Hopewell Valley News 2017-02-24

SERVING THE VALLEY’S COMMUNITIES AND SCHOOLS SINCE 1956

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Harriet Tubman’s legacy

Voters pass fire budgets

Bob Brown reviews "Beyond the Oak Trees" at Crossroads. Also inside: Air Supply at the State Theatre.

Residents weighed in on their respective fire districts’ 2017 spending plans.

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Leaders ponder future of Bristol Myers Squibb sites

By Frank Mustac Contributor

Representatives from Bristol Myers Squibb met with local, county and state officials discuss the pharmaceutical and health products company’s gradual move out of its Hopewell Township campuses.

The company announced late last year its intention to fully vacate the sites by mid-2020.

Hopewell Township Administrator Paul Pogorzelski described the meeting held a few weeks ago attended by himself, Mayor Kevin Kuchinski, Committeewoman

Vanessa Sandom, representatives of Mercer County, and representatives of New Jersey Business Action Center as a way to “better understand [BMS’] planned departure.”

Bristol Meyers Squibb (BMS) has a primary facility on Pennington-Rocky Hill Road, which was formerly a Exxon/Mobil facility, and a facility on Carter Road, which had at one time been a Lexicon/ATT building.

There are currently a combined 1,259 BMS employees at both sites, but many of the those jobs would be moving to central New Jersey sites and Massachusetts.

BMS intends to put both campuses up for sale.

“Our understanding is that they have not yet engaged a [real estate] broker. They intend to do so

by March,” Pogorzelski said. “We also understand that they do not anticipate dramatic changes until sometime in 2019.”

The business administrator said the township asked that BMS provide at least one year of advance notice before any changes to the property could result in tax appeals.

According to the township, BMS currently represents about 5.9 percent of Hopewell Town-

ship’s tax base.

The mayor also talked about other “pertinent points” he took away from the meeting.

“There is a general development plan that governs that (primary) site,” he said. “It was really a hard-fought sort of discussion in this community [to craft that plan], which puts limitations on the growth of that campus that I think are still applicable in large measure, including measures such as protecting the viewscapes and also ensuring that any development is governed within that loop road.”

Kuchinski said the plan gener-

ally permits “up to 2.8 million square feet of office and laboratory space.” The location currently features 1.2 million square feet of such space today.

“We are working closely with representatives from the county in the economic development office and the planning office, as well as with the state,” Kuchinski said.

“The state has proactively approached us and has offered through its Business Action Center to proactively work with a real estate broker that is hired by Bristol Myers Squibb to help fill that space in a way that is consistent See BMS, Page 5A

Chinese culture takes center stage at local library

By Gabrielle Beacken Special Correspondent

Sounds from an ancient Chinese musical instrument known as a pipa recently reverberated off the book-lined walls of the Hopewell Valley Library, as members of the local Asian-American community gathered to celebrate a new year while sharing their language and culture with the general public.

For Dr. Gloria Yifeng Hu, director and coordinator of a Lunar New Year concert at Hopewell Valley Branch Library on Saturday, Feb. 11, it’s the music, language and culture of a people that allows them to connect to the world around them.

“By using music, we can bring people together,” said Hu, a communications professor at The College of New Jersey. “You don’t have to cross the barrier of language to understand - you can feel the culture. Music brings joy.”

Touted as the first event of its kind for the Hopewell Valley, the Lunar New Year concert and art show celebrated the holiday traditionally observed in China, Korea, Vietnam, the Philippines, Indonesia and other Asian countries.

According to Hu, the main theme behind Lunar New Year and the concert event was “reunion,” which she said reaches beyond the congregation of family into the congregation of diversity.

“I want to show the people outside the Chinese community ... that we appreciate what the community has to offer and we can give back,” she said. “We can devote our time, our talents and our passions and make the community better. We are a part of it and that is very important, especially now in this day and age.”

Themes of togetherness and sharing were emphasized from the Lunar New Year concert’s inception.

“Hopewell is our home,” Hu said in her opening speech. “We believe that diversity and inclusion make Hopewell a fun, dynamic and vibrant place to live, work and play.”

For two hours, performers of all ages played traditional folk songs honoring the New Year and Asian culture. The concert also Courtesy photo featured solo acts, as well as pieces by the Flowers and the Kids from the Flowers and the Youth Ensemble in Hopewell and the Church of Korean School at Trenton Youth Ensemble, Pennington Chi- performed a traditional Chinese/Korean song (“Little White Boat” in Chinese and “Half Moon” in Korean) See LUNAR, Page 5A in their respective language during the Lunar New Year celebration on Feb. 11.

Ample challenges await affordable housing applicants

By Frank Mustac Contributor

Committee members recently got an opportunity to learn the ins and outs of applying to buy or rent an affordable housing unit in town.

The issue is apt, especially now that a court in Trenton within a few months will determine the number of housing units for lowand moderate-income buyers each

town in Mercer County must make available to meet its obligation.

Edward Truscelli, executive director of non-profit Princeton Community Housing, spoke to Hopewell Township Committee members earlier this month, describing some of the challenges faced by people seeking affordable housing in the municipality.

“Even though the Council on Affordable Housing is essentially

defunct, the rules that govern COAH still come into play. Those are the uniform housing affordability controls. Those are state statutes,” Truscelli said.

Hopewell Township hired the organization to act in the roll of “administrative agent” - a term that comes from the Council on Affordable Housing, a state agency.

“Our role as administrative agent is to enforce the COAH

rules - the statutes - and facilitate the application process,” Truscelli said. “In our case, we are the administrative agent for the sales units in Hopewell Township, and the rentals.”

Whenever there is a sale on an affordable housing unit, Princeton Community Housing helps facilitate that transaction, Truscelli told officials.

Currently, there are 146 affordable housing “sales units” in

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the township that can be owned by individuals living in the units.

Most of those units, according to Truscelli, are located in Brandon Farms, though some are also located in Pennington Point.

There are a total of 187 affordable rental units in the township, of which 72 are in Project Freedom and 115 in Hopewell Gardens, according to Paul Pogorzelski, the administrator for See AFFORDABLE, Page 5A

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VALLEY NEWS BRIEFS Kindergarten registration

Kindergarten registration for the 2017-18 school year will begin on Tuesday, Jan. 3 for parents of children anticipating entering kindergarten in the Hopewell Valley Regional School district next fall. Children must be five years old on or before October 1, 2017, per Board policy #5112.

Registration forms are available online through the district website. Go to www.hvrsd.org and click on the “Offices/Registrar” link located under the Main Menu.

After completing the forms, call and make an appointment with the Registrar’s Office at 737-4002 ext. 2304.

Both the tax bill and license must have matching

addresses. Upon completion of this process, you will receive a packet of information regarding the school district, as well as additional reading material.

School visits will be held at the four elementary schools on the following dates: Bear Tavern on April 11-12, Toll Gate Grammar on March 28 -30, Hopewell Elementary on March 27 March 29 and Stony Brook on April 17-19.

Appointments must be made for the school visits when registering and will be given on a first-come, firstserved basis.

Bluegrass music at church On Sunday, February 19, the Titusville Presbyterian Church presents the Stonehearth Bluegrass Band for a

two hour musical concert from 6-8 p.m.

StoneHearth Bluegrass Band plays traditional bluegrass but has been known to put a bluegrass style on hits

by Simon and Garfunkle, The Drifters, The Everly Brothers and even The Beatles.

Food will be served 4 to 6 p.m. Cost of the concert is $15. Family pricing is available. For more information, please call the church office at 609-737-1385 or visit www.titusvillechurch.org.

New Jersey Native Americans On Sunday February 19 at 1:30 p.m. Jim Wade, former archivist and researcher with the N.J. State Museum will take participants on a journey back to the time of

the last ice age, when the earliest Native American peoples entered what is now New Jersey.

Discover how these Paleo-Indians lived and survived in an artic landscape filled with strange, prehistoric fur-covered animals, like the wooly mammoth, great elk, and musk oxen.

The program will include a slide presentation and Native American artifacts will be on display.

Center.

This service is provided by local AARP volunteers with special attention to those age 60 and over. Residents are asked to bring all relevant financial information for 2016, as well as 2015 federal and NJ tax returns to their appointments.

Appointments are required.

Call 609-737-0605, ext.

636 or e-mail rknechel@hopewelltwp.org to make an appointment or learn more information. For year-round tax assistance, visit www.aarp.org/taxaide.

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Starring Eva KastnerPuschl and Jessica Renfro, with Lynda Saponara, pianist, the 90-minute play with jazz, pop, classical music, and dancing is fun for all ages.

General admission is $15 at the door, children 12 and under are admitted free. All proceeds will benefit Trenton’s Turning Point Food Pantry. For more information, call 609-737-1374 or visit www.pumcnj.com. The church is located at 60 S. Main St., Pennington.

Comedy Night

Pancake dinner

On Tuesday, Feb. 21 from 11 a.m to 1 p.m. at the Hopewell Valley Senior Center, 395 Reading Street, Pennington, come celebrate Black History Month.

We will learn about the African American presence in the Hopewell Valley Region as far back as the Revolutionary War. Local residents Beverly Mills, Elaine and John Buck will speak about the history in our area and the Sourland Mountains as far back as they have been able to trace.

Three hilarious comics will take center stage on Friday, Feb. 24 at 7 p.m. for a fundraising comedy night at the Pennington Firehouse.

All proceeds benefit the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society.

Attendees are welcome to BYOB, though snacks and soft drinks will be provided. Tickets are $25 in advance and $30 at the door.

Space at the firehouse is limited, so email JAM4aCure@gmail.com to request advance seating.

On Tuesday, February 28 from 6:00-7:30 pm, Pennington United Methodist Church will host a Fat Tuesday Pancake Dinner. Pay what you like. Freewill donations will be accepted to support the Turning Point Food Pantry in Trenton.

AARP Tax Aide

Performance to benefit pantry

African American life in the Sourlands

AARP Tax-Aide volunteers will be available to help Hopewell Valley residents prepare tax returns and answer tax questions on Wednesday, February 22, March 8, March 29 and April 5 from 1-4 p.m. at the Hopewell Valley Senior

Library fundraiser

Osteria Procaccini in Pennington supports the Pennington Public Library.

Eat in or take out Sunday, March 5 through Tuesday, March 7 and 10 percent of sales will be donated to the library.

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Teacher creates program to Voters decide fire budgets discourage texting and driving

By Andrew Martins Managing Editor

By Daniel O’Mara Correspondent

Driving down the highway takes focus. Motorists changing lanes, existing road and weather conditions and speed limits require the attention of anyone behind the wheel. With the advent of the smartphone, law enforcement and community leaders are trying to figure out ways to reduce an often dangerous and deadly diversion.

At Hopewell Valley Central High School, one teacher is looking to tackle the problem by leveling a “Cell Phone Challenge” at his students.

Gary Nucera, a drivers’ education teacher at the school, said he created the challenge as a way to get teens used to the idea of keeping their smartphones in their pockets when driving.

“As you look at high school kids, on a daily basis the one thing they’re obsessed with are their cell phone.” he said.

For roughly five weeks starting back in January, Nucera’s program urged his sophomore drivers education students to last the entire 52-minute period without looking at their cell phones.

Upon entering the classroom, students would voluntarily turn in their phones to Nucera, who would then log how many students were in attendance and match it with how many

phones were turned in.

“They peer pressured each other,” Nucera said.

“There would be two, three kids at a time standing at the door before class reminding people to surrender their phone.”

Students also reserved the option to hold onto their phones for the challenge, but they would receive a “Nucitation,” a faux-citation that followed the same guidelines as the actual police citation for cellphone use while driving.

Staying true to the real world, Nucera said the threat of a citation turned the classroom into a courtroom, with pupils playing a jury to either convict or acquit the violator.

“A lot of kids were cheering for a trial, because they wanted to convict somebody,” joked Nucera.

Two of Nucera’s three drivers education classes were successful in completing the challenge and were rewarded with a pizza party.

Likewise, Nucera was praised by the school administrative team for spearheading the district’s initiative to also limit cellphone use in classrooms.

“When [Nucera] informed me about the cell phone challenge, I said ‘this is fantastic,’” Hopewell Valley Central High School Principal Tana Smith said.

“It’s everything we are trying to teach the kids.”

The district’s push to limit cellphone use in the class was instituted after the

school gave students access

Voters in the Hopewell Google Chromebooks, since Valley area recently headed officials said they effec- to the polls to vote in their tively eliminated the need municipality’s respective for smartphones and other fire elections, deciding everything from new comdevices that became an even missioners to budgets for bigger distraction. operations in 2017.

Elections were held on “We asked each teacher Saturday in Hopewell to come up with their own Township, Hopewell Borclassroom procedure for ough and Pennington Borcellphones,” Hopewell Val- ough.

The following sections ley School District Superinoutline the results of the tendent Thomas Smith said.

2017 fire elections in each “I thought [the cellphone community, along with inchallenge] was such a fun formation on proposed refand creative way of under- erendum questions and fire commissioner races. score, not only the distracHopewell Township tion, but the safety.”

A more than $3.8 million In fact, Nucera is not a fire budget for Hopewell stranger to creative class- Township was approved by voters last weekend, with room teaching techniques.

172 votes cast in favor of the spending plan and 107 votes against.

This year’s budget marks a nearly $78,000 increase compared to figures from last year’s budget.

Officials attributed “an increase in administration and payroll costs” as a major factor to the uptick in spending this year, as well as the promotion of a fire official, association membership fees and other related costs.

According to information provided by the fire district, just over $3.4 million of the budget would be paid for by property taxes, marking an $87,000 increase. As a result, this year’s tax rate will go up to .086 cents per $100 of assessed property valuation.

Officials said the fire district opted to use

$265,000 of its Unrestricted Fund Balance, otherwise known as a surplus, to reduce the tax rate.

Despite the increase in its tax rate, the district reported to the state that the tax rate stayed under the state-mandated two-percent property tax levy cap.

Two three-year terms on the board of fire commissioners were also up for grabs in the election, with Erick Burd and incumbent Don Kintzel taking 170 votes and 141 votes, respectively. Joseph Lenarski, a fell short of earning a return to the board with 137 votes.

Hopewell Borough A $555,485 fire budget for 2017 was approved in a small voter turnout on Saturday, as 26 votes were cast for its approval and three voted against its passage.

See BUDGETS, Page 5A

This year in his driving course, he conducted an activity that involves what he calls “close call cards.” During this exercise, students figure out how long their favorite phone task will keep their eyes off the road and then walk the hallways blindfolded for that amount of time.

“Most of it is scare tactics,” Nucera admitted. “But driving is such a privilege in the first place, and so hard to do without a cellphone, that complicating it by having a cellphone is so dangerous.”

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STATE WE’RE IN

The Pines of March

By Michele S. Byers

Been to New Jersey’s Pine Barrens? If not, here are some great reasons to explore this incredible area this March.

The Pine Barrens are hiding in plain sight: a sparsely-populated region of 1.1 million acres within the nation’s most densely populated state. Millions of drivers skirt its eastern edge each year as they travel the Garden State Parkway through Ocean, Burlington, Atlantic and Cape May counties to shore destinations.

How about heading west instead of east upon exiting the Parkway? There is a world where nature and wildlife reign supreme, with hundreds of thousands of acres of preserved forest crossed by sand roads and teacolored streams, an astounding variety of rare plants and animals, and cranberry bogs, historic villages, and fields where blueberries were first cultivated.

Interested in learning more? Mark your calendar for the second weekend in March, which features back-to-back events highlighting the many reasons the “Pines” are a place like no other.

First comes the 28th annual Pinelands Short Course on Saturday, March 11: a full day of educational programs hosted by Stockton University in Galloway Township.

The Short Course is followed on Sunday, March 12, by Lines on the Pines, a free event celebrating Pine Barrens authors, artists and artisans.

This year’s Pinelands Short Course includes 38 presentations on the ecosystems, wetlands, wildlife, culture and history of the Pine Barrens. Attendees can choose up to four presentations: two in the morning and two in the afternoon.

For those who enjoy history and culture, the program includes the Jersey Devil’s origins in the Pine Barrens; the life story of Jeremiah Leeds, a “Piney” who once owned almost all of what is now Atlantic City; the ghost towns of the Pinelands; the historic village of Batsto through the years; and the Lenape Indians and their use of the region’s natural resources in everyday life.

This year’s Short Course also offers a half-day guided van tour of the Mullica River watershed, with stops at various wildlife habitats. The course features three on-campus field trips: bird species identification, a tour of Stockton’s ecologically managed forests, and tour of the campus’ biodiversity hotspots.

Lines on the Pines will follow on Sunday at the Renault Winery in Egg Harbor City.

Over 50 talented Pine Barrens authors, artists and artisans will be on hand.

The featured speaker will be bird carver Gary Giberson, entertainment will be provided by the Ruins of Friendship Orchestra, and there will be a special screening of an excerpt from the new film “The Pine Barrens” by David Scott Kessler.

Whether you’re a lifelong “Piney” or newcomer looking for an introduction, you’ll have fun exploring the unique geology, history, folklore and traditions of the Pine Barrens at these two great events.

Michele S. Byers is executive director of the New Jersey Conservation Foundation in Morristown. Michele S. Byers is executive di-

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Former mayor touts senate affordable housing bill To the editor: Senate, Number 2216 legislation is a very well, thought out modification of New Jersey’s Affordable Housing program for both those needing assistance and the 565 property tax burdened municipalities. This bill has been languishing in the Senate since May 2016.

On February 13, Senate President Sweeney and other Senators once again removed it from the agenda, refusing to take on their responsibility to address the issue that impacts every resident.

If President Sweeney does not wish to act on this legislation, what Affordable Housing plan does he have to offer to the citizens of New Jersey? If he has no plan, I ask him to bring Senate, No.2216 back onto the agenda for a vote on February 27.

If this bill is approved, the Affordable Housing program could move forward, benefiting all the citizens of NJ without significantly increasing our property tax burden.

