CAMDEN – George Bakey, project manager at the Camden County Improvement Authority, is used to debris and dust being part of any demolition worker’s job. His task of overseeing the demolition of Eastside High School, however, has led to something else.

That “something” was a time capsule buried behind a cornerstone laid decades ago on the campus of what was then Woodrow Wilson High School and etched with the year 1929. Demolition crews discovered it in June. Elijah Vargas, who is about to start his senior year at Eastside High School and is the school’s student representative on the Camden City School District advisory board, opened the capsule during an event at Eastside High School on Tuesday.

With dozens of people watching Vargas or taking pictures, he lifted out a yellowed, crumblin

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