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•••• Greater Newark's Hometown Newspaper Since 1910 •••• 94th Year, Issue 1 0 ©2003 March 28, 2003 Newark, Del. • 50¢ UP FRONT Council Strike up pumps the band By JIM STREIT it up NEWARK POST STAFF WRITER HORTLY after the first Council okays higher Sof the year, on "deadline day," the day of the · than expected costs week when I don't even have for treatment station time to eat, my phone rang. Elks Lodge·to get I usually take every call I By ERIC G. STARK receive but as the clock ticks state marker Sat. closer to press time, some NEWARK POST STAFF WRITER times I ask our office staff to By MANDEEP SINGH HITMAN, Requardt and screen my calls. WAssociates' $276,178 mistake Who I'm NEWARK POST STAFF WRITER is going to cost City of Newark trying to avoid residents. are the sales Newark CitY <;ouncil voted 6-1 to men. Ask any first predominantly African pass a motion to increase the contract person who American site in the Newark area will with Hart Construction Company for the runs a business. receive an historic state marker this · addition of a pump station at the South I'm sure they'll Saturday, commemorating 80 years of commu Wellfield Treatment Plant and to extend tell you they nity service. construction phase services to Whitman, get badgered ·The Elks Lodge on 57 West Cleveland Ave. Requardt and Associates for this phase. every day with Streit the frrst black owned property to be honored not one ot two, with the marker it will receive dming the 9:30 See COSTS, 5 .... but niany unsolicited solica a.m. ceremony at the site, said Victoria Owens tions. From temp services, to of the Newark Heritage Alliance. those who insist they will "This is a trumpeting horn for tht< Elks," help me "grow my business, she said. "The Elks Lodge is the social anchor Security, to callers with southern for the community." accents selling cheap light The marker recognizes bulbs, they all hit me the contributions of the Members of the Elk lodge include, up ... constantly. .Elks to the local com from left to right, Shirley Slay, Gary Hayman, Morris Patrick Jr. pot holes I run a business that munity. The Elks 35 (Elks lodge president), Clarence depends on the effectiveness · members,. and. their ·of its sales force so I always Whigman and Charles Hall. feel a tinge of guilt when I hot topics don't take calls from "Chris · Temple's 34 members, work with of the National Marketing the group in sponsqring community Group," no matter how events. By ERIC G. STARK pressed I am for time. They sponsor youth programs, The phone beeped that fellowship events and benevolent NEWARK POST STAFF WRITER day and Kathy Burr outreach programs, Ownes announced it was "Andy wrote in a press release. RANSPORTATION, ·Homeland about a sponsorship." There are three criteria that .T Security, smoking and even pot "Oh no, not another sports a property must meet in order holes were some of the topics dis calendar," I thought, as I to be nominated by the cussed during Tuesday's Town Meeting almost dove under the desk. Newark Heritage Alliance. hosted by State Representative Tim For a split second, I thought The building must be archi- Boulden and State Senator Liane about asking Kathy to tell my tecturally significant, have Sorenson at John R. Downes Elementary good friend Andy that I just someone of local standing con School. Boulden and Sorenson discussed leg See UP FRONT, 13 ~ nected to the building, and con tribute to the spirit of the com- islative issues and answered questions . munity, Owens'said. from about 60 constituents. They also The Elks lodge, she said, is invited representatives from the state not considered structurally sig department of transportation (DelDOT), nificant. However, the group's the Department of Homeland Security, involvement and history within Newark Police and city government to talk about the community and answer questions. Tom Myer, Special Project Manager for DelDOT told the audience about 7 99462 00002 3 See MEETJNG, 27 '. PAGE 2 • NEWARK POST • MARCH 28, 2003 737-0724 • Fax 737-9019 NEWARK PosT ·:· POLICE BLOTTER Can we help? • Police Blotter is compiled Offices: The paper's offices are each week from the files of the ELAWARE State Police located conveniently in the Newark Police Department, New D arrested five Shue-Medill Robscott Building, 153 E. Castle County Police and the Middle School students Chestnut Hill Rd., Newark, DE Delaware State Police by the recently on drug-related charges. 