March 24, 2012: A dozen PA3 volunteers spent a Saturday morning improving a stretch of the D&R Canal State Park. One crew erected bollards to prevent vehicular access to the canal path, while another collected trash from along the roadside and path. Pictured left to right in the group photo: Nell Whiting so69, Rick from the State of NJ (our mentor for the day), Zhijun Wu p09, Kristin Epstein '97 (with two daughters standing in front), Arlen Hastings '80, Arthur Eschenlauer '56, Jim Robertson (holding daughter), Tom Hastings '79, Sara Hastings '09 and Dan Hayes-Patterson '09. Thanks, everybody!

January 28, 2012: PA3 volunteers spent their Saturday morning at the Crisis Ministry Food Pantry in Bethany Church, Trenton, where they transformed a storage room into a client waiting room and sorted donated food items.

Volunteers (l-r in group photo) were Ravonne Nevels '14, Arlen Hastings '80, Tom Hastings '79, Amy Lai '06, Joe Voigtsberger '82, Bill Stowe '68 and Zhizhun Wu p09.

For information about volunteer opportunities at the Crisis Ministry, please see http://www.thecrisisministry.org/oppOverview.cfm.

November 12, 2011: While several thousand unhappy Princeton fans watched their football team fall to Yale, a dozen Princeton fans of another sort enjoyed a rewarding day clearing a mile-long trail in the beautiful St. Michael’s Preserve in Hopewell. Volunteers (as shown in the group photo) were, rear row: Paul Nehring ’10, Lauren Senesac GS, Doug Ling ’83, Philo Elmer ’69; front row: Victoria Stabile p11, Cole Schlesinger GS, Arlen Hastings ’80, Jim Robertson ’91 with daughter Kiri, Lydia Zaininger ’83, and Alexandra Ling, Doug’s daughter. Jim Amon, D&R Greenway’s stewardship director, led the way and told us about the ecology of the preserve.

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PA3 members volunteered to help collect and sort clothing donated to the Rescue Mission of Trenton at the West Windsor Farmers Market on August 20, 2011. Pictured: Zhijun Wu p09, Kristin Epstein '97 with her two daughters, and Haiyan Bian.

The Princeton Area Alumni Association won the PGA Regional Association Award and the Community Service Award at this year's annual Alumni Association lunch at reunions this year!

Pictured are Arlen Hastings '80, the Community Service Committee Chair, and Cathy Haught *05, the Graduate Alumni Committee Chair.