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FEBRUARY 17, 2012
WEST WINDSOR
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NEWS
Headliners:
Girl Scout Amy Laresch, page 8; Little League’s Tim Lockwood, 27; Actor Austin Begley, 34
Checking in at Summer Camps
A Flying Triple Threat
by Lynn Miller
M
olly Karlin, a senior at High School
North, will be flying across the
school’s stage Thursday to Sunday, March 1
to 4, in the title role of “Peter Pan.” “Flying is
very scary,” she says. “It’s an entirely new
feeling being suspended in mid-air and having to let other people control where I am going.” This is actually her second time flying
since she flew in a production of “Camelot”
in her freshman year. “However, Peter Pan is
going to require much more air choreography — like flying and landing,” she says.
Like most people who “fly” in any discipline, Karlin has a strong safety net. Her parents, Scott and Rosie Karlin, are often seen
on stage at Kelsey Theater, and the three of
them have performed together in several
productions. And Molly has spent many
summers honing her skills.
Karlin has studied with Dance Corner
since she was four. She has taken the Ballet
Intensive there for the past few summers,
and assisted her mother with the pre-school
dance camp. She has also attended the Company Intensive at Arts YOUniversity (now
Destiny Arts) for the past three summers and
has assisted with the musical theater summer
camps.
“All my dance training throughout my life
has definitely helped me onstage,” she says.
“It always helps me at auditions that I am
thetojunction
where quickly and be
able
pick up choreography
able to call upon previous knowledge of
steps to help me. I have also found it is really
beneficial being a well-rounded performer
who is a singer, an actor, and a dancer.”
A triple threat also gives the choreographer more flexibility on how much dancing
they can choreograph for a role. “Specifically for Peter Pan, my dance training has
helped me tremendously,” she says. “I am
very glad I have so many steps and movements to draw upon when I have to be sus-
pended in the air, and still be moving
and acting like Peter Pan.”
She has been singing with Princeton
Girlchoir for 10 years and studies
voice with Patricia Bartlett. “I started
with her last year to prepare for the role
of Belle, and now she is helping me
prepare for Peter Pan,” she says.
She was accepted through early de-
Campers & Counselors: Sophia
Azzara, left, of West Windsor
caught her first fish at Mercer
County Nature Camp last summer.
Above, North freshmen Sanjana
Saksena, left, Mansi Panse, Alisha
Kanitkar, and Sreeja Kondeti are
counselors at Go Green, a camp
they created in Plainsboro in 2010.
Continued on page 12
the arts and
community meet
School District Retains April 17 Budget Vote
T
by Rikki N. Massand
o the relief of almost all of the 50
residents who attended the West
Windsor-Plainsboro Board of Education meeting on Tuesday, February
7, there will be no changes to the public
vote on the school district budget or the
calendar for school board elections.
Just as Princeton did that same night,
WW-P decided to buck the recent
statewide trend of moving board elections from spring to November and
eliminating the public’s vote on the budget if it adhered to a two percent cap on
year-to-year tax increases.
The date remains set: Tuesday, April
17, will still be the annual budget vote as
after one hour of comments from the
public and board members, no motion
was made to adopt a resolution changing
elections or the budget vote. The board
is now scheduled meet with the governing bodies of West Windsor and Plainsboro townships on Tuesday, March 27,
for the public hearing on the 2012-’13
budget.
Candidates for the three available
school board seats — two from Plainsboro and one from West Windsor — will
still need to file applications by February 27, 10 days after the deadline Governor Christie and the state department of
education had set for districts to make
changes to their process.
The board’s discussion of the matter
on February 7 began with a slide showing that 225 New Jersey school districts
had decided in favor of the new state
regulation. A total of 239 currently have
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November election dates.
Board Vice President Bob Johnson
started his comments by explaining the
value of the current spring election format.
“There was a very good reason school
board elections were moved to April. It
was part of the good government movement to de-politicize it and to take politics out of school issues which really
don’t belong in a partisan arena. I believe, very strongly, that it’s a good reason to keep things this way,” Johnson
said.
Johnson said perhaps in a district
where “there wasn’t the reverence for
what the education system provides,” or
one with uninformed voters that “just
Continued on page 28
Last year at High School South James
Cornick, Class of 2011, ‘prom-posed’ to
Megan Spencer, but he made sure he did
so after 3 p.m. Why? See story, page 29.
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The School Budget:
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burden on the Board of Education
to curb spending if that amount
cannot be sustained in future years;
this requires a willingness to cut
programs to match any imbalance
have written several letters to of future years. It was mentioned
explain the West Windsor- that the auditor had also noted this
Plainsboro school budget to the risk and suggested that considerataxpayers. It seems that the best in- tion be given to legally permissible
sights can be found in the minutes applications of these dollars such
of the district’s finance committee. as adding to the unemployment
The following are from the finance compensation fund, capital reserve
committee meeting of November and maintenance reserve. The
committee sug15, 2011, which
gests adding $0.3
are available on
million to unemthe district web- The best insights into
ployment, $1.5
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million to capital
the school budget
“2012-’13
reserve which
budget: At the process can be found in
then
applies
last committee the minutes of the disabout $6.5 milmeeting, it was trict’s finance commitlion for tax relief
agreed that ex- tee.
in the 2012-’13
penditures assobudget.
ciated with com“The budget
munity
educadiscussion moved to the 2 percent
tion’s utilization of facility person- general fund tax levy increase topnel and energy would be phased in ic; the current law allows the disover a four year period; next year trict to raise the general fund tax
about $230,000 will be charged to levy up to 2 percent plus a number
CE. It was agreed that the capital of automatic adjustments. In the
spending level in the annual budget last budget cycle, this theoretically
should return to the $1.5 million allowed the general fund tax levy
level. These decisions were af- to potentially increase by 2.27 perfirmed.
cent; with the budget defeat, the in“In addition, there was discus- crease came in at 1.9 percent. Sevsion on the $8.3 million excess eral years ago, the district applied
fund balance to be designated for the tactic of raising the general
2012-’13 budget. Most of the discussion focused on tax relief, the
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fund tax levy to the maximum and
using any available dollars to reduce the debt service tax levy,
keeping the overall tax levy increase relatively moderate. Compounding is powerful and while not
going to the maximum may be a
small number of dollars in any one
year, over a number of years the
impact to the budget can be large.
“The committee suggests that
the early focus of budget scenarios
looked at two options: the typical
2% plus automatic adjustments in
the general fund tax levy; and, a
second option in which the total
(general fund plus debt service
fund) tax levy increases no more
than 1.25%. Should the second option result in a shortfall in any budget period due to volatility in items
such as benefits, special education
or state aid, the BOE must be prepared to reduce spending, possibly
on short notice. In addition to the
usual pressures on the budget for
increased expenditures for salaries
and health benefits, there are
needs/requests for additional dollars for: the FSA; continuing programs without Title II dollars;
charter school; outdoor education;
providing Title I type services to
non-Title I schools; and PERS,
among others. As a zero sum game,
the more dollars for existing and
added programs, the fewer dollars
are available to be applied for contract negotiation use.”
That’s the end of the minutes,
now to offer my observations:
The Community Education program operates within a separate
Enterprise fund. It has made a profit in most years and has built a surplus of over $5 million. Last year,
the School Board stated that the
surplus did not belong to the taxpayers. Now they have admitted
that the profit and surplus are due to
the free ride on facilities and energy that have been provided at taxpayer’s expense.
The district always talks about
prior year spending favorability to
be returned as tax relief. These
minutes clearly show their creativity in holding on to the surplus and
not returning it to the taxpayers.
The $8.2 million excess surplus is
after the Board moved $1,750,000
into capital reserve in June 2011.
Now they want to find even more
ways to reduce the amount of surplus to be returned to the taxpayers.
The discussion of the 2 percent
cap is also enlightening. They
openly discuss the “tactic” of moving money between the General
Fund and Debt Service. The net effect is to evade the cap and utilize
the power of compounding to maximize the local tax levy.
The 2012-’13 budget clock is
quickly running down. The next
meeting of the Finance Committee
will be held on Tuesday, February
21. The following Tuesday, the
School Board will vote on a preliminary budget for submission to the
County Superintendent. If you
think that our taxes are too high,
you should go to those meetings
and express your opinion.
Quentin Walsh
Petty Road, Plainsboro
Quentin Walsh is the husband of
WWP School Board member Ellen
Walsh. The comments above reflect
his views and not hers.
He has been invited to speak at
the West Windsor Republican Club
meeting on Thursday, March 8, at
7 p.m. in the Club Room of the Mercer Oaks facility at 725 Village
Road West in West Windsor.
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Who Represents
The Taxpayers?
A
mere nine months ago,
West Windsor voters
turned down the proposed
“tight” school budget. The
eggheads (term of affection) on the
West Windsor Council side had a
brief, rare mandate from voters to
effect some meaningful cuts. I
guess a $503,000 cut from the proposed $158,503,000 school budget
must seem like a lot of money to
those who play with a $38 million
municipal budget. The municipal
budget barely gets passed much before five months into its fiscal year,
which starts January 1.
Using fingers and toes, the WWP School Board and administration’s recommended reduction of
$503,000 off $158,503,000 was an
insulting if not a whopping .003, or
3/10 of 1 percent. Considering cuts
of greater amounts would simply
befuddle the assistant superintendent for finance and the District’s
controller. Note: what do these
people do?
As I have previously written, if
the WW-P Board had offered $10
in cuts, Council would have approved it with the same gusto/excuse/explanation that it did not
have time to go through the proposed budget. Isn’t this where veteran WW-P Board member, now
WW Council member, Linda
Geevers should have stepped up to
leverage her experience on the
Board to educate the Council and
Plainsboro Township Committee?
In our representative democracy, voters currently have no say on
our municipal, county, state, or
federal budgets.
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nominated categories. There is
something deeply primal about the
drumbeat in the background. It
sounds like ancient tom-toms calling warriors to the bonfire, or it
could be the steady beating of the
human heart. Whatever it is, it is
In the middle of dreary
February, thank you
Adele, Glen, and the
Beach Boys, for giving us
reasons to cheer.
cool, so very cool, and it is no wonder the song roared to the top of the
charts and stayed there.
It’s not just her gravelly one-ofa kind voice that makes me like
Adele so much, but her attitude toward life, especially in the context
of stupid words directed at her last
week by a stupid man, Karl Lagerfeld, the head designer for the
house of Chanel.
Last week he
criticized Adele as
being “too fat.”
You could practically hear the forks
dropping at tables around the globe
as young girls who want to emulate
the emaciated, stick-thin figures on
magazine covers received yet another blow to their health and body
image.
Thank God Adele seems to have
as good a head on her shoulders as
her golden voice pipes. To Lagerfeld’s idiotic statement, which he
loudly protested as being taken out
of context (it appears Mitt Romney
foot-in-mouth disease is contagious), she responded, “I’ve never
wanted to look like models on the
cover of magazines. I represent the
majority of women and I’m very
proud of that.”
Yay! You go, girl! My wish is
that Adele rides the crest of her fame
wisely and gives us the joy of her
voice for years to come. Perhaps we
will one day celebrate her Lifetime
Achievement Award, something
Whitney Houston should have had
the opportunity to look forward to.
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thank you, Adele, Glen, and the
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of year you
wish would
hurry up and be over
— gray skies, bitter
cold, and relative isolation can
breed a mood of melancholy, even
if the news headlines were not
enough to bring you down.
The sudden death of Whitney
Houston is one of those headlines;
the circumstances of her death are
as yet not completely explained but
in a sad way, her early passing is
not so surprising. Her years of substance abuse, domestic turbulence,
and downward spiral have been all
too well documented.
But oh, how lovely was her
golden voice, how beautiful was
she, and how glorious was that
scene when Kevin Costner swept
her off her feet in “The Bodyguard.” Like the Rhett Butler-Scarlett O’Hara staircase scene in
“Gone With the Wind,” it was one
of those seminal moments in film
that made thousands of female
hearts go pitter-pat. Houston made
the leap from songstress to actress,
but it was her voice, nurtured in a
Newark church choir, that made
her so magnificent.
Houston’s songs are like a
soundtrack interwoven not only into my life, but also into the lives of
my children, especially the girls.
Katie reminded me of how she used
to make me play the song, “I Will
Always Love You,” over and over
again as we rode together in my little blue Honda Civic, my first car,
long resigned to the recycle bin for
automobiles. Katie was all of three
years old when the song first burst
onto the music scene in 1993, the
same year Molly was born; Katie
was about seven when she fell in
love with the song, and we would
belt it out together riding on our
road trips through town, with Molly strapped into a car seat and Will
not yet on the scene.
How sad that Houston will not
be around to make a special appearance on the Grammys or win a
Lifetime Achievement Award in
the same way Glen Campbell did
last week. Campbell had the audience standing on its feet with his
performance of “Rhinestone Cowboy,” probably the best known in a
series of hits that made him one of
the most popular singers of the
1960s and ’70s. I am sure not even
one of his songs would be on any
kid’s playlist today. But oh, how
his songs, especially “Southern
Nights,” “Country Boy,” and of
course, “Rhinestone Cowboy”
bring back memories of my childhood and teenage years.
Last year the pop and country
singer revealed that he was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease.
While he is living valiantly in the
face of decline, his family has
shared stories of the moments
when he appears not to recognize
who they are. To see one of the
golden-haired icons of my childhood appearing so old reminded
me of my own advancing years —
when you see your girlhood crushes aging in front of you, how can
you deny your own mortality?
Even the appearance by the
Beach Boys — another great
Grammy moment — was punctuated by feelings of wow, why do they
look so old? I am not criticizing —
God bless them for reuniting, finally, and reminding us of why their
songs are so timeless. In the world
of their music, it is endless summer, and life is all about sun, surf,
and vibrant youth.
The best Grammy moment of
the night, however, was provided
by Adele, rocking it with “Rolling
in the Deep,” the song that helped
her sweep all six awards in her
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There are more of them than
there are of us, so even if we defeat
the school budget despite all the exclusions cited, all parties listed below seem to be against the taxpayer. I could be wrong and invite your
correction:
1. The teachers’ union, supervisors union, service workers unions;
2. Lawyers representing both
the District and NJEA / WWPEA;
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4. The school administration
that recommends its own pay and
benefits raises that then are heartily
approved by a complicit Board;
5. The elected representatives
for each municipality who feign
their ignorance;
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6. Ignored recommendation (July 2011) to have ad hoc committee
or third-party representation to
monitor labor negotiations;
7. Inability to disclose the agreements prior to ratification by both
parties –– unions and Board (As the
Board says, “increases due to contractual agreements beyond our
control which in fact ARE negotiated by the Board”);
8. Blistering defenses and disclaimers by WW-P Board members stating their individual opinions about fiscal restraint yet bully
their written opinions in media by
stating their opinions are not the
position of the Board of Education.
If so, what is with the titles?
What group am I leaving out that
has any sort of verifiable, quantifiable track record of representing
taxpayers? Where have costs been
contained and reduced in the past
30 years, excluding outsourced
custodial staff ?
The Board and administration
must be loving this proposed carte
blanche method for passing already bloated budgets. Despite the
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rhetoric, there will be no more
pesky public comments to challenge the Board’s pet projects and
empire-building until there is a
complete replacement and overhaul of current Board members.
It is easy to see why the Board
opposes a nominal community service requirement to educate its
high school students –– and future
taxpayers –– on the operations and
“how-to’s” of schools and municipalities. Our institutions needs critical thinkers who provide options
–– not negative thinkers.
So, too, for almost eight years,
the Board has rejected suggestions
to videotape its monthly meetings
to broadcast and share its operations via community access cable
channels. The volunteer staff ––
with supervision –– would come
from those students in the media
and broadcasting curriculum.
Pete Weale
Penns Neck
Sewer Emergency
Seemed Preventable
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his letter responds to the January 19 posting on nj.com
about West Windsor’s Wallace Road emergency sewer repair.
As an attorney and adjunct professor within both the Rutgers and
Seton Hall Law Schools, I confess
to limited knowledge of civil engi-
It is unclear why the
2006 repairs, regular
maintenance, and inspection did not identify
the problem before it
became an emergency.
neering and sewer systems. However, with a little research, I was
able to discover some interesting
particulars about this sewer, initially installed in 1970.
As recently as 2005 or 2006,
there was a significant sewer failure on Wallace Roadd that was repaired under “emergency criteria.”
As part of the repair, the Department of Public Works authorized
the posting of an on-site 24-hour-aday guard at great cost to taxpayers. Further, our Public Works has
owned and operated sewer camera
equipment for an extended time.
Notwithstanding the 2006 repairs
and proactive measures the same
sewer line failed, and repairs were
undertaken pursuant to a no-bid
“emergency contract.”
Regular inspections of our aged
sewer systems should have revealed trouble spots. It is unclear
why the 2006 repairs, regular
maintenance, and inspection did
not identify the sewer problem before it became an emergency. The
administration needs to determine
why those measures did not work
and institute corrective action. Had
the failing sewer pipes been relined
earlier, the repairs would likely
have been much less costly and we
would not be hostage to incurring
the current “emergency” costs. Repair costs are estimated to be well
in excess of $350,000. This is in addition to the emergency monies being paid to the contractor who is
patching the sewer prior to the relining and the $6,000 per week to
pump the Wallace Road sewage.
Waiting until there is another
sewer failure inconveniences
homes and businesses and results
in a piecemeal and costly approach
to sewer maintenance.
Christine V. Bator, Esq.
6 Wheatston Court,
Princeton Junction
InterCap Debacle
Stinks of Corruption
I
think most people would agree
that there’s a great deal of corruption in the federal government and in our largest institutions,
especially judging from what has
transpired in the last 15 years. Yet
no one has yet proved this to be so,
at least in court. I and many other
people I know, however, do sense
that the corruption is there. We go
by what we see. But what about
here in West Windsor? Well,
maybe here it’s not corruption, but
simply incompetence, or just plain
bungling.
I refer to the planned development of the InterCap property.
How did this come about? Years
ago, the mayor and council deemed
it necessary to rebuild the huge area
around the train station, arguing
that if government didn’t take
charge, developers would come in
and do what they want, which
would not be in the best interest of
the community. They even stated,
repeatedly, that the majority of the
town’s residents want redevelopment. They made this statement
without ever conducting a referendum, or even a poll, yet they stated
it as if it were fact. They even rejected many requests for a referendum and barged ahead anyway, asserting that government should
make such a decision without a referendum.
To obtain the legal instrument
necessary to conduct such an enormous project, they filed for, and
won, a declaration that the area in
question is an area of blight, in need
of redevelopment. This designation opened a can of worms, removing the zoning designation of
much of the downtown area, which
had protected it from the development it is now slated for, as a parcel
within the InterCap property.
There was a court battle for this development, wherein Steve Goldin,
the CEO of Intercap, took the town
to court to satisfy his desires on
what he wanted to get from the
property. The details of this escapade are not pretty, though suffice it to say, our town government
lost, Goldin won, and I must add, I
personally resent both Goldin’s
cost to our community and his
whining disrespect for our community.
This is what we see: town government declares that government
must take charge of development
to not let a developer force development on us, and then provides
the very legal tools by which a developer does in fact succeed in
forcing his vision on our community. What are we to make of this?
Was all this an exercise of governmental incompetence, bungling, or
somewhere, something else?
I must add that I question
whether government’s decision to
have the downtown area declared
an area of blight was even honest. It
seems to me that the office research
buildings in the area that became
InterCap’s pet development project are perfectly usable, rentable,
and on land producing tax revenue
for the town. They also provided
local work sites so that members of
our community need not commute
very far, with the enormous benefits that provides. I cannot find any
definition of “legal blight” that
could possibly describe such buildings, and I challenge the reader to
do so. I can only conclude that a
system that enables such an outcome has been corrupted.
We are thus about to experience
the worst outcome that could have
happened to our downtown area:
just one more developer’s giant
cracker-box project will replace
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historical, viable, and useful real
estate; a defeated town government with $1 million of tax money
wasted, and still no commuter
parking facilities that would actually make sense.
Returning to the national level,
let’s also recall that, in the mid90’s merger of Citicorp and Travelers Group, it was a friendly presidential pen that brought down the
Glass-Steagall Act, enabling such
financial institutions to lay the
groundwork for national financial
disaster and much financial success for those at the top.
So instead of seeing what makes
sense here in West Windsor, we
see here the same thing that we see
across the land. One way or another, a small number of very well-todo people get their way, to the
detriment of the people, at the people’s expense, and looming in the
background, is a government that
claims to be helping us, the people,
but in truth, seems more often only
capable of clearing the way for
more selfish acts by those very few
who keep enlarging their dominance of the nation’s power and
wealth.
Thomas Tonon
Princeton Junction
Statement From
Sen. Greenstein
S
enator Linda R. Greenstein,
D-Middlesex/Mercer, made
the following statement today regarding the League of Municipalities 20th Annual Mayors’
Legislative Day:
“It is clear, based on today’s
Mayors’ Legislative Day, that the
state needs to do more to help the
mayors of towns and cities
throughout New Jersey control
runaway property taxes.
“Mayors from my district and
from around the Garden State were
passionate about the need to correct the state’s property tax relief
programs - particularly in terms of
the Energy Tax Receipts Property
Tax Relief Fund. This program,
which collects and redistributes
taxes from utilities based on the
level of utility infrastructure in
each town, is intended to provide
increased funding to towns each
year based on an inflation-adjusted
formula. Instead, this Administration has cut municipal aid so severely - $458 million in the first
two Christie budgets - that some
towns have seen decreases in the
amount of Energy Tax Receipts aid
provided. These decreases are in
violation of the statutory formula
and must be corrected going forward. We need to restore fairness
to towns that were promised certain funds from the state and are receiving well below what they expected and budgeted for.
“I have introduced legislation in
the State Senate that would revert
the allocation formula of these
funds back to FY2010 levels when municipalities were getting
their fair share from the ETR fund.
If we are asking municipalities
throughout New Jersey to find
ways to tighten their belts and balance their budgets, it is essential
that we live up to our end of the
bargain and give them the aid that
they were promised.
“I look forward to working with
legislators on both sides of the aisle
along with the Governor and his
administration to find other solutions along with this one to yield
real property tax savings for towns
and relief for New Jersey residents.”
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Scout robotics team from the
West Windsor and Plainsboro area, competed against 50
other regional champions and
placed first place in the Eastern
Pennsylvania Division of the
FIRST Lego League. FIRST (For
inspiration of science and technology) is a robotics program for 9 to
14 year-olds designed to get them
excited about science and technology.
Each year, teams around the
world compete in a themed-contest
with a robot built using Lego Mindstorms. Ten Girls Scouts from six
different troops have been practicing every weekend and during
most holidays for events that are
judged in the four categories of
core values, research, robot design,
and robotics.
The WW-P team includes
Christina Rancan, 13; Anisha
Amurthur, 13; Caroline Cardinale, 13; Sarah Gillars, 12; Julia
Hu, 12; Sanjana Ravichandar,
11; Elizabeth Jean-Jacques, 11;
Susan George, 10; Drishti Devnani, 9; and Elsa Moroney, 9.
Senior Girl Scouts Hunter
Rendleman and Caitlin Simone,
both 15, are mentors. The coaches
are Girl Scout leaders Jan Cardinale, Cheryl Rowe-Rendleman,
Helen Rancan, and Andrea Mandel. Last year the team won first
place trophies in core values at the
competition.
As the first place winner of the
Green Machine is invited to the
World Festival in St. Louis, Missouri, from April 25 to 28. The
Green Machine will represent Girl
Scouts USA and Girl Scouts of
Central and Southern New Jersey,
while competing with other champion award winners from 31 states,
three Canadian provinces, and 44
foreign countries.
This year the theme of the competition is food safety, and the team
has already entered its innovative
idea about a tomato that turns blue
when exposed to salmonella in the
First Lego League Global innovations contest. The team has also applied for a provisional patent with
the United States Patent Office to
protect its idea. If the team wins the
prize money associated with the
Global Innovations Award, they
plan to use the funds to work with
researchers at the University of
Florida and Monsanto, Heinz, or
DuPont to help prevent salmonella
poisoning from raw vegetables.
Gold Award Earned
For Library Work
A
my Laresch, a junior at High
School North, has earned her
Girl Scout gold award, the highest
award that a Girl Scout can earn,
with her project, “Empowering
Kids through Education,” which
aimed to provide underprivileged
kids in East Trenton with opportunities for learning through reading.
Laresch helped create the library
at the Habitat for Humanity’s new
learning lab, an after-school program that provides kids in the community with opportunities for instruction, group activities, and peer
interaction. “When I heard about
the learning lab, I was excited to get
the chance to help improve their library because reading has been an
Amy Laresch worked on Habitat for Humanity’s
learning lab for her Gold Award project.
important part of my life since my
childhood,” said Laresch.
A big part of Laresch’s project
was categorizing the books into
different reading levels for kids in
kindergarten through fifth grade.
Laresch researched and produced a
correlation chart for the learning
lab to help the kids find books that
are suitable for their reading level.
She bought books for the library, as
well as workbooks to be used during the learning lab’s summer program. She made educational
posters to decorate the walls of the
library and to teach the kids about
literary genres. She also made
cushions for the kids to relax on
while reading.
Laresch organized a library celebration featuring a book scavenger hunt to help the kids become
more familiar with the library’s
layout and book levels. She read a
few short stories from a collection
to the kids, and afterwards they all
wanted to read the remaining stories on their own.
“She enjoyed working on this
project because it combined two of
her passions: working with kids
and reading,” said her mother, Dina Laresch. “She hopes she made
a difference in the lives of these
kids. The kids loved her and listened intently when she interacted
with them. She has grown as a
leader throughout her project.”
Throughout the project, Laresch
collaborated with Kiya Green, the
coordinator of the learning lab and
Laresch’s project mentor. “She
was such a pleasure to work with
and made the task of organizing a
library a totally enjoyable one,”
said Green. “I truly appreciated her
eagerness and dedication to putting
together this library for the children. Our library has never looked
better.”
Laresch earned her Bronze
Award by helping to lead a secondyear brownie troop. She helped
plan the meetings and lead activities. She earned her Silver Award
with her project “Angel Wings
Awareness and Help.” Angel
Wings is a foster care center for
children with unstable conditions
at home. Laresch led troop meetings for younger Girl Scouts, who
helped her make craft kits and pillows for the foster kids.
Laresch financed her Gold
award project through Girl Scout
Hollywood Nights Dance, as well
as contributions from her family.
She lives with her parents, Tom
and Dina Laresch, and her
younger sisters, Julia and Katie.
Tom coaches a basketball team that
Amy and Julia play on.
Laresch joined Girl Scouts in
first grade and has been a scout
ever since. A member of Troop
70677, her leader is Louisa Ho.
“Louisa is an amazing troop
leader,” said Laresch. “She puts so
much time and effort into Girl
Scouts and always supports us. Her
encouragement inspired me to pursue my Gold Award project, and I
would like to thank her for everything she’s done for me over the
years.”
Students Teach
21st Century Skills
H
igh School South’s Community Problem Solving Team created an afterschool program to
teach the problem-solving method
to fifth graders at Millstone River
School. Through games, activities
and projects, they follow steps to
identify challenges, find an underlying problem, find solutions,
make an action plan, and help students work on 21st century competency skills simultaneously.
Under the guidance of Joan
Ruddiman, a teacher in Grover
and Millstone River schools, and
Melissa Pearson, a teacher at
South, the group has been teaching
students every Thursday and Friday. Their spring session will expand the program to include students from Village School as well.
The WW-P district’s new 21st
century initiative includes teaching
students to become practical problem solvers, self-directed learners,
effective communicators, collaborative team members, information
literate researchers, and globally
aware, responsible citizens.
“It’s not enough just to learn
how to take a test, you have to be
able to take the knowledge you
learn in school and apply it in the
real world,” says Yamini Bhandari, a team member and a junior at
South. The program was initiated
because the team identified their
problem as the school core curriculum not teaching students 21st century skills, and they felt that a problem solving program would best
teach these competencies.
“The team hopes that this program will help teach students the
power of the problem solving
method, and help them become
better, more self-driven students in
and out of the classroom,” says
Bhandari.
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Saahith Pochiraju, left, a junior at High School North, placed third in UMDNJ’s
Brain Bee. Millstone River’s Akanksha Dave, center, and Katherine Xiong placed
first and second in the Association for Gifted Children’s art and writing contest.
Musical Notes
A
ndrew Sun, a 2009 graduate
of High School North and a
life-long West Windsor resident,
presented the world premiere of Johannes Brahms’ recently discovered “Albumblatt in A Minor” on
WPRB Princeton on January 19.
Sun, a junior at New York University, is a student of Eduardus Halim.
“I have a particular affinity for
the repertory of the 19th century,”
says Sun. He has performed solo
and ensemble repertoire in Alice
Tully Hall and Weill Recital Hall.
While a student at the 2008 Boston
University Tanglewood Institute,
he was a featured performer during
Tanglewood On Parade.
Sun has soloed with the Westfield Symphony Orchestra, the
Bravura Philharmonic Orchestra,
and recently performed the seldomheard Piano Concerto in G minor of
Antonin Dvorak with the NYU
Symphony. He has hosted broadcasts on WPRB Princeton since
September, 2008.
The one page composition is untitled but bears the tempo marking
‘Allegro con espressione’ and lasts
about two minutes. Circumstantial
evidence suggests that it was during
a visit to Gottingen, Germany, in
1853, that the then-20-year-old
Brahms entered this miniature into
the autograph album of Arnold
Wehner, then the director of music
at the University of Gottingen. The
Albumblatt is an early and alternate
version of the central section of the
‘Scherzo’ of the Trio for Horn, Violin, and Piano, Op. 40, which
Brahms finished in 1865. The
Wehner autograph album is in the
collection of Judith M. and William
H. Scheide of Princeton.
Elianna Wydra, 16, of West
Windsor received honorable mention in the competition to perform
in a master class with Bonnie
Hampton, a cellist and faculty
member at Juilliard. The class took
place February 16 at the JCC Thurnauer School of Music.
In College
University of Pittsburgh: Madelin Antaya of West Windsor is on
the dean’s list. A freshman, she is
majoring in nursing.
St. John Fisher College: Freshman Caitlin Antaya of West Windsor is on the dean’s list. Her major is
elementary and special education.
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Births
The University Medical Center
at Princeton has announced the following births:
A son was born to West Windsor
residents Janine and Bryan
Manolakos, February 3.
A daughter was born to West
Windsor residents Mayuri Raman
Nayan and Nishant Nayan, February 4.
Deaths
David Burton Todd, 86, of
West Windsor died February 1 at his
home. Born in Chester, Pa., he was
raised in Freedom, Maine. He received his bachelor and master’s degrees in chemical engineering from
Northwestern University, and his
Ph.D from Princeton University. He
served in the Navy in World War II
and retired from the Naval Reserve
as a Commander in 1972.
Todd’s career as a chemical engineer spanned 60 years. He received
22 U.S. patents, and wrote more
than 100 technical articles and a
book, “Plastics Compounding:
Equipment and Processing.”
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Todd Pfeifer; his daughter and sonin-law, Rebecca and Charles Klein;
three sons and daughters-in-law;
Brian and Denise Todd, Raymond
Todd and Kelley Lehman, and Clifford and Tina Todd; five grandchildren; three step-daughters: Janet
Sweeney McCallum, Kathleen Miano, and Ellen Allsteadt, and five
step-grandchildren.
A memorial service will be held
Saturday, March 10, at 2 p.m., at the
Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Princeton. Donations may
be made to the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Princeton, 50
Cherry Hill Road, Princeton 08540,
or to the Hospice Program of
Princeton HomeCare Services, 208
Bunn Drive, Princeton 08540.
Vincent A. Toscano, 75, of
Princeton Junction died February 2.
He was born in Brooklyn, NY. A
graduate of St. Francis College, he
earned a master’s degree in chemistry from Brooklyn College and an
MBA from Fairleigh Dickinson
University. An adjunct professor at
Boston College, Toscano founded
Paulaur Corporation in 1980.
He was inducted into the St.
Francis Preparatory Academic
Hall of Fame, honoring him as an
individual who had made significant lifetime achievements and service to the community. Toscano
funded the Paulette and Vincent
Toscano Scholarship Fund, which
provides scholarships to academically gifted students in need.
Survivors include his wife of
more than 50 years, Paulette; his
three sons, Lawrence, Andrew, and
Michael; daughters-in-law, Lisa,
Michele, and Heather; a brother,
John Toscano, and grandchildren,
Kyle, Mary, Olivia, Lauren, Joseph,
Leah, and Audrey.
Donations may be made to St.
David the King Church, 1 New Village Road West, Princeton Junction 08550, or St. Francis Preparatory, 6100 Francis Lewis Boulevard, Fresh Meadows, NY 11365.
Dorothy A. Cashmore, 99, of
Beach Haven Park, died February
4. Survivors include her daughter,
Judy Cashmore of Plainsboro. Donations may be made to Southern
Ocean Center Genesis Health Care
or the Southern Ocean County
Medical Center in Manahawkin.
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Open, Childhood Cancer Foundation, Box 258, Marlboro 07746.
Eleanor M. Santimauro, 90, of
Vernon Hills, Ill., died February 5.
She was a founding member of
Queenship of Mary Church in
Plainsboro.
Survivors include sons and
daughter-in-law, Michael and Sherry Santimauro, and Edward and
Kathleen Santimauro; sister, Dorothy McClue; brother and sister-inlaw, John and Patty Hyland; seven
grandchildren, and five great grandchildren. Donations may be made to
American Cancer Society, 3076
Princeton Pike, Lawrenceville
08648.
Robert G. Keeling, 73, of
Phoenixville, Pa., died February 6.
Survivors include a daughter and
son-in-law, Sharon and Jack Davis
of Princeton Junction. Donations
may be made to St. Basil The Great
Church, 2300 Kimberton Road,
Kimberton, PA 19442, or to the
Chester SPCA, 1212 Phoenixville
Pike, West Chester, PA 19380.
Tibor “Ted” J. Somers, 75, of
Princeton Junction died February 6
at his home. Born in Hungary, he
and moved to Princeton Junction
36 years ago. He was a self-employed chemical engineer.
Survivors include his wife of 52
years, Gerda Somers; his children,
Ted and Gail Somers Jr. of Jamesburg, and their children, Brian, Eric,
and Dana; James and Andrea
Somers of Hamilton, and their
daughter, Erika; and Anita (Somers)
and Steve Torma of Pennsylvania
and their children, Derek, Devon,
and Deanna; and his dog, Bamse.
The funeral service will be on
Friday, February 17, at 11 a.m, at
the M. William Murphy Funeral
Home, 1863 Hamilton Avenue,
Hamilton, with burial at Greenwood Cemetery. Donations may be
made to the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, 26 Broadway,
14th Floor, New York, NY 10004.
Dorothy Timins, 95, of Hamilton died February 7 at Robert
Wood Johnson Hospital in Hamilton. Born and raised in Rahway,
she ran a fabric store with her husband, Hy. She moved to West
Windsor in 1984 and was a regular
at the West Windsor Senior Center.
Survivors include her son,
Arthur Timins of West Orange, son
and daughter-in-law, Martin and
Ruth Timins of West Windsor, and
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A WEST WINDSOR-PLAINSBORO NEWS ADVERTISING FEATURE
Realty Insights by Donna Reilly
Thinking about putting
your home on the market this
year? If so, you'll want to start
gathering information and getting market updates now. The
right buyer for your home may
already be looking, so if you're
ready to sell now, let's talk!
Get a head start on the competition by calling today for tips
on how to effectively prepare
your home for sale. By planning ahead, you'll have time to
get ready on both a physical
level (by cleaning, purging and
organizing your home), and on
a financial level (by putting
your paperwork in order and
researching sales of properties
similar to yours, in your area).
Housing affordability is still
strong, and as such Lawrence
Yun, Chief Economist of the
National Association of REAL-
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to be stronger this year than
last. He notes, "…there is a
sizeable pent-up demand
based on population growth,
employment levels and a doubling-up phenomenon that
can't continue indefinitely. This
demand could quickly stimulate the market when conditions improve." In fact, at an
end-of-year meeting in 2011,
Yun predicted, "Very favorable
affordability conditions will
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which will probably be the second best year on record dating
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their daughters Nicole and Jennifer; five additional grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren.
Donations may be made to Heifer
International, 1 World Avenue,
Little Rock, AR 72202.
Douglas Fuller, 67, of Plainsboro
died February 10 at Robert Wood
Johnson Medical Center. Born in
Spartanburg, S.C., he attended Trenton public schools. He served in the
U.S. Army and was a Vietnam veteran. He worked at Lawrence Lincoln
Mercury and was affiliated with the
former Blue Max Lounge.
Survivors include his wife, Mildred Fuller; a daughter, Kim Fuller;
a son, Anthony Douglas Fuller;
three brothers and sister-in-laws,
Wiley and Alice Fuller, Abraham
Fuller, James Lee and Honey Fuller,
all of Trenton. He also leaves
daughters, Paula Brown of Trenton,
Margretta Jiles of Virginia, Sable
and Sapphire Spellman of Georgia;
and sons, Douglas “Malik” Fuller
and Jermaine Johnson, both of Virginia; and many grandchildren.
Funeral services will be Friday,
February 17, at 10 a.m., at Samaritan Baptist Church, 531 Martin
Luther King Jr. Boulevard, Trenton. Interment will be in Brig. Gen.
Wm. C. Doyle Veterans Memorial
Cemetery, Arneytown.
Gregory H. Henriques, 88, of
West Windsor died February 12 at
Merwick Care & Rehabilitation
Center, Plainsboro. Born in Jersey
City, he served in the Marines during World War II. and worked at
Western Electric for 39 years.
Survivors include his wife of 60
years, Dorothy; his daughter and
three sons and their spouses, Maureen Henriques Hase and Paul Hase
of West Windsor, Dennis and Bonnie Henriques of Howell, Robert
and Beth Henriques of Hilton Head,
South Carolina, and Gary and
Christine Henriques of Winter
Springs, Florida; his four grandchildren, Jamie, Katie, Matthew, and
Christopher; and his sister, Vera
Killian of Scranton, Pennsylvania.
Donations may be made to Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, Central Jersey Chapter, 740
Broad Street, Shrewsbury 07702,
or the National Kidney Foundation, 30 East 33rd Street, 3rd Floor,
NY, NY 10016-5337.
Carolyn Everett Beacht, 98, of
Hillsborough died February 13. She
was born and raised in Dutch Neck.
She was the superintendent’s secre-
tary at the Hillsborough Board of
Education and a founding member
of HTVFC #2 Ladies Auxiliary.
Survivors include her son and
daughter-in-law,Thomas and Susan
Beacht of Stewartsville; her daughter and son-in-law,, Joan B. and
Glenn Coven of Virginia; seven
grandchildren; and 15 great grandchildren. A funeral service will be
Friday, February 17, at 10 a.m. in
the Hillsborough Presbyterian
Church. Burial will follow in Dutch
Neck Presbyterian Church Cemetery. Donations may be made to the
WorldVisionFoundation at www.worldvision.org/SponsorAChild.
Mary Constance Jones Riehl,
79, of Freehold died February 13 at
CentraState Medical Center. Survivors include a son and daughterin-law, Michael and Heather of
West Windsor. Visitation is Friday,
February 17, from 2 to 4 p.m. and 7
to 9 p.m. at Higgins Memorial
Home, 20 Center Street, Freehold.
The funeral is Saturday, February
18, at 10:30 a.m., at St. Robert Bellarmine R.C. Church, 61 Georgia
Road, Freehold. Donations may be
made to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, 501 St. Jude Place,
Memphis, TN 38105.
Edward Steele, 75, of West
Windsor died February 13 in Rhode
Island. Steele served on West Windsor’s Planning Board, Zoning Board,
and the Shade Tree Commission.
Born in Indianapolis, he was
raised in Binghamton, NY. He
graduated from Purdue University
in 1959. He served for 30 years in
the Army Reserves.
Steele, a chemical engineer,
moved to West Windsor in 1972
when he was transferred to run a
plant in Cranbury.
Steele donated “Bookworm II,”
a statue of a young girl reading a
book, to the West Windsor Library
in memory of his wife, Susan, who
died in 2008.
Survivors include his daughter and
her wife, Ann Steele and Sarah Kight
of London; his sister and brother-inlaw, Susie and Jim Stewart in Cincinatti, Ohio; and his mother, Margaret
Steele, also of Cincinatti.
A memorial mass will be held Friday, February 24, at 11 a.m. at St.
David the King Catholic Church, 1
New Village Road West, West
Windsor. Donations may be made to
the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, Box 1776, Williamsburg, VA
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Double Trouble: Finding
Camps for Siblings
Happy Campers
Continued from page 1
cision to Muhlenberg College to major in
theater arts. “In five years I hope to see myself working in the performance field, hopefully in New York,” she says.
Future Farmers?
A
manda and Scott Guest attended camp
at Terhune Orchards last summer. “It
was recommended by a friend who had done
it the previous year,” says their mother,
Denise. “They loved learning basic farm
things and got in touch with nature.”
Farm camp, a one-week program, for ages
7 to 10, focuses on how the farmer and nature
work together to grow healthy crops and how
they sometimes are at odds with each other.
Activities include picking and preparing
fruits and vegetables, tending to animals,
hiking, and a trip to Howell Living History
Farm. Future Farmers Gardening Camp, for
ages 8 to 12, includes hands-on activities like
farming, environment, learning tool safety,
and study insects, water cycles, and historical agriculture.
During the school year Amanda, a fourth
grade student at Village School, is busy with
chorus and soccer in the fall. Justin, a third
grade student at Hawk School, plays soccer,
basketball, and baseball (West Windsor Little League).
Denise, a certified substitute teacher,
works part-time in a surgical supply store.
Her husband, Scott, works in private banking in New York City. They lived in West
Windsor from 2001 to 2004, moved to Tampa, Florida for two years, and returned to
West Windsor in 2007. “We followed
Scott’s job,” says Denise.
Amanda and Scott also attend the Bible
camp at Dutch Neck Church. “They have a
lot of fun there,” says Denise. The family
usually vacations in Myrtle Beach with extended family members. “I don’t overwhelm
them; they need free time in the summer.”
At Camp: Molly
Karlin, left, as Clara
in the ‘Nutcracker;’
Aniya Robertson at
Princeton Arts
Council’s Bollywood
camp; and Brett
Hepler with a turtle.
