The Bride Whisperer Who Calms Cross-Cultural Weddings

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MARCH 2, 2012
WEST WINDSOR
& PLAINSBORO
NEWS
HEADLINERS:
Monsignor Robert Medley, page 9; Magician Ben Nemzer, 23; Musician Soyeong Park, 27.
5 Compete for 3 Seats On
WW-P Board of Education
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by Rikki N. Massand
wo townships, one shared
school district, and four
fresh faces vying for positions on the West Windsor-Plainsboro Board of Education. In
Plainsboro there are two seats being contested. Current board member Todd Hochman will not seek
re-election. Meanwhile Tony
Fleres, chairman of the board’s finance committee and the other
Plainsboro board member whose
term expires this year, will seek his
third term on the board.
The newcomers are Quentin
Walsh, a well known critic of some
of the board’s financial policies
and the husband of current board
member Ellen Walsh (whose term
expires next year), and Yibao Xu, a
professor of mathematics at Manhattan Community College in New
York.
In West Windsor John Farrell,
who was originally appointed in
2008 to fill the seat vacated by Stan
Katz, has decided not to seek another term. The seat is being sought
by Michele Kaish, a resident of the
township for the past 18 years, and
by Peter Abitanto, senior vice president with an insurance brokerage
that manages employee benefits
for more than 285 school districts
throughout New Jersey. Following
are snapshots of the five candidates, beginning in Plainsboro:
Tony Fleres. With John Farrell
and Todd Hochman deciding not to
run, the lone incumbent school
board candidate this year is Tony
Fleres of Mifflin Court in Plainsboro. Fleres currently serves as
chairman of the board of education’s finance committee. Fleres
was originally elected in 2006 and
he is seeking his third term on the
board.
Fleres and his wife Marcia, executive director of the WW-P Education Foundation, have lived in
Plainsboro since 1993. The couple
moved from Old Bridge to Plainsboro because of the school district’s reputation. Their son, Mark,
graduated from High School North
last year and now attends Stevens
Institute of Technology in Hoboken. Fleres’ daughter Amanda is in
her freshman year at High School
South.
Fleres, whose father was a carpenter and mother a seamstress,
works in New York as a design
manager at URS Corporation. He
holds a bachelor’s degree in civil
engineering from the City College
of New York, and in 1980 he
earned his MBA from the University of Connecticut.
After six years on the board
Fleres is aware of the learning
curve that comes with a position on
the school board “just as when you
join any organization,” he says.
Fleres feels that experience pays
off as he fully understands the parameters the school board has to
operate under and the financial
management of the school budgeting process.
“After serving as chairman of
the finance committee, I think I’m
knowledgeable about maintaining
our finances,” says Fleres (whose
letter to the editor regarding the
board’s budgeting practices appears on page 2 of this issue).
Quentin Walsh. Walsh, the
lone member of the public who attends Plainsboro Township Committee meetings, made a splash on
Wednesday, February 22, when he
announced his candidacy for
school board at the committee’s
business meeting. For the past several years Walsh has taken on the
school budget, in particular the disContinued on page 10
The Bride Whisperer Who Calms Cross-Cultural Weddings
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by Euna Kwon Brossman birthday party, a Sweet 16, or a one-year-
ennifer Lopez as the calm in the center
of chaos was the quintessential wedding
planner in the movie of the same name.
Now think of Dharmi Shah of Princeton,
formerly of West Windsor, who takes that
idea to a whole new level as the calm and
creative energy behind Evenings of Elegance, an event and wedding planning firm.
Shah can coordinate the details of a 60th
old’s celebration and everything in between, as well as corporate events including
holiday parties, summer barbecues, retirement parties, and meetings. But her specialty is weddings, especially weddings that involve different cultures and customs on top
of all the variables that typically go into the
big day — among them, flowers, food, and
photographers, not to mention family.
West Windsor-Plainsboro
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FREE admission
Saturday, March 3, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Village Elementary School
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“The United States is even more of a
melting pot these days than ever before, and
so many of my clients are mixed, where the
bride and groom may be of different backgrounds and cultures,” says Shah. “It used to
be more difficult for families to accept
mixed weddings, but we are definitely seeing a shift in the families’ attitude, where
Day of Dreams: Jayendhran
Govender, far left, a 1999 graduate
of WW-P High School, with his
bride, Dipali Shah. Above: Pooja
Bhatnager with her groom, Amit
Bansal, a 1996 WW-P graduate.
Photo left: Pandya Photography
Continued on page 30
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Correcting the
Record on Surpluses
tion to the PIACS charter school
should it open in September 2012.
If that school does not open, this
money will wind up as part of the
year-end surplus. Alternatively,
am writing this to correct some the board could have chosen not to
misstatements and misrepre- budget for the charter school and,
sentations made by Mr. if it does open, deal with the effect
Quentin Walsh in his letter in the of the budget shortfall on the eduFebruary 17, 2012, issue of the cational programs of our students
WW-P News and in his frequent later.
A responsible board will conappearances before the Board of
servatively
estimate its future exEducation, the Plainsboro Townpenses
while
maintaining a control
ship Committee, and the West
on
actual
spending
during the year.
Windsor Township Council.
For
most
people,
that
is considered
Mr. Walsh takes issue with the
good
planning
school district’s
and
managebudget surpluses
ment.
and use of reserve A responsible board will
Yet
Mr.
funds. Let me be- conservatively estimate
Walsh
views
gin by explaining its future expenses while
budget surpluses
the process. Each
as money needspring the school maintaining a control
lessly taken from
district prepares a on actual spending.
the
taxpayers
budget for the
and,
as
proof,
has
following school
come
to
board
meetings
with
hisyear which, once approved by the
voters, sets the revenue and spend- torical data showing year-end buding for that year. School districts get accounts with large balances.
cannot increase taxes mid-year and Waiting until the end of the year to
do not have access to lines of cred- second-guess budget decisions
it. If expenses are underestimated, made 16 months earlier is easy.
a district can be forced to cancel Predicting the future is much more
student programs and services difficult –– unless you are not conmid-year. If expenses run lower cerned with the consequences of
than budgeted, the district will fin- being wrong.
The state permits school disish the year with surplus funds.
tricts
to retain a portion of the yearFor example, as I write this, the
end
surplus
–– about 2 percent of
preliminary budget for the 2012its
annual
budget
–– for operating
’13 school year contains about
purposes.
Any
money
beyond that
$1.2 million as WW-P’s contribuamount is labeled “excess surplus”
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and must either be reserved for a
specific use or be used the following year to reduce the property tax
levy, which the state refers to as
“tax relief.”
The NJ Department of Education recommends the use of reserve
funds to allow school districts to set
aside money for large expenditures
and possible emergencies. WW-P
maintains several reserve funds,
the most significant of which is the
Capital Reserve Fund. This fund
supports the district’s over $200
million investment in buildings
and facilities. Without this reserve,
major repairs would have to be
funded either through the annual
budget, which is subject to cap limitations, or through a bond issue
and its associated interest expense.
Mr. Walsh portrays contributions to this and other reserve funds
as money not returned to the taxpayers. That assumes WW-P’s taxpayer-owned facilities will never
need to be repaired or replaced.
Again, a prudent board must plan
for future expenses and not risk
long-term financial stability for a
one-year gain.
WW-P’s Community Education
provides the public with recreation
and adult education programs,
along with our popular Extended
Day Program for working parents.
The school district operates it as an
enterprise fund, which means that
no tax money is used and, by law,
any surpluses generated cannot be
used to directly subsidize the school
district’s tax-supported funds.
Historically, the board of education has viewed Community Education as a public service and has
only charged the public enough to
cover the direct cost of its operation
with the intention to break even
each year. Any surpluses generated
are used to offset years that may
run a deficit. We do not, for example, bill the public for heating a
building that was going to be heated anyway. To say that users are
getting a “free ride,” as Mr. Walsh
does, is like saying that users of a library are getting a “free ride” for
using something that their tax dollars have already paid for.
In recent years, Community Education has generated a total surplus that, in the board’s judgment,
can cover its needs for the near future. Therefore, in 2012-’13 we
will invoice Community Education
for some indirect costs, which the
law does permit. This way some of
that surplus can be used to reduce
the upcoming year’s tax levy, but
only to the extent that it does not
jeopardize the long-term sustainability of the services it provides to
the public.
By contrast, at township hearings
on last year’s defeated budget, Mr.
Walsh urged both townships to apply the entire accumulated surplus
to last year’s budget as a one-time
savings –– with no mention of what
to do in the following year when
there is a zero balance in this fund.
West
Windsor-Plainsboro
schools are well known for the high
academic achievement of their students. The residents of both townships should also know that their
school system is being run in a financially sound manner as evidenced by lower-than-average perpupil costs and the fact that WW-P
is one of only nine school districts
statewide with a AAA bond rating.
Anthony Fleres
Mifflin Court, Plainsboro
Chair, Finance Committee
WW-P Board of Education
The above letter represents the
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Board of Education.
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y the time you send your
second kid off to college,
you already know the drill
about sending them to the school
that is perfect for them based on
their interests, their goals, and their
SAT scores.
But now that I’ve been there and
done that, I have a whole new perspective. Never mind about all that
stuff. Your kids will receive a fine
education pretty much anywhere.
Choose your second child’s school
based on a MapQuest assessment
of latitude and longitude. In other
words, put your kids on a straight
line trajectory that ensures that
drop-offs, pick-ups, visits home,
and, most importantly, visits to
them are as convenient and expeditious for you as possible.
For example, our firstborn goes
to school in Baltimore, which is
two-and-a-half to three hours by
car depending on how daring you
are feeling about breaking the 65
mile per hour posted speed limit
along most of the route. Our second
child goes to school almost exactly
the same distance away exactly, diametrically in the opposite direction. Given that growing up, when
one said north, the other said south,
this shouldn’t come to me as any
surprise at all.
Now that gas is pushing $4 a gallon and now that these tired eyes
don’t love driving at night so much
anymore, I’ve reassessed the situation, since we can never conveniently visit both on one visit. Case
in point: on an upcoming weekend
in April, Bill will be in Amsterdam,
Will is scheduled to have lacrosse
and baseball games, Molly is acting in another college production,
and Katie is chairing the spring fair
food committee. Exactly where am
I supposed to be and how am I supposed to get there? I’ll figure it out
–– I always do, but at least if the
girls were living on the same directional plane, my life would be easier. This is when I am grateful that
we only have three children to
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cine. My younger son, Alex, has
learned how to count, read, and
write at Town Center Elementary
School. Both of them have received high-quality educations
here. As a parent, I thank the current and previous board members
for their hard work.
I have always had a passion for
community service. Whenever my
time and energy allow, I serve my
communities. Mostly recently, I
served as the president of the board
of directors of one co-op in
Queens. Currently, I am a trustee of
the Walker Gordon Farm Homeowners Association Board. These
opportunities have provided me
good experience working with other volunteers to solve complicated
or delicate issues in a friendly and
honest way. I am an educator,
specifically, a college professor of
mathematics. I have a thorough understanding of the education systems in the United States and in
China. Over the past four years, I
have observed a number of challenges WW-P schools face. One of
them is how to keep a balance between a high quality educational
system and minimal tax burden on
the residents. Another one is how
to better serve the needs of a growing and diverse population. Given
my experience and background, I
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manage instead of, say, six, as
some of my friends have.
My friend Lorraine has it all figured out. Her firstborn fences at the
University of Pennsylvania, an
hour south of here. Her second
fences for Johns Hopkins, about
another hour-and-a-half skip from
Philadelphia. She says she and her
husband have turned into fencing
Of course, nothing can
compare to the value of
actual face time, especially with the people
you love.
team groupies, but hey, for them,
the logistics are a piece of cake. For
home matches, by the time she visits one, she’s halfway to the other.
That’s what I call good planning.
(It wasn’t planned, really, but she’s
taking credit anyway. I would!)
It’s not only directional planning that you should be thinking
about. That second kid in college
really tips the family budget. It
used to be mortgage and cars and
then the mundane but necessary
like insurance and food. Now tuition takes up more than half of the
pie. You can plan all you want, but
it’s never really enough. With more
students competing for fewer
scholarships, the pressure is on.
Bill figures he’s going to have to
keep on working until he’s 90 or so.
It’s sad but true, unless I figure out
some way to hit the jackpot.
I think I’m getting closer, however. I am writing this column from
the Apple store in Freehold that has
become my new favorite place on
earth. Every time I come here I
learn something new and feel energized. It’s like graduate school for
the technologically challenged.
The world is moving faster than
believe that I could offer new
thinking on how to tackle these
challenges.
West Windsor and Plainsboro
have a large Chinese population.
As a Chinese-American, I think we
should do our part in the community. By doing so, we may win more
I have observed a number of challenges WW-P
schools face, including
balancing quality education with a minimized
tax burden.
respect from residents of other ethnic backgrounds. We together may
live in friendlier and more harmonious community.
It will be an honor if Plainsboro
voters give me the opportunity to
serve on the West Windsor-Plainsboro Board of Education.
Yibao Xu
55 Elsie Drive, Plainsboro
The Plight of the
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A
s a resident and taxpayer of
West Windsor for the past 20
years who has attended several recent town council meetings I
would like to take the opportunity
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ever before, but at least now I feel
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have a chance of catching up.
It took me a while to embrace social media. I was a late arrival to
Facebook and I just joined Twitter.
Until recently, I really didn’t get it,
but hallelujah, I am now beginning
to have glimmerings of understanding. In today’s interconnected
world, you either have to get on
board or get left behind. I used to
feel a backwards sort of pride in not
jumping on the bandwagon, and
then I realized that I was behaving
like a reactionary with my head in
the sand. If the world is moving, I
want to keep up.
Why is that so important? Because the Internet and all these
technologies have changed the
very way we communicate with
each other. Businesses that don’t
get that are going to be left in the
dust. People who don’t embrace
that are going to be out of the loop.
As the Suburban Mom, I want to
reach a wider audience with my
writing. Learning these new ways
to communicate will allow me to
do that.
I’ll admit it’s frustrating. Sometimes I feel like my head will explode. My fingers feel very large
and I am clumsy with navigation.
Sometimes when I learn something, I forget it right away. And almost every time I learn something
new, something else comes down
the pike. But you don’t have to be
an expert in everything. Find what
is most relevant and useful to you,
and then figure it out and actually
use it.
Of course, nothing can compare
to the value of actual face time, especially with the people you love,
and that’s why we will always
jump in the car and drive north,
south, east, and west to wherever
our children may be so we can
communicate with them in real
time in a real place. As powerful as
it is, technology will never replace
that.
Windsor about some issues that
concern and disturb me. I first started coming to the meetings because
of my concern over the loss of our
Animal Control Officer. Now I realize that this is just the tip of the
iceberg when it comes to the apparent mismanagement and waste of
our tax dollars.
When I voiced my opinion at the
council meetings, my words
seemed to fall on deaf ears. At the
last council meeting I brought forth
to the mayor and council the fact
that we have some excessive bleeding of money from public works,
such as four “supervisors” taking
home heavy gas guzzling trucks
every night and two police officers
applying for reimbursement of helicopter lessons at taxpayer expense. At this week’s meeting
when I spoke, the council and mayor were more concerned with my
allowed three-minute public comment time expiring than the questions I was really hoping would be
answered but were not answered at
all. Why wouldn’t they want me to
stop talking? They either approved
of these excesses, or they are totally unaware of what their own employees are doing. The more I
delve into recent township spending, the more apparent it is that this
administration is “penny wise and
pound foolish.” They claim that
they eliminated the ACO to save
money, but the measly $45,000
ACO salary is a drop in the bucket
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compared to the amount of money
wasted on vehicles and no bid contracts in which we pay for
road/sewer repairs that should have
been fixed five years ago (i.e., Wallace Road). The new councilman,
Bryan Maher was the only one interested in addressing some of my
concerns. He has been challenging
his colleagues and the administration, whose standard answer is “we
will have to get back to you on
If someone in this administration had the
managerial acumen to
cut the waste, we could
have far better municipal services at a greatly
reduced cost.
that,” because they cannot, or will
not, answer the simplest questions.
By the way, I am still waiting for
Robert Hary to get back to me on
some questions I had about the
budgets from 2011 and 2012. I can
only hope the rest of the council
will follow Mr. Maher’s lead and
understand they are supposed to be
representing the taxpayers.
From what I have been told, other townships like Ewing and
Hamilton have cut their annual budgets by considerable amounts and
still are maintaining services to the
taxpayer. East Windsor operates at
two-thirds of West Windsor’s budget with the municipality handling
in-house water, sewer, garbage etc.
while also maintaining a full-time
animal control officer — go figure.
Whenever this administration is
faced with having to cut a budget
they will always try to scare the taxpayer by threatening us with loss of
services. If someone in this administration had the managerial acumen to actually manage these departments and cut the waste, we
could have far better municipal services at a greatly reduced cost.
I know we all live somewhat
busy and at times hectic lives, but I
ask you as fellow residents and taxpayers to attend council meetings
or at least watch them on TV so you
can see the problems of our administration, and please get involved
any way you can, even if it’s just by
making a phone call to the mayor or
the administrator and letting them
know the taxpayers are watching,
and we deserve better government
in our town.
Everyone in West Windsor has
felt the sting of our current economy in one way or another. I think
it’s safe to say Washington has
failed us miserably. As if that
weren’t bad enough our West
Windsor administration has decided to follow Washington’s lead.
This administration spends tax
payer money without conscience
or accountability.
Debbie Hepler
West Windsor
Is Walsh Right? Let
The Voters Decide
I
n the past year Quentin Walsh has
made numerous accusations
about financial impropriety against
the WW-P school board even
though his wife has served on the
board for the last seven years. In
particular, on numerous occasions
he has accused the school board of
violating the 2 percent cap on taxes,
which would be illegal. He has been
told by the external district auditor
that his claims are false. He has
complained about the district sur-
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plus to the Plainsboro township
committee and has been told that
the district surpluses are reasonable
for the size of the district budget.
Finally, he has complained to
Governor Chris Christie that the
district has violated the 2 percent
budget cap. The governor asked the
Mercer County office to investigate Walsh’s complaint. As your
newspaper reported, the county office investigated Walsh’s complaint and told him that his accusations were false. Every reasonable
person will agree that the Christie
administration would seriously investigate a complaint of financial
impropriety by any public school
district.
When Governor Christie’s representative tells you that your accusations are incorrect, any reasonable person would step back and reassess his arguments. However,
Walsh wants to double down and
run for school board from Plainsboro. This gives the voters of
Plainsboro an opportunity to settle
the argument. Their votes will decide whether they agree with the vision of the current school board
that has made the district one of the
best districts in the state or Walsh’s
unreasonable vision.
K. Joshi
Plainsboro
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While Wallace Road between
Alexander and Princeton-Hightstown roads has now been reopened following the completion of
emergency sewer repair work
there, questions remain about the
cause of the pipe failure. A letter in
the February 17 issue from Christine V. Bator (chair of the West
Windsor Republican Committee)
questioned the effectiveness of
West Windsor Township’s maintenance program. Bator’s letter
drew the following responses:
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R
ecently, a letter to the editor
appeared questioning the planning for maintenance of the public
sewer system that West Windsor
Township staff performed after the
2007 Nor’easter caused a collapse
in a section of the Wallace Road
trunk line. First, Public Works regularly performs televised (TV) inspections of the sewer lines within
the township as part of their system
maintenance. In this instance, sections of the Wallace Road sewer
line were TV inspected in September and December, 1997; and May,
October, and November, 2007.
The collapse of 2007 was attributed to flooding of the South Post
Pump Station. Not only were excessive amounts of surface water
introduced into the sanitary sewer,
but that surface water contained
large debris, for which the sewer
trunk line was not designed. The
letter also commented on the need
for a costly “on-site 24-hour-a-day
guard” in 2007. At that time, the
bypass pumping was not equipped
with a telemetry alarm to notify
staff if the pumping ceased. Therefore, staff was required to monitor
the pumping equipment at all
times. With the recent collapses,
the bypass pumping did have a
telemetry alarm so no staff was required to monitor the pumping.
In late 2008, the entire line on
Wallace Road was again TV inspected and cleaned. At that time,
staff decided to plan for the future
relining of the entire sewer. A Capital Improvement Program was established that budgeted $250,000 a
year for sanitary sewer repairs and
improvements. The plan was to
save for two years (2009 and 2010)
and schedule the relining. Design
work for the relining project began
in 2011. Unfortunately, the weather again overtaxed the line, and the
recent collapses occurred. Since
funding was allocated for the project in previous years, the money
budgeted in the Capital Program
has covered the expense of the repair to date.
The relining project has been
completed and a grant from the
state will allow us to resurface the
entire length of Wallace Road.
M. Patricia Ward
Director,
Community Development
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the Pine Barrens Treefrog as New
Jersey’s state amphibian. They
were very supportive.
The Pine Barrens Treefrog is one
of the most beautiful American
frogs and exists only in the New
Jersey Pine Barrens, Florida, and
the Carolinas. It’s the symbol of NJ
wildlife species and the Pinelands
National Reserve. The Pine Barrens Treefrog appears on the
Pinelands license plate and on the
cover of many NJ wildlife publications. In 1983, it was painted by
Andy Warhol. Due to the success of
Pineland Protection Act, it was upgraded from “endangered” to
“threatened” and was New Jersey’s
“Species of the Month” in 2003.
We wrote to wildlife naturalists,
visited the NJ Audubon Society,
Herpetological Associates, and
made a presentation to the
Pinelands Commission. They all
endorsed our proposal.
Mrs. Osburn wrote a petition and
has collected signatures from hundreds of students. Greenstein and
Benson visited our school and
talked to 250 students about how a
bill becomes a law. They introduced the bill S351/A2292 recently. We urge more legislators to cosponsor the bill. The bill will make
more people know about the
Pinelands and help conserve the
Garden State’s endangered species.
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WHY IS IT THAT EVERY time
the wind blows in our area the
power goes out? That never
used to happen. Power outages are much more common
now than they were even a few
years ago. Does anyone else
have the same impression?
Can our public officials and/or
PSEG offer a sensible explanation? Our power went off
and on half a dozen times or
more during the winds on February 25. With rising energy
bills, you would expect a stable energy grid at a minimum,
but it seems flimsier than ever.
Brian Reilly
Benford Drive,
Princeton Junction
We tried to get funds from FEMA to help with this but were unsuccessful. Hindsight is always
20/20, but perhaps the opportunity
should have been taken then to inspect the pipes farther down the
line and reline them at that time.
The technology to do this has been
available for several decades.
It may not be possible to firmly
relate the current pipe failure and
sinkhole to the heavy rains we had
from Tropical Storms Irene and
Lee last summer, but in view of the
previous history, this seems to be
more than just a coincidence.
The present repairs are said to be
costing in the neighborhood of
$500,000, which is well above previous estimates. So far, there has
been no allotment for an expense of
this magnitude in either the proposed 2012 capital or operating
budgets, and there has not yet been
an enabling resolution before
Council. We in the public will look
forward to a more complete accounting for this expense at the earliest opportunity.
John A. Church
West Windsor
support Ms. Bator’s comments
about maintenance of the sewers
well before we are faced with costly emergencies of this nature. Our
sanitary sewer system was installed in 1977. With the necessary
use of pump stations due to our relatively flat topography, the pipes
are subject to corrosion from the
release of hydrogen sulfide gas as
one consequence of the pumping
action. This gas is then converted
into sulfuric acid by bacteria, and
the pipes become corroded and ultimately fail. This has been known
for a long time and is a serious issue in many communities.
After the Nor’easter of April 15,
2007, it appears storm water inadvertently got into the sanitary system at a pump station, causing high
flows for which the system was not
designed. There was a pipe failure
and resulting sinkhole on Wallace
Road near Alexander, and repairs
were estimated to cost $537,000
(see the minutes for the May 29,
2007, business session, where an
appropriation of $300,000 was authorized to partially cover this expense).
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n February 24, WWP North’s
STAND, a student-run organization working to end genocide in
Darfur, held Dine for Darfur. The
dinner featured Jerry Ehrlich, a
member of Doctors Without Borders, Felicity Smith, a High School
North senior who visited a village in
Nakuru, Kenya, this summer with
her church, and Charles Rojer, a
holocaust survivor.
Thank you to everyone who
made Dine for Darfur a success,
with special appreciation to all of
North’s STAND members, our
speakers, and the restaurants that
donated to the event: Little
Szechuan, First Wok, Carluccis,
Qdoba, It’s a Grind, Indian Hut,
Aljons, Romeos, Casa Rosarios,
Bagel Street, On the Border, and
Hoagie Haven. With your support
we raised more than $1,200.
Sarah Shapiro
President, STAND
Senior at High School North
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Barbara Osburn’s class at
Millstone River School. Last summer, we found out that 18 states
have a state amphibian but New
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Grover Five Takes First
In Regional Science Bowl
T
homas Grover Middle School placed
first at the regional Science Bowls
held last weekend at the Princeton
Plasma Physics Laboratory in Plainsboro.
High School South placed second in the high
school regional competition on Saturday,
February 25.
The winning middle school team was
among 16 teams from 14 schools. During the
Jeopardy-like tournament competing teams
were quizzed on biology, chemistry,
physics, astronomy, earth science, general
science, and mathematics. Each team was
made up of four students, a student alternate,
and a teacher who served as an adviser and
coach. The team members, Will Jiao, Eric
Mischell, Dhruva Byrapatna, Vijay
Krishnan, and Angela You, and coach Rae
McKenna, will be heading to Washington,
D.C., to compete in the finals.
College Accomplishments
Rowan University: West Windsor students on the fall dean’s list include: Samantha E. Musumeci, a junior majoring in biological science; Melanie R. Pauker, a senior
majoring in English; Linda T. Gosselin, a
freshman majoring in advertising; Kerry A.
Pehnke, a senior majoring in civil engineering; and Amy J. Gill-Murphy, a sophomore
majoring in accounting.
Plainsboro students on the fall dean’s list
include; Katherine I. Lacenere, a senior
majoring in English; and Kristine J. Lepelis, a senior majoring in studio art.
Good Cause
C
hris Bell, president of Plainsboro Rescue
Squad, recently accepted a donation of
$1,125 from Merrill Howe, manager of PNC
Bank Plainsboro. The ceremony was held in
January at PNC Bank on Plainsboro Road.
“PNC was more than happy to work with the
Rescue Squad on this project,” said Howe.
“They do a great job, work hard at it, and
we’re very pleased to be able to help.” The
money was raised during a September promotion that PNC ran in support of the squad.
Grover Middle School science bowl team members Dhruva Byrapatna, left, Eric Mischell, Will Jiao, Angela You, and Vijay Krishnan, will compete in the finals in Washington, D.C.
“We know that many people in Plainsboro, who haven’t had to use our services,
don’t really understand how we work or what
we do. So more education and community
outreach is one of our aims for 2012,” said
Bell. “We are very grateful to PNC for the
publicity they gave us during this event last
year and we look forward to working with
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cue squad is financed entirely by gifts, donations, and grants, and is staffed by unpaid
volunteer EMTs and members. It does not
charge for any of its services. Its fleet comprises three ambulances and one fast response vehicle.
“Without the support of local businesses,
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Student Standouts
T
wo fifth grade students from Millstone
River School received honors in the
New Jersey Association for Gifted Children
Art and Writing annual state contest.
Akanksha Dave, who received first place,
and Katherine Xiong, who received second
place, will be honored at the upcoming New
Jersey Association for Gifted Children State
Above left, Merrill Howe presents Chris Bell with a donation to Plainsboro Rescue
Squad. Above, National Merit
finalist Peter Hopper.
Conference. The two students participate in
a writers’ group offered by Joan Ruddiman, the WW-P district’s Gifted and Talented resource specialist, for fourth and fifth
graders who love to write.
Saahith Pochiraju, a junior at High
School North, placed third in the Brain Bee, a
live question and answer competition about
the human brain and central nervous system.
The event was held at UMDNJ Robert Wood
Johnson Medical School on February 4.
At Stuart School: The Sparks all-girl
rookie robotics team finished fourth at the
FIRST Tech Challenge state championships. They received the Promote Award
for creating the most compelling video designed to change our culture and celebrate
science, technology, engineering, and math.
The team’s robot, Sparky, won four out of
five qualifying matches, beating out many
bigger robots and more experienced teams.
Team members include Elisa Vera and
Aana Bansal, both of West Windsor.
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Pontifical Honors
R
obert W. Medley, the pastor
at Queenship of Mary in
Plainsboro and director of the
diocesan office of worship and
Episcopal ceremonies, is now a
monsignor.
As part of the Diocese of
Metuchen’s 30th anniversary celebration, Bishop Paul G. Bootkoski
conferred pontifical honors upon
nine diocesan priests January 29
during an evening prayer service
held in the Cathedral of St. Francis
of Assisi, Metuchen. The bishop
petitioned Pope Benedict XVI to
bestow papal honors upon the
priests in recognition of their outstanding service and significant
contributions to the people of the
diocese.
Medley’s parents, Miriam and
James, were emotional when they
heard the news. “They were extremely proud and extremely
pleased,” says Medley. “I am very
pleased for them and in a sense,
happier for them than for myself.”
He announced the news to the
parish family the next weekend.
“People in my parish had a wonderful reaction. I explained a little
Princeton Day School: Peter
Hopper of Princeton Junction has
been named a finalist in the 2012
National Merit Scholarship Program. Half of the finalists will be
offered scholarships.
Deaths
Gilbert L. Coccetti, 85, of
Eynon, Pennsylvania, died February 10. He was a World War II
Army veteran. Survivors include
daughter and son-in-law, Sandra
and James Moore of West Windsor. Donations may be made to St.
Jude Children’s Research Hospital, 501 St. Jude Place, Memphis,
TN 38105-1942.
Theresa Pinto DiColo, 86, of
Mercerville died February 13. Survivors include a daughter and sonin-law, Linda and Rod Sharpless of
West Windsor.
