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Mayor reports on impact of pandemic on Ewing By BiLL SANserViNO

Last year was a rough one for Ewing Mayor Bert Steinmann. Not only did he have to deal with the issues caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, he also contracted the virus and wound up having to be hospitalized. Fortunately he overcame the illness and Business Administrator Jim McManimon was able to run the town while the mayor convalesced. The Ewing Observer interviewed Steinmann in midApril to discuss various issues impacting the township,

including the way the pandemic has affected the township and the way it will conduct business into the future. The pandemic also impacted township revenues, the tax base, property values and commercial and residential development. The mayor also addressed other issues, including a lawsuit filed by the state against the federal government over environmental contamination at the Naval Air Warfare Center site on Parkway Avenue. Below is the first part of a Q&A based on the interview with Steinmann. It has been

edited for length and clarity. The second part will run next month. Ewing Obser ver: Let’s start by talking about the thing that has probably affected the town the most over the past year, which is the pandemic. How has the town dealt with the situation? Bert Steinmann: Our employees did a yeoman’s job in keeping the town running and making sure that there was little disruption if any. I know there was some disruption because of the situSee STEINMANN, Page 13

Ewing native a handbell star Susan Nelson’s compositions have been have been performed worldwide By SUsAN VAN DONGeN

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Handbell music composer Susan Nelson is a rock star in Estonia. In this country near the Baltic Sea, hundreds of people come out for handbell choirs. But they also get together in substantial crowds for all kinds of other music, as well as performing and literary arts, even poetry readings.

That’s the power of the arts in Estonia, and Nelson got swept up in that love when she befriended the Campanelli Handbell Ensemble and its leader, Inna Lai, who embraced Nelson and her work. “Estonian commitment to and love for music is amazing, in fact they like to say they sang themselves free from Soviet occupation,” Nelson says, adding, “Music is mandatory in education, there are statues of poets, writers, musicians, visual artists everywhere, it’s a very creative and artistic country.” Nelson, who grew up in Ewing, was invited to Estonia in October, 2013, by Lai, to attend an “author’s concert,”

consisting entirely of her works. The composer knew her music was being performed in the Baltic country but was quite surprised when Lai reached out via e-mail and described the all-Nelson program, which would be titled “Sue’s Blues.” The ongoing friendship with Lai led to more international collaborations, and handbells and hands reached back across the sea, when the Campanelli group and Lai came to central New Jersey in 2017, for “Sue’s Blues Too.” “Campanelli’s U.S. tour was a great success,” says Nelson. “This grass roots, independent venture was managed by the See NELSON, Page 7

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County moves to next step in airport terminal expansion The Federal Aviation Administration has cleared Trenton-Mercer Airport to release its draft environmental assessment (EA) document for public review, the next milestone in a multistep process required by the FAA for Mercer County to move forward with its plan for a new passenger terminal facility at the nearly century-old airport in Ewing Mercer County has proposed replacing the old four-gate terminal, which was built in the 1970s, with a new, modern four-gate terminal on the grounds where the airport fire station is currently located. The firehouse would be relocated elsewhere on airport property. There is no plan or proposal for new or longer runways, and the airport size would remain exactly as it is today. “The purpose of a new terminal is to better accommodate the existing airport users and to meet forecasted demands to the year 2035,” says a county news release. The new terminal would make improvements to a number of functions including baggage handling, concessions, waiting areas, restrooms and TSA. “The existing terminal at Trenton-

Mercer County is looking to replace the existing terminal (above) at the TrentonMercer Airport in Ewing. Mercer Airport is one-third the size it should be for the number of travelers currently using it,” said County Executive Brian Hughes. “As we emerge from the coronavirus crisis, we expect an increasing demand for leisure travel. Nationwide, and at TrentonMercer, we are seeing airlines adding new flights and reviving old ones.”

The EA process is governed by the FAA and requires a public comment period and a hearing for the public. The purpose of the EA is to evaluate the potential direct, indirect and cumulative impacts of the terminal project, and to look for ways to minimize or avoid potential impacts. The development of the proposed

new terminal was arrived at by analyzing several terminal building alternatives along with a no-action alternative as they relate to environmental, social and economic impacts. “Look, we’ve read the reviews on Trenton-Mercer Airport, and while people rave about the ease and convenience, the terminal building gets low marks for being ‘small, cramped, uncomfortable and primitive,’” Hughes said. “Add to that the physical distancing requirements for COVID19, it further illustrates to us just how small the terminal space is in relation to the number of people awaiting to board their flight.” Members of the public will have an opportunity to participate in the 30-day EA public review process, which will begin on or around May 3. The hearing will be advertised in local media and on the county’s website. After the 30-day public review, the county will schedule a two-hour public hearing, which will be held virtually, recorded and posted on the terminal project website, TTNTerminal.com. The review of the plan allows the public to formulate comments for the public hearing. The public can view the draft EA on the TTNTerminal.com See AROUND TOWN, Page 4

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The Trenton Thunder will host the Triple-A Buffalo Bisons, an affiliate of the Toronto Blue Jays, for the 2021 season. Opening day on Tuesday, May 4, will mark the first Triple-A game played in New Jersey since 1961, when the Jersey City Jerseys played at Roosevelt Stadium representing the Cincinnati Reds. The Thunder will play at home against the Worcester Red Sox on opening day. The change comes after the New York Yankees ended their Double-A affiliation last year with the Thunder and signed a deal with the Somerset Patriots, located in Bridgewater Township. The deal with the Bisons happened because travel restrictions between the United States and Canada, along with ongoing renovations at Sahlen Field in Buffalo, left the Bisons club needing a ballpark in 2021. The Blue Jays players will wear

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Ewing woman pleads guilty to wire fraud Jaziel Wynns, a resident of Ewing, pleaded guilty on April 21 to a charge of conspiracy to commit wire fraud, according to a news release from the Internal revenue Service. Between September 2015 and August 2017, Wynns, along with coconspirators Olga Shevlyakova and Jerry Carter, devised a scheme to fraudulently induce payroll companies

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to give them cash they never intended to pay back, the IRS said. Wynns and her co-conspirators contacted payroll companies and used fictitious identities posing as representatives from these companies seeking payroll service for alleged employees. The following is an account provided by the IRS: Wynns and her co-conspirators obtained Employer Identification Numbers from the IRS for the fictitious companies that were used in the scheme. In order to obtain the EINs, Wynns and her co-conspirators submitted fraudulent Forms SS-4 to the IRS. In doing so, they were able to obtain at least 39 EINs from the IRS for the fictitious companies used in the scheme. After entering into service relationships with the payroll companies, Wynns and her co-conspirators provided the payroll companies with information for several purported employees for whom each of the payroll companies would be processing payroll. This information included the purported employees’ names, fictitious salaries, and falsified W-4 forms and Employee Withholding Allowance Certificates. Wynns and her co-conspirators provided the payroll companies with payment information for each purported employee in the form of voided checks or direct deposit sheets containing the bank routing numbers and account numbers for prepaid debit cards. They also altered the voided checks to display the purported employee’s name and fictitious address. In reality,

the payment information that Wynns and her co-conspirators provided to the payroll companies was for at least 29 bank accounts and prepaid debit cards controlled by Wynns and her co-conspirators. Based on Wynns and her co-conspirators’ misrepresentations to the payroll companies, the payroll companies processed and transmitted payroll and bonus payments to the purported employees of the fictitious companies. After the funds were deposited into the accounts controlled by Wynns and the co-conspirators (the “Fraudulent Accounts”), Wynns and her co-conspirators withdrew them, either at the teller counter or via ATM withdrawals, or spent the funds using debit cards linked to the accounts. During the conspiracy, Wynns and her co-conspirators withdrew approximately $125,000 from the Fraudulent Accounts. When the payroll companies initiated bank transfers to collect reimbursement for the payments to the purported employees, the payroll companies received non-sufficient fund notices or closure notices for the bank accounts of the fictitious companies. When the payroll companies attempted to follow up with the representatives of the fictitious companies (Wynns and her co-conspirators) they stalled and eventually became nonresponsive. The payroll companies never received any reimbursement or compensation for their services. The count of conspiracy to commit

wire fraud carries a statutory maximum prison sentence of 20 years and a statutory maximum fine equal to the greatest of: (1) $250,000; (2) twice the gross amount of any pecuniary gain derived from the offense; or 3) twice the gross amount of any pecuniary loss sustained by any victims of the offense. The investigation was conducted by IRS-Criminal Investigation, Newark Field Office, under the direction of Special Agent in Charge Michael

Montanez and the U.S. Attorney’s Office, under the direction of Acting U.S. Attorney Rachael A. Honig. Wynns’ sentencing is scheduled for Aug. 25.

