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ELSA bond ordinance
Hopewell residents vote down
ordinance. PAGE 5
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Police:
Teacher
assaulted
student
By HEATHER FIORE
The Hopewell Sun
A 61-year-old Hopewell Val-
ley Central High School
teacher has been arrested and
charged with simple assault
after he allegedly struck a 16-
year-old boy a student with
an open hand in classroom on
April 27, according to police re-
ports.
On April 30, police say De-
tective Michael Sherman, who
is the school-liaison officer to
the high school, was notified
by school principal Michael
Daher that on Friday, April 27,
William Ashcroft, of Yardley,
Pa., may have assaulted a stu-
dent.
Police say Sherman imme-
diately began an investigation
into the incident.
Police say the student did
not report the incident until
after school when he ap-
proached another teacher
about it. That teacher immedi-
ately brought the incident to
the attention of Daher. This oc-
curred on a Friday afternoon
and was reported to police
first thing Monday morning.
Superintendent Hopewell
Schools Tom Smith said
Ashcraft was suspended, with
pay as per state law, after the
report was filed with the po-
Reliving history at fair
VICKI CHIRCO/Special to The Sun
The 3rd New Jersey Volunteer Infantry conducts one of its re-enactments at the Spirit of the Jerseys
State History Fair on May 12.
By HEATHER FIORE
The Hopewell Sun
Residents got a chance to relive
the past and roam the fields with
some of the worlds most memo-
rable presidents, such as George
Washington and Abraham Lin-
coln, along with a variety of
other activities at the eighth an-
nual Spirit of the Jerseys State
History Fair at Washington
Crossing State Park in Titusville
on May 12.
The fair was hosted by the Of-
fice of Historic Sites, which is a
part of the Division of Parks and
Forestry under the state Depart-
ment of Environmental Protec-
tion.
It featured a variety of histori-
cal events, activities and perform-
ances that ranged from the 17th
and 18th centuries to the present
century. To honor this theme, the
fair was planned in a timeline set-
ting, where attendees could start
from either the visitors center
(20th/21st century) and work
their way down centuries, or
along the Delaware River by the
Nelson House (17th century Na-
tive American Display) and work
their way toward the present day.
The entire timeline was
about a half-mile in length.
The fair started in 2004 to cele-
brate the New Jersey-owned his-
toric sites, Logistics Chairman
of the Spirit of the Jerseys State
History Fair Mark Sirak said.
Its a celebration of New Jersey
history from the last 400 years.
From 2004 until 2009, the fair
was held at Washington Crossing
State Park. Last year, it was
moved to Allaire Park in Farm-
ingdale for a change of scenery
and with a chance to try out a
new park, according to Sirak.
Beverly Weaver, chairwoman of
the Spirit of the Jerseys State
Cheaper
circle
plan
debated
By HEATHER FIORE
The Hopewell Sun
Two major issues were dis-
cussed at the Hopewell Town-
ship Committee meeting on
May 14: the New Jersey De-
partment of Transportations
(NJDOT) plans to improve the
Route 31 circle in Pennington
and the parks and recreation
departments proposed field-
use fee schedule for the up-
coming sports seasons.
NJDOT gave a presentation
to the committee on the latest
plans for the improvements
within the Pennington circle
located near Wildflowers and
Shoprite in Pennington. Al-
though NJDOT proposed its
original plan for the revision
of the circle in 2011, project
manager for NJDOT John
Campi and consultant from
McCormick Taylor Amy
Sokalsi presented a cheaper
and quicker solution to the
problem.
Since about 40 percent of all
car crashes in Hopewell occur
at the circle, according to
Committeewoman Vanessa
Sandom, NJDOT has been
working with the township to
implement changes to the cir-
cle to make it safer and less ac-
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What happens in these cases
is as soon as the allegations are
made, we suspend the staff mem-
ber and theyre suspended pend-
ing the outcome of the full inves-
tigation, Smith said.
