community journey - april 2013

JOURNEYC ommunityAPRIL 2013 | ISSUE IV13 | PUBLISHED BY: YOURCOMMUNITYINSIDER.COM | FREE FOR YOU

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Mother’s DayMother’s Day

The Many Ways to Show Her She’s Special - Page 6

Things You Missed Around Morris County page 2

Golfing Secrets Revealed! See page 8

Mystery Review! Can You Guess This Month's Book?

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Preparing For The End. Summer Fun ForYou and The Kids.

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THINGS YOU MAY HAVE MISSED

These are some of the recent events which took place in your community last month.

Did you miss them?

John Oliver In Morristown ~ ‘Stomp’ Visits Morristown ~ The Beach Boys ConcertPoets on Main In Boonton ~ St. Patrick’s Festivities 2013 ~ Craft Morristown

Shakespeare LIVE! Romeo and Juliet ~ Pearl & Julius Young Finalists’ Music CompetitionDonna McKechnie “My Musical Comedy Life” ~ NJ Ballet’s “Balanchine/Robbins Evening”

Silk City with Just Left Town at The Minstrel ~ “Shamrocks for Sanctuary” Animal Charity Benefi tSpring Family Fun Days and Easter Egg Hunt ~ 21st Annual EASTER BUNNY EXPRESS

Carolann Solebello and Martin Swinger at The MinstrelThe 19th Annual Chester Easter Egg Hunt ~ Life in the Log Hut City

Easter Sunday Brunch ~ Tag Sale to Benefi t Mt Tabor Historical SocietyOpening Day at Historic Speedwell ~ Spring Concert – Classical

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Greetings!

It’s hard to believe one third of 2013 is nearly behind us. As the Spring months continue to set in, there’s lots of adventures still to come and we’re here to help you along with them.

Last month we introduced you to our ‘Local Gas Prices’ tool which helps you to fi nd the best price of gas in your vicinity. It’ll surely come in handy for your day trips and even vacation trips. Our ‘Local Gas Prices’ tool can be accessed right from our homepage (YourCommunityInsider.com).

This month we have two special new tools for you.

The fi rst is our ‘Community Library’, which will have a completely FREE downloadable featured book each month. Every month we’ll be adding 1 more featured book to our library and you’ll be given access to download it absolutely FREE. You could fi nd this month’s featured book on a later page along with information about how to download it. The topics will range widely, but will generally be within mainstream special interests.

The second tool we’ll be introducing (starting next issue) is our ‘Expert’s Advice’ column. Speaking to a number of community members, we’ve found a lot of disconnect between residents and local businesses. Primarily, our community members would like a place where they could ask questions about topics that interest them without receiving an intrusive response.

Since we are Your Community Insider, we’ve taken it upon ourselves to answer your call and provide a fun and informa-tive column where you could ask us questions you’re interested in and we’ll go out and fi nd the answer from your local expert on the topic. So feel free to ask away! Send your questions to [email protected] and we’ll hunt down the answer for you!

Finally, if you haven’t signed up to our weekly newsletter which is full of all the events and special things to do in Morris County then you’re missing out on lots of excitement. There’s so much going on in Morris County each and every week, let us help you ‘Stay In The Loop’. Who knows... you just might fi nd one or two things you could explore that really inter-est you, then it would be totally worth it!

Signing up is simple, just go to YourCommunityInsider.com and fi nd the sign up form in the right hand column of the page. Plug in where you’d like us to send the weekly newsletter and POOF! You’re connected!

We’ll talk again in May. Have a great month everyone!

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We know that no one knows this com-munity better than it’s residents. You eat at your favorite restaurants, shop your favorite local shops and have those special places and events you love to attend.

We also know that the Morris County NJ area is packed full with many talented photographers, writers and more. So we here at Community Journey would like to invite you to submit content to us as a Community Ambassador. Be it Morris-town, Boonton, Montville or any of the beautiful towns within this area, we wel-come you as a blogger, amateur reporter, or photographer to show us/tell us about the community through your eyes. Stop by the website or give us a call for info.

