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Dog park a finalist in contest to win funding

New president takes the helm at MCCC

BY REBEKAH SCHROEDER

BY BILL SANSERVINO

Lawrence Township has been named a finalist to win $25,000 in the 2022 Petsafe “Bark for your Park” contest. The municipality is hoping to use the funds towards the construction of a new dog park —named Hero Dog Park—in town.

“A core mission of the municipal government is to seize upon opportunities to improve the quality of life for its residents,” said Municipal Manager Kevin Nerwinski in a press release.

“To that end,” he said, “there is a consistent process we undertake that includes long-term planning, redevelopment, and implementing strategies to maximize the use of our resources and assets throughout the community.”

Nerwinski said that one such project is re-purposing and improving the use of Hamnett Park, located on Ohio Avenue.

“With the endorsement and support from Township Council members, we have developed comprehensive engineering plans to See AROUND TOWN, Page 2

Emma Quattrochi fights for the ball against an opponent in a 2021 field hockey game.

LHS field hockey team looks to repeat as Mercer County champ

BY RICH FISHER

Talia Schenck and her 244 career goals have departed for Princeton University and five other players graduated from the Lawrence High girls field hockey team that won the 2021 Mercer County Tournament championship.

But if the past three seasons have

done anything, they have given the remaining Cardinals an attitude that they can win games no matter who is on the team, and who isn’t.

“Expectations are definitely something we’ve learned to have,” senior goalie Abby Duncan said. “There’s a lot of unknowns but what I’m hoping for is a winning season. If we could win a couple county games that

would be great. Winning counties is still something you hope for. If we could pull that out two years in a row, I’d be amazed, I’d be very impressed with us.

“Obviously expectations are still high with us, but we can’t concern ourselves with what we were last year. We just need to think about See FIELD HOCKEY, Page 7

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It was while teaching a writing class for college students who were almost the same age as she was that the 21-year-old Deborah Preston discovered not just her calling, but also plenty of use for her theater degree.

Although she had changed her career path from acting to academia, the valuable stage skills she learned helped to shape her perspective in numerous leadership positions.

Throughout more than 30 years of experience and service, Preston has studied the psychology of others’ motivations and frustrations as if preparing for a character.

As she steps into a starring role as Mercer County Community College’s seventh president, she says she wants to figure out productive solutions for both the audience and the people behind the curtain.

MCCC, which has campuses in West Windsor and Trenton, announced in April that Preston would be succeeding the nearly seven-year term of previous president, Dr. Jianping Wang. After starting on July 1, Preston sat down with See PRESTON, Page 4

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AROUND TOWN AROUND TOWN cont. from Page 1 create a state-of-the-art dog park and recreational area for all of our residents to use and enjoy,” Nerwinski said.

The redesign of Hamnett Park includes a multipurpose walking path around the perimeter, lighting for pedestrians, shade structures, landscaping, and two fenced-in areas for smaller and larger dogs at the newly titled Hero Dog Park.

“Our goal is to restore and re-imagine Hamnett Park to be more pedestrian and pet-friendly in a way that does not prove disruptive to nearby homes,” Nerwinski said.

To offset some of the costs and alleviate the burden on tax-payers, the Township has pursued grant funding, including the Bark for your Park grant contest.

The township was named a finalist in July and Nerwinski asked residents to vote for Lawrence throughout August. $25,000 will go to each of the four finalists receiving the most votes.

Last year, the winner received 19,000 votes, and Nerwisnki said he is confidant that with the community’s help, Lawrence will exceed that number.

LHS history club members compete Lawrence High School students recently participated in the 2022 virtual National History Day competition.

More than 600,000 students worldwide in grades 6-12 began their research in the fall of 2021 for this year’s contest theme, “Debate and Diplomacy in History: Successes, Failures, Consequences.”

NHD Club members who achieved national recognition are featured below.

Piyush Nawade, grade 10, and graduating senior, Paraj Goyal, placed in the top 20 out of 100 world entries for their senior group documentary, “Iranian Hostage Crisis: Consequences of a Failed Democracy.”

Julia Ciccone, grade 10, placed in the top 40 out of 100 world entries for her senior individual documentary, “The Civil War’s Trent Affair: Successful Diplomacy Solves an International Debate.” Ciccone will receive the President’s Award from the New Jersey Civil War Roundtable in September.

The 2022 contest marked the 10th consecutive year that LTPS students have qualified for the national level of competition.

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PRESTON continued from Page 1 U.S. 1 to talk about her background and goals.

Prior to accepting the MCCC position, Preston was the provost and vice president of academic affairs at Raritan Valley Community College in Branchburg. She also acted as the chief academic officer throughout the COVID-19 pandemic.

According to MCCC, Preston was instrumental in the Access2Success project at RVCC, which “addressed the equity gap for students of color, first-generation students and low-income students” as part of her commitment to the principles of diversity, equity and inclusion.

She says she hopes to expand those same practices at MCCC, bringing to the position what she has learned from developing, managing and overseeing a range of initiatives in community colleges.

Preston grew up in Georgia, spending most of her life in the south until she attended college and worked in other states.

