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The Anchor House annual 500-mile bike ride fundraiser has been reimagined into a virtual experience to cater to the current restrictions amid the COVID-19 pandemic. This year’s Anchor House Virtual Ride for Runaways will mark the 42nd year of the massive fundraising event that brings in more than $500,000 for the year for the Trentonbased organization. “Everybody has their own goal,” COO of Anchor House Foundation Kathy Drulis said. “As much as they love biking and they love what we do, they so believe in Anchor House so that’s what has always made our event so successful.” This year’s change has brought many veteran participants back as well as new ones. Mark Smith has taken part in Anchor House’s traditional 500-mile trek for 30 years. To commemorate his years of commitment, Smith, a veterinarian at Hopewell Veterinary Group Inc., set a personal goal to raise $30,000, or $1,000 for every year he has participated. As of June 23, Smith raised $25,125 and pledged that if his donors help him raise within $1,000 of his goal that he will make up the difference. He has sent out 240 letters requesting donations. See RIDE, Page 6

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Ewing Council president Kevin Baxter speaks at a Black Lives Matter protest held on June 8 in Moody Park. (Photo by Mark Wetherbee.)

Ewing protests decry racism Floyd killing results in demonstrations and curfews BY BILL SANSERVINO

The ripples from the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis on May 25 spread to Ewing Township on several occasions over the past month. On June 8, several hundred people gathered at Moody Park to protest the treatment of Black people in America by law enforcement. They also decried the country’s history of racism and discrimination in an effort to bring about more equitable treatment of all minorities.

“We’ve been dealing with these issues for a long time.” Ewing Council president Kevin Baxter, told the crowd. “We started off, unfortunately, with slavery. We’ve been through reconstruction, Jim Crow, Rodney King, Hurricane Katrina— do you remember how they treated us with Katrina?.. And now George Floyd.” Baxter suffers from sickle cell disease, which makes him more vulnerable to COVID-19 complications. He said that it was dangerous for him to be at the rally, but that his presence there showed how important he feels the issue is. “I’m willing to risk my life, because they’re taking people’s lives every day,” he said.

“If they don’t change this, it will be more than my life that will be gone. We’ll all be gone.” He said that the movement shouldn’t only be focusing on the treatment of Black people by police. They also need to look at inequality in the education system. “Let’s challenge the inadequacies in the school district,” he said. “I want us to also challenge the wealth disparity. Let’s start holding people accountable. Why can’t I get that job? I’m just as qualified.” Another rally was held 10 days later at the township municipal building on June 18 at which officials, including See PROTESTS, Page 3

A lifetime of giving and community service started for Namiaya Kelton with a coat when she was 8. Kelton was shopping for a new coat in the winter at JCPenny’s in the Quakerbridge Mall with her mother when she overheard another family talking about also getting a coat, except the other mother was telling her young girl that they were just looking. They did not have the money to get more than one coat for the young girl’s brother. “I thought since I was getting a new coat that day that I could give mine to her,” Kelton said. “All I was going to do was throw it out so I could give it to somebody that needed it.” Kelton had split away from her own mother when she walked up to the young girl and presented her own coat to her. Both of the mothers were blown away by the gesture. “As a parent, it’s quite surprising to find that your children do listen to you and you want to encourage it,” said Kelton’s mother, Tangela Wright. “I was quite in awe. This is her shining opportunity and she took advantage of it.” See KELTON, Page 4