Jim Burd Former Mayor of Hopewell Township

Lambertville Historical Society gives thanks To the editor: The Board of Trustees of the Lambertville Historical Society wish to thank so very many in our area for supporting our fifth Lambertville En Plein Air Fundraiser.

On Saturday, February 11 close to 300 people filled the Rago Arts & Auction Center to attend oursilent auction benefiting the Lambertville Historical Society and James Marshall HouseMuseum. Guests enjoyed food, drinks and live music, while bidding on 42 paintingsproduced by 25 New Jersey and Pennsylvania plein air artists. It was a great success.

Thanks to our event curator Ross Mitchell for hanging our paintings. Thanks, too, to themany restaurants that donated delicious food: Annie’s To Go Catering,

rector of the New Jersey Conservation Foundation in Morristown.

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coming out of Washington has been jarring,

Suzanne Gitomer President, Lambertville Historical Society and the LHS Board of Trustees

year. As Governor Whitman said, we are

but in New Jersey there is hope on the home front.

Two former New Jersey governors recently joined together to highlight the state’s

bipartisan tradition of protecting the environment and natural resources. Former ri-

vals Christie Whitman (R) and Jim Florio

(D) set aside political differences and

stressed the importance of electing a green Governor for New Jersey this November. If ever an issue should cut across political par-

ties, it’s the need to protect our air, water, and open space.

Numerous controversial new pipelines

are proposed in the state to carry gas and oil –dirty fossil fuels. Instead of moving

quickly to clean, homegrown energy like

wind and solar, our state is in danger of

falling behind. Pipeline supporters call gas a

“bridge fuel”, but it is really a detour to a

clean energy future. Pipelines delay renew-

able energy goals that are within reach – if we simply make the commitment.

This is a crucial year for New Jersey’s environment. It’s up to voters to raise these issues so candidates must act on them. With

both the governorship and the Legislature

up for election, we have a great opportunity

— an obligation — to make sure that clean energy and a healthy environment are campaign topics.

Let’s set an example in New Jersey this

“often looked on as a role model for other

states.” Despite challenges in D.C., we must hold our ground and lead the way in pro-

Voters must raise clean energy and safe environment issues To the editor:

tecting natural resources in the Garden State.

Tom Gilbert

Campaign Director for the New Jersey Conservation Foundation and ReThink

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Anton’s at the Swan and the Swan Bar, Caffe Galleria, Chive Café and Catering, Dish Catering at theLambertville House, Giant Supermarkets of New Hope, Hamilton’s Grill Room, Inn of the Hawke Restaurant, Jamie Hollander Catering, Lambertville Station Restaurant andInn, Liberty Hall Pizza, Logan Inn, Marhaba, More than Q, OwowCow Creamery, Rojo’s Roastery, ShopRite of Hunterdon County, The Mansion and Royal T’s at the Mansion, Whole Foods Market, Princeton, Zoubi’s, and Karla’s Restaurant of New Hope.

Thanks also to Holly Havens of Callaway Henderson Sotheby’s International Realty for donatinga tasting of chocolates from The Chocolate Box, and Kim Ward Bacso of River Valley Realty who donated two platters of sushi from Wild Ginger.

Thanks also to PageOne Creative Group and Wonderful World of Wine. We also thank Rago Arts and Auction Center for donating their lovely space.

Most of all, thanks to our participating artists, Paul Bachem, Carrie Barcomb, Al Barker, Aida Birritteri, Michael Budden, Jean Childs Buzgo, Larry Chestnut, Christine CathersDonohue, Susan Twardus Faith, Alan Goldstein, Joe Gyurcsak, Bill Jersey, Monique Kendikian-Sarkessian, Ryan Lilienthal, Carol Magnatta, James Magner, Catherine Martzloff, Nicole Michaud, Debbie Pisacreta, Stacie Speer Scott, Gerald Simcoe, James Steen, Susan Stefanski, Helena van Emmerik-Finn, and Jenn Warpole.

Fabulous music was provided by local musicians The Lifters.

Finally, thanks to all the volunteers and helpers for our silent auction. We couldn’t do it without you.

U.S. Senate Sen. Cory Booker (D), One Gateway Center, 23rd Floor, Newark 07102; Phone: (973) 639-8700; Fax: (973) 639-8723.

Washington office: 141 Hart Senate Office Building, Washington, DC 20510; Phone: (202) 224-3224; Fax: (202) 224-8378. Web: http://www.booker.senate.gov/ Sen. Robert Menendez (D), Gateway 1, 11th Floor, Newark, NJ 07102; 973-6453030. Washington office: 502 Hart Building, Washington, D.C. 20510; 202-224-4744. Web: menendez.senate.gov

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U.S. House of Representatives

Sen. Shirley Turner (D), 1230 Parkway Ave., Suite 103, Ewing, NJ 08628; 609323-7239. E-mail: senturner@njleg.org

U.S. Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman (D-12): 850 Bear Tavern Road, Suite 201, Ewing, 08628; (877) 874-4658; 126 Cannon House Office Building, Washington, DC 20515; Phone: (202) 225-5801; Fax: (202) 225-6025.

Web: https://watsoncoleman.house.gov E-mail: Visit http://holt.house.gov

State Assembly, District 15

Assemblyman Reed Gusciora (D), 144 West State St., Trenton, NJ 08608; 609-5719638. E-mail: asmgusciora@njleg.org Assemblywoman Elizabeth Maher Muoio (D), 144 West State St., Trenton, NJ 08608; 609-571- 9638; Fax: (609) 571-

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nese Instrument Ensemble, Zizhu Ensemble and Xinghai Ensemble.

Youth Services Librarian and Hopewell resident Briana Cahill said the Saturday event managed to draw people to the library who normally would not spend their afternoons there.

And though she recognized some of the younger performers as regular patrons at the library, Cahill said she got to see them in a new light.

“To see them perform in these songs and playing instruments that I didn’t even know they could play - it was really wonderful,” she.

“For me, it was great to see all the creativity, all the talent, and the poise.”

Following the success of a holiday-themed December performance by Hu’s Flowers and the Youth Ensemble at the Hopewell Valley Branch Library, the professor and the library decided to extend their collaboration.

“That just got the two of us talking about how we could do something for the Lunar New Year and how that would be a great chance to bring in all these different groups into the li-

Affordable brary and for the community to see the diversity and musical abilities of its community members,” Cahill said.

Traditionally, the Lunar New Year celebrates the reunion of family and friends.

For Hu, this year’s concert was about giving people of different backgrounds to engage in “learning and enjoying the experience - the differences and the diversity.

“I want their kids to grow up having a broader perspective. A global mindset,” she said.

West Windsor resident Emma Kim said the traditional Chinese and Korean folk and pop songs resonated with her and her child.

“One of the reasons I want to participate here is to teach my kid,” she said.

“He was born here and raised here. He doesn’t know much about the tradition I know. I want to have a connection with my kid about Korea.”

As a Korean-American, Kim said the Chinese song “Little White Boat” and the Korean songs “Half Moon” and “Magpie’s New Year Day” reminded her of her own family traditions celebrating the Korean New Year, also known as “Won-

dan.”

While Kim noted that most of the songs performed were Chinese and she was not familiar with the tunes, she said the songs’ themes transcend national and ethnic boundaries.

“We can understand each other’s traditions at an event like this,” Kim said.

Dr. Guy Nee, who has lived and practiced medicine in Hopewell for over twenty-five years, said the ability to participate in another culture’s celebration can be a powerful way of appreciating each other’s heritage.

“We can read about it, we can study about it, but it’s not until you actually witness it and have this kind of interaction and culture exchanges that we understand each other more,” he said.

As observers, both Kim and Nee hoped that more cultural opportunities continue in the Hopewell Valley community.

“I think what makes this country so great is its diversity,” Nee said. “Its uniqueness and diversity in each culture. The more we learn about each other’s cultures the better we are as Americans.”

Kuchinski also announced that the Hopewell Township Committee will hold a work session on Feb. 27 to talk about the future of the BMS sites, including discussions on the potential for affordable housing.

“It’s going to be an im-

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with the general development plan.”

One issue that arose after speaking with the state, the mayor said, was the fact that the property may be “a challenge to market ... to a single user.”

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moving forward, as well as for the school district and for

Pennington

and

Hopewell boroughs. We’re all going to potentially be impacted by this,” he said.

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According to Truscelli, the vacancy rate of the affordable rental units is approximately four percent.

The vacancy rate is less for the sales units, with six sales units on the currently on the market out the 146.

“Of those six, one is under contract, so hopefully it should be closing soon,” he said. “So about three percent of the sales units in the township are currently on the market. So that’s a pretty low percentage, I would say.”

In addition, Truscelli said there are 29 households on a waiting list, of which 26 qualify to purchase an affordable housing unit.

“Most of the people on the waiting list are for twobedroom moderate-income units,” he said.

Arnaz Yousafzai, also with the Princeton Community Housing organization, talked about the income ranges of people who would be eligible to apply for affordable housing.

“A household of four persons with an income in the low category of below $43,307 can apply for a two-bedroom low-income category unit,” Yousafzai said “For the moderate level, the maximum income allowable is $74,091. And for middle-income, it goes up to $185,220. That’s an example for a four-person household applying for a two-bedroom moderate-income unit.”

Mayor Kevin Kuchinski seemed surprised by the income level numbers.

“Let’s go even with the moderate category of $74,091 - that’s more than a number of our teachers and

other hard working professionals in the community make,” the mayor said.

Yousafzai responded by saying that the numbers are published by COAH and the state and have not been updated since 2014.

“One of the toughest things is when people come in and say ‘I only make this much and I can’t afford anything you’re offering,’” she said. “It’s sad. There really isn’t a good answer.”

Committeeman John Hart asked if applicants intending to purchase affordable units “have a hard time in Hopewell Township qualifying for one of those homes.”

“I think it’s not necessarily just Hopewell Township,” Truscelli responded.

“Everybody who applies for affordable housing has a challenge finding a mortgage.”

As a result of its passage, the 2017 fire budget for Hopewell Borough will have an estimated tax rate of .060 cents per $100 of assessed property valuation.

As for the fire commissioners race, both Greg Davies and Melvin Myers were elected with 28 votes each.

Pennington Voters in Pennington came out in small numbers to vote in an unanimous decision to approve the $575,187 fire budget for 2017.

In total, residents voted in favor of the spending plan, while none opposed.

The budget carries with it a $204,412 tax levy with an estimated tax rate of .041 cents per $100 of assessed property valuation.

The borough’s fire operations will largely be supported by an interlocal service agreement with Hopewell Township that will provide $274,775 in funding.

The borough is also moving to use $68,000 of its restricted fund balance, as well as $28,000 of its unrestricted fund balance, to cover the fire district’s remaining costs.

Four positions on the board of fire commissioners were also up for a vote this year, with all four candidates successfully earning a seat.

Brian Hofacker and Mark Blackwell were elected with 18 votes each, while William Meytrott and Robert Di Falco were elected with 17 votes each.

Budgets Continued from Page 3A According to information from the borough’s fire district, just under $352,000 of the budget covers the litany of operational and administrative costs associated with running the fire district.

The remaining costs stem from an annual debt service payment of $28,585, a $90,000 line item for capital appropriations and $85,000 for Length of Service Award Program (LOSAP) appropriations.

In order to support the newly approved budget, residents will kick in $195,394 in property taxes. The remaining revenues will come from $359,090 in municipal assistance and a $1,001 supplemental fire service grant.

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RELIGIOUS NOTES

St. Matthewâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Episcopal â&#x20AC;&#x201D; The church is at 300 S. Main St., Pennington, across from Toll Gate Grammar School. Sunday worship schedule is at 8 a.m. for Holy Eucharist Rite I and at 10 a.m. for Choral Holy Eucharist Rite II. The Sunday morning childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s program for ages 4 years through 8th grade, meets during the 10 a.m. service. Nursery care is also provided for children under 4.

The Rev. Barbara King Briggs is the rector. Questions? Call 609-737-0985 or visit www.stmatthewspennington.org.

First Baptist, Pennington â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Sunday services begin at 11 a.m. The Rev. Malik McKinley Sr. is interim pastor. The church is at the corner of Crawley Avenue and Academy Street in Pennington. For information, call 609-303-0129.

Pennington United Methodist â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Sunday services at the church start at 10:30 a.m. The Rev. Daniel Casselberry is pastor.

Nursery care provided for infants and children younger than age 4. Sunday school for adults and children age 5 and older starts at 9 a.m.

The church is offering a Shrove Tuesday pancake dinner on February 28 from 6:00-7:30 p.m. Pay what you likeâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;free will donations will go toward the Turning Point Food Pantry in Trenton. Ash Wednesday worship service will be held on March 1 at 7:30 p.m.

The church offers a variety of services designed to help those with special needs. It is wheelchair accessible via an elevator. Individual wireless hearing aids are available, as is handicapped parking. The church 60 S. Main St. has off-street parking.

For information, call the church office at 609-7371374 or visit www.pumcnj.com.

St. James R. C. Church â&#x20AC;&#x201D; The church is at 115 E. Delaware Ave., Pennington.

The chapel is on Eglantine Avenue. Masses are held Saturdays at 5 p.m. and Sundays at 8, 9:45 and 11:30 a.m. Daily Mass is held in the chapel at 9 a.m. Monday through Saturday. The sacrament of reconciliation is held Saturdays from 11 a.m. to noon.

The Rev. Msgr. Michael J. Walsh is pastor. Deacon Moore Hank, pastoral associate can be reached at 609737-0122. The fax is 609-737-6912. Nancy Lucash in the office of religious education/adult faith formation/RCIA can be reached at 609-737-2717.

Visit stjamespennington.org for more information.

Hopewell United Methodist â&#x20AC;&#x201D;The Morning Worship begins at 10 a.m.

on Feb. 26. Rev. Kate Hillis will be giving the morning message on the topic â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Reframing Worship - A Way of Loveâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;. A nursery is provided for infants and toddlers at that time.

The Adult Sunday Small Group meets at 9 a.m. Starting this Sunday a new study will begin led by Pastor Kate called New Testament: Incarnation.

Childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Sunday school meets during the morning worship service.

The church at 20 Blackwell Ave. offers a blend of contemporary and traditional worship styles. It is handicap accessible. For information, contact Pastor Hillis at 609-466-0471 or visit www.hopewellmethodist.org.

Hopewell Presbyterian â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Worship starts at 10:30 a.m. on Sunday. Childcare is provided during the worship service. The church is handicapped accessible with an elevator to all three levels.

Call the church office at 609-466-0758 or visit www.hopewellpresbyterian.org. The church is at the intersection of West Broad and Louellen streets.

Second Calvary Baptist â&#x20AC;&#x201D; The regular Sunday schedule is Sunday School for all ages at 9:30 a.m.; Sunday morning worship is at 11 a.m. Wednesdays, Bible study and prayer is at 7 p.m.

The pastor is the Rev. Michael Diggs Sr. The church at Columbia and Maple avenues can be reached by phone at 609466-0862. The fax number is 609-466-4229.

Calvary Baptist â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Sunday worship and Sunday school meets at 10 a.m.

Nursery is offered during worship. The Rev. Dennis Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Neill is pastor. Philip Orr is the minister of music.

The church is at 3 E. Broad St., Hopewell Borough, near the corner of East Broad Street and North Greenwood Avenue. A chair lift is available to the sanctuary. Call 609-466-1880 for more information or visit www.calvarybaptisthopewell.org.

St. Alphonsus R. C. Church â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Mass is celebrated Saturdays at 4 p.m. and Sundays at 8 and 10:30 a.m. Daily Mass is held at 7 a.m. Monday, Wednesday and Friday.

The Rev. Msgr. Michael J. Walsh is pastor. Donna Millar is the coordinator of religious education and faith formation.

The church is located at the corner of Princeton Avenue and East Prospect Street in Hopewell Borough. Questions? Call 609466-0332. For information, visit http://stalphonsushopewell.org.

Pennington Presbyterian â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Rev. Nancy Mikoski is the pastor. Child care is available during the

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service.

Sunday school for adults, young people and children starts at 9 a.m.

Sermon series about the â&#x20AC;&#x153;Sermon on the Mountâ&#x20AC;? continues. Seminarian Matt Nabinger will preach.

Call the church office at 609-737-1221 or visit www.pennpres.org or wee.Facebook.com/pennpres.

First Presbyterian of Titusville â&#x20AC;&#x201D; The church welcomes everyone in Christian fellowship on Sundays. At 9:30 a.m., Kids Connection classes will take place in the Youth Room, located in the Bannerman Building.

Morning worship is at 9:30 a.m. in the sanctuary with the Rev. Kenneth Good preaching. Immediately following worship there is a time of fellowship and refreshments in the Heritage Room. At 11 a.m. the Adult Education class will continue their study of Zechariah.

All events are free, unless otherwise noted, and open to the public.

The church is at 48 River Drive along the banks of the Delaware River. More info is at www.titusvillechurch.org, facebook.com/titusvillechurch or by calling 609737-1385.

Bethel AME Church Sunday service begins at 11 a.m. The pastor is Rev. Dr. Angela M. battle.

The Bethel AME Church is located at 246 South Main Street in Pennington. The phone number is 609-7370922. Visit the churchâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s website at bethelpennington.org for more information on future services and upcoming events.

Titusville United Methodist â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Sunday worship begins at 10 a.m. Sunday School is held for preschool children through fifth grade during worship; nursery is available for younger children. The Rev. John Morrison is pastor.

Questions? Call 609-7372622 or visit www.gbgmumc.org/titusvillenj. The church is at the intersection of Church Road and River Road (Route 29) in Titusville.

St. George R. C. Church â&#x20AC;&#x201D; The Church of Saint George, 1370 River Road (Route 29) Titusville, holds Masses on Saturdays at 5:30 p.m. and Sundays at 9 and 11 a.m.

Daily Mass is Tuesday through Friday at 7:30 a.m.

Sacrament of Reconciliation is Saturdays from 4:30 to 5:10 p.m. the Rev. Msgr.

Michael J. Walsh is pastor.

