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School is back in session — under one roof — at Trenton Central

By Wendy Greenberg

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or the last five years Trenton Central High School has operated from four different buildings within Trenton while students waited for a new high school. Beginning Monday, September 9, the 1,850 students finally will be together under one roof — a new one that does not leak.

With the newly built Trenton Central High School set to open this fall, the district administration and staff have been tirelessly planning a smooth transition. Even in June, before the last school year came to a close, rising juniors and seniors came together in a large auditorium at the College of New Jersey to learn what they might have in common with students they may not have seen since elementary school, and those they had never met.

The move to the new building “means we are one family,” said Principal Hope Grant at the event. “It doesn’t matter what part of Trenton you are from, when you step into Trenton Central High School, we are a family.”

The program that day encouraged students to find commonality with other students who had experienced a disappointment, fell short of a goal, knew a loved one with a disability, had a parent who died, or had addic-

A rendering shows one entrance to the new Trenton Central High School. tion in the family. After they stood in solidarity they were then asked what they would do to make the school a better place. “We’ve been separated so long that we should realize that we are one,” said one student.

building. Without you,” he told students, “it means absolutely nothing,” he said. The event, led by Challenge Day, an anti-bullying organization, was months in the planning and involved help from the Trenton High Alumni Association, City Hall and the Housing urrent Superintendent Fred Authority staff (as volunteer greeters), McDowell reminded the group most wearing red and black shirts, the that the events are “not just about a colors of the Trenton Tornadoes.

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Many volunteers had graduated from the original 1932 red brick high school with its recognizable white columns in the front, which closed in 2014 after 82 years. Common complaints had been buckled floors, mold, roof leaks, and general disrepair. Mayor Reed Gusciora, then a state assemblyman, pushed the state to invest in the school, and eventually the New Jersey Schools Development Authority funded a complete reconstruction — a new, estimated $155 million, 350,000-square-foot building — although some in Trenton wanted to preserve the old building.

Now that the two-story new building is a gleaming new sight at 400 Chambers Street, “the challenge is bringing the students together, returning as one learning community,” said Chief Schools Officer (secondary schools) Shelley Jallow.

Among several committees preparing for the transition, a student engagement committee has been planning informational and student bonding events that will continue throughout the year, beginning with a three-day orientation for students and parents on August 26, 27, and 29.

Open houses for the community are tentatively planned for Saturdays, September 7 and 21.

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State of the city dent Addie Daniels-Lane, a 1974 gradprincipal to four separate buildings, uate of Trenton Central High School, visiting between them all, with a pubtold the Downtowner that “on a perlic address system that worked for all sonal note, I was saddened to see the buildings at the same time. Some of old building demolished, but I realthe temporary spaces had new ameniized that unfortunately it had outlived ties, like a dance studio in the School its usefulness. I also understood that of Visual and Performing Arts, but in order for our students to be truly students had to make do with satellite future-ready, we needed to start with libraries. a future-ready building.”

Although none of the incoming high She celebrates the opening with the school students had studied in the old rest of the board. “We are all excited school, the rising 10th graders were and eagerly anticipating the opening. together last year in the new Ninth This new school represents an opporGrade Academy, at 500 Perry Street. tunity to offer our students unparalThe former Trenton Times building leled learning experiences in a statewas formerly a K-8 charter school, of-the-art facility.

International Academy of Trenton, “As of September 1 our high school which closed, and the district quickly students still have the best learntransformed the building last summer. ing environment possible. (The new (The ninth graders had been in the school) presents an occasion for the Architects’ and school officials’ visions are becoming reality as the newly old Monument School on Pennington students to unite, to take advantage constructed Trenton Central High School prepares to welcome its first Street.) Some of the first purchases of all the resources, and show our city students in September. were bigger chairs and desks. and state what can be done when givThere, students prepare to enter en the needed resources and support. through the Mercer County Techni- media center and swimming pool. high school, with smaller communi“I offer our students a challenge: cal School District.

There is more space for kitchen and ties within the building and early ca‘You’ve got the best so be sure to be The learning academies will each culinary skills, and the automotive reer exploration, said Jallow. “It’s an at your best.’” have their own leadership, separate technology space has been expanded important grade, a predictor grade, In the new high school the smaller entrance, and to work not only on cars but RVs and on who might be graduating and at“learning comcolor scheme. Re- small trucks. There is a copy/printing tending college. Before the academy munities” that taining separate business center. Some historic pieces opened we envisioned how we make defined the sepaThe new school identities went from the old building grace the court- this conducive for getting young peorated schools will the architec- yard, and four 1930s-era mosaics were ple to be successful.” ‘presents an occasion for into stay. These are moved to the new building. tural planning.

The first students from the new the School of Vithe students to unite, The curriculum will incorporate Ninth Grade Academy will be the new Common spacsual Arts, which will be “warm technology, said Jallow, with state-of- 10th grade class in the high school to take advantage of all es was located at and welcoming,” the-art career technology education, The new seniors will be its first gradu544 Chestnut Avthe resources, and show said Jallow. “En- which is an up and coming college ating class. “A high school in one locaenue; STEM (Scivironment has pathway and lifelong learning skill, tion is welcomed by all. To just be in ence, Technolour city and state what a lot to do with in the education field. Teachers are one place creates synergy within and ogy, Engineering We going to be seeking externships with across academics where appropriate,” can be done when given behavior. and Math), wanted to create local organizations and businesses said Jallow. which was loan atmosphere to help them learn how their content “A lot of time, effort, and sacrifice the needed resources cated at 535 Hathat is conducive areas relate to industry. This is a new has gone into creating a premiere nover Avenue, and support.’ program for Trenton, though it is school. For students. We want to put to learning.” the former site of The new done elsewhere in the country. the students first, give them a safe the Daylight Twischool has one space where they can have access to light Alternative lanning for the physical space and an education that will prepare them cafeteria, plus a restaurant, an outdoor High School; Communications, which amphitheater, and an auditorium ripe curriculum has been ongoing for for college to career.” was at 520 Chestnut Avenue; Hotel, for student productions and appropri- several years. First, the temporary Trenton Central High School, 400 Restaurant, Tourism, and Business, ate for graduation. It boasts a weight locations had to be brought up to stanChambers Street. www.trentonk12.

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Dear Neighbor, July 2 was my one-year anniversary as Director of the City of Trenton’s Department of Water and Sewer, which operates the 200-year-old Trenton Water Works (TWW).

I would like to report to you what TWW has done to return to high water quality and how we plan to maintain this excellence, including a summary of future capital projects and customer service.

TWW began its revival in 2018, during which we began to think more strategically about our filtration and water-distribution systems, our workforce, current and future capital projects, and our communication with internal and external stakeholders.

Fundamental to the latter are our customers, TWW’s most essential asset.

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Together with my management team, and the deep support of Trenton Mayor W. Reed Gusciora, we are executing a comprehensive plan to reorganize TWW and position it for stronger water quality and operational success.

We have made substantial progress.

In December 2018, TWW professionals restored high water quality by aggressively implementing our Disinfection Byproducts Reduction Plan. The goal: eliminate DBPs from our finished drinking water. Federal and state water-quality regulations had required TWW to mail several violation notices to our 63,000 customers between 2017 and 2018 as a result of high DBP levels. The 2018 Reduction Plan was a success.

Our quarterly sampling and testing for DBPs, data that is supplied to the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection, continue to exemplify that TWW is meeting federal and state water-quality expectations.

At TWW’s water-filtration plant, we fixed key water-treatment systems, including four Superpulsators, to improve turbidity (a measure of water clarity); we launched a year-long $5 million rehabilitation of two chlorine contacts basins to improve disinfection of raw water drawn from the Delaware River; and we completed an upgrade to an advanced control system called SCADA, which stands for Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition.

