Tag: Lenni Lenape

“We’re all aware of how much the world has changed over the last 250 years and just how tough the last couple of years have been for us,” she said. “The need for understanding our history has never, never been greater. The need for participating in our democracy has never been greater.”

Protest disrupts the parade

A short walk away, the Salute to America Independence Day parade headed down Market Street towards City Hall. As floats, dancers, musicians, and cultural groups made their way through Old City, abortion rights activists dressed in green disrupted the parade with green smoke bombs. While they were quickly escorted off of the parade route, organizer Miriam Oppenheimer from Rise Up for Abortion Rights didn’t seem deterred. Protestors from Rise Up for Abortion Rights jump into the beginnings of the Salute to Independence parade. (Sam Searles/WHYY)

“We are frustrated at the Supreme Court decision that was made restricting the rights of women to control their own bodies… today is supposed to be a day of independence, but if you’re saddled with an unwanted child, you are not independent,” she said.

“We definitely think that the government can codify Roe vs. Wade and make it permanently on the books so that this would never be a struggle again… we want to make a splash today because we need more people to take to the streets to announce their frustration and [also] ask where this is going to go. Who are they going to come after next?”

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The 16th Annual Zane Grey Festival. The free festival will be held on the grounds of Zane Grey Museum in Lackawaxen, Pennsylvania from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. on Saturday, July 16, 2022.

The Zane Grey Festival includes activities and events for children and adults throughout the day including:

Bill Streeter of the Delaware Valley Raptor Center will present a live birds of prey show from 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m

Brookvalley Farms will be offering horse-drawn wagon rides from 11:30 a.m. – 3:30 p.m.

Adam DePaul, Tribal Council Member and Story Keeper of the Lenape of Pennsylvania, will present The Past and Present of the Lenape in Pennsylvania from 12:15 p.m.- 12:45 p.m.

Upper Delaware Puppeteers will present A Wildlife Journey Down the Upper Delaware from 1:00 p.m. – 1:20 p.m.

Park Ranger Rachael Freundlich will lead a guided walk around Dolly’s Garden Path from 1:00 p.m.-1:30 p.m., highlighting the life of Dolly Grey, the woman behind Zane Grey.

Local musician Dan Engvaldsen will perform folk music from 1:30 – 3:30 p.m.

National Parks Conservation Association will hold interactive water table demonstrations from 10:30-10:45 a.m. and 1:30– 1:45 p.m. Ongoing throughout the day, staff from Steamtown National Historic Site will demonstrate the “Ring of Fire” and the state of Pennsylvania will host their interactive Wood Mobile.

There will be craft activities available for children of all ages, a children’s scavenger hunt, primitive skills demonstrations, weaving demonstrations, groundwater model demonstrations, kayak safety demos by the National Canoe Safety Patrol, and more. Zane Grey’s legacy of literature and sportsmanship lives on in Lackawaxen.

Learn more about the Western novelist from Lackawaxen and check out the new Little Free Library. Hamburgers, hotdogs, cold drinks, and much more will accompany the Honesdale National Bank’s fresh popcorn all day.

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One of the biggest automakers in the nation, Ford Motor Company, is being sued by the state of New Jersey for allegedly disposing waste on the territories of the Ramapough Lenape Nation, a federally recognized Native American tribe.

The company is accused of disposing thousands of tons of toxic paint sludge and other pollutants on the site of a former iron mine in northern New Jersey in the 1960s and 1970s. The lawsuit also claims the company donated or sold the land without disclosing the contamination. Tribal members claim that as a result, they have developed severe health issues like cancer and congenital disabilities.

However, these health problems aren’t the focus of the case. Instead, it demands compensation for the loss of natural resources and holds the automaker accountable for “deliberate acts or omissions taken with a wanton and willful disregard for the welfare of the residents of New Jersey.” 

The Environmental Protection Agency has found contaminants at the site, including lead, arsenic, and benzene. 

In a statement to Grist, a Ford spokesperson said, “Ford takes its environmental responsibility seriously and has shown that through our actions to address issues in Upper Ringwood. We understand this has affected the community and have worked cooperatively with the Borough of Ringwood, the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection, and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency while implementing the remediation plan stipulated by the EPA.”

