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By JULiA MArNiN AND JOe EMANsKi Peter Tierney’s relationship with his son, Koga, became strained in the fall of 2018, after Koga started attending Timberlane Middle School. Tierney and his wife, Naoko, would track Koga’s academic performance with Oncourse, the web portal by which parents can review all of a child’s school assignments in the Hopewell Valley Regional School District. Koga was routinely failing to turn in his homework. “We’d be tracking this catastrophe daily,” Tierney says. When they would approach their son about the missed assignments, he would angrily deny any wrongdoing. They fought with Koga, now 12, over his lying to cover up missed homework assignments. Although Koga’s test scores were high, the missed assignments were bringing his grades down. Tierney says Koga has been diagnosed with inattentive ADHD, or attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, and that ADHD was a reason behind his behavior. Still, knowing that did not mean the parents did not struggle to understand and address his actions. They worked with their son to help him get organized. When that did not work, they See HEART, Page 6

Healing art instructor Jane Zamost will present at the Hopewell Valley Arts Council’s spring ArtConnect Forum, set for March 26 at the Pennington School. (Photo by Svetlana Boyko.)

The healing power of art Zamost to present at healing art forum March 26 By MicheLe ALPeriN In 2014, painter and mixed media artist Jane Zamost volunteered for a brand-new program at Capital Health Medical Center in Hopewell, the healing hands mobile art cart, which brought art to patients of all ages and illnesses. “I really loved it and saw amazing results,” she says. “You’re going into a room and someone was sad or in pain or bored, and I saw how art very quickly just healed people in measurable ways.”

She recalls, for example, a little girl who was crying because she had a stomachache, and her parents didn’t know what to do. “In five minutes the child was laughing and drawing. I gave the mother a crossword puzzle, and the father was painting. In fi fteen minutes, the whole room’s environment changed,” Zamost says. She also remembers a very fragile patient who she thought wouldn’t be able to hold a paintbrush. “He was sitting up in a few moments, painting. I was shocked.” Zamost will be speaking at the ArtConnect Forum on Thursday, March 26, 6:30 to 8:30 p.m., the first of two forums exploring the theme “The Power of Art to Heal,” at the Pennington School’s Wesley

Forum in the Yen Humanities Building, 112 West Delaware Avenue. The other speaker is Diane Grillo, vice president, Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital Hamilton. The hospital’s integrative therapy nurse, Patricia McDougall, will also present. Two artists, Agata May’kowska and Paul Norris, will share stories of how art has helped heal and enrich their lives. Admission is $20 for nonmembers, free for Hopewell Valley Arts Council members. The forum, says executive director of the Hopewell Valley Arts Council Carol Lipson, was “created for people enthusiastic about art and artists.” Usually artists get together and talk about their inspirations, See ZAMOST, Page 4

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Students throughout the Hopewell Valley will have a little bit of free time this month. Hopewell Valley’s Night Off, is scheduled for Thursday, March 5. The event was planned by the Hopewell Valley Municipal Alliance along with the school district, who have organized school officials, sports teams, parents and community and religious leaders to take a break from overscheduling the district’s students and allow for personal time. The Night Off initiative was started in 2003 in response to the hectic schedules and increased workload of students and to promote the benefits of spending time with their families. By encouraging families to devote themselves to this uninterrupted time together, the HVMA, school district and community members hope that it is an opportunity all families will take advantage of this month. While superintendent of schools for Hopewell Valley Regional School District Thomas Smith manages coordinating the district schools’ schedules for setting a date, coordinator of the HVMA Heidi Kahme is responsible for reaching out to the community. “Our kids are very involved in activities, which is a good thing at times. It keeps kids out of trouble, but then again we need to find that balance of home time and activity time,” Kahme said. The Night Off is traditionally scheduled between the winter See OFF, Page 8

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FLUSH COLON CANCER: Know Your Risk Factors, Screening Guidelines and Treatment Options Wednesday, March 25, 2020 | 6 p.m. Capital Health Medical Center – Hopewell DR. ASHLEE GODSHALK RUGGLES, a board certified colorectal surgeon from Capital Health Surgical Group, will cover the different ways of testing for cancer and polyps and treatment options available. MELISSA PHELPS, a registered dietitian and certified specialist in oncology nutrition at the Capital Health Cancer Center, will discuss nutrition guidelines to promote the health of your colon. 55+ BREAKFAST SERIES – DEPRESSION: Not A Normal Part Of Aging Thursday, March 26, 2020 | 8:30 am - 10 a.m. Capital Health Medical Center – Hamilton Join DR. CHRISTI WESTON, medical director of Capital Health - Behavioral Health Specialists, to learn about the symptoms of depression, treatment options and prevention strategies. FREE HIP AND KNEE SCREENINGS Wednesday, April 15, 2020 | 5 – 7 p.m. Capital Health – Hamilton Meet one-on-one with orthopedic surgeons DR. ARJUN SAXENA or DR. CHRISTOPHER SELGRATH from Rothman Orthopaedic Institute, who will conduct a free screening and recommend next steps. Capital Health – Hamilton 1445 Whitehorse-Mercerville Road, Hamilton, NJ, 08619 Capital Health Medical Center – Hopewell One Capital Way, Pennington, NJ 08534, NJ PURE Conference Center

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Spring into Song, a collaboration among area vocal groups, will take place on March 29, from 2 to 4 p.m. at Central Church, 2015 Pennington Rd., in Ewing. Performing at this year’s event are the Trenton Children’s Chorus, the Hopewell Valley Chorus, Voices, the Capital Singers of Trenton and Solfege, a men’s a cappella group from Westminster Choir College of Rider University. There is no charge for admission, but free will contributions will provide tuition for Trenton Children’s Chorus singers selected for area summer programs that build choral skills. Since the first Spring into Song, the event has raised $65,000, supporting “camperships” for more than 60 talented and grateful young singers. For further information, email hopewellvalleychorus@gmail.com.

Equestrian facility earns accreditation Unicorn Therapeutic Riding in Pennington recently received its Premier Accreditation. Unicorn was re-accredited at the new Mercer County location by PATH as a Premier Accredited Facility. PATH (Professional Association of Therapeutic Horsemanship in Den-

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ZAMOST continued from Page 1 materials, and how they do what they do. In the upcoming forum, their fi fth, Grillo will share specific results of the hospital’s research on the coupling of holistic, alternative medicine with traditional healing methods using drugs. May’kowska will talk about how art helped save her from an abusive relationship, and Norris will speak of how he found art while he was incarcerated. As a child Zamost remembers drawing mushrooms and mountains and making a collage of a little town out of different fabrics and papers for her bedroom. She also wrote a novel about what she thought her life would be like. Although Zamost has been able to maintain that spark of creativity throughout her life, many lose it. “Everyone’s got a creative sense that some people allow to materialize,” she says. “When you look at childhood, when we’re kids, you just dive in to crayons or finger paints. You have no intuition of failure; you do it for the fun of it.” But then someone may say something that stops the child’s creative flow, like “you’re best at math,” “color inside the lines,” or “the ratio between the head and neck must be x.” “You need to get those voices out of your head and let yourself be free. When you have freedom, you can get into your creative flow,” Zamost says. Although she has always done crafts, she didn’t have time to return to serious painting until her youngest child

was four or five. She was taking conventional portraiture classes at Artworks in Trenton, but got bumped out of the third class in the series. That’s when she found teacher and artist Kate Appel in Lambertville, who completely changed her artistic process. “She allowed me the freedom of going for expressive art,” Zamost says. Appel would say to her, “I’m not going to tell you what I think of your paintings or what to do. If you get frustrated, I’ll help guide you.” The “lessons” in Appel’s kitchen started with meditation, which Appel taught her how to do. Zamost recalls. “I started with tempera paint on crummy paper, what they use in kindergarten. I was used to canvases and oils, and it was very freeing. I just loved it, being able to self express.” “I would realize within two hours there that I would be telling stories on my paper, things I didn’t think about telling.” She might, for example, be painting the travails of dealing with a teenager or expressing how beautiful the day is or how difficult. “I realized that was the part of art I really loved—that ability to not have a judgment, not decide what my outcome was going to be in my artwork,” she says. Zamost was born in 1958 and grew up in Highland Park, where her father, also a Highland Park native, owned a lumberyard with his two brothers; their father had founded it. Later he did sales in the lumber industry. Her mother was a homemaker. Her maternal grand-

