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� By David B Jordan, EdgewaterBorough Council President

omfortably settled in a nice 3bedroom brick Tudor in Queensonly 3 years earlier we had no

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idea. He insisted that we visit his newpurchase in a place called the Colony.Finally in 1983 we agreed to take a lookand we never looked back.Coming from Queens across the busy

George Washington Bridge, we enteredthe northern entrance to the Colony andimmediately decided to find a house thatcould fit my budget .We had entered apeaceful, relaxing decompression cham-ber. The bucolic park-like setting of theColony on the banks of the HudsonRiver with its forest of shade trees wasabout to become our new address and soconveniently located near “The City”We moved to Edgewater on Route 5

with its beautiful viewand small town setting.The annual beautifica-tion day in 1987 showedus the volunteer spiritwith neighbors helpingseniors clean up theirproperty.This spirit of

“Volunteerism” so evi-dent in the borough wasadditional evidence thatwe had made the right

choice.Although active in politics since vot-

ing for JFK in his senatorial election in1958, I was too busy with my sportsmedicine center and faculty position inCUNY to be directly involved in thelocal governance. This too was about tochange. Instead of being just a worker infederal, state and local elections, since1964 I was asked if I might become acandidate. This l joined the governingbody.Edgewater was entering a different

era, financial stability and the rehabili-tation of its magnificent waterfront.Exciting times!!The outstanding leadership of the

council combined with the interests ofthe private leadership brought new lifeto the borough.Stores, restaurants, condominiums,

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� By Alison Evans-FragaleIt has bright green upperparts. The fore-

head and breast are pale grey with darker scal-loping and the rest of the underparts are very-light green to yellow. The remiges are darkblue, and the tail is long and tapering. The billis orange.The call is a loud and throaty chape(-yee) orquak quaki quak-wi quarr, and screech-es skveet. It is the Monk Parakeet.

Co-existing with Edgwater’s human resi-dents the Monk Parakeet, also known as theQuaker Parrot, (Myiopsitta monachus) is aspecies of parrot, in most treatments the onlymember of the genus Myiopsitta. It originatesfrom the temperate to subtropical areas ofArgentina and the surrounding countries inSouth America. Self-sustaining feral popula-tions occur in many places, mainly in NorthAmerica and Europe.

TheMonk Parakeet is the only parrot thatbuilds a stick nest, in a tree or on a man-madestructure, rather than using a hole in a tree.They live in the nest year-round; they do notuse nests for breeding purposes only.

This species often breeds colonially, build-ing a single large nest with separate entrancesfor each pair. The nests have the appearance ofa large, semi-round ball of tightly braidedtwigs. In the wild, the colonies can becomequite large, with pairs occupying separate“apartments” in nests that can reach the size ofa small refrigerator. Each apartment contains

three separate chambers: a back room, whichserves as a bedroom and the place where eggsare laid. In this back room, the parrots cleverlystore grass and seed intended for consumptionby the mother hen while she sits on the eggs.The food is also intended to sustain the moth-er and chicks after the eggs hatch. The motherfeeds the babies by eating the food and thenregurgitating it into the mouths of her young.The middle chamber serves as a living room,and the third, located at the entrance, serves asa porch and an area fromwhich the parrots canobserve their environment. It is also the areafrom which the babies take their first flight.

So, howdo they survive in thewinter in thenortheast?

The monks in New Jersey do have toendure someharshwinters.Howdo they do it?They are from Argentina, where they have asimilar climate in that there are four seasons,including winter, although the winters here areprobably more harsh than those in Argentina.Additionally, their enormous, well-built, well-insulated nests afford them protection againstthe cruel winds and low temperatures. Thoseparrots enterprising enough to build structuresadjacent to certain electrical infrastructure,including power transformers, high-voltageinsulators, and lighting towers get an added

benefit because this equipment is often warm.They are sub-tropical birds,whose feathers

are very unique in that the bottom half of eachfeather closest to the body iswhite and soft anddowny. These feathers closest to their bodiesact like a down coat that the parrots activate bypuffing up on a very cold day.And, of course,it helps to have someone warm to cuddle with.

Their diet is also key. Monks are classifiedas “plant generalists,” which means they eat alot of different plants, including grass, weeds,leaf buds, and any kind of bird food found infeeders, including corn, suet, sunflower seeds,finch seed, etc. I’ve even seen them eatingpizza crusts from the street. All of these foodsare available during the winter in New Jersey.