After being employed for 11 years at Montgomery College in Rockville, Maryland, she came to New Jersey for RVCC. “It’s really an interesting migration for me,” Preston says. “I love it here. It’s been a much easier transition than I ever thought it would be.”

Preston started out with aspirations of becoming an actress and earned a bach-

elor’s degree in theater from Florida State to make a difference in students’ lives,” PresUniversity. Although she “accidentally” fin- ton says, citing a desire to impact them and ished in only three years, Preston no longer grow their potential. It was never her objecfelt content painting sets or doing vocal exer- tive, but she has spent all of her higher educises in the highly competitive atmosphere. cation career in community colleges.

So it was only natural that Preston ended She wanted to try another field, one that was up wearing many hats in her 14 years at steadier and more reliable.

As a 21-year-old college graduate, Preston Georgia Perimeter College — now known as Perimeter College at Georgia returned to FSU for a postState University — in Atlanta. graduate degree as a way of She went from adjunct to ten“buying myself some time to ured professor, then departfigure out what I wanted to be ment chair and campus when I grew up,” she says. provost.

Preston chose to pursue a Preston says that she master’s degree in English, learned something important and the program required an in every one of the different assistantship in teaching Engpositions she has held as she lish composition. That was moved up. where she fell in love with “It gives you a broader perteaching in front of a room spective of what’s going on of students who should have Preston across campus, so that when been, age-wise, her peers. a division is struggling with Preston then moved on to receive a doctoral degree — also in Eng- something, you can relate to it in some way,” lish, specifically dramatic literature — from she says. “I think there’s a lot to be said for really understanding how a college works Tulane University in New Orleans.

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mathematics, statistics, and data science for 21 years. When she started at RVCC, Nicholson stayed behind to continue teaching in Maryland. Now, after years of living in different states, Preston and her husband are getting settled together in Lawrence Township, with Nicholson currently looking for new job opportunities.

Preston says that she tried to find a property halfway between the James Kerney Campus in Trenton and the West Windsor, campus, but ended up closer to Trenton.

“I’m incredibly excited about the JKC campus at Trenton,” she says. “I think that is just a diamond in the rough. I’m really looking forward to seeing what we can do to build up that campus” with structural, aesthetic and programming improvements.

Ahead of her first day, Preston says that she had conversations with many people who were entirely unaware of the Trenton campus’ existence, then assuming that it must have been a recent addition to MCCC. The school originally began on Trenton’s North Broad Street, later merging and acquiring its current name, as well as opening the West Windsor location, around the 1960s to ’70s.

“I truly believe that the JKC campus can and should be a really important part of the revitalization of that whole area of Trenton,” she says. “I’ve seen it happen with other types of businesses. I don’t see why it can’t happen with a college. In fact, I think we’re probably uniquely positioned to really bring about positive change working with other constituents in that community.”

To continue this, Preston says she wishes to get acquainted with the diversity, equity and inclusion plans on campus, noting there is “awareness around what we can do to make sure we’re a safe and friendly and socially just college.” One of the elements she wants to maintain is having a “strategic coordination” of these resources.

“The first thing I’m going to look at is, ‘what is everything that’s going on, and is everybody really moving in the same direction,’ because that’s the only way you get real change,” Preston says.

Last year, Preston was appointed to the American Association of Community College’s Commission on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, which has provided her with ideas on how to serve students accordingly.

“A member shared what is called a ‘policy audit’ where you go through your policy manual, and for every single policy, you ask yourself, ‘Does this policy hurt anyone, and why is it there? Could it be friendlier?’” she explains, giving library fines as an example.

Many libraries are retiring fines, Preston says. “They find that they don’t actually change the rate of book return — with or without the fine — and they just discourage people who can’t afford their fines from coming back to the library.”

Another issue could be the act of “putting

holds on student records for parking tickets,” because as the president asks rhetorically, “do I really want to not let the student come to college because they can’t afford their parking ticket?”

“Like any institution, there’s so many things we do because we’ve always done them, and nobody’s really stopped to say, ‘but do we have to?’ That’s what I think is important about a policy audit,” she adds.

Preston took on a similar task of reviewing and updating academic practices as the co-chair of Montgomery College’s steering committee, which developed the school’s first Academic Master Plan.

“The other piece that I’m really passionate about in terms of DEI work is that for years, we left all the DEI and social justice work up to Student Affairs, so if students weren’t doing well, [they would say] ‘well, let’s get them a mentor, let’s give them better orientation.’”

She continues: “But at the end of the day, the learning happens in the classroom, and if the classrooms aren’t designed with an equity and social justice lens — if you are teaching material in a way that alienates your students, or does not feel inclusive to your students — if you are not thinking about your content matter in ways that engage students and help them to see themselves in a particular class or discipline, then all the mentors in the world aren’t going to fix that.

You’ve really got to put equal weight on what happens in the classroom and what happens out of the classroom.”

Preston, acknowledging the JKC campus specifically, is thinking of other ways to shift MCCC’s approach to positively benefit, incorporate, and highlight the voices of surrounding communities.

