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Your Local Connection April 12, 2007 North Brunswick * South Brunswick 500 Board of Education Elections 2007 South Brunswick candidates profiled Page 3 Entertainment Check out this week's Just Go! Page 25 JEFF GRANIT staff Quote of the week: Bernadette Pechilio (far right) gives a tour of Adult Day Services, North Brunswick, to Roni Salkin and her mother, Lila Lederman, as nursing assistant Kim Lozada (far left) guides member George Petrunyak back to the communal activity and dining area. See page 16 for story. 'We don't design on lightning sinking, we design on reasonable So* Brunswick hires firm to design turf fields engineering expecta- tions." During the meeting, Councilman Joseph that it would be better to construct two fields — Ken Fears Playing surfaces are Camarota said that nine different companies without lighting than one field with it, noting Page 18 offered to do the work, and the competition that a system can be installed at a later date expected to be installed yielded a good deal for the township. when more money is available. He said that at park by the fall "We had nine companies offer us a lot of good this decision was made due to the fact that Index ideas, and we were able to manage to get the daylight-saving time has been pushed back, Classified 36 best out of all of them," Camarota said. giving players more hours with sunshine and Crossword 27 BY CHRIS GAETANO The project in total is expected to cost at least reducing the need for additional lighting. The Editorials 10 Staff Writer $1 million, with at least some of the funding fields will be able to safely host events in all EntofuHAmuK • • • • • *25 coming from the county's open space trust fund kinds of weather, and the surface is expected to Obituaries 28 bout a year after the green light was in the form of two $500,000 grants. Watkins said last the township about 15 years. Police Beat 14 given for the project, the engineering that if there is still enough funding after all is "We're always short fields, and with these Real Estate 31 Awork for a pair of turf fields in South said and done, a lighting system will also be two, [they] really will not be subject to the 29 Brunswick's Harvest Woods Park, Culver Road, installed. weather and elements as much, because it could has begun. South Brunswick had tried to construct a few be raining and you could play on them. These During the Township Council's regular meet- additional soccer fields at Harvest Woods Park fields are all-weather fields," said Camarota. ing Tuesday night, the body passed a resolution in 2005, but still wanted one to be a showcase Design work on the fields will have started by awarding a contract for engineering work to a field for important local sporting events. To this April 11, with that phase ending in the middle of firm called Environmental Resolutions, which A Greater Media Newspaper end, an artificial turf field at Harvest Woods May. Construction is expected to begin sometime Township Manager Matthew Watkins said has Park was conceived. in mid-June. It is the hope of township officials www.gmnaws.com clont- favorable work for the township before. The Camarota said that after consultations with that the entire project will be completed by early work is expected to cost $75,000. turf companies on the matter, it was decided September, in time for the fall sports season. 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Three of them, Deborah Taylor, of Kendall Park, Harry Delgado, of Dayton, and Anna Tupe, from Monmouth Junction, are Sincumbents. The remaining four, Mahesh "Mac" Shah, of Monmouth Junction, Susan Santowasso, of Dejans, Arif Patel, of Monmouth Junction, and Surabhi Agarwal, of Kendall Park, are newcomers. On the same day, residents will also be voting on whether to approve a $94,583,348 tax levy that will fund the schools for the upcoming year. Surabhi Agarwal What areas need more attention from the board? This is a great school district, with a wealth of K-12 Upgrades and maintenance of our technology infra- opportunities including academic programs, safe and What sort of relationship should structure is critical, since it is integrated with instruc- caring initiatives, home and school relationships, after- the district have with Trenton? tion. Also, student performance. With the requirements school activities, technologies and diversity plans. How South Brunswick should of the No Child Left Behind law, all boards are more con- can we quantify the value of these programs and com- work closely with legislators to cerned with academic performance. We need to focus municate our successes to the community? find a sustainable funding for- very carefully on the performance levels of all our stu- What needs to be preserved? mula and increase state and fed- dents. The Academic Intervention and Wishes & Dreams eral aid. New Jersey needs a What needs to change? programs in the short term. In the long term, we must school funding system that is The state and federal government have set some very plan now to ensure that we can preserve vital programs fair and stable. high expectations for school districts. Therefore, we that are threatened, including our full-time kinder- How best to balance taxes and need to continue to develop a greater culture of account- garten. educational quality? ability. We need to recognize the goals and everyone How best to improve educational quality? The district should rank pro- must do its part whether or not we like the medium of Thinking in more global terms when it comes to stu- grams based on cost-benefit testing imposed upon us to meet these goals. ** dent success can better prepare them for work in a glob- analyses, increasing scrutiny of programs to evaluate What needs to be preserved? alized economy. Measure success and quantify the what is and isn't working, and should also explore envi- There is not one single most important thing in the return on investment in our schools. Our students have ronmental initiatives. Such initiatives will save the district I feel needs to be preserved. Rather, there are enjoyed high marks in math and sciences compared to school district money. various essential and valued components of an exem- their peers in New Jersey, but is there a way to compare What areas need more attention from the board? plary education in South Brunswick. Examples include them to their peers across the nation and the globe? Involvement with the community as a whole. I maintaining adequate teacher staffing, full-day kinder- How are you qualified? believe we need to create more community outreach pro- garten and a safe and caring environment. I believe I can offer the citizens of South Brunswick grams where we solicit feedback from the community. How best to improve educational quality? a unique vision, supported by the skills I've acquired in What needs to change? One way is to encourage individual mentoring con- the business world and beyond. As a second generation Embrace eco-friendly initiatives, increase attention nections between students and teachers.