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Can I get reimbursed if a plow destroys my mailbox? From time to time Ewing Mayor Bert Steinmann answers questions posed by readers or members of the Ewing Observer’s staff. This month, the mayor answers a question sent in by one of our readers. These last two snowstorms we’ve had have ruined my mailbox caused by plowing. Twice. The first was in December. A couple of houses along my street suffered the same fate. When I went to Home Depot to buy a new mailbox, there were a couple of guys there shopping for one as well. Apparently, this is not uncommon. ship ordinance on the issue: In the event township vehicles or This second snowstorm we had last week, same thing—three township employees, in the process of houses in a row, including mine. clearing snow and ice from the road, All our mailboxes were knocked destroy or damage any mailbox and the support therefor, off. It seems I live on the township shall pay a stretch of River Road no more than $50 for (between Wilburtha destruction or signifi& Villa Victoria) that cant damage to a mailallows these plow box and its support. to drive on a higher The township will not speed that results in reimburse homeownenough force to knock ers for mailboxes that off our mailboxes. were damaged from The question is, do snow being thrown from I have any recourse plows/snow-removal in holding anyone vehicles. responsible for this? To receive compensaIt is not a big expense, tion, homeowners must but I am not a handycontact the township man. If I pay somepublic works in writone to repair this in a Steinmann ing within two weeks of professional manner, the time the mailbox is then the expense can damaged. Public works will inspect to be considerable. determine if snow or the plow/snow—Angelo Buencamino removal vehicle caused the damage. If We try to fix damaged mailboxes the damaged mailbox and support do that are standard. For anything above not comply with the below-referenced $50, we only reimburse up to $50. The minimum requirements, the township owner would then have to file an insur- will not make such payment or will ance claim. The following is the town- make a payment at a lower amount. A. Every mailbox used for the receipt of mail should be approved by the United States Postal Service. B. The front of the mailbox must be a minimum of eight inches from the curbline or edge of pavement of every roadway. If there is no pavement on the road, then it is from the generally accepted travel portion of the road. C. The bottom of the mailbox must be at least 41 inches and no more than 45 inches above the roadway elevation. “Serving Ewing since 1953” D. All posts to support the mailKeith A. Hill Sr. box shall be constructed of pressure BradfordOwner/Barber C. Miller treated lumber having dimensions of 1400 Parkway Ave. Mon,Wed,Fri: 8 - 6 Owner/Barber no less than four inches by four inches Ewing, NJ Tues & Thurs: 8 - 8 (609) 883-4033 Sat: 8 - 2:30 and being installed at least 30 inches We aim to serve below grade. E. Number 8 minimum size screws three generations that are weather resistant shall be used for the assembly of the mailbox of your family! and post. No nails for the construction 609-883-4033 of the same shall be permitted. If you have a question for the mayor Mon, Tues, Thur, Fri: 8 6 1410 Parkway Ave. Saturday: 8 - 2 for a future edition, submit it by emailSuite G • Ewing, NJ Wednesday: Closed ing bsanservino@communitynews.org. You must be a Ewing resident.

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brainer: I saw the opportunity and took it.” Nelson was especially drawn toward handbells because of their lovely tonalities and almost angelic ambiance. “Handbell choirs and music for the choirs are a whole universe in themselves,” she says. “Handbells just have this aura. They’re not only beautiful to listen to, they’re visually beautiful as well.” Nelson recently retired after more than 20 years working in cataloging at Westminster Choir College’s Talbott Library. With the goal of pursuing composition full time, she also left her position as organist and director of music at St. Mark Church in Bristol, Pennsylvania, one of a string of directorships she has had throughout four decades. Nelson has played piano, organ, harpsichord, handbells, recorder, guitar, flute, and the Renaissance doublereed instrument the crumhorn for more than 40 years. Growing up in Ewing among a musical family, she was originally a pianist. Her dad and mom — a maintenance worker and legal secretary — insisted on private lessons. “My parents grew up during the Depression, and their parents couldn’t afford to give them music lessons,” Nelson says. “So they made sure to give each of their children a musical education.” Nelson earned her BA in music theory and composition from Rutgers University in 1979. She went back to school while in her 50s and in 2014 graduated summa cum laude with a master’s of music degree from the University of Valley Forge, Pennsylvania. The “Sue’s Blues” concert served as her graduate composition recital for the university, supported by a 200page thesis, “A Ringing Evolution: An International Graduate Composition Recital.” Naming Johann Sebastian Bach as her strongest influence (“I’ve loved him since I was about 10,” she says) Nelson focused on composition, which tickled her love of solving problems and putting things together. See NELSON, Page 8

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NELSON continued from Page 7 “Composition is like a puzzle, and I love puzzles and crosswords,” she says. “I love to figure how things ‘tick,’ how to make things work, and that ties in with crosswords and whatnot.” Nelson’s first original work was published in 1991, a piece she had written for a friend who had died. Titled “Appalachian Air,” it was dedicated to the memory of Timothy Gorman, who was director of music at the First United Methodist Church of Bristol, PA. The budding composer had such affectionate feelings for the work, she almost didn’t submit it. “I’m shy about sending stuff out, but I saw an ad calling for submissions, so I did it,” Nelson says. “I wrote it up as neatly as possible, gathered up my courage, and popped it in the mail, and I just about fell over when I got the contract. That first time was very, very hard, though. I felt like I was putting one of my children in the mail.” Currently, her compositions are in print with 22 major publishers. Nelson’s works have been performed, recorded, and broadcast on six continents, and featured in festivals around the world, including in Scotland, Hong Kong, and of course Estonia, where her biggest “fan base” exists. Nelson’s arrangement of the “Brian Boru March” was used for an Estonian TV commercial, her “Trumpet Voluntary” was the processional for the opening ceremonies of Estonia’s Independence Day celebration in 2017, and she continues to be the Campanelli ensemble’s personal composer. She is also an innovative teacher, and as a clinician has taught composition, orchestration, music theory, and various handbell technique classes for more than 30 years. Nelson is the author of the innovative “KidzRing” series of books for children studying handbells. She likes to say she’s pushing the envelope in her compositions, always looking for creative ways to enhance handbell literature, arranging for unusual instrumental collaborations, and writing in a wide variety of styles. Unfortunately, concerts and tours came to a halt early last year, as the COVID-19 pandemic put life on hold, not just the performing arts.

Nelson hasn’t slacked, though, and has kept working and collaborating as best as possible. “I had just finished a commission in February, 2020, when COVID exploded, and since no one is practicing — handbell or vocal choirs — I still haven’t heard the piece,” she says. “It was interesting because the woman who commissioned me plays Native American flute, so it was a fascinating piece to write.” Nelson has also been figuring out ways her compositions and arrangements can be enjoyed and played while socially distancing. For large-scale handbell works, playing together is not feasible, so most compositions of this kind are not selling right now. Nelson says what groups need and what is really working for social distancing are pieces for just a few “ringers” with proper separation, or music that can be shared virtually. An excellent example is her arrangement of the traditional round, “Dona Nobis Pacem” (Give us Peace). “It’s an easy arrangement of ‘Dona Nobis Pacem’ with a lot of options,” she says. “It’s playable as a handbell solo or for more ringers, or for a ‘C’ instrument, etc., plus an MP3 of the guitar accompaniment is included so they don’t even need an accompanist.” “I’ve published this (and other works) out of my own company,” she adds. “People can just download a PDF, there are no shipping fees, and it’s not expensive at all. This way, people can have new work while there’s no money coming in.” “I’ve been re-vamping my website so I’ll be able to get more (works) out there, but also, with things at a standstill, I’ve been giving (compositions) away,” Nelson says. “Think of Estonia: It’s so expensive for another country to get a piece of music. I continue to produce music, but if I’d like to hear if something works, I’ll give it away.” This way the ensemble can rehearse, perform, and record Nelson’s music, stream it or create a CD, which the group can share with or send to her. “You always get something back when you give a piece of music away,” she says. Susan Nelson on the web: susantnelson.com

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Nearly sixty years since Allied forces liberated the Nazi concentration camps, the now elderly survivors of the Holocaust are turning to a new generation to preserve their testimony about their wartime experiences for future generations. Holocaust survivors are steadily dwindling in number. Many have made it their mission to educate the world that anti-Semitism and racism easily lead to murder, and to speak about the horrors they and their families suffered. With the passing of time, it has become urgent to find a new generation to continue the survivors’ mission and tell their stories after the survivors can no longer do so. On April 12, the Adopt-a-Survivor (AAS) program was introduced to the Trenton area at Ewing High School. Six Holocaust survivors were adopted by twelve Ewing High sophomores. The adopted survivors—Moshe Gimlan, Vera Goodkin, Marion Lewin, Ruth Lubitz, Charles Rojer and Jack Zaifman— were originally from Germany, Czechoslovakia, Poland and Belgium. The AAS program pairs a survivor with one or more students. The students embark on a joint journey On the March 12th, through 2020, school districts around with survivor discussions about life the state and nation as a result of the before, during and aftershut the down Holocaust. Participating emerging COVID-19 students will be able topandemic. represent the survivor and therestory werewith many tragedies sacritellAlthough the survivor’s accuracy and and feeling in fices during this public health each crisis, theremakes was a the years to come. In addition, student profound sense disappointment witha commitment to of tellloss the and survivor’s story in a public in the inalways impressive Ewing years Highafter School venue the year 2045, a hundred the theater Their production of Suessical liberationprogram. of Auschwitz. wasThe set twelve to hit the stage the next That would student adopters areweek. Dave Angebranndt, Tyler Barnes, Annie Cook, Liz Dunham, Emily Everett, never happen. Curtis Fornarotto, Vildana Hajric, of Devon Jones, “We all felt so bad,” Supervisor the HumanJen Meade, Billy O’Callaghan, Nikyta Sharma and ities Brock Mislan stated. “The kids had worked Melysa on page A2 so hard,Wilson. and we were all excitedcontinued about the show,

and then to lose it at the last minute was painful. Town My heart brokeSafety for our staff and our performers.” “But our kids Juneare30resilient,” - July 11Mislan added. “Just like inContact: many of our other district programs, Jean Conrad we wanted 609-538-9800 to give our kids x1302 a chance this year, despite the pandemic, to showcase their talents.” for application And so, Ewing High School’s production of the socially-distant, virtually presented Almost, Maine was born.