19713. Office hours are 8:30 newspaper staff Police said that on Wednesday, a.m. to 5 p.m. weekdays. March 12, a school administrator at Shue-Medill, 1550 Capitol Trail, Phone: (302) 737-0724 was contacted by the parent of an Facsimile: (302) 737-9019 eighth-grade student who advised Two robbed that her son had been acting "dif e-mail: [email protected] ferent" lately. The parent requested To subscribe: Call 737-0724 or that the school administrator check 1-800-220-3311. Cost is at gunpoint on the welfare of her son. $15.95 per year to New Castle The student, a 13-year-old County addresses. To begin a EWARK police are investi male, of Newark, was summoned subscription, simply call. N gating an armed robbery that to the office. He was found to be occurred at the rear of the in possession of six small plastic To place a classified: Call 737- PNC Bank in Newark Shopping bags containing marijuana in his 0724 or 1-800-220-3311. Center on Friday, March 21. pants pocket. He indicated he To place a display ad: Call 737- Newark Police reported that two intended to sell the marijuana. He 0724 or 1-800-220-3311. victims, robbed at gunpoint, were a was also in possession of $11 cash. 15-year-o~d boy and a 19-year-old Several additional students HE STAFF of the Newark Post is man. were also implicated and sum Teager to assist readers and advertis The first suspect were described moned to the administrator's ers. Reporters, writers, editors and as a 17-to-18-year-old Hispanic office. salespeople can be contacted as listed: male, five feet seven inches tall, with Among the students sum James B. Streit, Jr. is the publisher a shaved head, wearing a baseball hat moned, a 16-year-old male was of the Newark Post. He sets policies and and gray pants with white stains. The found to be in possession of manages all departments in the Newark second suspect is described as a 19- . $1,736. No drugs were found in office. Call him at 737-0724. to-20-year-old black man, six feet Eric G. Stark is the news editor. He tall, wearing a black baseball hat, leads the day-to-day operation of the black leather jacket, white shirt and attacked. Fou_r questioned Sunday, March 23. Officers learned newsroom. Call him at 737-0724. jeans with white spots. The victims told police they were that a man had been assaulted during walking along East Mail} Street near a fight. Marty Valania prepares the sports Police said the suspects fled Four men were taken into custody pages of this newspaper. The sports toward East Main Street. Academy about 2 a.m. when they at a home in the unit block Renee Witnesses were interviewed and editor is seldom in the office , however, were attacked from behind by three Court at 5:20 p.m. on Saturday, warrant procedures explained, police he checks in frequently. Leave mes- · assailants. Both men were struck in March 22, by Newark police for said. The victim was taken to sages for Marty at 1-800-220-3311. Identity theft the head. One of the victims was questioning after police were alerted Christiana Hospital for treatment of a At 4:26p.m. on Friday, March 21, treated for a laceration of his fore of a burglary in progress. cut above his eye. Kathy Burr is the office manager head. Investigation is continuing, police and editorial assistant who processes Newark police were asked to investi gate a case of identity theft when a The pair told police they did not said. most press releases. She prepares know of any reason why they would obituaries and People briefs. She is Florida resident told officers that his Burglary attempt assisted by Ginni Buongiovanni. Social Security number had been be attacked. The assailants did not Fight on parking lot Contact them at 737-0724. used to open a fradulent charge ask for mm-iey nor did the victims say A burglary apparently was account. anything to the suspects prior to the Newark police said they came thwarted at 1:38 a.m. on Sunday, Robin Broomall is a staff reporter. attack. upon a ·large crowd gathered in the March 23, by residents of a home in Reach her at 737-0724. Collections officials had told the victim that "his" account tallied Investigation is continuing. rear parking lot of the Ground Floor, the 200 block Orchard Road. Phil Toman has been the paper's $1,800 in sales without any pay 60 N. College Ave., at 1:25 a.m. on Police were told that the residents arts editor since 1969. Well-known in ments. were upstairs when they heard glass the arts community, he writes his Police learned that the address on breaking. They yelled and turned on weekly column from his Newark home. the credit card was listed to a Main lights to discover that the glass in a Leave messages for him at 737-0724.