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The South Jersey Tennis Coaches Association has selected its All-South Jersey and All-Group teams for the 2022 season.

All-South Jersey

Singles

Austin Snyder, Absegami

Brett Schuster, Cherry Hill East

Derrin Lerner, Cherry Hill East

Maxwell Dombrowski, Cherry Hill East

Mike Glowacki, Eastern

Ryan Erhardt, Haddon Twp.

Milan Karajovic, Lenape

Ethan Kaligis, Lenape

Kunaal Jaganathan, Northern Burlington

Landon Wall, Seneca

Doubles

Nathan Belitsky and Benjamin Xi, Cherry Hill East

Zach Van Meter and Garv Singhal, Cherry Hill East

Sohum Sapra and Franco Leehive, Eastern

Cyrus Marwaha and Samir Marwaha, Haddonfield

Jason Rekant and Nick DiMarino, Moorestown

Group 4

Singles

Antonio Strafella, Atlantic City

Brett Schuster, Cherry Hill East

Derrin Lerner, Cherry Hill East

Maxwell Dombrowski, Cherry Hill East

Mike Glowacki, Eastern

Jonah Schoeffler, Eastern

Milan Karajovic, Lenape

Ethan Kaligis, Lenape

Logan Knasiak, Lenape

Jacob Lewis, Millville

Doubles

Edward Wang and Samuel Snyder, Cherokee

Nahtan Belitsky and Benjamin Xi, Cherry Hill East

Zach Van Meter and Garv Singhal, Cherry Hill East

Sohum Sapra and Franco Leehive, Eastern

Jack Arena and Nikit Chhita, Kingsway

Deen Kasuba and Edrees Zeweri, Lenape

Group 3

Singles

Austin Snyder, Absegami

Michael Walton, Mainland

Alex Wise, Mainland

Aidan Nemiroff, Moorestown

Ajay Shah, Moorestown

Kunaal Jaganathan, Northern Burlington

Rishi Natarajan, Northern Burlington

Charles DiCicco, Ocean City

Doubles

Joe Dib and Chris Guillen, Mainland

Aaryan Deshpande and Jack Palaia, Mainland

Jason Rekant and Nick DiMarino, Moorestown

Nikhil Arayath and Sucheth Seethalla, Northern Burlington

Sawyer Lomax and Colin Bowman, Ocean City

Michael Haussman and Sean Sipera, Shawnee

Group 2

Singles

Sean Snyder, Cedar Creek

Samuel Falk, Cumberland

Andrew McWilliams, Delsea

Jack Gilmore, Haddonfield

Matt O’Leary, Haddonfield

Jason Solak, Haddonfield

Wesley Mazzucco, Haddon Heights

Kyle Espina, Oakcrest

Landon Wall, Seneca

Nate Bassett, West Deptford

Matt Connelly, West Deptford

Noah Connelly, West Deptford

Doubles

Cyrus Marwaha and Samir Marwaha, Haddonfield

Matt Murschell and Chase Degillio, Haddonfield

Christopher Webb and Jackson Bauer, Seneca

Andrew Eagle and Nick Beecroft, West Deptford

Henry Poblete and Chase Struzynski, West Deptford

Group 1

Singles

Bill Chew, Audubon

Ben Popso, Florence

Aidan MacIntosh, Florence

Ryan Erhardt, Haddon Twp.

Derek Chan, Haddon Twp.

Christian Erhardt, Haddon Twp.

Xander Hardin, Middle Twp.

Zack Kraemer, Pitman

Doubles

Micah Angehr and Bram Harris, Collingswood

Eamonn Glynn and Jack Fitzpatrick, Florence

Dermot Sheehan and Nicholas Cosenza, Haddon Twp.

Steve Berrodin and Will Casterline, Middle Twp.

Aiden Hausmann and Chase Rollins, Pitman

Non-Public

Singles

Joe Deiter, Bishop Eustace

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FIRST TEAM 

Emma Bunting, Lenape junior attack 

Emma Bunting is a goal waiting to happen. Lenape’s primary distributor, Bunting can also score with the best players in South Jersey. Bunting led South Jersey with 82 assists, while adding an astonishing 77 goals. A US Lacrosse All-American selection, the junior is committed to play at the University of Southern California with her twin, Lily. 

