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DEC. 30, 2015JAN. 5, 2016

Looking back on the happenings of Voorhees

The Sun

his year in Voorhees saw some news on

the Sherwin-Williams/Hilliards Creek
Superfund site, Eastern Regional High
School's 50th anniversary, the sale of the
Voorhees Town Center and a host of
other issues. As Voorhees moves toward
a new year, heres a recap of just some of
the events that made headlines in The
Sun throughout 2015.

Voorhees Township Committee

and Board of Education reorganize
The year started in Voorhees as it did in many
townships across the state with the reorganization
of the township committee.
During the committees reorganization meeting,
Mayor Michael Mignogna and Deputy Mayor Harry
Platt were both sworn in after winning re-election in
fall 2014, and each man was also sworn in again as

mayor and deputy mayor, respectively.

For the Voorhees Township Public Schools board
of education reorganization meeting, incumbent
board president Richard Nelson and member Bruce
Karpf were sworn in for new terms.
Also sworn in at that meeting was Marissa Levy,
who won election to the board for the first time, and
incumbent Richard Horner, who was sworn in after
being elected to fill the remaining two years of an
unexpired term.

The Kirkwood Lake cleanup saga goes on

Despite several meetings involving Voorhees residents this year, the U.S. Environmental Protection
Agency did not announce specific plans to clean up
the Kirkwood Lake portion of the SherwinWilliams/Hilliards Creek Superfund site.
However, in late September, the agency did announce a $14 million plan to replace soil on 33 residential properties in Gibbsboro and Voorhees that
please see KIRKWOOD, page 3

CLOCKWISE, FROM BOTTOM LEFT: Resident Tom Kalick shovels his driveway after
the regions Feb. 16 snowstorm. On Sept. 29, Charlie Schmidt and his wife Michelle participated in the Voorhees Branch Librarys Harvest Wreath decorating class. Rylie
Beauckamp, with mom Heather and dad Bryan, is ready for the Voorhees Breakfast
Rotary Clubs 2015 Spring Egg Hunt on March 28. As the sun began to set on July 16,
residents Patrick Corrigan and Kimberley Shreiber were ready to enjoy the Voorhees
Township's 2015 Summer Twilight Series at Connolly Park. Voorhees Animal Orphanage
feline care manager Bill Romaine holds TD the cat. Greyson Kessler and his grandfather
Dennis Kessler sit on the back of a fire truck at the Voorhees Township Police

Departments National Night Out on Aug. 4. In 1965, Eastern Regional High School first
opened its doors, and 50 years later the school celebrated on May 6. June 18 marked
Eastern Regional High Schools commencement ceremony for the class of 2015. On
March 25, Awa Cisse had the chance to meet Red Queen Lisa Milideo at the Voorhees
Town Centers Alice in Wonderland Mad Hatter Tea Party. June 14 marked the inaugural
Relay For Life of Cherry HillVoorhees event at Cherry Hill High School East. Mayor
Michael Mignogna speaks at the townships annual Memorial Day ceremony. Osage,
Kresson, Signal Hill and E.T. Hamilton elementary schools came together on April 23 for
the Voorhees Township Education Associations 15th annual Volleyball Challenge.

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Kirkwood Lake
cleanup saga continues
KIRKWOOD
Continued from page 1

please see PARCC, page 4

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were contaminated by the former

Sherwin-Williams paint manufacturing plant in Gibbsboro.
Specifically, the announcement
detailed plans to excavate lead
and arsenic from the properties
and dispose of the material at facilities equipped to deal with
such environmentally sensitive
materials.
After the removal, any excavated area would then have clean soil
put in and necessary vegetation
replaced.
Although the former plant was
located in Gibbsboro, the soil contamination on the Gibbsboro and
Voorhees properties stemmed
from lands and waterways being
affected by the former plants uncontrolled releases.

The plant operated under various owners from the mid-1800s

until its closure in the late 1970s.
Execution of the plan to clean
the residential properties will be
conducted under EPA supervision and funded by SherwinWilliams.
Also this year, the EPA announced several dates for when it
hopes to also release the decisions
of cleanup plans for other portions
of
the
SherwinWilliams/Hilliards Creek Superfund site.
The rest of the sites affected by
the former plant include a Route
561 Gibbsboro dump site once
used for disposal activities, a
burn site on United States Avenue
in Gibbsboro used for landfilling
of waste material, the former
manufacturing plant itself and
then finally the Hilliards Creek

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PARCC
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Continued from page 3
site along with Kirkwood Lake in
Voorhees.
Weve said that the target
dates for doing those things is:
2015 is residential, 2015 is also the
dump site for a proposed plan,
2016 is the burn site, 2017 is the
former paint plant and 2018 is
Hilliards Creek-Kirkwood Lake,
EPA Remedial Project Manager
Ray Klimcsak said at a public
meeting in January.
Klimcsak and other EPA officials stated throughout the year
that the cleanup methods for the
other sites would be decided in
that order to prevent the cleanup
of one site causing recontamination at any other site that is located lower down the waterway.
EPA officials and Klimcsak
also stated several times over the
course of several public meetings
that even though those dates
might be when a cleanup plan is
finalized, the execution of those
plans might not start until several years after.

