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Olorunnisola finds a home with Scotties football

BY RICH FISHER

Fami Olorunnisola came to a realization. Rather than harness her zealous play in the athletic arena, she found a way to make it fit in.

“Around sophomore year I was always told I was aggressive, and it made me upset,” she said. “I kid you not, I’ve gotten so many fouls in basketball because I can be an aggressive person. So I was trying to find a sport where I could play and be aggressive and just be myself. I was never myself playing any other sport. And that’s when I thought about football. And everybody was saying ‘How about football?’ and here I am today.”

She’s here all right, playing offensive guard and defensive tackle for the Bordentown High JV team. The junior was inspired to go out for the Scotties after playing a less aggressive style of football that frustrated her.

“We have a Powder Puff flag football event for the girls,” she said. “One thing that always made me upset was how I couldn’t tackle or be as aggressive because it’s flag. Even growing up and playing different sports I was always

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Lifelong friends help one another reach the rank of Eagle Scout

BY JOE EMANSKI

Over the last few years, three Bordentown residents have reached the pinnacle of the Boy Scout experience: each completed the community service projects that earned him the right to call himself an Eagle Scout.

Matthew Reiter, Ryder Samsel and Sam Cranmer of Bordentown BSA Troop 13—friends since they

were Webelos at age 6—all finished their Eagle Scout projects with the help of friends and family, as the Boy Scouts of America require. And of course, they helped one another, because that’s what friends and Eagle Scouts do.

The scouts, all 18, conceived and prepared their own projects. Reiter decided on an ecological restoration project in Crystal Lake Park. He identified a path that was

often difficult to use in wet conditions because it tended to become muddy, and came up with a plan to make the path easier to traverse.

He hoped to have it completed by summer 2020, but as was the case for so many projects, the Covid-19 pandemic scotched those plans. Undaunted, he postponed it until last summer, completing the project in August.

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City resident’s Trutopia Foundation helps those in need

BY JOE EMANSKI

Blair Silver remembers joining the Impact Club as a student at MacFarland Intermediate School in Bordentown. Impact Club members aim to have an impact on the community by volunteering time to help those in need.

But perhaps it is also called Impact Club because of the impact it has on the students’ lives.

Teacher Chris O’Leary was the adviser to the club. Silver was placed at the Clare Estate, the assisted living facility in Bordentown City. “We were required to do volunteer hours. My mom made me do it,” Silver recalls.

At the end of the school year, Silver received an award for her volunteer work. “I just thought it was something I had to do. It wasn’t something I was expecting anything out of,” she says. “That was a moment for me where I was proud of what I did.”

Today, Silver remains committed to helping those in need, both as an entrepreneur as well as through the Trutopia Foundation, a nonprofit organization that she formed with the goal of helping low-income families and

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Eagle Scout Sam Cranmer, right, with brother Thomas, father Tom and brother Brody, stands with his Eagle Scout project, a pizza box disposal bin erected in Columbus.

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He used pressure-treated lumber to construct a 200-foot-long boardwalk off site. When the day came, around 12 family and friends, including other Boy Scouts, met him at the park to help him assemble the final product. Eagle Scout tradition holds that the scout cannot put the final pieces in place — instead he is tasked with supervising his group of volunteers.

“I didn’t really know how the ranks worked when I joined the Boy Scouts,” Reiter says. “When I saw the older scouts get Eagle Scout, it motivated me. It’s cool to work on something, to use your hands to build something.”

Cranmer and Samsel were among those who helped Reiter complete the project. Cranmer says he was in the park recently and the boardwalk still looks great.

Reiter, a graduate of Bordentown Regional High School, is currently a stu dent at Mercer County Community Col lege, where he studies computer science.

Cranmer’s own project was to design and build a pizza box recycling bin. He got the idea from a manager at Piccolissimo Italian Grille in Columbus.

“She was like, ‘We need something like [a pizza recycling bin] in our community, and I was like, ‘Oh my gosh, this is perfect’ — it fits all the criteria for an Eagle Scout project,” Cranmer says.

Although pizza boxes are made of card board, they cannot be recycled because they come into direct contact with food grease, which renders them unsuitable for recycling.

But Cranmer says local farm ers have found a use for the boxes. They lay them around crops as “sheet mulch,” where they prevent weeds from thriving. Some say the cardboard retains irrigation moisture better than tra ditional mulch as well.

