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BLOOMFIELD HILLS, MICH. (PRWEB) JULY 05, 2023 – ARCH Medical Solutions Corp. (“ARCH”) announces the acquisition of gSource LLC of Emerson, New Jersey. gSource precision manufactures an extensive line of surgical instruments and performs custom contract manufacturing for medical OEMs. Since its founding in 1999, gSource has built a reputation as a medical equipment manufacturer known for crafting superior instrumentation primarily for orthopedic and spinal surgical procedures.

With this acquisition, ARCH Medical Solutions strengthens its position as a leading, diversified supplier in the medical device contract manufacturing market. The Emerson facility will continue as gSource.

“We are excited to join forces with gSource and have the opportunity to offer this category of high-quality, German-sourced surgical instruments to our existing and new customers,” said Paul Barck, Divisional President of ARCH Medical Solutions. “gSource is a respected brand for both catalog and customized instrumentation, broadening the products and solutions we bring to the surgical instruments market. In working with the gSource team, there is clear cultural alignment between our organizations in quality and customer focus, making this partnership a win-win for our customers and the patients they serve.”

As part of the ARCH family, gSource President Gerd Billmann anticipates growth opportunities for employees and customers.

“We are certain that ARCH Medical Solutions is the right partner for gSource,” Billmann said. “The core values at ARCH are remarkably aligned with ours, and the increased capacity will allow our employees to flourish, our customers to do more, and the patients they serve to receive the highest level of care.”

John Ruggieri, Senior Vice President of Business Development at ARCH Medical Solutions, is excited to have gSource and its expert network of specialists joining ARCH Medical Solutions.

“We are thrilled to welcome the entire gSource team as they become a part of ARCH Medical Solutions,” he said. “gSource is a well-respected brand in the medical community, and the reputation of the company is a testament to its commitment and high level of customer service for more than two decades. This partnership is sure to usher in an exciting new era of accelerated growth.”

About ARCH Medical SolutionsARCH Medical Solutions, a Jordan Company platform company based in metro Detroit, precision manufactures high-quality medical components, parts, instruments, devices, and implants for a range of life-changing medical applications. ARCH Medical Solutions has multiple FDA-registered facilities across the country serving the orthopedics, surgical robotics, dental, and life sciences markets. The teams at ARCH Medical Solutions are metalworking professionals with industry-leading tight-tolerance manufacturing expertise. ARCH Medical Solutions provides innovative and practical solutions to the complex manufacturing challenges of its customers that lead to better patient outcomes. Improving lives. We have a part in that.

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Jane Havsy

Morristown Daily Record

Damien Gonzalez has grown up watching Yankees baseball, usually on a phone held inches from his nose. More often, he listens to the broadcasts.

Gonzalez, who turns 15 in June, was born with congenital glaucoma and is legally blind. As he kept warm in the family's SUV before an early season practice in Newark, the teen from Emerson considered a question about how he was able to play the game he loves.

"What does your world look like?" he replied defiantly, before explaining his view of the field is "a little blurry," with objects closer to him appearing more clear.

Damien didn't consider his low vision when he asked to try tee ball at age 6. His anxious parents, Nestor and Alice Gonzalez, got him into Emerson's youth softball program instead.

"It was a little awkward," Nestor Gonzalez recalled. "Some of the parents made comments. Even some of the umpires said, 'This is a girls' league. You know that, right?'"

Seeking a safe, more welcoming option, Nestor Gonzalez found the New Jersey Titans beep baseball team, which plays a modified version of the national pastime designed for the blind and visually impaired.

The Titans are one of the original teams in the National Beep Baseball Association, which fields 30 squads from around the world and will host its World Series this summer in Norman, Oklahoma. The Titans are a decade-old spinoff of the New Jersey Lightning, with whom they now share the Garden State.

Damien and Nestor Gonzalez have been part of the Titans program for six years, with Nestor now serving as head coach and president.

"I used to be the crutch for his disability. Now I try to be the springboard for him," Nestor Gonzalez said. Damien also wrestles, skis and rides a bike, and is going to aviation camp this summer.

"Don't let the vision thing hold you up," his father tells him.

Beep baseball: the rules

Beep baseball is similar to what major leaguers play, with a few significant differences.

