Ti I E WESTFIELD LEADER the Lemdlmm Mmd Most Widely Clrndmled Weekly Sewapmper in Union Cottnty
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Ti i E WESTFIELD LEADER The lemdlmm mmd Most Widely Clrndmled Weekly Sewapmper In Union Cottnty USP* MOP Published NINETY-t CTf , NO. 1 WESTFIELD, NEW JERSEY, THURSDAY, AUGUST 1, 1985 Every Thursday 18 Pages—3O Cents F« *H \ .„ fcry Provided 30,000 Backers Revealed, Meals During First Half of 1985 Hearings to Continue During the first half of 1W5, the Westfield Food Pantry at Holy Trinity served the equivalent of 30,000 meals to the needy. Family Hearings for East Square, cemetery. size has ranged from a single individual to as many as eight in a Inc.'s proposal for site plan ap- Testimony was given by John household. Food has been supplied for a minimum of a few days to up proval of 20 two-story con- and Connie Salustro, whose ar- to two weeks, depending on the need. In the second trimester. 445 in- dominium townhouse units will chitectural firm is located on dividuals were aided, 117 adults and 258 children. Among the children be continued at the Aug. 19 ses- Woodland Ave., Mountainside. who were assisted, 21 of them had been abandoned and were placed sion of the Board of Adjustment. The Salustros prepared the site with friends or relatives. Concerned neighbors of the plans, elevations and interior In the second quarter food contributions were made by the follow- proposed site attended Monday layouts of the proposed develop- ing churches and organizations: Church of the Assumption. Roselle night's public hearing, when the ment. Park; First Congregational Church, Westfield: First Grade names of the four principals of Salustro stated that the proper- Brownies, Holy Trinity School; St. Helen's Church. Westfield: Holy the project were revealed: ty would be better utilized by the Trinity Church, Westfield; Junior Woman's Club, Westfield: Our Douglas Wyckoff of Westfield, construction of the con- Lady of Lourdes, Mountainside; The Presbyterian Church. West- Raymond Fahey of Westfield, dominiums than by five single field; Senior Citizens of Westfield; St. Stephen's Anglican Catholic, Herbert Bloustein of Union, and family homes which could be Plainfield; Temple Emanu-EI, Westfield and Troop 101. Franklin Photo by K.L. Gardner Charles Daniels of Scotch Plains. built without the need of a use School, Westfield. Introducing the New KMs •* the Block ... Proud mother Mindi the Brian Fahey, 121 South Euclid variance. During the summer there is generally a decrease in contributions goose oversees her goelUgB* afternoon feeding at Mindowaskin Pond. Ave., attorney for Eastgate Mrs. Salustro described the and an increase in requests for food. The stock is currently low on the Bam Fourth of July weekend, Ike munth-oid goslings can been seen- Square, proposed a use variance proposed housing units as Vic- with their parents, Miadi and Ski (riol pictured) on their daily Jaunts torian in style, with many custom following items: Dry milk, canned milk, jelly, spaghetti sauce, cann- around the lake. for the 2.3 acres, located between ed vegetables, cereal, soup, tuna fish, canned meals, canned fruit, West Ct. and Fairview Cemetery, features, including bay windows, coffee, tea, peanut butter, canned meat, canned pasta meals, per- 9 and owned by the trustees of the circlehead windows and more at- sonal care products and cleaning and laundry supplies. Schools Master Plan tention to detail. She added that Pny Taxes Today if single family housing was con- structed, custom features would Parade, Vigil Here Monday Lists Building Needs In addition to the regular office be limited. hours of 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m., the An alternate proposal brought The need to improve Howard Tomlinson, former office of the Tax Collector will be up by Fahey, was the removal of Westfield's school buildings be- assistant superintendent in open from 7 - 9 p.m. tonight only the middle units from the two To Commemorate Hiroshima comes clear in a huge Master {Continued last page, this section) for the collection of taxes. Plan submitted to the State (Continued last page, this section) To commemorate the 4Oth churches, will travel to Department of Education's Coun- anniversary of the Hiroshima Washington, D.C. There they will ty Superintendent's office this bombing, Union County SANE help people from all over the summer. will sponsor and participate in country tie ribbons of peace The report, submitted to Dr. three days of events culminating around the Pentagon, the Lincoln Vito Gagliardi, Union County with a parade and candlelight Memorial and the Capitol, with a Superintendent of Schools, by the vigil Monday in Westfield. stretch of ribbon connecting the Westfield Board of Education, Literature about Hiroshima Lincoln Memorial with each of meeting a July 1 deadline, is en- and about the current peace the others. titled: "Master