Well, It's Only Money!
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.~ .... ~ ~ Greater Newark's Hometown Newspaper Since 1910 •:• 88th Year, Issue 38 ©1998 October 16, 1998 Newark, Del. • SOc THis WEEK Well, IN SPORTS it's only AREA socCER TEAMS JUST money! By MARY E. PETZAK KEEP 21 NEWARK POST STAFF WRITER WINNING! OGIC took a back seat to eco nomic realities when Newark City Council considered a Request for Proposal to assess the IN LIFESTYLE city' North WeUfield. As a result of instructions to city Apparently there's more than one way to staff in July, council was handed an skin a cat -or complete a road- in estimated bill of $173,000 for an Delaware. assessment to determine the quality UDPROF and quantity of water in closed welJs. Faced with the need to finish "I choked (in July) when we tal~ed HELD Wyoming Road between Library Ave· about $50,000 to $100,000, but this is n ue and Marrows Road before they much more" aid councilmember John Farrell. "For what may tum out TOPS could to be a lirn.ited amount of water, it's expand, awfully expen ive water." officials Councilmember Karl Kalbacher IN NATION. at the aid he wanted to table consideration 8 of the RFP until the city approached Delaware Technology the University of Delaware about IN THE NEWS paying a share of the co t. "The Uni Park in Newark versity is supposed to pay 25 percent found a way to do it of the cost of closing the city land themselves. fill," aid Kalbacher. "They should NEW SINGLE· "As part of our . See WEllS, 4 lease with the Uni versity of Delaware FAMILY for the land, we could not build past New Catholic COMMUNITY 125,000 square feet unless Wyoming parish, school Road was finished," PLANNED explained Park con· sultant Eric Fano. "We had already paved about one-third at coming here the Marrows end originally in order to get access to the NEAR Park." By MARY E. PETZAK Fano, the former vice-president of the Park, recently IRON Hlll. 4 moved out to his own startup business, Elsicon Inc., in NEWARK POST STAFF WRITER North Wilmington. See WYOMING 5 . in New Castle County can look forward to at least one new parish and NEWS 1-5 school in the next few years, with an additional parish likely within ten POLICE BLOTTER 2 Parents, teachers blast crowding years. OPINION The Most Rev. Michael A. 6 By STEVE WESTRICK "A teacher, specialist or oth SaltareJli, Bishop of Wilmington, LIFESTYLE 8 ''l . d erwise, should have a class announced a new parish in the Cen NEWARK POST STAFF WRITER t lS emean- room," he said. "It i demeaning tral Pencader area will be the first THE ARTS 9 ing when your when your clas room i taken constructed in the dioce e in the last DIVERSIONS 10 and teachers away." 20 years. cerned about classroom is In a dramatic visual effect, Named pa tor-designate for the CROSSWORD PUZZLE 11 crowded conditions in Mary Lou Tabo, the only full new pari h is the Rev. John Hopkins, district chool bla ted the SPORTS 21-27 taken away. " time art teacher at McVey Ele who ha served a diocesan director Chri tina School Board Tues mentary School brought a gro of youth mini try and CYO for the PEOPLENEWS 12-13 day night. MICHAEL Tl cery cart to the front of the pa t 17 years. He will continue with Thomas Sayer , who room, telling the board, "This i that position until June 1999. OBITUARIES described himself as a con my classroom," he told the Th project, which al o call for CLASSIFIEDS 31-36 cerned citizen, aid 32 kinder board. ..It' next to impo 'ible the c tablishmenl of a new Catholic garten tudents at GalJaher Ele warehou e with the appropriate for me to offer the tudent a elementary chool for the area near mentary are in one room with number of teachers." diver e art education teaching Route 896 and 40, i' part of a Dioce- two teachers. Michael Ti chio, a teacher at out of a cart." an Strategic Plan that covers Under the new legi lation the Delaware Autistic School, In July, the tate house and Delaware and the Eastern Shore of this cenario satisfies the 22 stu told the board that the autistic senate passed the bill that Maryland. dents-to-one teacher ratio. program should not have to give decreased the student to teacher More than 100,000 people live in But Sayers is unconvinced. up its classrooms to Jennie ratio. In addition, the state pro· the area now served_ in part by the "This is not what is meant by Smith Elementary· (the two vided the money to hire more parishes of Sl Elizabeth Ann Seton the state law," he said. "If that school buildings are joined), teachers, but did not set aside in Bear and Holy Family in Newark. was the policy we could just because Smith is above capaci money for the creation of addi- The area i projected to grow by at 7 3 throw all the students into a ty. See CROWDING, I See PA111SH, I PAGE 2 • Visit us on the World Wide Web \J1:.