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RFH Students Serve Up Some Food for the Soul
Members of the Rumson-Fair Haven Regional High School (RFH) Cooking Club volunteered at the Jon Bon Jovi Soul Foundation’s Soul Kitchen Community Restaurant in Red Bank recently.
Working with Soul Kitchen’s Front-of-House Manager Dolly Bonilla, the RFH students on April 16 cleaned off and set tables as well as organized menus for that evening’s crowd.
They were also given a tour of the facility’s garden, which provides fresh organic ingredients for meals, by gardener Robin Grossman. The students learned more about what the Soul Kitchen means to the local community.
“Hope is Delicious” is the motto of the Soul Kitchen, which provides healthy, organic, and locally grown food in a restaurant setting. For paying customers, there are no prices on the menu. Instead, they are invited to “pay it forward.”
A donation of $10 covers the cost of one meal, and anything extra helps defray the cost of someone else’s meal. Nonpaying patrons of the Soul Kitchen can perform volunteer work in exchange for family meals. Those who volunteer in exchange for meals are guided through their tasks by Soul Kitchen staff members, giving them a step up in qualifying for jobs in the restaurant industry.
The Soul Kitchen treats all customers with dignity and respect, while uniting communities and forming healthy and lasting relationships through food.
Volunteerism is very important to the success of Soul Kitchen, and there are opportunities available for those who would like to help out by busing tables, cleaning, stocking items, or serving. More information can be found at jbjsoulkitchen.org.
RFH students who volunteered their time were: Tori Hyduke, Christy Jadevaia, Katie Kane, Michaela Lake, Julia Marascio, Jenna Sandoli, and Becky Unsinn. They were accompanied by RFH Library media specialist Linda Wien Murray and English teachers Cassie Fallon and Lauren Grumbach, who are the club’s co-advisors.
— Edited press release from Rumson-Fair Haven Regional High School (RFH)
Focus: An Eggcellent Fair Haven Egg Hunt
The Fair Haven Annual Easter Egg Hunt was conducted on Saturday without a bad-weather hitch.
Kids of all ages packed Fair Haven fields in search of goodies.
They left with plenty of loot and smiles to boot.
Take a look at the photos below, courtesy of Recreation Director D.J. Breckenridge (and the last from Jenny Costello), for a glimpse into the day.
Focus: Rumson Egg Hunt Eggcellence
The weather held out for the 37th Annual Rumson Egg Hunt on Saturday and every bunny was out for the prizes and the day at Victory Park.
Sponsored by the all-volunteer Rumson Fire Department, kids in three age divisions combed the park for chocolate eggs and other prizes.
It was an eggcellent day, according to officials.
Take a look at the photos below, courtesy of the borough’s Sarah Orsay, for a glimpse into the day.
Mangia! Spaghetti Dinner 2016
For the love of … spaghetti and meatballs, the annual Fair Haven Fire Department’s Spaghetti Dinner proved a tasty good time for all.
Saturday’s event fed a continuous full house of friends, family and fellow fire and first aid folks. Call it a night of community amore.
Take a look at the above slideshow for a glimpse into the evening.
Saturday is Fair Haven Fire Company Spaghetti Day
Angelo DePonti has been cooking up some fun and famous meatballs in the Fair Haven Firehouse kitchen — Angelo and his gaggle of fire company guys, that is.
The 86-year-old 25-year social member of the fire company is an icon because of his meatball recipe. The meatballs, spaghetti and sauce feed hundreds annually at the fire company’s spaghetti dinner fundraiser.
“I was born to cook and I love sharing my recipe and food with so many,” DePonti said.
This year, the dinner is being held on Saturday, March 19 from 5 to 8 p.m. at, of course, the fire house on River Road.
The dinner is $10 for adults and $5 for for children. For the price, you get spaghetti and meatballs, salad, Italian bread and homemade dessert served by auxiliary, fire cadets and other members. It’s BYOB and take-out is available.
RFH Education Foundation: What It Is and What It Does
Since its inception in 2001, the Rumson-Fair Haven Regional High School (RFH) Education Foundation’s aim has been to enrich the learning experiences of students both in and out of the classroom.
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Retro Rumson Barn Theatre’s ‘Cinderella: A Flash Fantasy’
With the recent revisiting of Chef Rossi to her RFH and Barn Theatre roots, images of a show she worked on were once again conjured up.
It was a David Bowie/punk rock-inspired children’s theatre show done at The Barn in 1979 (or was it ’80?) that offered a colorful twist on the Cinderella story — Cinderella: A Flash Fantasy.