PARCC exams
In 2015, the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College
and Careers replaced the states
former New Jersey Assessment
of Skills and Knowledge standardized test in grades K-8.
The PARCC test, which was entirely computer based, tested students in English language arts literacy and mathematics over the
course of several hours over several days.
The test was originally formed
when a group of states came together to develop a new set of
common standards in English
and math to better prepare students for college and careers after
please see EASTERN, page 9

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in our opinion

Lets resolve to give back in 2016

For the New Year, we could all give some of our time to lend a helping hand
ost of us are lucky enough to
spend the holidays with our
loved ones. Most of us are
lucky enough to be able to give and receive presents, to put a home-cooked
meal on the table and to sit back, relax
and enjoy whats important in life.
There are many, though, living right
here in our state who are not as lucky
as we are. And these are the people
who need our help the most.
So as we are about to put 2015 behind
us and enter a New Year, lets all resolve to give back more in 2016.
We like to think of ourselves as giving people, but compared to the rest
of the country, thats just not the
case.
A study released recently by the Corporation for National and Community

Share your thoughts

Do you volunteer, or do you plan to
volunteer in the New Year? Share your
thoughts on this, and other topics,
through a letter to the editor.

Service and the National Conference

on Citizenship found that 22.5 percent
of New Jersey residents volunteered
their time in 2014.
That ranked us near the bottom,
45th, in the nation. Utah topped the list
at 46 percent.
The study found that 1.61 million
residents volunteered a total of more
than 225.5 million hours of service.
The stats counted only non-paid work
as volunteering.
These numbers did get better since
2013, even if New Jerseys overall rank-

ing did not, as 1.45 million residents

volunteered a total of more than 206
million hours of service that year.
The good news is it doesnt take
much to change this trend. Volunteering doesnt have to take up all of ones
free time, and it doesnt have to include
big monetary donations.
Volunteering can be as simple as
pitching in at a soup kitchen, coaching
a Little League team or collecting trash
at a public park. Doing a little can go a
long way. What may seem as not much
to most of us can have a huge impact
to someone else.
So while youre compiling your list
of To Dos for 2016, add giving back to
the community by volunteering. Youll
be surprised at the impact you can
have.

Township issues calendar with student artwork

In the artists recreation of the world we
are able to see the world."
John W. Gardner
We are proud to display the work of our
student artists in the 2016 Voorhees Township Calendar. Each month showcases a
piece of art by selected Voorhees Middle
School eighth-grade students. We are grateful to the following young artists for allowing the township to display their work: Shilah Rivera in January, Ariana Nam in February, Emma Bitar in March, Joanne Lee
in April, Tanya Abillar in May, Kavya
Ramesh in June, Victoria Klingner in July,
Mei Liu in August, Summer Gallucci in
September, Jenevee Harryman in October,
Eirene Ren in November, and Karen Le in
December.

The calendar includes

meeting
dates, bulk trash
pick-up dates, a
township directory
and
information
about local civic,
community
and
sports
organizations. A calendar
will be mailed to
every home in
Voorhees.
Once again, our
monthly sponsors
have financed the
calendar. Please
support
these
businesses.

Michael

Mignogna
MAYORS MESSAGE

Email us at [email protected]

Happy New Year!

Uber vehicles will provide free rides
home to Voorhees residents patronizing
participating restaurants/bars in Voorhees
and Evesham through the Voorhees Saves
Lives Program. Any Voorhees resident who
opens the Uber app at one of the participating restaurants/ bars will see a safe ride
option at the bottom of the screen. Rides
are provided from 9 p.m. to 2 a.m. through
Jan. 15. The free service will not be provided from one establishment to another.
In an ongoing effort to continue to increase communication with our residents,
Voorhees Township is now on Twitter and
our Twitter name is @VoorheesTwp. There
is a link at www.voorheesnj.com that you
can click, and it will direct you to our Twitter page.

