December 9, 2015 - The Voorhees Sun

DEC. 9–15, 2015
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Eastern still working
toward student success
High school ensures young students in ‘college
prep’ classes get additional support when needed
By ZANE CLARK
The Sun
ZANE CLARK/The Sun
The art task force of Sustainable Cherry Hill held an art show featuring the work of Voorhees resident
Suzy Sherbine, who uses debris to create art highlighting issues of sustainability and environmental injustice. The main piece of metal used in her pictured Statue of Liberty piece was found in Voorhees.
Turning trash into treasure
Found-object artist Suzy Sherbine highlights social, environmental injustice
By ZANE CLARK
The Sun
For found-object artist and
Voorhees resident Suzy Sherbine, the old saying rings espe-
cially true – one person’s trash
really is another person’s treasure.
While most would simply
walk by an old hubcap or discarded bottle on the ground, for
the past seven years Sherbine
has been collecting that debris
and using it in her artwork to
craft pieces that draw attention
please see SHOW, page 9
Eastern Regional High School
prides itself on the high level of
academic success attained by
many of its students, even going
so far as to honor individual
scholars every month at the district’s regular board of education
meetings.
For those students on the opposite end of the spectrum, particularly freshmen transitioning into
Eastern who might struggle academically or even be in danger of
failing a class, Eastern is looking
out for them as well.
Three years ago, guidance
counselor Susan Bunnell-Jackson
and English teacher Elizabeth
O'Keefe helped start an initiative
focusing on ninth-grade students
enrolled in “college prep” classes,
the lowest of four difficulty levels
for classes at the school.
According to Bunnell-Jackson,
statistics have repeatedly shown
that failing one class in the ninth
grade increases the chances of a
student dropping out of high
school by 30 percent, with students in CP classes tending to be
those who were more likely to fail
one or more classes.
“We wanted to really work with
those students and provide supports for them transitioning to
Eastern, especially since they’re
coming from three different sending districts,” Bunnell-Jackson
said.
To provide that support, Bunnell-Jackson and O’Keefe have
taken a number of steps.
First, at-risk ninth-grade students now meet with counselors
where they are asked to identify
goals for the year and their high
school career, as well as social
goals such as getting involved
with a club, activity or sport.
Bunnell-Jackson said in her experience, setting and defining
goals helps lead to accomplishing
those goals.
“Getting those goals in writing,
and also sharing those goals with
another person, adult or teacher,
helps as well,” Bunnell-Jackson
said.
Incoming students are also directed to Eastern’s website,
where Bunnell-Jackson and O’Keefe helped with the creation of
a nearly 30-page ninth-grade “survival guide,” containing “need to
know” information for new students on how to navigate Eastern.
The guide contains pictures of
please see ELIZABETH, page 10
INSIDE THIS ISSUE
Mayor’s Message
Now is the time to join Shop
Voorhees program. PAGE 6
Calendar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Classified . . . . . . . . . . . 20-23
Editorials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Police Report . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Freeholders host summit
to address heroin crisis
By Freeholder Director Louis Cappelli, Jr.
Heroin and opiates
have become a growing public safety and
health crisis creating
devastating effects on
the region, the state
and the nation in the
last five years. These
narcotics are ubiquitous in every community in Camden
County and usage is on the rise.
To address the growing heroin crisis, the Freeholder Board hosted a
Community Addiction Summit at
Highland Regional High School in
Gloucester Township on Dec. 9. The
interactive summit brought together
professionals and community members to address this critical issue in
our community.
Attendees to the summit included
concerned parents, middle and high
school students, physicians, nurses,
pharmacists, addiction treatment
providers, social workers, law enforcement, prevention specialists and
educators.
Former NBA player Chris Herren
served as the keynote speaker. He recounting his struggle with substance
abuse that he fought for much of his
career. Drug-free and alcohol-free
since 2008, he has now shares his experiences and road to sobriety with
others. He tells audiences nationwide that it is never too late to battle
back from adversity and make your
dreams become a reality.
As a county we know that no one is
immune to the addiction of opiates
and the summit focused on prevention and treatment options. Furthermore, the Philadelphia region has
been identified by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration as a main
hub for heroin distribution in the
Mid-Atlantic States.
The scourge of heroin is ripping
apart our families and killing our residents. It is imperative for us to act on
this crisis and bring the community
together to address it.
That started with this
summit,
which
worked to create partnerships to impact
change in our county.
