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Union County • News • Arts • Entertainment • Classified • Real Estate Union County • Automotive WORRALL COMMUNITY NEWSPAPERS THURSDAY, MAY 11,2000 • SECTION B http://www.toca!«ouic&c«ii In their Assembly bill would Comparison of county tax levy, 1997-2000 , m' im IKS Cbmge Berkeley Heights $7,094,341 $7,913,617 18,370,956 $8,551,164 +S180.2O6 own right alter freeholder seats Clark SS,601,807 $5,363,129 $6,139,768 $5,332,667 •$192,899 Cranford S9,026,277 +S123.670 Georg's W. Bush anil Al Gore S9,306,«94 16,904,847 $8,904,607 By Mark Hrywna Gsiwood have one'thing in common. Aftei SI ,377,234 $1,399,666 $1,340,745 tl.346,430 +S7.685 Regional Editor Elizabeth -S370.101 some detours.they both ended up in $15,443,145 $14,674,095 ' $16,041,242 $14,671,141 - Republicans call it betler represen- Fanwood 52,343,375 the some professional field as their $2,423,075 $2,362,294 $2,408,778 •S26.484 tation of the people, bringing govern- ' Hillskle $4,327,759 $4,387,693 •SS.881 famous fathers. S4,4S0,S91 $4,382,012 mem closer to constituents, Demo- • Kenilworth $3,820,427 $3,668,079 $3,722,306 $3,750,619 +$28,313 Following in the footsteps of crats say the GOP is simply trying to Linden $12,343,861 $12,949,977 $13,018,563 $11,455,594 •S1.SS2.9S9 your parent is not that uncommon. overcome Us fuiilliy in recent elec- Mountainside $3,849,955 $4,120,739 $4,114,451 $4,172,760 +$58,309 • Bui for those making the second set tion!: by legislating a teat on the free- New Providence SS.031,291 $6,002,681 (6,091.012 $6,178,234 +S87.222 of prints the experience can be full holder board. PlainliekJ • $6,510,867 $6,370,368 (6,222,530 $6,176,214 -S46.316 of extra pressure and comparisons. A momh after a similar measure for Rahway SB,192.373 $5,961,711 55,933,120 $6,249,484 +S260.3O4 But it also brings out a special level Essex Couniy was approved by the Roselle $3,602,252 (3,526,755 $3,471,729 $3,386,251 -S85.472 of satisfaction when the kid; Assembly, Assemblyman Joel Roselle Park $2,620,981 $2,596,765 (2,543,426 $2,492,315 •S51.111 become successful. Weingarten, R-21, Iwl week intro- man .Alan Augustine, R-21, who Scotch Plains $8,738,961 59,526,150 (8,557,795 $8,816,156 +$258,361 duced legislation (hat would change served on the Union County freehol- Springfield $6,869,679 $6,487,960 $6,416,034 S6.351.986 -866,048 the Union County .Board of Freehol- der board during the 1980s and early Summit $14,476,822 $14,669,606 $14,657,669 $15,351,144 *S493.475 Left ^'rs from members representing the 1950s, and includes Robert Smith. Union $16,061,635 $15,691,724 $15,023,257 S14.949.389 -573,868 county at-largeto nine districts seas, D-17, whose district encompasses Wmlold $57,530 $56,852 $56,496 S55.425 -$1,073 where a freeholder would represent a Out Plainfield. WestlieU $14,711,656 (14,378,2(2 $14,464,749 515,018,846 +$534,097 portion of the couniy based on It is now up to Assembly Speaker population. By Frank Copece Jack Collins. R-3, who has aspirations Total $151,737,767 *(50,J37,7«7 4150,132,767 $150,132,767 SO The bill was released from the Stale of running for governor next year, to budget which will be up for final adop- Government Committee Monday by a Figures lor 2000 are based on the county Cynthia Dawley is an accon decide when or if, an Assembly vote. tion at tonight's freeholder meeting starting at 7 p.m. Change is the difference from ptished artist in Union County. He vote of 3-2, along party lines. The will lake place. ' • 1999 to 2000. Figures In Italics are the largest increase and decrease expected. • impressionist style of work will be • committee is chaired by Assembly- See FREEHOLDER,-Page B3 on display June 4 between 1 and 4 p.m. at St. John's Chapel, at 22 Mul- berry St, in Newark. The \* Include scenes from her native Groups gather for annual 'Standing Together Against Hate' Cranford, New York as.wetl as By Joe Lugara the rest of the class no( to say such things," "Know your beliefs and define them," Jones Jones cited'. the Mayflower Document. front international travels. Staff Writer Wannbrand said. • •. 