Windsor-Hights Herald 2017-02-24

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East Windsor honors Scouts

East Windsor Mayor Janice S. Mironov issued a mayoral proclamation recognizing Boy Scouting Anniversary Week, Feb. 5-11, 2017.

She presented the proclamation accompanied by private checks of support to each of the local boy scout troops: Boy Scout Troop 59, represented by Assistant Scoutmaster Brian Reiss and former Scoutmaster and Eagle Scout Coordinator Sandy Tootleman; Boy Scout Troop 5700, represented by Scoutmaster Greg Charache; Boy Scout Troop 6284, represented by committee members Alice Hillary, Amie Kirschner and Stephanie Muller; and Cub Scout Pack 53, represented by Cub Scoutmaster Pete Kecskes.

The proclamation, noting that the Boy Scouts of America was officially founded in 1910 and celebrating its 107th anniversary, praised boy scouting as a “youth program of character development, value-based programs and leadership training” and further stated “the Boy Scouts have continued to set an excellent example for all through their volunteerism, commitment to others, and dedication to bettering themselves and their communities.” The proclamation “expressed appreciation to and commended the outstanding work of the Boy Scout organization, their scout members, leaders and volunteers in our community.”

Mayor Mironov expressed her “enthusiastic support of the local

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Lifting voices Above, Kelli Nobles, of Willingboro, sings along with her daughter, Akylah Lott, and the audience during the opening performance of the Don Evans Players at the Black History Month Program: "Lifting Every Voice" at the Hickory Corner Branch of the Mercer County Library in East Windsor. The Don Evans Players, a volunteer, community theater group named for the late Trenton off-Broadway playwright, performed a short skit, which was an interpretation of the Black national anthem through sound, poetry and improvisation, directed

by Todd Evans. At right, Alma Day sings during the performance.

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Love of the law drives Mercer County Prosecutor Angelo Onofri

By Philip Sean Curran Staff Writer

From an eighth-floor office on West State Street in Trenton, Angelo J. Onofri works every day in the county that he grew up in and is entrusted with protecting.

In December, the career lawyer was confirmed by the state Senate to serve a five-year-term as the Mercer County Prosecutor, a job he had held on an “acting” basis since March 2015 after his predecessor retired. At 52, he leads an office with some 200 employees

and an annual budget of around $19 million.

By day, Onofri is Mercer County’s top law enforcement officer responsible for prosecuting killers, gang leaders and drug dealers. By night, he is the husband who enjoys the company of his four grandchildren, a good read and a win by the Yankees.

Those two worlds can collide, and often do, when a fight in Trenton turns deadly and Onofri’s phone starts ringing.

“There’s been a lot of dinners and family events that have gotten

interrupted because something’s happened,” he said in an interview last week. “My wife and the family are very supportive. They know what the job entails and they knew what it entailed walking into it.”

He spoke at length about the career path he took into the law, the inroads law enforcement has made to stem violence in Trenton and the new changes affecting how his office handles cases.

Onfori grew up in Hamilton, where the seeds of becoming a lawyer were sown. As a senior at

Steinart High School in the early 1980s, he took a class that exposed him to lawyers, judges and politicians.

“And it really kind of developed a love for the law for me,” he said looking back. “That kind of propelled it.”

Graduating in 1983, he went to Rutgers University and pursued his interests in law and government. In school, he interned for Rep. Chris Smith, (R-4), and also worked for him in his district office.

“Part of what we did was case-

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work, trying to streamline people who were having issues dealing with the federal government for benefits or anything along those lines,” he said. “So getting involved with that, I kind of saw that was a way to help people and I thought the law was a big way to help people also.”

He graduated from Rutgers in 1987 and Villanova University School of Law in 1990. For six years, he worked in private practice at McCarthy and Schatzman, a small law firm, before he moved See ONOFRI, Page 8

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POLICE BLOTTER

The East Windsor Township Police Department initiated the following police reports through Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2017.

Manuel RetanaMedrano, 44, of Hamilton, was charged with DUI, reckless driving, careless driving, failure to maintain lane, driving with a suspended license, being an unlicensed driver, delaying traffic, failure or observe signal, failure to exhibit driver’s license and having an open container of alcohol in a motor vehicle after being stopped at 11:02 p.m. Feb. 9 on Route 130 South.

An officer was on patrol on Route 130 South and observed a vehicle being driven while not maintaining its lane of travel. A motor vehicle stop was conducted and while speaking with the driver, the officer

detected the odor of an alcoholic beverage coming from within the vehicle.

The driver was given field sobriety tests and subsequently arrested for DUI. He was later released pending court action.

Rashad Marquis Smith, 27, of Brockton, MA, was charged with possession of marijuana, possession of drug paraphernalia, failure to wear a seatbelt and possession of CDS in a motor vehicle after being stopped at 7:57 p.m. Feb. 11 on Route 33/Town House Motel.

An officer was on patrol on Route 33 and observed the vehicle traveling East and that the driver was not wearing a seatbelt. A motor vehicle stop was conducted and while speaking with the driver, the officer detected the odor of marijuana com-

ing from within the vehicle.

The investigation revealed the driver was in possession of marijuana and drug paraphernalia. He was arrested and later released pending court action.

possession of marijuana and drug paraphernalia. The passenger was arrested and later released pending court action.

Robert Joseph Belger, 44, of Little Falls, N.J., was charged with DUI, reckless driving and careless driving after an incident at 8:28 p.m.

Feb. 12 on Route 33 West.

An officer observed a disabled vehicle and stopped to render assistance.

During the investigation the smell of an alcoholic beverage was detected emanating from the driver of the vehicle. The driver was given field sobriety tests and subsequently arrested for DUI. He was later released pending court action.

Christopher Kane Fleming, 31, of East Windsor, was charged with possession of marijuana and possession of drug paraphernalia after being stopped at 11:58 p.m. Feb. 11 on Route 33 East.

An officer was on patrol on Route 33 and observed the vehicle traveling with its license plate obstructed and the view of the driver obstructed. A motor vehicle stop was conducted and while speaking with the driver, the officer detected the odor of marijuana comBrianna Sierra Griffin, ing from within the vehicle. 22, of East Windsor, was The investigation revealed charged with DUI, reckless that the passenger was in driving, careless driving, aggravated assault on a law enforcement officer, criminal mischief and obstructing a government function after an incident at 8:56 p.m. Feb. 12 on Wycoffs Mill Road.

An officer was dispatched to a single vehicle accident on Wycoffs Mill Road. During the investigation the smell of an alcoholic beverage was detected emanating from the driver of the vehicle. The driver was given field sobriety tests and subsequently arrested for DUI. While being

Joshua M. Dunn, 27, of processed the driver became confrontational with the of- Philadelphia, PA, turned himficers. She was later re- self Feb. 15 on an active warleased pending court action. rant out of Hightstown Municipal Court. Dunn was Joseph Martin booked, processed, and transButtiglieri, 48, of East ported to Robbinsville MuWindsor, was charged with nicipal Court. Mr. Dunn was stalking after an incident at later committed to the Mercer 4:44 p.m. Feb. 6 at Twin County Adult Correctional Rivers Mall/Abington Facility, in lieu of bail.

Drive.

Derek Smith, 44, of East An officer was dispatched to a report of ha- Windsor, was arrested Feb. 16 rassment that occurred in on an active warrant for Highthe area of the Twin Rivers tstown Municipal Court, durMall. Subsequent investiga- ing a court session at the Municipal tion revealed that the defen- Robbinsville dant had made verbal Court. Smith was subseadvancements toward the quently transported to the victim on this date and sev- Mercer County Adult Correceral times in the past. The tional Facility, in lieu of bail. defendant was arrested and transferred to the custody of Jamal K. Campbell, 41, the Mercer County Jail of Trenton, was arrested Feb. pending court action.

17 by the Florence Township Police Department for an acThe Hightstown Police tive warrant out of HightDepartment initiated the stown Municipal Court. following police reports Campbell was released to the from Feb. 12 through Feb. Hightstown Police Department.

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Leroy H. McNeil, Jr., 29, of Riverside, was arrested Feb. 12 on an active warrant out of Mt. Laurel Municipal Court, during the course of a call for service on the 100 Block of Oak Lane. McNeil, Jr. was transported to police headquarters, booked, processed, and turned over to the custody of the Mount Laurel Police Department, in lieu of bail.

Martin T. Fuller, 22, of Parlin, was arrested Feb. 20 for hindering his own apprehension for providing false information to an officer and for an active warrant out of Union Township Municipal Court, during the course of a motor vehicle stop on Mercer Street.

Fuller was then transported to police headquarters, booked, processed, and released on a summons complaint with a pending court date.

Jason A. Folcarelli, 41, of East Windsor, was arrested Feb. 21 by the East Windsor Police Department for an active warrant out of Hightstown Municipal Court.

Folcarelli was later released to the custody of the Hightstown Police Department and he was then transported to the Mercer County Adult Correctional Facility, in lieu of bail.

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WHAT’S GOING ON Fri. Feb. 24

Baby and Toddler Time from 10:30 to 11:15 a.m. at the Hightstown Memorial Library, 114 Franklin St. in Hightstown. Join us for singing and rhyming fun followed by play time with the library’s toys. Siblings welcome.

Sat., Feb. 25

The Hightstown Woman’s Club will be sponsoring its 38th Annual Dollhouse & Miniature Show & Sale at the First Presbyterian Church, 320 North Main Street, Hightstown, from 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Admission is $7 for adults and children under 12 is $3. Twenty- five dealers from various areas such as New York, Pennsylvania, North Carolina and of course New Jersey, will be on hand displaying their wares. A king/queen-sized handcrafted Yellow Brick Road quilt valued at $750 will be raffled by the club this year for $3 a ticket.

Door prizes will be available as well as a delicious lunch and tempting homemade cakes and cookies all sold to benefit the Woman’s Club civic improvement projects. Call 609-448-8388 for more information.

“Happy Birthday Dr. Suess” with Mr. Malcolm the Storyteller from 11 a.m. to noon at the Hightstown Memorial Library, 114 Franklin St. in Hightstown.

Help storyteller, Mr. Malcolm bring Dr. Suess’ beloved classics to life in this interactive storytelling program. Suggested for ages 4 and up. Registration suggested at www.mcl.org.

Sun., Feb. 26

Beth El Synagogue of East Windsor Genealogy

Club will be sponsoring a discussion titled “Google and Genealogy” at 7:30 p.m. Sometimes, searching for ancestors is very much an exercise in overcoming brick walls. Casey Zahn will present how to use Google for genealogy searches and how to get the most from all that Google has to offer. Many of these ideas apply to all search engines. Ms. Zahn is a member of the Genealogy Society of New Jersey. Her specialties include beginning research, websites, census, newspapers, immigration and children. Beth El Synagogue is at 50 Maple Stream Road, East Windsor, NJ, 08520. The website is www.bethel.net.

Contact the synagogue office with any questions, (609) 443-4454.

Sahaja Yoga Meditation from 2 to 3:30 p.m. at the Hickory Corner Branch of the Mercer County Library, 138 Hickory Corner Road, East Windsor. Sahaja yoga meditation is based on “Kundalini awakening“ which is practiced in more than 90 countries. Experience the peace and joy you can derive from this state of self-realization, and feel its benefits in your life. For information, call 609-4481330.

Mon., Feb. 27 VITA Super Tax Day from 9:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Hightstown Memorial Library, 114 Franklin St. in Hightstown. Tax preparation assistance is available FREE as a face-to-face appointment for individuals or families earning $60,000 per year or less. Space is limited. Schedule an appointment in person or by calling (609) 448-1474.

Mystery Book Club at

7 p.m. at the Hickory Corner Branch of the Mercer County Library, 138 Hickory Corner Road, East Windsor. The group will be discussing “The Fifth Gospel” by Ian Caldwell.

No registration. For information, call 609-448-1330.

Tues., Feb. 28 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) 448-1474 for any of these three classes.

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Thurs., March 2 Fact or Fiction: how to spot fake news at 7 p.m. at the Cranbury Public Library. Learn tips to analyze news sources, tools for factchecking, and ways to confirm news accuracy with a critical eye before sharing information. The library is at 23 N. Main.