As an elected official, opiate addiction
is one of my biggest
concerns. Together,
from parents to clergy,
and every stakeholder in the county,
we must unite to educate and treat
this life threatening epidemic.
The Freeholder Board has also created an Addiction Awareness Task
Force to connect those battling addiction with treatment providers and
other organizations that can provide
resources and assistance.
The task force is made up of students, parents, teachers, healthcare
providers, law enforcement and civic
leaders.
The taskforce website www.addictions.camdencounty.com helps to educate residents on the resources
available to prevent and treat addiction. Additionally, the site provides a
downloadable prevention toolkit for
community partners such as schools
and civic organizations to utilize in
their own prevention programs. You
can also follow them on Facebook at
facebook.com/AddictionAwarenessTaskForce and Twitter @CamCoAddiction.
If you or a loved one needs help
please call our 24/7 toll-free confidential hotline for addiction help at 877266-8222 or call 911 in the event of an
emergency.
For more information on these or
any other projects, please call me at
(856) 225-5451, or email me at
[email protected]. You can
always visit us online at www.camdencounty.com. Also, you can like us
on Facebook at facebook.com/camdencountynj and follow us on Twitter
@camdencountynj.
2 THE VOORHEES SUN — DEC. 9–15, 2015
AWA Holiday Open House is Dec. 10
The Animal Welfare Association is inviting the public to join
it for a night of holiday fun with
the animals at the AWA's upcoming
Holiday
Open House.
The Holiday
Open House is
from 5-7 p.m. on Thursday, Dec. 10
at the AWA, 509 Centennial Blvd.
Enjoy holiday music and treats, a
tour of the shelter and our tree
lighting.
The AWA 50/50 raffle drawing
takes place at 7 p.m. Those who
haven’t bought a ticket to win yet
can do so at www.awanj.org/raffle.
briefs
Library plans ‘Star Wars’
craft, trivia night
The much anticipated release
of “Star Wars: Episode VII – The
Force Awakens” is on the mind of
movie fans at the Camden County
Library. Several branches of the
library, including the Voorhees
branch, will be offering programs
to get younger fans ready for the
next chapter of the enormously
popular sci-fi series that first
opened 38 years ago, but not in a
galaxy far, far away.
After a Los Angeles premiere
on Monday, Dec. 14, the movie is
set to be released nationwide on
Friday, Dec. 18, and during the
week of its release the library
will offer different programs at
some branches.
At the Voorhees Branch there
will be a children’s Star Wars
Lightsaber Craft and Trivia Challenge on Saturday, Dec. 12, at 10:30
a.m.
The event is for ages 8-12 where
they can test their Star Wars
knowledge and make a light
saber. Attendees are encouraged
wear their favorite Star Wars
gear or t-shirt.
Tutoring Club hosts
practice SAT, ACT exams
The Tutoring Club of Cherry
Hill/Voorhees will be holding
full-length practice SAT and ACT
exams on Sunday, Dec. 13 from
8:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. The cost of
this test is $40, with the proceeds
benefiting the Cherry Hill High
School East field hockey team.
Students choose whether they
want to take an SAT (new or current) or ACT practice test.
Tutoring Club of Cherry
Hill/Voorhees opened in 2004 and
since then has worked with more
than 6,000 students ranging in age
from 5-18 in most subject areas
and SAT/ACT preparation.
Tutoring Club of Cherry
Hill/Voorhees is one of 100 Tutoring Club centers in the country
and has been ranked in the top
five each of the past 10 years.
The club charges a nominal fee
of $40, with the proceeds going to
a local organization that “sponsors” the SAT/ACT practice
day.
To sign-up or receive more information just call or email Tutoring Club at (856) 616-8808 or
[email protected].
DEC. 9–15, 2015 – THE VOORHEES SUN 3
One killed, one injured
in single-car accident
The following report is on file
with the Voorhees Police Department:
At approximately midnight on
Nov. 28 Voorhees police units
were dispatched to a
single-motor vehicle
crash in the area of
White Horse Road and
Hamilton Drive.
An investigation by
police revealed that a 2011 Acura,
operated by a Voorhees resident,
was traveling eastbound on White
Horse Road when it veered off the
roadway toward oncoming traffic, striking a utility pole and sev-
eral trees.
Voorhees police were on scene
immediately and were subsequently informed by emergency
medical personnel that the driver,
William Bermudez, 37, had succumbed to his injuries
at Cooper Trauma.
A female passenger
was taken to Virtua
Voorhees for minor injuries.
The crash investigation is still
ongoing and being investigated
by Voorhees police. If anyone has
information related to this crash
please call the Voorhees police at
(856) 428-5400.
