Livingston news

The Livingston Wrestling Club is having its best season in more than a decade, said coach Matt Brill, with a record of 8 to 1 through the end of January.

The recreation team is led by eighth gradersAidan Carmody, Jason Quirk, Shaun Quirk, Phenol Morlan, Henry Han, James Rossi, Olisa Ojukwu, Noah Lerman and Xavier Miles. The wrestlers are in grades two through eight.

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Stanley Simon, 83,of Livingston, New Jersey, passed away Saturday, Jan. 26, 2019, at his winter home in Palm Beach, Florida.

Stan was born on September 11, 1935, in Elizabeth, New Jersey, to Moe and Anna Simon, and was the youngest of three brothers, Sydney and Edward. He grew up living above the family toy store, helping with the business as needed.

Stan attended Thomas Jefferson High School in Elizabeth. He was an excellent student and a great athlete who received varsity letters in basketball, soccer, track and golf.

In his senior year, he received the very distinguished Cornell Cup which was presented to the one student in Union County best exemplifying all-around athletic and academic excellence.

He went on to receive a bachelor’s degree from the University of Michigan and continued with post-graduate courses at New York University.

Livingston’s veterans’organizations honored community volunteers Don Schwartz and Nick Santinelli at their Four Chaplains Legion of Honor Award ceremony on Sunday, February 3, at the Livingston Community/Senior Center. The award, which recognizes acts of volunteerism, brotherhood, and sacrifice, is named for the four chaplains of the USAT Dorchester. The ship was torpedoed during World War II, and as it sank, its four chaplains gave up their life jackets to other crew members, sacrificing their own lives to save others. Shown above, representatives of Livingston’s veterans’ groups (the Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 2856, the American Legion Post 201, and the Jewish War Veterans Post 740) lock arms in solidarity as four candles are extinguished in honor of the four chaplains. At right, Four Chaplains Legion of Honor Award recipients Schwartz and Santinelli display their awards and lapel pins.

The Livingston High School boys’ varsity basketball team defeated Belleville, 45-40, and Weequahic, 63-56, to advance in the Essex County Tournament and improve on its league record. Shown here, Lancer guard Abe Rimatzki, #1, “soars and scores” against Weequahic. Converging on the play is Lancer Jack Larsen, #15. The Lancers defeated the Weequahic Indians on Monday, February 4, at home in the LHS Fitness andWellnessCenter. DonSchwartzPhoto

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The Intergenerational Prom Committee has announced that this year’s event will be held on Tuesday, April 9, from 5:30 to 9 p.m. at Livingston High School.

The Intergenerational Prom is a collaborative event among the Livingston Public Schools, the Township of Livingston, and the LHS Key Club.

This year’s prom will be a celebration of “the red, white and blue” with a theme of “You’re a Grand Old Flag!”

For over three decades, this special dinner/dance party has been bringing Livingston students and senior citizens together to get to know each other as members of the same community.

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A sixth grade student was rescued Tuesday evening after falling through the ice on Littell’s Pond.

Just after 5 p.m. on February 5, with the temperature at about 60 degrees, the 12-year-old boy went on the ice to retrieve a basketball and fell through.

Livingston Police officers and the Livingston Fire Department rushed to the scene, with officers David Cordero and Sean Whalen arriving first to find the boy in the pond.

The boy, who was able to stand with the water coming up to his chest, could not get out of the water on his own. The officers then went onto the ice and used a rope to pull the boy from the water within a matter of minutes.

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Morethan 1,500 peopleparticipated in the 13th annual Cycle for Survival event at Equinox Fitness in Summit on Saturday, February 2.

Martha Ackermann of Livingston, currently a Memorial Sloan Ketttering Cancer Center (MSK) patient, helped kick off the day with an invited ride on “Jen’s Bike.” The specially designated spin bike honors Cycle for Survival co-founder, Jen Goodman Linn, who lost her cancer battle in 2011, at age 40.

Linn co-founded Cycle for Survival with her husband when she was challenged by her diagnosis of sarcoma. She was the sister of Brett Goodman (LHS class of 1986) and the daughter of Sandy and Len Goodman. The Livingston native was a member of the Livingston High School class of 1989 and an LHS Hall of Fame recipient.

Donations were still being counted when Sandy and Len Goodman announced the day’s tally: $1.1 million dollars.

A vote to decide Livingston’s next Council member will be held on Wednesday, February 13.

All three candidates, Scott Goldman, Laurie Kahn, and MichaelVieira, will address the Livingston Democratic Council for about 15 minutes prior to the vote. Their speaking time will be split between addressing the committee members and responding to questions, though the precise breakdown has not been officially determined.

Only the voting members and the three candidates will be present. The voting will be closed, meaning nobody will know how each member voted. The ballots will then be counted publicly.

Once a new Council member is chosen, he or she may be sworn in immediately, though that is not expected to happen. The results will likely be taken to the township clerk’s office, with a swearing in potentially set for the next regular meeting of the Council, which in this case would be on Monday, February 25.

A funeral service for Frances C. Anderson of Livingston will be held at Quinn-Hopping Funeral Home today, January 31, at 11 a.m. Burial will follow at Restland Memorial Park in East Hanover.

Mrs. Anderson died on Monday, January 21. She was 90 years old. She was born in Newark and graduated from Irvington High School. She worked at the Prudential and Chubb Insurance companies.

Shewas predeceasedby herhusband, Henry E. Anderson, and a grandson. She is survived by her son, Richard Anderson (Kathryn) and daughter, Lynne F. Skaflen; her brother, Clayton James Davenport; six grandchildren and one great-grandchild.

The family suggests that donations in Mrs. Anderson’s name be made to Grace Lutheran Church in Livingston, or to the the American Diabetes Association (diabetes.org).

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On Saturday, January 26, the Livingston High School varsity and junior varsity girls’ basketball teams raised money for the Duke Brain Aneurysm Fund in honor of player Aliza Gelman’s brother, Justin, who suffered a ruptured brain aneurysm last year while at Duke University. Thanks to the expertise of Duke’s Neurosurgery Department, Justin is fully recovered and has returned to school to continue his studies as a pre-med neuroscience major. In appreciation for the care he received, the Gelman family created the Duke Brain Aneurysm Fund, with the mission of “extending the reach of Duke’s life-giving care to patients across the globe by providing practitioners and caregivers beyond Duke with the advanced training and education necessary to ensure the best brain aneurysm care for everyone, everywhere.” Justin Gelman’s story was the topic of an article in the Tribune’s December 27, 2018 issue.