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Spring 2020 Robins skitter across the grass.

Mimicking drops of rain They lure earthworms for repast.

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Headlines claim another world mere miles away A newly tented gateway Men and women in hazmat gear Screen scores of symptomatic mortals Some sent home to quarantine Others destined for ventilators in sterile rooms.

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Desk-bound, Staring out at spring’s vivid greenery And vibrant mayapples with full buds I cling to hope.

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How Will The Corona Crash Will Impact Your Venture

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emember all those articles about whether venture was overvalued? With blinding speed, they now seem quaint. Bluntly stated, most venture backed companies are in a fight for survival. Although certain areas of life sciences may do somewhat better, I think the impact will be widely felt. Complicating the fight is the fact that no one can predict how long it will last and what the immediate post-Corona economy will look like.

To survive entrepreneurs need to focus on actions within their control. Based on past downturns, it is impossible to overstate the importance of having cash in the bank and a flexible cost structure to weather the storm.

This article highlights what ventures can do to increase their ability to survive the Corona Crash. First, the article discusses how the current situation is likely to impact your venture and your key stakeholders — investors, customers, and suppliers. Then it highlights the levers you can deploy to lengthen your runway and increase your flexibility.

• Investor Tensions. You are likely to start seeing splits among your investors between those willing to continue funding and those unwilling or unable. Even if your • Your Runway is Much Short- deal documents do not include a er Than You Think. Ventures have pay-to-play provision, VCs have a natural tendency towards opti- historically shown great creativity mism when forecasting sales. When in fashioning what are effectively liquidity is good, this is normally a retroactive pay-to-play provisions. harmless offense (within reason) Angels and smaller early-stage since additional fundraising can funds may not be equipped to parbridge the gap. The Corona Crash is ticipate in the rights-offerings and creating demand destruction across pay-to-play obligations charactermost sectors of the economy. Rev- istic of a downturn. As a result, they enues will drop dramatically, espe- will be diluted. Funding rounds cially among ventures where other with uneven participation from instartups constitute a significant part siders can reshape the balance of of the customer power on the base. It is essenboard and the Most venture backed tial to conduct a shareholder detailed and very companies are in a base, and create candid review of tensions among fight for survival. To existing custominvestors. survive entrepreers and your • New Metsales pipeline to neurs need to focus rics. “Growth at set realistic reveAll Costs” was on actions within nue expectaalready on its their control. tions. Expenses way to being so will then need to 2018. That fobe adjusted. cus will acceler• Tougher Terms. If you thought ate — dramatically. For many comfundraising had gotten tougher re- panies, “cash-flow positive” will cently, you ain’t seen nothing yet. be the new “exponential customer The time to fundraise will increase growth.” Ventures will be asked to dramatically. Valuations will drop demonstrate a credible path to profand “down rounds” will become itability. more frequent. As investors seek to protect their downside, today’s 1x Why Does Fundraising non-participating liquidation preference could become tomorrow’s Become More Difficult 2x participating, or worse. You In a downturn, investors typimay even see investors demand cally exhibit several behaviors that full ratchet anti-dilution protec- reduce available funding. tion. Dividend provisions will mi• Circling the Wagons. Venture grate from “when and if” to “accru- funds will focus on ensuring the ing.” For companies that have out- survival of their own portfolio standing Convertible Notes and companies. Further, investors will SAFEs, down rounds will result in increase their reserves for followconversion below the cap and often on funding, leaving less money at a discount, creating even more available to make later-stage infounder dilution. vestments in new companies. As a

result, the list of investors on your cap table is not likely to increase.

Most of your funding for the foreseeable future is likely to be insider.

There are a lot of stories highlighting the vast amounts of “dry powder” in the venture market.

This should not be a great source of comfort. This “dry powder” is supporting a much greater number of ventures and much higher valuations than in the past. With venture returns likely to significantly fall, investor allocations to the venture space are likely to drop as well, making future VC fundraising more difficult. As a result, funds will be much more careful about deploying their cash and will do so over a longer period of time.

• Darwinian Selection. Venture funds’ tolerance of mediocrity will drop. Funds will focus on supporting clear winners to the detriment of struggling ventures and pivots.

• First Timers Head for the Hills. One of the unique aspects of the current venture cycle is the unprecedented degree to which nontraditional investors have fueled the market — angels in early stages; mutual funds and private equity firms in later stages; and corporations’ investment arms. Many of these investors have experienced significant losses in their investments and businesses. This also will be their first experience with a slowdown in the venture segment and the resulting damage to business prospects and valuations.

Based on prior cycles, it would not be surprising to see many reduce or even stop their venture investing.

• Exit Valuations Drop, Lowering Valuations Overall. There will be a significant drop in M&A activity, and no one can guess when the IPO market will reopen. This will increase the time it takes most

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It’s All About the Runway

With fundraising more difficult, the gap between success and failure often comes down to the length of your runway — the amount of time before you run out of cash. Runways are generally shorter than most entrepreneurs think. In theory, bankruptcy is an option to avoid paying most obligations, but for reputational and liability reasons, venture firms prefer to guide their ventures to orderly shutdowns. As a result, you will need to set aside reserves to make sure creditors are paid, in addition to legally required tax and wage payments.

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not inspire investors’ confidence. If you have not raised funds recently, consider accelerating your fundraising timetable, and establish credit lines if you can. Don’t overnegotiate deal terms. Remember — no venture has ever died from excess dilution or suboptimal deal terms, but the same cannot be said for ventures that run out of money.

Finally, always have a thorough understanding of your investor base, including which investors are running out of cash. To the extent possible, without damaging the relationship, get a sense of where you stand in your investor’s portfolio — a star who will continue to be funded or a middle-ground player who will be left high and dry.

Downsizing the Team

Personnel is usually the largest cost for any venture and, therefore, a prime target for extending the runway. In the United States, most venture employees are employees-atwill, so absent a company policy or a specific contractual requirement, an employee can be terminated without notice. However, terminating even at-will employees carries risk, with terminations potentially subject to claims of discrimination based on age, gender, race, sexual orientation, and other factors. The best defense for discrimination claims typically is documented evidence of poor performance, so develop sound processes for formal employee feedback and reviews.

Unfortunately, in the short term, layoffs may require terminating solid performers. Adding headcount during this period, if at all, should be limited to very high value-add hires.

However, there is likely to be a lot of available talent that presents an opportunity for upgrading personnel.

Remember that wage payment is not optional. People usually can agree to work for less, assuming that it is above the applicable minimum wage, but once wages have been earned, they must be paid.

Failure to pay wages (or taxes) are two areas where officers and directors can be held personally liable if a venture shuts down. Offering equity instead of wages is not an option. Also, employees generally have more termination rights abroad, especially in Western Europe, so consult local counsel.

Terminating employees, especially solid performers, is never easy. Have a well thought out process for delivering the unfortunate

Always have a thorough understanding of your investor base, including which investors are running out of cash. news and providing the impacted employees with as much support and resources as you can.

Real Estate

Real estate is usually a venture’s largest and least flexible long-term obligation. When a venture fails, the landlord is often the largest creditor. The first step in addressing this risk is understanding your lease before you sign it and negotiating favorable early-termination and sub-lease clauses. If you are in an existing lease, approach the landlord about potential concessions and do so early; they are likely to receive many requests.

The challenge for ventures is that the real estate market is experiencing its own downturn at this time. In this situation, landlords are more

likely to hold ventures to their lease terms, creating burdensome white elephants. Even once the current quarantines terminate, ventures should be slow to increase their real estate commitments and the soft market should allow ventures to negotiate more flexible termination and sub-lease clauses in new leases.

Suppliers & Customers

Critical to minimizing the impact of the current crisis is reviewing the terms of your contracts with suppliers and customers, to understand obligations and ensure maximum flexibility. Ventures should create a database of contract-termination dates and the length of notice required to terminate. Many contracts have automatic renewal clauses that require notice to stop the renewal. The database should also include information about any minimum payment obligations.

Expiring supplier contracts should be reviewed through the prism of the slowdown. If you need to cut expenses significantly, will this contract still make sense? Many suppliers will show significant flexibility, to their good customers, in agreeing to modified terms — reduced prices and minimum purchases, and extended payment terms — to avoid termination.

Especially in their early stages, ventures often sign marginally profitable contracts to bolster their customer roster. Your response to this crisis should include an analysis of the profitability of each customer, and if you’re downsizing your team, make sure the remaining personnel are servicing the most profitable contracts. For the remaining customer base, contracts should be reviewed with an eye on performance obligations, helping you understand your cost of performance and making your runway calculations more precise.

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woman in a position of financial strength is a woman prepared to have a positive impact on many areas of life, says Emily Green, a financial advisor with Ellevest, pictured at right.

“When a woman is in a position of financial strength, a positive cascade follows — for her family, her community, society, and for other women,” she says.

Green will discuss managing finances during and after the current financial and health crisis on a free webinar on Friday, May 22, from 2 to 3 p.m. Registration is required. Visit https://www.ellevatenetwork.com/ events/11561-women-moneypower.

