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Ad Populos, Non Aditus, Pervenimus (908) 232-4407 USPS 680020 Thursday, November 18, 2004 Published Every Thursday Since 1890 OUR 115th YEAR – ISSUE NO. 12-115 Periodical – Postage Paid at Westfield, N.J. www.goleader.com [email protected] SIXTY CENTS DWC to Offer East Broad Street Trolley Rides, Devel. Approved Photos with Santa By BETSEY BURGDORF Specially Written for The Westfield Leader By KIMBERLY A. BROADWELL Lazafama, who had also testified last Specially Written for The Westfield Leader month, noted at the Monday evening At the Monday night meeting of Unanimously, the Planning Board meeting, that a parking survey was the Downtown Westfield Corpora- approved two projects slated for East done on Thursday, November 4, Fri- tion (DWC) it was reported that Holi- Broad Street proposed by A & R, day, November 5 and Saturday No- day Trolley rides will be available the LLC, one on the second and third vember 6. He stated that he saw many weekend of December 11 and 12, as floors of the PNC Bank building and spaces taken by other area residents well as the weekend of December 18 the other for the parking lot across the before the bank even opened and noted and 19. The trolley will begin at the street. The special meeting regarding that the busiest traffic day was on south side train station making stops the projects was held on Monday Friday. This he attributed to people at Lord & Taylor, East Broad Street evening. being paid on a Friday. Mr. Lazafama and Central Avenue. It will run from The first project involves convert- also stated that there would be a one- noon until 3 p.m. ing the second and third floors of the way access into the parking lot from Photos with Santa and Mrs. Claus PNC bank building, formerly used as North and Broad Street and two-way will also be held at the south side train offices into eight residential condo- access on Broad Street. station on Sunday, November 28, from miniums. PNC would continue its Board member, Jay Macdonald, noon until 4 p.m. operation on the first floor. asked Mr. Lazafama if he or any other A Holiday Gift Wrap will be avail- Last month, project architect, Bar- representatives had talked to anyone able this year at Liberty Travel lo- bara Vincentsen, testified that out of at the bank asking if any new market- cated on the corner of Elm and East the eight residential units, two were ing strategies would be implemented Broad Street on Saturday, December designed as two-story duplexes and in light of the new Commerce bank 4, 11 and 18. the remaining six were proposed as coming to town. Mr. Lazafama stated Beginning on Saturday, November 27, and continuing through Saturday, flats. Additionally, she stated that six that no one had talked to PNC offi- Benjamin B. Corbin for The Westfield Leader units were slated as having two bed- cials. TRIBUTE TO THE FORGOTTEN...Westfield’s Korean War Memorial was officially dedicated on Veteran’s Day last December 18, carolers will be roam- rooms and the remaining two units At the conclusion of the testimony, week. The memorial was built by Kevin Devaney as his Eagle Scout project and is a tribute to the three Westfield residents ing the downtown singing. The were proposed as one bedroom, with CONTINUED ON PAGE 10 who lost their lives during the Korean War. The photograph above is a collage. Dickens Carolers will be featured the smallest unit measuring 903 from 11:30 a.m. until 12:30 p.m. The square feet. The entrance to the resi- Watson Highlanders Bagpipe Band dential units would be on the second can be heard from 11 a.m. until 2 p.m. floor, where there would be a lobby Veteran’s Day Ceremonies Held in Westfield, and the Escape Women’s Barbershop with security. Quartet will perform from 1 p.m. This month Ms. Vincentsen testi- until 3 p.m. fied that she met with members of the The DWC has requested free park- Downtown Westfield Corporation S. Plains, FW Remember Those Forgotten ing for the holiday season and is wait- (DWC) and that it was decided that ing a response from the town council. the fountain that sits in front of the By LAUREN S. PASS II, the Korean War and Vietnam. the muse of history, watching over war” – Korea, was forgotten in “The added benefit of that would go PNC bank would be removed and a Specially Written for The Westfield Leader Westfield’s war memorials are scat- downtown. In 2002 the September 11 Westfield, until Westfield High School a long way,” said Executive Director small plaza area with raised Last Thursday, ceremonies were tered around town. The men who lost memorial became what we all hoped student Kevin Devaney came along. Sherry Cronin. Parking in the south flowerbeds would be put in its place. held in each of the area towns to rec- their lives during Vietnam are