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Temple Sinai Teens will present"Sermon in Song: Jewish Broad-way Composers" on Friday at 6:30p.m at Temple Sinai, 208 SummitAve., Summit.

For more information, call 908-273-4921 or visittemplesinainj.org.

Computer classesavailable next week

The Mountainside RecreationDepartment will sponsor two newcomputer classes next week.

"Shopping" on the Internet" willteach how to safely purchase mer-chandise from a computer, creditcard privacy, and popular shoppingWeb sites. The class will take placeMonday from 10 to 11 a.m. Theregistration fee is $10.

"Google It" will teach how touse the popular search engine,Google, as well as how to searchfor all kinds of information online.The class will take place Wednes-day from 10 to 11 a.m. The regis-tration fee is $10.

,' All classes will be in the Learn-ing Center at Borough Hall.

Space is limited. To register,stop by the Recreation Office,1385 Route 22 east.

For more information, call 908-232-0015.

Learn to do it yourselfSAGE Eldercare will have a

new workshop called "HandySkills" for men and women of allages who want to learn basic skillsfor home fix-it projects.

Greg Skuiaton, a local profes-sional, contractor, will -conduct,workshops: on Wednesday and Feb.15 from 1 to4 p.m.

Men and women are invited toattend one or both of the free class-es to be held at SAGE Eldercare,290 Broad St.V Summit,

Pre-registration is suggested.Call Suzanne Lyon at 908-598-5514:;:

Library to presentchildren's programs

The Mountainside PublicLibrary, Constitution Plaza, willpresent two winter reading pro-grams for children.

Stories arid nursery rhymes willbe; Ihared during "Toddler Time"w|tii 2-year-olds and their adultca||givers;: on Wednesdays, from

| | | to II a.m. This session willthrough Feb. 22.

preschool Storytime" is sched-uled lor;J3- and 4-year-olds onThursdays; from 2 to 2:30 p.m. Thisprogram will run through March 9.

Registration and proof of ageare required.

To register or for more informa-tion, call 908-233-0115.

Homeiarsd securityseries kicks off

Five years ago, domestic pre-paredness, especially at the countylevel, referred to floods and poweroutages. Today, when freeholderstalk about domestic preparedness,they're also talking about home-land security, and how well localpolice departments are equipped tohandle a terrorist attack.

Today, The Observer kicks offa series on homeland security atthe county level. See story Page17.

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Officers to participate in upcoming Police UnityBy Paul Creulich

Staff WriterSPRINGFIELD — Four Spring-

field police officers will be hitting theroad on wheels m May as part of anannual police pilgrimage to Washing-ton, D.C. known as the Police UnityTour.

Officers from all over the countrywill pedal their way to the NationalLaw Enforcement Officers Memorialin Washington, D.C, the only nationalmemorial built and maintained by pri-vate funding. The memorial includes amarble wall engraved with the namesof more than 17,000 of the nation's lawenforcement officers who were killedin the line of duty, dating back to 1792.Among those names is SpringfieldPolice Officer Joseph R. Roessner,who gave his life in the performance ofhis duties on March i 3, 1962.

The members of the SpringfieldPolice Department involved this yearare officers James Mirabile, JosephCieri, Stephen Studlack and Sgt.Richard Mickles. Cieri and Mickleshave been on the tour in the past.

In order to participate, each officermust raise $1,500 in donations tocover expenses. The surplus will bedonated to the memorial.

This ambitious journey takes threedays and covers almost 300 miles. Itallows members of the police force tomeet and bond with other officers,honor their fallen comrades, spreadawareness and donate money to thememorial.

A brief but important northerlydetour is planned so that officers maypay their respects at Ground Zero inNew York City and at the LincolnHighway Bridge, where two JerseyCity officers lost their lives this pastChristmas.

All New Jersey officers will gatherin Florham Park on May 9 to kick offthe journey. This town is an appropri-ate starting point because the officerwho started this event, Pat Montuore,was from Florham Park. Montuoreand 17 other officers made the firstride to the memorial 10 years ago.Since then, the numbers have swelledand now thousands of officers fromaround the country participate.

The Board of Unity Tour chooseswhich officers participate each yearand, in recent years, more officershave been turned away on account ofthe sheer numbers of cyclists converg-ing on the nation's capitol.

Mickles says he expects the PoliceUnity Tour will continue to grow witheach year.

He stated, "It became a challengeand a way to make people aware ofhow many officers give their liveseach year."

A total of 153 officers died lastyear in the line of duty. Eighteen of thefamilies of those officers will be pres-ent at the memorial, where the namesof the fallen officers will be readaloud. The schedule of events includesseminars by C.O.P.S., Concerns ofPolice Survivors; a march by our

Tea for two!

Pboto By Barbara Kokkalis

Three-year-old Victoria Delia shares a cup of 'tea' withher doll, Kit, at the Girls and Dolls Tea Party at Sand-meier School on Saturday.

lomSense' raisesmoney for playground

By Paul GreulichStaff Writer

SPRINGFIELD — The unsungbattles of motherhood sprang tocomic, sometimes poignant, life on thestage at Jonathan Dayton High Schoolon Jan. 26 as the musical comedy"MomScnse" entertained a lively

crowd to raise money for the EdwardV. Walton Playground Fund.

Brief monologues set the scene forparodies of popular songs, their lyricsre-worked to chronicle the variousstages of motherhood, from pregnancyto late childhood.

See PLAYGROUND, Page 2

Turin, here she comes!Local girl to intern with NBC for Olympics

By Paul GreulichStaff Writer

"SPRINGFIELD — During MarnieFish's time as a student at JonathanDayton High School, she served forthree years as manager of its ice hock-ey team, Now she is on her way to amuch bigger arena •— the WinterOlympics in Turin, Italy, as an internfor NBC.

This.lifelong Springfield native is a

junior at Syracuse University, whereshe studies in the Newhouse Commu-nication School, the top communica-tion school in the country. She ismajoring in television, film and radioand minoring in education and psy-chology.

Her interest in television and icehockey intertwined when one of herprofessors suggested she apply for an

Sec SPRINGFIELD, Page 2

Springfield Police Sgt. Richard Mickles is flanked by officers Joseph Cieri and StephenStudlack at the conclusion of last year's Police Unity Tour in Washington, DC. The men areat the Jefferson Memorial, with the Washington Monument in the background.

nation's Emerald Society Pipe Bands;a wreath laying ceremony, and a can-dlelight vigil.

The tour is not intended to beviewed as a race and competition

among officers is discouraged. Whilethere have been minor injuries overthe years, there has never been anyserious mishaps. All hospitals alongthe route are mapped out in advance in

case of an emergency and EMS crews1

are always present.In addition to the total of 400 offi-

cers from New Jersey who will'beSee TOWNSHIP'S, Page 2

Board of School Estimate meetsBy Joan M. Devlin

Staff WriterSUMMIT — With an early start

tlys year; the Summit Board of SchoolEstimate b'egan the'first 'of its meet-ings i'uesday night. "tV~develop theschool budget for the coming year.

There were not many attendeesfrom the general public, but boardmembers who were not on the daiswere in the audience.

Mayor Jordan Glatt presided overthe meeting, which included EllenDickson and Andrew Lark from theCommon Council and Board of Edu-cation President Harry Olsen. Alsorepresenting the Board of Educationwere Karen Chaplin, Superintendent

of Schools Carolyn Deacon and Busi-ness Administrator Paul Griggs.

The mayor began, "Tonight is thefirst in a series of meetings about theschool budget and it is really an out-line of the budget only. There will beother meetings. It must be adopted byMarch 28."

He said, this way, plenty of time isallowed for the public's input.

Olsen said, "Our goal is to contin-ue to make our school system thefinest." He then went over a long listof focus areas, which included studentachievements, safe environment,improved communications and contin-uing work on the new primary centersdevelopment.

Deacon surprised everyone by stat-ing she was hoping to bring in theschool budget below last year's, ratherthan increasing it. She said she fellstrongly about this due to the increasein city taxes and the many communi-cations she has had about the taxes.

"We asked all the administrators tohold the budget figures to the 2005figures and we are now in the processof meeting with them again and wiiltry to keep the priorities in place."

Then they discussed how every-thing is growing, especially studentenrollment. Deacon noted that anincrease of between 55 to 60 students

See BQE, Page 2

Cranford Police Chief Eric Mason, left, and Summit Police Chief Robert Lucid, right, con-gratulate Lt. Robert Week on his receipt of an Academic Award for Excellence after hiscompletion of the New Jersey State Association of Chiefs of Police West Point Commandand Leadership Program.

Officer honored for achievementBy Joan M. Devlin

Staff WriterSUMMIT — After serving 17 years with the Summit

Police Department, Lt. Robert Week, now commander ofthe Traffic and Special Services Bureau, recently receivedan award that was a bit unexpected.

He took a special 14-week intensive training coursecalled "New Jersey State Association of Chiefs of PoliceWest Point Command Leadership Program."

"They never tell you how you are doing. Some just dis-appear, but I kept going. There were many lectures and lotsof paperwork with tough exams," recalled Week.

Not only did he pass, he received the Academic Awardfor Excellence, which was presented at a special graduationceremony on Dec. 20 at the Marriott Trenton.

Police Chief Robert Lucid was very proud and said, "I

am especially gratified by Lt. Week's receiving this award.He is the first officer in Union County to win this aware!during the 10 years this program has been offered. We arcall extremely proud of this accomplishment."

The program is a result of the collaboration of the asso-ciation and the U.S. Military Academy at West Point'sDepartment of Behavioral Sciences and Leadership. It is nhighly competitive program attracting law enforcementcandidates with proven leadership from all over the state. Itserves as a model for other collaborative programs acrossthe country.

Week lives in Madison with his wife and two children.He added, "I hope to be able to put my new insights intoleadership to good use in our department."

Staff Writer Joan M, Devlin can he reached at 908-686-7700, ext.123, or at theobserver@thelocalsonrce.com.

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Township's finest to bicycle to D.C(Continued from Page 1)

riding, about 100 more people willattend in support functions, includingofficers serving as motorcycleescorts. Buses will be accompanyingthe tour to provide transportation forofficers who are injured or whosebikes have been damaged. Bike repairtrailers will be present as well to be

sure any breaks or flat tires that occuralong the way are fixed as quickly aspossible.' Mickles, who will be serving as a

motorcycle escort on the tour, admits thejourney is taxing, especially to the bik-ers, but says the payoff is well worth it.

"It's a pretty amazing feelingarriving in Washington, D.C. with

thousands of cyclists, to the adula-tion of thousands," he said.

Anyone interested in donating tohelp fund the Police Unity Tour cancontact Springfield police headquar-ters at 973-376-0400.

Staff Writer Paul Greulich can bereached at 908-686-7700, ext. 117, orat theobserver@t/ielocalsonrce. com.

BOE budget meetings begin early(Continued from Page.l)

is expected in the high school alone,with a large percentage of that groupbeing special education students.

This means the issue of space isstill there, and she also noted that theschool system is mandated by the stateto increase the number of special edteachers and aides when needed.

Chaplin spoke on the budgetprocess, noting that the creation of thebudget actually begins in the fall. Thatis when the numbers will be known.

As for budget figures, the cap num-.bers from the state have not yetarrived, according to Griggs.

Challenges of the 2006-07 budgetwere listed separately and were formi-dable. Besides the increased studentenrollment, there will be increasedfunding needed for special education,and it was stated that very little discre-tionary money was available. Healthcosts have skyrocketed, as they haveeach year.

When asked about hoped-for stateaid, Griggs said it "remains flat andunfunded." .

"The cap is a big item, and we stillhave no word on that either."

The positives came from Deacon,who noted as she did last year, "People

move to Summit expressly for ourschool system — this is a fact. Theycome with high expectations from ourschool system."

There was a brief question-and-answer session from members of theaudience. Councilman Tom Getzen-danner suggested lobbying stronglyfor more state aid. Meetings arescheduled for Feb. 16, 24 and 28.There are also five more meetings inMarch. The public is invited to attend.Locations will be announced.

Staff Writer Joan Devlin can bereached at 908-686-7700, ext. 123, orat theobsener@jhelocalsource.com.

Playground fund-raiser a big success(Continued from Page 1)

Nearly 300 patrons filled theJonathan Dayton High School audito-rium to laugh- and applaud as four per-formers vented and joked about suchchallenges as getting their children tosleep through the night, defusing dia-pers and raising funds for collegetuition.

Event Chairperson Jodi Silverstein

briefly took the stage to announce theshow had raised $7,000 toward amuch-needed playground for the Wal-ton School. It was Silverstein whoapproached the "MomSense" per-formers after seeing their show atanother fund-raiser.

She said, "I wanted to do a specialevent that would bring the Waltonmoms together."

Autoland agreed to provide fullsponsorship for the event andMcLynn's restaurant, where theafter-party occurred, donated a per-centage of the night's profitstoward the playground fund aswell.

Staff Writer Paul Greulich can bereached at 908-686-7700, ext. 117, orat theobserver@xhelocahource.com.

Springfield native.to assist NBC in Italy(Continued from Page 1)

internship with NBC. After a lengthyapplication and interview process,Fish was selected.

"I was pleased to be selected, dueto my outside experience and passionfor television production," she said.

Fish's work as a tape logger willinvolve keeping a record of what hap-pens during ice hockey games, so inpost-production, editors can quicklyassemble the game on film. Fish willbe present at every men's ice hockey

game at the Olympics.She and the other tape logger

assigned to the hockey event will work12-hour shifts, seven days a week, tokeep up with the schedule of thegames, which go on almost non-stop.

She was scheduled to leave for Italyyesterday, equipped with her brother'sUSA hockey jersey, which she plans towear proudly. This is the first time Fishhas travelled overseas, but she will beaided in foreign communication by ayear of studying Italian.

Fish is not worried about the possi-bility of terrorism or other securitythreats. Everyone at the games will berequired to possess valid credentials ortickets.

"I trust whoever is securing thepremises," she said.

Someday, after graduation, shewould like to create a children's tele-vision program.