Plan for the movement will be handed out Local peace supporters will Educational Facilities of the Saturday in downtown Westfield gather in Mindowaskin Park, at 7 Town of Westfield, Union County, and Elizabeth. SANE volunteers p.m. on Monday, for a rally and New Jersey." This is the second will also present slide shows in parade. In tandem with peace .master plan which the School area churches. Carl High, a fre- groups across the nation, they quent visitor to Japan, will show Board has submitted. The first slides he made at Hiroshima and (Continued last page, this section) one was submitted in 1979 by got from the Hiroshima museum Photos by Ken O'Brien at the St. James United Metho- Three Arrested on Drug Charges The board of trustees of the United Fund of Westfield has accepted two new agencies. Contact We Care dist Church, Elizabeth, from 1 to Police Chief James F. Moran to distribute (marijuana), use of and Union County Legal Services, to become members of the Fund and recipients of a percentage of this 5 p.m. In Westfield, at the First reports that as a result of an drugs and possession of drug-re- year's $508,000 campaign goal. At left, Austin B. Say re, president of the United Fund board of trustees, Baptist Church, 170 Elm St., ongoing investigation, Detectives lated paraphernalia. welcomes Wesley Olson, executive director, and Mercedes Rossol, director of Deaf Contact 201, for Con- that*..will ba-scrwanlnn. of a Donald Fuentes, Thomas Garley . tact We Care and, right, Dr. Susan Fuhrman, chairman of the United Fund Admissions Committee, also Common' Cause slide show on and James SSfiheider executed a AlSo'aTTested'at the same ad- welcomes Union County Legal Services with a handshake to Executive Director Richard Bennett Esq. what citizens can do to prevent search warrant Tuesday even- dress and charged with posses- nuclear war from 11 a.m. to 1 ing, on the apartment of Richard sion of marijuana and drug para- p.m. A. Lembeke, age 21 of 19-D Elm phernalia and use, were Sandra United Fund Adds Two Agencies St. Fuchs, 24, and Basil Kalellis, 23, On Sunday, some SANE Lembeke was charged with both of Westfield. Contact We Care and Union We Care helpline (232-2880), is a gram provides not only listening members, along with members possession of a contained Bail was set at $5,000 for County Legal Services have been telephone service available to services, but crisis intervention, of Methodist, Quaker and other dangerous substance with intent Lembeke. accepted as two new agencies by troubled, lonely, or suicidal per- community information, and the board of trustees of the sons who simply wish to talk referral services as well. Westfield United Fund. They will about their feelings or problems. Contact We Care's second ma- share in a percentage of this This service is staffed by jor program, Deaf Contact 201 year's $500,000 campaign goal. volunteers who have recieved at (232-3333), provides a com- Contact, We Care, affiliated least 54 hours of training in areas munication service between deaf Use Variances in Class of Their Own with Contact Teleministries enabling them to deal with pro- and hearing persons via USA, provides two major ser- blems of loneliness, depression, telephones and the teletype vices to Westfielders and others grief, sex, and others that require machines located at the Contact of adjacent properties, nature Other use variances which Fifth in a series on zoning and intensity of use, adequacy in surrounding communities. The an understanding of emotions. We Care office (anonymous). regulations have brought area residents first of these programs, Contact Additionally, the Contact pro- (Continued last page, this section) of utility, drainage and other to hours of public hearings Probably no single appeal facilities, and objectives of have included in recent years, for a variance brings more the land use ordinance and among others, an appeal by residents — both pro and con Master Plan of the Town of Lincoln Federal Savings Sc Foundation Keeps Westfield — to meetings of the Board of Westfield. Loan to convert the Columbus Adjustment than those seek- Despite these odds, each School property to a commer- Young People Working ing a "use" variance. year brings a small number cial use, an appeal to convert A "use" variance is one of applications to permit a existing buildings in the Holy which asks that deviations to deviation from zoning pat- Trinity Elementary School/- Being helpful and earning this June from Westfield High developed an interest in helping specific zoning patterns be terns. convent complex to con- spending money at the same time with academic honors and will the elderly by working as vice- granted to permit property to At the present time, the dominiums, use property on are the motivations of seven attend the University of Denver president of a youth group at be used for purposes not Board of Adjustment is hear- North Ave.