Fri., March 3

Crazy 8s Math Club from 4:15 to 4:45 p.m. at the Hightstown Memorial Library, 114 Franklin St. in Hightstown. Children in Grades K-3 are invited to make math fun with this weekly math club. We will explore math concepts with fun activities like glow stick geometry and toilet paper roll measuring! Please register at www.mcl.org.

Sensory Play for Babies & Toddlers from 10:30 to 11 a.m. at the Hightstown Memorial Library, 114 Franklin St. in Hightstown. Infants and toddlers ages 3 month-2 years will engage their senses of touch, sight and sound with a variety of objects and toys.

Sun., March 5

Sahaja Yoga Meditation Sundays from 2 to 3:30 p.m. at the Hickory Corner Branch of the Mercer County Library, 138 Hickory Corner Road, East Windsor. Sahaja yoga meditation is based on “Kundalini awakening,” practiced in more than 90 countries. Experience the peace and joy you can derive from this state of selfrealization and feel its benefits in your life. Call

Everyday English at 7 p.m. at the Hickory Corner Branch of the Mercer County Library, 138 Hickory Corner Road, East Windsor. Learn how to improve your English language speaking skills, pronunciation, vocabulary, grammar and fluency. Must have some basic knowledge of English. Taught by ESL instructor Stephanie Owens.

Call 609-448-1330.

Free Immigration Legal Clinic from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. at the Hightstown Memorial Library, 114 Franklin St. in Hightstown.

Register in person or by phone at (609) 448-1474 for a free 15-minute consultation with an immigration lawyer.

Wed., March 1 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 & a craft.

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STATE WE’RE IN

The Pines of March

By Michele S. Byers

Been to New Jersey’s Pine Barrens? If not, here are some great reasons to explore this incredible area this March.

The Pine Barrens are hiding in plain sight: a sparsely-populated region of 1.1 million acres within the nation’s most densely populated state. Millions of drivers skirt its eastern edge each year as they travel the Garden State Parkway through Ocean, Burlington, Atlantic and Cape May counties to shore destinations.

How about heading west instead of east upon exiting the Parkway? There is a world where nature and wildlife reign supreme, with hundreds of thousands of acres of preserved forest crossed by sand roads and teacolored streams, an astounding variety of rare plants and animals, and cranberry bogs, historic villages, and fields where blueberries were first cultivated.

Interested in learning more? Mark your calendar for the second weekend in March, which features back-to-back events highlighting the many reasons the “Pines” are a place like no other.

First comes the 28th annual Pinelands Short Course on Saturday, March 11: a full day of educational programs hosted by Stockton University in Galloway Township.

The Short Course is followed on Sunday, March 12, by Lines on the Pines, a free event celebrating Pine Barrens authors, artists and artisans.

The weekend’s events aren’t related, but they’re designed to complement each other.

Together, they make for a fabulous introduction to the Pine Barrens!

This year’s Pinelands Short Course includes 38 presentations on the ecosystems, wetlands, wildlife, culture and history of the Pine Barrens. Attendees can choose up to four presentations: two in the morning and two in the afternoon.

Folks with an interest in nature may want to check out the presentation on the Pinelands’ threatened and endangered snakes, and another on its raptors and reptiles … both featuring live animals.

For those who enjoy history and culture, the program includes the Jersey Devil’s origins in the Pine Barrens; the life story of Jeremiah Leeds, a “Piney” who once owned almost all of what is now Atlantic City; the ghost towns of the Pinelands; the historic village of Batsto through the years; and the Lenape Indians and their use of the region’s natural resources in everyday life.

This year’s Short Course also offers a half-day guided van tour of the Mullica River watershed, with stops at various wildlife habitats. The course features three on-campus field trips: bird species identification, a tour of Stockton’s ecologically managed forests, and tour of the campus’ biodiversity hotspots.

Whether you’re a lifelong “Piney” or newcomer looking for an introduction, you’ll have fun exploring the unique geology, history, folklore and traditions.

And to learn more, visit the New Jersey Conservation Foundation website at www.njconservation.org or contact me at info@njconservation.org.

Michele S. Byers is executive director of the New Jersey Conservation Foundation in Morristown.

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CAPITOL NEWS AND COMMENT Assembly approves bill to protect public safety officers Legislation Assembly Democrats Daniel R. Benson, Raj Mukherji, Elizabeth Muoio, Jamel Holley, Shavonda Sumter, Joann Downey, Pamela Lampitt, Sheila Oliver, Joe Danielsen and Benjie Wimberly sponsored to support workers who are attacked while supervising inmates or detainees received Assembly approval Feb. 16 Under current law, a corrections officer or juvenile detention officer who is seriously injured after a prison riot or inmate attack and cannot work does not receive any salary while waiting for workers’ compensation to take effect, which can take several months.

A recent rise in attacks on corrections officers highlights the need to address this gap in state statute, Benson noted.

“These officers assume a significant deal of risk every day on the job, yet they’re excluded from provisions that make compensation available to other public safety officers,“ said Benson (DMercer / Middlesex), chair of the Assembly Law and Public Safety Committee. “This legislation is about taking action to eliminate that inconsistency so that people who put their lives on the line aren’t left helpless in the event of an attack.”

The bill (A3422) would establish a compensation program that would allow state corrections officers, juvenile corrections officers, juvenile detention officers, parole officers and probation officers who suffer bodily injury as the result of an attack by inmates, detainees or other persons under their supervision to continue to receive full wages until they begin receiving workers’ compensation payments.

In addition to workers’ compensation, the injured employee also would receive regular supplemental payments from his or her employer in an amount that, when combined with workers’ compensation, equals his or her net wage at the time of the injury.

The bill’s provisions also would apply to civilian employees who work directly with inmates or detainees, and to probation officers who suffer bodily injury as the result of an assault committed by an inmate, detainee, or person on probation while engaged in official duties.

“As it is, a public safety officer who gets attacked on the job essentially is punished for something he or she didn’t do,” said Muoio (D-Mercer / Hunterdon). “By ensuring that these officers have financial stability after an attack, we can make it clear that New Jersey supports these vital professions and remove a deterrent to entering or staying in that line of work.”

State Human Services police officers, conservation officers and park police officers who suffer bodily injury as the result of an assault while engaged in the arrest or transportation of a suspect or person in their custody and civilian employees who work directly with inmates or detainees and suffer bodily injury due to an attack while performing their official duties also would be eligible for the compensation program, as would Palisades Interstate Park officers, campus police officers, and medical security officers under the supervision of the Department of Human Services.

The bill was approved 62-4-2 by the Assembly and now awaits further Senate consideration.

Bill introduced to keep sexual predators confined before trial Suspects of sex crimes against children will be kept in jail while waiting for trial under a bill introduced by Assemblyman Ron Dancer. The bill (A4637) amends the new bail reform law, allowing courts to order the pretrial release of some defendants.

“The decision to hold a suspect should be based on the danger to the public and the possibility that more children may be victimized,” said Dancer (R—Ocean). “In the case of sexual attacks on children, it is imperative that we exercise extreme caution. For the sake of potential victims, it makes sense to keep attackers off the streets until the case is decided by the courts.”

Dancer’s measure increases the likelihood a charged suspect would remain held by authorities, and creates an option under the bail reform law for prosecutors to argue for pretrial detention.

Legislation introduced addressing failed drug screenings for workers Assemblyman Joe Howarth has introduced legislation allowing state, county and local governments to be notified when a public employee fails a screening for a banned substance. Currently, the information is not shared with government entities if the worker or prospect has a doctor’s prescription.

“It is absurd that towns and counties don’t have accurate information when on employee does not pass a drug test,” said Howarth

(R—Burlington). “Whether the results are from illegal or legal use of narcotics, technically they are failing the drug screening. That person may be incapable of doing their job, and governments need to be informed to make informed decisions that can affect the safety of the workforce and the public.”

Public workers who drive or operate equipment are required to inform their employer when they are taking medications that slow reaction times or dull the senses. Howarth noted this self-reporting doesn’t often occur.

“It is just common sense. We’re providing an important tool so government employers can more efficiently monitor and deploy work teams,” Howarth added.

To protect medical privacy for employees, Howarth’s bill (A4617) requires that the specific medications, test results, or any other health information regarding the individual be kept confidential by the drug testing laboratory.

Sen. Dawn Marie Addiego, Howarth’s colleague in the 8th District, is introducing the bill in the Senate.

Lesniak calls for action against Jewish hate groups

Reacting to President Trump’s statement condemning the recent increase in threats against Jewish community centers, cemeteries, synagogues and hate speech directed at Jews, Senator Lesniak called for action, not just words.

“The president needs to direct his Justice Department and Homeland Security Department to focus on known Jewish hate organizations, infiltrate them and bring them to justice wherever and whenever possible,” said Senator Lesniak. “We can’t afford to be passive in the face of anti-Semitism and we can’t allow these forces of hate and bigotry to go unchecked. History has taught us the consequences of inaction and silence.”

President Trump responded this week to a growing chorus of calls from Jewish leaders urging him to speak out against the recent spate of threats and acts of intimidation targeting the Jewish community in the United States. The president’s remarks came a day after the JCC Association of North America reported that 54 Jewish community centers have faced 69 threats, including three waves of bomb threats, since January. They also follow the vandalism of 100 headstones at a Jewish cemetery in St. Louis.

Sen. Lesniak, a recipient of the prestigious Man of the Year Award from the Jewish National Fund and the Public Service Award from the Jewish Education Center in Elizabeth, sponsored a Resolution his first year in the state Legislature condemning the Soviet Union for violating Article 13 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights for not allowing Jews to migrate in order to freely practice their religion. He also was awarded the prestigious Human Rights Award from Le Memorial de Caen, by the D-Day / Human Rights Museum in Normandy, France.

Greenwald blasts revocation of firearms measure

Assembly Majority Leader Louis Greenwald (D-Camden / Burlington) issued the following statement on Congress’ passage of House Joint Resolution 40, revoking the Social Security Administration rule that helps provide mental health background checks for firearms by requiring the agency to report beneficiaries with severe mental health disabilities to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS): “This is a shameful move on the part of Congress. This is not about infringing on the second amendment rights of law abiding citizens, but about keeping guns out of the hands of those who might be mentally unfit. By revoking this rule, Congress is putting Americans at risk.

“Over the past decade our nation has seen an epidemic of gun violence, from the mass shooting at Virginia Tech to the attempted assassination of Congresswoman Gabby Giffords. I met the families from Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Connecticut after the unimaginable tragedies they suffered. The loss of 20 children and six teachers impacted our nation and strengthened our resolve to protect our communities from gun violence.

“By taking clear and decisive steps to keep firearms out of the hands of people who are a danger to themselves and others we can help prevent tragedies like these and keep our children safe from gun violence. Common sense gun violence prevention measures, like the one Congress is currently trying to revoke, can help save the lives of innocent citizens across the nation.

“This rule has limited scope, provides due process, and protects the privacy of the individuals involved. Not only will revoking this rule put our neighborhoods and communities at risk, but it also prohibits any future administrative action on this issue.”

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Bookmark design contest now underway

Greater Mercer TMA’s (GMTMA) fourth annual Safe Routes to School Bookmark Design contest is now underway.

Mercer and Ocean County students in third through fifth grade are eligible to show their love of walking by creating a bookmark for the contest with the theme “I like to walk to…with….”

Throughout the year GMTMA works with schools to encourage students to walk and bike to

school where it is safe to do so and help communities identify solutions to improve the areas where it is not safe.

“Using this bookmark contest, we hope to get students thinking about walking and biking to school as a fun and healthy choice for themselves and their community,” said GMTMA Executive Director Cheryl Kastrenakes.

The winning bookmark design will be printed and distributed to area schools and local

libraries. The winner will also receive a $50 gift card.

For more information about the contest and the Safe Routes to School Program go to gmtma.org.

Greater Mercer TMA is a non-profit, public-private partnership dedicated to reducing traffic and improving mobility in and around Mercer and Ocean counties. GMTMA is committed to providing transportation choices that are good for commuters, business, community, and the environment.

Rev. Mitchell to participate in ‘Ashes to Go’ observation

The Reverend Karin Mitchell, rector of St. David’s Episcopal Church will be participating in “Ashes to Go” on Wednesday, March 1 which is observed as Ash Wednesday in the Christian calendar.