Staff Writer Paul Greulich can bereached at 908-686-7700, ext. 117, orat theobserver@theloca!source. com.

EVENTSMake your own greetingcards at stamp camp

Learn how to make your owngreeting cards at the Greeting CardStamp Camp.

The class will meet Friday from 7to 9:30 p.m. at the Community Roomin the Mountainside Borough Hall,.1385 Route 22 east.

The registration fee is $14 per per-son, and the class is for adults only.For more information, call the Recre-ation Office at 908-232-0015.

Presentation on Atticrefuge on Monday

The Sierra Club and the AlaskaWilderness League will sponsor apresentation on the Arctic National

CorrectionThe article "Fire at St. Teresa at

Avila could have been worse" in theJan. 26 edition of The Observer shouldhave stated the firefighters arrived onthe scene less than two minutes afterthe alarm. •

It is the policy of this newspaper tocorrect all significant errors that arebrought to the editor's attention. If youbelieve that we have made such anerror, contact Tracy A. Politowicz atThe Observer, 1291 Stuyvesant Ave,Union' 07083, or call 908-686-7700,ext. 115 weekdays before 5 p.m.

Wildlife Refuge on Monday at 7:30p.m. in the Whitman Community .Room of Summit's City Hail, 512Springfield Ave.

Alaskan resident, wilderness adven-turer and activist Jillian Morrissey willhost the multi-media presentation,designed to show the people of theUnited States the amazing land of theircountry that has been coveted by multi-national oil companies and their con-gressional allies for oil exploration and•development.

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Workshop onmetaphysics scheduled

Lisa Athan and Scott Strickland willpresent a workshop called "Introductionto Metaphysics" on Feb. 10 from 7:30 to9 p.m. at the Springfield Emanuel Unit-ed Methodist Church, 40 Church Mall.

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idents of various community activities and government meetings. Tomail a schedule, send it to The Observer, Attn: Managing Editor. P.O.Box 3109, Union 07083.

Today• The Foothill Club of Mountainside will have a luncheon ;il noon at B.G,

Fields Restaurant, 560 Springfield Ave., Westfield.To make a reservation, call Genevieve at 908-232-3626. For more infor-

mation about the club, call Ruthie Goense at 908-233-5253.Friday

• Learn how to make your own greeting cards at the Greeting Card StampCamp. The class will meet from 7 to 9:30 p.m. at the Community Room in theMountainside Borough Hall, 1385 Route 22 east.

For more information, call the Recreation Office at 908-232-0015.Sunday

• St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church in Summit will host a lecture bythe Rev. Dr. Patrick Russell, a Lutheran pastor, physicist and specialist in neu-roscience, on "Neuroscience and the Soul" at 10 a.m.

The public is welcome to attend. The church is located at 587 SpringfieldAve.

For more information, call 908-918-2500 or visit www.stjohnssummit.org.• The Springfield YMCA will have its Summer Camp Open House and

registration, beginning at 10 a.m. Summer camp sessions run from June 26though Sept. 1.

For more information about summer camp or applying for financial assis-tance, call Gina Fernandez at 973-467-0838 or visit www.summitareaym-ca.org.

Monday• The Mountainside Recreation Department will sponsor a computer class

called "Shopping on the Internet" to teach how to safely purchase merchan-dise from a computer, credit card privacy and popular shopping Web sites.The class will take place from 10 to 11 a.m. in the Learning Center at Bor-ough Hall.

Space is limited. To register, stop by the Recreation Office, 1385 Route 22east.

For more information, call 908-232-0015.• The Sierra Club and the Alaska Wilderness League will sponsor a pres-

entation on America's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge at 7:30 p.m. in theWhitman Community Room of Summit's City Hall, 512 Springfield Ave.

This program is free. For more information, call The Sierra Club at 973-364-7573 and select option number 5. Do not call the city of Summit withquestions about the program.

Wednesday• The Mountainside Recreation Department will sponsor a computer class

called "Google It" to teach how to use the popular search engine, Google, aswell as how to search for all kinds of information online. The class will takeplace from 10 to 11 a.m. in the Learning Center at Borough Hall.

Space is limited. To register, stop by the Recreation Office, 1385 Route 22east.

For more information, call 908-232-0015.• SAGE Eldercare, 290 Broad St., Summit, will present a new workshop

called "Handy Skills" from 1 to 4 p.m. for men and women of all ages whowant to learn basic skills for home fix-it projects.

Pre-registration is suggested.Call Suzanne Lyon at 908-598-5514.• The Springfield Garden Club will meet at 7:15 p.m. in the Presbyterian

Parish House, 37 Church Mall, Springfield.The speaker, Dr. Eve Shaw, will talk about Epiphytic cactus.For more information, call Sharon at 973-921-0303.

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• The Handcrafter Group of the Women's Association of the CommunityPresbyterian Church, 1459 Deer Path, Mountainside, will meet in thechurch's Memorial Room at 10 a.m.

For information about the group, call the church office at 908-232-9490and leave a name and telephone number with Janet.

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Saab stolen from parking lotSummit

On Jan. 24, there was a report ofthe theft of a 2002 black Saab from aBroad Street parking lot.

• On Saturday, there was a reportof the theft of a 17-inch Dell flatpanel monitor from a business onSpringfield Avenue.

• On Jan. 24, Yakima Mitchell 23,of Irvington, was arrested at Wood-land Avenue for speeding and driv-ing with a suspended license.

• On Jan. 24, Siraone Brooks, 25,of Albany, N.Y., was arrested atWoodland Avenue and Canoe BrookParkway for speeding and drivingwith a suspended license in anunregistered vehicle.

• On Jan. 23, there was a report ofthe theft of a 1994 Dodge Caravanfrom the loading dock area of Over-look Hospital, sometime between 7p.m. on Jan. 22, and this date.

• On Jan. 22, there was a report ofdamage to the lawn of a Clark Streetresidence, caused by a motor vehiclesometime during the early morninghours of this date.

• On Jan. 22, Mario Martucci, 23,of Randolph, was arrested at Route24 west and Summit Avenue fordriving while suspended.

• On Jan. 22, Diego Rojas, 27, ofPhiladelphia, was arrested at policeheadquarters for driving while underthe influence and refusal to submitto chemical test.

MountainsideOn Monday, an Exxon gas station

attendant on Route 22 reported that twomen in a green Ford explorer had filledtheir gas tank and left without paying.The driver was described as a whitemale approximately 6 feet tall with aslim build. The passenger wasdescribed only as a black male.

• On Jan. 26, two burglary suspects,Steven Garcia, 30, of Elizabeth, andSantos Arocho Jr., 26, of Elizabeth, werearrested in Elizabeth after a lengthy carchase down routes 22 and 1 and 9, con-cluding with a struggle with police offi-cers from Union County, Elizabeth andMountainside. The duo were chargedwith eluding and resisting arrest.

• On Jan. .26, Kevin Ballard, 40, ofNewark, was arrested in East Orange onan outstanding warrant out of Moun-tainside.

SpringfieldOn Jan. 22, Jeffrey Ortiz, 32, of Edi-

son, was arrested on Route 22 for twooutstanding warrants out of New Provi-dence. He was also found to be drivingwith a suspended license.

• On Jan. 21, Ronnie Parker, 24, ofNewark, was arrested on Route 22 foroutstanding warrants out of Carlstadtand Newark.

• On Jan. 20, Edward Melendez, 56,of Elizabeth, was arrested on Morris

Avenue for an outstanding warrant outof Springfield, as well as for drivingwith a suspended license.

• On Jan 20, Antonio Monteiro, 37,was arrested in a Route 22 parking lotfor an outstanding warrant out of Cliff-side Park. He was also charged withdriving with a revoked license.

• On Jan. 20, Jose Cortes, 55, ofSpringfield, was arrested on MorrisAvenue for driving while intoxicated.

• On Jan. 19, a purse was reportedstolen from Jonathan Dayton HighSchool. The black and grey purse con-tained two small Coach wallets, a NJ.driver's license, two debit cards, aSocial Security card, house and carkeys, $2 in cash and a P.B.A. card.

• On Jan. 19, Connie ConcetteGugliemini, 31, of Plainfield, was arrest-ed on Route 22 west for driving with arevoked license, an uninsured vehicleand a revoked registration. She also hadoutstanding warrants out of BerkeleyHeights, Fanwood and Linden.

• On Jan. 19, Roman Kalba, 36, ofUnion, was arrested on Morris Turnpikefor an outstanding warrant out of theUnion County Sheriff's office.

• On Jan. 19, Bennie Mack, 21, ofNewark, was arrested for driving with arevoked license and for an outstandingwarrant out of Newark.

• On Jan. 19, Marc Adams, 36, ofEast Orange, was arrested on Moun-tain Avenue for an outstanding war-rant out of Newark.

Elevator occupants rescuedSummit

On Sunday, firefighters respondedto a report of two people trapped in anelevator at Overlook Hospital.

• On Sunday, firefighters respondedto Spring Meadows for an activatedalarm. An investigation found a resi-dent had accidentally burned food in amicrowave.

• On Friday, firefighters reported toa building on Springfield Avenue for areport of a burning odor. An investiga-tion found a burned out motor and belton an air compressor in the basement.

• On Friday, firefighters respondedto an automatic Mutual Aid to Mill-burn for a report of smoke in the base-ment of a home on Morris Turnpike.

• On Jan. 21, firefighters respondedto an Overlook Road apartment build-ing for a reported stalled elevator withtwo occupants inside.

• On Jan. 18, firefighters respondedto a Park Avenue apartment buildingfor a report of a smoke detector sound-ing, with a ceiling collapse.

• On Jan. 18, firefighters respondedto an Overlook Road parking garagefor a reported stalled elevator with two .occupants inside due to a power out-age.

MountainsideOn Saturday, firefighters responded

to an activated Central Station firealarm in a commercial building on Mill

Lane. An investigation determinedsmoke coming from unattended cook-ing in the lounge had activated the firealarm.

• On Friday, firefighters respondedto a report of an activated smoke detec-tor in a residence on Mary Ellen Lane.Fire officers determined the smokedetector had malfunctioned.

• On Jan. 24, firefighters respondedto an activated fire alarm at a residenceon Summit Road. An investigationdetermined the call was a false alarm.

• On Jan. 23, firefighters respondedto a report of a vehicle stuck in a con-struction trench located on SunriseParkway and Vassar Road.

•On Jan. 18, firefighters respondedto an activated fire alarm in a commer-cial building located on Route 22 west.An investigation determined the firealarm was activated by smoke comingfrom unattended cooking.

• On Jan. 17, firefighters respondedto an activated Central Station firealarm in a commercial building onSpruce Drive. An investigation deter-mined the call was a false alarm.

• On Jan. 17, firefighters respondedto a Union County Mutual Aid call toprovide cover at Westfield's fire head-quarters.

SpringfieldOn Jan. 20, firefighters responded

to Morris and Meisel avenues for amotor vehicle accident with a spill.

• On Jan. 20, firefighters respondedto a Morris Avenue apartment complexfor a medical service call.

• On Jan. 20, firefighters respondedto a Morris Avenue residence for awater condition in the basement.

• On Jan. 20, all units responded toa Cypress Terrace residence for anactivated fire alarm.

• On Jan. 19, firefighters respondeda pumper to Union fire headquarters ona request from county mutual aid.

• On Jan. 19, all units responded toa Temple Drive for an activated firealarm.

• On Jan. 19, all units responded toa Morris Avenue apartment complexfor smoke coming from the building.

• On Jan. 18, firefighters respondedto Brook Street for a report of downedpower lines.

• On Jan. 18, firefighters respondedto Commerce Street for a report ofdowned power lines.

• On Jan. 18, firefighters respondedto a Linden Avenue residence to assistthe owner with a water leak in the roof.

• On Jan. 18, firefighters respondedto a Route 22 east business to assist amotorist whose vehicle was stuck onreinforcing steel.

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Brace yourselvesAs budgets are presented for public scrutiny — and offi-

cials ask taxpayers to kindly swallow another round of prop-erty-tax increases — the same terminology makes its annu-al appearance. "Non-discretionary," "mandates," "contrac-tual salary obligations" and "out of our control," all springto the lips of public officials as they justify budgetaryincreases to frustrated residents, who now have the luxury ofpaying the highest property taxes in the United States. And,barring a miracle, the news is going to get worse.

For many Union County municipalities, scheduledincreases of member contributions to the Rahway ValleySewerage Authority may prove to be the straw that breaksthe straining backs of local budgets. The RVSA — whichhandles sewer services for Clark, Cranford/Garwood,Kenilworth, Mountainside, Rahway, Roselle Park, ScotchPlains, Springfield, Westfield, Woodbridge and WinfieldPark, as well as portions of Fanwood and Linden — is cur-rently in the process of doubling its capacity. While benefi-cial, the changes —which require more than $250 million ininfrastructure improvements -— are not voluntary.

They are the result of a judicial consent order handed downby a federal court in 2000, after untreated wastewater leakedinto the Rahway River following heavy storrrrvpter flows.

The debt incurred for the improvements may be more thanthe member municipalities can bear. By 2009, debt servicealone on the upgrades will increase nearly SI 1.5 million, acost that will be borne by the towns the RVSA services.

Unfortunately, few municipal governments have donemuch to meet the potentially crippling fiscal challenges theincreases will present. More officials would do well to followthe example of the Clark township council, which has madethe issue a priority. If they're serious about the best interestsof their residents, local representatives had better starting fig-uring out from where that money is going to come.

A welcome additionIn Rahway schools, the question of a potential conflict of

interest was raised this month when Police Officer DawnRodger, also a member of the Board of Education, wasappointed the district's new school resource officer:.

Rather than creating a conflict, Rodger's appointmentwill serve to benefit the school system, the Board of Educa-tion and the Police Department. She will report to and bepaid by the city, not the Board of Education.

