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Children’s Home Society, Kidsbridge join forces By SUe FerrArA
Local parents with children in Pre-K to 8th grade are likely to be familiar with a Mercer County program known as Kidsbridge— a 27-year-old endeavor with a mission “to provide young people with a foundation to grow as empathetic individuals who become positive advocates for themselves and others, empowering them to challenge racism, bias, bullying, and other forms of discrimination.”
Since 2002, West Windsor resident Lynne Azarchi has led Kidsbridge as executive director, curriculum designer, promoter, and the champion of the idea that all children can learn to be kind and caring to one another. But as with many orchestras, there comes a time when the maestro hands the baton to a new conductor. That happened earlier this year when Kidsbridge found a new home under the auspices of the Children’s Home Society, a
Trenton-based nonprofit which started in 1894. Azarchi will stay on for the foreseeable future, but the management of the program will now be the job of CHS administrator Mike Roseborough, who joined CHS in June 2022, after working with the Princeton-area YMCA. Born in New Jersey, Roseborough, by his own admission, has lived in many Garden State locales. See KIDSBRIDGE, Page 8
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High School South senior Manidhar Yeluri, pictured above, was recognized at the 61st Annual George Wah Scholar-Leader-Athlete Welcome to more Capital Health. Dinner on March 12, 2023. To read about Yeluri, turn to page 11.
Viewing the dreamlike landscapes of Elizabeth (“Liz”) Roszel-Aubrey, you might not easily guess her source of inspiration. These paintings, which can been seen in the Gallery at Pennswood Village in nearby Bucks County through May 7, seem to portray a quaint village, perhaps in the French countryside or an imaginary world. There are gently rolling hills, orange roofs, stucco facades, pink skies, and idiosyncratic architecture whose lines are never straight.
Before the pandemic, Aubrey commuted daily on the New Jersey Turnpike. It was the sprawl of warehouses and development that inspired these scenes, she recently told a packed house in the auditorium at the Newtown, Pennsylvania retirement community where the gallery is located. She would make sketches out the window of her car, she said. “Someone else was behind the wheel,” she quickly assured her audience. Aubrey (if the name sounds familiar, it is because she is married to Dan Aubrey, who is arts editor/writer at Community News Service, the
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company that publishes the News) categorizes her body of work into “townscapes,” “landscapes,” “New Jersey roadway studies,” and “urban art studies.” Even the urban art studies seem to suggest an area at the outskirts of town, when there is not much density. It is a long road from the views along the Turnpike to the enchanting world created by the Bordentown-based artist. After enlarging her sketch in a process using Mylar, Aubrey toys with the composition, sometimes up to a year before she is See AUBREY, Page 4
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