The bin is constructed similar to a shed, but modified in front with two slots for pizza box disposal and two doors for retrieval. It’s the farmers who retrieve the boxes to take to their farms.

The bin is located at the old municipal

Ryder Samsel constructed bat boxes to be erected around Bordentown for his Eagle Scout project.

building in Columbus. Cranmer pre-built it in sections at home and then one day this summer, he and his team of 8 to 10 volunteers shuttled the pieces over to the site for assembly.

Cranmer attended BRHS for a year before transferring to Burlington County Institute of Technology, where he studied to become a welder. He is working fulltime as a welder now.

Samsel has also studied welding at BCIT and has plans to start his own weld ing company some day.

For his project, Samsel designed and pre-constructed three bat boxes to be erected around Bordentown. One is at the end of Oliver Street, one is at Second Street Park and the third is on Willow Street.

Samsel, an avid outdoorsman, said he

to birdhouses, but with slits cut into the bot tom of the structure rather than a circular hole on one side.

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quitoes, and Samsel says a bat box in a damp or swampy area can attract the bats needed to noticeable reduce the mosquito population in the area.

Samsel prebuilt the bat boxes at home. In July, with the help of 16 or so volun teers, he erected the boxes around Bor dentown. “It went as planned, no one got hurt,” he says. “People were looking out for each other. All I really did was give a few tips here and there. Two to three hours and we were done.”

He says being a Boy Scout is like hav ing a brotherhood of a sort. “We were with each other through the whole thing, helped each other finish the projects,” he says.

And now, like his friends Matt Reiter and Sam Cranmer, he can call himself an Eagle Scout.

Pete Reiter is Matt’s dad and also the scoutmaster for Troop 13. He believes that the scouts were only able to complete their projects because they helped each other along the way.

“Take any two of them out and I don’t think they would have been able to do it. They’re such close friends and were able to rely on one another for support,” he says.

For more information about Troop 13, go online to facebook.com/ BordentownBSATroop13.

Matthew Reiter at his completed Eagle Scout project, a boardwalk in Crystal Lake Park.

individuals.

She wanted to help people in need, but more than that, she wanted to do it with compassion.

“My initiative was to make helping people a feel-good moment, rather than to make it a stressful time for them. I wanted them to feel good while asking for assistance,” she says.

Too often, she feels, people who are in need are treated with too little respect, or asked to jump through too many bureau cratic hoops to gain access to goods and services the state is supposed to provide.

“I always say, ‘What if everyone in the social services field really cared, and really put their heart into it?’” Silver says. “If people who needed support didn’t have to go somewhere and provide all these documents from long ago that they have to seek and find, or be told that they didn’t qualify for something because they are a dollar over the threshold.

With Trutopia, Silver wanted to focus on taking the stress out of seeking help for those who need it.

“It’s hard enough making the decision to seek help. To go through that and then be told you don’t have the right paper work, or you don’t qualify based on need, is stressful itself on top of that. And now not just your physical health is at risk, but also your mental health,” she says. “Men tal health is directly correlated to physical health. You need mental health in order to focus on your physical wellness.”

To qualify for low-income tax credits, affordable housing building owners must provide tenants with services such as pro fessional development, senior advocacy, scholastic enrichment programs and mental health resources.

Through Trutopia, Silver helps these landlords offers services to residents.

For example, if someone wants to go back to school, Trutopia will work give them resources they need to ensure that they successfully re-enroll.

If someone wants to open up a business, Trutopia can help that person through the process, from doing research to incorpo rating. If someone needs things like com puters or business cards to get up and run ning, Trutopia can help with that.

If a building is home to seniors, Truto pia can help them with things like health screenings and doctor visits.

Silver encourages her Trutopia clients to set SMART goals to help them make it through any process. SMART stands for Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realis tic and Timely.

“I always think a program has to be incentive based, to let people follow through on their goals,” Silver says.

When Trutopia clients reach their goals, they are rewarded with a celebra tory moment where they can get what they have earned. One recent Trutopia program incentive entitled participants to “buy” clothing and accessories at a popup shop at Carslake Community Center.