A school resource officer serves as a full-time liaisonbetween police and the schools. By creating a consistentpresence in the high school and middle school, Rodger willbecome a familiar face and a trusted guardian. She will alsobe on hand to deal with fights or thefts that may erupt. j

Many of those pointing to a possible conflict really haveother issues with Rodger. An appointee to the board, Rodgerhas been criticized because her children do not attend Rah-way schools. Some have said she does not have a directinterest rn the schools. Her new appointment will give her aclose connection with the students.

In the end, we believe Rodger's appointment will notonly improve her skills as a police officer as she gains a bet-ter understanding of our city's youth, but it will alsoimprove her service as a school board member as she learnswhat is truly important to the safety of staff and students.

Celebrate black historyBlack History Month began Wednesday and, with its

arrival, prominent blacks from American history will be cel-ebrated in schools and with segments on nightly news. Theaccomplishments of civil rights activists such as MartinLuther King Jr. and Medger Evers, as well as those of Thur-good Marshall, Malcolm X, Eubie Blake, GwendolynBrooks, Althea Gibson, Sidney Poitier and Colin Powell,deserve our recognition for their achievements.

Part of the difficulty Black History Month is faced withevery February is honoring these great people for what theyhave accomplished without creating a separate category ofachievement because they happen to be black. Their accom-plishments speak for themselves. Indeed, it is because of thestigma of their race and that it took so long to recognizethem that special attention should be directed toward each ofthese individuals.

Black History Month has no more to do with "confining"black Americans' history to February than St. Patrick's Dayhas to do with confining Irish history to March 17. Rather,Black History Month is the recognition that all of the worldhas benefited from the history of blacks in this country rel-ative to science, education, music, art and politics.

A Kenyan proverb says, "Until lions have historians,hunters will be heroes." Black History Month begins theprocess of making lions into historians.

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CONQUERING MINDS— Children play Risk aspart of their after-schoolactivities at RosellePark Middle School.

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Small-town middle America still exists in JerseyGrowing up in Staten Island in the

'40s and '50s was certainly equivalentto what seems to be growing up inCranford today ;— where young peo-ple continue to work on farms sellingfresh produce and older folk tarry onpark benches, mulling over communi-ty as well as world affairs.

Experiencing those years as a childas well as a budding adult, one heardlittle if anything of this neighboringstate except that since we were trulycloser in proximity to New Jerseythan New York proper, we shouldhave been allied geographically to theGarden State from the outset.

As immediate proof, boys espe-cially attempted to throw stones fromlower Port Richmond across the waterto nearby Perth Amboy. I almost made.it.

But what does this geographicalhop-scotch prove to be in reality to anew transplant like myself who1 hasonly resided here since May of lastyear? :

More specifically, what is the new-comer to encounter on a day-to-daybasis in his understanding of quainttown life in specific and overall day today living in general?

PointOfViewBy Leff LaHuta

To begin with, I experience cour-tesy which experiences no bounds. AsI stroll to town in the early morning, Iencounter smiling faces blurting "niceday" or "good morning" from morethan the occasional passerby. Remem-ber, these are unfamiliar faces whoare willingly taking me under theircasual wings.

Early morning, laborers at the localQuick Check pause and hold the doorfor me, not necessarily because of myyears, but simply out of courtesy forthe traveler who follows.

Youngsters on their way to schoolmutter "Excuse me" as they nudgetheir way hurriedly forward, as thelocal young policeman stops thebeginning traffic for me.

And as I've learned, merely step-ping off the curb proves adequatecause for the passing cars to give way.

Jokingly, my wife, Lorraine, declares"We're back in middle America"where, among the age-old familiarturning barber poles and sidewalkbenches, we find all traffic giving wayto the crossing geese and hopping rab-bit, rather than the speeding Hummer.

Yes, the 5 cent crumb bun hasgiven way to the 75 cent bun, but wecertainly didn't expect prices to mimicprices of decades gone by.

And, as we meander from the But-tery Bake Shop, we enjoy the lack ofdouble parking or fingers at the lightas drivers appear extremely courteousvia their friendly wavings of "you goon ahead first."

And, certainly in the vein ofextended courtesy, we have come tosavor and appreciate the six-minute 5cent meter, not to mention the evenbetter 12-minute meter for a dime.And what could be more congenial orgiving than free parking at meters forthe busy month of December?

Needless to say, holiday time initself proves an even greater testimonyto dignity and respect in relation to thepride evinced by tasteful home own-ers.

Yes, one does ultimately get accus-tomed to the proverbial jug handles, aswell as the usual array of a SpringfieldAvenue in every town, but patienceultimately becomes the virtue here inCranford. Small-town America per-haps to a degree, but big-town cama-!

raderie.In essence, although my wife and I

ultimately decided to relocate to NewJersey in order to be of some assis-tance to our son and daughter-in-law,who were expecting a family, we havecome to appreciate the peaceful pleas-ures of New Jersey life, be it the con-templative serenity of the loveliness ofNomahegan Park, the sculpted bicyclepathways of Echo Lake, the calm of aslight snowfall overlooking the boathouse akin to Hanson Park, thewarmth of local restaurants on a chillyevening, the lower price at the localcinema, the congeniality of TrinityChurch or just the graciousness ofneighbors.

Thank you, New Jersey, for allow-,ing us to better understand you andyour congenial ways. '

Leff LaHuta is a resident of Cran-ford.

McDonough's show is a breath of fresh airThough I've had hundreds of opin-

ionated columns published in the Wor-rall family publications, most of youhave never read them.

A columnist for the Leader ofRoselle Park since 1988, my regularcontribution titled, "Nobody AskedMy Opinion, But..." has covered top-ics from local issues, to crime, poli-tics, abortion, the death penalty, theIraq war and so many others duringthe last 18 years.

It's a totally subjective opinionpiece and, in writing it, I don't usuallypull any punches.

I shoot from the hip and say what'son my mind. Naturally, that's gainedme favor with some and animositywith others. But I don't write to gainaffection, nor to aggravate anyone. Ido it simply to share my opinion withothers.

Now a Cranford resident, I'mhappy to share my opinions and thecolumn with you. Even if you didn't"ask me to!

For my inaugural offering, mycomments today focus around one ofthe most refreshing elected officialsI've come to know in years. Actually,one of the most honest and up frontpoliticians I've ever met.

Oh. Let me correct myself rightnow. The man I'm writing on todayisn't really a politician. What was Ithinking?

He's just a regular guy who nowhappens to be an elected official.Well, he's more than just a "regular"guy. He's intelligent, funny, quick-wit-ted and a successful businessman. Oh,I see. Because he's an elected official,

NobodyAsked MyOpinion,ButBy Bob Milici

you still want to call him a politician?OK. Guess that comes with the territo-ry. But when I think of or speak ofCranford Deputy Mayor GeorgeMcDonough, the last thing I thinkabout is a politician.

McDonough, just in his secondyear as a township commissioner, cer-tainly has some eyebrows raised herein town. Without a doubt, he's gaineda reputation for being different fromyour "normal" elected official.

At meetings, he lets his passion forcertain issues come through withoutcurtail. He doesn't bring rehearsed,printed-out speeches to meetings.Instead, he "wings" it, as some say,-and "shoots from the hip." He sayswhat he feels. He's brought skate-boards and wine bottles to meetingsfor props when he's wanted to make apoint or discuss an issue. He doesn'tdodge questions or criticism. He regu-larly responds to residents on Cran-fordTalk.com, a chat board for resi-dents run by my friend and neighbor,Mark Dinglestedt. In my opinion, as a"politician," McDonough is a breathof fresh air.

In my nine years as an elected offi-cial and more than 25 years in thepolitical loop, there have been few

elected people I've met as refreshingand as "regular" as McDonough.There are some, but they're rare. Inmy opinion, he's not a politician in thetrue sense of the word, but a regularguy who just happens to love Cranfordand wants to serve its residents in anelected capacity. Of course, now hemay be on the verge of becoming a TVstar.

Those of you who tuned in lastweek were able to see McDonough'snew show, "Hear and Now." It wasbroadcast live on TV 35. It aired at7:30 p.m. and was up against such rat-ing monsters as "EntertainmentTonight," "Access Hollywood,""Wheel of Fortune" and reruns of"Seinfeld." But from what I've heardaround town, many residents ignoredthose standards and tuned in to watchthe call-in show. Many have told methey were impressed with McDo-nough's first offering of what will nowbe a regular monthly show.

Many, I'm sure, thought McDo-nough's show — which he announcedon New Year's Day — would simplybe a political vehicle. They probablythought it would be aimed to get hisopinions and his Democratic Partyagenda out to the public.

I'm sure anyone who watched theshow will tell you it was anything butthat.

Focused on redevelopment here inCranford, it was a call-in show thatspent the hour on the Cranford Cross-ing, new development on LincolnAvenue, the Riverfront Developmentand the soon-to-come development onSouth Avenue East of age-restricted

condominiums. McDonough, neverone to run from resident questions,fielded several calls and gave thecallers the information they requested, i

With guests Kathleen Miller Prunty. |the Downtown Management Corpora- 'tion director, and Jonathan Jaffe, the ]DMC board chairman, those who tuned jin found the hour to move quickly and !

informatively. ;Additionally, they were entertained

by McDonough's sense of humor and,at the very least, came away knowingjust a little more about some of theredevelopment plans taking place here ,in Cranford,- as me and my wife, :

Patrice, did. :I'm sure, over the next few months,

the show will be fine-tuned andtweaked. Four subjects may be tormuch for one hour and McDonouf'amay want to focus on one or maybe!two subjects per night He may evenwant to stretch it to 90 minutes.

Though much information was.covered, I would have liked more timegiven to the Riverfront Developmentand the age-restricted condominiums.But, all in all, it was a good show.McDonough, understandably a littlenervous at first, quickly settled into hisnormal fun, good-natured personality.

If you missed the show, check withTV 35 for when it will be rerun.Hopefully, it won't be up against realrating monsters like against "Law andOrder" or "Desperate Housewives"and you'll be able to tune in.

Bob Milici is a resident of Cranfordand a former councilman in RosellePark.

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Singer should keep hateful comments to himselfI realize that we live in a free soci-

ety — and one of the freedoms weenjoy is to say anything one wishesabout virtually anything — but I'msorry, Harry Belafonte has gone toofar.

I admired him as an actor and asinger. He was wonderful as the love-cursed chump in "Carmen Jones" andI have quite a few of his records,including "Day-0, the Banana BoatSong."

Recently, Harry was in Venezuelavisiting his friend, Hugo Chavez, thepresident of that country. Chavez isone of those dull-minded leaders whothinks that, because his impoverishedcountry is rich in oil, he can shoot offhis mouth with .impunity. Iran isanother example.

PointOfViewBy Richard Lime

Hugo Chavez is a despicable littlepipsqueak who emulates Fidel Castroand makes no secret his animositytoward President Bush. As he lookedon approvingly, Belafonte brandedBush the biggest terrorist in the world,presumably because of our presence inIraq and Afghanistan.

I suppose its not a crime to call thepresident a terrorist, even from a for-eign country. You'll recall that once,

while visiting Cuba, Jesse Jacksonviciously criticized the Reagan admin-istration and nothing happened to him.

I have a question for Harry Bela-fonte. If you feel that the president ofthe United States is such a terrorist,why do you live here? Why don't youmove to Cuba or live with your palChavez in Venezuela?

If I felt the leader of my countrywas "the worst terrorist in the world,"I'd move. Wouldn't you?

After returning to the UnitedStates, the star drew further attentionto himself by referring to our depart-ment of Homeland Security, theorganization that has protected usfrom terrorist attacks since Sept. 11, as"die Gestapo." The stupid and danger-ous remark drew praise from some of

his liberal celebrity friends.I guess comparing personnel of

government agencies to Nazis isn't acrime either. He's right when he saysour country is in bad shape, but it'sliberals like him who are responsiblefor it.

President Bush is not a terrorist andthe Department of Homeland Securityare not Nazis, but Harry Belafonte is afool. He should keep his hateful com-ments to himself. That's exactly whathe delivered — a hate speech. Fromforeign soil. He sounded just likeChavez. Or Castro. Or those charmingfellows who misgovern Iran. I likedhim better when he was singing aboutbanana boats.

Richard Lime is a resident of Union.

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LETTERS T© THE EDITORBroker switch still unexplainedTo the Editor:,

I have been following the Cranford Township Committee's choice tochange the insurance broker for the township from Bank of America to HaleInsurance Brokerage. I was in attendance at the township's reorganizationmeeting Jan. 1 and heard Bob Puhak ask a valid and important questionrelated to the change. He asked whether the change was made after consult-ing with the Insurance Review Committee and getting their recommenda-tion.

Mayor Aschenbach responded that the Insurance Review Committee hadreviewed the matter and recommended the change to a new insurance broker.In addition, he stated that the record would show dialogue had in fact takenplace between the Township Committee and the Insurance Review Commit-tee regarding this matter.

Since that meeting, one of the members of the Insurance Review Com-mittee wrote a letter to a local newspaper stating they were not asked in 2005their thoughts on making a change and, in fact, had not discussed the issuesince 2004. In addition, this past week, Commissioner Jorn produced Town-ship Committee closed-session meeting minutes that were supposed to clearthis matter up. However, the minutes were from 2004. Thus, it is now clearthat the Insurance Review Committee was never consulted in 2005 and didnot recommend the change in either 2004 or 2005. In fact, the minutes stat-ed that the former broker Bank of America's performance was considered"exemplary." Here we are, almost one month later, and the fundamentalquestion about how this decision was made still has not been answered.

; When candidates ask the voters of their town to vote them into office astheir representatives, there is a higher standard that our elected officials mustaccept and adhere to. Nothing is worse than showing the people you repre-sent that they have been misled by your words" and actions. All elected offi-cials must dp their best to make sure they are well-informed and that the cit-izens of their town get the representation they voted for. With all the politi-cal scandal that the state of New Jersey has produced over the last severalyears, the last thing we need here in this great town of ours is to add anoth-er one to the list. If, in fact, something unethical was done here, then thereshould be a full investigation into the matter until clear and definitiveanswers have been communicated as to what really happened in the processof changing insurance brokers for Cranford Township.

