Catch up on the biggest stories in Haddonfield this week.
Haddonfield resident and furry companion will be featured in the Rescue Men’s Calendar and the HEA and BOE reached a settlement. Catch up on everything from the past week in the Weekly Roundup.
Haddonfield resident and furry companion will be featured in the Rescue Men’s Calendar
Haddonfield native and 19-year-old University of Delaware student Conner Lambert and his rescue dog, Aladdin, just got a little more famous. The duo is featured in the month of September in the 2018 Tails of RescueMen Charity Calendar. Lambert humbly accepted the title as September’s Rescue Man, making him the first college student to be featured in the calendar.
Settlement reached for HEA and the BOE
In a joint statement from the Haddonfield Education Association and the Board of Education, both parties were pleased to announce that a settlement was reached in the early morning hours of Tuesday, Dec. 19. The HEA’s contract expired at the end of June, and both the board and the HEA agreed to mediation in September. The Haddonfield Education Association met with a state-appointed mediator in a closed session earlier this month, but the two sides did not reach a settlement. After a lengthy journey, both parties finally came to an agreement at 2:45 a.m. according to HEA Co-President Stacey Brown-Downham
Resilience in the face of adversity: A look inside Luke’s story
A seven-month pregnant and joyful psych and mental health nurse, Becky Martine was asked at a nursing conference seminar in 2012 to turn to the person next to her and share the hardest thing that happened in her life, not ever knowing the mother of two healthy boys, Cole and Alec, along with her husband, Chris, would soon lose the life they had once known in just a few more months.
