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The Class of 2011: North & South IIS Mosque Wins Zoning
Ok On Old Trenton Road
by Cara Latham
Studholme argued was not true —
and that its presence would enfter a hearing that spanned hance the West Windsor communiseveral meeting dates, the ty. Further, they said, the mosque
West Windsor Zoning would be a less intensive use than a
Board has unanimously approved a health and fitness center for which
use variance for a mosque to be they had previously granted a use
constructed by the Institute of Is- variance for the site.
lamic Studies (IIS) on Old Trenton
Zoning Board member Susan
Road.
Abbey pointed out that even if the
The vote came around 8:45 p.m. mosque did not meet the criteria as
on June 16, during the fourth hear- an inherently beneficial use —
ing on what has perhaps become
which
she
the most controthought it had
versial matter to
— it is still benCompared with the fitbe reviewed by
eficial to West
the
Zoning
ness center previously
Windsor. “A
Board.
approved for the site,
house of worThe hearing
ship is still a
the IIS mosque ‘is less
lacked the pubpositive use of
intrusive in every single
lic presence and
property
in
intensity
that
way,’ said Board memWest
Windhad
been
sor,” she said,
ber Susan Abbey.
brought by opespecially
posing residents
when you comat prior meetings. The residents pare a mosque with a three-story
who
hired
attorney
Anne building or health club that was alStudholme to fight the mosque ready approved for the site.
have “no longer retained her ser“This is less intrusive in every
vices, so there will be no presenta- single way,” Abbey added. “There
tion,” announced Zoning Board will be fewer people going in and
Chairman John Roeder at the be- out.” The building also has less
ginning of the meeting. She had maximum impervious coverage
been expected to make a presenta- and a lower floor-area ratio than the
tion about the reasons the board fitness center. “No matter how you
should not grant the zoning vari- look at it, I think this should be apance.
proved.”
Prior to voting, Zoning Board
Other Zoning Board members
members said they believed the pointed out that there would be
mosque would serve as an “inherently beneficial use” — a point
A
Congrats, grads:
Above, from left, Molly
Johnson, Dharan
Kadiyala, and Lekha
Kanchinadam smile after graduating from
High School South.
At right, district employee Linda Dowling
presents her daughter,
Jennifer, with her
diploma as Principal
Michael Zapicchi looks
on at High School
North’s graduation.
For more graduation
coverage, see page 17.
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Friday
June 24
On Stage
Die, Mommie Die, Kelsey Theater, Mercer County Community
College, 1200 Old Trenton Road,
West Windsor, 609-570-3333.
www.kelseytheatre.net. Musical
by Charles Busch is a benefit for
the James Tolin Memorial Fund,
an organization that has raised
more than $50,000 for AIDS and
arts education charities. Silent
auction. $25. 7 p.m.
Little Shop of Horrors, OffBroadstreet Theater, 5 South
Greenwood Avenue, Hopewell,
609-466-2766.
www.off-broadstreet.com. Musical comedy about
a blood-thirsty exotic plant in a
skid row flower shop. Jim Petro of
Hamilton as Seymour and Vicky
Czarnik of Hopewell as Audrey.
Dessert included. $27.50 to
$29.50. 7 p.m.
Into the Woods, Princeton Summer Theater, Hamilton Murray
Theater, Princeton University,
877-238-5596. www.pst2011.org.
Stephen
Sondheim
musical
based on fairy tales features Little
Red Riding Hood, Jack (of the
Beanstalk fame), Cinderella, Rapunzel, a very wicked witch, and
others. Directed by Jed Q. Peterson, Princeton University, Class of
2006. $20 to $25. 7:30 p.m.
Swing!, Washington Crossing
Open Air Theater, 355 Washington Crossing-Pennington Road,
Titusville, 267-885-9857. www.dpacatoat.com. Family musical.
$15. Blankets, seat cushions, and
insect repellent are recommended. Picnics welcome before show.
Food available. 7:30 p.m.
Kitchen Talk, Lawrence Library,
Darrah Lane and Route 1,
Lawrence Township, 609-9896922. www.mcl.org. Original play
by Elizabeth Avery. Register.
Free. 8 p.m.
The Boy Friend, Princeton Festival, Matthews Acting Studio, 185
Nassau Street, Princeton, 609759-0379.
www.princetonfestival.org. Musical directed by
Diana Basmajian with choreography by Graham Lustig. $45. 8 p.m.
Family Theater
Beauty and the Beast, Washington Crossing Open Air Theater,
355 Washington Crossing-Pennington Road, Titusville, 267-8859857. www.dpacatoat.com. $5. 11
a.m.
Dancing
Community Dance, West Windsor Arts Council, 952 Alexander
Road, West Windsor, 609-9191982. www.westwindsorarts.org.
Dance instruction followed by
dance. Register. $12. 7 to 9 p.m.
Classical Music
Music Under the Stars, Opera
New Jersey, Palmer Square,
Princeton, 609-799-7700. www.operanj.org. Emerging artists program presents musical theater
classics alongside newer works.
Free. 7 p.m.
Simply Streisand: An Intimate
Evening of Song, Unitarian Universalist Church, 268 Washington Crossing-Pennington Road,
Titusville, 727-433-2930. Carla
DelVillagio on vocals and Wendy
Feaver on piano. A portion of proceeds benefits HiTOPS. Register.
$20. 7 p.m.
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Happy July 4th: ‘Patriot Eagle,’ a statue by Boehm
Porcelain, will be on view at the Independence Day
celebration at the gallery on Wednesday, June 29, 25
Princess Diana Drive, Hamilton. Photo: David Behl
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JUNE 24, 2011
Views & Opinions
To the Editor:
Don’t Short Change
Benefits of Sports
self that you didn’t play team
sports, so how can you profess to
know if they’re beneficial or not?
Booksmarts don’t always equal
common sense, and yes, there are a
rnold Sirota, you didn’t get lot of out-of-shape intellectuals
it [a letter to the editor, too.
I don’t have the disdain for com“Cut Administrators, Not
puter
geeks or bookworms that you
Athletics,” in the May 27 WW-P
have
for athletes. I played team
News]. I didn’t say that school
sports
in high school but not colsports are more important than acalege.
I
was
no Jim Thorpe or Albert
demics. Academics always come
Einstein
but
I made a good showfirst, but school
ing on the playsports are very
ing field and in
important in a
the classroom.
Schools
have
long
recwell-rounded edSpeaking
ucation and do ognized the importance
from
the experiengender good of athletics in educaence
I had in
health
and
tion,
going
back
to
the
team
sports,
I can
longevity along
attest
to
the
longtimes
of
Plato
and
Aristhe way, not to
term benefits to
mention
con- totle. The Rhodes
be derived from
tribute to build- Scholarship recognizes
particpation. If
ing
character
you don’t want
excellence
in
academics
t h r o u g h
your tax dollars
and
athletics.
perserverance,
going
toward
teamwork
and
school
sports,
sportsmanship,
that’s
fine.
Maybe
we
should
put
all of which lead to good citzenship
ALL
special
programs
on
the
a
la
and success in the workplace.
carte
menu
and
only
make
people
Schools have long recognized
the importance of athletics in edu- whose kids are in those programs
cation, going back to the times of pay, why stop at team sports?
Brian Reilly
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JUNE 24, 2011
A
recent newspaper editorial
urged Councilman Charles
Morgan to end his constant litigation against me at the expense of
West Windsor taxpayers. I have
read his response to the newspaper,
and I am compelled to respond.
Mr. Morgan initially brought
criminal charges against Councilwoman Linda Geevers and me alleging numerous violations of the
Criminal Code. He did so during
the election campaign in the spring
of 2009 in which he unsuccessfully
sought to replace me as mayor.
On October 5, 2009, the Mercer
County Prosecutor’s office issued
a letter to Mr. Morgan finding no
wrongdoing on my part or that of
Councilwoman Geevers.
I had hoped that this decision by
the prosecutor’s office would put
an end to Mr. Morgan’s reckless
claims. Instead, he actually filed a
criminal complaint against Councilwoman Geevers and me charging corruption of public resources
and official misconduct. On April
14, 2010, Presiding Municipal
Court Judge Paul Catanese rejected
this second legal attempt to attack
Councilwoman Geevers and me.
That judge found that there was not
sufficient probable cause for the
new charges to even be pursued.
At the same time that he was
pursuing this second frivolous
criminal complaint, Mr. Morgan
filed a civil lawsuit in the Superior
Court in January of 2010, demanding that the mayor himself provide
a written response to any questions
that he has made. We pointed out in
court that the business administrator, Robert Hary, had responded to
Mr. Morgan’s questions in writing
and verbally at various Council
meetings. Since I was sued personally, it was necessary to retain separate counsel, Steven Secare. On
February 22, 2011, Superior Court
Judge Douglas Hurd granted summary judgment dismissing this
third attempt to abuse judicial
process.
Again, instead of accepting the
result of these decisions, Mr. Morgan filed both an appeal to the appellate court and a fourth lawsuit
against me.
My administration has advised
the Council that it will respond to
any questions that any member of
Council may have. However, it is
an abuse of the legal process for a
member of Council to constantly
attempt to attack either me or another member of the governing
body. Mr. Morgan has been told by
the prosecutor’s office and two
judges that his legal claims have no
merit. He alone is responsible for
any legal costs that have been incurred and he alone has the ability
to withdraw his latest lawsuit and
end this costly nonsense.
Shing-Fu Hsueh
Mayor, West Windsor
Morgan v. Hsueh
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our June 10 article “Another
Law Suit, More Attorney
Fees” quotes Mayor Hsueh as saying “I just don’t think it makes any
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sense for him to go to court and file litigation. All of this can be talked about and
worked out, and I don’t understand why he’s
doing it.”
Mayor Hsueh’s statements are preposterous and simply misrepresent the truth. In
fact, Mayor Hsueh does understand why we
cannot resolve this without spending tax
dollars on litigation.
Mayor Hsueh knows that he rejected my
offer to settle the law suit. My offer was that
we could amend the West Windsor ordinance to make it clear that the mayor (any
future mayor, not just Mayor Hsueh) could
not ignore written requests, directed to the
mayor from a Council member, for the information needed to do the job of being on
Council.
The West Windsor ordinance is the same
as the New Jersey statute. It currently authorizes a single member of Council to “require
a report on any aspect of government” simply by “making a written request to the Mayor.” The amendment would require the
Mayor to respond within a reasonable period of time by means of a written report
signed by the mayor (although preparation
of the report could be delegated to staff).
Unfortunately, Mayor Hsueh would
rather spend tax dollars defending his practice of ignoring reasonable requests from
Council than resolve the lawsuit in a way
that would promote good government.
Charles C. Morgan
Murano Drive, West Windsor
In Defense of Morgan
A
fter reading Mayor Shing-Fu Hsueh’s
letter to the press dated June 16, I have
to tell the public how they are being misled
by the Mayor. Do not let him fool you by
misrepresenting the truth. He does not want
the actual truth to be told because then the
public would know he was a liar. The sad
thing is the residents of West Windsor ac-
cept the mayor’s lies and they turn against
Mr. Morgan, who just demands the truth.
Mr. Hsueh says in his letter to the press
that there were four lawsuits when in reality
there were only two. Mr. Morgan did indeed
file allegations of criminal conduct with the
Attorney General. The Attorney General refused to file a complaint so Mr. Morgan
asked a judge for a probable cause hearing
that would result in the judge directing the
Attorney General to file same. The judge declined. This means there was no complaint
filed with any court on the criminal allegations. Without a complaint being filed and
assigned a docket number, there is no lawsuit.
Everyone knows that resource constraints prevent prosecutors from going after criminals even when a crime can be
proven. The idea that no crime was found is
another fabrication. Just as Mayor Hsueh
lied when he said there were four lawsuits,
he lied when he implied he was found innocent.
In the first lawsuit, the judge ruled orally
in Mr. Morgan’s favor on two issues he presented to the Court but then the Court amazingly issued an order dismissing all of Mr.
Morgan’s claims. The chance of Mr. Morgan winning in an appeal is great and he has
the right to pursue justice.
Instead of attacking Mr. Morgan, the
Council should be demanding an investigation and issuing a report about the number of
times Mr. Hsueh or his staff has misled the
Council over the last few years. Knowing
the mayor as I do, the Council investigation
will find numerous instances where the
mayor and his staff have misled the Council.
Nicole Sanders
Manville
The writer worked on Morgan's mayoral
campaign in 2009 and later relocated to
Manville to run her family’s business. “I
have been following the happenings in West
Windsor ever since. I was tired of the Mayor
lying about his involvement and decided to
come forth to defend Charlie, since he is the
innocent victim.”
JUNE 24, 2011
THE NEWS
Suburban Mom
O
ne of the nicest things about
traveling is being able to
come home again. I have
recently returned from three of the
most gorgeous places on earth:
California, Hawaii, and Vermont.
But at the risk of sounding like a
brochure for the local Chamber of
Commerce, I have come back with
a renewed appreciation for the Garden State and especially for our
own little slice of beautiful earth
right here in Plainsboro and West
Windsor.
While all states are suffering to
balance their budgets in these
tough economic times, the Golden
State’s budget woes run longer and
deeper than most. Schools, infrastructure, government, parks, police –– all have taken a major hit. I
would still love to live in California
again some day, but not unless I
had a huge pile of money to smooth
out the edges.
Hawaii is a truly lovely place but
so far away from everything but itself. The weather is unparalleled,
and the scenery, both natural and of
the human kind, are breathtaking.
But talk about expensive. I kept
thinking I was in a foreign country
with an exchange rate and surcharge every time I made a purchase. Both Kauai and Oahu are
small enough that I think I would
get island fever after a while. And
I’m not enough of a surfer to make
it worthwhile.
Vermont is also lovely in a completely different way, but for this
Garden State girl, also too remote.
The summer weather is very
friendly, as Katie is happily discovering while there on her internship,
and the people equally so. But the
thought of winter there scares me,
and I am not enough of a skier to
make it worthwhile.
Which brings me back to the
place we have called home for the
last 14 years come August. Enough
time to arrive in town with a threeyear-old and fret about which nursery school she should attend and
then watch her and her friends
graduate from high school this
year. Enough time to run into one
of those friends last night and blink
in non-recognition. As the words
from Fiddler on the Roof’s “Sunrise, Sunset” go, when did she get
to be a beauty? When did she grow
to be so tall?
It’s also amazing to realize that
by Euna Kwon Brossman
also come August, it will be eight
years since I started writing this
column in the WW-P News. Eight
years of “living out loud,” as
columnist Anna Quindlen would
say, eight years of chronicling the
After living in the West
Windsor and Plainsboro
area for the past eight
years, what hasn’t
changed is my love for
our towns.
lives of my children and our community and growing with both. My
first column was titled “Loving it
Here,” and it carried my observations about why I was falling in
love with where we had chosen to
live — even though it was not my
beloved San Francisco.
E
ight years later, not very much
has changed and at the same
time, of course, everything has
changed. What hasn’t changed,
though, is my love for our towns.
Why? Here’s a list of my top reasons for Loving it Here. Still.
1.) It’s hard to beat San Francisco and Honolulu for proximity to
airports, with 20 minutes in each
town, but 45 minutes to Newark
and just a little bit more than that
for Philadelphia is pretty darned
good. And what other places have a
choice of two more airports - LaGuardia and Kennedy-four in all,
for flights to all parts of the globe.
2.) Easy access to New York,
Philadelphia, and the entire Northeast Corridor. The more I travel,
the more I appreciate our proximity
to these bastions of culture, good
food and good times. I recently researched what it would require to
take a train from Burlington, Vermont, to Princeton Junction.
Though the price was right ––58
dollars one way –– the 11 hours
was completely unappealing.
3.) The new Plainsboro Public
Library. As a book aficionado, I
love the open air design, the spacious feel, and the community spirit. It’s a gathering place for people
who love to read and to see and be
seen by local literati.
4.) The Plainsboro town center.
Granted there are still too many vacancies in the area to be completely
happy, but we seem to be on the
right track. And that whole Market
Street area is a food lover’s dream.
I am a regular at A & G Fine Italian
Foods, East Asian Fusion Restaurant, Positano, Sugar & Sunshine
Bakery, and It’s a Grind. The question is not how lucky can we get,
it’s how fat and happy we can be.
5.) The West Windsor Farmers
Market is a Saturday habit and getting stronger every year. The fresh
produce is delectable, the baked
goods out of this world, the meats
and cheese enticing, and the people
you meet are outgoing and interesting. It’s like a taste of Europe and a
very neighborly experience.
6.) Al’s Sunoco on PrincetonHightstown Road. Do I have to tell
you how many times over the last
14 years these folks have bailed me
out on one car issue or another?
Whether it’s their truck coming out
to rescue me through a call to AAA
or one of their friendly and knowledgeable mechanics fixing a tire,
light, or engine on one of our cars,
it’s service with a smile. Al himself
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7.) Cranbury Plainsboro Little
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Football, Lightning Lacrosse, and
all the dedicated coaches who have
given all three of my children their
expertise and time and taken the
burden off me to do the training for
which I am eminently unqualified.
8.) The West Windsor-Plainsboro News. Most newspapers seem
to be getting thinner and thinner,
but our hometown goody feels
more substantial every year, and I
am proud to be a part of it. Of
course I may have a personal bias
as a regular contributor, but to me,
it is the best source of local news
we have. The website, www.wwpinfo.com, is updated constantly
and is a timely and spot-on place to
go for the news that affects your
family and community.
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SUNDAY JUNE 26TH
RADHA CHEERATH
Appalled by Mayor
A
s new residents to West Windsor this year, my wife and I are
appalled at the disregard that Mayor Hseuh and all but one of the
Town Council members have for
the taxpayers. After I was informed
by the tax assessor last week that
my property taxes would increase
by 4.8 percent despite the putative
2.5 percent cap being in effect, I
was upset enough to call all Council members to voice my pique over
this (the Board of Education in true
supercilious fashion does not provide a method of contact to citizens
via E-mail or phone).
To his credit the Mayor did call
back, but when I asked why the
teachers in West Windsor still do
not have to contribute any of their
salary towards their health care insurance coverage, he incredibly
stated that they did despite the fact
that I have read in several reputable
sources (including your newspaper) that they did not, thanks to the
Board of Education incredibly
agreeing to continue this unbeliev-
ably taxpayer unfriendly policy.
I, along with virtually everyone
else in private industry, contribute
exponentially more than the 1.5%
mandated going forward by the
state, but this largesse was slipped
in prior to the new law going in to
effect. Either the mayor was woefully uninformed in this matter or
was deliberately trying to mislead
me. In either case this is not the
type of stewardship that serves the
taxpayers of this town well.
The only one I spoke to on the
Council who actually understood
how bizarre it is to have nearly a 5
percent increase in property taxes
given the astronomically high levels already is Councilman Charles
Morgan. Instead of berating this
hard-working public servant, he
should be commended as the lone
voice of fiscal sanity in township
government, who has alone tried to
represent the taxpayers interests.
From my focused analysis the other ones are all out to lunch as far as
taxpayers’ interests are concerned.
Paul Milazzo
Monroe Drive, Princeton Junction
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he following letter was directed to the WW-P Board of Education.
PURSUANT TO MY PUBLIC comments during the Tuesday, June 14,
WW-P Board of Education meeting, I seek to reiterate my interest
in, and your written response to,
four recurring matters.
Since there is no formal — or informal — protocol for responding
to public comments, e-mails, or
snail mail sent to the WWP Board,
I am asking the media to solicit responses to these public questions.
(1). Modeled after WW-P’s new
ad hoc committee for district facilities in the Board’s interest and
quest in boosting user fees, I ask
you to convene a similar ad hoc
committee for the WW-P wages
and benefits negotiations.
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spire during the upcoming school
fiscal year beginning in July. Taxpayers have seen the results of the
Board’s secret contract negotiations with special labor counsel
covering the previous three-year
period: 4.9 percent, 4.8 percent, 4.7
percent, and upcoming 3.38 percent commencing July 1, 2011,
through June 20, 2012.
(2). I have previously requested
the executive summaries of duties
performed by all senior administrative staff — to wit: the WW-P superintendent and district assistant
superintendents. Since it is the taxpayers who are the ultimate revenue source for this staff, it is appropriate for the WW-P Board to
ensure our district’s senior executives share what has been accomplished during the previous school
year(s) and the roadmap for goals
and objectives for the upcoming
year(s).
The Board will recall that I requested this information PRIOR to
the approval of contracts for our
district superintendent and the numerous assistant superintendents.
The information has neither been
forthcoming nor is there an explanation why this public information
. . . is not in the public domain.
(3). The WW-P Administration
and Board of Education sought to
transfer $1.75 million into a “reserve” account as a rainy day fund
last night, yet following the defeated school budget vote in April, it
could find only $503,000 in budget
reductions. It is unclear the status
of the Board’s additional funds set
aside for PIACS. Please explain.
(4). The Board continues to re-
Online Report
A
letter in the June 10 issue
from Anthony Fleres, a
member to the WW-P Board of
Education, generated 14 comments online at www.wwpinfo.com. In the letter Fleres defended the school board budgeting process from attacks made
by resident Quentin Walsh.
Walsh was one of the first to
respond online: “Dear Mr.
Fleres. Thank you for addressing
my comments. I stand by my financial techniques. Every budget that I have ever been involved with compares both budget to actual as well as budget to
budget.
“I note that in your letter to the
April 15th WW-P News, you
claimed that the actual expenses
ran 3 to 5 percent below budget.
I am glad that you are now using
more accurate numbers. It appears that it is the practice of the
school board to overstate their
budget needs by 4 to 6 percent
each and every year, just in case
something unexpected happens.
“I also note that the $503,000
in cuts that were made to the rejected 2011-2012 budget only
represent a small portion of the
contingencies that were already
provided in the budget.”
The school board, which has
ject: (A). testing of grade 9-12 student community service and (B).
testing the videotaping or live
broadcast of monthly Board of Education meetings via community
access channels. In fact, the administration has steadfastly refused to
put the discussion on the agenda to
taken plenty of hits from the online crowd, this time got some
support. Several posts attacked
Walsh’s analysis and questioned
his motives. “Mr. Walsh, you
obviously have lot of time on
your hands to monitor these
boards. Can you please take
some time and explain to parents
why you have to resort to made
up numbers to make your point?
Since your kids are out of
school, you owe an explanation
to parents why you lied about increase in per student expense in
your last letter.
“What do you have against
the school district that you are
out to destroy our excellent
school district?”
Meanwhile, a story about
West Windsor’s community
swimming pool complex, WaterWorks, drew online fire from
residents concerned that the pool
is another burden on the taxpayers. And one post managed to
equate the pool to another summer tradition: Referring to the
presumed cost of the pool, the
online viewer wrote: “Probably
should’ve thought about that a
few years ago when West Windsor was literally burning tens of
thousands of taxpayer dollars so
West Windsor could have its
very own fireworks show. How
many of you saw that?”
publicly address their objections.
Why are these requests so unreasonable when so few of our young
residents and students understand
how our schools and townships operate?
Pete Weale
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North Senior Cited
For Darfur Support
A
ly (Alycia) Gideon, a senior at High School North,
received the inaugural
Holocaust Genocide Awareness
Award from Kidsbridge and Mercer County Holocaust Genocide
Commission. Actively involved in
STAND (Students Taking Action
Now: Darfur) since she was a
freshman, Gideon served as the
club’s secretary as a sophomore
and president for both her junior
and senior years. The group has
raised more than $10,000 for Darfur Peace and Development.
The most notable event that she
organized to raise awareness was
Dine for Darfur with invited guests
Jerry Ehrlich, a doctor from Doctors Without Borders, and Paul
Winkler, executive director of the
State Commission on Holocaust
Education.
Gideon has received recognition
for her efforts since eighth grade,
when she set up stands in front of
area businesses to distribute flyers
and collect donations. She raised
close to $2,000 the first summer.
She has held 45-minute presentations on the genocide in Darfur at
both the West Windsor and Plainsboro libraries, as well as in classrooms in the district.
Gideon has partnered with
Eileen Chubik-Kiws, a teacher at
Community Middle School, so that
STAND could hand out informational materials at school dances.
She has also paraded the streets of
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Alycia Gideon, North
Class of 2011, won the
inaugural Holocaust
Genocide Awareness
Award for her involvement in STAND (Students Taking Action
Now: Darfur).
Princeton with flyers to collect donations.
Also a member of North’s Kidsfor-Kids organization, Gideon tutors underprivileged children in
Trenton. She also teaches English
to immigrants at an area church.
Editor-in-chief for the school’s
newspaper and president of Model
Congress, she is also a peer leader
for the school and mentors younger
students and mediates student disputes. “Alycia has managed to
skillfully balance her participation
in a multitude of extracurricular activities while keeping her academics a priority and holding a parttime job,” says Melissa DeMurth,
her guidance counselor. “She is a
wonderful young lady who is very
deserving of the accolade.”
Gideon, who actually has two
part-time jobs, works at the Bent
Spoon in Princeton and in child
care at Can Do Fitness Center in
Forrestal Village.
Gideon and her family have
lived in West Windsor for 15 years.
Her parents are Diane, a housewife, and Richard, a consultant
with his own business. “They have
always been completely encouraging and supportive of my various
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involvements in volunteering and
the community,” says Alycia.
“While I always wanted to travel
and go abroad to volunteer, my
mom always told me that you don’t
have to leave your home to do good
in the world and make a difference,
and I have really valued that lesson.
That encouraged me to get involved where I could, in my school
and in WW-P, to bring even just a
small change to the student body.”
That is all changing now.
Gideon has deferred enrollment at
Barnard College to take a gap year
and travel to India, where she will
be doing an internship with American Field Service, a non-profit,
high school exchange program. “I
will be living with a family there
and be commuting to AFS’s office
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For families with children in
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Neighborhood sports and
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kids can join programs and assimilate into new social circles
in their new neighborhoods
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Even if your household
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because of the higher number
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number of properties to choose
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of REALTORS® (NAR), the average homebuyer in 2010
viewed 15 properties over the
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According to Lawrence Yun,
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to rise 5 to 10 percent this year
with the economic recovery,
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in Delhi on a daily basis,” she says.
“I spent last summer in India living
with the same family and taking
classes at Amity International
School on an National Security
Language Initiative for Youth
scholarship, and I loved it so much
that I just had to go back!”
Scholarships
Comcast Foundation has awarded a $1,000 scholarship to Shayla
Reid, a senior at High School
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Alexandra Waters of West
Windsor received a scholarship
from New Jersey Association of
Realtors Education Foundation.
The award was presented at the
Pines Manor in Edison.
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Alexander Chan of West
Windsor received an employee
scholarship from Wegmans Food
Markets. A graduate of High
School North, he has worked at
Wegmans in Nassau Park for three
years.
South Ninth Grader
Aids Crisis Group
F
our students from High School
South collected $800 as well as
shampoos, soaps, lotions, toothbrushes, and toothpastes from their
neighbors and fellow students to
help with the Crisis Ministry’s
Trenton store.
Alexis Etheridge, a ninth grade
student, founded the outreach
group, Just Think. Members include Anais D’Ottavio, Tahliah
D’Ottavio, and Aarcha Sager. “I
always wanted to help those who
aren’t as fortunate as me,” said
Etheridge. “My parents have always told me that we are truly
blessed and with all that we have,
we should give back to others.”
“Most people do not know that
basic hygiene items, as essential as
they are, are not eligible for purchase through the food stamp program,” says Mark Smith, the director of the organization’s food
Anais D’Ottavio, left, Tahliah D’Ottavio, and Alexis
Etheridge present $800 and receive recognition certificates from Alicia Morrison of the Crisis Ministry.
services program. “We appreciate
donated personal care products because it is difficult for our clients,
many of whom work for very low
wages, to afford to pay for them.”
The group members received
Crisis Ministry’s Cream of the
Crop certificates for their efforts.
For information about the Crisis
Ministry visit thecrisisministry.org
or call 609-396-9355.
New Eagle Scout
D
an States, a graduating senior
at High School North, was
awarded the rank of Eagle Scout
during Troop 759’s court of honor
on June 3 at Queenship of Mary
Church in Plainsboro. His project
focused on creating a new garden
and outdoor classroom at Wicoff
School in Plainsboro.
Since joining Troop 759 in 2004
States has served as the troop’s senior patrol leader, assistant senior
patrol leader, chaplain’s aide, and
scribe. He completed his Order of
the Arrow and has represented the
troop at National Youth Leadership Training. After graduation, he
will be attending Firefighter I training, before heading off to Ithaca
College in August to study cinema
and photography.
He is the son of Mary Alden,
and the late Edward States, who
was captain of American Airlines
Flight 587, a plane that crashed
shortly after takeoff from John F.
Kennedy International Airport on
November 12, 2001. His older
brother, Brad, received his Eagle
Award in 2009.
“My Dad was very involved in
my early scouting career,” he said,
“and that is what kept me going for
this long,” says Dan. “Scouting has
taught me all about leadership.”
Troop 759, chartered through
Queenship of Mary Church in
Plainsboro, meets most Fridays at
7:30 p.m. Visit www.troop759nj.org for information on membership.
Military Academies
Congressman Rush Holt announced the names of the students
from the 12th Congressional District who will attend U.S. military
service academies. “These students have demonstrated extraordinary leadership, intelligence, commitment to public service, and
strength of character,” says Holt in
a press release. “It is an honor to
recognize these accomplished
young New Jerseyans and I know
they will serve America with distinction as academy students and
military officers.”
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Theodore C. Snieckus of Plainsboro is entering the Class of 2015.
He was home schooled.
U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis: David E. Calves of West
Windsor and Timothy J. Howarth
II of Plainsboro enter the Class of
2015. Calves is a graduate of High
School South and the U.S. Naval
Academy Preparatory School.
Howarth is a graduate of High
School North and the U.S. Naval
Academy Preparatory School.
Graduates of the military academies are commissioned as officers
in the U.S. military.
Rahul Arora, left, Marco Kaisth, Vijay Kraishnan,
Eric Mischell, and Rishab Tanga of Grover Middle
School won awards for their year-long research projects at a recent exposition as part of the national
ROGATE program for gifted and talented students.
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program is through the PRISM
(Performance Revealing Individual Students’ Magic) Program.
At a recent ROGATE Exposition, Grover Middle School students were honored for their yearlong research projects:
Silver Awards: Marco Kaisth
was recognized for his project focusing on how China is on the fast
track to surpass America in educational and economic status but cannot beat America’s standard for social welfare. Eric Mischell was
recognized for his project focusing
on the thermodynamic properties
of white holes that render them incompatible with our universe.
Bronze Awards:Vijay Krishnan was recognized for his project
about how the portrayal of people
with Asperger’s Syndrome both
negatively and positively influences public opinion about these
individuals. Rahul Arora’s project centered on the statements of
the military personnel of Roswell
Air Force Base, when an alien craft
was thought to have crashed in the
Roswell desert in early July, 1947.
Rishab Tanga’s project focuses
on precautions following any head
injury including that athletes
should go through in-depth testing
before they can return to a game or
to a sport.
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tween 1940 and the present, have
been built using other countries’
ideas.” Debbie Cohen is the
PRISM teacher at Grover.
In College
University of Connecticut:
Alexi Manfred Wiemer of West
Windsor is on the dean’s list.
College of William and Mary:
Students on the dean’s list include
West Windsor residents Connor
Farrell, Andrew Ojeda, and
Kelsey Rothera.
Faith
Jeffrey Gillette of West Windsor was confirmed as a member of
Princeton
United
Methodist
Church on June 5.
Births
The University Medical Center
at Princeton has announced the following births:
A son was born to West Windsor
resident Neelam and Sumit Khanna, June 10.
A daughter was born to Nancy
Chen and Yao Zhu, June 10.
Deaths
Romualda Dubaniewicz, 91,
of Plainsboro died June 7 at the
Pavilions at Forrestal, Plainsboro.
Born in Wilno, Poland, she came to
the U.S. in 1955, and was a longtime Trenton resident. She retired
in 1981 after 20 years of service
from Circle F. Industries of Trenton.
Harry T. Schaeffer Jr., 59, of
West Windsor died June 7. For information contact Hartmann
Memorial Home, 2830 Nottingham Way, Trenton.
Survivors include her son and
daughter-in-law, Vincent A. Sr.
and Toni Dubaniewicz of Bordentown Township; her daughter, Anna S. Dubaniewicz of Short Hills;
two grandchildren, Vincent A.