Emma Dengler, Moorestown senior attack  

Dengler became the Quakers on-field leader by necessity. When season-ending knee injuries took three of her teammates the offensive lineup, it was Dengler who took on the primary scoring duties while guiding inexperienced backups to a state final appearance. The University of Massachusetts recruit scored 49 goals with 16 assists for the South Group 3 champions. 

Aly Mascolo, Cherokee senior attack  

Mascolo was the lightning to Delaney Jackson’s thunder in Cherokee’s dual-threat attack. A skilled and slippery attacker, Mascolo scored matched Jackson with 77 goals and added eight assists to the Cherokee cause. A US Lacrosse All-American, she will move on to Coastal Carolina University upon graduation. 

Gianna Monaco, Lenape senior attack 

The state’s premier goal scorer, Monaco had an astounding 130 goals this spring and finished her three-year, COVID-limited career with 312 goals. The best offensive show in all of New Jersey, Monaco will enroll at the University of Florida after graduation. 

Lily Bunting, Lenape junior midfield  

Don’t make the mistake of thinking of Lily Bunting as the other twin. True, she scored ‘only’ 60 goals for the South Group 4 champions, but her role included so much more than just scoring or dishing out 16 assists. A true two-way midfielder, this US Lacrosse All-American will enroll at the University of Southern California with twin sister Emma. 

Emily Hazel, Cherry Hill West senior midfield  

No players in South Jersey blossomed more this spring than Hazel. A draw control specialist and occasional offensive support…

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Kimberly Anne (Harms) Spruill of Moorestown, NJ, formerly of Mt. Laurel, Medford, Southampton and Marlton, NJ, passed away peacefully at her home on Saturday, June 18, 2022. Born in Newport, RI, on January 15, 1970, she was the first, and much anticipated child of a young Naval officer and his wife, Stephen and Patricia (Kerlin) Harms. Kim was the first child in the next generation of both families. Throughout her life she was a beloved daughter, granddaughter, sister, niece, cousin, wife, Mother and friend. Kim was a graduate of Lenape High School, Class of 1988, in Medford, NJ, and Kutztown University, Class of 1992, in Kutztown, PA. Seeking adventure, her first job after college was a flight attendant for a charter airline, World Airways, based in Philadelphia. During her employment she traveled the world. Her favorite destination was Paris, France. Her employment there ended after she met a handsome young man who would later become her husband, and she could not bear to leave him for Paris or any other destination. She was predeceased in death by her precious son, Scott D. Spruill, Jr., and grandparents, Frank and Clare Harms and Raymond and Constance Kerlin. She is survived by her two beautiful daughters whom she dearly loved, Brooke E. Spruill and Ava R. Spruill, her ex-husband, Scott D. Spruill, her parents, her beloved brother, Stephen, her loving sister, Melissa Harms Liggett and husband Andrew, many special aunts, uncles, cousins, and a few very close friends, namely Theresa, Melina, and Stephanie. When her children were young Kim loved being involved in their activities. She was frequently room Mother as well as cheerleading coach for several years. Her kids were her world. Her contagious laugh is legendary among family and friends. As a young athlete, she was an excellent gymnast and was…

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China’s influencers will now be required to prove they are qualified when giving medicinal, financial or legal advice on their social media.

On Tuesday, China’s State Administration of Radio and Television and the Ministry of Culture and Tourism released a joint statement outlining a new “code of conduct.”

The new mandate requires any influencer livestreaming content that calls for a “higher professional level,” to be qualified in the area.

Streaming platforms will now be responsible for reviewing a streamer’s qualifications and approving the content before broadcast.

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Also included in the code of conduct are rules against criticizing the Communist Party or traditional Chinese culture and the prohibition of posting content that threatens national security.

No livestream can show “excessive” horror or be too sexually provocative, and livestreamers cannot promote smoking or drinking, participate in activities that show excessive food waste or engage in scandals or gossip.

Failure to abide by the code could lead to becoming permanently banned from livestreaming as well as being featured on Beijing’s public shame list of violators.

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The news comes amid China’s recent efforts to tighten regulations on online content.

Earlier this month the country’s cybersecurity regulator, Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC), unveiled its new initiative to counter cyberbullying and illicit, online content featuring pornography, suicide and violence.

