Community swimming for success | The Cherry Hill Sun

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Two local advocacy groups for special education students are teaming together to honor the victims of 9/11 and to benefit special education programs in the Cherry Hill and Voorhees school districts.

Voorhees Special needs Parents, Educators And Kids and the Cherry Hill Special Education Parent Teacher Association are hosting the first “Swim For Success” event on Friday, Sept. 11, from 5 to 8 p.m. at the Fox Hollow Swim Club in Cherry Hill. A rain date has been announced for Saturday, Sept. 12.

Tickets are $2 per swimmer and $5 per family. All funds go to the two groups for additional programming for special needs students in the communities.

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Green Drinks

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Title: Green Drinks
Location: PJ Whelihan's, 1854 E. Marlton Pike, Cherry Hill
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Description: Sustainable Cherry Hill hosts this social and business networking happy hour that brings together a wide array of environmentally minded people each month over beverages to discuss green and sustainable solutions, ideas, concepts, etc. Green Drinks is held the first Wednesday of every month at PJ Whelihan's on Rt. 70 and Greentree Rds in Cherry Hill from 6-8 pm.
Start Time: 18:00
Date: 2009-09-02
End Time: 20:00

CHRCOC’s 28th Annual Golf Outing

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Title: CHRCOC's 28th Annual Golf Outing
Location: Pine Hill Golf Club, 500 West Branch Avenue Pine Hill, New Jersey 08021
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Description: Join the Cherry Hill Regional Chamber of Commerce for a day of relaxation and informal networking. The event features a buffet lunch, golf for the afternoon, a cocktail reception, dinner, and prizes. For more information, visit their Web site at www.cherryhillregional.com.
Start Time: 11:00
Date: 2009-09-21
End Time: 17:00

Arsenal goes 9-0 to win tournament | CourierPostOnline.com

Tri-State Arsenal, a traveling baseball team based in Cherry Hill, won the 12 and Under Cooperstown National American Tournament of Champions championship in the Cooperstown N.Y.

Tri-State (41-1), the top seed, defeated third-seeded So. Cal Thunder 2-1 in Thursday's championship game of the week-long, 103-team tournament.

Ryan Shinn was the star for Tri-State, blasting solo home runs in the first and fourth innings. His homer in the first was to right field and what turned out to be the game-winning run in the fourth was a home run to center field.

Zac Gakeler pitched four shutout innings, allowing only two hits, to pick up the win. Justin Haenman allowed So Cal's only run on one hit in the fifth.

Tri-State, 9-0 in the tournament, outscored their opponents by a whopping 224-28 margin, more than an average of 20 runs per game.

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What’s new in local public school districts | CourierPostOnline.com

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The Cherry Hill district is implementing a new language arts curriculum at the elementary level that will provide consistent resources and approach for teaching reading and writing at all 12 elementary schools. Language arts curriculum work will also include an examination of best available resources to support language arts instruction in grades six through 12. Strategies will be developed to integrate more technology to support such activities as daily writing, online assessments, creation of a literacy portfolio, and use of blogs/wikis.

A new schedule at the elementary level will allow for more uniform and equitable instructional opportunities, better delivery of services and increased grade-level collaboration for teachers. Featured are large, uninterrupted blocks of instructional time for language arts and math, with one daily, 30-minute intervention/enrichment period.

Elementary schools will operate on a five-day schedule rather than a Monday-to-Friday schedule, so that all special area classes (art, vocal music, Spanish, library, etc.) will have equitable amounts of instruction over the year.

The Board of Education is forming a Technology Steering Committee that will collaborate with the district technology team to promote the efficient and effective use of technology throughout the district and review current and future technology initiatives. The volunteer committee will include community members, students, teachers, administrators and district staff.

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Library, volunteers part ways | CourierPostOnline.com

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Library, volunteers part ways

By JANE ROH
Courier-Post Staff

For 14 years, Ken and Alice Skinner volunteered at least one day of the week at the Vogelson Regional Branch library, sorting and shelving donated books and helping out at fundraising sales.

And then they were out.

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Family loyalty keeps Catholic schools alive | CourierPostOnline.com

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At Resurrection School in Cherry Hill, which opened last September after Queen of Heaven School shut down and was merged with St. Peter Celestine School at the St. Peter Celestine site, enrollment will be down this September, school spokeswoman Alli Smith said.

Last year, the school had about 400 students enrolled, more than had attended both older schools in 2007-08. This coming year, enrollment is at 370.

Smith blamed the economy. "It's a bad time financially, and the financial assistance offered wasn't enough for those families to stay comfortably. People may be back when they're doing better," she said.

The losses would have been greater if new students weren't enrolling. Smith said Resurrection is welcoming students from public schools and other Catholic schools this year.

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Budget cutbacks force changes in classrooms | CourierPostOnline.com

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In the struggle to emerge intact from New Jersey's current economic crisis, many school districts are having to make do with less -- and when students return to class in September, they are likely to see a difference.

Fewer teachers, larger class size, missing academic or enrichment programs and the elimination of late buses and extracurricular activities are a few changes occurring in districts faced with flat state aid or not enough of a hike to counter mounting needs and rising costs. While some districts succeeded in getting budgets passed by keeping the local school tax levy flat in April, others felt compelled to ask for a hike even in the face of program cuts.

