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Bank Breaks Election Ground Profiles Organization Meet the Candidates Looks to Expand in Tuesday's Election Mission with New Pg , : POliTICS Food bank breaks Election ground profiles Organization Meet the candidates looks to expand in Tuesday's election mission with new Pg. 10 13 headquarters By JOSH SHANNON FIRE [email protected] When the Food Bank of Delaware opens its new warehouse around this time next year, its goal goes far beyond just having more storage space. Instead, President and CEO Patricia NEWARK POST PHOTO BY KARlE SIMMONS Beebe seeks a fundamen­ Dominic Lalite, 7, and 4-year-old Charles Simmons IV, of Newark, gaze into the mirrored sphere at the entrance to H!gh Five Park tal shift in the way the state in Glasgow Park. The new playground is geared toward children with autism, but anyone is welcome to play there. deals with hunger. "We're going to be advocat­ ing systemic change," Beebe Glasgow Par~ playground geared toward kids with autism said during a groundbreak­ ing ceremony at the new fa­ On hurt By KARlE SIMMONS sive park tailored to the needs of autis­ their daughter Delia, could play. cility in Pencader Corporate [email protected] tic children. They pitched the idea to County Center on Oct 20. The playground, which lies within Councilman David Tackett, who then "1his 25-acre campus will in blaze What started as a father's phone call Glasgow Park behind the main pavilion, brought it to County Executive Tom become part of the solution to two years ago, ended last week with is the brainchild of Glasgow parents Gordon. ending hunger in Delaware." RobscoH Manor home his daughter's smile as she watched Elizabeth and Rob Scheinberg, who no­ New Castle County leaders open ticed the county lacked a place where See PLAYGROUND See FOOD BANK damaged by fire H!GH 5 Park - Delaware's first inclu- children on the autism spectrum, like Page A15 Page A6 Pg. 4 ; : SPORTS & Yellowiackets • Competitively HEATING Priced AIR CO DITIO lNG beat Delcastle Integrity And Quality Is Our Policy Newark football earns .--------- LICENSED • INSURED • BONDED second-straight win 302-836-1921 Any G/AC Serv1ce Call Pg. 7 ...,... .......... (f........................... ) 2 LOCAL NEWS 0 _NECii NfWARK POST 11.4.2016 Newark fourth-graders describe what it means to be a good neighbor By JOSH SHANNON contest was part of NAWC's water supply so neighbors [email protected] Good Neighbor Day cel­ have clean water to drink. ebration Oct 21, which also "Being a good community For Henry Michel, being a included the group's well­ member not only benefits good neighbor means help­ known bean soup mix sale. others, but benefits you," he ing and sharing with others. On Monday, Henry and wrote. "For example, let's say runner-up Aaliyah Sheikh Aaliyah, a fourth-grader at you have some clothes that received a visit from May­ West Park Place Elementary you grew out of. You look or Polly Sierer and Good School, wrote that being a online and see there is a kid Neighbor Day coordinator good neighbor "means to be in need of clothes," the New­ Katie Hughes, who present­ generous and thoughtful to ark Charter School fourth­ ed them with a gift card from the people around you." grader wrote in a recent es­ the Downtown Newark Part­ ''You can help communi­ say contest "It wouldn't be nership. ties all around you wherever right if you kept your clothes 'They both spoke about you are," she added. even though you didn't need different ways to be a good She noted that she enjoys them. If you were a good neighbor," Sierer said. helping her elderly neigh­ community member, you 'Their thoughts on being a bors. would give your clothes to good neighbor are all things "Sometimes, our mail gets someone that actually could we do in Newark. That was mixed up when our mailman use them." really nice." is in a hurry," she wrote. "M­ Henry was one of approxi­ In his essay, Henry wrote ter I come back from school, mately 15 local kids who en­ that citizenship also means I look and see if there is NEWARK POST PHOTOS BY JOSH SHANNON Henry Michel, a fourth-grader at Newark Charter School, won first place in the Newark Area tered the essay contest spon­ thinking about others on a a mix-up. If there is, I go sored by the Newark Area broader scale, such as by over to their house and give Welfare Committee's essay contest about being a good neighbor. Welfare Committee. The keeping pollution out of the [them] their mail." Special trusts have been set up by vendors and suppliers of the following plants to pay asbestos victims: • Pullman Standard • DuPont ·Hercules If you ever worked at either of these plants you may have been exposed to asbestos - and not even know it. You could be entitled