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Millennials Help Jersey City's Most Vulnerable With Launch Of Free Delivery Service Millennials Help Jersey City's Most Vulnerable With Launch Of Free Delivery Service
Millennials Help Jersey City's Most Vulnerable With Launch Of Free Delivery Service Four young adults have taken it upon themselves to create a network of volunteers throughout Jersey City and NYC to pick up groceries for those who are most at risk for COVID-19. Simone, Liam, Mimi, and Healy of New York City started Invisible Hands Deliver after recognizing the serious threats the virus has for immunocompromised and elderly populations. There were more than 2,500 volunteers as of Thursday. “These are chaotic times that require all hands on deck,” the team explains on the website. “As young, able-bodied citizens with free time, we wanted to shoulder some of that responsib…

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by Valerie Musson
Police & Fire
Bergen Teen Honors Dad's Memory By Fighting Fires Bergen Teen Honors Dad's Memory By Fighting Fires
Bergen Teen Honors Dad's Memory By Fighting Fires As he rushed to a Fair Lawn house fire on Wednesday, a young volunteer carried with him a heavy heart. Junior Fair Lawn Firefighter Terrance Pridmore, 17, “dropped everything to help out with the fire even though his dad passed away last month,” his mother said after the Oak Street blaze. The wake for Terrance Pridmore Sr. was Thursday evening at the Browning-Forshay Funeral Home, 557 Lafayette Ave., Hawthorne, NJ 07506. From the time his son was born, the elder Pridmore courageously battled gastrointestinal stromal tumors, which produce the rarest of all cancers. “He put up a great fight…

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by Jerry DeMarco