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If your customers and/or suppliers include a fair number of startup companies, their continued existence cannot be taken for granted.

You should identify second sources to mitigate the risk of supplier failures, become more vigilant about outstanding receivables from at-risk customers, and reject orders from companies whose outstanding balances have grown too large. Now more than ever, ventures should adopt creditworthiness review processes to vet new and renewing customers that are considered at risk.

For larger projects, ventures should consider requiring letters of credit

Green works with women and their families to help them achieve their full financial power.

Green was the first advisor to join Ellevest’s Private Wealth Management team in 2017. Before joining Ellevest, she worked at JP Morgan’s Private Bank for seven years as an advisor to high net worth individuals, families, endowments and foundations.

Before JP Morgan she worked in London at Cantor Fitzgerald.

Green received a bachelor of arts in economics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and currently serves as a steering committee member of Alvin Ailey’s Young Patron Circle in New York. from customers to secure payment.

Finally, establish lines of communication with critical customers and suppliers. With plenty of bad news in the air, there is a natural tendency to keep the news “in the family.” In the current environment, everyone is hurting and bad news is very understandable. Communicating with these stakeholders will help recalibrate your expectations from them, allow them to recalibrate their expectations from you and minimize surprises. This will enhance the contingency planning abilities of all involved and reduce the potential for future disputes.

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In a downturn, investor disputes become more common, increasing officers’ and directors’ exposure, so review your D&O coverage to verify that coverages are adequate for a company of your size. Maintain a reserve for so-called tail coverage. Failed ventures are generally unable to maintain D&O coverage, so tail coverage is necessary to maintain insurance for officers and directors for decisions made while the company was still alive.

Preserve Your Reputation

Although it may not feel like it at times, there will be a tomorrow. The venture world is relatively small and when this all passes, how you conduct yourself during these trying time will be remembered. Everyone is stressed and confronting difficult choices. Many of these choices will be made in an environment where there are no other options. If you conduct yourself with candor and sensitivity, people will appreciate it and remember when you re-engage with them. Opaqueness and selfishness will also be remembered, but in a less positive light. Doing the right thing usually has the added advantage of being good business.

Dror Futter is a New Jerseybased partner at the Rimon PC law firm. His practice focuses on representing start-up companies, small and medium size businesses, and their investors. He serves as the external general counsel to several growth stage companies. He is a graduate of Princeton University and Columbia Law School and serves as a mentor at Princeton’s Keller Center and the venture center at the Stevens Institute of Technology. He can be reached at dror. futter@rimonlaw.com

INSIGHTS & ARGUMENTS

Americans Share Economic Forecast

The Pew Research Center’s late April report on COVID-19’s

economic impact provides both a snapshot of what American are thinking and the shape of things to come.

Based on the responses of 4,917 adults for a survey conducted between April 7 and 12, the report, “Positive Economic Views Plummet; Support for Government Aid Crosses Party Lines,” assessed the respondents’ sentiment that U.S. economy is deteriorating with “extraordinary speed and severity.”

That sense was linked to the record of unemployment claims and the major disruption of commercial activity caused by the virus outbreak.

According to the report created

by Pew Center’s American Trends Panel, “Just 23 percent of the Americans now rate economic conditions in the country as excellent or good, down sharply from 57 percent at the start of the year. Most now say the economy is in either only fair (38 percent) or poor (38 percent) shape. In January, just 19 percent of Americans said economic conditions were poor.”

The report adds “most Americans believe the economic problems arising from the coronavirus outbreak will persist for months to come. A majority (71 percent) says the economic problems resulting from the outbreak will last for at least six months, including 39 percent who say they will last a year or more. Just 29 percent expect these problems to last six months or less.”

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Accessibility Matters When It Comes to Voting

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he COVID-19 pandemic has fundamentally altered when and how we vote in New Jersey. To reconcile public health and safety with the public’s right to vote, on March 9, Governor Murphy’s Executive Order 105 postponed certain elections to May 12, 2020, and made those elections exclusively Vote-by-Mail. Although Vote-byMail has long been an option for New Jersey residents, for people with certain disabilities — those with vision or dexterity limitations, for example — voting-by-mail presents barriers that prevent them from voting secretly and independently.

According to the American Association of People with Disabilities, in 2018 only 40 percent of eligible individuals with disabilities voted, and many individuals cited existing barriers as a reason to not vote. Lack of accessibility will only make it more difficult for individuals with disabilities to vote.

Accessible vote-by-mail ballots exist, however. Where accessible voting is an option, a voter with a disability can request a ballot to be sent electronically, automark it, and return it electronically, all without barriers or the need for assistance. The right to vote is impeded only when these ballots are not made available. Why hasn’t New Jersey adopted this practice for all elections? Some argue that

permitting people with disabilities to vote electronically would make our election system less secure.

To the contrary, however, New Jersey residents serving overseas in the military are permitted to receive and send their ballots electronically and have been doing so for many years without incident.

Other states such as Colorado and Maryland are already using this technology to ensure that individuals with disabilities have equal ac-

It is time to make accessible ballots available for all New Jersey elections. For people with disabilities, their right to vote depends on it. cess to the vote-by-mail ballot, a requirement for state and local governments under the Americans with Disabilities Act. Moreover, paper ballots that can be stolen or lost in the mail are no more or less secure.

Tracy Carcione, a voter with a visual impairment, was concerned about her ability to vote when Governor Murphy postponed her town’s municipal elections to May 12, and ordered them to be con-

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She lives alone and was not sure how she would be able to fill out the paper ballot. She contacted the County Clerk, and they advised her that — for this election only — she could request an accessible ballot that would be sent to her electronically and could then be returned electronically. She received the ballot, completed it with ease, and returned it. Because of this system, she was able to cast her vote.

It is time for New Jersey to adopt this practice for all elections. For individuals with disabilities, the most fundamental constitutional right — the right to vote — requires it.

Mary Ciccone is the director of policy for Disability Rights New Jersey, based on South Broad Street in Trenton. Visit www.drnj. org.

Editor’s Note: Disability Rights New Jersey has had to address a number of legal issues that have arisen in light of the COVID-19 pandemic. The group has now launched a website, www. drnj-covid.org, that illuminates the group’s work and offers resources for individuals with disabilities and their caregivers. The group received a COVID-19 Emergency Community Law Grant from the New Jersey State Bar Foundation for its work.

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Artists responded to an invitation to share visual thoughts, feelings, and discoveries during our current health crisis. So we are turning this page into a virtual gallery and letting the artist have their say in shape and color.

1. Bryan Grigsby of Bordentown says the photograph of a woman ascending stairs reflects his background as a once serious “street photographer” — one whose eye and camera lens merge to capture moments of human life within the context of fleeting artistic composition.

The former chief photography editor at the Philadelphia Inquirer’s image of his wife, U.S. 1 contributing writer Susan Van Dongen, also suggests how quickly the mask has become part of everyday living.

2. Susan Cuddahy of Hamilton says, “Making art during this shelter-in-place time has been a welcome diversion” and that she “created the sculpture from empty toilet tissue rolls and Tylenol magazine ads, then used a filter on my phone.”

3. Nationally known Trenton-based artist Mel Leipzig is sharing one of his new paintings, “Mayor of Trenton in Front of Everett Shinn’s Painting.” The artist says he began painting the work of Trenton mayor Reed Gusciora last year but finished it and several others during the quarantine. The 85-year-old adds that he spent several weeks attending to details in the 1911 Trenton City Hall painting commemorating Trenton’s once robust pottery and steel industries.

To submit artwork to this section email Dan Aubrey: dan@princetoninfo.com.

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An additional finding is that as the public confronts a grim new economic reality, “there is not only overwhelming support for the massive economic aid package passed last month by President Donald Trump and Congress, but also widespread belief that an additional aid package will be needed.

“Nearly nine-in-ten U.S. adults say the $2 trillion economic aid package passed in March was the right thing to do, including identical majorities of Republicans and Democrats (89 percent each). More than three-quarters (77 percent) think it will be necessary for the president and Congress to pass legislation providing additional economic assistance.”

And a majority felt the aid package enacted in March will do “a great deal or a fair amount to help a range of actors, including large businesses, small businesses, state and local governments, and unemployed people.”

Only 49 percent expect it to benefit self-employed people, while 46 percent said it will help their own household a great deal or fair amount. “This reflects the fact that lower-income adults are far more likely than more affluent people to say the aid package will benefit

them. A 59 percent majority of those in lower-income households believe the federal aid will help them, compared with just 22 percent in upper-income households.”

The researchers noted that the current survey finds that the public’s reactions to the recently passed economic aid package different from the views of the economic stimulus plan enacted during the early months of Barack Obama’s presidency.

As the report notes, views of the economy were even more negative than they are today, but this year’s stimulus package was better received.

