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Mayor Janice S. Mironov presents a Mayoral Proclamation in honor of the 40th anniversary of Womanspace, to Womanspace Executive Director and Board of Directors. From left to right are: William Spain, Womanspace board member and retired East Windsor Police Chief; Jigna Rao, Womanspace board member; Mayor Janice S. Mironov; Patricia Hart, Womanspace Executive Director; and Womanspace board members Danielle Coppola, Michelle Bajwa, Linda Cooper and Salim Manzar.
Womanspace cited for 40 years of helping victims By Lea Kahn Staff Writer
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Winners of the Greater Hightstown Juniorettes Annual Spelling Bee Jan. 30 are, left to right, Satvick Suresh (first place), Shalini Shankar (second) and Matthias Perez-Hausermann (third). Co-advisors for the event are Cori Kenny, left, and Sue Madden, right.
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One might say that Satvick Suresh’s twin sister laid the foundation for him last year by winning the Greater Hightstown Juniorettes Annual Spelling Bee. Last year, Sanja Suresh outspelled 33 other students through 19 rounds of the annual spelling bee in the Grace N. Rogers Elementary School auditorium to capture the title. This year, Satvick, from the Walter C. Black Elementary School, kept top speller honors in the family by besting 32 other fourth- and fifth-graders through 13 rounds to win the title. The word he spelled for the win was “foundation.” Shalini Shankar, also from the Walter C. Black Elementary School, finished in second place, going an additional four rounds to edge Matthias Perez-Hausermann of Rogers Elementary, who fin-
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The top finishers in the spelling bee are seen here with the judges for the event, Elaine Villani, Dale Grubb and Lee Brown, all of the Friday Club of Hightstown. ished in third place. The top three finishers in the spelling bee Jan. 30 took home cash prizes and will now move on to the District Spelling Bee on Saturday, Feb. 11, at the New Jersey State Federation Women’s Clubs state headquarters in New Brunswick. The top three finishers from that competition will move on to the NJSFWC State Spelling Bee on March 3 in New Brunswick. The 32 participants in this year’s bee - split evenly with 16 fourth-graders and 16 fifth graders - represented four schools, including Drew, McKnight, Rogers and Walter C. Black elementary schools. The Greater Hightstown Juniorettes, in existence since 1999, has sponsored the spelling bee for more than 15 years.
Cori Kenny and Sue Madden are the co-advisors of the event and have been working together on it for six years. The club is sponsored by the Friday Club of Hightstown and some of the members participate as judges annually. This year’s judges were Elaine Villani, Dale Grubb and Lee Brown. The group is a nonprofit organization of young women ages 12-18 whose primary focus is to serve the local community by volunteering at events such as the spelling bee, face painting at the Rise holiday party, the local library, preparing food for Special Olympics athletes and more. Sponsors for the spelling bee this year were Dairy Queen and Moe’s, both of which donated coupons to the participants.
Domestic violence cuts across all social and economic boundaries, and no one - not women, children or men - is immune from it. That’s why Womanspace was formed by the late Barbara Boggs Sigmund - a former Mercer County Freeholder and former Princeton Borough mayor - and several other women in the late 1970s. To honor Womanspace’s 40th anniversary, East Windsor Township Mayor Janice Mironov presented a special mayoral proclamation to Patricia Hart, the executive director of Womanspace, at the Township Council’s Jan. 23 meeting. Mayor Mironov also presented Hart and Womanspace with a check for $17,000 from East Windsor Township. The money was raised through donations from East Windsor Township residents and businesses in support of the nonprofit group’s mission to prevent abuse and to protect the victims of domestic violence and sexual assault. “Womanspace has grown and blossomed over the years. It has a special place in our hearts,” Mayor Mironov said, noting that the need for the services that Womanspace provides has grown dramatically over the years. The first shelter for women opened in 1978, and provided room for eight families, according to the proclamation given to Womanspace last week. Womanspace’s services have expanded to include a 24-hour crisis hotline, counseling and legal assistance. The mayoral proclamation also notes that East Windsor Township established the first volunteer Domestic Violence Victim Response Team in coordination with Womanspace in 1978 - so it, too, is celebrating its 40th anniversary. The Domestic Violence Victim Response Team volunteers meet with the victims at police stations to provide information and support. The team members undergo extensive training so they can help the victim. Mayor Mironov said the concept of a Domestic Violence Victim Response Team has spread to other towns in Mercer County, and they are modeled after East Wind-
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sor’s team. All of the teams work with the local police departments. “It is a notable, remarkable achievement that for 40 years, Womanspace has and continues to serve as a brightly shining beacon of hope and opportunity for countless individuals and families throughout the communities of Mercer County,” the proclamation said. “(It) has helped more than 67,778 women, 13,007 children and 4,639 men that have experienced the tragedy of interpersonal violence; educated 133,826 professionals and community members; and responded to over 271,401 crisis hotline telephone calls,” the proclamation said. As she completed reading the proclamation, Mayor Mironov said, “It is with a great deal of pride that I issue this proclamation on behalf of East Windsor Township Council. Thank you to Womanspace for every life they have turned around.” Hart, the executive director of Womanspace, thanked Mayor Mironov and Township Council for supporting the group and for the donation. She said she appreciated the town’s support. Hart also pointed out that 2018 marks the 20th anniversary of the formation of East Windsor Township’s Domestic Violence Victim Response Team, and presented Mayor Mironov and Township Council with a plaque acknowledging that anniversary. “It took 18 months to develop the team with the East Windsor Township Police Department,” Hart said. “We were told we couldn’t get volunteers and form a team, (but) we had 42 volunteers in that first class.” Former East Windsor Township Police Chief William Spain, who now sits on Womanspace’s board of directors, recalled that when the idea was pitched to thenPolice Chief Barry Barlow, he approved it - because it would be good for East Windsor Township, good for the residents and good for the Police Department. Spain said that when he attended the Federal Bureau of Investigation National Academy, he wrote a paper on the concept of a Domestic Violence Victim Response Team for class. The professor was skeptical, and wrote a note to that effect in the margin of Spain’s report.
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POLICE BLOTTER
The East Windsor Police Department initiated the following police reports through Wednesday, Jan. 24, 2018:
A 23-year-old Ewing woman was charged with possession of cocaine and possession of drug paraphernalia after being stopped at 11:38 p.m. Jan. 18 on Monmouth Street. While on patrol an officer noticed a vehicle being operated with an inoperable tail light and a motor vehicle stop was conducted. An investigation revealed that the passenger in the vehicle was in possession of cocaine and drug paraphernalia. The passenger was arrested and later released -pending court action.
A 26-year-old East Windsor man was charged with DUI, reckless driving, careless driving, distracted driving (using a cell phone) and failure to maintain lane after an incident at 1:30 a.m. Jan. 19 on Maplestream Road. An officer was dispatched to a report of a motor vehicle crash on Maplestream Road. An in-
complex on a report of a citizen dispute. An investigation revealed that the involved suspect provided false information as to his identity during questioning by the officer. The suspect was arrested and later released pending A 27-year-old Ewing court action. man was charged with A 20-year-old Princepossession of marijuana, possession of drug para- ton man was charged phernalia, having a con- with possession of maritrolled dangerous juana, possession of drug substance in a motor vehi- paraphernalia, having a dangerous cle and failure to maintain controlled substance in a motor velane after being stopped at hicle, obstructing traffic, 11:38 p.m. Jan. 19 on having an unclear license Route 130 South. While on patrol an of- plate and having an obficer observed a vehicle structed view after being being operated while not stopped at 10:30 a.m. maintaining its lane of Jan. 20 on Hankins travel and a motor vehicle Road. While on patrol an ofstop was conducted. An ficer observed a vehicle investigation revealed that the driver was in posses- speeding and a motor vesion of marijuana and hicle stop was conducted. drug paraphernalia. The An investigation revealed driver was arrested and that the driver was in poslater released pending session of marijuana and drug paraphernalia. The court action. driver was arrested and A 59-year-old East later released pending Windsor man was charged court action. vestigation revealed that the driver was suspected of operating the vehicle under the influence. The driver was given field sobriety tests, arrested and later released pending court action.
with hindering apprehension after an incident at 7:33 a.m. Jan. 20 at Windsor Regency Apartments. An officer was dispatched to the apartment
A 56-year-old man from Bayville, N.J., the driver, was charged with possession of heroin, possession of drug paraphernalia, having a controlled dangerous substance in a motor vehicle, making improper use of a marked turning course and careless driving; and a 36year-old Howell man, the passenger, was charged with possession of heroin and possession of drug paraphernalia, after being stopped at 3:28 a.m. on Route 33.
While on patrol an officer observed a vehicle make an improper turn and a motor vehicle stop was conducted. An investigation revealed that the driver and passenger were both in possession of heroin and drug paraphernalia. The driver and passenger were both arrested and later released pending court action. A 20-year-old from East Windsor was charged with DUI, reckless driving, careless driving, having an unclear license plate and having an obstructed view after veiling stopped at 2:32 a.m. Jan. 21 on Dutch Neck Road. While on patrol an officer observed a suspicious vehicle with the driver’s view obstructed and a motor vehicle stop was conducted. An investigation revealed that the driver was suspected of operating the vehicle under the influence. The driver was given field sobriety tests, arrested and later released pending court action. A 22-year-old Howell man was charged with shoplifting after an incident at 5:24 p.m. Jan. 22 at the Target on Route 571. An officer was dispatched to a report of shoplifting at the store. An investigation revealed that the suspect had concealed items on his person and left the store without paying for them. The suspect left the scene prior to police arrival but was
later identified, arrested and released pending court action. A 26-year-old Bordentown woman, the driver, was charged with possession of amphetamines, possession of clonazepam, possession of marijuana; possession of drug paraphernalia, having a controlled dangerous substance in a motor vehicle, tailgating, failure to inspect and failure to exhibit registration; and a 20-year-old Fords woman, the passenger, was charged with possession of amphetamines and possession of alcohol underage after being stopped at 11:49 p.m. Jan. 23 on Route 130. While on patrol an officer observed a speeding vehicle and a motor vehicle stop was conducted. An investigation revealed that the driver and passenger were both in possession of amphetamines and drug paraphernalia. The driver and passenger were both arrested and later released pending court action. A 24-year-old Robbinsville man was charged with possession of THC oil, possession of drug paraphernalia, speeding, having an obstructed view and having a controlled dangerous substance in a motor vehicle after being stopped at 4:04p.m. Jan. 23 on Route 130. While on patrol an officer observed a speeding vehicle and a motor vehi-
cle stop was conducted. An investigation revealed that the driver was in possession of THC oil and drug paraphernalia. The driver was arrested and later released pending court action.
A 27-year-old Lawrenceville woman was charged possession of cocaine and possession of drug paraphernalia after being stopped at 10:27 p.m. Jan. 23 on Route 130. While on patrol an officer observed a vehicle being operated with an inoperable license plate light and a motor vehicle stop was conducted. An investigation revealed that the passenger was in possession of cocaine and drug paraphernalia. The passenger was arrested and later released pending court action.
A 47-year-old East Windsor woman was charged with DUI, reckless driving, careless driving, having an expired registration, failure to inspect and failure to exhibit driver’s license after being stopped at 10:20 p.m. Jan. 24 on are Drive. While on patrol an officer observed vehicle with an expired registration and a motor vehicle stope was conducted. An investigation revealed that the driver was suspected of operating the vehicle under the influence. The driver was given field sobriety tests, arrested and later release pending court action.
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Mayor Janice S. Mironov administered the oath of office to new police officer Tyler Gebler (center) as the bible was held by Erin Applegate.
East Windsor swears in new police officer By Lea Kahn Staff Writer
East Windsor Township police officers lined the walls in the Township Council meeting room to welcome Tyler Gebler - a new “brother police officer” - as he was sworn in as a police officer at Township Council’s Jan. 23 meeting. Gebler is a graduate of Toms River High School South, and earned a bachelor’s degree from Rutgers University. Gebler, who is also graduated from the Ocean County Police Acad-
emy in May 2017, worked as a Class 2 special police officer in Island Heights, N.J. He will join the East Windsor Township Police Department’s Uniform Services Division as a patrol officer. Mayor Janice Mironov told Gebler that he should be congratulated for passing the vetting process that the township uses when it hires police officers. “This is an outstanding police department, and we hope to find the finest individuals (to become police
officers). This is an opportunity to work with some excellent officers,” Mayor Mironov said, as she prepared to administer the oath of office to Gebler. Police Chief James Geary said Gebler is “an outstanding young man,” and he welcomed the new police officer to the East Windsor Township police family. “You will see some outstanding work by the men and women of the East Windsor Township Police Department every day,” Chief Geary said.
