Deal Broker Says Merus Will Be Back

325 units On the run Free work Elderly housing plan MHS teams do well Seymour cops by Cook re-filed/3 at Manchester Invitational/11 begin coping plan/4 manrhfBtpr Mprali Monday, May 21,1990 Manchester, Conn. — A City of Village Charm Newsstand Price; 35 Cents c. JJaudiralrr iirralft East woes continue Deal broker on baseball diamond says Merus — see page 46 SPORTS will be back By Dianna M. Talbot ing people’s pints of blood for $75 a Manchester Herald pint per year, in case individuals wanted to use their own blood Peter Sollinger, a Glastonbury during surgery. Oilers whip the Bruins Although Merus no longer is business broker who helped con vince the town to invest $200,000 headquartered in Reno, Nevada, and into Merus Corp., said today that he a Denver, Colo, b a s^ subsidiary By Howard Ulman believes the defunct company will has gone bankrupt, the firm has The Associated Press be re-established, and the town will blood laboratories in Tampa, Fla. recoup its missing investment. and San Diego, Calif., which are not BOSTON — Jari Kurri drove Wayne Gretzky from the operating because of a lack of fund During a press conference at his record books, Andy Moog from the game and Boston ing. Company officials are trying to Chestnut Hill home, Sollinger also from its own home with a 2-0 Stanley Cup deficit. obtain long-term financing, he said. defended his participation in the Kurri scored three times, jumping three goals ahead of When they do, the town probably deal which town officials have at his former teammate with % for his playoff career, and will be paid back, Sollinger said. added two assists as the Edmonton Oilers routed the tacked as not being honest. In 1988, Sollinger reportedly in Motor Sollinger, 39, said he still does Bruins 7-2 Friday night. troduced Ed Epstein, husband of brokerage work for principals of The Oilers can repeat their 1988 finals sweep of the Democratic Town Director Joyce Merus, and is looking for a buyer Bruins and gain their fifth NHL title in seven years by QUALITY Epstein and a pension investment winning at home Sunday night and Tuesday night. for all or part of the company, which fell apart shortly after the town in consultant, to Merus Corp. as an in Boston faces a monumental task achiev^ by just three vested in it. vestment opportunity. of the 34 teams that dropped the first two games of a In turn, Epstein introduced Town best-of-7 finals. Toronto in 1942 and Montreal in 1966 The town’s investment is Treasurer Roger Negro to the invest won titles after losing the first two at home. Montreal Th* Auodatsd Prsif presumed to have gone to operating ment opportunity, which Negro ac succeeded in 1971 after dropping the first two in expenses of the company while ex and heavy rains to the area. See story on page 10. cepted, and Epstein acted as a Chicago. FLASH FLOOD — Waves of water sweep downtown Hot ecutives waited for long-term liaison between Sollinger and financing, he said. During this lime, But the Bruins, who had the NHL’s best record and Springs, Ark., Sunday as weekend storms brought tornadoes Negro. defense during the regular season, face huge odds as they however, the company failed due to Under fire from town officials for seek their first title in 18 years. in-fighting between executives and promising Epstein that the town Kurri’s seventh career playoff hat trick gave him 10 investors of the firm, Sollinger said. would be paid back last year, Sol goals in the current post-season. His power-play goal at 19-year kindergarten teacher looks to other gardens But Sollinger said the concept linger said, “I only gave them 10:53 of the first period gave the Oilers a 2-0 lead, his which Merus is based on remains (Epstein and the town) what I had goal at 4:21 of tlie second gave them the lead for good sound and will fill a niche in the (in terms of information) given to 3-2, and he finished the brilliant performance with By Nancy Foley why I took it. Now, afuir teaching it, 1 wouldn’t garden, or place for children to grow. medical industry. She wrote down her personal philosophy of me. I’m nothing in the company.” another power-play goal that complete the rout at 7:27 Manchester Herald go to any other grade,” she said. “I believe someone will buy Kindergarten-age children are eager to do teaching in preparation for the interview. It is: Sollinger could not offer an ex of the third period. Merus,” said Sollinger. “I do think ‘To love, guide, cherish, praise, encourage planation as to why Merus officials