W
hile it is difficult to find a summer program for one child, it is even more difficult to find a camp for two — especially
when they are the same age.
Twins Brett and Jessica Hepler, 12, are in
seventh grade at Princeton Friends School. It
is important to their parents that they are not
in the same classes. Brett attended WW-P
schools through the fifth grade.
“There are so many good local camps,”
says their mother, Debbie Hepler. “I sign
them up for things they are interested in.”
Brett also attends baseball and Iceland ice
hockey camp. Jessica, a Girl Scout in Troop
70866, has attended Girl Scout residential
camp.
They have also attended violin camps and
classes at the Arts Council of Princeton. One
year they went to a four-week camp in New
Hampshire. “They were very homesick,” she
says.
Over the years they have attended many
programs, but Mercer County’s Aquatic Adventure was a hit with both of them. The program, designed to balance the fun of summer
with science, was perfect.
“They loved paddling around on the water
all day,” says Debbie. “It was not just fun, it
was educational.”
Debbie and David Hepler moved to West
Windsor 20 years ago. “We liked the rural
feel that it has, the community, and the location,” she says. They both worked in New
York City and lived in Katonah and Pleasantville, New York, but didn’t really like the
feel. Debbie, a former French teacher,
worked for Lancome as a bilingual secretary.
David now works in Somerville with a health
care consulting company.
One highlight of the summer: A conservation project that “was a hands-on experience,” says Debbie. “They got into the water
and got dirty and loved caring for the environment.”
World Culture
A
niya Robertson of West Windsor attended the Bollywood program at the
Arts Council of Princeton — and loved it.
“Aniya really enjoyed the program — especially making her own costumes,” says
Kimya, her mother. “She had a good time
learning about the culture and how you’re
supposed to dance.”
She has been attending classes at the arts
council for two years. “Aniya wanted to take
Bollywood last year to learn something different,” says Kimya. “It was the first time
they offered it so we thought we would give
it a try.” Aniya is returning to the Arts Council this summer. She will take Ceramic 3D to
create her head in clay, theater workshop,
and Bollywood.
Aniya practices gymnastics during the
school year. She began studying gymnastics
at Hamilton Stars five years ago. She now attends classes at World Cup in Freehold.
Aniya has competed in Texas, Florida, and
other states. During the summer she only
does gymnastics one day a week.
The family moved from Freehold five
years ago. Kimya works in marketing with
AT&T, and her husband, Kevin, is a corrections officer at Fort Dix. Aniya is in fifth
grade at Millstone River School. Her brother, Kyle, 5, is in kindergarten at Princeton Junior School.
“I drive her in and pick her up,” says
Kimya. “Hopefully we can form a carpool
this year.”
Nature Camps
O
ne family, two daughters, two camps.
Mercer County Nature camps has a program for everyone. “Jenn Rogers puts together a fantastic program, and both girls had
an amazing time,” says Kerry Kehler Yeh,
their mother. “We’re definitely going to be
attending again this year.”
Erin Yeh, a fifth grade student at Village
School, attended the Aquatic Adventure
camp. “She loved being on the water and
kayaking as well as exploring the shoreline
Continued on page 26
Novice Rowing Camp
Sponsored by the Princeton National Rowing Association
NO EXPERIENCE NECESSARY
The Princeton National Rowing Association operator of the Caspersen Rowing Center on Mercer Lake, a
United States Olympic Committee licensed training site, announces the start of registration for their summer 2012
Novice Rowing Camp. This program is open to male and female athletes from 7th-12th grade. It is an opportunity for beginners to learn
more about the sport of rowing from the Mercer Junior Rowing Club staff.
We will teach everything from basic rowing commands and the fundamentals of the stroke to how to race in an eight person shell.
No experience is necessary!
Please consult www.rowpnra.org for schedules, fees, and application procedures.
FEBRUARY 17, 2012
Where the Camps Are,
From Arts to Academic
T
he WW-P News reached out
to more than 230 summer
camps and compiled the listings below based on responses to
our inquiries and information available online. Camps are divided into
five categories: arts camps, day
camps, residential camps, sports
camps, and study camps.
Please confirm camp information before considering enrolling
your child. If you still can’t find the
right camp for your child, visit the
American Camp Association at
www.acacamps.org. or Tips on Trips
and Camps at www.tipsontripsandcamps.com.
Arts Camps
Actors’ NET of Bucks County,
635 North Delmorr Avenue, Morrisville, PA 19067; 215-295-3694.
ActorsNET@aol.com. www.actorsnetbucks.org.
Summer Stars Theater Training
program includes acting, voice, and
dance for ages 7 to 12, 9 a.m. to 1
p.m.; and ages 13 to 17, 1:30 to 5:30
p.m. Four-week courses conclude
with two original musicals. $450.
Allegra School of Music and
Arts, 856 Route 206, Building D,
Second Floor, Hillsborough 08844;
908-874-4351. info@allegrasma.com. www.allegrasma.com.
Broadway Camp in two-week sessions for ages 7 to 16; and Teen Premier performance workshop, a threeweek program based on audition.
American Boychoir School, 19
Lambert Drive, Princeton 08540;
609-924-5858. jburnam@americanboychoir.org. www.americanboychoir.org.
Albemarle is a choral camp offering choral singing, a musicianship
training program, quartets, and
sports. Ages 7 to 14. Boarding and
day. Sessions begin Sundays, July 1
and 15. The American Boychoir Experience for boys ages 8 to 12, Sunday, June 24, to Saturday, June 30.
American Repertory Ballet’s
Princeton Ballet School, 301 North
Harrison Street, Princeton Shopping
Center, Suite C, Princeton 08540;
609-921-7758. cbellis@arballet.org.
www.arballet.org.
All programs Monday, June 25, to
Friday, July 27. Summer Intensive, a
residential program in dance for ages
13 and up by audition. Classes at
Princeton studio with optional housing at Princeton University.
Summer Intensive Intermediates,
ages 11 to 14, Princeton Ballet
School, 29 North Main Street, Cranbury. Summer Intensive Juniors,
ages 9 to 11, Princeton University.
One to five-week sessions.
Appel Farm Summer Arts Camp,
457 Shirley Road, Box 888, Elmer
08318; 856-358-2472. camp@appelfarm.org. www.appelfarm.org.
Residential arts program with two,
four, and eight-week sessions for
ages 9 to 17. Music, dance, theater,
visual arts, photography, creative
writing, recording arts, and video.
Arden Theater Company, 40
North 2nd Street, Philadelphia, PA ;
215-922-1122. mmullin@ardentheatre.org. www.ardentheatre.org.
Musical theater, three weeks; and
acting, two weeks,grades 6 to 12. Master class, grades 9 to 12. Extended
days available.
Art Collaborations, 61 Leigh Avenue, Princeton 08542; 609-4360789. heather@artcollaborations.net. www.artcollaborations.net.
Art camp for grades 1 to 12, Monday to Friday, 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
Drawing, painting, and puppetry for
first to sixth grade, July 23 to August
17. Drawing and oil painting for
grades seven to 12, August 20 to 31.
Camp is at Princeton Academy of
the Sacred Heart. $180 per week.
Continued on page 18
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Summer Camps, Class of 2012
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Abacus approach to
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S
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Windsor rejoiced as their
center ranked third in the
2011 National Math Olympiad.
Despite the increasing number
of competitors over the last few
years, ALOHA West Windsor
has maintained its position with
more than 1,500 students participating in 2011.
Aloha West Windsor was established in January, 2007, and
the program has attracted a
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The students are experiencing
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program through improved attention spans, concentration,
and increased memory power.
ALOHA uses an abacus to
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The finely structured syllabus
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The technical skill helps children to strengthen and improve
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Rafeea Tamboli, and Samyukta Jaganathan; and
Vishal Madisetti, front left, Nikhil Makker, Joshua
Samuel, and Shirhan Lolakapuri. Not pictured:
Saumya Mavuri and Kripa Srinivasan.
their mathematical competence in calculating with speed
and, of course, accuracy. During the mental calculations,
both portions of the brain are
stimulated, making the whole
thinking process more efficient
and effective.
Children attend classes
once a week for two hours and
can choose between weekday
evenings and weekend sessions. Small class sizes and
highly trained teachers are fun-
damental in providing a strong
and effective learning environment. This is a unique program
that combines classroom
teaching with an interactive instruction methodology that
makes learning enjoyable and
fun for the student.
Enrollment is ongoing for
new sessions beginning in
March and April. In addition,
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Students at Aloha West Windsor are experiencing firsthand the benefits of the
program through improved concentration and increased memory power.
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FEBRUARY 17, 2012
Whether your children aspire to be professional dancers or just
get some exercise, Dance Corner can help them achieve their goals.
Camps
Continued from preceding page
following last year’s success with the
accelerated summer session, the same
will be offered to students to enable
them to complete two levels in a shorter
duration of time.
Aloha West Windsor, 51 Everett
Drive, Suite B-50, West Windsor 08550.
Free trial class, Sunday, February 26, at
2 p.m. Register. Call 609-632-0060, email westwindsor@aloha-usa.com, or
visit alohausa.com or alohausa.com/acms/MasterPages/WebInfo.aspx?CenterID=16. See ad, page 18.
Dance Corner
From princesses to
ballerinas
S
ummer sizzles with four new halfday summer dance camps for
ages 8 and up at The Dance Corner. Our new junior intensives in tap,
jazz, hip hop, lyrical, and jazz are designed to challenge serious young
dancers in a nurturing, fun, and safe
environment.
The one-week Junior Tap Intensive
Camp (July 9-13) requires a high level
of commitment and dedication, as each
class will begin with a fast-paced warm
up followed by center floor work. Musicality is stressed while teaching students about counting their sounds between beats to create more complex
rhythms. The focus is on building strong
technique, strength, and stamina.
Our Junior Hip Hop Intensive Camp
is a high-energy, fast-paced camp that
focuses on isolations, challenging cen-
ter work, and traveling exercises. Combinations include age-appropriate
funky footwork and arm moves found in
current music videos.
Our Junior Lyrical Intensive Camp
(July 16-20) introduces a fusion of ballet, modern, and jazz dance. Dancers
work to connect their steps with fluidity
and grace while increasing strength
and flexibility.
Our Junior Jazz Intensive Camp (July 16-20) concentrates on complex isolations, turn, jumps, and traveling exercises. The focus is on building strong
technique, strength, and stamina.
The Dance Corner’s new Junior Intensive Camps require a high level of
commitment and dedication. The goal
of each Intensive Camp is to nurture,
develop, and challenge each dancer’s
technique as well as cultivate self-expression and self-confidence.
But Intensive Camps are not all the
Dance Corner has to offer this summer.
The Dance Corner features a number
of programs, including Junior and Senior Ballet, the Dynamic Dance Camp
(a joint program with the West Windsor
Recreation Department), and our own
Storytime Princess Camp, for girls age
4-6, where your child gets to be Cinderella, Jasmine, and other fairy tale
princesses.
At The Dance Corner, our goal is to
help young dancers reach their full potential, whether they want to develop
their dance skills, get some exercise, or
build a career in dance. Whatever your
child’s aspirations and dreams, we
strive to help them reach their goals in
a positive and nurturing environment.
The Dance Corner, 335 PrincetonHightstown Road, West Windsor. 609799-9677. www.TheDanceCorner.org.
See ad, page 23.
FEBRUARY 17, 2012
Frogbridge Day Camp offers air-conditioned facilities, hot lunches, three
Olympic-size pools, and a range of activities unlike any other camp’s.
Frogbridge
Day Camp
www.harmonyschools.com
REGISTER FOR WINTER,
SPRING AND SUMMER CAMP
Ages 6 Weeks through 9 Years
Full and Part Time Family Friendly Schedules
Pre-K Plus • Drop In Care • School-Aged Backup Care
New Building at
Princeton Forrestal Village
Now Open!
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For All Ages Including Kindergarten!
This day camp
has it all
rogbridge Day Camp, located in Millstone Township, is a private, familyowned and operated facility
welcoming campers entering
pre-K through 10th grade. The
86-acre, state-of-the-art country
campus offers all of the amenities of a sleepaway camp, right
in your own backyard.
Frogbridge features more
than 70,000 square feet of indoor air-conditioned activity
space, unlike any camp, anywhere in the country. Campers
eat lunch in air-conditioned
comfort at the lakeside catering hall. The extensive hot
lunch menu, created and
served by experienced culinary professionals, features
age-appropriate specials
throughout the summer as well
as daily alternatives. A salad
bar, along with fruits and yogurts, is available daily. Outdoor activities include:
Rock climbing, zip lines,
bungee trampolines, low and
high ropes courses, go-carts,
bumper boats with water cannons, three lakes for boating
and fishing, tube rides, horseback riding, golf, tennis,
archery, laser tag, and traditional camp activities such as soccer, baseball, basketball, tetherball, gaga and much more.
The Frogbridge swim program consists of three heated,
Olympic-size swimming pools
supervised by American Red
Cross-certified lifeguards and
water safety instructors. Camp
groups are always led by
teachers and experienced, collegiate early childhood education majors.
The air-conditioned infirmary is headed by two registered nurses at all times.
Bathing suit laundering, daily
pool-side towel service, modern restroom facilities with attendants, and front gate security provide ease of mind for
parents, knowing your children
are cared for in a clean, safe,
and secure environment every
day of their stay at Frogbridge.
Air-conditioned door-to-door
transportation as well as “Central Express,” money-saving
meet-the-bus options, are
available throughout Monmouth, Middlesex, Mercer and
Ocean counties.
Camp programs include daily elective choices, weekly special events, annual Color War
events, and 8th, 9th, and 10thgrade travel programs, some of
which include overnights. If
your child ages 3 through 15 is
looking to make new friends,
develop positive self-esteem,
interact with peers, and create
memories that will last a lifetime, you owe it to yourself and
your children to visit Frogbridge
today. For more information,
call 609-208-9050 or visit
www.frogbridge.com.
Frogbridge Day Camp. 7
Yellow Meeting House Road,
Millstone Township 08510.
609-208-9050. www.frogbridge.com. See ad, page 3.
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FEBRUARY 17, 2012
The Lewis School’s Summer Study bridges the gap between school years.
Bill Bethea helps players of all ages and abilities improve their baseball skills.
Continued from preceding page
Lewis School of
Princeton
Summer Study Program approaches its
fourth decade
F
or 39 years the Lewis
School of Princeton has
offered its unique Summer Study Program to bright
students, including those from
other area schools. This year’s
session begins Monday, June
25, and registration is now
open.
The four-week program,
which ends on July 20, includes two components: a
morning academic session and
an afternoon enrichment session.
The morning academic session runs 8:30 to 11:30 a.m.
and features integrated, multisensory classes to strengthen
students’ academic skills and
reinforce the essential mechanics of language. The
morning session is open to all
levels, from pre-school to upper school, and college
preparatory.
The afternoon enrichment
session is open only to students who attend the morning
session and runs noon to 3
p.m. It offers a wide variety of
hands-on discovery learning
programs in both enrichment
subjects and athletics. The afternoon enrichment program is
open to lower, middle, and upper school students. Students
in both sessions are encouraged to bring a healthy snack
and drink for the morning and
afternoon breaks.
“We see a real difference in
a student’s approach to learning and studying based on
skills learned in the morning
session,” said Cathy Byers, director of public relations and
communications. “The skills
and strategies taught in the
morning are also reinforced in
the afternoon enrichment program by learning specialists
trained at the Lewis School.”
The four weeks were designed as a bridge connecting
the by-gone school year and
the one yet to come to allow
children to confidently plant
both feet on the ground and,
with courage, march across.
The Lewis School is a community rich with dynamic and nurturing teaching: a place where
learning arts-integrated, individualized, multi-sensory
processes and strategies will
engage the many capacities
and senses of the brain.
Current students, as well as
students from other schools,
have found the Summer Study
Program beneficial in reinforcing the foundations of learning
and in repairing those skills that
are not yet well-developed.
Each summer brings countless
success stories among the
hundreds of Lewis School students — and even more alumni
— who have found their true
potential as scholars, professionals, artists, and human beings.
“These stories are the reason the Lewis School exists
nearly 40 years after we first
opened our doors,” Byers
added. “Perhaps this summer
will be the beginning of your
child’s success story.”
The Lewis School is a private, nonprofit, coeducational
day school for students with
learning differences related to
dyslexia, auditory processing,
and attention deficit. Afternoon
education and speech therapy
are available, as are independent, comprehensive educational evaluations (by appointment).
For more information regarding The Lewis School Summer
Study Program, or full-time enrollment, please call 609-9248120 or visit www.lewisschool.org.
Lewis School of Princeton,
53 Bayard Lane, Princeton.
609-924-8120. www.lewisschool.org. See ad, page 13.
Power Pitching
& Hitting
A former pro, Bill
Bethea finds teaching
better than playing
B
ill Bethea, a former professional baseball player, college baseball
coach, and major league scout,
has logged more than 22,000
hours over 10 years teaching
baseball to youth players.
But to Bethea the most important hour of all is the next
one, when he might be helping
your child hone his skills on the
baseball diamond at Bethea’s
Power Hitting & Pitching Baseball Camp. That’s because
Bethea has discovered that
teaching the game and watching young players develop their
skills (90 of his former students
have played in college and many
others have had offers to) is just
as exciting as playing the game.
“Growing up I had a dream
to play in the major leagues. I
got to the minor leagues. That
was a dream in itself,” says
Bethea. “When that finished I
realized that I wanted to impact
as many baseball players as
possible to help them realize
their dreams. For the last 10
years, I have been living a
dream. I have the chance to
teach a game I love to players
of all ages. To me this is the ultimate dream — better than
any game I ever played in.”
Bethea’s ninth annual Spring
and Summer Premier Camps,
which holds full-day and halfday camps throughout the summer, along with a spring break
camp April 9 through 12 and a
“back-to-school” camp the
week before Labor Day, will
feature live games every day
overseen by a staff that includes Bethea; Dan Intili, a former college player; Matt Cleary,
a former college player and hitting coach for Middlesex County College; and Anthony Barski,
also a former college player,
certified teacher, and former
high school baseball coach.
The camp, which works with
ages 5 to professional levels, is
held at Community Park and
the West Windsor Little League
indoor facility.
“Our knowledge of different
techniques gives us the ability
to connect with all students, regardless of age, skill level, or
personality,” says Bethea. We
work with what they do well and
improve their weaknesses over
time. We are not a ‘one size fits
all’ baseball academy.”
The overriding tone of the
Power Pitching & Hitting camp
is set by Bethea and his continuing enthusiasm. “After playing
professionally I continued to
play on an Elite Tournament
team that traveled the country
and won many tournaments,
including the 2005 NABA
World Championship Series,”
says Bethea. “We played
against Triple A and Major
League players in that tournament. My passion for the game
has never subsided.”
Power Pitching & Hitting,
Box 241, Plainsboro 08536.
Visit www.pphbaseball.com for
information on camps and private lessons, clinics, and video
analysis. See ad, page 19.
FEBRUARY 17, 2012
Princeton Education Network offers summer classes for the SAT, ACT, and PSAT.
Princeton National Rowing Association’s crew camps will give kids a workout.
Princeton Education
Network
Test Prep, College
Search and Selection,
Apps & Essays
B
arbara Kalmus, CEO of
the Princeton Education
Network, announces the
opening of PEN’s Princeton office and its upcoming summer
programs. “After a proven track
record and astounding results
for 17 years of PSAT/SAT
classes at WWP-HS this isan
exciting opportunity for us to expand. Now I have the space
and flexibility to design a class
format and schedule that meets
the needs of all students.”
“When it comes to such high
stakes tests,” says Kalmus,
“parents must be suspect of
grandiose claims and quick fix
solutions. I am often asked why
PEN doesn’t do the seemingly
popular SAT/ACT weekend
Bootcamps. My answer is always simple and direct: when
something sounds too good to
be true. if getting great scores
were so easy, by now the entire
U.S. Education market would
know and be doing the same
thing!”
This summer, in addition to
one-on-one tutoring, PEN will
offer small group classes for the
PSAT, SAT, and ACT.Classes
begin on June 25th and will
continue through July 20th with
sessions available both in the
morning and evening. Options
for customized classes will continue throughout the summer
offering groups of friends the
opportunity to prepare together.
Summer is also a great time to
begin working on college applications. PEN can guide you
through the entire process from
choosing the colleges that are
the “best fit” to finalizing your
essays.
Princeton Education Network, 220 Alexander Road,
Princeton. 609-915-9996.
www.princetoned.com. See ad,
page 26.
Princeton National
Rowing Association
Learn to row this
summer
T
ake off those cleats, hang
up the lacrosse sticks,
and get out on the water
this summer to row. Thanks to
the Princeton National Rowing
Association, no experience is
required. Your sixth through
twelfth grader can come out for
any of three one-week novice
sessions this summer. By the
end of the week, they’ll be out
on the water and have competed in their first race.
“The great thing about rowing
is that everyone starts out from
scratch,” says camp director
Sean McCourt. Though most
kids grow up playing sports like
basketball and lacrosse, he
notes, rowing is among the
fastest-growing NCAA sports
right now and is a great way to
build fitness. The novice rowing
camp is designed to give young
people an idea of not only how
the sport works but also an idea
of what it is like to train daily on
a high school rowing team.
The camp starts out with basic lessons on rowing technique and safety, and over the
course of the week campers
move from rowing machines, to
testing the water, to finally rowing in unison in an eight-person
boat. “We do everything from
warm-up runs and stretching;
we’ll do some work on the rowing machine, and we will get
out there and try to transfer it
into the boat,” McCourt says.
“By the end of the week we
want to teach these kids how to
row all eight at a time.”
It’s all about “encouraging
people to get out there and do
something new and different,”
McCourt explains. “Our goal is
to try to expose people to the
sport so they have a good idea
if this is an activity they want to
pursue.”
PNRA is well suited to introduce kids to the fundamentals
of rowing. It has offered its
novice camp for beginning rowers since 2003, and a number of
past campers have gone on to
success on their high school
and college rowing teams. PNRA’s high school program, the
Mercer Junior Rowing Club,
boasts a track record of 74 percent of its student athletes going
on to compete at the collegiate
level. The camps are staffed by
Division I athletes who have
been through Mercer’s program
as well as the Mercer Junior
Rowing Club’s staff.
And when they’re not coaching beginner campers, PNRA
operates the Mercer Junior and
Master Rowing Clubs as well
as the United States Olympic
Training Site on Mercer Lake.
As the home of the U.S. national team, PNRA hosts many national and international rowing
events and serves as a support
structure to provide the best
possible training environment
for the US national team.
First-time rowers should take
advantage of this opportunity to
try something new while prac-
ticing alongside the best in the
country. Reserve a space early!
There is a limit of 32 campers
per session. Camps run from 8
to 11 a.m., Monday through Friday, June 18 to 22, July 16 to
20, and August 6 to 10.
Princeton National Rowing
Association. 1 South Post
Road, West Windsor. 609-7997100. www.rowpnra.org. See
ad, page 12.
STRING & RHYTHM CAMP
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July 23 - 27
For kids kindergarten to fifth grade
• Drum
Circles
• Singing
• Violin
Instruction
No Musical
Experience
Needed
Princeton Junction location
Call for reservations: 609-751-7664
Paul Manulik, Director • njprinceton@gmail.com
www.stringacademy.net
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Camp Listings
Continued from page 13
Arts Council of Princeton, Paul
Robeson Center for the Arts, 102
Witherspoon Street, Princeton
08542; 609-924-8777.
info@artscouncilofprinceton.org.
www.artscouncilofprinceton.org.
Art camps are held at Princeton
Junior School, 90 Fackler Road,
Lawrenceville, and 102 Witherspoon
Street, Princeton. Arts and drama
programs for children ages 5 to 12
and art studio programs for tweens
and teens are offered in sculpture,
painting, mixed media, digital arts,
and drama. Full and half-day sessions. Extended hours and scholarships available. Monday, June 18, to
Friday, August 24.
Aubergines Etc., 30 Robert
Road, Princeton 08540; 609-4970121. auberginesetc@gmail.com.
https://auberginesetc.com.
Cooking camp for students entering fifth grade and older weekly from
June 25 to July 16, 10 a.m. to 2:30
p.m. Extended day available. $295
per week. “Everything but Snails,” a
program for high school students,
August 20 to 24.
Community Christian Choir,
Box 9486, Trenton 08650; 609-5877076. ccchoir@optonline.net. www.ccchoir.com.
Christian music and arts for ages
9 to 15.
Cranbury Arts Council, 183
North Main Street, Cranbury 08512;
609-655-1705. cranburyartscouncil@gmail.com. www.cranbury.org/clubs/artscouncil.
Art and Technology Camp for
ages 5 to 14. Computer graphics,
filmmaking, jazz band ensemble,
fashion design, sewing, model rockets, robotics, art, pottery, maskmaking, woodworking, and digital camera. Full and half-days.
The Dance Connection, 1 Jill
Court, Building 16, Suite 12, Hillsborough 08844; 908-874-8800.
move@danceconnectionnj.com.
www.danceconnectionnj.com.
Performing arts day camp for
kindergarten to fifth grade. Daily
dance, music, singing, acting, arts
and crafts, yoga, and a musical production at the end of the week. 9 a.m.
to 5 p.m. with extended days. Monday, July 9 to Friday, August 10.
Dance Corner Inc., 335 Princeton-Hightstown Road, West Windsor
08550; 609-799-9677. thedancecorner@aol.com. www.thedancecorner.org.
Senior Ballet Intensive features
two one-week sessions in advanced
ballet technique, pointe, variations,
choreography, and Pilates, $350 per
week, Monday to Friday, July 23 to
27 and July 30 to August 3, 9:15 a.m.
to 3 p.m. Storytime Princess Camp
for ages 4 to 6, Monday to Friday, July 9 to 13 and July 16 to 20, 10 to
11:30 a.m., $125 per week. Junior
Ballet Intensive for ages 7 and up,
Monday to Friday, July 23 to 27; and
July 30 to August 3, 9:15 a.m. to 3
p.m., $350 per week. Also Junior Tap
Intensive, Junior Hip Hop, Junior
Jazz, and Junior Lyrical. Half days
available for some programs. Dynamic Dance Camp through West
Windsor Recreation Department for
ages 5 to 14 includes ballet, hip hop,
tap, jazz, lyrical, and acro/jazz,
Grover Middle School, July 9 to 20,
and July 23 to August 3, $250 for two
weeks half-day; $450 for full-day.
Dance Expo, 4 Market Street,
Plainsboro Village Center, Suite 800,
Plainsboro 08536; 609-799-7744.
classinfo5678@aol.com. www.danceexpo.org.
Dance Expo, 572 Route 130,
East Windsor 08520; 609-371-2828.
Musical theater camp for ages 6
and up, dance camp for ages 4 and
up, and Dance Around the World
camp for ages four and up. Full and
half day camps available. $325 a
week for 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.; $175 week
for 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Bring your
own lunch. Extended day, $20 for
mornings and $40 for afternoons.
The Dance Network, 160 Lawrenceville Pennington Road, Lawrenceville 08648; 609-844-0404.
classinfo5678@aol.com. www.thedancenetwork.org.
Musical theater camp for ages 6
and up, dance camp for ages 4 and
up. Full, half, and extended days
available.
Destiny Arts, 4 Tennis Court,
Hamilton 08619; 609-586-2787. destinyartstheater@gmail.com. www.destinyartstheater.com.
Encore, a day camp for ages 3 to
6, focuses on dancing, acting, and
singing. Weekly production. Extended days available. Program is 10
a.m. to 2:30 p.m. $300 for one week,
$275 for two weeks. Monday to Friday, July 9 to 13, and July 16 to 20.
Downtown Performing Arts
Center, 54 Mount Airy Road, Lambertville 08530; 609-397-3337.
www.downtownpac.com.
Dancing, vocal, musical theater,
and acting programs.
Firehouse Art Camp, 8 Walnut
Street, Bordentown 08505-1725;
609-298-3743. lovsart@aol.com.
www.firehousegallery.com.
Art classes for ages 7 to 16. Half
and full-day programs from Monday
to Friday, June 29 to August 10, 9
a.m. to 4 p.m. Cartooning, sculpture,
drawing, painting, pop-ups, design,
altered books, and treasure maps.
$125 for a half-day week; $250 for a
full-day week. Supplies included.
Scholarships and extended hours
available.
George Street Playhouse, 9 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick
08901; 732-846-2895.
education@georgestplayhouse.org.
www.gsponline.org.
Theater classes for ages 5 to 18.
Monday, June 25 to Friday, August 3,
9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Performance for family and friends. Audition not required.
Extended day available.
Helen Studio, 637 Ridge Road,
Monmouth Junction 08852; 609-6424198. helen@helenstudio.com.
www.helenstudio.com.
Art programs for ages four and up.
Five 90-minute classes, $150.
Highland Studio, Box 40,
Hopewell 08525; 609-466-3475.
Karen@karenmclean.com. www.karenmclean.com.
Summer art workshops with digital
photography, drawing, and painting
for ages 7 to 17.
The Hun School of Princeton,
176 Edgerstoune Road, Princeton
08540; 609-921-7600. admiss@hunschool.org. www.hunschool.org.
Arts classes.
Hunterdon Art Museum, 7 Lower
Center Street, Clinton 08809-1303;
908-735-8415. info@hunterdonartmuseum.org. www.hunterdonartmuseum.org.
More than 60 hands-on enrichment
classes for artists ages 4 to 15 including robotics, 3D, cartooning, fiber arts,
photography, jewelry making, and
sculpture. Mornings, afternoons, and
full-days. Monday, June 25, to Friday,
August 17. $170 to $365.
Kean University, 1000 Morris Avenue, Union 07083; 908-737-4077.
pwheliha@kean.edu. www.kean.edu/premierestages.
Premiere Stages offers workshops in acting, play development,
movement, and speech for middle
and high school students. Carolyn
Dorfman Dance Company explores
modern dance for teens and adults,
beginners through advanced. American String Teachers Association offers residential programs for student
chamber music players from eighth
grade to college freshman. Robert
Busch School of Design hosts the
Thinking Creatively Design camp for
interior, industrial, promotional, and
interactive design.
Lynn Academy of Irish Dance, 3
Jill Court, Building 15, Unit 16, Hillsborough 08844; 877-946-5966.
www.lynnacademy.com.
Irish dance for all ages.
McCarter Center Summer Theater Program, 91 University Place,
Princeton 08540; 609-258-8289.
firststage@mccarter.org. www.McCarter.org.
Programs for kindergarten to
grade 12. Culminates in a performance for friends and family. Monday, June 25 to Sunday, August 12.
Check website for details. High
school program by audition, $1,440.
Tomato Patch Performing Arts
Workshops, 1200 Old Trenton
Road, Box B, West Windsor 08550;
609-570-3333. getlikk@mccc.edu.
www.mccc.edu.
Visual and performing arts workshops explore arts, dance, theater,
and vocal music. Students select a
concentration and electives in stage
combat, children’s theater, computer
art, painting, drawing, jazz, musical
theater, tap dance, cartooning and
anime, hip hop, vocal ensemble,
comedy, music video, or web video.
Session one is four weeks for
grades 8 to 12. Mondays to Thursdays, June 25 to July 19; session two
is three weeks for grades 5 to 7. Mondays through Thursdays, July 23 to
August 9, both 8:45 a.m. to 4:15 p.m.
Master class is for students in grades
8 to 12 who have attended Tomato
Patch or had other formal theater
training. Monday to Thursday, July
23 to August 18, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Michener Art Museum, 138
South Pine Street, Doylestown, PA
18901; 215-340-9800. randerson@michenerartmuseum.org.
www.michenermuseum.org.
Art programs for ages 3 to 18 to
explore art media and create sculpture, anime, fashion design, and comics. CIT program for ages 14 to 18.
Mill Ballet School, 243 North
Union Street, Lambertville 08530;
609-397-7616. info@roxeyballet.org.
www.roxeyballet.com.
Choreography workshop for ages
10 and up, ballet technique intensive
for ages 9 to 18, junior dance camp
for ages 5 to 10, musical theater
dance intensive for ages 7 to 18,
Sleeping Beauty dance camp for
ages 4 to 6, open enrollment classes.
New Jersey Performing Arts
Center, One Center Street, Newark
071023; 973-297-5838. artseducation@njpac.org. www.njpac.org.
Five-week performance workshop
in acting, dancing, jazz, musical theater, or vocal music for ages 13 to 18.
Apply early. Auditions are Saturday
and Sunday, March 17 and 18.
New Jersey School of Ballet, 15
Microlab Road, Livingston 07039;
973-597-9600. info@njballet.org.
www.njschoolofballet.com.
Intensive workshop. Auditions are
Sundays, February 26 and March 25.
Opera New Jersey, 14 Washington Road, Suite 616, Box 3151,
Princeton 08543; 609-799-7700.
rrussell@opera-nj.org. www.operanj.org.
“Adventures in Opera” camp presents the world of opera through
singing, acting, and participating in a
professional opera company. Vocal
and acting classes combined with rehearsals and learning about opera
production.
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Peddie School, South Main
Street, Box A, Hightstown 085201010; 609-490-7532. jgreen@peddie.org. www.peddie.org.
Summer theater camp for ages 12
to 15 culminates in a showcase.
Green Apple Theater features oneweek camps focusing on acting,
dance, and music for ages 8 to 11.
$325 to $550 per week.
Pennington Dance, 1165 Bear
Tavern Road, Titusville 08560; 609737-7596. info@penningtondance.com. www.penningtondance.com.
Young dancers, ages 4 to 8, and
interns, ages 9 to 18, explore dances
and culture from around the globe
through crafts, storytelling, and music. Monday to Thursday, July 9 to
12, 1:30 to 3 p.m. $150.
Philadelphia Jazz Orchestra, 39
Fenton Lane, Chesterfield 08515;
215-275-7799. info@philadelphiajazzorchestra.com. www.philadelphiajazzorchestra.com.
Jazz weeks at Princeton High
School, Monday to Friday, June 25
to 29, and August 6 to 10, 9 a.m. to 4
p.m. For grades 6 to 12 of all levels.
Large ensemble instruction, small
group lessons, master classes, theory, and history. Students will be
placed by ability level on the first day
of the program. Jazz choir for vocal
students is new in 2012.
Piano Summer Workshop, 314
Overbrook Road, Piscataway 08854;
732-463-2268. director@pianosummer.org. www.pianosummer.org.
Two-week music program mixes
ensembles, composition, singing,
and solo performance, focusing on
violin and piano. Ages 8 to 15. Monday, July 23 to Friday, August 3, 9
a.m. to 3:30 p.m. End with a student
and faculty performance. Program is
at the Lawrenceville School.
Playwrights Theater Camp, 33
Green Village Road, 1295, Madison
07940; 973-514-1787 ext. 21. jdevivo@ptnj.org. www.ptnj.org.
Creative Arts Academy’s summer
program includes five two-week sessions for students ages 4 to 18. Half
and full-day programs.
Princeton Academy of the Sacred Heart, 1128 Great Road,
Princeton 08540; 609-921-6499.
vgeraci@princetonacademy.org.
www.princetonacademy.org.
Programs for K to grade nine,
Sports, martial arts, nature, reading,
robotic, and writing workshops.
Clown Academy for students from
grades 4 to 12. Features miming,
pie-throwing, slapstick, pratfalls,
make-up, unicycling, juggling, stiltwalking, costuming, tumbling, and
acrobatics. One week sessions.
Princeton Dance and Theater
Studio, 116 Rockingham Row,
Princeton 08540-5732; 609-5141600. princetondance@verizon.net.
www.princetondance.com.
Summer intensive junior for ages
8 and up with ballet, jazz, hip hop,
and choreography. Summer intensive for ages 12 to 20 with pointe,
partnering, pilates, jazz, modern,
and musical theater. Dancing Stars
for ages 5 to 7 and Little Dancing
Stars for ages 3 and 4, are half-day
camps with dance, costume, scenery
making, and weekly performance.
Princeton Day School, The
Great Road, Box 75, Princeton
08542; 609-924-6700. summerprograms@pds.org. www.pds.org.
Summer arts institute offers college preparatory work and portfolio
development. Architecture, ceramics, photography, drawing, painting,
acting, dance, creative writing, installation art, scene design, art history,
and 3D design. For grades 9 to 12.
Red Green Blue True Color Creations, 4 Hulfish Street, Princeton
08542; 609-683-5100. info@redgreenblueonline.com. www.redgreenblueonline.com.
Mixed media including glass fusing, mosaic, sculpture, painting, and
games. Ages 6 to 14. 9 a.m. to 3:30
p.m. Extended session available.
Snack provided. $329 per week. Day
sessions, $89 per day. Monday to
Friday, July 5 to August 10. Summer
camp runs Monday to Friday, June
18 to August 31.
Shakespeare Theater of New
Jersey, 36 Madison Avenue, Madison 07940; 973-408-3980. jbgrant@shakespearenj.org. www.shakespearenj.org.
Senior Corps, a three-week acting
intensive program for ages 14 to 17,
begins Mondays, June 18 and July
30, $750. Junior Corps, a two-week
acting program for ages 11 to 14, begins Mondays, July 9 and 23, $650.
Camp Open Houses
Appel Farm Arts & Music
Center, 457 Shirley Road, Elmer.
Sundays, February 26, March 25,
April 15, and 22, at 2 p.m.; and Saturday, March 10, at 11 a.m. 800298-4200. www.appelfarm.org.
Black Bear Lake Day Camp,
457 Stage Coach Road, Millstone.
Saturday, February 18, 11 a.m. to 3
p.m. 609-259-1777. www.blackbearlake.com.
Cedarville Country Day
Camp, 148 Cedarville Road, East
Windsor. Sunday, February 19, 1
to 3 p.m. 609-448-3881. www.cedarville.com.
Fernbrook Farms, 142 Bordentown
Georgetown
Road,
Chesterfield. Sundays, April 22
and June 3, 1 to 3 p.m. Tour the
farm, visit the animals, and meet
staff. 609-298-4028. www.fernbrookfarms.com.
Frogbridge Day Camp, 7 Yellow Meeting House Road, Millstone, 732-786-9050. Sunday,
March 11, 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Harmony Schools, 2002 Washington Boulevard, Robbinsville,
Saturday, February 25, 10 a.m. to
noon, and 1 Merwick Road, Forre-
and April 28, noon to 2 p.m. Information for Camp College, Sports
Camps, and Tomato Patch Camp.
Meet camp directors, tour the facilities, and register. The camps seek
counselors and teachers interested
in summer employment. 609-5869446. www.mccc.edu.
Hun School, 176 Edgerstoune
Road, Princeton. Sunday, March
25, noon to 2:30 p.m. Day camp,
American Culture and Language
Institute, academic session, baseball and basketball camps. Register. 609-921-7600. www.hunschool.org.
Montessori Corner Children’s
House of the Windsors, 270 Village Road East, West Windsor. Saturday, March 24, 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.
600-443-8900.
www.westwindsor.montessoricorner.com.
Ivy League Day Camp, 140
Gordon’s Corner Road, Manalapan. Saturday, February 25, 11
a.m. to 2 p.m. 732-446-7305.
www.ivyleaguedaycamp.com.
Family Fun Day, Jewish Community Center, Rider University,
Lawrenceville. Sunday, February
26, 2 to 4 p.m. Science fun with
Howard Feldman. Information
about Abrams Day Camp and teen
travel. Also seeking to fill several
staff positions. Register. 609-2199550. www.jcctoday.org.
Mercer County College, 1200
Old Trenton Road, West Windsor.
Saturdays, February 18, March 24,
Oak Crest Day Camp, 92
Cortelyou Lane, Somerset. Sunday, February 26, 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.
732-297-2000.
www.oakcrestdaycamp.com.
Princeton Friends School, 470
Quaker Road, Princeton. Saturday,
March 17, 1 to 4 p.m. 609-6831194.
www.princetonfriendsschool.org.
Princeton Montessori School,
487 Cherry Valley Road, Princeton. Wednesday, February 22, 8:45
to 9:45 a.m. 609-924-4594. www.princetonmontessori.org.
Open House, Quakerbridge
Learning Center., 4044 Quakerbridge Road, Lawrenceville, 609933-8806. Sundays, February 19
Rambling Pines Day Camp,
Route 518, Hopewell. Sundays,
February 26, March 11 and 25,
April 1, 15, and 29, 1 to 3 p.m. Tour
the facility and meet staff members. Camp program for ages 3 to
15 and a teen program for grades 7
to 10. Register. 609-466-1212.
www.ramblingpines.com.
Stony Brook Millstone Watershed, 31 Titus Mill Road, Pennington. Saturdays, March 10, April 21,
May 19, 1 to 4 p.m. Nature and environmental summer day camp for
boys and girls entering grades one
to nine. 609-737-7592. www.thewatershed.org.
Early Childhood Music Program Open House, Westminster
Choir College, Princeton Presbyterian Church, 545 Meadow Road,
West Windsor. Tuesday, February
21, 4 to 6 p.m., and Saturday, February 25, 10 a.m. to noon. See the new
facilities, meet the faculty, and participate in demo classes. Free. 609921-2663. www.rider.edu.
YMCA Trenton, 431 Pennington Avenue, Trenton. Saturdays,
March 10 and April 14, 11 a.m.
609-599-9622.
Power Pitching & Hitting (732) 586-1309 www.pphbaseball.com
CHOICE OF FULL-DAY (9am-3pm) OR HALF-DAY (9am-12pm)
VERY AFFORDABLE - AND CLAIM IT ON YOUR TAXES
ADVANCED INSTRUCTION AND TONS OF FUN! LIVE GAMES EVERY DAY!