Springfield College has named Kaylee Cesard of Hightstown to the dean’s list for academic excellence for the fall 2017 term. Cesard is studying Health Science/Occupational Therapy. Criteria for selection to the dean’s list requires that the student must have a minimum semester grade point average of 3.500 for the semester. Bucknell University has released the dean’s list for outstanding academic achievement during the fall semester of the 2017-18 academic year. A student must earn a grade point average of 3.5 or higher on a scale of 4.0 to receive dean’s list recognition. Among the students honored are Kaitlyn Carduner, Class of 2018, from Cranbury; and Raakel Vuojolainen, Class of 2018 from Cranbury. Megan Hope Henderson of East Windsor has been named to the McDaniel College Fall 2017 Dean’s List with Honors. Highest honors are earned for a semester grade point average of 3.90 or higher, high honors for a grade point average of 3.70-3.89, and honors for a 3.50-3.69 average. Monroe Township native Alexander Massoud, an Ithaca College student majoring in English, was named to the Dean’s List in the college’s School of Humanities and Sciences for
the fall 2017 semester. Local residents were among more than 1,600 students named to The University of Scranton’s Dean’s List for the 2017 fall semester. The Dean’s List recognizes students for academic excellence. A student must have a grade point average of 3.5 or better with a minimum number of credit hours during the semester to make the Dean’s List. The students are: Alexandra Koutsoubis of Monroe Township, a senior biology major in the University’s College of Arts and Sciences; Alyssa Olcott of Monroe Township, a freshman occupational therapy major in the University’s Panuska College of Professional Studies. Assumption College has announced that Branislav Vujadinovic, of Monroe Township, is one of 539 students who have been named to the College’s prestigious undergraduate Dean’s List for the fall 2017 semester. Vujadinovic is a member of the Class of 2020. To earn a spot on the Dean’s List, Assumption students must achieve a grade point average of 3.5 for a five-class, 15-credit semester. Several local students have been named to the University of Delaware Dean’s List for the Fall 2017 semester: Myriam Parker of Hightstown; Daniel
McGinley of East Windsor; Hannah Foss of East Windsor; Thomas Haddock of East Windsor; Andrea Schrock of East Windsor; Jeanine Najjar of East Windsor; Elyse Zilocchi of East Windsor; Brian Weiss of East Windsor; Heather Brandspiegel of East Windsor; Katherine Regan of East Windsor; Garret Christino of Hightstown; Allison Kurs of Hightstown; and Joseph Bonacorda of East Windsor. To meet eligibility requirements for the Dean’s List, a student must be enrolled full-time and earn a GPA of 3.33 or above (on a 4.0 scale) for the semester. Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) has announced that Kassidy Utheim of Monroe Township, a member of the class of 2020 majoring in mechanical engineering, was named to the university’s Dean’s List for academic excellence for the fall 2017 semester. Christina Volkmann, of Monroe Township, who is majoring in early childhood education, was among 2,419 students at Coastal Carolina University who made the Fall Semester 2017 Dean’s List. To qualify for the Dean’s List, freshmen must earn a 3.25 grade point average, and upperclassmen must earn a 3.5 grade point average. All students must be enrolled full time.
East Windsor secures fire lane from parked cars at apartment complex By Lea Kahn Staff Writer
Seeking to deter homeowners from parking on Bennington Drive - a narrow asphalt fire lane - and blocking access for emer-
gency services vehicles in the Twin Rivers development, East Windsor Township has installed a chain across the lane. Twin Rivers officials said the action was taken to prevent homeowners
from using the lane for personal reasons, such as unloading their cars in the front of their homes. There is a parking lot behind the units and access to the homes from the parking lot.
Signs posted at the entrance to Bennington Drive clearly state, “Do not enter. Fire lane. Emergency vehicles only.” The new chain also has a sign attached to it that states “Emergency vehicle.”
Twin Rivers officials resorted to installing the chain after homeowners repeatedly ignored the signs. Tickets have been issued and fines levied, but it has not eliminated the problem. The chain has been in-
stalled in such a manner that it does not represent an obstacle to emergency first responders, such as police, firefighters and emergency medical technicians, who need to gain access to the homes.
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PHS track captures elusive county title By Bob Nuse Sports Editor
The Princeton High boys’ track and field program has enjoyed plenty of success over its history. But for nearly four decades, the Little Tigers have been chasing an elusive goal - a Mercer County championship. The long drought came to an end last Sunday when Princeton captured the Mercer County Indoor Track and Field Championship at Lawrenceville’s Lavino Field House. “It’s been a long time coming,” said Princeton coach Ben Samara, whose team finished with 79 points
to top West Windsor-Plainsboro South by 15 points. “It’s been 36 years. This is our first indoor or outdoor title since 1982. We were the favorite indoors and outdoors last year and just couldn’t get the job done. We made a lot of mistakes and that was focus coming into this meet. “It doesn’t matter what the excuses are. The only thing people remember is the result of the meet. I told the guys to just go out and compete and they did it across the board.” Princeton received contributions throughout the lineup to win the county title. The Little Tigers received first-place finishes
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from Will Hare in the 3,200 meters (9:24.30), Varun Narayan in the long jump (21-7), Simon Schenk in the pole vault (14-6), and Paul Brennan won the shot put (52-8). But it was the team’s overall depth that made the difference in winning the county title. “We had a surprise or two and some interesting stories getting back points,” Samara said. “Jack Phelan has been triple jumping for a week and a half and he gets sixth place out of nowhere. For a while he was beating Nils (Wildberg) and Varun who are the top two in the county. The smiles on their faces when they saw what Jack was able to do were great and that shows what it is all about. They were as enthusiastic as he was about how well he did.” In addition to the four victories, Hare finished second in the 1,600 meters, Matt Perello placed second in the 200-meter dash and Wildberg ended in second in the long jump, while Kevin Linko was third in the pole vault. Also contributing to the title were Wildberg, who was fourth in the triple jump; Alex Ackerman, who placed fifth in the 3,200 meters; Jack Whetstone, who finished sixth in the 400 meters; Acascio Pinheiro, who placed sixth in the 800 meters; and Phelan, who ended in sixth in the triple jump. “It turned out to be a great day, but it didn’t start out that way,” Samara said. “We were at a point where we were just getting into the meet and in the long jump Varun jumps six feet behind
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Pictured are athletes and coaches from the Princeton High boys indoor track and field team that captured the Mercer County Indoor Track and Field Championship meet at the Lawrenceville School last Sunday. the board and jumps 16feet. That was the first thing that happened and I am thinking this could be a long day. But he got himself together and jumps 21-7 right on the board and wins the whole thing. These guys have a way of locking down when they need to and getting it done.” The title for Princeton comes one year after it finished second to Trenton. And the title completes a journey that has seen the Little Tigers continue to get better and better. The victory indoors after winning the county crosscountry title last October puts Princeton in position to possibly achieve the rare triple of winning the Mercer County cross-country, indoor and outdoor track titles. “My first year was 2012 and we scored one point at the county meet,” Samara recalled. “Coach (Jim)
Smirk and I were texting each other before saying we would never fathom a triple. Just being in the conversation for that makes me smile. It is such a cool thing. The guys understand what is in front of us and one of the big things is the kids understand the history behind what we are trying to do.” In 2008, West WindsorPlainsboro North became the only boys’ program to achieve the triple championship. This year Princeton has a shot to join them in the history books. “Back in 2010, before I even signed on with Princeton, Coach Smirk and I would have talks at the meets about a vision for where the program would go,” Samara said. “To see it realized in this way was fulfilling to me and to him, as well as the other coaches, parents and athletes.” Princeton will look to
defend its Central Jersey Group IV sectional title on Feb. 10 and look to finish off the winter season strong before turning its attention to the spring season and a possible county title. “That will be a real different meet,” Samara said of the sectional meet. “We have to rely on our distance guys a little more.” The Princeton girls finished seventh in the MCT with 24 points. Allentown was the team champion. Stuart Country Day finished 11th with 14 points. For Princeton, Charlotte Gilmore was third and Chloe Taylor finished fourth in the 3,200 meters. Sienna Moran finished fifth in the 800 meters and Ananya Lahiri was fifth in the long jump. Princeton also won the 4x400 relay. Stuart’s Michelle Kwafo was second in the 55-meter hurdles and third in the 55meter dash.
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WHAT’S GOING ON Fri., Feb. 2
Open Play for Babies & Toddlers from 10:30 to 11 a.m. at the Hightstown Memorial Library, 114 Franklin St. in Hightstown. For children ages birth to 2.5 years and a caregiver. Play with the library’s toys and socialize.Movie: Stronger at 2 p.m. at the Hickory Corner Branch of the Mercer County Library System, 138 Hickory Corner Road, East Windsor. Join us for a screening of the popular movie starring Jake Gyllenhaal. Rated R, 119 minutes. A small snack will be provided. Sponsored by the Friends of the Hickory Corner Library.
Sat., Feb. 3
Faith Community Partnership program: “Remembering the Struggles We Share: Past, Pres-
ent, and Destined to Continue,” from 7 to 8 p.m. at Mount Olivet Baptist Church, 21 Rev. William L. Powell Drive, in Hightstown. The evening will honor James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner, the three young activists who were murdered in the summer of 1964 while working to register black voters in Mississippi. A social will follow and will include participation by youth of two congregations - Beth El Synagogue in East Windsor and Mount Olivet Baptist Church - and will feature historical readings, a skit, songs and refreshments (kosher). In addition, we anticipate a Chaney family member, and possibly representatives of the Goodman and Schwerner families, to be in attendance. Pre-registration but
would be appreciated, but is not necessary. RSVP to Laurie Berman at lesimeone@verizon.net.
Sun., Feb. 4 Cranbury Museum, 4 Park Place East, 1-4 p.m. Take a tour of this lovely house museum and see the beautiful exhibit, Millinery on Main Street: Mrs. Harder’s Hat Shoppe, featuring hats and accessories from the 1900s through the 1960s. Movie: The Long Walk Home at 2 p.m. at the Hickory Corner Branch of the Mercer County Library System, 138 Hickory Corner Road, East Windsor. Join us for a screening of the popular movie starring Cissy Spacek and Whoopi Goldberg. Rated PG, 97 minutes. A small snack will be provided. Sponsored by
the Friends of the Hickory Corner Library.
Mon., Feb. 5 Sing-Along with Kim Yarson from 10:30 to 11:15 a.m. at the Hightstown Memorial Library, 114 Franklin St. in Hightstown. Special date this month! For ages birth-5 and a caregiver. Dance to Kim’s high-energy guitar music as she plays classics and original songs. Registration suggested at www.mcl.org. Lunch Time Meditation from 12:30 to 1 p.m. at the Hightstown Memorial Library, 114 Franklin St. in Hightstown. Join us for guided mediation during your lunch hour. Help yourself regain the peace lost through busy mornings and smoothly get through the rest of the day. Facilitated by library staff member
Leena, a 10-year practitioner of Rajyoga meditation. Adult English Learner Writing Class from 2 to 3 p.m. at the Hightstown Memorial Library, 114 Franklin St. in Hightstown. Improve your writing skills for school and work. Taught by an experienced volunteer from Literacy NJ (formerly Literacy Volunteers). K-6th Grade Tutoring from 4:30 to 6 p.m. at the Hightstown Memorial Library, 114 Franklin St. in Hightstown. Children in grades K-6 will get homework help. Registration required in person or by phone at (609) 448-1474. Kids’ Public Speaking from 7 to 8 p.m. at the Hightstown Memorial Library, 114 Franklin St. in Hightstown. Tweens ages 812 will learn & practice the
fundamentals of public speaking and debate through fun activities lead by a teen volunteer.
Tues., Feb. 6
Story Time,11 a.m. at the Twin Rivers Library, 276 Abbington Drive, East Windsor. Stories, songs and a craft for ages 2 through 5. Our theme today will be dinosaurs. Crafting: Pop-Up Paper Heart Gift Card Envelope, 6 p.m. at the Twin Rivers Library, 276 Abbington Drive. Use paper and ribbon to make a popup heart-shaped gift card envelope perfect for Valentine’s Day. Ages 15 through adult. Preregistration required. Story Time with Miss Liz from 10:30 to 11:15 a.m. at the Hightstown Me-
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Calendar Continued from Page 6 morial Library, 114 Franklin St. in Hightstown. Children ages 2-6 will enjoy stories, songs, rhymes and a craft. Siblings welcome.Beginning Spanish class from 5 to 6 p.m., Citizenship Exam Review from 6 to 7 p.m. and Learning English with Victor from 7 to 9 p.m. at the Hightstown Memorial Library, 114 Franklin St. in Hightstown. Register in person or by calling (609) 448-1474. for any of these 3 classes.
Wed., Feb. 7
Back to Basics - Intro to Email at 1 p.m. Learn how to set up an email account, compose and send emails, and work with email attachments. Enroll online or at the library. Cranbury Public
Library, 23 N. Main, Cranbury. Black History Month Film Festival:Glory (1989), 2 p.m. at the Twin Rivers Library, 276 Abbington Drive, East Windsor. Following the Battle of Antietam, Col. Robert Gould Shaw is offered command of the United States’ first all-African-American regiment, the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry. Rated R. Running time: 122 minutes. This program was made possible by generous funding from the Friends of the Twin Rivers Branch. Teen Volunteer Project, 6 to 7:30 p.m. at the Twin Rivers Library, 276 Abbington Drive, East Windsor. Earn volunteer hours creating our next children’s bulletin board.
(Three nights (2/7, 2/14, 2/21) come on the nights that fit your schedule.) Teens will receive an official record of their volunteer hours. Story Time with Miss Liz from 10:30 to 11:15 a.m. at the Hightstown Memorial Library, 114 Franklin St. in Hightstown. Children ages 2-6 will enjoy stories, songs, rhymes and a craft. Siblings welcome. Midweek Math Tutoring from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. at the Hightstown Memorial Library, 114 Franklin St. in Hightstown. Drop in math help for first grade-high school students with Peddie School student tutors. Evening Meditation from 8 to 8:30 p.m. at the Hightstown Memorial Library, 114 Franklin St. in Hightstown. Come join us
for guided meditation at the end of your day. Leave feeling relaxed and rejuvenated. Facilitated by library staff member Leena, a 10-year practitioner of Rajyoga meditation. Paper Crafts with Lonie will be held at 2 p.m. and at 3:30 p.m. at the Hickory Corner Branch of the Mercer County Library System, 138 Hickory Corner Road, East Windsor. Join us for a paper crafting workshop to create a valentine greeting card. Sponsored by the Friends of the Hickory Corner Library. Please call the Reference Desk to register at (609) 448-0957. Socrates Café will be held at 7 p.m. at the Hickory Corner Branch of the Mercer County Library System, 138 Hickory Cor-
ner Road, East Windsor. Socrates Café is a gathering where participants pose questions, listen to others, raise challenges and consider alternative answers. Background in philosophy not required; no preparation necessary.
