Making Gold the New Pink

My nephew John Anderson faced the clippers on Saturday to raise money for kids with cancer. He looks pretty darn good with a crew cut. Gold is the color for childhood cancer awareness. And some golden tresses mixed with a wide hue of browns and reds shaved from dozens of boys and men at a fund-raiser at West Orange’s Shillelagh Club.

In Central Park, it took more than a quarter of a mile of gold ribbon, but Sydney Becker (who underwent successful surgery to remove a rare cancer and will finish chemotherapy in the coming weeks) and friends from Camp Simcha helped re-enact a World Record for forming a giant awareness ribbon. In a of the record-setting moment last summer, the campers, some wearing gold hats over bald heads that had lost hair to chemotherapy, shouted, “We beat the record; we can beat cancer!”

Across America, thousands of children fight pediatric cancer each year. Shaving  heads was just a small gesture in the nationwide effort to raise money for research. And research advances have made pediatric cancer more treatable than ever before.  Every fallen lock helps in efforts – as President Obama said in proclamation setting aside September as National Childhood Cancer Awareness Month – “to support researchers, doctors, and advocates working to improve treatments, find cures, and reach a tomorrow where all our children can lead full and healthy lives.”

There were other good works going on around town.

. Elected officials work the check out line to register with residents the need to help feed the hungry.

Here’s a review of some of the week’s top stories:

SCHOOLS

. Photos: Faculty, students sign wall for part of $8.2 million expansion.

. Two sides of the debate come to Livingston as decision nears on new class of charters.

Millburn principal says student's anti-Semitic remark was 'reprehensible' but the incident is not covered by the new laws.

PTA photographers show us what's happening in the schools.

GOVERNMENT

Orthodox Forum Hears Pleas for Tuition Relief. Livingston council members Deborah Shapiro, Michael Rieber hear case to extend public funding.

. Business as usual, only less of it.

POLICE

. Police are tracking the rising trend of stolen cars and break-ins in Livingston and neighboring towns.

Do you want to know the key to preventing crime? It's a Good Neighbor!

. Livingston resident's vehicle was found in Orange two weeks after crime.

. Entire phone system is taken in heist from Route 10 office.

. West Orange woman dies in accident on Tuesday afternoon.

SPORTS

. For a rainy Friday night under the lights, and for countless games before, Don Schwartz provides the Lancer play-by-play.

. Photos: Lancers show why the LHS volleyball team is considered among the best in the state.

. Livingston girls soccer take show on the road in 3-0 win.

. Livingston hits a homerun with fall Thunder Rumble softball tournament.

NEIGHBORS

. Loans to promote job growth in Essex, Hudson counties.

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