Christopher DrewCranford

Hale appointment meant to save moneyTo the Editor: "

This is such a great job I have serving as mayor of Cranford. In the pastseveral weeks, I have been called unethical by a sitting township commis-sioner and then told I cannot tell the truth about the insurance committeereview. Last week, two Republican advocates said all sorts of things aboutme in the newspaper. I don't even know who these people are.

I will repeat myself on the insurance broker matter because I think it isinstructive to citizens.

The Insurance Review Committee in late 2004 stated that both plans putforward by the two insurance firms were credible. Read the minutes of themeeting: Hale'splan would save $108,000 over three years. Union Countyand Somerset County use the Hale firm for their insurance services, so I fig-ured, if those.major counties found Hale acceptable, then they could do thework. That is why I voted for them. In 2005, when this matter came up again,I stuck with the Hale firm because I wanted a new set of eyes to look at allour insurance plans.

Prior to the vote on Jan. 1, a memo from the township finance directorindicated Cranford's prescription drug plan would be going increasing by 20percent in 2006, medical coverages by 13 percent and other coverages bysimilar amounts. I decided a new firm might bring a new energy to the sub-ject and find savings. I do not apologize for my actions.

I expect to ask Hale Insurance to review our employee insurance plans. Ido not want to pay 20 percent more for prescription coverage. This equatesto $100,000 more in tax dollars.

I am not sure if this proposal will be reviewed by the Insurance ReviewCommittee. I am considering the appointment of a new panel that would becharged with a broader task and be called Employee Benefits and InsuranceCommittee. 1 do not think having just insurance executives on a committeeis the right approach. I have requested human resource managers who live inCranford to offer their help.

As far as the pay-to-play issue, I do not need a panel to tell me how to beethical. The pay-to-play panel's purpose is to recalibrate the trust that citi-zens have had and should continue to have. Tne pay-to-play panel will beasked to/limit campaign expenditures.

Cranford deserves better. We have a great deal of hard work ahead of us.to make Cranford a better town. That is what I will be doing.

Mayor Dan Aschenbach' Cranford

Stop stalling and call a vote for AlitoTo the Editor:

President Bush presented Judge Samuel Alito to the Senate for possiblenomination to the Supreme Court of the United States. I watched the pro-ceedings for a full week, which left me in disgust.

I was reminded of something I saw on Channel 13: a dead animal attackedby a flock of buzzards continuously picking, pulling and tearing at thedeceased animal. The Senate brought this back to mind as they each tookturns asking Judge Alito the same questions over and over again when theyknew he was not in a position to answer the one question they were interest-ed in. It was quite evident the Constitution was secondary to abortion. JudgeAlito realized he could not possibly answer their questions since he did nothave access to the cases either in the Supreme Court, or which would begoing to the court in the future.

Sen. Ted Kennedy had his pack checking to find something in JudgeAlito's past to deme,an his character. The same senators who are interrogat-ing Judge Alito should feel fortunate no one is looking into their past. Sena-tors are against mistreating our enemies of the United States. They must betreated humanly and with courtesy. Yet Judge Alito was not permitted toleave his chair and had only a glass of water to sip after giving the legalinterpretation of the Constitution to the lawyer senators.

An example to the senators on abortion: Abortion is permissible in India.They are aborting only female babies because they prefer male babies. Myadvice to the senators is enough. How much longer do you intend to stall adecision on Judge Alito's possible nomination?

I suggest you can better serve you constituents by spending more time

and taxpayer money resolving problems of the country instead of making amockery of themselves on television for all to see.

Anna ScherbencoHillside

TV show a forum for grandstandingTo the Editor:

Watching the Jan. 24 Cranford Township Committee meeting on Channel 35,I listened to Deputy Mayor George McDonough do a commercial for his newcall-in show. He said its purpose is to have a dialogue with the community andanswer questions about township issues. He stated that "it won't be political."

The very fact that the deputy mayor is using public resources to discuss pub-lic issues is political. There is no way to spin that otherwise and this shouldn'tbe accepted in a healthy democracy.

The next statement McDonough made after his commercial was very telling.He went on to angrily chastise citizens for writing letters to the editor. "I am tiredof reading in the paper about pay-to-play." So much for a dialogue with the com-munity about township issues.

I would love nothing more than to see Cranford adopt pay-to-play reform andto have a spending limit on our municipal campaigns. However, the politicalgrandstanding, along with its disinformation, has got to stop.

It isn't enough to have politicians say they want a pay-to-play ordinance andlimits on campaign spending and then take the high ground and attack otherpoliticians for questioning how it would work.

Good elected officials and their supporters have nothing to gain but the sat-isfaction of serving their community, and they should win campaigns by goingdoor to door and enlisting volunteers who believe in them and not accept outsidepublic employees' help.

Limiting a challenger's spending while the incumbents have their own cableTV shows would hurt our democratic process, not help it. While the challengerwould have to go door to door, the incumbents will be in countless living roomswith their weekly public broadcast variety shows.

These shows must be unplugged to move forward with necessary campaignreform.

Tina Renna, presidentUnion County Watchdog Association, Cranford

Worrall, Rahway going in right directionTo the Editor:

The name Progress is apropos for this new version of our old weekly news-paper. It no longer is the type of weekly of which the punsters used to say, "Youread it on Thursday and wrap your fish bones on it on Friday." Having been theeditor of the Scotch Plains Times, Berkeley Heights Beacon, Garden State Newsand Citizens Weekly, in my long career, I know of that which I speak.

The change is way beyond cosmetic, although I do like the color. The storiesare more varied, the writing livelier and the pictures right on. Due to its extend-ed community coverage, it has become a weekly version of the daily newspapers— keeping us up-to-date on local news and what is happening in the townsaround us.

For example, Rahway was not covered by Linden's old weekly and receivesvery little coverage from the dailies, but your last issue had in-depth coverage ofthe changes and massive economic development going on in downtown Rah-way.

A city whose business district was full of empty stores and became a blight-ed area once had a department store, hardware store and greeting card shop ofwhich I was a patron. Lately, it had little to offer and wasn't the place you want-ed to be in after dark.

Then along came Mayor James J. Kennedy, a man committed to this com-munity of 26,500 residents — not only is he a resident but his investment in Rah-way includes a downtown store. Mayors of larger cities could take a page fromhis plan book •— have a vision and do it one step at a time.

The results are good and getting better every day.My hat is off to Mayor Kennedy and to Worrall Community Newspapers. I

predict a bright future for both... Beatrice Bernzott

Linden

River needs attentionTo the Editor:

After 17 years as voluntary chairperson of the Cranford River Committee, Ifelt compelled to write a letter to the local newspapers. I called Dan Aschenbachand left a message and wrote a letter to the then mayor, George Jorn. Neitherbothered to reply.

At my advanced age, after traveling up and down the river all those years,chairing river bank and stream cleanups and fighting with the freeholders aboutthe poor status of the river and its deteriorating banks, I think that someoneshould pay attention to the Rahway River. While we are discussing the free-holders, the river committee visited them to talk about problems. Nothing hap-pened. They never visited the river or worked along the river. They came for a

' few photo-ops. "We had one major project building a wall from Springfield Avenue ridge to

the canoe club, then to Prospect Street and then to nowhere. There was moneyin the township coffers and also that of the freeholders. According to the coun-ty, the solution was a big pile of rocks at the banks at the North Union AvenueBridge. No one seems to know about the proposed project or the money that wasappropriated to repair the walls. That's it for help from the freeholders.

Now let's go to the Township Committee^ Their primary concern seems to beraising taxes every year and building on every square inch of land in Cranford.Unless the Rahway River becomes a primary concern, no building should beanywhere near the river. Remember the 1999 flood and the fact that no floodplan improvements have yet to be completed?

During my chairmanship, we purchased more than S50,000 of materials forvolunteer use in cleanups, including five boats and a canoe, plus essentials toolsand items needed for the stream cleanups. No, the township did not purchase anyof this equipment. All of it was acquired from clean communities money fromthe state. We had volunteer cleanups three times a year. We also prepared a dis-play case and beautiful pictures about the way Cranford previously was on theriver.

Over the last two years, I have been unable to work, but I have been con-cerned about the status, of the river, about the future viability of the river com-mittee and further deterioration of the river. I have read all of the constructiveand non-constructive letters to the editor about the river. Recently, LawrenceRusso wrote a letter questioning why the river never was dredged. That has beenone of my concerns for years. We believe it has been at least 10 years since itwas dredged and, by now, there should be two feet of silt at the bottom of theriver. It costs money, so it never gets on the budget.

I am requesting the township appoint a chairman to replace me who will beattentive to the river problems that I have spelled out here. I do not want to see

the return of the sewer-type river we had in ! 988, when we started the CranfordRahway River Committee.

Mavis Serafin, former chairpersonCranford River Committee

Wear red for women FridayTo the Editor:

By loving your heart, you can save it. ;

That's the message the American Heart Association is delivering to womenacross the country during February, American Heart Month, and especially nuFeb. 3, National Wear Red Day for Women. \ ,

Heart disease, the No. 1 killer of women in the country, can be preventeU.When women learn to love their hearts, that can appreciate their health, their lifeand their loved ones. One out of three women die from heart disease, stroke andother cardiovascular diseases, which is nearly 500,000 women each year, saysthe American Heart Association.

Pfizer, along with Macy's, is proud to be a national sponsor of the AmericanHeart Association's Go Red For Women movement, a national movement tomake women aware that heart disease is the No. 1 cause of death of women andthe leading health threat facing women today. Go Red For Women captures theenergy, passion and intelligence of women to work collectively to wipe out heartdisease. In only two years, Go Red For Women has grown from a grassrootscampaign to a vibrant national movement providing women with information,resources and hope to live longer, stronger lives.

Love your heart by making a fashion statement Friday. Wear something red.Join millions of women, people from all walks of life and companies, towns,schools, public places, landmarks, legislators and people in the media who "gored" and "wear red" to focus attention on the No. 1 killer of women — heart dis-ease.

Then take action. Make a promise to be heart-healthy. Join the Go Reti iForWomen movement by calling 1-888-MY-HEART and sign up for free lifqstyleprograms on exercise, nutrition, cholesterol, stroke and others. Learn more aboutGo Red For Women or request a Wear Red Day "dress down kit" by calling theAmerican Heart Association New Jersey State office at 732-821 -2610, or call ! -888-MY-HEART.

Lorraine Maita, medical directorHealth and Wellness Services, Pfizer Consumer Healthcare

Thanks, holiday house tour participantsTo the Editor: '

The GFWC Cranford Junior Woman's Club's 16th Home for the HolidaysHouse Tour was a wonderful success. Our expression of thanks goes to the vol-unteers, sponsors, florists, merchants, committee members, homeowners, pubL

licity provided by the various newspapers, Cranford students and the communi-ty of Cranford. And without the gracious homeowners who participated, this tourcould not have been possible. \

Maria Reilly and Carol VosselletCranford

Property taxes must be addressed iTo the Editor: . : j

Now that elections are over and the swearing-ins are complete, there should:be no obstacles this Democrat-elected state can sidestep, starting with the $5 bil-lion deficit. !

This is the time we need real reform with respect to property tax relief.Already, Gov. Jon Corzine has hinted at forcing new taxes, and many countiesare following his lead. There are 566 municipalities throughout New Jersey and21 in Union County. Tens of millions of tax dollars go directly to the countylevel for very little in return.

The people of Union County must demand streamlining county government.Many towns fail to realize that the monies allocated to the counties for servicesare above and beyond what is really needed and can be done cheaper by thetowns. Our forefathers had the right idea when they organized the Boston 1-:~-Party. Towns should consider seceding from the county's dominance.

Union County and many others would rather play victim and rely on big gov-ernment. This sort of ideology will never get this problem fixed. If Trenton andour county cannot gain control of the tax hemorrhaging, the quality of life willcontinue to suffer. I for one would like to speak to our state senators and assem-bly people on a stern approach to combat property taxes. I will be waiting as anemployer for a phone call from Mr. Corzine, as well as senators and assemblypeople.

Kevin RetchoLinden

Sign up as a donor, save a lifeTo the Editor:

While it was great to see an article promoting becoming an organ donor inlast week's issue, I was disappointed that the article did not include directions onhow to do this. It's very easy — just call The Sharing Network and ask that adonor registry application be sent to you. Or, you can download the form fromwww.sharenj.org.

It's important to do this — marking the back of your driver's license is notenough. It's also important to discuss your wishes with your family so theyknow that you want to be an organ donor. Having a living will is even better.

More than 2,900 people are on waiting lists for organs in New Jersey alone.Unfortunately, some will not survive. It doesn't need to be this way. When moreof us join the registry, we will one day give someone another chance at life. Thatsomeone could be a young mother, a kid in your neighborhood or someone inyour own family.

Molly 1..CP7.The Sharing Network

Thank you for making toy drive a successTo the Editor:

We wish to express our sincere appreciation for the many gifts donated to the27th annual Weichert, Realtors Toy Drive to benefit needy children.

The kindhearted generosity of the public this year helped, brighten the holi-day season for many underprivileged children. We thank the communities thatthe company serves, which generously contributed nearly 35,000 toys and otheritems to local charities.

We extend our wannest thanks to the people of the greater metropolitan area,and your community, for their continued support.

James M. WeichertPresident

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"OBITUARIESSister Anne Scott

'Sister Anne Roberta Scott, 88, ofthe Sisters of Charity of Saint Eliza-beth, a school principal in Summit,died Jan. 25 in Clara Maass MedicalCenter, Belleville.

Born in Clifton, Sister Anneentered the Sisters of Charity on Sept.8, 1935 and was a member for 70years. She was a longtime educatorand taught in East Orange, Teaneckand Hackensack. Sister Anne wasprincipal of St. Teresa of AvilaChurch, Summit, then continuedteaching in Belleville until her retire-ment in 1986. She served in the parishministry until her death.

Sister Anne received a bachelor'sdegree from the College of SaintElizabeth, Convent Station, and amaster's degree from Seton Hall

University, South Orange.Surviving are a sister, Margaret

Wherrity, and a brother, James.

