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Concert
funds
trip to
Kenya
BY HEATHER FIORE
The Hopewell Sun
On Saturday, July 7,
Hopewell Valley Central High
Schools (HVCHS) Model
World Health Organization
(WHO) hosted a benefit con-
cert, Ken-ya Rock, at the
Hopewell Gazebo Park on
South Greenwood Avenue in
Hopewell.
The concert was organized
by the members of HVCHS
Model WHO to raise addition-
al funds for their Kenya trip,
specifically for the initiatives
of this years team of students.
The concert featured sets
from local students and bands,
and was supposed to feature
Hopewell native and widely
known and respected jazz vo-
calist Wenonah Brooks, as well
as headliner Danielia Cotton,
but were cut short because of
a thunderstorm
HEATHER FIORE/The Hopewell Sun
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Mondays through Saturdays from 11 a.m. until 6 p.m., and on Sundays from 11 a.m. until 5 p.m.
please see TWENTY, page 7
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D&R Canal on Sunday, Aug. 5.
The walk will explore the 5.3-
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tween East Millstone and South
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option for a shorter walk ending
at Zarephath, which is only 2.7
miles. The walk will be conducted
by Canal Watch board member
Bob Barth who will point out his-
toric sites and canal structures
along the way.
Meet at 10 a.m. at the canals
Lock 11 in South Bound Brook,
across from the 11 Madison St.
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The nonprofit D & R Canal
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AUGUST 1-7, 2012 THE HOPEWELL SUN 5
Howell Farm is accepting ap-
plications for parent/child enroll-
ment in its fall Hatchery Pro-
gram, which begins in September.
The program is designed to intro-
duce children to life on the farm,
while parents volunteer time
helping the Howell Farm staff
work with school group visits to
the farm and other chores related
to farming. One parent must
work at the farm as a volunteer in
exchange for one childs partici-
pation in the program. No experi-
ence is necessary.
The Hatchery Program is for
children ages 3 to 5, and features
activities such as feeding farm
animals, collecting eggs, story-
telling, and taking a hayride ride.
The program runs one morning
per week for 12 weeks, on either
Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thurs-
days, or Fridays (Sept. 11, 12, 13,
or 14) from 9:15 a.m. to 12:15 p.m.
Parents may enroll by attending
an organizational meeting on ei-
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or Wednesday, Aug. 29 at 1 p.m.
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only. Applications will not be ac-
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BY HEATHER FIORE
The Hopewell Sun
On Wednesday, July 18, the Greater Mer-
cer Public Health Partnership (GMPHP)
unveiled its Mercer County Community
Health Assessment (CHA) at Educational
Testing Services (ETS) Conant Hall on
Rosedale Road in Princeton.
The GMPHP a collaborative of four
community hospitals, eight local health de-
partments, and the United Way of Greater
Mercer County (UWGMC) led a compre-
hensive community health planning effort
to substantially improve the health of Mer-
cer County, which involved 28 focus
groups, 15 personal interviews with com-
munity stakeholders and six discussion
groups examining external factors.
CHAs use both qualitative and quanti-
tative data analyses of a communitys so-
cial, economic and epidemiological data to
create a comprehensive portrait of com-
munity perceptions, health attitudes and
behaviors and perceived needs and assets,
Project Manager of the GMPHP Antonia
Lewis said.
This community health effort is funded
through the Robert Wood Johnson Founda-
tions New Jersey Health Initiatives and
entails two major phases a CHA to identi-
fy the health-related concerns, needs, and
strengths of Mercer County, and a commu-
nity health improvement plan (CHIP) to
address these concerns and needs.
The GMPHP would not be possible if
not for the vision of the Robert Wood John-
son Foundation and their New Jersey ini-
tiative, President and COO of the
UWGMC Herb Klein said. Robert Wood
Johnson is the nations largest philanthro-
py devoted entirely to public health for the
United States.
Klein further explained what the CHAs
goal was.
Were at a crossroads in America as we
address the fundamental questions of
what, when, where, who and how health
care should be delivered in our communi-
ty, he said. As youll hear today, neighbor-
hoods, transportation, housing environ-
ment, education and income levels all play
an important role in determining commu-
nity health and measuring healthy com-
munities.
Director of Research and Evaluation
Lisa Wolff at Health Resources in Action
and Director of Strategic Planning and Or-
ganizational Effectiveness Health Re-
sources in Action Rose Swensen, were key
in the development of the CHA and report-
ed all of the reasons, methods and findings
from their research group.