She will be at the Rouote 130 bus depot in Dayton from 6:30 to 8 a.m. to distribute ashes and prayers to commuters who may not be able to attend church on that day.

This is an important aspect of moving the church

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ourselves and our lives and, by god’s grace, reclaiming the sanctity and gift of the lives we have been given.”

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Kevin J. Roche, 81 Kevin J. Roche, 81, of Point Pleasant, NJ and formerly of Cranbury, NJ, passed away on February 16, 2017. Kevin was born and raised in Newburyport, MA. He was the son of the late Francis and Johanna (nee Murphy) Roche, both of whom emigrated from Ireland. He served in the Air Force before graduating from Merrimack College in 1962 with a B.S. in Accounting. He then embarked on a 36 year career at Dow Jones & Co., starting as a junior accountant and ultimately serving as Chief Financial /FlCER AND 6ICE 0RESIDENT OF &INANCE BEFORE RETIRING IN 1998.

He was a member of the Spring Lake and Peddie Golf Clubs, the Elks Lodge of Manasquan, a past Grand Knight of the Hightstown Council of the Knights of Columbus, and a past member of the board of directors of the Family Service Agency of Princeton. He was also the recipient of the St. Augustine Award for Alumni Achievement from Merrimack College, where he served two terms as a member of the Board of Trustees. Kevin was known for his wonderful sense of humor, love of golf, and was proud of his Irish heritage. He established The â&#x20AC;&#x153;Roche Family Scholarshipâ&#x20AC;? at Merrimack to assist deserving students from the Newburyport area.

handles some 6,000 indictable cases annually, all with victims seeking justice and Onofri responsible for the outcome. Yet law enforcement face challenges, from witnesses afraid to come forward out of fear of being victims of retaliation for cooperating to mistrust that some have of police. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think one of the biggest issues thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s facing law enforcement throughout the United States is the deterioration of police and community relations,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a reality that we have to deal with.â&#x20AC;?

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Continued from Page 1 into the Mercer County Counselâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Office. He also doubled as a prosecutor in Trenton municipal court. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I really liked the dayto-day interaction with other lawyers,â&#x20AC;? he said.

In 1998, he joined the Prosecutorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Office and has never left; he rose to first assistant prosecutor and became the boss two years ago when then-Prosecutor Joseph L. Bocchini Jr. retired. He served in an interim capacity, until Gov. Chris Christie last year nominated him for the post and the Senate approved the nomination by a unanimous vote.

The workload in Mercer is voluminous; the office

office and other law enforcement agencies had cookouts in the neighborhood of Shiloh Baptist Church, in Trenton. The first week, some 40 people showed up; by the second week, more than 100 did.

In August 2013, in response to the gun violence plaguing Trenton, then-state Attorney General John J. Hoffman joined other law enforcement authorities to announce steps to crack down on shootings in a city that would end that year with a record 37 murdersâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; an average of one murder every three days. In 2014, Mercer County had 32 murders total; every single one of them happened in the city.

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more manpower on the streets and went after gang members and others who have guns in public. Murders in the city went from 37 in 2013 to 17 in 2015, although they rose to 21 in 2016, crime statistics at the State Police showed.

In looking to suburbs, his office sees problems with domestic violence, drug use and the related burglaries and thefts that drug addicts commit in order to get money for their next drug hit.

He is looking to take a drug awareness program, now in the Hamilton school system, to every school district in the county, to both educate students about the dangers of drugs and how to get their friendsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; help if they need it.

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AND HIS SON %DWARD Roche, of New York City. He is also survived by his grandchildren, Emma, Brendan and Anna Szabo, as well as his nieces Marianne Kenney and Sharon Bresnahan, nephews Kevin, Joseph and Patrick McMahon, and many other loving family members and friends. He is predeceased by his brother, Francis Roche, and sisters Ann McMahon and Cecilia Azzarito.

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Abigail A. Ramsay as Harriet Tubman with Ademide Akintilo (left) as Sampson and Elijah J. Coleman as Jasper in “Beyond the Oak Trees.”

‘Beyond the Oak Trees’

Crossroads Theatre brings Harriet Tubman alive in a way history books can’t

By Bob Brown laywright Kisha Bundrige’s “Beyond the Oak Trees,” at Crossroads Theatre Company in New Brunswick through Feb. 26, is an innovative multimedia journey. Alternating between present-day and historical settings, the play follows Harriet Tubman on her final mission with the Underground Railroad.

Tubman’s stature as a heroine of the abolition movement is well known. Her portrait was even proposed as a replacement for Andrew Jackson’s on the $20 bill. Along with her contemporary Frederick Douglass (like her, born into slavery in Maryland), she was most fearless in combatting the evils of slavery and in shepherding hundreds of slaves to freedom. That’s what we know from history books. But this play goes beyond the pages to bring Harriet Tubman alive in all her feisty glory.

Bundrige sets Tubman’s life against a modern story of two young men. Joseph (Elija J. Coleman) has just won a $20,000 government grant to write a history of the African American experience. This

is much to the chagrin of his friend Hodari (Ademide Akintilo), who feels he should have won the grant instead — after all, he introduced Joseph to the committee during the grant application.

Together, they begin their research at the Harriet Tubman Home for the Aged, which she established in 1908. The home in Auburn, New York, became part of a national historical park just last month.

While examining Tubman artifacts, the men debate what shape their history should take. Joseph is all for emphasizing African kings and Africa’s rich cultural heritage, while Hodari insists that the slave experience is foremost.

Hovering in the background while the men debate is Jessica (Abigail Ramsay), Joseph’s greatgreat-great aunt, who lived at the home until the 1930s. A ghostly docent, Jessica interjects her remembrances over the men’s discussion. It’s not immediately clear that Jessica is there only in spirit — not in the flesh. The tipoff is that the men ignore

her and talk over her chatter. You can miss some of the dialogue in the confusion.

Scenes shift back to Harriet Tubman and her times. With each time shift, Harriet (Ramsay in a dual role) emerges from darkness and stands in a pool of swirling light. She comes alive to break the suffocating confinement of the grave. It’s a very effective way to delineate past and present while keeping them inextricably connected. We are then in the presence of Jasper (Mr. Coleman) and his companion Sampson (Mr. Akintilo), two slaves in tattered rags. Their debate this time is about their conditions and the possibility of escape.

Despite its serious tone, the play can be funny, too. Moments of levity break up the tension. Mr. Coleman plays Jasper as a hesitant escapee. When he starts back to the plantation, Harriet threatens him with a gun. (Tubman was known to brandish a pistol as a spy for the Union forces.) He bumbles and trips in the open field, spraining his foot.

Harriet scoffs that he’d trip on blade of grass.

Both Coleman and Akintilo transform themselves, becoming different characters — their desperate and courageous forebears, as it were. Harriet keeps them from the dogs and shields them and their families from the searchers. She guides them to the safe houses in the Underground Railroad that will be their route north to Philadelphia and freedom.

In Crossroads’ intimate space, Gennie Neuman Lambert’s scenic design of silhouetted oak branches is coordinated with lighting and projections designed

by Devorah Kengmana to create the shifting scenes.

The night sky, the phases of the moon, along with a cascade of historical photographs combine with an eerily realistic sound design by Kari Berntsson to complete the landscape.

Marshall Jones, III, Crossroads’ producing artistic director, has masterfully guided this excellent cast in a compelling story that illuminates the past while grappling with the struggles that continue to this day. Ramsay is especially outstanding as the fiercely defiant Harriet Tubman, as well as the chatty Jessica — two distinct characters with personalities of their own. Bundrige’s script has given her some evocative, poetic dialogue to convey the spiritual dimension of a woman who was as visionary as she was proactive.

What an intriguing and imaginative play this is. Despite its small scale, it’s entertaining, provocative, educational, and dazzling to see — everything you could want in a theatrical event and more.

“Beyond the Oak Trees” continues at Crossroads Theatre Company, 7 Livingston Ave., New Brunswick through Feb. 26. For tickets and information, go to www.crossroadstheatrecompany.org or call 732-545-8100.

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By Keith Loria

The Ones You Love Air Supply will fill the State Theatre with romance and rock

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ith a catalogue rich with Billboard hits, including “The One That You Love,” “All Out of Love,” “Even the Nights are Better” and “Every Woman in the World,” Air Supply is a royalty when it comes to romantic anthems.

Since joining forces in 1975, the soaring tenor voice of Russell Hitchcock and the catchy tunes by Graham Russell have kept Air Supply in the hearts of fans for more than four decades.

“The songs are very simple, they’re easy for people to latch on to and they’re very deep songs,” Russell says. “We have a great band, Russell is a great lead singer and he and I have a great relationship because he doesn’t want to write songs and I don’t want to be the lead singer. Our positioning in the band is never threatening.”

While music snobs brand Air Supply as “easy listening” or “soft rock,” Russell says that in his mind, the band has always been a full-out rock band, and that’s obvious in the shows it does on tour.

“Audiences are very surprised; they probably think it’s very low-key and a soft rock sort of thing, but we’re very engaging and loud,” he says. “We go into the audience, we manipulate the audience, we maneuver them around and get them to do what we want them to do, which is enjoy the show. We get them to forget all their inhibitions so they can laugh, cry and dance and do what they want to do.”

On Feb. 26, Air Supply will be heading to the State Theatre in New Brunswick for a hit-filled night of music.

“People come to see us in the first place because we’ve had so many hit songs and if they don’t already know us for our live show, they are curious,” Russell says.

“These are songs that are much more powerful live. Once they come, the penny drops and they keep coming back, fortunately.”

Over the years, Russell notes technology has changed the way people experience concerts, and he’s all for the differences.

“Everyone has a cell phone taking videos and pictures, and I think that’s good,” he says. “In the old days, audiences would just sit, but it’s much more interactive now. We talk to the audience more, there’s always a meet-and-greet, and the concert becomes a whole evening and allencompassing.”

The genesis of Air Supply harks back to an Australian-based production of “Jesus Christ Superstar,” where Hitchcock and Russell first met. The two performers bonded over music and soon would be on their way to creating a sound that brought out the romance in fans.

“The fact that we weren’t kids when we first began, we were very level-headed, I think has helped our longevity,” Russell says. “Never in a million years did we think we would still be here today. I thought we would be good for four to five years max.”

He says the duo has learned a lot from being on the road for so many years together, and today’s concerts reflect those experiences for the better “It’s what we’ve done for so many years and we’re very good at what we do,” Russell says. “This is music that we love. We bring in new songs all the time, we change arrangements around, and I actually still enjoy playing all the hits. It’s a thrill to know after all these years that these songs mean certain things to the audiences and are important in their lives.”

Russell still writes every day, whether it’s a potential song for the band, poetry for his collection of a tune for a musical he may Air Supply's Graham Russell (left) and Russell Hitchcock will fill the be working on.

“If I write a song, I’ll do a rough version State Theatre with romance on Feb. 26. of it with guitar and voice on my phone and live with it for a week, and if I still think it’s lease its first-ever EP in 2017. It will con- what we’re doing after all this time and good, I will play it for Russell,” he says. tain six tracks with three new songs. There we’re having a lot of fun.”

“We have a new song that we just added to also has been numerous live albums and the set this week, and we’re always happy DVDs that have come out through the Air Supply will perform at the State Thewhen the audience responds well to some- years, so the new music is out there for fans atre, 15 Livingston Ave., New Brunswick, to hear. thing new.”

Feb. 26, 8 p.m. Tickets cost $35-$95; “Something to keep everything moving statetheatrenj.org; 732-246-7469.

Although it hasn’t had a new studio album out in a while, Air Supply will re- along,” Russell says. “We think we know

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Find Your Inner Poet Glenis Redmond will lead poetry workshops at the State Theatre

She calls formal experiments like this “entry points,” the kind of things “people can do right away.” The goal is to have some of the writers find their own voices and to find what separates poetry from prose.

“A lot of people who are not poets, they are really writing prose,” she says. “You have to start somewhere.”

In addition to the haiku, she says she often works with list poems and other formal devices “not to make them poets, but to expose them to the poetry in their lives.” The workshops are laboratories.

“My job is not to have an end game,” Redmond says, “but just to let them have the experience.”

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he calls herself an “imagination activist,” a poet with a background in counseling who seeks to connect those she works with to their own “creative paths.”