· !\>',, ·:· INTHENEWS Can we help? Offices: The paper's offices are PouCE BRIEFs located conveniently in the Rob District to honor scott Building, 153 E. Chestnut Hill Rd ., Newark, DE 19713. $745. Police are investigating. Office hours are 8:30a.m. to 5 Shots heard at p.m. weekdays. long-time bus driver Pllone: (302) 737-0724 apartment complex Guitars taken Facsimile: (302) 737-9019 The Christina District School widow accepted the plaque, the Newark Police were called to an Sometime between 2 p.m. and e-mail: [email protected] apartment complex · on Marvin Board approved a recommenda- audience of over 150 people 6:30 p.m. on Oct. 7 unknown per ~ tion to rename the district' trans stood and applauded. On the Internet: Drive on Oct. II around 2:45 a.m. sons entered a residence on Madi portation center the Robert Y. "Mr. Lane was an significant http://www.ncbl.com/post/ about omeone firing handgun into son Drive and removed two guitars the air. ~ witness reported he heard Lane Transportation Center. part of this district for many To subscribe: Call 737-0724 or 1- valued at $650. Police are investi "This request is to honor years," aid board vice-president 800-220-3311. Cost is $15.95 the shots and looked out the win gating. per year to New Castle County dow to ob. erve a black male suspect Bobby Lane who died on Sept. George Ev:ans. "He is surely one addresses . To beg in a subscrip putting a gun away. The witnes 26, 1998," said school superin we are going to miss a great deal. tion. simply call. al o saw another black male suspect Police called to large tendent Nicholas Fischer. ' Bobby l think it is an outstanding rec Te place a classified: Call 1-800- and heard numerous additional started working with the di trict ommendation that we recognize .220-1230 shots. Officers recovered 45-caliber. fight at Student Ctr. in 1969 as a bus driver and and remember Mr. Lane as we mechanic. move forward in transportation." Th place a display ad : Call 737- and 25 -caliber shell casings. Police Newark Police were called to 0724. are investigating. Fi cher added that Lane Lane died after being injured · a sist University Police at a fight became a fu lltime mechanic in in a farming accident. A former HE STAFF of the Newark Post is anx involving approximately 300 people 1974 and since 1979 wa · the resident of Newark, he and hi Tious to assist readers and advertis Road rage is here outside the Trabant University Cen head dispatcher in the transporta wife were living in Elkton at the -ers. Reporters , writers, editors and ter shortly after midnight on Oct. salespeople can be contacted as listed: tion office. time of his death. A 50-year-old woman told 11. Newark officers charged 18- Fischer pre nted Lane 's Fi cher said a plaque will be James B. Streit, Jr. is the publisher of Newark Police that a car bumped year-old Kenti Upshur of Wilming the Newark Post. He sets policies and widow, Patricia Calvare e Lane, placed in. ide the transportation into the back of hers when she ton with disorderly conduct. with a plaque commemorating building and an appropriate sign manages all departments in the Newark stopped at the traffic light at South oHice. Call him at 737-0724. the occasion. As the tearful placed outside the building. College avenue and West Che tnut Mary E. Petzak is the editor. She leads Man attacked the news staff and reports on govern Hill Road on Oct. 7 around 5 p.m. ment, education and police news. Con She ex ited her car, and the driver of on West Main tact her at 737-0724. the other vehicle cursed at her and Marty Valania prepares the sports told her to get back in her car and On Oct. I 0 around midnight an pages of this newspaper. The sports drive on. When the woman went to 18 -year-old Newark man was editor is seldom in the oHice , however, attacked in the 100 block of West Court approves multi· he checks in frequently. Leave mes ca ll police, the suspect said he sages for Marty at 737-0724 . would "give her a reason to police." Main Street by a uspect described The man reversed his car and as a white male, 18-20 years old.