Category: Lenni Lenape

MEDFORD – Shawnee High School senior Avery Kessler reached a career milestone in her team’s 43-28 Olympic Conference interdivision road victory over Lenape Feb. 7.

Kessler scored her 1,000th career point – becoming the second Shawnee player to do so this season – en route to a team-high 15 points against the Renegades’ Lenape-district rivals.

The senior guard now has 350 points on the year. Her career totals are: 1,012 points, 270 rebounds, 242 steals and 181 assists.

“We are so proud of Avery’s accomplishments,” said Shawnee coach Chrissy McGovern. This is so well deserved for her! She is the backbone of our program.”

Shawnee’s Avery Kessler (right, file photo) has scored 340 points for the 21-4 Renegades this season. (DAVID BORRELLI – THE CENTRAL RECORD)

Senior Nia Scott reached 1,000 career points in Shawnee’s 57-16 win over visiting Seneca Jan. 19.

Shawnee was looking to rebound after a tough 41-36 loss to Williamstown in the South Jersey Invitational Tournament quarterfinals two days earlier.

Scott (17) and Kessler (10) combined to score 27 points as the Renegades clinched the Olympic Conference Patriot Division title with a 39-25 win over visiting Moorestown Feb. 9.

The Renegades improved to 22-4 and 9-0 in the division with the win over the Quakers.

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About a week before Americans and friends would gather to celebrate Thanksgiving, a convoy of trucks rolled to a stop in the war-ravaged Tigray region of Ethiopia. Humanitarian workers began to unload hundreds of tons of food. Fighting and instability had made the work dangerous, but now sacks heavy with wheat and split peas and vast containers of vegetable oil were being sorted and sent directly to the region’s hungry.

The United Nations’ World Food Programme, the largest humanitarian organization on the planet, had organized the effort. Estimates suggest the deliveries would help 67,000 people.

Trucks filled with food aid queue outside a warehouse in Gode, Ethiopia, for unloading. (WFP)

It was a significant achievement against hunger, yet David Beasley, an American from South Carolina and the agency’s executive director since 2017, finds it hard to take comfort from one success as he thinks of how many more people still need help.

At the end of 2022, the WFP is on track to provide food, medicine and support to 153 million people in at least 80 countries, many of them dealing with war and famine. That’s the most people in the program’s 60-year history.

“When I took over, my goal was, ‘What can I do to make the World Food Programme no longer needed?’” Beasley told ShareAmerica in phone interview from the agency’s headquarters in Rome. “We still have a lot of work to do.”

The World Food Programme’s executive director, David Beasley, talks to a young boy at the Imvepi Refugee Settlement in Uganda. (WFP)

The WFP has grown under Beasley’s watch to become a $10 billion annual effort with more than 22,000 staffers…

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Tye Dorset delivered a game-high 21 points as Lenape won, 51-33, over Holy Spirit in the semifinal round of the Score at the Shore tournament at Southern in Manahawkin.

Myles Primas added 18 points for Lenape (5-1), which went on a decisive 17-6 run in the second quarter for a 26-15 lead at halftime.

Holy Spirit is now 2-4.

Lenape will face Mainland in the final round on Friday at 5:15 p.m.

Holy Spirit will play Howell in the third place round at 3:30 p.m.

Mainland 49, Howell 38

Cohen Cook contributed a game-high 20 points for unbeaten Mainland (6-0) in winning over Howell (2-3) in the semifinal round of the Score at the Shore tournament at Southern.

Mainland led 31-19 at halftime and will face Lenape in the final round on Friday at 5:15 p.m.

Chris Meehan paced Howell with 11 points while David Orloff added 10 more.

Howell will play Holy Spirit in the round for third place at 3:30 p.m.

Southern 51, Pleasantville 37

Tom Menegus recorded a double double of 18 points and 10 rebounds as Southern (4-1) downed Pleasantville (4-3) in the consolation round of the Score at the Shore at Southern.

Leo Crowley added 10 points for Southern, which led 26-20 at halftime, and will play West Windsor-Plainsboro South in the fifth place round on Friday at 1:45 p.m.

Marki Barnes paced Pleasantville with 15 points while Ivan Mitchell put in 10 more.

Pleasantville will play Cedar Creek in the seventh place round on Friday at 12 p.m.