The Bruins, who had won eight consecutive home On the first day of kindergarten, some of anything they can for their teachers, she said. the town will get its money back.” each little child in their daily work ... The first failed to inform its investors, in par games before the series, did a good job keeping Edmon Anita Sutton’s students cry, and one year, one “Tbey’re lovable and they love you.” Merus Corp. was founded in 1986 word to be taught - listen! When they do, they ticular the town, that the company ton from shooting. But their goalies did a terrible job little girl ran out of the room and into the park She remembers many humorous incidents. based on the concept of storing keeping the puck out of the net. ing lot after her mother. One little boy, for example, had long hair fiy!” autonomous blood supplies, or stor- Please see PENSION, page 10 Sutton wanted to be a teacher from the time Kurri's second goal of the game came on Edmonton’s However, once the door of the Waddell and a baby face, and she mistakenly kept tell ing him to get into the girls’ line. She was she was a child, and would line up her dolls fourth shot. School classroom shuts on that first day, most and dress as a nun to play school. It also forced goalie Andy Moog, who began the game students calm down, Sutton said. ready to take him into the girls’ bathroom “It was more or less expected that 1 would with a playoff-leading 1.88 goals against average, from After 19 years of soothing the fears of before she discovered her error. Consumer counsel be a teacher,” she said. After she got married, the game after making just a single save. children for whom the first day of kindergarten Other memories iiKludc birthday parties she stayed at home with her four children for Reggie Lemelin, who hadn’t played since April 11, is often the first day away from mom, Sutton is that were held for each child, and the retiring — in June. Thansksgiving Day feasts featuring child In 18 years before returning to teaching. replaced Moog and didn’t do much better. He allowed Since she first began leaching kindergarten, calls Cox mediocre goals by Craig Simpson on Edmonton’s eighth shot, Esa On Friday, from the classroom she has oc dians and Pilgrims. it has changed a great deal. Tikkanen on the 10th and Joe Murphy on the 11th. Kurri cupied for those 19 years, Sutton said that Those students benefit from Waddell’s loca Vernon, Bolum, Hebron, and An "Kindergarten was strictly playtime in those By Rick Santos set up the goals by Simpson and Tikkanen. when she took the job, she had never taught tion. because they can take walking trips to the dover. days." she said. But, it is no longer just fun and Manchester Herald 3 Edmonton’s Adam Graves got the first goal for the kindergarten and was not sure she would like hospital, the post office or a donut shop. Jurask said the comparision is un Kindergarten should be just what tire Ger ^ second consecutive game, at 8:38 of the firsy period and it. fair because United has just com man name means, Sutton said, — a children’s Please see TEACHER, page 10 Cable television in Manchester is The Auodalsd Prett ‘The job I took here was available. That’s pleted a major upgrade. He said Cox ' Kurri broke the tie with Gretzky at 10:53. Tliey were the “mediocre,” and needs to be im • Oilers’ only shots of the first period. HEADHUNTER — Craig Muni (28) of the Edmonton Oilers grabs Boston's Cam Neely proved, according to the state’s is upgrading. \ Ray Bourque, who had both of Boston’s goals in a 3-2, around the head during first-period action in Game 2 of the Stanley Cup Final Friday night public utilities’ consumer counsel. Juraska acknowledged that Koss’ ; triple-overtime loss in the apencT, cut the lead to 2-1 at job is to fight for the consumer, but at the Boston Garden. Edmonton whipped the Bruins, 7-2, to take a 2-0 lead in the best- “I’ve never said that Cox is ter 19:07 of the first period. Greg Hawgood’s first goal, on a rible,” said Eugene Koss, acting added: “He should be responsible as power play, tied the game at 2:56 of the second period. of-seven series. Ten tourists in Jordan attacked chief of the suite Office of Con well.” The Oilers didn’t even need to get a shot on Lemelin, sumer Counsel. Besides, Juraska said Cox’s fate who sat out Boston’s last 13 games, on a penalty shot to “But this is the lime when you lay is not in Koss’ hands but rather with By Jamal Halaby tinians by an Israeli near Tel Aviv on official said.

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