December 4, 2009

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December 4, 2009

WEST WINDSOR
& PLAINSBORO
NEWS
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ISSUE DATE: DECEMBER 4, 2009
For These Teens,
Reality Is Real –
Not Virtual
Tom Roder and Vicky Wang have to balance their
busy high school schedules with the demands of being
members of the Plainsboro Rescue Squad.
trade, balancing their responsibilities as students and other activities
with serving as members of the
Plainsboro Rescue Squad. And recently, both of the teens have successfully completed their EMT
certifications.
One of Wang’s first few calls
was also eye-opening. The call was
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routine — a baby was having
seizures, which happens frequently. While the call was not lifethreatening, “the parents were obviously worried,” she said. “They
spoke Chinese, and I conversed
with the mother in Chinese, and
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by Cara Latham
building and grounds department,”
said Gerri Hutner, the district’s dihe controversy over the pos- rector of communications. “They
sible privatization of the informed the administrators they
West Windsor-Plainsboro were going to do this. They were
school district’s maintenance and allowed to voice their emotions
custodial staff has created a new and concerns and opinions on this
group of concerned citizens — the topic during this time.”
district’s high school students.
As part of the curriculum for
A group of nearly 100 students language arts, there is a unit on civat High School South organized a il disobedience, in which students
walk-out during the lunch period have discussions on various topics,
on December 2
including soin protest of the
cial contracts,
Board of Educa‘They informed the adcheating, and
tion’s decision
honor codes,
ministrators they were
to study the matHutner said.
going to do this. They
ter.
Students
Because the
walked out to
were allowed to voice
students
inthe front of the
their emotions, conformed
the
building near
principal about
cerns, and opinions.’
the
flagpole
the protest and
around 11:10
because it was
a.m., chanting
part of the curriculum, there is no
and carrying signs with slogans, disciplinary action planned. When
including the popular “Stranger asked whether the district would
Danger.”
condone a protest that was not reBut school officials say that the lated to a lesson being taught at the
students had notified Principal school so long as officials are notiCharles Rudnick ahead of time fied ahead of time, Hutner said a
about the protest they organized as disciplinary decision would have
part of a civil disobedience lesson to be made by the principal and that
in the language arts program. No she would only comment on this
disciplinary action is expected to particular incident.
be taken against the students for
Officials encourage students to
the 15-minute protest.
use the lessons that are taught in
“This is a topic they felt strong- school to “carefully and safely
ly about, and felt they wanted to voice their opinions,” said Hutner.
show their feelings and opinions
on the board’s decision to study the
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economics and efficiencies of the
T
by Cara Latham
T
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December 4
School Sports
South
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Dance
“Intent”, Princeton University, Berlind Theater, McCarter
Theater Center, Princeton,
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www.princeton.edu. Senior thesis
dance production featuring
dances by Mark Morris, the
certificate students, and NYCbased choreographer Lindsey
Dietz Marchant. 8 p.m.
Drama
Peer Gynt in Process: Henrik
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and Remade, Mercer County Community College, Studio Theater, Communications
Building, 1200 Old Trenton
Road, West Windsor, 609570-3524. Modern version of
Ibsen’s four-hour drama set in
a disco is only 90-minutes.
$14. 8 p.m. See story page 36.
Crime and Punishment, Theatre Intime, Hamilton Murray
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‘Let It Snow’: Holiday-themed paintings by
Plainsboro artist Robert Hummel are on display at Chez Alice Cafe and Bakery in Palmer
Square, Princeton, through December, in an exhibit and sale titled ‘Let It Snow.’
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om Roder was watching
television one day when he
saw someone he knew in a
recruitment advertisement for the
Plainsboro Rescue Squad.
Two months later, he was in the
back of an ambulance, reviving a
woman who was suffering from a
heart attack.
“The lady basically died on us
twice,” he said. “We brought her
back, and she was talking as we
were rolling her into the hospital.
That was my first real critical call.
It really made me realize how
much of a difference we can make
and save someone’s life.”
That’s a heady experience for
anyone. But what makes it more
dramatic is that Roder is still in
high school — a senior at South.
The Plainsboro Rescue Squad consists of EMTs and trainees, and on
life-threatening calls, a paramedic
unit joins the squad, which was the
case during this particular call.
For Roder, as well as Vicky
Wang, the decision to join the
squad was not life-changing, but
the experiences the two have had
since serving on the squad have
been. The two have spent nearly
two years training and learning the
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To The Editor:
WW-P Schools Need
Property Manager
I
• Recognize physical problems
long before they become catastrophic events.
• Manage repairs and renovations knowing when to complete in
house and when to economically
go outside.
applaud the West Windsor
Plainsboro School Board for
considering ways to reduce op• Effectively write requests for
erating costs within the system. I
quotes using knowlwould, however, ask
edge unique to
them to consider ansomeone so trained
Our
system
has
other approach. As a
thus insuring WW-P
retired supervisor of clearly grown well
gets what it needs —
building and grounds beyond any level
not what “keeping
for a local school sysup with the Joneses”
that
a
superintentem I recognize that
caused a request for.
dent
of
schools
can
as school systems
Now for the real
grow there becomes comprehend.
change. Such an ina time when drastic
dividual should be
changes are required.
WW-P has reached one of the an employee of the Board of Edutimes in the management of its cation answering directly to the
board with a completely separate
plant.
With over a half billion dollars budget. Our system has clearly
in physical plant WW-P would be grown well beyond any level that a
well advised to consider hiring a superintendant of schools can
professional engineer schooled in comprehend, let alone objectively
property management. Such an in- manage. A superintendant should
dividual could provide significant be an educator first and foremost.
savings to the system in the follow- His or her loyalties should be directed to education and education
ing areas.
alone. And unfortunately all too
• Manage capital projects from
often their tenure is not long
inception to completion, thus reenough to relate to the life cycle of
ducing the cost of consultants and
the physical plant.
insuring that architects provide our
Replacing the lowest-paid staff
needs rather than cookie cutter
may reap short-term savings, but
units with a new facade.
the disinterest in the well-being of
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the system by outsiders will cost
more in the long term. Until you
have experienced the costs produced by small problems left unreported you will think my idea is
foolish. Those who have gone
down this path generally realize the
mistake in a year or two at considerable costs. The board would be
well advised to contact some who
have gone down this path.
Howard Eldridge
Retired Supervisor
of Buildings and Grounds
Custodians’ Role Is
Integral To Schools
A
s a Plainsboro taxpayer, parent, and WW-P school district
employee I would like to express
my disappointment that our school
board is even considering the outsourcing of our operations and custodial staff. The group that has
been targeted is a hard-working,
trustworthy, and responsible collection of individuals. They are an
integral part of every school’s
community atmosphere. Our students know and trust them, and our
parents and other school employees, like me, depend on them.
They not only keep our schools
clean and in good working order,
they help maintain a level of security that would be impossible using a
rotating staff of strangers from an
outsourcing company. There is no
reason these district employees
should be facing the threat of job
loss. Many of them have worked in
the district for years. They have
shown dedication and commitment
to their jobs. Is this how they are repaid?
I would like to encourage the
parents of children in the district to
show your support for our opera-
Christmas Story
Can Be Messy
I
’m troubled by “Blue Christmas” worship. The practice
started because, understandably,
some people find it difficult to
share in the joy of the holiday
season. Their lives are a mess
(divorce, death, illness, etc). So
some institutions thought that
this group of people would benefit from a separate worship service, where similarly struggling
folks could gather without the
refrains of “Joy to the World.”
I’m troubled because this
practice seems to be in response
to our culture’s appreciation of
Christmas. The church’s story,
however, is not the reassuring
bliss of “God is in his heavens,
and all is right with the world.”
Rather the joy of the Feast of the
Nativity is that God is with us in
our mess!
Blue Christmas segregates
tions and custodial staff by attending Board of Education meetings
and expressing your feelings on
this issue. Two of my children
graduated from this school district,
and as a parent I never had to worry
about their safety at school or their
exposure to an insufficiently
cleaned environment. As parents in
this district we have always taken it
for granted that these things would
be provided for our children. They
were provided for mine. Please
make sure they will be provided for
yours by supporting our operations
and custodial staff in this effort to
save their jobs.
Elaine Bush
Plainsboro
people and experiences into
false categories: Worship with
sad people when you are sad and
joyful people when you are joyful. In reality there is no place
you can go where life is not
messed up. Messed up is the only way that life is found. Blue
Christmas also harms the gift of
diversity in a Christian community. Christian worship is less
than it is meant to be when those
present aren’t connected to the
messiness of life — theirs and
others.
This Christmas don’t stay
away if you are blue. Instead
gather with others to hear about
the God that doesn’t protect us
from the messes of life (unplanned pregnancy, homelessness, governmental corruption
— elements of the first Christmas) but in the very messiness of
life is with us — Emmanuel!
Paul Lutz
Pastor, Prince of Peace Lutheran
Church, Princeton Junction
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cility manager to see if it might be possible
to resurrect such a pathway. This is what he
has discovered.
The old walking trail has not been in use
for a long time, and the area is fenced to prevent people from crossing through the
Schlumberger area. We might want to find
out why — there has been some speculation
that it is for legal reasons.
Schlumberger owns a property on Route
571 and for a time had employees working
there. West Windsor approved — we think
in 2007 — the addition of a second floor to
the main building on Wallace Road and an
elevated boardwalk over the wetlands on the
south side of the building for employees to
walk between the two facilities. The second
floor has since been completed and the employees from the building on PrincetonHightstown Road have moved to the main
building.
The building on Princeton-Hightstown
Road is now vacant. The facility manager
did not know what Schlumberger would do
with the vacant building. Because everyone
is now located together on Wallace Road,
Schlumberger no longer needs the building
on Princeton-Hightstown Road. There is no
reason to connect the two buildings with a
path, and it therefore has no plans to build
the boardwalk.
Apparently, even when they had people
in the Princeton-Hightstown Road building,
the employees used to go around the PNC
Bank at the corner rather than walking
through their land directly.
For the time being, it appears that there
are no plans to create a crossing through the
Schlumberger property, and we are left with
another empty building on Princeton-Hightstown Road.
Please note that the West Windsor redevelopment plan calls for a walking path
from the Windsor Plaza (behind the Acme
shopping center) to the station.
Suggestions and ideas are always welcome.
Rita McGrath
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n 2009 HomeFront received 13,928 pleas
for help from families facing homelessness, hunger, and all the other economic, social, and personal problems that go with
poverty. This represents a 34 percent increase over 2008.
New Jersey is, in a way, at the center of
the current crisis in the economy. Unemployment, foreclosures, homelessness, and
hunger are at record levels. All of this shows
up at the HomeFront front desk, and it is particularly painful during the traditional
American holiday of Thanksgiving, a time
for families to sit around the table and celebrate the good fortune of their lives. There
are so many hardworking families with no
table, no home, and no festive dinner.
I want to take this opportunity to give
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about and care for their neighbors, a concept
fundamental to our traditions. Let me give
my thanks to all of you for all of this.
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okay, knowing he’s there to make
sure they’re safe. It’s the safety angle that many of the parents I know
are concerned about when it comes
to this issue.
Linda Dowling of Plainsboro,
who has ninth and 11th graders at
High School North, and a seventh
grader at Community Middle
School, says it’s scary to think that
the staff she has known for years
might be replaced by outsourced
employees. “I’m not going to be
saying to my kids you run in and
I’ll wait in the car,” she tells me.
“There’s a security knowing that
you know the people who are in the
school after hours when your kids
have to be in the locker rooms, or
even over spring break when the
kids have practices and they have
to be in the school when it’s not in
session.”
Jim Applegate is also at Millstone River School, but he started
at Community Middle School back
when it first opened. “We custodians are the ones who opened that
school, right there with Dr.
Downs,” he recalls with pride evident on his face. “I remember it
clearly. It was August 10, 1997,
and school had to be open September 9 that year, and so we had a
month to get the school up and
ready.”
Our economy is in trouble, not
just for the short-term, but for the
foreseeable future, and part of the
problem is outsourcing, giving
away jobs that Americans are fully
capable of performing, to people,
many times in other countries, who
are willing to work for less. While
this may improve profits and present a rosy view of the bottom line
in the short run, it is ultimately destructive, and we are seeing some
of the results of that near-sighted
approach right now.
I agree that belt-tightening and
review of fiscal responsibilities is
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I won’t stand for it!
Outsourcing?
Not with my tax dollars!
Strangers?
Not in my schools!
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was Santa himself, with his jolly
laugh and kindly face.
Bob is another wonderful fellow
whose job is in danger. He’s been at
Millstone River School for 19
years. How many times has one of
my kids forgotten something in the
classroom, or had to run back in to
school after hours, and we’ve been
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prudent
and
the
right thing
to do. But
it is not
right to reward people who have
given years of service and dedication by throwing them out of their
jobs. Is it that they are paid too
much? Hardly! And if we are examining their paychecks, would it
not be fair, then, to look at others
(for now, who shall go unnamed)
who have paychecks that are much
higher and have recently received
raises to boot?
I love metaphors so I’ll offer one
here to illustrate the situation as I
see it. It’s like we’re all in a lifeboat
bobbing along the sea of economic
trouble. Then someone says, “Hey,
let’s toss out a few people and replace them with others who are
willing to drink less water and eat
less food. Who cares if they are
helping to keep us afloat?” How
about getting everyone in that
lifeboat to consume a little bit less
until you reach land, which should
be in sight just around the corner?
These are the people who have
been taking care of our children,
our schools, and our district’s
buildings and grounds. Shouldn’t
we repay their kindness by taking
care of them?
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lifford
was one
of
the
first people we
met at Village
School in West Windsor back in
1997 when we first moved to this
area and Katie, just seven years old,
entered as a second-grader in Mrs.
Knuppel’s class. The years have
rolled by, Mrs. Knuppel has since
retired, and Katie is now a college
sophomore, but Clifford? Kind, dependable Clifford?
Well, these days you’ll find him
over at Town Center School in
Plainsboro, where he is the night
custodian. We stayed in touch with
him there as well, since Will was
there from kindergarten through
third grade, and we knew we could
always count on him for a cheery
hello, even when he was called upon for some of the most unpleasant
cleanup tasks that involve grade
school children.
Clifford is just one of the district’s many employees who may
be out of a job if the West WindsorPlainsboro School District decides
to go ahead with a plan to outsource
its custodial and maintenance staff.
There has been much heated and
emotional discussion of this controversial issue, including at recent
school board meetings, in the pages
of this very newspaper (bravo,
Mary Alden and Andrea Crossey,
for your well-written editorials in
the last issue) and even on lawns
across our two communities in the
form of colorful purple-inked signs
that are hard to miss.
Teachers and parents have rallied behind the two unions that represent the endangered employees,
speaking out vehemently against
the plan that has been pitched as a
way to save money in these hard
economic times.
Though many strong, articulate
voices have emerged already, I
wanted to add my voice to the discussion, as both a taxpayer and a
parent who has raised three children in this district. I am outraged
by the idea of taking these jobs
away from some of the hardestworking, most loyal employees in
our schools.
In addition to people like Clifford, there are others like the
beloved Jim Stives, still with the
district, whom we also knew at
Town Center when he was the Operations Foreman. Every winter
and spring, when I showed up to rehearse with the chorus for their
concerts, I could count on Jim to
make sure that the risers were set
up for the kids to perform and my
piano was rolled out and in place.
One day he noticed that I had a
problem with my sheet music
falling off the ledge, and the next
time I showed up, he had built me a
new, longer ledge that held all of
the music securely. He was always
singing a song with his rich, deep
baritone, and I’m convinced many
of the kids were convinced that he
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she calmed down, and that was the
moment when I felt, ‘Wow, I actually did something.’ ”
Since then, there have been other calls in which Wang, also a senior at South, has been asked to
translate. “Ever since I was born,
I’ve always had my grandparents
over to my house, taking care of
me. My parents are the first generation in America, so I can only talk
to them [grandparents] in Chinese.”
Wang, who will be 18 in January, has lived in Plainsboro since
second grade, when she moved
from Houston, Texas, as a result of
her father’s job. Her mother currently works with Wyeth, which
was recently sold to Pfizer, in the
neuroscience department. Her father is a computer consultant.
Although Wang says she has no
interest in pursuing a career in the
medical field — rather, she is interested in international business —
she loves being an EMT. “I’m hoping the college I go to will have a
rescue squad there so I can continue being an EMT,” she said. If it is
near her home, she said she would
remain on the Plainsboro squad.
When she first joined nearly two
years ago, she had to become certified for blood borne pathogens and
first aid. Once those certifications
were completed, she had to pass the
modules the squad creates, including tests about location of items on
the ambulance. Then, she earned
her certification, and now is able to
participate in more drills and becomes more involved in primary
care calls. She is currently still a
cadet but will be given more responsibility once she turns 18.
Roder and Wang, both residents of Plainsboro, had
to take a 120-hour course and meet federal standards in order to earn their EMT certifications.
Serving as a volunteer on the
squad, though, takes up a lot of her
time. “You have to give up a lot of
stuff, but it’s worth it,” she said.
“Before being on the squad, I didn’t realize how much a volunteering job could actually impact people’s lives. It’s a lot of responsibility that I didn’t expect I would ever
be able to have.”
She does not sacrifice everything. In fact, Wang is also very involved in High School South’s
China Night program, where she
has directed some of the performances. “I only really focus on that
and rescue squad because they do
take up a lot of time,” she said.
How does she balance those responsibilities with school? “I just
try to be as efficient as possible in
each task. I know that rescue squad
is going to take up a lot of time, and
I had to drop some other clubs because it gets really busy before China Night.”
When she does get free time,
though, she enjoys playing volleyball and relaxing. Lately, though,
she has been studying for the
SATs.
Like Wang, Roder also went
through the process to become
EMT-certified after he joined the
squad in August, 2008. And he,
too, has remained dedicated.
Roder, who has lived in Plainsboro since kindergarten, balances
volunteering with his part-time job
as an umpire for the CranburyPlainsboro Little League as well as
studies at South.
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Prior to living in Plainsboro, his
family lived in West Windsor for
several months while his home in
Plainsboro was being constructed.
And before that, his family lived in
Pennsylvania, but wanted to move
closer to New York, where his father worked. The school system in
the WW-P district was a major
draw, he said. His father works for
IBM as a learning facilitator, and
his mother is an elementary school
teacher in the Montgomery school
district.
Roder also had to complete the
coursework necessary to become
certified, including taking the 120hour course this past summer,
which had him taking classes Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday
from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
“It’s a quite a time commitment,” he said of his work with the
squad. “It really depends on the
week. Sometimes, I’m there every
night of the week with meetings
and calls and shifts.”
But that does not stop him from
his work with the little league,
where he played while he grew up.
He began umpiring for the league
at age 12, and each year since, he
has been umpiring higher level
games in the spring and sometimes
in the fall.
Roder enjoys his time on the
squad, which is preparing him for
the future. While he also has no interest in medicine, he does want to
pursue a career in law enforcement.
“It teaches you how to deal with
pretty stressful situations,” he said.
“You’re walking into some of the
worst moments of people’s lives
and trying to help them with whatever is going on.”
“I pretty much always had an interest in it — I just really enjoy
helping people, and I think I could
really excel at that.”
Brian Gould, the past president
of the Rescue Squad and the current training officer, is impressed
with the effort by both Roder and
Wang.
As Gould explained, both EMTs
had to spend 120 hours in the class,
were required to ride 10 hours on
an ambulance or in an emergency
room, and had to undergo an additional 10 hours of training specific
to the Plainsboro Rescue Squad.
The two EMTs also spent a few
hours taking online tests with the
federal government.
Most EMTs are not high school
students, especially since parents
in this area tend to push their children to do SAT prep work and
study, leaving them with no time to
perform the 150 total hours necessary for their certifications.
Additionally, each EMT is required to provide one evening per
week and one weekend day per
month as a riding squad member.
They are also required to attend
monthly cadet meetings, monthly
squad meetings, and monthly training drills. They also have to continue their training in order to maintain their state certifications.
The squad accepts cadets three
months before turning 16. “The
reason is it typically takes three
months just to get up to the point
where you can ride on the ambulance,” Gould said. “We make it
very clear we are looking for people with a passion to do EMS, and
not for people who are just resumebuilding.”
“I have personally kicked out at
least a dozen cadets from the squad
who were resume building,” Gould
added.
This is why the squad asks all of
its cadets to get their EMT certification, and unfortunately, that does
not happen often. If a cadet fails to
become an EMT after a year, he or
she is asked to leave. “A rescue
squad does not have a cadet program because it helps the local
squad — we’re training EMTs,
likely to become EMTs for other
squads.”
All of this aside, Roder and
Wang went through the 150 hours,
continued to get good grades in
school, and even juggled jobs and
other responsibilities. “The case of
these two is somewhat unique —
they’ve put out a tremendous ef-
The Plainsboro Rescue
Squad is ‘looking for
people with a passion to
do EMS,’ says Gould. ‘I
have kicked out at least
a dozen cadets who were
resume building.’
fort,” Gould said. “Vicky is a
tremendous trainer. If someone
doesn’t understand something, including adult training, she will sit
down with them.”
Roder is “unbelievably good; I
would trust my life in his hands as
an emergency medical technician,”
said Gould. To contact the squad
call 609-799-2180 or visit http://plainsbororescuesquad.org.
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WW Seeks First Aid
Squad Volunteers
W
hen people think about
spending time with their
children, rarely do they think of
riding in the back of an ambulance
with them, working together to
tend to the medical needs of a community member.
But for Michael Leahy, deputy
chief of West Windsor’s Twin “W”
First Aid Squad, volunteering is a
way to bond with his son, who is also now an EMT, and he is encouraging other residents to do the
same. “You get to sit back and
watch your child treat a patient —
watch them mature faster than you
want them to,” he said. “It’s an opportunity to ride with your son or
daughter and watch them give back
to the community.”
Of course, not all of the volunteers have a parent-child connection. Either way, those looking to
volunteer within the township can
do so with the West Windsor Rescue Squad, which is looking for
volunteers ages 16 and older, primarily to cover overnight shifts
when members of the township’s
paid squad are unavailable.
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Leahy has been a volunteer with Twin
“W” for six years. He has also been a volunteer with the West Windsor Volunter Fire
Company for 14 years, where he served as
chief from 2004 to 2008. His training came
from his years spent in the Air Force, he said.
Leahy balances his volunteering with a
full-time job as the director of internal audit
for an investment banking firm in New York.
His son, Michael, a senior at North, joined
him on the squad when he was 16. He also
earned his EMT certification and will turn 18
in January, at which time he will be promoted from his probationary EMT status. Currently, he is even studying to become certified in Coaching Emergency Vehicle Operations (CEVO), and will be training others
how to operate and drive the ambulance. He
has since also joined the fire company.
According to Leahy, there are various positions for which a person can volunteer, including active EMTs, drivers, trainees, and
associate members who handle the corporate side of the squad’s business, freeing up
other members to tend to the needs of the
public. “We need more community people,”
Leahy said.
The volunteer members of the Twin “W”
First Aid Squad cover the shifts, from 7 p.m.
to 7 a.m., Monday through Friday, and from
5 p.m. to 7 a.m. on Saturdays and Sundays.
“Some people can’t do the whole 12 hours,
and that’s fine. We ask that they try to give
us one night or as many hours as they possibly can.”
There has been an increase in the number
of dedicated Princeton University students
volunteering with the rescue squad, and the
high school students currently serving on the
squad are also extremely reliable, Leahy
said. “It gives them the insight as high school
students of what the medical profession is
like, since a lot of them have an interest in
pursuing a medical degree,” said Leahy.
But, the squad needs more residents —
about five or six core residents, Leahy estimated. “Everybody doesn’t have to do one
night,” he said. “They can do as many nights
as they want. It can be every two weeks. This
just helps out if we can get a few more core
residents.”
There are some volunteers who have children at home and who may ride 11 p.m. to 7
a.m. In this case, the squad finds someone
else to work from 7 p.m. to 11 p.m. during
those shifts. Regardless, the squad can make
accommodations. “It’s not as hard as it
sounds. There are nights we don’t have calls,
and there are nights you can have five or six
calls. It’s a great group of people to be involved with.”
Those interested in volunteering can call
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large school, another first for the school. The
team also received first place in best delegate, second place for outstanding delegate,
third place in honorable mention, and fourth
place in verbal commendation. North wins
included:
Outstanding Delegate: Quinn Maingi, Felix Xiao, Tom Klimek, Amy Xu, and Brian
Yuan.
Honorable Mention: Frank Long, Rebecca Brodsky, Jackie Litwin, Angela Sheng,
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Lipka.
Verbal Commendation: Mohit Hajarnis,
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Delegates: Anne Corbett, Faizon Khan,
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schools, and over 1,000 participating delegates,” says Vyshakh
Kodoth, secretary, High School
South Model United Nations Club.
“The school takes great pride in our
successes at these conferences, as
we have created a formidable reputation for our school and the West
Windsor-Plainsboro area as a community with driven and hardworking intellectuals.”
High School South awards include:
Rutgers Model United Nations
Conference: Outstanding Delegation Award in the Medium Delegation size category. Individual
award winners were Ronak Gandhi, Vyshakh Kodoth, Aakash Bhatia, Rahul Lakhwani Rahul Sabinenni, Varsha Sundararaman,
Nikhil Gavai, and Karan Gupta.
Princeton Model United Nations Conference: Outstanding
Delegation Award in the Small
Delegation size category. Individual award winners were Sabrina
Arias, Sharang Phadke, Rahul
Sabinenni, Omeed Alerasool, Eric
Tang, Jordan Reece, Mark Kogan,
Pranav Rao, Niharika Ray, Mihir
Sheth, Amanda Immidisetti, Dylan
Ogden, and Michael Liu.
South Model UN will compete
at the University of Pennsylvania
and Georgetown University in January and February. “These conferences tend to be our most competitive conferences of the year, and
we have experienced great success
at these conferences in the past,”
says Kodoth. South club advisors
are Brad Borsuk and Erin
Schomburg.
Musical Notes
K
evin Kong, a seventh grade
student at Community Middle
School, received second place in
the 11 to 14 year-old group in New
Jersey in the Music Teacher’s National Association piano competition held on November 14. Earlier
this year he took awards in the junior group of the Steinway & Sons
Piano Competition. He studies piano with Chiu-Ling Lin.
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Saved a Village
James Schultz, 9, of West
Windsor donated $250 to adopt a
village in the Democratic Republic
of the Congo. He earned the money
by doing chores and saving gift
money he received for his birthday
last May.
He presented his gift to Dr.
Daniel Shungu, executive director
of the United Front Against
Riverblindness, headquartered in
Lawrenceville. Through his donation, UFAR will distribute a full
year’s treatment to fight riverblindness to a village in DRC.
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School, Class of 1994, received
Project Freedom’s Stephen Wensley Award. Cohen, inducted into
the National Honor Society during
his high school days, was one of the
first wheelchair-bound students at
High School South.
Cohen received his bachelor of
arts degree in communications
with a minor in religious studies
from St. Andrews Presbyterian
College in Laurinburg, North Carolina. A volunteer at Project Freedom in Robbinsville prior to his senior year in college, he was able to
secure both an apartment and a
part-time job there after graduation. Cohen is currently pursuing a
masters degree in Christian Counseling.