Thurs., Feb. 8 Story Time,11 a.m. at the Twin Rivers Library, 276 Abbington Drive, East Windsor. Stories, songs and a craft for ages 2 through 5. Our theme today will be dinosaurs. Microsoft Word Basics, 2:30 p.m. at the Twin Rivers Library, 276 Abbington Drive, East Windsor. Learn the basics of creating and formatting documents in Word. Mouse and keyboard skills are essential. Preregistration required.
Brown Bag Book Club from 12:30 to 1:30 p.m. at the Hightstown Memorial Library, 114 Franklin St. in Hightstown. Join our lunch time book discussion group! This month’s title is “Commonwealth” by Ann Patchett. Bring your lunch. Beverages and a light dessert will be provided. Conversational English as a Second Language from 10:30 to 11:30 a.m. at the Hickory Corner Branch of the Mercer County Library System, 138 Hickory Corner Road, East Windsor. Join librarian Mary Elizabeth Allen to learn how to improve your English language speaking skills, pronunciation, vocabulary, grammar and fluency. Must have some basic knowledge of English. Please call the
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The Beth El Synagogue of East Windsor Scholar In Residence program will occur today and Saturday, Feb. 10. Rabbi Shmuly Yanklowitz, the Scholar In Residence, is a social justice activist, motivational speaker and the author of 11 books on Jewish spirituality, social justice and ethics. He will be discussing various topics over the two days that will be engaging and educational. After attending the 6 p.m. Shabbat Services, join us for the Friday night dinner while participating in a discussion titled, “Courage under Friendly Fire: How to Lead with Spiritual Courage through an Ethical Quagmire.” On Saturday, Feb. 10, participate in a lunch and learn following the 9 a.m. Shabbat Services. The topic of the lunch and learn is “Our Jewish Social Justice League.” On Saturday night, at 7:30 p.m., join us for a discussion on “21st Century Spiritualism. Both of the Saturday sessions are free of charge, but reservations are required by Friday, Feb. 2, 2018. The cost for dinner is $20 per adult and $15 per child (12 and under) if RSVP is received by Feb. 2. Prices increase to $23 per adult and $18 per child if RSVP is received after Feb. 2. RSVP must be received by Feb. 6. Beth El Synagogue is located at 50 Maple Stream Road, East Windsor, NJ, 08520; 609-443-4454; www.bethel.net. Lego Play, 11 a.m. at the Twin Rivers Library, 276 Abbington Drive, East Windsor Join us for Lego fun at the library. Play with other children ages 2 through 5. Baby & Toddler Time from 10:30 to 11 a.m. at the Hightstown Memorial Library, 114 Franklin St. in Hightstown. For children ages birth to 2.5 years and a caregiver. Join us for singing and rhyming fun followed by play time with the library’s toys. Winter Safety for Seniors will be held at 3 p.m. at the Hickory Corner Branch of the Mercer County Library System, 138 Hickory Corner Road, East Windsor. A representative from Atrium Health & Senior Living will talk about how seniors can stay safe during the winter months. Please call the reference desk to register at (609) 448-0957.
Sat., Feb. 10
Writers’ Group, 2:00 pm at the Twin Rivers Library, 276 Abbington Drive, East Windsor. Please bring five pages of a work in progress to discuss with other writers.
Sun., Feb. 11
The Beth El Synagogue of East Windsor, Mercer County Genealogy Society presents “Mindy, Matei and a Series of Fortunate Events” at 7:30 p.m. Steve Stein will be describing how he found his Romanian Family. Steve’s presentation provides many instructive ideas about how he was able to locate relatives in Australia, the U.S., Hungary and Romania. Beth El Synagogue is at 50 Maple Stream Road, East Windsor, NJ, 08520; 609-443-4454; www.bethel.net. Cranbury Museum, 4 Park Place East, 1-4 p.m.
Take a tour of this lovely house museum and see the beautiful exhibit, Millinery on Main Street: Mrs. Harder’s Hat Shoppe, featuring hats and accessories from the 1900s through the 1960s. Black History Month Program: African American Literature Read-in at 2 p.m. Join us in reading a passage from your favorite African American author in celebration of Black History Month. Refreshments provided by the Friends of the Hickory Corner Library. Please call the reference desk to register at (609) 448-0957.
Mon., Feb 12 Baby Time, 11 a.m. at the Twin Rivers Library, 276 Abbington Drive, East Windsor Stories, music, and play for tiny tots ages 6 months through 2 years. Sci-Fi Movie Night: Repo Man (1984), 6 p.m. at the Twin Rivers Library, 276 Abbington Drive, East Windsor. After being fired from his job, Los Angeles slacker and punk rocker Otto (Emilio Estevez) lands a gig working for an eccentric repossession agent named Bud (Harry Dean Stanton). Rated R. Running time: 95 minutes. Preregistration preferred. This program was made possible by generous funding from the Friends of the Twin Rivers Branch. Make It! Monday from 10:30 to 11:30 a.m. at the Hightstown Memorial Library, 114 Franklin St. in Hightstown. Children ages 2-6 with a caregiver can drop in during the program to make this week’s craft and stay to play with the library’s toys. Lunch Time Meditation from 12:30 to 1 p.m. at the Hightstown Memorial Library, 114 Franklin St. in Hightstown. Join us for some guided mediation during your lunch hour. Help yourself regain the peace lost through busy mornings and smoothly get through the rest of the day. Facilitated by library staff member Leena, a 10-year practitioner of Rajyoga meditation. Adult English Learner Writing Class from 2 to 3 p.m. at the Hightstown Memorial Library, 114 Franklin St. in Hightstown. Improve your writing skills for school and work. Taught by an experienced volunteer from Literacy NJ (formerly Literacy Volunteers). K-6th Grade Tutoring from 4:30 to 6 p.m. at the Hightstown Memorial Library, 114 Franklin St. in Hightstown. Children in grades K-6 will get homework help. Registration required in person or by phone at (609) 448-1474. Craft Circle from 7 to 8:30 pm at the Hightstown Memorial Library, 114 Franklin St. in Hightstown. Adults & teens 14 & up. Crafters of all skill levels are invited to join the library’s crafting group. Bring your knitting, crochet, embroidery, quilting, paper or other project and work on it with other crafters. Drop in anytime during this monthly meeting to work on a project, share what you’ve made and chat over light refreshments. Art of Living Yoga & Meditation will be held at 7 p.m. at the Hickory Corner Branch of the Mercer County Library System, 138 Hickory Corner Road, East Windsor. Discover how to relax and recharge your mind and unlock your full potential through gentle stretches, breathing and guided meditation. Please
call the reference desk to register at (609) 448-0957.
Tues., Feb. 13 Story Time, 11 a.m. at the Twin Rivers Library, 276 Abbington Drive, East Windsor Stories, songs and a craft for ages 2 through 5. Our theme today will be Valentine’s Day. Valentine’s Day Craft, 2 to 4 p.m. at the Twin Rivers Library, 276 Abbington Drive, East Windsor. Drop in to make a Valentine craft. Ages 5 through 12 are welcome. Intro to Excel, 2:30 p.m. at the Twin Rivers Library, 276 Abbington Drive, East Windsor. Learn how to input data and format spreadsheets for everyday tasks. Mouse and keyboard skills are essential. Preregistration required. Story Time with Miss Liz from 10:30 to 11:15 a.m. at the Hightstown Memorial Library, 114 Franklin St. in Hightstown. Children ages 2-6 will enjoy stories, songs, rhymes and a craft. Siblings welcome. Beginning Spanish class from 5 to 6 p.m., Citizenship Exam Review from 6 to 7 p.m. and Learning English with Victor from 7 to 9 p.m. at the Hightstown Memorial Library, 114 Franklin St. in Hightstown. Register in person or by calling (609) 4481474. for any of these three classes. Monthly Drop-in Blood Pressure Checks from 6 to 7 p.m. at the Hightstown Memorial Library, 114 Franklin St. in Hightstown. Drop in for a blood pressure check from our local public health nurse. There will also be health information and activities for children.
Wed., Feb. 14 Black History Month Film Festival:Selma (2014), 11 a.m. at the Twin Rivers Library, 276 Abbington Dr., East Windsor. A chronicle of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s campaign to secure equal voting rights via an epic march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, in 1965. Rated PG13. Running time: 128 minutes. This program was made possible by generous funding from the Friends of the Twin Rivers Branch. Teen Volunteer Project, 6 to 7:30 p.m. at the Twin Rivers Library, 276 Abbington Drive, East Windsor.
Earn volunteer hours creating our next children’s bulletin board. (Runs 2/14 and 2/21: come on the nights that fit your schedule.) Teens will receive an official record of their accumulated volunteer hours. Story Time with Miss Liz from 10:30 to 11:15 a.m. at the Hightstown Memorial Library, 114 Franklin St. in Hightstown. Children ages 2-6 will enjoy stories, songs, rhymes and a craft. Siblings welcome. Midweek Math Tutoring from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. at the Hightstown Memorial Library, 114 Franklin St. in Hightstown. Drop in math help for first grade-high school students with Peddie School student tutors. Evening Meditation from 8 to 8:30 p.m. at the Hightstown Memorial Library, 114 Franklin St. in Hightstown. Come join us for guided meditation at the end of your day. Leave feeling relaxed and rejuvenated. Facilitated by library staff member Leena, a 10-year practitioner of Rajyoga meditation.
Thurs., Feb. 15 Story Time, 11 a.m. at the Twin Rivers Library, 276 Abbington Drive, East Windsor. Stories, songs and a craft for ages 2 through 5. Our theme today will be Chinese New Year. End-of-Life Planning and Preparation with Barlow & Zimmer Funeral Home, 2 p.m. at the Twin Rivers Library, 276 Abbington Drive, East Windsor. Richard J. Zimmer of Barlow & Zimmer Funeral Home will discuss end-oflife planning and preparation to ensure both you and your loved ones are properly cared for when the time comes. Preregistration preferred. Reading Genius Club, 4 p.m. at the Twin Rivers Library, 276 Abbington Drive, East Windsor. If you are ages 7 through 12 and love to read, you must join us to talk about the books you’ve read this month. Then we’ll do a fun craft activity together. The Beth El Synagogue of East Windsor Seniors group presents “Putting Sleep Disorders To Rest” at 1 p.m. Join Tara Scoles, a registered polysomnographic technologist with the University Medical Center of Princeton, for an eye-opening discussion on
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sleep disorders and whether a sleep study could help diagnose your condition. Registration is necessary. Please register online at www.princetonhcs.org/calendar or call 1-888-8978979. Beth El Synagogue is at 50 Maple Stream Road, East Windsor, NJ, 08520; 6 0 9 - 4 4 3 - 4 4 5 4 ; www.bethel.net. Conversational English as a Second Language from 10:30 to 11:30 a.m. at the Hickory Corner Branch of the Mercer County Library System, 138 Hickory Corner Road, East Windsor. Join librarian Mary Elizabeth Allen to learn how to improve your English language speaking skills, pronunciation, vocabulary, grammar and fluency. Must have some basic knowledge of English. Please call the library to register at (609) 448-0957. Home Buying Workshop will be held at 6:30 p.m. at the Hickory Corner Branch of the Mercer County Library System, 138 Hickory Corner Road, East Windsor. Pinky Shah from Fairway Mortgage will discuss what is involved in obtaining a mortgage, Samir Patel will talk about insurance, and Cheryl Poeder of Ashton Realty will present what is currently going on in the real estate market. An attorney will also be present to discuss the legal process. Please call the Reference Desk to register at (609) 448-0957.
Fri., Feb. 16 Free Tax Help, 9:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. at the Twin Rivers Library, 276 Abbington Drive, East Windsor. Families with household income under $65,000 are eligible for free tax preparation from the United Way of Mercer County. Advance appointment is mandatory. Please call 609-443-1880 for appointment. Chinese New Year Craft, 2 to 4 p.m. at the Twin Rivers Library, 276 Abbington Drive, East Windsor. Drop in at the library to make a craft that celebrates Chinese New Year. Ages 5 through 12 are invited to attend. Baby & Toddler Time from 10:30 to 11 a.m. at the Hightstown Memorial Library, 114 Franklin St. in Hightstown. For children ages birth-2.5 years and a caregiver. Join us for
singing & rhyming fun followed by play time with the library’s toys. Drum Circle will be held at 10:30 a.m. at the Hickory Corner Branch of the Mercer County Library System, 138 Hickory Corner Road, East Windsor. Join musician and teacher Jaclyn DiLouie of Mercer ARC to create simple rhythms using hand held drums and various percussion instruments. No experience required. Drums and instruments provided or feel free to bring your own. No registration necessary. Movie: Gifted Hands at 2 p.m. at the Hickory Corner Branch of the Mercer County Library System, 138 Hickory Corner Road, East Windsor. Join us for a screening of the popular movie starring Cuba Gooding Jr. Not Rated, 88 minutes. A small snack will be provided. Sponsored by the Friends of the Hickory Corner Library.
Sat., Feb. 17
The Role of Cotton in Slavery at 1 p.m. Cranbury resident Frank Marlowe will give another of his Black History Month talks this time on the cotton trade. This discussion will explain slavery’s role in introducing the United States to industrial capitalism with its enormous wealth and disturbing inequalities that are with us today. Enroll online or at the library. Cranbury Public Library, 23 N. Main, Cranbury. Yoga for Beginners from 10:30 a.m. to noon at the Hightstown Memorial Library, 114 Franklin St. in Hightstown. Learn simple and powerful yoga postures to improve stability and balance. No physical agility or prior yoga experience needed. Bring a mat or large towel. Instruction in English by a trained Isha facilitator. Please register at www.mcl.org. Free Tax Preparation will be held by appointment only between 9:30 a.m. and 3:30 p.m. at the Hickory Corner Branch of the Mercer County Library System, 138 Hickory Corner Road, East Windsor. Free face-to-face tax preparation for individuals and families with income of less than $60,000 a year. Provided by United Way of Greater Mercer County. Call 609 448-0957 for an appointment.
