.:. Greater Newark's Hometown Newspaper Since 1910 .:. 93rd Year, Issue 15 ©2002 May 1, 2002 Newark, Delaware • 50¢ Rules-of-the Point-toPoint Soccer ride in bike at Winterthur showdown safety book. this week. today. PACE 6 PACE ., PACE 12 Up FRONT Police go '~ What's a after drag streetcar? By JIM STREIT racers NEWARK POST STAFF WRITER SHOW MY AGE when I Otts Chapel Road part of joint I admit that several times as agency effort to arrest a kid, I rode a streetcar to the ball park. aggressive drivers, speeders Growing up in Catonvsille, Md., in the By MARY E. PETZAK western sub­ urbs of NEWARK POST STAFF WRITER Baltimore, all I wanted was to • ESIDENTS on the western side of be old enough Newark will be glad tb hear that the to go to Orioles police are targeting speeders around games with the area in a new program. friends and not According to Lt. Thomas LeMin of the my parents. Newark Police, local police are working with I matured in Delaware State Police to put extra patrols on time to experi- the road to combat increasing numbers of ence the trolley aggressive drivers, speeders and drag-racers in ride to a program to be called "Drivers Stop Your Memorial Bobble-head NEWARK POST PHOTO BY JOHN llERA Engines." Stadium but Ripken H · During a recent civic meeting of the West most of my ea rty Jump ers Chestnut Hill Residents Association, represen- trips were via Baltimore I ~ tatives from the state of Delaware and the city Transit Co. buses. .._..J..L_l..L=-:....:~~=---.:!.~~~:....,._.!.~:.......... .:...._-_'--_..-:- ....... _____--... ___ "--.,...;..... ______.L ..of:..N!:~tk.J;w· ~wLt.hl!..i·~~i.tl· JUlrohleml..Of. _ ___ U5 1."-'-'.1.1.15 v .1 '-J 1 .I.,-vau U..:;; ..~U "'Ci~l. take our gloves, buy 75-cent u mp ope or ea on ray, r . ore an en s enthusiastically took turns jumping, with and without ropes, during the three-hour event to raise funds for the American Chestnut Hill Road and Elkton Road. tickets for the bleachers, and According to residents, the drag racing sit in the afternoon sun watch­ Heart Association. Domino's Pizza sponsored the event and provided pizzas for the energetic children to enjoy at the end ing the likes of Brooks of their endeavor. See RACING, 2 Robinson, Jim Gentile, Luis Aparicio and Gus Triandos. These pre-teen ventures to 33rd Street are some of my fondest memories. Diliberto eyes Sorenson's senate seat As I've mentioned in this column before, I'm not much Senator Liane M. Prior to the Senate Majority. of a sports fan but I do love Redrawn lines would force Sorenson (R-Hockessin) Redistricting in "Rick has compiled a truly impressive baseball. DiLiberto-Miro contest in is also expected to run Delaware, DiLiberto had list of accomplishments in the House, even Last week, funeral director for re-election. been a state representa­ though he was in the Minority Caucus," Bob Foard, State Farm agent new 22nd House District Flanked by all 13 tive in the 14th stated Sharp. Rich Ulbrich and I went to members of the Senate Representative District First elected to the State House of Camden Years to watch a 7-0 By MARY E. PETZAK Democratic Majority since 1992. Representatives in 1992, DiLiberto said he Orioles loss. Caucus, DiLiberto stated He now resides in the has sponsored and passed legislation to The final score was not NEWARK POST STAFF WRITER that he is running redrawn 22nd strengthen and streamline the court sys­ near as depressing as the food "because people matter" Representative District tem; to provide names, addresses and pho­ prices - $3.50 for a hot dog, TATE Representative Richard A. to him. where he would be tos of sexual predators on the Internet; to DiLiberto Jr., (D-Newark East) $5.75 for a beer and a whop­ S "My constituents Diliberto forced to run against Sorenson enable mothers to nurse in public settings; ping $7 for four chicken ten­ announced that he will run for the know that I'll do any- incumbent Joseph E. to provide a tax check -off for the Diabetes ders and fries. State Senate in Delaware's Sixth thing I can to help Miro (R-Pike Creek) in Education Fund; to prevent murderers This fleecing and the oth­ Senatorial District which now stretches them," said DiLiberto, "whether I'm cut­ order to retum to the State House. Related from inheriting their victim's estates; to ers involving baseball in from the city of Newark to Hockessin fol­ ting through red tape with a state agency, story page 3. protect the rights of families whose loved recent decades has disillu­ lowing redistricting in the General working with their civic