Camps Include Instruction in:
Pitching • Hitting • Fielding • Catching • Bunting • Base Running
Proper Conditioning • Arm Care • Live Games Every Day
CAMP PRICING
SPRING CAMP (4 Day Camp)
$175
(5 Day w/ T-Shirt/Awards)
$200
SUMMER CAMP
SUMMER CAMP DISCOUNTS
Sibling Discount
½ Day Summer Camp Only
$150 for 2nd child
$125 (9am-12pm)
PRIVATE LESSON CLIENTS SAVE $25
(summer full day)
*discounts cannot be combined
LOG ONTO OUR SITE
FOR ONLINE REGISTRATION
Camp Dates and Locations
Spring Break Camp (Ages 6-12)
WWLL Indoor Facility/Community Park
4 DAY CAMP - April 9th - 12th
Summer "Premier" Camps (Ages 6-12)
WWLL Indoor Facility/Community Park
Week 1- June 18- June 22
(Week 1 subject to change dependent on School Snow days)
Week 2 - June 25 - June 29
Week 3 - July 9 - July 13
BACK TO SCHOOL CAMP (Ages 6-17)
WWLL Indoor Facility/Cuiffani Field
August 27 - August 30
Please send check or money order, payable to POWER PITCHING & HITTING for amount of camp/camps selected,
with completed enrollment form, to us at: PO Box 241, Plainsboro, NJ 08536
Waiver: I the undersigned, as a parent or guardian of
the named applicant for entry into the clinic activities
offered at WWLL/WW Community Park Facilities
& Adjacent Fields do hereby give permission
and approval for the applicant’s participation in
Instructional Classes offered b y Power Pitching &
Hitting Professional Baseball Instruction, Inc. I further agree to assume all risks and hazards incidental to such participation, and I do hereby waive,
release and absolve the organizers, sponsors,
directors, managers, coaches, instructors, and
participants from any claim arising out of injury to the
applicant, my son/ daughter/ ward.
Medical: I give my consent for any emergency medical/ surgical treatment to be given to my child. This
treatment pertains to life threatening situations or
any other medical emergencies such as fracture or
suturing. I give my consent for the emergency to
treat my child. This does not apply to elective surgery.
Signature of Parent:
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and 26; and Mondays, March 5,
12, 19, and 26, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.
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stal Village, Plainsboro, 11 a.m. to
1 p.m. Ages 6 weeks to 8 years,
nursery and full day schedules,
pre-K, before and after school programs, summer camp through age
9, and a six-week parent and child
class. 609-799-4411. www.harmonyschools.com.
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Spotlight School of Drama, 28
South Main Street, Allentown 08501;
609-228-3069. www.spotlightdrama.com.
Camps for ages 7 to 15 focus on
acting, improv, comedy, movement,
voice, film, stage combat, writing,
and art.
Taubenslag Productions, 496
Taylor Place, North Brunswick
08902; 732-422-7071.
michael@taubenslagproductions.com. www.taubenslagproductions.com.
Theater camp with half and fullday programs, two to eight-week
sessions, ages 7 to 14. CIT program.
8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Daily swimming,
outdoor activities, and stage work.
Trips and performances.
That Pottery Place, 217
Clarksville Road, West Windsor
08550; 609-716-6200. www.thatpotteryplace.net.
Programs include working with
clay, pottery, and glass. Wheel
throwing for ages nine and up. One
to ten weeks; half, full-days, and extended hours for ages 5 to 14. Monday, June 25, to Friday, August 31.
VSA of New Jersey, 703 Jersey
Avenue, New Brunswick 08901; 732745-3885. info@vsanj.org. www.vsanj.org.
Fine arts programs for ages 8 to
21 with a disability.
Villagers Theater, 475 DeMott
Lane, Municipal Complex, Box 6175,
Somerset 08875-6175; 732-8733009. donna@villagerstheatre.com.
www.villagerstheatre.com.
Theater arts training for ages 6 to
16 includes acting, dance, movement, vocal training, music, and production arts, with live productions.
Divided into Little Villagers, ages 6 to
8; Villagers Apprentice, 8 to 12; and
Teen Performance Workshop, 12 to
16. Starts Monday, June 25.
West Windsor Arts Council, 952
Alexander Road, West Windsor
08550; 609-716-1931. info@westwindsorarts.org. www.westwindsorarts.org.
Multi arts camp for ages 5 to 10
explores visual art, drama, dance,
music, and literary arts, 9 a.m. to 3
p.m. Begins June 18 and 25, and August 20 and 27. Environmental art
camp for ages 6 to 10, August 6 to
17, exploring and building works of
art in the woods and in the classroom. Theater arts camp for ages 6
to 10, August 6 to 17, create a performance. All $330 per week with extended day options. Open house
Sunday, April 1, 2 to 5 p.m.
Westminster Conservatory of
Music, 101 Walnut Lane, Princeton
08540-3899; 609-921-7104. wccconserv@rider.edu. www.rider.edu/wcc.
Music and performance for age 2
through high school. Most are oneweek. Piano, flute, guitar, strings,
and chamber music. Musical theater
programs for grades 1 to 8. Visual
arts for high school juniors and seniors. At Westminster Choir College,
Unitarian Universalist Congregation,
John Witherspoon Middle School,
and Princeton Presbyterian Church.
Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers
University, 71 Hamilton Street, New
Brunswick 08901; 732-932-7237.
bonniesc@rci.rutgers.edu. www.zimmerlimuseum.rutgers.edu.
Art camp for ages 7 to 14.
Day Camps
Black Bear Lake Day Camp, 457
Stage Coach Road, Millstone Township 08510; 609-259-1777.
info@blackbearlake.com. www.blackbearlake.com.
Four to eight week programs for
ages 4 to 15, $2,680 to $4,695.
Horseback riding, transportation,
towel service, and lunch included.
Fishing, boating, photography, and
mountain boarding for ages 4 to 14.
New electives chosen weekly. Daily
swim lesson and free swim in three
heated pools. Monday, June 25, to
Friday, August 17. Extended hours
and sibling discount available.
Boy Scouts of America, Central
New Jersey Council, 2245 Route
130, Suite 106, Dayton 08810-2420;
609-419-1600. cnjcescouter@bsamail.org. www.cnjcscouting.org.
One week session at Rosedale
Park, Pennington; two weeks at Mercer County Park, West Windsor.
Ages 7 to 11.
Bright Horizons, 2239 Route 1
South, North Brunswick 08902; 732940-9391. kidnorthbr@aol.com. .
Programs for ages 2 to 12; half,
full, and extended days available.
Camp Gan Israel, 731 Princeton
Kingston Road, Princeton 08540;
609-252-0124. chabadmerc@aol.com. www.princetonchabad.org.
Boys ages 3 to 9, girls ages 3 to
12. Pre Bar Mitzvah program for
boys 10 to 12. Jewish day camp at
Princeton Junior School. Transportation available. Monday, June 25 to
Friday, July 20.
Cedarville Country Day Camp,
148 Cedarville Road, East Windsor
08520; 609-448-3881. info@cedarville.com. www.cedarville.com.
Half, full-day, and extended sessions for ages 3 to 13. Three to five
days a week, four to eight weeks.
Softball, lacrosse, basketball, tennis,
trips, golf, soccer, pools, and electives. Transportation available. Begins Monday, June 18.
Chesterbrook Academy, 108
Woodward Road, Marlton 08053;
732-446-1379. patricia.rogove@nlcinc.com. www.chesterbrook.com.
Camp Zone, day camp for preschool to grade 8. Musical stage productions, young entrepreneurs, culi-
Fun in the Sun: Pedal boating is one of the many
activities offered at Frogbridge Day Camp.
nary arts, sports, chess, golf, bowling, swimming, trips.
Country Roads Day Camp, 139
Pinebrook Road, Manalapan; 732446-4100. info@countryroadsdaycamp.com. www.countryroadsdaycamp.com.
Four, six, and eight-week sessions. Hot lunch with a salad and
pasta bar daily, and towel service are
included. CIT program. Mini, half,
and full-days for ages 3 to 5. Monday, June 25, to Friday, August 17.
Transportation options available.
Catholic Youth Organization
Day Camp, 453 Yardville Allentown
Road, Yardville 08620; 609-5854280. www.cyomercer.org.
Day camp in Yardville under the
auspices of Catholic Youth Organization of Mercer. Monday, June 25 to
Friday, August 24, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Extended hours available.
ESF Summer Camps at Lawrenceville School, 750 East Haverford Road, Bryn Mawr, PA 19010;
610-581-7100. srourke@esfcamps.com. www.esfcamps.com.
Co-ed camps at Lawrenceville
School include a day camp for ages
10 to 16. 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Extended day available. Monday to Friday, July 9 to 27, $1,995. Also day
camp for ages 4 to 8, mini camp for
age 3, and senior camp for ages 9 to
15. See sports camps.
Eagle River Day Camp, 1470
Perrineville Road, Monroe 08831;
609-448-5885. mailbag@eagleriverdaycamp.com. www.eagleriverdaycamp.com.
Co-ed two to eight week programs
for ages 3 to 15. Transportation and
extended day available. Trip program
for grades six to eight. Mini program
for ages 3 to 6. LIT and CIT for grades
nine and ten. Hot lunch, insurance,
horseback riding, and supplies included. Monday, June 25, to Friday, August 17, 9 a.m. to 4:15 p.m.
Fernbrook Farms Education
Center, 142 Bordentown Georgetown Road, Chesterfield 08515; 609298-4028. education@fernbrookfarms.com. www.fernbrookeducation.org.
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Fiddlehead Day Camp for ages 6 to 14 to
explore ponds, and creeks, harvest vegetables, tend to animals, make musical instruments, and catch insects. Extended day available. Monday to Friday, June 25 to August 31.
Frogbridge Day Camp, 7 Yellow Meeting
House Road, Millstone Township 08514; 609208-9050. laura@frogbridge.com. www.frogbridge.com.
Day camp for ages 3 to 15 in four, six, or
eight-week sessions. Extended hours available. Mini week for ages 3 to 6. Day trips for
seventh to ninth grades, overnights for ninth
and tenth grades. CIT program. Transportation, bathing suit laundering, and hot lunch included. Ziplines and rock climbing. Monday to
Friday, June 25 to August 17, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Girl Scouts of Central and Southern NJ,
40 Brace Road, Cherry Hill 08034; 800-5827692. mblake@gscsnj.org. www.gscsnj.org.
Oak Spring Girl Scout Day Camp, 228 Weston Road, Somerset 08873, for ages 5 to 17
includes swimming, boating, camp skills and
crafts, biking, leadership skills, science, drama, sewing, and cooking. Bus transportation
available. One week sessions begin July 9.
Harmony Schools/Foxmoor, 2022 Washington Boulevard, Robbinsville 08691; 609443-7575. info@harmonyschools.com. www.harmonyschools.com.
Camp program for ages 3 to 9. Computers,
gym, Spanish, yoga, music, field trips, martial
arts, swim lessons. One to nine weeks, July 2
to August 30. Extended day included. Optional
hot lunch. Open house Saturday, February 25,
10 a.m. to noon.
Howell Living History Farm, 101 Hunter
Road, Titusville 08560; 609-737-3299. kbrilla@mercercounty.org. www.howellfarm.org.
Farm camp to help with chores including
feeding animals, shelling and grinding corn,
and gathering eggs. Crafts, stories, games,
and a hayride. 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.
The Hun School of Princeton, 176 Edgerstoune Road, Princeton 08540; 609-9217600. admiss@hunschool.org. www.hunschool.org.
Day camp, for boys and girls ages 5 to 13,
Monday, June 25 to Friday, August 10, 9 a.m.
to 3 p.m. Extended day available. Open house
Sunday, March 25, noon to 2:30 p.m.
Ivy League Day Camp, 140 Gordon’s Corner Road, Box 735, Manalapan 07726; 732446-7305. info@ivyleaguedaycamp.com.
www.ivyleaguedaycamp.com.
Swimming, sports, camp activities. Half and
full-days. Teen travel camp. Includes transportation and lunch.
Jewish Community Center Princeton
Mercer Bucks, 4 Princess Road, Suite 206,
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Camp Abrams for age three to grade five,
two to eight week sessions. Sports, arts, music, Jewish heritage, and Israeli culture. Extended days available. Transportation, lunch,
and snack included. CIT program. Half-day
camp for ages two to four. Teen Travel Camp
for grades 6 to 10.
KinderCare Learning Center, 1 Kinder
Court, West Windsor 08550; 609-799-8787.
www.kindercare.com.
Ages six weeks to 12 years.
Lakeview Child Center at Hamilton, 4
Hamilton Health Place, Hamilton Square
08690; 609-890-1442. dirhamilton@aol.com.
Full-day program for school age children.
Monday, June 25 to Friday, August 31.
Lawrenceville Happy Hollow Day Care &
Summer Camp, 11 Fairfield Avenue, Lawrenceville 08648; 609-882-9146.
Day camp for ages 2 to 7.
Liberty Lake Day Camp, 1195 FlorenceColumbus Road, 370, Columbus 08022; 609499-7820. fun@LibertyLakeDayCamp.com.
www.libertylakedaycamp.com.
Athletics, arts, boating, fishing, rocketry,
and mountain boarding. For ages 4 to 15.
Transportation, extended hours, trips, and hot
lunch included.
Little Friends Hamilton Day School, 221
Edinburgh Road, Mercerville 08619-0861;
609-890-9164. littlefriendsschool@yahoo.com. www.littlefriendsschool.com.
Programs for ages 2 to 12.
Meadowbrook Country Day Camp, 73
East Valley Brook Road, Long Valley 07853;
908-876-3429. info@meadowbrookdaycamp.com. www.meadowbrookdaycamp.com.
Riding, archery, performing arts, swimming,
sports, computers, bumper boats, for ages 3
to 15. Four to eight-week programs. Three day
program for pre-K. Transportation included.
Teen program with day trips.
Mercer County Park Commission, 334
North Post Road, Box 8068, West Windsor
08550; 609-883-6606. jrogers@mercercounty.org. http://nj.gov/counties/mercer/commissions/park/natureprog.html.
Nature camps, 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Baldpate Nature Camp I, Monday to Friday, July 9 to
13, grades 1 to 3, $190; Baldpate Nature Camp
II, Monday to Friday, July 16 to 20, grades 4 to
6, $190; Aquatic Adventure Camp, Monday to
Friday, July 30 to August 3, Mercer County Marina, grades 6 to 8, $275. Pontoon boat is a
floating classroom; kayaks are for exploration.
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WEST WINDSOR TOWNSHIP
Division of Recreation and Parks
271 Clarksville Road
West Windsor, New Jersey 08550
(609) 799-6141
wwparks-recreation.com
Online Registration Available
SPRING/SUMMER PROGRAM REGISTRATION BEGINS FEBRUARY 27
8 Week Summer Camp (Visit Our Website for Dates & Location)
F Recreation Camp (entering pre-K to 3rd grade)
F Big Reckers (entering grades 4-5)
F Intermediate Camp (grades 6-7)
5 Week Travel Camp (July 9-August 10)
F Prime Time Camp (entering grades 8-10) at High School South
Camp Includes:
F Camp hours from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. (extended days for the travel camp)
F Recreation Camp Only - Half day registration available A.M. (9a.m. - 12p.m.) & P.M. (1p.m. - 4p.m.)
F One week registration available
F Exciting New Trips
Other Camps Offered Include:
Art, Baseball, Basketball, Cheerleading, Cricket, Dance, Field Hockey, Football, Golf Lessons, Lacrosse, Multi Sports Camps,
Performing Arts, Soccer, Tennis, Video Production, Volleyball and much more!
VISIT OUR WEBSITE AT WWPARKS-RECREATION.COM FOR MORE
INFORMATION AND DOWNLOADABLE REGISTRATION FORMS.
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At the West Windsor
Arts Center
Spring Break (April 9-13)
Art & Science / Machines & Movement
Summer Camps
Multi-Arts (June 18-22, 25-29 & August 20-24, 27-31)
Theater (August 6-17)
Environmental Art (August 6-17)
Camp day 9-3 - Extended hours / mornings and afternoons
Children 5-10 - Small classes, Professional Teaching Artists
Enroll NOW
online at
www.westwindsorarts.org
the junction where the arts and
community meet
952 Alexander Road
(Historic Princeton Junction Firehouse)
West Windsor, NJ 08550 609.716.1931
West Windsor Arts Council
Members Save 10%
Day Camps
❖ For grades 1-8, 7am-6pm
❖ Sports, games, arts & crafts, drama, field trips, swimming, & entertainment!
Enrichment Camps
❖ New! Full day options!
❖ New! STEM programs & Mad Science!
Sports Camps
❖ Baseball • Basketball • Lacrosse • Soccer • Volleyball • Gymnastics
❖ Track & Field • Cross Country • Cheerleading • Softball
❖ Speed & Agility • Field Hockey • Tennis
Before & After School Program
❖ For Grades K-5 in all Elementary Schools
❖ Middle School Program at Crossroads No.
❖ New for 2012-13 On-Line Registration
Adult Community School
❖ Hobbies • Exercise • Wellness • Cooking
❖ Arts & Crafts • Golf • On-Line Courses!
Year Round Tennis Programs
❖ Children’s Saturday Tennis • Children’s Summer Tennis Camps
❖ Adult Winter Indoor & Evenings Outside • Parent with child on Saturdays
732-297-7800 x3159
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Middlesex County College, 2600
Woodbridge Avenue, Box 3050, Edison 08818-3050; 732-548-6000.
PMadama@middlesexcc.edu.
www.middlesexcc.edu.
Week-long camps in arts, theater,
sports, and magic, for ages 6 to 18.
Half or full-day, pre-camp and aftercamp available. Biotech summer program for high school students.
Middlesex 4-H, 645 Cranbury
Road, South Brunswick 08536; 732398-5264. bovitz@aesop.rutgers.edu. www.co.middlesex.nj.us.
One week programs for grades 3
to 7.
Mill Road Day Camp, 74 Davidsons Mill Road, North Brunswick
08902; 732-821-9155. stacey@millroaddaycamp.com. www.millroaddaycamp.com.
Day camp for ages 3 to 15. Mini
day, CIT, horseback riding, tennis,
and fishing. Extended hours available.
Montessori Corner at Princeton
Meadows, 666 Plainsboro Road,
2100, Plainsboro 08536; 609-7996668. aaron.kemper@nlcinc.com.
www.princetonmeadows.montessoricorner.com.
Ages 2 to 6. Open house Saturday, March 24, 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Montessori Corner Children’s
House of the Windsors, 270 Village
Road East, West Windsor 08550;
609-433-8900. aaron.kemper@nlcinc.com. www.MontessoriCorner.org.
Programs for ages 2 to 6 years.
Open house Saturday, March 24, 10
a.m. to 1 p.m.
Montessori Corner Country
Day, 72 Grovers Mill Road, Plainsboro 08536; 609-799-7990.
aaron.kemper@nlcinc.com. www.MontessoriCorner.org.
Programs for 18 months to age 12.
Camp Shadyrest, 187 Crosswicks-Chesterfield Road, Chesterfield 08515; 609-298-1244.
esther@campshadyrest.org. www.campshadyrest.org.
Christian day camp for ages 5 to
14 located at Shadyrest Bible Church
in Chesterfield.
Northeast Academy of Martial
Arts, 4054 Quakerbridge Road, Mercerville 08619; 609-587-6644. www.northeastama.com.
Program options include one day,
one week, or the whole summer.
Sports, crafts, trips, learning through
hidden math, science, reading, and
writing activities.
Oak Crest Day Camp, 92 Cortelyou Lane, Somerset 08873; 732-2972000. info@oakcrestdaycamp.com.
www.oakcrestdaycamp.com.
Full and part-time programs for
ages 3 to 15. Four to eight-week sessions. Transportation and hot lunch
included. Extended day available.
Golf, archery, swimming, bumper
boats, mountain biking, and arts. CIT
program for campers entering 10th
grade. Open house, Sunday, February 26, 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.
PEAC Health & Fitness, 1440
Lower Ferry Road, Ewing 08618;
609-883-2000. vmlopenzina@peachealthfitness.com. www.PEAChealthfitness.com.
KidsKamp program features eight
one-week sessions for ages 6 to 14.
Half and extended day available.
Pennsbury Manor, 400 Pennsbury Memorial Road, Morrisville, PA
19067; 215-946-0400. willpenn17@aol.com. www.pennsburymanor.org.
Colonial camp for grades 1 to 6,
one-week sessions. History, candle
making, arts, crafts, and 17th century
life. Monday to Friday, July 9 to 13
and July 16 to 20, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Plainsboro Preserve, c/o New
Jersey Audubon Society, 80 Scotts
Corner Road, Cranbury 08512; 609897-9400. plainsboro@njaudubon.org. www.njaudubon.org/centers/Plainsboro/.
One-week nature camp sessions
for grades 1 to 6 include nature
awareness, sensory safari, survival,
woodland games, search and rescue,
and predator and prey. All camps are
Monday to Friday, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.,
$275 to $290 per week. Monday,
June 18 to Friday, August 31. Membership is required in New Jersey
Audubon. Volunteer camp counselors may apply by E-mail to sean.grace@njaudubon.org.
Plainsboro Township Recreation, 641 Plainsboro Road, Plainsboro 08536; 609-799-0909.
recdept@plainsboronj.com. www.plainsboronj.com.
Pre-k day camp for ages 4 and 5.
Lenape Trailblazers Camp for grades
1 to 6. Theater camp for grades 1 to
8. Basketball, tennis, cross-training,
lacrosse, fencing, soccer, baseball,
cheerleading, football, softball, and
volleyball camps, mostly for grades 1
to 12. Speed agility clinic, grades 6 to
12. Supersport multi sports camp.
Tennis clinic. Only for Plainsboro and
West Windsor residents. Details and
registration online in March.
Princeton Family YMCA, 59 Paul
Robeson Place, Princeton 08542;
609-497-9622.
rconway@princetonymca.org.
www.princetonymca.org.
Camps from Monday to Friday,
June 25 to August 24. Discovery
camps, Monday to Friday, 7:30 a.m.
to 6 p.m., ages 4 to 12, $320 per
week. Leadership Academy, ages 13
to 15, includes community service
and team work, $425 for two weeks.
Camp M.V.P. sports camps, ages 5
to 12, Princeton Theological Seminary, $320 per week. Camps in arts,
science, cooking, and camping; $385
per week. Scholarships available.
Princeton Friends School, 470
Quaker Road, Princeton 08540; 609683-1194. camp@princetonfriendsschool.org. www.princetonfriendsschool.org.
Nine one-week sessions for pre-K
to eighth grade. Swimming, sports,
arts, music, and field trips. Extended
hours and swim lessons available. 8
a.m. to 4:30 p.m. $360 per week.
Open house is Saturday, March 17, 1
to 4 p.m.
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Princeton Montessori School,
487 Cherry Valley Road, Princeton
08540; 609-924-4594. mevans@pmonts.org. www.princetonmontessori.org.
Day camp for infants through
grade four. Science and basic skills
training for a specific outdoor sport.
Piano and violin lessons available.
Wednesday, June 20 to Thursday,
August 16. Open house Wednesday,
February 22, 8:45 to 9:45 a.m.
Princeton Recreation Department, 380 Witherspoon Street,
Princeton 08540; 609-921-9480. adminoff@princetonboro.org.
For Princeton borough and township residents only. Arts and crafts,
swimming, and sports for rising first to
sixth graders, full and extended days.
Princeton University Day Camp,
Dillon Gym, Room 3, Princeton
08544; 609-258-3533.
jessward@princeton.edu. www.princetonedu/campusrec.
Day camp for ages 6 to 13 includes sports, field trips, and swimming. Extended hours available. CIT
program for ages 14 to 17.
Rambling Pines Day Camp,
Route 518, Box 3, Box 3, Hopewell
08525; 609-466-1212. funsummers@aol.com. www.ramblingpines.com.
Two to eight-week program with
full, mini, or extended days featuring
horseback, gymnastics, performing
arts, computer, ropes, off-road biking,
basketball, golf, and swimming.
Lunch and transportation included.
Ages 3 to 13. Teen Camp for grades 7
to 10 for eight weeks.
Rutgers Cooperative Extension
of Mercer County, 930 Spruce
Street, Lawrenceville 08648; 609989-6833. ripberger@rce.rutgers.edu. www.njaes.rutgers.edu.
Junior master gardener day camp
at Lawrence Nature Center.
Rutgers Preparatory School,
1345 Easton Avenue, Somerset
08873; 732-545-5600.
dquenault@rutgersprep.org. www.rutgersprep.org.
Summer camp for ages 7 to 14.
Mini camp for ages 3 to 6. Extended
day available.
Solebury School, 6820 Phillips
Mill Road, Box 249, New Hope, PA
18938; 215-862-5261. scotte@solebury.org. www.solebury.org.
Summer day camp, CIT program,
swim club, and jazz academy.
South Brunswick Recreation &
Community Affairs, 124 New Road,
Community Center, Monmouth Junction 08852; 732-329-4000.
tmorris@sbtnj.net. www.sbtnj.net.
Day camp for grades 1 to 8.
Stony Brook-Millstone Watershed Association, 31 Titus Mill
Road, Pennington 08534; 609-7373735. sbmwa@thewatershed.org.
www.thewatershed.org.
Day camp featuring environmental
education for grades 1 to 9. Some include overnights on the reserve.
Two-week CIT program for age 15
and up. Mini camps include one for
ages 3 to 5 with an adult. Most programs scheduled from Tuesday,
June 26 to Friday, August 17. Open
house on Saturdays, March 10, April
21, and May 19, 1 to 4 p.m.
Stuart Country Day School of
the Sacred Heart, 1200 Stuart Road,
Princeton 08540-1297; 609-9212330. emathes@stuartschool.org.
www.stuartschool.org.
Co-ed camp for ages 4 to 18 features academic enrichment, visual
and performing arts, and cultures and
travels. Girls’ athletic camps for tennis,
field hockey, lacrosse, and basketball.
Camp Stuart for pre-K to grade 1.
Terhune Orchards, 330 Cold Soil
Road, Princeton 08540; 609-9242310. info@TerhuneOrchards.com.
www.terhuneorchards.com.
Farm camp for ages 7 to 10, one
week sessions in July and August, 9
a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Picking fruits and
vegetables, tending animals, studying insects, identifying trees, field trip
to Howell Living History Farm, stream
walks, and nature exploration. Future
Farmers Gardening Camp for ages 8
to 12, one week sessions beginning
July 9 and 30. Farming, old fashioned
games, and activities focuses on the
children’s garden. $225 per week.
Waldorf School of Princeton,
1062 Cherry Hill Road, Princeton
08540; 609-466-1970. summercamp@princetonwaldorf.org. www.princetonwaldorf.org.
Day camp for ages 4 to 14. Three
two-week sessions. 8:30 a.m. to 1
p.m. Afternoon option, 1 to 3:30 p.m.
Tennis and sports camp, ages 9 to
14; art and naturalist, ages 11 to 14;
and acting, ages 10 to 16.
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West Windsor-Plainsboro Community Education, 505 Village
Road West, Box 505, Princeton
Junction 08550; 609-716-5030. marci.rubin@ww-p.org, melissa.conklin@ww-p.org. www.ww-p.org.
Multiple programs for pre-K to
ninth grade at Millstone River and
Hawk schools. Eight one-week sessions from Monday, June 18 to August 10 with a bonus week beginning
August 13. Full, half, and extended
days. Travel programs, science,
dance, drama, robots, puppetry,
cheerleading, crafts, basketball,
baseball, tennis, acting, drawing,
computers, cooking, fitness, jewelry
making, creative writing, literature.
CIT program for seventh to ninth
grade students, eight weeks, $325.
Two four-week sessions Spanish Immersion for grades 6 to 12, $550.
West Windsor Police, 20 Municipal Drive, West Windsor 08550; 609799-0452. www.westwindsorpolice.com.
Youth Academy: Probably Monday, July 9. Visit website and Facebook page for new information. Free.
West Windsor Recreation, 271
Clarksville Road, Box 38, West Windsor 08550-0038; 609-799-6141. kjacobs@westwindsortwp.com. www.wwparks-recreation.com.
Prime time program, a five week
travel camp for students in grades 8
to 10. One-week sessions, 9 a.m. to
4 p.m. Recreation camp for pre-K to
grade 5. Also available are camps focusing on baseball, basketball,
cheerleading, dance, field hockey,
football, golf, lacrosse, cricket, video
production, mountain biking, geocaching, performing arts, soccer,
tennis, and volleyball. Most programs begin Monday, June 25.
Hamilton Area YMCA Sawmill
Branch, 185 Sawmill Road, Hamilton 08620; 609-581-9622.
info@hamiltonymca.org. www.hamiltonymca.org.
Regular day camps at 185
Sawmill Road Monday, June 18 to
Friday, August 24. Extended hours,
transportation available. Specialty
camps include horseback riding,
teen camp, and program for those
with mental/ physical disabilities.
YMCA Hightstown East Windsor, 230 Mercer Street, Hightstown
08520; 609-448-1357. dforte@ymcanj.org. www.ymcanj.org.
Kiddie Kamp for ages 6 to 10 has
field trips, instructional swim, music,
arts and crafts, and recreation, Monday to Friday, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., $170
per week. Extended care available.
YMCA Princeton, 59 Paul Robeson Place, Princeton 08540; 609497-9622. contactus@princetonymca.org. www.princetonymca.org.
Day camp for ages 4 to 16 at the
YMCA or Princeton Theological Seminary, 36 Hibben Road, Princeton.
Nine one-week sessions, 7:30 a.m. to
6 p.m.
YMCA Raritan Valley, 144 Tices
Lane, East Brunswick 08816; 732257-4114. ymcaadmin@raritanvalleyymca.org. www.raritanvalleyymca.org.
Traditional camp for ages 5 to 13.
Extended day included, 7 a.m. to 6:30
p.m. Multi-sports, art, fitness, tennis,
aquatic leadership, and computer.
YMCA South Brunswick, 329
Culver Road, Monmouth Junction
08852; 732-329-1150. tom@southbrunswickymca.org. www.southbrunswickymca.org.
Camps for ages five and up include sports, gymnastics, science,
and aquatics programs.
YWCA Princeton, 59 Paul Robeson Place, Princeton 08540; 609497-2100. ywca@ywcaprinceton.org. www.ywcaprinceton.org.
Summer fun for ages 3 to 4; ballet
for pre-K to age 8; adventure for ages
5 to 10; gymnastics for ages 5 to 12;
and adventure teen for ages 11 to 14.
Extended day available. Must be YWCA member.
Residential Camps
American Lung Association of
New Jersey, 1031 Route 22 East,
Bridgewater; 908-687-9340. mdalessio@lunginfo.org. www.lungusa.org.
Camp Superkids, a residential
camp for children with asthma, for
ages 8 to 12, in Pennsylvania.
Camp Chateaugay, 233 Gadway
Road, Merrill, NY 12955; 518-4256888. hallyons@chateaugay.com.
www.chateaugay.com.
Sports, trips, dance, animal care.
aquatics, theater, arts and crafts.
Four and eight week sessions.
Camp Dark Waters, 26 New
Freedom Road, Medford 08055; 800442-2267. info@campdarkwaters.net. www.campdarkwaters.org.
Residential camp for ages 7 to 14.
Camp Matollionequay, 1303
Stokes Road, Medford 08055; 800442-2267. gab@ycamp.org. www.ycamp.org.
For girls ages 7 to 16. One and
two week sessions.
Camp Ockanickon, 1303 Stokes
Road, Medford 08055; 800-4422267. brent@ycamp.org. www.ycamp.org.
For boys ages 7 to 16. One and
two week sessions.
Camp Regis-Applejack in the
Adirondacks, 60 Lafayette Road
West, Princeton 08540; 609-6880368. campregis@aol.com. www.campregis-applejack.com.
Sleepaway co-educational camp
in the Adirondacks. Camp Regis is for
ages 6 to 12. Applejack is for ages 13
to 16. Four and eight-week programs;
two weeks for younger, first-time
campers. Group transportation from
Hightstown. Cabins, watersports,
trips, arts and crafts, sports, performing arts. Camp director Michael E.
Humes is a Princeton resident.
Camp Silver Beach, Downing
Beach Drive, Box 69, Jamesville, VA
23398; 877-231-2012. info@campsilverbeach.org. www.campsilverbeach.org.
Residential camp for ages 8 to 16.
One week sessions. Sunday, June
17 to Saturday, August 18.
Camp Speers-Eljabar YMCA,
143 Nichecronk Road, Dingmans
Ferry, PA 18328; 570-828-2329.
speersy@campspeersymca.org.
www.campspeersymca.org.
Camp Eljabar for grades 3 to 7;
Camp Speers and Service Camp for
grades 8 to 11; and Access Camp for
campers with mild to moderate developmental disabilities.
Camp Watonka, 127, Hawley, PA
18428; 570-226-4779. mail@watonka.com. www.watonka.com.
Camp for boys ages 7 to 15 focuses on science, sports, and adventure.
Two to eight weeks.
Campus Kids Summer Camp,
Box 8, Madison 07940; 973-8459260. CkNewJersey@campuskids.com. www.campuskids.com.
Sleep-away camp from Monday to
Friday for ages 7 to 15, at Blair Academy in Blairstown. Transportation included. Two to eight-week sessions.
Chestnut Lake Camp, 369,
Beach Lake, PA 18405; 570-7291010. info@chestnutlakecamp.com.
www.chestnutlakecamp.com.
Residential camp for girls and
boys entering second through eighth
grades. Three and six week options.
Diamond Ridge Camps, 1965
Deer Run Drive, Jamison, PA 18929;
215-343-8840. info@diamondridgecamps.com. www.diamondridgecamps.com.
Overnight camp for ages 4 to 15.
Teen travel for grades 6 to 9.
Ebner Camps, 1 Torrington Office
Plaza, 308, Torrington, CT 06790;
800-662-2677. info@chinqueka.com.
www.mysummerfamily.com.
Camp Awosting for boys and
Chinqueka for girls. Sports, aquatics,
arts and sciences, horseback riding.
Girl Scouts of Central and
Southern NJ, 40 Brace Road, Cherry Hill 08034; 800-582-7692. mblake@gscsnj.org. www.gscsnj.org.
Camp Sacajawea in Newfield for
girls in grades 4 to 10.
Interlochen Center for the Arts,
4000 Highway M-137, Box 199, Interlochen, MI 49643; 231-276-7472. admissions@interlochen.org. www.interlochen.org.
Elite residential camps for creative
writing, dance, arts, motion picture
arts, music, theater.
Jewish Community Center
Princeton Mercer Bucks, 4 Princess Road, Suite 206, Lawrenceville
08648; 609-219-9550. sweiner@jcctoday.org. www.JCCtoday.org.
One and two week camps.
South Mountain YMCA’s Camp
Conrad Weiser, 201 Cushion Peak
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www.smymca.org.
Residential camp for ages 7 to 16.
YMCA Camp Ralph S. Mason,
23 Birch Ridge Road, Hardwick
07825; 908-362-8217. dave@campmason.org. www.campmason.org.
Two and four-week sessions for
ages 7 to 15. Outdoor activities,
Ranch Camp for western horsemanship, CIT program, and Adventures
Bound.
Sports Camps
Arena Gymnastics at Gymland,
6 Tennis Court, Hamilton 08619; 609584-7700. info@gym-land.com.
www.gym-land.com.
Weekly sessions with daily, extended and half days available for
ages 6 to 16, $72, day; $306, week.
Mini-camps for pre-schoolers.
BounceU, 410 Princeton-Hightstown Road, West Windsor 08550;
609-443-5867. westwindsor.nj@bounceu.com. www.bounceunj.com.
Rooms filled with giant inflatable
toys and activities. 9:30 a.m. to 2:30
p.m., Tuesday to Thursday, July 10 to
August 23. Lunch and snack included. Ages six and up. $120 per week.
Cando Fitness, 121 Main Street,
Princeton 08540; 609-514-0500.
s_koheler@cando-online.com.
www.candofitness.com.
Programs for ages 10 to 15.
Champion Football Camp, 601
Lawrence Road, Lawrenceville
08648; 609-882-7900. mckenna@ndnj.org.
Football camp for grades 3 to 9. At
Notre Dame High School. 9 a.m. to 3
p.m. Monday to Friday, July 16 to 20.
Cranbury Gymnastics Academy, 12 Stults Road, Dayton 08810;
609-395-1416. toptopfitness@msn.com. www.cranburygymnasticsacademy.com.
Gymnastics and kids’ fitness program, preschool through age 12.
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Ages: 4-6
Days: Monday to Friday
Hours: 10:00am-11:30am
Princess Theme Dance Camp & Crafts
Cost: $125 per week
Location: The Dance Corner
Session I: July 9 – July 13
Session II: July 16 – July 20
Junior Tap Intensive
Ages: 8 & Up
Days: Monday to Friday
Hours: 9:00am-11:45am
Half Day: $175 per week
Location: The Dance Corner
Session I: July 9 – July 13
Junior Hip Hop Intensive
Ages: 8 & Up
Days: Monday to Friday
Hours: 12:15pm-3:00pm
Half Day: $175 per week
Location: The Dance Corner
Session I: July 9 – July 13
Junior Jazz Intensive
Senior Ballet Intensive
Dynamic Dance Camp
Ages: 8 & Up
Days: Monday to Friday
Hours: 9:00am-11:45am
Half Day: $175 per week
Location: The Dance Corner
Session I: July 16 – July 20
Days: Monday to Friday
Hours: 9:15-3:00pm
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Full Day: 9:15-3:00pm
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Session II: July 23 – August 3
Junior Lyrical Intensive
Storytime Princess Camp
Ages: 8 & Up
Days: Monday to Friday
Hours: 12:15pm-3:00pm
Half Day: $175 per week
Location: The Dance Corner
Session I: July 16 – July 20
Junior Ballet Intensive
Ages: 7 & Up
Days: Monday to Friday
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Session I: July 23 – July 27
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the right to cancel/combine classes or camp
one week prior to the start of classes, due
to insufficient enrollment.
Half Day: $175 per week
$300 two weeks
Location: The Dance Corner
Session I: July 23 – July 27
Session II: July 30 – Aug. 3
Register With The West Windsor
Recreation Dept. (609)799-6141
Summer 2012 Dance Class Schedule:
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TUESDAY
WEDNESDAY THURSDAY
VIDEO
CHOREOGRAPHY
(9 & UP)
5:15-6:15PM
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5:30-6:30PM
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6:15-7:15PM
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6:30-7:30PM
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7:15-8:15PM
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7:00-8:00PM
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7:30-8:30PM
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8:15-9:15PM
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DiJulia School of Golf, 250
Brownsburg Road, New Hope, PA
18938; 215-862-9045. admin@dijuliagolf.com. www.dijuliagolf.com.
Golf for ages 6 to 13.
ESF Summer Camps at Lawrenceville School, 750 East Haverford Road, Bryn Mawr, PA 19010;
610-581-7100. srourke@esfcamps.com. www.esfcamps.com.
Phillies baseball camp for ages 6
to 14. At Lawrenceville School, Monday to Friday, August 6 to 10. Baseball, basketball, handball, football,
golf, lacrosse, and more.
Ed Tseng Tennis Solutions;
609-558-1077. ed10s26@yahoo.com. www.edtseng.com.
Group and private tennis programs. Ed Tseng, former pro of the
year and a graduate of WW-P High
School, Class of 1991, teaches with
his trained staff. He is head coach of
the girls’ tennis team at Princeton
Day School. Tseng also offers mental
conditioning and sports performance
consulting for all sports, all levels.
Good Nick Squash, 2500 Main
Street, Lawrenceville 08648; 609620-7609. Narelle@goodnicksquash.com. www.goodnicksquash.com.
Squash camp for ages 10 to 17,
Sunday to Fridays, beginning June
10, 17, and 24. Mini camp for ages 6
to 9 on fundamentals of squash, 9
a.m. to noon, Monday to Friday. At
Lawrenceville School.
Riding High Ranch, 145 Route
526, Allentown 08501; 609-2593884. Robyn@ridinghighfarm.org.
www.ridinghighfarm.org.
Summer camp program offers
adaptive recreational horseback riding and therapeutic intervention.
Hasty Acres, 121 Laurel Avenue,
Box 123, Kingston 08528; 609-9218389. hastyacres@hastyacres.com.
www.hastyacres.com.
Horseback riding camp with one
week sessions. For ages 8 and up.
$450 per week. Monday to Friday,
June 25 to August 17, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Hillsborough Racquet & Fitness
Club, 345 Amwell Road, Belle Mead
08844; 908-359-3600. camp@hrcfitness.com. www.hrcfitness.com.
Swimming, sports, and trips for
ages 4 to 15, full and extended day.
Swim lessons available. Monday,
June 25 to Friday, August 24.
The Hun School of Princeton,
176 Edgerstoune Road, Princeton
08540; 609-921-7600. donnao’sullivan@hunschool.org. www.hunschool.org.
Baseball and basketball camps.
Hunter Farms Riding Club, 1315
Great Road, Princeton 08540; 609924-2932. ahphilbrick@yahoo.com.
www.hunterfarms.us.
Summer riding program, lessons.
Ice Land, 6 Tennis Court, Mercerville 08619; 609-588-6672. slombardi@ice-land.com. www.ice-land.com.
Hockey and figure skating school
for players ages 6 to 14 at all levels.
Irish Strength Club, 601 Lawrence Road, Lawrenceville 08648;
609-882-7900. mckenna@ndnj.org.
Strength training for grades 5 to 8
in seven week program.
Johnny Rooney’s Sports Camp
Academy, 108, Rocky Hill 08553;
908-672-9398. jrhitnrun@msn.com.
www.hitnrunacademy.com.
Fal-Rooney Olympic Camp, JR’s
Hit n’ Run Academy, and Rising Stars
Softball Academy. Grades 1 to 9.
Mercer County Community College, 1200 Old Trenton Road, Box B,
Trenton 08690; 609-570-3311. zegarskr@mccc.edu. www.mccc.edu.
Sports camps for ages 7 to 17.
One-week sessions.
Mercer County Park Commission, 334 North Post Road, Box
8068, West Windsor 08550; 609883-6606. jrogers@mercercounty.org. http://nj.gov/counties/mercer/commissions/p ark/natureprog.html.
Tennis Center camps for ages 7 to
15, Monday to Thursday. Junior Explosion, 10:30 a.m. to noon, begins
on Mondays, June 25 to August 13.
Junior Stay and Play, noon to 1 p.m.,
$40 additional. Registration begins
Saturday, February 18, at 9 a.m.,
609-448-8007 or E-mail mvecchiolla@mercercounty.org.
Equestrian Center summer camp
offers seven weeks of camps for beginner, advanced beginner, and intermediate riders, ages 6 to 17. Week-
days, 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Beginners only on weeks starting on June
25, July 9, August 6 and 20. $375 to
$425 per week. Call 609-730-9059.
Golf camps are held year-round.
Ages 6 to 12, Sundays, 10 to 11:30
a.m. and Tuesdays, 4:30 to 6 p.m.
