West Windsor Mormons: Seeking Partners for Good Deeds

OCTOBER 5, 2012
WEST WINDSOR
& PLAINSBORO
NEWS
HEADLINERS:
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Plainsboro Candidates’ Forum Modified Naming Policy OKed;
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our candidates are vying for two seats
on the Plainsboro Township Committee in the November 6 election. The
candidates were asked to respond to each of
six questions posed by the WW-P News.
Their responses are presented by alphabetical order by last name. (Neil Lewis and Nuran Nabi submitted their answers jointly
and they are listed below as Lewis-Nabi.)
Biographical descriptions of each of the
candidates appear at the end of the question
and answer section, beginning on page 11.
1
.) The state DOT’s project closing several turns and jughandles along Route 1
has had an impact on drivers, Plainsboro
residents, and those who work in the town.
What would you do about the new traffic
that has been created, specifically along
Scudders Mill Road?
Krishna Jagannathan: According to
recent reports from the DOT and local law
enforcement, the traffic along Route 1
seems to have improved, but at the cost of
increased traffic and possible illegal U-and
K-turns in neighborhoods in West Windsor.
I think the State has done the right thing by
stepping up state-funded patrols to ensure
safety in the area. It has improved traffic
backups along Route 1, a safety hazard and
air pollution hotspot in itself, at a marginal
cost to users of the Scudders Mill on-ramp
— so long as essential services are not impacted and other back roads remain accessible, I think this is a manageable transition.
Neil Lewis-Nuran Nabi: The trial project along Route 1 was initiated by the NJDOT with a goal to improve traffic flow
along the highway. All of the communities
involved insisted that the trial be of limited
duration (three months) and that the success
of the trial be measured not only by improvements on Route 1, but also on any
negative impacts on our respective communities’ road systems. The Plainsboro police
have been monitoring this project continuously from its inception, and report that it
has been working smoothly with few, if
any, negative impacts to Plainsboro. We
understand that this is not the case in some
of our neighboring communities, and since
this is a regional project, we are committed
to working with our neighbors to insure that
any final decision takes into consideration
both the positive and negative impacts of
the project.
Continued on page 10
Now I-Pads for Third Graders
by Rikki N. Massand
Marathe said the new version attempts to set
guidelines for recognizing individuals.
ollowing the controversial response to
“The policy is meant to recognize people
the first reading of its new naming polwho have made a contriicy for facilities,
bution to the district. The
including athletic fields,
discussion that happened
the West WindsorThe school board has
at the last meeting [on
Plainsboro district has
removed the language
September 11] was tanamended the language
gential to specific causes
regarding suicide from
of the policy and reof death and how that
its policy for naming
moved a reference to
should be recognized. At
suicide. The board apschool facilities.
least in my mind, that was
proved the amended
not the intent of the policy.
policy on Tuesday, OcIn the new version, all reftober 2, by a unanimous vote.
erences to causes of death or whether someWW-P School Board President Hemant body has died have been removed, and it focuses on how a person should be recognized,” Marathe said.
At the September 11 meeting, Tricia BakReopen the Jughandles!
er, the mother of former North student KenWest Windsor residents and offiny Baker, who died in 2009, expressed her
cials have strengthened their position
concern that the district was not doing
against the DOT’s closing of the
enough to recognize the issue of suicide.
jughandles on Route 1. And public
“Our district needs to take suicide seriously
demonstrations are planned in the
and create a traumatic loss policy. They
Penns Neck neighborhood. See story,
page 15.
Continued on page 14
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West Windsor Mormons: Seeking Partners for Good Deeds
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By Euna Kwon Brossman
housands of cars whiz by the slender
spire rising over the Route 1 entrance
ramp at Alexander Road every day.
Many more zoom past while driving on
Canal Pointe Boulevard on the back way to
MarketFair. And when West Windsor
Township recently assembled a group of 15
different churches and religious organizations to form an “Interfaith Community
Bridge” as part of its Human Relations
Council, the township overlooked it as well.
I’m talking about the Church of Jesus
Christ of Latter-day Saints — more commonly known as Mormon — in West Windsor. The religion of Republican presidential
candidate Mitt Romney has received much
scrutiny in this contentious election year.
But many people in West Windsor and
Plainsboro have been unaware of the
church’s presence. Despite living in this
community for 15 years, I never knew that
West Windsor was home to an LDS church.
And yet there it is, tucked away on Canal
Pointe Boulevard in West Windsor, indeed,
practically hidden, behind the large office
complex that houses the WPST radio station.
It is a sizable building, a gathering place
for three separate congregations, including
one that is Spanish-speaking. It is also busy
all week long as a community gathering
place for Boy Scouts, other youth groups,
women’s organizations, and the like.
Once you overcome the challenge of
finding it, you discover a group of warmhearted church citizens who believe fervently in service and volunteerism and are
eager to be part of the community.
“We are constantly encouraging other
people to come whenever they like. That’s
the whole point of sending missionaries out
— we want people to try out our ideas and
beliefs. Everyone is welcome,” explains
Kathy Bybee, a West Windsor resident who
holds the newly created position of public
affairs representative for her congregation
after serving in many other positions, including as a youth leader and teacher. “We
expect there are a lot of different ways we
could contribute to the community as an organization. Our goal is to build partnerships
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with others who are in the business of good
deeds, and my job is to figure out ways to do
that.”
So that I can get an understanding of her
church from different perspectives, not only
hers; she brings along to our interview
Karey Dearden, a member of the church
leadership, and Sanja Dimic, who is the only one of the three not born and raised in the
religion.
Dearden explains that churches are organized into local units called wards or
branches. Their unit at 901 Canal Pointe
Boulevard houses the Princeton first ward,
Princeton second ward, and the Princeton
third branch, with a combined membership
just short of 1,000. For his ward, Dearden
serves as first counselor to bishop Paul
Alkema, who leads this unit.
Dearden was born in Henefer, Utah, a
tiny community of 500 people located 45
miles east of Salt Lake City. His father was
a salesman; his mother was a homemaker.
Dearden was the oldest of four children
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drivers spending extra time getting
to work and coming home; about
racing automobiles tearing down
streets not made for speed. Can
you imagine what this is like for
the parents and children who live
on those streets? The DOT wants
to make traffic move faster on
Route 1, but at the expense of our
neighborhoods. I am outraged by
this disregard for life, whether
caused by lack of caring, incompetence, or politics. The experiment
that has some weeks to go must be
stopped NOW before a tragedy occurs.
Are you listening Governor
Christie? Are you listening DOT
Commissioner Simpson? Can you
help us Senators Menendez and
Lautenberg? And Representative
Holt? This is a cry for help, and we
need you as soon as possible.
Please listen to someone who has
been through the unimaginable.
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he date October 1st is coming up, a day I can never forget. On that day in 1994, my
daughter was killed in an automobile accident. In her case, the cause
of the accident was a drunk driver.
Any death in a car accident, however, brings horror, disbelief, pain,
never-ending grief, and a loss that
cannot be recovered.
I hope that I can make those
feelings important to people who
drive our overcrowded roads, often
too fast, and with not enough regard for their surroundings. I hope
that those feelings are especially
important to our traffic engineers,
administrators, mayors, legislators, governors, and departments
of transportation. They, of all people have our lives in their hands, if
they plan with disregard for consequences.
A direct example is the lack of
thought for safety in the New Jersey Department of Transportation
experiment involving the loss of
jug handles at Washington Road
and the traffic snarl at Harrison
Street and Route 1. I imagine you
have been reading about drivers
making U and K turns in Penns
Neck to get back on a straight road
into Princeton; about huge trucks
driving through narrow suburban
streets to avoid a longer trip; about
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cipal components of the plan
(called alternative D.2.A) put
Route 1 in a cut under Washington
Road and added frontage roads on
both sides of Route 1, a west-side
connector road to Harrison Street,
and a Vaughn Drive connector
road. Taking all of these elements
together, the NJ DOT envisioned
area-wide improvements.
At the time, the New Jersey Department of Transportation stated,
“Alternative D.2.A was selected as
the preferred alternative because it
provides a reasonable level of
transportation benefit, while
avoiding and minimizing environmental impacts. It represents a project that will achieve significant
benefits without entailing years of
delay due to extensive environmental permitting requirements. In
short, it is a project that can be accomplished expeditiously.”
The DOT noted that it would
provide congestion relief by improving traffic flow on Route 1,
improving traffic flow on east-west
routes crossing Route 1, and reducing traffic on residential streets;
minimize environmental impacts
to natural areas and species; reduce
pollution; avoid residential displacements; minimize impact to
historic properties listed with the
National Register; and improve bicycle and pedestrian access and
safety.
Having studied 20 alternatives,
with many configurations, the NJ
DOT concluded that the complete
plan was needed, not a selection of
elements, instituted haphazardly.
Now the NJ DOT has gone
against its own plan and, without
community input, without computer modeling, has chosen instead to
make employees, commuters, and
especially residents of the Penns
Neck neighborhood guinea pigs for
an experiment that has failed in all
parameters except perhaps in possibly improving traffic flow on
Route 1 for a relatively short distance.
It is time to stop the Route
1/Washington Road experiment
and to restore safety to the Penns
Neck residents until funding can be
obtained to do the job completely
and effectively.
Sandra Shapiro
Wycombe Way,
Princeton Junction
Route 1 Frustration
I
’m sure the test traffic pattern at
the Route 1 circle has made
every resident of West Windsor
and Plainsboro scream in frustration. I’m probably not the only one
who has shouted at the out-of-town
fool who comes to a full stop in
moving traffic, befuddled by
blocked GPS instructions. Sadly,
it’s not even likely that I’m the only one who has watched a milk
truck blow through the stop sign on
Wilder to make an illegal U-turn
and blow through it again, all while
my newborn and I look on with
opened mouths.
I appreciate irony as much as
anyone, but almost getting hit by a
milk truck on an afternoon stroll is
not my idea of a good time. That
milk truck was just one of many vehicles (some larger and some
smaller) that I’ve seen making illegal U-turns since this circle has
confused Princeton-bound drivers.
It hardly seems fair that everyone who lives on or near Washington Road now has to take his life in
his hands when he leaves the safety
of his driveway. Actually, some
don’t even have to leave their
driveways because vehicles are us-
THE NEWS
Dick Snedeker, Star Volunteer
ing driveways and lawns as turnaround points.
Traffic in these neighborhoods
has increased drastically. Those
who detour through our streets are
frustrated, angry, and annoyed drivers who speed, fiddle with their
GPS or cell phone, and ignore other cars and pedestrians. In neighborhoods that have, until now,
been relatively quiet, it is even
more of a danger. Children and
adults are used to safely running,
walking, and playing in yards and
crossing streets worry-free.
I have lived in this neighborhood since I was 5. I chose to stay
and raise my son here because it really is a beautiful, friendly, and formerly safe place to live. It’s devastating to watch this change.
Julia Thomas
Varsity Avenue, West Windsor
E
arlier this year Dick Snedeker
Dick continues to actively volwas aptly recognized for his unteer for WWAC, continuing to
continuous volunteering since he add to his zoo of plywood creabecame a West Windsor resident in tures; these “three dimensional
1957. This weekend some of this cartoons,” as he describes them.
generous craftsman’s collection of Snedeker creatively built and dolarge whimsical, plywood sculp- nated a birdhouse replica of the
tures will be available for anyone WW Arts Center for an arts auction
to paint as whimwhere it was very
sically as he creatcompetitively bid
ed them at the
on. The craftsSnedeker’s whimsiWest
Windsor
man also built the
cal sculptures will
Arts
Council’s
two story back
on view this SaturAutumn Arts Afhalf of his own
day at Nassau Park.
ternoon in Nassau
house, complete
Park
Pavilion
with a rooftop
(Saturday, Octodeck and spiral
ber 6, 1-4 p.m., behind Target).
staircase, and regarding it all as a
To recap why West Windsor one-man job “except for pouring
formally recognized Snedeker the concrete foundation and plaster
with a Lifetime Volunteer award walls.”
earlier this year, he began his caDick is now an emerging volunreer of volunteering “on record” in teer storyteller. According to
the early 1960s when he became an Snedeker, his Fabulous Form
active member of a regional orga- Sculptures at Autumn Arts Afternization for small animal rescue noon this weekend are on tour from
and control services. He was elect- “his archaeological finds of a new
ed to the West Windsor School genre of highbrow neoclassical
Board in 1968, serving as president plywood artwork (circa 1825 from 1974 to 1979. He involved 2005) unearthed in various West
himself in the West Windsor Plan- Windsor construction sites.” He
ning Board Advisory Committee will be handing out booklets of the
and Stony Brook-Millstone Water- full story of this newfound genre.
shed Association, was appointed to
Dick has served on a dizzying
the task force to restore Grover’s array of community organizations
Mill Pond, and chaired each of and has informally volunteered in a
these at points in the ’80s and ’90s. hundred other times, places, and
He was appointed again to chair ways. Cumulatively he has been a
the Grover’s Mill Pond restoration backbone to the community at
task force in 2001 and led it to com- large. Dick Snedeker is an iconic,
pletion of the 30-year project to marathon running, West Windsor
fully restore the pond in 2009. Si- Volunteer-Extraordinaire.
multaneously, he had been an acWest Windsor has been blessed
tive member of the Friends of West with his residency here to tend to
Windsor Open Space until 2007. the roots West Windsor has grown
He had also been a West Windsor from. Dick, on behalf of West
Arts Council (WWAC) board Windsor, thank you so much.
member from 2004 through 2010.
Paul Cerna
You Can’t Go Home
Again, Penns Neck
B
efore my retirement a few
years ago, I always came home
to West Windsor after work on
Route 1 from the north. I would
make a left turn at the Washington
Road intersection, but occasionally
I would use Fisher Place if the traffic light there happened to be favorable. If I were still commuting now,
I couldn’t do either of these things.
I would have to go on to Alexander
Road and either awkwardly cut
across three lanes of traffic to get
back onto Route 1 northbound for a
right turn at Washington Road, or
else continue straight on to the
overloaded circle on Alexander.
Both of the above time and fuelwasting maneuvers are required
courtesy of NJDOT’s decision to
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PROFESSIONAL INSTALLATION
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block off left turns to get through
traffic moving faster on Route 1.
West Windsor-bound motorists
from the north might now be welladvised to bring a digital copy of
Thomas Wolfe’s “You Can’t Go
Home Again” to listen to and consider while waiting to get through
this morass. But as you know, it’s
all our fault for wanting to live
here.
While on the subject of going
home, our beloved Crested
Caracara that used to perch on the
utility pole beside the Grover
homestead on Village Road East in
the evenings has now departed,
probably for sunnier climes such
its usual central Florida habitat.
Lest I be considered hopelessly
inept as a birdwatcher, I want to
correct an item in the previous issue of the WWP News that stated
that I saw it “stoop” for prey there,
which would be unusual behavior
for the normally ground-feeding
Caracara. I did see a Merlin, a small
falcon formerly known as a Pigeon
Hawk, perform the high-speed dive
known as “stooping.” In any event,
a utility pole would be too low a
perch from which to launch such a
dive. The Caracara was happy to
just sit there in the evening and survey its temporary domain.
Bon voyage, Caracara. You, for
one, CAN go home again.
John A. Church
West Windsor
Plan Is Working
I
609-231-1173
am writing this note to disagree
with the view that the DOT
jughandle experiment has failed. I
have been a resident of West Windsor and worked in the area for the
past three decades and a firsthand
witness to the business growth in
the area.
Lately, most of us have endured
the nightmare scenario of traffic
crawling on Route 1 during the
commuter rush hours. There are
proposals such as reconstructing
the Washington road and the Harrison street intersections. These proposals have been shelved due to
lack of funding at the state level.
The NJ Department of Transportation is attempting to improve the
traffic flow with modest proposals
of eliminating the jughandle turns
at both these intersections that involve very little capital spending,
yet help improve the traffic.
Like any behavioral change, drivers will get adjusted to the new
traffic patterns. Just because a few
drivers are violating the (clearly
marked) no U-turn signs, I believe
that calling the experiment a failure
is unjustified. One should not forget that we all depend upon the economic vitality of the area for our
jobs and wellbeing in general. If we
make living and working in the
area a continued nightmare, please
be assured that companies (and
jobs with them) will go someplace
else. I plead to all concerned to consider the larger picture before
jumping to NIMBY conclusions.
Ram Kolluri MBA
President, Global Investment
Management, Alexander Park
Keep Zoning Intact
For Private Schools
T
he New Jersey Assembly is
currently considering Assembly Bill No. 2586 and Senate Bill
No. 1534 (A-2586 & S-1534) already passed in the Senate, that
would exempt private universities
and colleges from the requirement
of gaining approval from municipal planning and zoning boards
when they seek to develop their
land. A past court decision exempts
public colleges and universities
from the need to secure these approvals because they are seen as
serving a critical public mission.
The fractured logic behind this
legislation is that private institutions should be treated as public institutions because they also “contribute substantially to that important public mission.” But the primary danger in extending this exemption is that private colleges and
universities are also private developers.
In Plainsboro, Princeton University owns approximately 685
acres of land, about half of which
could still be developed. These undeveloped parcels encompass
about 62 percent of all the land that
can be developed in Plainsboro
Township. That means that just under two-thirds of all the undeveloped land in Plainsboro would be
exempt from the open and sensible
public planning process that residents have come to rely upon as the
community has grown over the
years.
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to the financial benefit of the university. Some of these lands include the Princeton Forrestal Center and the Princeton Forrestal Village. To date, the university has developed approximately 161 acres.
This development has been a success (and an asset to Plainsboro)
largely because the local planning
process has insured that the land
was developed consistent with the
township’s carefully considered
master plan. Through the local
planning process, impacts were
gauged and mitigated and the public has had a voice in the process.
A-2586 & S-1534 would take this
away.
Should this legislation become
law, the remaining universityowned land that is not yet developed would not be subject to local
planning. This represents approximately 62 percent of all the land in
Plainsboro that is still available for
development and we would have
no voice!
Would the university develop
the tax revenue generating office
research projects (at appropriate
densities) that are currently
planned; or will institutional needs
trump the public interest with
Plainsboro becoming the home of
oversized office and housing developments? Will the impacts on
traffic, the environment and the
schools be considered? Will we be
certain that tax revenues will be
raised to pay for the added demands for services? Will our citizens have a voice in the future of
their community? Sadly, the answer is no.
I urge the Assembly to exercise
the good judgment that escaped the
Senate and reject this legislation.
Plainsboro Township is proof positive that the responsible administration of land use authority, that
includes the participation of our
citizens, can work.
Peter A. Cantu
Mayor, Plainsboro Township
Anti-Solar Petition
S
marterSolarNJ.com with over
457 signatures would like to
thank the public who signed our petition to stop MCCC’s $40 million
massive solar facility in a residential community.
Since the news coverage of our
lawsuit, we have seen a 15 percent
increase in signatures already. The
public awareness is growing with
respect to the irresponsibility of
MCCC’s large scale 33,000 solar
panel project. There has been no
due process, no courtesy planning
board review (as promised) and no
public hearing.
As a result, this industrial sized
project has numerous factual discrepancies and has absolutely no
accountability from SunLight General. It is very disturbing that
homeowners on South Post and
Old Trenton Roads will have solar
panels placed less than 300 feet
from their homes, a “football field
away” promise broken by MCCC
and MCIA. In fact, homeowners
will have thousands of solar panels
as close as 50 to 75 feet.
It is unfortunate that this tributary of the Assunpink, an area full
of wetlands and streams, will be
damaged and destroyed. The
stormwater runoff and drainage
concerns will be paramount for our
area and Lake Mercer. It is irresponsible of Mercer County to upset an environmentally sensitive
area and destroy over 130 trees for
a “green” initiative.
Many policy makers agree with
SmarterSolarNJ.com and SIMPLY
would have liked for this project to
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G
alloping
his
way to the top
of the music
charts across Asia, the
United Kingdom, and
now, the United States, is an unlikely international pop star: PSY
— rhymes with pie— who has
made Gangnam Style a household
phrase.
I am getting a big kick out of
knowing that it was I who first
called the Korean hip-hop star to
my children’s attention, though he
was pretty much pooh-poohed —
“Yeah, so we’ve never heard of
him; who is he?” All I knew was
that his horsey-dance and mannerisms caught my eye and made me
laugh. Who knew he would tickle
everybody else’s funny bone in the
same manner?
The fact that a Korean singer is
mainstream anything is huge
progress in my book and in terms of
my life perspective. Take Korean
cuisine, for example, which is distinctive and delicious, and yet,
when I was growing up, everyone
wanted to know if it was like Japanese or Chinese food. Though it isn’t, no, not at all, Korean food usually was described in terms of its
relationships with the fare of the
countries around it.
And now Korean groceries and
markets abound along Route 1 up
towards Edison. New York has its
own Koreatown. And the best news
yet the Asian Bistro — located next
to the West Windsor train station
— is owned by Koreans and has authentic and awesome Korean food.
Like kimchi, PSY — the hiphop handle for the man born as
Park Jae-Sang — is the real Korean
deal. Well, actually educated at the
prestigious Berklee College of Music in Boston, he is a popular figure
in Korea, an extension of the KPop brand of Korean youth culture.
His music video has gone viral, approaching 350 million views on
YouTube.
I have a friend, a newscaster in
Boston, who posted on his Facebook something to the effect of:
“It’s catchy, it’s fun, and these
days, it counts as news, but does
anyone know what the heck he’s
talking about?”
“Gangnam” literally translates
as south of the river, in this case,
the Han River, which cuts across
the capital city of Korea, Seoul,
from west to east. Back in 1988,
when I was in Seoul as a field producer for the Olympics, I knew the
western part of Gangnam as the
home of Korea’s broadcasting stations. It was where our crews headed to beam our stories home. The
eastern part of Gangnam was home
to the newly built Olympic venues.
T
he Gangnam of PSY’s hit music video is still south of the river, but in an area that is super
wealthy and trendy, the part of
Seoul where movie stars, athletes,
and the beautiful people go to see
and be seen, eat, shop and drop —
lots of money. Think Beverly Hills,
South Beach, or the ritziest neighborhoods of Paris or New York.
Throughout the song, PSY repeatedly declares “Oppan Gangnam Style.” In Korea, “Oppa”
means big brother. In the honorific
system, girls are not allowed to call
their older brothers by their given
names, so they have to call them
“Oppa.” Girls also often call their
boyfriends by this name.
PSY is declaring that he has high
taste Gangnam style, so he’s a
coolcat type of boyfriend. The famous horseback-riding dance is a
parody of the lifestyles of the rich
and famous, as horseback riding
and sports like polo are considered
the domain of royalty and the rich.
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by Euna Kwon Brossman
Overall the song is supposed to
mock that lifestyle at the same time
that it holds it up as a model of desirability, especially since it lands
you the perfect girl, the “Sexy Lady” enshrined in the song. I get the
language but it is intriguing to me
that the song appeals to people who
don’t understand a stitch of the Korean language. But then, I suppose
Korean culture: From
pop star PSY to the
Asian Bistro next to the
West Windsor train station, owned by Koreans
and serving awesome
Korean food.
that catchy rhythms, energetic
dancing, and human eye candy
don’t need any translation.
What’s ironic is that another big
Korean personality, Daniel Dae
Kim, star of Lost and Hawaii FiveO, is famous in the United States
and yet virtually unknown in Korea. This past summer, while in Korea, the girls and I took a day trip to
Panmunjeom, the noman’s land at the border with North Korea.
The girls had been
lamenting the fact that
despite three days in Los Angeles,
they had only had one celebrity
sighting — James Woods in the hotel elevator, who for them really
did not count. And then, on the other side of the world, there at the
38th parallel, Katie all of a sudden
gasped, “There’s the guy from
Lost!” I was never a fan of that
show, but I did recognize Chin Ho
Kelly from the land of coconuts
and palm trees.
Molly had the gumption to go up
to him and ask him to take a picture
with us. But apparently, until we
blew the whistle, he had been traveling under the radar. After we took
our picture, however, the cat was
out of the bag, and then everyone
swarmed for an autograph and a
picture. Though we felt a little bit
bad, we figured he might have
wanted some publicity; after all,
where do you draw that fine line
between the attention you want,
and the attention you don’t?
It might behoove Daniel Dae
Kim to take some hip-hop lessons
and acquire some Gangnam Style.
As for this Korean, I am happy my
countrymen are finally making
some noise in the entertainment industry. I never knew horseback riders could make such a big impact.
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have been placed over MCCC’s
parking lots.
We are disappointed but we are
dedicated to preserving farmland
and protecting wetlands. We think
it’s a disgrace to destroy 45 acres
of prime historic farmland in the
name of MCCC’s renewable energy program. This is tragic!
Teresa Lourenco
South Post Road, West Windsor
Naming Policy
Mean-Spirited
I
wholeheartedly agree with
Lynne Azarchi’s letter in the
September 21 issue of the WW-P
News.
How ironic to see in this same
issue the proposal from the school
district to have different policies to
remember students who have died
by suicide. It is mean-spirited and
shows a complete lack of compassion for families who have lost a
child in this way. If this is what the
administration comes up with to
determine how to memorialize deceased students, it’s no wonder our
schools are failing in the “character
education” department.
Producing caring, thoughtful,
kind, responsible young adults is
just as important and prepping kids
for SATs. This proposal is an embarrassment to our community.
Karen Clark
Hendrickson Drive,
West Windsor
Beyond Suicide
A
fter reading the article in the
September 21 WW-P News
regarding the district’s proposed
naming rights policy, I am troubled
by the explicit prohibition against
naming a facility after an individual who has committed suicide.
Suicide should not be an automatic
disqualifier for an otherwise deserving candidate.
Suicide is, however final, only
one act in someone’s life. One act
does not define a life. One act does
not overshadow a lifetime of
achievements and contributions to
the community.
