Girl Scouts Help Keep It Clean
Girl scouts and adults from West Windsor Senior Troop 70600 and Cadette Troop 70216 helped clean up streams with the Stony Brook Millstone Watershed personnel recently. The stream clean was held at Grover Park behind the Princeton Shopping Center.
Scout volunteers who picked up garbage along the stream bed included senior girl scouts Brielle Robertson, Dani Henkel, and Rebecca Schwartz; Cadette girl scouts Anna Henkel, Chloe Madison, Jade Rowland, Julia Laresh, Saachi Bedi, and Shivani Patel; as well as Taylor Madison, a junior scout; and Pearl Rowland, a brownie.
For more information on ways to help the Stony Brook Millstone Watershed, contact Joan McGee at jmcgee@thewatershed.org. If you are interested in joining girl scouts as a scout or adult volunteer please contact Louisa Ho at 371-2119 or E-mail girlscoutswwp@verizon.net.
Volunteer Awards
More than 150 people were honored on October 27 at Ortho-McNeil-Janssen Pharmaceuticals in Titusville for the first VolunteerConnect Community Connections reception. VolunteerConnect Mercer ChangeMaker Award Winners and the organizations with which they volunteer include West Windsor residents Sangeeta Bohra, Pradeep Gupta, Nikila Venkat, Sujatha Alladi, Ankita Gore, Latha Kethineni, and Arundhati Raychaudhuri, Aim For A2Z; Barbara Amindeau, EASEL Animal Rescue League; Brandy Bracy-Frank and Betty deMayorga, Princeton Public Library; and Charles Budenbender and Doris Budenbender, Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital Hamilton.
Plainsboro residents include Shirisha Salgam, Ajay Desai, Sahana Jayaraman, and Jamie Shah, Aim For A2Z; and Lynn Lewis, the Cherry Tree Club.
The mission of VolunteerConnect is to enrich the lives of Central New Jersey residents by promoting effective volunteerism and service. Visit www.VolunteerConnectNJ.org for more information.
Working Mom Wins Award
Daisy Chan of Plainsboro has been named one of Working Mother magazine’s 2010 “Working Mothers of the Year.” Director of Enterprise Communications at Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey (Horizon BCBSNJ), Chan is featured in the November issue of Working Mother, and was honored at a ceremony on October 28, at the Sheraton New York Hotel. The award honors extraordinary working mothers who make significant contributions to both their company and community.
Chan and her husband, Nelson, have lived in Plainsboro for 20 years. Their four children, Caitlin, Jacqueline, Michael, and Alexa, range in age from 16 to 4.
Earlier this year, Chan was also named by Diversity MBA Magazine to its 2010 List of the “Top 100 Under 50 Diverse Executive and Emerging Leaders.”
Chan joined Horizon BCBSNJ in 1998. She is responsible for the company’s Enterprise Communications Department including marketing, communications, branding, multimedia, and proposals. Also a member of the American Heart Association’s Go Red for Women Movement, she has served on their executive event committee for the past three years.
“We are proud to have Daisy honored as a Working Mother of the Year and receive this well deserved recognition,” said Peggy Coons, vice president of Human Resources, Horizon BCBSNJ. “Daisy has shown extraordinary leadership in her commitment to her family, community and her career at Horizon BCSBNJ. As an active member of Horizon BCBSNJ’s Diversity Council, she supports the company’s ongoing diversity efforts by communicating the Council’s accomplishments and participating in fund raising activities to raise awareness in the local community.”
“Working Mother of the Year is such a special honor. I love my family and my career and it’s extremely fulfilling for me to have both,” said Chan.
In College
Boston University: Swetha R. Madgula of West Windsor received a Doctor of Dental Medicine in Dentistry in September.
