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t is said that a picture is worth a
thousand words, and Hopewell-based
journalist/filmmaker Jared Flesher
sees the Sourland Mountain area of
Central Jersey as speaking volumes
about issues facing the environment.
In his new film, Sourlands,
Flesher tackles a huge question: What can
the average person do to help make sure a
healthy, natural world will still be around
for his or her grandkids to enjoy?
We live in complicated times, the cum
laude graduate of the University of Rich-
mond said. Global climate change, mas-
sive species extinction, unsustainable im-
balances in our ecosystem, that stuff all
sounds pretty dire. But lets not sugarcoat
it, and lets not turn away, because its true.
The goal of my film is to document the
problem, and then show real people doing
tangible things, right here in New Jersey,
to fight back.
Those people, according to Fleshers
Sourlands.comwebsite, are two young con-
servationists working to save a forest
threatened by invasive plants, rampaging
deer and wholesale-habitat destruction.
Theyre two scrappy organic farmers bat-
tling difficult soil conditions and record-
setting extreme weather; a man on a quest
to lower his energy bill, one watt at a time;
a young computer programmer trying to
get his new clean-tech company off the
ground in a difficult economy; a retired
builder turned artist, farmer and renew-
able energy advocate, who knows more
than a little about all these challenges.
In the end, he said, these are all stories
about sustainability. And theyre all con-
nected.
Communities around the world have
begun to rethink the paradigms they rely
on for food, energy and the preservation of
a healthy place to live.
The same is true of the people of the
Sourlands, Flesher said. They have im-
portant stories to tell about their progress,
as well as the work ahead.
Growing up in Raritan Township, Flesh-
er hiked extensively in the Sourland Moun-
tains and learned to love the area and take
great pride in it.
I realized that here you are, in Central
New Jersey, and just a short distance away,
you can be in the middle of nowhere, he
recalled. Thats something thats impor-
tant to me, and to a lot of people. This is a
story I felt I had to tell.
He also realized Sourlands was a mi-
crocosm of the environmental issues
about which he had become so interested
as a daily newspaper journalist.
There were examples of all of them on
this one green spot on the map, and by
Fate of
school
program
in limbo
The Hopewell Valley Regional
Board of Education is determin-
ing the fate of the Hopewell Val-
ley After School Program, to the
surprise of the organization and
its parent support base.
The district sent out requests
for proposals to, including
HVASP and the Hopewell Valley
YMCA, which provides after-
school care at Timberlane Middle
School from 2:45 to 6 p.m., and
those bids were due Dec. 16.
We have parents whose ability
to make a choice for their child-
care provider will be taken away,
and they are also concerned that
an outside, for-profit organization
could come in, said HVASP co-
director Karen Sharpe. Weve al-
ways tried to keep our prices as
low as possible.
Superintendent of Schools
Thomas Smith, responding to
concerns of parents, said the pur-
pose of the RFP is to ensure that
students are getting the best serv-
ices possible at a reasonable cost.
The result may be that one of the
current providers remains or
even both, should they choose to
combine.
Smith also said the district
wants oversight over the before-
and after-school programs.
I
Documenting
the problem
Hopewell-based
filmmaker tackles
issues facing the
environment
By JIM WRIGHT
The Hopewell Sun
please see FILMMAKER, page 2
By JIM WRIGHT
The Hopewell Sun
please see PROGRAM, page 3
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telling its story, you are telling the
story of the issues facing the en-
vironment, he said.
Making the documentary, he
said, was like following a thread.
You start by interviewing the
people youve heard of, and the
story just kind of unravels
before you. People tell you you
should really talk to this person,
too.
Some documentary filmmak-
ers, he said, produce their prod-
uct to tell a specific story. Flesher
said by letting the story unfold be-
fore him, he discovered informa-
tion he may not have gleaned had
he stuck to a specific topic.
Some of the characters that
ended up being central to the
film, I hadnt even planned on in-
terviewing, he said.
He started filming in February,
wrapped up in November, and re-
cently completed an 80-minute
rough cut of the documentary. It
is now in post-production, as
Flesher prepares it for film festi-
vals and a summer 2012 release.
A short sneak preview of the
film will play at the 2012 Prince-
ton Environmental Film Festival
on Jan. 28 at 4 p.m.
He found that filming Sour-
lands was a completely different
experience from being a print
journalist.
I was writing at least two,
sometimes three stories a day, he
said. Film making is a totally dif-
ferent pace. Theres a lot riding
on this one story, and it felt totally
different. Theres a lot more time
in the field and less time in the of-
fice.