Dr. Shing-Fu Hsueh, P.E., P.P. Director

SCADA allows plant personnel to control and monitor plant operations, filtration-process performance, pump stations, several multi-million-gallon storage tanks, the 100-million-gallon Pennington Avenue Reservoir and other parts of TWW’s 683-mile water-distribution system.

We continue to biannually flush water mains throughout TWW’s water-distribution system to remove sediment and stagnant water. In June, we started flushing our multi-million-gallon elevated storage tanks, a standard maintenance procedure that ensures high water quality and optimal pressure.

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Advancing Capital Projects We measure our capital projects in the millions. In fact, TWW will take on 36 projects over the next five years, more than $80 million in improvements to the TWW system. This will ensure high water quality for years to come.

Between this fall and the spring of 2020, TWW will launch its $15-million Lead Service Line Replacement Program. This initiative replaces risky lead and galvanized steel water-service lines at residential properties in our service area for around $1,000, a substantially reduced cost to the homeowner. Banned in 1986, these lines can be a source of lead contamination in drinking water. We envision spending $50 million in the next 10 years to replace water-service lines on private properties, as well as those that are part of our water-distribution system (from our water main to the curb). This fall, TWW will introduce corrosion-control techniques to prevent lead particles from entering the water flowing through service lines connected to our system.

To improve the flow of water throughout our water-distribution system, TWW will spend $40 million to clean and line water mains and upgrade four-inch water mains to six-inch mains, as needed. The cleaning and lining process removes iron oxide tuberculation—small areas of corrosion— that accumulate in water mains over time, and helps to substantially increase the pressure at fire hydrants.

In the near-term, we plan to make $2.7 million in improvements to the raw-water intake system at our water-filtration plant, which draws from the Delaware River, to make it less susceptible to vegetative and frazil ice clogging and more resilient to drought conditions. System designs are complete.

We have launched a $2.2-million capital project to replace all 24 of our water-filtration plant's filter media. These filters, viable for 20 years, are an important part of the filtration process, which enables the plant to produce 27 million gallons of drinking water each day.

Recently, we have proposed to the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection the creation of a decentralized finished-water-storage-tank network. This project would be an alternative to installing a $30 million, limited-life-span floating cover on TWW’s 100-million-gallon Pennington Avenue Reservoir. The network, enabling TWW to phase out the reservoir completely, would meet our finished-water-storage demands while reducing the age of water in our water-distribution system. It would also improve water-system resiliency, performance, operations, safety and security. The current reservoir is essentially a 120-year-old dam that is prone to leaks and has the potential for failure.

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Improving Communications

Better Customer Service

TWW has vastly improved its communications and outreach. Since early this year, we have taken out print ads in service-area publications that convey important messages regarding our operations, we have launched a robust social media presence using Facebook, and we have rolled out TWW-Connects, a Reverse 911 System used to issue emergency and routine alerts.

To date, we have held more than 10 Public Education Forums, during which residents, customers and public officials have asked questions about their drinking water and water-utility infrastructure and interacted directly with TWW representatives. This personal public outreach has been an effective way to discuss important topics, including the science of water treatment, lead in drinking water and localized sources of lead, TWW’s corrosion-control strategy, capital projects, and our work to fill vacant employment positions. To that end, TWW has hired 34 people in the last 12 months, reducing our vacancy rate to 14% from 40%.

I believe that providing customers and residents with a view of our operations through ongoing communication—including our day-to-day production activities and detailed information about the quality of the water—improves transparency and helps restore customer confidence in TWW’s mission to produce drinking water that meets or exceeds federal and state Safe Drinking Water Act standards.

We are enhancing our customer service.

We have upgraded our customer-service computer and telephone systems at our Cortland Street operations center and added two additional customer-service representatives (CSR). We are working to hire four more, including two bilingual CSRs. Our goal is to elevate personal service, reduce on-hold times, and improve the overall service experience. In the second half of this year, we will launch InvoiceCloud, an extension of our service that will allow customers to manage their accounts online, provide additional ways to pay bills, check previous bills, set payment reminders and alerts, and more. And, we are offering home delivery of lead testing kits by calling (609) 989-3033.

We are reorganizing Trenton Water Works for today and tomorrow. We are building a trained workforce and investing in a water-filtration, storage, and distribution infrastructure to achieve continued water quality and operational success. We deeply value our customers and the communities we serve.

As we work to achieve excellence in water quality and operations and to reclaim our status as one of the leading public water systems in the United States, please know that we are at your service.

Dr. Shing-Fu Hsueh, P.E., P.P. Director

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Portrait of an artist and writer By dan auBrey

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anet Purcell — known for her visual arts reporting for the Times of Trenton — is a featured artists in the current summer exhibitions on view at the Trenton City Museum.

Her solo exhibition “Writer Artist Janet Purcell . . . 25 Years Covering the Arts” is on view through Sunday, September 8.

The Trenton native, who now lives in Hopewell, reflects on the journey that took her from her home on Genesee Street to become a regionally known arts writer, artist, and fiction writer.

“My father had a day job working at Eastern Aircraft and then other places (later as a lab assistant at the Plasma Physics Lab at Forrestal Center), but he was also a pen and ink artist,” she says on the screened back porch where she writes and reads. “He won the Best in Show award for one of his pieces at the New Jersey State Fair. It was always displayed at our house. He used to do his drawing, painting, and draft work at the kitchen table late at night, and I would sit and watch him.

That’s how it started.”

Purcell then shows her father, William Knock’s, circa-1930 ink drawing of a couple and a child framed by tall city buildings. She points to the pained

expression of the child and says it reflects an early part of her parents’ relationship: her mother, Lois, called off the engagement while her father was creating the work. When the relationship resumed, the pain remained in the art.

Purcell says her mother — who ran a children’s apparel shop called Tiny Towne — also had an artistic bent.

“She sewed and made costumes for the Trenton High sports night. She did some painting. She was not very good at it, but she liked to do it.” Art also brought her parents together: her father first spotted her mother while she was working at her father’s Trenton music store on South Broad Street.

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he future artist and writer says when she graduated from Trenton Central High School she had no thought of a life in art. “I trained as a legal secretary and right after high school went to work in Trenton for some well known attorneys. My mother always said, ‘Learn shorthand and typing and you’ll always be in demand.’ Both play in my life as a journalist. I’m so glad I took shorthand and kept it up,” she says, seemingly bemused by the twists of fate.

Another twist involves a “boy next door.” “My sister, who got married and moved to Hopewell, said I had

Works by writer and artist Janet Purcell are on view at Ellarslie through Sunday, September 8. to come up and meet her next door neighbor,” Johnny Piggott, who came from an old family in town and eventually served as the associate director of what was then the Princeton University Computer Center.

While the couple settled in Hopewell, Purcell says she continued to work in Trenton, then at RCA in Princeton, where she worked with attorneys and foreign patents until she had the first of her three children.

Then in 1969 something unplanned happened. Her husband exhibited symptoms of the disease that would

end his life 20 years later: multiple sclerosis. “He had to retire on disability, and that’s when it became a fulltime job here,” she says looking about the house where she has lived for decades.

“During the time I was raising the children and taking care of him, I ran my own secretarial service from home, and I would have several clients and go and take dictation and come home and type it up. I met some interesting people doing this.”

She also encountered something from the past. “My mother bought me

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oil paints one year for Christmas, and I started playing with art. I was busy raising kids, but at home I did some paintings and drawings. Then I went to the Princeton Art Association and studied with Elizabeth Ruggles and others.

“Painting really helped. I could lose myself in it. It was like I didn’t have to give up my whole life. I was developing. I wasn’t just on hold. I would set myself up at the kitchen table and after the kids were in bed do paintings.