The recipients of the 2005 Teacher of the Year Awards were honored at a luncheon on April 29th. Jan Fay, 2004 Mercer County Teacher of the Year, was a guest speaker. 1st row (L to R): Joan Zuckerman, Principal Antheil; Sharon Solomon, Lore; Jan Fay, 2004 Mercer County Teacher of the Year; Inetta Emery, Principal Parkway; Danielle Miller, EHS; Superintendent Ray Broach. 2nd row: Darrell Jackson, Principal FMS; Donna Andreas, Antheil; Don Barnett, Turgeon, Parkway; Rodney Logan,stringent Principal EHS. The production featured health and Almost, Maine is FMS; a Betsy

play by John Cariani, safety protocols and social distancing practices. Ewing High Students Attend Gorbachev Presentation crew meetings and rehearsals were comprising nine short Auditions,

Whitney Lewis, EHS Freshman plays that explore love all virtual until the last week prior to tech/show On April 18, 2005 Ms. Chiavuzzo, Mrs. Perestroika. Hiswere policies churches, week. Rehearsals oftenreopened outside and always and loss in a Walker remote, of and 30 Ewing High School freshmen joined several released political prisoners, and lifted bans was on mythical almost-town physically distanced. Filming of the show Mercer County high school and college students, previously censored books. called Almost, Maine. It premiered at the Port- broken into two separate days in order to have a and politicians to hear presentation by The 20th anniversary Perestroika minimum number of studentsofattend at a time.was Acland Stage Company in aPortland, Mainegiven in 2004 Mikhail Gorbachev at the Sovereign Bank Arena. one of the essential themes of Gorbachev’s towards where it broke box office records and garnered tors had to shift their acting process more Gorbachev was the last communist leader of the presentation. Therather policy’s main goal was to a video medium than for a live audience. critical acclaim. Soviet Union from 1985 to 1991. During his make the Soviet economic system more efficient. “We celebrated and valued finally being able to “When picking a show to film and direct in a term he instituted various policies including his Perestroika involved the transfer of control from style that can practice safety and social distanc- perform together again; since we hadn’t all been political policy of Glasnost and economic policy the government to the business owners. This policy year,” Monaco remarked. “It’s ing, I was drawn to Almost, Maine for a number together since last continued on page A2 of reasons,” EHS Artistic Director Christina Mo- been a joy to see students open up again, talk, Due toconnect budget and restraints build our drama comnaco stated. “It is a play about real people who are laugh, breathe, NOmorale Summer School back up. This is aPrograms truly sincere and wickedly themselves and honestly dealing with munity willWhat resume of students falling in, GoodNews and out of, love. a better time to talented group will be offeredthatbyI am thehonored to with the September witness an unromantic comedy about characters witness performing in person; and I look forward Ewing Public Schools who find their autonomous selves all while weav- to the Ewing community having the opportunity issue of the Observer the Summer of of 2005. to seeduring these students and the magic theater.” ing their life in the pattern of uncertainty.” Please follow the district communication por“In Almost, Maine there’s a beautiful sadness that is a backdrop to the hope and joy found in tals over the month of May for more information the play,” she added. “One can laugh and cry at on Almost, Maine, including an overview of the the beauty that is life, one can witness humanity cast and crew, and how the Ewing Community can enjoy the production! grow and adapt even in a global pandemic.”

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FMS Students Get Global

With all the talk of divisiveness, political polarization, and living in bubbles, students at Fisher Middle School stepped out of their comfort zones to talk to other students from around the globe about what they think really matters. For six weeks, Mr. Milecki’s seventh and eighth grade social studies classes conducted a pilot program exploring the PenPal Schools web-based platform. Students chose from over 30 topics, read articles, and prepared to participate in discussions including media literacy, how schools around the world work, race-relations in America, and the COVID-19 crisis. Topics were chosen to reflect the climate that was being faced in the 2020-21 school year, and to increase student cultural competencies. One of Mr. Milecki’s student’s commented, “I enjoyed engaging with PenPal Schools because they included videos and articles to read before getting involved in discussions so I had some background and knew what to talk about.” Another student explained, “I connected with kids in Sweden and Russia about race and I realized that there really are problems all over the world. Maybe we should all be working on it together.” One student also used the platform to compare how other school students are coping with the pandemic. “I started a conversation with kids from Paraguay and Brazil about how their schools are dealing with COVID-19,” he explained. PenPal Schools connects over 250,000 students from 150 countries to collaborate on topics ranging from human rights and the environment to fake news and immigration. It offers a safe way to connect students with their international peers, while focusing on literacy skills, digital citizenship, and developing empathy through authentic social and emotional learning. At a time when a global pandemic has created such isolation, Fisher students are creating meaningful global connections.

Antheil 5th Grade Students Have Special Guest Scientist District STEM Supervisor – Mr. Donald Wahlers! What better way to spend your last day in school before spring break than with science? The 5th grade ‘in-person’ students at Antheil Elementary School spent their science class outdoors with a very special guest scientist, our very own District STEM Supervisor, Mr. Donald Wahlers! Students had been learning about physical and chemical changes during their science class lessons. They had a chance to witness some chemical changes and identify characteristics, but not in as nearly an exciting way as what they were able to do with Mr. Wahlers. He shared a few exciting demonstrations of chemical reactions and even had some hands-on activities ready for the kids to feel a temperature change and witness a color change that are evidence of a chemical change occurring. Throughout the entire time with each group of students, he reinforced what they had

learned and made them excited to learn more as they move into the higher grades!

Parkway Students and Staff “Spring into Action with T.A.S.K.” For the past five years the Parkway School community partnered with the Trenton Area Soup Kitchen (T.A.S.K.) to create bagged breakfasts and lunches to coincide with Parkway’s annual “Sock and Toiletry Drive” as a way to give back to the community. This yearly effort has been funded annually by a grant from the Ewing Public Education Foundation. This year the Parkway School community endeavored to work creatively within the constraints of the global pandemic in order to fulfill the program’s objectives. During “Spring into Action” week the students of Parkway School drew pictures and wrote letters to send to the clients of T.A.S.K. as a means of en-

couragement. Parkway School students were not able to make bagged breakfasts and lunches this year to send over to the facility but found a way to keep the shelves stocked. Parkway used the grant funds to purchase food items and utensils. Students participated in a community service/ caring lesson and activity. Additionally, information was sent home to Parkway families of ideas for group community service projects to participate in at home. The goal at Parkway is to help the students understand the importance of being a positive and generous member of the community who gives of themselves in order to help others. Parkway Panthers Prove to be Pawsitive and Powerful!

Antheil ‘Snow Day!’ in Mrs. Beachem’s Virtual Class After learning about properties of matter, the students played with Insta-Snow. Insta-Snow is a chemical known as a polymer that grows larger through the process of osmosis (water molecules passing through a barrier). As students played with the Insta-Snow, they were asked to think like Scientists and ponder the following questions:

National Teacher AppreciationDay: May 4th

1. What is the property of the powder?

Students in Mrs. Beachem's 5th Grade virtual class from Antheil, Lore and Parkway Elementary Schools recently had their own 'Snow Day’!

2. What do you think would happen if the 'snow' was left outside for a couple of days? 3. What do you think would happen if salt was added to the 'snow'?

The Ewing Public Schools Senior Spotlight: Meet Aaron Zaggi The school year is winding down, do you have any ‘words of wisdom’ to share with your classmates as we are still navigating the COVID-19 health crisis? I think the best thing that someone can do in a time like right now is just find a new hobby. I mean as cliché as that sounds, this has really helped me fill the time in the day, sometimes the days can feel so long. It is really important to find something that you enjoy that not only makes you happy, but pass the time.

What accomplishments are you most proud of? I would say that my proudest accomplishment would be getting into Purdue University. It has been my top college/university choice since I was a freshman. Now that I am accepted and attending next year, I couldn't be more proud of myself.

