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Township soccer player, 10, wins Elks’ National Shootout Championship
By Joe EMaNsKi
By Joe EMaNsKi Top soccer players know that if they want to become the best they can be — and stay that way — they must train, day after day. When 10-year-old Allie Fasanella decided last year that she was going to compete in the Elks’ National Soccer Shoot Grid Goal Contest, she knew she would need to train like the pros. So she did, and the work certainly paid off — as Fasanella finished with the best score in the nation. Started in 1997, the Elks’ National Soccer Shoot Grid Goal Contest is an annual nationwide event. Local Elks lodges invite youth contestants in various age groups to compete to make shots into a regular soccer goal that is divided into sections. Shots made in some sections worth more than others. Shots made in the upper right and left hand corners of the goal, for instance, score the most points, while shots that enter the net along the ground score the fewest. After each contestant takes all their allotted shots, the scores are See SHOOTOUT, Page 11
Bordentown City’s new municipal complex, tucked away at the end of the long drive at 101 Park St., was formerly owned by Divine Word Missionaries. (Photo by E. M. Hume.)
City moves into new digs Historic Bordentown’s new municipal complex has a rich history of its own By SUe Ferrara Anthropologist Margaret Mead supposedly said: “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world: indeed, it’s the only
thing that ever has.” Though Mead’s name always appears with the quote, there’s no indication she ever uttered those words, or wrote them in a study. Rather, the quote attributed to her appeared in a book four years after her death with no citation. But whether or not the anthropologist deserves credit for those words, we often see evidence of small groups of people making big changes. In fact, in late 2020, while we were locked down due to the pandemic, leaders from four
organizations came together to ink an historic agreement, which in part, now means the City of Bordentown has a new municipal building. On Dec. 18, 2020, Bordentown City, the State of New Jersey, and D&R Greenway Land Trust closed on the purchase of acreage at 101 Park St. that the Divine Word Missionaries had owned for 81 years. This was also the remaining piece of property once owned by the exiled King of Spain, Joseph See CITY HALL, Page 12
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Township voters will have a chance to elect three people to the Bordentown Regional School District Board of Education this fall. Mail-in ballots should have been sent out in the last week of September to those voting that way, while Election Day is on Nov. 8, for those still planning to vote the old-fashioned way. Oct. 18 is the deadline to register to vote in New Jersey. The school board race features five candidates for the three available seats. Incumbents Stephen Heberling and Larry Braasch are running, but current board member Erika Worthy is not. Also running are candidates Laura Papp and Joann Holman. No seats for Bordentown City or Fieldsboro are up for election this year. As is our tradition, the Bordentown Current sent questionnaires to all of the school board candidates in advance of this year’s election. Their responses to our questions can be found starting on page 14.
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