“We’ve got to build relationships and talk to the community about what they need,” she says. “There’s a long, sad history of white liberals deciding what other groups need or should want, without really listening to what they need or want. As a higher ed institution, I don’t want us to fall into the trap of always thinking we know best.

“We know some things, and that’s good, but we have to combine what we know with what the community says they want and need, because otherwise, I don’t see us having that much impact. It’s got to be a partnership.”

That camaraderie leads into the importance of an understanding environment.

“Ideally, you would want the college to be a place where everybody feels they belong, everybody feels valued, and everybody feels like they are either making a positive contribution, or they are getting something positive out of their interaction,” Preston says, expressing that inclusion and appreciation are important, but not unique to schools.

“We have to have that third layer, which

is something positive is happening — either I’m making a contribution, or I’m getting something valuable from my interactions with the faculty,” she explains of the distinction.

Another issue that Preston wants to tackle is post-pandemic enrollment. Students might be hesitant to return to college because of the current job market, where retail and restaurants may offer $20 an hour in what the president calls “a short-term solution” to the bigger problem.

“Go ahead and get your $20 an hour, but also, come to college! Let us get you set up for something better down the road,” she says. “I think people are tired, traumatized, and depressed from the pandemic. It’s hard to think about working and going to college.

But we’re going to do as much outreach to students as we can and make it as painless as possible to come to school.”

Preston says that although service jobs might feel like they pay well, college “can help them get to something that’s more of a life-sustaining wage,” especially for people who want to have a family down the line.

“People think they can’t afford college, and that just breaks my heart, because you can absolutely afford to come to Mercer.

Even if you think you can’t afford to come to Mercer, we can help you afford to come to Mercer,” she says, with flexible options for each student’s journey.

“You don’t have to go for a full two years.

You don’t have to transfer. You can and we will help you do that, but you don’t have to,” Preston adds, saying it “kills” her that some might avoid enrolling based on misinformation about expenses. “Between state aid, federal aid, and foundation aid, there’s just no reason for a student not to come to Mercer.”

Those can range from New Jersey’s Community College Opportunity Grant’ for residents with an adjusted gross income under $80,000 to the MCCC Foundation’s scholarship programs — tuition plus, urban JKC, and president’s completion fund — which address the different socioeconomic backgrounds of students.

As the end of summer means a return to school, Preston is happy to greet students when the fall semester officially begins on Sept. 6. Inspired by the enthusiasm of local officials, leaders, and other representatives who have given her a warm welcome, she reciprocates their feelings about embarking on MCCC’s promising new chapter together.

Preston adds that there are already plans in motion to “harness” the positive energy of these interactions, and what she looks forward to the most is becoming part of the community. But with so many people keen to celebrate the opportunity for collaboration, Preston is not alone in having “a lot of optimism” for what’s to come.

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their extremely popular contemporary, William Shakespeare. $24. October 21 through 30.

The fourth play in Kelsey’s season was the first by prolific American playwright Neil Simon. “Come Blow Your Horn,” which premiered on Broadway in 1961 and later became a movie starring Frank Sinatra, tells the story of a 21-yearold virgin who goes to live in his playboy older brother’s bachelor pad. $22.

November 4 through 13.

Kelsey’s final production before the holiday season is a holiday classic in itself. “It’s a Wonderful Life,” the story of a desperate businessman saved by an angel who shows him what life would be like without him, takes the stage just in time for Thanksgiving. $22. November 18 through 27.

*** Music Mountain Theater, 1483 Route 179, Lambertville, 609-397-3337. www.musicmountaintheatre.org.

The Lambertville venue is in the midst of its year-round performance schedule. On stage now is “The Vagina Monologues,” Eve Ensler’s work based on interviews with more than 200 women. $25. Through September 11.

The season continues as follows: “Thoroughly Modern Millie,” the story of a young woman from Kansas arriving in New York City in 1922 to reinvent herself. $25. September 16 through October 9.

“A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder,” the story of a low-born man seeking an earldom by eliminating the seven relatives who stand before him in the line of succession. $25. October 16 through 30.

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The theater company that is launching a new season in a new home in Bordentown City gets started with “God of Carnage,” Yasmina Reza’s Tony and Olivier Award-winning comedy in which two sets of parents meet to discuss how to handle a playground altercation between their sons. Producing artistic director Peter Bisgaier directs. $28. October 7 to 23.

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“Fragile: Earth,” featuring the work of the sixteen artists selected through The Color Network, also remains on view to showcase the works of artists representing a variety of social, cultural, geographical, and racial background and whose work serve as a catalyst for “trauma-informed art session, ESL/ Spanish workshops, urban gardening and professional development.”

Then look for “Night Forms: Infinite Wave.” It is the second installment of 2021’s site specific art and light event by Ricardo Rivera and the Klip Collective.

Once again, the project — opening on November 25 — uses the GFS artwork and landscape as the canvas for new temporal art designs created in digital light and sound. *** Mor ven Museum, 55 Stockton Street, Princeton. 609-924-8144. www. morven.org.

