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OUR 121st YEAR – ISSUE NO. 28-2011 SEVENTY FIVE CENTS (908) [email protected], July 14, 2011USPS 680020
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Regional ........ 2-3Editorial ........ 4-5Police ............ 6Community ... 6-7Obituary ........ 6
Education ...... 14-16Sports ............ 9-14Real Estate .... 9-15Classifieds .... 16A&E .............. 17-18
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Lauren S. Barr for The Westfield LeaderWELCOME ABOARD…Newly appointed Councilman Mark LoGrippo was sworn in by Mayor Andy Skibitsky at Tuesdaynight’s Town Council meeting. He was appointed to the Third Ward Council seat vacated by Mark Ciarrocca, who resignedfollowing his appointment as a Superior Court judge. Mr. LoGrippo was joined on the dais by his mother, Rose LoGrippo,his wife, Maria LoGrippo, and children, Francesco “Checco” and Gemma.
Betsey Burgdorf for The Westfield LeaderLOVELY LADY…Ed Menapace and Bill Curtis, owners of The FarmhouseStore, hosted an event last Friday night starring two-time Tony Award-winningactress Christine Ebersole, above, at which guests had the opportunity to view andpurchase pieces from her collection of vintage jewelry. See article page 18.
Photo by Betsey Burgdorf. Rendering provided by Karen Taylor Architectural Renderings, www.ktaylorrenderings.com.SHACKtoMAXIMUM...The Westfield Planning Board approved an application by developer Steve Needle regarding theformer White Diamond eatery property. The site will be transformed into an environmentally-friendly office building.
Christina Hinke for The Westfield LeaderCHIEF UNDERHILL… Former Lieutenant Bruce Underhill was sworn inTuesday night at the Garwood council meeting by Mayor Patricia Quattrocchi asthe new police chief, replacing retired Police Chief William Legg. Pictured, ChiefUnderhill stands with his wife, Barbara, and sons, Christopher and Thomas,outside Borough Hall.
Westfield Board OKs NorthAvenue Office Building
Bruce Underhill Sworn InAs Garwood Police Chief
Mark LoGrippo Replaces MarkCiarrocca on Westfield Council
Westfield Okays Demolitions;Residents Address Crossing Signal
By LAUREN S. BARRSpecially Written for The Westfield Leader
WESTFIELD – For its only Julymeeting, the Westfield Town Councilheld back-to-back conference andpublic sessions on Tuesday night,passing a multitude of resolutionsand heard from the public regardingthe Central Avenue pedestrian cross-ing signal.
The council passed four resolu-tions allowing for the demolition ofdetached garages at 514 KimballAvenue, 536 St. Marks Avenue, 634Carlton Road and 814 Highland Av-enue. At the conference session FourthWard Councilman James Foerst ques-tioned that if the zoning ordinances
require that all homes have a garage,wouldn’t the council’s approval ofthe demolitions cause the propertiesto be non-compliant.
Town Planner Bill Drew said thatother residents had needed to teardown garages for safety reasons, andif the homeowners are not replacingthe garages they would have to applyfor a variance if they wanted to makeany other home improvements. TownAdministrator James Gildea said thatthe town will notify homeowners thatmake applications to tear down de-tached garages that they will be non-conforming with the zoning ordi-nance.
A resolution was also passed al-
lowing the town to enter into an agree-ment with Union County for the pav-ing of East Broad Street from CentralAvenue to Mountain Avenue. Thetown will be paving the majority ofthe downtown area, and UnionCounty will be paving Central Av-enue. Through this agreement, thecounty will pave the small portion ofEast Broad Street when they paveCentral Avenue and the town willreimburse the county.
During the citizen discussion por-tion of the evening, Boulevard resi-dent Joan Sanborn said she has diffi-culty finding handicapped parking inthe downtown. Ms. Sanborn said shethinks the pedestrian crossing signalon Central Avenue is a bad idea, say-ing “move the light to Clover or getrid of it.”
Adina Enculescu, on whose prop-erty the pedestrian light was placed,asked for newly sworn-in Third WardCouncilman Mark LoGrippo to givehis opinion of the light. Mayor AndySkibitsky told Ms. Enculescu to ad-dress her questions to him and thatthis was a time for comment by thepublic not to question individualcouncil members.
Despite the mayor’s comments,Councilman LoGrippo responded toMs. Enculescu, saying that as he isnew to the council and was not in-volved in the initial decision, he willhave to evaluate all of the informa-tion. He offered to give Ms. Enculescuhis personal cell phone number sothat they could discuss the issue.
Ms. Enculescu said she hopes theevaluation of the light that is cur-rently being conducted by PoliceChief John Parizeau is done objec-tively. She also questioned what Mr.Gildea is doing to repair her drive-way. Mr. Gildea said Ms. Enculescuwould need to contact the countywho installed the pedestrian light ifshe has an issue with the condition ofher driveway.
Central Avenue resident MariaCarluccio said she was thrilled Coun-cilman LoGrippo spoke, as many of
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By THOMAS S. FORTUNATOSpecially Written for The Westfield Leader
WESTFIELD – During its meet-ing Wednesday, July 6, the WestfieldPlanning Board heard and approvedtwo new applications, the latter ofwhich was to redevelop the propertyat 440 North Avenue, East, currentlya dilapidated, abandoned restaurant.
440 North Avenue East LLC, anentity of developer Steve Needle,seeks to develop the property — asmall, metal-plated building that hadbeen used as a White Diamond dinerseveral decades ago and then an Ital-ian restaurant. The building was usedmost recently by the now closed NewNorris Chevrolet dealership next doorto display signage.
The application, presented by at-torney Joseph Triarsi of Cranford,proposed an office building designedin a style similar to the building ofThe Best Western Westfield Inn andChez Catherine French restaurant onNorth Avenue. The building will becantilevered, designed to have theparking lot directly underneath thebuilding.
Mr. Triarsi stated the proposedbuilding was “the best design wecould do under these circumstances,”given the small size of the property inquestion. He emphasized that the“eastern end” of Westfield is in “dire
need” of redevelopment.“Our building could be a great re-
fresher to the town,” stated architectRoger Winkle. The building is inter-esting from every viewing [angle]” –noting that the new building will bedesigned to be as environmentally-friendly as possible, constructed with“green” building materials like re-cycled roofing and bricks. He said itwill have bike racks on the southwestside of the property in addition to apicnic area.
Former Westfield planning boardmember Carol Molnar did not thinkthe proposed building was a goodidea. “The parking problem here isself-imposed,” she stated. “The ap-plicant is proposing a very large struc-ture for such a small lot. The appli-cant could comply with the ordinanceby decreasing the size of the pro-posed building,” Ms. Molnar stated.
The ordinance requires one park-ing space for every 200 square feet ofbuilding area.
“You see a lot of these cantileveredbuildings on Route 1, where the goalis to build the largest possible build-ing on the least amount of space,”Ms. Molnar continued. “However,for good reason, Westfield’s land-useordinances do not allow parking un-der a building.”
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By LAUREN S. BARRSpecially Written for The Westfield Leader
WESTFIELD – Westfield’s ThirdWard residents have Mark LoGrippoas their new representative followinghis swearing-in at Tuesday night’spublic council meeting.
Mr. LoGrippo was appointed to thecouncil following the resignation ofMark Ciarrocca upon Mr. Ciarrocca’sappointment as a Superior Court judgeon the Union County bench. Mr.Ciarrocca will be sworn in as a judgeon Tuesday, August 2. Town ClerkClaire Grey read Mr. Ciarrocca’s res-
ignation letter, which stated, “It hasbeen my pleasure and honor to servethe residents of Westfield.”
As required by state law, Council-man LoGrippo was chosen from a listof three names provided by WestfieldRepublican Committee Chairman JonBramnick. The other two names pre-sented were William West and MaryAlice Ryan. Second Ward Council-woman JoAnn Neylan nominated Mr.LoGrippo, and Mayor Andy Skibitskyswore him in.
A Westfield resident for four and ahalf years, Councilman LoGrippo isa business development manager forVerizon. He holds a Bachelor of Sci-ence degree from St. John’s Univer-sity and an MBA from Adelphi Uni-versity. Councilman LoGrippo andhis wife, Maria, live on Tudor Ovalwith their two children, Francesco“Checco” and Gemma. Prior to hisappointment to the council he servedas a member of the planning boardsince 2010.
Mr. LoGrippo will face off against
Democrat Matt Sontz and Indepen-dent candidate Greg Kasko in theNovember election for the third wardcouncil seat.
Former Town Attorney RobertCockren was given a proclamationby Mayor Skibitsky recognizing his25 years of service to the town. Mr.Cockren retired earlier this year afterserving for 14 years as zoning boardof adjustment attorney and 11 yearsas town attorney.
Mr. Cockren “certainly deservesthe thanks of the town,” Third WardCouncilman Dave Haas said. Thetown is “immensely better for havinghad his service.”
Councilwoman Neylan called Mr.Cockren a “consummate profes-sional.”
First Ward Councilman FrankArena said that Mr. Cockren “alwaysthought how he could protectWestfield and the people ofWestfield.”
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By CHRISTINA M. HINKESpecially Written for The Westfield Leader
GARWOOD – Former lieutenantBruce Underhill was sworn in asthe new police chief of Garwood atTuesday night’s borough councilmeeting by Mayor PatriciaQuattrocchi. He replaces retiredPolice Chief William Legg.
Mr. Underhill’s family was in at-tendance to witness the ceremony.Following the swearing in, ChiefUnderhill, dressed in full uniform,shook hands with everyone in at-tendance and posed for photos withhis family.
Councilman Victor DeFillipposaid the Police Search Committeerecommended police officers to fillopen spots due to retirements andpromotions. Lt. James Pipala is rec-ommended to be promoted as cap-tain, Sergeants James Wright andDouglas Stoffer are recommended
to be promoted to lieutenants, andPatrolmen Mario Morelli andSamuel Rocco are recommended tobe promoted to sergeants.
Sergeant Thomas Mericle, PoliceOfficer Alexander Anderson andCaptain Lenny DiStefano are retir-ing.
The council adopted threeamended ordinances set forth bythe planning board, and tabled oneordinance.
One ordinance would potentiallynullify the litigation between theShopRite and the Borough ofGarwood Planning Board and GoldMedal Fitness. ShopRite had filed alawsuit against the planning boardand Gold Medal Fitness after thefitness center opened the ParisiSpeed School adjacent to its facil-ity, stating the use was non-con-forming to the zoning law.
Borough Attorney Joseph Triarsisaid the ordinance “will likely endthe litigation.”
The ordinance amends the land-use ordinance by amending the per-mitted land uses and expanding thelimits of the Community Commer-cial Zone. It also adds the sub-sec-tion Health Club as a permitted use.
Another amended ordinance cre-ates a mixed use district where per-mitted uses are residential/retailcommercial, which permits singlebedroom, commuter-type apart-ments, age-restricted townhousesand small-scale retail.
An additional amended ordinancecreates a new zone district entitledPublic Open Space to allow for
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Fourth of July in Cranford – Photos by Christina Hinke and Paul Lachenauer.
Betsey Burgdorf for The Westfield LeaderCHIPS AWAY...Brian Walter of Flannery’s Pub in Fanwood purchased thebuilding that formerly housed the Chippery on South Avenue. Mr. Walter plansto convert it for use as an eatery.
Photo courtesy of the WendelsHIGH ALTITUDE…The Wendel Family recently visited the Wild West with TheWestfield Leader. The Wendels are pictured here in Wyoming with the CodyPeaks Mountains, located in Montana, in the background.
Vision-ImpairedReceive Help
GARWOOD — Jim Morano of theLions Club, above right, accepts a$1,000 check from Rosie’s Wine Barowner Josh Rosenberg. The fundswere generated for the Garwood Li-ons Club during an event in May.
Rosie’s Wine Bar, Alex ElmanWinery and the Garwood Lions Clubjoined forces to help the vision im-paired.
The idea was spawned as Garwoodrecently elected Mayor PatQuattrocchi, who is vision-impaired.Winemaker Ms. Elman is a blindwoman.
the council members stay silent, say-ing, “Maybe you’re not a puppet.”
When she complained about driv-ers running the red pedestrian signal,Mayor Skibitsky countered that driv-ers run red lights at intersections aswell. She said, “This has turned intoa personal war between you and me.”Nearly in tears while speaking, Mrs.Carluccio told the council, “We needhelp,” and, “I don’t want to come hereanymore.”
Third Ward Councilman Dave Haassaid there’s “a lot of emotion in-volved in this.” He said that unless anengineer tells him differently, hethinks the best location of the light isat the corner of Central Avenue andClover Street and that he understoodthat the county still had money in itsbudget to move the light to the corner.
Mayor Skibitsky said the town isnot going to ask that the light bemoved “because we’re getting flack.”He said it is currently in a locationsafer than the corner due to fewerpoints of conflict between pedestri-ans and cars.
Independent Third Ward Councilcandidate Greg Kasko said he wantedto ensure that the analysis of the lightwas performed while school was insession. Mayor Skibitsky said the
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Westfield Oks Demolitionstown has the data, which is currentlybeing analyzed and should be madepublic in about a month.
“I believe a light is necessary,” Mr.Kasko said, but that it should be at thecorner and he was critical of the mayorfor not bringing traffic consultantGordon Meth to a council meeting tospeak with the residents.
Mr. Kasko also questioned the ori-gin of the engineering drawings de-picting the light in between Ms.Enculescu’s property and her neigh-bors as it was unsigned, and that Mr.Meth had told Mrs. Carluccio that hedid not draw the plans. The light waslater moved by the county engineer-ing department in order to complywith regulations that require a signalto be within a certain distance from astop sign.
Mayor Skibitsky said the townspent money and conducted an out-reach process. He said if the lightwas moved to the corner it wouldhave to be a full traffic light thatwould shine into homes all day andnight and into more than one home.The current light is dark until acti-vated by a pedestrian who wishes tocross the street.
The next council meeting will beTuesday, August 16 at 8 p.m.
Board member Darielle Walsh be-lieved the building would have a“positive impact” on the town andthat the design was “appropriate…for that location.”
“Parking is a concern,” Ms. Walshadmitted, but then stated she felt theparking situation as planned “shouldnot be a problem.”
Westfield resident Peter Nurnbergpresented the first application of theevening. The board approved thesubdivision of a strip of land fromhis rear neighbor’s property at 725Fourth Avenue and annex it onto hisown property at 780 Cranford Av-enue.
The Fourth Avenue property is lo-cated partially in Garwood, whichcomplicated the matter because ofthe board’s limited jurisdiction. “Irecognize the fact that the subdivi-sion has no effect on the small por-tion of the property that lies inGarwood,” stated board member KrisMcAloon, Westfield’s town engineer.
“It’d be my recommendation thatthe applicant seek a waiver fromGarwood’s Planning Board regard-ing this matter,” continued Mr.McAloon. “I don’t believe you’d[even] have to make an application…[just write Garwood] by correspon-dence and request that Garwood waivesubdivision jurisdiction on this mat-ter.”
The board carried an applicationregarding a property at 1053 Pros-pect Street over to a special meetingon Monday, August 15, due to sched-uling conflicts. The board had con-tinued the hearing on the applicationfrom its June 8 meeting.
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Cranford Hears TimelineOn Flood Feasibility Study
By THOMAS FORTUNATOSpecially Written for The Westfield Leader
CRANFORD – Mayor DanAschenbach, along with the town-ship council and Flood AdvisoryCommittee, met with the UnitedStates Army Corps of Engineers fora special workshop meeting June 23regarding a study being performedby the Corps on how to minimizeflood damage in Cranford along theRahway River.
Currently, the Army Corps of En-gineers estimates that constructionof a solution to Cranford’s floodingproblem will begin in 2018.
“We have many layers of review [be-fore we can begin construction],” ex-plained Corps engineer Jodi McDonald,“and that takes a lot of time.”
“We would have the actual feasi-bility scope meeting in mid-2013,”Corps engineer Alicia Gould ex-plained. “From there, we move for-ward to the optimized plan, and wewould have feasibility done by 2014.”
Following this, the Corps wouldhave to release a report to an agencyoutside the Corps to analyze the costof the project, and design wouldbegin in 2016 and take an estimatedtwo years. After design, Congresswould have to approve funding forthe project and then constructioncould begin.
“A project will never be constructedwithout the township’s approval,” Ms.Gould assured Mayor Aschenbach.
“The study area is the entireRahway River Watershed,” Ms.McDonald stated. “We’re focusingon those solutions that would solvethe flood problem in the damagecenter of Cranford. Now, the solu-tion may not be in Cranford; it maybe outside of Cranford. But we knowthat the vast majority of damage isoccurring in Cranford.”
“The state as a sponsor has requestedthat we only focus on Cranford/Kenilworth,” added Ms. Gould. Inaddition, the Corps will accept anyalternative plans that Cranford mightcome up with in the meantime.
“[Senator Frank] Lautenbergmoaned when I told him how much
[Cranford] needs this done,” MayorAschenbach joked, and explainedthat Sen. Lautenberg called this timeperiod as a “moratorium on ear-marks.” Ms. McDonald then ex-plained to him that this project,should it reach Congress, would beconsidered an “earmark.”
Early Morning Blaze RipsThrough Southwyck Village
By BETSEY BURGDORFSpecially Written for The Westfield Leader
SCOTCH PLAINS – On Wednes-day, July 6, at approximately 7 a.m.,officials responded to a fire that origi-nated in a townhouse in SouthwyckVillage, a private, gated condominiumcommunity at the southern end ofScotch Plains near the Clark border.The complex contains 294townhouses built in the late 1970sand early 1980s and sits on 55 acresadjacent to the train tracks.
According to Scotch Plains PoliceDetective Lieutenant Brian Donnelly,at approximately 7 a.m. the ScotchPlains police received a 9-1-1 callfrom a resident reporting a workingresidential fire at Yarmouth Village,which is part of the Southwyck Vil-lage condominium complex. “Thefire started in the upstairs bedroom.There was a heating pad on the bed atthe time,” Det. Lt. Donnelly said.
The fire was extinguished by theScotch Plains Fire Department, whichreceived mutual aid from surround-ing fire departments.
According to a report on nj.com,firefighters contained the four-alarmblaze that began at 5 Yarmouth Courtand made its way in to several adja-cent units at approximately 9 a.m.
Several surrounding townhouseunits were damaged in the blaze andthe residents of those, and other sur-rounding townhouses, were evacu-ated.
Executive Director of the RaritanValley Chapter of the American RedCross Suzanne Lutz told The WestfieldLeader that the organization was atthe scene and assisted two victims bysetting them up in a local hotel forthree nights and providing them with“debit cards loaded with money” topurchase items they needed immedi-ately, such as clothing.
Ms. Lutz stated the fire displacedthree additional families, who soughtshelter and immediate assistancethrough family members.
The exact cause of the fire is stillunder investigation by the ScotchPlains Fire Department, but nothingappears to be suspicious and no inju-ries were reported, Det. Lt. Donnellysaid.
Weissman Named WestfieldAssistant Superintendent
By KIMBERLY A. BROADWELLSpecially Written for The Westfield Leader
WESTFIELD – The WestfieldBoard of Education (BOE) last Thurs-day unanimously approved the ap-pointment of Michael Weissman asWestfield’s new assistant superinten-dent of pupil services during a spe-cial meeting. Mr. Weissman will re-place Theodore Kozlik, who hasserved in that capacity for many years.
According to a statement read byAnita O’Neal, assistant superinten-dent of curriculum and instruction,Superintendent of Schools MargaretDolan recommended Mr. Weissmanfor the position starting this Septem-ber.
In the statement, it was revealedthat other members of the nominat-ing committee consisted of represen-tatives from the BOE, a special edu-cation parent group, Child Study teammembers and school staff members.
Mr. Weissman is the current direc-tor of educational services for theHighland Park school district inMiddlesex County.
According to Mr. Weissman’s newsrelease, he had prepared the High-land Park’s special-education bud-get, managed the funding, was re-sponsible for grants and extraordi-nary aid and had “secured alternativefunding grants for the district.”
Mr. Weissman has a doctorate ofpsychology degree from RutgersUniversity, a master’s in educationand an advanced certificate in schoolpsychology from the Brooklyn Col-lege of the University of New York,as well as a Bachelor of Sciencedegree in Psychology from the StateUniversity of New York at Oneonta.
During the public portion of the
meeting, former BOE member GaryMcCready thanked Mr. Kozlik forhis “many years of service to thedistrict.” He noted that Mr. Kozlik“always had respect for all Westfieldstudents, for the taxpayers’ moneyand for members of the board ofeducation.”
He also said he welcomed Mr.Weissman and noted that he would befilling some, “well-worn but veryhigh-quality shoes.” Mr. McCreadyconcluded by saying, “Ted, you havedone a great job. Good luck on allyour future endeavors.”
Board member Mark Friedmanstated that in the future, when a jobbecomes vacant, he would like to see“a more formal discussion” of the jobdescription to see if “re-organizingthe position is possible.”
“I would like to see the group bemore verbal about jobs and evaluateall needs of the district,” Mr. Fried-man said.
He also stated, “I know my sugges-tion comes on the heels of this ap-pointment and my suggestions arenot related to it at all.”
It was noted that the next BOEmeeting would take place on Tues-day, July 26, to discuss enrollmentissues.
Last month, dozens of concernedTamaques Elementary School sec-ond grade parents came to the boardof education meeting looking forclass-size relief.
At that meeting, SuperintendentDolan stated that the board, “was notdeaf to parents’ concerns” but thatthe board was “putting off staffingdecisions until they see more con-crete enrollment numbers for Sep-tember.”
made a special trip from his home inBasking Ridge to honor Mr. Cockren,who he appointed as town attorney.He credited Mr. Cockren with his runfor mayor and said, “I appreciate theservice you did for me as mayor.”
Mr. Cockren thanked both mayorsfor “the confidence that you placed inme.” After serving as attorney for theboard of adjustment and as WestfieldRepublican Committee chairman, hechose to put politics aside, sayingthat the position of town attorney was“a challenge I always wanted.” Hesaid that while Westfield has changedover the course of 25 years, it “con-tinues to be a place where peoplewant to live.”
Mr. Cockren retired from the townbut continues to practice law with thefirm SNR Denton.
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LoGrippopublic open spaces such as parks,playgrounds and other open spaces.
Councilwoman Sara Todisco mo-tioned to table an ordinance toamend various sections of Chapter30 of the general code of the bor-ough that deals with the personnelpolicy of the ordinance. Section twoof the ordinance was to be amendedto repeal longevity benefits of non-union employees, of which thereare about 10 employees, BoroughClerk Christina Ariemma said.
Ms. Ariemma said an asbestosstudy revealed there was asbestosin the field house and the boroughwill obtain a quote for removal.
She also said that Hatch MottMacDonald, the company used tomonitor environmental issues withthe soil at the site for the athleticfield complex, had submitted a pro-posal for $25,000 to clean up soilthere. She said the cost should becovered by insurance.
Councilman Jim Matthieu, chair-man of the finance committee, saidthe shared-services analysis is com-plete and is under review.
Mayor Quattrocchi asked Coun-cilman Matthieu to contact Mayorof Roselle Park Joseph Accardi todiscuss Mr. Accardi’s idea to shareDepartment of Public Works (DPW)services with Roselle Park,Garwood, Kenilworth and Cranford,since Roselle Park is building a
new DPW building. This was ini-tially brought up in January.
Little Joe’s Liquors, the formerliquor store on South Avenue, hasrenewed its liquor license. Ms.Ariemma said the owner had soldhis corporation, that the license wasowned by the corporation, and thathe is in the process of buying thecorporation back in order to keepthe liquor license. She said the li-cense to sell and consume liquor inthe borough is valuable, and thoselicenses are no longer created. Shesaid the current location is closedand that she heard a vitamin shop isopening there. She said she sus-pects the owner of Little Joe’s willsell the liquor license.
Mr. DeFillippo, chairman of thecommittee on aging, said bowlingwill resume every Tuesday, Zumbawill begin at 10 a.m. on Tuesdays inJuly and August and crafts and ce-ramics will begin at 1 p.m. in Julyfor senior citizens.
During the workshop meeting,Mayor Quattrocchi asked BoroughEngineer Donald Guarriello to lookinto a resident inquiry regarding arecessed manhole in the middle ofthe road on 3rd Avenue near Gal-lows Hill.
The Tuesday, July 26 meetinghas been cancelled; the next coun-cil meeting is set for Tuesday, Au-gust 9.
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Chief Underhill Sworn In
FW Council Continues toDiscuss Shared Services
By TED RITTERSpecially Written for The Westfield Leader
FANWOOD — At the BoroughCouncil’s regular monthly meetingTuesday night, Mayor Colleen Mahrindicated the sharing of police ser-vices between Fanwood and ScotchPlains is still being discussed.
Mayor Mahr said two “very good,productive” shared services commit-tee meetings were held in recent weeks,involving the police chiefs from bothtowns, municipal officials, and thecounty prosecutor. Two more areplanned in the near future.
“We’re really the only two [UnionCounty] towns at the table,” said MayorMahr, pointing to the shared policeservices option.
The mayor said “operational issues”and financial impacts are being lookedinto, but stated, “I’m optimistic wecan find a way to do something, with-out jeopardizing public safety.”
The mayor added that officials alsoare discussing the potential sharing ofmunicipal court services.
In other business, Mayor Mahr fol-lowed up on the well-attended June 13community meeting regarding trafficconcerns on Shady Lane and PoplarPlace.
The mayor said an ad hoc commit-tee of volunteers is set to meet nextThursday with Fanwood Police ChiefRichard Trigo, at which time “perma-nent and long-term solutions” will bediscussed.
“The main problem…is volume, notspeeding,” said Mayor Mahr, whonoted that another traffic count will beconducted this summer so the data canbe compared with traffic volumes re-corded during the recently concludedschool year.
In addition, the mayor indicatedthat the borough may already have anordinance on the books that couldauthorize turning restrictions and re-lated signage with an eye toward pre-venting drivers from using Shady Laneor Poplar Place as cut-through routesstating this option is being explored.
Mayor Mahr also emphasized thatalthough “we need to do some thingsto address the problem at hand,” the
installation of crosswalks on ShadyLane is not being considered as asolution, based on feedback from resi-dents.
“We heard you loud and clear,” themayor said.
The governing body approved aresolution requesting Governor ChrisChristie and the State Legislature to“distribute state aid to school districtsin a fair and equitable manner… whilecontinuing to provide for a thoroughand efficient education.”
Councilman Robert Manduca, whointroduced the resolution, indicatedthe resolution stems from recent stateSupreme Court decisions regardingthe distribution of education funding,generated from the income tax, tocertain districts.
Councilman Manduca said the dis-tribution of state aid to school districts“has not been fair.” He also suggestedthe state’s income tax “is supposed tobe exclusively to offset or reduce prop-erty taxes,” and not redirected by thejudicial branch.
“This is a resolution of support forour elected officials… to uphold theConstitution of the State of New Jer-sey,” the councilman said.
A handful of residents spoke in fa-vor of the resolution prior to its adop-tion.
Alexander Smith, a member of thelocal Tea Party movement said, “Wedon’t quite get back our fair share [ofincome tax revenue].”
Fanwood resident Maggie Savocasaid, “We’ve been talking about prop-erty taxes for years… getting some ofour income tax back would help.”
In light of the recent summer heatand humidity, CouncilwomanKatherine Mitchell noted that TheChelsea of Fanwood assisted-livingcomplex on South Avenue offers a“cooling center” for those who don’thave air conditioning at home.
Councilwoman Mitchell encour-aged senior citizens, particularly thosewith health problems or malfunction-ing air conditioners, to use the Chelsea;adding that seniors can call the policedepartment if they need a ride to thefacility.
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Betsey Burgdorf for The Scotch Plains-Fanwood TimesHARD AT WORK…Children attending the Scotch Plains Parks and Recreation Department sponsored summer camp heldat Hetfield Park are unaware of the heat on Tuesday as their attention is focused on painting clay bobble-head dinosaurs,part of the program’s series on the historic creatures.
August 7, 2008 Katie Rogers for The Scotch Plains-Fanwood TimesSUMMER MUSIC... Scotch Plains residents fill the Village Green (2008) for thetownship’s National Night Out, including a concert by New Jersey rock band DogVoices. This year, the Scotch Plains Cultural Arts Series starts tonight andcontinues through August 18. All performances are held on the Village Green. Forthe full schedule, see page 18.
Christina Hinke for The Scotch Plains-Fanwood TimesCHIEF UNDERHILL…Former Lieutenant Bruce Underhill was sworn in Tues-day night at the Garwood council meeting by Mayor Patricia Quattrocchi as thenew police chief, replacing retired Police Chief William Legg. Pictured, ChiefUnderhill stands with his wife, Barbara, and sons, Christopher and Thomas,outside Borough Hall.
Betsey Burgdorf for The Scotch Plains-Fanwood TimesCHIPS AWAY...Brian Walter of Flannery’s Pub in Fanwood purchased thebuilding that formerly housed the Chippery on South Avenue. Mr. Walter plansto convert it for use as an eatery.
Fanwood Council Continues toDiscuss Shared Police Services
Scotch Plains-Fanwood BOESeeks New Business Admin.
By TED RITTERSpecially Written for The Scotch Plains-Fanwood Times
FANWOOD — At the BoroughCouncil’s regular monthly meetingTuesday night, Mayor Colleen Mahrindicated the sharing of police ser-vices between Fanwood and ScotchPlains is still being discussed.
Mayor Mahr said two “very good,productive” shared services commit-tee meetings were held in recentweeks, involving the police chiefsfrom both towns, municipal officialsand the county prosecutor. Two moreare planned in the near future.
“We’re really the only two [UnionCounty] towns at the table,” saidMayor Mahr, pointing to the sharedpolice services option.
The mayor said “operational is-sues” and financial impacts are being
looked into, but stated, “I’m optimis-tic we can find a way to do some-thing, without jeopardizing publicsafety.”
The mayor added that officials alsoare discussing the potential sharingof municipal court services.