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letter to the editor
Instead of solar plant,
why not open space?
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Another view of the proposed
solar plant on Voorhees open
space was presented in a Dec. 2
letter to the editor.
The letter writer wrote that it
is “land that can be used for little
else” and was critical of my desire to keep that land “open” for
everyone.
There is a better use, a much
better use of that land other than a
solar generation plant built there.
I support using the land, all of
the land, as community open
space, the original intent.
We have a very limited amount
of community property in
Voorhees.
Township Committee should
act to protect that land as a valuable community asset, not give it
to commercial development.
In the late 90s, our prior Township Committee took action to
preserve open space.
It was the right action
then…and preserving Voorhees
open space now ... is still the right
action.
The letter writer also sees no
potential danger in operating
solar panels, as he says he has
them on the roof of his residence.
Private homeowners’ roofs are
not community property. That
choice is individual, not community.
The letter writer fails to recognize that his very few solar panels
do not generate solar electric
power at the level of a commercial solar generating plant with
hundreds of panels covering 10
acres of land on our open community space.
Does he make a fair comparison?
It is certainly his personal
choice for solar panel use on his
personal private property.
But, there are effects beyond
EM Radiation, such as the deadly
risk that a fire fighter could face
with a residential fire at a home
covered with solar panels.
Also, there could be potential
toxic smoke covering a wide area
affecting a whole neighborhood,
or even a firefighter’s electrocution from panels when fighting a
fire.
Because of all the potential
dangers from solar panels, I
would not risk my home having
them. I choose not to endanger
our firefighters, my neighbors or
others with personal solar panels.
The more important issue is
that of the public park where a
commercial solar generating
plant is proposed to be built, thus
taking away open community
property.
That land, all of it, should be
preserved for use by all of us and
available to all of us – and not
fenced “off limits” for risky commercial development.
My view of taking public community open space at that specific
site by giving it to a commercial
solar power plant is clear…it is a
bad idea.
Voorhees “policy” should be
preserving Voorhees community
“open” property, not taking public property from all of us for
risky commercial development.
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THE VOORHEES SUN — DEC. 9–15, 2015
in our opinion
Slow down out there
108 Kings Highway East
Haddonfield, NJ 08033
856-427-0933
Use caution when driving on the roads, especially this time of year
ow many times have you seen
it: People driving around town
throwing caution to the wind,
as if they were on a NASCAR track?
You’d think someone was giving away
free $100 bills.
Do they not know we have children
walking around town? Do they not
care about the safety of other motorists? Do they not care about their
own safety?
Seems like today, everyone is in a
rush at all times; it seems like it’s getting worse with each passing year.
Somehow, by some miracle, New Jersey drivers aren’t the worst in the nation, at least according to an annual
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Your thoughts
How bad is the driving out there? How can
we get better? Should more regulations
be put on New Jersey drivers to improve
safety? Let your thoughts be heard
through a letter to the editor.
study recently released by CarInsuranceComparison.com. Well, we’re almost the worst – we rank 45th on this
list of the nation’s worst drivers.
If we’re not the worst, we’d hate to
be on the road in Minnesota, whose
drivers were collectively ranked as the
worst in the nation.
Even though we’re not as bad as
some of our American brethren, it’s
Dan McDonough Jr.
chairman of elauwit media
worth repeating: Slow down out there!
Nothing can be of such importance
that you need to speed and drive erratically ... every time you drive! It’s just
not possible that your wife is giving
birth for the fifth time this week.
Our children are walking our
streets. Our elderly are still behind the
wheel. Our ready, willing and able are
out on the roads, trying to get shopping
done. And it’s going to be extra crowded like this for a few more weeks.
Let’s make sure everyone gets where
they’re going safely. Let’s all share the
road with each other, and let’s stop
being such maniacs – even if we’re not
the most maniacal in the country.
Take advantage of Shop Voorhees program
There is no better time than the holiday
season to take advantage of the Shop
Voorhees Property Tax Reward Program.
This program allows a portion of your normal purchasing dollars spent on goods and
services in Voorhees to be applied to your
property tax bill, thereby reducing your
taxes at the end of the tax year.
Shop at any participating Shop
Voorhees location. You will know who they
are by the Shop Voorhees logo in their window or by checking online at www.propertytaxcard.com or on the Voorhees Township website, www.voorheesnj.com. When
you check out, present your Shop Voorhees
card. The retailer will swipe your card, and
a percentage of your purchase will be applied to reduce your property tax bill. Each
business independently establishes a percentage of your purchase that will be applied toward your taxes. It is that easy.