“We set up a retail shop. People came in like customers and they got to shop for free — Nike, Burberry, all sorts of name brand donations,” Silver says. Free food was also prepared and provided by Chef Mello os Kitchen of Class. “We helped over 200 people that day — $94,000, that’s how much value we were able to give away that day. We got great feedback. It really was amazing.”

Silver founded Trutopia in 2020. “I had all of these programs that I wanted to start, but then the pandemic happened,” Silver says. “So then I wanted to fig ure out how I could help while that was happening.”

Covid-19 disrupted the lives of almost everyone on earth, but perhaps no one as much as it affected low-income families and individuals. Silver went out to a num ber of low-income senior housing centers to make sure they had what they needed, be it hand sanitizer, food or household supplies.

In 2020, Trutopia made sure resi dents of the buildings had prepackaged Thanksgiving dinners to enjoy. Many seniors were isolated that year due to the pandemic.

Silver, now 35, is a graduate of Clara Barton, MacFarland Intermediate and Bordentown Regional High School. She grew up in Bordentown where her mother, Tanja, instilled in her a sense of responsibility to help those in need in her community.

“From when I was very little, my mom always had us doing things,” she says.

She initially studied mass communi cations and television broadcasting, and

moved to Los Angeles to work in the entertainment industry for a time.

She returned to the area in 2014 and earned a degree in human services from Lincoln University in Pennsylvania.

In addition to Trutopia Foundation, Silver also runs a company called Mela nIntellect, LLC. She describes it as a busi ness with a “focus on research and devel opment for mental health awareness for communities of color.”

For now, Trutopia is administered entirely on a volunteer basis, by Silver as well as some close friends and family members. She is in the process of apply ing for grants and contracts and hopes to be able to hire people at some point soon.

In the meantime, anyone who needs help is welcome to contact Trutopia at info@trutopia.org or (609) 306-8795.

“We want to help as many people as we can,” Silver says. “Anyone who takes the step to reach out or ask is definitely one that needs it.”

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told ‘Oh you’re too aggressive,’ so I fig ured why not

a sport where I could be aggressive, I could hit and basically be myself.”

And she’s doing a pretty good job of it, according to head coach Skip Edwards.

“She plays at least three quarters of each game,” he said. “We don’t hold her back. She’s one of the guys out there, she’s proven she can handle herself, she can protect herself. We can round her into the person she needs to be. She learns what we want and she does it the way we teach her.

Mike Smith, who is the varsity offen sive line coach and also the JV coach, says he has enjoyed having Fami on the team.

“She’s a great kid, tough as nails and very coachable,” he said. “She’s very interested in not just playing, but learn ing the game. She has, at times, strug gled with her confidence, but the coaches and players have embraced her and sup ported her in her growth. She’s been a great addition to the team and has eas ily acclimated to being part of the Scottie football family.”

Girls playing football is not the eyeopener it was two decades ago. However, not many have been right there in the trenches, using physicality to mix it up

with a guy on the other side of the ball.

But that was the dream position for Olorunnisola, who literally knew noth ing about football until she approached Edwards about playing in December of her sophomore year. When asked where she wanted to play, Fami wasn’t sure of the position but said she wanted to pro tect the quarterback.

“Then I finally said, ‘Oh wait, it’s a line man,’” Olorunnisola said. “He said ‘OK do you want to play offense or defense?’ and I said both sides.”

Edwards was open to her offer. “When she said she wanted to play football, I wasn’t skeptical because I had a girl on my team at Holmdel. But she was a kicker, a very good kicker. So it was, ‘Hey if you want to come out and play, we can’t baby you.’”

Fami didn’t want any special treat ment and once the coach gave his bless ing, Olorunnisola had to convince her parents. Her dad, Damiola, was all for it. But mom Bukola had to be talked into it. She finally relented, but in the back of her mind thought Fami would back out at the last minute.

“She still didn’t believe me until I started going to the weight room and she said ‘OK, I think she’s gonna do it,’” Olo runnisola said. “And then when I came home with my equipment she was like

‘Oh my God, you’re serious about play ing!’ She thought I was going to quit in the middle or something.”

Suddenly, Olorunnisola was playing a sport that she had no use for as a kid.

“I actually hated football,” she said. “Growing up, I never even thought about playing it or watching it at all. Even now I’m learning the rules and cadences and

things like that. I used to say that football is easy, all they’re doing is hitting each other and smacking each other. And boy did I learn quickly when I joined the foot ball team.”