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Health expo planned at Crowne Plaza | CourierPostOnline.com

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Health expo planned at Crowne Plaza

By KIM MULFORD
Courier-Post Staff

The first year Seth Auerbach stitched a health expo together, he had high school students set up 24 exhibitor tables in the Haddon Township showroom of his medical equipment and supply business, Komfort & Kare Home Medical & Mobility.

He covered the rented tables with tablecloths from a dollar store, and opened the doors to the public.

The response was so good, Auerbach fielded requests from other health care providers to include them at his next expo. Every year since, the event's list of exhibitors, free services and attendance has swelled.

From 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 11, the fourth Health & Wellness Expo will fill two ballrooms and a hall at the Crowne Plaza on Route 70 in Cherry Hill.

More than 2,000 visitors are expected to attend the expo for free health screenings, free food and free information from an extensive list of more than 100 health care providers, nonprofits and agencies.

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Two men arrested in bank robbery | CourierPostOnline.com

Two men were tracked down and arrested while attempting to flee after a bank holdup, officials said.

Police were called to the TD Bank on College Drive in Blackwood around 7 p.m. Friday after receiving reports of a bank robbery in progress.

Responding officers spotted Timothy Connell, 52, of Cherry Hill and Alexander Currie, 71, of Cherry Hill, peeling out of the bank parking lot in a white SUV.

Police chased the suspects to the area of the Gloucester Township Community Park, where Connell jumped out of the vehicle and ran into a wooded area.

He was tracked down and arrested near the vehicle. Currie escaped but was apprehended later.

Currie was charged with conspiracy to commit bank robbery and was released pending a court date. Officials linked Connell to a robbery at the TD Bank in Cherry Hill on Thursday. He was charged with robbery, resisting arrest, terroristic threats, and several weapons offenses.

Connell was taken to the Camden County Correctional Facility and is being held on $500,000 bail.

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Before They’re Famous | NBC Philadelphia

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At a loss as to which wine is for you? Or perhaps you just like to try new things? Either way, let Master Sommelier George Miliotes from Seasons 52 in Cherry Hill, NJ, be your guide to everything wine.

Miliotes attributes his obsession with wine to his first job, to keep the wine wall at his family’s restaurant in Orlando, Fl. stocked and the bottles clean. He was 13.

And so it began. George Miliotes had fallen in love.

With red, white, blush, German, French, Italian, Spanish.

"I saw people getting excited about wines and it started me down the path," says Miliotes.

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Cherry Hill native is now a burger king

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A new BGR "The Burger Joint" opened this week in Alexandria, Virginia, featuring their "award-winning blend of prime-aged, all-natural, hormone-free, grain-fed beef" burgers served on "fresh toasted buttery brioche buns" that are baked and delivered fresh daily "exclusively" for BGR.

BGR is the creation of Cherry Hill, NJ, native Mark Bucher.

Read more about this former Cherry Hill resident's burger successes at: Alexandria Times | Alexandria Palates Get A Double Treat.

Historic photo galleries

Models for Gimbel's fashion show on Aug. 23, 1946, at Cherry Hill's Garden State Park Racetrack. Courier-Post file.

Did you know there was a Latin Casino in Cherry Hill? How about a Hawaiian Cottage restaurant? Or a Gimbel's fashion show?

Take a walk down memory lane by checking out the Courier-Post's historic photo galleries to see South Jersey's people, places and things of yesteryear.

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Fall fashion preview

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Fall fashion preview

This fall, women's fashion trends harken back to the 1980s with leggings, leather, multilayered chains (compliments of Mr. T., you remember him) and ankle boots

By BOBBI LEE HITCHON
For the Courier-Post

Considering the state of the economy, shopping this fall may not be as spontaneous as in the past. According to Gregg Andrews, Nordstrom fashion director, most women are not looking for entirely new wardrobes.

"Very few women right now are going out and buying entirely new fall wardrobes," says Andrews. "They're looking for those key items that are new, that are interesting and that also work with pieces they already have in their wardrobe, those key new items that will refresh their existing wardrobe."

Reflecting the economy, popular trends, materials and colors this fall will stand the test of time in style and form, and pair nicely with other items from previous seasons. Regardless of what key items shoppers purchase this fall, their look should create a silhouette with either a skinny bottom and bulky top or vice-versa.

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Cinematic Reflections featuring ‘Half Nelson’

Title: Cinematic Reflections featuring 'Half Nelson'
Location: Cherry Hill Public Library Conference Room, Lower Level, 1100 Kings Highway
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Description: This Oscar-nominated film tells the story of an inner-city junior high school teacher (Ryan Gossling) with a drug habit who forms an unlikely friendship with one of his students (Shareeka Epps) after she discovers his secret.
Cinematic Reflections is hosted by respected film critic Joe Truitt. This free event is sponsored by the Alliance on Alcohol & Drug Abuse and Ombudsman for Disabled Citizens. Please RSVP to (856) 488-7889 or Alliance@CHTownship.com.
Start Time: 18:00
Date: 2009-09-16
End Time: 21:00