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INTRODUCING THE SALON
STUDIO/SUITE
WIN FOR A WORDSMITH
SOLA SALON STUDIOS offers a novel styling experience to
both beauty providers and their clients. For hairstylists, color-
ists, aestheticians, nail techs and permanent makeup artists,
there are 33 state-of-the-art, customizable, move-in-ready
studios under one roof that the beauty professionals can rent;
staffers provide their independent businesses with educational
resources and tech and marketing support. Studio sizes range
from standard, large, and double, and are equipped with
shampoo bowls, chairs, high-end cabinetry and state-of-the-
art lighting. You’ll also find restrooms and kitchen and
laundry facilities on-site. • 1607 Route 23 South (in the
Brentwood Plaza shopping center), (347) 857-7652,
solasalonstudios.com
MARINA BUDHOS , a professor of English
at William Paterson University and
author whom we interviewed for our Fall
2019 issue (“Different, but the Same”)
has been honored with a prestigious
National Endowment for the Arts fellow-
ship. She is one of 36 writers who will
receive $25,000 towards future writing,
research and travel. “NEA is a writer’s
dream,” says Budhos. “It feels as if some-
one is conferring faith in you and faith in
a particular project.” Next up for Budhos:
Completing an adult novel titled Liberty Park and Sanctuary,
a YA novel.
Wayne
CLASSIC SAUCE STANDS THE TEST OF TIME
The Aiello family left their small village of Serrato, Italy, and emigrated to
America in 1929. And it’s a good thing they did, because they brought their
centuries-old recipe for spaghetti sauce with them. Fast forward nearly 100
years, when Tommaso Antonino Aiello, a Wayne Hills High School graduate
and the descendant of patriarch Domenico Aiello, decides to make the sauce
available to gourmet specialty stores under the name of AIELLO ITALIAN
SPECIALTIES. Aiello, who is also an alumnus of Le Cordon Bleu, sells four
varieties: tomato basil, roasted eggplant, arrabbiata (spicy) and marinara.
The 28-year-old, whom Wayne Magazine first profiled in 2012, grew up on
family lore about their beloved creation. Before he was born, he says, “My
parents had some friends over for dinner who had never had our sauce
before. The wife was so attracted by the aroma that she couldn’t help herself
and dove right into the pot with some bread as it was simmering on the
stove.” • (973) 557-3385; [email protected]
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SPRING 2020 WAYNE MAGAZINE
CARABETTA;
PCTI MOCK TRIAL TEAM WINS BIG
America’s jurists, please take note: PASSAIC COUNTY
TECHNICAL INSTITUTE’S BULLDOG MOCK TRIAL TEAM has
been named 2020 Passaic County Champions the third time
in a row; it is the team’s sixth championship over the last
eight years. The Championship competition was held at the
Passaic County Courthouse, where the Bulldogs remained
undefeated throughout the weeklong competition. The event
concluded as the team faced off against Hawthorne Christian
High School in front of Superior Court judges Yablonsky and
Covello. The Bulldogs received praise from the judges for
their preparation, critical thinking skills and courtroom
presence. Here, the PCTI Mock Trial team along with advisor
Robert Nutile stands proudly with their Passaic County
Championship trophies.