What do you want people to know about Ewing High School that they might not know? I would want people to know that Ewing High has so many different types of people. There are kids that are super good at sports, there are kids that are super smart, there are kids that are super good at art and music. Ewing has a little bit of everything and there are so many different types of ideas and opinions brought to Ewing High School by great people.

Who or what has impacted your life in a positive way? My parents have impacted my life in a positive way, by doing whatever they can to make sure I had what I needed or got to whatever practices I needed to get to. They are my number one supporters and were at every game and every event no matter what it was.

In which activities do you participate in school? I am on the EHS Boys Soccer Team, and was part of the EHS Wrestling Team my freshman year. I am also a Peer Leader this year. What activities do you participate outside of school? I play soccer for Next Level Soccer Academy and work as a server at Wildflowers Inn, in Pennington, New Jersey. What awards or acknowledgements have you received in school and/or outside of school? I was awarded with CVC All-County Soccer Third Team this fall season.

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What is your favorite memory of high school to date? I would have to say my favorite memory so far in high school would be when I was a sophomore and with the soccer team, we beat Notre Dame! Notre Dame always produces a very good soccer team and just the excitement and happiness I felt among the team and my teammates was amazing.

How do you define success? I define success the same way that I define happiness and the way I see them correlate with each other. For me to be successful I would say that I would want to have a happy job and family but most importantly I would say the biggest thing that determines my success would be making my family proud. What are your plans after you graduate from Ewing High School? Right now my plans are to attend Purdue University in Indiana and study Physics. I plan on graduating and then my goal would be to get a job with a big tech company like Tesla. What is your favorite quote or book? “Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.” – JFK

EHS Students Selected for MCCC’s Aspiration Literary/Art Competition Several Ewing High School students were selected as winners for Mercer County Community College's 2021 Aspiration Literary/ Art Competition. Students were encouraged to submit their work by Mrs. Megan Soltysik in their Creative Writing and English classes. Aspirations is an annual literary/visual arts magazine published by Mercer County Community College which cultivates the talents of area high school students and allows them to share their work with the community. For over twenty-five years the college has invited local high schools to participate in a competition from which the very best in original art and writing is chosen for publication. Each spring, when Aspirations is published, the college hosts a recognition program to acknowledge the contributors and their talents. Students may enter only three works total, some of our EHS students had all three piece selected! List of EHS Students whose visual art was accepted: Chantal Samuel Samaria Banks Madelyn Cruz List of EHS students whose literary art was accepted:

(Number of works accepted in parenthesis)

Deandre Morgan (2) Samaria Banks (2) Kayla Ewell (2) Torrance Richardson (3) Chantal Samuel (1)

Lina Abtouche (2) Takai Lane (1) Takai Richardson (2) Madeleine Marsola (3) Madelyn Cruz (1)

Please visit the Mercer County website: https:// www.mccc.edu/community_Aspirations.shtml. Congratulations to all of our EHS students on their selection for the Mercer County Aspirations 2021 literary visual arts magazine!

Since 1972, National School Nurse Day has been set aside to recognize school nurses. National School Nurse Day was established to foster a better understanding of the role of school nurses in the educational setting. This year, building on the increased visibility of nurses' contributions National Nurses' Week has been expanded to Nurses Month in May. School Nurse Day is May 12, 2021, Florence Nightingale’s birthday!

The Girls Basketball Team recently helped volunteer at a Ewing Recreation Basketball Spring Break Clinic.

The Ewing Public Schools May 2021 Schedule in Ewing Schools May 3-7

Teacher Appreciation Week

May 4

National Teacher Appreciation Day

May 12

National School Nurse Day

May 13

Schools Closed - Staff Development Day (Ed al-Fitr)

May 14

EHS - S2 T2 Q3 Parent Progress Reports FMS & Elementary - 4th Marking Period Progress Reports

May 19

National Honor Society Induction Ceremony @ 6:30pm (EHS Athletic Complex)

May 20

RAIN DATE: National Honor Society Induction Ceremony

May 24

Board of Education Meeting (FMS Auditorium) @ 7pm (Public Session @ 8pm)

May 28

EHS - Senior Prom

May 31

Schools Closed - Memorial Day

The Ewing Public Schools Early Dismissal During the School Year:

Schools Closed/Offices Closed Schools Closed/Staff Development

EHS 12:15PM No Lunches FMS 12:55PM Elementary 1:40PM OBA 11:55AM

Early Dismissal K-12 Early Dismissal K-8 Early Dismissal 9-12 Building Meetings/Transition Day

September 2021 M

W 1 8 15 22 29

6 7 13 14 20 21 27* 28

T 2 9 16 23 30

November 2021 M 1 8 15 22* 29

T 2 9 16 23 30

W 3 10 17 24

T 4 11 18 25

January 2022 M 3* 10 17 24 31

T 4 11 18 25

W 5 12 19 26

7 14 21 28

T 1 8 15 22 29

W 2 9 16 23 30

T 3 10 17 24 31

(17) F 5 12 19 26

F 7 14 21 28

(23) T 3 10 17 24 31

May 2022 M 2 9 16 23 30

F 3 10 17 24

(20) T 6 13 20 27

March 2022 M

(16)

F 4 11 18 25

(20) W 4 11 18 25

T 5 12 19 26

F 6 13 20 27

Visit our website for quarters/semesters and report card distribution dates. www.ewing.k12.nj.us (District Information/District Calendar)

(These times reflect normal regular school year hours for student attendance.)

October 2021 M

(21)

4 5 11 12 18 19 25* 26

6 13 20 27

7 14 21 28

December 2021 M 6 13 20* 27

T 7 14 21 28

W 1 8 15 22 29

(17)

T 2 9 16 23 30

F 3 10 17 24 31

February 2022 M 7 14 21 28

T 1 8 15 22

W 2 9 16 23

(19) T 3 10 17 24

F 4 11 18 25

(16)

4 11 18 25

5 12 19 26

6 13 20 27

7 14 21 28

June 2022

6 13 20 27

Approved: March 15, 2021 September 2021 1&2

T 7 14 21 28

W 1 8 15 22 29

T 2 9 16 23 30

CLOSED Staff Development Day

Building Meeting/Student Orientation

CLOSED Labor Day

CLOSED Rosh Hashanah

First Day of School for Students

CLOSED Yom Kippur

Ewing High School Back to School Night

Lore Back to School Night

Antheil School Back to School Night

Parkway School Back to School Night

Fisher Middle School Back to School Night

Early Dismissal K-8 only Parent Conferences

CLOSED Staff Development Day CLOSED NJEA Convention

4-5 22-23 24 25-26

Early Dismissal K-8 only Parent Conferences th NO PM EDP Evening Conferences: 23 Both FMS & Elementary Early Dismissal K-12 NO PM EDP CLOSED – Thanksgiving Break

December 2021 23 24-31

Early Dismissal K-12 NO PM EDP CLOSED Winter Break

January 2022 3

School Reopens

CLOSED Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday

Early Dismissal 9-12 only (Exams) CLOSED 6-12 & OBA (no students) Early Dismissal K-5

February 2022

March 2022

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May 2022

*Board of Education Meetings 2021-2022 School Year *September 27 *October 25 *November 22 *December 20 *January 3

(Board Organization Meeting) BOE meeting begin at 7:00PM Executive Session, Public Session begins at 8:00PM

EHS Back to School Night 2 Semester

CLOSED Presidents’ Day

Early Dismissal K-8 ONLY Parent Conferences

April 2022 11-15

CLOSED - Spring Break

CLOSED Staff Development Day (Ed al-Fitr)

CLOSED Memorial Day

June 2022 17

CLOSED Juneteenth

20,21,22 Early Dismissal K-12 – NO LUNCHES SERVED EHS 12:00 22

FMS 12:35 Elementary 1:10 OBA 11:35

Last Day of School/EHS Graduation Cure Arena 4PM

Three (3) emergency days are built into the schedule. If more than 3 emergency days are required, the additional days will be made up by adjusting the calendar beginning with 2/21, 4/11, 4/12, 4/13, 4/14. Please keep this in mind when making irrevocable vacation plans. Unused emergency days will be removed from the calendar as appropriate.

Safety Town: CANCELLED for 2021 Safety Town 2021 has been cancelled for this year but the program will return in June 2022. See you next year in 2022!

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We could not do this without the unwavering support of our sponsors and partners. WE thank you for your continued support and appreciate all that you do for us and the children of Ewing Township. We are grateful that you take the time to invest in our students, helping to provide them with experiences and opportunities above and beyond. So, thank you for helping us help our students! To support this giving cycle, please go to www.EPEF.org.

November 2021

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F 3 10 17 24

EPEF is an independent non-profit organization and every year we continue to meet our goals of giving back to our community. For 25 years, we have risen over $770,000 but we couldn’t do it without you, our valued partners: Educational Testing Services (ETS) NJM Credit Union of NJ Church & Dwight ETEA American Properties And our newest partner Borden Perlman!

