Enjoy good fun & food at a reasonable price!  We’ll meet at the restaurant located at 182 Ridgedale Ave in Florham Park.  Please rsvp by Friday, September 25, to Gordon Sauer at [email protected]

Jill Aquino, Environmental Health Nurse and daughter of GAAMC member Liz Cieri, will be doing a presentation on the Ramapough Lenape Turtle Clan of Ringwood, NJ on Monday, October 5 at 6PM. Jill has been working with the Ramapough Turtle Clan since 2022 when she became the nurse and Community Coordinator on a five year grant awarded to NYU Medical School, Environmental Medicine Division by NIEHS (National Institutes of Environmental Health Services). The purpose of this five-year grant is to use the Munsee Three Sisters Medicinal Farm in Andover, Sussex County, NJ to bring food sovereignty back to this clan who are suffering from food scarcity due to the Ford Motor Company dumping of toxins on the Turtle Clan’s native land in Ringwood, Passaic County, NJ in the 1960s-70s. This clan is dying of rare cancers at alarming rates due to years and years of toxic exposure from Ford Motor Company’s toxic metals and paint sludge.

Refreshments will be provided, and a small donation is asked to contribute to our use of the Fellowship. You're also welcome to join a group at a local diner afterward to continue the camaraderie!

Thirty years after Ford Motor Company began dumping toxic waste in their backyard- and after one too many premature deaths- the Ramapo Mountain Indians filed a major class-action lawsuit: Mann vs Ford. This compelling documentary which will be shown Monday, October 12 at 6PM reveals the story of how this tiny tribe and their team of passionate lawyers took on the 'big dogs' -- Ford and the Environmental Protection Agency-- after years of suffering a wide range of ailments, from skin rashes to increased rates of cancer and miscarriages, they say are a result of the dumping to give more background about the plight of the Ramapough Turtle Clan in Ringwood, NJ.

Refreshments will be provided, and a small donation is asked to contribute to our use of the Fellowship. You're also welcome to join a group at a local diner afterward to continue the camaraderie!

October is rich with historical significance, including the Cuban Missile Crisis which peaked in October, 1962, the tense standoff between the US and the Soviet Union, the siege of Yorktown in 1781 which ended the American Revolutionary War, and the infamous stock market crash in 1929, which marked the beginning of the Great Depression. Sprinkled among its 31 days are various national and international celebrations. Whether you choose to celebrate Christopher Columbus or Indigenous Peoples Day, National Coming Out Day,  Halloween, or Magic Day, there will be something for everyone.

Refreshments will be provided, and a small donation is asked to contribute to our use of the Fellowship. You're also welcome to join a group at a local diner afterward to continue the camaraderie!

Enjoy good fun & food at a reasonable price!  We’ll meet at the restaurant located at 182 Ridgedale Ave in Florham Park.  Please rsvp by Friday, October 23, to Gordon Sauer at[email protected].