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Burchell is currently the librarian of the Washington Crossing Card Collectors Club where he developed his interest in Deltiology (postcard collecting).

Registration with an e-mail is required, for the event and a link to the talk will be sent out the approximately 24 hours before the program. For more information or to register, e-maiol hopeprogs@ mcl.org.

Boheme Opera to present ‘Madama Butterfly’

Boheme Opera NJ, one of the oldest opera companies in New Jersey, brings Madama Butterfly to the stage on Friday, March 24, at 8 p.m. and Sunday, March 26 at 3 p.m. at Kendall Hall Theater on the campus of The College of New Jersey in Ewing.

Madama Butterfly closes out Boheme’s 34th main stage season in a full-scale, traditional Italian production, with lavish sets and costumes by and under the stage direction of internationally renowned

Giorgio Lalov, artistic director of Teatro Lirico D’Europa.

“We’ve been thrilling our audiences with the fantastical virtual sets of J. Matthew Root, but thought it would be great to return to our traditional staging roots for something as compelling as Madama Butterfly,” said Boheme Artistic Director Joseph Pucciatti, who will lead the Boheme Opera NJ Orchestra and Chorus.

“‘Butterfly is an emotionally charged, intimate opera essentially set in someone’s home for the entire production,” Pucciatti said. “The physical sets help ground the audience as guests in that home—as if you were at an obligated family function with no way to leave and nothing to watch but this tragedy of betrayal as it unfolded before your eyes.”

Visit.bohemeopera.org/madama-butterfly for more information and to purchase tickets. Call the Boheme office at (609) 581-9551 with questions and to learn about sponsorships and group tickets.

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FREE SHRED DAY 2023

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Ewing Township will host a Free Paper Shredding day to all Ewing residents who want to get rid those old unwanted files and papers that need shredding safely and securely.

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**** NO PLASTIC, METAL OR RING BINDERS ****

Ewing Township will host a Free Paper Shredding day to all Ewing residents who want to get rid those old unwanted files and papers that need shredding safely and securely.

DATES: Saturday, May 6th and Saturday, October 14th

Place: Municipal Building

2 Jake Garzio Drive, Ewing

Please Paper Only

*** NO PLASTIC, METAL OR RING BINDERS ***

Time: 9am till 1pm

Proof of residency: Please bring ID (DL, BILL HEAD, TAX BILL, etc.)

For more information, please call 609-882-3382 or check ewingnj.org and click on recycling.

DATES: Sat., May 6th and Sat., October 14th

PLACE: Municipal Building

EWING TOWNSHIP DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS

136 Scotch Road, Ewing (P) 609-882-3382 / Fax: 609-406-9539

2 JAKE GARZIO DRIVE, EWING

TIME: 9am till 1pm

Mike Meenan, Manager / Bert Steinmann, Mayor

PROOF OF RESIDENCY: Please bring ID (DL, BILL HEAD, TAX BILL, etc.)

For more information, please call 609-882-3382 or check ewingnj.org and click on recycling.

EWING TOWNSHIP

DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS

136 Scotch Road, Ewing (P) 609-882-3382 / Fax: 609-406-9539

Mike Meenan, Manager / Bert Steinmann, Mayor

When: Saturday, February 25 - Friday, March 3, 2023

Where: restaurants of all types throughout ewing Township reSGISTrATIOn: For more information and to register online go to ewing.org/restaurant-week

COnTACT: Councilwoman Jennifer Keyes-Maloney jkeyes-maloney@ewingnj.org

WHITE continued from Page 1 including the Fraternal Order of Police and Village on Green association.

For White, service on the School Board was a continuation of a lifetime spent in education.

A lifelong resident of Ewing Township, White attended Parkway Elementary School, Fisher Middle School and graduated from Ewing High School, as did his wife Sheila, who died in 2010. Their daughters Rebecca and Sara were also graduates of EHS.

White earned a degree in history with a minor in sociology, and a master’s from Rider in guidance and counseling.

He was a history teacher for nine years at St. Anthony’s High School (now Trenton Catholic Academy) in Hamilton through 1974.

In a 2016 interview with the Observer, White said he especially liked working with the students who wanted to go on to tech school, which led him to transfer to work in the guidance department in the Mercer County Technical Schools’ Assunpink Center in Hamilton.

He was appointed principal there when he was about 32 years old, and served in the role until his retirement in 2001. During that time, he served for four years as principal of the Arthur R. Sypek Center in Pennington, until going back to Assunpink, where he finished his career.

Throughout his career, White was an active member of the New Jersey Principals and Supervisors Association.

White said that after his retirement, he wanted to pursue other interests— one of those was becoming more active in the community—especially the school district.

With two daughters in the Ewing Public Schools, he and Sheila got involved with the PTA. In 1982, the school district was starting its AIM/ACE gifted and talented program, and he became a member of the committee that worked to develop the program in the elementary schools.

After his involvement in the committee, a number of people suggested that he run for the School Board. That was 1984. In the following years, White served on the Board of Education for several years, and then took a few years off in the 1990’s, before returning to the Board later in the decade. He served on the Board until he decided not to run again. His last day as a Board member was Dec. 31, 2019.

In his 2016 interview, White said he believed he could provide lot of value to the community by serving on the Board and was proud of its nonpartisan nature.

“Ewing is a nonpolitical Board. The last time we had a person leave the Board of education and run for town council for another office, I think, was 1994. The people on the Ewing Board are there for the right reason. I don’t think you always see that in a lot of communities. Look at Hamilton, for example. I think that’s half their problem. I give credit to the leadership of both (Ewing) parties to not have that involvement and recognize that it is an independent governmental agency.”

During his time on the Board, White played a role in overseeing the expansion of the district, including involvement in three major referendums.

“A big one was when we redid Parkway School,” White said. “To refurbish the old Parkway School would have cost about $6 million. To build a brand new one was $8 million. It was a no brainer. That building is 24 years old now.”

White was also a big supporter of Ewing Township itself. In the 2016 Observer interview, he talked about some of the strengths of Ewing Township

See WHITE, Page 6