Ewald W. Sanjek, 93, of Lakewood died February 14. Survivors
include a son, Edward Joseph Sanjek of Plainsboro.
Gus William Leanos, 87, of
Annapolis, Maryland, died February 18. He was a Navy veteran of
World War II. Survivors include
daughter and son-in-law, Deborah
and Robert Haynes of Plainsboro;
grandchildren, Jason and Kim
Muir of Annapolis, Justin and Aura
Muir and Cecile Haynes of Plainsboro; and one great-grandchild,
Danna Vargas of Robbinsville.
Sandra L. Hayes, 74, of Toms
River died February 18. Survivors
include a son, Jeffrey Hayes of
Plainsboro.
Ruth B. Boyd, 83, of Princeton
Junction died February 19, at
Hamilton Continuing Care Center.
Born in Allentown, Pa., she graduated from Bethlehem Business
College and was a secretary at
Western Electric in Allentown, and
Applied Science Laboratories and
Penn State Dairy Department in
State College.
Survivors include her husband
of 55 years, Dr. John E. Boyd of
Princeton Junction; a son, Dr.
Mark A. Boyd of San Mateo,
Calif.; a daughter, Dr. Sandra Boyd
Davis and her husband, John Davis
Jr., of Arcadia, Calif.; two grandsons, Stephen Boyd of San Mateo,
Calif., and John Davis III of San
Diego, Calif.; and a granddaughter,
April Davis of Arcadia, Calif.
bit of what (becoming a monsignor) means. I believe that when a
priest is honored, it’s really shared
with the people that he ministers
with,” he said. “Sometimes I’ve
gotten the credit, but the parish did
the work.”
Medley was born in Neptune
and has two brothers, James and
Michael. He earned a bachelor’s
degree from the University Of
Notre Dame. It was while attending Notre Dame that he first discerned his priestly vocation.
“My best experience of church
was at Notre Dame. In the midst of
my college experience, Notre
Dame requires theology courses,”
he said. “It was my growth in faith,
and a greater experience of God
and the Church, that opened me to
hearing God’s call to the priesthood.” He received a master of divinity degree from Immaculate
Conception Seminary, Seton Hall
University, South Orange.
He has ministered as diocesan
vice chancellor, director of the
diocesan Office of Vocations, and
chairman of the Commission for
Ministry with People with Disabilities. In 2002 he was named administrator of Queenship of Mary and
was installed as pastor in 2003.
She was active in the West
Windsor Senior Center, the
KeenAgers Club in West Windsor,
the Senior Citizens Club of Plainsboro, and the LIFE St. Francis program for seniors in Hamilton. Donations may be made to Friends of
West Windsor Senior Citizens,
Box 905, West Windsor 08550, or
APAW,
Animal
Placements
Agency of the Windsors, Box 162,
West Windsor 08550.
Jean Vanicski, 69, of Tuckerton died February 21. Survivors include a sister, Ester Perry of West
Windsor.
Janet P. McLean, 68, of Fremont, New Hampshire, died February 24. Survivors include a sister
and brother-in-law, Sally A. Ross
and Charles Phillips of Princeton
Junction; and nieces Claire and
Grace Phillips. Donations may be
made to Rockingham VNA and
Hospice, 137 Epping Road, Exeter,
NH 03833; or to the First Congregational Church of Kingston, Box
203, Kingston, NH 03848.
Lorraine Kapp, 85, of Princeton Junction died February 26 at the
Hamilton Continuing Care Center,
Hamilton. Born in Hamilton, she
moved to Princeton Junction in
1950. Kapp was the tax clerk for
West Windsor Township until her
retirement in 1992. She is past president of the Princeton Junction Volunteer Fire Company No. 1 Ladies
Auxiliary and the West Windsor
Little League Association.
Survivors include her husband
of more than 60 years, Martin S.
Kapp; her daughter and son-in-law,
Joanne and Mort Lovelace; her
sons and daughter-in-law, Steven
Kapp, and John and Kathy Kapp;
five grandchildren; and six greatgrandchildren. Donations may be
made to the Princeton Junction
Volunteer Fire Company No. 1,
245 Clarksville Road, Princeton
Junction 08550.
Gerard Joseph Dalcourt of
Newton died February 25. A
memorial mass will be held Saturday, March 3, at 11 a.m., at the
Chapel of the Immaculate Conception at Seton Hall University in
South Orange. Survivors include a
son and daughter-in-law, Al and
Kathy; and grandchildren Tori,
Paige, and Rick, all of Plainsboro.
The family requests no flowers due
to lent.
“There are so many joys in the
priesthood for me. Liturgy and
worship are especially among my
joys,” he said. Another of his passions is ministry with the deaf. His
brother James is disabled and has
always been an inspiration. “I still
consider myself an advocate for
those who are disabled, to help
people recognize that people with
disabilities are people, and have
gifts to offer, and are full members
of the Church,” Medley said.
“There is more to the person in the
wheelchair than just the wheelchair.”
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Throughout December, January, and early February Walsh appeared at most West Windsor
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and inform council members and
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The announcement at the February 22 township committee meeting topped off a monumental week
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son — who’s also named Quentin
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newspaper reporter who worked
for the New York Daily News from
1952 until his death in 1970.
Walsh met his future wife in
1978 while both were working at
the International Paper Company,
where Walsh was a senior financial
analyst for more than four years.
Coincidentally, at the time both he
and Ellen were attending the Peter
J. Tobin School of Business at St.
John’s University in Queens.
Quentin Walsh finished his MBA
program at St. John’s in 1980, a
year ahead of Ellen.
Walsh earned his bachelor’s degree in accounting from New
York’s Fordham University in
1975. Meanwhile Ellen Walsh
earned her bachelor’s in political
science at Queens College prior to
the MBA program. Walsh’s career
started as an auditor at Arthur Andersen in 1975.
Walsh’s career spans four
decades of financial reporting and
problem-solving for major corporations, including Lord & Taylor,
Tommy Hilfiger, and Playtex.
Since last August Walsh has served
as a consultant for Solomon Edwards Group, based in Wayne, PA.
The job currently has Walsh working with one of the company’s
clients in Parsippany.
While working with Playtex, the
Walsh family lived in Dover,
Delaware, for 12 years before
Walsh had an opportunity to work
in New York again. Several of their
friends there had children in private school near Wilmington, but
the Walshes believe in good public
schools.
Other than schools, Walsh was
set on being near the Northeast
Corridor train line for commuting.
With his daughter Meg an eighth
grader and his son Quentin a sixth
grader, the Walshes moved to
Plainsboro in 1997.
Meg Walsh graduated in 2002
from South and earned her bachelor’s from Rowan University and
an MBA from Rider. She currently
works at the U.S. Merchant Marine
Academy in Kings Point, NY.
Walsh’s signature ending line
when he makes public comments is
to state that the views he shared
were his own and not those of his
wife, Ellen Walsh, as she is a member of the school board. When
asked why he does this on every occasion, Walsh jokes that he’s been
married too many years to try to
talk about his wife’s views.
But the couple is in agreement
on many things pertaining to the
school district, he says. There were
driving factors that led one to the
school board and the other to run
this year. For Quentin it’s the budget; for Ellen it was facilities. The
two aspects intertwined as each
one considered the growth of WWP in their time here.
According to Quentin Walsh, in
the late 1990s when the district was
expanding and building new facili-
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ties to accommodate its growth,
Ellen Walsh saw both her children
attend multiple schools and realized that the conditions of older
buildings were not up to par. She
took up that cause as a key to her
campaign, and with her husband’s
support Ellen Walsh worked her
way from serving on the PTSA at
High School South to becoming a
board member in 2007.
Walsh was convinced to run this
year as he says it represents a time
for change on the board. “Being
mindful of the tough times for taxpayers from West Windsor and
Plainsboro is the first motive. Also,
I feel that the board has chosen to
ignore my comments.”
When examining the district’s
operation,. Walsh believes that
everything has an effective range.
He says one of his biggest disappointments in New Jersey is that
the state really hasn’t looked at
school districts matched for their
respective municipalities and
asked the question “what’s the
right size?”
Walsh says the state breaks districts down into K-6 with under and
over 5,000 students and K-12 with
under or over 5,000 students. With
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In Plainsboro: Tony Fleres, left, is running for reelection and Quentin Walsh and Yibao Xu are also
candidates for the two open seats.
an enrollment of 9,840 this year,
WW-P is on the highest end. Walsh
estimated that about 120 other districts fall into the same category.
Reflecting on how WW-P has
grown in his 15 years in the area, he
says in some instances a district
“gets too big to manage and the
plan turns to start building for bureaucracy rather than for effectiveness.” This is his primary concern
for WW-P’s future.
Yibao Xu. A professor of mathematics at Borough of Manhattan
Community College in New York,
Xu has earned multiple awards and
honors, including a research grant
from CUNY’s community college
collaborative for a 2004 project titled “Mathematicians in China and
the cultural revolution.”
Xu grew up in China’s Jiangxi
province, where his mother was a
homemaker and his father, who
will turn 80 this year, worked as a
miner.
Xu came to America in 1995 to
pursue his Ph.D. studies at City
University of New York. His Ph.D.
is in the history of science, and he
also has a bachelor’s in mathematics from Shangrao Teachers College in Jianxi province.
Although Xu was married he
lived alone for his first two years in
New York as his wife, (Delia)
Yongxian Yu, stayed behind in
China with the couple’s first son,
Jonathan. In China Xu’s wife
worked in education as a professor
of English literature.
In 1998 his wife and son came to
the U.S. and the family settled in
Queens. The couple had a second
child, Alex, who currently attends
Town Center Elementary School.
When Alex was born that prompted Xu to consider moving to an
area that could offer his sons better
educational opportunities.
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while Jonathan could get four full
years at a highly rated public high
school. Xu says fundamentals are
key for educational development.
“I truly understand that education is very important for social
mobilization and the benefit of the
individual as well as the family. I
believe elementary, K through 12
education is very important and it
has a dramatic impact on later education. In fact, K-12 is more important than college. College is something that you can go through if you
have time and resources later in
life. But if you don’t get the elementary education right the first
time around, there’s no going
back,” he said.
Based on the recommendation
of a family friend from Plainsboro
as well as research Xu had done online, Xu’s family settled here in
2007. He gave up convenience to
give his children better schooling.
“It was a tough decision — if I
stayed in New York I would have
saved so much time commuting as
it takes up about four hours every
day I go to the city,” he says. His
wife would have had a shorter
commute too, as she works in New
York for a Chinese sleepwear company. Ironically, their son,
Jonathan, is now living in New
York as a pre-med student at New
York University.
This semester Xu teaches classes on Mondays, Wednesdays, and
Saturdays while his wife commutes every single day. Although
family time is precious, Xu is looking to contribute his time and efforts to the community — and his
adopted country — by serving on
the board of education.
The timing of Xu’s decision to
run also had to do with his naturalization in 2009. He knew that it
was not legally possible for him to
be a candidate for a public office in
America until that happened and
he waited patiently, taking small
steps along the way. Xu says he has
been regularly involved as a parent
by attending parent-teacher conferences and volunteering his time
whenever possible. He is also active in Chinese cultural activities
outside of school.
“Usually we have special festivals and put together art or music
programs, including Chinese calligraphy,” Xu says.
Xu does not have a particular
agenda he is running on. But “trying to limit the burden on taxpayers
in the community is crucial, and we
must keep a balance,” he says.
There is currently just one
Asian-American member of the
WW-P school board, President
Hemant Marathe, but Xu is not intent on making the race about race.
He does say that he hopes his run
for school board will inspire more
minorities to participate in their local community.
“With many of the ChineseAmerican personalities, they are
very successful and have done very
well in their own professions. They
may feel they do their part of community service. Like me, when
they first come to the U.S. they really don’t have much time as they
need to finish their studies and
make a living. But as people develop their lives here and with an increase in the Chinese-American
population and Asian-Americans
as a whole, I think we need to do
our part as members of society,” he
said (see letter, page 3).
West Windsor
M
ichele Kaish, a resident of
the township for the past 18
years, moved to West Windsor
when her husband, Harvey, who
works as an attorney, needed a convenient commute to his job in
Newark. Kaish also wanted to live
close to her family in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, but like many
parents the local school system became her chief consideration.
“I contacted the New Jersey Department of Education and requested school district report cards from
all the districts along the Northeast
Corridor train line. The impressive
statistics and reputation of the
WW-P school district led us to buy
our house in West Windsor,” she
said.
Kaish and her husband have
three sons: Michael, 19, a 2010
graduate of High School North
who is currently in his sophomore
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grader at Community Middle
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Kaish grew up in Forest Hills,
New York, and attended New York
City public schools. She earned her
B.A. in history from Brandeis University. Kaish worked for Griffin
Bacal Inc., an advertising agency
in New York, as manager of employee benefits for seven years before deciding to be a stay-at-home
mom when her first son was born.
As her children grew, Kaish decided she would get back into the
workforce. For the last six years
Kaish has worked part-time as an
assistant at a local tax preparer’s
office.
Her children led to a second career that Kaish titled “school volunteer” — dedicated to WW-P
over the past 15 years. “I have
spent countless hours regularly
volunteering in every class and
school my children have attended.
This includes having held every
possible PTA board position and
being involved in numerous other
activities that support our
schools,” Kaish wrote in an Email.
Kaish’s father worked in men’s
clothing retail and owned his own
stores in that industry. Her mother
was a bookkeeper, and one could
say that her mom’s financial management skill set was passed down.
Kaish has been in charge of finances related to school projects
and activities in the past, and she’s
ready to call on her experience
making budgetary and fiscal decisions if elected to the board.
“Whether I was planning activities or events, considering gift purchases for schools, or evaluating
mini grant applications, I’ve always made decisions that maximized our resources and benefitted
the largest number of students,”
she says.
Teamwork is another key for
Kaish, who said she has worked
with parents, teachers, and administrators across the district and in a
number of roles. “Serving our
community by being a member of
the Board of Education is a natural
next step for me, and it is a challenge I am eager to undertake,” she
says.
Peter Abitanto. A resident of
West Windsor for the past decade,
Abitanto is the senior vice presi-
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dent of sales and marketing at
Brown & Brown Benefit Advisors,
an insurance brokerage firm headquartered in Philadelphia. Abitanto’s office is located in Lambertville, however, and his business has led him to have much interaction with New Jersey school
districts.
“Our firm collectively manages
the employee benefits for over 285
school districts throughout the
state. My relationships with superintendents, business administrators, and school board members
empower me with a network of resources that I can utilize to effectively assist the district. I’ve been
involved in collective bargaining
meetings with board negotiations,
committees, and finance committees, the teacher unions, and members of NJEA,” he says.
According to Abitanto health
insurance is typically the second
largest agenda item in a school district’s budget. He has firsthand
knowledge of the financial analysis, underwriting, and rate negotiation processes with insurance carriers for school districts. He says
that experience allows him to
speak with board members of other
districts and research how they
have addressed certain issues.
“My position requires continual
analysis of internal processes and
identifying process improvement
opportunities. In my industry we
manage conflict on a daily basis
and identifying the source of the
problem and implementing a plan
to resolve issues are skills that will
help me if I am elected,” he says.
After earning a B.A. in economics from Lafayette College in 1992,
Abitanto became a manager for
Moen Incorporated before moving
on to Oxford Health Plans in 1996.
In 2006 Abitanto joined LDP Consulting Group, which was acquired
by Brown & Brown in 2008, as the
vice president of sales and marketing. He says he will continue in the
industry he has worked in for 16
years because it continues to
change. “That keeps it interesting
for me,” Abitanto said.
Connections to K-12 education
helped inspire Abitanto’s run for
school board. His wife, Mary, was
an elementary school teacher in
Linden, teaching first and second
grades. She has also taught at St.
Francis in Metuchen and was recently asked to be an adjunct professor for retail marketing at Rider
University, where she attended
college and also earned her MBA.
Mary Abitanto’s mother, Peter’s mother-in-law, also worked
in education. She was an administrator for the Union County Department of Education and monitored all the schools in Union
County, working side-by-side with
the former Commissioner of Education Vito Gagliardi.
Abitanto grew up in Edison and
attended St. Joe’s High School in
Metuchen. His father worked in
satellite communications after
earning his masters of engineering
from NJIT, beginning his career by
building satellites. Meanwhile
Abitanto’s mother was a dental hygienist who decided to become a
stay-at-home mom.
Abitanto says one of his father’s
greatest accomplishments was his
work on a satellite that is now being shown at the National Air and
Space Museum in Washington,
D.C. Seven years ago his father retired, and Abitanto’s parents currently reside in Sea Girt.
Abitanto and his wife recently
celebrated their 13th wedding anniversary. Mary Abitanto owns
and operates a wholesale women’s
apparel business called BYI. Abitanto describes his wife and him-
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uentin Walsh’s presentation at the West Windsor
Republican Club on Thursday,
March 8, will be titled “An Outside-In Look at the School Budget.” The meeting will begin at 7
p.m. at the Mercer Oaks country
club at 725 Village Road West.
There will be a cash bar, complimentary refreshments, and the
event is free and open to the public and not restricted to members
of the Republican Club. Call
609-799-1301 for information.
Walsh will speak for approximately 30 minutes, followed by
a question period. Gene O’Brien
of the West Windsor Republican
self as avid exercisers, and the couple met at a gym in 1997.
After Abitanto and his wife
were married the couple moved to
East Windsor in 1999. “We realized we loved the area, so we decided to move to West Windsor for
the school district,” he said.
Abitanto has three children attending WW-P schools. His oldest
child, 12-year-old Maggie, goes to
Community Middle School and
previously attended Millstone River and Maurice Hawk. Ten-yearold Sydney attends Millstone River School, while the youngest of
Abitanto’s kids, six-year-old Jack,
goes to Maurice Hawk School.
Abitanto is a soccer dad and
coach in the West Windsor-Plainsboro Soccer Association. His two
girls have made dancing a priority,
learning at the Dance Corner on
Princeton-Hightstown Road. The
family is actively involved in the
Dance Corner’s activities and its
competition team.
“My decision to run was based
on wanting to become more involved in a community I feel very
connected to, and to utilize my experience to help continue the success of the district so that my children and other children will benefit,” Abitanto said.
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Club categorized the event as a
form of public service, saying
the club has held similar events
in each of the past three years.
“Larry Shanok spoke about
school budget financing and
Bob Bruschi, the former West
Windsor business administrator,
spoke about municipal budgets,
giving members a general
overview of finances,” he said.
O’Brien noted that while
WW-P Board of Education President Hemant Marathe is a member of the West Windsor Republican Club, Walsh’s presentation
will not be allowed to digress into a debate-style forum. O’Brien
will moderate the program.
pate in the Champion Schools Program to promote teen driving safety. The district accepted a $1,000
award to fund the project.
For High School South’s Model
United Nations, the board voted to
approve one overnight field trip
while rescinding its approval of another. Students will visit Washington, D.C., from March 22-25. The
cost will be approximately $325
per child.
The Future Problem Solvers
student group will travel to Bloomington, Indiana, from June 7 to 10
for a cost of $1,000 per student.
National History Day middle
and high school students will travel to College Park, Maryland, between June 10 and 14 at a cost of
$700 per student.
The district has entered into
transportation agreements with the
educational services commissions
of Mercer County and Middlesex
County to participate in coordinated transportation for next school
year.
Bills run on February 28 totaled
$10,578.24 while the district’s
capital projects bill list totaled
$32,393.
The board approved renewals of
the following contracts:
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t its February 27 meeting
Council introduced the
2012 budget as well as an
ordinance to permit it to exceed the
municipal budget appropriations
and establish a cap bank. Township
Chief Financial Officer Joanne
Louth explained the safety net contained in the ordinance, relating to
the appropriations in the 2012 budget and beyond.
“The ordinance increases the
amount of the cap from the 2.5 percent that’s allowed by local cap
law, set forth by the director of the
state’s division of local services,
determined by cost of living for the
budget to go up. The ordinance
will increase that to 3.5 percent —
$262,000 — and this additional
percentage is advisable, not necessary, and that will be a decision
council will make when it adopts
the budget. The portion that is advisable and necessary for future
decision-making is the establishment of the bank,” Louth said.
Without this measure Louth
said that there is no banking of that
appropriation “for the purposes of
decisions” in the 2013 and 2014
budget. “If it’s not active now
there’s no banking going forward,”
she said.
Louth says areas such as pension costs and healthcare had gone
up in previous years more than the
cost of living, and the township
would want to prepare for such future financial obligations.
“What this action does is it authorizes that any appropriation that
is not being used in this budget
would be available for a decision in
the 2013 and 2014 budgets. The
budget being introduced is some
$2 million under the cap but we
don’t know what our restrictions
are going to be — the concern being that because it was defeated last
year is that there’d be no banking
for 2013,” Louth said.
Louth told council members to
refer to the cap calculation to look
at the operating budget.
“Right now the operations within the cap are well under the allowable. We are not using last year’s or
2010’s and we don’t need it now as
our budget is going down this year.
But in case costs rise next year or
the year after, an approval of this
ordinance will give you the ability
to do so.”
The mayor described the measure as “a way to prepare for something totally unexpected.” He and
Louth both said that last year was
the first instance that this notion
was defeated.
The ordinance was introduced
for public hearing, which is scheduled for council’s meeting on
Monday, April 16 — coinciding
with the deadline for council to
adopt the 2012 budget. Councilman Bryan Maher, who along with
Linda Geevers voted against introducing the ordinance, disagrees
with the principle behind it.
“You guys do what you want.
I’m against sending the signal that
we are willing to go to 3.5 percent.
I think it’s unnecessary and it’s a
philosophical question whether we
want to make the statement that we
would go to 3.5 percent or that we
will try to live within our means
like the people of the community
do. It’s bad enough that land-home
assessments have gone down fairly
dramatically, and even if we hold
the budget at zero many people’s
property taxes in town are going
up,” Maher said.
“We as a panel need to rein in
the expenses. We don’t have a revenue problem, we have an expense
problem, so I’m against giving ourselves more leeway in the case of
an emergency to bank something
that we shouldn’t be needing.
That’s my personal view, and I
think the community sent a very
strong signal of this last November
— quit spending so much of our
money,” Maher said.
In other news, council approved
the following recommendations
made by the administration on
February 27:
— A shared services agreement
for West Windsor and Mercer
County pertaining to shared hazardous materials emergency re-
‘Do we want to make the
statement that we would
go to 3.5 percent or will
we try to live within our
means like the people of
the community do?’
asked Bryan Maher.
sponse services was voted for. It
permits the township to qualify for
grant money for equipment.
— An amendment to the professional services contract the township has with Remington & Vernick Engineers for traffic signal
modifications at the intersection of
Alexander Road, Vaughn Drive,
and Bear Brook Road was approved for $8,735. Hary said the
measure will be taken to comply
with a DOT request in conjunction
with the building of the New South
parking lot.
— Another amendment to an
agreement with Remington & Vernick Engineers was for final project closeout costs for the Alexander Road S-curve reconstruction,
in the amount of $7,714.27.
— A budget transfer to allow for
the transfer of funds within the
2011 municipal budget was approved for money to come from social security to pay for gas and the
township’s labor counsel.
— A state contract for
$17,692.45 for Allstate Office Interiors to install new carpet in the
courtroom and court offices was
approved. The carpet to be replaced is 16 years old and in poor
condition, according to council
members. Pete Weale of Fisher
Place said he did not think the
township needed to install new carpet “for those that have broken our
laws.”
— Council approved the re-appointment of Jeffrey I. Rubin as the
municipal prosecutor for the period of March 1, 2012 to December
1, 2012 for $25,000.
— A refund of overpaid property taxes was approved.
— A resolution was passed confirming the re-appointment of
Razia Sayed to the Human Relations Council for a two-year term
expiring December 31, 2013.
— Finally, council voted 4-1 in
favor of purchasing a new Ford
F550 chassis cab truck with a snow
plow for Public Works for $56,100
(WW-P News, February 17) after
the idea met opposition from councilman Maher and resident Pete
Weale, who brought a toy lawn
mower up to the podium during
public comments.
“How can I get Public Works to
go and clean out detention basins
so we don’t have to pay a third party vendor? Here’s a vehicle,”
Weale said.
Budget Review
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est Windsor Council President Kamal Khanna is anticipating a smoother budget review
process for this year compared to
years past. Khanna is no longer one
of the newer faces on town council,
and he sees the changeover as a
positive headed into the first of
council’s work sessions, scheduled
for Friday, March 2, from 12:30 to
5 p.m. at the municipal complex.
The township’s department heads
will present their monetary needs
to the council, and Khanna says
that will be a chance for council to
quiz them on how they put their
budgets together.
On that day Township Business
Administrator Bob Hary is expecting the department heads, including Director of Public Works Alex
Drummond, to inform the council
as to their long-term plans for capital expenditures and how the
funds will be used to benefit township operations. But after that the
council’s schedule remains uncertain.
“After March 2 we will hold additional work sessions on an asneeded basis,” Khanna says, noting that in previous years work sessions have lasted full days at a time
and were sometimes held on weekends.
For this year New Jersey has set
an earlier April deadline for municipalities to adopt their budgets,
leaving a period of 45 days after
March 2 for “hammering it out.”
Khanna’s first objective is moving quickly — he wants to satisfy
the state requirement by introducing the budget first and following
with deliberations. After some objections were brought forward
from the public and the dais at the
council’s February 27 meeting, the
budget was introduced by a vote of
3-2.
Council Vice President Linda
Geevers and Councilman Bryan
Maher voted against introducing
the budget first. Maher suggested
that council wait one week after
going through the initial work session on March 2 and meet very
briefly on March 5 to just introduce
the budget. “That would at least
give us a glimpse of what we are
facing,” Maher said before the vote
was taken.
Khanna held the position that
going back to change items would
make a better alternative. “If during deliberations we find out that
we need to change any line item
more than 10 percent, then we have
to re-introduce the budget and wait
for 30 days before we can adopt it,”
Khanna said.
Khanna is confident there will
be minimal holdups this year as he
takes a businessman’s perspective
of budgeting: simply get the task
accomplished.
“In the past it’s been like an
open-ended thing and there’s been
a lot of roadblocks that came between introducing and adopting a
budget. My philosophy is to get us
on a track — let’s try to play by the
rules and let’s stick to a timetable.
Otherwise the objective may never
be satisfied, like a never-ending
game,” he said.
Khanna has worked closely
with Business Administrator
Robert Hary over the past three
months, commending the job done
thus far. He says after working
with the administration and telling
them to put their best foot forward,
they have done so by being under 2
percent. He believes council
should have an easier time with this
year’s budget.
MARCH 2, 2012
A
fter five women were arrested February
15, for an alleged prostitution operation
at 148 Princeton-Hightstown Road, pictured
at right, Mayor Hsueh and the West Windsor
Police Department have become adamant
about stopping a disturbing trend in the area.
The February arrests came less than 18
months after three other raids on massage
parlors in the vicinity: Bodyworks Massage
at 83 Princeton-Hightstown Road, Oriental
Moon Massage at 702 Alexander Road, and
Min’s Health Center on 222 Washington
Road, in October, 2010. In October, 2009,
two women were arrested for suspected
prostitution at the Asran House massage
therapy in Suite 208 of the office building at
55 Princeton-Hightstown Road. The houses
in which these operations took place were all
rented and zoned as commercial properties.
Lieutenant Brian Melnick says locations
along Princeton-Hightstown Road have
been attractive to criminals wanting to set up
such operations, because it is close to Routes
1 and 130, I-95 and the Princeton Junction
train station. The location had been advertised in newspaper and online ads for the
massage businesses. “With large homes in a
commercial area, access is easy and it’s convenient to find,” he said.
“The budget work has already
been done in the last three months,
and I don’t think any one of us has
the resources to go tell [Police]
Chief Pica that he needs only 33
people and not 43, for example. We
have to understand the initiative
unless we think there needs to be a
change in big policies,” Khanna
said.
Scrutiny of the township’s finances has most recently come
from Maher, who has been meeting
with Hary on occasional afternoons just ahead of council meetings. Those meetings have mostly
covered township expenditures
passed in recent resolutions.
But on Thursday, February 23,
Hary accompanied Maher, Linda
Geevers, and residents Pete Weale
and John Church, who all toured
the Department of Public Works
facility to take a look at the inventory of vehicles and other capital.
At the February 27 meeting Maher said he had no objection to replacing old and dysfunctional
equipment, but he noted that there
were a total of 51 trucks for the 30
personnel that Public Works employs. A discussion over the use of
so many vehicles ensued, with Maher suggesting that West Windsor
enter into a shared services agreement for some heavy-duty vehicles
or, to gain some returns, to rent
those trucks out when not in use.
While Khanna prefers to keep
the ball rolling, he says recent
weeks have provided a good learning experience for Maher as he has
approached Hary to find out how
and why the township spends.
Khanna went through much of the
same due diligence when he first
joined council.
Khanna says Maher recently inquired whether he can have his
own professional contacts and local advisors review the township’s
budget along with him. According
to Khanna, Maher received a reply
that he can in fact do that as the
budget became a public document.
Questions on the budget are sure
to be raised at council meetings and
the special work sessions. Last
year council met for three sessions
before being ready to adopt the
budget, Khanna said.
To further expedite deliberations this year, council plans to set
aside extra time at its meetings on
alternate Monday nights to work
on the budget. Because those sessions will be within the format of
the meeting they will be part of the
cable television broadcast. Other
budget work sessions, such as
March 2, will not.
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Can Ordinance Deter Prostitution?
Neighbors were alert to the presence of
these operations, with resident concerns
sparking the latest investigation, Mayor
Hsueh has decided to put forth a decree. “It is
unacceptable to have this in this community,
and my direction to the police department is
that we have to do whatever it takes to prevent this from happening again in West
Windsor,” Hsueh said.