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mother, who was English, lived with them and, Zamost says, “We had four o’clock teatime everyday.” She recalls many familial gatherings at her home because her father’s entire family was in Highland Park and her mother’s not too far away. When Zamost matriculated at Rutgers University, she wanted to be an art therapist. But because there was no art therapy major, she started taking courses in both art and psychology. By junior year, she was “involved in art in a big way,” doing a little commercial art on the side, and fulfilling requirements for an art major. Junior year she studied second semester in London at the Sir John Cass School of Art and the London Polytechnic. “That was a very different way of learning,” she recalls. “We would have full day art programs, and if you didn’t feel like sculpture one day, they would say, ‘Go paint, go draw, do whatever you want.’ It was a very loose environment, with people of all different ages and cultures, and that really broadened my view of art.” Along the way a professor noticed that Zamost was “a good talker” and suggested that she pursue communications as a minor, which she did. Although she had planned to be a professional artist, she couldn’t really afford the costs of participating in art shows. Instead she got a job in a very small advertising agency in New Jersey, but quickly moved to Burson-Marsteller. She started in 1980 doing paste-up, but ended up as an account executive, responsible for McNeil Consumer Products (makers of Tylenol), Pitney Bowes, and Pfizer Pharmaceuticals. In 1983 she had been thinking seriously of going back into art and studying interior design, when she called a cousin in the medical education product business; she proposed that she would freelance for him to earn the money she needed for school. He responded that she should come work for him fulltime at his company, Projects in Knowledge, and go to school part time. She accepted and started out as a project director in medical education, where she managed and supported projects like publications, meetings, and education from beginning to end. After training someone in sales, she decided she wanted to do sales herself. Her last position at Projects in Knowledge, where she worked for 12 years, was senior vice president. While she was a single parent, Zamost met her husband, Gary Karlin, a urologist in Lawrenceville, who was widowed with two boys. She moved to Central Jersey and commuted for a while, but after she had another child, she says, “I decided it was time to take off and blend our families.” She enjoyed being a full-time mom and school and community activist, but one day her husband gave her an amazing gift that brought her full circle back to painting. He told her he had some-

thing upstairs that he wanted to show her. To her surprise, “He had a whole studio set up for me in my attic, and he said, ‘You know, I think it’s time for you to get back into art.’” In 2012 Zamost was a co-founder of LUX, a working studio and gallery at 13 Railroad Place in Hopewell. She created works and commissions in paint, mixed media, and jewelry for both residential and commercial clients, and she managed gallery operations, receptions, and publicity until mid-2014. Zamost learned about the mobile art cart when she was a member of the arts and healing committee at Capital Health. In 2017, after three years of volunteering, she learned of an opening for a healing arts coordinator at the hospital that Lipson urged her to apply for. She got the job, a part-time position that involved managing the art cart program, grantwriting, broadening the permanent art collections in both the Hopewell location and the Capital Health Regional Medical Center in Trenton, and managing the rotating art shows and receptions. She loved the work, but last year decided she missed one-onone involvement with Exceptional Ear, Nose and Throat Care Close to Home. patients and other people and decided to get If you need to see an Nose Ear, Nose or Throat Throat doctor, you can access the highest quality care close to home. Exceptional Ear, and Care Close to Home. Penn Medicine Becker ENT offers nose and sinus, allergy, voice and swallowing, ears and hearing, sleep back to doing art in her and snoring, and neck and thyroid services. Another reason your life is worth Penn Medicine. studio while running If you need to see an Ear, or Throat doctor, Now accepting new patients at moreNose than 10 locations. healing arts workshops. you can access the highest quality care close to home. During March, Social Exceptional Ear, Nose and Throat Care Close to Home. Ear, Nose and Throat Care Close to Home. Penn Medicine Becker ENT offers nose and sinus, Norm at 52 Main Street Exceptional in Flemington will be allergy, voice and swallowing, ears hearing, sleep Same dayan appointments Ifneed you need to Ear, Nose oravailable! Throat canand access the quality highestcare quality care close to home. to see ansee Ear, Nose or Throat doctor, doctor, you canyou access the highest close to home. Schedule your appointment by calling showcasing Zamost’s work. The open- If youand snoring, and neck and thyroid services. Penn Medicine Becker ENT offers nose and sinus, allergy, voice and swallowing, ears and hearing, sleep ENT offers nose Beckerent.com. and sinus, allergy, voice and swallowing, earsEar, and Nose hearing, sleep 609-436-5740 or visiting Becker & Throat ing is Friday, March 6, from 6 to 10 p.m. Penn Medicine Becker and snoring, and neckthyroid andyour thyroid services. Another reason life is worth Penn Medicine. Another reason life is worth Penn Medicine. and snoring, and neck and services. Another reason your lifeyour is worth Penn Medicine. In her workshops—which she has Now accepting new patients atthan more 10 locations. accepting new patients at new more 10than locations. accepting patients at more than 10 locations. done for diverse places including Capi- Now Now tal Health, Hope Loves Company, and as part of an emotional wellness program for students at the Peddie School— day appointments available! day appointments available! Zamost shares what she has learned SameSame your appointment by calling Schedule your appointment by calling through her own work and experiences Schedule 609-436-5740 or visiting Beckerent.com. BeckerBecker Ear, Nose Throat 609-436-5740 or visiting Beckerent.com. Ear,&Nose & Throat about the creative process. “I go in and tell people I am going to start them fresh, take them back to kindergarten, and ask them to not judge and not have an idea of what their intended outcome is,” she says. Easily accessible to participants are paint, markers, colored pencils, and collage materials. “I tell people to start with one thing: a color they love or hate or an emotion or a word, whether hope or frustration, belief or freedom, and I ask them to let their creative juices begin to flow.” She also plays music or drumming in half-hour stretches to awaken creative responses to sensory changes. Zamost describes her own state of being while doing art. “When I get into my studio, I could have problems, but I go into my Zen-like moment, and I’m there. I’m not dealing with the difficulty of the day.” She adds that others may reach a similar place by observing art, listening to music, or watching theatre or a movie. “You go into a zone,” she says. “To https://www.fetchpetcare.com/w-trenton-yardley-pa lead a healthy life, you need to have those moments of being away, being in a zone, so you can refresh yourself.” “My belief is that art nourishes the soul.”

