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Lidl opening signals center’s continued revitalization

By Bill Sanservino

Almost two years after first announcing they were coming to town, Lidl has finally opened in the Lawrence Shopping Center.

The new market is located in the space formerly occupied by Acme, which vacated the shopping center in August 2018.

Lidl, a German grocer, celebrated its long-awaited grand opening on June 9. The event, complete with a ribbon cutting, was attended by Mayor Jim Kownacki, councilman Christopher Bobbitt and store manager Jared Wolansky.

“We want to welcome Lidl to Lawrence Township. It has been a long time coming,”

Kownacki said.

“There has been a void in our community. It’s great to have you here,” said Bobbitt, referring to the lack of a grocery store in that location for the past three years.

Bobbitt, who was serving as mayor at the time, was involved in talks to get the store to locate in the township after he had shopped in the store’s Hazlet location.

Municipal manager Kevin Nerwinski said that the comeback of the center has been slow and steady under its new ownership. “Lidl’s opening supercharges that comeback providing a much-needed convenient location for residents to buy quality food at affordable prices.”

Measuring success

Lidl is located in the center’s 39,681-square-foot anchor space at the plaza’s northeast corner. When Acme closed, it was the first time in generations there wasn’t a grocery store in that spot.

Acme had operated there since November 1979. Food Fair and Pantry Pride also have occupied the unit. Acme made the decision to leave the center in part because the Lawrence store had not met corporate goals for a number of years.

Lidl, meanwhile, has been expanding throughout New Jersey in recent years. The Lawrence location joins 17 other stores throughout the state. On its website, Lidl bills See CENTER, Page 6

A club for stargazers Astronomy group back in action after long COVID-19 layoff

By Nicole Viviano

If you’ve ever wondered about the vastness of the night sky, the Amateur Astronomers Association of Princeton might have just the thing for you.

After being forced to pause meetings more than a year ago due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the club is finally back and looking at the stars.

Founded over 50 years ago, AAAP looks to share the fascination of the night sky with members and the public through their events and infor-

mational meetings.

The club owns the Simpson Observatory in Titusville, within the New Jersey half of Washington Crossing State Park, and they were recently allowed to operate the facility under near normal conditions.

There is no occupancy limit on the observatory grounds, and up to 12 people are allowed inside the building for visual observing.

The observatory is home to multiple permanent large telescopes that are open to the public for free during the AAAP’s public Friday nights that run from April through October.

The club resumed its public nights last month, and people of all interest levels are encouraged to join members and other attendees after sunset at

the observatory, where they can attend night sky tours led

by AAAP members.

Public nights are only held when the twilight sky is clear.

To verify that the observatory will be open, call the observatory at (609) 737-2575 on Friday evenings or check the club’s Twitter (@princetonastro) for the current status.

Members bring along their personal telescopes to share the night sky through different lenses. Set up around the observatory, these members have varying levels of interest and different backgrounds that have led them to join the club.

Contrary to what some may assume, not all members have science or technical backgrounds. While all have a curiSee AAAP, Page 4

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Lawrence High School students Miduna Rishindran and Akshaya Shivaparan were selected to have their 2021 National History Day represent New Jersey in a virtual showcase presented by the Smithsonian National Museum of American History via the Smithsonian Learning Lab. The exhibit, titled, “Jacob Riis: The Key to Understanding How the Other Half Lives,” will be shown along with other selected NHD student exhibits, and can ve viewed at learninglab. si.edu/profile/nationalhistoryday.

The online showcase features a total of 51 exhibits, researched by middle and high school students competing in the 2021 NHD National Contest.

Many of the NHD students whose projects were selected for the showcase by NHD Affiliate coordinators addressed topics relevant to their own states’ or local communities’ histories.

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Lawrence Middle School English teacher Petrina Plunkett was honored with a Distinguished Cooperating Teacher Award at the 2021 Distinguished Clinical Intern and Cooperating Teacher Awards Ceremony that took place virtually on June 9.

IN addition, Plunkett’s clinical intern, student teacher Pamela McGowen, was nominated as one of the top three teacher candidates in their teacher preparation program by the New Jersey Association of Colleges for Teacher Education and the New Jersey Department of Education.

Now in its 19th year, the annual awards program publicly recognizes the top graduates of New Jersey educator preparation programs alongside their cooperating teachers.

New Chick-fil-A expected to open in October

The restaurant, which is known for its devoutly loyal fan base, was approved by the township Planning Board last year.

The Lawrence location of the franchise is owned by Jonathan Marple, who introduced himself on the company’s Facebook page on June 3.

“My family and I started our Chickfil-A journey after college, when we moved to Atlanta, GA, to pursue Chick-fil-A as a franchise opportunity in 2010,” he said. “We hope to bring over 120 jobs to the community, and give back to our local community with specific focuses on hunger and education. In 2020, we were able to donate over 2,000 lbs. of food and create lasting relationships with local school systems through fundraising and partnerships.”

Another Facebook post said the location is expected to open in October.

The Atlanta-based Chick-Fil-A’s only other location in the area is in Hamilton Township, at the Hamilton Marketplace shopping plaza.

That restaurant has grown in popularity since opening, to the point where it now has two drive-through lanes and a line that still often spills out into the center’s main plaza road.

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AAAP continued from Page 1 osity and passion for astronomy, some come from completely unrelated professional fields. Others that have been part of the club for just a short time have increased their knowledge and enthusiasm for astronomy.

The club has a long history of loyal, enthusiastic participants, some of whom have been with the AAAP for many years and some newcomers with their own stories of how they found the local group. One member who used to belong to the club over 20 years ago has recently rejoined to share his continued enthusiasm for science and astrophysics.

Lifelong Lawrence resident Nick Mellis has had a passion for the science of astronomy for years, even outside of the AAAP. He said he enjoys bringing his gained knowledge to the club’s monthly meetings and being able to participate in the guest lecturers’ topic of discussion. Mellis frequented the AAAP’s observatory back when he was involved 20-some years ago and recently rejoined.

The professional driver, who currently does transportation for an adult medical daycare center, originally left the AAAP due to scheduling conflicts.

Not being involved with the club didn’t stop him from sharing his hobby in astrophysics though. He would put on star parties at his local church, where people would get together to stargaze through a telescope.

“I just simply enjoy space, stars, planets,” Mellis said. “It’s just totally fascinating to me.”

Mellis said he looks forward to sharing members’ equipment at the public nights and the observatory’s equipment once he is trained to use it. Without a telescope of his own the Friday free nights are a great opportunity for him to view the sky along with other enthusiasts.

“I would bring the family out to a nice clear night and look up and enjoy the universe,” Mellis said. “Just look straight up on a clear night and you can see infinity, it’s a beautiful thing.”