“In March 2009, 56 percent said the $800 billion stimulus plan put forth by Barack Obama and passed

by Congress was a good idea; about a third (35 percent) said it was a bad idea. While the question about the economic package passed in March (2020) differs somewhat, 88 percent of the public says it was the right thing to do.”

Yet despite today’s economic conditions, the report finds “the public does expect some improvement over time,” and “a majority (55 percent) expects that economic conditions in the country as a whole will be better a year from now than they are today, while 22 percent say they will be worse and 22 percent expect conditions to be about the same as they are now.”

To read the report, visit www. people-press.org/2020/04/21/positive-economic-views-plummetsupport-for-government-aidcrosses-party-lines.

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Wednesday May 20

Communicating Through a Crisis: A Guide for Nonprofits, Princeton Mercer Regional Chamber of Commerce. www. princetonmercerchamber.org.

Webinar presented by the Central NJ Nonprofit Council. Speakers include Gail Rose, managing director and copywriter; Dan Bauer, marketing and PR consultant; and Jacqui Alexander, social media specialist, all of Ananta Creative Group. Register. 1 to 2 p.m.

Tips and Tools on NCATS SBIR & STTR Funding, BioNJ. www. bionj.org. Webinar to learn about the Small Business Innovation Research and Small Business Technology Transfer (SBIR/ STTR) programs for researchers and entrepreneurs in translational science. Speakers include Debbie Hart of BioNJ; Judith Sheft, executive director of the New Jersey Commission on Science, Innovation, and Technology; and Lili M. Portilla of the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences. Register. 1:30 to 2:30 p.m.

PPP Forgiveness Guidance, Withum. www.withum.com/ events. SBA and Federal Tax Policy experts from accounting firm Withum lead a discussion regarding the PPP loan forgiveness process and strategies for borrowers to maximize their forgiveness.

Register. 11 a.m. to 12:15 p.m.

Litigation ABCs and COVID-19 Concerns, Princeton Innovation Center BioLabs. www.princetonbiolabs.com. Webinar with litigation partner Elizabeth Hampton of Fox Rothschild LLP on how to avoid litigation, what to do if you are a defendant or witness, tips on determining when to bring a lawsuit, noncompete clauses, and confidentiality agreements, as well as business interruption insurance, force majeure clauses, and best practices for litigation risk mitigation. Register. Free. 2 to 3 p.m.

Business After Business Virtual Networking, Princeton Mercer Regional Chamber of Commerce. www.princetonmercerchamber.org. Make connections over cocktails at home. Each participant will have the chance to deliver a 30 second commercial and join topical conversations in

virtual breakout sessions. Register. 5 to 6:30 p.m.

Friday May 22

The Business World has Changed…Now What?, Middlesex County Regional Chamber of Commerce. www.mcrcc.org.

Jim Barnowski of Sandler Training addresses the question of “What will life be like after the CARES Act and the PPP?” Register. 9 a.m.

JobSeekers, Professional Service Group of Mercer County. www.psgofmercercounty.org.

“Who Am I, Anyway” presented by Amy Raditz, who explains how to discover, communicate, and leverage the unique qualities that set you apart as an applicant.

9:45 a.m. to noon.

Women, Money, and Power, Ellevate Network. www.ellevatenetwork.com. Financial advisor Emily Green discusses managing finances during and after the current crisis. Register. Free. 2 to 3 p.m.

Wednesday May 27

Lunch & Learn with SheTek’s Extraordinary Women, The Outlet. www.shetek.net. Chaya Pamula, SheTek founder and PamTen President and CEO, interviews Brenda Ross-Dulan, principal at the Ross-Dulan Group and chairman of the Princeton Regional Chamber of Commerce. Register for Zoom link. 11 a.m. to noon.

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Wednesday May 20 Live Music Bob Egan and Friends Virtual Piano Bar. www.bobeganentertainment.com. Bob Egan and Friends continue their “Best of Broadway” series on YouTube Live with songs about or inspired by New York City. Visit www.facebook. com/onlinePianoBar. 8 p.m.

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VIRTUAL EVENTS, MAY 20 TO 27

Princeton Livestock Exchange, Department of Music, Princeton University. music.princeton.edu.

An evening of improvised performance designed to create musical dialogues between Princeton students and special visiting guest artists, featuring flutist, collaborative artist, curator, and advocate for new and experimental music, Claire Chase. Free livestream via Facebook. 4:30 p.m.

Library Live at Labyrinth, Princeton Public Library & Labyrinth Books. www.labyrinthbooks.com.

Princeton history professor Anthony Grafton presents his book, “Inky Fingers: The Making of Books in Early Modern Europe,” in conversation with Yale historian Yaacob Dweck. 6 p.m.

Short Story Discussion, Mercer County Library. www.facebook. com/mclsnj. Discuss “The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County” by Mark Twain. 8 p.m.

Lectures

Friday May 22 On Stage Community Play Reading, New Jersey Theatre Alliance. www. mccarter.org. Virtual community reading of McCarter artistic director and resident playwright Emily Mann’s award-winning docudrama “Execution of Justice.” The play chronicles the murder trial of Dan White, who, in 1978, assassinated San Francisco Mayor George Moscone and openly gay City Supervisor Harvey Milk. No experience required to participate. Register. 6:30 p.m.

Lectures

Conversation with a Theater Maker, Lewis Center for the Arts, Princeton University. arts. princeton.edu. Zoom-based conversation with Program in Theater director Jane Cox and OBIE Award-winning theater director Anne Kauffman. 4:45 to 5:30 p.m.

Outdoor Action

The Spirit of Memorial Day

This year’s Memorial Day Parades have been canceled, but monuments like the New Jersey World War II Memorial in the capital complex in Trenton remind us to stop and remember the numerous American men and women who have lost their lives serving in the U.S. military both at home and abroad. coops, pests, predators, and winterizing. Register. $20. 5:30 to 7:30 p.m.

Outdoor Action

Come Hear About Shavuot, Beth El Synagogue of East Windsor. www.bethel.net. Adam Jurin discusses the Feast of Weeks, known as Shavuot, via Zoom. 7 p.m.

Streamwatch Webinar, The Watershed Institute. www.thewatershed.org. The StreamWatch volunteer water monitoring program is a network of volunteers who collect chemical, biological, and bacterial information at more than 40 testing sites in the region.

Learn about where the sites are, what information is collected and why, stream health and water quality in the Millstone River watershed, how data turns into action, and what you can do to help.

Register. 12 to 1:30 p.m.

Backyard Chickens, Northeast Organic Farming Association of NJ. www.nofanj.org. Rutgers professor and NOFA board member Joseph Heckman leads a virtual workshop on keeping backyard chickens including typical ordinance requirements, proper care, and information on breeds,

All of the events listed below are taking place virtually. Visit venue websites for information about how to access the events. To include your virtual event in this section email events@princetoninfo. com.

Art Making, Arts Council of Princeton & Princeton University Art Museum. artmuseum. princeton.edu. Artist Barbara DiLorenzo teaches “Drawing: Finding Your Voice” via Zoom.

Free. 8 p.m.

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Contemporary Conversations, Princeton University Art Museum. artmuseum.princeton.edu.

“Artistic Practice in Response to the Present” features a conversation with Cristobal Martinez of the San Francisco Art Institute; Mitra Abbaspour of Princeton University Art Museum; and Martha Friedman of the Lewis Center for the Arts. Register for Zoom link. 5:30 p.m.

Pop Music

Individually, Together, The Trenton Project. www.thetrentonproject.com. Discussion of documentary student films completed in the course “Documentary Film and the City.” Register for Zoom link.

Films are available for viewing on Vimeo. 5 p.m.

Instructor Purcell Carson notes: “Our original plan this semester was to continue the Project’s 2019 study of the Guatemalan migrant population in Trenton.

Thanks to the generosity of our community partners and participants, some terrific short documentaries were in the works.

Then everything changed.

“As the students landed in isolation and closed the doors behind them, their focus switched to documenting their rapidly shrinking worlds. It was an abrupt transition.

But as you perhaps know from your own experiences this season, we can each find immense richness inside our own homes, families, and heads. The films that have emerged — in eight short weeks — demonstrate that truth in compelling ways. Looking at them as a whole, I’m reminded that our job as artists and mediamakers in this new reality is to take in the wide range of experiences we’re facing and create what I heard commentator Ezra Klein call ‘a collective understanding of what we’re going through individually, together.’ I hope this event is a step toward that.”

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Thursday May 21 Art Virtual TrashedArt Reception, Mercer County Library System. www.facebook.com/mclsnj. Winners of the Virtual TrashedArt Contest will be announced in the student and adult categories followed by a chance for artists to share stories with one another about their artistic process, their inspirations, and their hopes for the future. The Earth Day-themed contest challenged participants to turn ordinary pieces of trash into extraordinary works of art. 8 p.m.

Film Hollywood Streaming Nights, Princeton Garden Theater. www.princetongardentheatre.org.

Hollywood Summer Nights are now Hollywood Streaming Nights.

Join the YouTube live stream to chat with others during “Three Stooges Shorts,” introduced by Gary Lassin, owner of the Stoogeum. Free. Film remains available for streaming through May 28.