There has been much talk, deservedly so, of naming the High
School North baseball field after
David Bachner. This is not simply
because he passed away, but because of the person he was and his
numerous athletic achievements.
No one would ever boil his life
down to “someone who died as a
result of a heart issue” and ignore
the other 18 years.
By allowing a district facility to
be named after a suicide victim
who fulfills the other criteria, the
issue of suicide can be confronted
by remembering the value of their
life. For 30 years, Brian “Maynard” Welsh was a teacher, coach,
and friend to thousands of Pirates
at High School South. He inspired
a sense of school spirit and togetherness on “one big Pirate ship,”
warned against heading down the
“slippery slope” of falling standards, and was always available to
talk.
In many other ways he shaped
what it meant to go to South. He
was a driving force behind the AP
Play, Washington Seminar, and
Mr. South competition and a spontaneous “guest lecturer” in classes
from Spanish to science. In addition, he was a fixture at sporting
events, either as a Hall of Fame
soccer coach, fan, or in his PA role
as the “Voice of the Pirates.” A
school is not special because of the
brick and mortar building but because of the people who fill the
space, and nobody filled as much
of South as Mr. Welsh.
His legacy was exemplified in
the outpouring of emotion after his
death, even from students he
taught as many as 30 years ago.
Two years later, those who loved
him, as well as many who did not
know him, continue to honor his
memory without thinking about
the manner of his death.
Given all that he contributed to
South, it is shameful that the
school district would not even consider naming something for him.
For example, the turf field where
he coached in 344 soccer victories
and announced football games or
the Mezzanine classroom that allowed his voice to cascade over the
school. His suicide is far from the
headline in the story of his life.
What is more important to consider, three decades of contributions
to the district or the cause of death?
Nick Loury
West Windsor, South 2008
Since these letters were submitted, the School Board eliminated
language concerning suicide from
its naming policy. See page 1.
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Puppet Show Earns
Girl Scout Gold
N
ikita Barde recently earned
the Girl Scout Gold Award,
the highest award in Girl Scouting,
by presenting puppet shows at El
Centro Family Services, an organization in Trenton that provides
family services to families in need,
most of which are Spanish-speaking. A member of Troop 70677 led
by Louisa Ho, she earned both the
Girl Scout bronze and silver
awards when she was younger. A
senior at High School North, Barde
is a member of Model United Nations, Future Problem Solving, and
National Honor Society.
Through more than 80 hours of
community service, Barde was
able to engage the children with educational activities over the summer by presenting them with entertainment and visual arts with valuable morals and life lessons. After
hours of building and painting, she
created a puppet theater, scripts,
props, and backgrounds for each of
the stories she presented, which included Little Red Riding Hood,
Hansel and Gretel, the Three Little
Pigs, and Goldilocks and the Three
Bears.
She worked with Maria
Duarte, a volunteer at El Centro, to
identify the needs of the children.
“You may have read that libraries
throughout the city are closing, and
locations for young children are
limited, therefore there are not
many places where children can
enjoy a fun time with books and entertainment,” says Duarte. “By creating this puppet theater for us, you
have also created a learning environment for our children, which
they can enjoy and learn at the
same time”
Classmates Bolong Xu, Rohit
Tallapragada,
and
Shruti
Marathe presented the puppet
shows to children, ages 3 to 10. After the presentations, Barde encouraged the children to create
their own stories. The children
were able to take the initiative and
use their creativity to make their
own stories and puppet shows.
“This project has enabled Barde
to look beyond the environment
she is used to, and it exposed her to
the needs of individuals outside our
community,” says her father Rajesh. “I believe that she addressed
two subjects which she truly cares
about — education and children —
and took the initiative to better her
community through this project.”
Her mother Shalini and her sister
Anisha also supported her
throughout this endeavor.
“I believe that carrying out this
project really improved my leadership skills along with my organization, communication, and planning
skills,” says Barde. “I hope that
other individuals in my community
will reach out for issues they are
passionate about and make a difference.”
For information about joining
Girl Scouts in West Windsor or
Plainsboro as a girl or adult volunteer, call Ho at 609-371-2119 or Email girlscoutswwp@verizon.net.
Nikita Barde, left, earned her Gold Award, and
Alexa Rubin completed her mitzvah project.
As Mitzvah Project,
Help For Preschool
A
lexa Rubin of Plainsboro created “Candy Critters” to raise
money for the Cherry Tree Club
(TCTC), a preschool for homeless
children based at Prince of Peace
Church in West Windsor, in conjunction with her upcoming bat
mitzvah on November 17 at Congregation Beth Chaim.
“Becoming a Bat Mitzvah requires the child to do a certain
amount of community service,”
says her mother, Stephanie.
“However, I’ve tried hard to teach
my girls to be good citizens by giving back to their communities and
paying it forward when they can,
not just because they have to.”
Alexa, a lifelong Plainsboro resident, has been interested in community service since her days at
Beth Chaim preschool. The school
asked for volunteers to prepare a
hot meal throughout the year. “We
would commit to a date, prepare the
food, and I would deliver it in the
morning,” says Stephanie. “That’s
how we found out about TCTC, its
mission, and their needs.”
When she was four years old
Alexa learned about a young girl
who asked for money instead of presents for her birthday and then used
the money to buy toys for children
who were sick in the hospital. Alexa
told her mother that she wanted to
do something like that. “We decided
to have an art party for her fifth
birthday and when we sent the invites out, we asked for art supplies
instead of presents,” says Stephanie.
“The response was overwhelming.”
They delivered 22 two-gallon buckets of art supplies to TCTC, which
were used in the classroom and
goody bags were sent home with the
kids. Alexa and her sister, Lindsay,
have donated some of their new toys
to TCTC’s holiday program and
created personal care packages for
the kids to use at home.
They have also put their love of
crafts to good use by creating get
well cards for patients at the University Medical Center of Princeton. In April they created close to
200 cards and the volunteers put
one on each patient’s meal tray.
“We were quite upset to hear that
TCTC’s funding was cut in recent
years,” says Stephanie. “When I
spoke with the director, Wendy
Schutzer, she explained that she
needed new sheets for the napping
pads the kids use daily, but just didn’t have the funds to buy them.”
Dr. Amy J. Aronsky, right, recently joined the staff
of the Capital Health Center for Sleep Medicine.
Alexa, a seventh grade student at
Grover Middle School, hopes to
change that when she delivers a
check to them for more than $700.
An avid student at the Dance
Corner in West Windsor, Alexa is a
member of the senior jazz, senior
tap, and senior lyrical competition
teams this year. In the spring she
will also be performing a tap solo,
lyrical solo, and lyrical duet with
her sister, Lindsay, 11, a fifth grade
student at Millstone River School.
Stephanie, a graduate of University of Delaware with a degree in
fine arts, has been a graphic designer, marketing manager, office assistant, and consultant. She is currently doing freelance marketing
work for a financial planner in
Princeton and works at the Dance
Corner doing administrative work.
Several years ago Stephanie organized a playground fix-up event to
benefit TCTC. She also created
personal care and outdoor fun care
packages for the kids.
Her husband, Rob, is a CPA and
the controller for Construction Financial Management Group in
Princeton. He volunteers as a head
coach for the WWP Soccer Association. “Rob loves soccer and was
once a very good player before too
many injuries forced him into retirement,” says Stephanie. “There
never seems to be enough coaches
so when he was asked to coach a
boys’ senior team, he said yes, even
though he doesn’t have a son playing in that league.” This is his third
year coaching them and his team
won the championship last year.
“I’m proud to have done this
project because it’s benefiting children who are homeless and are deprived of the many things I get
everyday,” says Alexa. “I’m very
happy that my friends and family
supported me throughout this
process by buying “Candy Critters” and/or donating money.”
Sleep Medicine
D
r. Amy J. Aronsky of West
Windsor, a board certified
sleep medicine physician, has recently joined the medical staff at
OCTOBER 5, 2012
Capital Health Center for Sleep Medicine.
She is board certified in internal medicine,
pulmonary diseases, critical care medicine,
sleep disorders medicine, and behavioral
sleep medicine.
Aronsky earned her medical degree from
the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine where she also completed her residency
in internal medicine. She received her fellowship training in pulmonary diseases, critical
care medicine, and sleep disorders medicine
from the Medical College of Pennsylvania in
Philadelphia. She is also a diplomat of the
American Board of Sleep Medicine.
Prior to joining Capital Health, she served
as medical director of the Center for Sleep
Disorders at St. John Medical Center in
Longview, Washington. She was also an adjunct professor of clinical medicine at Pacific
Northwest University of Health Sciences
College of Osteopathic Medicine in Yakima,
Washington.
“One of the most important qualities patients should look for in their doctor is the
quality of their firsthand knowledge and experience in their field,” said Rita Brooks, director of the Capital Health Center for Sleep
Medicine. “We are thrilled to welcome yet
another highly qualified physician to our staff
of esteemed sleep medicine professionals.
Her leadership with the AASM gives our center direct access to the most up-to-date nationally recognized best practices in the field of
sleep medicine.”
In her role on the American Academy of
Sleep Medicine Board of Directors, Dr. Aronsky serves on the Finance Committee and the
Presidential Task Force on the Future of
Sleep Medicine.
“Since my initial visit to Capital Health, I
continue to be extremely impressed by the
high clinical quality that the Center for Sleep
Medicine offers their patients” said Aronsky,
“I look forward to working in well-designed
facilities such as our Hamilton location that
promote healing, while being part of such a
highly trained, knowledgeable roster of
physicians, nurses and technologists who are
some of the most experienced sleep medicine
professionals in the region.”
2005 South Graduate
Publishes Art Anthology
Firewood
For Sale
N
ishan Patel, a 2005 graduate of High
School South, has published an art anthology created with a group of High School
South students. A professional illustrator, Patel completed his master’s degree in education and served as a student teacher at South.
The book, “Southology,” is a compilation of
WW-P student artwork, and all proceeds from
book sales will be directed to the High School
South’s art department for additional art supplies.
“The purpose of this book is to bring my vision of fine arts forward — to showcase the
amazing things that the visual arts can do for
an individual,” says Patel on his website
www.nishanpatel.com. “This anthology is a
collection of stories, memories, quips, and experiences of the everyday, fantastical, and the
mundane. Each page is but a glimpse of the
artist’s soul — the beginning of a conversation that he or she is putting out there for you.”
He also says, “The process of art-making
allows and requires us to delve within to uncover lost treasures and share; to find a voice
and an understanding of who we are as individuals and how we can inspire the world
around us.”
His next publishing endeavor is another art
anthology with recent university graduates
who are now working professionals. “Process
and Progress: Recent University Graduates in
Pursuit of the Visual Arts” is available
through Barnes and Noble.
Born in Glen Rock, Patel and his family
moved to West Windsor in 1992. After attending Dutch Neck, Village, Upper Elementary, and Grover Middle, and High School
South, he received a bachelor degree in fine
arts from Syracuse University.
Patel’s love of art began when he was visiting India at the age of four. His uncle’s friend
taught him the basics and he remembers
drawing a turtle shortly after the first lesson.
“I’ve been drawing every since,” he says. He
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continued drawing and painting,
some serious, some political, some
humorous through college. Although he entered college as a business major, he switched first to
graphics and then to illustrations
during his freshman year.
Patel’s first book, “Sammy’s
New Home,” was self-published.
Sammy is a sasquatch, a hairy creature often referred to as Bigfoot.
The book’s heroine, Mallory, is
based on Patel’s sister, Pooja, also
a graduate from High School
South. “I did not tell her that the
character was based on her — but
the minute Pooja looked at the
character design, she knew right
away and was very excited,” says
Patel. (The News, December 18,
2009).
Their mother, Sangita Patel, an
interior decorator, owns Kalakar
Interiors. Their father, Kiran Patel, owns several hotels in northern
and central New Jersey.
Patel, an illustrator and designer
based in New York City told the
News in 2009 that he considers
himself lucky to create art for a living.
Two Teachers Part
of National Summit
Rebecca McLelland-Crawley,
WW-P’s K-12 Science Supervisor,
and Sven Strnad, a grade five
teacher, were part of the 2012 “Education Nation” National Summit,
held recently in New York City.
They were among the 10 National
Board Certified teachers selected
to represent teachers throughout
the country. The Education Nation
summit focused on successful examples of innovation in education
with summit sessions, moderated
by NBC News journalists.
“Education Nation has become a
wellspring of forward-thinking and
innovative approaches, and has
helped to reignite calls for education reform in our country,” said
New York City Mayor Bloomberg.
Chess Awards
Let’s Play Chess, a program resulting in a chess competition, was
held in June for 30 students from
West Windsor and Plainsboro,
ages 6 to 13, at Plainsboro Library.
First place went to Pranav Kartik;
finishing second was Varnita
Prakash; and Arpita Gaggar finished third. Honorable mentions
went to Pranav Manikonda in
fourth place, and Voneesha Shaik
in fifth place. The tournament was
organized by Render Cutts, who
supplied trophies and medals for
all participants.
German Students
Join Honor Society
Nine students from High School
North were inducted into the German National Honor Society, Delta
Epsilon Phi, an organization that
Honors Students: New members of the German National Honor Society include Hannah Lohr-Pearson,
left, Delia Bannon, Jamie Sung, Larissa Van Vlijmen,
Vincent Xie, and Michael Stern.
recognizes outstanding academic
achievement in German sponsored
by the American Association of
Teachers of German.
The honorees include Alex
Ameri, Delia Bannon, Katie
Henkel, Alex Huang, Hannah
Lohr-Pearson, Michael Stern,
Jamie Sung, Larissa Van Vlijmen, and Vincent Xie. “I am very
proud of the accomplishments of
these students and it has been my
pleasure to be their German teacher
over the years,” says Max Achtua.
Memorial Service
Evelyn Elizabeth Wicoff, 96, a
native of Plainsboro died August
30. (The News, September 7,
2012). A service to celebrate her
life will be held at the First Presbyterian Church of Plainsboro, 500
Plainsboro Road, Plainsboro, on
Saturday, October 20, at 11:30 a.m.
Donations may be made to the First
Presbyterian Church of Plainsboro
or to Doctors Without Borders, 333
7th Avenue, 2nd Floor, New York,
NY 10001-5004.
Deaths
Domenico Ucci, 71, of Belgium
died September 15 in Belgium.
Survivors include a brother and sister-in-law, Vincenzo and Fiorina
Ucci of West Windsor. A memorial mass was celebrated at St. David
the King Church in West Windsor.
Burial was in Italy.
John R. Kelley, 87, of Boynton
Beach, Florida, died September 17.
Born in Paterson, he served in the
Navy. His accomplishments included the implementation of the
Missile Guidance System, the Distant Early Warning Line System
(DEW Line) in Alaska, and the Job
Corps training program with Sargent Shriver.
Survivors include a son and
daughter-in-law, Jim and Andrea
Kelley of West Windsor. Donations may be made to Faith United
Methodist Church Scholarship
Fund or Faith United Methodist
Church Endowment Fund, 6340
West Boynton Beach Boulevard,
Boynton Beach, FL 33437; or the
American Lung Association National Headquarters, 1301 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Suite 800,
Washington
D.C.
20004
(www.lung.org/donate).
Mary Casey, 88, of Plainsboro
died at the Pavilions at Forrestal
Skilled Care in September. Born in
Bayonne, she had lived at the
Pavilions for the past seven years.
Survivors include four sons and
daughters-in-law, eight grandchildren, and three great-grandchildren. Donations may be made to
Princeton Hospice, 208 Bunn Drive, Princeton 08540.
Albert D. ‘Buck’ Tindall Jr.,
91, of Denver, Colorado, died September 24. He was a former longtime resident of West Windsor.
He lived a full life in West
Windsor. During World War II, he
was employed at Kaiser Metal
Products/Fleetwings in Bristol,
Pennsylvania. He was an award
winning salesperson at Hightstown
Rug Company for many years. He
moved to Florida in 1972 where he
sold carpet before retiring to Denver in 1993.
Survivors include his wife of 16
years, Joan Talkin-Tindall; his
daughter and son-in-law, Christine
and Jack Procaccino of Hainesport;
three sons and daughters-in law,
David and Ethel Tindall of Colorado, Tommy and Cindy Tindall
of Florida and Virginia, and
Michael and Lucy Tindall of
Plainsboro; seven grandchildren,
and seven great-grandchildren. He
is also survived by several nieces,
nephews, and cousins; two stepdaughters and their husbands, Barbara and Art Stewart and Cathy and
Kris Pearson; step-son and his
wife, Robert and Becky Talkin;
and six step-grandchildren.
Alice Kindmark Riordan, 96,
died September 24. Survivors include a sister, Ruth Hammond of
West Windsor.
Mary Bernadette Knierim, 75,
died September 25. She moved to
Bear Creek Assisted Living in
West Windsor in 2008. Donations
may be made to Alzheimer’s Association at www.alz.com.
Priscilla K. Stitt, 83, of Plainsboro died September 26. The funeral will be at Cole Funeral Home,
Cranbury, Saturday, October 5, at
10:30 a.m.
Evelyn Kaplowitz Leibowitz,
91, of Sunrise, Florida, died September 28. Survivors include a son
and daughter-in-law, Donald Leibowitz and Karen Brodsky of West
Windsor. Services were held at
Congregation Beth Chaim, West
Windsor. Donations may be made
to Hadassah or the City of Hope.
Frances Guzy, 83, a former
West Windsor resident, died October 1, at Brandywine Senior Living
in Pennington. Born in Elizabeth,
she was a longtime member of the
First Presbyterian Church of Dutch
Neck.
Survivors include her two
daughters and a son-in-law, Judy
Guzy and Barbara and Les King;
two sons and a daughter-in-law,
Richard Guzy and Jeff and Laura
Guzy, and five grandchildren. Donations may be made to Animal
Placement Agency of the Windsors, Box 162, West Windsor
08550.
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r. Barton Aron Kamen, 63, of West
Windsor died September 27. A distinguished pediatric oncologist and cancer pharmacologist, he was scheduled to receive the
Award of Hope for Leadership in Research and
Patient Care at Cancer Institute of New Jersey’s “Night Of Illusions,” on Thursday, October 25.
Born in Brooklyn, he was raised in
Rockville Center, New York. He received his
M.D. and Ph.D. from Case Western Reserve
University and served his internship/residency and fellowship in pediatrics and pediatric
hematology-oncology and pharmacology at
Yale University.
His academic career included three years at
Medical College of Wisconsin; 15 years at the
University of Texas Southwestern Medical
Center as professor of pediatrics and pharmacology; followed by eight years as director of
pediatric hematology-oncology and associate
director of Cancer Institute of New Jersey and
Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, New
Brunswick.
From 2007 to 2009, Kamen served as chief
medical officer of the Leukemia Lymphoma
Society and was still a consultant to bio-pharmaceutical/cancer therapeutic companies, including Morphotek and Metronomx Group and
a consultant to the NIH in Washington, DC.
Kamen was the recipient of the Scholar
Award from the Leukemia Lymphoma Society, the Damon Runyon Walter Winchell Fellowship, the Burroughs Wellcome Clinical
Pharmacology Award, and was one of the few
pediatric oncologists to be named to an American Cancer Society clinical research professorship. He was also elected into the American Society of Clinical Investigation.
Kamen, who had written more than 300
manuscripts, was the editor-in-chief of the
Journal of Pediatric Hematology Oncology
and served on numerous editorial and advisory boards of other cancer journals. on the research and medical affairs committee of the
American Cancer Society, as a commissioner
of the New Jersey Commission for Cancer
Research and was on the board and treasurer
of the National Coalition for Cancer Research
(NCCR). He was also a medical adviser for
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Evelyn E. Wicoff
March 21, 1916 –August 30, 2012
Evelyn Wicoff passed away peacefully at her home in
Princeton surrounded by family on the afternoon of
August 30, 2012 after a brief illness. Born in the house
built by her grandparents, John and Catharine Britton
Wicoff, Evelyn was the last surviving child of John Van
Buren Wicoff and Lavinia Applegate Wicoff. Her father
was a 1900 graduate of Princeton University, a Trenton
lawyer and bank president. He was a prime mover in
establishing Plainsboro as an independent township.
There he served as president of the Township
Committee and School Board most of the years from the
Township's founding in 1919 until his death in 1952.
the Hole In The Wall Gang Camp, a consulting medical officer for the Physical Sciences
Oncology Centers Program of the National
Cancer Institute and medical adviser for the
Angiogenesis Foundation.
His major laboratory interests for more
than three decades centered around folate biochemistry and anti-folate pharmacology. He
was currently developing treatment to prevent both resistance and toxicity, especially
neurotoxicity from therapy. He was also in
the forefront of developing Metronomic
Therapy for cancer, working with a non-profit in Geneva developing this model.
Kamen, who loved being a physician and
in pediatrics, had a special relationship with
his patients and their families. He often
earned their trust via magic tricks. He always
said a magician is someone who is able to produce startling and amazing effects. “I like to
think I give life to kids — and that’s no trick.”
Survivors include his wife of 36 years,
Ruth Saletsky; his daughter, Libby; his mother, Evelyn Kamen of Boca Raton, Florida; his
brothers, Dean Kamen of Bedford, New
Hampshire, and Mitchell Kamen of Coram,
New York; and his sister, Terri Kamen Schulner of Wellington, Florida.
Funeral services were held at Congregation Beth Chaim. Donations may be made to
the Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation, Embrace Kids Foundation, or FIRST.
Evelyn attended the Plainsboro Elementary School (now the J. V. B. Wicoff Elementary
School) through the eighth grade before attending one year at Princeton High School and
subsequently Miss Fine’s School (now Princeton Day School) where she graduated in
1934. She received her Bachelor's degree in Mathematics from Wellesley College in 1938,
where she graduated Phi Beta Kappa. She then continued her schooling at Radcliffe
College (now Harvard).
Evelyn was employed briefly in the New York City Public Library before settling in
Princeton, NJ. There she worked for the Gallup organization – as directors of the
American Institute of Public Opinion (AIPO) and later Universal Pictures at Audience
Research Institute (ARI). Subsequently, she joined the Educational Testing Service (ETS)
where she played an important role in researching and planning for that organization's
transition to a computer system that would meet its scientific and data processing
requirements.
Despite living and working in Princeton, her love was Plainsboro. Evelyn was a long time
prominent member and trustee of the Plainsboro Historical Society. The Wicoff family
home was purchased by the Town of Plainsboro for township offices and later became the
home of the Plainsboro Historical Society’s Museum. Evelyn proudly participated in each
Plainsboro Founder’s Day events. Evelyn was very active in the First Presbyterian Church
of Plainsboro, the church she attended all her life. There she served in a variety of
volunteer positions for over 40 years including church treasurer.
Evelyn was devoted to her family and they to her. To her forty-two nieces and nephews
she was simply known as “Aunt Evie,” someone interested in all facets of their lives, excited to share their experiences, view their endless pictures and engage in a mean game
of Parcheesi. Her sharp intellect led to insightful discussions and unique viewpoints but
most importantly, she took time to listen. Her family will cherish the memories
and moments spent with their very loving aunt.
Evelyn was preceded in death by her parents John V. B. and Lavinia A. Wicoff; brothers
John and Doug; sisters Dorothy Bennett, Catharine, Marjorie Cooper, and Lavinia; nieces
Jean Wicoff Line and Evelyn Cooper Sitton; and nephew Douglas Wicoff. She is survived
by many nieces and nephews: June Bennett McCracken of LaClede, ID; William Bennett
of Sandpoint, ID; Anne Wicoff Carvajal of Bakersfield, CA; John Roberts Wicoff of
Titusville, NJ; and Barbara Cooper Neeb of Mt. Laurel, NJ; fifteen grand nieces and
nephews, and nineteen great grand nieces and nephews.
A service to celebrate her life will be held at the First Presbyterian Church, of Plainsboro,
500 Plainsboro Road, Plainsboro, NJ 08536 at 11:30 A.M. on October 20, 2012. In lieu of
flowers the family requests donations in her memory be made to the First Presbyterian
Church of Plainsboro or to Doctors Without Borders, 333 7th Avenue, 2nd Floor, New
York, New York 10001-5004.
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presence of the University Medical
Center of Princeton at Plainsboro?
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M. Doyle Lyons: There has
been an increase in commuting
time for many Plainsboro and West
Windsor residents who work in or
pass through Princeton to reach
their jobs. I think the DOT test will
underestimate the impact on the
Scudders Mill Road overpass for
two reasons: (a.) many northbound
drivers now seem to enter Princeton via Alexander Road (complicated by its narrow bridge) creating
problems there, rather than make a
U-turn on Scudders Mill, and (b.)
the former Merrill Lynch building
on Scudders Mill is not yet occupied by Novo Nordisk.
When it becomes fully occupied, the Scudders Mill overpass to
Route 1 south will become much
more crowded, especially at rush
hour, as happened when the Merrill
building was occupied.
When the Novo Nordisk building is fully occupied, I think the
crowding on the Scudders Mill
overpass to Route 1 south, will
cause backups on Route 1 north
from cars trying to exit and make
their U-turn to Princeton. This
could affect hospital access at certain times, and could create problems on local roads as drivers take
alternate routes to cross Route 1,
and avoid Scudders Mill Road. Instead of closing the jughandles, I
would redesign the jughandles at
Harrison and Washington so they
can handle more cars, while planning long term for an overpass at
Harrison.
2
.) From your observation, have
there been any unintended or
negative consequences from the
Jagannathan: I think the township has benefited heavily from the
addition of UMCPP. First and foremost, our residents have unparalleled access to a cutting-edge,
modern hospital with world-class
medical professionals. The tax
base expansion certainly helps, although we won’t see those effects
for a few years. And UMCPP
helped fund several items in town
including emergency traffic signal
changers for Police/Fire/EMS, a
public park accessible from the
road, and roadway and signal improvements.