Monk Parakeets are highly intelligent,social birds.Those kept as pets routinely devel-op large vocabularies. They are able to learnscores of words and phrases, and they are sec-ond only to the African Grey parrot in regardto their vocabulary.

How did they get here? There are a num-ber of urban legends that offer explanations forthe arrival of Monk parakeets in our area.Stories I have heard include:

They arrived on a Domino Sugar boat thatdocked on the Hudson River at Edgewater

A pet shop in Edgewater closed, and theowner released the parrots in to the wild

A single pair of pet Monks were releasedin Edgewater and proliferated

A crate of imported Monk parakeets waseither opened or accidentally broken at JFKAirport.

What is the truth?Aconsiderable numbers ofMonk Parakeet

were imported to the United States in the late1960s as would-be pets. I personally believedthat the parrots arrived here due to an inadver-tent release at JFK Airport. My beliefs wereconfirmed two years ago, when I met a manduring a nest removal in the Bronx at theThrogg’s Neck Little League ball field, whotoldme hewitnessed a crate break open at JFKAirport. He was an employee at the port, andhe told me that he witnessed a crate of Monkparakeets-bound for quarantine-break open ona forklift at the airport. He told me, “Hundredsof birds were released into the wild. I thoughtit was quite beautiful. I was happy to see themflying free, but I was concerned about theirability to survive in the NY Metropolitanarea.”

The fact thatNorthAmerica has a newpar-rot on its shores is inmy view a blessing, espe-cially because our countrymen wiped out ouronly native parrot - the Carolina Parakeet -nearly a hundred years ago. Nature has givenus the rarest of gifts: a second chance. Let’s notblow it!

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was born in Fort Lee in 1927 onHudsonStreet. In 1930, wemoved to the cornerofMain Street and PalisadeAve., wheremy family lived until 1957. My family

on my father’s side came over from Naples,Italy in 1895. My father was born in Fort Leeat the turn of the century.As a young man growing up in Fort Lee,

it was in my opinion one of the best commu-nities to live in because it was a close-knitcommunity, everyone was outside, everyonetalked to one another, and we had differentgroups that hung out on the main drag, and itmade us excited as kids to always see peopleout there talking.We grew up during the Depression, so

everyone had to hustle regardless of age.Everyone had a chore. Mine was to go toEnglewood golf course as a caddy and earn$1.10 for 18 holes. When I gave my mothera dollar, it was like I gave her a million dol-lars, that’s how precious it was.We weren’t concerned with what was

going on in the world because we didn’t havetelevisions, radios. The only thing we did wasplay sports and read the sports section of thenewspapers. The outside world to us didn’treally exist.High School was from the 7th grade to

the 12th grade, we had a total student popula-tion of 325 kids from grades 7-12. So youcan see how small the community was.Everybody knew everybody. There was noprejudice, nobody knocked any race. As achild, I remember my father bringing one ofhis African American co-workers home tohave dinner with us. We all were just tryingto survive.When the war began, although we had no

knowledge of military training, having grownup in the Depression, we had a toughnesswithin us already. So when we got the mili-tary training, we considered ourselvesunbeatable, which we proved during WorldWar II.Coming out ofWorldWar II, our life real-

ly started to begin. We were dating, got mar-ried, had children, and tried to do the best wecan so far aswhatwe had. It wasn’t easy. Onething we never forgot and never will forget isthe loyalty to this nation. And to never forgetthe men who didn’t come back.As I grew older, faced retirement, my

children were married, they were having chil-dren, I never really had an opportunity to beclose to my own children because I wasalways working and trying to make a living.Once my grandchildren came, it was a differ-ent story, I was retired, and my wife and Ispent a lot of time with our grandchildren.Being in Fort Lee for 83 years, I look at it

today as a mini-Metropolis. We have all dif-ferent nationalities, we have the trafficbecause of the bridge.In 1951, I joined theVFW. Iwas justmar-

ried and joined. After going to a couple ofmeetings, I felt that this was not the right timeto join an organization like that because I did-n’t have the time to devote to it.When I retired, I joined again in 1981, my

brother Charles Viola was the Commander.From there, I was able to devote more time towhat I felt the VFW should be doing. I waselected Quartermaster of the Post, in 1985,and I kept that role until being electedCommander in 2004. Assuming the positionof Commander, I asked myself, what is thefunction of a VFW? What were we formedfor? Does each Commander of each Posthave its own agenda? Is there one agenda or