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HEART continued from Page 1 took away games, they took away Koga’s access to YouTube, they took away desserts. Nothing they tried worked. “It just led to more fighting and less and less work getting done,” Tierney says. Koga’s failures to complete assignments would earn him rebukes at school, and the misbehavior fed itself. “He’d feel like an idiot for forgetting (to do his homework) and became even less motivated to do any work. He felt depressed, and we’d be back up at the top of the cycle, but worse,” Tierney says. Things changed for the Tierney family after they were introduced to a parenting technique that would help them make progress with Koga and quell the hostility in their home. The technique is called the Nurtured Heart Approach. The Tierneys and many other parents within the Hopewell School District have been trained in this approach in recent years by Christine Abrahams, the supervisor of K-12 counseling services at the Hopewell Valley School District. Abrahams is holding more training sessions in April. As supervisor for K-12 counseling services, Abrahams works with counselors and principals at all of the schools in the district. She doesn’t work with children directly, but she does work with counselors on their cases and also comes up with ideas for districtwide programming, including the Nurtured Heart Approach. “As I started training more parents I

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Heart Approach that Abrahams gives. Abrahams says that when she first heard about the NHA, 10 years ago, she wasn’t convinced that it made sense. It wasn’t until she took the six-week training program herself a few years later Adjusting a parent’s that she knew it was something she wanted to bring to the district. approach The district sent her to become a The Nurtured Heart Approach was certified trainer in June 2019. As soon created by Howard Glasser. Its main as she returned from training she partideas are founded in three principles, or nered with the Hopewell Valley Municipal Alliance to offer train“stands”: ignore the negaing sessions to parents tive, energize the positive, during the year. and have clear rules. It “I [thought], ‘This will seeks to revise how parsolve a lot of relationship ents approach issues with issues parents are having their children. with kids, a lot of anxiUsing the approach ety issues that kids are has put Peter Tierney having,’ she says. “As I and his family on a path started training more partowards peace. But before ents, I saw how it was like that could happen, Tiermagical with them. They ney had to realize that he got so much out of it. Relaneeded to adjust his own tionships with their chilapproach to parenting for dren really blossomed.” his son’s behavior to posiAbrahams says a key tively change. Abrahams to the Nurtured Heart Symptoms of inattenApproach is helping partive ADHD include a short attention span, distractibility, for- ents of challenging children find a way getfulness and procrastination. So in to focus on the positive instead of the Koga’s case, scolding had no positive negative. The result of this approach is effects, but it did have negative ones. often an increase of confidence and self Tierney saw that Koga had begun to esteem. “Kids who are very challenging are lose confidence. When tensions within the Tierney used to being denigrated or put down home were at their worst, a friend sug- or lectured or yelled at, and that’s what gested that Tierney and his wife attend they see about themselves. They don’t the six-week training for the Nurtured see anything good,” Abrahams says. “[NHA] gives them an alternative view of themselves — that they are doing most things right most of the time.” Tierney admits that implementing the NHA did not go so smoothly during the six-week training period. However, he did see improvements. “As soon as we changed our behavior, his behavior changed immediately too,” Tierney says. The Tierneys looked to focus on County Office of Economic Development Koga’s positive behavior. They praised and UCEDC present: him when he turned in his homework, instead of castigating him when he failed to do so. Tierney says after the change in approach, Koga started completing and handing in homework assignments by himself. A FREE WORKSHOP! “When we stop focusing on the negasaw how it was magical with them, they got so much out of it, relationships with their children really blossomed,” Abrahams says.

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tive and focused on the positive, we didn’t have any more fights with Koga,” he says. “He was doing little things, like taking dishes from the table to the sink, which he’d never done before. It’s a little thing, but we were praising him for the small things.” The Tierneys stopped checking OnCourse as frequently as they had before. And Tierney says he does not become too frustrated when Koga misses an assignment, because he knows it will be addressed by his teacher. “We gave up that kind of control,” Tierney says. “Now, he is in control. I think that gave him some of the confidence that he needed.” Tierney cautions that it can be difficult to always adhere to the method. “It’s easy to slip up and revert to bad habits,” Tierney says. “But what remains is awareness. Even if we do behave in our old ways, we can recognize it, speak to it, and try to avoid it in the future. So when we fail, at least we are failing forward.”

‘It’s about energy’ Abrahams characterizes NHA as a mindfulness practice. “Not a behavioral analysis plan for your child; it’s about energy,” she says. Deepa Salvi’s daughter Rina is a 7-year-old Stony Brook Elementary School student. One day recently, teacher Basheer Khan told Salvi that her daughter was exhibiting negative behavior in class. She suggested that Salvi get trained in the Nurtured Heart approach. What Salvi did not realize before attending the December training sessions offered by Abrahams was that it was going to impact her even more than it would affect her daughter. Salvi attended the training sessions, then began to incorporate the NHA method into daily use in her home. Like the Tierneys, she focused on recognizing and praising her children’s positive behaviors. “We implemented it not just for one particular behavior but a lot of behaviors,” Salvi says. “We saw a difference everyday. The more we would focus on what she is doing right, which is kind of contrary to how we were parenting, Rina’s behavior totally transformed.” Salvi even potty trained her twoyear-old son Rohan in four days while

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using the approach. “If he had an accident, we didn’t make a big deal about it.” Salvi says. “In four days, he was in underwear.” Salvi says in the past, she would have pointed out and put more energy toward her children’s negative behaviors. “When we would energize the negative behaviors, those would be the times we’d be the most connected,” she says. So sometimes Rina would do things just for the attention, even if it was a negative behavior,” Salvi says. Salvi acknowledges simple actions such as when Rina and Rohan are playing nicely together, when they clear their plates on their own or empty their school bags. “I have to be present to notice. Even the basic things we energize,” she says. Praising her problem-solving successes helped Rina build confidence. Now, Salvi says, whenever Rina encounters a problem, she will call herself a good problem solver and attempt to tackle the issue at hand. Salvi believes it would be a great thing if all teachers became trained in the NHA. “I think it’s a great way to run a classroom,” she says. Abrahams agrees. In September, with the blessing of Tollgate Grammar School principal Jane-Ellen Lennon and district director of curriculum Rosetta Treece, she trained all staff at the school. “I realized if teachers started doing it … the same message would be getting to the child (from both), that they have inherent greatness,” she says.

did not for Leo. “Once he didn’t get a star, the whole day was ruined for him. Or, he would say he didn’t want the reward,” Jacobs says. She has also tried the technique of counting from 1, 2, and 3 before issuing a time out if her children were engaging in negative behavior. When counting did lead to a time out, the result was often not what she was hoping for. “I found that my children would escalate in their little quarantine. It never worked,” Jacobs says. She tried out another parenting approach based on shaming. “A kid is doing something wrong and you bring in an outside adult to become a part of the situation. The theory is that the kid misbehaving is now visible to someone that he does not want to be visible to. The kid feels horrible,” she says. A lot of these approaches felt uncomfortable for Jacobs, especially the shaming technique. When she started using the NHA and recognizing her children’s positive actions, Jacobs says they immediately noticed. “If my kids forgot 4 or 5 things they were supposed to do in the morning, but I point out one things that they did well…they love that,” she says. “They both light up when I tell them something that they’re doing really well. Leo’s made a lot of progress because he feels good.” Now, Jacobs says Leo pull himself out of bad moods within seconds, rather than them taking over his entire day. “You don’t have to have a war with your kids,” she says. “Normal things like not putting their dishes away, doing their laundry, they’re not fatal...things don’t have to be so serious.” The NHA is the first approach that has worked and had a positive effect on both of her children. “Being a teenager is incredibly hard and both needed some confidence boosting. My son has had behavioral challenges since he was younger, and that’s also one of the reasons why I do look at different techniques [parenting],” she says.

At its heart, Abrahams says, the Nurtured Heart Approach is a lifestyle change.