Smith also said its state law for
administrations to report inci-
dents to the Division of Youth
and Family Services (DYFS) and
the police, both of which conduct-
ed investigations involving the
matter.
Along with the suspension and
reports to DYFS and the police,
Smith says he sent out a mass
email to the parents of students
who attend the high school detail-
ing the alleged incident.
Smith voiced his concern in
his email by saying, As you can
imagine, I am disturbed by these
allegations and the individual
charged was placed on leave as
soon as the incident was reported
and will not be in our schools
while the criminal case proceeds.
It goes without saying that the al-
leged behavior of this individual
does not reflect the standards
and values of our school commu-
nity.
Police say they do not know
why Ashcraft allegedly struck the
student.
Reports say Ashcroft has hired
an attorney and declined to speak
to police about the alleged inci-
dent.
Ashcraft appeared at police
headquarters recently with his
attorney to be processed on the
charge. He was released on his
own recognizance, according to
police. He was scheduled for a
first appearance in municipal
court on May 15.
The simple assault charge is a
disorderly persons offense and
will be heard in municipal court.
If Ashcraft is found not guilty,
he would have the choice to re-
turn to teach at the high school,
according to Smith.
TEACHER
Continued from page 1
Teacher suspended
with pay, says
superintendent
By HEATHER FIORE
The Hopewell Sun
Hopewell residents resoundly
defeated the ELSA bond ordi-
nance referendum by an official
tally 2,669 to 487.
Hopewell is the last rural
town in Mercer County, so the res-
idents here are very sensitive
about maintaining that, chair-
man for Citizens for Tax Choice
(CFTC) and vocal opponent of the
ELSA referendum Robert
Kecskes said.
Even though only 26 percent of
registered voters voted on the ref-
erendum, 85 percent of the votes
were no votes.
When the referendum initial-
ly came up, it had some primary
flaws, Kecskes said. It required
taxpayers in town to fund reserve
capability at ELSA and we
thought it was unfair. Citizens
who have septic systems should-
nt be paying for businesses to be
hooked up to sewers. It should
stay between businesses and
sewer authority.
CFTC is a non-profit, non-parti-
san group formed by Kecskes in
an effort to halt the towns agree-
ment with ELSA, which wouldve
cost the town $4.1 million.
Kecskes spearheaded the ef-
forts to create the referendum by
rallying a team of about 24 people
who are all current members of
CFTC and acquiring 1,700 resi-
dential signatures on a petition.
According to state law, a petition
only requires 670 signatures to
evoke a referendum about a cer-
tain issue a town is facing, and
Kecskes and his group got almost
triple the required signatures.
This was a good sign of peo-
ples interest to keep taxes down
and keep the town rural,
Kecskes said. Wed like to main-
tain Hopewells rural character
and the vote compounded it and
showed how interested people
were in it.
After the successful petition
and rejection of the referendum,
Kecskes and CFTC are overjoyed
and awaiting the councils next
steps on this issue.
Were very satisfied that we
had the turnout that we did. It
was significantly larger than any
one of us hoped, Kecskes said.
Were satisfied that most mem-
bers of the township committee
believe a task force should now
look at these questions and future
direction that the township
should go with regard to waste-
water needs in the southern part
of the tier.
Since the referendum failed,
Hopewell Townships committee
needs to start anew and rework
the details of the proposed ELSA
agreement.
At a meeting following the ref-
erendum, Mayor Michael
Markulec voiced his views about
the issue.
I think we heard the resound-
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in our opinion
W
e re all familiar with Me-
morial Day. We know that it
is a day set aside to honor
the brave men and women who made
the ultimate sacrifice to protect our
country and the freedom we have.
And we know that it is celebrated on
the last Monday in May, thereby creat-
ing a three-day weekend for most.
Maybe it shouldnt be that way.