Teams are comprised of at least six visually impaired players, all of whom wear blindfolds while batting or fielding, as well as sighted pitchers and catchers. Spotters in the outfield help direct defensive players toward a batted ball.

The game uses a modified softball that weighs about a pound and beeps like an alarm clock.

At the practice in March, Nestor Gonzalez stood on a field in Newark's Weequahic Park as his son waited at the plate, clad in white pants with navy pinstripes like the Bronx Bombers.

"Ready," the father shouted, alerting the Titans that he was about to throw the ball. "Pitch," he yelled, as he released the beeping white sphere toward Damien.

Damien swung and connected. His teammates, all older and from across New Jersey, dove and scrambled after the ball using their ears for guidance.

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In beep baseball, first and third base are 4-foot tall padded cylinders with speakers. They're placed 100 feet down each baseline and 10 feet outside the foul lines to prevent runners and fielders from colliding. When the ball is hit, a base is activated and emits a loud buzz, similar to the whine between frequencies on the radio dial.

The batters, who use the same equipment as traditional baseball players, must get to the base before the ball is fielded. If they're safe, a run scores.

A hit ball must travel a minimum of 40 feet. If it goes farther than 170 feet on the fly, it's a homer – worth two runs, as long as the batter reaches the buzzing base within 30 seconds.

For the legally blind, a league of their own

Nestor Gonzalez said Damien didn't score a run in his first two years playing. Samantha Mischler, a 29-year-old from Monroe, still hasn't scored after eight seasons with the Titans. But, Gonzalez added, "She's worked so hard on her swing and hitting the ball as hard as she can. This is going to be her year."

Mischler has trouble seeing details or objects that are far away, but her low vision can't be corrected due to nystagmus, which causes her eyes to move uncontrollably. She ran cross country and middle distances at Monroe High School with a guide. She loved the 400 meters and the mile, she said, but "hated the 800, because how do you pace that?"

She first saw a beep baseball demonstration at Camp Marcella, a Rockaway Township sleepaway camp for the blind, when she was 10 years old. But it took more than a decade for her to connect with the Titans.

"To find out there are sports teams for people with low vision just blew my mind," said Mischler, a classroom aide in a Sayreville preschool. "I'm the only female player, but I don't think of it that way. I am a teammate. I've been cleated and didn't even flinch. I've had beep baseballs hit me on the top of my head: 'Oh, ow, all right then, keep on playing.' I firmly believe your individual identity is important, but you're a team. You're all one."

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Family on the field

That camaraderie is what got Alfonso Harrell hooked on the Titans.

One of six siblings, three of whom were born legally blind, Harrell was hesitant to share his condition with people or to ask for help. The 29-year-old said he switched from special-education classes at a Newark public school to a school for the blind, and back again after telling his mom, "I'm not learning nothing here. I don't want to do this."

Harrell said he got an aide to take notes, and was on his way through mainstreamed classes instead of the "small box" of the specialized school.

After graduating from high school, he went to the Joseph Kohn Training Center in New Brunswick to become more independent. That's where he was introduced to goalball – another sport for the visually impaired – and then beep baseball. Harrell is the first in his family to graduate from college, earning his associate's degree at Bergen Community College and then a bachelor's in business management from Kean University.

Harrell, Lamont Bordley from Hamilton and Newark resident Marvin Morgan are among the original Titans from the 2013-14 season. The team later brought in Mischler, Damien Gonzalez, Zak Turner of Hillsdale, and even teammates from Long Island, Philadelphia, North Carolina and Iowa who drive or fly in when they can.

On Saturday, the Titans will play the Long Island Bombers on the North Meadow baseball fields in New York City's Central Park.

Future Titans games are scheduled for July 1 in Philadelphia and July 14 in Boston. The National Beep Baseball Association World Series will be held July 30 to Aug. 5 in Oklahoma. The Titans finished fifth in 2019 and 2021.

Damien Gonzalez has been the youngest player, and the only one under 15, at all five World Series he's attended.

"Being around other blind people helped me so much as far as being comfortable with being blind myself," said Harrell, a father of two young daughters who works as a recruiter for Bestwork Industries for the Blind in Cherry Hill.

"These kids growing up now are probably the only blind person [they know] in their town," he said. "Maybe someone will see the sport and know someone who is visually impaired or blind, and can point them in the right direction. Even if they don't play the sport, being around someone else like yourself is important. It all matters."

