Downtown car show a big hit. PAGE12 • Can you solve the 'Post Stumper?' PAGE1s •:• Greater Newark's Hometown Newspaper Since t910 •:• 95th Year, Issue 28 © 2oo4 August 13, 2004 Newark, Del. • 50¢ UP FRONT JCC Repeating ewark Parks and Recreation the ·news of Nrecently sponsored its popu­ lar Safety Town ,events. closing Judging by the smiles on the par­ 3 years ago ticipants, all had a grand time. What is tutu re By JIM STREIT Pictured clockwise, Brian Hansel, for historic build~ng? NEWARK POST STAFF WRITER 6, of Pike Creek, slides down the slide as worker Christina Coleman By JOE OliVIERI , hubbub erupted last A week in the media and of Newark watches from above; NEWARK POST CONTRIBUTING WRITER around water coolers Emily Zuleba of landenbereg, Pa when it became known that S the Jewish Community Center heightened terrorism alerts tries her hand at steering the fire A announced its closure at the end were spurred, in part, by engine; New Castle County Police of September, the latest chapter three-year-old intelligence. of Newark Post founder Everett C. officers Huff (left) and Brown Johnson's vision of what a building The resultant criticism was could stand for concludes, and its next fueled by desperate presiden~ stand next to their mounted hors­ chapter is yet to be written. tial politics. es, Misty and Elvis; Fratti gets her These are Insufficient membership and lack of serious matters, chance to sit on the police motor­ funds were the primary reasons JCC I know, but I'm cycle with the assistance of officials will close the fortress-like, sick of the elec­ stone-walled building, built in 1916 to tion already ... Newark Police Officer Patrick house Johnson'-s newspaper and elabo­ rate print shop. and it's only Corcoran; and, Christopher "We're sad it didn't work," said JCC mid-August. Czerwinski, 4-1/2, of Newark, Criticism Executive Director Jeff Metz, who added the center was losing more than that the Bush enjoys the swing. administration's Streit $200,000 per year. "We're sad we have jacked-up terror alerts were See JCC , 9 based on aged Al Qaeda computer files got me think­ ing. Rather than digging up Businesses new news each week, what would happen if we recycled stories that were printed in 2001 but presented them as call for recent events. So, off I stumbled into our archives, moving aside dusty workshop stacks of "Newark Nite" spe­ cial sections (why we keep them I don't know- it's not Newark Post photos Sprinkler ordinance needs like we are going to reprint by Scott McAllister . the entertainment line-up more discussion, city told from 1998). I trashed a box of photographs - all portrait By DARREL W. COLE shots of former newsmakers, all deceased (it's not like NEWARK POST STAFF WRITER they're going to make IJ.ews any longer). HE Newark City Council has Then I dug into the 2001 T agreed to postpone final decisions paper files of late July and regarding changes to the city's early August. sprinkler ordinance until after a Sept. 21 See workshop between city officials and area businesses. The request for a workshop was made to the Council at its Monday, Aug. 9 meeting by architect Joe Charma, on behalf of the Design Committee of the Downtown Newark Partnership. See SPRINKLERS, 19 7 99462 00002 3 !~ SPORTS: UD's Blue Hens start season No. 1 in poll, page 13. • Canal girls win in Eastern Regional, page 13. PAGE 2 • NEWARK PosT • AuGusT 13, 2004 737-0724 • Fax 737-9019 NEWARK PosT ·:· POLICE BLOTTER Can we help? _. Police Blotter is compiled HE Delaware State Police, Troop 6, Petra Reyes was transported by Offices: The paper's offices are each week from the files of the Tis investigating a two-vehicle crash, ground to the Christiana Emergency located conveniently in Suite Newark Police Department, New Crash which trapped a 15-year-old Room. She was treated and released for 206, Madeline Crossing, 168 Castle County Police and the Newark teen for approximately 30 min­ chest contusions and abrasions, officers Elkton Rd., Newark, DE Delaware State Police by the utes and closed the road for approximate- reported. 19711. Office hours are 8:30 newspaper staff. · ly one hour on Tuesday, Aug. 3. Her 15-year-old daughter, Maria, was a.m. to 5 p.m. weekdays. traps Police reported that at approximately trapped for approximately 30 minutes 9:41a.m., a 2003 Kenworth propane prior to being extricated and airlifted to Phone: (302) 737-0724 truck was traveling westbound on Valley the Christiana Emergency Room, accord­ Facsimile: (302) 737-9019 Newark Road approaching Rt. 7. The truck is I ing to police. She was treated and e-mail: [email protected] Thieves owned by Schagrin Gas Company and released for a laceration to her right arm .was operated by Roger Ruggeri, 34, of and a fractured right femur. Both were To subscribe: Call 737-0724 or West Chester, Pa. wearing seatbelts at the time of the crash. 