7:30 p.m.

Literati

Jane Austen Discussion, Mercer County Library. www.facebook. com/mclsnj. Weekly discussion topic will be posted in advance on Facebook. 7 p.m.

Friday Morning Nature Hike, The Watershed Institute. www.thewatershed.org. Take a weekly hike via Facebook Live. Hikes will highlight seasonal wonders and encourage the viewer to find nature near their homes and in their heart. Free at www.facebook. com/theH2Oshed. 10 a.m.

Socials

Table Top RPG Discussion, Mercer County Library. www.facebook.com/mclsnj. Librarian-led discussion on the basics and specifics of tabletop role-playing games. 8 p.m.

Saturday May 23 Classical Music Philadelphia Flute Quartet, Raritan River Music Festival. www. raritanrivermusic.org. Online concert presentation of “The Music of the Ages for the Entire Family,” featuring the New Jersey premiere of “Hidden River” by Eric Sessler. The program also offers a nod to the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment with music by award-winning American women. 7:30 p.m.

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MAY 20, 2020

Recording Project Captures a Sonic Snapshot of Trenton

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t was serendipity,” says Bill Nobes on how he came to make an album capturing the sound of Trenton’s underground music scene.

Titled “Analog Trenton,” the recording released late in 2019 on CD and vinyl features 40 capital city music performers and bands.

At the time it was a sonic snapshot of Trenton’s vibrant music scene — one now changed by COVID-19 and closed Trenton venues.

Nobes, 54, owns and operates Dirty Old Robot Studio on a 200-year-old farm roughly 20 miles from Trenton in Jacobstown, Burlington County.

He says it is a 100 percent analog recording studio specializing in lo-fi and experimental music production.

It is also something connected to his background of working in the New York City region’s music and theater venues in the 1990s.

That was before he became a father and decided to leave New York City to raise a family on an affordable farm near Fort Dix. “I thought my creative career was gone when I was a single dad and running a chicken farm,” says Nobes, who has lived in the area for nearly two decades.

As his son got older, Nobes traded full-time farming for full-time IT work and began providing services for health organizations from his home.

Three years ago he launched his “collaborative multi-media production space that would facilitate authentic creation without overproduction.”

“As long as I have the day job, I am using the studio to explore and create,” he says of his non-commercial venture.

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Scores of Trenton musicians and artists joined to create ‘Analog Trenton,’ a taperecorded album capturing the Capital City’s artistic independence. Trenton illustrator Bayron Calderon provided the album cover.

And while he says it seemed “like a ridiculous idea at the time, it has since gone insane.”

That translates as several regional artists actively using the studio to develop new works and approaches — that is until the lockdown put the music on pause.

It also means experimenting with online presentations and pursuing creative opportunities, like

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“Analog Trenton.”

Nobes says his entry into the project and Trenton’s music scene started when he accepted Wrightstown tattoo artist Josh Adair’s invitation to take him on a city tour.

In addition to illustrating the skin of many Trenton-based musicians, Adair is a guitarist who travels in the city’s musical circles.

Their first stop at Trenton Cof-

feehouse Roaster and Records on Cass Street opened more than one door.

Recently changing hands and reopening as One Up One Down Roaster and cafe, Abdul-Quadir Wiswal’s cafe was a center for music and experimental presentations.

It was also a regular daily stop for artists and musicians.

Backing up his earlier claim re-

garding serendipity, Nobes says he soon found himself talking to two live wires in the Trenton music scene.

One was Griffin Sullivan, cofounder of the area-based Pork Chop Express Booking, which also books independent groups at the Mill Hill Basement.

The other was Nikki Nalbone, a musician, manager of Championship Bar and its independent music scene, and the daughter of the owners of the legendary Trenton music venue City Gardens.

A participant in the artistic renaissances in both Hoboken and New York City’s meat packing district, Nobes sensed something in the air.

As he says in an online statement, he soon found a music scene that was “the most unique and interesting in the country. It has a diverse combination of influences including punk, hardcore, hip hop, folk, rock, electronic, and experimental. These genres cross-over not only in the same venues but often with the same artists.”

Nobes says he soon joined the scene and experimented with events at the Trenton Coffeehouse Roaster — creating an installation with several 16-millimeter film projects and a small theater presentation.

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Plant a Tree

The Sourland Conservancy’s Ash Crisis Team is offering $10 tree kits to help mitigate the effects of the invasive emerald ash borer beetle. The New Jersey Forest Service estimates that the invasive emerald ash borer is on track to kill more than one million trees in the 90-square-mile Sourland Mountain region within the next few years.

“The Ash Crisis Team developed this idea as a way to raise awareness of the over one million trees being killed by the emerald ash borer in this area,” said Marylou Ferrara, a Sourland Conservancy trustee. “Due to COVID-19 we can’t hold large plantings on public lands, so we’re offering native tree kits to region residents.”

Each tree kit includes one native sapling, 5’ x 6’ length of heavy-duty metal fencing, and a metal stake.

Currently, the selection includes tulip poplar, magnolia, redbud, persimmon, red oak, and shadbush.

These trees have co-evolved with the native animals — some rare and endangered. The fencing is crucial for keeping deer from eating the trees.

Pickups are planned for Saturdays, May 30 and June 13. All orders must be made in advance online on at www.sourland.org/actash-crisis-team.

Run for a Cause

Opportunities

YMCAs in New Jersey and Pennsylvania have partnered to host a virtual 5K and family one-mile fun run/walk over Memorial Day weekend. The virtual race can be completed at a time and on a course of your choosing. Entry is free, but donations are encouraged.

Proceeds will benefit the YMCA Stay With Us Campaign. Registration will be accepted through Monday, May 25, and links to an online portal to enter your time will be emailed beginning Friday, May 22.

Times must be entered by Friday, May 29. Sign up and designate your local YMCA as your team at https://my.raceresult.com/152547.

For Theater Lovers

Bristol Riverside Theater in Bristol, Pennsylvania, is offering an “intermission series” of online courses on various aspects of theater. “The Art of Storytelling,” taught by co-producing director Amy Kaissar, runs Mondays, June 1, 8 and 15, from 3 to 4 p.m. Cost: $45. “American Theatre from Ben Franklin to Oscar Hammerstein,” taught by co-producing director Ken Kaissar, runs Tuesdays, June 2, 9, and 16, from 3 to 4 p.m. Cost: $45. “Dressing Them Up with Linda Bee,” taught by costume design-

Then he brought up “Analog pocket,” says Nobes. “Having a Trenton,” a project that “had a life day job helps me do that.”

The rest came from an Indiegoof its own” and reflected a “let’s do go campaign that raised several it attitude.”

“It was all about supporting each thousand dollars, contributions other in Trenton — far more than from Nobes’ colleagues, and indusanywhere I had been,” he says. try supporters, including the Bor“And I wanted to capture that. I dentown-based Independent Rewanted to make a document and cord Pressing Company.

Trenton visual artists also emcapture it the best way I could.”

He also wanted to create a pro- braced the project and artists Jon duction focusing on an actual per- Connors (aka Lank), Lori Johanformance with the audience also son, Kate Graves, and others proexperiencing a recording session. vided artwork for promotional maThe sessions were also videotaped. terials and CD and vinyl packaging.

The project also engaged reWith Championship Bar and Trenton Coffeehouse Roaster se- spected professional studio engineer and lected as the venfounder of ues, Nobes moved ‘When we were at the SRG Studio in his Jacobstown Champs recording Hamilton, Sestudio to Trenton an Glonek. He for the scheduled session, just the enmade himself dates, including ergy and love was an available to reone as part of the experience, a milecord tracks at annual Art All both venues Day event. stone. Whatever hapand provide a Inspired by the pens in my life that homogenous musicians, he also will be one of the best sound. expanded his ini“Everyone tial goal to record memories.’ was there to 20 bands to 40, remake art,” says sulting in a tonal testament of styles, themes, moods, Nobes. “When we were at the and attitudes generated by commit- Champs recording session, just the ted regional performers such as the energy and love was an experience, Molly Rhythm, Black Collar Biz, a milestone. Whatever happens in Nikki Nailbomb (aka Nalbone), my life that will be one of the best Doris Spears, Ray Strife, Bentrice memories.”

It will be one of many for the Jusu, and others.

However, the increase in musi- Belmar native whose frame shopcal tracks also inflated the original owning parents did not support his interest in the arts. budget of $12,000 to $18,000.

Initially the Asbury Park High “Most of it came out of my

er Linda B. Stockton, runs Thursdays, June 4 and 11, from 3 to 4 p.m. Cost: $30. Registration is required; space in some classes is limited. Visit www.brtstage.org.

Clean Up Time

Friends of Princeton Open Space is partnering with The Watershed Institute, Sustainable Princeton, Princeton Environmental Commission, Friends of Herrontown Woods, and the Friends of Rogers Refuge on a Princeton clean-up during the month of May. The next time you go outside or take your dog for a walk, grab gloves and a bag, and pick up trash.

