Topics in Brief
A Community Bulletin

Community Park Pool will kick off its 40th year when it opens for limited hours starting this weekend, May 26, 27, and 28, from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. Weekend hours will continue June 2 and 3, and June 8 and 9. The pool's daily summer schedule will begin June 13 and run through Labor Day. Pool memberships can be purchased through the Princeton Recreation Department offices at 380 Witherspoon Street next to the pool entrance and Township Hall. Residents should bring both identification and payment. A resident family membership is $230; individual adult membership is $120; age 60 and up membership is $65; and 17 and under membership is $60. Non-resident memberships are also available. Non-members can also use the pool for a daily admission fee. For more information, call (609) 921-9480. (MH)

Princeton University conducted a campus-wide test of its new emergency notification system May 11, and officials were encouraged that 87 percent of the campus community (almost 10,200 individuals) who were in the new system received a test message via live phone delivery or answering machine within an hour. Most of the calls were received within 20 minutes. The system, Connect-ED, was initiated by the school's Emergency Preparedness Task Force only days before the on-campus shootings at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute last month. The system, according to Garth Walters, head of the task force, informs campus faculty, staff, and students of possible emergency situations using several points of contact. During the Connect-ED test, which took place just before 1 p.m., PU made 14,591 calls to cell phones and landline phones, and also sent 14,000 e-mails and 896 text messages. The notification system can access up to six phone numbers per person, in addition to two e-mail addresses and a separate text messaging address.

Anticipating a bumper crop of mosquitoes in the area, Mercer County officials are urging residents to take extra precautions to prevent adding to this insect population. County Executive Brian Hughes, in a statement, called for an effort that would eliminate or reduce the amount of standing water on private property, including areas like unused containers, bird baths, flower pots, or other hollow objects. Mr. Hughes cited April rainfall totals, where Mercer County received close to 10 inches, nearly seven inches over the average amount received in the area in the month of April over the last 30 years. Residents with large properties, or who have difficulty maintaining smaller properties, should contact the Mercer County Mosquito Control at (609) 530-7516. Residents can also call this number to ask questions about surveillance and control of mosquitoes, and to get up-to-date information about mosquito-borne viruses such as West Nile.

The Princeton Charter School Board of Trustees will hold a special meeting at the school at 100 Bunn Drive on Wednesday, May 30, at 8 a.m. The agenda includes election of board members and faculty and staff hiring.

Tickets are now on sale for a performance by the Princeton High School Studio Band celebrating its 30th anniversary on Saturday, June 16, at 8 p.m. in the Trego-Biancosino Auditorium of the Princeton Performing Arts Center at the high school. A reception will follow the performance. Tickets are $25 for adults, and $15 for students and seniors. Tickets are reserved and in limited quantities and proceeds benefit the band program. Make checks payable to: PHS Band Parent Association, c/o Princeton High School, 151 Moore Street, Princeton, NJ 08540. For more information, call Sheree Dunnett, (609) 655-3303.

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