D&R Canal Watch 5-K Fun Run and Walk
The 18th annual D&R Canal Watch 5K Fun Run, held on its much-acclaimed scenic course in Titusville, will start off 10 a.m. Saturday, April 4.
A special 1-mile walk will be held at 9:30 a.m., with commemorative ribbons for all finishers.
With start and finish at the section of Washington Crossing State Park off Route 29 at Route 546, 5K runners will loop through historic Titusville village with views of the Delaware River and return on the Delaware & Raritan Canal towpath.
Prizes will be awarded to top male and female finishers and first three male and female winners in six age categories. The run is sanctioned by NJ-USA Track & Field.
Members of the American Massage Therapy Association will be giving free pre- and post-race massages to participants.
Register for the run on race day for $20. Registration for the 1-mile walk is $15. Register online at www.active.com or call 609-989-1931.
T-shirts will be given to all pre-registrants and same-day registrants while supplies last. Free orange juice, water and bagels will be available at the finish line.
The run is the principal fundraising event for the Canal Watch. Proceeds from entry fees and sponsorships will be used to continue the goal to protect and enhance the canal state park.
Major sponsors include PSE&G, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Erini Restaurant, Janssen L.P., Lambertville Station and Woodwinds.
Meet Rosanne Cash!
The Coalition for Peace Action (CFPA) is offering an exclusive post-concert Reception with Rosanne Cash after her concert, for which Mark O’Connor will open, at McCarter Theatre, located at 91 University Place in Princeton, on Monday, April 13, at 8 p.m.
CFPA has a block of front orchestra seats reserved for the concert, which it is selling for $38 each (the same as purchasing directly through McCarter) as a fundraiser. Due to a generous group discount, purchasing the tickets through CFPA’s Web site, www.peacecoalition.org , still serves as a fundraiser for CFPA.
CFPA has confirmed that Ms. Cash will appear at its exclusive reception at McCarter immediately following the concert. Sponsor reservations, which include attendance at the reception and front orchestra seating for the concert, are $100 per person ($50 tax deductible) and can be purchased by credit card at CFPA’s Web site, www.peacecoalition.org.
CFPA is urging everyone to make their Sponsor or Concert- only reservations as soon as possible. If received at least one week prior to the concert, CFPA will mail the tickets, thereby saving the need to wait in line at the Will Call window the night of the concert.
Since 1991 Rosanne Cash has released four albums, written two books and edited a collection of short stories. Her fiction and essays have been published in The New York Times, Rolling Stone, The Oxford-American, New York Magazine, and various other periodicals and collections.
She won a Grammy in 1985 for “I Don’t Know Why You Don’t Want Me,” and has received eight other Grammy nominations. She has had 11 No. 1 country hit singles, 21 Top 40 country singles and two Gold Records.
Gala spring tea
“Jane Austen’s Time: The Regency Period” will be the theme of a gala historical tea to be hosted by the Montgomery Woman’s Club on Saturday, April 18, from 2 to 4 p.m. at the Harlingen Church in Montgomery Township.
Alisa Dupuy, professional storyteller, will present tea traditions, life and customs of England’s Regency Period. Ms. Dupuy, an area resident and teacher, has become well known for her entertaining and historically accurate presentations.
The public is invited to attend the tea. The entrance fee is $15. For more information and reservations, call Ellen Parravano at 609-466-4903.
Organized in 1967, Montgomery Woman’s Club focuses on the educational, social, recreational and philanthropic interests of its members through a combination of community services and special interest groups.
The Club is affiliated with the New Jersey State Federation of Women’s Clubs – the largest volunteer service organization for women in the state.
‘Raise a Glass for Hope’
The Association for Advancement of Mental Health invites the public to enjoy rare and specialty wines, artisan cheeses, gourmet food from popular restaurants, luscious chocolates and live music at the “Raise A Glass For Hope” Wine & Food Tasting/Auction, taking place Thursday, April 23, at 6 p.m., at the Princeton Marriott, located on Route 1 North at College Road East.
Chef Rory Philips of Blue Bottle Cafe will conduct a cooking demonstration; Bill Lettier, owner of Bon Appétit Fine Foods of Princeton, will present his favorite gourmet cheeses, and Peter Langenstein, founder of Brix26, will pour his favorite wines and give expert advice.