Back when Memorial Day was first
established during the Civil War era, it
was observed on May 30. It had its own
special day, which, many will argue,
kept the focus on the meaning of the
day.
They have a point.
When one thinks of Memorial Day
these days, its easy to lose focus.
There are Memorial Day sales at
stores and the kick-off to summer
sentiment. That people have three
days off often overshadows what the
spirit of Memorial Day is all about.
We dont want to sound completely
negative. Many communities still take
pride in holding a thoughtful, mean-
ingful Memorial Day ceremony
and/or parade. We still see flags dis-
played. We still see a lot of people take
time to honor those who died serving
our country.
But we also cant help but think that
lumping Memorial Day into a three-
day weekend has diminished the
meaning of the day at least some-
what. There are too many distractions.
How many of us have made Memorial
Day weekend plans that have absolute-
ly nothing to do with honoring the
meaning of the day?
Memorial Day should be special. It
should be a time when every Ameri-
can reflects on the sacrifices made on
his or her behalf and takes the time to
pay proper respect. Nothing should
distract from those sentiments.
Will the three-day weekend be re-
placed with a move back to May 30?
Doubtful. Its going to be up to each in-
dividual to cut through the clutter and
honor those who made the ultimate
sacrifice.
Memorial Day
Three-day weekend or a return to a traditional day of remembrance?
Holiday weekend distracts
Memorial Day shouldnt be about
sales or heading to the beach. It
should be about honoring those who
died serving this country.
Unfortunately, the three-day weekend
distracts from that goal.
letters to the editor
Citizens for Tax Choice
thanks voters
A big thank you to the voters of
Hopewell Township. Nearly 85 percent of
you said no to a $4.1 million bond to re-
serve sewage capacity to extend ELSA sew-
ers into southern Hopewell Township.
Our community has long supported
smart growth and is proud of this tradi-
tion. Our voters overwhelmingly recog-
nized that this $4.1 million bond of which
not a penny would have gone into construc-
tion was not smart, but would have al-
lowed a lot of unplanned growth. Its been
a great experience to once again see our
many neighborhoods come together to
carry on our rich history of scrutinizing
grand plans that would lead to unwanted
development that cause never-ending tax
increases, sprawl and over-crowding of our
schools.
Were especially proud of all the hard
work our supporters put forth on the effort
to defeat the sewer bond. They represented
a cross section of community members
from all corners of the township; Democ-
rats, Republicans and Independents all
came together.
Now we are provided with a renewed op-
portunity to meet the wastewater needs of
the southern tier of the township. Our goal
is to have a transparent process where citi-
zen input is not only valued, but actually
sought.
Again, I want to thank our wonderful
community for your continued support of
keeping growth in Hopewell Township
smart.
Robert Kecskes, Chair
Citizens For Tax Choice
Nutrition educator to speak June 6 at HTS
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History Fair and supervisor of
the Office of Historic Sites, ex-
plained how and why the fair
began in the first place.
In 2003, it was the 100th an-
niversary of the Office of His-
toric Sites, she said. We wanted
to have an event to celebrate that
100th anniversary, so we came up
with the idea of having a history
fair. It was initially supposed to be
a one-year event, but because we
continually have the number of
exhibitors we do, we feel that its
validation of the event and
do whatever we can to keep it
going.
There were a variety of activi-
ties featured in the fair that were
unique to this year, including an
antiques appraisal, 78th Army Di-
vision Jazz Combo, Martha Wash-
ington, The Colonial Conjurer
Magic Show, Tuckers Tales Pup-
pet Theatre, NJ State History Fair
Juried Art Exhibit, GPS Heritage
Cache Challenge and the Are You
Smarter Than a Fourth-Grader?
game.
Also new to this year was the
addition of the antiques apprais-
al program, which charged those
who wished to bring their own
antiques $5 per appraisal, with a
limit of three items. The proceeds
from the event benefitted the
AADNJ Teacher Grant Program,
which promotes the use of an-
tiques in school classrooms.