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WEDNESDAY DEC. 30
Legomania Club: Ages 5-11. 3 p.m.
Voorhees Branch Library at 203
Laurel Road. Create and play with
Legos provided by the library.
Use imagination or make something based on the theme of the
day. Register at www.camdencountylibrary.org.
Crochet and Knit Club: Ages 10 and
up. 4 p.m. Voorhees Branch
Library at 203 Laurel Road. Bring
a latest project and make new
friends as the group crochets and
knits together. Beginners are welcome; bring yarn and a size H
hook to learn to crochet. Register
at www.camdencountylibrary.org.
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6:30 p.m. Voorhees Branch
Library at 203 Laurel Road.
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Ashland Church: Sunday service

and Kids Church at 10:30 a.m. Fellowship at 10 a.m. Childcare and
children services available. 33
East Evesham Road, Voorhees.
Community Gospel Chapel: Worship at 9:30 a.m. Refreshments
and fellowship at 10:30 a.m. Sunday school at 10:45 a.m. Bible
hour at 11 a.m. Bible ministry
meeting at noon. 20 Bergen Ave.,
Voorhees.
Heritage Church: Worship service
at 10 a.m. Fellowship following
service. 110 Kresson-Gibbsboro
Road, Voorhees.
Hope United Methodist Church:
Worship services at 9 and 10:30
a.m. Kids Konnect at 9 and 10:30

We will run photos if space is available and the quality of the photo
is sufficient. Every attempt is made to provide coverage to all
organizations.

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group at 8 a.m. at 700 Cooper
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Kresson Bible Church: Morning
worship from 11 a.m. to noon. Sunday school from 9:30 to 10:30
a.m. 329 Kresson-Gibbsboro
Road, Voorhees.
Open Door Alliance Church: Sunday school begins at 9:30 a.m.

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TUESDAY JAN. 5
Getting Started With Computers:
Adult. 10:30 p.m. Voorhees
Branch Library at 203 Laurel
Road. Mouse practice, computer
terminology, basic computer
instruction. Register at www.camdencountylibrary.org.
Mothers of Preschoolers meeting:
9:30 to 11:30 a.m. at Hope United
Methodist Church, 700 Cooper
Road. Childcare available. For
more
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visit
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Breast Cancer Support Group:
6:30 to 8 p.m. at Cooper at
Voorhees, 900 Centennial Blvd.,
Building One, Suite L. Support
group for women with breast
cancer and those who care about
them. Free, but registration
required at www.events.cooperhealth.org.
Voorhees-Gibbsboro Rotary Club
meeting: Filomena's Restaurant,
Berlin. 7 to 8:30 p.m. For more
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Eastern students
each get iPads
EASTERN
Continued from page 4
high school.
Although some of the states involved in PARCCs creation opted
not to give the PARCC exams,
New Jersey did give the exams,
which drew the ire of parents and
opposition groups across the
state,
including
those
in
Voorhees.
Specifically,
parents
in
Voorhees questioned the district
over what would happen to students who chose not to take the
exam, with parents worried their
children who didnt take the
exam would be forced to sit and
stare in front of the computer
screen doing nothing for several
hours.
Ultimately, district officials
said a relatively low number of
students refused the test compared to other districts in the
state, and so the school was able
to put the students in an alternative location during the test
where they could read a book or
work quietly.
District officials also reported
the tests went well with minimal
problems.

iPads come to Eastern Regional

High School
The use of technology in the
classroom took another step forward this year at Eastern Regional High School when the Eastern
Board of Education approved the
purchase of iPads for all of the
then-incoming 2015 freshman students.
However, originally in the winter and spring months of the year,
the Eastern BOE was debating
whether to equip all students at
the school with the devices or just
certain portions.
Yet, due to cost concerns, the
BOE eventually decided on just
outfitting 2015 freshmen students
with the iPads, which the students would hold throughout

their high school career.

In subsequent years, each incoming class would also receive
an iPad, until eventually down
the line all students at the school
would have their own device.
The decision to outfit students
with iPads originated from an increased use of iPad-related lessons in the classroom and this
years newly implemented and
entirely computerized PARCC
test.
To prepare for the 2015 test, the
district purchased 560 iPads for
the previous 2014 school year, but
those particular devices were
shared among all grade levels and
remained in the school.