In other business, Mayor Mahr fol-lowed up on the well-attended June13 community meeting regarding traf-fic concerns on Shady Lane and Pop-lar Place.
The mayor said an ad hoc commit-tee of volunteers is set to meet nextThursday with Fanwood Police ChiefRichard Trigo, at which time “per-manent and long-term solutions” willbe discussed.
“The main problem…is volume,not speeding,” said Mayor Mahr, whonoted that another traffic count will
be conducted this summer so the datacan be compared with traffic vol-umes recorded during the recentlyconcluded school year.
In addition, the mayor indicatedthat the borough may already have anordinance on the books that couldauthorize turning restrictions and re-lated signage with an eye toward pre-venting drivers from using ShadyLane or Poplar Place as cut-throughroutes, stating that this option is be-ing explored.
Mayor Mahr said, “We need to dosome things to address the problemat hand.” The installation of cross-walks on Shady Lane is not beingconsidered as a solution, based onfeedback from residents.
“We heard you loud and clear,” themayor said.
The governing body approved aresolution requesting Governor ChrisChristie and the State Legislature “dis-tribute state aid to school districts in afair and equitable manner… whilecontinuing to provide for a thoroughand efficient education.”
Councilman Robert Manduca, whointroduced the resolution, indicatedthe resolution stems from recent stateSupreme Court decisions regardingthe distribution of education fund-ing, generated from the income tax,to certain districts.
Councilman Manduca said the dis-tribution of state aid to school dis-tricts “has not been fair.” He alsosuggested the state’s income tax “issupposed to be exclusively to offsetor reduce property taxes,” and notredirected by the judicial branch.
“This is a resolution of support forour elected officials… to uphold theConstitution of the State of New Jer-sey,” the councilman said.
A handful of residents spoke infavor of the resolution prior to itsadoption.
Alexander Smith, a member of thelocal Tea Party movement, said, “Wedon’t quite get back our fair share [ofincome tax revenue].”
Fanwood resident Maggie Savocasaid, “We’ve been talking about prop-erty taxes for years… getting some ofour income tax back would help.”
In light of the recent summer heatand humidity, CouncilwomanKatherine Mitchell noted that TheChelsea at Fanwood complex onSouth Avenue offers a “cooling cen-ter” for those who do not have airconditioning at home.
Councilwoman Mitchell encour-aged senior citizens, particularly thosewith health problems or malfunc-tioning air conditioners, to use theChelsea, adding that seniors can callthe police department if they need aride to the facility.
By PAUL J. PEYTONSpecially Written for The Scotch Plains-Fanwood Times
SCOTCH PLAINS – The ScotchPlains-Fanwood Board of Educationhas begun the search for a new busi-ness administrator to replace the re-tiring Anthony Del Sordi effectiveNovember 1. The district ran a classi-fied advertisement in The Star-Led-ger last Sunday for the position.
The district said in its ad that it isseeking “a proven school businessadministrator” who is state certifiedwith a “minimum of five years expe-rience and demonstrated success inthe field of school business adminis-tration.”
Mr. Del Sordi, who was namedNew Jersey School Business Officialof the Year for 2010 by the NewJersey Association of School Busi-ness Officials (NJASBO), has beenSP-F business administrator for 11years. Mr. Del Sordi served asNJASBO president during the 2006-2007 school year, and was presidentof the Union County Association ofSchool Business Officials from 1992-1993.
According to his résumé, Mr. DelSordi has been employed in the edu-cation field for 33 years. He waspreviously school business adminis-trator for the Ridgewood, Linden,Morris Hills Regional, Paramus andNorthvale school districts.
He is a 1971 graduate of Seton HallUniversity, from which he holds aBachelor of Science degree in Busi-ness Administration, and received abusiness administration certificationin 1981 from Rutgers University. Healso took graduate courses in publicadministration and school adminis-tration at Kean University.
In addition to preparing a schoolbudget, which currently is $92 mil-lion, Mr. Del Sordi said that, duringhis tenure, voters passed bond refer-endums “in excess of $80 million fornew construction, the renovations of
facilities and the installation of twosynthetic turf athletic fields and arunning track.”
The district also announced the re-tirement of Scotch Plains-Fanwoodhealth and physical education teacherStephen Ciccotelli, who will continueto coach the varsity football team,and eight other teachers. In addition,Scotch Plains-Fanwood High SchoolAssistant Principal Ed Braun andSocial Studies Supervisor Brad Siegelhave resigned. The BOE is expectedto approve Mr. Siegel’s resignation atits August meeting.
Bruce Underhill Sworn InAs Garwood Police Chief
Early Morning Blaze RipsThrough Southwyck Village
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By BETSEY BURGDORFSpecially Written for The Scotch Plains-Fanwood Times
SCOTCH PLAINS – On Wednes-day, July 6, at approximately 7 a.m.,officials responded to a fire that origi-nated in a townhouse in SouthwyckVillage, a private, gated condominiumcommunity at the southern end ofScotch Plains near the Clark border.The complex contains 294townhouses built in the late 1970sand early 1980s and sits on 55 acresadjacent to the train tracks.
According to Scotch Plains PoliceDetective Lieutenant Brian Donnelly,at approximately 7 a.m. the ScotchPlains police received a 9-1-1 callfrom a resident reporting a workingresidential fire at Yarmouth Village,which is part of the Southwyck Vil-lage condominium complex. “Thefire started in the upstairs bedroom.There was a heating pad on the bed atthe time,” Det. Lt. Donnelly said.
The fire was extinguished by the
Scotch Plains Fire Department, whichreceived mutual aid from surround-ing fire departments.
According to a report on nj.com,firefighters contained the four-alarmblaze that began at 5 Yarmouth Courtand made its way into several adja-cent units at approximately 9 a.m.
Several surrounding townhouseunits were damaged in the blaze andthe residents of those, and other sur-rounding townhouses, were evacu-ated.
Executive Director of the RaritanValley Chapter of the American RedCross Suzanne Lutz told The ScotchPlains-Fanwood Times that the orga-nization was at the scene and assistedtwo victims by setting them up in alocal hotel for three nights and pro-viding them with “debit cards loadedwith money” to purchase items theyneeded immediately, such as cloth-ing.
By CHRISTINA M. HINKESpecially Written for The Scotch Plains-Fanwood Times
GARWOOD – Former lieutenantBruce Underhill was sworn in as thenew police chief of Garwood at Tues-day night’s borough council meetingby Mayor Patricia Quattrocchi. Hereplaces retired Police Chief WilliamLegg.
Mr. Underhill’s family was in at-tendance to witness the ceremony.Following the swearing in, ChiefUnderhill, dressed in full uniform,
shook hands with everyone in atten-dance and posed for photos with hisfamily.
Councilman Victor DeFillippo saidthe Police Search Committee recom-mended police officers to fill openspots due to retirements and promo-tions. Lt. James Pipala is recom-mended to be promoted as captain,Sergeants James Wright and Dou-glas Stoffer are recommended to bepromoted to lieutenants, and patrol-
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Organization Seeks to MergeScotch Plains, Fanwood
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By ALEXA ZEPKASpecially Written for The Scotch Plains-Fanwood Times
WESTFIELD – Courage to Con-nect NJ has been holding meetingsaround the state and Union County inrecent months to encourage commu-nities to merge to reduce propertytaxes in the state. The organizationheld a meeting in Westfield on June15.
The goals of the organization,founded in 2009, are to make NewJersey more sustainable and educatethe public about redundancies andinefficiencies created by New Jersey’s566 municipalities. Co-founders GinaGenovese and Wendy McCahill, wholed the meeting, have conducted be-tween 30 and 35 presentations state-wide.
Currently, Ms. Genovese said lo-cal governments are struggling withthe necessity of raising taxes andmaintaining services to the people.Union County residents pay 8.7 per-cent of their personal income for prop-erty taxes.
As of now, there are 566 separate
municipalities, branching from aninitial 104, with Westfield being oneof the first towns formed. Courage toConnect considers WoodbridgeTownship as the model for towns tofollow. It consists of 10 towns withina single government: Avenel, Colonia,Fords, Hopelawn, Iselin, Keasbey,Menlo Park, Port Reading, Sewarenand Woodbridge itself. Woodbridgehas one superintendent and one schoolboard for a total of 24 schools.
There currently are 323 towns inNew Jersey that are part of anothergovernment, such as the towns thatmake up Woodbridge, and Short Hills,which is part of Millburn.
Ms. Genovese said public schoolsare under assault right now, with char-ter and magnet schools placing a greatdeal of pressure on public schoolsystems. She said even with largerschool districts, the same number ofteachers is needed.
In January, Ms. Genovese co-wrotethe Courage to Connect Guidebook,which provides an overview of the
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Fourth of July in Cranford – Photos by Christina Hinke and Paul Lachenauer.
Photo courtesy of the WendelsHIGH ALTITUDE…The Wendel Family recently visited the Wild West with TheWestfield Leader. The Wendels are pictured here in Wyoming with the CodyPeaks Mountains, located in Montana, in the background.
Vision-ImpairedReceive Help
GARWOOD – Jim Morano of theLions Club, above right, accepts a$1,000 check from Rosie’s Wine Barowner Josh Rosenberg. The fundswere generated for the Garwood Li-ons Club during an event in May.
Rosie’s Wine Bar, Alex ElmanWinery and the Garwood Lions Clubjoined forces to help the vision-im-paired.
The idea was spawned as Garwoodrecently elected Mayor PatQuattrocchi, who is vision-impaired.Winemaker Ms. Elman is a blindwoman.
Betsey Burgdorf for The Scotch Plains-Fanwood TimesLOVELY LADY…Ed Menapace and Bill Curtis, owners of The FarmhouseStore, hosted an event last Friday night starring two-time Tony Award-winningactress Christine Ebersole, above, at which guests had the opportunity to view andpurchase pieces from her collection of vintage jewelry. See article page 18.
men Mario Morelli and Samuel Roccoare recommended to be promoted tosergeants.
Sergeant Thomas Mericle, PoliceOfficer Alexander Anderson and Cap-tain Lenny DiStefano are retiring.
The council adopted three amendedordinances set forth by the planningboard, and tabled one ordinance.
One amended ordinance would po-tentially nullify the litigation betweenthe ShopRite and the Borough ofGarwood Planning Board and GoldMedal Fitness. ShopRite had filed alawsuit against the planning boardand Gold Medal Fitness after thefitness center opened the Parisi SpeedSchool adjacent to its facility, statingthe use was non-conforming to thezoning law.
Borough Attorney Joseph Triarsisaid the ordinance “will likely endthe litigation.”
The ordinance amends the land-use ordinance by amending the per-mitted land uses and expanding thelimits of the Community Commer-cial Zone. It also adds the sub-sectionHealth Club as a permitted use.
Another amended ordinance cre-ates a mixed use district where per-mitted uses are residential/retail com-mercial, which permits single bed-room, commuter-type apartments,age-restricted townhouses and small-scale retail.
An additional amended ordinancecreates a new zone district entitledPublic Open Space, to allow for pub-lic open spaces such as parks, play-grounds and other open spaces.
Councilwoman Sara Todisco mo-tioned to table an ordinance to amendvarious sections of Chapter 30 of thegeneral code of the borough that dealswith the personnel policy of the ordi-nance. Section two of the ordinancewas to be amended to repeal longevitybenefits of non-union employees, ofwhich there are about 10 employees,Borough Clerk Christina Ariemma said.
Ms. Ariemma said an asbestosstudy revealed there was asbestos inthe field house and the borough willobtain a quote for removal.
She also said that Hatch MottMacDonald, the company used tomonitor environmental issues withthe soil at the site for the athleticfield complex, had submitted a pro-posal for $25,000 to clean up soilthere. She said the cost should becovered by insurance.
Councilman Jim Matthieu, chair-man of the finance committee, saidthe shared-services analysis is com-plete and is under review.
Mayor Quattrocchi asked Coun-cilman Matthieu to contact Mayor ofRoselle Park Joseph Accardi to dis-cuss Mr. Accardi’s idea to share De-partment of Public Works (DPW) ser-vices with Roselle Park, Garwood,Kenilworth and Cranford, sinceRoselle Park is building a new DPWbuilding. This was initially broughtup in January.
Little Joe’s Liquors, the former li-quor store on South Avenue, has re-newed its liquor license. Ms. Ariemmasaid the owner had sold his corpora-tion, that the license was owned bythe corporation, and that he is in theprocess of buying the corporationback in order to keep the liquor li-cense. She said the license to sell andconsume liquor in the borough isvaluable, and those licenses are nolonger created. She said the currentlocation is closed and that she hearda vitamin shop is opening there. Shesaid she suspects the owner of LittleJoe’s will sell the liquor license.
Mr. DeFillippo, chairman of thecommittee on aging, said bowlingwill resume every Tuesday, Zumbawill begin at 10 a.m. on Tuesdays inJuly and August and crafts and ce-ramics will begin at 1 p.m. in July forsenior citizens.
During the workshop meeting,Mayor Quattrocchi asked Borough
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Garwood Police Chief
Betsey Burgdorf for The Scotch Plains-Fanwood TimesMAKEOVER...The Frazee House, built in 1758, will undergo a much neededmakeover after the Scotch Plains-Fanwood Rotary Frazee House Committeeformulates a plan for the historic landmark.
Cranford Hears TimelineOn Flood Feasibility Study
Westfield Board OKs NorthAvenue Office Building
Engineer Donald Guarriello to lookinto a resident inquiry regarding arecessed manhole in the middle ofthe road on 3rd Avenue near GallowsHill.
The Tuesday, July 26 meeting hasbeen cancelled; the next council meet-ing is set for Tuesday, August 9.
By THOMAS FORTUNATOSpecially Written for The Scotch Plains-Fanwood Times
CRANFORD – Mayor DanAschenbach, along with the town-ship council and Flood AdvisoryCommittee, met with the UnitedStates Army Corps of Engineers for aspecial workshop meeting June 23regarding a study being performedby the Corps on how to minimizeflood damage in Cranford along theRahway River.
Currently, the Army Corps of En-gineers estimates that constructionof a solution to Cranford’s floodingproblem will begin in 2018.
“We have many layers of review[before we can begin construction],”explained Corps engineer JodiMcDonald, “and that takes a lot oftime.”
“We would have the actual feasi-bility scope meeting in mid-2013,”Corps engineer Alicia Gould ex-plained. “From there, we move for-ward to the optimized plan, and wewould have feasibility done by 2014.”
Following this, the Corps wouldhave to release a report to an agencyoutside the Corps to analyze the costof the project, and design would be-gin in 2016 and take an estimated twoyears.
After design, Congress would haveto approve funding for the projectand then construction could begin.
“A project will never be constructedwithout the township’s approval,” Ms.Gould assured Mayor Aschenbach.
“The study area is the entireRahway River Watershed,” Ms.McDonald stated. “We’re focusingon those solutions that would solvethe flood problem in the damage cen-ter of Cranford. Now, the solutionmay not be in Cranford; it may beoutside of Cranford. But we knowthat the vast majority of damage isoccurring in Cranford.”
“The state as a sponsor has re-quested that we only focus onCranford/Kenilworth,” added Ms.Gould. In addition, the Corps willaccept any alternative plans thatCranford might come up with in themeantime.
“[Senator Frank] Lautenbergmoaned when I told him how much[Cranford] needs this done,” MayorAschenbach joked, and explained thatSen. Lautenberg called this time pe-riod as a “moratorium on earmarks.”Ms. McDonald then explained to himthat this project, should it reach Con-gress, would be considered an “ear-mark.”
By THOMAS S. FORTUNATOSpecially Written for The Scotch Plains-Fanwood Times
WESTFIELD – During its meet-ing Wednesday, July 6, the WestfieldPlanning Board heard and approvedtwo new applications, the latter ofwhich was to redevelop the propertyat 440 North Avenue, East, currentlya dilapidated, abandoned restaurant.
440 North Avenue East LLC, de-veloper Steve Needle, seeks to de-velop the property — a small, metal-plated building that had been used asa White Diamond diner several de-cades ago and then an Italian restau-rant. The building was used mostrecently by the now closed NewNorris Chevrolet dealership next doorto display signage.
The application, presented by at-torney Joseph Triarsi of Cranford,proposed a an office building de-signed in a style similar to the build-ing of Best Western and ChezCatherine French restaurant on NorthAvenue. The building will be cantile-vered, designed to have the parkinglot directly underneath the building.
Mr. Triarsi stated the proposedbuilding was “the best design wecould do under these circumstances,”given the small size of the property inquestion. He emphasized that the“eastern end” of Westfield is in “direneed” of redevelopment.
“Our building could be a great re-fresher to the town,” stated architectRoger Winkle. The building is inter-esting from every viewing [angle]” –noting that the new building will bedesigned to be as environmentally-friendly as possible, constructed with“green” building materials like re-cycled roofing and bricks. He said itwill have bike racks on the southwestside of the property, in addition to apicnic area.
Former Westfield planning boardmember Carol Molnar did not thinkthe proposed building was a goodidea. “The parking problem here isself-imposed,” she stated. “The ap-plicant is proposing a very large struc-ture for such a small lot. The appli-cant could comply with the ordinance
by decreasing the size of the pro-posed building,” Ms. Molnar stated.
The ordinance requires one park-ing space for every 200 square feet ofbuilding area.
“You see a lot of these cantileveredbuildings on Route 1, where the goalis to build the largest possible build-ing on the least amount of space,”Ms. Molnar continued. “However,for good reason, Westfield’s land-useordinances do not allow parking un-der a building.”
Board member Darielle Walsh be-lieved the building would have a“positive impact” on the town andthat the design was “appropriate…for that location.”
“Parking is a concern,” Ms. Walshadmitted, but then stated she felt theparking situation as planned “shouldnot be a problem.”
Westfield resident Peter Nurnbergpresented the first application of theevening. The board approved the sub-division of a strip of land from hisrear neighbor’s property at 725 FourthAvenue and annex it onto his ownproperty at 780 Cranford Avenue.
The Fourth Avenue property is lo-cated partially in Garwood, whichcomplicated the matter because ofthe board’s limited jurisdiction. “Irecognize the fact that the subdivi-sion has no effect on the small por-tion of the property that lies inGarwood,” stated board member KrisMcAloon, Westfield’s town engineer.
“It’d be my recommendation thatthe applicant seek a waiver fromGarwood’s Planning Board regard-ing this matter,” continued Mr.McAloon. “I don’t believe you’d[even] have to make an application…[just write Garwood] by correspon-dence and request that Garwood waivesubdivision jurisdiction on this mat-ter.”
The board carried an applicationregarding a property at 1053 Pros-pect Street over to a special meetingon Monday, August 15, due to sched-uling conflicts. The board had con-tinued this from its hearing on theapplication from its June 8 meeting.
Photo by Betsey Burgdorf. Sketch by Karen Taylor Architectural Renderings,www.ktaylorrenderings.com.
SHACKtoMAXIMUM...The Westfield Planning Board approved an applicationby developer Steve Needle regarding the former White Diamond eatery. The sitewill be transformed into an office building.
Ms. Lutz stated the fire displacedthree additional families, who soughtshelter and immediate assistancethrough family members.
The exact cause of the fire is stillunder investigation by the ScotchPlains Fire Department, but nothingappears to be suspicious and no inju-ries were reported, Det. Lt. Donnellysaid.
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municipal consolidation process andoutlines six basic steps to achieve it.“Local citizens and officials need tobe able to work together in order toreduce the causes of the highest prop-erty taxes in New Jersey,” Ms.Genovese said.
Also in attendance at the June 15Westfield meeting was Fred Lange,head of “Reconnecting Scotch Plains-Fanwood” and a resident of ScotchPlains. Mr. Lange has organized vol-unteers to go door to door asking forendorsement of the consolidation ofScotch Plains and Fanwood. The pe-tition is to propose the formation of ajoint municipal consolidation studycommission. Courage to Connect NJhas provided education and processsupport but does not circulate thesepetitions, Ms. Genovese explained.
Mr. Lange has contacted ScotchPlains Mayor Nancy Malool andFanwood Mayor Colleen Mahr. Hetold The Scotch Plains-FanwoodTimes, “We have to establish 10 com-missioners. The mayors of Fanwoodand Scotch Plains should select six.The BOE should select two and Cour-age to Connect should select two.”
According to Mr. Lange, the com-mittee must file an application tocreate a Municipal ConsolidationStudy Commission Pursuant to theLocal Option Municipal Consolida-tion Act (Public Law 2007, Chapter63, Subarticle D.) This is planned onbeing accomplished in 2011. A studywill be performed to merge the twotowns, which should take approxi-mately nine months.
He has accumulated signaturesfrom more than 500 petitioners thusfar. In order to request a study tomerge Fanwood and Scotch Plains,1,155 signatures are needed. Thereare 10 individuals soliciting signa-tures in the two towns. Petitionersfrom Scotch Plains include Jon Th-ompson, Ilse Heinemeyer, formerScotch Plains-Fanwood Board ofEducation member Donald Parisi andJonathan Jaffe, owner of a publicrelations firm that represents Cour-age to Connect. The Fanwood peti-tioners are Vincent Leonetti, SherryMorales, Kevin Pagano, JosephPankiewitz and Dan Winigrad.
Ms. Genovese explained that when
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enough signatures are collected, anapplication will be sent to the statefor approval to complete a full studyof the cost/benefit of consolidatingthe towns. The information from thestudy will be used to educate thepublic for a referendum about oneyear later on whether or not to con-solidate.
She said taxes in Westfield are be-ing raised to unaffordable levels.Courage to Connect calls for unityand collaboration from citizenswhom, regardless of political affilia-tion, are all taxpayers faced with thefuture of New Jersey that can begoing in the wrong direction.
According to Ms. McCahill, “[con-solidation] can be done solely byresolutions at municipal governmentlevels. It does not even have to go tothe voters, but since that is not alwaysprobable, we encourage citizens tobecome involved.”
Lauren S. Barr for The TimesWELCOME ABOARD…Newly ap-pointed Councilman Mark LoGrippowas sworn in by Westfield Mayor AndySkibitsky at Tuesday night’s town coun-cil meeting. He was appointed to theThird Ward seat vacated by MarkCiarrocca, who resigned following hisappointment as a Superior Court judge.Mr. LoGrippo was joined on the dais byhis mother, Rose LoGrippo; his wife,Maria, and children, Francesco“Checco” and Gemma.
LoGrippo ReplacesCiarrocca on Council
By LAUREN S. BARRSpecially Written for The Scotch Plains-Fanwood Times
WESTFIELD – Westfield’s ThirdWard residents have Mark LoGrippoas their new representative followinghis swearing-in at Tuesday night’spublic council meeting.
Mr. LoGrippo was appointed to thecouncil following the resignation ofMark Ciarrocca upon Mr. Ciarrocca’sappointment as a Superior Court judgeon the Union County bench. Mr.Ciarrocca will be sworn in as a judgeon Tuesday, August 2. Town ClerkClaire Grey read Mr. Ciarrocca’s res-ignation letter, which stated, “It hasbeen my pleasure and honor to servethe residents of Westfield.”
As required by state law, Council-man LoGrippo was chosen from a listof three names provided by WestfieldRepublican Committee Chairman JonBramnick. The other two names pre-sented were William West and MaryAlice Ryan. Second Ward Council-woman JoAnn Neylan nominated Mr.LoGrippo, and Mayor Andy Skibitskyswore him in.
A Westfield resident for four and ahalf years, Councilman LoGrippo isa business development manager forVerizon. He holds a Bachelor of Sci-ence degree from St. John’s Univer-sity and an MBA from Adelphi Uni-versity. Councilman LoGrippo andhis wife, Maria, live on Tudor Ovalwith their two children (Francesco“Checco” and Gemma). Prior to hisappointment to the council, he servedas a member of the planning boardsince 2010.
Cranford July 4 by Christina Hinke and Paul Lachenauer
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WELL DONE…Union County Freeholders Bette Jane Kowalski, second fromleft, and Linda Carter, third from left, join Union County Public Safety DirectorAndrew Moran, left, and Union County Police Chief Daniel Vaniska, right, incongratulating a team of county police officers as they are recognized by RayOleavia, Ed Suriano, and Phil Rivoli of LoJack for recently recovering severalstolen cars and motorcycles at one location in Rahway using LoJack technology.Pictured, left to right, are: Sgt. Joseph Nordstrom, Officers Kenneth Matz andGiovanni Arlia, Lt. Robert McGuire and Det. Nicholas Incannella.
UC Police Officers Recognized For Uncovering Theft RingUNION COUNTY – In the early
morning hours of May 9, Union CountyPolice Officer Kenneth Matz respondedto a routine stolen vehicle alert from theLoJack tracking system in his cruiser,and the result was anything but routine.Officer Matz followed the signal untilit ended at a storage yard where numer-ous other stolen vehicles were waitingfor overseas shipment.
“The freeholder board is very proudof the officers involved in this action,and we appreciate the contributions thatthe LoJack Corporation has made to thesafety and security of Union Countyresidents,” said Union County Free-holder Chairman Deborah Scanlon.
The events began to unfold at ap-proximately 1 a.m. Upon detecting aLoJack stolen vehicle alert, OfficerMatz tracked the signal to a storageyard on Elston Street in Rahway. Ona hunch, he used his on-board mobiledata computer to check the VehicleIdentification Number of anothervehicle parked on the premises. Thatcar had been reported stolen in April.
Assisted by other patrol officers,Officer Matz secured the area untilthe daylight hours and the arrival ofUnion County Police Lieutenant Rob-ert McGuire and Detective NicholasIncannella. They identified severalmore stolen cars on the premises,including two motorcycles and twolate model luxury vehicles that hadbeen carjacked in Newark.
“This is a fine example of the kindof results we can expect when lawenforcement technology is combinedwith exceptional heads-up field po-lice work,” Union County PoliceChief Dan Vaniska said.
In appreciation of their police work,the LoJack Corporation presented
awards to several Union County Po-lice Officers at a ceremony in theRalph Froehlich Public Safety Build-ing in Westfield on Wednesday, July 6.Recognized from the County PolicePatrol Division were Officer Matz,Officer Giovanni Arlia and Sgt. Jo-seph Nordstrom. Also recognized fromthe County Police Investigation Divi-sion were Lt. McGuire and Det.Incannella.
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GOP, Dems Trade BarbsAs Override Votes Fail
TRENTON — State Senate Mi-nority Leader Tom Kean, Jr. (R-21,Westfield) commented Monday onDemocrat Majority attempts to over-ride parts of Gov. Chris Christie’sbudget. He said the Majority weretrying to “saddle taxpayers withnearly $900 million in additionalspending” to Gov. Christie’s $30.6-billion budget.
“We are here for one reason andone reason only — the DemocraticMajority saw more value in passing apolitical, election-year budget thatwas illegal and unbalanced from theminute it was introduced than in ne-gotiating a budget with the Governorand Legislative Republicans. And sotoday’s (Monday’s) override votesare really worse than political theater-- they’re offensive.
“They had the chance to do thisproperly by negotiating a budget andthey deliberately chose not to. In ourbooks, when you pass a budget thatis nearly $1 billion out of balance,you lose the moral grounds to gripeand complain about what the Gover-nor had to cut to make the booksbalance,” Sen. Kean said. “And whenyou post a board list that spendsmore money than the little surpluswe have for a rainy day, that’s out-right irresponsible. [The] overridesession isn’t about public policy it’sabout glossy ‘gotcha’ mailers and TVads for the fall campaign. So we arehere to tell you that a united Repub-lican caucus is not going to fall forthe Majority’s political games.”
The override votes of the guberna-torial vetoes of appropriations pro-posed by Democrats in their proposalfailed 24-15 along party lines.
Senators Bob Gordon (D-38, FairLawn) and Jim Whelan (D-2, Atlan-tic) blasted Republicans for voting to“maintain the Governor’s $13-mil-lion cut to one of the most frail popu-lations in the entire state.”
The Senators specifically criticizedthe cuts to Medicaid benefits.
“The Republicans have told themost vulnerable of the most vulner-able in New Jersey that they on their
own, and in the most painful waypossible,” Sen. Gordon said. “This isliterally money out of the pockets ofresidents who don’t have anything.It’s deplorable and a horrible mes-sage that New Jersey is now sendingto these residents.”
Among the cuts addressed byDemocrats was the elimination of$600,000 in total funding for threelegal clinics operated by the state’slaw schools: Rutgers-Camden($200,000 cut), Rutgers-Newark($200,000 cut) and Seton Hall Uni-versity ($200,000 cut).
“The ability to have a lawyer byyour side to fight your case and protectyour rights is not a luxury,” said Sena-tor and former Governor RichardCodey (D-27, Roseland). “Our legalclinics are a vital part of our system ofjustice, and have ensured that thosewho have the least can be on equalground with anyone in a court of law.Justice is blind, but sadly, this Gover-nor has turned a blind eye to countlessresidents at the greatest risk of seeingtheir basic rights eroded, and whohave no other way to fight back.”
GOP Senator Joseph Kyrillos ofMonmouth County shot back that theDemocrats’ vote was “a cynical at-tempt to hoodwink the taxpayers.”
“ As lawmakers, we all want to sayyes to everyone. But to make prom-ises and commitments we cannot payfor is theater, not a legitimate attemptto help people,” Sen. Kyrillos said.Motor Vehicle Offices
Expand HoursAREA — All 39 New Jersey Mo-
tor Vehicle agencies statewide movedto the new service hours schedule asof July 2, state officials have an-nounced. This follows complaints oflines around the state at the agencies.
Press conferences planned forMonday to promote the new hours,however, were canceled after a com-puter malfunction made it impos-sible for staff to issue driver’s li-censes.
July 11 was to have been the firstMonday the agencies were open sincethey closed last summer to save thestate money.
The new hours for the agencies areMonday, 8 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.; Tues-day, 8 a.m. to 7:30 p.m.; Wednesday,Thursday and Friday, 8 a.m. to 5:30p.m. and Saturday, 8 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Democratic lawmakers in UnionCounty have been pushing for thereopening of the Elizabeth office,saying its closing as impacted cityresidents while causing lines at otheroffices including Springfield.