associations, or President Pro-Tempore Thomas B. ones were victims of wrongful death and sioned many other fans. Assembly. leading the legislative fight fOf senior citi­ Sharp said DiLiberto's constituents will However, there's hope for Sixth Senate District incumbent State zens, out children and victims of crime." benefit tremendously when he joins the See ,3 the national pastime. His name is Cal Ripken. • I have never met him as a . joumalist but I know friends who have. To a person, they Setbacks not sufficient for council tell me he's a positive role model for kids and a goodwill to the curb, which left no room moving the street and leaving the ment did their routine inspection park two cars, one behind the ambassador for baseball just Council says Casho for a sidewalk. houses as they were started. after the foundations were other, in the driveway, the side­ as he seems. Mill Station must According to Newark's subdi­ City building director Ron poured. walks are blocked and pedestri­ See UP FRONT, 5 vision code, the front setback Sylvester told council the builder Godwin reminded council that ans are forced into the street. meet building code must be 18 feet from the building submitted "as-built" plans neighboring Blair Court had "The exact thing could happen to the sidewalk with another four regarding changes to the plan many parking problems even here if the city allows this con­ INDEX By MARY E. PETZAK feet from the sidewalk to the which conformed to code on though there was a one-car drive­ struction to continue (out-of - ----------------------- curb. paper. way with "plenty of room" for code)," said Godwin. NEWS 1-3 NEWARK POST STAFF WRITER Godwin said he believed the The error was discovered sidewalks. problem could be corrected by when the city building depart- Because some homeowners See CODE, 2 POLICE REPORTS 2 ,OMEOWNERS on Saw H Mill Court in Casho Mill Station should OPINION 4 have the sidewalks and parking they were promised after Newark LIFESTYLE 6 Hot dog! She's Mayor Hal Godwin called a spe­ cial meeting of city council to DIVERSIONS 7 review out-of-code construction at the site. Godwin told council he had on the mend OBITUARIES 14 been made aware of a mistake at Diane Smith, the much loved was living in California in 1990. SPORTS 12, 13 the approximately 2.6-acre site at hot dog vendor whose cart usual­ She came back to Newark in the intersection of Casho Mill ly stands outside the National 5 1994. "Since then, I've been out and Barksdale roads. PEOPLE 9 & 10 Store on Main Street, is here 7 a.m. to 7 p.m., six days a "I feel very strongly that this recovering from a massive heart week in all kinds of weather," she issue needs to be considered by attack. said in 1997. council as the legislative body According to Richard On her "day off," Smith often rather than allowing staff to be Handloff, owner of the 5 & 10, responsible for a decision to took her cart to events around Smith suffered the attack at her town, especially when requested allow construction to continue home in Pennsylvania on April by students at the University of that is out of code," Godwin said. 14. Smith has been released from Delaware. According to a Godwin, con­ Christiana Hospital where she struction had begun on the 14 underwent bypass surgery. The City of Newark gave townhomes, foundations poured According to Smith, she Smith permission to set up a larg­ NEWARK POST FILE PHOTO and the curbs installed on Saw scrimped money from her family er cart in 1997, one in which she Mill Court that only gave an 18- Diane Smith in her, familiar Main Street post. She suffered a heart 7 99462 00002 3 food budget for four months to would be sheltered from the attack in April. foot setback in front of the garage save for her first cart while she weather. ... )l9E 2· NEWARK POST • MAy 1, 2002 NEWARK POST .:. IN THE NEWS POilCE BLOTIER--------­ Street around 12:35 a.m. on April 27 when an unknown person approached DUI on Capital Trail Child dies him from the rear and demanded his wal­ Newark Police charged a 17-year-old let. The victim refused and attempted to man from Elkton, Md., and a 17 -year-old HazMat walk away. The suspect struck the victim man from Newark, both University of in the back of the head and knocked him Delaware students, with underage con­ • after pit to the ground. The suspect kicked the sumption in a vehicle on Capital Trail victim while he was on the ground, then around midnight on April 15. pinned him to the ground and punched Officers observed a odor of alcohol warning him several times.