Dubaniewicz Jr. of Bordentown
Township, and Karli A. Dubaniewicz of Melbourne, Australia;
and her sister, Jadwiga Stachowicz
of Dohilov, Belarus. The family requests Mass cards in her memory.
Cornelia B. Coopwood, 88, of
Plainsboro died at University Medical Center at Princeton on June 12.
Born in Philadelphia, she moved to
Plainsboro in 2003 to be closer to
her family. She was a Sunday
School teacher at Princeton United
Methodist Church.
Survivors include her daughter
and son-in-law, Diane and Francis
Wolf; and her three grandchildren,
Andrew, Stephen, and Emily Wolf.
Donations may be made to Princeton United Methodist Church, 7
Vandeventer Avenue, Princeton
08542, or Fox Chase Cancer Center, Office of Institutional Advancement, 333 Cottman Avenue,
Philadelphia, PA 19111.
Robert “Bob” J. Michalski,
85, of Erie, died June 9. Survivors
include a daughter and son-in-law,
Judy A. and Mark Ferra of Plainsboro. Donations may be made to
the Barber National Institute, 1126
Lake Street, Erie, PA 16417.
Betty Diehl Wellnitz, 77, of
Plainsboro died June 15 in Cranbury. Born in Morristown, she was
raised in Hackettstown, where she
was valedictorian of her high
school class of 1951. She received
a bachelor of science in education
from Trenton State Teachers College in 1957.
A longtime resident, she was a
member of Plainsboro Presbyterian Church for more than 50 years.
She also sang in the choir, taught
Sunday school, and was an elder.
Survivors include her husband
Rudolph B. Wellnitz; her daughters and son-in-law, Constance
Jean Wellnitz, and Emily Ann and
David Petrillo; her son and daughter-in-law, Rudolph Charles and
Kathryn Wellnitz; and their children, Marilyn, Katelyn, and
Daniel.
a destroyer for six years. Charydczak retired after 30 years of service working in the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory.
Survivors include his wife of 50
years, Carol Buckler; four sons and
daughters-in-law, Glen, Mark and
Holly, Gary and Marge, Neal and
Jennifer; and seven grandchildren,
Bryce, Jenna, Tanner, Delaney,
Cole, Paige, and Sydney.
A Mass of Christian burial will
be held on Saturday, July 2, 11 a.m.
to 12:30 p.m., at the Church of St.
Katharine Drexel, Egg Harbor
Township. Donations may be made
to a favorite charity.
Cornelia B. Coopwood
A memorial service will be held
at a future date and time to be announced. Donations may be made
to the First Presbyterian Church of
Plainsboro, 500 Plainsboro Road,
Plainsboro 08536.
June Lowman Arons, 90, died
June 16 at Monroe Village Care
Center in Monroe. Survivors include her son and daughter-in-law,
Richard M. Arons and Elizabeth
Dickerman of West Windsor; and
grandchildren Dana Arons Lewisohn and Whitney Arons. Donations may be made to any charity.
Roman Charydczak, 85, a
longtime resident of West Windsor
died June 16 at the Linwood Care
Facility in Linwood. Born in Jersey
City, he was in the Navy during
World War II, and received the
American Area Campaign Medal,
World War II Victory Medal, Asiatic Pacific Area Campaign Medal,
European African Middle Eastern
Area Campaign Medal (1 star), and
Navy Occupation Service Medal.
He enlisted again in 1946 and
served as a fire controlman aboard
Addison Gressey Driver Jr.
died June 17 at University Medical
Center at Princeton. Survivors include a sister-in-law, Frances
Evans of Plainsboro.
Kenneth E. Hoffman, 51, of
Plainsboro died June 19 at his
home. Born in New Brunswick, he
moved to Plainsboro five years
ago.
He graduated from Middlesex
County Police Academy in 1979
and served 25 years as a police officer with the North Brunswick Police Department before retiring in
2004. He was also a life member of
the North Brunswick Fire Company #3. He was employed with the
Middlesex County Transportation
Department.
Survivors include his daughters,
Danielle and Maria Hoffman of
Toms River; his brother and sisterin-law, Brian and Debra of Princeton; and nephews, Eric and
Matthew Hoffman. Funeral services will be Friday, June 24, 8:30
a.m. from Selover Funeral Home,
555 Georges Road, North
Brunswick. A graveside service
will follow at Beth Israel Cemetery
in Woodbridge at 10 a.m.
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traffic impacts, but the more intense traffic would only come a few
times a year on high holidays, and
most of it would occur at off-peak
hours. “There is a small window of
time that might be somewhat difficult, but when you think about a
health club that was already approved,” the conditions would
have been much worse at more
hours and days of the week, said
board member Ed Steele. “In my
opinion, we should approve this.”
Gary Guleria, another Zoning
Board member, echoed the sentiment, saying that traffic would increase, “but it’s only for specific
times, and we can live with it.”
Zoning Board members did suggest, however, that the IIS review
its plans to include a basketball
court on the site when it comes
back for site plan approval before
the mosque can be constructed.
The court was added to IIS’s plans
during an earlier meeting in June,
and surrounding residents remained concerned that the basketball court would create excessive
noise and decrease their quality of
life.
IIS plans to develop 7.17 acres
of currently vacant land at 2030
Old Trenton Road into a house of
worship. The plans required a use
variance because the property is
currently located in the RO-1 zone,
which permits research and office
uses.
According to the plans, IIS
would construct a facility that includes a house of worship, multipurpose hall, offices, kitchen, adult
social area including a kitchen and
housing for its spiritual leader, and
a health care facility at the site.
The use variance was approved
with a list of conditions, including
a cap on the maximum occupancy
at any time to 483 people — a condition IIS officials presented themselves during an earlier meeting.
Responding to some residents’
comments that placing a mosque
on the property takes away from
the money that could have been
generated in taxes if a commercial
building were to be developed on
the site, Steele pointed out that the
board’s attorney has stated that the
board cannot consider tax impacts
when deciding whether to approve
a use variance.
At the same time, “we have lots
of property in this town that does
‘To the skeptics, we will
try our best to be worthy neighbors,’ said Zak
Maniya, an IIS board
member and 15-year
West Windsor resident.
not produce tax income,” said
Steele, pointing to other houses of
worship as well as Mercer County
Park. “I don’t think this particular
piece of property will bankrupt this
town.”
Prior to board deliberations on
the application, supporters and opponents pleaded their case with the
board. Leigh Isleib, an East Windsor resident, told the board he and
his wife co-chair social justice
events with St. Anthony’s Church
in Hightstown and invited the IIS
members to be a part of the dialogue. The group has continued to
meet to “continue building bridges
of understanding.”
“Muslims are a good asset to the
communities and should be able to
worship in a mosque,” he said.
“The people we have met have
been most cordial.”
Zak Maniya, of West Windsor,
said he has been living in West
Windsor for 15 years and is a board
member of IIS. He said he was
“confident that the members of this
board will do what’s best for the
community.”
“To the skeptics, we will try our
best to be worthy neighbors,” he
said, adding that the definition of a
neighbor is one who “smiles at you
over the back fence but does not
climb over.”
Added Maniya: “We will let our
neighbors climb over that fence
and join us every once in a while.”
Hina Ahmed, another West
Windsor resident, and a 1999 graduate of High School South, said she
remained in West Windsor because
of the community’s tolerance,
which are in line with the ideals at
IIS. Since its inception 15 years
ago, she has learned at IIS, taught
there, and now she sends her children there.
But “we’ve made very little
progress for ourselves and for our
center,” she said. “Fifteen years
ago, I sat on the floor and learned
from my teachers. Now my kids sit
on the floor and learn from their
teachers.”
Constructing their own mosque
is something “we’ve been thinking
about for a long time, and we just
want it to materialize,” Ahmed
added.
Sabbir Rangwala, a West Windsor resident, said the site for the
mosque on Old Trenton Road was
zoned for light industrial use.
“When residents moved in, they
had to be ready for those uses,” he
said. “I fail to see how a mosque
could be a heavier use.”
Referencing comments resi-
dents made about activities that
would create noise in the area,
Rangwala said that churches have
bells and hold weddings. And
“they do cause parking problems
during high holidays,” he said.
“But somehow the bar for this
mosque has been raised much
higher.”
Opponents argued, however,
that their concerns were not based
on a religious argument.
“I wouldn’t want a synagogue or
church next to me either,” said resident Norman Shapiro. “I think
there are other spots this place can
be built.”
He said his biggest problem with
the application was the traffic it
would generate. He said he lived in
South Brunswick for 38 years before moving to West Windsor and
that many times, the traffic on
Route 1 would be heavy during
high holidays. “Old Trenton Road
is not Route 1,” he said.
Eugene Sersen said he regrets
that it is a mosque that is being discussed but said he would be concerned about any house of worship
adding a basketball court at the last
minute, which could generate noise
above township regulations. “The
whistle of the referee and the excitement of the audience can have
different levels of annoyance,” he
said.
Zoning Board Attorney Ed
Schmierer said Sersen’s comment
“certainly is a comment that should
be raised again if the applicant receives use variance and moves to
the site plan” approval process.
“We will hear activity from a
crowded mosque, especially in the
winter, from cars warming up,”
said resident Roslyn Friedman,
who lives in Village Grande. She
said that there are many accidents
just up the road from the site on Old
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Trenton Road, with the intersection
of Route 571. Old Trenton Road is
the most direct route to Mercer
County Community College, she
added. “Don’t make our lovely
area into a Manhattan 42nd Street
because that’s what it’s going to
turn into,” she said.
Other residents said IIS could
find another location and that the
township could generate valuable
tax revenue if it leaves the site
zoned for commercial use.
Schmierer explained to the
board the process for determining
whether a use meets the criteria for
being “inherently beneficial.” In
that explanation, he also noted that
the board approved similar use
variances for Congregation Beth
Chaim and the Princeton Presbyterian Church located within the
township. “In every instance, the
church was an inherently beneficial use.”
While the Municipal Land Use
Law does not specify houses of
worship as inherently beneficial
uses, “houses of worship under the
case law have and are going to be
deemed an inherently beneficial
use,” said Schmierer.
In approving the application, the
board imposed a number of conditions to which IIS had previously
agreed, including that there be a
maximum of 483 people at any
time in the building; that they adhere to Department of Health regulations when running the medical
clinics; that there be no day care on
site other than allowing someone to
watch children during religious
services and education; and that IIS
officials “self-police” the traffic
during high holidays.
Schmierer said there had been
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case law that prevents the board
from imposing a requirement that
the mosque hire police officers to
direct traffic. “But they can remember cops are available,” he
added. In addition, Schmierer recommended the site plans be very
similar to the concept plans shown
during the use variance hearing.
Steele urged IIS to rethink the
basketball court before coming
back for site plan approval. That
process will send the mosque before the Site Plan Review Advisory
Board and then before the Zoning
Board again.
Zoning Board member Curtis
Hoberman asked whether the
board could include a condition
that limits the basement to storage
use only, but Schmierer said that
issue is part of the site plan process.
Shawki Salem, who was the
subject of a letter by residents accusing him of being biased, said he
has lived in West Windsor for 21
years since coming from Egypt. “I
care about West Windsor,” he said.
He said he did not feel the mosque
would have a negative impact on
the community, and he urged IIS
members to reach out to its neighbors.
In approving the use variance,
Zoning Board member Meg Chicco said the board is “conservative
in that we are not going to do anything that is going to harm West
Windsor.”
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s the litigation filed by Councilman Charles Morgan
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$7,500 more in legal fees to defend
the mayor.
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agreeing on June 20 to send a copy
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T
he construction company
working on the Alexander
Road S-curve project has completed its deep utility work during the first two weeks of the current detour.
According to West Windsor
officials, Lucas Construction
Group will now begin work on
full road bed reconstruction and
regrading through the S-curve.
The full closure will remain in
effect through Wednesday, June
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Penn Lyle Road
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he township has begun the
first phase of resurfacing
work on Penn Lyle Road. Crews
began the work on June 14, and
officials are anticipating the
work will take 12 weeks, weather permitting.
sions to the township code by
Councilwoman Linda Geevers and
Morgan — in hopes that these revisions will settle the lawsuit and
prevent accumulation of future
fees.
The issue came to a head after
the June 13 meeting erupted into a
shouting match when Township
Attorney Michael Herbert attempted to prevent Councilman Charles
Morgan from talking about his
lawsuit during the portion of the
meeting where council members
are allowed to comment.
Morgan, who has filed his second lawsuit against Hsueh, insisted
that it was within his right to defend himself after members of the
public criticized him during public
comment earlier in the meeting.
During the shouting match,
Morgan said his lawsuit was not
politically motivated — he revealed that he is planning to move
to Florida in December at the end
of his term and will not seek reelection.
Morgan has filed an appeal and
a second lawsuit alleging the mayor failed to provide a report as requested by him during budget deliberations in 2010. Morgan
claimed that the mayor failed to
provide the information the councilman was entitled to under the
township’s Faulkner Act form of
government.
Mercer County Judge Douglas
H. Hurd dismissed the lawsuit on
February 18 in a less-than-twopage ruling.
Morgan subsequently filed two
new motions with the court — one
to reconsider and another to amend
his original complaint, as well as a
14-page brief. His motion was denied on April 1.
Morgan submitted an appeal to
the Appellate Division at the end of
April seeking reversal. He has also
filed another lawsuit with respect
to a different request he says has
been ignored by the administration. Morgan had offered in the
past to come to a settlement agreement if language to clarify the section of the township code about
council reports that is the subject of
the lawsuit, but it was not accepted
by the mayor and his attorney.
At the subsequent council meeting on June 20, Geevers proposed
her own changes to the ordinance.
“I feel that whether members of the
public support Mr. Morgan’s position, or whether they support the
mayor’s position, we are at a log
jam to move forward,” said Geevers.
Her changes would require the
The resurfacing, from Village
Road West to Stony Brook Way,
is being performed by Arawak
Paving Group. Crews will first
work on concrete repair and installation work for the curbing
and sidewalk and then shift to
pavement repair and resurfacing
work.
The project will provide two
6-foot wide bike lanes and two
12-foot wide travel lanes, as well
as a public sidewalk along the
east side of the road in this area,
officials said.
While the work is being done,
partial lane closures are expected
to occur from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. “It
is expected that motorists will
experience delays during this
time, as well as experience an
uneven road surface while the
work is in progress,” stated a
township notice.
Residents with questions can
call the township’s engineering
division at 609-799-9396.
administration to provide a written
report, either in hard copy or Email, within 10 days (or longer, if
both parties mutually agree on a
date), and it would be acceptable
for the mayor or business administrator to ask another department
head to submit the information requested. The township clerk’s office would receive a copy of the report so that it is part of the public
record.
If the language was acceptable
to Morgan, and council was willing
to go along with it, she would ask
Morgan to put a stay on the litigation, “so we’re not spending more
money on attorney’s fees.”
Morgan said coming up with the
appropriate wording is a tough task
because under township code, the
council can only deal with the
township’s employees through the
mayor or administration. He said
he would want the report to come
from the mayor or administrator so
that council members can recall
exactly what those reports stated.
“If we are going to get into a dispute about anything, it ought to be
about the actions we’re going to
take as a result of the reports, not
what it says,” Morgan said.
He said it was also difficult to
determine a period of time for response from the mayor or administration. “I think the administration
has a legitimate concern about resources” that would need to be allocated to come up with the reports, including time used by employees to find the information. At
one point, he said he contemplated
including a 30-day time period, but
questioned whether the time frame
was appropriate. “Let’s be reasonable about timing.”
Councilwoman Diane Ciccone
asked whether the request had to be
submitted through E-mail or in
writing, or whether it could apply
to information requested during a
public meeting, but the council determined that was already expected.
Ciccone recommended that the
draft changes be forwarded to the
League of Municipalities, where
its attorneys can review it and issue
an opinion.
Council President Kamal Khanna said he did not think the ordinance required any change. “I have
always gotten what I wanted,” said
Khanna about information requests from the administration.
Ultimately, however, the council voted 4-0, with George Borek
absent, to send drafts from both
Geevers and Morgan to the League
of Municipalities for review.
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The council then struggled
about what to do in the meantime
when it came to the mayor’s attorney fees. “Under township ordinance, the mayor is entitled to be
represented by an attorney,” said
Geevers.
Business Administrator Robert
Hary reported at the June 13 meeting, when the additional money
was originally up for approval, that
to date, council has authorized
$15,628 in attorneys fees, but the
township is now about $3,100 in
the hole with that budget, and the
money spent is already about
$19,000. The additional $10,000
proposed ($7,500 was approved)
includes that $3,100 already spent
but not authorized.
Ciccone questioned the amount
spent to defend the first lawsuit,
which was ultimately determined
to be the first $15,000. She said that
given it is a similar lawsuit to the
first one, it should be reasonable to
expect that it will cost nearly the
same amount.
However, Hary pointed out that
the costs for discovery and other
background information will probably not be needed this time
around, so it may cost less. In addition, he said, Hsueh’s lawyer,
Steven Secare of the Secare, Ryan,
& Hensel law firm in Toms River,
has estimated it will cost about
$4,000 to continue defending this
round of lawsuits, in addition to the
$3,100 already spent. Hary also
clarified that while Secare asked
for permission to file a counter
lawsuit against Morgan for filing
“frivolous lawsuits,” the administration asked him not to pursue that
“so as not to incur further legal
fees.”
Geevers asked Morgan whether
he would ask for a stay on the current lawsuit while the League of
Municipalities reviews the drafted
changes to the ordinance, but Morgan said he had already contacted
Hsueh’s lawyer to ask whether
they could jointly submit an application to the judge for a stay while
the matter is pending, but has not
heard a response.
However, Ciccone said that a
judge is the only person who can issue a stay, although both parties
can ask for one.
To limit costs, the council ultimately approved spending $7,500
of the $10,000 proposed to be
spent.
Residents were much more vocal and divided on the issue during
the June 13 meeting, when Morgan
and Herbert engaged in a shouting
match. The shouting match was
prompted by the crowd’s comments, where residents either
urged Morgan to drop the lawsuit
or supported him.
Resident Lindsay Diehl presented another version of her petition,
which she started in March, to the
council, this time with 135 signatures calling for Morgan to drop the
lawsuit. She said she stood outside
of the library to collect signatures,
and it was easy to find support.
“They were eager to sign it,” she
said. “They practically grabbed it
out of my hands.” She also said that
if the petition were circulated
around the township, there would
be an even stronger response.
Resident Andy Bromberg criticized Morgan for costing the taxpayers money in difficult financial
times. “I strongly urge the council
tonight to start taking sanctions
against this action,” he said.
“You’re not gaining any support,” Bromberg added. “Please,
can you stop this?”
Resident Janet Lerner also said
she supported sanctions against
Morgan because Morgan’s lawsuits had already been dismissed
Liquor Licenses
T
he Township Council has renewed liquor licenses for a
number of retail establishments
in town, as required every year.
During the June 13 meeting,
the council renewed licenses for
McCaffrey’s Wine & Spirits,
Wegmans, Trader Joe’s, the
Bog, Chili’s, TGI Fridays, the
Palmer Inn Restaurant, the Hyatt
Regency, Big Fish, P.F.
Chang’s, and Amerisuites Properties.
In addition, the council also
authorized the clerk’s office to
accept bids so that the township
can sell a new liquor license — at
a minimum bid of $1 million.
This means that the township
twice and had no merit. “Why do
we need to go through this a third
time?”
Resident Ina Marx echoed this
sentiment, saying, “Once is
enough; twice maybe, but three to
four times? It seems to be a little
obsessive.”
Jim Moeller, another resident,
said that Morgan was at an advantage because he is a lawyer by trade
and does not need to hire an attorney. Therefore, he said, it does not
cost him any money. The best way
Hsueh’s attorney asked
permission to file a
counter lawsuit against
Morgan, but he was
told not to pursue it to
avoid further legal fees.
to prevent him from continuing to
file lawsuits is to file a counter lawsuit, when it will start costing him
money, he said.
Morgan later disputed this
claim, saying it costs him money
out of pocket, including costs associated with copying and filing paperwork and other expenses.
Not everyone at the meeting was
critical of Morgan. Resident Marshall Lerner (no relation to Janet)
questioned why the mayor could
not simply respond to information
requests. “Why wouldn’t he want
to be forthcoming?”
He questioned why “of all the
other priorities occupying the
town’s energies, there is so much
time being devoted to this issue.”
Lerner also criticized the mayor,
saying that he may not understand
American culture, but in America,
“we believe the little guy has a
right to fight City Hall,” and when
someone does that, it is “something
to be respected, not criticized.”
He suggested that there could be
three solutions — first, that the
mayor provide the information that
was requested. “After all, he works
for us,” he said. Second, the mayor
could choose not to provide the information, but hire a less expensive
attorney. If the mayor chooses to
move forward without providing
the information, “let it also be his
expense” to continue defending
himself.
Virginia Manzari also supported Morgan. She criticized Council
President Kamal Khanna for his
comments to a newspaper in which
he said the council had no choice
but to continue spending money to
defend the mayor. She said the
council can vote against spending
more money and ask the mayor to
turn over the information.
“The mayor can actually provide the information without being
asked twice,” she said. Commenting about the chance that the mayor
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will be soliciting bids from interested establishments that will
have to pay the township a minimum of $1 million.
Township Attorney Michael
Herbert reported at the meeting
that there were sales in other
communities in the area that
were in the $1 million range. He
said he has been contacted by
lawyers for at least two establishments interested in competitively bidding for a new license.
Establishments have the ability
to submit bids that are higher
than $1 million.
Members of the Township
Council and other officials have
not yet decided what the township would do with the $1 million in revenue if bids were received.
will file a counter lawsuit against
Morgan, she said Khanna should
instead launch an investigation into why the mayor would not provide the information. She said she
suspected it was because he was
hiding something or was “playing
games” and was “trying to keep
Mr. Morgan from doing his job.”
Rebecca Esmi said the Faulkner
Act was created under the belief
that accountability and transparency were valued. She said the council serves as the legislative branch,
while the mayor serves as the executive branch to encourage that
transparency. Therefore, information should be shared, she said.
“What do you do when it’s not?”
she said. “You don’t sanction the
tools that the legislature has given”
to fight the problem, she said.
Resident Rita Shaha said she
was very disturbed by the lawsuits,
but said she felt both Morgan and
Hsueh should address the issue between themselves. “Please don’t
use taxpayer money,” she said. “It
doesn’t matter who is wrong or
right. Taxpayers lose out.”
She said West Windsor taxpayers “have to ask, ‘Is this the best
way of resolving any issues we
have?’ I don’t think it is.”
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8th Graders Tackle World’s Big Problems
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hen Community Middle
School eighth grader
Kathryn Khaw was conducting research for her group’s
Grade 8 Exist Assessment project,
she was stunned to find a key statistic about Peru’s drinking water —
it contained dangerously high levels of lead in some places.
Khaw’s group worked tirelessly
for a week to research solutions to
the problem. The solution they recommended was to run a system
similar to the NEWater system that
is used in Singapore. The system,
administered by Singapore’s Public Utilities Board, treats purified
wastewater through a microfiltration and reverse osmosis process
using ultraviolet light to transform
it into drinking water.
“I didn’t expect that Peru’s water would be so bad,” Khaw, a
Plainsboro resident, said. “It’s really interesting to see how far
we’ve come.”
The group’s work paid off, as it
was deemed one of the winners of
the project after presenting its findings, research, and solutions to a
panel of judges consisting of residents, school board members, and
other community members. Not
only did the group members have
to understand the United Nation’s
Millennium Development Goals
(MDGs) and apply what they have
learned in school to researching
and solving the problem, but they
had to present their case effectively
to the judges.
“It allowed us to really apply the
knowledge we gained as eighth
graders, and we showed that we
have matured,” Khaw said of the
experience, as she and a small
group of other winners gathered in
Community Middle School’s foyer
during their last day as middle
school students.
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In response to all of the comments, the mayor told residents he
is always available. “Any one of
you living in this community, if
you try to set up an appointment,
you never get rejected,” he said. “If
you want to talk to me, I’m available.”
In response to Lerner’s remarks,
Hsueh said he views himself as an
American. “Don’t make that kind
of racial remark,” he said.
Morgan said that none of the
people who have criticized him
have bothered to call him about the
issue. “My term on council ends in
December,” he said. “I am not running for council again. I will be
changing my residence to Florida
after my term is up.”
He said he is spending his own
time to protect residents’ interests
and has spent his own money pursuing the litigation. “A member of
council should not have to file a
lawsuit to get what the law already
clearly says he’s got a right to receive.”
Morgan also referred to a resolution passed last year by the council authorizing a transit village designation after the resolution was
added at the last minute and approved quickly so that the township could obtain grant money.
Morgan has since criticized the
mayor and administration, alleging
there was no urgent deadline for
the grant. “The mayor knew that
there would be a big uproar about a
transit village designation if word
got out ahead of time,” he said.
The projects the students completed are used to measure whether
students are able to solve realworld problems using what they
have learned at WW-P. Prior to
moving on to high school, all 860
eighth graders in the district put
themselves in the shoes of officials
from around the world to find solutions within various countries that
would meet the United Nations’
Millennium Development Goals
(MDGs) for 2015 (see the WW-P
News, June 10).
The goals, established by the
UN, include: End Poverty and
Hunger, Universal Education,
Gender Equality, Child Health,
Maternal
Health,
Combat
HIV/AIDS, Environmental Sustainability, and more.
The program required students
to research the MDGs and then apply their knowledge as country delegations charged with defining the
country’s root problems, identify-
‘It allowed us to really
apply the knowledge
we gained as eighth
graders, and we showed
that we have matured,’
said Kathryn Khaw.
ing challenges and barriers to
growth, and then designing an action plan with criteria-based solutions to enable their nation to meet
the time-sensitive development
targets.
The country teams then presented to a group of community volunteers who acted as United Nations
officials to evaluate the students
based on a set of standards for effective communication and practical problem solving.
The top teams were awarded a
fictitious $50 million development
Council To Review
Sign Ordinance
W
est Windsor is taking another look at an issue that has
been generating controversy for
years — its policy on signs.
Changes are being proposed for
two types of signs: business signs
and political signs. First, the council is looking to make it easier for
business owners to place temporary signs directly adjacent to their
businesses — located in strip
malls, for example — to attract
more visitors to their storefronts.
Currently, those signs are not permitted.
A draft of revisions to the sign
ordinance is expected to be reviewed on Monday, June 27.
Under the proposed changes,
the business owners would be able
to place one sign outside of their
businesses during operating hours
and would be required to take the
sign inside at all other times.
Some council members argued
that allowing the signs would not
be a detriment to the appearance of
the township because the signs
would not be allowed to remain
outside overnight or during other
hours when the businesses are
closed.
Some businesses around town
already use those signs without
permission from the township.
The second area of revisions
will be to the regulations governing political signs. The council already came to a consensus on those
regulations last year, when they
agreed they would only permit po-
package. In addition to winning the
development aid, the top-scoring
teams will make their presentation
to an authentic audience relating to
their cause through Skype.
The coordinator of the program,
Mark Wise, the district’s K-12 curriculum supervisor, hopes that the
students will head off to high
school with a sense that they can
manage their time effectively and
build upon their experiences.
One concept about the program
that students especially liked was
the freedom they had to take the
lessons they learned and transform
it into solving a real-world problem — all on their own.
Community Middle student Julian Chan, also of Plainsboro, who
worked on the Peru project with
Khaw, explained that the students
studied the MDGs but then were
given one full week before the presentations on June 10 to work on
solving a real problem. They spent
four hours a day from first through
seventh periods conducting their
own research, putting their presentations together, and putting the
finishing touches on their work.
Chan said the goal of the assessment project — that students will
become “self-directed learners and
communicators” — really came
through in the end. What he liked
the most, though, was “the opportunity to do this and make a change
and help others.”
“We had to make sure we knew
what the project was,” he said
about the process. “We had to create a brief action plan and be aware
of what the challenges were” in implementing the solution.
For Community Middle School
students Shweta Chopra, Jake
Fine, Andrew Hitselberger, and
Alisha Daley, all of West Windsor,
another group of winners, the solution to tackling poverty and hunger
in Indonesia also involved re-
litical signs 30 days before and 7
days after an election and that they
would be limited to 16 square feet
in size.
Council also decided to permit
only one political sign per candidate at the entrance of a public park
or property as well as on medians
in the public right-of-way, so long
as the signs never obstruct public
view.
However, council never voted
to officially amend the sign ordinance to reflect these changes to
political sign regulations. So along
with the new changes for business
owners, the political sign changes
will also be reviewed on June 27.
The issue about hardships facing business owners in town has
resurfaced periodically, despite
council’s adoption of changes to
the sign ordinance in March, 2009,
to cut down on the appearance of
the commercial real estate lease
signs seen up and down Alexander
Road’s commercial sector.
Following the changes, the
council formed an ad-hoc committee in 2010 to work with those
business owners to help address
their concerns with a lack of visibility within the township.
Councilwoman Linda Geevers
disagreed with the proposed
changes, saying that she thought
even the open house realty signs
around town that are temporary are
unacceptable and that allowing
more temporary signs would lead
to more problems.
But Ciccone argued that
“there’s got to be a balance somewhere.”
Geevers urged the council to
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searching solutions that had
worked elsewhere. The group
found a solution for their problem
in the NERICA initiative (an
acronym for New Rice for Africa),
which cultivates a new blend of
African and Asian rices as a food
source in disadvantaged areas of
the world.
Daley explained that the students found that providing the opportunity for growing the rice locally in Indonesia would create
jobs and help increase food supply.
“We realized that what we were
doing was actually real,” said Daley about the project. “It will help
us in the future.”
Community Middle School student Lindsay Patla of Plainsboro
worked on a winning group project
that examined reversing the spread
of HIV, tuberculosis, and malaria
in Kenya. She said her group determined that the UNICEF (United
Nations Children’s Funds) pro-
send a draft of the changes to the
Planning Board for review, but she
was outnumbered by her council
colleagues, who said they wanted
to ensure the changes to the ordinance — including to political
signs — were made before the
campaign season for the November elections.
Cleanup Progress
At Compost Station
T
he West Windsor Parking Authority has contracted with
ACT Engineering to conduct the
third phase of remediation study on
the former compost site on Alexander Road, where both the township
and the parking authority hope to
create more train station parking.
According to West Windsor
Business Administrator Robert
Hary, the Parking Authority is paying the costs for the study, in compliance with an agreement the
township and Parking Authority
approved in January.
Under the terms of the agreement, the Parking Authority was to
provide the up-front costs of
around $200,000 to move along
with the process, which is expected
to ultimately provide up to 500
parking spaces for West Windsor
residents on the Alexander Road
site, which borders the Princeton
Junction train station.
The township would reimburse
the Parking Authority through
money it receives from the state.
“We’re hopeful we will get up to
100 percent of that money back to
the Parking Authority,” Hary re-
Trent Jewelers
Winners: In the back, from left to right, are Lindsay
Patla, of Plainsboro (who worked on the Kenya project); Andrew Hitselberger, Jake Fine, Alisha Daley,
and Shweta Chopra, all of West Windsor (who
worked on the Indonesia project). In front are
Kathryn Khaw and Julian Chan, both of Plainsboro
(who worked on the Peru project).
gram already in place in the country would be helpful, “but a lot of
people can’t get to it,” and a more
widespread effort is needed.
Additionally, supplying more
mosquito nets could also help in
curtailing the spread of the diseases. “It’s only $5 a day for a mosquito net,” said Patla. “That’s
lunch money to us. To them, it can
save lives.”
Coming to these realizations
was another benefit of the Grade 8
Exit Assessment Project. But students recalled time management as
one of the most valuable lessons.
“The need to stay on task is the
biggest thing,” said Patla. When it
came to “crunch time,” students also needed to make adjustments for
last-minute problems. “There was
always something that didn’t go as
planned,” said Patla. “We all really
wanted to perform well.”
Students were grouped by their
teachers, who matched students
who had studied varying millennium goals. This meant students
were placed with others with
whom they’ve never worked in the
past. “We got to make new
friends,” said Khaw.
ported to the Township Council at
the June 13 meeting. Hary said the
Parking Authority is also studying
costs associated with operating a
parking lot at the site. He said the
township would consider proposing a joint venture with the Parking
Authority for operation of the lot.
In addition to providing more
parking, Hary said the venture
could provide a revenue source for
the township.
