One More Foreigner To Worry About

"It is impossible for official inspectors to check every tree. "

What inspectors? We don't even have a certified arborist and you know if we call Kevin Ward he'll ignore us.

Is that actual size?

The Asian Long Horned Beetles are huge, and the damage they do is frightening.

About a month ago the Master Gardeners of Essex County were at the Farmer's Market on Walnut and they had handouts and were answering questions about the beetles. I'd tell you to ask the Master Gardeners when they are next at the Farmers Market, but according to posts on the Watercooler the MEDC only gave them one weekend.

Are there other "Foreigner"s that we're supposed to be worried about.

What does this headline mean?

Why would the MEDC discrimnate against the Master Gardeners?

There is plenty of room at the table in the front of the Farmer's Market *every* week.

I wonder who said that the Master Gardeners should only be given one weekend.

Here's a list of the MEDC
Board of Directors

Dale Jacobs
President

Stephen Schuckman
Vice President

Luther Flurry
Treasurer

Susan DiMarco
Secretary

Jennifer Adubato, Jr.
Dr. Frank Barnes, Jr.
Sharon Gill
Ilene Goldmeier
Dr. Thomas Haynes
Carlos A. Lejnieks
W. Joshua Levering
Lisa Mierop
Tom Moloughney
Alex Previdi
Margot Sage-El
Howard Silver
Councilor Gerry Tobin

Maybe Briggs can investigate!!! Or we should start an e-mail and telephone campaign.

I think a campaign aimed at MEDC Executive Director
Eva Marie Santiago might be the place to start.

From the MEDC website:
Eva Marie Santiago
973·509·1188
50 Church St. LL Montclair, NJ 07042

eva@montclair-medc.org

"Why would the MEDC discrimnate against the Master Gardeners?"

According to the Watercooler, they directly spoke to the people in charge at MEDC, including the person doing the scheduling.

Maybe they should have mentioned that they were "friends of the Mayor."

It doesn't sound like they "discriminated," sounds like they just couldn't bother.

Why would the Master Gardeners be "friends of the Mayor."

or better still

Why would the Master Gardeners HAVE TO BE "friends of the Mayor."

Does this mean that you must be a friend of the mayor in order to volunteer for anything in Montclair?

I would like to volunteer, but if it's a popularity contest I want no part of it.

"It doesn't sound like they "discriminated," sounds like they just couldn't bother."

Bother with what? The Master Gardeners bring their own table, chairs, and reference books. They set up at the front of the Farmer's Market near the MEDC table and had out leaflets and have discussions and offer advice.

There's no *bother* to the MEDC.

As a matter of fact the MEDC person at the Farmer's Market doesn't *bother* for anyone. Last week I tried to ask him a question and he turned his back to me and went on talking to the person sitting next to him behind the table.

The MEDC should recruit someone else to man their table as he's rude and unhelpful. But, then again, that may be the way the business people of Montclair *want* to be represented.

See below from the MEDC web site "which invites other non-profit organizations to use its information table at the market for promotional purposes".

I guess they are not telling the truth on their web site.

http://www.montclair-medc.org/markmont.htm

Here's the full text about the Farmer's Market and the MEDC

The Farmers' Market

The Farmers' Market is a project of the Montclair Economic Development Corp., which invites other non-profit organizations to use its information table at the market for promotional purposes. The Farmers' Market opens every Saturday, 8 am to 2 pm, from June 10th to November 11th at the Walnut Street Train Station in Montclair.

Their contact e-mail is:
info@montclair-medc.org

If you've ever seen how members are chosen for "voluntary" committees, you'd already know that only "friends" get appointed.

I guess I'm naive.

No, I haven't volunteered for anything yet and thought that my application would be taken seriously.

I didn't realize that it was a "an old boys and girl club".

Is there a way to break into it- or who's ass do I have to kiss -the least repugnant one preferably.

MEDC hates the Master Gardeners because the Master Gardeners love life and want to cultivate beautiful things in fruitful soil. MEDC is all about destruction of all that we hold dear.

Do the business people who fund the MEDC know this?

Do they condone it?

What exactly does the MEDC do besides raise money for themselves and tout the Wayfinding project?

Can anyone name some specific things that they have done to help or encourage volunteering or to help the business community in general?

Have they encouraged businesses (like Trader Joe's) to locate to Montclair?

Did they find someone to develop the Hahnes building?

Are they supporting small businesses by letting them buy business or health insurance as a group?

Are they encouraging small businesses by connecting the small business owners with busness people who can mentor them?

Have they looked at parking for businesses and made suggestions to the parking Authority?

Doesn't the town give the MEDC money?