Sr. Dorothy Jancola is the pastoral associate. The religious education office phone is 609-730-1703. Parish phone is 609-737-2015.

Abiding Presence Lutheran â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Regular worship services are held at 5:30 p.m. Saturdays and 8:15 a.m. and 10:45 a.m. on Sundays.

Nursery care is provided during the Sunday worship service and Sunday school.

The church is at 2220 Pennington Road, just south of I-95 at the corner of Rockleigh Drive and Pennington Road. For information, con-

tact Pastor Becky Resch at 609-882-7759.

St. Peter Lutheran â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Worship services are held Sundays at 8 a.m. and 10:30 a.m. Contemporary worship is the third Sunday of each month at the 8 a.m. service only.

The church is at the corner of routes 518 and 579 in Hopewell Township. The Rev. Stephen Gewecke is pastor.

For more information about the church, call 609466-0939, or visit www.stpeternj.org.

With few exceptions, only religious institutions located in or serving Hopewell Valley will be included in this column.

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AT THE LIBRARIES

Events at the Pennington Public Library include: NoveList Information Session: Find Books That Match Your Reading Style: Finished a great book and looking for more? You can discover your next favorite read with the library catalog and our reader’s advisory resource, NoveList. Stop by one of our brief information sessions to learn how to browse books by genre, find a read-alike, and more. Sessions will be tailored to your specific needs. Participants will be entered into a drawing for a $25 bookstore gift card. Registration preferred: kha@penningtonlibrary.org.

January 11 - February 17, Wednesdays at 2 p.m., Thursdays at 7 p.m., Fridays at 4 p.m. Also by appointment.

Revolutionary Tea: An 18th Century Tea Experience: Why was tea so important in the lives of 18th century people that fashionconscious families posed for portraits with their tea sets?

Did Great Britain lose her American Colonies over “the cup that cheers”? Find out in this unusual costumed presentation of tea lore, history, songs, poetry, living history display and demonstration. Tea will be served.

Sunday, February 26, 3 p.m.

Ongoing: Adult book discussion group: First Thursdays at 2 p.m. Drop by the monthly book discussion group for conversation. Registration is not necessary; all welcome.

Too-Busy-for-Books book club: Second Tuesdays at 7:30 p.m. Designed for busy people, this club will read only a short work, one classic novel per month — nothing longer than 120 pages.

English language conversation sessions: Tutor Bambi Hegedus will lead relaxed and informal sessions on Wednesdays at 10 a.m.

Participants should have some knowledge of English.

Emphasis will be on learning practical phrases and will be determined by the needs of participants.

Color Me Calm: Research shows that coloring can be relaxing. Many adults in need of a break from stress are finding peace inside the blank spaces of a coloring page.

The library will have coloring pages and supplies in the New Jersey Room and to enjoy this activity as a way to de-stress or just let your inner child out.

Story Time with Ms. Kim: Treat your child and yourself to a morning out with rhymes, music, a small craft, and a read aloud that

brings books to life! Story times have many benefits for children including: hearing another adult read, watching other children get engaged in a story, and exposure to a wide variety of authors and writing styles.

Geared for children age 2-4, siblings and babies welcome. Wednesdays at 11 a.m., except last week of the month.

Brazilian Portuguese Story Time: For children ages birth to 3 years. Join us for some fun with Brazilian Portuguese stories, songs and rhymes led by local volunteer Ms. Patricia Veldink.

Last Fridays at 10:30 a.m.

Recipe Review Contest: Do you enjoy perusing cookbooks and trying new recipes? Starting in December, check out one of our many cookbooks, try a recipe and share your thoughts on a short review form. All reviewers will be entered to win a prize at the end of January. Thurs. Dec. 1-Tues. Jan. 31 Events at the Hopewell Township branch, Mercer County Library, at 245 Pennington-Titusville Road, next to Hopewell Valley Central High School): Learn to download: Register for a 30-minute session with a librarian for one-on-one guidance in downloading free audio and eBooks from eLibraryNJ, streaming free movies, TV shows, music and audiobooks from hoopla, accessing online periodicals with Flipster, or using Freegal to stream or download music or stream videos. To make an appointment, email avanscoy@mcl.org or call 609-737-2610.

Monday Night Yoga will be held on February 27 at 6:30 p.m. at the Hopewell Branch Library. Eliza Hammer teaches an eight-week series of yoga classes and all levels of experience are welcome. Participants should wear comfortable clothing and bring a towel or yoga mat. Class is limited to 15 participants. Class dates for the series are: February 27, and March 6, 13, and 20.

Registration is required.

Tuesday Night Yoga will be held at the Hopewell Branch Library on February 28 at 5 p.m. Nancy McCormack teaches an eight-week series of yoga classes and all levels of experience are welcome. Participants should wear comfortable clothing and bring a towel or yoga mat. Class is limited to 15 participants. Class dates are: February 28, and March 7 and 14. Registration is required.

Stop in the library, stretch your body and relax

your mind. Bring a towel or yoga mat. Class space is limited and registration is required, so call the library at 609-737- 2610 or register online at www.mcl.org.

The Hopewell Branch Library will be hosting Relaxing Art Fridays on February 24 from 1-2:30 p.m.

All are welcome to stop by for some friendly chit chat and to work on a nice, relaxing project. Color a beautiful picture, create a unique art journal, or bring a calming hobby of your own. You are welcome to bring a brown bag lunch or snack as well.

Stop by the Hopewell Branch Library on Saturday, February 25 at 2 p.m. with some friends for Board Games & Cocoa, our newly forming board gaming group. Come in out of the chilly weather and learn a new game, meet some new friends, and sip on some cozy cocoa. The library has some of the basics, but we encourage you to bring some of your fa-

vorite games.

Resume reviews are available by appointment.

Call Andrea Merrick at 609737-2610 to register for a convenient time for help in creating or reviewing your resume.

One-on-one help with library digital resources, like e-books, audiobooks and movies, is available by appointment. Call 609-7372610 or email avanscoy@mcl.org.

Those who have something to put in the display case should contact Karen Taylor-Ogren at 609-7372610.

If you have old Centralogues you’re thinking of getting rid of, the library will take them for its local history collection.

Get to know the borough better by joining the library’s activities at the Hopewell Public Library: Book Club: Meets the first Monday of each month at 7 p.m. at the library.

Copies of each month’s book are available for

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Cookbook Book Club: Meets the third Thursday of each month at the library from 7 to 8 p.m. As well as book discussion, each participant will choose a recipe from the cookbook of the month and prepare a dish to share at the meeting.

The meeting is free, but signup is required. Stop by the library to sign up for the meeting and pick up a copy of the cookbook selection.

Storytime: Every Monday morning at 10:30, preschoolers and their adult companions are invited to gather in the upstairs children’s room for stories, songs and activities.

Hopewell Public Library (609-466-1625) is at 13 E. Broad St. in Hopewell Borough. More information is available at redlibrary.org and on Facebook.

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HUNTERDON COUNTY SHERIFF'S SALE 3145 SUPERIOR COURT OF NEW JERSEY CHANCERY DIVISION, HUNTERDON COUNTY DOCKET # F-018449-14

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Execution for sale of mortgaged premises

Execution for sale of mortgaged premises

By virtue of a Writ of Execution in the above stated action to me directed and delivered, I shall expose for sale at public vendue and sell to the highest bidder on:

By virtue of a Writ of Execution in the above stated action to me directed and delivered, I shall expose for sale at public vendue and sell to the highest bidder on:

Wednesday, March 8, 2017

Wednesday, March 1, 2017

at 2:00 p.m. in the afternoon prevailing time, at the Sheriff's Office, 8 Court Street, Borough of Flemington, that is to say:

at 2:00 p.m. in the afternoon prevailing time, at the Sheriff's Office, 8 Court Street, Borough of Flemington, that is to say:

Property to be sold is located in the TOWNSHIP OF WEST AMWELL County of Hunterdon, State of New Jersey

Property to be sold is located in the TOWNSHIP OF DELAWARE County of Hunterdon, State of New Jersey

Premises commonly known as: 28 ROSE RUN

Premises commonly known as: 29 SEABROOK ROAD

Tax lot 5 IN BLOCK 11

Tax lot 11.05 IN BLOCK 60

Dimensions: (approx): 100 FF IRREGULAR 11.82 AC

Dimensions: (approx): 3.1600

Nearest Cross Street: STEEPLE VIEW COURT

Nearest Cross Street: BROOKVILLE HOLLOW RD. BEGINNING at an x-cut on large rock on the Easterly bank of Seabrook Road. Rock also marks the termination of Course No. 3, Joseph R. McQuard land. Recorded in Deed Book 802 pg. 907 at the Hunterdon County Clerk's Office.

The foregoing concise description does not constitute a full legal description of the property of which a full legal description may be found in the Office of the Hunterdon County Sheriff.

The Sheriff hereby reserves the right to adjourn this sale without further publication. The approximate amount due, on the above execution is the sum of $1,258,796.56 together with lawful interest and costs of this sale. A deposit of 20% of the purchase price in cash or certified funds is required at the Close of the sale. *Subject to any unpaid taxes, municipal liens or other charges, and any such taxes, charges, liens, insurance premiums or other advances made by plaintiff prior to this sale.

All interested parties are to conduct and rely upon their own independent investigation to ascertain whether or not any outstanding interest remain of record and/or have priority over the lien being foreclosed and, if so the current amount due thereon. SURPLUS MONEY: If after the sale and satisfaction of the mortgage debt, including costs and expenses, there remains any surplus money, the money will be deposited into the Superior Court Trust Fund and any person claiming the surplus, or any part thereof, may file a motion pursuant to Court Rules 4:64-3 and 4:57-2 stating the nature and extent of that person's claim and asking for an order directing payment of the surplus money. The Sheriff or other person conducting the sale will have information regarding the surplus, if any.

The foregoing concise description does not constitute a full legal description of the property of which a full legal description may be found in the Office of the Hunterdon County Sheriff.

The Sheriff hereby reserves the right to adjourn this sale without further publication. The approximate amount due, on the above execution is the sum of $534,197.25 together with lawful interest and costs of this sale. A deposit of 20% of the purchase price in cash or certified funds is required at the Close of the sale.

PRIOR LIENS/ENCUMBRANCES: NONE. TOTAL AS OF JANUARY 11, 2017: $0.00.

SURPLUS MONEY: If after the sale and satisfaction of the mortgage debt, including costs and expenses, there remains any surplus money, the money will be deposited into the Superior Court Trust Fund and any person claiming the surplus, or any part thereof, may file a motion pursuant to Court Rules 4:64-3 and 4:57-2 stating the nature and extent of that person's claim and asking for an order directing payment of the surplus money. The Sheriff or other person conducting the sale will have information regarding the surplus, if any.

FREDERICK W. BROWN, SHERIFF HUNTERDON COUNTY ATTORNEY FOR THE PLAINTIFF RAS CITRON, LLC HVN, 4x, 2/10/17, 2/17/17, 2/24/17, 3/2/17 Fee: $208.32 Aff: $15.00 HUNTERDON COUNTY SHERIFF'S SALE 3144 SUPERIOR COURT OF NEW JERSEY CHANCERY DIVISION, HUNTERDON COUNTY DOCKET # F-023194-13

FREDERICK W. BROWN, SHERIFF HUNTERDON COUNTY ATTORNEY FOR THE PLAINTIFF Fein, Such, Kahn, & Shepard, P.C. (973)538-4700 Dated: January 10, 2017 HVN, 4x, 2/3/17, 2/10/17, 2/17/17, 2/24/17 Fee: $215.76 Aff: $15.00 HUNTERDON COUNTY SHERIFF'S SALE 3154 SUPERIOR COURT OF NEW JERSEY CHANCERY DIVISION,HUNTERDON COUNTY DOCKET # F-024008-16

BETWEEN: U.S. BANK TRUST, N.A., AS TRUSTEE vs DOROTHY C. HARTEL, ET AL Execution for sale of mortgaged premises

BETWEEN: WELLS FARGO BANK, NA vs JASON EDWARD STRAUSS, ET AL

By virtue of a Writ of Execution in the above stated action to me directed and delivered, I shall expose for sale at public vendue and sell to the highest bidder on:

Execution for sale of mortgaged premises By virtue of a Writ of Execution in the above stated action to me directed and delivered, I shall expose for sale at public vendue and sell to the highest bidder on:

Wednesday, March 8, 2017 at 2:00 p.m. in the afternoon prevailing time, at the Sheriff's Office, 8 Court Street, Borough of Flemington, that is to say: Property to be sold is located in the CITY OF LAMBERTVILLE County of Hunterdon, State of New Jersey

Wednesday, March 22, 2017 at 2:00 p.m. in the afternoon prevailing time, at the Sheriff's Office, 8 Court Street, Borough of Flemington, that is to say:

Premises commonly known as: 65 YORK STREET

Property to be sold is located in the TOWNSHIP OF WEST AMWELL County of Hunterdon, State of New Jersey

Tax lot 33 IN BLOCK 1081

Premises commonly known as: 1517 ROUTE 179

Dimensions: (approx): 110.69 FT X 18.44 FT X 110.72 FT X 18.44 FT

Tax lot 3 IN BLOCK 35

Nearest Cross Street: NORTH FRANKLIN STREET The foregoing concise description does not constitute a full legal description of the property of which a full legal description may be found in the Office of the Hunterdon County Sheriff. The Sheriff hereby reserves the right to adjourn this sale without further publication. The approximate amount due, on the above execution is the sum of $102,454.08 together with lawful interest and costs of this sale. A deposit of 20% of the purchase price in cash or certified funds is required at the Close of the sale.

Dimensions: (approx): 173.01 X 50.00 X 171.90 X 50.01

PRIOR MORTGAGE/LIEN: NONE. SUBJECT TO USA'S RIGHT OF REDEMPTION: Pursuant to 28, U.S.C. Section 2410C this sale is subject to a 120 day right of redemption held by the United States of America by virtue of the Internal Revenue Service Lien:i.

Department of the Treasury-Internal Revenue Service vs Dorothy C. Case, dated April 30, 2008 and recorded May 14, 2008 in Instrument #2008051400012690 in the amount of $41,731.85. *Subject to any unpaid taxes, municipal liens or other charges, and any such taxes, charges, liens, insurance premiums or other advances made by plaintiff prior to this sale. All interested parties are to conduct and rely upon their own independent investigation to ascertain whether or not any outstanding interest remain of record and/or have priority over the lien being foreclosed and, if so the current amount due thereon. **If the sale is set aside for any reason, the Purchaser at the sale shall be entitled only a return of the deposit paid. The Purchaser shall have no further recourse against the Mortgagor, the Mortgagee, or the Mortgagee's attorney. *** SURPLUS MONEY: If after the sale and satisfaction of the mortgage debt, including costs and expenses, there remains any surplus money, the money will be deposited into the Superior Court Trust Fund and any person claiming the surplus, or any part thereof, may file a motion pursuant to Court Rules 4:64-3 and 4:57-2 stating the nature and extent of that person's claim and asking for an order directing payment of the surplus money. The Sheriff or other person conducting the sale will have information regarding the surplus, if any.

Nearest Cross Street: SITUATED ON THE NORTHWESTERLY RIGHT-OF-WAY LINE OF RTE 179, 157.70 FT. FROM THE NORTHEASTERLY RIGHTOF-WAY LINE OF WOODWARD LN. The foregoing concise description does not constitute a full legal description of the property of which a full legal description may be found in the Office of the Hunterdon County Sheriff.

The Sheriff hereby reserves the right to adjourn this sale without further publication. The approximate amount due, on the above execution is the sum of $187,127.27 together with lawful interest and costs of this sale. A deposit of 20% of the purchase price in cash or certified funds is required at the Close of the sale.

The sale is subject to unpaid taxes and assessments, tax, water and sewer liens and other municipal assessments. The amount due can be obtained from the local taxing authority.

Pursuant to NJSA 46:8B-21 the sale may also be subject to the limited lien priority of any condominium/homeowner association liens which may exist. Surplus Money: If after the sale and satisfaction of the mortgage debt, including costs and expenses, there remains any surplus money, the money will be deposited into the Superior Court Trust Fund and any person claiming the surplus, or any part thereof, may file a motion pursuant to Court Rules 4:64-3 and 4:57-2 stating the nature and extent of that person's claim and asking for an order directing payment of the surplus money. The Sheriff or other person conducting the sale will have information regarding the surplus, if any.

FREDERICK W. BROWN, SHERIFF HUNTERDON COUNTY

FREDERICK W. BROWN, SHERIFF HUNTERDON COUNTY ATTORNEY FOR THE PLAINTIFF PHELAN HALLINAN DIAMOND & JONES, PC HVN, 4X, 2/10/17, 2/17/17, 2/24/17, 3/3/17 Fee: $223.20 Aff: $15.00

ATTORNEY FOR THE PLAINTIFF SHAPIRO & DENARDO, LLC (856) 793-3080 DATED: January 25, 2017 HVN, 4x, 2/24/17, 3/3/17, 3/10/17, 3/17/17 Fee: $15.00

HUNTERDON COUNTY SHERIFF'S SALE 3153 SUPERIOR COURT OF NEW JERSEY CHANCERY DIVISION, HUNTERDON COUNTY DOCKET # F-015917-16

Legal Notices NOTICE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that sealed bids will be received by the Clerk of the Borough of Pennington, County of Mercer, State of New Jersey, on Wednesday, March 22, 2017 at 10:00 AM, prevailing time, in the Office of the Borough Clerk, Borough Hall, 30 N. Main Street, Pennington, New Jersey 08534, at which time and place bids will be opened and read in public for a proposed Contract for Tree Removal and Stump-Grinding Services described below.

The proposed Contract will provide for the removal of twenty-eight (28) designated trees within the Borough’s public right-of -way on various municipal roads. A list of the specific trees and locations is available at the Office of the Borough Clerk. The removal of each tree shall be complete, including stump grinding and lawful disposal of all trees and debris.