The award recognizes Cohen’s
support and continued service to
Project Freedom and his community. Since he began living there in
1999, Cohen has taught a computer
course for residents, maintained
much of the Project Freedom website, as well as mined databases for
grant funds. Cohen attends the
Hamilton Square Baptist Church
and maintains its website. Cohen,
also involved in the New Jersey
Coalition for Inclusive Ministries,
is focused on getting houses of
worship to become accessible for
the disabled population. Cohen has
completed other programs related
to the disabled in New Jersey including Partners in Policymaking.
His mother, Florence Cohen of
West Windsor, earned a top
CARES grant award of $5,000 for
Project Freedom. A retiree of Prudential Financial, the award was to
aid accessible housing and support
services for low-income, physically disabled individuals, and their
families. (The News, November
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Births
The University Medical Center
at Princeton has announced the following births:
Sons were born to Plainsboro
residents Usha Rani Pamidi and
Siva Kumar Veluru, November
13; Grace Kamagana Penn and
Darrell Andre Penn, November
21; and Lavanya Katkuri and
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22;
Daughters were born to Plainsboro residents Eileen and John
Wang, November 13; Rasheedah
McDaniel and Hassan Wilson,
November 19; and Junhong Mao
and Guofeng Xu, November 24.
Daughters were born to West
Windsor residents Colleen and
Emmett Henry, November 23;
and Anne and Christopher Maloney, November 24.
Deaths
Catherine Dzugan, 78, of Brick
died November 14, at Ocean Medical Center. Survivors include a
son, William R. Dzugan of West
Windsor. Donations may be made
to NYU Medical Center, Office of
Development, Aging and Dementia Research, 1 Park Avenue, Floor
17, New York, NY 10016.
Carolina Pirone Procaccini,
96, of Ontario, Canada, died November 14. Survivors include a son
and daughter-in-law, Rocco and
Vincenza Procaccini of West
Windsor, a daughter and son-inlaw, Giovannina and Umberto
Pirone of West Windsor. A memorial mass will be celebrated Saturday, December 5, at 10 a.m., at St.
David the King Catholic Church, 1
New Village Road, West Windsor.
Thomas J. Hanson, 49, of
Plainsboro died November 18.
Born in Edison, he was a licensed
practical nurse at Carrier Clinic.
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Michael K. Phelan, 59, of Parlin, died November 18, while on his
job site in Alaska. He was a layout
technician for Mistras Group based
in West Windsor. Survivors include a daughter, Michelle Phelan
of Plainsboro. A long time coach of
basketball, baseball, football, and
soccer, donations may be made to
the Our Lady of Victories Athletic
Association for a scholarship fund.
Kimberly Reed, 45, of Granada
Hills, California, died November
18. Born in Ft. Leonard Wood,
Missouri, she was raised in West
Windsor. After receiving her bachelor’s degree from Trenton State
College, she moved to California,
where she had a career in sales and
pursued her interest in sports as a
professional trainer and kick boxer.
Survivors include her mother,
Lorrainer Pocino, St. Augustine,
Florida; and stepsisters, Wendy
Barota, New Port Richey, Florida,
and Sandra Broneszewski, Bordentown.
Ruth Carol Johnson, 74, of
Vineland died November 21. Survivors include a daughter, Catherine Hughes of West Windsor. Donations may be made to Children’s
Hospital of Pennsylvania, Dept.
827790, Box 7790, Philadelphia,
PA 19101-9975.
Kathleen E. Jones, 77, of
Plainsboro died November 21 at
the University Medical Center at
Princeton. Born in Ridley Park,
PA, she moved to West Windsor in
1971.
She retired in the late 1980s
from her position as a trust officer
with Princeton Bank and Trust after 10 years of service. She was an
award-winning artist whose work
appeared in many juried exhibits
including ArtFirst! at the University Medical Center at Princeton. As
a voice-over artist, she was the
voice of Clayton’s Department
store in Princeton. She was a lector
at St. David the King Church.
Survivors include a son and
daughter-in-law, Stephen and Susan Jones; four daughters and two
sons-in-law,
Julianne
Jones,
Suzanne and Richard Albanese,
Elizabeth Haskell, and Mary Kate
and Lester Stines; a brother,
Stephen McHale; two sisters, Maureen Kerrigan and Helene Burns;
and seven grandchildren, Matthew
Haskell, Rachel and Cameron
Jones, Olivia, James and Sophia
Albanese and John Stines.
Donations may be made to St.
David the King Church, 1 New Village Road West, West Windsor
08550, and the Martin House of
Trenton.
Victor M. Auletta, 88, died November 24 in Delhi, New York.
Survivors include a daughter,
Cathy Auletta Falk of Plainsboro,
son Victor Auletta, a former
Plainsboro resident; and grandchildren Victor, Sean, Dan, and Will,
former Plainsboro residents. Donations may be made to the American
Heart Assoc., 1 Union Street, Suite
301, Robbinsville 08691.
Robert Hunter, 86, of West
Windsor died November 24, in
Jamesburg. Born and raised in
Scranton, PA, he was a longtime
resident of Hillsborough before
moving to West Windsor eight
years ago. An Army veteran who
served in World War II, he was a
welder for more than 20 years with
Egan Machinery in Somerville.
Survivors include his wife of 63
years, Betty; his children, Denise
Stelmak of Scranton, Pennsylva-
nia, Keith and his wife Maryann
Hunter of Rocky Hill, and Sheila
Hunter of West Windsor; his
grandchildren Scott and his wife
Maureen Stelmak, and Todd
Hunter; and his great grandchild
Wyatt Stelmak.
Donations may be made to the
American Heart Association or the
Hillsborough Food Bank.
Christina LaBree Seagraves
Chumley, 44, of Mt. Pleasant,
South Carolina died November 25.
She was a graduate of West Windsor-Plainsboro High School.
Survivors include her husband,
Jeff Chumley, and daughter, Hannah LaBree Chumley, both of Mt.
Pleasant, SC; mother and step-father, Judith and Ray Bolling of
Southport, NC; brother and sisterin-law, Wade and Susan Seagraves
of Jacksonville, FL; step-sister and
brother-in-law, Kathleen and Andrew Bell of Dalton, PA; stepbrothers and sisters-in-law, Raymond and MaryJo Bolling of New
Egypt, and Michael and Kristi
Bolling of Yardley, PA.
Donations may be made to
MUSC Foundation-Hollings Cancer Center for Cervical Cancer Research, 86 Jonathan Lucas Street,
Box 250955, Charleston, SC
29425.
George F. Spille, 76, of Princeton died November 25 at the University Medical Center at Princeton. He was the director of Public
Works in West Windsor Township
for 30 years before his retirement in
2007. Survivors include his wife,
Wendy Parker Spille; three sons,
Benjamin, Matthew and Timothy,
all of South Brunswick; and a
daughter, Rebecca Meager of
Lansdale, Pennsylvania. A memorial service will be held Saturday,
December 5, at 3 p.m., at Selover
Funeral Home, 555 Georges Road,
North Brunswick.
William “Bill” C. Stillwell, 49,
of West Windsor died November
26 at home. Born in Trenton, he
was a lifelong area resident. A
graduate of Steinert High School,
Class of 1978, he attended Mercer
County Community College. Bill
worked for the Department of Corrections for 23 years and was a lieutenant for the Craf-Room readjustment unit at the time of his death.
Survivors include his son,
Joseph Aaron Stillwell at home; his
sister and brother-in-law, Catherine and Bruce O’Steen; three
brothers and two sisters-in-law,
James Stillwell, Robert and Donna
Stillwell, and Richard and Jeannette Gilmore; his mother-in-law,
Peggy Wood Scirgova; his sisterin-law, Marianne Funk; and his
brother-in-law, Raymond Scirgova.
Donations may be made to “Angels Wings,” 601 Hamilton Avenue, Crean Hall, Third Floor,
Trenton 08629.
Margit S. Hanslin, 82, of Fitchburg, Massachusetts, died November 26, in Worcester, Massachusetts. Survivors include son and
daughter-in-law, Mark and Suzy
Hanslin of West Windsor. A
memorial service will be held Sunday, December 13, at 2 p.m. at
Bosk Funeral Home in Fitchburg.
Donations may be made to the
Finnish American Rest Home,
1800 South Drive, Lake Worth, FL
33461.
Madeline A. Casey, 82, of West
Pittston, Pennsylvania died November 29 at home. Survivors include a son, John J. Casey III of
Plainsboro. Donations may be
made to Medical Oncology Associates Prescription Fund, 382
Pierce Street, Kingston, PA 18704.
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Protest
In response to the protest, school
board president Hemant Marathe
discussed the reason why the board
is studying the option — that the
board needs to be able to meet a 4
percent cap on its spending increases in this year’s budget in accordance with state law. And even
then, many residents have told
board officials that 4 percent is still
too high, Marathe said.
Under the 4 percent cap, the district is limited to increasing its budget by $5.3 million. A 3 percent increase would translate into a $3.9
million budget increase, he said.
But without making any cuts and
with keeping existing contracts and
programs in place, the board is automatically faced with an increase
of $7.8 million — which cannot
legally happen, forcing the board to
look at options. “The board needs
to find at least $3.5 million in savings to stay under the budget cap.”
When asked how much privatization of the custodial and maintenance staff would save the district,
Marathe said that he did not want to
discuss the numbers until after the
board presents a report done by Edvocate, the consultant hired to
study the issue, on Tuesday, December 15. “We want people to
have a chance to study the report
before they comment on it.”
But Marathe did say that even
after December 15, an estimate
about how much the board would
save on privatization would not
come unless the board decides to
go with the option. At that time,
savings will not be estimated until
the board receives bids from private companies for the work.
Marathe insisted that the privatization is not the only option the
board is considering. He mentioned the possibility of threetiered busing and charging for after-school activities as other possibilities. “Neither of the three options would bring us anywhere
close to that $3.5 million” the
board needs to cut, he said.
“The board needs to balance the
needs of the school district with the
needs and wishes of the taxpayers,”
he said. “Honestly, the board is
open to any suggestions anybody
has to do things differently.”
The latest in the controversy
over the possibly privatization
comes just after the members of the
unions representing the employees
took their message to the West
Windsor Township Council. They
urged the council on November 23
to pass a resolution opposing privatization.
Speaking during public comment, a few members of the district, including one maintenance
worker, as well as former councilwoman and current CWA Local
1033 president Rae Roeder, urged
the council to take a stance against
the possible move.
Council members did not comment on the issue, and took no action on the request.
“The flaw in the argument is always the money,” Roeder told the
council, referring to the argument
that privatization of any type of job
will save money for the organization deciding to go with that option.
On the contrary, it actually ends up
costing the organization more
money. “The school district is the
most important thing we have,” she
said. “The kids are our future.”
Susan Levine, president of the
West Windsor-Plainsboro Service
Association, urged the council to
“listen to the residents,” and consider passing a copy of a resolution
she drafted.
Civil Disobedience: Some 100 students at HS South
staged a walkout on December 2 to protest the potential firing of the district’s maintenance and custodial
workers and outsourcing their services.
Approaching the council was
the latest step in the unions’ efforts.
Members of the custodial and
maintenance staff and their supporters have made consecutive appearances at school board meetings
and planted signs around neighborhoods with slogans arguing against
the move.
The New Jersey Education Association (NJEA) has embroiled itself in the issue, and has paid for
two full-page ads in the News.
Coincidentally, the school district’s finance committee was
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scheduled to have its first review of
a report prepared by Edvocate, the
consultant it hired to study the possibility of privatizing the custodial
and maintenance staff on the same
night as the council meeting. The
finance committee meeting was in
closed session. The board will discuss the matter publicly on December 15.
Maneely Ordinance
Adopted by Council
T
he Township Council approved an ordinance on November 23 that designates a mixeduse development zone for retail
shopping, the planned Project
Freedom, affordable housing units,
and corporate hotel suites on a site
adjacent to the Estates at Princeton
Junction.
Before the adoption, the council
listened to a few changes — none
of which were deemed substantive
— from Planning Board attorney
Gerald Muller, as well as few lastminute comments from nearby residents who would be most affected
by the new zone.
Most of those residents, who
had frequently disapproved of
some of the provisions discussed
over the years while the ordinance
was being drafted, seemed resigned to accepting as much language into the ordinance as they
could to protect their neighborhoods.
“The affordable housing aspect
of this plan made this project a nobrainer,” said Holly Kelemen, one
of the residents who would be impacted by the project. She thanked
the council, board, and township
professionals for spending time in
working on the ordinance. “Neighborhoods live everyday with the
decisions you make.”
The rezoning, adopted in September by the Planning Board after
three years of studying and reworking the ordinance, affects a
46-acre undeveloped tract, located
at the intersection of Old Bear
Brook and Bear Brook roads.
Maneely Princeton LLC, owner
of the site, sought the rezoning.
Concept plans propose a mix of
modest-sized stores, personal and
professional services, corporate
suites, market-rate residential
units, and Project Freedom. Project
Freedom is a nonprofit organization that develops barrier-free
housing to enable disabled individuals to live independently. Maneely has proposed 10 acres for
Project Freedom, and 15 acres for
preservation, including the detention areas.
Township officials have included language in the ordinance meant
to balance the needs of the developer with the residents’ concerns.
During introduction of the ordinance earlier last month, for example, the council added the requirement that buildings on the site be
set back a minimum of 50 feet from
any existing residential lot with adequate buffering. If not provided,
the setback will have to be 75 feet
‘The affordable housing
aspect of this plan made
this project a no-brainer,’ said Holly Kelemen.
from any existing residential structure.
Before adoption on November
23, however, Muller explained that
a resident had pointed out that it
would be more appropriate to state
that the setback will have to be 75
feet from a resident’s property line,
and not 75 feet from any existing
residential structure — to give
more protection if adequate buffering is not provided. The change
made it to the final document that
was adopted.
Resident Amira Scurato also
referenced another change that was
made during the ordinance introduction, when she was unhappy
with the extra provisions put into
the language that single out her
property for landscaping and
berms. The ordinance as it was
originally written gave her the
power to have the developer perform landscaping on her property.
The only options she had,
though, were: to have no landscaping improvements, or to allow the
developer to use her property for
the improvements, which would
eliminate her front lawn. During
that meeting, planning officials determined that there would be room
in the public right-of-way as well
as partially on the Maneely site to
make more landscaping improvements.
But the re-written ordinance to
reflect the changes were worded in
a way that implied that the landscaping on the developer’s property could serve as an alternative to
those made on Scurato’s property.
Scurato argued that the word “alternatively” should be removed,
and council accepted the change.
Members of the West Windsor
Bicycle and Pedestrian Alliance also submitted comments after the
introduction, suggesting language
that could be added to add more bicycle and pedestrian-friendly improvements to the new mixed-used
zone, especially the roundabout.
While some of the suggestions
made it to the final document,
Muller said that the ordinance does
not get into the specifics of the design for the site, and that consideration of the suggestions would be
more appropriate during the site
plan application process.
Jerry Foster, of the WWBPA,
however, argued that setbacks and
other details of the site are specified in the ordinance. “It is unclear
why, when it comes to the bike
lanes and facilities, they should not
be specific.”
Plans for the site originally
called for 51 townhouses, 46 apartments, and 60 Project Freedom affordable housing units. The nonresidential component was proposed to include 202 hotel suites
with a 7,800 square-foot business
center and a 3,200 square-foot fitness center, as well as 11,000
square feet of office space and
40,000 square feet of retail space.
However, as part of the township’s latest round of affordable
housing obligations, 15 additional
affordable units were added to Project Freedom before the township
sent its plan to the state in 2008.
The ordinance also calls for a traffic-calming roundabout at the corner triangle of the property where
Old Bear Brook and Bear Brook intersect.
Before the ordinance was adopted, the area was zoned for research,
office, and manufacturing, which
is more dense than what is being
proposed.
Council members commended
the board and the professionals for
working over a period of years to
ensure that they were able to work
back and forth with the developer
and residents to try to work out
most of the issues and concerns.
“It’s a classic example of democracy in action,” said Councilman
Charles Morgan.
Councilwoman Diane Ciccone
said she is very pleased that Project
Freedom will be on site and that officials compromised on most of the
issues in the ordinance. “A lot of
people put a lot of time into making
this the best ordinance possible,”
she said.
The ordinance adoption is not a
guaranteed ticket to build, however. In order for any development to
take place on the site, the property
owners would have to submit a site
plan application and go through
that process again at the Planning
Board.
Lot Swap?
W
est Windsor Parking Authority officials are kicking
around a preliminary idea that may
help commuters trapped in the congestion around the train station in
the morning and evening rushes —
a parking lot swap.
According to WWPA Chairman
Andy Lupo, the land swap ideally
would involve the New Jersey
Transit-owned daily lot on the
West Windsor side, and the
Vaughn Drive lot on the Princeton
side of the tracks, owned by West
Windsor.
“Over 90 percent of the people
in the Vaughn Lot live in West
Windsor,” Lupo said. “While we
don’t have the statistics for daily
parkers, we do know that roughly
40 percent or so are non-West
Windsor people. The percentage of
people who live on the Princeton
side is higher than the folks who
live and park in the Vaughn Lot.
So, you have people crossing the
lots to get to the other lots.”
A land swap (which would not
include any construction work) between the parking authority and
NJT could ease this problem, but
the idea is “truly in the early stages
right now,” said Lupo. “We’re trying to figure out what works and
what makes sense. We’ve got to do
some more discussions with New
Jersey Transit on this, but it was
something that was kicked
around.”
The idea has been discussed at
the Parking Authority level over
the past year or so, Lupo said. “At
some point, it may be a much bigger issue. Right now, it’s at a preliminary stage.”
In related parking news, New
Jersey Transit is still working on its
request for proposals for construction of a parking garage on the
property it owns near the tracks.
West Windsor officials, who have
urged NJT to build a garage with a
retail component, as well as members of the parking authority are
still working together, Lupo said.
“We’re working with NJT to try to
make sure were all looking for the
same end goal,” he said. “We’re
hoping that RFP is something that
is a collective RFP.”
Cell Tower Measure
M
embers of the Planning
Board spent three hours on
December 2 debating ways to regulate new wireless communication
facilities coming into West Windsor, as well as the merits of maintaining the township’s co-location
policy, as part of a new ordinance it
has drafted.
The board spent the most time
on determining how to regulate
noise impact and whether it should
allow the construction of new towers in certain areas of the town to
offer more options to carriers that
currently are permitted only to colocate their facilities on existing
towers — most of which are utility
poles located in residential areas.
The board seemed to come to a
consensus that no equipment
should, during normal operations,
produce additional noise at the adjoining residential property lines,
regardless of the time of day. This
means that carriers would have to
test the noise levels already exist-
DECEMBER 4, 2009
Coming Soon: ‘2-Buck Chuck’ at Trader Joe’s
R
esidents who have been enjoying the new Trader Joe’s
that opened up in West
Windsor this fall will now have
more reason to pay the store a visit
— it now has a liquor distribution
license.
The West Windsor Township
Council awarded a $750,000 liquor
license to the store on November
23. According to Township Clerk
Sharon Young, the township was
able to make another distribution
license available as a result of a
census survey conducted by Mac
Acquisition before it was awarded
a $700,000 liquor license in September. Mac Acquisition owns
Macaroni Grill and On the Border.
The census survey showed
enough residential growth to make
available another liquor distribution license, Young said, explaining that for every 3,000-person increase in population, the township
can offer another consumption license. For every 7,500-person increase, it can offer another consumption or distribution license.
Trader Joe’s new liquor license
in West Windsor is its second in the
state — the maximum allowed to
be held by an organization under
state law. The other license is held
in the store’s Westfield location.
Although the license has been
awarded, there is still a process that
can take anywhere from three to
four months to complete before
liquor can be sold in the store.
According to Young, Trader
Joe’s officials had to sign off saying they were able to sell alcohol
under state law, but the township’s
police department will have to conduct background checks and fingerprints for anyone who is a stakeholder in the venture. “Once it
comes back, we contact the Board
of Alcoholic Beverages, and a license is created,” she explained. A
person-to-person transfer is then
conducted because “technically,
we initiated [the license], and we
still own the license,” but at that
time, it will be given to the store.
At that point the new store in the
Lowe’s retail center on Route 1
North will be able to sell alcohol,
including its very popular wine,
nicknamed “Two Buck Chuck.”
The actual price runs between
$1.99 and $3.49 per bottle, depending on the region.
ing without their facilities in place
and ensure that no additional noise
will be added in the area when they
install their own facilities.
One issue that the board did not
have a chance to address during the
three hour public hearing was a
main concern of residents who
want the board to prohibit cell
phone facilities from being placed
within 1,000 feet of residential
homes — even if they are proposed
to be located on existing towers.
Planning Board members voted
to continue the meeting at a later
time, which will most likely in January.
As drafted, the new ordinance
permits new wireless communications facilities on the roof of or in
office buildings only, and if they
are on the roof, they must be
screened. The co-location of facilities are permitted on and at the base
of existing towers, as the ordinance
was previously written, but the
new draft changes this use from a
permitted use to a conditional use,
with a set of conditional use standards.
For the complete story, check
the News’ website at www.wwpinfo.com.
being sworn in. “We are the stewards and must be mindful to do no
harm. I look forward to working
with residents to develop goals to a
sustainable community. Sustainability in its broadest terms includes the environment, economic,
and social fabric of our community.”
In addition to calling on the
council to be progressive and to
“think outside of the box to move
our community forward,” Ciccone
pledged to work with the council
and administration in a “progressive and respectful manner” to
seek ways to reduce costs and increase revenues. “West Windsor
residents are not immune to the
current national and global recession.”
She also commended her opponent, Andrew Hersh, for coming
forward to run, saying, “This election showed that candidates can
express issues and positions in a respective and positive manner.”
And she urged residents to give her
feedback. “I ask that you tell me
how I’m doing, whether you agree
or disagree,” she said. “Let me
know what is important to you, and
share your ideas and thoughts.”
Ciccone wasted no time after officially taking her seat at the dais.
During the council comments portion of the meeting, she said she
wanted to begin discussing two issues — the appointment of a sustainability task force and the redrafting of the township’s “nuisance law,” which she says can
Ciccone Sworn In
D
iane Ciccone took her oath of
office and was officially
sworn into her first term as an
elected member of West Windsor
Township Council on November
23.
“I have often said we must have
one foot in today and the other foot
in tomorrow,” Ciccone said after
A
lso on November 23, the council initiated the bid process for
a new hotel/motel exception plenary retail consumption license —
most likely for Hyatt Place, which
has already approached the council
regarding the matter.
Officials from Hyatt Place —
formerly the AmeriSuites hotel on
Route 1 — asked West Windsor
Council earlier last month to be
considered a smaller hotel when it
submits a bid on a liquor license.
The request came just after the
council adopted an ordinance reflecting a new state law that allows
towns to establish a minimum bid
of $25,000 on smaller hotels looking to obtain liquor licenses. The
hotel is expected to submit a bid of
$31,150 and believes it falls within
the small hotel threshold in the ordinance. Also on November 23, the
council approved the initiation of
the process, which begins with the
township sending out advertisements seeking bids, although Hyatt
Place is the only hotel expected to
submit a bid. “Technically, anybody could submit a bid,” Young
explained. “I don’t know of any
other hotel that would do that. We
just started advertising, and there
are statutes that we have to abide
by. We’ve got to advertise it, and
we can’t open the bid until 30 days
after the last publication.” The last
day for the township to accept bids
is on Wednesday, January 13.
“This is a unique license — it’s
not like a license the Palmer Inn
has,” said Young. “It’s not for public consumption. It’s just for the
guests of the hotel.”
During the November 23 meeting, the council also approved the
place-to-place transfer of the distribution liquor license owned by
Wegmans Food Markets. The
transfer allows Wegmans to sell
liquor in other areas of its main
store — not just its liquor store.
Although the liquor store is right
next to the main building, customers are required to pay for their
items separately — before heading
into the other building.
Young said Wegmans desired to
have a one-stop shop, including the
ability to set up wine or beverage
displays near their cheeses —
something not allowed under the
current license. Wegmans also offers cooking classes for which participants may want to bring wine.
The license went into immediate
effect after it was accepted via resolution, but Young said Wegmans
officials are taking precautions.
For example, only cashiers over 21
years of age will be able to ring up
alcohol for sale. — Cara Latham
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give the council more power to
push for improvement along Route
571.
The sustainability task force, an
idea Ciccone says she has previously proposed, would consist of
residents, business owners, council, administration, and township
professionals. “I would like to get
people together to talk about different initiatives,” she said. The task
force could make recommendations to council for action. She
asked for it to be put on the agenda
for discussion at the next meeting.
The township’s current nuisance law only states that property
owners have to have their vacant
buildings boarded up to keep out
trespassers. However, that law can
be strengthened, specifically so
that the township can use it to force
property owners of vacant buildings on Route 571 to move quickly
in improving the buildings’ appearance, she said. She said she
wanted council to authorize Township Attorney Michael Herbert to
look into ways to strengthen the ordinance.
Other discussions. Ciccone
was not the only one pushing her
ideas. The 2010 municipal budget,
which has been a frequent topic at
recent council meetings, again was
the subject of concern for council
members looking to ease the burden on residents during a rough
economic climate.
Earlier last month, a proposal by
Councilman Charles Morgan that
would have mandated the administration submit a budget with no increase, and also include options
outlining various percentage increases, was rejected by his colleagues.
Under his proposed policy, the
administration would have been
required to show the implications
of a zero percent increase - including the areas in the budget that
would have to be cut to have a zero
percent increase - followed by the
implications of a 1 percent increase, and so on.
On November 23, Morgan
called on Councilman Kamal
Khanna to join him in going over
his own proposals and calculations
for the budget season — as he has
done since Khanna joined the
council in July.
Khanna, however, discussed his
own ideas. “I support the administration’s plan to submit a budget
and not multiple budgets.” While
he did not support the proposal,
Khanna said during the meeting
that under current economic conditions, he felt that “raising taxes in
2010 is not an option, and neither is
cutting essential services.”
Instead, Khanna suggested setting up a task force for the administration to help find areas for cost
savings.
No Leaf Bagging
A
public hearing on an ordinance prohibiting the placement of yard waste in bags is
scheduled for Monday, December
7.
The ordinance, introduced by
the council on November 23, requires residents to place their yard
waste in a trash can, bucket, or other vessel — excluding bags — in
an effort to prevent the yard waste
from spilling or blowing out into
the street and coming into contact
with stormwater.
According to Business Administrator Robert Hary, the company
that takes West Windsor’s recy-
clables does not take leaves or other yard waste that is packaged into
plastic or paper bags of any kind.
“If people put their leaves inside of
bags, we have the added labor of
emptying those on the street,” The
bags can then become hazardous,
‘If residents continue to,
on a repeated basis, put
out their leaves intermittently and ignore the
schedule, we will issue
them violation notices.’
either through getting wet from the
rain or from blowing around with
the wind.
