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Olorunnisola finds a home with Scotties football
City resident’s Trutopia Foundation helps those in need
BY RICH FISHER
BY JOE EMANSKI
Fami Olorunnisola came to a realization. Rather than harness her zealous play in the athletic arena, she found a way to make it fit in. “Around sophomore year I was always told I was aggressive, and it made me upset,” she said. “I kid you not, I’ve gotten so many fouls in basketball because I can be an aggressive person. So I was trying to find a sport where I could play and be aggressive and just be myself. I was never myself playing any other sport. And that’s when I thought about football. And everybody was saying ‘How about football?’ and here I am today.” She’s here all right, playing offensive guard and defensive tackle for the Bordentown High JV team. The junior was inspired to go out for the Scotties after playing a less aggressive style of football that frustrated her. “We have a Powder Puff flag football event for the girls,” she said. “One thing that always made me upset was how I couldn’t tackle or be as aggressive because it’s flag. Even growing up and playing different sports I was always See FAMI, Page 10
Blair Silver remembers joining the Impact Club as a student at MacFarland Intermediate School in Bordentown. Impact Club members aim to have an impact on the community by volunteering time to help those in need. But perhaps it is also called Impact Club because of the impact it has on the students’ lives. Teacher Chris O’Leary was the adviser to the club. Silver was placed at the Clare Estate, the assisted living facility in Bordentown City. “We were required to do volunteer hours. My mom made me do it,” Silver recalls. At the end of the school year, Silver received an award for her volunteer work. “I just thought it was something I had to do. It wasn’t something I was expecting anything out of,” she says. “That was a moment for me where I was proud of what I did.” Today, Silver remains committed to helping those in need, both as an entrepreneur as well as through the Trutopia Foundation, a nonprofit organization that she formed with the goal of helping low-income families and See TRUTOPIA, Page 6
Eagle Scout Sam Cranmer, right, stands with his Eagle Scout project, a pizza box disposal bin completed this summer in Columbus. With him are brother Thomas, father Tom and brother Brody.
Lifelong friends help one another reach the rank of Eagle Scout BY JOE EMANSKI Over the last few years, three Bordentown residents have reached the pinnacle of the Boy Scout experience: each completed the community service projects that earned him the right to call himself an Eagle Scout. Matthew Reiter, Ryder Samsel and Sam Cranmer of Bordentown BSA Troop 13—friends since they
were Webelos at age 6—all finished their Eagle Scout projects with the help of friends and family, as the Boy Scouts of America require. And of course, they helped one another, because that’s what friends and Eagle Scouts do. The scouts, all 18, conceived and prepared their own projects. Reiter decided on an ecological restoration project in Crystal Lake Park. He identified a path that was
often difficult to use in wet conditions because it tended to become muddy, and came up with a plan to make the path easier to traverse. He hoped to have it completed by summer 2020, but as was the case for so many projects, the Covid-19 pandemic scotched those plans. Undaunted, he postponed it until last summer, completing the project in August. See EAGLE, Page 6
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