Football Preview Inside In the hunt again Join the scene Boys soccer, girls gymnasts Singles fun Saturday See this week's eye returns to '91 form at Bridgewater Commons See page A-5 See Sports, page B-l Weekend Ihe Wsstfield Record 38 Thursday, September 17, 1992 A Forbes Newspaper 25 cents 'tt Third FestiFall Sunday should be best of all More than 300 arts, crafts and food displays await visitors to downtown By ELIZABETH OROMEK Festifall food lovers are in for a major temptation to overeat Pierogies, Chinese THE RECORD food, barbecued beef, Italian specialities Get ready to eat, browse, buy, and be and London broil will be available. The merry in Westfield. The annual Festifall of China light, Hermann's, Domino's, and Arts and Crafts hits the streets Sunday. Flamingo's Yogurt will be offering favor- Elm, Quimby, and East Broad Streets ites from their menus. Typical festival will be closed to traffic to make way for choices of funnel cake, cotton candy, and the 300 displays of crafts and artwork. ice — cream will not be forgotten. Gour- There will also be IS food concession met coffees and pastry will by offered by stands where Fesufall-goers can choose Ahrre's Coffee Roastery. their lunch or dinner. This is the third Antique Dealers from Consignment Gal- year for the street fair, which will feature leries and from Backroom Antiques will be live entertainment in addition to the food selling vintage accessories and collectibles. and crafts. Forbes Newspapers will display a Lam- The Festifall begins at noon, and the borghini Countach and a 1930 Cadillac first entertainer will be Ty Krayln, who Convertible Coupe, series 4335 near Pros- will attempt to escape from a straight jack- pect Street The Lamborghini is one the et a la Harry Houdini. Other performers world's fastest cars and was custom- include Polynesian dancers, a martial arts designed for the late Malcolm Forbes Sr. •• iMonstration, musical storyteller for the The Cadillac is number seven out of the children, and a variety of singers. Young- 100 built and has only 900 miles on it sters can look forward to pony rides, sand The Festifall takes place noon-7 p.m. art demonstrations and a moonwalk. The rain date is Sept. 27. Call the West- Boiizo and Joy the clowns will be painting field Area Chamber of Commerce at 233- COURTESY WESTRELD AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE laces and making balloon animals. 3021 for more information. Vlaw of crowds browsing amidst booths at last year's second annual Festifall In downtown area., FestiFall schedule Here is the schedule of entertainment for Profs say keep both intermediate schools Sunday's FestiFall: Noon: Ty Kralyn, master hypnotist and By ELIZABETH OftOMEK and the changes being made to teaching son to combine the two programs. Despite that the middle schools will strive for in methods and curriculum at the middle the uncertain condition of any state mon- the coining decade, according to the re- mentalist. THE RECORD 12:30 Mele K!ni Polynesian Dance school level. The study predicts that the ies, the report states that there is no rea-port. School. After a year of public input, parental district's enrollment will increase to 5,000 son for "considering significant reorga- As for moving the central administrative 1:00 Jane Judge, singing a medley, surveys, and an official study by two Co- students from the current 4,000. nization primarily for economic reasons." offices from the current Elm Street school Broadway, Old and New. lumbia University professors, the Board of On the intermediate school level, the en- Since the report was commissioned, the location, the study fount! •! would "•" 1:30 Dixie All Stars, a 7 piece Dixieland Education has been advised to adopt a "no rollment is expected to grow to more than state took the strain of financing teachers' work in either the long tenn or the short jazz band. change strategy" in regard to closing the 1,200 students by 2005. pensions and Social Security from the term. The building had ;in estimated value 2:00 New Jersey Workshop for the Arts, two intermediate schools. The professors The Columbia University professors, local districts. of $730,000 five years agn, although more Vocalist Diane McGoskey win sing two presented their results and recFran-k Smith and Jonathan Hughes, found If enrollments grow as predicted, one recently local developer Harvey Gorbcr arias from Carmen and some show ommendations to the Board of Education that the education provided in the two school would not be able to accommodate stated in a report to a Board subcommittee tunes, among other selections. Dr. The- at Tuesday night's meeting. schools is somewhat different, but still of all