A long-term solution will soon come before council as Lt. Melnick proposed an idea
for winning West Windsor’s war on prostitution: a new official township ordinance.
“We could regulate massage therapy locations based upon an ordinance and it would
be the main method of control in the future.
We think it would not only impact where
they set up, but how they do business and
who the employees are — whether or not
they are certified would matter,” Melnick
said.
Township Attorney Michael W. Herbert
is currently drafting the ordinance, and he
says it will include a requirement for
masseuses to have certification or licensure.
Council President Kamal Khanna said
council would move quickly to adopt such
Wallace Rd. Report:
Open, But Costly
W
THE NEWS
allace Road re-opened the
morning of Tuesday, February 28, as emergency sewer repair
work came to an end. However the
total cost to the township was over
$612,000, and in previous council
meetings Business Administrator
Robert Hary estimated the total as
close to $500,000.
Heavy costs for the repair project included $130,425.51 for
Scheidler Excavating. Godwin
Pumping will receive $90,799.45
and Mabey Bridge Shore will receive $15,107.60. The total labor
cost for the township’s Department
of Public Works came to
$19,153.37.
Two recommendations pertaining to the Wallace Road repair
were approved at council’s February 27 business meeting.
A $308,949 professional services agreement with Closterbased Entech Corp. for labor, material, and equipment was approved. Council also voted to authorize $24,000 payment for Van
Cleef Engineering for administration and observation of the sewer
lining.
The remaining costs comprised
of $6,925 to DRP Construction for
the paving repair on Wallace Road,
which was completed on February
27; $6,160.38 for Stevenson Supply; $2,400 for nearly 40 hours of
police traffic directors; $2,576.64
for Water Works Supply; $3,498
for Oswald; $1,197.30 for Norcia
Corp. and $825 to MT Group.
Mayor Hsueh says that with
large-scale engineering projects, if
the total cost varies by anywhere
up to 20 percent that would be a
good thing. At the February 27
council meeting, Councilman
Bryan Maher asked Hary whether
or not the township received competing bids for the work. Hary’s response was that in an emergency
situation there is no time to go
through that process.
Mayor Hsueh says that the
township will pay close attention to
sewer lines in the area as a way of
learning from the recent experience. He says the township had
first planned to do so when it set
aside funds for a comprehensive
review of the sewer underneath
Wallace Road in 2007, when another incident occurred and fallen
debris “messed up the pumping
station.” That review project was
actually scheduled for this year.
Hsueh believes the problems on
legislation once it came before them, but he and Mayor
Hsueh insist a crackdown on
all massage businesses will
not be the fix.
Although the West Windsor Police do take special notice of massage parlors that
open, Mayor Hsueh says it is
unfair to legitimate massage
businesses in the township
who have worried about presenting a negative connotation because of
prostitution incidents.
“The question is are there some bad elements, such as hurting the chances of the legitimate establishments? I think we need to
separate those two. If there’s an ordinance
that can be passed that will protect those that
are going to set up massage businesses legally, we will do that,” Khanna said.
Melnick agreed with that assessment and
said the police do not harbor any unjustified
suspicion. “We don’t just assume, because
of the recent trend, that when a massage or
therapy business opens up that there will be
illegal activity going on there. You can’t just
Wallace Road have something to
do with the geological structure of
that part of the township and the
wetlands that development was
built over years ago. Because the
New South parking lot will be in
the same vicinity, drainage and
storm water controls will be included in its design to avoid the
same issue. The mayor also says
West Windsor is a step ahead of
other municipalities in the area
when it comes to structural conditions and storm water management, as with developers such as
Toll Brothers there were requirements built into the individual projects.
One West Windsor resident who
was affected by the construction
work was Mark Lewis of 3 Colonial Avenue. Lewis, who is handicapped, spoke at the council meeting, saying that while work was going on he could not make his way to
the train station as there were pipes
and hoses run across the curb cuts.
Lewis placed a call to the office
of Pat Ward, director of community development, and he received a
call back from Township Engineer
Francis Guzik. Guzik immediately
had the problem resolved by seeing
that a temporary ramp was installed and hoses would not block
the curb. Lewis publicly thanked
Guzik and the township’s engineering staff for accommodating
his request.
State of WW
M
ayor Shing-Fu Hsueh will
deliver his 2012 “State of the
Township” address on Monday,
March 12, at 7 p.m. and will discuss the forthcoming environmental education center planned for
Schenck Farmstead, a planned new
park at the Gables, and fast-moving renovations now underway at
Windsor Plaza on Princeton-Hightstown Road.
Amid budget talks and scrutiny
of the township’s spending, Hsueh
will present plans for sustainability
as part of his long-term vision for
the township. Hsueh says he will
refer to an article published in the
Times of Trenton on January 8
showing that West Windsor was
one of the most stable municipalities in terms of property tax rate in
all of Mercer County.
“Philosophically I always try to
make sure that property tax increases each year never go above
two pennies. The only time I wasn’t able to do that was last year, the
reason being that last year we went
up more than two pennies because
make that assumption because there are legitimate ones and there are customers who
use them to treat injuries and such,” Melnick
says.
Hours of operation may also be addressed
with an ordinance. In the most recent case,
Melnick said the “massage business” was
observed to be running (very busily) until 10
p.m. on a nightly basis but no after-hours activity was recorded in the police investigation. Melnick affirmed that neighbors’ complaints about constant activity in and out of
the house led police to investigate. “Some of
the residents were not happy about the constant traffic coming in and out.”
the year before Council decided to
use the sale of a liquor license (for
$611,000) for property tax relief,”
the mayor says.
As infrastructure and capital improvements were laid out by the
administration’s 2012 budget,
Hsueh will speak about planned
improvements to the municipal
complex as well as the potential for
change with the post office building adjacent to it.
“This year we have another
liquor license sale of $2.5 million,
[for Bobby’s Burger Palace at MarketFair] which will be used for improvements to public infrastruc-
‘This year we have another liquor license sale
of $2.5 million, which
will be used for improvements to public
infrastructure,’ says
Mayor Hsueh.
ture, to make sure we use that money as an investment to save money
in the long term,” Hsueh says,
adding that using that money for
property tax relief would cause the
township to end up with a bigger
hole next year.
“One shot is not going to help
sustain property taxes for a municipal budget. It’s part of the whole
concept and plan for sustainability
in West Windsor, which has three
components — environmental, social, and economic,” he said.
With a 2012 budget that would
increase the municipal tax levy by
just 1.86 percent, the mayor maintains that spikes and up-and-down
tax rates will not happen under his
watch. Property tax stability will
reign as he seeks to make improvements to the township.
The mayor will touch on the future of the InterCap project and
how the transit-village designation
will provide West Windsor with
guaranteed support from all state
agencies in the future development
of the site. Hsueh also says with the
transit village and more global
headquarters coming to West
Windsor, the township should have
a volunteer group to promote the
area for business. The mayor is taking preliminary steps to form an
advisory group to help promote
West Windsor as a businessfriendly community.
“Whoever has the interest and
ability to help the business community will be invited to join,” he said.
Municipal Building Improvements. The sale of a liquor license
to MarketFair for $1.25 million last
year (WW-P News, August 12)
will provide funds for work on the
municipal complex, as will a
$25,000 grant from Sustainable
Jersey for energy-related improvements to public facilities. Hsueh
says with that money West Windsor must abide by state statutes that
permit the township “to improve
our green design and use the money we save in the future to pay for
all the costs.”
“We have money that we need to
use for investment. We have high
energy bills at the complex, it was
built almost 40 years ago and never
has had any improvements or renovations. We will save money down
the road, and we have the money to
make it happen sooner rather than
later,” the mayor said.
The mayor referenced an idea
that former Councilman Charles
Morgan had put forward about installing solar panels on the municipal building, and Hsueh says Morgan never listened to him when he
explained that the township had investigated that possibility with engineering analysis. Solar panels
simply wouldn’t work.
“The structure of the building
will not be strong enough to hold
panels. Instead we need to make
this a more efficient facility inside,
not only by installing better insulation but better partitions too. We
need to look into how to make the
building more energy efficient and,
at the same time, look into new
technology.”
Hsueh says the trailer attached
to the building is also nearly 40
years old and the shelf life of such a
structure is 20 years. Employees
now need to bring in fans during
the warm summer months, and the
mayor says “that’s not cost-efficient.”
Hsueh says the physical
arrangements of the complex need
to be more accessible and customer-friendly. One addition may
be a new window open in the front
for people to pay taxes, or different
locations for certain divisions.
As for the parking lot, which is
in poor condition, the mayor has
looked into one possibility so far
— the Atlantic County Utility Authority which uses a “solar shelter”
for its parking lot to protect the
ground from sunlight, rain or snow
while producing solar energy. He’s
not sure whether the township can
do that, but Hsueh says the investment is worth exploring.
16
THE NEWS
MARCH 2, 2012
Plainsboro Weighs Possible Budget Increase
by Rikki N. Massand
A
preliminary version of the
2012 Plainsboro municipal
budget totals $25.58 million — an increase of 7.8 percent or
$1.87 million over last year’s budget.
Using an average home value of
$387,800 the increase in municipal
taxes to Plainsboro residents
would be around $77. The budget
amount reflects an increase in the
municipal tax rate of just under two
cents, to .3688, according to the
numbers presented at the February
22 Township Committee meeting
by Business Administrator Robert
O. Sheehan.
The 2012 budget benefits from
the township’s program for entities
to make payment in lieu of taxes
(PILOT). Merwick Medical Care
and Rehab Center pay $330,000;
St. Joseph’s Seminary will pay
$70,000; the new medical arts
pavilion will pay $365,000; and the
hospital group, University Medical
Center of Princeton at Plainsboro,
will pay a community impact fee of
$133,477.
The budget assumes that state
aid would remain constant at $1.6
million, and just ahead of the meeting Township CFO Greg Mayers
found out from the state that this
should be the case as there will be
no reductions.
Plainsboro’s tax base has remained stable, increasing a small
percentage — $3 million — over
the 2011 level. But Sheehan made
it clear that further progress is
ahead given the national economy.
“Good things are about to come
but they’re not quite here yet.
We’re mindful of the timing as we
prepare this budget and try to pull
together an understanding of how
to budget this year with next year in
mind,” he said.
Revenue from the new Novo
Nordisk headquarters on Scudders
Mill Road will not come to the
township in 2012 and likely not in
2013 in time for the budget.
One key Sheehan outlined will
be how Plainsboro uses its surplus.
The preliminary budget he presented uses $5,110,000 in surplus,
which would allow the township to
retain three percent of its net operating revenue going forward. The
three percent, Sheehan says, is the
level Plainsboro has been at for
several years.
On the revenue side the town-
In the Courts
E
xtortion charges brought by
the Plainsboro Police Department against one of their own —
former officer Nick Procaccini
— were dismissed January 4 in
Middlesex County Court.
The former officer, a West
Windsor resident, characterized
the investigation “as an attempt
to discredit former officers as
witnesses” in a sexual harassment suit brought against the department. At the time of the
charges, Procaccini’s lawyer described him as “a whistleblower.” The Plainsboro Police previously had terminated Procaccini
and had been engaged in a
lengthy legal action with him
(The News, January 21, 2011).
Procaccini says he spent all of
the past year with his attorneys
going over the case and talking to
ship is in “pretty decent shape.”
Some of the Plainsboro’s revenues
were surprisingly strong, including
interest on investments, which totaled $102,976, and uniform commercial code (UCC) fees, which
accounted for $558,445 in revenue. Sheehan expects both figures
to be anomalies.
“We wouldn’t recommend getting too used to the UCC fees from
various projects going on. And we
will probably be falling back down
to earth on the interest on investments this year,” he said.
Meanwhile Sheehan said the
rise of hotel tax revenue to $52,739
indicated a positive as that has been
“a problem” in recent years. Fees
and permits and municipal court
revenues also combined to help
Plainsboro rein in another $76,000.
Sheehan says that the gradual
reduction of the township’s employee-related expenses such as
salary, pension, health insurance,
and fringe benefits — which account for 52.6 percent of the township’s budget — will make a significant difference this year. The
number dropped for the third year
in a row as in 2011 those expenses
comprised 56 percent of the budget.
Legislation was just passed for
Plainsboro to participate in the
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“None of us understood why
the prosecutor’s office didn’t do
the investigation themselves.
Having been a police officer for
20 years, I know why they didn’t
— Plainsboro wanted to control
the investigation so they could
decide which way it would go,”
he said.
Procaccini says “the way
Plainsboro acted during this investigation makes me disenchanted about law enforcement.
It was so unethical and so incompetent,” he says.
The Ravi Case. The trial of
Dharun Ravi, the WW-P High
School North alumnus charged
with spying on his freshman year
roommate at Rutgers, is continuing in court in New Brunswick.
For links to current stories on the
trial visit www.wwpinfo.com.
ginning June 1, a move that Sheehan says will bring substantial savings — approximately $168,000.
In comparison the 2011 budget
health insurance costs increased
$126,000. Employees will contribute a total of nearly $130,000
for health insurance premiums this
year now that they share the premium costs with the township. The
contributions will increase in each
of the next three years.
In the budget pension cost
would increase by just $1,123.
Sheehan says the township was
pleased with that increase as last
year pension increase totaled
$240,590.
The township’s most prominent
expense in the 2012 budget is debt
service, which increased by
$750,000 over 2011.
“In large part it reflects our commitment to new facilities, to improve facilities, and be diligent in
maintaining roads,” Sheehan said.
He asked the township committee to recall the research on debt
service the township collected
when it was planning the financing
of the Plainsboro Public Library.
“True to the goal of never having more than a two cent increase
based on debt service, we’ve
reached the apex of that increase
this year. The last two years have
been pretty strong increases, maxing out our range. It will begin to
slowly reduce in the coming years
and then, with some debt retired, it
will drop as years go on,” he said.
Sheehan said it was important to
note that the debt service number is
“artificially inflated” through the
township’s obligations outlined in
the redevelopment plan with
Princeton Healthcare System.
“We have to finance an infrastructure project related to that, and
we worked with them to finance
the new park being constructed
near the hospital. That is a debt of
$8 million that will be retired over
15 years at $550,000 a year, so that
pumps our debt service number
up,” Sheehan said.
Mayor Peter Cantu noted that
the amount would therefore inflate
the overall budget by $550,000,
and he believes it was required in
submitting the project for it to be
recognized as a redevelopment
project.
“The expenses offset. We don’t
like to see those numbers but it is
what it is,” Cantu said.
Plainsboro’s increased 2012
budget will provide the following
resources to the community:
- The summer camp fees for 50
additional children will be paid for.
MARCH 2, 2012
THE NEWS
17
WW-P Winter
Sports Season Ends
T
he WW-P School District’s
sports teams played to varying
degrees of success during the
2011-’12 winter sports season.
The North girls’ swimming
team finished with a 9-3 record but
lost to High School South 97-73 in
the NJSIAA Public A Central quarterfinal on February 10.
The South Girls team swam to a
12-3 record, and captured its 12th
consecutive Mercer County Tournament title. After defeating High
School North, the team lost to
Vineland, 88-82, in the state tournament group semifinals on February 22.
The North boys’ swim team led
Division A with a 13-3 record. The
team lost in the state tournament,
Central Jersey, Public A final
round to Hunterdon Central, 10161, after defeating Lenape, 101-69,
in the first round.
The South boys’ swim team finished with an 8-7 record. The team
finished its season on February 13
with 116-54 loss to Hunterdon
Central in the semifinal round of
the state tournament.
For the district’s two boys’ basketball teams it was a tale of two
different seasons, with the Pirates
finishing 20-4 and the Knights with
a 2-24 record.
South ended its season on February 28 with a 72-64 loss to Monroe in the first round of the state
tournament. For North, although
much of the season was winless,
the team won two games late in the
season — a 55-49 game against
Wall on February 23, and a 59-45
game against Robbinsville on February 11.
Both hockey teams also had losing records, with High School
North finishing 10-11-1, and High
School South finishing 7-11-2.
In fencing, the teams had mixed
results. The South boys’ fencing
team had a 9-5 record. The North
boys were 6-10.
The North girls’ fencing team
had good success, finishing with a
10-4 record and ending up in second place in District 2. South girls’
fencing, meanwhile, ended the season in sixth place with a 6-8 record.
Sports Scores
Boys’ Basketball
North (2-24). A 48-45 loss to
North Hunterdon on February 17.
Scorers: Darrien Banks, 10; Juwan
Harrison, 13; Kyle Newman, 5; Chris
Okorodudu, 13; Paul Silva Jr., 4.
A 66-46 loss to High School South
on February 21. Banks, 5; Harrison,
14; Ilijah McManus, 2; Kevin Murphy,
3; Newman, 3; Okorodudu, 10; Silva,
9.
A 55-49 win against Wall on February 23. Banks, 9; David Burke, 8;
Harrison, 18; Murphy, 5; Newman, 6;
Silva, 9.
A 65-45 loss to Notre Dame on
February 24. Banks, 3; Burke, 3;
The Pirates wrestlers defeated the Knights on
January 6, 55-18. Pictured during the meet are,
clockwise from top left, Ryan Moshman (South) def.
Chris Diaz (North); Sean Tsaur (North) def. Ishar
Keshu (South); Ben Schulman (South) def. Vinny
Porreca (North); North finished the season 1-18,
and South was 3-9.
Photos by Mark Czajkowski.
Harrison, 9; McManus, 4; Murphy, 4;
Okorodudu, 4; George Senter, 2; Silva, 14; Christian Waters, 2.
South (20-4). An 82-77 win
against Lawrence on February 17.
Ryan Dontas, 6; Chris Evans, 24;
Rohan Ganesan, 3; Zavon Johnson,
7; Sagar Patel, 2; Bryan Rivers, 31;
Ryan Witter, 9.
A 66-46 win against High School
North on February 21. Dontas, 3;
Isaiah Edmonds, 7; Evans, 11; Will
Gilbertson, 6; Johnson, 16; Brian
Matthews, 13; Patel, 2; Rivers, 14;
Witter, 4.
An 80-70 win against Trenton on
February 24. Dontas, 3; Edmonds, 5;
Evans, 21; Ganesan, 2; Gilbertson,
2; Johnson, 15; Rivers, 21; Witter,
11.
A 72-64 loss against Monroe on
February 28 in the NJSIAA state
tournament, Central Jersey, Group
4, first round. Edmonds, 5; Evans,
17; Johnson, 18; Rivers, 18; Witter,
6.
North (10-10-1). A 6-1 loss to
Notre Dame on February 17. Goal:
Joe Bensky. Saves: Kyle Adair, 50.
A 3-2 loss to Wayne Valley on
February 26. Goals: Bensky, 2.
Saves: Adair, 26.
South (7-11-2). A 4-3 loss to Paul
VI on February 22. Goals: Alex Mangone, Chris Clancey, Matthew
Sayde.
Girls’ Basketball
Girls’ Swimming
North (10-13). A 46-32 loss to
Lawrence on February 17. Scorers:
MaryBeth Carson, 2; Kayla Foster, 6;
Sarah McNeilly, 8; Kerry McNeilly, 4;
Taylor Strype, 2; Julia Tampellini, 2;
Maggie Tang, 3; Vanessa Tatulli, 5.
A 48-31 loss to High School South
on February 21. Carson, 2; Foster, 2;
K. McNeilly, 8; S. McNeilly, 2; Lauren
Schwartzman, 10; Tampellini, 2;
Tang, 1; Tatulli, 4.
A 37-32 win against Notre Dame
on February 24. Carson, 2; Gina
Chiarolanzio, 4; Foster, 12; Kerry
McNeilly, 2; Sarah McNeilly, 7;
Schwartzman, 4; Tatulli, 6.
A 32-16 loss to Middletown South
on February 28 in the NJSIAA Tournament, Central Jersey, Group 4 first
round. Foster, 3; Morgan Magid, 2;
Sarah McNeilly, 6; Kerry McNeilly, 2;
Schwartzman, 1; Tatulli, 2.
South (12-11). A 55-28 win
against Princeton on February 17.
Melinda Altamore, 11; Megan Fitzpatrick, 9; Alyssa Gilman, 3; Gabi
Hahn, 21; Katie McCormick, 2; Sammie McCormick, 2; Andrea Ndubizu,
5; Karoline Sandvig, 2.
A 48-31 win against High School
North on February 21. Erica Aduya,
- One additional police officer, at a cost of
$75,000.
- An annual payment to the Plainsboro
Rescue Squad of $60,000.
- Expansion of contract services for the
department of public works: $70,000 for
snow clearing and $49,600 for grass cutting.
- Financial support for the Plainsboro
Public Library in the amount of $74,793.
- The opening of the new Recreation and
Cultural Center adjacent to the municipal offices, as well as an expansion of township
programs, for $35,000.
Honoring Military. At the Township
Committee meeting on Wednesday, February 22, a resolution was passed endorsing the
New Jersey League of Municipalities’ initiative for municipal support of the military.
Mayor Peter Cantu explained this as a
8; Fitzpatrick, 2; Gilman, 13; G.
Hahn, 19; K. McCormick, 6.
A 65-33 loss to Trenton on February 24. Aduya, 2; Altamore, 2; Fitzpatrick, 2; Gilman, 2; G. Hahn, 7; S.
McCormick, 7; K. McCormick, 5;
Ndubizu, 4; Sandvig, 2.
A 29-61 loss to North Brunswick
on February 28 in the NJSIAA Tournament, Central Jersey, Group 4 first
round. Aduya, 4; Altamore, 6; Fitzpatrick, 4; Gabi Hahn, 9; Cai-Cai
Hahn, 2; Ndzubizu, 4.
Ice Hockey
South (13-2). A 99-71 win against
Cherry Hill East on February 17.
A 88-82 loss to Vineland on February 21.
Boys’ Fencing
North (6-10). An 18-9 loss to High
School South on February 22. Epee
wins: Pratyush Trivedi, 1; Eric Yu, 1.
Foil wins: Michael Miller, 2; Dylan
Pyne, 2; Wynston Stanback, 1; Vincent Wu, 1. Saber win: Bolong Xu, 1.
South (9-5). An 18-9 win against
High School North on February 22.
Girls’ Fencing
North (10-4). A 17-10 win against
High School South on February 22.
Epee wins: Kajol Gandhi, 1; Tejasvi
Gowda, 2; Mounica Paturu, 3; Claudia Wai, 2. Foil wins: Angel Sun, 2;
Tanvee Varma, 2. Saber wins: Katie
Khaw, 1; Kristina Leung, 1; Elysia
Wang, 2; Emily Wu, 1.
South (6-8). A 17-10 loss to High
School North on February 22.
Boys’ Track
North. A second-place finish at
the Group III state championship on
move to “encourage citizens and businesses
in Plainsboro to try to provide, to the best of
their ability, employment services to veterans upon their return.”
Committee member Ed Yates asked the
mayor if there were any concrete plans set
forth by the state to provide employment for
veterans. “Most of the trade unions have a
program called ‘Helmets to Hardhats’ where
they put people into apprenticeships, and
then they do get jobs,” Yates said.
Mayor Cantu said he is optimistic that opportunities will come through. “If there are
suggestions on how we can do something
more, I want to hear them,” Cantu said.
I
n other township committee news, after a
year of planning the township has taken a
step towards reinventing itself — online.
February 18. Top-six finishes: 55m
dash: 4. Tyrone Parker, 6.58. 400m
dash: 3. Chris Banks, 50.77. 800m:
2. Veer Bhalla, 1:58.19. 3200m: 3.
Eddie Cunningham, 9:30.4; 6. Danny
Lee, 9:35.6. 55m hurdles: 1. Greg
Caldwell, 7.48. 4x400m relay: 2.
Caldwell, Bhalla, Sachin Natarajan,
Banks, 3:28.9. Shot put: 5. Jerrick
Zhang, 49-05.
Top-six finishes at the Meet of
Champions on February 25: 55m
dash: 6. Parker, 6.6. 55m hurdles: 4.
Caldwell, 7.42.
South. A third-place finish at the
Group III state championship on
February 18. 800m: 1. AJ Chavez,
1:57.34; 6. Eddison Gulama,
1:59.46. 1600m: 2. Jack Riff 4:23.15.
3200m: 4. Daniel Sheldon, 9:33.43.
4x400m relay: 5. Chavez, Rilwan
Pade, Donyelle Reid, Gulama,
3:30.13.
Top-six finish at the Meet of
Champions on February 25. 800m:
2. Chavez, 1:52.67.
Girls’ Track
North. A sixth-place finish at the
Group III state championships on
February 18. Top-six finishes: 400m:
5. Christina LiPuma, 1:00.15. 800m:
3. Simone Counts, 2:23.2. 55m hurdles: 3. Patrycja Dziekonska, 8.16.
Pole vault: 6. Rebecca Jin, 9-06.
Top-six finish at the Meet of
Champions on February 25: 55m
hurdles: 4. Dziekonska, 8.17.
South. A fourth-place finish at the
Group III state championships on
February 18. 1600m: 6. Caroline
Kellner, 5:05.29. 3200m: 2. Kellner,
10:45.28. High jump: 4. Paige
Brown, 5-02. Pole vault: 2. Michelle
Gao, 10-0. Shot put: 1. Miriam Fadiga, 39-07.
Top-six finishes at the Meet of
Champions on February 25: 3200m:
4. Kellner, 10:36.33. Shot put: 6.
Fadiga, 38-01.
A professional services contract for an interactive website and “citizen communication service” was approved. Resolutions
were also passed for the following items:
- Authorizing execution of first amendment for the FMC Corporation site redevelopment area as it makes improvements on
Scudders Mills Road and Campus Road.
“It defers the previous requirement that
they do this prior to the opening of the new
hospital (May 22). Because of circumstances
out of their control it defers that obligation to
December,” Cantu said.
- A redemption of tax sale certificate and a
refund for a recycling container were approved.
- An application for Plainsboro to apply
for 2012 community development block
grant (CDBG) funds will be submitted.
Baseball Registrations
Registration for the 2012 Cranbury-Plainsboro Little League t-ball
season remains open to all children
ages 5-6 years old who live within
Cranbury and Plainsboro. Age eligibility is determined by a child’s birth
date.
CPLL only accepts online registrations. New (non-returning) players
who register online must separately
mail in a copy of their birth certificate,
medical insurance, and proof of residency (i.e. utility bill).
A returning player is defined as
one who has participated in baseball
or softball for the CPLL in one of the
preceding Spring seasons.
To register, go to www.cpll.org
and click on “Registration.”
Meanwhile, Registration is now
open for the 2012 West WindsorPlainsboro wood bat Senior Babe
Ruth League.
The league, open to players who
will be between 16 and 18 years old
as of April 30, plays games every
Sunday. The league includes other
teams from Mercer County and surrounding areas and will run from
April to June for regular season play.
All-star play will run into July.
In addition to offering post season
all-star play, West Windsor-Plainsboro Senior Babe Ruth will also host
a Wood Bat Tournament and participate in other Senior Babe Ruth Invitational Games and tournaments.
Home games will be played at the
newly renovated Ciuffani Field at
West Windsor Community Park.
Registration will take place on our
website at www.leaguelineup.com/wwpbaberuth. Registration closes on
March 9. Anyone registering after
that date will be required to pay a
$50 late fee and won’t be assured a
place on a team. Anyone with questions or who wants to help is asked to
contact Tom O’Connor at 609-2756959 or [email protected].
On the agenda for the township committee’s next business meeting, scheduled for
Wednesday, March 14, are public hearings
on the township’s towing and storage fee
schedule, vehicles and traffic regulation
changes for Enterprise Drive, and changes to
the number of taxi licenses awarded by the
township (WW-P News, February 3).
- A resolution authorizing Najarian Associates to perform environmental services at
the bulk farm.
- Towing contractors for the police department will be recommended.
- Releases of developer review fees for the
following projects are set to be approved:
Bloomberg, Romeo’s Restaurant at 10
Schalks Crossing Road, and Mack-Cali Realty Corp.
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MARCH 2, 2012
DAY-BY-DAY IN WW-P
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www.wwpinfo.com. For timely updates, follow wwpinfo at Twitter
and on Facebook. Before attending
an event, call or check the website
before leaving home. Want to list
an event? Submit details and photos to [email protected].
Friday
March 2
On Stage
Peter Pan, High School North, 90
Grovers Mill Road, Plainsboro,
609-716-5100. Musical with Molly
Karlin of Plainsboro in the title role.
$10. Through Sunday, March 4. 8
p.m. See story page 21.
Dance
Ronald K. Brown’s Evidence,
McCarter Theater (Matthews),
91 University Place, Princeton,
609-258-2787. www.mccarter.org. African-American dance company. $20 to $54. 8 p.m.
On Stage
The Game of Love and Chance,
Off-Broadstreet
Theater,
5
South
Greenwood
Avenue,
Hopewell, 609-466-2766. www.off-broadstreet.com. A romantic
comedy by French playwright
Marivaux features Austin Begley
of Plainsboro. $29.50 to $31.50 includes dessert. 7 p.m.
Remember When, PCM Theater
Company, Destiny Theater,
Hamilton, 609-890-1738. www.pcmtheatre.com. Two act comedy
about a 25th high school reunion.
$15. 7:30 p.m.
Death of a Salesman, Kelsey
Theater, Mercer County Community College, 1200 Old Trenton Road, West Windsor, 609570-3333. www.kelseytheatre.net. Arthur Miller’s tragic drama
about the pursuit of the American
dream in 1949 is presented by
Pierrot Productions. $16. 8 p.m.
Solo Flights Festival, Passage
Theater, Mill Hill Playhouse, Front
and Montgomery streets, Trenton,
609-392-0766.
www.passagetheatre.org. “Broke Wide Open.”
$20. 8 p.m.
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are
Dead, Princeton Shakespeare
Company, Whitman College Theater, 609-258-1500. www.princeton.edu/psc. Tom Stoppard comedy. Directed by Patrick Morton ‘13.