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Coming up is former Lawrence Township Historian Dennis Waters’s guided walk through telecommunications history at Pole Farm, the historic site of Bell Telephone in Lawrence. *** New Jersey State Museum. 205 West State Street, Trenton. 609-2926300. www.statemuseum.nj.gov.

The current New Jersey Arts Annual, titled “Reemergence” also continues through April, 2023. Coordinated with the New Jersey State Council on the Arts fellowship program, the exhibition features 127 works by 95 New Jersey artists who coordinators say explore the ongoing “pandemic, political, and ideological polarization, and a collective reckoning with systemic racism.” *** Trenton City Museum, Cadwalader Park, Trenton. 609-989-3632. www. ellarslie.org.

The “Ellarslie Open,” the Trenton City Museum’s annual juried show, continues showing casing the works of 134 artists from New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and New York, through October 2. This

year’s juror was Walter Wickiser of the Walter Wickiser Gallery in New York City. *** West Windsor Arts Council, 952 Alexander Road, West Windsor, westwindsorarts.org.

Trenton Community A-Team, the selftaught artists who began working at the Trenton Area Soup Kitchen, is mounting of exhibition featuring the visionary art work of John Hayes, Carol Johnson, Deborah Kisela, Lisa Lewis, Ethel Mack, Frankie Mack, Herman “Shorty” Rose, Charles “Cha Cha” Smith, Demond Williams, and Emery Williams through October 29. Opening, September 11, 4 to 6 p.m. Free.

Classical Music Princeton University Concerts, Richardson Auditorium, Princeton University, 609-258-2800. concerts.princeton.edu.

Princeton University Concerts’ 2022’23 season includes a full slate of classical concerts in addition to other musicrelated events.

It starts with a conversation at the nexus of medicine and music with “Healing with Music: Clemency Burton-Hill.”

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The musician, broadcaster, and writer is the host of a new series featuring people for whom music has impacted their encounters with illness. Burton-Hill, who survived a massive brain aneurysm in early 2020, is the special guest in the first installment of the series. $20. Thursday, September 29, 7:30 p.m.

The concerts begin with a performance featuring superstar Dutch violinist Janine Jansen and Queen Elisabeth Competition laureate pianist Denis Kozhukhin. They perform violin sonatas from Schubert, Brahms, and Beethoven. $30 to $50. Thursday, October 13, 7:30 p.m.

Prior to the concert, Princeton Garden Theater offers a screening of “Falling for Stradivari,” a new documentary following Jansen’s journey with Sir Antonio Pappano as they record an album on twelve of the world’s greatest Stradivari violins in just 10 days. $14. Tuesday, October 11, 7:30 p.m.

Next up is the first concert in the “Performances Up Close” series, in which the audience sits on stage. The concert features groundbreaking 24-year-old classical saxophonist Jess Gillam along with Thomas Weaver on piano. The hour-long concert includes works by Poulenc, Telemann, Piazzolla, and oth-

ers. $40. Wednesday, October 26, 6 and 9 p.m.

Old favorites return to Richardson next, with the former ensemble-in-residence Brentano String Quartet offering a program of Dvorak, Charles Ives, Princeton’s own Steven Mackey, and more. $30 to $50. Thursday, November 3, 7:30 p.m.

A cello performance by Joshua Roman, making his Princeton University Concerts debut, is the second installment of Clemency Burton-Hill’s series on healing with music. Her conversation with the cellist focuses on music’s role in recovery from long COVID. $40.

Wednesday, November 9, 7:30 p.m.

The current ensemble-in-residence, the Richardson Chamber Players, performs mixed chamber works in a program titled “Bohemian Cafe” including pieces by Gabriel Fauré, Louise Farrenc, and others. $20. Sunday, November 13, 3 p.m.

Icelandic pianist Víkingur Ólafsson makes his Princeton debut with a program that juxtaposes works by Mozart with ones by the composer’s contemporaries, including Haydn and Carl Philip Emanuel Bach. $30 to $50. Sunday, November 20, 3 p.m. *** Princeton Symphony Orchestra, Richardson Auditorium, Princeton Uni-

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The orchestra has two concerts on its pre-holiday schedule.

The season-opening program is headlined by “Fandango,” the 2021 work by Mexican composer Arturo Márquez.

Also on the program is the U.S. premiere of Marcos Fernández’ homage to Leonard Bernstein, “America,” as well as works by Joaquín Turina, Ruperto Chapí, and Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov.

Violinist Anne Akiko Meyers is the featured soloist, and artistic director Rossen Milanov conducts. $30 to $112. Saturday, September 10, 8 p.m., and Sunday, September 11, 4 p.m.

For the second concert of the season, exploding gestures and fleeting melodies are found in contemporary composer Jessie Montgomery’s “Starburst,” and Elina Vähälä makes her PSO debut performing Benjamin Britten’s Violin Concerto. Elgar’s “Enigma Variations” completes the program. Milanov conducts. $30 to $112. Saturday, October 15, 8 p.m., and Sunday, October 16, 4 p.m.