The main focus of this years
fair was World War II events, ac-
cording to Sirak.
There was a larger amount of
World War II re-enactors, he
said. We attempted to bring in
the veterans this year because
theyre quickly disappearing as a
generation, unfortunately, so we
wanted to get the word out.
Aside from the newly featured
events for 2012, the fair hosted a
total of 140 historical organiza-
tions. Each organization was des-
ignated a certain time period ac-
cording to the purpose and
demonstrated items that were
unique to each century, which
ranged from telecommunications
to former modes of transporta-
tion.
The fair featured five separate
tents, also.
The main tent hosted the popu-
lar game show, Are You Smarter
Than a Fifth Grader? which was
created based on the fourth-grade
history curriculum.
Meanwhile, the visitors center
auditorium hosted an historical
video shown throughout the day
that featured speakers, which in-
cluded Ten Crucial Days: The
Road to Liberty, and Dave Hart
and John Calu speaking about
their book, Trenton.
The Stone Barn was home to
some of the days most interest-
ing sources of entertainment, in-
cluding Levram The Great, a
Colonial Magician and conjurer;
historical re-enactor for Martha
Washington; and the Practioners
of Musick, a historically sound
musical band.
The two other theaters, East
Jersey and West Jersey theaters,
hosted all of the historical re-en-
actors at the Fair, which included
George Washington, Ben and
William Franklin, Abraham Lin-
coln, Walt Whitman, Molly Pitch-
er, Jonathan and Sarah Edwards,
Francis Hopkinson and Phillip
Freneau re-enactors.
Along with all of the activities,
performances and re-enactments,
there were also 15-minute canal
boat rides along the Delaware
River throughout the entire day.
Overall, the goal of the event
was to promote New Jerseys rich
history and inform attendants
about the key historical events
that happened in New Jersey.
I think the event was very suc-
cessful, Weaver said. We just
wanted to engage the public in
learning about New Jerseys his-
tory.
EVENTS
Continued from page 1
Events from 17th to 18th centuries
WEDNESDAY MAY 23
Safe and Sound at Home Lifeline
and Home Care Services: 10:30
to 11:30 a.m. at Hopewell Valley
Senior Center, 395 Reading St.,
Pennington. Free event. Learn
how the Lifeline Emergency
Response System works during
this informative session led by
Kelly Shipp, Lifeline Community
Outreach Coordinator. Melanie
Horton, Marketing Relations Rep-
resentative with Princeton Home-
Care Services will also give an
overview of available homecare
and hospice services. No registra-
tion required. For more informa-
tion, call 737-0605, ext. 692 or
email awaugh@hopewelltwp.org.
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.
THURSDAY MAY 24
Manage Your Time(line) on Face-
book: 7 to 8:30 p.m. at Hopewell
Branch of the Mercer County
Library System. Overview and
demonstration of free social net-
working site Facebook. Focus on
managing and navigating the
new timeline layout to ensure pri-
vacy is intact. Advance sign-up is
required for this hands-on work-
shop. Call (609) 737-2610. Lap-
tops are reserved at time of sign
up, however participants can
bring their own laptops if they
wish.
Hopewell Township Planning Board
meeting: 7:30 p.m. the fourth
Thursday of the month in the
Municipal Auditorium. For more
information visit hopewelltwp.
org.
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.
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.
Family Bingo Night: All ages. 6:30
to 7:30 at Hopewell Branch of the
Mercer County Library System.
Bingo, snacks and fun! Small
prizes will be given.
SUNDAY MAY 27
Birding Trip at Ted Stiles Preserve:
9 a.m. at Bald pate Mountain, just
north of New Jersey Washington
Crossing State Park. Free public
birding trip led by Pat Sziber,
Franta Broulik and Lou Beck of
the Washington Crossing
Audubon Society. Call Sziber at
(609) 737-1189 for more informa-
tion.
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.
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Hopewell United Methodist
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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.