Davscl FefcimanDavid Feidman, 86, of Springfield

died Jan. 17 at home.• Born in the Bronx, Mr. Feidman

lived in Newark and Orange beforemoving to Springfield 50 years ago.He was a business teacher and guid-ance counselor at Central HighSchool, Newark, for 39 years beforeretiring in 1984. Mr. Feidman also wasin charge of conducting'the school'sstudy program.

He received a bachelor's degree inbusiness education from New YorkUniversity and a master's degree incounseling from Columbia University,

New York City. Mr. Feidman was anArmy veteran of World War 11 andserved with the 141st Armored Divi-sion as a staff sergeant. He was amember of the Newark TeachersUnion Local 481.

Surviving are his wife of 56 years,Marilyn; two daughters, Laurie Feid-man and Marcie Gottlieb; a son,Richard; a sister, Phyllis Bornstein,and three grandchildren.

M. PhySSis CorseM. Phyllis Cone, 98, of Summit,

died Jan, 19 in the Glenside NursingHome, New Providence.

Born in Newark, Mrs. Cone livedin Summit for most of her life. Shewas a transcriber and relief secretaryat Kemper Insurance Co., Summit,before retiring many years ago. Before

that, she was a legal secretary for thelate Summit Judge John Hughes. Mrs.Corie also worked as a court reporterfor the Army at Fort Monmouth and inEurope.

She graduated from Drake Secre-tarial School. Mrs. Corie was a volun-teer at Runnells Specialized Hospitalof Union County in Berkeley Heightsfor 15 years and was a member of the60-Plus Club, Golden Age and theRosary Society of St. Teresa of AvilaChurch, Summit.

Surviving are a sister, AdelinePicozzi, and two brothers, G. Jamesand Victor Picozzi.

Patricia PaulPatricia Louse Paul, 61, of Summit

died Jan. 19 at home.Born in Des Moines, Iowa, Mrs.

WORSHIP CALENDARBAPTIST

EVANGEL BAPTIST CHURCH -"SERVING CHRIST IN THE 21st CENTURY."- 242 Sbunpike Rd., Springfield. Rev. FrederickMackey, Sr. Pastor. Sundays: 9:30 AM BibleSchool for all ages - Nursery through Seniors:Spanish Sunday School 9:30 am and 5:30 pm.10:30 AM Worship Service and Nursery care -5:30-7:00 PM AWANA Club Program forChildren ages 4-11; 6:00 PM Evening Service &Nursery care. Wednesdays: 7:15 PM Prayer,Praise and Bible Study: Junior/Senior HighMinistry. Active Youth Ministry; Wide-RangeMusic Program. Ample Parking. Chair Liftprovided with assistance. All are invited andwelcomed to participate in worship with us. Forfurther information contact church office (973)379-4351. Mondays - 7:00 pm - ENGLISH ASA SECOND LANGUAGE.

JEWISH-CONSERVATIVETEMPLE BETH AHM 60 Temple Drive,Springfield. 973-376-0539. Mark- Mallach,Rabbi. Richard Nadel, Cantor. Marilyn Garlen,President.: Beth Ahm is an egalitarian,Conservative temple, with programming for allages. Weekday services Mon.-Fri. 7:00 AM Sun.-Thurs: 7:45 PM Shabbat (Friday) 6:00 PM &8:30 PM Shabbat day 9:30 AM & sunset;Sundays, 8:30 AM. Festival & Holiday mornings9:00 AM. Family and children services areconducted regularly. Our Religious School (third-seventh grade) meets on Sunday and Tuesday.There are formal classes for both High Schooland pre-Religious School aged children. Thesynagogue also sponsors a Pre-School Women'sLeague, Men's Club, youth groups for sixththrough twelfth graders, and a busy AdultEducation program. For more information, pleasecontact our office during office hours.

JEWISH-ORTHODOXCONGREGATION ISRAEL OFSPRINGFIELD 339 Mountain Avenue,Springfield. 973-467-9666. Chaim Marcus,.Rabbi; Alan J. Yuter, Rabbi Emeritus; Solomon;Greenfield, President. Congregation Israel is aModern Orthodox synagogue. There are twodaily weekday morning Minyans at 6:15 ajn. and7:00 a.m. Daily weekday Mincha/Maarivservices are also held. Call the shul office fortimes. There are two Shabbat morning services at7:30 a.m. and 9:00 a.m. as well as JuniorCongregation at 9:30 a.m. the Nursery Schoolconducts classes for children aged 2 1/2 to 4. Asummer camp is also available to children of thisage. Adult classes are held three nights a week

with two weekly Teen classes. We have an activeSenior Set and very active Jr. NCSY and Sr.NCSY chapters for pre-teens. Our Sisterhood,Adult Education and Youth groups provide awide array of communal programming. Forfurther information call the synagogue office at973-467-9666.

JEWISH - REFORMTEMPLE SHA'AREY SHALOM 78 S.Springfield Avenue, Springfield, (973) 379-5387.Joshua Goldstein, Rabbi; Amy Daniels, Cantor/Education Director; Nina Greenrnan, Pre-SchooiDirector; Mindy Schreff, Family Life Educator;Edward Fink and Hank Rottenberg, Co-Presidents. Temple Sha'arey Shalom is a Reformcongregation affiliated with the Union forReform Judaism. Shabbat worship, enhanced byvolunteer choir, begins on Friday evenings at8:00 PM, with monthly Family and AlternativeWorship. Saturday morning Torah study classbegins at 9:15 AM followed by worship at 10:30AM. Religious school classes meet on Saturdaymornings for grades K-3; on Tuesday andThursday afternoons for 4-7; and Tuesdayevenings for post bar/bat mitzvah students. Pre-school, classes are available for children ages 21/2 through 4. The Temple has the-support of anactive Sisterhood, Brotherhood, RenaissanceGroup and Youth Group. A wide range ofprograms include Adult Education, SocialAction, Interfaith Outreach, Singles and Seniors.For more information, call the Temple office,(973) 379-5387.

LUTHERANHOLY CROSS LUTHERAN CHURCH 639Mountain Avenue, Springfield, 07081, 973-379-4525, Fax 973-379-8887. Remo Madsen, Pastor.Our Sunday Worship Service takes place at 10a.m. For information about our midweekchildren, teen, and adult programs, contact theChurch Office Monday through Thursday, 8:30-4:00 p.m.

REDEEMER LUTHERAN CHURCH ANDSCHOOL, 229 Cowperthwaite PL, Westfield,Rev. Paul E. Kritsch, Pastor. (908) 232-1517.Beginning Sunday, July 6, Summer WorshipTimes are as follows: Sunday Worship Services,8:30 and 10:00 a.m. Sunday morning Nurseryavailable. Wednesday Evening Worship Service,7:30 p.m. Holy Communion is celebrated at allworship services. The church and all rooms arehandicapped accessible

* METHODISTSPRINGFIELD EMANUEL UNITEDMETHODIST CHURCH (SEUMC) -

welcomes all of God's children. Be renewedand strengthened through upbeat SundayWorship at 10:30 AM. Express God's lovethrough outreach ministries. Praise Godthrough music with our professional musicministers, Ginny Johnston and Dan Crisci.Grow in your faith through Bible study, prayer,and fellowship. Improve relationships throughan affordable Counseling Center (CCHD).SEUMC is located at the far BACK end ofChurch Mall, #40, near Morris andMt. Aves in Springfield. 973-376-1695,seumci@verizon.net

THE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH ofSummit is located in the heart of town on thecorner of Kent Place Boulevard and DeForestAvenue. Church School and Bible Study is heldat 9:30 a.m. Sunday morning Worship is at 10:30a.m.; the emphasis of which is to always have a"good week" because of Paul's reminder to us inhis letter to the Romans "that ALL things worktogether for good for those who love God and arecalled according to his purpose". The sermonsare uplifting, Biblically sound and guaranteed tokeep you awake. The music and weeklychildren's message are memorable. All are

' welcome to hear the Good News of God's loveand salvation through Jesus Christ. Our churchalso offers nursery care, after worshiprefreshments and fellowship, and many livelyprograms for everyone. Come worship with usand find out how you too can have a "goodweek". Call the church office or Pastors Gina orRich Hendrickson, Senior Co-Pastors for moreinformation at 908 277-1700.

PRESBYTERIANCOMMUNITY PRESBYTERIANCHURCH, 1459 Deer Path, Mountainside, NewJersey 07092. You are invited to join us inWorship Services on Sundays at 10:30 am. Thisis a place for you to enjoy uplifting music andrelevant messages that will energize and inspireyou. We offer a warm and friendly environmentwith Bible study, Sunday school and active adultand youth groups. For further information, pleasecontact Dr. Christopher Belden, Pastor at 908-232-9490.

FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH 210Morris Ave. at Church Mall, Springfield, 973-379-4320. Sunday School Classes for ages 3yrs. -Senior High 9:00 a.m. in our Parish House,Sunday morning worship service 10:15 a.m:Children's Church is held during the worshipservice; Nursery care and facilities are provided.Opportunities for personal growth throughworship, Christian Education, Choir, ongoing

church activities, and Fellowship. HolyCommunion is held the 1st Sunday of everymonth; The Ladies Evening Group-3rd Wednesdayof each month at 7:30 p.m.; Kaffeeklatsch-lst and3rd Tuesday of each month at 9:30 a.m.; Men'sFellowship-2nd Saturday of each month at 8:30a.m.; Choir-every Thursday at 8:00 p.m. in theChapel. We also host various Outside groupmeetings: Springfield Garden Club, Children'sCommunity Choir, Learning Disabled Group, andAlanon. For information about any of ourprograms or services, call Gesele at the ChurchOffice: 973-379-4320, Mon. through Fri., 9:00a.m.-12 noon; 1:00pm-4:00pm

ROMAN CATHOLICTHE CHURCH OF OUR LADY OFLOURDES, 300 Central Avenue, Mountainside,908-232-1162. Celebrate the Lord's Day:Anticipated Mass 5:00pm, Sunday at 7:30am,9:30am, 11:30am. Weekdays: Monday-Friday7:30am, Saturday 8:00am, Sacrament ofReconciliation, Saturday at lpm. PerpetualAdoration Chapei for personal prayer anddevotion. www.ollmounlainside.org,office@oUmountainside.org.

THE PARISH COMMUNITY OF ST.JAMES, 45 South Springfield Avenue,Springfield, New Jersey 07081.973-376-3044.SUNDAY EUCHARIST: Sat. 5:30 p.m. Sun.7:30, 9:00, 10:30 a.m., 12 Noon. Reconciliation:Sat. 1:00-2:00 p.m. Weekday Masses: 7:00 & 8:00a.m.

UNITARIAN-UNIVERSALIST

UNITARIAN CHURCH IN SUMMIT, 4Waldron Avenue, Summit, NJ 07901. 908-273-3245. www.ucsummit.org. Rev. Vannessa RushSouthern, Minister, Emilie Boggis, AssistantMinister, Mitchell Vines, Music and ChoirDirector. Sunday Services and religious educationclasses at 9:00 AM and 10:30 AM. AdultEducation and other programs.

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Paul moved to Summit 17 years ago.She was a designer and a top salesper-son at Domain Home Fashions, ShortHills, for 12 years before retiring fouryears ago. Mrs. Paul also was a traveldirector for the ITA Group of DesMoines. She was a member of theJunior League of Summit.

Surviving are her husband, Lau-rence; a daughter, Lisa Frankel; a son,Laurence Jr.; a brother, Michael Shel-don; a sister, Ten Reynolds, and fourgrandchildren.

Anaello NaporanoAniello "Fred" Naporano of

Springfield, formerly of Union, a dec-orated World War II veteran, died Jan.20 in the Veterans Affairs Health CareCenter at Lyons.

Born in the Ironbound section ofNewark, Mr. Naporano lived in Unionbefore moving to Springfield. Heworked at his family's business,Naporano Iron and Metal Co. in theIronbound section of Newark. Mr.

PUBLIC NOTICESPRINGFIELD

BOARD OF EDUCATIONP.O. BOX 210

SPRINGFIELD, NEW JERSEY 07081NOTICE TO BIDDERS

Sealed proposals will be received by theBoard of Eduction of the Township ofSpringfield, County of Union, New Jerseyuntil ip:00 AM on February 14. 2006 inthe office of the Business Administrator/Board Secretary, at the Jonathan DaytonHigh School, Springfield, New Jersey forthe following:

ITEMS FOR SALE12 passenger 1992 Chevrolet Van

(Bus #4-approximately 103,000 milesw/Handicap Lift)

VIN# 2GBHG39K4N4154634Instruction to Bidders, Form of Proposal

and description of vehicles may be exam-ined at the office of the Secretary, at theJonathan Dayton High School' Board ofEducation Office, Mountain Avenue,Springfield, New Jersey.All vehicles are for "AS IS" specification.

Please direct any question(s) to Mr.Michael Moore, Director of Maintenanceat the Springfield Board of Educationoffice.

Bids shall be made only on the form pro-vided with all blanks filled in and signedby the bidder. Bids shall be enclosed insealed envelopes giving the name of thebidder and the type of materials or servic-es bid on.

No bidder may withdraw the bid for aperiod of thirty (30) days after the dateset for the opening thereof.

The Board of Education reserves theright to reject any or all bids submittedand to waive any minor informality orirregularity in any bid, and shall, furthermake awards in any way it deems advis-able to the best interests of the SchoolDistrict.

Bidders are required to comply with therules and regulations of Chapter 127P.L.1975 concerning Affirmative Actionand must furnish Notice of Compliancewith the same with their bid. Bidders arerequired to comply with the rules and reg-ulations of the Americans with DisabilitiesAct of 1990 (ADA) concerning unlawfuldiscrimination in employment.