The ordinance supplements one
that was adopted last year to prohibit brush and leaves from being
placed in bicycle lanes on local
roads. The ordinance prohibits
sweeping, raking, blowing, or otherwise placing yard waste that is
not in a container at the curb or
along the street — unless it is done
during the seven days prior to a
scheduled and announced collection. Even then, residents will not
be able to place the yard waste
closer than 10 feet from any storm
drain inlet, nor in such a manner
that it blocks a bicycle lane or other
depressed curb crosswalk. Placing
yard waste in the public ways adjacent to private property at any other time or in any other manner will
be a violation of the ordinance.
“What our biggest challenge is
and has been for years is to have
the public fully understand and understand the leaf collection schedule we have,” said Hary. “What we
ask is residents only put out the
leaves a few days before the day of
schedule.” Hary said township officials often hear complaints from
residents that their neighbors are
putting huge piles of leaves out for
pickup immediately after a collection, causing them to remain there
for several weeks.
Hary said township officials
prefer residents to compost their
leaves or keep them on their property and off the street until right before collection. “The idea is not to
be punitive in nature, but if any residents continue to, on a repeated
basis, put out their leaves intermittently and ignore the schedule, we
will issue them violation notices. If
they continue to fail to comply, it
will end in a court summons, and
they will be fined.”
571 Meeting
R
esidents concerned about the
status of Route 571 will have
the chance to hear the county’s
ideas on Tuesday, December 15,
from 6 to 8:30 p.m. in the municipal building.
Revitalization along Route 571,
including the Rite Aid property and
Acme plaza, has recently been an
echoing concern among residents.
Mayor Shing-Fu Hsueh, meanwhile, said he has met with the
Dreher Group, owner of the Rite
Aid property, and Silbert Realty,
which manages the Acme Plaza,
and is ensuring that press releases
will come as soon as new information is available.
The meeting on December 15
will be led by Lewis Berger, a consultant working with the county on
designing the plan for Route 571.
Currently, the county is undergoing an environmental review of a
plan for the road calling for three
lanes — which call for one lane in
each direction, a center turning
lane, and sidewalks and bike lanes
on both sides — in the downtown
Princeton Junction area. The review is part of a “scoping” process
by the county, which will also evaluate historical and community impacts.
The goal of holding the meeting
is to “start the open public process
for people to understand exactly
what is going to be done,” said
Hsueh.
In other Route 571 news, Hsueh
said the family that owns the Acme
site is still undergoing a transition
of ownership, from the grandfather
to his six grandchildren. As is routine with any property transfer,
“the state requires you to have environmental clearance,” before
moving forward. Hsueh said the
owners are not planning to sell the
property, but are undergoing the
environmental inventory as part of
state Department of Environmental Protection policy. Until that
process is completed, there will not
be any news on any possible tenants, Hsueh said.
The store closed in May, and the
Dreher Group had reportedly been
under contract to purchase the entire shopping center, which, according to tax records — is assessed at $9,572,000 — from the
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family, but the deal fell through.
The family hired a new management company, Silbert Real Estate
and Management Inc. of Millington in September to handle leasing
of the Windsor Plaza shopping
center.
With regard to the Dreher Group
and the Rite Aid property, Hsueh
said he did not know when the
Dreher Group would demolish the
two vacant buildings currently on
the site of the future plaza, located
on the corner of Cranbury and
Princeton-Hightstown
roads.
Dreher had agreed to do so earlier
this fall. Dreher did request permission to build the Rite Aid building
first and the retail building later, a
proposal accepted by the township.
Hsueh said Dreher is in a tough
financial position and is examining
its options for moving forward, although Dreher does intend to perform the demolition as the next
step. “The demolition needs to
have a permit,” he said. “Before
they apply for all of these permits,
they need to understand what they
have to go through legally in terms
of the process and procedures and
plan modifications they want to do
because of the economy. We are
taking proactive measures to ensure they move.”
Hsueh said he continues to work
with both Silbert and Dreher and
will issue press releases as soon as
any news is available.
PU Pays WW $50K
P
rinceton University has made
its first payment of more than
$50,000 in lieu of taxes for its farmland-assessed “Sarnoff frontage”
property, in accordance with a
memorandum of understanding recently approved by the West Windsor Township Council.
The PILOT (payment in lieu of
taxes) agreement, approved in October, stems from a verbal agreement made in 2002, when the uni-
versity purchased the 81-acre property fronting Route 1 from the
Sarnoff Corporation. Until 2008,
when the property was downgraded to farmland assessment, the university paid taxes on the parcel.
The agreement guaranteed a minimum payment to West Windsor of
$50,000 each year plus added costs
for inflation.
The township announced the
university has actually paid
$51,900 for 2009, adding $1,900
for inflation, based on the percentage change in the consumer price
index the prior 12 months.
Prior to 2008, the university had
been paying taxes on the property
at a much higher rate than the
$50,000 approved in the agreement. Now because it is assessed as
farmland, the township can not
legally receive as much money for
the property, unless it is through
voluntary contributions.
H1N1 Vaccination
D
espite reported shortages of
H1N1 vaccinations in various
New Jersey towns, West Windsor
is moving along with vaccinating
its own residents.
According to Business Administrator Robert Hary, about 1,600
doses of the vaccination have already been administered to residents by township health officials.
Those 1,600 doses have been given
to the township’s residents who are
6 months or older, up to those who
are in sixth grade.
The township has been holding
weekly flu clinics, during which it
progressively targets various age
groups in the town. On December
2, the most recent clinic, officials
targeted students in seventh,
eighth, and ninth grades.
Hary said officials scheduled the
next vaccination clinic for
Wednesday, December 9, when
students in grades 10, 11, and 12
can be vaccinated. Officials also
tentatively scheduled a second
chance at this time for residents
nine years old and under to get the
shot if they haven’t already.
Another Lawsuit for Plainsboro PD
M
by Cara Latham
ore of the dirty laundry
within the Plainsboro Police Department is going
public — this time in the form of a
lawsuit by a former probationary
female police officer who claims
she was fired after filing a sexual
harassment claim against other officers in the department.
The claims of sexual harassment
— referenced in a recent claim by
another police officer, who is also
fighting his own termination from
the department — were submitted
to the township by Thomas C.
Jardim, of Cedar Knolls, a lawyer
representing Jennifer Wittmer, 24,
of Middletown. Wittmer began
working as a probationary police
officer in January, 2008, and was
fired in December, 2008.
The claimwas filed under the
state Tort Claims Act, which requires the notice to be sent to the
municipality, so it can have at least
six months to respond before a
lawsuit is filed. Jardim said, however, that he served Plainsboro in
the spring, and has not been contacted by the township or its representatives. He said he plans to file
the lawsuit, either in state Superior
Court or with the Federal Court,
within the month.
“I dont understand what Plainsboro did in this case,” he said. “It’s
clearly illegal to fire an employee
after that employee complains of
sexual harassment against her, and
while the investigation is still going on of her claims.”
According to her claim, the sexual harassment began almost immediately after she was hired. For
her initial field training, she was
assigned to Corporal Scott Seitz,
who she claimed had a history of
discriminating against female police officers. She claimed he refused to train her as he trained male
officers.
In the claim, she also details alleged accounts of sexual harassment from different police offi-
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cers, including officers Adam
Wurpel and Kevin Lowery. She
said Wurpel urinated in a public
place in such a deliberate manner
so that she would see him do so,
and that Lowery began harassing
her by continuously calling her to
ask her out.
Wittmer claimed Lowery became persistent in pursuing a romantic relationship with her, including sending her text messages
and leaving her voicemails, and
that he became increasingly angry
and nasty to her when she kept
turning him down. She told him to
stop calling her all together, and he
continued calling and texting her at
all hours of the night and even
changed his schedule so that he
could work at the same time as she
‘It’s clearly illegal to fire
an employee after that
employee complains of
sexual harassment
against her, and while
the investigation is still
going on of her claims.’
did, the claim alleges. Eventually
Officer Jason Mariano — who has
also filed a separate claim against
the department for allegedly being
unfairly targeted for sticking up for
Wittmer — told Lowery to stop
bothering her, the claim stated.
Lowery did, but then began
spreading rumors that Wittmer and
Mariano were having an affair. According to the claim, there were also a series of other incidents that
followed. Sergeant Jason Hanley
allegedly told her to call out license
plates for look ups into dispatch instead of doing them himself on an
in-car computer so that “he could
hear her voice on the radio.” The
claim also alleges that Wurpel
showed her several pornographic
images on his cell phone on several
occasions, including one incident
when he put his cell phone in her
face when she told him she did not
want to see them.
When she was given a poor
evaluation in September, 2008,
which she was told included input
from the entire department, she
told Seitz about the sexual harassment from Lowery, and that she
felt it was causing malicious damage to her reputation, the claim
states. Shortly after, she was told
her probationary period would be
extended by three months, so that
instead of ending in January, 2009,
it would end in April, 2009.
At that time, she said she told
then-chief Elizabeth Bondurant
about the harassment, but Bondurant told her to “deal with it,” the
claim states.
When Chief Rick Furda took
over as chief in October, 2008, she
was told that the extension was being rescinded and that she was being transferred to another squad including Sergeant Jay Duffy, Corporal George Cier, and officers
Richard Colucci and Jason Mandato, where she told Cier and Duffy
about how she had been treated on
the prior squad.
In addition, Corporal Nicholas
Procaccini — the other officer who
has filed a claim against the township in connection with his own
termination — told Duffy about
Lowery and Wurpel. Duffy immediately questioned Wittmer and
made a formal complaint as part of
his obligations as a supervisor, she
claimed. This launched an internal
affairs investigation.
In an unrelated internal affairs
investigation in December, 2008,
Wittmer was questioned by Lieutenant Chris Weidman about her
patrol assignment the day before
Thanksgiving. He repeatedly
asked her about how she conducted
her area checks and asked why
there were not a lot of miles on her
vehicle, she claimed.
Shortly after the interview, she
was told the township was not going to make her a permanent employee. She said Furda would not
give her a reason.
“It is Ms. Wittmer’s belief that
this termination was in direct retaliation for her reporting the sex discrimination and the sexual harassment,” the claim states.
Furda declined to comment on
the matter. Wittmer, represented
by Thomas C. Jardim of Cedar
Knolls, is seeking $1 million in
damages in the claim, which
names the township, police department, Furda, Seitz, Hanley,
Wurpel, Lowery, and Mandato as
defendants.
The lawsuit is the latest in the
series of alleged controversies to
take place behind closed doors at
the Plainsboro Police Department.
For decades, anonymous letters to
the media have highlighted tales of
labor unrest, favoritism, work
slowndowns by officers, battles
with police administration, and
more. That all came to a head last
month during a hearing over Procaccini’s termination.
The police department is pursuing Procaccini’s termination based
on four charges: he was late for duty; he did not follow protocol when
making motor vehicle stops; he violated procedure dealing with sick
leave; and he violated policy in using the department’s E-mail system. Central to the township’s argument is that there are strict laws
and regulations governing police
departments in New Jersey, and
that Procaccini, who served as the
president of the Plainsboro PBA
for 14 years, violated those laws.
Procaccini’s attorney, however,
alleged that the charges are for behavior exhibited by many officers
in the department and that his client
is unfairly being targeted as a result
of defending Wittmer in her sexual
harassment complaint.
Procaccini has also filed a lawsuit in Middlesex County Superior
Court against the township, the police department, and Furda. The
suit alleges that the township and
its police department violated the
state law against discrimination for
retaliation by suspending him in
July and then terminating him because he defended Wittmer. “Once
it became clear to Chief Furda and
the Plainsboro Police Department
that Mr. Procaccini strongly supported Officer Wittmer and denounced the actions of the department,” the relatiation and harassment began, the lawsuit alleges.
Officer Mariano, of Allentown,
has also filed a claim, stating he
was also harassed as a result of his
support for Wittmer. In his claim,
Mariano corroborates Wittmer’s
claims against Lowery and the rumors that were spread. Since Mariano spoke up for Wittmer, he has
endured harassment, including an
internal affairs review of Mariano’s assigned vehicle, where numerous issues with the vehicle
were subsequently investigated,
his claim alleges.
Like Wittmer, Mariano is seeking $1 million in his claim, citing
emotional distress, punitive damages, and attorney’s fees as a result
of the harassment he sustained. According to Procaccini, Mariano is
DECEMBER 4, 2009
still on the force, but has decided to
submit his retirement papers as a
result of an injury he sustained.
Police To Institute
Performance Plan
A
new evaluation process for
Plainsboro police officers that
came under fire last February is
scheduled to be implemented next
month.
Plainsboro Police Chief Richard
Furda confirmed the new evaluation process, which he said is
aimed at ensuring officers are up to
par with performing all of the functions included in their job descriptions, will be implemented in January.
The evaluation process was previously criticized in an anonymous
letter to the News in February,
which alleged that the new process
was on the verge of becoming a
policy that forces officers to make
a certain number of traffic stops
and issue a certain number of tickets.
Since then, Furda said he has
worked with the PBA on the draft
and “we’ve finally come up with a
proposal that works for everybody,” he said.
As he explained it when it was
first proposed, Furda said the new
evaluation process was created to
find an updated way to conduct
personnel evaluations. The former
process was long and cumbersome
and to do an evaluation for one police officer usually took a supervisor two to three days to complete.
Furda also explained, at the
time, that the new system looks at
the same statistics which have always been tracked, just in a different way. Furda also said that the
new system was simply being created to give officers a benchmark
in seeing where most of their colleagues are measuring up. As he
explained it in an E-mail to his employees then, instead of comparing
all the members against each other,
despite job function, the department would now be comparing
members against each other in the
same job function.
Einstein’s Alley
P
lainsboro has joined other
towns in Central Jersey in being officially recognized as part of
Einstein’s Alley.
An Einstein’s Alley sign was
raised at the site of the future University Medical Center of Princeton at Plainsboro at the corner of
Route 1 and Plainsboro Road on
November 30.
Einstein’s Alley is a private,
non-profit economic development
initiative that fosters economic
growth through advocacy and delivery of services with the goal of
making central New Jersey the
destination for technology companies. As part of the initiative, Einstein’s Alley tries to attract new
companies to the area, retain existing business, and encourage the
growth of jobs and services.
The sign raising was sponsored
by Turner Construction, which is
building the new hospital.
Topping Out
A
nother milestone has been
reached in the construction of
the new University Medical Center
of Princeton at Plainsboro: the last
stage of steel-frame construction at
the new hospital has been completed.
Plainsboro and hospital officials
marked the occasion with a traditional “topping out” ceremony, in
which an evergreen tree and an
American flag was placed on top of
the last 30-foot steel beam used in
the hospital’s frame and carried by
crane to secure it into place. The
beam was signed by various state,
local, and hospital officials before
being raised. The tree symbolizes
good luck and was raised to the
structure’s highest point.
During the ceremony, hospital
officials also announced a $7 million incentive package from
PSE&G — including a $5.5 million grant and a $1.5 million loan
— to help support some of the approximately $60 million in green
initiatives planned at the hospital.
Including in those intiatives are
a cogeneration plant — a 4.6
megawatt natural gas-fired cogeneration plan, developed in partnership with NRG Energy Inc, headquartered at 211 Carnegie Center
in West Windsor — solar shading,
solar power, and thermal energy
storage. The exterior of the patient
tower will be clad with a large system of sun-shielding exterior louvers to allow the building to have
expansive windows to provide 90
percent of interior spaces with natural light, a press release stated.
This initiative shields the interior of the building from the sun’s
heat and saves on cooling costs.
As for solar power, there will be
15 solar groves, used to convert
sunlight directly into electricity,
placed over a portion of the hospital’s parking lot to produce enough
energy to power 30 average-sized
single family homes.
The funding from PSE&G
comes from the utility’s new Hospital Efficiency Program, which is
available for new constructiob and
retrofit projects at facilities in
PSE&G’s territory.
Located on 50 acres of a 160acre site in Plainsboro off Route 1,
the new University Medical Center
of Princeton at Plainsboro (UMCPP) is a replacement hospital for
the current UMCP on Witherspoon
Street in Princeton. When the new
hospital opens in late 2011, it will
consist of 636,000 square feet of
interior space, including 237 single
patient rooms, operating rooms,
treatment areas, and an emergency
department, which will be double
the size of the current one.
The new medical center will be
located on a campus that will also
include a medical office building, a
fitness and wellness center, a
health education center, a senior
residential community, a skilled
nursing facility, pediatric services,
and a 32-acre public park along the
Millstone River.
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DECEMBER 4, 2009
Robinson Picks Up
First Win As Coach
Of North Swimming
H
istorically, the swim programs at both North and
South have demanded respect — dominating their conferences and ranking among the best
in the state. So it is only appropriate
that North’s new coach has a
record of success and a few recordbreaking performances of his own.
For the past five years, North’s
swimmers have been led by Theresa Bonanno, who has stepped
down from her position because
she and her new husband are expecting a baby and will be focusing
on raising a family. But the WW-P
district looked to her former assistant, Todd Robinson, to fill her
shoes.
While they may be some tough
shoes to fill — Bonanno led the
boys to a 10-2 record and the girls
to a 11-1 finish last season —
Robinson, who has worked under
her for the past two years, has no
shortage of experience.
Robinson grew up in Robbinsville. His mother was a secretary at St. Gregory the Great elementary school in Hamilton, and
his father works for the state Office
of Telecommunication and Infor-
North swim coach
Todd Robinson and assistants Leah Sachs
and Kristina Susca.
mation Systems as a computer analyst.
His love of the sport began when
he was a little boy on vacation at his
grandparents’ in southern New Jersey, where he spent his time on the
lake. His mother wanted Robinson
and his two brothers to know how
to swim, so he began taking swimming lessons at the Peddie School
when he was about 5 or 6 years old.
He began competitive swimming when he was 7 years old,
swimming for the Cranbury Swim
Club. He was also involved with
Peddie Aquatics, the U.S. Swimming Team based at the Peddie
School. In high school, he swam
for the Peddie School varsity team.
“I swam for Chris Martin, who was
a former assistant Olympic swimming coach,” Robinson said. “I
learned a great deal from him, not
only about swimming, but also
about coaching. I was an AllAmerican in both high school and
college.”
He moved from Peddie to Ursinus College, where he set school
records in the 100 and 200-yard
breaststroke. He was also the Mid-
Atlantic Conference champion in
both events. Robinson coached for
the Ravine Swim Club for two
years while he was a student at
Ursinus.
After graduation, he began his
career as a teacher at the Titusville
Academy, a private school. There,
he served as a language arts teacher
for eight years before moving onto
High School North.
Unfortunately for Robinson,
who is now a resident of Hamilton,
the Titusville Academy did not
have a swimming team, so he was
unable to coach until he was hired
at North. For the past two years, he
has worked under Bonanno before
being hired as the head coach this
year.
“I learned a lot about the program at High School North by
working under Theresa,” he said.
“I had the opportunity to really
work with the swimmers in terms
of helping them refine their stroke
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Pictured in the top row are North swim team captains
Robb Dunne, left, Brian Chan, Katrina Chen, and
Kelly Covey. At bottom are South captains Alex
Huang, left, Erik Dixon-Anderson, Gabby Giambagno, Rebecca Lewinson, and Meredith Ketchmark.
technique. I was certainly happy to
have the opportunity to step into
the position of head coach. High
School North certainly has a strong
tradition in swimming, and one of
my goals is to continue with the tradition.”
North graduated seven swimmers last season, but Robinson said
he is not worried. “We have some
extremely strong returning swimmers, and I’m very pleased with the
freshmen we have.”
Among the key returning swimmers are seniors Katrina Chen and
Kelly Covey, captains of the girls’
team, and Robb Dunne and Brian
Chan, captains for the boys. Covey
has been exceptional for the
Knights, taking home the county title in the 50-meter freestyle last
year. She also placed 11th in the individual state championships.
“One thing that we’re doing differently this year is that we have instituted morning practices,” said
Robinson. “Our swimmers train
six days a week. We are having
morning practices Tuesday and
Thursday from 6 to 7:15 a.m. We
also train Monday through Friday
in the afternoon from 3 to 5:15
p.m.”
Among Robinson’s goals for the
season is to have a strong showing
in the county championships and to
have as many swimmers as possible qualify for states. The team got
off to a good start, with the girls
posting a 101-69 win over
Lawrence and the boys winning,
97-73, on December 1.
“One area in coaching I feel I’m
particularly strong at is helping
swimmers find their stroke technique and improve on a technical
level,” said Robinson. “I certainly
hope to have my swimmers reach
their full potential in the pool, and I
also hope to inspire them to succeed in whatever they may endeavor to do.”
South Swimmers Looking to
Repeat. Last year, the South girls’
swim team took home its first
NJSIAA Public Group A state title
after first claiming the title at the
Mercer County Tournament and
repeating as eight-time CVC
champions.
This year, the chances the team
can repeat last year’s stellar season
seem very good, as the team will
return many of its key talents, including seniors Rebecca Lewinson, who is a three-time breaststroke state champion, and Meredith Ketchmark, who took home the
title in the 100-meeter freestyle last
year at the MCT.
Also returning to the team are
Jocelyn Yuen, Cori Michibata,
Brynja Winnan, and Amanda
Grant, all of whom have consistently proven to be strong performers for the Pirates.
The boys will also return important swimmers, includings Dan
Druckman and Alex Huang, despite losing Joey Grant last year to
graduation.
The teams were off to a good
start, with the boys’ win, 90-80 win
over Hopewell Valley on December 1, and the girls’ 117-53 win, also over Hopewell Valley.
Rosas, Kellner
Dominate MOC
T
he accolades garnered by the
record-breaking Rosa twins
continued this month, as they took
first and second place not only at
the state Meet of Champions, but
also at the Nike Northeast Regional on November 28.
Joe broke the course record with
a time of 14:55.52 when he claimed
the title at the Meet of Champions
on November 21. Jim was second,
also beating the previous record
with a time of 15:14.22. The new
record set by Joe was eight seconds
faster than the previous record of
15:15.2, set in 2006 by Craig Forys
of Colts Neck.
The first and second place finishes led the North boys’ cross
country team to a third-place finish
at the state meet, with an average
time of 16:15.6. For the girls,
North’s Emily Scott finished 14th
with a time of 19:01.
Joe Rosa also finished first at the
Nike Northeast Regionals with a
time of 16:01.3. Jim finished second with a time of 16:01.6. North,
finished fourth overall. As a result
of their success, the Rosas both
qualified for the Nike National
Championships in Portland Meadows, in Oregon, on Saturday, December 5.
Meanwhile, South’s Caroline
DECEMBER 4, 2009
Kellner finished fourth at the Meet
of Champions with a time of 18:37.
Kellner also competed in the 31st
Foot Locker Northeast Regional on
November 28 at Sunken Meadow
State Park in Kings Park, New
York. She placed 18th with a time
of 19:15.3.
Boys’ Swimming
North (1-0) A win against
Lawrence, 97-73, on December 1.
200 Free: 1.) Evan Hundley, 2:13.
200 IM: Jung-Mao Hsieh, 2:25.50.
100 Fly: 1.) Robb Dunne, 1:06.59.
100 Free: 1.) Wilson Chan, 5:98. 500
Free: 1.) Evan Hundley, 4:48.30. 100
Back: 1.) Wilson Chan, 1:10.02.
South (1-0) A win against
Hopewell Valley, 90-80, on December 1. 200 MR: 2.) South (Dan Druckman, Ilya Granylnikov, Erik DixonAnderson, Kevin Welsh), 1:59.44. 3.)
South (Ian Dixon-Anderson, Abhishek Shevade, Tyler Jaffe, Bryan
Kim), 2:11.02. 200 Free: 2.) Alex
Huang, 2:18.55, 3.) Grant Lee,
2:21.28. 200 IM: 1.) Druckman,
2:22.08; 2.) Cameron Ward, 2:31.27.
50 Free: 2.) Welsh, 0:26.79. 100 Fly:
2.) Erik Dixon-Anderson, 1:10.31.
100 Free: 2.) Welsh, 0:59.40. 500
Free: 2.) Erik Dixon-Anderson,
4:46.49. 200 FR: 1.) South (Granylnikov, Kim, Huang, Welsh), 1:51.58;
3.) South (Ward, Junyi Zhou, Brendan Nuse, Dan Kravets), 2:01.91.
100 Back: 1.) Druckman, 1:07.88; 3.)
Lee, 1:14.47. 100 Breast: 1.) Granylnikov, 1:12.21; 3.) Ward, 1:17.03.
400 FR: 2.) South, 4:04.95; 3.)
South, 4:30.43.
Girls’ Swimming
North (1-0) A win against
Lawrence, 101-69, on December 1.
200 IM: 1.) Kelly Covey, 2:46.43; 50
Free: 1.) Leeza Rojas, 0:30.79; 100
Fly: 1.) Covey, 1:13.48. 100 Free: 1.)
Connie Zhang, 1:07.07. 500 Free: 1.)
Katrina Chen, 5:12.75. 100 Back: 1.)
Melissa Loo, 1:16.49; 400 FR: 1.)
North (Chen, Christine McCarthy,
Zhang, Covey), 4:32.91.
South (1-0) 200 MR: 1.) South
(Cori Michibata, Jocelyn Yuen,
Meredith Ketchmark), 2:11.23; 200
Free: 1.) Annie Bonazzi, 2:11.23;
200 IM: 1.) Ketchmark, 2:32.05; 3.)
Michibata, 2:38.93. 50 Free: 1.) Jocelyn Yuen, 0:24.30. 100 Fly: 1.)
Gabby Giambagno, 1:13.21; 2.) Annie Bonazzi, 1:18.13. 100 Free: 1.)
Cori Michibata, 1:04.64; 2.) Amanda
Grant, 1:06.00. 500 Free: 1.) Meredith Ketchmark, 5:03.15. 200 FR: 1.)
South (Giambagno, Mariana Wilson,
Bonazzi, Yuen), 2:02.62. 100 Back:
2.) Amanda Grant, 1:19.03. 100
Breast: 1.) Yuen, 1:21.25; 2.) Kim
Chiu, 1:23.31.
Ice Hockey
North (1-0) A win against Steinert, 5-1, on December 2. Goals: Ben
Bugge, Dylan Strober: 3; Casey
Litwack. Assists: Andrew Washuta,
Matt Strober, Jason essler, Stephen
Kolber: 2; M. Strober; Joe Bensky.
North took 37 shots. In his first start
Todd Petrone had 17 saves.
Sports Briefs
World champion Rebecca Soni, a
WW-P North graduate, took home
top honors at the sixth annual 2009
USA Swimming Foundation Golden
Goggle Awards last month. She was
named the Female Athlete of the
Year during the gala.
The West Windsor-Plainsboro
Storm — a Boys U-10 soccer team in
the New Jersey Youth Soccer Association — won its final game of the
fall season, 5-0 over the Our Youth
Soccer Academy Golden Warriors
from Irvington. Conor Kelly, Krishna
Siva Kumar, and Matthew Wang
scored goals in the win. Zachary
Bowen scored two. David Corell,
Daniel Joseph, Eshaan Kotham, and
Thomas Daily also played well, and
Neelish Vaddi and Goutham Yalla
preserved the shutout in goal.
Nassir Silwany, fullback on
North’s boys’ soccer team, was
named to the All-CVC first team.
Kevin Nowak, also of the Knights,
who finished the season with 20
goals, was also named to the AllCVC first team.
Alex Prieto, of South’s boys’ soccer team, was named to the All-CVC
first team. He was the CVC’s leading
scorer, with 21 goals and 23 assists.