That will be the focus of the workshop she is holding Feb. 28, March 7 and March 14 at the State Theatre in New Brunswick, a workshop designed to connect personal experience to the writing of verse.

“The theme is poetry as memoir,” says Redmond, the author of three books. “What I am asking them to do, or leading them to do, is to look at the material from their lives and to put into verse.”

Redmond says her first experience with writing poetry occurred in middle school, first when she was introduced to the poem “1968 Winters” by Jackie Early during a Black History Month program and then, two years later, when a teacher had her class participate in a journal writing exercise.

“I didn’t want to do it, but on the other end I never stopped doing it,” she says. “It was a life-changing, dooropening experience.”

Redmond describes the Early poem as her “initiation poem” — a phrase she borrows from the poet Edward Hirsch. She had read it and, without realizing it, internalized it.

“It was like a ticking time bomb that just kept going off with series of explosions,” she says. “When I picked up a pen, that poem was living with me. It had so much humor.

It was colloquial language, plain spoken, and you did not have to stand on the outside of it.”

She had a similar experience years later, as she explains on her website. She was diagnosed in 1992 with fibromyalgia, a painful musculoskeletal disorder, and was seeking ways to cope. Enter Lucille Clifton. She was watching Bill Moyers’ “Language of Life” when Clifton read “won’t you celebrate with me,” a poem that celebrates the strength of African American women.

In the poem, Clifton’s speaker asks the reader to join her in celebrating the shaping of a life, one created without a model, “born in babylon / both nonwhite and woman.”

The speaker asks, “what did i see to be except myself?”

She made her life up “on this bridge between / starshine and clay,” a life created and lived even though “everyday / something has tried to kill me / and has failed.”

Glenis Redmond’s Poetry as Memoir: Remember the Past workshops will take place at the State Theatre, 15 Livingston Ave., New Brunswick, Feb. 25, March 7, and March 14, 6-8 p.m. For tickets and information, go to statetheatrenj.org orwww.glenisredmond.com or call 732-246Poet Glenis Redmond wants to give writers the 7469.

Hank Kalet, a poet and journalist, writes the Artistic Litools they need to tell their own stories. cense column for TimeOFF. He is the author of As an Alien It was “a creative lightening bolt,” she wrote, that drove in a Land of Promise. His website kaletblog.wordpress.com her “to begin her journey as a poet and a teaching artist.” and his blog is kaletblog.com.

Her hope is that she can bring some of that creative energy to the people who attend her workshops. The process is simple: She starts with brainstorming and a series of prompts designed to engage memories. From there, she says, the students will experiment with craft, working both in free verse or open forms and in more formal verse.

“The purpose is to gaze inward, to be reflective and autobiographical, and to look at different aspects of their life, at the past, the present, and the future,” she says. “And then to experiment with the telling of their stories through verse.”

She has recently been working with the haiku, a highly compressed Japanese form that she views as being accessible to novice writers.

“I’ve been utilizing it as a form, because of the compression, and how it concentrates the telling stories through this compressed method,” she says. “We’ll be writing linking haiku, but breaking the rules at the same time. We’re not going to stay true to the Japanese form I’ve been playing with, making hybrids, with using long titles as way to link them.”

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“Beyond the Oak Trees,” Crossroads Theatre Company, 7 Livingston Ave., New Brunswick. World premiere of play by Kisha Bundridge about the story of abolitionist Harriet Tubman, merging past and present along the Underground Railroad, through Feb. 26, $25-$55; crossroadstheatrecompany.org; 732-545-8100.

“American Son,” George Street Playhouse, 9 Livingston Ave., New Brunswick. Christopher Demos-Brown’s play about a mother and her estranged husband who go to the police station after their son, Jamal, has been pulled over and no explanation is forthcoming, through Feb.26; www.georgestreetplayhouse.org; 732-246-7717.

“Boeing, Boeing” Kelsey Theatre on the campus of Mercer County Community College, 1200 Old Trenton Road, West Windsor. Comedy set in the 1960s about Bernard who has an apartment in Paris and is engaged to three beautiful stewardesses, through Feb. 26. Performances: Fri.-Sat. 8 p.m., Sun. 2 p.m. Tickets cost $18, $16 seniors, $14 students/children; www.kelseytheatre.net; 609570-3333.

“Lost in the Woods,” Pennington United Methodist Church, 60 S. Main St., Pennington. A twist on Grimm’s Hansel and Gretel tale, starring Eva Kastner-Puschl and Jessica Renfro, with Lynda Saponara, pianist. A 90-minute play with jazz, pop, classical music, and dancing for all Dolf DeRovira’s “Spooky Train Station” will be on view in “Cell Phone Images Only” ages, Feb. 26, 4 p.m. www.pumcnj.com; 609-737-1374. at the Considine Gallery at Stuart Country Day School of the Sacred Heart, 1200 “Rumors,” Performed by Somerset Valley Players, 689 Stuart Road, Princeton, March 3 through April 13. The exhibit will showcase works Amwell Road, Hillsborough. Neil Simon comedy about glamorous guests who arrive at a dinner party, and find out by photographers from the Princeton Photography Club. An opening reception is their host is absent, March 10-26. Performances: Fri.-Sat. 8 scheduled for March 5, 2-4 p.m. An artists talk is set for March 7, 1-2 p.m. For more p.m., Sun. 2 p.m. Tickets cost $20, $18 seniors/students; information, go to www.stuartschool.org. www.svptheatre.org; 908-369-7469.

“Murder on the Orient Express,” McCarter Theatre, sented by Princeton University Concerts at Richardson AuCLASSICAL MUSIC 91 University Place, Princeton. Adaptation of Agatha ditorium in Alexander Hall on the Princeton University Christie’s classic mystery by Ken Ludwig, March 14 The Princeton Singers, Princeton University Art Mu- campus, March 2, 8 p.m. The program will feature works through April 2; mccarter.org; 609-258-2787. seum on the campus of Princeton University. Concert titled by Schubert, Shostakovich, and Dvorak. Tickets cost $10“As the Lily Among the Thorns.” Works from the Song of $50; princetonuniversityconcerts.org; 609-258-9220.

FAMILY ENTERTAINMENT Jerry Nowak Memorial Concert, Mildred & Ernest E. Songs by Brumel, Palestrina and Billings open this exploration of sacred music. Performed in the Medieval Gallery Mayo Concert Hall at the College of New Jersey, 2000 Pen“A Year with Frog and Toad,” McCarter Theatre, 91 of the Princeton University Art Museum, Feb. 25, 5:30 p.m., nington Road, Ewing. This fund-raising concert featuring University Place, Princeton. Based on the children’s books 8 p.m. Tickets cost $15; www.princetonsingers.org. two of the ensembles Jerry Nowak co-founded: the

by Arnold Lobel, this musical follows two friends — the Westminster Conservatory Annual Showcase, Delaware Valley Wind Symphony and the Philadelphia Saxcheerful, popular Frog and the rather grumpy Toad — Richardson Auditorium in Alexander Hall on the campus ophone Quartet. Nowak was an arranger/composer and through the year, March 4, 3 p.m. Tickets cost $25-$35; of Princeton University. Westminster Conservatory will music teacher, who is the first recipient of the TCNJ Diswww.mccarter.org; 609-258-2787. present its annual showcase featuring Westminster Com- tinguished Music Alumni award, March 4, 3 p.m. Tickets munity ensembles and students, Feb. 26, 3 p.m. Tickets cost cost $15; tcnjcenterforthearts.tcnj.edu/calendar; 609-771DANCE $15, $10 seniors/students; www.princeton.edu/utickets; 2775.

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Twyla Tharp 50th Anniversary Tour, McCarter TheEric Mintel Jazz Quartet, Bucks County Playhouse, Kirill Gerstein, McCarter Theatre, 91 University Place, atre, 91 University Place, Princeton. Company of 12 dancers Princeton. Gilmore Artist winning pianist will perform a 70 S. Main St., New Hope, Pennsylvania. Mintel and his celebrating Tharp as one program of Liszt, Brahms and more, Feb. 27, 7:30 p.m. quartet will perform a night of music for entire family, feaof the most inventive and innovative choreographers in $25-$42; mccarter.org; 609-258-2787. turing original songs by Mintel, music by jazz legend Dave the history of American dance, Feb. 28, 7:30 p.m. Tickets Hagen String Quartet, Richardson Auditorium in Brubeck, Blue Rondo a la Turk, their own version of Paul cost $30-$75; mccarter.org; 609-258-2787.

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TV show themes as “I Dream of Jeannie,” “Mission Impossible,” “The Munsters,” “All in the Family” and many others, Feb. 25, 8 p.m. Tickets cost $25; www.buckscountyplayhouse.org; 215-8622121.

Joey Alexander Trio, McCarter Theatre, 91 University Place, Princeton. Jazz concert led by 13-year-old piano prodigy Joey Alexander, March 2, 8 p.m. Tickets cost $25-$52; mccarter.org; 609-258-2787.

Storytellers Cabaret, Trenton City Museum, Ellarslie Cadwalader Park, Trenton.

Trenton vocalist Tom Chiola and George

Sinkler on piano perform American jazz standards inspired by the rhythms of Africa.

Interwoven with the musical performance are tales from Africa, told by members of the Garden State Storytellers League. Refreshments and adult beverages will be served, March 3, 7-9:30 p.m. $30 at door (if available), $25 advance; www.ellarslie.org.

The Chieftains, McCarter Theatre, 91 University Place, Princeton. Legendary Irish band is celebrating its 55th anniversary tour, March 3, 8 p.m. $30-$70; mccarter.org; 609-258-2787.

MUSEUMS

Trenton City Museum, Trenton City Museum, Ellarslie at Cadwalader Park, Trenton. “Furniture as Art,” four exhibits in one highlighting the items that bring comfort and beauty to our lives. “Furniture from the Permanent Collection” features furniture from the collection of the Trenton Museum Society - antique furniture made in and associated with Trenton. “Rustic Regional Windsor Chairs” includes a collection of early Windsor chairs loaned by private collectors. “Please be Seated” displays the work of contemporary area furniture designers and the diversity of styles and materials they use. “On These Walls” is a display of contemporary painting, highlights the role furniture plays in our lives and our homes, through March 12. Opening reception with artists, Jan. 22, 2-4 p.m.

Hours: Wed.-Sat. noon to 4 p.m., Sun. 1-3 p.m. www.ellarslie.org; 609-989-3632.

Princeton University Art Museum, on the campus of Princeton University, Princeton. Willem de Kooning Drawn and Painted,” through March 19; “Revealing Pictures.” Exhibit presenting works by 11 leading international artists: Nikolay Bakharev, Edmund Clark, Daniel and Geo Fuchs, Tim Hetherington, Pieter Hugo, Liu Zheng, Zanele Muholi, Robert Polidori, Alec Soth and Miwa Yanagi. The photo-

graphs from the Christopher E. Olofson Collection at the Princeton University Art Museum, through July 2; “The Berlin Painter and His World: Athenian VasePainting in the Early Fifth Century B.C.,” The exhibition will present 84 vessels and statuettes from the period, including 54 of the finest vases attributed to the Berlin Painter, providing a window into the world of Athenian society 2,500 years ago, March 4 through June 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. “Bruce Springsteen: A Photography Journey.” Curated by the Grammy Museum at L.A. Live. Exhibit features more than 40 photographs of the rock legend, and video interviews with the show’s five photographers: Danny Clinch, Ed Gallucci, Eric Meola, Pamela Springsteen, and Frank Stefanko. Together they revisit Springsteen’s career as a frontman and songwriter, capturing his charisma and off stage vulnerability, and documenting a great American musical legend, through May 21, 2017. Hours: Wed.-Sun. 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. $10, $8 seniors/students; morven.org; 609-924-8144.

GALLERIES

West Windsor Arts Council Faculty Student Show, Princeton Junction Firehouse, 952 Alexander Road, West Windsor.

Show featuring more than 40 pieces of art by students of all ages at the West Windsor Arts Council alongside the works of their teachers, through Feb. 24. Hours: Mon.Fri. 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., Sat. 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

609-716-1931.

“Looking,” Rider University Art Gallery, Bart Luedeke Center, Rider University, 2038 Lawrenceville Road, Lawrenceville. Exhibit of works by Allen Fitzpatrick, a member of the faculty at The Lawrenceville School. The worksfocus on the still life and landscape from direct ob-

servation, through Feb. 26. visitwww.rider.edu/arts.