Indeed she did. That hitting and smack ing was a little more intense than she ever imagined.

“The physical part did come as a sur prise,” Olorunnisola said. “The first day we did tackling drills I was sore. The next day I woke up I was sore, I was in pain. I was like ‘Mom, I want to quit.’ I was in so much pain it was honestly like a shock. I actually thought about quitting that day, but I was like ‘No, I’m gonna keep going.’

“The coach told me that’s what would come with it, especially if I’d never done tackling drills before. He said it was going to be painful but I’d get used to it. Now I’m used to it. I can tackle anything and it won’t hurt.”

The other concern, of course, was how her male teammates would welcome Fami to the squad.

“That was probably my biggest fear,” she said. “Will the guys like me? Will they treat me differently? But they all treat me like I’m one of them. I love them all dearly.”

Edwards has seen no problems in that area, saying, “They’ve been very support ive, the coaches have been supportive,

Junior Fami Olorunnisola plays on the line for the Bordentown junior varsity football team. (Photo by Rich Fisher.)

her parents. She gets a lot of support in what she does and I think that has given her a lot more confidence about her self esteem and the player she is.”

The opposition, however, can be a different story.

“Of course she caught a little bit of flack from the other team realizing there is a girl out there,” Edwards said. “They didn’t know what they were gonna do or how they would handle it. But she’s done a great job out here. She hangs right in there, jumps right on the scout team at left guard, never hesitates.

“When she goes against the varsity guys, the tempo is much faster than what she sees on a Monday (in JV games). It’s not bad for her to do that. She will engage with the person, but she’s gotta learn how to keep her feet.”

It hasn’t been easy for Olorunnisola, who stands 5-foot-7, 170 pounds. It’s one thing to be playing a sport you know nothing about, and it’s even more disconcerting to be playing against the boys. But she has been figuring it out.

“I’m not gonna lie, I was really scared at first,” she said. “I didn’t know what I was doing. I talked to the coach but I kind of kept to myself. I never talked to my teammates or anything like that because I was just nervous. Going into the weight room I would ask the coach a million questions.

I was a scared little girl, but now I’m very comfortable.

“I do know the game now, looking at it from the beginning of playing and where I am now I do know the rules. I still am learning so I still ask questions but I feel I do know the game.”

Fami says she is accused of trash talking at times, but points out that it’s the other way around.

“I have the pink glittery mouth guard so when they see that and see the hair they kind of assume I’m a girl, but they’re not sure,” she said. “After the game when I take off my helmet they’re surprised. A lot of them say ‘Good job, good for you playing football.’ Sometimes in the game they like to intimidate me or scare me, but I’m (thinking) ‘I’m not scared of them.’”

It’s the kind of attitude needed down in the trenches. What makes Fami’s aggressiveness a bit surprising, is that she is so pleasant and affable in conversation.

“Yeah but she’ll put her game face on,” Edwards said. “She’ll block, she’ll tackle, do whatever she has to do. I guess she’s a pleasant surprise. I always have an eye on her to see how she’s doing.”

For the most part, the coach has liked what he’s seen from a player who has finally put her aggressiveness to use in a good way.

Lilies of the pond

Doug Kiovsky THE BEND IN THE RIVER

sediment that resembled a shimmering snake. The flourishing vegetation tantalized Edmund’s inquisitive mind.

Everyone knows that there’s a good reason why New Jersey is nicknamed the Garden State. We are blessed with producing some of the best fruits and vegetables in the nation.

According to the New Jersey Department of Agriculture, crops such as eggplant, bell peppers, cranberries, blueberries, peaches, sweet corn and our famous Jersey tomatoes are more abundant and delicious than those grown in the farm belt and neighboring states. Admittedly, we have the most productive farmland in the country based on highest dollar value per acre. That means roughly 27% of our landmass, or 715,000 tillable acres, are preserved for the purpose of agriculture.

For a small state recognized for its dense population, that’s extremely impressive. In addition, our nursery, greenhouse, and sod industries have annually ranked high among the top 10 states. On any given day, it’s hard to miss these bucolic farms as they present themselves along country roads through nearby Chesterfield and Upper Freehold Townships.