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KELTON cont. from Page 1 Wright got in the act too when she saw the other mother didn’t have a coat and purchased her one as well as scarves for her and her daughter. The moment deeply impacted Kelton. “From there, it sparked something in me,” Kelton said. “It made me feel good. It made me feel like I was helping. It was a different feeling than I get from anything. It changed my whole perspective on life.” Kelton has continued to serve the community whenever she can, and the Ewing High School senior is one of three high school students to receive the Young Woman of Achievement award from the Mercer County Commission on the Status of Women. Also honored were Lanae Lopez of Lawrence Township and Mehar Bajwa of Princeton. An awards reception was originally planned for March 31 and then postponed until June 30 due to the COVID19 crisis. It has now been cancelled, but a recognition video is planned to be posted on the Mercer County website (mercercounty.org). “It is with great sadness that the Mercer County Commission on the Status of Women has canceled its annual awards reception,” said a statement on the county website. The plan was for Mercer County Executive Brian Hughes and members of the Mercer County Commission on the Status of Women to present awards for the Woman of Achievement and the Young Woman of Achievement at the reception. The Woman of Achievement Award was established to honor Mercer County women who volunteer their time to make the county a better place to live, raise a family and work. The Young Woman of Achievement Award honors high school students for their outstanding volunteer work within the county. “We look forward to honoring each of this year’s recipients,” said Hughes, the event’s honorary chair-

man, before the event was cancelled. “We are proud to recognize these selfless individuals for their work and the example they set for everyone in our communities.” Kelton’s coat story won her a Humanitarian Award from Kidsbridge in Ewing in 2008, but she was surprised to again win acclaim for service after following it up more than a decade later. “I’m super excited,” Kelton said. “I never thought I was going to get recognized for any of this. I just thought me doing this was enough for me. I didn’t think there was a thing for this. It’s going to be interesting to see what other people do. I thought I was the only one. Now, I want to meet these people. I’m so excited.” Kelton has volunteered with Jerzey Gurlz Social Club where she helped to organize and run the Purse Project for displaced women, the Salvation Army of Trenton and Central Baptist Church. She is annually one of the youngest volunteers to help with packet pick-up for the Trenton Half Marathon and the Run Now Wine Later 5k in New Hope, Pennsylvania. She has helped with kids camp and worked on renovations of the youth area at her church. She has worked with Special Olympics. Kelton has volunteered at Ronald McDonald House in Camden and Feed the Streets events with Jerzey Gurlz. “Sometimes I see other kids there,” Kelton said. “Not everybody is meant to do what I’m doing. Not everybody has that mindset. Not everybody has that emotion in them that they want to help others. I feel like people just don’t care enough these days. I feel like me being out there shows them there are other things that we could be doing rather than the bad stuff or trying to be famous. There are other things out there.” Kelton has plenty of other things going on in her life. She played softball for Ewing—third base, outfield

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and catcher. She said she also enjoys learning in school and is looking forward to studying psychology at Roanoke College next year. “I found it really interesting to think about how people process thoughts and the way they think and why people do the things that they do based on science,” Kelton said. Her reason for volunteering is something she hasn’t given much thought to. She said it comes naturally to her, and she has given up countless Saturday mornings when others are sleeping-in to help serve the community. “Volunteering is super important,” Kelton said. “It’s something you need to not only keep you humble, but it makes you realize these are people. I used to have a different mindset in how I thought about people. I just used to think of them as they’re less fortunate. I never thought about how I could help them, or how I could impact the world.” “That is something that I could probably never not do now.” she added. “That feeling is something that not only do I have, but the person I’m helping also has. I’m sure more people should appreciate what they have so when it’s taken away, they know how fortunate they are to have it. In this day and age, we have to think outside ourselves.” Kelton has made her family proud. Her mother founded Jerzey Gurlz three years ago with the idea of forming a social club with a huge community service component, and she has

