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CLOCKWISE, FROM BOTTOM LEFT: Jacob Foley, 11, poses with a police vest and shield

during an education session at the inaugural Cherry Hill Junior Police Academy in July.Kevin Gillooly of Barclay Farm glides ahead during the butterfly leg of the men’s 15-18

200-meter individual medley at the 2015 Cherry Bowl. The CHYAA White Sox hold up the

Mayor’s Cup trophy after defeating the Cherry Hill Atlantic Tigers, 4-1, for the 2015 title.

Annabelle, 4, and Madelyn Neuman, 2, play a game of ball toss during the Cherry Hill

Public Library’s 10th Birthday Bash. Rosie Dickinson, 3, goes down the slide at Jake’s

Place playground. Cherry Hill resident and animal activist Alan Braslow shows off adopt-

able Aiko at P&T’s Puppy Love Adoption Center. Julia Feldman, 5, chose a ladybug for her

face paint design at the 2015 Sustainable Cherry Hill Earth Festival. Cherry Hill West’s

Danny Buckwalter snatches a rebound over Cherry Hill East’s Tim Perry in a playoff gamein March. Lee Rosen-Swell, serving as mayor during Cherry Hill Township’s annual

Student Government Day in February, goes over the night’s agenda with Jonee Matella,

serving as a councilwoman. Students from Cherry Hill West transform half of the stands

at Cherry Hill East into a sea of purple and white as the Lions battled the Cougars in the

boys’ basketball South Jersey Group IV quarterfinals in March. Valerie Velasco drives the

ball into the outfield for Cherry Hill East. Cherry Hill East’s Dillon Conrad tries to throw

down Cherry Hill West’s Patrick Bean during the 106-pound match at a wrestling meet.

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embers of the Cherry Hill communi-ty didn’t always agree when it cameto hot-button topics in 2015.

When the year began, Cherry HillTownship was still fighting to pre-serve Woodcrest Country Club. Cher-ry Hill teachers and the Cherry HillBoard of Education spent the entire

year negotiating a new contract. Residents spent agood portion of the summer protesting the openingof a puppy store. Parents and school officials ralliedto get turf fields installed at Cherry Hill’s highschools.

The past year saw lots of discussion and deliber-ating, but also many resolutions and actions. De-spite their disagreements, community membersfound a way to come together and work to resolvetheir differences.

Before the calendar flips over to a new year, let’stake a look back at Cherry Hill’s biggest stories from

2015.

Township reaches settlementon Woodcrest Country Club

With the passage of two resolutions, Cherry HillTownship Council ended a more than two-year longdispute over Woodcrest Country Club.

On June 8, council approved a pair of tentativeagreements with Cherry Hill Land Associates LLC,

Fair Share Housing Center and the Camden andBurlington County branches of the NAACP to re-solve litigation regarding Woodcrest Country Cluband affordable housing in the township.

In one agreement between the township andWoodcrest Country Club owner and operator Cher-ry Hill Land Associates, the township purchased thedevelopment rights of the property and announcedthe property would be kept as a golf course. CHLAwould continue to operate Woodcrest Country Club.

Looking back on the happenings of Cherry Hill

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“It will permanently preservethe Woodcrest Country Clubproperty,” Mayor Chuck Cahnsaid.

Cherry Hill Land Associates,an affiliate of First MontgomeryGroup of Marlton, purchasedWoodcrest Country Club in May

2013 at a bankruptcy auction for$10.1 million. CHLA proposed tobuild more than 800 affordablehousing units on the site andsued the township for the right tobuild on the property. The town-ship opposed any development.

The township in return wouldwork with CHLA on redevelopingunderutilized sites such as theHampton Road and Park Boule-vard redevelopment areas in the

future.“There are a number of exist-

ing developed but underutilizedproperties in Cherry Hill thatneed to be redeveloped and revi-talized,” Cahn said. “This iswhere we should promote devel-opment, not our open space.”

