SEP , ; :997 Inside: Guide to Community Services MuraiJ mural on the wall Voorheesville draws athletics guidelines By Katherine McCarthy "Steve Schreiber noticed At the behest of the that things were coming up Voorheesville board of from year to year," Faraone education, the Athletic said. "It seemed that there Programs Committee has were underlying ·codified the expected fundamental issues that behavior of all participants needed to be addressed." -coaches, players, parents Board members did and spectators - at some research about sporting events in that guidelines· and codes of district. A draft of the ethics implemented by other guidelines will be presented school and youth groups, to the public Sept. 22 at 7:30 creating a file of resource p.m. at· Clayton A Bouton documents. High School. Faraone "Most of our material Board mem hers came from other sources," Nicholas Faraone, Steven Schreiber and Faraone said. Robert Baron served on the Athletics To tailor the guidelines to Program Committee. Voorheesville's needs, the committee met Faraone said the guidelines weren't with representatives from all sections of developed in response to any specific the school community, including the problems, but rather to a number of issues athletic director, students, athletes, that all dealt with fairness and parents, coaches, principals and sportsmanship. 0 GUIDELINES/page 20 Develope'rs get-extension Charlew looks to build 65 homes By Michael HaUisey However, the project itself still needs · For more than 20 years, developers preliminary approval from the planning have eyed land near McCormack Road for board. a housing development. Though the planning board is close to Last week the Be"thlehem town board accepting preliminary plans for the gave Charlew Construction Co. another subdivision (it is scheduled to go in front Robbie Albright of Glenmont two-year extension on a six-year-old of the board again on Sept. 21), Charlew library Day activities at Bethlehem Public Library Sunday. rezoning decision that would permit a 11(). will still have to go through town hall two acre, 65-home housing subdivision there. more times for approval on condition and final plans. Since the company purchased the land in 1994, Cherryvale is "well into" the Key Bank will consolidate branches approval process, said Robert Walsh, director ofland acquisition for Charlew. By Michael Hallisey Walsh said he felt the project should For more than three years, Bethlehem be approved by next July. residents have had two KeyBank After a public hearing which lasted 14- branches within a stone's throw of each minutes, the town board approved to other. extend the time period. The town board Come Friday, Oct.10, that will change. first granted time for the project in 1991, Residents driving or walking along the and again in 1994. intersection of Kenwood and Delaware Since Charlew obtained the property, avenues may have noticed construction the company has adhered to state and equipment at the Four Corners Key local government regulations on wetlands branch recently, and requests for right-of-ways. The Four Corners branch is currently going through renovations to expand its - Cherryvale would be built south of facilities in order to house more safety McCormack Road and west of Cherry deposit boxes from the Delmar Key Avenue Extension (New York Route 140). branch. Local residents expressed concerns on The Delmar branch on Delaware how the new subdivision would affect Avenue, just down the street, has been in traffic on the intersection of McCormack operation for more than 40 years, said Jim and Route 140. Healy, KeyBank vice president for A traffic light was suggested by 0 BANK/page 32 Showing signs of wear and tear, Key Bank will move from here to its branch up the street. 0 DEVELOPER/page 20 ' , . PAGE 2 September 17, 1997 THE SPOTUGHT Albany woman jailed in Delmar theft case CMislates By Michael Hallisey Wenzl was known in-town for·. Wenzl suffered from a stroke. Converse said she became sus­ meeting on A woman charged with taking serving on the board of directors Hediedlastmonthattheageof .picious when she could not find more than $40,000 from a Delmar for the Bethlehem Public library 90. one of Wenzl's check books and resident placed in her care was for .more than 40 years. He was · It was while Newman was car· was not receiving bank statements seniors home sentenced to up to five years in partially responsible for the library ing for Wenzl that the money was for that savings account prison by Albany County Court taken, said Bethlehem police. Converse said when she asked in Delmar recently. Newman had reportedly writ· Newman aboutthe statements, the ~ ·~ Barbara Newman, 58, of 325 We were nicer to her ten·a series of checks amassing nurse said she was beginning to CMI Senior Housing and Mountain St in Albany, pleaded $22,000 from one ofWenzl's bank feel ill. Health Care, Inc.will hold an infor­ guilty and was convicted on one ihan I think anybody accounts earlier this year, said Converse later found money mational meeting for local resi· count of second degree criminal else that she worked police, and deposited the money missing from the bank account, dents on a $10 million dollar pro­ possessionofaforgedinstrument, into herdaughter·in·law's account and compared her signature with posed project a class D felony, by Albany County for. We took her out for Another$20,000waswithdrawn those of recently forged checks to The meeting will be at First Judge Larry Rosen on May 29. things, we took her out from another account through bank officials. United Methodist Church, 428 The charge carries a sentence to dinner. ATM transactions, said police. "It upset Ted terribly," said Kenwood Ave., Delmar, Monday, of one-and·a·half to five years in The money stolen from Wenzl Converse, who said Wenzl was Sept 22, at 7 p.m. prison. Mary Converse was reimbursed through a bond concerned if he would ever see CMI will discuss its plans for According to the office of AJ. from Nurse Finders, said attorney the money returned. ·the project that would be sited bany County Court Clerk, Bernard Kaplowitz, responsible The money was reimbursed nextto BethlehemPublicUbrary. Newman will serve her time at moving to it's present facilities bn for Wenzl's estate. after he died. CMI proposes to build a 107· Bedford Hills Correction Facility Delaware Avenue 25 years ago, Newman's actions were picked ''We' were nicer to her than I unit, two-st(lry building on a 6.7· in Westchester County. and held the role as president of up by longtime family friend, Mary think anybody else that she acre lot, west of the library on Newman worked as a house the Civil Service Employment As­ Converse, who was granted power worked for," said Converse. ''We Delaware Avenue. nurse, employed by Nurse Find· sociation outside ofhis duties with of attorney on Wenzls finances took her out for things, we took The project has been in front of ers of Albany, to take care of the­ the library. · before his death and regularly her out to dinner. the planning board, and some of late Theodore Wenzl, of Delmar. In the last few years of his life, checked on him at his home. "I asked her how she could do the members of that board have such a thing," said Converse. also expressed a reduction in the "And she said she was sorry. She number of units before consider· later called out to me at the shop­ ing placing another business in a ping market. I didn't talk to her." residential zone. 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High School students spoke their Inconvenience to drivers from nrindsduringapublichearingon the lower limit is less significant reducing the speed limits of three thail the benefit to the whole com­ town roads, one of which a road munity, said Vanderbilt. many of them park on as BCHS Residents first asked the Beth­ students-Van Dyke Road.