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11 a.m. Participation free and
open to all groups and organiza-
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an application. Floats, antique
cars, bagpipers and community
groups welcome. All veterans
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tent in Toll Gate circle by 10:15
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Sokalski detailed the changes
to an older plan, which involve
the addition of two signal lights
before each end of the circle and
other road markings and signage.
There were concerns about
the previous plan internally at
NJDOT, so we were asked to go
revisit the plan to see if we could
come up with another option that
may help traffic operations and
safety without causing as much
geometric changes at the circle,
she said. Our plan now is that
were proposing to put two traf-
fic-metering signals at the circle.
One will be located on Route 31
northbound just south of the
Pennington Family Chiropractic,
and then there will be a second
traffic-metering signal to the
north of the circle along Route 31
southbound just north of the
Sovereign Bank property.
The purpose of the two signals
is to create adequate gaps be-
tween traffic thats constantly on-
coming from both ends of Route
31 in order for the side streets
mainly Blackwell and Washing-
ton Crossing-Pennington roads
to merge on to the circle safely.
Along with the two signals,
Sokalski also explained the addi-
tions of striping, lane markings,
signage and larger yield signs.
The striping and lane mark-
ings will make it clear as to
which lanes lead to which streets,
incorporating arrows and words
on the actual pavement.
The new signage will include
signs that specify certain actions,
such as turn-only lanes or merg-
ing lanes, while the larger yield
signs will help enforce the yield.
Its a long-term solution,
Sokalski said. We did a lot of
traffic analyses to show that this
is a plan that can work 10 to 15
years in the future at the circle
without causing any major dis-
ruptions to the local businesses
and residents in the area.
She also said the original plan,
originally expected to cost be-
tween $1.1 and $1.5 million, is sig-
nificantly cheaper and more effi-
cient.
This plan is cheaper than our
previous alternative, Sokalski
said. This is a $250,000 project
that can be designed through the
NJDOT. It has a much shorter de-
sign time, and it doesnt need to
go through a preliminary engi-
neering phase. It can go right
from this phase into design and
then into construction in a much
shorter time frame than the pre-
vious plan.
Township Administrator Paul
Pogorzelski voiced concerns over
the two major changes being
made, which include eliminating
the plan to reconfigure the
Shoprite exit and the lane
changes for drivers traveling on
Route 31 southbound by Wild-
flowers.
Although Pogorzelski stressed
the negatives of the two changes
to the original plan, he said the
changes were carefully decided
and will greatly benefit the town-
ship and help regulate traffic
more adequately than it is now.
It will be a more predictable
platoon of vehicles going into the
circle, so when youre coming out
of Blackwell Road and Washing-
ton Crossing-Pennington Road, it
will be easier for the motorists to
know when they have a gap and
theyll know that its safe for
them to go, Sokalski said. As of
now, its more of a free-for-all.
Committeewoman Vanessa
Sandom also voiced concerns
about the new plan, mainly over
the accidents and future action if
things dont improve.
If we were to employ the de-
sign aspects that were proposing
and we look at accidents this
year, two years, or even three
years from now, I think we would
reevaluate and see where we
would go from there, Campi
said. It would depend on exactly
what happens.
Campi also explained the next
steps toward the projects com-
pletion.
The designer will wrap up the
plans with coordination from the
town and stakeholders, advertise
the plan through a maintenance
operations type of effort once its
finalized in fall and then begin
construction in early 2013.
According to Campi, the proj-
ect would only take one full sea-
son to complete.
Despite Solaski and Campis ef-
forts to get this project moving
along, Mayor Michael Markulec
said there would be a public in-
formation session held to involve
the residents and get their feed-
back.
Kimberly Nance, regional
manager for the NJDOT, said the
meeting would take place in the
municipal buildings auditorium
and residents would be invited to
look over the displays and supply
feedback, which would then be
taken into consideration by the
NJDOT.