Legal Notices Monroe Township Board of Education January 2018 – January 2019 PUBLIC MEETING SCHEDULE Wednesday, January 3, 2018 (Organization Meeting) – Previously Board Approved Wednesday, January 24, 2018 Wednesday, February 21, 2018
There will be a special presentation regarding the “Municipal Facilities Concept Plan” at the Hightstown Borough Council Meeting to be held on Monday, February 5, 2018. The meeting will begin at 7:30 pm in the Hightstown Firehouse Banquet Hall located at 140 North Main Street, 2nd Floor, Hightstown. The Mayor and Council of Hightstown Borough encourage residents to attend this very important presentation.
Thursday, March 15, 2018 – Preliminary Budget Hearing Wednesday, April 25, 2018 - Final Budget Hearing Wednesday, May 9, 2018 Wednesday, June 13, 2018 Wednesday, July 18, 2018 Wednesday, August 22, 2018 Wednesday, September 12, 2018 Wednesday, October 17, 2018 Tuesday, November 20, 2018 Wednesday, December 19, 2018 Thursday, January 3, 2019 *7:30 p.m. (Organization Meeting) *All Public Board of Education meetings are scheduled to convene at 7:00 p.m. at the Monroe Township High School, 200 Schoolhouse Road, Monroe Township, NJ 08831 unless otherwise indicated. Formal action will be taken at these meetings.
Special Board of Education and emergency Board of Education meetings may be scheduled in accordance with the Bylaws of the Board of Education. The time and date of these meetings will be posted on the District’s website.
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Voice of Comedy By Keith Loria
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Judy Gold will bring the laughs to the Rrazz Room
omedian Judy Gold is truly worthy of her last name, as she delivers a goldmedal performance each time she takes the stage. Starting as an award-winning writer and producer for “The Rosie O’Donnell Show” in the 1990s, Gold went on to star in two acclaimed off-Broadway one-woman shows (“The Judy Show — My Life As A Sitcom” and “25 Questions for a Jewish Mother”) and has spent almost a quarter-of-a-century doing standup. “I’m a comic and I knew I would never be happy if I didn’t follow my dream,” Gold says. “Yet I come from the most conservative family when it comes to risk taking. My father was a tax attorney, my mother a secretary, my sister is in insurance and my brother is a CPA. To them, my dream was crazy.” Anyone who has ever seen one of her acclaimed off-Broadway hit shows will understand her upbringing a little bit better. She began her comedy career grabbing any opportunity to be in front of a crowd that she could — be it a street fair, college lunchroom or small club. Her tenacity and hard work eventually paid off. “I started before I was 25, but once I hit 25, I was able to rent a car and it opened up the door for me to do more colleges,” she says. “I went everywhere and I was on the stage every night.” Gold came up through the comedy ranks alongside notable comics like Ray Romano and Wanda Sykes and she likens the standup experience to being in a war together. “It’s like we were all in the same platoon. We shared this bond that can never be broken,” Gold says. “When I was on the road in the ’80s and early ’90s, we wrote all day and then we hung out all night. We were each other’s family and standup became so important to me.” On Feb. 10, Gold will appear at the Rrazz Room in New Hope, Pennsylvania, and she’ll be bringing the laughs. “I’ll be ranting and going off on how much I hate everyone, which seems to be the theme of my act now,” she says. “It’s going to be a really fun night.” The Jersey-born Gold will also talk about her Jewish upbringing, her family and offer raunchy, sidesplitting observations. And not surprisingly, President Donald Trump is a topic that comes up quite a bit, and one that is constantly on her mind.
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Comedian Judy Gold is known for her off-Broadway shows, and she’ll perform her newest material at The Rrazz Room in New Hope, Feb. 10.
“It is like the orange elephant in the room all the time,” Gold says. “It’s on everyone’s mind all the time. I remember the days when I would watch ‘Jeopardy,’ but now I have to have MSNBC on every night. It’s turned into a dangerous reality show. My relationships with some people have changed and my audiences have changed. He just brings out the worst of people.” When she’s not touring, Gold hosts her own podcast, “Kill Me Now with Judy Gold,” and her guest list has included Rosie O’Donnell, Amy Schumer and Jim Gaffigan. Her favorite interview to date has been with Artie Lange, the Jersey-born comedian, actor, and former personality on “The Howard Stern Shown.” Gold says that even people who have known Lange forever have told her they learned things about him they never knew. “I find people really interesting and I want to
know what makes people tick and what makes them different,” she says. “To be in this horrible show business, you have to be ill in some way because it’s such a crap shoot. I really love finding out the stuff they don’t normally talk about.” Gold also is a frequent guest on TV shows, appearing in everything from TBS’s “Search Party” to Netflix’s “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt” to Comedy Central’s “Broad City.” She’s open to doing more, but has no thoughts of ever giving up her stage work. “I’ve always been about the work, about being a great comic,” she says. “Ask any of my peers. I never was about anything except being a great comic.” Judy Gold will perform at The Rrazz Room, 6426 Lower York Road, New Hope, Feb. 10, 8 p.m. Tickets cost $30-$45; www.therrazzroom. com.
Also Inside: Dance to Bach with Princeton University Concerts • Music Mountain Theatre welcomes all to ‘Seussical’
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Made in America
Heroism, race and war are explored in a new drama at George Street Playhouse ast year, George Street Playhouse staged Christopher Demos-Brown’s play “American Son,“ in which an estranged couple, a black mother and a white father, head to a police station after their son has been detained without any explanation. The show received raved reviews and is scheduled for a Broadway run later this year. As they were working on the production, Demos-Brown and David Saint, George Street’s artistic director, talked about the play Demos-Brown was working on. That play is “American Hero,” which George Street is staging through Feb. 25, and the collaboration isn’t done there. “I said, ‘You should write a third play and then you could call it an American Trilogy,“ Saint says. “And he said ‘That’s a great idea,’ because then they can publish all three plays in one volume. So we’re commissioning him to write a third play after this. So I sort of knew then that I’d probably be doing ‘American Hero’ this year and I’m very excited now that we’re in the midst of it.” Saint is particularly excited to be working with Demos-Brown. “I really believe he’s going to be a major writer on the American theater scene,” he says. Saint has worked with a few playwrights on multiple occasions, including Arthur Laurents, Joe DiPietro and A.R. Gurney, but this is the first time he’s working with a
writer on a trilogy of new plays. And he says “American Hero” is just as exciting as “American Son.” “That play was so powerful and this play is going to be just as powerful,” Saint says. “He’s got a great talent for driving a play along with a real motor to it and just propelling it with tension and suspense. At the same time, he has great characters and great dialogue. He also loves tackling these issues. ‘American Son’ was really about the race problem in America, particularly in regard to the police. This is really about the nature of heroism and how we treat our veterans.” In the play, Rob Wellman (played by Armand Schultz) is a war hero who served in Iraq. He was awarded the Medal of Honor for heroics during an incident that left him disabled. He’s built a successful business, but his wife has left him, leaving him to raise his teenage daughter (played by Kally Duling) as a single parent. He is visited by Mary Jean (Laiona Michelle ), a fellow Marine with whom Rob shares a secret. With George Street presenting this season in its new, temporary venue on the Rutgers University campus, Saint is working with a different space than where he directed “American Son.” He says that in putting together this season, he considered the new space. “Each play that I’ve chosen to do in this new space has basically been some kind of
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Armand Schultz (left) and John Bolger in rehearsals for George Street Playhouse’s production of “American Hero.” unit set, whether it’s abstract or realistic,” he says. “Becaue I don’t have the room backstage in the wings to do big pieces of scenery coming on and off or revolve.” With “American Hero” being structured as a memory play, Saint says the ruins of Iraq will be almost like another character because Iraq, and the memories of it, never leave the characters’ thoughts. “The ghosts of their time over there is with them every minute of the day, even when they’re back in Florida where the play takes place in the present,” Saint says. “What I wanted to do, knowing the place pretty well now, is I wanted to strip it back and use the entire space.” So the stage will be stripped to the concrete walls of the theater and the theater’s walls will resemble crumbling building facades. “The whole theater will feel like the bombed-out village in Iraq,” Saint says. “So it’s the first time I’m using the entire space, I’m not hiding anything.” Saint also has high praise for George Street’s temporary home at Rutgers. “I’m loving it,” he says. “First, it has a lot of amenities that our audiences love. There’s free parking, and then you walk in on the ground level, you don’t have to go down or up stairs. And there’s a lot of space,
there’s space for a classroom and a lobby and restrooms and the box office is set up right there. So many people are saying to me, ‘Are you sure you want to leave here?’ I do think that Rutgers or someone should definitely use this as a theater when we leave because it’s a great space now.” This is the third straight show Saint is directing this year. That’s not something he normally does, but he stepped in as director of George Street’s last play, the comedy “Act Of God,” because Kathleen Turner, who starred in the show, asked if he would direct it. The upside to all that directing is that it’s allowed him to explore space. Another consideration is that “Act of God” was a comedy, while “American Hero is an intense drama. Saint says that transition is actually beneficial, comparing a theatrical season to a five-course meal. “This is definitely the meat and potatoes of the season,” he says of “American Hero. “We’ve had a couple of tasty appetizers and now we have the real meat and potatoes. It’s so different that it actually helps me to lose the previous world and dive into this one.” The cast also features John Bolger, who played the father in “American Son” and plays several characters in “American Hero,” including military officers, a pentagon aid, an Army surgeon. “I play the many, many faces of people you sort of see in and around the military but maybe you don’t get the time to know,” Bolger says, adding that this new play is in the spirit of “American Son” and also deals with race, specifically in the military, and also with heroism. “I think in many ways it’s about the price that both racism and also the price of war,” he says. “The toll they take on everyone.”
“American Hero” is being performed at George Street Playhouse, 103 College Farm Road on Rutgers University’s Cook Campus, through Feb. 25. For tickets and information, go to georgestreetplayhouse.org or call 732-246-7717.
February 2, 2018
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ON STAGE By Anthony Stoeckert
Imagine a Curtain and What Lies Behind Music Mountain Theatre’s production of ‘Seussical’ will include a relaxed performance
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eussical” is a show that’s designed to entertain people of all ages, and Music Mountain Theatre wants as many people as possible to experience the musical based on the stories of Dr. Seuss. As part of its production of “Seussical,” running Feb. 218, the theater in Lambertville will offer a relaxed performance, Feb. 3 at 3 p.m. Relaxed performances aim to create a welcoming atmosphere for children and adults on the spectrum. Adjustments made during relaxed performances include flexible rules that allow audience members to talk and move about, or even dance, during the show. The house lights will be dimly lit, volume may be lowered at times, especially during particularly loud moments, and there will be areas outside the theater where kids can take a break, working on arts and crafts or play with things such as fidget spinners. Music Mountain Theatre, which is marking its debut Louis Palena wll play The Cat in the Hat when season, offered its first relaxed performance during its proMusic Mountain Theatre presents “Seussical.” duction of “Hairspray” in November. Ginny Brennan, who owns the theater, says offering these performances is a way extra applause at the end. As an actor it was pretty rewardto reach out to the community and open theater to more ing to see these faces out there that were enjoying the art people. and enjoying the theater, in some cases for the first time.“ “I was always very aware of a segment of both children He says a friend of his brought her two young children, and adults that had trouble sitting still or had sensory issues and the relaxed atmosphere turned out to be a perfect inthat prevented them from going to a theater because it gets troduction to theater. very dark, or the clapping is very loud or there are sudden “She said it’s a great idea because her youngest one is things going on, and they are uncomfortable in that envi- only 3 years old, so to have her be able to talk out loud durronment,” Brennan says. “So these relaxed performances ing the show, or if they needed to get up to go to the bathare something that is relatively new, and because we are room, they weren’t getting shushed,” Jordan says. “They part of the community, it was important for us to add sev- didn’t feel inhibited by any of that. So what we’re asking eral of them to the shows that we thought would benefit our audiences is that it’s a shush-free theater zone and kind families.” of anything goes. If we have some young friends coming to In creating the right atmosphere for a relaxed perform- the show who need to roam around or if they want to dance ance, Brennan says she and other people from the theater to the music, there’s a lot of fun music, that is more than actalked with volunteers from local organizations for ideas, ceptable.” such as establishing an activity area in the lobby, lowering In other words, no stink-eyes allowed. the volume on music at times, setting up a quiet room, and “Seussical” features various Dr. Seuss characters, inhaving volunteers on either stage who raise glow lights at cluding The Cat in the Hat (played by Louis Palena), who moments where the audience tends to applause, such as takes on the role of emcee for the evening. The main story after musical numbers and before intermission. is “Horton Hears a Who!” in which the title elephant is de“I was thrilled to be part of it,” she says. “You could tell termined to protect the tiny Whos living in a speck of dust it meant a lot to the performers as well, to be part of a per- he carries, as other characters mock him. Other stories refformance that was giving back to the community.” erenced in the show include “Green Eggs and Ham,” “The Jordan Brennan is directing this run of “Seussical” and Butter Battle Book,” “Yertle the Turtle,” and “The Lorax.” co-directed and starred in “Hairspray.” He said the cast for “It’s a great show for kids to see, very family friendly,” that show didn’t know what to expect heading into the re- says Jordan Brennan, who’s directed the show twice before laxed performance but that after a few minutes, everyone at the Open Air Theatre at Washington Crossing State Park. settled in. “We also have a lot of young actors in the show, so it’s a “Everything else was just as high energy as it normally well rounded show for all ages. The story lines are based on is,” he says. “We found the audience was very receptive, famous Dr. Seuss books, or parts of his books, so I always they were laughing at a lot of the jokes and we got some find it fun to talk with some of the audience members after
FILM By Anthony Stoeckert
They Believe in the City
The New Jersey Film Festival will screen a documentary about people dedicated to bringing Camden back to greatness
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n 2010, the South Camden Theatre Company debuted with a production of “Last Rites,” a play written by Joe Paprzycki, who helped found the theater, located at a spot where Paprzycki’s grandfather once ran a bar in the city of Camden. The idea for the theater was that of Father Michael Doyle, pastor of Camden’s Sacred Heart Church, who first invited Paprzycki to stage his plays in the church’s basement. One of the prime donors to the theater was Pepe Piperno, the CEO of A.C. Moore, a philanthropist, and member Sacred Heart. Both Paprzycki (who was removed as the theater’s producing artistic director in 2016) and Piperno were born and raised in Camden, and their story caught the attention of Douglas Clayton, who lives in Lawrence. Clayton got to know Paprzycki, and then read about the efforts to open the theater. “The opening play was going to be ‘Last Rites’ so my wife and I went to see it,” Clayton says. “And I was so moved by this play I actually wept after the play was over and I thought, ‘This could be a really good topic for a documentary.’” That documentary, “Dovere For Camden,” will be shown Feb. 10 as part of the New Jersey Film Festival at the Rutgers University campus. “Dovere” is an Italian word meaning responsibility and respect. The film tells the story about Camden and a group of citizens dedicated to making the city great again, in part by establishing the theater. “It’s a story told with love and it’s told with great emotion, and Pepe’s the one who really delivers a lot of emotion as he tells his story and his experiences,” Clayton says. Clayton is from Collingswood, which is right near Camden. He and his wife moved to Lawrence in 2013. He works in a talent management office in Princeton, working in development, training, hiring and talent management. He has made some films in corporate training, creating parodies of James Bond and Godfather movies to make training films fun. “I learned a lot about storytelling and film, so that also led me down to this path of wanting to make a documentary,” he says. Finding time to make his 27-minute movie while working a full-time job was a challenge, but Clayton worked on the film weekends and evenings. By the time he was done interviewing people, he had three hours of footage that had to be edited down. “There was one weekend where I locked myself in a hotel room, I was in Europe for business,” he says. “I
Pepe Piperno was born and raised and Camden, and is the CEO of A.C. Moore. He was one of the key figures behind the opening of the South Camden Theatre Company, the story of which is told in the documentary, “Dovere for Camden.” locked myself in my hotel room and worked on it for about 15 hours straight, making a lot of editing decisions for the editor to take care of, and that’s really what helped to push this product over the line and finish it.” The work paid off, and Clayton enjoyed the collaborative nature of film making. “It requires great teamwork, that’s for sure,” he says. “It was a lot of fun but it was a lot of hard work. I found out you need to be tenacious and you need to make decisions. You need to just sink your teeth into it and never let go.” “Dovere for Camden” will be screened as part of the New Jersey Film Festival at Voorhees Hall #105, 71 Hamilton St. on the College Avenue Campus of Rutgers University, Feb. 10, 7 p.m. Tickets cost $12, $10 seniors/students; www.njfilmfest.com; 848-932-8482.
