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In honor of her first birthday on August 29, Juliette Kelner became Livingston’s youngest donor to CHOW (Community Hunger Out-reach Warehouse), a project of Livingston Neighbors Helping Neighbors (LNHN).

On August 26, Juliette’s parents, Jennie and Jessie Kelner, threw a backyard first birthday party with 30 family members, and they asked that guests bring donations for the CHOW pantry in lieu of presents. Guests came with bags of non-perishables to donate. 

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COMMUNITY COMMEMORATES SEPTEMBER 11: Hundreds of community members attended Livingston’s Ceremony of Remembrance held on Monday, September 11, at the 9/11 Living Memorial Garden. The event featured speakers, including Livingston High School senior Zoe Packel and musical performances. 

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Regal Bank’s ninth annual Dog Pawrade is set for this Sunday, September 17. The festivities will begin at 10:30 a.m. The start time was previously announced as noon.

The community event will be staged in the parking lot of Regal Bank, located at 570 West Mt. Pleasant Avenue in Livingston. To avoid delays, participants are asked to arrive early to register their dogs if they did not already pre-register at a Regal Bank branch.

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The Livingston Planning Board met on Tuesday evening, September 12, and heard one application for a minor subdivision of property on Force Hill Road.  

The applicant, Force Hill, LLC, proposed to consolidate and subdivide four lots, one of which is land locked, to create three new lots. A variance was sought for lot area and lot width. The four properties total 1.35 acres and are located about 350 feet north of East Mt. Pleasant Avenue.

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The Livingston Coat Drive and Toiletries Challenge, which have been enfolded into an overall initiative called the Livingston Philanthropies, is continuing its collection of winter coats and travel-sized toiletries.
“Livingston’s generosity continues to reach the stratosphere.  We arrived home from summer vacation to find Coat Drive Central (my garage) packed with toiletries, coats, diapers, women’s products, ‘personal shopping for the homeless’ new clothing items and  more,” said Philanthropies founder Jeff Friedman of Livingston.
“I knew things were coming in during my hiatus, but I never expected to find such a huge array of exactly what’s needed by the ‘poor, homeless and disenfranchised,’” he added.
His wife, Karen Friedman, a Livingston Philanthropies volunteer, immediately began sorting the trove into toiletries and cosmetics, clothing and coats areas. Her next step is to create toiletries and cosmetics gift bags for distribution in Newark this week.

The Livingston First Aid Squad has opened its annual fund drive. The campaign, conducted by mail, is the Squad's only formal fund-raiser for the year.

The costs of operating the First Aid Squad have risen to more than $100,000 per year, said fund drive chairman Scott Maynard. “We receive no outside funding from any government agency. All of our funding comes from donations from our residents and local businesses,” he noted.

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LIVINGSTON STUDENTS GO BACK TO SCHOOL: Students headed back to Livingston public schools on Tuesday, September 5, for the start of the 2017-2018 school year. Shown above, Timothy Hart, the new principal at Collins School, welcomes a student with a handshake.

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The “Unite Against Hate” candlelight vigil held at the Presbyterian Church at 7:45 p.m. on Monday evening, September 4, attracted nearly 100 people. The event was sponsored by the Livingston Clergy Association and Livingston’s Diversity and Inclusion Committee.

The candlelight vigil was organized by the groups in response to the anti- Semitic, racist violence that occurred recently in Charlottesville, Virginia. Their goal in holding the event was “to express condemnation of bigotry and hatred as a community.”

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In its August 17 issue, the Tribune announced a “Then and Now” contest, challenging readers to compare “then and now” photos of a Livingston landmark, and guess the date of the older photo. In this case, it was aerial photos of Memorial Park.

The winner was Cathy Lindsey, who correctly identified the older photo as having been taken in 1963. Lindsey is a teacher assistant with the Burnet Hill School pre-school program.

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Livingston’s annual September 11 Ceremony of Remembrance will be held on Monday, September 11, at the September 11 Living Memorial Garden in Memorial Park. The program will be held at 6:30 p.m., rain or shine.

Livingston Boy Scouts will serve as honor guards, leading the Pledge of Allegiance. The Livingston High School chorus, under the direction of Joshua Salzman, will sing the National Anthem. The chorus will also sing Let There Be Peace on Earth, You’ll Never Walk Alone, and God Bless America.

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