$8. 8 p.m.
Merrily We Roll Along, Princeton
University Players, Whitman
College Theater, Princeton University, 609-258-1742. www.princeton.edu/tickets. $12. 8 p.m.
Dead Man’s Cell Phone, Theatre
Intime, Hamilton Murray Theater,
Princeton University, 609-2581742.
www.theatreintime.org.
Sarah Ruhl drama. $12. 8 p.m.
Family Theater
Dinosaur Babies, Kelsey Theater, Mercer County Community
College, 1200 Old Trenton Road,
West Windsor, 609-570-3333.
www.kelseytheatre.net. Musical
fossil fantasy with large puppets
and music. $10. 9:45 and 11:15
a.m.
Art Exhibits
Dancing
Doo Wop to Disco Oldies Dance,
American Legion Post 401, 148
Major Road, Monmouth Junction,
732-329-9861. Free. 8 p.m.
Folk Dance, Princeton Folk
Dance, Suzanne Patterson Center, 45 Stockton Street, Princeton,
609-912-1272. www.princetonfolkdance.org. Beginners welcome. Lesson followed by dance.
No partner needed. $5. 8 p.m.
Literati
Author Event, Cranbury Library,
23 North Main Street, Cranbury,
609-655-0555.
www.cranburypubliclibrary.org. Kevin Fox, au-
thor of “Until the Next Time.” Booksigning and reception. 7 p.m.
Classical Music
TCNJ Chamber Orchestra, College of New Jersey, Mildred and
Ernest Mayo Concert Hall, Ewing,
609-771-2585. www.tcnj.edu. $15.
8 p.m.
Princeton University Glee Club
and Chamber Choir, Princeton
University Concerts, Taplin Auditorium, 609-258-9220. www.princeton.edu/puconcerts. Concert conducted by Gabriel Crouch.
$10. 8 p.m.
Jazz & Blues
Jazz Cafe, South Brunswick Arts
Commission, South Brunswick
Municipal Complex, 540 Route
522, Monmouth Junction, 732329-4000. Willie Martinez, a drummer, percussionist, and vocalist;
with Steve Ash on piano, Gregory
Jones on bass, and Anton Denner
on flute and reeds. $6 includes refreshments. 7:30 to 10 p.m.
Live Music
Zero Hours, Grover’s Mill Coffee
House, 335 Princeton Hightstown
Road, West Windsor, 609-7168771.
www.groversmillcoffee.com. 7:30 p.m.
Open Mic Night, West Windsor
Arts Council, 952 Alexander
http://openmicssignup.weebly.com. Register online. $5
cover. 8 p.m.
Comedy
Karith Foster, Catch a Rising
Star, Hyatt Regency, 102 Carnegie Center, West Windsor, 609987-8018. www.catcharisingstar.com. Register. $19.50. 8 p.m.
Faith
World Day of Prayer Service,
Princeton Area Church Women,
Witherspoon Street Presbyterian
Church, 124 Witherspoon Street,
Princeton, 609-924-7530. www.wdpusa.org. “Let Justice Prevail”
The New Rat Pack: The Midtown Men reunites the
original cast of ‘Jersey Boys’ — performing the hits
of the Beatles, the Beach Boys, the Jackson Five, the
Mamas and the Papas, the Four Seasons, and more,
Saturday, March 3, at McCarter Theater in Princeton.
presented by Reverend Muriel
Burrows, pastor of the church.
Bring a bag lunch. Beverages and
desserts provided. 11:45 a.m.
Wellness
Qigong, Ruth A. Golush, Center
for Relaxation and Healing, 666
Plainsboro Road, Suite 635,
Plainsboro, 609-426-9693. www.ruthagolush.com. Meditative energy exercises for balance. Register. $20. 10 to 11 a.m.
Drum Circle, Center for Relaxation and Healing, 666 Plainsboro Road, Suite 635, Plainsboro,
609-750-7432. www.relaxationandhealing.com. Register. $15.
7:30 p.m.
For Families
Happy Birthday Dr. Seuss,
Barnes & Noble, MarketFair,
www.bn.com. Storytime for all
ages and lunch presented by
Learning Ally at 12:30 p.m. Storytimes and meet Boomer, Trenton
Thunder’s mascot, at 4 p.m. Storytimes, photos, and autographs
with NFL alumni, Reggie Brown,
Philadelphia Eagles. Performance
at 6 p.m. Birthday cake and a craft
at 7 p.m. Purchases with vouchers
benefit Learning Ally Resource
Center. 9 to 11 p.m.
Mr. Ray, Forrestal Village, College Road West and Route 1
South, Plainsboro, 609-799-7400.
www.princetonforrestalvillage.com. Family concert. 6:30 to 7:30
p.m.
Schools
Science Curriculum, Waldorf
School, 1062 Cherry Hill Road,
Princeton, 609-466-1970. www.princetonwaldorf.org. “Reading
Nature: Teaching Science in the
Waldorf School” presented by
Elan Leibner, a class teacher at
the school for 18 years, editor of
Waldorf Education’s research bulletin, and a member of the Pedagogical Section Council. Register.
Free. 7:30 p.m.
Singles
Divorce Recovery Program,
Princeton Church of Christ, 33
River Road, Princeton, 609-5813889.
www.princetonchurchofchrist.com. Non-denominational
support group for men and
women. Free. 7:30 p.m.
For Seniors
Living with Purpose: How to
Make a Real Difference in Your
Encore Years, Princeton Senior
Resource Center, Suzanne Patterson Building, 609-924-7108.
www.princetonsenior.org. A panel
presentation with three Purpose
Prize honorees sharing their insights about embarking on an “encore” career. Register online or by
phone. 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
Sports
Princeton Lacrosse, Class of
1952 Stadium, 609-258-4849.
www.goprincetontigers.com.
Johns Hopkins. $8 to $10. 5 p.m.
Princeton Basketball, Jadwin
Gym, 609-258-4849. www.goprincetontigers.com. Yale, $12. 7
p.m.
Saturday
March 3
Socials
Community Business Expo,
West Windsor-Plainsboro Community
Education,
Village
School, 601 New Village Road,
www.ww-p.org. Showcase of programs and products featuring
area businesses. Child care centers, salons, spas, fire and police
departments, West Windsor and
Plainsboro recreation departments, West Windsor Arts Council, dance studios, schools, summer programs, and more. Register
for a space, $75. 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.
On Stage
Karlin in the title role. $10. 8 p.m.
See story page 21.
Off-Broadstreet
Theater,
5
South Greenwood Avenue, Hopewell, 609-466-2766. www.offbroadstreet.com. A romantic comedy by French playwright Marivaux features Melissa Rittman of
Ewing and Austin Begley of
Plainsboro. $29.50 to $31.50 includes dessert. 7 p.m.
$15. 7:30 p.m.
609-392-0766.
www.passagetheatre.org. “Comes Love: A Tribute to Billie Holiday.” $20. 8 p.m.
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are
Dead, Princeton Shakespeare
Company, Whitman College Theater,
609-258-1500.
www.princeton.edu/psc. Tom Stoppard
comedy. Directed by Patrick Morton ‘13. $8. 8 p.m.
MARCH 2, 2012
Dead Man’s Cell Phone, Theatre
Intime, Hamilton Murray Theater,
Princeton University, 609-2581742.
www.theatreintime.org.
Sarah Ruhl drama. $12. 8 p.m.
Family Theater
Dinosaur Babies, Kelsey Theater, Mercer County Community
College, 1200 Old Trenton Road,
www.kelseytheatre.net. Musical
fossil fantasy with large puppets
and music. $10. 2 and 4 p.m.
On-Air, Arts Council of Princeton, 102 Witherspoon Street, 609924-8777.
artscouncilofprinceton.org. An original play produced,
directed, and presented by a collaboration of performers from
Stone Soup Circus, Princeton
Theater Experiment, Princeton
Movement Theater, and the Arts
Council. $10 to $13. 3 and 7 p.m.
Art
Art Exhibit, Princeton University,
Milberg Gallery, Firestone Library,
609-258-2697. www.princeton.edu. First day for “Capping Liberty:
The Invention of a Numismatic
Iconography for the New American Republic,” an exhibition of
coins, medals, banknotes, and related books, manuscripts, and
graphic arts. On view to July 8. 10
a.m.
Central Asian Rugs, Princeton
Rug Society, Mary Jacobs Library, 64 Washington Street,
Rocky Hill, 732-274-0774. Elena
Tsareva, author of “Turkmen Carpets: The Hoffmeister Collection.”
1:30 p.m.
Art Exhibit, West Windsor Arts
Council, 952 Alexander Road,
www.westwindsorarts.org. Opening reception for “Inside Out: Visionary Artists Share Their Vision
and Stories,” an exhibit by selftaught individuals listening to their
inner voices through HomeFront’s
ArtSpace therapeutic art program.
On view to April 27. 6 p.m.
Dancing
Salsa Sensation, Central Jersey
Dance Society, Suzanne Patterson Center, 45 Stockton Street,
Princeton, 609-945-1883. www.centraljerseydance.org. Lesson
followed by social dance. No partner needed. Refreshments. $12. 7
p.m.
Literati
Author Event, Westerly Road
Church, Wilson House, 240 Nassau Street, Princeton, 609-9243816. westerlyroad.org. Amy Julia
Becker, author of “A Good and
Perfect Gift.” Free. 7 p.m.
Classical Music
Art Song Festival, Westminster
Choir College, Bristol Chapel,
101 Walnut Lane, Princeton, 609921-2663. www.rider.edu. Master
class presented by Kathryn
LaBouff, author of “Singing and
Communicating in English: A
Singer’s Guide to English Diction.”
10 a.m.
Family Concert, Sinfonietta Nova, Mayo Concert Hall, College of
New Jersey, 2000 Pennington
Road, Ewing, 609-462-4984.
www.sinfoniettanova.org. “Young
Person’s Guide to the Orchestra”
features works by Purcell, Sarasate, Glazunov, and Chausson.
Winners of the Youth Concerto
competition, Soyeong Park on violin and Brian Kim on alto saxophone, perform with the orchestra.
$15. 7:30 p.m. See story page 19.
Art Song Festival, Westminster
Choir College, Bristol Chapel,
101 Walnut Lane, Princeton, 609921-2663. www.rider.edu. Works
by Roger Quilter, Thomas Dunhill,
Hubert Party, Ralph Vaughan
Williams and others presented by
students. J.J. Penna accompanies. Lindsey Christiansen, a professor of voice, presents a preconcert lecture at 7:15 p.m. 8 p.m.
Live Music
Brian Colburn, It’s a Grind Coffee
House, 7 Schalks Crossing Road,
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A Family Concert, East to West
B
ravura Philharmonic Orchestra, based in West
Windsor and led by music
director and conductor Chiu-Tze
Lin, presents its annual family
concert on Sunday, March 4, at 7
p.m. “Music Masters from East to
West: Celebrating the 100th Anniversary of Ma SiCong,” features
symphonic works from the Chinese composer, Ma SiCong, and a
master of classical music, Ludwig
van Beethoven. The concert is
sponsored by the Kai Yue Foundation based in Plainsboro.
This year marks the 100th year
anniversary of birth of Ma
SiCong, a composer, violinist,
and music educator. He was born
in the Guangdong province of
China in 1912 and studied at the
Conservatoire de Paris throughout his teenage years.
Ma was the founding president
of the China Central Conservatory of Music, but in 1967, because
of the unrest during the Cultural
Revolution in China, Ma and his
family fled to Hong Kong. He
then took up residence in Philadelphia where he continued to
compose until his death in 1987.
His orchestral works have been
performed in China, Taiwan, and
Russia.
At this concert, two of Ma’s latest orchestral works are featured
as U.S. premieres: the “Mongolian Dance” and a violin concerto
for two violins and orchestra with
Plainsboro, 609-275-2919. www.itsagrind.com. Acoustic pop. 8 to
10 p.m.
Nothing 4 Nothing, The Revere
Restaurant, 802 River Road, Ewing, 609-882-6365. revereristorante.com. Jazz quartet Jim
Carlisi on flute, clarinet, and tenor
saxophone; Armando T (Doug
Miller) on piano keyboards;
Cheech Iero on drums; and Rich
San Filippo on bass. 8 to 11 p.m.
Pop Music
The Genesis Project, Jacobs Music, 2540 Brunswick Pike, Lawrenceville, 609-434-0222. www.princetonol.com/groups/steinway.
A combination of two Steinways,
pianists Angeli Di Loreto and
Adam Kromelow, and music by
the British group Genesis. The
musicians met at Manhattan
School of Music during their undergraduate studies in jazz. Free
with registration. 4 p.m.
The Midtown Men, McCarter Theater (Matthews), 91 University
Place, Princeton, 609-258-2787.
www.mccarter.org. Christian Hoff,
Michael Longoria, Daniel Reichard, and J. Robert Spencer present music of the 1960s. The concert tour reunites the four singers
from the original cast of Broadway’s “Jersey Boys.” The performance includes music from the
Beatles, the Jackson Five, the Mamas and the Papas, the Four Seasons, and more. $38 to $48. 8 p.m.
World Music
Drum Circle, Princeton Center
for Yoga & Health, Orchard Hill
Center, 88 Orchard Road, Skillman, 609-924-7294. www.princetonyoga.com. African drums
(djembe), native American drums,
and Cuban drums in prescribed
rhythms. For ages 6 to 106. Led by
Mark Wood. No experience necessary. $15. 8 to 9 p.m.
Good Causes
African Soiree Benefit to Combat
Riverblindness, Princeton United Methodist Church, Princeton
Theological Seminary, 64 Mercer
Street, Princeton, 609-924-2613.
www.princetonumc.org. African
cuisine, live music, fashion show,
performance by dancers from
Egun Omode, silent auction, and
soloists Xiao-Fu Zhou and Quan
Yuen.
Xiao-Fu Zhou, a graduate of
the Curtis Institute of Music, has
performed at Carnegie Hall, Avery Fischer Hall, and other concert halls. Zhou, the artistic director and conductor of the Main
Line Youth Chamber Orchestra,
is on the faculty of the Philadelphia Biblical University.
Quan Yuan, also a graduate of
Curtis, was concertmaster of the
symphony orchestra at New England Conservatory of Music.
Yuan has performed as a soloist
with the Copenhagen Philharmonic Orchestra, China National
Symphony Orchestra, Symphony
Pro Musica, China Youth Chamber Orchestra, and the Taipei
Youth Symphony Orchestra.
To celebrate Ma SiCong’s
teaching legacy, Ma’s student,
Hua-Yi Wang, along with Wang’s
students, will play Ma’s “Rondo.”
The format of this special performance, a violin ensemble in unison, is unique in the United States
yet popular in Russia and Europe,
where it is used in the Yehudi
Menuhim schools.
The orchestra will perform
works of Ludwig van Beethoven
to complement the Eastern-inspired music. The concert features
pianist Kevin Jang, violinist Constance Lin Kaita, and cellist Sunny
Sung-Eun Chang, in Beethoven’s
Triple Concerto. The orchestra
crafts at the benefit for United
Front Against Riverblindness focused in the Democratic Republic
of Congo. The drug against the
disease, is provided free by Merck
& Co, but it is a challenge to get the
drug to remote villages and ensure
that every person takes the drug
once a year for 10 years. Register
online. $50. 4:30 to 10 p.m.
Comedy
Karith Foster, Catch a Rising
Star, Hyatt Regency, 102 Carnegie Center, West Windsor, 609987-8018. www.catcharisingstar.com. Register. $21.50. 7:30 and
9:30 p.m.
Faith
Ecumenical Workshops, Christian Education Associates of
New Jersey, First Presbyterian
Church, Hightstown, 609-5813549. More than 12 workshops for
church school teachers, pastors,
and church leaders. Register.
8:30 a.m. to 12:45 p.m.
Courage to Question Worship,
Princeton United Methodist
Church, Nassau at Vandeventer
Street, 609-924-2613. www.princetonumc.org. “What Does It
Mean to Be Born Again?” presented by Trey Gillette, pastoral assistant. 5 p.m.
Gardens
From Beethoven to SiCong: Pianist Kevin Jang,
violinist Constance Lin Kaita, and cellist Sunny
Sung-Eun Chang will perform Beethoven’s Triple
Concerto. The concert also features symphonic
works from the Chinese composer Ma Sicong,
below, to mark the 100th anniversary of his birth.
will also perform the Beethoven
Leonore Overture No. 3.
— Lynn Miller
Family Concert, Bravura
Philharmonic Orchestra, Princeton Alliance Church, 20 Schalks
Crossing Road, Plainsboro. Sunday, March 4, 7 p.m. “Music Master from East to West: Celebrating
the 100th Anniversary of Ma
Sicong.” $12 to $25. 609-7909559. www.bravuraphil.org.
Photography Workshop, Middlesex County Agricultural Extension, Earth Center in Davidson’s
Mill Pond Park, 42 Riva Avenue,
South Brunswick, 732-398-5262.
“Photography of the Floral World”
presented by Juanell Boyd. Register. $20. 2 p.m.
Wellness
Meditation with Eight Crystal
Singing Bowls, Princeton Center for Yoga & Health, Orchard
Hill Center, 88 Orchard Road,
Skillman, 609-924-7294. www.princetonyoga.com. Guided meditation through seven chakras with
Jeannine Dietz. Register. $35. 2
to 4 p.m.
T’ai Chi Ch’uan, Todd Tieger,
Plainsboro Library, 9 Van Doren,
Plainsboro, 609-439-8656. google.com/site/toddtiegertaichichuan. All levels. Free. 10 a.m.
History
Guided Tours, Historic Society
of Hamilton, Historic John Abbott
II House, 2200 Kuser Road,
Hamilton, 609-581-3549. Tours of
the historic home. Donations invited. Noon to 5 p.m.
Kids Stuff
Central
ment,
Saints’
Road,
Jersey Chess TournaNew Jersey Chess, All
Church, 16 All Saints’
Princeton. www.njchess.-
com. Open to kindergarten to
eighth graders of all levels. All
players receive a medal or trophy.
Register online, $30; on site, $40.
E-mail [email protected] for information. 2 to 6 p.m.
For Families
Maple Sugaring, Howell Living
History Farm, 70 Wooden’s
Lane, Lambertville, 609-7373299. www.howellfarm.org. Program features making and tasting
homemade maple syrup (and pancakes). Activities include syrup
making, flour milling, butter making, and pancake sampling. Sap
gathering at noon and 2 p.m. Tree
tapping demonstrations at 11
a.m., 1 and 3 p.m. 10 a.m. to 4
p.m.
Art for Families, Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton
campus, 609-258-3788. artmuseum.princeton.edu. “Daily Life in
Ancient Greece.” Self-guided interactive tour followed by a related
art project. All ages are welcome.
Free. 10:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Mozzarella Making for Families,
Cherry Grove Farm, 3200 Lawrenceville Road, Lawrenceville,
609-219-0053. www.cherrygrovefarm.com. Register. $25 per child.
2 p.m.
Fresh Made To Order Sushi
Freshness is what matters in Sushi.
Comparable in quality & freshness to the finest restaurants in the area.
Teriyaki Boy can’t be beat for its combination of well prepared
food and inexpensive prices. – Princeton Living
Over 20 Sushi
selections from $ 29
2
Choose from Teriyaki, Tempura, Udon or Combos & Platters.
Take-out & Catering Service Available.
All food is cooked to order in 100% vegetable oil.
MARKETFAIR
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Fri-Sat 10am-10pm • Sun 11 am-7:30pm
THIS WEEK’S SPECIAL
House
Special
Shrimp, Salmon,
Tuna Teriyaki,
Shumai & Spicy
Tuna Roll
950
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20
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www.unitedblackbelt.com
609-275-1500
MARCH 3
Science Lectures
Science on Saturday, Princeton
Plasma Physics Laboratory,
Forrestal Campus, Route 1 North,
Plainsboro, 609-243-2121. www.pppl.gov. “Why Are Computers So
Stupid and What Can Be Done
About It?” presented by Ernest
David, computer science department, New York University. Register on site beginning at 8:15 a.m.
For students, parents, teachers,
and community members. Photo
ID required. Series is coordinated
by John DeLooper, Ronald Hatcher, Kathleen Lukazik, and Deedee
Ortiz. Free. 9:30 a.m.
Outdoor Action
Field Trip, Washington Crossing
Audubon Society, Institute for
Advanced Study Woods, Princeton, 609-737-0070. Birding with
Lou Beck. Register. Free. 9 a.m.
Princeton Canal Walkers, Turning Basin Park, Alexander Road,
Princeton, 609-896-0546. Threemile walk on the towpath. Bad
weather cancels. Free. 10 a.m.
Schools
Green House Spa
THERAPY
Oriental Massage Therapy
Body Massage • Foot / Reflexology
Acupressure • Deep Tissue
Grand Opening Special
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50
1-Hour
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Southfield Shopping Ctr (Unit 2)
(Route 571) West Windsor, NJ 08550
(Near McCaffrey’s Supermarket –
next door to First Wok)
10am - 9pm • 7 days a week
609-799-7500
HOME USER SUPPORT
“ We make computers Easy”
• In home & remote
computer help
• Setup new
computers & iPads
• Virus & Malware
removals
• Computer Training
• Senior Discounts
Visit us to view all our services at:
www.HomeUserSupport.com
Or Call Us @ 609-336-7430
Supporting the home computer user of West Windsor & Plainsboro
Open House, Huntington Learning Center, 4120 Quakerbridge
Road, Lawrenceville, 609-7509200. www.huntingtonlearning.com. Information for parents and
students about the academic skills
and test prep programs. “Skills for
School Success at 2:15 p.m. “Parent’s Homework Survival Guide”
at 2:45 p.m. “What You Need to
Know About the SAT and ACT” at
3:15 p.m. Refreshments. Register. 2 p.m.
Shopping News
Children’s Flea Market, Central
Jersey Mothers of Multiples,
Reynolds Middle School, 2145
Yardville-Hamilton Square Road,
Hamilton, 609-516-5748. www.cjmom.org. New and used children’s clothing, toys, and equipment. 8 a.m. to noon
Prom Boutique, Cinderella’s
Closet of Monmouth County,
Novo Nordisk, 1100 Campus
Road, Plainsboro. www.cinderellasclosetmc.org. Prom boutique
for high school students with limited financial means in need of
prom attire. Founded five years
ago by Katie Adams of Rumson
and Stephanie Tomasetta of Freehold, the organization promotes
self-esteem and ensures that no
student has to forfeit the prom experience due to financial hardship.
They collect new and gently used
formal wear and accessories suitable for prom. Adams is now a junior at the University of Notre
Dame and Tomasetta is a senior
at Stanford University. 9 a.m. to 3
p.m.
Craft Fair, Middlesex County 4-H,
645 Cranbury Road, East Brunswick, 732-723-9968. Crafters and
Let’s Get Funny:
Karith Foster takes the
stage Friday and Saturday, March 2 and 3,
and Jeff Goff grabs the
mic on Friday and Saturday, March 9 and 10,
at Catch a Rising Star,
at the Hyatt.
vendors. Hands-on crafts for the
children and a bake sale. Tables
available for $30. Benefit for the 4H log cabin that serves as headquarters for youth development
clubs and programs. 9 a.m. to 3
p.m.
Sports
Gym, 609-258-4849. www.goprincetontigers.com. Brown, $12.
7:30 p.m.
Sunday
March 4
On Stage
Karlin in the title role. $10. 8 p.m.
Off-Broadstreet
Theater,
5
Plainsboro. $29.50 to $31.50 includes dessert. 1:30 p.m.
$15. 1:30 p.m.
609-392-0766.
www.passagetheatre.org. “Comes Love: A Tribute to Billie Holiday.” $20. 3 p.m.
Family Theater
On-Air, Arts Council of Princeton, 102 Witherspoon Street, 609924-8777.
www.artscouncilofprinceton.org. An original play produced, directed, and presented by
a collaboration of performers from
Stone Soup Circus, Princeton
Theater Experiment, Princeton
Movement Theater, and the Arts
Council. $13. 2 and 5 p.m.
Film
Princeton High School Gay
Straight Alliance, Princeton
Public Library, 65 Witherspoon
Street, Fireplace on second floor,
609-924-9529. www.princetonlibrary.org. Screenings and discussions of films with gay, bisexual, lesbian, and transgender
themes. Keynote address by T.J.
Parsell, a writer and human rights
activist, at 1 p.m. Panel discussion
follows. Screenings of “Ma Vie En
Rose” at 3:30 and “But I’m a
Cheerleader” at 5:45 p.m. Dessert
follows. 12:30 p.m.
Art
Art Exhibit, Gourgaud Gallery, 23
North Main Street, Cranbury, 609395-0900.
www.gourgaudhist.htm. Opening reception for “Viewpoints,” an exhibit of pastel, watercolor, and oil paintings by artists
who study with Susan Winter in
her Hightstown studio. On view to
March 25. 1 to 3 p.m.
Art Exhibit, Monmouth Museum,
765 Newman Springs Road, Lincroft, 732-747-2266. www.monmouthmuseum.org. Opening reception for “Art of Illusion,” a juried
invitational exhibition exploring the
links between perception, appearance, and reality. Both two and
three dimensional works will be
represented including styles of
photorealism, surrealism, and optical illusion. Bill Hoo, a photographer from Plainsboro, has “Walking
on Thin Ice #1,” an infrared monochrome, in the exhibit. Andrew
Werth of Plainsboro has colorful
abstract paintings, “Enfolding” and
“Strange Loops #4” in the exhibit.
On view to April 29. 4 to 6 p.m.
Literati
Princeton Chapter of the English
Speaking Union, Lawrenceville
School, Kirby Center, 2500 Main
Street, Lawrenceville, 609-8961738.
www.Lawrenceville.org.
Carolyn Williams, author of
“Gilbert and Sullivan: Gender,
Genre, Parody,” talks about the
Victorian world in which they drew
their inspiration and focuses on
“The Mikado.” Williams, a Princeton resident, chairs the English department at Rutgers. Free-will donations. 3 p.m.
Classical Music
Eric Clark, East Brunswick Arts
Commission, Arts Center, 721
Cranbury Road, East Brunswick,
732-390-6797. www.eastbrunswick.org. Piano concert by Eric
Clark. Free. 3 p.m.
Chamber Series Concert, Princeton Symphony Orchestra, Institute for Advanced Study, Wolfensohn Hall, 609-497-0020. www.princetonsymphony.org. Music of
Schubert, Glass, Watanabe, and
Warshaw. Free. 4:30 p.m.
Family Concert, Bravura Philharmonic Orchestra, Princeton Alliance Church, 20 Schalks Crossing Road, Plainsboro, 609-7909559. www.bravuraphil.org. “Music Master from East to West: Celebrating the 100th Anniversary of
Ma Sicong” features symphonic
works from the Chinese composer, Ma SiCong, to the master of
classical music, Beethoven. WWP residents include musicians
Penny Luan, Chiu-Ling Lin, Mimi
Morris-Kim, and Emma Coleman.
Board members include Elizabeth
von Autenried, Grace Hao, Wen
Bash, Yang Yi, and Chiu-Ling Lin.
Trustees are Paul von Autenried
Sr. and Saverio Greco. $12 to $25.
7 p.m. See story page 19.
Early 20th Century Europe,
Westminster Choir College,
Bristol Chapel, 101 Walnut Lane,
Princeton, 609-921-2663. www.rider.edu. “Songs of the Early 20th
Century” presented by Elem Eley,
a baritone; and J.J. Penna on pi-
MARCH 2, 2012
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It’s a Drama Double Feature
S
pring is coming — and so is
baseball. High School South
brings “Damn Yankees” to
the stage with the story of a middleaged baseball fanatic who trades
his soul to the devil for a chance to
lead his favorite team to victory
against the New York Yankees.
Shows are at High School South,
346 Clarksville Road, on Thursday
and Friday, March 8 and 9 at 7:30
p.m., and Saturday, March 10, at 2
and 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $12.
The musical first appeared on
Broadway in 1956 featuring a book
by George Abbott and Douglass
Wallop, with music by Richard
Adler and Jerry Ross. The show received many awards including
Best Musical. The 1994 revival
featured Bebe Neuwirth (of
Princeton) in the role of Lola.
The cast of characters includes
Jordan Carroll as Mr. Applegate;
Grace Sandford as Lola; Mark De
La Rosa as Joe Hardy; Anna Chicco as Gloria Thorpe; Amy
Slothower as Meg Boyd; David
Catalano as Coach Van Buren; Brian Schoenauer as Rockey; Tom Efstathios as Smokey; Thomas Vinci
as Sohovik; Marlena Bhame as Sister Miller; Erin McElwee as Doris
Miller; Austin Thumm as Joe
Boyd; Jon Menahem as Mr.
Welch; Amy Lee as Ms. Weston;
Aram Nemati-Rad as Henry; Jake
Arbeiter as Linville; and Cameron
McArthur as Cameron.
Senators baseball players are
portrayed by Corey Hess, Tyler
Johnson, Travis De La Rosa, Danny Fitzpatrick, Thomas O’Connor,
Fred Williams, Matt McGuinness,
and Jordan Brand.
Featured dancers include Amy
Lee, Steph Krakower, Sue-Ah
Kim, Keri Ketchmark, Kelsey
Daniels, and Vicky Campbell.
The ensemble of girls includes
Shirley Hecht, Kavi Dave, Rebecca Rost, Jennifer Litzinger, Lilly
Hecht, Johanna Liao, Allie Dunham, Ayanna Gill, Robin Slothower, Danielle Harris, Sarah Sasson,
Deja Robinson, Alissa Julius, and
Caroline Godofsky.
Ensemble of boys includes Vignesh Gopal, Raghav Gupta, Paul
Phalen, Elliot Wasem, Noah Katz,
Begho Ukueberuwa, Matteo Wilson, Matt Saravia, Samir Grover,
and Zach Hyams.
