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.. Senior Style take a loo at orne golden-age i L~ue s, 10 •:• Greater Newark's Hometown Newspaper Since 191 0 •:• -------------------------------------------------- 84th Year, Issue 23 <1:)1994 For the week beginning June 24, 1994 Newark, Del. • 35 ~ Touted elsewhere, Metts renews contract here · TI-ns WEEK By JENNIFER L. RODGERS Public announcements in Robert Reynolds, public informa tnnt superintendent of District 65 Mett s' salary under the new con Illinois Monday named Mett s as tion officer for the sc hool district. sc hool district in March 1987. She tract has not been released. NEWARK POST STAFF WRITER one of three finali sts for the posi M~.:tts was unavailable for com left that post Feb. 5, 1990, to come Whe n Mett s was hired as In sports tion of superintendent of a kinder ment. to De laware under a three and Chri ·tina 's leading officia l, Chri tina School District garten throu gh eighth grade Applications for the Evanston one-half y ar contract for $82,000 Evanston pape rs sa id Chri stina Superintendent Iris Mett s, recent Evan~ton, Ill. , sc hool di~trict. position were due in May . annua ll y, plu~ fringe benefits. school board members were ly courted by an Illinois scho ol Mett s, who was awarded a new Reynolds said Mett s had previous Metts pays her own contributions impressed with Metts' desegrega board and named a top finalist in a five-year contract Tuesday, said ly met with members of the school to the teacher retirement system. tion ex perien e.The Evanston nationwide superintendent search, she withdrew herself from consid board there, at their in vitation. She currently makes $99,000 sc hool district has been voluntari has announced she will keep her erati on after learn in g of Monday's According to Evanston news annua ll y. Karen Thorpe, supervi ly desegregated for 25 years. job here. anno un cement, according I o papers, Melts was hired as assis- sor of payroll and benefits sa id Castle Mall SUMMER BOUND Caldor nears early completion By JENNIFER l. RODGERS NEWARK POST STAFF WRITER A Caldor store in Castle Mall at the comer of Del. 72 and Route 4 is arriving ahead of schedule. The builders, Jeffrey M. Brown and As ociates of Huntingdon Jody Russell of Newark High School Valley, Pa., are using a "super fast has been named the Newark Post's track" con truction process to Athlete of the Year. speed completion of the $3 million renovation project by Aug. 5. Currently, there is a sign that reads "Caldor- Fall 1994" in front NEWARK HIGH of the vacan t mal l. Instead of building the exterior, then going back to perfect the inte GRADUATE WINS rior, Brown and Associates wi ll use I 00 workers to build the interior and exterior simu ltaneously. ATHLETE OF " It 's almost li ke working on a building from the inside out." said THE \EAR. Browu. prc~id nt of the construc lB tion finn . "We ' re essentiall y doing all five phases of construction at the same time." The 115 ,000-square-foot Caldor wil l replace the o ri ginal W.T. POST 31 RIPS NEWARK Grant Store and subseq uent K mart, which served as anchors. Renovati ons are taking place PHO TO BY MIKE KEPKA INLEGION about fo ur months after th e fire lB marshal closed th e mall. Students from Downes Elementary School were wearing big smiles as they boarded the bus for their last trip home before classes begin Because of an unusually harsh again in the fall. School ended June 16. ACTION. winter that caused a leaking roof, th e few remaining tenants at th e time - Thrift Drug, Rad io Shack · In the news · · and Castle Mall Liquors- had to Cable comes to city hall, police station leave. Water damage caused a poten By TONJA CASTANED(t able to watch ba sic cable tel evision in th e there are no TV set in the building, and it has tially "life threatening" condition, employee lunchroom. not been decided when they will be purchased. ARCHEOLOGISTS according to Deputy Fire Marshal NEWARK POST STAFF WRITER Newark Police Chief William Hogan said Luft said the cable line are being put in to Bill Bush, and the mall 's power ot her cab le access will be used to get infonna use for teleconferencin g in the future. He said At no cost to tax pa yers, the Newark cit y tion about weather emergencic and major for example, "Wh en a onference seminar i. had to be cut. hall and poli ce station arc being wired for UNCOVER ABIT Tony Fusco of Fusco accidents. put on in Chicago