He has published work in The
New York Times online, The Wall
Street Journal online, The Chris-
tian Science Monitor, Grist, The
Huffington Post, the Columbia
Journalism Review, New Jersey
Monthly magazine, and he still
writes articles for print and on-
line media to keep my foot in the
door.
But filmmaking has become
the next progression in his jour-
nalistic career, in what he consid-
ers a more visual world.
Theres a lot of people you can
reach that you may not be able to
reach through print media, he
said of filmmaking. The more
tools I have at my disposal, the
more effective I will be as a jour-
nalist.
Sourlands is his second docu-
mentary film effort. The Farmer
and the Horse, a story of three
New Jersey farmers who revert
to using draft horses instead of
tractors to pull their plows, was
released in August 2010 and has
screened in more than a half-
dozen film festivals.
That documentary has aired
more than 40 times on PBS in
New Jersey, and is distributed
nationally by Chelsea Green
Publishing and Passion River
Films.
To fund completion of Sour-
lands, Flesher is using the grass-
roots-funding website Kick
starter.com, where supporters
can pre-order DVDs for $20, edu-
cational screening licenses and
underwriting opportunities.
His goal is to raise $9,500 by
Groundhogs Day, and so far, has
raised about a third of that, a
pace he considers to be on sched-
ule.
According to his blog, comple-
tion of the film has yet to include
a few more scenery shots and at
least one more interview, editing
of a new preview trailer, narra-
tion, fact checking, final graphics,
music, sound mixing, color cor-
rection, test screenings and revi-
sions, credits, a press kit, film-fes-
tival submissions, publicity and
fund raising.
A trailer of the film is available
at Sourlands.com.
FILMMAKER
Continued from page 1
Filmmaker lets story unfold before him
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While these programs use
district facilities and district
students, they operate completely
autonomously from the district,
Smith said. We have no control
or knowledge of the curriculum,
staffing requirements, training,
etc., that they use. In this era of
accountability, it is imperative for
a program that works with dis-
trict students in district spaces to
have some level of accountability
and oversight by the school dis-
trict.
We were shocked to get the
RFP in an email, with no notice
and only a 30-day turnaround
time, Sharpe said.
This is a process we did not
enter into lightly and one that we
have been discussing for two
years, Smith said. The current
directors of each program have
been involved in these conversa-
tions.
Board president Lisa Wolff
said, One can rest assured that
all board members were aware of
the RFP. Prior to approval, it was
vetted through three board com-
mittees and discussed at public
board meetings.
The board, she said,
unanimously approved the issu-
ing of the RFP at its Oct. 17 meet-
ing.
The nonprofit HVASP provides
before- and after-school care to be-
tween 200 and 250 children a day
at the four elementary schools in
the Hopewell Valley.
Before-school care is offered to
all K-5 students for an hour and 15
minutes before school starts at
8:35 a.m. at Toll Gate Grammar
School and Hopewell Elementary
School, as well as the HVASP
kindergarten room in Penning-
ton for students attending the
morning kindergarten enrich-
ment program.
Activities include last-minute
homework help, and indoor and
outdoor play for students whose
parents have to drop them off be-
fore going to work.
Some kids bring their break-
fast, and our staff helps them
with their homework while they
are eating, Sharpe said.
After school care is provided at
Bear Tavern, Hopewell, Stony
Brook and Toll Gate schools from
3:35 to 6 p.m., and includes daily
snacks and outdoor activities
such as play time on playground
equipment and non-competitive
sports.
Indoor activities include quiet
time for homework, crafts, games
and exercise in the gym.
The cost of the before school
care is $95 a month and the
cost for the after school care,
which includes coverage on
half-day sessions, is $195 per
month.
Sharpe said the kindergarten-
enrichment program is designed
to enhance the kindergarten ex-
perience, not duplicate it.
We really try to break away
from their ordinary kindergarten
day, she said. We try to give
them a step up, and get them real-
ly ready for first-grade.
The programs include begin-
ner math and reading, along with
hands-on activities such as caring
for animals and planting an herb
garden.
We really want to keep them
busy from the time they get here
until the time they leave, she
said.
The HVASP was incorporated
in 1993 by a concerned group of
parents searching for quality
childcare for their elementary
school-age children.