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Introducing the YCI Electronic LibraryWe are delighted to introduce to you, our newest community offering, the Your Community Insider Electronic Library. Our online library will offer a new selection each month covering a wide vari-ety of topics. There will be something for everyone and you can even make recommendations for upcoming offerings. All of our books are electronic or eBooks and will be downloadable from our website. You can download and load these on almost all of the mainstream readers or you can read them right from your desktop computer.

Our April eBook - The Essential Guide to Organic Gardening

Spring is in the air and many of you are looking to get started with gardening for the fi rst time. Our April eBook selection, The Essentials of Organic Gardening, has been written with the new gardener in mind, but covers a wide variety of organic gardening topics which even the more experienced gardener will fi nd useful.

Some of the topics covered include; Planning Your Garden, Growing Organic Herbs, Organic Fertilizers, and Organic Pest Control. Compre-hensive in content but a quick read so you can get to gardening!

Enjoy fresh, organic vegetables this year with the help of our free guide. Get yours today...

Download your free copy here: www.YourCommunityInsider.com/eLibrary/

Springtime Mingling and DatingHow and where to find someone who has the same interests as youBy Your Community Insider

After a long wait riddled with winter’s teasing intrusions, spring is fi nally here! This is the time of year to reinvigorate your life, do spring cleaning and start fresh. For those singles out there who want to fi nd that special someone, spring also affords you one of the greatest opportunities to do so. After the winter season of being cooped up inside, people are bursting with energy ready to start anew and seize new opportunities. Take advantage of the best season to reinvigorate your dating life by expanding your social circle and meeting new people.

Websites like MeetUp.com, Morris.Patch.com and YourCommunityInsider.com are great places to connect with people who share your interests and with whom you can build a quality relationship.

The fi rst step to meeting someone who shares your interests is to take a few minutes and fi gure out your hobbies and passions. What do you want to learn or experience? Write these down. With this list, you can start to identify what activities are fun for you and bring you joy. You’re much more likely to meet someone when you’re having fun and being yourself!

Activities Outdoors

For those of you who enjoy hiking, kayaking or exploring what nature has to offer, MeetUp.com has options for you. MeetUp.com allows you to search for and join a group organized around your interests. For example, the Morris & Sussex Active Friends Group (http://www.meetup.com/Morris-Sussex-Active-Friends-Group/ )unites adults “who want to make new friends and enjoy being physically active and social in a group.” This group regularly hosts hiking, horseback riding, swimming, picnics and other outdoors events that are fun and interesting. Although the group is not only for singles, many single adults attend these events.

For you dog lovers, use your pet to meet other singles! Country Dogs (http://www.meet-up.com/Country-Dogs/) a MeetUp.com group, unites dogs and their owners for hiking through Morris and Somerset County. Through events in this group, you’ll be walking outside in the beautiful spring weather while talking about dogs and fun things to do.

Business Networking

For our business savvy reader, networking events are great opportunities to meet new people, mingle, and gain new contacts. Not only could your business potentially benefi t, but you will meet people who share your passion for business.

You can fi nd networking events on MeetUp.com. For example in Morristown, the LeTip of Morristown Small Business Networking Organization (http://www.meetup.com/LeTip-of-Morristown-Small-Business-Networking-Organization/) has been in existence for over a decade. Recent events have been titled “Grow Our Businesses Together” and “Welcome! NJ Business Professionals Interested in Making $$$!” You can fi nd other networking groups through LinkedIn.com such as the Morris County Ca-reer Networking Group in NJ (http://www.linkedin.com/groups/Morris-County-Ca-reer-Networking-Group-3841374).

Social Groups

For those who enjoy talking to people over tea, drinks and food, seeking new social groups can expose you to other singles with similar interests. For example, Meet Your Neighbors Morristown (http://www.meetup.com/Meet-Your-Neighbors-Morris-town/) is a group for adults who live within a short distance from Morristown and want to build community by meeting others in the area. Events hosted by this group include: “Salsa Dancing,” “Improv Games,” and “March Game Night.” The opportunities to meet new singles and have fun is endless!

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Digital Public Library of America Launchesby Elliott Harmon - creativecommons.org

Creative Commons would like to congratulate the Digital Public Library of America ( http://dp.la/ ) on its offi cial launch today. The DPLA, which has been in planning since 2010, brings together millions of digital resources from numerous libraries, archives, and museums.