The only complaint I have heard
from members of the community
has been the addition of traffic
Lewis-Nabi: ‘We are
committed to the economic well being of our
township community
and supported changes
in the past. We will continue to work with our
business community.’
lights along Plainsboro Road and
the connector road adjoining the
hospital. These concerns are manageable by conducting a traffic
study and adjusting light sensors
and timings.
Lewis-Nabi: The University
Medical Center’s move to Plainsboro is part of a 160-acre Redevelopment Plan, and is the product of
over six years of careful community planning. Among the factors
considered as part of the approval
of the plan were: financial benefits,
the impacts on services and local
roads, and the economic, employment and potential for business
benefits to Plainsboro and the region. We are pleased to report that
in all respects, this project is meeting our goals.
It is providing state-of-the-art
medical facilities for our township
and region, significant financial
benefits for the community, and is
doing this with no significant negative impacts. The UMCP at Plainsboro is truly a success story.
Lyons: I don’t see many negative consequences. While the hospital makes some payments to the
township in lieu of taxes, a corporate tenant would probably have
paid more in taxes to the township,
and helped to hold down the increase in residential real estate taxes. The hospital is a boon to the real estate developers, in spurring demand for medical offices in the village and in Forrestal Village.
Hopefully, hospital visitors and
medical office employees and patients will visit Plainsboro’s shops
and restaurants.
3
.) If you had to cut one thing
from the township’s budget in
order to reach a specific figure or
limit, what area would you look to
first? Do you have any other suggestions for reducing the taxpayers’ burden.
Jagannathan: I think the new
Community Center, while a great
idea, was a bit premature. It is not
fiscally responsible to spend upwards of $3 million on new construction immediately after spending $12 million on the library. The
library is a fantastic building that
has hundreds of daily users, and
has benefited our town tremen-
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dously — and I have the best of
hopes that the community center
gets the same utility — but it could
have been money better spent in
other areas or money used to defer/eliminate tax increases.
Lewis-Nabi: For a number of
years, Plainsboro has been utilizing
five-year cost projections as part of
our annual budget process and fiscal planning. This has allowed us to
anticipate challenges and react accordingly. As a result we have
avoided drastic actions that negatively impact our local services.
We are committed to continuing
this emphasis on expense control
and revenue enhancement that has
resulted in the lowest municipal tax
rate in Middlesex County, along
with the highest bond rating
(AAA). If we are faced with future
challenges, we would approach
these in the same way with careful
examination of all expense and
revenue items. This has proven to
be successful and we would continue with this approach.
Lyons: One major concern is
the increasing debt level of our
township in recent years, despite
the fact that our population has only increased 1.3 percent (compound annual basis), from 2000 to
2010, and is not expected to grow
much faster in the future. While
Plainsboro has a high credit rating,
and could increase its debt further
without jeopardizing its credit rating, debt service expense is a notable part of the budget. As of December 31, 2011, the township’s
debt outstanding totaled $45.3 million (net of reserves for repayment), up from $39.9 million at December 31, 2010, (net of reserves)
according to our bond filings. This
2011 figure excludes $32.3 million
of school district debt and $25.2
million for our share of Middlesex
County debt.
Since the population is no longer
growing as rapidly as in prior
decades, our debt levels should not
need to rise as fast. We might want
to start paying down debt. Actual
debt service expense in 2011 totaled $3.8 million, of which $2.1
million was for debt repayment and
$1.5 million was for interest expense. The 2012 budget called for
$4.8 million in debt service (some
for debt repayment). When interest
Lyons: ‘This one-party
control just isn’t
healthy. Can we truly
say we have a committee
of five independent
members? Finally,
would a woman’s opinion really be that bad?’
rates finally rise, interest expense
on any new debt will be higher, and
will soak up more of our budget. In
recent years, the township committee seems to issue new debt to replace maturing debt, rather than
pay off some maturing debt.
Nearly everyone who lives in
Plainsboro wants to maintain our
highly ranked schools, a key reason
why we chose to live here. We appreciate the parks and the wonderful new library. But I question the
township committee’s decision to
spend money renovating the old library at this time, with a still-weak
economy and many people unemployed or earning less than before.
I don’t think this is the right time to
spend this money and raise taxes
and debt.
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Lyons: Any contact I have had
with Plainsboro’s administrative
departments has been great. The
people I have dealt with have been
helpful and efficient.
5
.) Signage in Plainsboro has had
an impact on many small businesses in town. Some business
owners complain that the town’s
regulations have restricted their
business’ ability to attract customers. What would you do to alleviate such problems?
Jagannathan: As I noted last
year, it would be beneficial to the
Township and to its businesses and
residents if a productive and re-
Lyons: I have heard this complaint. I think we need broader parameters of the types of signage
and size of signage permitted. We
don’t want signs to be too large or
unsightly, but we must support and
work with our town’s small business partners, and not hurt them.
6
.) Are there any other areas that
you feel are of concern to the
Plainsboro community?
Jagannathan: As I mentioned
in item 4, the current incumbency
is Plainsboro’s largest threat to
new ideas, democracy, and creative, innovative solutions to the
issues in town. Outsiders (anyone
not on the Township Committee)
are never able to impact policy. If
it’s not a “campaign stop,” the public rarely sees its representatives.
Many may recall my pledge last
year to hold open forum “town
halls” at accessible locations and
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rishna Jagannathan: I grew
up in Montgomery Township,
NJ (Somerset County) and attended Rutgers University. After graduating with my B.S. in
Ecology/Natural Resources, I
worked in environmental engineering and environmental health
& safety. I moved to Plainsboro not
only for its commuting convenience, but for its natural beauty,
excellent schools, superior property value, and friendly neighborhoods. (Since then, property values
have declined and taxes have increased.) I recently left my job as
an EMS Educator to take a position
with the NJ Department of Labor
working in Occupational Safety,
promoting safe work practices and
ensuring the wellbeing of public
employees across New Jersey.
Last February I was elected to
office in the Plainsboro Township
Fire District No. 1 where I have
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Lyons: As noted in item 3, I
want to see more transparency
from the township committee, to
permit debate and new ideas. The
township committee has been solely comprised of democrats for
nearly 20 years. Plainsboro is a terrific town, so they have generally
done a good job. But this one-party
control just isn’t healthy. We need
more information about the issues
debated, assuming they are debated. Can we truly say we have a
township committee of five independent members? Finally, would
a woman’s opinion really be that
bad?
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Lewis-Nabi: Plainsboro’s administrative staff and elected officials are working with the business
community through local and regional partnerships, and chambers
of commerce, to enhance business
opportunities and operations. The
goal is to balance interests of businesses with community interests
based on standards for reasonable
signage.
Changes normally begin with
private property owners and shopping center management. Plainsboro resident-volunteers on Zoning and Planning committees work
with applicants on solutions that
balance these business interests
with
community/neighborhood
impacts. We are committed to the
economic well being of our township community and supported
changes in the past. We will continue to work with our business
community in the future, focus on
flexibility, and welcome suggestions.
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representative to listen and respond to concerns. It’s simple,
free, and effective — and should
have been implemented years ago
when the signage issues began.
Lewis-Nabi: Maintaining quality of life in Plainsboro is our key
focus. Traffic and taxes are always
topics of discussion, and although
Plainsboro continues to have the
lowest municipal tax rate in the
county, and a AAA bond rating, we
continue to look for ways to minimize costs, enhance efficiency,
and build on our strong community
assets.
We are proud Plainsboro has
been recognized in recent years as
a “New Jersey Future Smart
Growth Award Community,, one
of the “100 great towns that will
feed your soul and nurture your
business” [Fortune Small Business
Magazine], and one of the top 10
communities in the state [New Jersey Monthly Magazine]. We will
use these as points for moving forward to keep Plainsboro a great
place to live and work.
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Jagannathan: ‘Committee members other
than Mayor Cantu
rarely voice their opinions or thoughts; it appears that decisions are
handed down from Mr.
Cantu himself.
convenient times for residents develop a relationship with their representatives, share ideas and
thoughts about issues in town, and
hear directly from their elected officials about matters that affect the
residents.
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sponsive discussion occurred between the two communities. The
infrastructure to make this happen
is already in place — the Plainsboro Business Partnership (now
part of the Princeton Chamber of
Commerce) has united businesses
in town — now all the Township
Committee needs to do is send a
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Lewis-Nabi: The professional
staff working on Plainsboro’s dayto-day operations, are continually
reviewing activities for areas of
improvement. In addition, our
Mayor and Township Committee
serve as active liaisons for emergency services, business and economic development, environmental matters, parks and recreation,
cultural affairs and public works.
We have worked hard to enhance transparency and communication through an improved, interactive website, quarterly newsletter to all businesses and residents,
and an emergency communications system via e-mail, text messaging, computer, cable TV and
phone contact via reverse 911. We
are always open to, and interested
in, suggestions and welcome participation in our township and
committee meetings. Interested
and dedicated residents have come
to those meetings, and work with
us to maintain the high quality of
life we are noted for in Plainsboro.
Plainsboro Contenders: Krishna Jagannathan, left,
incumben Neil Lewis, M. Doyle Lyons, and incumbent Nuran Nabi battle for two seats on committee.
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Jagannathan: Plainsboro’s relationship with its residents and
businesses can stand to benefit
from a little attention by the Township Committee. Committee meetings are dry and boring, and it often
seems to the viewing public that
decisions have been made prior to
the members stepping into the
room (as everyone sits down, says
“yes” to everything, and then the
meeting is over!).
Township committee members
other than Mayor Cantu rarely
voice their opinions or thoughts as
it appears that decisions are handed
down from Mr. Cantu himself.
Public comments, although rarely
voiced, seldom impact policy.
There are also some statewide
reforms where Plainsboro has to
catch up — we have at least one
part-time or contracted individual
who is enrolled in a taxpayer-funded pension (you can look it up on
datauniverse.com) which is not only unethical, but illegal. These matters must be resolved to ensure that
the people of Plainsboro aren’t
paying to enrich the pockets of
public contractors (especially ones
that give money to the incumbents’
political campaign).
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.) From an administrative
standpoint, are there any areas
(such as services, police, fire, economic development, etc.) that
Plainsboro can run more smoothly
and efficiently?
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Princeton: $419,000. 3 BR,
2 full baths, 2 half baths, 1 car
garage.
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he campus of the University
Medical Center of Princeton
at Plainsboro is on the verge
of growing by another 11 acres —
the size of a parcel of land immediately north of the hospital between
Scudders Mill Road and Route 1
North. On Wednesday, October 10,
the Plainsboro Township Committee will vote on a resolution authorizing the planing board to determine whether or not the tract,
known as “the crescent,” constitutes an area in need of redevelopment.
“The tract was not included in
the original redevelopment area
because Princeton Healthcare System didn’t own it — now they own
it. The thought now is to pull that
parcel into the same kind of planning category that the hospital is in,
which means it has to be designated
as an area of need,” said Lester
Varga, Plainsboro’s director of
planning.
The land that now encompasses
the hospital, Merwick Rehabilitation Center, the skilled nursing facility, and the old FMC Corporation property (a total of 160 acres)
was deemed an area in need of redevelopment through a law which
allows municipalities to designate
such areas. In 2007 Princeton
HealthCare System became a contract purchaser of what used to be
FMC Corporation’s 156 acres.
“It put different kind of ‘zoning’
in place to redevelop the property
according to some specific need or
some specific vision,” Varga said.
Varga said this is how the hospital property was developed, and areas around the hospital are up next,
starting with “the crescent.” From
Route 1 north, the right-side exit
ramp for Scudders Mill Road towards Plainsboro sits adjacent to
undeveloped, unutilized land.
Plainsboro’s township committee must give the planning board
the task of conducting a study to
determine whether or not the 11acre parcel really is an area of need.
Varga says this is the first step in a
process to re-designate the area and
ultimately start its redevelopment.
“Assuming it all goes smoothly,
the area will have the same standing as the rest of the healthcare
campus, which includes the hospital, the park, the skilled nursing facility and still vacant parcels north
and south of Plainsboro Road,”
Varga said.
In addition, Plainsboro is rewriting its redevelopment plan because
of some changes that have occurred since its original adoption.
“We are also taking this opportunity to work with the hospital to bring
that property into the process,” said
Varga.
Varga said that the same consultant who prepared the original redevelopment plan (in 2008) is on
board for the rewrite. He says the
planning board’s involvement in
the new plan should be completed
by the end of 2012, with possible
adoption by the township committee early next year.
effective steward of taxpayer dollars.
I hope to hear from the people of
Plainsboro and continue to serve as
their voice to government in a new
role as a member of Township
Committee. Interested citizens can
leave a comment on the online version of this article, or reach me directly at Krishna@krishnaforplainsboro.com. Thank you.
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Rec Center Opens
T
hree years after the last book
was circulated at the old
Plainsboro Public Library, the reconstructed building has re-opened
as the township’s new Recreation
and Cultural Center. Plainsboro
Mayor Peter Cantu and three members of the township committee attended the grand opening on
Thursday, September 27, along
with other elected officials and
about 70 members of the community.
Deputy Mayor Neil Lewis greeted guests entering the building. He
said the center has already given
the town’s senior community a
new venue for gatherings as it already hosted an ice cream social
one week earlier.
Those in attendance heard a
speeches from Cantu and committeeman Narun Nabi, who serves as
the liaison to Plainsboro’s Department of Recreation and Community Services. Among others at the
ceremony was Shikha Rastogi, a
member of Plainsboro’s Human
Relations Council. Rastogi said
that later this year she is planning to
hold a culturally-themed event for
children, possibly to showcase costumes from around the world, at
Plainsboro’s newest facility.
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helped to maintain a zero tax increase this year. My skills and participation were essential to the negotiation of a new Collective Bargaining Agreement with the
dayshift firefighters, and instrumental to the development and hiring of our new dayshift supervisor/lieutenant. Over the last few
months I have proven myself as an
Neil Lewis, Deputy Mayor,
Township Committee: As a candidate for re-election to the township
committee, I am proud to live and
work in Plainsboro. I look forward
to the privilege of continuing my
service to the residents of Plainsboro, and keeping it an outstanding
community in which to live, work
and raise a family.
Community Service: Plainsboro
Township Committee, 1995-present; Deputy Mayor, 1998-present;
Liaison for Public Safety (Police,
Fire, Rescue) 1995- present; Environmental Advisory Committee
(Past Chairman and current Liaison) 1989-present; Development
Review Committee (1991-present); committees focused on Open
Space, Parks and Recreation, Human Relations; school facilities review committees including chairman of referendum committee
leading to approval for High
School North; past volunteer/coach for student sports teams, and
volunteer board member/volunteer
for non-profit groups.
While in Office in Plainsboro:
Plainsboro Recreation and Cultural Center, Plainsboro Preserve and
Environmental Center, Plainsboro
Library, the Plainsboro Village
Center, Plainsboro Veterans and 911 Memorials, significant new
parks and recreational projects; redevelopment approval for the new
UMCPP medical complex.
Personal Information: Plainsboro resident since 1983; married
to Nancy Strauss Lewis; children
Anne and Adam are both graduates
of the WW-P schools; Senior manager and director for Plainsboro-
M. Doyle Lyons: I grew up in
suburban Chicago and a small
town in Wisconsin. I received a
B.B.A. in Finance, and an M.S. in
Finance, at the University of Wisconsin (Madison, WI), where I was
a member of Beta Gamma Sigma,
an academic honor society. I spent
23 years at Merrill Lynch, in many
areas of finance: investment banking, mergers and acquisitions, treasury, equity research, and strategic
planning. I became an equity analyst at Merrill’s Plainsboro facility
in 1994, and moved from New
York to Princeton and then Plainsboro.
After working as an equity analyst in New York for two other
companies, I returned to Plainsboro in 2008 to join a hedge fund. I
now serve as treasurer for my sister’s company. I am very active
with volunteer work for several organizations.
Nuran Nabi, PhD, Plainsboro
Township Committeeman. I have
been a resident of Plainsboro for
over 18 years, and serving as a
member of Township Committee
since 2007. Currently I am liaison
for the Township’s Department of
Recreation and Community Services and Township’s Human Relations Council. I also serve as a
member of the Plainsboro Free
Public Library Foundation. I have
previously served on the Township’s Planning Board and Human
Relations Council.
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The new recreation center features a large open space that can
seat up to 200 people as well as a
computer training room with 18
workstations. Computer classes for
the public (mostly geared towards
senior citizens) will be held on-site.
The facility also features two new
conference rooms that can hold
meetings for up to 20 people, as
well as the offices for Plainsboro’s
Recreation and Community Services divisions,
The cost of the recreation and
cultural center was approximately
$3,223,000; most of which went
into addressing basic structural
needs of the old library building
such as a new roof, heating and air
conditioning, and siding.
At the ceremony Mayor Cantu
spoke about major funding behind
the new recreation center, which is
expected to be primarily an amenity for the people of Plainsboro
rather than a revenue-generating
operation. “This building came
with the bonus of reducing the impact on our taxpayers because of
the support that we received from
the Middlesex County Board of
Freeholders. They came through
with a $1 million grant for this facility,” Cantu said.
The mayor thanked Middlesex
County Freeholder Deputy Director Ronald Rios, who attended the
ceremony, and asked him to express the town’s gratitude to his fellow board members. Rios told the
crowd that the $1 million in funds
came from the county open space,
recreation and farmland, and historic preservation trust fund.
I obtained my Bachelor of Science in Biochemistry from Dhaka
University, Bangladesh; Post
Graduate Diploma from Osaka
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My family has been living in the
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We moved to Plainsboro Township in 1994 for living a quality life
and excellent school system.
Though we could afford private
education for our sons, we believe
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sent our two sons to the WW-P
school system.
I first got involved in the township’s recreation and human assistance programs, where I worked on
developing programs for the senior
citizens and special needs children
as well as cultural activities. My
work included organizing activities to collect food cans and food
supplies, enhancing senior activities.
In my more than 15 years of involvement in the township, I have
learned a lot about the people.
They are open minded, and they respect each other very much in this
culturally diverse community.
I am proud of the Township
Committee’s record of being financially responsible. We try to
put the interests of citizens first,
and try to improve the quality of
life of residents. We have built a
new library and the Village Center,
and now a new hospital has come
to town. We just have opened the
new Recreation and Cultural Center. Now Plainsboro is recognized
as one of the best places to live and
promote business. I am married to
Zeenat Nabi, PhD since 1974 and
we are blessed with two sons,
Mushfik and Adnan.
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don’t want to wait until there is a
dead student bleeding in the hallways to figure out what they need
to do. Our district is not above this
happening. Three suicides in three
years is nothing to ignore,” she
wrote in an E-mail to the WW-P
News.
Marathe said the naming policy
was not intended to be a referendum on suicide. “People can have
different opinions on suicide, but
that has nothing to do with whether
or not a person should be recognized,” he says.
Marathe also explained the fiveyear waiting period to take formal
actions towards naming a field after someone. Five years after the
time a person either retires, graduates, leaves the district, or dies,
their name can come up for recognition with the potential of naming
a facility after them. Marathe said
this is similar to some sports, music, or professional organizations’s
hall of fame standards.
Baker’s comments to the school
board on September 11 initiated
the changes to the new policy. Not
only was the section on suicide removed, but as she had requested,
the board added a non-discrimination clause written by Alan
Berman, executive director of
American Association of Suicidology. The clause removes any stigma associated with the “manner of
death” for a person who could potentially be honored through naming a facility.
“We are happy that we have
been able to make a change in the
policy. All of the discriminatory
language has been removed,” Baker said.
Not everyone, however, was
happy with the new policy. In public comment at the October 2 meeting, one speaker was Pete Weale,
who has been advocating that the
High School North baseball field
renamed in honor of David Bachner, a star pitcher who died of a
heart ailment in the summer following his senior year. Citing the
policy of waiting five years “after
the individual’s death (or the end
of the formal association with the
district)” Weale asked the board to
“justify the magic of five years.”
Robert Johnson, vice president
of the board, replied. “We spent
quite some time on this. I’m not
alone in not wanting to rush into
something.” He added that the
original draft of this policy called
for 10 years. There was a consensus that 10 years might be too long,
that five years was a reasonable period.
“No one is pretending that five
years is a magical number. It’s certainly not something that is lightly
thought up, but five years is a period where we would have a reduction in the haste,” Johnson said.
“This policy reflects a sense that
the name that you give to a facility
can both reflect and shape civic
values. It’s a good thing to commemorate achievement and accomplishment and historical significance.”
Richard Kaye, a member of the
board, said there should be ways
the district can honor people who
have made significant contributions. He said he believes it is important to honor people without
necessarily having to name a facility after them. “That’s my dilemma,” Kaye said
“We have lots of ways to honor
people, but that final thing of a
building being forever — a field
forever — to me is almost out of
proportion,” Kaye said.
Second Thoughts on Naming Policy
D
onna McCarthy, a 21-year
resident of Plainsboro and a
friend of the family of Kenny
Baker, a suicide victim, spoke out
during the School Board’s initial
deliberations on the naming policy. She said removing the paragraph about suicides was one
good step. “They can’t be perpetuating a stigma. A blue-ribbon
school district has to have more
forward thinking than that, and
they proved that by taking the
paragraph out,” McCarthy said.
“You would never blame
someone from dying of cancer.
You shouldn’t blame someone
from dying because they completed suicide. I truly believe that
suicide is a result of mental illness,” she said.
But McCarthy attended the
September 11 meeting to voice
another concern. Although McCarthy says that naming the baseball field at North after David
Bachner would be “fitting,” she
nevertheless has concluded that
WW-P’s facilities should not be
named after anybody. “My heart
truly goes out to his family, but I
just don’t think anything should
be named after people because
there are so many examples of
extraordinary people who come
through the district, and there are
also other kids who have passed
away,” she said.
McCarthy says the new policy
needs to be “fleshed out, discussed, and then voted on.” She
says the district has not been clear
about the guidelines being only
for naming the facilities or for the
selection process to nominate
names.
What makes a person worthy
may be subjective, says McCarthy, as she brought up one
Olympic Gold Medal winner
hailing from WW-P. “Does that
mean we are now going to name a
building after Rebecca Soni?”
McCarthy asked, referring to the
Olympic swimming star who attended High School North.
McCarthy said if she would be
okay with being the only person
to speak up and say WW-P’s facilities should not be named after
anyone until the criteria for sub-
Technology Report
A
lso at the October 2 meeting
Victoria Kniewel, superintendent of schools, began a series of
presentations on the district goals
for the 2012-’13 school year. The
first goal aims to enhance communications in the district as supported by technologies and structures.
“Technology is simply a tool that
helps us do our work... and that includes education,” Kniewel said.
New hardware, the superintendent reported, has been installed
across the 10 schools including
300 new desktop computers and
137 new projectors. Kniewel said
that 83 percent of classrooms now
have an installed projector.
In an effort to reach the district
goal of consistency, each third
grade classroom will have a
SMARTboard. According to
Kniewel, these boards will actively
engage students. She said teachers
are being trained in technology enhancing instruction and are developing a database of lessons to be
shared with the SMARTboard.
There will also be three iPads in
first and second grades to replace
outdated computers. The apps
available will help enhance the
learning experience as well as develop tactile navigation skills.
mitting a person’s name for consideration can be “spelled out
very clearly.”
“We are opening up a big door
here and if you open that door,
you need to be fair to everybody.
Special interest groups will be
coming out of the woodwork
with kids that they feel are special
to them for buildings to be named
after — and the same with faculty. If somebody retires after 30
plus years, you will have people
wanting to name things after each
person,” McCarthy said.
She brought up the example of
High School North gym teacher
Trevor Warner, who in 2010
saved the life of a 15-year-old
student who was having a heart
attack. “[Warner] was very humble about the experience but it
was on the TV news and in the papers, so should we name the gym
after him?” she said.
McCarthy also brought up
Jack Rutledge, a boy in WW-P
with physical disabilities who
died at an early age. “Everyone
loved dealing with him and he
had a very positive outlook on
life despite his disabilities.
Should something be named after
him? Everybody has someone
special who touched their life,
but we don’t have enough buildings or venues to accommodate
all that,” McCarthy said.
McCarthy, a marketing consultant, works at a financial services firm in West Windsor. Her
husband, Chuck, also works in financial services. They have two
daughters, including Nicole, a junior at North. Her older daughter,
Christine, graduated from North
in 2011 and just started her
sophomore year at Penn State.
Her own children have relayed
fond memories of North’s longtime music teacher, Mary Jacobsen, who retired this year after 22
years with the district (WW-P
News, June 8).
“Her students loved her, and
she would be someone they could
consider too,” said McCarthy, illustrating the many people in the
community whose names could
be considered for posterity.
— Rikki N. Massand
Other technological advances
include the addition of Google
Docs accounts for all eighth grade
students to aid them in developing
digital study skills. And finally a
group of high school teachers will
begin a one-year pilot to use iPads
as an instructional tool.
In terms of enhancing communications, the district will have an
open wireless upgrade, making it
possible to connect to the Internet
via secure access.
Kniewel said the district has also made strides in improving its
website, making it easier to navigate. There have also been improvements to Campus Parents
Portal, giving parents access to
their child’s schedules and other
tools.
In other presentations at the October 2 meeting High school North
student representative Adam
Kercheval informed the board of
his school’s Spirit Night, which
will be held on Thursday, October
11, at 7 p.m.
High School South student representative Kushal Ghandi described his school’s College Fair,
which will be held on Wednesday,
October 10, from 4 to 8 p.m. Ghandi said there will also be a clothing
drive and flea market on Saturday,
October 6, starting at 8 a.m.
