Wegman's looks for wealthy suburban locations close to or on major highways with large parking areas. We are more likely to get a Trader Joe's, a company which seems much more comfortable in an urban environment. The Trader Joe's on 14th Street near Union Square is a good example of what we could possibly expect (if only we were so lucky).

Restoration Tour of ?The Beacon,?
the Former Jersey City Medical Center
Saturday May 10, 2008 ― 3 pm to 4:30 pm



Cost: $10.00, $7.00 for seniors and students with current ID. Meet at the new lobby of The Beacon. Turn into the main entrance at Beacon Way. Valet parking is $5.00. Metered parking is available on Montgomery Street. Rain or Shine!

Guided by Ulana Zakalak, restoration consultant for the Beacon.

In celebration of Historic Preservation Month, Metrovest Equities and the Jersey City Landmarks Conservancy invite the public to tour the magnificent restoration of the Art Deco former Jersey City Medical Center. This first ever public tour will be led by The Beacon's own restoration consultant, Ulana Zakalak, president of Zakalak Restoration Arts, LLC. Highlights will include the magnificent new lobby, the restored Broadway corridor, the Rialto Theater, and the former lobby, now the billiards room, complete with the newly conserved Allen George Newman bas-relief, From Myth to Medicine. Come see Mayor Frank Hague's office, now converted intothe Hague Poker Room, as well as restored lobbies and the Roosevelt reading room.Visit the unparalleled amenities floor which includes Club Aqua and the Grotto Lounge. The tour will also take in the unrestored Murdoch Hall, the setting for the movies Quiz Show and The Imposters .



For more information contact JCLC board member Ulana Zakalak at uzakalak@comcast.net.

Kudos to the student group SAVE and to the children who come out each year to clean up this treasure of Jersey City! They can teach us all a lesson in safe-keeping our built and natural environment and trying to keep the sense of place that makes Jersey City so special. We are losing our landmarks at such a rapid rate: the warehouse district, St. John's Church on Summit Avenue, Sacred Heart on Martin Luther King Boulevard, and others less notable that make up the fabric of the city. Perhaps one day, when these children are adults, and in a position where they can make a difference, they will remember cleaning up Holland Street and what a special experience that was. Just maybe that memory they recall as adults will make a difference in preserving what our current leaders care not to.

Missa:

I have seen punchkies at Europa meat market on Jersey Avenue on days other than Fat Tuesday. I don't know if they have them everyday, but when I saw them several weeks ago, they looked wonderful. I don't know what they are filled with, but my mother made them with rose petal jam.