From DPLA:

The Digital Public Library of America will launch a beta of its discovery por-tal and open platform at noon ET today. The portal will deliver millions of materials found in American archives, libraries, museums, and cultural her-itage institutions to students, teachers, scholars, and the public. Far more than a search engine, the portal will provide innovative ways to search and scan through its united collection of distributed resources. Special features will include a dynamic map, a timeline that allow users to visually browse by year or decade, and an app library that provides access to applica-tions and tools created by external developers using DPLA’s open data.

In January, DPLA announced that all of its metadata would be in the public domain under the CC0 Public Domain Declaration.

The Open Knowledge Foundation’s Joris Pekel applauded that announcement:

The decision to apply the CC0 Public Domain waiver to the metadata will greatly improve interoperability with Europeana, Europe’s equivalent of the DPLA. Now that more different initiatives start publishing digitised heri-tage and its metadata, interoperability becomes more and more import-ant in order to create a linked web of cultural heritage data, instead of new data silos. By both choosing the CC0 Public Domain waiver, Euro-peana and the DPLA take a great a step forward in achieving their goal.

We applaud DPLA’s commitment to open data and are excited about the launch of such an important resource.

CALLING ALL ARTISTSSHOW OFF YOUR STUFF TO THE COMMUNITY

Your Community Insider is seeking local artists to be featured in our future issues.

If you love to paint, draw, write poetry, or are an avid photographer, you can have your artistic creations featured within the pages of

our next issue. Any age welcome.Contact us at [email protected] for more info

Mystery Book ReviewBy Your Community Insider

Have you ever wondered...

Why is crunchy food so appealing? Why is it so hard to fi nd words for fl avors and smells? Why doesn’t the stomach digest itself? How much can you eat before your stomach bursts? Can constipation kill you? Did it kill Elvis?

Now your curiosity of the digestive puzzle can be quenched completely... literally.

Our April Mystery Book comes from a wildly humorous author that “push[ed] aside disgust or fear or whatever it is that so reliably defl ects mind from body” to bring you, the reader, a memorable and methodical top-to-bottom tour of the digestive system we all rely on so much.

You’ll “travel the world, meeting murderers and mad scientists, Eskimos and exorcists (who have occasionally administered holy water rectally), rabbis and terrorists—who, it turns out, for practical reasons do not conceal bombs in their digestive tracts.”

The questions explored in this book are TABOO, provocative, and gutsy. Take a ride down the alimentary canal with the unwavering curiosity that only a 5 year old could match.

--“Fans of lively writing will be delighted... boldly goes where no author has gone before, into the sciences of the taboo, the macabre, the icky, and the just plain weird... all with a perfect touch: warm, lucid, wry, sharing the unavoidable amusement without ever resort-ing to the cheap or the obvious. Yum!”

-- Steven Pinker, author of How the Mind Works and The Better Angels of Our Nature“[She] put her hand in a cow’s stomach for you, dear reader. If you don’t read [this book], then that was all for nought. Plus, you’ll miss out on the funniest book ever written about guts.”

-- Carl Zimmer, author of Evolution: Making Sense of Life and Parasite Rex“As probing as an endoscopy, [this book] is quintessential... supremely wide-ranging, endlessly curious, always surprising, and, yes, gut-wrenchingly funny.”

-- Tom Vanderbilt, author of Traffi c: Why We Drive the Way We Do (and What It Says About Us)

--“... grounded in science, but the virtuosic author rarely resists a pun, and it’s clear she revels in giving readers a thrill—even if it is a queasy one. Adventurous kids and doctors alike will appreciate this fascinating and sometimes ghastly tour of the gastrointestinal system.” (Publishers Weekly )

Uncover the mysteryhttp://yourcommunityinsider.com/mystery-book-review/

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Preparing for The End Things to do with the Kids in Morris County after School Endsby Alexander Smith

The end of the school year is fast ap-proaching and like every parent, you might be wondering what you should do with your children for the summer. Although it’s a few months away, to max-imize your child’s experience, you must begin planning ahead to make sure you child doesn’t miss out on the great oppor-tunities available in Morris County.