He had a total of 65 points this season.
South swimmer Meredith Ketchmark signed a national letter of intent
to swim next year with Wagner College. Her teammate, Rebecca
Lewinson, made a verbal commitment to Princeton, after having visited Duke, Northwestern, Michigan,
and Wisconsin before deciding to
stay close to home.
Ryan Phelan, a senior baseball
player at North, signed a national let-
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Champions: At left, Caroline Kellner with her parents, Anne and Steve. Above, Jim and Joe Rosa are
pictured with their parents, Pat and Larry. Kellner
placed fourth in the girls’ race, while Joe and Jim
came in first and second for the boys.
Photos by Brian McCarthy
ter of intent to catch at Fordham University.
Zach Hundertmark, a senior nose
tackle on South’s football team, was
won named the Lineman of the Year
and was awarded the 2009 Charles
J. “Fuzzy” Falzone Memorial Award,
presented by the Benevolent Order
of the Falzone. He had 47 tackles
this season and five sacks.
The West Windsor-Plainsboro
Comets U-12 soccer team fell to the
Ewing Hawks, 3-1, on November 29.
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DECEMBER 4, 2009
DAY-BY-DAY IN WW-P
Christmas Eve Candlelight Service
7:00 p.m.
Candlelight Service, Christmas carols,
special music, Luke’s Christmas story
and traditional candlelighting.
(609) 799-2559
401 Village Rd. East, Princeton Jct.
(across from Dutch Neck School)
DECEMBER 4
Art
Gallery Talk, Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton campus, 609-258-3788. princetonartmuseum.org. Highlights of the collections, new acquisitions, and
special exhibitions. Free. 12:30
p.m.
Art Exhibit, Highland Studios, 37
West Broad Street, Hopewell,
609-466-3475.
www.karenmclean.com. Opening reception for
“Nymphs and Hedges” by artists
and photographer Karen McLean.
On view to December 6. 5 to 8
p.m.
Gallery Exhibit, Peddie School,
Mariboe Gallery, Hightstown, 609490-7550.
www.peddie.org.
Opening reception for works by
Cathy Watkins. Gallery hours are
Monday to Friday, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.
On view to December 17. 6:30 to 8
p.m.
Art Exhibit, Small World Coffee,
14 Witherspoon Street, Princeton,
609-924-4377. www.smallworldcoffee.com. Opening reception of
art show featuring the works of
Suzanne Ives Cunningham. Matt
Trowbridge and Ryan Thornton
perform. Exhibit on view to January 5. 7 to 9 p.m.
Dancing
An Evening of English Country
Dance, Lambertville Country
Dancers, Bethany Presbyterian
Church, 400 Hamilton Avenue,
Trenton, No partner needed. Beginners welcome. $15. 8 p.m.
Literati
Publication Party, Arts Council
of Princeton, 102 Witherspoon
Street, 609-924-8777. www.artscouncilofprinceton.org. Readings,
wine, and cheese with Cool
Women, authors of “Cool Women
Volume Four,” dedicated to Carolyn Foote Edelmann, a West
Windsor resident. 5:30 p.m.
Author Event, Barnes & Noble,
MarketFair, West Windsor, 609716-1570. www.bn.com. “Nigella
Christmas.” Nigella Lawson will
discuss and sign her latest holiday
cookbook. Seating is limited and
begins at 6 p.m. 7:30 p.m.
Classical Music
Edward T. Cone Concert Series,
Institute for Advanced Study,
Wolfensohn Hall, Einstein Drive,
Princeton, 609-951-4458. www.ias.edu. “The Music of William Bolcom” performed by Bolcom on piano and Joan Morris, mezzo-soprano. Register. Free. 8 p.m.
Musical Celebration of Christmas, Riverside Symphonia,
Church of St. John, 44 Bridge
Street, Lambertville, 609-3977300. www.riversidesymphonia.org. $20 to $35. 8 p.m.
Jazz & Blues
Holiday Jazz, Westminster Choir
College, Bristol Chapel, Princeton, 609-921-2663. www.rider.edu. Jazz pianist and composer
Laurie Altman with Scott Lee on
bass, Andrew Rathbun on tenor
and soprano sax, and Nat Radley
on electric guitar. Elem Eley, baritone; Clifford Adams Jr., trombone; and Fuma Sacra conducted
by Andrew Megill, also perform.
Cool Yule Jazz was cancelled due
to illness. $20. 8 p.m.
World Music
Kamaniya and Keshavacharya
Das, Integral Yoga Institute
Princeton, 613 Ridge Road, Monmouth Junction, 732-274-2410.
www.iyiprinceton.com.
“Sailing
the Heights of Devotion” with Kirtan. $20. 7:30 p.m.
Diana’s Hallmark Shop
Hamilton Plaza 1275 Rt. 33
Hamilton Square
609-890-0131
Diana’s Hallmark
148 Marketplace Blvd.
Hamilton
609-585-9100
Comedy Clubs
April Macie, Catch a Rising Star,
Hyatt Regency, 102 Carnegie
Center, 609-987-8018. www.catcharisingstar.com. Reservation. $17.50. 8 p.m.
Faith
Women’s
Christmas
Celebration, Princeton Alliance
Church, Scudders Mill & Schalks
Crossing roads, Plainsboro, 609799-9000.
www.princetonalliance.org. “The Appointed
Time” presented by Joan L.
Sander, songs of the season, and
desserts. $5. 7 p.m.
Food & Dining
Author Event, Kitchen Kapers,
23 Hulfish Street, Princeton, 609924-9190. www.kitchenkapers.com. Duff Goldman, author of
“Ace of Cakes,” has booksigning.
2:30 to 4 p.m.
Winter Farmers Market, Slow
Food Central New Jersey, Trenton Farmers Market, 960 Spruce
Street, Lawrence, 609-577-5113.
www.slowfoodcentralnj.org. Local
farm vendors and food producers.
5 to 8 p.m.
History
Festival of Trees, Morven Museum, 55 Stockton Street, Princeton, 609-924-8144. www.morven.org. Galleries adorned for the
holidays by area businesses and
garden clubs. $5. 10 a.m. to 3
p.m.
Curator’s Talk, Historical Society of Princeton, Bainbridge
House, 158 Nassau Street,
Princeton, 609-921-6748. www.princetonhistory.org. Eileen Morales talks about current exhibit focusing on Rex Goreleigh. 2 to 3
p.m.
For Families
The Polar Express Pajama Party,
Barnes & Noble, MarketFair,
West Windsor, 609-716-1570.
www.bn.com. Reading of Chris
Van Allsburg’s holiday tale. Preregister. 7 p.m.
Family Theater
A Christmas Story, Kelsey Theater, Mercer County Community
College, 1200 Old Trenton Road,
609-570-3333.
www.kelseytheatre.net. Family drama with
Pennington Players. $14. 7 p.m.
Lectures
Sports Symposium, Princeton
University,
Friend
Center,
Princeton University, 609-2583000. www.princeton.edu. Sports
business professionals, marketing
executives, college athletic leaders, and students. Free for current
college students. $50 for non-students and sports industry professionals. 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Woodrow
Wilson
School,
Princeton University, Robertson
Hall,
Dodds,
609-258-6115.
www.princeton.edu. “U.S. Libya
Relations: Challenges on the
Road to Normalization” presented
by Gene Cretz, U.S. Ambassador
to Libya. 2 p.m.
Diana’s Hallmark
Plainsboro Plaza
Plainsboro
609-275-1200
Sunday, December 20, 8 a.m. Holy Eucharist.
9:30 a.m., Service of Lessons and Carols.
Church School & Nursery at 9:30 a.m.
Thursday, December 24, 6 p.m., Family Service.
9:30 p.m. Hymn Sing. 10 p.m. Choral Eucharist.
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DECEMBER 4, 2009
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Bases Covered: Making Wishes Come True
G
old Medal Impressions
Gallery has a twist to its
annual holiday sale this
year. As always, sports photographer Dick Druckman features
photographs of major sporting
events and subjects, ranging from
Olympic heroes to baseball, football, basketball champions, as
well as area school sporting performances. As always, his wife,
Joan Druckman, presents a delectable assortment of baked goods
in conjunction with the opening
reception on Saturday, December
5, at 2 p.m.
This year, not only will there
be a 33 percent discount on purchases but a 10 percent donation
will be made to Make-A-Wish
Foundation of New Jersey to benefit New Jersey children facing
life threatening illnesses. In addition, Druckman is providing inkind photographic services to the
organization to cover a sports-related wish in early 2010. The
New Jersey chapter of MAWF
has granted more than 6,200
wishes since 1983. For information about MAWFNJ, call 800252-WISH or visit www.wishnj.org.
“For the 2009 holiday gift-giving season, I imagine many of my
images from the inaugural seasons of the new Yankees and
Mets stadiums will be very appealing,” says Druckman. “I have
captured the excitement of their
openings, the first pitches, homeruns and grand slams at each new
ballpark — and, of course, the top
World Series and playoff moments at Yankee Stadium and
Citizens Bank Park.”
Available as matted or framed
photos in a range of sizes and
prices, Druckman’s newest inventory includes photos from the
2009 World Series, the current
2009 NFL season, and a large
number of memorable images
from the 2008 Summer Olympics
in Beijing.
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Druckman, who has been involved in professional photography for close to 30 years, has seen
his work featured in Sports Illustrated, Parade Magazine, Squash
Magazine, Associated Press, and
USA TODAY. Gold Medal Impressions features a continuous
display of photographs highlighting major football, basketball,
baseball, hockey, college and local sports, and Olympic events.
His photos of the Yankees, Mets,
Phillies, Eagles, Giants, Jets,
Rangers, Devils, Flyers, Knicks,
Nets, 76ers, and Red Sox have
been exhibited in venues around
the world including Memorial
Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in
New York City.
“My goal in sports photography is to capture the most exciting
moments of the most meaningful
events to provide an inspirational
image that lasts forever,” said
Irish Studies, Princeton University, Lewis Center, 185 Nassau
Street, 609-258-1500. www.princeton.edu. Larry Kirwan will
lecture on “Rock and Read.” 4:30
p.m.
Warehouse Book Sale
Princeton University, Guyot Hall,
609-258-3000. princeton.edu. “Islands as Natural Laboratories of
Evolution: From Darwin to the
Grants and Beyond” presented by
Jonathan Losos. The talk is in honor of Peter and Rosemary Grant,
Princeton scientists who received
the Kyoto Prize for pioneering work
in evolutionary biology. 6 p.m.
Singles
Live Music
Dick Gratton, Chambers Walk
Cafe, 2667 Main Street, Lawrenceville, 609-896-5995. Solo
jazz guitar. 6 to 9 p.m.
Scholar’s Bookshelf, 110 Melrich
Road, Cranbury, 609-395-6933.
History, military, fine arts, literary,
DVDs. 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Divorce Recovery Program,
Princeton Church of Christ, 33
River Road, Princeton, 609-5813889. Support group for men and
women. Free. 7:30 p.m.
Saturday
December 5
School Sports
Sibling Rivalry, Grover’s Mill
Coffee House, 335 Princeton
Hightstown Road, West Windsor,
609-716-8771. www.groversmillcoffee.com. 8 p.m.
North Swimming, Boys/Girls,
609-716-5000 ext. 5134. www.ww-p.org. Knights Invite. 9 a.m.
Arnie Baird, It’s a Grind Coffee
House, 7 Schalks Crossing Road,
Plainsboro, 609-275-2919. www.itsagrind.com. 8 to 10 p.m.
The Nutcracker, Dance Vision,
Montgomery High School, 1014
Route 601, Skillman, 609-5141600. Susan Jaffe choreographed
the youth ensemble production.
$25. 3 and 7 p.m. See story 29.
Robmi Cover Duo, BT Bistro,
3499 Route 1 South, West Windsor, 609-919-9403. 9 p.m.
Meg Hansen Group featuring Billy Hill, Sotto 128 Restaurant and
Lounge, 128 Nassau Street,
Princeton, 609-921-7555. www.sotto128.com. 9 p.m.
Politics
Woodrow
Wilson
School,
Princeton University, Dodds Auditorium, 609-258-2943. www.princeton.edu.
Gene
Cretz
speaks. Free. 4:30 p.m.
Dance
The Nutcracker Suite, West
Windsor Plainsboro Dance
Company, Grover Middle School,
www.thedancecorner.org. A narrated version of the timeless classic tale featuring ballet, pointe,
hip-hop, tap, and jazz. Choreography by Amy DeCesare, Roni Wilityer, and Victoria Chodrow. Register. $9. 7 p.m. See story 29.
dre.dance, Peddie School, Hightstown, 609-490-7550. “Beyond
Rev. Dr.
LouisStreet,
Mitchell,
Pastor NJ
22 South
Main
Cranbury,
Rev. Rosanna Anderson,Associate Pastor
609-395-0897
www.cranburypres.org
Making an Impression:
Mariano Rivera throws
the last pitch of the
2009 World Series
Photo: Dick Druckman
Druckman. “I am especially happy this year to involve Make-AWish Foundation of New Jersey,
as the children and families they
serve are also fantastic inspirations showing true profiles in
courage.”
— Lynn Miller
Winter Sale for Charity, Gold
Medal Impressions, 43 Princeton
Hightstown Road, West Windsor.
Saturday, December 5, 2 p.m. The
gallery will be open through
Thursday, December 24, from 9
a.m. to 5 p.m. The entire collection
of images is also offered online.
609-606-9001. www.goldmedalimpressions.com.
Words,” a contemporary dance
that dives into the world of autism
inspired by first-person accounts
of people on the spectrum. dredance founders are Andrew
Palmermo and Taye Diggs.
Palmermo leads a Q&A following
the performance. $10. 8 p.m.
Drama
Peer Gynt in Process: Henrik Ibsen’s Peer Gynt Remixed and
Remade, Mercer County Community College, Studio Theater,
Communications Building, 1200
Old Trenton Road, West Windsor,
609-570-3524. Modern version of
Ibsen’s four-hour drama set in a
disco is only 90-minutes. $14. 8
p.m. See story page 36.
The Miser, Princeton Shakespeare Company, 609-2581500. Moliere. $10. 8 p.m.
Crime and Punishment, Theatre
Intime, Hamilton Murray Theater,
Princeton University, 609-2581742. Based on Dostoyevsky’s
novel. $12. 8 p.m.
Film
Lighting 101, Princeton TV, 369
Witherspoon Street, Princeton,
609-252-1963. www.princetontv.org. Lawrence Roth presents a
hands-on course including hard
vs. soft light, basic color correction, green screen, multiple vs.
single camera lighting, studio, interiors, and exterior lighting. Roth,
lighting director for “Dr. Phil
House,” “48 Hours,” “30 for 30,”
and “Lucky to Be Alive,” worked on
“Ferris Bueller’s Day Off,” “The
Untouchables,” and “Crime Story.”
Register. $20. 2 to 4 p.m.
Church of St. David
the King
1 New Village Road, Princeton Junction, NJ
609-22 75-77 111
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Acme Screening Room, Lambertville Public Library, 25
South Union Street, Lambertville,
609-397-0275. www.nickelodeonnights.org. Screening of “The Polar Express” in 3-D. Glasses provided. $5. 7 and 8:45 p.m.
Film Series, West Windsor Arts
Council, West Windsor Library,
North Post Road, West Windsor,
609-919-1982. www.westwindsorarts.org. Screening of “Autumn
Spring,” a 2001 Czech film about living,laughing, and aging by director
Vladimir Michalek. Speaker is Irena
Kovarova, an independent film programmer and Czech Film Center
representative. Refreshments and
discussion. $5. 7:30 p.m.
Literati
Author Event, Labyrinth Books,
122 Nassau Street, Princeton,
609-497-1600.
www.labyrinthbooks.com. C.K. Williams, author
of “How the Nobble Was Finally
Found,” a new children’s book. 11
a.m.
Author Event, Borders Books,
601 Nassau Park, 609-514-0040.
www.bordersgroupinc.com. Local
Authors Day features authors of Arcadia history books, Richard D.
Smith, “Princeton, NJ: Images of
America,” “Princeton, NJ: Then and
Now,” and Princeton University,
NJ; Linda J. Barth, “The Delaware
and Raritan Canal at Work,” and
“The Delaware and Raritan Canal,
NJ;” Mark F. Bernstein, “Princeton
Football;” and members of the
Friends of Roebling, “Roebling Revisited, NJ.” 1 p.m.
609-497-1600.
www.labyrinthbooks.com. Ralph Nader and
Chris Hedges talk about Nader’s
new book, “Only the Super-Rich
Can Save Us,” a fictional account
of what if super-rich individuals became a driving force in America to
organize the interests of the citizens. Nader, known best for his
1965 book, “Unsafe at Any
Speed,” ran for President in 1996,
2000, 2004, and 2008. 3 p.m.
Art
Art Exhibit, Gallery at Mercer
County College, Communications Center, West Windsor, 609570-3589. www.mccc.edu/community_gallery. Reception for “ReConnect,” a newly mixed show.
On view to December 17. Concert
featuring Wilbo Wright and Eric
Hallmeier on Wednesday, December 9, 7:30 p.m. Movis, the curator, is a group of eight artists who
meet weekly to discuss art-related
topics. 2 to 4 p.m.
Dancing
No Name Dance California Mix,
Central Jersey Dance Society,
Universalist Congregation, 50
Cherry Hill Road, Princeton, 609945-1883.
www.centraljerseydance.org. Cha cha workshop,
$10. East coast swing lesson followed by open dancing, $12. No
partner needed. 6 p.m.
Classical
Music
Nine Lessons and Carols, First Presbyterian Church of Trenton, 120 East State
Street, Trenton, 609396-1712.
www.old1712.org.
Choral
prelude begins at 5:30
p.m.; service begins at
6 p.m. Music by Gardner, Charpentier, Willcocks, Rutter, and
Pearsall. Choir, bell ensemble, and brass.
5:30 p.m.
Edward T. Cone Concert Series, Institute
for Advanced Study,
Wolfensohn Hall, Einstein Drive, Princeton,
609-951-4458. www.ias.edu. “The Music of
William Bolcom” performed by Bolcom on
piano and Joan Morris,
mezzo-soprano. Register. Free. 8 p.m.
Musical Celebration of Christmas, Riverside Symphonia,
Church of St. John, 44 Bridge
Street, Lambertville, 609-3977300. www.riversidesymphonia.org. $20 to $35. 8 p.m.
Benefit Concert, Westminster
Choir College, Princeton High
School Performing Arts Center,
Walnut Lane, 609-806-4300.
www.prspac.org.
Westminster
Opera Theater. 8 p.m.
Also, Holiday Concert, Bristol
Chapel, Princeton, 609-921-2663.
www.rider.edu. Westminster Concert Bell Choir. 8 p.m.
Folk Music
An Evening with John McCutcheon, Concerts at the
Crossing, Unitarian Church at
Washington Crossing, 268 Washington
Crossing-Pennington
Road, Titusville, 609-510-6278.
www.concertsatthecrossing.com.
Songwriter, historian, musician,
and storyteller. $25. 8 p.m.
Jazz & Blues
Princeton
Jazz
Ensemble,
Princeton University Concerts,
Richardson Auditorium, 609-2585000.
www.princeton.edu/utickets. “The Voice of the Jazz Composer: The Latin and Brazilian Inspired Music of Michael Philip
Mossman.” $15. 8 p.m.
Pop Music
City Winds Trio, Princeton Public Library, 65 Witherspoon
Street, 609-924-9529. Holiday
concert featuring selections from
Tchaikovsky’s “The Nutcracker,”
Christmas carols, Chanukah and
The Jazz Singer: Patty
Cronheim appears on
Wednesday, December
9, at Mediterra, Hulfish Street, Princeton.
Kwanzaa songs. Musicians include Chrispian Fordham on flute,
Meredyth Coleman on oboe, Yuki
Higashi on bassoon, and Christopher J. Haberi on piano. 3 p.m.
Good Causes
Sinterklaas Brunch and Bazaar,
Blawenburg Reformed Church,
Route 518, Blawenburg, 609-4663108. www.blawenburgchurch.org. Breakfast brunch, $10. Also,
crafts, gifts, baked goods, and holiday decor. Benefits the church. 9
a.m. to 2 p.m.
Winter Sale for Charity, Gold
Medal Impressions, 43 Princeton
Hightstown Road, West Windsor,
609-606-9001. www.goldmedalimpressions.com. Reception by
photographer Richard Druckman
features a limited number of collection-quality photographs from
the 2009 World Series, the current
2009 NFL season, and a large
number of images from the 2008
Summer Olympics in Beijing. Sale
benefits the Make-A-Wish Foundation of New Jersey. 2 p.m.
Hoopla, Integral Yoga Institute
Princeton, 613 Ridge Road, Monmouth Junction, 732-274-2410.
www.iyiprinceton.com.
Second
anniversary party includes vegetarian
refreshments,
performances, yoga demonstrations,
and silent auction. Donations invited. 4 to 8 p.m.
Chris Barron, Grounds For
Sculpture, 18 Fairgrounds Road,
Hamilton, 609-586-0616. www.groundsforsculpture.org. Barron,
a graduate of Princeton High
School and a member of the Spin
Doctors, performs in benefit for
Mercer Street Friends Food Bank.
$15. 7 p.m.
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Golden Night, Har Sinai Temple,
2441 Pennington Road, Pennington, 609-730-8100. www.harsinai.org. Music, wine, hors d’oeuvres, and gold appraisal. Register.
$25 per couple. 7:30 p.m.
Comedy Clubs
April Macie, Catch a Rising Star,
Hyatt Regency, 102 Carnegie
Center, 609-987-8018. www.catcharisingstar.com. Reservation. $20. 7:30 and 9:30 p.m.
Cultural Fairs
Traditions, Plainsboro Township, Municipal Building, Public
Library, and Wicoff House, 609799-0909.
www.plainsboronj.com. Activities are scheduled
throughout the afternoon featuring
dance, theater, musical performances, exhibits, folk crafts,
demonstrations, stories, costumes, and cooking demonstrations. Sample New Year traditions
of Asia and the Far East, Winter
Solstice, Twelfth Night, and Kwan-
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zaa. “Passports” become entry
forms for door prizes. Free. 1 to 4
p.m.
Activities are scheduled at the
Plainsboro Municipal Building, the
Public Library, and Wicoff House
(Plainsboro Museum). The tour
showcases the festivals, cultures,
and holiday celebrations of east,
west, north, and south.
Cultural Show, India Foundation
of Metropolitan Princeton, WWP High School South, 346
Clarksville Road, West Windsor,
609-799-5675. www.ifmpnj.org.
South Asian dancing includes traditional, modern, and Bollywood
presented by area students.
Guest appearance by Broadstreet
Baadshaz, a dance team from
Drexel and Temple University students. Indian vegetarian dinner
follows. $30. 3 p.m.
Craft Fairs
Holiday Craft Show, High School
South, 346 Clarksville Road,
Princeton Junction, 609-7165050. $1 admission for charity.
9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.
Sauce for the Goose, Arts Council of Princeton, Witherspoon
Street, Princeton, 609-924-8777.
www.artscouncilofprinceton.org.
Arts and crafts sale featuring
paintings, drawings, ceramics,
glasswork, holiday ornaments,
greeting cards, photography, jewelry, hats, and scarves. Through
December 21. Gallery hours are
Monday to Friday, 10 a.m. to 5
p.m.; Saturday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
10 a.m. to 7 p.m.
Crafts
Quilt Day, Princeton Public Library, 65 Witherspoon Street,
609-924-9529. Meg Cox, author of
“The Quilter’s Catalog: A Comprehensive Resource Guide;” quilt appraiser Dana Balsamo, and quilt
display and information. 11 a.m.
Food & Dining
Make Your Own Mozzarella, The
Grape Escape, 12 Stults Road,
Dayton, 609-409-9463. www.thegrapeescape.net. Register. $85.
9:30 a.m.
Holiday Festival and Silent Auction Benefit, Hamilton’s Grill
Room, 8 Coryell Street, Lambertville,
609-397-4343.
www.hamiltonsgrillroom.com. Benefit
for Fisherman’s Mark. Dinner and
presentation by Ely Park Reveal.
11:30 a.m. to 2 p.m.
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Rodeo: High School South Goes West This Holiday Season
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hen High School South
orchestras present the
14th annual Children’s
Concert on Sunday, December 6,
in the school’s new theater, the
area will be transformed into a
rodeo for the day. Along with the
music, there will be a campfire
sing-a-long, stick horse-riding,
face painting, a surprise guest
conductor, coloring books, and
themed snacks, and photo opportunities with Wyatt Earp, Annie
Oakley, Big Bad Bart, and Zorro.
Costumes are invited to the performance. Dress up as a cowgirl,
cowboy, Indian or Comanchero to
receive a prize at the door. The
narrators for the concert are Erica
Simi and Raza Zia.
This year’s theme, “How the
West Was Won,” will be followed
by three orchestras — the String
Ensemble, an award winning
ninth grade group; the Camerata
Orchestra, also an award winning
group composed of 10th through
12th graders; and the Philharmonia Symphony Orchestra, an audition only group of 10th through
12th graders who have toured
within the U.S. and internationally. Featured repertoire includes
Health & Wellness
Women’s Health Conference,
Princeton Healthcare System
Foundation, Hyatt Regency,
Carnegie Center, 888-897-8979.
www.princetonhscs.org.
Mariel
Hemingway, actress and author,
presents keynote address on making healthy decisions in every aspect of life including diet, exercise,
relationships, family, and work.
Breakout sessions on women’s
health and lifestyle issues include
12 seminars presented by women’s
health experts including “Staying
Healthy at Any Age,” “Dressing
Your Best,” Maintaining Flexibility
and Agility,” “Financial Fitness,” and
“Surviving Your Child’s Teenage
Years.” Complimentary childcare.
Register. $60. 9:15 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Vinyasa Flow Yoga, Susan
Sprecher Studio, 23 Orchard
Road, 609-306-6682. www.yogasusan.com. $15 walk-in. Discounted class cards available.
9:30 to 11 a.m.
“The Mexican Hat Dance;” Leroy
Anderson’s “Horse and Buggy;”
Copland’s “Hoedown;” and music from the movies “The Mask of
Zorro,” “Oklahoma,” “The Cowboys,” “The Magnificent Seven,”
and “How the West Was Won.”
The orchestras are under the direction of Jean Mauro, in her 32nd
year of directing.
“This is the concert where the
students get to let their hair down
and present less formal music,”
says Mauro. “We always have a
lot of fun at this show.” The aim of
the concert is to excite children of
all ages — including the grownup ones — about classical music
while presenting it in a manner
that is appealing to people with all
levels of classical music appreciation. CDs of the concert will be
available for purchase.
The Children’s Concert is the
first concert of the year for the orchestras. Future events include
the Winter Concert on Friday, December 18, featuring student senior cello soloist Rohan Rath; the
South Side Orchestra Strings Festival on Friday, February 5, with
Grover Middle School’s eighth
grade orchestra; and the Spring
Tinnitus Self-Help Group, First
Presbyterian Church, 100 Scotch
Road, Ewing, 609-883-0203.
“Hearing Loss and Tinnitus” discussion. 10 to 11:30 a.m.