Although Bordentown City and its surrounding landscape don’t showcase similar scenery, its uniqueness lies in the fact that it was the site of the first successful aquatics nursery in the country, established in 1876 by Edmund Day Sturtevant (1842-1922). The Westport, New York native grew up and managed a farm overlooking the western shoreline of Lake Champlain. But the frigid winters were daunting challenges for a man with a restless spirit.

By 1870, he had decided to venture south to Beverly, New Jersey, where he worked as a gardener before settling in Bordentown. Understanding the composition and benefits of soil, he would walk several blocks from his home on Carpenter Street and observe wildlife in the meadow below the embankment where Black’s Creek flowed.

At high tide, water spilled over into low areas where wetland plants sustained a rich swig of nutrients. At low tide, the creek’s bank walls were exposed of dark

Although he was eager to find a natural location for aquatic plants to thrive, he concentrated his efforts on the water lily tank that he constructed in his shade-free back yard for the public to enjoy. The tank, measuring 20 by 30 feet, was lined with nine inches of brick, and hand dug to a depth of two feet. The base was laid with rough stone and grouted with cement.

Then he installed pots and wooden boxes of different sizes that were filled with soil and an inch of clean sand before aquatic tubers were inserted to allow for staggered height. Lastly, water was poured in the tank for an hour each day to prevent stagnation and evaporation loss.

The landscape was quite unusual, as the tank was connected to the home by a glass greenhouse filled with vaulting grape vines. A hot-water boiler kept the water warm, thus protecting the plants from freezing in the winter.

Edmund’s success as one of the country’s leading florists grew exponentially. Traveling to other states and abroad in Europe, he tromped through all conditions of mud and muck to collect the finest specimens of lilies, lotuses, and bog foliage plants that could be found and brought back to Bordentown for cultivation.

In the fall of 1878, his remarkably brilliant plants were in full bloom for the country to see at the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society in Philadelphia. At home, he held the first garden festival in town, with a throng of 500 people that were treated to an evening gala of music and fine food accentuated by lilies illuminated by a machine for manufacturing electric light.

The following year, his life was illuminated by marital bliss as Eunice Filley (1845-1940) of Springfield, Massachusetts became his wife in an extravagant ceremony. Within two years, they moved to Prince Street and started a family, while Edmund maintained his business office at the corner of Union Street and Farnsworth Avenue.

Known as a “master of his vocation,” he introduced the first public catalog for aquatic plants in the country. The catalog was devoted to a vast array of water lilies, fuchsias, floating plants, greenhouse plants, roses, and ferns that were very affordable to the average homeowner.

As the demand for aquatic plants was rising across the continent, Sturtevant focused his attention again on Black’s Creek and the search for a large pool

Edmund Sturtevant started the first aquatic nursery in the U.S. — right here in Bordentown

or cove where he could grow his plants offsite. One day as he trekked along the slippery bank, he found a manmade cove, or mill pond, that was one or two feet deep.

Unable to bridle his excitement, he wrote about his observations upon his return home: “two miles from my present home is an artificial pond, a secluded corner of which was selected for the experiment.” That experiment involved the cultivation of a single Egyptian lotus tuber that Edmund extracted from Kew Gardens near London.

Within a few years, its offspring spread and the surface of the water “showed a solid mass of magnificent foliage and bloom, covering threequarters of an acre.” Standing three to six feet above its broad leaves, stalks of pink and white flowers projected a colorful horizon that seemed out of character with the environment of Black’s Creek. Slender rhizomatic roots were snatched by net, stored, and transported to desired destinations like the fountain basins in New York’s Central Park, Fairmount Park in Philadelphia, Lincoln Park in Chicago, Golden Gate Park in San Francisco, and the Botanic Gardens in Washington.

Although Edmund’s experiment was a proven success, with plant seeds having noticeable resilience, the reality was that without the implementation of large greenhouses, some of the inventory was sacrificed to the whims of winter weather. Forging a bold plan, he decided to travel west and establish his aquatic nursery in the dry hills of Hollywood, in California.

After four years of fulfilling this endeavor on a 15-acre site, he had built a reputation so great that he left his business and nursery in Bordentown for a permanent stake in the Golden State. Moving his family to Los Angeles, he purchased an extravagant home in the style of Spanish Revival splendor.