My husband was extremely supportive. My family and my painting became my life.”

Her life, in turn, became part of a novel, one that deals with an artist, an arts writer, and a character with MS. “I remember taking a painting course with (Bucks County artist) Barbara Osterman. She pointed out that ‘black holes’ showed up in my art.

It seemed significant to her. She said I was working through the intense caretaking through my art. And she called my work moody.”

As evidence Purcell refers to two paintings that “will never leave this house.” One hangs in the front room: a large image of stem-less pearl-white rose against a dark sea of green. Purcell says she was surprised when she realized that she had created “Peace Rose” and how it connected her to her past. “My mother was so good at growing flowers. We had a tiny yard in Trenton, and there were 42 rose

bushes in the yard. I love to paint ros- in the wrong class and ended up in a es.” The other, “Song of Myself,” can journalism class. I stayed and loved it. be seen from the porch. Named after That’s how I got started.”

Then a newspaper career seemed to the poem by Walt Whitman, it shows a large rose with three smaller ones unfold on its own. “My son did somegrouped below. It was painted the year thing at his high school, and I took a her husband died and captures her photo to the Hopewell Valley News.

When I was there I said, ‘If you have life: a widow with three children.

Art is connected to another mo- anything to write, I’d be happy to do it.’ ment in her life. “Right before my (Editor) Ruth Luse said she wanted an father died I had a little show at the article written about an artist and gave Ewing Library, and I had some of his it me. I worked a couple of days on a art in it and took him to see it,” she manual typewriter and got paid $15.

I was thrilled. says, with her art And I have never reviewer side ‘Painting really helped. I been without an surfacing and her since reflecting aloud could lose myself in it. It assignment the mid 1980s.” that she may had It was also durbeen too hasty was like I didn’t have to ing that time that to exhibit work give up my whole life. I she made a name that was not yet “My complete. “But,” was developing. I wasn’t change. maiden name she says, “you do was Janet Knock. these things and just on hold.’

Purcell was my don’t think about mother’s maiden doing it,” adding she was happy to have that experience name. When my husband was living I with her father and glad that she kept took his last name and Purcell was my developing and got accepted into ex- middle name. I was Janet Purcell Pighibitions on the strength of her work. gott. I just never liked the sound of the The next chapter of Purcell’s life name Piggott and several years after started when her daughter — who he died I legally dropped it and beknew her mother was a lover of histor- came, by court order, Janet Purcell,” ical novels — reminded her that she she says.

Although Purcell has contributed to had said that she wanted to write. “She said go take a class at Mercer County Art Matters, DesignNJ, the New York College. I thought about writing as Post, and other publications, the core a caretaker. So I signed up, but I got of her writing is for the Times of Tren-

ton. It’s a relationship that began when she “sent a letter to the Trenton Times and asked if they needed someone to write. I got a call that said we need someone because our arts writer is ill.”

Until recently Purcell had been meeting a Friday deadline for 26 years. However the Times of Trenton has reduced her arts reporting to twice a month.

Over the past decade Purcell has launched another career as a fiction writer.

Purcell says the creation of her three novels — “Singer Lane,” “The Long Way Home,” and “Rooster Street” (Sunpenny Publishing Company) — came from both her love of historic novels and a willingness to explore both technique and self.

“I thought I couldn’t write fiction, but I started playing with it and found I enjoyed doing it,” she says. “But it is revealing. You write about what you care about. You show up in one way or another, through what the characters are saying. I’m less afraid now (of being revealing). It’s one of the advantages of age: I’m more confident.”

Writer Artist Janet Purcell . . .

25 Years Covering the Arts, Trenton City Museum at Ellarslie Mansion, Cadwalader Park. Through Sunday, September 8, Wednesday through Saturday, noon to 4 p.m., Sunday 1 to 4 p.m. Free. 609-989-3632 or www. ellarslie.org

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Trenton animal rescuers save the day and dogs

By Patricia Taylor

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t is a truth universally acknowledged that dog lovers do not recognize political boundaries. While that may be the case, city departments must and do. Thus, when a PSEG worker went on a service call in Trenton’s 800 block of East State Street on June 24 and found one of the homes emitting a raucous onslaught of barking as well as an overpowering stench, he called the Trenton Police Department.

That is the beginning of the incredible rescue of 52 dogs barely surviving in disgusting hoarding conditions.

There were huge smooth haired mastiffs; tiny, shaggy haired Yorkshire puppies; mixed breeds of all kinds; some were manacled, some were starving; all were suffering. The rescue — removing more than four dozen dogs from East State Street and then providing not only medical care but also new homes — was accomplished in less than a week. It was a rescue that involved numerous people — private citizens and public workers — from Trenton, Ewing, Lawrence, Hamilton, and across state borders into Pennsylvania.

But to start at the beginning. Upon receiving notice of the problematic animal cruelty on East State Street, the

police called the Trenton Animal Shelter (officially the Trenton Humane Law Enforcement and Animal Services Unit, or THLEAS). The message was passed to Animal Control Officer Jose Millan, and he immediately drove to East State Street. When he arrived it was obvious that he was confronting a horrific situation, but because there was no one at home — or at least no one answering the repeated knocking and doorbell ringing — his maximum

A concerned PSEG worker set of a chain of events that led to more than four dozen dogs being rescued from a home on East State Street. recourse was to ensure that a 24-hour notice was affixed to the property.

“And then we had to prepare ourselves,” he recalls. Representatives from the Department of Health and Human Services (THLEAS is under that jurisdiction) and the Department of Police accompanied Millan when the 24-hour period had elapsed.

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This time James Marshall, who has since been charged with animal cruelty, was on the front lawn with several dogs and refused admittance to his house. Because of the legal precautions taken and the presence of officers, he could not forbid entrance.

And that’s when the urgent phone calls went out. It was obvious that there were a lot of dogs, but the sheer amount was overwhelming. Pleas for help went to the Ewing Animal Shelter, the Center for Animal Referral and Emergency Services (CARES) in Langhorne, Pennsylvania, the remaining staff at the Trenton Animal Shelter, and to Danielle Gletow of Ewing, among others.

Gletow is a busy woman, a founder of two nonprofits: the nationally recognized One Simple Wish foundation and the local Trenton Animals Rock (TAR), a foundation dedicated to helping injured, abused, and abandoned animals in Trenton. It was her role in the latter that prompted Millan’s call.

“In some ways,” Gletow remembers, “it was fortunate that one of my daughters was sick that day. That meant I was home; otherwise I would not have been able to respond so promptly to that call.”

Trenton Animal Control Officer Jose Millan, left, and Danielle Gletow of Trenton Animals Rock.

And respond she did, first calling Donna Gletow, her “awesome” sisterin-law and fellow Ewing resident, to come watch her daughter, and then alerting TAR board members as well as a wide network of animal lovers throughout Mercer County and beyond.

While Gletow was calling in help, the staff at the Trenton Animal Shelter was ordered to East State Street. An animal control truck holds six to seven dogs, James Mongru, the shelter’s maintenance manager, reports. With

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“Everything was going on at one time,” Mongru says. And to go into the house to get the dogs “it was terrible. There were feces everywhere.”

Many of the dogs needed immediate help. Bolt cutters were required to remove the shackles on some of them.

When Gletow arrived at the shelter around noon the doors were locked.

The entire staff was on East State Street helping to put dogs into trucks.

With the arrival of the first truck the doors were unlocked and Gletow swung into action.

“We moved the dogs that were currently in the shelter to the back kennels to allow space for the arrivals. As the dogs were brought in, I did visual assessments and wrote down their breed, age, and condition,” she says.