During the past two years, more than
7,000 residents have chosen to participate
in the program, and the numbers continue
to grow. Since the program’s inception,
sales have exceeded $1.2 million, leading to
tax credits and rental reimbursements of
more than $75,000 for our residents.
Cards were distributed to residents by mail. If
you need a card,
you can get one by
visiting www.propertytaxcard.com or
www.voorheesnj.
com. Everyone can
participate as long
as you sign up with
your card and you
live in Voorhees
The
Shop
Voorhees ProperMichael
ty Tax Reward
Program now has
Mignogna
a free mobile app.
If you have an MAYOR’S MESSAGE
iPhone or Android, download the app and find information about all participating merchants and
the credit percentage each merchant is offering. Use the app for a quick search and
the “click to call” feature. Once you have
downloaded the app, check it often because
new businesses are joining and some merchants may upgrade to include inventory
and reservation capability.
The Shop Voorhees app is available in
the iTunes App Store and Google Play for
the Android.
Our Shop Voorhees program also includes “Deals of the Month,” which lets
participants know about available coupons
and other ways to save money by shopping
locally. December’s business participants
include Tiffin Indian Cuisine, Rita’s Water
Ice, Mr. Softee, Viana’s Restaurant, Rubino
Service Co., Yo Mamma’s Frozen Yogurt,
Fruit Gift Bouquets, Cookies by Design,
Coffee Works Too, Legal Shield, Black
Olive Restaurant, Ally House Call Physicians and Farmers Insurance Mike
Skowronek Agency.
For more information about the Shop
Voorhees program, visit the township’s
website at www.voorheesnj.com or our
Facebook page, or you can simply contact
Larry Spellman, township administrator,
at
(856)
429-7174
or
[email protected].
Shop Voorhees cards can be picked up at
Town Hall.
please see PET, page 14
Tim Ronaldson
Joe Eisele
executive editor
publisher
Kristen Dowd
senior associate editor Mike Monostra
voorhees editor Zane Clark
art director Stephanie Lippincott
advertisinG director Arlene Reyes
manaGinG editor
Russell Cann
Barry Rubens
Michael LaCount, Ph.D.
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chief executive officer
vice chairman
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editor emeritus
Steve Miller
Alan Bauer
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WEDNESDAY DEC. 9
Kennedy Eldermed Knitting and
Crochet Group: Seniors. 12:30
p.m. Voorhees Branch Library at
203 Laurel Road. A senior knitting and crochet group which
meets
through
Kennedy
Eldermed on the second and
fourth Wednesdays each month.
More information at www.camdencountylibrary.org.
Ashland Church Youth Bible
Study: 7 p.m. Junior high and
high schoolers. 33 East Evesham
Road. Call 429-8844 or visit
www.AshlandChurch.org
for
information.
Exercise Class for Active Seniors:
8:30 to 10 a.m. every Wednesday.
Led by Fox Rehabilitation exercise physiologist at Fox Rehabilitation, 7 Carnegie Plaza, Cherry
Hill. Call (877) 407-3422, ext.
5795 for more information and to
register.
Focus Group: ESL Conversation
Class: For adults. 10:30 a.m. to
noon at Voorhees Branch Library.
Practical and everyday topics as
DEC. 9–15, 2015
well as pronunciation are the
focus. For non-native English
speakers.
No
registration
required.
THURSDAY DEC. 10
Preschool Craft Corner: Ages 3-5.
10:30 a.m. Make and take craft
and a story. Register at www.camdencountylibrary.org.
Movie Matinee: Adult. 1:30 p.m. Visit
the library and watch "Scrooge"
as the ghosts of Christmas past,
present and future visit him, to
convince him to change his ways.
Register at www.camdencountylibrary.org.
Next Chapter Book Club: Adult. 7
p.m. Voorhees Branch Library at
203 Laurel Road. Adults and older teens with intellectual or
developmental disabilities meet
weekly to read and talk about
books in a casual, enjoyable
group. More information at
www.camdencountylibrary.org.
Writing Group: Adult. 7 p.m.
Voorhees Branch Library at 203
Laurel Road. This is for writers of
all levels and genres. Join us for
discussion, critique and inspiration. New members are welcome.
Voorhees Breakfast Rotary Club:
7:15 a.m. at Short Hills Deli &
Restaurant, 486 East Evesham
Road, No. 103, Cherry Hill. For
more
information,
visit
www.voorheesbreakfastrotary.or
g.