Contractor shall be responsible for obtaining and coordinating all necessary utility mark outs. Contractor also shall be responsible for appropriate traffic control subject to approval by the Borough Director of Public Safety.

The bidder must be or provide for the work a New Jersey Certified Tree Expert, who shall be responsible for the proper conduct of the work. The bidder must establish a minimum of 5 years’ experience working in New Jersey municipalities and supply references from at least three (3) municipalities demonstrating proficiency in removal of shade trees involving sidewalk, traffic, overhead wires and underground utilities. The work shall not be subcontracted.

Each bidder will agree that it has familiarized itself with local conditions affecting the cost of the described work.

All work must be completed by September 1, 2017.

Bidders are required to comply with the requirements of N.J.S.A. 10:5-31, et seq. and N.J.A.C. 17:27-1, et seq., Equal Employment Opportunity. Bidders shall also comply with the requirements of N.J.S.A. 52:25-24.2, concerning Statement of Ownership; N.J.S.A. 52:32-44, concerning Proof of Business Registration; N.J.S.A. 34:11-56.25, et seq., the New Jersey Prevailing Wage Act; N.J.S.A. 34:11-56.48, et seq., the Public Works Contractor Registration Act; 42 U.S.C.A. 12101, et seq., Americans with Disabilities Act; and N.J.S.A. 19:44A-20.4 and Borough Code Chapter 15, Article One, Ordinance adopted March 12, 2007, Pay-to-Play.

The Borough of Pennington reserves the right to reject all bids in compliance with applicable law and to waive formalities of presentation or immaterial differences between proposals if it determines that it is in the public interest to do so.

The required proposal form and the form of the contract may be obtained at the Office of the Borough Clerk, Pennington Borough Hall, 30 N. Main Street, Pennington, New Jersey 08534, Monday thru Friday, between the hours of 8:30 AM and 4:30 PM (telephone 609-737-0276). A non-refundable payment of $10.00 must be made to the Borough to cover reproduction and processing. Checks shall be made payable to the Borough of Pennington.

BETWEEN: QUICKEN LOANS INC. vs ELSA M. SANTORO, ET AL

HUNTERDON COUNTY SHERIFF'S SALE 3139 SUPERIOR COURT OF NEW JERSEY CHANCERY DIVISION, HUNTERDON COUNTY DOCKET # F-024531-15 BETWEEN: DITECH FINANCIAL LLC vs BARBARA J. STIRES Execution for sale of mortgaged premises

Execution for sale of mortgaged premises By virtue of a Writ of Execution in the above stated action to me directed and delivered, I shall expose for sale at public vendue and sell to the highest bidder on:

By virtue of a Writ of Execution in the above stated action to me directed and delivered, I shall expose for sale at public vendue and sell to the highest bidder on: Wednesday, March 8, 2017

Wednesday, March 22, 2017 at 2:00 p.m. in the afternoon prevailing time, at the Sheriff's Office, 8 Court Street, Borough of Flemington, that is to say: Property to be sold is located in the TOWNSHIP OF WEST AMWELL County of Hunterdon, State of New Jersey

at 2:00 p.m. in the afternoon prevailing time, at the Sheriff's Office, 8 Court Street, Borough of Flemington, that is to say: Property to be sold is located in the TOWNSHIP OF EAST AMWELL County of Hunterdon, State of New Jersey Premises commonly known as: 5 SNYDERTOWN ROAD

Premises commonly known as: 139 ALEXAUKEN CREEK ROAD Tax lot 36

IN BLOCK 41

Tax lot 32 IN BLOCK 5.01 Dimensions: (approx): 260.90' X 158.00' X 246.84' X 175.00' Dimensions: (approx): 145.65 FT WIDE BY 117.55 FT LONG Nearest Cross Street: STONY BROOK ROAD Nearest Cross Street: QUEEN ROAD The foregoing concise description does not constitute a full legal description of the property of which a full legal description may be found in the Office of the Hunterdon County Sheriff.

The Sheriff hereby reserves the right to adjourn this sale without further publication. The approximate amount due, on the above execution is the sum of $207,957.18 together with lawful interest and costs of this sale. A deposit of 20% of the purchase price in cash or certified funds is required at the Close of the sale.

SURPLUS MONEY: If after the sale and satisfaction of the mortgage debt, including costs and expenses, there remains any surplus money, the money will be deposited into the Superior Court Trust Fund and any person claiming the surplus, or any part thereof, may file a motion pursuant to Court Rules 4:64-3 and 4:57-2 stating the nature and extent of that person's claim and asking for an order directing payment of the surplus money. The Sheriff or other person conducting the sale will have information regarding the surplus, if any.

FREDERICK W. BROWN, SHERIFF HUNTERDON COUNTY

The foregoing concise description does not constitute a full legal description of the property of which a full legal description may be found in the Office of the Hunterdon County Sheriff.

The Sheriff hereby reserves the right to adjourn this sale without further publication. The approximate amount due, on the above execution is the sum of $236,561.83 together with lawful interest and costs of this sale. A deposit of 20% of the purchase price in cash or certified funds is required at the Close of the sale.

SURPLUS MONEY: If after the sale and satisfaction of the mortgage debt, including costs and expenses, there remains any surplus money, the money will be deposited into the Superior Court Trust Fund and any person claiming the surplus, or any part thereof, may file a motion pursuant to Court Rules 4:64-3 and 4:57-2 stating the nature and extent of that person's claim and asking for an order directing payment of the surplus money. The Sheriff or other person conducting the sale will have information regarding the surplus, if any.

By Order of the Borough of Pennington Elizabeth Sterling, Borough Clerk

ATTORNEY FOR THE PLAINTIFF KML LAW GROUP, P.C. (609) 250-0700 DATED: January 5, 2017

FREDERICK W. BROWN, SHERIFF HUNTERDON COUNTY ATTORNEY FOR THE PLAINTIFF PLUESE, BECKER & SALTZMAN, LLC (856) 813-1700 DATED: November 10, 2016

HB, 1x, 2/24/17 Fee: $

HVN, 4x, 2/24/17, 3/3/17, 3/10/17, 3/17/17 Fee: $197.16 Aff: $15.00

HVN, 4x, 2/10/17, 2/17/17, 2/24/17, 3/3/17 Fee: $197.16 Aff: $15.00

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POLICE BLOTTER

The Hopewell Township Police Department reported the following incidents from Jan. 25 to Feb. 5.

The charges are no more than an accusation and all defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty.

A Lambertville man was taken into custody by police for driving while suspended, driving with no liability insurance and failure to exhibit credentials on Wed. Jan. 25.

According to police, Melvyn Threatt Peters, 57, was traveling on East Broad Street just after 10 a.m. when he was stopped by Officer Alexis Mirra, who found a no-bail warrant out for his arrest from the Mercer County Sheriff’s Department for failure to pay child support.

Officer Mirra spoke with the driver, confirmed he was the wanted person and placed him under arrest.

Mr. Peters was taken to the Mercer County Correction Center after being cited for driving while suspended, uninsured vehicle and failure to exhibit documents. *** Tashawn L. Ford, 29, of Trenton, was taken into police custody just before 10 a.m. on Sunday, Jan. 29 after an officer found a warrant out for her arrest from Trenton.

Police said Ms. Ford was stopped in her car while she was traveling along Route 29 for tinted windows when the discovery was made.

She was apprehended and posted bail at police headquarters after being

cited for the tinted windows and driving while suspended. *** On Sunday, Jan. 29, Glenn R. Schnerr, of Trenton, was taken into police custody for an arrest warrant out of Hopewell Township.

According to police, Mr. Schnerr, 46, was stopped in his car on Route 579 at 8:30 a.m. for having an obstructed license plate. The investigating officer, Christopher Vaccarino, located the warrant and placed him under arrest.

Mr. Schnerr was taken to police headquarters, where he posted bail and was released. *** Officer William Gaskill responded to a Bayberry Road address for the report of a burglary on January 30.

Sometime between January 27 and January 29, someone entered the vacant home and removed several copper pipes from the basement. The loss was estimated at $1,500. *** Three local teens were charged with various drug possession charges on Monday, Jan. 30 just after 4:20 p.m.

Sergeant Kevin Zorn stopped a car along Dublin Road after the driver made an illegal left turn from Route 546 on January 30.

While speaking with the driver, Tyler John, 18, of Pennington, Sergeant Zorn smelled the odor of marijuana coming from the car.

Further investigation found the occupants of the car, Tyler John, David Meltretter, 18, of Hopewell, and a 17 year-old male from Pennington, to be in possession of marijuana and drug paraphernalia.

The occupants were placed under arrest and transported to police headquarters for processing. Mr. John was charged with possession of marijuana (under 50 grams), failure to observe signal, possession of a controlled dangerous substance in a motor vehicle and probationary driver violations. he was later released and his case will be heard in municipal court.

Mr. Meltretter was charged with distribution of marijuana, possession of marijuana (under 50 grams), CDS within 1,000 feet of a school and possession of drug paraphernalia. He was later released and his case will be forwarded to the Mercer County Prosecutor’s Office for review.

The 17 year old juvenile was charged with the possession of marijuana (under 50 grams) and possession of

drug paraphernalia. He was later released to a parent and his case will be heard in Family Court. *** On Tuesday, Jan. 31, three local teens were charged with possession of marijuana and other drugrelated violations just after 1 p.m.

According to police, Officer William Gaskill responded to the parking lot of Heritage Court for the report of two suspicious cars.

While speaking with the occupants, Officer Gaskill could smell the odor of burnt marijuana coming from both cars.

Further investigation found Darrell Spencer, 18, of Pennington, and two 17 year-old males from Pennington in possession of marijuana and drug paraphernalia. All three were placed under arrest and transported to police headquarters for processing.

Mr. Spencer was charged with the possession of marijuana (under 50 grams) and possession of drug paraphernalia. He was later released and his case will be heard in municipal court.

One of the juvenile males was charged with the possession of marijuana (under 50 grams) and possession of drug paraphernalia. He was released to a parent and his case will be heard in Family Court.

The other juvenile was charged with the possession of marijuana (under 50 grams), possession of drug paraphernalia, disorderly conduct and possession of CDS in a motor vehicle. He was released to a parent and his case will be heard in Family Court. *** Officer Lincoln Karnoff stopped a car on Todd Ridge Road for a stop sign viola-

tion on Tuesday, Jan. 31 just after 9 p.m.

While speaking with the driver, Jason Greco, 20, of West Trenton, and a passenger, Francis Medina, 19, of Dayton, Officer Karnoff smelled the odor of marijuana coming from the car.

Further investigation found Mr. Greco and Mr. Medina in possession of marijuana and drug paraphernalia. A bottle of vodka was also found in the car.

Mr. Greco and Mr. Medina were placed under arrest and transported to police headquarters for processing.

Mr. Greco was charged with the possession of marijuana (under 50 grams), possession of drug paraphernalia, underage possession of alcohol, stop sign violation and possession of CDS in a motor vehicle. Mr. Greco was later released and his case will be heard in municipal court.

Mr. Medina was charged with the possession of marijuana (under 50 grams) and possession of drug paraphernalia. Mr. Medina was later released and his case will be heard in municipal court. *** Just after 4 p.m. on Tuesday, Jan. 31, Officer Christopher Vaccarino responded to a Wrick Avenue address for the report of criminal mischief. Sometime overnight, someone cut the wires to an exterior security camera. The damage was estimated at $100. *** Officer Christopher Vaccarino responded to the Patriots Crossing Inn for the report of a fight in the parking lot just before 12:30 p.m. on Sunday, Feb. 5.

Officer Vaccarino spoke with a 48 year-old female at the scene who stated that she and her boyfriend got into an altercation with two men at the bar. The altercation continued in the parking lot with one of the men pushing her and her punching the man.

The two men were gone prior to Officer Vaccarino’s arrival. No charges have been filed.

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CAPITOL NEWS AND COMMENT Assembly approves bill to protect public safety officers

Legislation Assembly Democrats Daniel R. Benson, Raj Mukherji, Elizabeth Muoio, Jamel Holley, Shavonda Sumter, Joann Downey, Pamela Lampitt, Sheila Oliver, Joe Danielsen and Benjie Wimberly sponsored to support workers who are attacked while supervising inmates or detainees received Assembly approval Feb. 16 Under current law, a corrections officer or juvenile detention officer who is seriously injured after a prison riot or inmate attack and cannot work does not receive any salary while waiting for workersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; compensation to take effect, which can take several months.

A recent rise in attacks on corrections officers highlights the need to address this gap in state statute, Benson noted. â&#x20AC;&#x153;These officers assume a significant deal of risk every day on the job, yet theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re excluded from provisions that make compensation available to other public safety officers,â&#x20AC;&#x153; said Benson (D-Mercer / Middlesex), chair of the Assembly Law and Public Safety Committee. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This legislation is about taking action to eliminate that inconsistency so that people who put their lives on the line arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t left helpless in the event of an attack.â&#x20AC;?

The bill (A3422) would establish a compensation program that would allow state corrections officers, juvenile corrections officers, juvenile detention officers, parole officers and probation officers who suffer bodily injury as the result of an attack by inmates, detainees or other persons under their supervision to continue to receive full wages until they begin receiving workersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; compensation payments.

In addition to workersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; compensation, the injured employee also would receive regular supplemental payments from his or her employer in an amount that, when combined with workersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; compensation, equals his or her net wage at the time of the injury.

The billâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s provisions also would apply to civilian employees who work directly with inmates or detainees, and to probation officers who suffer bodily injury as the result of an assault committed by an inmate, detainee, or person on probation while engaged in official duties. â&#x20AC;&#x153;As it is, a public safety officer who gets attacked on the job essentially is punished for something he or

she didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t do,â&#x20AC;? said Muoio (D-Mercer / Hunterdon). â&#x20AC;&#x153;By ensuring that these officers have financial stability after an attack, we can make it clear that New Jersey supports these vital professions and remove a deterrent to entering or staying in that line of work.â&#x20AC;?

State Human Services police officers, conservation officers and park police officers who suffer bodily injury as the result of an assault while engaged in the arrest or transportation of a suspect or person in their custody and civilian employees who work directly with inmates or detainees and suffer bodily injury due to an attack while performing their official duties also would be eligible for the compensation program, as would Palisades Interstate Park officers, campus police officers, and medical security officers under the supervision of the Department of Human Services.

The bill was approved 62-4-2 by the Assembly and now awaits further Senate consideration.

Bill to keep sexual predators jailed before trial introduced Suspects of sex crimes against children will be kept in jail while waiting for trial under a bill introduced by Assemblyman Ron Dancer.

The bill (A4637) amends the new bail reform law, allowing courts to order the pretrial release of some defendants. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The decision to hold a suspect should be based on the danger to the public and the possibility that more children may be victimized,â&#x20AC;? said Dancer (Râ&#x20AC;&#x201D; Ocean). â&#x20AC;&#x153;In the case of sexual attacks on children, it is imperative that we exercise extreme caution. For the sake of potential victims, it makes sense to keep attackers off the streets until the case is decided by the courts.â&#x20AC;?

Dancerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s measure increases the likelihood a charged suspect would remain held by authorities, and creates an option under the bail reform law for prosecutors to argue for pretrial detention.

Legislation addressing drug screenings for workers introduced Assemblyman Joe Howarth has introduced legislation allowing state, county and local govern-

ments to be notified when a public employee fails a screening for a banned substance. Currently, the information is not shared with government entities if the worker or prospect has a doctorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s prescription. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It is absurd that towns and counties donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have accurate information when on employee does not pass a drug test,â&#x20AC;? said Howarth (Râ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Burlington). â&#x20AC;&#x153;Whether the results are from illegal or legal use of narcotics, technically they are failing the drug screening. That person may be incapable of doing their job, and governments need to be informed to make informed decisions that can affect the safety of the workforce and the public.â&#x20AC;?

Public workers who drive or operate equipment are required to inform their employer when they are taking medications that slow reaction times or dull the senses. Howarth noted this self-reporting doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t often occur. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It is just common sense.

Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re providing an important tool so government employers can more efficiently monitor and deploy work teams,â&#x20AC;? Howarth added.

To protect medical privacy for employees, Howarthâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s bill (A4617) requires that the specific medications, test results, or any other health information regarding the individual be kept confidential by the drug testing laboratory.

Sen. Dawn Marie Addiego, Howarthâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s colleague in the 8th District, is introducing the bill in the Senate.

Lesniak calls for action against Jewish hate groups Reacting to President Trumpâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s statement condemning the recent increase in threats against Jewish community centers, cemeteries, synagogues and hate speech directed at Jews, Senator Lesniak called for action, not just words. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The president needs to direct his Justice Department and Homeland Security Department to focus on known Jewish hate organizations, infiltrate them and bring them to justice wherever and whenever possible,â&#x20AC;? said Senator Lesniak. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t afford to be passive in the face of antiSemitism and we canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t allow these forces of hate and bigotry to go unchecked. History has taught us the consequences of inaction and silence.â&#x20AC;?

President Trump responded this week to a growing chorus of calls

from Jewish leaders urging him to speak out against the recent spate of threats and acts of intimidation targeting the Jewish community in the United States. The presidentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s remarks came a day after the JCC Association of North America reported that 54 Jewish community centers have faced 69 threats, including three waves of bomb threats, since January. They also follow the vandalism of 100 headstones at a Jewish cemetery in St. Louis.

Sen. Lesniak, a recipient of the prestigious Man of the Year Award from the Jewish National Fund and the Public Service Award from the Jewish Education Center in Elizabeth, sponsored a Resolution his first year in the state Legislature condemning the Soviet Union for violating Article 13 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights for not allowing Jews to migrate in order to freely practice their religion. He also was awarded the prestigious Human Rights Award from Le Memorial de Caen, by the D-Day / Human Rights Museum in Normandy, France.

