A GREATER MEDIA NEWSPAPER The Register SERVING EATONTOWN, FAIR HAVEN, LITTLE SILVER, RED BANK, RUMSON, SEA BRIGHT, SHREWSBURY AND TINTON FALLS JULY 4, 1990 2SCENTS VOL.112 NO. 4(7 Ka- boom As area residents watch the night skies for fireworks signaling the start-of summer, nature is beginning its own daytime display of color bursts. Happy Independence Day. Ptibtograph by Martin Petterchak 2 JULY 4,1990, THE REGISTER (201) 530- JK * For all 8598 your ABC Sport* sporting needs Tennis - LaCrosse Soccer - Backyard • Same Day Stringing • Basketball Backboard Installation 531 Prospect Ave. Little Silver, NJ 494 Prospect Avenue 741-1101 1 We've moved uptown "Where Quality Grows* ittle Silver Greenhouse opens in April with perrenials, annuals, nursery stock & continues with Market tropical plants thru mid-summer. Produce Market opens for Memorial Day Weekend up to Thanksgiving. Unique gift baskets always available BOOTERY CHILDREN'S WEAR . In the Back of the SINCE 1959 665 Branch Ava. 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Dental Care for \ .Thin e Entire Family Bonding • Nitrous Oxide Crown & • Insurance Accepted Bridge • Member of Porcelain Delu Dental Laminate Veneers Plan General Dentistry 530 Prospect Ave. Uttle Silver, N.J. 07739 (across from the Fire Dept.) 530-5111 a 201 THE REGISTER. JULY 4, 1990 3 INSIDE STORY Labrecque profiled Retired Judge Theodore J. Labrec- que of Link Silver, a leader for two decades in Monmouth County's ef- forts to plan for public transportation, is profiled. SEE PAGE 1* Cover your ears The N J. Coalition Against Aircraft Noise warns air traffic patterns estab- lished in 1987 changed. The routes, the group claims, add so mock noise to area Tieigtiborhoods that they pose health and social hazards. SEE PAGE ft Clean pool Players Billiards and Cafe — an al- cohol-free. family-style pool hall — has opened its doors in Eatontown. SEE PAGE 20 To caH The Register Advertising „ „ 542-4000 Ctrodatton 254-7000 Classified 542-1700 News/Sports 542-4000 News release* or advertising copy Photograph by Martin Perterchak may be maaed or brought to The TAKING OFFICE IN RED BANK Register bufkSng at One Register Plaza, Shrewsbury. N J. 07702-4320. Sisterhood and Congregation Officer* at the Congregation Beth Shalom are installed at a dinner June 27. Shown (l-r) are Claire Hyman, Rabbi Joseph Fishman, Or. Myron Beispiel, and Ida Rodack. INDEX THE ARTS 15 Board awards bid to turn house into offices BUSINESS : 17 CLASSBED 38-47 By Mary Ellen McCandteas by the board. They showed us how much we CLUBNEWS 1« could do for the least amount of money." he added. COMMUNTTV CALENDAR 22-23 LITTLE SILVER — The Board of Edu- We hired Gilvari LETTERS 4-5 cation has awarded a $145,850 bid for reno- "For example, since no one really will be Associates to give us MB_ESTOf«S : i-7 vations to borough-owned Green. Acres using the upstairs, it was suggested we don't OBITUARIES 26 property on Willow Drive, which will be re-do the floor, rjowever the downstairs preliminary plans so that OPINION :..... 4-5 leased from the borough for $1 a year and floor must be completely redone." we could get an idea of used for board offices. POUCE BEAT 2T "The fact we used an architect and saved ARANUGENT It The board is currently using space in the our space needs and try PROFILE 12 the architectural fee (in the bids) made a Point Road School for its offices, but due to $40,000 to $50,000 difference." commented to arrange the house PROPERTY LINES 31 an anticipated increase in enrollment, the CHARLES RUBINSTEIN 20 William Bender, the board's buildings and district will need the space for classrooms.