After seven years serving, Amy Klein will be leaving her position as executive director of VolunteerConnect, announces the VolunteerConnect Board of Directors. VolunteerConnect is a Mercer County based nonprofit organization, founded in 1998,…
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Local nonprofit, VolunteerConnect, celebrated its 20 year of passion, purpose, and partnership by hosting an art show both as a fundraiser and to support the local arts community. Sixty percent…
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On Sunday, November 4, members of Hopewell churches will exchange their morning worship bulletins, hymnals and Sunday attire for hammers, buckets and work gloves to collaborate on community service projects…
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Sonja Michaluk, 15, a rising Junior at Hopewell Valley Central High school in Pennington, NJ, was recently selected for a national Presidential award. She has been invited to participate in the 2018 Presidential Environmental Education Awards Ceremony in Washington, DC, where she will be awarded the United States Environmental Protection Agency President’s Environmental Youth Award in September.
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Meet Firefighting Families of Hopewell Valley: Volunteer with Relatives or Without. A Second Family Awaits
Part IV: Volunteer with Relatives or Without. A Second Family Awaits
All Hopewell Valley volunteer fire and EMS units need volunteers from teens to senior citizens and in all emergency and non-emergency roles.
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Eagle Scout Makes Benches for September 11 Memorial in Woolsey Park
by Mary Galiotoby Mary GaliotoHopewell Township Eagle Scout, Riley Murphy, completed his Eagle Boy Scout project this month by designing and constructing two cedar benches that have been installed at the Hopewell Valley September 11th and Emergency Services Memorial in Woolsey Park, Titusville, NJ. Riley is a member of Troop 1776.
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Meet Firefighting Families of Hopewell Valley: Husband and Wife Follow Generations of First Responders
Part II: He Fights Fires, She Helps Keep Union Fire Company Running — David and Julie Crum both grew up in the company of first responders.
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The Center for FaithJustice in Lawrence, NJ sent sixty hardworking teenage and adult volunteers to help the Sourland Conservancy remove invasive plants and shrubs this summer in three Sourland region preserves: Hopewell Borough Park, Cedar Ridge Preserve, and St. Michaels Preserve.
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Volunteer fire and emergency service runs in the blood of some Hopewell Valley families. You’ll find just that in “Meet the Firefighting Families of Hopewell Valley,” a four-part series in which you’ll meet several of them!
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On August 4, 2018, the ONE Project, a faith and community coalition that addresses social needs through education and volunteerism, hosted the 2018 NJ Hunger Project at Robbinsville High School. The ONE Project, working with Feeding Children Everywhere, brought together over 1,600 community volunteers and packaged 131,328 meals for hungry kids in New Jersey.