• • / I , .++• Greater Newark's Hometown Newspaper Since 1910 .++• 93rd Year, Issue 16 ©2002 May 8,2002 Newark, Delaware • SOt Getting Newark celebrates its Newark girls better all tie St. Mark's. the time. downtown. - - PAGE :s PACE ti - ~,.~-~-----=""~~~~~~~ - ~~----- - - .. Up FRONT Kicking back with Getreadl Some' bits tea on Mom's Day Judge Morris Estate showing to be and pieces off wildflowers and garden By JIM STREIT By CHRISTINE E. SERIO patient . NEWARK POST STAFF WRITER NEWARK POST STAFF WRITER HE FIRST of the month Tfinds me rummaging Delays expected as work through the stack of OMS CAN TAKE A BREAK from juggling careers Post-Its cluttering my desk. and family and enjoy a variety of tea parties planned begins on Library Avenue, Like the tornado that hit Cecil for Mother's Day this year. County last week, I'm dealing Sipping tea in a garden may be one way to give mom the cel­ road closures begin mid-June with them: ebration she deserves. Staff at White Clay Creek State Park • Last week's ranting Nature Center in Newark will host a Wildflower Walk and Tea at By MARY E. PETZAK about baseball and my memo­ the Judge Morris Estate on Polly Drummond Hill Road. ries of riding the streetcar to Daughters or sons can treat mom at 10 a.m. on Saturday or 1 NEWARK POST STAFF WRITER Baltimore Orioles spurred an p.m, on Sunday at the historic home built in the late 1700s and interesting visit last week. once lived in by Judge Hugh Morris, a Delaware judge and a on Library AvenuelRoute 72 in Newark, designated the next Carl H. Kruelle Jr., pastor lawyer. of Our Redeemer Lutheran Flavour of Britain owner Janet Day, above, serves Guests can take a guided tour to learn the names and folklore "full blitz" highwaJ project by the Church here, dropped in unan­ up many kinds of "teacakes" some with clotted associated with wildflowers on trails around the estate. Tea will Delaware Department of Transportation, began nounced with an amazing cream and raspberry preserves. Below, Clara Hall, be served next to Mrs. Morris's flower garden, past matriarch of this week. scale replica of Baltimore's len, and Helen Santora enjoy tea amidst the muted the estate and an avid gardener. According to DelDOT officials, much need­ last streetcar. The detail, down mauves and pieces of china decorating the tradi­ "Many moms have an interest in gardening even if they don't ed improvements to this congested area in the to the ugly olive green paint, tional tea room in Independence Mall. have time to pursue it," Carlson said. "The walk and tea is a nice heart of Newark prompted the department to was astonishing. afternoon out in the sunshine and a expedite the work by offering incentives to the Carl, it turns out, grew up chance to have some goodies that contractor for early completion, DelDOT can in the Govans section of B­ mom doesn't have to make or clean also charge penalties if the contractor exceeds town and has an avid interest up after." the contract's time frame, The first phase of the project began on in trolleys. The party with three different types He brought along a book of tea and assorted tea sandwiches, Monday, May 6, For approximately 40 days, scones and pastries costs $15 a per- shoulders of the roadway will be closed from full of nostalgic, 8xl0's of . rid e and I thank him for the visit. Mother's Day • Monday night, Newark their Sinking Springs Farm in only when construction vehicles move in and out of the work zone. Construction crews will paid tribute to Terry Foreman, Elkton, Md. "It is personalized and the Newark Arts Alliance's peaceful and you don't get that at a work seven days a week, 20 hours a day. quiet but effective staff per­ restaurant," Ann Stubbs said. Starting in mid-June, Library Avenue will be son. The soothing begins at noon on closed from Old South Chapel Street at the Terry will be missed. She Sunday with an herbal luncheon in the farm entrance to Delaware Avenue at the main has worked behind the scenes home originally built in 1744 as a log entrance to College Square. to spur the Alliance volun­ house. Stubbs creates seafood, vege­ Intermittent lane restrictions will be in effect on Library Avenue during this work for teers' dreams into reality. tarian and meat dishes using herbs approx­ Through the years, my from her garden to go with homemade imately 70 days. However, the road will remain observation is that artists often desserts including cake accented with open to local traffic from Route 4/Chestnut Hill South Chapel Street. Wyoming struggle for community accep' raspberry sauce. Road to Old tance. They are so enthusiastic Bill Stubbs, a retired history Road will also