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By J. L. Shively
n the first of this
year, Roman Hirniak, a resident of
the Mount Fern neighborhood, was sworn-in as the
47th mayor of Randolph
Township.
A graduate of Marquette
University in Wisconsin
and the John Marshal Law
School in Illinois, Hirniak
looks forward to the next 12
months in office.
I will be tasked with not
only presiding over the
Township Council, but also
advocating on behalf of its
member to ensure a steady
and focused improvement
in the quality enjoyed by
our residents, Hirniak says.
Hirniak has been serving
the community for many
years, having lent his time
on both the Recreation and
Traffic Advisory Committees as well as serving a few
terms on the Planning
Board.
In 2012, he was elected
to the Township Council
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It had its beginning in the fall of 1978
when the Randolph Recreation Committee approved the Randolph community theater program. In the summer of 1979, the theater
performed its first production, the musical
Pippin. For the following three summers,
several musicals and one drama were presented using the Randolph High School auditorium.
During the fall of 1982, with the help of the
Kiwanis Club of Randolph, a proposal was
made to convert several buildings in Brundage
Park into a home for the theater. Since that
time, a hard working crew of volunteers and
staff has converted these buildings into a rehearsal studio, costume shop, scene shop and
the present Playhouse.
The Playhouse continues to be a division
of the Parks and Recreation department, and
according to the departments director, Russ
Newman, the Playhouse is designed to be selfsustaining. It funds itself through the classes
and camp tuition fees as well as ticket sales.
Originally the Playhouse focused on putting on plays and musicals, but then expanded
its scope to offer classes and workshops as
well. The winter session of classes has already
begun.
The summer workshops fill up quickly
however, and registration for the 2016 summer session begins soon. More information
about upcoming classes and camps is available on the Brundage Park Playhouse website
and also on the Randolph Township website.
The current Playhouse theatre production
is A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To
The Forum with words and music by Steven
Sondheim. Performances continue throughout
February and March. Next on the horizon will
be the musical Evita.
When asked what the future of the Playhouse facilities will be, Newman said, As a
By Anastasia Marchese
he famous saying by Heraclitus that
There is nothing permanent except
change, is illustrated by the rich and
varied history of the Brundage Park Playhouse.
Taking a short trip back only 100 years into
Randolph history would show the buildings
which now house the playhouse as part of a
summer bungalow community. Randolph was
once home to 45 of these communities, where
people could come from the city in the summer to relax and have a camp experience. The
resorts often had swimming pools or lake access, and all sorts of recreational activities.
Today very little remains of the heyday of
Randolphs resort and bungalow communities. In Brundage Park, however, a bit of it can
still be seen. The Brundage Park Playhouse,
which is part of one of the larger buildings, a
casino, which was owned by a former bungalow community and four bungalows, still
stand in the park and serve various functions
for the Randolph Parks and Recreation Department.
By the mid 1960s most of the resorts had
closed down and many had already been destroyed by fire. The Brundage Park Playhouse
website describes how these unwanted resort
buildings found new purpose as a haven for
the arts.
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By Cheryl Conway
ust in time for spring as
new buds start to grow,
so too will the minds of
children who participate in a
new program blooming in
town.
The Chabad of Randolph
is offering GROW, a six
week course on character
traits. Developed by the international organization of
Chabad, the local Jewish affiliated group plans to hold
its second session starting
Sun., March 6, 10:30 a.m. to
noon, at the Chabad House
in Randolph.
Children in first through
third grade are invited to sign
up for the program which
teaches social skills and
character
development
through different topics.
The program represents
its name, GROW, with each
child growing in their way
and bettering themselves,
explains Chava Bekhor of
Randolph, director of programming at the Chabad of
comes to food.
Like doing good deeds,
theres different choices we
make when it comes to
food, says Bekhor, referring
to the first session which will
explain the meaning behind
eating a rainbow- type diet.
Other sessions will cover
categories of food; gratitude
and appreciating food;
hands-on cooking and baking in each session; where
food comes from and different blessings to say with each
food; and the final session
which is a cook-off for parents to taste the food their
children have prepared for
them.
Six students have already
signed up for the spring session and Bekhor is optimistic
that more will sign up.
The GROW program is
really an ideal program for
public school as an after
school
program,
says
Bekhor, who had received
approval to implement the
program in the Randolph
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