Proactive positivity Angela Jacobs has always been a proactive parent. She has sought out different parenting techniques and classes over the years as her children, Leo and Emma, have gone through each stage of their lives. That commitment to lifelong learning has not stopped now that Leo and Emma are in high school. Jacobs attended Abrahams’ training in winter 2018 after hearing about it through an email from the school district. Leo is 18 years old and has a general diagnosed mood disorder. He suffers with anxiety and is in a learning-disabled class. “I think that with intellectually disabled people who often have mood disorders, there’s so many challenges that they face---the world can be very scary. Leo tells me that,” Jacobs says. Jacobs is familiar with parenting approaches she refers to as “less positive,” such as the star chart method. She would give her children stars for completing responsibilities, and gaining stars would lead to rewards. It worked for Emma when she was younger, but

trated with how his wife and him were communicating with him. “We were searching for a better way to get to know our children as they are getting older, and looking for the best way to connect with them,” Petura says. Once he started energizing his children’s positive behavior, he noticed how they started cooperating with him more. Now, Petura says connecting with his children is a lot easier. “The challenges we have with Cavan are no different, but now we work as a team together, and it is a much more positive result,” he says. Sticking with the NHA has been the most challenging part of implementing it for Petura and he compares it to sticking to a diet after the third week. He believes the NHA’s principles and training is something that needs to be revisited, and he would attend another training offered by Abrahams. “As parents, the stresses of the day and other aspects of life make keeping to the NHA principles challenging. We have come back to many of its elements as a core approach. With consistency the change in you and your children is very noticeable,” Petura says. *** At its heart, Abrahams says, the Nurtured Heart Approach is a lifestyle change. “You can use it with your spouse, your pets, children,” she says. Salvi says she has found herself implementing the ideals of the approach in all

aspects of her life. “Initially we were doing it to be better parents. But not only has it changed our relationship with our kids, I think it’s (also) seeped into my relationship with my husband, my relationship with my coworkers, and my relationship with myself,” she says. “That was a very unexpected gift, to have this transformation not only with the intention of transforming others or my children but also to transform myself.” One of the first things Abrahams tells parents in training is that they’re not there to “fix” their children. Through the Nurtured Heart Approach, “Parents have to look within and work on their (own) stuff, because their buttons are being pushed,” she says. When parents yell and punish their kids, Abrahams says, the kids become conditioned to get an emotional charge from the negative attention. “Versus if they’re doing something right, they’re not noticed and that’s kind of boring,” she says. “Or at best, a parent will say ‘Good job,’ and that doesn’t rock their boat. When you start ramping up (the positive attention) as a parent or a teacher, that’s what rocks their boat, and they love it.” The upcoming NHA parenting training sessions will start on April 15 and run through May 20. They are given in the Hopewell Valley Regional School District office conference room at 425 S. Main St., Pennington. One session is from 9 to 11 a.m. and the other is from 6 to 8 p.m. Parents in the district will receive a notice this month.

Connecting with your kids Managing four children’s tight schedules and different activities was becoming difficult for Kenyon Petura. He wanted to find the right parenting approach that would work for all of his children, one of which has special needs. The Nurtured Heart Approach was his solution. Petura attended Abrahams’ training last spring. His son Cavan, who is 8 years old and attends Stony Brook, has epilepsy and is developmentally delayed. Petura noticed how Cavan was frus-

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OFF continued from Page 1 and spring sport seasons and before the spring musical gets into full swing. By setting a date early on, Smith and Kahme look to reserve the day before anyone or any organization starts filling up their calendar. It is something that the Alliance, school district and participating families have come to see as a staple event that is eagerly anticipated each year. “It’s something we really believe in as a district,” Smith said. The HVMA is a volunteer organization that works with groups including local government, the school district and sports organizations to identify and address at risk behavior among the community’s youth population. The organization runs over 20 programs, including Hopewell Valley’s Night Off, focusing on drug and alcohol education and prevention. The Alliance opens its table to all community members to hopefully include everyone down to preschools, daycares and local business. By encouraging more entities to partake in the Night Off initiative, more community members can enjoy its benefits. “It really helped spur a lot of conversations about overscheduling our students and district activities,” Smith said. The response that the HVMA received after sending out a survey a few years ago to crowdsource what families were doing on their Night Off showed over 400 people in the community who took advantage of the day. “I think really that opportunity for families to be together helps build confidence in our kids, it helps teach children to

interact with one another,” Kahme said. The Alliance’s mission against substance abuse in the community is supported by its encouragement of sharing time together— especially by sharing a meal. “I know that there are a number of studies that are out that say making an effort to at least be together for one family meal a week really can reduce a lot of negative behaviors amongst youth, primarily drugs and alcohol,” Kahme said. By also relieving the pressures of homework and school and sporting events on the evening, children are given the mental space and physical time to dedicate themselves to their families. JoAnn Markiewicz is also a parent who benefits from the Night Off initiative. Markiewicz is a member of the HVMA executive board, as well as the co-founder of Helpwell, a district-wide program that works to connect volunteers to appropriate organizations. The 20-year Hopewell resident has taken part in the Night Off with her family since its origin and has looked forward to it every year since. Markiewicz, who has a child in high school, says that getting to spend that quality family time is a wonderful guarantee on Night Off. “We definitely love it and we benefit by it because our kids are overworked and it’s a great night for them to just turn everything else off,” Markiewicz said. Through her connection with the Alliance and her personal experience with Night Off, Markiewicz explained that it will be sad once her last child graduates, as this initiative has brought together a collection of great memories over the years.

Bear Tavern students practice yoga on a recent Wellness Day, held in conjunction with the annual Hopewell Valley Night Off. “It brings us together and we all have a common goal, and it’s the safety and wellbeing of our children,” she said. For the past few years the Night Off has stressed the issue of powering down devices as part of togetherness. A side effect of both children and adults being attached to their devices is a lack of personal interaction. “We hope this is an opportunity for even parents to be putting their phones down and stepping away from the computer and really spending time together that will form these great connections between family members,” Kahme said. “I mean, otherwise, how are you going to get to know your kid if you’re not sitting down and having that face to face quality time with no distractions?” Planning family events for the Night

Off can be anything from having that family meal together to playing board games. The HVMA has even listed some other alternative ideas. One elementary school has been taking the town’s Night Off date to spearhead its own event, Wellness Day, that encompasses similar ideals. Bear Tavern Elementary School will be celebrating its third Wellness Day, which started as a mindfulness initiative that promotes kids to be present in the moment, be more attentive and feel more relaxed through participating in multiple activities such as meditation and yoga. Although for the last two years Bear Tavern has held their Wellness Day on Night Off, they have opted to push it to a warmer date on May 27 this year in hopes that they will be able to utilize more of their outdoor spaces for activities. Coordinating with Night Off made sense, as the message of taking time for yourself, unwinding and unplugging were all themes that spoke to Bear Tavern’s initiative. “For our Wellness Day, not only do we have mindfulness activities, but we also have yoga and gardening and cooking and all different types of activities and sports… all different things that kids might enjoy participating in that gives them a sense of wellbeing,” Bear Tavern’s school psychologist Dr. Beth Hoffman said. The school still intends to highlight mindfulness on March 5. Through Kahme, the school has built further ties in the community, allowing for different activities to be offered to the students, including nature walks and workshops led by parents and community members.

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TRADITIONAL DAY CAMP (GRADES K-6) Entering Grades Kindergarten – 6th Hopewell Valley YMCA Camp’s goal is for campers to have fun, build friendships and make memories that will last a lifetime. Campers will get to grow individually and as a team through our extensive hands on curriculum. Campers will be placed in groups based on age and participate in specialty activities such as: arts & Traditional Day Camp Session Dates: crafts, games, sports and science. June 22 – August 28, 2020 ALL campers receive instructional and recreational swimming during Hours and Fees: the week as well as a daily snack  YMCA Core Camp Day: 8:00 am – 6:00 pm $340 / week / camper and a weekly field trip to an  YMCA Flex Camp Day: 8:30 am– 4:00 pm $299 / week / camper (ends August 21) exciting location!  YMCA All Day Camp: 7:00 am – 6:30 pm $375 / week / camper Camp Location: Toll Gate Grammar 275 South Main Street Pennington, NJ 08534

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Hopewell Valley YMCA Mission The Hopewell Valley YMCA is a charitable organization dedicated to building a healthy spirit, mind and body through programs which promote good health, strong families, youth leadership and community development. YMCA’s are open to men, women and children of all ages, abilities, races and religions.