The Amateur Astronomers Association of Princeton welcomes members from a number of towns in the area. Pictured in back are Alix Bennett (left), Tom Swords, Bill Murray, Victor Davis, Michael Mitrano, John Masters, Gene Ramsey and John Church. Front: Rex Parker, Jen Skitt and David Skitt. Ramsey passed away after the above photo was taken.

Rex Parker , director of the AAAP and 25-year resident of Titusville, has been involved with the club since the 90s. He retired in 2014 as a senior research fellow from Bristol-Myers Squibb and is a biochemist by training. Always having an interest in understanding the origin of life transferred over to the question of life on other planets.

Astronomy and astrophotography are some of Parker’s areas of interest and knowledge that he brings to his position as director, which he held back in the 90s, again in the early 2000s and now for the past six years.

In his role, Parker oversees the club’s organization and development overall and has pushed for modernization of electronics and video used at the observatory.

“One of my main projects over the last half dozen years as director has been to acquire new, higher technology equip-

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ment and to train and coax the members and the keyholder trained members, teach them how to use it and get them enthused about using it so that we can improve the quality of the experience of astronomy by the public as well as by members,” Parker said.

He explained that the issue of light pollution, especially in densely populated areas such as Trenton and Philadelphia, has made it difficult for younger people from those areas to get interested in the night sky. This makes it all the more important to use astronomy dedicated cameras and forms of video astronomy to show real or near real-time imagery through a telescope.

Their ability to cut through some of the light pollution allows for a greater experience for the viewer.

“What we’ve realized is that you can’t just bring a person out and show them a view through a telescope and expect

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them to get it because light pollution makes it very difficult to see objects that are being presented in the scope,” Parker said. “In other words, you have to be almost trained to understand these relatively faint sites that you see in the eyepiece of the telescope.”

The tours of the night sky that goers can take for free on the public nights are just one of the ways the AAAP is attempting to share their love of deep space.

Along with his push for modernizing the observatory’s equipment, Parker was responsible for creating the board position for keyholders, the observatory co-chairs.

Jennifer and David Skitt, the current observatory co-chairs and residents of Ewing since 1996, both have backgrounds that lend themselves to their interest in astronomy.

David Skitt has studied geology and environmental consulting, while Jennifer Skitt has a degree in biology and secondary education.

After being married for a few years, the Skitts discovered their shared intrigue in astronomy. It was in 2010 though, when Jennifer Skitt was going through treatment for breast cancer that she began visiting the observatory in Washington Crossing State Park.

“I would go out to the observatory and just sit and that way I could look up and enjoy the sky, I could get up when I wanted to to go look through the telescope,” she said.

Using a children’s astronomy book, she began to identify constellations, then dove further into research to see when she could find satellites and the international space station overhead.

The couple of 25 years found the AAAP online and once involved started to learn about how the observatory ran.

What started out as a distraction from her diagnosis turned into a long-standing passion.

Both holding their chair positions for over four years, gaining the titles not long after the position was created, the two are in charge of running the observatory, training new keyholders and

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The state Assembly Appropriations Committee approved the funding plan on June 16. The measure, which would authorize the spending of more than $300 million in bonds, still needs to be approved by the full Assembly, State Senate and Gov. Phil Murphy.

The funding approved by the Appropriations Committee is only a portion of the money authorized by the referendum. The entire package calls for $220 million from the plan to go towards vocational-technical schools, including $23.1 million for the Middlesex County Vocational and Technical School District. Some $26 million would be earmarked for county colleges, including almost $3 million for Middlesex County College and $4 million for Mercer County Community College.

More than $65 million would go to K-13 schools for security upgrades, including Lawrence, which would receive $212,195.

The security improvements were

included in the referendum by officials who wanted to address security issues in the wake of the school shooting in Parkland, Florida, in 2018.

Adjust this paragraph based on town: In addition to LTPS, area schools receiving security funding would be the Bordentown Regional School District ($140,402), Hamilton Township Public School District ($654,652), Hopewell Valley Regional School District ($197,057), Lawrence Township Public School District ($212,195), Princeton Public Schools ($212,195), Robbinsville Public Schools ($179,463) Trenton Public Schools ($212,195) and West Windsor-Plainsboro Regional School District ($212,195).

The plan also sets aside $5.6 million for improvements for water infrastructure improvements to help mitigate lead contamination in drinking water.

The only Mercer County area district set to receive this funding is Hamilton, which would receive $16,812.

The 2018 ballot question passed by a slim margin, with 1,250,746 voting in favor (54.15%) and 1,059,060 (45.85%) voting against.

A total of $350 million is to be used for the county vocational school district and school security projects, $50 million for county college projects, and $100 million for the school district water infrastructure improvements.

organizing the teams of keyholders that are on a six-week rotation.

It is up to the team that’s on duty and the Skitts whether or not the Friday public night will be open depending on weather and other circumstances. The couple is almost always in attendance and pushes young people to check out what the observatory has to offer.

Most people have a natural curiosity to inquire about what they see in the night sky. Skitt explained that these public nights are an opportunity to explore astronomy without worrying about the level of knowledge and using the sky as an “ice breaker.”

Sharing their passion for the night sky is a common thread among members, including Ewing resident Jeffrey Pinyan who is involved in the AAAP’s education and outreach arm. He has taken his teaching to the people, from setting up his personal telescope in Campus Town at The College of New Jersey and showing onlookers the stars to lecturing to children at Mercer County libraries over the summer about constellations and identifying planets.

Pinyan shared how the hobby doesn’t have to be an overly expensive and time consuming one. He gives constellation walks on the free public nights, pointing out the well-known constellations, showing how to find more and even diving into some of their mythology.

“I’m not a teacher by profession but I’ve always enjoyed being able to pass on knowledge that I’ve learned,

so because I’m particularly passionate about astronomy and I have decent equipment, I’m more than happy to go somewhere and provide free of charge the access for people to look at the night sky through a telescope who maybe never have before,” he said.

With his first child born this past September, Pinyan eagerly awaits the day that he will be able to show his new son the stars through his telescope.

His professional background is in software development and it wasn’t until a few years ago that Pinyan picked up his interest in astronomy. He decided to drive down to South Carolina in 2017 to witness a total solar eclipse and has been hooked ever since.

Not long after, he discovered the AAAP and joined in 2018. He sees the public nights as an opportunity for people of all ages to come and discover how great the area of study is.

“For the new members and prospective members, it’s really a chance to learn about something that’s really out of this world,” Pinyan said. “The stuff that you see in the sky is unlike anything you see on earth.”