In the agreement with FairShare Housing Center and theNAACP, the township was given a

judgment of compliance and re-pose. The settlement states Cher-

ry Hill has satisfied its affordablehousing obligations and preventsdevelopers from demanding theright to develop on a specificproperty in the future.

In return, Fair Share HousingCenter is permitted to move for-ward with a 54-unit affordablehousing development in the ShortHills neighborhood.

“As one of the most expensiveand most segregated states in the

country, expanding access tohigh-quality housing in thrivingneighborhoods is the key to fight-ing inequality and advancingcivil rights in New Jersey,” saidKevin Walsh, Fair Share HousingCenter’s associate director. “Thissettlement will help hundreds of families achieve the dream of sending their children to goodschools and improving access togood-paying jobs.”

“Access to high-quality hous-

ing with access to transit andgood jobs is one of the most press-ing civil rights issues facing NewJersey,” said Colandus Francis,president of the Camden CountyNAACP. “This settlement willhelp thousands of lower-incomefamilies in South Jersey.”

Both settlements were ap-proved in New Jersey Superior

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please see YEAR’S, page 3

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Teachers contract standoffenters second year

The entire 2015 calendar yearcame and went, yet the CherryHill Education Association stilldid not have a new contract final-ized with the Cherry Hill Board of

Education.For the first half of 2015, nego-

tiations continued on a regularbasis between the two sides. Littlenews came out of the negotia-tions, other than the two sideswere still communicating.

On June 1, negotiations brokedown. Two days later, the board of education released a statement onthe Cherry Hill Public Schools’website, saying the CHEA negoti-

ating team walked out of theJune 1 session after the board ex-tended an offer that included anincreased first-year salary, afourth-year salary offer and thewithdrawal of several proposals.

At the June 9 board of educa-tion work session, hundreds of CHEA members came to expresstheir displeasure with how nego-tiations proceeded. CHEA Presi-dent Martin Sharofsky said hewas unhappy with the board’sstatement.

“Your posting was against

everything that we had agreedupon,” Sharofsky said. “Whatgoes on in the negotiations roomshould stay in the negotiationsroom.”

The CHEA negotiating chairsaid the board’s salary offer re-mained below the county average,and CHEA felt it would not beable to reach a settlement.

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Negotiations at impasse on June 1

“We could not see any compro-mise from the side of the board tohelp a settlement be reached,”

said Jay Young, negotiating chairfor CHEA. “This is why the meet-ing ended.”

Steve Robbins, chair of theboard of education’s negotiatingcommittee, said the board’ssalary increase was very close tothe county average, and the boardwas willing to compromise andincrease its salary offer further if it received additional concessionsfrom CHEA.

“Instead of engaging in thosediscussions when we were willingto increase our offer, the associa-tion abruptly walked out,” Rob-bins said.

Following the June 1 meeting,negotiations were declared at animpasse, and a formal hearing be-fore a state-appointed fact-finderwas scheduled for September.

The two sides did not meet dur-ing the summer. When studentsand teachers returned to schoolin the fall, frustration over thelack of a new contract for theteachers began to grow.

A new page named “Parents

for Cherry Hill Teachers” ap-peared on Facebook on Sept. 2. In

just a few days, the page receivedmore than 1,000 likes and becamefilled with posts from frustratedparents who wanted to see an endto the impasse.

Robert Weaver, the father of aCooper Elementary first-gradestudent, started the page to giveparents a central location to com-municate and organize events.

“Parents have been posting onthe page or sending private mes-sages,” Weaver said. “They begansaying, ‘why don’t we wear blackshirts like our teachers do and

rally?’”Students and parents began to

speak frequently at board meet-ings, expressing their displeasureabout the cancellation of somestudent activities.

“Activities that are run by vol-untary teacher participation areby the choice of the teacher, evenwhen the contract is settled,”

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Puppy store turns into adoption center

board president Carol Matlack said at aSeptember meeting. “Some teachers havemade a choice at this point not to volun-teer. That is their right to choose, and theboard cannot direct them to do otherwise.”