The township had previously
been awarded two brownfield
grants under the Hazardous Discharge Site Remediation Fund
(HDSRF) from the DEP to fund the
first two phases of investigation into the remediation of the township
compost site.
The money for the third phase
would cover more detailed testing
of the site to develop a remedial action work plan. When the agreement was approved in January,
Hary said that if the third phase
went well, the council would be
asked to formalize the shared service agreement to have the Parking
Authority lease and manage the facility.
West Windsor officials began
remediation investigations in
2008, when Windsor Compost,
which had operated the facility until December, 2008, moved operations to Cranbury and Hamilton.
Site remediation comes in four
phases — preliminary assessment,
site investigation, remediation investigation, and remediation action, the last of which involves the
actual cleanup of the contamination. State funding covers 100 percent of the first three phases.
Another Rabies
Case Found in WW
A
second rabies case has been
reported in West Windsor in
as many months. Officials reported
that a fox found in the Braemer
Drive area of the township on June
10 has tested positive for the rabies
virus.
According to an advisory notice
from the township, the ill fox was
found in the rear yard of a residence in an “immobile condition.”
“Recent rabies incident reports
include an additional fox and
skunk in nearby areas,” the notice
stated. “The public is strongly encouraged to ensure pet vaccinations are up to date and children are
reminded about the importance of
avoiding contact with wild animals.”
In May officials found a fox in
the Wellington Estates development that also tested positive for
rabies.
Animals with rabies can be aggressive, vicious, or may appear to
be “drunk” and have difficulty
walking. In some rare cases, an animal with rabies can appear to be
normal.
Residents are asked to call the
police department at 609-7991222 if they notice wildlife acting
strangely, or if they see nocturnal
animals, such as raccoons or opossums, wandering during daylight
hours. For additional information,
call the West Windsor Health Department at 609-936-8400.
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Little League PostSeason Begins:
WW Baseball 12s
C
oming off a District 12 championship last season that saw
West Windsor fall one game short
of reaching the sectional tournament final, the team boasts its
pitching ability this post-season,
which opens at noon on Sunday,
June 26, at home, against Chambersburg.
Behind Manager Ted Phelan,
the team feature power hitter Josh
Miller, who will also contribute as
a pitcher and first baseman.
The team will also feature Ben
O’Brien at short stop and pitcher;
Matt Phelan at first base, outfield,
and pitcher; Christopher St. Amour
and Danny Demouth, both in the
outfield and at pitcher; Simon
Brooks at first base and pitcher;
Ben Perrine, the team’s catcher and
outfielder; Fred Maresca, in the
outfield and at pitcher; Alex
Mitchell, at third base and pitcher;
David Philbin, who can be an infielder, outfielder, or pitcher; and
Blake Brown in the outfield and at
catcher.
WW Softball 12s
T
he West Windsor Softball 12s
bring depth to the post-season,
which opened on June 22 against
New Egypt.
Managed by Nick Schiera, the
team will feature Alyssa Schiera,
the starting pitcher, Catherine
Raeter, another pitcher, Samantha
Schattin, the starting short stop,
Natalie Everett at third base, and
Gillian Adair at first base.
Catcher Courtney Skolka and
outfielders Nicole Dunne, Sophia
Dileo, Jackie Markisz, Kaley
Bohling, and Emily Bloom complete the roster.
The format for the post-season
is different from last year’s pool
play says Schiera. “This year, it’s
double-elimination,” he said.
“Once you lose two games, you’re
done.” The team was rained out in
its opener open against New Egypt
on June 22, but the game was
resecheduled for Thursday, June
23, after the News’ deadline
“I’m hoping to get to the championship game,” said Schiera.
“That’s my expectation. We’ve
been practicing hard.”
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12 All-Stars
L
ast year, C-P went 2-3 in pool
play, but the team is looking to
leadership from pitcher Steven
Schilder and center fielder Will
Brossman to help the team improve
this year.
Under manager Tim Lockwood,
the team will feature Jordan
Blassingame, in right field; Jeremy
Lockwood at first base; Nate Epstein in the outfield and at first
base; Eric Weis at third base and
pitcher; Isaihah Miranda at short
stop; Michael Tom at second base
and pitcher; Scott Doherty as pitcher and catcher; William Kinney in
the outfield; Nathan Santa Maria at
third base; and Michael Marciano
in the infield and as catcher.
C-P will open on Sunday, June
26, at noon against Bordentown at
Sunnybrae.
American Legion
WW-P (9-2): A win against Trenton, 6-5, on June 21. Aurora: 1-2-1-0;
Litwack: 3-3-2-1; Demouth: 4-1-2-2;
Weisbecker: 4-0-2-1; O’Leary: 1-0-01; Campbell: 3-0-2-0; Peters: 3-0-10. 2B: Demouth: 2; Litwack. 3B: Aurora. SB: Weisbecker, Aurora, Demouth.
A win against Ewing, 4-3, on June
20. Tom Peters drove in two runs.
Pay Boyle had an RBI. Chris Campbell had a double.
A win against Robbinsville, 8-7,
on June 19. Aurora: 3-3-2-0; Litwack:
5-2-3-3; Demouth: 2-0-2-1; Weisbecker: 3-0-0-2; Jensen: 4-1-1-1;
Dontas: 4-0-1-1; Boyle: 4-2-2-0. 2B:
Aurora, Jensen, Dontas. SF: Weisbecker. SB: Boyle: 2. Litwack had
two runs and three RBIs.
A win against Lawrence, 11-8, on
June 16. 2B: Ralph Aurora, Chris
Campbell, Scott Feryus. 3B: Brendan O’Leary. RBI: Aurora, Casey
The Nieschmidt Law Office Cardinals defeated the Princeton Corridor Rotary
Yankees, 12-3, to win the 2011 West Windsor Little League Majors Championship
on June 13 at the RJ Ward Complex in West Windsor. The Cardinals were managed
by Ron Forrest. Assistant coaches were TJ Esposito, Dave Philbin, Mike Strype,
and Larry Forrest. Pictured from left to right are Neal Singal, David Feinberg,
Juan Flores, Ryan Strype, Joshua Forrest, Nick Esposito, Mack Palmer, James
Morrissey, Sahil Thube, Chris Munch, David Philbin, and Simon Brooks.
Litwack, Ryan Demouth, Greg Weisbecker, Joe Jensen, O’Leary, Campbell, Feryus.
A win against Bordentown, 3-2,
on June 14. Weisbecker: 2-1-0-0;
Jensen: 3-1-2-0; Liang: 2-0-0-1;
Boyle: 1-1-0. SF: O’Leary, Liang. SB:
Demouth, O’Leary, Dontas: 2. CS:
Boyle.
A loss to Hopewell, 9-8, on June
13. Litwack: 2-2-1-1; Demouth: 2-11-1; Weisbecker: 3-1-1-1; O’Leary:
3-2-1-0; Liang: 4-0-2-1; Boyle: 3-0-22; Dontas: 4-0-1-1. 2B: O’Leary, Demouth. 3B: Litwack. SF: Demouth,
Weisbecker, Boyle. SB: Demouth,
Weisbecker, Boyle.
A win against Hamilton, 5-3, on
June 9. Litwack: 3-2-2-0; Demouth:
3-1-1-0; Weisbecker: 2-1-1-2;
O’Leary: 3-1-2-2; Campbell: 3-0-1-1.
2B: Litwack: 2; Weisbecker. SF:
Weisbecker. SB: O’Leary.
Boys’ Track
North: Joe Rosa anchored
North’s boys distance medley relay
team — Jim Rosa, Chris Banks, Pat
O’Connell, and Joe Rosa — to a
school-record finish on June 18, with
a time of 9:54.78, in North Carolina
at the outdoor national track and field
championships. North placed second in the race. At the event, Greg
Caldwell won the boys 110-meter
hurdles with a time of 14.20. Veeh
Bhalla placed 17th in the boys mile in
4:36.44 and 22nd in the 800 meters,
with a time of 1:56.03.
Joe Rosa finished second in the
two-mile championship race at the
New Balance Nationals on June 17
with a time of 8:54.46, while his
brother, Jim, finished in third, with a
time of 8:57.56.
Joe Rosa finished 8th in the Boys
Dream Mile at Icahn Stadium on
Randalls Island in the Adidas Grand
Prix Meet on June 11, with a time of
4:07.66. Jim Rosa finished 13th, in a
time of 4:11.11.
Jim and Joe Rosa were in the
lead in the 3,200 during the NJSIAA
Meet of Champions on June 9, but a
thunderstorm forced the cancellation
of the event about three quarters into
the race. The Rosas went 2:10 for
the first 800, 4:23.9 for the first
1,600; and were at 7:32 in the eighth
lap, when the event was called. They
chose not to re-run the race on June
13. Greg Caldwell placed third in the
110 high hurdles, with a time of 14.3.
South: Dan Riff finished 11th,
with a time of 9:41.46, in the 3,200 at
the Meet of Champions on June 13.
Girls’ Track
North: Patrycja Dziekonska
placed third in the girls hurdles in
14.62 seconds at the in North Carolina at the outdoor national track and
field championships. North’s 4x100
shuttle hurdles team — Marilyn
Allen, Christina LiPuma, Lauren
Schwartzman and Dziekonska —
placed 7th in the girls 4x100 shuttle
hurdles.
South: Caroline Kellner placed
second in the 3,200, with a time of
10:41.78, at the Meet of Champions
on June 13, the date the meet resumed after thunderstorms stopped
the meet on June 9.
Sports Briefs
Princeton Junction resident Margo Lee will be representing New Jersey in aquatics on Team USA in
Greece for the 2011 World Summer
Games.
Special Olympics Team USA,
comprising 315 athletes as well as
125 coaches, will unite from June 25
through July 4 with 7,000 athletes
from nearly 180 nations to compete
in these World Games. The eight
delegates from across New Jersey
will join 315 athletes from every state
and the District of Columbia and 125
coaches and managers uniting to
comprise Special Olympics Team
USA.
West Windsor resident Michael
Zhao, 12, played in the final week of
the French Open, where he won his
first tennis match against an opponent from Mexico. He fell in the second round. He earned the trip after
winning the Longines Future Tennis
Aces Tournament in April.
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The Graduating Class of 2011
High School North
High School North, Class of 2011,
held comencement ceremonies at
Sun Bank Center on Saturday, June
18. Among those graduating were:
palla; Vincent J. DiCindio II; Nicholas
Ryan DiOrio; Douglas Doherty;
Michael K. Doney; Grace R. Dong;
Krishna Doppalapudi; Christie
Allyson Dougherty; Jennifer Dowling; Ryan Michael Drury; Walter
Dunston; Kevin Patrick Dwyer.
A
E
Shreya Agarwal; Isha Aggarwal;
Sneha Ahuja; Mukunda V. Alladi;
Katherine Ruth Amigo; Rachel
Anseaume; Caitlin Antaya; Madelin
Antaya; Raj Ardeshna; Varnika Atmakuri; Dylan T. Averack.
B
Katelyn Baker; Neelesh Balaji;
Jake Barz; Antonio Basukoski;
Nicole Baumohl; Rachel Baumohl;
Neil Bedi; Diana Marie Befi; RocheŠ
Bell; Taras Bengizu; Sachin R.
Bhide; Joanna A. Bi; Heather L. Bilardo; David S Bizenov; Jillian Victoria Bonafede; Julie Ann Bradley;
Conor Brown; Whitney A. Brown;
Nicole Buchwald; Arielle Courtney
Budoff; Stephanie Linda Burns; Kylia
Byrd.
C
Kevin T. Callahan; Elias Can;
Jenna Breanne Carlen; Kristen Carpio; Sandra Cevallos; Judy Chai;
Frances Chan; Sophia K. Chan;
Sonali Chanchani; Renzo
Changanaqu¡; Connor B. Chapman;
Philip F. Charles III; Peter Chen;
Paul Christian A. Chenet; Sowmya
Chepur; Will Joseph Chetrick; Thribhuvan Chevva; Simran K. Chhabra;
Peter D. Chi; Wynn Chin; Megan
Chismar; Kwansik Choo; Kaylyn
Christian; Rebeka M. Cirkus;
Nicholas Edward Clements; Nikole
W. Cook; Mark Cooley; James E.
Cortell; Nicole M. Costa; Keia
Coulthard; James Courtney Jr.; Britt
James Curry.
D
Avanti Dabholkar; Casey Robert
Dalrymple; Philip Davidar; Ryan Demouth; Kishan Desai; Alexander Anil
DeSimine; Sarah Jessica Devery;
Neal DeVincenzo; Siddharth Dhuli-
Nuha Eazazuddin; Irene
Ekladous; Ashley Lynn Evers.
F
Fola Fadairo; Jonathan Falzon;
Christopher Fania; Emily Caitlin
Fink; Mark Fleres.
G
Nithin V. Gadiraju; Lavanya
Ganesh; Rachana Hari P. Gangavarapu; Vikram Ganti; Mark
Gedrich; Alycia M. Gideon; Kelly
Anne Girandola; Katherine Lynn Girgenti; Martin Gitomer; Becca Goldberg; Pamela Lauren Goldberg;
LaBria Golden.
H
Above: Kevin Callahan, left, Kylia Byrd, Steph Burns, Arielle Bundoff, and Nicole Buchwald of High School
North. Below: Julianne Lee, left, Andrew Lee, Meena Lee, and Jessica Lee of High School South.
Samuel Henry Goldfinger; Robert
M. Goldhirsch; Aaina Gopalkrishnan; Haripriya Gopireddy; Sujitha
Gorle; Sailusha Gosala; Giancarlo
Grijalva; Allison Haase; Olivia M.
Haase; Jessica Haba; Matthew S.
Hackett; Ethan P. Harel; Cecile
Haynes; Marcus J. Henderson;
Thomas R. Hoge; Jung-Mao Hsieh;
Olivia Yu He Hu; Brian Andrew Hui;
Michael Joseph Hui; Timothy HoNung Hui; Lauren Elizabeth Hurlburt.
I
Joanne Im; Susan Im; Christina
M. Isnardi; Rosetta N. Isnardi.
J
Taylor Nicole Jaeger; Vivek Jaishankar; Sayeli Jayade; Joseph
Charles Jensen II; Shreya Jha;
Brandon Russell Johnson; Sabrina
Helena Jugo.
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Mihaly Imre Kadar; Shiphrah S.
Kamble; Lee Karavelis; Alexis M.
Keresztes; Osman Khan; Saniyah
Khan; Saniya Khullar; Mariae Kim;
Karys Chandler Kirby; Thomas E.
Klimek; Samuel J. Korsen; Laura C.
Kosar; Devika Krishnamoorthy;
Sitara Pradeep Kumar; Anna Lise
Kunkel-Jure; Zachary Max Kurfirst;
Wilson T. Kwok; Wen-Ling Kyon.
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Juwan J. Lee; Bryan G. Lentine;
Michael Edward Lewis; Hei Jun Li;
Jessica Spero Li; Larry J. Li; Aaron
Blaine Lickliter; Andrew Boyd Lin;
Mark Lin; Katherine LiPuma; Benjamin K. Liu; Yun Liu; Lauren Nicole
Louie; Albert Lu; Lillian Lu.
M
Ingrid Ma; Diane Elizabeth Maa;
Raman Quinn Maingi; Sanjana
Manikandan; Kevin Mann; Kevin
Mansfield; Jason Marcus; Andrew R.
Matelwich; Kelvin Mateo; Anthony J.
Matturro; Diana Cristina Mayorga;
Christine Jude McCarthy; Matthew
Joseph McCormick; Saumya K.
Mehta; Jonathan Meiner; Jeffrey
Melzer; Penninah Menezes; Meghna
Menon; Bharath Methuku; Jessie
Miller; Gabrielle S. Minott; Molly Mitlak; Saurabh Mitra; Nicole Anne
Monteiro; Sovann Nicholas Mouth;
Robin Mukherjee; James B. Mulhall;
Stephanie Marie Murkli; Khulan
Myagmardorj.
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Lauren Elizabeth Nacht; AshokBabu Nallanukala; Samyuktha
Natarajan; Kaitlyn Elizabeth Nelson;
Andrew Newman; Adam D. Niemann; Katherine Nixon; Kevin Alex
Nowak.
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Patrick L. O’Connell; Sean O’Connell; Mamdouh Omar; Helen M. Orita; Isai Orozco; Andrew F. Orsini;
Christian Brandon Ortiz; Camila Andrea Osorio.
P
Holden Palacios; Spencer Ryne
Palombit; Victoria Nicole Parisi; Selena U. Park; Stefanie Parrott; Aneesha Patel; Molly Patel; Rishi J. Patel;
Shivang Patel; Nihal Pathuri; Lisa N.
Patti; Patricia M. Pehnke; Leah
Heather Pepper; Matthew A. Persico; John Winston Anthony Peters;
Preeti V. Phanse; Sean Pitcherello;
Anelyse Louise Porreca; Anushka
Prabhu; Hope M. Preville; Khushbu
Purohit.
Q
Hasees Qazi.
R
Neha Rachumallu; Madhuri
Raghunath; Aneesha Raghunathan;
Arjun Rai; Vani Ramanathan; Divyasri Ramireddygari; Michael
Ramos; Jason Alexander Rand;
James Francis Reda; Renuka K.
Reddy; Namratha Reganti; Shayla
Nicole Reid; Alexandra Reis; Claude
E. Richardson; Hannah Richman;
Brian Rivas; James Rosa; Joseph
Rosa; Matthew Robert Rossano;
Sarah Rupani.
S
Wendy Kate Sachs; Utkarsh Saddi; Ajay Kumar Sajja; Radhika Saksena; Adriana Salerno; Evan Samet;
Prashanth Sankaran; Ankita Sankla;
Miguel A. Santiago III; Joseph
Schilling; Amanda Paige Schnurr;
Brian Schon; Robert D. Schultz II;
Daniel Evan Schwartz; Deepak Sela;
Nitin Sethi; Shivani Sethi; Anum R.
Shah; Harshal K. Shah; Mariam Syeda Shah; Meera Shah; Shehryar Irshad Ali Shah; Sonia Shah; Yasmine
Shah; Ryan L. Shanaberger; Arman
Shanjani; Kevin She; Parth Shorey;
Claire Hannah Shriver; Caroline
Sievers; Daria Silas; Jenna
Simanovsky; Nitya Sivakumar; Joel
Slayton; James Charles Slonaker;
Rachel E. Snyder; Arpan Somani;
Ralph Aaron Spetalnick; Aparaajit
Sriram; Andrew David Stark; Daniel
States; Zachary Stein; Daniel Evan
Steinberg; Emily Robin Straley; Dylan S. Strober; Daniel Su; Runali
Sukhadia; Rachel Sun; Siddhi Sundar; Aravind Sundararajan; Anthony
Szewczyk.
T
Eiichi Takeuchi; Shaili H. Tanna;
Michael Tantillo; Mehul Tanwar; Nis-
hant Thelakkat; Justin Thieke; Codi
Thompson; Giselle Gopilan Torralba; Melissa Beth Traub; Kristin
Troianello; Joanna Tsuo; Sydney D.
Turchin; Daniel S. Tvizer.
U
Nomin Ujiyediin; Saima S. Usmani.
V
Mark VanZevenbergen; Rohan
Varty; Cassandra Andrea Vasiliu;
Tamy Vasquez; Neethi Vasudevan;
Rithwik Vedati; Joseph Zachary Victor.
W
Arisa Wada; Connie Wang;
Hengjia Wang; Jianhan Wang; Joyce
Victoria Wang; Katherine Wang;
Katherine S. Warshauer; Gregory P.
Weisbecker; Brielle D. Weiss;
Joshua Weitz; Evan L. Weston;
Isaac Whelan; William D. Whipple;
Marc R. Wiener; Richard Wong;
Charlotte Wonnell; Brittany Lee
Wright.
Kelly Girandola, left Jenna Carlen, Olivia Haase, Megan Chismar, Sydney Turchin, Dan States, Vincent
DiCindio, Alex DeSimine, Tom Hoge, and Kevin Nowak
X
Melissa Xu.
Y
Ananya Yalamanchi; Christine T.
Yan; Krishna Yarabarla; Daphne Ye;
Xiaotong (Joe) Yi; William Wan Ying;
Sho Yoshitake.
Z
Mary Josephine Zeoli; Zilin Zhou;
Lilly (Yutong) Zhu; Yiren Zhu;
Michael Tian Chang Zhuang;
Christopher Zupancic
High School South
High School South, Class of 2011,
held comencement ceremonies at
Sun Bank Center on Saturday, June
18. Among those graduating were:
The Northern Knights
High School North held its graduation for 374
members of the Class of 2011 on Saturday,
June 18, at Sun National Bank Center.
Pictured above are Selena Park, left, Isai
Orozco, Holden Palacios, Mr. Carl Romero,
Andrew Orsini, Victoria Pansi, Spencer
Palombit, Meg Orita, Stef Parrott, and
Aneesha Patel. Pictured at left are
Joanne Im and Shirang Patel.
Photos by Mark Czajkowski
A
Mezmour Admassu Abebe; Etienne Ngandu Aduya; Sameer Aggarwal; Renz Julian Aguilar; Courtney
Joyce Agyeman; Syed Mohammed
Ahmed; Jun Sung Ahn; Teresa
George Akkara; Julia Akselrud; Laith
Al-Najjar; Omar Al-Turk; Omeed
Alerasool; Dahlia Amad‚; Armaan
Reddy Ambati; Ashwin Amurthur;
Panduranga Prahlad Annamraju.
B
Adam Bacall; Kenneth Bae;
Famya Baig; Christian Balevski;
Anne Carenina Balicusto; Avik
Banerjee; Shanice D. Barnes; Christian F. Baron; Billy Baugher; Corey
William Baumann; Kory Beach; Andrew Michael Benerofe; Kelly Benfer;
Chelsea Rebecca Berg; Mrinalini
Bhutoria; Eric R. Bierck; Taylor Birnbaum; Anne Margaret Bonazzi;
Kendal Borup; Andrew Braverman;
Juliet Florence Brooks; Matthew
Ross Buchbinder; Ashley Rose
Burch.
C
Daniel M. Callahan; Joseph
Michael Cangelosi III; Xizhi Cao;
Kevin Caparino; Jennifer Cardinale;
Nicole Caricato; Margaret Carleen;
Jesse Decker Carnegie; Stephanie
Cartwright; Michael C. Casarona;
Peter Cerrito II; May Y. Chang; Johnny Chau; Lucy Chen; Xingren Chen;
Kimberly Chiu; Joseph Dominick
Cirafici; Sama Nina Conteh; James
Patrick Cornick; Ashley Cruz; Jennifer Grace Curatolo; Shannon Elizabeth Curry.
Shirang Patel, left, Zilin Zhou, and Tim Hui
Simran Chhabra, left, Ananya Yalamanchi, and Shreya Agarwal
D
Shawn Daniel; Kelly Mariko
Davidson; Erika Murex Deetjen;
Rachael Degnan; Michael DeJesus;
Katelyn Delaney; Ashleigh Nicole
DeLemos; Raashi Desai; Jiouanna
Despeignes; Om Dhavalikar; Amanjot Dhillon; Jacob A. Donohue; Connor Doyle; Daniel Robert Druckman.
Christine McCarthy, left, Leah Pepper, and Whitney Brown
Raj Ardeshna, left, and Caitlin Antaya
E
Carolina Echeverri; Ariana Efstathios; Louise C‚cile Eltvedt; Kevin
Stephen Enriquez; David Christopher Escalante Hernandez; Daniel
Edward Espinosa.
F
Fernando V. Faria Jr.; Joshua
Fecko; Emily Ferguson; Joseph M.
Ferguson; Sean M. Ferguson; Adrian
Alexander Fernandez; Emma Georgiana Ford; Stephen Francisco; Sari
Frankel; Dmitriy Fridkin; Melissa
Valedictorian Renuka Reddy
Ingrid Ma, left, Joyce Wang, Meghna Manon, and Kaitlyn Nelson
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Friedlander; Jaime Friscia; Emma
Winslow Funaki.
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Jaedi R. Gambatese; Sharon
Gao; Janhavi Gawde; Alex S. Gerber; Samuel Jacob Gertzog;
Johnathan D. Glover; Henry Marks
Gochuico; Sanjiv J. Godse; Vishnu
Gogineni; Lauren Goldfinger; Karina
Gonzalez-Salazar; Ankita K. Gore;
Linda Gosselin; Alana Marielle
Gottesman; Lawrence Samuel
Goun; Amanda Grant; Amy Greenberger; Thomas Grinberg; Lara
Grossmith; Bradley Groves; Anthony
D. Guan; Jia Jun Guo; Alisha Gupta;
Vaibhav Gupta.
The South Pirates
H
Mehrnaz Habibian; Rayne Han;
Alanna Hanafee; Thomas Hanington; Kristen Hanley; Khushboo Harjani; Katherine Lee Harshaw; Sean
C. Hazen; ShaoYin He; Mariane Elizabeth Herte; Benjamin Hong; Julian
S. Hsu; Eric Hu; Jordan Hu; Angela
Huang; Ryan Huie; Tajah’nae
Humes; Eunice J. Hwang.
High School South held its graduation for 415
members of the Class of 2011 on Saturday,
June 18, at Sun National Bank Center.
Pictured above are Dahlia Amade, left, Juliet
Brooks, Nicole Caricato, Courtney Agyeman,
and Shanice Barnes.
At right are Nicole Joseph, near right,
and Sergio Ingato.
I
Ned Pryce Ianacone; Oyinade
Ifaturoti; Adam Samuel Ignotofsky;
Sergio Joseph Pappa Ingato; Sara B.
Itak.
J
Kareema Jean-Baptiste; Beverly
Jimenez; Hannah Ruihan Jin; Molly
Virginia Johnson; Nicole Sara
Joseph.
K
Dharan Kadiyala; Milan Kalaria;
Lekha Kanchinadam; Andrew Kai
Kang; Huai-Yueh Kang; Robin Karmakar; Deepa Karmakar; Hannah
Rebecca Katz; Steven Strich Katz;
Zachary Kaufman; Abdul Waris Kazi;
Lisa Kelleher; Lindsay Kelman; Drew
Kempf; Natalie Khoury; Liam KierCorey Baumann, left, Daniel Callahan, Andrew Benerofe, Eric Bierck, Matthew Buchbinder, and Andrew Braverman nan; Hyewon Kim; Sara Suzanne
Kline; Vyshakh Kodoth; Mark Kogan;
Sota Koike; Samuel Jacob Korolev;
Dhvani Pareshkumar Kothari; Tatiana Kozina; Michael Steven
Krakower; Ian Andrew Kramer; Omotayo O. Kuku; John Y. Kwag.
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Anne Bonazzi, left, James Cornick, Erika Deetjen, Chelsea Berg, and Jennifer Curatolo
Philip Thomas LaBella; Samantha
Lam; Andrew Lee; Daniel Deshawn
Lee; Jessica Nicole Lee; Joshua C.
Lee; Julianne Lee; Matthew Lee;
Meena Lee; Larissa Michelle Lee
Lum; Eric Michael Leiggi; Franklin
Fan Li; Tianqi Li; Melissa Erin Lichtman; Harrison Liew; Drazen A. Lightburn; Roger Lin; Spencer Lin; Jaime
H. Lisbona; Jessica Liu; Sean
Loughran; Sharell Lowe; Raymond
Luo.
M
Omotayo Kuku, left, and Beverly Jimenez
Cheryl Peng, left, Roger Lin, Harrison Liew, and Benjamin Hong
Ruthvik Malladi; Eva Mandel; Seva Mangat; Avantika Mankar; Piyush
Mathew; Bijan Sean Matthews; Victoria Matthews; Emily Marie Mauro;
Alessandra Vera Mayol; William
John McAuliffe; Caitlin McCann; Laura Ruth McCormick; Naiquan McCoy; Connor Patrick McElwee;
Christiana Chandler McGuigan; Vivian Lizette Medina; Kimberly Ruth
Meersma; Ashish Mehta; Jared
Meltzer; Benjamin Walter Menahem;
Phillip Louis Menard; Nichelle G.
Mendes; Joseph-Antonio Ortiguera
Mendoza; David Raphael Meni; Abhinav Mereddy; Shelby Nicole Miller;
Sherene Zara Minhas; Jaime Beth
Mishkin; Avikam Mittal; Jenna S. Modi; Esvin Monrroy; Michelle Morris;
Julia Moss; Faizan Mumtaz; Timothy
Murphy; Rebecca Musumeci.
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Rishi Narang; Vijay Narayan;
Arun Nayar; Mircea Stefan Neagu;
Harshita Chaitanya Nedunuri; Satya
Nedunuri; Daniel Kevin Ng; Devon
Ngai.
Sama Nina Conteh, left, and class valedictorian Satyajeet Pal
Anne Bonazzi, left, and Chelsea Berg
O
Daniel O’Connell; Andrew J.
Ochoa; Mihir V. Odak; Rachel Oertel;
Jeffrey J. Oey; Brian Oglesby;
Matthew Isaac Oh; Steven Oh;
Danielle Olgin; Robert M. Olsen;
Gabrielle C. Opie; Ashima Oza.
Larissa Lee Lum, left, Matthew Lee, and Samantha Lam.
Mrinalini Bhutoria, left, May Chang, and Taylor Birnbaum
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P
Satyajeet Pal; Gavin Palowitch;
Jonathan C. Pang; John Park; JunYeong Park; Yeonjoo Park; Pooja K.
Patel; Rishita Reddy Patlolla; Sarah
Elizabeth Peck; Chien Jung Peng;
Thomas Peters; Kathryn Philbin; Anthony C. Piccirello; Anthony G.
Pisano; Alexa J. Pogrob; Sonia
Priyanka Pothraj; Amy N. Procaccini;
Rinku Punjabi.
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Alice Can Ran Qin; Ante Qu.
R
Harry A. Rackmil; Sal Rahin;
Raphael Ramboyong; Joshua D.
Ramjit; Sacha N. Ramjit; Alexander
Yeager James Rasmussen; Kirill
Ravikovitch; Niharika Ray; Divya J.
Reddy; Mahesh Reddy; Jordan
William Reece; Brian A. Reil; Donna
Rhymer; Carly Riemann; Karla Rios;
Melissa Rachel Rivers; Joel Roberts;
Andrea Robinson; Clemente A. Rodriguez; Gilbert L. Rodriguez; Gina
Nicole Rodriguez; Alexander S.
Rohrbach; Kathryn G. Rose; Zachary
Connor Rosenberg; Adam D. Rothman; Sharon S. Ryoo.
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Rahul Sabbineni; Gautham Sajith;
Subhasree Samanta; Derek A.
Sanchez; Kelsey Sandgren; Sonia
Sandhu; Erik G. Sandvig; Bryan
Sapon; Brian Saravia; Katerina
Savelieva; Xavier Amir Saxon; Kelly
Scanlan; Austin James Scharfstein;
Michael Elias Schenk; Anna Schnitter; Brian Schoepfer; Jacob
Schwartz; Melissa T. Schwartz; Cassandra Grace Sciortino; Surina
Seetha; Meena Selvanathan; Steven
Senko; H. Alex Senopoulos;Selena
Kay Seto; Aditi Shah; Ashish Shah;
Jamie J. Shah; Vareel Shah;
Vrushabh Shah; Apoorv Sharma;
Nikhil Sharma; Prachi Sharma; Lisa
Sher; Rebecca Shi; Aniruddh Shivram; Vera Shulgina; Anton Shvets;
Katherine Noelle Sibley; Ingrid Gylla
Simon; Anushka Sindkar; Divita
Singh; Nikita Singh; Harshita Sinha;
Andrew Slepman; Gordon Smith;
Kevin Smith; Christopher S. So; Adrienne Solomon; Sarah Ann Solomon;
Rose Anna Soskind; Megan Elizabeth Spencer; Sahaana Sridhar;
Sudershan Srinivasan; Kenneth Edward Stankiewicz; William Steacy;
Jacob Stein; Andrew Steinberg;
Mark Stone; Tyler Stone; David I.
Suh; Kritika Sukumar.
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Neisa A. Taffur; Eric C. Tang; Victor Tang; Zamira Denise Tennie;
Anatoliy Terentiev; Vinaya K. Thotakura; Malavika Thottappillil;
Michael Tillson; Ming-Ming Tran;
Colleen Barbara Trombetta; Abhinay
Tumati; Gagan Tunuguntla.
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Liza Margarita Vargas Bautista;
Manoj Velagaleti; Nikila Venkat;
Deepti Venkatraman.
