Video: High school’s Wing Bowl

Cherry Hill High School Eat held a Wing Bowl in February to raise money for Haitian relief efforts.

The school also welcomed guest Bill "El Wingador" Simmons to the event.

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Boisverts bring worlds of talent

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By CELESTE E. WHITTAKER
Courier-Post Staff

The Boisvert sisters are the heart and soul of the Cherry Hill East girls' basketball team.

Genevieve, 18, and Marie, 16, do it all for the Cougars -- from getting the tough rebounds, to scoring the key baskets, to coming up with big defensive plays. They're all over the floor and they play an aggressive style of basketball, which has become the Cougars' calling card.

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Student event helps fight child abuse

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By RACHEL MISENKO
Courier-Post Staff

Students at Cherry Hill High School East will show others they care through the school's fifth annual Coffee House.

The Jan. 23 fundraiser, run by the East Singers choir and the Thespian Society sponsored by Tom Weaver, will raise money for UMDNJ's CARES Institute.

Members of the community can purchase $5 tickets to the fundraiser. The tickets include light refreshments and entertainment.

"In the past we've raised money for Alex's Lemonade Stand, a suicide awareness group and an autism organization," said Laurie Lausi, choral director. "This year our students really felt the need to raise awareness about abuse."

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Cherry Hill School District discusses new plans for East’s greenhouse | Eastside

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By: Nickee Plaksen (Class of '10)/Eastside Photo Editor

Teachers, students, contractors and gardeners of the Cherry Hill School District met to discuss the future of East’s greenhouse today in room C110 after school.

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East’s boys basketball team photo gallery and news

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Click here to read the Courier-Post article about last night's boys basketball game of Cherry Hill High School East versus Gloucester Catholic High School. There is also a photo gallery of the game.

For more South Jersey varisty sports news, visit www.courierpostonline.com/ varsity.

Students stage protest against demonstrators

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By JANE ROH
Courier-Post Staff

Six members of the Topeka-based Westboro Baptist Church faced off with about 100 students and parents at Cherry Hill East High School before the start of the school Monday.

"We got here probably around 7:10," said Forest Steinberg, a 17-year-old at Moorestown High. About 15 of her classmates got notes from their parents to skip first and second periods to join their Cherry Hill East counterparts.

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Photo gallery of this morning’s protests

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Click here to read more about this morning's protests outside of Cherry Hill High School East.

View the Courier-Post photo gallery with over 20 photos of the protests at: Protests in Cherry Hill | courierpostonline.com | Burlington, Camden and Gloucester Counties South Jersey News | Courier-Post.

Counter-protest dwarfs anti-gay, anti-Semitic church group in Cherry Hill

Faye Murman/Courier-Post

About 100 students and parents greeted a roving group of anti-gay, anti-Semitic protesters this morning at Cherry Hill East High School.

The six members of the Topeka-based Westboro Baptist Church, which is led by Fred Phelps and composed almost entirely of his relatives, were confined to public property across the street from the high school. Placard-waving protesters on both sides chanted and traded taunts for a little more than a half-hour starting at 7:30 a.m.

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Planned protests in Cherry Hill spark outrage

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By JANE ROH
Courier-Post Staff

The group of Kansans who will be in town next week protesting Jews, gays, and high school students belong to the Westboro Baptist Church, a group that religious leaders, social activists and political leaders call a fringe group that specializes in hate speech.

"There are a lot of promises from God, and these kids run from those that would serve Him and run to those that would not. God's promise that he would destroy this nation -- they are all faithful, precious promises," said Shirley Lynn Phelps-Roper, daughter of Westboro Baptist's leader, Fred Phelps. "When He's ready to destroy a people you start seeing evidence of the curse of God on them."

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Cherry Hill Schools: ‘Anti-Semitic, anti-gay extremist group’ should be ignored

Cherry Hill Public Schools is asking students, staff and parents to resist engaging members of the controversial Westboro Baptist Church when the group demonstrates near the school Monday morning.

"We expect that a small group of picketers will stand on public property for approximately 30 minutes displaying disturbing signs in an effort to provoke a response," Superintendent David Campbell and Cherry Hill High School East Principal John O’Breza said in the written statement.

"The most effective message we can send is to ignore the picketers and go about our day."

Read the letter after the jump...

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Residents respond to church’s planned protest

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Yesterday, I posted "Controversial church to protest in township" about the planned protests by Westboro Baptist Church in Cherry Hill on Monday, Dec. 7.

Members of the church, which is based in Kansas, have received criticism in recent years for setting up picket lines at soldiers' funerals to present the church's message that the soldiers' deaths are God's punishment for Americans' tolerance of homosexuality.

The church has announced that it plans to picket from 7:30 to 8 a.m. Monday at Cherry Hill High School East, and Sunday (3 p.m.) and Monday (8:30 a.m.) against the USCJ 2009 Biennial Convention at Crowne Plaza Hotel on Route 70.

Cherry Hill InJersey has received a lot of feedback from readers about the planned protests.

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Controversial church to protest in township

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Members of the controversial Westboro Baptist Church, based in in Topeka, Kan., plan to protest at Cherry Hill High School East and the USCJ 2009 Biennial Convention on Monday, December 7.

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Cherry Hill East goes green to get green

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By BARBARA S. ROTHSCHILD
Courier-Post Staff

Cherry Hill High School East is going green by participating in a program that can earn $5,000 to fund an ambitious environmental project.

East biology teachers Joanne Long and Erica DeMichele applied for a grant from RecycleBank's Green Schools program and were awarded the maximum amount toward refurbishing the school's greenhouse and science wing courtyard, both in disrepair.

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East gets offensive in upset win

By DON BENEVENTO
Courier-Post Staff

There is little mystery to why the Cherry Hill East High School boys' soccer team has struggled at times this season.

When East has lost, it's generally been because of an inability to score goals.

Then there are games like the one East played on Tuesday. Using a penalty kick goal from Kevin Hansen in the first half and a second-half goal from Brian Thompson, East held on for a 2-1 victory over Lenape in an Olympic Conference American Division game.

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East’s soccer team beats Washington Twp

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via 3 equals 1 for East | Courierpostonline.com.

3 equals 1 for East

By DON BENEVENTO
Courier-Post Staff

How many Cherry Hill East High School boys' soccer players does it take to score a goal?

In the case of Monday's 1-0 victory over Washington Township, it took three.

The trio included Francis Schmutz, who knocked in the game's lone goal 13 minutes into the first half, as the Cougars opened their season with an Olympic Conference American Division win over the Minutemen. East is No. 7 in the Courier-Post preseason rankings.

"I was ecstatic," Schmutz said of scoring East's first goal of the year. "It was a good way to start the season."

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