Overeaters Anonymous: 10 to 11
a.m. at Hope United Church, 700
Cooper Road. Call 609-239-0022
or visit www.southjerseyoa.org.
Body After Baby: 7:15 to 8:15 p.m. at
1011 Main Street Promenade. Use
a combination of pilates and yoga
to strengthen, increase flexibility
and tighten. Cost is $60 for six
weeks. Registration required. For
more
information
visit
www.events.cooperhealth.org.
Free Exercise Class for Active
Seniors: 1:45 to 2:45 p.m. every
Thursday. Led by Fox Rehabilitation exercise physiologist at
Brookdale at Voorhees. Call (877)
407-3422 for more information
please see CALENDAR, page 12
DEC. 9–15, 2015 – THE VOORHEES SUN 9
Show hosted by Sustainable Cherry Hill
SHOW
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to social and environmental
wrongs.
Now, after seven years of collecting and crafting, Sherbine’s
art and the issues raised from it
were on display for all to see at a
Dec. 2 art show hosted by the art
task force of Sustainable Cherry
Hill, a non-profit that uses community outreach to highlight sustainability issues on a local level.
Sherbine’s journey into foundobject art began seven years ago
after she attended a SCH screening of the film “Poet of Poverty,”
which focused on the poverty and
degradation of the city of Camden.
Motivated by the film, Sherbine volunteered with the Center
for Environmental Transformation in Camden, and one day
while helping with the cleanup of
some empty lots, the pieces of
metal and bolts and rusty chains
Sherbine found began to inspire
her.
“I started finding all this stuff
on the ground and I just felt so inspired by this debris … that in the
suburbs you wouldn’t find lying
ZANE CLARK/The Sun
The artwork of found-object artist and Voorhees resident Suzy Sherbine was showcased on Dec. 2 at a show held by the art task force of
Sustainable Cherry Hill. Sherbine creates art from found debris to
highlight environmental injustice issues. The pictured piece was
made a salvaged tool locker, a found doll’s head, fabric stuffing and
more.
around, and it spoke to me artistically and I started making
pieces,” Sherbine recalls.
Sherbine now calls her artwork “ArtofFACTS: Trash Transformed to Teach,” as each piece
also has a small placard through
which she describes what materi-
als she used, including the resin
identification code of any plastics.
For her art, Sherbine said she
also likes to use material that’s
difficult and ugly to work with,
please see SHERBINE, page 18
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Elizabeth O’Keefe: ‘They will succeed’
ELIZABETH
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key figures at the school such as
counselors and administrators,
names and locations of sports
coaches, important dates and
more.
Bunnell-Jackson said staff involved with the program also now
collaborate with the ninth-grade
vice principal to identify students
who are at-risk either due to attendance or grades, and with that
a mentoring program was created
to provide additional support.
New this year is also collaboration with the 10th-grade accelerated teachers – accelerated class
being one step in difficulty above
CP – to help students who have
moved up from a CP class from
their freshman year.
“We have students who we
meet with on a monthly basis and
monitor their grades, really kind
of offering them a support system,” Bunnell-Jackson said.
O’Keefe also noted that for the
last three years, the school has
held a parent night to help get
parents more involved in their
child’s work.
O’Keefe said the night, which
was held a few weeks ago, showed
growth for the program with a
much higher attendance than
years prior, and during the event,
parents were guided through a
number of web-based activities.
“We also had them fill out a
survey, so we have data as far as
what parts of the program they
found were helpful and what
parts of the program we can improve,” O’Keefe said.
Overall, O’Keefe said about 300
students have been involved with
the program over the past three
years, as she, Bunnell-Jackson
and others have worked to ensure
no student at Eastern slips
through the cracks.
“We’re not going to let them
fail,” O’Keefe said. “We’ve got
them on all sides. Teachers,
coaches, activity advisors, parents, administrators, everybody
is helping; it’s a full-court press.
They will succeed.”
ONE BIG HAPPY FAMILY
12 THE VOORHEES SUN — DEC. 9–15, 2015
CALENDAR
Residents and families love the warmth &
hospitality of Voorhees Senior Living:
“Mom absolutely loves life at Voorhees
CALENDAR
Senior Living! With wonderful new friends,
and caring staff who go above and beyond
for residents, she quickly decided to turn
her 30-day respite stay into her permanent
new home. That was six months ago, and
now we are all one big happy family!”
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and to register.