October 2021

26-28

April 2022

F 1 8 15 22 29

2021-22 Calendar

You Deserve Our Thanks And Gratitude!

Kindergarten Round-Up 2021 Information The Ewing Public Schools’ Registration Department is pleased to announce that Kindergarten Registration is now open to children residing in Ewing Township, New Jersey who will be 5 years old on or before October 1st, 2021. Please visit the Kindergarten Registration webpage on the Ewing Public Schools district website at www.ewing.k12.nj.us. All kindergarten registrations should be completed online using our Genesis registration portal. Please be sure to finish all three steps in order to complete your child’s enrollment. If you have questions regarding the online registration process, you may contact Ms. Sholes or Ms. Cook in the Registration Department at (609) 538- 9800 extension 7181 or extension 7175. You may also email Registration at registration@ewingboe.org.

For questions or information, please contact: Superintendent’s Office 609-538-9800 ext. 1102 Email: thullings@ewingboe.org Website: www.ewing.k12.nj.us

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Discovering American cuisine Writer takes readers on cross-country food journey in book By Sam Sciarrotta

David Page has a long history of going places. The writer and producer has followed jobs to Wichita, Houston, Atlanta, Phoenix and Chicago. As a news producer for NBC, he bounced between London and Frankfurt, Budapest and Berlin, Africa and the Middle East. His travels eventually led him back to the States, where he formed his own production company and did work for Al Roker on the Food Network—but he’d soon be back on the road. Page pitched and created Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, the Guy Fieri road trip-style food reality show. Now, though, the Long Beach Island resident is following a new path. Page’s book, Food Americana, is out this month. It covers his crosscountry journey to find out what dishes and recipes make up the Amer-

ican menu—what we eat as a country and why we eat it. Six09 editor Sam Sciarrotta talked to Page about his career, food and the perfect Jersey tomato. The interview has been edited for length and clarity. Six09: What is “Food Americana “to you? What is American cuisine? David Page: Well, as I say in the book, American cuisine is a bit of many other cultures’ or countries’ cuisines modified to our palates or preferences and melded together. Six09: That also kind of sounds like an accurate description of just New Jersey, too. I think the intersection of food and New Jersey culture is pretty powerful. DP: It is, although day-to-day cuisine in New Jersey actually goes in many cases far beyond what I’m defining as American cuisine. New Jersey eaters, in many cases, I think are more adventurous and are open to cuisines from other countries that have not yet been accepted as a day-to-day part of ours. I refer specifically, for example, to the Ironbound area of Newark, where the Portugese food is terrific,

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David Page pivoted from producer to author to write Food Americana, a book about what we eat as a country and why we eat it.

food from Peru. Those remain in the minds of most Americans, I think, still “other,” as opposed to sushi or Chinese food or something along those lines, that are so common all across the country that they’re now thought of as American. Six09: Have you always been interested in food on this level? It seems to be kind of a central theme of your career. DP: I didn’t get into food in this way until NBC sent me to Europe. I worked in Europe, Africa and the Middle East and began to realize the national and especially regional differences in food based on tradition and societal makeup and, of course, the availability of specific ingredients. It was there, as I was trying to understand a number of other cultures, that I realized that the gateway to those other cultures is the food. I had some amusing experiences, such as, on my first trip to Vienna, I asked the support staff there to take me where they like to go and eat. And they took me to a Texas ribs joint. Six09: Why were you in Europe to begin with? DP: I’ve been a journalist in one form or another since I was 15 or 16. I started working on the radio when I was in high school. I followed jobs around the country—went from radio to television in Wichita, Kansas, worked in a number of local television stations in Houston, Atlanta, Phoenix, and eventually got picked up by NBC and placed in their Chicago bureau as a producer. After a couple of years there, they sent me to Europe, first to London and then, at my request, I moved to Frankfurt. The London bureau was awfully big and, frankly, one plane flight too far from the action. In Frankfurt, which was a smaller bureau, it was easier to get things done. We could

call New York and say “We’re on the way” before London could get someone to Heathrow to get to us to get to where we were going. I worked in Frankfurt for quite awhile, and then I moved to Budapest in advance of what were clearly going to be the impending communist revolutions. I covered the Hungarian revolution and the collapse of the government of Czechoslovakia. Then, I moved back to the states and became a show producer on the weekend Today Show. I ended up as the senior investigative producer of 20/20 over at ABC, and then as a line producer at GMA. While I was there in the lifestyle arena of Good Morning America, I ended up putting a number of food segments on the air, including segments with Emeril (Lagasse). I enjoyed it very much. When I ended up leaving network television and forming my own production company to try to make a buck or two, on the one hand, I had taken a great new step. On the other hand, I was technically unemployed. So, I called Al Roker who had actually worked for me when I ran the weekend Today Show. He had a production company, so I called and asked if he needed any freelance work. I ended up doing work for him for the Food Network and later began to pitch them directly for projects of my own. Six09: Is that how you ended up with Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives? DP: At first, I got absolutely nowhere. It was a festival of rejection, until one day, I’m on the phone with a development executive who was kind enough to take my calls but kept saying “No.” She said to me, “Don’t you have anything else on diners?” I had done a documentary on diner history for Al, and I said, “Sure, I’m developing this show called Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives.” She said, “We have a development meeting on Tuesday. Get me a writeup by Monday.” The problem was I was not developing a show called Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives. I had just pulled that phrase out of whatever part of my anatomy. I spent the next few days working feverishly, pitched the show, and they picked up a one-hour special, I think to keep Guy Fieri’s face on the air while they tried to figure out what to do with him in primetime. He had won their Food Network Star competition. They wanted to try to make something of him. They had a couple of very big names working on proposals for a primetime vehicle for him. Much to their surprise, when those proposals came in, they didn’t like them. The specials had done well, and they decided to take a chance

Poached black cod with Jiu Nian Lee’s spring asparagus is served at the Eight Tables restaurant, which is featured in the “Made in America—Our Love Affair with Chinese Food” chapter of Food Americana. (Photo by Robert Birnbach.)

on Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives as a series, although they told me in the first couple of weeks when the first couple of episodes scored very well, they did confide in me, “This thing’s not going to have legs. There just aren’t that many restaurants.” Six09: Did you ever imagine that it would explode the way that it did? DP: I had no idea. I had been trying for quite awhile to land a show of my own. At that point, the initial feeling of success was just getting something bought and put on the air. I did not expect it to become the national phenomenon it did, although, at the risk of sounding egotistical, I had a deep belief in doing the show in a certain way, a way that held to my editorial standards, the same ones that I used when I was running investigations on 20/20. I had a certain vision for how to cut it, how to put it together, how to make it look. The fact that it became such a big hit in retrospect, some of it is lightning in a bottle. Some of it is that Guy is an incredible television character. But I’m very delighted to see that the show that became hit was the show that I put together according to a certain vision. Six09: It does seem that the show and Food Americana kind of share some common themes. Did the show help you segue into writing? Did you take anything from the show with you while you were writing the book? DP: Yes—a continually growing appreciation for the role that real food plays in America, and the role it plays, especially brought out doing this pandemic, in bringing us together. It’s been more than a year now, and I think people are yearning to sit across a table with each other and just talk. More than anything, I think I was pleasantly surprised by the nature of people who put their all into independently owned restaurants. That community has just been massively hit by lack of business, and many, many independent restaurants have gone out of business.

Six09: Tell me a little bit about the intersection of food and pop culture. Why do you think people are so fascinated with shows like Triple D, things like your book, firing off hot takes about food? What allows that to really grab people? DP: The invention of the smartphone. We all have cameras. There has been a “foodie culture” for sometime, not a word I like, but there’s been a core group of people who use food to make them part of the cool crowd. “I understand the difference between this dish and that.” as we spend more of our lives talking to people online, it makes perfect sense to start posting our pictures. As for interest in it on television, clearly, that was the creation of the celebrity chef because, at its heart, TV is about hanging out with people you want to hang out with. Food is a constant in our lives. We have to eat. We have to interact with food. I think it’s a topic that has continual legs. Six09: What was the research process for Food Americana? Were you inter viewing people? I’m sure you tried a lot of amazing dishes. DP: First, I read more than 200 books. That number is not a joke. I read some cover-to-cover. Others I used as references for specific points. I talked to a remarkable number of people, and it started with food historians and academics, because I really wanted to understand the structure behind each food and how each food developed to the place it is today without making it a boring history lesson. To make sure it wasn’t a history lesson, I sought out people vibrantly involved in where food stands today and told the stories through them as much as possible. Six09: Did you travel? DP: I did some traveling—one big trip, especially, to San Francisco, where I was able to meet Cecilia Chiang, probably the most influential voice in Chinese cooking in America over the last century, in her home just months before she passed away. She was 100. See AMERICANA, Page 6