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letow noted those that were most critical and notified veterinarian staff at CARES that they were soon to have many patients. Ewing resident Matt Gellar, whose semester classes at TCNJ had finished, and Hamilton resident Jen Share, a volunteer at the shelter, assumed responsibility for driving the neediest dogs to CARES. The Animal Alliance in Lambertville also offered its services and Geller got back in his car to drive the youngest and smallest Yorkshire puppies needing immediate care to that organization.

And still the trucks were going back and forth and additional dogs were arriving at the shelter after each round trip. Mongru believes there were nine round trips all told.

More volunteers were needed and several began to arrive that evening.

Several TAR board members were kept busy calling existing, approved dog foster homes to take dogs that had been in the shelter to make room

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Some also volunteered to get food for everyone. “They picked up pizzas,” Gletow says, “but we were all so busy we didn’t have time to eat until 9:30 — right before we left.”

Gletow adds, “And we didn’t leave until every dog that needed medical care was at a hospital and every dog had an indoor kennel for the night.”

Still, more work needed to be done.

Gletow was among the volunteers arriving early the next day to continue the process of assessing the temperament and condition of the remaining dogs. The shelter, she notes, is super small, quite old, and desperately in need of additional city funding to care for the hundreds of animals that pass through its doors. “The guys who run it are among my favorite people because they love these animals and work so hard for them with so little resources.”

That day it was decided that several more dogs needed medical attention, and they were transported to CARES as well. The TAR foundation, Gletow reports, raises funds to pay for the medical needs of dogs transported out of the shelter as well as to provide support for the shelter’s operations.

“It took us six days to move all the East State Street dogs into foster homes or rescue groups,” she says.

“We also moved the other dogs that were waiting in the shelter before the hoarding case.”

Looking back, Gletow remarks, “It was an incredible effort and something that continues to inspire me to keep doing this work. When people set aside their opinions and just get to work, so much good can be done.”

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Original Dominick’s keeps the Trenton tomato pie in its original home

By Dan Aubrey

T

he writing on the front outside wall of Original Dominick’s Pizza on Route 29 is simple: “Famous Trenton Tomato Pie.” Not so simple is the realization that this low white building that cars zoom past on a daily basis is one of the few — if not the only — shops in Trenton that sells the pie branded with the city’s name.

The other and more famous Trenton pie makers have moved to the suburbs.

So the writing is on the wall. Dominick’s owner, Manuel Gomez, is the guy who is keeping a Trenton tradition — and part of history — alive.

“I bought from the boss,” says Gomez about becoming the heir of Trenton-styled pies.

A Guatemala native, Gomez left his family’s farm to come to Trenton 22 years ago. “To join friends and family,” he says.

He supported his wife and two daughters working at two Dominick’s Pizzas — one in Washington Crossing, Pennsylvania, the other in Trenton.

Then 10 years ago he bought the store from Vincent “Vinny” Scavo, an Italian immigrant who came to New York City in 1962 and worked with his pizza empire-building older brother, Dominick.

Vinny, who settled in Hopewell and died in 2011, learned his brother’s trade and then traded on the name and business to create a series of pizza shops in the Delaware Valley region.

The rest is history. And so are the words “Trenton Style” on the Trenton shop’s front wall and menu.

So what difference does a name make? Let’s get technical.

While some say all tomato pies are pizzas (which means pies), not all pizzas are tomato pies — a point that will be challenged later.

But there is little challenge to a Trenton pie’s first distinction: the crust. It needs to be thin yet able to hold up when it comes out of the oven.

Often the crust is well done and a little blackened around the edges.

For both pizza and tomato pie, there are four basics — the dough, the oil, the cheese, and the sauce. With pizza, the tomato sauce gets ladled on first, followed by shredded mozzarella and toppings.

But with tomato pie, after a drizzle of olive oil, the cheese goes on and then the sauce — or, more accurately, the crushed tomatoes.

As Pizza Today online magazine’s Scott Weiner writes, the Trentonstyled pie is a Neapolitan pizza derivation that is “round and lightly topped with mozzarella and tomatoes. Unlike contemporary cheese-laden pizzas, Trenton tomato pie puts crushed tomato on top of a gentle layer of low

Original Dominick’s Pizza owner Manuel Gomez, left, with Marvin Hernandez, also from Trenton.

decided to document some of the old pie men and their restaurants.

In 2006 he produced “Pie Eyed,” a 30-minute homage to tomato pies and those who made them.

A native of North Trenton, Amico had retired from the healthcare business, having owned the Millhouse Nursing Home in Trenton, among other endeavors.

“I said to a friend of mine, ‘Let’s make a movie about the people who make Trenton tomato pies because they’re not going to be here forever.’

And sure enough, they’re not.”

At the end of his movie, Amico makes a point echoed by everyone who still makes or eats tomato pies.

It’s important to have fresh ingredients and the skill to put them together. But the most important thing is the customer. That may seem painfully obvious to anyone who is in business.

But with tomato pie, the connection with Chambersburg and the people and places not there anymore is in full play.

“My theory is it really comes down to what you are used to with sauce for pasta. Some people like thin sauce, some like thick. You choose one or the other because that’s what you’re used to. The people who grew up with this all live in the suburbs, but they have the same allegiance. If you get into a discussion on who has the best pie you can get into a shouting match.

People get rabid.”

Allegiance and arguments also pop up on the Facebook page “Trenton NJ — Authentic Tomato Pie — Nothin’ Else!” It’s “dedicated to the Trenton NJ Authentic Tomato Pie ... recipes, techniques, extras, utensils used, pertinent personal stories of failures and successes when trying to make the ‘pie.’” It also shares articles and information regarding Trenton pie makers.

Another thing that may start a argument comes from Nick Azzaro, owner of the esteemed and historical Papa’s Yardville. “There’s no difference between a tomato pie and a pizza,” he said authoritatively in a 2013 interview.

But Gomez back at Dominick’s challenges Azzaro’s claim. And after estimating his sales are divided 50-50 between regular pizza and Trenton pie and sharing his ingredients — Felto de Pomedora Italian peeled tomatoes, Chef’s Quality Brand Olive Pome Oil, and Mazzarella Grand — Part Skim — Gomez says, “Tomato pie is better for dieters. Less cheese, good taste.”

And while Dominick’s pie’s high notes of sweet tomatoes accented by traces of cheese and olive oil and the fresh warmth of an al dente thin crust won’t really help a dieter, it helps keep a Trenton tradition right where it belongs.

moisture mozzarella. Each purveyor jobs in Trenton’s steel and pottery inhas a slightly different take, but all dustries. They repaid the city with the versions are dense and crunchy with- creation of the Trenton pie.

As Wiener writes, “Joe Silvestro out the characteristic flop of a New opened a restaurant called Joe’s ToYork slice.”

Now let’s get historical. The name mato Pies on South Clinton Avenue in tomato pie first cropped up in New 1910. They baked thin, crunchy pizzas York around the turn of the century with a light amount of cheese topped as an easy way to explain the then-un- with roughly crushed tomatoes. One familiar word and menu item “pizza.” of Joe’s employees, Joe Papa, split off While food historians say peasants in 1912 to open his own restaurant, ate flatbreads with toppings for thou- called Papa’s Tomato Pies, just down sands of years, two historic moments the street, when he was only 17 years old. Although it are connected has moved sevwith the contemeral times over porary pizza.

The Trenton tomato the past 105-plus The first was pie originated with the years, Papa’s has when Europeans operated condiscovered the Italian immigrants who tinuously since it Americas and settled in Chambersburg first opened. That brought back the Papa’s the tomato. in the late 19th century. makes oldest continuThe second ously run tomato was Queen Marpie restaurant in gherita of Savoy’s 1889 visit to Naples where she was the United States.”

But that was then. “In Trenton, presented with a pie resembling the there was a tomato pie place on every Italian flag.

