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Lorraine Ash

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lash@dailyvoice.com

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Lorraine Ash has been a reporter/editor in her native New Jersey since 1982, the year she earned her master’s degree in Public Communications from Fordham University. Her articles have gained global, national, state, and regional attention and awards and have appeared in a number of newspapers, including USA Today. She has worked for publications such as Family Circle Magazine, The Ridgewood News, and the Daily Record. Lorraine also has penned two memoirs and teaches memoir writing. Experience has taught her that everyone has a compelling story to tell. Have a story the community needs to hear? Email her. She’d love to hear from you.

Lorraine was formerly a reporter at Daily Voice.

Lorraine Ash's Contributions

Lifestyle

East Rutherford Y Offers ‘Founding Members’ Introductory Deal EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — For the first time in its 96-year history, the Meadowlands YMCA in East Rutherford will have its own home early next year. With that home – the 83,200-square-foot, former Nets training facility on Murray Hill Parkway – comes the capacity for a lot more members. A total of 20,000, to be precise. Currently, some 200 people have “healthy living memberships” at the Y, said Ryan Donahue of West Milford, the new membership director. That means they can take a fitness class at the Y program center and swim at Rutherford High School. When the $9 million renovation to the b…

by Lorraine Ash

09/29/2016

Neighbors

Realtors Collect Cartloads Of Food At Allendale Acme ALLENDALE, N.J. — Two Saddle River real estate agents solicited and bagged some eight carts of food for the hungry outside the Allendale ACME. Juliette Gorham and Sophia Meneve handed out fliers Monday to shoppers entering the store. They read: “More than 1 million people in New Jersey don’t know where their next meal is coming from. Nearly 340,000 children in our Garden State face hunger. That’s 1 in 5 kids.” Allendale shoppers responded generously, as did shoppers at supermarkets all across Bergen County. The two-month 4th Annual Food Drive of Prominent Properties, Sotheby’s Internationa…

by Lorraine Ash

09/28/2016

Neighbors

Haworth Teen’s Goodies Win Hearts of Library Patrons HAWORTH, N.J. — Lauren Lee of Haworth may be a freshman at Northern Valley Regional High School at Demarest, but she’s a pro at baking. Just ask anybody at the Haworth Municipal Library. For three years, the 14-year-old has been baking goodies, wrapping them expertly, and donating them to the library. Patrons pay a dollar per yummy brownie or cookie, which they buy at the library’s coffee station. Lee makes cookies in a range of flavors – chocolate chip, shortbread with M&Ms, sugar, snickerdoodle, and oatmeal. “I tried once to branch out with Madeleines, but they wouldn’t come out of…

by Lorraine Ash

09/28/2016

News

Hackensack Swings First Ax To Create New Arts Center HACKENSACK, N.J. — Hackensack leaders gathered in front of the historic Masonic Lodge on State Street Tuesday to kick off its transformation into the Hackensack Performing Arts Center. The state-of-the-art, 224-seat theater is scheduled to open in Spring 2017. It will become the home of the city’s many local theater companies and the city’s Department of Cultural Arts. Directly behind the building is the new triangular Atlantic Street Park. It is a third of an acre and stands at the nexus of Atlantic, Warren, and Streets streets. “There’s an old Joni Mitchell song from the ’60s or ’70s: ‘…

by Lorraine Ash

09/27/2016

Neighbors

Hawthorne Widow Leads 'Hoff's Hearts' In Cancer Walk HAWTHORNE, N.J. — When Daniel Hoffman of Hawthorne died of colon cancer last July at age 44, his widow, Trish, was left to carry on. She found great support in a place she didn’t even know existed: CancerCare®. This weekend, the tables are turned: she’s supporting it. As captain of Hoff’s Hearts and Soles, Hoffman is leading a team of 24 walkers Sunday in the CancerCare® 2016 Paramus Walk/Run for Hope at Bergen Community College. The 72-year-old national nonprofit provides free emotional, practical, and financial help to anyone whose life is affected by cancer. CancerCare®, whose New Jer…

by Lorraine Ash

09/24/2016

Lifestyle

Ridgewood Hospital Hosts Classes In Clean Cooking RIDGEWOOD, N.J. — Wyckoff Chef Carrie Weiss starts her “Zen and the Art of Clean Cooking” classes with a guided meditation. “When you live life mindfully, your body is more relaxed, leading to improved digestion,” Weiss told her Tuesday class at the Valley Medical Group’s Center for Integrative Medicine in Ridgewood. "When we're mindful," she added, "we increase our awareness of what foods we're buying, cooking, and eating." Clean cooking starts in the food store where a shopper makes the healthiest choices in all the food groups. These include organic, local, and sust…

by Lorraine Ash

09/23/2016

Events

Just For Kicks: Rockettes Dancers Thrill Ridgewood Fans RIDGEWOOD, N.J. — Two Radio City Rockettes met wide-eyed little girls and other fans at Van Dyk’s Ice Cream in Ridgewood Thursday. For Rockette Nicole Baker Luftig of Upper Saddle River, it was her first visit to the popular, 60-year-old homemade ice cream shop on Ackerman Avenue. “We’re visiting different businesses around the community – places where people can make time for joy,” said Rockette Sarah Staker of New York City. “That’s exactly what the Christmas Spectacular does every year,” she added. “We’re really excited to do that this year from Nov. 11 through Jan. 2.” For the occasi…

by Lorraine Ash

09/22/2016

Events

Keyed Up? New Milford Tai Chi Group Calms You Down NEW MILFORD, N.J. — Body Mind Systems Training Center in New Milford is starting a Tai Chi Push Hands Meetup good for all styles of tai chi and people of all experience levels. The two-hour sessions usually take place the first and third Sunday of each month. The next one starts 10:30 a.m. Sept. 25. Tai chi is an ancient Chinese system of gentle physical exercise that promotes health, fitness, and peace of mind. It is practiced worldwide. Push Hands is a particular exercise involving two people that’s designed to neutralize aggression and cultivate calmness. It has been called a midgroun…

by Lorraine Ash

09/22/2016

Events

Harrington Park Reservoir Cleanup Nets Lots Of Debris HARRINGTON PARK, N.J. — Hackensack Riverkeeper, a local clean water advocacy group, partnered with SUEZ, a water company, on a four-hour cleanup of the Oradell Reservoir in Harrington Park and Closter. Some 40 volunteers collected enough trash and other debris to fill two pickup trucks. Working on shore and from canoes last Saturday, the volunteers picked up upwards of 500 pounds of garbage from the reservoir, which is part of a system that provides drinking water for more than 800,000 people in Bergen, Rockland, and Hudson counties. The Oradell Reservoir Cleanup takes place annually in co…

by Lorraine Ash

09/22/2016

Business

New Teaneck Breast Center Celebrates Grand Opening TEANECK, N.J. — The New Breast Center at Holy Name Medical Center in Teaneck celebrates its grand opening next week. The Sisters of St. Joseph of Peace as well as the center’s board of trustees and administration will hold a Sept. 29 reception. Dr. Joshua D. Gross, a board-certified radiologist with more than 30 years of experience in breast imaging and biopsy procedures, is medical director. The new breast center offers the latest generation in screening and diagnostic technology, according to Holy Name. It also boats “a warm, beautiful space focused on personalized patient care, safety …

by Lorraine Ash

09/22/2016

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