West Windsor-Plainsboro South 72, Cedar Creek 66 (OT)

West Windsor-Plainsboro South (3-3) prevailed in overtime over Cedar Creek (2-5) in the consolation round of the Score at the Shore at Southern in Manahawkin.

West Windsor-Plainsboro South will play Southern in the fifth place round on Friday at 1:45 p.m.

Cedar Creek will face Pleasantville in the seventh place round at 12 p.m.

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In the Hawaiian language, there exists a fundamental proverb: i kaʻōlelo nō ke ola, i ka ʻōlelo nō ka make. “In the language there is life, in the language there is death.” 

While it’s predominantly said to illustrate the need to perpetuate ʻōlelo Hawaiʻi (Hawaiian language) for the sake of Native survival and empowerment, a secondary interpretation is equally important: our language — what we say or claim — has tangible, sometimes critical, impacts. 

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The idea of language’s ability to affect and transform our communities is especially relevant when looking at the University’s current advocacy for Indigenous representation and empowerment. As it stands, the University is doing nowhere near enough to educate its community about the Indigenous land it stands on or the Lenni-Lenape people native to it. Equally so, Princeton is not providing sufficient Indigenous educational resources to its full capacity. 

This is not to discredit the efforts that Princeton has made to expand its Indigenous educational and representational resources — like its growing prevalence of land acknowledgments or Indigenous courses — or to disregard the fact that some efforts require more time to be properly established. Yet, as Reverend Dr. J.R. Norwood, a former Tribal Councilman for the Nanticoke Lenni-Lenape, was quoted as saying in these pages, land acknowledgements (and, in my eyes, the University’s steps in other Indigenous-focused opportunities, too) “should be viewed as a beginning and not an ending.”

First, the University’s progress on land acknowledgements should be far from its “end” goal. In order to create a community more aware of the Native land it resides on, Princeton must set policies around land acknowledgements, rather than merely presenting them…

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Shawnee 30, Northern Burlington 28: Joe Papa threw two touchdowns and rushed for another two as visiting Shawnee (1-0, 0-0) opened the season with a win over Northern Burlington (0-1, 0-0) in a West Jersey League interdivision game Aug. 26.

Papa was 14-of-27 for 204 yards, including touchdown passes to Jimmy Potter and Ethan Krauss. Papa also scored on runs of one and 44 yards.

WJFL Interdivision

Aug. 26, Mansfield

Shawnee 30, Northern Burlington 28

Shawnee (1-0) 16-7-0-7 – 30

Northern (0-1) 6-0-0-22 – 28

NB: Sam Thomas 80 pass from Ronnie Borden (PAT no good)

S: Joe Papa 1 run (Darren Wu kick)

S: Jimmy Potter 4 pass from Papa (Wu kick)

S: Safety

S: Ethan Krauss 60 pass from Papa (Wu kick)

S: Papa 44 run (Wu kick)

NB: Clark Norway 10 run (Tim Willever kick)

NB: Clark Norway 9 run (Eddie Sadowski pass from Ryan Calolaro)

Holy Spirit 34, Cherokee 31: Mason Forte’s 23-yard field goal in the closing seconds lifted Holy Spirit (1-0, 0-0) past Cherokee (0-1, 0-0) in a Battle at the Beach game Aug. 28.

Brandon Boria rushed for 204 yards and a touchdown on 22 carries for the Chiefs, while quarterback Ryan Bender was 6-of-13 for 132 yards with two touchdowns and two interceptions.

Holy Spirit quarterback Sean Burns was 28-of-37 for 365 yards and four touchdowns.

Battle at the Beach

Aug. 28, Ocean City

Holy Spirit 34, Cherokee 31

Holy Spirit (1-0) 6-19-6-3 – 34

Cherokee (0-1) 10-7-14-0 – 31

C: Tommy Pajic 27 FG

HS: Jayden Llanos 27 pass from Sean Burns (kick failed)

C: Ryan Bender 15 run (Pajic kick)

HS: Jahcere Ward 18 run (Mason Forte kick)

C: Brandon Boria 52 run (Pajic kick)

HS: Khajuan Rosebourough 12 pass from Burns (kick failed)

HS: Christian Surles 22 pass from…

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FIELD HOCKEY

Moorestown 5, Lenape 1: Izzy Leese scored twice as visiting Moorestown (1-0, 0-0) downed Lenape (0-1, 0-0) to open the season in an Olympic Conference interdivision game Sept. 8.