Author Event, Cha Cha Gifts and
Wellness Center, Quakerbridge
Mall, Lawrenceville, 609-2755008. Susan Apollon and Yanni
Maniates, authors of “Intuition is
Easy and Fun: The Art and Practice of Developing Your Natural
Born Gift of Intuition.” 2 to 4 p.m.
The Song of the Healing Crystal
Bowls, Princeton Center for Yoga & Health, 50 Vreeland Drive,
Suite 506, Skillman, 609-9247294. www.princetonyoga.com.
Jay Schwed’s presentation features more than a dozen singing
crystal bowls, five Tibetan bowls,
aromatherapy mists, and morphing lights. “Our body is a musical
instrument,” he says. “When the
instrument is not tuned properly a
state of disease or imbalance occurs.” Register. $30. 7 to 9 p.m.
Gala Concert at Ocean Grove’s
Great Auditorium on Saturday,
May 22, featuring a guest conductor and Carl Orff’s full work of
Carmina Burana.
The musicians include:
Violin I: Grace Ro, Harrison
Liew, Jun Sung Ahn, Harington
Lee, Anushka Sindkar, Michael Wu,
Dahlia Amande, Yeon Joo Park,
Katherine Liu, Kathleen Voightsberger, Sri Harathi, Mahvish Hashmi, Sari Frankel, Rishika Ghosh,
Reetika Mohanty, Raza Zia, and
Gareth Dicker.
Violin II: Cheryl Peng, Sarah Yu,
Veena Kumar, Nikila Venkat, Daniel
Ng, Dana Lee, Jennifer Yoon, Mallory Wang, Sue Kim, Aditya Girish,
Nikita Gupta, Jordan Hu, Kseniya
Nadtochiy, Jennifer Sharma, Selena Seto, Sofia Alvarez, and Ying
Ying Yu.
Viola: Matthew Hsu, Victoria
Wang, Rebecca Shi, Tanika Raychaudhuri, Stacey Jou, Johnathan
Kuan, May Chang, Jeremy Tsu,
Ashleigh DeLemos, Erica Simi,
Jennifer Catalano, Ashima Oza,
Lawrence Goun, David Suh, Sonal
Patel, Jared Meltzer, and Eric Hoff.
Cello: Doug Wallack, Rohan
Rath, Catharine Wong, Roger Lin,
Jonathan Ting, Rachel Carandang,
Lindsey Joseph, Samantha Lee,
Alexandra Werth, Paul von Autenried, Kanu Bhargava, Steven
Senko, Gina Rodriguez, Matthew
History
garden clubs. $5. Noon to 4 p.m.
Old Fashioned Holiday Celebration, Roebling Museum, 100
Second Avenue, Roebling, 609599-7200.
www.roeblingmuseum.org. Holiday tree lighting and
celebration at the museum. Also
Meers, Daniel Messina, and Greg
Snyder.
Bass: Sam Boyles, Lekha
Kanchinadam, Benjamin Hong, Simon Hwang, Kirill Ravikovitch,
Sahil Kulgod, Liam Kiernan, Andrew Pinelli, and Linda Wang.
Flute: Christina Chen, Alice Bae,
Stephanie Ku, and Cher Lu.
Oboe: Tatyana Kozina, Ariel Wu,
and John Park.
Clarinet: Minjeh Lee, Lesley Norris, June Park, and Jen Cardinale.
Bassoon: Ariel Eland and Marni
Zahorsky.
French Horn: Erik Dixon-Anderson, Lisa Sher, Chris So, and Katie
Bromberg.
Trumpet: Will Goldin, Tracy Mischell, Vrushabh Shah, and David
Meni.
Trombone: Steven Yang and
Varun Hegde.
Bass Trombone: Ethan Julius
Tuba: Chris Bromberg
Timpani: Jake Hoyne
Percussion: Mihir Odak, Mike
Mortel, Dan Schloss, and Franklin
Li.
Orchestra Children’s Concert, High School South, 346
Clarksville Road, West Windsor.
Sunday, December 6, 1:30 and
3:30 p.m. $7. 609-936-1636.
www.ww-p.org.
— Lynn Miller
includes carriage rides ($15), children’s crafts, light refreshments,
and a visit from Santa. 5 p.m.
For Families
Art for Families, Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton
campus, 609-258-3788. www.princetonartmuseum.org. Story
time at the Museum. Free. 10:30
a.m. to 1:30 p.m.
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DECEMBER 4, 2009
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college education especially in
the face of ever-rising costs.
College Funding Alternatives,
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helps parents take or regain
control by guiding them
through the college admissions and financial aid
process.
“If you are like most people,
you’ll probably end up doing
this on your own and spending
way more time, energy and
money than necessary to send
your child to college, said
Kevin Simme, founder of College Funding Alternatives. “Or
even worse, you’ll end up
mortgaging your house to the
hilt, spending your entire life
savings, taking on way too
much in college loans, or
sending your child to the least
expensive school rather than
the best-matched school to
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College Funding Alternatives, Inc., with headquarters
in Princeton Junction, provides
assistance to parents throughout the country advising students and parents using a fivestep process from picking the
perfect school to innovative,
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Simme, a nationally recognized college funding consultant, started his career with a
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he had the opportunity to visit
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in the United States and a few
in Canada. He started College
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that the information parents
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In addition, many parents were
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have any one student attend
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school guidance offices can be
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College Funding Alternatives, Inc is located at 186
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families with college-bound students in their sophomore or junior year.
DECEMBER 5
Christmas on the Farm, Howell
Living History Farm, Valley
Road, off Route 29, Titusville, 609737-3299. www.howellfarm.org.
St. Nick, his elves, and a jingling
sleigh loaded with cookies, coal,
and holiday cheer arrive. Children
may take a ride to the woods to cut
down a Christmas tree. All visitors
may help decorate the tree. Hot
apple cider and cookies for
helpers. 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
CASH
Highest Price Paid
GOLD • DIAMONDS • SILVER
Gold Jewelry (can be damaged)
Sterling Silver Jewelry • Sterling Silver Flatware
Tea Sets • Silver Coins • Gold Coins
Dental Gold • Diamonds ¼ Carat & Up
Rolex Watches
With the Precious Metal Market
at an All-Time High, Now Is the Time to Turn
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16 Edinburg Rd. at 5 Points • Mercerville, N.J.
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Santa and Snowy Arrive, Princeton Shopping Center, North Harrison Street, Princeton, 609-9216234. www.princetonshoppingcenter.com. The fire engine brings
the duo to the courtyard after looping around the center. Children
may visit with Santa and Snowy
and receive a free gift. Parents are
welcome to take a photo or have a
professional photo. Craft project
for children. Concert by Rhythm &
Balloons, the duo of Evan Milman
and Eric Butler. 12:30 to 3 p.m.
Planetarium Shows, New Jersey
State Museum, 205 West State
Street, Trenton, 609-292-6464.
www.newjerseystatemuseum.org. “The Laser Nutcracker.” $6. 1
and 3 p.m.
Kids’ Christmas Craft Party,
Princeton Presbyterian Church,
545 Meadow Road, West Windsor, 609-987-1166. www.princetonpresbyterian.org. Crafts, cookie decorating, Christmas songs,
life performances of the Christmas
story. Free. 1 to 4 p.m.
Family Theater
609-570-3333.
Pennington Players. $14. 2 and 7
p.m.
ginning at Artworks, will highlight
the “before” and “after” of over 20
restored Victorian, late Federal
and Gothic Revival homes decorated for the holiday season. The
1719 Trent House will also be
open for tours. $20. Noon to 5
p.m.
Lectures
Research Symposium, Princeton University, Friend Center,
Princeton University, 609-2583000. www.princeton.edu. Graduate students and postdoctoral fellows share their work through talks
and poster presentations. Register. 8:30 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Live Music
The Peace Project, Center for Relaxation and Healing, 666 Plainsboro Road, Suite 635, Plainsboro,
609-750-7432. www.relaxationandhealing.com. The all female
group presents an evening of Sanskrit chanting. Sharon Silverstein
on vocals, guitar, and harmonium;
Joni Knapp on tabla, Darlen Popkey on flute and harmonium, and
Marie Soffel on djembe and
ubang. $10. 7:30 to 9 p.m.
August and John Patrick,
Grover’s Mill Coffee House, 335
Princeton Hightstown Road, West
Windsor, 609-716-8771. www.groversmillcoffee.com. 8 p.m.
Kim Yarson, It’s A Grind Coffee
House, 7 Schalk’s Crossing
Road, Plainsboro, 609-275-2919.
www.itsagrind.com. 8 to 10 p.m.
Schools
Spamalotmore, Spotlight School
of Drama, 1300 Windsor Road,
www.spotlightdrama.com. British
comedy workshop for ages 10 and
up. Register. $40. 1:30 to 3:30
p.m.
Retail Therapy
House Tours
Warehouse Sale, Conair, 150 Milford Road, East Windsor. Hair dryers, kitchen appliances, cookware, and more. 7 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Holiday House Tour, Old Mill Hill
Society, 19 Everett Alley at South
Stockton Street, Trenton, 609775-5581. www.trentonmillhill.org. Self-guided house tour, be-
St. Nicholas Bazaar, Trinity
Church, 33 Mercer Street, Princeton, 609-924-2277. www.trinityprinceton.org. The annual holiday
event features three floors of holi-
day shopping and family activities
including gingerbread houses, St.
Nicholas himself, antiques, china,
hand knit scarves and children’s
sweaters, cookie walk, books,
gently used holiday attire, and ornament making. Lunch available.
Free admission. 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Knits to Give, All Saints’ Church,
16 All Saints’ Road, Princeton,
609-921-2420. www.allsaint.org.
Scarves, socks, soft toys, baby
blankets, sweaters for children
and adults, hats and mittens for all
ages, and sweater sets for infants
created by the church’s knitting
group. All proceeds for distribution
to Crisis Ministry, Trenton Area
Soup Kitchen, and HomeFront. Also Sunday, December 6. 10 a.m.
to 1 p.m.
Warehouse Book Sale, Scholar’s
Bookshelf, 110 Melrich Road,
Cranbury, 609-395-6933. History,
military, fine arts, literary, DVDs,
and office supplies. Cash or
checks only. 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Singles
Wine and Dinner, Dinnermates,
Princeton Area, 732-759-2174.
www.dinnermates.com. Ages 30s
to early 50s. Call for reservation
and location. $20 plus dinner and
drinks. 7:30 p.m.
Sunday
December 6
Dance
The Nutcracker Suite, West
Windsor Plainsboro Dance
Company, Grover Middle School,
www.thedancecorner.org. A narrated version of the timeless classic tale featuring ballet, pointe,
hip-hop, tap, and jazz. Choreography by Amy DeCesare, Roni Wilityer, and Victoria Chodrow. Register. $9. 1 p.m. See story page 29.
Drama
The Thing About Men, Off-Broadstreet Theater, 5 South Greenwood Avenue, Hopewell, 609466-2766. www.off-broadstreet.-
DECEMBER 4, 2009
com. Romantic musical comedy
based on Doris Dorrie’s screenplay features Todd Reichart, Allison Quairoli, Barry Abramowitz,
Tom Stevenson, and Pam Jorgensen. $27.50 to $29.50. 1:30
p.m.
Peer Gynt in Process: Henrik Ibsen’s Peer Gynt Remixed and
Remade, Mercer County Community College, Studio Theater,
Communications Building, 1200
Old Trenton Road, West Windsor,
609-570-3524. Modern version of
Ibsen’s four-hour drama set in a disco is only 90-minutes. $14. 2 p.m.
A Christmas Carol, McCarter
Theater, 91 University Place,
609-258-2787. www.mccarter.org. Holiday classic by Charles
Dickens. $33 and up. 5:30 p.m.
Film
Israeli Jewish Film Series,
Princeton Jewish Center, 435
Nassau Street, 609-921-0100.
www.thejewishcenter.org.
Screening of “The Band’s Visit,”
the story of an Egyptian band that
ends up in a small Israeli town.
Free. 4 p.m.
Art
Art Exhibit, Gourgaud Gallery, 23
North Main Street, Cranbury, 609395-0900. www.gourgaudhist.htm. Opening reception for “Cranbury Gardens VII — Works from
Art in the Park,” the plein air series
offered by the Cranbury Arts
Council. Varied works by over a
dozen local artists. Runs through
December 27. 1 to 3 p.m.
Classical Music
Holiday Concert, Rider University, Gill Memorial Chapel, Rider
University, Lawrenceville, 609921-2663. www.rider.edu. Rider
University Chorale and Rider University Choir. 2 p.m.
Spectrum Concert, Princeton
University Chapel, Washington
Road, 609-258-3654. “And Was
Incarnat,” music of the season
Plainsboro, 732-469-3983. www.harmonize.com/jerseyharmony.
New members are welcome. 7:15
p.m.
presented by the Chapel Choir.
Penna Rose conducts. Free. 2:30
p.m.
Advent Concert of Music and Poetry, Princeton University Chapel, Washington Road, 609-2583654. Princeton University Chapel
Choir present music of Howells,
Whitacre, Rutter, Chilcott, Powell,
and Victoria. Eric Plutz on organ.
Penna Rose conducts. Free. 2:30
p.m.
Messiah, Princeton Pro Musica,
Patriots Theater, Trenton War
Memorial, 609-683-5122. www.princetonpromusica.org. Handel’s
famous work. Julianne Baird, soprano; Alyson Harvey, alto; Scott
Murphree, tenor; and Matthew
Burns, bass. $25 to $55. 3 p.m.
Holiday Concert, Westminster
Choir College, Bristol Chapel,
Princeton, 609-921-2663. www.rider.edu. Westminster Concert
Bell Choir. 4 p.m.
Holiday Concert, Bravura Philharmonic Orchestra, Princeton
Alliance Church, 20 Schalks
Crossing Road, Plainsboro, 609790-9559. www.bravuraphil.org.
A highlight of the concert will be
Rimsky-Korsakov’s
symphonic
suite Scheherazade, with the orchestra’s concertmaster, Daphne
Su, performing the violin solo. Also featured will be a community
chorus performing selections from
Handel’s Messiah. $15; $12 seniors; $10 students. 7 p.m.
Folk Music
Celebration of Hope Concert,
Congregation B’nai Tikvah,
1001 Finnegans Lane, North
Brunswick, 732-297-0696. www.bnaitikvah.org. Family concert by
internationally renowned singer
Debbie Friedman, whose music
evokes the folk sound of Joan
Baez and Peter, Paul, and Mary. 4
to 6 p.m.
Pop Music
Rehearsal, Jersey Harmony
Chorus, 5000 Windrows Drive,
Good Causes
Yoga Open House Benefit, Onsen For All, 4451 Route 27,
Princeton, 609-924-4800. www.onsenforall.com. To benefit “Off
the Mat Into the World,” to raise
funds for humanitarian work in
Uganda. Minimum $5 donation
suggested. Noon to 9 p.m.
Annual Holiday Ball, FilipinoAmerican Association of Central New Jersey, Hyatt, 102
Carnegie Center, West Windsor,
609-730-1278. Formal benefit
evening to celebrate culture and
unit. Reception with cocktails, dinner, D Executives Band, a DJ, and
dancing. Presentation of the Miss
FAACNJ ambassador Celeste
Negron. Dr. Fred Causing is honored with humanitarian service
and lifetime achievement awards.
Register. $75. Barong Tagalog or
Filipino heritage attire requested.
3 p.m.
Annual Dinner and Show, Boheme Opera Guild, Trenton
Country Club, Sullivan Way, Trenton, 609-737-2346. www.bohemeopera.com. “Das Gianni
Schweinflute,” based on Puccini’s
opera “Gianni Schicchi.” Cocktails
and dinner. Benefit for student
performance of “Gianni Schicchi.”
Register. $60. 4 p.m.
Dixieland Jazz Night, Har Sinai
Temple, 2441 Pennington Road,
Pennington,
609-730-8100.
www.harsinai.org. Art Frank and
the Ambassadors of Dixieland,
dessert. Register. $15. 7 p.m.
Miscellany
Holidays in the Village, Lawrenceville Main Street, Weeden
Park, 609-219-9300. www.LawrencevilleMainStreet.com. Music,
crafts fair, refreshments, visit with
Santa, and tree lighting. Free. 3 to
5 p.m.
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Tree Lighting Ceremony, West Windsor
Township, Ron Rogers
Arboretum, corner of
Route
571
and
Clarksville Road, West
Windsor,
609-7996141. Annual tree lighting ceremony includes
music, fireworks, and
singing. Music for the
non-denominational
event is presented by
West Windsor-Plainsboro School District students. Park at High
School South. Free.
Raindate is Sunday, December 13. 7 p.m.
Faith
Super Sunday 2010,
Day of Philanthropy,
United Jewish Federation of Princeton Mercer Bucks, Bank of
America, Hopewell Campus, 410
Scotch Road, Building 1350, Pennington, 609-219-0555. www.ujfpmb.org. 9 a.m.
Sunday Speaker, Adath Israel
Congregation, 1958 Lawrenceville Road, Lawrenceville, 609806-4977. www.adathisraelnj.org.
“The Jews of India,” presented by
Romiel Daniel, president of the Indian Jewish Congregation of the
USA. 9:30 to 11 a.m.
Be the Santa, Integral Yoga Institute Princeton, 613 Ridge Road,
Monmouth Junction, 732-2742410. www.iyiprinceton.com. Satsang with Reverend Jaganath
Carrera. $15. 10 a.m.
Advent Night, Princeton United
Methodist Church, Nassau at
Vandeventer Street, 609-9242613.
www.princetonumc.org.
Crafts, potluck turkey dinner,
dessert, Christmas carols. Bring a
dish and toothbrush/toothpaste kit
for the Trenton Soup Kitchen. 5
p.m.
Going Solo: Daphne
Su solos with the
Bravura Philharmonic
Orchestra on Sunday,
December 6, Princeton
Alliance Church, 20
Schalks Crossing
Road, Plainsboro.
Health & Wellness
Basic Energy Medicine Workshop, Energy for Healing, 4446
Route 27, Kingston, 609-9377682.
www.energyforhealing.com. Worried about swine flu?
Strengthen your immune system
and boost your energy level.
Learn the Eden Energy Medicine
10-minute daily routine and more.
Taught by Certified Eden Energy
Medicine Practitioners. Workshop
intensive. Class size strictly limited. $95, includes lunch. Register.
10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
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DECEMBER 6
History
From Revolution to Relativity,
Historical Society of Princeton,
Bainbridge House, 158 Nassau
www.princetonhistory.org. Classic walking tour of downtown
Princeton and Princeton University includes stops at Nassau Hall,
University Chapel, Woodrow Wilson’s homes, and Einstein’s residence. Register by phone or Email [email protected]. $7. 2 p.m.
For Families
Pancake Breakfast with Santa,
West Windsor Lions Club, Community Middle School, 55 Grovers
Mill Road, Plainsboro, 609-4190156. Annual breakfast of pancakes, scrambled eggs, juice,
fruit, and drinks. Santa will be
available for photos with children.
$7 adults, $3 children (3 to 11),
free for under age 3. 8 a.m. to
noon.
Planetarium Shows, New Jersey
State Museum, 205 West State
Street, Trenton, 609-292-6464.
www.newjerseystatemuseum.org. “The Laser Nutcracker.” $6. 1
and 3 p.m.
Family Theater
609-570-3333.
Pennington Players. $14. 2 p.m.
Lectures
Financial Workshop, Center for
Relaxation and Healing, 666
Plainsboro Road, Building 600,
Suite 635, 215-598-7225. www.thenewtemperament.com. “Money Consciousness and Your Temperament” presented by Jay
Sanders, CPA; and Michael Edelstein, founder of the New Temperament. Learn to understand
the macro, micro, and unconscious forces that impact money
decisions. Get a new perspective
on yourself and money that will al-
low you to take positive steps to a
happier and more secure financial
future. Register. $25. 2 to 4:15
p.m.
Dorothea’s House, 120 John
www.dorotheashouse.org. “Polenta Festa.” Bring a refreshment to
share at the reception. Free. 5 p.m.
Werner Lecture Fund, Beth El
Synagogue, 50 Maple Stream
Road, East Windsor, 609-4434454. www.bethel.net. “Music and
Lyrics of Rogers, Hart, Rogers and
Hammerstein,” an evening of music, talk, and laughter with Ted Otten and Michael Kownacky from
WWFM Classical Network. Register. Free. 7 p.m.
Sports
Princeton Basketball, Jadwin
Gym, 609-258-4849. www.goprincetontigers.com. Lafayette.
$12. 5 p.m.
Monday
December 7
Municipal Meetings
Public Meeting, West Windsor
Township Council, Municipal
Building, 609-799-2400. www.westwindsornj.org. 7 p.m.
Live Music
School Sports
Jerry Topinka, Salt Creek Grille,
One Rockingham Row, Forrestal
Village, Plainsboro, 609-4194200. www.saltcreekgrille.com.
Jazz brunch. 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.
South Ice Hockey, 609-716-5000
ext. 5134. www.ww-p.org. At
Lawrence. 6 p.m.
Hopewell Valley High School Music/Theater
Performances,
Barnes & Noble, MarketFair, West
Windsor, 609-716-1570. www.bn.com. Teens present a variety of
holiday songs and presentations
throughout the afternoon. 3 p.m.
World Cineclub, Princeton Public Library, Witherspoon Street,
609-924-8822. Screening of “I’ve
Loved You So Long,” French with
English subtitles, 2008. 7:30 p.m.
Schools
Winter Concert, Rider University
Band, Yvonne Theater, Rider University, 609-896-5303. 7:30 p.m.
Orchestra Children’s Concert,
High School South, 346 Clarksville Road, West Windsor, 609716-5050. www.ww-p.org. Benefit
for the school’s orchestra groups.
$7. 1:30 and 3:30 p.m.
Retail Therapy
Howliday Photos, Quaker Bridge
Mall, Center Court, 609-7998177.
www.quakerbridgemall.com. Pet photos with Santa. Cats
and dogs must be vaccinated.
Dogs must be on a leash. Cats
must be in a carrier. 8 to 9:30 a.m.
Knits to Give, All Saints’ Church,
16 All Saints’ Road, Princeton,
609-921-2420. www.allsaint.org.
Scarves, socks, soft toys, baby
blankets, sweaters for children
and adults, hats and mittens for all
ages, and sweater sets for infants
created by the church’s knitting
group. All proceeds for distribution
to Crisis Ministry, Trenton Area
Soup Kitchen, and HomeFront.
8:45 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Chess
Plainsboro Public Library, 641
Plainsboro Road, 609-275-2897.
www.lmxac.org/plainsboro. For advanced adult players. 1 to 5 p.m.
Film
Pop Music
Good Causes
Dinner and Holiday Concert, St.
Francis Medical Center, Sacred
Heart Church, Broad Street, Trenton, 609-599-5659. www.stfrancismedical.org. Annual benefit
holiday concert featuring the Orchestra of St. Peter by the Sea, a
45-member ensemble conducted
by Reverend Alphonse Stephenson. Concert at 7:30 p.m., $40;
concert with cocktails and buffet
dinner, $100. Register. 5 p.m.
Faith
Chanukah Sing Along, Chabad
of the Windsors, The Anew Center, 1300 Windsor-Edinburg Road,
www.chabadwindsor.com. Menorah design, pizza dinner, and
singing for ages 3 to 8. Register.
$5. 4:30 to 6 p.m.
Talmud Class, Chabad of the
Windsors, East Windsor Library,
138 Hickory Corner Road, 609448-9369. www.chabadwindsor.com. Register. Free. 7:30 p.m.
Art Exhibit: ‘CPUSA Bill’ by Yevgeniy Fiks, from
‘Reconnect,’ a group show opening with a reception
on Saturday, December 5, 2 to 4 p.m., at the Gallery
at Mercer County College, Communications Center,
West Windsor. On view through December 17.
Food & Dining
Seafood and Wine Pairing Dinner, Blue Point Grill, 258 Nassau
www.bluepointgrill.com. Register.
6 p.m.
Lectures
Meeting, Get Hired Today!, Center for Relaxation, 635 Plainsboro
Road, 609-588-8874. www.meetup.com/gethiredtoday. For
unemployed professionals. $5.
10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
Stress Relief for the Holiday Season with Five Easy Tools, Neuro-Enhancement
Strategies,
Princeton Pike, 609-918-0089.
www.neuro-enhancement.com.
“Whole Brain Learning with application NLP presented by Jeff
Schoener. Register at [email protected]. $25. 6:30 to
8:30 p.m.
Socrates Cafe, West Windsor Library, 333 North Post Road, 609799-0462. Ask questions, listen,
discuss, raise challenges. Register. 7 p.m.
Continuing Conversations on
Race and White Privilege,
Princeton Public Library, 65
Witherspoon Street, 609-9248822. www.princetonlibrary.org.
Facilitated by members of the Not
in Our Town, the Princeton-based
interracial and interfaith social action group. 7:30 p.m.
716-8771.
www.groversmillcoffee.com. Drop in for soups,
wraps, gelato, and tea, coffee,
desserts, or espresso. Register at
www.meetup.com/PrincetonArea-Singles-Network. 6:30 to 8
p.m.
Socials
Traditional
Holiday
Music,
Women’s College Club of
Princeton, All Saints’ Church, 16
All Saints’ Road, Princeton, 609430-1565. Princeton High School
Chamber Choir, refreshments,
and meeting. Free. 12:30 p.m.
Tuesday
December 8
School Sports
For WW-P school sports information, call the hotline: 609-7165000, ext. 5134, www.ww-p.org.
North Boys/Girls Diving. At Montgomery. 4 p.m.
North Swimming, Boys/Girls.
Hopewell Valley Central. 4 p.m.
South Boys/Girls Diving.
Montgomery. 4 p.m.
At
Film
String Bean and the Stalkers, BT
Bistro, 3499 Route 1 South, West
Windsor, 609-919-9403. www.btbistro.com. 9 p.m.
Illusion, Arts Council of Princeton, 102 Witherspoon Street, 609924-8777.
www.artscouncilofprinceton.org. Screening of Kirk
Douglas’s last film followed by a
reception and Q&A with producer
James Burke. 5 p.m.
Politics
Art
Woodrow
Wilson
School,
Hall, Bowl 016, 609-258-2943.
www.princeton.edu. Vanda FalebBrown speaks. 4:30 p.m.
Exhibition, Princeton University,
Lucas Gallery, Lewis Center, 185
Nassau Street, 609-258-1500.
www.princeton.edu. Opening reception for exhibitions and presentations by students in Digital Photography, Sculpture, Ceramics, Installation, and Issues in Contemporary Art courses. Runs through
December 18. 6 p.m.
Live Music
Singles
Singles Night, Grover’s Mill Coffee House, 335 Princeton Hightstown Road, West Windsor, 609-
JUNCTION
BARBER SHOP
33 Hightstown Rd., Princeton Jct.
ELLSWORTH’S CENTER (Near Train Station)
Hrs: Tues - Fri: 10am - 5:45pm
Sat: 8:30am - 3:30pm
609-799-8554
DECEMBER 4, 2009
Dancing
Business Meetings
Tuesday Night Folk Dance
Group, Riverside School, Princeton, 609-655-0758. Instruction
and dancing. No partner needed.