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West Windsor Toughens Stand Against DOT
by Rikki N. Massand
W
est Windsor government
is going all-out to stop
the DOT’s Route 1 experimental jughandle closures at
Washington Road and Harrison
Street, which has caused Penns
Neck residents multiple headaches
and safety hazards. After Mayor
Hsueh took action by rounding up
area mayors and officials on
Wednesday, September 26, followed by the Mercer County Board
of Freeholders’ action a day later,
Council passed a resolution to end
the experiment and return the intersections to their previous alignments at its meeting on Monday,
October 1.
Police Chief Joe Pica told Council that DOT Commissioner James
Simpson visited West Windsor
earlier in the day on Monday, and
he was particularly interested in
seeing what occurs in Penns Neck
with illegal U-turns and K-turns
disrupting the neighborhood and
its residential properties (which are
often used as turn-around spots).
West Windsor Business Administrator Marlena Schmid said Simpson visited the area after Mayor
Hsueh had sent him DVD copies of
the September 4 council meeting,
where residents told DOT Assistant Commissioner Anthony Attanasio and Communications Director Joseph Dee about their fears
and frustrations (WW-P News,
September 7).
According to Chief Pica, Simpson said he recognizes the problems Penns Neck has and he would
do whatever is in his power to address those issues. Nonetheless, the
township is going to the DOT with
a resolution and then to the Governor Christie’s office. Councilman
George Borek called for a letter to
be sent to Governor Christie, inviting him to a town hall-style meeting that could be held at a WW-P
school to accommodate a larger audience, giving residents and officials a chance to show the governor
the severity of West Windsor’s situation.
Council Vice President Linda
Geevers told Schmid that it is imperative for West Windsor to bring
in the key stakeholders to the township so that they can see the issue
firsthand, hear from residents, and
address any questions or concerns.
Schmid says based on her talks
with the DOT and their continued
focus on Route 1, Council must
make recognize priorities of the
state.
“I think you need to take that into consideration, and that is another reason to get the state to consider
implications for east to west,” she
said.
Councilman Borek agreed with
her sentiment. “When I’m at the
state house in Trenton, I hear legislators say how wonderful it is that
they can come down on Route 1
and not get stuck in traffic. People
are even encouraged to stop taking
the turnpike and take Route 1 instead because it is easier now. If
this is what they’re thinking and
this is what they’re seeing, they’re
not seeing what is happening on
Washington Road,” Borek said.
Councilman Maher said he is
skeptical of the area mayors teaming with West Windsor. At the October 1 Council meeting, he said he
thinks the only towns very much
negatively affected by the traffic
experiment are West Windsor and
Princeton due to increased traffic
on Alexander Road and other arteries for traffic headed to the university campus and Princeton’s downtown.
“If I am the mayor of Plainsboro,
Lawrenceville, or East Windsor,
am I going to spend political capital
trying to solve West Windsor’s
problem? No, this township and
Princeton need to be leading the
charge on this. Let’s be realistic,”
Maher said.
Borek added that while he respects what Mayor Hsueh has tried
to do with other mayors, getting the
governor to hear about West Windsor’s problems is paramount.
“There needs to be a different
course of action because this is not
a one-sided venue here. We have to
utilize all our resources,” Borek
said.
Council’s action on October 1
prompted thanks from citizens of
Penns Neck including Susan Parris, Sharon Sibilia, Eric Payne, and
others who led the charge by speaking at previous Council meetings,
starting a petition on Change.org,
sending letters to the editor, and
handing out postcards all over
West Windsor. The three-page resolution makes note of “endangering the historic Penns Neck neighborhood, inundating it with abnormal levels of traffic behaving erratically, causing accidents, and endangering the health and welfare of
residents and their children.”
Council’s resolution also specifies that the township has spent
$1,900 each week in overtime expenses for police. Schmid said that
the running total as of October 1
was $9,500, and that she has been
clear with the DOT that the costs
will be submitted to them for reimbursement.
Council President Kamal Khanna said he had a complete timeline
of DOT activity and planning for
Route 1 since 2004, if members of
the public were interested in seeing
it. He also spoke about the constant
As of October 1, West
Windsor Police had issued 70 summonses, and
another 225 motorists
had been stopped and
‘counseled’ without receiving a ticket.
contact that Mayor Hsueh and
members of the administration
have had with the DOT to update
the state agency on each problem
that has come up.
Schmid said that as of October 1,
West Windsor Police had issued 70
summonses, and another 225 motorists had been stopped and
“counseled” without receiving a
ticket. But the root of the problem
remains hard to counter.
“The real problem that continues to exist is with drivers who are
lost and/or are from out-of-state.
They have been counseled about
turning around on Washington
Road or using the side streets to
head west to Princeton. In talking
to the DOT, they believe that the
presence of our troopers plus the
state police has contributed to
some decrease in illegal U-turns
and K-turns,” Schmid said.
Councilman Bryan Maher asked
Pica to state the most common excuse for people who are pulled over
making u-turns and k-turns in
Penns Neck. The chief told him
that his officers report that regular
commuters have tried finding alternate routes, but still many out-ofstate commuters and people who
are genuinely lost are still landing
on Washington Road and seeking a
shortcut away from traffic - usually
towards Princeton.
Residents Plan
Marches on 571
R
esidents of the Penns
Neck neighborhood of
West Windsor, the area most
affected by the Washington
Road (Route 571) jughandle
closing, have submitted the
following notice:
PENNS NECK RESIDENTS are
starting a series of demonstrations on Washington Road to
reopen the Route 1 jughandles. Worsening safety conditions, children increasingly at
risk, and nine accidents are
driving the demonstrations.
The first two demonstrations will be held on Saturdays, October 13 and 20, from
10 a.m. to 1 p.m. at 207 Washington Road. We have presented our plans to both the
West Windsor municipal authorities and the West Windsor Police Department. We
will conduct the demonstrations safely, while we protest
the dangerous situation driving our efforts. Above all, we
want the jughandles reopened.
Nancy Bennett
Tamerra Moeller
Susan Parris
Schmid said that on October 1
the DOT made a change to the
green light signal at the intersection of Washington Road and
Route 1. “They have increased the
number of seconds that people driving west on Washington Road
have to cross the Route 1 intersection,” she said.
According to Schmid, another
part of the DOT’s plans to help out
include signage that would take
lost motorists down past the train
station and out of West Windsor
through Alexander Road “so people don’t turn around on Washington Road or in Penns Neck.”
The DOT advised West Windsor that a lot of the signage along
Route 1 will be removed. “Some
signage clutters the roadway and
detracts from motorists’ lines of
sight, and the DOT will examine
what signage they really need to
follow. At the same time they are in
agreement that the signage that
needs to remain there must be
changed so that it can be eye-catching for motorists,” Schmid said.
Schmid said that in the first
week of October the township was
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proaching the Washington Road
circle that they must go up to Scudders Mill Road and make a U-turn
towards Route 1 South to get to
Princeton.
Also, the DOT’s camera at
Washington Road and Route 1 will
be repositioned so that there can be
a real-time, 24/7 view of what is
going on at the intersection, especially for traffic going east or west.
Schmid said that at present the
camera faces the south side of the
intersection, and the DOT will
work with the owners of the cemetery to place the camera up on a
pole over the property. Data collected by the camera will later be
factored into the project’s analysis.
Schmid said in her talks with the
DOT, the state agency has made it
clear that the jughandle closures
are far from being a permanent
deal. “They want to see the pilot
program through the 12-week
study period, which ends in November, and they want to have the
opportunity to composite information. It remains to be seen, but actions speak louder than words,”
Schmid said.
Chief Pica said that when Simpson visited Penns Neck, he also assured the chief that the closures are
not a done deal. “Their plan right
now is try to resolve issues that are
plaguing the Penns Neck area, and
then at the end of the pilot program
they will reassess it. I do give them
credit for trying to address every
request we have had,” Pica said.
With brief discussions of the
Millstone bypass project that was
never carried through, Pica added
that any actual solution to the
Route 1 and Penns Neck traffic
flow may not have been conceived
yet. “It’s a complex problem. I
think the DOT is trying a number
of different things and hopefully
they can work it out that Penns
Neck is not affected. But I’m confident they are doing what they can,”
he said.
Residents’ Meeting
W
est Windsor Council’s action was preceded by a gathering of residents and officials at
the Senior Center on Thursday,
September 27.
“I’m very happy to see this
group coming together, because
it’s important that we have one
voice. I don’t want to hear somebody coming up all of a sudden and
saying ‘this DOT experiment is a
great idea.’ Even if you feel it is a
great idea, don’t say anything because I’m going to keep complaining to the DOT. We need to put
pressure on them,” Mayor ShingFu Hsueh said.
Hsueh, Pat Ward, director of
community development, and
council members Linda Geevers
and Bryan Maher were all on hand
to see residents sign up for petitions and letters to the editor. Some
asked questions about how they
can take further action and contact
DOT Commissioner James Simpson.
On Tuesday, September 25,
Hsueh sent a letter to DOT Commissioner James Simpson as well
as Assistant Commissioner Anthony Attanasio and Communications
Director Joseph Dee. “Basically
we made it very clear that we are
very frustrated and very unhappy.
We appreciate Mr. Attanasio’s efforts on a daily basis, but I let them
know we already had a mayors’
coalition meeting — including
Princeton University — and all
parties agreed to join the efforts
initiated by West Windsor,” Hsueh
said.
According to Hsueh, he will also
involve Mercer County officials,
including the county DOT director
and the engineer who reports to
County Executive Brian Hughes.
“Authority governing the county
road (Route 571) cannot stay out of
this. But all of the county projects
do come from the state DOT,” he
said.
Accompanying Hsueh’s letter
was a DVD of the Tuesday, Sep-
tember 4, West Windsor Council
meeting so that Commissioner
Simpson “can hear firsthand the
distress these residents are suffering.” On Wednesday, September
26, Hsueh not only met with area
mayors, he also took a radio station
reporter to Penns Neck to witness
the traffic as well as illegal U-turns
and K-turns.
“To me, having worked in state
offices with the DEP for so many
years, it was important to have
some reports making an impression on public officials. Usually I
know the governor’s offices have
somebody checking different media and listening to the news reports, so that was part of the strategy,” Hsueh said.
At the September 27 meeting,
Mayor Hsueh told the residents
about the history behind plans for a
Millstone bypass roadway, which
were ultimately abandoned. He
says the state appropriated roughly
$2 million for an environmental
impact study, a federal-level initiative which never came to fruition.
In 2004 a recommendation was set
forth with three major components: a Harrison Street overpass,
changes to the Washington RoadRoute 1 intersection, and the
Vaughn Drive connector that has
been discussed along with the transit village.
“There is no environmental impact study. I can tell you that for
Harrison Street and for a Vaughn
Drive connector to Route 1 the
EPA and the DEP already approved environmental impact
statements. All we need is the DOT
to start doing something about it,”
Hsueh said.
The current objection to the
Route 1 pilot project is tied to getting the DOT on board with the environmental impact study (E.I.S.).
Mayor Hsueh says one objective
for the E.I.S. was the renovation of
the Penns Neck neighborhood,
which he says still needs to be emphasized to the DOT.
Sharon Sibilia asked Mayor
Hsueh whether or not the DOT ex-
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money for solving traffic issues on
Route 1. Hsueh said that would not
be possible, since the DOT had only recommendations but no design
for a bypass.
Hsueh said in 2006 he negotiated with the governor’s office, and,
contingent on redevelopment being centered around the Princeton
Junction station, he secured $178
million from the state. But in June
of 2007, he says the Council majority stopped West Windsor’s redevelopment plan, leading the state to
take away the funding in March of
2008. Hsueh says some of funding
that West Windsor was supposed
to receive has gone into the current
DOT construction activity on
Route 1 in South Brunswick.
“As soon as we had the redevelopment plan approved by Council,
I went back to the DOT asking for
money. The DOT told me sorry,
‘I would prefer [the Intercap project on Washington Road next to the
train station] doesn’t
start until things are resolved’ with the jughandles, Hsueh said.
you are not going to see that kind of
money anymore with their budget
situation. After that I started talking to all the mayors in this area —
Plainsboro, South Brunswick, the
Princetons, and Lawrenceville —
and we have decided to work together. They have all showed their
support for what we want to do,”
Hsueh said.
The mayor told the residents
that in the past, DOT Commissioner James Simpson mentioned the
possibility of “value engineering
assessments” which ultimately led
to the DOT’s decisions for the current closures (no left turns at Washington Road, Harrison Street, and
Fisher Place).
At first, the current “trial run”
was not even on the board. But
Hsueh says that the mayors opposed the DOT’s plan, saying they
had to weigh the impact of such
changes. The DOT first considered
a month-long pilot project for the
jughandle closures, but the current
three-month trial was agreed upon
“to get a clear picture of the kind of
impact the changes would have,
and whether this would solve traffic problems on Route 1,” Hsueh
said.
Hsueh told attendees about the
upcoming meeting of the Central
Jersey Transportation Forum, hosted by the Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission, in South
Brunswick on Tuesday, October
30.
Hsueh and area mayors are not
the only officials to take aim at the
DOT. At the same time West
Windsor residents were hearing
Mayor Hsueh’s updates and signing petitions to stop the DOT’s program, the Mercer County Board of
Chosen Freeholders met in Trenton and passed a resolution to ask
the DOT to end the traffic experiment, saying it has had “a severe
and negative impact” on residents
of West Windsor and Plainsboro.
The resolution noted the illegal
U-turns and K-turns being made in
residents’ driveways and on their
front lawns. David Parris of Washington Road, who has been actively involved in speaking up about
different incidents and safety hazards in his neighborhood, attended
the freeholder’s meeting and was
personally addressed by Freeholder Pat Colavita.
In West Windsor, Penns Neck
residents Tamerra Moeller and Eric Payne led the resident’s meeting
and spoke about the need for documentation for why the DOT decided to implement the jughandle closures at this specific time. Some
residents debated whether or not
accommodating the new hospital
in Plainsboro, other corporations in
the area, or Princeton University
were motivating factors for the
DOT.
Moeller and Payne encouraged
those who attended to inform others outside of the township about
the current efforts underway.
Payne said people who travel on
Route 1 or commute from Pennsylvania or northern New Jersey
should sign the online petition on
change.org, which he says received great support in its first few
hours.
“I posted it on Change.org at
5:30 p.m. and within 20 minutes 20
people had signed it. By the time I
got here there were over 40 signatures,” he said.
Payne said that group E-mails
will be sent out to those who attended the meeting and signed up.
One shortcoming appears to be soliciting support from residents living on Washington Road. During a
show of hands nobody on the main
thoroughfare was present and
Payne said that so far Smart Traffic
Solutions has only met with three
families living on Washington
Road.
Moeller told residents another
way of voicing their concerns
would be calling the radio station
101.5 FM on Thursday evenings at
7 p.m. when the “Ask the Governor” program is on the air.
The name Smart Traffic Solutions was created to avoid limiting
the movement to residents of West
Windsor or just the Penns Neck
neighborhood.
“Naming it with Penns Neck
does not really make sense because
the DOT will think that we are just
self-serving. There are so many
more people upset about this. I
work in Princeton and every single
person I’ve talked to is extremely
upset with this as well,” Payne
said.
A similar tactic was used by opponents of the solar field project at
Mercer County Community College, who use “Smarter Solar NJ”
instead of just noting themselves as
residents of South Post Road or just
West Windsor.
Several different versions of letters to DOT Commissioner Simpson were distributed to those who
attended so that a variety is sent
out, and Moeller encouraged residents to edit them and add their
own thoughts as well. Meanwhile,
the petition gets the attention of
residents and commuters through
its questions:
- Are you tired of sitting in traffic for almost half an hour on
Washington Road after a long train
ride?
- Are you tired of the ridiculous
“solution” the DOT has implemented at Washington Road, Harrison Street, and Route 1?
“We need an overpass at Harrison Street, the Vaughn Drive connector, and widening of the
Alexander Road bridge at Stony
Brook. Join Smart Traffic Solutions in our fight! E-mail: smarttrafficsolutions@gmail.com”
Payne told his fellow residents
that the first time he called the
DOT, he came away with a clear
understanding that the concerns or
West Windsor’s neighborhoods
are secondary to better managing
the traffic flow on Route 1. With an
eye on the bigger picture, he asked
OCTOBER 5, 2012
Mayor Hsueh whether or not initial
construction for the transit village
would be postponed until some
progress was made for the flow of
traffic through Penns Neck and
Route 571.
“Basically my position is that I
don’t want the village to get started
until we have some assurances as
to how we will deal with all of the
traffic problems. I consider it to be
one of the components of the area,
and you probably will see that this
project will be delayed for some
period of time. It’s not going to
happen for the foreseeable future
because I see this [traffic flow] as
something that we need to get resolved,” Hsueh said.
Payne then asked whether InterCap Holdings might be able to help
the township put pressure on the
DOT, but Hsueh was not sure that
will happen. “They can go by the
regulations and they have the right
to do certain things, but I would
prefer [the Intercap project] doesn’t start until things are resolved,”
Hsueh said.
Police Looking Into
Grover Farm
A
fter a face-to-face with Council at the Thursday, September
20, Council meeting, members of
the Grover Homestead Committee
were left with questions on the
whereabouts of several items taken
from the property. But on October
1 Council President Khanna said
he has not yet received a list of the
questions the committee wants answered to help formulate their recommendations for the vacant
house.
Specifically, the committee
might need to learn more from the
West Windsor Police investigation
into the theft of items from the
Grover house. Police Chief Pica
told residents that his department’s
involvement began in the last week
of September and is being headed
by Detective Mark Lee.
As of the October 1 Council
meeting, Khanna said the October
15 deadline to bring a final report
and recommendations to Council
was still in place. But as of the
WW-P News’ print deadline,
members of the Grover Committee
were not 100 percent sure of their
next move.
“Det. Lee told me he has a long
list of people to interview. I for one
am not going to ignore a police request. With as much time and effort as he has been putting in, I will
not insult the detective by ignoring
his request. Detective Lee asked
me why the urgency to report on
this date of October 15. He is curious if there is any significance to
this date,” Rocky Procaccini, chair
of the Grover committee, wrote.
Jonathan Word, correspondence secretary for the Grover
committee, is interested in keeping
with the deadline which had already been extended from an original date of October 1. “October
15th is important because it is already our third deadline, and
[Council President] Kamal Khanna visibly expressed dissatisfaction with the committee looking to
move the deadline again. He even
made a comment that in his mind
October 29th would have to be the
final deadline,” Word wrote to the
committee.
Procaccini spoke with Khanna
after the October 1 Council meeting, and he reports that Khanna
agreed for the Grover committee to
take as much time as it needs.
Word still encouraged quick action.
“I do not believe that that will
change his emotion towards this
committee. I am concerned about
his emotion and general public
opinion, because I find that people
are significantly more likely to do
what you want when they are happy with you,” Word said.
As police investigate, the committee is not done trying to find a
solution for the homestead. As of
October 2, Word told the committee that he had heard from Green
Acres about a potential lease for a
caretaker.
“This is fantastic detail and already is sufficient to present our
case — though I have requested a
follow-up for some minor clarifications on how the bidding procedures work,” Word writes.
Those who attended the October
1 Council meeting witnessed a minor commotion as resident Paul
Eland spoke in objection to the efforts the Grover Homestead Committee has put forth to date. Eland
continues to circulate a petition for
not using any taxpayer money towards restoration of the former
Grover house (WW-P News, August 24) submitting an additional
25 signatures to Council at the
meeting.
Councilman Maher became unnerved when Eland identified himself as active in the Community
Gardens, FOWWOS, and other
volunteer causes in town but chose
not to state his loyalty to Mayor
Hsueh, having worked on past
mayoral campaigns.
After Eland finished three minutes of public comments, Maher
asked him to be clear when stating
his credentials and to tell the public
about his full involvement in West
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South, North, 1 & 2 in County Tournament
S
by Rikki N. Massand
outh edged out crosstown rival North to win its fourth
Mercer County Tournament
in the past five years, with championship coming down to a secondsingles match in the final round on
October 3 pitting South’s Margaret
MacArthur against North’s Jessica
Mao.
Mao won the first set, 6-3, but
MacArthur recovered in the next
two sets, 7-5 and 6-3. The Pirates
finished with 18.5 team points;
North came in second with 15.5
points.
For South head coach Carla
Crawbuck, a tennis coach in the
district since 1993, the one-two
finish was especially satisfying.
All of High School North’s current
tennis players — boys and girls —
have come through the ranks under
her tutelage since she is also the
tennis coach at Community Middle
School.
This year Crawbuck sees her
South team as pretty equal from top
to bottom as almost all of her players had just one loss through eight
matches before the start of tournament play. “Belinda Ji is our veteran. She’s doing so well and competing hard, with just one loss,”
Crawbuck said.
Singles 1 and 2 have led the way
for South, as Ji and MacArthur
each had records of 7-1 heading into the Mercer County Tournament.
But newcomer Caroline Zhou
has also made an impression on
West Windsor-Plainsboro’s godmother of tennis. “She played one
more match than everyone else
(with nine instead of eight) but she
is a good one to watch out for, especially as a freshman now. Her
ground strokes are her strengths
and her only weakness is inexperience, but that will change with
time,” Crawbuck said.
Zhou and freshman Varna
Kodoth are the new girls who are
playing up to their potential. One is
8-2 and one is 7-1 in second doubles, and her one loss was in three
sets. That is not too shabby,” Crawbuck said.
“Princeton is going to be very
hard to beat. They’re competitive
and that’s the only team that I could
see matches going either way, yet I
am confident with our team’s performance so far,” she said.
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Continued from preceding page
Windsor. But Maher was interrupted by Township Attorney Michael
Herbert, who said eliciting a speaker’s political affiliation was not
permitted under Robert’s Rules.
Kodoth plays second doubles
with veteran Ivy Kang, and Crawbuck said that pair has brought an
added weapon to South. Kang
played first doubles last year but
the second doubles team from last
year — Angela Li and Sanjana
Ravi — are in first doubles now.
“They are together again and
they are stronger. They only had
one loss and that was in three sets to
Princeton, so they are 7-1 also,”
Crawbuck said.
Looking ahead in the brackets
and to a North-South clash on Friday, October 12, Crawbuck says
North will be a tough opponent.
Six of North’s players — Nyambe
Tuscherer, Jessica Mao, Danika
Baskar, Arielle Bosworth, Nanase
Koike and Ranjitha Vasa — were
all under Crawbuck’s wings when
they were middle-schoolers.
“They all played the top spots
because three years ago we had 12
on JV and 12 on varsity. Danika
and Jessica were two of the girls on
varsity and others were on JV. I
know every girl, so when they
come to play us it’s a little challenging for me. I’ve known those
girls from two years before their
varsity coach even knew them,”
Crawbuck said.
At North Coach James Vance is
a newcomer to WW-P’s ranks but
he is from the area, having grown
up in Yardley and eventually playing tennis at the College of New
Jersey from 2005 to 2008. While an
undergraduate, Vance began his
career in tennis instruction at the
Hopewell Valley Tennis and Swim
Center on Titus Mill Road in Pennington.
Eland said he was not at odds
with Maher, stating that his suggestion on September 20 for the
Grover Committee to come up with
a business plan is most appropriate.
But others at the meeting saw the
moment as a political conflict, and
shouting ensued. Residents including Janet Lerner, Debbie Hepler,
and Rocky Procaccini exchanged
First Singles: Nyambe
Tuchscherer of North
and Belinda Ji of
South. Photos by
Suzette Lucas.
After starting out with WW-P as
a substitute teacher and JV coach
for the boys at South last spring,
Vance took on new roles as the
head coach for girls at North and a
fulltime job as a sixth grade social
studies teacher. “I’m very impressed with their enthusiasm, level of professionalism, and team
chemistry — not just the varsity
but the JV as well. I think it was
huge coming into the season with
that team dynamic, especially because a coaching change could
have made it difficult for them,”
Vance said.
Vance was looking forward to
getting in some more one-on-one
coaching in with players. “I have to
pick my spots and see who needs
me. A lot of times with the more
experienced players I will give
them something to work on and I
know they will work on it,” Vance
said.
The coach described third singles player Danika Baskar — one
of two seniors on North’s team —
as a “very cerebral” tennis player.
Vance is proud of her because
many players who are physically
gifted don’t have the same the
mental focus he sees in her, especially after working through a
number of minor injuries. “As I understand she played number one
last year. She’s a really high-level
player and very good on the court,
remarks before Council President
Kamal Khanna tried to bring order
to the meeting.
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but she is a very good team leader
as well,” he said.
Vance added that Baskar is now
a more well-rounded tennis player
because she has had to adapt to
playing differently to lessen the
impact of her injuries.
Vance is impressed with
North’s doubles. “Our second doubles team (juniors Koike and Vasa)
played first doubles last year. Our
first doubles team is made of two
sophomores, and I’m very impressed with their chemistry as a
team,” he said.
The sophomores, Michelle Lee
and Arielle Bosworth, were both
on the squad last season, and Vance
said Bosworth was very close to
being a singles player this year.
Vance said the main objective
on his new job so far has been to get
the players to the point of analyzing their own game so they don’t
necessarily need his assistance. “I
want them to know how to diagnose what’s going on technically
and then how to construct a game
plan tactfully. We always talk
about being technical and tactful,
and they have done a very good job
of that so far,” he said.
2012 Mercer County Tournament scores:
South (8-1). Round 1, October 1
Singles 1, Belinda Ji, 6-0, 6-1;
Singles 2, Margaret MacArthur, 6-2,
6-3; Singles 3, Caroline Zhou, 6-0, 6-
ceremony on Tuesday, October 9,
at 2 p.m.
In September “deep dynamic
compaction” began at the site to
prepare the grounds for paving.
The New South Lot is expected to
hold up to 650 spaces designated
only for use by West Windsor residents. Ahead of planning board
hearings for the lot held last December, West Windsor Municipal
Land Use Manager Sam Surtees
said the tenant — the West Windsor Parking Authority had to secure
a number of state and county regulatory permits and approvals. The
most notable piece was what Mayor Hsueh noted early on in the
process: DEP compliance (WW-P
News, December 2, 2011).