The group of kids includes
Theresa Williams, Emiko Kobayashi, Kimi Kobayashi, Caylin
Paul, and Anika Vincent. The dog
is played by Mia Vinci.
Student directors and stage
managers are Irene Park and
Alexandra La Torre. Props by
Charlie Townsend and Mollie
Miller. Costumes by Hannah Rudofsky, Nancy Zong, and Archie
Gopal. Hair and makeup by Ashleigh Honig. Crew members include AJ D’Antuono, Corbin McLean, Nahin Shah, Charles Acuna,
Sean McNerney, Kat Won, Meg
Cully, and Andrew Bortnick.
Sound technicians are Lizzie Helck, Yae-Seul Han, and Rachel Epstien.
The pit orchestra includes musicians Anna Brosowsky and YunJoo Park on flute and piccolo;
Claire Paul on oboe and English
horn; Janice Lin, Zachary Singer,
Brian Gao, Phillip Li, and Ben
Shrager on clarinet and bass clarinet; Craig Byll and Matthew
Lichtenstein on alto saxophone;
Jeanine Asay and Shivram Viswanathan on tenor saxophone;
Zachary Joseph on baritone saxophone; Alonzo Ryan and Harry
Meadows on trumpet; Katie
Bromberg and Stephanie Mortel
on French horn; and Raj Manimaran, Ethan Julius, and Varun
Hegde on trombone.
Also Annalena Ping, Arisa
Takasaki, Kevin Xie, Angela Yao,
Zhiwei Yue, and Mr. John, on violin; Mercy Soong and Ivy Kang on
viola; Elianna Wydra and Tiffany
Ge on cello; Yun-Ah Park and Brian Yee on bass; Allie Cohen and
Nikhil Dondapati on percussion;
and Janet Eo on piano.
The show is directed by
Roseann Bonora with music direction by Janice Chapin and choreography by Marilyn Stoddard. Jean
Mauro is the orchestra director. Set
construction is by Michael Novak.
Andrea Scaturo is the producer.
ano. Both are faculty members of
Westminster Choir College. Free.
Pre-concert talk by Stephen Artur
Allen at 7:15 p.m. 8 p.m.
Friendship
Circle,
Mercer
Friends, Princeton area, 609683-7240. www.mercerfriends.com. “Purim in Israel” for Jewish
adults with special needs. Register. Costumes invited. Food and
entertainment. Donation of $36
per family. 3 to 5 p.m.
Jazz & Blues
Cathedral Arts Series, Trinity
Episcopal Cathedral, 801 West
State Street, Trenton, 609-3923805. Singer songwriter Cassendre Xavier presents soulful jazz.
$10. 3 p.m.
Live Music
Princeton Bluegrass Jam, Alchemist & Barrister, 28 Witherspoon Street, Princeton, 609-9245555. www.theaandb.com. 21
plus. 9 p.m.
Good Causes
Annual Meatball Cook-Off, St.
Francis Medical Center, Lawrence Lexus, 2630 Route 1,
Lawrence, 609-599-5659. www.stfrancismedical.com. Homestyle
meatballs prepared by guest
chefs. Vote for your favorite. BYOB. Prizes. Adults only. Register.
$25. 3 p.m.
Faith
Purim Carnival, Congregation
Beth Chaim Pre-School, 329 Village Road East, West Windsor,
609-799-9401. www.bethchaim.org. Family event for all ages.
Games include glow in the dark
mini golf and an inflatable obstacle
course. Food available. Individual
and package tickets available. 9
a.m. to 1 p.m.
Wellness
Laughter Yoga, Princeton Center
for Yoga & Health, Orchard Hill
Center, 88 Orchard Road, Skillman,
609-924-7294.
www.princetonyoga.com.
Combine
laughter with deep breathing and
relaxation of yoga. $6. 5 to 6 p.m.
History
Walking Tour, Historical Society
of Princeton, Bainbridge House,
158 Nassau Street, Princeton,
609-921-6748. www.princetonhistory.org. Two-hour walking tour
of downtown Princeton and
Princeton University includes stories about the early history of
Princeton, the founding of the University, and the American Revolution. $7; $4 for ages 6 to 12. 2 to 4
p.m.
Lectures
Meeting, Astrological Society of
Princeton, Plainsboro Public Library, 9 Van Doren Street, 609-
Off to Neverland
M
eanwhile the flying continues at High School North
with “Peter Pan” through Sunday,
March 4.
Cast members include Maria
DiCindio as Wendy, Adam Kercheval as John, Kelly Cahill as
Liza, Kerri Devlin as Michael,
Ernest Scarborough as Nana/Crocodile, Kristen Kane as Mrs. Darling, Scott Kenkelen as Mr. Darling, Molly Karlin as Peter Pan,
Ariel Gelfand as Slightly Jonathan
Gelb as Tootles, Erica Harris as
Curly, Dylan Fruh as Nibs, Lauren
McGinley and Julianna Haase as
the twins, Jonathan Sawyer as Captain Hook, Michael Miele as Smee,
Mrguerite Girandola as Tiger Lily,
Vikram Kesavabhotla as Starkey,
Kathleen Mackenzie as Cecco,
Ilexuz Harris as Noodler, Aman
Rastogi as Mullins, Alora Eisen as
Jukes, Autumn Bardachino as
Wendy Grown Up, and Caroline
Sharp as Jane.
The cast also includes Tessa
Berger, Brian Blonder, Rachel
Boyer, Verity Gordon, Lauren
Leahy, Shreya Sunderram, Brandon Small, Abby Stern, Ryan Wilityer, and Amy Xu. Also, Kiera
Beatty, Alexandra Caldwell, Marian Farrell, Nicole McCarthy, Drew
McClendon, Josephine Modica,
Rebecca Schwartz, Caroline
Sharp, and Claire Towell. Also,
Autumn Bardachino, Nesta Cole,
Reinier Herrera, Nilah Montgomery, Naomi Niggemann, Prashasthi
Ramesh, and Hannah Sternbach.
924-4311. www.aspnj.org. “Firmicus Maternus, the Astrologer Who
Knew Too Much” presented by
Michael Molnar, an astronomer,
educator, programmer, and author of “The Star of Bethlehem:
The Legacy of the Magi.” Social
hour follows the talk. Register. $10
donation. 2 p.m.
Marsala
Wines,
Dorothea’s
House, 120 John Street, Princeton, 609-924-8275. www.dorotheashouse.org. “The Real Story
Behind Marsala and Other Sicilian
Wines” presented by a representative of Florio Wines. Wine tasting
follows the talk. Bring a refreshment to share in the reception following the presentation. Free. 5
p.m.
Monday
March 5
School Sports
North Ice Hockey, 609-716-5000
ext. 5134. www.ww-p.org. NJSIAA State Tournament quarterfinals.
Film
Second Chance Film Series,
Princeton Adult School, Friend
Center Auditorium, Computer Science Building, Princeton University, 609-683-1101. www.princetonadultschool.org. Screening of
“Mysteries of Lisbon,” Part II, Por-
Let’s Play Ball! Damn Yankees baseball players
include Tyler Johnson, front left, Thomas O’Connor,
Danny Fitzpatrick, Fred Williams, David Catalano.
Thomas Efstathios, back left, Brian Schoenauer, Jake
Arbeiter, Tom Vinci, Matt McGuinness, Darrell
Watts, Aram Nemati-Rad, and Travis De La Rosa.
The production staff includes
set design by Robert Corriveau.
technical director Robert Corriveau, assistant technical director
Dee Dunn, student technical director Sara Duffy, production stage
manager Charlotte Zodel, assistant
production stage manager Danielle
Rose, technical stage manager
Alexandra Perrine, assistant technical stage manager Sam Sun,
scenic aritsts Lucy Davis and Mel
Wherry, lighting consultant Randy
Katz, master electrician Matt
Duffy, sound design by Tom Seeland, sound engineer Emma McGregor, assistant sound engineer
Naveen Raghuraman, assistant
crew members Eva Boal, Sami Cirkus, Veerin Sirihorachar, Andy
Shook, and Luna Zhang.
Costumer designers are Murial
Rand and Catherine Rand. Student
choreographer Marguerite Girandola. Production assistants include
Pooja Kondeti, Caroline Lee,
Katherine Powell, Sammi Paley,
and Sierra Rosario. Photography
by Danielle DiAngelo. Poster, program cover, and tee shirt design by
Mary Durkee. Program book by
Cherylanne Thyrum.
Set crew members include Ben
Arias, Manal Arma, Kayla Carlen,
Sophie Davis, Riana Gideon, Gabi
Haeuber, Sophie Haeuber, Jenn
Ibanez, Cynthia Li, Joseph Naglak,
Lauren Palena, Rachel Randolph,
Sanjana Ray, Michael Rexroad,
Luke Weinmann, Rebecca Weston, and Brian Zalma.
The pit orchestra members include Anny Fan and Bethany Tsai
on flute and piccolo, Kristina Leung
on oboe and English horn, Manroocha Singh on bassoon, Ekta Panigrahi and Alicia Feng on clarinet,
Liz Bellotti on French horn, Hirsh
Gupta, Morven Chin, and Andrew
Doidge on trumpet, Ross Chapman
on trombone, Matt Rexroad, Audrey Dong, and Reba Oduro on percussion; Eddie Lu and Cynthia Peng
on keyboard, Felix Xiao, An Le,
Christie Zheng, and Viola You on
violin, Samantha Jeng on viola, Jigo
Lee and Jason Wang on cello, and
Angela Gui on bass.
— Lynn Miller
tugal, 2010. Introduced by William
Lockwood Jr., the curator of the
series. Register. $8. 7:15 p.m.
Behrend, an artist in the exhibit,
presents a pastel demonstration.
On view to April 2. 6:30 to 8 p.m.
Art
Plainsboro
Artists’
Group,
Plainsboro Public Library, 9 Van
Doren Street, 609-275-2897.
www.lmxac.org/plainsboro.
Painters, sculptors, mixed media
artists, and photographers meet to
exchange ideas and connect with
each other. 6:30 p.m.
Art Exhibit, South Brunswick Library, 110 Kingston Lane, Monmouth Junction, 732-329-4000.
www.sbpl.info. Second look at
“What Everybody Eats,” a juried
exhibition featuring artistic expressions about food. Sandy
Damn Yankees, High School
South, 346 Clarksville Road, West
Windsor. Thursday to Saturday,
March 8 to 10. $12. 609-716-5050.
Peter Pan, High School North,
90 Grovers Mill Road, Plainsboro.
Friday to Sunday, March 2 to 4.
$10. 609-716-5100.
Workshop, Princeton Photography Club, Johnson Education
Center, D&R Greenway Land
Trust, 1 Preservation Place,
Princeton, 732-422-3676. www.princetonphotoclub.org.
Ilya
Genin moderates. Register. $5. 7
p.m.
Architecture
Constructed
Atmospheres,
Princeton University School of
Architecture, Betts Auditorium,
Princeton, 609-258-3741. www.soa.princeton.edu. Speaker is
Chip Lord. 6 p.m.
JUNCTION
BARBER SHOP
33 Hightstown Rd., Princeton Jct.
ELLSWORTH’S CENTER (Near Train Station)
Hrs: Tues - Fri: 10am - 6pm
Sat: 8:30am - 3:30pm
609-799-8554
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MARCH 5
Good Causes
Inspiring Women: A Celebration
of Visual and Culinary Arts, ArtPride New Jersey Foundation,
New Jersey Restaurant Association, 126 West State Street, Trenton,
609-479-3377.
www.artpridenj.com. A pairing of female
artists with female chefs to benefit
the National Ovarian Cancer
Coalition. Restaurants include
Terra Momo Restaurant Group,
Cranbury Inn, Milford Oyster
House, and more. Artists include
Linda Osborne of Pennington, Aylin Green of Lambertville, and others. Artwork on view through
March 31. Silent auction. Register.
$50. 4:30 to 7:30 p.m.
Health
Monthly Meeting, Compassionate Friends, Capital Health System, 1445 Whitehorse-Mercerville
Road, Hamilton, 609-516-8047.
www.tcfmercer.org. Meeting to
assist families toward the positive
resolution of grief following the
death of a child of any age and to
provide information to help others
be supportive. 7:30 p.m.
History
Meeting, Historical Society of
West Windsor, Schenck House,
50 Southfield Road, West Windsor, 609-799-1278. Meeting and
program. 7 p.m.
Lectures
A Better History of Time Workshop, Yoga for Unity, Princeton
Unitarian Universalist Church,
Cherry Hill Road, Princeton, 609924-3819.
www.yogaforunity.com. “Karmic Management: A
Workshop to Change Your Approach to Business” presented by
Ben Ghalmi, who explores principles of mindfulness, meditation,
and yoga asanas by returning to
the philosophy of yoga and ancient masters of India. “Karmic
Management Workshop” by Ben
Ghalmi, 9 a.m. to noon; “Yogi
CEO: A New Business Paradigm
for the New Economy,” a talk by
Ghalmi at 1:30; “Tibetan Heart Yoga Asana” by Amy-Cronise Mead
at 3 p.m.; and “A Better History of
Time” by Geshe Michael Roach at
7 p.m. Register. $85 includes
breakfast and lunch. Some talks
are free. 9 a.m.
Woodrow
Wilson
School,
Princeton University, Robertson
Hall, Dodds, 609-258-2943. “My
Life as a Toaster Oven” presented
by Bob Garfield, co-host of National Public Radio’s “On the Media.”
4:30 p.m.
Socrates Cafe, West Windsor Library, 333 North Post Road, 609799-0462. Ask questions, listen,
raise challenges, and more. 7
p.m.
Schools
Open House, Quakerbridge
Learning Center., 4044 Quakerbridge Road, Lawrenceville, 609933-8806. www.quaker-bridge.com. Information about summer
academic camp. 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Singles
Singles Night, Grover’s Mill Coffee House, 335 Princeton Hightstown Road, West Windsor, 609716-8771. www.groversmillcoffee.com. Drop in for soups, sandwiches, desserts, tea, coffee, and
conversation.
Register
at
http://ht.ly/3gd9w 6:30 to 8 p.m.
Tuesday
March 6
School Sports
ext. 5134. www.ww-p.org. NJSIAA State Tournament semifinals.
Dance
Master Class with Kyle Abraham,
Princeton University, Lewis
Center, 185 Nassau Street, 609258-1500. Free. 4:30 p.m.
Art
Princeton, 732-422-3676. www.princetonphotoclub.org. “Masks”
moderated by Jerry Gerber. Register. 7 p.m.
Literati
Poetry Workshop, Delaware Valley Poets, Lawrence Public Li-
brary, Darrah Lane, 609-8829246. www.delawarevalleypoets.com. Bring 10 copies of your poem. Free. 7:30 p.m.
Classical Music
Time for Three, Princeton University Concerts, Richardson Auditorium, 609-258-9220. princetonuniversityconcerts.org. The trio of
country western, bluegrass, jazz,
and improvisation musicians that
began as a garage band. In collaboration with the Princeton University School of Architecture. $10. 8
p.m.
Live Music
Open Mic Night, Grover’s Mill
Coffee House, 335 Princeton
Hightstown Road, West Windsor,
609-716-8771. www.groversmillcoffee.com. 7 p.m.
Pop Music
Rehearsal, Princeton Garden
Statesmen, Plainsboro Library, 9
Van Doren Street, Plainsboro,
888-636-4449.
www.menwhosing.org. Men of all ages and experience levels are invited to sing
in four-part harmony. The nonprofit organization presents at numerous charities. Free. 7:30 to 10
p.m.
Good Causes
Meeting, Allies, 1262 WhitehorseHamilton Square Road, Hamilton,
609-689-0136. For adult volunteers with hobbies or interests to
share with adults who have developmental disabilities. Register
with Linda Barton. 5:30 to 7:30
p.m.
Faith
Psalms for the Rhythm of Life,
Street, 609-924-2613. www.princetonumc.org. Worship and
light lunch. Noon.
Health
Blood Drive, American Red
Cross, Johnson & Johnson, 199
Grandview Avenue, Skillman,
800-733-2767.
www.redcrossblood.org. 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.
A Matter of Balance, Robert
Wood Johnson Hamilton Center for Health and Wellness,
3100 Quakerbridge Road, Mercerville, 609-584-5900. www.rwjhamilton.org. An eight-week pro-
Art of Illusion: ‘Walking on Thin Ice #2,’ an infrared
monochrome by Bill Hoo of Plainsboro, is on view at
the juried invitational exhibit at Monmouth Museum
through April 29. The opening reception is Sunday,
March 4, from 4 to 6 p.m.
gram designed to reduce the fear
and risk of falling — especially in
older adults. Register. Free. 10
a.m.
Diabetes Education, Capital
Health Center, 1401 WhitehorseMercerville Road, Suite 220,
Hamilton, 609-394-6091. capitalhealthwomen.com. Intensive program is taught by a multidisciplinary staff that empowers individuals to self-manage their diabetes.
Register. 5:30 to 8 p.m.
Wellness
Guided Meditation, Center for
Relaxation and Healing, 666
Plainsboro, 609-750-7432. www.relaxationandhealing.com. Register. $15. 7 p.m.
Positive Living, Multiple Sclerosis Self Help Group, Robbinsville
Library, 42 Allentown-Robbinsville
Road, 609-799-9585. www.nationalmssociety.org. “I Can
Now Feel My Feet” presented by
Ilene Watrous, a physical therapist
based in West Windsor. She will
demonstrate several neuromuscular techniques to help people
walk better and achieve better balance. Free. 7 to 8:30 p.m.
Qigong, Optimal Exercise, 27
Maplewood Avenue, Cranbury,
609-203-0550. Energy healing
workshop with Sangita Patel. Register. $15. 8 p.m.
Lectures
Tax Assistance, Plainsboro Public Library, 9 Van Doren Street,
609-275-2897. www.lmxac.org/plainsboro. Register. Free. 10
a.m. to 3:30 p.m.
United Financial Empowerment
Center, Mercer Alliance to End
Homelessness, United Way,
3131 Princeton Pike, Building 4,
Suite 113, Lawrenceville, 609883-3379. www.merceralliance.org. “Take Charge of Your Financial Future” with consumer credit
counseling, debt management,
foreclosure
information,
tax
preparation, women’s interview
clothing, career center mentoring,
financial planning, and NJ Family
Care. Free. 11 a.m. to 8 p.m.
Computer Tips and Tricks, Computer Learning Center at Ewing,
999 Lower Ferry Road, 609-8825086. www.ewingsnet.com. “Finding and Evaluating Online Healthcare Information” presented by
Anna Van Scoyoc. Q&A followed
by presentation. Free. 1:30 p.m.
Woodrow
Wilson
School,
Hall,
Dodds,
609-258-2943.
www.princeton.edu. “Is Peace
Possible: Proposals for Resolving
the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict:
Part II: The Future of Jerusalem
and Refugees” presented by
Daniel Kurtzer, former U.S. ambassador to Israel and Egypt and a
professor in Middle Eastern policy
studies at the Wilson School; and
former Congressman Robert
Wexler, president of the S. Daniel
Abraham Center for Middle East
Peace in Washington, D.C. 4:30
p.m.
Tax Seminar, South Brunswick
Library, 110 Kingston Lane, Monmouth Junction, 732-329-4000.
www.sbpl.info. “Maximize Your
Tax Refund” presented by Glenn
Bartram of Accredited Tax and Financial
Services
in
East
Brunswick. Register. Free. 7 p.m.
Schools
Sample Class, Waldorf School,
1062 Cherry Hill Road, Princeton,
609-466-1970. www.princetonwaldorf.org. For children ages 2 to
5 with a caregiver. Register. Free.
9 to 10:30 a.m.
Shopping News
Annual Book Sale, West Windsor
Library, 333 North Post Road,
609-799-0462. Preview night.
Sales benefit children’s, teen, and
adult programming; community
events; the summer reading program; additions to the library’s periodical and book collections; landscaping, seating, laptop computers; and furniture. Most books are
$1 or less. Admission charged to
non-members. 6 to 9 p.m.
MARCH 2, 2012
Singles
Social Club, Widows and Widowers, Congregation Beit Shalom,
Concordia Shopping Center, Perrineville Road, Monroe, 732-7239706.
Discussions,
dinners,
shows, and companionship for
ages 55 plus. Register. 1:30 p.m.
Socials
AARP Tax Service, West Windsor Senior Center, 271 Clarksville Road, West Windsor, 609799-9068. Assistance with state
and federal returns. Register.
Free. 9 a.m. to noon.
Meeting, Rotary Club of Plainsboro, Guru Palace, 2215 Route 1
South, North Brunswick, 732-2130095. www.plainsbororotary.org.
7:30 p.m.
Sports
Gym, 609-258-4849. www.goprincetontigers.com. Penn, $12.
7:30 p.m.
Wednesday
March 7
School Sports
ext. 5134. www.ww-p.org. NJSIAA State Tournament semifinals.
Film
Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Love
Never Dies, Fathom Events,
AMC in Hamilton, Multiplex in East
Windsor, and Regal in North
Brunswick. www.fathomevents.com. First showing in the U.S. of
the fully-staged recorded performance of the sequel to “The Phantom of the Opera.” The event includes an orientation from Webber about the creative processes,
creative insight, and direction.
$18. 7:30 p.m.
Program in African American
Studies, Princeton University,
McCormick Hall 101, 609-2583000. www.princeton.edu. Screening of “Slavery By Another Name,”
Douglas A. Blackmon’s film about
forced labor in the 19th century.
Free. 7:30 p.m.
Art
Art Exhibit, Gallery at Mercer
County College, Communications Center, West Windsor, 609586-4800, ext. 3589. mccc.edu.
Opening reception and awards
ceremony for “Mercer County
Artists 2012.” Jeffrey Wechsler, retired senior curator at Zimmerli Museum, is juror. The exhibit features
mixed media, oil and watercolor
paintings, as well as sculptures in
clay, wood, bronze, and concrete.
On view to April 5. 5 p.m.
Literati
Author Event, Labyrinth Books,
609-497-1600.
www.labyrinthbooks.com. Edmund White, a
teacher of creative writing at
Princeton University, reads from
his new novel, “Jack Holmes and
His Friend.” 6 p.m.
Classical Music
Princeton Symphony Orchestra:
Soundtracks, Princeton Public
Library, 65 Witherspoon Street,
609-924-8822. www.princetonlibrary.org. “Music for Shakespeare” presented by Leonard
Barkan, a professor of comparative literature at Princeton University, is a prelude to upcoming classical series concert on Sunday,
March 18. Free. 4:30 p.m.
Live Music
Open Mic Night, It’s a Grind Coffee House, 7 Schalks Crossing
Road, Plainsboro, 609-275-2919.
www.itsagrind.com. Sign up at
6:45 p.m. 8 to 10 p.m.
Faith
Center for the Study of Religion,
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B
en Nemzer is returning to
his hometown of West
Windsor to perform a magical illusion show to raise money
and awareness for DoSomething.org, an organization focused
on anti-bullying. His show with
Cassandra Ruiz is a theatrical experience with illusions, magic,
comedy, and even some singing.
Ruiz will be levitated, sawed in
pieces, and so much more. “Ben
Nemzer and Cassandra’s Magical
Illusion Show,” is presented by
North’s Thespian Society.
Nemzer graduated from High
School North and Mercer County
Performing Arts High School in
2004. At Marymount College he
majored in theater and acting and
graduated in 2008. His minor in
education led to his teacher certification in New York State —
which he has never used.
He wanted to do a show at
North with a focus on anti-bullying and brainstormed with Debbie
Goodkin, the organization’s adviser and a teacher at North. He
learned about Dosomething.org
based in New York City.
Stephanie Shih and Gleb Boudin,
both 2004 graduates of North,
work with the organization.
Nemzer changed the spelling
of his professional name for several reasons. “It is easier to remember, nobody is ever going to
not use the Z, and it is easier to
pronounce,” he says. “The original spelling of my name probably
had a Z.”
During college Nemzer worked
doing shows here and there, in-
609-258-2943. “Principles of Neurotheology” presented by Andrew
Newberg, M.D., director of research at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital and Medical College. 4:30 p.m.
Membership Renewal Party,
Coalition for Peace Action,
Princeton
United
Methodist
Church, Vandeventer and Nassau
streets, Princeton, 609-925-5022.
www.peacecoalition.org. “Peaceful Alternatives for Dealing with
Iran’s Nuclear Program” presented by Steven Kull, director of the
program on international policy attitudes at University of Maryland.
The event begins with a light dinner that is free for members,
pledgers, or donors. The talk at
6:30 p.m. is open to the public for
free. 5:30 p.m.
Food & Dining
Healthy Living, Whole Earth Center, 360 Nassau Street, Princeton.
www.wholeearthcenter.com. Discussion group co-hosted by
Palmer Uhl and V. Bea Snowden.
Register by E-mail to [email protected]. Free.
7 p.m.
Gardens
Meeting, Central Jersey Orchid
Society, D&R Greenway Land
Trust, Johnson Education Center,
1 Preservation Place, Princeton,
609-924-1380. www.centraljerseyorchids.org. “Growing Under
Lights” presented by Steve Zolnay. 7:30 p.m.
Health
Annual Injury Prevention Conference, Robert Wood Johnson
University Hospital, Middlesex
Fire Academy, Sayreville, 888637-9584. rwjuh.edu. “Keep Your
Head in the Game 2012” focuses
on concussion prevention and
treatment with return to life after
the injury. For parents, teen athletes, coaches, educators, athletic
trainers, recreation staff, school
nurses, health care providers, and
EMS personnel. Register. 4:30 to
9 p.m.
cluding FAO Schwartz in New
York City. His current several
monthly shows include Lowe’s
Regency Hotel and “Monday
Night Magic” in the West Village.
Nemzer has been seen on Comedy
Central, Nickelodeon, Discovery,
the Game Show Network, and the
Stardust Hotel in Vegas. After four
years of networking in the city, he
is a full-time magician. “It’s a very
non-traditional job,” he says.
Ben Nemser — as he was
known while growing up in West
Windsor –– became interested in
magic when he was eight and was
being hired to entertain at parties
when he was eleven. He became
the only non-adult member in the
Society of American Magicians
and took first place at one of the
club’s annual magic competitions.
Both of his siblings also graduated from High School North. His
sister, Aliyah, is now a senior at
Marymount. His brother, Ari,
graduated from University of
Delaware with a degree in musical education. He lives in Miami
where he works for AAA and performs with two salsa bands.
His father, Stewart, is a chiropractor with an office in North
Brunswick. His mother, Irene,
helps with North’s Thespian Society. They have both become involved in community theater,
mostly in North Brunswick. “My
mother encouraged my father to
audition and now it’s something
they do together,” says Ben.
“Most of my work is at private
events,” he says. “Bar mitzvahs,
corporate, parties, and trade
Sleep Expo, Capital Health Center, 1401 Whitehorse-Mercerville
Road, Suite 220, Hamilton, 609394-6091. capitalhealthwomen.com. Showcase of sleep related
equipment for people suffering
from sleep apnea and other sleep
disorders. Register. 6 to 8 p.m.
History
Guided Tour, Drumthwacket
Foundation, 354 Stockton Street,
Princeton, 609-683-0057. www.drumthwacket.org. New Jersey
governor’s official residence.
Group tours are available. Register. $5 donation. Noon to 2 p.m.
Lectures
Distinguished Lecture Series,
Mercer County Community College, Communications Building,
Room 109, 1200 Old Trenton
Road, West Windsor, 609-2787137. www.mccc.edu. “Millions,
Billions, Zillions: Why (In)numeracy Matters” presented by Brian
Kernighan, author of 10 books related to computers and technology. A computer scientist who
worked at Bell Telephone Laboratories, he is a professor at Princeton University. Noon.
Public Lecture, Institute for Advanced Study, Wolfensohn Hall,
Einstein Drive, Princeton, 609734-8175. www.ias.edu. “Celebrating Modern Democracy’s Beginning: The British Club in Paris
(1789-93)” presented by Jonathan
Israel, professor in the School of
Historical Studies. 4:30 p.m.
East Pyne, 127, 609-258-3000.
www.princeton.edu. “Introducing
African Athena and Parsing the
Classical Toni Morrison” presented by Tessa Roynon, Oxford University. Free. 4:30 p.m.
Woodrow
Wilson
School,
Hall,
Dodds,
609-258-2943.
www.princeton.edu. “The New
Digital Age: The Future of Citizens, States, and Business” presented by Jared Cohen, director of
“Google Ideas.” 4:30 p.m.
shows keep me busy.” At a trade
show there are many products to
sell and Nemzer will incorporate
the products into his moving act.
“I use crowd building skills that
lead to million dollar investments,” he says. “I do my thing
and people come to watch.”
He has been flown to several
destinations
including
the
Caribbean. “Companies wine and
dine their clients for client appreciation,” says Nemzer.
His diverse training at Mercer
county Performing High School,
McCarter Theater, The School for
Film and Television, Tannen’s
Magic Camp, and Marymount has
led to stints as a magic instructor,
sleight of hand consultant for theater and film, and an annual guest
lecturer at Princeton University.
“By combining my diverse talents
I am able to create a theatrical,
high energy, fun, and unforgettable performance every time I hit
the stage,” he says.
The opening act is Matt Schick,
East Pyne, 010, 609-258-3000.
www.princeton.edu. “The Touring
Machine (Flesh Thought Inside
Out)” focuses on the relationships
between the theory of blackness
and the theory of mind presented
by Fred Moten, Duke University.
Free. 4:30 p.m.
College Bound Lecture, PEAC Fitness, 1440 Lower Ferry Road, Ewing, 609-883-2000. peachealthfitness.com. “Inside the Admissions
Office: What Every Family Needs to
Know in an Increasingly Competitive College Environment” presented by Don Betterton, a financial aid
and admissions expert. He was on
Princeton University’s admission
committee for three decades and
has written three books on how to finance your college education. Register. Free. 6:30 p.m.
