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— Serving Scotch Plains and Fanwood Since 1959 — THE TIMES JUNS Of nuiwooD S >tch Plains - Fanwood OUR 38th YEAR- IS UHMM1M FkfMtMl - FM*t Md M iMtth Mat. NJ. Thursday, August 14,1997 •MfjTkaniaji 232-4407 FIFTY CENTS ALL GEAR CARRIED IN ONE TRIP Fire Chief Urges Council to Okay '88 Utility Vehicle By SUZETTE STALKER which bids would have to be re- SptdaUy Wrtamjer lit Urn ceived. The Fire Chief reported, how- The Fanwood Borough Council is ever, that additional expenditures expected to vote during its regular would be required to get the vehicle William*. Buitotot ThtVirm meeting tonight, August 14, on "road ready," bringing the total cost William A. Burtulor TTm Vmm MOVING TO NEWLOCATIOM...Ray Pardon,proprtetorofNutsn'Plenty and whether to purchase a used support to $21,900. BRISK SALES...A shopper raises racks or clothes «t a shop'alonh l c Park PneJdenPresident of the Scotch PlainPlnins Business and Professional Association (SPBPA), utility vehicle for the Fanwood Fire These expenditures, the cost of Avenue in downtown Scotch Pkinsdurlng„ last week's. Scotch Putins „„Sidewal« k |MWtlBU.y .plctoutdaik*UuasdtheSidewalkSnteDaystoa^ Department. The vehicle would al- which the Chief described as "nego- Safe Days. Downtown merchantHunts reported brisk saleasks during the annunannunl l GreetingsGreetings, ,a store on Park Avenue which recently dosed. Mr. Pardon has event, sponsored by the Scotch Plains Business and Professional purchasedtheip««andU»exb^gmerchandise.Nutsn'Plenr*l«m«viiigfrom low firefighters to transport all their tiable," would include installation of a summer , p necessary equipment in a single trip, generator andaradio, plus brackets to Associatioon (SPBPA). • its Bartle Avenue location. enhancing their ability to do their hold air cylinders which are installed job, local fire officialsexplained last in firefighters' backpacks. In addition, week. the vehicle will requireapaint job and Scotch Plains Baptist Church Marks Its 250th During the governing body's new lettering. He confirmed that the agenda session hist Wednesday, Fire vehicle had been inspected and test- Chief Daniel Librandy made a de- driven, noting that a transmission seal tailed presentation to the council on it was the only thing which ap- Year; Founded by Parishioners From Piscataway about the need for the utility vehicle, which is currently available for sale BY JUSTIN BRIDGE ter of 1816-1817, when it burned to "However, the church stayed to- lege, will be speaking at the church. In breaking down the approximate from a Summit vendor. The 1988, SptdaUyWritunforVuTtmn the ground. In 1817, the church de- gether, despite those tensions," he According to Reverend Hutchinson, costs of the work to be done on the one-ton, ambulance-style unit has Over a week ago, on August 5, the cided to construct the "Old Meeting said pointing out that this is impres- "It's going to be a big heritage day utility vehicle, the chief estimated 45,000 miles and is the ideal weight Scotch Plains Baptist Church turned House." This building served as the sive for Baptists because in some service." the paint job would be $5,500; new and design for transporting aircylin- 250 years old, making it one of the church until 1871, when itwasmoved, areas, the Baptist churches split over The following Saturday, October 117-kilowatt generator, $3,000; ra- ders, foam,50-footrolledhoses hand oldest churches in the state. The with the help of oxen, down Grand "the littlest things" 18, there will be a dinner at The dio installation, $1,200, and $500 tools and other gear, Chief Librandy apiece forplacementof the air cylin- church even pre-dates Union Street. It then served as District Four- "You'll have your First Baptist Chanticler in Short Hills. On Sunday, Gpunty. teen School until 1890, the year that October 19, there will be a service said. der brackets and lettering on the Church here, a Community Baptist vehicle. He also showed the govern- .* The Reverend Charles "Chaz" School One opened. Since 1947, the held in the spirit of the Colonial era, Last month, the council adopted a Church there and so on, all in the resolution authorizing Borough Clerk ing body a computer composite il- Hutchinson, the Minister of Educa- CjrandStreetYMCAhas run the build- same area. But this church hasn't complete with Colonial costumes. ing. The church is holding these events in Eleanor McGovern to receive bids lustration of what the utility vehicle tion at the church for the past seven done that," he said. for the vehicle if necessary. Accord- would look like. years, relates the history of the October so that more people will be Another treasure relating to the Just across the street from the ing to the Fire Chief, the cost of the During its July 12 meeting, the church. home to celebrate along