The options for you and your child are numerous and diverse throughout Morris County so it is wise to focus on what you would like your child to learn by knowing their passions and interests.

Perhaps your child enjoys sports, art, being outdoors, or computers. Armed with this knowledge, you can ensure that your child gets the most fun and benefi t from their summer in Morris County.

Day and Sports Camp

For young children entering pre-school through fi rst grade, Chatham Day Camp

provides a memorable experience loaded with exciting and engaging activities. Your child will explore the campground’s 15 wooded acres and the camp’s week-ly interactive themes like “Science and Inventions,” “Animal Kingdom,” and “Princesses and Pirates” provide a struc-tured learning experience for your child. Through group participation your child will be encouraged to work as a team, create friends and build self-confi dence.

The majority of children enjoy playing sports with their peers. If you child fi ts into this group, plays on a sports team or dreams of making the team, the summer months are a great opportunity for your child to hone his or her skills at their favorite sport. Besides your traditional soccer, baseball or football camps, there are unique opportunities that allow your child to experience a variety of sports in one summer.

The Total Play Multi Sports Summer Camps gives your child a chance to try

over 15 different sports from around the world including basketball, rugby and cricket. Find more information on USSportsInstitute.com.

For Your Creative Child

At the All Children’s Theater, children age 6-17 actively participate at the 12 two-week summer programs in the performing arts at air-conditioned locations through-out Morris County.

The theater camps provide participants with activities including acting, comedy, singing, dancing, scene design (painting or collage) and one, two or three public per-formances on the last evening of the camp experience. This is a great opportunity for your budding theater enthusiast!

Starting on July 8th, the Morris County Art Association is hosting a summer art program for children that include classes in drawing, painting, cartooning, print-making and sculpture.

Call (973) 267-1722 to register your child for the eight week program that runs Mon-day through Thursday.

Learning Fun

If you and your child want to improve their academic performance or get ahead of the curve and make their college appli-cation even stronger, County College of Morris offers educational opportunities this summer.

The College for Kids & Teens program unites children ages 9-18 who are interest-ed in pursuing their passion for the arts, math or science. Your child can gain hands on knowledge in astronomy, forensics, video game animation and much more!

For high school students, The Challenger Program allows your child to enrich their education by taking college-level courses. Visit CCM.edu/camps for more info.

New Designated Driver Program Promotes Safety Across Morris County by Your Community Insider

StearClear, a designated driver program provides a sober ride home for both you and your vehicle after you’ve had a few drinks on your night out.

After being successfully introduced to Morristown in January, StearClearis expanding its lifesaving services to the entire Morris County area, Joshua Heffl er, StearClear of Morristown franchise owner said.

“Everyone involved in StearClear shares a common concern about the health and safety of our communities,” Heffl er said to the source. “We are hopeful that through this busi-ness venture we can help reduce the number of impaired drivers on the road and save lives.”

To use the StearClear service, all you need to do is schedule a ride by either calling (862) 345-6340 or logging onto your StearClear smart phone app. StearClear dispatches a drive team of two people to your location. One drives you home in your car while the other follows behind to return the driver to the next assignment.

The mileage and cost is calculated so you know how much will be charged. StearClear services costs $25 per pickup with an addition $2.65 per mile.

“Through our StearClear service, you can schedule a driver and a ride home for you and your vehicle either before…or while… you are out,” said Stephen Chassen, vice presi-dent of sales for StearClear of Morristown. “Our service is unlike a taxi service in that you are driven home in your own vehicle so you don’t have the headache and inconve-nience of going back the next day to get your car.”

To access the StearClear service, download the free application located direct at www.Stearclear.com and click on the App Store or Google Play icon.

Or call (862) 345-6340 for more information or to schedule your ride today.

'She is my first, great love. She was a wonderful, rare woman you do not know; as strong, and steadfast,

and generous as the sun.

She could be as swift as a white whiplash, and as kind and gentle as warm rain,

and as steadfast as the irreducible earth

beneath us.'

by D.H. LawrenceWritten About His Mother

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