Happy 50th birthday Eastern

Regional High School
This year, Eastern Regional
High School celebrated 50 years of
Excellence in Education with
the schools semi-centennial celebration.
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High school celebrates anniversary

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HIGH
Continued from page 9
Easterns history dates back to
the early 1960s when students in
Voorhees, Gibbsboro and Berlin

townships still had to travel to

Overbrook, Edgewood, Haddonfield or Collingswood for their
high school education.
By 1964, a special county-appointed committee had developed
plans for what would become
Eastern, a bond referendum was
approved by the schools three
sending districts and eventually
ground was broken on what was
originally 50 acres of oak and laurel trees.
In September 1965, Eastern officially opened its doors, and the
rest was history.
To celebrate that history, on
May 6 Eastern held a celebration
at the school. During the event,
the school received several resolutions and proclamations from
U.S. Congressman Donald Norcross, state Sen. James Beach, Assembly members Pamela Lampitt
and Adam Taliaferro, Voorhees
Mayor Michael Mignogna, Berlin
Mayor John Armano and Gibbsboro Mayor Edward Campbell.
At the event, Eastern Superin-

tendent Dr. Harold Melleby Jr.

said many over the years have
asked him how Eastern was able
to rank so highly in academics,
with so many competitive sports
teams, with such support from
the community.
The answer is one word people, Melleby said at the event.
Yes, it is an old clich, but true.
People do make a difference. The
people gathered in this assembly
tonight represent the past and
present, people who are unable to
be here tonight, people who
passed on, all of these people are
chiefly responsible for making
Eastern the exemplary school
that it is.

Municipal taxes stable,

school taxes up
It was another year of flat municipal taxes in Voorhees, and another year of tax increases for the
Voorhees School District and
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School taxes increase this year

SCHOOL
Continued from page 10
Eastern Camden County Regional High School District.
The townships 2015 municipal
budget saw the municipal tax
levy remain flat, with municipal
taxes remaining at 58 cents per
$100 of assessed property value.
That meant for the average assessed home in Voorhees valued
at $255,500, municipal taxes remained at about a $124 a month.
Total appropriations in the
budget are set at $27.91 million, a
slight increase from the $27.82
million set in the budget the year
before.
For Voorhees Public Schools,
the district passed its 2015-2016
budget reaching a total of $54.05
million. The K-8 school tax bill increased $40.80 per year on average, or $3.40 per month.
In the Eastern Camden County
Regional School District, the

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The Alicia Rose Victorious Foundation kicked off National Teen Cancer Awareness Week by hosting a day of service on Martin Luther
King Jr. Day at the Voorhees Town Center.
Board of Education passed its
2015-2016 school year budget totaling $37.24 million. For Voorhees
residents, the budget equated to
an average annual increase of
$27.66.

Voorhees Police hold first-ever

National Night Out
The Voorhees Township Police
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Department held its first-ever National Night Out on Aug. 4. National Night Out events take place
at police departments across the
country every year to build relationships between the community and the townships emergency
services.
The event took place at the
Voorhees Town Center where
members of the public could
meet with representatives of the
townships emergency services,
play games, enjoy food and more.
In addition to members of the
general public who attended the

event, the night brought together

members of the police department, fire department, EMTs, department of public works, Boy
Scouts, Girl Scouts, youth sports
teams, community organizations,
vendors and township officials.
Kids love fire trucks, and they
love police cars, and we let kids
get in and get their pictures taken
its all the stuff I wish they were
doing when I was a kid, VTPD
Lt. Dennis Ober said at the event.
Ober described the event as really a one-stop shop for community interaction.

Voorhees police start wearing

body cameras
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Chief Louis Bordi first decided
to outfit the department with
cameras in April 2014, and in January of this year, Voorhees Township Committee passed a resolution supporting the endeavor financially.
By the end of the summer,
Voorhees officers were equipped
with the cameras, which allowed
them to better document their
point of view during their day-today operations and interactions
with the public, rather than relying solely on memory.
Police administrative officials
have also been able to use the
cameras in regard to officer accountability by reviewing footage
captured by the cameras and assessing an officers performance
when interacting with citizens.

Voorhees Town Center sold

After 12 years of ownership by
the Pennsylvania Real Estate Investment Trust, PREIT sold the
Voorhees Town Center for $13.4
million in October after the group
received an unsolicited offer from
what was later revealed to be
Mason Asset Management and
Namdar Realty Group of Great
Neck, N.Y.
According to PREIT Chief Executive Joseph Coradino, the
groups decision to sell the property also came after PREIT was
unofficially informed that one of
the malls two anchor stores,
Macy's or Boscov's, intended to
close in 2016.
However, in a statement Mason
and Namdar released upon purchasing the property, the group
said there wasnt evidence of immediate closure of either anchor
store.
PREIT officials said selling the
Voorhees Town Center marked
the eighth mall PREIT had sold as
part of an ever-evolving improvement strategy.
The sale of the Town Center
also marked the sixth acquisition
of a former PREIT property by
Mason and Namdar.
please see EVESHAM, page 13

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Evesham Saving Lives

expands to include Voorhees
EVESHAM
Continued from page 12
Although in 2011 Voorhees
Township relocated its municipal
offices to a new location within
the Town Center, the sale of the
Town Center does not affect those
offices, as the township owns the
property where its municipal offices now sit.

