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To subscribe to the Record-Press, the area s best source for local news, call (800) 300-9321 WESTFIELD SCOTCH PLAINS FANWOOD Friday, January 22, 1999 50 cents Briefs ! Board may Jr. Women's Club to host baby contest WESTFIELD - The Junior Women's Club of alter WHS Westfield will hold its first Beautiful Baby Contest Feb, 1-13 at the Drug Fair ofWestfield. To enter the contest, participants must be new- grade policy born to 36 months. Parents should submit two photos, ByTlNAGUAMNO courses. Also, D and F grades no larger than 4-inch by 6- ltKt'OHU-l'HKSS would be exempt from the plus inch with the parents and minus suffix. name, childs name and WESTKIELl)—A proposed The current vendor providing date of birth, address and change to the Westfield High computer software- to the high telephone number on the School grading system has teach- school has assured Dr. Petix that back of the photo. ers and administrators debating ithe changes could be accommo- the pluses and minuses. dated. There is a $3 registra- tion fee, payable to The Representing the Westfield If the grading system were' Junior Women's Club of High School Council, High School changed. Dr. Petix recommended Westfield. Photos submit- Principal Robert Petix recom- a transition period where next ted will not be returned. mended including plus ami year's ninth-graders would The contest is limited to minus grades in the current receive the plus and minuses on the first 20 entries. All grading system at Tuesday's their report cards and their tran- other registration fees will Hoard ol Education meeting. scripts. be returned if your photo The consensus of the council I)r. Petix explained that the doea not make the first 20 was based on the concern that transcripts of next year's 10th, submitted. the current, grade range in too 11th and I2th-gradt>rn would not Drug Fair of Westfield broad. include the plus and minus will have a targe display Dr. Pelix said that a more grades because it would be table set up with all 20 accurate measure of a student's impossible to calculate previous Beautiful Babies photos. academic performance could be grades with the new grading sys- There will be a container determined with the plus and tem. for vooters to put their minus system. However, Dr. Petix Michael Seller, president of loose change and each gave three exceptions when they the Westfield Education penny equals one vote, All would not be used. Association, opposed the first two! GEORGE PACCIELLO/RECORD-PRESS He said there would be no Ag- exemptions to the grading pro- the monies raised will go Kritta Hicks, an 18-year-old senior at Scotch Plains-Fan wood High School, embraces her daughter, the the JWC local scholar- grades because he feels (his posal. He said that these exemp-; Alaysia Jot, after Tuesday night's girls basketball victory over Ptalnfield. The Hicks family will celebrate would heighten competition and lions would cause students to ship fund, which each year Alayaia's first birthday tomorrow. raises funds for local stu- stress, lie Haiti C and D grades "not be on ei|ual playing ground." dents. would no longer be weighted in "In the early stages of discus- The first place baby will Honors and Advanced Placement lContinued on page A-2) receive a $50 Savings Bond and second and third place Winning on and off the court will also receive prizes. Photos with the informa- tion and the registration Krista Hicks Commuters still fee to should be sent to The Junior Women's Club of balances roles Weatfield, PO Box 524, Westfield, NJ 07091-0524. pressing for rail by Jan. 22. of athlete, WHS students student and taking mid-terms single mom improvements 'WESTFIELD — PyTINAQUAHINO another to board the next train. Students in Westfield High ByMCHBEVENSCE I'KKSS "Navigating the crowded stairwells at. Newark is a night- School will be taking mid- RKCrmi) -I'KKSS term examinations the WKSTKIKLD- With a year of mare, especially since the week of Jan. 25-29. SCOTCH PLAINS — Krista accomplishments under its belt, announcements and monitors are The second semester of Hicks wants to make sure she is the Kiiril.au Valley Line so bad we never really know the 1998-1999 school year understood on one point. Commuter Commission iKVLCC) where to find the New York train. will begin the following The unmarried mother of 1- is on track with their goals for Track one, two, or A?" Bind Monday, Feb 1. year-old AJaysia Joi, employee of Michael Kinbinilrr, a founding Pizza Hut and Btudent-athlete at The KVI.CC ban determined