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In its announcement of its 43rd season, Princeton Pro Musica notes that Artistic Director Ryan James Brandau has programmed a season of deeply-cherished

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The classical offering among McCarter’s fall music programming is the Internationale Bachakademie of Stuttgart performing Bach’s Johannes Passion. $40 to $60. Wednesday, November 16, 7:30 p.m.

Dance “Kaleidoscope,” American Repertor y Ballet’s season opener, includes a range of choreography styles, musical genres, and even a piece inspired by Salvador Dali. New Brunswick Performing Arts Center, www.nbpac.org. $25 to $45.

September 23 to 25. *** Indigenous Enterprise’s production of “Indigenous Liberation” celebrates pow wow dancing and traditions across tribes and runs for one night only at Princeton’s McCarter Theater, www. mccarter.org. $35 to $50. Friday, October 14, 8 p.m.

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How do you make a great dance academy even greater? Create a premier space where dancers, performers and dreamers can soar even further. The Central New Jersey Ballet Theatre has done just that and is proud to continue to offer classes and programs at 221 Broad Street, Florence, NJ. Owner and Artistic Director Alisha Cardenas expresses the excitement that the space has created! “The 4,500 square foot space, in Florence, allows us to expand, social distance and improve our programs and still be local to our core community of Chesterfield, Hamilton, Hamilton Square, Trenton, Princeton, Bordentown, Yardville, and Columbus. We are in the heart of town and now have room for two full studios that can be opened into a state-of-the-art performance space.

There will be something offered for everyone! Our new facility is dedicated to my late mother who was my inspiration, naming it the Christine

Cardenas Center for Performing Arts Education. She encouraged so many artists, dancers and dreamers,” says Cardenas.

“We are particularly proud to have one of the area’s only professional quality sprung dance floors. For the summer intensive we bring in professional dancers from major companies that are based out of NYC and Philadelphia!”

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At the same time, we aim to enhance the child’s social, moral, cultural and spiritual growth through group interactions, uplifting stories, cultural events and gentle guidance.

Since “a healthy mind is in a healthy body” as the Ancient Greeks said, we provide a huge indoors gym and a beautiful play ground with regular physical activities.

Presenting ‘Kaleidoscope’ September 23-25 at the New Brunswick Performing Arts Center

We offer high quality academic English programs for Preschool (3 years and potty trained) and Pre-K (must be 4 years old by October 1 of school year). Early morning care, after care, and enrichment programs are also available. We are part of the Saint George Greek Orthodox Church and state licensed by the New Jersey Division of Youth and Family Services. Our experienced staff has

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American Repertory Ballet (ARB) launches its 2022-2023 season with Kaleidoscope for four performances at the New Brunswick Performing Arts Center, September 23-25.

An innovative program featuring never-before-seen work, Kaleidoscope includes a unique collaboration between choreographer Da’ Von Doane, formerly of Dance Theatre of Harlem, and New Jersey-based visual artist Grace Lynne Haynes, whose creations have graced the cover of The New Yorker magazine.

A recent graduate of the Rutgers Art & Design MFA program, Haynes will be designing scenic elements and costumes for Doane’s new ballet, a partnership amplifying both artists’ creative talents. About the piece, Doane says, “This work excavates the interplay between states of mind and processing the nature of change.”

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I’ve been able to see how visual art can intertwine with dance and take on a new form,” explains Haynes.

“Working with ARB has allowed me to push my perception of how painting can function and enhance the space it inhabits” Also commissioned for the program will be a new work by ARB’s Ryoko Tanaka and pianist-composer Ian Howells, inspired by Salvador Dali’s painting titled Swans Reflecting Elephants. Tanaka, a beloved ARB Company dancer, made her choreographic debut with ARB last season, and Howells is a graduate of the John J. Cali School of Music at Montclair State University and Mercer County Community College, where he received degrees in Jazz Studies. He also accompanies classes at Princeton Ballet School, as well as Princeton, Rutgers and Rider University.

“When I saw the Dali painting for the first time, it was fascinating to see how two completely different animals were reflecting each other in perfect symmetry. I found it incredibly unique and mysterious,” says Tanaka. “It

inspired me to create a piece about two different types of reflections: selfreflection and literal reflection.”

The program also features Claire Davison’s enchanting “Bewitched” set to Ella Fitzgerald’s iconic vocals.

A dancer with American Ballet Theatre, Davison’s piece premiered at the Boulder Arts Outdoors Festival in 2021 and ARB performed the piece earlier this year as part of its Mask-erade Gala. Rounding out the performance will be a dazzling classical pas de deux, choreographed

by Artistic Director Ethan Stiefel, set to music by Léo Delibes and showcasing the balletic bravura of ARB’s artists.

Audiences can expect a multifaceted and engaging experience during ARB’s Kaleidoscope performances at the New Brunswick Performing Arts Center for one weekend only: September 23-25.

For tickets and more information, please visit arballet.org.

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Buy tickets to all three American Repertory Ballet performances at New Brunswick Performing Arts Center (Kaleidoscope, Giselle, and PREMIERE3) and receive 30 percent off. This offer only applies

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About American Repertory Ballet. Led by Artistic Director Ethan Stiefel, American Repertory Ballet (ARB) is New Jersey’s preeminent ballet company, presenting classical repertory alongside new and existing contemporary work.