For more information, go online to princetonastronomy.org/public_nights. html. The observatory can also be reached for inquiry at (609) 737-2575.

The AAAP Simpson Observatory is located in Washington Crossing State Park in Titusville and opens when the twilight sky is clear and closes around 11 p.m.

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Crews demolish the former Huffman Koos furniture store at the Lawrence Shopping Center in 2020 to make room for an LA Fitness Gym, which is expected to begin construction later this year.

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Lidl opened its first store in 1973, near Frankfurt, Germany. Today, it has more than 11,200 stores in 32 countries. It established its U.S. headquarters in Arlington County, Virginia, in June 2015.

The closest comparison to Lidl is its German counterpart, Aldi. About 90 percent of products at Lidl stores are the company’s private brand. Customers provide their own bags.

The product assortment changes about twice a week, meaning that in addition to grocery items, things like small appliances, kitchen gadgets, clothing, toys, power tools, home décor and gardening supplies can be found at Lidl from time to time. All this is done, the company says, in the name of passing savings on to its customers.

Lawrence Shopping Center has started to see a renewal in the years since losing Acme as its anchor. At the time of Acme’s closure, the center had seen three owners in five years, and more than half of its 41 sites were vacant, including several large pad sites.

The past few years have been a busy time for JJ Operating Inc. of New York, New York, which purchased the center in May 2017 from Florida-based LNR Property LLC. LNR had obtained Lawrence Shopping Center in foreclosure in 2013, and later had to scrap renovation plans of its own when emergency repairs to fix sinkholes in the parking lot and to the center’s old, leaking roof ate up nearly all of its $3M capital improvement budget.

Before that, the shopping center had been owned for decades by an LLC controlled by the Plapinger family. The family was the center’s original owners, and its hold on the property only slipped when its LLC defaulted on a $31.3 million mortgage taken in 2007.

The complex occupies a prime spot in Lawrence Township, with 47 acres fronting Business Route 1 South.

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square feet of space. This includes shopping centers, office buildings, data centers and strip malls.

In mid-July 2018 the company began work on updating the facade of the entire Lawrence complex, fulfilling a vow that it would make $5 million in capital improvements at the center.

Then came news in August 2019 that Lidl would take over a portion of the anchor space. At the time, a Lidl representative said, “We believe Lidl’s award-winning shopping experience will be a great addition to the Lawrenceville community.”

A number of new tenants have opened since. Young adult clothing consignment store Plato’s Closet moved into the center from Nassau Park in West Windsor and National Pools took over a vacant pad site. City Electric Supply opened in the former location of Strauss Discount Auto.

According to Nerwinski, work is ongoing on a new Starbucks and dental office location, with a target date to open sometime in August.

The next major tenant slated to open at the center is an LA Fitness gym, located on a pad site formerly occupied

by Huffman Koos. The furniture store was demolished to make room for a new building for the gym, but work on the project was halted due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

The township originally anticipated a February 2020 opening for the gym, but the site remains an empty parking lot and construction has not yet started on the gym building itself.

Nerwinski said that the gym still maintains its plans for the center. “LA fitness is signaling a commitment to start construction on their site for the end of the year.”

Other stores in the center include Staples, Burlington Coat Factory, Cooper Pest Solutions, Dollar Tree, Hallmark, Island Sports Bar, Limoncello’s Restaurant, Manhattan Bagel, NJN Designer Shoes, Nino’s Barbershop, NJ Camera and US Nail.

“To those merchants who held firm through the tough times, we thank you,” Nerwinski said. “The shopping center is well situated to be successful for years to come if our residents loyally support these merchants.”

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Lawrence Township Class of 2021 are now graduates!

The LHS Class of 2021 graduated in June during a ceremony at Arm & Hammer Park under beautiful sunny skies in Trenton, NJ! The graduation program was recorded and can be viewed at www.ltps.org/graduation

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Last spring, the NJ Department of Transportation (NJDOT) installed a pedestrian traffic light at the busy intersection of Eggerts Crossing Road and Route 206. The installation of this light is the culmination of six years of research and public action by Lawrence Intermediate School (LIS) current and former students, under the guidance of teacher Jessica Heller.

Young composers compete in virtual NJMEA tech expo

Congratulations to Anushka Bhatia, Aurora (Rory) Laubach, Gian Diaz, Tanvi Madisetti, Charlene Fitzpatrick, Kotaro Maeda, Saniya Jasper-Garner, Xintong Si, and Sara Silver for their unique work and their special ways of making connections to music this year!

Thanks to a generous grant from the Lawrence Township Education Foundation (LTEF), nine string players from Lawrence Intermediate School (LIS) and Lawrence Middle School (LMS) submitted their original compositions to the 2021 New Jersey Music Educators Association (NJMEA) Student Technology Expo virtual competition.

The virtual exhibits showcased student compositions, remixes, multimedia, and applied technology projects. Projects were evaluated by professional adjudicators, and included presentations by industry professionals.

Students received feedback and ratings for their creative compositions.

Elementary teachers to present at NJDOE conference

Erika Smoots and Meg Leventhal, 3rd grade teachers at Ben Franklin (BF) Elementary School, have accepted an invitation to present at the Third Annual New Jersey Department of Education (NJDOE) Statewide Equity Conference: Critical Conversations for a More Equitable Future, which will be held virtually on August 3. Their session, Putting Equity Into Practice in Our Classrooms, will focus on an implicit bias self-reflection, how they manifest as microaggressions in the classroom, and teaching strategies centered on the history and culture of students to elevate learning and recognize brilliance.

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Public notice for LTPS special education records

Any student who received special education services from the district's Child Study Team and/or Speech Specialists, or disenrolled from the district, and was born in 1991 and prior, may obtain their special education records by contacting the Office of Student Services at (609) 671- 5430, or emailing Jennifer Tindall, at jtindall@ltps.org, by AUGUST 30, 2021.

After August 30, 2021, these records will be destroyed by shredding, as approved by the N.J. Division of Archives and Records Management (N.J.A.C. Section 6A:32-7.8)

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Mills takes top spot at US rowing regionals, qualifies for nationals

Lawrence High School (LHS) junior Sean Mills and his teammate, Moorestown Friends junior Colin Cooper, took first place in the Men's Youth 2- (Pairs) race at the USRowing Mid Atlantic Regionals! The pair will move on to Nationals in Sarasota, FL, on June 10. Sean and Colin row for Mercer Juniors of Princeton National Rowing Association.

Sean has also been accepted into all 4 US military academies' summer sessions, and plans on attending those at West Point and the U.S. Naval Academy.

Additionally, he will represent LHS at American Legion Jersey Boys State in late June. Congratulations Sean!