By order of the Board of Education,Springfield, Union County, New Jersey.January 25, 2006U136808 OBS Feb. 2, 2006 ($23.25)

Public Notice

Springfield Free Public Library - In com-pliance with the Open Public Meetings Actof the State of New Jersey, the SpringfieldFree Public Library Board of Trusteesadvises that the meeting dates for theyear 2006 are as follows: January 12,February 9, March 9, April 6 May 11,June 8, July 13(if necessary), September14, October 12, November a, December14, January 11, 2006. No regular meet-ings are held in July and August unlessnecessary.U136774 OBS Feb. 2, 2006 ($5.63)

NOTICE TQ BIPPERS

Sealed proposals will be received by theBoard of Education of the Township of,Springfield, County of Union, New Jerseyuntil 10:00 AM on February 14, 2006 in

Naporano served in the Army Infantry,in Pacific Islands battles during WorldWar II and received the Bronze Star,Purple Heart, the Asiatic-PacificMedal and the New Jersey Distin-guished Service Medal.

He was the recipient of a UNICOHumanitarian Award in 1998, Mr.Naporano was a member of theDemocratic Club in Union, a formeraide to Union Mayor Anthony Russoand a volunteer for voter registrationcampaigns. Mr. Naporano was afounder of the Union Boys Club and alife member of the Knights of Colurn-tbus and the Disabled American Vetefj,ans. Earlier, he was active in the Iron-bound as a sponsor of a Little Leagueteam, among other community activi-ties.

Surviving are his wife, Frances;three daughters, Linda Pctrillo, DebraNaporano and Andrea Galanle; twobrothers, Andrew and Anthony; a sin-ter, Mildred Caponegro, and fourgrandchildren.

the office of the BusinessAdministrator/Board Secretary, at theJonathan Dayton High School, Spring-field, New Jersey for the following:

ITEMS FOR SALE12 passenger 1992 Chevrolet Van(Bus tt4-approximately 103,000 milesW/Handicap Lift)VIN# 2GBHG39K4N4154S34

Instruction to Bidders, Form of Proposaand description of vehicles may be exam-ined at the office of the Secretary, at theJonathan Dayton High School Board ofEducation Office, Mountain Avenue,Springfield, New Jersey.

All vehicles are for *'AS IS" specifica-tion. Please direct any question(s) to Mi.Michael Moore, Director of Maintenance ;at the Springfield Board of Education !office. :

Bids shall be made only on the form pro-vided with all blanks filled in and signedby the bidder.

Bids shall be enclosed in sealedenvelopes giving the name of the bidderand the type of materials or services bidon.

No bidder may withdraw the bid for aperiod of thirty (30) days after the dateset for the opening thereof.

The Board of Education reserves theright to reject any or all bids submittedand to waive any minor informality orirregularity in any bid, and shall, furthermake awards in any way it deems advis-able to the best interests of the SchoolDistrict.

Bidders are required to comply with therules and regulations of Chapter 127 P.L.1975 concerning Affirmative Action andmust furnish Notice of Compliance withthe same with their bid. Bidders ararequired to comply with tho rules and reg-ulations of the Americans with DisabilitiesAct of 1990 (ADA) concerning unlawfuldiscrimination in employment.

By order of the Board of Education,Springfield, Union County, New Jersoy.January 25, 2006U136189 OBS Feb. 2, 2006 ($22.13)

TOWNSHIP OF SPRINGFIELDCOUNTY OF UNION, N.J.

NOTICE OF PETITION FOR SUBSTAN-TIVE CERTIFICATION NOTICE is herebygiven that the Township of Springfield haspetitioned the New Jersey Council onAffordable Housing for Substantive Certi-fication of its Housing Element and FairShare Plan pursuant fo N.J.S.A. 52:27D-301 et seq. and N.J.A.C. 5:95-3.1 ot seq.A copy of adopted Housing Element andFair Snare Plan and supporting documen-tation is available for public inspection atthe office of the Municipal Clerk, Munici-pal Building, located at 100 MountainAvenue, during the hours of 8:00 a.m, to3:00 p.m. Comments or objections to saidpetition for Substantive Certification shallbe filed with the New Jersey Council or'Affordable Housing, 101 South BroadStreet, P.O. Box 813, Trenton, New Jer-sey 08625-0813 and with the MunicipalClerk by March 18, 2006, which is within45 days of publication of this notice. i

Kathleen D. Wisniewski, RMC/CMCMunicipal Cler!-

U136322 OBS Feb. 2, 2006 ($10 88) <

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RELIGION'Neuroscience and theSouF lecture scheduled

How are our abilities to touch, see,and hear related to our ability to loveone another? How do our intellect andmotivations fire our religious beliefs?Questions about the relationshipbetween our bodies and our spirits areas old as humankind itself.

St. John's Evangelical LutheranChurch in Summit will host a lectureby the Rev. Dr. Patrick Russell, aLutheran pastor, physicist and special-ist in neuroscience, on "Neuroscienceand the Soul" on Sunday at 10 a.m.

Russell will share bis knowledgeand enthusiasm for neuroscience, thestudy of the brain and nervous system,and its relevance to the gift of faith.

Russell is the associate pastor of St.Peter's Lutheran Church in LafayetteHill, Penn. He has a doctorate in parti-cle physics from Princeton Universityand has studied at the NeurosciencesInstitute in San Diego, Calif. He hastaught science and religion classes toseminary, university and congrega-tional audiences around the country.

The public is welcome to attend.The church is located at 587 Spring-field Ave.

For more information, call 908-918-2500 or access www.stjohnssum-mit.org.

Temple to host choralfestival in March

Temple Sinai will host the Region-al Choral Festival on March 19 at 3p.m., sponsored by the New Jersey-West Hudson Valley Council of theURJ and The American Conference ofCantors.

Imagine the beautiful new sanctu-ary filled with the sound often reformsynagogue choirs presenting anengaging and varied concert of Jewishchoral music. Think of the sanctuaryfilled with a joint choir of 300 voices.

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Arts center holds benefit

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The Handcrafter Group of theWomen's Association of the Commu-nity Presbyterian Church, 1459 DeerPath, Mountainside, meets on the sec-ond Saturday of every month in thechurch's Memorial Room at 10 a.m.

Those attending can use their ownskills or learn new ones.

For more .information, call thechurch office at 908-232-9490 andleave a name and telephone numberwith Janet.

United Way currentlyrecruiting volunteers

The United Way of Summit, NewProvidence and Berkeley Heights iscurrently recruiting volunteers toassist in its annual fund distributionprocess.

Candidates should have a financialor community service background.Committee members will need toserve approximately 10 hours duringthe spring process, which includesanalyzing budgets and programs, andattending agency presentations in aneffort to determine funding levels of

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MOIVSS Club welcomesnew members

. The newly-formed MOMS Club ofSpringfield and Mountainside is seek-ing new members.*

The club was formed to providenetworking opportunities for stay-at-home and part-time working moms.

Meetings are once a month and,should you decide to join, dues are$25 per year.

For more information, call SusanZarember at 973-218-9043.

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Widowed Personsgroup seeks members

The Widowed Persons Associationof Our Lady of Lourdes, 300 CentralAve., Mountainside, is looking fornew members.

Meetings are the second Sunday ofthe month from 2 to 4 p.m. There is aprogram, followed by refreshments,consisting of wine and cheese, fol-lowed by coffee and cake. A fee of $3is charged.

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Sing, sing a song!

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Members of the Springfield Community Children's Chorus perform at its Winter Concerton Sunday at the First Presbyterian Church. Leslie Adler is the chorus's artistic director.

RECREATION

SENIOR NEWSOld Guard to meet

Frank J. Lombardi, chief engineerof the Port Authority of New York andNew Jersey, will speak at the nextmeeting of the Summit Old Guard onFeb. 7 at the New Providence BoroughHall, 360 Elkwood Ave. A coffee hourwill begin at 9:15 a.m., followed by a10 a.m. business meeting.

Lombardi directs the implementa-tion of the Port Authority's capital andoperating programs. He will givemembers an update of current majorprojects under construction and in theplanning stages. Many of these newprojects will dramatically alter thetransportation systems in the two-statearea.

All area retired men are invited toattend. Old Guard members partici-pate in sports, bridge, hikes, trips,plays, concerts and other events.

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Free income taxassistance available

SAGE Eldercare, a major commu-nity resource providing services forthe elderly, is pleased to announce freeincome tax assistance to senior citi-zens living in SAGE's service areas ofUnion, Essex, Morris and Somersetcounties.

John McDonnell, a trained volun-teer counselor of the AARP Tax AideProgram, will be at SAGE Eldercare,290 Broad St., Summit, on Thursdaysbetween Feb. 16 and April 13, from 9a.m. to noon.

Appointments are necessary andcan be made by calling Ellen McNal-ly, SAGE InfoCare director, at 908-598-5509. Space is limited, so inter-ested parties are encouraged to makean appointment as soon as possible.

Participants should bring copies ofappropriate materials including realestate tax bills, Social Security state-ments, W-2 forms, 1099 forms and lastyear's tax return.

SAGE Eldercare's income taxassistance program is offered free ofcharge. Coffee and tea will be avail-able.

SummitAARP,schedules meeting

The Summit AARP will meet onFeb. 27 at 10 a.m. at St. John's Luther-an Church, 587 Springfield Ave.,Summit. A coffee and social will pre-cede the meeting at 9:45 a.m.

Debbie Sutor of Novartis willspeak on new <lrugs being researchedand developed.

Reservations are now being accept-ed for the following trips: March 15-16 to Mohegan Sun/Foxwood HotelCasino with an Irish Cabaret Show,and June 4-6 to Myrtle Beach, S.C.,plus Charleston and shows.

For more information, call 908-273-2239.

See 'Jersey Boys'on Broadway

The Springfield Recreation Depart-ment will sponsor a trip to see "JerseyBoys," the Broadway show about theFour Seasons musical group, onMarch 1.

The cost of $135 includes anorchestra seat, dinner and transporta-tion. Make checks payable to Spring-field Seniors. Payment is due Friday.

Limited space is available.Sign up in the Sarah Bailey Civic

Center Office, 30 Church Mall.

Springfield senior tripscheduled for March

The Springfield Recreation Depart-ment will sponsor a trip for Spring-field seniors to the St. Joseph's Festi-val at the Brownstone House in Pater-son on March 24.

Departure from the Sarah BaileyCivic Center will be at 10:30 a.m.

A one-hour open bar and a family-style luncheon will be included. Fea-tured during the day will be music,dancing, a show with vocalists DoreenBrusca and Joey Arminio and theirband, "The Family," and comedy byEddie Capone.

The bus will arrive back at SarahBailey at about 4:15 p.m.

The cost is S39 per person. Checkscan be made payable to '"SpringfieldTrips."

Register for summercamp at Reeves-Reed

Registration for Summer ElephantTree Camp at Reeves-Reed Arboretumwill begin Saturday.

Priority registration for familymembers is on Saturday from 9 to 11a.m. and on Monday from 9 a.m. to 3p.m. Open registration for associatemembers and non-members is onTuesday from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Mail-inregistrations will be accepted startingFeb. 9.

For more information, call 908-8787, ext. 15 or 25.

Gym time for toddlersavailable at YMCA

This winter the Springfield YMCAis offering an open gym program forchildren ages 18 months to VA years.This drop-in play time enables chil-dren and parents to use special "tod-dler gym" equipment.

The Open Toddier Gym runs onWednesdays from 10:30 a.m. to 12:30p.m., through the end of March. It isopen to members and non-members.The fee is $5 per session.

The Springfield YMCA is locatedat 100 S. Springfield Ave.

For more information, call 973-467-0838 or access www.sum-mitareaymca.org.

Tennis for single peopleolder than 40 scheduled

Single People's Tennis is having aTennis Open House for single peopleolder than 40 who want to socializeand play doubles tennis. It is also forpeople who want to improve theirgame.

The Tennis Open House will be atthe Mountainside Indoor Tennis Cen-ter, 1191 U.S. Highway 22, on Satur-day from 7 to 10 p.m.

The cost is $15 for new attendeesand wine and cheese will be served.

For more information, call Sarah at732-494-6348.

YMCA to have SummerCamp Open House

The Springfield YMCA will haveits Summer Camp Open House andregistration Sunday, beginning at 10a.m. Summer camp sessions runfrom June 26 though Sept. 1.

Children entering kindergartenthrough grade five can attend CampAnupama, held at Ruby Park inSpringfield. This camp offers specialtheme weeks and gives children theopportunity to be creative whileexploring nature, learning new

games and making new friends.Campers build self-esteem whileenjoying activities such as sports,arts and crafts, field trips, swimmingand more.

Tiny Trekkers, is a half-dayand/or full-day camp for children inpreschool through kindergarten.Small group sizes and a well-trainedstaff create a terrific first campingexperience with stimulating and funactivities similar to those in CampAnupama. Special theme activityweeks and swim instruction areincluded in this program.

Extended care options for pre-camp and post-camp care are avail-able. Financial assistance is alsoavailable for those who qualify.

The Springfield Y located at 100S. Springfield Ave.

For more information about sum-mer camp or applying for financialassistance, call Gina Fernandez at973-467-0838 or access www.sum-mitareaymc a. org.

Baseball leagueaccepting registrations

The Springfield Junior BaseballLeague is accepting registrations forthe upcoming baseball season for chil-dren in kindergarten through 9th-grade.

Forms may be picked up at theSarah Bailey Civic Center, 30 ChurchMall, Springfield.

The deadline for registration isFeb. 15. Registration fees are listed onthe forms and are subject to a $50 latefee for those received after the dead-line.

Volunteer at Reeves-Reed Arboretum

Volunteers are needed year-roundat Reeves-Reed Arboretum to helpspread chips on its woodland trails.

In the past, students fulfilling com-munity service hours, retirees, clubs,friends • and Eagle Scout candidateshave pitched in. The arboretumrequires child volunteers to be able towork unsupervised using garden tools.

It also is never too early for Scoutsand schools to line up Earth Day activ-ities at the arboretum.

For more information on volun-teering or to coordinate a group serv-ice project, call Karen Moore 908-273-8787, ext. 18.