$3. 7 to 9 p.m.
JobSeekers, Parish Hall entrance,
Trinity Church, 33 Mercer Street,
609-924-2277. www.trinityprinceton.org. Networking and support
for changing careers, free. 7:30
p.m.
Literati
609-497-1600.
www.labyrinthbooks.com. An evening of poetry
with Joanna Fuhrman, author of
“Pageant;” and Yerra Sugerman,
author of “Forms of Gone” and
“The Bag of Broken Glass.” 6 p.m.
Author Event, Princeton Public
Library, Witherspoon Street, 609924-8822. www.princetonlibrary.org. Dara-Lyn Shrager reads from
her works in the fireplace area on
the second floor. A poet and a
journalist, she has written for the
New York Times, New Jersey
Monthly, Philadelphia Magazine,
Philadelphia Inquirer, and Bucks
Magazine. 7:30 p.m.
Good Causes
Holiday Derby Luncheon, Mercer
Sports & Entertainment Commission, Mercer Oaks Club, West
Windsor, 609-737-0927. www.mcsec.net. Holiday shopping with
vendors, Kentucky menu for
lunch, keynote speaker is Hal
Handel, executive vice president
of the New York Racing Association. Benefit to create Mercer
County as a destination for state,
regional, and national sporting
and entertainment events. Register. $40. 11 a.m.
Kids Stuff
Princeton Macintosh Users
Group, Robertson Hall, 609-2585730. www.pmug-nj.org. 7:30
p.m.
Live Music
Franklin Alison Jazz Quartet,
Witherspoon Grill, 57 Witherspoon Street, Princeton, 609-9246011. 6:30 to 10 p.m.
Schools
Classical Music
For Families
Open Classroom, Wilberforce
School, 33 River Road, Princeton, 609-924-6111. www.wilberforceschool.org. Christian school
from kindergarten to eighth grade.
Children are welcome. 8:30 a.m.
Carols of Many Nations, Princeton Theological Seminary, Miller
Chapel, Princeton Theological
Seminary, 609-497-7890. www.ptsem.edu. A wide array of carols
and anthems from different nations and cultures reflects the diverse representation of students
at the seminary. Musical services
followed by caroling by candlelight
on the seminary’s quadrangle.
Open to the public. Free. 3 p.m.
6:30 and 8:30 p.m.
Witherspoon Street, 609-9249529. “Miss Pam Goes to Africa”
presented by Pamela Groves and
her daughter, Maya. For ages five
and up. 4 p.m.
Singles
Pizza Night, Yardley Singles,
Vince’s, 25 South Main Street,
Yardley, 215-736-1288. www.yardleysingles.org. Register. 6
p.m.
Wednesday
December 9
North Wrestling, 609-716-5000
ext. 5134. www.ww-p.org. At
Matawan. 4 p.m.
Science Library Talk, Princeton
University, Lewis Library, Bowl
138, 609-258-3150. www.princeton.edu. Dr. David Wilcove, author
of “No Way Home: The Decline of
the World’s Great Animal Migration.” 4:30 p.m.
Score Seminar, Princeton Public
Library, 65 Witherspoon Street,
609-924-9529. “Intellectual Property Protection” presented by Carole E. DeNatale, an attorney from
Prozio, Brombert, and Newman’s
Princeton office. 6:45 p.m.
Workshop, Rider University,
Memorial 310, Lawrenceville.
http://osgw.wordpress.com.
“Graphic Design Techniques”
workshop presented by John
Lemasney, an artist, sculptor, designer, technologist, writer, poet,
and manager of Instructional
Technology at Rider University.
Register. Free. 7 p.m.
Public
Meeting,
Plainsboro
Township Committee, Municipal
Building, 609-799-0909. www.plainsboronj.com. 7:30 p.m.
School Sports
North Ice Hockey, 609-716-5000
ext. 5134. www.ww-p.org. Notre
Dame. 6 p.m.
Film
International
Film
Festival,
South Brunswick Library, 110
Kingston Lane, Monmouth Junction, 732-329-4000. www.sbpl.info. Screening of “Tulpan,”
Karzakh and Russian with English
subtitles, 2008. Free. 7 p.m.
Art
Exhibition and Sale, Princeton
Area Community Foundation,
15 Princess Road, Lawrenceville,
609-219-1800. www.pacf.org. Exhibition and sale featuring works
of Princeton artist Thomas
George including brush and ink
drawings, abstract oil paintings,
watercolors, and the last remaining pastels of the Institute Pond
series. Through Thursday, December 31. 9 a.m.
Art Exhibit, Gallery at Mercer
County College, Communications Center, West Windsor, 609570-3589. www.mccc.edu/community_gallery. Concert in conjunction with “ReConnect,” a newly mixed show. On view to December 17. Multi-instrumental duo
Wilbo Wright and Eric Hallmeier
perform. Movis, the curator of the
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Holiday Open House, Drumthwacket
Foundation,
354
Stockton Street, Princeton, 609683-0057. www.drumthwacket.org. Tour of the official residence
of the Governor of New Jersey
featuring “EverGreen,” an ecofriendly theme created by garden
clubs throughout the State. Register. $5 donation. 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Chris Harford and the Band of
Changes, BT Bistro, 3499 Route
1 South, West Windsor, 609-9199403. www.btbistro.com. 9 p.m.
For Families
Lectures
Author Event, Barnes & Noble,
MarketFair, West Windsor, 609716-1570. www.bn.com. Len
Berman will discuss and sign his
new book, “The Greatest Moments in Sports.” Berman has
served as the weekday sports anchor for News Channel 4 for more
than 15 years and is known for his
“Spanning the World” segments
on the Today Show and NBC.
4:30 p.m.
Tour and Tea, Morven Museum,
55 Stockton Street, Princeton,
609-924-8144. www.morven.org.
Tour the restored mansion, galleries, and gardens. Tea before or
after tour. Register. $15. 11:15
a.m. to 2:15 p.m.
Municipal Meetings
Chanukah Sing-Along, Barnes &
Noble, MarketFair, West Windsor,
609-716-1570. www.bn.com. Presented by the choirs and cantor of
Congregation Beth Chaim. 6 p.m.
Literati
4-7 Years
Music Makers
3-4 Years
The Cycle of Seasons
Featuring the only Level 3 ECMMA*- Certified Teacher in New Jersey
*Early Childhood Music and Movement Association
www.musiciansinthemaking.com
609-750-0600
Health & Wellness
Attention Deficit Disorder Lecture and Discussion, Children
and Adults with AttentionDeficit Hyperactivity Disorder,
Riverside School, 58 Riverside
Drive, Princeton, 609-683-8787.
“Social Thinking and Related Social Skills: A Cutting Edge Approach to Social Learning” presented by Terri Rossman, executive director of Princeton SpeechLanguage & Learning Center. Facilitated group discussions follow.
7 to 9 p.m.
Tribal Belly Dance Class, One
Yoga Center, 405 Route 130,
East Windsor, 267-266-0297.
www.tribalbellysryle.com. Level
two, 7:15 to 8:15 p.m. Level 1,
8:30 to 9:30 p.m. $16. 7:15 p.m.
History
Festival of Trees, Morven Museum, 55 Stockton Street, Prince-
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ton, 609-924-8144. www.morven.org. Galleries adorned for the
p.m.
609-497-1600.
www.labyrinthbooks.com. Susan Sidlauskas —
“Cezanne’s Other: The Portraits of
Hortense.” 5:30 p.m.
Sensory Bounce Night, Pump It
Up, 8 Commerce Way, Hamilton,
609-586-5577. www.pumpitupparty.com. For families with special needs children, their siblings,
and therapists. Register. $8.95
per child. 6:15 to 8:15 p.m.
Pre-School Circle Time, Tiger
Hall Play Zone, 53 State Road,
Princeton, 609-356-0018. www.tigerhallkids.com. Register. $10.
11 to 11:45 a.m.
who meet weekly to discuss art-related topics. 7:30 to 4 p.m.
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Family Theater
How the Grinch Stole Christmas,
Off-Broadstreet
Theater,
5
South Greenwood Avenue, Hopewell, 609-466-2766. Geared for
young audiences ages 2 1/2 to 7.
$4. 10 a.m.
Lectures
Conference, Center for NonProfits, Crowne Plaza, Jamesburg, 732-227-0800. www.njnonprofits.org. “Ready, Set, Recover,”
a conference to gain insights into
big picture issues and practical
tactics for improving non-profits.
Register. 8 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.
Documentary Screening, Princeton University, 10 McCosh Hall,
609-258-3000. www.princeton.edu/arts. Screening of “The
Philosopher Kings,” the story of
eight janitors at universities
across the country. Film director
Patrick Shen, producer Greg Bennick and Josue Lajeunesse, a
building services janitor at Princeton, speak post screening. Off
campus Lajeunesse is a taxi driver, a philanthropist, a community
organizer, and now the subject of
a documentary film. 4:30 p.m.
Live Music: Former
West Windsor resident
Carol Heffler performs
on Saturday, December
5, Mother’s Wine Bar
and Restaurant, 34
North Main Street,
New Hope, PA.
Why Kiss Another Frog This New
Year’s Eve?, Neuro-Enhancement Strategies, Princeton Pike,
609-918-0089.
“Recognize
Your Perfect Mate” presented by
Jeff Schoener. Register at
[email protected].
$25. 6:30 to 8:30 p.m.
Meeting, Princeton Photography
Club, Johnson Education Center,
D&R Greenway Land Trust, 1
Preservation Place, Princeton,
732-422-3676. www.princetonphotoclub.org. “Vision Quest” presented by Igor Svibilsky, his recent body of work created using
low quality and custom built lenses. 7:30 p.m.
Live Music
Patty Cronheim, Mediterra, 29
Hulfish Street, Princeton, 609252-9680. www.terramomo.com.
8 to 10 p.m.
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Politics
Woodrow
Wilson
School,
Hall, Bowl 016, 609-258-2943.
www.princeton.edu.
Andreas
Kakouris speaks. 4:30 p.m.
Schools
Open Classroom, Wilberforce
School, 33 River Road, Princeton, 609-924-6111. www.wilberforceschool.org. Christian school
from kindergarten to eighth grade.
Children are welcome. 8:30 a.m.
Mandarin-English
Immersion,
Princeton International Academy Charter School, Princeton
Public Library. www.piacs.org. Information on immersion program
applied for to the state Department
of Education. Visit website for information. 7 to 9 p.m.
Holiday Shopping
Drop and Shop Holiday Extravaganza, Dutch Neck Presbyterian Church Cooperative Nursery School, 154 South Mill Road,
Shopping, storytimes, crafts, performance by Dance Corner
dancers, photos with Santa, and
refreshments. 8 a.m. to 8 p.m.
For Seniors
Kosher Cafe East, Jewish Family
and Children’s Service, Beth El
Synagogue, 50 Maple Stream
Road, East Windsor, 609-9878100. www.jfcsonline.org. Hot
Kosher meal for ages 60 and up.
Discussion of the role of “Candles
and Lights” in the major religions
with Cantor Stuart Binder, profes-
sor of Comparative Religion at
MCCC. Also listen to Chanukah
songs sung by Beth El’s preschool children. Register. $5.
12:30 p.m.
Thursday
December 10
Healthy Work/Life Balance: Actress and
author Mariel Hemingway presents the
keynote address at Princeton Healthcare
System Foundation’s annual Women's
Health Conference, Saturday, December 5,
Hyatt Regency, Carnegie Center.
Art
Good Causes
North Swimming, Boys/Girls.
Robbinsville. 4 p.m.
Late Thursdays, Princeton University Art Museum, Campus,
609-258-3788. http://artmuseum.princeton.edu. Extended hours to
explore the special exhibitions and
collections. Many evenings feature film screenings, musical performances, and activities. Free. 7
to 10 p.m.
South Ice Hockey.
binsville. 5 p.m.
Dancing
Prayers for Peaceful
Resolution, Center
for Relaxation and
Healing, 666 Plainsboro Road, Suite 635,
Plainsboro, 609-5813539. www.relaxationandhealing.com. Program of gratitude for
service
men
and
women and their families during the holiday.
$30. 7 to 9 p.m.
School Sports
At
Rob-
South Swimming, Boys/Girls.
Ewing. 6:30 p.m.
Drama
Fezziwig Party, McCarter Theater, 91 University Place, 609258-2787. www.mccarter.org. Reception with holiday music, hors
d’oeuvres, and holiday drinks followed by a performance of “A
Christmas Carol.” Register. $45 to
$50. 5:30 p.m.
Theater, 91 University Place, 609258-2787.
www.mccarter.org.
Holiday classic by Charles Dickens. $33 and up. 7:30 p.m.
Princeton University, 609-2581742.
www.theatreintime.org.
Based on Dostoyevsky’s novel.
$12. 8 p.m.
Film
Lawrence Library, Darrah Lane
and Route 1, Lawrence Township,
609-989-6922.
www.mcl.org.
Screening of “Gigante,” 2008.
6:30 p.m.
Argentine Tango, Black Cat Tango, Suzanne Patterson Center,
Monument Drive, 609-273-1378.
www.theblackcattango.com. Beginner and intermediate classes
followed by guided practice. $10. 8
p.m.
Literati
609-497-1600.
www.labyrinthbooks.com. Poetry Meets Science: William Irwin Thompson in
Conversation with Dean David
Dobkin, Scott McVay, and J.C.
Todd. 5:30 p.m.
Classical Music
Afternoon Concert, Princeton
University Chapel, Washington
Road, 609-258-3654. Free. 12:30
to 1 p.m.
Princeton Friends School Performances, Barnes & Noble,
MarketFair, West Windsor, 609716-1570. www.bn.com. Including
String Orchestra, Dance Club,
Older Singers and Chorus, and
Body Percussion. Performances
throughout the day. 4 p.m.
Miscellany
Tree of Life Ceremony,
Samaritan
Hospice, Hamilton Senior Center, 409 Cypress Lane, Hamilton, 856-5961600. Candlelight ceremony, inspirational readings, and music. 6
p.m.
ven.org. Galleries adorned for the
p.m.
Happy Hour, Tre Bar, Tre Piani
Restaurant, Forrestal Village,
Plainsboro, 609-452-1515. www.trepiani.com. Free hors d’oeuvres.
Drink specials. 4:30 to 7 p.m.
Black Studies at 40: The Ivy
League, Center for African
American Studies, Betts Auditorium, Princeton, 609-258-3741.
Panel discussion moderated by
Noliwe Rooks, Princeton University. 4:30 p.m.
Health & Wellness
For Families
Caregiver
Support
Group,
Alzheimer’s Association, Liberty Healthcare Services, 2333
Whitehorse-Mercerville
Road.,
800-883-1180. www.alz.org. Male
Caregivers Group. 6 p.m.
Mommy and Me with a Jewish
Twist, Shalom Heritage Center,
Twin Rivers Shopping Center,
www.shalomheritagecenter.org.
A program for infants, toddlers,
and preschoolers to explore Jewish themes through circle time,
music, and crafts. $8. 9:15 to
10:15 a.m.
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If Christmas Is Coming, Then the Nutcracker Brigade Is Here As Well
S
by Lynn Miller
et in 19th century Europe to
Tchaikovsky’s score, the
ballet features dolls and
sweets coming to life, mice and toy
soldiers doing battle, and
snowflakes dancing in a snow-covered forest. The story, based on
Alexander Dumas’ adaptation of
E.T.A. Hoffman’s story “The Nutcracker and the King of Mice,” began to achieve its current seasonal
popularity in the mid-1950s.
There are several versions produced by dance companies in the
West Windsor-Plainsboro area:
W
est Windsor Plainsboro
Dance Company presents
“The Nutcracker Suite” on Saturday and Sunday, December 5 and
6, at Thomas Grover Middle
School, West Windsor. Tickets
may be purchased at the Dance
Corner, Southfield Shopping Center, West Windsor. The role of
Clara is danced by Marguerite Girandola and the Prince by Steven
Del Col.
The Sugar Plum Fairy is Marissa Wiener, 17, who has been studying ballet with Roni Wiltyer, coowner of the company, since she
was three. A senior at High School
North, Wiener is a member of the
National Honor Society, teaches
religious education at St. David the
King Church, and tutors at Martin
House. She is busy auditioning for
dance scholarships in college.
“I choreographed a solo for him
(Steven Del Col) and a pas de deux
for both of them,” says Wiltyer. “It
is so rewarding to see them mature
and grow as dancers and individuals with their own unique personality.”
West Windsor dancers include
Michelle Agarwal, Jessica Agran,
Kayla Athey, Gabrielle Bailey, Jordan
Bohannon, Alexa Bornstein, Vivian
Chen, Madeline Chia, Callia Cordasco, Eleanor Ding, Sarah Dunn, Chloe
Elias, and Danielle Erickson.
Also, Mia Ferri, Jessica Fu, Sara
Furtak, Marguerite Girandola, Lauren
Gracias, Sarah Hanslin, Asha
Hauser, Kiren Hauser, Hope Jaworowski, Anahita Joshi, Eve Kavalov, Lula Kavalov, Emiko Kobayashi,
Kimi Kobayashi, Courtney Kobus,
Jamie Kobus, Kelsey Kobus, Kallie
Kunukkasseril,
and
Kirin
Kunukkasseril.
Family Theater
Off-Broadstreet
Theater,
5
South
Greenwood
Avenue,
Hopewell, 609-466-2766. Geared
for young audiences ages 2 1/2 to
7. $4. 10 a.m.
Lectures
Networking Event, JamesburgMonroe Regional Chamber of
Commerce, PNC Bank, 36 West
Railroad Avenue and Church
Street, Jamesburg, 732-6051362. Visitors are welcome. 8 a.m.
Origami Workshop, Princeton
Senior
Resource
Center,
Suzanne Patterson Center, 45
Stockton Street, 609-924-7108.
Create Laura Kruskal’s Christmas
and Chanukah table decorations,
gift boxes, photo frames, and wallets for Chanukah gelt. Register.
Free. 10:30 a.m.
President’s
Lecture
Series,
Princeton University, 101 Friend
Center, 609-258-3000. www.princeton.edu. “America’s War on
Immigrants: Causes, Consequences, and Solutions” presented by Douglass Massey, professor of sociology and public affairs.
4:30 p.m.
Rick Wolff, Princeton Academy
of the Sacred Heart, 1128 Great
Road, Princeton, 609-924-8143.
www.princetonacademy.org.
Also, Sophia Lennox, Jessica
Lewinson, Charlotte Lichtenstein,
Katherine LiPuma, Jennifer Litzinger,
Kimberly Litzinger, Alexa Lombardi,
Karlie Lombardi, Giulia Marolda, Haley McCort, Casey McElroy, Kelly McElroy, Amanda Musmanno, Aditi
Nayak, Elisabeth O’Connell, and Sophie Pirrera.
Also, Mariana Ramirez, Julia Revock, Christine Rexroad, Isabella
Rios, Valeria Rios, Rebecca Rost,
Grace Sawyers, Emily Sharlach,
Corinne Smith, Jeanette Smith,
Shannon Smith, Paige Stewart, Abigail Tattle, Kelsey Tattle, Sydney Tattle, Anika Vincent, Alex Vogel, and
Marissa Wiener.
Plainsboro
dancers
include
Katherine Antos, Cece Baumann,
Elise Burton, Arianna Capuano, Isabella Capuano, Annabel Guo, Kate
Henry, Juliana Isnardi, Katie Kane,
Molly Karlin, Emma Killeen, Grace
Kolker, Amanda Kowalski, and Carly
Kowalski.
Also, Nicole McCarthy, Laura Parsons-Hutton, Jessica Polin, Ominay
Robertson, Alexandria Sine, Natasha
Singer, Amanda Siskind, Sarah
Siskind, Olivia Solis, Rebecca Solis,
Bhanu Thelakkat, Iris Tseng, Kylie
Vandenberg, and Yashvi Verma.
West Windsor Plainsboro
Dance Company, Grover Middle
School, West Windsor. Saturday,
December 5, 7 p.m.; and Sunday,
December 6, 1 p.m. Choreography
by Amy DeCesare, Roni Wilityer,
and Victoria Chodrow. Register.
$9. 609-799-9677. www.thedancecorner.org.
D
anceVision, based in Plainsboro, is performing “The Nutcracker,” on Saturday, December
5, at the Montgomery Performing
Arts Center in Skillman. Alessa
Meni, 15, of West Windsor is dancing the role of Marie/Clara. A
sophomore at High School North,
she began studying ballet at the age
of eight at Princeton Dance and
Theater in Plainsboro. Prior to
moving to the area in 2002, she
concentrated on tap dancing in
New York City. Meni now dances
14 hours a week — 10 hours of ballet and 4 hours of tap.
A member of American Tap
Dance Foundation’s Tap City
Youth Ensemble in New York
City, she performed in July at Symphony Space in New York with
“Tap City, The NYC Tap Festival.” In November she performed
with the African Gum Boot Dance
Sports psychology coach Rick
Wolff presents a forum for parents,
teachers, coaches, and school administrators. Register. Free. 7
p.m.
Engaged Retirement, Princeton
Public Library, 65 Witherspoon
Street, 609-924-8822. www.princetonlibrary.org. “Helping You
Plan for a New Retirement” presented by Katherine A. Hanadel,
Ameriprise Financial Services. 7
p.m.
Science Lectures
Witherspoon Street, 609-9248822. www.princetonlibrary.org.
“Kicking the Carbon Habit: How
Do We Get From Here to There”
presented by Mark Warner,
founder and CEO of the Sun Farm
Network. 7 p.m.
Live Music
Lenny Fattori, BT Bistro, 3499
Route 1 South, West Windsor,
609-919-9403. www.btbistro.com.
9 p.m.
Politics
Woodrow
Wilson
School,
Hall, Bowl 016, 609-258-2943.
www.princeton.edu. Vali Nasr
speaks. 4:30 p.m.
in the America Dances! show at
City Center in New York. She performed in both DanceVision’s
Nutcracker and Secret Garden.
Last summer she completed
ABT’s summer intensive in
Bermuda, and performed in its production of Le Corsaire in 2008 and
2009.
Student dancers from West Windsor and Plainsboro include Iris Foster, Maurice Hawk School; Madison
Lai and Alexandrea Pastor, Village
School; Grace Sandford, High School
South; Michell Xu, Community Middle
School; Mnaya Zhu, Wycoff School;
Juliet Martone, High School North;
and Elise Millrod, Grover Middle
School. Adult dancers include West
Windsor residents Rhonda Meni, Dan
Sandford, Marie Alonzo Snyder,
Hugo Arrue, and Sophia Tian.
Dance Vision, Montgomery
High School, 1014 Route 601,
Skillman. Saturday, December 5, 3
and 7 p.m. $25. 609-514-1600.
www.dancevision.org.
N
ew Jersey Youth Ballet presents a fully narrated and
abridged family version of “The
Nutcracker” at Kelsey Theater Friday to Sunday, December 18 to 20.
After each performance, children
and parents are invited on stage to
meet the dancers, get autographs
and take photos. The dancers ranging from 5 to 18 study at the Dance
Connection of Hillsborough.
WWP Dance Company's Nutcracker leads include
Clara, portrayed by Marguerite Girandola, left,
Sugar Plum Fairy Marissa Wiener, and Steven Del
Col as the Prince. They perform December 5 and 6.
New Jersey Youth Ballet,
Kelsey Theater, Mercer County
Community College, 1200 Old
Trenton Road, West Windsor. Friday, December 18, 7 p.m.; Saturday, December 19, 1 and 4 p.m.;
and Sunday, December 20, 1 and 4
p.m. $12. 609-570-3333. www.kelseytheatre.net.
T
he American Repertory Ballet presents its “Nutcracker” in
two central New Jersey locations:
Patriots Theater at the War
Memorial, Trenton. Saturday, December 12, 1 and 4:30 p.m. $20 to
$30. 609-984-8400. www.arballet.org.
Also, State Theater, 15 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick.
Saturday and Sunday, December
19 and 20, 1 and 4:30 p.m. $32 to
$52. 732-246-7469. www.StateTheatreNJ.org.
Schools
Mandarin-English
Immersion,
Princeton International Academy Charter School, South
Brunswick Public Library. www.piacs.org. Information on immersion program applied for to the
state Department of Education.
Visit website for information. 6 to 8
p.m.
Dance Vision Dancers from West Windsor and
Plainsboro include Sophia Tian, left, Juliet Martone,
Alessa Meni, Elise Millrod, Michelle Xu, and
Madison Lai. Their performance is December 5.
Friday
December 11
Chanukah. Begins at sunset.
Dance
Spring Dance Thesis Show,
Princeton University, Berlind at
McCarter Theater, 609-258-1500.
www.princeton.edu/arts. Students
perform dances by Mark Morris
and senior dance certificate students. $10. 8 p.m.
Schools
Band Winter Concert, High
School South, 346 Clarksville
Road, West Windsor, 609-7165050. www.ww-p.org. Free. 8 p.m.
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Plainsboro Recreation offers
space-themed activities for ages 6
to 12 during winter break beginning Monday, December 18. All
programs take place in the municipal building. Registration begins
Monday, December 7, for Plainsboro and West Windsor residents
with children in the school district.
Classes are free to $10. Registration is required. Call 609-7990909, ext. 332 for information.
Plainsboro offers programs for
special-needs youth for the winter
session, January through March.
Classics in music, art, movement,
and aquatics are available. Registration begins Monday, December
7 for Plainsboro and West Windsor
residents. Visit www.plainsboronj.com. “Adapted Aquatics”
for ages 6 to 15 with mental or
physical challenges includes oneon-one instruction, Tuesdays or
Saturdays, at the High School
North pool in conjunction with
YWCA Princeton.
Nassau Presbyterian Church
offers “Wings of Faith,” a new CD
collection of 33 songs and anthems
performed by various choirs and
individuals within the church. $15.
Visit www.nassauchurch.org for
information. Benefits the expense
of producing the CD as well as future recording projects.
Pierrot Productions has auditions for “Pygmalion” at Kelsey
Theater on Monday and Tuesday,
December 14 and 15, at 7 p.m. Prepare a one to three-minute light
monologue from any stage work.
E-mail [email protected] to
schedule an appointment. While
the traditional staging is in Victorian London, the production will
probably be set in modern-day
New York City. Cockney accents
not needed.
Extras Needed
A film to be shot at a Princeton
cafe needs potential actors to work
as extras for the shoot. The short
film is based on an award-winning
play and will be shot by an Emmy
Award-winning producer-director. Shoot date is Tuesday, December 8, at 8 p.m. Send note and photo to [email protected]
DECEMBER 11
Drama
Theater, 91 University Place,
609-258-2787. www.mccarter.org. Holiday classic by Charles
Dickens. $33 and up. Opening
night. 7:30 p.m.
The Christmas Carol Conspiracy: Scrooge’s Revenge, Actors’
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Shop at Ten Thousand Villages in Princeton Shopping Center to support Princeton Senior
Resource Center on Thursday,
December 10, 3 to 7 p.m. No
coupon required.
Shop at Barnes & Noble MarketFair to benefit Womanspace
on Friday, December 11, 9 a.m. to
closing. Ask for voucher.
Good Causes
Har Sinai Temple is accepting
clean and gently-used coats, hats,
scarves, and sweaters for the
needy. The group is also welcoming gift cards and donations to Jewish Family & Children’s Services.