Ages 13 plus, Sundays, noon to 2
p.m. Junior golf tournaments for ages
9 to 18, July 12 at Mountain View Golf
Course, July 19 at Princeton Country
Club, and July 26 at Mercer Oaks.
Call John Kostin at 609-882-4986 or
E-mail jkostin@mercercounty.org.
Mercer Junior Rowing Club, 1
South Post Road, Suite I, Princeton
Junction 08550; 609-799-7100.
seanmccourt@rowpnra.org. www.rowpnra.org.
Novice rowing camp for grades 6 to
12. On Mercer Lake in West Windsor.
Nassau Racquet & Tennis Club,
1800 Route 206, Skillman 08558;
908-359-8730. info@nassautennis.net. www.NassauTennis.net.
Camp with focus on tennis for
ages four and up. Half and full-days.
Nassau Tennis, 1800 Route 206,
Skillman 08558; 908-359-8730. nassautennis.net.
Junior tennis and sports program,
9 a.m. to 4 p.m., $360; 9 a.m. to
12:30 p.m., $195. Tournament Tough
program, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., $425; 9
a.m. to 1 p.m., $225. Combo Tournament Tough and Junior Sports camp,
9 a.m. to 4 p.m., $400. Week-long
camps from Monday, June 18, to Friday, August 31. Extended hours from
7:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. available.
Peddie School, South Main
Street, Box A, Hightstown 085201010; 609-490-7532. jgreen@peddie.org. www.peddie.org.
Sports camps for golf, soccer,
basketball, swimming, field hockey,
lacrosse, rowing, and more. Some
overnight and extended day options.
Phillies Baseball Academy
Summer Camps, Box 505, Haverford, PA 19041; 610-520-3400.
www.philliescamps.com.
Baseball camp for boys and girls,
ages 6 to 14, at Lawrenceville School.
Power Pitching & Hitting Professional Baseball Instruction,
241, Plainsboro 08536; 732-5861309. info@powerpitchingandhitting.com. www.powerpitchingandhitting.com.
Baseball camps for ages 6 to 12.
Indoor facility at West Windsor Community Park. Monday to Friday, June
18 to July 13, $200 a week. Back to
School Camp for ages 6 to 16, Monday to Friday, August 27 to 30. Spring
break camp for ages 6 to 12, Monday
to Thursday, April 9 to 12, $175.
Princeton Day School, The
Great Road, Box 75, Princeton
08542; 609-924-6700. summerprograms@pds.org. www.pds.org.
Bbasketball, football, ice hockey,
tennis, rugby, and field hockey, more.
Princeton Fitness & Wellness
Center, 1225 State Road, Princeton
North Shopping Center, Princeton
08540; 609-683-7888. craigg@fitnessandwellness.org. www.princetonhcs.org.
Age-appropriate fitness classes
are offered year-round.
Princeton Racquet Club, 150
Raymond Road, Princeton 08540;
732-329-6200. princetonracquetclub@earthlink.net. www.princetonracquetclub.com.
Tennis day camp for ages 7 to 18.
Princeton Tennis Program, 92
Washington Road, Princeton 08540;
609-520-0015. info@ptp.org. www.ptp.org.
Tennis camps for ages 8 to 15 include Rookie Camp, Pagoda Training
Camp, Girls’ High School Prep Camp,
and Adult Mini-Camp. At Princeton
University and Community Park.
Princeton University Sports
Camps, 71 University Place, Princeton 08544; 609-258-3369.
camps@princeton.edu. www.princetonsportscamps.com.
Camps for ages 7 to 18 in 22
sports on the university campus.
Close to 60 day and overnight camps.
Pro Skate (Princeton Ice
Sports), 1000 Cornwall Road, Monmouth Junction; 732-940-6400.
www.proskatenj.com.
Ice skating for ages 5 to 12. 8:30
a.m. to 4:30 p.m. $395 for a full day;
$225 for half day.
Rockville Climbing Center, 200
Whitehead Road, Hamilton 08619;
609-631-7625. info@rockvilleclimbing.com. www.rockvilleclimbing.com.
One-week summer climbing camps
in August for ages 8 to 15. 9 a.m to 3
p.m. Extended days available.
Schafer School of Gymnastics,
1800 Princeton Avenue, Lawrenceville 08648; 609-393-5855. info@schafergymnastics.com. www.schafergymnastics.com.
Ages 3 to 14. 12 weeks of programs. Half, full, and extended days.
Sebastiani Fencing Academy,
7314, Princeton 08543; 609-5780765. sebastianifencing@comcast.net. www.sebastianifencing.com.
Camps in one-week sessions.
Silver Dollar Stables, 80 Petty
Road, Cranbury 08512; 609-3951790. silverdollarride@aol.com.
www.silverdollarstablesnj.com.
Summer program for ages five
and up, beginners to intermediate
level. E-mail for dates.
Steve Braun Baseball Camp,
Box 5173, Lawrenceville 08638; 609882-4873. braun@stevebraunbaseball.com. stevebraunbaseball.com.
Half-day camps in July and August for ages 6 to 13. Locations vary.
Trenton Thunder Baseball
Camp, 1 Thunder Road, Waterfront
Park, Trenton 08690; 609-394-3300.
bobby@trentonthunder.com. www.trentonthunder.com.
Ages 7 to 12 train with Thunder
players and coaches. Thursday and
Friday, June 21 and 22; Tuesday and
Wednesday, July 31 and August 1; or
Monday and Tuesday, August 20 and
21. 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. $100.
World KM Taekwondo, 2495
Brunswick Pike, Lawrenceville 08648;
609-882-9007. www.worldkm.com.
Camp for ages 4 to 12. Martial
arts, field trips, basic Korean, gymnastics, arts and crafts, and more. 9
a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Extended days
available. Ten one-week sessions.
YMCA Trenton, 431 Pennington
Avenue, Trenton 08618; 609-5999622. www.trentonymca.org.
Day camp for ages 6 to 13, June
through August, Monday to Friday, 8
a.m. to 5 p.m. in Crosswicks.
Zizo Soccer Camp, East Windsor; 609-558-2745. info@zizosoccer.com. www.zizosoccer.com.
For ages 4 plus at West Windsor
Community Park. Call for information.
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SPORTS SCORES
Boys’ Basketball
North (1-20). A 75-44 loss to Ewing on February 3. Scoring: Darrien
Banks, 6; Juwan Harrison, 9; Kevin
Murphy, 1; Kyle Newman, 8; Chris
Okorodudu 8; Paul Silva Jr., 12.
A 97-38 loss to Trenton on February 6. Banks, 9; David Burke, 3; Harrison, 5; Nigel Jordan, 1; Ilijah McManus, 2; Murphy, 2; Okorodudu, 7;
George Senter, 3; Silva, 4; Brian
Wang, 2.
A 52-44 loss to Steinert on February 9. Banks, 22; Harrison, 5; Newman, 5; Okorodudu, 9; Silva, 3.
A 59-45 win against Robbinsville
in the Mercer County Tournament
play-in round on February 11. Banks,
5; Harrison, 14; Newman, 10; Okorodudu, 8; Silva, 22.
A 54-52 loss to Notre Dame on
February 13. Banks, 13; Harrison, 7;
Newman, 6; Okorodudu, 17; Silva, 9.
South (17-2). A 61-53 win against
Trenton on February 3. Ryan Dontas, 3; Isaiah Edmonds, 11; Chris
Evans, 10; Zavon Johnson, 6; Bryan
Rivers, 16; Ryan Witter, 15.
A 58-39 win against Steinert on
February 7. Dontas, 18; Edmonds,
10; Evans, 2; Will Gilbertson, 2;
Johnson, 9; Brian Matthews, 2;
Rivers, 13; Witter, 2.
A 68-58 win against Notre Dame
on February 11. Edmonds, 12;
Evans, 15; Gilbertson, 2; Johnson, 7;
Rivers, 15; Witter, 17.
A 64-55 win vs. Hopewell Valley
on February 13. Dontas, 3; Evans,
16; Johnson, 6; Rivers, 21; Witter 14.
Girls’ Basketball
North (9-9). A 40-36 win against
Ewing on February 3. Scorers: Marilyn Allen, 13; Gina Chiarolanzio, 4;
Kayla Foster, 14; Sarah McNeilly, 3;
Kerry McNeilly, 3; Lauren Schwartzman, 3.
A 46-33 loss to Trenton on February 7. Allen, 7; MaryBeth Carson, 8;
Foster, 7; S. McNeilly, 2; K. McNeilly,
3; Schwartzman, 6.
A 34-19 loss to Steinert on February 9. Allen, 2; Foster, 2; Morgan
Magid, 1; K. McNeilly, 8; S. McNeilly,
2; Schwartzman, 3; Maggie Tang, 1.
A 44-31 win against Notre Dame
on February 13. Allen, 4; Carson, 2;
Foster, 14; K. McNeilly, 4; S. McNeilly, 9; Julia Tampellini, 3; Vanessa
Tatulli, 8.
South (9-9). A 60-44 loss to Trenton on February 3. Erica Aduya, 6;
Melinda Altamore, 3; Megan Fitzpatrick, 3; Alyssa Gilman, 6; Gabi
Hahn, 21; Sammie McCormick, 5.
A 56-38 loss to Steinert on February 7. Aduya, 9; Altamore, 3; Fitzpatrick, 8; Gilman, 4; Hahn, 10; McCormick, 4.
A 55-35 loss to Notre Dame on
February 11. Aduya, 8; Altamore, 3;
Gilman, 8; G. Hahn, 5; Cai-Cai Hahn,
5; Andrea Ndubizu, 2; Karoline
Sandvig, 4.
A 47-45 loss to Princeton Day
School on February 13. Aduya, 7; Altamore, 6; Gilman, 2; C. Hahn, 2; G.
Hahn, 14; Katie McCormick, 4; S.
McCormick, 6; Karoline Sandvig, 4.
Ice Hockey
North (9-8-1). A 7-4 loss to
Hopewell Valley on February 7.
Goals: Scott Abrams, Joe Bensky,
Marc Kolber, Matt Strober. Saves:
Kyle Adair, 30.
South (7-9-2). A 4-4 tie with
Hamilton West on February 7. Goals:
Chris Clancey, Jonathan Matthews,
Mike Morabito, Brian Tso. Saves:
Andrew Holubec, 29.
A 5-2 win against Hightstown on
February 10. Goals: Matthews (4),
Morabito. Saves: Tso, 34.
A 7-1 win against Lawrence on
February 13. Goals: Carlos Alvarez,
Steven Cangelosi, Adam Deslatte
(2), Matthews (2), Tso. Saves: Jon
Plester, 31.
Boys’ Swimming
North (13-3). A 101-69 win
against Lenape on February 9.
A 102-68 win against Toms River
North on February 13. First-place finishes: 200 free: Greg Cino (2:00.59);
50 free: Wilson Chan (26.61); 500
free: Cino (4:22.17); 200 free relay:
Earnest Chiu, Brian Chan, Alex
Afursin, Cino (1:50.54); 100 breast:
B. Chan (1:15.09); 400 free relay:
Stan Zhou, Ethan Vacca, W. Chan,
Cino (4:00.12).
A 109-61loss against Hunterdon
Central on February 15.First-place
finishes: 500 free: Cino (4:59.23).
100 breast: Brian Chan (1:05.97).
South (8-7). A 92-78 win against
Steinert on February 9. First-place
finishes: 100 butterfly: Sylvan Zheng
(57.24); 500 free: Ian Dixon-Anderson (5:10.79); 200 free relay: Josh
Cohen, Zheng, Tyler Jaffe, David Yin
(1:38.72); 400 free relay: Dixon-Anderson, Zheng, Grant Lee, Jaffe
(3:32.92).
A 116-54 loss to Hunterdon Central on February 13. 500 free: DixonAnderson (5:02.27).
Girls’ Swimming
North (9-3). A 97-73 loss to High
School South on February 10. Firstplace finishes: 100 back: Melissa
Loo (1:07.13).
South (12-2). A 97-73 win against
High School North on February 10.
200 free: Jocelyn Yuen (2:03.36);
200 IM: Cori Michibata (2:22.46); 50
free: Kathryn Wembacher (25.5);
100 butterfly: Rabia Syed (1:03.54);
100 free: Michibata (58.0); 500 free:
Syed (5:38.73); 200 free relay: Wembacher, Mariana Wilson, Syed,
Michibata (1:46.41); 100 breast:
Yuen (1:12.18); 400 free relay: Michibata, Syed, Wembacher, Yuen
(3:55.70); 200 medley relay: Gabby
Oliveira, Elise Qian, Wembacher,
Yuen (1:58.75).
A 97-73 loss to Cherokee on February 14. 200 medley relay: Michibata, Qian, Yuen, Wilson (1:57.76); 200
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PJ Silva, left, and Kyle Newman, were two of
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season against Robbinsville in the Mercer
County Tournament on February 11.
Photo by Mark Czajkowski
IM: Yuen (2:13.65); 50 free: Wembacher (25.83); 100 fly: Yuen
(59.45); 100 free: Michibata (54.06);
500 free: Syed (5:18.79).
Wrestling
North (1-18). A 47-21 win against
Ewing on February 4. Winning
matches: 106 pounds, Joe Bryde;
113 pounds, Romell Khan; 120
pounds, Chris Bryde; 145 pounds,
Elija Anseaume; 152 pounds, Louis
Garcia; 160 pounds, Jack Schilder;
170 pounds, Vinny Porreca; 182
pounds, Logan Brodsky; 220
pounds, Steve Pemberton.
A 60-21 loss to Robbinsville on
February 6. 126 ponds, Nicholas
Bossie; 132 pounds, Sean Tsaur;
152 pounds, Garcia; 170 pounds,
Porreca.
South (3-9). A 42-17 loss to
Cedar Grove on February 4. 106
pounds, Etal Yonah; 145 pounds,
Tom Loury; 152 pounds, Noah Kreutter; 160 pounds, Ben Schulman.
A 50-19 loss to Princeton on February 4. 106 pounds, Yonah; 138
pounds, Loury; 160 pounds, Schulman; 195 pounds, Alexxis Vera.
Boys’ Fencing
North (5-10). A 16-11 win against
Moorestown Friends on February 2.
Epee wines: Jeremy Kaish, 1;
Christopher Orita, 2; Pratyush Trivedi, 1; Eric Yu, 1. Foil wins: Michael
Miller, 1; David Torres, 1; Trivedi, 1;
Jeremy Wai, 1. Saber wins: Kyle Jacobson, 1; Michael Leung, 2; Marco
Palombit, 1; Victor Wu, 2; Bolong Xu,
1.
A 16-11 loss to Montgomery on
February 9. Epee wins: Torres, 1;
Trivedi, 1; Wai, 1. Foil wins: Miller, 1;
Dylan Pyne, 1. Saber wins: Leung, 2;
Palombit, 2; Wu, 2.
South (8-5). A 15-12 loss to Montgomery on February 3. Epee wins:
Evan Hughes, 1; Mark Khusidman,
2; Harrington Lee, 2; Daniel Mixson,
1; Charles Zhou, 1. Foil wins:
Jonathan Snyder, 1; Jason Xie, 1.
Saber wins, Sam Lorenz, 1; Jerry Xu,
2.
A 19-8 win against Moorestown
Friends on February 7. Epee wins:
AJ D’Antuono, 1; Evan Hughes, 1;
Khudisman, 2; Lee, 1. Foil wins: Winston Leung, 1; Bryce Mayor, 2; Keve
Sandor, 1; Jason Xie, 2. Saber wins:
Lorenz, 2; Chris Ng, 3; Jerry Xu, 3.
A 15-12 win against St. Benedict’s
on February 10. Epee wins: D’Antuono, 2; Khusidman, 1; Zhou, 2. Foil
wins: Leung, 3; Sandor, 1; Xie, 2.
Saber wins: Lorenz, 2; Xu, 2.
An 18-9 win against Hun on February 14. Epee wins: D’Antuono, 1;
Abhinav Girish, 1; Khusidman, 1; Zhou, 1. Foil wins:
Leung, 1; Mayor, 2; Sandor, 2. Saber wins: Lorenz,
3; Stefano Lucchetti, 3; Xu,
3.
Girls’ Fencing
North (9-4). An 18-9
win against Moorestown
Friends on February 2.
Epee wins: Kajol Gandhi,
1; Tejasvi Gowda, 2;
Mounica Paturu, 1; Claudia Wai, 2. Foil wins: Janet
Fan, 2; Tanvee Varma, 2.
Saber wins: Constance
Huang, 1; Katie Khaw, 2;
Kristina Leung, 1; Elysia
Wang, 2; Emily Wu, 2.
A 17-10 loss to Northern Highlands on February
8. Epee wins: Gowda, 1;
Paturu, 3; Wai, 3. Foil
wins: Angel Sun, 1; Arthi
Sundararajan, 3; Varma,
2. Saber wins: Khaw, 1; Wang, 1;
Wu, 1.
A 17-10 loss to Montgomery on
February 9. Epee wins: Paturu, 2;
Wai, 1. Foil wins: Fan, 3; Varma, 1.
Saber wins: Khaw, 1; Wu, 2.
South (6-7). An 18-9 loss to Montgomery on February 3. Foil win:
Cathy Chi, 3. Saber wins: Dana
Kong, 3; Jen Ling, 3.
A 17-10 win against Moorestown
Friends on February 7. Epee wins:
Adrienne Cardulla, 1; Rachel Landingin, 3. Foil wins: Chi, 2; Melissa Mischell, 2. Saber wins: Kong, 3; Roxi
Mitrut, 3; Mahima Sukumar, 3.
A 20-7 loss to Bernards on February 8.
A 17-10 win against Hun on February 14. Epee wins: Cardulla, 1;
Landingin, 1. Foil wins: Chi, 3; Mischell, 2; Mallika Ramachandran, 2.
Saber wins: Kong, 3; Ling, 2; Mitrut,
2; Sukumar, 1.
Boys’ Track
North. A first-place finish with 88
points at the Mercer County Championships on February 5. Top six finishes: 55m dash: 1. Tyrone Parker
(6.54); 2. Greg Caldwell (6.63); 4.
Mike Lewis (6.71). 200m: 3. Chris
Banks (23.0); 5. Caldwell (23.15); 6.
Parker (23.43). 800m: 2. Veer Bhalla
(1:59.65); 4. Sachin Natarajan
(2:01.8). 1600m: 3. Danny Lee
(4:31.27); 5. Bhalla (4:33.9). 3200m:
3. Eddie Cunningham (9:46.81); 4.
Lee (9:58.4). 55m hurdles: 2. Caldwell (7.49); 6. Stanford Knox (8.13).
4x400m relay: 2. Caldwell, Bhalla,
Natarajan, Banks (3:25.73). Shot
put: 3. Jerrick Zhang (48-01); 4.
Antony Zeng (47-01.5).
South. A third-place finish with 48
points at the Mercer County Championships. 55m dash: 6. Mike Washington (6.71). 800m: 1. AJ Chavez
(1:59.13); 5. Eddison Guluma
(2:02.6); 6. Prathik Chandrasekan
(2:03.45). 1600m: 1. Jacob Riff
(4:25.49). 3200m: 1. Dan Sheldon
(9:39.04); 2. Dan Riff (9:40.55).
4x400m relay: 3. Donyell Reid, Guluma, Chavez, Tunde Pade
(3:28.89).
Girls’ Track
North. A second-place finish at
the Mercer County Championships
on February 5 with 66 points. Top six
finishes: 55m dash: 4. Patrycja
Dziekonska (7.5). 400m: 3. Christina
LiPuma (1:01.35). 800m: 1. Manolya
Altan (2:25.17); 2. Simone Counts
(2:25.19); 6. Wendy He (2:31.28).
1600m: 4. Altan (5:18.39). 55m hurdles: 1. Dziekonska (8.2); 3. LiPuma
(8.7). 4x400m relay: 1. Counts,
Manolya, Christina Nicoforo, LiPuma
(4:12.33). Pole vault: 3. Rebecca Jin
(8-06). Shot put: 6. Ana Covic (3102).
South. A first-place finish at the
Mercer County Championships with
69 points. 400m: 5. Brittany Washington (1:03.06). 800m: 3. Heather
Diamond (2:28.55). 1600m: 1. Caroline Kellner (5:11.85); 6. Dierdre
Casey (5:25.27). 3200m: 1. Kellner
(11:18.99); 5. Casey (12:19.36). 55m
hurdles: 4. Paige Brown (8.71).
4x400m relay: 3. Diamond, Brown,
Edlyn Gulama, Washington
(4:15.03). High jump: 1. Brown (504). Pole vault: 1. Michelle Gao (900). Shot put: 2. Mariame Fadiga
(37-06.5).
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Bridge Academy, 1958 B Lawrenceville Road, Lawrenceville
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Remedial reading and writing program, ages 7 to 14, $2,350. Social
skills groups, ages 9 to 14, $995. Individual tutoring, $1,140. Monday to
Thursday.
Cambridge School, 100 Straube
Center Boulevard, Pennington
08534; 609-730-9553. www.thecambridgeschool.org.
Co-ed day school for children in
grades K to 8 who learn differently.
Computer Explorers; 800-7712823. computerexplorers.com.
After school and summer camp
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Computers+Kids, 23 Railroad
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Campers ages 7 to 15 use ageappropriate computer activities, robotics, engineering, and technology.
Fitness sessions. Location is Can Do
Fitness Center, Plainsboro. $400.
French American School of
Princeton, 75 Mapleton Road,
Princeton 08540; 609-430-3001. admissions@ecoleprinceton.org.
www.ecoleprinceton.org.
French immersion summer programs for ages 4 to 12. Monday to
Friday, June 25 to July 20, 9 a.m. to 3
p.m. $415 each session.
The Hun School of Princeton,
176 Edgerstoune Road, Princeton
08540; 609-921-7600. jsone@hunschool.org. www.hunschool.org.
American Culture and Language
Institute for international students to
improve their English, ages 11 to 18.
Classes in English, math, writing,
and science. Day or residential.
ID Tech Camps, Internal Drive,
1885 Winchester Boulevard, 201,
Campbell, CA 95008; 888-709-8324.
info@internaldrive.com. www.internaldrive.com.
Technology camps for ages 7 to
17. At Princeton University. Day or
overnight. Monday, June 18, to Friday, July 17. $849 and up per week.
Junior Statesman Of America,
1600 K Street NW, Suite 803, Washington, DC 20006; 800-317-9338.
jsa@jsa.org. www.jsa.org.
Develop knowledge of political
systems, speak and write persuasively, and appreciate intellectual
and ethical principles. At Princeton
University. Sundays, July 8 to 29.
Keyboard Kids International
Inc., 6-10 Towne Center Drive, North
Brunswick 08902; 732-821-1400. tomulda@yahoo.com. www.keyboardkids.org.
Computer and outdoor activities
for ages 2 1/2 to 6; one-week sessions. Half days available.
The Lewis School of Princeton,
53 Bayard Lane, Princeton 08540;
609-924-8120. lewis.communications@verizon.net. www.lewisschool.org.
Multisensory summer program for
pre-K to college preparatory levels.
Full-day program for students with
learning issues. Enrichment in the afternoon. Mornings for pre-school to
college preparatory.Monday to Friday, June 25 to July 20.
Mercer County Community College, 1200 Old Trenton Road, Box B,
Trenton 08690; 609-570-3311. zegarskr@mccc.edu. www.mccc.edu.
Camp College for grades 7 to 10
includes accelerated algebra, civil
engineering, creative writing, crash
test dummies, and transportation.
Mercer and Fonthill Museums,
84 South Pine Street, Doylestown,
PA 18901; 215-345-0210. info@mercermuseum.org. www.mercermuseum.org.
Summer programs for ages 4 to
12 include robotics, archaeology,
wizarding, and medieval camps. See
website. $160 and up per week.
Newgrange School, 526 South
Olden Avenue, Hamilton 08629; 609584-1800. info@thenewgrange.org.
www.thenewgrange.org.
Academic program for ages 7 to 18.
Peddie Summer Science Institute, South Main Street, Box A, Hightstown 08520; 609-490-7532. jgreen@peddie.org. www.peddie.org.
Six-week program for grades five
and up in middle and high school
subjects, robotics, essay writing.
Princeton Day School, The
Great Road, Box 75, Princeton
08542; 609-924-6700. summerprograms@pds.org. www.pds.org.
One to four-week camps with half,
full, and extended-days in academics,
SAT prep, robotics, writing, computers, math, chess, and science.
Rutgers Preparatory School,
1345 Easton Avenue, Somerset
08873; 732-545-5600. dquenault@rutgersprep.org. www.rutgersprep.org.
K-8 courses in math, writing, English, reading, robotics, programming,
and digital film. Upper school courses in math, biology, chemistry,
physics, SAT, history, Chinese.
SciCore Academy for Science
and the Humanities, 125 South
Main Street, Hightstown 08520; 609448-8950. atpoulos@scicore.org.
www.scicore.org.
Summer academic camps in
chemistry, video game creation, robotics, biology, biotech, electronics,
math, and writing for middle and high
school. 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Summer Institute for the Gifted,
9 West Broad Street, River Plaza,
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www.giftedstudy.com.
Residential program for gifted students ages 13 to 17 at Princeton University, Sunday, July 22, to Saturday,
August 11.
Villa Victoria Academy, 376 West
Upper Ferry Road, Ewing 08628; 609882-1700. www.villavictoria.org.
Reading and math courses.
YingHua International School,
510 Lawrence Square Boulevard,
Lawrenceville 08648; 732-513-3034.
director@yhis.org. www.yhis.org.
Chinese program for ages 5 to 12.
Young Artist: Kate Salerno of West
Windsor has spent seven summers at
the Firehouse Gallery art program.
Happy Campers
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of Mercer Lake,” says Kerry Yeh.
“They took water samples, learned
about plants, and observed the
birds and wildlife in the park.”
The water program is designed
to balance the fun of summer with
science. A pontoon boat serves as a
floating classroom and the kayaks
become vessels for explorations.
Each camper is supplied with a
kayak, personal flotation device,
and a paddle to study freshwater
ecology through birding, water
sampling, fishing, and daily experiments. The program on July 30 to
August 3 is for children in grades
six to eight.
Erin’s younger sister, Emily, a
first grade student at Maurice
Hawk School, attended the countysponsored Baldpate Nature Camp.
“She really enjoyed just being outside all day long,” says Yeh. “She
especially loved hiking along the
trails and learning about the native
plants, animals, and insects along
the way.”
The foundation for each camp
week focuses on hands-on nature
explorations, science experiments,
and unstructured nature play.
Campers keep a nature journal to
record their thoughts, explorations,
and discoveries. Sessions begin July 9 for grades one to three; and July 13, for grades four to six.
Says Yeh: “Jenn Rogers really
put together a wonderful program
that kept the children engaged and
left them with a better appreciation
for the many treasures in their own
backyard. The girls can’t wait to go
back!”
Firehouse Gallery
T
he Firehouse Gallery’s art program was founded by Eric Gibbons in a decommissioned firehouse in Bordentown. An art
teacher for more than 20 years,
Gibbons learned that a school art
program can be much more than
crafty busy work. “I focus on problem solving through art,” says Gibbons. “I combine art with other
subjects like history, geometry,
science, literature, and more.”
“Creative problem solving or
divergent thinking does not just
make good artists, but great doctors, lawyers, managers, and
CEOs,” he says. “Finding the cure
for cancer or getting a man to Mars
takes creative problem solving,
and we do that daily here.”
Kate Salerno of West Windsor
has been attending the Firehouse
Gallery summer art classes for
more than six
years.
She
started in middle school and
is now a senior
at
High
School South.
Salerno, who
has not taken
other art classes says, “it’s
helped
me
grow as an
artist
and
helped me develop unique
art.”
Gibbons explains his approach:
“I set up a problem, and the students solve it with the materials we
provide. Sometimes the ideas are
traditional and sometimes a bit
wild.” He asked the students to create a helmet out of foil to protect
their brains from alien invaders.
They had to figure out what it
would look like and what could be
added to defend themselves.
The classes are morning, afternoon, or all day. “Families can
choose what fits best into their
schedule,” says Gibbons. Each
week is a different theme, and there
is Art Buffet, where every day is
different.
A cello player since seventh
grade, Salerno has been in South’s
orchestra program for four years.
“It was really great to play at Pearl
Harbor with the orchestra,” she
says. “My grandfather served in
the Army during World War II.”
Salerno also is a goalie with
Lightning Lacrosse, and she was
recruited by Amherst College and
will begin her freshman year there
in the fall. Although her summer
camps in Bordentown have ended,
and even though her career plans
now center on law, she plans to
continue with art through private
lessons. “Art is such a big part of
my life and I will carry the experience with me my entire life.”
Create Your Own
S
ophia Azzara, 7, of West Windsor was very busy last summer.
She was on the West Windsor
Whalers swim team, took several
of WW-P Community Education’s
half-day programs (Cooking, Mad
Science, Math as Art), Broadway
Stars camp through Plainsboro
Recreation, a multi-activity camp
at the West Windsor Arts Council,
and the county-sponsored Baldpate Nature Camp.
When the camp began two years
ago Sophia was registered. “She
loved it and we now schedule summer activities around those camp
dates,” says her mother, Eileen.
“What my husband and I love is
that the camp is a good, old-fashioned,
get-outside-and-explore
camp. Sophia comes home dirty,
tired, and happy. She’s caught her
first fish there, dissected owl pellets, caught insects to feed a praying mantis, and created a recycledmaterials nature journal.”
A former travel writer and publishing project manager, Eileen is
currently a stay-at-home mom. Her
husband, Anthony, is a principal
scientist at Bristol-Myers Squibb.
The family moved to West Windsor in 2006.
Sophia also attended Baldpate
Nature Camp’s “Natural Summer
Adventure” through Mercer County Park Commission. “Our entire
family has taken some of Mercer
County family hikes with Jenn
Rogers, the county naturalist, and
we were so impressed with her
knowledge and how she related to
the kids,” says Eileen. “She keeps
everyone engaged and having fun
while also ensuring we understand
how important it is to be respectful
of our environment.”
Sophia is in second grade at
Maurice Hawk School. During the
year she is in Girl Scouts, gymnastics, piano, and an acting class at
the West Windsor Arts Council.
Her two younger brothers are Pip
(Anthony), 4, and Ben, 2.
Sophia also likes that the activities are not typical, and they are
very hands-on. She’s learned that
in some situations she might be
braver, less-grossed out, or even
messier than the boys.
“The commute to Baldpate isn’t
bad — about 20 to 25 minutes from
West Windsor,” says Anthony.
“The drop-off can be a little long
(you have to walk up that hill), but
the exercise is appreciated.”
“If you have a kid who enjoys
being outdoors and loves interacting with the environment — and as
long as you don’t mind doing a tickcheck each night or listening to
them practice their newly learned
birdcalls, this is an excellent experience,” says Eileen. “My husband
keeps requesting that they run a
parents-only version of the camp.”
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FEBRUARY 17, 2012
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Plainsboro: Fire Commissioners
& Fire District Budget on Ballot
I
by Rikki N. Massand
n Plainsboro the fire district
will hold its annual election on
Saturday, February 18, at the
firehouse at 407 Plainsboro Road,
from 2 to 9 p.m. Two terms for
commissioners are on the ballot;
one three-year term, sought by
Scott Kivet, and one two-year
term, sought by Krishna Jagannathan. The fire district’s budget is
also on the ballot. According to
Rob Brown of the fire district, once
again tax rates will not be going up
as the budget will be just over
$1,848,000.
Jagannathan made headlines
last fall when he challenged Plainsboro Mayor Peter Cantu for his
seat on the township committee.
Cantu won in convincing fashion
but Jagannathan, a 27-year-old environmental engineer and emergency medical services educator,
followed up the election with a
message for Cantu (WWP News,
December 2, 2011) outlining his
view of the mayor’s priorities. He
had hoped to continue serving the
community as a member of Plainsboro’s Environmental Advisory
Committee as well, but that outlook changed at the beginning of
the year.
“I was dismayed to receive a letter from Deputy Mayor Neil Lewis
thanking me for my service on the
Environmental Advisory Committee and informing me that replacement committee members had
been identified. I hope this had
nothing to do with my campaign
against the current mayor, but I’m
certain it didn’t help my case.
However, I always enjoy opportunities to contribute to my local
community, so I began my search,”
Jagannathan wrote in an E-mail.
Jagannathan was approached in
mid-January to run for a two-year
term on the Board of Fire Commissioners, a seat vacated by Philip
Giusto, who recently moved to Harrisburg, PA, to pursue a job. While
Jagannathan has no experience with
firefighting, he says it may be a
strength to bring a fresh, new perspective to the fire company.
“As an ‘outsider’ at the firehouse I’ll be able to share the community perspective and ensure decisions that are made continue to
be in the best interests of the township and its residents,” he says.
Jagannathan believes his career
as an EMT has prepared him for
the fire district. “My experience in
EMS goes beyond responding to
traditional 9-1-1 emergencies.
With over a decade of experience,
I’ve had the opportunity to interface with a variety of public safety
divisions including rescue teams,
fire departments, police depart-
ments, public safety communications, and other emergency management groups. I know how hectic operational situations can be as
I bring my prior knowledge and experience to the table,” Jagannathan
said.
O
ne current member of the fire
company who nominated Jagannathan was Scott Kivet, who is
seeking a three-year term with the
district. Kivet is a captain with the
Plainsboro Fire Company and also
serves as a Middlesex County fire
coordinator, working with the
county fire marshal’s office. He
graduated from Rider University
in 2003 with a bachelor’s degree in
public relations and started out in
police work as an officer in North
Hanover, Burlington County.
Kivet was “picked up” in 2004 by
Robbinsville and has been working there ever since.
“I’m a people-person and I love
my police job as it combines the
tools of all trades. There are some
police officers out there who don’t
have the best attitudes, but not me.
Everybody knows me and I try to
be the nicest person, and that’s
why I love being a cop. I love helping people,” Kivet said.
Kivet works with a drug rehabilitation nonprofit organization
called City Angels, which is based
in Hamilton. He translated his role
in the narcotics division to an opportunity to help people, saying
City Angels serves as a middle
man between law enforcement and
drug rehab counselors.
Kivet’s mother and father
owned a chain of travel agencies,
and are semi-retired now, working
only part-time with Kivet’s brother-in-law in operating Crown
Cruises in Forrestal Village. Kivet
said his parents are currently on a
60-day cruise, enjoying their retirement.
Kivet grew up in Monroe Township, where his father was a volunteer firefighter and a fire commissioner. Kivet says because it was a
big part of his life, he learned how
a fire company works “as a business” early on. Kivet followed in
his father’s footsteps and became
the fire commissioner of Monroe
Fire District 1 for two years before
moving to Plainsboro.
Kivet came to Plainsboro two
years ago and owns a home on
Grovers Mill Road, meaning he is
often the first member to arrive at
the Plainsboro Fire Company.
“I feel that I’m well-versed in
emergency services, I’m respected
throughout the county, and I feel
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Krishna Jagannathan, left, and Scott Kivet are
seeking positions with the Plainsboro Fire District.
Batter Up! Indoor
Facility For CPLL
P
lainsboro kids may soon have a
new winter activity. If construction goes according to plans,
Plainsboro Little Leaguers will be
able to step up to the plate — indoors.
The Cranbury-Plainsboro Little
League got the go-ahead to build
an indoor “training and player development facility” at Plainsboro
Community Park, adjacent to the
baseball fields, as the Township
Committee voted in favor of site
plans submitted. Plainsboro architecture firm Gittings Associates of
Forrestal Road rendered the building’s design, which was customtailored to fit its park setting.
At the February 8 Committee
meeting Business Administrator
Robert Sheehan outlined the next
steps in what has been a decadelong process. “The league’s architect will be working closely with
the township’s code enforcement
staff, and the process also includes
the preparation of a lease with necessary conditions to memorialize
the arrangements,” Sheehan said.
Tim Lockwood, president of the
Cranbury-Plainsboro
Little
League, attended the meeting
along with league operations chief
Raymond Cella. It’s been a drawnout process as Lockwood and Cella said CPLL has worked to raise
money for the project over the past
decade. The CPLL is currently in
the process of finalizing the expected cost of the project, but
Lockwood’s estimate is between
$150,000 and $200,000.
“A big part of it will be paid for
by the efforts of CPLL families.
They started looking into it about
eight years ago and have been raising money for it ever since,” Lockwood said.
Lockwood said CPLL must
continue searching for sponsors to
pay for the facility’s construction.
CPLL’s next step will be an outreach program to attract Plainsboro
businesses and corporations to
pitch in funds, starting in the next
one to two months.
“We’ve got 300 families involved in the league and a wide variety of contacts and professionals
to approach through our various
networks. It’s a matter of being
able to talk to the right people to
see if they can help us,” he said.
Lockwood identified Dan
Wheeler, managing partner of
Sitrof Technologies in Princeton,
as a key contact — his company recently donated $5,000 to the project. Wheeler, who lives in Cranbury, was a coach in the CranburyPlainsboro Little League, where
his son played for several years.
Lockwood says that Wheeler
wanted to take a more active role
with CPLL’s development, and he
reached out to Lockwood in December to say Sitrof could offer
some financial support.
Looks Matter. The facility will
be 100 feet long by 70 feet wide. Its
interior will feature a lobby, two
equipment areas, and the main
practice field, which will be an astroturf surface on top of gravel
measuring 80 feet by 70 feet.
The building’s exterior was designed to fit in with the rest of the
park. The metal siding and gutters
will be forest green, doors will be
white, and the roofing will be silver. Lockwood says that would allow the building to tie into the nat-
Build It & They Will Come: Raymond Cella, left,
and Tim Lockwood of the Cranbury-Plainsboro Little
League with Township Committee member Ed Yates.
ural surroundings, which became a
focus after thoughts from the township committee were heard roughly 18 months ago.
Originally CPLL had turned in a
suggestion to the township committee for the facility to resemble
ones in other towns such as Nottingham and Bordentown, which
have mainly a large, nondescript
metal building that Lockwood says
“just serves the purpose.” The
township was clear that such a design would not work for Plainsboro. He says the township asked
CPLL to make sure that the colors
and details, including windows,
doors, and weather vanes, would
be “esthetically pleasing” so the facility could complement the park’s
overall beauty.
“The township was very specific in regards to esthetics. They
wanted something that did not look
like a warehouse and they wanted
something that looked very pleasing to the eye. You don’t want
something red or something that
would just stand out. Green will
match the color of the trees for the
majority of the year until the leaves
fall,” Lockwood said.
Sheehan says in the administration’s view the project is shaping
up well.
“They were able to respond to
our concerns, and I think the architect’s rendering is really quite fine.
We wanted to share that with the
committee before we take the next
steps with them,” Sheehan said.
Benefits to Kids. With the absence of an indoor training facility
to use, Lockwood says Plainsboro
little leaguers were at a slight disadvantage as many of the little
leagues in CPLL’s district have indoor facilities, including West
Windsor. That left Plainsboro kids
with few options for baseball-specific training spots in the area.
“Up until two months ago there
was Extra Innings in Cranbury, but
it’s gone out of business. It was
probably a 15-minute ride to get
there and kids had to pay to get in.
With this facility members of our
Little League won’t have to do
that, and in essence it’s right in our
backyard. There’s a lot to do with it
in the offseason as people will have
the opportunity to work out in
there,” Lockwood says.
“Pitchers typically pitch just the
two to three months a year of a season, and when you go back nine
months later and start pitching
again you’ve lost some of the
skills. Instead of having to start all
over again kids can practice all
year round,” he said.
Most importantly, Lockwood
says the facility will keep baseball
or softball-obsessed kids away
from television.
The concept for a baseball infield inside the facility will help
coaches develop players’ infield-
ing (defensive) abilities and simulate hits that go between the bases
and down the lines.
The facility will offer a unique
hybrid with traditional batting
cages as well. Players can practice
their hitting before or after working on infield skills.
“There will be a netting system
inside where we’ll be able to set up
between four and five tunnels for
hitting, so at any one time we could
have four or five kids there practicing while others do drills. When
you pull the nets away it will be a
full infield,” Lockwood said.
The field will be made of a material similar to astroturf, and children will wear sneakers and not
their usual baseball cleats. A CPLL
board member will most likely be
put in charge of the building’s
maintenance. Cleaning up after
practices will be voluntary for
coaches and players.
The CPLL has not decided the
hours of operation. Lockwood says
ideally parents will drop children
off for hour-long workouts, perhaps once a week during the offseason. The CPLL is working with
the township to see if there can be
an area where parents and others
can sit and watch practice sessions,
but a crowd could not gather because “the facility is designed for
no more than 12 people.”
The Lockwoods have put down
roots in the community and CPLL
since “Coach Tim” and his wife
Maria, a pharmacist, moved to
Plainsboro 13 years ago. Their oldest son, Jeremy, graduated from
the CPLL ranks last season while
their two younger children are active players. Ten-year-old Justin, a
student at Millstone River School,
plays baseball while his 8-year-old
sister Jillian, who attends Wycoff
Elementary, plays softball.
Lockwood grew up playing
baseball in Owego, New York,
half-an-hour southeast of Ithaca.
His father was a high school principal, and his mother was a homemaker.
Lockwood played baseball
through his high school years and
went on to attend Cornell University, where he earned a B.A. in Economics. He currently works as a
manager at Wegmans in Woodbridge.
At the February 8 meeting, committee member Narun Nabi joked
with Deputy Mayor Neil Lewis
and Lockwood that he would be
overseeing construction of the facility because he lives just around
the corner from the site. Lockwood
smiled and promised that construction crews would keep the noise
down. Once it opens there shouldn’t be large crowds and an abundance of noise either, just plenty of
smiles for the community’s parents
and kids.
— Rikki N. Massand
28
THE NEWS
FEBRUARY 17, 2012
Plainsboro News
Continued from preceding page
all these factors can better the
board,” Kivet says.
He plans on being a face of the
Plainsboro Fire district for many,
many years. “I’ll be answering
emergency calls at three o’clock in
the morning until they tell me I
can’t do that any more,” Kivet said.
Plainsboro Roundup: Township Committee approved partial
releases of performance bonds for
DSK Woods LLC and the Eden Institute Foundation after the township’s engineering staff reviewed
the completed projects and recommended the action.
An ordinance amending the
township code regarding Plainsboro’s vehicle towing and storage
fee schedule was introduced. The
change means owners will be
charged immediately once a car
has been towed by the township. A
public hearing on the ordinance
will be held at the township committee meeting on Wednesday,
March 14.