Penn Lyle Roadwork Done.
As evidenced by comments at the
October 1 Council meeting, one
township project that has received
good reviews is the recent widening of Penn Lyle Road near High
School South. Residents including
John Church of 11 Princeton Place,
as well as Councilman Bryan Maher, who lives on Penn Lyle Road,
commented that the work looks
very good and the roadway has
0; Doubles 1, Sanjana Ravi & Angela
Li, 6-2, 6-2; Doubles 2, Ivy Kang &
Varna Kodoth, 6-0, 6-0.
Round 2, October 1
Singles 1, Ji, 6-3, 6-2; Singles 2,
MacArthur, 6-2, 6-3; Singles 3, Zhou,
6-0, 6-0; Doubles 1, Ravi & Li, 6-2, 60; Doubles 2, Kang & Kodoth, 4-6, 61, 7-6.
Semifinal, October 3
Singles 2, MacArthur, 6-2, 6-1;
Singles 3, Zhou, 6-1, 6-3, Doubles 1,
Ravi & Li, 6-3, 6-4,
Finals, October 3
Singles 2, MacArthur, 3-6, 7-5, 63.
Third Place, October 3
Doubles 2, Kang & Kodoth, 7-5, 16, 6-3.
North. Round 1, October 1
Singles 2, Jessica Mao, 6-0, 6-1;
Singles 3, Danika Baskar, 6-1, 6-0;
Doubles 1, Arielle Bosworth &
Michelle Lee, 6-3, 6-4; Doubles 2,
Ranjitha Vasa & Nanase Koike, 6-1,
6-2.
Round 2, October 1
Singles 2, Mao, 6-1, 6-0; Singles
3, Baskar, 6-2, 6-0; Doubles 1,
Bosworth & Lee, 6-3, 7-5; Doubles 2,
Vasa & Koike, 6-0, 6-0.
Semifinal, October 3
Singles 2, Mao, 6-3, 6-3; Singles
3, Baskar, 6-2, 6-0; Doubles 1,
Bosworth & Lee, 3-6, 4-6; Doubles 2,
3-6, 6-4, 6-7, (5-7).
Finals, October 3
Singles 3, Baskar, 6-4, 6-1.
Third Place, October 3
Doubles 1, Bosworth & Lee, 6-2,
6-2; Doubles 2, Kang & Kodoth 7-5,
1-6, 6-3.
been exponentially improved.
But not everyone looked at the
changes to Penn Lyle as very positive. Sandra Duffy of 15 Westwinds Drive wrote in an E-mail to
the WW-P News that she was “horrified” when she passed through
the intersection of Penn Lyle and
Clarksville Road after the striping
was completed, only to realize that
“NOTHING was done to improve
the traffic flow northbound across
Clarksville Road.”
West Windsor Director of Community Development Pat Ward responded to Duffy’s concern:
“Engineering will look into having the right lane through or right,
and the left lane for left turn only.
We need to look at the current levels of service through this intersection before we can make this type
of change,” Ward writes.
Clinic for Flu Shots. The West
Windsor Health Department will
be holding flu shot clinics for
members of the community ages
55 and older at the senior center,
271 Clarksville Road, on Thursday, October 11, from 10 a.m. to 1
p.m. and again on Monday, October 15, from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m.
OCTOBER 5, 2012
Sports Briefs:
Schoenauer Back
A
fter sitting for South’s 33-0
win over Princeton on Saturday, September 22, star running
back Brian Schoenauer returned to
action as the Pirates beat Northern
Burlington, 32-20, on Friday, September 28. Schoenauer rushed for
161 yards and scored four touchdowns to lead WW-P South in its
homecoming game. At halftime the
running back received an additional welcome-back present, being
named South’s Homecoming
King.
Northern Burlington came back
from an early deficit to cut the
score to 25-20 in the fourth quarter,
but South’s Andrew Murray intercepted a pass and returned it 81
yards for a touchdown. South is
now 3-1 heading into its fifth game,
at Rancocas Valley on Saturday,
October 6, at 2:30 p.m.
Clockwise from left: North’s Jessica Mao, Danika
Baskar, Sreya Gona, doubles 1: Arielle Bosworth &
Michelle Lee, doubles 2: Nanase Koike & Ranjitha
Vasa. Photos by Suzette Lucas.
North Football: North fell to 04 with losses to Trenton, 14-7, on
September 22, and Nottingham,
55-6, on September 29.
Sports Scores:
Girls’ Soccer
North (5-3). A win over Ewing, 32, on September 24.
A win over Robbinsville, 1-0, on
September 27.
A win over Hightstown, 1-0, on
September 29.
A loss to Steinert, 3-0, on October
2.
South (1-4-2). A win over Trenton, 6-1, on September 24.
A loss to Ewing, 2-1, on September 27.
A loss to Notre Dame, 4-1, on
September 29.
From left: South’s Angela Li, Ivy Kang, Margaret
MacArthur, whose win at second singles sealed the
South win in the MCT, and Varna Kodoth.
Jill Swanson, who was appointed West Windsor’s health officer
as former Business Administrator
Robert Hary retired from the position this summer, offered advice
on receiving a flu shot each year.
“It is important to remember
that the flu vaccine needs to be given every year. Because flu viruses
are constantly changing, vaccines
may be updated from one season to
the next to protect against the most
recent and most commonly circulating viruses,” she said.
Each year, about 200,000 people are hospitalized and many die
because of the flu in the United
States. Complications of flu can include bacterial pneumonia, ear and
sinus infections, and worsening of
chronic conditions.
First in the State. West Windsor continues to be an innovator in
“going green” as the township is
the first New Jersey municipality
to participate in a new initiative
spearheaded by the Rutgers University Center for Green Building.
Council passed a resolution confirming the partnership (with no
cost to the township) at its meeting
on Monday, October 1.
The Township will work in conjunction with Jennifer Senick from
the Rutgers Center for Green
Building (RCGB) at the Edward J.
Bloustein School of Planning and
Public Policy, who attended the
West Windsor Environmental
Commission meeting in September to make the pitch for the township’s participation.
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A loss to Allentown,
5-1, on October 2.
Boys’ Soccer
North (4-3-1). A win
over North Hunterdon,
1-0, on September 22.
A win over Ewing, 40, on September 24.
A win over Robbinsville, 3-0, on September 27.
A loss to Hightstown,
3-0, on September 29.
A loss to Steinert, 10, on October 2.
South (7-1-1). A win
over Hun, 4-0, on September 22.
A win over Trenton,
1-0, on September 24.
A win over Ewing, 31, on September 27.
A win over Notre
Dame, 2-1, on September 29.
A loss to Allentown,
7-2, on October 2.
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DAY-BY-DAY IN WW-P
Friday
October 5
School Sports
For WW-P school sports information, call the hotline: 609-7165000, ext. 5134, www.ww-p.org.
North Girls Tennis. Vs. Princeton.
4 p.m.
South
Girls
Tennis.
Lawrence. 4 p.m.
Vs.
South Girls Volleyball. At Old
Bridge. 4 p.m.
North Boys Soccer. At Princeton
Day. 4:15 p.m.
South
Boys
Soccer.
Lawrenceville. 4:15
At
North Football. At Notre Dame. 7
p.m.
North Girls Volleyball. At East
Brunswick. 7 p.m.
On Stage
Next to Normal, Kelsey Theater,
Mercer County Community College, 1200 Old Trenton Road,
West Windsor, 609-570-3333.
www.kelseytheatre.net. Musical
with a contemporary score about a
woman diagnosed with a mental
illness and her family’s struggles.
Presented by Pierrot Productions.
Cast includes Frankie Confalone
of Bordentown as Henry, William
Kamps of Burlington as Dan,
James Petro of Hamilton as Drs.
Fine and Madden. $18. Opening
night reception follows performance. Weekends through October 14. 8 p.m.
Film
Movies, Princeton Public Library, 65 Witherspoon Street,
609-924-8822. Screening of “Pariah.” 7 p.m.
Live Music
Tom Trovas Group, Salt Creek
Grille, One Rockingham Row,
Forrestal Village, Plainsboro, 609419-4200. www.saltcreekgrille.com. 7 to 11 p.m.
Open Mic Night, West Windsor
Arts Council, 952 Alexander
Road, West Windsor, 609-7161931. www.westwindsorarts.org.
Register online. $5 cover. 7 p.m.
Comedy
Jeff the Fat Rat Bastard Pirrami,
Catch a Rising Star, Hyatt Regency, 102 Carnegie Center,
West Windsor, 609-987-8018.
www.catcharisingstar.com. Register. $19.50. 8 p.m.
Food & Dining
Restaurant Supported Agriculture Dinner Series, Tre Piani,
120 Rockingham Row, Forrestal
Village, Plainsboro, 609-4521515. Three course farm to table
dinner. Register. $29. 5 p.m.
For Families
Mr. Ray, Forrestal Village, College Road West and Route 1
South, Plainsboro, 609-799-7400.
Family concert. 6:30 to 7:30 p.m.
Outdoor Action
Corner of Chaos Haunt, Corner
Copia Farm Market, 299 Princeton-Hightstown Road, East Windsor, 609-426-8884. www.cornercopia.com. A Tour of Terror, Fright
Tour, Haunt World, and more. $13
to $40. 7 p.m.
Schools
English Conversation Class for
ESL Students, West Windsor Library, 333 North Post Road, 609799-0462. With Richard Peterson,
the reference librarian. 1:15 p.m.
A Talking Dog: ‘Martha Speaks,’ a musical about a
dog who eats alphabet soup, appears at Kelsey Theater on Saturday, October 6.
Saturday
October 6
School Sports
For WW-P school sports information, call the hotline: 609-7165000, ext. 5134, www.ww-p.org.
South Football. At Rancocas Valley. 1 p.m.
Boys/Girls Cross Country. At
Shore Coaches Invitational. 9
a.m.
On Stage
Next to Normal, Kelsey Theater,
Mercer County Community College, 1200 Old Trenton Road,
West Windsor, 609-570-3333.
www.kelseytheatre.net. Musical
with a contemporary score about a
woman diagnosed with a mental
illness and her family’s struggles.
$18. 8 p.m.
Family Theater
Dancing
Salsa Sensation, Central Jersey
Dance Society, Suzanne Patterson Center, 45 Stockton Street,
Princeton, 609-945-1883. Lesson
followed by social dance. No partner needed. Refreshments. $12. 7
p.m.
Live Music
John Henry Goldman and the
Straight Jazz Trio, Tusk Restaurant, 1736 Route 206 South,
Montgomery,
908-829-3417.
Reservations suggested. 6:30 to
9:30 p.m.
Good Causes
Luncheon and Fashion Show,
Association of Black Women
Lawyers of New Jersey, Westin
Hotel, 201 Village Boulevard,
Plainsboro, 609-369-6464. “The
Pink and Black Affair: Version 5.0”
benefits breast health awareness
groups. Guest speaker is Susan L.
Taylor, editor emerita of Essence
Magazine. E-mail law860@verizon.net. $65. 11:30 a.m. to 2:30
p.m.
Martha Speaks, Kelsey Theater,
Mercer County Community College, 1200 Old Trenton Road,
West Windsor, 609-570-3333.
Musical about a dog who eats alphabet soup presented by Theatreworks USA. $10. 2 and 4 p.m.
Comedy
Film
Farm Market
Screening Event, Capriole Productions, West Windsor Arts
Center, 952 Alexander Road,
West Windsor, 609-716-1931.
Screening of “City of Hope: A Children’s Story,” a film in progress.
Funding is sought to start shooting
on location in Brazil. Philip Smith,
an American living in Brazil, saves
street children from murder. Donations requested. 5 p.m.
Art
Paint Out, Arts Council of Princeton, Princeton University Graduate College, 88 College Road
West, Princeton, 609-924-8777.
Capture the charm and solitude of
the historic site. For ages 15 and
up. Rain date is Sunday, October
7. $12. 8 a.m.
Autumn Arts Afternoon, West
Windsor Arts Council, Nassau
Park Pavilion, West Windsor, 609716-1931. Hands-on visual arts
festival presented by local artists
who share their talent and expertise in various art forms and media. Each artist will interact with
the public and give everyone an
opportunity to explore new and different visual art media or techniques. Free. Rain or shine. 1 to 4
p.m.
Adam Kerr, Catch a Rising Star,
Hyatt Regency, 102 Carnegie
Center, West Windsor, 609-9878018. www.catcharisingstar.com.
Register. $22. 7:30 and 9:30 p.m.
West Windsor Community Farmers’ Market, Vaughn Drive Parking Lot, Princeton Junction Train
Station, 609-933-4452. 9 a.m. to 1
p.m.
Mental Health
Wellness Conference, NAMI Mercer, Presbyterian Church, Lawrenceville, 609-799-8994. www.namimercer.org. “Harvest of
Hope: Pathways to Wellness” for
consumers, families, and the general public. The event is focused
on a holistic approach to recovery
from mental illness. Workshops include a variety of interactive and
hands-on wellness experiences.
$10 includes lunch. Register. 8:30
a.m. to 3 p.m. See story.
Wellness
Emotional Expression, American College of Orgonomy, Arts
Council of Princeton, 102 Witherspoon Street, Princeton, 732-8211144. “Understanding Emotional
Expression in Verbal and Nonverbal Communication” presented by
David Holbrook, a board-certified
psychiatrist. A former stage and
film actor, he will use examples
from
psychotherapy,
neuroscience an everyday life. A graduate of Albert Einstein College of
Medicine, he is a clinical associate
of the American College of Orgonomy. Register. $45. 4 to 6 p.m.
OCTOBER 5, 2012
T’ai Chi Ch’uan, Todd Tieger,
Plainsboro Library, 9 Van Doren,
Plainsboro, 609-439-8656. All levels. Free. 10 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.
Photography Exhibit, Plainsboro
Preserve, 80 Scotts Corner Road,
Plainsboro,
609-897-9400.
www.njaudubon.org Reception for
“Wild New Jersey through the
Camera Lens,” a collection of photos by Jim Thomson. On view
through November 15. Noon to 3
p.m.
Fall Bike Ride, West Windsor Bicycle and Pedestrian Alliance,
Turning Basin Park, Alexander
Road. www.wwbpa.org. Eight mile
ride down the canal to Brearley
House and the new Lawrence
Hopewell Trail — and back. Alternative is a casual walk beginning
at Port Mercer, 4278 Quakerbridge Road. Bring a bike in working order. Helmets are required.
Children under 13 must be accompanied by an adult. Raindate is
Sunday, October 7. Visit website
for more information. 2:15 p.m.
Family Nature Programs, New
Jersey Audubon, Plainsboro
Preserve, 80 Scotts Corner Road,
Plainsboro, 609-897-9400. “Feeding Frenzy.” Register. $5. 3:30 to
5 p.m.
Corner of Chaos Haunt, Corner
Copia Farm Market, 299 Princeton-Hightstown Road, East Windsor, 609-426-8884. www.cornercopia.com. A Tour of Terror, Fright
Tour, Haunt World, and more. $13
to $40. 7 p.m.
Ghost Tour, Princeton Tour
Company, Witherspoon and Nassau streets, 609-902-3637. www.princetontourcompany.com. $20.
8 p.m.
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Watercolor in West Windsor
E
lizabeth Peck of West Windsor
presents “Mostly Watercolor,
Some Acrylic,” a solo art show at
the West Windsor Library. There is
a reception on Sunday, October 7,
from 2 to 4 p.m. The exhibit is on
view through October 31.
Peck was raised in Inwood, in the
northern section of Manhattan. A
graduate from the New York
Phoenix School of Design (now part
of Pratt Institute) with a major in
fashion illustration, she has worked
for a number of years in the graphic
arts field. She serves as graphic designer for Not In Our Town, an interfaith, interracial, social action
group based in Princeton. She
worked at Princeton University
Press for eight years and is now with
ExpertPlan in East Windsor.
She is married to Ted Peck, who
has lived in West Windsor for close
to 40 years. They met at Unitarian
Universalist Church of Princeton
and are both active in the West
Windsor Democratic Committee.
He is a retired computer systems
analyst, poet, and oil painter.
Elizabeth Peck has studied watercolor painting with Vincent
Ceglia at Mercer County Community College, Marge Chavooshian
of the Garden State Watercolor Society, and recently with Gail Bracegirdle. She is an associate member
of the Garden State Watercolor Society and the Philadelphia Watercolor Society, and a member of
TAWA. She has exhibited at Artworks and Ellarslie, many times at
Mercer County Community College, Mercer Medical Center,
Phillips Mill, Perkins Center for
the Arts, West Windsor Art Council, and the New American Gallery,
an online showcase for contemporary artists. Peck has received nu-
merous awards throughout Mercer
County, New Jersey, and the surrounding areas.
Peck’s mission statement on her
website, elizabethpeckart.com, is
“Nature is my main interest to
paint. I like to portray people, animals, flowers and trees. I am hoping the viewer can see love, happiness, skill and even pretty. The best
gift I can receive is for someone to
say: ‘It’s beautiful’ and hang the
painting on their home wall.”
— Lynn Miller
Art Exhibit, West Windsor Library, 333 North Post Road. Sunday, October 7, 2 to 4 p.m. Reception for “Mostly Watercolor, Some
Acrylic.” On view to October 31.
609-799-0462.
Fine Art: Clockwise
from top, ‘Indigenous,’
‘Dance and Painting,’
and ‘Flower Show’ by
Elizabeth Peck.
PLAINSBORO TOWNSHIP COMMITTEE
• Deputy Mayor & Township
Committee 17 years
• Public Safety Liaison
• Township Environmental Liaison
• Environmental Advisory
Committee, member &
former chairman
• Director, Jacobus
Pharmaceutical Co.,
Plainsboro
• Holds a Ph.D in Medicinal
Chemistry
• 29-year Plainsboro
resident
• Married to Nancy Lewis;
children, Annie and Adam
• Township Committee member
since 2007
• Liaison for Department of
Recreation and Community
Services
• Member, Plainsboro Free Public
Library Foundation
• Ph.D in Biochemistry
• Former Member of the Planning
Board & Human Relations
Committee
• Worked for Colgate Palmolive Co.
in leadership positions for 22 years
• Published author and lecturer
• Married to Dr. Zeenat Nabi;
sons Mushfik and Adnan
• 18-year resident of Plainsboro
A Proven Record of Leadership in Government and Business
Paid for by Lewis and Nabi for Township Committee, PO Box 126, Plainsboro, NJ
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OCTOBER 5, 2012
Dance, Music,
and Art
Strong Mind & Body
Impro
ve Y
ourself!
Improv
Yourself!
D
onia Salem, a dancer and
choreographer; will be dancing
to
her brother Amir’s music
• Our Specialized Programs
with the Outlet Dance Project at
• Make Learning Fun and Exciting
Grounds For Sculpture in Hamil• Our Curriculum Helps Students
ton on Saturday, October 5. She
• Improve Concentration,
• Confidence & Discipline In School
graduated from West WindsorPlainsboro High School in 1997
Trial Program
and he graduated in 2000. The live
dance section of the festival will be
from 2 to 4 p.m. A dance film aspect has been added this year and
Includes 2 Weeks
films will be screened from 11:30
Instruction Plus Uniform
a.m. to 12:30 p.m. and 12:45 to
1:45 p.m.
Master Yoon Kak Kim
Donia, first drawn to the classiis one of the most successful
cal Indian dance form of Odissi behead coaches of the U.S Nationa
cause of its deep sacred roots, timeTae Kwon Do Team. Master
lessness, and grace, is a student of
Tae Kwon Do
Only $39
Guru Sri Durga Charan Ranbir.
She is working towards her MFA
in interdisciplinary arts from Goddard College.
Amir, also known as Azeem, is a
New York based music producer
and artist. He has done work for
Dreamworks, Blumhouse Productions, Lime Orchard Productions,
Becker Designs, and is a writer and
producer for Mighty Seven Songs.
The Outlet Dance Project,
Grounds For Sculpture, 126
Sculptors Way, Hamilton. Sunday,
October 7, 2 p.m. Performance by
emerging choreographers at each
of the outdoor performance sites
allowing the audience to view the
dancers in and around the sculptural landscape. $12. Rain or shine.
609-689-1089. www.groundsforsculpture.org.
Donia Salem
Kim has earned international
recognition.
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OCTOBER 6
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Southfield Retail Center • West Windsor
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Politics
609-275-1500
Tutor:
Vigil to End the War in
Afghanistan,
Coalition
for
Peace Action, Palmer Square,
Princeton, 609-924-5022. Bring
signs. Noon to 1 p.m.
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
Shopping News
Flea Market, West WindsorPlainsboro High School South,
346 Clarksville Road, West Windsor, 609-799-8950. southptsa.org.
Annual benefit to support scholarship programs, Post Prom, school
clubs, mini grant programs, and
PTSA activities. New and used
merchandise, area businesses
and community organizations,
and school clubs. Rain or shine. Email fallfleamarket@gmail.com for
information. $15 vendor space. 8
a.m. to 2 p.m.
White Elephant Rummage Sale,
Community Connection of
Princeton HealthCare, Princeton
Airport, 41 Airpark Road, Princeton, 609-216-2192. Proceeds
benefit the University Medical
Center of Princeton at Plainsboro.
9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Clear Skin!
Student Special!
Dancing
Inaugural Ride for Financial
Wellness, McGraw-Hill Federal
Credit Union, 120 Windsor Center Drive, East Windsor, 800-2266428. Cycling event at 20, 40, and
62 mile rides. Benefit for National
Tennis and Learning of Trenton,
the New Jersey Coalition for Financial Education, and Junior
Achievement of New Jersey. Register. $50 to $75. Must wear helmet. 8 a.m. to 7 p.m.
Community
Family
Dance,
Princeton Country Dancers,
Suzanne Patterson Center, Monument Drive, 973-476-6389. Oldfashioned dance for all ages with
all dances taught. No experience
needed. Live music. $5. 3 to 5
p.m.
5K to Combat Riverblindness,
Princeton United Methodist
Church, Princeton Theological
Seminary, 64 Mercer Street,
Princeton, 609-924-2613. Benefit
for the church’s mission to support
the
United
Front
Against
Riverblindness program. Register. $25 includes a shirt. 10 a.m.
Stroll for Strays, SAVE, Mercer
County Park, 1638 Old Trenton
Road, West Windsor, 609-9216122. Family friendly walk and pet
fair featuring non-profit groups,
face painting, and pet vendors.
Community participation is encouraged. Sponsorship opportunities. Register online. $20. 10 a.m.
to 2 p.m.
Inaugural Event, Julie’s Run for
Fun, West Windsor Community
Park. www.gofundme.com/lwr10.
Memorial for Julie Greener, a
West Windsor resident who died
of cancer of unknown primary on
June 30. She will be remembered
with a family fun run followed by a
party with food and games. Benefit for CUP research and the college fund for the three children.
$25 includes a shirt and a light
lunch. E-mail juliesrun@gmail.com. 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Sunday
October 7
3 Treatments for
$235
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The Outlet Dance Project,
Grounds For Sculpture, 126
Sculptors Way, Hamilton, 609689-1089.
Performance
by
emerging choreographers at each
of the outdoor performance sites
allowing the audience to view the
dancers in and around the sculptural landscape. Choreographers
include Donia Salem, a West
Windsor resident. Music produced
and composed by Amir Salem, also of West Windsor. Free with $12
admission. Rain or shine. 2 p.m.
See story.
On Stage
Next to Normal, Kelsey Theater,
Mercer County Community College, 1200 Old Trenton Road,
West Windsor, 609-570-3333.
Musical. $18. 2 p.m.
Art
Art Exhibit, West Windsor Library, 333 North Post Road, 609799-0462. Reception for “Mostly
Watercolor, Some Acrylic,” a solo
art show by Elizabeth Peck. On
view to October 31. 2 to 4 p.m.
Fairs & Festivals
Birthday Bash, Palmer Square,
On — and off — the Green, 609921-2333. Celebration of 75 years
includes the past, present, and future. Chris Rollins from WPST with
games, prizes, and music from
noon to 2 p.m. Richard Reiter
Swing Band with music from the
1930s from 3 to 4 p.m. Crafts, activities, and store promotions. An
antique car from 1937 on view.
Birthday cake. Noon to 5 p.m.
Harvest and Music Festival,
Witherspoon Grill, Hinds Plaza,
57 Witherspoon Street, Princeton,
609-924-6011.Family-friendly
outdoor event features music,
food, pumpkin painting, apple dipping, face painting, cooking decorating, and beer garden. Rain or
shine. Portion of proceeds from
food and activity sales benefit the
Trenton Area Soup Kitchen. Pie
eating contest for all ages at 2 p.m.
Donations of money and non-perishable items are also invited. Performances by Franklin & Alison
Band, Pi Fight, and others. Noon
to 5 p.m. See story.
For Parents
Parenting
Workshop,
West
Windsor Library, 333 North Post
Road, 609-799-0462. “Parenting
with Joy and Wisdom” presented
by Shaheen Hamid, certified parenting and relationships coach. 2
p.m.
Lectures
Meeting, Astrological Society of
Princeton, Plainsboro Public Library, 9 Van Doren Street, 609924-4311. “Composite Charts”
presented by Liane Thomas
Wade. Social hour follows the talk.
Register. $10 donation. 2 p.m.
Corner of Chaos Haunt, Corner
Copia Farm Market, 299 Princeton-Hightstown Road, East Windsor, 609-426-8884. A Tour of Terror, Fright Tour, Haunt World, and
more. $13 to $40. 7 p.m.