2421 Pennington Road, Pennington, 609-730-8100.
Princeton Human Services
Department seeks donors for holiday wish program for children in
both the township and the borough.
Children up to age 12 list for up to
three items they need for the holidays. Donors may adopt one or
more children. Call 609-688-2055.
Deadline is Friday, December 4.
Health
American Red Cross offers
raffle entries to all presenting
donors from December 21 to January 10. Winners receive gift certificates to stores, hotels, airlines,
restaurants,
and
theaters.
www.redcross.org.
Quakerbridge Mall presents a
Health and Wellness Expo from
Friday to Sunday, December 11 to
13. Participants include hospitals,
ADD treatment professionals, chi-
Morrisville, PA, 215-295-3694.
www.actorsnetbucks.org. $20. 8
p.m.
God’s Country, Princeton University, Lewis Center, 185 Nassau Street, 609-258-1500. www.princeton.edu/arts. Stephen Dietz’s drama. $10. 8 p.m.
Princeton University, 609-2581742.
www.theatreintime.org.
Based on Dostoyevsky’s novel.
$12. 8 p.m.
Dancing
Dance Jam, Dance Improv Live,
All Saints Church, 16 All Saints
Road, Princeton, 609-924-3767.
www.danceimprov.com. Expressive dance improvisation with live
music. $15. 8 to 10:15 p.m.
Classical Music
Princeton University Orchestra,
Richardson Auditorium, 609-2585000.
www.princeton.edu/utickets. Program of Tchaikovsky,
Ellington, Strayhorn, Dukas, and
R. Strauss. $18. 8 p.m.
Showroom Hours:
Mon - Fri
10:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Evenings & Weekends
By Appointment
609-587-4646
1439 Hamilton Ave.
Hamilton, NJ
(Between Olden Ave. & Kuser Rd.
Minutes from I95 exit.)
An Evening of Readings and
Carols, Westminster Choir College, Princeton University Chapel, 609-921-2663. www.rider.edu. Westminster’s choirs, with
organ and brass. Also Saturday,
December 12. 8 p.m.
ropractors, dentists, acupuncturists, medical equipment sales,
sleep and hearing specialists, cosmetic surgeons, and martial arts.
Visit www.quakerbridgemall.com
for more information.
Classes
Arts Council of Princeton offers classes for children and adults
in the visual, literary, and performing arts beginning the week of January 11. Visit www.artscouncilofPrinceton.org or call 609-9248777 for information. Registration
is now open.
Lauren B. Davis, the writer-inresidence at Trinity Church
Princeton, presents creative writing classes on January 12, 19, and
26, from 6:30 to 8 p.m. $100. Email [email protected]
for information.
Music Together offers classes
for children birth through age seven with an adult. Visit www.musictogetherprinceton.com or call
609-924-7801 for information or
to schedule a demo class.
Mercer County offers tennis
programs for ages five to adult at
the indoor tennis center at Mercer
County Park. Online registration
begins Saturday, December 12, at
https://register.communitypass.ne
t/mercer, or call 609-448-8007 for
information.
Call for Entries
Gallery 125 is accepting art for
“Art D’Eco,” a juried themed show
from Friday, February 12 to Saturday, April 3. Deadline is Thursday,
December 17. Submit up to five
jpg images on one CD (300 dpi,
four by six). Include title, medium,
year created, and framed dimensions; and a $20 check payable to
TDA/Gallery 125. Send to Gallery
125, 125 South Warren Street,
Trenton 08608. Call 609-989-9119
or E-mail [email protected] for more information.
Jazz & Blues
Helen Sung and Ron Carter, Arts
Council of Princeton, 102 Witherspoon Street, 609-924-8777.
www.artscouncilofprinceton.org.
Pianist Helen Sung and bassist
Ron Carter. Sold out. 8 p.m.
Pop Music
Opera New Jersey, Grounds For
Hamilton, 609-689-1089. www.groundsforsculpture.org. HolidayFare, a holiday concert for all ages
features a wide variety of sacred
and secular music and a singalong. Free with admission. 7 p.m.
Princeton Garden Statesmen,
Allentown/Upper Freehold Municipal Alliance, Allentown Presbyterian Church, 20 High Street,
609-570-5376. The 40-member
group sings well-known songs including holiday songs and traditional favorites, all in four-part a
cappella barbershop style. Post
concert refreshments served.
Benefit to prevent alcoholism and
drug abuse in the community. $10.
7:30 p.m.
Good Causes
Annual Holiday Book Fair & Gift
Wrap, Womanspace, Barnes &
Noble, MarketFair, 609-394-0136.
Purchases at Barnes & Noble will
support Womanspace, which provides services to victims of domestic violence and sexual assault. 9 a.m. to 10 p.m.
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Pancake Breakfast: Meet Santa, Sunday,
December 6, 8 a.m. to noon, Community
Middle School. Pictured: Santa with Kara
Weaver, granddaughter of West Windsor
Lion Mary Weaver.
David J. Bachner Memorial
Foundation, Charmed by Claire,
33 North Main Street, Cranbury,
609-409-6077. Benefit for scholarship fund to help student athletes
continue baseball careers. David
Bachner, 18, of Plainsboro, died
August 11. Co-captain of his high
school baseball team, he was a
rising freshman at Seton Hall University. 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.
A Christmas Carol, Princeton
United Methodist Church, Nassau at Vandeventer Street, 609924-2613. Scott Langdon will perform his adaptation, a one-man
show. A free-will offering will be
taken for the Appalachia Service
Project. 8 p.m. and 11 a.m.
Comedy Clubs
Comedy Night, Grover’s Mill Coffee House, 335 Princeton Hightstown Road, West Windsor, 609716-8771. www.groversmillcoffee.com. Helen’s open mic features two New York City comedians. Register at 7:45 p.m. 8 p.m.
Faith
Hanukkah Music, Adath Israel
Congregation, 1958 Lawrenceville Road, Lawrenceville, 609-8064977. Performed by the Adath Israel Choir to augment the weekly
Shabbat service. 7:30 to 11 a.m.
Health & Wellness
Tai Chi, West Windsor Recreation, Senior Center, Clarksville
Road, West Windsor, 609-7999068. www.wwparks-recreation.com. Free. 8:15 a.m.
History
Festival of Trees, Morven Museum, 55 Stockton Street, Princeton, 609-924-8144. Galleries
adorned for the holidays by area
businesses and garden clubs. $5.
10 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Family Theater
Off-Broadstreet
Theater,
5
$4. 10 a.m.
Live Music
Cranbury Coffee House, First
Presbyterian Church of Cranbury, 22 South Main Street, Cranbury,
908-307-7154.
www.cranburycoffeehouse.com.
Jonathan Sprout with children’s
music. $8 ticket benefits the food
pantry and deacon’s fund. 6:30 to
9:30 p.m.
Jazz Is, It’s a Grind, 7 Schalks
Crossing Road, Plainsboro, 609275-2919. www.itsagrind.com. 8
to 10 p.m.
Guy Peterson Trio, BT Bistro,
3499 Route 1 South, West Windsor, 609-919-9403. 9 p.m.
Ernie White and Tom Reock, Sotto 128 Restaurant and Lounge,
609-921-7555. www.sotto128.com. Acoustic rock covers and
originals. 9 p.m.
Warehouse Book Sale
DVDs, and office supplies. Cash
or checks only. 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Singles
Divorce Recovery Program,
Princeton Church of Christ, 33
River Road, Princeton, 609-5813889. Support group for men and
women. Free. Seminar: “Understanding Yourself.” 7:30 p.m.
Socials
Friday with Friends, Newcomers
Club, Princeton YWCA, 59 Paul
Robeson
Place,
Princeton, 609-4972100.
www.ywcaprinceton.org/newcomersclub.cfm.
For new residents
and those who have
had
a
lifestyle
change. Meeting, speaker, and
lunch. $8. 11:45 a.m. to 2 p.m.
For Seniors
Performing Arts Series, West
Windsor Senior Center, 609799-9068. “Bing Crosby” presented by Ted Otten and Michael Kownacky. Register. Free. 2:30 p.m.
Saturday
December 12
Dance
The
Nutcracker,
American
Repertory Ballet, Patriots Theater at the War Memorial, Trenton,
609-984-8400. www.arballet.org.
Production set in Vienna with
Tchaikovsky’s sparkling score.
$20 to $30. 1 and 4:30 p.m.
Spring Dance Thesis Show,
Princeton University, Berlind at
McCarter Theater, 609-258-1500.
www.princeton.edu/arts. Students
perform dances by Mark Morris
and senior dance certificate students. $10. 8 p.m.
Drama
www.mccarter.org.
Holiday classic by Charles Dickens. $33 and up. 1 and 5:30 p.m.
Holiday Musicale, Passage Theater, Mill Hill Playhouse, Front and
Montgomery streets, Trenton, 609392-0766. www.passagetheatre.org. Miche Braden and Mary
Cleere Haran perform. $25. 8 p.m.
Princeton University, 609-2581742. theatreintime.org. Based on
Dostoyevsky’s novel. $12. 8 p.m.
Art
Holiday
Family
Workshop,
Grounds For Sculpture, 18 Fairgrounds Road, Hamilton, 609689-1089. Holiday packaging for
all ages. 1 to 3 p.m.
Dancing
Ballroom Blitz, Central Jersey
Dance Society, Suzanne Patterson Center, Monument Drive,
Princeton, 609-945-1883. Ballroom Blitz dance and waltz lesson
by Candace Woodward-Clough
followed by open dancing. Semi
formal dress for Holiday celebration. $10. 7:30 p.m.
Literati
Sappho’s Cafe, West Windsor Library, 333 North Post Road, 609799-0462. Poetry reading group.
Register. 2 to 4 p.m.
Classical Music
Princeton Girlchoir, Barnes &
Noble, MarketFair, West Windsor,
609-716-1570. The girlchoir will
perform holiday and other seasonal selections. Also at 1 and 3 p.m.
“Meet the Director” reception between 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. 11 a.m.
A Child’s Christmas in Wales,
The Princeton Singers, Nassau
Presbyterian Church, 61 Nassau
Dylan Thomas’s classic Christmas story of misrule and mayhem.
Music includes traditional holiday
favorites and carols. $25. For ages
12 and up. 6 p.m.
Princeton University Orchestra,
Richardson Auditorium, 609-2585000. Program of Tchaikovsky,
Ellington, Strayhorn, Dukas, and
R. Strauss. $18. 8 p.m.
Holiday Craft Show
West Windsor-Plainsboro HS South
346 Clarksville Road
One of the Area’s Largest Craft Shows
Saturday, December 5, 2009
9:30 am - 3:30 pm
Over 250 Tables
No Strollers Please
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An Evening of Readings and Carols, Westminster Choir College,
Princeton University Chapel, 609921-2663. www.rider.edu. Westminster’s choirs, with organ and
brass. 8 p.m.
Good Causes
Holiday Party, Princeton Center
for Yoga & Health, 50 Vreeland
Drive, Suite 506, Skillman, 609924-7294.
www.YogaforUnity.com. A celebration for all yoga
teachers, students, and their families, the culminating fundraiser for
Kristen Boccumini Thwing, who is
raising $20,000 for Off the Mat, Into
the World’s African Humanitarian
Tour in Uganda. Vinyasa flow class
with live music by Red Hawk Fly at
6:30 p.m., simultaneous kids yoga
class. Food, silent auction, raffle for
a Philip Stein watch worth $975,
which emits the natural frequency
of the earth to synchronize with
your body’s vibrations to calm and
balance mind and body the whole
day, naturally. $10. 6:30 to 3 p.m.
A Christmas Carol, Diocese of
Trenton, Villa Victoria Academy
Theater, 376 West Upper Ferry
Road, West Trenton, 609-4067400. www.dioceseoftrenton.org.
One man show featuring Gerald
Charles Dickens of London performing his great-great-grandfather’s classic tale. Benefit for
Foundation for Student Achievement. Register. $25. 7 p.m.
Comedy Clubs
Mike Vecchione, Catch a Rising
Star, Hyatt Regency, 102
www.catcharisingstar.com. With
special guest Brad Todd. Reservation. $20. 7:30 and 9:30 p.m.
Craft Fairs
Sauce for the Goose, Arts Coun-
cil of Princeton, Witherspoon
Arts and crafts sale featuring
paintings, drawings, ceramics,
glasswork, holiday ornaments,
greeting cards, photography, jewelry, hats, and scarves. Through
December 21. Gallery hours are
Monday to Friday, 10 a.m. to 5
p.m.; Saturday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
10 a.m. to 7 p.m.
Holiday Wreath Making, Washington Crossing State Park Nature Center, Washington Crossing Historic Park, Route 32, Washington Crossing, PA, 215-4934076. www.ushistory.org/washingtoncrossing. Learn how to identify several species of evergreens
and use clipping from the trees to
construct holiday wreaths. Register. 1 p.m.
Food & Dining
Product Cooking Demonstration, Miele Design Center, 9 Independence Way, Princeton, 800843-7231. www.mieleusa.com.
Register. Free. Noon.
Health & Wellness
For Families
Alex and the Kaleidoscope
Band, Arts Council of Princeton, 102 Witherspoon Street,
Princeton, 609-924-8777. www.artscouncilofprinceton.org. Music
and pizza. 11:30 a.m.
Winter Tales, Grounds For
Hamilton, 609-689-1089. www.groundsforsculpture.org.
D.J.
Haslett, a poet, musician, and
artist, reads holiday tales for families. Free with museum admission. 3 and 2 p.m.
Family Theater
Off-Broadstreet
Theater,
5
$4. 10:30 a.m. and 1 p.m.
Graham Lustig’s The Nutcracker, Patriots Theater at the
War Memorial, Memorial Drive,
Trenton, 609-984-8400. www.thewarmemorial.com. Presented by
the American Repertory Ballet.
$25 to $30. 1 and 4:30 p.m.
Insight Meditation Open House,
Princeton Center for Yoga &
Health, 50 Vreeland Drive, Suite
506, Skillman, 609-924-7294.
www.princetonyoga.com.
Presented by Beth Evard. Register.
Free. 1:30 to 3 p.m.
Live Music
History
15 Keys, It’s a Grind Coffee
House, 7 Schalks Crossing Road,
Plainsboro, 609-275-2919. www.itsagrind.com. 8 to 10 p.m.
Civil War and Native American
Museum, Camp Olden, 2202
Kuser Road, Hamilton, 609-5858900. campolden.org. Exhibits featuring Civil War soldiers from New
Jersey include their original uniforms, weapons, and medical
equipment. Diorama of the Swamp
Angel artillery piece and Native
American artifacts. Free. 1 to 4 p.m.
3-26 and Eva, Grover’s Mill Coffee House, 335 Princeton Hightstown Road, West Windsor, 609716-8771. www.groversmillcoffee.com. Southern rock. 8 p.m.
Dance Party with DJ Darius, BT
Outdoor Action
Family Nature Programs, Plainsboro Preserve, 80 Scotts Corner
Road, Plainsboro, 609-897-9400.
www.njaudubon.org.
“Survival:
How to Build a Fire.” Register. $5.
2:30 to 4 p.m.
Mediterranean Grill
& Pizzeria
Here Comes Santa Claus. Clockwise, from bottom
left, are John Costello as Mr. Kringle, Madison
Glassman as Margaret Moore, Diane Wargo as Eliza
Moore, and Caroline Maurer as Charity Moore in
‘Twas the Night Before Christmas,’ Friday to Sunday,
December 11 to 13, at Kelsey Theater.
Warehouse Book Sale
DVDs, and office supplies. Cash
or checks only. 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Sunday
December 13
Singles
Drama
Wine and Dinner, Dinnermates,
Princeton Area, 732-759-2174.
Ages 30s to early 50s. Call for
reservation and location. $20 plus
dinner and drinks. 7:30 p.m.
www.mccarter.org.
Holiday classic by Charles Dickens. $33 and up. 1 and 5:30 p.m.
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DECEMBER 4, 2009
From The Police Blotter
Plainsboro
Harassment. A resident of Petty Road was the victim of harassment on November 17. Officer
Matt Baumann said the victim had
received multiple phone calls from
various numbers, during which the
caller said the victim had either
won a prize or ordered multiple
items and requested personal information.
to assault the victim by punching
and biting him. His brother, Kenneth Koterba, joined the assault by
choking and punching the victim,
and the two brothers began to drag
the victim to the roof’s edge but
were stopped by two intervening
employees, Wurpel said.
The brothers then fled the scene
in their employer’s pick-up truck.
Kenneth Koterba was later taken
into custody in Neptune City, but
James Koterba remains at large.
The victim was treated by the
Plainsboro Emergency Medical
Services squad for facial abrasions,
bruises, and abrasions and bite
marks to his left hand.
Bail was set at $50,000 for each
brother. Kenneth Koterba was released on bail.
Aggravated Assault. Kenneth
Koterba, 32, and James Koterba,
39, both of Neptune City, were
charged November 24 with aggravated assault and making terroristic threats after allegedly starting a
fight while working on the roof of
the new Plainsboro Library.
Offcer Adam Wurpel said the
victim, a roofer living in Princeton,
confronted James Koterba on the
roof, and an argument occurred.
Wurpel said James Koterba began
Weapons Charges. Richard E.
Williams, 38, of Ringwood was
charged with unlawful possession
of a weapon after he allegedly
showed up to the Plainsboro Police
station drunk and in possession of a
gun.
Officer Kenneth Beatty said officers originally responded to
Ravens Crest Drive for a verbal argument between two people, one of
whom was Williams. Williams had
left the scene before police arrived
Pedestrian Struck. A resident
of Sullivan Street was struck by a
passing car. Officer Thomas Larity
said the pedestrian was crossing
outside of the crosswalk. Plainsboro Rescue Squad transported the
victim to the University Medical
Center at Princeton for evaluation
and treatment.
Holiday Musicale, Passage Theater, Mill Hill Playhouse, Front and
Montgomery streets, Trenton,
609-392-0766. Miche Braden and
Mary Cleere Haran perform. $25.
5 p.m.
Art
Art Exhibit, Princeton Jewish
Center, 435 Nassau Street, 609921-0100.
thejewishcenter.org.
Opening reception for “Israel 2009:
Traditions in Stone,” an exhibit of
color photographs by Maia Reim.
On view to February 15. 4 to 6 p.m.
Literati
Author Event, Borders Books,
601 Nassau Park, 609-514-0040.
www.bordersgroupinc.com.
Michael Davis, author of “Street
Gang: The Complete History of
Sesame Street.” 1 p.m.
Classical Music
Faculty Series, Westminster
Conservatory,
Art
Gallery,
Luedeke Center, Rider University,
609-921-2663.
www.rider.edu.
Volanti Flute Quartet with Jill
Crawford, Ellen Fisher Deerberg,
Katherine McClure, and Barbara
Highton Williams. Free. Noon.
“A Marriott Family Christmas”,
Capital Singers of Trenton, Ballroom, Trenton Marriott at Lafayette Yard, Trenton, 609-882-3228.
www.capitalsingers.org. Concert
with the Capital Singers of Trenton
with a special visit from Santa.
Conducted by Richard M. Loatman. $8. 3 p.m.
Christmas Holiday Spectacular,
Greater Trenton Symphony Orchestra, Patriots Theater, War
Memorial, Trenton, 609-3965522. 3 p.m.
Pop Music
Christmas Spectacular, Princeton Brass Band, Yvonne Theater, Rider University, 609-8955504. Family concert features holiday favorites. Donations invited. 2
p.m.
Rehearsal, Jersey Harmony
Chorus, 5000 Windrows Drive,
Plainsboro, 732-469-3983. www.harmonize.com/jerseyharmony.
New members are welcome. 7:15
p.m.
Faith
Sunday Breakfast Series, Princeton United Methodist Church,
Nassau at Vandeventer Street,
609-924-2613.
www.princetonumc.org. “The Essence of Soren
Kierkegaard: Who He Was and
What He Thought” presented by
Don Brash, a Baptist pastor and
professor. 8 to 9:15 a.m.
Chanukah Bowl, Chabad of the
Windsors, 529 Route 130 North,
www.chabadwindsor.com. Unlimited bowling, pita and felafel dinner, Menorah lighting, dreidels,
donuts, and prizes. Register. $18.
5 to 7 p.m.
Annual Church School Christmas Pageant, Princeton United
Methodist Church, Nassau at
Vandeventer Street, 609-9242613. www.princetonumc.org. 5
and 11 a.m.
Mwamba
Children’s
Choir,
Princeton Presbyterian Church,
545 Meadow Road, West Windsor, 609-987-1166. www.princetonpresbyterian.org.
Uganda
choir presents traditional and contemporary African music. Benefit
for Ugandan orphans. Register. 8
p.m.
Food & Dining
Visions of Sugar Plums, Eno Terra Restaurant, 4484 Route 27,
Kingston, 609-497-1777. www.enoterra.com. Nutcracker tea party and story reading. $20; $10 for
children 10 and under. 4 p.m. to 6
p.m.
History
Holiday Open House, Drumthwacket
Foundation,
354
Stockton Street, Princeton, 609683-0057. www.drumthwacket.org. Tour of the official residence
of the Governor of New Jersey
featuring “EverGreen,” an ecofriendly theme created by garden
clubs throughout the State. Register. $5 donation. 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Holiday
Candlelight
Open
House, Rockingham Historic
Site, 84 Laurel Avenue, Kingston,
NJ,
609-683-7132.
www.rockingham.net. Music, 18th century activities, refreshments,
store. Tours every 14 minutes. $5
suggested donation. Advanced
registration required. 11 a.m. to 4
p.m.
Dress Rehearsal for Christmas
Crossing, Washington Cross-
but drove his car to police headquarters to speak to an officer,
Beatty said. During an investigation, police found he was intoxicated and had driven his car to the station. They also found a handgun in
his car, Beatty said. Williams was
also charged with driving while intoxicated and having open containers of alcohol in the car.
Identity Theft/Fraud. Teron
Educational
Consultants,
of
Beechtree Lane, was the victim of
fraud. Officer Thomas Larity said
someone created fraudulent checks
against the company’s bank account between September 25 and
October 13, and then cashed the
checks, withdrawing $5,100 from
the victim’s bank account.
Theft/Burglary. A resident of
Fox Run Drive was the victim of
theft between 3 and 4 p.m. on November 29. Officer Joseph Diggs
said the resident’s daughter’s pink
bicycle was stolen from in front of
his apartment. The bicycle was estimated to be worth $50.
A Windrow Drive resident was
the victim of theft between November 5 and 26. Officer Joseph
ing State Park, Washington
Crossing Historic Park, Route 32,
Washington Crossing, PA, 215493-4076.
www.ushistory.org/washingtoncrossing. Historical reenactors row across the Delaware
in replica Durham boats under the
leadership of General George
Washington. John Godzieba, a
participant for 17 years, portrays
the general through 2013. Experience 1776 with open hearth
cooks, a blacksmith, and interpreters. $8. 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.
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What: Crafts from local vendors
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Pictures
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Breyta said someone stole between
30 and 40 DVDs from her residence. The total value of the DVDs
was $200.
A resident of Marion Drive was
the victim of attempted burglary
and criminal mischief between October 21 and November 25. Officer
Thomas Larity said someone damaged the victim’s back yard fence
and dining room window screen in
an attempt to gain access through
an unlocked window. The victim
reported nothing to be missing
from the residence. The estimated
cost of damage was $70.
A 14-year-old ninth grader at
High School North was the victim
of theft on November 19 between 1
and 1:45 p.m. Officer Joseph
Bolognese said someone stole the
victim’s iPod Touch from his gym
locker. The victim told police he
used the lock on the locker door,
but found it was open and that the
iPod was gone when he returned.
The estimated value of the iPod is
$300.
A High School North student
was the victim of theft on November 23. Corporal Eamon Blanchard
said the victim’s iPod, worth $230,
was stolen from a partially secured
gym locker while the student was
in gym class.
A guest at the Wyndham Princeton Forrestal Hotel and Conference
Center on Scudders Mill Road was
the victim of theft between November 19 and 20. Officer Richard
Colucci said someone stole the victim’s Dell Latitude 520 laptop
from his room. There were no signs
of a forced entry.
Auto Death. A Plainsboro man
was killed on November 18 when
his car crossed the median on
Route 130 in Cranbury and crashed
into oncoming traffic. Cranbury
Police said the crash occurred near
Old Trenton Road around 8 p.m.
Police said three other cars were invovled in the crash, and first aid
and rescue workers transported
three people who were injured to
Robert Wood Johnson University
Hospital in New Brunswick. Tom
Hanson, 49, was pronounced dead
after the crash.
Drug Arrests. Aakash Patel,
21, of New Brunswick was
charged November 24 with possession of a controlled dangerous substance under 50 grams. Officer
Kenneth Beatty said he stopped a
car on Route 1 South near Harrison
Street for failing to signal during a
lane change. He said he found Patel, a passenger in the car, to be in
possession of a marijuana cigaret
and a plastic bag of raw marijuana.
Mark Harbeson, 42, of Quail
Ridge Drive and Michael E. Olszyk, 28, of Hillsborough were
charged November 20 with possession of a controlled dangerous substance. Officer Jason Mandato said
he was sent to Bancroft Neuro
Health on Plainsboro Road for a report of two people in possession of
marijuana, which he found. Both
men were charged with possession
of a controlled dangerous substance under 50 grams. Harbeson
was also charged with possession
of drug paraphernalia.
DWI Arrests. David L. McMahon, 31, of Mount Holly, was
charged November 29 with driving
while intoxicated. Officer Martin
McElrath said he stopped him on
Plainsboro Road for failing to
maintain a lane and found that
McMahon was intoxicated. He was
also charged with reckless driving
and failing to maintain a lane.
Katherine E. Erbe, 30, of
Hunters Glen Drive was charged
November 26 with driving while
intoxicated. Officer Jason Mandato said he stopped her on Plainsboro Road for a motor vehicle violation and found her to be intoxicated. She was also charged with
reckless driving, failure to observe
a signal, failure to produce documents, and expiration of non-resident driving privileges.
Nathan C. Gregory, 33, of
Ravens Crest Drive was charged
November 24 with driving while
intoxicated. Officer Martin McElrath said he saw Gregory swerving
on Plainsboro Road and stopped
him on Ravens Crest Drive and
found him to be intoxicated. He
was also charged with reckless driving, failure to maintain a lane, and
having unclear plates.
DECEMBER 13
Festival of Trees, Morven Museum, 55
Stockton Street, Princeton, 609-924-8144.
www.morven.org. Galleries adorned for the
holidays by area businesses and garden
clubs. $5. Noon to 4 p.m.
Civil War and Native American Museum,
Camp Olden, 2202 Kuser Road, Hamilton,
609-585-8900. Exhibits featuring Civil War
soldiers from New Jersey include their original uniforms, weapons, and medical equipment. Free. 1 to 4 p.m.
Open House, Historical Society of West
Windsor, Schenck House, 50 Southfield
Road, West Windsor, 609-799-1230. Holiday decorations and refreshments. Selfguided tour of 1790-1830 kitchen and Victorian double parlor. Exhibit of West Windsor
history in museum rooms. English-Dutch
barn, outhouse, corn crib, and other farm
buildings. Donations welcome. 1 to 4 p.m.