Kick box this winter,:;Take it up a notch this winter with

energetic kick; boxing classes spon-sored by the Mountainside RecreationDepartment.

World champion Vizzio willinstruct these anaerobic IIIHI aerobicclasses that tone muscles, improvecoordination and balance ;md promojeself-confidence. I

The winter session, beginning thismonth, will feature classes Mondayand Wednesdays from 9:15 to 10 a.m.at Borough Hall, 1385 Route 22 east!

The registration lee for residents is$66 for Mondays only, $88 forWednesdays only, or $154 for both.Register at Borough Hall.

For more information, call theRecreation Office at 908-232-0015.

YYouth basketball \lThe Summit YMCA is now offer-

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This is an in-house/non-travcliiijileague where children can learn thebasics of basketball, and play weeklyscrimmage games under the guidanceof YMCA staff.

The league season runs throughMarch 19 and will meet Sundays atthe Summit Y. 67 Maple St. Gamesand practices are scheduled from noonto 6 p.m. :

The fee for this program is $120,Registration is ongoing either in per-son or online, for members only, atwww.summitymcasports.org. Anannual YMCA youth membership isrequired to participate. :

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The registration fee for residents is$62 for Mondays only, $62 forWednesdays only, or $124 for both,and $62 for Thursdays. Register at.Borough Hall.

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Jim .Pflug's children were youngand he wanted an outlet that wouldkeep them physically fit and out ofharm's way. Sports just seemed to bethe right choice.

After awhile, the Pflugs had fivechildren. Twins Jamilee and Dustinwere the first children and they werejoined a year later by sister Kelli. Sev-eral years later, another set of twins,Michael and Kristy, were born.

As the years progressed, he noticedsome athletic talent in his children andpretty soon, they joined travelingteams/Before long, every child wasplaying virtually the same sports in thesame seasons.

All the children played soccer inthe fall and basketball in the winter,with the boys playing baseball in thespring and the girls softball.

Fast forward to mid-winter, 2006:Jamilee and Dustin are high schoolseniors; Jamilee has a couple of schol-arship offers for basketball and Dustinis generating some interest, as well.

Suddenly, participation in athleticscould prove to be more than merely ahealthy outlet for the children. It couldserve to be a vehicle that could helppropel them to a better future.

You could say that the Pflugs haveput almost as much time and effortinto their athletic preparation as theyhave into their education, yet minus anunhealthy obsession common today.

"Basically, we've all been playingsince the 3rd grade," said Jamilee. "Ithink we all just enjoyed playing thesame sports, so it just happened thatwe all wound up playing soccer, bas-ketball and baseball for Dustin andsoftball for me and Kel."

That devotion to competition hasplaced the Pflugs in some interestingsituations at times. There have evenbeen some occasions when they'vewound up playing each other. Dustinwas OK with it, but not Kelli.

"I think I had to play against mysister one time in basketball," she said,acknowledging the fact that she felt alittle guilt in playing against her sister."I didn't want to guard her because ifI played good defense on her or gotaround her on offense I would havefelt bad, like I was letting her down."

N6, the Pflug children aren't beingrecruited to play "big time" Division Iathletics, but, frankly, this may be bet-ter than that. Given the circumstancessurrounding many prominent student-athletes who have performed in the"big time" arena in recent years, it'sbecome increasingly apparent that ascholarship to a Division 3 school maybe more beneficial to student-athletes,giving them a greater chance to pre-pare for a non-athletic career, one thathas a substantially longer shelf life.

"As a parent, you want to occupytheir time with sports, rather thanother extra-curricular activities thatmight not have the supervision you getwith athletics," Jim Pflug said. "I sawearly on that they had talent in sportsand it was a no-brainer to pursue that.

"As the years went by, we sawactual potential in them and the oppor-tunity to further themselves at eachlevel. Now it's progressed from travel-ing teams to AAU to high school andnow we're looking at college."

Jamilee has narrowed her likelychoices to Ramapo College in Mah-wah and Moravian College in Penn-sylvania. Her brother Dustin is keep-ing his options open, hoping to playeither hoops or baseball in college.

Naturally, the Pflugs' talent in" sports is inherited from their parents.

Jamilee noted that their father playedvarsity basketball and baseball andalso freshman football. Mrs. Pflug wasan avid tennis player and cheerleader,reinforcing the athletic background.

"My dad was very athletic when hewas younger and our mom played afew sports, so it just carried over,"Kelli said.

The Pflugs may play collegiately,but even if they don't, it appearsthey've learned some healthy lessonsin building character through the dis-cipline of athletics, probably the great-est benefit anyone can really achievefrom participating in sports.

Jeff Cummins may be reached atjcummins@thelocalsource.com.

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Wrestlers from Elizabeth and Union, above, and Brearley and Roselle Park, below, willbe competing in this weekend's 31st Union County Tournament at Union. The seedingmeeting is tonight at 5:30, with competition scheduled to commence tomorrow night at5. The finals are scheduled to commence at 3 p.m. Saturday. Rahway is the defendingchampion, with senior Darrion Caidwell out to become just the fifth grappler to win fourchampionships. See our Union County Tournament preview on Pages 12 and 13.

Game of the Week

Johnson girls1 come up bigafter knocking off Roselle

By Jeff CumminsStaff Writer

CLARK - Kelli Pflug had just taken a hard blow to thehead and the smile she wore at the beginning of the gamesuddenly turned to tears. Her teammates weren't in tears,but like Pflug, their smiles had long since worn away.

Part of that can be attributed to the fact that Pflug andher teammates on the Johnson girls' basketball team beganthe game on a tremendous high, having knocked off the No.1 team in the county, Roselle, at home the day before. Now,just one day later, Johnson was facing another real battle asit, once again, was in danger of falling.

However, with the help of Pflug's older sister, Jamilee,and some critical contributions from Jordana Trani, SandraParin and Marissa DiCosmo, the Crusaders fought backfrom their malaise to eke out a 42-36 win over visiting Oak 'Knoll last Friday.

Johnson was able to put together just enough parts of itsgame in the fourth quarter to pull away in a contest that hadincluded several runs. By the end of the game, junior KelliPflug had a smile on her face again and the pain from theblow to her head had long since subsided.

The biggest thing that Johnson, which improved to 8-3,took from this game was that it had developed the mentaltoughness to come out and play when the temptation toenjoy the previous day's victory over Roselle could havebeen too much to ignore.

"It was great to beat Roselle, but we knew we still hadto play Oak Knoll and a lot of other teams," Kelli Pflugsaid.

Initially, it looked as if Johnson would simply bounce itsway past Oak Knoll when il started the game on a 10-0 runthat highlighted the Crusaders' speed and ability to pene-trate the lane.

Toward the end of the quarter, Oak Knoll point guardMary Cummings stunned Johnson with a 3-point shot thatimmediately picked up the spirits of her teammates. By theend of the first half, Cummings made three 3-point basketsas Oak Knoll, which slipped to 7-10, had overcome the ini-

tial 10-point deficit, building an 18-16 lead.By halftime it was clear that Cummings' ball-handling

skills and her ability to create open shots for her teammatesgave Johnson cause for concern.

"We were worried about her because she was hittingoutside shots," senior Jamilee Pflug said, referring to Cum-mings. "We knew that if we tightened up on defense, wecould stop them."

Johnson played stronger defense in the fourth quarter,cutting off passing lanes and forcing Oak Knoll to takeshots from 3-point range in the final minutes, the sameshots that Oak Knoll made so easily in the first half. As thegame wound down, Oak Knoll's touch for the 3-point shotturned cold and Johnson took firm control to get the win.

Johnson's discipline was more impressive than any par-ticular plays the Crusaders made. Following their 44-42upset of Roselle, the Crusaders had all the built-in excusesjust waiting for them.

It would have been easy to look past Oak Knoll - andthere were times when it appeared the Crusaders weredoing just that. Still, when the time came to put in the extraeffort to seal the victory, the Crusaders didn't hesitate, box-ing out under the boards and taking the bumps and bruisesnecessary to triumph.

NOTES: Johnson clinched a berth for the Central Jer-sey, Group 2 playoffs. The cutoff date is Saturday and thestates begin Feb. 27.

The Crusaders should also get a relatively high seed forthe upcoming Union County Tournament. The champi-onship game is scheduled for Feb. 23 at Roselle Catholic.

Scotch Plains own the UCT for the first time the pasttwo seasons. The top teams in the county this year includeRoselle, Scotch Plains, Union, Roselle Catholic, Rahway,Johnson, Cranford and Westfield.

Union Catholic, which has reached the last five finalsand last won the UCT in 2001, sported a 6-6 mark as of lastSaturday. The Vikings have won the most UCTs.

Staff writer Jeff Cummins may be reached for commentat; jcummins@thelocalsource.com.

Behind the scenes

Cummings provide '̂sparic for Oak Knoll'

• By Jeff CumminsStaff Writer

CLARK - Nobody who saw Mary Cummings play for the Oak Knoll bas-ketball team last Friday afternoon would be surprised if she eventually attendsmedical school. After all, she sliced through the Johnson defense with the defttouch of a surgeon.

Cummings is the Oak Knoll point guard and the team's unquestioned leaderon the court. Whenever a teammate is in trouble handling the ball, they look forCummings to bail them out. When Cummings runs the team's offense, she Hasan uncanny ability to create open looks for her teammates, exploiting even theslightest of weaknesses.

Cummings made three 3-point shots in the first half of Oak Knoll's 42-36 set-back to Johnson, but the long jumper isn't even the best part of her game.; Herability to control the offense is what sets the Summit resident apart from thepack.

Cummings can look at a mass of bodies on the court and detect even thesmallest of openings, yet openings large enough to throw some critical passes,which inevitably wind up in the hands of teammates, who often have easy layupsdue to Cummings' handiwork. Her patience and unshakable composure are: alsojust as impressive. - ;

Naturally, Cummings humbly deflects such praise, attributing her prowess i >years of working with her father and her sister. '• :

"I've been playing basically forever," Cummings said. "I've also learnedfrom watching the game, because I grew up watching my older sister and goingto all the practices that my dad runs when he coaches my AAU team, the NewJersey Panthers." ; .

Cummings also serves the Royals as a quiet team leader. One day after upset-ting Governor Livingston 20-19 in Summit, Oak Knoll was up against a John-son team that had a significant height advantage.

Add in the fact that Oak Knoll has only seven players on its team and one isinjured. It was quite obvious that the Royals faced a significant obstacle againstJohnson.

"I think, at times, we were at a height disadvantage, but you just have to dealwith it," Cummings said. "They played a hard game the day before too. 1 think,or course, another person always helps,, but you just have to make do with whatyou have."

Johnson was coming off an impressive 44-42 home win over Roselle, the No.1 team in the county the past two weeks. Unfortunately for the Royals, the Hackof extra players impacts virtually everyone on the team, as acknowledged byhead coach Ron Cording. ;

"Yes, having another player or two in the rotation also helps you to rest girlsand what we face is when girls get in foul trouble, our better players in foul trou-ble have to play and be more cautious," Cording said. "When you're playingmore cautious, mistakes can happen. Your aggressiveness on the inside gameisn't there. Our seventh girl hit her head (the day before) and she's sufferingfrom headaches."

Against the host Crusaders, it seemed that Cummings was giving Johnsonheadaches, in spite of the fact that Johnson came out ahead.

NOTES: Oak Knoll, with a record of 7-10, was scheduled to host RoselieCatholic Tuesday afternoon and yesterday afternoon was to play at NewarkAcademy. The Royals are to host Union tomorrow night at 7.

The Union County Tournament will be seeded next week.Johnson, with a record of 8-3, was to play at Roselle Catholic last last night.'Roselle Catholic improved to 8-6 last Friday after beating Union Catholic 36-

32 at home. UC fell to 6-6. ' " '.Johnson is scheduled to play Cranford tomorrow night at 6 in Rahway. Cran-

ford improved to 12-5 last Friday after beating non-conference foe Montville 45-29 in Montville.

Slate playoff cutoff elate is SaturdayBoys' and girls' basketball teams from around the state that are at .500 or near

.500 are presently scrambling to be at .500 or better through Saturday's stateplayoff cutoff date. Teams have to be at .500 or better after Saturday to make it.

The states will commence the week of Monday, Feb. 27, with sectional finalsto be contested Monday, March 6 and Tuesday, March 7.

Jeff Cummins may be reached atjcummins@thelocalsource.com. ;

RETURNINGUNION COUNTY TOURNAMENT

WRESTLING CHAMPIONS•

Anthony Priore, Johnson, junior

Ryan Wilson, Rahway, junior

Darrion Caidwell, Rahway, senior

Pat Mineo, Scotch Plains, junior

Pat Hogan, Cranford, senior

Jesse Boyden, Brearley, sophomores .

Darrion Caidwell is attempting to become just the fifth wrestler towin four UCT championships.

The previous four were Larry Guarino and Dave Bubnowski of Unionand Craig Frost and Dan AppeUo of Roselle Park.

INSIDEPage 10 - Cranford swimmers splash way to 9th victoryPage 11 - Roselle Park boys' only have chance to win conferencePages 12-13 - Union County Tournament wrestling preview :Page 14 - Linden boys' are competing at a high level •Page 15 - Rahway Renaissance provides recreational opportunities ;

Page 16 - Springfield Nettcs improve record to 8-1 j

Winning Performances to RememberBoys' Basketball - Elizabeth's Tamir Rhodes nets career-high 26.Girls' Basketball - Hillside's Hassanah Oliver scores game-high 23.Wrestling - Brearley's Kenny Knapp pins Zach Adamczyk in 34 seconds.:Ice Hockey - Johnson's Bill Benton scores 2, Scott Klimchak saves 20.Track - Summit's Patrice Chatman captures county shot put at 36-8.5.Swimming - Dayton's Jennifer Seale first in 200- and 500-yard freestyle.Bowling - Union's Jeff Thomas rolls 563 series vs. Kearny.

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Union Suffragettes registation wraps SaturdayUnion Suffragettes Softball League new player registration concludes

Saturday from 9:30 a.m. to noon at 1120 Commerce Avc. in Union, behindthe Hannah Caidwell School. Resident girls in grades 3 to 12 are eligible.

