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Congratulations Lyndhurst High School Class of 1994 School News seepage' Civil Irresponsibility The Commercial seepage q Readie chosen to feel for j AU-County that the flame! of two seepage' snuffed out and the lives of two Simpson's children - were irreparably damaged. That's the greater tragedy and e one we should not forget Huznbzt I'ublkhi'd al 2jl Ki.lui' RnMl. I inilhiirsl. N.l. OF LYNDHURST Swimd Class Postage l'.iid Al Kullu rl..r d. N.l. 07070 LYNDHURST'S OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER 9 Published Weekly I SI'S 115 410 VOL. 76 NO. 46 THURSDAY, JUNE 23. 1994 Commission ok's funding for $5M renovation project By Margaret Myre New York and a division in tanks - all mandated by state law. Lyndhurst, will likely be appointed An ambitious $5 million plan to According to Ralph Cerrito, at the next meeting to oversee the overhaul the Lyndhurst town hall Lyndhurst granLsman, the township project. and library in accordance with fed- received a $156,000 Community Ebasco architects and engineers eral and state laws while maintain- Development grant in July 1993 for studied the buildings and compiled ing the historic integrity of the 75- an elevator and expects approval several plan options ranging from a ycar-old buildings won unanimous soon of another $115,000 for lava- simple ADA compliance to con- funding approval last week. tories for ihe handicapped. structing new buildings. Stcllalo 'Ihe Commission passed on June The Commissioners approved 14 a bond ordinance to provide said the Commission rejected building a new town hall and on final reading four other ordi- funds to renovate the municipal nances: to fix salaries for non- building, bring the library up-to- library as too costly, choosing instead the fourth of several union employees; provide $52,000 code, construct a shell linking the in capital surplus to relieve flood- two buildings and rehabilitate the options. He added that Ebasco will An end and a beginning - Shown here at Lyndhurst High School graduation ceremonies on June 16 are, make available to The Commercial ing on Lafayette Place; borrow firchousc. The bond has a 20-year $850,000 for various improve- right, (>wen Sanchez, class valedictorian; left* graduates tossing their caps. payback period. Leader within the next few weeks schematic drawings and a three- ments; and appropriate $620,000 The total cos! of the project is for vehicles and equipment. S6.5 million, with an estimated $1 dimensional model of the project. An ordinance to license land- million to be paid by Community Stcllalo noted that care was scapers working in the township, Development grants. taken not lo disrupt Ihe integrity of approved on first reading on May Principal wants to set An anticipated protest from the ihe buildings, which are in ihe 10, was dropped from the agenda. audience of mostly taxpayers' process of being registered as his- In the public hearing on advocates turned out to be surpris- toric landmarks. The shell will lie Ordinance 2233, to fix salaries of ingly mild, with polite questioning the two buildings together but will- civilian employees, the Commis- from just five residents. the record straight not abut them, he said. Instead, at sioners made no comment lo a sug- There was little anyone could least two feet between the new con- gestion by Nick Uliano of the By Margaret Myre from 3.5 to 4.2, and several have University); West Point (turned say because the renovations fall struction and either building will Lyndhurst Taxpayers' Association Lyndhursi High Principal James SAT's that break the thousand- down by Marc Bautis in favor of under the mandates of the contain an enclosed area with sky- to combine the positions of recy- Corino is proud of his school. point mark, with some soaring to the U.S. Naval Academy). Then American Disabilities Act, which lights. cling coordinator and grantspcrson It shows in the ease with which highs of over 1,300. The class there's McGill University in requires that all municipalities have The shell itself will provide a at a savings of $14,000. he guides visitors through its clean, valedictorian, dwen Sanchez, a plan in place by the end of next Canada, which has a special sci- number of functions, possibly quiet halls, addressing passing stu- scored 1,370. year to make public buildings firantsperson Cerrito flatly ence program (hat suits Peter including a mechanical room and dents by name. Virginia Testa, supervisor of accessible to the handicapped. 