Items on the consent agenda that
were approved by the committee
on February 8 included: refunds of
a health license permit fee and a
raffle license permit fee; a tax refund for overpayment in bankruptcy court; a resolution to escheat
premium monies; refunds for 2011
Community Gardens security deposits; endorsement of a grant application for municipal recycling
tonnage; payment of township
bills; and an extension of the township’s janitorial service contract.
Two minor 2011 budget transfers were also approved by the
committee as $6,000 was allocated
for street lighting and $1,000 was
added to salary and wages. Township CFO Greg Mayers said that
transfers for the previous year can
only be done between January and
March, but he does not anticipate
more changes.
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come to punish the only budget that
they could” then moving the board
election and cutting the budget
vote out would be a reasonable
choice — but not in WW-P. Although he was the first board member to speak, Johnson’s sentiments
were echoed throughout the meeting by both the board and the public.
Board member Ellen Walsh said
“she would never participate in an
effort to take away anybody’s right
to vote” calling a move the wrong
decision because residents have
paid a lot of money to live here and
have their children attend WW-P
schools.
Lisa Chandler-Hochman, the
wife of board member Todd
Hochman, read a prepared statement from both of them as her husband was not able to attend the
meeting.
“We both support keeping the
vote in April. As voters we deserve
the opportunity to review the budget and as taxpayers we have the
obligation to do that. Naysayers
who feel it’s an inconvenience to
have the elections in spring are
right, but it’s a small inconvenience like running to the post office or getting coffee from Starbucks on the way to a meeting. We
can all live with it,” she said.
A motive for change was not apparent to Finance Committee
Chairman Anthony Fleres, who
said that the way the new law is
written it is biased toward moving
elections to November.
“If we didn’t take any action on
this, then because we’re a regional
district both of the townships could
vote to move it, and one body can
override the other,” he said.
To date neither township has indicated an interest in making a
change, but Fleres anticipates that
as many as two-thirds of the 500
New Jersey school districts that are
eligible to move their elections to
November will do so. He says
that’s not the best choice for WWP.
“With the election in April when
there’s no other background noise,
people running for school board
and trying to command the community’s attention is a good thing.
I’m in favor of keeping the vote as
it is, certainly in this first year,”
Fleres said.
Several members of the public
got up to voice that sentiment during public comments. Genevieve
Stiefel of Nassau Place in West
Windsor, a former board member,
summarized a main drawback of a
shift to November: having school
elections at the same time as other
elections.
“I’m concerned that the board
election will become politicized by
candidates being supported by political organizations. This does go
on in other school districts as we all
know. The board of education
should remain independent and not
under the influence of either political party,” she said.
Fleres tried to dispel that notion,
saying that in the six years he has
served on the school board he has
worked with about a dozen different board members past and present, but he has “no clue” about
anyone’s political affiliation.
Another former board member,
Diane Hasling of 12 Jacob Drive in
West Windsor, brought up the potential for long, expensive school
board campaigns — with partisan
politics mixed in — if the election
was moved because the state mandates that candidates would have to
file in June for a November election.
Other residents who spoke included Sean Sheerin of Van Wyck
Drive in Princeton Junction. “I
don’t see this as a discussion of
your budget; I see it as a discussion
‘With the election in
April when there’s no
other background noise,
people running for
school board and trying
to command the community’s attention is a
good thing.’
on how you will spend my money.
For the 15 years I’ve lived in this
town, you’ve had the decency to
ask me for permission to spend my
money. I don’t see why that should
be subject to change,” he said, before immediately leaving the meeting.
Alok Sharma of 20 Davenport
Drive in West Windsor was a key
speaker during the AP and honors
course overrides mini-controversy
late last year. Initially he was opposed to not voting on the budget,
but then he did an analysis of WWP’s costs compared to similar
school districts and found that
WW-P’s yearly spending was satisfactory.
“We are the biggest among similar economic districts with close to
10,000 kids enrolled. If there is a
fixed cost and a variable cost,
maybe our per pupil cost should be
lower than the rest, but I did not
find that. I looked into the data and
I could not find a relationship that
more students means less per-pupil
costs. Our expenses are not extreme or outrageous although the
per pupil cost should drop down to
maybe $11,500 like Montgomery,”
Sharma said.
Joanne Lasky of Hunt Court in
West Windsor was one of the only
attendees favoring the move to November. Lasky, who has two chil-
dren who attend Maurice Hawk
and one who is not yet school-age,
commented on a lack of participation among her demographic in
district procedures.
“Voters in spring elections tend
to be familiar with the school budget process. Parents of young children aren’t necessarily aware if
they haven’t been engaged in the
process for school budgets and
there tends to be a dropoff in that
age group. Parents of young children are also busy putting kids to
bed when meetings like this are going on,” she said.
Lasky also said that when the
budget is defeated and is brought to
municipal government, it can become political too.
“With the idea of not politicizing the process by not moving it to
November, people forget that
elected officials can look at it politically when there needs to be items
trimmed,” she said.
Lasky believes voting on the
budget is an opportunity “to talk
about whether you like or dislike
what the board is doing” and residents should be more engaged in
the process of what goes on in the
schools.
The Lerners, a senior couple
who reside at 67 Rainflower Lane
in Village Grande and are a staple
at West Windsor Council meetings, both spoke during public
comments, offering different takes
on the situation.
Alvin Lerner said he was in favor of moving the elections because the history of public participation in April elections is dismal.
He says more people would turn
out to vote, especially with the
presidential election this year.
“The more people who participate
in an election, the more valid are
the results,” he said.
Lerner then asked the board if
and how the district can move the
elections while retaining a public
vote on the budget. Fleres answered that the state had not given
the board that option.
Lerner’s wife Janet, however,
said things were moving too quickly — and unfairly.
“The rights of the individual
should never be bandied about.
We’re being told that the district
must respond by February 17 when
the bill was just signed by Governor Christie on January 17. I feel
like I’m being pushed around and
bullied. I thought New Jersey had
an anti-bullying law signed by our
governor! What’s the rush?” she
said.
All of the Republican leadership
of West Windsor attended the
school board meeting to share
comments on the budget and election vote. Councilwoman Linda
Geevers, speaking only as a resident and taxpayer, said she was “in
favor of preserving the decadeslong tradition” of school elections
being held in April.
FEBRUARY 17, 2012
“The right to vote is precious
and it shouldn’t be done away with
after only a single public discussion. The April school budget vote
provides for an inclusive democratic process that encourages debate
on the merits of the proposed budget. The community is more engaged when it has an opportunity to
vote, even if voters don’t always
exercise their right to vote,” Geevers said.
Geevers added that the board
should not succumb to pressure to
move its elections because other
local school districts had done so.
The night before the board meeting
on February 7 South Brunswick
had voted to change its election
date to November, joining Ewing,
Hamilton, Lawrence, and Freehold.
Geevers and Councilman Bryan
Maher proposed the idea of having
a referendum question put on the
ballot for voters to decide, but that
option would not be possible, according to Johnson.
“That’s not for the board to decide. We don’t have the authority
to do that. We only have the ability
to vote to move the election or do
nothing,” Johnson said.
James Solloway of 5 Monroe
Drive, who spoke on behalf of
Councilman Charles Morgan at a
recent West Windsor Council
meeting, said that due to the economic climate and the constraints
facing many working professionals
living in the district the public has a
right to participate in the budget
now more than ever.
“In my opinion an additional
level of oversight is a good thing.
This is a community that values education very highly and I personally trust our voters to make an informed and responsible decision,
although I respect the board’s abilities and dedication. The will of the
people could be ignored if the budget is not subject to a vote,” he said.
As evidenced by the board’s
comments, Johnson and his peers
agreed with that assessment.
“Hearing from them (residents)
about where we as a district have
fallen short makes for a better budget. I think the budget vote has kept
our budget as reasonable as it’s
been,” he said.
Some thoughts on why school
districts should move their elections were mentioned, and Board
President Hemant Marathe said he
has doubts over the projected
$30,000 in savings that moving the
elections would bring.
Like Janet Lerner, Marathe also
said he was in no rush to make such
a drastic change, re-iterating that
WW-P could wait and see how other districts that made the switch
fare in the next year and then decide to have a vote on it further
down the road. Once a district does
decide to move its elections to November and remove the budget
vote, it is locked into that position
for four full years.
1.9 % Budget Hike?
A
t the February 7 meeting
Board Secretary Larry Shanok
said the district expects a 1.9 percent increase in taxes for the 2012’13 school budget. While this could
have created the chance of eliminating the budget vote, West Windsor Councilman Bryan Maher said
there is “too much wiggle room” in
the board’s ability to raise taxes
above and beyond the two percent
cap.
“What’s not talked about is the
board’s ability to go over that two
percent cap with debt service,
healthcare, or enrollment costs, etc.
The two percent cap is just a target
and you know as well as I do that
WW-P Imposes Limitations
On Public Prom-Posals
R
eality shows, YouTube, and over-the-top
celebrations may have teenagers thinking
about impressing their friends by asking someone out in a way that makes a splash at school.
But for the second year in a row, WW-P has
sent students a message: there will be no
promposing here.
A “promposal” — by school district standards — is a public display when one student
asks another student to the high school prom in
a public setting. School district spokeswoman
Gerri Hutner said that in each of the last two
years a few students made promposals during
the school day.
Examples of incidents the district wishes to
avoid include the following: the person being
asked was embarrassed to be in the spotlight;
when the person did not want to go to the prom
with the person asking the question; when the
person has to answer “no” in front of a group;
or when a person is not asked.
“There was a general feeling that these public displays were not beneficial for a number of
reasons. It could be a very embarrassing and
you can go over that if you are so
inclined,” Maher said, addressing
the board during public comments.
The board was quick to quell
that notion. First finance committee chairman Tony Fleres pointed
out that the two percent cap is not a
permanent number; whatever the
state mandates will stand as the official cap. Then Board Vice President Robert Johnson rebutted what
he called “a common misconception.”
“As far as suggesting that the
two percent cap is just a target,
nothing could be farther from the
truth. There are very, very strict
controls on that cap. There are
some exceptions, but they’re limited and in my opinion,” he said.
Johnson said that in the past 10
years, ahead of the state setting the
cap number, the board has kept the
budget well below two percent.
Board President Hemant Marathe
backed Johnson up with numbers.
He presented tax data from a home
in West Windsor over the past
decade. The example showed that
the property had lower taxes in
2011 than in 2007.
“In four years their taxes had
gone down by 11.55 percent. How
many people’s perception matches
this reality?” he asked.
Since the board’s January 10
meeting where he briefly sparred
upsetting experience to be among a group of
students in a public setting and they were being
asked and you were not asked,” Hutner says.
However, a High School South senior who
chose to remain anonymous said there was another factor involved in the administration’s
decision. “A kid last year was hurt after he
promposed in front of the whole school and the
girl rejected him,” the student said.
South Principal Roseann Bonino sent a
memo out on February 6 to school faculty. In
it, she referenced that scenario and others:
“When the answer was ‘no’ it was totally
humiliating to get rejected in front of a large
crowd,” she wrote.
The memo also said the decision was partly
based on a safety.
“It became a safety issue when mobs of kids
all ran to a certain spot to try to witness the
promposal (usually during lunch),” the memo
read. According to Hutner the administration
felt that large groups of students convocating
for or around promposals “may not be a very
safe environment for all students.”
Bonino’s memo to teachers also noted that
promposals in the past two years had distracted students during school.
“It was becoming disruptive to the learning
with Linda Geevers (WW-P News,
January 20) Marathe has been determined to show residents that
school district taxes were raised by
a bare minimum in comparison to
township taxes. With his example,
Marathe pointed out that due to reassessments, because one property
paid less another would pay more.
“But that’s not the doing of the
school district — the district’s taxes increased by less than two percent every year, and that’s the true
story. The people whose taxes have
gone down don’t jump up and
down. The people whose taxes
have gone up come and complain.
That forms the perception that
everybody’s taxes have gone up,”
Marathe said.
He continued by explaining the
viewpoint he often hears from residents, “school taxes are the largest
portion of my taxes.” Marathe attempted to dispel that notion by
showing his own taxes over the
past decade.
“This is the reality: the rest of
my taxes have gone up by more
than my school taxes in the past ten
years. School taxes went up by 50
percent, township taxes by 121 percent and the rest of taxes by 82 percent,” Marathe said, as he presented a PowerPoint slide showing
those figures.
Marathe said he encourages res-
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environment. Students were planning
promposals, doing promposals, and then doing
a recap of the promposal throughout the school
day,” she wrote.
Last year a graduating senior at South,
James Cornick, planned an extravagant
promposal to invite his classmate Megan
Spencer to the prom. However, because he
was aware of the new rules, Cornick strategized to avoid any trouble with the administration. He set up to have a large gathering of students in the auxiliary gym, complete with banners and a video camera, all to surprise
Spencer. She said yes to his promposal and the
pair did attend the prom together (see photograph, page 1).
To date WW-P has never suspended a student for making a promposal. Hutner says that
students are “certainly” permitted to ask their
peers to prom on a personal, one-on-one invitation basis. Bonino’s note states this too, plus
it permits promposals off of school grounds.
“If you want to do a public promposal,
that’s fine, but plan to do it outside of school
and not during the school day. Let’s keep
school a safe and happy place for EVERYONE!!” the memo stated.
— Rikki N. Massand
idents to go over their taxes as well
to find the same trend.
“We do have to make a large
payment, and I’ve always said that
we raise taxes to the cap but that’s
not what limits us. We’re limited
by the amount we think we absolutely need to run the school district to support what the community needs and the education that they
expect from us,” Marathe said.
In his first few weeks in government Councilman Maher has made
scrutiny of finances involving taxpayer funds his number one priority. Maher recently spent an afternoon meeting with West Windsor
Business Administrator Robert
Hary to review township spending.
While he believes the school board
has done an excellent job, Maher
said there is always room to find
ways to save money.
“I’ve looked at the school budget and I think there is waste in
there too. A harder line needs to be
held when it comes to compensation, particularly this spring as you
have contracts coming up for renewal,” Maher said.
He told the board to consider the
effects of the economic downturn
as national per-family income has
gone nowhere in the last ten years,
yet public employee wages keep
going higher.
Other WW-P News: The district will pay $41,984.47 in unused
sick and vacation days to Howard
Bodine, former co-director of
buildings and grounds who retired
on December 31. James Stives, the
other co-director of building and
grounds, took on the role full-time
(WW-P News, January 20).
- WW-P has hired Couples
Therapy Center of New Jersey to
provide a one-hour after-school
parent and student program titled
“Parents & Kids: Getting Past the
Conflicts.” The $450 cost was
funded through Title I grant money.
- The district received a grant of
over $1.8 million from the state
Department of Education’s combined basic and preschool IDEA of
2004 part-B funds (for special education). $1,762,032 will be allocated for basic education of students
ages 3 through 21. Of that amount
$1,492 will come from non-public
funding. Another $54,555 will be
allocated for education of special
education needs of the district’s 3,
4, and 5 year-old children, all from
public funding.
- The board voted to accept one
student from China on an F-1 visa
to attend 11th grade in West Windsor-Plainsboro next school year,
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FEBRUARY 17, 2012
WW-P School Board
Continued from preceding page
with full tuition guaranteed to be
paid ahead of September.
- The board approved three people
to lead a professional development
program on Friday, February 17. Dr.
Michelle Kames will present to child
study team members, earning $1,200.
Susan Coleridge and Rick Ellis will
present to K-5 instructional assistants. They will be paid $1,000.
Twenty district staff members will
receive $47.09 per hour (not to exceed 10 hours) for their roles in planning the professional training day:
Claire Barcless, Melissa Collins,
Mary Fregosi, Jeffrey Grabell, Ellen
Incollingo, Juliana Johnson, Richard
Knoblock, Robert Krech, Mildred
Mansfield, Linda Masure, Teresa
McClendon, Wanda McGuiness,
Kristin Miller, Diane Miness, Tiffany
Pelliccioti, Joan Reil, Eber Riley,
Lisa Valeriani, Michele Walsh and
Christopher Wilson.
Two Retire After 20-Plus
Years. Village School Language
Arts teacher Frances McDonough
will retire on February 29 after 20
1/2 years teaching in WW-P.
Wicoff learning disabilities teacher
consultant Karen Kelley will retire
on June 30 after 25 years.
- ESL/Korean teacher Hai Kyong (Janice) Chai will no longer be
splitting her duties between Community Middle and Millstone River schools. She will now work fulltime at Millstone River for a prorated salary of $88,940. The district
also changed ESL/Korean teacher
Inja Chang’s schedule from 60 percent at Wicoff and 40 percent at
High School South to 56 percent at
Wicoff, 40 percent at South and 4
percent at Community.
- Two special education instructional assistants were appointed to
3.5 hour-per-day positions, paid at
$17.22 an hour, until June 30. They
are Sujata Ray at High School
North and Rosalie Kadis at Community Middle School.
- On February 8 Grover Middle
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resigned after five years, as he will
not return from a leave of absence.
- An unpaid with benefits FMLA maternity leave was approved
for Wicoff first grade teacher Lindsay Mulshine from September 1
through November 26.
The end date of Grover teacher
Jennifer Boutros’s leave, unpaid
with benefits, was changed from
February 29 to April 30.
Leave was extended for a second year, through June 2013, for
Theresa LaManna, a Community
special education teacher.
- The end date for Special Education teacher Carol GreenfieldDubin, a 100 percent leave-replacement for Joan Resnick, was
officially changed from January 24
to January 26, with a prorated
salary of $52,220.
- Mary Parker will receive a prorated stipend of $1,911 for lunch
duty from January 19 to June 30 at
Community Middle School.
- An athletic stipend of $2,844.24
was approved for new CMS baseball coach Daniel Voorhees.
- Michelle Crilly was named
nurse for the annual Grover Middle
School Basketball tournament
from February 14 through 24. She
will be paid $47.09 per hour, not to
exceed 15 hours.
- Leah Best-Damron was approved as a chaperone at High School
North for a rate of $62.43 per hour.
- Extra duty stipends for homebound instruction, at a rate of
$47.09 per hour, were approved for
the following personnel:
High School North: Albert
Paulsson, six hours teaching economics and social problems; Max
Achtau, eight hours teaching AP
German.
High School South: Kathleen
Marrioli, 52 hours spent teaching
language arts II and geometry;
Maureen Leleszi, 16 hours teaching consumer economics; Bonne
Brienza, 16 hours teaching AP calculus; Szilivia Fejes, 16 hours
teaching French V.
From January until April 20,
Kathleen Marrioli will also spend
up to 10 hours teaching reading,
writing, math social studies and
science for Millstone River; up to
20 hours teaching the same sub-
Let Voters Decide
Charter Schools?
A situation similar to the outcry over the PIACS proposal
may soon be fully avoidable.
West Windsor Council members
George Borek and Linda Geevers recently testified at a state education hearing in Trenton in favor of legislation that would
give voters in a municipality the
final say on whether a charter
school can open in their district.
“What it would do is that even
though a charter school would
be sponsored though the department of education, before a charter school could go into existence it would have to go
through voter approval. That
would be an about-face of what
it was before where if the department of education approved a
charter school, we’d have no
say,” Borek said.
At its meeting on Monday,
February 13, council voted 5-0
to support adoption of the
changes. The bills, number
S2243 and its companion bill,
number A1877, have moved
through the state assembly and
are now in the senate. Borek said
a resolution will be sent to state
legislators urging them to move
the legislation on to Governor
Christie’s office.
“The governor has indicated
that he would sign it,” Borek
said.
Geevers said one reason she is
“all for it” was because it gives
residents the right to vote. She
jects for Town Center School, as
well as up to 10 hours teaching IRLA, math, social studies, and science teaching for Community Middle School.
At its February 7 meeting the
board also approved the following
costs of attendance for district
staff:
— One staff member to attend
the “Infinite Campus Interchange”
on March 13 and 14 in New York
City; not to exceed $775.
- Two teachers to attend the National Council of Teachers of
Mathematics conference, April 26
and 27 in Philadelphia; not to exceed $671 per person.
— One administrator to attend
the School Transportation Supervisor’s conference on March 26 and
outlined the process ahead for
future charter schools. After an
application goes to the education
commissioner, where they
would need to get preliminary
approval, it would go on to local
ballots for a vote.
Also, if a school is originally
approved for a certain number of
grades and wishes to expand,
such as many of the K-2 schools,
Geevers said the school would
need to come back on the ballot
to get voter approval of that application.
The second bill calls for
greater transparency in charter
school operations as well as
more educational and financial
accountability. Geevers pointed
out that under current regulations school districts fund 90
percent of charter schools’ perstudent costs.
Borek said that there could be
savings implications for the
school district at play. WW-P
has been holding $1.2 million
over the last two school years
that Borek says could be allocated for other use instead of sitting
in a charter school fund.
“If this legislation gets approved then the charter school
would have to go through a
process where voters make the
choice for their area, even
though a charter school may
have had prior approval. It’s a
win-win for the taxpayers because no matter where you stand
on charter schools this is an opportunity to say yea or nay to
them,” Borek said.
27 in Atlantic City; not to exceed
$300 plus mileage.
— Two administrators to attend
the Level 2 Transportation Coordinator’s certificate program on
March 25; cost not to exceed $94
per person plus mileage.
Two student transportation contracts were awarded at the meeting.
A-1 Limousine will provide bus
service for the High School South
Junior Prom trip to Adventure
Aquarium in Camden. The cost
will be $818.64 per bus for 12 buses.
Also, Irvin Raphael Bus Company will provide transportation to
and from Middlesex County Vo
Tech school and district schools for
a $231 per diem cost over the next
75 days.
FEBRUARY 17, 2012
Mayor Proposes Budget Decrease of $13K
by Rikki N. Massand
about how we are going to look at
build out and how we will budget
espite a loss of over for buildings, equipment, etc. The
$422,000 in revenue, West mayor has preached long-term fiWindsor Township is plan- nancial planning since he was
ning to accommodate its growing elected,” Hary said.
population by proceeding with
Hary said he mentioned this last
capital projects around town, year but there was not much reacmainly for roads and infrastruc- tion from council. On February 13
ture. The township plans on mak- he stated the need to make changes
ing these improvements with a at the municipal complex and the
budget of $37,340,000 — $13,000 building next to it. The post ofless than last year’s.
fice’s lease expires at the end of
“For the first time in 20 years, 2013, and it is believed that the
through reduced staffing and in- USPS will discontinue its operacreased efficiency, we are present- tion there. The township currently
ing a budget that it $13,000 (.03 receives over $11,000 a month for
percent) lower than last year’s bud- leasing that building.
get. This is a significant achieveHary says the administration has
ment for any mulearned from
nicipality, even
the Wallace
more significant
‘From this year onRoad
sewer
for a growing
project
to
take
wards, administration
community,”
better care of
and council should be
says
Mayor
its infrastrucShing-Fu Hsueh.
thinking about how we
ture. Road and
An
initial
sewer projects
are going to look at
glimpse at West
are planned,
buildout and how we
Windsor’s 2012
and Hary also
budget for buildings,
budget was prementioned imsented by Busiequipment, etc.’
provements
ness Administraneeded for the
tor Robert Hary
Department of
at the council meeting on February Public Works facility. He brought
13, when council members were up one idea for a source of funding
given binders from the administra- to council.
tion to review.
“Bear in mind, we are fortunate
According to the mayor’s draft that we have $2 million from the
of the operating budget, the sale of two liquor licenses. That is
$13,000 reduction came from ex- something I intend to have serious
penditures requested by the town- discussions about for one-time
ship’s department heads, reduced purchases for what we do with the
from $37,387,502 in 2011 to municipal building and public
$37,327,000 this year, a cutback of works as we move towards build$60,502.
out,” Hary said.
However
the
township’s
With infrastructure being the
salaries and wages, which repre- priority, Hary said items such as
sent 34 percent of the budget, will vehicles, equipment, and some
go up by $298,171 from last year West Windsor parks “will have to
despite the elimination of three be put out a little further.”
full-time positions: the animal conGradual tax increases are the
trol officer, a municipal court posi- goal for the administration. Hary
tion and one person in the clerk’s said that for an average property in
office.
West Windsor valued at $523,950
The municipal tax levy, which the tax impact would not exceed a
represents approximately 15 per- $50 increase.
cent of the total tax bill for each
“What you won’t notice in West
household, will go up by $409,756, Windsor are spikes — where you
from $20.9 million last year to have no tax increase or a decrease
$22.1 million this year.
and then the next year you get a sigAccording to Hsueh his pro- nificant tax increase, going up and
posed tax levy is only a 1.86 per- down and up and down. To date
cent increase — $996,478 less than we’ve been able to accomplish
what is permitted by state statute. that,” Hary said.
The municipal budget must be
within a two percent property tax
levy cap with some exclusions,
such as healthcare and/or pension
f next winter brings substantial
increases, increases in debt service
snow to West Windsor the Deand credits for new tax ratables.
“We just approved contracts partment of Public Works plans to
with our public employees, police, have a new 2012 Ford F550 Chasfire, the CWA (Communications sis Cab, outfitted with a nine-foot
Workers of America). But we were plow, to help clear township roads.
able to offset those increases with But after members of the public
reductions to other expenses, par- and Councilman Bryan Maher
ticularly in the area of healthcare raised questions about the $56,100
and pension. We have $257,400 in cost of the truck at the council
healthcare and $178,000 in pen- meeting on Monday, February 13,
sions frankly that falls on the back a vote was delayed for two weeks
as Business Administrator Robert
of our porch,” Hary said.
At the meeting Hary said the Hary will ask Director of Public
township must not only plan for Works Alex Drummond to provide
this year and going forward, but a report including the current inplan for where West Windsor “will ventory of vehicles and reasons
be at build-out.” The 2012 capital why a new F550 is needed.
Council is set to review the recbudget is six million dollars, but
ommendation
for the purchase,
that amount includes $2,255,000 in
which
would
come
through state
fully-funded projects, leaving
contract from Ditschman/Fleming$3,885,000 to be bonded.
“We need to be cognizant of try- ton Ford, at its February 27 meeting to reduce long-term debt but at ing. The purchase of a new truck
the same time, as a growing com- was initially approved in the 2009
munity, we have to make sure we capital budget, but Hary says the
don’t put off on future generations township held off to use its existing
the things that we need to pur- fleet over the last few winters.
Debbie Hepler of 10 Dean Court
chase,” he said.
“I’ve said this before that from in West Windsor spoke at the Feb2012 onwards, all administration ruary 13 meeting, comparing the
and council should be thinking cost of the truck to the savings that
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Truck Talk
I
Hary and Mayor Hsueh have mentioned with the shared services
agreement for an animal control officer (ACO) with East Windsor.
“In this town we are penny-wise
and pound-foolish. Our ACO’s
salary was $46,000 and her benefits were $12,000. According to the
administration in 2011 we saved
$42,000 and in 2012 we will save
$62,000 from that position. I think
$62,000 is a fudged figure, and we
need further justification of our
savings, even though we are not really saving it,” Hepler said.
Kim White of 54 Montgomery
Street mentioned that the F550
would be the second truck for Public Works this year. She says there
have been enough new vehicles
purchased for township departments, including police and fire.
“These vehicles are always new,
not used or demo models. Is there
ever talk of laying off employees
from any of the departments since
we keep needing new vehicles?
Actually no; three people have
been hired in the Public Works department, including one in a newly
created position. So how can you
justify a $56,100 Ford truck for
Public Works?” White asked.
Councilman Maher, who met
with Hary earlier in the afternoon,
also questioned the necessity of the
purchase.
“Clearly we have a lot of trucks
to serve the Public Works department. Why hasn’t council seen a
list of the trucks and other vehicles,
with the condition they are in and
the depreciated values?” he asked.
Maher said as council begins its
annual budget review “Mr. Hary
and Public Works will ask for more
trucks” so an inventory of vehicles
will help with analysis.
Although Maher admitted not
knowing much about large work
trucks he said the base price of the
township’s chosen model increased from $37,800 to $56,100
because of extra options added .
Hary responded that the truck
would serve as a multi-purpose re-
Engineering
Overload?
A
fter Council approved
“placeholder contracts” of
$475 each for four engineering
firms on January 20 (WW-P
News, February 3) a fifth was
added on February 13 as a professional services agreement
with the Alaimo Group for $475
was approved by council.
“This was the one firm of the
five that we use that was not
ready for the last meeting. They
did not have the paperwork in at
the time,” Business Administrator Robert Hary said.
Alaimo, which has offices in
Mt. Holly, Waretown, and Paterson, works mainly with the West
Windsor Zoning Board. Alaimo
Associate Jim Ruddiman testified at the board’s recent hearings in December and January.
Councilman Bryan Maher
had concerns about multiple
firms contracted with the township. At the council meeting February 13 he said Township Engineer Francis Guzik and Hary as-
placement. “This is a new dump
truck to replace truck 15 — a 1999
Dodge Masonbilt truck which is in
need of a new motor and transmission, and also major suspension
work. It’s not worth the repairs —
parts alone would be about $7,500.
This is something we need as the
old truck did get pretty beat up during snowstorms over the past few
years,” Hary said.
Maher also said selecting a
smaller F350, a more common
choice for Public Works, over an
F550 would save $10,000 to
$15,000. Ditschman/Flemington
Ford currently sells F550s under
state contract for anywhere between $40,000 and $100,000, depending on added components, and
F350s typically run $7,000 less
than F550s when outfitted with the
same work equipment and a box or
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sured him that only five engineering firms do business with
the township on a yearly basis.
“I was assured that any project
below $8,500 in the normal
course of business is what West
Windsor would contract with
these companies for. My concern was that we had quite a few
non-bid engineering contracts
out there and they could run up
any bills that they wanted to at
the end of the year,” Maher said.
Maher said based on public
concerns, which he shared, he
wanted to clarify that the township would bid out major engineering contracts. Hary explained that with projects of over
$8,500 the township tries to get
formal prices from at least three
vendors in lieu of formal bids because that process takes too long.
Hary said other than the five
firms with annual placeholder
agreements the township works
with two more firms in its bidding processes. Council President Kamal Khanna said the goal
was to have firms bid against
each other to see who can offer
West Windsor the lowest price.
bed in the rear. Hary said Public
Works recommended the F550
based on past experience with other trucks.
“According to Alex Drummond
the model is needed because it’s
going to have a steel chipper box
on it and the F550 can hold a heavier payload. Also the F350s have
had transmission problems when
pushing snow in the past few
years,” Hary said.
DOT Delays Rt. 1
Jughandle Closings
After public meetings held in
late January in West Windsor and
Princeton the state DOT announced that proposed closures of
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jughandles on Route 1 at Harrison Street and Washington Road
will be delayed until August 1
when there are fewer people at
Princeton University and in the
surrounding area.
Originally the DOT wanted to
conduct an experiment to measure
travel times and traffic volume
along Route 1 from March to May.
Now the plan calls for the closures
to happen for eight weeks starting
August 1. At the West Windsor
Council meeting on Monday, February 13, Council Vice President
Linda Geevers said this was not the
best plan.
“Many people are away in August. If they’re going to get a good
traffic count they should do it when
everyone is back. For West Windsor, I want to make sure we get a
good traffic study. If people are
away that impacts the use of
Alexander Road as an alternate,”
Geevers said.
Mayor Shing-Fu Hsueh responded to Geevers, saying the
traffic study will continue into
September. He explained the
DOT’s new strategy.
“There are going to be two portions of the study; the DOT really
wanted to make sure they cover the
summer time plus the school year.
Because of the new hospital opening in the spring there were concerns for the timing, so they
changed to this plan,” Hsueh said.
The mayor expects all West
Windsor and Princeton side roads
to see increased traffic from Route
1 once the experiment commences.
Councilman George Borek
brought up safety as his main concern with the experiment at council’s January 30 meeting. Borek
worried about rescue vehicles being able to access Harrison Street
in particular, as the traffic light at
the intersection of Route 1 does not
have a signal-changing system
(Opticom) installed. However, in
the first week of February Princeton Healthcare System announced
that it will purchase the Opticom
system for that intersection.
Wallace Road Sewer
Work Nears End
A
t the February 13 meeting
Township Business Administrator Robert Hary said the initial
sewer line repair on Wallace Road
near the train station will be completed by the end of February,
faster than expected.
Hary said pouring of lining inside the existing pipes started on
Wednesday, February 15. Work
will continue for two more weeks.
The anticipated total cost of the
project is $500,000.
Other Council News: After a
brief public hearing council voted
to adopt an ordinance guarantying
the bonds of the West Windsor
Parking Authority for construction
of the New South Parking Lot
(WW-P News, February 3). Mayor
Hsueh says that the details of the
lease explained by Hary at the January 30 council meeting were not
fully finalized as the $50,000 per
year was a minimum, and the
township and parking authority
must still decide on details of dividing profits.
Council approved reductions of
performance guarantees for West
Windsor Gardens pertaining to
three projects. The reductions will
cut the performance guarantees to
30 percent of the original of each.
The projects included improvements to West Windsor GardensClarksville Road, the West Wind-
sor
Gardens-Meadow
Road
jughandle and section I site improvements.
A few high-profile township
projects will see full releases of
performance guarantees:
- Toll Brothers will receive its
guarantees for sewer and water
connections along Meadow and
Bear Brook roads for the Estates at
Princeton Junction. According to
Hary the amounts, both in paper
bonds, were for $48,000 along
Meadow Road and $20,000 along
Bear Brook Road.
“This money was held until the
very end in case the new development had any impact on any septic
system or wells in the area. We’ve
had no claims and the development
has been there for years,” Hary
said.
- Teachers Insurance and Annuities Association of America
(TIAA-CREF) will receive the
guarantee for P.F. Chang’s at MarketFair, a release of $79,000.
- Mack-Cali Realty Corp. will
get its $783,000 performance guarantee back for Princeton Executive
Park, also known as Palladium
Phase A. The project was first approved back in 2000, but Hary explained the reasoning of MackCali Realty as it holds the parcel of
land adjacent to Lowe’s and Trader Joe’s off of Route 1.
“Right now there is no incentive
to build on their part due to the
economy,” Hary said.
- A recommendation for West
Windsor to formalize 2012 municipal alliance grant shared services
agreement with Mercer County for
a total of $2,870 was approved by
Council. Hary said he received a letter from the school system confirming the amount the township owes.
- Council adopted resolutions
granting the release of bonds posted by Nature’s Apprentice for
street opening at 5 Danville Drive
and by Kislan Mechanical for
street opening at 7 Landing Lane.
Both were $500 amounts.
- A refund of $4,358 for inspection escrow balance to Hilton Realty for the PAK SC project was also
approved. The project was for
Princeton Arms’ sewer extension.
- A refund of $4,270 for six development plan review projects
was also approved.
- With an eye on the development in Plainsboro (see page 27)
West Windsor Township has renewed the West Windsor Little
League’s agreement to operate the
indoor batting facility at Community Park.
Windsor
Plaza
Coming
Along: Passers-by will notice that
construction work continues at
Windsor Plaza, the former home of
Acme on Princeton-Hightstown
Road. The mild winter has sped up
construction considerably.
Mayor Hsueh says that so far
Cyzner Properties has not informed the township of its potential tenants, but he expects there to
be restaurants, retail, and a grocery
store of some kind.
“We wanted to make sure senior
citizens living near there will be
able to go and pick up groceries,”
Hsueh says.
Volunteers Needed: Several
volunteer seats remain open in
West Windsor. The Affordable
Housing Committee has two resident representative vacancies;
there is one vacancy for a Shade
Tree Commission member and one
vacancy for Board of Recreation
Commission alternate member.
Additional information is available at the West Windsor Township Clerk’s office, 217 Clarksville
Road. Call 609-799-2400.
DAY-BY-DAY IN WW-P
For more event listings visit www.wwpinfo.com. For timely updates,
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For camp open houses visit the
story in the camp section, page 13.
Friday
February 17
School Sports
For WW-P school sports information, call the hotline: 609-7165000, ext. 5134, www.ww-p.org.
North and South Boys and Girls
Basketball. Mercer County Tournament Semifinals.
North and South Ice Hockey.
Mercer County Tournament semifinals.
South Swimming. NJSIAA Tournament group championships.
On Stage
African American History Month,
Mercer College, West Windsor
campus, 609-570-3324. www.mccc.edu. “Caribbean Carnival
Fete.” Music by D.J. Sergy. $5. 7
p.m.
The Game of Love and Chance,
Off-Broadstreet
Theater,
5
South Greenwood Avenue, Hopewell, 609-466-2766. www.offbroadstreet.com. A romantic comedy by French playwright Marivaux features Melissa Rittman of
Ewing and Austin Begley of
Plainsboro. $29.50 to $31.50 includes dessert. 7 p.m. See story
page 34.
Dancing
Jersey Jumpers, Central Jersey
Dance Society, Unitarian Church,
50 Cherry Hill Road, Princeton,
609-945-1883.
www.centraljerseydance.org. Swing, jitterbug,
and lindy hop. Lesson followed by
an open dance. $12 to $15. No
partners needed. Beginners welcome. 7 p.m.
American Classic: The cast of ‘Death of a Salesman,’ opening Friday, February 24, at Kelsey
Theater, includes area residents Timothy Liu as
Happy, left; Timothy Anderson as Willy, Christopher
Scheid as Biff, and Kevin Hallam as Bernard.
John & Carm, Teddy’s, 49 North
Main Street, Cranbury, 609-6553120. 6 p.m.
609-275-2897. www.lmxac.org/plainsboro. Register. Free. 10
a.m. to 3:30 p.m.
Zero Hours, Grover’s Mill Coffee
House, 335 Princeton Hightstown
Road, West Windsor, 609-7168771.
www/groversmillcoffee.com. 7:30 p.m.
Brown Bag Series, College of
New Jersey, Mildred and Ernest
Mayo Concert Hall, Ewing, 609771-2585. www.tcnj.edu. “Sustainability in Education” with
Jaimie Cloud, the Cloud Institute.
E-mail artsfac@tcnj.edu for more
information. Free. 11:30 a.m. to
12:20 p.m.
Pop Music
Deja Vu Reock and Roll Revue,
Kelsey Theater, Mercer County
Community College, 1200 Old
Trenton Road, West Windsor, 609570-3333. www.kelseytheatre.net.
Musical tribute to Crosby, Still,
Nash, and Young with a performance of the “Deja Vu” album in its
entirety. $20. 8 p.m.
Richard Thompson, Matthews at
McCarter Theater, 91 University
Place, Princeton, 609-258-2787.
www.mccarter.org. British folk
rock singer songwriter in his annual solo acoustic concert. $35 to
$45. 8 p.m.
Good Causes
Folk Dance, Princeton Folk
Dance, Suzanne Patterson Center, 45 Stockton Street, Princeton,
609-912-1272. www.princetonfolkdance.org. Beginners welcome. Lesson followed by dance.
No partner needed. $5. 8 p.m.
Open House, Machestic Dragons, YWCA Princeton, Bramwell
House, Paul Robeson Place, 609291-0779.
www.machesticdragons.org. Introduction to the sport
followed by a social time and refreshments. The group organizes
a dragon boat festival to benefit the
Breast Cancer Resource Center of
the YWCA Princeton. The team includes breast cancer survivors and
supporters. 6:30 to 7:45 p.m.
Literati
Comedy
Reception, Arts Council of
Princeton, 102 Witherspoon
Street, Princeton, 609-924-8777.
artscouncilofprinceton.org. Reception for Carlos Eire, author of
“Learning to Die in Miami,” “Waiting
for Snow in Havana,” and “A Very
Brief History of Eternity;” and professor of history and religious studies at Yale University. He will discuss his life as an “Operation Pedro
Pan” kid with Joe Seldner and
Mario Gonzalez in conjunction
about a new feature film based on
Eire’s life. Free. 5:30 p.m.
Jackie Kashian, Catch a Rising
Star, Hyatt Regency, 102
Carnegie Center, West Windsor,
609-987-8018. www.catcharisingstar.com. Register. $19.50. 8 p.m.
Folk Music
Atwater and Donnelly, Princeton
Folk Music Society, Christ Congregation Church, 50 Walnut
Lane, Princeton, 609-799-0944.
www.princetonfolk.org. A blend of
traditional American and Celtic
music with the husband and wife
duo. $20. 8:15 p.m.
Live Music
Einstein Alley’s Musical Collective Jam and Party, Arts Council
of Princeton, 102 Witherspoon
Street, 609-924-8777. www.artscouncilofprinceton.org. For musicians and music lovers. $10. 6
p.m.
Gardens
Honey Bee Weekend, Grounds
For Sculpture, 126 Sculptors
Way, Hamilton, 609-586-0616.
www.groundsforsculpture.org.
Herbertsville Honey Company
presentation. Free with park admission. Noon.
Wellness
Qigong, Ruth A. Golush, Center
for Relaxation and Healing, 666
Plainsboro Road, Suite 635,
Plainsboro, 609-426-9693. www.ruthagolush.com. Meditative energy exercises for balance. Register. $20. 10 to 11 a.m.
For Teens
Best Kept Secret, West Windsor
Arts Council, 952 Alexander
Road, West Windsor, 609-7161931. www.westwindsorarts.org.
8 p.m.
Lectures
Tax Assistance, Plainsboro Public Library, 9 Van Doren Street,
Fund for Irish Studies, Princeton
University, Lewis Center, 185
Nassau Street, 609-258-1500.
www.princeton.edu/arts. “Broken
Down by Age, Sex, and Religion:
The Irish Census Online” presented by Catriona Crowe, National
Archives of Ireland. Free. 4:30
p.m.
Sports
Princeton Basketball, Jadwin
Gym, 609-258-4849. www.goprincetontigers.com. Columbia,
$12. 7 p.m.
Trenton Titans, Sun National
Bank Center, 81 Hamilton Avenue, Trenton, 609-341-1100.
trentontitanshockey.com. Hockey
vs. Reading. $11 and up. 7 p.m.
Saturday
February 18
On Stage
The Game of Love and Chance,
Off-Broadstreet
Theater,
5
South Greenwood Avenue, Hopewell, 609-466-2766. www.offbroadstreet.com. A romantic comedy by French playwright Marivaux features Melissa Rittman of
Ewing and Austin Begley of
Plainsboro. $29.50 to $31.50 includes dessert. 7 p.m. See story
page 34.