Last month, China announced its ban on children under 16 years old from buying online gifts for influencers and watching live streaming content after 10 p.m.

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Carl LaVO  |  Special to the Bucks County Courier Times

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Bucks County hosts its 39th annual senior games

Bucks County hosted its 2022 Senior Games from June 1 to 17 to help ages 50+ stay active and healthy.

Ella Castronuovo, Bucks County Courier Times

Where can you take flight in a glider or an antique biplane in Southeastern Pennsylvania? Tinicum Township, How about lifting off into the blue in a Boeing 737? Also Tinicum Township.

True — but in two different Tinicum townships.

The former is home to Van Sant Airport and glider field in Bucks County; the latter home to Philadelphia International Airport in Delaware County. Confusing — at least to me from Florida, where there is no such duplication in 411 incorporated towns.

It got me to wondering how Tinicum-times-two came about in Pennsylvania. The answer can be found in the Native American term for “island” – tennakonk.

Colonists of the future Delaware County disembarked in 1643 on a large island in the river where they founded the first recorded European settlement in Pennsylvania. The Swedish settlers spelled their new community “Tinicum,” approximating what the natives seemed to be saying was the name of the island.

Many years later and 63 miles upriver, English colonists came ashore on another island. Again,…

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RINGWOOD, N.J. (AP) — New Jersey officials sued Ford Motor Co. on Thursday, alleging that the automaker contaminated the ancestral homeland of a Native American tribe by dumping paint sludge and other pollutants into a former mine.

The action in state court seeks unspecified damages to restore the land, and to compensate the state and local communities for losses they sustained when natural resources were damaged.

The suit accuses Dearborn, Michigan-based Ford of dumping contaminants at the former Ringwood Mine site, a 500-acre site that encompasses the homelands of the Ramapough Lenape Nation, a tribe formally recognized by the state.

Tribe members attended Thursday’s news conference and spoke of years of illnesses and deaths they attribute to contamination of their land.

“Can you promise my community a future?” tribe member Angel Stefancik asked New Jersey officials during the news conference. “I’ve lived on contaminated land my whole life. I want the kind of land where my ancestors grew up, where you can walk barefoot. I want my rabbits, my toads, fruit trees.

“I lost my grandmother to cancer,” she said. “I’m 22 and I have a long list of chronic conditions. It’s so hard living in that area, but this is my land. I was born there and I will die there.”

The state’s lawsuit alleges that Ford purchased Ringwood Mines in 1965 to use it as a landfill where it could dispose of hazardous waste generated by its auto assembly plant in Mahwah, which was one of the largest auto assembly plants in the U.S.

Between 1967 and 1974, the lawsuit asserts, Ford disposed thousands of tons…

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RINGWOOD, N.J. (AP) — New Jersey officials sued Ford Motor Co. on Thursday, alleging that the automaker contaminated the ancestral homeland of a Native American tribe by dumping paint sludge and other pollutants into a former mine.

The action in state court seeks unspecified damages to restore the land, and to compensate the state and local communities for losses they sustained when natural resources were damaged.

The suit accuses Dearborn, Michigan-based Ford of dumping contaminants at the former Ringwood Mine site, a 500-acre site that encompasses the homelands of the Ramapough Lenape Nation, a tribe formally recognized by the state.

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Tribe members attended Thursday’s news conference and spoke of years of illnesses and deaths they attribute to contamination of their land.

“Can you promise my community a future?” tribe member Angel Stefancik asked New Jersey officials during the news conference. “I’ve lived on contaminated land my whole life. I want the kind of land where my ancestors grew up, where you can walk barefoot. I want my rabbits, my toads, fruit trees.

“I lost my grandmother to cancer,” she said. “I’m 22 and I have a long list of chronic conditions. It’s so hard living in that area, but this is my land. I was born there and I will die there.”

The state’s lawsuit alleges that Ford purchased Ringwood Mines in 1965 to use it as a landfill where it could dispose of hazardous waste generated by its auto assembly plant in Mahwah, which was one of the largest auto assembly plants in the U.S.

Between 1967 and 1974, the lawsuit asserts, Ford disposed thousands of tons of toxic paint sludge in the forests and on the grounds within the Ringwood Mines, as well as in its abandoned mineshafts and pits. Other pollutants were…

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