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Newa k's Hometown Newspape Since 1910 .:. 97th Year, 11 th Issue ©2006 April 7, 2006 Newark, Del. • 50¢ City names park Up FRONT for natural resources' advocate Miller Polls By CHRISTINE NEFF Jack NEWARK POST STAFF WRITER open OROTHY Miller is back -.,,--.. set out more than 40 years ago to learn more about the birds Tuesday By JIM STREIT in her backyard. She didn't know, then, a simple NEWARK POST STAFF WRITER class on birding would Three candidates vie change the course of her life's suspect that last Friday , work. for District 6 council seat was a bad hair day for The Newark resident, who Wendy Lapham, the still keeps her binoculars close By CHRISTINE NEFF Christina School District PR at hand, remembers the May chief. The front-page head day in'64 she journeyed into an NEWARK POST STAFF WRITER line of the Wilmington daily area of the White Clay Creek shouted legislators' contempt as a birdwatcher and came out a ISTRICT 6 residents will head to for what has been dubbed dam fighter. Dthe polls on Tuesday, April 11 to as Christina's Prompting the transformation, a elect a new representative to the unauthorized tax classmate remarked of the land, "This Newark City Council. increase. is so lovely. Isn't it a shame it's going Polls will be open from 7 a.m. to 8 When "bad to be underwater?" p.m. at the First Church of the Nazarene press" is printed, That's when Miller learned of at 357 Paper Mill Road. Absentee ballots communications plans to build a darn and reservoir on may be obtained at the City Secretary's directors for the White Clay Creek to supply water office until 5 p.m. on Monday, April 10. public agencies to New Castle County. The darn would Three candidates are vying for the often endure have flooded a large portion of what seat formerly held by Kevin Vonck, a bosses charging is now the White Clay Creek Park and graduate student at the University of into their offices, Streit Preserve. Delaware who chose to not seek re-elec waving the But Miller wouldn't hear of this. tion to concentrate on his studies. 1\vo defamatory newspaper arti "So, I became a dam fighter," she said, of the candidates, Charles Barba and cle, with orders to "fix it." matter-of-factly. See ELECTION , 13 Of course, PR chiefs are She and like-minded citizens and not going to fix anything. groups such as the Delaware Sierra They can offer explanations Club and United Auto Workers protested and alternative interpreta the project, helping to change public tions of the facts in a story. Empty The media are not going • to allow themselves to be • fixed; each reporter, editor and news organization has its promise own standards and criteria for what and how something is covered. Construction on hold With the latest Christina with no functional way controversy arriving on the heels of a defeated referen to get education money dum and departed superinten dent, Lapham's office prob By MARY E. PETZAK ably has had many visitors. But she is not alone in NEWARK POST STAFF WRITER facing PR challenges for TATE funds intended for the com Christina. Her predecessors pletion of new schools and building endured a frequent poke upgrades throughout Delaware are going largely unspent due to difficulty of See F raising local matching funds. Governor Ruth Ann Minner put mar ket pressure funds for school construc tion prominently on her list of budget initiatives for improving schools in 2005. The Delaware Legislature cooperated by passing House Bill 302. Signed.into law See ,20 7 99462 00002 3 PAGE 2 • NEWARK POST • APRIL 7, 2006 737 -0724 • Fax 737-9019 NEWARK POST .:. POLICE BLOTTER Can we help? • Police Blotter is compiled Newark and owner of Pockets Bar, OUlces: The paper's offices each week from the files of the NIVERSITY of Delaware Police turned himself into investigators. Police said he was charged with five are located conveniently in Newark Police Department, New U are investigating an attempted Castle County Police and the UD police burglary that occurred on counts of possession of a gambling Suite 206, MadeliM Crossing, Tuesday, March 28, at the Christiana device and one count of providing a 168 Elkton Rd ., Newark, DE Delaware State Police by the premises for gambling. newspaper staff. investigate East Residence Hall. 19711. Office hours are 8:30 Around 5:30 p.m., a resident reported He was released on $6,000 un se a.m. to 5 p.m. weekdays. being awakened by a man who had cured bond pending trial in the New Castle County Court of Common Phone: (302) 737-0724 burglary entered the unlocked door of the apart ment and