Common calendar, Packet papers, July 16
Common calendar, Packet papers, July 16
Any child entering grades 3-12 this fall is welcomed.
Both choirs are programs of Westrick Music Academy.
Interested singers have the option to have a live audition via Zoom, or submit an audition video.
To learn more about the process or to schedule an audition, visit westrickmusic.org/auditions/.
Burlington County is continuing to make COVID-19 shots available to residents.
The Health Department will open four new fixed vaccine clinics. The clinics will run on the following schedule:
Mondays, from 2-6 p.m. at the Burlington County Emergency Services Training Center, 53 Academy Dr., Westampton (drive-thru clinic);
Lucy Claire Graves McVicker was 90 when she passed quietly in her sleep on May 9. Her parents were Herbert Cornelius Graves, II and Josephine Lee Yost. She was born in Lower Merion Township in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania and grew up on a farm in West Chester in Allegheny County with her sister, Nancy, and her brother, Herbert. They were a close-knit family.
Lucy studied English and art, and she received her bachelor’s degree from Principia College in Elsah, Illinois. She married Charles Taggart McVicker in 1954. They lived first in Fort Knox, Kentucky, and then in Los Angeles, finally settling in Princeton in 1957, where Lucy lived the rest of her life.
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A private memorial service will be held this summer. (Shutterstock)
PRINCETON, NJ Award-winning local artist and founding member of Princeton Artists Alliance, Lucy Graves McVickers died on May 9. She was 90.
McVickers was born in Montgomery County, PA, and grew up on a farm in Allegheny County, PA. She received her B.A. from Principia College in Elsah, Illinois, and married Charles Taggart McVicker in 1954.
The couple settled in Princeton in 1957.
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McVickers attended the Parsons School of Design in New York City. She won prizes in art shows sponsored by The American Watercolor Society, The New Jersey Watercolor Society, and The Garden State Watercolor Society.
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Award-winning watercolor artist Marilyn Rose will offer a still life class May 5.
Milton Arts Guild will hold a Watercolor Still Life virtual demonstration by award-winning watercolor artist Marilyn Rose Wednesday, May 5, from 3 to 5 p.m.
The demonstration will discuss the topic of how to compose and paint ordinary objects to make an extraordinary painting. Students will learn about using positive and negative shapes, shows and grouping objects to create a successful composition - from thumbnail to finished work.
Rose is a signature member of the Northeast Watercolor Society, Catharine Lorillard Wolf Art Club, New Jersey Watercolor Society, and the Garden State Watercolor Society. Her paintings have won numerous awards and are held in private and corporate collections across the country.
BRIDGEWATER, NJ – Artist James Fiorentino paid tribute to the life, legacy and land preservation efforts of World War II pilot Lt. Col. Vaucher, just days before the decorated aviator passed away at the age of 102 last week.
Fiorentino had been able to connect with Vaucher via a Zoom connection to show him the portrait he had painted. Vaucher, a veteran of 117 air missions during the World War II era, passed away a few days later.
The painting was presented to Vaucher s family during a virtual meeting of the Bridgewater Township Council on Feb. 11, 2021. The Flemington artist made the presentation along with D&R Greenway Land Trust President & CEO Linda Mead in recognition of Vaucher s efforts to preserve the historic 36-acre Steele s Gap tract.