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I also went to pizza school out there. I went to a $1,000 Chinese dinner which, thankfully, we had been invited to by the owner of the restaurant, Eight Tables, which is an example of the developments in Chinese food in America right now. What he does is a sort of hybrid of the tastes and flavors of China reworked into incredible new dishes. It’s phenomenal. I went to an oyster farm on the Delaware Bay. I went to the 2019 Memphis in May barbecue competition, which many in the barbecue world consider the Super Bowl, to shadow a team that had won the previous year and was trying to repeat—the folks from The Shed down in Mississippi. If you want to find out if they won, you can buy the book. In many other places, I used freelance journalists to experience things that I could not get to, such as going out on a lobster boat or visiting a sushi restaurant in an Oklahoma gas station. I was lucky that most of the big events, like Memphis in May and the

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The pulled pork sandwich from The Shed BBQ & Blues Joint, which David Page says is the best he’s ever had. (Photo courtesy of The Shed BBQ & Blues Joint.)

a little butter. By the way, people flip scallops. You shouldn’t flip scallops. They’re small enough that once you’ve gotten enough heat to caramelize a crust on one side, take them out of the pan. They’ll continue cooking on their own. One of the things I hope people get a sense of from the book is that the best food is the food of a place. When I go somewhere, I want to eat what they produce, that they have been cooking for years. We have great food on LBI. Tuna, monkfish, terrific crab. Locality has become a buzzword of food trendiness, but it isn’t trendiness, in my view, if you’re smart enough to eat what’s best where it came from. For example, most people eat tomatoes that have been genetically modified to be perfectly round so they can fit into uniform packing containers. I prefer an ugly, misshapen Jersey tomato, which came out of the ground not that far from me and which I will put up against any of the best tomatoes from Italy. A good Jersey tomato, which is only available around a certain time of year, is a remarkable experience. Six09: That’s exactly why my mom and stepdad grow their own. DP: You get a good Jersey tomato, some fresh mozzarella, olive oil, basil, and you’ve got a caprese to kill for. It’s just a wonderful thing. I was in Iraq for NBC before the first Gulf War, and not a lot of people wanted to go in. The hours were long, the work was very difficult, the conditions were terrible. By the time the government kicked me out, I was fried. I asked the Rome bureau to book me back to Frankfurt with a layover in Rome, specifically at the Hassler Hotel. It was the kind of place that was used to odd requests. I asked the bureau to tell them that I hadn’t had a fresh vegetable in weeks, and that after I checked in, could they please deliver a caprese to my room. Nanoseconds after checking in, there’s a rap on the door. Room service comes in with a massive silver tray. He puts it down and takes off an equally massive cover, and there must be 30 pieces of caprese. I said to myself, “I’ll never eat all of this.” And guess what, I did. There was tomato glop dripping down my chin, but I felt like I was back in the world.

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Pennington got a welcome and unexpected jolt last summer when Doria Roberts and Calavino Donati popped up with The Pig + the Pit, a new restaurant offering a unique mix of southern and vegan cuisine. The response was so strong at times that they sometimes had to take the phone off the hook — or more accurately, disable the online ordering form — to keep up with the high demand. The Pig + the Pit was the first business that the couple opened after they moved from Atlanta to New Jersey at the end of 2019. This year they have introduced a second, and this time it’s a concept that they brought with them. Tipple and Rose Tea Parlor and Some of the many varieties of tea on display and available for purchase Apothecary, at 12 N. Main St., opened at Tipple and Rose Tea Parlor and Apothecary. in February, just a few doors down from The Pig + the Pit. In Atlanta, Tipple and Rose became the country for traditional English-style day when she can recreate the tea parlor experience for customers in the new known for its selection of whole and afternoon tea service. Because of the ongoing coronavirus space. loose leaf teas and its scones and macarUntil that day, Tipple and Rose is ons, as well as for its tea-brewing acces- pandemic, Tipple and Rose isn’t seating sories, honey, candles, bath and body customers for afternoon tea. However, it offering take-out as well as tea-service products and more. It also gained rec- does have just about everything else it catering. For special occasions, like ognition from Travel and Leisure maga- had become known for in Atlanta — and Mothers Day, the store will have gift zine in 2018 as one of the best places in Roberts says she looks forward to the boxes and other specials.

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Everything available in the shop skews toward the artisanal and the small-batch. Roberts makes the scones herself. Honey comes from Zach and Zoe Sweet Bee Farm in Hunterdon County or Savannah Bee Company in Savannah, Georgia. Candles come from Yo Soy Candle of Portland, Oregon and Wax Apothecary of Idyllwild, California, among other purveyors. There are handmade kitchen towels from The Coin Laundry in Bozeman, Montana and room sprays from Commonwealth Provisions of Fredericksburg, Virginia. Also popular has been their selection of nonalcoholic gins and whiskeys. Roberts sees herself as a curator, filling the store with boutique items that she likes that make homes homier or that would make great gifts. But the heart of the business remains the teas, of which they are some 140 kinds available for purchase. There are black teas, green teas, white teas, oolong teas, herbal teas, fruit teas, chai — basically any kind of tea one could want. Each tea on the shelves is accompanied by an ingredient list with tasting notes, and customers are welcome to take a whiff of any that they think might be to their liking.

anybody was going to come. I thought I’d be sitting in the corner, drinking tea and writing in my journal. But we ended up getting really busy, really fast.” Afternoon tea service — often (improperly) referred to as high tea by Americans — turned out to be just what Atlanta was looking for. As is traditional, Tipple and Rose’s afternoon tea would be served with three courses on a tiered platter. One tier for savories and sandwiches, one for scones and one for sweets, including macarons. “I have to say it was a lot of fun, just a nice afternoon,” Roberts says. “You could come in and have a quiet lunch in an elegant space. That’s what we wanted, to create something a little different, but still affordable and accessible.” By 2018, the tea parlor was successful enough to gain national recognition from Travel and Leisure Magazine as an afternoon tea destination. But in December 2019, after Roberts’ mother had suffered a heart attack and a stroke, RobCandles and teapots on display at erts and Donati closed all their Atlanta restaurants and moved north to be Tipple and Rose. nearer to her. Only once Roberts’ mother was sufGreg Powers The store also sells a variety of tea- ficiently recovered did Roberts and pots, tea presses, infusers and other Donati start looking for a place in the HIC#13VH10598000 HIC#13VH06880500 supplies designed to help make the per- area suitable for starting their restauCOMPLETED STONEsays FIREPLACE rant group back up OUTDOOR again. Roberts fect cup of tea. Occupancy is limited toRECENTLY 10 customers because of the pandemic, that after they took a look at the culiand masks are also required, but Rob- nary landscape in the area, they decided erts says it is possible to smell the teas that Tipple and Rose would be the easithrough any but the most heavy-duty of est concept to transition from Atlanta to New Jersey. 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Loaves, sandwiches and more at Bread Boutique By Joe Emanski

Princeton’s carbohydrate-indulging population welcomed Eclair Café when it opened on Witherspoon Street in July 2019. Not a year later, the French-inspired bakery-bistro was gone, a casualty of the Covid-19 pandemic. Owner-operator couple Marie-Mathilde Laplanche and Ron Suzuki shuttered both their Princeton and Main Street Pennington locations after the pandemic began, never to reopen. Both locations are once again occupied: the Pennington store is now The Pig and the Pit barbecue (see story, page 8), and since February the Witherspoon Street location has been the home of Bread Boutique, the latest venture from the steadily growing Genesis Hospitality Group suite of restaurants, bakeries and cafés. Hamilton-based Genesis is the force behind Bread Boutique, Chez Alice in Palmer Square, the Perch at Peacock Inn, Proof Pizza on Nassau Street, DiBartolo Bakery in Collingswood, and more. Genesis is also the owner of the building at 41 Witherspoon Street vacated by Eclair Café. But Eben Copple, culinary director of Genesis, says that after Eclair Café closed, the group decided to make use of the storefront rather than lease it out again. Genesis operates a central commissary in Hamilton where baked goods are made every day for all their restaurants, under the watchful eye of lead baker Ernesto Gonzalez, formerly of Eataly in New York.