W
Douglas Keane Wallack; Alex
Wan; Mallory Wang; Shen Wang;
Stephanie Shinray Wang; Winnie
Wang; Clifford Weekes; Kevin
Robert Welsh; Elizabeth Williams;
Caroline A. Wong; Catharine Wong;
Nicholas Wong; Michael Wu; Sean
C. Wulf; Rebecca Ann Wymer;
William Wymer.
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Junwen (Jennifer) Xiao; Jasmine
Yining Xie; Jonathan Xu.
Y
Charul A. Yadav; Steven C. Yang;
Bocong Yin; Jonathan Yoo; Jennifer
Yoon; Nicholas Joseph Young;
Alexander Yu; Chun Man Yu; Elizabeth Yu; Hanson Yu; Jennifer Yu;
Nahhyun Sarah Yu; Siyao Yu; Diana
Yuan.
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Marni Shayna Zahorsky; Felicia
Zhang; Junyi Zhou; Eric Zhuang;
Caroline Ziedonis; Jared R. Ziment;
Jillian Rose Zummo.
Need Photos? Photographs from the graduation ceremonies are available to family and friends by contacting
the photographer, Mark Czajkowski, by E-mail at
markcz1@verizon.net.
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Kniewel: The Salary Remains the Same
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by Cara Latham
uperintendent
Victoria
Kniewel’s salary — and all
other conditions of her contract — will remain the same for
the 2011-’12 school year, but officials are still working out salary details for the WW-P district’s two
assistant superintendents.
While the board had originally
scheduled a public hearing for the
administrative contracts for June
14, a change in the state law removed the requirement to hold a
public hearing.
Instead, the salaries of Larry
Shanok, the assistant superintendent for finance, and David Aderhold, the assistant superintendent
for planning and pupil services,
will be on the agenda for approval
on Tuesday, June 28. Because
there was no change in Kniewel’s
contract or salary, the board is not
required to hold a hearing or take
any action on that contract.
The current contracts for
Shanok and Aderhold expire on
Thursday, June 30. Currently
Shanok’s salary is $165,854. Aderhold makes $144,000. It is unclear
whether there will be any changes
to those salaries under the new contracts. Gerri Hutner, the district’s
director of communications, said
contract details were still being
worked out, and that salary information would not be available until
Friday, June 24.
Last June, the board approved a
four-year contract extension for
Kniewel, whose contract would
have expired on June 30. The extension keeps her contract in place
until June 30, 2015.
Kniewel’s salary was frozen for
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there was no need for both.
“It’s all about choices in a tough
economic market,” Weale said.
“you either want Mr. Shanok as an
assistant superintendent of finance,
or you want LoCastro as the comptroller; you don’t need both.”
Policy for Athletic
Field Lights
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the 2010-’11 school year at
$192,676. Last year Kniewel asked
that 1.5 percent of her base salary
be contributed toward her health
insurance costs beginning last July,
Superintendent Victoria Kniewel’s salary
was frozen last year at
$192,676, and officials
say it will remain the
same for 2011-’12.
rather than waiting until the mandated date of July 1, 2012, as required by state law.
For the 2011-’12 school year,
Kniewel’s salary will remain
frozen, said Hutner.
At the June 14 meeting, resident
Pete Weale urged the board to get
rid of an administrative position.
He said the responsibilities handled by Shanok as well as comptroller Larry LoCastro could be
handled by one of the two, but that
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policy setting rules for the use
of athletic field lights expected to be installed and paid for by
the High School South Booster
Club drew concern during the
WW-P school board’s first reading
of the policy on June 14.
Residents questioned whether
the language in the policy was
strong enough to ensure that the
booster club would be responsible
for all of the costs associated with
use of the lights — and not taxpayers. The questions came as the
board was holding a first reading
for a number of policies for the upcoming school year, including the
field lights. A second reading and
adoption is slated for Tuesday,
June 28.
According to the policy, there
will be a two-year moratorium on
any outside group’s utilization of
the athletic field lights, and there
will be no weekend use of the field
lights. Day events would continue
as done previously, it stated. The
policy must also be reviewed annually for the first three years, as circumstances may change, which, in
turn, require changes to the policy.
The policy also states that the
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use of the lighting will be based on
the scheduling needs of the principals, athletic director, and the administration. “This may vary from
day-to-day, week-to-week, or
year-to-year,” the policy states.
“The policy will enforce a hard
stop of 9 p.m. (Monday through
Thursday) and 10:30 p.m. on Friday evenings with an override
component as per the completion
of varsity sports as per NJSIAA
regulations.”
On evenings when there are no
competition events, the lights must
be turned off by 8 p.m., the policy
also states. Summer use will be
limited to August athletic competitions and practices, under the time
lines set.
It was the part of the policy that
included budgets that drew concern from residents. The policy
states that “the planned usage for
the fields for both competitions and
practices must be done each season
by the athletic director. This plan
must include budgets to ensure that
the financial and human resources
are available for the utilities costs,
security, and other related costs.”
The plan has to be submitted for review by the administration and facilities committee prior to the beginning of each season.
Resident Sara Spangler Campanella and Linda Geevers, also a
member of the West Windsor
Township Council, argued, however that the policy simply stated
that a plan had to ensure funding
was available, but they did not
specify where those funds should
come from. The policy should
specifically state that the booster
club would be responsible for all of
those costs, they said.
In addition, Campanella said
that certain aspects of the policy —
including the time frame and permitted hours of usage of the field
lights — conflicted with West
Windsor township ordinance. The
noise levels that would be created
by allowing the field lights to be
used in the evening hours conflicted with noise level restrictions set
by West Windsor, she added. The
field lights have yet to be approved
by the Planning Board, she added.
Geevers also urged the board to
add language that includes neighbors in nearby neighborhoods in
the review of the policies.
School board member Todd
Hochman, however, said that the
board will look into how the policy
fits with township code, but also
said that the policy was being presented before the lights were even
installed so that the board could
provide the administration with
guidance on the issue.
Board
President
Hemant
Marathe said that memorandum of
understanding with the booster
club states that the booster club is
responsible for all of the costs.
“The purpose of this is not to regurgitate the memorandum of understanding,” echoed Hochman.
“I think it should be in the policy,” responded Geevers. “The
more places it shows up, the more
it’s enforced.”
However, Campanella said that
in the memorandum of understanding, the only cost the booster club is
specifically responsible for is the
installation, electricity, and utili-
‘The purpose of this is
not to regurgitate the
memorandum of understanding,’ said
Board Member Todd
Hochman.
ties. The memorandum of understanding does not specifically include other costs, like extra security for night games, and more.
“Anything above and beyond was
not included in the agreement,” she
said. “That’s the reality of the
agreement that you signed with the
booster club.”
Board member John Farrell had
a different concern. “I’m not sure
Bulk Farm Lease
Ordinance OK’d
I
n an effort to keep farming activity alive on the Bulk Farm,
the Plainsboro Township Committee authorized public bidding
for an agricultural lease for the
site.
The committee voted to approve an ordinance authorizing
the bidding on June 22. The ordinance was originally scheduled
for a vote on June 8, but the committee deferred the vote because
of confusion over one of the conditions. Since that time, the issue
has been clarified.
Plainsboro officials closed on
a deal for the 84-acre Bulk Farm
on Cranbury Neck Road in 2008.
In February, 2008, the Township
Committee approved an agreement with the Bulk Family Limited Partnership, which was needed
in order for the township to jointwe want to limit the events on Saturday,” he said. “Maybe in the future, the board wouldn’t want to
eliminate football from Saturday
usage.” And, in some cases, tournament games may go beyond 9
p.m., he said.
In April the WW-P school board
approved an amendment to its
agreement with the High School
South Booster Club, a nonprofit
group, to install lights at the high
school athletic fields.
The amendment allows the
booster club to install the lights at
the first field, which is anticipated
to be at High School South, before
sufficient funding has been raised
for lights at North.
Some residents near both
schools have been opposed to the
idea of installing lights since the
board began looking at the matter
last year. They cited concerns for
decreased safety and quality of life
in their neighborhoods as a result of
the people brought into the neighborhoods for night games. Other
concerns include that some of the
ly purchase the property with the
county for $3 million. The parcel
was one of the last remaining
large tracts of open space in
Plainsboro.
The county’s dedication of
$2.695 million toward the property came coming from an open
space referendum. The remaining
$305,000 came from the township’s own open space fund.
Officials said the lease would
have a 10-year renewal option
and that a number of parties have
expressed interest in the lease.
Edgemere Avenue
Speed Change
T
he Plainsboro Township
Committee will hold a public
hearing on an ordinance to reduce
the speed limit on Edgemere Avenue from 35 miles per hour to 25.
The ordinance, introduced at
the June 8 meeting, was recomcosts associated with running the
lights at the athletic fields will end
up falling to taxpayers.
Board members, however, reiterated that the amendment to the
agreement would not allow taxpayer money to be used to fund the project.
In December the board approved a memorandum of understanding to allow the club to preside over the process for installing
athletic field lights at both schools.
The MOU grants the Booster
Club the permission to install the
lights in 2012. The agreement protects the school district against any
charges — even for utility costs —
with regard to use of the lights.
PIACS Adjourns
Hearing Until Sept.
T
he Princeton International
Academy Charter School (PIACS) will not open in its proposed
South Brunswick location this September.
PIACS has requested that its application before the South
Brunswick Zoning Board for a use
variance for the site be adjourned
until September, confirmed Ron
Schmalz, South Brunswick’s
spokesman.
“Since it is clear that the 12 Perrine Road facility will not be ready
to use for September, 2011, but it is
still the location that would best
serve PIACS long-term, we explained to the applicant that it is
best for them to make sure everything is well prepared rather than
rush it for the next zoning meeting,” said PIACS spokesman Parker Block. “So the applicant elected
to postpone to make sure the experts were afforded enough time to
adequately prepare.”
Earlier this month, the hearing
on the application for the charter
school at the South Brunswick
Zoning Board was continued until
Thursday, July 7 — about a week
before the school needed to meet a
state deadline for obtaining a certificate of occupancy.
As a result of the tight deadline,
PIACS officials believed the
school would not open in South
Brunswick in September, although
they were looking at other locations in the Princeton and West
Windsor-Plainsboro area that
would not require zoning approval.
“The course for PIACS going
forward is under discussion,” said
Block. “One option is to request a
planning year extension.”
In the meantime, an online petition has garnered more than 1,200
signatures of PIACS opponents,
mended by the township engineer. A public hearing is scheduled for Wednesday, July 13.
Officials cited changing conditions in the community, specifically in the Village Center area.
Based on existing commercial
and residential development,
roadway characteristics, and prevailing traffic conditions, as well
as state Department of Transportation standards, the police department and engineer recommended the 25-mile-per-hour
speed limit.
Roadway improvements are
scheduled for Edgemere Avenue
from late June into early July.
During this time, the township
will install the new posted speed
limit signs. Plainsboro Police will
be conducting an educational enforcement awareness campaign
prior to taking enforcement action. Residents with questions
can call the police at 609-7992333.
who are calling for the state to turn
down PIACS’ application for a
new charter.
As of June 21, the petition had
1,215 online signatures on its website: www.thepetitionsite.com/1/no-piacs. The online petition reads:
“As residents of South Brunswick,
Princeton and West WindsorPlainsboro school districts, we ask
that you take into account widespread community opposition and
turn down any applications for an
additional planning year or a new
charter from the Princeton International Academy Charter School.”
The petition is addressed to the
state Department of Education.
The charter school has faced opposition since it won approval by
the state Department of Education
in January, 2010, to educate students from the Princeton, South
Brunswick, and WW-P school districts. The school will be the first to
offer an International Baccalaureate (IB) curriculum framework as
well as dual language MandarinEnglish immersion.
Officials and residents in the
WW-P, South Brunswick, and
Princeton school districts have
been fighting the school’s opening
because of the per-pupil costs they
would have to send to the charter
school when it opens.
It was originally scheduled to
open in September, 2010, but WWP officials were among those who
successfully fought a prior PIACS
application to the Plainsboro Zoning Board last summer, when it
proposed to open at St. Joseph’s
Seminary on Mapleton Road.
As a result, PIACS was granted
an extension by the state Department of Education. If PIACS does
not open this year, the state could
extend its deadline for an occupancy permit until Thursday, July 15.
If no extension is granted, PIACS
would have to reapply to the DOE
for a new charter.
The application on behalf of the
charter school was made by 12 P &
Associates LLC, of Lake Drive in
Princeton, which is also listed as
the contract purchaser. Critics of
the school have noted that the Helena May, a former PIACS trustee, is
the owner of 12 P & Associates.
The application is also for a private school, the YingHua Day
School, which would move to the
location. PIACS lead founder Bonnie Liao founded the private school
in 2007. She insisted that the charter school will not subsidize the private school and that each school
would be a separate entity. PIACS
would occupy 13,780 square feet,
while YingHua would occupy
2,115 square feet of the facility.
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Live Music
Wine and Music, Hopewell Valley
Vineyards, 46 Yard Road, Pennington, 609-737-4465. www.hopewellvalleyvineyards.com.
Wine by the glass or bottle available. Hopewell Valley Vineyards’
Jazz Ensemble performs. 6 to 9
p.m.
Sal Lucolino, Molto Bene Caffe y
Mercato Italiano, 116 North Main
Street, Hightstown, 609-4481588.
www.downtownhightstown.org. Solo accordion. 6 to 9
p.m.
Jazz Supper with Doug Miller
and Bernhard Geiger, Blue
Rooster Cafe, 17 North Main
Street, Cranbury, 609-235-7539.
www.blueroosterbakery.com. Piano and acoustic bass. 7 to 9:30
p.m.
Courtyard Concert, Grounds For
Sculpture, 18 Fairgrounds Road,
Hamilton, 609-586-0616. www.groundsforsculpture.org. Shaun
Ruymen. Register. $12. Rain or
shine. 7:30 p.m.
Anker and Chris Jankoski,
Grover’s Mill Coffee House, 335
Princeton Hightstown Road, West
Windsor, 609-716-8771. www.groversmillcoffee.com. 7:30 p.m.
Bob Orlowski, It’s a Grind Coffee
House, 7 Schalks Crossing Road,
Plainsboro, 609-275-2919. www.itsagrind.com. Jazz and easy listening. 8 to 10 p.m.
Good Causes
Twistin’ Your Tails Away, Animal
Friends for Education and Welfare (AFEW), Hamilton Manor, 30
Route 156, Hamilton, 609-4485322. www.afewpets.org. Dinner
dance with the Fabulous Greaseband. Cash bar. Register. $45 to
$50. 7:30 p.m.
Comedy
Catch a Rising Star, Hyatt Regency, 102 Carnegie Center,
West Windsor, 609-987-8018.
www.catcharisingstar.com. Register. $19.50. 8 p.m.
Food & Dining
Restaurant Supported Agriculture Dinner Series, Tre Piani,
120 Rockingham Row, Forrestal
Village, Plainsboro, 609-4521515. www.trepiani.com. Complete dinner based on local ingredients may be served as a buffet,
plated, or family style. Leftover
food will be donated to an area
food bank. Register. $35. 6:30 to
9:30 p.m.
Gardens
Pollinator Picnic, Mercer County
Soil Conservation District, 508
Hughes Drive, Hamilton, 609-5869603. www.mercerscd.org. Stories, crafts, presentations about
pollinator gardens, face painting.
Bring lawn and garden questions
for Barbara Bromley, Mercer
County horticulturist. Meet a beekeeper. Bring a blanket and picnic
dinner. Register. Free. 3 to 7 p.m.
Wellness
Tai Chi, West Windsor Recreation, Senior Center, Clarksville
Road, West Windsor, 609-7999068. www.wwparks-recreation.com. Free. 8:15 a.m.
Holistic Networking Social, Center for Relaxation and Healing,
666 Plainsboro Road, Suite 635,
Plainsboro, 609-750-7432. www.relaxationandhealing.com. Social
gathering for holistic and healing
practitioners and small business
owners. Register. Free. 6:30 to 9
p.m.
Workshop, Shreyas Yoga, Holsome Holistic Center, 27 Wither-
spoon Street, Princeton, 732-6428895.
www.shreyasyoga.com.
“Personal Transformation Through
Authentic Yoga” presented by
Acharya Girish Jha. Register by Email to info@shreyasyoga.com.
$45. 7 p.m.
Kirtan Concert with Wah!, Integral Yoga of Princeton, 613
Ridge Road, Monmouth Junction,
732-274-2410.
www.integralyogaprinceton.org. Register. $20.
8 to 10 p.m.
For Families
Matinee, West Windsor Library,
333 North Post Road, 609-7990462. Screening of “The Flight of
the Navigator” for child and adult.
3 p.m.
Chess Tournament, Let’s Play
Chess, Plainsboro Library, 9 Van
Doren Street, Plainsboro, 732322-3622. lpcnj.com. Tournament
between North Jersey and Central
Jersey. Registration, meet and
greet, and a practice game will be
held before the tournament begins
at 6 p.m. Free-will donation. 4
p.m.
For Teens
West Windsor Library, 333 North
Post Road, 609-799-0462. “Intro
to Babysitting” for ages 12 to 15.
Register. 1:30 to 2:30 p.m.
Live Music
3D, Salt Creek Grille, One Rockingham Row, Forrestal Village,
Plainsboro, 609-419-4200. www.saltcreekgrille.com. 7 to 11 p.m.
DJ T-Bone, Princeton Sports Bar
& Grill, 128 Nassau Street,
Princeton, 609-921-7555. www.princetonsportsbar.com. 21 plus.
No cover. 10 p.m.
Singles
Divorce Recovery Program,
Princeton Church of Christ, 33
River Road, Princeton, 609-5813889.
www.princetonchurchofchrist.com. Non-denominational
support group for men and
women. Free. 7:30 p.m.
Socials
Luncheon, Rotary Club of the
Princeton Corridor, Hyatt Regency, Carnegie Center, 609-7990525.
www.princetoncorridorrotary.org. Register. Guests, $25.
12:15 p.m.
For Seniors
Brown Bag Discussion, Princeton Senior Resource Center,
Suzanne Patterson Center, 45
Stockton Street, 609-924-7108.
www.princetonsenior.org. “Where
Are Your Important Papers” discussion led by Linda Richter, president of Personal Paperwork Solutions. Bring your own lunch. Beverages and dessert provided.
Register. Free. Noon.
Recreation Sports
WW-P American Legion Baseball. Princeton 218 at Smoyer
Park. 5:45 p.m.
Sports for Causes
Just for Joey Golf Outing, Eden
Institute Foundation, Heron
Glen Golf Course, Ringoes, 609987-0099. www.justforjoey.org.
Annual event benefits children
and adults with autism. Green
fees, cart, and refreshments included. Register. $155. 11 a.m.
Saturday
June 25
On Stage
Into the Woods, Princeton Summer Theater, Hamilton Murray
Theater, Princeton University,
877-238-5596. www.pst2011.org.
Stephen
Sondheim
musical
based on fairy tales features Little
Red Riding Hood, Jack (of the
Beanstalk fame), Cinderella, Rapunzel, a very wicked witch, and
others. Directed by Jed Q. Peterson, Princeton University, Class of
2006. $20 to $25. 2 and 7:30 p.m.
Die, Mommie Die, Kelsey Theater, Mercer County Community
College, 1200 Old Trenton Road,
West Windsor, 609-570-3333.
www.kelseytheatre.net. Musical
by Charles Busch is a benefit for
the James Tolin Memorial Fund,
an organization that has raised
more than $50,000 for AIDS and
arts education charities. Silent
auction. $25. 7 p.m.
Little Shop of Horrors, OffBroadstreet Theater, 5 South
Greenwood Avenue, Hopewell,
609-466-2766.
www.off-broadstreet.com.
Musical
comedy
about a blood-thirsty exotic plant
in a skid row flower shop. Jim
Petro of Hamilton as Seymour and
Vicky Czarnik of Hopewell as Audrey. Dessert included. $27.50 to
$29.50. 7 p.m.
Swing!, Washington Crossing
Open Air Theater, 355 Washington Crossing-Pennington Road,
Titusville, 267-885-9857. www.dpacatoat.com. Family musical.
$15. Blankets, seat cushions, and
insect repellent are recommended. Picnics welcome before show.
Food available. 7:30 p.m.
The Boy Friend, Princeton Festival, Matthews Acting Studio, 185
Nassau Street, Princeton, 609759-0379.
www.princetonfestival.org. Musical directed by Diana
Basmajian with choreography by
Graham Lustig. $45. 8 p.m.
Family Theater
Beauty and the Beast, Washington Crossing Open Air Theater,
355 Washington Crossing-Pennington Road, Titusville, 267-8859857. www.dpacatoat.com. $5. 11
a.m.
Art
Art Exhibit, Princeton University
Art Museum, Princeton campus,
609-258-3788.
artmuseum.princeton.edu. First day of “Cartographies of Time,” a selection of
27 rarely seen books, manuscripts, charts, and other ingenious devices that explore graphic
representations of European and
American history and the evolution of the modern timeline. On
view to September 19. 10 a.m.
Art Exhibit, West Windsor Arts
Council, 952 Alexander Road,
West Windsor, 609-919-1982.
www.westwindsorarts.org. Opening reception for “Gardens, Landscapes, and the Great Outdoors,”
an exhibit at the West Windsor
Arts Council featuring works of
artists
Zakia
Ahmed,
Joe
Gyurcsak, Judy Buckley, and
David Langley, and selections
from their students. In conjunction
with GroWW Garden Tour. On
view to August 28. 10 a.m. to 2
p.m. See story page 34.
Tots on Tour, Grounds For
Sculpture, 18 Fairgrounds Road,
Hamilton, 609-586-0616. www.groundsforsculpture.org.
For
ages 3 to 5. Listen to a story, become park explorers, make original works of art. One adult must
accompany each child. Register.
Free with park admission. Rain or
shine. 11 a.m. and 1 p.m.
Fabric Art Show, Group Hug
Quilts, Nissen house, 14 Evans
Drive, Cranbury, 267-977-0543.
www.grouphugquilts.com. Exhibit
of quilts by Sammi Tessler
Nguyen, a classically trained
painter turned fabric artist. Inspired by American quilting traditions, antique Indian textiles, modern art, and her young nephew’s
drawings, Ngugen creates quilts
for nursery walls, weddings and
anniversaries, and organizes
groups to make their own fabric
Hey, Kids, Everybody Has One: Artie Bennett,
author of ‘The Butt Book,’ gives a reading and booksigning. Written and illustrated for children ages 2
to 12, it is also a coloring and activity book. Barnes
& Noble, MarketFair, Friday, July 1, 11:30 a.m.
creations. Meet the artist. 2 to 4
p.m.
Dancing
California Mix, Central Jersey
Dance Society, Universalist Congregation, 50 Cherry Hill Road,
Princeton, 609-945-1883. www.centraljerseydance.org. Hustle for
beginners at 7 p.m. Salsa at 7:30
p.m. Open dancing begins at 8:30
p.m. $12. No partner needed. 7
p.m.
Classical Music
Princeton Preview Concert,
Opera New Jersey, Princeton
Public Library, Princeton, 609799-7700.
www.operanj.org.
Emerging artists program presents excerpts from the summer
season along with other operatic
selections. Free. 3 p.m.
Piano Competition, Princeton
Festival, Clark Music Center,
Lawrenceville School, 609-7590379. www.princetonfestival.org.
Works of Chopin, Debussy, Liszt,
Prokofiev, Ravel, Rachmaninoff,
and Schumann. $30. 8 p.m.
Live Music
Wine and Music, Hopewell Valley
Vineyards, 46 Yard Road, Pennington, 609-737-4465. www.hopewellvalleyvineyards.com.
Wine by the glass or bottle available. Jum Wombats plays classic
rock. 6 to 9 p.m.
Crosby, Still, Nash, and Young
Tribute, Grover’s Mill Coffee
House, 335 Princeton Hightstown
Road, West Windsor, 609-7168771.
www.groversmillcoffee.com. 7:30 p.m.
John Bianculli Duo, Americana
Diner, 359 Route 130, East Windsor,
609-448-4477.
www.americanadiner.com. 9 p.m.
Outdoor Concerts
Sinfonietta Nova, West Windsor
Arts Council, Nassau Park Pavilion, West Windsor, 609-9191982. www.westwindsorarts.org.
An evening of classical music.
Bring chairs or blankets. At the
arts council on Alexander Road if
raining. Free. 6 to 8 p.m.
Comedy
Catch a Rising Star, Hyatt Regency, 102 Carnegie Center,
West Windsor, 609-987-8018.
www.catcharisingstar.com. Register. $22. 7:30 and 9:30 p.m.
Comedy All-Stars, Patriots Theater at the War Memorial, Memorial Drive, Trenton, 609-984-8400.
www.thewarmemorial.com. Jimmy Carroll, Marion Grodin, Steve
Trevelise, and Joe Bublewicz. 8
p.m.
Freedom Festival
Mercer County, Mercer County
Park, West Windsor, 609-4487107. www.wpst.com/freedomfestival. Food, games, beer and
wine gardens, craft vendors, tethered hot-air balloon rides, water
rides, games, inflatable rides, and
fireworks. Band performances by
Bad Medicine, a Bon Jovi cover
band, at 3:30 p.m.; Lost in Paris at
5:30 p.m.; Amish Outlaws at 7:30
p.m.; and Incognito after the fireworks. Free admission. 3 to 11
p.m. See story page 29.
Food & Dining
Bees!, Whole Earth Center, 360
Nassau Street, Princeton, 609921-0835. www.wholeearthcenter.com. Honey tasting, beeswax
crafts, and information about pollinator gardens. In conjunction with
screening of “Queen of the Sun:
What are the bees telling us?” a
documentary focusing on life and
disappearance of bees through
beekeepers, philosophers, and
scientists, at Princeton Public Library on Monday, June 27, at 7
p.m. 9 a.m. to noon.
Farmers’ Markets
West Windsor Community Farmers’ Market, Vaughn Drive Parking Lot, Princeton Junction Train
Station, 609-933-4452. www.westwindsorfarmersmarket.org.
Produce, bakery items, pizza, coffee, and other foods and flowers.
West Windsor Arts Council presents Georgia O’Keefe styled
works. Music by Hot Food Powder. Blood pressure screning and
massages available. 9 a.m. to 1
p.m.
Gardens
GroWW Garden Tour, Greening
of West Windsor, Vaughn Drive
parking lot, West Windsor, 609989-5662.
www.greeningwestwindsor.com. Self-guided tour of
residential gardens and public
open spaces. There are two
dozen private gardens, large and
small, with flowers, vegetables, or
exotic plants. While most are located in the Berrien City and
Dutch Neck neighborhoods, there
are gardens throughout the town.
Visit website for locations. In conjunction with “Gardens, Landscapes, and the Great Outdoors,”
an exhibit at the West Windsor
Arts Council featuring works of
artists
Zakia
Ahmed,
Joe
Gyurcsak, Judy Buckley, and
David Langley, and selections
from their students. 10 a.m. to 2
p.m. See story page 34.
Art in the Garden Workshop,
Middlesex County Agricultural
Extension, Earth Center in Davidson’s Mill Pond Park, 42 Riva Avenue, South Brunswick, 732-3985262. “Introduction to Painting in
the Garden.” Register. $20. 10
a.m. to noon.
Butterfly
House,
Middlesex
County Agricultural Extension,
Earth Center in Davidson’s Mill
Pond Park, 42 Riva Avenue,
South Brunswick, 732-398-5262.
The house is filled with plants that
feed and shelter butterflies and
larvae native to New Jersey. Visitors get an up close look at the
showy insects. Master gardeners
answer questions. Free. 10 a.m.
to noon.
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Dentistry For Children and Adolescents
David M. Meadow, DMD, MPH
Celebrating 25 Years of Quality Dental Care
for Children and Adolescents
New Jersey Magazine - Top Pediatric Dentist 2011
• University of Pennsylvania, BA
• University of Pennsylvania
Dental School, DMD
• Harvard Dental School,
Pediatric Graduate Program
• Boston Children's Hospital,
Pediatric Resident
• Harvard School
of Public Health, MPH
Specialty permit #3137
265 Princeton-Hightstown Rd. • West Windsor, NJ 08550
609-799-7722
Wellness
Conference, Here Everyone Relates Corporation (H.E.R.), Wyndham Hotel, 900 Scudders Mill
Road, Plainsboro, 641-715-3900.
www.her-day.org. A supportive
day for women who have lost their
mothers, and friends of women
who have lost their mother. Breakfast, snacks, lunch, gift bags,
speakers, and breakout sessions.
Register. $55. 8:30 a.m. to 3:30
p.m.
Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy, Feldman Chiropractic, Holsome Teas, 27 Witherspoon
Street, Princeton, 609-252-1766.
www.feldmanchiropractic.com.
“Trauma and its Resolution” presented by Edward Feldman, chiropractor, features information
about a healing form for back and
neck pain, sports injuries, insomnia, anxiety, depression, panic attacks, and more. $5. 2:30 to 4
p.m.
T’ai Chi Ch’uan, Plainsboro Public Library, 9 Van Doren Street,
609-275-2897. www.lmxac.org/plainsboro. Meditation in motion
presented by Todd Tieger for all
levels. Free. 10 a.m.
For Families
Please Join Dr Ron Suzuki
and
Suzuki Medical Associates
in Welcoming
Dr Jabbar Zafar and Rose Knapp, NP
Dr Zafar and Rose Knapp are now available to see
patients in both offices. We see children
and adults. Most major insurances
and Medicare are accepted.
65 South Main Street Bld. C
Pennington, NJ 08534
609 737 1116
11 Schalks Crossing Road
Plainsboro, NJ 08536
609 275 5700
Anniversary Celebration
Oldtime Baseball, Howell Living
History Farm, 70 Wooden’s
Lane, Lambertville, 609-7373299. www.howellfarm.org. Howell Farm Hogs vs. the Jersey Bulls
play according to the rules that
governed baseball when bats
were made of axe handles and
pitchers could be fined for delivering unhittable balls. Play or watch.
Rules will be presented to
prospective players at 11 a.m. An
1864 baseball game takes place
at noon between the Flemington
Neshanocks and the New York
Gothams with both teams in period attire. Brad Shaw presents the
history of the game and narrates
“Casey at the Bat.” 11 a.m. to 4
p.m.
Lectures
Field Day, Delaware Valley Radio
Association, Mercer County
Park, West Windsor, 609-5852001. www.w2zq.com. Ham radio
operators present emergency
communication capabilities. Free.
10 a.m. to Sunday, June 26, 10
a.m.
Study Group, Shreyas Yoga, Holsome Holistic Center, 27 Witherspoon Street, Princeton, 732-6428895.
www.shreyasyoga.com.
“Ancient Yogic Texts” presented
by Acharya Girish Jha. Register by
E-mail to info@shreyasyoga.com.
$45. 7 p.m.
Live Music
Wayne R and Take-1, Hopewell
Valley Bistro & Inn, 15 East
Broad Street, Hopewell, 609-4669889. www.hopewellvalleybistro.com. Country, ballads, and soft
rock from the 1950s to present.
Dinner and dancing. 7 to 9:30
p.m.
Paul Plumeri, Salt Creek Grille,
One Rockingham Row, Forrestal
Village, Plainsboro, 609-4194200. www.saltcreekgrille.com. 7
to 11 p.m.
Rider Furniture
Where Quality Still Matters
LARGEST SAVINGS
OF THE YEAR!
Entire Month of June!
Interior Design Service Available
4621 Route 27, Kingston, NJ
609-924-0147
Mon-Fri 10-6, Sat 10-5, Sun 12-5
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Larry Tritel, Thomas Sweet Ice
Cream, 183 Nassau Street,
Princeton, 609-683-8720. www.thomassweet.com. Guitar and vocals. 7 to 10 p.m.
Outdoor Action
Introduction to Fly Fishing,
Stony Brook Millstone Watershed, Pond House, 261 Wargo
Road, Pennington, 609-737-7592.
www.thewatershed.org.
Bart
Lombardo, president of Central
Jersey Trout Unlimited, presents
the sport to novices. Register. $25
includes the use of gear. 10 a.m.
to 1 p.m.
Butterfly House Tour, Stony
Brook Millstone Watershed, 31
Titus Mill Road, Pennington, 609-
Music for My Daughter: Brittany Fields of West
Windsor, who has a reflex sympathetic dystrophy, will
benefit from a rock concert featuring all original
material coordinated by her father, Steve Fields, on
vocals and piano. The concert will be held on Thursday, July 7, at Kelsey Theater, Mercer County College.