Camera Club, South Brunswick
Arts Commission, South Brunswick Community Center, 124 New
Road, Monmouth Junction, 732329-4000. Bring in a work to share
with the group. Bring in your camera and questions. “Photography
101-102: Basic Theories and Beyond” and the “Zone System.”
Free. 7 to 9 p.m.
UFO Ghosts and Earth Mysteries, UFO and Paranormal Study
Group, Hamilton Township Library, Municipal Drive, 609-6318955. www.drufo.org. Discussion
Seeing Is Believing
Magician Ben Nemzer of West Windsor.
a comedian and magician from
Hamilton who has performed all
over the world. He is best known in
the Mercer County area as the producer of an annual charity show.
The family friendly show is
“cool enough for friends and
clean enough for families,” he
says.
— Lynn Miller
Magic Illusion Show, High
School North Thespian Society,
90 Grovers Mill Road, Plainsboro. Saturday, March 17, 2 p.m.
and 7 p.m. Benefit for Dosomething.org’s anti-bullying platform. Ben Nemzer, a graduate of
North, with Cassandra Ruiz and
Matt Schick, present illusions,
comedy, and magic. Register.
$10. 212-868-4444. www.bennemzer.com.
about UFOs, ghosts, psychic phenomena, crop circles, poltergeists, channeling, and government cover-ups facilitated by Pat
Marcattilio. Free. 7 to 10 p.m.
Book Sale
West Windsor Library, 333 North
Post Road, 609-799-0462. Sales
benefit children’s, teen, and adult
programming; community events;
the summer reading program; additions to the library’s periodical
and book collections; landscaping, seating, laptop computers;
and furniture. Most books are $1
or less. Through Sunday, March
11. 10 a.m. to 9 p.m.
Socials
Wednesday Night Out Series,
Hopewell Public Library, Hopewell Train Station, Railroad Place,
Hopewell, 609-466-1625. Scott
Mulhern, author of “Seventeen
Steps to the Edge: Haikus from
Heaven and Haikus from Hell.” A
resident of Hopewell for more than
16 years, he was a professional actor for more than 20 years. 7 p.m.
Meeting, Outer Circle Ski Club,
Princeton Meadows Country
Club, Plainsboro, 609-721-4358.
www.outercircleskiclub.org. Open
to adults interested in ski trips,
hikes, picnics, and game nights.
New members welcome. 8 p.m.
STRING & RHYTHM CAMP
July 23 - 27
For kids kindergarten to fifth grade
• Drum
Circles
• Singing
• Violin
Instruction
No Musical
Experience
Needed
Princeton Junction location
Call for reservations: 609-751-7664
Paul Manulik, Director • [email protected]
www.stringacademy.net
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Thursday
March 8
On Stage
Avenue, Suite 22, Ewing, 609434-0050. www.casamercer.org.
One-hour session for potential volunteer advocates to learn about
the 30-hour training program.
Court Appointed Special Advocates is a non-profit organization
committed to speaking up in court
for the best interests of abused
and neglected children who have
been removed from their homes.
Register. 5:30 p.m.
Faith
Student Playwrights Festival,
Theatre Intime, Hamilton Murray
Theater, Princeton University,
609-258-1742.
www.theatreintime.org. $12. 8 p.m.
Friendship
Circle,
Mercer
Friends, Princeton area, 609683-7240. www.mercerfriends.com. Celebrate Purim with entertainment by the Band of Juggler
and a traditional Purim meal. For
adults with special needs. Register. Free. 6 p.m.
Film
Food & Dining
The Velvet Watch, Jeff Stewart,
Trenton Marriott, 1 West Lafayette
Street, Trenton, 773-875-3241.
Filmmaker and Trenton native,
Jeff Stewart, celebrates the national release of his full-length,
horror, action, comedy film about a
struggling black Elvis impersonator. Costumes encouraged.
Free. 7:30 p.m.
wholeearthcenter.com.
Discussion group co-hosted by Palmer
Uhl and V. Bea Snowden. Register
by E-mail to [email protected]. Free. 9:30 a.m.
Dancing
Argentine Tango, Viva Tango,
Suzanne Patterson Center, 45
Stockton Street, Princeton, 732789-5272. [email protected]. Class and practice
session. $12. 9:15 p.m.
Literati
Author Event, Princeton Public
609-924-8822. www.princetonlibrary.org. “Fine Art and Foul
Play” presented by William Lanouette, historian, journalist, playwright, and author of “Genius in
the Shadows: A Biography of Leo
Szilard, the Man Behind the
Bomb.” Lanouette, a rower, is at
work on “Racing to Oblivion.” His
play, “Uranium and Peaches” will
be performed at the Princeton Arts
Council on Saturday, March 10. 7
p.m.
Classical Music
After Noon Concerts, Princeton
University, Chapel, 609-2583654. Practitioners of Musick.
Free. 12:30 to 1 p.m.
Live Music
Living Proof, Alchemist & Barrister, 28 Witherspoon Street,
Princeton, 609-924-5555. www.theaandb.com. 21 plus. 10 p.m.
Good Causes
Information Session, CASA of
Mercer County, 1450 Parkside
Wine Quizzo Night, Rat’s Restaurant, 126 Sculptor’s Way, Hamilton, 609-586-0616. www.ratsrestaurant.org. $25 includes two
glasses of wine, cheese, and charcuterie. Test your knowledge and
wine skills. Prizes. 7 p.m.
Farm Markets
Winter Market, Princeton Farmers Market, Princeton Library, 55
Witherspoon Street, Princeton,
609-356-0558. www.princetonfarmersmarket.com. Farmers and
crafters with winter produce,
cheeses, honey, bread, desserts,
and more. 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Health
Vascular Screenings, Robert
Wood Johnson Medical Group,
800 Bunn Drive, Suite 303, Princeton, 609-655-5178. Vein screening for men and women conducted
by physicians. Wear loose-fitting
clothing. Register. Free. 6 to 8
p.m.
Mental Health
Public Lecture Series, Princeton
University, McCosh 50, 609-2583000. lectures.princeton.edu. Dr.
Mehmet Oz, a surgeon, author,
and talk show host of “The Dr. Oz
Show,” talks in conjunction with
the student-organized mental
health awareness week on campus. Oz, vice chair and professor
of Surgery at Columbia University,
focuses on personal health and
medical issues on television. Tickets will be available at the Frist
Campus Center, Monday to Friday, from noon to 6 p.m. Free.
7:30 p.m.
Wellness
Bridges to Wellness, Elixir Fund,
Capital Health, 1445 WhitehorseMercerville Road, Hamilton, 800494-9228.
www.elixirfund.org.
Massage workshop for patients
with cancer and their caregivers.
Register. $12. Noon.
Lectures
Woodrow
Wilson
School,
Hall,
Dodds,
609-258-2943.
www.princeton.edu. “Can All
Schools Be Saved? If Not, What
Then?” 11 a.m.
Woodrow
Wilson
School,
Hall,
Dodds,
609-258-2943.
www.princeton.edu.
“Secrets,
Lies, and Leaks: From the Pentagon Papers to Wikileaks” presented by Daniel Ellsberg, who released the “Pentagon Papers” to
the media; and Bart Gellman,
Pulitzer Prize winning journalist
and visiting professor in public and
international affairs, Woodrow
Wilson School. 4:30 p.m.
Annual Gathering, Northeast Organic Farming Association,
Duke Farms, Hillsborough, 908371-1111. www.nofanj.org. “The
Future of Organic Agriculture and
the Power of Observation on Your
Farm.” Keynote speaker is Jeff
Moyer, director of operations for
the Rodale Institute. Register.
Free with membership. 5 p.m.
Lawyers C.A.R.E., Mercer County Bar, Mercer County Connection, Route 33 at Paxson Avenue,
609-585-6200. www.mercerbar.com. 15-minute consultations with
a lawyer about legal issues of family law, real estate, landlord and
tenant law, personal injury, criminal and municipal court law, wills
and estates, bankruptcy, and immigration. Free. 5:30 to 7 p.m.
Politics
Senator Lautenberg Representative, Mercer County Connection, 957 Route 33, Hamilton,
609-890-9800.
www.mercercounty.org. Discuss federal government issues including passport, immigration matters, Social
Security, and tax issues. 1 to 3
p.m.
Meeting, West Windsor Republican Club, Mercer Oaks, 725 Village Road West, West Windsor,
609-799-1301. “An Outside-In
Look at the School Budget” presented by Quentin Walsh, a regular attendee at meetings of the
WW-P board of education meetings. Free. 7 to 9 p.m.
Schools
South, 346 Clarksville Road,
Musical about baseball. $12.
Through Saturday, March 10. 7:30
p.m. See story page 21.
Book Sale
11. 10 a.m. to 9 p.m.
Friday
March 9
On Stage
Off-Broadstreet
Theater,
5
Xanadu, Kelsey Theater, Mercer
County Community College,
1200 Old Trenton Road, West
Windsor, 609-570-3333. www.kelseytheatre.net. Musical comedy set in 1980 about a Greek muse
in leg warmers and a dream of a
roller disco presented by Pennington Players. The original Broadway production was nominated for
several Tony awards. $18. A reception with the cast and crew follows the opening night performance. The audience is invited to
dress in their best 1980s regalia
and vie for prizes. Be prepared to
be on stage 10 minutes before
show time. Frank Ferrara of West
Windsor is the producer. 8 p.m.
609-392-0766.
www.passagetheatre.org. “Donna Orbits the
Moon.” $20. 8 p.m.
Woyzeck, Princeton University,
McCarter Theater (Berlind), 609258-1500.
www.princeton.edu.
New adaptation of the classic German play recounting a soldier’s
mental breakdown as the subject
of medical experiments, poverty,
and betrayal. $15. 8 p.m.
Spring into Fashion:
Lucia DiPolvere of
West Windsor is one of
the organizers of Frolicking into Spring, a
fashion show that will
take place on Sunday,
March 11, at the
Contemporary Club in
Trenton, to benefit programming at the club.
609-258-1742.
Art
Art Exhibit, D&R Greenway Land
Trust, Johnson Education Center,
1 Preservation Place, Princeton,
609-924-4646.
www.drgreenway.org. Opening reception for
“Babbling Brooks and Silent
Springs” art exhibit. “Voices for the
Marsh,” a juried photography
show, is also on display. Register.
Free. On view to May 4. 5:30 to
7:30 p.m.
Dancing
Dance Jam, Dance Improv Live,
All Saints’ Church, 16 All Saints’
Road, Princeton, 609-924-3767.
www.danceimprov.com. Lightly
guided dance improvisation with
live music and refreshments. $15.
8 to 10 p.m.
Literati
Author Event, Princeton Public
609-924-8822. www.princetonlibrary.org. Alan Lightman, author
of “Einstein’s Dreams,” is a physicist and educator. He will speak
about the connection between science and the humanities. His talk
kicks off the library’s Pi Day Geek
Freak weekend events. His book
is the Pi Day book pick this year.
6:30 p.m.
Socials
Meeting, Successfully Speak Up
Toastmasters, Pellettieri, Rabstein, & Altman, 100 Nassau Park
Boulevard, Suite 111, West Windsor, 732-631-0114. ssu.freetoasthost.ws. Members deliver and
evaluate prepared and impromptu
speeches. 7:30 to 9 p.m.
Classical Music
Piano Winterfest, Piano Summer
Workshop, Lawrenceville School,
Lawrenceville,
732-463-2268.
www.pianosummer.org.
Aaron
Weiman Trio performs original
compositions and jazz standards.
Register online. $20. 7:30 p.m.
Spectrum Concerts, Princeton
University, Chapel, 609-2583654.
www.princeton.edu.
“Gospel Preludes” by William Bolcom presented by Gregory Hand
on organ. Free-will offering. 8 p.m.
Princeton University Orchestra,
Princeton University Concerts,
Richardson Auditorium, 609-2589220. princeton.edu/puconcerts.
Music of Chopin and Rachmaninoff featuring Darya Koltunyuk on
piano, co winner of the 2012 Concerto Competition. Michael Pratt
conducts. $15. 8 p.m.
MARCH 2, 2012
Live Music
Geak Freek Weekend
Zero Hours, Grover’s Mill Coffee
Princeton Tour Company, 609902-3637. Visit www.princetontourcompany.com for complete
schedule of events.
Good Causes
Wine and Cheese Benefit, A Better Way, 1040 Pennsylvania Avenue, Trenton, 609-392-1224.
www.abetterwaynj.org. Black tie
event features an appetizer buffet,
wine bar, entertainment, and information about the organization that
helps community members find a
better way to live by providing empowerment through education and
exposure to job skills, life skills,
and volunteerism. Register. $25. 7
to 9 p.m.
Comedy
James Goff, Catch a Rising Star,
Hyatt Regency, 102 Carnegie
Center, West Windsor, 609-9878018. www.catcharisingstar.com.
Register. $19.50. 8 p.m.
Food & Dining
Wine Tasting Dinner, Salt Creek
Grille, One Rockingham Row, Forrestal Village, Plainsboro, 609-4194200. saltcreekgrille.com. Four
course dinner paired with wine selections from rodney Strong Vineyards. Register. $79. 7 p.m.
Health
Educator Workshop, New Jersey
Center for Tourette Syndrome,
Raritan College, 14 Vogt Drive,
Bridgewater,
908-575-7350.
njcts.org. Workshop for educators
focuses on Tourette Syndrome
and its most commonly associated
disorders including ADHD, OCD,
learning disabilities, depression,
anxiety, and rage, with an emphasis on school-related issues. Register. $59. 9 a.m. to noon.
Wellness
Mystical Musical, Princeton Center for Yoga & Health, Orchard
Hill Center, 88 Orchard Road,
Skillman, 609-924-7294. www.princetonyoga.com. Open practice time with original compositions and improvisations on mystical instruments, keyboard, and
drums by Karttikeya. Sit, meditate,
watch, listen, do yoga, read, study,
sleep, or dance. $10. 7:30 p.m.
History
Lectures
609-275-2897. www.lmxac.org/plainsboro. Register. Free. 10
a.m. to 3:30 p.m.
Consumer Affairs, Mercer County Connection, 957 Route 33,
Hamilton, 609-890-9800. www.mercercounty.org. Discuss credit,
home improvement, automotive,
and Internet fraud with the chief of
the Mercer County Consumer Affairs Commission, Free. 11 a.m.
to 3 p.m.
Woodrow
Wilson
School,
Hall, Bowl 016, 609-258-2943.
www.princeton.edu. “Can All
Schools Be Saved? If Not, What
Then?” policy forum focuses on
research about the best ways to
deal with an unsuccessful school.
Register. Free. 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Fund for Irish Studies, Princeton
University, Lewis Center, 185
Nassau Street, 609-258-1500.
www.princeton.edu/arts. “Stories
for a New Ireland: Patrick Pearse’s
Short Fiction” presented by Angela Bourke, University College,
Dublin. Free. 4:30 p.m.
Politics
Ready to Run: Campaign Training for Women, Eagleton Institute of Politics, Douglass Campus, 100 George Street, New
Brunswick, 732-932-9384. www.eagleton.rutgers.edu. Bi-partisan
program for women seeking public
office, running for higher office,
becoming community leaders, or
working on a campaign. Speakers
include Tara Dowdell, MSNBC
and Fox News; Celinda Lake,
Lake Research Partners; Nancy
Bocskor, a political fundraising
firm; and Christine Jahnke, Positive Communications. Register.
$135. Continues Saturday, March
10. Optional pre-conference for
women of color begins at noon.
4:15 to 8 p.m.
Schools
Musical about baseball. $12. 7:30
p.m.
Book Sale
11. 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Singles
Divorce Recovery Seminar,
Princeton Church of Christ, 33
River Road, Princeton, 609-5813889.
www.princetonchurchofchrist.com. “Learning to Let Go.”
Non-denominational
support
group for men and women. Free.
7:30 p.m.
For Seniors
Brown Bag Discussion, Princeton Senior Resource Center,
Suzanne Patterson Building, 609924-7108. www.princetonsenior.org. “Medicare Fraud Protection”
presented by Tunde Akinrobabu
of Jewish Family & Vocational
Services Senior Medicare Patrol.
Beverages and desserts provided.
Bring your own lunch. Register.
Free. Noon.
Sports
Trenton Titans, Sun National
Bank Center, 81 Hamilton Avenue, Trenton, 609-341-1100.
www.trentontitanshockey.com.
Hockey vs. Elmira. $11 and up. 7
p.m.
Saturday
March 10
On Stage
Eating the Bear: Snapshots of the
New Normal, Karen Carson,
Murray-Dodge Theater, Princeton
University, 609-213-8268. Reading from Karen Carson’s play
about coping with job loss. Discussion follows to give the audience
an opportunity to share job loss experiences and coping suggestions
to address this critical issue. Free.
E-mail [email protected] for more information. 1 p.m.
College Theater, Princeton University, 609-258-1742. www.princeton.edu/tickets. $12. 2 and
8 p.m.
Off-Broadstreet
Theater,
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Uranium and Peaches, Arts
Council of Princeton, 102 Witherspoon Street, 609-924-8777.
www.artscouncilofprinceton.org.
Staged reading of historical play
by Peter Cook and William Lanouette. In conjunction with Princeton’s Pi Day. $3.14. 7:30 p.m.
Windsor, 609-570-3333. www.kelseytheatre.net. Musical comedy about a Greek muse in leg
warmers and a dream of a roller
disco by Pennington Players. The
audience is invited to dress in their
best 1980s regalia and vie for
prizes. Be prepared to be on stage
10 minutes before show time. $18.
8 p.m.
609-392-0766.
Moon.” $20. 8 p.m.
www.princeton.edu.
609-258-1742.
Art
Art Exhibit, Artists’ Gallery, 18
Bridge Street, Lambertville, 609397-4588. www.lambertvillearts.com. Opening reception for “Inside Out: Reflections of Human
Experience in the Environment,” a
shared exhibit featuring works of
Materese Roche and Alla Podolsky. On view to April 1. 4 to 8 p.m.
Dancing
Saturday Evening Dance Club,
Hightstown Firehouse. www.saturday-evening-dance.org. Dinner and ballroom dance. Music by
Rick Koreyva. Plainsboro couples
include Jonathan and Barbara
Kennen and Robert and Joan
Tyson. West Windsor couples include Ed and Lucia DiPolvere. Semi-formal attire. Register. $55 per
couple. 6:30 to 11 p.m.
And the Winner Is. . . Paul von Autenried Jr. of West
Windsor performs Sunday, March 11, at Suburban
Music Study’s concert in Chatham as the organization's scholarship winner.
Ballroom Blitz, Central Jersey
Dance Society, Unitarian Church,
609-945-1883.
centraljerseydance.org. Bachata and salsa
lessons followed by open dancing.
Classical Music
Lawrenceville, 732-463-2268. pianosummer.org. Formosa Piano
Duo performs music of Mozart, Lutoslawski, Arensky, and Poulenc.
Register online. $20. 7:30 p.m.
Princeton University Orchestra,
Richardson Auditorium, 609-2589220. princeton.edu/puconcerts.
Music of Chopin and Rachmaninoff featuring Darya Koltunyuk on
piano, co winner of the 2012 Concerto Competition. Michael Pratt
conducts. $15. 8 p.m.
Live Music
New Jersey Festival of Electronic Arts, Grounds For Sculpture,
126 Sculptors Way, Hamilton,
609-586-0616. www.groundsforsculpture.org. Live electronic music, dancers concert, and interactive exhibits. Artists include Chuck
Van Zyl, Mike Hunter’s Ombient,
Up Beat Manifest, Joo Won Park,
Ace Paradise, Kip Rosser, Kalamandir Dance Company, and Machine Eat Man. Improvisational
music performances throughout
the events. Artwork by Gary DiBenedetto, Scott Fitzgerald, Matt
Lucash, Phillip Sanders, and Eric
Schultz. Visit www.njfea.com for
more information. Snow date is
Sunday, March 11. 1 to 8 p.m.
American Blues and Country
Night, Grover’s Mill Coffee
Scott Langdon, It’s a Grind Coffee House, 7 Schalks Crossing
Road, Plainsboro, 609-275-2919.
www.itsagrind.com. Acoustic originals and pop. 8 to 10 p.m.
World Music
Irish Heartsong Concert, Voices
Chorale, Nassau Presbyterian
Church, 61 Nassau Street, Princeton, 609-397-0756. www.voiceschorale.org. All-Irish concert with
Gerry Dignan and the 65 singers.
Premiere of a new work by Kenneth K. Guilmartin based on his
experience visiting County Clare
in Ireland. $25. 8 p.m.
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Good Causes
Clothing Drive, West WindsorPlainsboro High School South
Post Prom, Clarksville Road,
www.ww-p.org. Bring used clothing including outerwear, shoes,
boots, hats, belts, ties, scarves,
handbags,
linens,
curtains,
sheets, towels, and stuffed animals in sturdy plastic bags. No
electronics or plastic toys. Tax deductible receipts are available.
Rain or shine. Bring to front parking lot. 8 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Benefit Galas
Annual Gala and Performance,
American Repertory Ballet, Patriots Theater at the War Memorial, Trenton, 609-984-8400. www.arballet.org. Ole features performances by American Repertory
Ballet, Princeton Ballet School,
and ARB’s Dance Power. Honoring Charles Metcalf and Alma
Concepcion. Live and silent auctions. Register. $175 and up. 7
p.m.
Comedy
James Goff, Catch a Rising Star,
Hyatt Regency, 102 Carnegie
Center, West Windsor, 609-9878018. www.catcharisingstar.com.
Register. $21.50. 7:30 and 9:30
p.m.
Faith
Courage to Question Worship,
Street, 609-924-2613. www.princetonumc.org. “Can I Be Angry with God” presented by Anna
Gillette, seminary student. 5 p.m.
Health
Condensed Prepared Childbirth
Class, Capital Health Center,
1401
Whitehorse-Mercerville
Tutor:
Road, Suite 220, Hamilton, 609394-6091. capitalhealthwomen.com. Intensive seven hours includes abbreviated content of the
four week series. Plan to finish
class within a month of your due
date. Register. $135. 9 a.m. to 4
p.m.
Community Health Fair, Princeton Fitness and Wellness Center, 1225 State Road, Princeton,
609-683-7888. www.princetonfitnessandwellness.com. “Go Green
into Spring” with information,
health screenings, classes, chair
massages, refreshments, and a
tour of the center. 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Tinnitus Self-Help Group, First
Presbyterian Church, 100 Scotch
Road, Ewing, 609-426-6079.
“How to Change Thoughts and
Feelings, Getting Better Sleep,
Deep Breathing” discussion. Facilitated by Dhyan Cassie. 10 to
11:30 a.m.
Wellness
Community Yoga, Integral Yoga
of Princeton, 613 Ridge Road,
Monmouth Junction, 732-2742410. www.integralyogaprinceton.org. Free. 8 and 9:45 a.m.
Establishing a Healing Practice,
Center for Relaxation and Healing, 666 Plainsboro Road, Suite
635, Plainsboro, 609-750-7432.
www.relaxationandhealing.com.
Register. $49. 9 a.m.
T’ai Chi Ch’uan, Todd Tieger,
Plainsboro Library, 9 Van Doren,
Plainsboro, 609-439-8656. google.com/site/toddtiegertaichichuan. All levels. Free. 10 a.m.
History
Civil War and Native American
Museum, Camp Olden, 2202
Kuser Road, Hamilton, 609-5858900. www.campolden.org. Exhibits featuring Civil War soldiers
Study Skills, History
and English/Writing
18 year veteran West Windsor-Plainsboro classroom teacher.
MS in Special Education from The Bank Street College
of Education in New York.
• Have co-taught American History since 1997
• Have taught specialized programs
Services:
• Developing study skills and research strategies,
particularly in non-fiction categories
(ex. history portfolio)
• Improving writing skills including:
editing, organizing, and citing references
• Preparing students for college essays
609-649-2694
email: [email protected]
Return to the Lord, your
God, for he is gracious and
merciful, slow to anger, and
abounding in steadfast love.
Mid-Week Lenten Services
Wednesdays, 7:30 pm
Soup Supper at 6:45 pm
aA
WORD AND SACRAMENT WORSHIP
SUNDAY MORNINGS AT 8:30AM AND 11AM
Christian education for all ages, 9:45 a.m.
Newcomers always welcome.
aA
Prince of Peace Lutheran Church (ELCA)
Pastor Carl Joecks
177 Princeton Hightstown Road • Princeton Junction 08550
609.799.1753 • www.popnj.org
from New Jersey including their
original uniforms, weapons, and
medical equipment. Diorama of
the Swamp Angel artillery piece
and Native American artifacts.
Free. 1 to 4 p.m.
For Families
Horse Doctor Visits, Howell Living History Farm, 70 Wooden’s
Lane, Lambertville, 609-7373299. www.howellfarm.org. Kids
will be able to listen to a horse’s
heart through an antique stethoscope, look inside a horse’s
mouth, and even rub cream into a
cracked hoof. The horse dentist
will check horse’s teeth. Children’s
craft program, “Horseshoe Letter
Holder” will be offered from 11
a.m. to 3 p.m., $5. Free admission
and parking. 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Geek Freak Weekend, Princeton
Tour Company, Princeton Area,
609-902-3637. www.pidayprinceton.com. Celebrate Albert Einstein’s March 14 (pi) birthday with
tours, pie eating contests, Einstein
reenactors, airplane and dinky
rides with Einstein, contests, performances. Suzuki violin contest
at 10 a.m. at Princeton Public Library. (No) Sock Hop at YWCA at
4 p.m. Visit website for more information. 10 a.m.
Art for Families, Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton
campus, 609-258-3788. artmuseum.princeton.edu. “When Is Art
Like a Jigsaw Puzzle?” Self-guided interactive tour followed by a
related art project. All ages are
welcome. Free. 10:30 a.m. to 1
p.m.
Open House, Appel Farm Arts &
Music Center, 457 Shirley Road,
Elmer, 800-298-4200. www.appelfarm.org. Camp tours. 11
a.m.
Camp Open House, Stony Brook
Millstone Watershed, 31 Titus
Mill Road, Pennington, 609-7377592.
www.thewatershed.org.
Nature and environmental summer day camp for boys and girls
entering grades one to nine. 1 to 4
p.m.
Rube Goldberg Machine Madness, Cotsen Children’s Library, Firestone Library, 609-2582697. www.princeton.edu. Experiment in engineering with Legos.
For ages 5 and up. Free. 2 to 4
p.m.
Family Theater
Harlem Globetrotters, Sun National Bank Center, Hamilton Avenue at Route 129, Trenton, 800298-4200. www.comcasttix.com.
$17 to $115. 2 and 7 p.m.
Lectures
Spring De-Cluttering in Three
Simple Steps, Monroe Public Library, 4 Municipal Plaza, Monroe,
732-521-5000. www.monroetwplibrary.org. Jamie Novak shares
her three-step system to organize
paper piles, closets, recipes, receipts, and clothes in your car. She
is the home blogger for Martha
Stewart’s Whole Living, and has
been seen on HGTV and QVD. Novak’s books include “Stop Throwing Money Away: Turn Clutter to
Cash, Trash to Treasure and Save
the Planet while you’re at it,” “The
Get Organized Answer Book,”
“1,000 Best Quick and Easy Time
Saving Strategies,” and “1,000
Best Quick and Easy Organizing
Secrets.” Free tickets available at
the reference desk. 1 p.m.
Science Lectures
Science on Saturday, Princeton
Plasma Physics Laboratory,
Forrestal Campus, Route 1 North,
Plainsboro, 609-243-2121. www.pppl.gov. “One Hundred Years of
Superconductivity” presented by
Michael Norman, materials science division, Argonne National
Laboratory. Register on site beginning at 8:15 a.m. For students,
parents, teachers, and community
members. Photo ID required. Series is coordinated by John DeLooper, Ronald Hatcher, Kathleen
Lukazik, and Deedee Ortiz. Free.
9:30 a.m.
Book Lovers’ Alert: Friends of the West Windsor
Library board members and volunteers are preparing for the 30th annual book sale. Pictured: Gloria
Lieberman, back left, Dana Krug, Colleen Butler,
and Kathy Kyriakou with Charlotte Lichtenstein,
front left, Kevin Butler, Heather Butler, and Immi
Langley. Photo: Melanie Langley
Outdoor Action
Walking Tour, D&R Canal Watch,
Trenton Battle Monument, 348
North Warren Street, Trenton,
201-401-3121. Five mile walk between Upper Ferry Road in Ewing
and the trenton Battle Monument.
Three mile walk to Cadwalader
Park is available. Transportation
back will be arranged. Bob Barth,
a canal expert, narrates. Free. 10
a.m.
Princeton Canal Walkers, Turning Basin Park, Alexander Road,
Princeton, 609-896-0546. Threemile walk on the towpath. Bad
weather cancels. Free. 10 a.m.
Politics
Ready to Run: Campaign Training for Women, Eagleton Institute of Politics, Douglass Campus, 100 George Street, New
Brunswick, 732-932-9384. www.eagleton.rutgers.edu. Bi-partisan
program for women seeking public
office, running for higher office,
becoming community leaders, or
working on a campaign. Register.
$135. Speakers include Celinda
Lake, Lake Research Partners;
Nancy Bocskor, a political
fundraising firm; and Christine
Jahnke, Positive Communications. 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.
Schools
port) and proof of identity (driver’s
license or state issued identification card). Adults, $110 for 10
years. Minors, $80 for five years.
Processing fee is $25. Passport
photos will be taken for $4. Bring
checks or money orders. No cash
or credit cards. Registrations advised. 10 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.
Tee Off Luncheon, Executive
Women’s Golf Association,
Central New Jersey, Mercer
Oaks Golf Course, West Windsor,
609-558-1237.
www.ewgacentralnj.org. Vendor showcase, door
prizes, golf tips, and networking
with other women in business who
enjoy golf. Register. 11:30 a.m. to
3 p.m.