with the church'sbistory is its cemetery. Will- church is the Old Baptist Parsonage. vehicle itself is $11,200, which falls Chief confirmed that the department "Twohundrcdandfifly yearsago a church. iam Darby.the owner of the property in This sandstone building has been slightly below the threshold after currently has a main engine and a group of men and women from the 1743 markedoff the west corner of his standing for the past 197 years. The backup pumper, both purchased in Piscataway Baptist Church asked for Cum in order tohaveaplace to bury die building was also the site of the 1983, which carry firefighters, hoses a letter of dismissal so that they could dead. The oldest grave in the cemetery township's first library, with the and water tanks. He noted last week fonnachurchhere in Scotch Plains," belongs to Sarah Razee and is marked books having been stored on the that "every area we store equipment be explained. Seventeen parishio- 1754. second floor landing. The parson- in is very overloaded. We have abso- ners founded the Baptist Church in Reverend Hutchinson speaks of age has been the home for 23 parsons lutely no more room to carry any- Scotch Plains because the trip to one gravestone in particular, that of and their families. thing." Piscautway was, iu uiosc days, a very Caesar. Caesar was a slave who bad The pastors who lived in the par- There is also a 1965 engine, cur- long trip. fought in the Revolutionary War and sonage lived off whatever they rently servingasabackupunit, which "And not all of the women were a wasalsoa teamster. (In the late 1700s, could grow on 15 acres of the par- the chief said be expects will be sold Mrs. So-and-so.They were women on a teamster was someone who drove a sonage farm in addition to a small within the next couple of years. A their own. That was very unusual for wagon pulled by a team of horses.) salary and firewood. In 1868, the new engine will be purchased by the that day and age," added Reverend Caesar was originally a slave here in church trustees sold off the parson- municipality, and one of the 1983 Hutchinson. Scotch Plains until his owner, Dea- age farm in order to pay for the new models will be then be assigned as a The Baptist church is a mid-size con Drake, freed him. However, de- church. backup vehicle, according to the church, as far as Baptist churches go, spite having been a slave, he had Reverend Hutchinson has been the Chief. with an average Sunday worship of been amember of the church for over Minister of Education at the church The Chief stated that both 1983 100 people. 50 years, until his death on February for the last seven years. His responsi- vehicles are expected to be refur- In the church's early history, sev- 7,1806, at the age of 104. bilities include, butare not restricted bished in accordance with updated eral groups split off in order to form "In the day before the civil rights to, marriage and burials, youth work, National Fire Protection Agency stan- Baptist churches in other areas. Five movement, this was an integrated and preaching when the pastor is dards, including enclosing the cur- of these splinter churches are the First church where aman like Caesar could unable to preach. He lives in North rently open areas to provide greater Baptist Church of New York (estab- be a member," he noted. Plainfield with his wife, Carol, and protection for firefighters. lished 1762), Mount Bethel Baptist Another grave of mention belongs his daughter, Ashley. ROOM FOR EVERYTtUNG...The utility vehicle pictured above, currently Chief Librandy maintained that Cburch(establisbed 1767), the Lyons to the Reverend Benjamin Miller, the The church plans to celebrate its available from a Summit vendor, would ha able to transport all aecsawry Ore- the utility vehicle is needed to meet Farm Baptist (established 1769), the first minister of the Scotch Plains 250th birthday with a big celebra- fighting gear to asingkti^acroidiaf to Faawoodl^ the department's ever-increasing Baptist Church, who served from tion on Sunday, October 12. Dr. Tb«Chkfh«.m.tot^n^tlMtUMunBwoakI«kajK»flrell|itm'«bUrtytodo equipment needs, which be said have Samptown Baptist Church (estab- their Job and aho would allow room for such equipment as the "Jaws of Ufe." lished 1792), and the May's Lick 1748 to 1781. Tony Campolo, from Eastern Col- doubled in the past 14 years. He Baptist Church (established 1789) in Despite being a haven to all men noted that firefighters have had to Kentucky. and women, the church has seen its NEW OFFICERS Fill.VACANCIES IMFT BY RETIREMENTS return to headquarters from a fire "A lot of the early founders of share of strife. scene to get additional equipment, Scotch Plains were members of the "It's seen loyalists and revolu- or else have had to transport gear in church.

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