From Revolution to Relativity, Historical
Society of Princeton, Bainbridge House,
158 Nassau Street, Princeton, 609-9216748. Classic walking tour of downtown
Princeton and Princeton University includes
stops at Nassau Hall, University Chapel,
Woodrow Wilson’s homes, and Einstein’s
residence. Register by phone or E-mail
[email protected]. $7. 2 p.m.
Randall C. Schwaeble, 21, of
Hamilton was charged November
21 with driving while intoxicated
and being under the influence of a
controlled dangerous substance.
Sergeant John Bresnen said he
stopped him on Route 1 South for
having a license plate light out and
smelled marijuana. He conducted
field sobriety tests and said
Schwaeble failed. He was also
charged with reckless driving and
maintenance of lamps.
Luciano E. Rossie, 23, of
Princeton was charged November
23 with driving while intoxicated.
Sergeant John Bresnen said he
stopped him for speeding at 82
miles per hour on Route 1 North
and failing to maintain a lane, and
found he was intoxicated. During a
search, Bresnen said he also found
a clear cylinder containing marijuana residue in his pants. He was
also charged with possession of
drug paraphernalia, reckless driving, speeding, and failure to maintain a lane.
West Windsor
Burglary/Theft. A resident of
East Windsor was the victim of
theft on November 25 between
2:30 and 3 p.m. Officer Christopher Van Ness said someone removed the victim’s wallet from her
purse while she was dining at Panera Bread and used her credit cards
in a nearby store.
An East Windsor resident was
the victim of theft on November 23
between 6:30 a.m. and 6 p.m. in the
Station Drive permit lot of the
Princeton Junction train station.
Officer Lee Brodowski said someone stole the victim’s car from the
lot.
A Rushton Court resident was
the victim of burglary and theft between November 17 and 21. Officer Christopher Van Ness said
someone stole a briefcase and a
check from the victim’s car. The
estimated value of the items is
$700. The victim told police the
door was left unlocked.
A Sparrow Drive resident was
the victim of theft some time between November 17 and 18. Officer Christopher Van Ness said
someone entered the victim’s un-
House Tours
Christmas Candlelight House Tour &
Boutique, Hightstown Woman’s Club,
Ely House, 163 North Main Street, Hightstown, 609-426-9728. House tour featuring
seven private homes in Hightstown and
East Windsor. $15. Live nativity on the front
lawn of First Presbyterian Church of Hightstown, 320 North Main Street, at 2 p.m. First
United Methodist Church, Stockton Street,
presents a bell choir concert at 6 p.m. 3 to 6
p.m.
Lectures
Christmas Past: Traditions and Customs,
Hickory Corner Library, 138 Hickory Corner Road, East Windsor, 609-448-1330.
Jane Peters Estes, dressed in Civil War period attire, explores the origins of Christmas
customs. Register. Free. 2 p.m.
Live Music
locked car, which was parked in the
driveway, and stole some of the
victim’s personal items.
A resident of Millbrook Drive
was the victim of theft between
November 17 and 18. Officer Brian Mahon said someone stole money from the victim’s car while it
was parked in front of his house.
An employee of Sam’s Club
was the victim of theft on November 13. Officer Douglas Montgomery said someone stole the victim’s wallet from inside the employee office and cashed a check
found inside the wallet.
A Robbinsville resident was the
victim of theft and credit card fraud
on November 18. Officer Justin Insalaco said the victim momentarily
left her purse unattended while
shopping at Marshall’s. A short
time later, she realized her wallet
was missing and was told that her
credit cards were used at the
ShopRite in Lawrenceville.
A resident of Jewel Road was
the victim of theft between November 17 and 18. Officer Kyle
Brown said someone stole a GPS
unit, sunglasses, and CDs from the
victim’s unlocked car, parked in
his driveway.
Shoplifting. Brodous Joseph
Peterkin, 48, of Trenton was
charged November 16 with
shoplifting at Borders Books and
Music. Officers Doug Montgomery and Kevin Loretucci said
someone alerted the store employees that Peterkin had stuffed numerous books from the African
American literature section into a
backpack and left the store without
paying. While responding to the
scene, Loretucci said he saw a car
leaving the parking lot in an aggressive manner and stopped the
car, finding the alleged shoplifter
in the passenger seat. The stolen
books were later recovered from
inside the vehicle, police said.
Brielle C. Higgins, 18, of Pheasant Hollow Drive in Plainsboro,
along with two 17-year-old female
juveniles, were charged November
17 with shoplifting at Kohl’s. Officer Kevin Loretucci said they concealed $128 worth of necklaces
and fragrances and tried to leave
without paying.
studios.com. Open house and studio tour features artists exhibiting their work with original
art for sale and demonstrations. 1 to 5 p.m.
Chess
Plainsboro Public Library, 641 Plainsboro
Road, 609-275-2897. For advanced adult
players. 1 to 5 p.m.
Monday
December 14
School Sports
North Ice Hockey, 609-716-5000 ext. 5134.
www.ww-p.org. At Hamilton West. 6 p.m.
Literati
Jerry Topinka, Salt Creek Grille, One
Rockingham Row, Forrestal Village, Plainsboro, 609-419-4200. www.saltcreekgrille.com. Jazz brunch. 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Author Event, Princeton Public Library,
Witherspoon Street, 609-924-8822. Laura
Kahn, author of “Who’s in Charge? Leadership During an Epidemic, Bioterror Attack,
and Other Public Health Crises.” 7:30 p.m.
Schools
Classical Music
Workshop, Ballet Physique, Princeton
Dance and Theater Studio, 116 Rockingham Row, Forrestal Village, Plainsboro,
609-203-0376. www.balletburn.com. “High
Heels 101: Walk Like You’re Worth It.” Register. $10. Noon to 1 p.m.
Bach’s Complete Brandenburgs, McCarter Theater, 91 University Place,
Princeton, 609-258-2787. www.mccarter.org. Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center presents. $42 to $53. 7:30 p.m.
For Families
Holiday Boutique
Planetarium Shows, New Jersey State
Museum, 205 West State Street, Trenton,
609-292-6464. “The Laser Nutcracker.” $6.
1 and 3 p.m.
Holiday Fine Art Boutique and Sale, Art Station Studios, 148 Monmouth Street, Hightstown,
609-443-1386.
www.artstation-
Messiah Sing, Princeton University
Chapel, Washington Road, 609-258-3654.
Community sing with organ, strings, and
trumpet. Bring a score or borrow one at the
door. Eric Plutz on organ. Penna Rose conducts. $5. 7:30 p.m.
Drug Arrests. Gregory C.
Stokes Jr., 19, of Robbinsville, was
charged November 25 with possession of marijuana under 50 grams.
Officer Christopher Van Ness said
he was investigating a motor vehicle accident on Clarksville and
Penn Lyle roads and found Stokes
to be in possession.
Mark E. Wasco Jr., 18, of
Princeton was charged November
21 with possession of marijuana
under 50 grams. Officer Brian Geraghty said he stopped him on Route
1 North at Washington Road for a
motor vehicle violation and found
the marijuana.
Enzo D. Vacca, 21, of Princeton
was charged November 21 with
possession of marijuana under 50
grams. Officer Michael Pitts said
he stopped him on Route 1 at
Alexander Road for failing to
maintain a lane and found the marijuana under the front passenger
seat of the car. He was also charged
with possession of a controlled
dangerous substance in a motor vehicle and failing to maintain a lane.
Criminal Mischief. A Spruce
Street resident was the victim of
criminal mischief sometime between November 17 and 21. Officer Kyle Brown said someone
broke the side front window to the
victim’s home. The value of the
damage was not determined.
DWI. Jillian H. Frascella, 28, of
Langhorne, PA, was charged November 25 with driving while intoxicated. Officer Justin Insalaco
said he stopped her on Route 1
South at Quakerbridge Road for
speeding. She was also charged
with reckless driving, failure to
maintain a lane, and speeding.
Luis X. Santillan, 32, of Princeton was charged November 20 with
driving while intoxicated. Officer
Michael Pitts said while investigating an accident on Route 1 North
and Harrison Street, he found Santillan to be intoxicated. Once he
was transported back to police
headquarters, he was also charged
with reckless driving, driving with
an expired license, failure to exhibit a license, and refusal to submit to
a breath test.
Faith
Menorah Lighting, Palmer Square, North
Hulfish Plaza, 800-644-3489. www.palmersquare.com. In front of Mediterra Restaurant. Rain or shine. Free. 5 p.m.
Talmud Class, Chabad of the Windsors,
East Windsor Library, 138 Hickory Corner
Road, 609-448-9369. www.chabadwindsor.com. Register. Free. 7:30 p.m.
For Parents
MOPS: Mothers of Preschoolers, Princeton Alliance Church, 20 Schalks Crossing
Road, Plainsboro, 609-799-9000. “Celebrating Christmas.” Free. Child care available for $5. 9:30 to 11:30 a.m.
Lectures
Meeting, Get Hired Today!, Center for Relaxation, 635 Plainsboro Road, 609-5888874. www.meetup.com/gethiredtoday. For
unemployed professionals. $5. 10:30 a.m.
to 12:30 p.m.
Stress Relief for the Holiday Season with
Five Easy Tools, Neuro-Enhancement
Strategies, Princeton Pike, 609-918-0089.
“Whole
Brain Learning with application NLP presented by Jeff Schoener. Register at
[email protected]. $25. 6:30 to
8:30 p.m.
Singles
Singles Night, Grover’s Mill Coffee
House, 335 Princeton Hightstown Road,
West Windsor, 609-716-8771. www.groversmillcoffee.com. Register at www.meetup.com/Princeton-Area-Singles-Network. 6:30 to 8 p.m.
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WW-P News Classifieds
HOW TO ORDER
HOME MAINTENANCE
TAX SERVICES
Mail, E-Mail, or Fax: That’s all it takes
to order a classified in the West Windsor-Plainsboro News. Mail your ad to
the News at P.O. Box 580, West Windsor 08550. Fax it to 609-243-9020, or
use our e-mail address: [email protected]. We will confirm your insertion
and the price, which is sure to be reasonable: Our classifieds are just 50
cents a word, with a $7.00 minimum.
Repeats in succeeding issues are just
40 cents per word, and if your ad runs for
12 consecutive issues, it’s only 30 cents
per word. (There is a $3 service charge
if we send out a bill.) Questions? Call us
at 609-243-9119.
Handyman: Electrical, plumbing, any
projects around the house. 609-2756631.
Tax Preparation and Accounting
Services: For individuals and small
businesses. Notary, computerized tax
preparation, paralegal services. Your
place or mine. Fast response, free consultation, reasonable costs. Gerald
Hecker, 609-448-4284.
OFFICE RENTALS
Plainsboro - 700 SF to 3,000 SF Office Suites: in single story building in
well maintained office park off Plainsboro Road. Immediately available. Individual entrance and signage, separate
AC/Heat and electricity. Call 609-7992466 or E-mail [email protected]
CLEANING SERVICES
House cleaning by experienced
Polish lady: Good references, reasonable prices. Please call 609-392-5960.
Patty’s Cleaning Service: Serving
Plainsboro,
the
Windsors,
the
Brunswicks, and Brandon Farms since
1978. Thorough, honest, and reliable.
Free estimate. 609-397-2533.
Window Washing: Lolio Window
Washing. Also gutter cleaning and power washing. 609-271-8860.
Man with a Van/Handyman: Man
with cargo van available for small local
moves, delivery, light hauling and light
handyman services. Serving Mercer
County and nearby areas 7 days a
week. Reasonable flat rates, free estimates. Reliable and courteous service.
Call: 609-512-7248.
BUSINESS SERVICES
Bookkeeper/Administrative Specialist: Versatile & experienced professional will gladly handle your bookkeeping and/or administrative needs. Many
services available. Reasonable rates.
Work done at your office or mine. Call
Debra @ 609-448-6005 or visit www.vyours.com.
COMPUTER SERVICES
Computer Service: Computer repair, computer training (offer senior discount), data recovery, free estimate.
Cell: 609-213-8271.
FINANCIAL SERVICES
Bookkeeping Services for Your
Bottom Line: QuickBooks ProAdvisor.
Call Joan today at Kaspin Associates,
609-490-0888.
CLASSIFIED BY EMAIL
[email protected]
Tuesday
December 15
Business Meetings
Meeting, Plainsboro Business Partnership, Can-Do Fitness, Princeton Forrestal
Village. http://gdn-rule.com. Meeting. 8 a.m.
Municipal Meetings
Meeting, WW-P Board of Education,
Grover Middle School, 609-716-5000. 7:30
p.m.
School Sports
North Swimming, Boys/Girls, 609-7165000 ext. 5134. South. 4 p.m.
South Swimming, Boys/Girls, 609-7165000 ext. 5134. North. 4 p.m.
Drama
God’s Country, Princeton University,
Lewis Center, 185 Nassau Street, 609-2581500. www.princeton.edu/arts. Stephen Dietz’s drama. $10. 8 p.m.
Film
Film for Foodies, Princeton Public Library, 65 Witherspoon Street, 609-9248822. www.princetonlibrary.org. Screening
of “Babette’s Feast.” Attendees receive a
discount voucher for post-screening dining.
6 p.m.
Pop Music
Winter Concert, Mercer College, Kelsey
Theater, West Windsor, 609-570-3735.
www.mccc.edu. “An Evening of Musical
Cheer” presented by the college chorus.
Free. 7:30 p.m.
Kids Stuff
Cookies and Cocoa with Santa, Bounce U,
410 Princeton Hightstown Road, West
Windsor, 609-443-5867. www.bounceu.com. $9.95 per child, ages 2-6. 12:30 and 4
p.m.
For Families
Pre-School Circle Time, Tiger Hall Play
Zone, 53 State Road, Princeton, 609-3560018. www.tigerhallkids.com. Register.
$10. 11 to 11:45 a.m.
Business Meetings
JobSeekers, Parish Hall entrance, Trinity
Church, 33 Mercer Street, 609-924-2277.
Networking and support for changing careers, free. 7:30 p.m.
HEALTH
ISAGENIX — The Way to Lose
Weight: Ask me how. Lisa Tatulli - 609731-8666. / [email protected]
INSTRUCTION
ESL Tutor - All Ages / Levels: Improve your English! Speak and write
better — learn grammar, pronunciation,
and American expressions. Experienced ESL Professor. Excellent references. 609-658-6914.
Lessons in Your Home: Music
lessons in your home. Piano, clarinet,
saxophone, flute and guitar. Call Jim
609-737-9259 or 609-273-5135.
Math, Science, English & SAT Tutoring: Available in your home. Brown
University-educated college professor.
Experienced with gifted, under-achieving and learning-disabled students.
Free initial consultation. Call Bruce 609371-0950.
Music Lessons - Farrington’s Music: Piano, guitar, drum, sax, clarinet,
voice, flute, trumpet, violin. $28 half
hour. School of Rock. Join the band!
Princeton 609-924-8282. Princeton
Junction 609-897-0032. Hightstown
Live Music
Open Mic Night, It’s a Grind Coffee House,
7 Schalks Crossing Road, Plainsboro, 609275-2919. www.itsagrind.com. 7 p.m.
Chris Harford and the Band of Changes,
BT Bistro, 3499 Route 1 South, West Windsor, 609-919-9403. 9 p.m.
Outdoor Action
Holiday Party, Princeton Ski Club, Masonic Lodge, 345 River Road, Princeton, 732329-2067. www.princetonski.org. 7 p.m.
Schools
Mandarin-English Immersion, Princeton
International Academy Charter School,
West Windsor Public Library. www.piacs.org. Information on immersion program applied for to the state Department of Education. Visit website for information. 7 to 9
p.m.
Singles
Meeting, Mercer Single Volunteers,
Lawrence Library, Route 1 South and Darrah Lane, 609-882-1339. www.mcsvnj.org.
Connect by helping others. New members
welcome. 7 p.m.
Wednesday
December 16
INSTRUCTION
609-448-7170.
sic.com.
SAT and ACT Tutoring — Reading,
Writing, Math: Boost your scores with
outstanding private instruction by experienced college English professor and
high school math teacher. Let us help
you succeed! Reasonable fee. Many
excellent local references. 609-6586914.
Science and Math Tutoring: Biology, Chemistry, Algebra, Geometry.
Taught by college professor. 17 years
experience. Recipient of two national
teaching awards. Discoverygenics 609581-5686.
Writing Tutor for All Ages: Get higher grades! Improve your essays and all
other written work. Let me teach you
correct grammar, punctuation and writing styles. Learn from college English
professor. WW-P references. 609-6586914.
For WW-P school sports information, call
the hotline: 609-716-5000, ext. 5134, www.ww-p.org.
North Boys/Girls
Brunswick. 5 p.m.
Diving.
At
North
South Boys/Girls
Brunswick. 5 p.m.
Diving.
At
North
North Ice Hockey. At Hightstown. 5:30 p.m.
South Ice Hockey. Notre Dame. 6 p.m.
Literati
Author Event, Labyrinth Books, 122 Nassau Street, Princeton, 609-497-1600.
www.labyrinthbooks.com. Emily Mann and
Irene Dische present “Writing: A Friendship.” 5:30 p.m.
Classical Music
Candlelight Service of Lessons and Carols, Princeton University Chapel, Washington Road, 609-258-3654. Music by
Chapel Choir, Glee Club, and a cappella
groups. Free. 7:30 p.m.
One Man Band: Keyboardist for your
wedding or party. Perfect entertainment. You’ll love the variety. Duos available. Call Ed at 609-424-0660.
Princeton Music Connection. All
styles of live music for Weddings, Private & Corporate Holiday Parties. 609936-9811. www.princetonmusic.com.
MERCHANDISE MART
Dell Laptop with Windows XP:
$120, cell phone 609-213-8271.
WANTED TO BUY
Antique Military Items: And war
relics wanted from all wars and countries. Top prices paid. “Armies of the
Past LTD”. 2038 Greenwood Ave.,
Hamilton Twp., 609-890-0142. Our retail outlet is open Saturdays 10 to 4:00,
or by appointment.
HELP WANTED
ENTERTAINMENT
Disc Jockey. Ambient DJ Service
provides customized music and entertainment services for corporate, formal
and family events. Please contact us at
609-672-1270 or [email protected].
www.ambientdj.com.
Gather ‘Round the Piano and Sing
Your Favorite Carols: Pianist available
for your holiday party. Song sheets included. 609-924-8591.
Loan Originators Needed: $3,000$5,000/Month potential income. No experience needed - full training provided.
No license required - earn while you
learn. Work toward ownership - part
time/full time. Call today 1-800-7897943.
Real Estate Sales: No Experience
Needed, Free Training, License Info
Available.
Weidel
Realtors.
[email protected], 800-288-7653
x260, www.weidel.com.
Chanukah Concert, Westminster Choir
College, Bristol Chapel, Princeton, 609921-2663. www.rider.edu. CMENC Singers
perform “Rock of Ages: A Concert for
Chanukah.” $20. 7:30 p.m.
North Ice Hockey. At Robbinsville. 4 p.m.
Jazz & Blues
North Swimming, Boys/Girls. Ewing. 6:30
p.m.
Winter Concert, Mercer College, Kelsey
Theater, West Windsor, 609-570-3735.
www.mccc.edu. Eclectic program presented by the college jazz band. Free. 8 p.m.
Amnesty Benefit
Holiday Open House
Drumthwacket Foundation, 354 Stockton
Street, Princeton, 609-683-0057. Tour of
the official residence of the Governor of New
Jersey featuring “EverGreen,” an ecofriendly theme created by garden clubs
throughout the State. Register. $5 donation.
11 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Kids Stuff
Cookies and Cocoa with Santa, Bounce U,
410 Princeton Hightstown Road, West
Windsor, 609-443-5867. $9.95 per child,
ages 2-6. 10 a.m. and 6 p.m.
Lectures
Why Kiss Another Frog This New Year’s
Eve?, Neuro-Enhancement Strategies,
Princeton Pike, 609-918-0089. “Recognize
Your Perfect Mate” presented by Jeff
Schoener.
Register
at
[email protected]. $25. 6:30 to 8:30 p.m.
Camera Club, South Brunswick Arts
Commission, South Brunswick Community Center, 124 New Road, Monmouth Junction, 732-329-4000. Free. 7 to 9 p.m.
School Sports
ENTERTAINMENT
www.farringtonsmu-
Live Music
Patty Cronheim, Mediterra, 29 Hulfish
Street, Princeton, 609-252-9680. www.terramomo.com. 8 to 10 p.m.
Lenny Fattori, BT Bistro, 3499 Route 1
South, West Windsor, 609-919-9403.
www.btbistro.com. 9 p.m.
Sports
Princeton Basketball, Jadwin Gym, 609258-4849. Monmouth. $12. 7 p.m.
Thursday
December 17
School Sports
For WW-P school sports information, call
the hotline: 609-716-5000, ext. 5134, www.ww-p.org.
South Swimming, Boys/Girls. Trenton
Central. 4 p.m.
South Ice Hockey. Steinert. 6 p.m.
Human Rights Banquet, High School
South Amnesty International, 346 Clarksville Road, West Windsor, 609-716-5050.
Register. 6:30 to 9 p.m.
Drama
A Christmas Carol, McCarter Theater, 91
University Place, 609-258-2787. www.mccarter.org. Holiday classic by Charles
Dickens. $33 and up. 7:30 p.m.
Classical Music
Holiday Concert, outside Ten Thousand
Villages store, Princeton Shopping Center.
Joining voices to support artisans in developing countries, 40 youth from the Princeton
Area Homschool Choir will perform holiday
songs. Also a sing-along. A portion of the
evening’s purchases at Ten Thousand Villages will benefit the choir, now in its 10th
anniversary year. For information E-mail
homeschool [email protected]. 7 p.m.
Food & Dining
Happy Hour, Tre Bar, Tre Piani Restaurant,
Forrestal Village, Plainsboro, 609-4521515. www.trepiani.com. Free hors d’oeuvres. Drink specials. 4:30 to 7 p.m.
History
Festival of Trees, Morven Museum, 55
Stockton Street, Princeton, 609-924-8144.
www.morven.org. Galleries adorned for the
holidays by area businesses and garden
clubs. $5. 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.
For Families
Mommy and Me with a Jewish Twist,
Shalom Heritage Center, Twin Rivers
Shopping Center, East Windsor, 609-4437170. www.shalomheritagecenter.org. A
program for infants, toddlers, and
preschoolers to explore Jewish themes
through circle time, music, and crafts. $8.
9:15 to 10:15 a.m.
Live Music
Robmi Cover Duo, BT Bistro, 3499 Route 1
South, West Windsor, 609-919-9403.
www.btbistro.com. 9 p.m.
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Socials
Newcomers Club Social Coffee,
Princeton YWCA, Bramwell
House, 59 Paul Robeson Place,
Princeton, 609-497-2100. For new
residents and those who have had
a lifestyle change. 9:30 to 11 a.m.
Friday
December 18
School Sports
North Wrestling. Belleville. 5 p.m.
South Boys Basketball. At Trenton Central. 5:30 p.m.
North Boys Basketball. Ewing. 7
p.m.
North Girls Basketball. At Ewing.
7 p.m.
Drama
Theater, 91 University Place, 609258-2787. $33 and up. 7:30 p.m.
A Christmas Carol, Actors’ NET,
635 North Delmorr Avenue, Morrisville, PA, 215-295-3694. www.actorsnetbucks.org. $20. 8 p.m.
Dancing
Karaoke Dance, American Legion Post 401, 148 Major Road,
Monmouth Junction, 732-3299861. Free. 8:30 p.m.
Classical Music
An American Holiday, Voices
Chorale, Pennington Presbyterian Church, 13 South Main Street,
Pennington,
609-637-9383.
www.voiceschorale.org. Carols by
American composers from Colonial times to the present. Rochelle
Ellis,soprano, solos. $18. 8 p.m.
An Ibsen Classic Gets a Modern Makeover
World Music
An American Holiday, Pennington Presbyterian Church, 13
South Main Street, Pennington,
609-208-9991. Conrad Susa’s
“Carols and Lullabies: Christmas
in the Southwest” for chorus, harp,
guitar, and marimba. Carols by
American composers from Colonial times to present. “Magnificat”
by Theodore Pachelbel. “It’s Happy Holiday Time,” by Ken Guilmartin. Christmas music from
American Films. Rochelle Ellis,
soprano soloist and former West
Windsor resident. 8 p.m.
Schools
Orchestra Winter Concert, High
School South, 346 Clarksville
Road, West Windsor, 609-7165050. www.ww-p.org. Free. 8 p.m.
Comedy Clubs
Mike Vecchione, Catch a Rising
Star, Hyatt Regency, 102
www.catcharisingstar.com. With
special guest Brad Todd. Reservation. $17.50. 8 p.m.
Family Theater
Nutcracker Ballet, Kelsey Theater, Mercer County Community
609-570-3333.
www.kelseytheatre.net. NJ Youth Ballet presents. $12. 7 p.m.
Live Music
Danny Kalb, Arts Council of
Princeton, 102 Witherspoon
Street, 609-924-8777. www.artscouncilofprinceton.org. CD release of “I’m Gonna Live the Life I
Sing About.” Register. 7 p.m.
Roe Ferrara & Steve, It’s A Grind
Coffee House, 7 Schalks Crossing Road, Plainsboro, 609-2752919. itsagrind.com. 8 to 10 p.m.
I
n their second drama of the fall
semester, theater students from
Mercer County Community
College present a modern version
of an Ibsen classic. The cast includes West Windsor residents
Elisa Rose Jankoski, Patrick
McKenna, and Kyra Willans.
“Peer Gynt in Process: Henrik Ibsen’s Peer Gynt Remixed and Remade” will be performed Friday
and Saturday, December 4 and 5, at
8 p.m., and Sunday, December 6, at
2 p.m. at the Studio Theater, located next to Kelsey Theater.
This collaborative effort is set in
a disco and features both actors and
dancers who will perform in varying styles. “It’s a bittersweet Godiva chocolate with raspberry filling,” says Jody Person, the theater
program coordinator. “The plot
‘Peer Gynt’ for the 21st Century: Richelle Leigh
Bodensiek of Skillman, left, and Elisa Rose Jankoski
of Princeton Junction are featured in 'Peer Gynt:
Remixed and Remade,' Friday through Sunday,
December 4 to 6, at Mercer College’s Studio Theater.
centers on Peer’s quest to find himself, a journey that takes him
around the world and even to a fantasy world populated by trolls.
Starting out in his youth, he comes
home an old man, questioning what
good he has done in the world.”
The script, which has been pared
down to 90 minutes from the usual
four hours, has been enhanced by
lyrics of selected songs and video
footage filmed by MCCC television students. “Students have
boiled it down to its essence,” says
Person. “There are three layers of
meaning — the script, song lyrics,
and video images, which will serve
as the scenery.”
Peer Gynt in Process: Henrik
Ibsen’s Peer Gynt Remixed and
Remade, Mercer Community College, Studio Theater, Communications Building, 1200 Old Trenton
Road. Friday, December 4 and 5, 8
p.m.; Sunday, December 6, 2 p.m.
$14. www.kelseytheatre.net or
609-570-3524.

December 4, 2009

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