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•v- Garwood: Knights Kenffworthrmayor honor Masterson... criticizes mall.. church seeks new truck hits vacant variance...8 buses building. $12,000 vandalized.page 14 boat taken.page 15 •. •$• VOL. 90 No. 31 Published Every Thursday Thursday, August 5, 1982 {mnfonly K.vniimtrth ami .'. USPS 136 BIX) Second Class Postage Paid Cranford, N.J. 25 CENTS •'•? '• Sale days Sidewalks sales will be conducted downtown Friday and Saturday with many stores open Friday until 9 p.m.(see advertisements on Pages 2 through 4). North Union Avenue will •. By KATHLEEN M. OSXEIL presented scenarios of development for be closed to vehicular trafficfor the The Planning Board is in the data the four parcels. He described in detail occasion. Participating^jafes will gathering phase of an office building the smallest and the largest lots. offer tickets for free rides for zone study for covering parcels of land "Parcel One is the smallest of thdf our children from II a.m. to 3 p.m. Fri- in the town center oft South Avenue. lots." he said. "It is 15.000 square feet. day and also provide "I Love Cran- The largest parcel at S,S acres has which is the minimum allowable.lot ske ford" tote bags.There will be live South Avenue on its north, the river to in an <KS. or office, lone. The maximum music starting at l Saturday. "The its easti-High-Stneeit-to-ife-xwpsit^-and—building s*w permitted on this lot would Cubes"- featuring Michael Harr- straddles Chestnut cStrect to the south, be 12.238 square feet with 32 parking ington, Tom Crater, Dan Grezenda . The tentative plans there include 15rt,X*.W spaces at a ratio of one space per 325 and Jeff Tami will play from 1 to square feet of office space which would square feet of office space. It would cost 2:30 p.m. and other soloists will per- consist of two office buildings with two approximately $15 a square foot to ao- form from 2:45 to 4 p.m. floorseach. • • ... " " quite and clear the land." Some of the estimated costs of this ele- Parcel Four, the 3.8 acre lot. seems to ment of the total concept would be $U> to be the nxosk" viaWe of the four in- $20 a square fool for the land, $55 a vestigated. said lindbloom. Meet on mall square foot for construction, and $2 tv> S3 "It-has the potential for consolidation a square foot for site improvement, into development packages." said board " A "Stop the Mall" meeting is '. • "These are, all hypothetical costs and chaionan Robert McArthur. "It now- Munching the hard way: Jimmy Smith, 7, races the pie bobbing contest on Page 6. Photo by Greg scheduled at the Municipal Building plans at this time4" said Carl Lind- serves a variety of uses both residential clock In "Olympian" contest among local Price; ^at 7;3<Lp.m. Tuesday. Clint Crane bloomrpTofiessional 'engineer and pian~ and- ~businessr~\Ve'Te; "trying~ to nv" pfaygrounders-at~tlnarni"Park. More photos of ap- and Sandy Weeks said citizens and vestigate the possibilities of developing businessmen are invited to attend- ner hired by the board.."Harvey Uie meeting to~learn about the pro- John Calij an experienced construction if it turns out to be feasible, we will posed shopping center in nearby man, and he has given us these approx- publicise and promote the idea. We Springfield and to hear about what imate costs." wuwld try to attract developers in- Funds sought for new various groups, are doing about it. Meantime, opponents of the mall Anticipated gross income terested in buying, building and renting have prepared a flyer calling atten- buildings of this size vwuld be t!*e space. Then the town may chargfc tion to its potential negative impact said Lindbloom, Of lhat, St taxes »n the property as a ratable." he and asking for fund^to help combat be spent on taxes and the interest and Saiti it. The flyer is enclosed in this principle of a loan, leaving Sll.-tWi tax LindbUK«« showed a ^ chart to the week's edition of The Chronicle. free for the town, he said, ~ boa.nl which "lays- out the theoretical Altogether four parcels of la»wl rang- shape t>£ buildings and parking for..aU ing in size from KS.OtM square (Tee* ct<> 8.8 four «f the parcels of land. This is the il- The Union County government is hop- The trap and skeet range would be evolved out of plans created in tandem acres were selected lo show the board lustrative plan t'ojr the 0-3 zone. It would ing to gain Green Acres funding for the relocated to the park's north end off Dia- with the Lenape Basin. These plans Breuer fund the feasibility of developing different provute the maximum development proposed rearrangement of Lenape mond Road in Springfield. A