been thrilled to see her daughter’s ‘Everybody feeds the homeless, but they need socks or coats.’ Or, ‘I saw attachment. “It’s been a different kind of journey this on the internet and can we try it?’” Kelton goes into action whenever with her because she attends more than 80% of the community service she sees a need or a way to improve events,” Wright said. “She’s my one a service. When she started working with the Angels for Kids program kid that’s always with me.” Kelton has gone beyond just volun- run by the Salvation Army, she did so teering. She has organized the Purse through her church. She would pick a Project the last two years where she tag for a child in need and supply the collects and distributes items for present. “I only picked one or two kids at women in need. first,” Kelton said. “Then “That’s probably 80% I saw how I could do it of what we take care on a greater scale which of, is giving back to the was giving them out at community,” Wright other churches and that said. “It’s in different grew into giving them forms of volunteering— out at other churches feeding the homeless, and to people I met. It the Purse Project that grew from there. When she’s been running the I started with Jerzey last two years. We sit Gurlz, we did it on an down and look at what even larger scale. We the need is and address did it for Trenton and the need. we do it for Camden. We “For her, you don’t have about 200 tags, and see a lot of kids her then we pick up the toys age doing community Kelton and deliver them to the service on that level. Salvation Army so they You might see they get involved because someone makes can get distributed.” Kelton also helped to organize a them do it or it’s centered around a specific item or time frame. As a par- coat drive where every Friday they ent, being able to show the different are collected at Lore Elementary facets and how everything comes School. Wherever she has helped, she together so that she could make some has grown personally and emotionally. decisions or in the case of the Purse Kelton teared up at the passion of the Project, she’s giving me information Special Olympics softball players who on what she would like to see done tried so hard despite their limitations. “It’s very hard to teach a kid about outside of Feed the Streets. She says,

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empathy,” Wright said. “It’s something they must learn on their own. For her to see how hard it was for them was big.” Kelton’s wealth of experiences have helped to shape her as a person. She has developed an empathetic ear that makes her a valuable resource. “People always come up and tell you their stories,” Wright said. “You never hurry them. You never rush them. You let them take their time. You show them you’re listening. They know you’re busy. You give them that compassion and time they need.” She added that even with her friends, her daughter is the friend that everybody calls for advice. “She sits, and she listens. She offers advice if need be. And if it’s something that’s really on her heart and bothering her, she’ll come to me and ask me and I’ll walk her through the process,” Wright said. Kelton will continue to serve and volunteer next year in a new area. Roanoke has a Fellows Program that is an on-campus outreach community service organization. It serves a different community from the Ewing area, but fits in perfectly with Kelton’s passion. “It gives a broad range of opportunities,” Wright said. “You can plan orientation day and follow it up with a huge community service that gets everyone involved in campus. She went from being involved in a small thing to being involved in something great for her age as a new student on a college campus.”

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Kathy Drulis of Ewing Township is the COO of Anchor House Foundation. (Photo by Jeanne Imbrigiotta.) Along with the decision to forego the group aspect of the ride and move everything remote, the Anchor House team created two more options for participation. This year, participants can choose the regular 500-mile bike ride, the new 250-mile bike ride or a new 100-mile walk. Over the past 41 years of the event, the 500-mile ride has been done over the course of a week. This year, the event has been expanded to last six weeks—43 days—to accommodate both new and veteran participants.

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shied away from the strenuous 500 miles traditionally completed in a week. “This is a unique situation,” President of Anchor House Foundation Board of Directors Thaddeus Mikulski said. “It appears that we are attracting some people who might not otherwise have been involved.” Although Anchor House intends to continue their ride fundraiser normally in coming years, they do intend to learn from this year’s altered event, said Mikulski, an attorney in Pennington. The six-week window is meant to create an option so that participants don’t need to take off from work and may complete their miles as they please, making aggressive training not as necessary as previous years. Although the group aspect of the ride will not be the same Anchor House is working to make sure participants still know how much they are helping. Lawn signs and painted rocks are being worked on by Anchor House and its youth to help spread the word around Mercer County of the time and efforts the riders and walkers are contributing. Whether on their own, with family members, outside or indoors, the Anchor House ride is on its way to raising its funding for the year. Every rider or walker is asked to raise a certain amount depending on their participation. Every cyclist riding 500 miles is asked to raise $750. Cyclists riding 250 miles are asked to raise $500. Walkers or runners are asked to complete 100 miles and raise $200. “I think we’re hoping that again, the awareness is raised for the issues that our young people are facing, the programs and services that Anchor House offers and how vital they are to our community,” said McNear, the Anchor House executive director. “We are really hoping in the midst of everything that’s going on, really looking for an opportunity to provide a little bit of normalcy, if you will. So for those who’ve been going on the ride 30 plus years you become used to that, one or two years you become used to it…that sense of family.”

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