CLIFTON, N.J. – To mark the 28th year of Ukraine’s independence from Russia, the country’s blue-and-yellow national flag was raised on the lawn at City Hall in Clifton, N.J., on the evening of August 23.
Attended by long established residents of Ukrainian descent, many Fourth-Wavers as well as clergy from St. Nicholas Ukrainian Catholic Church in Passaic and the Ukrainian Orthodox Holy Ascension Cathedral in Clifton, the event also attracts many social and political leaders from Clifton as well as the northern New Jersey region.