This process was not just about collect-
ing information, but about engaging the
community and organizations throughout
the process so that the data collection
methods were salient, and this process was
driven and owned by the community,
Wolff said.
I
ts hard to believe, but a new school
year is almost upon us. In a few
short weeks, schools open.
But what will be different about this
school year?
Were going to find out. Right now,
our reporters are compiling lists of
questions for school leaders about the
new school year.
Are there new classes students and
parents need to know about?
How about scheduling changes?
Was any work done at the schools
over the summer?
If your school district switched its
annual election to November, well ask
if there will be any noticeable impact
on the schools.
Generally, well be asking school
leaders to tell us about things that
you parents, taxpayers and students
need to know before the 2012-13 school
year begins.
Then, we will pass that information
along to you.
Do you have any questions youd like
our reporters to ask? If so, the time to
act is now.
Maybe you are concerned about the
budget (who isnt?). Or maybe youve
heard about a new program that you
think might be ideal for your child. Or
perhaps you are wondering about re-
pairs that were scheduled for your
childs school.
Wed love to get those questions from
you. Just send an email to us so that we
can include them on our lists.
Most school districts have done a lot
in recent years to be more responsive
to questions submitted by the public. It
makes sense. Everyone wants to have
great schools. Everyone wants to keep
taxes as low as possible, while still pro-
viding great service. One of the best
ways to achieve these goals is to build a
true public-private partnership be-
tween schools and the communities
they serve. And building that relation-
ship starts with effective communica-
tion.
So send us your questions. Well do
our best to get answers.
in our opinion
Ready for school?
Its August, so school doors open in only a few weeks
Any questions?
We are tracking down school leaders to
ask them questions about the upcom-
ing school year. So whats on your
mind? Send us your questions, and
well do our best to get answers.
Mercer County Community Health Assessment unveiled
please see COUNTY, page 10
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Aside from the musical acts,
the students from Model WHO
sold t-shirts and baked goods to
help raise funds, and doled out
awareness brochures about their
goals for their Kenya trip.
The students also got on stage
to explain the reasoning behind
the trip, what they hoped to ac-
complish, and what they were
going to do while in Africa so the
crowd had a better understanding
of their cause.
Most of them were looking to
experience a new culture and to
experience Africa first-hand and
how things are in terms of liv-
ing, founder and co-advisor of
Model WHO, and biology teacher
at HVCHS David Angwei said.
The trip that the concert bene-
fitted, which was sponsored by
Model WHO in conjunction with
Global Connections Kenya an-
other organization started by
Angwei to connect high school
students in the United States with
natives from different villages in
Kenya allowed 20 students and
six adults to travel to Kenya and
several different provinces, par-
ticularly Angweis native village
of Nyanchonori, to share cultural
experiences, offer global commu-
nity service, and examine ways of
making a positive impact in this
world from July 11 to July 26.
The main goal of the trip was to
provide a couple of things that we,
as Americans, sometimes take for
granted to the village of Nyan-
chonori, according to Angwei.
A lot of kids in Kenya cannot
afford to go to school, he said.
The people in the village [Nyan-
chonori] have to walk miles to get
clean water, so its helping with
clean water and helping kids go to
school.
Since one of Model WHOs ini-
tiatives is to bring a source of
clean water to Nyanchonori, the
money raised from the Ken-ya
Rock concert will fund The Water
Project a worldwide non-profit
organization dedicated to bring-
ing clean water to the nearly 1 bil-
lion people in Africa living with-
out it.
Co-advisor of Model WHO and
English teacher at HVCHS Lind-
sey Pennington added to
Angweis comments about the
overall goal of the trip.
Its the whole idea of giving a
man a fish and teaching a man
how to catch a fish, she said. Its
not about robbing them of their
sense of dignity by saying we
dont agree with how they do
things and taking control of how
they do it, but being partners
with people who want to do
things themselves and helping
them to be successful at the
things that they want to accom-
plish for their village.
She also explained how their
trips schedule is jam-packed for
each of the 15 days, including vis-
its to orphanages and various
schools, and living a day in the
life of different people in Kenya,
Nairobi, Nakuru, and other re-
gions of Southern Kenya.
Pennington also noted how one
of the charitable aspects of their
trip was made possible because of
the help of local residents.
Several parents are connected
to universities, so they were able
to get laptops donated for the
trip, she said. So, the students
will be donating a laptop to each
school they visit.