Bread Boutique on Witherspoon Street in Princeton offers 12 to 15 different loaves of bread and eight types of rolls each day. “Ernesto is very talented. He makes great bread. We knew we could handle more production than we could produce for the restaurants. Eclair Café left due to Covid, so we found the space empty, and thought it would be the right size for us to put together a retail front,” Copple says. Bread Boutique sells a variety of bread loaves and rolls, including regular baguettes, seeded baguettes, sourdough bread, focaccia, multigrain and more. “Every day, we probably have 12 to 15 varieties of whole loaves of bread

and eight varieties of rolls,” Copple says. “It changes as the week goes on, but there’s a pretty steady core of products that we have regularly.” The café rotates in other breads like zucchini bread, challah and babka, seasonally or on weekends. Also regularly on offer are their viennoisseries like croissants, pain au chocolat, and cheese danish, which Copple says have been very popular. Bread Boutique also does a brisk sandwich business. The shop has 10 to 12 different sandwiches available for purchase

every day, including breakfast sandwiches like pork roll, egg and cheese on a croissant ($7). Other sandwiches on offer include roast beef and cheddar on baguette ($9), cured meats and mozzarella on focaccia ($10), pastrami on rye ($10) and egg salad on brioche ($7). Soups, egg salad, tuna salad, chicken salad are also available by the half pint and pint. Witherspoon Street has become quite the destination for carb loaders in the past decade. Terra Momo Bread Company (formerly Witherspoon Bread Company), House of Cupcakes and Olive’s of Princeton already offered a wide variety of baked goods and have loyal followings. But Copple says business has been steady, especially on weekends, and he says more than 40% of customers return. “It’s humbling to see,” he says. “We had an idea for something that we liked and it’s really great to see people enjoying what we’re putting out there.” Copple says this may be just the start of something as far as both Bread Boutique and Genesis’ baking operations go. “I was a chef for many years in the area, and there aren’t really any local bread wholesalers selling high quality artisan bread any more,” he says. “That’s something that we’re really looking into, because we have the capacity to do it.” Bread Boutique, 41 Witherspoon St., Princeton NJ 08540. Web: bread-boutique.com. Phone: (609) 423-2096. Open Saturday through Thursday from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Fridays from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m.

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So yeah, it definitely had an impact on the way we think and the way we do things currently. EO: Have you had to make any special considerations in the budget as a result of the decrease in revenues? BS: Every year when we go through the budget process, we go through it with finetooth comb. We try to stay within certain ranges so that we don’t have a big spike up or a big spike down in taxes. We were still able to do that this year. We’re also on rate equalization that was started by the county tax board. We did it this year. Hamilton and Lawrence did it two years ago. Princeton is actually doing it every year. The reason why we went to the rate equalization is because it would avoid us getting caught in that situation again where we were a couple of years ago, when we had to do a revaluation of the whole town, which costs almost a little bit less than a $1 million. This way it’s up to date every year. EO: What’s an equalization? BS: Say you buy a house today and you spent $200,000 for the house. The way the market is today, there’s such a glut, and people can get basically what

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the property, now there’s more to it. EO: The way I understand it, they’re the type of chemicals that leach into the water table. As far as you know, what level of concern should the homeowners who live around that area have? I don’t think anybody is on well water there. BS: No, they shouldn’t have to—

only to the extent that it’s on the property and not to where their drinking water would be affected. The way that particular water that’s in the ground travels doesn’t go that way. It would affect more people that are downstream, towards the Marrazzo’s shopping center, and then leach across the street into town center, but not where they’re building. That’s the way it travels. Obviously we want clean water that runs through there and then eventually winds up in the Delaware River or the canal. So yeah, absolutely we want it taken care of, but people should not be overly concerned. EO: From what I understand, the state never notified the township that it was filing the lawsuit. Or even that there was an issue on the property. What are your thoughts on maybe having a little bit better communication from the state that this action was going to happen on a pretty significant site in your community? BS: I’m upset that they did not notify us, but to be quite candid with you, they really haven’t given us much more information. Actually, you gave me more than what we got from the state. So that’s very disappointing. I don’t know exactly where they are. BS: It’s basically the same thing with Trenton Water Works. We filed a suit along with HamilSee STEINMANN, Page 16

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STEINMANN cont. from Page 15 ton and the DEP basically, and I don’t know where that is. All I know is we’re paying for lawyers to make sure that Trenton cleans the water up and that we should get treated fairly in that situation. But where that stands as far as the lawsuit, I know that we’ve got some court dates. The DEP was being gungho about, “if you don’t do this ,we’re going to do this, we’re going to do this and we’re going to do this,” and then all of a sudden it just quieted down. So, I don’t know what the reason is for that. EO: Maybe the pandemic has something to do with it? BS: That could be, because I know the state is still doing a lot of stuff virtually. I mean all our board meetings here are virtual. So yeah, I’m sure it’s the same over there. Everybody is still a little apprehensive about the situation, and we’re going to work and having live meetings and things like that. EO: Can you talk about the economic aid the town will be receiving through the American Rescue Plan? BS: There’s two payments Ewing Township is scheduled to receive— again, this just what I’ve been told by the state—around $6,070,000. We don’t get it in one payment, you get it in two shots. So, one is supposed to be 90 days of the effective date of the bill, and then I think either next year or the year after for the rest of the money. People have already been suggesting what to do with this money, but I can’t do anything with it until guidelines come down from the state. And I do know one thing is we cannot use it for tax relief. As silly as that sounds, we cannot use that money that way, because then we won’t get it. I guess we need to get creative. We apply for grant money all the time, but if you start finagling a lot of things they’re going to look at that and say, “Wait a minute, you’re not really using it for what you’re saying you’re using it for.” So anyway, so there’s a lot of grant money that we’re going after. We have been very fortunate to have been fully reimbursed for all the purchases that we made during the pandemic that actually fought COVID, like scrubbing machines, rubber gloves, masks. Basically anything related to COVIDtype stuff. So we’re happy about that, and we can continue to receive that type of help. EO: And that’s aside from the the federal? BS: Yes. For example, with vaccination clinics and stuff like that, we got partial reimbursement for that for help, for our employees, So again, we’ve been helped. Not to the extent where I thought we should have been made 100% whole, but at the end of the day, half a loaf is better than no loaf, and we apply for everything that we possibly can where we feel that we fit into the criteria. EO: The way I understand it is

that most towns are waiting on some more specific guidance as to how they can spend that money. BS: Yeah, because right now it’s a little bit vague. We might be able to use it for some infrastructure stuff. But again, I want to make sure that we follow the rules when we distribute this money and how it gets distributed. EO: I’m not sure how the new marijuana law is impacting it, but what’s the status of the Justice Grown medical marijuana grow center and distribution site on Olden Avenue? Will they be able to eventually sell recreational marijuana there? BS: They could have recreational marijuana. Except the only thing that they would need to do is to completely separate the medical marijuana distribution from the recreational distribution. So you can’t walk into the medical marijuana and get recreational—the gummy bears and cookies or whatever. It has to be in a separate part of the building, completely isolated from the medical marijuana. I think the site that they’re distributing the medical marijuana from is probably too small to do that. But again, we’ll just have to wait and see. Now, all the permitting has been done for them. So they should be coming online. They finally got the permit, and a lot of it was that they were dragging their feet, so,there was a lot lacking there. But in any event, they finally got all the permits for the main grow building. So they’re going to be full bore, and hopefully by next year that will be fully done. Right now they have, I think, six temporary pods on that particular site, and they’re growing and they’re distributing it. But I’m anxious to get the retail part of it open—it’s going to be located in the old pool place on Olden Avenue. To be honest with you, now that the recreational part has passed, I’ve had three developers already saying, “Hey we want to come into town,” and we’re looking at it. But again, we took the same approach with this that we did with the tattoo parlors. We’re zoning in such a way that they’re not on top of one another and that they’re limited to the number that can be in town. And then I think there’s two different types. There’s a micro grow and then obviously a bigger business type. EO: I guess you there would be certain areas of town where you would want to locate them, like you did with the tattoo parlors. They would only be in a certain type of business zone, and you certainly wouldn’t want to locate one next to a school. BS: Nope. Although, I think medical marijuana is allowed closer to a school but not recreational. Contact BILL SANSERVINO: bsanservino@ communitynews.org, (609) 396-1511, ext. 104, facebook.com/BillSanservino.

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Hopes are high for Leggett on Notre Dame track team By Rich Fisher

Jaden Leggett is fast, but even he couldn’t outrun the Covid shutdowns in the spring of 2020. Which is why Notre Dame High track & field coach Joe McLaughlin has no idea what to expect of his sprinter from Ewing this season. He knows the potential is there; however, so hopes are high Leggett can have some success.

