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The Commercial debate see page >3 Clean sweep for H. S. footballers see page - 7 OF LYNDHURST 25C . PakHafctd at 251 Rldgc Road, Lyndhurst, NJ. Sana* CUm Poata(' Paid A l Ralherford, NJ. 07*70 Satan I (Ition SS.00 - Published Weekly USPS 125-420 VOL. 75 NO. 10 THURSDAY, OCTOBER IB, 1992 Thousands attend anniversary party By Margaret Myre They came early and stayed late. Historical Society bore desks and That’s how the organizer of manequins of teachen and stu Lyndhurst’s 75th Anniversary cel dents to show how The Little Red ebration, Ben Capaccio, measured Schoolhouse looked early in this the success of the parade and centuiy. afternoon entertainment which brought out an estimated 2^00 Lyndhurst’s ethnic pride showed people on Saturday. as well. UNICO had its float, as did the Polish American Citizens Club. The rain came early, too, and Matching were children in colorful missed the whole thing, leaving | ly embroidered Polish costume* behind plenty of sunshine on what and memben of the Polish Ameri had been predicted to be a wet can Congress. The Turkocaji of morning. New Jersey and the Lyndhurst Cultural Group appeared, too. Shouts of “Here they come!” Representing the future were greeted the Police Benevolent the Brownies, Girl Scouts and Cub Association’s Color Guard at the Scouts in uniform, as well as the head, followed by the Lyndhurst Lyndhurst Recreation Depart High School Band. Shiny fire ment Dance Group in black tights trucks, representing towns from and white sweatshirts, and the North Arlington to Wallington, children of the township’s public along with the fire department’s and parochial schools. underwater search and recovery unit, blended amiably with Just about every organization Lyndhurst’s 1917 fire engine with its and church in the township made a shiny bell and utilitarian lanterns. showing in the parade. Along with the musical entertain The parade, by intent or inclina ment that followed at the tion, had a patriotic theme. One Lyndhurst Corporate Center were float bore a banner that read “Let rides and clowns for the children. Freedom Ring,” a reference to a Capaccio said the children lined up replica of the Liberty Bell and 20 at a time fotee Cbooo the Magic Statue of Liberty on its flatbed: The Clown make baUoon* and perform N J. Colonial Militia, the Westfield magic tricks. Fife and Drum, and the Daughters of the American Revolution dress “The Idds had a ball,” Capaccio ed in 18th century garb. Going back said. “We had rides, a ball crawl further into American history, and moonwalk, and a train cucling Christopher Columbus, dressed as around.” depicted in school books, waved a Capaccio heaped praise on the navigator’s map as he marched entertainment provided by the behind the Knights of Columbus, Three Cheers, Tina Rizzo and her themselves in full regalia. A num band, Jan and John Jeffrie*, and ber of World War II veterans opera star Linda Heimall and her joined the line of march, while a company. lone World War I soldier rode the “Linda was outstanding,’ he route by car. A float from the said “She got a standing ovation.' Illegal parker fined I t’s deja vu all over again in Lyndhurst for assault on officer HMDC gives parks funds to Lyndhurst; A man attempting to keep a to move the car but she said it was Lyndhurst special officer from too late. He said he decided to $’s offset town’s tax pool share handing him a street cleaning move the car across the street to ticket, jumped in his car and pull the mall parking lot. By Margaret Myre HMDC will grant Lyndhunt HMDC went into effect in the early and Copper Ridge is part of it The ed out, striking the officer and “Somehow her hand came into Somebody up there likes $360,000 from Park Development 1970’s. logistics is simple, the calculation knocking her to the ground, the window unexpectedly,” Lyndhunt. Bonds and will be willing to assist “We calculate the additional complex.” according to last Thursday's court Poloso said. “I saw the side of her Last year, the township recover the township with development ratable® which have come into There’s nothing complex about testimony on the Sept. 22 inci arm. The book came in the win ed $L5 million in state school aid plans and maintenance require effect in a town and are put into the Lyndhurst’s getting a $360,000 dent. dow.” that it had not deserved in the first ments. tax tolls in a town,” Bora said. grant for a ballfield from an Judge James A. Breslin found Poloso said that after the acci place and had lost along the line in Also as part of the agreement, "Based on that, the formula calcu