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Singh’s Kitchen: a success story in the Square
Hamilton native will compete this month in World Axe Throwing Championships
By SUe FerrArA
Hanging below the cash register at Singh’s Kitchen is a sign reading: Faith-Family-Friends. Those three words guide everything that happens in this small eatery on Whitehorse Hamilton Square Road. Originating in 2021 as a consequence of a side gig, Singh’s Kitchen is a joint venture of married owners Gurpreed Singh and Harjeet Kaur, who managed to open and nurture a new restaurant business during the pandemic that continues to thrive. The two credit their success to their religious faith, their nuclear and extended families, and the new friends they have made locally. Singh and Kaur were both born in India. He grew up in the State of Punjab, in northwestern India; Kaur lived in Delhi, India’s largest city. This fall, they will celebrate 27 years of marriage. They have three children whom they preferred not to name: an elder daughter who is 19; a daughter who is a high school See KITCHEN, Page 8
By JUsTiN FeiL
Dana Trotta, a junior at The Hun School of Princeton, with plastic that she has collected to be donated to Trex Company, Inc. to be recycled into composite deck materials. Trotta estimates that the bags in the photo hold just 80 of the 2,000 pounds she collected in her pursuit of a Girl Scout Gold Award.
Community helps out a ton as Girl Scout reaches lofty recycling goal By JOe EMANsKi
Even for people who are sticklers about recycling, the rules regarding what plastics can go in which bins can be frustrating. In Hamilton, only plastics marked as number 1 or number 2 plastics are accepted at the township’s ecological facility, and even then, they are accepted only if they come in certain forms. There are seven classifications of recyclable plas-
tic altogether, but a great deal of it ends up in landfills each year because there is not enough demand for forms of plastic that can be difficult to reuse in a cost effective way. However, thanks to Girl Scout Dana Trotta and Trex Company, Inc., there have been bins at the Hamilton Township ecological facility over the past year for collecting plastic film — think produce bags and bubble wrap. It is a form of plastic that is not usu-
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ally collected, but which Trex turns into composite decking material through its NexTrex Recycling Challenge program. Trotta, who lives in University Heights, set herself a goal of collecting one ton of plastic film over that time. She made the effort the focus of her Girl Scout Gold Award project. The Gold Award is the highest award a scout can earn. Thanks in large part to plasSee RECYCLING, Page 6
Joe Hovemeyer grew up in Hamilton dreaming about playing a professional sport. Now, decades later, he’s at the highest level of a sport he never expected. Hovemeyer is headed to the World Axe Throwing Championships for the second straight year. Tulsa, Oklahoma will host this year’s world championships at the WeStreet Ice Center from April 18-21, and while Hovemeyer has made all the arrangements already, he’s also accepting any financial support for his world championships encore. “For this year, I’m going to try to be as relaxed as possible and take everything in stride,” Hovemeyer said. “I’ve found that thinking too much about it gets to your head, and then you can kind of play mind games with yourself, and that’s not ideal for anything or for anyone See AXE CHAMP, Page 11
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