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> / •!• Greater Newark's Hometown Newspaper Since 191 0 •!• 92nd Year, Issue 14 ©2001 April 27, 2001 Newark, Delaware • 50¢ Stamp Show Cadets march Newark falls among events to big finish. to Caravel. this week. - PAGB6 PAGE 7 Page tO Center for Newark joins in . Creative building power plant · Arts plan Newark has a 47.4 percent City expects to share in the project, which also on hold save an average includes Clayton, Middletown, Milford, New Castle, Smyrna, $2 million annually and Seaford. Dover already gen­ Sewer capacity erates its own power and the By MARY E. PETZAK town of Lewes, which has a four­ among concerns megawatt generator, withdrew NEWARK POST STAFF WRITER from the project in October 2000. By MARY E. PETZAK According to Newark city ewark city council took manager Carl Luft, the corpora­ NEWARK POST STAFF WRITER N another step toward tion intends to borrow $34.8 mil­ maximizing the city's lion to fund construction, operat­ lans to put an arts center utility services by agreeing to ing and maintenance reserves, P on a piece of land in join six other Delaware towns in legal expenses, t>ond insurance White Clay Creek building their own electric gener­ and contingencies. Construction Preserve are on indefinite hold ator plant. costs for the power plant, ware­ since county planners discovered Newark residents are already house/office bui\ding, and related there is no sewer capacity" at the building their own reservoir and improvements total $29 million. site. an iron removal treatment plant Patrick McCullar, president of Scheduled for review by the to preserve water resources. DEMEC, said a peaking power New Castle County planning By November, the city will be plant provides "quick start capa­ commission on April 12, the item able to use almost 50 percent of bility" and will be used by the was continued at the last minute the output from a 45-megawatt corporation to avoid high energy because of the sewer problem peaking power plant near costs on short notice at certain "and other reasons" by the chair­ Smyrna to be owned by seven of times of the year. man of the Center for Creative the nine towns in the Delaware As demand peaks, usually Arts Building Committee. Municipal Electric Corporation Members of the Center want (DEMEC). See POWER PLANT, 2 .... to build a 37,000 square-foot 7R acres which were l~d-by-the state of Dela~~~. The planned one-story, free­ I form arts center with a mezzanine would have 13 classrooms with may save open space parking for 210 vehicles. Nearby residents objected because that was when the origi­ strenuously to the project at civic Salem Church nal plans were approved," said meetings although county and Jim Smith of the County land use state planners found it an accept­ Road development department. "(But) most of the able parks and recreation use. environmental regulations are Gerald Kaufmann, a Water is under scrutiny under the Unified Development Resources Agency engineer at By CHRISTINE E. SERIO Code that was passed in 1997." the University of Delaware, said The site owned by developer he had "no objection (to the plan) NEWARK POST CONTRIBUTING WRITER Frank Acierno contains 90 per­ as long as impervious cover is cent critical natural areas. low and the site is designed to fit esidents of nearby com­ According to Don McCombs of in with the character of the state R munities are worried the land use department, a critical park." about a 688-unit devel­ natural area is land that is "some­ The property situated between opment planned for an "environ­ what environmentally pristine Pleasant Hill and Paper Mill mentally sensitive area" between and . may consist of rare plants roads near Comer Ketch Road is Beck's Pond and Reybold Road and uncommon natural features." c;urrently undeveloped land with on Salem Church Road. Such areas are identified by a mixture of "open fields, mixed The preliminary plan for state and federal agencies, but hardwood forests and forested French Park consists of 396 regulated by county codes, wetlands," according to the apartments and 292 townhouses McCombs said. Therefore the orester who inspected the site for on 101 acres with 49 acres of areas are not protected on the the county. open space. French Park site. County planner Jim Smith "Legally the plan has to be There does not seem to be any said whatever is built on a site, regulated according to the (New Castle) county laws from 1974 See FRENCH PARK, 3 Ill!