You can pick up litter during a walk around the neighborhood, in your backyard, in the street, in a nearby park, or anywhere else you see trash on the ground.

Help keep track of what you find by uploading a list www.thewatershed.org/stream-cleanups, and consider including a photo and the place you cleaned up. If you post on social media, add the hashtags #njearthdaycleanup #princetonnjcleanup.

Earn a Degree

Mercer County Community College is offering two virtual open houses for prospective students. Learn about degree and certificate programs as well as financial aid, transfer and dual admissions agreements, and more. An open house for health professions programs takes place Wednesday, May 20, from 6 to 7:30 p.m. An open house for business and STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) programs takes place Thursday, May 21, from 6 to 7:30 p.m. Visit www.mccc.edu/openhouse to sign up for the Zoom events.

Learn Photography

Princeton Photo Workshop is offering remote instruction. Class topics include “Shooting Video with Your Camera,” “Mastering Composition: Beyond the Rule of Thirds,” “Portrait Photography from Start to Finish,” and more.

Visit www.princetonphotoworkshop.com/remote for complete course listings and information on dates, pricing, and registration.

Share Your Story

The Voices of Princeton project seeks residents willing to share

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their perspectives and experiences of the COVID-19 pandemic in an oral history interview. Visit www. voicesofprinceton.org for information on how to become involved as an interview facilitator or as the subject on an interview.

Kidsbridge@Home

Kidsbridge Tolerance Center in Ewing has launched Kidsbridge@Home, a series of free activities that are character-building, anxiety-reducing, and fun.

Accessible through the Kidsbridge website (www.kidsbridgecenter.org/kidsbridge-at-home), Twitter (@Kidsbridge), Instagram, and Facebook (facebook.com/ kidsbridge), Kidsbridge@Home offers original, evidence-based learning activities five days a week designed for ages 5 to 12. The program also offers links to additional resources that have been vetted by Kidsbridge experts.

Each Kidsbridge@Home activity is 10 to 45 minutes long and features developmentally appropriate skill-building “how to’s” that focus on: social-emotional development: feelings, mindfulness, personal strengths, resilience, and empathy; problem-solving: bullying prevention, ally actions, how to be an UPstander; and celebration of differences: diversity, media literacy, stereotypes.

Producer Bill Nobes, right, brought his Jacobstown recording studio and technical know-how to Trenton’s Championship Bar to capture the independent sounds of, from above left to right, Buy Nothing and Molly Rhythm.

School graduate worked as a graphic designer providing sales presentation support for the New York Times’ magazine division.

However, Nobes says, he found himself drawn to the theater — or back to it.

“I started my first theater company when I was 10 in my garage,” he says of his lifelong interest. “I decided to become a stage manager and learned how to do it. I did it for free and then started getting paid. I was then working at the Ridiculous Theater Company working with Charles Ludlam (the adventurous American stage director and writer of ‘The Mystery of Irma Vep’). After its funding was cut, I moved to Mother,” an independent theater center on 11th Street in New York City.

There he “did everything”: technical direction, stage management, lighting design and installation, set construction, and anything else that was needed to create a production. “I was there seven days a

week. It was a very busy venue.”

He also had his aesthetic sensibilities sharpened and learned the importance of creating “emotional connections that are powerful and significant.”

That’s something that shapes his approach to recording and his choice of using analog over digital recording.

“Tape is an interesting medium.

It just doesn’t record. It is an instrument in itself,” he says, “You have to record what you have. The effect is on the sound and capturing the vibrancy of the music.”

The emotional and human connections are also something that shaped the making of “Analog Trenton.”

“Within that experience, with that witnessed creative effort, we show what a community can

achieve solely with its passion, desire, and will,” he says in a statement.

But voice to voice, he adds, “It never ceases to astound me that when you are able to open up and allow yourself to be guided that all opportunities arise.”

For the opportunity to connect with “Analog Trenton,” there are several options: Double CD ($14), Standard vinyl LP with 13 Tracks ($23); Limited Edition LP with Colored Vinyl ($28); Box Set with Double CD, Standard LP, and Poster ($33); Collector’s Set with Double CD, Limited Edition LP, Poster, and Stickers ($42); Digital Download of all 40 Tracks ($7); and free videos. All can be found at dirtyold-robot.mybigcommerce.com/ analog-trenton.

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MAY 20, 2020

Human Trafficking: A Problem Hidden in Plain Sight

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e see young girls who don’t have family, feel rejected, want to be loved, and leave home, and then they’re at a bus stop and someone pulls up and says, ‘You’re too pretty to be waiting alone,’” says Mereides Delgado about how a girl or any youth in the Mercer County region can be lured into human trafficking – a situation that continues despite the current health crisis.

Delgado is the director of Anchor House’s Aging-Out Youth Service. Anchor House is the 42-year-old Trenton-based social service agency that, according to its mission statement, provides a safe haven where abused, runaway, homeless, aging out, and at-risk youth and their families are empowered to succeed and thrive.

Meeting at one of the agency’s converted church buildings on Centre Street in Trenton, Delgado and colleague Ben Thornton, director of Outreach Services, pull from decades of experience to discuss human trafficking in the region and how they are addressing it.

They also clarify several myths about the subject. First, although the sex trade is a big part of human trafficking, it is more extensive and sometimes involves other industries where youths and older adults are forced to work without pay. The U.S. government says it includes “legitimate and illegitimate labor industries, including sweatshops, massage parlors, agriculture, restaurants, hotels, and domestic service.”

Second myth: the sex trade involves only girls. “We’re starting to see more young males. A young male gets kicked out, and if he’s gay, it’s worse. He’ll get taken advantage of,” says Delgado.

And third and perhaps the biggest myth is that it is a foreign thing. That is backed up by FBI information that says, “While undocumented migrants can be particularly vulnerable to coercion because of their fear of authorities, traffickers have demonstrated their ability to exploit other vulnerable populations and have preyed just as aggressively on documented guest workers and U.S. citizen children.”

The National Human Trafficking Hotline’s website, humantraffickinghotline.org, is helpful in providing the statistic. Just two years ago there were 5,147 known

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U.S. human trafficking cases. Of those, 98 were in New Jersey.

Heather Hadley, the senior assistant prosecutor who handles human trafficking cases for the Mercer County Prosecutor’s Office, says there have been at least eight legally verified cases over the past several years. Yet, she says, area human trafficking activity is higher and arrests are often hindered by the victims who are too afraid, confused, or uninformed to step forward and cooperate.

That reality of human trafficking in Mercer County can be found in a paper trail of newspaper articles reporting on cases in Lawrence, Hopewell, Ewing, and Trenton — including a 2019 case where Hadley prosecuted four Trenton residents.

The victims “could grow up in Trenton and stay in Trenton,” says Delgado about how localized the

The reality of human trafficking in Mercer County can be found in a paper trail of newspaper articles reporting on cases in Lawrence, Hopewell, Ewing, and Trenton. problem actually is. “What I’ve seen is that it is those who grew up in the city and from poverty and neglect who get exploited.”

Thornton says area youths become entrapped because they become homeless and vulnerable.

That homelessness, he says, is not for lack of space but through “a breakdown of family stuff.” That includes substance and physical abuse.

“There is an index of a healthy life and if you remove those supports there’s consequences,” says Thornton, citing cases involving families in Robbinsville, West Windsor, Lawrence, and Trenton.

It is the homeless and vulnerable youth who become easy targets for exploitation that creates human trafficking.

“The key part (about human trafficking) is that you’re not free to leave that situation,” says Delgado, drawing the distinction between bad personal choices and a modern form of slavery. Here the

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bonds are hidden by personal needs and economic manipulation.

A U.S. Department of Homeland Security statement helps clarify the terms and some potential public misconception. “’Trafficking’ is based on exploitation and does not require movement across borders” but human smuggling “involves moving a person across a country’s border without that person’s consent in violation of immigration laws. Although human smuggling is very different from human trafficking, human smuggling can turn into trafficking if the smuggler uses force, fraud, or coercion to hold people against their will for the purposes of labor or sexual exploitation. Under federal law, every minor induced to engage in commercial sex is a victim of human trafficking.”

“The perpetrators are looking for dollars,” says Delgado about the incentives for participation.

“For those exploiting the youth, it is about the money. It’s a billiondollar industry.”

Delgado’s statement is backed up by the U.S. organization Human Rights First. It says human trafficking is an estimated $150 billion international industry with the following breakdown: $99 billion sexual exploitation; $34 construction, manufacturing, and mining; $9 billion agriculture and fishing; and $8 billion savings by using forced labor. The FBI believes it is the third largest industry in the world.

But for the youthful victims it isn’t about money, says Delgado.

“They need to feel someone loves them.” It is a point she and Thornton return to later.

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et there are other incentives in trafficking. “For those who are coming into the country new or moving across state lines, they’re trying to scratch out a living and get into thinking that it is their vehicle to being financially secure and they go into these situations not realizing that (the exploiters) are keeping the money,” says Delgado.

