Volume LXXIII, Number 22
William Trent House Marks 300th Anniversary . . . . 5 PSRC Seeking Compromise on Early Exercise Classes . . . . . 12 PU Students for Title IX Reform Plan Demonstration at P-rade . . . . . . . . . . 13 Celebrations and Elegies on Walt Whitman’s 200th Birthday . . . . . . 18 PU Football Star Lovett Aiming to Make Kansas City Chiefs . . . . . . . . 27 PHS Boys’ Track Team Ties for 3rd at Sectional Meet . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Shaylah Marciano Helps PHS Girls’ Lax Win Sectional Crown . . . . . 29 Art . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Berkshire Hathaway Fox & Roach Realtors . .22, 23 Calendar . . . . . . . . . . 26 Cinema . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 Classified Ads . . . . . . 35 Mailbox . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Music/Theater . . . . . . 19 Obituaries . . . . . . . . . 34 Police Blotter . . . . . . . . 4 Real Estate . . . . . . . . 35 Sports . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 Topics of the Town . . . . 5 Town Talk . . . . . . . . . . 6
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PHS Students Lead Climate Strike At Hinds Plaza Rally
Warning that “survival demands action; inaction means extinction,” about 50 Princeton High School (PHS) students joined representatives from the Princeton University Students Climate Initiative (SCI) and others in Hinds Plaza on Friday afternoon, May 24, to demand action to combat climate change. As part of a growing international movement led by youth to push for climate action, the PHS contingent carried signs stating “Save Our Planet. Save Our Future”; “Climate Justice Now”; and “The climate is changing, why aren’t we?” And they chanted, “We demand change”; Our planet, our future”; and “There is no Planet B.” “We have a right to be angry about what has been done to our planet,” said rally co-organizer Nate Howard, PHS Democrats in Action (DIA) director of activism, in a speech to the gathering. “We are left to clean up the mess. If we wait, it will be too late. That’s why we’re here today. Politicians need to get on board.” Assemblyman Andrew Zwicker (16th Legislative District) and Sustainable Princeton Executive Director Molly Jones joined the gathering and spoke to the students. “There is no other choice but action,” Zwicker said. “We need your voice.” He emphasized progress on the environmental front through state government. “”We’re not just striking,” he continued. “We’re not just protesting. We are taking action. New Jersey is making sure that we set the tone for the rest of the country. We are doing that because of you. Please go on fighting.” Urging the young people to weigh in on the proposed Princeton Climate Action Plan, which is online and welcoming input and review until June 1, Jones stated, “I’m here to support the community and the youth engaging in climate action. This is a problem that is so massive, it takes us all to get on board. I’m here to support the enthusiasm of young people who want to figure out the solutions.” Jones noted that Sustainable Princeton has many opportunities for student involvement, and she urged, “Keep marching onward and keep on with the fight.” Other speakers included Allen Liu, vice president of the SCI at Princeton University, and PHS strike co-organizer Martin Mastnak. Continued on Page 10
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Candidates Count Down To Democratic Primary With the June 4 Democratic primary election less than a week away, the three Democratic candidates for two spots on the November ballot for Princeton Council continue their outreach to Princeton voters. Michelle Pirone Lambros, Tim Quinn, and Mia Sacks are competing next Tuesday, with the two highest vote-getters to be joined on the ballot for Council in November by Adam Bierman, who is running as an Independent. There are no Republican candidates for Council in this year’s election. In a number of public forums, in the media, on lawn signs, pamphlets, and elsewhere, the candidates have presented their views over the past few months. Town Topics has now given each Democratic candidate the opportunity to sum up “why Princeton residents should vote for you” in the primary election. Their responses follow. Michelle Pirone Lambros
“I bring a new perspective and fresh ideas to Princeton Council. This is why
I am the only candidate to earn the endorsement of so many trusted Democratic leaders, including four former Princeton mayors, six former Council members, two freeholders, and countless prominent community leaders. I’m a fourth-generation Princetonian, and I want to expand the opportunities that opened the way for my immigrant forebears. “My top priorities are simple: to support the town’s dwindling middle class and serve its most vulnerable residents.
This means helping and not hindering small businesses; economic development being so vital to Princeton’s character. It means providing basic necessities, especially to the Witherspoon neighborhood. It means a new relationship with Princeton University and our other great institutions, initiating cooperative projects and public-private partnerships. Above all, it requires breaking out of our self-imposed fiscal straitjacket to put the brakes on our Continued on Page 8
A “Memory Cafe” For Dementia Patients And Their Caregivers
When Donna Sobel became the director of business development at Greenwood House last August, she began searching for new, relevant programs to support the Ewing-based organization’s mission of senior health care. It wasn’t long before she found a focus. “I did research and met with public health officials and nurses, and the topic that kept coming up, again and again,
was dementia care,” Sobel said. “I was very surprised. I didn’t realize there is so much interest in this in the health care community.” Blame it on baby boomers and medical advances that have extended our life spans. According to Alzheimer’s Disease International, there were an estimated 46.8 million people worldwide living with Continued on Page 14
HONORING THOSE WHO MADE THE ULTIMATE SACRIFICE: The Spirit of Princeton’s annual Memorial Day Parade down Nassau Street on Saturday morning was followed by a ceremony at Monument Hall . The keynote speaker was Eugene Marsh, center, a highly-decorated veteran of the Vietnam War . Parade participants share who they were thinking of this Memorial Day in Town Talk on page 6 . (Photo by Erica M. Cardenas)
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