After not meeting for a few months,CHEA and the board met again in late Oc-tober. A few weeks later, recommendationsfrom state-appointed fact-finder ThomasHartigan were made. Both CHEA and theboard agreed to accept Hartigan’s sugges-tions.

The board agreed to accept the recom-mendations once it heard back from CHEAabout a procedural issue involving the dis-trict’s compound drug management plan.On Dec. 7, the two sides agreed to draft aresolution to the issue and move forward

with writing a new contract based on thefact-finding recommendations. CHEA andthe board of education are expected to re-

view and vote on a new contract in thenear future.“I’m glad that we’re moving forward to-

ward a settlement,” Sharofsky said at aDec. 8 board of education meeting.

“We look forward to signing a contractand bringing negotiations to a close,” Mat-lack said.

Puppy store remodeled into adoptioncenter for rescue dogs

Teachers’ contract rallies weren’t theonly gatherings in Cherry Hill this year.

Throughout the summer, groups of resi-dents were protesting outside a new petstore named Pat’s Puppies.

Cherry Hill resident and animal activistAlan Braslow led the group, saying thestore was likely selling dogs from puppy

mills.After months of protests, store owner

Pat Youmans had enough. He approached

Braslow in September and asked whatcould be done to end the protest. Braslowsaid he had an idea to transform Pat’s Pup-pies into something completely different.

“The initial thought was never to shutthe store down,” Braslow said. “The goalwas to get the store to change its businessmodel.”

Pat’s Puppies closed in September andthen re-opened in late October as P&T’sPuppy Love Adoption Center. Instead of selling dogs from commercial breeders, thecenter now accepts dogs from rescue or-ganizations in the United States and is

making them available to area residentsfor adoption.

“I wanted to turn over a new leaf,”Youmans said. “I wanted to try something

PUPPYContinued from page 4

please see HIGH, page 10

Most of us are lucky enough to

spend the holidays with our

loved ones. Most of us are

lucky enough to be able to give and re-

ceive presents, to put a home-cooked

meal on the table and to sit back, relax

and enjoy what’s important in life.

There are many, though, living righthere in our state who are not as lucky

as we are. And these are the people

who need our help the most.

So as we are about to put 2015 behind

us and enter a New Year, let’s all re-

solve to give back more in 2016.

We like to think of ourselves as giv-

ing people, but compared to the rest

of the country, that’s just not the

case.

A study released recently by the Cor-

poration for National and Community

Service and the National Conference

on Citizenship found that 22.5 percentof New Jersey residents volunteered

their time in 2014.

That ranked us near the bottom,

45th, in the nation. Utah topped the list

at 46 percent.

The study found that 1.61 million

residents volunteered a total of more

than 225.5 million hours of service.

The stats counted only non-paid work

as volunteering.

These numbers did get better since

2013, even if New Jersey’s overall rank-

ing did not, as 1.45 million residents

volunteered a total of more than 206

million hours of service that year.

The good news is it doesn’t take

much to change this trend. Volunteer-

ing doesn’t have to take up all of one’s

free time, and it doesn’t have to include

big monetary donations.Volunteering can be as simple as

pitching in at a soup kitchen, coaching

a Little League team or collecting trash

at a public park. Doing a little can go a

long way. What may seem as not much

to most of us can have a huge impact

to someone else.

So while you’re compiling your list

of To Do’s for 2016, add giving back to

the community by volunteering. You’ll

be surprised at the impact you can

have.

in our opinion

Let’s resolve to give back in 2016For the New Year, we could all give some of our time to lend a helping hand

Share your thoughts

Do you volunteer, or do you plan tovolunteer in the New Year? Share yourthoughts on this, and other topics,through a letter to the editor.


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Kingsway Church: Worship servicesat 8:30, 10 and 11:30 a.m. 2701Chapel Ave., Cherry Hill.