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sports Boyer and Gaissert using their heads for Hopewell hockey By Rich Fisher Sophomores Mike Boyer and Lucas Gaissert have marched to the front of the scoring parade for the Hopewell Valley Central High ice hockey team this season, but the biggest difference in their games from a year ago cannot be seen by the fans. Unless they are all neurosurgeons. “I knew coming into the year both of them had a lot of skill and a lot of speed, it’s just this year they’ve added the mental aspect to it,” said coach Jeff Radice, whose 15-6-2 team is preparing for the state tournament. “That goes a long way in hockey. People forget that. your brain is your most powerful tool and those two have definitely used it. They’ve used their brain, used each other, used their teammates. They’ve been nothing but great.” The two enter state play tied for the team lead in goals with 15, while Gaissert led in assists (16) and points (31) and Boyer was second in assists (11) and points (26). “They’ve been absolutely incredible,” senior captain Ethan Block said. “You don’t usually see a lot of underclassmen stepping up like that but we

Hopewell sophomores Mike Boyer and Lucas Gaissert have stepped up their mental game for the Bulldogs’ varsity hockey squad. (Photo by Rich Fisher.) certainly have to rely on them for a lot of our points. We have a short bench with some injuries. We needed guys to step up and they definitely did that and I really appreciate it.” Their consistency has been remark-

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plays lacrosse, while Boyer is a baseball player who also plays hockey. “Baseball is my main sport,” said Boyer, who started for the varsity team as a freshman. “I’m gonna try to play baseball in college. But hockey is fun for me. I didn’t play club hockey this year, I just wanted to come out, make the most of it and have some fun this year. So that’s what I’m doing right now.” That’s not to say he doesn’t have a history with hockey. Boyer started skating at age 3 and began travel hockey at 6 years old with the Mercer Chiefs. He moved on to the Stars, Princeton and back to the Chiefs before opting to focus on the diamond other than the high school hockey season. His time away from the ice seems to have done more good than harm. “I don’t know if (skipping club) gave me a rest or what,” Boyer said. “I came out a little slow but I started to get my legs back and I started to feel a little better. Now I’m here and I guess I’m back to technical play.” Gaissert began skating “at age two or three” and began organized hockey when he was 4. He played on area clubs in Lawrence, Nassau and Mercer, and is

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now with the Philadelphia Blazers. For him, lacrosse is the side sport as hockey is his focus. Despite going to the same elementary school, the Pennington residents never played together until they arrived at HVCHS. Their partnership has yielded dividends. “I like playing with him,” Boyer said. “We have fun together.” The two had varying freshman seasons. Boyer tallied nine goals and six assists and had a hat trick against Pennington. Gaissert was slowed by injury last year. He scored two goals in his first high school game against Steinert but picked up just two assists the remainder of the season. With both players healthy and playing full shifts as linemates this year, the production boomed. “Since the first game we’ve played together we’ve had good chemistry with each other,” Gaissert said. “We’re really passing a lot more. I think we really decided to go out this year, give our all and help the team out.” Boyer feels that the two have quickly gained a cohesiveness through mutual admiration. “We’ve never really been on the same club team but I think that kind of contributes to why we do so well together on the high school level,” he said. “I feel like we’ve kind of developed a respect for each other and can really respond to each other on the backdoor.” Radice agreed, saying “They work pretty well together. Depending on the day; we like to change things up but they

work pretty well, so we usually try to keep them together.” Aside from being impressed with their minds, the coach is quick to point out the duo also has some pretty good physical gifts. “Both of those two guys have a ton of skill and a ton of speed to use to their advantage,” Radice said. “They look to each other on the ice. They take pucks wide and power them to the net and it’s greater success for both of them.” It’s the fact they can skate so fast that makes them truly formidable. “They definitely both have speed as their top attribute,” Radice continued. “They’re speedy players. And not everybody has those natural goal scoring abilities. It’s something you’re born with or born without. Both of them have been lucky enough to be graced with it by the hockey gods. It’s something they’ve used to their advantage for sure.” Both players agree with their coach as to what they bring to the table. “I think my speed to the outside, and power to the net with my body is probably my best feature,” Boyer said. Gaissert noted “It’s probably some speed, some shot and playmaking ability. I try to see the ice. But you can always get better.” Indeed you can, and Block can’t wait for when it happens. “I’m looking forward to seeing what they do in their junior and senior years,” the captain said, “because they’re really gonna take the league by storm.”

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Hopewell Township

40 Bayberr y Road. Seller: Randall and Marion Finken. Buyer: Richard and Leigh Myers. Two-story Colonial. 5 bedrooms, 4 baths. $890,000 (-$104,000). 120 Province Line Road. Seller: William Egan III and Pauline Egan. Buyer: Amrik Shah and Navdeep Boparai. Three-plus-story Contemporary. 6 bedrooms, 6.5 baths. $948,500 (-$439,500). 37 Patterson Avenue. Seller: Ruth and Eric Turner estates. Buyer: Thomas Sablom. 1.5-story Cape Cod. 4 bedrooms, 1 bath. $300,000 (-$25,000). 24 Chicor y Lane. Seller: Craig and Isobel Derusha. Buyer: Taher Modarressi and Hanaa Rohman. Two-story Colonial in Brandon Farms. 4 bedrooms, 2.5 baths. $625,000. 275 Pennington-Harbourton Road. Seller: Harold and Lisa Schell. Buyer: Christina and Steven Zampino. Ranch. 3 bedrooms, 1.5 baths. $360,000 (-$24,500). 18 Route 31 South. Seller: Clifford and Debbie Banks. Buyer: Thomas and Margaret Noble. Ranch. 3 bedrooms, 2 baths. $295,000 (-$4,900). 8 Bonner Court. Seller: Peggy and Joseph Bezek. Buyer: Dongdi Liu and Vicky Chen. Two-story Colonial in Brandon Farms. 4 bedrooms, 2.5 baths. $499,000 (-$20,900). 3 Pine Tavern Court. Seller: Martin and Colleem Birkhofer. Buyer: Pedro Rodriguez and Jessica Simon. Twostory Colonial. 5 bedrooms, 3 baths. $845,000 (-$5,000). 2 Coventr y Lane. Seller: Tad and Sara Gruenewald. Buyer: Massimo Schiavon and Antoinette Borromeo. Two-story Traditional in Heritage Hills. 5 bedrooms, 2.5 baths. $630,000 (-$39,000). 1 Fabrow Drive. Seller: Anthony Delpeche. Buyer: James Loper and Stacy Robson. Ranch. 3 bedrooms, 3 baths. $349,900 (-$40,000). 5 Western Pine Street. Seller: Robert and Mary Enck. Buyer: Betty and Robert Janks. Two-story Colonial in Elm Ridge Park. 5 bedrooms, 4.5 baths. $960,000 (-$38,000). 4 North Woods Drive. Seller: Michael and JoAnn Hageman. Buyer: Bryan and Stacie Delaney. Ranch in Elm Ridge Park. 3 bedrooms, 3.5 baths. $550,000 ($59,000). 253 Old Penn Law Road East. Seller: Zdzislaw Mioduszewski. Buyer: Alex and Meredith Daniel. Two-story Cape Cod. 4 bedrooms, 2.5 baths. $422,000 (-$62,900). 108 Howard Way. Seller: James and Nancy Valanzola. Buyer: Matthew Hutchinson and Kelly Simon. Two-story Colonial in Princeton Farms. 4 bedrooms, 2.5 baths. $423,500 (-$65,500).