In addition, the Motor Vehicle Com-mission shut down the Westfield motorvehicles inspection center this spring.
Peek at the Week
By Paul Peyton of The Leader/Times
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Oliver Vows to Stop Opt-OutEffort for Union Employees
State Assembly Speaker SheilaOliver said last week that the NewJersey Assembly would not pass leg-islation allowing public- and private-sector workers to opt out of joiningunions or paying dues, nj.com hasreported. A bill that would prohibitunion dues from being deducted fromthe paychecks of public employeeswas introduced last week.
Assemblyman Declan O’Scanlon(R-Monmouth) sponsored the bill.“If the unions can make a case theycan benefit workers, I’ll withdrawthe bill. If they fail to make that case,why should the government orderpeople to join or comply?” he said.
Speaker Oliver said the measure is“dead on arrival.” Twenty-two statehave similar laws.
New Jersey State AFL-CIO Presi-dent Charles Wowkanech said he was“extremely disappointed with As-sembly members (Amy) Handlin (R-Middletown) and O’Scanlon forsponsoring and introducing this typeof radical legislation.”
Ex-State Trooper is NewU.S. Marshall for N.J.
Juan Mattos, Jr. of Monroe Town-ship was sworn-in last Thursday asthe first Hispanic to hold the post ofU.S. marshal for the District of NewJersey. He was serving as an agent forthe Middlesex County Prosecutor’sOffice when President Barack Obamanominated him in March.
Mr. Mattos started his law enforce-ment career as a state trooper in 1975and retired last year at the second-highest post in the state police.
Unemployment Rate RoseTo 9.2 Percent in June
The nation’s latest labor reportshows employers in June hired thefewest workers in nine months as theunemployment rate rose to 9.2 per-cent, the Associated Press reported.
Businesses added just 57,000 jobslast month while government cut238,000 positions combined at thefederal, state and local levels.
Rep. Leonard Lance (R-7th) saidthe June report is “yet another sober-ing reminder that we must get ourfiscal house in order. We must rejectcalls for higher taxes, greater spend-ing and more regulations and insteadfocus on fiscally-responsible pro-growth policies that will lead us to-ward a balanced budget, job creationand a stronger economy.”
Jersey City BOE Seeks ToRemove Superintendent
Jersey City Board of Educationmembers are negotiating with Super-
intendent Charles T. Epps, Jr. to gethim to resign by the end of the nextschool year, according to a JerseyCity Journal report.
An anti-Epps slate of BOE candi-dates won the school-board race in alandslide in April and began talkingof removing the superintendent. Thenewspaper reported that options haveranged from keeping Mr. Epps onuntil 2013 to terminating him nowand beginning a search for a newschools’ chief.
Former First Lady Betty FordDies; Founded Rehab. ClinicFormer First Lady Betty Ford died
Friday at the age of 93 on July 8 at theEisenhower Medical Center inRancho Mirage. The wife of the latePresident Gerald Ford founded theBetty Ford Clinic. President Ford diedDecember 26, 2006.
Bill Would Ensure AssaultVictims Don’t Pay for ExamsLegislation to ensure victims of
sexual assault are not responsible forpaying for forensic sexual assaultexams has received final legislativeapproval and now heads to theGovernor’s desk.
The bill (A-2597/S-972) wouldturn the current state statute, approvedin 2001, into a permanent law byspecifying that victims are notcharged any fee for services that aredirectly associated with forensicsexual assault examinations, includ-ing routine medical screening, medi-cations for prophylaxis of sexually -transmitted infections, pregnancytests, emergency contraception, sup-plies, equipment and use of space.
The 2001 state law established theStatewide Sexual Assault Nurse Ex-aminer program. Under that statute,each county provides forensic sexualassault examinations to sexual assaultvictims.
Bachmann IncreasesLead In GOP Field
Rep. Michele Bachmann of Min-nesota has extended her lead over theannounced Republican candidates,but she trails both Texas GovernorRick Perry and New Jersey ChriatieChris Christie when both governorsand former vice-president candidateSarah Palin are included in a hypo-thetical preference poll of Republi-can primary voter, according to a newZogby poll. Four Republicans (Gov.Christie, former Mass. Gov. MittRomney, Rep. Bachmann and formerMinn. Gov. Tim Pawlenty) are eachin a statistical tie with PresidentBarack Obama when they arematched up against him. All otherGOP contenders trail the President.
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Health Grants ToldTRENTON – The New Jersey De-
partment of Health and Senior Ser-vices has announced that the depart-ment has awarded Jefferson Park Min-istries $22,500 and Prevention Links$10,000 grant out of $350,000 in fed-eral grants to expand a community-based program that help older adultsbetter manage their chronic diseases.
Take Control of Your Health inNew Jersey is a community work-shop held for two-and-a-half hoursonce a week for six weeks. Work-shops are provided at no or low cost,in all 21 New Jersey counties.
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Summer Reading FocusOf Bramnick, StarksWARREN – Assemblyman Jon
Bramnick (R-21, Westfield) will suitup alongside New York Knicks leg-end John Starks and members of theWarren Township Committee tomor-row, July 15, to drive home the im-portance of summer reading.
Asm. Bramnick will be participat-ing in the Fifth Annual “Read toAchieve” program, sponsored by theNew York Knicks and Cablevision.Launched in 2007. The program fo-cuses on children aged 6 to 12 bytouring participating libraries in Con-necticut, New York and New Jersey.The program encourages reading byusing incentives to foster an interestin literature and is highlighted byevents featuring kids reading along-side elected officials and Knicksalumni at select locations.
“A love of reading and informationis a critical factor in being successfulin anything you do, whether it’s onthe court or in the Statehouse,” Asm.Bramnick said. “I am happy to jointhe New York Knicks, Cablevisionand the township committee in pro-moting such a worthwhile cause.”
GOP to Host Forum onClimate Change, Security
CRANFORD — The RepublicanCommittee of Union County, in part-nership with the United Kingdom(U.K.) Foreign and CommonwealthOffice and the U.K. Ministry of De-fence, is hosting a forum tonight,July 14, at 7 p.m., on “Climate Changeand National Security” featuring twomilitary leaders from the UnitedStates and United Kingdom. The fo-rum will be held at the CranfordCommunity Center, 220 Walnut Av-enue in Cranford.
The featured panelists are RearAdmiral Neil Morisetti of the BritishRoyal Navy and the U.K.’s Climateand Energy Security Envoy and re-tired U.S. retired Vice-Admiral Den-nis McGinn, a former commander ofthe U.S. Third Fleet and former deputychief of naval operations for warfarerequirements and programs.
“We hope that this forum willstimulate debate on the issue of cli-mate change and how our military isviewing the issue in the context ofnational security,” said Phil Morin,chairman of the Union County Re-publican Committee.
“Whether you believe that climatechange is a creation of liberal-lean-ing scientists and politicians orwhether you believe that there is ahuman component to climate changeor whether you just want to learnmore about the issue, this is a unique
opportunity to hear from top militaryminds about the state of U.S. andU.K. military preparedness for threatsto our economic and energy interestsat home and abroad.”
There is no charge for the forumand a question-and-answer-periodwill follow the discussion. RSVPshould be made [email protected] orMargot Walker of the British Em-bassy at (202) 518-7527 [email protected].
ClarificationIn a June 30 story on the Scotch
Plains-Fanwood High School gradu-ation ceremony, the name of the Sa-lutatorian should have been spelledAmanda Ho. We regret the error.
RWJ to Hold GolfOuting at Echo LakeRAHWAY – The Robert Wood
Johnson Foundation will hold its 28thannual Golf Classic at Echo LakeCountry Club in Westfield on Mon-day, September 19.
Proceeds from the golf outing willbenefit the programs and services ofRWJ University Hospital in Rahway.The $550 per person cost includesgolf registration, the greens fee, driv-ing range and putting green, electricgolf carts, buffet breakfast, hot dogsand more, on-course beverages, anda cocktail reception.
Golfers will have the opportunityto compete in putting and chippingcontests. They will also have the op-portunity to win hole-in-one prizes.
For more information concerningthe golf outing or to make a donationto RWJ Rahway Foundation, call theFoundation office at (732) 499-6135or e-mail [email protected].
County District FY 2011 FY 2012 Increase ($) Inc. (%)
Essex Essex Cty Voctech $18,735,148 $19,521,662 $786,514 4% Essex Millburn Twp $0 $1,529,234 $1,529,234 Morris The Chathams $408,719 $1,442,731 $1,034,012 253% Morris Harding $0 $181,192 $181,192 Morris Madison $0 $698,692 $698,692 Morris Morris Cty Votech $768,862 $1,094,960 $326,098 42% Morris Long Hill $244,088 $526,958 $282,870 116% Somerset Somerset Cty Votech $1,060,419 $1,391,191 $330,772 31% Somerset Warren Twp $139,398 $914,040 $774,642 556% Somerset Watchung $106,031 $330,217 $224,186 211% Somerset Watchung Hills $0 $691,214 $691,214 Union Berkeley Heights $0 $852,408 $852,408 Union Cranford $751,837 $1,790,781 $1,038,944 138% Union Garwood $229,710 $394,098 $164,388 72% Union Mountainside $58,067 $347,369 $289,302 498% Union New Providence $0 $645,220 $645,220 Union Roselle Park $9,263,813 $9,827,431 $563,618 6% Union Springfield $0 $657,718 $657,718 Union Summit $0 $1,195,622 $1,195,622 Union UC Votech $4,892,589 $5,282,535 $389,946 8% Union Westfield $448,345 $2,139,241 $1,690,896 377% Morris Morris Cty Votech $768,862 $1,094,960 $326,098 42% Somerset Bernards Twp $847,891 $2,402,733 $1,554,842 183% Somerset Somerset Hills $0 $680,776 $680,776 Union Kenilworth $2,753,114 $3,380,835 $627,721 23%
21st District Towns to Receive Increased School Aid
AREA -- Twenty-first legisla-tive district lawmakers, SenatorTom Kean, Jr., Assemblyman JonBramnick, and AssemblywomanNancy Munoz, have announced thatlocal school districts will receiveincreased school aid for the 2011-2012 school year.
The legislators said they workedclosely with the Christie Administra-tion in an effort to gain a fairer shareof school aid dollars in the final statebudget signed by the Governor.
Senator Kean said school chil-dren and property taxpayers are theprimary beneficiaries of theGovernor’s decision to dedicateadditional state revenue to schoolaid for suburban communities.
“By making tough choices andusing an unexpected bump in staterevenues wisely, we were able notonly to increase aid over last year,but to double the rate of increasethat was originally proposed inMarch,” Sen. Kean said.
Asm. Bramnick added, “Many ofthe highest ranked schools in thestate are in District 21. I am pleasedthat the Governor has made toughchoices that will increase state schoolaid and allow our public schools tocontinue to set the standard.”
“I am certainly pleased that chil-
dren in our school district will benefitfrom the increased educational fund-ing that is part of the fiscal 2012budget,” Asw. Munoz said.
“One of our top priorities is in-vesting in our youth and providingthem with necessary resources toprepare them for the future. The ad-ditional funding is welcome newsand reaffirms our commitment toprovide a quality education,” Asw.Munoz said.
Area Lawmakers Support
Legislation to Ban ‘Fracking’TRENTON – Assemblyman Jon
Bramnick (R-21 Westfield) has joinedlawmakers from both sides of theaisle in supporting a ban on hydraulicfracturing, a controversial method ofdrilling for natural gas.
If the bipartisan bill is approved byGovernor Chris Christie, New Jerseywould be the first state in the nation toban fracking. The process of hydrau-lic fracturing involves pumping mil-lions of gallons of a water, sand, andchemical cocktail into wells to createfissures in the rock and allow naturalgas to escape.
The legislation was passed by theSenate, 33-1, on June 29 and Assem-bly, 58-11, with eight Assembly mem-bers abstaining.
According to a press release issuedby Asm. Bramnick, the practice “raisesserious environmental concerns, asthe chemical cocktail can contami-nate supplies of drinking water.”
The State of New York has enacteda temporary moratorium on frackingand the federal Environmental Pro-tection Agency (EPA) is currentlystudying the impact of fracking ondrinking water.
“Until the research is complete, Icannot support this controversial drill-ing technique” Asm. Bramnick said.“While natural gas is an abundant,cheap and clean source of Americanproduced energy, we must be carefulnot to endanger our environment.”
Senator Tom Kean, Jr. (R-21,Westfield) also favors the legislation.
“We’ve seen the impact frackinghas on the environment, drinkingwater, and public health in Pennsyl-vania,” Sen. Kean said. “When resi-dents are able to light their tap wateron fire due to pollutants leaching intothe groundwater, there’s clearly morethan just a minor problem at hand.Nobody denies the need for Americato produce more of its own energy,but fracking as it stands today ap-pears to carry more risks than we cantolerate as a state.”
Bill Allows JointControl of RacetracksTRENTON — Legislation that
would help facilitate the transferringof racetrack operations from publicto private entities has been approvedby the state Senate.
The bill, S-2640/A-3710, wouldprovide the New Jersey Sports andExposition Authority with the powerto jointly run racetrack operations tothe Meadowlands and MonmouthPark with a racetrack lessee during atransitionary period. This would al-low operations at the racetrack tocontinue while the lessee and itsemployees obtain the necessary per-mits and licenses required by theNew Jersey Racing Commission tooperate the racetrack.
Bramnick SponsorsShore Video Contest
AREA - Assemblyman JonBramnick (R-21, Westfield) has an-nounced the Second Annual JerseyShore video contest to capture the“real” Jersey Shore.
Assemblyman Bramnick said,“I was overwhelmed with thebeautiful clips submitted by con-testants last year, and I am look-ing forward to once again seeingthese great video clips that cap-ture the true essence of life at theJersey Shore.”
“This is the situation; MTVthinks it captured the Jersey Shore,but we know better. Let’s showthem what it’s really like ‘Downthe Shore’ on our sandy beachesand fantastic boardwalks,” Asm.Bramnick said.
Next time you hit the beach, don’tforget to bring your camera. Contes-tants are encouraged to submit 30-second video clips [email protected]. The entriesmust be submitted by Friday, Sept. 9.
Asm. Bramnick will personallysponsor prizes for the winners andthe finalists will be honored at a re-ception in October.
For more information on the con-test please call (908) 232-2073.
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Rescue Squad Also Played Vital RoleIn Assisting People at Brightwood
‘Apocalypse’ Caption Is ReminderOf Vietnam, Not Independence Day
Sprinklers Can Be KeyIn Controlling BlazesAt around 7 a.m. on July 6, a fire
broke out at the condominium com-munity, Southwyck Village, onYarmouth Court in Scotch Plains.The fire department arrived withinminutes, but the fire completely en-gulfed one of the townhouse-styleunits, spreading quickly even throughfirewalls. Ten people were displacedby the blaze, which destroyed fourcondos and left two others with smokedamage.
Thankfully, no one was injured,but the devastation was done.
In many cases, properly installedand maintained fire sprinklers con-trol and possibly even extinguish afire before the fire department evenarrives on the scene. More impor-tantly, the presence of fire sprinklersmitigates the risk to individuals af-fected by the blaze, includingfirefighters who battle the fire.
Fire sprinklers are the only proac-tive form of fire protection, provid-ing firefighters the time they need todo their jobs effectively and as safelyas possible, and helping to avoid po-tential tragedies.David Kurasz, NJ Fire Sprinkler Bd.
North Brunswick
Why Can’t SP Council Join RotaryAnd Community On Frazee House?
Westfield Firemen Respond; WellTrained and Focused – Thank You
In these times of fiscal concernsand budget cuts, I felt it was impor-tant to bring this incident to the atten-tion of the readers of The WestfieldLeader.
On Sunday, July 3 we were havinga party at our home at 9 StoneleighPark when one of our 16 guests no-ticed smoke billowing up from justunder the roof of our gazebo. It ap-peared to be an electrical issue so weimmediately turned off the power,but the smoke only grew more in-tense.
We called 911 and within 90 sec-onds, two fire trucks were at ourhouse. The group of 16 firefighterswere led by Platoon CommanderScott Miller. These men were welltrained and equipped. They were pro-fessional and focused. Mr. Millermethodically determined the sourceof the fire and went about directinghis men to extinguish the blaze with
minimum damage to our structure —all in an extremely timely manner.
Michael Duelks was one firemanwho stood out among the others. Hepatiently answered our questions andassured us that this group would notleave until the fire was completelyextinguished.
Thankfully, this is first time in the30 years that we have lived inWestfield that we have required theservice of our firemen. It was ex-tremely comforting to me to witnesstheir approach to my emergency. Thisis a group of men that we should allbe proud to call ours.
Thanks to each of them and toMayor Andy Skibitsky for all he doesto maintain our critical servicesthrough these very difficult times.Without him we would all be introuble.
Chris RyanWestfield
In your recent article detailing theevents at Brightwood Park on June30, when a woman was overcome bytoxic fumes, the Westfield VolunteerRescue Squad was omitted as a par-ticipating agency.
It should be noted that the rescuesquad responded to the scene whennotified by the Westfield Police De-partment at 10:22 that morning. Thecrew, consisting of two EMTs andtwo probationary (training) members,was involved in the search for thewoman with difficulty breathing. Asecond ambulance also responded toassist.
After the woman was decontami-nated at the scene by Hazmat, thefirst ambulance transported her toOverlook Medical Center with para-medics. The second crew assessedtwo additional patients and trans-ported one to Overlook as well. Thethird patient refused transport to thehospital.
The rescue squad spent three hourson this emergency. We are proud tohave cooperated with all the otheragencies and to have been able totreat and transport the patients.
Lynn Feldman, CaptainWestfield Volunteer Rescue Squad
The reference in the caption underthe photo of the Cranford Fourth ofJuly fireworks to the movie Apoca-lypse Now and to a famous line fromthat movie, “I love the smell of na-palm in the morning,” as part of adescription of the “dramatic conclu-sion” of the Independence Day fes-tivities is jarring to say the least.
July Fourth celebrates our own in-dependence from the then tyrannicalBritish monarchy. “Apocalypse” and“napalm” are loaded words in thatthey are graphic reminders of thehorrors of the Vietnam War.
I might suggest more careful word-ing in the future so as not to juxtaposeopposing metaphors. The victory that
July Fourth celebrates should in noway be linked to the Vietnam War.The people in the photo are celebrat-ing our freedoms. They are not an-ticipating the apocalypse of war, norare they running from napalmflamethrowers. The “dramatic con-clusion” of the Revolutionary Warincludes the right to express publiclyone’s opinion in a letter such as mine.The “dramatic conclusion” of theVietnam War speaks for itself.
Surely, there is a more upliftingway to describe the celebratory emo-tions evoked in a picture of a JulyFourth fireworks display.
Barbara Z. KoppelWestfield
Last week’s article in [The Scotch-Plains-Fanwood] Times entitled“Scotch Plains Council to Make Re-newed Push on Developing Zoo Prop-erty,” had me dismayed.
Why do they keep referring to it asthe “Zoo” property? This is the FrazeeHouse property dating back to 1766.
Has the Scotch Plains Council re-ally assessed the value, other thansquare feet, that this historical gemadds to, not only our community butto the county and state?
On March 28, 2006 the SP Town-ship Council granted the Fanwood-Scotch Rotary Club a 50-year leasethat allowed them to renovate andrestore the property. The F-SP Ro-tary undertook this enormous projectwith only one thing in mind – tobenefit our community. This is whatRotary is all about. Exciting planswere prepared for the ultimatecompletion of the project as a livinghistory museum, with added outbuildings, a gift shop, a video theatretelling the history of the house, and
facilities for educational programsfor our local schools, and all of this ina parkland setting offering tremen-dous benefits to the people of theentire community.
The project would afford stellarrecognition to Scotch Plains andFanwood in the same way as theMiller-Cory House in Westfield andthe Drake House in Plainfield. How-ever, the famous “Aunt Betty” story,as she faced up to General Cornwallis,making her a heroine and inspirationfor the fighting colonists, make thelore of Frazee overpowering. By re-storing Frazee House for our com-munity, we will assure that the storyof her courageous act will endurethrough future generations.
Does the Scotch Plains Councilhave a better idea than this for theproperty? Why can’t they join theRotary in making this a combinedproject that will bring great rewardsto all of us in the community?
Richard DobynsScotch Plains
How Can ‘J-Walker’Expect Driver to YieldOne thing Westfield could use is
extra money. With that said, why notticket “J-Walkers?” Is it too long awalk to go to the closest crosswalk?No, it is not for most people. It couldbe for some.
On a recent trip through town, twopeople were “J-walking” acrossBroad Street and I slowed to let thempass. One of those people had thenerve to yell at me because I didn’tcome to a stop. I pointed at the greenlight that I was responding too. Theperson said something else.
If traffic is stopped completely onany street, some people do cut be-tween cars to get to the other side. Butwhen traffic is moving, how can some-one “J-walking” expect a driver toyield to them?
Richard DobraWestfield
On Making Millions…And Being On Strike
With the NFL on lockout and the NBA in never-never land, these public propped up monopolies jointhe wretched ranks of the federal government intheir zeal to slice up the public’s money. We shouldsay it’s too late for the feds as they have already donetheir dirty — sliced up and spent over $14 trillion ofthe public’s money; it’s just that they are looking formore. When you put it all together, it spells NFEDBA– “Nonsense Festered Exclusively Daily By Ava-rice.”
Though most people are not disposed to purchasea “personal seat license,” sitting on one’s derriere onSunday afternoons in the fall is enjoyable watchingNFL football. Will we have the NFL this year? Whoknows? Time is drawing short. Just think of thedread of being relegated to watching “Bowling forDollars” on the boob tube or forced to nestle up to agood book.
There’s always college football but that’s Satur-day. Perhaps the NCAA already has a backup Sun-day schedule in their hip pocket. If so with an NCAASunday plan, it’s probably too disrupting to thealready entrenched commitments for tailgating suchas at venerable locations as “Happy Valley.” Speak-ing of that, how long can Joe keep going?
One can pretty much look past the NBA as a non-event as far as some are concerned. There’s littlelegitimacy for a sport where more than half of theplayers are convicted felons. If they stay on strike formuch of the season, they’d just make it obvious thatthey may not be needed or wanted.
On a positive possibility — ship the Brooklyn-bound Nets and the Knicks to L.A. All we ask for inreturn is for the bankrupt Dodgers to come backhome after all these years. Merge them with theBrooklyn Cyclones and play ball the way it wasreally done. Then, give the entire New Jersey Legis-lature season tickets to keep the cretins from mis-chief in Trenton.
Professional sports, though needing to keep itexciting for the cable contracts, have worked hard ateverything they can think of to keep steroid abuse outof the games. Wonder how this Rocket Roger Clemensthing is going to turn out? The one facet not tried(overtly) is a professional “all drug league.”Amsterdam might be a good venue for a startup.Image the hype for the public stock offering.
All in all, the players and the owners will succumbsoon to the allure of $millions and the public willhave their heroes back.
Below are four arcane words, eachwith four definitions – only one is correct.The others are made up. Are you sharpenough to discern this deception of dic-tion?
If you can guess one correctly – goodguess. If you get two – well-read indi-vidual. If you get three – word expert. Ifyou get all four – You must have a lot offree time!
All words and correct definitionscome from the board game DictionDeception.
Answers to last week’s arcane words.1. Thirling – The act of boring, drilling,
etc.2. Tursio – A large dolphin of the
North Atlantic having few teeth3. Ouzel – The European blackbird4. Titubate – To stumble or stagger
DEFECATE1. To lower in volume; to mute2. To purify or remove impurities3. To fall away or decline4. To fade or erode
STINGO1. A stem, stalk or support2. Limit; restraint3. Strong beer or ale4. In mining, an inclined trough for
washing oreLUGUBRIOUS
1. Playful; sportive2. Muddy, turbid, thick3. Pertaining to a freak of nature; a
monstrosity4. Excessive grief; very sad
INSTAURATION1. Blowing or breathing into or on2. To stud or adorn with stars3. Brief exposure to radiation4. Renewal or restoration
Making Lawsuits Available OnlineMay Help Stop the Nonsense
Anyone in Union County who wants to get a copyof land records can do so online through the UnionCounty clerk’s website. The first page of the docu-ment, such as a mortgage or deed, is free — with afee after that charged to the user’s credit card.
Many towns have made online services availableto pay for everything from permits or parking ticketsand accident reports to downloading forms such asfor recreation programs. But if someone wants acopy of a lawsuit, they must either go to the UnionCounty Courthouse or the jurisdiction in which thecase was filed. Lawsuits filed in state Superior Courtare not available online. Opinions issued at theAppellate level as well as in New Jersey SupremeCourt are available online.
With countless lawsuits being filed against towns,the county and school boards, in our opinion, theserecords should be readily accessible online for thepublic. Such access could pay for itself, as many
citizens would likely take advantage of this resource.Unlike ordinances, resolutions, etc. that are avail-
able through New Jersey’s Open Public Records(OPRA) law, court lawsuits can only be picked up inperson. Given that we are living in the 24/7 Age, webelieve government must increase accessibility ofrecords and services to the public outside of normalbusiness hours.
Taxpayers always get stuck with the bill. Theyhave the right to know when their governments arebeing sued. In our view, there must be more transpar-ency when it comes to the cost of litigation, settle-ments and legal fees.
So much energy is wasted with frivilous lawsuits.Too many unjust settlements are conceded overconcern for the cost of justice.
Perhaps with greater exposure, prevaricators hop-ing to harvest the system would be too embarrassedto do so.
Fanwood Mayor Mahr AcknowledgesCounty and Borough Police Service
In the fall of 2010, when Fanwoodjoined the newly initiated UnionCounty Police Dispatch Shared Ser-vice Pilot Program, I was proud thatthe Borough of Fanwood had theforesight to take this step and hopefulfor its success.
It is with great pleasure that I ac-knowledge the excellent teamworkand service provided to the Boroughof Fanwood by Union County Police.
Throughout the year we have had avery professional working relation-ship with the County Police DispatchTeam, which was exemplified duringthe recent storm on July 8.
We were visited by drenching rains,high winds, power outages and fall-ing branches that provoked an ex-treme demand on our public safetyproviders. During the storm and im-mediately after, there was a high vol-ume of phone calls, motor vehicleaccidents, medical emergencies androutine inquiries, testing our coop-erative relationship.
Throughout the year we have seenthe day-to-day functions of publicsafety in Fanwood being supportedby a professional team at the CountyPolice, with the added benefit of sig-nificant cost savings for Fanwoodtaxpayers.
With the advantage of hindsight,we see that the local/county relation-ship has become so seamless that inemergency conditions all publicsafety operations ran flawlessly. Iwant to thank the professional teamat Union County Police Dispatch, theFanwood Police Department and allFanwoodians for being willing to takethis leap of faith in order to worksmarter.
This is a true win-win for publicsafety and the community.
Colleen MahrFanwood Mayor
Sensational StoriesTake From the IssuesAre the front page articles in The
New York Times of July 6, 2011,“Florida Mother Is Found Not Guiltyof Murder,” “Murdered Girl, HackedPhone, Eyes on Tabloid” and “BestFriend and Ex-Teammate to Con-front Clemens at Trial” more impor-tant for our country’s well-being thanthe page A12 article “Obama Sum-mons G.O.P. and Democratic Lead-ers for Deficit Reduction Talks?” I donot think so!
Yet it is massive day-and-nightmedia coverage of DominiqueStrauss-Kahn and the alleged victim,and of the Casey Anthony murdertrial, as if the seemingly endless dis-cussion of these cases will solve thesevere economic problems in theUnited States!
The public knows every detail inthese cases, yet how much does thepublic really know about economicproblems and solutions?
Can a public which watches“American Idol” and “Dancing WithThe Stars” more than it watches ses-sions of Congress know them?
So much for President AbrahamLincoln, who said, “Let the peopleknow the facts and the country willbe safe.” And for James Madison,who said, “A popular government,without popular information, or themeans of acquiring it, is but a pro-logue to a farce or a tragedy, or,perhaps to both.”
Stephen SchoemanWestfield
NJ Motor VehicleCommission ProblemsOn July 8, 2011, the New Jersey
Motor Vehicle Commission (NJMV)announced regional press conferencesfor July 11, 2011 to announce returnto Monday openings and extendedhours of service.
On July 11, the NJMV computersystem statewide shutdown — strand-ing thousands trying to do business.
On July 11, the NJMV cancelledthe press conferences.
As one reader put it: “I went downabout 8:30 a.m., 30 minutes into thenew Monday hours. As of noon,computers were still down. I finallygave up on them.”
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Matt Sontz Introduces His CandidacyFor Westfield Council Ward Three
Paul Lachenauer for The Westfield Leader and The TimesSWIFT BOATING...Residents enjoy the challenge of canoe racing on the RahwayRiver in Cranford on the July 4th holiday.
I am Matt Sontz, the Democraticcandidate for the Westfield TownCouncil for the Third Ward. AlthoughI have already begun meeting manyof my fellow third ward residents, Iwould like to introduce myself to youand let you know about my candi-dacy.
I live on Vernon Terrace (corner ofCentral Avenue) with my wife andchildren. My two sons attendJefferson School and the WestfieldYMCA Pre-School, respectively. Ihave coached kindergarten and firstgrade baseball. I have also circulatedand presented petitions to theWestfield Town Council to restorethe crossing guard at Sycamore andCentral — and to move the CentralAvenue Pedestrian Crossing to a lo-cation that makes sense. The cross-ing guard at Sycamore and Centralwas restored.
I previously ran for Town Councilin 2007, which was an extremelyrewarding experience.
My candidacy is about changingthe way our town council does busi-ness, restoring fiscal responsibility,restoring basic services, and makingour town council more responsive.
Our town now faces extraordinarychallenges that are the result of yearsof questionable decision-making anda failure to recognize our most im-portant needs. Our town’s fire ratinghas been lowered, our police forceand fire department are at their low-est levels of staffing, our firedepartment’s ladder truck sits dor-mant in its garage, crossing guardson Central Avenue have been re-moved, pot holes go unrepaired, roads
go unpaved while deteriorating roadsgo unplowed; the Central Avenuepedestrian crossing light is confus-ing and improperly located.
