SJM_SouthernExposure_0423_SouthernExposure_11_08 4 / 25 / 23 2 : 09 PM Page 1 GO FIGURE + EVENTS + HAVING A MOMENT + HIT OR MISS + SPOTLIGHT + NAMES TO KNOW SouthernExposure SPRING CRAFT SHOW EVENTS May 20 Head on down to Uptown Pitman for the annual spring craft show No . 142 featuring over 250 vendors and Where Haddonfield recently ranked in a local businesses . Uptown Pitman , nationwide Family Destinations Guide 9 a.m . - 2 p.m . , free , Pitman , survey on the small towns that Ameri - UptownPitman.com / Lori - Poisker - cans are most likely to visit this year . Memorial - Pitman - Craft - Shows $ 102.7 million STELLA FARMS POWER IN THE PINES The amount New Jersey schools would STRAWBERRY May 20 and 21 receive as part of Gov . Phil Murphy’s bill to MAY 6 FESTIVAL Joint Base McGuire - Dix - Lake - restore two - thirds of funding originally lost Support the Animal Welfare Association’s efforts May 13 hurst’s first air show and open by schools under his proposed 2023 - ’ 24 to aid animals in distress by participating in its Stella Farms will kick off the house in five years will feature budget . annual 5K and Doggie Fun Day . growing season with live heart - pumping aerial demonstra - Voorhees Town Center , 9 a.m . - 2 p.m . , prices vary , music , food and drinks , plus a tions . Joint Base McGuire - Dix - New Jersey’s national Voorhees , AWANJ.org / Paws - And - Feet - 5K - Run - Walk - petting zoo and other fun ranking in the production of Lakehurst , 10 : 30 a.m . - 5 : 30 p.m . , Doggie - Fun - Day / 1steggplants , producing 23.7 activities for children . Stella free , New and North Hanover million pounds of them a year . The Farms , 9 a.m . - 4 p.m . , free , townships , JBMDL.jb.mil / 2023 - Garden State also ranks third in the Berlin , StellaFarms.net Power - in - the - Pines - Air - Space - KENTUCKY DERBY ASK THE MASTER production of cranberries , peaches and Open - House / FESTIVAL GARDENERS tomatoes . THIRD THURSDAY May 6 May 9 FOOD TRUCKS Autumn Lake Winery’s Members of the Rutgers The number of students recog - May 18 annual Kentucky Derby fes - Master Gardeners of nized by staff members for out - Take a stroll through Down - tival will feature a Burlington County will be standing character during the town Medford , enjoy spe - Lenape High School Renais - livestream of the big race , available to answer all your 45sance People’s Choice Awards cials and sales at local busi - live bands , craft vendors , lawn and garden questions . ceremony last month . nesses and order from var - food trucks and , of course , Bring in a question , photo or ious food trucks during this wine . sample of your issue for month’s Third Thursday . Autumn Lake Winery , 1 expert solutions . Pemberton Downtown Medford , 5 - 8 p.m . , p.m . , $ 25 , Williamstown , Library , 2 - 4 p.m . , free , Pem - 2 weeks free , Medford , Destination - AutumnLakeWinery.com / Up berton , BCLS.Lib.nj.us / For hundreds more local events , The length of time 18 Haddonfield stu - Medford.com coming - Events Events / 5188 please visit SouthJersey.com dents will spend in Japan . After a three - year pause , the exchange pro - gram that introduces students to School March 23 , also featured Pinkalicious author Victo - Japanese food , culture and people has ria Kann and local author Virtuous Cornwall of the Ani - returned . malville series . Seven The number of confirmed April 1 tor - Cherry Hill’s Truman Dodd can say he’s accom - nado touchdowns in New Jersey , plished something few other fourth - graders have : including those carving paths through The Stockton Elementary student is also a pub - Crosswicks , Cinnaminson , Delran and Moorestown — the most twisters lished author and was the guest of honor at his recorded in the state since 1989 . book’s launch party last month . In the midst of the 2020 pandemic , Dodd wrote a graphic novel for children entitled The Crazy Llama about 84.19 a scientist who finds himself turned into a llama . He also The first - place score earned by the illustrated the story , maintaining consistency and cre - Washington Township Color Guard ativity throughout the book . during its performance earlier this When his older brother won a Connection to Creativity month at Upper Dublin High School . contest , the family met Kindergarten , Here I Come author D.J . Steinberg , who then referred them to Stephaney 8,600 Davis . Davis , creative director of Connection to Creativity , The square footage of Voorhees ’ new was able to help Dodd publish his book . Davis even pre - Penn Medicine & Virtua Health Proton sented The Crazy Llama at one of her reading programs , Therapy Center . The center , which where she discovered that children , especially boys , re - opened earlier this month , is the first of sponded extremely well to Dodd’s storytelling debut . its kind in South Jersey and seeks to help those with cancer . Dodd’s book launch , held at Cherry Hill West High SOUTH JERSEY MAGAZINE volume20 issue 1 SouthJerseyMagazine.com 10 |