1259 Bear Tavern Road. Seller: Lynda and Paul Cottingham. Buyer: David Gargano. Ranch. 3 bedrooms, 1.5 baths. $375,000 (-$20,000). 23 Tanglewood Drive. Seller: Sanjeev and Anita Srinivas. Buyer: George Zhou and Yang Cao. Three-plus-story Contemporary in Hopewell Ridge. 6 bedrooms, 5 baths, 2 half baths. $890,000 (-$308,000). 7 Silvers Court. Seller: Elm Ridge Investments. Buyer: Mithun Sahdev and Megha Shah. Single-family home. 5 bedrooms, 4.5 baths. $1,790,566 ($320,566). 16 Lafayette Avenue. Seller: Megan Whitman and Navin Mangalee. Buyer: Tara and Kimberly Wildszewski. Ranch. 3 bedrooms, 2 baths. $339,000. 103 Treymore Court. Seller: Andrew Youard. Buyer: David and Virginia Mylowe. Townhouse in Brandon Farms. 3 bedrooms, 2.5 baths. $335,000 (-$4,900). 75 Van Dyke Road. Seller: Erhardt and Kili Preitauer. Buyer: Manuel and Jacqueline Rivera. Two-story Colonial in Heritage Hills. 4 bedrooms, 4 baths. $720,000 (-$19,900). 139 Coburn Road. Seller: Alissa and John O’Shaughnessy. Buyer: Benjamin Gilgoff. Condo in Twin Pines. 2 bedrooms, 2.5 baths. $340,000 (-$9,000). 166 Coburn Road. Seller: Simon and Fiona King. Buyer: Lynne Hawkins. Townhouse in Twin Pines. 2 bedrooms, 2.5 baths. $335,000 (-$28,000). 707 Pebble Creek Court. Seller: Jiawen Zhou. Buyer: Yan Zhang. Townhouse in Brandon Farms. 3 bedrooms, 2.5 baths. $315,000 (-$14,000).

PENNINGTON BOROUGH Kathryn Baxter $279,000 MLS# NJME290306

HOPEWELL TOWNSHIP Jennifer E Curtis $860,000 MLS# NJME287766

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HOPEWELL TOWNSHIP Gina Marie Spaziano $914,900 MLS# NJME291580

HOPEWELL TOWNSHIP Michael Monarca $389,000 MLS# NJME290956

HOPEWELL TOWNSHIP Owen ‘Jones’ Toland $995,000 MLS# NJME291080

HOPEWELL TOWNSHIP Catherine C Nemeth $535,000 MLS# NJME286240

HOPEWELL TOWNSHIP David M Schure $2,250,000 MLS# NJME266414

PENNINGTON BOROUGH Catherine C Nemeth $618,500 MLS# NJME290066

HOPEWELL TOWNSHIP Norman T Callaway, Jr $7,750,000 MLS# NJME284860

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3 Eaton Court. Seller: Nancy Baxter. Buyer: Judith Hunt. Two-story Traditional. 2 bedrooms, 1.5 baths. $320,000 (-$15,000). 69 North Greenwood Avenue. Seller: NRZ Reo VII and Resolute Asset Management. Buyer: 207 Branchill LLC. 2.5-story Colonial. 3 bedrooms, 1 bath. $151,501 (-$48,000). 72 West Broad Street. Seller: Margaret and Patricia Kuntz. Buyer: Millstone Capital Management. LLC. Twostory Colonial. 3 bedrooms, 2 baths. $175,000 (-$174,000).

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114 Woolsey Court. Seller: Donald Grooms Estate. Buyer: Myra Kushnirchuk. Flat in Pennington Point. 1 bedroom, 1 bath. $110,000 (-$18,965). 443 Sked Street. Seller: Todd and Susan Paige. Buyer: Jeffrey Shain and Jennifer Mozet. Ranch. 4 bedrooms, 2 baths. $468,000 (-$107,000). 195 West Welling Avenue. Seller: Suzanne Simon. Buyer: Michael and Julie Phipps. Two-story Cape Cod. 3 bedrooms, 2 baths, 2 half baths. $486,250 (-$42,750). 212 North Main Street. Seller: Calvin and Kathleen Starcher. Buyer: Kelly Leech. Three-story Dutch. 5 bedrooms, 2.5 baths. $480,000.

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calendar of events Sunday, March 1

Farmhouse Tour, Benjamin Temple House, 27 Federal City Road, Ewing, 609-883-2455. Tour and information on the families who called the house home. 2 p.m.

Wednesday, March 4

Landscaping with Native Plants, Hopewell Public Library, Hopewell Train Station, 2 Railroad Place, Hopewell, 609-466-1625. redlibrary.org. Presentation by native garden designer Judith Robinson. Free. 7 p.m. Do I Still Need My Gynecologist?, Hopewell Library, 245 Pennington-Titusville Road, Hopewell, 609-737-2610. mcl.org. Talk on post-menopausal healthcare needs. Register. 7 p.m. Story Time with Ms. Kim, Pennington Library, 30 N. Main St., Pennington, 609-7370404. penningtonlibrary.org. Rhymes, music and a story for ages 2-4 accompanied by adults. 11 a.m. Fiber Arts Circle, Hopewell Library, 245 Pennington-Titusville Road, Hopewell, 609737-2610. mcl.org. Bring a needle-craft project to work on. 7 p.m. New Jersey State Button Society, Mercer County Chapter, Lawrence Library, 2751 Brunswick Pike, Lawrence, 609-883-8292. Open meeting. 7 p.m. Hopewell Township Seniors Spring Play Preview, Hopewell Valley Central High School Performing Arts Center, 259 Pennington Titusville Road, Pennington, 609737-0605. 1:50 p.m.

Thursday, March 5

Different Decade Dance Party: Disco, Hopewell Theater, 5 South Greenwood Avenue, Hopewell, 609-466-1964. hopewell-

theater.com. $15. 7 p.m. Jim Amon, Sourland Conservancy, Princeton REI, 3371 Route 1, Lawrence, . rei.com. Talk and Q&A with the author of “Seeing the Sourlands.” Free. 6:30 p.m. Mercer Rug Hookers, Hopewell Library, 245 Pennington-Titusville Road, Hopewell, 609737-2610. mcl.org. Open house. 10 a.m. Adult Book Discussion Group, Pennington Library, 30 N. Main St., Pennington, 609-737-0404. penningtonlibrary.org. Discussion on “Abide with Me” by Elizabeth Strout. 2 p.m.

Friday, March 6

Mark Berger, 1867 Sanctuary Arts and Culture Center, 101 Scotch Road, Ewing, 609392-6409. 1867sanctuary.org. $20. 8 p.m. Adam Ezra Group, Hopewell Theater, 5 South Greenwood Avenue, Hopewell, 609466-196. hopewelltheater.com. $21.50$23.50. 8 p.m. Lego Free Play, Pennington Library, 30 N. Main St., Pennington, 609-737-0404. penningtonlibrary.org. For ages 5 and older. 4 p.m. The Many Forms of Dementia, Pennington Presbyterian Church Older Adult Ministry Committee, 13 S. Main Street, Pennington, 609-737-1221, ext. 10. Brown Bag Lunch program with guest speaker Kevin Jameson. Bring lunch. Register. Noon.

Saturday, March 7

Domra and Mandolin Duo, 1867 Sanctuary Arts and Culture Center, 101 Scotch Road, Ewing, 609-392-6409. 1867sanctuary.org. $20. 3 p.m. Gene Bertoncini and Josh Marcum, 1867 Sanctuary Arts and Culture Center, 101 Scotch Road, Ewing, 609-392-6409.

1867sanctuary.org. $20. 8 p.m. Todd Skinner and Doug Llewellyn, Unitarian Universalist Church at Washington Crossing, 268 Washington Crossing-Pennington Road, Hopewell, 609-737-0515. cosmiccrossings.org. $10. 8 p.m. Maple Sugaring, Washington Crossing State Park Nature Center, 355 Washington Crossing Pennington Road, Hopewell, 609737-0609. Participatory demonstration. Register. 1 p.m.

Sunday, March 8

Jerry Monk, Terhune Orchards, 330 Cold Soil Road, Lawrence, 609-924-2310. terhuneorchards.com. Winery Sunday music series. Noon. Beverly Mills and Elaine Buck, Ewing Township Historic Preservation Society, 1867 Sanctuary, 101 Scotch Road, Ewing, . Talk on establishing the local African American Museum by the authors of “If These Stones Could Talk.” $15. 3 p.m. Maple Sugaring, Washington Crossing State Park Nature Center, 355 Washington Crossing Pennington Road, Hopewell, 609737-0609. Participatory demonstration. Register. 1:30 p.m.