'ITiis denied Friday the assertions made DeCarolis, who's interested in records room. The three-story It shows in the eagerness with student services, says that below includes ramps into the buildings, by Uliano that he had said he'd be meteorology; Northwestern structure will house two elevators which he talks about teaching the top 12 are at least another 10 elevators and bathrooms with 36- willing to take on the added University, Rutgers University, the aiid iiivaioiics for me handicapped social responsibility and preventing youngsters witli 3.0 CiFAs, ;tii utk- inch doorways and special toilet responsibility for an $8,000 lo Fashion Institute of Technology. on the (hird floor, making them "the contamination in our society" iug honors courses. facilities lor use by ihe handi- $9,000 increase in salary. Purdue, and many others. accessible to both buildings. from entering the minds of his stu- The number is higher than that, capped. "For years Lyndhurst was Among the renovations and He said Uliano has been making dents. Corino points out. One-quarter of "This is not something that we known as the 1 lome of Champions repairs, including some to the oul- that recommendation, invoking his It shows in the comfori with the 120-member senior class want lo do, it's something that we for athletics and that's true, but in sidc structure, Stcllato named hold- name, once or twice a year for the which he approaches the topics of attained averages over 3.0, he says, need to do," Mayor Stcllalo told the last years we've had more ing cells that have to be brought up past five years and thai he has test scores, scholarships and col- demonstrating that "the reality is the assembly. "Ihe ADA is a fed- receiving academic scholarships, at lo code, Ihe need for sprinkler, ven- made his discomfiture known to lege acceptances. different from the perception." eral law." least 5-fold, maybe 10-fold," tilation and new electrical systems, the Mayor and Commissioners in Stopping the brain drain But there is a problem here in Corino says. "Sometimes the The construction, Stcllato said, and Ihe requirement to remove the past and again following last this small secondary school of 575 Changing the community's per- Home of Champions suggests would lake about two years. asbestos and underground storage week's meeting. students, Corino acknowledges. ception is Corino's goal. Me began that's the priority, but it clearly is Hbasco Industries, an international It's a poor image bom out of poor by opening the school to eighth not." corporation with headquarters in performance in the past and bad graders and ihcir parents, not on a publicity in (he present. scheduled Saturday as most high Pepe admits putting Corino says he's going to schools do, but during a regular change that image by focusing on school day. That's always a risk Lyndhurst, NAACP the positive tilings that never seem for an administrator, he admits, but hands on victim's neck it's one he's been willing to take in to get attention. Investigators produced damag- his quest "to separate reality from said in the statement. "I'm an advocate for our stu- reach accord ing evidence last week against John fiction. "The object of the game is to dents," he avers. "If I don't speak Pepe, the Lyndhurst man whose By Margaret Myre tight being dunked. So I mean, I up for them, who could or should?" "It's really opened the eyes of trial began last week in the mysteri- The Lyndhurst Board of ment, Lyndhurst will cease to fol- was Idling her dunk me, but she Hub of the community people who were educated here in ous death of a young woman in the Commissioners has approved a set- low or enforce its Personnel was lighting me, and I was dunking "Lyndhurst High School is the the sixties and seventies to the water off Lavallelte last summer. hub of the community and should drastic difference in the personality tlement agreement with the Ordinance with respect to recruit- her." The jury listened to a tape- be viewed as such by the communi- of the school, in the curriculum, in NAACP that ends the practice of ment and hiring municipal employ- Pepe's testimony is in line with recorded statemenl Pepe gave to ty," he says. "I want to focus on support services we offer, and in using residence as a criterion for ees, cease to use residency as a cri- the testimony of the medical exam- police shortly after the body of Lori the reality of what's happening in the mission of Hie school, which is eligibility for municipal jobs and terion for eligibility to compete for iner who performed McKinney's McKinney, 24, of Wayne, was dis- our educational programs rather to encourage our students in the forces the township to implement a municipal jobs, and cease to rely autopsy Dr. Hydow Park, a foren- covered in the surf on July 17, than the negative that persists out message that learning is a lifelong new recruitment program directed primarily upon word-of-mouth sic pathologist with the 1993.