In July Maia Badashvili and her son and husband, Irakli and Alex, Beverly-Anne Broadnax, Brenda Cooper, Aycha Edwards, Connie Falconi, Ahmat Mahamat, Josephine Udenta, Alvynn Washington, and Ted Lai the Beta Alpha Phi Chapter of the Phi Theta Kappa International Honor Society at Hudson County Community College volunteered in the the Friends of Liberty State Park Gardening Program. The volunteers, of whom all of the students except one are from Jersey City, cleared weeds from gardens near the playground on Freedom Way. The other student is from Secaucus.