This is the third trip that
Angwei has attended with Model
WHO students.
The idea now is to have our
students embrace cultural under-
standing and the living condi-
tions of Kenya, Angwei said
The first trip Angwei made
with students was in 2007, whose
attending students are now col-
lege graduates. Because of the
eye-opening trip, when the stu-
dents returned, several parents of
those students began a non-profit,
community-based organization,
the Hopewell-Keroka Alliance
(HKA), that focuses on raising
awareness in Hopewell of the
needs of the people in the town of
Keroka, Kenya. HKA also raises
funds to support the health and
education of the people of Keroka
and to improve the infrastructure
in the Keroka area.
Since Angwei has successfully
conducted three separate trips
2007, 2010 and 2012 with HVCHS
students, hes hoping to broaden
the trip in the future.
Now, were hoping to do it
every year, he said. Were going
to open it up to more students.
Overall, there were two imper-
ative goals of the Kenya trip that
Angwei and Model WHOs stu-
dents hoped to accomplish.
Our main goal right now is to
start the global connections cen-
ter in Kenya, he said. Were try-
ing to launch it so our students
will be going every year. Also, to
get the clean water initiative
started in the village so they can
do things that we do as well so we
can work together.
Even though Angweis efforts
are focused on raising money to
donate to certain villages in
Kenya that need the most help,
his longer-term goal is to teach
them how to execute the plans
that the students have started.
We have been raising money
to help them, but we also want
them to take action, he said.
TWENTY
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traveled to Kenya in July
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WEDNESDAY AUG. 1
Story Time: Ages 2 to 5; siblings
welcome. 11 to 11:45 a.m. at
Hopewell Branch of the Mercer
County Library System. Action
rhymes, songs and felt board
activities. Age-appropriate craft
follows story time. Parental
supervision required.
PJ Story Time: Ages 2 to 5. Siblings
welcome. 7 to 7:45 p.m. at
Hopewell Branch of the Mercer
County Library System. Introduce
children to best age-appropriate
stories in childrens literature.
Action rhymes, songs and felt
board activities are part of the
program. Content of each story
time centers on a different
theme. Age-appropriate craft fol-
lows.
Book Buddies: First to third graders.
1 to 2 p.m. at Hopewell Branch of
the Mercer County Library Sys-
tem. Each child will be partnered
with an older student. They will
select books that match the
childs interest and take turns
reading to each other. Registra-
tion required.
Page Turners: Fourth to fifth
graders. 2 to 3 p.m. at Hopewell
Branch of the Mercer County
Library System. A different kind
of book club. Every week will read
aloud for the same book and then
work on an activity related to
what was read. Each week will get
further into the book. The book is
From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs.
Basil E. Frankweiler by E. L.
Konigsburg.
Girl Stuff Book Club: Ages 12 and
older. 6 to 7 p.m. at Hopewell
Branch of the Mercer County
Library System. Register online.
Hopewell Township Zoning Board
meeting: 7:30 p.m. the first
Wednesday of the month in the
Municipal Auditorium. For more
information visit
hopewelltwp.org.
THURSDAY AUG. 2
Story Time: Ages 2 to 5; siblings
welcome. 11 a.m. to noon at
Hopewell Branch of the Mercer
County Library System. Action
rhymes, songs and felt board
activities. Age-appropriate craft
follows story time. Parental
supervision required.
Toddler Rock: Ages 18 months to 3.
10 to 10:30 a.m. at Hopewell
Branch of the Mercer County
Library System. Singing, dancing
ad rhymes. Play with musical
instruments, puppets, parachutes
and more.
Super Scientists: First to third
grade. 1:30 to 2:30 p.m. at
Hopewell Branch of the Mercer
County Library System. Each
week focuses on a different
experiment to explain the world.
This week is Building Bridges
and Towers. Registration
required.
Game Night: Third grade and older.
6 to 7 p.m. at Hopewell Branch of
the Mercer County Library Sys-
tem. Play board games, listen to
music and enjoy some snacks.
Feel free to bring favorite board
games and friends!
Jr. Game Night: Kindergarten to
second grade. 7 to 8 p.m. at
Hopewell Branch of the Mercer
County Library System. Board
games, group games and snacks.
Feel free to bring a favorite board
game or some friends!
Teen Volunteer Appreciation Par-
ty: 7 to 8 p.m. at Hopewell Branch
of the Mercer County Library Sys-
tem. Games, music and snacks.