Always active, he contributed articles for the California State Floral Society. Less than a year before his death in 1922, he sold his business to a 27-yearold nurseryman named Harry Johnson (1894-1987).

As a teenager, Johnson had gained knowledge in the field by working many summers for Sturtevant. After graduating from high school in 1912, he was employed in various capacities regarding the care of plants. Returning to Los Angeles as a married man, Johnson

became a teacher of horticulture in the city’s school system.

Thrilled about the acquisition of his former mentor’s business, he changed the name to Johnson Water Gardens. In 1928, he moved the nursery 15 miles south to Hynes, California. While at this 10-acre site, he became known for growing cactus and other succulent plants. He named this separate branch Johnson Cactus Gardens.

In keeping the theme with his late employer, he published two catalogs a year beginning in 1936: one for water and aquatic plants, and the other for cactus and succulent plants. The covers always advertised, “Since 1876,” with a pictured profile of Sturtevant in color.

Johnson always enjoyed boasting to his fellow customers that “we have one of the largest stocks of Water Lilies in this country, as well as the most complete.”

In the late 1940s, Johnson’s two sons handled different aspects of the nursery: one son was in charge of retail sales, while the other was in charge of wholesale. During that time, the business employed a staff of 10 full-time and about 10 part-time workers. With productivity high, Johnson was able to take foreign excursions in search of collecting new specimens and seeds from cacti.

These were then propagated and distributed from his nursery as brilliantlooking hybrids. In 1969, he moved operations once more to the town of Fallbrook, California, where it became a wholesale nursery called Cactilandia Gardens.

Edmund Sturtevant and Harry Johnson were crown achievers in their own right. They introduced hybridized aquatic plants that were unparalleled in this country and created the first public catalogs for selling them. Beginning with the Gilded Age, water lilies and lotus plants became the rage for any wealthy industrialist to exhibit either inside or outside of their own home, as long as they had a fountain of circulating water.

In the early 20th century, Harry Johnson improved perfection as he propagated and hybridized beautifully colored cacti and succulent plants for customers who resided primarily in the West.

To think that, from the seed of Bordentown, sprouted a blossoming floral industry.

Doug Kiovsky is the vice president of the Bordentown Historical Society.

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3. No matter your age, it is always recommended to take your medication exactly as prescribed by your provider. This is important because taking medication infrequently or stopping suddenly can negatively impact your health. If you have concerns about a medication or dosage, ask your pharmacist or provider. Even if you don’t have questions, bring a list of all current medications, including any vitamins and supplements, to every doctor’s appointment. And, never stop taking any medication unless instructed to do so by your provider.

And last, I invite those in our local communities to take advantage of our completely complimentary Better Health

Program where you can “Rediscover your body, mind, and spirit” through free programming and activities. Attend Tai Chi and yoga, learn how to incorporate healthy tasty food choices into your diet, and attend our medical educational classes where our physicians and experts provide guidance and health education programs designed for those 65+ years old,” shares Dr. Ali.

To register, visit us at rwjbh.org/rwjuniversity-hospital-hamilton/treatmentcare/senior-health/better-healthprogram, or call (609) 584-5900.

Follow us on our social channels: Facebook, @RWJHamilton; LinkedIn, Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital Hamilton; Twitter, @RWJHamilton; and Instagram. RWJUH_Hamilton.

To learn more about Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital Hamilton, visit rwjbh.org/Hamilton or call (609) 586-7900.

Coming up this month at RWJU Hospital Hamilton

For a complete program of events, to register for a program, go online to rwjbh.org/events. For more information, call (609) 584-5900.

Bordentown Home For Funerals supports annual Riverfest

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Being together has never meant more. And The Landing of Hamilton gives residents enriching and soul‑filling social connections – from a warm and caring staff, to daily group events, and friend making moments.

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Bordentown Funerals present a check for $1,500 to the Hope Hose Human 1 Riverfest Committee at the 2022 Riverfest held on Oct. 15, 2022. Pictured left to right: Nancy Maugeri, Ed Foley, Brian Maugeri, Stephanie Pecht, Ed Foley, Jr., Barbara Foley, Margot Pecht, Robert Pecht, Judy Girton, Tiana Ramirez, Kate Brienza, Veronica Fulton, Amy Libbon, Janet Klotz and Terry Schwing.