Rebuttal of Negative Comments on Veterans Tax Deduction
Click here to view a copy of Gary Baldwin’s column in Friday’s Asbury Press rebutting negative comments on the veterans’ tax deduction.
How Does Music Affect the Mind and Body?
When you hear your favorite music, how does it make you feel? Perhaps it brings back fond memories and transports you — even momentarily — to another time and place. Maybe it makes you feel relaxed from head to toe. Or maybe it gets your blood pumping and makes you want to get up and dance.
Making of a Mandate: 2013 update
On Monday, October 22, 2007, the Governor of NJ appeared at Seabrook Village, a Continuing Care Retirement Community (CCRC), to sign a bill that required CCRCs to include at least one resident of the community as a full board member on its governing board. The measure had been four years in gestation. The event was […]
Success in Trenton: S425/A3989 Signed into Law
Residents inclusion on Boards of Trustees has graduated from a hope to a reality. On October 22, 2007 Governor Corzine signed S425/A3989 into law at Seabrook Village, a Continuing Care Retirement Community (CCRC) in Tinton Falls, NJ. The ceremony was brief and moving and achieved its purpose: with the stroke of a pen, several to […]
S425/A3989 Passes Hurdles, Needs only Governor’s Signature
On Monday, June 11, the full Assembly passed the bill A 3989, bringing the long campaign of ORANJ to within a whisker of victory. ORANJ is the organization representing over 10,000 seniors residing in Continuing Care Retirement Communities in NJ. Already in 2002 ORANJ highlighted in its mission statement its effort “To Establish and Safeguard […]
Current Legislation: A1148, S425
ORANJ seeks changes in NJ state laws pertaining to CCRCs to give residents a real voice in governance of their communities. A1148 in .html format (best for viewing) A1148 in .pdf format (best for printing) Two identical 2006 bills that take top priority, number S425 in the NJ Senate, and A1148 in the Assembly, seek […]
Senate Resolution 27
Testimony by Charles Germany, immediate past president of ORANJ, to Assemblywoman Pou’s committee on Assembly Bill A-3018, (now A-1148) I come on behalf of the Organization of Residents Associations of New Jersey (ORANJ) to testify in support of Senate Resolution 27, urging the reactivation of and making appointments to the Continuing Care Advisory Council. The […]