Get feedback on how the volun-
teer program went. Good oppor-
tunity to get forms signed or ask
for recommendation letters. Reg-
istration required.
FRIDAY AUG. 3
Pat McKinleys Toddler Tunes:
Ages newborn to 5. 10:30 to 11
a.m. at Hopewell Branch of the
Mercer County Library System.
Adult supervision required. Sing
and dance to classic childrens
songs played on live guitar.
Teen Take-Out Craft: Ages 12 and
older. 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Bring
home a magazine-wrapped pic-
ture frame craft at any time dur-
ing the day.
SUNDAY AUG. 5
Mid-Summer Meadow Hike: All
ages. 1 p.m. at Thompson Pre-
serve on Route 654. Friends of
Hopewell Valley Open Space
guided hike featuring a restored
wildflower meadow. One and a
half mile hike over easy terrain.
For more information call 730-
1560 or visit www.fohvos.org.
Hopewell Presbyterian Church:
Worship service at 10:30 a.m.
Intergenerational Sunday School
from 9 to 10:15 a.m. Coffee fellow-
ship from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
80 West Broad St., Hopewell.
Hopewell United Methodist
Church: Worship service at 10
a.m. Teen/adult education from 9
to 9:45 a.m. Sunday school at 10
a.m. Youth group at 6:30 p.m. 20
Blackwell Ave., Hopewell.
St. Alphonsus Roman Catholic
Church: Mass at 7:30, 9 and 11:15
a.m. 54 East Prospect St.,
Hopewell.
Word Christian Fellowship Interna-
tional: Worship service at 10 a.m.
Sunday school at 10:30 a.m. 44
Van Dyke Road, Hopewell.
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5:30 p.m. at Hopewell Branch of
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Story Time: Ages 2 to 5; siblings
welcome. 2 to 3 p.m. at Hopewell
Branch of the Mercer County
Library System. Action rhymes,
songs and felt board activities.
Age-appropriate craft follows sto-
ry time. Parental supervision
required.
Baby Time: Ages birth to 2. 11 to
11:30 a.m. Adult supervision
required. This program is a great
way to introduce children to
library story times and reading.
Age appropriate books are
shared with the group. Songs,
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visual and social experience.
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Wolff explained that the CHA
engaged more than 400 people,
and involved a wide range of indi-
viduals who represented different
audiences, including youth, par-
ents, government officials,
health-care providers, education-
al leaders, social service
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One of the biggest findings was
a larger, socio-economic issue
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found, which was that there is no
one Mercer County.
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titude of factors, she said. Race
ethnicity, family make-up, educa-
tional levels, income, so on and so
forth. For example, Mercer Coun-
ty overall ranked ninth among
New Jerseys 21 counties for its
median income, which is approxi-
mately $70,000. However, there are
stark differences in those num-
bers by community.
Essentially, there are commu-
nities in Mercer County that are
on completely opposite sides of
the socio-economic scale. For ex-
ample, Wolff detailed how six of
Mercer Countys municipalities
have median incomes of $100,000,
while others like Trenton, whose
median income is around $37,000,
have nearly one-third to one-half
of that.
The other, most prevalent is-
sues that Wolff and Swensen
found involved vulnerable popu-
lation groups, a steady increase
in unemployment, transportation
concerns, high housing costs,
health issues and health-care ac-
cess and utilization.
From their findings, Wolff ex-
plained how people found the
youth and seniors of Mercer
County to be the most vulnerable
population groups. Younger peo-
ple have been experiencing more
stress, which has led to substan-
tial substance abuse one of the
major concerns among adoles-
County found to be diverse on multitude of factors
COUNTY
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cents. Seniors, who are limited in
their abilities, have the highest
growing population, which was
reported to encompass 17 percent
of Mercer Countys total popula-
tion by 2020.
Although Mercer County was
found to have a lower unemploy-
ment rate than New Jersey over-
all, it has seen a significant in-
crease from 2007 to 2009 in
2007, it was 3.9 percent, and in
2009, it nearly doubled to 7.7 per-
cent.
In relation to employment and
median incomes, Wolff also ex-
plained how Hopewell stood out
in regard to one of the aspects of
the study high housing costs
and high cost of living in the area
specifically when it came to resi-
dents who currently rent proper-
ty.
Wolff showed a graph that indi-
cated percentages of people in
each municipality in Mercer
County who rent their homes
who pay more than 35 percent of
their income to housing.