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The center is a not-for-profit or-ganization. To keep the centeropen, adoption fees ranging from$200 to $600 were set, with all of the money going toward the orga-nization’s expenses.

“We knew that a rescue modelstore, with the community’s sup-port, could be a good businessmodel,” Braslow said. “We need

to get the community to under-stand they need to support thistype of effort.”

The puppies offered for adop-

tion at the store came from organ-izations from all over the UnitedStates. The first batch of dogscame from places such as Ten-

nessee and Puerto Rico.Shortly after the adoption cen-

ter’s opening, Cherry Hill Coun-cil approved a new ordinancebanning the operation of storesselling dogs and cats from com-mercial breeding facilities. Busi-nesses may now only sell dogsand cats obtained from either res-cue organizations or animal carefacilities.

Braslow is hoping adoptioncenters such as P&T’s continue to

open in other areas of New Jer-sey, and he is working with othermunicipalities to ban the sale of commercially bred animals.

“There are 30 more puppystores in New Jersey, and we’regoing to go after each and everyone of them,” Braslow said.

Turf fields at Cherry Hill Eastand West get the green light

After hearing feedback fromparents and community mem-bers upset about the state of thesports fields at Cherry Hill HighSchools East and West, CherryHill school and township officialstook action in 2015.

In February, a board of educa-tion-formed athletics facilities

committee presented a proposalto the Cherry Hill Board of Edu-

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cation’s strategic planning com-mittee where the school districtand township would team up toinstall turf on the football fieldsof both high schools.

In the proposal, the townshipand school district would split the

cost of the project. The fieldswould be used for football, soccer,field hockey and lacrosse. Thefields would be open for CherryHill residents to use when thehigh schools were not usingthem.

The plan had plenty of supportfrom township and school offi-cials from the beginning.

“We think there’s value in help-ing our schools to preserve theirinfrastructure,” township direc-tor of communications Bridget

Palmer said.“We feel very strongly we

should accept the proposal andinstall the turf fields,” CherryHill East Principal Lawyer Chap-man said.

After months of discussion be-tween the school district andtownship, the project was ap-proved in early fall. The townshipis managing the constructionprocess. Construction is sched-uled to begin in the spring, andthe fields are scheduled for com-pletion in time for the 2016 fallsports season.

Both the school district andtownship are also discussing asecond phase of the project as thecalendar turns to 2016. Phase twowould include the installation of lights, new bleachers and a fieldhouse at Cherry Hill East and anew parking lot and parking lotlight at Cherry Hill West.

Mayor Cahn, Democrats

re-elected in townshipAs they had done in every elec-

tion for more 20 years, the Demo-cratic Party swept the 2015 Cher-ry Hill Township mayoral and

council elections.Democratic incumbent Mayor

Chuck Cahn and council mem-bers Brian Bauerle, MelindaKane and Sara Lipsett all won re-election, defeating their Republi-can challengers.

In the mayoral race, Cahn de-feated Republican candidatePhilip Guerrieri Sr. easily, win-ning 72.4 percent of the vote. Inthe council election, Lipsett,

Kane and Bauerle all earned be-tween 20 percent and 22 percent of the vote. Republican candidatesNancy O’Dowd, Stephen Cohenand Rick Short earned between 11percent and 13 percent.

Cahn attributed the victory toresidents being happy with whathis administration achieved dur-ing his first term in office. Someof the achievements he was mostproud of were the Mayor’s Well-ness Program, preservation of open space and keeping munici-

pal taxes flat for four consecutiveyears.

“People didn't know me fouryears ago,” Cahn said, “In thepast four years, we've proven

what we can do in this town.”Lipsett felt residents were

pleased with how the townshiphas been run when she spoke topeople during the campaignprocess.

“It's been clicking for the resi-dents,” Lipsett said. “They're real-ly in tune with what we're doing.”

Cohen said he wasn’t surprisedhe and the other Republican can-didates lost the election.

