Happy Easter! Le h ' Serving Greater Newark Since 19 10 •:• Published every Friday April 9, 1993 35~ City to street vendors: Work it out ByE. Fine The dispute started when from his restaurant. will" of the business last fail, testi­ Post Staff Writer Stapleford applied for the spot Triboletti was issued a license fied the spots belonged to the ven­ before Triboletti, who appealed a for the spot in mid-September dors until the end of the month and Newark City Manager Carl Luft ruling th at would have given which expi red on April I. vendors traditionally didn't turn in gave a hotdog vendor and a restau­ Stapleford the spot on April l. Triboletti appealed the ruling on their applications at City Hall until rant owner a week to resolve their Susan L amblack, who is in Monday, saying the city's 1986 the last week in March. dispute over a spot on Main Street charge of licensing vendors, reject­ vendor's regul ations were unclear. "If (other vendors) thought they after hearing testimony from both ed Triboletti's application to renew "An administrative policy that's could have put in an application for sides. his permit in front of the not in writing is not a policy," said 82 East Main, they would have But more importantly, Luft told Wilmington Trust building on Richard McCann, Triboietti's attor­ grabbed it," Urdang said. vendor Tony Triboletti and restau­ March 24, ruling that applications ney. Lamblack said the city's first rant owner Fred Stapleford not to were considered on a first come, Triboletti testified that one of come, first served policy has been E. Fine photo(The Post get too attached to one spot. first served basis. Lamblack's secretaries assured him part of the code since 1986 but that The Easter Bunny makes his annual appearance at the Because certain provisions weren't Stapleford, who owns of 90 East he had until March 31 to submit his no downtown dispute over a spot Newark Business Association's Easter egg hunt. spelled out clearly in the city's ped­ Main Cafe, wants to sell hotdogs, letter of intent and $150 fee. had been ever brought to her atten­ - dler's regulations, the city manager sandwiches, fruit and drinks from a Jessie Urdang, who sold tion. "You were very lucky," she In Sports said a revision may be in order. cart that would be less than 50 feet Tribolctti his cart and the "good- told Urdang. DelDOT head talks traffic Newark is Clayton Hall topic ByE. Fine Post Staff Writer On the day former state Secretary of Transportation Kermit Justice was to begin a 27-month prison term, Ann Canby finished her 27th day as his replacement by speaking to a small group gathered at the University of Delaware's Clayton Hall. Canby, SO and a Wilmington native, is a transportation consultant who has been a past commissioner of the New Jersey Department of Transportation; she also has done work in Massachusetts and Vermont. Canby told about 40 people on Tuesday that state offi­ cials need to emphasize ways to manage the traffic prob­ lems of Greater Newark. "We're not going to build our way out of the mess we've got ourselves into," she said. She said state officials have cut back transportation funding for the coming year. "Our job has just gotten hard­ E. Fine photo/The Post er," she said. - Christiana pitcher Wendy Hirst helped lead the Vikings Canby said one key to solving statewide problems is not to a 7-4 win over Glasgow last Wednesday at Glasgow. accepting car traffic "because it's there," but to spread peo­ Article, 1 B. ple out on buses and other forms of transit. Additionally, state officials must work closely with resi­ dents. In the past, she said officials frequently identified - $50 WINNEFU . problems without giving enough consideration to their con­ E Fine photofThe Post - - - - ~- - - - - - - - - ~- . cerns. Mark Slacum of Newark is this week's winner of The Moreover, effective traffic management will go nowhere Post Basketball Contest. He receivesa $50 gift cer­ without effective planning, Canby said. State and county Hooking for The Big One tificate redeemable at a participating merchant. Look officials should try to make residents throughout the state inside today's Post for your entry blank. less dependent on cars by lessening the distance people Jason Rautio of Newark was one of many anglers sharing the banks of have to travel from home to work and from home to shop­ the White Clay Creek this week, hoping to catch a trout or two. Trout - - ping, she said. season opened April 3, and stocking of the creek will continue through h1clux Canby said the transportation problems most people face April 22 Nearly 18,350 fish, including both rainbow and brown trout, are - - - -- * - - - were similar to her own. "I wake up in Wilmington and being released. ~NE::..:W.:..:S:..