o 500 a copy _J X to a i t- 3 ‘ a; Q- uj \ O -J A Forbes Newspaper Friday, June 22,1990 t/5 ca u j a u j ( - i h t a o 5 : u a-' h3 o r-P ,t iU o jU Borough airs cable complaints O 'T •- to make a presentation, and al­ the property around its satellite Rutter assured Wiley that the,; Poor response, most on an annual basis, I make dish off Durham Avenue, increase shrubbery recommended by bor-; the same requests and nothing its public access programming ough engineer Thomas Van would; cost irk residents gets done.” and improve its response to ser­ be in place by 1991 and that the* Wiley repeated the warning he vice and billing complaints. company will consider fencing the,; gave TKR last year — that if the “Simply as the property owner entire parcel within the next six. By Georgia Vosinakis company expects to have its fran­ of a 1-acre portion in Metuchen ... weeks. Rutter said the company' METUCHEN - Although some chise renewed in 1993, it will have you ought to be a good neighbor,” fenced the entrance to Westing- of the faces may have changed, to effect improvements in the said Wiley. “We ask that the area house Street in August in re­ the song from TKR Cable Co, rep­ same three areas which needed be screened because it is adjacent sponse to motorists cutting; resentatives has remained the “drastic improvement” last year. to a residential area.” through there. same one year after their last visit According to Wiley, Margaret Wiley explained that the bor­ . Wiley accepted Rutter’s assur­ with the Borough Council regard­ Ann Behrends, TKR’s program ough “typically demands” this ances that the buffering will be ing needed improvements. manager, Larry Rutter, the com­ type of buffering in a residential completed by the end of the year, “This is sort of an annual rit­ pany’s north district operations area, and after last year’s prom­ but there were additional con­ ual,” observed Mayor John Wiley manager, and Joe Guastella, oper­ ises by the cable company that it cerns about the cable company. Jr. about Monday night’s meeting ations maintenance manager, would be accomplished, the bor­ “I have two documents which with five TKR representatives, should have been able to recall ough is now “extremely frus­ tell a tale of concerns,” began three of whom also were present his initial requests that TKR pro­ trated” that this “relatively simple Daniel LeBar, chairman of the at last year’s meeting. “You come vide screening for and maintain task” has not been done. (Please turn to page A-12) Student A dream is guilty come true of murder Physician arrives EDISON — A township youth in United States *• will serve a minimum of 30 years in prison and could face a life By Jim Wright sentence for the October 7. 1988, EDISON — Sergey Skovortsov murder of a fellow Edison High finally has fulfilled his dream School student of coming to America. Now he James E. Ferguson, 16, was hopes that someday he can be found guilty June 13 in a New called a doctor again. Brunswick Superior Court of the The 34-year-old Skovortsov murder of Stephen Fulcher dur­ was a sports medicine physi­ ing an altercation outside the cian for 11 years in his native school after a dance. Ferguson Leningrad in the Soviet Union drew a hunting knife and stabbed before coming to the United Fulcher three times — once in States eight months ago. the upper leg and twice in the Now the township resident chest One of the- latter thrusts is a massage therapist in the pierced the heart. office of Dr. Cynthia Snyder in The knife — described as a 5- Somerville waiting for the day inch curved hunting knife -A was, his, English improves enough, - later found on the /school grounds to take the physician’s licens* Fulcher, \yho was 17, was token ing exam. 1 ( : to John F I-'- nn< Ay Medical Cen­ His relatives came to the ter, where he difcd less than an United States 12 years ago, (Please turn to page A-12) and Skovortsov only recently decided to join them out of fear for his family. “I have two boys, ana I was Board mulls afraid for my children,” he said, recalling his decision to leave Russia. “Also I’m a Jew.” eliminating Once his sister-in-law sent him emigration papers from Israel, Skovortsov had to give PEG class up his job as a doctor. He had By Georgia Vosinakis specialized in osteopathy and METUCHEN — The school dis­ orthopedics at the Leningrad trict’s Program for the Exception­ Health Center. ally Gifted pupils seems to be in “When the KGB finds out jeopardy of being changed, re­ you want to leave, you auto­ duced in scope or even elimi­ matically lose your job,” he ex­ nated, and 40 proponents of the plained. “One day, one of the program expressed their concern men I worked with came up to at a meeting of the Board of Edu­ me and asked, ‘When are you cation on Tuesday. leaving? I want to move into The 10-year-old program, your apartment’ ” unique to Middlesex County, has Skovortsov took English les­ provided a more intense curricu­ sons in New York after com­ lum for the borough’s academi­ ing to this country and re­ cally advanced pupils by challeng­ ceived his certificate as a mas­ ing them in a self-contained class, sage therapist at the Somerset School of Massage. mixing the brightest students from —Photo by Daniel Sheehan —Copyrighted photo by Jeff Tarentino the third, fourth and fifth grades. He was referred to Snyder Members of the Class of 1990 at the five high schools in “We’re trying to upgrade every­ Massage therapist Sergey Skovortsov of Edison works the by the school and joined the Edison and Metuchen are now graduates, and this week the one’s opportunity and not restrict kinks out of the knee of Somerville High School diver Amy Somerville office in March. Metuchen-Edison Review begins its coverage of the com­ education to children in a self- Masters. Skovortsov was a practicing physician in the Soviet “In Russia, it’s called man­ mencement exercises with articles and photos on page A-11 contained class,” said Gennaro Union and is hoping to eventually be certified as a doctor in ual therapy because massage Lepre, superintendent of schools, the United States. is considered a capitalist of three of them. Coverage of the high school graduations will (Please turn to page A-12) continue next week. (Please turn to page A-12) 20-year-old fights for life after head-on collision By Charles Everett 6:48 p.m. when it passed an uni­ EDISON — A young man who dentified vehicle in a no-passing skipped his high school gradua­ zone and glanced off the second tion to be with friends is fighting vehicle, which was operated by for his life after a nearly fatal au­ Elaine Villanova, 18, of Wood- tomobile accident on a busy town­ bridge. ship street The Audi spun around into the southbound lane near the Apollon Quinton Jenkins, 20, of North Gym, then slammed head-on into Plainfield, was one of five people injured in a head-on collision a 1988 Acura Legend operated June 21 on Talmadge Road near southbound by Roosevelt Wynn, the headquarters of Twin County 27, of Elizabeth. Grocers. He was a member of the Wynn was taken to Robert Class of 1990 which graduated Wood Johnson University Hospi­ that evening from North Plain- tal along with two passengers in field High School. the Audi, Cleaver Ransom, 20. of Bridgeport, and Felicia Madden, Jenkins suffered a fractured neck and was airlifted to Univer­ 17, of North Plainfield. Wynn and sity' Hospital, Newark, where he Ransom were listed in satisfactory remained in a coma and was condition Wednesday afternoon listed in poor condition as of while Madden was listed in stable Wednesday afternoon. He was a condition. passenger in a 1979 Audi oper­ Villanova was not injured. ated by Patricia Deolio, 32, also of Reports indicated that Jenkins, North Plainfield, who was listed Madden and Ransom were not Photo by Jim D'Amico in fair condition Wednesday at wearing seat belts at the time of Jenkins, 20, of North Plainfield, - lies in a coma at University the accident Debris from two cars lies in the street after a head-on collision University Hospital. Hospital, Newark. Jenkins had skipped his high school gradu­ According to reports, the Audi No charges have been filed June 21 on Talmadge Road, Edison. As a result of the acci­ was northbound on Talmadge at pending a further investigation. dent, five people were injured, one of whom — Quinton ation that night to be with friends. PAGE A-2 - ME REVIEW - June 22, 1990 of Old Post Road. and Chevrolet transmission re­ gust 6 at both tennis facilities vices Commission for the 1990-91 Should the funds become avail­ pairs. Other bidders were Joe’s while a Ladder Tournament Pro­ school year. Her reappointment to able, the first portion, a 0.313-mile Transmissions, $13,394; Tech gram will be held in July. the MCESC was announced at a stretch from Wooding Avenue to Transmissions, $13,300; and Deol’s The tournaments are open to Melville Road, would be upgraded Transmissions, $9,760. Deol’s was men, women and children — sin­ meeting of the board Tuesday. news briefs at a cost of $106,950.