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usar takes second in Region III wrestling tourney. Please see Sports, Page C-1 L.' —J WESTFIELD SCOTCH PLAINS FANWOOD Vol. 15, No. 10 Friday, March 10, 2000 50 cents County drug program brings together parents, kids Who wants to be By TERRENCE DOPP extremely involved with the pro- a journalist? THE KKlOKIM'HKSS Prosecutor's successful 'Family to Family' lets drug abuse hit home gram and want to learn moro about the drugs children can The Record-Press is look- WESTFIELD — Noticing the from around the county are use had on their lives, while the ger of substance abuse makes the become involved with -•• and how ing to expand its coverage of telltale signs of drug use among encouraged to attend. parents discuss the effects of drug program a more effective way to they can figure out if their kids municipal meetings and friends and family members can Family to Family, which is led use on the entire family. reach kids than simply having mi are using drugs. social events in your home- be difficult at best, but the Family by the Union County Prosecutor's "The reason the program has adult lecture them. "During the presentation, town, and we need some to Family program — which wiil Office, is a roving program that been so successful is because it's a Manahan said the portion of we've found many parents have warni bodies to help us do it. come Wednesday to Westfield brings to county schools a panel of peer program in the truest sense the progiiim featuring parents is quest ions tabout children's drug If you like to write, or if High School — is an effort to teen-agers from Day Top-New of the word," said Union County also valuable, because it gives use>,"said Manahan. "We get a lot you've ever read a newspaper make those sometimes-hazy signs Jersey, a Mendham-bnsed drug Prosecutor Thomas Manahan, mothers and fathers a chance to of interesting questions." and said "hey, I can do that," a little clearer. and alcohol treatment facility, noting that having teen-agers learn what it is like to have a Diane- Litterer, executive direc- along with their parents The chil- who have experienced their own this might he the opportunity The program is open to the child that abuses drugs and alco- dren discuss the effect their drug pitfalls toll peers about the dan for you. public and children and parents hol. Hi' said parents often become <Continued on page A-101 Anyone interested in beginning — or continuing — a career in journalism should contnet Editor Gregory Zeller at (908) 575-6686. Resumes Fan wood Dems and cover letters can also be Ain't what it used to be mailed to P.O. Box 699, Somerville. NJ 0H876, Attn: Gregory Zeller, or faxed to Age, other factors leave Westileld Town Hall in state of disrepaii submit short list (908)575-6683. Experience is preferred to lie Populus' last meeting as a ["UK KKI'OKll l'HKSS but not necessary; all that's Borough Council council member. required is a willingness to WESTFIELD - The shiny prepares to select "I think this is an excellent work hard and a desire to see new glass-and-metul door to the group of candidates," Haid your name in a byline, town police station belies a PopuhiN, who first announced h|s problem that runs closer to the Populus successor intentions of stepping down after core of the Municipal Building losing the mnvoral election in Westfield schools November. "Any one of them — it lack of maintenance that ByTEBHENCEDOPP set budget talks had the previous door practical- would serve Kanwood well," ly fulling off its hinges u couple Tl II' llf.Cl IIU> I'KKSS (ilennon, a current member of WKSTFIELD - The pub- of weeks ago. the Borough Planning Hoard, has FANWOOD Democratic lived in the borough since lt)9'2. lic is invited to attend infor- Although a drive down East officials released Monday a ros- The King Street, resident mid mation sessions on the pro- Broad Street shows an impres- ter of three candidates they father of two daughters is the posed 2000-2001 school bud- sive-looking brick building near would like to see the Republican Planning Board liaison to the get for the Westfield Public Tamaques Pond, perched high majority approve to fill mil the borough Knvironmeulul School District. on u vast green lawn, a closer remainder of outgoing Borough Sessions have been set for glance at the woodwork that Commission Councilman William Populus' Saytes is a marketing spociid- the following dates at the fol- runs along the outside of the term. lowing locutions: Westfield Municipal Building ist and current, member of the Populus, a Democrat, has 1)owl)towl, Uevitiiliztition * Tuesday, 7:45 p.m., tells a different story. Even