Volume LXIX, Number 33
Back-to-School Section Inside You Don’t Need a PhD in Mathmatics to Enjoy The Curious Mind of John Conway . . . . . . . . . . 19 Michener Museum to Showcase Kaffe Fassett’s Quilts in Fall Show . . 20 Driving With Neil Young: An Imaginary Conversation . . . . . . . 21 Having Overcome Lyme Disease to Regain Health and Form, Tiger Legend Cabral Primed for Worlds Steeplechase . . . . . . . 29 Achieving Goal of Playing Big-Time College Football, Hun Alum Dudeck Excited for Senior Campaign at BC. . . . . 33
Former First Lady of New Jersey Jean F. Byrne, of Princeton, Dies . . . . 36 Art . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Area Exhibits . . . . . . . 20 Books . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Calendar . . . . . . . . . . 25 Cinema . . . . . . . . . . . 26 Classified Ads. . . . . . . 38 Clubs . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 Mailbox . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Music/Theater . . . . . . 21 New to Us. . . . . . . . . . 28 Obituaries . . . . . . . . . 36 Real Estate . . . . . . . . 38 Religion . . . . . . . . . . . 37 Sports . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 Topics of the Town . . . . 5 Town Talk . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Weddings . . . . . . . . . . 18
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Send Hunger Packing Hosts “Hunger Banquet” To Raise Funds, Awareness At the hundreds of Hunger Banquets held by the global organization Oxfam each year, participants might be served rice and water at one table and a gourmet meal at the next. It’s all the luck of the tickets they draw — a concept designed to demonstrate the gap between food choices for the rich, the middle, and the poor. While the offerings at the Princeton Hunger Banquet on Sunday, September 20 won’t be as extreme, the idea is the same. The fundraiser is being held at Hinds Plaza by Send Hunger Packing Princeton (SHUPP), the two-year-old charity that provides aid to food-insecure families in town. Upon entering, participants will be given tickets directing them to a table serving a meal typical of a low, middle, or high-income family. “We wanted to do something to bring awareness to the fact that food insecurity exists in Princeton,” said Elisa Neira, the town’s Human Services director. “Families and children are not getting enough nutritious foods, or might not be eating three meals a day, or might be having to cut the size of their meals. And another thing we see is concern about where the next meal is coming from, particularly toward the end of the month when they are waiting for the next paycheck.” According to research by SHUPP, some 420 Princeton children are food insecure. While the ones who qualify get free or subsidized school lunches during the week, there is no help for them on the weekends. SHUPP partners with Mercer Street Friends to provide backpacks containing food to take home on Fridays for needy children in grades kindergarten through five, and at the Princeton Nursery School. Ms. Neira and others involved in planning the event were inspired by a Hunger Banquet simulation held recently at the Hun School. “The idea was to teach students about world hunger,” Ms. Neira said. “They took the model from Oxfam and followed it, and we will do the same. We’ll have three different tiers, with meals representing what each group would normally eat.” So while one table will be set with a tablecloth, silverware, and centerpieces, another will have no tablecloth and paper Continued on Page 7
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Council Wants Answers About Post Office Building
The introduction of an ordinance that would convey easements on the property of the post office building in Palmer Square to its prospective new owners led to a spirited discussion at a recent meeting of Princeton Council. Members of the governing body said they want more information about what the California-based buyer, LCOR Ventures, is planning to put into the building that has been a fixture on the square since 1937. Responding to Council’s request, municipal attorney Trishka W. Cecil has offered the attorney handling the sale an opportunity to either meet informally with Council members Jenny Crumiller and Heather Howard, or make a more formal presentation about plans for the building at a future meeting of the governing body. “I have yet to hear back from him,” Ms. Cecil said Tuesday of attorney Richard
Goldman, who is with the firm Drinker, Biddle, and Reath. “But a lot of the Council members had questions they need answered, so I’m waiting to hear what he says.” It was Ms. Crumiller who was the most vocal about her concerns for the property, which the United States Postal Service is selling as part of a system-wide downsizing. The branch will be relocated to a smaller site at the rear of the former West Coast Video store on East Nassau Street. No plans have been announced for the building, though it has been suggested that it may be used for retail or a restaurant. “I think we’re doing a disservice to the public by practically giving away those easements,” Ms. Crumiller said at the August 10 meeting. “We should put up some resistance. It will be a terrible loss if we have to give up the post office. It will
probably be high end retail, and I’ve heard from so many people that they are against this. I would ask that we say no, let’s not provide the easements.” The Postal Service has proposed paying Princeton $10,000 in return for new easements that are needed for certain features of the property including steps and window wells, which spill over onto land that is owned by the town. Easements granted back in the 1930s dictated that they would expire if the post office ever sold the property. The buyers need to have the existing easements extended, and some new ones conveyed before the sale is finalized. Other members of Council were less inclined than Ms. Crumiller to say no to the easement requests. “I, too, mourn the loss, but the reality is that post offices are closing everywhere,” said Ms. Howard. Continued on Page 2
GRANDPALS GETS BIGGER: You don’t have to be a grandparent to join the eight-year-old program known as Grandpals, which pairs people aged 50 and up with young children. This coming school year, the program has expanded to all four of Princeton’s elementary schools. Some 90 Grandpals like Jan Johnson, shown here with Madison Charles and Ira Stone, now read weekly to more than 300 children from kindergarten through second grade, sharing a love of books and building relationships. On September 16 at 10:30 a.m., participants and those interested in joining can attend a session at the Suzanne Patterson building, 45 Stockton Street. There are 14 classes participating this year, including some bilingual Spanish and English classes, so those with some knowledge of Spanish are encouraged to participate. To register, call Olivian Boon at (609) 924-7108. Light refreshments will be served.
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