1-800-220-3311. To begin a tee-n A 1997 Chevy Ventura minivan trav­ Ruggeri was wearing his seat belt at convenient home-delivery sub­ on the run eling eastbound on Valley Road also was the time of the crash and was not injured. scription, simply call. approaching Rt. 7. Petra Reyes, 41, of Police said the children were not EWARK police reported that injured but were transported to the To place a classified or display Newark was the operator. Maria Reyes, N at 11:25 p.m. on Aug. 4 James 15, was the right front seat passenger; a Christiana Hospital for evaluation. The 6- ad: Call 737-0724 or 1-800- Earl Helphenstine, entered the 6-year-old girl was seated in the middle year-old is the daughter of Petra Reyes 220-3311. 7-Eleven store at 202 Elkton Road. row of seats and a 4-year-old boy was and the 4-year-old is her nephew. He pretended to purchase' an item, seated in the back row of seats, according Reyes was issued a traffic citation for THE STAFF of the Newark Post is then grabbed the cash register drawer to police. Both children were properly failure to yield while turning left. eager to assist readers and advertis­ when it opened and struggled with Police said Valley Road eastbound ers. Reporters , writers, editors and - secured in child restraints. the store clerk. was closed for approximately one hour. salespeople can be contacted as lisied: Reyes attempted to turn her vehicle Police said he fled the store with left and travel onto northbound Rt. 7. The The propane truck was carrying James B. Streit, J~. is the publisher the cash drawer and jumped into a vehicle crossed the path of the propane approximately 2,200 gallons of propane of the Newark Post. He sets policies and car nearby. Police believe the car was truck and was struck in the .right front at the time of the crash. None of the manages all departments in the Newark ' operated by a white female, side for point of impact in the intersec­ propane escaped from the truck. office. Call him at 737-0724. Stephanie Bennett. tion, police said. Darrel W. Cole is the news editor. Approximately an hour later, He leads the day-to-day operation of the police believe the same couple newsroom. Call him at 737-0724. robbed the Wawa store near the inter­ Jewelry store hit Newark ,Shopping Center, 230 E. pects are contractors doing work Marty Valania prepares the sports section of Rts. 40 and 896. Main St., at 3:26a.m. to discover the inside the plant. pages of this newspaper. The sports The Delaware State Police An alarm sounded at 3:05 a.m. on back door open and a safe missing. editor is seldom in the office, however, Robbery Squad said the pair also Sunday, Aug. 8, and alerted Newark Police said,the safe contained an Youth shot in area he checks in frequently. Leave mes­ removed the cash register at the police of the burglary of a jewelry undisclosed arriount of cash and sages for Marty at 1-800-220-3311. Wawa store. store at Suburban Plaza shopping checks. An estimated 150 cartons of A 17-year-old male underwent Jan Blankenship is the office A 19-year-old female clerk was center. Officers arrived four minutes cigarettes were reported missing. emergency surgery after he was shot manager and editorial assistant who working the front register when a later but no suspects .were appre­ at least two times at an undetermined processes most press releases. She male entered the store and hended. Engines missing location, possibly in the Newark prepares obituaries and People briefs. approached the register with a piece Police said the intruders heaved a area, police reported. Contact her at 737-0724. of gum, reached over the counter and large piece of concrete through the from Chrysler plant On Thursday, Aug. 5, at 5:35 grabbed the register while verbally front door, shattering the glass. a.m., New Castle County Police Officials at DaimlerChrysler's Robin Broomall is a staff reporter. threatening the clerk, police said. Inside the store, the thieves quickly received a report of a young man Reach her at 737-0724. Newark Assembly Plant, 550 S. The suspect then fled via the east smashed the glass of nine display undergoing treatment · at the College Ave., told Newark police on Phil Toman has been the paper's doors with the register.