5aid. "Beliefs mean something; they make "These 41 people where there by themselves. For Dawley. the comparisons tc Terri Warmbrand received a disturbing Warmbrand told the. gathering tjiat her son statements. Sometimes the haters know their They wrote about what they were going to do, the nationally famous Joseph Daw- phone call from her 11-year-old son last Wed- has suffered "humiliation, haiassmeni, constant beliefs better than we bow ours. We know what they believed in. how they were going to ley, her father, was expected. Hei nesday afternoon. , name-calling and threats to his life" atschool. what the symbols of the haters are — but what work, and they all signed it. It,means some- father's realistic style of portrait . Wannbrand, a Cranford resident and chair- "I went into his room one day and found a val- are our symbols? It takes a committment to be a thing, it says something, it makes a statement. aatt children at play gained hi* 1 believer." By not defining behaviors for people to do, we person for the Union County Committee entine from his teacher in the wastebasket. He 1 wide notoriety with his work eve 1 don ! know what we're supposed to be doing Against Hate, hosted the organization's sixth* doesn't find his school a safe environment. He As someone who works regularly with both hanging at the White House. A later tomorrow. You have to define behavior." . annual "Standing Together Against Hate" con- counts the days until he graduates. I count them police departments and community organisa- illness saw the ' senior Dawley tions. Jones also encouraged defining specific ference May 3 at Westfield's Temple Emanu- with him," State Attorney General John Farmer, who switch to an impressionist style, His behaviors. "We trcve to ask ourselves what kind El. Warmbrand's voice trembled as she told the spoke prior to Jones, asked, "How can we works are ardently sought at local Wannbrand offered the opinion that teachers of behaviors we want to see, In positive terms, galleries. several hundred in attendance her son's story often act "after the incident has occurred," and reconcile our Jeffersonial ideals, the notion that in our schools or from our police departments, 'All men are.created equal' with the treatment The younger-Dawley says that from earlier in the afternoon, added, "We need to respond immediately to . If you want to see respect, define respect. Most of African-Americans in this country? The only "painting was not- a childhood . "He called me today and told me that an these things," of us have some kind of general idea of what way to do it is to not think of African- dream." In fact, her parents flat out 11-year-old — a fifth-grader — announced in The evening's keynote speaker, Jimmie • respect is, but not many of us really have it very ' . Americans as people." , discouraged her from the field. class, 'PL all Jews.' My son is being raised Jones, Director of Police and Community Plan- clearly defined," Cynthia began her career in the cor- Jewish, and it affected htm." ning for the organization Facing History, and a In teaching children about intolerance, Jones "The challenge to world culture is to affirm porate graphics world. According to Warmbrand, the remark recipient of the Difliriewshed Educator Award said he uses cases in history "and-we talk about our own cultnres- without injuring those who "Playing around in my Father's resulted in a simple suspension, i "asfcetf thertV 'Sra^iytTirv^r^tecused Ms address l?bM people'^ md Kiri froth that." Aria* we try don't conform to our notions. We need to teach studio," she obviously got the bug. how the situation was being handled and they primarily on beliefs and behavior, and their to find places in our current times where that our children that they can define who they are Wilh humor she discounts the said they suspended the student and instructed importance In dealing with hate and prejudice. knowledge can be applied." positively." insults by those who felt the need to compare her.early work to her father. She even wrestled if it was better to sign her married name Fire Academy dedicates opposed to her mote famous maiden name to paintings. Dawley describes the experience new simulation area in terms of "all of a sudden" she Officials from the Union County Board of Freeholders, the City of Linden starting being judged on the content and NUI Corporation recently dedicated the newest addition to the Union of her own work. She bristles at the County Fire Academy in Linden, A natural gas emergency simulation area will question of whether her father lends allow firefighters to practice approaches to gas fires and leaks. 'a hand to her work. The daughter The practice area was built and funded by NUI and cost about $40,000. The was especially amused when ques- , Fire Academy is a Union County facility, part of the Division of Environmental tioned recently if she had helped Health and Emergency Management.
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