Set to Bowie, B52s, Blondie and a little Rocky Horror Picture Show music, memories of the show came spewing forward last week as most of the cast reunited at Rossi’s book signing.
It offered a special memory for Rossi, who was quickly adopted by this theatre tribe when she didn’t quite fit in with the status quo at RFH. Her bud Jeni Weber Zeller brought her to The Barn and she never left.
She worked tech crew on the show and made lifetime friends. A lot of people did, including this editor. In fact, Rossi’s book signing/reunion ended much like a typical cast party at Barnacle Bill’s decades later.
So, the Retro Pic(s) of the Day offers a glimpse back to that time at The Barn and that show.
Guess who? Yes, it’s me as the Tina Turner evil step sister trying to cram that glass slipper on. Oh, and that’s Anne Toronto McNamara offering some help.
“We were children doing children’s theater,” said the show’s Cinderella, Andrea Puscell last week. Somehow I don’t think this show would fly as children’s theater in today’s climate. Ironic.
The show also featured many RFHers. Check out the program. Do you know what Bowie song was played for the curtain call?
Forrestdale Students Revisit Jersey Icons
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Rocker Jon Bon Jovi’s jacket. A Les Paul guitar. A Green Bay Packers helmet representing longtime Coach Vince Lombari. These were just a few of the items viewed by sixth graders at Forrestdale School in Rumson when they visited the New Jersey Hall of Fame Mobile Museum.
Arresting News: Assault & Contempt
The following recent contempt of court arrests were reported by Middletown police:
Broadway Comes to RFH for Benefit
Night of FUTURE Broadway Stars, a musical event benefitting homeless youth in Asbury Park, will rock the auditorium at Rumson-Fair Haven Regional High School on April 14 at 7 p.m.
Chef Rossi: A Full Circle RFH Homecoming
By Elaine Van Develde
“I want you to know that I am so sorry I didn’t make the effort to get to know you in high school,” a Rumson-Fair Haven Regional High School (RFH) graduate said to classmate Chef Rossi last Thursday after the reading and signing of her book, The Raging Skillet: The True Life Story of Chef Rossi … at River Road Books in Fair Haven. “I’m ashamed to say that I was one of those girls. And, yes, I was afraid of your Sex Pistols t-shirt.”
That was Lisa Malle Pritchard fessing up — owning who she didn’t even realize she was or if she even was. But who it was didn’t really matter to Rossi. It was what she said and when she said it that mattered.
The comment came in a very modest tone from that one blushing RFH prepster sandwiched in one corner of the room that was filled with RFH grads, the defunct but ever-enduring Barn Theater’s tribe, and a few nouveau admirers from afar and now close up.
In a real turnabout in perspective and persona from RFH 1970s, when she was the one who dropped many a jaw, the comment was met by touched, gape-mouthed Rossi and a demure “Oh, my God. Wow. Thank you so much for that. Moments like this make it all worthwhile. Can I give you a hug?”
And she did.
It was one of those awww/aha moments. For Rossi, the anti-chef, anti-preppy who was and is immersed in both worlds by default and devastating talent, things had come full circle with her homecoming. She was home again and everyone was feeling at home with her.
The moral of the Rossi story, which is one she promises there will be yet another book to explain and cook to, is that, yes, you can come home.
And not only can you come home, but you should, as she sees it.
“The real truth is that I wasn’t all those things that you were so afraid of back then,” the raging anti-chef said, pointing out that there was plenty of “Oreo crack” left to munch on. “I was just a little Jewish girl who liked Barbara Streisand.
” … Luckily, I was blessed with an enormous amount of chutzpah and a filthy mouth.”
Yes, you can come home, according to Rossi, especially this home. The theory is a Wizard of Oz sort of combo. It has something to do with always having had the power and not having to look any farther than your own back yard for what was in your heart all along — or something like that.
As Rossi put it, aside from her life highlight moment of Susan Sarandon eating her sun dried cranberry on the money spot (go ahead, figure that one out) …
“I’ve been going around the country on this book tour, but this is the stop that really pulled at my heartstrings. I graduated from RFH. I’ve got a lot of my buddies here today. So, even though I ran away from (this) home, got sent to live with the Chassids and other stories along the way, you know, every time I come back here I do feel like I’m coming back home. You’ve made that all possible.”
And so Rossi’s story goes, because, as someone in the audience piped up, “We love you,” followed by a usual cast (of characters) party at Barnacle Bill’s.
Home. Sweet … Oreo Crack and sea salt brownies.
Check out the slideshow above for a glimpse into the evening with Chef Rossi.
For more information, see her website by clicking here.
You can also buy her book at River Road Books in Fair Haven.
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