Annual ‘Meetball’ was also political meet-and-greet

Jersey City’s Van Vorst Park Neighborhood Association held their 34th annual Meetball event at St. Peter’s Prep High School on Saturday.
The event is a fundraiser for the Van Vorst Park Association (VVPA), with money going back into community-related activities. Van Vorst Park is located in downtown Jersey City between Montgomery and York streets.
There were over 200 people present, many of them families with young kids, enjoying a variety of food from downtown restaurants such as Ox and Edward’s Steak House and live music by the band Cornucopia.
The Meetball was also a good place for those running in the Jersey City municipal election to meet potential voters.
That was the case for Mayor Jerramiah Healy and mayoral contenders Louis Manzo and Dan Levin, all in attendance. Also at the event was Downtown City Councilman Steven Fulop, who got the loudest applause when candidates were acknowleged by VVPA president Anthony Sandkamp, and other council candidates from Manzo, Healy and Levin’s teams as well as L. Harvey Smith’s team.
And Healy sang (by invitation) his version of Frank Sinatra’s Summer Wind. – Ricardo Kaulessar