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Douglas Lehnert, a 9th-10th grade teacher at Lawrence High School (LHS), has also accepted an invitation to present at the Third Annual New Jersey Department of Education (NJDOE) Statewide Equity Conference: Critical Conversations for a More Equitable Future on August 3. His session, “Single-Point Rubric Use for More Equitable Teaching, Assessment, and Student Growth” will offer suggestions for auditing existing rubrics and formative assessment methods for implicit biases or scaffolding that may hinder student growth, and redesigning and streamlining rubrics to target learning outcomes more equitably for all students. Congratulations!

Congrats to Lawrence High senior Hunter Rivera! He signed a Letter of Intent to play baseball at the University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC) in the fall.

Hunter is coached by Andrew Septer.

Photo by Sam Pastorella: Seated next to Hunter are his parents, Maria Jordan and Philip Rivera.

Back row: Riley Rivera (brother)

On April 30, LTPS second and third grade students participated in a STEAM 2021 Virtual Career Event. Six dynamic family presenters represented various careers that involve the use of science, technology, engineering, art and math!

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what’s happening Fun for the Fourth

By Sam Sciarrotta

Gas up the grill and get those sparklers ready—July 4 is just around the corner. Outside of your backyard, though, there are plenty of events throughout the region to help you celebrate. Here are some ways to say hello to summer, down the shore and beyond.

Revolutionary Pub Crawl The area’s connection to the American Revolution is a local favorite—what better way to celebrate that than with a few flagons of ale? Bordentown Walking Tours will host a Revolutionary Pub Crawl July 3, noon to 4 p.m. Tour guide Mark Neurohr-Pierpaoli will lead revelers through Bordentown City’s history of wine, beer and booze via four local bars—learn about famous residents like Thomas Paine and Francis Hopkinson, a signer of the Declaration of Independence, while hearing juicy tales of Bordentown’s love of brew from Colonial times through the Prohibition.

Tickets are $75 and include a drink at

each bar, food at every stop, a guided tour and pub crawl deals like craft cocktails and drink specials. More information: bordentownwalkingtours.com.

Cape May City Independence Day Parade String bands, performers, cars, veterans organizations and local officials will travel down Cape May’s Beach Drive starting at noon on July 3. Keep an eye out for festive golf carts, bicycles and baby carriages, all entered in the Best Decorated contest. Community groups are invited to participate in the parade.

Those interested should contact the Cape May Department of Civic Affairs at (609) 884-9565. More information: capemaycity.com.

WMGK Freedom Festival Around here, nothing quite says summer like that signature Jersey Shore sound. Okay, maybe that’s just the Springsteen obsessive in me talking, but

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the point still stands—that blend of soul, rock and R&B is the perfect company on a hazy summer day. Check out one of the genre’s pioneers, Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes, at the WMGK Freedom Festival, July 4 starting at 5 p.m. at Wiggins Park in Camden. Food, beer, music and artists will be available all day. The Jukes go on at 8, followed by a fireworks display synchronized to classic rock tunes. More information: wmgk.com.

LEAD Fest State Fair

So, just where is (609)?

We all know what the (609) area code is, but where is it exactly?

It’s a good question, and one posed to us by a reader after we said, in our first edition of Six09, that we’d cover what’s happening across the region.

The image at right answers the question, and as you might see, a good chunk of the state falls in the area code—from Lambertville up north to Cape May at the southern tip of the state. We’re the largest area code in New Jersey, and it includes parts of Hunterdon, Mercer, Middlesex, Somerset, Monmouth, Camden, Ocean, Burlington, Atlantic and Cape May counties. It is home to places like Princeton, Trenton, Hammonton, Long Beach Island and Atlantic City.

There’s a lot of ground to cover in (609), which we hope means plenty of stories that will help you explore your home turf. If you come across something that might be a good fit, send an email to ssciarrotta@communitynews.org.

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check out the racing and swimming pigs at the leAd fest state fair, set for July 1-11 at Mercer county Park.

Enjoy 11 days of fun at the LEAD Fest State Fair, held at Mercer County Park in West Windsor July 1 to 11. The festival runs from 5 p.m. to 11 p.m. on weekdays

and 1 p.m. to 11 p.m. on weekends. Guests can check out agricultural exhibits and farm animal displays, as well as the fair’s famous racing pigs, food, vendors and, of course, carnival-style rides like the Super Himalaya, the Grand Carousel and Zero Gravity. Scott’s Magic Show will be held twice nightly on weekdays and three times on weekends. Nightly concerts start at 6:30 and include Rock of Ages on July 3, El Ka Bong on July 7, the B Street Band on July 9, Southern Steel on July 10 and local favorite Ernie White on July 11. Fireworks are set for July 3, 4 and 10. Tickets are $5 on weekdays and $8 on weekends and the July 4 holiday and can be purchased online. Free admission for county residents after 6 p.m. on July 3 and 4. More information: theleadfest.com.

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Riley Sager is on a roll.

The Princeton-based author has hit his stride in suspense over the last few years. He exploded onto the horror/ thriller scene in 2017 with Final Girls, a novel that sees its protagonist dealing with the aftermath of surviving a massacre that left six of her friends dead. She’s dubbed a “Final Girl,” after the horror trope that refers to the last woman standing at the end of a slasher film—think Laurie Strode in Halloween or Alice in Friday the 13th.

Stephen King tweeted about it, calling it “the first great thriller of 2017.”

The book was featured in Entertainment Weekly. Whoopi Goldberg held up a copy and raved about it on The View.

Sager continued to churn out books— 2018’s The Last Time I Lied, 2019’s Lock Every Door and 2020’s Home Before Dark all hit bestseller lists and earned praise from readers and critics for their thrills and badass women protagonists.

Now, he’s back with Survive the Night, a road trip thriller about Charlie, a woman who may or may not be stuck in the car with a serial killer she has a connection with. Sager called the book a “love letter to movies”—Charlie is a film studies major, and dozens of films are mentioned or integral to the plot.

“I set out to write a thrill ride,” Sager said. “I wanted this book to feel like a roller coaster, and I think it does.”

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Riley Sager’s “Survive the Night” tells the claustrophobic story of Charlie, who may or may not be stuck in a car with a serial killer. read.” There’s just so many cool things being done with the genre right now— horror, thriller and suspense. It’s just a really, really great time with so many great people working at the top of their game. I think we all sort of, whether we know each other or not personally, want to do a great job. You want to top what someone else has done, so there’s that great friendly competition going on.

Six09: It seems like movies really play a big part in “Sur vive the Night.” Were there any films that specifically inspired the book or any films that inspire you just in general?

