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Soup kitchen keeps cooking New leader, same mission for TASK
Flynn says that the big meals her grandmother cooked for everyone at harvest time are reminiscent of TASK’s mission by MICheLe aLPerIn and the critical involvement of volunteers in realizing it. Not Amy Flynn, the new chief only does TASK provide food for executive officer of the Tren- the hungry six days a week at its ton Area Soup Kitchen, grew Escher Street home, no quesup poor on a dairy farm in rural tions asked, it also gives more Ohio, with early memthan 4,000 volunories of an absence of teers a year a chance heat during the cold to give back to their winters. community. She remembers “TASK has a doc“going to bed at night trine of radical hosand my mom stacking pitality. It takes me Jude Berman (left) takes on a defender and Ethan Rich (right) shoots against Lawrence in the John blanket after blanket back to growing up— Molinelli Holiday Classic final held Dec. 28, 2024. (Photos by Mike Schwartz/mssphoto.com.) on top of me and wakneighbors helping ing up in the mornneighbors,” Flynn Flynn ing and seeing my says. breath.” Flynn, a resident But an ethic of comof Ewing Township, munal sharing trumped poverty started as the new CEO of TASK in her farming community. “Even on Jan. 21 after being named though our family didn’t have to the position by the nonprofmonth, the Bulldogs looked ter Ethan Rich described the a lot, we never had so little that it’s board of trustees earlier in by rICh FISher good as ever with a 10-3 record feeling after WWPN. “It’s like it we didn’t have something to give the month. She replaces Joyce After losing four key seniors that included a nine-game win- happens in slow motion. You’re back,” Flynn recalls. “We canned Campbell, who announced her all summer to have food for the plans to retire last summer after from a 21-6 team — includ- ning streak. Their three losses sitting there, the kid releases winter and shared some of that more than eight years at the ing co-CVC Player of the Year were to talented West Windsor- the ball, there’s just no way, and JM Vlasac — it looked like the Plainsboro North, Freehold then ‘Oh my God!’ I wouldn’t food with others who had less.” helm. This commitment to comFlynn’s career in fund devel- Hopewell Valley Central High Boro and Notre Dame — all by wish that one on my worst munal sharing was exemplified opment and leadership at mis- boys basketball team might three points. The WWPN loss enemy.” for Flynn by her grandmother, sion-driven organizations has slide back into anonymity this came on a buzzer beater that That was followed by the traveled three-fourths of the Freehold loss, but it was only a “a person of service, who given her many varied opportu- season. to Capital Health. But looks can be deceiving. court. was Welcome always giving back to the nities temporary stub of the toe as the to carry forth the tradition See B-BALL, Page 8 See TASK, Page 6 Through the season’s first “Horrible,” is how senior cencommunity.” When someone you care about is sick, you’ll do whatever it takes to make sure they get the best care. And so do we. L
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