ARB is a founding resident company of the New Brunswick Performing Arts Center while also performing in major venues across New Jersey and beyond. Founded in 1954 as the Princeton Ballet Society, ARB has been designated a “Major Arts Institution” by the New Jersey State Council on the Arts consistently for the past two decades and has repeatedly been awarded a Citation of Excellence by the Council.

The company has been recognized by the National Endowment for the Arts and other major foundations and leaders in the field as a prominent force in the field of dance. Princeton Ballet School, ARB’s official school,

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Princeton Ballet School has more than 20 specialized faculty members, many of whom have attained graduate degrees in dance education and have won major teaching awards.

These instructors have danced professionally with companies such as American Ballet Theatre, New York City Ballet, English National Ballet, Cuban National Ballet, and American Repertory Ballet, among others, and are committed to sharing their expertise with PBS students in a nurturing and supportive environment.

The School’s multiple locations allow for convenient access to a range of classes. At the New Brunswick Performing Arts Center (NBPAC), students train in the same studios used by professional dancers of American Repertory Ballet.

The Cranbury studios are conveniently located on historic Main Street in Cranbury and is easily accessible from Mercer and Monmouth Counties.

The Princeton studios are centrally located in Princeton Shopping Center with four studios and a dance library. All locations are wheelchair accessible.

At Princeton Ballet School, students may have extensive performance opportunities, such as the opportunity to participate in The Nutcracker with American Repertory Ballet in major theaters across New Jersey. This professional production has been a beloved holiday tradition for decades,

Princeton Ballet School Now Accepting Students for 2022-23 Princeton Ballet School (PBS), the official school of American Repertory Ballet, is now accepting students for the 2022/23 school year. PBS has three convenient studio locations in Cranbury, New Brunswick, and Princeton, New Jersey.

Founded in 1954 by Audrée Estey, Princeton Ballet School is one of the finest non-profit dance schools in the nation with live music for classes, renowned faculty, state-of-the-art facilities, and extensive performance opportunities.

Princeton Ballet School nurtures dancers of all levels, from beginner to advanced, preschool to adult, providing students the opportunity to develop their technique and artistry in a rewarding environment. With a strong focus on classical ballet, PBS also offers elective courses for upper level students such as contemporary, jazz, character, partnering, and flamenco. PBS has a “Hand in Hand” dance class for young children and their caregivers, and children can also take “Tap, Math & Music” to incorporate elements of tap dance, mathematics, and musical rhythms.

Live music accompanies each class, enabling students to better understand the relationship between music and dance while helping them develop a sense of musicality. Children as young as age 3 learn the fundamentals of dance, develop spatial awareness, and have an outlet for creative expression.

featuring an orchestra and choir at select venues.

Students also may participate in Princeton Ballet School’s Spring Performance at the majestic Patriots Theater at Trenton’s War Memorial each year, in addition to several in-studio showings and community events.

“My daughter is new to PBS and she absolutely loves her teachers and has formed friendships that make her feel like she is a part of the team.”

— PBS parent Not sure which program or level is the best match? Take a free trial class! Call 609-921-7758 or email princetonballetschool@arballet.org with any questions. You can also visit arballet.org for more information.

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Vaccination Works Best Before Young People Become Sexually Active With so much attention focused on vital COVID-19 vaccines, other important inoculations are sometimes overlooked, says Meera Yogarajah, MD, Medical Oncologist at the Cancer Center at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital (RWJUH) Hamilton, an RWJBarnabas Health facility, in partnership with Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey – the state’s only NCI-designated Comprehensive Cancer Center, providing close to home access to the latest treatment and clinical trials.

One concerning example is the vaccine that protects against human papillomavirus (HPV), a sexually transmitted infection that tens of millions of Americans have contracted, often during their teens and early 20s. HPV can lie dormant in the body for decades and has been linked to cancer— especially cervical cancer, for which HPV is thought to cause as many as 91 percent of U.S. cases.

“HPV is a very common sexually transmitted infection that has become more prevalent in the last decade or two,” Dr. Yogarajah says. “Some HPV strains are higher-risk than others, but the high-risk types cause about 5 percent of all worldwide cancers, most commonly cervical cancer, and are infecting younger and younger patients.”

The HPV vaccine, Gardasil 9, protects against nine high-risk strains.

Dr. Musunuru explains more about protection and why it’s so important.

How does the HPV vaccine protect? The nine strains it covers are known to cause several forms of cancer. Two strains in particular, HPV 16 and 18, cause cervical cancer as well as anal, vulvar and penile cancer.

The vaccine exposes the body to an antigen—an inactive component of the virus—and prompts the body to build antibodies that strengthen immunity to it. Then if you’re exposed to actual HPV, your body is better able to fight it, forestall infection and ultimately prevent cancer.

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It has significantly reduced cervical cancer and other forms of cancer in both men and women.