“Lyrical,” Artists’ Gallery, 18 Bridge St., Lambertville. Artworks by gallery members accompanied by song lyrics and poems, through March 5. Hours: Thurs.Sun. 11 a.m.-6 p.m. www.lambertvillearts.com.

Brodsky Gallery, Chauncey Conference Center, ETS, 660 Rosedale Road, Princeton. “From The Garden to the Sea” featuring 28 paintings by Janet Purcell. Ms. Purcell’s award-winning paintings are in private and public collections including Princeton University’s Center For Information Technology Policy and Capital Health Systems, Mercer, through March 8; www.janpurcellart.com.

“Philip Pearlstein: A Legacy of Influence,” Taplin Gallery at the Arts Council of Princeton’s Paul Robeson Center for the Arts, 102 Witherspoon St., Princeton.

Group exhibition featuring figure painter Pearlstein and those he has influenced through his career as an artist and educator.

Visitors can expect original works from artists Philip Pearlstein, Janet Fish, Stephen

Lorber, Charles David Viera, Altoon Sultan, Tony Phillips, George Nick, Lorraine Shemesh, and Thomas Corey, through March 25. Gallery talk with Philip Pearlstein, Feb. 18, 2 p.m. artscouncilofprinceton.org; 609-924-8777.

“Identity,” Anne Reid ‘72 Art Gallery at Princeton Day School Art Gallery, 650 Great Road, Princeton. Composed of work created by Princeton Day School students in all three divisions, the exhibit centers around individual identities and the diversity of the PDS community, through March. 8. Hours: Mon.-Fri. 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. when school is in session; www.pds.org.

Gallery 14, 14 Mercer St., Hopewell.

Members exhibit, allowing the gallery’s members to display photographs of their choosing with no overriding them. The members are Martha Weintraub, Charles Miller , Charlie Gross, John Clarke, Larry Parsons, Rhoda Kassof-Isaac, Alice Grebanier and Martin Schwartz, through March 12. Hours: Sat-Sun. noon to 5 p.m. www.photogallery14.com; 609-333-8611.

Art Times Two, the gallery at Princeton Brain and Spine, 731 Alexander Road, Suite

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THINGS TO DO 200, Princeton. “Mandala.” Paintings and prints featuring mandalas from four regional artists are brought together in this exhibit. Associated with Hindu and Buddhist cultures where, consecrated and purposed for ritual, the mandala is understood to be the abode of the deity, through March 31. www.arttimestwo.com; 609-203-4622.

“A Grounds For Sculpture History: The Land in Pictures and Words,” Lakefront Gallery, located in Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, Hamilton. Works by members of the Princeton Photography Club tell the story of how the former site of the New Jersey State Fairgrounds became Grounds For Sculpture, beginning in 1984 when the Atlantic Foundation purchased 12 acres of the old fairgrounds property adjacent to the Seward Johnson Atelier, through April 2. www.princetonphotoclub.org/LakefrontGallery.html; 732-422-3676.

“Nature’s Healing Gifts,” D&R Greenway Land Trust at the Johnson Education Center, 1 Preservation Place, Princeton. Exhibit includes “Mystery and Magic — New Jersey’s Pinelands” featuring a decade of photographs by Albert Horner. Artists Priscilla Snow Algava, William Dix, Karen McLean, Dallas Piotrowski, Michelle Post and Ray Yeager highlight gifts from nature, through April 7. Opening reception, March 3, 5-7 p.m. Hours: Mon.-Fri. 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. www.drgreenway.org; 609-924-4646.

Sculpture Exhibit by Patrick Strzelec, Graves Terrace at Paul Robeson Center of the Arts, 102 Witherspoon St., Princeton. Outdoor exhibit of works by Patrick Strzelec, who makes abstract sculpture using a full range of materials.

This Graves Terrace exhibition will provide the public with an introduction to Strzelec’s work preceding the installation of his work on Witherspoon Street at the site of the new Avalon Princeton residencies, through June, 2017. For more information, go to artscouncilofprinceton.org or call 609-924-8777.

ter, 1 Monument Drive, Princeton. One-hour instruction Princeton. Princeton University alumnus Norm Champ, formost weeks, followed by request dancing. Fridays, 8-11 merly of the SEC, will visit the Woodrow Wilson School of p.m. $5; 609-912-1272.

Public and International Affairs to share his outlook and discuss his new book, “Going Public: My Adventures Inside the SEC and How to Prevent the Next Devastating Crisis,” Feb. 27, 4:30 p.m. wws.princeton.edu.

Historical and Architectural Tours of Cranbury, Meet Build a Bee Abode workshop, Tulpehaking Nature at the Cranbury Museum at 4 Park Place East off Main Center, 157 Westcott Ave., Hamilton. Join the fight against Street, March 5, 2 p.m. Contribution of $7 to the Cranbury declining bee populations by taking part in a Build a Bee Historical and Preservation Society is suggested. richardcAbode workshop. Participants will be provided with the moods@gmail.com; 609-819-1359. knowledge and materials to create a bee-utiful bee home, Dorothea’s House, 120 John St., Princeton. Lecture Feb. 25, 10 a.m. to noon. Registration is required: email napresentation on L’Infiorata, a Show of Flowers by artist tureprograms@mercercounty.org or call 609-888-3218.

Maria G. Pisano. The word “infiorata” literally means George Washington’s Birthday celebration, Rocking“decorated with flowers. For the Infiorata, carpets of flowham, Route 603, one mile north of Route 27, Kingston. ers are created for the feast of Corpus Domini throughout George Washington, retired Continental Army commander Italy. These ephemeral creations are experienced for only in chief and first president of the United States, will be cel- one day of the year. In her presentation, Pisano will showebrated at Rockingham. Washington will be present only in case the participants’ preparation of the design and flowspirit (and Rockingham’s life-sized mannequin), but visitors ers, and talk about the devotion of the participating can learn about his life and times before, during and after communities, March 5, 5 p.m. For more information, go to his famous careers. Tours will be followed with cakes and www.dorotheashouse.org. punch in the kitchen, Feb. 25, noon to 4 p.m. Tours will Author David Price, Lawrence Library, 2751 begin on the house and possibly half-hour if needed. The Brunswick Pike, Lawrence. Lawrenceville resident and hislast tour will start at 3 p.m. or 3:30 p.m. Reservations are re- torical interpreter at Pennsylvania’s Washington Crossing quired to guarantee admission. $5 suggested donation; 609- Historic Park, David Price will present to the patrons of the 683-7132. Meet George Washington, Visitor Center Lawrence Headquarters Branch of the Mercer County LiMuseum at Washington Crossing State Park, 355 Washing- brary System his book “Rescuing the Revolution: Unsung ton Crossing Pennington Road, Titusville. Sam Davis will Patriot Heroes and the Ten Crucial Days of America’s War portray General George Washington and discuss his life for Independence.” Copies of his book will be available from his childhood through the Battle of Trenton, Feb. 25, through the Friends of the Lawrence Library for sale and signing, March 30, 7 p.m. Registration is suggested. E-mail 12:30 p.m. For more information, call 609-737-0623.

Norm Champ, Robertson Hall, Princeton University, lawprogs@mcl.org or call 609-989-6920.

MISCELLANY

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COMEDY

Catch a Rising Star, 102 Carnegie Center, West Windsor. Wellie Jackson, Feb. 25-26; Joe Piscopo presents a special night of comedy, March 2; catcharisingstar.com; 609-987-8018.

Stress Factory, 90 Church St., New Brunswick. Bret Ernst, Feb. 24-25, 7:30 p.m., 9:45 p.m., $20; Sunday Night Live with Talent and Friends, Feb. 26, 8 p.m., $25; Gary Gulman, March 2, 7:30 p.m., March 3-4, 7:30 p.m., 9:45 p.m., $25; stressfactory.com; 732-545-4242.

DANCE

Princeton Country Dancers, Suzanne Patterson Center, 1 Monument Drive, Princeton. Family Dance with Mixed-Aged Dance Band, Feb. 26, 3-5 p.m., $5 ($15 per family); Weekly Wednesday Country Dance, March 1, 8 p.m. (Instruction starts at 7:30 p.m.), $9; www.princetoncountrydancers.org.

Friday Night Folk Dancing, at Suzanne Patterson Cen-

Blacksmith Alex “Sasha” Parubchenko, pictured at the Trenton Blacksmith Shop.

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ercer County Community College has opened The Gallery at the James Kerney Campus, located in the Trenton Hall Annex at 137 N. Broad St., across from the James Kerney Building.

The gallery’s inaugural show is “Trenton Blacksmiths” by photographer CJ Harker, running through March 9. An artist’s talk and gallery reception is scheduled for March 8.

In “Trenton Blacksmiths,” Harker focuses his lens on the nearly 200-year-old Trenton Blacksmith shop.

“Many souls have called that building home in one

sense or another,” Harker says. “Countless stories can be traced through the many corners of the shop or found caught up in the dust and cobwebs.”

The shop’s current master blacksmith is Alex “Sasha” Parubchenko, the last full-time blacksmith in New Jersey.

“Sasha has kept an amazing piece of history living and breathing year after year since 1971,” Harker says.

“He is always ready with a warm greeting and a willingness to tell his own tales fueled by a full life. He eagerly passes his many years of knowledge and experience along to his students.”

According to Gallery Director Michael ChovanDalton, the new exhibit space will be dedicated primarily to photography and lens-based art. “It will feature artists and shows that explore the breadth of what is happening in the photography art world today,”Chovan-Dalton said.

Harker is from Trenton, and currently lives in Philadelphia. He studied photography and digital imaging at MCCC before transferring to The University of The Arts, where he earned his BFA in photography.

He is currently a teaching assistant and resident artist at UArts.

Harker works with a combination of digital and analog methods. While his editorial work is generally made using contemporary digital tools, the majority of his personal work features an overlap with historic and alternative photographic methods.

“Trenton Blacksmiths” is on view at the The Gallery at the James Kerney Campus at Mercer County Community College’s Trenton Hall Annex, 137 N. Broad St., Trenton, through March 9. An artist’s talk and gallery reception is scheduled for March 8, 5-8 p.m. Hours: Tues.-Thurs. 10 a.m. to noon, and 3-6 p.m. For more information, go to www.mccc.edu.

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PACKET PICKS Feb. 25 Dancing and dessert in Plainsboro The Plainsboro Department of Recreation and Community Services will host a dancing and dessert event, 78:30 p.m. at the Plainsboro Recreation & Cultural Center, 641 Plainsboro Road.

Swing music will be played during the dance for people 18 and over who would like to have coffee and dessert, and then take a dance lesson. The cost is $12, $10 for Plainsboro residents and employees.

Register online and pay the night of the dance with cash or check. Checks should be made payable to Plainsboro Township. To register, go to www.plainsboronj.com.

Feb. 26 Marian Anderson program at Trent House The Trent House will host a presentation of “The Lady from Philadelphia,” beginning at 2 p.m.

The show tells the story of Marian Anderson, who was born in Philadelphia, Feb. 27, 1897. It is a musical narrative that tells the story of the life and career of the legendary singer. The program combines spoken narration, photographic slide projections, live singing and historic recordings of Marian Anderson’s own voice.

Playing Anderson is Deborah Ford, of Trenton. Ford holds degrees from Westminster Choir College. She is the music director at Trinity Episcopal Cathedral, the owner of Music Seminars Inc., and serves as a Mercer County Cultural and Heritage Commissioner.

Admission costs $15 and includes refreshments and tours. Registration is suggested. For more information, and to purchase tickets, go to www.williamtrenthouse.org/d eborahford.

Feb. 27 Book talk at Wilson school Princeton University alumnus Norm Champ, formerly of the SEC, will visit the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs to share his outlook and discuss his new book, “Going Public: My Adventures Inside the SEC and How to Prevent the Next Devastating Crisis,” beginning at 4:30 p.m. in Robertson Hall on the Princeton campus.

Champ’s book offers a behind-the-scenes look at his experiences at the SEC and his efforts to lead reforms to stabilize America’s financial system.

As director of the Division of Investment Management, Champ managed the division’s work to protect investors, promote informed investment decisions and facilitate appropriate innovation in investment products and services through regulating the asset management industry. Currently, he is a partner in the Investment Funds Group of Kirkland & Ellis LLP and a lecturer at Harvard Law School. For more information, go wws.princeton.edu.