-: See ARTS CENTER, 2 .... INDEX New Street cemetery fence to be completed in May? stones, and that's a ·mudhole right now." NEWS 1-3, 5 B.roken headstones are part Armitage and Walters both said the ground's of litter pilin{J up along been too wet most of tliis Spring to finish the fence POLICE BLOTTER 2 on time. CSX railroad tracks "They need three dry days in a row to put in the OPINION 4 footers," said Armitage on April 10. "Otherwise, By MARY E. PETZAK you tear up the ground when you bring trucks in." THE ARTS 5 Walters said the footers are now in but they need NEWARK POST STAFF WRITER dry ground to continue. "We next brace the vertical LIFESTYLE 6 members in concrete," Walters explained. "We need dry weather to bring in trucks to pour concrete." DIVERSIONS 7 he much-promised fence along the CSX rail line at the Newark Cemetery at New and Concrete also was the question of the day when T hundreds of pieces of broken headstones caused a PEOPLE 8 Chapel streets is supposed to be done some­ time in May. Yes, that's next month, not next year. flurry of telephone calls from a concerned citizen recently who thought the fence construction had COMMUNITY 9 The wall increment, being built with a combina­ tion of CSX Railroad, University of Delaware, city damaged the gravesites. SPORTS 10-11 of Newark, and state of Delaware assistance, was "I got a phone call, the city got a phone call, the Newark Police got a phone call, the church got a proposed in 1~98 after years of safety concerns OBITUARIES 13 about students and others crossing the railroad phone call - everybody got one," said Armitage. tracks at the cemetery. Families of those buried "We looked into it and found that the cemetery CROSSWORD 15 there also requested the fence because of vandalism workers have been throwing the pieces down there in the cemetery. for years. It had nothing to do with the fence being CLASSIFIEDS B1-6 Funding, negotiations about the railroad right-of­ built." way, and fears of damaging gravesites resulted in Walters said he was "flabbergasted" when he delays for two years. Finally, in September 2000, first saw the broken concrete pieces. ''These are the University of Delaware department of facilities hundreds of brokel,l remnants of markers discarded over the years." explained Walters. "The original \ I agreed to take on the remaining work of completing the fence which is an extension of a University headstones (that may have been destroyed over a fence along Frazer Field. Community members are period of time) were replaced with new markers and still waiting to see it completed. · these were thrown down in a heap." Rick Armitage, director of government relations Newark residents John Adams and his wife main­ for the University, said recently that the work would tain the cemetery and identified themselves as care­ be done by the end of April. However, facilties takers there on a recent visit. Adams pointed out director Dick Walters, said last week "that is too damage to the cemetery fence along the street which optirnisitic" a schedule. he said was caused when a truck hit it. "When is it going to stop raining?" responded Asked about reports of many broken headstones, Adams said the only damage was one recently Grave decorations as well as hundreds of large (insets) and small 7 99462 00002 3 Walters rhetorically, when asked about the fence construction. "We're working along what is really a See CEMETERY, 2 ..,. pieces of broken headstones are part of trash strewn along CSX drainage ditch, in order to avoid damaging grave- tracks outside new wall (left) of Newark Cemetery. PAGE 2 • NEWARK POST • APRIL 27, 2001 Visit us on the World Wide Web trl NEWARK PosT •!• IN THE NEWS PouCE BRIEFS Underage drinking was stopped at Manuel Street and police Arbuckle allegedly fol­ Road closing East Park Place. lowed her to a child care resi­ and driving in Newark dence in Hillside Heights where will delay Red Bear teen killed in Newark Police charged Robert Man arrested he pulled in behind her vehicle · Clay school buses M.Thompson, 18, with zero tol­ and displayed a silver badge. The Delaware Department of erance underage drinking and for impersonating He claimed the woman was Transportaton has permanently single-car collision driving under the influence after a state trooper speeding and asked to see her closed Old Wilmington Road at he was stopped for a traffic viola­ New Castle County Police license. When she became suspi­ Lancaster Pike because of safety New Castle County Police are Budney was traveling east bound tion at Elkton Road and West charged Jay Arbuckle, 29, 'of cious, he drove off without issu­ concerns. investigating a fatal crash involv­ on Southwood Road when he lost Park Place on April 21. Claymont with criminal imper­ ing a ticket. Old Wilmington Road is cur­ ing a single car collision in control of the vehicle as it passed Around 2 a.m.

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