memo- to be the last of war memorials. For his Eagle Scout project Kevin side train station lot is always free Last month many members of the ognize Veteran’s Day and attendance rialized at the entrance to Memorial Westfield lost 18 young men in has now forever remembered the three after noon on weekdays and free all planning board stated that they had was high, showing that residents have Pool. There’s a small memorial to the World War I, another 85 in WW II, 10 Westfield residents who lost their lives day Saturday and Sunday. concerns over the parking in the PNC not forgotten those who have served Spanish American War on North Av- in Vietnam, three in Korea and 12 on during the Korean War. Fought from The DWC’s Economic Develop- bank and also stated that they were the United States and those who are enue. Most notably the World War I September 11. 1950 to 1953, 21 nations fought against ment Committee held a Community concerned about the number of en- currently serving. monument towers above with Cleo, In typical fashion, the “forgotten CONTINUED ON PAGE 10 Based Development Workshop for trances and exits into the lot. The Scotch Plains ceremony was local businesses to help them think Professional Planner, Michael held at the Village Green, at the inter- outside the box in terms of advertis- section of Park Avenue and Front ing. Mrs. Cronin personally visited Street. The War Memorial at the inter- Student’s Death in Mountainside most businesses in town to invite them Special Holiday section lists the names of those from to the workshop. According to Mrs. Scotch Plains whose lives were lost in Cronin, there was not one south side Publishing Date World War I, II, Korea and Vietnam. May Be Drug-Related, Police Say business owner who took advantage Next week’s edition of the While 89 Scotch Plains residents of the program. By KIM BROADWELL house while injuring and cutting him- teenager had been visiting. newspaper will be mailed to sub- served in WWI, only three lost their Specially Written for The Westfield Leader When southside business owner and scribers and placed in stores on lives. Twenty-four Scotch Plains resi- self. The report concludes by stating According to Mountainside Cap- board member Richard Fromkin dents gave their lives in World War II, In a shocking turn of events, Ber- that the teenager sustained more inju- tain Richard Osieja, an ongoing ac- asked the board to consider paying Wednesday, November 24 due to keley Heights teenager, Cole Barrier, the Thanksgiving Day holiday. three more in Korea, another three in ries trying to escape from the house. tive investigation is being conducted for a south side holiday advertising Vietnam and three on September 11. lost his life early last week after a Mountainside and Westfield police into the case. Lab results from the section in a local newspaper Mrs. Please submit articles and pho- confusing afternoon that started with tographs by this weekend to en- The September 11 memorial is lo- officers entered the home through the drug paraphernalia were not yet ready. Cronin said that the DWC did not pay cated on Plainfield Avenue. a visit to a fellow schoolmate who broken glass only to find the young Captain Osieja noted that although for advertising. sure consideration for publishing resides in Mountainside. – e-mail to: [email protected]. In front of the Fanwood Memorial student unconscious and bleeding earlier newspaper reports state that “Everyone is paying into the DWC Library, a simple plaque is set in According to a news release issued heavily. the teenagers might have been using Horace Corbin and the DWC focuses on the north stone listing the 12 names of those from the Borough of Mountainside Po- Police further noted that drug para- marijuana laced with formaldehyde side,” Mr. Fromkin said. Publisher lice Department, the 17-year-old stu- phernalia was found at the scene of or embalming fluid and phencyclid- who lost their lives during WW I and CONTINUED ON PAGE 10 dent of Governor Livingston High School the home in Mountainside where the CONTINUED ON PAGE 10 in Berkeley Heights died at 7:58 a.m. on November 7 after being rushed to Uni- WFD Controls Damage versity Hospital the day before. Because of patient confidentially laws and the WHS Students Support Kehler young age of those involved, police could not comment on the condition of the To Forest Ave. Complex teenage girl that Cole was visiting. Stadium, Track Improvements By BENJAMIN B. CORBIN On Friday at 3:01 p.m., Westfield According to police, the young man Specially Written for The Westfield Leader responded to a working structure fire was running through traffic on Route 22 By ED COONEY nance the construction of a new track homeowner approximately $18 a year.

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