Voorhees Central Chapter of BNI
Breakfast: 7 a.m. at The Mansion, 3000 Main St. BNI is a business and professional referral
organization. For more information, visit www.bnidvr.com.
BNI Marlton Regional Chapter
Lunch: Every Thursday at 11:30
a.m. at The Mansion, 3000 Main
St., Voorhees. BNI is a business
and professional networking
referral organization. Join us to
learn more about how to grow
your business. Call Ray for details
at (609) 760-0624.
Babies’ Playgroup: Ages 1 to 18
months. 10 to 11 a.m. at Voorhees
Branch Library. Meet new friends!
We provide the toys and books
but no organized programming.
FRIDAY DEC. 11
Babies' Playgroup: Ages 1-18
months. 10 a.m. Voorhees Branch
Library at 203 Laurel Road. Little
ones meet new friends! We provide the toys and books but no
organized programming. Register
at www.camdencountylibrary.org.
Toddlers’ Playgroup: Ages 18-36
months. 11 a.m. Voorhees Branch
Library at 203 Laurel Road. Little
ones meet new friends! We provide the toys and books but no
organized programming. Register
at www.camdencountylibrary.org.
Senior Card Group: Seniors. 12:45
p.m. Voorhees Branch Library at
203 Laurel Road. Seniors meet,
weekly, to play various card
games.
Coffee with Voorhees Committeeman Mike Friedman: 8 a.m. at
Short Hills Restaurant and Deli,
486 Evesham Road. A chance for
residents to discuss township and
government issues with their committeeman. All are welcome.
Congregation Beth El: Shabbat
service at 6 p.m. based on traditional liturgy and infused with
spirit by upbeat melodies and
camaraderie. 8000 Main St.,
Voorhees.
Hands & Foot Card Game for Senior Citizens: 1:30 p.m. in room A
or C on the third floor, Voorhees
Branch Library, 203 Laurel Road.
Questions, call Jeanne McCabe at
(856) 784-4676.
SATURDAY DEC. 12
Star Wars Lightsaber Craft and
Trivia Challenge: Ages 8-12.
10:30 a.m. Voorhees Branch
Library at 203 Laurel Road. Test
Star Wars knowledge before the
big movie release and make a
lightsaber. Wear some favorite
Star Wars gear or t-shirt. Register
at www.camdencountylibrary.org.
Senior Citizen Club meeting: 11:30
a.m. to 3 p.m. at Lions Lake Park
Banquet Facility, 101 Dutchtown
Road. For more information call
(856) 429-4703.
Congregation Beth El: Shabbat
service from 9 a.m. to noon,
including a wide variety of other
services throughout the morning.
8000 Main St., Voorhees.
SUNDAY DEC. 13
Ashland Church: Sunday service
and Kids Church at 10:30 a.m. Fellowship at 10 a.m. Childcare and
children services available. 33
East Evesham Road, Voorhees.
Community Gospel Chapel: Worship at 9:30 a.m. Refreshments
and fellowship at 10:30 a.m. Sunday school at 10:45 a.m. Bible
hour at 11 a.m. Bible ministry
meeting at noon. 20 Bergen Ave.,
Voorhees.
Heritage Church: Worship service
at 10 a.m. Fellowship following
service. 110 Kresson-Gibbsboro
Road, Voorhees.
Hope United Methodist Church:
Worship services at 9 and 10:30
a.m. Kids Konnect at 9 and 10:30
a.m. Sunday morning prayer
group at 8 a.m. at 700 Cooper
Road, Voorhees.
Kresson Bible Church: Morning
worship from 11 a.m. to noon. Sunday school from 9:30 to 10:30
a.m. 329 Kresson-Gibbsboro
Road, Voorhees.
Open Door Alliance Church: Sunday school begins at 9:30 a.m.
Worship begins at 10:45 a.m. 904
Cooper Road, Voorhees.
MONDAY DEC. 14
Read to a Therapy Dog: Ages 5-11. 7
p.m. Voorhees Branch Library at
203 Laurel Road. Read to a therapy dog and make a craft. Bring a
favorite book or choose one from
the library. Register at www.camdencountylibrary.org.
Voorhees Toastmasters meeting:
7:30 p.m. at Heritage Church, 110
Kresson-Gibbsboro Road. Visit
please see CALENDAR, page 14
DEC. 9–15, 2015 – THE VOORHEES SUN 13
Library offers Hoopla
The Camden County Library
System will provide cardholders
free access to thousands of digital
movies, television shows, music
albums, eBooks, audiobooks and
comics, all available for mobile
and online access through Hoopla
digital, hoopladigital.com, beginning this month.