member of Westfield KVLCC. Scotch Plains-Fanwood High that achieving same-platform "Kvery morning is a gueaHing Adult school offers School says she does not advocate transfers at. Newark will be the game" 4-MAT program young women in high school hav- group's top priority, since a "If we can't have a one-seat ing children. direct, one-seat ride to ride any lime soon, N.J Transit SCOTCH PLAINS — "No, it's not Homething 1 Manhattan is probably a genera- should at least provide a one The Scotch Plains- planned. No, I wouldn't do it tion away platform ride," Kinbindcr added. Fanwood Adult, Continuing again. I tell my family AJ won't Me said that when he began and Community Education Karilan Valley Line com- have a brother until she's 10 muters and the HVLC(' say that commuting a decade ago, same program is offering its 4- yeara old," said Krista, a senior MAT program at Pnrk in addition to improved commu- platform transfers were the rule and member of the girls varsity nication.1! ami better (rain sched- not the exception. Middle School, 580 Park basketball team. "But I'm glad it Ave. uling, the most immediate way "They provided the service happened." NJ Transit can help KVL riders before," Kinbiiider said, "They 4-MAT is designed to Tomorrow will not only mark crente nwareness as to why is by providing same platform should be able to do it again now." Alaysiu'H first birthday, it will transfers at Newark. Steve Cole man, spokesman for some ways of learning also mark one whirlwind year of work with some students Currently, commuters have to N.J Transit, said providing a same changes for the second-youngest exit the train at Newark, hustle platform transfer is it "real oper- and why others do not. member of the Hicks family. Yet, The first class on down a set of stairs at one plat- ational challenge" but. is some- Krista, 18, has responded to her form and up another set at (Continued on page A-2) Monday Jan 25 will deal new resjKmsibilitiex like one of with individual lenrning the family's eldest. styles. The second clans "We're very proud of her," Haul Tuesday, Feb. 2 will deal Krista's mother, Kobin Hicks, with wholeness nnd whole- who has shaved her own work brain processing. The third schedule as a patient tare techni- class Wednesday, Feb. 17 cian at Muhlpiilx>rg Hospital to will apply the natural cycle help cart" for the hahy while of learning. Alt classes will Krihta juggles her .schedule: meet 6:;iO-<J:30 p.m. home to school to vo-tech to prac- GEORGE PACCIFLLO/Rf COHO PRESS Cost is $25. Registration tice to work to homo again. Scotch Plalns-Fanwood senior Krista Hicks eyes the hoop with the is required in person at the "She's going to work, she's (in Plalnfleld defense bearing down on her Tuesday at Scotch Plains. adult school office in the the honor roll, she's playing bas- Hicks Is a starting forward on the Raiders varsity squad. Hoard of Education build ketball, ;ind she's lieen through ing, VJUHO Evergreen Ave. some big changes," Kobin said. "I senior's life without the help of gets home. For more information, cull admire her liecnusc she always her family And she's getting a lot "We really couldn't afford a (<>OH) 8H9-7718. of help. On any given day, Alaynia baby .sitter, and I still wanted her has a smile on her luce. You can't 1 help but be proud." may In passed from Kristn to to have a life," Kobin said. Krinta readily admits «he Robin to Robin'* iiiother-in-lnwto Meanwhile, Krista is lenrning could not carry out some Hem one of Krista's sisters and hark to a tnide. She leaven sclwol around Inside blanci" of a normal high school Krista again, lint not until she (Continued on page A-2» Commentary .. .A-4 Community Life .A-6 Obituaries .... .A-8 Woman is killed crossing street WEKTr'IELl) A Scotch ['lain* westbound on Ka.st. Broad Street, murks which IILCIIIIH we nin't inn- Sports C-1 woman was killed by a car after hitting Jnterdonato from the right point, where the aclual collision HUfMANNI WAf.Nf H.'li I' (.OHHt M'ONDFNT crosBinK a street in Went field with the right front of the car. occurred." Weekend Plus . .B-1 Monday. Detective Sgt. John 1'nnzeau No Humiiionses were issued and Ellen Interdonnta, 71, of said Mower told police she did not Moser's speed wan unable to be A day of remembrance Real Estate . .. .C-5 Montague Avenue in Scotch Plain** see fnterdomito crowning the determined. Dr. John Wlghtman. former pnstor of the First Congregational waa hit at 6:1,'*, p.m. after leaving street, Tho Westfield Rescue Hquml Church, receives nn award from Dolores Graves of the Dr.