I -------------------------------------------------------·--- ~·---·----------------------------~~--~-------J •:• Greater Newark's Hometown Newspaper Since 191 0 •:• 88th Year, Issue 11 © 1998 April 1 0, 1998 Newark, Del. • 50¢ THIS WEEK Factory parcel LOCAL lACROSSE sold TFAMS By MARY E. PETZAK POST NEWARK POST STAFF WRITER LTHOUGH IT WON'T WINS. 16 immediately impro e the ld A Budd Company/Continental Fibre prope1ty on South Chapel Street. the recent sa le of a portion i very IN LIFESTYLE good new . Newark bu sinessman and developer Gu Tsionas has completed a $670.000 deal to purchase a 2.375 acre parce l on the west side of Sou th Chapel Street LOCAL SCOUT from De!Chapel A. ·oc iates. According to Tsionas. he plan. to ( SEEKS build "as many garden-. tyle apart­ ments as the city permits" on the par­ cel. Presently the land i. z ned RM EAGLE which allows 16 unit per acre. "We're working on ar hitect' plans now,·· aid T. iona ·. "We hop to be STATUS. 8 ready to go to ci ty planning by June." Both T i na and hi daugther, Georgia. sa id city official s have been IN THE NEWS extremely helpful with deve lopment I advice and permitting. "The city wants to make Newark the best," said SHUE STUDENTS At least one of the pint-sized · See DELCHAPEL, 4 .... Unicity Buses (top) is always clrcnng Newark throuaho"' RFACH OUT weekdays. Riders on the Unlclty Bus use City their trip for socializing as well TO as getting from one place to · another In Newart. ARKANSAS issues SCHOOL. vented 3 By MARY E. PETZAK NEWARK POST STAFF WRITER INDEX Riders scarce on Unicity Brus AND JDAT S for a city coun­ NEWS ----1·5 By OAKLAND L. CHILDERS ognized. Since that time, the number of pa sen­ cil seat and the office of ............................... ,. .................................... gers has increased tenfold, said Lopata. C mayor in · ewark met on P OLI~ ~BLOTTE!L 2 NEWARK POST STAFF WRITER With age comes wisdom, they say, - and a Tuesday night at the ewark eni r OPINION 6 whole lot of free time. Not having cars or the Center to pre~ent their platform and LIFESTYLE a desire to fight the hordes on the traffic-labored issues. streets of Newark, many senior citizen ride the This was the on ly forma l public THE ARTS 9 · Unicity Bus. In fact, they are the primary users of forum in which Candidate fr m th~ the service. DIVERSIONS 10 5th District met fa ·c to fa c to di" u s One can easily imagine the bu as the old­ · i~.;sue . of interest to that area. timer's version of the University bu es that zip CROSSWORD---- PUZZLE 11 Incumhent ancy Turner !-~pent around town. Older people sit and chat over the most of her allotted presentation time SPORTS 16·1 9 seats with other pa.~ngers, but in tead of di - revisiting in(;idents of the pa t yea r PEOPLENEWS 12 cus ing sports or partie , the conversation is u u­ which cau:ed counci I disse n ion. ally about more mature subjects: Medicaid and According to Turner. she is the fi r t OBITUARIES 21·22. ,things that happened in the 1940's. legi Jator in Delaware history to file a The atmosphere on the bus i very nt1a ed. CLASSIFIEDS 24·28 Freedom f Information action again. t Dorin& the trip, the thiaa to a di - fell member of a governmentbody. .tudJ~~P~Ce baJI;eoecl ·~~ .,\ccill!-- turned Turner . aid her action . were nece. sary t prevent co un cil from meeting behind clo ed door . and " ince the Bill of Right ·" he could not think of a m re important piece of legi lation to protect free speech. "I make wave. when it' nece ary rathe than when it' com~ rtable or 7 99 4 62 ooooz See CANDID~TES, 2 ~ Visit us on the WQrld Wide Web PAGE 2 • NEWARK PosT • APRIL 10, 1998 POliCE BWTIER Tuesday is election had an injury to his buttocks and the 2 a.m on April 4, four vehicles were Newark teen girl was treated for injuries to her damaged with a shovel belonging to overdoses on heroin eye and ann. Both were released to Maxwell T's in the parking lot out­ day in Newark the custody of Family Services after side the business on North College A Windy Hills 17-year-old was treatment. Avenue. ru hed to Christiana Hospital in crit­ Diane Price, 46, of Pike Place Police said windows in the vehi­ By MARY E. PETZAK Osborne. ical condition after a heroin over­ near Old Baltimore Pike, was cles were broken by unknown per­ The following locations are do e on April l. The teen's parent charged with three counts of assault sons causing approximately $1 ,000 NEWARK POST STAFF WRITER polling places: · found him unconsciou around 11 in the second degree. Police allege in damage. District 1 - Downes