Category: Bordentown Register News
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Thirty area nonprofits receive grant funding from Princeton Area Community Foundation
The Princeton Area Community Foundation has announced its initial round of COVID-19 Relief & Recovery Fund grants, totaling nearly $700,000 to more than 30 nonprofits. “This crisis is having a devastating impact on our most vulnerable communities,” said Jeffrey M. Vega, president and CEO, in a prepared statement. “As a philanthropic leader in this region, we knew we had to…
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Free farm market will be held at TCNJ on Friday
An emergency free farm market will be held from noon to 2 p.m. on April 17 at The College of New Jersey, Green Lane Athletic Fields parking lots, 293 Green Lane, Ewing, open to anyone struggling to take care of their family’s basic needs. Fruits, vegetables and dairy will be available while supplies last. No…
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Loose Ends 4/17: The Trenton Health Team
At 7 p.m. each night in New York City, residents stand on patios, on rooftops and in doorways to clap and cheer wildly for the individuals working at the hospitals in their neighborhoods. If this were happening in Trenton, I would add to the shout-out recipients one non-hospital – the Trenton Health Team (THT), an…
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Free farmers market in Bordentown considered a success
BORDENTOWN – Sruti Desai, a member of the Bordentown City Green Team and co-manager of the Bordentown Farmers Market, got an unexpected tip from her neighbor late last week. Her neighbor Brian Strumfels, who is the director of New Jersey Farmers Against Hunger, told Desai that the organization received a large shipment of perishable produce…
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Costume makers aid those in need of face masks
Members of the McCarter Theatre Center Costume Shop are still utilizing their skills, as the group creates face masks for those on the frontline of the coronavirus pandemic. Sarah Romagnoli, a former Princeton area resident who has worked at the theater for about five years, has been making masks at her home in Bucks County,…
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Learn about schizophrenia during virtual workshop on April 16
Dr. Nichelle Jones, a psychiatric nurse practitioner, will lead a virtual workshop on The Faces of Schizophrenia from 7-9 p.m. April 16, sponsored by NAMI-NJ (National Alliance on Mental Illness) and AACT-NOW (African American Community Together NOW). Register for the free workshop by emailing [email protected] or [email protected]. For more information, visit www.naminj.org/programs/multicultural/aactnow/
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Hope for Veterans provides services across the state
Veterans and their families struggling with homelessness have Hope for Veterans as a resource. The nonprofit organization, which is the largest organization in New Jersey serving homeless veterans, has been serving veterans in the state since 2004. Hope for Veterans staff provide wrap-around services to quickly secure housing for homeless veterans and to help the…
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Dogs have a nose for conservation
By Michele S. Byers Dia, Fagen and Fly are high-energy dogs who love to run through woods and fields for hours, their noses to the ground. While it’s all play to them, their outings have a serious purpose: sniffing out invasive plants and insects, and helping scientists learn about the locations and movements of New…
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SOLUTIONS 4/10: The changes around us
By Huck Fairman Change has arrived in our lives, partly by chance, partly by design. The virus and climate crisis have both spread through our communities of nations unrequested. And both have revealed to us that we must join together in new ways to overcome them. But change, at an admittedly slower pace, has been…