RS: There was nothing that specifically inspired the book. My previous book, Home Before Dark, is a dual-timelines haunted house family saga that involved a book within a book, and it was just so complex and exhausting that I wanted to do something completely different, and I wanted to basically write a book that was as stripped down as possible. I wanted something that’s just written in real time, that’s mostly just two people in a car, speeding down the highway in the middle of the night. Then, I had to think up a plot. What is driving this, no pun intended? That was really the goal—to do something completely different and have fun with it. The movie idea came about when I decided that the main character was going to be a film studies major, because I was a film studies major in college, and therefore I didn’t have to do any research. I really wanted to pack in a lot of movie references because I think it’s a great way of bonding the reader with the main character. Charlie will make a reference to something, and if the reader knows what she’s referencing, they’ll under-

stand what she’s feeling in that moment.

There’s a connection there. It’s really kind of emotional shorthand to pop in a really apt film reference.

There are so many movies that I love, but this one, I really can’t think of a good example of something similar to it. It’s so obscure, but there was the Twilight Zone movie in 1982. There’s this framing device with Albert Brooks and Dan Aykroyd in a car, and one of them is like, “Do you want to hear a really scary story?”

It’s just a framing device, but it was very evocative to me. It’s just two people in a car kind of playing mind games with each other.

Six09: You’ve done some online movie watch parties ahead of the book’s release. How have they been going? It’s a pretty unique way to promote a book in a time where people still can’t necessarily get together in large groups.

RS: It’s been a lot of fun. It was something that we did last year just to entertain ourselves during the pandemic. It’s Saturday night, no one can go anywhere, let’s all watch a movie at the same time and tweet about it. When it came time to promote Survive the Night, with all its movie references, it was just a no-brainer to be like, “Let’s watch some of the movies referenced in the book.”

Last night, we did Silence of the Lambs. It was great to look back on what is not a modern classic, although I feel so old because it’s 30 years old this year, and I saw it opening night in theaters when I was in high school.

Six09: Did you write “Sur vive the Night” in quarantine?

RS: I did, although I got the idea before COVID really hit. I knew it was going to be my next book, so it was just, I guess, serendipity to write about people stuck together. When it came time to write, it was a nice escape from the daily headlines and the madness of what was going on at the time.

Six09: What was it like being an author in quarantine? Last year, there were a lot of virtual author events when “Home Before Dark” came out. What’s it like doing that again but also seeing a really, really clear light at the end of the tunnel?

RS: It’s strange because in some ways, the book tour this year is exactly like last year. It’s all virtual. Nothing’s in person. But I think the big difference is last summer, it was a necessity, and now, I think it’s a convenience. Who knows if the typical book tour will ever return? It’s very time consuming and it’s very expensive. I’ll hop on a plane and fly to Chicago, go to a bookstore, get up the next morning and then fly to a different city. You can do all of that now from the comfort of your own

home and reach just as many, if not more, readers.

Six09: Are you working on anything else right now?

RS: I’m at a weird time where I just finished next year’s book, and my editor just read it. It’s this weird limbo. It’s always weird with writing and promoting books, because it takes such a long time for the publication process. Right now I’m talking about Survive the Night, while my main focus is on next year’s book, but then sometimes you have to go back and talk about a previous book.

It’s just sometimes hard to really compartmentalize. My third book, Lock Every Door, was just released in Mexico, so I’ve been doing some press for that. It’s been so bizarre to be finishing next year’s book while promoting Survive the Night and having to answer questions about a book that I have not looked at in, like, three years. There have been some moments where they’ve asked a question and I’ve just had to stop and think, “Okay, what book are we discussing right now?”

Six09: A lot of your books really focus on women. Is that by design, or does it just come naturally when you’re starting the process?

RS: It really comes naturally. It all began with my first book, Final Girls, which is about the trope of the horror movie “Final Girl.” I always joke that if the trope had been “Final Boy,” my career would be very different. But I knew if I was going to write about final girls that it needed to be told from the point of view of a final girl. Other than that, I didn’t give it much thought. I really didn’t think about gender. I thought about character. This woman’s life and previous experiences and suffering and guilt—how has this affected how she responds to this situation? When I start a new book, I never intend to say “Okay, this one’s going to be about a woman.” It’s just whatever the plot sort of dictates. Who is the best person to view these events through their eyes?

I’m sure there will come a day, and it might even be the next thing I write, where it’s like, “I think this should definitely be told through a man’s point of view. Right now, it hasn’t happened.

Also, I love writing and reading strong women characters. Survive the Night takes place in 1991, and that was just a year that was filled with really strong, badass movie heroines—Clarice Starling in Silence of the Lambs, Thelma and Louise, Sarah Connor in Terminator 2.

I love writing about people who don’t know their own strengths until situations force them to really act on them.

For more on Riley Sager, visit rileysagerbooks.com. He can be found on Twitter at @riley_sager and on Instagram at @riley.sager.

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Jersey history alive and well at Batsto Village

By Dan Aubrey

For those interested in getting back into family daytrips yet still concerned about getting out in public, New Jersey affords simple and affordable outdoor opportunities — such as Batsto Village.

Located about 60 miles away from the U.S. 1 region in Burlington County, Batsto is a trip into the New Jersey Pine Barrens and into American and state history.

The historic site located in Wharton State Forest and maintained and operated by the State of New Jersey was once a self-contained community productive from 1766 until the mid-20th century.

Although its name is connected to how the Finnish and Swedish settlers referred to the site’s river and lake as a bathing spot, Batsto as an important iron-producing site gets its start from English colonists.

The iron furnace was started in around 1766 by Charles Read and became the largest in South Jersey.

During the American Revolution, the ironworks was producing iron and casting housewares, as well as cannonballs and shot for the Continental Army.

Throughout the American Revolution, Batsto was crucial in the supply chain for Washington. So vital was this place that in 1778 the British were heading to capture and destroy Batsto’s Ironworks

The mansion at Batsto Village. when they attacked and destroyed the Village of Chestnut Neck. The quick action of a small group of volunteer militia turned back the advancing British troops, sparing the Village of Batsto, ensuring Continental troops would have supplies to win the war.

In 1784, a year after the Revolution-

ary War was officially over, the forge became the property of first Joseph Ball and then his uncle, William Richards, whose family manufactured both iron and glass.

According to State of New Jerseyproduced educational materials, Batsto’s success at the time was con-

nected to its “high quality products made from pig iron. Special products of that time were cast iron water pipes and firebacks (iron plates used to line the back of a fire place). Batsto was even commissioned by George Washington to produce four monogrammed firebacks. Two of them can still be seen at his home in Mount Vernon, Virginia.”

By the mid-19th century, however, Batsto’s method of producing iron from ore heated by charcoal was eclipsed by more efficient methods, production ceased at the village, and nothing remains of the furnace or the iron works buildings.

