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^ Union County^ L o c a l S o u r c e UNIONNEWSDAILY.COM VOL. 101 NO. 11 75 CENTS Union national gun walkout By Rebecca Panico Staff Writer UNION — Hundreds of Union High School students marched to town hall as part of a nationwide demonstration against gun violence in the wake of the Parkland, Fla., shooting that left 17 dead last month. Students stood on the high school foot ball field around 10 a.m. on March 14 for 17 minutes of silence in remembrance of the students and teachers killed. Hundreds then walked to town hall, chanting “Enough is enough,” a phrase coined on social media for fhistration with the num ber of school shootings that have taken place. “Gun laws is one part of the argument,” said high school student Sienna Bucu, adding that she wants to see action taken on mental health or security in schools, too. “All I really want is action. Everyone is talk ing about what’;s right and what’s wrong — how they feel about an argument — and they’re just talking.” Students in other Union County towns — including Hillside, Elizabeth, New Prov idence, Summit, Springfield, Westfield, Scotch Plains, Linden and Clark — also demonstrated. Some students walked out side the school building with signs, while others met with local officials inside the Photo by Rebecca Panico school. Hundreds of Union High School students crowd the steps in front of Union town hall on Morris Avenue on March 14 to See HUNDREDS, Page 6 show their support for new gun control measures. Kenilworth mulls ways to absorb sewerage cost spike By Jenny Goldberg tive is assessed a percentage of the yearly budget based on populations of every town in the cooperative and found that Staff Writer a formula of three components: total flow, biochemical oxy Kenilworth comprises only 3 percent of the people served KENILWORTH — The borough council’s finance com gen demand and total suspended solids. A number for each by the RVSA. mittee is currently considering how it will incorporate an town is generated from metering conducted by the RVSA at “This means our co.st should roughly be approximately 3 unexpected $200,000 charge into the town’s 2018 munici multiple locations. percent,” he said. “The last two a.sse.ssment numbers are pal budget, due to the Rahway Valley Sewerage Authority’s “All of us (municipality representatives) have to know over 3 percent.” yearly assessment. that when we get that yearly number — that the yearly RVSA Executive Director .Jim Meehan later replied to The municipality’s budget for the year will be intro number translates into the five-year rolling average num Beiner’s concerns, saying that population size is just one of duced on April 11, clerk Laura Reinertsen told LocalSource. ber, and that the number is right,” Bob Beiner, RVSA com the many moving variables that affect the bill, and popula The council learned of the 28-percent increase by the missioner for Kenilworth, said at the March meeting. tion size is not always the best indicator. RVSA at its January meeting. The increase is nearly three “From Kenilworth’s point of view, we feel like we are get “We are doing the best with a system that is inherently times the next highest municipality increase in the 11- ting overcharged.” flawed,” Meehan said of the metering .system. member cooperative. Mayor Anthony DeLuca requested an Beiner noted that from 2012 through 2015, Kenilworth’s Meehan referred to the meters that have an acknowl investigation into the RVSA’s billing methodology, which yearly rounded numbers were 2.0, 2.2, 2.4 and 2.6. How edged margin of error, which can as much as 3 percent on was discussed at the RVSA regular meeting March 15. ever, in 2016, Kenilworth’s number more than doubled to each meter, Meehan previously told D)calSource. The $200,000 represents 1.3 percent of Kenilworth’s 5.3, and last year the number went to 5.6. Kenilworth's former commissioner on the RVSA, $15.3 million budget last year, leaving only about $100,000 “For a four-year period our average was 2.3, and then Richard LoForte, previously told UmalSource that to fit everything else in under the state-mandated 2-percent the last two years we went up to 5.5,” Beiner said. “From my when authorities change metering companies through a cap for the borough of about 8,200. point of view, something is definitely wrong here. Common bidding process, each company has to certify its meters, The RVSA calculates its charges based on a five-year sense is that something is wrong.” but each company certifie.s them differently, which is rolling average. Each member municipality of the coopera Beiner noted that, out of curiosity, he had looked at the See KENILWORTH. Page 10 2 — March 22, 2018 — Union County lyOcalSource Officials issue Newark BUONAPASQUA! BOAPASCOA! Airport measles alert The N.J. 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The students and staff at Mother ■■ V Seton Regional High School in Clark purchased pink and red hearts in trib ute to friends and family who have battled cancer. i U B Mon. - Fri. 5:30AM - 8PM, Sat. & Sun. 7AM - 8PM Union Connt\’ I^ocalSourw March aa, aoi8 3 Colorectal cancer awareness push in March By Jenny Goldberg Staff Writer BERKELEY HEIGHTS - Colorectal cancer isn’t a common topic for discussion and its symptoms are rarely noticed early. Those are just two of the reasons why advocates for National Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month are pro moting recognition of the deadly disease via various events in municipalities throughout Union County in March, such as free screenings and testing. While the disease can be prevented, “the warning signs come fairly late, which is part of the problem,” Dr. Tamir Ben-Menachem, chairman of Gastroenterology at Summit Medical Group MD Anderson told LocalSource. Colorectal cancer is the third most common type of cancer diagnosed in the United States after breast and prostate cancer, Ben-Menachem said. The disease is caused by tumors that form on the lin ing of the colon or rectum, which are sections of the large intestine, the lower part of the body’s digestive system.