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EMERSON — Demolition of properties related to a major downtown development, called Emerson Station by developers but known locally as Block 419, could begin as early as the end of June.

Emerson Station will bring 147 apartments to Kinderkamack Road, along with nearly 15,000 square feet of retail space. As a part of the borough’s affordable-housing agreement with Fair Share Housing, 29 units will be designated as affordable, with seven of those off-site.

Emerson Redevelopers Urban Renewal, an affiliate of JMF Properties, already owns six of the nine properties needed to build the development, including the former Ranchero Cantina restaurant, the Cork & Keg liquor store, Ranch Cleaners and the Cinar Turkish restaurant. The developer is expected to close on the remaining three properties in the next two weeks, said Joseph Paparo, an attorney representing JMF Properties.

There is no timeline yet for construction, Paparo said. Licensed site remediation professional are also surveying the area and preparing reports on their findings to the state Department of Environmental Protection.

Block 419, between Lincoln Boulevard and Linwood Avenue, was designated as an area in need of redevelopment in 2004, and the Borough Council voted to continue the designation last year. Two property owners filed a lawsuit against the borough in 2017 objecting to designations given to their property, but they settled last November.

The project has been a source of contention for many residents, who have expressed worries about the changing face of their downtown and increased traffic.

The developer will relocate the businesses on the properties to a new area. Negotiations are ongoing with the tenants, Paparo said.

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In preparation for the upcoming development, the mayor and council are looking to add parking to compensate for spaces eliminated by the development, which is near the Emerson NJ Transit station.

They are considering 58 Locust Avenue, a borough-owned property behind Borough Hall, as a location for 57 commuter parking spots.

"419 is happening ... I think it's time to start talking about what we are going to do and where we are going to put the cars," Mayor Danielle DiPaola said during the Borough Council meeting on Tuesday.

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The Portscher family takes pride in their small, ranch-style home on Clinton Street, which has a carefully manicured lawn and a concrete walkway leading up to the charming, white house with black shutters.

It’s a home they would be eager to show off as they get ready to sell after living there for 12 years. But next door, a dilapidated three-story house towers over theirs. They fear the blight will ward off potential buyers.

“It’s not fair that we have to look at this every day,” Brandi Portscher said. “But it’s not that it’s just an eyesore. It’s unsafe — there are children living there and children that live in the neighborhood, too, including my own.”

Indeed, 66 Clinton St. could use some TLC. Holes in the brown roof of the house and garage are evident. Broken windows have been patched with boards or blue painting tape. Gutters hang haphazardly off the yellowing home, and the soffits appear to be rotting. Cracks in a retaining wall in front frame an unkempt lawn.

County records indicate the property still belongs to Louis Capazzi — a disgraced attorney from Harrington Park who was disbarred and went to prison for stealing more than $1 million from clients for services he never performed.

One tenant of the home answered the door for a reporter last week, but she declined to comment on the condition of the home.

The Emerson Borough Council recently decided it will place a lien on the house that neighbors say is a “nightmare.” The town will first spend up to $5,000 to have someone assess the damage and then pay to make the repairs.

It’s an action rarely taken by municipalities, said Borough Attorney Wendy Rubinstein. But in this case, ownership of the home is in limbo.

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But Capazzi’s attorney, Kevin Corriston, said that as far as his client knows, the property was foreclosed on years ago. Capazzi hasn’t been collecting rent from the three families, who have more than 10 children combined, living in the home. And the bank owns the property, he told Corriston.

Borough officials say that’s not true — at least not yet.

Two lenders — Nationstar Mortgage LLC and Federal National Mortgage Association — started to foreclose on the home in 2014 and 2016, respectively. There’s a dispute over which company takes priority to collect the proceeds from a sheriff’s sale, Mayor Lou Lamatina said.

An attorney for Nationstar Mortgage wrote in an April 11 court filing that the company is unable to proceed with the foreclosure until the title priority dispute is resolved.

Capazzi remains the owner of the home until the title is handed over to either bank, Lamatina said.

Ballpark estimates place repairs to the outside of the home at $20,000 to $30,000, officials said. But the true cost won’t be known until a full inspection is completed. Neighbors believe fixing the home properly will cost far more.

An inspection by a member of the Board of Health, the construction code official and a fire official showed that the inside of the home was well-kept, even “lovely,” said Councilman Jim Bayley, who was there for the tour.

