Area bicyclists will gather this Saturday, as they do every first Saturday in June, to celebrate the memory and continue the legacy of an area teen who worked to help less fortunate kids.

The 17th annual Cory’s Ride will be held this Saturday morning, June 6, at the Tall Cedars Picnic Grove on Sawmill Road in Hamilton. The event is open to anyone 18 or older. Just bring a bike and a helmet.

Cory’s Ride raises scholarship money for young adults who are headed to college or planning to attend a technical school. Scholarships are often given to students who have faced some sort of family hardship. [Read more…]

Seven Trenton churches and faith-based organizations have received grants from the Trenton Health Team to implement activities and educational programming to promote healthy eating and physical activity in the capital city.

The awards are the first round of funding from Trenton Health Team, and were made possible through a ‘Faith in Prevention’ grant from the New Jersey Department of Health. The recipients are:

– Cadwalader Asbury United Methodist Church
– The Church of the Blessed Sacrament – Our Lady of the Divine Shepherd
– El Centro of Catholic Charities, Diocese of Trenton
– St. Vladimir Orthodox Christian Church
– Shiloh Baptist Church
– Trinity Episcopal Cathedral
– Westminster Presbyterian Church
[Read more…]

Postal workers will collect food to be donated to area food pantries on May 9 this year as part of the National Association of Letter Carriers annual Stamp Out Hunger campaign.

For 23 years, the National Association of Letter Carriers has collected non-perishable food donations along postal routes across the nation on the second Saturday of May, and delivered them to local food banks. In 2014 the letter carriers collected more than 72 million pounds of food. In Mercer County, donations from Hamilton, Hopewell, Pennington, Princeton, Robbinsville and Trenton residents will be delivered to the Mercer Street Friends Food Bank. [Read more…]

Millhill Trenton PEERS

The Princeton Area Community Foundation’s Fund for Women and Girls has awarded the Millhill Child & Family Development a $17,700 grant to support of the Female Trenton PEERS Empowerment and Education Program.

The grant was one of five awards given to local organizations by the leadership team of the Fund for Women and Girls.

The Trenton PEERS program was selected as the first grant awarded in memory of Liz Gray Erickson, former chair and passionate champion of the Fund for Women and Girls. The award honors Erickson’s commitment to eliminating the root causes of society’s most challenging obstacles that face women and girls. [Read more…]

Architect John Hatch has been appointed to the board of trustees for the Princeton Area Community Foundation.

Hatch, a partner with Clarke Caton Hintz, an architecture, planning and landscape architecture firm in Trenton, has more than 25 years of experience designing architecturally significant buildings in the local community and across the region. His work includes the restoration of the former governor’s mansion in Princeton, as well as the Roebling Complex in Trenton, the Trenton Masonic Temple, and the Trenton Makes Art Complex.

In addition to his design work, Hatch writes and lectures about such topics as historic preservation, sustainability and urban redevelopment. He serves on the Trenton Landmarks Commission, as well as on the boards of Passage Theatre and the New Jersey Capital Philharmonic in Trenton, and the New Jersey Historic Trust. [Read more…]