p.m. that Price, foster parent to the twins, OTERS in the city of Elementary School, 265 Casho According to New Castle County struck the children with some sort of Newark can go to the Mill Road Police, the boy allegedly obtained object or instrument which caused Men assaulted near V polls on Tuesday, District 2 - Aetna Fire four $10 bags of heroin earlier in the the injuries. Police are still investi­ Club Corona April I 0, to vote for a new Station, Ogletown Road evening from an acquaintance, gating. mayor and possibly a new District 3 - West Park Robert Hagen, 21, of Iron Hill Two Newark men leaving the councilmember in the 5th School, 193 West Park Place Apartments off Old Baltimore Pike. Club Corona in College Square District. District 4 - Aetna Fire Police arrested Hagen at hi apart­ Gunshots heard near Shopping Center on April 4 around Deputy Mayor Hal Godwin, Station #7, Thorn Lane ment hortly after midnight on April Elks Pride 1:50 a.m. reported they were currently District 1 coun­ District 5 - First 2. Police also found 14 bags of assaulted by three other men. cilmembcr, will vie for the Presbyterian Church, East heroin in the apartment. Hagen i Newark Police report that two The victims told Newark Police mayoral eat with Marguerite Main Street charged with pos es ion with intent officers heard gunshots fired near three suspects described as black Ashley, a planner for the New District 6 - Church of the to deliver heroin, delivery of heroin, the Elks Pride Club on Cleveland men, 21 to 25 years of age, one Castle County Department of Nazarene, Paper Mill Road maintaining a vehicle for the sale or Avenue around 11: 15 p.m. on Apri I wearing an orange Adida shirt and Community Services. Mayor Polls are open from 7 a.m. use of drugs, and possession of drug 3. blue jeans, one wearing a white Ronald Gardner is stepping · to 8 p.m. Voters must show paraphernalia. According to the officer , sho.rtly sweatshirt, and one dressed all in down after three terms as · identification. after the shots were heard they dark blue, attacked them before dri­ mayor. Gardner was also elect­ Seats in Districts 3 and 6 observed two black males standing ving off in an emerald green Toyota ed four times as a city coun- were also up for re-election Foster mother arrested outside the club near a black Saab Camry with Delaware tags. cilmember. but newcomer Karl Kalbacher Incumbent councilmember New Castle County Police arre t­ but no guns were found in the vehi­ One man suffered a broken nose and current councilmember Nancy Turner is being chal­ ed a Newark-area woman on April 7 cle or in the possession of the men. when he was punched. The other Gerald Grant Jr. were the only lenged in her second campaign for allegedly a saulting 5-year-old man had abrasions and blood on the persons filing to run in those twins in her care. According to back of his head where he said he in the 5th District by former districts. They will be sworn in Vehicles damaged councilmember Frank police, the children were taken to was hit with a baseball bat. Anyone following the election. A.l. DuPont Ho pita! for Children with shovel with information is asked to call by the Division of Family Services police at 366-7111. for treatment of injuries. The boy Sometime between midnight and Candidates for city posts speak out Senior Center ..... CANDIDATES, from 1 from the city," said Osborne. "We mutual con ideration among coun­ cilmember, said he hopes to bring a realistic one." have not only very professional staff cilmembers and dealing with the new perspective to the job. ln addi­ Among Godwin's primary issues convenient," said Turner. "Without and officials, but many qualified i sues. "I don 't believe that decorum tion to water supplies, Kalbacher is finding a permanent water supply someone making waves, minorities volunteers. We're lucky to be able to and the pursuit of truth are antithet­ thought electric deregulation and for Newark. "Our supplies are ade­ would still be riding in the back of tap the e resources." ical," said Grant. "Communication revenue sharing would also be quate but we have only a small the bus ... we'd still be a British Osborne also noted that in going important issue for council in the re erve for drought seasons," said co lony ... " through old files from his tenn on coming term. Godwin. "We can do better than Turner aid she believed people city council, he found many of the ii Mayoral candidates Hal Godwin mandatory water restrictions when in Newark want a person who has same issues still existed.