Full-time pensions are being un-necessarily given to part-time em-ployees, our 9-1-1 system is on thebrink of obsolescence with a raceagainst time to replace it. Our town’sbond rating has been lowered, speed-ers are rampant in our neighborhoods,and it goes on and on.
I believe our town council can dobetter. I look forward to meeting youand discussing the important issuesthat we face and how we can solvethem. For more information, I inviteyou to visit my website:mattsontz.com.
I wish you and your family a safeand happy summer.
Matt SontzDemocratic Candidate for Westfield
Town Council-Third Ward
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Public Notice On State Websites IsInadequate, Costly and Limited
Government websites cannot pro-vide the audience, authenticity andarchiving capacity that a print news-paper and newspaper website pro-vide for an official public notice-of-record, a coalition of newspaper or-ganizations told the Centers for Med-icaid and Medicaid Services (CMS)at the U.S. Department of Health andHuman Services (HHS) this week.
HHS/CMS has proposed remov-ing all newspaper notices to Medic-aid recipients and is instead directingstates to post them solely on stategovernment websites. A coalitioncomposed of the Public Notice Re-source Center, National NewspaperAssociation, Newspaper Associationof America and American Court andCommercial Newspapers stronglyopposes the move.
“Any Internet notice is an inad-equate substitute for a printed, fixednewspaper notice, although our orga-nizations believe the Internet shouldbe actively used by both CMS andnewspapers to extend the reach ofprinted notices,” the coalition said inits letter to HHS/CMS. “State gov-ernment Internet sites do not have
extensive readership. Public noticesin a newspaper – particularly whensupplemented by a newspaper website– are far more likely to be read thannotices on a government Internet site.”
The Pew Research Center foundthat only 26 percent of those sur-veyed who were 65 years or olderused the Internet. MediaPost releaseda survey showing only four out of 10of minorities regularly use theInternet.
The coalition states the four tradi-tional elements of public notice: be byan independent party, accessible, au-thenticated and archived at a reason-able cost – state governments are un-able to allocate sufficient resources toaccomplish the costly and difficultprocedures associated with proper au-thentication and archiving; low read-ership of government websites makesthem inadequate for reaching broadsections of the public. “States are notin the business of building readershipjust as governments do not have ex-pertise in bridge-building.
For more information, contactCheryl Sadowski, Newspaper Asso-ciation of America, (571) 366-1135.
Tree Care and Safety: NationalStandard Says ‘Don’t Top Trees’
For years tree topping was consid-ered the easiest and cheapest way tomake mature trees safer and reducetheir size. Today, tree researchers haveproven that both of these assump-tions are false. “Millions of trees havebeen hacked with little or no consid-eration to their health and structuralintegrity,” says Tchukki Andersen,board certified master arborist andstaff arborist with the Tree Care In-dustry Association (TCIA).
According to TCIA, many of thesetrees eventually die as a result of thedamage. Others eventually becomeunsafe, leading to dangerous limbbreakage or whole tree failure yearsafter the topping was done.
The TCIA and the American Na-tional Standards Institute A300 prun-ing standards consider topping to bean unacceptable pruning practice.“Tree service companies that followindustry standards will refuse to topyour tree,” notes Mr. Andersen.
Topping is a non-standard pruningprocedure where larger trees are se-verely cut back to a pre-determinedsize. It is also known as hat-rackingor de-horning. Topping trees leaveslarge exposed wounds, which canpre-dispose the tree to infestation orother future health problems; ruinstree structure; removes too much fo-
liage, disrupting the tree’s energy stor-age; stimulates vigorous new growth,which is prone to breakage; increasestree maintenance costs; and, destroysthe tree’s appearance and value.
Some consumers top trees out oftradition or mistakenly believe that top-ping a tree reduces its size and lowersthe maintenance cost. Mr. Andersenadds, “Topping a tree often results ingreater expense over the long run; forthis reason, tree care professionals con-sider topping a form of consumer fraud.”
Trees try to maintain a delicatefoliage-to-root ratio and have to guardagainst wood-eating insects. Toppingremoves too much of the foliage andlimits the tree’s ability to sustain itsown roots. The tree itself may fall dueto root dieback. Conifers, if they don’tdie, will never look the same.
Ask your tree service to state on awritten proposal: “All work done ac-cording to ANSI A300 standards.”The ANSI pruning standard has asection on utility line clearance treetrimming. Utilities trim trees accord-ing to ANSI standards.
Homeowners who would like a ar-borist to assess their trees shouldcontact the Tree Care Industry Asso-ciation, a resource on trees since 1938.For more information, seewww.treecaretips.org.
Greg Ryan for The Westfield Leader and The TimesNO STORM, NO WIND...On July 4, a calm and sunny day, this tree fell on the1000 block of Lawrence Avenue in Westfield. The street was blocked and powerlines were entangled. Fire, police and PSE&G responded to correct the problems.
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– Obituaries –Thomas Costigan, 62, Business Owner;Was Known For Entertaining Stories
Thomas Francis Costigan, 62, ofHowell passed away surrounded byhis family on Wednesday, July 6,from injuries sustained in a motor-cycle accident on Sunday, June 26.
Born in Boston, Mass., Tom wasraised in Tinton Falls.He received his edu-cation at St. JamesGrammar School, RedBank Catholic HighSchool, Saint ThomasMore in Connecticutand Ocean CountyCommunity College.He received an honor-able discharge fromthe United StatesCoast Guard. Tom hadtraveled extensivelythroughout the UnitedStates, Japan, SaudiArabia, Sweden, Ire-land, the Caribbean, Australia andPortugal.
Tom was an owner and integralpart of HFI Truck Center inMountainside. This was a familybusiness with his father, Joseph,and two of his sons, Brian and Riley,for almost 50 years.
There are few people who evercame in contact with Tom who werenot charmed by his magnetic per-sonality, his sense of humor and hisinfectious laughter. He was a de-lightful raconteur who could keepan entire room laughing with hisendless impersonations and stories.No one was happier, more optimis-tic or funnier than Tom. He was sodearly loved and will be missed byhis extended family and immeasur-able friends for the rest of their days.
Tom was a special and preciousson, husband, father, brother, grand-father, uncle, cousin and friend. Hewas predeceased by his father, Jo-
seph, in 2000.He is survived by his beloved wife,
Carla; his mother, Kathleen, ofShrewsbury; his sons, Brian and hiswife, Amanda, of Manville, N.J.,Riley and his wife, Fabiana, of
Middletown, N.J. andKevin of East Greenville,Pa.; his step-sons, Nathanand Dru of Howell; hissister, Kathleen, and herhusband, Frank, ofPottstown, Pa., and thelights of his life, hisgrandchildren, Olivia,Patrick, Paola and Julia.Also surviving are hisnephews, Tim of Dublin,Ireland, Michael and hiswife, Nicole, ofCoatesville, Pa., Brianand his wife, Tami, andniece, Kalene, of Wash-
ington, D.C.; his brothers-in-law,Randal Rainwater and his wife,Patricia, Thomas H. Rainwater andhis wife, Lisa, Joe B. Rainwater,Chris Rainwater and his wife,Melinda, and Paul W. Kitchens andhis wife, Aimee, along with numer-ous nieces and nephews.
A Mass of Christian Burial wascelebrated on Saturday, July 9, atSt. James Roman Catholic Churchin Red Bank. Interment followed atMt. Olivet Cemetery inMiddletown.
Arrangements were by the Th-ompson Memorial Home, 310Broad Street in Red Bank.
The family requests that in lieu offlowers, memorial donations bemade in his memory to the St. JudeChildren’s Research Hospital, Me-morial & Honors Program, 501 St.Jude Place, Memphis, TN 38105 oronline at www.stjude.org.
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Margaret A. Reilly, 88, Beloved Mother;Had Owned Reilly Buick In Westfield
Margaret Ann Reilly, 88, our dearand loving Mother, Grandmotherand friend, passed away on Friday,July 8, 2011, in Charlottesville, Va.
Born May 20, 1923 in Brooklyn,N.Y., Margaret graduated fromSouth Side High School inRockville Centre and from ColbyJunior College in New Hampshire.She later moved to Short Hills, N.J.,where she met and married the loveof her life, Robert R. Reilly. Theymoved to Westfield, N.J. in 1948,and Robert started ReillyOldsmobile. Margaret moved toCharlottesville, Va. in 2004.
Margaret was active with herfamily and her husband’s business,and was a longtime member ofEcho Lake Country Club. She alsowas an avid golfer for many years.She and her family were membersof St. Anne’s Roman CatholicChurch in Garwood for over 50years. Margaret and her husbandtraveled all over the world and had
53 happy years together.She leaves behind her daughter,
Robin Dae Newman, and her hus-band, Corey Newman, ofCharlottesville, Va., and her son,Andrew R. Reilly, and his wife,Myra Reilly, of Boynton Beach,Fla. She also leaves her granddaugh-ters, Holly Newman of Madison,Va., Heather King of Kents Store,Va. and Shannon Reilly of Orlando,Fla., and her grandson, BrandonReilly of Boynton Beach Fla.
She also will be missed by herlongest friend and cousin, JoanBryant of Mt. Tremper, N.Y., andher family.
Her sweet and loving nature willbe missed by all who knew her.
The funeral service will begin at11 a.m. today, Thursday, July 14,2011, at the Gray Funeral Home,318 East Broad Street in Westfield.Interment will follow at FairviewCemetery in Westfield.
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Richard C. Underhill, 87, Was CFP;Enjoyed Genealogy, Travel and SailingRichard C. (Dick) Underhill, for-
merly of Wellesley, Mass., died peace-fully on Saturday, July 9, 2011, in hisWestfield, N.J. home. He was 87.
Born in Boston, he graduatedWellesley High School in 1942. Mr.Underhill served honorably in the ArmyAir Force during World War II and wasa commissioned officer with a pilotrating, separating service in 1945.
He attended Nichols Junior Col-lege and graduated with an Associatein Business Administration (honors)in 1947. While there, he was activewith the college newspaper, the gleeclub and the social committee; playedfootball and tennis, and was captainof the hockey team and many intra-mural teams as well.
Mr. Underhill went on to BostonUniversity, where he received hisBachelor of Science (magna cumlaude) in 1951. While at BU, he wasactive on the student council, withthe advertising club and was a mem-ber of the Tau Mu Epsilon Fraternity.He also lettered in varsity tennis.
He married his high school sweet-heart, Nancy Huy Underhill, in 1944,and settled in Westfield in 1954. Mr.Underhill worked for Anchor Corp.in Elizabeth for many years whole-saling securities before going intobusiness for himself as a CertifiedFinancial Planner.
Along the way he enjoyed geneal-ogy and was a member of theWestfield Historical Society. He alsowas a member of the Westfield Ten-nis Club and the Plainfield CameraClub. Both he and his wife were ac-tive in the Newcomers Club and theFirst Congregational Church inWestfield and traveled extensivelytogether throughout the Caribbeanand Europe. Mr. Underhill enjoyedthe Jersey shore with his family andbecame an avid sailor of small craft.
A devoted family man, he was pre-deceased by his wife, Nancy, in 2003and his brother, Arthur Jr., in 2010.
He is survived by his son, Bruce D.Underhill, who serves as the policechief in the Borough of Garwood; hisdaughter, Patricia Gail Underhill ofWestfield, who works for L’OrealUSA in Clark, and her son, BrandonU. West, also of Westfield, currentlya student at Rutgers University. He
also is survived by his sister, MarjoryHall of Conway, N.H., and a brother,Hugh Underhill of Concord, Mass.
On his express command, no funeralwill be held. However, a gathering offamily will be held later this summer.
Arrangements are by Dooley Fu-neral Directors in Westfield.
Memorial donations may be madeto either the Center for Hope Hospiceor the Westfield Rescue Squad.
July 14, 2011
Mary Banta, Irish Language Teacher;Historical, Rosary Societies Member
Mary Elizabeth Fitzpatrick Bantapassed away peacefully on Sunday,July 10, at Ashbrook Nursing Homein Scotch Plains surrounded by herloving family.
Mrs. Banta, the daughter of the lateCornelius Lincoln and Mary DwyerFitzpatrick, was born and raised inPlainfield, N.J. She graduated fromPlainfield High School and received aBachelor of Science degree in Math-ematics from New Jersey College forWomen, now called Douglass College.
More recently, she studied Irishlanguage, literature and history atNew York University and at variousprograms in Ireland, and taught Irishlanguage at the Scotch Plains-Fanwood Adult School for a numberof years, as well as privately.
Mrs. Banta was a member of Daltaina Gaeilge, An Fainne and the NorthAmerican Association of Celtic Lan-guage Teachers. She also was a mem-ber of the Associate Alumnae ofDouglass College, the Plainfield His-torical Society and the Rosary Soci-ety of the Holy Trinity Roman Catho-lic Church in Westfield. Active in thePTAs of Westfield, she served as presi-dent of McKinley School PTA.
Mrs. Banta was predeceased byher husband, Henry Hyde Banta, Jr.,in 1998; her sister, Nora FitzpatrickMonroe, and her two brothers, Kevinand Brendan Fitzpatrick.
Surviving are her daughter, MaryMargaret (Molly) of Plainfield, and hersons, Henry Hyde Banta, III and hiswife, Lori, of Clark, CorneliusFitzpatrick and his wife, Nancy, ofWestfield, Joseph Edward and his wife,Nancy, of Hudson, Mass., and Christo-pher Michael of Westfield. She also issurvived by her sister, Una FitzpatrickChrist of West Caldwell. She addition-ally will be deeply missed by her 10grandchildren, Jeanamarie, Mackenzie,Cornelius, Cameron, Jane, Hope,Rebecca, Jacob, Daniel and Sarah.
The Funeral Mass will be held today,Thursday, July 14, at 10 a.m. at the HolyTrinity Church in Westfield. Burial willbe at Fairview Cemetery in Westfield.
Arrangements are by the DooleyColonial Home, 556 Westfield Av-enue in Westfield.
In lieu of flowers, donations maybe made to The Plainfield HistoricalSociety, 602 W. Front Street,Plainfield, N.J. 07060.
July 14, 2011
Neil Koop, Longtime Westfield ResidentDies at 100 After a Life Well Lived
Neil Arnett Koop, 100, died of con-gestive heart failure in Castle Rock,Colo. on Monday, June 20, 2011.
A former 52-year resident ofWestfield, N.J., he had resided withhis daughter in Highlands Ranch, Colo.since November 2003 and in a groupassisted-living home inCastle Rock since April16, 2011.
He was born January12, 1911 in Robinson, Ill.As a boy, he lived in Tulsa,Okla. and Webster Grovesand St. Louis, Mo. Gradu-ation from Central HighSchool as valedictorian se-cured him a place in the1933 class at WashingtonUniversity in St Louis,where he graduated with adegree in mechanical en-gineering. Later, he was hired byMonsanto Chemical Corporation.
He married Eleanor Brightmeyeron June 3, 1939. This coincided witha promotion and move to Springfield,Mass., where the couple resided until1946. While working for Monsanto,Neil was in charge of a team thatdeveloped the first successful manu-facturing process for the extrusion of40-foot-wide polyethylene film.Monsanto adopted this superior pro-cess, and its use spread worldwide. In1946, he accepted a position withGering Plastics in Kenilworth, incharge of Engineering.
He and his wife moved to ScotchPlains, N.J. and later built a home inWestfield, in which he resided until
2003.Gering was acquired, first by
Studebaker and later by Monsanto. Atage 60, he retired from Monsanto afteran extremely satisfying career. Hespent the next 23 years teaching col-lege-level math and physics and tutor-
ing at Union Junior Col-lege in Cranford, N.J.Later, he cared for his ail-ing wife until her death, inApril 1999.
Neil was an accom-plished violinist, playingin lieu of a valedictorianspeech at high schoolgraduation, as a memberof a trio for the St. LouisUniversity radio stationas a young man, and as amember of the PlainfieldSymphony Orchestra. In
Colorado, he played until age 95 withthe South Suburban Symphony. Healso greatly enjoyed golf and bowl-ing with his wife, Ellie.
Neil will be remembered not onlyfor his huge intellect, but also for hisquick wit, winning smile, generosityand warmth of spirit. More than anyother quality, he is remembered forhis ability to love greatly and withoutcondition.
He is survived by his daughter, KarenIone Koop of Highlands Ranch, Colo.
In lieu of flowers, donations maybe made to Washington University,School of Engineering and AppliedScience, One Brookings Drive, Box1163, St. Louis, Mo. 63130.
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Neil A. Koop
WestfieldSaturday, July 2, Alvaro
Palomeque, 21, of Elizabeth was ar-rested at South Avenue and Boule-vard on a Garwood warrant. He wasprocessed and released on $500 bail.
Monday, July 4, a resident ofGenesee Trail reported the theft of amen’s bicycle, with an approximatevalue of $550, from the south sideWestfield train station.
Tuesday, July 5, a resident of the800 block of North Avenue reportedthe theft of a rear bicycle tire and gearring while the bicycle was secured atthe south side Westfield train station.The incident occurred sometime be-tween June 10 and June 12. The miss-ing items have a total approximatevalue of $80.
Tuesday, July 5, Tiffany Baker, 26,of Elizabeth was arrested on an out-standing Westfield traffic warrant for$500 after responding to Westfieldpolice headquarters. She was pro-cessed and held at police headquar-ters in lieu of bail. The following day,she was arrested at police headquar-ters on an outstanding Elizabethcriminal warrant. She was processedand released on $100 bail.
Tuesday, July 5, a resident of the100 block of North Cottage Placereported that multiple street signs inthe area were damaged through crimi-nal mischief. The signs were defacedwith either spray paint or markers.The total amount of damage couldnot be assessed at the time.
Tuesday, July 5, a Myrtle Avenueresident reported the theft of a men’sbicycle, valued at $425, from the southside Westfield train station.
Wednesday, July 6, Randy Satarsky,44, of Westfield was arrested on threeoutstanding traffic warrants issuedby the State Police in Bloomfield, fora total of $360. The arrest was pursu-ant to a motor vehicle stop at EastBroad Street and Stanley Avenue.Satarsky was transported to Westfieldpolice headquarters, processed andreleased on bail.
Wednesday, July 6, a motor vehicleparked in the owner’s driveway onthe 500 block of Summit Avenue wastargeted for criminal mischief.Ketchup, mustard, mayonnaise andpudding were smeared over the entireexterior of the vehicle, causing ap-proximately $500 worth of damage.
Wednesday, July 6, Walter Will-iams, 50, of Woodbridge was arrestedon an outstanding South Brunswickwarrant for $178 pursuant to a motorvehicle stop on the 500 block of EastNorth Avenue. He was processed andreleased on his own recognizance.
Wednesday, July 6, a resident ofthe 400 block of Channing Avenuereported being the victim of a motorvehicle burglary, in which personalproperty valued at $75 was taken.The burglary occurred at South Av-enue and Cacciola Place.
Thursday, July 7, Jason Gilbert,24, of Piscataway was arrested pur-suant to a motor vehicle stop at EastNorth Avenue and Elm Street for pos-session of less than 50 grams of sus-pected marijuana. He was processedand released on his own recognizancewith a summons.
Thursday, July 7, CarmineDeMartinis, 58, of Morris Plains wasarrested on an outstanding Union war-rant for $165 pursuant to a motorvehicle stop at East Broad Street andSpringfield Avenue. He was trans-ported to Westfield police headquar-ters, processed and released after post-ing bail.
Friday, July 8, a police officer onpatrol reported 10 separate acts ofvandalism involving town signs. Theincidents occurred on the 800 blockof Boulevard and the surroundingarea. There were no suspects.
Friday, July 8, Maureen Regan, 54,of Westfield was arrested on the 300block of West South Avenue on mul-tiple outstanding Westfield warrantstotaling $1,043. She posted bail andwas released.
Saturday, July 9, a burglary wasreported at a commercial building onthe 500 block of Westfield Avenue,where cut window screens and bro-ken glass were discovered. At thetime of the report, there were no sus-pects and it was unknown if anythingwas taken from the premises.
Saturday, July 9, OctaviusCarmichael, 18, of Crestview, Fla.was arrested on an outstandingMantua Township criminal warrantfor $250. Police located the suspectafter responding to a report of a so-licitor going door to door in the areaof Birch Avenue attempting to sellmagazines. The active warrant wasrevealed through the investigation.Carmichael was transported toWestfield police headquarters, pro-cessed and released on his own re-cognizance per the Mantua TownshipPolice Department.
Saturday, July 9, Elvis O. Tull, 40,of Union was arrested and chargedwith shoplifting after he allegedlyexited a store on the 600 block ofWest North Avenue with merchan-dise concealed in his clothing. Tullfled from the store’s loss preventionofficers but subsequently was stoppedby police while operating a motorvehicle. He was transported toWestfield police headquarters, pro-cessed and released with a summons.
Sunday, July 10, Taliba Khabir, 33,of Irvington was arrested during amotor vehicle stop on the 300 blockof North Avenue, East, on outstand-ing warrants from Plainfield, for $150;Bloomfield, for $120, and Spring-field, for $100. She was transportedto Westfield police headquarters, pro-cessed and turned over to thePlainfield Police Department.
Monday, July 11, Matthew Smith,30, of Cranford was arrested during a
police investigation of a motor ve-hicle accident in the area of EastSouth and Central Avenues. Smithwas charged with driving while in-toxicated (DWI), along with multipleother motor vehicle violations. Hewas transported to Westfield policeheadquarters, processed and releasedto a responsible adult.
MountainsideWednesday, June 29, an officer on
routine patrol on Orchard Road ob-served an individual dressed in cam-ouflage pants, black shirt and check-ered hat carrying a black, briefcase-style bag. According to police, theindividual, later identified as a 16-year-old male juvenile, was found tobe in possession of multiple bottlesof wine he admitted removing fromhis parents’ home. He was transportedto police headquarters and turned overto his mother.
Wednesday, June 29, a resident ofFernwood Road reported that some-one had written graffiti on a concretewall behind his home. According topolice, the individual had painted overthe graffiti, but someone painted moregraffiti on top of the paint.
Thursday, July 7, an individualcame into headquarters to report thathe was involved in a motor vehicleaccident and that his vehicle had to betowed. According to police, when theindividual went to the site to whichhis vehicle was towed, he noticed hiswallet was missing from the side com-partment.
Saturday, July 9, an individual froma Sheffield Street business reportedthat she reviewed a motion detectionsurveillance video which taped a tall,heavyset black male removing threecoils of scrap metal, valued at ap-proximately $200, that was intendedto be picked up by another individual.According to police, when the sus-pect noticed the surveillance camera,he fled the scene.
Sunday, July 10, an officer on rou-tine patrol noticed a blue Yamahamotorcycle traveling at a high rate ofspeed and passing vehicles by utiliz-ing the shoulder. According to police,the suspect is described as a blackmale, wearing a black T-shirt, jeansand a black backpack. The officerpulled next to the motorcycle andordered the operator to pull over, atwhich time the suspect accelerated ata high rate of speed, weaving in andout of traffic, until the officer lostsight of him, police said.
Scotch PlainsWednesday, June 29, Craig
Fletcher, 37, of Roselle was arrestedon charges of burglary and theft. Ac-cording to police, at approximatelynoon, authorities received a call froma Hetfield Avenue resident statingthat an individual was in herneighbor’s yard, looking through awindow.
Officers arrived immediately andstopped the suspect. Following aninvestigation, it was determined thatFletcher had committed a burglary onElizabeth Avenue after police recov-ered several thousand dollars worthof jewelry in his possession that wastaken from the residence, police said.Fletcher allegedly entered the housethrough an unlocked rear window and,once inside, removed the jewelry, po-lice said.
He was taken to police headquar-ters, processed and transported to theUnion County jail, where he was be-ing held on $70,000 bail pending aJuly 7 court date in Elizabeth. Theinvestigation is ongoing.
Monday, July 4, a resident of New-ark Avenue reported that, sometimeduring the day, someone drove overhis lawn and left tire marks.
Monday, July 4, the custodian atSchool One reported that, sometimeovernight, someone set off fireworksin the parking lot and left a lot ofgarbage in the lot.
Tuesday, July 5, a resident of Sy-camore Avenue reported that, some-time overnight, someone entered herunlocked motor vehicle, which wasparked in front of her house, andremoved approximately $100 in cash.
Friday, July 8, a manager atShackamaxon Country Club reportedthat sometime overnight someoneentered the property and caused dam-age to the pump house.
Friday, July 8, a resident of LenapeWay reported that he has receivednumerous calls from a former friendaccusing him of something he did notdo. According to police, the formerfriend also is threatening him.
Friday, July 8, Ha Rhee, 57, of EastBrunswick was arrested after a motorvehicle stop on Park Avenue on anoutstanding $589 warrant issued bythe Scotch Plains Court. He was trans-ported to police headquarters, pro-cessed and released.
Friday, July 8, a resident of HunterAvenue reported that, sometime dur-ing the night, someone broke thedriver’s side mirror off of her motorvehicle, which was parked in front ofher house.
Sunday, July 10, a resident of Coo-per Road reported that his formergirlfriend calls him several times aday and yells insults at him.
Sunday, July 10, Kiandra Lewis,28, of Plainfield was arrested after amotor vehicle stop on Route 22 on anoutstanding $223 warrant issued bythe Neptune City Court. She wastransported to police headquarters,processed and released.
Sunday, July 10, Sadiki Francis,27, of Brooklyn, N.Y. was arrestedand charged with obstruction of jus-tice after a motor vehicle stop onRoute 22. According to police, Francisrefused to answer any questions andrefused to hand over his driver’s li-cense. He was transported to policeheadquarters, processed and released.
Thomas F. Costigan
Walter Barrett, 89, Former Resident;World War II Army Air Force Pilot
Walter “Bud” Barrett, 89, ofGreenville, S.C., husband of DaphneAnn Mason, died onMonday, July 4, 2011.
Born in Westfield, N.J.,he was the son of the lateAgnes Somers. Mr.Barrett graduated fromHoly Trinity High Schoolin Westfield and earned abachelor’s degree in busi-ness from Duke Univer-sity. He served in the U.S.Army Air Force as a B-26pilot during World WarII.
Mr. Barrett was retired from CluettPeabody, Inc. after 35 years of ser-vice. He enjoyed golfing, fishing, artand was a violinist.
Surviving, in addition to his wife,are three children, Tracey Gomez and
her husband, Bob, of Satel-lite Beach, Fla., ScottBarrett and his wife, Jan, ofGreenville, S.C. andGeoffrey Barrett and hiswife, Donna, of Chatham,N.J., and seven grandchil-dren. His twin brother, Jo-seph Barrett, predeceasedhim.
Memorials may be madeto the charity of one’schoice. Services will beheld in New Jersey at a
later date. The Thomas McAfee Fu-neral Home, Downtown, Greenville,S.C. is in charge of the arrangements.
July 14, 2011
Walter ‘Bud’ Barrett
Howard S. Nadel, 69Howard S. Nadel, a longtime resi-
dent of Scotch Plains, passed awaypeacefully at Overlook Medical Cen-ter in Summit, N.J. on Thursday, July7, 2011. He was 69 years old.
Born in Linden and raised in theNewstead section of South Orange,Howard lived in Scotch Plains foralmost 20 years, where he raised hischildren, Bethany Nadel of Westfieldand Seth Nadel of Morristown.
He is survived by his wife, CindyNadel of West Orange; his children,Bethany and Seth; his son-in-law, KenRotter; his grandchildren, Maxwelland Benjamin Rotter; his sister andbrother-in-law, Sande and Daniel Elberof Summit (formerly of Scotch Plains);his niece, Rebecca Elber of New YorkCity, and his nephew, Lee Elber ofBasking Ridge.
Howard was a pioneer in the liquorindustry and most recently was theowner of Shoppers Vineyard inClifton, N.J. for the past 20 years. Healso had owned liquor stores in Unionand Westfield. Several years ago, hewas recognized as a leader in theliquor industry by a national industrymagazine.
Howard was a longtime member ofCongregation Beth Israel in ScotchPlains. He also was an avid golfer andcould often be found playing golf onone of the Union County golf courseswith his son-in-law, Ken Rotter, or atthe Maplewood Country Club, wherehe was a member. Howard will beremembered and missed for his hardwork, determination, strength, cour-age and sense of humor.
Donations in his honor may bemade to the Overlook Hospital Foun-dation in Summit, N.J.
July 14, 2011
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Michael Heinrich and Ms. Laura A. Goscicki
Ms. Laura A. GoscickiTo Wed Michael Heinrich
Don and Camile Goscicki ofScotch Plains are pleased to an-nounce the engagement of theirdaughter, Ms. Laura A. Goscicki, toMichael Heinrich. He is the son ofRoger and Beverly Heinrich, also ofScotch Plains.
Laura and Michael both graduatedfrom Scotch Plains-Fanwood HighSchool. The bride-to-be has a Bach-elor of Arts degree in both Visual Artsand Art History from the State Uni-
versity of New York-New Paltz.The future bridegroom graduated
from Bucknell University inLewisburg, Pa. with a Bachelor ofScience degree in Chemistry. He re-cently received his Doctorate in Physi-cal Chemistry from the University ofPennsylvania.
The couple got engaged on June15, 2011 while vacationing on theGreek Island of Santorini and plansto marry in the spring of 2012.
Joy Ann Cabanos PaintingsAre on Display at Library
WESTFIELD – Through themonth of July, the paintings of JoyAnn Cabanos will be on exhibit atthe Westfield Memorial Library. Thelibrary is located at 550 East BroadStreet.
Ms. Cabanos is a poet and painterwhose art celebrates nature. Sheworks in various media, includingwatercolor, acrylics, pastel, oil and,most recently, collage. Her interestin various arts, such as poetry andballet, influence her choice of sub-jects. According to Ms. Cabanos,her current exhibit shows how po-etry inspires painting, and vice-versa.