Then there was a fateful turn. An 1874 house fire spread and destroyed the glass making facilities, remaining furnaces, and 17 houses. The Richards and many of the villagers moved away, leaving the site silent.

The debt-ridden Revolutionary town was sold at auction for just $14,000 to Philadelphia businessman Joseph Wharton.

As Timothy Regen writes in “The Ghost Towns of New Jersey, “Upon seeing the remains of Batsto, Wharton didn’t know if he should rebuild or just tear the whole place down.

Lucky for histor y he chose to rebuild.

Within a few years, Wharton had completely modernized the ironmaster’s house, or big house, rebuilt outbuild-

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One of the remaining village houses and the water pump at Batsto Village. ings, including the sawmill, and renovated many of the village homes . . .

Wharton grew sugar beets and raised livestock; those who remained in the village found work once again, and for the next 33 years, the Wharton Empire ruled over the 100,000 acres of the Pinelands. With his death in 1909, the Wharton Estate continued to manage the place, and although the industries mostly faded away, a few folks still called Batsto home for another 80 years.

“The year 1954 saw the entire Wharton Estate purchased by the State of New Jersey as protected forest. With the purchase came along all the secrets and ghost towns of the Wharton Estate: Atsion, Martha, Batsto, Washington, Harrisville, and many others that would now be able to be explored and protected for the future.

“Restoration began in 1955 with the big house, post office-store, and sawmill being the first to receive taxpayer monies for the process. By 1959, the Park Visitor Center was dedicated and when built resembled an early 19th century structure.”

After pulling into Batsto, the visitor’s center is the first stop. Currently closed for the pandemic, it features a first floor dedicated to the area’s natural and cultural history, including the presence of the region’s indigenous people, the Lenapes.

Yet the real thing waits outside and offers a leisurely stroll into both the past and nature.

Among the highlights are the 32-room Batsto Mansion. Towering over the village, the original section was created in the late 1700s by the Richards family.

It went through several permutations before Wharton took possession and renovated in the late 1870s and early 1880s at a cost of about $40,000 (over $1 million in 2021 value).

The Victorian-era structure features formal dining and conversation areas, including a large porched area. However, as educational materials note, it was the “high tech” improvements that were attractions at the time. “Originally, each room was heated with a fireplace. Mr. Wharton had a system for central heat installed in most of the rooms. One of the most interesting ‘modern’ features he added was indoor plumbing. He had a water tank installed in the tall tower. When water was released, it went to the bathrooms to flush the toilets or to fill the bathtub. Indoor bathrooms were something that not many families had in the 1880s.”

The Batsto Post Office opened in 1852 and, although it experienced several closings and reopenings, is one of the four oldest post offices currently operating in the United States. Interestingly, since it is an historic structure, it was never assigned a zip code and all stamps are hand-canceled.

The sawmill, part of the Batsto community for more than 200 years, was revised in 1882. State materials say the current operators replaced water-powered equipment with a turbine-driven circular saw still in use today. During Wharton’s era, the mill was a profitable East Coast supplier of cut lumber and shingles.

And then there are the village cottages, where in 1852, 376 people lived.

But after the 1874 fire, when 75 homes were lost, only a two-lane row of buildings for visitors to walk along and visit remains.

It is also where the last resident of Batsto remained until 1989, roughly 232 years after the first resident moved in — something that makes the past very present.

For more information on Batsto Village: batstovillage.org.

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would want to see in an improved oven.

“We saw that there were changes that we could make to improve the oven greatly, for instance by strengthening the stainless and having it be a lot thicker,” Richards says. “We could use different insulation to insulate it better, and also we made it larger on the inside, so that he would be able to cook four 12-inch pizzas at once, instead of one or two.”

Hotfoil-EHS also designed its oven with a damper on the front of the oven, so cooks didn’t have to lean over and risk burning themselves to adjust it up on the flue.

Traditional wood-burning ovens are made of brick, clay, ceramic or stone — materials that get hot and stay hot. A well-known weakness of steel ovens, Carannante says, is that they don’t retain heat well. But he says that between the heavy-duty food-grade bricks that Hotfoil-EHS used for the cooking surfaces, along with the thicker stronger grade of steel, helps set the Garzio Oven apart from other options.

“It heats up quickly, it maintains temperature really well, it makes a great pie,” Carannante says. “It does its job.

Sometimes you have smaller ovens that don’t get the job done the same way (a larger oven would).”

Carannante was pleased that HotfoilEHS was able to increase the interior size of the oven without really changing the outside dimensions significantly.

He says that mobility is a key to Brothers’ catering success. “We’re not a food truck,” he says. “We can roll into people’s backyards. We can literally set it up near your pool.”

Brothers preps food ahead of time in the restaurant before a catering job, but wood-fired pizzas cannot be prepared ahead of time. So having the ability to make the pies onsite is a real attraction.

And the oven can be used to make more than pizzas, and Carannante also uses it to finish wings, sausage and peppers or really anything else — steaks, calzones, even a turkey.

Operation of the oven is simple: to get things going, you just set a stack of wood in the center of the grill and get a fire going. After a half hour or so, you slide the red hot embers to one side, wipe the ash off the bricks, and start cooking.

Richards sees that mobility, flexibility and ease of use as a key for any potential customer, whether for restaurant or

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“You can put it right in your backyard, like several people have done,” he says.

“It’s sitting there just like a barbecue or your wood-fired grill.”

Hotfoil-EHS has a batch of 10 more in production now, and Richards says eventually he sees the company producing smaller versions of the oven as well. For now, there is a single design available with either a wheeled or stationary cart that has space to stack wood.

Carannante and Joe Scharibone of Jojo’s Tavern have helped get the word out about the oven. “I’ve been very good friends with Joey at Jojo’s for 15 or 20 years,” Richards says. “He was nice enough when he saw it to say, ‘Hey, I’m going to put a link on my website and let people know they can buy one of these ovens.’” *** Hotfoil-EHS itself has a long history in Hamilton Township. Richards originally moved to Hamilton from the United Kingdom in 1977, with his parents, Neville and Irene Richards. Richards was 9, and his sister, Sarah, was 4.

Neville Richards worked for a British company called Hotfoil, which had asked him to move to New Jersey and help the company enter the U.S. market. Hotfoil was originally located in South Plainfield.

Richards graduated from Steinert High School in 1986. One day in 1987, his father asked him to help out in the warehouse for a few weeks. “But that two weeks turned into another week, and another … and with that, my Hotfoil journey began,” Richards says.

