( •!• Greater Newark's Hometown Newspaper Since 191 0 •!• 92nd Year, Issue 12 ©2001 April 13, 2001 Newark, Delaware • 50¢ Motown That's Mr. Newark girls '• meets the Gorilla to eye state Rockettes you, kid. • tournament on tee. I ," - -- ---- -- -- ~- ------- --- --- -- --------- -- PAGE 3 PAGE 6 Page '10 I Christina tries tO .I move past anger said officials need to patch some Voters and district of the holes in communication before anyone can pave the path­ board feel election way to a successful capital. improvement plan. cost the students Dr. Nicholas Fischer, the dis­ trict superintendent, started the By KATY CIAMARICONE meeting off Tuesday with a little wordplay of his own. "I'd like to NEWARK POST STAFF WRITER say thanks to the board member Christina.School District par­ community members, staff anci.., ents, board members and teachers parents, especially Capes Riley, at the regular board meeting Bob Sharkey, Jeff Edmison ana• Tuesday used swimming pools, our public information office~: hostages and '70s songs as Lisa McVey, for literally jumpin~~ metaphors to put last week's off the diving board into the deep: failed referendum into perspec­ end on her first month on tht•. tive. job," he said. •:· Taxpayers defeated the $67.7 Fischer said he is pleased with: · million Major Capital the number of votes in favor o!:~ Improvement Plan with a vote of capital improvements. Distri~-. 3,072 to 2,864. District officials officials will rally for renovatio ~- . needed the money to fund reno­ again, he said, though it will be at_ vations in nine suburban elemen­ least six months before they caii-· tary schools and a new district hold another referendum. ... pool. But parents of district students See CHRISTINA, 2 --:.. r.~thnlir! ~P-hnnl in asgow opens NEWARK POST PHOTO BY JOHN LLERA Newark twins Hayley and Jenna Whiting,were reluctant to accept a treat from the Easter Bunny until Mom said it was okay. The Wilmington. "iffy" weather was not a drawback for the 20-month-olds or hundreds of other children and their parents who enjoyed the city of Ground breaking Saltarelli said a growing Newark's annual Easter Egg Hunt at White Clay Creek State Park last Saturday. Catholic community in the dio­ for Christ the cese made it necessary to expand Teacher June 14 educational facilities. "An issue raised by parents with me since By MARY E. PETZAK the day I was named Bishop is the desire for more Catholic Foot and mouth disease worry leads to limited NEWARK POST STAFF WRITER schools," he said in November 2000. he new regional Catholic The Glasgow school will be access at University of Delaware's Newark farm T elementary school to be built on 35 acres owned by the constructed in Glasgow Diocese at the comer of Route 40 Chesapeake Bay Girls Scout Council head­ disinfected at a wash station, located in front by the Diocese of Wilmington and Frazer Road adjacent to the Ag Day events are modi­ quarters and west of the USDA Beneficial of the Allen Laboratory. Personnel using the will be called Christ the Teacher proposed location of St. Margaret Insects Laboratory, are closed. Access to the farm, including faculty, staff and students, Catholic School, according to an of Scotland Church. Members of fied but not cancelled Girl Scout Council headquarters is not affect­ will be provided disposable coveralls and announcement by the diocese last St. Margaret's parish, founded in ed. boots to be worn while working with or in week. ccess to the University of Delaware 1999, currently attend Mass at a Signs are posted at these entrances to proximity to animals. The diocese previously ear­ farm in Newark is restricted, effec­ temporary location on Route 896. A inform the public of the restricted admittance Ag Day and Cooperative Extension activi­ marked $20 million to build the tive immediately, purely as a pre­ Groundbreaking for Christ the and to identify contacts for persons requiring ties will be modified so there is no public school in Glasgow as well as one Teacher will take place on June cautionary measure, in light of the potential access. access to the farm's livestock facilities. There in Ocean Pines, Md., and to for the introduction of foot and mouth disease 14 and the school will open for According to University officials, students will be no pony rides at this year's Ag Day expand St. ·Thomas More in the United States. grades K-5 in September 2002. enrolled in classes that meet on farm premis­ event on April 28. Academy, a Catholic high school Current plans call for grades 6 