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QB Hansford stays in gear for Scotties BY RICH FISHER The question is not what can Myles Hansford do on a football field. It’s what can’t he do? The answer? He can’t downshift to a lower gear. “To me practice is so important,” Hansford said. “During conditioning I’m always pushing my hardest, pushing to my limits until I feel like I’m gonna throw up. That’s what gets you ready.” The good news is, he hasn’t puked. The better news for the Bordentown High football team is that Hansford is always ready; no matter where he plays. As a freshman, Myles was a West Jersey Football League AllFreedom Division choice as a return man. A year later, he was All-Division as defensive back and in 2022 he got the same honor as a receiver. This year, coach Skip Edwards planned on nominating Hansford at quarterback. “We graduated Denny Morolda and the question we had was, who’s gonna play quarterback, who’s gonna get the ball to Myles?” Edwards said. “Myles took care of that himself and decided he wanted to play quarterback, which was a great decision. It gave (juniors) Wyatt Kovac and Ari
Miller a chance to play wideout and they’ve improved.” Although Hansford was mainly a receiver in high school, he actually grew up playing QB for the Bordentown Bulldogs and he would serve as Morolda’s back-up with the Scotties. The position was definitely not new to him. “I was getting reps at practice, I was built for it,” Hansford said. “I just thought being at quarterback, being the person to touch the ball every single play would give the team the best opportunity to win. So I had to take leadership and ownership there. I wanted to lead the team.” He leads at more positions than one. Hansford is a return man who never gets a chance to return after taking one back 93 yards for a touchdown against Overbrook opening night. “They haven’t kicked to me since,” Hansford said. “I despise when they kick away from me.” Edwards recalled the Overbrook return, saying, “They thought they had him stopped and he bounced out of the pile and took it to the house. When you get players like this you want to exploit all their positive attributes and use them to the best of their ability. See HANSFORD, Page 8
Joe Walker and Bernadette Class with their RV, which they use to travel the country.
RVers get used to life on the road BY SUE FERRARA Imagine it’s 1977. You live on Beal Street in Hamilton, not far from Kuser Park. One day, one of your favorite aunts—a retired WWII Naval airplane mechanic—pulls up with her husband in an RV that’s built on a bus chassis. The vehicle is huge. “There was a whole house inside,” said Bernadette Class, 56. “I remember how I felt seeing it. It was so magical.” The Hamilton resident
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recalled that memory while talking about how she made a decision in 2020 to sell her home and set out for adventures in her own RV which she co-owns with Joe Walker, 67, a legal resident of Florida. Bernadette and Joe call one another co-pilots. Their story might have you considering a For Sale sign in your own front lawn, while you search for the perfect home for the road. The story begins in 2011, at a Philadelphia-based behavioral healthcare company which pro-
vides services for those who are deaf, or hard-of-hearing. Bernadette had been working there as an HR manager when Joe arrived from Mt. Dora, Florida to start a new job at the company. He had worked with a similar, but much larger organization in Florida, which had closed. Bernadette mostly grew up in Hamilton. In 1984, she and her classmates became the first graduates of Nottingham high school. Prior to that time, NotSee RVERS, Page 4
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