I seem to remember some brouhahah about that.

Aren't they financed by Montclair Businesses as well?

This gives new meaning to "Breakfast with the Beetles."

Are you saying that the MEDC is a bunch of bugs?

Or that you have had breakfast with the MEDC.

Martta,

Are you admitting to having relations with the MEDC?

Only with the six-legged members.

I just went out to put the recycling on the curb and a praying mantis that had to be 6" long was stationed on our storm door window. I have never seen one that big before and I didn't think that the larger ones were found in this area.

Anybody know?

The thing was huge. Perhaps it'll eat our mosquitoes.

Did you read the article about how the females eat the males this week in the Times?

females eating males...what a disgusting thought

"There are approximately 2,300 species in the order Mantodea world-wide; most are tropical or subtropical, but several species live in temperate climates such as that of the northern United States, central Europe, and Siberia. Most Praying mantids are of the family Mantidae."
Mantises on the Wiki

a Praying Mantis catches and eats a humming bird

I believe that most spiders do the same thing..and I also heard of it happening with folks in the mountains of Tenn.

There's already been a quarantine in Middlesex and Union

Beetles on a NJ tree

Since 2002, the Asian Longhorned Beetle has been confirmed in three New Jersey counties. It was first discovered in Hudson County (Jersey City) in 2002 and was recently confirmed to be present in Middlesex County (Carteret and Woodbridge) and Union County (Rahway).

Rutgers ALB site

Oh, now I've got it.

The MEDC won't let the Essex County Master Gardener's have a table at the Montclair Farmer's Market because they know that information on the invasive Asian longhorned beetle (ALB) will be passed around by the Master Gardeners.

The MEDC doesn't want the beetle identified in Montclair and hopes for another microburst so that infected trees will be blamed on the Microburst.

Spiders eat humming birds, oh my. WHERE?

I gave you a link- take a look at it.

I saw The Mayor with a Asian longhorned beetle in his hand
Walking through the streets of Montclair in the rain
He was looking for the place called Cuban Pete's
Going to get a big glass of Habana Banana Sangria
Asian longhorned beetle's of Montclair

Only with the six-legged members.

Posted by: Miss Martta | September 17, 2006 7:04 PM

Wouldn't that be a record?

I think the headline may refer to foreigners such as these:

American Airlines #77
Boeing 757
8:10 am departed Washington Dulles for Los Angeles
9:39 am crashed into the Pentagon

1) Khalid Al-Midhar - Possible residence (s) : San Diego, California and New York, New York; Visa Status: B-1 Visa, but B-2 Visa had expired.

2) Majed Moqed - No information available.

3) Nawaq Alhamzi - Possible residence (s) : Fort Lee, New Jersey and Wayne, New Jersey and San Diego, California.

4) Salem Alhamzi - Possible residence (s) : Fort Lee, New Jersey, and Wayne, New Jersey.

5) Hani Hanjour - Possible residence (s) : Phoenix, Arizona and San Diego, California. Believed to be a pilot.

American Airlines #11
Boeing 767
7:45 am departed Boston for Los Angeles
8:45 am crashed into North Tower of the World Trade Center

1) Satam Al Suqami - Date of birth used: June 28, 1976; Last known address: United Arab Emirates.

2) Waleed M. Alshehri - Dates of birth used: September 13, 1974/January 1, 1976/ March 3, 1976/ July 8, 1977/ December 20, 1978/ May 11, 1979/ November 5, 1979; Possible residence (s) : Hollywood, Florida/ Orlando, Florida/ Daytona Beach, Florida; Believed to be a pilot.

3) Wail Alshehri - Date of birth used: July 31, 1973; Possible residence (s) : Hollywood, Florida, and Newton, Massachusetts; Believed to be a pilot.

4) Mohamed Atta - Date of birth used: September 1, 1968; Possible residence (s) : Hollywood, Florida/ Coral Springs, Florida/ Hamburg, Germany; Believed to be a pilot.

5) Abdulaziz Alomari - Date of birth used: December 24, 1972 and May 28, 1979; Possible residence: Hollywood, Florida; Believed to be a pilot.

United Airlines #175
Boeing 767
7:58 am departed Boston for Los Angeles
9:05 am crashed into South Tower of the World Trade Center

1) Marwan Al-Shehhi - Date of birth used: May 9, 1978; Possible residence: Hollywood, Florida; Visa Status: B-2 Visa; Believed to be a pilot.

2) Fayez Ahmed - Possible residence: Delray Beach, Florida.

3) Ahmed Alghamdi - Possible residence: Delray Beach, Florida.