to multiple cash settlements without going to court, filing a lawsuit, or even leaving your house. If you ever worked at any of these plants, and have been diagnosed with Lung Cancer (even if you are a smoker)- or Esophageal, Laryngeal, Pharyngeal, Stomach, Colon, or Rectal Cancer or know 1008 Capitol Trail (Rt.2) someone who died from one of these cancers, call Newark, DE 19711 (Between Polly Drummond & Possum Park Roads) 1·800·478·9578 www.BiueHenC Free www.getnorris.comfasb l1¢t.];j-)(#j Nationwide Service Claims Analysis NORRIS IN.JURY LAWYERS No representation is made that the quality of legal seMc8s to be perlonned Is greater than the quality of legal seMc8s perlonned by other lawyers. .... NEWARK POST 11.4.2016 ~ lOCAlNEWS 3 Glass from the Past: The week ahead First Friday Ride: Tonight, 5:30p.m. at Newark Shopping Center. Casual community bike ride sponsored by the Newark Newark man's milk bottle collection on display Sunday Bicycle Committee begins at shopping center and travels a 4-mile course through the city. After the ride, participants will By JOE ANTOSHAK meet at Iron Hill Brewery for food and drinks. Bicycle lights [email protected] are required. Artist reception: Tonight, 6 to 8 p.m. at Newark Arts Al­ For no person is the expression that liance, 276 E. Main St. Wynn Breslin is displaying paintings "one man's trash is another man's trea­ that focus on 'The Wedge," the historical and once-disputed sure" more true than for a collector. area of northern .Delaware where she has lived and painted Sometimes, it can be interpreted very for 50 years. Guests will be able to meet Breslin, and light fare literally. and drinks will be served. Exhibit runs through Nov. 19. Free. Thafs the case with a few of the bottle Stuff the bus: Saturday, 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Newark Shop­ collectors in the Tri-State Bottle Collec­ ping Center. The Newark Rotary Club is collecting new cloth­ tors and Diggers Club, like Newark ing, coats, blankets, toiletries, paper towels, toilet paper and resident R Dean Shippy, who boasts a non-perishable food for the Newark Empowerment Center. collection of bottles likely worth tens of DSWA collection event: Saturday, 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. at UD thousands of dollars, by his estimation. STAR Campus, 550 S. College Ave. Delaware Solid Waste Au­ Now vice president of the Tri-State thority will collect household hazardous waste for disposal Bottle Collectors and Diggers Club, and el~ctronic goods for recycling. Residents can also drop off Shippy started collecting bottles in the documents to,be shredded. Free. For list of accepted items, mid-1980S, after finding himself gravi- CECIL WHIG PHOTO BY JOE ANTOSHAK visit dswa.com. tating toward them in antique stores. R. Dean Shippy holds a glass milk bottle in the basement of his Newark home. He Pancake breakfast: Saturday, 8:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. He soon developed a taste for milk has about 400 in his collection on display there. at UAW Local 1183, 698 Old Baltimore Pike. Benefits UAW bottles in particular. emergency food closet. Adults $10, kids $5. The realm of bottle collecting in- . ware there were about 300 dairies, and age or in their garage or somewhere NewBark Pawl..ooza: Saturday, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Han­ eludes several categories, Shippy ex- now there are only two-Lewes Dairy like that," Shippy said. "But for me, . dloff Park, 1000 Barksdale Road. The city of Newark's pet­ plained, including soda, beer and flask in Lewes, Del., and Hy-Point there on thafs not any fun. I like to share the bot­ focused event features demonstrations, contests and vendors. sub-genres, among many others. Ship- Beaver Valley Road," Shippy said. "Be- ties with friends and family and other Leashed and vaccinated pets are welcome. Free. py was born and raised on a farm in fore pasteurization and all that, all a people, you know, that are interested in Military history display: Saturday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at southern Michigan, and he taught for farmer needed to do was have four or the hobby." Pencader Heritage Museum, 2029 Sunset Lake Road. Military years in the University of Delaware's five cows, buy a couple hundred milk Shippy and the Tri-State Bottle Col­ vehicles will be on display, and re-enactors representing sev­ College of Agriculture, so the milk bottles and just bottle raw milk, put a lectors and Diggers Club will host eral wars will be present. Admission to event and museum is bottle specialty seems to make a con- cap on it and deliver it And thafs what their 44th-annual antique bottle show free.
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