various agendas? I could never find out.So I set my own agenda. When I went

into the Borough Hall one day to attend ameeting, I stopped in the Main Lobby andsaw the names of the 47 men from Fort Leewho were killed during World War II. Ithought they should be outside where peoplecould see them, and would never forget theirnames. At a Memorial Day service, I men-tioned in my speech that I would like to builda World War II Memorial outside theBorough Hall so people would never forgetthose who had perished fighting for our free-dom. Two VFW members came forwardwith checks of $1500 each. They said to meJim, fulfill your dream, get started. I askedMayor Jack Alter if I could have a section infront of Borough Hall in order to put thisMemorial. That monument that you see infront of the Borough Hall today cost$120,000.When that was completed, I thought that

the history of Fort Lee during theRevolutionaryWar was like a piece of forgot-ten history. So I wanted to remind the peopleof Fort Lee what took place here during thattime period. If you go into the Borough Hall,on the wall going up to the second floor, youwill see pictures of Washington and his gen-erals that were in Fort Lee. The picture of thecanons from Fort Lee shooting at the Britishin the Hudson River is also there, as is the1776 flag that was in Fort Lee, plus the orig-inal outline of Fort Lee from the Library ofCongress. Also inside the Borough Hall is apicture of the Memorial where GeneralNathaniel Greene, a General who first com-manded Fort Lee, is buried in Savannah,Georgia. People must remember that theretreat to victory started in the Borough ofFort Lee.

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� By Todd W. Braistedost residents of Fort Lee have, atone time or another, visited Fort LeeHistoric Park . Located on the

Palisades, nestled against the GeorgeWashington Bridge, the park commemo-rates the vital fortifications that were a partof George Washington’s 1776 Campaign.Built to deny the British the use of theHudson River, the fort fell without a shoton November 20th, 1776 when 5,000British, Hessian and Loyalist troops scaledthe Palisades upriver and forced the rapidevacuation of the fort. This startedWashington’s great retreat across NewJersey, some commemorative signs ofwhich mark the route out of town, intoLeonia and out of the county. Given thissituation, no grand attack by the Britishwas necessary, as there was no one left inthe fort when they arrived (several dozeninebriated and dozing soldiers excepted.)So… was there ever a Battle of Fort Lee?

The answer is Yes! After the Britishoccupied Fort Lee in 1776, they demol-ished it, having no need for such an out-post. The area however was continuallyused as a landing spot for British incur-sions into the county, and was briefly occu-pied by the British in 1778 andWashington’s two years later. But theevents of 1781 gave Fort Lee its true claimas a Revolutionary War battlefield. EnterThomas Ward.Thomas Ward had lived in both New

Jersey and New York prior to the war. Atfirst he was a sergeant in Washington’sArmy, but deserted to the British in 1777.By 1780, Ward was a captain, in charge ofa corps of Loyalist woodcutters who had

formed a post at Bull’s Ferry, mod-ern West New York. Ward becamean instant hero when his band of100 Refugees (as they were called)defeated a thousand Continentaltroops, with artillery, under thefamous General Anthony Wayne.

In May 1781, Thomas Ward, nowa major with over 300 men, decid-ed to establish a new post to cutwood and raid Bergen County.This post would be Fort Lee. Therewas no attempt to rebuild the oldfort, as it would have been far toolarge for such a few troops.Instead, the Refugees attempted toconstruct a blockhouse, similar towhat they had at Bull’s Ferry.Landing at the ferry below the forton May 14th, Ward’s men immedi-ately attacked a party of the BergenCounty Militia, the local citizen-soldiers, at a nearby “stone house.”The next day, the militia, com-manded by their colonel TheunisDey (whose mansion still stands inWayne ) proceeded to the Liberty Pole(Englewood) and then proceeded to attackthe Refugees. After being repulsed, thecame on again, this time on May 18th withnearly 400 militia. The result was no dif-ferent.

Learning of this Loyalist presenceat his old post, George Washington sent400 picked light infantry to remove Wardand his men. Learning of Washington’smove, the British put nearly 2,000 men inmotion to assist the Loyalists. In the end,those forces never clashed. A violent rain

storm delayed the Continentals before theyarrived on site, which made no differenceas the Loyalists had been ordered away bythe British, as being too untenable a spot tokeep. By May 23rd, Fort Lee was onceagain abandoned to history.