Monday, March 9

Washington Crossing Postcard Collector Club, Union Fire Company, 1396 River Road, Hopewell, 215-598-7534 or 609-7373555. wc4postcards.org. Member presentation and auction. 8 p.m.

Tuesday, March 10

Sleuth, McCarter Theatre, 91 University Place, Princeton, 609-258-2787. mccarter. org. A suspenseful game of cat-and-mouse that parodies the Agatha Christie thriller.

Through March 29. 7:30 p.m. Living Newport: Houses, People, Style, Morven Museum & Garden, 55 Stockton Street, Princeton, 609-924-8144. morven. org. Grand Homes & Gardens Distinguished Speakers Series with Bettie Bearden Pardee. $25. Register. 6:30 p.m. Too-Busy-for-Books Book Club, Pennington Library, 30 N. Main St., Pennington, 609737-0404. penningtonlibrary.org. Discussion on “Whose Body?” by Dorothy L. Sayers. 7:30 p.m.

Wednesday, March 11

The Diary of Anne Frank, Hopewell Theater, 5 South Greenwood Avenue, Hopewell, 609466-1964. hopewelltheater.com. Staged reading. $20. 7:30 p.m. Sleuth, McCarter Theatre, 91 University Place, Princeton, 609-258-2787. mccarter. org. A suspenseful game of cat-and-mouse that parodies the Agatha Christie thriller. 7:30 p.m. Story Time with Ms. Kim, Pennington Library, 30 N. Main St., Pennington, 609-7370404. penningtonlibrary.org. Rhymes, music and a story for ages 2-4 accompanied by adults. 11 a.m. The Short of It, Hopewell Library, 245 Pennington-Titusville Road, Hopewell, 609737-2610. mcl.org. Discussion on short stories by Jamaica Kincaid. 2 p.m. Fiber Arts Circle, Hopewell Library, 245 Pennington-Titusville Road, Hopewell, 609737-2610. mcl.org. Bring a needle-craft project to work on. 7 p.m. St. Patty’s Luncheon, Hopewell Township Seniors, Brandywine Living at Pennington, 143 W. Franklin St., Pennington, 609-7309922. Lunch, music and prizes. 10 a.m.

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Thursday, March 12

The Diary of Anne Frank, Hopewell Theater, 5 South Greenwood Avenue, Hopewell, 609466-1964. hopewelltheater.com. Staged reading. $20. 7:30 p.m. Investigating the Invader: The Spotted Lanternfly, Hopewell Library, 245 Pennington-Titusville Road, Hopewell, 609-7372610. mcl.org. Talk by Jillian Stark, Mercer County Park Commission. 7 p.m.

Friday, March 13

Sleuth, McCarter Theatre, 91 University Place, Princeton, 609-258-2787. mccarter. org. A suspenseful game of cat-and-mouse that parodies the Agatha Christie thriller. 8 p.m. Between the Seasons, Straube Galleries, 1 Straube Center Boulevard, Pennington, 609-737-3322. straubecenter.com. Exhibit of work by Adriana Groza, Gary Fournier, Hal Vandermark and Ernest Koch, opening reception. Exhibit runs through May 8. 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Milos, McCarter Theatre, 91 University Place, Princeton, 609-258-2787. mccarter.org. The classical guitarist play works by Bach, The Beatles, and everything in between. 8 p.m. Ellis Paul, Hopewell Theater, 5 South Greenwood Avenue, Hopewell, 609-466-1964. hopewelltheater.com. $23.50-$25.50. 8 p.m.

Saturday, March 14

Sleuth, McCarter Theatre, 91 University Place, Princeton, 609-258-2787. mccarter. org. A suspenseful game of cat-and-mouse that parodies the Agatha Christie thriller. 2 p.m. and 8 p.m. Jeffrey Gaines, Hopewell Theater, 5 South Greenwood Avenue, Hopewell, 609-466196. hopewelltheater.com. $26-$28. 8 p.m. Maple Sugaring, Washington Crossing State Park Nature Center, 355 Washington Crossing Pennington Road, Hopewell, 609737-0609. Participatory demonstration.

Sunday, March 15

33 Variations, Kelsey Theater, Mercer Community College, 1200 Old Trenton Road, West Windsor, 609-570-3333. kelseyatmccc. org. A music scholar facing her own health and relationship problems delves into the mystery of why Beethoven spent four years of his life writing 33 variations of an uninspired waltz. 2 p.m. Paul Verona, 1867 Sanctuary Arts and Culture Center, 101 Scotch Road, Ewing, 609392-6409. 1867sanctuary.org. $20. 3 p.m. Dark Side of the Sourlands, Pennington Library, 30 N. Main St., Pennington, 609-7370404. penningtonlibrary.org. Talk by East Amwell historian Jim Davidson. 3 p.m. Maple Sugaring, Washington Crossing State Park Nature Center, 355 Washington Crossing Pennington Road, Hopewell, 609737-0609. Participatory demonstration. Register. 1:30 p.m.

Monday, March 16

Butterfly Gardening with Native Plants, Washington Crossing Audubon Society, Pennington School, 112 W. Delaware Ave., Pennington, 609-921-8964. washingtoncrossingaudubon.org. Presentation by Jane Hurwitz. 8 p.m.

0404. penningtonlibrary.org. Rhymes, music and a story for ages 2-4 accompanied by adults. 11 a.m. Tea and Tour, Morven Museum, 55 Stockton Street, Princeton, 609-924-8144. morven. org. Docent-led museum tour followed by tea. Registration required. $22. 1 p.m. Fiber Arts Circle, Hopewell Library, 245 Pennington-Titusville Road, Hopewell, 609737-2610. mcl.org. Bring a needle-craft project to work on. 7 p.m.

Thursday, March 19

Jim Amon, Sourland Conservancy, Sourland Mountain Spirits, 130 Hopewell Rocky Hill Road, Hopewell. sourland.org. Talk by the author of “Seeing the Sourlands.” 5 p.m. How to Sleep Like a Baby, Hopewell Township Seniors, Senior Center, 395 Reading St., Pennington, 609-737-0605. Presentation by a sleep medicine specialist. 10 a.m.

Friday, March 20

of his life writing 33 variations of an uninspired waltz. 8 p.m. Sleuth, McCarter Theatre, 91 University Place, Princeton, 609-258-2787. mccarter. org. A suspenseful game of cat-and-mouse that parodies the Agatha Christie thriller. 8 p.m. Your Stage at Any Stage, Hopewell Theater, 5 South Greenwood Avenue, Hopewell, 609-466-1964. hopewelltheater.com. Open mic night for singers, poets and storytellers. $15. 8 p.m.

Saturday, March 21

Sleuth, McCarter Theatre, 91 University Place, Princeton, 609-258-2787. mccarter. org. A suspenseful game of cat-and-mouse that parodies the Agatha Christie thriller. 2 p.m. and 8 p.m. Shenanigans, 1867 Sanctuary Arts and Culture Center, 101 Scotch Road, Ewing, 609392-6409. 1867sanctuary.org. “Songs of Ireland, Old and New.” $20. 2 p.m. Kat Wright, Hopewell Theater, 5 South Greenwood Avenue, Hopewell, 609-4661964. hopewelltheater.com. $22-$27. 8 p.m. World Water Day Festival, The Watershed

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Tuesday, March 17

Karan Casey, Hopewell Theater, 5 South Greenwood Avenue, Hopewell, 609-4661964. hopewelltheater.com. Irish folk music. $35.50. 7:30 p.m. Barley and Me: Home Brewer Round Table, Hopewell Library, 245 Pennington-Titusville Road, Hopewell, 609-737-2610. mcl. org. Informal gathering for home brewers. Register. 7 p.m.