In 1993, Neville Richards purchased Hotfoil’s U.S. operations from its U.K. based owners and went into business for himself, renaming the company Electric Heating Systems, Inc. “In the beginning, the only employees were myself, my father, a secretary and a part-time accountant, working out of a 3,000-square-foot space in South Gold Industrial Park in Robbinsville,” Richards says.

After a year, the Richardses reclaimed the Hotfoil, Inc. name, and in 1996 they expanded the business to include heattreating equipment, starting a new division again with the Electric Heating Systems name. Both divisions have thrived over time, and were merged into a single

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Today, Hotfoil-EHS has more than 60,000 square feet of office, manufacturing and warehouse space in Hamilton, Chattanooga, Tennessee, and LaPorte, Texas, and more than 40 employees.

The Garzio Oven is named in memory of one key employee — Frank Garzio.

Garzio was a welder and fabricator who had worked for many years in the sheet metal shop at the General Motors plant in Ewing. In 2002, Garzio was retired from GM and living across the street from Matt Richards.

Richards says Garzio loved to talk business and took an interest in his company. He credits Garzio with helping Hotfoil-EHS establish a welding and fabricating outfit of its own.

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Garzio died of cancer in 2014. The weld shop at Hotfoil-EHS is named after him, but Richards wanted to honor him further by naming the oven after him as well. Garzio “single-handedly changed the course of the business forever,” Richards says.

Richards still resides in Hamilton with his wife, Susan, and sons Evan and Kyle, 21 and 18. His parents also still live in Hamilton, as does his sister, her husband and their daughter. Susan has been the office manager of Hotfoil-EHS for the past 16 years.

For more information about the Garzio Oven, call George Litynskij at (609) 4956677 or email george@hotfoilehs.com.

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Lawrence High School (LHS) 9th graders Andy Garcia, Daniela Guerra-Solares, Juan Mira, and Jocelyn Santos Paz were selected for this year's PUPP (Princeton University Preparatory Program) cohort.

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Julia Ciccone, a rising Lawrence High School (LHS) sophomore and National History Day (NHD) Club member, received an invitation to present her National History Day project during a meeting of the North Jersey Civil War Round Table!

Julia’s ten-minute documentary, “Click: Mathew Brady Communicates the Horrors of War,” was shown on May 27 at 7PM via Zoom. Mathew Brady was a well-known Civil War photographer who is often called the father of photojournalism. Julia created her documentary for the 2021 National History Day competition, “Communication in History.”

The Lawrence High School (LHS) DECA club had seven finalists at the 2021 DECA International Career Development Conference on May 6. Of the 17,000 top international competitors, LHS had four finishing in the top ten, two in the top twenty, and one placing FIRST in their event!

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Jametta Clarke honored at Princeton commencement

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Congratulations to Lawrence Board of Education member Pepper Evans for earning Certified Board Leader (CBL) certification from the New Jersey Schools Boards Association (NJSBA)!

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Students at Eldridge Park School (EPS) have been busy composting, clearing areas for planting, and building garden beds with netting as part of the school's Next Generation Garden project!

Last fall, Janssen Pharmaceutical donated $3000 for the project to EPS through a grant from the Lawrence Township Education Foundation (LTEF). The grant allowed EPS to build four raised-bed garden boxes – one for each grade level – so students can experience all cycles of the garden, from seeds to adult plants.

Congratulations to Lawrence High School (LHS) social studies teacher Jametta Clark!

She is one of four recipients of the Princeton Prize for Distinguished Secondary School Teaching to be honored at Princeton University’s 2021 Commencement on May 16.

Teachers were selected for the award based on nominations from public and private schools around the state. They each will receive $5,000, as well as $3,000 for their school libraries.

The staff of the Program in Teacher Preparation, in reviewing the applications, considers recommendations from colleagues and students as well as evidence of the teachers’ accomplishments in the school and the community. The prize was not awarded in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and 15 finalists were selected from the pool of applicants from both the current and previous year.

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By Rich Fisher

All Jahmir Anderson ever wanted to do was dunk a basketball. He had no idea where that urge would lead.

“I was playing in the fourth grade and I don’t think I ever actually enjoyed basketball,” the Lawrence High senior said. “It was just the love of trying to dunk and then I finally got to that level and it just never translated to real basketball. My freshman year I came out here for track and ever since I hopped on the runway I just fell in love with it.”

With good reason. It’s always easy to become enamored with something you’re good at, and Anderson showed just how good he is at the high jump by qualifying for the June 19 NJSIAA Meet of Champions. It was his first trip to the big event, where he finished 17th with a jump of 6-0, and it capped a sterling high school career interrupted by last spring’s COVID-19 shutdown.

And while Anderson couldn’t compete in 2020 outdoor meets, he still found ways to focus on track & field.

“I practiced the high jump here, actually,” he said while standing by the school’s high jump mat the week before the MOC. “Even when they

Jahmir Anderson has signed a letter of intent to continue his track and field careers at The College of New Jersey. He is pictured with his mother, Shamara Thompson. were locking kids out, I still found a way to crawl in here. It’s just what I love to do. Honestly, I just used anywhere I had to jump. I’d use the sidewalk, went

to the basketball courts and dunked, then did some vertical jump workouts.

I didn’t have a high jump mat until April. That was pretty devastating.

“But I’ll do anything to do it. I had some dumb bells, I had to stay motivated. You always got dogs out here that are trying to kill you and take your spot. I just had to keep working out and I was just hungry. I wanted to win and that’s what I’ve been trying to do all season and I’ve done a pretty decent job of that.”

He sure did, especially in the high jump this spring, as he won the CVC Championship in 6-0, took second in the CVC Valley Division Qualifier with a personal record jump of 6-2, finished sixth in the Group III state meet and claimed second in the Central Jersey Group III sectional meet.

Anderson feels his approach is his strength in the high jump, and credits that to having to get a running start when dunking a basketball.

“I couldn’t just stand under the rim and slam it down,” he said with a laugh.

Anderson also won the CVC meet in triple jump with a PR of 42-2 and took third in the CJ III sectionals. He took second in the CVC Valley qualifier in long jump with a 19-10¼ PR. “Jahmir expected that of himself,” head coach Nate Jones said. “But a See ANDERSON, Page 12

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ANDERSON continued from Page 11 lot of the coaches didn’t know what to expect. A lot of guys lost the whole year because of Corona, we didn’t know what kind of shape they’d be in.

We focused on getting guys out and hoping it would be therapeutic. Jahmir apparently was working the whole time when Coronavirus was going on. He came back and just picked up where he left off.”

Anderson’s outlook and ability immediately impressed first-year jumps coach Kevin Kamp, who came to the Cardinals from Franklin High School.