According to “Pizza: A Slice of Heav- other corner,” says Sam Amico of Deen” author Ed Levine, that pie, now Lorenzo’s in Robbinsville. “For a lot known as the Margherita, was a defin- of people from North Jersey or New York, maybe the tomato pie isn’t the ing moment for the idea of a pizza.

That event took place one year af- same pizza they grew up with, but it’s ter the city of Trenton annexed the something they’ve become loyal to adjacent Borough of Chambersburg and support.”

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Capital Health Medical Center – Hopewell

Earns National Award for Quality

Third Consecutive “A” Awarded by the Leapfrog Group’s Hospital Safety Grade Capital Health Medical Center – Hopewell was awarded an ‘A’ from The Leapfrog Group’s spring 2019 Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grade for the third consecutive time. The designation recognizes the hospital’s efforts in protecting patients from harm and providing safer health care. The Leapfrog Group is a national nonprofit organization committed to improving health care quality and safety for consumers and purchasers. The Safety Grade assigns an ‘A’, ‘B’, ‘C’, ‘D’ or ‘F’ grade to hospitals across the country based on their performance in preventing medical errors, injuries, accidents, infections and other harms to patients in their care.

“Capital Health Medical Center - Hopewell is home to services like our Cancer Center, Center for Digestive Health, Orthopaedics, and Pediatric Services to name a few. Earning an ‘A’ from The Leapfrog Group for the third time in a row reassures the residents in our community that we continue to be a leader in health care for the region,” said Al Maghazehe, president and CEO, Capital Health.

“As an organization, Capital Health is committed to improving quality and safety outcomes, and this recognition validates our efforts,” said Dr. Louis D’Amelio, vice president of Clinical Performance at Capital Health. “Our dedication to patient safety is supported by ongoing initiatives that ensure we continue to make sustained improvements and meet nationally recognized standards of care.”

“To be recognized nationally as an ‘A’ hospital is an accomplishment the whole community should take pride in,” said Leah Binder, president and CEO of The Leapfrog Group.

“Hospitals that earn an ‘A’ grade are making it a priority to protect patients from preventable medical harm and error. We congratulate hospital leaders, board members, staff, volunteers and clinicians who work so hard to earn this A.” To see Capital Health Medical Center - Hopewell’s full grade details, and to access patient tips for staying safe in the hospital, go to hospitalsafetygrade.org or visit capitalhealth.org for more information.

Developed under the guidance of a Blue Ribbon National Expert Panel, the Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grade uses 28 measures of publicly available hospital safety data to assign grades to more than 2,600 U.S. acute care hospitals twice per year. The Hospital Safety Grade’s methodology is peer-reviewed and fully transparent, and the results are free to the public.

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Capital Health at Deborah – Emergency Services Satellite Emergency Department Launches at Deborah Heart and Lung Center As of 12 a.m. on July 1, Capital Health assumed operation of the satellite emergency department (SED) located on the Browns Mills campus of Deborah Heart and Lung Center, an 89-bed teaching hospital that specializes in the diagnosis and treatment of congenital and acquired heart, lung, and vascular diseases in adults, as well as providing outpatient cardiology services for children. Deborah is Burlington County’s only fully licensed cardiac center.

president and CEO Joseph Chirichella, who noted that the two organizations have entered into a larger partnering agreement to expand access to the specialized services offered by each hospital in their greater service areas.

The newly named SED, Capital Health at Deborah – Emergency Services, is licensed by the New Jersey State Department of Health and fills the vacancy left by Lourdes Medical Center of Burlington County after Lourdes’ planned termination of services on June 30, 2019. The 10,000 square foot SED operates 24 hours a day and features 11 exam/treatment rooms, triage bay, cardiac resuscitation room, specialized treatment areas (including OB/ GYN and isolation/decontamination), support services such as lab and radiology, a comfortable waiting area, and ample parking at an easy to drive to location.

“First and foremost, we could not have found a better partner to operate the SED,” he added. “Capital Health’s experience makes them ideal to assume the emergency department operations management. For the past ten years, patients have come to expect a high level of service and care. We are pleased that they will continue to receive this high level of medical care under a seamless transition. More importantly, our strategic partnership with Capital Health will open the doors to specialty services in our area and on our campus, services that are needed in the community. As well, this partnership paves the way for an integration of cardiac services that will benefit the residents of Mercer County, who will enjoy a closer connection to the highest level of cardiac care available. This collaboration and partnership is a win-win situation for both communities.”

“Communities that Deborah serves depend on the SED at Deborah, and our goal is to not only meet but exceed their expectations when they need emergency medical services,” said Al Maghazehe, Capital Health’s president and CEO. “We are excited to begin this journey with our new partners at Deborah and look forward to building upon the services offered at the SED.”

“Deborah’s reputation for excellence in cardiac care and best practices aligns with Capital Health’s high standards and commitment to quality,” said Samuel J. Plumeri, Jr., chairman, Capital Healthcare Corporation Board of Directors.

“As partners, we will continue to provide the highest level of emergency medical services to the Burlington and Ocean County communities.”

“The community, and Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, will benefit from this range of specialized services which Capital Health will bring to its strategic partnership with Deborah,” said

For more information about Capital Health at Deborah – Emergency Services, visit capitalhealth.org/deborahsed.

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Capital Health Regional Medical Center Earns NATIONAL RECOGNITION for Comprehensive Stroke Care Capital Health Regional Medical Center (RMC) has received the American Heart Association/ American Stroke Association’s Get With The Guidelines® Gold Plus Quality Achievement Award. The award recognizes the hospital’s commitment to ensuring stroke patients receive the most appropriate treatment according to nationally recognized, research-based guidelines based on the latest scientific evidence.

According to the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association, stroke is the fifth leading cause of death and a leading cause of adult disability in the United States. On average, someone in the U.S. suffers a stroke every 40 seconds and nearly 795,000 people suffer a new or recurrent stroke each year. RMC earned the Get With The Guidelines® Target: Stroke Honor Roll Elite Gold Plus Quality Achievement Award by meeting specific quality achievement measures for the diagnosis and treatment of stroke patients at a set level for a designated period.

These measures include evaluation of the proper use of medications and other stroke treatments aligned with the most up-to-date, evidence-based guidelines with the goal of speeding recovery and reducing death and disability for stroke patients. Before discharge, patients should also receive education on managing their health, get a follow-up visit scheduled, as well as other care transition interventions.

Additionally, RMC received the American Heart Association/ American Stroke Association’s Target: StrokeSM Honor Roll Elite award. To qualify for this recognition, hospitals must meet quality measures developed to reduce the time between the patient’s arrival at the hospital and treatment with the clot-buster tissue plasminogen activator, or tPA, the only drug approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to treat ischemic stroke.

Capital Health Regional Medical Center is the only Comprehensive Stroke Center in the region certified by The Joint Commission, and one of only eight such hospitals in New Jersey. And as part of Capital Health’s Capital Institute for Neurosciences, it is available for patients who require the most advanced treatments for neurovascular and stroke care including neuroendovascular, neurosurgical and stroke services. In addition, Capital Health launched its innovative Mobile Stroke Unit in early 2017, designed to bring time-critical stroke care to patients at their home, or wherever it is dispatched to assess them. It was the first unit of its kind in New Jersey, Pennsylvania or the Delaware Valley and was only the seventh to go live in the United States.

To learn more about Capital Health’s advanced care for stroke patients and those with other complex disorders of the brain and spine, visit capitalneuro.org.