announced lu Committee, He McKinley School auditorium is stepping "The Democratic has been in the * March 23, 7:30 p.m.. "I don't want to be crit- down from the borough si net; Franklin School library council, and Committee and the club H)9f> mul lives on * March 27, 8 p.m., Wilson ical, but permanent signs while local are very happy with these Marian Avenue. School library shouldn't be written on Democrats run He has also had * April 6, 7:45 p.m., offer itlis(. of individuals. We'll have to volunteer experi- TnmaquDS School and H p.m., paper, then scotch-taped p o s s j b I e hold our breath and wait." ence on the Funny Jefferson School to the wall. There's a cer- replacements, — Tom P/ante Wood Day Additional public meet it will In* up to Committee and tain way to do things." the <H>P- ings will be announced at a Fanwood (he borough nmjority Town later tiate, school officials — Nell Sullivan Democratic Club H e c r o a I i o n Council to pick said. Westfield Committee. Populus' sue- Swiniili'hurst is Town Council ci'ssor. an administrator Tips offered on teaching The Fnnwoori Democratic (Huh with A&P Supermarkets ami life- learning disabled kids and its more official cousin, the long resident of the borough. She town officials do not deny the NICOLE DIMELLA/MECOnn-PnrSK Democratic Committee, present currently serves on the Planning SCOTCH PLAINS — state of disrepair the building The shiny new door to the WesUield Police Department (above) belies ed Matthew (ilennon, Peter Hoard, where she is the hoard •Judith Shapiro will discuss has fallen into since it was first the overall condition of the Town Municipal Building, which -~ due to ttuyles and Cynthia liaison to the borough Historic strategies and resources for built in 1954. a lack of proper maintenance, according to some, or to the building's Swindh'hurst us their top choices Preservation Committee. Her "We appropriated $50,000 in for |lie scat thai will be open us of helping children with learn- age, according to others — suffers from, among other things, leaky (Continued on |ing*' A-10) ing disabilities tackle read- 1998 (for repairsi, but that roofs and cracked plaster (below, left). in.st night, which was scheduled money has not been spent yet," ing at 7:30 p.m. Thursday. hasn't fallen off altogether. In that n«eds repair, lie said peel said Mayor Tom Jardim."(Work) The discussion will be held winter, the roof leaks, and water ing woodwork on the outside is needs to be done. I think we'll at the Brunner School, locat- more serious than mere cosmet- see some movement on this next drips into the back corner of the ed on Westfield Road in courtroom, where justice is ics rotting wood costs more to Charges filed in year." Scotch Plains, as part of the meted out arid laws are passed be replaced that it does to paint Scotch I'luins/Fanwood None of the town officials by the Town Council every other it, hi; noted. "If you don't main interviewed for this article Tuesday. tain the properly correctly, you Learning Disabilities knew when anyone last took u Association "Let's Read" "If the ice dams up, the water pay multiples more Inter on," sex assault case paintbrush to the building, pushes back," said councilman said Sullivan. workshop for parents and although one Town Council Neil Sullivan, describing the Virtually every window liillias was also charged with caregivers of children with member figured it had been Cops: Edison man conditions that lend to water frame in the building sports numerous sex crimes of a leaner learning disabilities. about a decade. In those 10 or so trickling down mere feet from peeling paint, and the decora nal.uri'. Hitch as .sexual assailH Shapiro has been the years, weather has taken a toll the dais where judges and coun- tive cupola on one of the front abused young girl and sexual contact, according to director of the Scotch Plains on the building. cil members sit. "That's when entrances to the building, near county prosecutors, Scottish Rite Learning The white paint that covers we get some leakage." the violations bureau, is practi- over six-year span "These an> extremely serimifl Center since 1997.The the woodwork is bubbling and Sullivan said the roof is not cally bare. (Irayish wood stands charges," Assistant Couu^t Scottish Rite Masonic peeling — in the places that it out on the cupola's woodwork. Prosecutor .John Ksmeraldo snut the only part of the building ByTEHWENCEPOPP Children's Learning Centers Outside deficiencies lire not Tuesday. "We will be conducting of New Jersey were devel- the buildings only problems, THK I'ltKSS a complete investigation." 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