737-7592. www.thewatershed.org. Tour the house and the caterpillar zoo, catch butterflies in the
field with nets, and learn about native plants and butterflies. Cameras invited. Register. $5. 10 to 11
a.m.
Whatever Floats Your Boat from
1 to 3 p.m. Launch a small homemade boat down the Stony Brook.
Bring your own GPS unit. $5.
Family Nature Programs, Plainsboro Preserve, 80 Scotts Corner
Road, Plainsboro, 609-897-9400.
www.njaudubon.org. “The Basics
of Birding.” $5. 3:30 to 5 p.m.
Book Sale
Plainsboro Public Library, 9 Van
Doren Street, 609-275-2897.
www.lmxac.org/plainsboro. Hardbacks, $1; paperbacks, 50 cents;
miscellaneous media and art at
bargain prices. 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Socials
Red Hatters’ Worldwide Hoot,
Red Hat Society Headquarters,
St. Gregory’s Church, 4620 Nottingham Way, Hamilton, 609-4060624. All area chapters are invited
to get together at the carnival. Don
your red hat, purple outfit, boas,
and other feather accessories.
Fireworks and mummers. 6 p.m.
Recreation Sports
WW-P American Legion Baseball. Allentown at South. 11 a.m.
Sunday
June 26
On Stage
Little Shop of Horrors, OffBroadstreet Theater, 5 South
Greenwood Avenue, Hopewell,
609-466-2766.
www.off-broadstreet.com. Musical comedy about
a blood-thirsty exotic plant in a
skid row flower shop. Jim Petro of
Hamilton as Seymour and Vicky
Czarnik of Hopewell as Audrey.
Dessert included. $27.50 to
$29.50. 1 p.m.
Die, Mommie Die, Kelsey Theater, Mercer County Community
College, 1200 Old Trenton Road,
West Windsor, 609-570-3333.
www.kelseytheatre.net. Musical
by Charles Busch is a benefit for
the James Tolin Memorial Fund,
an organization that has raised
more than $50,000 for AIDS and
arts education charities. $14. 2
p.m.
Kitchen Talk, Lawrence Library,
Darrah Lane and Route 1, Lawrence Township, 609-989-6922.
www.mcl.org. Original play by
Elizabeth Avery. Register. Free. 2
p.m.
Into the Woods, Princeton Summer Theater, Hamilton Murray
Theater, Princeton University,
877-238-5596. www.pst2011.org.
Stephen Sondheim musical based
on fairy tales features Little Red
Riding Hood, Jack (of the
Beanstalk fame), Cinderella, Rapunzel, a very wicked witch, and
others. Directed by Jed Q. Peterson, Princeton University, Class of
2006. $20 to $25. 2 p.m.
Swing!, Washington Crossing
Open Air Theater, 355 Washington Crossing-Pennington Road,
Titusville, 267-885-9857. www.dpacatoat.com. Family musical.
$15. Blankets, seat cushions, and
insect repellent are recommended. Picnics welcome before show.
Food available. 7:30 p.m.
Family Theater
Beauty and the Beast, Washington Crossing Open Air Theater,
355 Washington Crossing-Pennington Road, Titusville, 267-8859857. www.dpacatoat.com. $5. 4
p.m.
Art
Art Exhibit, Grounds For Sculpture, 18 Fairgrounds Road, Hamilton,
609-586-0616.
www.groundsforsculpture.org. First day
for “Team Work,” a new exhibition
in the education gallery featuring
artwork created by the staff of
Grounds For Sculpture, the International Sculpture Center, and the
Sculpture Foundation. On view to
August 7. 10 a.m.
Fabric Art Show, Group Hug
Quilts, Nissen house, 14 Evans
Drive, Cranbury, 267-977-0543.
www.grouphugquilts.com. Exhibit
of quilts by Sammi Tessler
Nguyen, a classically trained
painter turned fabric artist. Inspired by American quilting traditions, antique Indian textiles, modern art, and her young nephew’s
drawings, Nguyen creates quilts
for nursery walls, weddings and
anniversaries, and organizes
groups to make their own fabric
creations. Meet the artist. 2 to 4
p.m.
Classical Music
Musical Theater Concert, Opera
New Jersey, Grounds For Sculpture, Hamilton, 609-799-7700.
www.operanj.org.
Emerging
artists program presents musical
theater selections and new favorites. Free with park admission.
2 p.m.
The Rake’s Progress, Princeton
Festival,
McCarter
Theater,
Princeton, 609-759-0379. www.princetonfestival.org. Princeton
Festival Chorus and Orchestra
perform. Directed by Steven La
Cosse. Richard Tang Yuk conducts. $30 to $125. 3 p.m.
Outdoor Concerts
Concert
and
Fireworks,
Hopewell Valley Veterans Association, Alliger Park, 203 Washington
Crossing
Pennington
Road, Titusville. www.hopewellvalleyveterans.org. Concert by the
78th Army Band followed by fireworks display. A variety of music
including military songs and traditional concert pieces. Alcohol is
prohibited. Carpooling is recommended. Free. 7:30 p.m.
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World Music
Concert, Lashir, Richardson Auditorium, Princeton University, 609924-0330. Jewish community
choir of Princeton features music
from around the Jewish world and
salutes the 100th anniversary of
the Kibbutz movement. A suite of
Passover selections from Israeli
composer Yehezkel Braun with
arrangements
of
traditional
melodies from Tunisia, Italy, and
Bucharest. Program concludes
with texts associated with Shabbot, drawing from Sephardic and
Ashkenazic melodies. Conducted
by Marsha Bryan Edelman and accompanied by Laurent Levy. Free.
2 p.m.
Faith
Friendship
Circle,
Mercer
Friends, Princeton area, 609683-7240. www.mercerfriends.com. Cooking circle for Jewish
adults with special needs. Register. Free. 6 p.m.
Wellness
Angel Workshop, Center for Relaxation and Healing, 666 Plainsboro Road, Suite 635, Plainsboro,
609-750-7432. www.relaxationandhealing.com. Exploration of
the nature of angels. Register.
$55. 1 to 4:30 p.m.
Multicultural Benefit, Web of
Compassion, Albert Hinds Plaza,
Witherspoon Street, Princeton,
609-203-5854.
www.webofcompassion.org. Dance, music,
and art performances; and instruction in salsa, mambo, tango, flamenco, and belly dance. 5 to 8
p.m.
Live Music
Karl Dentino and John Sudia,
Cherry Grove Farm, 3200 Lawrenceville Road, Lawrenceville,
609-219-0053. www.cherrygrovefarm.com. Ragtime blues featuring minstrel style guitar blues and
ragtime from the 1920s and ‘30s.
Noon and 2 p.m.
Outdoor Action
Annual Meeting, Friends of
Princeton Nursery Lands, 145
Mapleton Road, Kingston, 609683-0483. www.fpnl.org. “New,
Rare, and Unusual Woody Plants
for the New Jersey Landscape”
presented by Heidi Flemer Hesselein, co-founder of Pleasant Run
Nursery and daughter of William
Flemer III. Raised at Princeton
Nurseries, she married Richard
Hesselein, a fourth generation
nursery man. Business meeting
and election of trustees. Refreshments. Free. 7:30 to 9 p.m.
Book Sale
Plainsboro Public Library, 9 Van
Doren Street, 609-275-2897.
www.lmxac.org/plainsboro. Stuff
any size bag for $3. 10 a.m. to 4
p.m.
Recreation Sports
WW-P American Legion Baseball. Hamilton 31 at Steinert High
School. 11 a.m.
Monday
June 27
Municipal Meetings
Public Meeting, West Windsor
Township Council, Municipal
Building, 609-799-2400. www.westwindsornj.org. 7 p.m.
Film
Princeton Public Library, 65
Witherspoon Street, 609-9248822. www.princetonlibrary.org.
Screening of “Queen of the Sun:
What are the bees telling us?” a
documentary focusing on life and
disappearance of bees through
beekeepers, philosophers, and
scientists. 7 p.m.
Literati
Plainsboro
Literary
Group,
Plainsboro Public Library, 9 Van
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Doren Street, 609-275-2897.
www.lmxac.org/plainsboro. Nibbles, conversation, and readings.
6:30 p.m.
Author Event, Barnes & Noble,
MarketFair, West Windsor, 609716-1570. www.bn.com. Sarah
Ferguson, the Duchess of York,
launches her memoir “Finding
Sarah.” Line passes will be distributed beginning at 9 a.m. to those
with receipt of at least one copy of
the book from Barnes & Noble or
www.bn.com. 7 p.m.
Pop Music
Rehearsal, Jersey Harmony
Chorus, Plainsboro Public Library, 9 Van Doren Street, Plainsboro,
732-236-6803.
www.harmonize.com/jerseyharmony.
New members are welcome. 7:15
p.m.
Mental Health
For Seniors
Recovery Support Program, NAMI Mercer, 3371 Brunswick Pike,
Suite 124, Lawrenceville, 609799-8994. www.namimercer.org.
For people with mental illness. Email Erika Reading at ereading@namimercer.org for information.
Register. Free. 6 to 7:30 p.m.
Retirees Group, West Windsor
Senior Center, 271 Clarksville
Road, West Windsor, 609-7999068. “Revealing Crime Statistics”
presented by West Windsor Police
Chief Joe Pica and Sergeant Bill
Bastedo. Among the statistics are
an average of 102 phone calls per
day, 151 traffic accidents per
month, and 38 arrests for drug, alcohol, and other offenses. Free.
10 a.m.
For Families
Mr. Malcolm, South Brunswick
Library, 110 Kingston Lane, Monmouth Junction, 732-329-4000.
www.sbpl.info. Interactive children’s theater with storyteller for
ages three and up. Free with
reservation. 3 and 4 p.m.
Lectures
Computer Class, Hickory Corner
Library, 138 Hickory Corner
Road, East Windsor, 609-4481330. www.mcl.org. “Windows”
for non-computer users seeking to
gain a basic understanding of the
PC component and operations.
Start-up and shut down; application programs; managing and organizing files and folders; and
printing. Register. Free. 10 a.m. to
noon.
Computer Class, Hickory Corner
Library, 138 Hickory Corner
Road, East Windsor, 609-4481330. www.mcl.org. “Internet” for
non-computer users seeking to
gain a basic usage of the Internet,
understanding of web site addresses, search engines, and a
web search with emphasis on
web-based job searches. Register. Free. 2 to 4 p.m.
Job Search Strategies for Older
Workers, Princeton Public Library, 65 Witherspoon Street,
609-924-8822. www.princetonlibrary.org. Presentation by Carol
King, director of the Center for Engaged Retirement and Encore Careers. 7:30 p.m.
Outdoor Action
Butterfly House Tour, Stony
Brook Millstone Watershed, 31
Titus Mill Road, Pennington, 609737-7592. www.thewatershed.org. Tour the house and the caterpillar zoo, catch butterflies in the
field with nets, and learn about native plants and butterflies. Cameras invited. Register. $5. 10 to 11
a.m.
Schools
Open
House,
Intelliscience
Academy, 501 Forrestal Road,
Plainsboro, 609-558-1227. www.intelliscienceacademy.com. Information about robotics sessions for
children in grades five to eight.
Weekly sessions begin Monday,
July 11, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., Monday
to Friday. $300 per week. 10 a.m.
to 3 p.m.
Singles
Singles Night, Grover’s Mill Coffee House, 335 Princeton Hightstown Road, West Windsor, 609716-8771.
www.groversmillcoffee.com. Drop in for soups,
sandwiches, desserts, tea, coffee
and conversation. Register at
http://ht.ly/3gd9w 6:30 to 8 p.m.
Opera Video Series, Princeton
Senior
Resource
Center,
Suzanne Patterson Building, 609924-7108. www.princetonsenior.org. Screening of “Don Giovanni.”
Carol King introduces. Bring a
lunch. Dessert and beverages
provided. Register. Free. 12:30
p.m.
Sports
Trenton Thunder Baseball, Waterfront Park, Route 29, 609-3948326. www.trentonthunder.com.
New Hampshire. $10 to $13. 7:05
p.m.
Sports for Causes
Summer Golf Classic, New Jersey Metro Chapter of the National Multiple Sclerosis Society, Plainfield Country Club, 732660-1005.
www.nationalmssociety.org. Register. 9 a.m.
Sounds of Indonesia: The Indonesia Youth Cordana
Choir performs at Princeton Presbyterian Church,
545 Meadow Road, West Windsor, on Friday, July 1.
Tuesday
June 28
Municipal Meetings
Meeting, WW-P Board of Education, Community Middle School,
609-716-5000. 7:30 p.m.
Art
Art Exhibit, South Brunswick
Arts
Commission,
South
Brunswick Municipal Building, 540
Route 522, Monmouth Junction,
732-329-4000. Opening reception
for “Teachers Are Artists II,” a new
exhibit. On view to September 2.
6:30 to 8 p.m.
Dancing
Salsa
Class,
HotSalsaHot,
Princeton Dance and Theater Studio, 116 Rockingham Row, Forrestal Village, Plainsboro, 609-6516070. www.hotsalsahot.com. For
beginners and advanced beginners. $18. 7 p.m.
Literati
Author Event, Barnes & Noble,
MarketFair, West Windsor, 609716-1570. www.bn.com. Mika
Brzezinski, author of “Knowing
Your Value: Women, Money, and
Getting What You’re Worth,” is on
television’s Morning Joe show.
Booksigning. Line passes for seating and signing begin at 5 and require the purchase of at least one
copy of the book. Rescheduled
from May 10. 7 p.m.
Author Event, Princeton Public
Library, 65 Witherspoon Street,
609-924-8822. www.princetonlibrary.org. “Ghost Towns in New
Jersey” presented by Barbara
Solem-Stull, author of “Ghost
Towns and Other Quirky Place in
the New Jersey Pine Barrens.”
She will discuss the ruins of towns
that rose up around the iron furnaces, glass factories, cranberry
farms, and brick making establishments of the past. 7:30 p.m.
Live Music
Open Mic Night, Grover’s Mill
Coffee House, 335 Princeton
Hightstown Road, West Windsor,
609-716-8771. www.groversmillcoffee.com. 7 p.m.
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Outdoor Concerts
Thursday Night Jazz, Carnegie
Center Concert Series, West
Windsor, 609-452-1444. Free.
Noon to 1:30 p.m.
Pop Music
Barbershop Chorus, Princeton
Garden Statesmen, Plainsboro
Library, 9 Van Doren Street,
Plainsboro, 609-799-8218. www.princetongardenstatesmen.com.
Men of all ages and experience
levels are invited to sing in fourpart harmony. The non-profit organization presents at numerous
charities. Free. 7:30 to 10 p.m.
Beef, Barolo, and Bourbon, Eno
Terra Restaurant, 4484 Route
27, Kingston, 609-497-1777.
www.enoterra.com. Five course
dinner and a Padron cigar. Register. $95. 6 p.m.
Health
Pre-Adoption Support Group, Infertility and Adoption Counseling Center, 2 Tree Farm Road,
Pennington,
609-737-8750.
www.iaccenter.com. Register. 7
to 8:30 p.m.
Kids Stuff
Read & Pick Program, Terhune
Orchards, 330 Cold Soil Road,
609-924-2310.
www.terhuneorchards.com. “Monarchs, Swallowtails, and Honeybees: Oh My”
combines hands-on farm activity
and a story for ages preschool to
eight. Register. $5 includes a craft
project to take home. 9:30 and 11
a.m.
Lectures
Computer Class, Hickory Corner
Library, 138 Hickory Corner
Road, East Windsor, 609-4481330. www.mcl.org. “Windows”
for non-computer users seeking to
gain a basic understanding of the
PC component and operations.
Start-up and shut down; application programs; managing and organizing files and folders; and
printing. Register. Free. 10 a.m. to
noon.
Computer Class, Hickory Corner
Library, 138 Hickory Corner
Road, East Windsor, 609-4481330. www.mcl.org. “Internet” for
non-computer users seeking to
gain a basic usage of the Internet,
understanding of web site addresses, search engines, and a
web search with emphasis on
web-based job searches. Register. Free. 2 to 4 p.m.
Residents Working Group, Sustainable Princeton, Whole Earth
Center, 360 Nassau Street,
Princeton, 609-924-5366. sustainableprinceton.org. Meeting to discuss sustainable ideas and approaches for the community. 7:30
p.m.
Singles
Pizza Night, Yardley Singles,
Vince’s, 25 South Main Street,
Yardley, 215-736-1288. www.yardleysingles.org. Register. 6
p.m.
Molly Dancing, circa 18th Century Rural England:
Princeton’s Handsome Molly joins Green River Tap
& Die from Massachusetts and the Quality from
Michigan, Saturday, July 2, at West Windsor Farmers
Market at 9:30 a.m.; Terhune Orchards at 11 a.m.;
Howell Living History Farm at 1:30 p.m.; and
Hopewell Valley Vineyards at 3:30 p.m. Also, Sunday, July 3, Princeton University at 11:30 a.m.;
and Grounds For Sculpture at 1:30 p.m.
Socials
Sports
Wellness
Men’s Circle, West Windsor, 609933-4280. Share, listen, and support other men and yourself. Talk
about relationship, no relationship, separation, divorce, sex, no
sex, money, job, no job, aging parents, raising children, teens, addictions, illness, and fear of aging.
All men are expected to commit to
confidentiality. Call for location.
Free. 7 to 9 p.m.
Trenton Thunder Baseball, Waterfront Park, Route 29, 609-3948326. www.trentonthunder.com.
New Hampshire. $10 to $13. 7:05
p.m.
Wednesday
June 29
Yoga Workshop, Shreyas Yoga,
Holsome Holistic Center, 27 Witherspoon Street, Princeton, 732642-8895.
www.shreyasyoga.com. Yoga in the Himalayan tradition with Acharya Girish Jha. Register at info@shreyasyoga.com.
First class is free. 9:15 a.m.
Recreation Sports
WW-P American Legion Baseball. Hightstown 148 at South.
5:45 p.m.
Film
Princeton Public Library, 65 Witherspoon Street, 609-924-8822.
princetonlibrary.org. Screening of
“Motorcycle Diaries,” 2004. In conjunction with a three-course meal
at Mediterra, $30. Register at 609252-9680. 7:30 p.m.
Dancing
Landscape Designer
◆ Landscaping:
• Full landscape designs
& installations
• Brick walls &
paver patios
• Timber walls
• Waterfalls & ponds
◆ Maintenance:
• Full lawn care
• Bed maintenance
• Mulching
• Chemicals
• Seasonal flower
planting
◆ Shrub & Tree
Maintenance:
• Pruning
• Spraying
• Tree removal
◆ Snow Removal:
• Plowing
• Salting
• Sidewalk clearing
Since 1975
Salsa
Class,
HotSalsaHot,
Princeton YWCA, 59 Paul Robeson Place, Princeton, 609-6516070. www.hotsalsahot.com. Beginner and advanced beginner
salsa. $18. 6:30 p.m.
Contra Dance, Princeton Country Dancers, Suzanne Patterson
Center, Monument Drive, 609924-6763. www.princetoncountrydancers.org. Instruction followed
by dance. $8. 7:30 to 10:30 p.m.
Outdoor Concerts
Summer Concert Series, Arts
Council of Princeton, Forrestal
Village, 206 Rockingham Row,
Plainsboro, 609-924-8777. www.artscouncilofprinceton.org. Eco
del Sur with ancient Andean music
and contemporary music from different Latin American regions.
Free. 5 to 7 p.m.
Gardens
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Summer Gardening, Mary Jacobs Library, 64 Washington
Street, Rocky Hill, 609-924-7073.
“Do It Yourself Rain Garden” presented by Carl Lewis, a master
gardener. He will outline the basic
steps of planning, planting, and
maintaining a rain garden. Register. Free. 7 p.m.
Health
Blood Drive, Plainsboro Public
Library, 9 Van Doren Street, 609275-2897. www.lmxac.org/plainsboro. 1 to 7 p.m.
Blood Drive, Greater New Jersey
Blood Council, Weichert Realtors, 417 Route 130, East Windsor, 609-448-1400. Register. 3 to
7 p.m.
Intro to EFT, Center for Relaxation and Healing, 666 Plainsboro Road, Suite 635, Plainsboro,
609-750-7432. www.relaxationandhealing.com.
Presentation
about Emotional Freedom Technique. Register. $22. 7 to 9 p.m.
History
Guided Tour, Drumthwacket
Foundation, 354 Stockton Street,
Princeton, 609-683-0057. www.drumthwacket.org. New Jersey
governor’s official residence. Register. $5 donation. Call for group
tours. 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Tour and Tea, Morven Museum,
55 Stockton Street, Princeton,
609-924-8144. www.morven.org.
Tour the restored mansion, galleries, and gardens before or after
tea. Register. $20. 1 p.m.
For Families
Summer Program Series, Princeton University Players, Frist
Campus Center, South Patio, 609258-1500. www.princeton.edu/pup. Nelly’s Echo presents a concert of reggae, soul, and blues.
Refreshments. Inside if it rains.
Free. 4:30 p.m.
Family Bounce Night, Bounce U,
410 Princeton Hightstown Road,
West Windsor, 609-443-5867.
www.bounceu.com. Must be 34
inches to bounce. $8.95 per child.
Adults bounce for free. $3.25 extra
for pizza. 6 to 8 p.m.
For Parents
Parenting Workshop, South
Brunswick Library, 110 Kingston
Lane, Monmouth Junction, 732329-4000. www.sbpl.info. “ABCs
of Pediatric Emergencies” presented by Dr. Craig Gronczewski
includes poisonings, allergic reactions, bleeding, and swallowed objects. Register. Free. 7 p.m.
For Teens
Simple Batik, West Windsor Library, 333 North Post Road, 609275-8901. www.mcl.org. For ages
12 to 18. Register. 2:30 p.m.
Lectures
Lighthouses, Cranbury Digital
Camera Club, Cranbury United
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Methodist Church, 21 North Main
Street, Cranbury. www.cranburydigitalcameraclub.org. E-mail info@cranburydigitalcameraclub.org for information. 8 p.m.
Live Music
The Ferrymen, Salt Creek Grille,
One Rockingham Row, Forrestal
Village, Plainsboro, 609-4194200. www.saltcreekgrille.com. 7
to 11 p.m.
Outdoor Action
Secret Life of Fireflies, Stony
Brook Millstone Watershed, 31
Titus Mill Road, Pennington, 609737-7592. www.thewatershed.org. Jeff Hoagland introduces a
variety of species, identifying them
by their different flash patterns.
Register. $12. 8 to 10 p.m.
Schools
Information Session, Brain Balance, 21 Route 31 North, Suite
A2, Pennington, 609-737-1310.
www.brainbalancecenters.com.
Presentation about a non-medical
approach to working with children
with autism, asperger’s, dyslexia,
Tourettes, ADD, or ADHD by Dr.
Vincent Kiechlin. The first 20 people to register receive a free book
by Dr. Robert Melillo, the director
of Brain Balance Achievement
Centers. Refreshments. Free. 7 to
8 p.m.
Shopping News
Star Spangled Event, Boehm
Porcelain Gallery, 25 Princess
Diana Lane, Trenton, 609-3922207. www.boehmporcelain.com.
Galleries open to celebrate the
Fourth of July with art sculptures.
Rain or shine. 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.
For Seniors
Town Hall Meeting, Aging in
Place Partnership, Woodlot Park
Meeting Room, Kendall Park, 732305-7079. Explore options to live
in an elder-friendly and family-oriented community for those planning to retire or who want to downsize. Register. Free. 6 to 8 p.m.
Sports
Trenton Thunder Baseball, Waterfront Park, Route 29, 609-3948326. www.trentonthunder.com.
New Hampshire. $10 to $13.
12:05 p.m.
Thursday
June 30
On Stage
Into the Woods, Princeton Summer Theater, Hamilton Murray
Theater, Princeton University,
877-238-5596. www.pst2011.org.
Stephen Sondheim musical based
on fairy tales features Little Red
Riding Hood, Jack (of the
Beanstalk fame), Cinderella, Rapunzel, a very wicked witch, and
others. Directed by Jed Q. Peterson, Princeton University, Class of
2006. $20 to $25. 7:30 p.m.
Family Theater
The Three Little Pigs, Princeton
Summer Theater, Hamilton Murray Theater, Princeton University,
877-238-5596. www.pst2011.org.
$9. 11 a.m.
Film
Princeton Public Library, 65
Witherspoon Street, 609-9248822. www.princetonlibrary.org.
Screening of “Inside Job,” a documentary about the recent financial
crisis. 6:30 p.m.
Art
Art Exhibit, Arts Council of
Princeton, 102 Witherspoon
Street, 609-924-8777. www.artscouncilofprinceton.org. Opening
reception for “VIII: Gregory
Perke’s Annual Master Class Exhibition,” an exhibit of paintings by
students of Gregory Perkel. Participating artists include Heather
Barros, Cindy Butler, Jeng Dong,
A Spot of Shakespeare to Lighten Up Summer:
Shakespeare's comedy about mistaken identity, love,
and frivolities, ‘Twelfth Night, or What You Will,’
opens Friday, July 1, at 7:30 p.m., at Kelsey Theater,
Mercer County College, West Windsor. Pictured:
Maria (Madeline Patrick) scolds Sir Toby Belch
(Dale Simon) as Feste (Pat Albanesius) looks on.
Gemma Farrell, Barbara Heck,
Jeaninne
Honstein,
Leslie
Kuenne, Nancy Matejka, Berit
Marshall, Lucy McVicker, Meg
Michaels, Dennis Normile, Gill
Stewart, Anne Marie Woodrow,
Johanna Wirtz, Ewa Zeller, and
Ryan Lilienthal. On view to July 8.
6 to 8 p.m.
Life Drawing Open Studio, West
Windsor Arts Council, 952
Alexander Road, West Windsor,
609-919-1982.
www.westwindsorarts.org. Bring your own
materials. Live model. $12. 7 to 10
p.m.
Dancing
Salsa
Class,
HotSalsaHot,
Princeton YWCA, 59 Paul Robeson Place, Princeton, 609-6516070. www.hotsalsahot.com. Beginner and advanced beginner
salsa. $18. 6:30 p.m.
Argentine Tango, Black Cat Tango, Suzanne Patterson Center,
Monument Drive, Princeton, 609273-1378. www.theblackcattango.com. Beginner and intermediate classes followed by guided
practice. No partner necessary.
$12. 8 p.m.
Outdoor Concerts
Summer Courtyard Concert Series, Arts Council of Princeton,
Princeton Shopping Center, 301
North Harrison Street, Princeton,
609-924-8777. www.artscouncilofprinceton.org. The Blawenburg
Band founded in 1890 includes 75
members ranging from teens to
ninety-plus. Free. 6:30 to 8:30
p.m.
Good Causes
Wine and Dine, Big Brothers Big
Sisters, Salt Creek Grille, Forrestal Village, Plainsboro, 609-4194200. www.bbbsmercer.org. Food
and wine pairings. Music by 3d Ritmo de Vida, Meg Hanson, and Billy Hill. Register. $60 to $75. 5 to 9
p.m.
Food & Dining
ABC Wine Tasting, Tre Bar, Forrestal Village, Plainsboro, 609452-1515.
www.trepiani.com.
Taste eight new wines accompanied by tapas. (ABC is anything
but chardonnay and cabernet).
Register. $34.95. 5:30 to 7:30
p.m.
Farmers’ Markets
Princeton Farmers Market, Hinds
Plaza, 55 Witherspoon Street,
Princeton, 609-356-0558. www.princetonfarmersmarket.com.
Produce, cheese, breads, baked
goods, flowers, chef cooking
demonstrations, books for sale,
family activities, and workshops.
Music from 12:30 to 2:30 p.m.
Rain or shine. 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Wellness
Colon Cancer and Women,
Princeton HealthCare System,
Breast Health Center, East Windsor Medical Commons 2, 300B
Princeton-Hightstown Road, East
Windsor, 888-897-8979. www.princetonhcs.org.
Presentation
about screening guidelines, diagnosis, and treatment options.
Free. 7 p.m.
History
Stars and Stripes: Fabric of the
American Spirit, Morven Museum, 55 Stockton Street, Princeton,
609-924-8144.
www.morven.org. Opening reception
for an exhibit of 100 flags from the
Pierce Collection to American Parade Flags, a tribute the America’s
national symbol. The Flag Act
specified only that the flag of the
United States be 13 stripes, alternating red and white, and that the
union be 13 stars, white in a blue
field. A variety of configurations
and patterns will be on display
though October 30. 5:30 to 7:30
p.m.
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Benefit Galas
Wine and Dine, Salt Creek Grille,
One Rockingham Row, Forrestal
Village, Plainsboro, 609-4194200. www.saltcreekgrille.com.
Food, wine, and beer samplings.
Silent auction. Music by Billy Hill
and 3-D. Register. $75 benefits
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Mercer
County. 5 to 9 p.m.
Spirit of America, Central NJ
Council, Boy Scouts of America, Westin Hotel, Forrestal Village, Plainsboro, 609-419-1600.
www.cnjcscouting.org. Cocktail
reception, dinner, and awards.
Honorees include Al Maghazehe,
president and CEO, Capital
Health; Jeffrey M. Rosenthal,
Greenberg Traurig; Tom Troy, senior VP Sharbell Development;
and Terrance J. McCarty, senior
VP, TD Bank. Business attire.
Register. $250. 6 p.m.
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For Families
Mr Ray Concert, West Windsor
Library, 333 North Post Road,
609-799-0462. Outdoor concert.
Bring sun block and water. 10:30
to 11:15 a.m.
Magic Show, Princeton Public Library, 65 Witherspoon Street,
609-924-8822. www.princetonlibrary.org. “The World of Magic”
features magic from China, India,
France, England, Russia, and
Africa. 3 p.m.
For Teens
Studio Scrawl, West Windsor Library, 333 North Post Road, 609275-8901. www.mcl.org. Playwriting for ages 12 to 18. Register.
6:30 to 8:30 p.m.
Singles
Divorced and Separated Support
Group, Hopewell Presbyterian
Church, 80 West Broad Street,
Hopewell, 609-452-8576. www.hopewellpres.org. Register. Free.
7:30 to 9 p.m.
Recreation Sports
WW-P American Legion Baseball. Hopewell 339 at South. 5:45
p.m.
Sports
Trenton Thunder Baseball, Waterfront Park, Route 29, 609-3948326. www.trentonthunder.com.
Altoona. $10 to $13. 7:05 p.m.
Friday
July 1
Literati
Author Event, Barnes & Noble,
MarketFair, West Windsor, 609716-1570. www.bn.com. Artie
Bennett, author of “The Butt
Book,” visits for a reading and
booksigning. Written and illustrated for children ages 2 to 12, it is also a coloring and activity book.
Visit artiebennett.com for more
butt-related trivia. Bennett participated in the Princeton Children’s
Book Festival. 11:30 a.m.
On Stage
Little Shop of Horrors, OffBroadstreet Theater, 5 South
Greenwood Avenue, Hopewell,
609-466-2766.
www.off-broadstreet.com. Musical comedy about
a blood-thirsty exotic plant in a
skid row flower shop. Jim Petro of
Hamilton as Seymour and Vicky
Czarnik of Hopewell as Audrey.
Dessert included. $27.50 to
$29.50. 7 p.m.
Twelfth Night or What You Will,
Kelsey Theater, Mercer County
Community College, 1200 Old
Trenton Road, West Windsor,
609-570-3333.
www.kelseytheatre.net. Shakespeare’s comedy about mistaken identity, love,
and frivolities. $14. 7:30 p.m.
Into the Woods, Princeton Summer Theater, Hamilton Murray
Theater, Princeton University,
877-238-5596. www.pst2011.org.
Stephen
Sondheim
musical
based on fairy tales features Little
Red Riding Hood, Jack (of the
Beanstalk fame), Cinderella, Rapunzel, a very wicked witch, and
others. Directed by Jed Q. Peterson, Princeton University, Class of
2006. $20 to $25. 7:30 p.m.
Stars n’ Stripes Fourth of July
Celebration,
Washington
Crossing Open Air Theater, 355
Washington Crossing-Pennington
Road, Titusville, 267-885-9857.
www.dpacatoat.com. $15. Blankets, seat cushions, and insect repellent are recommended. Picnics
welcome before show. Food available. 7:30 p.m.
