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Montville's Duka goes No. 8 in Major League Soccer draft

Dilly Duka is much happier with a soccer ball at his feet than standing in front of a podium. As Duka heard his name boom over the loudspeakers at the Philadelphia Convention Center, he felt more anxious than he had expected.

Duka had been selected by the Columbus Crew with the eighth overall pick in Major League Soccer's SuperDraft on Thursday afternoon. His professional soccer career was finally about to begin. But first, the 20-year-old from Montville had to say a few words to the coaches, executives, and raucous fans.

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The Montville Police Explorers are currently taking applications for membership

The Montville Police Explorers are currently taking applications for membership. Visit our web site at Post805.com for more information. Applicants must be between 14 years old and 20 years old.  Its a great way to volunteer for our community. For information contact Ptl Frank Cooney 973-257-4300 or email Fcooney@montvillenj.org. 

The Explorer Program of the Boy Scouts of America provides young people with solid information about the adult world they are about to enter. The Explorer Program gives young adults a chance to find out first hand about a wide variety of careers.

Law Enforcement Exploring provides an opportunity for individuals to interact with law enforcement personnel. Explorers are trained in different police procedures and assist in different community activities. The Explorer Program is a way for individuals to become involved in their community in a positive way and learn about law enforcement at the same time.

Explorers are given a chance to participate in many different phases of police work, but are not placed in dangerous situations.

 

Troopers put Montville kids through their paces

New fitness program challenges students to achieve top scores.  State Police Sgt. Jim Platten made it clear early to the Lazar Middle School students they'd better pay attention and give it their all as they participated in the Top Physical Challenge. 

 

"I'm the mean guy at the academy, and I'm the mean guy here," Platten, attired in his crisp blue police uniform, said this past Thursday as he paced around the 34 students who prepared to do a series of push-ups, sit-ups, pull-ups, broad jumps and running exercises in the school's gymnasium.

 

The New Jersey State Police Top Physical Challenge is a relatively new program, and Montville was the fifth district visited by Platten's team.

The statewide fitness program was designed not only to show students the importance of physical fitness, but also to give them an idea of how the paramilitary organization teaches its cadets.

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Kids around world join Montville school for workout

500-plus at Montville school, where global fitness program began.

In an effort to curb childhood obesity that was started at the Valley View School, children around the world exercised in unison Wednesday.

The program, known as All Children Exercise Simultaneously, was started 21 years ago by physical education teacher Len Saunders, who had more than 500 people exercising at his school on Wednesday.

"It was fabulous," said Principal Patricia Kennedy. "We had a 411 children and more than 100 parents. It was great and the kids had a wonderful time."

 

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CHECK OUT TEEN CENTRAL!!

Every school day from 2:15 to 4:30 PM, the Biography Room in the Library is especially reserved for teens who want to just hang out and chat with their friends. This is the special place, adjacent to Young Adult Fiction, just for teens, so if you’re in high school, be sure to drop in. If you have homework to do or a book to read, you can still use other parts of the Library.  But you must be quiet!!! If you don’t know where the teen room is, ask the reference librarian.

Students rise to ‘The Challenge’

by Lisa Kintish - January 28, 2009
A television audience watched as several Montville High School students rose to “The Challenge” and succeeded. “The Challenge” in question is a Jeopardy-like game show on News 12 New Jersey in which teams from high schools across the tri-state area compete by answering questions designed to test their knowledge.

The Montville team’s victory, 310-240 against Irvington High School, means that the local students will now continue to the next round. The best teams from each region will face off against each other this spring. Regional champions will then compete for the ultimate title, “Tri-State Challenge Champion.” Besides bragging rights, the regional team champions receive $2,500 and the ultimate winners get $10,000. Each student participating in the championship match will receive $500.

The students that ably answered those tough questions for Montville were Andrew Baim (team captain), Thomas Hoffmann, Sora Kim, Calvin Leung (team alternate), and Christina Socci.

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Montville Girl Scouts sending holiday cheer to GIs in Iraq

Holiday Mail for Heroes part of national outreach - Nikki Coan's sentiments toward American troops overseas are pretty typical for a 10-year-old. 

"I think they're very brave to go out and fight for our country," she said. "They don't see their families a lot."

But in a few weeks' time, hundreds of American servicemen and women who won't be home for the holidays will receive a little Christmas cheer, courtesy of the fourth-grader and her fellow Girl Scouts in Montville.  See Daily Record.

Montville High School Brothers Making a Difference

When Nick and Dan Knauer learned of the book collection drive being sponsored by Montville Pet Parents in advance of a Book Sale to raise money to help homeless pets, they decided that they wanted to be a part of doing something positive on behalf of a constituency that is unable to speak for themselves.

 

Their initial plan was to place a book collection bin in MontvilleTownshipHighSchool. Although the timing to the upcoming Book Sale would only allow them to have this collection point for one week, they managed to receive over 100 donated books. Not satisfied that this collection alone was sufficient, they then came up with an additional approach to obtain more books.

 

They quickly designed and posted a flyer to some 200 mailboxes in their extended neighborhood and were overwhelmed with more than 700 additional books within days of posting this flyer. With more than 800 books collected, they boxed and delivered them, with the help of their parents, Terene and Keith, to the Montville Public Library where the sale was held on October 18.

 

Sue Goldblatt, President of Montville Pet Parents presented both boys with a letter of appreciation and making them members of this all volunteer, non-profit group dedicated to making the world a kinder place for homeless pets. Sue said "it renews the spirit to see the determination, creativity and caring that is capable of our young people to want to contribute to a worthy cause that is much bigger than themselves. We are grateful for the positive contributions Nick and Dan have made to what turned out to be a very successful Book Sale as part of our fund raising efforts to provide well care services for the homeless animals at the Montville Animal Shelter and to contribute to building a new shelter".

Montville Twp. High School PTC selling Entertainment Books

The Montville Township HS PTC is selling Entertainment Books to benefit all the students.  They are $25.00, which includes $20.00 in ShopRite coupons in each book.  The Morris/Sussex/Warren,  Essex/Union/Eastern Morris, and Passaic/Bergen county editions are here.  Please contact the PTC at mthsptc@gmail.com to pick one up and support the programs at the high school.   

'Michael's Magicians' named for Montville boy with illness

Michael Cooney was sitting at his family's kitchen table, brainstorming with a friend on their team's name for last year's walk for juvenile diabetes. 

Together, the two boys picked a perfect moniker.

"We chose Michael's Magicians because we want to magically make a cure," said Michael, 13, who has juvenile, or Type 1 diabetes.

For the second consecutive year, the Towaco teen, joined by his fellow "magicians," took part in the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation's Walk for the Cure on Sunday at the County College of Morris.

Approximately 2,000 people were slated to take part in JDRF's 5K walk in Morris County, an event organized by the foundation's Mid-Jersey chapter, based in East Brunswick.

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