Greenwald blasts revocation of firearms measure Assembly Majority Leader Louis Greenwald (D-Camden / Burlington) issued the following statement on Congressâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; passage of House Joint Resolution 40, revoking the Social Security Administration rule that helps provide mental health background checks for firearms by requiring the agency to report beneficiaries with severe mental

health disabilities to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS): â&#x20AC;&#x153;This is a shameful move on the part of Congress. This is not about infringing on the second amendment rights of law abiding citizens, but about keeping guns out of the hands of those who might be mentally unfit. By revoking this rule, Congress is putting Americans at risk. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Over the past decade our nation has seen an epidemic of gun violence, from the mass shooting at Virginia Tech to the attempted assassination of Congresswoman Gabby Giffords. I met the families from Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Connecticut after the unimaginable tragedies they suffered. The loss of 20 children and six teachers impacted our nation and strengthened our resolve to protect our communities from gun violence. â&#x20AC;&#x153;By taking clear and decisive steps to keep firearms out of the hands of people who are a danger to themselves and others we can help prevent tragedies like these and keep our children safe from gun violence.

Common sense gun violence prevention measures, like the one Congress is currently trying to revoke, can help save the lives of innocent citizens across the nation. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This rule has limited scope, provides due process, and protects the privacy of the individuals involved.

Not only will revoking this rule put our neighborhoods and communities at risk, but it also prohibits any future administrative action on this issue.â&#x20AC;?

OVERREACHING An â&#x20AC;&#x153;overbite,â&#x20AC;? commonly referred to as â&#x20AC;&#x153;buck teeth,â&#x20AC;? is the most common malocclusion seen by orthodontists. About 70 percent of children develop an overbite. There are two types: A vertical overbite involves top teeth that overlap the lower teeth.

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Abigail A. Ramsay as Harriet Tubman with Ademide Akintilo (left) as Sampson and Elijah J. Coleman as Jasper in “Beyond the Oak Trees.”

‘Beyond the Oak Trees’

Crossroads Theatre brings Harriet Tubman alive in a way history books can’t

By Bob Brown laywright Kisha Bundrige’s “Beyond the Oak Trees,” at Crossroads Theatre Company in New Brunswick through Feb. 26, is an innovative multimedia journey. Alternating between present-day and historical settings, the play follows Harriet Tubman on her final mission with the Underground Railroad.

Tubman’s stature as a heroine of the abolition movement is well known. Her portrait was even proposed as a replacement for Andrew Jackson’s on the $20 bill. Along with her contemporary Frederick Douglass (like her, born into slavery in Maryland), she was most fearless in combatting the evils of slavery and in shepherding hundreds of slaves to freedom. That’s what we know from history books. But this play goes beyond the pages to bring Harriet Tubman alive in all her feisty glory.

Bundrige sets Tubman’s life against a modern story of two young men. Joseph (Elija J. Coleman) has just won a $20,000 government grant to write a history of the African American experience. This

is much to the chagrin of his friend Hodari (Ademide Akintilo), who feels he should have won the grant instead — after all, he introduced Joseph to the committee during the grant application.

Together, they begin their research at the Harriet Tubman Home for the Aged, which she established in 1908. The home in Auburn, New York, became part of a national historical park just last month.

While examining Tubman artifacts, the men debate what shape their history should take. Joseph is all for emphasizing African kings and Africa’s rich cultural heritage, while Hodari insists that the slave experience is foremost.

Hovering in the background while the men debate is Jessica (Abigail Ramsay), Joseph’s greatgreat-great aunt, who lived at the home until the 1930s. A ghostly docent, Jessica interjects her remembrances over the men’s discussion. It’s not immediately clear that Jessica is there only in spirit — not in the flesh. The tipoff is that the men ignore

her and talk over her chatter. You can miss some of the dialogue in the confusion.

Scenes shift back to Harriet Tubman and her times. With each time shift, Harriet (Ramsay in a dual role) emerges from darkness and stands in a pool of swirling light. She comes alive to break the suffocating confinement of the grave. It’s a very effective way to delineate past and present while keeping them inextricably connected. We are then in the presence of Jasper (Mr. Coleman) and his companion Sampson (Mr. Akintilo), two slaves in tattered rags. Their debate this time is about their conditions and the possibility of escape.

Despite its serious tone, the play can be funny, too. Moments of levity break up the tension. Mr. Coleman plays Jasper as a hesitant escapee. When he starts back to the plantation, Harriet threatens him with a gun. (Tubman was known to brandish a pistol as a spy for the Union forces.) He bumbles and trips in the open field, spraining his foot.

Harriet scoffs that he’d trip on blade of grass.

Both Coleman and Akintilo transform themselves, becoming different characters — their desperate and courageous forebears, as it were. Harriet keeps them from the dogs and shields them and their families from the searchers. She guides them to the safe houses in the Underground Railroad that will be their route north to Philadelphia and freedom.

In Crossroads’ intimate space, Gennie Neuman Lambert’s scenic design of silhouetted oak branches is coordinated with lighting and projections designed

by Devorah Kengmana to create the shifting scenes.

The night sky, the phases of the moon, along with a cascade of historical photographs combine with an eerily realistic sound design by Kari Berntsson to complete the landscape.

Marshall Jones, III, Crossroads’ producing artistic director, has masterfully guided this excellent cast in a compelling story that illuminates the past while grappling with the struggles that continue to this day. Ramsay is especially outstanding as the fiercely defiant Harriet Tubman, as well as the chatty Jessica — two distinct characters with personalities of their own. Bundrige’s script has given her some evocative, poetic dialogue to convey the spiritual dimension of a woman who was as visionary as she was proactive.

What an intriguing and imaginative play this is. Despite its small scale, it’s entertaining, provocative, educational, and dazzling to see — everything you could want in a theatrical event and more.

“Beyond the Oak Trees” continues at Crossroads Theatre Company, 7 Livingston Ave., New Brunswick through Feb. 26. For tickets and information, go to www.crossroadstheatrecompany.org or call 732-545-8100.

Also Inside: Air Supply at the State Theatre • Discover your inner poet

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By Keith Loria

The Ones You Love Air Supply will fill the State Theatre with romance and rock

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ith a catalogue rich with Billboard hits, including “The One That You Love,” “All Out of Love,” “Even the Nights are Better” and “Every Woman in the World,” Air Supply is a royalty when it comes to romantic anthems.

Since joining forces in 1975, the soaring tenor voice of Russell Hitchcock and the catchy tunes by Graham Russell have kept Air Supply in the hearts of fans for more than four decades.

“The songs are very simple, they’re easy for people to latch on to and they’re very deep songs,” Russell says. “We have a great band, Russell is a great lead singer and he and I have a great relationship because he doesn’t want to write songs and I don’t want to be the lead singer. Our positioning in the band is never threatening.”

While music snobs brand Air Supply as “easy listening” or “soft rock,” Russell says that in his mind, the band has always been a full-out rock band, and that’s obvious in the shows it does on tour.

“Audiences are very surprised; they probably think it’s very low-key and a soft rock sort of thing, but we’re very engaging and loud,” he says. “We go into the audience, we manipulate the audience, we maneuver them around and get them to do what we want them to do, which is enjoy the show. We get them to forget all their inhibitions so they can laugh, cry and dance and do what they want to do.”

On Feb. 26, Air Supply will be heading to the State Theatre in New Brunswick for a hit-filled night of music.

“People come to see us in the first place because we’ve had so many hit songs and if they don’t already know us for our live show, they are curious,” Russell says.

“These are songs that are much more powerful live. Once they come, the penny drops and they keep coming back, fortunately.”

Over the years, Russell notes technology has changed the way people experience concerts, and he’s all for the differences.

“Everyone has a cell phone taking videos and pictures, and I think that’s good,” he says. “In the old days, audiences would just sit, but it’s much more interactive now. We talk to the audience more, there’s always a meet-and-greet, and the concert becomes a whole evening and allencompassing.”

The genesis of Air Supply harks back to an Australian-based production of “Jesus Christ Superstar,” where Hitchcock and Russell first met. The two performers bonded over music and soon would be on their way to creating a sound that brought out the romance in fans.

“The fact that we weren’t kids when we first began, we were very level-headed, I think has helped our longevity,” Russell says. “Never in a million years did we think we would still be here today. I thought we would be good for four to five years max.”

He says the duo has learned a lot from being on the road for so many years together, and today’s concerts reflect those experiences for the better “It’s what we’ve done for so many years and we’re very good at what we do,” Russell says. “This is music that we love. We bring in new songs all the time, we change arrangements around, and I actually still enjoy playing all the hits. It’s a thrill to know after all these years that these songs mean certain things to the audiences and are important in their lives.”

Russell still writes every day, whether it’s a potential song for the band, poetry for his collection of a tune for a musical he may Air Supply's Graham Russell (left) and Russell Hitchcock will fill the be working on.

“If I write a song, I’ll do a rough version State Theatre with romance on Feb. 26. of it with guitar and voice on my phone and live with it for a week, and if I still think it’s lease its first-ever EP in 2017. It will con- what we’re doing after all this time and good, I will play it for Russell,” he says. tain six tracks with three new songs. There we’re having a lot of fun.”

“We have a new song that we just added to also has been numerous live albums and the set this week, and we’re always happy DVDs that have come out through the Air Supply will perform at the State Thewhen the audience responds well to some- years, so the new music is out there for fans atre, 15 Livingston Ave., New Brunswick, to hear. thing new.”

Feb. 26, 8 p.m. Tickets cost $35-$95; “Something to keep everything moving statetheatrenj.org; 732-246-7469.

Although it hasn’t had a new studio album out in a while, Air Supply will re- along,” Russell says. “We think we know

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By Hank Kalet

Find Your Inner Poet Glenis Redmond will lead poetry workshops at the State Theatre

She calls formal experiments like this “entry points,” the kind of things “people can do right away.” The goal is to have some of the writers find their own voices and to find what separates poetry from prose.

“A lot of people who are not poets, they are really writing prose,” she says. “You have to start somewhere.”

In addition to the haiku, she says she often works with list poems and other formal devices “not to make them poets, but to expose them to the poetry in their lives.” The workshops are laboratories.

“My job is not to have an end game,” Redmond says, “but just to let them have the experience.”

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he calls herself an “imagination activist,” a poet with a background in counseling who seeks to connect those she works with to their own “creative paths.”

That will be the focus of the workshop she is holding Feb. 28, March 7 and March 14 at the State Theatre in New Brunswick, a workshop designed to connect personal experience to the writing of verse.

“The theme is poetry as memoir,” says Redmond, the author of three books. “What I am asking them to do, or leading them to do, is to look at the material from their lives and to put into verse.”

Redmond says her first experience with writing poetry occurred in middle school, first when she was introduced to the poem “1968 Winters” by Jackie Early during a Black History Month program and then, two years later, when a teacher had her class participate in a journal writing exercise.

“I didn’t want to do it, but on the other end I never stopped doing it,” she says. “It was a life-changing, dooropening experience.”

Redmond describes the Early poem as her “initiation poem” — a phrase she borrows from the poet Edward Hirsch. She had read it and, without realizing it, internalized it.

“It was like a ticking time bomb that just kept going off with series of explosions,” she says. “When I picked up a pen, that poem was living with me. It had so much humor.

It was colloquial language, plain spoken, and you did not have to stand on the outside of it.”

She had a similar experience years later, as she explains on her website. She was diagnosed in 1992 with fibromyalgia, a painful musculoskeletal disorder, and was seeking ways to cope. Enter Lucille Clifton. She was watching Bill Moyers’ “Language of Life” when Clifton read “won’t you celebrate with me,” a poem that celebrates the strength of African American women.

In the poem, Clifton’s speaker asks the reader to join her in celebrating the shaping of a life, one created without a model, “born in babylon / both nonwhite and woman.”

The speaker asks, “what did i see to be except myself?”

She made her life up “on this bridge between / starshine and clay,” a life created and lived even though “everyday / something has tried to kill me / and has failed.”

Glenis Redmond’s Poetry as Memoir: Remember the Past workshops will take place at the State Theatre, 15 Livingston Ave., New Brunswick, Feb. 25, March 7, and March 14, 6-8 p.m. For tickets and information, go to statetheatrenj.org orwww.glenisredmond.com or call 732-246Poet Glenis Redmond wants to give writers the 7469.

Hank Kalet, a poet and journalist, writes the Artistic Litools they need to tell their own stories. cense column for TimeOFF. He is the author of As an Alien It was “a creative lightening bolt,” she wrote, that drove in a Land of Promise. His website kaletblog.wordpress.com her “to begin her journey as a poet and a teaching artist.” and his blog is kaletblog.com.

Her hope is that she can bring some of that creative energy to the people who attend her workshops. The process is simple: She starts with brainstorming and a series of prompts designed to engage memories. From there, she says, the students will experiment with craft, working both in free verse or open forms and in more formal verse.

“The purpose is to gaze inward, to be reflective and autobiographical, and to look at different aspects of their life, at the past, the present, and the future,” she says. “And then to experiment with the telling of their stories through verse.”

She has recently been working with the haiku, a highly compressed Japanese form that she views as being accessible to novice writers.

“I’ve been utilizing it as a form, because of the compression, and how it concentrates the telling stories through this compressed method,” she says. “We’ll be writing linking haiku, but breaking the rules at the same time. We’re not going to stay true to the Japanese form I’ve been playing with, making hybrids, with using long titles as way to link them.”

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Movie and times for the week of Feb. 24 through terson (R) Fri.-Sat. 1:40, 4:25, 7:10, 9:55; Sun.-Thurs. 1:40, March 2. Schedules are subject to change.

4:25, 7:10. Fences (R) Fri.-Thurs. 1:20, 7. 20th Century Women (R) Fri.-Sat. 4:20, 10; Sun.-Thurs. 4:20. Lion (PG13) Fri.-Sat. 1:50, 4:30, 7:10, 9:50; Sun.-Thurs. 1:50, 4:30, 7:10. Moonlight (R) Fri.-Thurs. 1:20, 7:10.

HILLSBOROUGH CINEMAS (908-874-8181): The Great Wall (PG13) Fri.-Sun. 12:25, 2:50, 5:15, 7:40, 10:05; Mon. 12:25, 2:50, 5:15, 7:40; Tues.-Thurs. 2:50, 5:15, 7:40.

A Cure for Wellness (R) Fri.-Sun. 12:50, 3:55, 7, 10:05; PRINCETON GARDEN THEATRE (609-279-1999): Mon. 12:50, 3:55, 7; Tues.-Thurs. 3:55, 7. Fist Fight (R) I Am Not Your Negro (PG13) Fri. 7; Sat. 1, 7; Sun. 1, 4; Fri.-Sun. 12:50, 3:05, 5:20, 7:35, 9:50; Mon. 12:50, 3:05, Mon. 2:30, 8:25; Tues.-Wed. 2:30, 5:30, 8; Thurs. 2:30, 8.

5:20, 7:35; Tues.-Thurs. 3:05, 5:20, 7:35. John Wick: Hidden Figures (PG) Fri.-Sat. 3:45, 6:45, 9:25; Sun. 1, 4; Chapter 2 (R) Fri.-Sun. 1:20, 4:10, 7, 9:50; Mon.-Thurs. Mon.-Thurs. 2:15, 5:15, 8. Oscar Shorts: Live Action 1:20, 4:10, 7. The Lego Batman Movie (3D) (PG) Fri.- (NR) Fri.-Sat. 4 p.m. Oscar Shorts: Animated (NR) Fri.Thurs. 1, 6. The Lego Batman Movie (PG) Fri.-Sun. 12, Sat. 9:15 p.m. Saturday Family Matinee: My Neighbor 2:30, 3:30, 5, 7:30, 8:30, 10; Mon. 12, 2:30, 3:30, 5, 7:30; Totoro (G) Sat. 10:30 a.m. Royal Opera: Il Trovatore Tues.-Thurs. 2:30, 3:30, 5, 7:30. Fifty Shades Darker (R) (NR) Sat. 12:30 p.m.

Fri.-Sun. 1:45, 4:30, 7:15, 10; Mon.-Thurs. 1:45, 4:30, 7:15.

Split (PG13) Fri.-Sun. 1:40, 4:25, 7:10, 9:55; Mon.-Thurs.

1:40, 4:25, 7:10. Patriots Day (R) Fri.-Sun. 1, 4, 7, 10; Mon.-Thurs. 1, 4, 7. Hidden Figures (PG) Fri.-Sun. 1:20, 4:10, 7, 9:50; Mon.-Thurs. 1:20, 4:10, 7.

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“Beyond the Oak Trees,” Crossroads Theatre Company, 7 Livingston Ave., New Brunswick. World premiere of play by Kisha Bundridge about the story of abolitionist Harriet Tubman, merging past and present along the Underground Railroad, through Feb. 26, $25-$55; crossroadstheatrecompany.org; 732-545-8100.

“American Son,” George Street Playhouse, 9 Livingston Ave., New Brunswick. Christopher Demos-Brown’s play about a mother and her estranged husband who go to the police station after their son, Jamal, has been pulled over and no explanation is forthcoming, through Feb.26; www.georgestreetplayhouse.org; 732-246-7717.

“Boeing, Boeing” Kelsey Theatre on the campus of Mercer County Community College, 1200 Old Trenton Road, West Windsor. Comedy set in the 1960s about Bernard who has an apartment in Paris and is engaged to three beautiful stewardesses, through Feb. 26. Performances: Fri.-Sat. 8 p.m., Sun. 2 p.m. Tickets cost $18, $16 seniors, $14 students/children; www.kelseytheatre.net; 609570-3333.

“Lost in the Woods,” Pennington United Methodist Church, 60 S. Main St., Pennington. A twist on Grimm’s Hansel and Gretel tale, starring Eva Kastner-Puschl and Jessica Renfro, with Lynda Saponara, pianist. A 90-minute play with jazz, pop, classical music, and dancing for all Dolf DeRovira’s “Spooky Train Station” will be on view in “Cell Phone Images Only” ages, Feb. 26, 4 p.m. www.pumcnj.com; 609-737-1374. at the Considine Gallery at Stuart Country Day School of the Sacred Heart, 1200 “Rumors,” Performed by Somerset Valley Players, 689 Stuart Road, Princeton, March 3 through April 13. The exhibit will showcase works Amwell Road, Hillsborough. Neil Simon comedy about glamorous guests who arrive at a dinner party, and find out by photographers from the Princeton Photography Club. An opening reception is their host is absent, March 10-26. Performances: Fri.-Sat. 8 scheduled for March 5, 2-4 p.m. An artists talk is set for March 7, 1-2 p.m. For more p.m., Sun. 2 p.m. Tickets cost $20, $18 seniors/students; information, go to www.stuartschool.org. www.svptheatre.org; 908-369-7469.

