THIS PROFESSIONAL LADY IS A CHAMP!!!… North Bergenite Barbara Shaw-Habermann is one little lady who is low-key but very intelligent, with a staunch attitude of fairness in her dealings with the public! Habermann currently is the Job Bank Director at the Urban Enterprise Zone Office in North Bergen, and secures employment for both white- and blue-collar workers. She loves her work and meeting with the public! Habermann’s love of being a public servant has led her to take on many other positions of a volunteer nature in the past such as: being a former member of Township Planning Board and the former president of the Franklin School Parent-Teachers’ Association. Presently Ms. Habermann is the non-salaried president of the North Bergen Library Board, and has been a member of the board for 26 years! At one point in her public career, she was selected as the chairperson of the Hudson County Democratic Party Organization from 1997/98 for a one-year term, and was the first woman ever to hold this position! However she is most proud of the fact that she was sponsored as “Woman of the Year” in 1998 regarding this position, by Assemblywoman Joan Quigley of the 32nd District, for this distinction. In Habermann’s spare time, she tells us that she likes to read biography, fiction and health books, and likes to dance. Formerly of West New York, Habermann has two daughters, Sherie, who is a Library Media Specialist, and Helene, who is an Art Teacher. She also has two granddaughters, Alise Ninnavaggi who is presently serving an internship with Cosmopolitan Girl Magazine, and Crista who is an architect! Her beloved husband Robert is now deceased. Ms. Habermann also is involved in charity giving by combining leisure activities to this effort.
For instance, Habermann is a member of the Elvis Presley Fan Club, for the love of The King’s music, as well as the fan club’s charity outreach. This fan club gives monies to the Saint Jude Children’s Hospital in Memphis, Tenn. as well as to the Make-A-Wish Foundation and to the Presley Place, which is in outreach center for homeless women and children. Truly Habermann is a very thoughtful and compassionate lady, with a worldly view of service to the public in many forms. Keep up the great work!!!…
We hear that Ernest Veltre of North Bergen, who was a former “Voice of Columbus” for the Hudson County Columbus Association and Parade Committee, may become the “Don Pardo” of the radio waves, possibly doing voice-overs as an avocation. All the best!…West New Yorker John Holoduek, formerly of Weehawken, who is the principal of the Career Academy of the Hudson County Schools of Technology, shares with us his honors/principal’s list of students, they are: Jessenia Gomez, Ebrahim I. Kardooni and Kevin O’Dorle from North Bergen. Good going students!….Former policeman John Dudsak of Guttenberg, who is now a retiree who like to quip words of wisdom, now tells us that if “everyone does a little, nobody has to do a lot!” Mr. Dudsak, You Are the Greatest!!!…
For those Union City residents who asked the whereabouts of Louis Vaccari, we hear that he moved to Florida some years ago, but still visits Hudson County at least once a year to visit friends from his Saint Peter’s College days. Vaccari was active in numerous civic affairs!…We hear that Jack and Ceil Aluotto of Secaucus are overjoyed at the arrival of baby granddaughter Gina Marie. Best Wishes…Felix and Caroline Addeo are the proud parents of Michael August Addeo, who recently has been named to the Dean’s List at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., the nation’s capitol…
Weehawken Neighborhood History: On the Kings Bluffs area, where there is now a large stately mansion on its apex, there is a stone formation with a natural “left-shoe foot” print formation that can only be seen after a rain storm fills in the formation with rainwater! This is why this section was also called Foot Mountain and/or Big Foot Mountain by the neighborhood locals during the 1970s and 1980s. It was truly a sight to behold, and this columnist last saw it during the late 1980s before construction began on the stately site. Time marches on…
And so it goes…until next time…see you around town…”MATT”
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