Consistent with USDA recommendations, es were informed that if they were abroad For more information on the University's which opened three years ago in the University has adopted the restricted through 8 to be phased in at a during spring break, which ended April 1, farm policy, contact John K. Rosenberger, Magnolia. later date. access policy developed in cooperation with they should contact the farm manager before chair of the department of animal and food "Each of the new (regional) H. Wesley Towers Jr., Delaware state veteri­ The preliminary design by going on the farm. Students will be continu­ sciences at 831-2524. schools will be designed to narian. University officials said similar poli­ Buck Simpers Architect & ing their on-farm acti~ties, but these activi­ For information on foot and mouth dis­ accommodate some 600 elemen­ Associates Inc. shows a two cies are now in effect at some schools in ties will be consistent with the restricted ease, contact the state veterinarian at the tary students," said the Most Pennsylvania and New Jersey. story, 68,000 square-foot build- access policy. Delaware Department of Agriculture, 302- Reverend Michael Saltarelli, Under the policy, gates to the main Before entering the farm, vehicles will be 739-4811. Bishop of the Diocese of entrances of the farm, just east of the See CATHOLIC SCHOOL, 2 INDEX Diehl says 'he'll be back' despite loss to Godwin NEWS 1-3, 5 that district with the city's going to run for mayor again," he POLICE BLOTTER 2 Reservoir, iron biggest turnout. He also came said. "You can print that." within 1.1 votes of winning Next time he plans to start his OPINION 4 removal plant will District 5. But the district which campaign earlier, however. "It be built by 2003 Godwin considered the key to his takes a lot of time to go door-to­ ~ THE ARTS 8 victory, District 6, chose Godwin door, but that's the only way you By MARY E. PETZAK by a vote of 220-60. get to talk to people," he said. "In LIFESTYLE 6 "District 6 disappointed me," one seven-hour day I knocked on NEWARK POST STAFF WRITER said Diehl. "I didn't work as hard the doors of 110 houses - a lot of DIVERSIONS 7 there because I was told that the people aren't home, but when ater and Hal Godwin people there didn't vote." they are, you talk to them. It takes COMMUNITY 9 were the big winners Godwin said he spent the a lot of time." whole day calling people in • Property owners in Newark ""if!. Newark's election CROSSWORD PUZZLE 9 on Tuesday night, but mayoral District 6. "That's where the also approved a bond referendum reservoir will be built," Godwin SPORTS 10-11 candidate Bruce Diehl did not to build a 300-rnillion-gallon feel like a loser. said, "and the vote was very close reservoir as well as an iron PEOPLE 12-13 "I'm not disappointed," said in my last election there. I removal treatment plant for the Diehl, who lost the mayor's race thought, 'there's votes in there city's South Wellfield by votes of OBITUARIES 12-14 to Godwin by a 1,539-1,094 vote. (that) I need,' so that's where I 2,189-456 and 2,268-355 respec­ "I think I really made it a race." concentrated my efforts." tively. CLASSIFIEDS B1-6 Diehl said he spent most of Diehl was tired but undaunted · District 1 councilmember Tuesday in District 1 and the vote as he calmly talked to one John Farrell, who was running showed the importance of that reporter after another following unopposed for his second term on polling place when almost 1,000 the fmal.count. ''I'm sitting down council, said he worked on the people voted there. Prior to the because I'm tired," he said at one water vote up to the last minute. fmal vote count, Diehl said he point, "but I'm not going to sit "I stood outside District 1 for 95 was encouraged by the voters he back. I'm going to do what I've percent of the day even though I talked to outside Pilgrim Baptist been doing - I'll be at council wasn't on the ballot," he said, "to Church in District 1 during the meetings and speak up about thank people for corning out to day. "I really pushed it - I feel things." vote for water. I ran on the issue really good," he said. "I may Diehl also said he will run of water in my first race, and this Mayoral candidate Bruce Diehl kept score as the returns came in at 7 99462 00002 3 have won this thing." again. ''I'm going to run for the Newark Municipal Building but the handwriting was on the wall Diehl lost by only 111 votes in council in District 5 and than I'm See ELECTION, 5 ...,_ and Mayor Hal Godwin was elected to a second term.