Also serving will be Ruth’s Chris Steakhouse, La Mezzaluna, Rat’s Restaurant, Bistro Soleil, Enzo’s La Piccola Cucina, Griggstown Farm Market, JD Gourmet, Ota Ya Japanese Restaurant, The Bent Spoon and Antimo’s Italian Kitchen & Pizzeria.
Featured auction items include dinner and wine for 10 at JL Ivy; VIP tasting tour for four at Cakebread Cellars in California; tasting tour for six at Peju Province Winery in California; lunch with former White House social secretary Catherine Fenton; tour of The Food Network in NYC; a 3-liter bottle of 2004 Alexander Valley Cabernet Sauvignon from Silver Oak Winery, and a Magnum of Zinfandel Wine from Turley Wine Cellers.
Event sponsors include Bloomberg, LP, The Mercadien Group, Waters & Bugbee, Mike & Beth Kacsmar, and Colliers, Houston & Co.
Tickets are $75 per person, $125 per couple, with proceeds benefiting the Association for Advancement of Mental Health, a private, nonprofit, community- based behavioral health care agency serving Greater Mercer County.
To reserve, call Jamie Simpson at 609-759-7447 or write to [email protected] community.
Muldoon to be feted by Princeton Festival
The Princeton Festival will honor poet Paul Muldoon, recipient of the 2003 Nobel Prize in poetry and professor at Princeton University, as well as chair of the Peter B. Lewis Center for the Arts at Princeton, on Saturday, April 25, during the festival’s annual gala.
The festival will honor Mr. Muldoon for his many contributions to the arts as a poet, opera librettist, novelist, and leader of the rock band Rackett. Born in Armagh, Northern Ireland, he has lived in the United States since 1987. He resides in Griggstown with his wife, the writer Jean Hanff Korelitz, and two daughters.
The venue for The Princeton Festival Gala, whose theme is “An Elizabethan Revel,” is the Bedens Brook Country Club in Montgomery. Festivities will start at 6 p.m. The evening includes cocktails, hors d’oeuvres, dinner, dancing, Elizabethan entertainment and magic, auctions, and a host of other exciting events. The Courtney Colletti ensemble will provide music.
Tickets are available at various levels: $1000, $500, $250, and $75, the last for after-dinner dancing and refreshments. For information and reservations, call Jean Brown at 215-493-6846 or write to [email protected].
The Princeton Festival’s 2009 season will run from June 13 to 28. It will feature opera, musical theater, chamber music, jazz, and choral music. For more information, visit www.princetonfestival.com.
Footprints 2009
The Crisis Ministry of Princeton and Trenton will host its fifth annual Footprints Walk-a-Thon Saturday morning, April 25, along a scenic stretch of the Delaware & Raritan Canal towpath. Princeton University’s Melissa Lacewell Harris will deliver the keynote at 9 a.m.
New to the event this year are the Footprints Run and a canned foods collection.
Hundreds of participants support Footprints every spring, raising awareness of poverty in the area and raising funds to support programs that serve low-income people throughout Mercer County with emergency food and financial assistance.
The event is located in Kingston at the Route 27 entrance to the Delaware & Raritan towpath. Sign-in for both runners and walkers will begin at 7 a.m. The Footprints Run is at 8 a.m. The keynote is at 9 am, followed immediately by the Footprints Walk-a-thon.
Register for only $10 per person age 7 and older at www.thecrisisministry.org, call 609-396-9355, ext. 27, for more information, or make a donation at www.thecrisisministry.org.
‘Morven in May’
Morven Museum & Garden, located at 55 Stockton St., Princeton, will hold “Morven in May: A Garden Party for the Friends of Morven,” on Friday, May 1, from 5 to 7 p.m., with proceeds to benefit Morven.
The garden party will feature festive drinks, fresh herbal hors d’oeuvres, music by harpist Mary Bryson, and a silent auction of horticultural rarities. More than 100 types of hard-to-find heirloom and connoisseur plants will be at the adjoining plant sale.
Tickets are $30 per person and reservations are required. For tickets or for more information, call 609-924-8144, ext. 100.