She then adds that others are concerned about what may happen to family members. “Some come in from other countries and their family may have paid to have passage in the U.S. (The workers) find themselves being trafficked. What keeps them in the situation is that their families are threatened.” And the exploiters also control the laborers’ documentation.

Returning to Mercer County, Delgado says the girls she and Thornton encounter are groomed early to be part of the arrangement and that the average age is 11.

“They think this man loves them and call him their boyfriend. Then he expects her to be with him and others (in a sexual way) for money.”

For boys who have left or been forced from their homes, the situation has some similarities. An older man will give the boy some shelter, purchase him some new shoes or clothes, and create an atmosphere where the boy feels that he needs to provide sex for him and others.

Delgado and Thornton say that the norm is that a vulnerable young person will be approached by a man — or sometimes a woman working in partnership with others — within 72 hours of being homeless. The “grooming” varies, depending on the groomer who may either use emotion or force.

Delgado says that men are the main users of the “boyfriend” exploited girls. In one example she mentioned how one young man

Anchor House’s Ben Thornton and Mereides Delgado provide support for human trafficking victims. used a Trenton high rise to make a girl available to neighborhood teenage boys.

Thornton says the street-value cost for use ranges from $20 to $50.

He also talks about parties where men pay a $50 entrance fee and get drugs and sex.

And while the young, exploited sex object doesn’t get any money, they may receive a “warped” reinforcement with “four or five guys having sex with you and saying you’re great,” says Thornton.

Since the exploitative relationship starts at an early and vulnerable age, Delgado says it is a long and difficult road to help youths break the emotional dependency.

“That alternative family is how they survived. It is how they expe-

Anchor House provides services to stabilize housing and provide food, insurance, job training, and a variety of others services that break an individual’s dependence on exploiters. rienced love. For us to show them the relationship was exploiting them is very hard. And it takes a lot of time.”

The two say Anchor House provides services to stabilize housing and provide food, insurance, job training, and a variety of others services that break an individual’s dependence on exploiters. Thornton says that Anchor House generally deals with a couple of clients a year known to have been involved with human trafficking. But he suspects others have also been touched by it.

“We’re handling their basic needs, and no one is expecting anything from you,” says Delgado about treating human trafficking victims, which is “something new to many of those getting the assistance.”

She says the victims are given opportunities to “talk about their trauma and have in-house therapy.

We give them a supportive environment that feels like a family and let them see what healthy relationships are.”

“Our average stay (including

runaways and homeless youths) is several months or a year. Some stay over a year. (Human trafficking) is a longer-term conversation for those who were groomed as a young person. They have to grow.”

Anchor House staff use a variety of ways to assist exploited youths.

“We make alliances with people we know,” says Thornton.

Sometimes it is a Department of Child Protection worker who will pick up clues while visiting a home and report it. Sometimes a child welfare case manager will make the connection. And other times it will be a tip from a high school counselor or a pastor.

Thornton says staff also leave cards in public places where exploited youths may end up and see a way out of an abusive relationship.

The dilemma, they say, is in approach. If an exploiter sees his product interacting with a noncustomer, he may double down on the emotional manipulation or physically punish the youth.

Nevertheless Anchor House’s human trafficking program has been addressing a need for a good portion of its history, even before the term became a buzzword.

“The awareness grew that it wasn’t a foreign issue, that it was an issue in the United States,” Delgado says.

Delgado and Thornton say despite the obstacles there have been successes and transformations.

“We watched young people who were so jaded with relationships meet the Anchor House staff and were shocked that the men weren’t gawking at them, the women were patient, and people were forgiving.

That they were in a safe place to try something else and not getting needs met by shouting or flaunting themselves,” Thornton says. “That helped their journeys.”

Then there are the ones who “come back and are social workers who literally want to show others the way out of it. I’ve been to graduations and watched people walk down the aisle,” says Thornton.

The down side, he says: “No program is designed to be flexible enough to accommodate all human trafficking victims and what traumatized them.”

Thornton says despite the difficulties he enjoys the problem solving, combining a background in engineering and a personal knowledge of Trenton. Born in Trenton, he lived in North 25 housing. His

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father was a janitor and his mother worked at the Naval Air Propulsion Center in Ewing. Initially attending Trenton Public Schools, he was sent to the Solebury School through the A Better Chance program. He later attended Prairie View A&M University in Texas and focused on science and engineering. He worked for several years at Mobil Research in Pennington before deciding to do something that mirrored the help that he had received when he was younger. He and his wife have three teenage children and live in East Windsor, where he is also a volunteer fireman.

Delgado was born in the Bronx, New York. Her father was an auto mechanic and her mother worked for the U.S. Social Security Administration. She studied management at Brown University and had worked as a communications manager for a consulting firm. She also studied at Princeton Theological Seminary and became an ordained Baptist minister. “I was working for First Baptist Church of Lincoln Gardens (in Somerset) and completing additional graduate studies when I felt the call to do more outside the four walls of the church. I connected with Anchor House.”

She is the mother of four children and lives in Lawrence.

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hornton and Delgado seem strengthened by their partnerships with other organizations. That includes Womanspace, HomeFront, Catholic Charities, Trenton Health Team, the New Jersey Human Trafficking Task Force, and “our newest piece, CEASe, a centralized hub for any youth who needs housing in Mercer County.” (CEASe stands for Coordinated Entry and Assessment System.)

They are also thinking of a new strategy to convince the general public and political leaders to understand homelessness — which contributes to the human trafficking relationships — as a health crisis.

Thornton says if the public looked at homelessness like it did smoking or seat belts there may be a greater movement to help address it. “A social justice issue is more abstract. Talking about homelessness as a health issue, others will say, ‘What can we do?’”

He and Delgado also say the answer regarding human trafficking is fairly clear: be vigilant.

And to “understand what the young person is going through. All youth are vulnerable. And 11 and 12-year-olds are so impressionable. That’s when they’re starting to understand themselves as individuals and sexual beings, but there is a network that will exploit that.

They pull you in with promise of seeing you as a beautiful person that has worth, and then they flip the switch.”

Anchor House’s 2020 Ride for Runaways will be a virtual event.

Participants will bike 250 or 500 miles or run/walk 100 miles between July 11 and August 22. For more information on Anchor House or its annual “Ride For Runaways” visit www.anchorhousenj.org.

To report human trafficking crimes: Mercer County Prosecutor’s Office, Cara Zita, Human Trafficking Unit Secretary, 609-393-7675 fax, czitabruch@mercercounty. org.

New Jersey Coalition Against Human Trafficking: www.njhumantrafficking.org.

New Jersey Human Trafficking Task Force: www.nj.gov/oag/ dcj/humantrafficking/index.html.

National Human Trafficking Resource Center (NHTRC): 1-888-373-7888.

Off The Presses: Looking for a Miracle?

Editor’s Note: Regional environmentalist Jim Amon’s book of photos and essays, “Seeing the Sourlands” was recently published by the Sourlands Conservatory, with support from Bristol-Myers Squibb.

A valentine to regional treasure, Amon, 80, shares his knowledge of a place and provides some simple reminders to all of us as we deal with a national health problem and yearn for wonder.

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veryone wants to witness a miracle. Yet, if Walt Whitman was right, and we are actually witnessing them every day, why aren’t we more aware of our good fortune?

There may be many reasons, but one of them is surely that we don’t know enough to recognize a miracle when it is before us.

Take, as an example, a few of the many miracles that trees in the eastern forest perform. Every spring, deciduous trees detect the increasing length of the day and respond by opening leaf and flower buds that have been tightly closed all

winter. Leaves emerge and immediately begin absorbing sunlight and converting it into sugar that is combined with water and minerals brought up from the roots. The glucose is what keeps the tree alive and healthy. At about the same time that the leaves emerge flower buds open, and that attracts insects seeking nectar. The proliferation of insects occurs just as the neo-tropical songbirds arrive, after spending the

winter in the tropics. The birds are famished and weakened after their long flight and feast on the proteinrich insects.

In autumn, the tree’s light sensors send a signal to the tree once again, this time to tell it that the hours of daylight are diminishing.

The tree responds to this signal by blocking the passage of nutrients between the branches and its leaves. The leaves, with nourish-

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ment from the tree blocked, consume the chlorophyll that has made them green all summer, revealing a blaze of color that has lain dormant beneath the green. Shortly afterward the leaves fall from the tree, usually before they can become platforms for snow that will fall in the winter. If the leaves stayed on the tree, they would collect snow and create a weight that could break branches or even fell entire trees.

You may have already accepted the fall foliage colors as a miracle, but have you been conscious of the other miracles? Isn’t it equally miraculous that trees have sensors that can detect the length of daylight? Or that the green leaves can “eat” sunlight and turn it to nourishment for the entire tree? Or that trees actually expel their leaves before winter, which protects them from being torn apart by heavy snow loads? The more that we know about trees, the more miracles related to them we can witness.