Wednesday, March 18

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CALENDAR continued from Page 21 Institute, 31 Titus Mill Road, Pennington, 609-737-3735. thewatershed.org. Water related activities and discoveries. $5. 10 a.m. Make Your Own Soap, Pennington Library, 30 N. Main St., Pennington, 609-737-0404. penningtonlibrary.org. Makers day activity for ages 8 and olde. $5. Register. 11 a.m.

Sunday, March 22

Sleuth, McCarter Theatre, 91 University Place, Princeton, 609-258-2787. mccarter. org. A suspenseful game of cat-and-mouse that parodies the Agatha Christie thriller. 2 p.m.

Monday, March 23

Establishing Patient Goals in Geriatric Medicine: The POLST Form, Hopewell Library, 245 Pennington-Titusville Road, Hopewell, 609-737-2610. mcl.org. Discussion. Register. 11 a.m.

Tuesday, March 24

Understanding Your Hip and Knee Arthritis, Pennington Library, 30 N. Main St., Pennington, 609-737-0404. penningtonlibrary. org. Information on surgical and non-surgical treatments. 6:30 p.m. Writers Support Group, Hopewell Library, 245 Pennington-Titusville Road, Hopewell, 609-737-2610. mcl.org. 6 p.m.

Wednesday, March 25

Sleuth, McCarter Theatre, 91 University Place, Princeton, 609-258-2787. mccarter. org. A suspenseful game of cat-and-mouse that parodies the Agatha Christie thriller. 7:30 p.m. Identity Theft and Fraud: What You Need to Know to Help Protect Yourself, Hopewell Library, 245 Pennington-Titusville Road, Hopewell, 609-737-2610. mcl.org. Seminar. Register. 10:30 a.m. Fiber Arts Circle, Hopewell Library, 245 Pennington-Titusville Road, Hopewell, 609737-2610. mcl.org. Bring a needle-craft project to work on. 7 p.m.

Thursday, March 26

Sleuth, McCarter Theatre, 91 University Place, Princeton, 609-258-2787. mccarter. org. A suspenseful game of cat-and-mouse that parodies the Agatha Christie thriller. 7:30 p.m. ArtConnect Forum: The Power of Art to Heal, Hopewell Valley Arts Council, The Pennington School, 112 West Delaware Avenue, Pennington, . hvartscouncil.org. Artists share their work and creative process. $20. 6:30 p.m. Energy Aggregation Information Series, Hopewell Township Seniors, Senior Center, 395 Reading St., Pennington, 609-7370605. 10 a.m.

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Saturday, March 28

Sleuth, McCarter Theatre, 91 University Place, Princeton, 609-258-2787. mccarter. org. A suspenseful game of cat-and-mouse that parodies the Agatha Christie thriller. 2 p.m. and 8 p.m. Independence: The True Story of Dr. Mary Walker, Hopewell Theater, 5 South Greenwood Avenue, Hopewell, 609-466-1964. hopewelltheater.com. One-woman play about the Civil War surgeon and Congressional Medal of Honor recipient. $22.50. 8 p.m. Parade, Kelsey Theater, Mercer Community College, 1200 Old Trenton Road, West Windsor, 609-570-3333. kelseyatmccc.org. The epic true story of Leo Frank, a Brooklyn-raised Jewish factory manager accused of an unthinkable crime. 8 p.m. Birding Trip, Washington Crossing Audubon Society, Mercer Meadows Pole Farm, 111-167 Cold Soil Road, Lawrence, 609-9218964. washingtoncrossingaudubon.org. Free. 8 a.m.

Sunday, March 29

Alice Grebanier and Coleen Marks, Gallery 14, 14 Mercer Street, Hopewell, 609-3338511. gallery14.org. Meet the artists and poetry reading. 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. Winter Birds of the Park, Washington Crossing State Park Nature Center, 355 Washington Crossing Pennington Road, Hopewell, 609-737-0609. Guided search for winter bird species. Register. 1:30 p.m.

Monday, March 30

Recyclable Arts & Crafts, Hopewell Library, 245 Pennington-Titusville Road, Hopewell, 609-737-2610. mcl.org. Craft program. Register. 10:30 a.m.

Tuesday, March 31

The Peking Acrobats, McCarter Theatre, 91 University Place, Princeton, 609-258-2787. mccarter.org. Plate spinning, bowl balancing, pole climbing, cycling, juggling, and more. 7:30 p.m. Wealth Management for Same-Sex Couples, Hopewell Library, 245 Pennington-Titusville Road, Hopewell, 609-737-2610. mcl. org. Seminar. Register. 7 p.m.

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Luther King was among the speakers denouncing the Vietnam War. Of considerably less historical significance, September 16, 1967 was the date of my last professional haircut, a day that will live in infamy. I refused to watch the July 1969 Moon Landing (“One small step for man . . .”) seeing it as a frivolous waste of money which should have been spent feeding the hungry and generally making planet earth a better place for man. The next month, I did not attend Woodstock. Reflecting the mood of the time, or at least my mood, I saw the festival of music and love as an obvious plot by the government to gather young activists in one place and imprison or exterminate them. As it turned out, what I avoided was good music and bad weather. The September 11, 2001 destruction of the World Trade Center is ancient history to anyone under the age of 30. Remarkably, in one of my Mercer County College classes, every student knew a victim of the attack. I was born when Franklin Delano Roosevelt was president. To most people that’s like having co-existed with John Quincy Adams. The timing of my birth puts me in the surprising demographic of being a war baby rather than a baby boomer. With a few exceptions, my perception of presidents serving during my lifetime was that each one since FDR was worse than then the one before. My lifetime encompasses an era where using a fountain pen was a sign of sophistication, where all ballpoint pens leaked, and where typewriters (and white-out) distinguished serious students from slackers. Way before Honda and Sony, the label “Made in Japan” was equated with shoddiness. Banks promoted insidious “Christmas Clubs,” scams where savings accounts accrued no interest. Physically, I am as robust as any 22-yearold except that in the morning, instead of gliding out of bed, I stagger. With my big, white winter beard, little children mistake me for Santa Claus. Maybe I am Santa. I can do push-ups but no longer chin-ups. I prefer tennis singles to doubles. I can ride a bike without too much complaining for 50 miles (OK, maybe 30 miles) and I can swim until I get bored. However, napping has become my favorite sport.

It is undeniable. I am now old. I have lived three-quarters of a century, 75 years. That’s 3,900 weeks or 27,300 days. (Deplete your own calculator to figure out the minutes and seconds.) I remember once thinking 29 was old. I used to be the youngest after skipping 8th grade when I was briefly a child genius. Then, in college, to avoid persistent embarrassment I pretended to be older than I was. When I was about to graduate, I told my college roommate how old I really was. He was a vet and five years older than I was. At first, he didn’t believe me then, after reconsideration, he said, “That explains it all,” not necessarily a compliment. But now I really am old, and what to many people is history was to me current events. Come join me on a selfindulgent review of the prehistoric moments that I was actually alive for. Remember the Cuban Missile Crisis (1962)? I was living in Burlington, Vermont, and expected a mushroom cloud to rise over Plattsburgh Air Force base (now defunct) on the other side of Lake Champlain. My thought at the time was, what idiot would risk nuclear holocaust and the annihilation of humankind over the presence of missiles in Cuba? During the height of the Civil Rights era, I did some marching, collected some money to support Freedom Riders and when John Lewis came to speak at the university, a bunch of us sat around with him, then a very young monument of The Movement, drinking beer and talking about his heroic work all night. That young man is now 79, a saintly Congressman currently being treated for serious illness. In November 1963, I was getting a haircut (begrudgingly) when the news came in to the barbershop that John F. Kennedy had been assassinated. I fully expected rioting to break out in the streets as would have happened in any number of banana republics. Instead, I remember most clearly being in the college cafeteria and watching tears dripping off the end of a young student’s nose. One heartbroken friend was unable to talk for two days. In 1967, I participated in an anti-war Robin Schore is a resident of Hopewell march New York City where Martin Borough.

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