attempted to steal a cell phone Pleas. Facsimile: (302) 737-9019 Trooper . attempt that was near the bed. When the ~tud ent e-mail: [email protected] confronted the man, he left the apart Home burglarized ment. Two other students at Christiana To subscribe: Call 737-0724 or involved East Tower also reported that a man Students residing in the unit block 1-800-220..s311. To begin a had entered their unlocked apartments New London Road returned from convenient home-delivery sub around the same time, but no property spring break to discover that a variety scrill,tion, simply call. in shooting was taken. of items had been removed during The suspect was described as 5 feet their absences. To place a classified or display· 8 inches to 6 feet tall with a large build. Newark police were told on ad: call 737-0724 or 1-800- wearing a black shirt, baseball cap and Sunday, April 2, at 9:24 p.m., that 220-3311. at hotel blue jeans. a front window is believed to be the Anyone with information is asked to point of entry by intruders. Inside HE STAFF of the Newark Post N assault on a trooper on they kicked open bedroom doors and Monday, April 3, around contact UD police at 831-2222. Tis eager to a~ist readers and A removed clothing, footwear and per advertiSers. Reporters, writers, 11:43 a.m., led to the sonal items. The missing items were editors and salespeople can be shooting death of a 36-year-old valued at $1 ,560. contacted as listed: . in the right arm with a shotgun. The 31, for igniting fireworks inside the Newark man at the Days Inn victim fled to a neighbor's house, school building a week earlier, said Investigation is continuing, police ...... 8. Streit. Jr. is the pub located at 900 Churchmans Road, where he called 9-1-1, said police. He the Delaware State Fire MarshaL said. fisIIer of the Newark Post. He sets said Delaware State Police. was admitted to Christiana Hospital. The 16-year-old was charged with policies and manages all depart Police said a trooper went to the Police said Dryden fled the scene. reckless burning and exploding and Coin thefts continue ments JR the Newark office. Call him Days Inn for a complaint of a disor Arrest warrants have been obtained, possession of fueworks, said the fire at 717-t724. derly suspect trespassing on the prop charging him with first degree assault, marshal. Again last weekend, thieves broke into laundry machines at the CIIrIItInt Neff is the news erty. The trooper spoke with the sus possession of a deadly weapon while He was released to his parents editor. She leads the day-to-day pect, Sean M. Taylor, 36, of Newark, committing a felony and possession pending a hearing in Family Court. Towne Court apartment complex and operation of the newsroom. Call her and asked for identification. of a firearm by a person prohibited. made off with $200 in coins, Newark Taylor told the trooper, a four Anyone with information on police were told on Sunday, April 2, atm"124. year veteran assigned to Troop 6, his Owner arrested for at 3:12 p.m. MIdy V.... la prepares the Dryden's whereabouts or witnesses ID was in his truck on the other side to the shooting are asked to call the illegal video poker Seventeen machines were tam SDOrts pages of this newspaper. of the building. The trooper went pered with by the thieves, who used Tbe.spo,t$ editor Is seldom Iii Newark Police at 366-7110, ext. 135 with Taylor to get his ill, said police, or Crimestoppers at 800-TIP-3333. Investigators from the Delaware a pry bar or bolt cutter to gain access the office, however, he checks in but Taylor started "acting strange," State Police Special Investigations to coin boxes. ~. Leave messages for so the trooper put him in the patrol Section arrested the owner of a • Police said similar thefts have Mat'ty at'... 22N811. car. CHS student arrested Newark establishment that was alleg been taking place for about six ..., E....... Is a staff Police said the trooper ran a com on fireworks charges edly operating video poker machines months. ...".,. and _alizes in educa puter check on Taylor's truck and illegally. tion coverage. Reach her at 787· found it had been stolen in a violent A Christiana High School stu On Thursday, March 30, at 10 Computer disappears 1724. home invasion robbery in Collins dent was arrested on Friday, March a.m., Thomas R Lawson, 61, of Park on Thursday, March 30. During After being away for 10 days, the 0IIIr ••lItllullna ... the incident, said police, the hom residents of a home in the unit block Include Rultt KeIy, Alfred Gruber, eowner was severely assaulted and East Cleveland Avenue returned Tracy Downs.