Sports
Tee Off Luncheon, Executive
Women’s Golf Association,
Mercer Oaks, 725 Village Road
West, West Windsor, 609-9369603. www.ewgacentralnj.org. Information about golf outings,
leagues, education. Register. $40.
11:30 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Sunday
March 11
Daylight Saving Time begins
Open House, The Lewis School,
53 Bayard Lane, Princeton, 609924-8120. www.lewisschool.org.
Open house for alternative education program for learning different
students with language-based
learning difficulties related to
dyslexia, attention deficit, and auditory processing. Pre-K to college
preparatory levels. Summer study
available. 10 a.m.
On Stage
Musical about baseball. $12. 2
and 7 p.m.
2 p.m.
Book Sale
Annual Book Sale, West Windsor
Library, 333 North Post Road,
609-799-0462. Sales benefit children’s, teen, and adult programming; community events; the summer reading program; additions to
the library’s periodical and book
collections; landscaping, seating,
laptop computers; and furniture.
Most books are $1 or less.
Through Sunday, March 11. 10
a.m. to 5 p.m.
Off-Broadstreet
Theater,
5
South
Greenwood
Avenue,
Marivaux features Austin Begley
of Plainsboro. $29.50 to $31.50 includes dessert. 1:30 p.m.
609-392-0766.
Moon.” $20. 3 p.m.
Socials
Literati
Passport Day, Mercer County,
Mercer County Connection, Route
33 and Paxson Avenue, Hamilton,
609-989-6473. www.mercercounty.org. Passport applications will
be processed on-site. Bring proof
of U.S. citizenship (previous pass-
Continuing Cultural Conversation, South Brunswick Library,
110 Kingston Lane, Monmouth
Junction, 732-329-4000. www.sbpl.info. Book talk and community panel discussion on “The Faith
Club: A Muslim, A Christian, A Jew
MARCH 2, 2012
— Three Women Search for Understanding” by Ranya Idliby, Susanne Oliver, and Priscilla Warner. The authors wrestle with the issues of anti-Semitism, prejudice
against Muslims, and preconceptions of Christians. Moderated by
Reverend Beth Scibienski of Community Presbyterian Church. 2
p.m.
609-497-1600.
www.labyrinthbooks.com. “D is for Digital: What
Well-Informed People Should
Know About Computers” presented by Brian Kernighan, professor
in the computer science department at Princeton University. He is
the author of AWK and SMPL programming languages and co-author of “The C Programming Language,” the first book on C. 6 p.m.
Classical Music
Lawrenceville,
732-463-2268.
www.pianosummer.org. Chamber
music presented by the faculty with
Mihai Marica on cello, Katie Hyun
on violin, and Aaron Weinman on
piano. A young composer’s workshop will be held before the concert. Register online. $20. 3 p.m.
Richardson Chamber Players,
Richardson Auditorium, 609-2589220.
princetonuniversityconcerts.org. “Looking Forward and
Back,” a program of works by Beethoven, Landsky, Stravinsky, and
Brahms presented by Princeton’s
resident ensemble of performance
faculty. $15. 3 p.m.
Young Artist Benefit Concert,
Suburban Music Study Club,
United Methodist Church, 460
Main Street, Chatham. Paul von
Autenried Jr., 18, of West Windsor
performs in the concert. He was a
scholarship winner in the competition held in December. He has
studied piano since age four, has
received awards in the New Jersey Senior Piano Division of the
Music Teachers National Association and the West Chester University Annual Pre-College Piano
Competition. As a winner of the
Cecilian Music Club Competition,
he performed at Alice Tully Hall in
Lincoln Center. Free-will donation
for the scholarship fund. 3 p.m.
Choral Reading, Princeton Society of Musical Amateurs, Unitarian Universalist Congregation, 50
Cherry Hill Road, Princeton, 609587-7123. www.princetonol.com/groups/psma. Orff’s “Carmina Burana.” All singers are invited to
join. No auditions. Vocal scores
provided. Refreshments. $10 for
singers. Free for students and
non-singing guests. 4 to 7 p.m.
Live Music
Dancing Goats, Alchemist & Barrister, 28 Witherspoon Street,
Benefit Galas
Awards Program, National Football Foundation: Delaware Valley, Hyatt, Carnegie Center, West
Windsor, 609-896-3434. www.delvalfootballfoundation.com.
50th anniversary reception and
awards dinner. Register. $65. 4
p.m.
Wellness
Yoga for Healthy Bones, One Yoga Center, 405 Route 130 North,
East Windsor, 609-918-0963.
www.oneyogacenter.net. No yoga
experience necessary. Register.
$45. 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.
History
Civil War and Native American
Museum, Camp Olden, 2202
Kuser Road, Hamilton, 609-5858900. www.campolden.org. Exhibits featuring Civil War soldiers
from New Jersey including their
original uniforms, weapons, and
medical equipment. Diorama of
the Swamp Angel artillery piece
and Native American artifacts.
Free. 1 to 4 p.m.
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Let the Winners. . . Perform!
S
infonietta Nova’s upcoming
family concert is a celebration of music and rising star
musicians featuring Benjamin
Britten’s Young Person’s Guide
to the Orchestra (with narration)
as well as Purcell’s Suite from
Abdelazer.
Sinfonietta Nova, a community
orchestra based in West Windsor,
presents musical performances
and cultural enrichment in central
New Jersey to promote awareness
and appreciation of classical music through orchestral concerts
and educational programs. Gail
Lee of West Windsor is the conductor.
“We held a youth concerto
competition back in January,”
says Lee. “The competition was
open to all residents in New Jersey
under the age of 18. Before we set
out the rules we decided to take
two winners, and at least one of
them will be from Mercer County
— just a way to bring focus to our
surrounding communities,” says
Lee. The top two winners both
came from West Windsor.
The orchestra will showcase
winners of the competition at the
concert. Soyeong Park, 14, took
first place, and will perform
Chausson’s Poeme for Violin and
Orchestra. Brian Kim, 16, the first
runner-up, will perform Glazunov’s Concerto for Alto Saxophone.
Soyeong Park, a freshman at
High School North, has been
playing violin since she was three.
Born in Korea, she moved to Bryn
Mawr, Pennsylvania, with her
family when she was six. They
moved to West Windsor when she
was 10.
Lecture Series, Ellarslie, Trenton
City Museum, Cadwalader Park,
609-989-3632. www.ellarslie.org.
“Trolleys and Trenton” presented
by Dennis P. Waters, historian of
Lawrence Township. The Old Line
and the Johnson Line serviced
Trenton, Lawrence, and Princeton
from 1899 to 1940. Refreshments.
$10. 2 p.m.
Walking Tour, Historical Society
of Princeton, Bainbridge House,
609-921-6748. www.princetonhistory.org. Two-hour walking tour
of downtown Princeton and
Princeton University includes stories about the early history of
Princeton, the founding of the University, and the American Revolution. $7; $4 for ages 6 to 12. 2 to 4
p.m.
For Families
Geek Freak Weekend, Princeton
Tour Company, Princeton Area,
609-902-3637.
www.pidayprinceton.com. Celebrate Albert
Einstein’s March 14 (pi) birthday
with tours, pie eating contests,
Einstein reenactors, airplane and
dinky rides with Einstein, contests,
performances. Pie eating contest
at 11 a.m. at McCaffrey’s. Pi
recitation contest at the lirary at 1
p.m. Pie throwing at Palmer
Square at 3:14 p.m. Visit website
for more information. 10 a.m.
Open House, Frogbridge Day
Camp, 7 Yellow Meeting House
Road, Millstone, 732-786-9050.
www.frogbridge.com. 11 a.m. to 3
p.m.
Open House, Rambling Pines
Day Camp, Route 518, Hopewell,
609-466-1212.
www.ramblingpines.com. Parents and children
may tour the facility and meet staff
members. Camp program for ages
3 to 15 and a teen program for
grades 7 to 10. Register. 1 to 3
p.m.
Family Concert, West Windsor
Arts Council, West Windsor Library, North Post Road, West
Windsor, 609-716-1931. www.-
Her mother, Joanne, is a former
piano player. “She has helped a lot
with my musical education,” says
Soyeong. Her brother, Robin, is a
fifth grade student at Village
School. He began studying
through the Suzuki method when
he was seven and now plays the
cello.
Her father, Ho Jin Park, is a
lawyer. “We moved to West
Windsor because we heard that
the school district was good,” says
Soyeong. “Education is really important to our family.” When the
family first moved to West Windsor her father worked in New
York City, but he now works in
northern New Jersey.
Park debuted with the Philadelphia Orchestra as a winner of the
2009 Albert M. Greenfield Competition children’s division. She
has served as a concertmistress in
New Jersey All-State Intermediate Orchestra in three consecutive
years from 2009 to 2011 and
CJMEA High School Region Orchestra in 2012. Her ensemble experiences include Youth Chamber
Orchestra and Quartet in the Center for Gifted Young Musicians of
Temple Music, and Kimmel Center Summer Chamber Music Program. At North she plays in the
orchestra, string quartet, and
string ensemble.
Recently, Park claimed first
prizes in the NJ ASTA Solo
Strings Competition junior division and Kennett Symphony
Competition. She also earned first
prizes of the 29th Goldblatt
Scholarship Competition, Woodmere Friday Music Club Competition, Old York Road Competition, and Monmouth Symphony
westwindsorarts.org. David Fry
presents folk songs to welcome
spring. Be prepared to sing,
dance, and share stories in a singalong. $12. 3 p.m.
Science Lectures
Science and Engineering Fair,
Mercer Science and Engineering Club, Rider University,
Luedeke Student Center, Lawrenceville. www.mercersec.org.
First day for annual science fair
open to students in fourth through
twelfth grades in three different divisions. 1 p.m.
Book Sale
and furniture. Box and bag day.
12:30 to 4 p.m.
Socials
Annual Luncheon and Fashion
Show, The Contemporary, Trenton Country Club, 201 Sullivan
Way, West Trenton, 609-7319128. “Frolicking into Spring” features professional models with
Barbara O’Connor Productions.
Register. $45. 11:30 a.m.
For Seniors
Art, Princeton Senior Resource
Center, Suzanne Patterson Building, 609-924-7108. www.princetonsenior.org. Discussion of “Up
Close,” the current Van Gogh Exhibit at Philadelphia Art Museum,
presented by Helen Schwartz.
The exhibit features more than 40
close-ups of landscapes, flowers,
and still lifes painted during the final five years of the artist’s turbulent life. 10:30 a.m.
Stars on the Rise:
Soyeong Park
and Brian Kim.
Concerto Competition. She was
invited to perform with the Monmouth Symphony, Old York
Road Symphony, and Kennett
Symphony.
Park currently studies with
Yayoi Numazawa and Yumi Scott
in Philadelphia. Although she
does not know what the future will
bring she says “I know that the violin is a really big asset to take
with me.”
Ji Woong (Brian) Kim, a junior
at High School South, currently
studies with Jordan P. Smith. This
is his debut performance as a classical soloist. Kim has been a
member of CJMEA Region Band
and NJMEA All-State Band for
the past three years, and also has
been a member Youth Orchestra
of Central Jersey (YOCJ) as a lead
soprano saxophonist since seventh grade. In 2010, he debuted as
Sports
Trenton Titans, Sun National
Bank Center, 81 Hamilton Avenue, Trenton, 609-341-1100.
trentontitanshockey.com. Hockey
vs. Elmira. $11 and up. 4 p.m.
Monday
March 12
Municipal Meetings
Public Meeting, West Windsor
Township Council, Municipal
a conductor of South’s freshmen
band under the guidance of Anthony Pappalardo, who has now
retired. Also as a jazz player, he
appeared on stage with Dennis
Diblasio, a renowned artist who
directs the jazz program at Rowan
University.
— Lynn Miller
Family Concert, Sinfonietta
Nova, Mayo Concert Hall, College of New Jersey, 2000 Pennington Road, Ewing. Saturday,
March 3, 7:30 p.m. “Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra” features works by Purcell, Sarasate,
Glazunov, and Chausson. Winners of the Youth Concerto competition, Soyeong Park on violin
and Brian Kim on alto saxophone,
perform with the orchestra. $15.
609-462-4984. www.sinfoniettanova.org.
Building, 609-799-2400. www.westwindsornj.org. 7 p.m.
Literati
New Jersey Writers’ Society
Meeting, West Windsor Library,
333 North Post Road, 609-7990462. Enjoy the challenge to become a better writer and defeat
writers’ block. 6:30 to 8 p.m.
Poetry, Princeton Public Library,
65 Witherspoon Street, Fireplace
on second floor, 609-924-9529.
princetonlibrary.org. Scott McVay
and Gretna Wilkinson read. Open
mic follows. Free. 7:30 p.m.
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Rolex Watches
With the Precious Metal Market
at an All-Time High, Now Is the Time to Turn
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THE NEWS
MARCH 2, 2012
Baseball
West
Windsor-Plainsboro
Wood Bat and Senior Babe Ruth
League are accepting applications
for West Windsor and Plainsboro
players, ages 16 to 18 as of April
30. Games are on Sundays from
April to June, with home games at
West Windsor Community Park.
There will also be post season play.
Register at www.leaguelineup.com/wwpbaberuth by Friday,
March 9.
For Young Writers
Cotsen Children’s Museum is
accepting entries in the “350 for
50” annual writing competition for
ages 8 to 16. Write a 350-word story that includes the sentence “The
noise was unmistakable.” Winning
stories will be published online, in
the Picture Book Press, and the authors will receive a $50 shopping
spree at Labyrinth Books. No poems, illustrations, or comics. One
winner will be selected from age
categories of 8 to 10, 11 to 13, and
14 to 16. Stories including your
name, age, and mailing address
must be submitted via E-mail to
[email protected]. Deadline is
Monday, March 12, at 5 p.m.
PNC Bank and the Quick Chek
New Jersey Festival of Ballooning invite New Jersey students in
grades 2 through 12 to write a short
essay on “What the American Flag
Means to Me” for the American
Patriot essay contest. This year’s
grand prize winner will receive a
visit to his or her school by a gigantic, 75-foot-tall hot air balloon in
June and a special VIP package at
this year’s festival including a hot
air balloon ride for two, four Blue
Sky Club VIP tickets, and the opportunity to meet one of this year’s
concert headliners. Second and
third place prizes consisting of festival admission and merchandise
will be also awarded.
MARCH 12
Good Causes
Benefit Evening, Leukemia and
Lymphoma
Society,
Villa
Barone, Robbinsville-Allentown
Road, Robbinsville, 609-2590000. www.lls.org. A percentage
of the day’s proceeds benefit research for leukemia, lymphoma,
Hodgkin’s Disease, and myeloma,
and improve the quality of life of
patients and their families. 5 p.m.
Lectures
Woodrow
Wilson
School,
Hall, Dodds, 609-258-2943. “Financial Regulatory Reform” Imperative for Our Future.” 4:30 p.m.
Science Lectures
Public Lecture, Princeton University, Dodds Auditorium, 609258-3000. “In the Nation’s Service: Diversifying Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math
Opportunities
The winning student’s classmates will receive an admission
ticket to the festival and the winning student’s teacher and school
principal will each receive two
Blue Sky Club VIP tickets. Every
teacher who submits a group of 15
essays or more will receive two
free general admission tickets to
the festival.
The essays should be 100 words
or fewer. Deadline is Tuesday,
May 1. Send to Essay Judges,
Quick Chek New Jersey Festival of
Ballooning, 363 Route 46 West,
Suite 200, Fairfield 07004. Entries
may also be submitted at www.balloonfestival.com or by E-mail
to [email protected].
Call for Poets
D&R Greenway invites poets
to submit entries for a juried poetry
reading based on the theme of
“Babbling Brooks and Silent
Springs” to be held at Johnson Education Center on Thursday, April
12. Submissions must be received
by Thursday, March 22. Visit
www.drgreenway.org, call 609924-4646, or E-mail [email protected].
Volunteer Please
CASA for Children of Mercer
County seeks volunteers to advocate for children. Court Appointed
Special Advocates is seeking volunteers who have a few hours a
month to help make a difference in
the life of a foster child. The nonprofit organization is committed to
speaking up in court for the best interests of children who have been
removed from their homes due to
abuse and neglect.
Leadership” panel discussion.
Participants include Ayana Arce,
Duke University; Robert Hampshire, Carnegie Mellon University;
James Mitchell, Howard University; Jennifer Rexford, Princeton
University; James West, Johns
Hopkins University; and Alice
White, Bell Labs. Free. 8 p.m.
Schools
Open House, Quakerbridge
Learning Center., 4044 Quakerbridge Road, Lawrenceville, 609933-8806. www.quaker-bridge.com. Information about summer
academic camp. 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Singles
Singles Night, Grover’s Mill Coffee House, 335 Princeton Hightstown Road, West Windsor, 609716-8771. www.groversmillcoffee.com. Drop in for soups, sandwiches, desserts, tea, coffee, and
conversation.
Register
at
http://ht.ly/3gd9w 6:30 to 8 p.m.
Socials
Postcard Collecting, Washington Crossing Card Collectors,
NOW OFFE
R
SAT. CLASS ING
ES!
Volunteers should be at least 21
years of age, able to communicate
effectively, and pass background
checks, as well as sex offender and
child abuse registry checks, and
available to complete about 30
hours of training. Register to attend
an information session at 1450
Parkside Avenue, Suite 22, Ewing,
on March 8 or 20, and April 3. Visit www.casamercer.org, call 609434-0050, or E-mail [email protected].
Jewish Community Center
seeks adult and teen volunteers to
assist at Special Olympics of New
Jersey’s basketball sectionals. Positions are open for timers, scorekeepers, court assistants, award
presenters, and fans in the stands.
Lawrenceville School, 2500 Main
Street, Lawrenceville, Sunday,
March 11, 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. Contact
Jerry Schwartz at 609-219-9550 or
[email protected] for information.
Nominations
Invited
Kidsbridge seeks nominations
for the youth and adult humanitarian awards to recognize extraordinary acts of kindness, citizenship,
or community service. Principals,
guidance counselors, teachers, and
others are invited to nominate a
child, a group of children, or a colleague that has demonstrated an
extraordinary act of kindheartedness, service to the community,
peaceful resolution of conflict, or
compassion for the less fortunate.
Awards will be made to individuals, to small groups of students,
and a teacher, a guidance counselor, or a principal who has
demonstrated outstanding leader-
Union Fire Hall, 1396 River Road,
Titusville, 215-598-7534. www.wc4postcards.org. “Turn Card
Over” presented by Shirley Caroll.
Auction follows. 8 p.m.
Tuesday
March 13
Municipal Meetings
Meeting, WW-P Board of Education, Grover Middle School, 609716-5000. 7:30 p.m.
On Stage
Music Theater Lab, Princeton
University, 185 Nassau Street,
609-258-1500. www.princeton.edu. A conversation with John
Doyle, Broadway director of
“Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street” and “Company.” He will discuss his career in
the theater and movies industries.
Free. 1:30 to 2:50 p.m.
Poetry on Stage: Fjords, Labyrinth Books, 122 Nassau Street,
Princeton, 609-497-1600. labyrinthbooks.com. Multimedia collaborative work features shadow
puppetry by Manual Cinema, live
silhouettes, video and slide projections, an original score for string
quartet, percussion, and electronics by Kyle Vegter, and poetry of
Zachary Schomburg. 6 p.m.
Travesties, McCarter Theater
(Matthews), 91 University Place,
Princeton, 609-258-2787. www.mccarter.org. Tom Stoppard’s
comedy set in Zurich, 1917. Directed by Sam Buntrock. $20 to
$60. Attend a pre-show talk 45
minutes before each performance. 7:30 p.m.
ship in character education or leading community service. Download
a nomination form at www.kidsbridgemuseum.org or call 609581-0239 for information. Deadline is Tuesday, March 20.
Donate Please
Dress for Success Mercer
County is participating in Send
One Suit weekend through Sunday, March 4, by asking women to
donate one new or nearly new interview suit to help another woman
enter the workforce and take
charge of her life. Dressbarn will
accept donations during the fourday event. Visit www.dressforsuccess.org/mercercounty for information.
Cultural Adventure
YWCA Princeton offers “India: Culture, Etiquette, and Traditions,” a four-week program on
Fridays, March 9, 16, 23, and 30, at
7 p.m., at Bramwell House, 59 Paul
Robeson Place, Princeton. Highlights include “Introduction to India,” “Travel and Business Etiquette,” “Food and Clothing,” and
“Traditions and Customs.” Register at www.ywcaprinceton.org/register or call 609-497-2100. $75.
Tennis, Anyone?
Mercer County Park Commission offers junior and adult tennis lesson programs for all levels
and ages, tournaments for singles,
doubles, and mixed doubles; a tennis league; and more. Register for
programs at the Mercer County
Tennis Center at https://register.communitypass.net/mercer or call
609-448-8007.
Art
Princeton, 732-422-3676. www.princetonphotoclub.org.
Film
Camera Pin Hole moderated by
Sandy Davis. Register. 7 p.m.
Live Music
Open Mic Night, Grover’s Mill
Coffee House, 335 Princeton
Hightstown Road, West Windsor,
609-716-8771. www.groversmillcoffee.com. 7 p.m.
Pop Music
Rehearsal, Princeton Garden
Statesmen, Plainsboro Library, 9
Van Doren Street, Plainsboro,
888-636-4449. menwhosing.org.
Men of all ages and experience
levels are invited to sing in fourpart harmony. The non-profit organization presents at numerous
charities. Free. 7:30 to 10 p.m.
Good Causes
Gold Buying Event, YWCA
Princeton, Bramwell House, 59
Paul Robeson Place, Princeton,
609-497-2100. www.ywcaprinceton.org. Benefit for the Breast
Cancer Resource Center. Bring
gold, silver, or platinum. 10 a.m. to
7 p.m.
Meeting, Allies, 1262 WhitehorseHamilton Square Road, Hamilton,
609-689-0136. For adult volunteers with hobbies or interests to
share with adults who have developmental disabilities. Register
with Linda Barton. 5:30 to 7:30
p.m.
Faith
Psalms for the Rhythm of Life,
Breakfast in Bed
Princeton Senior Center offers
“Brunch at Home” for delivery on
Sunday, March 25, by 9 a.m. The
basket includes bagels, a quiche,
smoked salmon, sparkling cider,
fruit, and more. Register at www.brunchathome.org, E-mail [email protected], or call
609-924-7108. $37.50.
Audition
Bucks County Gilbert & Sullivan Society has open auditions for
principal roles and chorus positions for “The Pirates of Penzance”
on Sundays, March 4 and 11, from
5 to 8 p.m., at Trinity Episcopal
Church, Route 413 and 202, Buckingham, Pennsylvania. Prepare
one to two minutes of any G&S
number with a piece from Pirates
preferred. Provide your own music. If auditioning for the chorus
prepare any song that demonstrates
your ability to sing. Register at
215-534-1932 or E-mail [email protected]. Provide your
name, address, phone, E-mail address, roles you are interested in,
your voice part, and on which date
you prefer to audition. Production
is Friday to Sunday, June 8 to 10.
Creative Drama
Paper Mill Playhouse teams up
with VSA-NJ to offer a creative
drama class for students ages 9 to
12 with developmental disabilities.
The class will meet Fridays, April
13 to May 25, from 3:45 to 4:45
p.m. $170. Register. www.papermill.org.
Fitness
Snap Fitness at 2025 Old Trenton Road, West Windsor, offers a
free week of classes for new people. Visit www.snapfitness.com/westwindsor or call 609-371-7627.
Street, 609-924-2613. www.princetonumc.org. Worship and
light lunch. Noon.
Health
Caregiver Coffee and Dessert
Hour, Buckingham Place, 155
Raymond Road, Monmouth Junction, 609-426-1545. www.buckinghamplace.net. Resource workshop for busy caregivers. Facilitated by Louise Donnangelo, a resource specialist. Supervised activities for family member. Register. Free. 1 to 3 p.m.
Open Discussion, Allergy and
Asthma Support Group of Central NJ, Panera Bread, 136 Nassau Street, Princeton. E-mail [email protected] for information. 7 p.m.
Wellness
Self Defense for Women, Princeton Fitness and Wellness Center, 1225 State Road, Princeton,
609-683-7888. www.princetonfitnessandwellness.com.
First
session of four-part series. For
women of all ages. Register. $50.
6 to 9 p.m.
Post-Menopause,
Princeton
HealthCare System, Breast
Health Center, 300B PrincetonHightstown Road, East Windsor,
888-897-8979. www.princetonhcs.org. “Do I Still Need My Gynecologist AFter Menopause? presented by Christopher A. Naraine,
MD, board certified OB/GYN.
Register. Free. 6:30 p.m.
Qigong, Optimal Exercise, 27
Maplewood Avenue, Cranbury,
609-203-0550. Energy healing
workshop with Sangita Patel.
Register. $15. 8 p.m.
MARCH 2, 2012
Plainsboro
Prostitution Charges. Warren
Salonga, 38, of Astoria, NY, and
Samantha M. Connelly, 24, of Jersey City were arrested February 25
on prostitution-related charges.
Officer Joseph DiGeronimo
said he stopped Salonga, who was
driving a 2003 Nissan Pathfinder,
on Quail Ridge Drive for improper
use of high beams and found that
he was wanted on a warrant out of
Bayonne. Connelly, a passenger,
was found to be wanted on warrants out of Rutherford and Union
City.
According to Officer DiGeronimo, investigation revealed that
Connelly had hired Salonga to drive her to meet a client in Quail
Ridge where she was allegedly going to perform exotic dances and
massages in exchange for money.
Police said that Salonga has driven
Connelly to visit clients in the past,
and “routinely transports other
women engaging in prostitution.”
Salonga was charged with promoting prostitution and released
after posting $500 bail. Connelly
was charged with engaging in prostitution and turned over to the
Rutherford Police Department on
the outstanding warrant.
Police said a computer check revealed that a second passenger in
the car — a juvenile female — was
listed as a missing person from a
residential treatment center in New
York. It was determined that she
was not being held against her will,
and she was released into the custody of a representative of the center.
Road Rage. William J. Enoch,
32, of Quail Ridge Drive was arrested and charged with making
terroristic threats, drunk driving,
and impersonating a law enforcement officer following a road rage
incident on February 20.
Officer Joseph DiGeronimo
said that he was dispatched to investigate a road rage incident in
progress outside the police station
on municipal drive, where the victim had led his attacker, later identified as Enoch.
According to Officer DiGeronimo, the victim called 911 when
Enoch tailgated him for several
miles on Dey Road, continually
flashing his high beams. The victim alleges that Enoch exited his
vehicle at a red light and banged his
hand on the victim’s car while
threatening to kill him.
The victim then drove to Municipal Drive, where Enoch again exited his vehicle and began banging
on the victim’s car and demanded
that he exit it. Officer DiGeronimo
said police arrived at the scene to
witness this and ordered Enoch
Attempted Burglary. Someone tried to break into a Drayton
Lane resident’s home on February
22. Police said someone damaged
the front and side door locks in an
attempt to gain entry into the residence. Damage was estimated at
$200.
Weapon Possession. A 16year-old male and a 14-year-old
male, both from Plainsboro, were
charged with unlawful possession
of a weapon, criminal mischief,
and burglary, at High School North
on February 22. Police said a
school employee caught the teens
attempting to break into a gym
locker with a kitchen knife.
Vandalism. A computer at
High School North was vandalized
on February 22. According to police someone destroyed a $600
Dell computer tower on the
teacher’s desk in classroom 229.
The crime occurred between 3 and
5:30 p.m.
Identity Theft. Someone obtained two credit cards in the name
of a Sayre Drive resident. The
cards were used to purchase gas
and clothing totaling $4,900 between March 2011 and February
2012.
A Groendyke Lane resident’s
business partner opened up cell
phone and credit card accounts in
his name. Some $2,110 was
charged to the accounts in May and
June of 2011.
A Hunter’s Glen Drive resident’s information was used to file
a tax return with the IRS on February 8.
Lectures
Tax Assistance, Plainsboro Public Library, 9 Van Doren Street, 609-275-2897.
www.lmxac.org/plainsboro. Register. Free.
10 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.
United Financial Empowerment Center,
Mercer Alliance to End Homelessness,
United Way, 3131 Princeton Pike, Building
4, Suite 113, Lawrenceville, 609-883-3379.
www.merceralliance.org. “Take Charge of
Your Financial Future” with consumer credit
counseling, debt management, foreclosure
information, tax preparation, women’s interview clothing, career center mentoring, financial planning, and NJ Family Care. Free.
11 a.m. to 8 p.m.
Princeton Macintosh Users Group, Stuart
Hall, Room 6, Princeton Theological Seminary, Alexander Street, Princeton, 609-2585730. www.pmug-nj.org. Q&A followed by
speaker and meeting. 6:15 p.m.
Science Lectures
Meeting, Amateur Astronomers Association of Princeton, Peyton Hall, Ivy Lane,
Princeton
University.
www.princeton-
Drug Charges. Marysia M. Jurusz, 22, of Princeton was arrested
February 10 on driving while intoxicated and drug possession
charges. Officer Richard Wolak
said he stopped Jurusz on Route 1
south for speeding at 3:11 a.m. and
determined that she was driving
under the influence and was also in
possession of marijuana.
Michael Atkinson, 31, of Gulf
Breeze, FL, was arrested February
19 on a drug possession charge.
Police said Atkinson was stopped
on Route 1 north for failure to
maintain a lane and the arresting
officer observed suspected paraphernalia inside his car. A search
revealed synthetic marijuana and
drug paraphernalia, police said.
Atkinson was arrested and released
on $500 bail.
Lindsay H. Mackay, 25, of
Trenton was arrested February 21
and charged with being under the
influence of heroin. Officer Daniel
Kanaley said he was dispatched to
a Tamarron Drive apartment along
with Plainsboro Emergency Services to respond to a report of a
medical emergency.
