The Green Team Helps You to Help Those in Need

Posted on July 3, 2011 by | 1 Comment

  The Hillsdale Green team is sponsoring a season-long collection of homegrown produce from backyard gardeners to benefit the local food pantries, including those in Hillsdale, Westwood and Park Ridge. If you have extra vegetables or fruits from your garden harvest, please consider donating them to our local food pantries to help your neighbors in need. Most food pantries do not offer fresh produce to clients.

The collections will be every Sunday from 11:30am to 1:30pm, at the Helping Hands Food Pantry, located in the United Methodist Church, at the corner of Hillsdale Avenue and Magnolia Avenue in Hillsdale. Food can be dropped off at the food pantry entrance on Magnolia Avenue.

The collection is part of Ample Harvest, a national campaign to connect backyard gardeners with surplus food with local food pantries. To learn more about the national program, visit  ampleharvest.org.  For specific questions about the Pascack Valley collection, please contact Hillsdale Green Team Ample Harvest coordinators Elizabeth Scholl at ejscholl@verizon.net or 201-803-8897, or Cheryl Mercer at chezee@hotmail.com or 201-666-1106.

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A Fitness Challenge for Hillsdale Residents

Posted on July 1, 2011 by | Leave a comment

If 100 residents (as an individual or family) and employees of Hillsdale commit to walk/bike/run the streets of Hillsdale and register at www.walkaroundtown.org where you can choose to donate to the American Cancer Society, Hillsdale can be awarded the designation of a “Healthy Town” by The Mayors Wellness Campaign (MWC) . The MWC is a foundation funded by grants that support mayors as champions of community health.  The MWC created the “Healthy Town” designation to recognize the communities in which mayors have done an extraordinary job of promoting active living and healthy lifestyles.

 

Here’s How It Works (It is this easy!)

  • Register at www.walkaroundtown.org  where you can choose to donate to the American Cancer Society.
  • Walk/Bike/Run alone or in a group all the streets of Hillsdale (or as many as you would like) during the summer and fall of 2011
  • Visit Green Team Hillsdale at www.mygreenhillsdale.org to share your results.

 

Get Fit With the Hillsdale Mayor and Council Members

  • Mayor Max Arnowitz would like to share his walking route with all interested residents. Join him at the steps of the Hillsdale Borough Hall (380 Hillsdale Ave.) on July 6th at 10:00 am for a walk up Hillsdale Ave.
  • Meet Council member Andy Weinstein at the front of the Hillsdale library for a bike ride on Wednesday, June 29th at 7:30 pm and another biking event TBA
  • Join Council member Douglass Frank at 10 am on Sunday, August 14th at the corner of Hillsdale and Colonial for a brisk walk.

Go for a run with Council president Michael Giancarlo.  Meet him at the Train Station at 10:00am on Sunday, August 28.

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Pascack Pi-oneers Selling LED Lightbulbs

Posted on June 14, 2011 by | Leave a comment

The Pascack Valley Regional High School District’s FIRST Robotics Team, the Pascack Pi-oneers, are selling environmentally friendly LED light bulbs for only $12, or 3 for $30. The  bulbs give off a warm light and are the equivalent of a 40 to 60 watt bulb. They can be used in almost any fixture. They contain no mercury or lead, use only 7 watts of energy, and cost only 84 cents a year on your electric bill! Similar bulbs can be bought for $20 from major retailers.

All profits will go to support the Pascack Pi-oneers for their next competitive season. The team competes in the FIRST Robotics Competition, each year building a robot in six weeks to play a game. The Pi-oneers have been an award-winning team for the past seven years.

They will be selling the light bulbs every Thursday this summer at the River Vale Farmer’s Market on Mark Lane from 12pm to 6pm.

For more information, or to order in quantity, visit:  team1676.com or contact us at: info@team1676.com.  For more information about FIRST Robotics visit: usfirst.org

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Green Team Meeting Open to all Residents

Posted on June 9, 2011 by | Leave a comment

Hillsdale’s next green team meeting is June 20th at 7:00 pm.  All residents are welcome to attend and learn more about how to get involved.  The green team will also be in Veteran’s park this Saturday, June 11 from 10- 3 to introduce residents to wonderful new programs like www.walkaroundtown.org or http://www.ampleharvest.org/.  There will be literature about each program and green team members will be there to answer all questions. Hope to see you soon!

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Shredding Day

Posted on May 30, 2011 by | Leave a comment

 

Attention Hillsdale Residents!
Do you have any confidential files of which you would like to dispose?
Then come on
Saturday, June 4, 2011 to the Hillsdale DPW Yard/ Recycling Center
8:00 am to 12:00 pm
Green Sky Ind. destroys all paperwork in accordance with the National Association for Information Destruction (NAID) and provides the municipality with a letter of destruction

 

Also..

 

 There is an E- Recycling Container at this location ALL YEAR ROUND! Residents are encourage to bring their electronic waste to the Recycling yard at 371 Washington Ave Weekdays from 7am to 3pm and the 1st and 3rd Saturday of each month from 8am to 12 noon

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Relay For Life

Posted on May 11, 2011 by | Leave a comment

The American Cancer Society’sRelay for Life of Pascack Valley 
Saturday, May 14 – Sunday, May 15, 2011

4:00 p.m. to 6:30 a.m.

Hosted at Pascack Valley High School
200 Piermont Avenue, Hillsdale, NJ

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Household Hazardous Waste Collection- Saturday, May 14, 9:00am-3:00pm

Posted on May 11, 2011 by | Leave a comment

The BCUA will be conducting a household hazardous waste (HHW) collection event on Sat., May 14th at Bergen County Law & Public Safety Institute, 200 Campgaw Rd., Mahwah between 9:00 a.m. and 3:00 p.m. rain or shine. HHW Events offer Bergen County residents a location for the safe and proper disposal of household generated hazardous waste.

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