The artist has shown her work ingroup and solo shows in the Philip-pines, the United Kingdom, Pitts-burgh and New Jersey. She is a
member of the Westfield Art Soci-ety Drawing Group and the Con-temporary Art Group, and she alsoteaches drawing at the WestfieldAdult School. Some poems andpaintings in this exhibit are fea-tured in her first published poetrycollection, entitled “Brightness.”
The art exhibit can be seen any-time the library is open: Mondaythrough Thursday, 9:30 a.m. to 9p.m., and Fridays and Saturdays,9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. The library isclosed on Sundays for the summer.
For more information, visit thelibrary’s website, wmlnj.org, signup on the website to receive the e-newsletter, “Library Loop,” or stopby the library for a copy of its award-winning, quarterly newsletter,“Take Note.”
Azure Chapter 87 Reveals2011-2012 Slate of Officers
CRANFORD – Azure Chapter 87,Order of the Eastern Star, began its2011-2012 year in April with a newslate of officers. Elected officers in-clude Marie J. Donnelly, WorthyMatron; Philip A. Donnelly, WorthyPatron; Cheryl Vroom, AssociateMatron; Kathy Anderson, Conduc-tress; Debra Persing, Associate Con-ductress; Marion Puglisi, Secretary,and Hettie McKinney, Treasurer.
In addition, the following are theappointed officers for the ensuing year:Susan Forster, Kathy Melnick, PatriciaLedger, Judith Burlew, Patricia Zatko,Judy Gay, Dorothy Johnson, NormanPersing, Terry Zahorchak, Ruth Mega,Genevieve Yachnik, Carol MacFadyenand John Dziedzic.
The Order of the Eastern Star,open to men and women, is one of
the largest fraternal organizationsin the world. The Eastern Star is acharitable and educational associa-tion that provides support to bothmembers and non-members.
The Star chapter in Cranford islocated at the AzureMasada MasonicLodge and has more than 100 mem-bers. It sponsors various fund-rais-ing events to support its multiplecharitable projects, including itsEastern Star Home in Bridgewater.
The chapter meets the first andthird Fridays of each month at theMasonic Lodge at 478 South Av-enue in Cranford. For more infor-mation about the Order of the East-ern Star and membership, contactMarie Donnelly, Worthy Matron, at(908) 789-0813 or [email protected].
‘Meet the Coaches’ at JCCTo Highlight Swim Teams
SCOTCH PLAINS – The JewishCommunity Center (JCC) of CentralNew Jersey will hold a “Meet theCoaches” night on Thursday, July 28,from 7 to 8 p.m. for all in the commu-nity who are interested in any of itsswim teams.
The JCC offers three competitiveswim programs. The BarracudasSwim Team (ages 6 to 18) is the mostcompetitive team; the Mini-Barracu-das (ages 5 to 8) is the introduction-to-swim team program, and theIntraCudas (ages 8 to 18) is the intra-mural program.
The Barracudas are beginning their14th season competing in the NewJersey JCC-YMHA Swim League.
Barracudas Head Coach LauraBransky will be on hand during “Meetthe Coaches” night, and attendeeswill have an opportunity to learn aboutall three programs. The event will beheld at the JCC of Central New Jer-sey, located at 1391 Martine Avenuein Scotch Plains. Anyone new to theJCC also will be able to receive a tourof the facility and learn about all of itsmembership options and benefits.
Openings are limited for the Barra-cudas Swim Team, and all potentialnew swimmers must attend one strokeevaluation session. The evaluationsessions are scheduled for Friday,July 29, Monday, August 15, and
Sunday, September 18.Another “Meet the Coaches” event
is scheduled for September 18 from 2to 3 p.m.
For additional information or ques-tions, contact Kim Koza, aquatics di-rector, at (908) 889-8800, extensionno. 219, or [email protected], or LauraBransky at [email protected].
The JCC of Central New Jersey isa constituent agency of the JewishFederation of Central New Jersey,United Way of Greater Union Countyand the United Fund of Westfield.Financial assistance is available formembership and various programs.
Woodland String QuartetTo Present ‘More Mozart’
SCOTCH PLAINS – The Wood-land String Quartet presently is inrehearsal for its annual “MoreMozart” program to be held on Mon-day, August 15, at 7 p.m. at theScotch Plains Public Library.
In addition to a Mozart Adagioand Fugue, the program will fea-ture a work by the “SpanishMozart,” Juan Cristostomo Arriaga.Other selections will have a Span-ish flavor and will include “LaOracion del Torero” by JoaquinTurina, “Themes from Bizet’sCarmen,” a tango and a bossa nova.
First violinist Debra Biderman is aresident of North Edison, where sheis a private violin teacher. She hasperformed with the New Jersey Sym-phony Orchestra since 1967. A fre-quent soloist and recitalist, she hasbeen featured on multiple record-ings, television and radio broadcasts.
Second violinist LuboveSchnable is a resident of Fanwood.She teaches privately and currentlyperforms with the Plainfield Sym-phony, the Central Jersey SymphonyOrchestra and the Summit Sym-phony.
Violist Robert Paoli, a resident ofNorth Plainfield, is director of theSummit Strings, president of thePlainfield Music Club and is a pro-lific composer and arranger. He hasbeen the recipient of awards fromthe American Association of Or-ganists for his compositions. The“More Mozart” concerts have regu-larly included his compositions andarrangements.
Cellist Linda Fink, a resident ofHighland Park, currently is a free-lance performer, a private teacherand a member of the Orchestra ofSt. Peter by the Sea, the PlainfieldSymphony, the Central Jersey Sym-phony Orchestra and the MonmouthSymphony.
This concert will be open to thepublic without charge. The Scotch
Plains Public Library is located at1927 Bartle Avenue, one block fromPark Avenue, in the center of thetownship.
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Theater and Musical EventsTo Be Presented at Library
WESTFIELD – This summer, theWestfield Memorial Library is host-ing both theatrical and musicalevents. The library is located at 550East Broad Street.
On Thursday, July 21, at 7 p.m.,the Shakespeare Theatre’s NextStage Ensemble will present Tartuffe,or “The Imposter,” by Moliere. Thiswill be followed on Thursday, Au-gust 11, also at 7 p.m., by theEnsemble’s presentation of Love’sLabour’s Lost by WilliamShakespeare.
A comedy by one of France’s great-est playwrights, Tartuffe follows theoutrageous activities of a pennilessscoundrel and religious pretender.Invited to live in his benefactor’shouse, he wreaks havoc among fam-ily members by breaking off thedaughter’s engagement, attemptingto seduce his hostess, and resorting toblackmail and extortion.
Love’s Labour’s Lost is one of thebard’s earliest comedies. In it, fourbachelors who have dedicated them-selves to chastity and scholarly pur-suits soon encounter the women oftheir dreams.
The Shakespeare Theatre of New
Jersey is one of 22 professional the-aters in the state. It is New Jersey’sonly professional theater companydedicated to Shakespeare’s canonand other classic masterworks.
Westfield Memorial Librarycardholders can begin registering forthe plays immediately. MURAL pa-trons can begin registering forTartuffe today, Thursday, July 14,and for Love’s Labour’s Lost onThursday, August 4. To sign up, visitwmlnj.org and click on Calendar, orcall (908) 789-4090, extension no.7951.
Additionally, the library will wel-come the FrostKings, a three- tofive-piece rhythm and blues, swingand blues band from the North Jer-sey area. The band will perform onWednesday, July 20, at 7 p.m.
This program will be free and opento Westfield Memorial Library andMURAL cardholders. Registrationis strongly encouraged, as musicalprograms are always popular.
Library hours are 9:30 a.m. to 9p.m., Monday through Thursday, and9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday and Satur-day. The library is closed on Sun-days for the summer.
Sidewalk Sale DaysTo Kick Off Today
WESTFIELD – The DowntownWestfield Corporation (DWC) has an-nounced that the Sidewalk Sale Days,featuring bargains from downtownWestfield retailers, will begin today,Thursday, July 14. They will take placerain or shine through Sunday, July 17.
For more information aboutWestfield and other downtown eventstaking place, call the DWC at (908)789-9444 for a Destination WestfieldShopping and Dining Guide, and visitWestfieldToday.com. Area residentsalso are invited to follow the DWC onFacebook and Twitter.
MUSIC OF MOZART…The Woodland Strings Quartet, pictured above, willperform its annual “More Mozart” program on Monday, August 15, at 7 p.m. atthe Scotch Plains Public Library. Admission will be free. Pictured, from left toright, are: Debra Biderman, Lubove Schnable, Robert Paoli and Linda Fink.
NJ Clean Energy ProgramOffers Summer Promotion
MOUNTAINSIDE – Do you dreadopening up your utility bills? Do youhave an older home that is drafty withdated heating and cooling equipment?Green Energy Improvements can saveyou from wasteful spending on util-ity bills and increase your home com-fort with financial assistance fromthe NJ Clean Energy Program.
Currently, the NJCEP is running asummer promotion that offers addi-tional rebates to homeowners formaking their homes more energy ef-ficient. If a BPI (Building Perfor-mance Institute) certified contractorcan determine between 10-19 per-cent total energy savings, the rebateshave increased to $1,500. If the sav-ings are between 20-24 percent, therebates have increased to $3,750, andif the savings are 25 percent or above,the rebates have increased to $5,000.This summer promotion will end onFriday, September 30, 2011.
The energy savings are determinedby an energy auditor gathering infor-mation about how your home is func-tioning during an energy audit using
tools like a blower door and infraredthermal imaging camera. The data isthen analyzed along with your utilitybill usage in the state’s software tocalculate the savings.
One customer recently said, “Weare amazed with the performance ofthe insulation. The rooms over thegarage are actually getting air condi-tioning. These rooms have alwaysbeen hot, and I never thought it wouldbe this comfortable. Also, the entireupstairs is evenly cooled. I even tooktemperature readings because Icouldn’t believe it! The AC unitdoesn’t even turn on until midwaythrough the day. The insulation job isunbelievable and really does work!”
You can significantly lower yourutility bills and increase your homecomfort with this program. For moreinformation or to schedule an energyaudit, contact Green Energy Improve-ments at (908) 228-2493;www.GreenEnergy-NJ.com.
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Rummage Sale to AidHabitat For HumanityAREA – Woodbridge Center and
Greater Plainfield Habitat for Human-ity will partner together for an eventcalled “Rummage Sale: EverythingMust Go!” this weekend, July 15 to17. Mall patrons and the public willhave an opportunity to purchase itemsin a vacant steakhouse restaurant.
Similar to Habitat’s ReStore resaleoutlets, Woodbridge Center will cre-ate a comparable environment whereit will partner with Habitat to sellused steakhouse memorabilia.Throughout the weekend, Habitatvolunteers will sell restaurant-themedprops, framed pictures and restaurantgoods such as tables, chairs, platesand cups, bar signage and even vin-tage model airplanes. Everything willbe priced between $1 and $50. Everyavailable restaurant item will bemarked by a color-coded price sticker.All proceeds will benefit GreaterPlainfield Habitat for Humanity.
The sale will be held on the upperlevel of Woodbridge Center, next toSears. It will begin at noon tomorrow,Friday, July 15, until 7 p.m. Hours onSaturday will be 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. andon Sunday from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.Items will be available on a first-come, first-served basis while sup-plies last. For more information or tovolunteer to staff the event, visitgphabitat.org/rummage.
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WF Blue 12s Roll in 5th, TopSo. Orange/Maplewood, 9-3
HUMPHREY CRACKS RBI DOUBLE, LIDDY RBI SINGLE
Berkeley Heights 12s Hold OffWF White 12s in Baseball, 4-2
By DAVID B. CORBINSpecially Written for The Westfield Leader and The Times
Opportunities knocked and theWestfield Blue 12s took full advan-tage of them, plating two runs in thefourth inning and five more in the fifthto break open a tight game en route toa 9-3 victory over the South Orange/Maplewood Villagers in Central Jer-sey All-Star League action at Gumbert2 Field in Westfield on July 9.
Perched at the top off the roost intheir division, the Villagers had de-feated the Westfield Blue, 5-2, earlierin the season, but this time the Bluekept the Villagers in check with theeffectiveness of starting pitcher Vic-tor Cruz and reliever Matt LaCorte.
In his three innings, Cruz allowed sixhits and two runs but yielded no walks,while striking out three. LaCortepitched three innings of no-hit ball,fanned three and walked one Vil-lager, who managed to score in thesixth inning.
“With Victor, it’s two differentlooks. Victor kept them off-balancewith different speeds, and Matt wasvery overpowering today. He keptaround the zone, but he really movedthe ball on both sides of the plate. Inaddition to being powerful, he hit hisspots,” Westfield Assistant Coach PaulFriel said.
Villager starting pitcher Jack Niggliwas very effective also. After allow-ing two runs on two hits and a walkedbatter in the first inning, he totallyslammed the door with two perfect
innings, before reliever Chase Brad-ley took to the mound to start thefourth inning. Owen Gall relieved inthe fifth inning.
Westfield Blue took a 2-0 lead inthe bottom of the first inning. JackNieswenter (2 runs scored) drew aleadoff walk and stole second.LaCorte (2-for-2, 2 RBI, 2 runsscored) banged an RBI single to leftand later scored on Mike Ukrainskij’shit-and-run RBI single. Ukrainskijwould finish 2-for-2 with three RBI.
The Villagers answered with a runin the second. Bradley lined a singleto left, stole second and slipped tothird on a passed ball. After Cruzfanned Phil Major, Tom O’Connorrolled an RBI groundout to short.Tom Fetner and Mike Burke followed
By DAVID B. CORBINSpecially Written for The Westfield Leader and The Times
Berkeley Heights (B.H.) demon-strated why it is the top team in theCentral Jersey 12U Baseball Leaguebut the little Highlanders had to en-dure a strong challenge fromWestfield White to pull out a 4-2victory at Gumbert 3 Field inWestfield on July 7.
Both teams received strong perfor-mances from their pitchers and bothteams got solid performances fromtheir defenses. B.H. starting pitcherDan Kramer allowed just one hit andwalked only one, while striking outtwo in his three innings. Kevin Keegan
pitched the fourth and fifth innings,giving up two runs and four hits,while walking one and fanning four.Closer Sean Savage got all three bat-ters out in the final inning.
“Those two guys are probably ourfour and our five starters. Our oneand twos went last night, so we werehoping we were able to get throughthis game then we brought in Mariano[Rivera of the Yankees],” B.H. HeadCoach Mike Doren said jokingly ofSavage.
Westfield starting pitcher MattVarano tossed the first three innings.Although he allowed just one hit anda walk in the first inning and two hits
and a walk in the second, BerkeleyHeights managed to score twice ineach frame. He settled down in thethird and yielded only a walk. IanHumphrey pitched the next three in-nings and held B.H. scoreless, whileallowing just two hits and two walks.
“Both pitchers pitched excellently.We actually played very good de-fense behind Ian Humphrey. WithMatt [Varano], we were a little loosedefensively those first two innings,”said Westfield Head Coach JohnRipperger, who added, “It seems, attimes, with home game when we batsecond, we let up a couple of runs
CICCOTELLI LOVED HIS 20 YEARS TEACHING AT SPF
Steve Ciccotelli Retired ButContinues Coaching Football
By DAVID B. CORBINSpecially Written for The Westfield Leader and The Times
Passion for one’s work would placea person steps above others, whowould just put in the time to collect apaycheck. That passion is what SteveCiccotelli has always demonstratedever since he entered the teachingprofession.
As of June 30, Ciccotelli, a Health& Physical Education teacher atScotch Plains-Fanwood High School(SPF), has retired after 20 years in thedistrict, but he will remain as HeadCoach of the football team.
Born in Scranton, Pa., Ciccotelliand his parents, Salvatore and Freda,along with brothers Mark and Michaelmoved to Clark. In 1967, he gradu-ated from Arthur L. Johnson RegionalHigh School.
“My dad got a decent job in Union.I moved there in fourth grade. Mybrothers both went to Johnson Re-gional. They both played football.They were both football coaches,”Ciccotelli said.
Ciccotelli furthered his educationat Trenton State (now The College ofNew Jersey) and graduated with adegree in Health & Physical Educa-tion.
“When I got out, it was tough to getjobs. It was a bad job market. I substi-tute taught. My first job was inHempstead, Long Island, coachingfootball, wrestling and baseball, andteaching Phys Ed. I worked with aman there, who I went to high schoolwith, Frank Spaziani.”
With reference to his wrestlingbackground, Ciccotelli said, “I
wrestled a year in high school. Brokemy ankle. Never went back, but theywere looking for teachers, and I wasa young teacher who would do every-thing and did everything. It was agreat experience. When I hire peoplewho work for me, if they are willingto learn and put the hours in, they canteach it.”
The next school year (1974-75),Ciccotelli got a teaching job atJohnson Regional and in 1975, hemarried his wife Virginia.
“I started a lacrosse program thereand was an assistant football coach,then I tried the business world fortwo-and-a-half years. I sold oil. Myfather-in-law was with Chevron, so Itried that. I didn’t like it,” Ciccotelliexplained.
BAKIE BLASTS SOLO HR, MAGLINO RIPS 2-RUN SINGLE
Millburn Stuns Cougars, 7-3,In Ripken District 12 Semis
By DAVID B. CORBINSpecially Written for The Westfield Leader and The Times
WESTFIELD – Nearly every ele-ment necessary to succeed in a base-ball game came together at the righttime for the 12U Millburn WhiteMillers in their Cal Ripken District12 Tournament semifinal showdownwith the top-seeded Cranford Cou-gars at Gumbert 3 Field in Westfieldon July 5.
With a trip to the state tournamenton the line, the Millers made gooduse of all four of their hits and allthree of their walks in the first fiveinnings, along with crafty base run-ning and well-disciplined fielding toearn a 7-3 victory.
Cranford had defeated Millburn,
8-6, in the seeding round of the tour-nament, so the Millers were quiteaware of what they were up againstand had to be at the top of their game.
Cranford had a reputation for apotent offense and did out-hit theMillers, 7-4, but Millburn’s defense,especially the “hot” side of the infield– shortstop and third base – and thespectacular range of centerfielderRichy Schiekofer prevented the Cou-gars from pouncing with an all-outoffensive. After Schiekofer made anoutstanding grab at the fence to robCougar Will Budries of an extra-basehit in the fourth inning, he added twomore grabs in the sixth to rob DannyMaglione and Brian Oblachinski, re-spectively.
“He played some game. He’s gotsuch great range, and he’s so sure-handed. He can really run and go getthem,” Millburn Head Coach KevinFord said of Schiekofer. “We defi-nitely spend a lot more time on field-ing than we do hitting. I think itshows. They have done such a greatjob. They deserve all the credit.”
“They were very defensive. Therewere no errors. They made the plays,”Cougar Head Coach John Oblichinskisaid.
Mike Smith pitched the first threeinnings for the Cougars thenlefthander Garrett Forrestal relievedand pitched the final three innings.Forrestal yielded no hits and struck
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David B. Corbin for The Westfield Leader and The TimesSUCCESSFULLY SWIPING SECOND…Westfield Blue’s Mike Ukrainskij, No. 17, plows into second base as SouthOrange/Maplewood shortstop Quinn Krais prepares to catch the throw at Gumbert 2 Field on July 9.
Betsey Burgdorf for The Westfield Leader and The TimesREMEMBERING OLD TIMES…Scotch Plains-Fanwood High School football Head Coach Steve Ciccotelli, right, withLeader/Times Sports Editor/Assistant Publisher Dave Corbin, holds up a front cover of the Scotch Plains-Fanwood Times2000 edition of “Our Towns” featuring Ciccotelli and team captains Marlon Freshwater, Brian Schiller, Gary Cousar andAndrew Pavoni.
David B. Corbin for The Westfield Leader and The TimesBECOMING A “CHIEF THIEF” ON THE BASES…Westfield White’s Owen Bartok, right, swipes his second base of thegame as Berkeley Heights shortstop Vinny Doren scoops the throw from the catcher at Gumbert 3 Field in Westfield.
David B. Corbin for The Westfield Leader and The TimesCOLLISION AND A CLOUD OF DUST…Cranford pitcher Garrett Forrestal, front, collides with Millburn’s RyanAdelman as he slides home in the fifth inning in the Ripken District 12 Tournament. Adelman was safe.
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After his exposure to the privatesector, Ciccotelli went back toJohnson Regional where he becamehead coach in football and lacrossewhere he stayed until 1988.
“Even when I taught at Johnson, itwas close to getting riffed every year,but they say my job was being headlacrosse coach. I had no background inlacrosse, by the way. But I had a greatassistant, who had a strong background.We did very well,” Ciccotelli said.
Next, he stepped up to the PennState football program to coach thesecondary for a year under Joe Paterno.
After his one-year stay at PennState, Ciccotelli taught and coachedfootball at Sparta High School fortwo years. Then in 1991, he arrived atSPF to teach Health & Physical Edu-cation and to become Head Coach ofthe football Raiders.
“I have been at Scotch Plains 20years and loved every minute of it. Itwas a great place. I have been a foot-ball coach my whole life, but theteaching part was my main job. It wasthe part I loved. The best part of thejob is working with kids, not just thecoaching part.
When I retired, there’s still mixedemotions in that, because I love somuch working with kids. The Gover-nor had a little bit to do with gettingout earlier than I wanted to. I amgoing to miss that a lot. I wouldn’thave stayed in it if I didn’t like goingto work. I would never, ever wake upand not want to go to work. That’s theteaching part. I really believe thatpeople who teach should have a pas-sion for that job and care about thekids they work with,” Ciccotelli em-phasized.
Like he has for many summers,Ciccotelli runs the weight room in themorning at SPF.
“What I am proud of is that we trainall the athletes. We never treated any-body differently. The summer pro-gram historically was first put in forfootball players, but we have all typesof people showing up from people,who are not athletes who just want totrain, to all sports. Every kid knowsthat they are welcome in that weightroom,” he said.
His retirement may not affect hissummer activities, but some adjust-ments to his regular routine may occur
once the school year opens in the fall.“As a teacher, most summers I
worked running the weight room, sothat hasn’t changed. I guess when itwill hit me is when everybody goesback to school. It will be interesting tosee what I will do at that time. Hope-fully, I will be around and be involvedwith the school. To me it was great. Ilove Scotch Plains,” he said.
Ciccotelli, however, is an avidgolfer, so there is a strong possibilitythat he may spend some time ramp-ing up his golf game.
“I do like to golf. It’s a hobby ofmine. As you get older, your bodycan’t do all those things you used todo. For me, it is not unreasonable togolf. It was a game that was intro-duced to me by my father. My broth-ers play also. It’s a good game to getout,” he said.
Ciccotelli has a son Steve, an ALJgraduate who lives in Clark, and adaughter Jamie, who lives in Colonia.His son, a personal trainer and man-ager of a sports club, has two sons,Steven and Ryan, and a St. Bernard.Steve’s daughter has a one-year-olddaughter Payton Ann.
out six Millers, while allowing fourwalks. Starter Nick Maldinadopitched the first two innings for theMillers. Lannino pitched the nextthree, and Tyler Nortillo closed in thesixth inning. The trio yielded onlythree walks, while striking out four.
“They gave what we stress, was tothrow strikes and make them beat us,because we have the defense to makethe plays. And that’s what we did,”Coach Ford explained.
The Millers demonstrated their firstact of base-running prowess in thetop of the first inning when NicoMottesi reach first on a fielder’schoice, stole second and third andscored on Brian Lannino’s RBI doubleto leftfield.
Smith singled and stole a base in thebottom of the inning, but Cranfordfailed to score. But in the second,Ryan Bakie walloped a leadoff solohome run into the parking lot to arousethe Cougars. With Sean Leonard onfirst base, Jack Schelelich singled toright, putting runners on first-and-third.Schetelich stole second then Maglinodrilled a two-run single to right to givethe Cougars a 3-1 lead. Oblachinskisingled. Maglino advanced to thirdand attempted to score on a slow
grounder to third, but he was nailed ona fine throw to the plate.
Millburn came on strong in thethird. Kyle Mangold and RyanAdelman (2 runs scored) each singled.Mottesi reached first on a throwingerror then Mangold scored on a wildpitch. Nortillo stepped to the plateand hammered a three-run homer overthe centerfield fence.
Alert base running earned the Mill-ers another run in the fourth whenJordan Brisgel walked, stole secondand third, and scored on a passed ball.In the fifth, Adelman walked, stolesecond and third, and scored on an-other passed ball.
“We had some rough pitching. Oneinning they got a walk. The kid stolesecond, stole third and a passed ballwent home. Same thing in the nextinning! I tell the kids you can’t give upwalks and you can’t give four and fiveouts in an inning. There were a coupleof times where we were one pitch ofgetting out of the inning, and the youngboy hit the ball over the fence. Thatwas a shot. Ryan Bakie hit a shot too,”Coach Oblachinski said.
“They were getting a good readactually off the left-handed pitchertoo. It was good. We just started play-
ing 50/70 [70 feet between bases].We spent so much time on it, and thekids are picking it up. That makes youfeel good,” Coach Ford said.
“Those kids were fast. They gotaround the bases fast. We played ourhearts out. I told my kids, when wewere here a month ago, I thought forsure that we would be going to states,”Coach Oblachinski said.
The Cougars did have an opportu-nity in the bottom of the fifth. Tho-mas Feeney singled, Bakie was in-tentionally walked and Leonardwalked to load the bases with twoouts, but a popup to short ended thethreat.
“We were fortunate when we weredown 7-3, we loaded the bases, andwe were one pitch away from, maybe,getting a grand slam. I was a littletaken back by the intentional walkwith 12-year-olds, but I guess it isbaseball. They were up by four runs.Even if the kid hits a home run, it’sstill a two-run lead. It’s hard to beatthe same team twice in a tourna-ment,” Coach Oblichinski said. “Goodluck to Millburn! They are going tothe states.”Millburn White 104 110 7Cranford 030 000 3
someway or another and get behindright away then we have to play frombehind and we play tighter. We seemto be a much better visiting team,because we get on the board rightaway, everyone loosens up and ev-eryone is ready to hit.”
Highlander Vinny Doren drew aleadoff walk in the top of the firstinning and stole second base. Kramerchopped a single past short and DanBaroff grounded out to first as Dorenscored. Kramer then scored whenSavage’s fly ball to leftfield wasdropped. In Westfield’s half of theinning, Owen Bartok (1-for-1) walkedand stole second, but Kramer fannedthe next batter for the second out andgot Owen Kessler to ground out tothird base.
The Highlanders added their otherruns in the second. Jimmy Raymondsingled, eventually advanced to thirdand scored on Joseph Henry’s suc-cessful bunt. Andrew Aguilera singledthen Henry later scored on a wildthrow past third. Varano singled forWestfield in the bottom of the inning,but got gunned down by Baroff, thecatcher, while attempting to steal sec-ond.
“It was a tremendous game. Theseguys challenged us. They hung in
there the whole game. We pitchedwell. A lot of great defense! It’s apleasure to play these guys,” CoachDoren said.
Both teams’ defenses sparkled forthe remainder of the game. The High-lander infield, especially shortstopDoren, was solid. Westfield shortstopAlex Pansini snagged a hopping bul-let off the bat of Dan Tomlinson torecord an out, and Hannah Liddymade a great catch at the centerfieldfence.
“Hannah Liddy made a tremen-dous catch at the fence on her horse toget back there. She and Cullen Birkelmade the All-Star team this year. Alexhas been very solid at shortstop. Heshowed why he plays there on thatplay,” Coach Ripperger said.
Westfield’s offense came to life inthe fourth inning. Trevor McNamarawalked and stole second. Liddy lacedan RBI single to deep center. Bartoksingled then stole second to put bothrunners in scoring position with oneout. Unfortunately for Westfield, thenext two batters struck out. In thefifth, Birkel singled then was thrownout at second on a freaky force play.Next, with Varano on second,Humphrey hammered an RBI doubleto left to narrow the score to 4-2.
Highlander closer Savage thenslammed the door in the sixth inning.
“The first two or three innings, Ithink we batted one over the mini-mum. After that, we got things going.Hits begat hits, and they slowly startedto figure it out, but we did have somebad at-bats. We left some good pitchesgo with two strikes on us. We prob-ably had two or three K’s looking.That’s the difference in the game,when you have guys on base with oneor two outs and you need to get themin,” Coach Ripperger pointed out.
“The game was played really welldefensively by both teams. We arehappy with that, and we are happy toget another win. It keeps us in firstplace,” Coach Doren said.
“We played a very good team. Wehave never beaten Berkeley Heightsin the five years that we played them.We have come very close. Five ofour last six games have been withinone or two runs. They won the cham-pionship two out of the last threeyears. They don’t beat themselves.They did not have an error today.Anything that was hit anywhere neartheir players, they caught,” CoachRipperger said.Berkeley Heights 220 000 4Westfield White 000 110 2
David B. Corbin for The Westfield Leader and The TimesNOT QUITE SUCCESSFUL STEALING SECOND…Westfield White’s Matt Varano, No. 26, gets caught stealing secondbase as Berkeley Heights shortstop Vinny Doren makes the tag. Berkeley Heights held on to win, 4-2
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with lined singles off the leftfieldfence, but Cruz struck out the nextbatter.
The Villagers had more action go-ing in the third. Hunter Reynolds (2runs scored), Quinn Krais and Niggliall singled to load the bases with oneout. Bradley lofted an RBI sacrificefly to tie the score, 2-2. In an effort togive his team the momentum, Krais,who was on second, attempted tosteal third, but his move came a steptoo soon, and Cruz, who had notbegan his delivery, picked him off ashe slid into third.
“We tried a double steal with twoouts. Probably not by-the-book base-ball, but we wanted to get the runnersmoving to get runners at second andthird with our [number] five hitter up,”Villager Head Coach Bill Krais ex-plained. “It didn’t work out. Some-times that happens, and Westfielddidn’t let their opportunities slip away.”
LaCorte strutted to the mound inthe fourth and fanned two of the threebatters he faced. In the bottom of the
inning, Westfield’s first big opportu-nity knocked when Nieswenter andLaCorte walked and Cruz was hit inthe back to load the bases with no-body out. Ukrainskij stepped up andlaunched a two-run double to centerto give the Blue a 4-2 lead.