Who should get the HPV vaccine? Recommendations at first included only females but have expanded to anyone in appropriate age ranges regardless of gender. The vaccine should be given to preteen’s ages 11 to 12, can be started as early as 9 and is recommended through age 26. The ideal is to get doses into patients’ systems before they become sexually active. It’s also available for people ages 27 to 45 if their doctors think it would be beneficial.

Should anyone be hesitant?

You should avoid the HPV vaccine if you have an allergy to any of its components or had an adverse reaction to a previous dose. The best advice is to speak with your primary care provider and/or a gynecologist or pediatrician to know if you or your child is a candidate. In general, the vaccine is safe and most people can get it.

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KinderCare Build Friendship Skills for Back-to-School Success When thinking about back-toschool season, most people naturally think of academics. However, it’s just as important to focus on social and emotional skills.

Children of all ages are still learning to manage their emotions and get along with others. As they learn these skills, behaviors that make academic learning more challenging for everyone else in the classroom may be seen.

“Social and emotional skills are crucial to a child’s academic success, but they aren’t inherent,” said Carter Peters from KinderCare’s inclusion services team. “Teachers tell us again and again that starting the school year with a grasp on social emotional learning is just as important as knowing academic concepts. Children who are struggling to manage their emotions and transition into the classroom may not be able to focus on academics.”

Consider these three skills families can teach their children before school starts to help build friendships.

Turn Transitions into Games Making a game out of stressful transitions can help both you and your child reframe your mindsets and reduce stress. Asking your child “Can you hop like a bunny while you get your school things together?” or playing a listening game like “Simon Says” can help your child develop executive function skills such as impulse control. You could also give him or her choices. For example, tell your child “You can put your shoes on

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yourself or I can help you,” which lets him or her feel a sense of autonomy and control when choosing the desired solution.

Take Turns One thing younger children often struggle with is the concept of sharing. Adults can forget that to a young child sharing implies giving something up, Peters said.

If your child struggles to share, try introducing the concept of taking turns: “It’s Mariah’s turn for the slide.

When she’s done then you can go,” for example. Help your child practice how to have conversations with playmates about taking turns.

Play a ‘What if’ Game Help school-age children build a growth mindset by problem-solving responses to common friendship issues. Ask your child “What would you do if…?” and help him or her practice responses. Thinking of responses ahead of time gives your child a rehearsed playbook to choose from in the moment. The more he or she practices these responses, the less you will see unwanted behaviors such as yelling or hitting. By giving children the autonomy to choose their own responses, you demonstrate your trust in them, which can give children a powerful sense of their own abilities to act maturely.

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Dance It Up With Music Back to School Means Back to Dance So often, back to school for so many parents means running around, stress, lots to do, and so many things on the calendar! For the parents at Dance It Up with Music back to school means back to dance… and for them, that means back to their village, home, a place where their kids can be kids all while being challenged, pushed, lifted up, and celebrated.

For the dancers, it means more fun, more friends, more personal growth, and MORE than just great dancing! Although Dance up with Music might be primarily a recreational studio, the life lessons that they learn in class take them far beyond the rec dancer mentality and are pushed to their very own version of excellence.

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Their healthy balance programming philosophy intentionally places dancers and balances time spent in the studio to gift them the opportunity to be KIDS! When you walk through the halls, you will see laughter, love, dance excellence, and family, but most importantly lots of memory-making. They are proud to have something for everyone!

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FIELD HOCKEY cont. from Page 1 being the best this team can be.”

While the Cardinals remain confident in their abilities, the rest of the Colonial Valley Conference is feeling it’s time for revenge against what will be a young squad. It’s never easy to lose one of the greatest players in Mercer County history, no matter what the sport, and coach Megan Errico knows that the whispers are out there that Lawrence is no longer a threat.

But despite taking a new job as a counselor at West Windsor-Plainsboro South – meaning she’s not in the same building with her players – and despite having a young family she would enjoy spending time with, Errico is returning for her 10th year.

“It would have been a good time to go out because of that stuff,” Errico said. “But I don’t want it to be the narrative that ‘Oh, Talia graduated so you left.’ I wanted to come back and coach these girls. A lot of our girls played hard core during the summer, which is great.”

With that being said, Errico added that “I wish I had more of an answer about what I’m looking at. We have two stellar goalies. Abby Duncan is returning and Tess Adolf was our JV goalie last year and she put in the work.

All four of my returning seniors were starters, so that’s really exciting.”

Duncan was in goal for 17 of Lawrence’s 23 games last year and made 143 saves, including 17 in the MCT quarterfinal against Lawrenceville. She will be called on in a big way as the Cardinals defense will be key while the offense finds its stride in the early going.

“We lost three defenders, but I think we do have a lot of people who can fill these gaps including some rising sophomores,” Duncan said. “A couple of girls are back who were playing all winter and they look good, from what I can tell. They will definitely be a key component.”

Also returning is Emma Quattrocchi, who collected two goals and 11 assists and was referred to by Errico as “Talia’s left-hand man, if you will.”

“Emma’s really quiet but she’s a strong player,” the coach continued. “She’s also an

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Rebecca Maccaroni and Riley Burns, who had five goals and three assists, also bring senior experience back to the team.

