Category: lifestyle/the_princeton_packet
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A MISSION OF MERCY: Princeton teen encounters ‘a new kind of world’ in remote Peru
By Liz Gore Special to The Packet In many ways, Julia Wong is like most 16-year-olds. But few of her friends — few other teenagers, for that matter — have made a contribution to helping people in need quite like she has. Julia’s story starts in the summer of 2007 when she accompanied…
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Princeton Public Library thanks Starbucks, Small World
Jan Johnson of Princeton Public Library We at Princeton Public Library wish to convey our gallons of thanks to Starbucks Coffee Company and to Small World Coffee for their donations of the 130 plus empty milk jugs that were used in creating the “igloo” that was built in the Children’s Room during our recent…
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Deadline coming for NJ presidential primary
Rita Ludlum of Princeton Area LWV For the first time, the first Tuesday in February —February 5— is Primary Election Day in New Jersey. The final day for unregistered citizens to register is next Tuesday, January 15. You may obtain registration forms at Township or Borough Hall or print out the form that you…
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A good scout says thank-you
Katie Meola of Montgomery When I started my Girl Scout Gold Award Project in October, I wanted to collect toys for children in the Kentucky Appalachian area where I had worked to repair houses last summer. I knew the people there needed help and I knew that I wanted to help them. What I…
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Appreciation from the Elks
Allen Seitz of Princeton Elks The Princeton Elks #2129 would like to thank everyone that has supported our efforts to make this a better place to live. We have taken your donations, gifts, the moneys earned by your participation at our events: our wonderful lunches, great Friday night dinners, dances, barn dances, golf outing,…
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BOOK NOTES: Oliver Sacks explores music and the brain
Oliver Sacks — dubbed ‘the poet laureate of medicine’ by The New York Times — continues his odyssey of consciousness with ‘Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain.’ By Joan Ruddiman Special Writer In October, I — like many others — rushed to buy the latest book by Oliver Sacks. Within days, “Musicophilia: Tales…
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IN THE KITCHEN: Sweet dreams, indeed, from Eden’s ‘Masquerade’
By Faith Bahadurian Special Writer Start spreading the news. No, we’re not going to New York, New York, but to the grand palaces and moonlit canals of Venice, with the 20th annual Eden Dreams dinner dance which takes place Jan. 19 at the Hyatt Regency Princeton. Each year the Eden “dream team” comes up…
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Choose trees over housing
Jane Buttars of Princeton All over the world, people are planting trees. Why? Trees absorb carbon dioxide, the gas most responsible for global warming; a single tree absorbs one ton of this gas over its lifetime. Trees convert the sun’s energy into food and oxygen for life on earth, a process that has not…
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In 1908 … Some highlights from 100 years ago, including the advent of Henry Ford’s ‘Tin Lizzy’
Theodore Roosevelt was the outgoing president, William Howard Taft the incoming president … The first time-ball signifying the new year was dropped at Times Square, New York City. Count Zeppelin announced plans for his airship to carry 100 passengers. The first Boy Scout troop was organized in England by Robert Baden-Powell, who…