“Morven in May” is sponsored by Garden Traditions of New York City.
Morven Museum & Garden is administered by Historic Morven, Inc. in cooperation with the New Jersey Department of State. The museum’s mission is to showcase the cultural heritage of New Jersey.
Celebrate spring with D&R Greenway
In honor of its 20th Anniversary, D&R Greenway Land Trust invites the public to the Down-to- Earth Ball on Saturday, May 2, from 7:30 to 11 p.m. This “down- home evening of after-dinner delights, drinks and dancing,” will be held in the circa 1900s barn, The Johnson Education Center.
Bluegrass music will be in the lively hands of Bill Flemer and his Riverside Band, in the upstairs gallery/RWJ Room.
In the more intimate Upmeyer Room, singer/songwriter Roia Rafieyan will share the magic of her guitar.
Casual attire is the order of the night.
Tickets are $75 per person and can be obtained by calling D&R Greenway Land Trust at 609-924-4646.
The Johnson Education Center is at 1 Preservation Place, off Rosedale Road, in Princeton.
Sweet and savory treats, courtesy of local restaurants, caterers and markets will join strawberries from the A. T. Buzby Farm in Mannington, Salem County, where D&R Greenway led the preservation of 1900+ acres of farm land. Guests may enjoy beers, wines and a signature “Out- of-This-World” Cocktail, as well as participate in a Silent Auction of nature encounters upon D&R- Greenway-preserved lands.
Corporate sponsors to date include Bloomberg, LP; Drinker, Biddle & Reath, LLP; E. Allen Reeves, Inc.; Ford 3 Architects, LLC; The Glenmede Trust Company; Julius H. Gross Painting and Decorating Company; Martin Appraisal Associates, Inc.; Miele, Inc.; Pepper Hamilton, LLP; PSE&G; Woodwinds Associates, Inc.
CASA of Mercer County Kids 5K and Family Fun Run
CASA of Mercer County will be holding the organization’s second annual CASA Kids 5K and Family Fun Run on Saturday, May 16. The race will be held at the Princeton Pike Corporate Center in Lawrence, announced Lori Morris, executive director of CASA of Mercer County.
“We’re so glad to again be holding our CASA Kids 5K at The Princeton Pike Corporate Center; it’s just a perfect place for our race, which was so successful in all ways this past Spring,” said Ms. Morris. “Not only are we fortunate to have Jerry Fennelly back as our race director but it’s great news that we can announce David Crane and his wife, Isabella de la Houssaye, both avid runners, as our honorary co-chairpersons.”
David Crane is president and CEO of Princeton-based NRG Energy, a wholesale power generation company that owns and operates a diverse portfolio of power plants throughout the U.S. Isabella de la Houssaye is a tri- athlete who has traveled internationally to compete.
“CASA’s mission to help abused and neglected children is one that we’re passionate about and one that NRG is especially committed to,” said Mr. Crane, adding that their shared commitment to running and family fitness makes the co-chair honor doubly appealing.
CASA of Mercer County recruits, screens and trains volunteer advocates to speak up in Family Court for the best interests of abused and neglected children. Currently there are 560 children in the foster care system and the organization’s 100 advocates serve 25 percent of them. According to Ms. Morris, CASA Mercer County has just finished training its largest-ever class of prospective advocates.
The CASA Kids 5K will again be a USATF-sanctioned race, said race director Jerry Fennelly, president of commercial real estate services firm NAI Fennelly.
“This was a tremendous event last year and I have no doubt we’ll see a big jump in runners, with the positive buzz attracting more school and corporate teams, as well as individuals of all ages,” he said.
The event will be co-chaired by Gary Rossi, assistant vice president of First Choice Bank; Grace Polhemus, job market consultant with Lee Hecht Harrison, and Kathleen Kinka, president of Aurora Management. All three are based in Lawrence.
“People love events like these in general and they love CASA in particular,” said Mr. Rossi. “This is an ideal event for people and businesses to support and come out to have a great, family-friendly time in the process,” he said.
The CASA Kids 5K will kick off with the Family Fun Run at 8:30 a.m., followed by the 5K run at 9 a.m. Runners may register at www.casamercer.org.

