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 The North Ward Center's Family Success Center invited the community to take steps toward preventative health care and learn about services available to them at a health fair on Saturday, June 11 at Casa Israel Adult Medical Day Care Center.
"These events are vital because for people who don't have insurance, this is where they find out what's wrong and where prevention can take place," said Newark Community Health Centers (NCHC) Marketing and Outreach Representative Nilsa Santiago, who coordinated the fair in collaboration with the North Ward Center.
NCHC is one of six federally qualified health centers in Newark, East Orange, Orange and Irvington, and those without insurance can receive a special promotion for a free visit. Santiago noted that NCHC works on a sliding scale fee so patients are able to keep coming back.
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 More than 315 preschoolers from the North Ward Child Development Center in Newark graduated before proud parents, grandparents, siblings and friends this week as part of an annual rite of spring at The North Ward Center.
"All of our 4 year-olds are either reading or ready to read," said Child Development Center Project Director Michele Sceppaguercio. "We're sending them in ready to go on a path of success."
Parents Sally Ann Husein and Naazim Ali said their son Shafiq Ali will be attending First Avenue Elementary School in Newark for kindergarten.
"I'm very happy and very proud, I'm feeling good today," Ali said. "Shafiq had an excellent teacher; this is an excellent place and the principal has been great. Everyone here is very understanding."
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 The Piratas Little League team traveled from its hometown of Guayanilla, Puerto Rico to get a taste of Newark this past weekend through the North Ward Center's Little League Sports Exchange program, now in its 24th year.
The Piratas played the Roberto Clemente All-Stars on Friday, June 10, and the Project Pride and Newark All-Stars teams on Saturday, June 11 at the Stephen N. Adubato Sr. Recreational Complex in Branch Brook Park.
"The kids from Puerto Rico that participate in this program are the champions in their league and their prize is to travel here to Newark," said Tave Padilla, co-director of the North Ward Center's Youth Development and Recreation Program. "This program is not really about winning, it's about building friendships and being introduced to other cultures."
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 It's a scene typical of an industrial chemistry lab. Roughly 50 people dressed in white lab coats are concentrating on experimental procedures: setting up titrations, checking pH meters, analyzing spectra.
They may look like experts, but these experimenters don't have a degree in chemistry. They're eighth-grade students from Robert Treat Academy, an inner-city charter school in Newark, N.J., and they're getting real-world lab experience, thanks to Students 2 Science.
Students 2 Science is a new nonprofit corporation in East Hanover, N.J., that is providing laboratory experiences to middle school and high school students, with a particular emphasis on minority, underrepresented, inner-city, and female students. Students work alongside professional chemists who are volunteering to serve as mentors.
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