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Daily Record, Morris County, N.J., Saturday, October 18, 1997 ci V. Classified starts ADD feooflG Did you know? Rvram's Forest Lake was created in the mid- 1940s by damming a stream that flowed from the glacial spring-fed Panther Lake. Gathering Skylands writers and artists together Town news IF TflHHI RfflDNG) My father's 'love of language and learning were my major Inspirations to become the first woman, in my family to get a college i. inM -f- fs 4 HAMBURG The Sussex County Health Fair will be held Oct 26 from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.

at Wallkill Valley Regional High School The fair will feature free health screenings, displays, exhibits, a teddy bear clinic for children and immunizations. The fair is sponsored by the Sussex County Department of Health, Public Safety and Senior Services, the Division of Public Health Nursing, Northwest Covenant Medical Center and the Hamburg Board of Health, with support from Schering-Plough Corp. Call (973) 948-5400, ext. 54. NEWTON The Central Sussex Garden Club will meet Thursday at 7 p.m.

at Chemical Company 2 Firehouse, 56 Woodside Ave. A lectureslide show on "Birds in Your Garden" is planned. New members welcome. Call (973) 786-5029. St Joseph Regional School, located at Halsted and Jefferson streets, will hold its 27th annual tricky tray Friday in the school's community center.

Doors open at 6:30 p.m. and drawings begin at 8 p.m. Admission is $1 and includes refreshments. Adults only; seating is limited. Call (973) 383-2909.

The New Sussex Symphony recently began rehearsals for its 1997-98 concert season. Rehearsals are held Tuesdays from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. in the band room at Newton High School on Ryerson Avenue. Openings for experienced musicians currently exist in several sections of the orchestra. Call (973) 383-7279.

The Sussex County Task Force on Women and Alcohol will host a speaker meeting Monday at 9 a.m. at the Division of Youth and Family Services offices, 1 Cochran Plaza. Alison McHose, assistant to Sen. Robert Littell, R-Sussex, will be the guest speaker, and her topic will be "How to Advocate for Women's Issues." The program is open to the public, and pre-registratdon is required. Call (973) 3834787.

Victims of rape or sexual abuse can obtain confidential help through Newton Memorial Hospital's Project Against Sexual Assault by contacting the Mental Health Crisis Line at (800) 84W929, 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Assistance also is available through the hospital's Department of Education by calling (973) 5793340. SPARTA The Joint Replacement Unit at Northwest Covenant Medical Center offers a free education seminar on joint pain and joint replacement surgery on the fourth Thursday of the month from 10:30 to 11:30 a.m. at the Visiting Nurse Association of Sussex County, located at 191 Woodport Road. Seminars also are offered on the first and third Thursdays of the month at the same time at the medical center's Dover campus, 24 Jardine St To register, call (973) 989-3555.

WANTAGE Free blood pressure screenings for adults ages 50 and older will be offered Tuesday from 9 to 11 a.m. at the Ames department store on Route 23. The program is presented by Friends for Life, the senior health program of Northwest Covenant Medical Center. No advance registration required. IS IT HAPPENING IN SUSSEX? We want to know.

Send your town briefs to: Sussex Briefs, Daily Record, 800 Jefferson Road, P.O. Box 217, Parsippany, N.J. 07054. By ram writer helps nurture others' art By Jeff Woosnam Daily Record BYRAM TWP. Accustomed to being surrounded by highly literate people after nearly 30 years of living, writing, performing, publishing and teaching in New York City, Daniela Gioseffi was concerned for her intellectual health when she and her husband moved to a rural home after his retirement six years ago.

It didn't take long for her to discover that, far from being a cultural wasteland, northwest New Jersey is home to a large group of like-minded people: prose and poetry writers, artists and musicians who treasure, nurture and, in many cases, support themselves by their creativity. Most felt isolated, however, not knowing of the others' existence. Gathering place What they and Gioseffi herself needed was a salon, the time-honored way for the literati to gather and gain and give inspiration. What they now have, thanks to Gioseffi, is the Skylands Writers and Artists Association. And thanks to Jean Harper, owner and manager of McKeown's Restaurant on Route 206 between Branchville and Culver Lake, they also have a place to gather.

That's where they'll be from 3-5 tomorrow afternoon when Gioseffi will sign copies of "In Bed With An Exotic Enemy," her ninth book. It's a newly published collection of short stories including one about an encounter with a black bear in Sussex County and a novella. Also, SWAA members will read their works and other writers are invited to tell their stories, Gioseffi said. Words are the staff of life for the 1990 American Book Award winner, a North Jersey native who developed her love of language because of her father, Daniel. "He read to me every day, in perfect English.