the show and pick out the stories they remember, either from reading it to their kids or reading it as a kid.” The show features a big cast, close to 40 performers. Children’s roles are double cast to give more young performers a chance to be in the show. There are two kids ensembles performing on different nights, and three boys will play the character JoJo McDodd on different weekends of the run. “On our lineup, we wanted to make sure we had very family friendly shows as well as things like ‘A Chorus Line’ and ‘The Producers,’ things that are not really geared toward families, so “Seussical” has always been one of our favorite family events,” Ginny Brennan says. The run will feature the one relaxed performance. A relaxed performance of “The Little Mermaid” is scheduled for July. Another offering designed to open theater to more people are American Sign Language-interpreted performances, the next one of those is scheduled for “Grease” in April.
“Seussical’ will be performed at Music Mountain Theatre, 1483 Route 179, Lambertville, Feb. 2-18. Tickets cost $22, $20 seniors/students/military; www.musicmountaintheatre.org; 609-397-3337.
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“Love, Lies & The Doctor’s Dilemma,” Somerset Valley Players, 689 Amwell Road, Hillsborough. Joan lives with the great love of her life and in an effort to hide their relationship from her overbearing sister-in-law, she lies about his identity. One little white lie leads to another and then others as Vinny the mob enforcer, a dress-wearing son, and a walking catastrophe neighbor add to the chaos and confusion, through Feb. 4. Performances: Fri.-Sat. 8 p.m., Sun. 2 p.m. Tickets cost $20, $18 seniors/students; www.svptheatre.org. “Witness for the Prosecution,” The Heritage Center, 635 N. Delmorr Ave., Morrisville, Pennsylvania. Agatha Christie’s classic courtroom drama about a dashing young man accused of murdering an older woman for her inheritance, presented by ActorsNET of Bucks County, through Feb. 4. $20, $17 seniors, $15 students; www.actorsnetbucks.org; 215295-3694. “Twentieth Century,” Kelsey Theatre on the campus of Mercer County Community College, 1200 Old Trenton Road, West Windsor. Theater To Go presents Ken Ludwig’s comedy about a train trip from Chicago to New York City that has lots riding on it — including the future of a legendary producer and his Broadway show, through Feb 4. Tickets cost $18, $16 seniors, $14 students/children; www.kelseytheatre.net; 609-570-3333. “Stones in His Pockets,” McCarter Theatre, 91 University Place, Princeton. Two actors play all the parts in this play about extras in a Hollywood movie being filmed in Ireland, through Feb. 11; www.mccarter.org; 609-258-2787. “American Hero,” George Street Playhouse, 103 College Farm Road, New Brunswick. New play Christopher Demos-Brown (author of last year’s “American Son”) that examines how America honors its veterans and the true meaning of heroism, through Feb. 25; www.georgestreetplayhouse.org; 732-246-7717. “Seussical the Musical,” Music Mountain Theatre, Route 1483 Route 179, Lambertville. Musical featuring Dr. Seuss characters as the Cat in the Hat tells the story of Horton, Feb. 2-18. Fri. 8 p.m., Sat. 3 p.m., 8 p.m., Sun. 3 p.m. Relaxed performance, Feb. 11, 3 p.m. Tickets cost $22; www.musicmountaintheatre.org; 609-397-3337. “Fly,” Matthews Acting Studio, 185 Nassau St. on the Princeton University campus. Play inspired by the story of the Tuskegee Airmen, the first African-American Army Air Corps fighters who flew over the skies of Europe and North Africa during World War II. Presented by Lewis Center for the Arts’ Program in Theater, featuring senior Nemo Teferi and directed by guest director Whitney White, Feb. 8-10, 8 p.m. Admission is free. For reservations, call 609-258-9220. Rodgers + Hammerstein’s Cinderella, State Theatre, 15 Livingston Ave., New Brunswick. Tony-winning musical packed with magic, romance, and glass slippers, in addition to the Rodgers & Hammerstein’s original songs like “Impossible/It’s Possible,” “In My Own Corner,” “Ten Minutes Ago,” Feb. 9, 7:30 p.m., Feb. 10, 2 p.m., 7:30 p.m. Tickets cost $35-$98; www.stnj.org; 732-246-7469. CHILDREN’S THEATRE “Schoolhouse Rock Live Jr.,” Music Mountain Theatre, Route 1483 Route 179, Lambertville. A school teacher nervous about his first day of teaching, tries to relax by watching TV when various characters show him how to win his students over with imagination and music, through such songs as “Just A Bill,” “Unpack your adjectives” and “Conjunction Junction,” Feb. 10-24. Performances are Saturdays at 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. $8; www.musicmountaintheatre.org.
MUSIC CLASSICAL MUSIC Daniil Trifonov, piano, and Matthias Goerne, baritine, McCarter Theatre, 91 University Place, Princeton. Concert featuring works by Schumann, Berg, and Wolf, Feb. 4, 3 p.m. $25-$65; mccarter.org; 609-258-2787. Dryden Ensemble, Miller Chapel, located on the campus of Princeton Theological Seminary, 64 Mercer St., Princeton. Program featuring Bach’s Cantatas 85, 111, and 138. Scored for four solo voices with an ensemble of two oboes, strings, and chamber organ, the
cantatas will feature a quartet of Baroque specialists: soprano Teresa Wakim, mezzo-soprano Kristen Dubenion-Smith, tenor Jason McStoots, and baritone William Shar, Feb. 10, 7:30 p.m. $25; www.drydenensemble.org. Princeton Society of Musical Amateurs, Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Princeton, Rt 206 at Cherry Hill Road, Princeton. Choral Reading of Schumann, Requiem, Opus & Thompson, Alleluia & Lauridsen, O Magnum Mysterium. Choral singers welcome. No auditions, no rehearsal. Scores will be provided if you need one, Feb. 11, 4 p.m. Admission costs $10 for guests; www.princetonol.com. Brentano String Quartet with pianist Jonathan Biss, Richardson Auditorium in Alexander Hall on the Princeton University campus. Program features Mozart’s String Quartet No. 19 in C Major; Webern’s 6 Bagatellen for String Quartet, Op. 9; and Elgar’s Piano Quintet in A Minor, Op. 84. Presented by Princeton University Concerts, Feb. 15, 8 p.m. Tickets cost $25-$40; princetonuniversityconcerts.org; 609-258-9220. Eastern Wind Symphony, Nicholas Auditorium at Rutgers, 85 George St., New Brunswick. “Fiesta!” concert of Spanish and Mexican music. Featuring a guest performance by the JP Stevens HS Wind Ensemble, Feb. 25, 4 p.m. $30, $20 seniors/students; www.easternwindsymphony.org; 215-530-0165.
JAZZ, CABARET, ROCK, FOLK, ETC. Le Cabaret Francais, The Mansion Inn, 9 So. Main St., New Hope, Pennsylvania. Cabaret hosted by Barry Peterson, with lyric books, sing-along and special performing guests, first Wednesday of each month, 7:45-10 p.m. $10 drink minimum; 215-740-7153. Singer Song Fighters Open Mic, Hopewell Theater, 5 S. Greenwood Ave., Hopewell. Round-up of local artists, hosted each month by John Francis Quinn. February’s guests include Eliza Edens, Chris Chadwick, and Bill Omeara. The first hour, from 7 to 8 pm, will be dedicated to an open mic of original music. Musicians can sign up at the box office between 6 and 7 p.m., Feb. 7, 7 p.m. www.hopewelltheater.com; 609-466-1964. Laugh & Love Red Cabaret Show, Masonic Temple, 100 Barrack St., Trenton. Norwood Young, of Ewing Township, will headline a cabaret show. Young was a winning contestant on “Star Search” in the 1980s and later was the lead singer of the jazz band, Pieces of a Dream. She will be joined by Luenell, an actress and stand-up comedian, Feb. 9, 8 p.m. $40; 609-577-5672. Arts Council of Princeton’s Cabernet Cabaret, Paul Robeson Center for the Arts, 102 Witherspoon St., Princeton. Sixth annual Cabernet-infused performance with Sarah Donner and special guests Mark Applegate, Matthew Campbell, and Rebecca Mullaney for a night of live music filled with drama, romance and comedy, Feb. 16, 7 p.m. A tapas reception provided by Mediterra Restaurant will begin at 6 p.m. Tickets cost $20, $18 seniors/students; artscouncilofprinceton.org; 609-924-8777. Tony Trischka, Christ Congregation Church, 50 Walnut Lane, Princeton. Banjo player will perform a concert of progressive acoustic music, Feb. 16, 8:15 p.m. Tickets cost $20, $10 students and people under 22; www.princetonfolk.org; 609-799-0944. “The Magic of Disney Love Songs,” Bordentown Regional Middle School, 50 Dunn’s Mill Road, Bordentown. Alexis Cole will sing songs including “When You Wish Upon A Star” from “Pinocchio” and “So This is Love” from “Cinderella.” Cole will be joined by music director Scott Archangel and backed by a jazz ensemble, string quartet and the Bordentown Regional Middle School Chorus, March 11, 3 p.m. $20, $5 students; 609-2985465.
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Princeton University Art Museum, on the campus of Princeton University, Princeton. “Hold: A Meditation on Black Aesthetics,” During the 1960s, black artists and intellectuals embraced the idea of a black aesthetic as an ideological alternative to Eurocentric notions of beauty and taste. Since then, black aesthetics has served more broadly as a site of convergence across the African diaspora, weaving a history of placelessness and belonging, support and constraint, holding and being held. The works in this exhibition, ranging from the 1950s to the present, embody various ways the aesthetic realm has enabled reimaginings of blackness, through Feb. 11; “Rouge: Michael Kenna,” photographs by Kenna of the Rouge plant in Dearborn, Michigan, through Feb. 11. Hours: Tues.-Wed., Fri.-Sat. 10 a.m.-5 p.m., Thurs. 10 a.m.-10 p.m., Sun. 1-5 p.m. Admission is free; artmuseum.princeton.edu; 609-258-3788. Morven Museum & Garden, 55 Stockton St., Princeton. “A Gentleman’s Pursuit: The Commodore’s Greenhouse” Exhibit reveals the findings at Morven from Hunter Research’s excavation of one of New Jersey’s earliest greenhouses, Feb. 16 through June 3. Opening event, Feb. 15, 6-7:30 p.m. Hours: Wed.-Sun. 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. $10, $8 seniors/students; morven.org; 609-924-8144. Zimmerli Art Museum, 71 Hamilton St. (at George Street) on the College Avenue Campus of Rutgers, New Brunswick. Cats vs. Dogs: Illustrations for Children’s Literature. Featuring more than 40 drawings and collages by Frank Asch, Mary Chalmers, Tony Chen, Roger Duvoisin, Shari Halpern, Lois Lenski, Ward Schumaker, and Art Seiden. The exhibition emphasizes the strength of visual elements in storytelling, especially for children learning how to read, through June 24, 2018. This exhibit is open to the public Fridays through Sundays. Museum hours: Tues.-Fri. 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Sat.-Sun. noon to 5 p.m. Admission is free; www.zimmerlimuseum.rutgers.edu; 848-932-7237.
