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Kirkwood Lake
Sherwin Williams agrees to
help with clean up. PAGE 14
KYLE CARNEY/The Sun
Dylan Mitnick announces the graduates of the White Team from the Voorhees Middle School on June 26. The ceremony featured the
Voorhees Select Choir singing the National Anthem, speeches by Board of Education President Richard Nelson and an awards presen-
tation.
Congratulations graduates!
Voorhees
vet honored
as last
survivor of
plane crash
By KYLE CARNEY
The Sun
On June 21, nearly 200 people
gathered at Canvey Island to
honor the crews of two B-17 Fly-
ing Fortresses, which collided
over the river Thames on June 19,
1944. At the center of this remem-
brance ceremony was Voorhees
World War II veteran Richard W.
Andrews, who is the last survivor
of the crash.
As the years have passed, I just
happened to be hanging on to the
end, Andrews said. Its an
honor to be remembered and it
was an honor to serve with those
men who lost their lives that day.
Andrews was born and raised
in Haddonfield, graduating from
Haddonfield Memorial High
School in 1941, before hitchhiking
north to work at Republic, where
he hoped to work on airplanes.
I was always fascinated with
airplanes, he said. As a kid, I
built model airplanes, and when I
got a little older, I used to head
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named to the deans list at Robert
Morris University for the spring
2014 semester.
Shavon Peterson of Voorhees
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Robert Morris University for the
spring 2014 semester.
Siona Stone of Voorhees
earned a degree in theatre studies
from Ithaca College's School of
Humanities and Sciences. She
was also named to the deans list
for the spring 2014 semester.
Alea Roberts of Voorhees was
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the spring 2014 semester.
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named to the presidents list at
LIM College for the spring 2014
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So, after high school, I knew
that I wanted to do something
with them.
Andrews fulfilled that dream,
working on P-47 Thunderbolts at
Republic before being drafted for
the military.
After a six-month deferment
that allowed him to continue his
work on the airplanes, Andrews
made his way overseas.
Andrews was set to fly 30 mis-
sions during his three months of
combat. It was on mission 29 that
the fateful plane crash happened.
Our own plane crashed into
us, Andrews said. And, as luck
ANDREWS
Continued from page 1
Andrews is the last survivor
Special to The Sun
Richard Andrews is pictured speaking with Queen Elizabeth in 1944. please see CRASH, page 10
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As the weather heats up, so do the activi-
ties in Voorhees.
From May 1 to May 11, the Voorhees
Town Center hosted a carnival to benefit
the NephCure Foundation. Thousands of
people enjoyed great food, good music and
exciting rides to benefit a wonderful cause.
On May 6, I enjoyed the Courier-Posts
Best of South Jersey Celebration at The
Mansion. Several Voorhees businesses
were honored, including the Voorhees
Town Center as the Best Shopping Mall.
On May 9, I attended the Boomerang
Lunch at Kellman
Brown Academy, a
program that en-
courages the stu-
dents to become
more environmen-
tally aware.
On the morning
of May 10, I joined
several concerned
residents as part
of the Kirkwood
Lake Clean-Up.
The group picked up trash in the areas sur-
rounding the lake in an effort to improve
the quality of life and increase use of the
area by our residents. Later in the day, I
helped cut the ribbon for the grand open-
ing of Republic Bank on White Horse
Road. Republic Bank has been an active
member of our community and is the
sponsor of our Shop Voorhees Program.
On the morning of May 13, I attended
the meeting of the Key Communicators of
in our opinion
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INTERIMPUBLISHER
I
f you have a child in public school,
chances are that you are well-in-
formed as to what the Partnership
for Assessment of Readiness for Col-
lege and Careers, or PARCC, is.
As a quick refresher, its a new on-
line platform that students in grades
four through eight will take instead of
their former state standardized tests.
PARCC aligns with the new Common
Core State Standards, which has more
rigorous benchmarks for student
learning.
No longer will students take the tra-
ditional tests we grew up with a
Scantron form that we used a No. 2
pencil to complete. Instead, students
will take math and language arts tests
completely online.
PARCC testing begins in the fall at
public schools throughout New Jersey,
apparently whether local school dis-
tricts are technologically ready for it
or not. Some of the districts we cover
in both Princeton and South Jersey
have expressed concern about their
readiness for administering the tests.
Thats a problem. But, as these same
districts have said, they dont have a
choice. The PARCC testing is signed
into state law, and there is no turning
back at this point.
One of the more concerning aspects
of PARCC, though, isnt how its ad-
ministered or the content of the tests
themselves; its the fact that the re-
sults of the tests will be given major
weight in the judgment of teachers
and administrators.
The formula in place says student
progress on state testing will make up
30 percent of an evaluation for teach-
ers in grades four through eight.
While we arent against using test re-
sults to judge teachers, at least in part,
we dont believe that now is the time to
dive head-first into holding them ac-
countable for testing for which their
district might not be prepared.
The state Assembly passed a bill last
week that would delay this judgment
on teachers until the kinks are ironed
out. The state Senate delayed a vote,
opting instead to wait for direction
from Gov. Christie, whos expected to
issue an executive order reducing the
weight of the test results in teacher
evaluations in the short term.
We back this thinking 100 percent.
Having some objective measurers
such as test results to evaluate teach-
ers is valuable.
In the past, all anyone had to go on
was subjective matters. But giving
such heavy weight to test results when
there are so many issues surrounding
the administration of that test is un-
fair.
Its the states job to ensure its
school districts are up to speed on
PARCC before it starts using it against
our teachers.
Delay the judgment of teachers
PARCC testing needs to be ironed out first, before we hold our teachers to results
Your thoughts
What are your thoughts on the PARCC
tests, Common Core or using test results
as a measuring stick for teachers? Share
your thoughts in a letter to the editor.
Voorhees activities heat up in summer
please see ANNUAL, page 7
Voorhees, a roundtable discus-
sion among key opinion leaders
in our community who identify
public opinion about the schools
and pass along information about
the schools to our community.
On May 17, the Annual Bocce-
BrookE Tournament was held at
Kirkwood Park, bringing togeth-
er our townships neighborhoods
for a fun day of bocce, food and
drink. Later in the day, I enjoyed
cutting the ribbon for the grand
opening of the Lone Dawg Caf
on Route 561, and later in the day
enjoyed being a part of the grand
opening of the Fresh Word King-
dom Assemblies Church at 110
Kresson-Gibbsboro Road in
Voorhees. Another wonderful ad-
dition to our diverse religious
community.
On May 21, I attended the
monthly lunch meeting of the
Voorhees Business Association at
The Mansion. The VBA provides
a forum for business persons and
businesses in the Voorhees area
to meet and to share and discuss
concerns and interests of a civic,
commercial, cultural and eco-
nomic nature. Later in the day, I
attended the monthly meeting of
the Camden County Mayors As-
sociation. The group affords area
mayors the opportunity to dis-
cuss common issues and share
useful information concerning
our respective municipalities.
Memorial Day weekend started
on May 23 when I was honored to
speak about the meaning of Me-
morial Day at a special assembly
at E.T. Hamilton School in
Voorhees.
Later in the day, the Annual
Voorhees Memorial Day Soccer
Tournament organized by the
Voorhees Soccer Association
kicked off with teams from all
over the east coast converging on
our community to participate in a
first-class event.
On Memorial Day, I was hon-
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