HMDC Park Development Bond, Gary Poloso guilty of simple dent, he saw her hold her wrist a tug-of-war with the State Educa according to Primas, is a 99-year lates the amount a municipality offsetting the $391,000 paid by assault and fined him $500. and sit down on the ground. He tion Commission. lease from Lyndhunt to the either will receive or pay into the Lyndhurst to the HMDC tax pool- Breslin said he wanted to make it admitted that he was illegally The Township recovered the HMDC for hundreds of acres of HMDC pool. The end result i»that even though it took in millions in clear that special officers must be parked but said he had no intent Funds through the efforts of the wetlands now claimed by the town some municipalities receive and ratables while other towns got no able to walk the streets and do to injure anyone. Florio administration, who order ship. The lands will be preserved in some pay.” new development at all. their jobs without fear. Poloso admitted he had hoped ed the state Treasury to transfer their natural state, Primas said. For example, Secaucus will pay There’s nothing complex, either, Poloso testified he did not see she would use her discretion and money from a state health However, the HMDC has juris about $2.6 million this year, while about the township’s getting discre Special Officer Betty Sliwoski not write up the ticket and became employees benefit fund to the State diction over that land and more Kearny, with little development, tionary school aid which was sup standing alongside or in front of frustrated when she told him it Department of Community Affaira than 20,000 acres spread will receive almost as much from posed to go to districts hard-hit by his car when he pulled away. He was too late. (DCA), with instructions to pay the throughout parts of 14 Hudson and the Commission as Secaucus pays. Florio’s Quality Education Act said he had rolled down the win Sliwoski testified she drove up money to Lyndhunt. The matter is Bergen County communities Secaucus has brought suit against Lyndhunt is a Democratic town, dow after starting his car and that in a marked Suzuki jeep behind a now under investigation by the anyway, according to the Act which the HMDC, challenging the con and somebody up there likes it she came from behind the car, car parked on Delafield between State Commission of Investigation. created it. stitutionality of the qrstem. stuck her hand in the window and Court and Valley Brook some The chairman of the DCA was What the grant for the ballfield Lyndhurst’s Copper< Ridge Fire Department dropped the ticket book into the time before 11 a.m. MeMn R. Primas, a Florio appoin does, intentionally or not, is repay development came on the tax rolls car while he was pulling away. She said Pokno ran across the tee, who was also chairman of the the township a portion of the in 1990, turning the township into a runs Annual Sliwoski testified she was stan street and asked her not to give Hackensack Meadowlands $391,000 it must take from it this payor rather than a receiver. (Last ding between the front tire on the him a ticket. She a id she told him Development Commission year under the Commissioa’s tax- year, Lyndhunt received 82,000.) Fund Drive driver’s side and the windshield, it was too late, that the sweeper (HMDC), based in Lyndhunt. sharing system. According to Bora, for every $100 In attempting to put the ticket on the had already passed. The HMDC likes Lyndhunt, too. Under the Intermunidpalities taxes * town generates, they put $5 The Lyndhurst Volunteer Fire car when Poloso began to move Poloso said, “Cut me a break,” Last month, the HMDC entered Tax Sharing Formula, the towns to $10 into the pool. Department is holding its Annual the car. She said the side mirror Sliwoski testified, got into his car into an agreement to provide the with the most development pay "The town [Lyndhurst] had to Fund Drive. struck her wrist and she fell to the and bolted out, hitting her in the township with a $360,000 grant (or into a pool which the other towns receive more than $3SioOO in According to Fund Drive chair ground. wrto and causing her to fall. She the construction of a ballfield com draw from. There are M towns taxes,” Bora said. “If you were to man Richard Pizzuti, all Lynd Poloro said he had parked his said he stopped the carrot out and plex near the HMDC administra which come under the Commis take a good estimate, the total hunt residents should have receiv car on Delafield Avenue and was said, “Let me help you to the curb tion building and Environmental sion’s domain.

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