the 4th Ward

Reports of there being no contest,

no Challenger

for the 4th Ward Council Seat

have been greatly exaggerated.

Meet the Contender...

Hello, my name is Curtis Edward Caviness.

I am a lifelong resident of Englewood, New Jersey. 

I am a product of the Englewood Public School System.

I am seeking the position of 4th Ward Councilperson.

I will provide a voice for 4th Ward residents on the Englewood City Council.

My contact information is above. Call me.

For the past 20 years, I have faithfully realized my civic obligations with political and educational advocacy. 

I have actively served on many boards and committees. 

For 25 years, I have been involved in Municipal Government work

including problem solving, budgeting, negotiations and property maintenance. 

 Recent Forums and Town Hall Meetings have revealed that 4th Ward Residents feel they are being "under served" & "under represented. 

As 4th Ward Councilperson, I will advocate for "Equal City Services.

Recreation/Community Center 

• Affordable programs for youth 
• Reciprocal mentoring programs between youth and seniors
• Youth teach seniors to use technology
• Seniors share their life experiences
• State of the Art facilities

Property Maintenance

• Abandoned, dilapidated and neglected properties
• Unsightly and unkempt grounds 

City Services - 

• Street cleaning
• Drainage and cleaning of drain grates
• Stagnate water watch
• Deer population - tick and lyme disease
• Snow and leaf removal
• Garbage pickup - revisit rear yard pickup for seniors and disabled
• Maintain healthy trees and shrubbery
• Replacement of old traffic signs 
• Pruning trees away from traffic signs
• Investigate different types of energy (solar)
• A cost effective trolley system within the City

Safety

• Community Policing
• Traffic & Speed controlling devices
• Parking and towing
• Prominent Crosswalks in our neighborhoods - paint the lines, put up the signs

Jobs for residents - Create jobs that meet the needs of the people.

Affordable Housing - Develop places where people can afford to live.

I will work with all residents, the Mayor, the City and the other Council Members to help Our already beautiful Englewood become an environmentally safe and sustainable "Full Service City" for ALL of its residents.

Evil Loophole Genius

Americans!
Did you know that you have been paying Donald Trump's taxes for years?

Think on it.

Donald Trump did not pay taxes on $916 million dollars.
We, the People have been paying through the nose.
We have been paying his taxes.

That was 21 years ago. Exception no longer valid.

How many years did he use this ingenuity while my house was advertised for tax sale if I did not pay by November 12th of every year.

Governor Christie called him a genius.
Well big guy.
I agree with you on this one.

He is an Evil Loop hole genius.
Gargomel for President. Careful of the sharp teeth.

If everyone cheated and manipulated this so called "rigged system"
like this Evil Genius, it would destroy the country.

Is this what he means, by make the Country great again?
Great again for whom?

He is the wealthiest "welfare recipient" in the history of the world.

Trump supporters,
We, the people have paid his taxes for his entire working life.
How much more will we pay for him as President?
Are we sure that he should not be called "King Donald:"?
Do I really want to know that I have paid this man's taxes?
Workers across the country making 10 bucks an hour
and he is against raising the minimum wage.

Wake up Trumpettes, and Trumpeteers!

Reality check coming.

A homeless person may be jailed for sending a child to a school system to give them a better chance at prosperity. Jailed for stealing education from a system in which she did not live.

HOMELESS people do not have an address.

How many people can you feed with $916 million dollars?

Targeting seniors: Robo and cold calls

Targeting Seniors

In my fifth year of retirement, I've become bombarded by Robo & cold calls, usually at the first and last of each month. Ranging from walk in tubs through and including blood thinning drug litigation, I began to take these intrusions personally. However, after asking around, I've discovered that these nuisance calls aren't solely my burden.

My requests to be removed from their calling lists,by both word or pressing the indicated phone key, have proven fruitless. Thanks to the wonders of computers, many "do not call requests" are circumvented by computers redirecting calls through a different telephone number. So, same sales pitch but from a different number. Amy, a security analyst calling from a recorded line asking me,"can you hear me?"(pause) "Are you still there?" as of this post has come from twenty different numbers.

The federal Do Not Call registry must be requested from the actual telephone number and must be renewed annually. Again, the computer shuffling numbers defeats this list.
Yesterday my elder son installed a new call blocking device (1200 capacity) because my Panasonic phone system reached its 250 capacity (in less than one year) this past Saturday. As I began working on this entry (9:31 a.m.), the blood thinning drug lawsuit rang. At 10:43 a.m., my lucky ship came in...a free vacation cruise. Then at 12:30p.m., good old Amy rang. Ugghhhhhhh.... And the solar energy people are relentless!!!!!

As a senior on a fixed income, why must I incur extra expense to guard against such predatory commerce? I don't ask this question naively, but more rhetorically. The simplistic responses of "hang up" and "don't answer unknown numbers" are irksome!
Quoting the Beach Boys, "Help, help me, Rhonda!"