- grounds chairman. space into office space. BtLSANDFORO 14 Thomas Gallagher SOCIAL SCENE 1« The bid to renovate the borough-owned "If we didn't use the architect, we mighi schools superintendent SPORTS 2»-30 property, in the amount of $145,850. was not have gotten as competitive a bid situa- LNDA McK. STEWART 10 awarded to Douglas/Papcun & Sons Con- tion." Bender said. struction Corporation. Hazlet. It includes a Bender added that while the roof, siding leased to the board on a year-to-year basis base bid for $137,110. and an additional because of its designation as Green Acres $8,740 fora handicapped-accessible-ramp. and main structure of the house arc sound, there are other areas where renovations property. Fenton explained. It must be reap- The Register The ramp was added to the bid as one of must take place. proved for use by the board each year, he two alternatives. added. Founded in 187$ "The floor is not level, and we have to gut by John H Cook and Henry day The other alternative, which was not in- the interior walls and start over." he ex- ~M\ bincst concern is the year-to-year cluded in the awarded bid. was the cost of plained. lease with the borough for $ I." Fenlon said WILLIAM RCAMNCT removing already existing doors in the Wiring, plumbing, telephone lines and a • "But we have faith in the borough that board offices at Point RoStf School and in- the lease will continue from year to year. I DAVID THALER Stalling therti in the Willow Drive property. burglar alarm must also ibe redone or in- stalled. Bender said. /" suspect this will be a five- to 10-year ar- It was suggested that moving the doors rangement, or even longer." he said .wouldn't be worth the savings and it would Gallagher explainedvjhat jffe contractor JUDITH S. KiEIN be cheaper in the long-run to buy new doors has 120 days to complete rhc work, and the Fenton added that the renovation of the that fit better. board is hoping to be able to use the facility building is a good long-term investment, JUDITH McGEE FEENEY in September. compared to other options such as leasing Five other contractors submitted bids for office space. SMRKR.ROSMAN the work, and base bids ranged from the . "A standard contract is 120 days, and awarded low bid of $137,110 to the highest we're hoping we will be in there by then." he "I don't want the district to think that the bid of$ 198.900. explained. "We are pretty sure that the work board is comfortable spending this much will be done." THE BEOSTEfi a puBMhed weekly tor $22 per The board hired the architectural firm of money, but over the long haul, it will save year by Greater Vtorwnoulh Publishing Co. One us money." he explained. Begeter Plaza. Shrewsbury N J 07702-4320 Ap Gilvan Associates. yRed Bank, to create Board President Edward Fenton added ptcshoo lo Mai a< Second Class Postage Rales is plans which were used by the bidding con- that although the board may have use of its Bender added that the Board of Educa- Pending at Red Bar*. N J. POSTMASTER Send tractors to determine what services and ren- new office space in September, the pupils address changes to tion is not the only borough committee to THE fKGtSTEfi ovations the bids would include. won't have use of the new classrooms pro- benefit from the use of the Willow Drive OneVtegBierPta vided by the move. / property. The Recreation Department is Shrewdy. N J 07702-4320 "We hired Gilvari Associates to give us preliminary plans so' that we could get an In order to ready the board's current of- getting-nsFoTthe basement to house off-sea- A GREATER MEDIA COMPANY idea of our space needs and try to arrange fice space for use as classrooms, several son equipment, he explained. the house space into office space." explained walls must be taken down. This work is to "The best thing about the arrangement is Schools Superintendent Thomas Gallagher. be done by Chas B. Hembling & Son general that borough money is going into a bo- contractors. Shiysbury. for $8,500. "They made suggestions, and turned the rough-owned building, not lining a land- ideas into plans, which were then reviewed The Willow Drive property can only be lord's pockets," Bender commented. r i i f i f t i i i fJfJJJJ1* \ 4,1990, THE REGISTER OPINION Aid questions unanswered If you'reawash in a sea of numbers — Likewise, districts are not known as The Quality Education Act limited by the foundation level and of 1990 — "CTov. James 3. Florio's may exceed it. new school aid formula — you are — The formula includes an not alone. escalator provision, whereby Understanding the act is difficult foundation.levels will increase with because it effects so many major ^=the cost of living. » changes in education funding and, at ^Minimum-aid districts will receive the same time, contains so many transition funding over the next four variables.