__ ____1·-=-- ...:.::12==-A RELIGION 9A drive to Dover every day and I hate it," she said. People !....:PO~L~IC=-=::E _____-= 2=-A EVENTS 11A have to learn that public transportation "is not just for the other guy," she said. Longer school day plan on hold ~CO~M:!!M:!!U~N~ITY~----=3=-A :.:.:AR.:..:l -=.S______ 1..:..= 2:.:..:..A By 1996, companies with 100 or more employees soon .=.:OP:....:.IN=I=ON:=...._ _____4:.:..:.. A SPORTS 1-38 will have to cut their traffic entering and leaving their would deal with the discipline problems LIFESTYLE SA CLASSIFIEDS 4-88 plants by 25 percent to be in compliance with the federal By E. Fine clean air act. Yet many businesses are using more small Post S taff Writer that have been escalating in schools across trucks to make more deliveries, she said. This underscores the country. Only 30 percent of the 700 School officials have put aside a plan to her belief that transportation and growth management must parents responding to a recent survey sup­ add 30 minutes to the school day while go hand-and-hand. ported the plar;; members of the Christina they survey parents and teachers about two But Canby said that because of Delaware's small size, Education Association, which represents new plans. The goal is to give teachers teachers and other staff members through­ the job of managing transportation should be far easier than time for training without costing the dis­ achieving the same goals in neighboring states neighboring out the district, also opposed it. trict any money or the children any class Frank Rishel, an assistant superinten­ states Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Maryland . The time. Delaware Department of Transportation "has the opportuni­ dent, said parents, teachers and administra­ Increasing the school day from six-and­ tors on a special "ad-hoc" committee met ty to create national models," she said. one-half hours to seven hours while reduc­ Some Newark residents were skeptical. Delaware's his­ las t week to discuss two alternate plans, ing the number of school days from 180 to tory of not completing some of its road projects suggests one of which creates six days for training 168 would permit officials to close schools we're not reliable, said one man. "Why should (other states) by adding 15 minutes to the school day. for fo ur days between each nine-week then cooperate with us?" The other reduces the teachers' school marking period. Officials want teachers to day from seven-and-a-half hours to six­ Newark Mayor Ronald Gardner identified the city's pri­ receive training on computers, which they orities as extending the Christina Parkway to Del. 273 and -a-half hours without affecting either believe will improve the quality of educa­ the number of days or hours on the school (Nottingham Road) and extending Wyoming Road from tion in the district. Training days also Del. 72 to Marrows Road. calendar. E. Fine photo/The Post At the Seder table: ·(from left) Dorothy Lasky, Alan Lasky, Newarkers look back 25 years at King's death Beatrice Brooks and William zagar. By Diane Heck Post Staff Writer Sunday, April 4, marked the Freedom: 25th anniversary of the death of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Candlelight vigils were held in front of the bal­ cony of the Lorraine Hotel in Families join together to Memphis, Tenn., where he was gunned down in 1968. He was in commemorate Passover Memphis to help striking sanitation workers and he spoke to them the ByE. Fine And lastly, the cracker-like mat­ night before he died. Post Staff Writer zoh to recall the baking of bread In a television interview, after the Jewish· people were The food is there as much for President Bill Clinton said he ordered from Egypt, without what it symbolizes as for its suste­ remembers waking up to the news enough time to wait for the yeast to nance. the following morning in his house rise. The roasted shankbone to recall on Potomac Avenue in "Why is this night of Passover the blood-stained doors of families Washington , D.C. "I was just in different from all other nights of Douglas Stevens Greg Collins Marie Nelson whose first-born sons somehow shock, and it wasn't very long the year?" the children read from would be spared an awful fate. before the city burned, and Douglas Stevens, 72 - "When I house. She happened to be at our there were special masses at The horse radish to recall the the Haggadah, or prayer book. President Johnson had to call out Because it is the only holiday heard about it, I was away from my home that day, and the riots were church." bitterness of slavery.