“Seeing the Sourlands” ($39) is available at www.sourland.org. All proceeds benefit the Sourland Conservancy.

For more on Jim Amon and “Seeing the Sourlands,” link onto the U.S. 1’s March 4, 2020, profile at www.princetoninfo.com/booklooks-past-pretty-pictures-to-everyday-wonders.

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Cezanne at Princeton: A Glimpse into a Shuttered Exhibition

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hree of the principal areas of France in which Cezanne painted landscapes are rife with rocky terrain: the Forest of Fontainebleau, southeast of Paris; L’Estaque, a village in Provence on the Mediterranean coast immediately above Marseille; and the area

around Aix-en-Provence, his birthplace.

“It is rare for art historians or curators to be able to see the actual subjects of paintings made in the past,” writes curator Elderfield in the museum’s magazine. “However, a number of Cezanne’s landscapes continue to have a strong enough resemblance to his canvases to do so.”

In organizing the exhibition, Elderfield, who just ended a four-year stint as curator

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Considered the father of modern art, Paul Cezanne visually mined stone quarries to create paintings — such as the above ‘Rocks in the Forest’ from the Kunsthaus Collection in Zurich — that paved the way to cubism and other modern movements.

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and lecturer at the museum and was formerly chief curator of painting and sculpture at New York’s Museum of Modern Art, was able to visit two of these sites.

Cezanne first began painting at the Bibemus Quarry in 1895, storing his supplies in a rustic cabin there. Despite the growth of bushes and trees, the quarry — built by Romans but abandoned by Cezanne’s time — remains pretty much as it was in the 1890s.

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primary subject. “Cezanne: The Rock and Quarry Paintings” features 15 of the most important of these, as well as selected watercolors and related documentary material, demonstrating the artist’s fascination with geology and how those reflective planes of light drove his artistic practice.

With its rocky terrain, quarries and ancient stone caves, the landscape of Provence had been a subject for plein air painters for more than a century before Cezanne began working outdoors there. His own interest in depicting geological formations dates to the mid-1860s, a period when changing theories about the evolution of the earth were under consideration.

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Editor’s Note: We had gone full speed ahead with reporting on the 2020 spring arts season. And, like everyone, we saw a national crisis bring regional and national arts institutions alike to their metaphorical knees. That includes the Princeton University Art Museum’s exhibition on one of the world’s greatest artists. A feat in preparing and highly expensive venture, it waits silently in the museum’s galleries until the State of New Jersey lifts its social-distancing orders and allows the museum to open. We had prepared the article to help our readers prepare for the exhibition and direct you to the images on the museum’s website.

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hough having departed this world more than a century ago, Paul Cezanne (1839-1906) is still a rock star. Specifically, he is a rock star at the Princeton University Art Museum, where “Cezanne: The Rock and Quarry Paintings” was scheduled to be on view through June 14. For the exhibition’s opening and an accompanying conversation with curator John Elderfield and the artist Terry Winters, Cezanne fans clogged Washington Road, filled all the parking spots, and queued up outside McCosh Hall to flash their Eventbrite scan codes for admission.

If Cezanne’s spirit were hovering, he would have felt the love as the hordes poured out of McCosh and filled the museum (supplementary coat racks brought for the occasion were overflowing) to get a view of his magnificently colored planes of light.

Interest in geology was all the rage during Cezanne’s youth. Amateurs and professionals collected fossils, and young people attended lectures on the subject. Cezanne shared this interest. The young artist and his friends hiked among the windswept rocks and grottoes of Barre des Rochers on the Mediterranean coast and visited caves that had been used as prehistoric dwellings.

While with Antoine-Fortune Marion, who went on to become a noted geologist and paleontologist, Cezanne found his subject matter in the rocks. It was here that, in the mid1860s, Marion had made some of his most important discoveries of prehistoric human habitation. A special display case shows the diagrams Marion drew in Cezanne’s sketchbooks.

Informed by these early experiences, Cezanne would explain that, when painting a landscape, he had to understand its underlying structure, its geological foundations. Of the 400 or so landscapes he painted in his career, about two dozen took rocks as their

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Paul Cezanne’s ‘Bilbemus Quarry,’ from the Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, and ‘Cistern in the Grounds of Chateau Noir,’ from the Pearlman Collection at Princeton University Art Museum, are two of the 15 works that explore the artist’s innovative approach.

Elderfield found that the deeper the quarry was mined, the older the rocks the quarrymen reached. “When he set his easel there, Cezanne, with his knowledge of geology and his love of seclusion in his later years, may well have imagined himself having traveled down into a distant past: he worked there in deep silence, except for the buzzing of cicadas and some echoing distant sounds.” He continued to paint at the location for the rest of his life, enjoying the seclusion.

Elderfield also visited Chateau Noir, a manor house where Cezanne rented a room to store his painting supplies. In nearby grottoes Marion had discovered primitive tools and prehistoric animal and human remains, including evidence of cannibalism. The hilly terrain, Elderfield found, was difficult; he had to clamber over clumps of grass and patches of clay. “I am not surprised that Cezanne is said to have gone on hands and knees for parts of it.”

There has been no shortage of Cezanne exhibits at PUAM, with this one being the third in five years. In 2018 an exhibition of landscapes focused on works in paper in the museum’s collection, and in 2015 “Cezanne and the Modern” focused on the post-Impressionist “Father” of modern painting’s influence on the development of modern art.

Indeed, the museum’s website lists 40 Cezannes in its collection, although the works for this exhibition were borrowed from other museums and institutions.

As can be seen here, Cezanne reduced the visible world into basic, underlying shapes, and his faceted brushstrokes reconstructed nature through painterly forms. Picasso declared Cézanne “my one and only master,” and Matisse called him “father to us all.”

Born to a wealthy banker in Aix-en-

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Dancing Dance, Princeton, Dance: Living Room Dance Party, Arts Council of Princeton. www.artscouncilofprinceton.org. Livestreamed tunes by DJ Mick to benefit Arts Council programming. Donations requested. Donors who give $20 or more can request up to three songs to be played. Register. 8 to 10 p.m.

Sunday May 24 Lectures Donald Trump 2020, Astrological Society of Princeton. www. aspnj.org. Robert Hand speaks on techniques that make predictions such as the outcomes of presidential elections less depen-

Provence, Cezanne was a close childhood hewn maverick, brash and unkempt, who friend of the novelist, playwright, and essay- flouted the artistic and critical establishist Emile Zola. To comply with his father’s ments. He used the still life to forge his artiswishes, Cezanne attended tic identity as a path law school at the Univerbreaker, but his still lifes sity of Aix, but working were also landscapes: the Cezanne believed inwith his hands suited him table becomes the land, animate objects had more than working as a the fruits and bowls are lives. The brush lawyer. (The family did mountains, and a draped not approve of Cezanne’s tablecloth is a reflective strokes were intenmarriage to Hortense Fisea. Cezanne believed intionally visible bequet, with whom he had a animate objects had lives. cause he wanted to child, either.) Encouraged The brush strokes were

by Zola, Cezanne moved underscore that these intentionally visible beto Paris to pursue his artiscause he wanted to underwere paintings, not tic passions. He hooked up score that these were attempts to imitate with Camille Pissarro, Aupaintings, not attempts to gust Renoir, Edouard Maimitate the real thing. the real thing. net, Claude Monet, and Some viewers say they Alfred Sisley, and was insee human faces, mouths, cluded in Impressionist or eyes in Cezanne’s rocks exhibitions in 1874 and 1877. and draperies. “I want to propose that these Wielding his palette knife to apply thick were likely effected with the help of instincts paint strokes, Cezanne was seen as a rough-

dent on personal preferences and more on disciplined astrological method. Email aspinfo@aspnj. org for more information. Register. $10. 2 to 3:30 p.m.

Monday May 25 Memorial Day. Bank and postal holiday.

Virtual Memorial Day Celebration, Spirit of Princeton. www. spiritofprinceton.org. Wreath-laying ceremony featuring Spirit of Princeton co-chair Kam Amirzafar and a member from each the Princeton Fire Department and the Princeton First Aid Squad streamed live on Facebook at www.facebook.com/spirit­ ofprinceton. Donations to Spirit of Princeton welcome. 11 a.m.

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and intuitions of which the artist was not necessarily conscious,” writes Elderfield in the exhibition catalog. “I would go further to say it is highly unlikely he was fully, deliberately conscious of many such intimations that are to be found in his art.”

Elderfield quotes Samuel Beckett: “What a relief … after all the anthropomorphized landscape. Cezanne seems to have been the first to see landscape and state it as material of a strictly peculiar order, incommensurable with all human expressions whatsoever.”

Cezanne was interested in creating a harmony parallel to nature, noted Terry Winters in his conversation with Elderfield. It was not a representation of nature, but a re-enactment.

“The landscape thinks itself in me, and I am its consciousness,” Cezanne is quoted as saying.