WHAT’S IN STORE

Rich Fisher

The upper crust of bakeries The Gingered Peach offers classic goods, along with tasty, off-beat items To best describe the effort, attitude and uniqueness that goes into making the Gingered Peach in Lawrenceville one of the most fun and delicious bakeries in central Jersey could take a year.

But hey, let’s give it a shot.

The first thing one must know is that every item prepared comes from the depths of each baker’s core. Owner Joanne Brown calls it “hand-crafted baking with soul.”

That means it is not just being made by someone reading a book and throwing things together. It’s almost like a spiritual thing.

“We make pastries with integrity, and I want people to taste the effort in what we did,“ Brown said. “I want them to realize ‘Hey, we wanted to make this. We’re putting our heart and soul into this. We thought about this one product for six months before we said we think it’s ready for you.’”

That’s not an exaggeration.

Brown will come up with a new product and present it to her team of four bakers; then ask them to come up with five different versions of how they would create it.

Once the idea is finalized, the hand-crafted baking with soul begins.

“It’s important for people to know that human hands have touched everything that’s here,” Brown said. “We barely use any machinery. Of course there are ovens and mixers, but human hands have flipped that batter and dough.”

Which makes more of a difference than one might think.

“It helps control it better,” Brown continued. “We can feel it better, we’re more connected with the work we’re doing, and it makes a better product. This will sound super weird, but I tell the bakers, ‘I need you to connect with the product. You’ll get it after you’ve laminated croissants three or four times. Your arms are going to feel something is off; something went wrong with the dough.

If you’re not connected, a whole bunch of crazy products are going to roll out here and we’re not gonna catch it.’”

Everything in the Gingered Peach is made with what is considered the “upper crust” of baking ingredients around. The result of this heartfelt process has been an invigorated, charming establishment that sees a steady flow of happy customers throughout the day. Gingered Peach offers your basic donuts, cakes and cookies, but also features a wide array of treats you won’t find anywhere else.

A big favorite is the olive oil cake, which this author was provided with but unable to eat until a day later. Not only had it retained remarkable freshness, it was a delicious blend of extra virgin olive oil, orange juice and some Grand Marnier.

“People think oil, and they think greasy,” Brown said. “It’s not like that at all. Most people don’t use olive oil for baking, they save it for the savory cooking

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Gingered Peach owner Joanne Brown shares the love of baking she inherited from her grandmother. world. We look at it and say, ‘Why does Savory get to enjoy all the delicious flavor of olive oil? What if we leverage it but make it sweet?’”

That cake is just one example of the Gingered Peach’s “off-beat” products that Brown takes such pride in. Through her countless visits to bakeries in her hometown of Hoboken, and even in Mercer County, she noticed the same range of selections in most places.

“You always see canola, or a crumb cake, but you’re not seeing anything that’s a little weird, a little different,” Brown said. “Our palettes are changing. People are becoming riskier eaters and that’s what makes this fun. You want to explore, ‘Can these two things live together in the same pastry?’ I don’t know, let’s figure it out!

We’re not doing what everyone else is doing.”

Well, they are doing that for folks who want the standard fare, and those basic treats are as tasty and fresh as you could hope. Just ask Lawrenceville resident Carol Tracy.

“Everything is great,” said Tracy during one of her frequent visits to the Peach. “I just ordered my first cake, everybody said it was the best chocolate cake they ever had. The croissants, everything is wonderful. I usually get an almond croissant, but everything is consistently good. I’ve never been disappointed.”

Those traveling the offbeat path can try a goat cheese brownie, or a triple berry jelly donut with homemade raspberry, blueberry and strawberry jelly all in one. The cream donut is made with southern sweet cream that Joanne’s grandmother — and inspiration — used while baking in Georgia.

There are several uses of Brioche, a traditional French bread, to create the Trenton Volcano or the Caramel Crack. The Volcano is brioche filled with pork roll, spinach, cheddar and Swiss

cheese. That is rolled into a bagel topping.

“We bake it and when it bakes up it looks like a volcano,” Brown said.

The Caramel Crack is a combination of toffee from old-school British pudding combined with cinnamon sugar, which is applied as a topping to the Brioche as it becomes covered in caramelized toffee goo. A weekend special is the Sticky Piggy, which are sticky buns in which the bakers render bacon fat, make it as part of the goop and then bake bacon inside of it.

“Those are some of the weirdo products we have,” Brown said.

“We also make a cookie with potato chips and pretzels. It’s walking the route that very few people have walked, or want to. I just think there’s a market for people who want something interesting.”

Brown walked a pretty long route to get to this point. Her professional career started with full time positions at Bed Bath & Beyond, where she was a liaison between departments to launch new stores, and moved on to become a training specialist at Panera Bread.

The latter job helped her see the training side of the food business, along with executing the operation.

But the jobs were not fulfilling.

She learned how to bake from her grandmother, Johnnie Branda, and loved it. Her father was a big proponent of a people doing what they love for a living, and not working just to pay the bills. That advice stayed with Joanne.

After getting married to Matthew Brown, the couple moved to Ewing and Joanne finally decided to do what made her happy. In the summer of 2012 she and a partner opened a bakery named “Let Them Eat Cake.” The focus was mainly on cakes since that was Brown’s comfort zone, but she also began to challenge herself with cookies and croissants.

Joanne’s partner was forced to move when her husband got transferred at the end of 2013 and the main business folded. But the manager at the Thomas Sweet shop in Montgomery was so enamored with Brown’s work; he set her up in his kitchen so she continued to supply him with cakes.

This provided added confidence and some income as she searched for another spot, which needed to be bigger than the 600square feet space in Ewing because Joanne planned on expanding her inventory. She discovered a gutted building on 2 Gordon Ave., just off Main Street, that previously housed the Village Bakery for nearly five decades.

Can you say serendipitous?

Everything had to be installed, from display cases to kitchen equipment, but the space was twice the size of her Ewing operation and Joanne was like a kid in a playground. She and Matthew worked feverishly to give the building life, and made the entire public area as charming as someone’s dining room.

There are chairs and tables along the wall across from the counter, along with a sitting space in the back for folks to chat, read and enjoy their treats. The walls are adorned with historical Lawrenceville photos and several old family photos and keepsakes like rolling pins and teacups.

“I wanted you to feel you were coming into the home I grew up in because there was so much love and so much warmth there,” Brown said. “I wanted everyone to feel that way, because I felt if you felt that, it would change the way you tasted the pastry. And I wanted people not to feel they had to leave. I wanted them to stay a little while and chill out.”

After creating the proper atmosphere and starting on her mountain of creative inventory, all that was left was to find a name prior to the grand opening on Dec. 6, 2014. Once again, it was a tribute to grams. Johnnie was a Georgia Peach who always advised Joanne to “just ginger it up” if she didn’t have the right ingredient, which was her way of saying use what you have to make something awesome.

“When she said to ginger it, she made you feel like you could make anything with nothing, so I wanted that to be the name,” Brown said. “I don’t bring in random nonsense from all over the place. I take the ingredients that exist and figure out ways to make something different by cooking it a little longer, or changing the ways the ingredients are added or the way they’re beat together. I want them to know we’re taking simple things and turning them into something wonderful.”

Wonderful, unique and delicious. And that doesn’t even begin to describe it all.

The Gingered Peach is at 2 Gordon Ave., Lawrenceville. For more information: www.thegingeredpeach.com, 609-896-5848.

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Reaching for the ‘Heights’ Princeton University sophomore Victoria Davidjohn feels a connection to the show she’s directing

By Ethan Sterenfeld Correspondent

Victoria Davidjohn has been a devoted fan of Lin-Manuel Miranda and his Tony Award-winning musical “In the Heights” since she saw Miranda perform when she was in middle school.

“He did a little section of ‘In the Heights,’ and blew us all away,” the Princeton University sophomore said. “We were like, ‘Who is this guy? Why is he so cool?

Why is he spitting fire?’”

For the next two weekends, Davidjohn will be directing the musical at Princeton University, with the student theater group Princeton University Players. When she decided last year to direct a show, she knew right away that she wanted to try Miranda’s tale of Hispanic immigrant families in the Washington Heights neighborhood of Manhattan.

“I’m from Puerto Rico, I grew up in San Juan, and it was the only show I didn’t have to look up a reference to,” Davidjohn said.

“I knew what paciencia y fe meant, I knew what piragua was, I ate it every single weekend when I went out to San Juan.”

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Many of the actors in the show come from Hispanic backgrounds, and Davidjohn believes that will add to the audience’s experience of the show.

“One of the really amazing things that I’ve discovered when I’m doing a show that centers on a particular culture is to have people from that culture,” Davidjohn said. “you get little hints and pieces from experiences past of growing up in that culture that you can actually show, and that makes it better.”

She remembered that Manny Ramirez, who plays Sonny, advised her on where and how children would have played. Davidjohn also hopes that this version will be a unique telling of the story.

“The goal is not to produce the Broadway version of ‘In the Heights,’” she said.

“The goal is to produce a Princeton University of ‘In the Heights,’ as we are as a Victoria Davidjohn is directing Princeton community, and to bring in as many expeUniversity Players’ production of “In the riences as we all have.”

Heights.”

Davidjohn started acting during her senior year of high school. Her first role was “I got dragged into it by my best friend playing Joanne Jefferson in “Rent,” and she senior year of high school,” Davidjohn said. fell in love with musical theater almost im- “I fell in love with the rehearsal process mediately.

more than the show itself. I didn’t really like the shows, because everything was going to be over soon. When I was in rehearsal, I loved how close you got with the people that were with you.”

With less than a week left before opening night, “In the Heights” occupies most of Davidjohn’s time.

“I watch 30-second videos of choreography all the time, right before I go to sleep,” she said. “It makes me really happy, for sure.”

This is the first time that Davidjohn has directed a show. Although she is nervous, she has confidence in her cast after weeks of of rehearsal.

“It was all about the gut feeling,” Davidjohn said. “I don’t know what exactly makes the show feel right, but I do know that my gut has taken me this far, and my gut took me to do ‘In the Heights.’”

“In the Heights” opens Feb. 25, and will run for two weekends in the Frist Performance Theater at Princeton University. For more information, go to www.princeton.edu.

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A doctor who cares David Barile is helping to improve the lives of the elderly

Acoustic neuroma sounds extremely unpleasant.

Princeton physician Dr. David Barile, a medical doctor certified in internal medicine, geriatrics and palliative care, confirms that fact from both a professional and personal perspective.

The ailment, however, has left him with better hearing, figuratively speaking.

Although he specializes in studying the process of aging and treating the elderly, Barile at 52 years old may qualify for an AARP membership, but generally would not seek medical treatment from a geriatrician. Thus, he and everyone around him were shocked when, 19 months ago, he experienced ailments associated with aging, particularly severe tinnitus and bal-

ance issues.

The reason turned out to be an acoustic neuroma, a benign tumor that was pushing on the brain stem. Surgery left him with several other medical ailments associated with old age — hearing loss, continued ear ringing, horrible balance, depression, palsy, and disorientation.

“It was awful, I was a mess,” said the doctor, who, when healthy, has an intensely demanding and active lifestyle. He is a biking enthusiast, the husband of Princeton physician plastic surgeon Nicole Schrader, and the father of two girls in a household that includes three dogs, one cat and several chickens. In addition, he fulfills several professional roles within the medical community: chief of the Section of Geriatric Medicine

and Medical Director of the Acute Cart for the Elderly (ACE) unit at the University Medical Center of Princeton at Plainsboro; medical director of Princeton Care Center, a skilled nursing and rehabilitation facility located in Princeton; and founding executive director of New Jersey Goals of Care (www.goalsofcare.org), a nonprofit entity devoted to improving medical decision-making for those nearing the end of their lives.

“The glass-is-half-full story is that my months of coping with these ailments have made me better at doing all my other jobs in life,” Dr. Barile said. “I have better empathy and better hearing when hearing is defined as listening.”

He always focused on his listening skills, the

underpinning of his medical philosophy, when providing palliative care, which is specialized medical care for anyone living with a serious illness. Such care generally does not include curative treatments, and it can be offered to those individuals who are expected to die within months — or years. “But my illness took me to a new level of relating to my aging patients and even the elderly whom I do not know personally,” said Dr. Barile, who once again is embracing his hyperactive lifestyle.