4) Hamza Alghamdi - Possible residence: Delray Beach, Florida.

5) Mohald Alshehri - Possible residence: Delray Beach, Florida.

United Airlines #93
Boeing 757
8:01 am departed Newark, New Jersey, for San Francisco
10:10 am crashed in Stony Creek Township, Pennsylvania

1) Saeed Alghamdi - Possible residence: Delray Beach, Florida.

2) Ahmed Alhaznawi - Date of birth used: October 11, 1980; Possible residence: Delray Beach, Florida.

3) Ahmed Alnami - Possible residence: Delray Beach, Florida.

4) Ziad Jarrahi - Believed to be a pilot.

why would Asian Beetles = terrorists that hijacked airplanes.

The Original home of the Asian longhorned beetle is China.

Determined by USDA officials to have entered the United States inside solid wood packing material (SWPM) from China, the ALB was first discovered in August 1996 in the Greenpoint neighborhood of Brooklyn, NY. Within weeks, another infestation was found on Long Island in Amityville, NY, after officials learned that infested wood had been moved from Greenpoint to Amityville.

In July 1998, due to USDA’s national ALB pest alert campaign, a separate infestation was discovered in the Ravenswood area of Chicago. This discovery prompted APHIS to amend its existing quarantine of wood movement in infested areas and place additional restrictions on importing solid wood packing material into the United States from China and Hong Kong.

It was in October 2002 that ALB was spotted in Jersey City, NJ, and most recently, in August 2004, the ALB was discovered in the Borough of Carteret, the Avenel section of Woodbridge Township, and in the nearby cities of Rahway and Linden, NJ. The most recent discoveries, all within a two–square–mile area, mark the first time since 2002 that the invasive exotic pest has been seen outside the quarantined regions of Chicago, New York, and Jersey City, NJ.

APHIS' Plant Protection and Quarantine (PPQ) officers diligently conduct visual inspections of high–risk cargoes and in high–risk areas, such as cargo distribution warehouses.
To further address the ALB problem at U.S. ports–of–entry, APHIS has issued pest alerts to ports of entry personnel, conducted outreach to local importers, and targeted high–risk importers and Chinese exporters for outreach and increased inspections. As part of a national survey, APHIS is focusing on cargo labeled for high–risk destinations (warehouses that have previously received cargoes infested with beetles). The Agency conducts secondary inspections and surveys of the environs at these destinations.
Additionally, in 1998, APHIS published an interim rule immediately requiring that all SWPM from China be completely free of bark and live plant pests and treated with either preservatives, heat, or fumigation prior to arrival in the United States. Effective September 16, 2005, all wooden packaging materials (e.g., pallets, crates, boxes, and dunnage) imported into the United States must be heat treated or fumigated with methyl bromide and marked with the International Plant Protection Convention (IPPC) logo and appropriate country code designating the location of treatment.

By conducting extensive periodic inspections at ports of entry, targeting shipments with solid wood packing materials, APHIS inspectors work to detect wood–boring pests and locate problem importers.

The ALB is just one of a number of exotic pests that present a serious threat to U.S. trees. Spruce bark beetle (Ips typographus) and Mediterranean pine engraver beetle (Orthotomicuserosus) are two other nonnative wood–boring pests of concern. APHIS inspectors search for all such pests on imports of solid wood products and also on SWPM, such as pallets and crates.

I have it on good authority that the Mayor, yes, our Mr. Remsen, embezelled money earmarked for MEDC and bought-yes bought-these beetles to destroy Montclair trees so that he wouldn't have to hear about the famous baseball field trees anymore. Further, it is part of his overall plan to clear out any parkland so that he can put up expensive condo's on the cleared land. And yes, Plofker is his sock puppet. Remember: ROC = Remsen On Crack.

Still the smoking gun in this matter is that teddy bear. If we could recover that all bear and get the dna evidence we would be able to convict. But I saw Ed Remsen in the Meadowlands last night with a yellow bear and a bag of concrete

Was it quickset concrete?

Indeed it was but I think he was lacing it with subgrade materials in an effort to cost cut.

Sort of like the contractor did on Watchung, where the town got stuck for the bad sidewalks!

Exactly!

Remsen was seen substituting bad concrete for good and selling the good concrete to fund MEDC's efforts to destroy beautiful homes and replace them with long-term storage units.

Long term storage units will be necessary for those of us displaced. What are the taxes on a long term storage unit in middle Montclair? Maybe I could live there

It's much cheaper to rent a long term storage unit in Hackensack.

For the price of a long term storage unit in Montclair you can get a nice one bedroom apartment in Bloomfield. Did you know that Bloomfield has rent-control?