Cezanne: The Rock and Quarry Paintings, Princeton University Art Museum. artmuseum.princeton.edu

Sculptor Mira DeMartino appears in conversation with the Arts Council of Princeton’s Tim Andrews on Tuesday, May 26.

Wednesday May 27 Literati Short Story Discussion, Mercer County Library. www. facebook.com/mclsnj. Discuss “A Bear Came Over the Mountain”

by Alice Munro. 8 p.m.

History

Open Archive: Healthcare in Princeton, Historical Society of Princeton & Princeton Public Library. www.princetonlibrary.

org. Historical Society curator Stephanie Schwartz leads a digital exploration of documents and objects from the Historical Society of Princeton collection that highlight the history of healthcare in Princeton, including nursing, hospitals, public health, and pandemics. Available online via Crowdcast. 6:30 to 7:30 p.m.

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Life in the Fast Lane Princeton Chamber Launches TV Show

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Princeton Mercer Regional Chamber of Commerce, 600 Alexander Road, Suite 3-2, Princeton 08540. 609-9241776. Peter Crowley, president and CEO. www.princetonmercerchamber.org The Princeton Mercer Regional Chamber of Commerce is launching a TV show that highlights businesses and businesspeople within the community. The show seeks to carry on the mission of the Mercer Business Magazine, which stopped publishing in 2018.

“Mercer Business and YOU” will stream on RVN TV beginning Friday, May 22. The pilot episode, titled “Restarting Mercer County: The Road Ahead,” will include advice from area leaders on how to grow, expand, and move past the pandemic.

“We will be focusing on Mercer County and the positive aspects that our business community offers. The show will present local news and information on why Mercer County is the best place to live and do business in New Jersey,” Chamber CEO Peter Crowley said in a statement.

“In addition to current topics, we plan to incorporate many of the features associated with Mercer Business Magazine like the business highlight, legislative update, and the always entertaining, ‘Ask a Busy Person,’” said Chamber chairwoman Brenda Ross-Dulan.

IPO Planned Oyster Point Pharma Inc., 202 Carnegie Center, Suite 109, Princeton 08540. 609-382-9032. Jeffrey Nau PhD, MMS, president and CEO. www. oysterpointrx.com.

Carnegie Center-based Oyster Point Pharma has announced plans for an underwritten

public offering of 2.5 million shares of common stock. Underwriters will have a 30-day option to purchase up to 375,000 additional shares.

The clinical-stage pharmaceutical company focuses on the development and commercialization of treatments for ocular surface diseases. Its lead product, known as OC01, is a nasal spray that alleviates the symptoms of dry eye disease.

The chronic, progressive disease that affects an estimated 30 million Americans is characterized by a disruption of the tear film that typically keeps the eye lubricated. Patients can suffer from burning and stinging sensations as well as eye fatigue and sensitivity to light.

Oyster Point Pharma recently announced promising results from clinical trials of its OC-01 nasal spray, which works by stimulating the glands and cells responsible for tear film production. In the study, which included 758 patients ranging from mild to severe dry eye disease, subjects showed statistically significant improvement in measurements of tear production.

The company anticipates applying for approval from the FDA in the second half of 2020 and is targeting a U.S. launch of the drug in the fourth quarter of 2021.

Management Moves YWCA Princeton, 59 Paul Robeson Place, Princeton 08540. 609-4972100. www.ywcaprinceton.org.

YWCA Princeton announced that Twanda “Tay” Walker will serve as its new executive director, effective June 1. Walker was selected unanimously by a search committee composed of YWCA Princeton’s board of directors and senior staff. She will succeed Judy Hutton, who is retiring after serving as CEO for 14 years.

Walker has a master’s degree in public health from St. Joseph’s University with a concentration in maternal and child health, and has over twenty years of experience in nonprofit management. She has previously served as a deputy state registrar for the New Jersey Department of Health and as an early childhood and health services administrator at Camden County Head Start.

“I am grateful to be retiring with confidence that YWCA Princeton will thrive under new leadership, new ideas, and a new century of eliminating racism and empowering women,” Hutton said.

CytoSorbents Inc. (CTSO), 7 Deer Park Drive, Suite K, Monmouth Junction 08852. 732-329-8885. Phillip Chan, CEO. www.cytosorbents. com.

CytoSorbents, a critical care immunotherapy company based on Deer Park Drive, has named Efthymios N. Deliargyris as chief medical officer.

Deliargyris earned his medical degree in Athens, Greece, before training in internal medicine, cardiology, and interventional cardiology in the U.S. He worked at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center in North Carolina and at Athens Medical Center in Greece before joining industry. He was a vice president and global medical lead at the Medicines Company in Munich, Germany, and was most recently chief medical officer of Houston-based PLx Pharma.

In a statement, CytoSorbents CEO Phillip Chan said, “We are thrilled to have Efthymios (‘Makis’) join CytoSorbents to lead worldwide clinical activity in critical care and cardiac surgery applications during this exciting chapter at our company. His extensive expertise in cardiology, interventional cardiology, and the treatment of complications of critical illnesses such as shock, through many years of clinical practice, clin-

Twanda ‘Tay’ Walker has been named CEO of the YWCA Princeton. ical trial research, and industry focus, make him well-suited for this task.”

CytoSorbents also promoted Vincent J. Capponi from chief operating officer to president and chief operating officer. Capponi, who has been with the company for 18 years, will continue to oversee its day-to-day operations while also developing new opportunities for the company and its technology.

Deaths Robert Sakson, 82, on May 15. He was an award-winning area watercolor artist whose regional scenes were included in numerous group exhibitions and solo shows at the New Jersey State Museum, Monmouth Museum, Trenton City Museum, Nassau Club, and other venues.

Betty Wold Johnson, 99, on May 5. The wife of Robert Wood Johnson III, the Princeton and Hopewell resident was a prominent

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Buying Baseball & Football cards,1909-1980 - Comic books, 1940-1980. All sports memorabilia, collectibles, and related items. Don 609203-1900; delucadon@yahoo.com.

Cash paid for SELMER Saxophones and other vintage models.

609-581-8290, E-mail: lenny3619@ gmail.com Cash paid for World War II military items. 609-581-8290 or e-mail lenny3619@optonline.net.

Wanted: Baseball, football, basketball, hockey. Cards, autographs, photos, memorabilia. Highest cash prices paid! Licensed corporation, will travel. 4thelovofcards, 908-596-0976. allstar115@verizon.net.

Singles EXChange MEN SEEKING WOMEN Elderly gentleman seeks a woman who is more concerned about the suffering occurring around the world than she is about hedonistic pleasures. Box 240346.

I’m an Italian-American widower originally from NY now in PA Newtown/ Yardley area. 73 slim healthy. Seeking a slim healthy woman 65 to 75. I’m active, educated, I like to laugh, have fun and do new things. Are you up for an adventure? We would travel, go to good movies, museums in NYC and Phila. I love jazz, we can stay home have a quiet evening cooking together (I’m an excellent cook). We just may find true love and passion. Please send photo, a note, a phone number so we may talk.

Box #240718.

Professional seeks a woman from 40-55 years old. I enjoy family, i like to go to movies, go to the beach, festivals, adn sometimes dine out and travel.

Please send phone, email. Box 240245.

STILL ATTRACTIVE WIDOW, sometimes merry, also thoughtful, seeks comparable gentleman, born 1932-37, solvent, reasonably unimpaired, highly educated (but not stuffy about it), to connect and see what develops. Pipe dream? You tell me. Princeton area only. Box #240778.

HOW TO RESPOND How to Respond: Place your note in an envelope, write the box number on the envelope, and mail it with $1 cash to U.S. 1 at the address below.

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Get Ready ready to Ride! ride!

We’re celebrating National Bike Month! Five times in May we’ll hand a $25 Whole Earth gift card to a randomly chosen cyclist who rides to our store to shop.

We look forward to returning to our usual Random Acts program next year when we’ll once again be out in town distributing multiple gift cards from Princeton businesses. In the meantime, please support the businesses that have supported biking by being part of Random Acts: bent spoon • small world coffee • Terra Momo • Triumph Brewing Co. Olives • Miya Table & Home • Labyrinth Books • greendesign Nassau Inn • Nassau Street Seafood • Local Greek Blue Point Grill • Jammin’ Crepes • LiLLiPiES Princeton Soup & Sandwich • Tico’s Juice Bar Homestead Princeton • jaZams • Kopp’s Cycle Princeton Tour Company • Town of Princeton Olsson’s Fine Foods • Princeton Family YMCA 360 NASSAU STREET Hinkson’s • Princeton Record Exchange PRINCETON

[][][][][] RANDOM ACTS OF COMMUNITY: Rewarding Biking in Princeton RANDOM ACTS OF COMMUNITY IS A PROJECT OF THE WHOLE EARTH CENTER

HOW TO ORDER Singles By Mail: To place your free ad in this section mail it to U.S. 1, 15 Princess Road, Suite K, Lawrenceville 08648, fax it to 609-844-0180, or E-mail it to class@princetoninfo.com. Be sure to include a physical address to which we can send responses.

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