Family Theater
The Three Little Pigs, Princeton
Summer Theater, Hamilton Murray Theater, Princeton University,
877-238-5596. www.pst2011.org.
$9. 11 a.m.
Beauty and the Beast, Washington Crossing Open Air Theater,
355 Washington Crossing-Pennington Road, Titusville, 267-8859857.pacatoat.com. $5. 11 a.m.
Dancing
Outdoor Dancing, Central Jersey
Dance Society, Hinds Plaza,
Witherspoon Street, Princeton,
609-945-1883.
www.centraljerseydance.org. Salsa and Latin
dance. No partner needed. Surface is smooth stone. Free. 7:30
to 9:30 p.m.
Live Music
Wine and Music, Hopewell Valley
Vineyards, 46 Yard Road, Pennington, 609-737-4465. www.hopewellvalleyvineyards.com.
Wine by the glass or bottle available. Robert Phillips plays jazz
guitar. 6 to 9 p.m.
Double Standards, Molto Bene
Caffe y Mercato Italiano, 116
North Main Street, Hightstown,
609-448-1588. www.downtownhightstown.org. Guitar and double
bass. 6 to 9 p.m.
CJ Barna, Grover’s Mill Coffee
House, 335 Princeton Hightstown
Road, West Windsor, 609-7168771.
www.groversmillcoffee.com. 7:30 p.m.
Outdoor Concerts
Summer Concert Series, Mercer
County, Marina, Mercer County
Park, West Windsor, 609-4487241.
www.mercercounty.org.
Steve Magglio Sinatra Tribute.
Food available. Bring lawn chairs.
Free. 6 to 8 p.m.
World Music
Indonesia Youth Cordana Choir,
West Windsor Arts Council,
Princeton Presbyterian Church,
545 Meadow Road, West Windsor, 609-716-1931. www.westwindsorarts.org. “The Sound of Indonesia” celebrates the diverse
heritage and performance traditions in performance of Janger, a
Balinese folk song; Rampa Aceh,
a traditional dance; and Tokitifa, a
Maluku folksong. $20 benefits
area arts programs. 7:30 p.m.
Expand Your Brain: Edward Tenner, author
of ‘Why Things Bite Back: Technology and
the Revenge of Unintended Consequences,’
launches Plainsboro Library's Wordtastic Discovery Summer, Wednesday, July 6, at 7 p.m.
Comedy
Catch a Rising Star, Hyatt Regency, 102 Carnegie Center,
West Windsor, 609-987-8018.
www.catcharisingstar.com. Register. $19.50. 8 p.m.
Saturday
July 2
Fireworks
On Stage
Fireworks, Spirit of Princeton,
Princeton Stadium, 609-6834008.
www.spiritofprinceton.homestead.com. Independence
Day celebration. Picnics welcome.
Bring blankets or chairs. No alcoholic beverages. 7 p.m.
Into the Woods, Princeton Summer Theater,
Hamilton Murray Theater,
Princeton
University,
877-238-5596.
www.pst2011.org.
Stephen
Sondheim musical based
on fairy tales features Little Red Riding Hood, Jack
(of the Beanstalk fame),
Cinderella, Rapunzel, a
very wicked witch, and others. Directed by Jed Q. Peterson, Princeton University, Class of 2006. $20
to $25. 2 and 7:30 p.m.
Food & Dining
Restaurant Supported Agriculture Dinner Series, Tre Piani,
120 Rockingham Row, Forrestal
Village, Plainsboro, 609-4521515. www.trepiani.com. Complete dinner based on local ingredients may be served as a buffet,
plated, or family style. Leftover
food will be donated to an area
food bank. Register. $35. 6:30 to
9:30 p.m.
Wellness
Tai Chi, West Windsor Recreation, Senior Center, Clarksville
Road, West Windsor, 609-7999068. www.wwparks-recreation.com. Free. 8:15 a.m.
Live Music
Sandy Jacobs, Salt Creek Grille,
One Rockingham Row, Forrestal
Village, Plainsboro, 609-4194200. www.saltcreekgrille.com. 7
to 11 p.m.
Little Shop of Horrors, OffBroadstreet Theater, 5 South
Greenwood Avenue, Hopewell,
609-466-2766.
www.off-broadstreet.com. Musical comedy about
a blood-thirsty exotic plant in a
skid row flower shop. Jim Petro of
Hamilton as Seymour and Vicky
Czarnik of Hopewell as Audrey.
Dessert included. $27.50 to
$29.50. 7 p.m.
Twelfth Night or What You Will,
Kelsey Theater, Mercer County
Community College, 1200 Old
Trenton Road, West Windsor,
609-570-3333.
www.kelseytheatre.net. Shakespeare’s comedy about mistaken identity, love,
and frivolities. $14. 7:30 p.m.
Young
Artists
Workshops,
Princeton Summer Theater,
Hamilton Murray Theater, Princeton University, 877-238-5596.
www.pst2011.org. “Voice: A Musical Workshop” for ages 7 to 13.
Register. $35. 1:30 p.m.
Stars n’ Stripes Fourth of July
Celebration,
Washington
Crossing Open Air Theater, 355
Washington Crossing-Pennington
Road, Titusville, 267-885-9857.
www.dpacatoat.com. $15. Blankets, seat cushions, and insect repellent are recommended. Picnics
welcome before show. Food available. 7:30 p.m.
Singles
Family Theater
Schools
Divorce Recovery Program,
Princeton Church of Christ, 33
River Road, Princeton, 609-5813889.
www.princetonchurchofchrist.com. Non-denominational
support group for men and
women. Free. 7:30 p.m.
Socials
Luncheon, Rotary Club of the
Princeton Corridor, Hyatt Regency, Carnegie Center, 609-7990525.
www.princetoncorridorrotary.org. Register. Guests, $25.
12:15 p.m.
Sports
Trenton Thunder Baseball, Waterfront Park, Route 29, 609-3948326. www.trentonthunder.com.
Altoona. $10 to $13. Fireworks.
7:05 p.m.
The Three Little Pigs, Princeton
Summer Theater, Hamilton Murray Theater, Princeton University,
877-238-5596. www.pst2011.org.
$9. 11 a.m.
Beauty and the Beast, Washington Crossing Open Air Theater,
355 Washington Crossing-Pennington Road, Titusville, 267-8859857. dpacatoat.com. $5. 11 a.m.
Classical Music
Music Under the Stars, Opera
New Jersey, Palmer Square,
Princeton, 609-799-7700. www.operanj.org. Emerging artists program presents opera selections.
Free. 7 p.m.
Live Music
Province Line, Grover’s Mill Coffee House, 335 Princeton Hightstown Road, West Windsor, 609716-8771.
www.groversmillcoffee.com. 7:30 p.m.
Outdoor Concerts
Summer Music Series, Palmer
Square, On the Green, 609-921-
2333. www.palmersquare.com.
Free. 2 to 4 p.m.
Fireworks
Independence Day Celebration,
South Brunswick Recreation,
Crossroads Middle School, Kingston Lane, 732-329-4000. www.sbtnj.net. Music and entertainment. Food vendors. Fireworks at
9 p.m. Bring chairs, blankets, and
picnics. 3 p.m.
Fireworks, East Windsor Township.
www.east-windsor.nj.us.
Music. Fireworks at 9:30 p.m.
Raindate is Saturday, July 2. 6
p.m.
Comedy
Catch a Rising Star, Hyatt Regency, 102 Carnegie Center,
West Windsor, 609-987-8018.
www.catcharisingstar.com. Register. $22. 7:30 and 9:30 p.m.
Farmers’ Markets
West Windsor Community Farmers’ Market, Vaughn Drive Parking Lot, Princeton Junction Train
Station, 609-933-4452. www.westwindsorfarmersmarket.org.
Produce, bakery items, pizza, coffee, and other foods and flowers.
West Windsor Arts Council presents the Molly Dancers at 9:30
a.m. West Windsor Bike and
Pedestrian Alliance and Yes, We
Can, a volunteer group that collects food for the Crisis Ministry of
Princeton and Trenton will be present. Cooking demo at 10 a.m. 9
a.m. to 1 p.m.
Gardens
Butterfly
House,
Middlesex
County Agricultural Extension,
Earth Center in Davidson’s Mill
Pond Park, 42 Riva Avenue,
South Brunswick, 732-398-5262.
The house is filled with plants that
feed and shelter butterflies and
larvae native to New Jersey. Visitors get an up close look at the
showy insects. Master gardeners
answer questions. Free. 10 a.m.
to noon.
Wellness
T’ai Chi Ch’uan, Plainsboro Public Library, 9 Van Doren Street,
609-275-2897. www.lmxac.org/plainsboro. Meditation in motion
presented by Todd Tieger for all
levels. Free. 10 a.m.
...Growing in Faith Together...
Summer Schedule - Beginning July 3rd
Sunday morning service at 9:30 a.m.
Church school and staffed nursery at 9:30 a.m.
Wednesdays at 9:15 a.m., Healing Service
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Fireworks, Flags, Festivals, and Family Fun
L
et the celebrations begin for
the 235th anniversary of the
United States of America!
The seventh annual Freedom Festival will be held at Mercer County
Park in West Windsor on Saturday,
June 25, from 3 to 11 p.m. Admission is free.
The event features food, beer
and wine gardens, craft vendors,
live music, tethered hot-air balloon
rides, games, water rides, quoits
pits, a children’s area with inflatable rides, and more. The festival
culminates in a fireworks display at
nightfall.
The concert lineup starts with
Bad Medicine, a Bon Jovi cover
band, at 3:30 p.m.; Lost in Paris at
5:30 p.m.; the Amish Outlaws at
7:30 p.m., and Incognito immediately after the fireworks.
“The Freedom Festival gets better each year, with help from our
lead sponsor, WPST, and we are so
pleased that it has become an annual attraction,” said Brian Hughes,
Mercer County Executive, in a
press release. “Mercer County
Park is more popular than ever and
I invite everyone to come to this
free family event.”
Some of the numerous Fourth of
July festivities in the area include:
Freedom Festival, Mercer County,
Mercer County Park, West Windsor. Saturday, June 25, 3 to 11
p.m. Food, games, beer and wine
gardens, craft vendors, tethered
hot-air balloon rides, water rides,
games, inflatable rides, and fireworks. Band performances by
Bad Medicine, a Bon Jovi cover
band, at 3:30 p.m.; Lost in Paris at
5:30 p.m.; Amish Outlaws at 7:30
p.m.; and Incognito after the fireworks. Free admission. 609-4487107. www.wpst.com/freedomfestival.
Concert and Fireworks, Hopewell
Valley Veterans Association, Alliger Park, 203 Washington Crossing Pennington Road, Titusville.
Sunday, June 26, 7:30 p.m. Concert by the 78th Army Band followed by fireworks display. A variety of music including military
songs and traditional concert
pieces. Alcohol is prohibited. Carpooling is recommended. Free.
www.hopewellvalleyveterans.org.
Star Spangled Event, Boehm
Porcelain Gallery, 25 Princess Diana Drive, Hamilton. Wednesday,
June 29, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Galleries open to celebrate the Fourth
of July with art sculptures. Rain or
shine. 609-392-2207. www.boehmporcelain.com.
For Families
Ice Cream Party, Howell Living
History Farm, 70 Wooden’s
Lane, Lambertville, 609-7373299. www.howellfarm.org. 10
a.m. to 4 p.m.
Stars and Stripes: Fabric of the
American Spirit, Morven Museum, 55 Stockton Street, Princeton.
Thursday, June 30, 5:30 to 7:30
p.m. Opening reception for an exhibit of 100 flags from the Pierce
Collection of American Parade
Flags, a tribute the America’s national symbol. The Flag Act specified only that the flag of the United
States be 13 stripes, alternating
red and white, and that the union
be 13 stars, white in a blue field. A
variety of configurations and patterns will be on display though October 30. 609-924-8144. www.morven.org.
Stars n’ Stripes Fourth of July
Celebration, Washington Crossing Open Air Theater, 355 Washington
Crossing-Pennington
Road, Titusville. Friday, July 1,
7:30 p.m. $15. Blankets, seat
cushions, and insect repellent are
recommended. Picnics welcome
before show. Food available. 267885-9857. www.dpacatoat.com.
Fireworks, Spirit of Princeton,
Princeton Stadium. Friday, July 1,
7 p.m. Independence Day celebration. Picnics welcome. Bring
blankets or chairs. No alcoholic
beverages. 609-683-4008. www.spiritofprinceton.homestead.com.
Fireworks, East Windsor Township, Etra Lake Park. Saturday,
July 2, 6 p.m. Music followed by
fireworks at 9:30 p.m. Raindate is
Saturday, July 2. www.eastwindsor.nj.us.
Fireworks, Hamilton Township,
Veterans Park, Hamilton. Friday,
July 1, 7 p.m. Music by Greaseband followed by fireworks at dusk.
Raindate is Sunday, July 3. 609890-4028. www.hamiltonnj.com.
Friday Night Fireworks, New
Hope Chamber, New Hope and
Lambertville. Friday, July 1, 5 p.m.
Happy hours, dining, and shopping
in conjunction with fireworks over
the Delaware River at 9:30 p.m.
Marty Moss Coane, NPR host of
Radio Times, initiates the countdown. 215-862-9990. www.newhopeLambertvillefireworks.com.
Trenton Thunder Baseball, Waterfront Park, Route 29. Friday, July 1, 7:05 p.m. Altoona. $10 to $13.
Fireworks. 609-394-8326. www.trentonthunder.com.
Independence Day Celebration,
South Brunswick Recreation,
Crossroads Middle School, Kingston Lane. Saturday, July 2, 3 p.m.
Music and entertainment. Food
vendors. Fireworks at 9 p.m. Bring
chairs, blankets, and picnics. 732329-4000. www.sbtnj.net.
Summer Band, Ocean Grove
Camp Meeting Association, 54
Sunday
July 3
Live Music
On Stage
Keith Franklin, Salt Creek Grille,
One Rockingham Row, Forrestal
Village, Plainsboro, 609-4194200. www.saltcreekgrille.com. 7
to 11 p.m.
Little Shop of Horrors, OffBroadstreet Theater, 5 South
Greenwood Avenue, Hopewell,
609-466-2766.
www.off-broadstreet.com. Musical comedy
about a blood-thirsty exotic plant
in a skid row flower shop. Dessert
included. $27.50 to $29.50. 1 p.m.
C.J. Barna, Thomas Sweet Ice
Cream, 183 Nassau Street,
Princeton, 609-683-8720. www.thomassweet.com. Guitar and vocals. 7 to 10 p.m.
Outdoor Action
Revolutionary
Ghost
Tour,
Princeton Tour Company, Witherspoon and Nassau streets, 609902-3637.
www.princetontourcompany.com. $20. 8:30 p.m.
Sports
Trenton Thunder Baseball, Waterfront Park, Route 29, 609-3948326. www.trentonthunder.com.
Altoona. $10 to $13. Fireworks.
7:05 p.m.
Twelfth Night or What You Will,
Kelsey Theater, Mercer County
Community College, 1200 Old
Trenton Road, West Windsor,
609-570-3333.
www.kelseytheatre.net. Shakespeare’s comedy about mistaken identity, love,
and frivolities. $14. 2 p.m.
Into the Woods, Princeton Summer Theater, Hamilton Murray
Theater, Princeton University,
877-238-5596. www.pst2011.org.
Stephen
Sondheim
musical
based on fairy tales features Little
Red Riding Hood, Jack (of the
Beanstalk fame), Cinderella, Rapunzel, a very wicked witch, and
Pitman Avenue, Ocean Grove.
Saturday, July 2, 7:30 p.m. “Happy 235th Birthday America” features marches, show tunes, and
patriotic fare. Harry D. Eichhorn
conducts. Free. 800-590-4094.
www.oceangrove.org.
Stars n’ Stripes Fourth of July
Celebration, Washington Crossing Open Air Theater, 355 Washington
Crossing-Pennington
Road, Titusville. Saturday and
Sunday, July 2 and 3, 7:30 p.m.
$15. Blankets, seat cushions, and
insect repellent are recommended. Picnics welcome before show.
Food available. 267-885-9857.
www.dpacatoat.com.
Trenton Thunder Baseball, Waterfront Park, Route 29. Saturday
and Sunday, July 2 and 3, 7:05
p.m. Altoona. $10 to $13. Fireworks. 609-394-8326. www.trentonthunder.com.
Independence Day Celebration,
Christ Church, 5 Paterson Street,
New Brunswick. Monday, July 4,
11 a.m. A reading of the Declaration of Independence. A program
of traditional patriotic songs played
on a Richards-Fowkes pipe organ.
A tour of the cemetery and gravestone rubbing. Refreshments
available. Free admission. 732545-6262. www.christchurchnewbrunswick.org.
Celebration, Monroe Township
Cultural
Arts
Commission,
Thompson Park, Monroe. Monday, July 4, 5 p.m. Fireworks at
dusk. Free. 732-521-2111. www.monroetownshipculturalarts.com.
Kutztown Festival, Fairgrounds,
Route 222, between Allentown and
Reading. Monday, July 4, 9 a.m. to
6 p.m. Family-oriented festival that
celebrates Pennsylvania Dutch
folklife. Juried folk artists, American
craftsmen, music, country dancing,
children’s activities, quilt sale, and
food. $14. 888-674-6136. www.kutztownfestival.com.
4th of July Yoga Explosion,
Princeton Center for Yoga &
Health, 50 Vreeland Drive, Suite
506, Skillman. Monday, July 4, 9
a.m. to noon. Guided meditation,
healing with crystal singing bowls,
breathing exercises, hatha and yin
yoga postures, and restorative yoga. Register. $35. 609-924-7294.
www.princetonyoga.com.
Independence Day Class, Yoga
Above, 80 Nassau Street, Princeton. Monday, July 4, 10 a.m. Celebrate the expansion of the center.
Free-will donation to benefit Karen
Dozer, a community member battling the physical, emotional, and
financial stress of living with breast
cancer. 609-613-1378. www.yogaabove.com.
Parade, Ewing Township, Ewing.
Monday, July 4, 10 a.m. Ed Goldberg and the Odessa Klezmer
Band is just one of the bands
marching in the Independence
Day parade. 609-883-2900. ewingnj.org.
Celebrating America’s Independence Day, Princeton Battlefield
State Park, 500 Mercer Road,
Princeton. Monday, July 4, 11
a.m. to 3 p.m. Revolutionary War
period soldiers and second Continental Artillery demonstrate drill,
artillery, and flintlock muskets. Period games for all ages. Tour the
Thomas Clarke House and the
Arms of the Revolution exhibit.
Bring a picnic lunch, hike on the
trails. No barbecues or alcohol.
Free. 609-921-0074. www.saveprincetonbattlefield.org.
Old-Fashioned
Celebration,
Fonthill Museum, East Court
Street
and
Swamp
Road,
Doylestown. Monday, July 4,
Noon. to 5 p.m. Recreation of an
early 20th century July Fourth celebration including a decorated
bike parade, a town ball game
(19th century baseball), a watermelon eating contest, antique bicycle display, old-time games,
and live music. $4. 215-348-9461.
www.mercermuseum.org.
Independence Day Celebration,
Morven Museum, 55 Stockton
Street, Princeton. Monday, July 4,
Noon. to 3 p.m. Sign the Declaration of Independence, commemorate the 13 colonies at a bell ringing ceremony, demonstrations of
colonial life by the Past Pasters,
live music, and a dramatic presen-
Lady Liberty: ‘Life
and Liberty: New Beginnings,’ a statue by
Boehm Porcelain will
be on view at the Independence Day celebration at the gallery in
Hamilton on Wednesday, June 29. See listing for details.
Photo: David Behl
tation by Stacy Roth highlighting
the lives of women who belonged
to the Army during the American
Revolution. Free.
The museum will be open for
guests to see “The Stars and
Stripes: Fabric of the American
Spirit.” Admission to the museum
is $6. 609-924-8144. www.morven.org.
Independence Day, Middlesex
County Cultural Commission,
East Jersey Olde Towne Village,
1050 River Road, Piscataway.
Monday, July 4, 2 p.m. Storytelling
program. Register. Free. 732-7453030. www.cultureheritage.org.
Concert and Fireworks, Cranbury, Main Street. Tuesday, July
5, 6:30 p.m. Concert by Mercer
County Symphonic Band followed
by fireworks at 9 p.m. Bring blankets and a picnic dinner (no alcoholic beverages). Rain date is
Wednesday, July 6. 609-395— Lynn Miller
0900.
others. Directed by Jed Q. Peterson, Princeton University, Class of
2006. $20 to $25. 2 p.m.
Stars n’ Stripes Fourth of July
Celebration,
Washington
Crossing Open Air Theater, 355
Washington Crossing-Pennington
Road, Titusville, 267-885-9857.
www.dpacatoat.com. $15. Blankets, seat cushions, and insect repellent are recommended. Picnics
welcome before show. Food available. 7:30 p.m.
Family Theater
Beauty and the Beast, Washington Crossing Open Air Theater,
355 Washington Crossing-Pennington Road, Titusville, 267-8859857. $5. 4 p.m.
Outdoor Concerts
Summer Music Series, Palmer
Square, On the Green, 609-9212333. Free. 2 to 4 p.m.
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In Town
West Windsor Arts Council is accepting
registration for summer courses. Figure
Drawing with Live Model, Wednesday, July
6 to August 3, 6 to 8:30 p.m., $150. Basic
Photography, Sundays, noon to 2:30 p.m.,
July 17 to August 21, $180. Intermediate and
Advanced Photography, Sundays, 2:30 to 5
p.m., July 17 to August 21. Poetry Workshop
for Adults, 1 to 3 p.m., Fridays, July 8 to August 19, $115.
Summer camp for students entering
grades one to five is Monday to Friday, August 22 to September 2. 9 a.m. to 4 p.m, $300
per week; 9 a.m. to noon or 1 to 4 p.m., $200
per week; extended hours available.
All classes will be held at 952 Alexander
Road, West Windsor. For information and
registration visit www.westwindsorartscenter.org, call 609-716-1931, or E-mail info@WestWindsorArts.org.
West Windsor Arts Council seeks artists
to submit work that reflects and celebrates the
multicultural world in which we live. Artists
must be a current member of the arts council
and may join to be eligible for the show. Juror
is Ferris Olin, professor at Rutgers University and co-founder and co-director of the Institute for Women and Art and administrator of
the Feminist Art Project. The exhibit will run
September 3 to October 14. E-mail wwacexhibits@gmail.com or visit www.westwindsorarts.org for information.
West Windsor Library seeks photos in
conjunction with the theme, “A Day in the
Life of New Jersey.” Photos must be submitted on CD, flash drive, or E-mailed in jpeg
format to wwnjlibrary@gmail.com. Call
609-275-8901 for information. Deadline is
Tuesday, September 20.
Face to Face: Community Conversations on Environmental Justice, a discussion led by Frank Popper, professor at the
Bloustein School of Planning and Public
Policy at Rutgers, focuses on environmental
justice, on Tuesday, July 12, at 7 p.m. at
West Windsor Library. Readings will be
drawn from some of the most important
Opportunities
works in the environmental movement in
New Jersey. In partnership with West Windsor Library, New Jersey Council for the Humanities, West Windsor Arts Council, and
Greening of West Windsor. Call 609-7990462 to register and find out how to get a free
reading packet.
Motor Vehicle Info
PinnWorth Productions has open auditions for “The Pirates of Penzance” at Kelsey
Theater, Communications Building, Mercer
College, West Windsor, on Saturday, June 25,
9 a.m. to 6 p.m.; Sunday, June 26, 6 to 10 p.m.;
and Monday, June 27, 7 to 10 p.m. Call Melissa LeShchanka at 732-322-1376 to schedule
an appointment. Must be 16 or older.
NJ Motor Vehicle Commission will expand agency hours throughout the state beginning Saturday, July 2. All 39 motor vehicle agencies will be open Mondays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays, 8 a.m. to 5:30
p.m.; Tuesdays, 8 a.m. to 7:30 p.m.; and Saturdays, 8 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. Visit www.njmvc.gov for more information.
Mercer County Library System offers a
teen reading program that is completely online for teens to participate while on vacation
or away at camp. Visit www.mcl.org.
Princeton Presbyterian Church offers
Camp Discovery: Panda Mania, on Monday
to Friday, July 18 to 22, 9 a.m. to noon, 545
Meadow Road, West Windsor. Free. Register online at www.princetonpresbyterian.org
or call 609-987-1166.
Rescue Mission of Trenton is collecting
new and used clothing and furniture on Saturday, June 25, from 3 to 11 p.m. at Mercer
County Park, West Windsor, as part of the
Freedom Festival. The agency serves men
and women who have no place to turn for
shelter, food, and clothing. Visit www.rescuemillionoftrenton.org for information.
Stop Smoking
New Jersey Department of Health and
Senior Services offers a free nicotine replacement therapy program with quit smoking patches or nicotine replacement gum for
any New Jersey smoker, age 18 and up,
while supplies last. Enroll with the New Jer-
sey Quitline by calling 866-NJSTOPS and
receive an eight-week supply of free NRT
and up to five free counseling sessions with a
quit smoking coach. Visit www.njquitline.org for more information.
Classes
Arts Council of Princeton presents summer classes, workshops, and opportunities
for adults and teens in the visual and performing arts. Visit www.artscouncilofprinceton.org for full schedule and to register.
Black Cat Tango offers an absolute beginner program, a six-week series to learn
the basics. Six one-hour classes, two-hour
practice sessions, and refreshments. No partner or experience needed. E-mail dance@theblacktango.com or call 609-273-1378.
Authentic Yoga presents a cooking
workshop in Princeton, on Saturday, July 23,
at 4 p.m. Dishes include khichadi, an Indian
porridge; mixed vegetables; and Papad salad. For information and to register send Email to info@shreyasyoga.com. $50.
Call for Art
New Hope Sidetracks Art Gallery is accepting submissions for “Naked in New
Hope,” a group show opening September 17.
Artists should mail or drop off a disc with up
to 12 digital images together with a completed form and check in the amount of $10.
Deadline is Wednesday, July 27. E-mail
sidetracks@gmail.com or call 215-8624586 to request an application.
Trips
Montgomery Recreation offers bus trips
departing from 375 Burnt Hill Road, Skillman. Saturday, July 16, 12:30 p.m., Mets vs.
Phillies, Flushing, $70; Wednesday, October 5, 2:30 p.m., “Jersey Boys,” $90; Saturday, October 15, 10 a.m., “How to Succeed
in Business Without Really Trying,” $90;
Saturday, November 12, 11 a.m., Radio City
Christmas Spectacular, $85; and Saturday,
December 10, 10 a.m., “Anything Goes,”
$140. E-mail recreation@twp.montgomery.nj.us or call 609-466-3023 for information.
Sports
Jersey Club Sports Princeton offers Ultimate frisbee, kickball, and soccer leagues
beginning Thursday, June 30. All games will
be played at Princeton Day School, 650
Great Road. Post game activities at Princeton Sports Bar, 128 Nassau Street, Princeton.
Visit www.jerseyclubsports.com for information and registration.
Central Bucks Bicycle Club is accepting
registration for its 31st annual Covered
Bridges Bicycle Ride on Sunday, October 6.
Choose from a 20-mile, a 30-mile, a 33-mile,
or a 63-mile ride. All rides include snack
stops and a celebration lunch at the finish.
Visit www.cbbikeclub.org/cbr or call 267293-9887. Proceeds are donated to area charities.
More Camps
Har Sinai Temple, 2421 Pennington
Road, Hopewell, offers a seven-week summer program on Mondays, Wednesdays, and
Fridays, from 9 a.m. to noon for $100, or 9
a.m. to 1 p.m. for $110. Contact Magda
Reyes at 609-730-8100 for information.
JCC Metrowest and Atlantic Home
Care and Hospice present Camp Clover, a
free week-long summer bereavement day
camp for children and teens, ages 7 to 15,
deal with the loss of someone close to them.
The camp is in Flanders. Visit jccmetrowest.org/campclover or call 973-379-8440,
ext. 8956 for information.
Call for Entries
Monmouth County Fair seeks entries of
crafts, flowers, photographs, baked goods,
and more for the home and garden competition. The Monmouth County Park System
will be accepting entries of art, photos,
crafts, honey, needlework, and canned goods
on Sunday, July 24, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.;
and Monday, July 25, from 9 a.m. to noon.
Flower, plant, and vegetable entries should
be delivered to the fairgrounds on Friday, July 29, from 8 to 11 a.m. Baked goods should
be delivered on Saturday, July 30, from 8 to
11 a.m. For information visit www.monmouthcountyfair.com or call 732-842-4000.
The fair runs Wednesday to Sunday, July 27
to 31. Admission is $7.
Audition
Somerset Valley Players has auditions
for “Little Shop of Horrors” on Sunday and
Monday, June 26 and 27, from 7 to 9:30 p.m.,
at 689 Amwell Road, Hillsborough. Needed
are four women, ages 16 to 30; and four men,
ages 18 to 30; a puppeteer, and voice over for
the puppet. There will also be a small chorus
with a few speaking parts. Be prepared to
sing a song of your choice or from the production. Be prepared to dance. Visit www.svptheatre.org or call 908-369-7469 for information.
Roxey Ballet is holding auditions for professional dancers for the next season. Men
must be at least 5’8” and women must be at
least 5’6.” Plan to perform both a contemporary and classical variation and take part in a
brief interview. Send resume, headshot, bio,
and video of work to info@roxeyballet.org.
Good Causes
PEAC Health & Fitness and Catholic
Charities is collecting food pantry items for
area families in need. Bring non-perishable
food items to PEAC, 1440 Lower Ferry
Road, Ewing, during July. Call 609-8832000 or visit www.peachealthfitness.com
for information.
Trenton Mercer Continuum of Care
presents Project Homeless Connect, a oneday event designed to provide housing, services, and hospitality in a one-stop model for
people experiencing homelessness. Donate
new socks, sneakers, boots, jeans, shorts,
shirts, baseball caps, and personal care items
to Mercer Alliance from Friday, June 24, to
Thursday, June 30. Other items being collected include thin beach towels, gym bags,
water bottles, flashlights and batteries, reading glasses, toothbrushes, razors, brushes,
deodorant, chap sticks, tissue packets, sun
screen, Skin-So-Soft, spray bottles with
fans, personal hygiene wipes, and personal
first aid kits. Volunteers are also needed.
Call 609-844-1008 or E-mail Ttruitt@merceraliance.com for information.
Fresh Air Fund seeks volunteer host
families to share their community with an inner-city child this summer. Visit www.freshair.org or call 800-367-0003 for information.
Help Wanted
Mercer College offers a certification
course in umpiring for field hockey on Monday to Friday, July 11 to 14, from 6 to 8 p.m.
Certified umpires are needed to officiate
middle school ($50 an hour). Chris Maloney,
author of “How to Umpire Field Hockey,”
publisher of “UmpireHockey.com, and editor of “Rules, Umpires, and Ask the Umpire”
sections of USAFieldhockey.com. Call 609570-3311 to register.
Call for Waiters
Grounds For Sculpture has an inaugural
waiter race in conjunction with its Bastille
Day party on Thursday, July 14. Waiters
must arrive at the finish line without spilling
the contents of the tray. To participate in the
waiters’ race register at www.groundsforsculpture.org. Deadline is Sunday, July 3.
JUNE 24, 2011
And the Beat Goes On: A Summer Packed with Concerts
W
est Windsor Arts Council presents
“And the Beat Goes On,” its annual summer music festival featuring
five events at Nassau Park Pavilion in the
Nassau Park Mall between Panera Bread and
Target. All of the events will be held rain or
shine. Admission to all concerts is free as a
result of the sponsorship of BoConcept, a
Nassau Park store specializing in Danish furniture, and Developers Diversified Realty,
owners of Nassau Park. Bring a chair and a
picnic dinner.
Committee members include West Windsor residents Ruth Kusner Potts, Dave
Haynes, Daryl McMillan, Cathy Meshumar,
and Ted Ross, and Plainsboro resident Dave
Haneman. “We try to balance local performers with up-and-coming artists,” says Kusner
Potts, who wears many different hats in the
arts council, including past president and director of development.
“And the Beat Goes On” means different
things to different people. One may be reminded of Sonny and Cher or the Whisperers. “In the back of my mind I’ve always
thought about the connection with the song
by the Kings but honestly, the group committee selected the title as we all enjoy different
and varying genres of music and find that it’s
the pulse, the beat, the riffs, and the rhythm
of a song that appeals to each of us,” says
Kusner Potts.