PROGRAM
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The holidays are quickly ap-
proaching and for many people,
that means a busy season of shop-
ping, gathering with family and
eating. For many, this does not
leave much time to worry about
diet and exercise, but that doesnt
mean that people cant stay
healthy and fit, experts say. There
are many quick and easy steps
people can take to stay in shape
and eat healthy during the holi-
day season.
It is important for people to
maximize the efficiency of what
they do, Kevin Hamm, fitness di-
rector at Medford Fitness, said.
Interval training is the most ef-
fective way to go for people that
dont have injuries. Twenty- to 30-
minute, high-intensity intervals
are good for people to do. Com-
bine weights and cardio exercis-
es, no rest in between the exercis-
es, keep moving. It gives you a
whole body workout. You do it in
short bursts, get it all done and no
parts of the body miss out.
Efficient workouts are the
way to go, but you want to be
working on these all year, Jim
Bompensa, owner of Body
Physics Fitness in Haddonfield,
said. Cardio and strength exer-
cises at the same time saves a lot
of time. You can work out 30 min-
utes a day and work the full body.
You set up circuits and move from
one exercise to the next.
Outside of normal daily exer-
cises, there are things people can
do while out during the holiday
season.
Any extra movement you can
add to your day is good, Bompen-
sa said. The more moving a per-
son is doing, the better. If youre
at the mall, parking far away and
walking is a good way to burn
calories.
Setting goals for the year to
help deal with the busy, holiday
season as far as fitness and eat-
ing go is also an effective way to
deal with the season.
Its good to have goals for the
year, Hamm said. You have to
write them down and commit to
them. You have to be concrete and
have a specific goal in mind.
Ninety-five percent of peoples
New Years resolutions are to lose
weight. By June, 92 percent forget
about that goal. You have to be
specific and stick with it.
Your routine should encom-
pass the whole year, Bompensa
said. That way, if you eat a little
more at the end of the year, you
wont be worried so much about
it. You can enjoy it. Stay fit
throughout the year so you wont
be so crazy about it at the begin-
ning of the next year.
Being conscientious of what
and how you are eating during
the holiday season will also help
with keeping the pounds off.
Before going to a party, eat
something healthy and drink a lot
of water, Hamm said. That will
give you a feeling of fullness.
Also, while you are running
around, make sure you eat. Some
people during the holidays are
running around all day, and by
the end of the day, they are fam-
ished and then overeat. Watch
the portions. Dont overindulge in
cookies, cake or other treats.
Eat foods that are high in pro-
tein, Bompensa said. Food that
is high in protein tends to have
less calories and is filling. Try to
stay away from foods with a lot of
sauces or sweets. Try to stick
with foods like meats and vegeta-
bles. Be moderate with sauces
and sweets.
To check out a sample workout
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Stay fit and trim during the
holiday season
The following items were taken
from reports on file with the
Hopewell Police Department:
A 19-year-old Philadelphia man
and a 23-year-old Trenton woman
were arrested on outstanding
traffic warrants out of Trenton
after police pulled the driver over
along Route 29 on Dec. 3 at 10:41
a.m. for having a non-functioning
brake light.
The 19-year-old driver was also
charged with failure to maintain
lamps and driving with a sus-
pended license.
The 23-year-old passenger was
also found to have outstanding
warrants out of Trenton and
Ewing Township.
Both were released after post-
ing bail on the outstanding war-
rants, police said.
A 20-year-old Pennington man
was arrested and charged with
obstructing the administration of
law and shoplifting Dec. 1 at 12:04
p.m., outside the Stop & Shop in
Hopewell.
Police said a sergeant ap-
proached the man on a terroristic
threats investigation from earlier
in the week.
According to reports, the man
fled on foot through the woods be-
hind the shopping complex. A
short time later, police said, the
man was taken into custody near
Lexington Drive.
A further investigation re-
vealed the man had shoplifted
two Care One flex wraps from the
Stop & Shop prior to being ap-
proached by the sergeant.
He was later released, accord-
ing to police, and the case will be
forwarded to the Mercer County
Prosecutors Office for review.
A 54-year-old Hopewell man
was charged with drunken driv-
ing and reckless driving Dec. 6 at
9:23 p.m., after police responded
to Cherry Valley Road on a report
that a car had left the road and
struck a utility pole.
Police said the officer detected
an odor of alcohol on the mans
breath. The man was transported
to hospital by the Hopewell First
Aid Squad, where he was treated
and released for a minor head in-
jury.
A leaf blower valued at $499
was reported stolen from a stor-
age shed at the Mercer County
Valley Road Picnic area sometime
between Oct. 23 and November.