rifle and were delayed during consideration of a sized parcels of lahoL , Lidbl potential for this area." he said. Park here with new recreational pistol range and an archery range would $5 million indoor pistol range. That idea The Glenn Breuer Memorial Fund facilities. be placed in that area, with several was abandoned. has, beeft" established in memory of -Three county offices are collaborating parking lots that could accomodate a "I think the chancesifor funding* are the . Cranford High School senior on a grant application proposal which total of 250 cars. real good," said Ken Marsh, county en- athlete who died in a motorcycle ac- Originated in master plan they hope will lead to underwriting A smaller children's fishing lake, pic- vironmental engineer. He said the cident two weeks ago. Donations will through the state program. Green Acres nic sites and a seasonal group camping government had many* citizen and group go for weight training equipment in The concept of office sj pedestrian traffic and br- could pay for as much as half of the site -would be placed between the requests for the improved facilities. the special room he helped build. near South Avenue, evolved out of the ing customers, into the CBD. "If ade- estimated $2 million in improvements. boating lake and the sporting ranges. The county recently dedicated u newly Details on Page 13. town's master plan. It advocates quate alKiay. parking were provid- The proposal includes an l8-to-2& acre^j They would be connected with the renovated Mattano Recreation Center hi ^iigh density office space iW the cen- ed, kkew downtown office uses would boating lake with a boathouse and park- smaller lake below Nomahegan Brook, Elizabeth which was financed in part by tral business district "'in a manner ing for 150 cars above the flood control to which access was made available Green Acres monies. The same pro- thai will complement the retail sates, >wt seriously conflict with existing jcvxmuerotal uses, and would actual* dike. Access would be off the Boulevard from Nomahegan Drive in-Westfield gram is underwriting part of the Codar Feedback and mcta.il service areas." lit pnv on the road that now leads to the trap during the flood control construction Brook Park redevelopment in Plain- poses the South Avenue area, which . ly add to the support of the retail sec- Residents along Orchard Brook and skeet range. Ihree years ago. field. is now under more: detiikd study, as tor as lattice employes nuke retail It also includes a footbridge over the All of the lakes and facilities are in- gave their views about proposed ' a sii<» for effictfts' that will heSp expenditures." it says. • flood controls to the Township Com- Rahway River spillway just east of that side the dry basin created behind the Cranford has received funding under mittee thisweek. They were divided road and paving atop the dike up the earthen mound. this program for Hanson Park along on the merits of protection versus a Kenilworthside, extending bike and jog* The county manager's office, the divi- Springfield Avenue below the river and flume. Story on Page 3. The govern- ging access from one end of the park td sion of environmental engineering and is hoping to gain Green Acres funds far another. The spillway and upper dike • the parks and recreation department portions of a new Community Center at ing body will decide in two weeks. Bloomingdale School, Meantime, it approved on first area are now fenced off. are working on the proposal, which reading the local appropriation •toward the upcoming Carpenter Place flood control project. Mrs.Watmbrand broadens role Did better of 22 years in aid to the deaf Brian and Jean Dolin purchased Jhe, historic Norris-Oakey house for By ROSALIE GROSS says the interpreter "never divulges The was only an oralist," she says in her ear- the second lime--and saved people's njjmgs_oj; the^ contontsj(of..thc 3eaY'to $pM*ak and lip read: "t had an dimension to her professional career as • anything; the interpreter can never do awakerimg^Jshe states and found it competition in the public auction a teaeher of the deaf. She is now an in- drove their winning bid to $45,000, it." lot easier to teach sign language. I could terpreter for the deaf at public and Mrs. Warmbrand notes that the inter- get the concept over more quickly," She but this was voided because the sale private events in her spare time. had been, advertised only once, not preter "doesn't really hear what's going now uses the "Total Communication" twice as required by law. This time She has taught 22 years at New York on; it just goes in here.and out there," approach.