Dave Haneman, the production manager,
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Monday
July 4
Independence Day.
Outdoor Film
Justin Bieber Never Say Never,
Washington Crossing Open Air
Theater, 355 Washington Crossing-Pennington Road, Titusville,
267-885-9857. www.dpacatoat.com. Screening at sunset. $5.
Blankets, seat cushions, and insect repellent are recommended.
Picnics welcome before show.
Food available. 8:31 p.m.
Wellness
4th of July Yoga Explosion,
Princeton Center for Yoga &
Health, 50 Vreeland Drive, Suite
506, Skillman, 609-924-7294.
www.princetonyoga.com. Guided
meditation, healing with crystal
coordinates the installation of a large tent in
case of inclement weather. He also coordinates with the musicians and manages the
lighting and sound.
The series opens this Saturday, June 25,
with an evening of classical music with Sinfonietta Nova, an orchestra based in West
Windsor founded by Gail Lee, a West Windsor resident and the group’s conductor. “I
first met Gail at the WW Farmer’s Market
about four years ago and we chatted for 45
minutes about her ‘crazy idea’ to start an orchestra in West Windsor,” says Kusner
Potts. “She later met with Eduardo Garcia,
executive director of the WW Arts Council,
and he walked her through the process of applying for a non-profit status.”
“The orchestra was founded in 2001 with
a vision to gather local musicians and music
educators in order to provide this and the surrounding communities high-quality performances,” says Lee. The orchestra gave its
first performance in November, 2008.
“Communication with the West Windsor
Arts Council started in 2007 when Ruth and I
talked about different ways that the Arts
Council and Sinfonietta Nova could work together to bring arts and cultural enrichment
to the community,” says Lee. “We are both
very excited about this opportunity.”
The program includes Mozart’s Overture
to The Marriage of Figaro, Bizet’s selections
from Carmen Suite No. 2. Sousa’s Stars and
singing bowls, breathing exercises, hatha and yin yoga postures,
and restorative yoga. Register.
$35. 9 a.m. to noon.
Independence Day Class, Yoga
Above, 80 Nassau Street, Princeton, 609-613-1378. www.yogaabove.com. Celebrate the expansion of the center. Free-will donation to benefit Karen Dozer, a community member battling the physical, emotional, and financial stress
of living with breast cancer. 10
a.m.
History
Honoring Declarations of Independence, Daughters of the
American Revolution, Stony
Brook Meeting House, 470 Quaker Road, Princeton; and Princeton
Cemetery,
Humbert
Street,
Princeton, 609-443-3138. Members put a flag at the grave of
Richard Stockton, an American jurist, legislator, and signer of the
declaration. After the ceremony
the group visits the Princeton
Cemetery where they will honor
John Witherspoon, who signed
the Declaration as a representa-
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Music al Fresco: Some of the
WW-P musicians in Sinfonietta
Nova, which kicks off the summer series at Nassau Park, include Neil Winkler, trumpet,
left; Theresa Liu, violin;
Joseph Hetman, trumpet; Gail
Lee; Peter Brooks, cello; Mark
Bassett, cello; Lea Petri, viola;
Ariane Seto, cello; Greg Rewoldt, bassoon; and Sam
Boyles, double bass.
Stripes and Washington Post, Strauss’ Overture to Die Fledermaus, Grainger’s Irish
Tune from County Derry and Shepherd’s
Hey, Tchaikovsky’s Valse de fleurs from
The Nutcracker, and movements from Dvorak’s New World Symphony. Although the
performance is planned as an outdoor event,
the rain location (for this event only) is the
West Windsor Arts Center on Alexander
Road.
“Ever since the first season, Sinfonietta
Nova was sustained by generous donations
from patrons all over central Jersey, and
mostly, from the orchestra members, who
contribute their time and talent,” says Lee.
West Windsor and Plainsboro musicians
include Mark Bassett, Peter Brooks, Ariane
Seto, Doug Wallack, and Mark Bassett, who
all perform on cello. Violinists include
Theresa Liu and Kevin Tsai. Viola players
include Paul Manulik, and Lea Petri. Joseph
Hetman performs on the trumpet; Ben Grabel on contrabass; and Mike Davis on percussion.
“I’m thrilled beyond belief that we have a
chance to highlight this group,” says Kusner
Potts. “It is so exciting to see Gail’s dream
become such a reality. “
— Lynn Miller
Free. In the arts council building if raining.
609-919-1982. www.westwindsorarts.org.
Sinfonietta Nova, West Windsor Arts
Council, Nassau Park Pavilion, West Windsor. Saturday, June 25, 6 to 8 p.m. An evening
of classical music. Bring chairs or blankets.
The Fins, West Windsor Arts Council,
Nassau Park Pavilion, West Windsor. Saturday, August 20, 6 to 8 p.m. Blues and swing.
Free.
tive of New Jersey. The public is
invited. Free. 10 a.m.
Celebrating America’s Independence Day, Princeton Battlefield State Park, 500 Mercer
Road, Princeton, 609-921-0074.
www.saveprincetonbattlefield.org. Revolutionary War period soldiers and second Continental Artillery demonstrate drill, artillery,
and flintlock muskets. Period
games for all ages. Free. 11 a.m.
to 3 p.m.
July 4 Jubilee, Morven Museum,
55 Stockton Street, Princeton, 609924-8144. www.morven.org. Sign
the Declaration of Independence,
commemorate the 13 colonies at a
bell ringing ceremony, demonstrations of colonial life by the Past
Pasters, meet George Washington,
live music, refreshments, and a dramatic presentation by Stacy Roth
highlighting the lives of women who
belonged to the Army during the
American Revolution. Free.
The museum will be open for
guests to see “The Stars and
Stripes: Fabric of the American
Spirit.” Admission to the museum
is $6. Noon to 3 p.m.
Ben Arnold, West Windsor Arts Council,
Nassau Park Pavilion, West Windsor. Saturday, July 9, 6 to 8 p.m. An evening of eclectic, original rock. Free.
BBQ Bob and the Spareribs, West
Windsor Arts Council, Nassau Park Pavilion, West Windsor. Saturday, July 23, 6 to 8
p.m. Rock-a-billy music. Free.
Sarah Donner, West Windsor Arts
Council, Nassau Park Pavilion, West Windsor. Saturday, August 6, 6 to 8 p.m. Original
Indie pop. Free.
Tuesday
July 5
Municipal Meetings
Public Meeting, West Windsor
Township Council, Municipal
Building, 609-799-2400. www.westwindsornj.org. 7 p.m.
Dancing
Salsa
Class,
HotSalsaHot,
Princeton Dance and Theater Studio, 116 Rockingham Row, Forrestal Village, Plainsboro, 609-6516070. www.hotsalsahot.com. For
beginners and advanced beginners. $18. 7 p.m.
Live Music
Open Mic Night, Grover’s Mill
Coffee House, 335 Princeton
Hightstown Road, West Windsor,
609-716-8771. www.groversmillcoffee.com. 7 p.m.
Pop Music
Concert and Fireworks, Cranbury, Main Street, 609-395-0900.
Concert by Mercer County Symphonic Band followed by fireworks
at 9 p.m. Bring blankets and a picnic dinner (no alcoholic beverages). Rain date is Wednesday,
July 6. 6:30 p.m.
Barbershop Chorus, Princeton
Garden Statesmen, Plainsboro
Library, 9 Van Doren Street,
Plainsboro, 609-799-8218. www.princetongardenstatesmen.com.
Men of all ages and experience
levels are invited to sing in fourpart harmony. The non-profit organization presents at numerous
charities. Free. 7:30 to 10 p.m.
For Teens
Studio Scrawl, West Windsor Library, 333 North Post Road, 609275-8901. www.mcl.org. Writing I
for ages 12 to 18. Register. 6:30 to
7:30 p.m.
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JUNE 24, 2011
Let’s Talk: It’s All About Communication
Eileen Sinett of Plainsboro speaks
volumes about connecting with others
by Linda Arntzenius
O
ver the past three decades,
speech pathologist Eileen
Sinett of Plainsboro has become something of a communications guru. And, like any guru, she
has mantras — distilled expressions that speak to the very heart of
her enterprise. “Speaking that Connects,” is one. “Thought/Action/Presence: Leadership” is another.
Sinett believes that “great leaders
are excellent communicators.” Her
business, Comprehensive Communication Services (CCS), offers customized training and coaching programs designed to promote selfconfident leadership and improved
relationships. In short, she helps
corporate clients and their employees succeed in getting their message
across. “Communication involves
sharing in a way that makes people
listen, and listening in a way that facilitates sharing,” says Sinett. “It’s
also about being comfortable in
your own skin.”
Her clients not only acquire effective business skills, they also
find themselves more at ease in social situations. Sinett has coached
professionals on the best way to get
the attention of Washington, D.C.,
policy makers and groomed others
for
corporate
advancement.
Clients include employees at
Plainsboro Public Library, Rider
University, RWJ University Hospital Hamilton, and Mathematica
Policy Research, among others.
She has been hired one-on-one
for series or one-day programs, even
for “lunch and learn” mini seminars
on topics ranging from visual aid design to body language. Her services
range from help with pronunciation
and accent to presentation design
and delivery. She coaches speakers
for conferences and televised interviews using videotapes and peer
feedback as tools.
Six years ago, former director of
the Plainsboro Public Library Jinny Baeckler asked Sinett to step in
as substitute teacher for an ESL
(English as a Second Language)
conversation class. Recently,
Sinett has combined her business
expertise with the needs of her ESL
students at the library. A program
she designed for entrepreneurs and
public speaking clients, called
“Rehearsals,” in which clients
share personal anecdotes, evolved
quite naturally into DEPTH (Delivering Exceptional Presentations
That Heal), which provides practice for her public speaking clients
and learning opportunities for her
ESL students.
Here’s how it works: public
speaking clients relate a story on a
universal theme such as fear, abandonment, or the need to be heard to
an audience of ESL students. In
small breakout groups the ESL students provide the speaker with
feedback on how well they understood the story and how the speaker
presented it, and the ESL students
share stories on the same topic.
The first DEPTH program took
place earlier this month at the
Plainsboro Public Library. The
next is slated for Thursday, July 28.
Sinett will lead a workshop/seminar on how to express yourself at
the New Jersey Hospital Association Conference Center on Alexander Road on Friday, August 5.
“The DEPTH program is designed to favor small group conversations,” Sinett explains. “Team
leaders make sure the meat of the
story is shared and once the story is
understood, there’s a whole other
discussion, often based around cultural differences, expectations, and
Eileen Sinett’s communications company
helps people with everything from pronunciation and accent to public
speaking.
behaviors. It’s a rich sharing that
bridges the gaps between first and
second speakers of English.”
She says both native English
speakers and non-native speakers
face their own set of challenges.
“Americans, being largely unilingual, have little practice listening to other languages. They have
trouble staying foused on the
speaker because of accent, grammar, hesitations, and sometimes
vocabulary (the wrong word). Listening is a complex activity we
tend to take for granted. We
weren’t really taught how to listen
like we were taught how to read
and write. We often just ‘half-listen’ while we multi-task or think of
something else we find more interesting. Americans get impatient
when there’s a communication
breakdown. They tend to blame
the non-native speaker. Our fastpaced culture contributes to this
impatience.”
On the other side of the coin,
Sinett says ESL speakers are challenged by a lack of confidence and
feelings of inadequacy. “Many
second language speakers understand everything that’s being spoken but choose to remain silent,
embarrassed by their lack of proficiency. When they do risk speaking, they are frequently not understood because of their accent,
grammar, intonation patterns,
word choice, etc. Many of the cultures are overly concerned about
speaking ‘proper’ English, and
want to know how long it will take
for this to happen.”
She explains that the DEPTH
program uses public speaking and
universal storytelling as a vehicle
to engage more dialogue between
first and second English language
speakers. Despite the skill of the
speaker, Sinett found that many
ESL students struggled to understand the specifics of the story being told.
During one of the first DEPTH
programs, Sinett discovered that
when the audience was directed to
participate in small group discussions, an American-born speaker
needed to retell the story because
there was confusion and incomplete comprehension. “I had not
planned on this but was able to improvise. Once that happened,
which involved many questions
and repeated reviews, the individuals were able to respond to deeper
questions about the story’s lesson
and share perspectives and associated experiences.
“One American-born participant
shared back to the group that she realized that to effectively communicate to the ESL listener, she needed
to be much more deliberate in her
communication,” Sinett continues.
“She had to reduce wordiness and
add more space and see that the
message was being understood.
She had to say less, check in nonverbally, and then continue, rather
than go forward on automatic pilot.
Another American commented that
he had to be more expressive and
dramatic with his explanation, often using more non-verbal body
language for assistance.”
S
inett’s first book, “Speaking
That Connects,” soon to be
published by Open Door Publications, discusses, among other
things, the energy involved in public speaking. According to Sinett,
energy in the room itself and between speaker and audience is a
very real yet often overlooked part
of the presentation process, involving spirit and passion, you might
even call it heart.
How do you achieve presence
and connect with your audience?
Sinett says the process involves
breath, vulnerability, and silence —
and uses herself as an example. “In
the past, I would have masked my
weaknesses and acted as if I was
completely comfortable. Over time,
I’ve learned to stop pretending and
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Talk to Me: Eileen Sinett with her daughter, Tracey.
to allow people to see my vulnerabilities. The key to being comfortable in your own skin is to allow
your authentic self to be seen.”
Sinett grew up in Woodbridge
and Metuchen before settling in
Plainsboro in 1985. Her father,
Arthur Sinett (now deceased)
owned a variety of businesses including a trucking company, a shoe
store, and a tavern. Her mom, Sylvia
Sinett, who now lives in Florida,
was a fulltime homemaker who
raised seven children including
twins. Eileen is the oldest. “My father was a very social ‘I can do anything’ personality and a hard-working gutsy entrepreneur. Besides being a nurturer, my mother was very
private with a deep commitment to
her faith and a very strong sense of
self,” she says. “I guess I got a bit of
my father’s gumption and a bit of
my mother’s nurturing.
“The nurturer in me loves helping people develop, enhancing
their skills and driving excellence.
With an ESL class the goal is not
just to improve one’s language
skills but to enhance self-confidence and a sense of wholeness and
fullness. The same goes for speech
therapy. I want to get to the heart of
communication of all types of language. Just as weeding gives flowers a chance to develop and thrive,
you have to take away what doesn’t
work in order to reinforce and support what does.”
After graduating in 1971 with a
bachelor’s degree in speech pathology and audiology from Emerson
College in Boston, Sinett worked
in a hospital with language-challenged children and adults with
aphasia, stuttering, and autism issues. Through evening classes at
Kean University, she earned a master’s degree in speech correction in
1974. That same year she landed
her dream job as director of communication with the Education
Services Division for what was
then Rutgers Medical School, now
UMDNJ. Five years later, she was
downsized.
“In retrospect, I guess I was
pretty feisty,” she says. “I loved the
creative aspect of my job, which
had involved mentoring college
graduates and teaching medical
students, and I really wanted to find
an equally interesting position, but
there was nothing out there.”
So Sinett hung out her speech
pathologist’s shingle. “I took my
savings and rented space in a professional building in Somerset, but the
insurance industry wasn’t reimbursing clients for speech and language services, so it was hard to get
a practice established.” Instead, she
found corporate and multicultural
clients and built up coaching and
public speaking programs. Within a
year, she founded Comprehensive
Communication Services.
She moved from Somerset to
Plainsboro in 1985 when the house
she had been renting was sold, and
she needed to find a new place to
live. She rented a house with a garden and found it so congenial that
she bought the house five years later.
She says she is delighted and
amazed to see that her 20-year-old
daughter, Tracey Haneman, a
graduate of North, now studying
for a double major in international
studies and linguistics at Northwestern University, seems to be
heading toward a similar field to
her own. Tracey might also have
inherited some of her grandfather’s
gumption. She is off to spend a
summer semester in Turkey.
Asked what makes her good at
her job, Sinett ponders before answering with characteristic openness. “I love people. I listen well. I
didn’t always: I was a first grade
chatterbox whose seat was being
moved all the time. I trust my intuition. I have a profound belief in
human goodness, and I guess I inspire trust in others. I’m easy to talk
to, and I listen to the whole person,
what they say and how they say it.”
Sinett’s experiences with crosscultural dialogue have led to involvement with the Mercer Regional Chapter of the American
Conference on Diversity. A selfconfessed optimist, Sinett admits
she is a sucker for the reality television show, “The Voice,” and is captivated by its dream-come-true aspect. She is also a flamenco dancer
and studies with Lisa Bottalico at
Princeton Dance and Theater Studio in Forrestal Village. Besides
that, she’s a passionate gardener. “I
could weed all weekend; it’s therapeutic, like meditation.”
DEPTH (Delivering Exceptional Presentations That Heal), Plainsboro Public Library, 9 Van Doren
Street. Thursday, July 28, 7 p.m.
Public speaking students share stories with ESL students. Facilitated
by Eileen Sinett. Free. For more information about Comprehensive
Communication Services visit
http://www.ccs-speech.com. 609275-2897 or www.lmxac.org/plainsboro.
JUNE 24, 2011
Plainsboro
Soliciting Without A Permit.
William Bassett, 22, of Germantown, MD; Joel Collier, 30, of
Mesquite, TX; Vanessa Oliver, 27,
of Lake Charles, LA; Adam
Chavez, 34, of Buford, GA; Joe
Hale, 41, of Oklahoma City, OK;
Tara Case, 32, of Holly Hill, FL;
and John Sivertsen, 20, of Iron River, WI; were charged June 18 with
soliciting without a permit.
Officer Mathieu Baumann said
he was called to Edgemere Avenue
for a report of a man acting suspiciously near several residences and
found that the man left the area in a
white passenger van with tinted
windows and out-of-state registration. He said he subsequently located the vehicle and found that the
group was soliciting magazines for
Powerhouse Marketing, a Georgiabased company. The crew was soliciting magazines throughout the
township without a soliciting permit, an ordinance violation, said
Baumann.
Arson. Someone burned a small
area of siding and the seeing glass
of one of the residential doors in
the breezeway of Building 35 on
Hunters Glen Drive. Officer Kenneth Beatty said a small pile of papers was also burned and placed on
the ground in the breezeway. The
incident occurred between 2:45
and 11:45 p.m. on June 16.
Disorderly Conduct/Harassment. Mark E. Freeman, 56, of the
Bronx, NY, was charged June 19
with disorderly conduct and harassment. Officer Martin McElrath
said Freeman began cursing in the
face of a nurse and aggressively
shouting and threatening other
staff members at the Merwick Rehabilitation Center on Plainsboro
Road after becoming displeased
with the level of care his father was
receiving.
JULY 5
Continued from page 31
Lectures
Immigration Discussion, Princeton Public Library, 65 Witherspoon Street, 609-924-8822.
www.princetonlibrary.org. Roundtable discussion on immigration to
start a conversation on ways to
change the immigration system.
Representatives include people
from education, health care, public safety, social services, business, and faith-based sector. Patricia Fernandez-Kelly, senior lecturer for the office of population research at Princeton University,
moderates. Register at www.laldef.org (Latin American Legal
Defense and Education Fund).
Free. 6:30 to 8:30 p.m.
Wednesday
July 6
Dancing
Salsa
Class,
HotSalsaHot,
Princeton YWCA, 59 Paul Robeson Place, Princeton, 609-6516070. www.hotsalsahot.com. Beginner and advanced beginner
salsa. $18. 6:30 p.m.
Classical Music
Operatic Arias Concert, Westminster Choir College, Bristol
Chapel, 101 Walnut Lane, Princeton, 609-921-2663. www.rider.edu. Participants in the school’s
CoOPERAtive program are young
singers working with professionals
in the field of opera. Free. 7:30
p.m.
From The Police Blotter
Prescription Fraud. Paul C.
Miller, 29, of Dayton, was charged
June 8 with obtaining a controlled
dangerous substance by fraud. Officer Jason Mandato said he was
called to the CVS pharmacy for a
report of a person trying to fraudulently obtain a prescription. He
said he found that Miller had called
in a prescription that had not been
prescribed to him using his doctor’s prescription information. He
was sent to the Middlesex County
jail in default of $2,500 bail.
Criminal Mischief. Someone
shattered an interior lobby window
of building 7 at Schalks Crossing
Road, owned by Sharbell Development Corp. According to Officer
Timothy McMahon, the incident
occurred between 11 a.m. on June
18 and 9 a.m. on June 20.
A resident of Tamarron Drive
was the victim of criminal mischief
between midnight and 11:20 a.m.
on June 16. Officer Richard Wolak
said someone damaged the ignition
of the victim’s motorcycle with a
screwdriver. The estimated cost of
damage has not yet been calculated.
Trespass. George Smith, 52, of
Pheasant Hollow Drive was
charged June 8 with violation of a
court order, defiant trespass, and
harassment. Sergeant Scott Seitz
said Smith violated a municipal
court order by incessantly telephoning and leaving food and
notes at the police department,
which was prohibited by the court
order. In addition, Smith was
charged with harassment for allegedly making inappropriate and
harassing comments toward a female communications officer.
Dolce Suono Trio, Princeton University
Summer
Concerts,
Richardson Auditorium, 609-5708404.
pusummerchamberconcerts.org. Program of American
masterpieces. Free tickets available at the box office at 6:30 p.m.
Doors open at 7:30 p.m. 8 p.m.
For Families
Summer Program Series, Princeton University Players, Frist
Campus Center, South Patio,
609-258-1500. www.princeton.edu/pup. Ice cream sundae bar.
Inside if it rains. Free. 4:30 p.m.
Credit Card Theft/Fraud. A
resident of Elsie Drive was the victim of fraud between June 13 and
15. Officer Richard Wolak said
someone made several fraudulent
purchases, worth a total $150.76,
using his debit card.
A resident of Cream Ridge was
the victim of credit card theft and
credit card fraud between June 1
and 5. Corporal Russell Finkelstein
said someone stole a credit card
from an employee at Community
Middle School and tried to make
two separate purchases with the
card at Best Buy. The purchases
were not authorized by the bank, so
the victim did not suffer a financial
loss.
Burglary/Theft. A Marshall
Court resident was the victim of
theft between 8 a.m. and 4 p.m. on
June 13. Corporal Russell Finkelstein said someone stole a bag containing approximately $7,000
worth of jewelry from the victim’s
home. No forced entry was discovered.
A Piscataway resident was the
victim of theft between June 13 and
14. Officer Adam Wurpel said
someone stole the victim’s car
while it was parked in the lot at 53
Hunters Glen Drive. The car was
worth $1,000.
An employee of Bristol-Myers
Squibb was the victim of theft between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. on June 14.
Officer Richard Wolak said someone took $155 in cash from her
purse while it was in her office.
A North student was the victim
of theft on June 10. Officer Richard
Wolak said someone took a black
iPod from the victim’s backpack.
The iPod Touch was worth approximately $300.
UFO Ghosts and Earth Mysteries, UFO and Paranormal Study
Group, Hamilton Township Library, Municipal Drive, 609-6318955. www.drufo.org. Discussion
about UFOs, ghosts, psychic phenomena, crop circles, poltergeists,
channeling, and government cover-ups facilitated by Pat Marcattilio. Free. 7 to 10 p.m.
Outdoor Action
Family Bounce Night, Bounce U,
410 Princeton Hightstown Road,
West Windsor, 609-443-5867.
www.bounceu.com. Must be 34
inches to bounce. $8.95 per child.
Adults bounce for free. $3.25 extra
for pizza. 6 to 8 p.m.
Stream Walk, D&R Greenway
Land Trust, Johnson Education
Center, 1 Preservation Place,
Princeton, 609-924-4646. www.drgreenway.org. Bring your own
picnic. “A Sense of Wonder” nature walk with Jeff Hoagland, education director of Stony Brook-Millstone Watershed Association.
Desserts and beverages provided. Register. $5. 5:30 to 8 p.m.
For Teens
Socials
Studio Scrawl, West Windsor Library, 333 North Post Road, 609275-8901. www.mcl.org. “Where
do Ideas Come From?” for ages
12 to 18. Register. 2:30 to 4 p.m.
Lectures
Wordtastic Summer, Plainsboro
Public Library, 9 Van Doren
Street, 609-275-2897. www.lmxac.org/plainsboro. “Handwriting After Gutenberg: John Milton
to Steve Jobs” presented by Edward Tenner, author of “Why
Things Bite Back: Technology and
the Revenge of Unintended Consequences,” kicks off the summer
program. Tenner will be examining a variety of topics from the
modern use of medieval black letter to the Newton, Apple’s first mobile device based on handwriting
recognition. He will also talk about
the manuscript book, the pencil,
the steel pen, and texting. Free. 7
p.m.
Meeting, Outer Circle Ski Club,
Princeton Meadows Country
Club, Plainsboro, 609-721-4358.
www.outercircleskiclub.org. Open
to adults interested in ski trips,
hikes, picnics, and game nights.
New members welcome. 8 p.m.
For Seniors
Medicare Fraud and Abuse, Jewish Family & Vocational Service
of Middlesex County, Ewing Library, 61 Scotch Road, Ewing,
732-777-1940.
“Preventing
Medicare Fraud and Abuse” presented by Charles Clarkson, the
statewide coordinator for the SMP
(Senior Medicare Patrol) of New
Jersey. The common scams,
abuse with home health care and
medical supplies, and more included. “Fraud is causing costs to
go through the roof,” says Clarkson. “It all begins and ends with
the consumer, which is why education is so important.” 10 a.m.
DWI Arrests. Roberto E. Garrido-Sandoval, 28, of Hunters Glen
Drive, was charged June 20 with
driving while intoxicated. Officer
Richard Wolak said he stopped
him for failing to keep right on
Plainsboro Road and found he was
intoxicated. He was also charged
with driving while intoxicated in a
school zone, reckless driving, failure to keep right, cracked windshield, obstructed view, and time
restrictions for out-of-state driving
in New Jersey.
Tanya Shaparin, 56, of Princeton Junction, was charged June 16
with driving while intoxicated. Officer Mathieu Baumann said he
stopped her on Route 1 South for
failing to maintain a lane and found
she was intoxicated. She was also
charged with reckless driving and
failure to maintain a lane.
Brian T. Johnson, 29, of Piscataway, was charged June 11 with
driving while intoxicated. Sergeant
John Bresnen said he stopped him
for speeding on Scudders Mill
Road and found he was intoxicated. He was also charged with reckless driving and speeding.
Degong Ren, 45, of East Brunswick, was charged June 11 with
driving while intoxicated. Officer
Timothy McMahon said he saw
him swerving on Dey Road,
stopped him near Petty Road, and
found he was intoxicated. He was
also charged with reckless driving
and failure to maintain a lane.
West Windsor
Aggravated Assault. Christopher C. Keresztes, 20, of Plainsboro, was charged June 11 with aggravated assault. Officer William
Jones said a 25-year-old man from
Plainsboro Seniors, Plainsboro
Township, Plainsboro Municipal
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West
Windsor
confronted
Keresztes regarding a debt owed to
the man’s friend.
A physical altercation ensued
between the man and the two men
who were with Keresztes. During
the altercation, Keresztes allegedly
returned to his car and retrieved a
baseball bat. He returned to the
fight and, according to witnesses at
the scene, proceeded to strike the
man in the head several times with
the bat, police said. The 25-yearold man sustained two small cuts
over his left eye.
Theft. A Cottonwood Drive resident was the victim of burglary
and theft on June 11. Officer Walter Silcox said the resident returned
home and saw a white male, approximately 16 to 18 years old,
leaving her 2010 Jeep. The suspect
fled the area on foot, police said.
The victim told police she left the
door unlocked, and the suspect
stole a GPS unit worth approximately $200.
DWI. Tamara S. Williams, 31,
of West Windsor, was charged
June 10 with driving while intoxicated. Officer Ted Hojnacki said
he stopped her for failing to maintain a lane on Clarksville Road at
Meadow Road and found she was
intoxicated. She was also charged
with reckless driving and failure to
maintain a lane.
Sophia Guild, 23, of Rocky Hill,
was charged June 10 with driving
while intoxicated. Officer Chris
Van Ness said he stopped her for
speeding on Route 1 North and
found she was intoxicated. During
a subsequent search of the vehicle,
Van Ness said he also found under
50 grams of marijuana in the passenger compartment. She was also
charged with possession of marijuana under 50 grams, reckless driving, speeding, failure to signal a
lane change, and maintenance of
lamps.
ray Theater, Princeton University,
877-238-5596. www.pst2011.org.
$9. 11 a.m.
Star Shows, Raritan Valley College, Planetarium, College Center, North Branch, 908-526-1200.
www.raritanval.edu. “SETI: The
Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence at 2 p.m. for ages 10 and
up. “Laser Light” at 3 p.m. for all
ages. $6 each. 2 p.m.
Thursday
July 7
Film
On Stage
Art
Barefoot in the Park, Princeton
Summer Theater, Hamilton Murray Theater, Princeton University,
877-238-5596. www.pst2011.org.
Neil Simon comedy based on a
newly-wed couple and their first
apartment. $20 to $25. 8 p.m.
Summer Photography, Grounds
For Sculpture, 18 Fairgrounds
Road, Hamilton, 609-586-0616.
www.groundsforsculpture.org.
First of four-session workshop for
beginners and experienced photographers. An SLR or digital camera is required. Register. $70.
10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
Family Theater
The Three Little Pigs, Princeton
Summer Theater, Hamilton Mur-
Princeton Public Library, 65
Witherspoon Street, 609-9248822. Screening of “Harry Potter
and the Sorcerer’s Stone.” 7 p.m.
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THE NEWS
JUNE 24, 2011
From Heliotrope to Myrtle to Roses and Lavender: The GROWW Garden Tour
N
early 20 of West Windsor’s gardeners are opening up their gardens on
Saturday, June 25, as part of the second annual GroWW (Greening of West
Windsor) Garden Tour. They’re ready to answer questions on subjects from flowers and
vegetables to composting and fighting deer,
and inspire all to do some planting. The free
self-guided tour runs from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Maps are available at www.GreeningWestWindsor.com, West Windsor Arts Center,
West Windsor Community Farmers’ Market, and West Windsor Library.
56 North Mill Road: Learning From
Masters. The former home of a master gardener, at 56 North Mill Road, will be on display. New owners Annette Osterlund and
Mike Ruderman are learning that so much
more grows here than in Boulder, Colorado.
Annette is also discovering how newspaper
can be used to suppress weeds (also more
plentiful). Ask her how, enjoy the flowers,
shrubs, and trees chosen to entice birds and
butterflies — but discourage deer. Follow
her adventures at newbie-nj-gardener.blogspot.com.
4 Kingsley Court: Self-Made Gardeners. Those stopping at 4 Kingsley Court will
meet Lisa Wren. When she and her husband,
Christopher, bought their home in 2005, the
yard had little more than one peony, a forsythia shrub, some rhododendrons, and a
few mature trees. Since then, the self-taught
gardeners have transformed part of their
back yard into an array of sun and shade gardens using low-maintenance plants.
One favorite is knock-out roses. “They
grow fast enough that deer don’t do much
damage, bloom for months, and are available
in a range of colors,” says Lisa. Gardeners
may be afraid to try English and old garden
roses, but the Wrens have found varieties
that require little maintenance.
A clematis plant now clambers up a myrtle tree in their yard, blooming until just
about the point when the tree takes over.
Walker’s Low looks like lavender and pairs
nicely with roses. Lilies (Asiatic and Orienpet species) also require little care but deliver big impact in the garden. Wren likes
hostas for shade — and their deer tend to ignore the blue-leaf variety. A patch of autumn
fern grows under a cluster of white birch
trees, with the ferns’ orange foliage providing a bright spot in the fall, and painted ferns
grow under old oak trees. Hardscaping with
boulders and bluestone paths add interest.
Wren has many suggestions for easy-care
gardening. “There is nothing in our garden
that is high-maintenance,” she says. “If I can
do it, anyone can do it.” Like other gardeners, she has made plenty of mistakes. And
when a plant needs more space or otherwise
isn’t happy, the solution is usually pretty
easy — move it.
533 Village Road West: Ask A Girl
Scout. Composting tips and tricks will be
demonstrated by Girl Scout Dhara Mehta.