CAPITAL HEALTH RECEIVES NEW QUALITY-BASED ACCREDITATION FROM DNV GL Capital Health has earned hospital accreditation from DNV GL – Healthcare, a certification body that helps health care organizations achieve excellence by improving quality and patient safety. By earning this accreditation, both Capital Health Medical Center – Hopewell and Capital Health Regional Medical Center demonstrate that they meet or exceed patient safety standards and Conditions of Participation set forth by the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). DNV GL’s accreditation program is the only one to integrate the ISO 9001 Quality Management System with the Medicare Conditions of Participation.

“The DNV GL program is consistent with our commitment to quality and patient safety and aligns with the important initiatives that support our organizational culture,” said Al Maghazehe, president and CEO of Capital Health. “The program includes the integration of ISO 9001 quality standards with our clinical and financial processes, which will be a major move forward for the entire organization.”

Capital Health has three years from the date of its accreditation to achieve compliance with ISO 9001, the world’s most trusted quality management system used by performance-driven organizations around the world to advance their quality and sustainability objectives.

“We have taken an entirely different approach to accreditation, and hospitals are really responding,” says DNV GL - Healthcare CEO Patrick Horine. “Since accreditation is a musthave credential for just about every hospital in this country, why not make it more valuable, and get more out of it? That’s where ISO 9001 comes into play, and turns the typical get-your-ticketpunched accreditation exercise into a quality transformation.”

DNV GL’s accreditation program, called National Integrated Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (NIAHO®), involves annual hospital surveys – instead of every three years – and encourages hospitals to openly share information across departments and discover improvements in clinical workflows and safety protocols.

“Our hospital accreditation from DNV GL – Healthcare aligns with our journey to high reliability with a philosophy that links compliance with quality and safety standards, making improvements, and then sustaining those improvements over time,” said Dr. Louis D’Amelio, vice president of Clinical Performance at Capital Health. “Holding on-site surveys every year will help us to quickly apply the high, nationally recognized standards from ISO 9001 and CMS to be able to give our patients the best possible outcomes.”

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Surgery for an informative program on breast cancer. Learn more about what makes you high risk, what imaging is available, and the role genetics plays. Also learn more about benign breast disease and what women can expect during menopause.

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Your weekly guide to Trenton Arts and Culture Levitt AMP Trenton Music Series Welcomes Back Trenton Native Edwin Lebron On August 15, 2019, Mill Hill Park will be filled with the sounds of Latin rhythms when Edwin Lebron once again takes the Levitt AMP Trenton stage to headline a show that will have the audience dancing from beginning to end. Lebron, who is Miami based, will make his way back up the East Coast to Trenton (where he was born and raised) for a salsa performance to remember.

Edwin will draw upon his body of work, which may include his singles“Te Vas,� “Eres Mi Vida,� “Te Esperare� and “Soy Rumbero� and other tracks from his most recent album, “Canciones Que No Se Olvidan.� This is Lebron’s second Levitt AMP appearance.

In 2016, Edwin rocked the Trenton War Memorial when his Levitt AMP performance was moved indoors due to inclement weather. Fingers crossed for a beautiful August evening to welcome him back.

Plus, It’s a Family Affair Latin music lovers will be in for a treat on August 15 because they will get a double dose of Trenton Latin vibes. Lebron’s cousin and fellow Trentontian Gabriel Muùoz will warm up the audience as the opening act performing Latin folk music featuring his expertly played Cuatro guitar.

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First came the bookstore, then came the book

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he Downtowner has an informal summer tradition of presenting the works of Trenton-connected poets and short story writers.

This year the tradition continues, but there is a twist.

The writings are part of a new anthology that also has a twist. They are all connected by one particular Trenton location, Classics Books.

Edited and produced by Classics Books’ proprietor, Eric Maywar, and published by the Princeton-based Ragged Sky Press, run by poet Ellen Foos, “The Book Shop on Lafayette Street” features poems, stories, and plays by a variety of area writers including arts writer Ilene Dube, internationally known poet Yusef Komunyakaa, nationally known poet and former Trenton Central High School English teacher Doc Long, and noted regionally based playwright and former Passage Theater director David White, and others.

It also includes writing by Maywar, who provides the following overview to introduce the sampling of writings: “We never planned to write this book. In 2017 Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Yusef Komunyakaa was working on an epic poem and part of it took place at Classics Books. Independently, I was working on some flash fiction that also took place at Classics Books.

“We bumped into each other (at

Classics Books) and decided that we should collaborate on a collection of poems and stories that all take place at our favorite bookstore.

“We thought a collection of excellent work with a shared setting — and a shared love of bookstores and the people in them — might be an exciting project. We reached out to some of our favorite writers and artists to make it happen.”

The book, $15, is available at Classics, 4 West Lafayette Street, or online at www.raggedsky.com. Excerpts follow.

Anything You Need

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boarded the express in Brooklyn that morning.

“This train is making no local stops,” announced the conductor, the brass buttons on his epaulets shining like gold. Outside the window, I viewed the seamless transition from one set of industrial-era buildings to another—the gray skies soon had me craving a coffee.

The rush of passengers in wool and down swept me onto a concrete platform where a passing train created a gust of wind that would have blown my wig, had I been wearing one.

I passed a park and then went through another, and a few blocks down found myself entering a book-

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“I’m looking for my great grandfashop. The tinkling of the door chimes drowned the sounds of outside, trans- ther,” I told the proprietor. “He was an porting me to another world. The pur- ironworker. His son, my grandfather, veyor, a man with a beard and a button- grew up on a cooperative farm for down shirt, looked up. “Let me know Jewish immigrants in New Jersey. His if there’s anything you’re looking for.” brother became a butcher in Trenton.

“Coffee?” I knew the answer before He was murdered in his shop. His son was an architect who worked with Louthe word escaped.

He told me about a nice place on is Kahn on the Trenton Bath House.”

I’m not sure how much of what I Cass Street, but it was too far to walk on this blustery day. He showed me a said was true. That is, I’d known these selection of books on coffee, but their things to be true before boarding the covers, with images of dark-roasted train that morning, but as I spoke beans and laurel leaf patterns in milk these truths I began to wonder.

The proprietor led me to a section foam only deepened my cravings. on Trenton hisThe store was tory. Crossroads filled with blond the American wood shelves ‘We thought a collection of Revolution went packed with too far back in books.

There of excellent work with time.

Trenton: were only single a shared setting — Images of Amercopies of each ica focused on title. Books were and a shared love of landmark buildalso piled onto tabookstores and the ings. Where were bles and in boxes.

Dubes of The smell of old people in them — might the Trenton? books was like a “You might try mix of chocolate be an exciting project.’ the Trenton Free and—oh god— Public Library,” coffee.

There were cookbooks and art the pleasant store owner suggested. books, and books I’d read years ago: “Or the State Archives.”

I wondered if either of those places The Master and Margarita, One Hundred Years of Solitude, Things Fall had coffee.

I was now aware of a group gathered Apart, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s at the back of the store. Mostly womNest, Beloved, Slaughterhouse Five.

en, they were knitting. Or talking about knitting. Or laughing about knitting.

One of the women came to the front. Balancing with a cane, she walked slowly. “Did you want to know about the butcher who was murdered?” she asked.

I nodded. “Louis Dube.”

“I used to go there for meat,” she said, her face suddenly becoming young again. “Lou was my mother’s butcher. Everyone in Trenton was devastated by what happened.”

As it turns out, there’d been a reading the previous week by the author of a book about Trenton in the 1930s. The talk was so well received; the book had not only sold out but was out of print. But it may have had a footnote about Louis the murdered butcher.

The old woman introduced me to the knitting group. They greeted me like a long-lost relation. I confessed I didn’t know how to knit. One woman handed me a kit. It was for a blanket that had different panels outlining my family history, from the ironworker who left Russia to the cooperative farming communities and the murder at the butcher shop.