Shopping News
White Elephant Rummage Sale,
Community Connection of
Princeton HealthCare, Princeton
Airport, 41 Airpark Road, Princeton, 609-216-2192. Small furniture, art, linens, books, hardware,
sporting goods, small electronics,
clothing, kitchen stuff, holiday
decor, and toys. Proceeds benefit
the University Medical Center of
Princeton at Plainsboro. 10 a.m.
to 2 p.m.
Sports for Causes
Walk Now, Autism Speaks, Mercer Community College, West
Windsor, 609-228-7332. www.walknowforautismspeaks.org/cnj.
Register online. 9 a.m. See story.
OCTOBER 5, 2012
Empowering Mind & Spirit
P
eople all around us are affected
by mental illness and are mostly ignored. NAMI Mercer, the area
chapter of National Alliance on
Mental Illness, presents a full day
of workshops on Saturday, October
6, in Lawrenceville. The event is
focused on a holistic approach to
recovery from mental illness. The
$10 admission includes workshops
and lunch.
Tricia, Kurt, and Katelyn Baker
of Plainsboro, the parents and sibling of a teenager who committed
suicide, will bring Miki, the Attitudes in Reverse awareness dog, to
the conference.
The family founded A.I.R. to
promote mental health awareness.
The organization was started by the
Bakers to educate families about
mental illness and remove the stigma attached to it. Katelyn created
the name to describe the effort to
reverse current societal attitudes
about mental illness. Her brother,
Kenny, completed suicide three
years ago.
“No one chooses mental health
advocacy unless you are touched
by it,” says Tricia. “Since Kenny’s
death, we’ve made so much
progress to fight the stigma of mental illness.”
Cindy Calotta of West Windsor
has been an assistant teacher at
Millstone Upper Elementary’s
preschool for the disabled for close
to eight years and has incorporated
yoga and children into a program
for NAMI. She also works with
Mercer NAMI’s Friends to Friends
and Just Kids. Calotta presents yoga, arts, and crafts for children with
challenging behavior.
Calotta, also a yoga instructor at
the Integral Yoga Institute Princeton, is certified in hatha yoga, therapeutic yoga, and Yoga-Fit for
Monday
October 8
Columbus Day. Postal and bank
holiday.
School Sports
For WW-P school sports information, call the hotline: 609-7165000, ext. 5134, www.ww-p.org.
North Field Hockey. At Princeton.
4 p.m.
North Girls Tennis. Vs. Nottingham. 4 p.m.
North Girls Volleyball. At Bishop
George AHR. 4 p.m.
South Girls Tennis. At Robbinsville. 4 p.m.
South Girls Volleyball. Vs.Mother
Seton Regional. 5 p.m.
Literati
Poets at the Library, Princeton
Public Library, 65 Witherspoon
Street, 609-924-9529. Reading
services with Delaware Valley Poets and U.S.1 Poets’ Cooperative.
Alicia Ostriker is featured reader.
Open mic follows. 7:30 p.m.
Pop Music
Rehearsal, Jersey Harmony
Chorus, 112 Main Street, Forrestal Village, Plainsboro, 732-4693983. New members are welcome. 7:15 p.m.
Rehearsal, New Jersey Gay
Men’s Chorus, Nassau Presbyterian Church, 61 Nassau Street,
Princeton. New members are welcome to join the all inclusive, nondiscriminatory chorus. E-mail
membership@njgmc.org. 7:30 to
10 p.m.
Kids. She began her yoga study 11
years ago with Jayadeva Mandelkorn through WW-P Community Education.
“I have been taking yoga classes
on and off for most of my adult
life,” she says. “I decided that I
wanted to deepen my practice and
asked about teacher training. I
chose Integral Yoga because it is
the most comprehensive practice I
have experienced.”
Calotta, whose spiritual name,
Sandhya, means twilight, was born
in Summit and raised in Clinton.
After graduating from Villanova
University with a degree in business, she was a financial analyst at
Goldman Sachs in New York City.
She and her husband, Jeffrey, have
three children; Paul, Mia, Leigh.
The family moved to West Windsor from Maplewood 13 years ago.
Both Calotta and the Baker family of Plainsboro will be at the annual NAMI Mercer conference on
Saturday. The theme is “Empowering Your Mind, Body, and Spirit.”
The event will be held at the Presbyterian Church of Lawrenceville.
Randye Kaye, author of “Ben Behind His Voices: One Family’s
Journey from the Chaos of Schizophrenia to Hope,” is the keynote
speaker.
The closing activity is “Rhythm
Connection” presented by Sheila
Riley-Massa, a board certified music therapist at Capital Health Regional Medical Center. The drumming circle requires no musical experience. Drums are provided.
Workshops include “Update on
Psychotropic Medications” with
David Nathan, MD; “Metabolic
Syndrome and Your Meds” with
William Hayes, MD, a board-certified child, adolescent, and adult
psychiatrist in private practice at
Faith
Simchat Torah, Princeton Jewish Center, 435 Nassau Street,
Princeton, 609-921-0100. Service
with live music, dancing, pizza,
pretzels, and more. 6:30 p.m.
Cindy Calotta
Alexander Road Associates in
West Windsor; and “The Art of
Healing” with Jean Joslin; “Feeding and Protecting the Brain” with
Kate Thomsen, MD.
Also “Wellness Coaching” presented by Louis Blicharz; “The
Family: A Relational View of Individual Trauma and Healing” with
Norbert Wetzel; “From Wall to
Words: A Workshop in Ekphrastic
Poetry” with Nancy Scott; “Create
a Treasure Box” with Alice
Waldeck Kelly; “Move, Groove,
and Soothe Yourself” with Joan H.
Brame.
Also “A Holistic Approach to
Wellness” with Andrew Appello;
“Self-care: Happier Made Simple
Even When Life Isn’t Perfect” with
Randye Kaye; “Of Course You
Can Create Music” with Kymberly
Tindall; and “LEAP,” a two part
workshop presented by David
Kensler, Kathleen Hall, and Josie
Reyes.
— Lynn Miller
Wellness Conference, NAMI
Mercer, Presbyterian Church,
Lawrenceville. Saturday, October
6, 8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. “Harvest of
Hope: Pathways to Wellness” for
consumers, families, and the general public. $10 includes lunch.
Register. 609-799-8994. www.namimercer.org.
Tuesday
October 9
24 years in the same location:
24 years in the same location:
10 Schalks Crossing Road, Plainsboro, NJ 08536
10 Schalks Crossing Road, Plainsboro, NJ 08536
609-275-7272
609-275-7272
Health
School Sports
Caregiver Resource Workshop,
Buckingham Place, 155 Raymond Road, Monmouth Junction,
732-329-8954. Guidance as you
navigate through services and
programs in the area. Facilitated
by Barbara Stender, caregiver
specialist with Senior Well Being
program. Refreshments. Register. Free. 1 to 3 p.m.
For WW-P school sports information, call the hotline: 609-7165000, ext. 5134, www.ww-p.org.
Princeton Balance Speakers Series, Princeton High School,
Black Box Theater, 151 Moore
Street, 609-806-4215. “Healthy
State of Mind,” a panel discussion
with behavioral health specialists.
For parents of middle and high
school age children. Participants
include Molly Palmer, Trinity
Counseling Service: Karen Gischlar, Rider University; Nicole Orro, Princeton House Behavioral
Health; Julie Neufeld, LCSW;
George Scott, TRaumatic Loss
Coalition. 7:30 to 9 p.m.
Singles
Singles Night, Grover’s Mill Coffee House, 335 Princeton Hightstown Road, West Windsor, 609716-8771. Drop in. Register at
http://ht.ly/3gd9w 6:30 to 8 p.m.
For Seniors
Let’s Talk Retirement, Princeton
Senior
Resource
Center,
Suzanne Patterson Building, 45
Stockton Street, 609-924-7108.
Conversation group facilitated by
Marilyn Gilroy. 1 p.m.
North Boys Soccer. At Princeton.
4 p.m.
North Girls Volleyball. Vs. Mother
Seton Regional. 4 p.m.
South Field Hockey. At Hightstown. 4 p.m.
South
Girls
Soccer.
Lawrence. 4 p.m.
Vs.
North Girls Soccer. Vs. Princeton.
4 p.m.
North
Cross
Country
(Boys/Girls). Meet. Nottingham,
Princeton. At Mercer County Park.
4:15 p.m.
South
Cross
Country
(Boys/Girls). Hightstown, Hopewell, Robbinsville. 4:15 p.m.
South Girls Volleyball. Vs.East
Brunswick. 5:15 p.m.
South Boys Soccer. At Lawrence.
7 p.m.
Literati
Author Event, Labyrinth Books,
122 Nassau Street Princeton, NJ
08542, 609-497-1600. Subhankar
Banerjee, author of “Arctic Voices:
Resistance at the Tipping Point.”
Presentation and discussion focusing on exploratory drilling off
the coast of Alaska with the photographer, writer, and activist. 6
p.m.
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Superfresh shopping center
Superfresh shopping center
(next door to the Indian Hut restaurant)
(next door to the Indian Hut restaurant)
Also located at:
Also located at:
2083 Klockner Road, Hamilton Square, NJ 08690
2083 Klockner Road, Hamilton Square, NJ 08690
609-588-4999
609-588-4999
www.plainsborofootandankle.com
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Continued from preceding page
Please Join Dr Ron Suzuki
and
Suzuki Medical Associates
in Welcoming
Literati
Book Discussion, Princeton
Public Library, 65 Witherspoon
Street, 609-924-8822. Discuss
“Women Without Men” by Shahmush Parsipur. 7 p.m.
Public Speaking for the Shy, Introverted, or Anxious, Speaking
That Connects, Eileen N. Sinett
Communications, 610 Plainsboro
Road, Plainsboro, 609-799-1400.
www.speakingthatconnects.com.
Develop speaking confidence
through life-changing skills with
Eileen N. Sinett, author of “Speaking That Connects.” Register. $50.
7 to 9 p.m.
Dr Jabbar Zafar and Rose Knapp, NP
Dr Zafar and Rose Knapp are now available to see
patients in both offices. We see children
and adults. Most major insurances
and Medicare are accepted.
65 South Main Street Bld. C
Pennington, NJ 08534
609 737 1116
11 Schalks Crossing Road
Plainsboro, NJ 08536
609 275 5700
Pop Music
Rehearsal, Princeton Garden
Statesmen, Plainsboro Library, 9
Van Doren Street, Plainsboro,
888-636-4449. Men of all ages
and experience levels are invited
to sing in four-part harmony. Free.
7:30 to 10 p.m.
Faith
Simchat Torah, Princeton Jewish Center, 435 Nassau Street,
Princeton, 609-921-0100. Honor
founding members and celebrate
with a kiddish following the service. 9:45 a.m.
Mental Health
Mental Illness Awareness Week,
NAMI Mercer, Mackay Center, 64
Mercer Street, Princeton, 609799-8994. www.namimercer.org.
Panel discussion among persons
affected by mental illness, their
family members, and area clergy
who have found ways to be inclusive in their ministries. Register.
Free. 12:30 to 1:30 p.m.
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Wellness
Numerology and Mala Bracelet
Workshop, Center for Relaxation and Healing, 666 Plainsboro Road, Suite 635, Plainsboro,
609-750-7432. Tap into the energy of your numbers with Krista Eggering, a jewelry designer and
spiritual facilitator. Register. $40.
7 to 9 p.m.
Lectures
Mercer Institute of Management
and Technology Training, Mercer Community College, Conference Center, 1200 Old Trenton
Road, West Windsor, 609-5703607. “Overcoming Challenges in
Remembrance: Robert, Julie, Josh, Jeremy, and
Alana Greener in happier times. A tribute to Julie,
who died earlier this year from cancer, ‘Julie’s Run
for Fun,’ takes place Saturday, October 6.
the Modern Workplace” for corporate leaders. Keynote speaker is
Diana N. Henriques, author of
“The Wizard of Lies.” Other speakers include Stephen Payne with
“Let Your Leadership Rise Above
the Chaos,” Paul Marciano with
“Bullying in the Workplace,” Eileen
N. Sinnett with “The Leadership
Trump Card: Speaking That Connects,” and David and Priscilla
Tate with “What the Titanic Can
Teach Us About Leadership in
Times of Crisis.” Cocktail networking reception at the end of the day.
Register. 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Literati
Writers Workshop, Princeton
Public Library, 65 Witherspoon
Street, 609-924-8822. www.princetonlibrary.org. Beth Plankey
leads the group. 5 p.m.
Live Music
Open Mic, Alchemist & Barrister,
28 Witherspoon Street, Princeton,
609-924-5555. www.theaandb.com. 21 plus. 10 p.m.
Food & Dining
Investment Seminar, David Lerner Associates, Westin Hotel, Forrestal Village, Plainsboro, 609806-2764. www.davidlerner.com.
Seminar presented by David Lerner. Dinner will be served. Register.
Free. 6:30 p.m.
Cornerstone
Community
Kitchen,
Princeton
United
Methodist Church, Nassau at
Vandeventer Street, Princeton,
609-924-2613. www.princetonumc.org. Hot meals served, prepared by TASK. Free. 5 to 6:30
p.m.
Politics
Wellness
Meeting, League of Women Voters, Suzanne Patterson Center,
45 Stockton Street, Princeton,
609-658-6107. lwvprinceton.org.
Note new time and place. 7 to 9
p.m.
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. Free. 1 to 2:15 p.m.
Socials
Meeting, Rotary Club of Plainsboro, Guru Palace, 2215 Route 1
South, North Brunswick, 732-2130095. www.plainsbororotary.org.
7:30 p.m.
For Seniors
Retirement Talk, Princeton Public Library, 65 Witherspoon
Street, 609-924-8822. www.princetonlibrary.org. “Making Your
Money Go Further in Retirement”
presented by Marion Sommer. 7
p.m.
Wednesday
October 10
School Sports
For WW-P school sports information, call the hotline: 609-7165000, ext. 5134, www.ww-p.org.
North Field Hockey. Vs. HamiltonWest. 4 p.m.
North Girls Tennis. At Steinert. 4
p.m.
South Girls Tennis. Vs. Trenton
Central. 4 p.m.
North - Special Olympics
(Boys/Girls, all sports), Special
Olympics on the Track. 5 p.m.
Dancing
Contra Dance, Princeton Country Dancers, Suzanne Patterson
Center, Monument Drive, 609924-6763. www.princetoncountrydancers.org. Instruction followed
by dance. $8. 7:30 to 10:30 p.m.
Create New Habits For Healthy
Eating, Nassau Inn, 10 Palmer
Square, Princeton, 609-356-0558.
“Creating New Habits of Eating”
presented by Judith Robinson.
Register. $25. 7 to 8:30 p.m.
History
Guided Tour, Drumthwacket
Foundation, 354 Stockton Street,
Princeton, 609-683-0057. www.drumthwacket.org. New Jersey
governor’s official residence.
Group tours are available. Register. $5 donation. Noon to 2 p.m.
Lectures
College Bound Lecture, PEAC
Fitness, 1440 Lower Ferry Road,
Ewing, 609-883-2000. www.peachealthfitness.com. “Inside the Admissions Office: What Every Family Needs to Know in an Increasingly Competitive College Environment” presented by Don Betterton, a financial aid and admissions expert. He was on Princeton
University’s admission committee
for three decades and has written
three books on how to finance
your college education. Register.
Free. 6:30 p.m.
Politics
Talking Politics, Princeton Public Library, 65 Witherspoon
Street, 609-924-8822. www.princetonlibrary.org. Discuss “The
Real Romney,” a book by Michael
Kranish and Scot Helman, with
Joan Goldstein of Mercer Community College. 7:30 p.m.
OCTOBER 5, 2012
Thursday
October 11
Friday
October 12
School Sports
School Sports
For WW-P school sports information, call the hotline: 609-7165000, ext. 5134, www.ww-p.org.
For WW-P school sports information, call the hotline: 609-7165000, ext. 5134, www.ww-p.org.
North
Boys
Soccer.
Lawrence. 4 p.m.
Vs.
North Vs. South Girls Tennis. At
North. 4 p.m.
North Girls Soccer. At Lawrence.
4 p.m.
North Girls Volleyball. Vs. Montgomery. 4 p.m.
South Boys Soccer. At Hightstown. 4 p.m.
North Field Hockey. At Nottingham. 4 p.m.
South Field Hockey. Vs. Allentown. 4 p.m.
South Football, At Burlington
Township. 7 p.m.
South Girls Soccer. Vs. Hightstown. 4 p.m.
On Stage
Dancing
Argentine Tango, Viva Tango,
Suzanne Patterson Center, 45
Stockton Street, Princeton, 732789-5272. vivatango.org. Class
and practice session. $12. 8 p.m.
Literati
Author Event, Labyrinth Books,
122 Nassau Street Princeton, NJ
08542, 609-497-1600. Sheila
Kohler, author of “Bay of Foxes”
and Joyce Carol Oates, author of
“Mudwoman” in conversation with
Jennifer Altman discussing the
strong female characters at the
center of each novel. 6 p.m.
Live Music
Open Mic Night, Grover’s Mill
Coffee House, 335 Princeton
Hightstown Road, West Windsor,
609-716-8771. 7 p.m.
Faith
Celebrate Israel: The Creation of
the State, Beth El Synagogue, 50
Maple Stream Road, East Windsor, 609-443-4454. Discussion
with Rabbi Eric M. Lankin and Abba Eban. Register. $10. 7:30 p.m.
Bicentennial
Anniversary,
Princeton Theological Seminary, Mackay Campus Center,
609-497-7990. www.ptsem.edu
“The History and Heritage of the
King James Bible” presented by
Iain Torrance. Register. Free.
7:30 p.m.
Food & Dining
Cooking Class, Whole Foods
Market, Windsor Green Shopping
Center, West Windsor, 609-7992919. “The Italian Table” with
Christina Pirello, cookbook author
and TV host. Register. $35. 6:30
p.m.
Farm Markets
Princeton Farmers’ Market,
Hinds Plaza, Witherspoon Street,
Princeton, 609-655-8095. Rain or
shine. 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Lectures
Women’s Leadership Conference, Princeton Chamber, Marriott at Forrestal, Plainsboro, 609924-1776. Speakers and media
panel includes Lynn Doyle, host of
“It’s Your Call with Lynn Doyle.”
Keynote speaker is Carla Harris,
managing director of Morgan
Stanley Investment Management.
Register. 8 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.
Holocaust Genocide Resource
Center, Mercer College Student
Center, Second floor of the library
building, 1200 Old Trenton Road,
West Windsor, 609-570-3355.
“Ouch! Your Silence Hurts” workshop explores the power of the bystander to make a difference. Register. 4:30 p.m.
Politics
Vice Presidential Debate Watching Party, Princeton Democratic
Campaign, 217 Nassau Street,
Princeton, 609-301-0842. The debate will be shown on a wide
screen TV. Bring snacks and
drinks. 8:30 p.m.
Next to Normal, Kelsey Theater,
Mercer County Community College, 1200 Old Trenton Road,
West Windsor, 609-570-3333.
www.kelseytheatre.net. Musical
with a contemporary score about a
woman diagnosed with a mental
illness and her family’s struggles.
Presented by Pierrot Productions.
$18. 8 p.m.
Socials
Public Speaking, 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.
Good Causes
Art Exhibit, HomeFront, 67
Palmer Square West, Princeton,
609-989-9417. Opening reception
for “ArtJam,” an exhibit and sale
featuring national and local artists.
The exhibit features the work of 50
artists, including clients of HomeFront. ArtSpace is an innovative
program that uses as a tool to improve the physical, mental, and
emotional well being of HomeFront’s clients. On view to October
22. 6 to 10 p.m.
In the Pink Fashion Show, YWCA
Princeton, Westin Hotel, Forrestal Village, Plainsboro, 609-4972100. Benefit for the Breast Cancer Resource Center features a
fashion show of fall and winter collections modeled by breast cancer
survivors, their husbands, children, doctors, and nurses. Cocktail reception, silent auction, and
floral centerpiece competition.
Register. $100. 6 to 9 p.m.
Autumn Nights Reception, Corner House Foundation, Princeton Day School, 650 Great Road,
Princeton, 609-924-8018. Benefit
for the organization that focuses
on the leadership, prevention, and
affordable treatment programs for
adolescents and young adults with
substance abuse and related issues. The all City Just Dessert
competition features desserts provided by Princeton area chefs.
Leadership awards to Gisela A.
Moore and Richard Grenis, both
raised in Princeton and graduates
of Princeton High School. Business attire. Register. $40. 7 to 10
p.m.
Comedy
Ryan Maher, Catch a Rising Star,
Hyatt Regency, 102 Carnegie
Center, West Windsor, 609-9878018. Register. $19.50. 8 p.m.
Halloween Comedy, Rock Salt
Comedy Theater, Black Box Theater, Mercer County Park Ice Skating Rink, West Windsor, 732-6908694. Ages 13 and up. Flexible
seating in a cabaret-like setting.
$10. 8 p.m.
Comedy Night, HA Comedy Productions, Rat’s Restaurant, 126
Sculptor’s Way, Hamilton, 609584-7800. www.heleneangley.com. Helene Angley of West
Windsor hosts her line-up of seasoned comics including Doug
Adler, Regina DeCicco, and
Veronica Mosey. 21 plus. $25 to
$30. 8:30 p.m.
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Walk Now for Autism Speaks
E
mily Josephson of West
Windsor is chairing this
year’s Central NJ Walk Now for
Autism Speaks event at Mercer
County Community College on
Sunday, October 7, beginning at
10 a.m. The event is focused on
raising funds for autism research
and advocacy. Josephson will
walk with her daughter, Isabel, an
eighth grade student at Grover
Middle School.
“Autism spectrum disorders
are now diagnosed in 1 in every
88 children, 1 in 49 in New Jersey, making it the fastest growing
serious developmental disability
in the U.S.,” says Josephson. “I
really felt strongly about the organization; it does a great job with
newly diagnosed families — including who to talk to and where
to go.” Josephson, a stay at home
mom, became involved with the
organization six years ago.
Autism speaks raises funds and
awareness, helps families affected by autism, and advocates for
families with autism.
Raised in Pittsburgh, Joseph-
son graduated from Penn State
and headed for New York City.
She worked in national advertising in magazines for 15 years.
One of her co-workers at Better
Homes and Garden magazine was
the brother of her future husband,
Seth Josephson, an attorney.
The family lived in Plainsboro
for five years and in West Windsor for the past 10 years. Isabel’s
brother, Louis, is a sixth grade
student at Grover Middle School.
Josephson is a board member
of both Jewish Federation and
Jewish Community Center. Her
husband is on the board of Beth El
Synagogue. Autism Speaks was a
large part of Isabel’s mitzvah project, and she is a new member of
Jewish Community Youth Foundation, an organization focusing
on community giving and allocating funds. “She is a caring person,” says her mother. “Isabel has
also been involved with setting
up, cleaning up, and working at
the event.”
Other events on walk day include face painting, rock climb-
Food & Dining
Shopping News
Restaurant Supported Agriculture Dinner Series, Tre Piani,
120 Rockingham Row, Forrestal
Village, Plainsboro, 609-4521515. www.trepiani.com. Three
course farm to table dinner. Register. $29. 5 p.m.
Book Sale, Princeton Public Library, 65 Witherspoon Street,
609-924-9529. Preview sale from
10 a.m. to noon, $10 admission.
Free admission from noon to 8:30
p.m. 10 a.m. to 8:30 p.m.
Outdoor Action
Corner of Chaos Haunt, Corner
Copia Farm Market, 299 Princeton-Hightstown Road, East Windsor, 609-426-8884. www.cornercopia.com. A Tour of Terror, Fright
Tour, Haunt World, and more. $13
to $40. 7 p.m.
Schools
English Conversation Class for
ESL Students, West Windsor Library, 333 North Post Road, 609799-0462. Focus on language
speaking skills, pronunciation, vocabulary, and general fluency with
Richard Peterson, the reference librarian. 1:15 p.m.
Singles
Divorce Recovery Seminar,
Princeton Church of Christ, 33
River Road, Princeton, 609-5813889. “Dealing with Anger.” Nondenominational support group for
men and women. Free. 7:30 p.m.
Sports for Causes
Golf Classic, Gerald R. Covello
Jr. Memorial Scholarship Fund,
Cranbury Golf Course, 49 Southfield Road, West Windsor, 609240-9580.
covelloclassic.org.
Benefit for a scholarship fund to
develop youth baseball. Breakfast, barbecue lunch, cocktail
hour, silent auction, and awards
banquet. $135 includes golf and
dinner. $50 includes dinner. 8 a.m.
Walk Now: Emily
Josephson, left, with
daughter Isabel.
ing, crafts, music, and dancing.
The 1.5-mile walk starts at noon.
“I believe in the mission to
help families affected by autism
and am very honored to chair the
event,” Josephson says.
— Lynn Miller
Walk Now, Autism Speaks,
Mercer Community College,
West Windsor. Sunday, October
7, 9 a.m. Register online. 609228-7332 or www.walknowforautismspeaks.org/cnj.
Saturday
October 13
School Sports
For WW-P school sports information, call the hotline: 609-7165000, ext. 5134, www.ww-p.org.
North Girls Soccer. Vs. Monroe. 9
a.m.
North Girls Volleyball. At South
Brunswick. 10 a.m.
South Field Hockey. At HamiltonWest. 10 a.m.
South Boys Soccer. Vs. Steinert.
10 a.m.
South Girls Soccer. At Steinert.
10 a.m.
South Girls Volleyball. At North
Brunswick. 11:30 a.m.
North Football. Vs. Steinert. 1 p.m.
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OCTOBER 5, 2012
In Town
West
Windsor-Plainsboro
High School seeks vendors for its
fall flea market on Saturday, October 6, from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. Rain or
shine, in the parking lot at 346
Clarksville Road, West Windsor.
$15 per space. Both new and used
merchandise may be sold. Local
service providers and community
businesses are welcome and are encouraged to distribute information.