For the hundreds of men involved,in the fighting, all Americans it should benoted, it was a brief but bloody affair. Atleast two of the militia were killed, and anumber wounded. John Devoe ofHackensack in particular would never for-get his experience at Fort Lee on May 14th,

being “wounded by a blow from a musketagainst his temple also by a blow from thebritch of a gun & stabbed with a bayonett,two of his ribs were broken, his backinjured & slightly grazed with a musketball.” Left for dead, he was taken prisonerand sent to New York. He was quicklyexchanged and in seven weeks had recov-ered and was back on duty. For hiswounds, in 1807 he received a pension of$2 per month! He passed away in 1837, atthe age of 74, a veteran of the real Battle ofFort Lee!

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little commercial development situatedbetween larger, more densely-populatedmunicipalities, all within 20 minutes ofmidtown Manhattan. In spite of thisproximity, we have maintained auniquely “small-town” feel, whereneighbors know one another, gather atcommunity events, and take action whenneeded.

Today, Leonia is at a crossroad, con-fronting several issues that stand to de-fine both our physical makeup as well ashow the emotional character of our com-munity will continue to evolve.

Leonians have watched neighboringmunicipalities relax their zoning require-ments to encourage development, withboth positive and negative results. Whilewe cannot be afraid to support logicalcommercial development, we also haveto be both realistic and sensitive to allstakeholders. There is no doubt that im-provements are needed if we are to con-tinue to make our shopping area morevibrant and useful to our residents, butwe must also hold our retailers and prop-erty owners accountable for strict com-pliance with all zoning laws. Not to do

so is both legally untenable and govern-mentally dangerous.

We must be even more vigilant in ourresidential zoning, or we risk negativelyimpacting our town’s unique residentialcharacter. We have watched in disbeliefas new construction dramatically exceedslot coverage limits or yard setbacks. Ifthese kinds of projects are allowed tocontinue, we will end up with a town thatis just like any other: we will have lostLeonia’s special identity.

Yes, we need to be open-minded tonew ideas, but also must always be awarethat every resident moved to this townbecause of its character. Inconsistencyin requiring compliance with zoning lawsand/or relaxing zoning requirements be-yond what is sensible will only have anegative impact on our community.

Whether it’s our town’s zoning laws,increasing property taxes and decreasingstate aid, or any of the other challengeswe face, we must remember that we arefirst and foremost neighbors. While wemay disagree with one another on issues,we must do our best to respect eachother. When I was Mayor I engaged inpassionate discussions with political al-lies and foes alike; what was differentthen was that when the discussion wasover, we went on with the business of the

community without losing respect foreach other. Today, when people disagree,it seems that the level of discourse al-most always declines into a clash of per-sonalities. Open discussion, whether inperson or online, seems almost to be dis-couraged, as the people aligned with one“faction” or another try to “control” theconversation in order to “win.”

When this happens, our entire com-munity loses. Leonia is comprised of9,000 individuals from diverse cultures,educational backgrounds, and profes-sions. All of us, together, can tackle andovercome the challenges facing our mu-nicipality. However, we cannot do this ifthe vitriolic rhetoric continues; instead,the time has come for all of us to worktogether, first and foremost as neighborsand as Leonians.

There is no doubt that Leonia is at acrossroad. We need to ensure that ourcore town values continue to be cher-ished and upheld while we work togetheras neighbors to solve the complex mat-ters our borough faces. If we succeed,we will look back with pride at the com-munity we have nurtured; if we don’t, wewill no longer recognize the communitywe care so deeply about today. Let’smake the positive conclusion a reality.

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ema history. The Fort Lee Film Commissionhas partnered with Sirk Studios to produce adocumentary on Madame Blache’s time inFort Lee. This production will be funded viasponsorship and the American PublicTelevision Network has issued a letter ofintent to broadcast this documentary in 2011on PBS stations across the nation.This project will be a comprehensive 30 -

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was raised in Chile, Switzerland and France.In 1894, under the employ of LeonGaumont-pioneer of the filmmaking industry, MadameBlaché began her career in motion picturesand by 1896 she had made her first film. Aninstrumental figure in the early years of cine-ma, Alice Guy Blaché experimented withfilm techniques such as double exposure anduse of close-ups. Between 1902 and 1906she made several synchronized sound filmsand established her forte in narrativefilmmaking.In 1907, after marrying fellow Gaumont

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established her own studio, Solax, inFlushing, New York. By 1912, she hadmoved her studio to New Jersey, where shebuilt a $100,000 studio plant on LemoineAvenue in Fort Lee. Solax became one of anumber of studios in America’s first filmtown before the industry moved toHollywood in the 1920s. It was in Fort Leethat Madame Blaché ran the studio, scripted,directed and produced hundreds of films andowned more than 50 percent of the entirephysical plant.At the time of her death in Bergen