“Jahmir’s been awesome, he sets an example that’s been wonderful for his other teammates but he’s also there to have a good time,” Kamp said. “From the beginning of the year he blew away our expectations and all season he’s been striving to increase from there, so it’s been awesome. We’ve had some difficult luck at times with the weather trying to get good jumps in when the weather may not be in his favor, but nonetheless he’s really overcome a lot of adversity.”

First he had to overcome his desire to play hoops. Anderson began doing track “just to stay in shape for basketball. Then I pretty much ditched basketball and fell in love with track after the first season.”

His freshman indoor season consisted of doing sprints and hurdles, and he put up modest marks. He started high jumping during his sophomore indoor season, and did all three jumps that spring.

“That was always pretty interesting to me, all the different events and just how high they were jumping,” Anderson said. “I’d never seen anything like it, especially at the meets. I just always tried to do what I would watch them do there.”

After learning the mechanics that spring, during his junior indoor high jump season Anderson was second in the Marine Corps Holiday Classic and Princeton Invitational Series. He also took third in the long and triple in the Marine Corps event and third in triple at the Princeton Invitational.

After a limited winter season as a senior, he finally reached his goal of the MOC this spring.

“I’ve always been striving for it, just to reach the top level,” he said. “Freshman year I came in here, I wasn’t too good of an athlete but I continued to work hard and it really just means something to me because I came from the bottom and now I’m at the top of the top.”

He got there despite losing a full season that was critical to his development. But rather than sulk, he used it as motivation.

“As far as training goes, it fueled me,” Anderson said. “I was angry. It fueled me a lot. Just waiting a year, I was ready to step up as a leader for our team junior year and then, the season

got cut. I was pretty mad.

“Junior year (indoors) was my breakout year, I started doing things a lot better. I went from five-foot to five-nine and now I’m at six-two. I thought that would be my breakout year in the spring and I didn’t get to have it so I came out with the attitude to tear something up this year.”

He tore it up, all right, but that’s a lot more difficult to accomplish than just saying you want to do it. Anderson’s focus was a big reason for his success.

“Jumps are a more technical event than the other ones and I think he thrives in technical events where you gotta do things right and you gotta be diligent and work hard,” Jones said.

“I think that’s his strength. He just got better and better each week. He’s incredibly consistent, which is what you’re looking for in an elite jumper.

“I talked to (Kamp) and he’ll tell you what separates him with the other jumpers is missed attempts.

He doesn’t have many missed attempts from doing his technique right. His approaches are correct. Everything is the right way.”

Anderson will take that approach up the road to The College of New Jersey next year, where he will do track while also majoring in Exercise Science with hopes of being a trainer.

“I’m interested in the human body itself and athletics,” Anderson said.

“Our trainer Hillary (Lamb), has helped me so much. She’s amazing. I see the change that she gives to people, and I want to help people also. Especially in the athletic field because I’ve dealt with many injuries.”

Anderson feels those injuries slowed his progress this year and likely stopped him from reaching his full potential. But Jones feels his future will be even brighter when he gets into a collegiate training program.

“He’s only 17 so he’s still developing,” the coach said. “If you would have saw him here as a freshman you would be like ‘Whoa, this is a little guy.’

He definitely sprouted up over the last few years. He’s going to continue to develop. They have a great weight room program at TCNJ, I know they’re gonna build his body up a little more.

He’s already one of the best triple jumpers and high jumpers in our area, I think we’ll see that continue to increase and we’re gonna see his long jump start to get better.”

Jones also feels the Lions program will inherit a guy who is easy to deal with. “He’s an excellent kid to coach, a lot of fun,” Jones said. “Often times some of your best athletes could be a little difficult to coach but he’s just a really nice young man and he wants to do well. He’s willing to take coaching.

He absorbs it like a sponge.”

And on the rare occasion he wants to take a break from the track, he can always go out and dunk a few basketballs.

‘I came from the bottom and now I’m at the top of the top.’ ­—Jamir Anderson

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DON’T LET THE STATE TAKE YOUR ESTATE Kathleen Scott Chasar, Esq. Family and Elder Law Asset Protection Lawrence High School student-athletes recently signed letters of intent to continue their careers in college. Top: Ariana Garcia will play basketball at Rutgers-Camden University. She is pictured with sister, Jaslin, and mom, Ivonne. In the back are her father, Pedro, and Antonio Stapleton, LHS varsity girls’ basketball coach. Middle: Jalen Burks will play football at Chestnut Hill.

Seated next to Jalen his sister, Noel Burks (left), and mother, Toy Burks. At rear are his aunt, Rose Oliver, cousin, Peyton Ivey, cousin, Makenzie Ivey and uncle, Sterick Ivey. Bottom: Hunter Rivera will play baseball at the University of Maryland Baltimore County. He is pictured with his parents, Maria Jordan and Philip Rivera, and brother, Riley Rivera. (Photos by Sam Pastorella.)

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and Moose was transferred back to KEVIN NERWINSKI a U.S. base in Hawaii to attend K-9 training school, where he eventually FROM THE MANAGER’S DESK entered into the U.S. Army and serve alongside our soldiers.

Hewitt, however, always kept track On June 1, I wrote an article about creating a dog park at Hamnett Park, of “his” dog wanting to be reunited at located on Ohio Avenue in south Law- some point after the war. Just to state rence. On June 2, I wrote another arti- the obvious--this dog served in both cle that provided insight into the town’s the Japanese and U.S. Army during the same war! grant program.

FREE In 1945, after Hewitt was discharged Today, these two subjects come 15 Minute together to let everyone know that our from the army, he received a letter from consultation grant czar (my name for her), Brenda the Central Pacific Base Command for the first Kramer, has submitted our application Headquarters. It read, “It is with a deep 30 callers! and entered the 2021 Bark For Your sense of regret that I must inform you Park Contest in the hope that we are of the death of your dog Moose, who awarded money to assist us in “creat- was killed on June 20, 1945, in action ing a safe, off-leash area for pets and against the enemy.”

It further described, “While scoutpet parents to enjoy for years to come” DO YOU HAVE ANY OF THESE SYMPTOMS? (as the contest describes). I will cer- ing the enemy-held village with his tainly report back when the winners handler, Moose located and surprised Numbness Pain when you walk Sharp, electrical-like pain two Japanese soldiers concealed in the are announced.

Burning or tingling Difficulty sleeping from leg or foot discomfort Additionally, I thought this was an grass, one of whom threw a grenade excellent opportunity to announce that within two feet of his handler. Moose Muscle weakness Sensitivity to touch? we intend to name our dog park “Hero knowing it to be a weapon, leaped Dog Park,” and explain the origin and on the grenade as it exploded, fatally wounding him but leaving his handler meaning behind it.

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