APRIL 2022
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‘An explosion of color’
Dog days can be good days
The story of ‘The Creation,’ stained glass art at St. Gregory the Great
Plenty of ways to pamper our favorite pets in Hamilton By ThOMAs KeLLy
By DAN AUBrey
Officials at St. Gregory the Great Church in Hamilton describe their wall-length stained glass work, “The Creation,” a “series of dynamic swirls and colors (where one) will find the Holy Trinity, the planets and the colors of the liturgical season.” Artist Nikki Vogt simply calls it “an explosion of color.” During a recent telephone conversation from her home in Lynchburg, Virginia, the stained glass artist says she designed the massive glass work “around the seven gifts of the holy spirit (wisdom, understanding, counsel, fortitude, knowledge, piety, and fear of God). It was an abstracted idea of everything made in an order.” She used opalescence and various levels of transparent glass to create a sense of a diagonal upward sweep. Vogt, the creator of church windows across the nation, says becoming a stained glass artist See GLASS, Page 10
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Their courage and compassion inspire us all. Hamilton community shows
Members of the Ancient Order of Hibernians Monsignor Crean Division No. 1 carry a Ukraine flag beside the Irish flag at the Hamilton St. Patrick’s Day Parade, March 19, 2022.
support for besieged Ukraine One morning, a message written in chalk appeared in front of an RWJBarnabas Health facility. The words couldn’t have been simpler, or more soul stirring, or more accurate.
sian president Vladimir Putin Olga Zeleznock, president of unleashed his invasion on the St. August Sisterhood at the Minister Anthony Anderson, a Ukraine, the world has seen church spoke of the pain church “Heroes character in playwright George the inhumanity of Putin’s indif- members wrestle with daily. work here.” Bernard Shaw’s work, “The Dev- ference. But members of St. “The suffering and devastation il’s Disciple,” declares in Act II of George Ukrainian Orthodox in the Ukraine right now is just the play: “The worst sin towardsThree Church on Yardville-Allentown unimaginable,” she said. “Memwords of gratitude and encouragement that our fellow creatures is not tocapture Road say Putin’s inhumanity has bers of the parish were deeply the courage and compassion of health hate them, but to be indifferent been met locally with a humani- shocked by the horrific and workers here and across America. To share your to them: that’s the essence of tarian outpouring of support for inhuman attack.” thanks or to support our Emergency Response Fund, inhumanity.” them, and for Ukraine, from the Many of the newer members visit rwjbh.org/heroes See UKRAINE, Page 17 Since Feb. 24, when Rus- Hamilton community.
By SUe FerrArA
We love our dogs. We pamper them. We pamper them a lot. We clear the snow for them. We make beds for them. We talk to them, celebrate their birthdays, walk with them and we sometimes take better care of them than we do ourselves. It is said more pets were acquired during the pandemic as people were working from home and needed companionship. Dogs were also a reason to go for a long walk during work hours. Now more people are worried about their pet’s well being as they resume going back to work. Speaking with people in the pet industry in Hamilton, more than once I heard the word family. Not as in “part of the family,” but just “family.” One place to visit with your family is Bag of Bones Barkery. Located in Mercerville Shopping Center on Route 33, Bag of Bones has enlarged to 12,000 square feet and is an anchor of the shopping center. Owners See DOGS, Page 20
And please, for them, stay home and safe.
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