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Artists’ Gallery, 18 Bridge St., Lambertville. “Naturally Inspired,” 4x4 winter group exhibition. Works by Bill Jersey, Maxine Shore, Beatrice Bork and Joe Kazimierczyk showcasing the great outdoors, through Feb. 4. Hours: Thurs.-Sun. 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. www.lambertvillearts.com. Gallery 14, 14 Mercer St., Hopewell. “Imagine This,” photography by Charles Miller, through Feb. 4. Hours: Sat.-Sun. noon to 5 p.m. www.photogallery14.com; 609-333-8511. D&R Greenway Land Trust, 1 Preservation Place, Princeton. “Feather & Flight: Juried Exhibit,” celebrating birds, as well as highlighting conservation’s significant role in supporting crucial travel patterns for the 4,000 species that migrate, through Feb. 9. Hours: Mon.-Fri. 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. www.drgreenway.org; 609-924-4646. Considine Gallery at Stuart Country Day School of the Sacred Heart, 1200 Stuart
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Road, Princeton. “Lenses on Cuba.” Exhibit inspired by images taken by members of the extended Stuart community during a visit to Cuba, through Feb. 16. Hours: 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. when school is in session. www.stuartschool.org. Artworks, 19 Everett Alley, Trenton. “Human/Landscape,” a collection by four artists who share an interest in the natural world and an impulse toward personal narratives, through Feb. 24; “Decomposing Vistas,” solo exhibit of painting and fiber pieces by Philadelphia-based artist Jenna Howell. The exhibit features oil paintings and silk fiber pieces that speak to dichotomy of the vast picturesque landscapes seen on postcards and beauty Howell finds in deteriorating landscapes, through Feb. 24. For more information, go to artworkstrenton.org or call 609-394-9436. Plainsboro Public Library, 9 Van Doren St., Plainsboro. Artist Mimi Zhong will exhibit pastels. Her representational works include landscapes, still life, and portraits, through Feb. 27. Reception, Feb. 10, noon to 2 p.m. Hours: Mon.-Thurs. 10 a.m. to 8:30 p.m. Fri.-Sun. 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. 609-275-2897. Nassau Club, 6 Mercer St., Princeton. Long Island painter and commercial fishing and sailing captain Bob Sullivan will exhibit never shown before still life and plein air oil paintings. The exhibition will offer for sale framed original canvases painted during the artist’s last two years’ travels in Ireland, the Hamptons and Maine, through March 4. Brodsky Gallery, Chauncey Conference Center, Educational Testing Service, 660 Rosedale Road, Princeton. “Then and Now,” oil and pastel paintings by Janet Purcell. Exhibit includes a new body of work by Purcell — eight pastel paintings, all created at the historic Hopewell Train Station as part of the Artists at the Station group, through March 6; www.janpurcellart.com. The Gallery at Mercer County Community College, Communications Building on MCCC’s West Windsor campus, 1200 Old Trenton Road. “Passing the Palette: Arts Educators and Students,” showcasing the talents of high school art teachers and their students, through March 8. Hours: Mon., Tues., Thurs. 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., Wed. 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. www.mccc.edu/gallery. Arts Council of Princeton’s Taplin Gallery, Paul Robeson Center for the Arts,102 Witherspoon St., Princeton. Heroes of Comic Art, featuring original published artworks by Jack Kirby, Gil Kane, Carmine Infantino, Joe Kubert, Curt Swan, John Buscema, Jack Davis, Steve Ditko and other great artists that created many of the comic heroes that we enjoy in today’s books and films, through March 10. Presentation on the art of comic stripping led by Patrick McDonnell, creator of “Mutts” comic strip, Feb. 3, 1 p.m. Workshop, Super Heroes Like Me, led by local illustrator/author Rashad Malik Davis, Feb. 24, 1-5 p.m. For more information, go to artscouncilofprinceton.org or call 609924-8777. Millstone River Gallery at Merwick Care & Rehabilitation Center, 100 Plainsboro Road, Plainsboro. “Art for a Wintry Season,” mixed media exhibit featuring works by Lauren Curtis, Mary M. Michaels, Debra Pisacreta, and Mickie Rosen, through April 20. For more information, go to princetonphotoclub.org. Seeley G. Mudd Manuscript Library, 65 Olden Street, Princeton University campus. “Learning to Fight, Fighting to Learn: Education in Times of War,” exhibition at World War I and its effect on education, drawing from the university srchives and the public policy papers of Princeton University Library, through June 2018. Hours: Mon.-Fri. 9 a.m. to 4:45 p.m. during the academic year; library.princeton.edu. Gourgaud Gallery, Town Hall, 23A N. Main St., Cranbury. “Art from The Trenton Community A-Team.” The Trenton Community A-TEAM supports, develops, and promotes self-taught, local artists because art can be transformative by reframing the artist’s connectedness to self and others and by enhancing community pride, Feb. 3-23. Hours: Mon.-Fri. 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Reception, Feb. 3, 1-3 p.m. Closed Monday, Feb. 19. Also open Feb. 18, 1-3 p.m.
Getting Funny in Red Bank Comedian Jim Norton will perform at the Count Basie Theatre, 99 Monmouth St., Red Bank, Feb. 9, 8 p.m. Norton is the co-host of “The Jim Norton & Sam Roberts Show” on SiriusXM Satellite Radio. His stand-up comedy special “Mouthful of Shame” is available on Netflix. Tickets cost $28-$48; ww.countbasietheatre.org; 732-842-9000. www.cranburyartscouncil.org. Princeton University School of Architecture North Gallery. “Aldo Rossi: The Architecture and Art of the Analogous City.” Second retrospective of Aldo Rossi (19311997) in the United States since 1979 offers a new assessment of his multifaceted achievements as architect, designer, and theorist of architecture and the city, Feb. 5 through March 30. Opening, Feb. 5, 6 p.m. soa.princeton.edu/aldorossi.
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The Lawrence Library PlayFest, 2751 Brunswick Pike Route 1, Lawrenceville. The Lawrence Headquarters Branch Library is hosting PlayFest, its annual one-act play festival, April 28. The Festival directors are seeking actors to fill a variety of roles in the staged readings from the selected works of local playwrights. The audition consists of a cold reading from selected scripts and will be held at the library, Feb. 28, 6-8 p.m., March 3, 1-4 p.m., March 5, 6SUBMISSIONS 8 p.m. To schedule an audition, interested actors should conNew Jersey Equine Artists’ Association “NJEAA Art tact branch manager James Damron at jdamron@mcl.org or of the Horse.” Prallsville Mills, Stockton. Seeking submis- call 609-989-6915. sions of horse art in all mediums. Entry deadline is March 1. Exhibit is May 20-June 17. For more information and/or prospectus, email xochitlb@comcast.net. SweetART Market, Arts Council of Princeton’s pop-up studio, Princeton Shopping Center, 301 N. Harrison St., Princeton. Valentine-themed sale of original work by local Stress Factory, 90 Church St., New Brunswick. Lavell artists. Attendees can expect unique jewelry, ceramics, Crawford, Feb. 2-3, 7:30 p.m., 9:45 p.m., $32; Open Mic glassware, textiles, sweet treats and other forms of fine art Night, Feb. 7, 8 p.m., $5; Joe List, Feb. 8, 7:30 p.m., Feb. and craft for gift-giving, Feb. 9, 5-8 p.m., Feb. 10, 10-5 p.m. 9-10, 7:30, 9:45 p.m., $20; www.stressfactory.com; 732- artscouncilofprinceton.org; 609-924-8777. State Theatre New Jersey Family Day, State Theatre, 545-4242. Princeton Catch a Rising Star, 102 Carnegie Center, 15 Livingston Ave., New Brunswick. Families can spend West Windsor. Shuli, Feb. 9; catcharisingstar.com; 609-987- the Presidents Day holiday enjoying dozens of performances, workshops, and hands-on activities—many of them 8018. free—plus costumed characters, face painting, balloon animals, sing-a-longs, a photo booth, coloring station, food, and more, Feb. 19, 10 a.m.-3:30 p.m. There will be three Princeton Country Dancers, Suzanne Patterson Cen- performances of “Mr. Popper’s Penguins,” beginning at 10 ter, 1 Monument Drive, Princeton. Weekly Wednesday Con- a.m., 12:30 p.m. and 3 p.m. for which tickets cost $25-$35; tra Dance, Feb. 7, 8-10:30 p.m. (Instruction at 7:30 p.m.), www.stnj.org; 732-246-7469. “Water, Water Everywhere and not a Drop to Waste: $10; Saturday English Country Dance, Feb. 10, 8-11 p.m. (instruction at 7:30 p.m.), $11; www.princetoncountry- Water Features in the Home Landscape,“ D&R Greenway’s Johnson Education Center, 1 Preservation Place, dancers.org. M R Square Dance Club, Saint Luke’s (Episcopal) Princeton. Lecture by John Black, president of the Native Church, 1620 Prospect St. Ewing. Weekly progressive Plant Society of New Jersey, on how to design and install dances. No prior experience is needed. Please be prompt. water features in the home garden, Feb. 22, 7 p.m. AdmisTuesdays 7:30 p.m. $10 suggested donation; sion is free. To register, email rsvp@drgreenway.org or call 609-924-4646. richd1squarerounddancer@msn.com; 609-844-1140.
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PACKET PICKS Feb. 2-3 LAB Spotlight Play reading at McCarter McCarter Theatre and New York’s Public Theater will present a reading of Nathan Alan Davis’ “Protect the Beautiful Place” as part of McCarter’s LAB play workshop program. From Princeton University Lecturer in Theatre Nathan Alan Davis comes the first in a trilogy of new plays about a multi-generational AfricanAmerican family. After the recent death of her husband, Gail works hard to keep her rural Illinois household running and to ensure her daughter, mother-in-law, and grandson are happy and healthy. Performances: Feb. 2-3 at 7 p.m. at McCarter’s the Roger S. Berlind Theatre, 91 University Place in Princeton. Tickets cost $25; mccarter.org; 609-258-2787.
Feb. 6 ‘Hollywood in the White House’ at library The Princeton Public Library will present a lecture “Hollywood in the White House,” beginning at 6:30 p.m. Film historian Max Alvarez will give an overview of Hollywood films and television show about U.S. presidents spanning 84 years. Scenes and discussions of such political science favorites as “House of Cards,” “Veep,” “Dr. Strangelove,” “Seven Days in May,” “Nixon,” and the bizarre “Gabriel Over the White House” will be featured. The library is located at 65 Witherspoon St., Princeton. For more information, go to www.princetonlibrary.org or call 609-924-9529.
Feb. 8 Poetry Circle at Lawrence Library The next poetry circle at the Lawrence library will spotlight the work of Bob Dylan, beginning at 7 p.m. A musician whose lyrics have been described as poetry that fed on the blues, gospel, and traditional American folk songs, Bob Dylan has always been controversial, but he remains a volcanic creative force that erupts into brilliant music at unpredictable intervals. And now he is our latest American Nobel prize winner in literature. Registration is suggested: email lawprogs@ mcl.org or call 609989-6920.
Feb. 9-10 SweetART Market at Arts Council The Arts Council of Princeton will present its SweetART Market Valentinethemed sale, Feb. 9, 5-8 p.m. and Feb. 10, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the arts council’s pop-up studio, Princeton Shopping Center, 301 N. Harrison St., Princeton. The sale will offer original work by local artists. Attendees can expect unique jewelry, ceramics, glassware, textiles, sweet treats and other forms of fine art and craft for gift-giving. For more information, go to artscouncilofprinceton.org or call 609-924-8777.