Political parties and electoral candidates are not permitted to participate. Food and refreshments will
be sold by the freshman, sophomore, junior, and senior class officers, and their advisors, as
fundraisers for the school activities. To register contact Leanne
Bell by phone at 609-651-2908 or
E-mail leannegbell@gmail.com.
West Windsor Police Department and West Windsor Moms
Club are collecting new toys and
donations for the pediatric wing at
the University Medical Center of
Princeton at Plainsboro. Collection
dates and locations are West Windsor Library, West Windsor Police
Department, and Texas Road
House, 1305 Route 33, Hamilton
on Saturdays, October 6 and 13.
Toys are listed on Toys R Us wish
list #31287567. E-mail wwmomsclub@gmail.com for information.
VSA New Jersey and Youth
Stages seek adult or teen volunteers to help with a production of
“A Christmas Carol” at Kelsey
Theater on Wednesday, November
21, at 8 p.m. Volunteers are sought
to work backstage with adult actors
with disabilities, to assist costume
changes, and scene entrances, and
serve as stage crew to change sets.
Rehearsals are Thursdays, November 8 and 15, from 7 to 9 p.m., at
Project Freedom, 715 Kuser Road,
Opportunities
Hamilton. Dress rehearsals are
Monday and Tuesday, November
19 and 20, 7 to 9 p.m., at Kelsey
Theater, 1200 Old Trenton Road,
West Windsor. Call VSA New Jersey at 732-745-3885 and leave
your name, phone number, and Email address with Val.
Call for Art
Elixir Fund, based in West
Windsor, seeks artists to design a tshirt that will become a creative expression that best reflects the mission of the organization. The winning design will then be displayed,
and shirts will be sold to raise funding to support comfort care for cancer patients.
Visit www.elixirfund.org and
submit a design that best characterizes the organization’s mission.
Deadline is Thursday, November
1. Submissions, no larger than 8 by
8 inches, should be E-mailed in jpg,
gif, or png to contact@elixirfund.org. Any submissions become the
property of the Elixir Fund. Call
800-494-9228 for information.
New Hope Art League is accepting submissions for its annual
juried art show. The show is November 14 to 25 at Prallsville Mill,
Route 29, Stockton. Deadline is
Tuesday, October 9. Visit newhopeartleague.com for details and application.
Volunteer Please
New Jersey State House offers
training for tour guides beginning
Tuesday, October 16. Contact Carol Rogers at 609-847-3150 or E-
mail crogers@njleg.org for information.
Mental Health
Princeton House Behavioral
Health site in Hamilton now offers
a young adult program for ages 18
to mid-20s including life skills
training, creative arts therapy,
group psychotherapy, and individual therapy sessions. Most insurance plans are accepted. Visit
www.princetonhouse.org or call
888-437-1610 for information.
For Runners
(and Walkers)
Registration is open for the 6K
Winter Wonder Run Trail Race at
the Woods at the Institute for Advanced Studies on Saturday, December 1 at 10 a.m. The event is
open to all abilities, including those
who wish to walk the course. The
starting point is the Friends School,
470 Quaker Road, Princeton. Visit
www.princetonac.org or E-mail
iaswoods@princetonac.org.
For Singers
Lashir, the Jewish Community
Choir of Princeton, is auditioning
for the upcoming season. The fourpart choir sings solely in Hebrew,
Yiddish, and Ladino, and performs
throughout the area at community
and synagogue events. E-mail
robinwallack@verizon.net for information.
Volunteers Needed
Grounds for Sculpture seeks
volunteers to work with Mark Par-
sons, the artist in residence, on
Tuesday, October 9; and Thursday,
October 11. All times are 10 a.m. to
1 p.m. or 1:30 to 4:30 p.m. Call
609-586-0616, ext. 213 for information.
Audition
Plays-in-the-Park has auditions for “Joseph and the Amazing
Technicolor Dreamcoat” on Thursday, October 11, at 7 p.m. at the
amphitheater in Edison. The performance is at the State Theater in
New Brunswick. Assorted ensemble roles are open. Be prepared to
sing 16 bars of an uptempo showtune; an accompanist will be provided. Be prepared to dance —you will be taught a combination.
Be aware of your conflicts for October, November, and December.
E-mail
pipoffice@playsinthepark.com for information
Villagers Theater Blackbox
has auditions for “Shadowlands”
on Tuesday and Thursday, October
9 and 11, at 7:30 p.m.; and Sunday,
October 14, at 6 p.m. Auditions
will include readings from the
script. A British accent is required.
Actors should be 30 to 60 plus a
boy aged 10 to 12. For more information contact Marie Fiorello by
E-mail to MarieFio@aol.com
Call for Plays
Lawrence Library seeks playwrights, amateur or professional,
living or working in the Delaware
Valley to submit their works of a
staged reading, 10-minutes in
length for up to five characters. The
plays chosen by the selection committee will be staged by local actors
and directors at the library. Deadline is Saturday, December 15. Email as a Word document attachment to akerr@mcl.org or bring to
the library’s reference desk. Include two title pages: one with the
play title only and the other with
play title and name, address,
phone, and E-mail of the author.
The playwright’s name should not
appear in the script. For additional
information call Ann Kerr, 609989-6922. The library is at 2751
Route 1 South, Lawrenceville.
Playwrights Theater is accepting submissions for the 30th annual New Jersey Young Playwrights
Contest. Plays are accepted in the
following divisions: Elementary
(grades 4 to 6), Junior High (grades
7 to 9) and High School (grades 10
to 12). Interested young playwrights must submit their plays online at www.njypf.org. High
School plays deadline is Monday,
January 14. Elementary and Junior
High School deadline is Tuesday,
January 15. For complete details
and submission guidelines visit
www.njypf.org, or contact Jim DeVivo, direction of education at
973-514-1787, ext. 14 or E-mail
njypf@ptnj.org.
Breast Cancer
Awareness
Peac Health & Fitness presents
activities to benefit Susan G.
Komen for the Cure Central and
South Jersey. A silent auction will
be held through Sunday, October
21. Ten cents will be donated for
every mile logged on the pink
treadmill in October. 1440 Lower
Ferry Road, Ewing, 609-883-2000,
or www.peachealthfitness.com.
OCTOBER 5, 2012
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On Stage
Next to Normal, Kelsey Theater,
Mercer County Community College, 1200 Old Trenton Road,
West Windsor, 609-570-3333.
www.kelseytheatre.net. Musical
with a contemporary score about a
woman diagnosed with a mental
illness and her family’s struggles.
Presented by Pierrot Productions.
$18. 8 p.m.
Film
Film Series, West Windsor Arts
Council, 952 Alexander Road,
West Windsor, 609-716-1931.
www.westwindsorarts.org.
Screening of “Who the #$&% is
Jackson Pollack?,” 2006, a documentary that follows the life of a 73
year-old woman who bought a
painting for $5 at a thrift store as a
gift for a friend. She learns that it is
possibly a Jackson Pollack original. Speaker is Julia Myers, a professor of art history, curator of
postwar American art, and resident of West Windsor. In conjunction with “Outloud: A Collective of
Washington,
D.C.
Abstract
Artists,” an exhibit on display from
Sunday, October 14, to Wednesday, November 21. Register. $7.
7:30 p.m.
Dancing
English Country Dance, Princeton Country Dancers, Suzanne
Patterson Center, Monument Drive, 609-924-6763. Instruction followed by dance. $10. 7:30 to 11
p.m.
Good Causes
Clothing Drive, High School
North, 90 Grovers Mill Road,
Plainsboro, 609-716-5100. Bring
clothing, shoes, hats, belts, handbags, stuffed toys, and linens to
the loading docks to benefit the
post-prom event. Place items in a
plastic bag. Tax deductible receipts are available. 9 a.m. to 3
p.m.
Wellness
Communicate with Angels, Center for Relaxation and Healing,
666 Plainsboro Road, Suite 635,
Plainsboro, 609-750-7432. www.relaxationandhealing.com. Workshop with Judy Toma taps into
your psychic abilties. Practice using oracle cards. Register. $45. 10
a.m. to 1:15 p.m.
Martial Arts Workshop, Princeton Academy of Martial Arts, 14
Farber Road, West Windsor, 609452-2208. www.pamausa.com.
Rick Tucci presents Silat, an exotic martial art from Indonesia. Register. 10:30 a.m. to 4 p.m.
T’ai Chi Ch’uan, Todd Tieger,
Plainsboro Library, 9 Van Doren,
Plainsboro, 609-439-8656. All levels. Free. 10 a.m.
For Teens
New Jersey Regional Conference, Junior State of America,
Princeton University, 732-6585199. midatlantic.jsa.org. “Election 2012: Beyond the Ballot Box”
includes discussions and debates
about political issues that surround the presidential election.
Thea Ma, a student at West Windsor-Plainsboro High School North,
is vice mayor and one of the event
organizers. $5. 9 a.m. to 3 p.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.
Fall Farm Festival, Corner Copia
Farm Market, 299 PrincetonHightstown Road, East Windsor,
609-426-8884.
www.cornercopia.com. Pumpkin painting contest, hayrides, pumpkin picking,
petting, zoo, bounce castle, and
music by Kim Yarson Band. Refreshments available. 11 a.m.
Ghost Tour, Princeton Tour
Company, Witherspoon and Nassau streets, 609-902-3637. www.princetontourcompany.com. $20.
8 p.m.
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Pi Fight in Hinds Plaza
N
icole Cochran of West
Windsor, the newest member of the Pi Fight Band, will be
performing at Witherspoon
Grill’s Harvest and Music Festival in Princeton on Sunday, October 7. The annual event benefits
Trenton Area Soup Kitchen. Admission is free.
Attendees celebrate fall and
enjoy live music, food from
Witherspoon Grill as well as local
vendors, and family-friendly activities such as pumpkin painting,
apple dipping, pie-eating contests, and more. A portion of proceeds from food and activity sales
benefit T.A.S.K.
Cochran was born and raised
in Elizabeth, Pennsylvania, a suburb of Pittsburgh. She began taking piano lessons at the age of six
and organ lessons at the age of
ten. “I became more and more intrigued with the organ as an instrument I would like to eventually pursue professionally when, as
a teenager, I heard organists such
as Peter Richard Conte (Wanamaker, Philadelphia) play orchestral transcriptions on the organ,”
she says. “I was captivated by the
technical skill required to pull off
such impressive works.”
When she was 15 she studied
with Alan Morrison, chair of the
organ department at the Curtis Institute of Music and Westminster
Choir College. “He was one of
my most profound inspirations —
I used to listen to a CD of his constantly in high school,” she says.
She entered the bachelor of
music program at the Juilliard
School in New York City to study
organ performance when she was
17. She began working with
Grammy Award-winning organist Paul Jacobs — and began concertizing often on both the East
and West coasts.
She entered the master of music program at Westminster Choir
College in 2010 — to study again
with Morrison. “It was a dream
working with these artists, who
both were able to offer such a
high level of creative vision,”
says Cochran.
A West Windsor resident for
close to a year and a half, she
teaches piano and organ for a
wide range of students, from beginners to advanced, from age
five to adult. “I began my teaching career two years ago when I
moved to Princeton, and I don’t
think I’ll ever look back,” she
says. “I have such a passion for
teaching music to the next generation of musicians.”
Cochran was approached by
Steven Georges, the founder of Pi
Fight, at an open mic at the
Princeton Arts Council after she
had performed selections by
artists such as Regina Spektor,
Laura Marling, and Adele. “He
asked if I would consider being a
singer and keyboardist for his
band, since it had recently lost a
few singers,” she says. “I think he
was both pleasantly shocked and
a bit confused when I agreed to
his offer with such enthusiasm as
a ‘classical musician’ with a master’s degree.”
Other band members include
Ed Hermann from Lawrenceville,
Sam Stewart from Columbus, Eric Heller from Hamilton, Stu
Malakoff from Titusville, and
Garry Pearsall from Ewing.
“I was aware that this new pro-
Nicole Cochran
ject would bring with it a whole
new world of challenges as a classical musician — improvising
and memorization are second nature to rock musicians — these
are also two skill sets that are notoriously challenging for most
purely classical musicians,” she
says. “I was thrilled to accept the
challenge.”
— Lynn Miller
Harvest and Music Festival,
Witherspoon Grill, Hinds Plaza,
57 Witherspoon Street, Princeton. Sunday, October 7, Noon to 5
p.m. 609-924-6011. www.witherspoongrill.com.
T.A.S.K. is in need of canned
spaghetti sauce, canned fruit, microwavable prepared pasta, salad
dressing, individual servings of
Jello or pudding that do not require refrigeration, and juice boxes. Hygiene items needed include
toothpaste, toothbrushes, deodorant, razors, shampoo, and hand
and body lotion. They are also
collecting large plastic storage
boxes in which we will deliver the
food. Items may be dropped off at
Witherspoon Grill and Blue Point
Grill through Thursday, November 1.
Shopping News
Art
Wellness
For Teens
Ryan Maher, Catch a Rising Star,
Hyatt Regency, 102 Carnegie
Center, West Windsor, 609-9878018. www.catcharisingstar.com.
Register. $22. 7:30 and 9:30 p.m.
Book Sale, Princeton Public Library, 65 Witherspoon Street,
609-924-9529. www.princetonlibrary.org. Annual sale of paperback, softcover, and hardcover
books; DVDs; and CDs. 9 a.m. to
5:30 p.m.
Sports
Wah!, Integral Yoga Institute
Princeton, 613 Ridge Road, Monmouth Junction, 732-274-2410.
Yoga with savasana music and informal chanting from 11 a.m. to 2
p.m. Healing workshop from 5 to
7:30 p.m. Class, $30; workshop,
$35; both, $60. 11 a.m.
Teen Meeting for Summer Volunteers,
Princeton
United
Methodist Church, Nassau at
Vandeventer Street, Princeton,
609-924-2613. Information night
for annual service trip for youth in
grades 9 to 12 with the Appalachia
Service Project. 7 p.m.
Fairs & Festivals
Art Exhibit, West Windsor Arts
Council, 952 Alexander Road,
West Windsor, 609-716-1931.
Opening reception for “Outloud: A
Collective of Washington, D.C.,
Abstract Artists.” On view to November 21. “My Kid Can Do That
— Or So You Think: The Aesthetics of Abstractions,” a gallery talk
by Julia Myers, a professor of art
and West Windsor resident. , 3 to
5 p.m.
History
Schools
Candle Making, Princeton Battlefield Society, 500 Mercer Street,
Princeton,
609-921-0074.
Demonstrations using both casting and dipping methods. Clarke
House and exhibits are open for
tours. Free. 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Open House, Hun School, 176
Edgerstoune Road, Princeton,
609-921-7600. www.hunschool.org. Information about the upper
school. Register by E-mail to admiss@hunschool.org. 1 p.m.
Comedy
Cultural Festival, Mercer County
Cultural and Heritage, Mercer
County Park, West Windsor, 609278-2712. www.mercercounty.org. Celebrate diverse cultures
through traditional food, cultural
music, and dance performances.
Work by artists exploring the art
heritage of culture include Mexican, Chinese, Indian, Polish, Jamaican, Irish, African American,
Greek, Puerto Rican, and Italian.
Rain date is Sunday, October 14.
Free admission and parking. 11
a.m. to 6 p.m.
Performers include Philadelphia
Mandolin and Guitar Ensemble,
NogBhoys, Sabrosongo, Odessa
Klezmer BAnd, Son 7, Chin Yun
Chorus. Spook Handy is emcee
for the event. Art representing
Egypt, China, Germany, West
Africa, and Guatemala.
Food & Dining
Harvest Celebration, Whole
Foods Market, Windsor Green
Shopping Center, West Windsor,
609-799-2919. www.wholefoods.com. Sample curried butternut
soup and pumpkin bread pudding.
Decorate a Halloween pumpkin.
Free. Noon.
Farm Markets
West Windsor Community Farmers’ Market, Vaughn Drive Parking Lot, Princeton Junction Train
Station, 609-933-4452. www.westwindsorfarmersmarket.org.
Produce, flowers, baked goods,
and music. 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Open House, Princeton Skating
Club, Rink, Princeton Day School,
650 Great Road, Princeton. www.princetonskatingclub.org. Information about group and private
lessons for adults and children of
all ages and abilities. Free ice
time. Skate rentals available.
11:15 a.m. to 1:15 p.m.
Sports
Princeton Football, Princeton
Stadium, 609-258-3538. Brown.
Noon.
Sports for Causes
Tennis Party, Eden Autism Services, Princeton Day School, 609987-0099. www.edenautism.org.
Tennis round robin with professional players and top ranked juniors from the area. Exhibition. Instruction for adults and children.
$25 donation includes a t-shirt.
The event is organized by Samantha Asch, a senior at PDS. E-mail
sasch@pds.org for information. 1
to 5 p.m.
Sunday
October 14
On Stage
Next to Normal, Kelsey Theater,
Mercer County Community College, 1200 Old Trenton Road,
West Windsor, 609-570-3333.
Musical. Presented by Pierrot Productions. $18. 2 p.m.
Dancing
Ballroom Blitz, Central Jersey
Dance Society, Suzanne Patterson Center, 45 Stockton Street,
Princeton, 609-945-1883. Waltz
with Candace Woodward-Clough
followed by social dance. No partner needed. Refreshments. $12. 4
p.m.
Literati
Poetry Basics Workshop, Center
for Relaxation and Healing, 666
Plainsboro Road, Suite 635,
Plainsboro, 609-750-7432. Tap into your inner poet with Conny
Jasper. Bring a journal or notebook. Register. $25. 11 a.m. to
1:30 p.m.
Classical Music
Westminster Community Orchestra, Westminster Conservatory, Princeton Presbyterian
Church, Meadow Road, West
Windsor, 609-258-9220. “Music
Moves and Takes Us Places,” a
family concert with works by Bach,
Beethoven, Elgar, and RimskyKorsakov. Also performance by
students in the Conservatory
Suzuki violin program. Conducted
by Ruth Ochs. $15. 3 p.m.
Faith
Friendship
Circle,
Mercer
Friends, Brunswick Zone Carolier, 790 Route 1, North Brunswick,
609-683-7240. Bowling for Jewish
adults with special needs. Register. $5. 6 p.m.
Open House, Historical Society
of West Windsor, Schenck
House, 50 Southfield Road, West
Windsor, 609-799-1278. Selfguided tour of 1790-1830 farmhouse with rooms decorated in
various periods, an exhibit of West
Windsor history, and more. The
English-Dutch barn, outhouse,
one room schoolhouse, corn crib,
and other farm buildings on view.
Donations welcome. 1 to 4 p.m.
Art Exhibit, Ellarslie, Trenton
City Museum, Cadwalader Park,
609-989-3632. Gallery walk with
Francois Guillemin of West Windsor in conjunction with “Naturally
Man-Made, in Full View: The Art of
Le Corbeau,” a retrospective featuring 53 sculptural items from a
lifetime of art making. 2 p.m.
Walking Tour, Historical Society
of Princeton, Bainbridge House,
158 Nassau Street, Princeton,
609-921-6748. Two-hour walking
tour of downtown Princeton and
Princeton University. $7; $4 for
ages 6 to 12. 2 to 4 p.m.
For Parents
Parenting Workshop, West Windsor Library, 333 North Post Road,
609-799-0462. “Parenting with Joy
and Wisdom” presented by Shaheen Hamid, certified parenting
and relationships coach. 2 p.m.
Open House, Princeton Junior
School, 90 Fackler Road, Lawrenceville, 609-924-8126. Admissions information for age two
through grade five. 2 to 3:30 p.m.
Shopping News
Book Sale, Princeton Public Library, 65 Witherspoon Street,
609-924-9529. Annual sale of paperback, softcover, and hardcover
books; DVDs; and CDs. Fill a bag
for $5. Half price sale from 3 to
5:30 p.m. 1 to 5:30 p.m.
Socials
Coffee
and
Conversation,
Grover’s Mill Coffee House, 335
Princeton Hightstown Road, West
Windsor, 609-716-8771. www.groversmillcoffee.com. “The Art of
Being Human,” an open public discussion focusing on the rat race
between technology, social media, and more. Moderated by
Franc Gambatese. 2 to 4 p.m.
Sports for Causes
Crop Hunger Walk, WindsorHightstown Area Ministerium,
Mercer County Park East Picnic
Area, West Windsor, 609-655-4731.
Benefit to alleviate hunger and support lifesaving programs around the
world. Register online. 1 p.m.
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THE NEWS
OCTOBER 5, 2012
Latter-Day Saints, from the left: Tim
Foley, his wife Catherine Foley (who
is also president of the Community
Middle School PTSA), Karey Dearden,
Paul Alkema (a Monroe resident who
is the bishop of the church), Sandra
Duffy (also the church organist and
choir director) and Kathy Bybee (the
church’s public affairs specialist).
Meet the Mormons
Continued from page 1
raised devoutly going to church
every week. After graduating from
the local high school, Dearden
studied accounting at Brigham
Young University, graduating in
1986. He does international tax
work for Ernst and Young with a
Photos: Suzette Lucas.
specialization in the insurance industry. His work took him to Houston and Bermuda before bringing
him and his family to West Windsor in 1999, where they live near
Mercer County Park.
His wife Lori is a homemaker
who grew up in Kansas City, Missouri, and first learned about the
church from a high school friend.
She was intrigued enough to turn
down a full scholarship to the University of Missouri and let
Brigham Young University know
she was interested but would need
financial help. “BYU gave her a
full scholarship and I met her at a
dance in college,” says Dearden.
Together, they have raised all
three of their children in the church
tradition of service. Brady graduated from WW-P High School South
in 2003. After his sophomore year
at West Point, he spent two years in
missionary service in Germany and
then returned to West Point, before
graduating number one in his class
in 2009. He is currently serving the
U.S. Army as a Black Hawk helicopter pilot in Fort Campbell, Ken- Princeton Chase neighborhood of day Saints, or LDS, more commontucky. Brooke graduated from West Windsor.
ly known as Mormon. Another big
South in 2006, and then also went
Sanja Dimic lives in the Penns misconception is that we don’t beto West Point. After his sophomore Neck area of West Windsor. She lieve in Christ, but we do and it’s in
year, he spent two years doing mis- was born in Bosnia, but grew up in the very name of our church.”
sionary work in Thailand, before Michigan. Her husband, David
Another big misconception is
returning to West Point where he Westbrook, is from South Africa that women do not hold positions
graduated this past May. He is now and the church was an important of authority within the church.
in Australia, earning his masters in part of his upbringing. So, too, was
Dimic, who is president of the
political economy. Daughter Brit- volunteerism and community ser- relief society, dispels that idea.
tain is a senior at South, and will at- vice, strong tenets of the church, “Our females give talks on the
tend Brigham Young University in which Westbrook puts into prac- stands during the service. We work
Utah next year where she will play tice as the director of recreational hand-in-hand with the leadership.
soccer.
soccer for the West Windsor It is not that we simply do what
Bybee, the oldest of seven chil- Plainsboro Soccer Association.
we’re told to do; we work together.
dren, was born in Logan, Utah, and
“I made it clear to him that I be- There is a true partnership between
like Dearden, also grew up in the lieved in God, but not in organized the husband and wife in a relationchurch. Her fareligion. It took ship, and our influence on our famther was a
five years of mar- ilies is much more important than
teacher and her
riage and two what is in the secular world.”
The church is officially
mother was a
kids before I
Another misconception: that
and scrupulously neuhomemaker,
joined,”
says Latter-day Saints worship Joseph
tral and doesn’t supwho had conDimic.
Smith or other prophets.
port Mitt Romney any
verted to the
She and her
“We see Smith as a human being
church. From
husband
have who had a role to play in the history
more than it supports
sixth grade on,
four children, 17, of the church,” explains Dearden.
Democrat Harry Reid,
she lived in a
15, 12, and 10, “We see Smith or the current
who is also a Mormon.
suburb of Salt
and all are home- prophet, Thomas Monson, as simiLake City. She
schooled. I asked lar to the prophets of the Old Testacame east to
Dimic what fi- ment, who were leaders of people.”
study psychology at Harvard Uni- nally tipped her from being a nonWhat about the misconceptionversity, from which she graduated believer into becoming one of the as perpetuated in such television
in 1978. She returned to Salt Lake church’s most dedicated members. series as “Big Love” about a man
City where she worked two years
She says it was when her oldest with many wives –– that Mormons
for a church-owned publishing son was two or three years old, at- still practice polygamy.
company, and then became a radio tending church nursery school, and
It turns out that the Church offinews reporter. But then she en- she became interested in finding cially disavowed polygamy in
rolled at Yale’s School of Organi- out what he was learning. “As a 1980 and currently excommunization and Management, earning mom I appreciate anyone who is cates any Latter-day Saint who
an MBA in 1982.
going to teach my kids about practices it. “While there may be
She met her husband, a bond an- morals,” she says. “I listened and some people who practice
alyst, on a business trip. He is not a discovered I didn’t disagree with polygamy, it is not allowed in our
member of the church, and before what was being taught, so from that church,” says Dearden emphaticalthey were married, they had to point I was open to listening to the ly. “They may be members of an
work out a number of issues re- missionary discussions about offshoot or splinter group or somegarding family. “In the church, it is whether I would join the church or thing completely different.”
believed that families can be to- not.”