Camden County Library card
holders can download the free
Hoopla digital mobile app on
their Android or iOS device or
visit hoopladigital.com to enjoy
thousands of titles – from major
Hollywood studios, record companies and publishers – available to
borrow for instant streaming or
temporary downloading to their
smartphones, tablets and computers.
“We’re very excited to offer
free access to over 300,000 movies,
albums, eBooks and comics that
our patrons can stream and
download without having to
worry about waiting lists or late
fees,” says the library’s collection
development manager Ryan Lam-
mers.
“I’m especially pleased to announce that this will be the library’s first foray into digital
comics and graphic novels. The
selection of comics available
through Hoopla is impressive, including popular titles like ‘The
Walking Dead,’ ‘Saga,’ ‘The
Flash,’ ‘Hellboy,’ ‘Suicide Squad,’
‘iZombie,’ ‘Fables,’ ‘Peanuts,’ and
a lot more. I expect it to be very
popular,” Lammers said.
Hoopla provides online and
mobile access to thousands of
movies, TV Shows, music,
eBooks, audiobooks and comics
free to library card holders. With
hoopla digital, patrons can borrow, instantly stream and download dynamic content.
For more information, visit
www.camdencountylibrary.org/h
oopla.
Residents in 26 Camden County communities are eligible for a
free library card. Learn more at
http://www.camdencountylibrary.org/get-library-card.
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Email us at [email protected]
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for more information.
Exercise Class for Active Seniors:
8:30 to 10 a.m. every Monday.
Led by Fox Rehabilitation exercise physiologist at Fox Rehabilitation, 7 Carnegie Plaza, Cherry
Hill. Call (877) 407-3422, ext.
5795 for more information and to
register.
Breastfeeding Support Group: 5:30
to 6:30 p.m. at The Ripa Center
for Women, 1011 Main Street
Promenade. Join other breastfeeding mothers for fellowship
and support at this informal
weekly meeting. Professionals on
hand to offer advice and answer
questions. Free, but registration
required at www.events.cooperhealth.org.
Focus Group: ESL Conversation
Class: For adults. 10:30 a.m. to
noon at Voorhees Branch Library.
cell: 609-504-2600
office 856-435-3400 Ext. 103
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Hour: Grade nine. 3:30 p.m.
Voorhees Branch Library at 203
Laurel Road. Earn the two hours
of community service required of
Eastern High school freshmen.
Be sure to bring in school form so
the library can sign off on it. Register at www.camdencountylibrary.org.
Real Life Reads: Adult. 7 p.m.
Voorhees Branch Library at 203
Laurel Road. Read Grandma
Gatewood's walk – the inspiring
story of the woman who saved
the Appalachian Trail by Ben
Montgomery.
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at
www.camdencountylibrary.org.
Meditation for Relaxation: Noon to
1 p.m. at Cooper Community
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tennial Blvd. Free class for current cancer patients. Learn to
nurture and support yourself
through life’s stresses and joys.
For more information, visit
www.events.cooperhealth.org.
Mothers of Preschoolers meeting:
9:30 to 11:30 a.m. at Hope United
Methodist Church, 700 Cooper
Road. Childcare available. For
more
information,
visit
www.momshope.com.
Voorhees-Gibbsboro Rotary Club
meeting: Filomena's Restaurant,
Berlin. 7 to 8:30 p.m. For more
information, call (856) 534-3384.
Senior Citizen Club Social: 11:30 a.m.
to 3 p.m. at Lions Lake Park Banquet Facility, 101 Dutchtown Road.
For more information, call (856)
429-4703.
Free Exercise Class for Active
Seniors: 1:45 to 2:45 p.m. every
Tuesday. Led by Fox Rehabilitation exercise physiologist at
Brookdale at Voorhees. Call (877)
407-3422 for more information
and to register.
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Save money while doing your
holiday shopping and helping our
community businesses thrive.
Live Voorhees, Shop Voorhees!
• In addition to their service
while on duty, our police are active in serving our community
while off duty. For more than a
decade, the Voorhees Township
Police Department has sponsored
a Holiday Fund Drive to help
bring smiles to the faces of deserving local families. Donations
can be made in person or by mail
to Stephanie Fowler, the Voorhees
Police Holiday Fund, 1180 White
Horse Road, Voorhees, NJ 08043.
Make checks payable to the
Voorhees Police Holiday Fund.
