Catch up on the biggest stories in Haddonfield this week.
The HEA is receiving support from concerned parents, and a HMHS junior self-published a book of poetry. Catch up on everything from the past week in the Weekly Roundup.
“You feel like you can’t do too much as a parent, but we can offer our support”
Small acts of support have been something of a theme in recent weeks, as parents have come to learn about the Haddonfield Education Association’s contract. HEA co-president Stacey Brown-Downham said that at the beginning of the year, the HEA did a survey of its members to ask what they loved most about teaching in Haddonfield and found that one of the overwhelming answers was the parents’ positive relationship with the teachers. Brown-Downham said since learning that HEA members are working without a contract, parents and community members have continued to show their support.
Love, youth, power have HMHS junior ‘bleeding ink’
At the age of 4, Eve Jensen scribbled her first story in the backseat of her grandmother’s car in a Target parking lot. At the age of 16, Jensen self-published her own book, “The Girl Who Bled Ink.” Jensen, a junior at Haddonfield Memorial High School, will celebrate her book’s late August publication with a reading at Inkwood Books on Kings Highway on Sunday, Oct. 8 at 4 p.m. She said the book, a collection of her poetry, is the first of more to come.
Leadership, hard work and dedication ingredients for Haddonfield boys’ cross country’s 200-plus dual meet win streak
The Bulldawgs have been unbeatable in dual meets over the past 20 years. Haddonfield recorded its 200th consecutive dual meet win on Tuesday, Sept. 26. The Bulldawgs ensured the streak will continue into 2018 when they finished their dual meet season unbeaten again last Tuesday with a win over Collingswood High School. Haddonfield’s streak of 202 straight wins is the second-longest active streak in the nation and is the second-longest all-time in South Jersey. The streak has lasted so long this year’s current team has no memory of when it started.