“I don’t know what to think,” McLaughlin said. “It’s such a difference from sophomore to junior year and we never saw that junior year.” That being said, McLaughlin assured that the Irish would have been counting heavily on Leggett last year, and the same is true for this season. “All our best guys are in his group,” the coach said. “The Chambers boys (Ean and Ethan, also from Ewing), John

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went from distances to running sprints and hurdles. “I’ve always been one of the faster guys,” he said. “Sprinting just came natural. They were looking at me and they said ‘OK we want you for the team’ and sure enough they put me in the 400 and four-by-four and I just kept doing it.” As a freshman, Leggett was part of ND’s third-place 4x400 relay team at the NJCTC freshman-sophomore championship, running 3:54.7 along with Malachi Tucker, Ethan Chambers and Jaden Holmes. That same spring he was fifth in the 400 hurdles at the NJCTC meet and sixth in the Mercer County FreshmanSophomore meet. In the spring of his sophomore year, the 4x400 took second at the NJCTC meet in a time of 3:46.69, with Jayden Wilkie replacing Tucker in the group. Leggett was fourth in the 400 hurdles in the Steinert Spartans Frosh-Soph meet in 1:04.63, and one day later he took third at the NJCTC event in a personal record (PR) 1:01.78. He also ran a PR 17.37 in taking second in the 110 hurdles at NJCTC’s. Doing winter track for the first time as a junior; Leggett was part of a secondplace 4x55 shuttle hurdle relay team in the CVC Relays, and ran on 4th- and 6thplace 4x400 teams in the Non-Public A Relay Championships and Non-Public A Group Championships, respectively. And then came the shutdown. “It was very hard, especially knowing that junior year is when all the colleges are looking at you,” Leggett said. “Knowing our junior year was taken away from us like that, it hurt because I had so much more to prove.” He will try and prove it this year, and McLaughlin realizes he has the capabilities to bust out. But with so many

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track. There’s not too many three-sport athletes anymore.” At 5-10, 160, Leggett wants to bulk up a little before heading to college. He is currently being looked at by Montclair, Ithaca, Plymouth and Western Connecticut, and has been working with ND strength and conditioning coach John McKenna to get bigger. Before then, he has one last track season to look forward to. Leggett hopes to run the 400 between 52 and 53 seconds, is looking to get below 60 in the 400 hurdles and drop to 15 seconds in the 110 high hurdles. “That’s why losing last year hurt,” Leggett said. “I know I could have run a 58 in the 400 hurdles. Now I have to try to get back in shape.” Leggett was also disappointed the Penn Relays got cancelled, but hopes to fare well in this year’s state meet, and several conference meets the Colonial Valley Conference has set up (there is no county meet). And since they will not be keeping score in CVC dual meets this year, McLaughlin can experiment with his athletes in various events to see what clicks. “There’s no pressure to win a dual meet, so I’ll be able to worry about what’s best for the athletes,” he said. “I’ll try to get some PRs for them and some variety in there for them.” How everything shakes out remains to be seen. It’s the great unknown, and Leggett can’t wait. “Yeah,” he said while strolling toward a hurdle. “I’m really looking forward to getting back out here.”

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I’m asking nicely here. I’m not begging. But I am strongly requesting that people stop changing the English language on us senior citizens. I’m so tired of hearing the words, “There’s an app for that.” First off, “app” used to mean the food you’d bring to a dinner party—you know, appetizers. I hear they’re called “appys” now. But now all these familiar words and abbreviations are different and quite frankly, confusing to us “older” people. I believe we’re called “silver foxes” now. Or maybe that’s just what I call us. Take the word “salty.” Salty, to me, means tiny little white grains of seasoning that I keep in a shaker (is it still called a shaker?). And I use little of it because of blood pressure concern. But apparently it means “being upset over something little.” To me, a phrase for being upset over something little is “Suck it up.” And then we have the word “loaf.” Loaf is sliced bread lined up neatly in a plastic bag. Or combined with “meat,” it’s a dish that consists of ground beef mixed with other stuff and eaten for dinner. It can also mean what we do on a rainy day—“We loafed and watched Netflix all day.” But not these days. Loaf now means to show affection for someone or many people. “Loaf you man, I hope you feel better.” Loaf. “Meh.” That’s a word now. What is that? Are you getting ready to sneeze? Throw up? Perhaps you are a goat. Don’t they say Mehhhh? Nope. Incorrect. It means that one doesn’t care too deeply about the issue at hand, or that something is just okay. It is the oppo-

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site of “fly,” which apparently means that something (or someone) is cool and awesome. “Fly,” to my generation, means either an annoying insect, what planes do, or what time does when you’re having fun. And then there’s “grind.” Grind, to me, is what you do with your teeth when someone aggravates you, or what you do with coffee beans, or what the server in a restaurant does above your salad with the peppermill. But no. “Grind” means to work your hind parts off to get something done. As in, “I am so late with my term paper. I gotta grind tonight!” “Slworking.” Guess what that means? Goofing off and/or slacking while at work. “He’s playing a game on his PC. He’s slworking.” That word is so dumb that my generation doesn’t have any word that is comparable for it. If I want to say that someone is goofing off at work, I would, very creatively, say, “He’s goofing off at work.” How about Job Jobbed? Ever hear that one? Used in a sentence—“I had a major project to do at work and I job jobbed it.” This means that I did the job. I finished my project. Once the job is complete you have jobbed the job, evidently. I’m telling you, if I ever said that to my boss, she’d send me brochures for retirement. Any sushi aficionados out there? Have you ever gone out for sushi with other people? If the answer is yes, then you were not dining with others; you were sushilizing. Bet you didn’t even realize that. I guess if you don’t go out for sushi, you are unsushilizing. How many of us have eaten chicken and waffles? Or bacon and ice cream? Together, during the same meal. I myself have not partaken of these particular combo delicacies. But those who have, ostensibly, have Brennered. Breakfast plus dinner (in some universe) equals brenner. I want to make up words too. I want to write my own dictionary. Here’s a few examples: 1. Napflix – what you need to take after you binged yourself senseless watching Netflix. 2. Mantrum – when a male gets really mad and stamps around and slams doors. 3. Nonversation – being with someone and not talking. Not a peep. 4. Afterclap – when one person in a crowd is still clapping after everyone else has stopped, and everyone turns and stares at the afterclapper. There’s a bunch more but frankly some of them are not fit to print. I think I found my retirement activity! Ilene Black has been a resident of Ewing for most of her life and lives across the street from her childhood home. She and her husband, George, have two sons, Georgie and Donnie.

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could see.” “Outdoor sports were much the same HELEN KULL as they are today. Sledding, sleighing and EWING THEN & NOW skating! Although the sleds were not the “flexible flyers” of today, still it’s the forThis month we reminisce one last tunate child of today who’s been sleightime with Patricia Whitehead Stoner ing with bells and horses and everything. and her reflections on Ewing’s past, Then in the summer there was fishing as recorded by her in 1940. Reading and swimming and digging for eels. through her 15-page paper written for a Marbles and checkers were enjoyed, but college assignment, and selecting por- cards were positively banned. They were tions to share, it feels to me somewhat a sin and not even to be thought of.” Of course, Mrs. Stoner also mentions like an archaeological dig. The paper is one small 8.5 x 11 source of “descrip- the Ewing Driving Park on the page tive artifacts,” revealing a tiny glimpse before, “a good half-mile [horse trotting] track, [which] has into a particular place and done much towards the time in Ewing’s past. improvement of the blood Here’s a sampling of of horses in the vicinity, those artifacts from life affording opportunities in the mid-1800s, in Mrs. for training not previously Stoner’s words, as told to accessible to the farmers her by older family memand horse owners of the bers and friends: township.” It’s curious On a typical 1860’s that card playing was farmhouse: The parlor banned, but horse racing was only used for special was accepted. occasions, and at other Trades: While farmtimes was kept religiously ing was by far the priclosed. If a speck of sunmary occupation within shine dared penetrate the Ewing, Mrs. Stoner menshades in order to try to Stoner tions other trades that fade the ingrain carpet, it were present around the was a very venturesome speck of sunshine indeed! There were the township: blacksmith, cobbler, wheeltraditional haircloth chairs and marble- wright; and in Birmingham there was topped tables. You had to step down two even a silversmith. Other businesses, steps into the kitchen. Rag rugs graced such as innkeeper, postmaster, schoolthe dining room and the upstairs, and master or mistress, storekeeper, were the ceiling and walls were whitewashed. found where the occasion demanded. And I would add, historian and Meals: The menu in those days was not particularly varied, but they got writer—as Patricia Whitehead Stoner along very well on meat, fried potatoes, was that and more. I am most appreciahomemade bread, butter and cottage tive of the Stoner family for supporting cheese. The food was cooked on a big iron the sharing of this reminiscence. *** stove. Chickens, cows, pigs, sheep, ducks, If you have a story to share, please geese and turkeys were part of every farm. Milk was kept cold in a spring, As email Helen at ewingthenandnow@ Cousin John termed it, ‘Twas a long way gmail.com. to the refrigerator.’ Cousin John continued, ‘We raised Helen Kull is an adviser to the Ewing all kinds of grains, and put up our own Township Historic Preservation Society. meat, pigs and beeves. We’d have a big hog killing and make sausage. All the neighbors would help and take their share home. Next time the neighbor would kill anything, we’d all have a share in it, and so on. It was a real cooperative system, and it worked fine!’ Fully Insured Cousin John adds, “We didn’t go into Free Estimates Trenton to buy often. We were so selfsufficient that the only things we needed were sugar, tea and raisins, and things like that. We’d buy enough for two or three weeks. The trolleys took about three quarters of an hour to get into Trenton, and we used to joke that a horse could get there much faster.” Social Activities: As for parties and good times, “we used to have a company every so often. That’s what we called them - ‘having a company.’ I can remember it yet. We most always had the same thing: pound cake, lemon butter, chicken and scalloped oysters. Then there [also] used to be quilting parties, with the quilt All Home Repairs spread out over ever so many women, And Renovations and a candle burning in a candlestick set right on top of the quilt, so the ladies

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