Shakespeare, Rabelais, Dante, Cervantes," she said of the Italian immigrant who worked as a chemical engineer and was one of the first native Italians to earn membership in Phi Beta Kappa, the national honorary society for high achievers. He died in Parsippany in 1981. "His love of language and learning were my major inspirations to become the first woman in my family to get a college education," Gioseffi said. Earned master's degree After graduating from Passaic Valley High School in Little Falls she earned a bachelor's degree at the former Montclair State College and a master of fine arts degree at American University in Washington, D.C. In 1979 Gioseffi's first novel, "The Great American Belly," was published by Doubleday and Dell.

It was favorably reviewed by Larry McMurtry, the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning author. "Eggs In The Lake," her first book of poetry, also was published WEDNESDAY Byram The board of education meets at 8 p.m., Intermediate school, Mansfield Drive. Hopatcong The board of health meets at 8 p.m., health department, River Styx Road. Newton Sussex County freeholders meet at 6 p.m., administration building, Plotts Road. Sparta The zoning board of adjustment meets at 8 p.m., municipal building.

Main Street. THURSDAY Sparta The environmental commission meets at 8 p.m., municipal building Main Street. IS IT HAPPENING IN SUSSEX? We want to know. Send your calendar items to Sussex Calendar, Daily Record, 800 Jefferson Road, P.O. Box 217, Parsippany, N.J.

07054. Daniela Gioseffi, an American Book Award-winning author who lives In Sussex County, organized the Skylands Writers and Artists Association In an effort to help others enhance their creativity. The great writers have always told us that love is a greater reward than money. They also have told us we have a legacy to -fulfill, to touch others with our work and our 'Reading good literature teaches values in a way no Hollywood movie can. Words are the sounds of life's 'It started out to be a group Just for poets and fiction and non-fiction writers, but I know that artists and musicians also need to find others to share their art Daniela Gioseffi, Byram writer Gioseffi said.

The association operates from Gioseffi's home, which she shares with her husband, Lionel Lut-tinger, a teacher and scientist who embarked on a writing career after retiring from Drew Chemical in Boonton. Six children Between them they have six adult children and several grandchildren. Gioseffi's daughter is a computer-graphic artist in New York and Luttinger's five children are engaged in scientific and medical careers around the country. Her multi-faceted creative career has had many rewards, Gioseffi said, but her enjoyment has been tempered by the sobering knowledge that writers and their words fight a losing battle for influence in contemporary society. "Reading good literature teaches values in a way no Hollywood movie can," she said.

"Words are the sounds of life's breath. Becoming a good writer is the best way to become a better communicator, especially in an assertive but non-aggressive way. It's the best, and probably only way to persuade someone." Promote reading To ensure future generations of readers, Gioseffi and SWAA members are ardent proponents of reading and writing programs in school. One way to be a reader is to be a writer, she said. It's easy and can be done at any age but it's best when begun young.

"Keeping a daily journal is the easiest thing to do and may be one of the most important," she said. "Each life is an event that is unique in the universe. Journal keeping can help examine that life. Any time we put pen to paper it's because we want to communicate, if only to ourselves." Trail opening year's Great Pumpkin Sail was such a success not to mention a whole lotta fun it will be repeated Nov. 1.

For $2, residents can take their jack-o'-lanterns to Station Park between 6 and 8 p.m. The pumpkins will be put on a float, a candle will be put in and lit and the whole affair will be pushed off into the park's lake. A bonfire, refreshments and entertainment by "Guitar Bob" will add to the festivities. Workers will dispose of the jack-o'-, lanterns the following morning. "We did it at White Lake last year," Mohr said.

"The jacko'4anterns looked really neat floating around in the darkness but the lake is a little too big and there are some other logistics problems, so we'll use Station Park." JEFF WOOSNAM covers Sussex County for the Daily Record. He can be reached at (973) 426-9452 or by e-mail at jwooswriter.planet.net CHRIS PEDOTA Daily Record Zulauf, another Byram resident who is a CCM professor and editor of the 'Journal of New Jersey They, and everyone else I met, told me about others with similar interests. It was networking at its best," she said. The group recently put up a web page on the Internet. It can be found at www.garden.netusersswaa.