Dancing
Milonga Tangazo, Central Jersey
Dance Society, Suzanne Patterson Center, 45 Stockton Street,
Princeton, 609-945-1883. www.centraljerseydance.org. Lesson
followed by social dance. No partner needed. Refreshments. $12. 8
p.m.
Classical Music
Edward T. Cone Concert Series,
Institute for Advanced Study,
Wolfensohn Hall, Einstein Drive,
Princeton, 609-734-8228. www.ias.edu. “Harmonic Series” with
Eighth Blackbird, a Grammy
award winning sextet. Pre-concert
discussion. Register. Free. 6:30
p.m. to 8 p.m.
Eugene Onegin, Princeton University, Lewis Center, 185 Nassau Street, 609-258-1500. www.-
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princeton.edu. Pushkin’s script
and Prokofiev’s music. By invitation. $12. 8 p.m.
Live Music
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. 6:30 to 9
p.m.
Sarah Donner’s Indie Music
Night, Arts Council of Princeton, 609-924-8777. 7 p.m.
Neil Young Tribute, Grover’s Mill
Coffee House, 335 Princeton
Hightstown Road, West Windsor,
609-716-8771. www.groversmillcoffee.com. 7:30 p.m.
Michael Glazer, It’s a Grind Coffee House, 7 Schalks Crossing
Road, Plainsboro, 609-275-2919.
www.itsagrind.com. Acoustic originals. 8 p.m.
Terrence McManus, Small World
Coffee, 14 Witherspoon Street,
Princeton, 609-924-4377. www.smallworldcoffee.com. 8:30 to
10:30 p.m.
Pop Music
Deja Vu Reock and Roll Revue,
Kelsey Theater, Mercer County
Community College, 1200 Old
Trenton Road, West Windsor,
609-570-3333.
www.kelseytheatre.net. Musical tribute to
Crosby, Still, Nash, and Young
with a performance of the “Deja
Vu” album in its entirety. Musicians include Mario DiBartolo,
Michael White, Bud Belviso, and
Tom Reock of Hamilton; Jerry
Steele of Princeton, and Chris
Grace of Pennington. The performance also include classic hits
from the Byrds, Buffalo Springfield, the Hollies, and solo Neil
Young. A video presentation documenting the time period will be
screened. $20. 8 p.m.
World Music
Soweto Gospel Choir, McCarter
Theater (Matthews), 91 University Place, Princeton, 609-2582787. www.mccarter.org. Vocal
ensemble from South Africa. $20
to $55. 8 p.m.
Comedy
Jackie Kashian, Catch a Rising
Star, Hyatt Regency, 102 Carnegie Center, West Windsor, 609987-8018. www.catcharisingstar.com. Register. $21.50. 7:30 and
9:30 p.m.
Gardens
Honey Bee Weekend, Grounds
For Sculpture, 126 Sculptors
Way, Hamilton, 609-586-0616.
www.groundsforsculpture.org.
Herbertsville Honey Company
presentation. Free with park admission. Noon.
For Families
School for Scoundrels, Cotsen
Children’s Library, Firestone Library,
609-258-2697.
www.princeton.edu. Workshop focusing on acting like Captain Hook,
the Big Bad Wolf, and the Wicked
Witch of the West. For ages 5 and
up. Free. 1 to 4 p.m.
Family Concert, Princeton Public Library, 65 Witherspoon
Street, Fireplace on second floor,
609-924-9529. www.princetonlibrary.org. Mr. Ray presents interactive concert with lively dance
music. Also known as Ray Anderson, he performed at the Stone
Pony in Asbury Park with Bruce
Springsteen,
and
traveled
throughout Germany as a member of the Blue Ban Gogh, a pop
rock duo. Although he still performs with Springsteen and Jon
Bon Jovi, he usually sings about
friendship, dinosaurs, rainbows,
and music that appeals to the kid
in all of us. 3 p.m.
Science Lectures
Science on Saturday, Princeton
Plasma Physics Laboratory,
Forrestal Campus, Route 1 North,
Plainsboro, 609-243-2121. www.pppl.gov. “Using Lasers to Control
and Probe the Brain” presented by
Adam Cohen, department of
physics, Harvard University. Register on site beginning at 8:15 a.m.
For students, parents, teachers,
and community members. Photo
ID required. Series is coordinated
by John DeLooper, Ronald Hatcher, Kathleen Lukazik, and Deedee
Ortiz. Free. 9:30 a.m.
Outdoor Action
Princeton Canal Walkers, Turning Basin Park, Alexander Road,
Princeton, 609-896-0546. Threemile walk on the towpath. Bad
weather cancels. Free. 10 a.m.
Winter Wonderland Hike, Plainsboro Preserve, Plainsboro, 609897-9400. www.njaudubon.org.
Register. $15. 2:30 p.m.
Shopping News
Super Bowl XLVI Giants Photo
Sale, Gold Medal Impressions
Sports Gallery, 43 Princeton
Hightstown Road, West Windsor,
609-606-9001. www.goldmedalimpressions.com. Sports photographer Richard Druckman features photographs from Super
Bowls, Giants, Jets, Eagles, Yankees, Mets, Nets, Devils, Flyers,
Rutgers, Georgetown, and West
Windsor-Plainsboro High School
North and South. A West Windsor
resident, Druckman is the official
photographer for Trinity College’s
squash team. 30 percent discount
on purchases. 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Sports
Princeton Basketball, Jadwin
Gym, 609-258-4849. www.goprincetontigers.com. Cornell, $12.
6 p.m.
Sunday
February 19
Dance
Dancespora, Passage Theater,
Mill Hill Playhouse, Front and
Montgomery streets, Trenton,
609-392-0766.
www.passagetheatre.org. Celebrate African and
African American people. Premiere of “The Dreamer” and “Journey North.” $15. 3 p.m.
On Stage
The Game of Love and Chance,
Off-Broadstreet
Theater,
5
South
Greenwood
Avenue,
Hopewell, 609-466-2766. www.off-broadstreet.com. A romantic
comedy by French playwright
Marivaux
features
Melissa
Rittman of Ewing and Austin Begley of Plainsboro. $29.50 to
$31.50 includes dessert. 1:30
p.m. See story page 34.
Film
Program in Near Eastern Studies, Princeton University, McCormick Hall 101, 609-258-5000.
www.princeton.edu. Screening of
“The Loners,” Israel, 2009, in Hebrew and Russian, with Hebrew
and English subtitles. In conjunction with the Hebrew Film Series.
“The Reflection of Israeli Society
Through the Cinematic Portrayal
of its Soldiers” with Eran Shorr,
president of Eranshorr.com, follows. Free. 5 p.m.
Black History Month Event,
Princeton Public Library, 65
Witherspoon Street, Fireplace on
second
floor,
609-924-9529.
princetonlibrary.org. Screening of
“Sing Your Song,” a documentary
about Harry Belafonte and his life
as a singer, actor, and human
rights champion as well as his contribution and leadership in the Civil
Rights Movement. 6:30 p.m.
Classical Music
Jayn Rosenfeld, Princeton University, Taplin Auditorium, 609258-1500.
www.princeton.edu.
Flute recital accompanied by
Bernard Rose on piano. Free. 3
p.m.
Sunday Musicale Series, Steinway Musical Society, Jacobs
Music, 2540 Brunswick Pike, Lawrenceville, 609-434-0222. www.princetonol.com/groups/steinway. Steinway artist, Igor Resnianski. $18. 3 p.m.
Sunday Serenades Concert Series, Unitarian Universalist Congregation, 50 Cherry Hill Road,
Princeton, 609-924-1604. www.uuprinceton.org. “A Tale of Two
Cities” with Amabile String Quartet
featuring chamber music from
London and Paris. $15. 3 p.m.
Live Music
Jazzy Sundays, Hopewell Valley
Vineyards, 46 Yard Road, Pennington, 609-737-4465. hopewellvalleyvineyards.com. Former West
Windsor resident Carol Heffler
plays jazz standards, blues, and
her original songs. Wine by the
glass or bottle; brick oven pizza,
and cheese platters. 2 to 5 p.m.
Pop Music
Deja Vu Reock and Roll Revue,
Kelsey Theater, Mercer County
Community College, 1200 Old
Trenton Road, West Windsor,
609-570-3333.
www.kelseytheatre.net. Musical tribute to
Crosby, Still, Nash, and Young
with a performance of the “Deja
Vu” album in its entirety. The performance also include classic hits
from the Byrds, Buffalo Springfield, the Hollies, and solo Neil
Young. A video presentation documenting the time period will be
screened. $20. 2 p.m.
Farm Markets
Winter Farmers Market, Slow
Food Central New Jersey, Tre
Piani Restaurant, Forrestal Village, Plainsboro, 609-577-5113.
www.slowfoodcentralnj.org. Eat
slow and slow fiber food and artisan products. Music by John Henry Goldman. 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Gardens
Barbara Bromley, Grounds For
Sculpture, 126 Sculptors Way,
Hamilton, 609-586-0616. www.groundsforsculpture.org. Master
gardener lecture. Free with park
admission. 10 a.m.
Honey Bee Weekend, Grounds
For Sculpture, 126 Sculptors
Way, Hamilton, 609-586-0616.
www.groundsforsculpture.org.
Herbertsville Honey Company
presentation. Free with park admission. Noon.
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Meet Eleanor: Lucia
DiPolvere of West Windsor is one of the organizers of ‘An Afternoon
with Eleanor Roosevelt:
A Focus on the First
Lady’s Life,’ presented
by Rene Goodwin, right,
of the American
Historical Theater of
Philadelphia, Sunday,
February 19, at the
Contemporary, Trenton.
History
Shopping News
Black History Month, Cranbury
Library, 23 North Main Street,
Cranbury, 609-655-0555. www.cranburypubliclibrary.org. “Malcolm X: His Life and Time” presented by Frank Marlowe. 2 p.m.
Super Bowl XLVI Giants Photo
Sale, Gold Medal Impressions
Sports Gallery, 43 Princeton
Hightstown Road, West Windsor,
609-606-9001. www.goldmedalimpressions.com. Sports photographer Richard Druckman features photographs from Super
Bowls, Giants, Jets, Eagles, Yankees, Mets, Nets, Devils, Flyers,
Rutgers, Georgetown, and West
Windsor-Plainsboro High School
North and South. A West Windsor
resident, Druckman is the official
photographer for Trinity College’s
squash team. 30 percent discount
on purchases. 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Walking Tour, Historical Society
of Princeton, Bainbridge House,
158 Nassau Street, Princeton,
609-921-6748. www.princetonhistory.org. Two-hour walking tour
of downtown Princeton and
Princeton University. $7; $4 for
ages 6 to 12. 2 to 4 p.m.
An Afternoon with Eleanor Roosevelt, The Contemporary, 176
West State Street, Trenton, 609298-6529. Program features
Rene Goodwin of the American
Historical Theater of Philadelphia
who will focus on the first 55 years
of the first lady’s life. Refreshments. Free. 2 p.m.
Lectures
Louis I. Kahn’s Jewish Architecture, Princeton Jewish Center,
435 Nassau Street, Princeton,
609-921-2782. Susan G. Solomon, author of “Mikveh Israel and
the Midcentury American Synagogue,” examines the transformation of the American synagogue
from 1955 to 1970. 4 to 5:30 p.m.
Sports
Trenton Titans, Sun National
Bank Center, 81 Hamilton Avenue, Trenton, 609-341-1100.
www.trentontitanshockey.com.
Hockey vs. Wheeling. $11 and up.
4 p.m.
Monday
February 20
President’s Day. Postal and bank
holiday.
Politics
School Sports
Myanmar/Burma, Coalition For
Peace Action, Unitarian Universalist Congregation, 50 Cherry Hill
Road, Princeton, 609-924-5022.
www.peacecoalition.org. Screening of “The Burmese Harp” followed by a presentation led by
Sylvia Stengle. 2 p.m.
North and South Ice Hockey,
609-716-5000 ext. 5134. www.ww-p.org. Mercer County Tournament Finals. 6 p.m.
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Love, Even in Disguise, Prevails
Continued from preceding page
omance is celebrated in
“The Game of Love and
Chance” opening Friday,
February 17, at the Off-Broadstreet Theater in Hopewell. A
classic comedy by Pierre Marivaux, the role of Dorante is portrayed by Austin Begley of
Plainsboro. A tale of arranged
marriages, disguises, and flirtations, it’s anyone’s guess to see
how far the costumed leads confess who they really are.
Networking pays as Begley, a
graduate of Rutgers University
with a bachelor’s degree in theater
arts, was introduced to Bob and
Julie Thick, owners of the theater,
through Joseph Farina, Begley’s
high school acting teacher, and
Richard Chibbaro, an actor with
many OBT credits. “We love his
energy and enthusiasm,” says
Julie Thick. “He is not only a great
performer but he seems to get
along well with everyone.”
Born in New Brunswick and
raised in Kendall Park and
Burlington, Begley has a brother in
the Navy, and a step sister — who
was his former babysitter. His father works with Evonik Industries,
a company specializing in printer
ink. His mother, a jazz record collector, is an overseas buyer with
Home Shopping Network.
Begley first stepped on stage in
seventh grade. “I loved it so
much,” he says. “It was a great
outlet and there was nothing else I
Film
Second Chance Film Series,
Princeton Adult School, Friend
Center Auditorium, Computer Science Building, Princeton University, 609-683-1101. www.princetonadultschool.org. Screening of
“Mesrine: Killer Instinct,” France,
2010. Introduced by William Lockwood Jr., the curator of the series.
Register. $8. 7:30 p.m.
Literati
Author Event, Princeton Public
Library, 65 Witherspoon Street,
609-924-8822. www.princetonlibrary.org. Daniel Rodgers, author of “The Age of Fracture” and a
professor of history at Princeton
University. 7 p.m.
Classical Music
Noontime Recital Series, Witherspoon Street Presbyterian
Church, 124 Witherspoon Street,
Princeton, 609-924-1666. “Piano
Four Hands,” a classical repertoire
by Larissa Korkina and Esma Pasic-Filipovic on piano. Light lunch
follows. Register. Free. Noon.
Health
Blood Drive, American Red
Cross, Princeton University, Frist
Center, Washington Road, 800733-2767. www.redcrossblood.org. 8:30 a.m. to 8:30 p.m.
African American History Month,
Mercer College, Student Center,
West Windsor campus, 609-5703324. www.mccc.edu. Blood drive. Noon to 6 p.m.
Heal Your Back Series, Feldman
Chiropractic, 4418 Route 27,
Kingston, 609-252-1766. www.feldmanchiropractic.com. Register. $10. 7 to 8 p.m.
Lectures
Holocaust Genocide Resource
Center, Mercer College Student
Center, Second floor of the student center, Old Trenton Road,
West Windsor, 609-570-3355.
www.mccc.edu. Eugenie Mukeshimana, a genocide survivor from
Rwanda, presents a talk about
Romeo Dallaire’s book, “Shake
Hands With the Devil.” Mukeshimana is the founder of the Genocide Survivors Support Network,
whose mission is to help survivors
rebuild their lives and educate
communities about the crime of
genocide. She emigrated to the
United States in 2001 with her
daughter and graduated from the
College of St. Rose in Albany,
New York. Register. Free. 4:30
p.m.
Woodrow
Wilson
School,
Princeton University, Robertson
Hall, Bowl 016, 609-258-2943.
www.princeton.edu.
“Military
Force Planning and Decision Making” presented by Robert L. Gordon III, deputy assistant secretary
of defense for military community
and family policy. 4:30 p.m.
Shopping News
Super Bowl XLVI Giants Photo
Sale, Gold Medal Impressions
Sports Gallery, 43 Princeton
Hightstown Road, West Windsor,
609-606-9001. www.goldmedalimpressions.com. Sports photographer Richard Druckman fea-
R
tures photographs from Super
Bowls, Giants, Jets, Eagles, Yankees, Mets, Nets, Devils, Flyers,
Rutgers, Georgetown, and West
Windsor-Plainsboro High School
North and South. A West Windsor
resident, Druckman is the official
photographer for Trinity College’s
squash team. 30 percent discount
on purchases. 10 a.m. to 5 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.
Socials
Meeting, Women’s College Club
of Princeton, All Saints’ Church,
16 All Saints’ Road, Princeton,
609-732-0912. “The Mothers and
Fathers of Our Presidents” presented by Reverend David E. Mulford, a retired Presbyterian minister. Refreshments. Free. 1 p.m.
Tuesday
February 21
School Sports
For WW-P school sports information, call the hotline: 609-7165000, ext. 5134, www.ww-p.org.
wanted to do.” He averaged one
performance a year. “I prefer to be
on the stage than behind the
scenes,” says Begley, who had to
run crew for two shows at Rutgers’ Mason Gross to fulfill requirements for his degree. Some
of his favorite past roles include
Walter in “Months on End,”
Lysander in “A Midsummer
Night’s Dream,” the baker in “Into the Woods,” Cornelius Hackl in
“The Matchmaker,” and Moonface Martin in “Anything Goes.”
During college he became active in a capella singing. “Music is
my secondary hobby,” he says.
He was also in an improv comedy
troupe that performed at the Stress
Factory in New Brunswick.
Begley landed a job in the mailroom at the state offices in Trenton through a friend of his father.
He has since been promoted as a
public affairs coordinator. During
a two-year hiatus from the stage,
Begley has been doing independent films, performing and
recording an album with an allmale a capella group, Casual Harmony, and writing scripts.
He met his girlfriend, Annie
Lutz, in an acting class at Rutgers.
“We fell in love,” he says. “It is
like a fairy tale.” Lutz worked
with George Street’s education
theater group for a year and is
leaving later this week to play
Dorothy in a national tour of
“Wizard of Oz.”
North vs. South Girls Basketball.
At High School North. 5 p.m.
North vs. South Boys Basketball.
At High School North. 7:30 p.m.
Art
Workshop, Princeton Photography Club, Johnson Education Center, D&R Greenway Land Trust, 1
Preservation Place, Princeton, 732422-3676. www.princetonphotoclub.org. Hope Proper moderates.
Register. 7 p.m.
Classical Music
Composers Ensemble, Princeton University Department of
Music, Taplin Auditorium, 609258-5000. www.princeton.edu/utickets. “Rush Camel — Grow
Tree” directed by Barbara White
and Michael Pratt. Free. 8 p.m.
Live Music
Franklin Alison Jazz, Witherspoon Grill, 57 Witherspoon
Street, Princeton, 609-924-6011.
6:30 to 10 p.m.
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
Rehearsal, Princeton Garden
Statesmen, Plainsboro Library, 9
Van Doren Street, Plainsboro,
888-636-4449.
www.menwhosing.org. Men of all ages and experience levels are invited to sing
in four-part harmony. The nonprofit organization presents at numerous charities. Free. 7:30 to 10
p.m.
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Blood Drive, American Red
Cross, Princeton University, Frist
Center, Washington Road, 800733-2767. www.redcrossblood.org. 8:30 a.m. to 8:30 p.m.
Mental Health
Education Meetings, NAMI Mercer, 3371 Brunswick Pike, Suite
124, Lawrenceville, 609-7998994. namimercer.org. “What Is
Trauma and What Is Our Community’s Response to Trauma?” presented by Dekia Smith, care manager supervisor at Capital County
Begley moved to Plainsboro in
2009 after his best friend recommended Ravens Crest as a good
place to live. “It is nice and central
to everything we need,” he says.
— Lynn Miller
The Game of Love and
Chance, Off-Broadstreet Theater, 5 South Greenwood Avenue,
Hopewell. Friday, February 17, to
Children’s Collaborative and Traumatic Response Coordinator.
Register. Free. 7:30 to 9 p.m.
Qigong, Optimal Exercise, 27
Maplewood Avenue, Cranbury,
609-203-0550. Energy healing
workshop with Sangita Patel. Register. $15. 8 p.m.
For Families
Read and Explore, Terhune Orchards, 330 Cold Soil Road, 609924-2310. terhuneorchards.com.
“Fur, Feathers, Fluff: Keeping
Warm in Winter” includes two stories about animals, an exploration
of the sense of touch, and create a
paper bag animal. Register. $5 per
child. 10 a.m.
NJ Orators, Barnes & Noble, MarketFair, West Windsor, 609-7161570. www.bn.com. Black history
month presentation by young people. 6 p.m.
Lectures
Tax Assistance, Plainsboro Public Library, 9 Van Doren Street,
609-275-2897. www.lmxac.org/plainsboro. Register. Free. 10
a.m. to 3:30 p.m.
Symposium on the Performing
Arts, Windrows, 2000 Windrow
Drive, Plainsboro, 800-708-7007.
www.princetonwindrows.net. “A
Theatrical Life, in Three Acts” presented by Peggy Henning, focuses
on her adventures on Broadway,
live television, and as a “Romper
Room” teacher. “Dancing the
Gamut” with Gene Bayliss, a
choreographer who was involved
with the original Broadway production of “Bye Bye Birdie.” “A Concert-ed Effort” with Bob and Lynn
Biddlecome, a Windrows couple,
focuses on Bob’s career as a bass
trombonist for the New York City
Ballet and the American Symphony, and Lynn’s as a singer with the
Metropolitan and New York City
opera companies. Lunch with the
presenters included. Register.
Free. 11 a.m. See story page 35.
Woodrow
Wilson
School,
Princeton University, Robertson
Hall, Dodds, 609-258-2943. “Presidents and the Transformation of
American Foreign Policy in the
Twentieth Century” presented by
Joseph S. Nye Jr., professor at
Harvard University. 4:30 p.m.
True Confessions:
Austin Begley of
Plainsboro and
Melissa Rittman
of Ewing.
Saturday, March 24. $29.50 to
$31.50 includes dessert. 609-4662766. www.off-broadstreet.com.
Socials
Women in Business, Bear Creek
Assisted Living, 291 Village
Road East, West Windsor, 732238-4488. Meet, mix, and mingle
with other entrepreneurial women
in central Jersey. Bring business
cards, company literature, and a
door prize. Register. 5:30 to 7:30
p.m.
Socials
Women in Business, Bear Creek
Assisted Living, 291 Village Road
East, West Windsor, 732-2384488. Networking with other entrepreneurial women in central Jersey. Free. 5:30 to 7:30 p.m.
National Center for Creative Aging, Arts Council of Princeton,
102 Witherspoon Street, 609-9248777. www.artscouncilofprinceton.org. “Arts and Aging” presented by Susan Perlstein, founder of
National Center for Creative Aging
and Elders Share the Arts. Panel
discussion follows the talk. Register. Free. 7:30 p.m.
Meeting, Rotary Club of Plainsboro, Guru Palace, 2215 Route 1
South, North Brunswick, 732-2130095. www.plainsbororotary.org.
7:30 p.m.
For Seniors
AARP Tax Service, West Windsor Senior Center, 271 Clarksville Road, West Windsor, 609799-9068. Assistance with state
and federal returns. Register.
Free. 9 a.m. to noon.
Wednesday
February 22
Ash Wednesday.
Municipal Meetings
Public Meeting, West Windsor
Planning Board, Municipal Building,
609-799-2400.
www.westwindsornj.org. 7 p.m.
School Sports
North and South Boys and Girls
Basketball, 609-716-5000 ext.
5134. www.ww-p.org. Mercer
County Tournament Finals.
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Reminiscences: Three Lives Spent in the Theater
W
indrows University series has featured resident and guest experts
sharing their knowledge and stories
on a wide variety of cultural and educational
topics. On Tuesday, February 21, “Symposium on the Performing Arts” includes a lineup of celebrity artists and residents of
Windrows, who will share insights into the
theater, dance, and concert performance.
“A Theatrical Life, in Three Acts” will be
presented by Peggy Henning, who had a
stage name of Peggy Menefee. After extensive training and performing during her
years at Syracuse University and in summer
stock, she arrived in Manhattan in 1950 to
look for work on Broadway. It was the early
days of live television and plays on Broadway. She appeared with Charles Lawton,
Charles Coburn, Paul Newman, Jackie
Cooper, and her good friend from Syracuse,
Jerry Stiller. Henning will tell about her adventures on Broadway and live television.
Her years as a “Romper Room” teacher influenced her second career in education.
“Dancing the Gamut” presented by Gene
Bayliss focuses on his involvement with the
original Broadway production of “Bye Bye
Birdie,” and his work with Bob Fosse, Chita
Rivera, Ray Charles, Paul Lynde, and Marge
and Gower Champion.
“A Concert-ed Effort” presented by Bob
and Lynn Bicclecone talk about their days at
Lincoln Center, where he was a bass trombonist for the New York City Ballet, the
American Symphony, and others; and she
was a singer with the Metropolitan and New
York City operas and a teacher of musical
theater.
Henning was born and raised in Baltimore, Maryland. At Syracuse University she
caught the eye of the head of the drama department when she was in a small play. He
invited her to major in drama. It was at Syracuse that she became friends with Jerry
Stiller. Still friends, they recently dined together at the Algonquin Hotel in New York
City.
Dancing
Contra Dance, Princeton Country Dancers, Suzanne Patterson
Center, Monument Drive, 609924-6763. princetoncountrydancers.org. Instruction followed by
dance. $8. 7:30 to 10:30 p.m.
Literati
Author Event, Labyrinth Books,
122 Nassau Street, Princeton,
609-497-1600. labyrinthbooks.com. Erica Lehrer, poet, and Sam
Wang, associate professor of molecular biology and neuroscience at
Princeton University, introduce
and read from “Dancing with Ataxia,” Lehrer’s collection of poems.
Profits from the sale of the book will
be donated to Princeton’s Neuroscience Institute and medical research via the National Ataxia
Foundation. Lehrer graduated
from Princeton in 1980. 6 p.m.
Live Music
Open Mic Night, It’s a Grind Coffee House, 7 Schalks Crossing
Road, Plainsboro, 609-275-2919.
itsagrind.com. Register. 6:45 p.m.
Gardens
Basics of Successful Lawn Care,
Master Gardeners of Mercer
County, 930 Spruce Street, Trenton, 609-989-6830. mgofmc.org.
“Pest Control and Troubleshooting” presented by Barbara J.
Bromley, Mercer County horticulturist. Register. $12 7 to 8:30 p.m.
Health
Living with Alzheimer’s: For
Caregivers, Alzheimer’s Association, Plainsboro Public Library,
9 Van Doren Street, Plainsboro,
609-987-8121. www.alz.org. “Early Stage” focuses on the beginning
of the disease when changes in
memory, thinking, and communication become noticeable. Family
caregivers may make adaptations
in daily living routine and roles,
and plan for future changes and
needs. Register. Free. 6 to 8 p.m.
She performed at Oneida, New York, for
six years. “We did one play a week, while rehearsing during the day for the next one.”
The group did five to six plays every summer. “We did everything on and off stage,”
she says. “It was the greatest training. We especially learned how to play the audience.”
She later worked at the Gulf Theater doing
live television — in an small room above
Grand Central Station. It was not air-conditioned — and it was summer. She worked with
Paul Newman. “He was a hard-working person,” she says. “We met years later when he
was in the Princeton area visiting his daughter
at the Hun School. He remembered me and reminded me about our days at Grand Central
Station — with a twinkle in his eyes,” she says.
She worked on several shows that were
headed to Broadway but most closed during
the out of town runs. “In those days we went to
New Haven, Boston, Philadelphia, and then
Broadway,” she says. One show, “The Long
Watch,” did make it to Broadway in 1952 —
and had 12 performances before closing.
“I loved the theater and it was something
very special to me,” she says. “I get so upset
with Broadway today. There are too many
movie stars and microphones.”
“In the early 1950s Broadway was
wealthy with playwrights, including Tennessee Williams and Arthur Miller,” she
says. As a young actress, Henning also
worked as the cigarette girl at the Plaza Hotel
and hat check girl at the Russian Tea Room.
A few years later, she returned to Baltimore and saw a small ad, “teacher for TV
wanted.” She applied and go the job. She
worked with Miss Nancy, the first Romper
Room teacher. Her main job was to teach the
teacher how to do the show.
She became fascinated with teaching and
returned to school for advanced degrees. Henning received a master’s in creative arts and
education from Rutgers. She worked on her
doctorate and completed it — except for the
thesis. Henning taught at John Witherspoon
School in Princeton for 25 years.
On Stage and Off:
Peggy Henning
with Jerry Gerschman in Moliere’s
‘Bourgeois Gentleman,’ in the early
’50s, right, and
with Jerry Stiller
at the Algonquin
Hotel in New York,
last month.
A Princeton resident for
many years, she lived in Lawrenceville for several years and
Palm Beach, Florida, in the
winter. After an injury in Florida, she had to give up ballroom
dancing and now walks with a
cane. “Windrows is like a
cruise ship that doesn’t move,”
she says. “The food is great
and there are always activities
to do.”
“I feel like Betty White,” she says, referring to White’s continuing presence on television and movies and the recent interviews
she has given, including one to Actors’ Equity about how she got her union card. “She and
Jerry Stiller are still getting all this work.”
“I was in two noble professions — acting
and teaching,” she says. “I did the things I
wanted to do, and I am very content.
— Lynn Miller
Symposium on the Performing Arts,
Windrows, 2000 Windrow Drive, Plainsboro. Tuesday, February 21, 11 a.m. “A Theatrical Life, in Three Acts” presented by
Peggy Henning, Gene Bayliss, and Bob and
Lynn Biddlecome, a Windrows couple.
Lunch with the presenters included. Register. Free. 800-708-7007 or www.princetonwindrows.net.
Schools
Dancing
Open Classroom, Wilberforce
School, 75 Mapleton Road,
Plainsboro, 609-924-6111. www.wilberforceschool.org. Christian
school from kindergarten to eighth
grade. Children are welcome.
8:30 to 10 a.m.
Argentine Tango, Viva Tango,
Suzanne Patterson Center, 45
Stockton Street, Princeton, 732789-5272. princeton.vivatango@gmail.com. Class and practice
session. $12. 8 p.m.
Thursday
February 23
Author Event, Princeton University, Lewis Library, Room 120,
609-258-3150. www.princeton.edu. Kitty Ferguson, author of
“Stephen Hawking: An Unfettered
Mind.” 7:30 p.m.
Wellness
On Stage
Classical Music
Dance for People with Parkinson’s Disease, DanceVision,
Forrestal Village, 116 Rockingham Row, Plainsboro, 609-5141600. www.danceforpd.org. Dancers who trained with the Mark
Morris Dance Group and Brooklyn
Parkinson Group collaborate with
DanceVision and Parkinson Alliance to present a movement
class for people with Parkinson’s
disease and their caregivers. Register. $10; $15 with a caregiver,
spouse, or partner. 1 to 2:15 p.m.
Off the Wall, McCarter Theater,
Art Museum, Princeton University,
609-258-6530. www.mccarter.org. Sneak peak at “Travesties,”
Tom Stoppard’s comedy set in
Zurich, 1917. Meet the cast, hear
a brief excerpt of the play, and explore the museum. Refreshments.
Register by E-mail to dcannon@mccarter.org. Free. 6:30
p.m.
After Noon Concerts, Princeton
University, Chapel, 609-2583654. James Hicks, organist.
Free. 12:30 to 1 p.m.
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are
Dead, Princeton Shakespeare
Company, Whitman College Theater, 609-258-1500. www.princeton.edu/psc. Tom Stoppard comedy. Directed by Patrick Morton ‘13.
$8. 8 p.m.
Benefit Evening, Arts Council of
Princeton, Ethan Allen, 3524
Route 1 North, West Windsor,
609-924-8777. www.artscouncilofprinceton.org. Grand opening of
the new design center. Silent auc-
Caregiver
Support
Group,
Alzheimer’s Association, RWJ
Center for Health and Wellness,
3100 Quakerbridge Road, Mercerville, 609-396-6788. www.alz.org. Free. 6 p.m.
Attention Deficit Disorder Lecture and Discussion, Children
and Adults with Attention-Deficit
Hyperactivity Disorder, Riverside
School, 58 Riverside Drive, Princeton, 609-683-8787. “Help! My
AD/HD Kid Hates to Read, Could it
be Dyslexia?” presented by Meg
Tuttle, president of the Dyslexia
Center of Princeton. 7 to 9 p.m.
Bridges to Wellness, Elixir Fund,
Capital Health, 1 Capital Way,
Pennington, 800-494-9228. elixirfund.org. Acupressure workshop
for patients with cancer and their
caregivers. Register. $12. 7 p.m.
For Families
SummerQuest, Princeton Montessori School, 487 Cherry Valley
Road, Princeton, 609-924-4594.
princetonmontessori.org. Meet the
teachers and learn about the summer program. 8:45 to 9:45 a.m.
Lectures
Woodrow
Wilson
School,
Princeton University, Robertson
Hall, Bowl 016, 609-258-2943.
“Ethics and Good Leadership in
Foreign Policy” presented by
Joseph S. Nye Jr., professor at
Harvard University. 4:30 p.m.
Literati
Piano Recital, Princeton University, Taplin Auditorium, 609-2581500. www.princeton.edu. Jacinth
Greywoods and Anna Tchetchetkine on piano. Free. 8 p.m.
Good Causes
tion benefits the arts council. Register. 5 p.m. to 8 p.m.
Benefit for Haiti, Beth El Synagogue, 50 Maple Stream Road,
East Windsor, 609-443-4454.
www.bethel.net. Haitian music,
dancing, and kosher food. Register. $18. 7 p.m.
Comedy
Comedy Night, Joe Delong Presents, Maestro 206, 150 Route
206, Hillsborough, 908-202-1322.
facebook.com/joedelongcomic.
Open mic for newbies to pros to
present a seven minute routine.
Prizes for the two funniest comics.
No cover. Register by E-mail to
jdel76@gmail.com. 7 to 10 p.m.
Faith
Annual Women in Church and
Ministry Lecture, Princeton Theological Seminary, Mackay Campus Center, 609-497-7963. ptsem.edu. “Divine Dreamers: Feminist
Religious Imagination and the
Shaping of the American Church”
presented by Beverly Zink-Sawyer,
professor of preaching and worship
at Union Presbyterian Seminary in
Richmond, Virginia. 7 p.m.
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Film
Film and Discussion, Princeton
Public Library, 65 Witherspoon
Street, Fireplace on second floor,
609-924-9529. princetonlibrary.org. Screening of “Magic Trip” featuring restored footage from more
than 100 hours of film shot during
Ken Kesey’s 1964 road trip. Kesey
wrote “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” and “The Merry Band of
Pranksters” on the trip. Alex Gibney, who will appear at the post
screening discussion, was given
access to the raw footage and audiotape by the Kesey family. 7 p.m.
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Food & Dining
Healthy Living, Whole Earth Center, 360 Nassau Street, Princeton.
wholeearthcenter.com.
Discussion group co-hosted by Palmer
Uhl and V. Bea Snowden. Register
by E-mail to register@healthylivingprinceton.org. Free. 9:30 a.m.
Maria Speck, Miele Design Center, 9 Independence Way, Princeton, 800-843-7231. www.mieleusa.com. Booksigning and cooking demonstration by Maria
Speck, a food journalist and author of “Ancient Grains for Modern
Meals.” Register. $25 includes an
autographed copy of the book. 11
a.m. to 2 p.m.
Wherever the Olive Grows: Catalonia, Mediterra, 29 Hulfish
Street, Princeton, 609-252-9680.
www.terramomo.com.
Cuisine
and wine of Catalonia. Register.
$55. 6 to 8 p.m.
Health
African American History Month,
Mercer College, Student Center,
West Windsor campus, 609-5703324. www.mccc.edu. Blood drive. 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Heart
Disease
Awareness
Month, Central Jersey Heart
Group, Hopewell Valley Country
Club, 114 Pennington Hopewell
Road, Hopewell, 609-466-3000.
cjheart.com. “Heart to Heart,” a
discussion presented by Dr. Aliya
Browne to raise awareness and
give participants the practical
tools to fight heart disease.
Speakers also talk about the impact of stress on your heart focused on women ages 40 to 60.
Register. Free. 6 to 8 p.m.
Wellness
Kids Stuff
The Art of Reading, West Windsor Library, 333 North Post
Road, 609-799-0462. Creation
station for students in grades 4 to
8. Students may use library materials to create their entry in the art
contest. 4 to 7 p.m.
Lectures
Food Safety Workshop, Middlesex County Agricultural Extension, Earth Center in Davidson’s
Mill Pond Park, 42 Riva Avenue,
South Brunswick, 732-398-5262.
Topics geared to farmers include
the Food Safety Modernization
Act, harmonized Food Safety
Standards, Developing a Food
Safety Plan, Worker Hygiene, and
How to Prepare for a Third Party
Audit. Refreshments. Register.
$20. 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Woodrow
Wilson
School,
Princeton University, Robertson
Hall, Dodds, 609-258-2943. Nobel
Laureate Daniel Kahneman, professor of psychology and public
affairs emeritus, discusses his
new book, “Thinking, Fast and
Slow.” Booksigning and public reception follows the talk in the
Shultz dining room. Books will be
sold outside the auditorium starting at 3:45 p.m. Register. Free.
4:30 p.m.
Politics
Dance
Tax Workshop for Small Business Owners, U.S. Representative Rush Holt, South Brunswick
Library, 609-750-9365. www.holt.house.gov. Representative
Holt presents information about
the recent changes to the tax
code, including changes to tax
credits and incentives for small
businesses. Register by E-mail to
andrewblack@mail.house.gov.
Holt also holds a town hall meeting, Saturday, February 25, 1
p.m., in the Council Chambers of
the West Windsor Municipal Complex. 9 a.m.
On Pointe Lecture Series, American Repertory Ballet, Princeton
Ballet School, 301 North Harrison
Street, Princeton, 609-984-8400.
www.arballet.org. “Watching and
Talking About Dance” presented
by Barbara Fox, a writer for U.S.1
News; and Michael Robertson, a
professor of English at the College
of New Jersey. They will present
methods to watching and talking
about dance to appreciate a performance. Free. 5:15 p.m.
Center for the Study of Religion,
Princeton University, Lewis Library,
609-258-2943.
www.princeton.edu. “Spirits of Protestantism: Medicine, Healing, and
Liberal Christianity” with comments from Courtney Bender, Columbia University; Joao Biehl,
Princeton University; and John
Lardas Modern, Franklin & Marshall. Response by the author,
Pamela Klassen, University of
Toronto. The book reveals how
liberal Protestants went from being early 20th century medical
missionaries seeking to convert
others through science and scripture, to becoming vocal critics of
missionary arrogance who experiment with healing modes such as
yoga and Reiki. Free. 4:30 p.m.
Schools
Black History Month Program,
West Windsor-Plainsboro African American Parent Support
Group, High School South,
Clarksville Road, West Windsor.
Tributes to the Tuskegee airmen,
a play by the fourth grade class,
and a speaker from an African
American member of the Armed
forces. Collections of food for the
food pantry. 6:30 p.m.
Outside the Box, Princeton
Learning Cooperative, West
Windsor Library, North Post Road,
West Windsor, 609-851-2522.
www.plcteens.org. “Educational
Alternatives for Teenagers” presented by a panel of progressive
educators
including
Tom
Wilschutz of Solebury School;
Robert Burkhardt of Eagle Rock
School; Joel Hammon of Princeton Learning Cooperative; and
Barbara Rapaport of the New Jersey Homeschooling Association.
Moderated by Jane Fremon of the
Princeton Friends School. Free. 7
p.m.
Spring Dance Festival, Princeton
University, McCarter Theater
(Berlind), 609-258-1500. www.princeton.edu. $15. 8 p.m.
On Stage
The Game of Love and Chance,
Off-Broadstreet
Theater,
5
South Greenwood Avenue, Hopewell, 609-466-2766. www.offbroadstreet.com. A romantic comedy by French playwright Marivaux features Melissa Rittman of
Ewing and Austin Begley of
Plainsboro. $29.50 to $31.50 includes dessert. 7 p.m. See story
page 34.
Death of a Salesman, Kelsey Theater, Mercer County Community
College, 1200 Old Trenton Road,
West Windsor, 609-570-3333.
kelseytheatre.net. Arthur Miller’s
tragic drama about the pursuit of
the American dream in 1949 is presented by Pierrot Productions.
$16. A reception with the cast and
crew follows the opening night reception. 8 p.m.
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are
Dead, Princeton Shakespeare
Company, Whitman College Theater, 609-258-1500. www.princeton.edu/psc. Tom Stoppard comedy. Directed by Patrick Morton ‘13.
$8. 8 p.m.
Film
Film, Princeton Public Library,
65 Witherspoon Street, Fireplace
on second floor, 609-924-9529.
www.princetonlibrary.org.
Screening of “The Queen.” 10
a.m.
Oscar Shorts Festival, Trenton
Film Society, Mill Hill Playhouse,
205 East Front Street, Trenton,
609-396-6966. www.trentonfilmfestival.org. Screenings of the Oscar-nominated short films in categories of best documentary short
film. $15. 7 p.m.
Dancing
Friday
February 24
Folk Dance, Princeton Folk
Dance, Suzanne Patterson Center, 45 Stockton Street, Princeton,
609-912-1272. www.princetonfolkdance.org. Beginners welcome. Lesson followed by dance.
No partner needed. $5. 8 p.m.
School Sports
Literati
For WW-P school sports information, call the hotline: 609-7165000, ext. 5134, www.ww-p.org.
Lunch and Learn, Princeton Public Library, 65 Witherspoon
Street, 609-924-8822. princetonlibrary.org. Harry Kendall, author
of “Truth Crushed to Earth,” a novel with a focus on the Underground Railroad and the fugitive
slave insurrection in Christiana,
Pennsylvania. Bring your lunch.
11:30 a.m.
South Girls Basketball. At Trenton. 5:30 p.m.
North Boys Basketball. Notre
Dame. 7 p.m.
North Girls Basketball. At Notre
Dame. 7 p.m.
South Boys Basketball. Trenton.
7 p.m.
Joyful
Disciples
Living
the Faith
WORD AND SACRAMENT WORSHIP
SUNDAY MORNINGS AT 8:30AM AND 11AM
Christian education for all ages, 9:45 a.m.
Newcomers always welcome.
aA
Prince of Peace Lutheran Church (ELCA)
Pastor Carl Joecks
177 Princeton Hightstown Road • Princeton Junction 08550
609.799.1753 • www.popnj.org
Evening of Music & Laughs
Author Event, Arts Council of
Princeton, 102 Witherspoon
Street, 609-924-8777. www.artscouncilofprinceton.org. Freeman Dyson, author of “Advanced
Quantum Mechanics” and professor emeritus of physics at the Institute for Advanced Study. A talk,
Q&A, and booksigning. 7 p.m.