Lamatina said whichever bank successfully forecloses on the home must repay the borough any money it spends to make repairs.

Melissa Doherty, whose backyard faces 66 Clinton, asked the administration not to “nickel-and-dime” the project.

“I don’t want to be back here in five years because you’re putting a Band-Aid on a bullet hole,” she said.

The tenants received a notice from a Mount Laurel law firm in August 2016 alerting them that a foreclosure had been filed. Officials said the families previously went to an office in Oradell to pay Capazzi. They were then told someone would come pick up the rent at the house, but that person stopped showing up.

According to the notice, tenants are to save rent money so they will have it when the owner demands it. The state “anti-eviction act” protects residential tenants’ rights to remain in the home, even after it is foreclosed, as long as they pay rent when the owner requests it, the letter said.

Borough Administrator Robert S. Hoffmann said that despite the dispute about ownership, Emerson is stepping in to bring the home up to code and bring relief to neighbors as well as the people living there.

“Our true mission is to ensure that the outside of the property is buttoned up and done so the house doesn’t continue to deteriorate,” he said.

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EMERSON — A development that will bring 147 apartments to Kinderkamack Road, along with nearly 15,000 square feet of retail space, won approval Monday over the objections of residents.

The four-story project, tentatively called Emerson Station but known locally as Block 419, did not require variances and was passed in a 6-2 vote with one abstention.

Residents who packed the municipal chamber Monday night expressed anger during public comment, with some saying they were surprised that the application was heard and voted on in one night.

Danielle DiPaola, a councilwoman who is also the mayor-elect, asked the Land Use Board before the vote whether Emerson Station is the development they really “want to see in the downtown for the next 100 years.” She expressed concern that the original design, which she said was “still too big” but had more character, was no longer being used. Instead, DiPaola said, the new design just looked like a “box.” Plans call for the buildings to rise to 50 feet.

“How does this benefit the borough of Emerson aside from satisfying our affordable-housing obligation?” she asked.

The development will provide 29 affordable units in all, with seven of those off-site.

Jeff Bischoff, a resident, had doubts about parking. He said if the developers believed every resident of the new development would leave their parking spots daily to free up spaces for shoppers and commuters, that simply "wasn't going to happen."

"You have people who are going to jump on trains, people who are going to take Ubers to work, people who are going to carpool to work," Bischoff said.

Although 254 parking spots would be required for a 147-unit building, the plan calls for 308 parking spaces, said Charles Olivo, an engineer who worked on the project. On the ground floor of the four-story parking garage, there are about 120 parking spaces that commuters and shoppers could share with residents, he said.

“Instead of building parking that would be unused during parts of the day, it can be shared with retail, restaurant and residential that’s being proposed," Olivo said.

He said the project would not create “a significant increase in traffic,” as data show 28 percent of residents use a means of transportation other than a car to commute. Olivo projected fewer than “100 trips per hour” by cars, even during peak hours.

Resident Jill McGuire said she was skeptical, and urged the Land Use Board to require a traffic study for the area, especially since a 10-unit project by another developer was approved on Linwood Avenue and Kinderkamack Road recently.

“That’s two projects that’s going to be going through at the same time,” McGuire said. “How can you move forward in good faith when no traffic study has been conducted?”

Block 419, between Lincoln Boulevard and Linwood Avenue, was designated as an area in need of redevelopment in 2004, and the Borough Council voted to continue the designation last year. That move would have allowed officials to take the properties through eminent domain, which refers to the right of a government to take private property for public benefit.

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The sites are part of the nine lots that the developer — Emerson Redevelopers Urban Renewal, an affiliate of JMF Properties — intends to develop.

The project had been held up since 2017, when two property owners, Dolores Della Volpe and 214 Kinderkamack LLC, filed separate lawsuits against the borough that objected to the “blighted” and “area in need of redevelopment” designation given to their properties. The lots included the former Ranchero Cantina restaurant, the Cork & Keg liquor store, Ranch Cleaners and the Cinar Turkish restaurant.

The two owners, however, signed memorandums of agreement in October that will allow the properties to be sold voluntarily. As part of the agreement, the two property owners will "not object to the Block 419 Project in any forum," while the borough will "not seek to acquire the property, or any portion thereof, by condemnation for any reason."