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Painting a bright future The print hanging on the wall of my apartment conveys a joyful scene of a young girl feeding pigeons in the East Pyne courtyard on the Princeton University campus. The artwork with its delicate lines, soft pastel colors, and a dreamy, ethereal quality, was painted by Princeton artist Marina Ahun, who now is facing a far gloomier picture in her life. She was one of the 35 Princetonians displaced by the devastating and tragic Dec. 27 fire at the Griggs Farm apartment complex that resulted in the death of one person. Marina Ahun, best known as watercolor artist who also has produced critically acclaimed works with oils and acrylics, is trying her best to put a positive glaze over her current situation. She is uninjured, has warm clothes to wear and has a place to rest her weary head, thanks to the “amazing” support of so many Princeton residents, Princeton emergency service personnel, Princeton’s social services providers, and Princeton Community Housing personnel. She also is happy about her ability to host a rather unusual fire sale of giclee prints of her original paintings. (Giclee refers to a technology for fine art reproduction using a high-quality inkjet printer to make individual copies.) Even though she had no insurance and lost her art studio, art supplies, computer (containing the files of her artwork), and several of her original pieces of art, she has hope for her future. Ahun still has her reputation — the only artist ever to be licensed and commissioned by Princeton University. And she still has images of her artwork, because they were backed up on a friend’s offsite computer. “Amen for that,” she said. Thanks to the existence of these images, she can produce giclee prints on demand, and that is exactly what she is doing as a way of raising the money to rebuild her studio. The displaced Griggs Farm resi-
Artist Marina Ahun is known for her renderings of Princeton scenes. dents all are dealing with the shock of the event and the enormous difficulty of going forward. “My heart goes out to everyone affected,” said Ahun, whose mind is etched “probably permanently” with images of the fire and the aftermath mess in her apartment. “I never will forget Wednesday, Dec. 27, 9 p.m.,” said Ahun, who has lived at Griggs Farm for 10 years. “I was working at home, I smelled something — an electric smell, not a comforting cooking smell. I saw smoke in my neighbor’s apartment, heard the beeping of a smoke detector, ran outside without enough clothing in the bitter cold, and watched in shock as the firefighters battled with such determination and bravery.” The shock deepened when she was allowed back into her apartment to see a very ugly picture of destruction. Much of the damage in her apartment was not due to flames, but due to ice, snow, and frozen insulation materials caked over her artwork and other possessions. “It was all so
numbing, physically and emotionally,” she said. The 55-year-old native of Russia was educated at the prestigious Ilya Repin St. Petersburg Art State Academic Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture. After graduating in 1986, she found a job in Uzbekistan as an archeological artist recording and documenting finds in the local digs. She married an archeology and history professor from Uzbekistan, had a daughter, but was unable to pursue her desired career in fine art in Uzbekistan, because she is Russian and a woman, she said. The Soviet Union collapsed, Uzbekistan became a more hostile environment for Russian nationals, and Ahun and her family decided to emigrate. Because her husband was a native of Uzbekistan and was in a much less precarious political situation than she was, they decided that she should leave for America immediately, and the family would join her later. She arrived in New York City in 2002 on a
tourist visa and applied for political asylum. After a thorough and long vetting process by the U.S. State Department, she was granted asylum and settled in Trenton. Then came the “miracle” that changed her life. She discovered the nearby town of Princeton and its “wonderful campus with such beautiful buildings.” Drawing on her graphic and architectural design training, she found artistic magic in the “breathtaking” buildings. She just sat down with her watercolors and started painting the buildings, the courtyards, the pathways and people interacting with the campus. Staff members in the Princeton University Communications Department discovered her discovering the architecture on the campus and “encouraged me to follow my passion,” she said. The university bought her work and commissioned her to do other campus paintings. Princeton holds 18 of her original watercolors in its permanent collection and used her work as the basis of an 18-month university calendar in 2011. Even though her husband and now 29-year-old daughter managed to join her in the United States, her marriage ended, but her career continued to progress. Eager to challenge herself artistically, she explored the territory between realism and abstraction in her series of the “world’s greatest city,” titled “New York Scenes.” Furthermore, she recently became one of only a handful of women in the world to paint the “complex” and “fascinating beauty” of Harley-Davidson motorcycles, which she discovered when visiting New Hope, Pennsylvania. Ahun , who composes her detailed and delicate paintings with brushes — no pens — is determined to build her future as an artist with her love of shapes and buildings that “speak to her heart.”
Princeton community joins forces with ‘Migrations’ By Anthony Stoeckert Features Editor For the Princeton community, 2018 is the year of “Migrations.” That’s the name of an initiative that will involve departments from Princeton University and various nonprofit organizations examining the theme of migrations through exhibits, lectures, live performance and screenings. In an event announcing “Migrations” on held Jan. 22 at the Princeton Public Library, James Steward, director of the Princeton University Art Museum, said the idea for the initiative started a year ago, in the wake of the 2016 election. “If you think back to early last year, one of the things that I think I, and probably all of us were reading a lot about, and still are, was the issue of immigration in this country,” Steward said during the event. “Certainly, [it’s] a topic that had come to the top of the list in the wake of the election.” He said that after the election, a number of local organizations met at the library to talk about ways to explore immigration. “I was so happily reminded by the extraordinary resources and energies to be found in this community and particularly motivated to think about ways that in collaborating, we might reach beyond our usual partners,” Steward said. That meant not just cultural groups but organizations involved in social services. And rather than limit the theme to immigration of people, the groups saw an opportunity to talk about movement of wildlife, and even ideas, to make the initiative more encompassing. “And the result certainly has been that,” Steward said. “We’ve had an extraordinary outpouring of interest from various organizations.” Organizations involved in “Migrations” include Princeton University Art Museum, The Stony Brook-Millstone Watershed Association, McCarter Theatre, the Witherspoon-Jackson Historical and Cultural Society, Womanspace, and the Princeton Public Library. Highlights of initiative include: The exhibit “Migration and Material Alchemy” at the Princeton University Art Museum, featuring work by 12 contemporary artists who address issues such as cultural continuity, the AIDS crisis, environmental
degradation and population displacement. The exhibit is on view through July 29. The exhibition Crossing Borders at The Hun School of Princeton examining the flight of refugees through Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer Yannis Behrakis’ coverage of the recent migrant crisis in Greece as well as images taken by Hun School students and faculty during their firsthand exploration of border and migration issues along the boundaries of the United States and Mexico. The exhibit Rex Goreleigh: Migrant Worker’s Witness features the work of Goreleigh, an African-American artist, known for his Migrant Series, which brought to light the conditions faced by African American migrant laborers on the farms of central New Jersey in the 1950s through the 1970s. It will be presented by the Historical Society of Princeton, Feb. 7 through June 24. Rhizome Theater Company will present the interactive performance “Nice Town, Normal People” featuring live, original music and a script based on excerpts from nearly 100 interviews related to the theme of “home,” conducted by Kyle Berlin, Princeton University student and representative of a new nonprofit community theater company in Princeton. Performances will take place Feb. 1723. Princeton University Art Museum will host the exhibit “Photography and Belonging,” which will investigate the ways in which human experiences of belonging and alienation have long been both subject and effect of photography, Feb. 24 through Sept. 30. The Princeton Adult School will present a series of classes titled “This Land is Your Land, This Land is My Land . . . “ Immigration and the U.S., which will look at immigration in its many manifestations — historical, economic, social, political, legal, religious and musical. The classes will be offered Feb. 27 through April 24. The Open Archive: An Immigrant Story event at the Historical Society of Princeton on Feb. 28 will allow visitors to interact with littleseen artifacts and documents from the Historical Society of Princeton’s collection and then be encouraged to make observations and ask questions of the Curator of Collections and Research.
James Steward, director of Princeton University Art Museum, at the press conference announcing “Migrations,” a program that will feature exhibits, lectures and live performances. On March 5, Labyrinth Books will host and author talk with Neel Mukherjee and Jhumpa Lahiri, who will discuss “A Life Apart,” the first of four author talks in a Migrations-related series at Labyrinth. Mukherjee is the author of “A Life Apart” and winner of the Writers’ Guild of Great Britain Award for best fiction. Jhumpa Lahiri is a Pulitzer Prize-winning author and teaches creative writing at the Lewis Center for the Arts. The Princeton Public Library will present a screening of “Winged Migration” on March 11. The film is a portrait of winter bird migration filmed on all seven continents over four years. Professor Judith Zinis of Ocean County College will lead a post-screening discussion on the role of music in the making of this documentary and others. McCarter Theatre will host the 15th anniversary production of the play “Crowns,” March 13 through April 1. The play explores a young woman’s discovery of self when she returns to her Southern roots. Directed by Regina Taylor and based on the book by Michael Cunningham and Craig Marberry. On March 21, the Princeton Garden Theatre will screen the 1991 movie Daughters of the Dust, which looks at the Gullah culture of the sea islands off the coast of South Carolina and Georgia, where African folkways were maintained well into the 20th century — one of the last bastions of these mores in America. Centurion Ministries and Arts
Council of Princeton will host an exhibit of photographs collected by Centurion Ministries features portraits of formerly incarcerated individuals who were exonerated after serving time for crimes that they did not commit, April 6 through June 1. On April 7 and 8, the Program in Latin American Studies at Princeton University will present a music conference: De Canciones y Cancioneros: Music and Literary Sources of the Luso-Hispanic Song Tradition. Princeton University Art Museum will host a conversation with Photographer Fazal Sheikh and Eduardo Cadava, professor of English at Princeton University, April 12. The talk will deal with the politics of migration and exclusion, particularly as related to Executive Order 13769 of Jan. 27, 2017. This order blocked entry into the United States for citizens of seven Muslim-majority countries: Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, and Yemen. Morven Museum & Garden will host Salon on Stockton: A Little Literary Festival in Princeton, featuring four writers on war and migration, April 14. The photography exhibition Our Town-Princeton will be on view April 14-20. The exhibit will feature commissioned work of artist Carolyn Scott, celebrating Princeton residents from many countries and with many migration stories at the Center of Theological Inquiry. For a complete listing of events, go to princetonmigrations.org.
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Hundreds wine and dine at NMG’s Chocolate & Wine event By Jennifer Amato Managing Editor
Mouths were moving at a record pace on Jan. 27 — mostly because people were eating sweet treats, drinking wine samples and talking with old friends for most of the afternoon. At Newspaper Media Group’s fourth annual Chocolate & Wine event, more than 600 people meandered through the Reflections Ballroom at Vibe Tap & Grill in Hazlet. Accessorize Me Please, Anyae’s Intimate Apparel, Avery Designs, Bath Fitter, Bound for Travel, 2 Chicks With Chocolate, Duck Donuts, ESBE Designs, Goodway Bakerey, Gourmet Creations, Grape Beginnings, Laurel’s Jewelry Creations, Laurimar, Lily’s Chocolate Paradise, Manifesto Handmade Jewelry, Nayaz Boutique, Neschanic Valley Beekeepers, Nothing Bundt Cakes, NY Life, On Your Mark Chocolatier, Origami Owl, Park Lane Jewelry, Penelope‘s Traveling Boutique, PK’s Kreations, Popcorn for the People, Princeton Village Astrology, Shen Yun Performing Arts, The Broken Shell, The Cocoa Exchange and The Silver Boss featured items on display for the hundreds of attendees who visited the venue. Sponsors included BCB Bayshore and Amboy Bank, with a raffle sponsored by Fords Jewelers. Rianna Rea, Lena Sharesky and Brett Tarleton, of Long Branch, said they enjoyed Nothing Bundt Cakes and Duck Donuts the most. “It’s about being able to try new things,” Rea said. “All the vendors are great.” “And of course, the wine,” Sharesky said. Rea mentioned that since they are 23 years old, it’s a good way to learn about wine. Rea enjoyed her psychic reading, saying, “I definitely want to do a longer session.” Standing near The Rich Warfield Trio in the main ballroom, Rea noted that the music in the background was a nice touch. With her display right in front of the trio, Lily Leong of Lily’s Chocolate Paradise was entertained throughout the afternoon. She read about the event on NJVendors.com, deciding to try her hand at selling homemade chocolate covered turtles, sea salt caramels, pistachio bark, sriracha cashews, vanilla pizzelles and Palmier cookies. “This started from my love of chocolate pretzels,” she said of her hobby, which she turned into a full-time business in March 2017. “I started making them when my daughter was born. While my daughter slept, I was bored.” Driving from suburban Philadelphia, she said, “I’m excited to be here. It’s a good turnout.” She even displayed chocolate-covered fortune cookies, Chinese jewelry boxes and wine bottle covers designed in the fashion of Asian dresses. “I like arts and crafts, but I get to sell it so it’s
really rewarding,” she said. “Chocolate is a really fun business. If you’re not happy, it makes you happy. If you’re happy, it makes you happier.” Various vendors were also on site to provide attendees with a reprieve from their sugar highs. Lori Kaye of North Brunswick took the drive from Middlesex County to attend last year’s Chocolate & Wine event at Branches in West Long Branch as a guest. This year, she decided to bring her jewelry from Origami Owl to showcase as a vendor. “I know there is a lot of traffic and a lot of good attendance so I felt it would be a good spot to be out there,” she said of joining this year with a booth. “I think people who like chocolate and wine tend to gravitate toward nice jewelry as well . . . so it’s a great way for me to get into a new territory in this area and a great way for me to make new connections and meet new people.” A self-described “chocolate and wine addict,” she said she and her daughter, Melissa, were hoping to sample some items, but with the constant volume of attendees, they were busy for most of the afternoon. Kaye said she appreciated the visibility a newspaper company has in holding events that are geared toward a different audience. “By having a different kind of advertisement, it gets me a new audience,” she said. One of NMG’s own, graphic designer Diane Avery, agreed, saying, “This brings the community together — not only one community, but a group of communities — especially since we have many local papers.” Avery began creating her own jewelry more than three years ago when she made a pair of earrings for her friend at work. This year, she introduced some new pieces at Chocolate & Wine, such as small bottle charms with trinkets and sand inside. “I think there is a lot of variety that brings in a lot of different people,” she said. “A lot of people like the wine and like the chocolate and a lot of people love the jewelry.” May Pragliola of Hazlet was happy to be introduced to a slew new vendors — and right in her hometown. Her friend Vicki Sapienza invited her to the event, and she “thought having chocolate and chocolate wine is very appealing.” “It gets people out, participating in their community,” she said. “We need more events in our community that people can go out to.” She also had lunch afterward at Vibe, which was a convenient choice for attendees looking to have a meal — after finishing their dessert.”The new venue was great. Fran and her team were wonderful to work with. They were extremely accommodating. We will definitely look to work with them again,” Newspaper Media Group Director of Marketing and Events Angela Smith said about the team at Reflections and Vibe. “I think the event went well. I heard from my vendors who were happy with the new
The Vibe of Hazlet was the location for the Chocolate and Wine Event on Jan 27.