After LaCorte retired all three bat-ters in the fifth, Westfield’s offenseyanked the door wide open. ZachRabinowitz and Patrick Chirichelladrew walks. Both runners advancedon a wild pitch then Connor Scanlonslapped a two-run single to left.James Friel walked. Arthur Xaiorapped an RBI single to left. Duringa series of throwing errors, Frielscored and Xaio advanced to third.LaCorte drilled an RBI single toright, making the score, 9-2.
“It was one of the few times thisyear where we actually took advan-tage when we got some breaks. That’swhat good teams normally do. Wehaven’t done that too much up untilthis point. That’s a good sign,” CoachFriel said.
“You walk a guy on four pitches,the pitcher gets down and the fieldersfall asleep. You can’t load up thebases with nobody out. You can’t puta runner on third with nobody out. It’shard to come back from that, and wedidn’t,” Coach Krais said.
LaCorte’s only blemish on themound came in the sixth when heceded a leadoff walk to Reynolds,who managed to score on Niggli’sground out to second.
“The defense was solid. The batsdid wake up. The last time our batswere very, very quiet. This [Villag-ers] is a first-placed team. Up untiltoday, they were the class of our divi-sion. Hopefully, we are trying to takea little bit back from them. They wereoutmatching us up until this point intime, so this is a big, big win for us,”Coach Friel said. “Before today’sgame we were middle of the pack.Today’s game, I think the kids foundtheir swagger.”So Orange 011 001 3Westfield 200 25x 9
DENIZO WHACKS 2 HRs, 5 RBI; GILSON 2 HRs, 6 RBI
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Numerous former baseballstandouts from area high schools con-verged on Brookside Park in ScotchPlains on July 6 to do battle in a“bumper night” showdown betweenthe A Division Diva Salon and the BDivision Five Guys in Scotch PlainsMen’s Softball League action.
Four of the Five Guys stepped upoffensively, but it would take morethan just four of Five Guys to with-stand the onslaught of the Diva’s,who waltzed around the bases with a31-hit trampling en route to a 26-11,six-inning stomping in Game 1 of a
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The main guy for Five Guys wasPete Gilson, who battered a three-runhomer, a two-run homer and an RBIsingle. Frank DiGiovanni (RBI, 2runs scored) doubled and singled,
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David B. Corbin for The Westfield Leader and The TimesCAUGHT IN THE ACT…South Orange/Maplewood’s Quinn Krais, right, gets caught in the act attempting to steal thirdbase by Westfield Blue’s Jack Hall in the third inning.
David B. Corbin for The Westfield Leader and The TimesSLIPPING INTO SECOND JUST IN TIME…Diva Salon’s Kyle Gates, right, puts his foot on the bag just before Five Guysshortstop Matt Sutor can make the tag in the fourth inning at Brookside Park in Scotch Plains.
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and Nicky Rundella went 3-for-3,including a triple, and scored threetimes. Mark Giordano singled in bothof his plate appearances. Joe Dinitzo(RBI), Chris Grenham (RBI), BrianKaden and John Hagy each singledand scored once. Veteran Drew Koskiand Matt Sutor, a former NorthHunterdon High School baseballstandout, each contributed a single.
Five Guys fired up three runs in thetop of the first with DiGiovanni’sRBI single and Gilson’s towering two-run shot over the right field fence.The Diva’s responded loudly withfive runs on five hits, highlighted byMineo’s two-run double and Mark
Rusin’s RBI triple, in the bottom ofthe first to grasp a 5-3 lead.
Five Guys cooked up another fourruns in the second, taking advantageof a pair of walks and three singles,but Diva shortstop Dinizo doused theflame by initiating a second (Rosa)-to-first (Schmidt) double play.Chemelnik led off Diva’s half of theinning with a single to center.
When Smith stepped to the plate toget his licks, Mineo, operating as firstbase coach, shouted, “Smitty! No-body is better than you!”
Smitty popped up to third thenGerminder grounded to shortstopSutor, who turned a second
Union County Senior 50+, 60+Men’s Softball League Standings:
50+ DIVISION A (July 10):TEAM W LRenda Roads 13 2Roselle American Legion 12 4Liberty Lighting/Frenchy’s 10 6Top Line Appliance 8 7Awning Galore 7 8Contact Lens & Vision 5 12
50+ DIVISION B:TEAM W LDriftwood Bar & Grill I 12 4Driftwood Bar & Grill II 7 10Molly Maguire’s 7 10D&K Associates 4 11Sun Tavern 3 14
SUPER SENIORS DIVISION A:TEAM W LCreative Industries I 11 2Kilkenny House 9 4TLC 8 4
SUPER SENIORS DIVISION B:TEAM W LThe Office 9 4Nicolina Pizza 4 8Creative Industries Too 3 10Associated Auto Parts 1 13
The Office 9, Nicolina Pizza 5Tom McNulty, John Psotto (RBI),
Ian Ward, Vic Dudash (RBI) and JoeMitarotonda (2 RBI) gave The Officea 6-5 lead. George Merlo intention-ally walked and Brian McDermottblooped a two-run double.Creative Too 6, Associated 3
Bob Failla had a bases-clearingtriple in the third. Larry Lesniak (triple,RBI), Paul Brody (triple, 2 RBI) andRich Krov (2-for-2) led Associated.Creative I 10, Kilkenny 3
Bill Dougherty and Dana Kimmel(3 hits each), Angelo Corbo and TomLombardi (2 hits, 3 RBI each) andSteve Ferro’s defense led Creative.The Office 20, Creative Too 13
The Office scored seven runs in theeighth. Creator Nick Kosciowiat (3 hits)hit a grand slam. Officer Ernie Spinellismashed a grand slam, and George Merloand Chip Weiss had five hits each. Cre-ator pitcher Tony Spadavecchia went 3-for-4 with two RBI.TLC 8, Kilkenny House 6
Tom Pasko (3 hits), and Rich Trauband Bob Lorincz (2 hits each) led TLC.Nicolina Pizza 9, Associated 8
Phil Fink, Rich Krov and DannyWhite had multiple hits, and RonHorinko, John Tomaine and RobertMaley drove in runs for Associated.Molly Maguire’s 12, D&K 11
(Nine innings).Top Line 12, LLG/Frenchy’s 10
Top Liners came from behind andwon it in the eighth. Top Liners pitcherGeorge Brokaw, Ron Kulik, DonPencinger, Bob D’Meo and Joe Visoall had three hits. Frenchy’s Al Betauwas 4-for-4.Driftwood I 16, Sun Tavern 1
For Linda’s, Joe Sarica (4-for-4),
Ron Martins and Tommy Siano (3-for-3), Keith McDede, MikeDiRienzo, Mac Kowaleski and StuLukowiak all had multi-hit games.Awnings 12, Contact Lens 3
Awnings totaled 24 hits and turnedtwo double plays. Mike Kovach, GaryCuttler, Tom Colandro, FrankD’Antico and Brian Granstrand (3hits each), and Bob Lorincz and RayMeigs (2 hits each) led Awnings.Lensmen Ed Quinn and Billy Boylehad multi-hit games.Roselle Am Leg 20, Driftwood II, 1
Pat Mooney (2 HRs) and Jeff Baier(grand slam), and pitcher Harry Streep,Dennis Valvano, Jim McCullough, BillDaniel and Gene Antonucci (multiplehits) led the Legion.Driftwood I 16, Top Line 10
Joe Sarica, Jeff Villani, JackHelfrich, Mike DiRienzo, Pat Enright,Stu Lukowiak, Ron Martins, AndyHolup and Tom Siano all had multi-hit games. For Top Line, GeorgeBrokaw and Dave Ball both had threehits, with John Fessock tripling.Driftwood II 23, Sun Tavern 15
Sunmen Jim Price and TomRomanowicz had three hits each.LLG/Frenchy’s 19, D&K 5
The Frenchmen scored 10 runswithin two innings. Tom MacDermant(4-for-5), Al Betau (3-for-3), HaroldAnthony Durham (4-for-4), PeteChemidlin (3-for-4) and pitcher BernieBurkhardt (2 hits) led LLG.Renda Roads 15, Awnings 12
Keith Gibbons (4 hits, 2 triples, 5RBI), Jim Jimenez (double), EdBelford (triple), Dave Lavelle (doubleand triple) and Tom Baldowski (2doubles) with three hits each ledRenda. Bob Lorincz and NeilGranstrand (each 3-for-3), and TomPasko (HR), Charlie Babela, MikeKovach, John Campanella, TomColandro and Brian Granstrand allwith multiple hits led Awnings.Roselle Am Leg 27, Contact 9
Dennis Valvano (4 hits), Pat Mooney(3 hits, HR), and John Amato, ChrisPaterek, Bill Daniel, Ed Lubas, JeffBaier and Harry Streep (2 hits apiece)led Roselle. Ed Quinn, DaveRothenberg and Rick Wolf led Con-tact.Creative 16, Creative Too 1
Marv Scherb (4 hits, Grand Slam),Frank Pepe, Joe DePierro and DennisWatson (3 hits each) and strong de-fense by Steve Ferro and Dana Kimmelled the winners.Kilkenny 17, Associated 0
Rich Kovach (3 hits, HR) ledKilkenny.TLC 11, Nicolina Pizza 2
Tom Colandro pitched a seven-hit-ter. Rich Traub and Pete Osborn (each3-for-3) and Bob Sachs (2 hits, triple)led TLC.Renda 11, LLG/Frenchy’s 8
Joe Massimino, Jim Jimenez andTom Baldowski (3 hits each) ledRenda. Tom MacDermant (3-for-3),and Don Miller, Harry Semple, PeteChemidlin and Dennis Quigley (2 hitseach) led Frenchy’s.Molly’s 10, Driftwood II 6
Pat Ahern, Glenn Zuhl, MarkMcGlynn, James Sydlo, and MikeReutter (3 hits each) led Molly.Sun Tavern 16, Contact 8
Joe Hrubash and Pete Osborn eachhad three hits for the Tavern.Roselle A/L 20, Top Line 11
The Legion plated nine in the sev-enth with hits from John Symczak, EdKushner, Jim McCullough, HarryStreep, Pat Mooney and Ed Mitjans.Chris Paterek (4-for-4), Jeff Baier andJohn Amato also led the Legion. BobD’Meo (4-for-5, triple), John Rachko,Don Montefusco and Wayne Moeller(3 hits each) led Top Line.Driftwood I 18, D&K 6
Joe Sarica and Jack Helfrich (both4-for-4), Keith McDede (3-for-3), PatEnright (HR), and with MikeDiRienzo, Mac Kowaleski, Ron Mar-tins and Andy Holup (with multiplehits) led Driftwood.Molly’s 13, Driftwood I, 5
Molly’s exploded for seven runs inthe seventh and turned three doubleplays. Pitcher Bill Hinkle (4-for-4),and Bob Ghiretti (3 hits, 3 RBI) ledMolly’s. For Linda’s, Steve Lerner,Jeff Villani, Mike DiRienzo, MacKowaleski and Jack Helfrich hadmulti-hit games.Roselle A/L 11, Awnings 4
Legion’s Chris Paterek, Bill Daniel,Ed Lubas and Gene Antonucci hadtimely hits. Pat Mooney and JimMcCullough had multiple hits. Aw-nings Frank D’Antico, Bob Lorinczand Brian Granstrand had two-hitgames.Renda 30, Driftwood II 10
Joe Massimino (5 hits), Jim Jimenez(4 hits, 2 HRs) and Gary Pence (4 hits)led Renda.D&K 12, Sun Tavern 11
Tom Romanowicz, Pete Osborn andAnthony Abbaleo (3 hits each), andDennis Baker (2-run double) led SunTavern.Contact Lens 25, Top Line 16
CLV scored nine in the eighth. JerryArchibald (4 hits) and Pete Byer (hitfor the cycle) led CLV. George Brokaw,Don Pencinger (5 hits each), and JohnRachko (2 triples) led Top Line.
(Rundella)-to-first (Gilson) doubleplay.
Three of the Five Guys scored inthe third inning when Gilson launchedhis three-run homer to extend thelead to 10-5, but the hairstylistsclipped Five Guys for five runs in thebottom of the inning to knot the score,10-10.
After Five Guys fizzled instead ofsizzled in the fourth, the Diva’spranced over the plate seven timeswith nine hits, which includedDinizo’s two-run homer after Canfieldrapped a two-run double that glancedoff third base, to grab a 17-10 lead.
In the fifth, Five Guys’ Rundella,who singled, scored on Gilson’s singleto center. The Diva’s loaded the baseswith no outs in the bottom of theinning. Rundella, now playing third,charged a grounder, stepped on thirdand fired to first for a double play asthe runner on third, Germinder,scored. Dinizo followed with his sec-ond two-run shot, making the score,20-11.
Five Guys’ sixth inning endedabruptly when, with one Guy out,Diva pitcher Germinder smothered asteaming liner and fired to first tocomplete a double play. The Diva’sadded a merry-go-round of six runson six hits in the bottom of the sixth toend the game via 15-run rule.Five Guys 343 010 11Diva Salon 505 736 26
ANGELS DIVISION:(As of July 1:)
TEAM W L PctSt. Joseph 6 3 .667St. James 5 3 .625St. Anthony 5 3 .625St. Jude 2 6 .250St. Aloysius 1 10 .091
SAINTS DIVISION:TEAM W L PctSt. George 8 1 .889St. Rocco 6 4 .600St. Anne 4 5 .444St. Killian 4 5 .444St. John 3 4 .429
St. George 13, St. Aloysius 2St. Anne 9, St. Killian 8
Daryl Fornuff’s sixth-inning bases-loaded triple blew the game open forSt. Anne. Nash Warfield and ChrisGiordano had two RBI each, and JackKennedy added two more hits and anRBI for Annie. Steve Mavrakes andSteve Pirella had three hits each forSt. Killian.St. Rocco 7, St. Joseph 0
Joe Matuska tossed a gem – bedaz-zling the Joeys with a mix of off-speed rainmakers – allowing onlythree runners to reach first all night.“Rocco Stars” Keith Middleton andJack Ley had three hits each anddrove in four runs between them.Andy Wilber chased home two morefor the cause on two hits. Joe DeRosaassured everyone that he has a way tomake the Joey’s play harder next time.St. Anthony 12, St. Jude 3
A 4-2 nail-biter through four in-nings, Milc Monroy’s three-run Tatoropened an eight-run barrage in thefifth for Tony. Tom Baldowski, PeterChemidlin and George Balint platedtwo each to seal it for St. Anthony. St.Jude Skipper Joe DeChiaro knockedin one run.
St. Killian 14, St. Aloysius 6St. Killian rapped out 25 hits, as
Jason Semple went for the cycle; 4-for-4 with homer and three RBI,touching the dish four times. ScottCurtis homered twice and drove infive, and Pauly Morello singled andscored. Erich Hastrup was perfect (4-for-4) for St. Al and Nate Mangirisadded three hits.St. Jude 5, St. Anne 4
No statistics were available.
SPF’s Klimowicz to PlayFor French Pro Hoops TeamEWING – Former Scotch Plains-
Fanwood High School standout bas-ketball player Hillary Klimowicz, alsoa former standout from The Collegeof New Jersey, has signed a one-yearagreement to play for the LimogesABC en Limousin, a professionalteam in France. The team, which playsa 30-game schedule, competes in thecountry’s second division and is lo-cated about three-and-a-half hourssouth of Paris.
Last season, Klimowicz played forNyon in the First Division in theSwitzerland League. She scored 19.2points per game and averaged 11 re-bounds. She also had 94 blocked shotsand recorded 12 double-doubles. Herbest offensive game was a 35-pointoutburst against Basel.
Klimowicz is spending the sum-mer working on the Ewing campus inthe Alcohol and Drug Education Pro-gram as she pursues her master’s de-gree in counseling at the College.
Klimowicz’s collegiate playingcareer began at NCAA Division I St.Joseph’s University in 2005-06 whereshe was the 2005-06 Atlantic 10 andBig Five Rookie of the Year. She thentransferred to Division III TCNJwhere she quickly made an impres-sion on the Lion program.
Her most impressive season for theLions came as a senior in 2008-09when she was named the 2009Women’s Basketball Coaches’ Asso-ciation Player of the Year. She wasnot only the first Lion to garner thisaward, but the first player from theNew Jersey Athletic Conference todo so. Klimowicz was also selectedto the 2009 State Farm Coaches’ All-America Basketball First Team. Shewas a finalist for the 2009 JostensTrophy, as the top player in DivisionIII. Additionally, she was selected asthe 2009 ECAC Metro Player of theYear and an ECAC Metro First-Teamhonoree.
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Westfield 10 Black DefeatsClark 10U Young Guns, 7-5
MAKING GREAT CONTACT…Westfield 10U Black team’s Sandy Miller lines anRBI single in the top of the sixth inning against the Clark Young Guns on July 5.
The Westfield Black 10U baseballteam earned its second, straight roadwin in the New Providence GreenLeague, beating Clark Young Guns,7-5, on July 5. Westfield head coachJeff Gerris commented, “This wasour best effort so far. The boys playedwith conviction. We didn’t waste op-portunities at the plate or in the field,and our pitching was first rate.”
Westfield plated two runs in thefirst inning off a pair of RBI singles,the first by Sandy Miller that scoredJeffrey Bennett and second by BrianHinkel that drove in Adam Holtzman.
Clark scored a run in the bottom ofthe first and then tied the game, 2-2,in the third. In the fourth inning,Westfield seized a 5-2 lead. ThomasDeRosa drilled a two-run triple to theright-field fence that scored Millerand Hinkel. Andrew Zanfagna thenbrought DeRosa home with a two-outsingle.
Clark answered with a run in thefifth, but Westfield added two runs inthe sixth to extend its lead to 7-3. JackGerris rapped an RBI single to scorehome Bennett, and Miller singled todrive in Holtzman.
Westfield’s four pitchers were su-perb. Hinkel held Clark to one run inthe first. DeRosa followed suit, al-lowing two runs over the next twoinnings. Miller, a lefty, gave up justone run over the fourth and fifth.Bennett closed it down in the finalframe to seal the win.
Westfield played solid defense thatwas punctuated by three standoutplays. In the bottom of the third,catcher Gerris gunned down a runnertrying to steal second. In the fifth,shortstop DeRosa made an inning-ending diving catch. In the sixth,Westfield pulled off a gem to cutdown a batter trying to stretch a doubleinto a triple. The play started with arope into the right-field corner. Tucker
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Summit Gold Nips Mtside 8’sIn N.P. Green League, 2-1
In one of the best-played games ofthe season, the Mountainside 8’s base-ball team lost to a strong SummitGold team, 2-1, in another one-runsqueaker
From the first pitched ball to thelast strikeout, the Mountainside 8’scontinued to show extraordinary im-provement in every aspect of thegame. Despite scoring only one run,of Mountainside displayed it best of-fense of the season, but the Summitteam hung on with a strong defense.
Mountainside’s offense was high-lighted by two long triples, one byGreg Patterson and another by DannyD’Angelo, who eventually scored onRoman Andre’s RBI single. Andre
finished with two hits. Joey Cioffiand Michael Labisi also recorded hits.Many other Mountainside players hitthe ball well, but were rebuffed by theSummit defense.
The Mountainside pitchers DannyD’Angelo. Michael Labisi, Pete Skin-ner and Joey Cioffi recorded 11strikeouts, and the defense assistedwith seven put outs, including one athome plate. Summit had the basesloaded, but Labisi ended their hopesof increasing their lead by catching ahard line drive to end the inning.
Other players contributing to theMountainside effort were ConnorTracy, Rory McAloon, Lucas Stecky,Jacob Reinhardt and Coady Brown.
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MID-NEW JERSEY CHAMPS…The Scotch Plains Soccer Association’s 11UIronmen won the Mid-New Jersey Youth Soccer Association 2010-2011 Flight.Pictured, left to right, are: front row; Jared Mann, Zach Breit, Jonathan Schwab,Benny Essenfeld, Sam Grodberg, Patrick Downey and Conor Peterson; back row,Assistant Coach Mark Essenfeld, Jaycee Dibella, Matt Hall, Ryan Vincent, JackBrady, Jaisel Shah, Alex Lipshitz and Head Coach Jason Brelinsky.
ALL-STARS IN LACROSSE…Elizabeth Cusick, No. 8, and Lauren Oberlander,No. 4, recently competed in the 6th annual Under Armour Underclassmen LaxAll-Star Tournament at Towson University in Maryland. More than 3,000 playerstried out for this year’s underclassmen teams throughout the country.
Cusick, Oberlander Play in Lax All-Star TourneyElizabeth Cusick and Lauren
Oberlander, of the Westfield La-crosse Club, were recently selectedto represent the Under Armour NJAll-Stars in the 6th annual Under-classmen Lacrosse All-Star tour-nament in Baltimore, Md. Cusickand Oberlander were among only24 girls selected from the NJ re-gion. Ten of the players on the NJ
team were seniors already com-mitted to colleges such asDartmouth, Virginia (2), Duke (2),USC, Penn, Colgate, Lehigh, andUNC. The NJ All-Stars competedon July 1 and lost to All-Star teamsfrom New England, 12-11, andBaltimore, 16-11, but reboundedto defeat Upstate NY, 10-9, andSouth, 18-7, on July 2.
Westfield: 6/20/11Stephen and Beth Sullivan to
Michael S. and Lisa J. Kane, 1011Wyandotte Trail, $1,175,000.
Matthew B. Roggenberg andCheryl R. Oberman to David andJoanne Womelsdorf, 288 WatchungFork, $1,500,500.
Michael S. and Lisa J. Kane toJoshua E. and Courtney J. Goodstadt,815 Clark Street, $900,000.
John J. and Susannah J. Harris toPaul Lowich and Robin Longo, 535
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Coleman Place, $600,000.Keith and Kristen Kilek to Brian
and Sherri Longstreet, 233 Golf Edge,$2,175,000.
Ian Auerbach and MarieMargaritondo to Lauren J. Polito andThomas Smolinski, 618 Maple Street,$655,000.
Brian Raftery and Ruth Ann Flynn-Raftery to Danny and Laurie O. Zoba,
815 Coolidge Street, $670,000.Lawrence M. and Judith K.
Weinstein to Todd A. Crispino andTamara I. Ramos-Crispino, 917Cranford Avenue, $755,000.
Stephen and Danielle Bracco toChristopher G. and Amanda T.Lackett, 705 Carleton Road,
$435,000.Kiki Vavaoulis to Cristin Luck and
Robert Schrieder, 515 Grove Street,West, $361,000.
Mary Ann Sharpe to Ian and JaneCottrell, 905 Tice Place, $645,000.
Randolph J. and Lydia T. Dujnic toHerman and Karen Cueto, 126 TudorOval, $577,000.
Eric and Mindy Sherbet to PatrickB. and Sharon E. Murphy, 48 GeneseeTrail, $748,000.
PUBLIC NOTICE PUBLIC NOTICESCOTCH PLAINS-FANWOOD BOARD OF EDUCATION
NOTICE OF MEETINGS(In Compliance with OPEN PUBLIC MEETINGS ACT - Chapter 231)
*ADDENDUM TO REGULARLY SCHEDULED MEETINGS*
TYPE OF MEETING: Regular Public Meeting
DATE OF MEETING: Wednesday, July 20, 2011
LOCATION: Administration BuildingEvergreen Avenue & Cedar StreetScotch Plains, New Jersey 07076
TIME: 8:00 p.m.
PURPOSE OF MEETING: Review and discuss personnel action.
ACTION TO BE TAKEN: Action will be taken.1 T - 7/14/11, The Times Fee: $28.56
PUBLIC NOTICETOWN OF WESTFIELD
INVITATION TO BID
Sealed proposals will be received by theTown of Westfield in the Council Cham-bers at the Municipal Building, 425 EastBroad Street, Westfield, New Jersey, at10:00 AM prevailing time on Tuesday,August 9, 2011 at 10:00 a.m., for the “2011IMPROVEMENT OF BOULEVARD (be-tween South Avenue West & Park Street),IN THE TOWN OF WESTFIELD, NEWJERSEY”.
The work under this Proposal includesthe furnishing of all labor, materials andequipment necessary to complete the workas shown on the Contract Drawings anddescribed in the Contract Specifications,and Proposals shall be in accordance withsuch Drawings and Specifications and theterms proposed in the Contract.
The major items of work under this con-tract include, but are not limited to, thefollowing in estimated quantities:
160 tons of 4 inch thick Superpave HotMix Asphalt Base Course
750 tons of 2 inch thick Superpave HotMix Asphalt Surface Course
5,725 square yards of Milling, 2 inchthickness
100 cubic yards of roadway excavation,unclassified
1,800 linear feet of granite block curbingAll bidders must submit with their bid
a copy of their New Jersey BusinessRegistration Certificate. Failure to sub-mit proof of registration will disqualifythe bid.
Proposals shall be in writing on the formsfurnished and must be delivered at theplace and before the hour above men-tioned, and must be accompanied by acertified check or bid bond payable to theTown of Westfield in an amount equal to atleast ten percent (10%) of the base amountof the bid, but not less than $500.00 normore than $20,000.00. (N.J.S.A. 40A:11-21) Each bid must also be accompaniedby a Surety Company Certificate statingthat said Surety company will provide thebidder with the required Performance bondin the full amount of the Contract (N.J.S.A.40A:11-22), by a Non-Collusion Affidavitand a Contractor’s Qualification Statement,Statement of Ownership, on the formsincluded in and explained in the contractdocuments.
Bidders are required to comply with therequirements of N.J.S.A. 10:5-31 et seq.and N.J.A.C. 17:27 and must pay work-men the prevailing wage rates promul-gated by the New Jersey State Depart-ment of Labor and Industry for this project,copies of which are on file in the Office ofthe Town Engineer.
Plans and specifications may be seen orprocured at the office of the Town Engi-neer, Public Works Center, 959 NorthAvenue West, Westfield, New Jersey. Thenon-refundable cost of contract documentsis ($50.00) made payable to the Town ofWestfield, which must be paid in cash orcertified check. The Mayor and Councilreserve the right to reject any bid, and towaive any informality in any bid, if in theinterest of the Town, it is deemed advis-able to do so.
Kris J. McAloonTown Engineer
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PUBLIC NOTICEBOROUGH OF FANWOOD
PLANNING BOARD
Please take notice that on July 27, 2011at 7:30 PM at the Fanwood Borough Hall,located at 75 North Martine Avenue,Fanwood, New Jersey, the Planning Boardwill hold a hearing on the application of theundersigned. The property in question islocated at: 382 South Avenue, Fanwood,New Jersey, also known as Block 69, Lot5, as shown on the Fanwood Tax Map,owned by Brian J Walter.
The applicant requests use variance fora basement which is in violation of:
Section 184-188 of the Fanwood LandUse Code. Variance Requested: Expan-sion of Non-conforming use; Permitted:no expansion; Present: no basement; Pro-posed: Build a Basement.
Section 181-115 of the Fanwood LandUse Code. Variance Requested: FrontYard Set Back on Old South Avenue;Permitted: 30 feet; Present: 10.1 feet; Pro-posed: 10.1 feet.
Section 184-115 of the Fanwood LandUse Code. Variance Requested: FrontYard Setback on South Avenue; Permit-ted: 30 feet; Present: 1.3 feet; Proposed:1.3 feet.
Section 184-115 of the Fanwood LandUse Code. Variance Requested: Lot cov-erage (pre-existing conditions); Permit-ted: 35.9%; Present: 40.59%; Proposed:40.59%.
The applicant will also seek such otherrelief as may be determined necessary atthe public hearing based upon review ofthe application or amendment(s) to theapplication.
The file pertaining to this application isavailable for public inspection during nor-mal business hours (8 AM - 4 PM, Mondaythrough Friday) from the Secretary of thePlanning Board at the Administration Of-fice of the Borough of Fanwood at 75 NorthMartine Avenue, Fanwood, New Jersey.
Any interested party may appear at saidhearing and participate therein in accor-dance with the rules of the Fanwood Plan-ning Board.
Applicant:Brian Walter
51 Fourth StreetFanwood, New Jersey, 07023
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Education News – Pages 14-16
MOVING UP…Oak Knoll School of the Holy Child congratulates members of thesixth grade class as they graduated the Lower School on June 9. Pictured, left toright, are: Ashley Ferry of Westfield, Jennifer Natoli of Scotch Plains, and GillianLawlor of Green Brook.
WF Public School EmployeesHonored for Years of Service
WESTFIELD — Thirty-oneWestfield Public School staff mem-bers were honored for more than874 years of combined service bythe Board of Education and col-leagues at the 24th annual Gala forschool employees. The event washeld June 9 at the Pantagis Renais-sance in Scotch Plains.
The annual event brings staffmembers together to honor retireesand employees with 25 years ofservice.
Superintendent of Schools Mar-garet Dolan and Westfield Educa-tion Association President KimSchumacher addressed the honor-ees, thanking them for their dedica-tion and service to the WestfieldPublic Schools. Board of Educa-
tion President Julia Walker and VicePresident Richard Mattessich for-mally recognized the retirees and25-year employees, including:
Retirees: Kathleen Cook, Librar-ian, McKinley; Marie Cucchiaro,Paraprofessional, Washington;Kimberly Decker, Paraprofessional,Wilson; Elizabeth Dessimo, Para-professional, Tamaques; GregoryGorski, Physical Education Teacher,WHS; Arlene Harris, Paraprofes-sional, Lincoln; Sandra Hilliard,District Computer Technician;Marie Koch, Science Teacher, EIS;Nancy Liggera, Teacher/Coordina-tor ELL, Franklin; Louise Loffredo,3rd Grade Teacher, Franklin;Katherine “Kathy” Luckey, P/ETeacher, WHS; Nicholas Manna,Assistant Supervisor of Buildingsand Grounds; Deborah McCullam,Music Teacher, Tamaques; GraceMcDonald, 4th Grade Teacher,Washington; Virginia Mickulick,English Teacher/Project 79, WHS;Gwenn Phillips, Secretary to thePrincipal, McKinley; SharonRamsey, Executive Secretary to theSuperintendent; Robert Roth, Su-pervisor of World Languages, K-12; Giovanni “John” Sclama, HeadCustodian, McKinley; Arthur Vice,5th Grade Teacher, Jefferson; Wil-liam Yacullo, Head Custodian,Franklin.
