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1 ^soHiof ■ £ ... ■ , iiiinii Ti i.i. iT 1.11 • Democrats a^ree on J6e, - fight over committee seats/4^5 ifflanrbpatpr Mpralb Monday, Aug. 1, 1988 Manchester, Conn. — A City of Village Charm 30 Cents Sewer plant fine OK’d DiRosa won’t reveal the penalty until negotiations end Bv Andrew Yurkovskv treatment plant. the amount of money tobe paid for a fine, Manchester Herald A proposal for the town to pay a $1.5 Twardy said that "a lot^trf dj^erent million fine to the Corps for iliegal work on factors” would have to be considered. Town and federal officials have reached the plant was rejected by the town last Director Ronaid Oselia said that federal an agreement on the amount of money to week, and sources ha ve said that Assistant officials “ have to extract their pound of be paid in fines and other costs for illegal U.S. Attorney Frank Santoro subse flesh" to show that they are treating work on the town’s sewage treatment quently offered to cut the fine to $500,000, deveiopers and municipalities that violate plant. Mayor Peter P. DiRosa Jr. said Corps officials have said that a $1.5 wetlands regulations in an equitable today. million fine would be the highest levied in manner. DiRosa said he expected an agreement New England and could be the highest “ According to Peter DiRosa, an accep could be reached by late this afternoon levied nationwide. table fine would be zero,” Oselia said. But even though other details of the settlement U.S. Attorney Stanley A. Twardy Jr what level would be acceptable to the had yet to be worked out this morning. said today that negotiations were "ongo Board of Directors, 1 don’t know.” “ I think there are just some details as to ing,” but he couldn’t say whether which party will do what when,” he said. agreement would be reached tq d ^ y^ Director Geoffrey Naab Would not say He would not disclose the amount of the " I ’m optimistic that we will be able<4o whether the town has a limit in mind for fine or the other costs. reach an agreement this week.” he said. the size of fine it would be willing to pay. DiRosa said last week that he thought it DiRosa could not be reached for “ 1 can’t comment on that — I won’t was possible a settlement could be comment this morning. Assistant Town comment on that.” he said. reached by today. The dispute centers on Manager Steven R. Werbner would not He said the motive behind the $1.5 the town’s failure to get a wetlands permit speculate today on when an agreement million fine originally proposed was "to from the U.S. Arm y Corps of Engineers for would be reached. send a signal all over the country that work on the secondary part of the sewope Aske^ how-a^ecision would be made on you’d better get your permit.” They’ve come a long way Bv Marie P . Grady and Aflilta M. Caldwell Marfehester.Herald — - Laurie Prytko can see the fruits of her success in shredded lettuce heads and assembled engine parts. She can measure progress in loaves of bread and piping hot Big Macs. But she really reaches nirvana every time another one of her retarded clients says, " I got a job.” In the eight years since Prytko left a job as a process engineer for Pratt & Whlfbdiy to become executive director of the Manchester Association for Andrew Vurkovtky/MinchMter Herald Retarded Citizens, the clientele at the MARC Workshop has tripled, and the % FLAGS AND SIRENS — Thomas E. Landers Jr. and his bride, profits from a MARC run bakery and - v - Ellen Burns, leave St. Bridget Church in a fire truck owned by thift shop have more than doubled, Eighth District firefighter Mark J. Sevetz. Landers, who is helping the workshop to fund $800,000 - )■ president of the Eighth Utilities District, and Burns, a district worrth o f its $1.8 million budget. director, were married Saturday morning. More than half of the 142 clients have r > v left institutions or the comfort of their families for community living arrange ments. Nearly a third are employed in /( Fire siren sounds off jobs ranging from convenience stores to machine shops to fast food restaurants. as Landers, Burns wed The apparent success story of the Manchester Workshop comes at a time when the state Department of Mental Bv Nancy Pappas about 225 guests attended the Retardation is coming under increas Manchester Herald ceremony and a dinner-dance at ing criticism from advocates for the The Jester's Court on Tolland retarded. Two department budget It wasn’t quite Prince Charles Turnpike. shortfalls that threatened as many as and Lady Di, but the Eighth It was very conventional, nothing 400 state-supported jobs for the re Utilities District had itsown "royal Raglnild Plnto/MmctMdar