He spends a lot of time with his professional “child” — N.J. Goals of Care, an organization to which he gave birth in 2009. N.J. Goals of

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Rich Fisher

Your weekly roundup of what’s happening at area stores

Shop Talk is a weekly notebook covering the latest deals and events happening in the area’s stores and businesses.

To submit an item, email rfisher@centraljersey.com, and enter “Item for Shop Talk” in the subject field. This week’s items are as follows: Pure Barre Princeton, the nation’s largest and fastest-growing barre concept, has added Pure Barre Platform, a new fastpaced class designed to optimize cardiovascular results and increase total body strength.

The class combines quick bursts of high-intensity, yet lowimpact cardio work with periods of lower intensity muscle sculpting movements to achieve a state of heart-pumping interval training. This 55-minute class is designed to burn calories, jumpstart your metabolism, and increase your overall endurance.

“We are thrilled to be offering Platform,” says owner Jacqui Arce-Quinton. “Whether you have taken our regular classes or not, we welcome anyone to come try out this new workout. It’s also a great way to learn what Pure Barre is all about.”

Classes will be held Mondays at 9:30 a.m., Tuesdays at 5:30 p.m. and Thursdays at 8 a.m. Space is limited, so attendees should sign up in advance.

For more information on Pure Barre Princeton, email JacquiArce Quinton at mailto:princeton@purebarre.com. To sign up for classes, go to www.purebarre.com/nj-princeton. *** In celebrating its 50th Anniversary, Hendrixson’s Furniture held a “Chair-ity” event and donated $3,600 to two nonprofit organizations — Bucks County Housing Group in Ivyland, Pennsylvania, and The Allentown (Pennsylvania) Rescue Mission.

Customers who donated to the causes received a discount on Stressless Chairs, a popular line carried by Hendrixson’s. The storeowners extended the offer to include all chairs they sold and matched the contributions, increasing their total giving 350 percent over the previous year.

“We believe in being an active member of the communities in which we work and live,” says Damian Ford, managing partner, and son-in-law of founders Paul and Ginny Hendrixson. “We look forward to continuing these partnerships in the coming years.”

Hendrixson’s has nine interior designers who consult with customers to help them achieve the style and look they seek. With their guidance, customers can confidently select the furniture pieces, fabrics, colors, and accessories, as well as carpeting and window treatments that come together to create a total room — or home.

The design team offers customers an interior design consultation in the store or in the customer’s home. Then the design plan begins with a floor layout to establish guidelines in the selection of furniture, taking into account personal tastes and the circumstances of the living space.

“We find that one of the most difficult aspects of developing a design plan is color and fabric selection,” Ginny Hendrixson says. “Our interior designers must keep up with current trends in the world of fabrics. Many representatives of the finest upholstery and drapery textile manufacturers present their lines seasonally to our designers. We then can help find fabrics, paint and stain colors to complement each specific décor.”

Hendrixson’s Furniture is located on York Road (Route 263) in Furlong, Bucks County, (215-794-7325) and Chestnut Street (Routes 100 and 29), Emmaus, in Lehigh Valley (610-967-0699).

For more information, go to www.hendrixsonsfurniture.com. ***

Pure Bare Princeton now offers a platform class, which is designed to incorporate more cardio in workouts.

Creative Marketing Alliance, a full-service, strategic marketing and integrated communications firm, has been recognized with an award for excellence in social media by Association Trends, a leading publication for trade groups.

CMA was formally recognized at the Salute to Association Excellence luncheon, Feb. 23 at the Capital Hilton in Washington, D.C. The goal of the award-winning social media campaign was to improve the International Card Manufacturers Association’s (ICMA) brand awareness and increase strategic relationships to support its mission. CMA refreshed all of ICMA’s social media channels, including Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn, giving a cohesive look to all channels unifying the brand. Compelling posts were composed on each channel, strategic hashtags were researched and incorporated and all the artwork on each channel was updated to create a consistent online experience that supports ICMA’s brand.

For more information about CMA, go to www.cmaresults.com. *** Bahama Breeze in Princeton MarketFair is celebrating its Viva la ‘Rita celebration by offering the restaurant’s Classic Margarita for $2.22.

As part of the ongoing festivities, Bahama Breeze will host “Margarita Mondays” at select locations through April 9. Each Monday, guests can sip on $5 Classic Margaritas all day while enjoying live music, giveaways and other surprises. The restaurant’s new Lava Lava ‘Rita — a fresh twist on a frozen margarita, featuring layers of mango, lemon and hibiscus — will also make its debut during Viva la ‘Rita.

The party doesn’t stop there. One lucky guest will receive Bahama Breeze for a Year (valued at $1,200). Ten finalists will receive $100 in gift cards.

For more information about Viva la ‘Rita, Bahama Breeze and the sweepstakes, go to www.bahamabreeze.com. * * *Ï The last vestiges of the most romantic month of the year are still lingering and love is still in the air at Gentle Healing Spa and Salon in Cranbury. Enjoy your choice of two different fragrances with your services: “Heavenly Dark Chocolate” or “Falling In Love” (a sweet, sensual fragrance), with which you will feel surrounded by love. Enjoy a romantic martini cocktail

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Ma Belle (My Beautiful): A 30-minute body scrub followed by a 1-hour massage. Fragrances may be combined. ($139) Mon Cherie (My sweetheart): Invite a loved one to enjoy a quiet hour as you both relax with side-by-side one-hour massages. ($189).

Je T’Aime (I love you): Spend some quality time with your love in the Gentle Healing’s private suite retreat for two; named one of the “World’s Most Beautiful Spa Rooms” by DaySpa Magazine. Begin with fragrant side-by-side candlelit Jacuzzi baths, followed by side-by-side massages. Finish with romantic martini cocktails and chocolates on the couch by the fireplace. ($329).

Chocolate Rasberry Facial: Try this delicious facial for only $90 in February, or add it to any other specials for $85.

These specials are available from through Feb. 28 and cannot be combined with any other offer or discount. For more information, go to www.gentlehealingspa.com or call 609-409-2700. *** Scrap U & Artistry Too of 2 Clerico Lane, Suite 201 in Hillsborough is hosting a number of events over the coming months, including: Kids Craft Club during school holidays. The club will encourage children’s creativity as they hang out with other kids, listen to music, and create projects. It is open to boys and girls in grades K-8, and runs from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Full or half days are available, and there is before-care from 8-9 a.m. and aftercare from 3-6 p.m. The dates are the week of April 10-14 and April 27.

Space is limited. The fee is $50 per day, plus $10 for before or aftercare. All supplies are included except for photos of participating children that are needed to create a scrapbook. Purchase three days and get one day free (excluding winter break camp). A 5 percent discount is available for siblings.

To register go to www.scrapunj.com or call 732-239-5003. *** Hillsborough YMCA’s summer camps are now open for registration for the entire community. The Y offers financial assistance for qualifying families. Hillsborough YMCA is located at 19 East Mountain Road. For more information, contact Matt Gray at mailto:mgray@somersetcountyymca.org or go to www.somersetcountyymca.org.

The camp offers: • Sports, fitness, swimming, and nutrition • Fitness classes including yoga, Zumba, karate, and Ttumbling • Activities such as creative arts, games, music, art, and more • Weekly bus trips and enrichment opportunities • Community projects and visits from local safety organizations *Opportunities to make new friends • Learning experiences, relaxation, and more!

Camp runs June 19 through Aug. 25, 2017 and offers full day (8 a.m. to 4 p.m.), half days, partial weeks, and extended care. For more information, go to www.hrcfitness.com/summer-camp.

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Exercise for heart health

By Keith Loria Special Writer

It’s no surprise to learn that exercise has almost unlimited benefits for your heart health.

After all, the heart is a muscle, and exercise helps to strengthen it and allows it to function better.

“By keeping the heart healthy, it can continue to provide vital oxygen and nutrients to the body’s tissues,” says Dr. Perry Herman, who has a private medical practice in Monroe Township and is on staff at Princeton Healthcare System.

“Exercise also reduces blood pressure, which is cardio-protective.”

Furthermore, exercise reduces stress and in turn, reduces stress hormones that increase inflammation in the heart tissue.

It stimulates enzymes, sending bad cholesterol to the liver for digestion or excretion; it increases the size of the lipoproteins, which can help prevent bad cholesterol from

entering the linings of heart and blood vessels; it helps control weight; and it strengthens the cardiovascular system.

“Maintaining a regimen of 30 to 40 minutes of aerobic exercise three to four times each week has been shown to lower blood pressure and LDL (bad) cholesterol, which in turn leads to a lower risk of heart disease,” says Dr. Justin Fox of Hamilton Cardiology Associates.

Aerobic exercise can include running, jogging, and biking. These exercises enable you to raise your heart rate and breathe harder, although don’t go so hard that you’re not able to talk to someone as you’re doing it.

“While exercise at a gym or at home with exercise equipment may work for some, those of us with busy work and home lives may struggle to find the time to stick with a regular exercise routine,” Dr. Fox says. “For those short on time and unable to make it to the gym, I often suggest taking

HEALTH MATTERS

Did you know that according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), people with high cholesterol have about twice the risk of heart disease as people with lower levels?

What’s more is that high cholesterol has no symptoms, so many people are unaware they even have it.

Just like blood pressure, cholesterol is something that needs to be monitored by your physician. Knowing if you have high cholesterol is the first step in managing it and reducing your risk for having a heart attack, stroke or developing heart disease.

Good versus bad Cholesterol is a waxy, fat-like substance that helps your body perform important functions like making hormones and digesting fatty foods. Your body produces cholesterol naturally, but it is also found in many foods like fatty meats and dairy products.

While your body needs some cholesterol, too much cholesterol can build up in the walls of your blood vessels, causing them to narrow and restricting blood flow to your heart and other organs.

This build-up is called plaque. When plaque completely blocks an artery to your heart or breaks off and forms a clot, it causes a heart attack.

But not all cholesterol is bad.

Low-density lipoprotein — or LDL — is known as the “bad” cholesterol be-

a brisk walk when they can find the time (perhaps during their lunch hour, or after dinner). Also, everyday activities like walking the dog, walking back and forth in the mall, and playing basketball with your kids all can certainly count as aerobic activity.”

One of the premiere exercises in preventing heart disease and diabetes and helping people to lose weight is interval training. This involves the strategy of combining short bursts of high-intensity movement with slightly longer periods of active recovery. For example, if you’re a runner, you might go three minutes at normal speed with one minute at a super-fast pace. This enables you to continuously raise and lower your heart rate and improve vascular function, burn calories, and enable your body to be more efficient in clearing fat and sugar from the blood.

Dr. Herman is a big believer in “high intensity interval training” programs, short

workouts that can be done at home.

“These training programs take the individual through quick workouts that vary exercises working on strengthening, core stabilization and cardiovascular exercises,” he says. “They vary in length but are typically much less time-

consuming. One needs to have clearance from their doctor as the name implies they are high intensity.”

Weight training can be best used for heart health with interval training to benefit your cardiovascular system. When you are using weights, you can increase your heart rate during

Dr. Kristyn K. Phelps, M.D.

Managing high cholesterol cause having high levels can lead to plaque buildup in your arteries.

High-density lipoprotein — or HDL — is known as the “good” cholesterol because it essentially absorbs bad cholesterol and helps your body get rid of it. Having high levels of HDL can reduce your risk for heart disease and stroke.

In general, your LDL levels should be lower than 100 and your HDL levels should be higher than 60.

According to the CDC, 71 million Americans, or 33.5 percent, have high LDL levels, and only one in three has the condition under control.

What you can do As the CDC notes, all adults aged 20 or older need to get their cholesterol checked. If you are 20 years or older, and have not been diagnosed with heart disease, the CDC recommends that your cholesterol be checked every five years.

Some people may need to get their cholesterol checked more often. It is important to talk to your doctor about what’s best for you. In addition, there are several steps you can take to prevent or manage high cholesterol and reduce your risk for heart attack, stroke and heart disease: Eat a healthy diet. Eat fewer saturated fats, like fatty meats and dairy products, and avoid trans fats, which may be found in baked goods like cookies and cakes, fried foods and

margarines. Eat more foods that are high in fiber, like oatmeal, beans and lentils, and eat plenty of fresh fruits and vegetables. Limit processed foods, and simple and refined sugars.

