AND ELECTRONICS RECYCLING EVENT

SATURDAY, JUNE 10, 2023

SATURDAY, JUNE 10, 2023

Household Hazardous Waste Collection And Electronics Recycling Event

8AM-2PM

SATURDAY,

CAUTION HAZARDOUS

CAUTION

HAZARDOUS WASTE

2023

ONLY ACCEPTED ON THIS DATE AND TIME, RAIN OR SHINE

SATURDAY,

Dempster Fire School / 350 Lawrence Station Road

ACCEPTED MATERIALS

Aerosol Cans / Used Motor Oil / Propane Gas Tanks / Pesticides & Herbicides

Car Batteries / Paint Thinner / Oil Based Paint / Stains & Varnishes / Gasoline

Anti-Freeze / Driveway Sealer / Insect Repellents / Mercury / Fluorescent & CFL Bulbs

PAINT / NO Heating Oil / NO Infectious Waste / NO Radioactive Materials

NO Explosives or Munitions / NO Railroad Ties / NO Asbestos / NO Tires

NO Wood / NO Fencing / NO Air Conditioners / NO Helium or Oxygen Tanks NO Humidifiers / NO Dehumidifiers / NO Unknowns

Computers / Printers / Copiers / Fax Machines / Stereos / Televisions / Microwaves MATERIALS NOT ACCEPTED NO LATEX PAINT / NO Heating Oil / NO Infectious Waste / NO Radioactive Materials NO Explosives or Munitions / NO Railroad Ties / NO Asbestos / NO Tires NO Wood / NO Fencing / NO Air Conditioners / NO Helium or Oxygen Tanks NO Humidifiers / NO Dehumidifiers / NO Unknowns

ACCEPTED

MERCER COUNTY RECYCLES

Brian M. Hughes, County Executive / John P. Thurber, Chairman / Phillip S. Miller, Executive Director

FOR MORE INFORMATION CALL 609-278-8086 OR VISIT WWW.MCIANJ.ORG

OR VISIT WWW.MCIANJ.ORG

OPEN TO ChILdREN ENTERING GRAdES k-7

Camps run from June 26 through August 25

$270 for

Ewing

Counselors in Training (Grade 9.) (CIT) is $60 and is only open to Ewing residents. Additional fees for early and late hours. Multi-child discounts are available. Financial assistance is available.

TEEN TRAVEL: July 5 - August 18

4 Days A Week And One Day At

camp.

Ewing POOLS: 12pm - 8pm daily

Ewing Pool System locations, Hollowbrook Community Center (HCC) and Ewing Sr. & Community Center (ESCC). Season dates are Saturday, May 27th - Labor Day.Open weekends and Memorial Day. Pools open full time starting June 19th. HCC is available Saturdays for private rentals only. Contact Raquel at rince@ewingnj. org for rentals. Splashpads are a popular feature at both pools! Pool patrons can pay daily fees or register for season passes at Communitypass.net. Register and pay before April 10th and save $25! Swim Lessons at HCC: Evaluations, Saturday, June 17th. Sessions are on Monday evenings and Saturday mornings.

MATERIALS ONLY ACCEPTED ON THIS DATE AND TIME, RAIN OR SHINE ACCEPTED ELECTRONICS Computers / Printers / Copiers / Fax Machines / Stereos / Televisions / Microwaves MATERIALS NOT ACCEPTED NO LATEX PAINT / NO Heating Oil / NO Infectious Waste / NO Radioactive Materials NO Explosives or Munitions / NO Railroad Ties / NO Asbestos / NO Tires NO Wood / NO Fencing / NO Air Conditioners / NO Helium or Oxygen Tanks NO Humidifiers / NO Dehumidifiers / NO Unknowns CAUTION HAZARDOUS WASTE ACCEPTED MATERIALS Aerosol Cans / Used Motor Oil / Propane Gas Tanks / Pesticides & Herbicides Car Batteries / Paint Thinner / Oil Based Paint / Stains & Varnishes / Gasoline Anti-Freeze / Driveway Sealer / Insect Repellents / Mercury / Fluorescent & CFL Bulbs 8AM-2PM EWING RECREATION Recreation Office Hollowbrook CC 320 Hollowbrook Dr., room 208, Ewing, NJ • 609-883-1776 Email: Nancy at npappano@ewingnj.org or Ted at tforst@ewingnj.org. REGISTER ONLINE AT COMMUNITYPASS.NET Day Camp

14  Ewing Observer | June 2023

Raise The Flag To A Summer Of Historic Sights

Get festive with freedom at these military museums ahead of Flag Day, page 2.

from left right: The Benjamin Temple House in Ewing, The Armed Forces Heritage Museum at the Captain James Lawrence House in Burlington, and a Nike Ajax missile on display outside the National Guard Militia Museum of New Jersey at Lawrenceville.

Flag Down a Whole Month’s Worth of Featured Museums

BY DAN AUBREY AND REBEKAH SCHROEDER

Flag Day on June 14 may mark the date that America adopted the iconic stars and stripes as we now know them in 1777, but it also recognizes the formation of the U.S. Army.

As the two occasions align in this annual patriotic pattern, stitch the imagery of independence with the country’s earliest branch of the armed forces and charge forward to visit these military museums across the region.

Editor’s Note: This month’s Six09 is composed largely of sections from stories that ran in previous issues of U.S. 1, Community News Service’s Princeton metro area paper, on various dates (see the end of the article on page 8 for details).

The content has been updated accordingly for both currency and clarity.

The National Guard Militia Museum of New Jersey at Lawrenceville

The original National Guard Militia

Museum of New Jersey is based in Sea Girt, but the secondary site at the Lawrenceville Field Artillery Annex, located on the New Jersey Army National Guard complex, uses its own military weapons, uniforms, photographs, documents, and interpretative texts to chronicle the state’s history of service from the early settlements through the present day.

It also claims to possess one of the largest collections of New Jersey-related Civil War research material in the country, including copies of diaries, letters, newspaper clippings, memoirs, regimental histories, and articles—all while paying attention to the diverse experiences of the New Jersey citizen soldier.

The NJ Militia Museum’s website recommends that visitors come prepared with a valid form of identification, such as a driver’s license, and enter the National Guard complex through Gate #3. After checking in with the security guard at the booth, follow directions to the parking lot and take note of the outdoor exhibits of historic tanks and large-caliber guns on display.

In a Facebook post, NGMM of NJ referred to the Nike Ajax missiles (see cover), co-designed by Bell Laboratories, as “the world’s first guided, surface-to-air

See Flag Day, Page 4