be open to through tr~ffic. about their art, some don't realize or understand that the See TEA, 7 See CONSTRUCTION, 2 world around them often doesn't care that much. Throw in the "non-essential" image society attaches and you fmd artists struggling to get their Voters have a choice in school board race message to the masses. Sad, but true. Locally, Terry has been an efficient operative for the Polls open Newark arts community. Its Guilfoyle sees growing presence is an impor­ Scherer says fresh tant addition to our culture Saturday and much of the credit goes to School board elections for Terry. I wish her luck as she many challenges one seat in Nominating perspective needed redirects her efforts on her District G of the Christina family and her art. IKE Guilfoyle, run­ come first and District will be held this ECILIA Scherer said, if that district It was great to see ning for his third - then the testing Saturday, May 11, from noon elected, she will bring a brought in new dozens of volunteers at the M C and last term - said for students. to 9 pm. fresh perspective to the administration, Newark Senior Center recog­ the challenges facing Christina "At the very Polling places in Christina Christina District School Board. she could see nized last week, among them School District have never been least, they District are located at: According to Scherer, only a few Colonial's Milt Draper. greater. "This will be my last five should have Bancroft Elementary School board members have children in improved per­ See UP FRONT, 2 years if I anI re-elected," said been parallel Glasgow High School the school system and some will formance. Guilfoyle. "I came to the school issues for Bayard Elementary School soon graduate high school. "I Scherer said change," he Keene Elementary School the district board 10 years ago at the same Brookside Elementary School have younger children in district INDEX time we were dealing with the said. "But the Jones Elementary School schools," she explained, "so I'm needs a change. issues of fairness and racial testing came Christiana High School in it for the long hauL" "I will listen NEWS 1·3 equality - issues that have some­ first and that's Guilfoyle Maclary Elementary School A resident of Timber Farms more to par- S h what lessened." where we are Downes Elementary School near Christiana since last year, ents, students c erer POLICE REPORTS 2 Meanwhile, Delaware's now." Marshall Elementary School Scherer currently has a daughter and teachers," General' Assembly has enacted a Guilfoyle said the students Elbert-Palmer Elementary School in sixth grade at Pulaski she said. "I like to get as much McVey Elementary School OPINION 4 host of legislative should not have to Elementary School, info as possible reforms in the area be the first to suf­ Gallaher Elementary School a daughter in third and make a deci­ fer as the new cur­ Newark High School sion based on that LIFESTYLE 6 of education. "We THE Shue-Medill Middle School grade at Thurgood THE now have Choice, riculum is estab­ Wilson Elementary School Marshall info." Charter, class INCUMBENT lished. "This is Quaker Place Apartments Elementary School, CHALLENGER Scherer said DIVERSIONS 7 sizes, and neigh­ part of the problem District G's area includes and a step-daughter one problem she borhood schools, as we go to high district schools east of Red in first grade at would like to OBITUARIES 8, 10 which together with the move to stakes testing," he said. "We're Mill and Salem Church roads Wilson Elementary School. An address is absenteeism. "A huge a standards-based curriculum is a still in the implementation stage and south of White Clay infant son will be starting school majority of high school students PEOPLE 11 pretty full plate," said Guilfoyle. but when you start to have conse­ Creek. Gallaher, Jones, in a few years. are not showing up for school," Guilfoyle said he is in favor of quences like summer school, the Marshall, and Leasure ele­ Since . Scherer's first child she said. "The last numbers I SPORTS 12·13 strong support for the teachers students take it a lot more seri­ mentary schools, and entered school in 19951n the Red heard was 70 percent absentees who have to implement the new ously." Christiana High School are Clay School District, Scherer has for Christiana High School." curriculum; however, he ques­ Parents feel students, especial­ within district G. admired that administration's Scherer is also concerned tions accountability in the educa­ ly in high school, are being used Persons appearing to vote handling of issues such as neigh­ about the "considerable number" tion system as it currently stands.