Walking in her Forest Lakes neighborhood one day, she met artist Pamela Nading. During their chat they discovered a shared interest in wild birds and decided to collaborate on a book about the wildlife found in northwest New Jersey. Published by Wild Bird Crossings in Lafayette, all 500 copies were sold. "One of the wonderful things about the association is that, because it's a non-profit organization, we can use it to help other authors, poets and artists find the printers, small publishers and other help they need to get their work out," Gioseffi said. "It becomes a project of the association." SWAA members want to share the joy they've found in words, Morris Canal of attention as the American Heart Association's "red cap ambassador" for the Sussex County AmeriHealth-American Heart Walk at Wallkill Valley Regional High School.

Kaila and her parents, Tony and Kerri, will cut the ribbon to start the walk and lead a crowd expected to number 500, including a large number of survivors of heart disease or surgery. Kaila was chosen because on June 16 she had open heart surgery to close a hole in the atrium, or upper chamber, of her heart, diagnosed when she was 7 months old. As the uncle of a strapping 15-year-old girl who had the same experience at the same age, I can reasonably assure the Yezuitas they have a rosy future. If you'd care to participate, be at the school before 8:30 a.m. It's a Viking thing.

Sparta Recreation Director Ginny Mohr said last in 1979 by Boa Editions Ltd. and was hailed by Nona Balakian, a former New York Times critic for whom a major award is named. That inspiration gave Gioseffi the courage to continue to write, inspiration that was renewed by subsequent favorable reviews in publishing trade magazines. "On Prejudice: A Global View," a multi-media anthology she compiled and edited from the works of some 600 authors, received a grant from the Ploughshares Fund: World Peace Foundation and has been translated into Japanese. "Women On War," for which she won her American Book Award, was published by Touchstone, Simon and Schuster in 1988 and was translated into German.

Her life, however, is far from the image of the renowned author living the luxurious life. "I've made more money from teaching and talking about writing than I have from writing," Gioseffi concedes somewhat ruefully. "I'm not a household name and I'll probably continue to be what publishers call a 'mid-list' author except in literary circles." But she perseveres. Mule team to The past is recreated every day at Waterloo Village in Byram but, next Saturday, a little farther down the Musconetcong River, for the first time in 74 years a team of mules will walk the towpath along the Morris Canal. It's part of the celebration of the opening of another half-mile of the Morris Canal Trail two miles of which were opened last October after a lot of hacking and slashing of decades' worth of overgrown weeds and trees.

Stanhope historian Brian Morrell, vice president of the Canal Society of New Jersey, is particularly excited because it represents another step in the efforts of a lot of people to restore as much of the canal and its related structures as possible, making the area increasingly attractive and significant as a tourist destination. Morell said the mule team will arrive from Pennsylvania around 10 a.m. and walk the towpath from 1 to 3 "The great writers have always told us that love is a greater reward than money. They also have told us we have a legacy to fulfill, to touch others with our work and our actions," she said. Association president For that reason, as much as her need to hang out with other writers, Gioseffi founded and continues to serve as president of the three-year-old Skylands Writers and Artists Association.

"It started out to be a group just for poets and fiction and non-fiction writers, but I know that artists and musicians also need to find others to share their art with," she said. "I went looking for local professionals." Finding those kindred spirits wasn't difficult. "I organized a creative workshop for the Sussex County Arts and Heritage Council. As an adjunct professor at Sussex County Community Colle'ge I met Frank Ancona, director of the humanities department and author of 'Myth A Matter of As an adjunct at County College of Morris I found Sander help celebrate JEFF WOOSNAM ONLY IN SUSSEX p.m. Members of the Canal Society as well as several Warren County groups and Allamuchy Mountain State Park rangers will be stationed along the path to explain what happened at various sites along the canal.

Everything starts at the Kinney Road entrance to the canal area, about a mile west of the Waterloo Village entrance on Waterloo Road. Next Sunday, 3-year-old Kaila Yezuita of Hamburg will be the center Sussex calendar MONDAY Andover The planning and zoning board meets at 8 p.m., Borough Hall, Main Street. Andover Twp. The planning board meets at 8 p.m., municipal building, Newton-Sparta Road. Byram Council meets at 7:30 p.m., municipal building, Mansfield Drive.

Hopatcong The board of education meets in a work session at 8 p.m., administration building, Windsor Avenue. TUESDAY Andover Andover Twp. The board of education meets at 8 p.m., Long Pond School, Limecrest Road. Andover Twp. The board of health meets at 7:30 p.m., municipal building, Newton-Sparta Road.

Hopatcong The planning board meets at 7:30 p.m., Borough Hall, River Styx Road. Stanhope The Lenape Valley Regional High School Board of Education meets at 7:30 p.m., high school, Sparta Road. Stanhope Council meets In a work session at 8 p.m., Borough Hall, Main Street. ip 5".