Hackensack University Medical Center’s Stem Cell Transplantation Nurses on Cover of Nurses Magazine

 The challenges and triumphs faced by the nursing team of the Adult Blood and Marrow Stem Cell Transplantation Program of the John Theurer Cancer Center at Hackensack University Medical Center were spotlighted in a recent cover story of Advance for Nurses magazine. The team was featured on the cover of the magazine’s August 18, 2008-New York/Northern New Jersey issue. The John Theurer Cancer Center is New Jersey largest and among the most active in the nation. Its Adult Blood and Marrow Stem Cell Transplantation Program is among the 10 largest in the United States. Read more

Gary Spivak Gary Spivak, a Paramus resident, works out of an office in Montvale. It is there at Nationwide Planning Associates that he exercises his financial expertise helping his clients achieve their financial goals.

Gary also does mortgage loans for another company, but finds that the financial planning is more of a challenge to his acumen. Read more

Phillip St. Pierre We had just concluded the Westfield 9/11 Memorial Service and Phillip St. Pierre and I started walking back to his office. 

First words out of his mouth were "Would you like something to eat?" When I declined, this hospitable Senior General Manager refused to eat until the interview was over. Of course in his office, he also offered a choice of beverages, a complete gentleman. I felt badly about his lack of a meal, but must admit I wanted to get to the interview. Read more

Auntie Anne's Pretzels at Paramus Park During a Business Profile interview with Diana Heller and Hank, her father, at Paramus Park Mall, I happened to mention a favorite place for hotdogs near Elizabeth. I had forgotten that Auntie Anne’s also has hotdogs. Diana asked me if I would like to taste one of their pretzel hotdogs. I politely declined as I also did their offer of a fresh hot pretzel. Before you know it, there was not one, but two hotdogs and a humongous drink set in front of me. Read more

Life at the Paramus Library Len LoPinto, the Paramus Librarian, treated me to an insight of the nooks and crannies in our library. Of course he is very proud of the fact that since he has been there, November 2000, the library activity has skyrocketed and is still going up. There has been an increase from 310,000 to 370,000 and projected to reach over 400,000 this year. This in an age of Internet technology where people scoffed and said that the Library was done for. Read more

Dr. Michael Yuen, Family Dentist My good friend, Dr. Michael (Mike) Yeun has been in the same location, 366 Forest Avenue in Paramus for over 20 years. His corner is known for the white tooth on his lawn depicting his location. He came across this location through a fellow church member and has stayed there.

Mike graduated from UMDNJ in 1984, did a little apprenticing and then came to our town. Read more

The Comfort Inn on Rte 17 As I entered the automatic doors of the Comfort Inn on Rte 17 South, I asked the pretty receptionist for Fernando.  "He's not in." she replied. Swallowing a gasp (the weather was boiling hot), I mentioned that I had an appointment with him. She immediately got on the phone and then assured me that it was no problem, Sean would be out in a few minutes. I was assured that he would be able to help, that Fernando had called in sick. Read more

Police Officer Vincent Pepe It took a lot to get a broad smile out of this dedicated police officer. It occurred during our interview when, after stating that he had served 10 years with the Police Department but has worked for the Borough for 20 years. Vincent who is known as Vinnie by his co-workers has worked for the Shade Tree and Parks Department and the Paramus Municipal Court. I asked him why he became an officer, his eyes rolled back reflectively, that winning smile came forth and he stated “I always wanted to become a police officer. My lifelong dream.” Read more

Working up through the ranks, Kevin Smith followed in his father and brother’s footsteps (he has 5 siblings). A cop’s cop, a man who has knowledge of the workings of the Paramus Police Department, Captain Smith fits the ideal of what the Paramus Police Department represents especially to him. Sixty hour work weeks are the norm rather than the exception. Read more

Fritz Behnke has put a lot of effort into preserving Paramus History. His joy in doing this is evident as he takes people on a tour of the new facility, which has been moved from his residence to a newly built building on Paramus Road. Open Sundays from 1 PM to 5 PM, it is worth the trip to learn about our town. Read more

NJ Vet's Home Doris Neibart and Barbara Marella met me in the lobby of the NJ Veterans Memorial Home at Paramus to discuss Public Relations for the Social Security Administration display scheduled an hour away. It seems that no PR goes out without State of NJ Dept. of Military and Veterans Affairs. They quickly contacted headquarters to get approval.
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Lt. Kenneth R. Ehrenberg Recently promoted from Sergeant to Lieutenant, Ken Ehrenberg hasn’t had time to change his voice mail no less get business cards with his new rank. His incentive for going to further his legal education came from Ritchie Ralph, retired Lt. PO and also a lawyer. Ritchie’s father, John, also a police officer was a very dear friend of mine. Read more

Normann Staffing Services Our selection for a Paramus Business Profile was Robert M. Allison, CPC, CTS. Bob is a fellow Rotarian, well respected and well liked. His firm, Normann Staffing Services at One Mack Centre Drive in Paramus, is located on the top floor of the South Wing affording a beautiful vista of the Paramus Park Mall and the surrounding area. Their specialty: Temp help in the following fields: Read more

"A little about New Jersey or as some outsiders say New Joisey"

If you live in or have ever lived in Jersey...you'll appreciate this...if not, you may be surprised!

• New Jersey is a peninsula.
• Highlands, New Jersey has the highest elevation along the entire eastern seaboard, from Maine to Florida.
• New Jersey is the only state where all of its counties are classified as metropolitan areas.

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Paramus Police Training Department Police Chief Fred Corrubia assigned the training department for this month's highlight. Appropriately it was done on the day that the training department under the leadership of Sgt. John Scully and augmented by Patrolman Rich Erhardt will distribute defibrillators to be used in each police car. www.ParamusPost.com had a very interesting interview with Patrolman Erhardt and received insight into the intensive training and re-training that our officers go through.

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