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Screenings, Exams and Workshops Provided at Women’s Health Fair at North Ward Center’s Family Success Center

Wednesday, 02 June 2010 01:42 North Ward Center
Screenings, Exams and Workshops Provided at Women’s Health Fair at North Ward Center’s Family Success Center

Read this article as it originally appeared on nj.com | localtalknews.com

More than 100 people attended a women's health fair sponsored by The North Ward Center's Family Success Center in Newark, where they received glucose, body mass and blood pressure screenings, breast exams, and attended workshops on nutrition and breast health.

The event, which took place May 8 at Casa Israel Medical Day Care Center, was held in collaboration with the Newark Community Health Centers and Horizon Blue Cross-Blue Shield of New Jersey. The event was designed to create awareness of women's health issues and kicked off National Women's Health Week from May 10-15.

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Women's Health Fair Set for May 8 at Family Success Center

Thursday, 29 April 2010 20:57 Bruno Tedeschi
Women's Health Fair Set for May 8 at Family Success Center

Read this article as it originally appeared April 29, 2010 on nj.com | localtalknews.com

A free Women's Health Fair will be held at the North Ward Center's Family Success Center in Newark on Saturday, May 8, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

 

The pre-Mother's Day event, which is being held in collaboration with the Newark Community Health Centers and Horizon Blue Cross-Blue Shield of New Jersey, is designed to create awareness of women's health issues and kicks off National Women's Health Week from May 10-15.
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Santa pays a visit to North Ward Center's Family Success Center

Tuesday, 22 December 2009 18:56 Bruno Tedeschi
Santa pays a visit to North Ward Center's Family Success Center

Read the original Dec. 22, 2009 article on nj.com.

Madeline Valle would like nothing more than to take her three children to the mall to visit Santa Claus.

 

But the Newark mother of three doesn't own a car and doesn't have many opportunities to leave her North Ward community.
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Breast health awareness seminar held at North Ward Center's Family Success Center

Thursday, 01 October 2009 05:00 Bruno Tedeschi
Breast health awareness seminar held at North Ward Center's Family Success Center

Read the original Oct. 1 story on nj.com

The North Ward Center's Family Success Center held a breast health awareness seminar for women in Newark's North Ward.

More than two dozen women attended the Sept. 30 educational session, which was developed by Family Intervention Services with a $15,000 grant from Novartis, the pharmaceutical giant headquartered in East Hannover.

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North Ward Center holds seminar for kinship caregivers

Monday, 31 August 2009 18:16 Bruno Tedeschi
North Ward Center holds seminar for kinship caregivers

This article originally appeared Aug. 31, 2009 on nj.com.

Kinship caregivers and those who support them gathered Friday at the North Ward Center for a daylong seminar that provided valuable information in both English and Spanish.

"I've wanted to have a seminar in the North Ward for a long time," said Louise Eagle, the founder of Grandma KARES Inc., a Newark-based organization that supports grandparents and other relatives who are raising children.

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Michele Adubato addresses Barringer High School Graduates

Read the story as it originally appeared on nj.com North Ward Center Deputy Executive Director Michele Adubato told the graduating class at Barringer High School in Newark on Friday that the community was proud of them for making it through high school. “You don’t know me, but I’m proud of you,” said Adubato, the commencement speaker. “You need to know, people who don’t know you are proud of you. More than 30 percent of the students who began this journey with you did not make it. You have the right to be proud of yourself.” 

 

A Day of 3 Kings and Political Royalty

Read the original story as it appeared in the Jan. 7, 2010 edition of The Star-Ledger NEWARK -- Gov.-elect Chris Christie, along with city and state politicians, joined Stephen Adubato Sr. and about 1,300 Newark schoolchildren at the Cathedral Basilica of the Sacred Heart today to celebrate Three Kings Day and kick off the North Ward Center's 40th anniversary celebration.   Political kings and kingmakers from the city and state lined up under the vaulted ceilings of the ornate cathedral to pay their respects to Adubato during an event that was as much theater as community celebration.

 

Coalition of Newark educators form unlikely alliance trying to reform city schools

Read the story as it originally appeared in the March 14, 2010 edition of The Star-Ledger With educational leaders from Washington to Trenton embracing the role of charter schools in public education, a group of Newark educators - from both charter and district schools - has formed an unlikely alliance to tackle the work of reforming Newark's city schools.   In all, 55 teachers and administrators meet monthly, and have even attended a December retreat, at each member's own cost, in Puerto Rico. Members say the group is trying to put long-held prejudices aside and share successful practices.

 

Jackie Robinson Day celebrated in Newark

Read the story as it originally appeared on nj.com | localtalknews.com Jackie Robinson Day was celebrated in Newark Tuesday at the Harriet Tubman School as Robinson’s family members presented the school with a baseball signed by the Hall of Famer and first African-American to break the color barrier in Major League Baseball.   The day was designed as “Jackie Robinson Day,” in Newark by the City Council, a mayoral proclamation and a resolution from the state Legislature. The event is 63 years almost to the day (April 15, 1947) when Jackie Robison made his debut in Ebbets Field in Brooklyn on opening day.

 

Newark kids get taste of Belmar sailing life

This story originally ran in The Asbury Park Press on Aug. 19, 2009 He spent Tuesday at the Shark River, miles away from his classroom, but Ryan Hernandez learned several important lessons anyway. He learned kayaking is exhilarating but exhausting. He learned that without knowledge of math and science, "you're not really going to do so good" in a boat. He learned how to tie a knot that could help keep a sailboat firmly in place in middle of a river.