Local elections held

in Voorhees Township
In November, municipal and
school board elections were held
in Voorhees Township.
On the municipal level, it was
months of campaigning between
Democrats Jason Ravitz and
Michelle Nocito and Republicans
Dave Adamson and Heidi Handler for two open seats on
Voorhees Township Committee.
In the end, it was Ravitz and
Nocito who came out on top. With
the committee throughout the
year comprised of four Democrats and one Republican, the election of Ravitz and Nocito will
keep the committee solidly in
control of the Democrats.
Incumbent Democrats Mario
DiNatale and Andi Ayes chose not
to seek re-election for the coming
term.
In an interview after the election, Ravitz said issues that repeatedly came up during the campaign were stabilizing property
taxes, maintaining service levels,
continuing senior and general
recreation programs and maintaining the quality for the townships schools.
We had significant dialogue
with the residents on how to work
on those issues while we were
walking around or meeting with
smaller groups of people, and
Michelle and I both have extensive business backgrounds, and
were going to work very hard
from the budgeting perspective,
Ravitz said after the election.
In the other local race held for
Voorhees Township Board of Ed-

ucation, incumbent board members Denise Kirkland and Amy

Lynch, along with current board
vice president Barbara Dunleavy,
were all elected to another threeyear term. The race was uncontested.
In another uncontested race for
two spots on the Eastern Camden
County Regional High School District Board of
Education,
Voorhees representatives Robert
L. Campbell and Richard A. Teichman each won re-election after
also running in an uncontested
race.

Eastern field hockey wins

Tournament of Champions
This year, the Eastern Vikings
field hockey team entered the
Tournament of Champions having won 17 consecutive Group IV
state championships, 73 consecutive games and having gone unbeaten in 130 consecutive games.
The teams success continued
on Nov. 20 when it completed another undefeated season, defeating Oak Knoll, 5-0, in the Tournament of Champions.
Adding to Easterns challenge,
seeding this year for the Tournament of Champions in field hockey was done with power points,
which made Eastern the No. 4
seed in the tournament.
That meant the team would
have to win three games, as opposed to two in years past, but
that didnt stop the Vikings from
powering through to their fourth
straight TOC title.
In a span of five days, Eastern
defeated Shore Regional, 12-0,
Warren Hills, 4-1, and Oak Knoll,
5-0, to win the 2015 Tournament of
Champions.
The Vikings have won seven of
the nine Tournament of Champions titles since it began for field
hockey in 2006.
We knew that our power
points were not great, but I dont
think we ever envisioned wed be
fourth and playing in a play-in
game, head coach Danyle Heilig
said after the TOC win.
The kids were really focused

on making a statement. They

couldnt have played any better.
We couldnt have played any
stronger.

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Eveshams designated driver

program expands to Voorhees
In December, township officials
announced a new partnership
with
neighboring
Evesham
Township to have the Evesham
Saving Lives free designated
driver program expand to
Voorhees.
The program launched in Evesham in the fall to decrease the
number of DWIs in the township
by providing free rides home
through private taxi services
Uber and BeMyDD to Evesham
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Mayor Mignogna says

program is great idea
MAYOR
Continued from page 13
tablishments in Evesham from
the hours of 9 p.m. to 2 a.m.
The programs expansion to
Voorhees operates in the same
way, in which Voorhees residents
can request a ride home from the
alcohol-serving establishments in
Voorhees Township to their residence in Voorhees.
The partnership between the
two towns also means Evesham
residents can now leave Voorhees
establishments to their home in
Evesham, and Voorhees residents
can leave establishments in Eve-

sham to their home in Voorhees.

The residents request their
rides by using the Uber or BeMyDD mobile phone applications at
the establishments, during which
time an option for the free ride
will appear to take them to their
homes.
At a press conference announcing the program, Mignogna said
the program was a great idea to
help keep residents safe.
It takes police time that would
normally be spent on DWI arrests
and allows those cops to use their
time on other safety measures,
which I believe is very important
and is another reason why our police departments are so in favor of
this program, Mignogna said.

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