Also reported stolen from an adja-
cent property was a six-foot box
blade, used to dig up gravel drive-
ways, valued at $500.
An unsecured, 20-inch black
Trek bike, valued at $259, was re-
ported stolen from the bike rack
at Hopewell Elementary School
sometime between Dec. 2 and Dec.
5.
A 17-year-old Hopewell boy was
charged with criminal mischief,
trespassing and careless driving
after police responded to Winding
Brook Way Dec. 11 at 8:16 p.m., on
a report of trespassing. Accord-
ing to reports, police discovered a
truck stuck in the mud off the
main roadway, and determined
the boy and two 18-year-old pas-
sengers had been doing donuts
with the truck on property slated
for development, causing damage
to the property.
The two 18-year-olds were
charged with criminal mischief
and trespassing and released.
Their cases will be heard in mu-
nicipal court.
The 17-year-old was released to
a guardian, and his case was for-
warded to family court.
Officer Louis Vastola respond-
ed to Route 654 for a report of a
one-car motor-vehicle accident
Dec. 9 at 7:33 a.m. Vastola arrived
and found a 2004 Jeep Liberty
against a utility pole. A further
investigation found the 17-year-
old female driver had been travel-
ing west along Route 654 when
she slid on a patch of ice.
The Jeep crossed over into the
eastbound lane, spun back across
the road and struck a utility pole
on the westbound side of the
road.
The impact caused the pole to
snap and wires to drop onto the
roadway.
The driver was transported to
an area hospital by Hopewell Val-
ley Emergency Services, where
she was treated and later released
for an arm injury. The 16-year-old
passenger, police said, was not in-
jured.
Route 654, between Louellen
and Van Dyke roads, was closed
to traffic for approximately four
hours while PSE&G repaired the
utility pole.
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published in the Dec. 7-13, 2011 edition,
Man goes crazy for Thanksgiving, page
6.
The article reports that a Trenton man
became violent and was arrested.
The use of the word crazy in the head-
line indicates your editors lack of knowl-
edge about national advocacy efforts to im-
prove the coverage of mental illnesses by
the media. Among professional journal-
ists, it is common knowledge that the word
crazy is a discriminatory and disrespect-
ful term to describe people who manage
mental illness.
Further, a large body of research pro-
vides evidence that much more violent
crime is perpetrated against people with
mental illness than committed by them.
Your use of the word also indicates a
lack of knowledge about similar editorial
ignorance in 2001 by a Trenton paper that
included the phrase roasted nuts in a
headline referring to people who were pa-
tients at Trenton Psychiatric Hospital dur-
ing the time a fire broke out at the
hospital.
This incident was picked up by national
advocacy groups and national media for its
blatant disrespect for people managing
mental illness.
The federal Substance Abuse and Men-
tal Health Services Administration has
disseminated guidance to the media on
how to accurately and professionally por-
tray people with mental illness in such
away that you fulfill your responsibility to
dispel the myth that people with mental ill-
ness are violent or that they are fair game
for ridicule.
Without accurate and respectful cover-
age, people in need of treatment will go
without the facts that mental health is
treatable, and in no way limits their ability
to live peacefully in their communities.
Marie Verna
Hopewell needs a
sewerage agreement
All five members of the Hopewell Town-
ship Committee, for many years, have been
involved with negotiations with the Ewing
Lawrence Sewerage Authority (ELSA) in
order to acquire needed sewerage capaci-
ty. There were and continue to be two key
reasons for such requirements: public
health and safety and to aid in meeting our
ever changing state-mandated affordable-
housing requirements.
On Jan. 1, 2008, the township committee,
after concluding future needs of 526,000
gallons per day of wastewater flow, unani-
mously agreed to present this request to
ELSA. ELSA decided they would need
over half a million dollars to study such
needs. In July 2009, then-mayor Vanessa
Sandom negotiated with ELSA for a 480,000
gallon a day capacity at $7.2 million.
No conclusion was made.
When Michael Markulec became mayor,
the negotiations with ELSA changed, the
daily gallons required and the costs were
significantly reduced. Still keeping with
public health and safety and affordable-
housing requirement objectives, the vol-
ume was reduced to 266,666 gallons a day,
and he negotiated the cost to virtually half
at $4 million.
ELSA agreed with this.
When I became mayor this year, a pres-
entation of the townships wastewater
management plan costs was presented to
the public, offering sewerage to those with
septic systems in the townships southern
section.