A woman with curly hair that matched the yarn she was using opened the plastic wrapper, took out the needles and cast on stitches in a golden thread. Then she handed the needles to me, and soon I was knitting for the first time in my life. Every stitch, seemingly made at lightning speed, was perfectly neat.

We heard the tinkling of the door chimes. The coffee vendor had arrived! He had bicycled over with his coffee cart. “Trenton Makes Coffee,” read his shirt. He even smelled like coffee as he made us each a cup of the best brew I’d ever had. In the crema on top, I could see my grandfather’s beard.

It curled like the yarn of the woman who’d taught me to knit.

The proprietor called me to the front of the store.

He’d remembered something: “Sasha Parubchenko — Trenton’s blacksmith. Maybe he can tell you something.”

The bicycling coffee roaster was waiting for me outside. As I climbed aboard the back of his bike, the woman with the sheepskin hair came running after me, presenting the knitted blanket of my family history. I wore it on my back like a cape as suddenly the coffee roaster’s bicycle lifted off the ground. Below, I could see the crowd at Classics Books, waving at us in the sky.

The Cat in the Hat in the Box in the Bookstore: A True Story

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hen I first opened the bookstore, I was adamant that it was going to be a store for readers, not collectors. I was not going to sell first editions; I was going to sell books for people who liked to read not collect; blah blah blah. Then somebody brought in a first edition of War of the Worlds. How cool it was to hold that book in my hands. It took me about 30 seconds to throw out my rule and carry some collectable books.

One busy Saturday at our first store, I had a line at the register and a woman came in with a box of books to donate. I invited her to wait a moment and I would let her know how much credit I could give her, but she said not to worry about it — she had just tried to sell these books at a garage sale and she just wanted to get rid of them. On the side of the box read “Old Kids Books $1 Each.”

About a week later, one of the New Hope floods — Ilene Dube

Trenton CICLOVIA Open Streets Festival

came and I had to pack up every book in the store.

Martines (a restaurant across the street) let me pile up books on her tables (I would eat at a restaurant like that!), friends and customers loaded up their vans and cars and we emptied the store.

We already had Classics, a second used bookstore in Trenton, and we decided to close the New Hope store and deliver all the books to Trenton. We still hadn’t opened that box of kids’ books.

It took us months to settle in to the Trenton store, unpacking, sorting and shelving all the books from New Hope. It was maybe six months later I opened the box of books.

It included a first edition early Maurice Sendak’s A Hole is the Dig ($150) and a first edition Tasha Tudor ($800). But the mind-blowing book was a first edition (200/200 on the price tab of the flap) of The Cat in the Hat. It was in perfect condition, no single mark or scuff, no price clip. It looked unread.

List price? $7,000. (We eventually sold it wholesale to another bookstore for about $2,000).

What an amazing collection of books, which had sat unwanted in a box at a garage sale for $1.

There is something essentially human about used books. Life may leave us a little battered and worn, but we still have the capacity to inspire, to teach, to entertain, to love and be loved.

And no matter how unwanted we may feel at times, how neglected and overlooked, all it takes is the right person to open our covers and recognize us for the treasure we are.

— Eric Maywar

At Classics Books Old bookstores *Wise silence *The overfed cat napping on the windowsill * Specks of dust ride lasers of light *Stillness haunted in an unseen world* Open any book and the sulk of wine and incense all the way from Dakar or Tashkent* Subversive revolutionary* Things hidden in the name of freedom * Music* Is that music* Bebop walking down the street dancing reading a book* The cat yawns goes back to sleep * Small town *Saturday afternoon* Planets swarming in silver light* — Doc Long www.classicsusedbooks.com

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Blues Jam, Candlelight Lounge, 24 Passaic Street, 609-695-9612. www.jazztrenton. com. $5. Every Thursday. 6 p.m.

Levi� AMP Trenton Music Series, Mill Hill Park, 165 East Front Street. www.facebook. com/levi�amptrenton. PJ Rasmussen & The Boardwalk Jazz. Tom Tallitsch opens with jazz. Food vendors, family ac�vi�es, and more. 5 p.m.

CASA Informa�on Session, CASA of Mercer and Burlington Coun�es, 1450 Parkside Avenue, Suite 22, Ewing. www.casamb.org. CASA for Children is a non-profit organiza�on that recruits, trains and supervises community volunteers who speak up in family court for the best interests of children who have been removed from their families due to abuse and/ or neglect. Also August 14, 5:30 p.m. 10 a.m.

Capital City Farmers Market, Mill Hill Park, 165 East Front Street. www.des�na�ontrenton. com. Farmers, ar�sans, and makers every Thursday through October. 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Trenton Thunder, Arm & Hammer Park, Route 29, 609-394-3300. www.trentonthunder. com. Altoona. $11 and up. 7 p.m.

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Public Artwork Tours, New Jersey State House Annex, 145 West State Street, 609-8473150. Guided tour of New Jersey’s capitol complex and its artwork, including stained glass, pain�ngs, murals, �lework, sculptures, and marquetry. Free. Weekly on Fridays.

1:30 p.m.  Opening Recep�on -- The Figure A Portrait Makes, MCCC James Kerney Campus Gallery, 137 North Broad Street. www.mccc. edu/JKCgallery. Contemporary interpreta�ons of portraiture by ten current and former MCCC Visual Arts students. Opening

held in conjunc�on with MCCC Summer Jazz Ins�tute fes�val, 3 to 6 p.m. Exhibi�on on view through August 23. Free. 3 to 6 p.m.

Friday Dance Party, American Ballroom, 1523 Parkway Avenue, Ewing, 609-931-0149. www.americanballroomco.com. $10. Every Friday. 7 to 9 p.m.

MCCC Summer Jazz Ins�tute Fes�val, Trenton Hall, 137 North Broad Street, 609-570-3735.

Outdoors arts fes�val featuring arts display, photography exhibi�on, food trucks, and musical performances. Free. 3 p.m.

Street Fair, First Friday, The African American Cultural Collec�ve of Mercer County, Warren Street and Front Street. www.taacf.com.

Block party featuring DJs, vendors, and family ac�vi�es. 5 p.m.

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Art Opening, Artworks Trenton, 19 Evere� Alley, 609-394-9436. www.artworkstrenton. org. Recep�on for exhibi�ons “Train Art in America,” curated by Trenton ar�st Leon Rainbow, and “Golden Void - Zo Perron.” On view through August. 31. Free. 7 to 9 p.m.

Saxophonist Darryl Yokley, Candlelight Lounge, 24 Passaic Street, 609-695-9612. www.jazztrenton.com. $10. Includes free buffet. 3:30 p.m.

Open Mic Night, Starbucks, 102 South Warren Street. Music, spoken word, poetry, comedy, storytelling, and more. 3 p.m.

Doc Ro�en, Mill Hill Basement, 300 South Broad Street. Live music. 9 p.m.

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House Tour, Benjamin Temple House, 27 Federal City Road, Ewing, 609-883-2455. www. ethps.org. Learn about the families who called the circa-1750 Colonial farmhouse home. 2 p.m.

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Trenton Thunder, Arm & Hammer Park, Route 29, 609-394-3300. Bowie. $11 and up. 7 p.m.

West Trenton Garden Club, Our Lady of Good Counsel Church, 137 West Upper Ferry Road, 609-8863-5804. www.wes�rentongc. org. Bid on flowers and vegetables from gardens and farm markets. Free. 7 p.m.

Art Chill Night, Championship Bar, 931 Chambers Street. www.championshipbartrenton. com. Crayons and drinks. Art supplies provided. Free. Every Monday. 8 p.m.

Quizzoholics Trivia, Killarney’s, 1644 Whitehorse Mercerville Road, Hamilton, 609-5861166. www.quizzoholics.com. Free trivia every Monday. 8 p.m.