A
fun evening is planned
with the new association
of Tre Piani Restaurant
and JW Actors Studio, both in
Forrestal Village, Plainsboro.
Far and in Between, the improv
comedy troupe, has found a new
home and is ready to present its
first show at the restaurant on
Saturday, February 25. The musical duo of Lucy Wood and
Michael Angelo Diao present
some of their original songs that
have a country/blues feel as well
as covers of some current pop
tunes.
Jody Wood, an actor for close
to 30 years, established the studio in 2006. The troupe debuted
in 2010 and restructured in 2011.
“They will present unique comedy bits as well as some improv
viola da gamba for Dryden Ensemble, and Joanne Kon on harpsichord, present three sonatas by
Johann Sebastian Bach. Discussion follows. 5 p.m.
An Evening with Bruce Hornsby,
McCarter Theater (Matthews),
91 University Place, Princeton,
609-258-2787. www.mccarter.org. Solo acoustic piano. $35 to
$42. 8 p.m.
Spectrum Concerts, Princeton
University, Chapel, 609-2583654. “Strings and Pipes,” a concert of music for cello and organ
featuring Alistair MacRae on cello
and Eric Plutz on organ. 8 p.m.
Jazz & Blues
An Evening of Gospel Music and
Dance, Princeton High School
Studio Band, Walnut Lane,
Princeton, 609-806-4280. www.princetonjazz. org. In celebration
of Black History month, the concert features music composed
and arranged by Raymond Wise.
Performances by Princeton High
School choirs, Trenton Children’s
Chorus, and the Revelation Praise
Dance Ministry of First Baptist
Church. Choir members from
Witherspoon Street Presbyterian
church and First Baptist Church of
Princeton join in three finale selections. $10. 7:30 p.m.
Live Music
Charles Laurita and Chandler
Scales, Pure Restaurant and
Lounge, 3499 Route 1 South,
West Windsor, 609-919-0770.
www.charleslaurita.com. Guitar
and sax music. 9:30 p.m.
Good Causes
Meeting, Successfully Speak Up
Toastmasters, Pellettieri, Rabstein, & Altman, 100 Nassau Park
Boulevard, Suite 111, West Windsor, 732-631-0114. ssu.freetoasthost.ws. Members deliver
and evaluate prepared and impromptu speeches. 7:30 to 9 p.m.
Poker Tournament and Casino
Night, HomeFront, Stone Terrace by John Henry’s, 2275 Kuser
Road, Hamilton, 609-989-9417.
www.homefrontnj.org.
Hors
d’oeuvres, cash bar, and access
to silent auction. Poker tournament only, $70. Casino games only, $60. Must be 21 or older to play.
Benefit for food, housing, education, and services to homeless
families. Register. 7 p.m.
Classical Music
Benefit Galas
Socials
Get to Know Bach, Princeton
Public Library, 65 Witherspoon
Street, Fireplace on second floor,
609-924-9529. www.princetonlibrary.org. Lisa Terry, who plays
Fire and Ice Benefit, McCarter
Theater (Matthews), 91 University Place, Princeton, 609-2582787. www.mccarter.org. Bruce
Musical Duo: Lucy
Wood and Michael
Angelo Diao provide
live music at the comedy improv evening.
games,” says Wood. “Audience
suggestions are more than welcome.” The $25 admission
charge will be applied to drinks
and food. Reservations are suggested.
Far and In Between, JW Actors Studio, Tre Piani Restaurant, Forrestal Village, Plainsboro. Saturday, February 25, 8
p.m. Register. $25 is applied to
food and drinks. 609-452-1515.
www.jwactorsstudio.com.
Hornsby with solo acoustic piano
followed by a celebration in the
lobby with specialty cocktails and
food. $100; $50 for party only;
concert only, $35 to $42. 8 p.m.
Comedy
Jacki Martling, Catch a Rising
Star, Hyatt Regency, 102
Carnegie Center, West Windsor,
609-987-8018. www.catcharisingstar.com. Register. $19.50. 8 p.m.
Comedy Night, Grover’s Mill Coffee House, 335 Princeton Hightstown Road, West Windsor, 609716-8771.
www.groversmillcoffee.com. Helene Angley of
West Windsor hosts. Free. 8 p.m.
Food & Dining
Wine Tasting, CoolVines, 21
Spring Street, Princeton, 609924-0039. www.coolvines.com.
Sake, a rice wine. 5 to 7 p.m.
Food and Wine Pairing, The
Grape Escape, 12 Stults Road,
Dayton, 609-409-9463. thegrapeescape.net. Five course food and
wine pairing created by Luis Martinez, executive chef of Teresa’s
Cafe in Princeton, with wines
paired to each course. Register.
$90; $165 per couple includes a
bottle of olive oil. 7:30 p.m.
Gardens
Winter Conference, New Jersey
Farm to School Network, Atlantic Cape Community College,
5100 Black Horse Pike, Mays
Landing, 609-577-5113. http://njfarm2schoolpbworks.com. Focus
on bringing good food and nutrition education solutions to schools
for educators, healthcare providers, agricultural professionals,
philanthropists, and students
seeking degrees in education,
healthcare, social sciences, agriculture, and the culinary arts. $40
for both days. 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Blood Drive
Plainsboro Public Library, 9 Van
Doren Street, 609-275-2897. lmxac.org/plainsboro. 1 to 7 p.m.
Wellness
Qigong, Ruth A. Golush, Center
for Relaxation and Healing, 666
Plainsboro Road, Suite 635,
Plainsboro, 609-426-9693. www.ruthagolush.com. Meditative en-
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ergy exercises for balance. Register. $20. 10 to 11 a.m.
For Families
Black History Month, YWCA
Princeton, 59 Paul Robeson
Place, Princeton, 609-497-2100.
www.ywcaprinceton.org.
West
African percussion workshop with
Dave Merritt of the Drum & Dance
Learning Center. For all ages.
$25. 7 to 8:30 p.m.
For Teens
What’s Up Princeton, Arts Council of Princeton, 102 Witherspoon Street, 609-924-8777. artscouncilofprinceton.org. Screening
of “Despicable Me,” a trivia game,
and refreshments for middle
school students. Free. 7 p.m.
Lectures
Tax Assistance, Plainsboro Public Library, 9 Van Doren Street,
609-275-2897. www.lmxac.org/plainsboro. Register. Free. 10
a.m. to 3:30 p.m.
Brown Bag Series, College of
New Jersey, Mildred and Ernest
Mayo Concert Hall, Ewing, 609771-2585. www.tcnj.edu. “Why Art
Matters” with Jeff Nathanson, executive director of Arts Council of
Princeton. E-mail artsfac@tcnj.edu for more information. Free.
11:30 a.m. to 12:20 p.m.
Fund for Irish Studies, Princeton
University, Lewis Center, 185
Nassau Street, 609-258-1500.
www.princeton.edu/arts. “Life in
Translation: My German-Irish
Childhood” presented by Hugo
Hamilton, author of “The Speckled
People. Free. 4:30 p.m.
Politics
Annual Dinner, Lincoln Club of
New Jersey, Westin, Forrestal
Village, Plainsboro, 609-4970740. www.lc-nj.org. Cocktails,
dinner, and open bar. Guests include State Senator Joe Kyrillos
and Congressman Scott Garrett.
Register online. $75. 6:30 p.m.
Colleges
African American History Month,
Mercer County Community College, Kerney Hall, North Broad
and Academy streets, Trenton,
609-570-3404. www.mccc.edu.
Musical event features Frequency, a soul band. Free. 7 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.
For Seniors
AARP Safe Driving Program,
West Windsor Senior Center,
271 Clarksville Road, West Windsor, 609-799-9068. Register. $12
to $14. 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Sports
Princeton Hockey, Baker Rink,
609-258-4849. www.goprincetontigers.com. Yale, $10. 7 p.m.
Trenton Titans, Sun National
Bank Center, 81 Hamilton Avenue, Trenton, 609-341-1100.
www.trentontitanshockey.com.
Hockey vs. Greenville. $11 and
up. 7 p.m.
edy by French playwright Marivaux features Melissa Rittman of
Ewing and Austin Begley of
Plainsboro. $29.50 to $31.50 includes dessert. 7 p.m. See story
page 34.
Death of a Salesman, Kelsey
Theater, Mercer County Community College, 1200 Old Trenton Road, West Windsor, 609570-3333. www.kelseytheatre.net. Arthur Miller’s tragic drama
about the pursuit of the American
dream in 1949 is presented by
Pierrot Productions. $16. 8 p.m.
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are
Dead, Princeton Shakespeare
Company, Whitman College Theater,
609-258-1500.
www.princeton.edu/psc. Tom Stoppard
comedy. Directed by Patrick Morton ‘13. $8. 8 p.m.
Film
Sensory Friendly Films Series,
New Jersey Center for Tourette
Syndrome, AMC Theater, 17
Route 1, New Brunswick, 732846-2275.
www.njcts.org.
Screening of “Journey 2: The Mysterious Island” for families affected
by autism and other disorders.
Lights will be turned up and the
sound will be turned down. Bring
your own gluten-free, casein-free
snacks. No previews or advertisements. Attendees may get up,
dance, walk, shout, or sing. $46 to
$6. 10 a.m.
Spring Dance Festival, Princeton
University, McCarter Theater
(Berlind), 609-258-1500. www.princeton.edu. $15. 2 and 8 p.m.
On Stage
The Game of Love and Chance,
Off-Broadstreet
Theater,
5
South Greenwood Avenue, Hopewell, 609-466-2766. www.offbroadstreet.com. A romantic com-
of “Ride the Divide,” a film that
captures a mountain bike race
from Canada to Mexico along the
Continental Divide trail. $5. 7:30
p.m.
Art
Art Exhibit, Princeton University
Art Museum, Princeton campus,
609-258-3788. artmuseum.princeton.edu. First day for “Princeton
and the Gothic Revival: 18701930,” an exhibit exploring the
Gothic Revival movement in architecture and design across America
at the end of the 19th century. On
view to June 24. 11 a.m.
Dancing
3-26 Rodney & Eva, Grover’s Mill
Coffee House, 335 Princeton
Hightstown Road, West Windsor,
609-716-8771. www.groversmillcoffee.com. 7:30 p.m.
Black Cat Habitat, It’s a Grind
Coffee House, 7 Schalks Crossing Road, Plainsboro, 609-2752919. www.itsagrind.com. Acoustic original pop rock. 8 to 10 p.m.
Far and In Between, JW Actors
Studio, Tre Piani Restaurant, Forrestal Village, Plainsboro, 609452-1515.
jwactorsstudio.com.
Musical guests Lucy Wood and
Mike Diao. Performance by JW
Actors Studio’s improv comedy
troupe featuring members of the
studio’s advanced improv work-
shop. Jody Wood, a professional
actor for close to 30 years, has run
the studio since 2006. Register.
$25 is applied to food and drinks. 8
p.m. See story page 36.
Benefit Galas
Diamond Jubilee, Jewish Family
and Children’s Services of
Greater Mercer County, Westin,
Forrestal Village, Plainsboro, 609987-8100.
www.jfcsonline.org.
Dinner, silent auction, dancing to
celebrate “75 Years of Families
Helping Families,” a diamond jubilee gala. Register. $150. 7 to
11:30 p.m.
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No Name California Mix, Central
Jersey Dance Society, Unitarian
Universalist Congregation, 50
Cherry Hill Road, Princeton, 609945-1883. centraljerseydance.org. Swing, hustle, salsa, merengue, and more. Lesson followed by open dancing. No partner
needed. $12. 6:45 to 11:30 p.m.
Oscar Shorts Festival, Trenton
Film Society, Mill Hill Playhouse,
205 East Front Street, Trenton,
609-396-6966. www.trentonfilmfestival.org. Screenings of the Oscar-nominated short films in categories of best animated and live
action shorts. $25. 1 p.m.
Performathon,
Westminster
Choir College, Bristol Chapel,
609-921-2663.
www.rider.edu.
Children Helping Children through
the New Jersey Music Teachers
Association event led by Betty
Stoloff, adjunct associate professor of piano. Funds raised benefit
Ronald McDonald Houses in New
Black Maria Film Festival,
Brunswick, Long Branch, and
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Twin Set
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King Set
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Center, 952 Alexander Road,
Removal
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West Windsor, 609-716-1931.
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February 25
Dance
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(Nana/Crocodile), Adam Kercheval (John), Scott Kenkelen (Mr. Darling), and Kelly Cahill (Liza). Also, Marguerite Girandola (Tiger-Lily), front left, Molly Karlin
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American Legion Post 76 invites high school juniors or seniors,
or college freshmen to apply for a
four-year scholarship. Available to
a resident of Princeton Borough or
Township, or West Windsor, who
is a child, stepchild, grandchild, or
great grandchild of a United States
war veteran or a person who served
in the Armed Forces during
wartime. Contact the Princeton
Area Community Foundation, 15
Princess Road, Lawrenceville
08648 or call Henry Frank at 609924-3829.
Westminster Conservatory,
the community music school of
Rider University’s Westminster
College of the Arts, will offer its
early childhood music program in
West Windsor for the first time.
Classes will meet weekly for 10
weeks on Tuesdays, beginning on
March 20, at Princeton Presbyterian Church, 545 Meadow Road, in
West Windsor. Parents and children are invited open houses on
Tuesday, February 21, from 4 to 6
p.m., and Saturday, February 25,
from 10 a.m. to 12 noon. See the
new facilities, meet the faculty, and
participate in demonstration classes. The programs for children from
four months to nine years of age.
For more information visit
www.rider.edu/conservatorykids,
call 609-921-7104, or E-mail LuAnn Longenecker, the program director, at Llongenecker@rider.edu.
Congregation Beth Chaim is
offering a four week Bible class beginning on Wednesday, March 14
at 10 am. Rabbi Cari Bricklin explores the Biblical Text and Rabbinic Midrash (non-legal) interpretations of these texts and apply
these lessons to our lives today. No
previous knowledge is needed.
Congregation Beth Chaim, 329
Village Road East, West Windsor,
609-799-9401.
Snap Fitness at 2025 Old Trenton Road, West Windsor, offers a
free week of classes for new people. Call 609-371-7627 or visit
www.snapfitness.com/westwindsor.
Call for Art
Mercer College Art Gallery
calls for entries for “Mercer County Artists 2012” from artists ages 8
and older who live, work, or attend
school in Mercer County. Artists
may enter up to two original works
of art in any media except photography. Jurying by Jeffrey Wechsler
takes place on Saturday, February
18 at the Gallery. More than $1,000
in prizes will be awarded. Artwork
that receives Purchase awards
from the Mercer County Cultural
and Heritage Commission will become part of the county’s permanent art collection. For more infor-
Opportunities
mation
visit
www.mccc.edu/gallery or E-mail gallery@mccc.edu. The exhibit will be on view
from Tuesday, March 6 through
Thursday, April 5. An awards ceremony will take place Wednesday,
March 14, from 5 to 7:30 p.m.
Auditions
Maurer Productions OnStage
will hold open auditions for its upcoming production of “The
Drowsy Chaperone” on Saturday,
February 25, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.,
and Sunday, February 26, from
noon to 5 p.m., at Kelsey Theater.
The show includes 17 speaking and
singing roles and will be directed
by John M. Maurer, with musical
direction by Laurie Gougher and
choreography by Jane Coult. Auditions are open to actors 17 years
and older. Register for an audition
slot at www.mponstage.com/registration, E-mail Audition@mponstage.com, or call 609-882-2292.
The Mercer County College
student theater company is looking
for a performer for its production
of “Hairspray,” which will be produced April 13 through 22. The
available role is that of Seaweed J.
Stubbs, a hip “Negro Day” dancer.
The performer must be a good
dancer, read as if between the ages
of 16 and 21, and be a tenor. Contact Tracy Antozzeski at jtmf@verizon.net
Auditions for “Gypsy” at Playhouse 22 will be held on Monday
and Tuesday, February 20 and 21,
starting at 7 p.m. Auditions will be
held at the East Brunswick Community Arts Center, 721 Cranbury
Road, East Brunswick.
Bimah Players Community
Theater seeks adult actors and
singers of all ages for “Ever Since
Adam,” a readers’ theater production featuring dramatizations of literature by Mark Twain and other
classic writers as well as songs
about relationships between men
and women. Auditions are Sunday,
March 11, 1 to 6 p.m.; Tuesday,
March 13, 6 to 9 p.m.; and Wednesday, March 14, 7 to 9 p.m., at Monroe Township Jewish Center, 11
Cornell Avenue, Monroe. Performance dates are Sundays, June 3
and 10, 3 and 7:30 p.m.; Thursday,
June 7, 7:30 p.m. E-mail: dirbimahplayers@aol.com or visit
www.bimahplayers.org to set up
an audition appointment.
Auditions are Sunday, February
26, and Saturday, March 3, from 11
a.m. to 4 p.m. for the benefit performance of Eve Ensler’s awardwinning play “The Vagina Monologues.” Auditions will be held at
SAFE in Hunterdon’s Outreach
Office at 47 East Main Street,
Flemington. No prior acting experience is necessary. Performances
are Saturday and Sunday, April 21
and 22, at Hunterdon Central Regional High School. For more information E-mail vdayflemingtonvm@gmail.com, call 908-7887666, or visit www.facebook.com/vdayflemington.
The Villagers Theater will
hold auditions for “The Music
Man” at DeMott Lane in Somerset.
Youth performer auditions will be
held on Monday, March 5, at 6:30
p.m. Adult auditions will be Tuesday and Wednesday, March 6 and
7, at 7 p.m. Be prepared with 16
bars of a song similar in type to this
production’s music (not a song
from the show). Be prepared to
dance. E-mail donna@villagerstheatre.com for more information
Actors are needed for staged
reading of original play for Theater/Dance Workshop Inc. Need
four couples in their 40s and 50s.
E-mail to
theaterdanceworkshop@gmail.com for an interview.
Picnic Spots
Mercer County Park Commission is accepting automated
picnic reservations via the Internet
beginning on Tuesday, February
21, at noon. Residents may make a
reservation, pay, and receive a permit for any of the county’s picnicking areas. Visit www.mercercounty.org to search areas and available
dates.
Volunteer Please
Friendship Circle of Greater
Mercer County offers teen girls
the chance to volunteer for group
providing social and Judaic activities for adults with special needs.
As part of the mini chef program
the girls will prepare food and
snacks for activities as well as prepare meals for homebound adults
with special needs. Visit www.mercerfriends.com or call 609683-7240 for information.
Walking Events
Cross-Jersey Challenge, a
long distance walking network, is
partnering with the East Coast
Greenway Alliance in a program
that utilizes the New Jersey segment of a 3,000 mile trail. Individuals have to walk the entire distance within the next 12 months
and record efforts at crossjerseywalk.org. Walking events scheduled include the Great Canal Walk
on Saturday, April 7, 40 mile walk
from Trenton to New Brunswick;
the Tween Walk, Saturday, April
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14, 10 miles from New Brunswick
to MetroPark; Saturday, May 19,
50 mile walk from Metropark to
New York Penn Station; and Saturday, June 9, 30 mile walk from Jersey City to New York City over the
George Washington Bridge. All
are free. Visit crossjerseywalk.org
for more information.
Competitions
Fairleigh Dickinson University is sponsoring a statewide competition for all New Jersey high
school students with bright commercially feasible business ideas.
The “2012 New Jersey Business
Idea Competition,” is open to all
high school students. The deadline
for applications is Sunday, February 19, and the winners will be announced and honored on the
evening of Friday, March 30, in
Madison. For more information
visit www.fdu.edu/businessidea or
call 973-443-8842.
Mercer County high school students are invited to enter a talent
competition hosted by the Delta
Upsilon Chapter of Omega Psi Phi
Fraternity, in affiliation with the
Youth College program of Mercer
County Community College. The
annual competition is open to 9th
through 12th graders, and the deadline to enter is Sunday, February
19. The competition will be held on
Saturday, March 3, at 12 p.m. in
Kerney Hall at Mercer College’s
James Kerney Campus, 102 North
Broad Street, Trenton. The event is
free and open to the public.
The categories in which students can enter are: classical instrumental, classical vocal, contemporary instrumental, contemporary
vocal, dance (ballet, tap or modern), dramatic interpretation, and
visual arts (painting, drawing,
sculpture or photography). The
winner of the competition will receive $100, and an expense-paid
trip to Baltimore, Maryland, to participate in a multi-state competition where the winner will receive
additional prizes. Registration
forms are available at http://trentonques.org and can be E-mailed to
talenthunt@trentonques.org. Contact Stephone Mickler at 803-4790844.
Politics
The Republican Women of
Mercer County seeks applications for the Kabis Memorial Internship Program for young
women. The application deadline
is Saturday, February 18. The program offers three young women
the opportunity to spend six weeks
in Washington, D.C. working in
the headquarters of the women’s
partisan political organization. Applicants must be U.S. Citizens in
their junior year of college or college students age 21 and over, having completed high school but not
yet graduated from college. Housing, airfare, and a small monetary
allowance is provided. Visit
www.rwomc.org for an application.
Scholarships
Jewish Federation of Princeton Mercer Bucks offers Israel
program scholarships for teen and
college students. Contact Lara
Wellerstein at 609-987-8100, ext.
104, or by E-mail at laraw@jfcsonline.org.
Volunteer Please
The Friendship Circle, a Jewish organization that matches children with special needs with teen
volunteers, seeks volunteers for
various programs. Adult volunteers are also needed for the adult
programs. Call 609-683-7240 or
visit mercerfriends.com for more
information.
Donate Please
Har Sinai Temple is collecting
all kinds of bikes for Boys & Girls
Club of Trenton’s Bike Exchange.
All of the donated bikes will be repaired and sold at reasonable prices
by the Boys & Girls Club. Bring to
2421 Pennington Road, Hopewell,
on Monday to Friday, February 20
to 24, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. or Sunday, February 26, from 9 a.m. to
noon. Call 609-730-8100 for information.
Military
Princeton Battlefield invites
American and British units to practice drill, field maneuvers, and
fieldcraft on Saturday and Sunday,
April 21 and 22, 10 a.m. 4 p.m. Call
973-271-8333 or E-mail rebelworx@yahoo.com for information.
Passport Day
Mercer County will participate
in Passport Day in the USA, a nationwide event held in conjunction
with the U.S. State Department.
The event takes place on Saturday,
March 10, from 10 a.m. to 2:30
p.m., at Mercer County Connection, Route 33, Hamilton. There
will be additional staff to assist residents with passport applications
and photos. Register at 609-9896473.
Family Retreat
Tourette Syndrome & Associated Disorders offers a family retreat weekend Friday to Sunday,
June 8 to 10 at YMCA Camp
Bernie. Call 908-575-7350 or visit
www.njcts.org for information and
registration.
Nominate
Stony Brook-Millstone Watershed Association is seeking
nominations for the 7th annual
Richard Rotter Award for Excellence in Environmental Education.
The honor will be awarded to an
area teacher who demonstrates a
high level of enthusiasm and commitment to environmental education in their classroom. Nominees
should include any classroom
teacher, grades K through 12, who
explores environmental topics
and/or shares the wonders of nature
in a unique, memorable, and/or engaging manner. This could include
hands-on lessons in the schoolyard
or community, multi-disciplinary
lessons or projects exploring nature and the environment, in-class
or neighborhood investigations
and much more. Presentation of the
award will occur at the Association’s annual meeting on their Reserve in Pennington on Monday,
April 23.
To nominate a teacher, contact
Maryann Polefka by E-mail to
mpolefka@thewatershed.org. Letters should include the teacher’s
name, their grade and school, as
well as the name and contact information of the nominator. Please include a narrative or description of
the activities they employ and/or
the impact these lessons had on students. Deadline for nominations is
Friday, March 2. Call 609-7377592 for more information.
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Gala, Jewish Family and Children’s Services of Greater Mercer County, Westin, Forrestal Village, Plainsboro, 609-987-8100.
www.jfcsonline.org. Dinner, silent
auction, dancing. Tentative 2012
date and place. 7 to 11:30 p.m.
Dazzle 2012: The Sock Hop,
Young Audiences of New Jersey,
Princeton Academy of the Sacred
Heart, Princeton, 866-500-YANJ.
dazzlenj.org. Dance the night away
to benefit the arts education
provider. Entertainment includes
music by the Alley Cats and the
dancing by the Bobbysox Brigade.
Honorees are NRG Energy and
Melinda Carney, team leader of the
Target store in Nassau Park. Register. $175. 8 to 11 p.m.
Comedy
Jacki Martling, Catch a Rising
Star, Hyatt Regency, 102 Carnegie Center, West Windsor, 609987-8018. www.catcharisingstar.com. Register. $21.50. 7:30 and
9:30 p.m.
Politics
Rush Holt Town Hall Meeting,
Council Chambers, West Windsor
Municipal Complex, 271 Clarksville Road. All residents of central
New Jersey are invited to share
their views and hear updates on
issues affecting the community,
such as job creation, Medicare,
education, and more. West Windsor Mayor Shing-Fu Hsueh will
moderate the discussion. 1 p.m.
Craft Fair
Dollhouse and Miniatures Show
and Sale, Hightstown Woman’s
Club, First Presbyterian Church of
Hightstown, 320 North Main
Street, Hightstown, 609-3719670. Miniatures, handcrafted
items, Victorian room settings,
rugs, and accessories. Food available to benefit the club’s civic improvement project. $5 donation.
E-mail pathop@verizon.net for information. 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.
Food & Dining
Wine Tasting, CoolVines, 21
Spring Street, Princeton, 609924-0039. www.coolvines.com.
Right vs. Left Bank or Bordeaux
vs. Garonne. 2 to 5 p.m.
Gardens
Hydroponic Gardening Weekend, Grounds For Sculpture,
126 Sculptors Way, Hamilton,
609-586-0616. www.groundsforsculpture.org. Free with park admission. 10 a.m.
Health
Blood Drive, American Red
Cross, First Presbyterian Church,
154 South Mill Road, West Windsor, 800-448-3543. www.redcrossblood.org. 8 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Dance for Life, Robert Wood
Johnson Hamilton Center for
Health and Wellness, 3100
Quakerbridge Road, Mercerville,
609-584-5900. www.rwjhamilton.org. “Heart Healthy Choices.” Refreshments. Register. Free. 8:30
a.m. to 1 p.m.
Wellness
T’ai Chi Ch’uan, Todd Tieger,
Plainsboro Library, 9 Van Doren,
Plainsboro, 609-439-8656. google.com/site/toddtiegertaichichuan. All levels. Free. 10 a.m.
History
Black History Month, Old Barracks Museum, Barrack Street,
Trenton, 609-396-1776. barracks.org. Living history program
features three centuries of black
soldiers service in the Revolutionary War, the War of 1812, the Civil
War, World War I, World War II,
and the Korean War. Photos, literature, and artifacts from the wars.
Talk to the storytellers of America’s black men and women at war.
$4; families, $8. 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Abbott
Farm
Archaeology,
Friends for the Marsh, NJ State
Museum, 205 West State Street,
Trenton, 609-292-8594. Greg Lattanzi and Karin Flinn, archaeologists, present program. Children
must be accompanied by an adult.
1 to 3 p.m.
For Families
Health Fair, Robert Wood Johnson Hamilton Center, 3100
Quakerbridge Road, Hamilton,
609-584-5900. www.rwjhamilton.org/education. Dance for Life, 30
minute instructor led dance lessons in Zumba, rock and roll, belly
dancing, and Sh’Bam cardio routine. Meet Bart Oates and Stephen
Baker, former New York Giants;
and Bill Baroni, author of “Fat Kid
Got Fit: And So Can You,” director
of the Port Authority, and a former
State senator. 8:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Maple Sugaring, Howell Living
History Farm, 70 Wooden’s Lane,
Lambertville, 609-737-3299. howellfarm.org. Program features
making and tasting homemade
maple syrup (and pancakes). Activities include syrup making, flour
milling, butter making, and pancake sampling. Sap gathering at
noon and 2 p.m. Tree tapping
demonstrations at 11 a.m., 1 and 3
p.m. 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
For Teens
Introduce a Girl to Engineering
Day, Roebling Museum, 100
Second Avenue, Roebling, 609499-7200.
www.roeblingmuseum.org. Engineering programs
and contests for students in middle school. Tour the museum to
learn about Emily Roebling, one of
America’s first civil engineers;
meet and talk with women engineers about careers in engineering. Register. Free. Participants
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I Have the Best Job Title: Daniel M. Russell,
Uber Tech Lead for Search Quality and User
Happiness for Google, speaks on 'What Does
It Mean To Be Literate in the Age of Google?'
Tuesday, February 28, in McCosh 50, on the
Princeton University campus. Free and open
to the public.
must be accompanied by an adult.
1 to 4 p.m.
Outdoor Action
Field Trip, Plainsboro Preserve,
Round Valley Reservoir, 609-8979400. www.njaudubon.org. “Reservoir Romp.” Register. $15.
8:30 a.m.
Princeton Canal Walkers, Turning Basin Park, Alexander Road,
Princeton, 609-896-0546. Threemile walk on the towpath. Bad
weather cancels. Free. 10 a.m.
Maple Sugar Memories, Stony
Brook Millstone Watershed, 31
Titus Mill Road, Pennington, 609737-7592. www.thewatershed.org. Visit tapped trees, taste test.
Register. $15. 10:30 a.m. to
noon.
Animal Detectives, Plainsboro
Preserve, Plainsboro, 609-8979400. www.njaudubon.org. Register. 2:30 p.m.
Mountain Biking, West Windsor
Bicycle and Pedestrian Alliance,
West Windsor Arts Center, 952
Alexander Road, West Windsor.
wwbpa.org. Screening of “Ride the
Divide,” a documentary of a mountain bike race from Canada to Mexico along the Continental Divide
trail. For all ages. Register. $5. Discussion and refreshments follow
the film. 7:30 p.m.
Schools
Open House, The Lewis
School, 53 Bayard Lane,
Princeton,
609-9248120. www.lewisschool.org. Open house for alternative education program for learning different students with language-based
learning
difficulties related to
dyslexia, attention deficit,
and auditory processing. Pre-K to
college preparatory levels. Summer study available. 10 a.m.
Open House, Princeton Learning
Cooperative, Paul Robeson Center for the Arts, 102 Witherspoon
Street, Princeton, 609-851-2522.
www.princetonlearningcooperative.org. Information about a flexible approach to learning for
teens. 2 p.m.
Colleges
Alumni Day, Princeton University, Nassau Street. www.princeton.edu/commencement. Speakers are Lisa Jackson, administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency and a member of the
Class of 1986; and Robert Mueller
III, director of the FBI and a member of the Class of 1966. Jackson
receives this year’s James Madison Medal, the top award for a
graduate alumni. Mueller, this
year’s Woodrow Wilson award,
presents “Leadership, Humility,
and Service: The Princeton Tradition.” Register. 9 a.m.
Book Sale
Plainsboro Public Library, 9 Van
Doren Street, 609-275-2897.
lmxac.org/plainsboro. Hardbacks,
$1; paperbacks, 50 cents; miscellaneous media and art at bargain
prices. 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Socials
Mixed Filipino Arts Workshop,
Princeton Academy of Martial
Arts, 14 Farber Road, West Windsor,
609-452-2208.
www.pamausa.com. Filipino culture
presented includes dance, art, literature, games, traditional clothing, and food. Rick Tucci presents
a multi-dimensional seminar featuring areas of Panantukin,
Sikaran, Dumog, and Buno —
known as boxing, kicking, trapping, locking, and throwing. For all
ages and levels. Register. $75 to
$85. 10:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
VOTE BY MAIL
VOTO POR CORREO
NOTICE TO PERSONS WANTING
MAIL-IN BALLOTS
AVISO PARA LAS PERSONAS QUE DESEEN
RECIBIR UN VOTO POR CORREO
If you are a qualified and registered voter of the State who wants to vote by
mail in the West Windsor/Plainsboro School Election to be held on April 17,
2012 complete the application form below and send to the undersigned, or
write or apply in person to the undersigned at once requesting that a mail-in
ballot be forwarded to you. The request must state your home address, and
the address to which the ballot should be sent. The request must be dated
and signed with your signature.
Si usted es un elector que está inscrito y cumple los requisitos del Estado y
desea votar por correo en la elección Escolar de West Windsor/Plainsboro
que tendrá lugar el 17 de Abril, 2012, complete el formulario de solicitud a
continuación y envíelo al suscrito, o escriba o aplique personalmente al
suscrito pidiéndole que le envíe un voto para votar por correo. Su solicitud
debe indicar la dirección de su domicilio y la dirección a la cual desea que
se le envíe el voto. La solicitud debe estar fechada y firmada por usted.
If any person has assisted you to complete the mail-in ballot application, the
name, address and signature of the assistor must be provided on the application and, you must sign and date the application for it to be valid and
processed. No person shall serve as an authorized messenger for more
than 10 qualified voters in an election. No person who is a candidate in the
election for which the voter requests a mail-in ballot may provide any assistance in the completion of the ballot or may serve as an authorized messenger or bearer.
Si alguna persona lo ayudó a completar la solicitud de voto por correo, en el
mismo formulario debe señalar su nombre, dirección y firma y usted deberá
firmar y fechar la solicitud para que ésta sea válida y pueda ser procesada.
Ninguna persona puede servir de representante autorizado para más de 10
electores calificados en una elección. Ninguna persona que sea candidato
en la elección para la cual el elector está solicitando un voto por correo
puede ayudar a llenar el voto o servir de representante autorizado o portador de éste.
No mail-in ballot will be provided to any applicant who submits a request
therefore by mail unless request is received at least 7 days before the election and contains the requested information. A voter may, however, request
an application in person from the county clerk up to 3 p.m. of the day before
the election.
No se entregará ningún voto por correo a la persona que presente una solicitud por correo, a no ser que ésta se reciba al menos siete días antes de la
elección e incluya toda la información solicitada. Un elector, sin embargo,
puede solicitar un formulario personalmente al funcionario del condado
hasta las 3 p.m. del día anterior a la elección.
Voters who want to vote only by mail in all future general elections in which
they are eligible to vote, and who state that on their application shall, after
their initial request and without further action on their part, be provided a
mail-in ballot by the county clerk until the voter requests that the voter no
longer be sent such a ballot. A voter's failure to vote in the fourth general
election following the general election at which the voter last voted may
result in the suspension of that voter's ability to receive a mail-in ballot for all
future general elections unless a new application is completed and filed with
the county clerk.
A los electores que deseen votar únicamente por correo en todas las elecciones generales futuras en las que les corresponda votar y que así lo estipulen en su solicitud, luego de su solicitud inicial y sin acción ulterior de su
parte, el funcionario del condado les enviará un voto por correo hasta cuando los propios electores manifiesten que ya no desean que les sigan enviando dichos votos. Al elector que no vote en la cuarta elección general siguiente a la última elección general en la que haya votado, se le podrá suspender su derecho a recibir un voto por correo para todas las elecciones
generales futuras, a menos que complete una nueva solicitud y la haga llegar al funcionario del condado.
Voters also have the option of indicating on their mail-in ballot applications
that they would prefer to receive mail-in ballots for each election that takes
place during the remainder of this calendar year. Voters who exercise this
option will be furnished with mail-in ballots for each election that takes place
during the remainder of this calendar year, without further action on their
part.
Application forms may be obtained by applying to the undersigned either
in writing or by telephone, or the application form provided below may be
completed and forwarded to the undersigned.
Los electores también tienen la opción de indicar en la solicitud de voto por
correo que prefieren recibir los votos por correo para cada elección que
tenga lugar durante el resto de este año calendario. Los electores que
ejerzan esta opción recibirán sus votos por correo para cada elección que
tenga lugar durante el resto de este año calendario, sin que deban ejercer
acción adicional alguna.
Los formularios pueden obtenerse solicitándolos al suscrito ya sea por
escrito o por teléfono o bien se puede completar la solicitud que se acompaña más abajo y enviarla al suscrito.
DATE:
ELAINE M. FLYNN
FECHA:
ELAINE M. FLYNN
MIDDLESEX COUNTY CLERK
ADMINISTRATION BUILDING
P.O. BOX 1110
NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. 08903
(732) 745-4463
TDD (732)745-5553
MIDDLESEX COUNTY CLERK
COUNTY ADMINISTRATION BUILDING
P.O. Box 1110
NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. 08903
(732) 745-4463
TDD (732) 745-5553
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THE NEWS
FEBRUARY 17, 2012
From The Police Blotter
Plainsboro
Shoplifting. David N. Wolfgang, 63, of Ravens Crest Drive
was charged with shoplifting on
February 13 for allegedly stealing a
cart from the Plainsboro Plaza
shopping center. Sergeant Scott
Seitz said he spotted Wolfgang at a
bus stop at the intersection of Scudders Mill and Schalks Crossing
roads in possession of the cart.
Theft Arrest. Joseph G. Skurjunis II, 20, of Robbinsville was
charged with stealing groundskeeping equipment from several
business and residential complexes
in town between November 30 and
December 27.
Police said that an investigation
revealed that Skurjunis stole a
$2,000 snow blower from Fox Run
apartments, a $2,000 brass sprinkler valve from the Courtyard by
Marriott Hotel, and a $700 sprinkler valve from the Princeton
Landing development. He was sent
to the Middlesex County Jail in default of $25,000 bail.
Thefts. Integrated Product Services was the victim of a theft from
Integra Life Sciences at 109 Morgan Lane. Stolen were metal piping,
studs, and conduits valued at $500.
A worker at the Princeton Medical Center construction site on
Route 1 and Plainsboro Road was
the victim of a theft between December 24 and February 14. Several hand tools and metal piping valued at $740 were stolen.
black magic out of his life, said police. The victim said he saw a television commercial where the offender
offered his services, called him, and
made a business arrangement. The
victim sent $300 by Western Union
and hasn’t heard from the man since.
Criminal Mischief. A West
Windsor resident was the victim of
vandalism between 8 p.m. February 9 and 2 a.m. on February 10 at
the Par Bar on Hunters Glen Drive.
Someone scratched the driver’sside door of the victim’s 2005
BMW with a key. Damage was estimated at $1,000.
Homewood Suites on Route 1
was the victim of criminal mischief
between 10:30 p.m. February 5 and
4 a.m. February 6. Someone destroyed a bench and traffic sign
near the hotel’s parking lot. Damage was estimated at $400.
The vacant store in Plainsboro
P3laza that formerly housed Ace
Hardware and Peebles was vandalized sometime between January 3
and February 3. According to police, someone broke several glass
windows, made numerous holes in
the walls, and spray painted graffiti on the interior walls. Total damage was estimated at $10,500.
Credit Card Fraud. Someone
used a Hamilton resident’s credit
card to make an unauthorized purchase at Positano’s Restaurant on
Schalks Crossing Road on February
5. The cost of the meal was $120.
Trespassing Charged. George
C. Smith, 53, of Pheasant Hollow
Drive was charged with defiant
trespassing at Super Fresh in the
Plainsboro Plaza shopping center
on February 13. Police said Smith
was charged after he went into the
store after having been banned by
store management.
Drug Possession. Zach Boyler
was charged with theft and possession of prescription drugs on February 8. Officer Joe Breyta said
Boyler was arrested on an allegation that he was stealing prescription medication from the CVS
pharmacy on Schalks Crossing
Road where he was employed.
Police said Boyler was found to
be in possession of 41 Hydrocodone
tablets, and he admitted to stealing
more than 800 Hydrocodone tablets
valued at $1,600 between October
2011 and February 8. He was sent to
the Middlesex County Jail in default
of $5,000 bail.
Black Magic Fraud. A Fox Run
Drive resident was the victim of
fraud after he paid a man to chase
Attempted Auto Burglary. An
Aspen Drive resident’s car was
damaged in an attempted auto
Computers were stolen from
Wicoff School between February 3
and 6. According to police, someone stole two Apple MacBook laptops. The computers were valued at
$2,200 total.
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Continued from preceding page
Story Quilt Workshop, Arts Council of
Princeton, 102 Witherspoon Street, 609924-8777. www.artscouncilofprinceton.org.
Create a personalized quilt square that will
be combined into a larger group project. Led
by Cynthia Fisher, an expert seamstress. 2
p.m.
break-in on February 8 or 9. Someone caused $200 worth of damage
to the driver’s-side door of the victim’s 1997 BMW M3 in an attempt
to enter the vehicle.
House Party. Raquel Robles,
20, of Drayton Lane was charged
on February 12 with offering alcohol to minors, and making property
available to minors to consume alcohol. Police said they discovered
a party where underage drinking
was taking place after being dispatched to Robles’ home to investigate a 911 hangup call.
DWI Arrests. Myur Patel, 24,
of Edison was charged February 15
with drunk driving. Police said Patel was stopped Patel on Route 1
north for speeding and found him
to be intoxicated.
Rahul Gadde, 23, of Madison
Drive was arrested February 14 on
a drunk driving charge. Police said
Gadde was stopped on Dey Road
for speeding and was determined to
be intoxicated.
Suresh K. Ambati, 38, of Quail
Ridge Drive was arrested February
6 on a drunk driving charge. Police
said Ambati was stopped on Scotts
Corner Road for speeding and was
found to be intoxicated.
Franklin Manuel Lopez-Donis,
25, of Trenton was arrested February 4 on a drunk driving charge. Police said Lopez-Donis was stopped
in the Delaware & Raritan Canal
State Park on Mapleton Road for
being in the park after hours and
was found to be intoxicated.
Walk ‘N Roll, Enable, Rider University, Student Recreation Area, 609-987-5003.
www.enablenj.org. Fitness walk on indoor
track for persons with disabilities, their families, friends, community members, and volunteers. Register online. 1 to 4 p.m.
House Burglary. A resident of
Jefferson Park was the victim of a
burglary and theft on January 23.
Between 5:45 and 8:55 p.m. someone entered the victim’s home
through a first floor rear window
and rifled through the contents of
two upstairs bedrooms. Numerous
jewelry items of unknown value
were stolen.
Kashmire M. Dawson, 22, of
Amityville, NY, was arrested on
January 26 on drug charges. Officer Walter Silcox said Dawson was
a passenger in a 2005 Mazda he
Sunday
February 26
Family Theater
The Peking Acrobats, McCarter Theater
(Matthews), 91 University Place, Princeton,
609-258-2787. www.mccarter.org. Gymnasts, cyclists, jugglers, acrobats, and tumblers. $35 to $48. 3 p.m.
patrons were coming and going
constantly at the suburban, fourbedroom, colonial house that
was advertised in newspaper
personal advertisements as a
massage-oriented
business,”
said Melnick.