Hopewell ranked second for the
highest percentage of people in
the town who currently pay more
than 35 percent of their income to
housing with 56.1 percent.
An architect at Burt, Hill who
lives in Pennington, Arthur San
Fillipo, particularly noticed how
home ownership has decreased in
Mercer County, in large because
of the rising costs and lowering
incomes.
San Fillipo also detailed the un-
predictability of home ownership
in the next couple of years, and
what the better alternative is, es-
pecially in Hopewell.
As it is in New Jersey, home
ownership is trending down right
now, and more multi-family
homes are being built in New Jer-
sey and in Mercer County. The
nice thing about the multi-family
homes is a planned community;
when planned communities are
done properly, theyre actually
better than what we have in Mer-
cer County right now. What
theyve noticed is with the bal-
ance, people are more apt to walk
to the supermarket, clubs and
community pools, you get out to
meet your neighbors, and the
community itself becomes a little
bit more healthy because youre
engaging more of the people as
opposed to getting in the car and
driving someplace.
When it came to transporta-
tion, they found that residents of
Mercer County found it easier to
travel back and forth to New York
City and Philadelphia, rather
than within areas of Mercer
County because of limited and
unreliable public transportation.
As a result, people in the area
have become car-dependent,
which raises concerns because of
gas prices.
In regard to overall health is-
sues, people found that the most
prominent concerns were mental
health, substance abuse, chronic
disease and insurance coverage
and affordability.
People have been experiencing
more depression and stress,
mainly as a result of the econom-
ic downturn, which has led more
people (specifically youth) to sub-
stance abuse. In Mercer County,
60 percent of high school students
reported that they indulge in al-
cohol use, 27 percent use marijua-
na, and 9 percent abuse prescrip-
tion drugs. It was also found that
substance abuse and mental
health go hand-in-hand, which is
where challenges from acquiring
help arose.
Other health-related concerns
involved healthy eating, obesity
and chronic disease. Twenty-five
percent of Mercer County adults
are considered obese, which is
slightly higher than New Jerseys
rate, but lower than the national
rate. The reasons behind this
were found to be the high costs of
fruits and vegetables, fees of
recreational facilities, as well as a
lack of time to exercise and eat
healthy.
When you dont take care of
your body, that leads to chronic
disease, such as diabetes, heart
disease, cancer, and strokes,
which were found to be the lead-
ing killers of people in Mercer
County. In Mercer County, 9.1 per-
cent of people have diabetes, op-
posed to the overall 8.7 percent of
people who have it in New Jersey.
Most of the people reported
that part of the problem is health-
care access. Wolff explained how
Mercer County is known for its
high quality of health-care serv-
ices with seven hospitals, 16 long-
term care facilities and eight
health departments, but the wait-
ing times to acquire an appoint-
ment and in the waiting rooms,
along with a lack of transporta-
tion hinder people from getting
help. Also, 15 percent of people in
Mercer County arent insured.
Aside from the problems, the
three main strengths in Mercer
County that were found were the
variety of organizations and
services that are already working
on these issues; the helpful re-
sources related to recreation,
parks, and greenery; and the edu-
cational system, which is the
main source of pride for resi-
dents, and is a major appealing
factor for potential residents.
Superintendent of Hopewell
Valley Regional School District
Thomas Smith commented on the
educational system, which seems
to be excellent in Hopewell, but
has been affected by some issues,
including the economy and signif-
icant demographic shifts.
Smith also explained how one
major concern of the residents is
the expectation of accountability,
which is countered by the in-
crease of needs that Hopewell is
seeing among their students.
People want to know where
their money is going, he said.
Thats the pressure that were
facing also as a school district.
But more importantly, were
being asked to do more at the
same time. We have students who
are coming to our schools with
more issues, to put it bluntly,
whether its children of divorced
parents, children with diabetes,
children with significant health
concerns, or emotional health,
and we are working with those
students and providing those
services.
After Wolff reported the find-
ings, Swenson explained the next
steps that she and Healthy Re-
sources in Action will take, since
she will lead the planning effort.
The next step in developing
the CHIP is really to identify
where we want to focus in the
plan, she said. The CHIP will be
a strategic blueprint that hopeful-
ly will represent anybody who
looks at that plan and wants to
connect and align with that plan,
either as an individual, institu-
tion and organization, or as a
community. Our next step is to
work with the Community Advi-
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nity stakeholders in the planning
process and gather feedback and
input from the community at
large to really put this CHIP to-
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