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Open Mic Night, Trenton Social, 449 South Broad Street. www.facebook.com/trentonsocial. Hosted by Benny P. 8 p.m.

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Ballroom Newcomers Dance, American Ballroom, 1523 Parkway Avenue, Ewing, 609931-0149. www.americanballroomco.com.

Group class included. $10. Every Wednesday. 7 to 9 p.m.

Dick Gra�on, Trenton Social Restaurant, 449 South Broad Street, 609-989-7777. Solo jazz guitar. 6 p.m.

Trenton Thunder, Arm & Hammer Park, Route 29, 609-394-3300. Bowie. $11 and up. Noon.

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Levi� AMP Trenton Music Series, Mill Hill Park, 165 East Front Street. www.facebook. com/levi�amptrenton. R&B ar�sts Tameca Jones and Bo Mason. 5 p.m.

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 Hernia: What Is that Bulge?, RWJ Center for Fitness and Wellness, 3100 Quakerbridge Road, Hamilton, 609-584-5900. www.rwjbh. org. Learn about signs, symptoms, and treatment. Register. 6 p.m.

Trenton Thunder, Arm & Hammer Park, Route 29, 609-394-3300. Bowie. $11 and up. 7 p.m.

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Jazz Night, Cook Athle�c Associa�on, 411 Hobart Avenue, Hamilton, 609-941-8114. Jazz guitarist Dick Gra�on and vocalist Kim Robinson. Free. 6 p.m.

Trenton Thunder, Arm & Hammer Park, Route 29, 609-394-3300. www.trentonthunder. com. Harrisburg. $11 and up. 7 p.m.

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Drummer Sanah Kadoura, Candlelight Lounge, 24 Passaic Street, 609-695-9612. $10. Includes free buffet. 3:30 p.m.

Dick Gra�on, Mamma Rosa’s Restaurant, 572 Klockner Road, Hamilton, 609-588-5454.

Solo jazz guitar. 6 p.m.

Richie Cole Alto Madness Orchestra, 1867 Sanctuary, 101 Scotch Road, Ewing, 609392-6409. www.1867sanctuary.org. $20. 8 p.m.

Open Mic Night, Starbucks, 102 South Warren Street. Music, spoken word, poetry, comedy, storytelling, and more. 3 p.m.

Trenton Thunder, Arm & Hammer Park, Route 29, 609-394-3300. www.trentonthunder. com. Harrisburg. $11 and up. 7 p.m.

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he Jersey Fresh Jam — one of Trenton and New Jersey’s coolest and most earnest arts events — is set for another colorful afternoon of graffiti painting and hip-hop music on Saturday, August 17, from noon to 6 p.m.

The annual location is the grounds of TerraCycle on New York Avenue.

Launched in 2005 and coordinated

by Trenton artist Leon Rainbow, the event attracts hundreds of art lovers and street artists who within hours

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cover thousands of square feet of walls with color and design — such as those by the street artist RAS who created the photo-like image seen on this issue’s cover.

“In the beginning, the first Jam was just for us,” says Rainbow about the free and family-welcoming event.

“Then after a while it became more and more open. It’s interesting for the public to see who we are and what we do it. It’s a good thing to get together and have a good time and enjoy our culture.” www.jerseyfreshjam.com.

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Come to an info session August 1 at 10:00 A.M. August 14 at 5:30 P.M. September 5 at 10:00 A.M. September 9 at 5:30 P.M.

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Evenings Beginning September 17TH 1450 Parkside Ave , #22 Ewing, NJ 08638.

Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA) for Children is a non-profit organization committed to speaking up in court for the best interests of children who have been removed from their families because of abuse or neglect and placed in the foster care system. *Must attend an info session before attending the training session.

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Flamenco Dancing and Music, Malaga Restaurant, 511 Lalor Street, 609-396-8878. www. malagarestaurant.com. Monthly diner with flamenco music and dancing by Flamenco Flavor. Entertainment cover charge $10 to $12 added to your dinner bill. Reserva�ons strongly suggested. 5 p.m.

Trenton Thunder, Arm & Hammer Park, Route 29, 609-394-3300. www.trentonthunder. com. Harrisburg. $11 and up. 5 p.m.

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Open Mic Night, Trenton Social, 449 South Broad Street. www.facebook.com/trentonsocial. Hosted by Benny P. 8 p.m.

Yoga Nidra: Complete Relaxa�on, RWJ Center for Fitness and Wellness, 3100 Quakerbridge Road, Hamilton, 609-584-5900. www. rwjbh.org. Yoga Nidra, also known as Yoga Sleep, is a state in which the body is completely relaxed yet aware. Bring a yoga mat or blanket. $15. Register. 7 p.m.

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Levi� AMP Trenton Music Series, Mill Hill Park, 165 East Front Street. www.facebook.com/ levi�amptrenton. Edwin Labron peforms salsa and bachata music. Gabriel Munoz opens with La�n folk. Food vendors, family ac�vi�es, and more. 5 p.m.

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Broadway Summer Spectacular, Bristol Riverside Theatre, 120 Radcliffe Street, Bristol, 215-785-6664. www.brtstage.org. Broadway’s best from Andrew Lloyd Webber, Jerry Herman, Leonard Bernstein, and more.

Through August 25. 7:30 p.m.

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 Jersey Fresh Jam, TerraCycle, 121 New York

Avenue. Hip-hop fes�val featuring graffi� ar�sts and live music from regional bands and DJs. Rain date August 18. www.jerseyfreshjam.com. Noon to 7 p.m.

Monthly Ar�st Meetup, BSB Gallery, 143 East State Street, Suite 4, 609-599-3268. www. bsbgallery.com. Meet with other local ar�sts and bring a work in project to share. 11 a.m.

Pianist Farid Barron, Candlelight Lounge, 24 Passaic Street, 609-695-9612. www.jazztrenton.com. $10. Includes free buffet. 3:30 p.m.

Open Mic Night, Starbucks, 102 South Warren Street. Music, spoken word, poetry, comedy, storytelling, and more. 3 p.m.

Southside Wanderers, Ivy Tavern, 3108 South Broad Street, Hamilton, 609-888-1435. Performing oldies, Motown, Bri�sh invasion, and classic rock. 9 p.m.

Trenton Puerto Rican Parade Awards Dinner Gala, West Trenton Ballroom, 40 West Upper Ferry Road, Ewing, 609-933-3398. Honoring: Marlene Lao-Collins, Karen Hernandez-Grazen, Trenton Police Detec�ve/re�red - Luis Reyes, Local Ar�st - Samuel Kanig, Community Leader - German Or�z, the La�no Merchants Associa�on, and TFD Captain Juan Rivera. $75. 6 p.m.

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Open Mic Night, Trenton Social, 449 South Broad Street. www.facebook.com/trentonsocial. Hosted by Benny P. 8 p.m.

Create Your Own Vision Board, RWJ Center for Fitness and Wellness, 3100 Quakerbridge Road, Hamilton, 609-584-5900. www.rwjbh. org. Crea�ng a vision board can help unlock dreams and goals for the future. Supplies provided. Bring scissors. Register. 10 a.m.

Trenton Thunder, Arm & Hammer Park, Route 29, 609-394-3300. www.trentonthunder. com. New Hampshire. $11 and up. 7 p.m.

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Open Mic Night, Trenton Social, 449 South Broad Street. www.facebook.com/trentonsocial. Hosted by Benny P. 8 p.m.

Spine Health, RWJ Center for Fitness and Wellness, 3100 Quakerbridge Road, Hamilton, 609-584-5900. www.rwjbh.org. Learn about disk degenera�on and common spinal condi�ons, as well as diagnosis and treatment op�ons. Register. 6 p.m.

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