Herald out of the ordinary, he said. The tarded and the opening of several new wedding” this weekend. only unusual touch was the fire group homes result^ in unprece MAKING PROGRESS — Patty Rowe and her sister, Laurie Prytko, look at a Eighth District President Tho engine, he said, a 1955 American dented demonstrations by the retarded mas E. Landers Jr. married photo of themselves as toddlers given to Prytko by a woman who said she LaFrance tmek owned by district themselves. Those shortfalls have District Director Ellen Bums on had once babysat for them. Prytko, executive director of the Manchester firefighter Mark J. Sevetz. “ It was since been corrected. Saturday morning in St. Bridget brought up one day, and since my Association for Retarded Citizens, says that mentally retarded people like Church, as more than 200 people fiance and I were both firefighters, See WORKSHOP, page 10 her sister have made great gains In the last several years. watched, wept and witnessed. it seemed like a nice touch,” said After the Rev. Emilio Padelli Landers. pronounced the union to be both Landers said Sevetz operates holy and legal, the couple stepped Same Day Fire Department, a Gumshoes zero in on beach wastes into their coach — in this case, a private business which brings the long, bright red fire engine — and fire tmek to weddings and parades. Bv Robert Dvorchak good old-fashioned police work. We trace evidence trailer. Under particular scrut drove off. They were sent forth to The Associated Press iny are people who were caught dumping Today Landers was at work at his evpry marked item we can.” the "m usic” of the alarm from the before. landscape firm, but said he and his 'These gumshoes of garbage look for Eighth District Firehouse, next NEW YORK — Lt. Tony Rossano, one of names, dates and places so they can zero "There’s reason to believe we can wife will be taking a honeymoon. door. 13 city sanitation cops, sifts through in on the offending source. But most of the identify the bad actors who are illegally He would not say when or where. Over the past few months, syringes, blood vials and other disgusting seaborne slop, carried by the whims of dumping,” said Brendan Sexton, head of Landers and Bums have been And he was mum about the debris, hunting for the culprit who’s tides, currents and winds, either has no the city’s Sanitation Department. reluctant to answer reporters' couple’s future plans. “ We’re going dumping the infectious medical waste markings or waterlogged labels are "It looks like repeated dumping by a questions about their approaching to get a place somewhere in the tainting beaches in five states. unreadabig. smaller user,” said Mariene Gold, who nuptials. Today, however, Landers Eighth District, let’s Just leave it at " It ’s like the detective work on a murder More thtin 1,000 items of medical waste, heads the Sanitation Department’ s en- was more expansive, saying that that,” Landers said. case,” Rossano said. “We’re doing most of it syringes used to inject insulin or intei^ews, surveillance, followup, just illegal drugs, have been bagged in an See BEACH WASTE, page It IRA bomb kills one at London barracks* TODAY 20 pagM, 2 •Mllont Bv Maggie Jackson barracks in the wooded Mill Hill London Ambulance spokesman trapped for more than 30 minutes. Col. Chris Webb had said initially that 10 Business _ The Associated Press neighborhood. William Butt, commander of the CIsssIfled__ J people were injured. He said the dead Police had said there was no postal section of the barracks, said the Comics _ LONDON — An explosion and fire immediate indication the 7 a.m. man was a soldier. solider was saved by a radiator that Connsctlout. ripped through a two-story army explosion was caused by a bomb. Anti-terrorist police rushed to the shielded him from falling bricks and Focus _ _ _ barracks in north London early today, The barracks border the Finchley barracks and sealed off the area after debris. Local _ _ _ killing a soldier and injuring nine parliamentary constituency of Prime the explosion, which could be heard Butt said most of the injured had L o tts ry _ _ _ people, authorities said. The IRA Minister Margaret Thatcher, a prime more than two miles away, ripped burns or neck and back injuries. Obltuarlos_ A new comic, claimed reponsibiiity. IRA target. through a brick single men’s dormi Opinion _ _ ’McCall of the In a message to the Northern Two major hospitals in the area, tory block, the arm y said. The blaze was under control two People _ _ _ Ireland bureau of the British news Barney General and Edgware, re Soldiers dug through rubble to hours after the explosion, although Sports _ _ Wild,’ starts In _ agency.