After NJDOTs team goes over
the information provided, it
would then present changes, if
any.
The meeting will be held with-
in the next couple of weeks.
In other business, Hopewell
Township Recreation Advisory
Committee Director Judy Nieder-
er gave a presentation on this
years field-use fees.
She outlined the goal of the
committee, which is to find a bal-
ance between field maintenance
costs, field replacement costs and
affordable field use for residents
and other users.
To devise the fees, the commit-
tee researched and looked at fees
charged by other municipal and
county recreation departments,
met with representatives of local
youth organizations to receive
their input and feedback, deliber-
ated through four drafts of a
field-use fee schedule and agreed
the schedule is a work-in-
progress and would be reviewed
for revision after the first year of
its implementation.
The committee also wants to
see the revenue generated by fees
at Twin Pines, which is one
month away from completion,
placed into a capital replacement
trust fund in anticipation of the
replacement costs of the turf
field within the next 12 to 15
years.
Also, the committee suggested
all other fees collected be deposit-
ed into a general fund to help off-
set current maintenance expens-
es.
The reason that this came
about to begin with is the antici-
pation of Twin Pines and our
synthetic turf field, and to
charge rates that are adequate for
that field, Niederer said.
After Niederer listed all of the
proposed field use fees, she rec-
ommended no charge for the use
of grass fields for any township
non-profit sports, the school dis-
trict and any use resident adult
non-profit groups.
She, along with the other mem-
bers of the committee, believe
that it is their duty to allow resi-
dents who already contribute to
the maintenance of the fields
through taxes to use the fields for
free.
The majority of the commit-
tee, including Committeeman
Allen Cannon, Sandom and
Markulec agreed with the com-
mittees proposition to allow the
free usage of grass fields.
Committeewoman Kimberly
Johnson was the only member of
the committee who believed resi-
dents should still pay a fee.
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priorities. I think we need to put a
special meeting together where
we sit down and work on what
can be an alternative plan that, in
my opinion, saves our affordable
housing plan, and well move for-
ward from there.
Deputy Mayor James Burd also
commented on the rejected refer-
endum at the meeting.
Were certainly open for dis-
cussion, from not only the differ-
ent boards and committees, but
certainly from the public them-
selves, in the matter of presented
ideas, Burd said. Im certainly
interested in hearing them and
getting some actual information
in regard to alternatives to the
sewer hookup with ELSA. As I
noted before, I will propose that
we use funding from the Capital
Systems rollback tax to utilize
this, now $45 per gallon, at our ex-
isting property, which would be
approximately $2.5 million. But,
at the same time, it would sustain
our existing affordable housing
plan and keep us from any type of
builders remedy operation.
After Markulec and Burd
voiced their opinions, Kecskes ap-
proached them to present the four
principles proposed by CFTC for
the council to adopt moving for-
ward.
The four principles included
being more transparent, being
open-minded, being fair and
being truthful.
Kecskes and all members of
CFTC want to ensure the council
is completely open with them
throughout the revision process,
and wants all information about
the ordinance to be relayed to
them and the other residents of
Hopewell.
Kecskes and members of CFTC
are willing to help the council fur-
ther with this issue, and would
certainly like to participate in the
proposed task force idea that the
council has been lingering on.
Markulec informed Kecskes
that he and the committee were
going to look at alternatives, and
inquire for residents informa-
tion and input. Then, if they
deem it necessary, they will form
a task force to look further into
the issue with the help of willing
residents.
For now, the mayor is working
on forming a special meeting to
gather more information from
the public and committee about
the issue.
Committee now needs to rework
details of proposed agreement
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From left, Bridge students Ayla Brooks, Clara Capaldo, and Alley Geny display some of the stream life in-
habitants they discovered during their day at the Stony Brook Millstone Watershed.
Eighteen students from The
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the Stony Brook Millstone Water-
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Students participated in a pro-
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Prior to the field trip, the stu-
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