Their response was heard loud and clear
the vast majority opposed it due to the
significant costs for the infrastructure and
the hook up charges as well as possible de-
velopment in the area.
Following extended meetings with these
homeowners the township committee con-
cluded that the infrastructure would not
take place in their neighborhoods and sep-
tic systems would remain.
Understanding the need for open space
in the same area, the committee changed
the Weidel tract from affordable-housing
area to open space, purchased additional
open space and relocated the affordable
housing to an area in which it will be less
please see LETTERS, page 7
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Police responded to the Quick
Chek on Route 31 for a robbery re-
port on Dec. 8 at 2:11 a.m.
An employee of the store re-
ported that a man had entered the
store, produced a knife in his
hand and demanded money from
the cash register.
The employee opened the regis-
ter, and the man emptied the
drawer.
The man then had both em-
ployees move into the office area
of the store, where he took addi-
tional money from a cash drawer.
The man then fled the store
through a rear door.
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POLICE REPORTS
Christines Hope for Kids has
donated $5,000 to the Hopewell
Valley YMCAs Strong Kids Fund.
The donation kicks off the Ys an-
nual Strong Kids campaign. Jean
and John Gianacaci presented
the check to the YMCA during the
after-school program at the Toll
Gate Grammar School, one of five
Hopewell Valley Regional schools
served by the YMCA.
This donation is to provide fi-
nancial assistance for local chil-
dren to participate in the YMCAs
many worthwhile programs and
services, said Jean Gianacaci,
president of Christines Hope for
Kids.
Hopewell Valley YMCA CEO
Douglas Pszczolkowski expressed
deep gratitude to the Gianacaci
Family and Christines Hope for
Kids.
Families come to the YMCA
for programs and services be-
cause they want quality pro-
grams at affordable prices.
Through the generosity of Chris-
tines Hope for Kids, the YMCA is
able to provide more local fami-
lies with access to safe before and
after-school programs, summer
camp and youth-development ac-
tivities, he said.
The Hopewell Valley YMCA
provided more than $27,000 in fi-
nancial assistance to families for
before and after-school care and
summer camps in 2010.
It is currently accepting regis-
trations for summer camp, be-
fore- and after-school care, swim-
ming lessons, dance, indoor ten-
nis and digital photography.
Visit www.hvymca.org for regis-
tration materials.
For more information, call
(609) 737-3048 or email
info@hvymca.org.
Charity group makes
donation to YMCA fund
costly to all taxpayers when uti-
lized.
After many years of study and
negotiations with ELSA, all but
one member of the township
committee approved the ordi-
nance, taking into consideration
the important factors of public
health and safety and the afford-
able housing requirements.
The average household will
pay less than a dime a day
($33.75/year), and possibly less, in
order to control the destiny of the
township.
I voted yes because I am willing
to purchase a piece of our com-
munitys long-term future.
I voted yes rather than rolling
the dice and taking an irrevocable
chance of having a builder bring
another development the size of
Brandon Farms into Hopewell
Township and see our school
taxes explode.
If someone brings a petition to
you, please think about your op-
tions. If you have already signed
it and wish to remove your signa-
ture, please contact the township
clerk at 737-0605, ext. 2.
Mayor Jim Burd
letters to the editor
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A national certification board
has awarded Eastern Pedorthics,
Inc., a Pennington foot health
provider, with a prestigious three-
year accreditation.
The American Board for Certi-
fication in Orthotics, Prosthetics
and Pedorthics, Inc., announced
the accreditation after an unan-
nounced site visit, thorough in-
spection and interviews focused
on patient care and insurance re-
imbursement.
The board visited Eastern Pe-
dorthics after it moved from the
Pennytown Shopping Village to
its new headquarters in the Pen-
nington Square Shopping Center
on Route 31.
The board tested the facility to
ensure it followed a strict set of
established standards and award-
ed its highest level of accredita-
tion for pedorthics and orthotics.
The board specifically recog-
nized Eastern Pedorthics for
achievements in five areas: orga-
nizational management, patient-
care standards, quality assur-
ance, supplier compliance and fa-
cility and safety management.
We believe that our high stan-
dard of education, along with our
superior customer service, is
what sets us apart from other or-
thopedic suppliers and makes us
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said owner Charles Stout, a certi-
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Stout is just one of four certi-
fied pedorthists and two orthope-
dic technicians, who make, modi-
fy and repair shoes.
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