Former Fair Havenite Susanne (Chernavsky) Smith-Gween passed away on Oct. 13 at Riverview Medical Center in Red Bank. She was 71.
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Living The Dream: Going Home with Chef Arturo Balderas’ Dos Banditos
Photos/Elaine Van Develde
The waft of a scent, snippet of a sight, taste of a home-cooked morsel. It’s an unfailing recipe that brings the happy child in anyone back home. And some have a wish. A wish to bring a slice of their home comfort to others to share like family.
Chef Arturo Balderas had that wish. A dream. That dream came true recently. Now, like a big pot of Mexican pozole, steeped in family love, the chef is sharing the very best of his home and heart in authentic Mexican street food at his new dream restaurant, Dos Banditos, in Fair Haven. It’s an homage to his childhood, his parents Mercedes Gonzalez and Julio Balderas, both of whom he lost in the past couple of years. He’s now sharing all with which they and his extended family enriched his life. Sustenance. Those who know Arturo say, “he’s just generous in that way.”
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In Memoriam: Longtime Fair Havenite, VNA Hospice Volunteer, Diane Vigilante, 88
Longtime Fair Havenite and VNA hospice volunteer Diane B. Vigilante passed away peacefully at home on Oct. 12. She was 88.
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Remembering Joan Blake: Ode to the Fair Haven Mom, Schools’ Aide
Photo/screenshot of RFH yearbook
When you’ve grown up in a small town, your memories often revolve around the comforting kind of feeling that anyone else’s mother, no matter their child-rearing differences or life circumstances, is a surrogate of your very own. That’s just how it is. The neighborhood concept.
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Focus: Rich Chandler’s Fair Haven Goodbye
The picture of his childhood friend caught his eye. Among the cozy chatter of old friends and family, he left the conversation at the table staring, transfixed for a brief moment. The sudden silence in his own head overcame him, welled up a bit in his eyes as he moved toward the picture of his old friend that seemed to call to him.
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His Beat Goes On: Saying Goodbye to Rich Chandler
“It’s the honesty you apply to your playing that makes music enjoyable. The style of the music has little to do with it. It’s only honesty that makes it beautiful.”
Elvin Jones
That stark, shining, honest beauty straight from the heart is what emanated a bright light to countless people from the soul of Richard Chandler. The 60-year-old professional drummer, husband, dad, uncle and friend, who was known to never skip a beat when generously giving his love and talent, lost his years-long battle with cancer on Sunday, Oct. 4.
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Living the Dream: A Native Fair Havenite’s Navesink Love Story
“My peace-and-quiet maker. My trusted secret keeper. My adventure sharer.
Judy Goddard
My Navesink.”
Judy Russell Goddard is in love. And the native Fair Havenite has a story to show and tell all about her lifetime love affair.
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Longtime Fair Haven resident Robert Joseph Keenan passed away unexpectedly at Riverview Medical Center on Sept. 17.
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Scene Around: Fisk Chapel’s Community Spirited Dress-Up
The call came for neighbors, friends, paint brushes, scrapers, masks and soaring helping spirits. That call was heeded over the weekend at the Fisk Chapel AME Church in Fair Haven as many showed to get the church with historic roots dressed up in its Sunday best.
Continue reading Scene Around: Fisk Chapel’s Community Spirited Dress-UpIn Memoriam: Fair Havenite, Area Hair Stylist, Olga Natsis, 45
Fair Havenite, mother and wife, Olga Natsis passed away at her home on Sept. 11. She was 45.
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Clipped Perspective: A 60s R-FH Area Back-to-School Era
It’s a different kind of back-to-school week this pandemic-affected school year. That’s for sure. Students were back to school, part virtually and part in the classroom or outdoor class, in the Rumson-Fair Haven area this week. Those classic first day of school shots were plastered all over Facebook.
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Retro First Day of School, First Friend & The Rope
Our annual reprise about that first day of school and walking the rope in Fair Haven is dedicated to the memory of Pam Young, my first friend and Fair Haven neighbor. Pam passed away on July 7 at 60. The memories of her are forever etched in my heart. No one ever forgets their first friend, first neighbor. All the firsts with that special first are indelible. Thank you for knocking on my door that first day and asking if I could come out and play. I will never understand why that lady wouldn’t let us walk together on the rope … I also never forgot. Not a thing …
“But I don’t wanna walk on the rope next to her!” I cried from under my fresh-cut kindergarten bangs. “I wanna walk on the rope next to Pam!”
Pam was my neighbor. She was my best buddy. It was 1965.
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