“Compost is better for the soil than other fertilizers, plus it’s free and can reduce your
household trash by half,” she said. She will
be answering questions at 533 Village Road
West, a home owned by Ed Haemmerle that
showcases many other environmental features such as solar roof panels, geothermal
heating and cooling, solar thermal for hot
water, rainwater-harvesting and a white
(cool) roof. And yes, there’s an electric car,
for those who missed a chance to see it at the
West Windsor Farmers’ Market.
11 Penn Lyle Road: Peace And Quiet.
Mike and Ruth Potts have turned the backyard off 11 Penn Lyle Road into an oasis of
calm. They have created a woodland garden
hidden behind their house and ferns, hostas,
astilbe, foxglove, and some native plants
such as shooting stars, a white and pink wildflower that blooms early in the spring.
“When you come into the backyard, it can be
very quiet,” says Ruth. “It’s so peaceful that
you don’t know there’s a busy road nearby.”
Other Attractions. Compost sites may
also be seen at 56 North Mill Road,
11 Penn Lyle Road, 34A Berrien
Avenue and 27 Melville Road.
One of the hits of last year’s garden tour, sub-irrigated containers
for growing vegetables, will be
demonstrated at the West Windsor
Community Garden on Clarksville
Road. It’s easy to build a planter
that retains water in the base and
uses a standard storage container.
Vegetable gardens may also be
seen at 409 Village Road East, 530
Village Road West, 533 Village
Road West, 922 Alexander Road,
16 Scott Avenue, 27 Melville
Road, and West Windsor Community Garden. Fruit trees line the
driveway of 131 South Mill Road.
See how to include sculptures
and other artwork in a flower garden by visiting the community garden at the corner of Canal Pointe Boulevard
and Emmons Drive, maintained by Ron
LeMahieu. “Buy sculpture that speaks to you
and once you get it into the garden, plant
around it with plants that are appropriate for
the particular sculpture,” says LeMahieu.
A backyard that has been certified by the
National Wildlife Federation as a wildlife
habitat will be on display at 5 Scott Avenue.
To meet with the NWF’s approval, it must
meet certain criteria for providing food, water, and cover, as well as a place for animals
to raise their young.
The Artful Outdoors:
5 Scott Avenue, and
two views of the Wren
Garden at 4 Kingsley
Court, insets.
GroWW is a volunteer group of West
Windsor residents who have worked together for three years to highlight the environmental practices of businesses, government
agencies, and community groups. The main
focus of GroWW is to educate the public on
energy conservation, recycling options, and
sustainability practices. Committee members include Heidi Kleinman, Lynnie Sharma, Debra Wolosky, Silvia Ascarelli, Sue
Abbey, Jeff Tryon, Marlene Gordon, Ed
Haemmerle, and Rani Kronthal-Sacco.
GroWW Garden Tour, Greening of
West Windsor, Vaughn Drive parking lot,
West Windsor. Saturday, June 25, 10 a.m. to
2 p.m. 609-989-5662. www.greeningwestwindsor.com.
Self-guided tour of two dozen private gardens, large and small, with flowers, vegetables, or exotic plants. While most are located
in the Berrien City and Dutch Neck neighborhoods, there are gardens throughout the
town. Visit website for locations. The opening reception for an art exhibit at the West
Windsor Arts Council will be held in conjunction with the tour. See story below.
When Nature Is
Their Palette
E
xhibiting artists for “Gardens, Landscapes and the
Great Outdoors” include
Zakia Ahmed, Joe Gyurcsak,
Judy Buckley, and David Langley, all teachers at the West
Windsor Arts Council, and a selection of their students. The art
council’s first faculty/student
exhibit will be on view through
August 28. The reception will be
held on Saturday, June 25, from
10 a.m. to 2 p.m., to coincide
with the GroWW Garden tour.
While all four artists teach at
the arts council, Zakia Ahmed also lives in West Windsor and has
been teaching for more than 25
years, with a loyal local following. She has a master’s degree of
fine arts from the Institute of Fine
Arts in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Her
works are on exhibit in the
Bangladesh National Museum,
Bangladesh Shilpkala Academy,
and in many private collections
worldwide.
Art Exhibit, West Windsor
Arts Council, 952 Alexander
The Great Outdoor, Framed: ‘Parked’ by David
Langley, above, and ‘Nature’ by Zakia Ahmed, left.
Road, West Windsor. Saturday,
June 25, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Opening
reception for “Gardens, Landscapes, and the Great Outdoors,”
an exhibit featuring works of
artists
Zakia
Ahmed,
Joe
Gyurcsak, Judy Buckley, and
David Langley, and selections
from their students. In conjunction
with GroWW Garden Tour. On
view to August 28. 609-919-1982.
www.westwindsorarts.org.
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HOW TO ORDER
CLEANING SERVICES
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Mail, E-Mail, or Fax: That’s all it takes
to order a classified in the West WindsorPlainsboro News. Mail your ad to the
News at P.O. Box 580, West Windsor
08550. Fax it to 609-243-9020, or use our
e-mail address: class@wwpinfo.com.
We will confirm your insertion and the
price, which is sure to be reasonable:
Classifieds are just 50 cents a word, with
a $7.00 minimum. Repeats in succeeding
issues are just 40 cents per word, and if
your ad runs for 12 consecutive issues,
it’s only 30 cents per word.
Maryam’s Cleaning: Homes, apartments, condos. Serving Bucks County,
Pa. and New Jersey areas. Free estimates. 215-779-1371.
PM Whitney Power Washing and
Deck Care Siding, patios, roofs, concrete, buildings. Decks cleaned, sealed,
repaired. 609-897-9494. www.powerwashthehouse.com
OFFICE RENTALS
Plainsboro - 700 SF to 3,000 SF Office Suites: in single story building in
well maintained office park off Plainsboro Road. Immediately available. Individual entrance and signage, separate
AC/Heat and electricity. Call 609-7992466 or E-mail tqmpropmgm@aol.com
INDUSTRIAL SPACE
Warehouse Space - 2,000 square
feet - Princeton Jct. Area - Call 609-7990605.
COMMERCIAL SPACE
Fully-equipped
Commercial
Kitchen for Rent in the Princeton
Area: Flex hours. Price based on usage. Please call: 609-430-0606. Or
email: nomitaabreu@gmail.com
HOUSING FOR RENT
Hamilton Small efficient house. 1+
bedroom, washer/dryer, dishwasher, air
conditioning, excellent location, plus
more. Non-smoking, no pets. 609-5877682.
CONTRACTING
Handyman/Yardwork: Painting/Carpentry/Masonry/Hauling/All Yard Work
from top to bottom. Done by pros. Call
609-737-9259 or 609-273-5135.
JULY 7
Continued from page 33
Dancing
Salsa
Class,
HotSalsaHot,
Princeton YWCA, 59 Paul Robeson Place, Princeton, 609-6516070. www.hotsalsahot.com. Beginner and advanced beginner
salsa. $18. 6:30 p.m.
Argentine Tango, Black Cat Tango, Suzanne Patterson Center,
Monument Drive, Princeton, 609273-1378. www.theblackcattango.com. Beginner and intermediate classes followed by guided
practice. No partner necessary.
$12. 8 p.m.
Potter Literati
Harry Potter Filibuster, Princeton Public Library, 65 Witherspoon Street, 609-924-8822.
www.princetonlibrary.org. Participants take turns reading aloud
from “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone” in 15-minute slots. For
ages 7 and up. Register online.
9:30 a.m.
Outdoor Concerts
Summer Courtyard Concert Series, Arts Council of Princeton,
Princeton Shopping Center, 301
North Harrison Street, Princeton,
609-924-8777. www.artscouncilofprinceton.org. Alex Mitnick and
the Kaleidoscope Band with world
music for children. Free. 6:30 to
8:30 p.m.
World Music
Hungarian Music Celebration,
Westminster Choir College,
Bristol Chapel, 101 Walnut Lane,
Princeton, 609-921-2663. www.rider.edu. Timothy Urban performs. Free. 7:30 p.m.
Window Washing and Power
Washing. Free estimates. Next day service. Fully insured. Gutter cleaning
available. 609-271-8860. References
available upon request. 30 years experience.
HOME MAINTENANCE
A handyman repairs things around
your lovely home or valued property.
He solves your problems. Free estimate. Cell 609-213-8271.
A&L Painting, CPS: Residential,
commercial. Interior, exterior. Written
guarantees. Fully insured. 609-9156988.
A1 Handyman Services: All homerelated repairs. No job too big or small.
Fully insured. 609-466-8919.
Bookkeeper/Administrative Specialist: Versatile & experienced professional will gladly handle your bookkeeping and/or administrative needs. Many
services available. Reasonable rates.
Work done at your office or mine. Call
Debra @ 609-448-6005 or visit www.vyours.com.
PERSONAL SERVICES
ALTERATION: Professional Alteration, Custom Design, Home Decor,
Dance Dresses and Costumes. Home
fitting and delivery available in local areas. 917-573-2525.
ADULT CARE
Barbara’s In-Home Care Assistance (Non-Medical) Born and raised in
Middlesex County. This is truly my passion. Learn about me: www.inhomecarebybarbara.com 732-735-4243.
robthehandyman- licensed, insured,
all work guaranteed. Free Estimates.
We do it all - electric, plumbing, paint,
wallpaper, powerwashing, tile, see website for more: robthehandyman.vpweb.com
robthehandyman@att.net,
609-269-5919.
INSTRUCTION
DECKS REFINISHED
Cleaning/Stripping and Staining of
All Exterior Woods: Craftsmanship quality work. Fully insured and licensed with
references. Windsor WoodCare. 609799-6093. www.windsorwoodcare.com.
Good Causes
Learn To Play: Piano, guitar, drum,
sax, clarinet, F. horn, oboe, t-bone,
voice, flute, trumpet, violin, cello, banjo,
mandolin, harmonica. $28 half hour.
School of Rock. Adults or kids. Join the
band! Summer music camp. Princeton
609-924-8282. Princeton Junction 609897-0032. Hightstown 609-448-7170.
www.farringtonsmusic.com.
Lessons in Your Home: Music
lessons in your home. Piano, clarinet,
saxophone, flute and guitar. Call Jim
609-737-9259 or 609-273-5135.
Math, Science, English, ACT & SAT
Tutoring: Available in your home.
Brown University-educated college pro-
ter. 6:30 to 8:30 p.m.
Benefit Concert, Help Brittany
Beat RSD, Kelsey Theater, Old
Trenton Road, West Windsor,
609-947-3795.
www.helpbrittbeatrsd.org. A rock concert featuring all original material coordinated by Steve Fields on vocals and
piano. His daughter, Brittany, 32,
needs medical treatment to fight
against reflex sympathetic dystrophy, a painful medical condition.
Other musicians include Hannah
Zaic, lead singer; Joe Marascio on
percussion and blues harmonica;
Vaughan Burton on guitar; Kathy
Sheppard on keyboard, synthesizer, and organ; Frank Hernandez on bass; and Alex Kirkpatrick
on drums. $35 payable on the
website or by check payable to
Stephen Fields, Help Britt Beat
RSD, 412 Blanketflower Lane,
West Windsor 08550. 8 p.m.
Singles
Farmers’ Market
Little Shop of Horrors, OffBroadstreet Theater, 5 South
Greenwood Avenue, Hopewell,
609-466-2766.
www.off-broadstreet.com. Musical comedy about
a blood-thirsty exotic plant in a
skid row flower shop. Jim Petro of
Hamilton as Seymour and Vicky
Czarnik of Hopewell as Audrey.
Dessert included. $27.50 to
$29.50. 7 p.m.
Princeton Farmers Market, Hinds
Plaza, 55 Witherspoon Street,
Princeton, 609-356-0558. www.princetonfarmersmarket.com.
Produce, cheese, breads, baked
goods, flowers, chef cooking
demonstrations, books for sale,
family activities, and workshops.
Music from 12:30 to 2:30 p.m.
Rain or shine. 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Health
Caregiver
Support
Group,
Alzheimer’s Association, 196
Princeton Hightstown Road, West
Windsor, 973-586-4300. www.alz.org. A forum for family members and caregivers to share feelings, concerns, and information.
Register. 10 a.m.
For Teens
Movie, West Windsor Library,
333 North Post Road, 609-2758901. www.mcl.org. Screening of
“Easy A” for ages 12 to 18. Regis-
Divorced and Separated Support
Group, Hopewell Presbyterian
Church, 80 West Broad Street,
Hopewell, 609-452-8576. www.hopewellpres.org. Register. Free.
7:30 to 9 p.m.
Recreation Sports
WW-P American Legion Baseball. Lawrence 414 at South. 5:45
p.m.
Friday
July 8
On Stage
Twelfth Night or What You Will,
Kelsey Theater, Mercer County
Community College, 1200 Old
Trenton Road, West Windsor,
609-570-3333.
www.kelseytheatre.net. Shakespeare’s comedy about mistaken identity, love,
and frivolities. $14. 7:30 p.m.
Urinetown, Washington Crossing Open Air Theater, 355 Washington
Crossing-Pennington
Road, Titusville, 267-885-9857.
www.dpacatoat.com.
Musical.
$15. Blankets, seat cushions, and
insect repellent are recommended. Picnics welcome before show.
Food available. 7:30 p.m.
HELP WANTED
Can You Deliver?
Every Wednesday we deliver 19,000 copies
of U.S.1 Newspaper to 4,500 business locations
in the greater Princeton area. Every other Friday
we deliver the West Windsor & Plainsboro News
to homes in those towns. We welcome people
with common sense, curiosity, and a reliable car
to help us do the job.
BUSINESS SERVICES
PM WHITNEY POWER WASHING
AND DECK CARE Siding, patios, roofs,
concrete, buildings. Decks cleaned,
sealed,
repaired.
609-897-9494.
www.powerwashthehouse.com
SPRING YARD WORK - Clean up,
Trimming, Edging, Mulching, Mowing
and more - great prices - call 609 7221137
HELP WANTED
Earn $100 per day! Plus Mileage!
Plus Bonuses for information you provide our editors!
Mail or fax us a note. We hope to hear from you.
Tell us about yourself and why you
are free to deliver on Wednesdays.
Mail to U.S. 1 Delivery Team, 12 Roszel Road,
Princeton 08540; or fax to 609-452-0033
INSTRUCTION
WANTED TO BUY
fessor. Experienced with gifted, underachieving and learning-disabled students. Web: http://ivytutoring.intuitwebsites.com Call Bruce 609-371-0950.
Hamilton Twp., 609-890-0142. Our retail outlet is open Saturdays 10 to 4:00,
or by appointment.
Summer enrichment saxophone
lessons with Jacob for beginner and intermediate students. 609-731-2152 or
e-mail fbi1224@gmail.com.
Tutor — SAT, ACT, SSAT — Reading, Writing, Essays: Boost your
scores with outstanding private instruction from college English professor.
Many excellent references throughout
West Windsor-Plainsboro. My former
students are attending top colleges.
Reasonable rates. 609-658-6914.
ENTERTAINMENT
One Man Band: Keyboardist for your
party. Perfect entertainment. Great variety. Call Ed at 609-424-0660.
WANTED TO BUY
Antique Military Items: And war
relics wanted from all wars and countries. Top prices paid. “Armies of the
Past LTD”. 2038 Greenwood Ave.,
Barefoot in the Park, Princeton
Summer Theater, Hamilton Murray Theater, Princeton University,
877-238-5596. www.pst2011.org.
Neil Simon comedy based on a
newly-wed couple and their first
apartment. $20 to $25. 8 p.m.
Family Theater
Camp Muckalucka, Kelsey Theater, Mercer County Community
College, 1200 Old Trenton Road,
West Windsor, 609-570-3333.
www.kelseytheatre.net. Interactive musical show about day camp
presented by Tom “T-Bone”
Stankus. $10. 10 a.m. and 1 p.m.
The Three Little Pigs, Princeton
Summer Theater, Hamilton Murray Theater, Princeton University,
877-238-5596. www.pst2011.org.
$9. 11 a.m.
Disney’s The Jungle Book Kids,
Washington Crossing Open Air
Theater, 355 Washington Crossing-Pennington Road, Titusville,
267-885-9857. www.dpacatoat.com. $5. 11 a.m.
Film
Princeton Public Library, 65
Witherspoon Street, 609-9248822. www.princetonlibrary.org.
Screening of “Harry Potter and the
HELP WANTED
Real Estate Sales Need a change?
Looking to obtain your RE license? No
experience needed! FREE coaching!
Unlimited income! Call Weidel today!
Hamilton:
Tom
609-586-1400,
twilbur@weidel.com; Princeton: Mike
609-921-2700,
mike@weidel.com;
West Windsor: Bruce 609-799-6200,
brucebusch@weidel.com.
Team Leader - Work from home and
supervise a small team of court transcribers. Will train right person. Tight
deadlines on most work. Income to $35
per hour. Must have a four-year college
degree, type 80 WPM, and have supervisory experience. Send resume to
wtrscramp@verizon.net.
Transcriptionist: Work from home 30
hours/week during business hours.
Some overnight work. Must have 4 year
college degree, type 70 words/minute
and have lots of transcription experience. E-mail resume to wtrscramp@aol.
Chamber of Secrets.” 3 p.m.
Art
Art Exhibit, Gourgaud Gallery, 23
North Main Street, Cranbury, 609395-0900. www.gourgaudhist.htm. Opening reception for “Recent Paintings: Travels Far and
Near,” an exhibit of works by Judy
Buckley. On view to July 31. 1 to 3
p.m.
Classical Music
Operatic Arias Concert, Westminster Choir College, Bristol
Chapel, 101 Walnut Lane, Princeton, 609-921-2663. www.rider.edu. Participants in the school’s
CoOPERAtive program are young
singers working with professionals
in the field of opera. Free. 7:30
p.m.
Live Music
Wine and Music, Hopewell Valley
Vineyards, 46 Yard Road, Pennington, 609-737-4465. www.hopewellvalleyvineyards.com.
Wine by the glass or bottle available. 15 Keys plays jazz. 6 to 9
p.m.
Caila and Natalie, Molto Bene
Caffe y Mercato Italiano, 116
North Main Street, Hightstown,
JUNCTION
BARBER SHOP
33 Hightstown Rd., Princeton Jct.
ELLSWORTH’S CENTER (Near Train Station)
Hrs: Tues - Fri: 10am - 6pm
Sat: 8:30am - 3:30pm
609-799-8554
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THE NEWS
JUNE 24, 2011
West Windsor-Plainsboro High School South Post Prom 2011
The students of the Class of 2011 and their guests enjoyed a fun and safe night filled with many happy memories.
The generosity, hard work, dedication, positive energy, and spirit of so many made this spectacular Post Prom event possible.
The West Windsor-Plainsboro High School South Post Prom 2011 Committee is grateful
for the remarkable support that we received from the following wonderful individuals and groups.
We sincerely appreciate the support of the following local businesses, community organizations, South parents, students, staff and friends
for their generous contributions and volunteer efforts to honor this important tradition of keeping our children safe on Prom night.
Thank you for caring!
Post Prom Co-Chairs: Mari McElwee, Kathy Modi, Lisa Pappa, and Natalie Schoepfer
POST PROM COMMITTEE
Bake Sales - Ann Rohrbach, Bernie Sandgren
Battle of the Bands - Leanne Belle,
Nancy Greenberger
Chaperones - Nancy Greenberger
ChazMaTazz Tuxedo - Patti Wallack
Clean Up - Pam Schnitter
Clothing Drives - Kristen Krakower
Decorating - Kristen Krakower, Lynette Oertel
Donations - Bonnie Curry, Sue Druckman,
Barry Kramer
Flea Market - Kathy Modi
Food - Gabrielle Kline, Debi McCann, Beth Zaharsky
Games - Lisa Pappa
Gift Wrap MarketFair - Natalie Schoepfer
Information/Volunteer Coordinator -Gayatri Godse
Liaison for Drug/Alcohol Alliance - Donna Sher
McCaffreys Receipts/Box Tops - Florence Deetjen,
Sue Druckman
Mendokers Sale at Craft Fair - Alice Donahue,
Diane Young
Merchandise Sales - Co-Chairs
Pickleball - Gimbert Fernandez
Prizes/Gifts - Natalie Schoepfer, Claire Mendez
Prom Dress - Maggie Morales
Publicity - Ann Cirafici
Restaurant Nights - Valerie Leiggi
Safety - Bonnie Curry, Nandini Mankar
Thank You Ad - Azita Alerasool
Tickets - Trisha Katz, Nadia Matthews
Treasurer - Mari McElwee
Vendor Sale - Lisa Pappa, Ann Reiman
Web-site Master - Preethi Amurthur, Gayatri Godse
Nicolinas
Olive Garden
On the Border
Papa Johns
Perkins
Princetonian Diner
Rita's Ice
Romeo Pizza
Sam's
Shop Rite
Shubh Labh
Singas Pizza
Snapple
Starbucks
Steak and Hoagie, Plainsboro
Subway
Subway, Plainsboro
Subzi Mandi
Super Star Buffet
Sushi King
Taco Bell
TGI Fridays
Tom Yum Goong
Village Deli
Wendy's
Westin
World Bagel Deli
Wenzheng & Wei-Yuh
Christina Xie
Nahhyun Sarah Yu
Grace & Delong Yu
M. Zangara
Igor & Nancy Ziedonis
Jeffrey & Deborah Ziment
Kathleen & John Zummo
Ann Rieman
Ron Rieman
Ann Rohrbach
Jess Rosenberg
Michelle Rosenberg
Mary Rothman
Bernie Sandgren
Cindy Scanlon
Cindy Schenhower
Kristen Schenk
Nick Schmidt
Pamela Schnitter
George Schoepfer
Natalie Schoepfer
Stephen Schoepfer
Allie Schwartz
Alka Shah
Jayashri Shah
Swati Shah
Geeta Sharma
Donna Sher
Christine Sibley
Sunita Sindkar
Holly Slepman
Andrea Smith
Susan Smith
Mary Jean Sokol
Bobby Sparks
Mary Ellen Spencer
Mary Beth Spenser
Nicole Stoddard
Marilyn Stoddard
Kathy Tantum
Tate Tantum
Maureen Tereby
Denise Valen
Venkat Venkateswaren
Patti Wallack
Michael Welsh
Sue Welsh
Christina Xie
Diane Young
Erin Young
Pat Young
Beth Zahorsky
David Zahorsky
Jeff Ziment
Kathy Zummo
Thank
You
Very
Much!
CORPORATE DONATIONS
AIG Matching Grants Program
Century 21 - Abrams, Hutchinson & Assoc.
Cooper Pest Solutions
Corner of Chaos
David M. Meadow, D.M.D.
Drs. Epstein, Elkin and Sargiss
Educational Travel Tours, Inc.
Fraytak Veisz Hopkins Duthie, P.C.
Garvey Pest Control, Inc.
Kevin T. Coyle D.M.D.
McCaffrey's Market
Plainsboro Family Physicians
Princeton Driving School, Inc.
Princeton Junction Engineering, P.C.
Princeton Nassau Pediatrics
Robert S. Goldstine, D.D.S.
Steven L. Harris, D.D.S.
The Firmenich Charitable Foundation
Tuttle Dental Care
GIFTS AND SERVICES
A Little bit of NYC
A1 Limousine
Carol Downes
Charmed by Claire
Chazz Ma Tazz
City Streets Restaurant
Claire Mendez
Cranbury Fields
Dandelions
Fotolux Inc., especially Peter
The Gap
Hand and Stone Massage and Facial Spa
Hollywood Tans
Hyatt Regency Princeton
La Jolie
Le Camera Zone
Lisa Jones
Little Gym
Ma Cherie Boutique
Marriot at Forrestal
McAffreys
Mendokers
Nailzone
Natalie Caricato Photography
The Papery of Princeton
Perenial Home
Princeton Hyatt
Princeton Marriott
Princetonian Diner
Russo Music
Taco Bell
Tomorrow's Heirlooms
Trenton Mariott Downtown
USNails
FOOD DONATIONS
A/G Italian Food
AFI
Aljon Pizza
Anthony & Sons
Americana Diner
Asian Fusion, Plainsboro
Bagel Hole
Bagel Nosh
Bagel Place
Bagel Street
Balford
Brothers Pizzeria
Business Bistro Catering
Café Capuano
Cafe Capuano Italian Ristorante
Candella II Pizzeria
Carlucci's Grill
Casa Rosario, Plainsboro
Chevy's
City Streets Café
Crown of India
Dhli #6
Dunkin Donuts
East Sushi
East Windsor Deli
Farmers market
First Wok
George's Roaster & Ribs
Grover's Mill coffee
Halo Farmer
Hanami
Heavenly Ham
Hoagie Haven
Hooters of Princeton
It's A Grind, Plainsboro
Ivy Garden
Little Szechuan
Lotus Garden
Magma Pizza
Mahzu
Mercer oaks
Moe's Mexican
PARENT DONATIONS
Azita Tajaddini & Saeed Alerasool
Nancy & Howard Alter
Robert & Paula Bacall
Angelo & Tracey Balestrieri
Lin Baumann
Kenneth & Kazue Beach
Cheryl Kurer & Daniel Berg
Bob & Kathy Bonazzi
Ronald & Kelly Borup
Pat & Liz Boyle
Caroline Calogero & Arthur Brooks
Linda Bruno
Robert & Jan Cardinale
Eric & Georgia Carleen
Susan Carnegie
Beth Carroll
Chris & Kim Casarona
Virginia Curatolo
Michael & Bonnie Curry
Andrew & Miki Davidson
Caroline Deetjen
Kenneth & Deborah Degnan
Lillian DeJesus
Byron Delemos
Vinay & Yogini Desai
Jonathan & Susan Druckman
Carlos & Victoria Echeverri
Marisa & Manny Efstathios
James & Elizabeth Erickson
Fernando & Edna Faria
Mark Ferguson
John & Janet Francisco
Mark & Amy Frankel
Eugene & Tatyana Fridkin
Mark Rose & Alison Gammie
Joel & Jacqueline Goldfinger
Marc & Nancy Greenberger
Sanjay & Ashoo Gupta
Kristen Hanley
Christine Hannington
Maria Botta & Karl Hazen
Diane Herte
Ryan Huie
Gary & Debra Ignotofsky
Lisa Pappa & Vincent Ingato
Jeanne Itak
Robert & Linda Johnson
Pathanjali & Madhavi Kadiyala
Marc & Patricia Katz
Christine Hansen Kaufman
Brian & Judith Kelman
Elie & Samia Khoury
Jeong S Kim
Scott & Gabrielle Kline
Masamichi Koike
Steven & Kristen Krakower
Valerie Kullmann
Jayasree Kumar
Kathryn & Flint Lane
Diane Lee
Robert & Sharon Lee
Sang Gil Lee
Dawn Leong & Philip Lee Lum
Valerie & Robert Leiggi
Sherryl & Kenneth Leon
James & Sharong Lin
Karen Maloney
Susan March
John & Alison McAuliffe
Dan & Mari McElwee
Brian & Catherine McGuinness
Norbert & Mary Mendes
Shailesh & Ketki Modi
Hsiu Chang & Alexander Ng
Tina Ngai
Francis & Barbara O'Connell
Elise Olgin
Jeff & Riva Olsen
Karen Palowitch
Kyung Pang
Gayle Klein & Alan Peck
Suzanne & David Philbin
Richard & Anna Maria Pisano
Jifa Qu
Sabyasachi & Anupma Ray
John & Sheryl Reece
Joan & Timothy Reil
Ronald & Ann Rieman
Karen & Gil Rodriguez
Jeffrey & Ann Rohrbach
Jeffrey & Mary Rothman
Leslie & Joy Scharfstein
Natalie & Stephen Schoepfer
Selvanathan Lakshmanan & Amutha Selvanathan
Alka Shah
Philip & Donna Sher
Elena Shulgina
Christine Bucci Sibley
Holly Slepman
Mei Mui Ng & Steven So
Steven & Janine Thumm
Eileen & Patrick Trombetta
Matthew & Patti Wallack
Lien Chung & Steve Wang
Robert Steacy & Sally White
VOLUNTEERS
Ram Amurthur
Meeta Aggarwal
Paula Bacall
Robert Bacall
Michelle Bacher
Patricia Barron
Leanne Bell
Ria Benerofe
Joanne Benfer
Darlene Birnbaum
Kelly Borup
Ron Borup
Andy Bova
Deirdre Bova
Chris Buckbinder
Gail Campbell
Chris Campbell
Bob Cardinale
Jan Cardinale
Natalie Caricato
Bruce Carnegie
Sue Carnegie
Kim Casarona
Seema Chowla
Anne Cirafici
Maryanne Colonna
Rich Coppola
Joanne Cornick
Bonnie Curry
Mike Curry
Anna D’Anna
Caroline Deetjen
Florence Deetjen
Max Deetjen
Deb Degnan
Ken Degnan
Rachel Donohue
Zach Donohue
Manny Efstathios
Marissa Efstathios
Dawn Elias
Victoria Escheverri
Kathy Farrell
Carmen Fernandez
Gimbert Fernandez
Janet Francisco
John Francisco
Amy Frankel
Mark Frankel
Ellie Freelander
Allison Friedlander
Carly Friedlander
Godse Gayathri
Jeanne-Marie Gochuico
Armando Gochuico
Jay Godse
Malena Gordon
Kishar Gore
Sandy Grant
Marc Greenberger
Nancy Greenberger
Kate Heavers
Pete Hekl
Corey Hillman
Allison Ho
Patti Hoge
May Huang
Carlo Ingato
Dante Ingato
Vincent Ingato
Robert Jodha
Bob Johnson
Linda Johnson
Rakesh Kak
Tricia Katz
Marc Katz
Gaby Kline
Kristen Krakower
Steve Krakower
Zak Krakower
Barry Kramer
Donna Kramer
Paige Lanzotta
Kelly Lehman
Matt Leiggi
Rob Leiggi
Valerie Leiggi
Beth Litchtman
Mike Litchtman
Nandini Mankar
Nadia Mathews
Debi McCann
Kristin McCormick
Steve McCormick
Dan McElwee
Danny McElwee
Mari McElwee
Suzanne Menard
Mary Mendes
Claire Mendez
Kathy Modi
Shailesh Modi
David Morales
Janet Morris
Tina Ngai
Fran O'Connell
Manisha Odak
Lloyd Oertel
Karen Oglesby
Susmita Pal
Garrett Palowitch
Karen Palowitch
Lisa Pappa
Sue Philbin
Laxmanji Pothuraj
Sudha Pothuraj
Judy Pugliese
Hongyan Qi
Jian Qu
Tony Ramos
Sabbi Ray
Justin Redmond
Joan Riel
Tim Reil
STUDENT VOLUNTEERS
Parissa Alerasool
Oliver Bell
Scott Benerofe
Andrew Bortnick
Caroline Boyle
Meg Cully
A.J. D’Antuono
Rachel Donohue
Lindsey Fecko
Amy Greenberger
Kelsey Hillman
Ashley Honig
Sergio Ingato
Bianca Ingato
Stephanie Krakower
Julianne Lee
Mike Lee
Erin McElwee
Connor McElwee
Mollie Miller
Jenna Modi
Kristina Nesci
Sabrina Olgin
Jessica Ortel
Lindsey Philbin
Karoline Sandvig
Pareel Shah
Nikhil Sharma
Emma Siverstein
Mariel Sullivan
Becky Torres
Lizzie Williams
Erin Young
SCHOOL DISTRICT PERSONNEL,
CLUBS AND STAFF
Rosann Bonino, Principal
Nancy Houck, Senior Class Advisor
Christy Javick, Senior Class Advisor
Sherri Bailey
Lisa Brown
Jeanette Hanos
Phyllis Herbert
Don Hutchinson
Gerri Hutner
Tracy Jones
Kathy Laneand PAJWC members
Randye McBride
Karen Morgan
Marie Smith
Cathy Tatum
South Custodians
South Kitchen Staff especially Claude
South Teachers
Dutch Neck School PTA
Maurice Hawk Elementary School PTA
Thomas Grover Middle School PTSA
Town Center Elementary School PTA
Village Elementary School PTA
West Windsor Plainsboro Education Association
West Windsor-Plainsboro High School South PTSA
COMMUNITY SUPPORT
Plainsboro Twp. PBA
West Windsor Police Department
West Windsor Township Emergency Services
West Windsor-Plainsboro Municipal Alliance
For the Prevention of Drug and Alcohol Abuse
especially Kathy Cave
West Windsor Township Fire Marshall
West Windsor PBA
We regret if a name has been
omitted or misspelled.
Please know that we
appreciate your efforts.