Catch up on the biggest stories in Haddonfield this week.
A Haddonfield Memorial High School student raised awareness for eating disorders during the Board of Education meeting and resident conquers adversity. Catch up on everything from the past week in the Weekly Roundup.
Gerry Nanos takes the trip of a lifetime
Some experiences leave an impact on our souls, prompting us to re-evaluate everything we once knew about life from that day forward. For Gerry Nanos, that experience came when he arrived in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, earlier this month. Nanos joined forces with Feed My Starving Children, a national faith-based organization that prepares food packages for children in impoverished countries, three years ago to learn more about the harsh conditions children were living in and work to fix it.
HMHS student raised awareness on eating disorders at the BOE meeting on Feb. 22
A Haddonfield Memorial High School student raised awareness for eating disorders during the Board of Education meeting on Thursday, Feb. 22. Former board of education representative and HMHS senior Nina Liloia described the issues haunting middle and high school students in the district — eating disorders. Bulimia, anorexia and more were topics of discussion during the presentation.
Haddonfield resident conquers adversity
We are all born into uncontrolled situations that can either define our existence or motivate us to strive for greater. Although Charles Adamson was not born into traditional circumstances, it did not deter him from going above and beyond in all aspects of his life. On a summer day in Philadelphia in 1963, Adamson’s baby photo was published in a local newspaper with one goal — to find his birth mother or find a willing family to take him in.