• Children’s VIP Santa “Shop
Event” will be held at the
Voorhees Town Center on Friday,
Dec. 11, from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.
Stores will have dedicated sections just for kids with items
priced $20 and under. Children
will receive Santa hats, VIP lanyards and holiday novelty giveaways as part of their fun shopping adventure. (While supplies
last).
• Santa Claus has arrived at the
Voorhees Town Center! He will be
available for photographs Monday to Saturday from 10 a.m. to 9
p.m., Sundays from 11 a.m. to 6
p.m. and Christmas Eve from 10
a.m. to 5 p.m. Pet photos with
Santa are available from 6 p.m. to
9 p.m. on Mondays. For more information about events, visit
www.voorheestowncenter.com.
Please recycle
this newspaper.
16 THE VOORHEES SUN — DEC. 9–15, 2015
Donate item to Toys for Tots
for entry to win ‘Star Wars’ tickets
We will be meeting in the Parish Hall at:
St. Andrew the Apostle RC Church
27 Kresson-Gibbsboro Rd. Gibbsboro NJ 08026
For more information Email us at [email protected]
or call Deacon Bill at 856-336-8575
Through Dec. 18, each person
who donates a new, unwrapped
toy to the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve Toys for Tots campaign at a
AAA South Jersey office will be
entered to win a pair of tickets to
a private screening of “Star Wars:
The Force Awakens.”
The private screening will be
held in mid-January at a theater
in Voorhees.
The Toys for Tots Foundation
helps less fortunate children experience the joy of the holidays.
Customers can drop off new, unwrapped toys in the toy drive do-
nation bin prominently placed in
the lobby of all four AAA South
Jersey locations, including the
Voorhees location at 700 Laurel
Oak Road.
Once collected, the toys are
taken to a distribution center
where toys are sorted by age and
gender, wrapped and distributed
to needy children in the local
area.
The primary goal of the Toys
for Tots program is to deliver,
through a new toy at Christmas, a
message of hope to less fortunate
children that will assist them in
becoming responsible, productive
and patriotic citizens. Since the
inception of Toys for Tots, more
than 400 million toys have been
distributed to more than 188 million needy children.
The Toys for Tots program was
founded in 1947 by U.S. Marine
Corps Maj. William L. Hendricks,
when Hendricks and a group of
Marine reservists in Los Angeles
first collected and distributed
5,000 toys to children. The following year, the Marine Corps Reserve adopted the concept and
made it a national endeavor.
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Sherbine teaches sustainability
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such as an old tire one might find
on the side of the highway, as it’s
challenging to cut or adhere other
objects to, which exemplifies its
non-biodegradable nature.
“That’s the thing that inspires
me is when I find it on the
ground, when it’s not even making it into the trash,” Sherbine
said.
“It’s just there and it shocks me
sometimes what I find.”
One piece Sherbine had on display at the SCH event was an old
bottle designed to look like a person, with the plastic wrappings of
juice bottles inside to show how
humans are filling themselves
with plastic.
Another piece at the event used
old apartment keys to note how
the poor are always struggling
and scraps of paper with the ti-
tles of books on them to show the
loss
of
Camden’s
former
Carnegie Library.
“The goal is to just stimulate
the notion of reusing and repurposing and also to convey some of
the issues of environmental injustice and social injustice,” Sherbine said.
Sherbine also works to instill
those notions of reusing and repurposing in the next generation
by taking her artwork into local
schools and teaching students
about sustainability.
Recently, Sherbine worked
with a group of students from
Cherry Hill’s Beck Middle School
to make an outdoor tree sculpture
using soda cans and the metal
from the wire baskets used in
planting trees in Camden.
Sherbine said the students love
the idea of taking something
meant for one purpose and using
it in a totally different way, and if
they feel any stress about the
state of the environment, learning how to remake and reuse ob-
jects can help them feel better
about the future.
“Recycle doesn’t always mean
just dump it in the recycling bin,
because that becomes like an autopilot reaction after a while, just
dump it in the bin, but there can
be a second life to something if
you think about it,” Sherbine said.
SCH Art Task Force Director
Natalie Barney said Sherbine
was one of the first people she
reached out to last year when first
starting the art task force, which
now works to hold events to communicate the ideas of sustainability through art.
“Her art speaks volumes for
what we’re trying to talk about,”
Barney said. “It’s great that she’s
the first artist that we’re doing
this with.”
It’s a mission Sherbine knows
all too well.
“It’s a great thing that we’re
bringing art to sustainability,
making a presence for it, making
a statement with it,” Sherbine
said.
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