or New York, we can tune in cable television. He said the police department currently has (in Newark.)" Enterprises, which owns the mal l, Newark City Manager said installation of said he is looking for more busi two tel ev ision se ts whi h are used only with The 200 feet of wire will create two outlet · the cable lines is part of th e cable telev ision video casselt e recorders, because there are no in city hall and three hook-ups in the police OFNEWARKS nesses to locate in the mall. franchise agreement T I Cablev ision has with 3A According to New Castle County telev ision antenn as avai lable at the station to stati on. the City of Newark. receive local broadcasts. ewark Electrical Director Dennis Smith records, Fusco will demoli sh the Although the technology is being insta ll ed PAST. interior of the ma ll and remodel the Newark Ci ty Manager Carl Luft sa id th e said the cable wiring will be completed by the to access nation-wide educational con ferences te hnology cannot be used at city hall be ause end of July. front into a strip mall. and training, police personnel on breaks will be 'METROFORM' RESIDENTS EXPRESS Rail Administration offers a moving lesson in train safety TRAFFIC 3A By PHIL TOMAN After the initial contact with the s hool and th CONcERNS. ............................................................. ..... ... .... teachers is made and a time is et, Andrew goe to SPECIAL TO THE NEWARK POST the sc hool with many teachin g aids and safety give aways. The name was very well selected - ''Operation The next step is a visit to the train station in In Lifestyle Lifesaver.'' It s purpose is to make sure Delaware cit Iaymon! where the ·tudents gai n first -hand knowl izens of all ages understand safety proced ures at edge about railroad safety. nder his watchfu l eye, hi ghway/rail grade crossings and the dangers of tres th e student. learn how to cross the high speed (11 0 STUDENTS GET A passing on railroad propert y. mph ) tracks carefully - by usi ng the passenger tun Operated by th e Delaware Rail Administration nel under them. For many. it wa: their t1rst train sta (DRA), a division of DdDOT. the program receives t ion visit. Another first for the youngster : ex peri CLOSER LOOK AT funding at both the federal and state levels. en ing the air movement created by a speeding train. "Every year scores of people are injured and The now know why they mu 1 tand back from the kill ed for violating their own common sense - and tracks. the law - by racing trains to crossings being on rail The DRA provided ea h student and chaperone road property where they arc not supposed to be," wi th a ti ket to ride a EPTA local from Claymont said Maury annan, DRA administrator. from his into Wilmington. another first for mo. t of them, ~l:. office in Wilmington 's former Pennsylvania Stati on. including the chaperones. .6A now operated by AMTRAK. The safety lesson continued on the train and DRA tepping just outside annan's office door, one is Manager of Operations hri Schulte joined Index · on the platform of Track One wi th trains rushing in Andrews as a fellow instru tor during the tdp. and out. If you needed an example of what cou ld afely gelling on and off the train was yet another happen if you are careless, you don·, have very far to NEWS 1·14A ~afe t y lesson taught by th men from lhe DRA. wa lk. Andrew . lo king not unlike the Pied Piper minu · The D !aware Rail Administration's point man POLICE 2A the flut e. then took hi s oun g charge on a 10\11 ~o f for "Operation Lifesaver'' is Operation upport 4A Penn tali n which he e plained ha. se~-ed OPINION Officer Doug Andrews, known for hi s infinite _M_ Wilmington in e 1903. The tour earned surp:.ris LIFESTYLE patience with children and for holding a font of safe and , miles from the many passenger in the station OBITUARIEL 7A ty-related railroad knowl dge. To be ~ure. the chil waiting for Amtrak and EPT A trains. dren aren't Andrew' nly target nudien e. He is COMMUNITY lA As the lesson end d, everyone had lunch in a for also training professi nul drivers. But it is toward mer waiting room adja ent to Track One. DIVERSIONS lA the children that most of hi s efforts ar dire ted, and He said next on th ORA safety agenda is t e what efforts they are. Andrews has as his goal to ARTS 14A making of some closed-captioned films for the ~r NEWARK POST STAFF PHOTO BY PHIL TOMAN rea h every el mentary school child in Delaware.