Newarkers stage Prairie Home Companion/ lOa Vol. 75, No. 47 \~~ p.R'< Students Historic Iron Hill ~) \S?X) {\h1 I " Area was frequented by Indians, site of gold rush . ~ ur \)\.1.1' N clean 1J I'41'~tR'-I f... ot.L~'­ ~t.\1~"'(!. I Newark Event kicks off CHARCOAL Clean & Green Days More than 200 Newarkers - university students and residents alike - combed city streets Saturday in a massive clean-up campaign which kicked off the month­ long Clean and Green Days. The students, largely members of University of Delaware fraternities and sororities, were ceqtral _to the effort, according to Coun­ cilman Betty Hutchinson, chairman of the city's Clean and Green Committee. They were transported on Unicity buses to drop off points along Newark's ma­ jor arteries. From those points, bands of 20-30 students worked their way back to Warner Hall on campus, picking up trash all along the routes. Upon their arrival at Warner Hall, student patrols were greeted by city of­ ficials - and city garbage Robert Melson of Newark explains operation of early iron furnace. trucks. After discarding their litter bags, the students were presented t's been mined by Indians and Iron Hill draws its name justly, ac­ Clean and Green visors and Welshmen, trod on by George cording to Robert Melson of Newark, t-shirts. Washington and endured a chairman of the Iron Hill Museum Com­ I fools' gold rush. mittee. The inside of the hill is a mass of Also taking part in Satur­ It's Iron Hill, the round mound with a igneous rock called gabbro, which is day's efforts were the West heart of gabbro which rests just south of made up of iron magnesium, he said. Chestnut Hill Road Newark and which will be the subject of It was the quartz known as jasper, Residents Association and a special program Saturday, May 3. however, which drew the first human in­ the University's Young by Neil Thomas The Delaware Academy of Science will terest. Indians who inhabited the East Republican Students for hold an open house from 10 a.m. to. 3 p.m. Coast 3,500 years before the birth of Steve Amick. Amick, who is in its Iron Hill Museum, located on the Christ prized the Newark jasper of Iron active in the West Chestnut south slope of the hill off Old Baltimore Hill as arrowheads because the stone, Hill civic organization, is Pike (Del. 7). when broken, forms very sharp edges. running for state The open house will be dedicated to the Today, visitors who take the Iron Mine legislature. historical, archaelogical and geological Trail at the museum site can wind their aspects of the ancient hill. Visitors will way to the Indians' workshop. The The "clean sweep," which be able to tour a 5,500 year old Indian workshqp sits alongside a small stream was part of the University's jasper quarry, see the remains of a 19th and-contains jaspl!r · ~ailings about 18-20 Greek Week festivities, was century iron mine, study the hill's inches beneath the s1 'face. well worth the effort, ac­ various rocks and hear Indian stories told cording to several students. by Charlott Holock. See HILL/ 17a Admission is $1. Children under 5 will See CLEAN/ 4a be admitted free of charge. INDEX FACT FILE , . KEEP POSTED Newarkers ........ 2a • Saturday, May 3, 1-3 p.m. at News .............. 3a Storm's shoe store in Midway Shop­ Schools ............ 6a Walking ping Center. Rob Sweetgall will Christina candidates Community ....... lOa discuss the benefits of walking for Church ........... 15a clinics the health of it and his journey Two public forums for Christina Board of Education ~nterta~ent .... 16a across America, and will lead a candidates to address citizens' concerns have been University ........ 17a clinic on proper techniques of walk­ scheduled by the League of Women Voters of Greater· Opinion ........... 18a ing. The clinic is part of a series of Newark. The first forum will be held at 7:30p.m. Fri­ walking events being coordinated day, May 2 in the Bancroft School, 8th and Lombard Sports ............. lb by Storm's, which plans to form streets, Wilmington. The second will be held at 7:30 Lifestyle........... 6b walking clubs all over New Castle p.m. Monday, May 5 in Newark High School. The ~usiness ........... Bb County. school board election is Saturday, May 10. ClassHied ......... lOb • Wednesday, May 7, 6:30p.m. at Forces ........... 16b the Anna P. Mote Elementary Run for Your Life slated School on Kirkwood Hig.hway. Rob Newark's Department of Parks and Recreation will Sweetgall will head a· program hold the 11th annual Run for Your Life 10-kilometer sponsored by The Back Clinic. He race Saturday morning, May 3 at Barksdale park. will show the 27-minute film Race day registration is $8. For details, contact the "Walk! America!" which chroni­ Department at 366-7060. cles his coast-to-coast trek. 2a The New Ark Post 1pril 30, 11186 NEWARKERS .Glasgow principal Tom Comer Veteran educator ~njoys searching the ocean depths for buried treasure seems to have made the most im­ courses in such areas as pact. Since 19'178 , he has agriculture, computer repair and by John McWhorter developed what he calls the "four accelerated languages. centers conceet" in counseling. Despite his achievements, This programl~ designed to give Comer said he misses the hile he can usually be students a single source of career teacher-student contact of the found cruising the help, as well as academic classroom, and always enjoys halls of Glasgow High assistance. teaching the occasional math School, Principal class. W Comer feels this program is Thomas L. Comer may also be His highlight though, is seeing Principal and -scuba diving enthusia~t Tom Comer ·in his Gla~gow High School office. found diving for sunken treasure valuable because students have students grow up and become in the depths of the Atlantic one person who knows all their young adults. " They come in Ocean. needs, instead of two who know here as bubbly, hyperactive kids 215 E, DELAWARE AVE,, NEWARK Comer, who dives " for the only some of their needs. " It but when they leave, they have 13021737-4711 Rev. Peter A . Wells . PaRtor thrill of it," once pulled up the gives the counselor a better op­ developed and h~;~ve taken on " WE ARE A UNITING CHURCH " portunity to get to know the stu­ safe from the Florida wreck leadership roles. · ~ 9:30 Worship "Nina" and brought it back to dent," Comer said, " and the pro­ " Even if they're in trouble, West Chester, Pa. to have it cess becomes more personal." they shake your hand, give you 11 :00 Adult & Youth Education opened. As It turns out, the safe In addition, he said the school that look, and you know that it NURSERY CARE AVAILABLE was empty, but Comer continues has begun to offer more diversity has all been worth it," Comer ·.. The love of one's country is a splendid thing. But why to be devoted to the sport. in education through in­ said. " and that's the biggest UT\JUnited Church of Christ should love stop at the border." After taking introductory scuba corporating nine week mini- thrill." - Pablo c.. ata lessons in a class offered at Glasgow High, he became entic­ ed to continue and is now cer­ tified in the open, deep, advanced and wreck types of diving. While Comer's other hobbies include gardening, boating, fishing, camping and travel, he has spent most of his years in the field of education, where he has definitely left his mark. One of Comer's biggest achievements to date was the controversial closing of the school's smoking court. That oc­ curred last September after Comer noticed the inconsistency between the goals of health education and school policy. " I couldn't see how a school SAVE EVEN MORE could offer a place to smoke after what the Surgeon General FROM OUR REGIONAL has found, " Comer said. SCRATCH 'N DENT SHARP That was in January of 1985 •SOME IN CARTON and by June of the same year he DIVISION! 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