Maccaroni was lauded by field hockey guru Joe O’Gorman as Lawrence’s most unsung player last season.

“Rebecca has come a really long way and ended up starting last year,” Errico said.

“She’ll be a stellar part of our defense, and we also have Riley Burns, who played midfield for us.”

An underclassmen to watch is sophomore Caroline Rotteveel, who was second on the team with 11 goals and six assists as a freshman.

“Caroline Rotteveel looks absolutely incredible and is going to be incredible,” Errico assured. “I was at a summer practice watching her and I was just in awe.

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FIELD HOCKEY cont. from Page 7 defense last year. She was probably our first off the bench. I’m looking for her to be a starter.”

Junior Alex Murphy also looks improved after playing right forward last year.

“Even at just the few practices I saw this summer, I saw a different kid shooting at the goal than last year,” Errico said.

The coach expects to see a lot of different things from her returning players.

Obviously one person alone will not replace Schenck, who actually did the work of many.

The superstar dribbled upfield, created her own shot and, more often than not, scored.

But she also passed it off at times, such as setting up Rotteveel for the game-winning goal against PDS in the MCT final.

“We have to find other ways this year,” Errico said. “Yes we need girls to step up and score, but we’re not gonna have that cushion like we used to. I always knew Talia was gonna score no matter what. Whether it was one goal or five goals. We have to develop girls who can score.

“It’s interesting. The girls relied on Talia a lot so they could breathe a little easier knowing she was their teammate. But at the same time she also taught them a lot. A lot of times they would half off to her, or not take the shot because they knew she would do it. Now there’s a lot of girls that can do it. It wasn’t because she wouldn’t let them, but they had confidence in her. So they’ve learned from her. Now we can see what some of them can do without always relying on her.”

Duncan has a refreshing way of looking at the season. She doesn’t refer to it as a rebuilding year, but “a new opportunity.”

“Talia was an incredible player and still is, I hope she does great at Princeton, but we also still have a lot of talent on the team,” the goalie said. “I think we’re gonna do OK. Obviously we’re not gonna be the same. I think that people are gonna have to do a lot

more now that she’s not there and I think a lot of people will shine through.”

Errico is spot on when she says this year is an unknown. For four seasons, the Cardinals game plan was to basically let Talia do her thing to the best of her ability.

“What are they going to bring to the table?” the coach wondered. “I get it, because I’ve coached without Talia. They never have played without Talia. So they had that time with her and they could take it and enjoy it, and now they have work to do.”

One thing Lawrence has going for it, is that its holdovers have experienced winning and know what it takes to claim a championship. They also know how to play in high-pressure games. Besides the MCT, the Cards won two Central Jersey Group III games before falling to eventual Group III champion North Hunterdon.

The goal now is to prove they can play in such contests with a returning cast of players who each hope to take their game to the next level.

“The girls know Talia’s a once-in-a-lifetime player and we were lucky to have that at Lawrence,” Errico said. “Our girls were never like ‘Oh, Talia, Talia,’ like they were jealous of her. They took everything she had to offer to them. They want to keep her legacy going now they know how it feels. I keep telling them once you have a taste of it it’s pretty fun.”

And now they want to taste it on their own.

“I think the girls want to prove it wasn’t just Talia,” Errico added. “There are always those rumblings. They hear things, they have friends on other teams. So there’s something to prove in that sense.”

Duncan summed the mindset up succinctly. “It all kind of balances out,” she said.

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how far would you go for a doctor who really listened to you?

Welcome to Capital Health OB/GYN. We believe your health starts with more than an appointment. It starts with trust.

It starts with doctors who ask the right questions. And then really listen to your answers.

Where you spend more time talking through your concerns, than you do feeling concerned that you don’t know the “right way to ask.”

It’s a different approach to women’s health. One that we’ve been taking for over a hundred years. And that’s supported by a collaborative network of doctors, and a history of innovation, technology, and expertise.

Because you’d go to the ends of the earth for the right care. And so do we.

Mercer | Bucks | Burlington

Find a doctor near you at CapitalHealthOBGYN.org

Getting Started with Diabetes Management Are you newly diagnosed with diabetes? Learn the basics of your diabetes care and have your questions answered.

Speak with the Certified Diabetes Care & Education Specialist Spend an hour with Laura Moran, our registered nurse and certified diabetes care and education specialist, to get answers to any questions or concerns you have related to your diabetes care.

Speak with the Dietitian: Meal Planning for Diabetes Led by Mindy Komosinsky, our registered dietitian/certified diabetes care and education specialist, this class will focus on how foods affect your blood glucose as well as meal planning strategies.

FREE DIABETES EDUCATION SERIES Informal, hour-long classes are offered on a regular basis, free of charge, as part of the Novo Nordisk Family Resource Center at Capital Health Medical Center – Hopewell. These classes are currently being held virtually using Zoom.

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Diabetes Prevention Class Are you concerned about developing diabetes in the future? Learn how you can prevent diabetes through modest lifestyle changes.

Visit capitalhealth.org/diabetes to find a list of upcoming sessions and to register online or call 609.537.7081.