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Nadine and Jules Gilder, of Toms River, enjoy some of the chocolate samplings at the Chocolate and Wine Event held at The Vibe in Hazlet on Jan. 27. venue and with the turnout. It was nice because we heard from a lot of people that this was their first time at the event, so I’m hopeful that bringing it to Hazlet helped us reach more of our readers.”The next community events for NMG
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You Should Be Dancing (To Classical Music) Princeton University Concerts’ next Dancebreak event will share a different side of Bach By Anthony Stoeckert Features Editor
Princeton University Concerts wants to get people dancing — to the music of Johann Sebastian Bach. This season, the concert series is offering a program called Dancebreak as part of its PUC125: Performances Up Close series, which take place at Richardson Auditorium in Alexander Hall on the Princeton University campus. The next concert in the series, titled “Bach and Beyond,” will feature violinist Jennifer Koh performing Bach’s “Chaconne” from his Violin Partita No. 2 in D minor. Koh will perform two concerts on Feb. 8 that feature the Chaconne and music that it inspired, beginning at 6 p.m. and 9 p.m. In between the concerts, ticket holders for either performance will be invited to the Dancebreak event, which will feature a baroque dance lesson taught by Carlos Fittante, a professional dance teacher. “The idea of that [PUC125] series is to take people as close to the music as possible,” says Dasha Koltunyuk, marketing and outreach manager for Princeton University Concerts. “We literally seat them on stage with the performer for these short, hour-long concerts. They’ve been very popular so far. This year all of the concerts revolve around folk music and music of the vernacular. We thought given that, how cool would it be to actually get people dancing to this folk music as it originally would have been danced to.” The first Dancebreak event took place in November, in between concerts by Cristina Pato, a Galician bagpipe player. Koltunyuk says the idea is get people involved with the music they hear at the concert. And during Pato’s concert, the dancing continued after the lesson.
Princeton University Concerts has introduced “Dancebreak” events this season, with the first one taking place in November. “Christina Pata actually came to the Dancebreak,” Koltunyuk says. “She came to the dance class and was so inspired by it that at her 9 o’clock concert, she got people dancing on stage.” Pata had high praise for the series, which takes place at the Nassau Presbyterian Church, across from Richardson.
“If music has the ability of speaking unspeakable emotions, dance has the ability of bringing them to life as a community,” she wrote to Koltunyuk after the concerts in Princeton. “The Dancebreak series was a historical occasion for my community, for Galicians of the world; Princeton University Concerts created that safe, sacred space, in which we all felt at
home, at a Galician home in this case.” She added that she and concertgoers learned something new together and that excitement, fun and love were added to the concerts through Dancebreak. “Princeton University Concerts created a new way of opening the door, reminding us why music has the power to bring us together and create/re-create communities,” she wrote. One of the goals of the series is to show a different side of classical music. “We think of classical right now as something that’s other, that’s separate from our life, but it started out as just music, it wasn’t called classical, it was music people heard around them,” Koltunyuk says. For example, the Bach music Koh will play was written in the 17th century as dance music. “He wrote a lot of dance music,” Koltunyuk says. “When we listen to Bach now, we don’t really think of the dance element but what these Dancebreaks aim to do is to show that this was a part of the vernacular. This was a part of everyday life and this was something that people were engaging in, in a very active and fun way.” The Dance break series for this season will conclude Feb. 28 with a Scandinavian dance class to be taught in between sets by the Danish String Quartet. Jennifer Koh will perform concerts featuring Bach’s Chaconne at Richardson Auditorium in Alexander Hall on the Princeton University campus, Feb. 8, 6 p.m., 9 p.m. A Dancebreak event will take place at Nassau Presbyterian Church, 61 Nassau St., Princeton, at 7:30 p.m. Tickets to the concert cost $25. The Dancebreak event is free to ticket holders. For more information, go to princetonuniversityconcerts.org.
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HEALTH MATTERS
Eric Cassara, R.D.
Food is the medicine: the role of nutrition in eating disorders
For people who suffer from eating disorders like anorexia or bulimia, malnutrition can have serious and even life-threatening consequences. And though there is no one diet that will cure an eating disorder, when it comes to treatment, food is the medicine. Nutritional therapy is a key component of care at the Princeton Center for Eating Disorders Care at Penn Medicine Princeton Medical Center (PMPMC), which provides treatment for adults, adolescents and children as young as 8 years old who are suffering from anorexia, bulimia and other eating disorders.
Malnutrition affects body and mind Eating disorders are mental illnesses in which the central anxiety has to do with food and eating. As opposed to spiders or heights, two things people commonly fear, eating is not something that can be avoided without serious medical and psychological consequences. Although it can be argued that the physical symptoms of starvation may seem fairly obvious, many individuals do not realize the neurological component to malnutrition. When the brain becomes malnourished, it can have negative consequences on a person’s mood, behavior, appetite regulation, relationships, and can even distort a person’s perception about their own body weight and shape. Additionally, malnutrition can lead to many dan-
gerous health complications, such as: • Low blood pressure, heart rate, and breathing rate • Poor growth in height and weight • Interruption of sexual development • Heart problems that can lead to abnormal heart rhythms • Brittle bones and risk of bone fractures • Abnormal electrolytes (minerals in the blood or other body fluids) • Dehydration • Slow emptying of the stomach • Constipation • Loss of, or irregular menstrual periods • Dry skin, hair loss and lanugo hair (fine hair that can grow all over the skin) • Inability to concentrate Can diet cure an eating disorder? There are six key nutrients that are vital to the human body: protein, carbohydrate, fat, water, vitamins, and minerals. Each nutrient is required for vital bodily functions and all are needed in order to maintain good health. It is essential that people consume a variety of different foods in order to ensure their body is supplied with all of the nutrition it needs. There is no special, specific diet that will cure an eating disorder. The initial step to recovery begins with the process of restoring a patient’s weight and normalizing their eating behaviors. This means the individual is able to eat enough to meet their nutritional needs and energy re-
quirements, and is comfortable eating a variety of different foods. It is common for some people with eating disorders to become overwhelmed by the fear that specific foods, or entire food groups, will cause them to gain weight or will harm their health. The anxiety associated with consuming these “fear foods” can be extremely hard for someone to overcome. However, gradually increasing food variety and quantity of food helps to soothe these fears, while ensuring the body is adequately nourished. Nutritional rehab key to treatment The process of nutritional rehabilitation is complex and varies depending on an individual’s unique caloric requirements. For individuals with restrictive eating disorders, such as anorexia, weight restoration and nutritional rehabilitation are essential to treatment. The weight restoration process requires the consumption of larger quantities of food until a healthy weight is restored. This is because restrictive eating disorders disrupt the body’s normal metabolic rate for a long period of time. The basal metabolic rate (BMR) is the amount of energy that the body naturally consumes at rest and supports vital functions of life: digestion, breathing, and maintaining a normal body temperature. When a person is at a very low weight as a result of an eating disorder, their BMR drastically slows
down to conserve as much energy as possible. This is a protective response, controlled by the brain. With nutritional rehabilitation, the brain responds to correct the body for this period of starvation, causing a person’s BMR to significantly increase. Therefore, the amount of calories they need to consume must also dramatically increase in order to accommodate and restore weight. The appropriate target weight for weight restoration may differ from person to person, even if they are the same age and height. It is important to note that a healthy weight cannot be determined by appearance, body mass index or a person’s own goal weight. For adolescent patients, in addition to the food needed to regain lost weight, the growing body will require more food to fuel physical development and catch up on delayed growth. For people with binging and purging eating disorders, it is not the quantity, but the quality of food that matters, especially if they have not lost weight. In these cases, nutrition therapy focuses on spreading the calories into a normal pattern of meals and snacks in order to avoid periods of fasting, which may trigger binging and purging episodes. At the Princeton Center for Eating Disorders at PMPMC, patients have access to a wide range of nutrition therapy services, including individual counseling with a registered dietitian, throughout their
treatment. Patients may take an active role in menu planning, participate in experiential nutrition activities and attend nutrition education groups. Mealtime support is offered at every meal, and a relaxing environment is promoted to help decrease anxiety associated with eating. Recovery takes work Long-term recovery from an eating disorder is possible. Early recognition, as well as early and aggressive intervention, is crucial to recovery. Interventions such as weight restoration,
nutritional rehabilitation, disrupting and stopping dangerous or disordered behaviors, and psychological support are the keys to the recovery process. To learn more about the Princeton Center for Eating Disorders at PMPMC, go to www.princetonhcs.org or call 877-932-8935.
Eric Cassara, R.D., is a registered dietitian and nutrition therapist with the Center for Eating Disorders Care at Penn Medicine Princeton Medical Center.
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“I live here. I work here.” Servicing Montgomery Township
Jennifer Dionne
Sales Associate Callaway Henderson Sotheby’s International Realty 4 Nassau Street Princeton, NJ 08542 609.921.1050 Office 908.531.6230 Cell
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Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices (BHHS) Fox & Roach, REALTORS® recently honored Mercer County sales associates for their sales performance for November and December at a bi-monthly Breakfast of Champions. Sales associates honored by (standing, right) Joan Docktor, BHHS Fox & Roach president; include (sitting, l to r) *Maria GarciaHerreros, Hamilton-Robbinsville Home Marketing Center (HMC); Allison Hamilton, HamiltonRobbinsville HMC; *Yael Zakut, Princeton HMC; *Lorraine Fazekas, Hamilton-Robbinsville HMC; Kimberly Witkowski, Hamilton-Robbinsville HMC; Donna Murray, Princeton HMC; Angela Tucker, Princeton Junction Office; (standing, l to r) Ellen Breiner, Trident Land Transfer; Camilo Concepcion, manager, Ha mi lton-Robbins v i l le HMC; Francine Tibbets, Hamilton-Robbinsville HMC; Gary Calingo; HamiltonRobbinsville HMC; *Debbie Lang, Princeton HMC; John A. Terebey, Princeton HMC; John Terebey, Princeton HMC; Brian Smith, HamiltonRobbinsville HMC.
Honored but not pictured were Tony and Shannon Lee, Hamilton-Robbinsville HMC; Roberta Parker, *Rocco D’Armiento, *Barbara Conforti, and Maureen Terebey, Princeton HMC; Lana Chan, *Shani Dixon, *Teresa Failli, and Carlton Evans, Princeton Junction Office. *Honored for their outstanding contribution to the Trident Group. Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices (BHHS) Fox & Roach, REALTORS® is a part of HomeServices of America, the nation’s second largest provider of total home services. The company has more than 4,500 Sales Associates in over 65 sales
offices across the Tri-State area. Through its affiliate, the Trident Group, the company provides one-stop shopping and facilitated services to its clients including mortgage financing, and title, property and casualty insurance. BHHS Fox & Roach is the #1 broker in the nationwide BHHS network of 1400 broker affiliates. Our company-sponsored charitable foundation, Fox & Roach Charities, is committed to addressing the needs of children and families in stressful life circumstances and has contributed over $5.5 million to more than 250 local organizations since its inception in 1995. Visit our Website at www.foxroach.com.
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real estate news The Terebey Team Joins Berkshire Hathaway Homeservices Fox & Roach, REALTORS®
We are proud to honor our 2017 NJ RealtoRs® Circle of excellence sales award Winners!
Linda Dawson
Sales Associate | Gold
Cecelia Bogart
Sales Associate | Silver
Jody Berkowitz
Sales Associate | Gold
Kelly Compher
Sales Associate | Silver
Wayne Sellers
Broker Associate | Silver
Thomas Greco
Sales Associate | Silver
Gerri Grassi, sales leader of Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices Fox & Roach, REALTORS® Princeton Home Marketing Center, welcomes John A. Terebey and The Terebey Team as sales associates. John A Terebey, broker-owner of ERA Properties Unlimited, has been licensed since 1986 and a broker since 1990. Terebey is a consistent award-winning agent who is recognized locally and nationally, as a respected figure in the real estate community. Terebey serves Mercer County and can be reached at 609-683-7368 or by emailing john.terebey@foxroach.com. The Terebey Relocation Team members, all formerly with ERA Properties Unlimited and members of Mercer County Association of Realtors, include the following agents: Ayodele “Dele” Abiona has been licensed since 2016. He resides in Burlington with his wife, Simone, and serves Mercer County. Abiona can be reached at 6109-683-7371 or by emailing ayodele.abiona@ foxroach.com. Graham Bennett, associate broker and awardwinning agent, has been licensed since 2013. He specializes in relocation, land and distressed property acquisition for custom home building. Bennett resides in Bridgewater and serves Mercer, Middlesex, Monmouth, Somerset, Burlington, and Bergen Counties and can be reached at 609-683-7364 or by emailing graham.bennett@ foxroach.com.
Vanessa Diaz
Sales Associate | Silver
Karen Brown
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Charles Horn
Broker Associate | Bronze
Karen Geczik
Sales Associate | Bronze
Lois Kain
Sales Associate | Bronze
Tracy Sonner
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The Keller Williams Cornerstone Realty market center is located at 2230 Route 206 Belle Mead NJ and has over 100 real estate associates. We are a full service Real Estate Organization of Residential, Luxury and new homes, Commercial and Foreclosure/Short Sale Properties
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2016. He resides in Monroe where he is an active member in his community. He serves Middlesex and Mercer Counties and can be reached at 609-683-7372 or by emailing robert. dibella@foxroach.com. Ann Marie Monteiro has been licensed since 2000 and has a background in economics. She resides in Chesterfield with her husband, Matt, and their son. Monteiro serves Mercer County and can be reached at 609-683-7370 or by emailing annmarie.monteiro@foxroach.com. Suneel “Sunny” Sharad, licensed since 2017, specializes in residential, relocation, and investment properties. A member of the National and New Jersey Association of Realtors, Sharad serves Mercer County. He can be reached at 609-683-7366 or by emailing sunny.sharad@foxroach.com. Steve Takacs, licensed since 2006, was in the US Air Force before entering the real estate industry. Takacs serves Mercer County and can be reached at 609-683-7376 or by emailing steve. takacs@foxroach.com. Maureen Terebey has been licensed since 1985. She resides in Princeton Junction with her husband, John, and their four children. Terebey servers Mercer County and can be reached at 609-683-7361 or by emailing maureen.terebey@ foxroach.com.
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