Name: Free Guided Walking And Cart Tours
Start: 2026-09-12T10:30:00-04:00
Location: Laurelwood Arboretum

Laurelwood Arboretum

Discover the beauty of Laurelwood Arboretum’s gardens and sculptures on a free guided tour led by knowledgeable experts. Tours are available on a first-come, first-served basis, providing a wonderful opportunity to learn about the arboretum's unique collections and natural landscapes.

Local Event: Free Guided Walking And Cart Tours

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Free Guided Walking And Cart Tours

Discover the beauty of Laurelwood Arboretum’s gardens and sculptures on a free guided tour led by knowledgeable experts. Tours...

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The Wayne Public Library presents a movie three times per month! It is shown in the afternoons at 2:00 PM on a Tuesday (shown with subtitles) and a Thursday at 2:00 PM, as well as at 6:30 PM on Wednesday evenings. Click on the link in this event post to see what's showing!

Local Event: WPL Movie Presentation for Adults

WPL Movie Presentation for Adults

The Wayne Public Library presents a movie three times per month! It is shown in the afternoons at 2:00 PM on a Tuesday (shown...

415 Hamburg Tpke, Suite D2 Wayne, NJ, 07470

We need your help! There is a waitlist of children living in foster care who need a CASA volunteer to advocate for their best interests and ensure their needs are met. YOU can be that person. Serve as extra eyes for the judge hearing the child's case, and be a constant in the life of a child living amid unknowns after being removed from home. Attend this information session and learn more about how you can be the voice for a child in foster care. Log on to <a href="https://www.casapassaicunion.org/info-session" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">https://www.casapassaicunion.o...</a> for details.
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Local Event: CASA Volunteer Information Session - Advocate for a Foster Child!

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We need your help! There is a waitlist of children living in foster care who need a CASA volunteer to advocate for their best...

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We need your help! There is a waitlist of children living in foster care who need a CASA volunteer to advocate for their best interests and ensure their needs are met. YOU can be that person. Serve as extra eyes for the judge hearing the child's case, and be a constant in the life of a child living amid unknowns after being removed from home. Attend this information session and learn more about how you can be the voice for a child in foster care. Log on to <a href="https://www.casapassaicunion.org/info-session" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">https://www.casapassaicunion.o...</a> for details.

Come and embark on a storytelling adventure with us! D&amp;D and a few other roleplaying style games will be available for participants to join. Whether you are brand new or a long-time fan we can help you jump into the amazing and creative worlds of tabletop roleplaying games. Create your character, role some dice, and venture forth in this series of collaborative storytelling sessions.
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Discover the beauty of Laurelwood Arboretum through free guided walking and cart tours led by knowledgeable experts. Explore the lush gardens and unique sculptures on a first-come, first-served basis, with private tours also available for a fee.

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A New Vision for Paterson
A School Where Students Learn to Build Businesses—and Futures
Purchase your tickets for our community luncheon event: <a href="https://www.zeffy.com/en-US/ticketing/universal-business-academy-charter-high-school-fundraiser-saturday--91226" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Click HERE</a>
Share a donation to invest in the future of Paterson’s youth: <a href="https://www.zeffy.com/en-US/donation-form/fundraiser-for-the-future-uba" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Click HERE</a>
Complete our community survey to share your insights into what students need: <a href="https://forms.gle/E7XJd5RU7n5gmx5U8" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Click HERE</a>
PATERSON — Imagine a high school where students learn to develop a business idea, manage money, work as part of a team, use technology, or turn an invention or passion into a company of their own. That is the vision behind the proposed Universal Business Academy Charter High School — a school centered on rigorous academics, business, entrepreneurship, and technology, designed to give students the practical skills to create their own futures.
At the heart of the effort is Isaiah M. Jefferson, a long-term advocate for expanding opportunities for young people from low-income and underserved communities. His belief is simple but transformative: too many students are taught to prepare for jobs without being shown they can also become the people who create jobs. For Jefferson, entrepreneurship isn't just a subject — it's a pathway to independence, economic mobility, and community change.
A decade ago, Jefferson worked to establish a Universal Business Academy in Englewood, reaching the second phase of New Jersey's four-stage charter approval process. That vision has persisted — and now Jefferson and a group of educators, business leaders, and community members are bringing an expanded version of it to Paterson.
“Our students don’t need us to tell them what they should become,” says Mark Fischer, a Paterson community leader and veteran school district educator. “They need us to expose them to what they can become, help them understand the pathways to get there, and give them adults who believe in them while they’re figuring it out.”
Fischer points to a deeper challenge: “Students need help imagining themselves in successful futures. When young people don’t regularly see professionals, entrepreneurs, business owners, coaches, and community leaders who look like them or come from their city, it can be difficult to envision those possibilities for themselves.”
“A mentor has great impact because it creates guided support from someone who has experience,” says Tonya Bradley, a Paterson native and entrepreneur mentored by Fischer at Eastside High School, and owner of Tonya’s Healing Circles. “Growing up in Paterson has had challenges, but with perseverance and resilience you can achieve anything — our students have that drive.”
The proposed school’s model is built to develop the thinking habits successful entrepreneurs, employees, and citizens need: problem-solving, reasoning, collaboration, creativity, and the ability to apply knowledge in unfamiliar situations. UBA plans to use the Designing Learning Model for Cognitive Impact, developed by Maryann Klaus — a model that, used with a cohort of students over four years, has already produced a 96% achievement and graduation rate in one Paterson high school.
In addition to Jefferson, the founding members include Maryann Klaus, creator of the Designing Learning Model and founder of the Center for Designing Learning; Mark Fisher, Founder of Making it Count with Coach Fisher; Taliah Givens, Senior Director of Student Professional Development Programs at the UNCF; Educator and CGW Institute founder Charles Ray; Attorney Albert C. Asphall; and Malcolm Pope, founder of Music Makers NJ.
JOIN US AND BE PART OF THE MOVEMENT
Date: Saturday, September 12, 2026 | Time: Noon – 4:00 p.m.
Location: La Neve's Banquet Hall, 276 Belmont Ave., Haledon
This is your chance to come together around a bigger vision — a school in Paterson that helps a generation of young people understand they don’t have to wait for someone else to create opportunity for them. The event includes a full lunch buffet, drinks, and entertainment.
Tickets are selling out. Purchase your tickets online to attend the luncheon and learn more about UBA Charter High School: <a href="https://www.zeffy.com/en-US/ticketing/universal-business-academy-charter-high-school-fundraiser-saturday--91226" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Click this link to purchase tickets</a>. Can’t attend but still want to help? <a href="https://www.zeffy.com/en-US/donation-form/fundraiser-for-the-future-uba" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Click this link to send a donation.</a>

Local Event: Universal Business Academy Charter School - Fundraiser & Information Event

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A New Vision for Paterson
A School Where Students Learn to Build Businesses—and Futures
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Universal Business Academy Charter School - Fundraiser & Information Event

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