“Cherry Hill is an overwhelm-ing Democrat town,” Cohen said.“Unless and until there is a tip-ping point of taxes, building,school issues and safety, therewill not be any change in govern-ment.”

Short ran for office for the firsttime this year, though he said hefelt the same type of defeat whenhe fought to have the state’s redlight cameras shut off in CherryHill.

“The voters in Cherry Hill

have spoken, and, unfortunatelyfor me, I’ve lost for a secondtime,” Short said. “The first time

please see JOE, page 12

MAYORContinued from page 10

Mayor Cahn, Democratsre-elected in Cherry Hill


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I was trying to get the Cherry Hillcouncil to shut off the cameras. Icouldn't convince Cherry Hill vot-ers that I was the best person for aCherry Hill council seat. I willcontinue my effort with morevigor, making sure red light cam-eras never return in New Jersey.”

Cahn, Lipsett, Kane and Bauer-le will be sworn in to their newterms during Cherry Hill Town-ship’s reorganization meeting onJan. 4.

Superintendent Reuscheresigns, Meloche promoted

Members of the Cherry Hillschool community were stunnedon March 19 as SuperintendentMaureen Reusche announced shewould resign and leave her posi-

tion at the end of the 2014-2015school year.

Reusche, who had been inCherry Hill Public Schools since2007 and had been superintendentsince 2011, resigned after beinghired as superintendent of theHaverford Township School Dis-trict in Pennsylvania. She tookover the new position on July 1.

Reusche had a special connec-tion with Haverford, havinggrown up there as a child.

“I think people are surprised,”Reusche said of the responsefrom the Cherry Hill community.“But when they hear about thepersonal connection, the re-sponse is that it makes sense.”

The board of education imme-diately began the search for a newsuperintendent. A retired super-intendent, Mark Cowell, washired to serve as interim superin-tendent for the summer.

On Aug. 25, the board officiallyapproved a familiar face as the

next superintendent of CherryHill Public Schools. Joe Meloche,an alum of the school district andlong-time Cherry Hill resident,

JOEContinued from page 11

Joe Melochenamed new

superintendent

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was promoted to superintendent.“I am excited and humbled by

the opportunity to assume thisposition, and I am eager for thestudents to return to school andfor the academic year to officiallybegin,” Meloche said when hewas appointed.

Meloche had previously servedas principal at Kingston Elemen-tary School, Carusi MiddleSchool and Cherry Hill High

School West, the three schools hehad attended as a child. In 2013,Meloche moved up to administra-tion as the district’s director of curriculum. He was promoted toassistant superintendent for pre-K-12 in 2014.

Meloche said his love for edu-cation began while attendingschool in Cherry Hill.

“As a student in Cherry Hill,my connection to school flour-

ished,” he said. “My interest waspiqued by creative and talentedteachers as the community pro-vided the opportunity for the

schools to thrive. Being a gradu-ate of the system personally con-nects me to all of the studentswho are currently enrolled aswell as the tens of thousands of graduates.”

A total of 26 candidates appliedto be superintendent in CherryHill Public Schools. Meloche wasselected among three finalists.

Severe storm leaves damageacross Cherry Hill Township

On June 23, Cherry Hill andsurrounding communities werecaught off guard when a severethunderstorm blew through thearea, causing an immenseamount of damage and leavingthe vast majority of residentswithout power.

Between 6 and 7 p.m. thatevening, a storm hit, packing a lotof rain, lighting and high winds.

In the hours following the storm,traffic was gridlocked in multipleareas of the township due todowned wires and trees. A day

after the storm, 33 percent of Cherry Hill residents were stillwithout power, according toPSE&G.

Public works and Cherry HillPolice immediately jumped intoaction to assist in the aftermathof the storm. For days, publicworks crews were seen through-out town removing trees andother debris.