“Murder on the Orient Express,” McCarter Theatre, sented by Princeton University Concerts at Richardson AuCLASSICAL MUSIC 91 University Place, Princeton. Adaptation of Agatha ditorium in Alexander Hall on the Princeton University Christie’s classic mystery by Ken Ludwig, March 14 The Princeton Singers, Princeton University Art Mu- campus, March 2, 8 p.m. The program will feature works through April 2; mccarter.org; 609-258-2787. seum on the campus of Princeton University. Concert titled by Schubert, Shostakovich, and Dvorak. Tickets cost $10“As the Lily Among the Thorns.” Works from the Song of $50; princetonuniversityconcerts.org; 609-258-9220.

FAMILY ENTERTAINMENT Jerry Nowak Memorial Concert, Mildred & Ernest E. Songs by Brumel, Palestrina and Billings open this exploration of sacred music. Performed in the Medieval Gallery Mayo Concert Hall at the College of New Jersey, 2000 Pen“A Year with Frog and Toad,” McCarter Theatre, 91 of the Princeton University Art Museum, Feb. 25, 5:30 p.m., nington Road, Ewing. This fund-raising concert featuring University Place, Princeton. Based on the children’s books 8 p.m. Tickets cost $15; www.princetonsingers.org. two of the ensembles Jerry Nowak co-founded: the

by Arnold Lobel, this musical follows two friends — the Westminster Conservatory Annual Showcase, Delaware Valley Wind Symphony and the Philadelphia Saxcheerful, popular Frog and the rather grumpy Toad — Richardson Auditorium in Alexander Hall on the campus ophone Quartet. Nowak was an arranger/composer and through the year, March 4, 3 p.m. Tickets cost $25-$35; of Princeton University. Westminster Conservatory will music teacher, who is the first recipient of the TCNJ Diswww.mccarter.org; 609-258-2787. present its annual showcase featuring Westminster Com- tinguished Music Alumni award, March 4, 3 p.m. Tickets munity ensembles and students, Feb. 26, 3 p.m. Tickets cost cost $15; tcnjcenterforthearts.tcnj.edu/calendar; 609-771DANCE $15, $10 seniors/students; www.princeton.edu/utickets; 2775.

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Twyla Tharp 50th Anniversary Tour, McCarter TheEric Mintel Jazz Quartet, Bucks County Playhouse, Kirill Gerstein, McCarter Theatre, 91 University Place, atre, 91 University Place, Princeton. Company of 12 dancers Princeton. Gilmore Artist winning pianist will perform a 70 S. Main St., New Hope, Pennsylvania. Mintel and his celebrating Tharp as one program of Liszt, Brahms and more, Feb. 27, 7:30 p.m. quartet will perform a night of music for entire family, feaof the most inventive and innovative choreographers in $25-$42; mccarter.org; 609-258-2787. turing original songs by Mintel, music by jazz legend Dave the history of American dance, Feb. 28, 7:30 p.m. Tickets Hagen String Quartet, Richardson Auditorium in Brubeck, Blue Rondo a la Turk, their own version of Paul cost $30-$75; mccarter.org; 609-258-2787.

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TV show themes as “I Dream of Jeannie,” “Mission Impossible,” “The Munsters,” “All in the Family” and many others, Feb. 25, 8 p.m. Tickets cost $25; www.buckscountyplayhouse.org; 215-8622121.

Joey Alexander Trio, McCarter Theatre, 91 University Place, Princeton. Jazz concert led by 13-year-old piano prodigy Joey Alexander, March 2, 8 p.m. Tickets cost $25-$52; mccarter.org; 609-258-2787.

Storytellers Cabaret, Trenton City Museum, Ellarslie Cadwalader Park, Trenton.

Trenton vocalist Tom Chiola and George

Sinkler on piano perform American jazz standards inspired by the rhythms of Africa.

Interwoven with the musical performance are tales from Africa, told by members of the Garden State Storytellers League. Refreshments and adult beverages will be served, March 3, 7-9:30 p.m. $30 at door (if available), $25 advance; www.ellarslie.org.

The Chieftains, McCarter Theatre, 91 University Place, Princeton. Legendary Irish band is celebrating its 55th anniversary tour, March 3, 8 p.m. $30-$70; mccarter.org; 609-258-2787.

MUSEUMS

Trenton City Museum, Trenton City Museum, Ellarslie at Cadwalader Park, Trenton. “Furniture as Art,” four exhibits in one highlighting the items that bring comfort and beauty to our lives. “Furniture from the Permanent Collection” features furniture from the collection of the Trenton Museum Society - antique furniture made in and associated with Trenton. “Rustic Regional Windsor Chairs” includes a collection of early Windsor chairs loaned by private collectors. “Please be Seated” displays the work of contemporary area furniture designers and the diversity of styles and materials they use. “On These Walls” is a display of contemporary painting, highlights the role furniture plays in our lives and our homes, through March 12. Opening reception with artists, Jan. 22, 2-4 p.m.

Hours: Wed.-Sat. noon to 4 p.m., Sun. 1-3 p.m. www.ellarslie.org; 609-989-3632.

Princeton University Art Museum, on the campus of Princeton University, Princeton. Willem de Kooning Drawn and Painted,” through March 19; “Revealing Pictures.” Exhibit presenting works by 11 leading international artists: Nikolay Bakharev, Edmund Clark, Daniel and Geo Fuchs, Tim Hetherington, Pieter Hugo, Liu Zheng, Zanele Muholi, Robert Polidori, Alec Soth and Miwa Yanagi. The photo-

graphs from the Christopher E. Olofson Collection at the Princeton University Art Museum, through July 2; “The Berlin Painter and His World: Athenian VasePainting in the Early Fifth Century B.C.,” The exhibition will present 84 vessels and statuettes from the period, including 54 of the finest vases attributed to the Berlin Painter, providing a window into the world of Athenian society 2,500 years ago, March 4 through June 11. Hours: Tues.-Wed., Fri.-Sat. 10 a.m.-5 p.m., Thurs. 10 a.m.-10 p.m., Sun. 1-5 p.m. Admission is free; artmuseum.princeton.edu; 609-258-3788.

Morven Museum & Garden, 55 Stockton St., Princeton. “Bruce Springsteen: A Photography Journey.” Curated by the Grammy Museum at L.A. Live. Exhibit features more than 40 photographs of the rock legend, and video interviews with the show’s five photographers: Danny Clinch, Ed Gallucci, Eric Meola, Pamela Springsteen, and Frank Stefanko. Together they revisit Springsteen’s career as a frontman and songwriter, capturing his charisma and off stage vulnerability, and documenting a great American musical legend, through May 21, 2017. Hours: Wed.-Sun. 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. $10, $8 seniors/students; morven.org; 609-924-8144.

GALLERIES

West Windsor Arts Council Faculty Student Show, Princeton Junction Firehouse, 952 Alexander Road, West Windsor.

Show featuring more than 40 pieces of art by students of all ages at the West Windsor Arts Council alongside the works of their teachers, through Feb. 24. Hours: Mon.Fri. 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., Sat. 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

609-716-1931.

“Looking,” Rider University Art Gallery, Bart Luedeke Center, Rider University, 2038 Lawrenceville Road, Lawrenceville. Exhibit of works by Allen Fitzpatrick, a member of the faculty at The Lawrenceville School. The worksfocus on the still life and landscape from direct ob-

servation, through Feb. 26. visitwww.rider.edu/arts.

“Lyrical,” Artists’ Gallery, 18 Bridge St., Lambertville. Artworks by gallery members accompanied by song lyrics and poems, through March 5. Hours: Thurs.Sun. 11 a.m.-6 p.m. www.lambertvillearts.com.

Brodsky Gallery, Chauncey Conference Center, ETS, 660 Rosedale Road, Princeton. “From The Garden to the Sea” featuring 28 paintings by Janet Purcell. Ms. Purcell’s award-winning paintings are in private and public collections including Princeton University’s Center For Information Technology Policy and Capital Health Systems, Mercer, through March 8; www.janpurcellart.com.

“Philip Pearlstein: A Legacy of Influence,” Taplin Gallery at the Arts Council of Princeton’s Paul Robeson Center for the Arts, 102 Witherspoon St., Princeton.

Group exhibition featuring figure painter Pearlstein and those he has influenced through his career as an artist and educator.

Visitors can expect original works from artists Philip Pearlstein, Janet Fish, Stephen

Lorber, Charles David Viera, Altoon Sultan, Tony Phillips, George Nick, Lorraine Shemesh, and Thomas Corey, through March 25. Gallery talk with Philip Pearlstein, Feb. 18, 2 p.m. artscouncilofprinceton.org; 609-924-8777.

“Identity,” Anne Reid ‘72 Art Gallery at Princeton Day School Art Gallery, 650 Great Road, Princeton. Composed of work created by Princeton Day School students in all three divisions, the exhibit centers around individual identities and the diversity of the PDS community, through March. 8. Hours: Mon.-Fri. 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. when school is in session; www.pds.org.

Gallery 14, 14 Mercer St., Hopewell.

Members exhibit, allowing the gallery’s members to display photographs of their choosing with no overriding them. The members are Martha Weintraub, Charles Miller , Charlie Gross, John Clarke, Larry Parsons, Rhoda Kassof-Isaac, Alice Grebanier and Martin Schwartz, through March 12. Hours: Sat-Sun. noon to 5 p.m. www.photogallery14.com; 609-333-8611.

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THINGS TO DO 200, Princeton. “Mandala.” Paintings and prints featuring mandalas from four regional artists are brought together in this exhibit. Associated with Hindu and Buddhist cultures where, consecrated and purposed for ritual, the mandala is understood to be the abode of the deity, through March 31. www.arttimestwo.com; 609-203-4622.

“A Grounds For Sculpture History: The Land in Pictures and Words,” Lakefront Gallery, located in Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, Hamilton. Works by members of the Princeton Photography Club tell the story of how the former site of the New Jersey State Fairgrounds became Grounds For Sculpture, beginning in 1984 when the Atlantic Foundation purchased 12 acres of the old fairgrounds property adjacent to the Seward Johnson Atelier, through April 2. www.princetonphotoclub.org/LakefrontGallery.html; 732-422-3676.

“Nature’s Healing Gifts,” D&R Greenway Land Trust at the Johnson Education Center, 1 Preservation Place, Princeton. Exhibit includes “Mystery and Magic — New Jersey’s Pinelands” featuring a decade of photographs by Albert Horner. Artists Priscilla Snow Algava, William Dix, Karen McLean, Dallas Piotrowski, Michelle Post and Ray Yeager highlight gifts from nature, through April 7. Opening reception, March 3, 5-7 p.m. Hours: Mon.-Fri. 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. www.drgreenway.org; 609-924-4646.

Sculpture Exhibit by Patrick Strzelec, Graves Terrace at Paul Robeson Center of the Arts, 102 Witherspoon St., Princeton. Outdoor exhibit of works by Patrick Strzelec, who makes abstract sculpture using a full range of materials.

This Graves Terrace exhibition will provide the public with an introduction to Strzelec’s work preceding the installation of his work on Witherspoon Street at the site of the new Avalon Princeton residencies, through June, 2017. For more information, go to artscouncilofprinceton.org or call 609-924-8777.

ter, 1 Monument Drive, Princeton. One-hour instruction Princeton. Princeton University alumnus Norm Champ, formost weeks, followed by request dancing. Fridays, 8-11 merly of the SEC, will visit the Woodrow Wilson School of p.m. $5; 609-912-1272.

Public and International Affairs to share his outlook and discuss his new book, “Going Public: My Adventures Inside the SEC and How to Prevent the Next Devastating Crisis,” Feb. 27, 4:30 p.m. wws.princeton.edu.

Historical and Architectural Tours of Cranbury, Meet Build a Bee Abode workshop, Tulpehaking Nature at the Cranbury Museum at 4 Park Place East off Main Center, 157 Westcott Ave., Hamilton. Join the fight against Street, March 5, 2 p.m. Contribution of $7 to the Cranbury declining bee populations by taking part in a Build a Bee Historical and Preservation Society is suggested. richardcAbode workshop. Participants will be provided with the moods@gmail.com; 609-819-1359. knowledge and materials to create a bee-utiful bee home, Dorothea’s House, 120 John St., Princeton. Lecture Feb. 25, 10 a.m. to noon. Registration is required: email napresentation on L’Infiorata, a Show of Flowers by artist tureprograms@mercercounty.org or call 609-888-3218.

Maria G. Pisano. The word “infiorata” literally means George Washington’s Birthday celebration, Rocking“decorated with flowers. For the Infiorata, carpets of flowham, Route 603, one mile north of Route 27, Kingston. ers are created for the feast of Corpus Domini throughout George Washington, retired Continental Army commander Italy. These ephemeral creations are experienced for only in chief and first president of the United States, will be cel- one day of the year. In her presentation, Pisano will showebrated at Rockingham. Washington will be present only in case the participants’ preparation of the design and flowspirit (and Rockingham’s life-sized mannequin), but visitors ers, and talk about the devotion of the participating can learn about his life and times before, during and after communities, March 5, 5 p.m. For more information, go to his famous careers. Tours will be followed with cakes and www.dorotheashouse.org. punch in the kitchen, Feb. 25, noon to 4 p.m. Tours will Author David Price, Lawrence Library, 2751 begin on the house and possibly half-hour if needed. The Brunswick Pike, Lawrence. Lawrenceville resident and hislast tour will start at 3 p.m. or 3:30 p.m. Reservations are re- torical interpreter at Pennsylvania’s Washington Crossing quired to guarantee admission. $5 suggested donation; 609- Historic Park, David Price will present to the patrons of the 683-7132. Meet George Washington, Visitor Center Lawrence Headquarters Branch of the Mercer County LiMuseum at Washington Crossing State Park, 355 Washing- brary System his book “Rescuing the Revolution: Unsung ton Crossing Pennington Road, Titusville. Sam Davis will Patriot Heroes and the Ten Crucial Days of America’s War portray General George Washington and discuss his life for Independence.” Copies of his book will be available from his childhood through the Battle of Trenton, Feb. 25, through the Friends of the Lawrence Library for sale and signing, March 30, 7 p.m. Registration is suggested. E-mail 12:30 p.m. For more information, call 609-737-0623.

Norm Champ, Robertson Hall, Princeton University, lawprogs@mcl.org or call 609-989-6920.

MISCELLANY

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COMEDY

Catch a Rising Star, 102 Carnegie Center, West Windsor. Wellie Jackson, Feb. 25-26; Joe Piscopo presents a special night of comedy, March 2; catcharisingstar.com; 609-987-8018.

Stress Factory, 90 Church St., New Brunswick. Bret Ernst, Feb. 24-25, 7:30 p.m., 9:45 p.m., $20; Sunday Night Live with Talent and Friends, Feb. 26, 8 p.m., $25; Gary Gulman, March 2, 7:30 p.m., March 3-4, 7:30 p.m., 9:45 p.m., $25; stressfactory.com; 732-545-4242.

DANCE

Princeton Country Dancers, Suzanne Patterson Center, 1 Monument Drive, Princeton. Family Dance with Mixed-Aged Dance Band, Feb. 26, 3-5 p.m., $5 ($15 per family); Weekly Wednesday Country Dance, March 1, 8 p.m. (Instruction starts at 7:30 p.m.), $9; www.princetoncountrydancers.org.

Friday Night Folk Dancing, at Suzanne Patterson Cen-

Blacksmith Alex “Sasha” Parubchenko, pictured at the Trenton Blacksmith Shop.

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ercer County Community College has opened The Gallery at the James Kerney Campus, located in the Trenton Hall Annex at 137 N. Broad St., across from the James Kerney Building.

The gallery’s inaugural show is “Trenton Blacksmiths” by photographer CJ Harker, running through March 9. An artist’s talk and gallery reception is scheduled for March 8.

In “Trenton Blacksmiths,” Harker focuses his lens on the nearly 200-year-old Trenton Blacksmith shop.

“Many souls have called that building home in one

sense or another,” Harker says. “Countless stories can be traced through the many corners of the shop or found caught up in the dust and cobwebs.”

The shop’s current master blacksmith is Alex “Sasha” Parubchenko, the last full-time blacksmith in New Jersey.

“Sasha has kept an amazing piece of history living and breathing year after year since 1971,” Harker says.

“He is always ready with a warm greeting and a willingness to tell his own tales fueled by a full life. He eagerly passes his many years of knowledge and experience along to his students.”

According to Gallery Director Michael ChovanDalton, the new exhibit space will be dedicated primarily to photography and lens-based art. “It will feature artists and shows that explore the breadth of what is happening in the photography art world today,”Chovan-Dalton said.

Harker is from Trenton, and currently lives in Philadelphia. He studied photography and digital imaging at MCCC before transferring to The University of The Arts, where he earned his BFA in photography.

He is currently a teaching assistant and resident artist at UArts.

Harker works with a combination of digital and analog methods. While his editorial work is generally made using contemporary digital tools, the majority of his personal work features an overlap with historic and alternative photographic methods.

“Trenton Blacksmiths” is on view at the The Gallery at the James Kerney Campus at Mercer County Community College’s Trenton Hall Annex, 137 N. Broad St., Trenton, through March 9. An artist’s talk and gallery reception is scheduled for March 8, 5-8 p.m. Hours: Tues.-Thurs. 10 a.m. to noon, and 3-6 p.m. For more information, go to www.mccc.edu.