County, New Jersey in 1968 at the age ofninety-five, only three films were known tosurvive in their entirety. To date, about 130 ofMadame Blaché’s films survive. TheWhitney Museum of American Art’s recentretrospective to Alice Guy Blaché, the firstcomprehensive retrospective to date dedicat-ed to Madame Blaché, screened over 80recently restored films from the Solax (FortLee) period. This documentary will show-case Madame Blaché’s prolific period in FortLee, NJ via extensive archival stills and filmfootage as well as through in-depth inter-views with numerous film historians, aca-demics and biographers such as film preser-vationist Kim Tomadjoglou, film historianand Rutgers University Professor RichardKoszarski, Alice Guy Blaché biographer-Alison McMahan, Editor of The Memoirs ofAlice Guy Blaché- Anthony Slide, WhitneyMuseum of American Art Curator-at-Large -

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footage from a French produced 2008 televi-sion documentary Looking for Alice. Thisdocumentary (never before broadcast in theUnited States) gives a unique French perspec-tive to Madame Blaché’s life and career andalso discusses her work in Fort Lee at herSolax Studio.A key contributor to cinema, Alice Guy

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� By John PackerLeonia, New Jersey, is borough of ap-

proximately 1.6 square miles, with a pop-ulation (according to 2000 census) ofslightly more than 8,900.Estonia is a democratic parliamentary

republic, divided into fifteen counties,which covers approximately 17,462 sqmi and is bordered to the north by theGulf of Finland, to the west by the BalticSea, to the south by Latvia, and to theeast by the Russian Federation.As far as apart as you can get from

one another; yet, the city and the countryhave something in common.What connection could there be be-

tween a modest borough and a baltic re-public? (Aside from the rhyme, that is.)That would be Toomas Hendrik Ilves.Just who is Toomas Hendrik Ilves?He is the fourth and current President

of Estonia.He is also a former resident of Leo-

nia.Born in Stockholm, Sweden, in 1953,

where his parents were Estonianrefugees. Ilves grew up in the UnitedStates and graduated from Leonia HighSchool in 1972 as valedictorian. He re-ceived a bachelor’s degree in psychologyfrom Columbia University and a master’sdegree in the same subject from the Uni-versity of Pennsylvania.As a result of his upbringing, Ilves

speaks English with an American accent.He also played tennis at Leonia HighSchool.During the 1980s, Ilves worked as a

journalist for Radio Free Europe and be-came actively involved in politics priorto Estonia’s independence in 1991. Hesubsequently became Ambassador of Es-tonia to the United States in 1993. He

also served as Ambassador to Canadaand Mexico for several years.In December 1996, Ilves became Es-

tonian Minister of Foreign Affairs, serv-ing until he resigned in September 1998,when he became member of a small op-position party (Peasants’ Party, agrarian-conservative). He was soon electedchairman of the People’s Party (reformedPeasants’ Party), which formed an elec-toral cartel with the Moderates, a centristparty. After the March 1999 parliamen-tary election he became foreign ministeragain, serving, this time, until, 2002,when the so-called Triple Alliance col-lapsed.He supported Estonian membership

in the European Union and succeeded instarting the negotiations which led to Es-tonia joining the European Union on 1May 2004. From 2001 to 2002 he was theleader of the People’s Party Moderates.He resigned from the position after theparty’s defeat in the October 2002 mu-nicipal elections.In 2003, Ilves became an observer

member of the European Parliament and,on 1 May 2004, a full member. In the2004 elections to the European Parlia-ment, Ilves was elected MEP in a land-slide victory for the Estonian SocialDemocratic Party. He sat with the Partyof European Socialists group in the Par-liament.On 23 March 2006, Ilves was nomi-

nated by the Reform Party, Union of ProPatria and Res Publica and his own So-cial Democratic Party, as a candidate forthe 2006 presidential election and wassubsquentially elected president of Esto-nia. His five-year term started on 9 Octo-ber 2006.And that’s how we connect the dots

from Leonia to Estonia.

FR0M LEONIA TO ESTONIA…THE BOY WHO BECAME A PRESIDENT

President George W. Bush smiles as he joins President Toomas HendrikIlves of Estonia, at the National Bank of Estonia in Tallinn Tuesday, Nov. 28,2006, for ajoint press availability. President Bush told his counterpart, “I’mproud to be the first sitting American President to visit Estonia.”

White House photo by Paul Morse.

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