“Public works said they had re-moved approximately 125 trees,”

Palmer said.Cherry Hill Police did theirbest to set up safe traffic patternswhere traffic lights were out andto block off roads where fallentrees and power lines created ahazardous situation.

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said.Some residents had to deal

with downed trees and damage ontheir own property. Cherry Hillresident Mark Pastoriza was oneof those residents. Standing out-side his home on June 24, hespoke with neighbors next to alarge tree that had fallen duringthe storm and just missed landingon his home.

“My daughters were home,”Pastoriza said. “I was literallyright around the corner whenthis happened. When I pulled upis when the tree came down. I sawthe stump come up right there.”

The amount of debris in Pas-toriza’s yard was significant, withthe tree still laying uprooted onthat Wednesday afternoon. Fortu-

nately, no was one hurt during theincident and his house sufferedminimal damage.

“Everybody’s good,” Pastorizasaid. “When the pine snapped, itshot forward and hit the front of the house. Where the gutters are,there’s a little bend right there,but other than that, everybodywas fine.”

There were no reported deathsor serious injuries in Cherry Hilldue to the storm.

Automated trash collectionbegins in Cherry Hill

Cherry Hill Township’s new

contract with Republic Servicesof NJ came with a huge change intrash collection for residents.

On Sept. 28, council approved a

new, five-year contract with Re-public Services. The biggestchange from the previous con-tract was a move toward automat-ed trash collection.

During the fall, residents re-ceived a new, 96-gallon trash bin.All trash had to be placed in thenew bins and could not be placedin other bins. Automated collec-tion began immediately onceneighborhoods received the bins.

“As soon as you get your can,you’re ready for automation,”Palmer said.

There were no changes in re-gard to what went into the bins.Bulk trash is still collected sepa-rately curbside and yard waste iscollected in a separate bin.

Township business adminis-trator Lenore Rosner said thetownship expects to save $1.3 mil-lion with the new agreement. Inthe contract, the township ischarged by how many tons arecollected. Township officials be-

lieve the tonnage will be reducedwith the new bins and automatedcollection.

“It saves the township a signifi-cant amount,” Rosner said.

Municipal taxes flat again,school taxes go up

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iar news when it came to theirmunicipal taxes in the fall.

For the fourth consecutiveyear, municipal taxes remainedflat. The flat tax rate has been apart of every budget passed sinceCahn took office in 2012.

Cahn said the township hasdone a number of things to keeptaxes flat, including streamliningthe township’s internal opera-tions, emphasizing economic de-velopment through finding newuses for underutilized sites andimproving municipal servicesthrough smart investments invarious departments. Cahn addedthe township has saved taxpayersnearly $5 million in the last fouryears through refinancing itsdebt.

“We’ve built a strong future for

our community that includes amulti-faceted approach,” he said.

In the Fiscal Year 2016 budgetcouncil approved in September,the township increased its spend-ing in road maintenance, vowingto focus on the area more in thefuture.

“We’ve allotted more than $8million for this year’s road main-tenance program,” Cahn said.“That is almost four times theamount when I first came into of-fice. We hear it all the time aboutour roads. Now, we’re seriousabout it.”

Cherry Hill Public Schools ap-proved the 2015-16 budget in Sep-tember with a tax increase of $85.77 for the average assessedhome of $223,500 in the township.It was an increase of 1.85 percentfrom 2014.

There were no cuts in person-nel or education programs in thebudget. The budget increased 2.51percent from 2014 to $182.68 mil-

lion. The increase took place de-spite no additional state aid. Thedistrict received just $12.95 mil-lion in state aid.

“That’s less than the $16 mil-lion that we receive in 2008 and

2009, but more than the $7.9 mil-lion we received in 2010 and 2011,”district business administratorJames Devereaux said.

To help balance the budget, thedistrict used $1.98 million fromcapital reserve.

“We’re leaving a little some-thing on the table, just over $1million,” Devereaux said. “Thiswill be used to help ’16-’17budget, unless there’s a com-pelling need for it in the mean-time.”


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