Investigation revealed that
Mackay was under the influence of
heroin. She was transported to
Princeton Medical Center for treatment and subsequently charged.
Samantha L. Ross-Salavarria,
26, of Voorhees was arrested February 22 on a drug charge. Corporal
Russel Finkelstein said he stopped
Ross-Salavarria on Route 1 south
at Harrison Street for speeding and
determined that she was in possession of marijuana under 50 grams
and drug paraphernalia.
Christopher E. Zupancic, 18, of
Krebs Road was charged with possession of drug paraphernalia on
February 10. Officer Joseph Bell
said he stopped Zupancic on Scudders Mill Road for failure to maintain a lane and found a glass marijuana pipe in his car.
DWI Arrests. Karthik N. Balakrishnan, 27, of Watertown, MA,
was charged with drunk driving on
February 25. Police said Balakrishnan was stopped on Hunters Glen
Drive for failure to maintain a lane
and was found to be intoxicated.
Yusto J. Awich, 55, of North
Brunswick was charged with
drunk driving on February 23. Police said Awich was stopped on
Scudders Mill Road for failure to
maintain a single lane and was
found to be intoxicated.
astronomy.org. “Modern Cosmology and
the Building Blocks of the Universe” presented by Mark Trodden, UPenn. Free. 8
p.m.
Schools
Open House, The Bridge Academy, 1958B
Lawrenceville Road, Lawrenceville, 609844-0770. www.banj.org. For parents and
professionals to obtain information on the
program, curriculum, and admission policies for the private school for ages 8 to 18
with language-based learning differences
including dyslexia. It is accredited by the Orton-Gillingham Academy. Register. 9:30
a.m.
A 17-year-old Cranbury juvenile was arrested on a drunk driving charge on February 19. Police
said that the teen was found in his
car in Morris Davison Park after
hours and was found to be intoxicated. Drug paraphernalia was also
found in the vehicle.
Scott C. Wilson, 61, of New
York, NY, was arrested February
17 on a drunk driving charge. Police said Wilson ran out of gas on
Route 1 south and it was determined he had been driving while
intoxicated.
Amy M. Sassi, 27, of Yardley,
PA, was charged with drunk driving on February 18. Police said
she was stopped on Scudders Mill
Road for a broken license plate
light and was determined to be intoxicated.
Obiora M. Ugwuoke, 33, of
Hillside was charged with drunk
driving on February 17. According
to police, Ugwuoke was stopped
on Route 1 north for speeding and
was found to be intoxicated.
West Windsor
Theft Arrest. Walter F. Dallenbach Jr., 48, of Milltown and
Richard Fazekas, 50, of South
Brunswick were arrested on theft
charges February 22.
According to Officer William
Bastedo, township police were dispatched to investigate a report of a
suspicious vehicle parked in back
of the former BASF property on
Clarksville Road and discovered a
blue Chevrolet pickup truck.
Upon entering the property, the
officers found Dallenbach, who
was in possession of stolen property. Further investigation also revealed Fazekas — who was in possession of burglar tools — hiding
in nearby bushes, said police.
Both were arrested and taken to
police headquarters, processed and
released on bail. In addition to theft
charges, both were charged with
defiant trespass. Fazekas was also
charged with possession of burglar
tools. Police investigating the
scene were Sergeant Thomas
Moody, Officer Melissa Nagy, and
Officer Michael Bollentin.
Shoplifting. Donald Walker,
50, of Trenton was arrested on a
shoplifting charge at Five Below in
the Nassau Park shopping center
on February 23. According to police, two “Good Samaritans” detained Walker in the parking lot until police arrived after the man stole
$40 worth of merchandise and ran
Wednesday
March 14
On Stage
Travesties, McCarter Theater (Matthews),
91 University Place, Princeton, 609-2582787. www.mccarter.org. Tom Stoppard’s
comedy set in Zurich, 1917. Directed by
Sam Buntrock. $20 to $60. Attend a preshow talk 45 minutes before each performance. Pay what you can night. 7:30 p.m.
AARP Tax Service, West Windsor Senior
Center, 271 Clarksville Road, West Windsor, 609-799-9068. Assistance with state
and federal returns. Register. Free. 9 a.m.
to noon.
Woyzeck, Princeton University, McCarter
Theater (Berlind), 609-258-1500. www.princeton.edu. New adaptation of the classic German play recounting a soldier’s mental breakdown as the subject of medical experiments, poverty, and betrayal. $15. 8
p.m.
Meeting, Rotary Club of Plainsboro, Guru
Palace, 2215 Route 1 South, North
Brunswick,
732-213-0095.
www.plainsbororotary.org. 7:30 p.m.
Woyzeck, Princeton University, McCarter
Theater (Berlind), 609-258-1500. www.princeton.edu. New adaptation of the classic German play recounting a soldier’s men-
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from the store.
From The Police Blotter
back into his 2008 Honda Accord.
Enoch then identified himself as
a law enforcement officer and produced a Middlesex County Department of Corrections badge, but investigation revealed that he had actually resigned from the position a
year ago, police said.
Enoch corroborated the victim’s
account of the incident, but added
that the victim had tailgated him
first and that he had stopped and
pulled over to let the victim pull
ahead of him, said police.
Enoch was also charged with
reckless driving, careless driving,
hindering arrest, driving while intoxicated in a school zone, improper use of high beams, leaving a vehicle with an engine running, improper passing, tailgating, and failure to get his car inspected. He was
released on $10,000 bail.
THE NEWS
Drug Arrests. Deborah A. Daley, 49, of Yardley, PA, was arrested February 9 on a charge that she
attempted to obtain a prescription
drug by fraudulent means.
Detective Robert Poskay and
Officer Brian Jany were dispatched to CVS Pharmacy on
Princeton-Hightstown Road based
on a tip from a doctor’s office that
someone might be attempting to
pick up a fraudulent prescription at
that location.
Police said the officers arrived
to find Daley at the drive-up window attempting to pick up a prescription medication that had been
fraudulently called in, said police.
She was processed and released
pending a future court date.
Shawn E. Parrott, 29, of Elizabeth was charged with drug possession on February 17. Officer Jason
Jones said he stopped Parrott on
Quakerbridge Road at Lawrence
Station Road for heavily tinted
windows and detected the odor of
burnt marijuana and air freshener
coming from inside the vehicle. Investigation revealed that Parrott
was in possession of under 50
grams of marijuana. Drug paraphernalia was also found in his car,
police said.
Paraphernalia Arrest. Carlos
A. Gaudin, 44, of East Windsor
was charged with possession of
drug paraphernalia on February 18.
Officer Jason Jones said he stopped
Gaudin on Old Trenton Road at
Village Road for failing to slow
down for a stopped emergency vehicle and found that he was wanted
on an outstanding warrant in another jurisdiction. A search of his car
revealed that he was in possession
of paraphernalia, police said.
DWI Arrests. Artur Trzaskus,
42, of Lawrenceville was arrested
February 17 on a drunk driving
charge. Officer Brian Jany said he
stopped Trzaskus on Route 1 at
Meadow Road for erratic driving
after he received a report of a possible drunk driver in a vehicle matching his description leaving the
parking lot of the Lowe’s hardware
store. Trzaskus was found to be intoxicated and also charged with refusal to submit to a breath test and
having an open alcoholic beverage
container in his vehicle.
Andray M. Ingram, 22, of Trenton was charged with drunk driving
on February 19. Officer Walter Silcox said he stopped Ingram on
Route 1 at Alexander Road for erratic driving and found him to be
intoxicated. He was also charged
with giving police a false name and
date of birth and released after
posting bail.
tal breakdown as the subject of medical experiments, poverty, and betrayal. $15. 8
p.m.
Art
Art Benefit, Mercer County College, Conference Center, West Windsor, 609-5703353. www.mccc.edu. Unveiling of three
new paintings by Mel Leipzig, professor of
art and art history at the school. Benefit for a
student art gallery at the Trenton campus.
Hors d’oeuvres. Free. 4:30 to 6:30 p.m.
Art Exhibit, College of New Jersey, Multimedia Building, Ewing, 609-771-2585.
www.tcnj.edu. Reception for “Illuminating
Date: Visualizing the Information That
Moves Our World.” On view to April 18. 5 to
7 p.m.
Classical Music
The Met: Live in HD, Metropolitan Opera,
Check movie listings. www.metoperafamily.org. Screening of “Ernani.” 6:30 p.m.
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MARCH 2, 2012
The Juggling Act of Making Brides, Grooms — and Parents — Happy
they are becoming much more accepting of the cultural differences
and finding a way to enjoy and embrace it. Being South Asian myself,
I have a good idea of the culture,
and I love the fact that I get to help
brides and grooms have their wedding dreams come true.”
Shah is hosting Evenings of Elegance Exclusive South Asian
Wedding Show, Sunday, March
18, from noon to 4 p.m. According
to Shah, the event is designed to
give the South Asian community in
the central New Jersey area a new
and exciting bridal show.
“We’re going to have an upscale
casino-themed event, with a few tables for the guests to play at; of
course they will not be gambling
for money, but will have chances to
win prizes,” says Shah. “Brides and
grooms planning their big day will
meet lots of vendors who cater to
the South Asian community, including photographers, videographers, decorators, and florists. Typically we have many brides who
were either born or raised in the
United States and they want to have
a modern flair for their wedding but
still want to embrace their culture.”
Shah says that for her South
Asian clientele she spends a great
deal of time on perfecting every
detail including the mandap (ceremonial stage) the bride and groom
get married on, all the way to the
florals for their bouquets and centerpieces, menus, and bridal wear.
“Of course this business is not as
glamorous as many think, but it
definitely is one that requires hard
work and an endless amount of
time and dedication,” says Shah.
“Along with planning, designing,
and coordinating weddings, we also work on bridal shows.”
She works carefully with couples to minimize the stress involved in planning a cross-cultural
wedding. “I meet with the bride
and groom first, to get an idea of
what their vision is and how each
of them wants to incorporate their
cultures into the wedding.
“If the parents are involved in
the decisions for the wedding, I
then discuss the bride and groom’s
vision with them, learn about the
importance of their family tradi-
Seamlessly blending cultures in the
wedding plans is an art all its own
tions, and work with the bride and
groom and parents to figure out
how to best accomplish a successful event where everyone is happy
and willing to compromise some
aspects of what they want.”
She says for the most part her
approach works well but sometimes the problems get tricky. “For
example, a past bride and groom
did not want to touch the feet (an
Indian tradition, asking for blessings) of family members they do
not necessarily respect. But for the
parents this was very important regardless of how the bride and
group felt about them, but mainly
to show respect for the elders after
the ceremony.
“I was able to discuss the meaning of this with the bride and
groom, and they understood that it
doesn’t have to mean much to them
and they don’t have to take the
meaning of it to heart, but it does
mean something to the parents.
There is no reason not to receive
Dharmi Shah advises:
‘It’s your wedding day,
you only have to take
to heart the things you
want to, and the other
stuff, just let it go.’
blessings from everyone, I told
them, the more blessings the better.
“I have noticed that this particular tradition is one that many parents and children disagree on, I always say ‘it’s your wedding day,
you only have to take to heart the
things you want to, and the other
stuff, just let it go, and enjoy your
special day.’”
Hosting the bridal showcase at
the Hyatt is something of a “back to
the future” experience for Shah,
who had her own wedding there in
April, 2009, an event she planned
herself. She has learned to expect
the unexpected in her business and
her wedding was a true example of
living by this credo: on the eve of
her wedding, her father suffered a
mild stroke.
“We went to the hospital with the priest and
did part of the ceremony
there, where the father
gives away the bride,”
says Shah. “As much of a
planner as I may be, it
was one thing I could not
control, and it changed
my thoughts about perfectionism. The details
are huge and extremely
important, and the event
has to be full of laughter,
joy, and love, but you
have to learn to deal with
the unexpected, whether it’s something as big as a stroke or something like being given the wrong
cake filling.”
Her father made a full recovery
and continues to live in West Windsor with her mother. Her parents
and sister all run their own businesses as well. Entrepreneurship
runs in the family. “It’s genetic,”
Shah laughs. Her husband, Sumit
Sahdev, is from South Brunswick.
They met in high school through a
mutual friend, but they didn’t start
dating until after college. After
graduating from Cornell University, Sahdev went to Princeton University for his master’s in architecture and now works for Robert
Hillier in Princeton, where the couple makes their home.
S
hah was born in India and was
only six months old when her
parents decided to bring her and
her older sister to the United States
in search of a better life. The family settled first in Jersey City and
then East Windsor, before moving
to West Windsor where she started
fourth grade at the Upper Elementary School, now known as Millstone River School. She attended
Community Middle School and
then graduated from West Windsor-Plainsboro High School South
in 2001.
“My parents were fairly liberal,
but we were raised with Indian values and traditions,” says Shah.
“They were so good about trying to
be flexible in both cultures; we
were lucky in that sense.”
Shah attended the University of
Maryland and majored in psychology, graduating in 2005. “There
wasn’t a whole lot to do with a
bachelor’s degree in psychology,
and the advertising field seemed
like a lot of fun, so I found a position in media planning in New
York,” says Shah, who then migrated to working in advertising in
Woodbridge, New Jersey.
“I was constantly attending parties in the industry and from there
became interested in how they
were being planned and executed,
because we were being treated to
such wonderful parties. I started
taking classes in event planning
and also began volunteering with
other planners.”
Happily Ever After: The wedding of bride Pooja
Bhatnager and groom Amit Bansal, who graduated
from High School South in 1996 and now works at
NYU Hospital for Joint Disease. The wedding
ceremony and reception took place May 29, 2011,
at the Hyatt Regency Jersey City.
Shah started planning events on
her own, first with referrals from
family and friends. She started her
event planning company in 2006.
But she didn’t believe in living life
on just one track; she was earned a
masters in mental health counseling
from Capella University in 2010.
She then did a one-year internship at
Princeton House Behavioral Health.
Her education, knowledge, and
experience in counseling are coming into good use as an event planner. “Planning is my passion, and
since I have a background in counseling, it’s my way of still having
the chance to work with people,”
says Shah. “As a planner you end
up ‘counseling’ families as well.
Sometimes there are disagreements; they don’t always get along,
and the kids may want something
different from their parents.”
When she isn’t busy with her
event planning business, she manages to carve out time to work three
days a week at the Monroe Animal
Hospital working alongside doctors and licensed technicians. She
also volunteers at SAVE, the animal shelter in Princeton. Shah says
establishing her business and nurturing it along the way has taught
her huge life lessons about the importance of chasing your dreams
and embracing everything that
comes your way, good or bad, and
going with the flow.
“It’s true of both business and
life,” she says. “It’s truly such an
honor to be selected to be someone’s wedding planner. They invite you into their life, their story,
and their dreams.”
South Asian Bridal Show,
Sunday, March 18, noon to 4 p.m.,
Hyatt Regency, 201 Carnegie Center, West Windsor. Presented by
Evenings of Elegance, Dharmi
Shah, owner. 609-273 1930 or
www.eveningsofelegance.com
Mission: Create the the Best Day of Your Client’s Life:
Bride Dipali Shah, far left, and groom Jayendhran
Govender, who graduated from High School South
in 1999, at their reception at the Hyatt Regency
Princeton; and wedding planner Dharmi Shah.
Wedding photo: Pandya Photography
MARCH 2, 2012
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insured, all work guaranteed.
Free Estimates. We do it all electric, plumbing, paint, wallpaper, powerwashing, tile, see
website for more: robthehandyman.vpweb.com [email protected], 609-269-5919.
SPRING YARD MAINTENANCE: Clean up, mulching,
mowing, trimming, planting and
more. Call or Text: 609 7221137.
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 @ 609-4486005 or visit www.v-yours.com.
For Families
Happy Pi Day, Princeton Tour
Company, Princeton Area, 609902-3637. www.pidayprinceton.com. Celebrate Albert Einstein’s
March 14 (pi) birthday with a tour
of the Einstein exhibit at Historical
Society of Princeton. Walking tour
of Einstein’s neighborhood at 11
a.m. and 2 p.m. Screening of “Ball
of Fire,” 1941 at the library. Visit
website for more information. 10
a.m.
For Teens
Take Me to the Cross, First Presbyterian Church of Titusville, 48
River Drive, Titusville, 609-7371385. www.titusvillechurch.org.
Dinner, program, and crafts. 5:15
p.m.
Girls Leadership Boot Camp,
YWCA Princeton, John Witherspoon Middle School, 217 Walnut
Avenue, Princeton, 609-4972100.
www.ywcaprinceton.org.
“Alice Paul: Leadership Starts with
Me” is the first of a series for teen
girls ages 13 to 17. Networking social for participants and their parents follow the event. Register.
$12. 6:30 to 8 p.m.
Food & Dining
Lectures
Register
by
E-mail
to
[email protected]. Free. 7 p.m.
Meeting, Princeton Photography
Club, Johnson Education Center,
D&R Greenway Land Trust, 1
Preservation Place, Princeton,
732-422-3676. www.princetonphotoclub.org. Refreshments and
networking followed by “The Silk
Route, Holy Mountains, and
Turquoise Lakes: Scenes from
Western China,” a program presented by Charlie Gross, professor of psychology at Princeton
University. 7 p.m.
Faith
Gardens
Workshop, Middlesex County
Agricultural Extension, Earth
Center in Davidson’s Mill Pond
Park, 42 Riva Avenue, South
Brunswick, 732-398-5262. “Attracting Birds and Butterflies to
Your Garden” presented by Dale
Duchai, a Rutgers master gardener. Register. $20. 6:30 p.m.
Wellness
Angel Meditation Circle, Center
History
Guided Tour, Drumthwacket
Foundation, 354 Stockton Street,
Princeton, 609-683-0057. www.drumthwacket.org. New Jersey
governor’s official residence.
Group tours are available. Register. $5 donation. Noon to 2 p.m.
TAX SERVICES
INSTRUCTION
WANTED TO BUY
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, 609-4484284.
Music Lessons: Piano, guitar, drum, sax, clarinet, F. horn,
oboe, t-bone, voice, flute, trumpet, violin, cello, banjo, mandolin, harmonica, uke, and
more. $28 half hour. School of
Rock. Adults or kids. Join the
band! Princeton 609-924-8282.
Princeton Junction 609-8970032. Hightstown 609-4487
1
7
0
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www.farringtonsmusic.com.
outlet is open Saturdays 10 to
4:00, or by appointment.
Science and Math Tutoring:
Biology, Chemistry, Algebra,
Geometry. Taught by college
professor. 17 years experience.
Recipient of two national teaching awards. Discoverygenics
609-581-5686.
HELP WANTED
ADULT CARE
Best At Home Senior Care
Non Medical home care services. Experienced and professional home care staff to help
you in your home. Individualized
services at your own pace. We
are available 24/7 @ 1-888-9089
4
5
0
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www.mybestseniorcare.com
INSTRUCTION
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,
ACT & SAT Tutoring: Available
in your home. Brown Universityeducated college professor. Experienced with gifted, underachieving and learning-disabled
students. Web: http://ivytutoring.intuitwebsites.com
Call
Bruce 609-371-0950.
cote Road, Kingston, 609-7501821. www.kingstongreenways.org. Jim Waltman, executive director of the Stony Brook-Millstone Watershed Association,
speaks about what we can do to
reduce flooding and flood damage
in future storms through changes
in mindset, behaviors, and policies. Free. 7:30 p.m.
Politics
Talking Politics, Princeton Public Library, 65 Witherspoon
Street, 609-924-8822. www.princetonlibrary.org. Joan Goldstein, host and producer of TV 30’s
“Back Story with Joan Goldstein,”
leads book discussion focusing on
“Pity the Billionaires: The Hard
Times Swindle and the Unlikely
Comeback of the Right” by
Thomas Frank. Copies are available from the courtesy desk
shelves. 7:30 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. Lunch
and program. For ages 60 and up.
Register. $5. 12:30 p.m.
Thursday
March 15
Science Lectures
On Stage
Pi Day Events, Princeton Public
609-924-8822. www.princetonlibrary.org. Pi recitation contest for
three age groups at 1 p.m. Mathlete challenge at 2 p.m. Einstein
Look-Alike contest for all ages at 5
p.m. 1 p.m.
Music Theater Lab, Princeton
University, 185 Nassau Street,
609-258-1500. www.princeton.edu. A conversation with Jenny
Slattery, assistant stage manager
of Broadway’s “Spider-Man Turn
Off the Dark,” talks about her career. Free. 1:30 to 2:50 p.m.
Outdoor Action
minutes before each performance. 7:30 p.m.
Pi Day Tour, Princeton Tour
Company, 98 Nassau Street,
near Starbucks, 609-902-3637.
www.princetontourcompany.com.
Tours of Princeton including the
house of Albert Einstein, who was
born on this day. In conjunction
with Geek Freak Weekend. Register. $3.14. 1 to 5 p.m.
Lessons from Hurricane Irene,
Kingston Greenways Association, Kingston Fire House, Heath-
www.princeton.edu.
Tutor — SAT, ACT, SSAT —
Reading, Writing, Essays:
Boost your scores with outstanding private instruction from college English professor. Many
excellent references throughout
West Windsor-Plainsboro. My
former students are attending
top colleges. Reasonable rates.
609-658-6914.
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
Art
Art Exhibit, Princeton University,
Lewis Center, 185 Nassau Street,
609-258-1500. www.princeton.edu/arts. Opening reception for a
shared senior art show by Dao M
and Joanne Chong. On view to
March 17. 7 to 9 p.m.
Dancing
Argentine Tango, Viva Tango,
Suzanne Patterson Center, 45
Stockton Street, Princeton, 732789-5272. [email protected]. Class and practice
session. $12. 9:15 p.m.
Literati
609-497-1600.
www.labyrinthbooks.com. Sharon McGrayne,
author of “The Theory that Would
Not Die: How Bayes’ Rule
Cracked the Enigma Code, Hunted Down Russian Submarines,
and Emerged Triumphant from
Two Centuries of Controversy.”
Bayes’ rule is used everywhere
from DNA de-coding to Homeland
Security. 6 p.m.
Classical Music
Faculty Series, Westminster
Conservatory, Niles Chapel,
Nassau Presbyterian Church, 61
Nassau Street, Princeton, 609921-2663. www.rider.edu. Mary
Greenberg on piano portrays
Clara Schumann in dramatic
monologue and composition.
Free. 12:15 p.m.
After Noon Concerts, Princeton
University, Chapel, 609-2583654. www.princeton.edu. Andrew Kotylo, organist. Free. 12:30
to 1 p.m.
Concert Classics Series, Princeton University Concerts, Richardson Auditorium, 609-258-9220.
princetonuniversityconcerts.org.
Jerusalem Quartet, a string quartet, makes its Princeton debut with
works of Beethoven, Debussy, and
Brahms. Pre-concert lecture at 7
p.m. $20 to $40. 8 p.m.
Live Music
Arnie Baird, Alchemist & Barrister, 28 Witherspoon Street,
SEEKING FRIENDS
SUMMER SHARE HOUSE
VENTNOR - Steps to beach.
AIR COND. Great location! Join
our fun 40s to 60s group! 1 mile
to closest casino. 609-7444837.
Property Inspectors: Parttime $30k, full-time $80k. No experience, will train. Call Tom,
609-731-3333.
Software Engineers - Corporate America Business Solutions, Princeton, NJ Design,
architect, develop and implement business & service tier for
client/server & web apps using
VB.Net, ASP, ASP.Net, Visual
Basic, VB Script, Java Script,
SQL Server, Oracle, SQL Programming Expert, Business Objects, Autosys, Windows. Write
stored procedures, & generate
reports. Design, validate data
warehouse requirements & data
models. Monitor, maintain & enhance existing apps. Travel/relocate as required Send resume
to: Corporate America Business
Solutions, Inc., 707 Alexander
Road, Bldg. 2, Ste. 208, Princeton, NJ 08540.
Good Causes
Gold Buying Event, YWCA
Princeton, Bramwell House, 59
Paul Robeson Place, Princeton,
609-497-2100. ywcaprinceton.org. Benefit for the Breast Cancer
Resource Center. Bring gold, silver, or platinum. 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.
Food & Dining
[email protected]. Free. 9:30 a.m.
Open House, The Grape Escape,
12 Stults Road, Dayton, 609-4099463. www.thegrapeescape.net.
Oliver a Bistro and music by Alter
Ego. Free. 6 to 8 p.m.
Wine Quizzo Night, Rat’s Restaurant, 126 Sculptor’s Way, Hamilton, 609-586-0616. www.ratsrestaurant.org. $25 includes two
glasses of wine, cheese, and charcuterie. Prizes. 7 p.m.
Farm Markets
Farm Market Evenings, Princeton Farmers Market, Princeton Library, 55 Witherspoon Street,
Princeton, 609-356-0558. princetonfarmersmarket.com. Farmers
talk about raising pasture-fed beef
and chicken. 7 p.m.
Health
Caregivers Support Group, Alzheimer’s Association, Plainsboro Public Library, 9 Van Doren
Street, Plainsboro, 609-987-8121.
www.alz.org. 6:30 p.m.
Wellness
Energy Healthers Share, Center
Kids Stuff
The Art of Reading, West Windsor Library, 333 North Post Road,
609-799-0462. Creation station
for students in grades 4 to 8. Students may use library materials to
create their entry in the art contest.
4 to 7 p.m.
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MARCH 15
Lectures
Meeting, 55-Plus, Jewish Center
of Princeton, 435 Nassau Street,
609-896-2923. www.princetonol.com. $3 donation. 10 a.m.
Meeting, ACM/IEEE, Computer
Science Building, Olden Avenue
and William Street, Princeton,
908-582-7086. princetonacm.org.
Students and their parents are
welcome. Free. 8 p.m.
For Seniors
Kosher Cafe West, Jewish Family and Children’s Service, Congregation Beth Chaim, 329 Village
Road East, West Windsor, 609987-8100.
www.jfcsonline.org.
Kosher meal and speaker for ages
60 and up. “The Real Story of
Purim: Lust, Violence, and Racial
Bigotry: Just Another Day in the
Persian Kingdom of King Ahasuerus” presented by Rabbi Eric
Wisnia. Register. $5. 12:30 p.m.
Friday
March 16
Dance
609-392-0766.
www.passagetheatre.org. Leah Stein Dance
Company. $20. 8 p.m.
On Stage
Off-Broadstreet
Theater,
5
South
Greenwood
Avenue,
Marivaux
features
Melissa
Rittman of Ewing and Austin Begley of Plainsboro. $29.50 to
$31.50 includes dessert. 7 p.m.
8 p.m.
minutes before each performance. Opening night. 8 p.m.
www.princeton.edu.
Film
Lunafest, College of New Jersey,
Library Auditorium, Ewing, 609771-2368. www.tcnj.edu. National
fundraising film festival that showcases short films by, for, and about
women, presents short films ranging from animation to fictional drama. Topics include women’s
health, motherhood, body image,
sexuality, cultural diversity, and
breaking barriers. Benefit for
breast cancer research. $10. 7
p.m.
Film Series, West Windsor Arts
Council, West Windsor Library,
North Post Road, West Windsor,
609-716-1931.
www.westwindsorarts.org. Screening of
“Born into Brothels,” 2004, India.
Refreshments. Free. 7:30 p.m.
Dancing
Jersey Jumpers, Central Jersey
Dance Society, Unitarian Church,
609-945-1883. www.centraljerseydance.org. Swing, jitterbug,
and lindy hop. Lesson followed by
an open dance. $15. No partners
needed. Beginners welcome. 7
p.m.
Big Band Dance, Princeton High
School Studio Band, 151 Moore
Street, Princeton, 609-395-6769.
www.princetonjazz.org. Jazz Ensemble and Studio Band perform
an evening of music and dancing.
$6. 7 to 10 p.m.
Folk Music
Bruce Molsky, Princeton Folk
Music Society, Christ Congregation Church, 50 Walnut Lane,
Princeton, 609-799-0944. www.princetonfolk.org. $20. 8:15 p.m.
Live Music
Anker, Grover’s Mill Coffee
Comedy
Buddy Fitzpatrick, Catch a Rising Star, Hyatt Regency, 102
Carnegie Center, West Windsor,
609-987-8018. www.catcharisingstar.com. Register. $19.50. 8 p.m.
Food & Dining
Buddy Valastro, the Cake Boss,
Sun National Bank Center, 81
Hamilton Avenue, Trenton, 800298-4200. comcasttix.com. The
“Bakin’ with the Boss” tour. Register. $37.75 to $47.75. 7:30 p.m.
At the Museum: ‘Enfolding’ by Andrew Werth of
West Windsor, acrylic on canvas, 2012, on view in a
juried invitational exhibit at Monmouth Museum
through April 29. An opening reception takes place
on Sunday, March 4, from 4 to 6 p.m.
Wellness
Lectures
609-275-2897. Register. Free. 10
a.m. to 3:30 p.m.
Schools
Be Different, Newgrange School,
Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite,
103 Dunns Mill Road, Bordentown,
609-688-1280. John Elder Robison, author of “Look Me in the Eye”
and “Be Different,” shares his
knowledge and personal stories
about how he learned to navigate
through life and become a better
parent and a successful businessman. “From Rain to Rainbows”
presented by Carol Cooper-Braun,
program coordinator at Newgrange. Panel discussion follows.
Register. $150 includes breakfast
and lunch. 8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m.
For Seniors
Brown Bag Discussion, Princeton Senior Resource Center,
Suzanne Patterson Building, 609924-7108.
princetonsenior.org.
“Design for Healing” presented by
Robert Sweet, director of planned
giving at Princeton Community
Healthcare System. Discussion
about the progress of the new hospital construction in Plainsboro and
other health-related facilities moving in the near future to the 171acre site. Beverages and desserts
provided. Bring your own lunch.
Register. Free. Noon.

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