A recent documentary stated
gether through eternity, so it’s enthat the temple in Utah, known as
couraged for people to marry withask what are the most common the Salt Lake Tabernacle, would
in the faith,” says Bybee. “He was
misconceptions about their reli- not allow non-Mormons to be inan atheist when I met him, and be- gion that bother them most. They side. Bybee responds: “While the
fore we were married, it took us tell me the first misconception is in church is a place to connect weekly
five years to figure out how we its name — the preferred name is with our spiritual selves, it is also
were going to raise our children. not the Mormon Church, but the busy and noisy and very social. The
Our sons are now 17 and 14 and Church of Jesus Christ of Latter- temple is set aside as a sacred space
both decided on their own to be day Saints.
to contemplate where we fit in the
members of the LDS church. Our
“The Book of Mormon is a piece universe and allow us to recommit
daughter is 12, and not at a point of scripture that we use. Mormon is ourselves to God. It wouldn’t make
where we are pushing the issues but not offensive, but it’s inaccurate,” sense to open it to the general pubshe goes to a Presbyterian church explains Bybee. “I prefer to tell lic, because that would undermine
on alternate Sundays when she is people that I’m a member of the its nature as a special place of quiet
not here.” The family lives in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter- reflection.”
I
Bybee further explains that the
Salt Lake Tabernacle, where the
world-famous Mormon Tabernacle Choir got its name, is basically
a historical building that is open to
the public.
As for the 500-pound elephant
in the room, the Republican presidential candidate in this election
year, Bybee explains that the
church is officially and scrupulously neutral and doesn’t support Mitt
Romney any more than it supports
Harry Reid, who is also a Mormon.
Bybee adds that she has tremendous personal respect for Romney,
who, while building his career at
Bain Capital, also served as an
LDS bishop (equivalent to a pastor) and was a stake president presiding over several area congregations near Boston.
“These are positions that involved tremendous responsibility
Interfaith Bridge
W
hile some communities
may be engrossed in political divisions during this election season, West Windsor is
pursuing a theme of “working
together” as a new community
group with representation of different faiths in West Windsor
has been established by Mayor
Shing-Fu Hsueh. The “Interfaith
Community Bridge” (or ICB for
short) has been formed as an outgrowth of the Human Relations
Council to build positive relationships and share information
on resources and programs
available to the community.
“It has been a dream of mine
to develop stronger relationships
within our community. I want to
ensure that we are carefully listening to our leaders in the faith
community to understand the
challenges and opportunities our
residents face,” said Hsueh.
The ICB to date consists of
faith leaders from approximately 15 different faith communities. Participants represent
Chabad of the Windsors, Congregation Beth Chaim, St. David
the King Church, the First Pres-
and time commitment. I’ve only
see the best people called for those
positions,” she says.
Dimic chimes in: “Not everybody who strives for those positions get them. Romney is a person
who desires to serve. This is what I
feel this country needs. The fact
that he thinks this way makes me
admire him. He is doing what he
believes is right, and he’s not doing
it for the glory or the power.”
Dearden says that the perception
that Romney is out of touch with
the American people is incorrect.
“As a bishop, he has worked with
people with the worst problems. He
understands people with needs,
heartache, and hurt and he will take
what he learned in the church and
apply it on a national basis to help
Americans become self-sufficient
and not dependent. Those are great
concepts to apply to this country.”
byterian Church of Dutch Neck,
the Muslim American Society,
NextGen Church, Prince of
Peace Lutheran Church, Princeton Baptist Church of Penns
Neck, Princeton Korean Community Church, Princeton Presbyterian Church, Straight Way
Baptist
Church,
Windsor
Chapel, and the Institute of Islamic Studies.
As for groups not yet represented in the ICB such as Mormons, Hindus, Buddhists, Sikhs,
and others, Hsueh says “hopefully whoever does not know
about the ICB will contact me [at
609-799-2400] or other participants. It is an open group.”
Hsueh also encourages those
who are not members of any religion to participate. “We are still
looking to be more inclusive.
Definitely all groups coming up
will be welcomed, but we also
want them to understand the
goals and objectives that we
originally established. So far I
have not heard that anybody objecting to the goals,” Hsueh said.
Jenny Lee, a West Windsor
resident and student at the
Princeton Theological Seminary, is the facilitator.
— Rikki N. Massand
OCTOBER 5, 2012
Plainsboro
Criminal Mischief. On Monday, September 24, police responded to a call about criminal
mischief that occurred at 500 College Road East. The complainant
told police that a communal computer monitor had been vandalized
by an unknown person on Friday,
September 21, between 1:30 and 4
p.m. A Dell computer monitor was
scratched diagonally across the
screen with a sharp object. Its damage was estimated at $250. Police
have no suspects in the case.
Drugs/Unlawful Possession of
a Weapon. At 1 a.m. on Saturday,
Continued from page 27
Monday
October 15
School Sports
For WW-P school sports information, call the hotline: 609-7165000, ext. 5134, www.ww-p.org.
North Girls Tennis. Vs. Notre
Dame. 4 p.m.
North Girls Volleyball. Vs. Colonia. 4 p.m.
South Girls Tennis. Vs. Steinert. 4
p.m.
Literati
Tutor Training, Literacy Volunteers in Mercer County, Pelletieri
and Rabstein, 100 Nassau Park
Boulevard, West Windsor, 609587-6027. Five week training sessions begin. Register. 10 a.m. and
6 p.m.
Author Event, Barnes & Noble,
869 Route 1 South, North
Brunswick, 732-545-7860. Mark
Di Ionno, author of “The Last
Newspaperman.” 6 p.m.
Author Event, Princeton Public
Library, 65 Witherspoon Street,
609-924-8822. www.princetonlibrary.org. Leora Skolkin, author
of “Edges,” “The Fragile Mistress,”
and “Hystera,” talks about Israel in
Fiction. 7 p.m.
Book Discussion, Princeton
Public Library, 65 Witherspoon
Street, 609-924-8822. Discuss
“Israel in Fiction” with author Leora
Skolkin Smith. In conjunction with
“The Fertile Crescent: Gender,
Art, and Society,” a part of a regional multi-dimensional project
focusing on contemporary women
From The Police Blotter
September 22, Officer Deon McCall stopped a Jeep Liberty for
speeding on Route 1 near Scudders
Mill Road. The driver, 18-year-old
Stephen Rivera of Trenton, was
unlicensed. McCall also found a
baseball bat between the driver’s
seat and the front door.
Backup officers spoke with the
other two passengers, 20-year-old
Chris Rodriguez of Princeton and
20-year-old Cyrus Bellamy of
Trenton. Police determined that the
young men had been smoking marijuana. Each person was found to
be in possession of marijuana. In
addition, Rodriguez had given police false information about his
identity in an attempt to hinder his
apprehension on a $5,000 arrest
warrant out of Trenton.
Rivera was arrested and charged
with unlawful possession of a
weapon and being under the influence of a controlled dangerous substance. He was also issued summonses for speeding, unlicensed
driver, and having a controlled
dangerous substance in a motor vehicle. Rodriguez was charged with
artists, writers, filmmakers, composers, and performers from the
Middle East. 7 p.m.
Classical Music
Singing Fun, Arts Council of
Princeton, Witherspoon Street,
Princeton, 609-924-8777. American Boychoir School and the
Princeton Girlchoir demonstrate
the basics of choral singing
through vocal exercises, singing
games, songs, and rounds. Audition for American Boychoir School
for boys in grades 3 to 6. Free.
1:45 p.m.
possession of marijuana under 50
grams, being under the influence of
a controlled drug substance, obstruction of justice, and hindering
apprehension.
Bellamy
was
charged with possession of marijuana and being under the influence of a controlled dangerous substance.
West Windsor
Criminal Mischief. Police investigated an incident of criminal
mischief at one of the Princeton
Junction train station lots as a resident of Bensalem, Pa., reported
that his 2009 Infiniti had an 18inch scratch on its driver’s door.
The estimated damage was $350.
Theft and Criminal Mischief.
On Sunday, September 23, a resident of Hamilton Township called
police after the rims and tires were
stolen from her 2012 Toyota SUV
that was parked at the train station.
The rims and tires were valued at
$2,600 and damage to the vehicle’s
brake rotors and dust shields was
estimated at $400. The woman told
Tuesday
October 16
School Sports
Call the hotline: 609-716-5000,
ext. 5134, www.ww-p.org.
North Boys Soccer. At Nottingham. 4 p.m.
North Field Hockey. At Allentown.
4 p.m.
Pop Music
North Girls Soccer. Vs. Nottingham. 4 p.m.
Rehearsal, Jersey Harmony
Chorus, 112 Main Street, Forrestal Village, Plainsboro, 732-4693983. New members are welcome. 7:15 p.m.
North Girls Volleyball. At Mother
Seton Regional. 4 p.m.
Rehearsal, New Jersey Gay
Men’s Chorus, Nassau Presbyterian Church, 61 Nassau Street,
Princeton. www.njgmc.org. New
members are welcome to join the
all inclusive, non-discriminatory
chorus. E-mail membership@njgmc.org for information. 7:30
to 10 p.m.
Politics
80th Anniversary Party, League
of Women Voters, Unitarian Universalist Church, 50 Cherry Hill
Road, Princeton, 609-658-6107.
lwvprinceton.org. Portrayal of Alice Paul by Taylor Williams of the
American Historical Theater. Refreshments. Free. 6:30 to 8:30
p.m.
Singles
Singles Night, Grover’s Mill Coffee House, 335 Princeton Hightstown Road, West Windsor, 609716-8771. Drop in for soups,
sandwiches, desserts, tea, coffee,
and conversation. Register at
http://ht.ly/3gd9w 6:30 to 8 p.m.
South Boys Soccer. Vs. Robbinsville. 4 p.m.
police she parked her vehicle at the
Wallace Road pay lot between 6
p.m. on Saturday, September 22,
and 3:12 a.m. on Sunday, September 23. No evidence was found at
the scene.
Suspended Driver/DWI. On
Wednesday, September 12, at 2
a.m. police attempted to stop a blue
vehicle traveling over 80 miles per
hour on Route 1 near Meadow
Road. Police chased the car into
Lawrence Township before the
driver, 32-year-old Frank Crusen
of Lawrenceville, stopped on
Darah Lane. Crusen failed sobriety
tests at the scene and was arrested.
He was issued a criminal warrant
for eluding police. He was also issued traffic summonses for DWI,
refusal to submit breath samples,
speeding, failure to maintain a
lane, driving while suspended, unregistered vehicle, unlicensed driver, and reckless driving.
Underage DWI. On Saturday,
September 12, at 2:19 a.m. police
stopped a silver Honda for failure
to keep right, failure to maintain a
South Field Hockey. At Lawrence.
4 p.m.
South Girls Volleyball. Vs. Old
Bridge. 4 p.m.
North and South, Cross Country.
Meet. Notre Dame, Trenton,
Steinert. Veterans Park. 4:15 p.m.
South Girls Soccer. At Robbinsville. 6:30 p.m.
Wellness
Soul Evening, Center for Relaxation and Healing, 666 Plainsboro Road, Suite 635, Plainsboro,
609-750-7432. Register. $25. 7
p.m.
Lectures
Retirement Planning Today, WWP Community Education, High
School North, Grovers Mill Road,
Marijuana Possession. On
Monday, September 17 at 1:38
a.m., police arrested 20-year-old
Allison Haase of West Windsor after observing her smoking marijuana in her parked car at the intersection of Bruntsfield and Galston
Drive. Police searched the car and
found marijuana inside a plastic
bottle in the center console and a
cut straw under the driver’s seat.
Haase was arrested and issued
criminal summonses for the use of
and being under the influence of a
controlled dangerous substance,
possession of marijuana under 50
grams, and possession of drug
paraphernalia. She was also issued
a traffic summonses for having a
controlled dangerous substance in
a motor vehicle.
Plainsboro,
609-716-5030.
www.ww-p.org. A two session
course for ages 50 to 70. Second
session is October 19. Register.
$45. 6:30 to 9:30 p.m.
Schools
College Financial Planning,
West Windsor Library, 333 North
Post Road, 609-799-0462. “The
Key to Paying for College.” 7 p.m.
Socials
Meeting, Rotary Club of Plainsboro, Guru Palace, 2215 Route 1
South, North Brunswick, 732-2130095. www.plainsbororotary.org.
7:30 p.m.
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Mercer County
Cultural
Festival
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October 13 11 am-6 pm
Mercer County Park, West Windsor
FREE ADMISSION RAINDATE OCT. 14 FREE PARKING
County Executive Brian M. Hughes and the Board of Chosen Freeholders
invite you to celebrate the rich culture and heritage of Mercer County,
Saturday, Oct. 13 from 11 am to 6 pm in Mercer County Park, West
Windsor. Enjoy live traditional dance and musical performances, ethnic
foods, heritage crafters, art demos, kids’ activities and beverage garden.
This festival is made possible in part by funds from the New Jersey State Council on the
Arts / Dept. of State, a Partner Agency of the National Endowment for the Arts.
Mercer County Cultural & Heritage Commission received an operating support grant
from the New Jersey Historical Commission, a division of the Department of State.
• Fun and Safe Environment
• Enrichment Programs
• Ages 2½ to 5 Years
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lane, and having a taillight out. Police noticed the odor of alcohol and
learned that the driver, 19-year-old
Ramel
Morgan
of
North
Brunswick, had drunk alcohol earlier in the night. Morgan was arrested and taken to headquarters
where he received summonses for
DWI, underage DWI, failure to
maintain a lane, failure to keep
right, and maintenance of lamps.
He was released with a future court
date.
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Attempted Burglary/Criminal Mischief. At 4 a.m. on Sunday,
September 24, a 58-year-old resident of Sayre Drive was confronted
by a burglar trying to break into the
bedroom window of his house.
When police arrived the victim
said that the burglar fled once he
saw that the resident was awake.
Investigators determined that
the burglar cut the window screen
and slid the bedroom window
open. Police say that other residents of Sayre Drive had seen the
suspect in the vicinity of the victim’s house.
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Rain date Oct. 14. Admission and parking are free.
For more information, call
(609) 278-2712 or visit www.mercercounty.org.
• AM & PM Classes
• “Lunch Bunch” Options
• Kindergarten Extension Program
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WW-P News Classifieds
HOW TO ORDER
HOME MAINTENANCE
BUSINESS SERVICES
INSTRUCTION
WANTED TO BUY
Mail, E-Mail, or Fax: That’s all it takes
to order a classified in the West WindsorPlainsboro News. Mail your ad to 12
Roszel Road, Princeton 08540. Fax to
609-243-9020, or e-mail class@wwpinfo.com. We will confirm your insertion and the price. Classifieds are just 50
cents a word with a $7 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.
Amazing
house
painting.
Interior/exterior. Wallpaper removal,
deck & fence refinishing, powerwashing, stucco/aluminum siding (painting).
Licensed and insured. Owner operated.
Free estimates. 215-736-2398.
Debra @ 609-448-6005 or visit www.vyours.com.
Math, Science, English, ACT & SAT
Tutoring: Available in your home.
Brown University-educated college professor. Experienced with gifted, underachieving and learning-disabled students. Web: http://ivytutoring.intuitwebsites.com Call Bruce 609-371-0950.
tail outlet is open Saturdays 10 to 4:00,
or by appointment.
OFFICE RENTALS
Plainsboro - 700 SF to 3,000 SF Office Suites: in single story building in
well maintained office park off Plainsboro Road. Immediately available. Individual entrance and signage, separate
AC/Heat and electricity. Call 609-7992466 or E-mail tqmpropmgm@aol.com
HOUSING FOR RENT
FOR RENT - PLAINSBORO - 1 & 2
BR units - $2250 - $2475. Call Gloria
Hutchinson, Owner/Sales Associate,
Century 21 Abrams, Hutchinson & Associates. 609-658-4383
CLEANING SERVICES
Window Washing and Power
Washing: Free estimates. Next day
service. Fully insured. Gutter cleaning
available. 609-271-8860. References
available upon request. 30 years experience.
HOME MAINTENANCE
A Quick Response Handyman: will
give you a free estimate for electrical,
plumbing, painting, repair or other project around your house. Please call 609275-6631
Continued from preceding page
Wednesday
October 17
School Sports
North Girls Volleyball. At Old
Bridge. 4 p.m.
South Girls Tennis. At Notre
Dame. 4 p.m.
South Girls Volleyball. Vs. Bishop
George Ahr. 5:15 p.m.
Health
Attention Deficit Disorder Lecture and Discussion, CHADD,
Riverside School, 58 Riverside Drive, Princeton, 609-683-8787. “Assistive Technology for ADHD: Using Technology to Enhance Learning, Effectiveness, and Achievement in Students and Adults with
ADHD Executive Function Disorders.” 7 to 9 p.m.
Wellness
Dance for People with Parkinson’s
Disease, DanceVision, Forrestal
Village, 116 Rockingham Row,
Plainsboro, 609-514-1600. A movement class for people with Parkinson’s disease and their caregivers.
Register. Free. 1 to 2:15 p.m.
For Parents
Breastfeeding
Support,
La
Leche League of Princeton,
Plainsboro Library, 9 Van Doren
Street, Plainsboro, 609-799-1302.
Information and support for mothers and expectant mothers. Babies are welcome. Free. 10 a.m.
Colleges
Info Session, Mercer County Community College, Student Center,
1200 Old Trenton Road, West
Windsor, 609-570-3795. 6 p.m.
Socials
Social Night, Princeton Corridor
Rotary, Metro North, 378 Alexander Road, Princeton, 609-9242032. 5:30 p.m.
HANDYMAN FOR ALL HOME REPAIRS. Specializing in kitchen and bath
remodeling, drywall, painting, ceramic
tile, wood flooring. 35 years experience.
New Jersey Licensed and insured. Call
908-966-0662 for a free estimate.
robthehandyman- licensed, insured, all work guaranteed. Free Estimates. We do it all - electric, plumbing,
paint, wallpaper, powerwashing, tile,
see website for more: robthehandym a n . v p w e b . c o m
robthehandyman@att.net,
609-2695919.
Sump Pump Failed? How can you
survive when your sump pump fails or
the power is out? Want to avoid a flooded basement? For a low cost plan,
please call 609-275-6631.
DECKS REFINISHED
Cleaning/Stripping and Staining of
All Exterior Woods: Craftsmanship
quality work. Fully insured and licensed
with references. Windsor WoodCare.
609-799-6093.
www.windsorwoodcare.com.
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
Thursday
October 18
COMPUTER SERVICES
Computer problem? Or need a
used computer in good condition $80? Call 609-275-6631.
TRANSPORTATION
Personal Driver seeking to transport
commuters, shopping trips, etc. Modern, attractive car. References provided. E-mail to gvprinter@gmail.com or
call 609-331-3370.
INSTRUCTION
Chemistry & Math Tutoring: FullTime HS Teacher (20 years). 2012
American Chemical Society Award for
Outstanding HS Chemistry Teacher.
AP, Hon, Reg. UPENN-Stanford Ed.
Call Matt 609-919-1280. Near Market
Fair, Princeton.
College Essay Writing Coach: Help
selecting topics and editing college application essays. Clients accepted to
top universities. Twenty-five years experience teaching writing to graduate
s
t
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d
e
n
t
s
.
College.essay.writing.coach.jd@gmail.
com. 609-902-2777
Learn to play the Cello. Special Introductory Summer Rates. 6 lessons for
the price of 5. Certified NJ and Suzuki
Cello Teacher. Now accepting new students ages 4-8. Call Alan for details.
609-558-6175.
E-mail
alanjamira@gmail.com. www.thecellolearningcenter.com
For WW-P school sports information, call the hotline: 609-7165000, ext. 5134, www.ww-p.org.
Seniors Group, Beth El Synagogue, 50 Maple Stream Road,
East Windsor, 609-443-4454.
“The Science of Happiness” presented by Davida Barr. Kosher
luncheon. Register. $5. 1 p.m.
South Girls Volleyball. At Colonia. 4 p.m.
North Girls Soccer. At High
School South. 5 p.m.
North Boys Soccer. At High
School South. 6:45 p.m.
Literati
Author Event, Barnes & Noble,
869 Route 1 South, North
Brunswick, 732-545-7860. Mark
Di Ionno, author of “The Last
Newspaperman.” 6 p.m.
Author Event, Arts Council of
Princeton, 102 Witherspoon
Street, 609-924-8777. Nikki Stern,
author of “Hope in Small Doses.”
Booksigning and wine reception
follows a talk. Free. 7 p.m.
Live Music
Open Mic Night, Grover’s Mill
Coffee House, 335 Princeton
Hightstown Road, West Windsor,
609-716-8771.7 p.m.
Benefit Galas
Harvest Dinner, Crawford House,
Marriott Hotel, 100 College Road
East, Plainsboro, 908-874-5153.
Annual benefit for the halfway
house in Skillman focusing on
women on the road to recovery
from drugs and alcohol. Silent auction. Register. $125. 6 p.m.
Health
Caregivers
Support
Group,
Alzheimer’s
Association,
Plainsboro Public Library, 9 Van
Doren Street, Plainsboro, 609987-8121. www.alz.org. 6:30 p.m.
Science and Math Tutoring: Biology, Chemistry, Algebra, Geometry.
Taught by college professor. 18 years
experience. Recipient of two national
teaching awards. Discoverygenics 609581-5686.
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 universities.
Reasonable rates. 609-658-6914.
WANTED TO BUY
Antique Military Items: And war
relics wanted from all wars and countries. Top prices paid. “Armies of the
Past LTD”. 2038 Greenwood Ave.,
Hamilton Twp., 609-890-0142. Our re-
HELP WANTED
Doctors Office Receptionist: Parttime, will train, apply in person. 33 State
Road, Suite B, Princeton, NJ. Wednesday, October 10, 1-3 p.m.
Executive assistant to Princeton entrepreneur - strategic communications
consulting business. Require good interpersonal, organizational, computer
and writing skills. Very interesting job,
interfacing with high profile clients in
Fortune 500 companies. Can work from
your home some days. Some travel.
Must live locally. Minimum 30
hours/week. Send resume to gliebhauser@rpllc.net.
Property Inspectors: Part-time
$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
609-586-1400,
jmoriarty@weidel.com; Princeton: Mike
609-921-2700, mike@weidel.com.
Curriculum Night, Bright Horizons, 201 Carnegie Center Drive,
West Windsor, 609-419-0105. Exploration of the curriculum for parents. 6:30 to 7:30 p.m.
For Seniors
North Field Hockey. Vs. Stuart
Country Day. 4 p.m.
Piano & Flute Lessons. Experienced
instructor,
M.A.
All
ages/levels/recitals. Plainsboro studio
or your home. 609-936-9811.
Free: Have your own business. No investment. No risk. Join today and receive $50 just for trying. I will help you
become
successful.
http://napower.biz/127091
http://vimeo.com/47564266.
Schools
School Sports
South Field Hockey. Vs. Princeton. 3:30 p.m.
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 609924-8282. Princeton Junction 609-8970032.
Hightstown
609-448-7170.
www.farringtonsmusic.com.
OPPORTUNITIES
Friday
October 19
School Sports
For WW-P school sports information, call the hotline: 609-7165000, ext. 5134, www.ww-p.org.
North Girls Tennis. Vs. Ewing. 4
p.m.
North Girls Volleyball. At JP
Stevens. 4 p.m.
South Girls Tennis. At Trenton
Central. 4 p.m.
South Football. Vs. Notre Dame. 7
p.m.
On Stage
Little Shop of Horrors, Kelsey
Theater, Mercer County Community College, 1200 Old Trenton Road, West Windsor, 609570-3333. Rock musical about a
plant from outer space with music
by Alan Menken. $18. 8 p.m.
Literati
Presentation Training Intensive,
Speaking That Connects, Eileen
N. Sinett Communications, 610
Plainsboro Road, Plainsboro,
609-799-1400. Program is designed for professionals who want
a career or business advantage.
Presented by Eileen N. Sinett, author of “Speaking That Connects.”
Register. $199 to $249. 8:30 a.m.
to 4 p.m.
World Music
Navratri
Raas
Garba
Celebration, India Foundation
of Metropolitan Princeton, WWP High School North, Plainsboro,
609-297-7116. Dance to live Indian music during the festival of nine
nights in which the goddess of
Shakti is worshiped. Garba is a
traditional Indian dance, lessons
available. Music by Deepak Kumar Satellites. $10. Refreshments
available. 7 p.m.
Good Causes
Benefit Evening, West Windsor
Moms Club, Princeton Junction
Fire House, Clarksville Road,
West Windsor, 609-638-2612.
Benefit for the pediatric wing of
Medical Center of Princeton at
Plainsboro. Dinner catered by
Texas Road House. $10. In conjunction with a collection of new
toys from Toys R Us wish list
31287567. Collections bins are at
the West Windsor Police Station
and PNC Bank in Princeton Junction. 6 to 8 p.m.
Comedy
Gary Delena, Catch a Rising Star,
Hyatt Regency, 102 Carnegie
Center, West Windsor, 609-9878018. Register. $19.50. 8 p.m.
Comedy Night, HA Comedy Productions, Grovers Mill Coffee
House, 335 Princeton Hightstown
Road, West Windsor, 609-7168771.
www.heleneangley.com.
Nikki Chawla, Jane Aquilina, Pat
Galante, and Lori Sommer. Helene Angley of West Windsor
hosts. Free. 8 p.m.
Author: Plainsboro
resident Nikki Stern
speaks on her new
book, ‘Hope in Small
Doses,’ on Thursday,
October 18, at the Arts
Council of Princeton.
Halloween Comedy, Rock Salt
Comedy Theater, Black Box Theater, Mercer County Park Ice Skating Rink, West Windsor, 732-6908694. www.rocksalttheatre.com.
Ages 13 and up. Flexible seating
in a cabaret-like setting. $10. 8
p.m.
For Families
Parents Night Out, West Windsor
Arts Council, 952 Alexander
Road, West Windsor, 609-7161931. www.westwindsorarts.org.
Drop off kids ages 6 to 10 at the
arts center for pizza and entertainment. Register. $30. 6 to 9 p.m.
Schools
English Conversation Class for
ESL Students, West Windsor Library, 333 North Post Road, 609799-0462. Focus on language
speaking skills, pronunciation, vocabulary, and general fluency with
Richard Peterson, the reference librarian. 1:15 p.m.
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