A MESSAGE FROM COUNCILMAN CHARLES COBB
Dear Residents,
Starting on March 12, Englewood residents
will begin to receive an invitation from the
U.S. Census Bureau to complete an online
questionnaire. As you know, completing the
decennial census is a constitutional mandate for
all U.S. residents and assures that vital federal
resources are allocated not only to the State of
N.J., but also to the County of Bergen. You can
shape the future for our community for the next
10 years.
When you fill out the census, you help:
n Determine how many seats your state gets
in Congress.
n Guide how more than $675 billion in federal
funding is distributed to states and communities
each year.
n Create jobs, provide housing, prepare
for emergencies, and build schools, roads
Councilman Charles Cobb
and hospitals.
Locally, the census impacts funding for the
following:
n Schools and education
n Health care facilities
n Housing assistance
n Public transportation
n Child and adult food assistance programs
n Assistance for people transitioning out of
homelessness
n Career and technical grants
n Medicare Part B
Residents, let’s make our best efforts to
completing the 2020 census and exceed the
46 percent completion rate for 2010. We can do
better! As you can see, the census impacts the
funding for many services used by the residents
of the City of Englewood. So I encourage you,
your family, neighbors and friends to fill out
the census form, so that our community can
continue to have access to the many needed
services made available by completing the
census. If you should have any questions or
concern, please feel free to contact me, the City
Manager’s Office or the City Clerk’s Office.
Thank for your time and be counted!
CFA to honor
Maxfield Osfeld
family at fundraiser
Liz
Corsini
Sanetta
Ponton
Joseph
Sorbanelli
Lamarr
Thomas
Hillary
Viders
Rotary presents Community Service Awards
The Rotary Club of
Englewood will host its annual
Community Awards Dinner
on Thursday, March 26, at
the Crowne Plaza Hotel, in
Englewood, from 6 to 9 p.m.
The honorees include:
Liz Corsini, Vice President
of Programs at Bergen Family
Center in Englewood.
Rev. Sanetta Ponton, Pas-
tor of Justice, Advocacy and
Compassion at Metro Com-
munity Church and Director of
Metro Community Center, both
in Englewood.
Joseph Sorbanelli, Captain
of the Englewood Fire Depart-
ment and President of Achil-
lesNJ, a nonprofit organization
that empowers people with all
types of disabilities to partici-
pate in mainstream athletics.
Lamarr Thomas, Princi-
pal of Janis E. Dismus Middle
School, in Englewood.
Hillary Viders, writer,
photojournalist, speaker and
educator who is known locally
as a feature writer for the Press
Group and creator of the series
Extraordinary Englewood,
which has been published as a
book by the Englewood Histori-
cal Society.
Tickets for the Commu-
nity Awards Dinner are avail-
able online at https://conta.
cc/391IrrR.
Those interested may send
guest(s) names together with
check ($125 per person) to
Englewood Rotary Club, P.O.
Box 412, Englewood, NJ 07631.
To learn more, contact
201-406-5354 or email engle-
[email protected].
Summer Business Apprenticeship Program
Englewood residents who
are 16 years of age by June 30
and entering their junior or
senior year of high school are
invited to apply to participate
in this summer’s Englewood
Business Apprenticeship Pro-
gram. The program is man-
aged by Englewood Chamber
of Commerce and Bergen Fam-
ily Center’s The ZONE.
Apprentices are expected
to work 25 hours weekly, Mon-
day, June 29, through Friday,
Aug. 7. Upon completion of the
program, each apprentice will
receive a $1,200 stipend.
Applications are available at
Dwight Morrow High School,
City of Englewood’s Clerk’s
office, www.englewoodnj.org,
and www.cityofenglewood.org.
Deadline for submitting
applications to Dwight
Morrow High School or the
City of Englewood’s Clerk’s
office is Friday, March 20.
The Maxfield Osfeld Family will
be awarded the Center for Food
Action Visionary Award in recogni-
tion of their ongoing work to combat
childhood hunger in New Jersey.
“Volunteering for the Center for
Food Action is a wonderful way for
our family to help our neighbors in
need. Trevor, Vivian, and Evelyn
grew up packing Weekend Snack
Packs to help children in Bergen
County and we are thrilled that so
many other adults and children
have volunteered over the years,”
Jen Maxfield Ostfeld said.
CFA will present the award at the
organization’s annual fundraiser,
SAVOR.2020, on April 20.
MYENGLEWOOD
MARCH 2020
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