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PACKET PICKS Feb. 25 Dancing and dessert in Plainsboro The Plainsboro Department of Recreation and Community Services will host a dancing and dessert event, 78:30 p.m. at the Plainsboro Recreation & Cultural Center, 641 Plainsboro Road.

Swing music will be played during the dance for people 18 and over who would like to have coffee and dessert, and then take a dance lesson. The cost is $12, $10 for Plainsboro residents and employees.

Register online and pay the night of the dance with cash or check. Checks should be made payable to Plainsboro Township. To register, go to www.plainsboronj.com.

Feb. 26 Marian Anderson program at Trent House The Trent House will host a presentation of “The Lady from Philadelphia,” beginning at 2 p.m.

The show tells the story of Marian Anderson, who was born in Philadelphia, Feb. 27, 1897. It is a musical narrative that tells the story of the life and career of the legendary singer. The program combines spoken narration, photographic slide projections, live singing and historic recordings of Marian Anderson’s own voice.

Playing Anderson is Deborah Ford, of Trenton. Ford holds degrees from Westminster Choir College. She is the music director at Trinity Episcopal Cathedral, the owner of Music Seminars Inc., and serves as a Mercer County Cultural and Heritage Commissioner.

Admission costs $15 and includes refreshments and tours. Registration is suggested. For more information, and to purchase tickets, go to www.williamtrenthouse.org/d eborahford.

Feb. 27 Book talk at Wilson school Princeton University alumnus Norm Champ, formerly of the SEC, will visit the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs to share his outlook and discuss his new book, “Going Public: My Adventures Inside the SEC and How to Prevent the Next Devastating Crisis,” beginning at 4:30 p.m. in Robertson Hall on the Princeton campus.

Champ’s book offers a behind-the-scenes look at his experiences at the SEC and his efforts to lead reforms to stabilize America’s financial system.

As director of the Division of Investment Management, Champ managed the division’s work to protect investors, promote informed investment decisions and facilitate appropriate innovation in investment products and services through regulating the asset management industry. Currently, he is a partner in the Investment Funds Group of Kirkland & Ellis LLP and a lecturer at Harvard Law School. For more information, go wws.princeton.edu.

WHAT’S IN STORE

Rich Fisher

The upper crust of bakeries The Gingered Peach offers classic goods, along with tasty, off-beat items To best describe the effort, attitude and uniqueness that goes into making the Gingered Peach in Lawrenceville one of the most fun and delicious bakeries in central Jersey could take a year.

But hey, let’s give it a shot.

The first thing one must know is that every item prepared comes from the depths of each baker’s core. Owner Joanne Brown calls it “hand-crafted baking with soul.”

That means it is not just being made by someone reading a book and throwing things together. It’s almost like a spiritual thing.

“We make pastries with integrity, and I want people to taste the effort in what we did,“ Brown said. “I want them to realize ‘Hey, we wanted to make this. We’re putting our heart and soul into this. We thought about this one product for six months before we said we think it’s ready for you.’”

That’s not an exaggeration.

Brown will come up with a new product and present it to her team of four bakers; then ask them to come up with five different versions of how they would create it.

Once the idea is finalized, the hand-crafted baking with soul begins.

“It’s important for people to know that human hands have touched everything that’s here,” Brown said. “We barely use any machinery. Of course there are ovens and mixers, but human hands have flipped that batter and dough.”

Which makes more of a difference than one might think.

“It helps control it better,” Brown continued. “We can feel it better, we’re more connected with the work we’re doing, and it makes a better product. This will sound super weird, but I tell the bakers, ‘I need you to connect with the product. You’ll get it after you’ve laminated croissants three or four times. Your arms are going to feel something is off; something went wrong with the dough.

If you’re not connected, a whole bunch of crazy products are going to roll out here and we’re not gonna catch it.’”

Everything in the Gingered Peach is made with what is considered the “upper crust” of baking ingredients around. The result of this heartfelt process has been an invigorated, charming establishment that sees a steady flow of happy customers throughout the day. Gingered Peach offers your basic donuts, cakes and cookies, but also features a wide array of treats you won’t find anywhere else.

A big favorite is the olive oil cake, which this author was provided with but unable to eat until a day later. Not only had it retained remarkable freshness, it was a delicious blend of extra virgin olive oil, orange juice and some Grand Marnier.

“People think oil, and they think greasy,” Brown said. “It’s not like that at all. Most people don’t use olive oil for baking, they save it for the savory cooking

Photos by Rich Fisher

Gingered Peach owner Joanne Brown shares the love of baking she inherited from her grandmother. world. We look at it and say, ‘Why does Savory get to enjoy all the delicious flavor of olive oil? What if we leverage it but make it sweet?’”

That cake is just one example of the Gingered Peach’s “off-beat” products that Brown takes such pride in. Through her countless visits to bakeries in her hometown of Hoboken, and even in Mercer County, she noticed the same range of selections in most places.

“You always see canola, or a crumb cake, but you’re not seeing anything that’s a little weird, a little different,” Brown said. “Our palettes are changing. People are becoming riskier eaters and that’s what makes this fun. You want to explore, ‘Can these two things live together in the same pastry?’ I don’t know, let’s figure it out!

We’re not doing what everyone else is doing.”

Well, they are doing that for folks who want the standard fare, and those basic treats are as tasty and fresh as you could hope. Just ask Lawrenceville resident Carol Tracy.

“Everything is great,” said Tracy during one of her frequent visits to the Peach. “I just ordered my first cake, everybody said it was the best chocolate cake they ever had. The croissants, everything is wonderful. I usually get an almond croissant, but everything is consistently good. I’ve never been disappointed.”

Those traveling the offbeat path can try a goat cheese brownie, or a triple berry jelly donut with homemade raspberry, blueberry and strawberry jelly all in one. The cream donut is made with southern sweet cream that Joanne’s grandmother — and inspiration — used while baking in Georgia.

There are several uses of Brioche, a traditional French bread, to create the Trenton Volcano or the Caramel Crack. The Volcano is brioche filled with pork roll, spinach, cheddar and Swiss

cheese. That is rolled into a bagel topping.

“We bake it and when it bakes up it looks like a volcano,” Brown said.

The Caramel Crack is a combination of toffee from old-school British pudding combined with cinnamon sugar, which is applied as a topping to the Brioche as it becomes covered in caramelized toffee goo. A weekend special is the Sticky Piggy, which are sticky buns in which the bakers render bacon fat, make it as part of the goop and then bake bacon inside of it.

“Those are some of the weirdo products we have,” Brown said.

“We also make a cookie with potato chips and pretzels. It’s walking the route that very few people have walked, or want to. I just think there’s a market for people who want something interesting.”

Brown walked a pretty long route to get to this point. Her professional career started with full time positions at Bed Bath & Beyond, where she was a liaison between departments to launch new stores, and moved on to become a training specialist at Panera Bread.

The latter job helped her see the training side of the food business, along with executing the operation.

But the jobs were not fulfilling.

She learned how to bake from her grandmother, Johnnie Branda, and loved it. Her father was a big proponent of a people doing what they love for a living, and not working just to pay the bills. That advice stayed with Joanne.

After getting married to Matthew Brown, the couple moved to Ewing and Joanne finally decided to do what made her happy. In the summer of 2012 she and a partner opened a bakery named “Let Them Eat Cake.” The focus was mainly on cakes since that was Brown’s comfort zone, but she also began to challenge herself with cookies and croissants.

Joanne’s partner was forced to move when her husband got transferred at the end of 2013 and the main business folded. But the manager at the Thomas Sweet shop in Montgomery was so enamored with Brown’s work; he set her up in his kitchen so she continued to supply him with cakes.

This provided added confidence and some income as she searched for another spot, which needed to be bigger than the 600square feet space in Ewing because Joanne planned on expanding her inventory. She discovered a gutted building on 2 Gordon Ave., just off Main Street, that previously housed the Village Bakery for nearly five decades.

Can you say serendipitous?

Everything had to be installed, from display cases to kitchen equipment, but the space was twice the size of her Ewing operation and Joanne was like a kid in a playground. She and Matthew worked feverishly to give the building life, and made the entire public area as charming as someone’s dining room.

There are chairs and tables along the wall across from the counter, along with a sitting space in the back for folks to chat, read and enjoy their treats. The walls are adorned with historical Lawrenceville photos and several old family photos and keepsakes like rolling pins and teacups.

“I wanted you to feel you were coming into the home I grew up in because there was so much love and so much warmth there,” Brown said. “I wanted everyone to feel that way, because I felt if you felt that, it would change the way you tasted the pastry. And I wanted people not to feel they had to leave. I wanted them to stay a little while and chill out.”

After creating the proper atmosphere and starting on her mountain of creative inventory, all that was left was to find a name prior to the grand opening on Dec. 6, 2014. Once again, it was a tribute to grams. Johnnie was a Georgia Peach who always advised Joanne to “just ginger it up” if she didn’t have the right ingredient, which was her way of saying use what you have to make something awesome.

“When she said to ginger it, she made you feel like you could make anything with nothing, so I wanted that to be the name,” Brown said. “I don’t bring in random nonsense from all over the place. I take the ingredients that exist and figure out ways to make something different by cooking it a little longer, or changing the ways the ingredients are added or the way they’re beat together. I want them to know we’re taking simple things and turning them into something wonderful.”

Wonderful, unique and delicious. And that doesn’t even begin to describe it all.

The Gingered Peach is at 2 Gordon Ave., Lawrenceville. For more information: www.thegingeredpeach.com, 609-896-5848.

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Reaching for the ‘Heights’ Princeton University sophomore Victoria Davidjohn feels a connection to the show she’s directing

By Ethan Sterenfeld Correspondent

Victoria Davidjohn has been a devoted fan of Lin-Manuel Miranda and his Tony Award-winning musical “In the Heights” since she saw Miranda perform when she was in middle school.

“He did a little section of ‘In the Heights,’ and blew us all away,” the Princeton University sophomore said. “We were like, ‘Who is this guy? Why is he so cool?

Why is he spitting fire?’”

For the next two weekends, Davidjohn will be directing the musical at Princeton University, with the student theater group Princeton University Players. When she decided last year to direct a show, she knew right away that she wanted to try Miranda’s tale of Hispanic immigrant families in the Washington Heights neighborhood of Manhattan.

“I’m from Puerto Rico, I grew up in San Juan, and it was the only show I didn’t have to look up a reference to,” Davidjohn said.

“I knew what paciencia y fe meant, I knew what piragua was, I ate it every single weekend when I went out to San Juan.”

LOOSE ENDS

Many of the actors in the show come from Hispanic backgrounds, and Davidjohn believes that will add to the audience’s experience of the show.

“One of the really amazing things that I’ve discovered when I’m doing a show that centers on a particular culture is to have people from that culture,” Davidjohn said. “you get little hints and pieces from experiences past of growing up in that culture that you can actually show, and that makes it better.”

She remembered that Manny Ramirez, who plays Sonny, advised her on where and how children would have played. Davidjohn also hopes that this version will be a unique telling of the story.

“The goal is not to produce the Broadway version of ‘In the Heights,’” she said.

“The goal is to produce a Princeton University of ‘In the Heights,’ as we are as a Victoria Davidjohn is directing Princeton community, and to bring in as many expeUniversity Players’ production of “In the riences as we all have.”

Heights.”

Davidjohn started acting during her senior year of high school. Her first role was “I got dragged into it by my best friend playing Joanne Jefferson in “Rent,” and she senior year of high school,” Davidjohn said. fell in love with musical theater almost im- “I fell in love with the rehearsal process mediately.

more than the show itself. I didn’t really like the shows, because everything was going to be over soon. When I was in rehearsal, I loved how close you got with the people that were with you.”

With less than a week left before opening night, “In the Heights” occupies most of Davidjohn’s time.

“I watch 30-second videos of choreography all the time, right before I go to sleep,” she said. “It makes me really happy, for sure.”

This is the first time that Davidjohn has directed a show. Although she is nervous, she has confidence in her cast after weeks of of rehearsal.

“It was all about the gut feeling,” Davidjohn said. “I don’t know what exactly makes the show feel right, but I do know that my gut has taken me this far, and my gut took me to do ‘In the Heights.’”

“In the Heights” opens Feb. 25, and will run for two weekends in the Frist Performance Theater at Princeton University. For more information, go to www.princeton.edu.

Pam Hersh

A doctor who cares David Barile is helping to improve the lives of the elderly

Acoustic neuroma sounds extremely unpleasant.

Princeton physician Dr. David Barile, a medical doctor certified in internal medicine, geriatrics and palliative care, confirms that fact from both a professional and personal perspective.

The ailment, however, has left him with better hearing, figuratively speaking.

Although he specializes in studying the process of aging and treating the elderly, Barile at 52 years old may qualify for an AARP membership, but generally would not seek medical treatment from a geriatrician. Thus, he and everyone around him were shocked when, 19 months ago, he experienced ailments associated with aging, particularly severe tinnitus and bal-

ance issues.

The reason turned out to be an acoustic neuroma, a benign tumor that was pushing on the brain stem. Surgery left him with several other medical ailments associated with old age — hearing loss, continued ear ringing, horrible balance, depression, palsy, and disorientation.

“It was awful, I was a mess,” said the doctor, who, when healthy, has an intensely demanding and active lifestyle. He is a biking enthusiast, the husband of Princeton physician plastic surgeon Nicole Schrader, and the father of two girls in a household that includes three dogs, one cat and several chickens. In addition, he fulfills several professional roles within the medical community: chief of the Section of Geriatric Medicine

and Medical Director of the Acute Cart for the Elderly (ACE) unit at the University Medical Center of Princeton at Plainsboro; medical director of Princeton Care Center, a skilled nursing and rehabilitation facility located in Princeton; and founding executive director of New Jersey Goals of Care (www.goalsofcare.org), a nonprofit entity devoted to improving medical decision-making for those nearing the end of their lives.

“The glass-is-half-full story is that my months of coping with these ailments have made me better at doing all my other jobs in life,” Dr. Barile said. “I have better empathy and better hearing when hearing is defined as listening.”

He always focused on his listening skills, the

underpinning of his medical philosophy, when providing palliative care, which is specialized medical care for anyone living with a serious illness. Such care generally does not include curative treatments, and it can be offered to those individuals who are expected to die within months — or years. “But my illness took me to a new level of relating to my aging patients and even the elderly whom I do not know personally,” said Dr. Barile, who once again is embracing his hyperactive lifestyle.

He spends a lot of time with his professional “child” — N.J. Goals of Care, an organization to which he gave birth in 2009. N.J. Goals of

See HERSH, Page 5

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SHOP TALK

The Week of February 24, 2017

Rich Fisher

Your weekly roundup of what’s happening at area stores

Shop Talk is a weekly notebook covering the latest deals and events happening in the area’s stores and businesses.

To submit an item, email rfisher@centraljersey.com, and enter “Item for Shop Talk” in the subject field. This week’s items are as follows: Pure Barre Princeton, the nation’s largest and fastest-growing barre concept, has added Pure Barre Platform, a new fastpaced class designed to optimize cardiovascular results and increase total body strength.

The class combines quick bursts of high-intensity, yet lowimpact cardio work with periods of lower intensity muscle sculpting movements to achieve a state of heart-pumping interval training. This 55-minute class is designed to burn calories, jumpstart your metabolism, and increase your overall endurance.

“We are thrilled to be offering Platform,” says owner Jacqui Arce-Quinton. “Whether you have taken our regular classes or not, we welcome anyone to come try out this new workout. It’s also a great way to learn what Pure Barre is all about.”

Classes will be held Mondays at 9:30 a.m., Tuesdays at 5:30 p.m. and Thursdays at 8 a.m. Space is limited, so attendees should sign up in advance.

For more information on Pure Barre Princeton, email JacquiArce Quinton at mailto:princeton@purebarre.com. To sign up for classes, go to www.purebarre.com/nj-princeton. *** In celebrating its 50th Anniversary, Hendrixson’s Furniture held a “Chair-ity” event and donated $3,600 to two nonprofit organizations — Bucks County Housing Group in Ivyland, Pennsylvania, and The Allentown (Pennsylvania) Rescue Mission.

Customers who donated to the causes received a discount on Stressless Chairs, a popular line carried by Hendrixson’s. The storeowners extended the offer to include all chairs they sold and matched the contributions, increasing their total giving 350 percent over the previous year.

“We believe in being an active member of the communities in which we work and live,” says Damian Ford, managing partner, and son-in-law of founders Paul and Ginny Hendrixson. “We look forward to continuing these partnerships in the coming years.”

Hendrixson’s has nine interior designers who consult with customers to help them achieve the style and look they seek. With their guidance, customers can confidently select the furniture pieces, fabrics, colors, and accessories, as well as carpeting and window treatments that come together to create a total room — or home.

The design team offers customers an interior design consultation in the store or in the customer’s home. Then the design plan begins with a floor layout to establish guidelines in the selection of furniture, taking into account personal tastes and the circumstances of the living space.

“We find that one of the most difficult aspects of developing a design plan is color and fabric selection,” Ginny Hendrixson says. “Our interior designers must keep up with current trends in the world of fabrics. Many representatives of the finest upholstery and drapery textile manufacturers present their lines seasonally to our designers. We then can help find fabrics, paint and stain colors to complement each specific décor.”

Hendrixson’s Furniture is located on York Road (Route 263) in Furlong, Bucks County, (215-794-7325) and Chestnut Street (Routes 100 and 29), Emmaus, in Lehigh Valley (610-967-0699).

For more information, go to www.hendrixsonsfurniture.com. ***

Pure Bare Princeton now offers a platform class, which is designed to incorporate more cardio in workouts.

Creative Marketing Alliance, a full-service, strategic marketing and integrated communications firm, has been recognized with an award for excellence in social media by Association Trends, a leading publication for trade groups.

CMA was formally recognized at the Salute to Association Excellence luncheon, Feb. 23 at the Capital Hilton in Washington, D.C. The goal of the award-winning social media campaign was to improve the International Card Manufacturers Association’s (ICMA) brand awareness and increase strategic relationships to support its mission. CMA refreshed all of ICMA’s social media channels, including Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn, giving a cohesive look to all channels unifying the brand. Compelling posts were composed on each channel, strategic hashtags were researched and incorporated and all the artwork on each channel was updated to create a consistent online experience that supports ICMA’s brand.

