Turf Toughies

The Record has picked up on the turf frenzy....you know a trend has reached it's climax when The Record has begun to pick up on a story.

Sappy Articles About Maple Field

Last week's Ridgewood News featured several articles about the turfing of Maple Field. The Sports Council and the Village Council (VC) cheerleaders got together for several photo ops. Wunderbar !

We might be able to live with the manhandling executed by the Sports Fuhrers if the carpeting of The Wood was limited to a single field but you better believe the turfing will continue until morale improves. The trains will be on time so don't you dare question authority !

Mssrs Giordano and Demallie are leading the VC around by the nose. Once you've completed an end run and carpeted a field can lights and the generators needed to keep the lights running be far behind...?

Town Meeting Summary

The October 15 town meeting to review the second draft of the Master Plan revealed a few surprises:

1) strange sight of BOE members joining their Village Council counterparts up on the dais.
2) Schoor-Depalma changed their name to CMX.
3) The meeting was a carefully cooordinated routine to reduce or at least control the public.
4) An egg timer was used to keep the public comments down to 3 minutes per speaker.

The next forum is on Nov 15 will be held at the BOE bldg. The BOE has control over school properties in town but not the field at Lower Hawes.

See you on the 15th....

Schoor Depalma Report

It's here....

$27MM in recommendations......let's hope this doesn't get approved without putting it up for a vote.

http://www.ridgewoodnj.net/pdf/parksandrec/07DraftMPRrevMAR29.pdf

Lax Day - May 12

Wouldn't it be great if Lax Day could serve as a day of peace for the entire globe...?

Softball Gods Fire Rec Coach

Hard to believe but the Softball Gods have sent a Rec Softball coach to the Wood-shed.

Bob Becher was recently removed as a Rec 7-8th grade softball coach. Mr. Becher has coached several teams in town over the years for both his son (Travis) and his daughter (Cara).

We're still collecting the facts on this newsworthy item but this is another example of the RBSA (Revenge Best Served Anonymously) meting out their ineptness in copious amounts.

Senior Commisioner Marianne Griffin has been missing for at least 6 weeks.

Rec Baseball / Softball Has Begun

The older kids seasons have started....it's good to see the youngsters playing ball again although Mother Nature has not been cooperative for the first 2 days.

PING !

If you live near one of these contraptions you know you the refrain....all weekend long your senses are attacked by the shrill sound of aluminum bats smacking an endless supply of baseballs or softballs.

The cage was assembled 2 or 3 years ago and none of the approximate 25 houses within range of the device were alerted to it's assembly - - it just appeared one morning.

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Adult Weekend Football League (AWFL)

The Adult footballers started action today with 9AM match with Dumont. We'll ask the VC to drop off a Port-a-John so that the Dumont players don't have to leak in Pleasant Park. We think RW won the game...

The Paramus Catholic Bubble

Kudos to the RW Lacrosse folks for scoring the Paramus Catholic Bubble..!
Tryouts are being held at PC's bubble...using out of town facilties should be encouraged. Of course playing one sport over 3 seasons is not one of our recommendations.

2007 Bergen Cty Soccer Finals @ Grove Park

Look for the 2007 Bergen Cty scholastic soccer tournament to be held at the new fields slated for Grove Park in November .

"November is perfect timing for the new field-turf environment to settle in...we'll rip out all the old trees in the summer while the tree-huggers are on vacation then we'll endure the flood seasons in September and be ready for some championship soccer in November" says Parks Commissioner and all around good-dude Tim Cronin.

To the left is an artisit's rendering of what Grove Park should look like shortly after the hurricane season next September-October.