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•:• Greater Newark's Hometown Newspaper Since 191 0 •:• 91 st Year, Issue 44 ©2000 December 22, 2000 >elaware • 50¢ Fire company Angels still ion's best expanding in signal holiday ~stlers Newark. message. ·e. PAGE 2 PAGE 8 PAGE 12 Ste.rck has Newark Charter new acting near site decision ·~· : principal -. we sent a letter to the state board cording to school Potential students, together with letters of intent director Ed Bosso, from the individuals involved A ohn Persinger will staff ready to go saying we are in negotiations and take over the position of acting asking for the extension." ---: principal at Sterck School on By MARY E. PETZAK On Tuesday, Meece reportell East Chestnut Hill Road until the that the extension had been grani­ search for a new principal is NEWARK POST STAFF WRITER t;d by the state board of educa­ completed. tion. "Mr. Persinger has been a he Newark Charter According to Meece, one pos­ tremendous help during our tran­ School ·passed the sible site for the new school is the sition at DSD and we are very T required deadline for a approximately 50,000 square­ fortunate to have him in the role building plan but boardmembers foot former Best Store on Kirk­ of acting principal until the posi­ still hope to have the classrooms wood Highway. "It would have tQ tion is filled," said Bosso in a let­ open in September 2001. be renovated," said Meece. ter to the Sterk community. Charter School Director Gre­ fact , I'm meeting an architect~1lt According to Bosso, gory Meece said this week the there this week to assess the ie!b Persinger has been a teacher at board requested a one-month ovation needs and costs." :_ Delaware School for the Deaf for extension until Jan. 19, 2001, for The other site is an undevel­ more than 30 years. submitting the plan to the state oped property at the intersection "During the past few years, he board of educaiton. of Casho Mill and Barksdale has worked in the school office "We have two possible build­ roads. "That site would ha e ·a assisting the principal with the ing sites in the works," said building constructed by Jeff Lang daily operation of the school," Meece on Monday. See CHARTER, 2 ..... said Bosso. "He will continue "Neither is a done deal, but, with many of the same duties as well as some additional responsi­ bilities to be outlined within the coming weeks." Bosso said Persinger will Newark man killed probably remain in the position until the end of the school year because it would be hard to find in head-on crash someone who can leave their cur­ rent job with such late notice. Fronseca and his passsenger, "We know that sometimes it's Neither driver nor Noel D. Martinez, 19, were taken hard for someone to leave their to Christiana Hospital wh.ere job to start another one right in passenger wear­ Fronseca was pronounced dead the middle of the school year," as a result of injuries. Bosso said this week. "So, we ing seatbelts Martinez was admitted in seri­ plan to do national job postings ewark man was killed ous condition with a lacerated sometime during the wint~r nd another Newark aorta. On Wednesday, staff at break, with the understanding an seriously injured Chrsitiana Medical Center said that someone might not be able in a head-on collision on Red Martinez was in critical condi­ to start until the new school year. Mill Road early Tuesday morn­ tion. That way there will be no pres­ GooclriJill to men' ing. The driver of the van, Richard sure for them to leave their job so According to Cpl. Walter W. Brooks Jr., 26, of Rising Sun, soon." Newton of Delaware State Md., was treated and released for Officials at the school say N.EWARK POST PHOTOS BY JOHN LLERA Police, the crash happened pain in his ribs, back and jaw. they are not sure whether The Christmas Baskets organized by the Newatt Area Welfare Committee for delivery last around 6:50 a.m. on Red Mill The van is owned by Moon Ser­ Persinger is a candidate for the weekend took a lot of helping hands to organize and distribute. Road at Mill Park Court. vices Inc located in Elkton, Md. permanent principal position. Volunteers, including students from the Newatt High School Kay Club, employees from the Joel P. Fronseca, 20, who was On Wednesday, Newton said "We're not sure if John is inter­ Bank of New Yott, and area residents, spent time last week separating donated food items driving a 1991 Pontiac Grand the investigation was continuing ested in the position or not," by type and then putting