For more information about CMA, go to www.cmaresults.com. *** Bahama Breeze in Princeton MarketFair is celebrating its Viva la ‘Rita celebration by offering the restaurant’s Classic Margarita for $2.22.

As part of the ongoing festivities, Bahama Breeze will host “Margarita Mondays” at select locations through April 9. Each Monday, guests can sip on $5 Classic Margaritas all day while enjoying live music, giveaways and other surprises. The restaurant’s new Lava Lava ‘Rita — a fresh twist on a frozen margarita, featuring layers of mango, lemon and hibiscus — will also make its debut during Viva la ‘Rita.

The party doesn’t stop there. One lucky guest will receive Bahama Breeze for a Year (valued at $1,200). Ten finalists will receive $100 in gift cards.

For more information about Viva la ‘Rita, Bahama Breeze and the sweepstakes, go to www.bahamabreeze.com. * * *Ï The last vestiges of the most romantic month of the year are still lingering and love is still in the air at Gentle Healing Spa and Salon in Cranbury. Enjoy your choice of two different fragrances with your services: “Heavenly Dark Chocolate” or “Falling In Love” (a sweet, sensual fragrance), with which you will feel surrounded by love. Enjoy a romantic martini cocktail

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Ma Belle (My Beautiful): A 30-minute body scrub followed by a 1-hour massage. Fragrances may be combined. ($139) Mon Cherie (My sweetheart): Invite a loved one to enjoy a quiet hour as you both relax with side-by-side one-hour massages. ($189).

Je T’Aime (I love you): Spend some quality time with your love in the Gentle Healing’s private suite retreat for two; named one of the “World’s Most Beautiful Spa Rooms” by DaySpa Magazine. Begin with fragrant side-by-side candlelit Jacuzzi baths, followed by side-by-side massages. Finish with romantic martini cocktails and chocolates on the couch by the fireplace. ($329).

Chocolate Rasberry Facial: Try this delicious facial for only $90 in February, or add it to any other specials for $85.

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Space is limited. The fee is $50 per day, plus $10 for before or aftercare. All supplies are included except for photos of participating children that are needed to create a scrapbook. Purchase three days and get one day free (excluding winter break camp). A 5 percent discount is available for siblings.

To register go to www.scrapunj.com or call 732-239-5003. *** Hillsborough YMCA’s summer camps are now open for registration for the entire community. The Y offers financial assistance for qualifying families. Hillsborough YMCA is located at 19 East Mountain Road. For more information, contact Matt Gray at mailto:mgray@somersetcountyymca.org or go to www.somersetcountyymca.org.

The camp offers: • Sports, fitness, swimming, and nutrition • Fitness classes including yoga, Zumba, karate, and Ttumbling • Activities such as creative arts, games, music, art, and more • Weekly bus trips and enrichment opportunities • Community projects and visits from local safety organizations *Opportunities to make new friends • Learning experiences, relaxation, and more!

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Exercise for heart health

By Keith Loria Special Writer

It’s no surprise to learn that exercise has almost unlimited benefits for your heart health.

After all, the heart is a muscle, and exercise helps to strengthen it and allows it to function better.

“By keeping the heart healthy, it can continue to provide vital oxygen and nutrients to the body’s tissues,” says Dr. Perry Herman, who has a private medical practice in Monroe Township and is on staff at Princeton Healthcare System.

“Exercise also reduces blood pressure, which is cardio-protective.”

Furthermore, exercise reduces stress and in turn, reduces stress hormones that increase inflammation in the heart tissue.

It stimulates enzymes, sending bad cholesterol to the liver for digestion or excretion; it increases the size of the lipoproteins, which can help prevent bad cholesterol from

entering the linings of heart and blood vessels; it helps control weight; and it strengthens the cardiovascular system.

“Maintaining a regimen of 30 to 40 minutes of aerobic exercise three to four times each week has been shown to lower blood pressure and LDL (bad) cholesterol, which in turn leads to a lower risk of heart disease,” says Dr. Justin Fox of Hamilton Cardiology Associates.

Aerobic exercise can include running, jogging, and biking. These exercises enable you to raise your heart rate and breathe harder, although don’t go so hard that you’re not able to talk to someone as you’re doing it.

“While exercise at a gym or at home with exercise equipment may work for some, those of us with busy work and home lives may struggle to find the time to stick with a regular exercise routine,” Dr. Fox says. “For those short on time and unable to make it to the gym, I often suggest taking

HEALTH MATTERS

Did you know that according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), people with high cholesterol have about twice the risk of heart disease as people with lower levels?

What’s more is that high cholesterol has no symptoms, so many people are unaware they even have it.

Just like blood pressure, cholesterol is something that needs to be monitored by your physician. Knowing if you have high cholesterol is the first step in managing it and reducing your risk for having a heart attack, stroke or developing heart disease.

Good versus bad Cholesterol is a waxy, fat-like substance that helps your body perform important functions like making hormones and digesting fatty foods. Your body produces cholesterol naturally, but it is also found in many foods like fatty meats and dairy products.

While your body needs some cholesterol, too much cholesterol can build up in the walls of your blood vessels, causing them to narrow and restricting blood flow to your heart and other organs.

This build-up is called plaque. When plaque completely blocks an artery to your heart or breaks off and forms a clot, it causes a heart attack.

But not all cholesterol is bad.

Low-density lipoprotein — or LDL — is known as the “bad” cholesterol be-

a brisk walk when they can find the time (perhaps during their lunch hour, or after dinner). Also, everyday activities like walking the dog, walking back and forth in the mall, and playing basketball with your kids all can certainly count as aerobic activity.”

One of the premiere exercises in preventing heart disease and diabetes and helping people to lose weight is interval training. This involves the strategy of combining short bursts of high-intensity movement with slightly longer periods of active recovery. For example, if you’re a runner, you might go three minutes at normal speed with one minute at a super-fast pace. This enables you to continuously raise and lower your heart rate and improve vascular function, burn calories, and enable your body to be more efficient in clearing fat and sugar from the blood.

Dr. Herman is a big believer in “high intensity interval training” programs, short

workouts that can be done at home.

“These training programs take the individual through quick workouts that vary exercises working on strengthening, core stabilization and cardiovascular exercises,” he says. “They vary in length but are typically much less time-

consuming. One needs to have clearance from their doctor as the name implies they are high intensity.”

Weight training can be best used for heart health with interval training to benefit your cardiovascular system. When you are using weights, you can increase your heart rate during

Dr. Kristyn K. Phelps, M.D.

Managing high cholesterol cause having high levels can lead to plaque buildup in your arteries.

High-density lipoprotein — or HDL — is known as the “good” cholesterol because it essentially absorbs bad cholesterol and helps your body get rid of it. Having high levels of HDL can reduce your risk for heart disease and stroke.

In general, your LDL levels should be lower than 100 and your HDL levels should be higher than 60.

According to the CDC, 71 million Americans, or 33.5 percent, have high LDL levels, and only one in three has the condition under control.

What you can do As the CDC notes, all adults aged 20 or older need to get their cholesterol checked. If you are 20 years or older, and have not been diagnosed with heart disease, the CDC recommends that your cholesterol be checked every five years.

Some people may need to get their cholesterol checked more often. It is important to talk to your doctor about what’s best for you. In addition, there are several steps you can take to prevent or manage high cholesterol and reduce your risk for heart attack, stroke and heart disease: Eat a healthy diet. Eat fewer saturated fats, like fatty meats and dairy products, and avoid trans fats, which may be found in baked goods like cookies and cakes, fried foods and

margarines. Eat more foods that are high in fiber, like oatmeal, beans and lentils, and eat plenty of fresh fruits and vegetables. Limit processed foods, and simple and refined sugars.

Maintain a healthy weight. Being overweight can increase your risk for high cholesterol. Know your body mass index and be sure it is in a healthy range.

Get enough physical activity. Exercise can help lower your cholesterol as well as help you maintain a healthy weight and blood pressure. The CDC recommends getting at least 150 minutes of moderate-intensity exercise such as brisk walking or cycling every week.

Don’t smoke. Cigarette smoking reduces good cholesterol, damages your blood vessels and speeds up the hardening of your arteries. It also increases the tendency for blood to clot. If you smoke, talk to your doctor for help quitting. If you don’t smoke, don’t start.

Limit alcohol use. Alcohol can raise your cholesterol. If you drink alcohol, the CDC recommends that women should limit consumption to one drink a day and men to two drinks a day. A drink is considered 12 ounces of beer, 8 ounces of malt liquor, 5 ounces of wine or 1.5 ounces of distilled spirits or liquor.

Often, lifestyle changes are enough to manage high

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cholesterol. Some people, however, may need medication, especially those who have other risk factors for heart disease and stroke, such as high blood pressure, diabetes, and family history of heart disease.

There are several types of medications to help lower LDL cholesterol, the most common of which are statins. Statins slow down the liver’s production of cholesterol and increase its ability to flush out LDL already in the blood.

Additionally, a new class of drug called PCSK9 in-

hibitors can also help lower cholesterol. PCSK9 inhibitors work by lowering LDL and may be recommended in cases where cholesterol levels cannot be controlled through lifestyle changes and statins, or for patients who are allergic to statins.

As with any medication, statins and PCSK9 inhibitors can cause side effects. It is important to follow your doctor’s instructions and monitor your cholesterol levels regularly.

Managing high cholesterol begins with knowing

your levels and talking with your doctor about ways to lower them and keep them in a healthy range. By lowering your cholesterol, you can reduce your risk of having a heart attack or stroke and stay heart healthy.

To find a physician with Princeton HealthCare System, go to www.princetonhcs.org or call 888-742-7496.

Kristyn K. Phelps, M.D., is board certified in internal medicine and is a member of the medical staff at University Medical Center of Princeton.

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Taking some time to exercise benefits your heart and overall health.

reps and recover between sets.

By efficiently handling the demands placed upon them, strong muscles ease the overall burden on the heart. It is also recommended that you incorporate free weights, which use more muscles, engage your core and builds balance.

Research has shown that the more muscles involved in an activity, the harder your heart must work to fuel them all, so it grows stronger itself.

Activities like rowing, swimming and cross-country skiing are all exercises that recruit muscles throughout the body without beating it up.

Yoga enthusiasts will be happy to hear that doing yoga can impact heart health, as well. The calm it provides lowers blood pressure, making blood vessels more elastic and it also strengthens your core.

More active styles of yoga such as Ashtanga and Bikram can also offer cardiovascular benefits, as the heart rate is elevated throughout the exercise.

Sustaining Treatment), which has become a key tool for improving doctor-patient communication and ensuring that treatment decisions stay focused on the patient’s goals.

Without it, Dr. David Barile said, patients at the end stages of life may get too much of the wrong kind of care.

Thanks to grants from different organizations, N.J. Goals of Care has developed, or is working on, a variety of educational tools, webinars, videos, lectures for internal medicine residents and other healthcare professionals at teaching hospitals in New Jersey. He has pushed for education strategies that include the whole medical team and provide continuing education credits for doctors, nurses, and social workers.

Another tool for improving palliative care is an e-book Dr Barile is writing in his spare

time. It will be a guide to caring for a person with dementia and a call to action for providing medical school education in the field of palliative care. The book is “under construction” and should be on-line in a couple of months. The book also is intended to serve as a resource to convince the federal government, which spends billions of dollars on physician education, to require palliative-care instruction in medical school.

“As physicians we have one overriding primary role — to receive suffering,” Dr. Barile said. “Somehow we have lost sight of our simple goal. . . . The principles of listening and respecting patients’ wishes — what we are advocating for palliative care — are the same principles for treating people of all ages.”

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It just took some time to find the right place, as she explained.

“I was looking for that ‘A-Ha’ moment – when you walk in and just know you’ve found the right place,” Jackie shared. “I had looked all over the state and visited at least 90% of the communities in Monroe, but I just wasn’t getting that feeling anywhere. So I had stopped actively looking. Then one day, my friend Melanie had the day off and said to me, ‘Let’s go look at some homes.’ We drove down to Monroe and just happened to see the sign for K. Hovnanian’s® Four Seasons at Monroe. We figured, why not go have a look?”

It was a decision that changed everything. K. Hovnanian’s® Four Seasons at Monroe is a new active-lifestyle community that offers impressive home designs with open floorplans, an ideal location, and of course, a low-maintenance lifestyle – everything Jackie Sommers was looking for. But she was still holding out for that “A-Ha” moment.

“There were only two models open at the time,” Jackie continued. “We walked into the first one, which was very nice, but not quite what I was looking for. Then we walked into the second home, an Ibiza model. Melanie walked in before me and immediately turned around and just waited and watched as I walked into the space. I guess I should never play poker because my face gives everything away! I walked into the Great Room, turned around 360 degrees, and knew I had my ‘A-Ha’ moment at last. It was the best house I had ever seen and I knew I was home.”

K. Hovnanian’s® Four Seasons at Monroe is impressing a lot of people these days, beginning with the single-family home designs. This is the first time that any of these eleven floorplans have been offered at a community in New Jersey. The homes offer from 1,791 to 3,492 square feet of comfortable living space, with one or two-story designs that include two bedrooms, two to three-and-a-half baths, two-car garages, spectacular designer kitchens, and deluxe interiors that include dramatic nine- or ten-foot ceilings, with exquisite touches and finishes throughout. Pricing for the homes, which is subject to change, starts from the low-$400s.

The Ibiza design, which Jackie chose, is a single-story home that offers approximately 2,002 square feet of comfortable living space, including a luxurious owner’s suite, and a wellappointed laundry/mud room with ample storage. “I immediately loved everything about it – the style, the floorplan,” she commented. “I was ready for a home with everything on one floor. Steps were becoming a bit of an issue for me with a three-floor home. And I’m so glad to have someplace where they take care of all the outside maintenance.”

story facility which will feature an outdoor pool, a kiddie pool for the grandchildren, an exercise room, and tennis, bocce and pickle ball courts. The clubhouse will also include a cocktail lounge, a kitchen with a café area, a covered patio and porch, and an area for aerobics, yoga and Pilates. Jackie is looking forward to socializing through book clubs, Mahjong, and other activities. But even before the clubhouse is open, she has had plenty of opportunities to meet new neighbors.

“Everyone is so nice,” she commented, “People in the community and in this area, they all talk to each other. It reminds me of the old days! It’s a very pleasant place to live – so welcoming and friendly, and we’re all at the same stage in life. I’ve met several other women who are by themselves, like me. In fact, I’m their go-to person at the moment – whenever they have another single lady looking who may have questions, they bring them by my house to chat. I’ve already been drafted as a community ambassador once the clubhouse is open!”

As one of the first four or five homeowners to move into K. Hovnanian’s Four Seasons at Monroe, Jackie Sommers was a pioneer of sorts. She put her deposit down on Halloween of 2015, shortly after visiting with her daughter and grandson, and moved into the neighborhood in July 2016. “I love it here,” she shared. “Once I was unpacked, I would just sit in my new living room and feel calm, not worried about anything. Everyone here has been so helpful, which is important for me, especially making this move on my own. Ruth Kreger, my sales representative, was perfect – never pushy, and always helpful. She told me, ‘Jackie, I think of you like a sister.’ Any time I had a question, or was feeling frustrated or impatient, she was there for me with good advice and great solutions. The adventure, it was just meant to be.

This is probably one of the best decisions I’ve made for myself in many years.”

Visit K. Hovnanian’s Four Seasons at Monroe to discover the appealing homes, ideal location, and exceptional lifestyle that is attracting more and more 55+ buyers every week. If you have children, ask about the community’s “family-friendly” policy, which allows adult children age 19+ to live at home with their parents – ideal for residents with older children who would like to live at home post-college or for families with millennial kids in transition.

All homes within the community are subject to an age restriction whereby the homes are Jackie’s next step was to win over her daughter and grandson, she reflected. “They restricted to use and occupancy by at least one person of age 55 years or over, and with no came back with me to look at it and as soon as we walked in, my grandson said, ‘This is permanent resident being under the age of 19. Despite these restrictions, the developer may it, Grammie, this is it! You’re buying this. I can help you move this weekend!’ He loved sell up to 15% of the homes where at least one occupant is between the ages of 50 and 54. everything about it and I had no doubts at all after that!”

The sales office and model homes at K. Hovnanian’s Four Seasons at Monroe are open daily from 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. For directions or more information, call 1-800-873K. Hovnanian’s® Four Seasons at Monroe is ideally located in central Jersey, providing easy access for visits to or from Jackie’s daughter and grandson, who live in Nutley. The 0902. You may also learn more about the new community online at khov.com/Monroe. community is very close to the NJ Turnpike, Routes 1, 18, 33 and 130. There is a nearby ABOUT HOVNANIAN ENTERPRISES®, INC.: Park-and-Ride and a NJ Transit® station at Princeton Junction. The township also offers Hovnanian Enterprises, Inc., founded in 1959 by Kevork S. Hovnanian, is headquartered many local amenities and attractions, including 18 county parks, a variety of golf courses, in Red Bank, New Jersey. The Company is one of the nation’s largest homebuilders with and many major shopping centers and fine restaurants. The Jersey shore is only a 20-minute operations in Arizona, California, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Maryland, New drive away and Princeton is nearby, offering plenty of dining, educational, entertainment Jersey, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Texas, Virginia, Washington, D.C. and and cultural options. “It’s perfect for me,” Jackie said, “The area offers everything I need and West Virginia.

The Company’s homes are marketed and sold under the trade names K. I really like being close to Princeton. Everything is convenient and that was important for Hovnanian® Homes, Brighton Homes® and Parkwood Builders. As the developer of K. me, especially being by myself.”

Hovnanian’s® Four Seasons communities, the Company is also one of the nation’s largest Construction is commencing rapidly on the community’s clubhouse, an impressive two- builders of active lifestyle communities.

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