the students from both schools unless that it could have a higher value. The cost odore Schlosberg wiH perform Mozart's The report was commissioned to deter- high quality. One school is oriented as a additional classroom space is provided. of moving the offices, building a new ga- First French Horn Concerto, with ac- mine the best use of Roosevelt and Edison middle school and the other is more tradi- With Edison being the site of the merged rage, and renovating existing space has companiment from pianist Joan Stasb. schools and the central administration tional in orientation. A "significant invest- program, potentially 10 new classrooms been approximated at $500,000 Jazz pianist Elmer Banks will also per- building. Tie options presented were: ment in staff development and parent ed- would have to be built immediately, and at However, some of Edir.on's programs form. • consolidate the two schools ucation" would be necessary if the schools least one more a year for the next 13 would have to be consolidated, if tho ad- 2:30 The Jerseyaires, a barber shop • continue current use of the schools and were to merge. The sense of community years, the study reported. ministration moved into the school build- quartet. administrative building, or and "coherent middle school orientation" Professor Smith noted that if the issue ing. Even if the space needed was cut to 3:00 Oandylion, performing 60s classics. • use both schools, but move the admin- would have to be developed also, as a re- were merely "fitting kids" into classrooms, two-thirds the current space, the offices 3:30 Macheis Wind, for children, acting istrative offices into one of the schools. sult of the consolidation. the space problem would be less, but in would require 20 percent of the total area out and telling original stories, The consultants addressed these con- The traditional approach is related to an striving to leave room for the ad- of Edison School. A new garage would 4:00 Noble Salerno, a martial arts dem- cerns with three variables in mind, the interest in the development of basic skills vancement of programs and for staff cre- have to be constructed. onstration. educational programs of the schools, the and mastery of a given body of knowledge. ativity, the board "can't squeeze kids in." In the long term, the report states that 4:30 Marc Sky, psychic. state fiscal policy, and the concern for best In the middle school method, the empha- The classroom use recommendations are the predicted enrollment would neces- 5:00 Bob Mele, singer of big band favor- use of space for enrollments. sis is more on creativity and individual based upon using each room six out of sitate more space than currently being ites and ballads. The primary reasons for the rec- development as part of a whole. nine periods a day, or at 66 percent. This used, and there would not be enough ommendation are the projected enrollment Economically, the report shows no rea- allows for the creative use of the space available space left for the offices. Memories, reel delights, conversation flow at Rialto's 70th anniversary fete By ELIZABETH OROMEK Another woman told how she collected "depression glass" at the Rialto and still uses it THE RECORD Hugh Platt was driving by the theater one morning in 1931 on Seventy years and seven days after the theater opened, a small his way to the train station when he noticed there was a great crowd gathered to celebrate the anniversary of the Rialto theater. deal of smoke coming from the building. At first he thought they The festivities included a history of the theater, memories of had turned on the oil burning furnace, but by the time he was movie goers and a film history of some of the many movies that stopped at the light at Central and North Avenues, he realized have played at the Rialto over the years. the place was on fire and told his wife to take over the wheel so Mayor Garland "Bud" Boothc started the celebration with a he could go pull the fire alarm. As he ran down the street, the proclamation to commemorate the Rialto theater's contribution alarm was already going off and he ran into the firehouse and to Westfield. said, "bring everything you've got. it's the Rialto!" Present und past residents of Westfield stood up to share a He said he helped bring the first hose into the building and saw the stage curtain drop in flames. memory with the 50 or so people assembled. Floyd Wilke, now a Except for after the fire and during some other renovations, resident of Berkeley, California, recalled how he used to earn 25 the Rialto only closed once, on the day President Kennedy was cents for two hours work delivering meat, and spent that money shot at the Rialto.