them ill family ·"baskets" lined up row after row at Newatt United Am northbound on Red Mill and police did not yet know how Bosso said. Methodist Church. Road, went around a curve and the accident happened. Bosso was the principal at On Saturday, bread and frozen tutteys were added to the gift boxes which were then present­ crossed the center of the road as Neither Fronseca nor Mar­ Sterck for seven years, until ed to over 300 families throughout the area. he approached the intersection. tinez was wearing a seatbelt but August when he replaced Dr. He struck a 2000 Ford van Brooks was wearing his. Susanna Lee as director. Lee left which was stopped in the left Police said alcohol did not to become the president of Jobs hand tum lane on the southbound appear to be a factor in the acci- for Delaware Graduates after side of Red Mill. dent. - working at Sterck for nearly 20 years. Persinger began teaching at the school just two years after it was opened in 1968. "He's one Good health is a valued gift all year round of the few teachers that was here when we moved into our current building," Bosso said. off from the brain. three hours a day, and then, when basically beat the crap out of but when he went to the doctor, 'Brain attacks' are Medical profe.ssionals have the insurance company said I was you," Funk said. he was told that the blurry vision begun calling a stroke a "brain okay, they stopped paying for my He said if the symptoms of a would pass. INDEX just as serious as attack," to stress the seriousness treatment," he said. stroke had been more well­ Funk - and his doctor at the heart attacks of the condition. "It is to the brain Now, he receives alternative known, he could have gotten time - were among the majority NEWS 1-3 what a heart attack is to the therapy called "shiatsu," which is treatment for his stroke faster. of people who can't recogni~e _a heart," Barker said. "really strange" but effective, and He had experienced blurry vision stroke when they see one, accord- POLICE REPORTS 2 By KATY CIAMARICONE Newark attorney Vance Funk relatively inexpensive. in his right eye for a few weeks See STROKE, 3 ..... OPINION 4 had just turned 50 years old when "You lay on a mat and they before his legs gave out on him, NEWARK POST STAFF WRITER he suffered from a stroke seven LIFESTYLE 6 years ago. real estate agent, a He had left his Main Street THE ARTS 7 Newark attorney, a office around 5:20 p.m. and was DIVERSIONS 8 A University of Delaware sitting in his parked car when he professor and a local nurse have began to notice some numbness CROSSWORD 9 one thing in common this holiday in his left hand and leg .. COMMUNITY 10-11 season and all year round: they "I decided I'd better get back wish to give Newark residents into the office and call some-· OBITUARIES 14 the gift of health. body," he said, "but, before I Registered nurse Ellen Barker could get to the door, my legs SPORTS 12-13 and fellow founding members of were paralyzed and I couldn't CLASSIFIEDS 81 -6 the Delaware Stroke Initiative walk." include recovering stroke vic­ Funk lay outside his office tims and medical professionals. suffering from the stroke's "A stroke is a silent thing," effects, until a University of Barker said. "You don't hear a lot Delaware student walking by, about it, but it's devastating to the saw him and called emergency people who have it." personnel. With the help of fellow com­ Funk said later that he was munity members, they estab­ lucky to get fast and efficient lished DSI in 1998 to fight the treatment at a local hospital. leading cause of brain damage Funk has been in physical NEWARK POST STAFF PHOTO BY KATY CIAMARICO!ii and permanent disability in the therapy for the seven years since Mike Tavani (datt shirt), Flossie Skirvin (white scarf) , Florence Slivkowski (figured sweater), Mari nation. his stroke. Ellen Green (hands clasped) and Jim Day ( in doorway) were among members of the Delaware Strokt Barker said a stroke is what "Insurance covered me for lnitiat~ve enjoying a holiday party held at the Century 21 real esate office in Newark Shopping Center;·: happens when blood supply is cut three months for about two or 7 99462I 000021 3 f PAGE 2 • NEWARK POST • DECEMBER 22, 2000 Vis it us on the World Wide Web NEWARK POST ·:· IN THE NEWS f!OUCE Aetna expanding fire Armed robbery on · Kent Bludenthal was also gloves and ski masks when 18- charged with carrying a con­ year-~ld Mark J. Shotwell report­ N.

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