“Shari’s Butterfly Effect” Turns Med Student’s Toy Studio Into Covid Mask Factory

Source: JewishVoicesNJ.org Before coronavirus, Robert Wood Johnson medical student Shari Bodofsky spent her days in classes, working in a radiation oncology unit with breast cancer patients, and running a handmade toy company online in her spare time. Within a matter of weeks, that all changed. Now Bodofsky, a Cherry Hill native, is sheltering at home, […]

Irvington Housing Authority Tests Residents for Coronavirus; Statewide Mass Testing Planned

Sources: njSpotlight.com; RLS Media Irvington Township mayor Tony Vauss and Carmelo Garcia, Director of the Irvington Housing Authority, partnered with Salerno Medical Associates of Orange, New Jersey to provide COVID-19 testing to Housing Authority residents this past weekend. Garcia hired an outside company to conduct a thorough cleaning and sanitizing of each building three times […]

Covid NJ: Newark, Paterson, Irvington IHOP Restaurants To Offer Free Meals

Source: BlackBusiness.com. Thanks: RLSMedia.com Adenah Bayoh, owner of three International House of Pancakes (IHOP) restaurants in Newark, Paterson and Irvington, has announced that she will be providing free take-out breakfast and lunch on weekdays every day until school reopens. As a former child refugee who escaped the civil war in her home country of Liberia, […]