25 Year Honorees: LynAleksandrowicz, Art Teacher, WHS;Joan Balcerski, Secretary, RIS;Catherine Becker, Resource RoomTeacher, Tamaques; Jean Brezinski,Music, Tamaques/Washington;Elizabeth Dessino, Paraprofessional,Tamaques; Randi Goodstein, Re-source Room Teacher, Franklin;Donna Higgins, Spanish Teacher,WHS; Susan McClelland, 5th GradeTeacher, Washington; BarbaraPhilpot, Family and Consumer Sci-ence Teacher, WHS; MargaretTeitelbaum, Coordinator of HealthServices/School Nurse, WHS.
Fairleigh DickinsonMetropolitan CampusAnnounces Dean’s List
TEANECK - Fairleigh DickinsonUniversity’s Metropolitan Campushas announced the names of studentswho qualified for the Dean’s List forthe Spring 2011 Semester. To qualifyfor the Dean’s List, a student mustcarry a 3.2 or better grade point aver-age out of a possible 4.0 and be en-rolled in a minimum of 12 letter-graded hours (four courses).
The following local student wasnamed: Danielle Hollaway ofWestfield.
Fairleigh DickinsonMetropolitan Campus
Announces GradsTEANECK - Fairleigh Dickinson
University’s Metropolitan Campushas released the names of studentswho have graduated as of May 2011on undergraduate and graduate lev-els.
Local graduates include: TerenceGrier of Cranford; Ashley Dunnan ofWestfield; Cynthia Delmonte ofWestfield; Peter Sempepos ofMountainside; Stephen Love ofMountainside.
PUBLIC NOTICE PUBLIC NOTICETOWNSHIP OF SCOTCH PLAINS
COUNTY OF UNION
TAKE NOTICE The undersigned will expose for sale at Public Auction, in accordancewith Title 39:10A-1, at the times and locations specified below, the following motorvehicles which came into the possession of the Scotch Plains Police Department throughabandonment or failure of owners to claim same.
All the vehicles on the following lists are offered in strictly “as is” condition, with norepresentation as to condition or fitness for any particular purpose. Minimum bid for eachvehicle will be all towing and storage fees due to the towing agency.
Purchase must be made by cash or certified check. A 10% deposit must be given attime of auction. Balance must be paid by 4:00 p.m. the same day.
The public auction shall be held on July 21, 2011 in accordance with the laws of theState of New Jersey pertaining thereto.
The following vehicles may be examined at A&M Auto Body, 401 South Elmer Street,Westfield, New Jersey at 9:15 am. Public Auction will commence at 9:30 am.
MAKE YEAR VIN NO. MINIMUM BIDDodge 2000 1B3EJ46X5YN281520 $2220.00
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POLICY AS TO STUDENTSThe WYACT d/b/a New Jersey Youth
Theatre admits young people of any race,color, national and ethnic origin to all therights, privileges, programs, and activitiesgenerally accorded or made available toyoung people in the company. It does notdiscriminate on the basis of race, color,ethnic and national origin in administrationof its educational policies, admissions poli-cies, scholarship and loan programs, andathletic and other company-administeredprograms.1 T – 7/14/11, The Leader Fee: $13.77
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CRANFORD COUGAR HIGH SCHOOL SPORTS****** During the Summer Months, Area Youth Baseball Games Will Be Displayed on the Cranford Youth Sports Pages ******
BAKIE BLASTS SOLO HR, MAGLINO RIPS 2-RUN SINGLE
Millburn Stuns Cougars, 7-3,In Ripken District 12 Semis
By DAVID B. CORBINSpecially Written for The Westfield Leader and The Times
WESTFIELD – Nearly every ele-ment necessary to succeed in a base-ball game came together at the righttime for the 12U Millburn WhiteMillers in their Cal Ripken District12 Tournament semifinal showdownwith the top-seeded Cranford Cou-gars at Gumbert 3 Field in Westfieldon July 5.
With a trip to the state tournamenton the line, the Millers made gooduse of all four of their hits and allthree of their walks in the first fiveinnings, along with crafty base run-ning and well-disciplined fielding toearn a 7-3 victory.
Cranford had defeated Millburn,8-6, in the seeding round of the tour-nament, so the Millers were quiteaware of what they were up againstand had to be at the top of their game.
Cranford had a reputation for apotent offense and did out-hit the
Millers, 7-4, but Millburn’s defense,especially the “hot” side of the in-field – shortstop and third base – andthe spectacular range of centerfielderRichy Schiekofer prevented the Cou-gars from pouncing with an all-outoffensive. After Schiekofer made anoutstanding grab at the fence to robCougar Will Budries of an extra-basehit in the fourth inning, he added twomore grabs in the sixth to rob DannyMaglione and Brian Oblachinski, re-spectively.
“He played some game. He’s gotsuch great range, and he’s so sure-handed. He can really run and go getthem,” Millburn Head Coach KevinFord said of Schiekofer. “We defi-nitely spend a lot more time on field-ing than we do hitting. I think itshows. They have done such a greatjob. They deserve all the credit.”
“They were very defensive. Therewere no errors. They made the plays,”Cougar Head Coach John Oblichinskisaid.
Mike Smith pitched the first threeinnings for the Cougars thenlefthander Garrett Forrestal relievedand pitched the final three innings.Forrestal yielded no hits and struckout six Millers, while allowing fourwalks. Starter Nick Maldinadopitched the first two innings for theMillers. Lannino pitched the next
three, and Tyler Nortillo closed in thesixth inning. The trio yielded onlythree walks, while striking out four.
“They gave what we stress, was tothrow strikes and make them beat us,because we have the defense to makethe plays. And that’s what we did,”Coach Ford explained.
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WF Blue 12s Roll in 5th, TopSo. Orange/Maplewood, 9-3
By DAVID B. CORBINSpecially Written for The Westfield Leader and The Times
Opportunities knocked and theWestfield Blue 12s took full advan-tage of them, plating two runs in thefourth inning and five more in thefifth to break open a tight game enroute to a 9-3 victory over the SouthOrange/Maplewood Villagers inCentral Jersey All-Star League ac-tion at Gumbert 2 Field in Westfieldon July 9.
Perched at the top off the roost intheir division, the Villagers had de-feated the Westfield Blue, 5-2, earlierin the season, but this time the Bluekept the Villagers in check with theeffectiveness of starting pitcher Vic-tor Cruz and reliever Matt LaCorte.In his three innings, Cruz allowed sixhits and two runs but yielded no walks,while striking out three. LaCortepitched three innings of no-hit ball,fanned three and walked one Vil-lager, who managed to score in thesixth inning.
“With Victor, it’s two differentlooks. Victor kept them off-balancewith different speeds, and Matt wasvery overpowering today. He keptaround the zone, but he really movedthe ball on both sides of the plate. Inaddition to being powerful, he hit hisspots,” Westfield Assistant Coach PaulFriel said.
Villager starting pitcher Jack Niggliwas very effective also. After allow-ing two runs on two hits and a walked
batter in the first inning, he totallyslammed the door with two perfectinnings, before reliever Chase Brad-ley took to the mound to start thefourth inning. Owen Gall relieved inthe fifth inning.
Westfield Blue took a 2-0 lead inthe bottom of the first inning. JackNieswenter (2 runs scored) drew aleadoff walk and stole second.LaCorte (2-for-2, 2 RBI, 2 runs
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David B. Corbin for The Westfield Leader and The TimesGETTING TO FIRST BASE ON TIME…Cranford Cougar Michael Smith, left, gets to first in time to complete a single toright field in the Cal Ripken District 12 semifinal game against Millburn at Gumbert 3 Field in Westfield.
David B. Corbin for The Westfield Leader and The TimesOUT AT HOME PLATE…Westfield Blue’s Victor Cruz, No. 21, gets tagged out by South Orange/Maplewood pitcherChase Bradley after trying to score on a passed ball at Gumbert 2 Field on July 9.
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The Millers demonstrated their firstact of base-running prowess in the topof the first inning when Nico Mottesireach first on a fielder’s choice, stolesecond and third and scored on BrianLannino’s RBI double to leftfield.
Smith singled and stole a base in thebottom of the inning, but Cranfordfailed to score. But in the second,Ryan Bakie walloped a leadoff solohome run into the parking lot to arousethe Cougars. With Sean Leonard onfirst base, Jack Schelelich singled toright, putting runners on first-and-third. Schetelich stole second thenMaglino drilled a two-run single toright to give the Cougars a 3-1 lead.Oblachinski singled. Maglino ad-vanced to third and attempted to scoreon a slow grounder to third, but he wasnailed on a fine throw to the plate.
Millburn came on strong in thethird. Kyle Mangold and RyanAdelman (2 runs scored) each singled.Mottesi reached first on a throwing
error then Mangold scored on a wildpitch. Nortillo stepped to the plateand hammered a three-run homer overthe centerfield fence.
Alert base running earned the Mill-ers another run in the fourth whenJordan Brisgel walked, stole secondand third, and scored on a passed ball.In the fifth, Adelman walked, stolesecond and third, and scored on an-other passed ball.
“We had some rough pitching. Oneinning they got a walk. The kid stolesecond, stole third and a passed ballwent home. Same thing in the nextinning! I tell the kids you can’t give upwalks and you can’t give four and fiveouts in an inning. There were a coupleof times where we were one pitch ofgetting out of the inning, and the youngboy hit the ball over the fence. Thatwas a shot. Ryan Bakie hit a shot too,”Coach Oblachinski said.
“They were getting a good readactually off the left-handed pitchertoo. It was good. We just started play-ing 50/70 [70 feet between bases].We spent so much time on it, and thekids are picking it up. That makesyou feel good,” Coach Ford said.
“Those kids were fast. They gotaround the bases fast. We played ourhearts out. I told my kids, when wewere here a month ago, I thought forsure that we would be going to states,”Coach Oblachinski said.
The Cougars did have an opportu-nity in the bottom of the fifth. ThomasFeeney singled, Bakie was intention-ally walked and Leonard walked toload the bases with two outs, but apopup to short ended the threat.
“We were fortunate when we weredown 7-3, we loaded the bases, andwe were one pitch away from, maybe,getting a grand slam. I was a littletaken back by the intentional walkwith 12-year-olds, but I guess it isbaseball. They were up by four runs.Even if the kid hits a home run, it’sstill a two-run lead. It’s hard to beatthe same team twice in a tourna-ment,” Coach Oblichinski said.“Good luck to Millburn! They aregoing to the states.”Millburn White 104 110 7Cranford 030 000 3
HUMPHREY CRACKS RBI DOUBLE, LIDDY RBI SINGLE
Berkeley Heights 12s Hold OffWF White 12s in Baseball, 4-2
By DAVID B. CORBINSpecially Written for The Westfield Leader and The Times
Berkeley Heights (B.H.) demon-strated why it is the top team in theCentral Jersey 12U Baseball Leaguebut the little Highlanders had to en-dure a strong challenge fromWestfield White to pull out a 4-2victory at Gumbert 3 Field inWestfield on July 7.
Both teams received strong perfor-mances from their pitchers and bothteams got solid performances fromtheir defenses. B.H. starting pitcherDan Kramer allowed just one hit andwalked only one, while striking outtwo in his three innings. Kevin Keeganpitched the fourth and fifth innings,giving up two runs and four hits,while walking one and fanning four.Closer Sean Savage got all three bat-ters out in the final inning.
“Those two guys are probably ourfour and our five starters. Our one
and twos went last night, so we werehoping we were able to get throughthis game then we brought in Mariano[Rivera of the Yankees],” B.H. HeadCoach Mike Doren said jokingly ofSavage.
Westfield starting pitcher MattVarano tossed the first three innings.Although he allowed just one hit anda walk in the first inning and two hitsand a walk in the second, BerkeleyHeights managed to score twice ineach frame. He settled down in thethird and yielded only a walk. IanHumphrey pitched the next three in-nings and held B.H. scoreless, whileallowing just two hits and two walks.
“Both pitchers pitched excellently.We actually played very good de-fense behind Ian Humphrey. WithMatt [Varano], we were a little loosedefensively those first two innings,”said Westfield Head Coach JohnRipperger, who added, “It seems, at
times, with home game when we batsecond, we let up a couple of runssomeway or another and get behindright away then we have to play frombehind and we play tighter. We seemto be a much better visiting team,because we get on the board rightaway, everyone loosens up and ev-eryone is ready to hit.”
Highlander Vinny Doren drew aleadoff walk in the top of the firstinning and stole second base. Kramerchopped a single past short and DanBaroff grounded out to first as Dorenscored. Kramer then scored whenSavage’s fly ball to leftfield wasdropped. In Westfield’s half of theinning, Owen Bartok (1-for-1) walkedand stole second, but Kramer fannedthe next batter for the second out andgot Owen Kessler to ground out tothird base.
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David B. Corbin for The Westfield Leader and The TimesMAKING HIS DELIVERY…Cranford Cougar pitcher Garrett Forrestal makes his delivery in the Cal Ripken District 12semifinal game against Millburn at Gumbert 3 Field in Westfield on July 5.
David B. Corbin for The Westfield Leader and The TimesFIELDING THE THROW FROM THE PLATE…Cranford Cougar third baseman Brian Papa, left, fields the throw fromcatcher Sean Leonard as Millburn Miller Nico Mottesi steals third in the first inning of the Cal Ripken District 12 semifinalgame at Gumbert 3 Field in Westfield.
David B. Corbin for The Westfield Leader and The TimesSTIRRING UP A HUGE CLOUD OF DUST…Berkeley Heights base runner Vinny Doren, No. 7, stirs up a huge cloud ofdust as he steals second base at Gumbert 3 Field in Westfield. Westfield White shortstop Alex Pansini, No. 6, fields the ball.
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WF Blue Tops So. Orange/Maplewood, 9-3CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1
scored) banged an RBI single to leftand later scored on Mike Ukrainskij’shit-and-run RBI single. Ukrainskijwould finish 2-for-2 with three RBI.
The Villagers answered with a runin the second. Bradley lined a singleto left, stole second and slipped tothird on a passed ball. After Cruzfanned Phil Major, Tom O’Connorrolled an RBI groundout to short.Tom Fetner and Mike Burke followedwith lined singles off the leftfieldfence, but Cruz struck out the nextbatter.
The Villagers had more action go-ing in the third. Hunter Reynolds (2runs scored), Quinn Krais and Niggliall singled to load the bases with oneout. Bradley lofted an RBI sacrificefly to tie the score, 2-2. In an effort togive his team the momentum, Krais,who was on second, attempted tosteal third, but his move came a steptoo soon, and Cruz, who had notbegan his delivery, picked him off ashe slid into third.
“We tried a double steal with twoouts. Probably not by-the-book base-ball, but we wanted to get the runnersmoving to get runners at second andthird with our [number] five hitter
up,” Villager Head Coach Bill Kraisexplained. “It didn’t work out. Some-times that happens, and Westfielddidn’t let their opportunities slipaway.”
LaCorte strutted to the mound inthe fourth and fanned two of the threebatters he faced. In the bottom of theinning, Westfield’s first big opportu-nity knocked when Nieswenter andLaCorte walked and Cruz was hit inthe back to load the bases with no-body out. Ukrainskij stepped up andlaunched a two-run double to centerto give the Blue a 4-2 lead.
After LaCorte retired all three bat-ters in the fifth, Westfield’s offenseyanked the door wide open. ZachRabinowitz and Patrick Chirichelladrew walks. Both runners advancedon a wild pitch then Connor Scanlonslapped a two-run single to left. JamesFriel walked. Arthur Xaio rapped anRBI single to left. During a series ofthrowing errors, Friel scored and Xaioadvanced to third. LaCorte drilled anRBI single to right, making the score,9-2.
“It was one of the few times thisyear where we actually took advan-tage when we got some breaks. That’s
what good teams normally do. Wehaven’t done that too much up untilthis point. That’s a good sign,” CoachFriel said.
“You walk a guy on four pitches,the pitcher gets down and the fieldersfall asleep. You can’t load up thebases with nobody out. You can’t puta runner on third with nobody out.It’s hard to come back from that, andwe didn’t,” Coach Krais said.
LaCorte’s only blemish on themound came in the sixth when heceded a leadoff walk to Reynolds,who managed to score on Niggli’sground out to second.
“The defense was solid. The batsdid wake up. The last time our batswere very, very quiet. This [Villag-ers] is a first-placed team. Up untiltoday, they were the class of ourdivision. Hopefully, we are trying totake a little bit back from them. Theywere outmatching us up until thispoint in time, so this is a big, big winfor us,” Coach Friel said. “Beforetoday’s game we were middle of thepack. Today’s game, I think the kidsfound their swagger.”So Orange 011 001 3Westfield 200 25x 9
runs in the second. Jimmy Raymondsingled, eventually advanced to thirdand scored on Joseph Henry’s suc-cessful bunt. Andrew Aguilera singledthen Henry later scored on a wildthrow past third. Varano singled forWestfield in the bottom of the inning,but got gunned down by Baroff, thecatcher, while attempting to steal sec-ond.
“It was a tremendous game. Theseguys challenged us. They hung inthere the whole game. We pitchedwell. A lot of great defense! It’s apleasure to play these guys,” CoachDoren said.
Both teams’ defenses sparkled forthe remainder of the game. The High-lander infield, especially shortstopDoren, was solid. Westfield short-stop Alex Pansini snagged a hoppingbullet off the bat of Dan Tomlinson torecord an out, and Hannah Liddymade a great catch at the centerfieldfence.
“Hannah Liddy made a tremen-dous catch at the fence on her horse toget back there. She and Cullen Birkel
made the All-Star team this year.Alex has been very solid at short-stop. He showed why he plays thereon that play,” Coach Ripperger said.
Westfield’s offense came to life inthe fourth inning. Trevor McNamarawalked and stole second. Liddy lacedan RBI single to deep center. Bartoksingled then stole second to put bothrunners in scoring position with oneout. Unfortunately for Westfield, thenext two batters struck out. In thefifth, Birkel singled then was thrownout at second on a freaky force play.Next, with Varano on second,Humphrey hammered an RBI doubleto left to narrow the score to 4-2.Highlander closer Savage thenslammed the door in the sixth inning.
“The first two or three innings, Ithink we batted one over the mini-mum. After that, we got things go-ing. Hits begat hits, and they slowlystarted to figure it out, but we didhave some bad at-bats. We left somegood pitches go with two strikes onus. We probably had two or three K’slooking. That’s the difference in thegame, when you have guys on basewith one or two outs and you need toget them in,” Coach Rippergerpointed out.
“The game was played really welldefensively by both teams. We arehappy with that, and we are happy toget another win. It keeps us in firstplace,” Coach Doren said.
“We played a very good team. Wehave never beaten Berkeley Heightsin the five years that we played them.We have come very close. Five of ourlast six games have been within oneor two runs. They won the champion-ship two out of the last three years.They don’t beat themselves. Theydid not have an error today. Anythingthat was hit anywhere near their play-ers, they caught,” Coach Rippergersaid.Berkeley Heights 220 000 4Westfield White 000 110 2
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UNION — On June 23, Kean Uni-versity was issued a warning by theMiddle States Commission on HigherEducation (Commission) that its ac-creditation may be in jeopardy. Thewarning was issued due to a lack ofevidence that the university is cur-rently in compliance with Commis-sion standards, specifically Standard7 (Institutional Assessment) and 14(Assessment of Student Learning.)Kean University, accredited since1960, remains accredited while onwarning.
According to its website msche.org,the Middle States Commission onHigher Education is a voluntary, non-governmental, membership associa-tion that defines, maintains and pro-motes educational excellence acrossinstitutions with diverse missions, stu-
dent populations, and resources.Middle States accreditation instillspublic confidence in a school’s insti-tutional mission, goals, performanceand resources through its rigorousaccreditation standards and their en-forcement. The accrediting processis intended to strengthen and sustainthe quality and integrity of highereducation, making it worthy of pub-lic confidence and minimizing thescope of external control.
Spokesperson for Kean UniversitySteve Hudik told The Westfield Leaderand The Scotch Plains-FanwoodTimes, “Accreditation means a uni-versity meets certain goals and stan-dards. Schools strive to be accreditedby different organizations such asMiddle States.” To earn Middle States’seal of approval, institutions mustmeet 14 standards. “In our own self-study, we met 12 standards,” Mr.
Hudik said. “We need improvementin two areas.”
Kean University Associate VicePresident of Academic Affairs Dr.Ken Sanders said after Kean con-ducted the self-study by a team com-prised of approximately 100 faculty,staff and students, it had already iden-tified the fact that the university waslacking in Standard 7 and 14. Theself-study began in November of2008, and was submitted to the Com-mission in February of 2011. In April,Dr. Sanders spoke to a Commissionrepresentative who verbally gave himrecommendations. On June 23, theCommission issued the warning inwriting.
“Their [Middle States] findingsessentially confirmed our finding,”Mr. Hudik said.
Dr. Sanders told The Leader andThe Times that in 2006 the Commis-sion revised its standards, makingchanges to three standards, includingStandard 7 and 14. Since accredita-tion evaluations are conducted every10 years, Dr. Sanders stated the up-dated revisions made it difficult forinstitutions to immediately be in com-pliance.
According to msche.org, Standard7, Institutional Assessment, requiresthe institution to develop and imple-ment an assessment process thatevaluates its overall effectiveness inachieving its mission and goals. Aninstitution seeking accreditation mustdevelop clearly articulated writtenstatements as to its goals and assess
Betsey Burgdorf for The Westfield Leader and The TimesFOUNTAIN OF KNOWLEDGE...Kean University in Union received a warningfrom the Middle States Commission on Higher Education for failure to monitorits own institutional effectiveness and its assessment of student learning. Theuniversity has begun to implement changes, which it will present to the Commis-sion in March 2012.
the achievement of the goals. Theinstitution is then required to use theresults of the assessments to improveprograms and services, while docu-menting the process.
Kean was cited under Standard 7for its documentation shortfalls. “Weare now creating a systematic ap-proach to the manner in which wedocument,” Dr. Sanders stated. “Weare constantly looking at what we cando to improve — even evaluating theevaluation process.”
Standard 14, Assessment of Stu-dent Learning, was the second stan-dard deemed an area in need of im-provement. Assessment of student
learning demonstrates that, “at gradu-ation, or other appropriate points, theinstitution’s students have knowledge,skills, and competencies consistentwith institutional and appropriatehigher education goals.”
Dr. Sanders said Kean addressedthe insufficiency in this standard byhiring Lamont Rouse, a Kean gradu-ate, to head the newly created Officeof Assessment. Mr. Rouse is respon-sible for evaluating “what our stu-dents learn and what we want them tolearn,” Dr. Sanders said. “The indi-vidual with the most tools in theirtoolbox has the best chance of gettingthe job.”
Dr. Sanders stated Kean, who has a“155-year history of training the bestand most teachers in New Jersey,”was reaccredited by NCATE last year.He noted that 25 percent of Keanstudents receive teaching degrees, andpointed out NCATE, an organizationthat issues accreditation based onstandards of teacher preparation,made no recommendations for im-provement and uses Kean as a modelon its website.
Middle States Commission onHigher Education Director for Com-munications and Public RelationsRichard Pokrass told The Leader andThe Times that a warning from thecommission is not as dire as it ap-pears. “One of the things we havenoticed with phone calls from par-ents and students from Kean, is theyseem to be under the misconceptionthat Kean must show by March of2012 why their accreditation must beapproved,” he said. “That is a miscon-ception. A warning is not as severe asit may sound. It is serious, but not as
serious as some make it out to be.”Mr. Pokrass stated a warning is
issued when the Commission believesthe institution is out of compliance,but has the capacity to make im-provements. He stated that Standard7 and 14 are closely related and it isnot unusual for an institution to becited for both.
Mr. Pokrass explained that theCommission meets three times a year:in March, June and November. Kean’sreport will be heard at the March2012 meeting. After the Commissionreviews the report, it will send anindependent panel of peer evaluatorsfrom other institutions “similar, [toKean] but from out of state,” to theuniversity. They will, in turn, submita report to the Commission and rec-ommend follow-up activities.
After Kean is given an opportunity tomake the suggested changes, the fullCommission will visit the campus, atwhich time it will either remove thewarning, continue the warning, or placethe institution on probation.
“It is really impossible to projectwhat will happen,” Mr. Pokrass said.
Dr. Sanders stated the universityimmediately began the process ofmaking changes and is positive Keanwill not only meet, but exceed theaccreditation standards. “We beganworking on this process in 2009,” Dr.Sanders said. “We are doing thingsmethodically; not in a panic. Stu-dents deserve a process that servestheir needs.”
“We will remain accredited andare confident their [Commission] rec-ommendations will make us a betterand even greater university,” Mr.Hudik said.
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Each student was given his or herown BMW lanyard identifier andsporty BMW hat to wear. The stu-dents were greeted by exuberantrace-car drivers offering rides intheir pristine race cars.
The thrill of being a passengerwas evident on the students’ faces
as they entered the 14-turn race-course full of chicanes.
Afterwards, the students touredthe facility, collected autographsfrom the drivers and watched sev-eral exciting races from prime van-tage points. The BMW Car Clubhas been a treasured sponsor ofWestlake School for more than adecade, helping to provide fundsfor specialized equipment and cre-ative projects for Westlake’s mul-tiple disabled students.
A public school located inWestfield, Westlake School is amember of the Union County Edu-cational Services Commission.
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SPFHS Alumni AssociationAwards Pair of ScholarshipsSCOTCH PLAINS-FANWOOD –
The Scotch Plains-Fanwood HighSchool (SPFHS) Alumni Associationrecently awarded $1,000 scholarshipsto both Bria Barnes and Joelle Pisauro.
Bria is the daughter of TyroneBarnes, who graduated from ScotchPlains-Fanwood High School in 1977.Bria was an outstanding student en-gaged in a challenging academiccourse load. She has a strong com-mitment to achieving her goals andstill engages in many extracurricularactivities, including volunteering at
Runnells Specialized Hospital.Throughout high school, Bria was
active with the Boys and Girls Cluband Girl Scouts and served on theNorth Jersey 4H Leadership Coun-cil. With her concern for youth andthe elderly developed during her vol-unteer work, she intends to continueto foster this interest by pursuing acareer in the field of nursing at Will-iam Paterson College.
Joelle is the daughter of RenaGerminder Pisauro, a graduate of theClass of 1979. She is a gifted studentwho continually set high standardsfor herself, and her academic recorddemonstrates her diligence and dedi-cation to scholastic success.
Joelle was very active in sports,particularly a leadership role on thegymnastics team, and at swimmingcompetitions. She shared her experi-ences with DECA, a group thatstresses education in business.
The Scholarship Committee wascongratulated on their choice of thesetwo outstanding students as scholar-ship recipients.
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SHERIFF’S SALESHERIFF’S FILE NO.: CH-11003202
SUPERIOR COURT OF NEW JERSEYCHANCERY DIVISION
UNION COUNTYDOCKET NO. F-46089-08
Plaintiff: CITIBANK, N.A. AS TRUSTEE FORAMERICAN HOME MORTGAGE INVESTMENTTRUST 2004-3 MORTGAGE BACKED NOTES,SERIES 2004-3
VS.Defendant: ANDREW T. KIEGEL; PATRICIA
M. KEESHANSale Date: 08/03/2011Writ of Execution: 12/06/2010By virtue of the above-stated writ of execution
to me directed I shall expose for sale by publicvendue, at the UNION COUNTY ADMINISTRA-TION BUILDING, 1ST FLOOR, 10 ELIZABETH-TOWN PLAZA, Elizabeth, New Jersey onWEDNESDAY, at two o’clock in the afternoon ofsaid day. All successful bidders must have 20%of their bid available in cash or certified check atthe conclusion of the sales.
The judgment amount is: ***Seven HundredTwenty-Three Thousand Nine Hundred Sevenand 86/100*** $723,907.86.
The property to be sold is located in the Townof Westfield, County of Union and State of NewJersey.
Commonly known as: 425 Kimball Avenue,Westfield, New Jersey 07090.
Tax Lot No. 7 in Block No. 1112Dimension of Lot Approximately: 50 x 109Nearest Cross Street: Euclid AvenueBeginning at the intersection formed by the
northwesterly side line of Kimball Avenue andsouthwesterly side line of Euclid Avenue; thence
Prior Liens/EncumbrancesTotal as of June 17, 2011: $0.00Total Upset: ***Seven Hundred Sixty-Three
Thousand Four Hundred Twenty-Four and 42/100*** $763,424.42 together with lawful interestand costs.
Surplus Money: If after the sale and satisfac-tion of the mortgage debt, including costs andexpenses, there remains any surplus money, themoney will be deposited into the Superior CourtTrust Fund and any person claiming the surplus,or any part thereof, may file a motion pursuant toCourt Rules 4:64-3 and 4:57-2 stating the natureand extent of that person’s claim and asking foran order directing payment of the surplus money.The Sheriff or other person conducting the salewill have information regarding the surplus, ifany.
There is a full legal description on file in theUnion County Sheriff’s Office.
The Sheriff reserves the right to adjourn thissale for any length of time without further adver-tisement.
Ralph FroehlichSheriff
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OUTSTANDING…Scotch Plains-Fanwood High School Class of 2011graduates Bria Barnes, left, and JoellePisauro each received a $1,000 schol-arship to the university of their choicefrom the SPFHS Alumni Association.
WELL DONE…Adults whose writings and artwork appear in Connections, aliterary magazine, celebrate their accomplishments at The Presbyterian Churchin Westfield. By learning to read, write and speak English, the adults are takingthe necessary steps to improve not only their lives, but also the lives of theirchildren and families. The Union County Board of Chosen Freeholders acknowl-edged them at the event.
Freeholders Celebrate withLiteracy Grant Recipients
WESTFIELD – On June 8, Lit-eracy Volunteers of Union Countycelebrated the publication of Con-nections, a literary magazine high-lighting the accomplishments of adultlearners, at The Presbyterian Churchin Westfield.
