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Rainbow Girls mark 100 years of service Local organization celebrates century of service with project benefiting HomeFront BY JOE EMANSKI
Young women looking for ways to volunteer their time for a good cause have a variety of options available to them these days. Among them is the International Order of the Rainbow For Girls, a youth group for girls ages 11-20. The order formed its first assembly in McAlester, Oklahoma, in 1922, and a first New Jersey assembly was held in 1923. This fall, New Jersey assemblies marked a centur y in existence with luncheons and ser vice projects. Members of Trenton Assembly No. 9, which meets twice monthly in Mercer County, donated 100 purses to HomeFront for its ser vice project. HomeFront pursues its mission of ending homelessness in New Jersey by providing shelter, meals and necessities for families in need. The 22 members collected
100 “gently used” pocketbooks and filled them with toiletries and other essentials for women before donating them to the nonprofit. “The Rainbow Girls are mostly a ser vice organization, so we wanted to do something that was relevant to the community,” said Christine Storie, a Ewing resident who ser ves as mother advisor for the Trenton Assembly. “The young ladies, in combination with the parents and advisers who help us, collected items all year long to stuff in these bags.” Storie (who is also an account representative for Community News Ser vice, the publisher of the Ewing Obser ver), said the assembly held a luncheon on Sept. 25 that both current members and alumnae of the assembly attended. “We had octogenarians through 10-year-olds all sharing in the tradition,” Storie said. “It’s a sisterhood. It’s a community of ladies who go through the same set of traditions throughout the years.” Girls ages 5 through 10 are eligible to become Rainbow Girl pledges, while girls ages 11-20 are eligible to become See RAINBOW, Page 7
Golden year
West Windsor-Plainsboro South celebrates its 50th anniversary this year. For more on the history of the school, see the West Windsor Chronicles column on Page 14.
High school North & South girls’ tennis teams win CJ titles BY RICH FISHER
The tradition of tennis in the West Windsor-Plainsboro school district is well known, and this year the legacy wrote itself yet another new chapter. For the first time since West Windsor-Plainsboro North opened in 1997, both high
schools won Central Jersey championships in the same year. The top-seeded Northern Knights defeated 2nd-seeded Princeton, 3-2, in the Central Jersey Group III final, giving North its first sectional title since 2018 and second overall. The 3rd-seeded Pirates edged top-seeded Princeton, 3-2, in
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the CJ IV final for their first sectional crown since 2014. North fell to Ramapo, 3.5-1.5 in the Group III semifinal, while South beat Ridgewood 3-2 in the Group IV semis but fell to Ridge, 4-1, in the state final. Either way, it was a tremendous year for both squads, See TENNIS, Page 10
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