Sierra Volpe scored for the Indians in the first quarter.

Olympic Interdivision

Sept. 8, Medford

Moorestown 5, Lenape 1

M’town (1-0) 1-2-1-1 – 5

Lenape (0-1) 1-0-0-0 – 1

Moorestown: Marley Procopio (assist Madison Berardi), Sydney Kowalczyk (assist Adelae Chierici), Ava Tilger (unassisted), Izzy Leese (assist Kowalczyk), Leese (assist Kowalczyk); Saves: Soph Mazza 11.

Lenape: Sierra Volpe (assist Emma O’Neill); Saves: Maddie Guerry 5.

Rancocas Valley 2, Seneca 1: Rancocas Valley (1-0, 0-0) edged host Seneca (1-0, 0-0) in the season opener for both teams in an Olympic Conference interdivision game Sept. 9.

Riley McClelland tied the game in the third quarter for the Golden Eagles.

Olympic Interdivision

Sept. 9, Tabernacle

Rancocas Valley 2, Seneca 1

Rancocas (1-0) 0-1-0-1 – 2

Seneca (0-1) 0-0-1-0 – 1

Rancocas Valley: Stephanie Pallante, Tula Ravikio; Saves: Tess Phillips 11.

Seneca: Riley McClelland (assist Kylee Donegan); Saves: Kelsey Besser 3.

Shawnee 2, Cherry Hill West 1, OT: Abby Davidson scored in overtime as Shawnee (1-0, 0-0) defeated visiting Cherry Hill West (0-1, 0-0) in a season-opening Olympic Conference interdivision game Sept. 9.

Olympic Interdivision

Sept. 9, Medford

Shawnee 2, Cherry Hill West 1, OT

C.H. West (0-1) 0-0-1-0-0 – 1

Shawnee (1-0) 1-0-0-0-1 – 2

Cherry Hill West: Lilly Legato (unassisted); Saves: Rebecca Armstrong 6.

Shawnee: Angie Cooker (assist Kayla Gray), Abby Davidson (unassisted); Saves: Quinlyn Moll 2.

Camden Catholic 10, Cherokee 0: Olivia Bent-Cole and Olivia Stazi scored two goals apiece as visiting Camden Catholic (1-0, 0-0) routed Cherokee (0-1, 0-0) in a season-opening Olympic Conference interdivision game Sept. 9.

Olympic Interdivision

Sept. 10, Marlton

Camden Catholic 10, Cherokee 0

Catholic (1-0)…

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PERKASIE — Being able to make the rules doesn’t put the municipality above those rules, borough officials said at Perkasie Borough Council’s Sept. 6 meeting.

“We make ourselves follow the same rules as everyone else,” Borough Manager Andrea Coaxum said.

That includes the rules for a planned digital electronic sign at the amphitheater the borough opened this year in Lenape Park.

“We make ourselves apply for permits all the time,” Coaxum said, “and this time our zoning officer denied the permit.”

The Perkasie Borough Zoning Hearing Board is now being asked to approve variances to allow the sign, she said. The hearing will be 7:30 p.m. Monday, Sept. 26.

Four variances are being requested, Doug Rossino, Perkasie’s engineer, said.

“One is for the size of the sign,” he said.

Others are to allow the electronic sign and to allow scrolling, he said.

“The big thing was the timing,” Rossino said. “The borough ordinance requires one minute between each change on the sign.”

The borough is asking to allow the message to change every 15 seconds, “which seems more realistic if you want to have somebody read more than one item as they go by,” Rossino said.

The sign would be used for announcements about amphitheater events and other borough information, council President Jim Ryder said.

Two street trees will have to be relocated as part of the plan, Rossino said.

In other matters at the meeting:

• Council approved a revision to the definition of disturbing the peace.

The change, which follows state court rulings that make part of the borough’s previous ordinance unenforceable, amends the borough’s ordinance to remove obscene language and loitering from the definition, Jeffrey Garton, the borough’s solicitor, said.

“It’s no longer disturbing the peace if you call somebody bad words, plus, just because you’re on…

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