A record-setting crowd of 140 at-tendees included Freeholders LindaCarter and Betty Jane Kowalski. Free-holders Carter and Kowalski con-gratulated the adult learners whosewritings and artwork appear in themagazine and acknowledged the im-portant step that these individuals aretaking to improve not only their lives,but also the lives of their children andfamilies by learning to read, writeand speak English. The freeholdersapplauded the group as students tookcenter stage to read their essays.
The students represented individu-als of all levels, some learning to readand others studying to learn English.These adult learners come not onlyfrom the far-away countries of Bul-garia, China, Colombia, Egypt, CostaRica, Guyana, Ecuador and Peru, butalso the nearby cities of Elizabeth,Plainfield, Scotch Plains andKenilworth. Their tutors beamed withpride and enthusiasm as they intro-duced 15 student readers.
A variety of emotions flowedthroughout the evening as stories weretold. Yidi’s young daughters dancedwith his tutor as he read his poem“Girls,” and it was evident where hisinspiration was born. Reading heressay “Good Experiences,” Patriciasaid, “When I came to the USA, itwas when a new life began…I gavethanks for my teacher for his pa-tience. Also with his help, I became aU.S. citizen.” And with Robin’s state-ment, “I wish I had learned to read ingrammar school. My life would havebeen so much easier….one day I willbe able to help other adults to readbecause I will know just how theyfeel,” all in attendance were remindedhow “Literacy Changes Lives!”
The magazine was made possiblein part through the generosity of theUnion County Board of Chosen Free-holders’ HEART (Heart, Education,Arts Reaching Thousands) Grant,Westfield Rotary, Westfield ServiceLeague, and Fanwood-Scotch PlainsService League.
Literacy Volunteers is a non-profitorganization that recruits and trainsvolunteers to work with adults seek-ing to improve their reading, writingor English conversation skills, andprovides over 15,000 hours of freetutoring every year to more than 500adults in local communities. Tax-deductible donations to Literacy Vol-unteers of Union County can be sentto 800 Park Avenue, Plainfield, N.J.07060.
To learn more about Literacy Vol-unteers, visit lvaunion.org or contactSusan Petrow at [email protected] (908) 755-7998.
Della Badia StudiesCulture in Italy
SELINSGROVE, Pa. – Tyler DellaBadia of Scotch Plains was one of 12students from Susquehanna Univer-sity who recently spent two weeksexploring the local history, values, art,cuisine and business practices of north-ern Italy. The trip was part of theuniversity’s Global Opportunities(GO) program.
Participating students stayed nearLake Garda, Italy, and studied at theBernelli Learning Center. They visitedfamily-owned businesses in Trentinothat have been operating forgenerations, and explored medievaland renaissance villages within themodern business context of theEuropean Union.
Tyler is studying business with anemphasis in finance at Susquehanna,where he will be a junior in the fall. Heis a 2009 graduate of Scotch Plains-Fanwood High School and the son ofCarin and Thomas Della Badia.
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BOARD OF ADJUSTMENT
Notice is hereby given that WestfieldBoard of Adjustment adopted Resolutionsat its July 11, 2011 meeting for the follow-ing applications decided at its June 13,2011 meeting.
Michael Milbauer & Phia Paterno, 1317Frances Terrace. Applicant sought ap-proval to add a two-foot cantilever to therear of the house on the second level andto construct an enclosed front entrance atthe existing foundation and a roof at theporch stairway entrance contrary to Sec-tions 11.09E5 and 11.09E13. Ordinancerequires a minimum street side yard set-back of 20 feet. Proposed was 15.1 feet.Ordinance allows a maximum continuouslength of wall located adjacent to a sideproperty line of 25 feet. Proposed were32.5 feet and 26.2 feet. Application ap-proved with conditions.
Joe Bountempo, 1016 - 1020 SouthAvenue. Applicant sought an extension ofPreliminary Major Site Plan approvalgranted January 2008 and extended toJuly 1, 2011. Extension granted until De-cember 31, 2012.
Ray Garguilo, 1001 Cranford Avenue.Applicant sought permission to increasethe size of a deck and to retain the locationof a storage shed contrary to Sections13.02C2, 13.02C1, and 13.01G1a of theLand Use Ordinance. Ordinance requiresa minimum rear yard setback for a deck of25 feet. Proposed was + 20 feet. Ordi-nance requires decks to be located in therear yard. Proposed location of the deck isthe side yard. Ordinance requires a mini-mum rear yard setback of 5 feet for acces-sory structures less than 500 square feet.Proposed was 1.7 feet. Ordinance requiresa minimum side yard setback of 5 feet foraccessory structures less than 500 squarefeet. Proposed was 2.5 feet. Application toretain the location of the storage shed wasdenied; other request for variance reliefwas approved with conditions.
David & Carolyn Capodanno, 629Maye Street. Applicant sought approvalto construct a one car garage, a two storyaddition in the rear of the house and a 2-1/2 story addition in the front of the housewith an open front porch contrary to Sec-
tions 12.03 C, D & E and Section 11.09E13.Ordinance requires a minimum front yardsetback of 25 feet. Proposed was 19.3feet. Ordinance allows a maximum build-ing mass at the zoning side yard of 25 feet.Proposed was + 40 feet. Application ap-proved with conditions.
Michelle & Steve Mannino, 40Barchester Way. Applicant sought ap-proval to construct a one story additioncontrary to Section 11.06E7 of the LandUse Ordinance. Ordinance requires a rearyard setback of 35 feet. Proposed was23.67 feet. Ordinance requires a rear yardsetback for a deck of 25 feet. Proposedwas 20 feet. Application denied.
Charles & Annemarie O’Donnell, 725Fairacres Avenue. Applicant sought ap-proval to construct a front porch contraryto Sections 11.09E6 and 12.03D(E) of theLand Use Ordinance. Ordinance requiresa 10 feet side yard set back. Proposed was5.6 feet and 9.2 feet. Ordinance requiresan average front yard set back of 37 feet.Proposed was 31.8 feet. Application ap-proved with conditions.
Rosa & Malcolm Waddoups, 7Wychview Drive. Applicant sought ap-proval to construct a front porch contrary toSection 12.03D of the Land Use Ordinance.Ordinance requires a front yard setback of35.08 feet. (EFYD). Proposed was 32.3feet. Application approved with conditions.
Mr. & Mrs. Mohamed El-Sherbeini,848 Bradford Avenue. Applicant soughtapproval to construct a second story addi-tion contrary to Section 11.08E of the LandUse Ordinance. Ordinance requires a sideyard setback of 10 feet. Proposed was 7.9feet. Application approved with condition.
Frank & Angie Galdi, 307 ProspectStreet. Applicant is seeking approval toconstruct a two-story addition contrary toSection 12.04G and 11.12E12 of the LandUse Ordinance. Ordinance allows maxi-mum lot coverage by buildings and aboveground structures of 4,680 square feet.Proposed is 4,898 square feet. Ordinanceallows a maximum eave height of 22 feet.Proposed is 23 feet. Application approvedwith conditions.
Kathleen NemethSecretary, Board of Adjustment
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Scotch Plains Lions AwardScholarships to 2011 Grads
Michael Pesin
SCOTCH PLAINS – Michael Pesinand Patrick Kelly, residents of ScotchPlains and June graduates of ScotchPlains-Fanwood High School, re-cently were awarded the Grausso/Bendel Memorial Scholarship fromthe Scotch Plains Lions Club. Thescholarship is in memory of twoformer leaders of the Scotch PlainsLions Club, Norm Bendel and TonyGrausso.
This scholarship is awarded annu-ally to one or more college-boundScotch Plains-Fanwood High Schoolseniors. Preference is given to stu-dents who have demonstrated involve-ment in community service, espe-cially those causes dedicated to theblind and visually impaired.
The club is part of Lions Interna-tional, a service organization withmore than 1.4 million members ac-tive in over 43,000 Lions clubs aroundthe world. They are dedicated to meet-ing a variety of community needs,with the association’s major initia-tive being serving the blind and visu-ally impaired.
An honor student at Scotch Plains-Fanwood High School, Michael hasspent many hours collecting over1,000 pairs of used eyeglasses to sup-port the Lions’ eyeglasses-recycling
program to help the needy around theworld. He also has participated in theLions’ White Cane fund-raising drive.Michael has been active with the Jew-ish Community Center of CentralNew Jersey’s Teen Advisory Board,planning and organizing multiplecharity events. He will attendBucknell University in the fall, buthas not yet decided on a major.
Patrick also was an honor studentat Scotch Plains-Fanwood HighSchool. Because he is legally blind,Patrick has been very active in vari-ous activities on behalf of the visu-ally impaired, including the New Jer-sey Commission for the Blind andVisually Impaired. He attended CampMarcella (a summer camp for thevisually impaired) for many yearsand organized a walk-a-thon, raisingover $3,000 for this organization.Patrick also helped develop a websitefor Scotch Plains which allows thehomebound to watch town events inthe comfort of their homes. He willattend the College of New Jersey thisfall, majoring in political science.
For more information on the ScotchPlains Lions Club or to attend a meet-ing, call Club President Barbara Aniloat (908) 322-4472. The Scotch PlainsLions Club welcomes new members.
Patrick Kelly
Emory CollegeAnnounces Dean’s List
ATLANTA, Ga. – DanielleZamarelli of Westfield, daughter ofJoseph A. Zamarelli and Maria E.Curatolo, was named to the Dean’sList at Emory College for the 2011spring semester.
Students must be in the top 20percent of Emory College, or haveapproximately a 3.86 grade point av-erage or higher, to be named to theDean’s List.
Providence CollegeAnnounces Dean’s List
PROVIDENCE, R.I. – The follow-ing area residents have been namedto the Dean’s List at Providence Col-lege for the Spring 2011 semester:Amanda Centrella of Westfield, amember of the class of 2014; KristinaCofone of Westfield, a member of theclass of 2011, and Brian Gelinne ofWestfield, a member of the class of2014.
To qualify for the Dean’s List, stu-dents must achieve at least a 3.55grade point average with a minimumof 12 credits.
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The Kootz to Perform FreeConcert at Echo Lake ParkMOUNTAINSIDE - The Union
County Summer Arts Festival con-cert series continues its 51st seasonof music on Wednesday, July 20, witha performance by The Kootz, pur-veyors of “Rock and Roll with Fi-ber.” The public is invited to attendthis free concert that begins at 7:30p.m. in Echo Lake Park inMountainside.
The Kootz have a passion for clas-sic rock, pop hits, soul and blues.Members of the group have playedmusic together since 1993, but TheKootz really came together in 2001when North Caldwell’s Glenn Taylorassembled his Essex and UnionCounty friends into a band that per-forms the songs of the baby-boomerera from the 60s and 70s.
The Kootz play approximately 250shows each year and you can enjoytheir musical variety show when theybring their “Endless Bus Tour of NewJersey” to Echo Lake Park.
The Union County information vanwill be at the concert site with per-sonnel from the Union County Of-fices of Consumer Affairs and Veter-ans’ Affairs along with other knowl-edgeable Union County staff to an-swer questions and offer informationabout interesting programs and rec-reational activities that are available
to Union County residents.The Summer Arts Festival con-
certs continue throughout July andAugust on Wednesdays beginning at7:30 p.m. This summer’s concertswill be held at Echo Lake Park on theMountainside-Westfield border andat Oak Ridge Park in Clark. Lawnchairs, blankets and picnic basketsare encouraged. Refreshments andsnacks will be available from ven-dors.
The other free concerts in the UnionCounty Summer Arts Festival seriesinclude:
July 27 – The Full Count Big Band(Jazz from Mountainside); at EchoLake Park; August 3 – The BritishInvasion Tribute (songs of the ‘60s);at Oak Ridge Park; August 10 –JoBonanno and the Godsons (JerseyShore Soul); at Oak Ridge Park; Au-gust 17 – Almost Queen (Queen coverband); at Oak Ridge Park; August 24– Parrotbeach (Jimmy Buffett coverband); at Echo Lake Park; August 31– The Nerds (high energy party band);at Oak Ridge Park.
For rain information call the UnionCounty Department of Parks andCommunity Renewal at (908) 558-4079 after 3 p.m. on the day of thescheduled concert, or visit the UnionCounty web site: www.ucnj.org.
WF Artist Rae Cauley to beFeatured on TV’s ‘Cake Boss’
PLAINFIELD - During SpringBreak, duCret instructor MarkRomanoski of North Plainfield led36 duCret students, faculty mem-bers, alumni and friends of duCretthrough Paris, Milan, Florence andRome.
For participating duCret students;Rae Cauley of Westfield, BrandonDrake of Plainfield, Tomas Hurtadoof Clark, Liam Kaiser-Sheridan ofScotch Plains, Andy Judd ofBridgewater, Steven Lopez of Eliza-beth, Christopher Peel of SouthPlainfield, Laura Smith ofBergenfield, Ben Vogler of NorthPlainfield and Duane Watson ofEnglewood, it was an opportunity ofa lifetime.
On a whirlwind travel agenda, ar-ranged though EF Tours, (an inter-national educational travel programfor faculty and students) and focus-ing on Renaissance art history, thegroup experienced an array of his-torical landmarks, famous statuesand sacred sites such as the VaticanCity. Starting in Paris and travelingto Milan, Florence and finally Rome,they were able to visit the Louvre,Notre Dame Cathedral, The EiffelTower and Arc de Triomphe. Theyalso visited the Sistine Chapel andSt. Peter’s Basilica and saw the MonaLisa and Michelangelo’s “TheDavid.”
When the students arrived home,they were immediately thrust intopreparations for duCret’s annual ArtShow, in which six very specialawards were presented, aside from1st, 2nd and 3rd place and honorablemention recognitions.
Rae Cauley earned four awards;In Jewelry, 3rd Place for “A Piece ofTime”, Graphic Design, HonorableMention for “Circus”, Mixed Me-dia, 1st Place for “Lotus” and StainedGlass, 3rd Place for “Light Up the
Music.” Rae, also a musician, wasrecently invited to demonstrate her“sculpting talents” for the TV show“Cake Boss,” where three otherduCret students were featured in lastyear’s episodes.
On July 16, from 5 – 7 p.m., SwainGalleries, located at 703 WatchungAvenue in Plainfield will host anOpening Reception for Rae’s win-ning artwork and the works of allduCret student winners will be fea-tured from July 16 to August 12. Avery special relationship betweenduCret and Swain has developed overthe years, as both are Plainfield in-stitutional icons with very rich arthistories. The 142-year old SwainGalleries is Plainfield’s oldest retailestablishment and New Jersey’s old-est privately owned art gallery.DuCret School of Art is New Jersey’soldest private non-profit art institu-tion, coming into its 85th year. Allwinning entries from the duCret ArtShow will be on display at Swain’sGalleries with a Special Receptionto be announced in the comingmonth.
duCret is now accepting registra-tion for the Adult Summer Work-shop Program and it’s Children’sand Teen’s Art Summer Camp andFall Registration.
For more information, visitwww.ducet.edu, call (908) 757-7171, or individuals can walk-inbetween 9 a.m. – 4 p.m. and pick upa Summer Workshop packet. TheduCret School of Art is located at1030 Central Avenue and is situatedon a five acre campus in a historicresidential area of Plainfield. Theschool offers post-secondary pro-grams in Fine Art, Graphic Design/Computer graphics and Illustrationthrough the fall – spring seasons.The school is state approved andnationally accredited.
JEWELRY BOSS...duCret student Rae Cauley of Westfield was recently invitedto demonstrate her “sculpting talents” on the hit TV show “Cake Boss.” Threeother duCret students were featured in an episode that aired last year.
‘Hell’s Kitchen’ CelebrityChef Coming to Spice ShopWESTFIELD - On Friday, July
16, Chef Gordon Ramsey’s “Hell’sKitchen” celebrity chef competitorMatt Sigell will join The SavorySpice Shop of Westfield to helpPlainfield Pastors Michael and Sh-annon Wright raise money for a lo-cal food pantry, Nana J’s Kitchen, inmemory of Janeice Lawrence, Pas-tor Shannon Wrights mother.
“Pastor Shannon and I have beenFacebook friends for over two years.After talking to her, there really wasno way to say no,” said Chef Sigell.
“My mom was a big fan of ChefGordon Ramsey’s TV show ‘Hell’sKitchen.’ We would TiVo the showwhen we couldn’t all watch together.When Mom wasn’t sick, she lovedto cook and feed people,” said PastorShannon. “She would watch all sortsof cooking and food shows to getideas and recipes. On a trip to Indianato visit with my Aunt Lee, Momvolunteered at the church food pan-try and she loved it. When Momcame home she wanted to start a foodoutreach through our ministry. Be-cause of her, we started doing foodbaskets for needy families at the holi-days. This was the year mom wasdetermined to start a food pantry andsoup kitchen. This was mom’s dreamand we just decided to do it for her.”
Mrs. Lawrence passed away De-cember 8, 2010 from long and ardu-ous battle with diabetes, high bloodpressure, kidney failure and lastly,reoccurring cancer. Mrs. Lawrencewas very active in the communityhaving served on numerous boardsincluding The Diabetes Foundation,YWCA, the I Have a Dream Foun-dation, and her daughter’s ministry,Faith, Grace and Mercy World Out-reach Ministries.
Sisters Jacquelyn Nuttall andBecky Becky Solheim,owners of TheSavory Spice Shop of Westfield, metPastor Shannon last fall when sheand her sister would stop in to passthe time in between visits to theirmom.
“Pastor Shannon would stop in tobuy spices and pick up recipes. Shesaid cooking was a stress reliever.She would come in and bring infriends. After her mom passed, shetold us about the project in her mom’smemory. We wanted to help andthings just went from there.”
A selection of summer fare andappropriate wine pairings will beserved.
For more information, or to RSVPcontact Shannon Wright at(908) 343-0491, or [email protected].
PeachCraft Studios toPresent The Sound of MusicSUMMIT - PeachCraft Studios of
Drama, Voice and Filmmaking isproud to present Rodgers andHammerstein’s 1959 classic, TheSound of Music, based on the memoirof Maria von Trapp, “The Story of theTrapp Family Singers.”
This environmentally friendly pro-duction, features a cast of talentedyoung performers from across thestate, is directed by Aimee Barnes,with musical direction by Adam Gil-bert and choreography by AdrianArrieta. PeachCraft founder and di-rector Kate Kennedy serves as pro-ducer.
Performances will be held on Fri-day, July 22, at 7:30 p.m. and Satur-day, July 23, at 2 p.m. and 7:30 p.m.in Morristown-Beard School’sFounders’ Hall, a state-of-the-art 450-seat theater located at 70 WhippanyRoad in Morristown.
Tickets are available by callingPeachCraft Studios at (908) 673-1485. More information visitpeachcraftstudios.com.
The Sound of Music cast includes;Maria Rainer, a Postulant at NonnbergAbbey - Amy Wesson, 14, of Sum-mit; The Mother Abbess - EmilyMartuscello, 19, of Morristown; Sis-ter Berthe, Mistress of Novices -Melissa Juliet Lawson, 15, ofParsippany; Sister Margaretta, Mis-tress of Postulants - Dorothea Miller,
11, of Madison; Sister Sophia -Kaitlyn Avery, 14, of Summit; Cap-tain Georg von Trapp - MatthewMarvin, 14, of Summit; Franz, thebutler - Tomas Russo, 12, of Fanwood;Frau Schmidt and others - LizzyTenny, 13, of Summit; Liesl vonTrapp, age 16 - Abby Tizzio, 15, ofWestfield; Friedrich von Trapp, age14 - Matthew Fertakos, 15, ofChatham; Louisa von Trapp, age 13 -Alexa Rojek, 14, of Chatham; Kurtvon Trapp, age 10 - Or Behiri, 9, ofSummit; Brigitta von Trapp, age 9 -Julia Tizzio, 13, of Westfield; Martavon Trapp, age 7 - Anna Elston, 13, ofChatham; Gretl von Trapp, the young-est - Liana Tizzio, 10, of Westfield;Rolf Gruber, age 17 - Gregory Ar-cher, 15, of Summit; Elsa Schraeder- Jody Mullen (PDVF Guest FacultyArtist, of Hoboken; Max Detweiler -Jake Robbins, 14, of Mountainside;Frau Zeller and others - FallonSullivan, 13, of Chatham; FrauleinZeller and othersHadyn Anidjar, 12of Summit; Baron Elberfeld and oth-ers - Jeremiah Hall, 10, of Hillside;Baroness Elberfeld and others -Lauren Katz, 11, of Short Hills; Apostulant and others - Charlotte Har-ris, 11, of Summit; A postulant andothers - Sophie Coull, 13, of Summit;A postulant and others -MorganTemple, 13, of Summit; A Butler andothers - Casey Rojek, 11, of Chatham.
Veterans and MilitaryInvited to Free Musical
Salute July 21, 22CRANFORD - The Summer
Pineda Conservatory salutes Americaand the Veterans of Union County onThursday, July 21, and Friday, July22, at the Cranford Dramatic ClubTheatre in Cranford.
With a cast of over 30 outstandingperformers representing most ofUnion County, the show AmericanDreams…A Musical Salute promisesto be a rousing tribute to our troops,as well as a patriotic evening for all.Veterans and current military are in-vited to attend the performance forfree.
The show is directed by Christo-pher Johnson, a choreographer andperformer of numerous USO Tours.Patricia Pineda, a director with theconservatory serves as music direc-tor. The show will include patrioticfavorites, standards, Broadway hits,country and contemporary songs cel-ebrating America’s history.
Veterans and military are invited tothis performance for free and ticketsfor general admission are $10 foradults and $7 for students. Perfor-mances will be held at 8 p.m. onThursday, July 21, and Friday, July22, at the Cranford Dramatic ClubTheatre located at 78 Winans Av-enue.
Tickets can be purchased atwww.pinedaconservatory.com and bycalling (908) 731-1377.
Playhouse 22 to PresentRazia’s Shadow
EAST BRUNSWICK – Play-house 22 will be hosting a one-weekend run of Razia’s Shadow, astage adaptation of the album bythe same name, released in 2008 byForgive Durden. This production isthe first legitimate staging ofRazia’s Shadow ever attempted.
The cast – consisting of only 13players – and crew have been hardat work for the past several weeks,putting together a product that canonly be described as “folktale meetsrock concert.” The main objectivefor every member of the cast andcrew working at this undertaking isto use their respective talents intandem with unique source mate-rial to offer something that is freshand exciting – a step off the beatenpath of traditional community the-ater.
Razia’s Shadow tells the story ofa world divided in two, its hopes of
peace falling upon the shoulders ofa brave couple driven by destiny.
The show opens on Friday, July15, and closes Sunday, July 17. Per-formances will begin at 8 p.m. onFriday, and at both 2 p.m. and 8p.m. on Saturday and Sunday. Thecost of admission is $15.
Playhouse 22 is located at 721Cranbury Road in East Brunswick.For more information, and to pur-chase tickets, go toplayhouse22.org.
HONORING THEIR COUNTRY…Members of the pre-kindergarten and kin-dergarten classes of the Westfield Summer Workshop celebrated the Fourth ofJuly with their annual violin parade. Directed by Janet Lyman, the paradeparticipants marched through the halls of Edison Intermediate School displayingtheir newly discovered musical talents. The WSW program will continues throughJuly 29. Continuo Arts to Present
‘Beauty’ and AladdinSUMMIT - The Continuo Arts
Foundation began its intensive three-week Summer Musical Theater Con-servatory this week. This year’s con-servatory will present a double fea-ture: Beauty and the Beast andAladdin on Saturday, July 23, with a3 p.m. matinee and 7:30 evening per-formance at the Campion Center forthe Performing Arts located on thecampus of The Oak Knoll School inSummit.
Director Cristina Ambrose, fromNew York City and a graduate of theprestigious musical theater master’sprogram at NYU, brings outstandingexperience, knowledge and perfor-mance skills to this season’s conser-vatory.
The Conservatory uses the perform-ing arts to spark creativity, build self-esteem and confidence, and preparefor life. During this annual three-week musical theater immersion ex-perience, rising stars learn about thekey elements of musical theater, en-
joy working with an experienced,professional staff, and expand knowl-edge in areas that match their inter-ests and talents. Performers are in-spired in a creative, positive and in-teractive environment with enrich-ment in vocal production, acting,dance, choreography, staging, impro-visation, character study, make-uptechniques, stage management andset design.
Students are chosen by auditionand range in age from 7 – 18. Per-formers are from many surroundingcommunities: Summit, Westfield,Madison, Berkeley Heights, ShortHills, Chatham, New Providence,Union, Elizabeth, and Cranford.
Tickets are $10 adults and $5 stu-dents. Call (908) 264-5324 for ticketorders, or visit the website atwww.continuoarts.com.
DOUBLE FEATURE…The Continuo Arts Summer Musical Theater Conserva-tory will present a double feature including Beauty and the Beast and Aladdin onJuly 23 with a 3:00 p.m. matinee and 7:30 evening performance at the CampionCenter for the Performing Arts located on the campus of The Oak Knoll Schoolin Summit.
WCP HouseManagers NeededWESTFIELD – The Westfield
Community Players are lookingfor house managers. It is one ofthose important, but unsung, tasksnecessary for the efficient andsafe operation of the theater.
To volunteer to house manage,call Lucille Bills at (908) 822-7221.
GAME ON…The Westfield Democratic Committee hosted a fund-raising reception on June 24 in support of its candidatesfor Westfield Town Council, Tim Van Epp (Ward 1), Matt Sontz (Ward 3) and Greg Romer (Ward 4). Special guest StateAssembly Majority Leader Joseph Cryan kicked off the well attended event. Assemblyman Cryan urged the candidates towork hard and meet as many residents as possible during their campaign. Other notable attendees included Westfield TownCouncilman Dave Haas and County Freeholder BJ Kowalski. The evening affair was hosted by Jim and Dana Baker at theirLincoln Road home. Pictured, right to left, are: Councilman Dave Haas, Westfield Democratic Committee Vice-Chair JaniceSiegel, WDC Treasurer Ross Katz, Matt Sontz, Tim Van Epp, Greg Romer, Assemblyman Joseph Cryan and CountyFreeholder BJ Kowalski.
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The Westfield Memorial Library presents “Tartuffe,” or “The Imposter” by Moliere
Thursday, July 21 at 7:00 pm and
“Love’s Labour’s Lost” by Shakespeare Thursday, August 11 at 7:00 pm
Open to Westfield Memorial Library and MURAL cardholders.
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The Shakespeare Theatre Next Stage Ensemble presents these plays for two evenings of fine and fun live entertainment. Tartuffe is the story of a penniless scoundrel who wreaks havoc on his host’s home, and Love’s Labor’s Lost tells the story of four young men who choose chastity and scholarly pursuits, and then meet the women of their dreams.
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Eva The Diva “Children’s Act” 6:30 pm
Funktion 11 “Main Event” 7:30 pm THURSDAY JULY 21st Amazing Dave “Children’s Act” 6:30 pm
Jazz Lobsters “Main Event” 7:30 pm
THURSDAY JULY 28th
Peter Michaels “Children’s Act” 6:30 pm
RB Express “Main Event” 7:30 pm
TUESDAY AUGUST 2nd National Night Out - The Broadcasters 7:00 pm THURSDAY AUGUST 11th Ben Lipman “Children’s Act” 6:30 pm
Bored of Ed “Main Event” 7:30 pm
THURSDAY AUGUST 18th Dell Angels 6:00 pm
Wishing Star Entertainment 7:30 pm
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The Farmhouse Store Hosts Tony Award Winning ActressChristine Ebersole for an Intimate Evening
By BETSEY BURGDORFSpecially Written For The Westfield Leader and The Times
WESTFIELD — Last Friday night,Ed Menapace and Bill Curtis, co-owners of The Farmhouse Store,hosted and event starring two-timeTony Award winning actress Chris-tine Ebersole. The couple’s store,located on East Broad Street, wasthe setting for the evening, rich withconversation and dripping in jewels.
Fans of all ages dropped by thecharmingly appointed store to meetthe actress, who has appeared onboth the Broadway stage, as well asthe silver screen. She is a decorated
actress known for, among otherthings, her dual role as little EddieBeale and Edith Beale in Grey Gar-dens.
Guests were given the opportu-nity to purchase selected piecesfrom Ms. Ebersole’s private collec-tion of vintage jewelry. As an addedbonus, those in attendance weregiven a glimpse in to the fascinat-ing history of the exquisite one-of-a-kind pieces.
The gracious and beautiful star,combined with the intimate settingand stunning jewelry, made for avery special night.
Downtown WestfieldJazz Festival
WESTFIELD - Get your jazz onTuesday, July 19, in the third weekof the Sweet Sounds Downtown JazzFestival. The party starts at 7 p.m.with four locations on the streets ofDowntown Westfield until 9 p.m.
The four finger poppin’ jazz actsthis week include Jazz Lobsters,Glenn Alexander Trio, BradfordHayes, and Hart Attack.
Join us for a night of live jazzmusic brought to you by the Down-town Westfield Corporation. Thecrowds from the past two weekshave been fantastic so come earlyand come ready for great times andgreat tunes.
Betsey Burgdorf for The Westfield Leader and The TimesGLITZ AND GLAMOUR...Ed Menapace, left, and Christine Ebersole greetguests at The Farmhouse Store last Friday night during an intimate eveningfeaturing wine, jewelry and conversation.
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ers have been heating things up byoffering outrageous savings in honorof the annual Sidewalk Sale Days,which will take place rain, or shine indowntown Westfield from Thursday,July 14, through Sunday, July 17.
The downtown area will be filledwith great deals from many of theparticipating stores. Join the summerfun and storefront steals Westfieldhas to offer.
For more information aboutWestfield, and other downtown events,call the DWC at (908) 789-9444 for aDestination Westfield Shopping andDining Guide. Check visit the DWCwebsite at WestfieldToday.com.
JAZZ ON…Nicole Hart of Hart At-tack is back for another year of theJazz Festival. She will be performingat the North Avenue Train Station.
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