Maintain a healthy weight. Being overweight can increase your risk for high cholesterol. Know your body mass index and be sure it is in a healthy range.

Get enough physical activity. Exercise can help lower your cholesterol as well as help you maintain a healthy weight and blood pressure. The CDC recommends getting at least 150 minutes of moderate-intensity exercise such as brisk walking or cycling every week.

Don’t smoke. Cigarette smoking reduces good cholesterol, damages your blood vessels and speeds up the hardening of your arteries. It also increases the tendency for blood to clot. If you smoke, talk to your doctor for help quitting. If you don’t smoke, don’t start.

Limit alcohol use. Alcohol can raise your cholesterol. If you drink alcohol, the CDC recommends that women should limit consumption to one drink a day and men to two drinks a day. A drink is considered 12 ounces of beer, 8 ounces of malt liquor, 5 ounces of wine or 1.5 ounces of distilled spirits or liquor.

Often, lifestyle changes are enough to manage high

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cholesterol. Some people, however, may need medication, especially those who have other risk factors for heart disease and stroke, such as high blood pressure, diabetes, and family history of heart disease.

There are several types of medications to help lower LDL cholesterol, the most common of which are statins. Statins slow down the liver’s production of cholesterol and increase its ability to flush out LDL already in the blood.

Additionally, a new class of drug called PCSK9 in-

hibitors can also help lower cholesterol. PCSK9 inhibitors work by lowering LDL and may be recommended in cases where cholesterol levels cannot be controlled through lifestyle changes and statins, or for patients who are allergic to statins.

As with any medication, statins and PCSK9 inhibitors can cause side effects. It is important to follow your doctor’s instructions and monitor your cholesterol levels regularly.

Managing high cholesterol begins with knowing

your levels and talking with your doctor about ways to lower them and keep them in a healthy range. By lowering your cholesterol, you can reduce your risk of having a heart attack or stroke and stay heart healthy.

To find a physician with Princeton HealthCare System, go to www.princetonhcs.org or call 888-742-7496.

Kristyn K. Phelps, M.D., is board certified in internal medicine and is a member of the medical staff at University Medical Center of Princeton.

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Taking some time to exercise benefits your heart and overall health.

reps and recover between sets.

By efficiently handling the demands placed upon them, strong muscles ease the overall burden on the heart. It is also recommended that you incorporate free weights, which use more muscles, engage your core and builds balance.

Research has shown that the more muscles involved in an activity, the harder your heart must work to fuel them all, so it grows stronger itself.

Activities like rowing, swimming and cross-country skiing are all exercises that recruit muscles throughout the body without beating it up.

Yoga enthusiasts will be happy to hear that doing yoga can impact heart health, as well. The calm it provides lowers blood pressure, making blood vessels more elastic and it also strengthens your core.

More active styles of yoga such as Ashtanga and Bikram can also offer cardiovascular benefits, as the heart rate is elevated throughout the exercise.

Sustaining Treatment), which has become a key tool for improving doctor-patient communication and ensuring that treatment decisions stay focused on the patient’s goals.

Without it, Dr. David Barile said, patients at the end stages of life may get too much of the wrong kind of care.

Thanks to grants from different organizations, N.J. Goals of Care has developed, or is working on, a variety of educational tools, webinars, videos, lectures for internal medicine residents and other healthcare professionals at teaching hospitals in New Jersey. He has pushed for education strategies that include the whole medical team and provide continuing education credits for doctors, nurses, and social workers.

Another tool for improving palliative care is an e-book Dr Barile is writing in his spare

time. It will be a guide to caring for a person with dementia and a call to action for providing medical school education in the field of palliative care. The book is “under construction” and should be on-line in a couple of months. The book also is intended to serve as a resource to convince the federal government, which spends billions of dollars on physician education, to require palliative-care instruction in medical school.

“As physicians we have one overriding primary role — to receive suffering,” Dr. Barile said. “Somehow we have lost sight of our simple goal. . . . The principles of listening and respecting patients’ wishes — what we are advocating for palliative care — are the same principles for treating people of all ages.”

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The addition of the large family room makes this one a dream. This one has eight rooms, 2 baths, a great yard and a terrific location! Brick fireplace, lots of light and space!!

The garage has also been converted to comfortable living space, with private entrance making it great for extended family! Newer HVAC, floors, kitchen, furnace, windows, etc.

enjoy this recently renovated and immaculately kept stylish home. Located on a premium cul-de-sac lot with professionally manicured grounds, flowering trees, custom walkways, and charming front porch. Dramatic two story foyer greets family and guests. entertainmentsized formal dining room has decorative French doors while the formal living room is enhanced with a vaulted ceiling and double-sided gas fireplace. Cooks will love the custom kitchen boasting a center island and high efficiency appliances (Miele and Sub-Zero brands).

Light-filled breakfast area has easy access to private custom brick patio with beautiful views of rolling lawn. Fun is right there in the adjacent family room with built-in bookcases, two-story ceiling, and fireplace. First floor office/den/library and laundry room are convenient for today’s busy lifestyle. Upstairs, enjoy a master suite with two walk-in closets, vaulted ceiling, and beautiful spa-like bath.

Three other additional bedrooms and remodeled full bath await restful nights. Finished basement with recreation room adds easy Listed by living space. oversized two car garage is great for additional storage needs.

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23 Benson. Impressive & super clean 3 BR Cape Cod features large EIK/dinette area, formal LR and full basement. (ID#6922000)

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South Brunswick

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39 Carr Ave. Great investment opportunity!

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real estate news Morris County Woman Finds Her “A-Ha” Moment at K. Hovnanian’s® Four Seasons at Monroe Jackie Sommers had been looking for a 55+ active-lifestyle community in New Jersey for nearly three years when she stumbled upon K. Hovnanian’s® Four Seasons at Monroe, a popular new neighborhood in Middlesex County. Sommers was living in a three-floor townhouse in Morris County and had reached the point where she was ready for a change.

It just took some time to find the right place, as she explained.

“I was looking for that ‘A-Ha’ moment – when you walk in and just know you’ve found the right place,” Jackie shared. “I had looked all over the state and visited at least 90% of the communities in Monroe, but I just wasn’t getting that feeling anywhere. So I had stopped actively looking. Then one day, my friend Melanie had the day off and said to me, ‘Let’s go look at some homes.’ We drove down to Monroe and just happened to see the sign for K. Hovnanian’s® Four Seasons at Monroe. We figured, why not go have a look?”

It was a decision that changed everything. K. Hovnanian’s® Four Seasons at Monroe is a new active-lifestyle community that offers impressive home designs with open floorplans, an ideal location, and of course, a low-maintenance lifestyle – everything Jackie Sommers was looking for. But she was still holding out for that “A-Ha” moment.

“There were only two models open at the time,” Jackie continued. “We walked into the first one, which was very nice, but not quite what I was looking for. Then we walked into the second home, an Ibiza model. Melanie walked in before me and immediately turned around and just waited and watched as I walked into the space. I guess I should never play poker because my face gives everything away! I walked into the Great Room, turned around 360 degrees, and knew I had my ‘A-Ha’ moment at last. It was the best house I had ever seen and I knew I was home.”

K. Hovnanian’s® Four Seasons at Monroe is impressing a lot of people these days, beginning with the single-family home designs. This is the first time that any of these eleven floorplans have been offered at a community in New Jersey. The homes offer from 1,791 to 3,492 square feet of comfortable living space, with one or two-story designs that include two bedrooms, two to three-and-a-half baths, two-car garages, spectacular designer kitchens, and deluxe interiors that include dramatic nine- or ten-foot ceilings, with exquisite touches and finishes throughout. Pricing for the homes, which is subject to change, starts from the low-$400s.

The Ibiza design, which Jackie chose, is a single-story home that offers approximately 2,002 square feet of comfortable living space, including a luxurious owner’s suite, and a wellappointed laundry/mud room with ample storage. “I immediately loved everything about it – the style, the floorplan,” she commented. “I was ready for a home with everything on one floor. Steps were becoming a bit of an issue for me with a three-floor home. And I’m so glad to have someplace where they take care of all the outside maintenance.”

story facility which will feature an outdoor pool, a kiddie pool for the grandchildren, an exercise room, and tennis, bocce and pickle ball courts. The clubhouse will also include a cocktail lounge, a kitchen with a café area, a covered patio and porch, and an area for aerobics, yoga and Pilates. Jackie is looking forward to socializing through book clubs, Mahjong, and other activities. But even before the clubhouse is open, she has had plenty of opportunities to meet new neighbors.

“Everyone is so nice,” she commented, “People in the community and in this area, they all talk to each other. It reminds me of the old days! It’s a very pleasant place to live – so welcoming and friendly, and we’re all at the same stage in life. I’ve met several other women who are by themselves, like me. In fact, I’m their go-to person at the moment – whenever they have another single lady looking who may have questions, they bring them by my house to chat. I’ve already been drafted as a community ambassador once the clubhouse is open!”

As one of the first four or five homeowners to move into K. Hovnanian’s Four Seasons at Monroe, Jackie Sommers was a pioneer of sorts. She put her deposit down on Halloween of 2015, shortly after visiting with her daughter and grandson, and moved into the neighborhood in July 2016. “I love it here,” she shared. “Once I was unpacked, I would just sit in my new living room and feel calm, not worried about anything. Everyone here has been so helpful, which is important for me, especially making this move on my own. Ruth Kreger, my sales representative, was perfect – never pushy, and always helpful. She told me, ‘Jackie, I think of you like a sister.’ Any time I had a question, or was feeling frustrated or impatient, she was there for me with good advice and great solutions. The adventure, it was just meant to be.

This is probably one of the best decisions I’ve made for myself in many years.”

Visit K. Hovnanian’s Four Seasons at Monroe to discover the appealing homes, ideal location, and exceptional lifestyle that is attracting more and more 55+ buyers every week. If you have children, ask about the community’s “family-friendly” policy, which allows adult children age 19+ to live at home with their parents – ideal for residents with older children who would like to live at home post-college or for families with millennial kids in transition.

All homes within the community are subject to an age restriction whereby the homes are Jackie’s next step was to win over her daughter and grandson, she reflected. “They restricted to use and occupancy by at least one person of age 55 years or over, and with no came back with me to look at it and as soon as we walked in, my grandson said, ‘This is permanent resident being under the age of 19. Despite these restrictions, the developer may it, Grammie, this is it! You’re buying this. I can help you move this weekend!’ He loved sell up to 15% of the homes where at least one occupant is between the ages of 50 and 54. everything about it and I had no doubts at all after that!”

The sales office and model homes at K. Hovnanian’s Four Seasons at Monroe are open daily from 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. For directions or more information, call 1-800-873K. Hovnanian’s® Four Seasons at Monroe is ideally located in central Jersey, providing easy access for visits to or from Jackie’s daughter and grandson, who live in Nutley. The 0902. You may also learn more about the new community online at khov.com/Monroe. community is very close to the NJ Turnpike, Routes 1, 18, 33 and 130. There is a nearby ABOUT HOVNANIAN ENTERPRISES®, INC.: Park-and-Ride and a NJ Transit® station at Princeton Junction. The township also offers Hovnanian Enterprises, Inc., founded in 1959 by Kevork S. Hovnanian, is headquartered many local amenities and attractions, including 18 county parks, a variety of golf courses, in Red Bank, New Jersey. The Company is one of the nation’s largest homebuilders with and many major shopping centers and fine restaurants. The Jersey shore is only a 20-minute operations in Arizona, California, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Maryland, New drive away and Princeton is nearby, offering plenty of dining, educational, entertainment Jersey, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Texas, Virginia, Washington, D.C. and and cultural options. “It’s perfect for me,” Jackie said, “The area offers everything I need and West Virginia.

The Company’s homes are marketed and sold under the trade names K. I really like being close to Princeton. Everything is convenient and that was important for Hovnanian® Homes, Brighton Homes® and Parkwood Builders. As the developer of K. me, especially being by myself.”

Hovnanian’s® Four Seasons communities, the Company is also one of the nation’s largest Construction is commencing rapidly on the community’s clubhouse, an impressive two- builders of active lifestyle communities.

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