Police served a warrant on
February 15 as a result of a
months-long investigation that
was conducted with the assistance of the FBI, state Department of Human Services Police,
state Division of Criminal Justice, and the Mercer County
Prosecutor’s Office Special Investigations Unit.
In addition to finding customer ledgers and surveillance
equipment, police seized some
$8,500 in cash, electronic equipment, and computer equipment,
said Melnick. A 2011 Toyota
Avalon and a 2012 Honda CRV,
both believed to have been used
in the criminal operation, were
also seized.
According to Melnick, police
are now focusing their investigation on the patrons listed in the
ledger seized in the raid.
stopped on Route 1 north for
speeding. Officer Silcox said he
searched the vehicle after detecting
the odor of burning marijuana and
found Dawson to be in possession
of drug paraphernalia and under 50
grams of marijuana.
DWI Arrests. Sui L. Sung, 48,
of West Windsor was arrested January 20 on a drunk driving charge.
Officer Kyle Brown said Sung was
involved in an auto accident on
Westbrooke Boulevard where he
struck a curb, a tree, and then
flipped his Volkswagen onto its
driver’s side.
The officer said he found Sung
sitting on the sidewalk recovering
from the accident and suspected
him to be intoxicated. Sung was
transported to Princeton Medical
Center where a blood sample confirmed he had been driving while
intoxicated, police said. He was also charged with careless driving
and reckless driving.
Joshua Press, 27, of Trenton was
arrested January 21 on a drunk driving charge. Police said Press was
stopped on Route 1 south for tailgating and erratic driving and was
found to be intoxicated.
1930,” an exhibit exploring the Gothic Revival
movement in architecture and design across
America at the end of the 19th century. On
view to June 24. Tim Harrell presents an organ concert in the chapel at 5:30 p.m. 5:30
p.m.
Dancing
School Sports
Film
North Swimming, 609-716-5000 ext. 5134.
www.ww-p.org. NJSIAA State Tournament
finals.
Oscar Shorts Festival, Trenton Film Society, Mill Hill Playhouse, 205 East Front
Street, Trenton, 609-396-6966. trentonfilmfestival.org. Screenings of the Oscar-nominated short films in categories of best documentary shorts. $25. 1 p.m.
Community Family Dance, Princeton
Country Dancers, Suzanne Patterson
Center, Monument Drive, 973-476-6389.
www.princetoncountrydancers.org.
Oldfashioned dance for all ages with all dances
taught. No experience needed. Live music.
$5; $15 per family. 3 to 5 p.m.
Art
Classical Music
The Game of Love and Chance, OffBroadstreet Theater, 5 South Greenwood
Avenue, Hopewell, 609-466-2766. www.offbroadstreet.com. A romantic comedy by
French playwright Marivaux features Melissa Rittman of Ewing and Austin Begley of
Plainsboro. $29.50 to $31.50 includes
dessert. 1:30 p.m. See story page 34.
Sports for Causes
known means and stole microwave
ovens valued at $600.
Theft. Two residents of the Elements at West Windsor were the
victims of theft between 6 p.m.
February 4 and 11 a.m. February 5.
Someone entered the homes by un-
On Stage
Trenton Titans, Sun National Bank Center, 81 Hamilton Avenue, Trenton, 609-3411100. Hockey vs. Elmira. $11 and up. Note
later time than usual. 7:30 p.m.
ive women face prostitutionrelated charges after West
Windsor Police raided a home on
Princeton-Hightstown Road a
short distance from High School
South.
Arrested were Jie Mao, 46, Mi
Pi, 34, Yuxiu Tang, 42, Jiao Li,
37, and Kehua Li, 49, all of
Flushing, NY.
Mao, Tang, and Jiao Li were
charged with loitering to engage
in prostitution. Pi and Kehua Li
were charged with two counts of
prostitution each. Mao was also
charged with maintaining a nuisance.
Lieutenant Brian Melnick
said police initiated an investigation of activities at 148 Princeton-Hightstown Road after receiving numerous complaints
from “concerned citizens” that a
prostitution ring was being run
out of the house, located less
than a mile from High School
South.
“Residents advised that male
Shoplifting Arrests. Sinead L.
Vanterpool, 21, of Monmouth
Junction and Adrianna L. Papp, 25,
of Bayonne were arrested February
6 at Kohl’s in the Nassau Park
shopping center on shoplifting
charges. According to police, the
women left the store without paying for merchandise they had concealed while in the fitting rooms.
West Windsor
Horse Show, Princeton Show Jumping,
Hunter Farms, 1315 The Great Road,
Princeton, 609-924-2932. Princeton winter
circuit. 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Princeton Hockey, Baker Rink, 609-2584849. www.goprincetontigers.com. Brown,
$10. 4 p.m.
F
Drug Arrest. Kelsi M. Myers,
23, of Cranbury and Jeffrey J.
Tkacs, 23, of Princeton were arrested on drug-related charges on
January 22. Officer Walter Silcox
said he stopped Myers on Washington Road near Wilder Avenue
for speeding and detected the odor
of burning marijuana.
After a search of the vehicle, Myers was charged with possession of
drug paraphernalia, and Tkacs, a
passenger, was charged with possession of under 50 grams of marijuana.
Sports
Princeton Lacrosse, Class of 1952 Stadium, 609-258-4849. www.goprincetontigers.com. Hofstra. $8 to $10. 1 p.m.
Prostitution Bust
Death of a Salesman, Kelsey Theater,
Mercer County Community College,
1200 Old Trenton Road, West Windsor,
609-570-3333.
www.kelseytheatre.net.
Arthur Miller’s tragic drama about the pursuit of the American dream in 1949 is presented by Pierrot Productions. $16. 2 p.m.
Also, African American History Month,
609-570-3324. www.mccc.edu. “Evening of
Praise Gospel Explosion” features student
performers, area gospel choirs, and praise
dancers. Free will donations benefit the student emergency fund. 7 p.m.
Art Exhibit, Morven Museum, 55 Stockton
Street, Princeton, 609-924-8144. www.morven.org. “Puzzles, a Pathway to Recovery” presented by Amy Goldstein, the puzzle writer who sparked Lonni Sue Johnson’s
interest in puzzles. In conjunction with “Puzzles of the Brain: An Artist’s Journey
Through Amnesia,” an exhibit exploring the
artistic evolution of Lonni Sue Johnson’s
work from her pre-professional career
through her recovery art. Johnson’s work
appeared in “The New Yorker” before she
contracted encephalitis in 2007 and suffered severe amnesia and a loss of productivity. The exhibit is on loan from the Walter’s
Art Museum. Register. $10. 2 p.m.
Art Exhibit, Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton campus, 609-258-3788. artmuseum.princeton.edu. Opening reception
for “Princeton and the Gothic Revival: 1870-
Jazz Sundays, Princeton University,
Chapel, 609-258-3654. www.princeton.edu. Free. 11 a.m.
Performathon, Westminster Choir College, Bristol Chapel, 609-921-2663. rider.edu. Children Helping Children through the
New Jersey Music Teachers Association
event led by Betty Stoloff, adjunct associate
professor of piano. Funds raised benefit
Ronald McDonald Houses in New
Brunswick, Long Branch, and Camden.
Stoloff lived in a RMD house while their
younger daughter, Becca, was undergoing
intensive treatment in Delaware. While
there she discovered a piano, made repairs,
and played for herself and others. Donations invited. 1 to 9:30 p.m.
The Mary Joyce Project, Princeton Public
Library, 65 Witherspoon Street, Fireplace
on second floor, 609-924-9529. www.-
FEBRUARY 17, 2012
princetonlibrary.org.
Original
compositions in tribute to Mary
Joyce, the first non-native Alaskan
to dogsled the 1,000 miles run between Juneau and Fairbanks in
1936, the first ham radio operator
in the Alaskan territories, and the
only woman to run supplies for the
Allies by dogsled in World War II.
Presented by Claire Daly, a saxophone player and Joyce’s cousin,
and pianist Steve Hudson. 3 p.m.
Schools
Open House, Princeton Latin
Academy, Route 518, Rambling
Pines, Hopewell, 609-924-2206.
www.princetonlatinacademy.com. K to 12 co-educational private school with full day kindergarten and after-school care.
Noon to 1 p.m.
Book Sale
Nassau at Four Series, Nassau
Presbyterian Church, 61 Nassau Street, Princeton, 609-9240103. “Praise with Strings and
Pipes” features Janet Miller on organ and Nancy Wilson and Margaret Banks on violin. Reception
follows. Free-will offering. 4 p.m.
Plainsboro Public Library, 9 Van
Doren Street, 609-275-2897.
Hardbacks, $1; paperbacks, 50
cents; miscellaneous media and
art at bargain prices. 10 a.m. to 4
p.m.
World Music
Horse Show, Princeton Show
Jumping, Hunter Farms, 1315
The Great Road, Princeton, 609924-2932. Princeton winter circuit.
8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Chinese Music, Painting, and
Poetry, Westminster Choir College, Bristol Chapel, 101 Walnut
Lane, Princeton, 609-921-2663.
www.rider.edu. “Mountain and
Water in Music and Ink,” a multimedia presentation with FangTing Liu on piano, Dezheng Ping
on violin, baritone Tim Urban, soprano Li-Chan Chen-Maxham,
and Shunzhu Wang, a writer and
translator. Free. 3 p.m.
Good Causes
Spaghetti Dinner, Middlesex
County 4-H, 645 Cranbury Road,
East Brunswick, 732-398-5261.
Benefit for the needed repairs to
the center. Music by the Hug
Kings. Register. $8. 4 to 8 p.m.
Gardens
Hydroponic Gardening Weekend, Grounds For Sculpture,
126 Sculptors Way, Hamilton,
609-586-0616. www.groundsforsculpture.org. Free with park admission. 10 a.m.
Health
Eating Disorders, PEAC Fitness,
1440 Lower Ferry Road, Ewing,
609-883-2000. www.peachealthfitness.com. “Things that Every
Parent Should Know . . . to protect
your family from eating disorders”
presented by National Eating Disorders Association” Register.
Free. 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
History
Walking Tour, Historical Society
of Princeton, Bainbridge House,
158 Nassau Street, Princeton,
609-921-6748. princetonhistory.org. Two-hour walking tour. $7; $4
for ages 6 to 12. 2 to 4 p.m.
Black History Month, Old Barracks Museum, Barrack Street,
Trenton, 609-396-1776. barracks.org. Living history program
features three centuries of black
soldiers service in the Revolutionary War, the War of 1812, the Civil War, World War I, World War II,
and the Korean War. Photos, literature, and artifacts from the wars.
Talk to the storytellers of America’s black men and women at war.
$4; families, $8. 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Lectures
New Jersey Health Insurance Exchange, Unitarian Church, 50
Cherry Hill Road, Princeton, 609497-6801. Discussions focus on
creating a health insurance option
for New Jersey residents and
small businesses. 12:30 p.m.
Sports
Trenton Titans, Sun National
Bank Center, 81 Hamilton Avenue, Trenton, 609-341-1100.
trentontitanshockey.com. Hockey
vs. Elmira. $11 and up. 4 p.m.
Monday
February 27
Municipal Meetings
Public Meeting, West Windsor
Township Council, Municipal
Building, 609-799-2400. www.westwindsornj.org. 7 p.m.
School Sports
For WW-P school sports information, call the hotline: 609-7165000, ext. 5134, www.ww-p.org.
North and South Boys and Girls
Basketball. NJSIAA Tournament
of Champions.
Film
Second Chance Film Series,
Princeton Adult School, Friend
Center Auditorium, Computer Science Building, Princeton University, 609-683-1101. www.princetonadultschool.org. Screening of
“Mysteries of Lisbon,” Part 1, Portugal, 2010. Introduced by William
Lockwood Jr., the curator of the
series. Register. $8. 7:15 p.m.
Good Causes
Kickoff Celebration, Jersey’s
Hope for Hearing, Katzenbach
School for the Deaf, 320 Sullivan
Way, Trenton, 609-709-3950.
www.jerseyshopeforhearing.com.
Benefit rally to provide hearing
aids for more than 50 disadvantaged students with hearing loss.
Merrill Osmond, lead singer of the
Osmonds, and his son, Justin,
present information about the project. Justin, the nephew of Donny
and Marie Osmond, is 90 percent
deaf. He founded the Olive Osmond Perpetual Hearing Fund in
memory of his grandmother who
devoted her life to helping people
with hearing loss. The three-day
event includes a 5K family fun run,
a karate kick-a-thon, pony rides,
and face painting. Merrill Osmond
performs at the dinner gala. Visit
website for information. 6:30 p.m.
Lectures
Consumer Affairs, Mercer County Connection, 957 Route 33,
Tutor:
Study Skills, History
and English/Writing
18 year veteran West Windsor-Plainsboro classroom teacher.
MS in Special Education from The Bank Street College
of Education in New York.
• Have co-taught American History since 1997
• Have taught specialized programs
Services:
• Developing study skills and research strategies,
particularly in non-fiction categories
(ex. history portfolio)
• Improving writing skills including:
editing, organizing, and citing references
• Preparing students for college essays
609-649-2694
email: odot55@yahoo.com
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Hamilton, 609-890-9800. www.mercercounty.org. Discuss credit,
home improvement, automotive,
and Internet fraud with the chief of
the Mercer County Consumer Affairs Commission, Free. 11 a.m.
Outdoor Action
New Jersey Owl Prowl, Plainsboro Preserve, Plainsboro, 609897-9400. www.njaudubon.org.
Register. $15. 6 p.m.
Schools
Open House, Rutgers Preparatory School, 1345 Easton Avenue,
Somerset, 732-545-5600. www.rutgersprep.org. 5:30 to 7:30 p.m.
Singles
Singles Night, Grover’s Mill Coffee House, 335 Princeton Hightstown Road, West Windsor, 609716-8771. groversmillcoffee.com.
Drop in for soups, sandwiches,
desserts, tea, coffee, and conversation. Register at http://ht.ly/3gd9w 6:30 to 8 p.m.
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Rock Redux: Reock and Roll Revue, a group of
Trenton-Hamilton musicians, featuring Tom Reock
(third from left, standing) perform Crosby, Stills,
Nash & Young’s album ‘Deja Vu’ in its entirety,
Friday and Saturday, February 17 and 18, at
Kelsey Theater.
VOTE BY MAIL
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MAIL-IN BALLOTS
AVISO PARA LAS PERSONAS QUE DESEEN
RECIBIR UN VOTO POR CORREO
If you are a qualified and registered voter of the State who wants to vote by
mail in the West Windsor/Plainsboro School Election to be held on April 17,
2012 complete the application form below and send to the undersigned, or
write or apply in person to the undersigned at once requesting that a mail-in
ballot be forwarded to you. The request must state your home address, and
the address to which the ballot should be sent. The request must be dated
and signed with your signature.
Si usted es un elector que está inscrito y cumple los requisitos del Estado y
desea votar por correo en la elección Escolar de West Windsor/Plainsboro
que tendrá lugar el 17 de Abril, 2012, complete el formulario de solicitud a
continuación y envíelo al suscrito, o escriba o aplique personalmente al
suscrito pidiéndole que le envíe un voto para votar por correo. Su solicitud
debe indicar la dirección de su domicilio y la dirección a la cual desea que
se le envíe el voto. La solicitud debe estar fechada y firmada por usted.
If any person has assisted you to complete the mail-in ballot application, the
name, address and signature of the assistor must be provided on the application and, you must sign and date the application for it to be valid and
processed. No person shall serve as an authorized messenger for more than
10 qualified voters in an election. No person who is a candidate in the election for which the voter requests a mail-in ballot may provide any assistance
in the completion of the ballot or may serve as an authorized messenger or
bearer.
Si alguna persona lo ayudó a completar la solicitud de voto por correo, en el
mismo formulario debe señalar su nombre, dirección y firma y usted deberá
firmar y fechar la solicitud para que ésta sea válida y pueda ser procesada.
Ninguna persona puede servir de representante autorizado para más de 10
electores calificados en una elección. Ninguna persona que sea candidato
en la elección para la cual el elector está solicitando un voto por correo
puede ayudar a llenar el voto o servir de representante autorizado o portador de éste.
No mail-in ballot will be provided to any applicant who submits a request
therefore by mail unless request is received at least 7 days before the election and contains the requested information. A voter may, however, request
an application in person from the county clerk up to 3 p.m. of the day before
the election.
No se entregará ningún voto por correo a la persona que presente una solicitud por correo, a no ser que ésta se reciba al menos siete días antes de la
elección e incluya toda la información solicitada. Un elector, sin embargo,
puede solicitar un formulario personalmente al funcionario del condado
hasta las 3 p.m. del día anterior a la elección.
Voters who want to vote only by mail in all future general elections in which
they are eligible to vote, and who state that on their application shall, after
their initial request and without further action on their part, be provided a
mail-in ballot by the county clerk until the voter requests that the voter no
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election following the general election at which the voter last voted may
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future general elections unless a new application is completed and filed with
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A los electores que deseen votar únicamente por correo en todas las elecciones generales futuras en las que les corresponda votar y que así lo estipulen en su solicitud, luego de su solicitud inicial y sin acción ulterior de su
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generales futuras, a menos que complete una nueva solicitud y la haga llegar al funcionario del condado.
Voters also have the option of indicating on their mail-in ballot applications
that they would prefer to receive mail-in ballots for each election that takes
place during the remainder of this calendar year. Voters who exercise this
option will be furnished with mail-in ballots for each election that takes place
during the remainder of this calendar year, without further action on their
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Los electores también tienen la opción de indicar en la solicitud de voto por
correo que prefieren recibir los votos por correo para cada elección que
tenga lugar durante el resto de este año calendario. Los electores que
ejerzan esta opción recibirán sus votos por correo para cada elección que
tenga lugar durante el resto de este año calendario, sin que deban ejercer
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DATE:
ELAINE M. FLYNN
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ELAINE M. FLYNN
MIDDLESEX COUNTY CLERK
ADMINISTRATION BUILDING
P.O. BOX 1110
NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. 08903
(732) 745-4463
TDD (732)745-5553
MIDDLESEX COUNTY CLERK
COUNTY ADMINISTRATION BUILDING
P.O. Box 1110
NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. 08903
(732) 745-4463
TDD (732) 745-5553
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FEBRUARY 17, 2012
A Single Room, Two Teenage Boys: So Close, But So Far Apart
Dharun Ravi and Tyler Clementi
co-existed in an 11 by 16-foot
dorm room at Rutgers.
But when it came time to talk,
they each turned to their
computers and keyboards.
Google had replaced
real world engagement.
M
ost of us go through high
school with a group of cohorts who are famous only in their own minds. Once in a
while a class produces a genuine
celebrity. West Windsor-Plainsboro High School had a hot streak
with several classes in the 1980s.
Brian Singer, Class of 1984,
moved on to become the producer
of the hit television show,
“House,” and director of the XMen movies and “The Usual Suspects,” written by a 1985 WW-P
alumnus, Chris McQuarrie, who
won an Oscar for it in 1995.
Another WW-P student of that
era, Ethan Hawke, transferred to
the Hun School and became the actor who starred in “Dead Poets Society,” among other movies.
Few high school classes see a
classmate rocket into the national
Ravi Trial To Start
in March
J
ury selection was scheduled to
begin this Friday, February
17, in the case of High School
North alumnus Dharun Ravi,
charged with using a webcam to
spy on his Rutgers’ dormitory
roommate, Tyler Clementi, having a sexual encounter with another man. Clementi committed
suicide days after the spying incident, on September 22, 2010,
by jumping off the George
Washington Bridge.
Middlesex County Superior
Court Judge Glenn Berman has
also ruled that potential jurors
will be told that Clementi, the alleged victim of cyber-spying,
will not be testifying in the case
because he is deceased but that
Ravi is not charged with causing
Clementi’s death. Ravi is facing
15 counts after a grand jury indictment that contains two sec-
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Tuesday
February 28
Municipal Meetings
Meeting, WW-P Board of Education, Grover Middle School, 609716-5000. 7:30 p.m.
School Sports
North and South Ice Hockey,
609-716-5000 ext. 5134. www.ww-p.org. NJSIAA State Tournament first round.
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.
spotlight within months of graduation. But that is exactly the dubious
claim to fame now attached to High
School North’s Class of 2010 —
thanks to the accusations and imminent trial of Dharun Ravi in the
cyber-spying case involving Tyler
Clementi, his gay roommate who
subsequently committed suicide.
The case has been used widely
as an example of the horrors of cyber-bullying, particularly when
aimed at a vulnerable member of a
minority. School districts throughout the state have been ordered to
implement anti-bullying policies.
For some in the WW-P district, the
case is also a reflection on the
school district. On several occasions critics have cited Ravi as the
kind of student produced by a district that spends increasing
amounts of money to attain the
ond-degree counts of bias intimidation, each carrying 10 years in
prison.
The name of the other man
Ravi allegedly spied on have
been kept private — identified
only as “MB” in court documents. So far his name and address has only been revealed to
Ravi and his attorney, Steven
Altman, to prepare for Ravi’s defense. But potential jurors will
learn the man’s identity as well,
according to a January 20 ruling
by Judge Berman.
The trial itself, expected to
begin in March, may also be televised. Berman recently stated
that InSession (formerly Court
TV) could televise the proceedings under certain limitations
concerning camera angles, lighting, and background noise. In
January both the prosecution and
defense attorneys said they had
no objections to the broadcast if
the broadcast were unobtrusive.
Pop Music
Rehearsal, Princeton Garden
Statesmen, Plainsboro Library, 9
Van Doren Street, Plainsboro,
888-636-4449. menwhosing.org.
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.
Lectures
Tax Assistance, Plainsboro Public Library, 9 Van Doren Street,
609-275-2897. Register. Free. 10
a.m. to 3:30 p.m.
Distinguished Lecture Series,
Mercer County Community College, Kelsey Theater, 1200 Old
Trenton Road, West Windsor, 609278-7137. mccc.edu. “Edgar Degas and Horace Pippin: A Comparison of Greatness” presented by
Mel Leipzig, artist and professor of
art and art history at Mercer. Noon.
Public Lecture Series, Princeton
University, McCosh 50, 609-2583000.
lectures.princeton.edu.
“What Does It Mean to be Literate
highest possible SAT scores, but
fails to provide its students with
common sense and basic values.
A story in the February 3 WW-P
News that summarized the effect of
the newly formed anti-bullying
policy elicited the following online
comment:
“What a legacy Ravi leaves behind in WWP. OMG! Read up on
the New Yorker piece of this week
to see just what WWP schools produced in one Dharun Ravi.”
The post links to the online version of the February 6 New Yorker
— seemingly another national
black eye for the WW-P schools.
But a careful reading of the 13,000word article by staff writer Ian
Parker tells another story.
Summarizing the public condemnation of Ravi’s alleged behavior, Parker writes: “It became
widely understood that a closeted
student at Rutgers had committed
suicide after video of him having
sex with a man was secretly shot
and posted online. In fact, there
was no posting, no observed sex,
and no closet.”
Thanks to in-depth reporting,
including interviews with several
other members of the North Class
of 2010, the New Yorker’s Parker
describes a virtual world that most
teenagers today take for granted,
but that their parents might find unsettling. In high school Ravi toughened himself up hanging out online
at a website called Formspring, “a
place where teenagers show themselves able, or not, to withstand online assaults.”
For both Ravi and Clementi, the
awkward first moments in the
freshman year dorm room were
preceded by online research, in
which each thought he had gained
some valuable insight into the person with whom he would be sharing an 11 by 16-foot room.
in the Age of Google?” presented
by Daniel Russell, senior research
scientist at Google. He will address the meaning of literacy and
the art of searching over billions of
texts in less than 300 milliseconds. Russell will also tell you how
to frame a question, pose a query,
and interpret the texts you find. He
is the Uber tech lead for search
quality and user happiness for
Google. He has worked at Xerox,
Apple, and IBM. Free. 8 p.m.
Ravi exchanged E-mails and instant messages with North classmate Jason Tam. Ravi had googled
Clementi’s E-mail address and determined that Clementi had posted
comments at Justusboys, a gay
pornography and discussion site.
To Clementi Ravi’s parents had seemed ‘sooo
Indian first gen americanish,’ adding that they
‘defs owna dunkin’ — a
Dunkin’ Donuts.
“WTF,” Ravi wrote in various
Twitter posts. “Found out my
roommate is gay.”
For most of the media that —
and other disparaging remarks
about gays — was the stuff of blaring headlines. The New Yorker
dug deeper. Some of Ravi’s online
peers saw an opportunity in the situation. “He’ll bring back mad hot
girls to your room and then you can
be like / ladies / im not gay.”
A
nd beyond being gay,
Clementi had another attribute
that may have been even more undesirable to the self-consciously
hip Ravi. Parker quotes an E-mail
from Ravi to Tam: “I was f—-ing
hoping for someone with a gmail
but no.” As Parker explains,
“Clementi’s Yahoo E-mail address
symbolized a grim, dorky world,
half seen, of fish tanks and violins.
Ravi’s I.M.s about Tyler’s presumed poverty were far more blunt
than those about sexual orientation. At one point during his exchanges with Tam that weekend,
Ravi wrote, ‘Dude I hate poor people’.”
Clementi harbored his own
pre/misconceptions about his new
Sports
Princeton Lacrosse, Class of
1952 Stadium, 609-258-4849.
www.goprincetontigers.com.
Manhattan. $8 to $10. 4 p.m.
Wednesday
February 29
Socials
Leap Day
Meeting, Rotary Club of Plainsboro, Guru Palace, 2215 Route 1
South, North Brunswick, 732-2130095. www.plainsbororotary.org.
7:30 p.m.
Dancing
For Seniors
AARP Tax Service, West Windsor Senior Center, 271 Clarksville Road, West Windsor, 609799-9068. Assistance with state
and federal returns. Register.
Free. 9 a.m. to noon.
Contra Dance, Princeton Country Dancers, Suzanne Patterson
Center, Monument Drive, 609924-6763. princetoncountrydancers.org. Instruction followed by
dance. $8. 7:30 to 10:30 p.m.
Literati
Author Event, Labyrinth Books,
122 Nassau Street, Princeton, 609497-1600.
labyrinthbooks.com.
“Changed for Good: A Feminist
History of the Broadway Musical”
presented by Stacy Wolf, author of
roommate, according to the New
Yorker’s perception.
“Clementi’s I.M. records offer a
peculiarly intimate view of his first
few hours with Ravi, after both sets
of parents had left. As Ravi unpacked, Clementi was chatting
with [Hannah] Yang [a woman
who had been in his high school orchestra]. ‘I’m reading his twitter
page and umm he’s sitting right
next to me,’ he wrote. ‘I still don’t
kno how to say his name.” Yang
replied, ‘Fail!!!!! that’s hilarious.’
Clementi told Yang that Ravi’s
parents had seemed ‘sooo Indian
first gen americanish,’ adding that
they ‘defs owna dunkin’ — a
Dunkin’ Donuts. Clementi and
Ravi seem to have responded in
similarly exaggerated ways to perceived hints of modest roots in the
other.”
At another point Clementi
lamented to an online friend that he
needed to have someone to talk to
— “I NEED conversation.” When
the friend tried to give Clementi
advice on how to start a conversation, Clementi said he knew how
to: “I’ve googled it like a million
times / I kno all the ‘rules.’”
Google probably taught Clementi as much about interpersonal
communication skills as Justusboys taught Ravi about alternative
lifestyles. Rather than one being a
bully and the other a victim, both
are portrayed as relatively equal
participants in “a remote, electronic dynamic between the two students that was never quite overtaken by real-world engagement —
even after they moved into a tiny
room together.”
The communications environment may be vastly different, but
the essential wisdom of these two
college freshmen was, like so
many through the ages, sadly lacking.
— Richard K. Rein
“A Problem Like Maria: Gender and
Sexuality in the American Musical,”
is a discussion devoted to the role
of women in the Broadway musical,
both onstage and off. The musicals
discussed include “West Side Story,” “Cabaret,” “A Chorus Line,”
“Phantom of the Opera,” and
“Wicked.” Wolf is professor of theater and director of the Princeton
Atelier, Lewis Center for the Arts,
Princeton University. 6 p.m.
Classical Music
Recital, Princeton University, Taplin Auditorium, 609-258-1500.
www.princeton.edu. Anna Lim on
violin and Dena Levine on piano.
Free. 8 p.m.
History
George Washington’s Birthday,
Rockingham Association, Historic Rockingham, Route 603,
Kingston, 609-683-7132. www.rockingham.net. Celebrate Washington’s 280th birthday. The Continental Army’s commander in
chief stayed at Rockingham from
late August to early November in
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WW-P News Classifieds
HOW TO ORDER
OFFICE RENTALS
CONTRACTING
Mail, E-Mail, or Fax: That’s all
it takes to order a classified in the
West Windsor-Plainsboro 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.
Pennington - 1200 SF in
beautifully renovated office with
high visibility on Route 31. Fourroom office suite, separate entrance, kitchen area, bathroom
and utilities. Large parking lot
and signage on Route 31. Perfect for attorneys, executive recruiters, consultants or other
professionals. Rent and lease
terms are negotiable. Call Liz at
609-273-4044
or
email
liz@scafafinancial.com.
ing/All Yard Work from top to bottom. Done by pros. Call 609737-9259 or 609-273-5135.
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
609-799-2466 or E-mail tqmpropmgm@aol.com
A handyman repairs things
around your lovely home or
valued property. He solves
your problems. Free estimate.
Cell 609-213-8271.
OFFICE RENTALS
12 Roszel Park, Princeton Free 1st Month’s Rent: Two
small office units available with
conference space and waiting
room. Comcast Internet. Ph:
609-720-0300 or email: merlenterprisesllc@gmail.com
CRANBURY OFFICE or RETAIL two locations in the center
of the village, Main St. near Post
Office. Excellent parking. $750
and $1100 per month plus utilities. 609-529-6891.
MONMOUTH
JUNCTION
1440 sq. ft. office suite on Rt. 1 at
Wynwood Drive jug handle turn,
adjacent to Home Depot Shopping Center. 16 unit professional
office building. $12 plus utilities
or priced by room. 609-5296891.
HOUSING FOR
RENT
PRINCETON JUNCTION four
bedroom colonial walk to High
School and 1 mile to train station.
Two and one half baths, living
room, dining room, family room,
kitchen, laundry and two car
garage. Large treed lot. Central
air, gas heat. Hardwood floors.
Available immediately. $2,550.
609-529-6891.
CONTRACTING
Handyman/Yardwork: Painting/Carpentry/Masonry/Haul-
1783. It became his final wartime
headquarters when the Treaty of
Paris was formally signed while he
was in residence. Tours of Washington’s headquarters hourly. Refreshments follow. Registration
advised. Noon to 3 p.m.
Lectures
Financial Literacy Seminar, McGraw-Hill Federal Credit Union,
120 Windsor Center Drive, East
Windsor, 800-226-6428. www.mcgrawhillfcu.org. “Shopping for
Your New Wheels: Obtaining the
Car of Your Dreams.” Register by
E-mail
to
amacdonald@mcgrawhillfcu.org. Dinner, parking,
and sample textbooks are included. Free. 5:30 to 7 p.m.
Schools
Open House, The Lewis School,
53 Bayard Lane, Princeton, 609924-8120. www.lewisschool.org.
Open house for alternative education program for learning different
students with language-based
learning difficulties related to
dyslexia, attention deficit, and auditory processing. Pre-K to college
preparatory levels. Summer study
available. 1 p.m.
INTERIOR PAINTING &
CARPENTRY: 20 years experience, exceptional quality, fully
insured and licensed, PM WHITNEY. 609-658-0073.
HOME
MAINTENANCE
Computer problem? Or
need a used computer in good
condition - $80? Call 609-2756631.
INTERIOR PAINTING &
CARPENTRY: 20 years experience, exceptional quality, fully
insured and licensed, PM WHITNEY. 609-658-0073.
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.
CLASSIFIED BY EMAIL
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Art
Art Exhibit, Arts Council of
Princeton, 102 Witherspoon
Street, 609-924-8777. www.artscouncilofprinceton.org. Opening reception for “Drawing Beyond,” an exhibition of contemporary drawing. In conjunction with
ArtWalk, a self-guided evening of
drop in visual art activities in
downtown Princeton. Free. 5 to 8
p.m.
Dancing
Argentine Tango, Viva Tango,
Suzanne Patterson Center, 45
Stockton Street, Princeton, 732789-5272. princeton.vivatango@gmail.com. Class and practice
session. $12. 8 p.m.
Classical Music
After Noon Concerts, Princeton
University, Chapel, 609-2583654. www.princeton.edu. Colin
BUSINESS
SERVICES
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 @ 609-4486005 or visit www.v-yours.com.
TAX SERVICES
Tax Preparation and Accounting Services: For individuals and small businesses. Notary, computerized tax preparation, paralegal services. Your
place or mine. Fast response,
free consultation, reasonable
costs. Gerald Hecker, 609-4484284.
INSTRUCTION
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 Universityeducated college professor. Experienced with gifted, underachieving and learning-disabled
students. Web: http://ivytutoring.intuitwebsites.com
Call
Bruce 609-371-0950.
Lynch, organist. Free. 12:30 to 1
p.m.
Concert Classics Series, Princeton
University
Concerts,
Richardson Auditorium, 609-2589220.
princetonuniversityconcerts.org. Hagen Quartet with
works of Beethoven, Haydn, and
Mozart. Pre-concert lecture at 7
p.m. $20 to $40. 8 p.m.
Live Music
Sustainable Jazz Ensemble,
Labyrinth Books, 122 Nassau
Street, Princeton, 609-497-1600.
www.labyrinthbooks.com. All original jazz evening. Coffee and tea
provided. BYOB. In Conjunction
with Princeton Art Walk. 6 p.m.
Benefit Galas
Tribute to Women Annual
Awards Dinner, YWCA Princeton, Hyatt Regency, Carnegie
Center, West Windsor, 609-497-
Planning for Incapacity, Mercer
County Connection, 957 Route
33, Hamilton, 609-890-9800.
www.mercercounty.org. Seminar
about putting your estate in order
with Susan Knispel, Mercer County Legal Services Project for the
Elderly. Register. Free. 10 a.m.
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.
Wedding band looking for
long-term players: piano, guitar, bass - only serious musi-
2100. www.ywcaprinceton.org.
Honorary chair is Dr. Risa Lavizzo-Mourey, president and CEO,
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation; with co-chairs, Jane Kelly,
ESQ; and Linda Richter, Personal
Paperwork Solutions. Honorees
include Suzanne McCroskey,
Pina Albo, Nola Bencze, Gloria
Frederick, Marilyn Grounds, Nancy Healey, Marlene Lao-Collins,
Ferris Olin, Deborah Shepherd,
Denise Taylor, and Melissa Tenzer. Register. $125. 5:15 to 9 p.m.
Faith
Black History Month, Princeton
Theological Seminary, Miller
Chapel, 609-497-7963. www.ptsem.edu. Closing worship service. 7 p.m.
Antique Military Items: And
war relics wanted from all wars
and countries. Top prices paid.
“Armies of the Past LTD”. 2038
Greenwood Ave., Hamilton
Twp., 609-890-0142. Our retail
outlet is open Saturdays 10 to
4:00, or by appointment.
SEEKING FRIENDS
SUMMER SHARE HOUSE
VENTNOR - Steps to beach. AIR
COND. Great location! Join our
fun 40s to 60s group! 1 mile to
closest casino. 609-744-4837.
HELP WANTED
Property Inspectors: Parttime $30k, full-time $80k. No experience, will train. Call Tom,
609-731-3333.
SALES - REAL ESTATE
Need a Change? Looking to get
a RE License? We take you by
the hand to ensure your success
and income! FREE Coaching!
Unlimited Income! No Experience needed! Contact Weidel
Today! Hamilton: Judy 609-5861400,
jmoriarty@weidel.com;
Princeton: Mike 609-921-2700,
mike@weidel.com.
group co-hosted by Palmer Uhl and
V. Bea Snowden. Register by Email to register@healthylivingprinceton.org. Free. 9:30 a.m.
Wellness
Bridges to Wellness, Elixir Fund,
Capital Health, 1445 WhitehorseMercerville Road, Hamilton, 800494-9228.
www.elixirfund.org.
Acupressure workshop for patients with cancer and their caregivers. Register. $12. Noon.
Schools
Information Session, Villa Victoria Academy, 376 West Upper
Ferry Road, Ewing, 609-2589226. For parents and students in
the lower school. 9 a.m.
Food & Dining
Healthy Living, Whole Earth Center, 360 Nassau Street, Princeton.
wholeearthcenter.com. Discussion
Continued on following page
IN STORE GALLERY EVENT
On Stage
North and South Ice Hockey,
609-716-5000 ext. 5134. www.ww-p.org. NJSIAA State Tournament second round.
Science and Math Tutoring:
Biology, Chemistry, Algebra,
Geometry. Taught by college
professor. 17 years experience.
Recipient of two national teaching awards. Discoverygenics
609-581-5686.
WANTED TO BUY
30% OFF
PHOTO SALE!
Thursday
March 1
School Sports
ENTERTAINMENT
cians wanted. Call Jim 609-7379259 or 609-273-5135.
S U P E R
SUPER BOWL XLVI
ICONIC MAGIC MOMENTS
For Seniors
Peter Pan, High School North, 90
Grovers Mill Road, Plainsboro,
609-716-5100. Musical with Molly
Carlin in the title role. $10. 8 p.m.
See story page 1.
INSTRUCTION
Music Lessons: Piano, guitar, drum, sax, clarinet, F. horn,
oboe, t-bone, voice, flute, trumpet, violin, cello, banjo, mandolin, harmonica, uke, and more.
$28 half hour. School of Rock.
Adults or kids. Join the band!
Princeton
609-924-8282.
Princeton Junction 609-8970032. Hightstown 609-4487170. www.farringtonsmusic.com.
February 18th, 19th, 20th
Eli Manning Fakes a Hand-off to Brandon Jacobs.
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Three Centuries of Living History: Talk to storyteller-soldiers
depicting America’s black men and women who served in the
Revolutionary War, the War of 1812, the Civil War, World War I,
World War II, and the Korean War, Sunday, February 26, 10 a.m.,
at the Old Barracks Museum in Trenton.
MARCH 1
Continued from preceding page
Lectures
Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University, Robertson Hall, Dodds, 609-2582943. John Lewis Gadis, author of George
F. Kennan: An American Life,” and Bart
Gellman, Pulitzer Prize winning journalist,
Washington Post correspondent, and visiting lecturer in public and international affairs
at Woodrow Wilson School. Free. 4:30 p.m.
Friday
March 2
Peter Pan
High School North, 90 Grovers Mill Road,
Plainsboro, 609-716-5100. Musical with
Molly Carlin in the title role. $10. 8 p.m. See
story page 1.
Dance
Ronald K. Brown’s Evidence, McCarter
Theater (Matthews), 91 University Place,
Princeton, 609-258-2787. www.mccarter.org. African-American dance company. $20
to $54. 8 p.m.
On Stage
The Game of Love and Chance, OffBroadstreet Theater, 5 South Greenwood
Avenue, Hopewell, 609-466-2766. www.offbroadstreet.com. A romantic comedy by
French playwright Marivaux features Melissa Rittman of Ewing and Austin Begley of
Plainsboro. $29.50 to $31.50 includes
dessert. 7 p.m. See story page 34.
Death of a Salesman, Kelsey Theater,
Mercer County Community College,
1200 Old Trenton Road, West Windsor,
609-570-3333.
www.kelseytheatre.net.
Arthur Miller’s tragic drama. $16. 8 p.m.
Solo Flights Festival, Passage Theater,
Mill Hill Playhouse, Front and Montgomery
streets, Trenton, 609-392-0766. www.passagetheatre.org. “Broke Wide Open.”
$20. 8 p.m.
Family Theater
Dinosaur Babies, Kelsey Theater, Mercer
County Community College, 1200 Old
Trenton Road, West Windsor, 609-5703333. www.kelseytheatre.net. Musical fossil fantasy with large puppets and music.
$10. 9:45 and 11:15 a.m.
Literati
Author Event, Cranbury Library, 23 North
Main Street, Cranbury, 609-655-0555.
www.cranburypubliclibrary.org. Kevin Fox,
author of “Until the Next Time.” Booksigning
and reception. 7 p.m.
Classical Music
Princeton University Glee Club and
Chamber Choir, Princeton University
Concerts, Taplin Auditorium, 609-2589220. princeton.edu/puconcerts. Concert
conducted by Gabriel Crouch. $10. 8 p.m.
Live Music
Open Mic Night, West Windsor Arts Council, 952 Alexander Road, West Windsor, 609716-1931. http://openmicssignup.weebly.com. Register online. $5 cover. 8 p.m.
Comedy
Catch a Rising Star, Hyatt Regency, 102
Carnegie Center, West Windsor, 609-9878018. www.catcharisingstar.com. Register.
$19.50. 8 p.m.
For Families
For Seniors
Mr. Ray, Forrestal Village, College Road
West and Route 1 South, Plainsboro, 609799-7400. www.princetonforrestalvillage.com. Family concert. 6:30 to 7:30 p.m.
Living with Purpose: How to Make a Real
Difference in Your Encore Years, Princeton Senior Resource Center, Suzanne
Patterson Building, 609-924-7108. www.princetonsenior.org. A panel presentation
with three Purpose Prize honorees sharing
their insights about embarking on an “encore” career. Register online or by phone.
a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
Outdoor Action
Woodcock Watch, Stony Brook Millstone
Watershed, 31 Titus Mill Road, Pennington,
609-737-7592. thewatershed.org. Hike on
trails with Jeff Hoagland. Register. $5. 6 p.m.
Singles
Divorce Recovery Program, Princeton
Church of Christ, 33 River Road, Princeton, 609-581-3889. www.princetonchurchofchrist.com. Non-denominational support
group for men and women. Free. 7:30 p.m.
Sports
Princeton Lacrosse, Class of 1952 Stadium, 609-258-4849. www.goprincetontigers.com. Johns Hopkins. $8 to $10. 5
p.m.
Also, Princeton Basketball, Jadwin Gym.
Yale, $12. 7 p.m.