The league has 20 teams comprised of two divisions. There are 10 jun-ior teams - grades 3 to 6 - and 10 senior teams - grades 7 to 12. Games areplayed on Saturdays at 8:45 a.m. and 11 a.m., from April to June.

Practice times will be determined at a coaches meeting in late March,Visit the website www.unionsuffragettes.org for more information.

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Cranford swimmers splashBoonton for their 9th victoryCougars do well to clinch winning season

Another impressive victory.Cranford swimmers continue to excel as the Cougars

swam to a convincing 102-68 triumph over Boonton lastThursday at the Cranford Pool and Fitness Center.

Cranford improved to 9-6 with the victory.With one more meet left, Cranford is assured a winning

record even if it does not win it."Of course, we don't want to lose the last meet, but if we

do, we stili end the season with a winning record," Cran-ford head coach Barbara Kolesa said. "I'm really happy forthe swimmers. They worked hard this year and there hasbeen a lot of improvement in everyone."

"Boonton was coming off a big win against Rahway,"Cranford assistant coach Coleen Donnelly said. "We knewthey were going to be tough and we would have to be at ourbest to be competitive."

The meet did not start out well for Cranford, with theCougars taking second behind Sean French, Steve Jurpalis,Haley Brown and Matt Duescher and third behindJohnathan Van Ostenbridge, Mark Bagniewski, MikeWalano and Biaire Frasier in the 200 medley relay.

Right away, Cranford was down by two points. Then,Cranford began the onslaught. A second-place showing byJavier Nino, a third by Laurel Klappholz and a fourth byEugene O'Neiil in the 200 freestyle tied the score.

"O'Neill's fourth-place finish was important," Kolesasaid. "It allowed us to tie the score and denied Boonton anextra point.

Cranford took the lead for good in the 200 individualmedley, with a first by Brown, second by Van Ostenbridgeand fifth by Allison Harty. Van Ostenbridge continued tohave significant drops of time in this race.

"Allison is another swimmer who scored critical pointsfor us," Donnelly said.

The last race before the break was the 50 freestyle.Cranford swept the first three places, with a first by French,second by Duescher and third by Bagniewski.

French managed to keep his unbeaten streak alive in theevent, swimming a personal-best 22.75 to qualify for theMarch 4 Meet of Champions.

After the fourth race, Cranford's lead was 16 points.The 100 butterfly was the first race after the break.

Duescher's First, Klappholz's second and Jenna Pfarr'sfourth extended the lead to 24 points. Duescher swam apersonal best of 1.07:65 in the race.

"Jenna's fourth-place showing was another key finishfor us because of the extra points we earned and the pointsBoonton did not get," Kolesa said

The 100 freestyle extended Cranford's lead to 30 points,with a first by French, third by Jurpalis and fourth byWalano. Once again, French kept an unbeaten streak alivein the event.

The 500 freestyle was captured by Nino, with MaryKate Miller placing third and Heather Lee coming in fifthplace. Miller continues to lower her impressive time in theevent.

"Heather Lee is another sWimmer who has begun toassert herself this year," Donnelly said. "She has earnedpoints in the last couple of meets, while at the same timeconsistently having time improvements at every meet sheswims in."

The 200 freestyle relay saw Cranford finish first behindDuescher, Brown, French and Jurpalis and third behind VanOstenbridge, Bagniewski, Klappholz and Miller.

That stellar performance gave Cranford a large lead of40 points.

Jurpalis placed second in the 100 backstroke, followedby Frasier third and Delia DeBlass fifth.

The last individual race was the 100 breaststroke. Bag-niewski was second, Brown third and Natalie Lauciusfourth for Cranford, which maintained a lead of 40 pointsgoing into the meet's last race.

Cranford placed second in the 400 freestyle relay behindWalano, Nino, Van Ostenbridge and Klappholz.

In that race, Walano had a personal-best time of 1.00:34in his leg.

"We had many people earning important points for us,"Donnelly said.

"I was especially proud of Lee, Frasier, DeBlass andLaucius."

"I'm glad we'll end up with a winning record this year,"said Lee, a sophomore.

"It's a nice way for the senior swimmers to end theirhigh school careers."

"One of our goals this year was to have a winningrecord," said Jurpalis, a sophomore.

"We never lost sight of this goal, even when we had ourmini-losing streak earlier during the season. Nobody pan-icked and the coaches did a great job of getting us back ontrack."

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CaldweH triumphs at Ail-Star wrestling, eventUnion County residents Darrion CaldweH of Rahway and David Greenwald

of Union competed in Sunday's fifth annual New Jersey Wrestling Coaches All-Star Invitational at Brick Memorial.

CaldweH, a senior at Rahway High School, competed in the event for thefourth time.

He is a two-time state champion.Ranked No. 1 in the state at 152, CaldweH remained undefeated after beating

Tom Scotton of Willingboro 4-0. Scotton was ranked third in the state at 152.Greenwald, a senior at St. Mary's of Rutherford, was defeated by Jordan Bur-

roughs of Wins]ow Township 6-3 in the 135-pound bout.Greenwald was ranked No. 1 in the state at 135, while Burroughs was ranked

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ILOH EXCELS - Unionsenior Sophia liontries to pass the ballagainst an Elizabethdefender in a 38-24road victory earlier inthe season. Ilohscored a game-high 20points and grabbed 15rebounds in leadingthe Farmers past visit-ing Woodbridge 45-35last Saturday. The winclinched a North 2,Group 4 playoff berthfor the Farmers, whobegan the week with a9-6 record and onlythree games to gobefore Saturday's stateplayoff cutoff date.Union was to play atKearny Tuesday, is toplay at Irvington todayat 4 p.m. and is to playat Oak Knoll tomorrownight at 7. Union is tohost Elizabeth Feb. 23at 4.

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real shot at a title isRP boys'faced with impossible competition in county and states

By JR ParachiniSports Editor

AREA - Everybody loves how theNew Jersey State lnterscholastic Ath-ietic Association does its reclassifica-tion every June, right?

For example, Roselle Park's gener-al classification this year is CentralJersey. Group 2 and Dunellen's NorthJersey, Section 2, Group 1.

That, means that both of thoseschools are situated in those sectionsfor all sports except football andwrestling.

Roselle Park was put in CentralJersey, Group 1 for football andwrestling and Dunellen in the samesection for football. Dunellen does nothave wrestling.

Dunellen - a Middlesex Countyschool which is a member of theGreater Middlesex Conference - used"to always be in Central Jersey for allof its sports and Roselle Park - aUnion County school which is a mem-ber of the Mountain Valley Confer-ence — used to always be in North Jer-sey, Section 2 for everything.

Both have switched sections formost sports this year because thatseems to be the trendy thing for theNJSIAA to do in recent years.

On the night of Jan. 25 we had afeature presentation on the hardcourtas Roselle Park traveled to Faber Mid-dle School in Dunellen to faceDunellen in a battle of one-loss boys?

basketball squads off to pretty goodstarts.

Roselle Park, in first place in theMVC's Sky Division, came in with a10-1 record and five-game winningstreak. Dunellen, in first place in the'GMC's Gold Division, was waitingwith an 11-1 mark. Both were unde-feated in conference play.

Trying to win conference crownswill be the only titles that can beattained by either school. That's

SummitBoys'BasketballFeb. 2 Dover, 7 p.m.Feb. 7 at Parsippany Hills, 7 p.m.Feb. 9 Chatham, 7 p.m.Feb. 14 at Mendham, 7 p.m.Feb. 16 Hanover Park, 7 p.m.Feb. 21 at Parsippany, 7 p.m.

because they have no chance at win*ning a county or sectional title.

Why?Because the competition is too far

over their heads.That's the sad, thing about both

schools getting placed in different sec-tions and having to face much moredemanding opposition.

Roselle Park, which moved up toGroup 2 status for all sports but foot-ball and wrestling this year, andDunellen should be the top teams ineither North 2, Group 1 or Central Jer-sey, Group 1.

Last week should have been a pre-view of what could be a sectionalfinal. Or, one team should be thefavorite in one section and the other afavorite in another so that if they bothwon their section, they could meet inthe state semifinals or final.

Instead, for this year at least,Roselle Park knows that once it gets tothe Central Jersey, Group 2 playoffsthe week of Feb. 27 it will be seededamong schools named Rahway, Man-asquan, Weequahic, Somerville andHillside. Defending champion Raritanis having an off year, but Rahwaymade it to the final the past two yearsand Hillside reached the North 2,Group 2 final last year after knockingoff top-seeded Weequahic on the roadin the semifinals. Two-time defendingNorth 2, Group 2 champion Summit,which also reached the Group 2 finalthe past two seasons, might also sneakinto Central Jersey, Group 2 for thefirst time.

Rahway has one of the top playersin the state in Earl Clark, who is con-tinuing at Louisville. Weequahic hasone of the top players in the state inKeon Lawrence, who is continuing atMissouri.

Roselle Park has some nice play-ers, but come on! How can the Pan-thers compete? \

SummitGiiis' BasketballFeb. 2 at Dover, 7 p.m.Feb. 7 Parsippany Hills, 7 p.m.Feb. 9 at Chatham, 7 p.m.Feb. 14 Mendham, 7 p.m.Feb. 16 at Hanover Park, 7 p.m.Feb. 21 Parsippany, 7 p.m.

"We knew last year that theymoved us up to Group 2 and we'vehad that in the back of our mind," saidRoselle Park senior forward BryanCaicedo, who poured in a game-high16 points and was a terror on the glassin leading the Panthers to a come-from-behind 52-46 victory over theDestroyers.

"Hopefully we can keep on win-ning and with our good record, get ahigh seed and a home game," Caicedocontinued. "If that happens, maybe wecan surprise someone, you neverknow."

Roselle Park was not scheduled toplay again until Tuesday at New Prov-idence. The Panthers host Daytontoday at 4 p.m., with the state playoffcutoff date being Saturday.

Most likely, the Panthers will behome in their first state game.

"We know the section we are in isa tough way=to go," fifth-year RosellePark head coach John Moffitt said."I'm still not giving it much thoughtyet because we have a lot of basketballto play before then. We'll continue totry to do as well as we can before weget there."

Roselle Park has not won a confer-ence crown since the 1997 season,which was also a year the Panthersreached a sectional final. The Pantherscan win a conference crown this year,but will be heavy underdogs in theirsection.

As far as the Union County Tour-nament goes, it simply is not built forthe little guy to have any success.

"St. Patrick's has dominated the• county," Moffitt said. "We're justgoing to go about our business and tryto win as many games as we can."

You can rename the UCT the St.Patrick's vs. Whoever Tournament. St.Patrick's has been in the previous 13finals dating back to 1993 and haswon nine of them. Ironically, head

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coach Kevin Boyle helped guide John-son Regional to the 1981 champi-onship over Hillside 25 years ago. Pre-sent Governor Livingston head coachSteve Petruzelli was at the helm of theCrusaders back then.

What are the chances of Johnson oreven Hillside ever reaching the finalagain, even though Hillside did makeit in 1994? Not very good unless thetournament is restructured.

Dunellen, guided by first-year headcoach Bernie Buniak, doesn't havemuch of a chance against its muchlarger GMC foes either when it comesto the annual GMC Tournament. Thattrophy usually goes to the likes of St.Joseph's of Meruchen, South Plain-field - which has won the last two -Cardinal McCarrick, Carteret, Coloniaor Sayreville, who have all been recentchampions.

So, what does Dunellen have tolook forward to in the North 2, Group1 playoffs? How about defendingchampion Newark Science, rankedNo. 6 in the state and 2004 and 2005champion Bloomfield Tech, rankedNo. 1 in New Jersey.

It's a shame that last week's game— a pretty good back and forth affairbetween teams of even skill - couldn'tbe a possible playoff preview.

Because of their records, both areranked in their counties - Roselle ParkNo. 8 in Union and Dunellen No. 10 inMiddlesex.

However, Roselle Park is notregarded as one of the top Group 2teams in the state, whereas Dunellen isranked No. 7 among New Jersey's top10 Group 1 schools.

Conference championships are outthere for both of them to win. Unfor-tunately for each, not the same can besaid of county or sectional titles.

NOTES: Dunellen's next gamewas at home last Friday vs. conferencerival East Brunswick Vo-Tech. The

Destroyers took an 11-2 record intothat contest.

Buniak, who look over the reignsfrom Steve Kania, previously coachedbasketball at Roselle Park and Rah-way.

Another tough team in North 2,Group 1 is Newark Technology, whichbegan last week week 7-4. RosellePark beat NT 72-61 at home on Jan.10.

Roselle Park, which was to beginthe week at 11-1 and with a six-gamewinning streak, also defeated twoother Middlesex County schools. ThePanthers beat South Amboy 69-53 onthe road Dec. 19 and Metuchen 51-37on the road Dec. 20.

Last Wednesday, Roselle Parkplayers and the scorekeepers thoughttheir next game would be the oneplayed at New Providence Tuesday.

However, Roselle Park played atGovernor Livingston and lost 52-41last Saturday. The game was on theGL schedule. Caicedo netted 15points, Remick Garcia nine, KennyMarciano six, Visar Gocaj seven andMike Mazza four.

Junior guard Tom Amalfe led allscorers with 20 points as he helped theHighlanders improve to 9-7.

The Panthers finished just 7-16 lastyear and did not qualify for the stateplayoffs. This year's squad, with allthe top players seniors except for Gar-cia, a junior, has displayed a vastimprovement on the court.

"We've been playing together sincethe 8th grade," Caicedo said of theseniors on the team, including Mar-ciano, Gocaj, Mazza, Dusan Ruzic andIgor Skaro. We have chemistry andhave been through it all, includingwins and losses. We know that wecan't take anyone lightly."

"We've been playing much betterdefense and our inside game has beenbolstered by Bryan and Kenny," Mof-

fitt said. "Remick gives us an oui.sklethreat and Mazza has improved as ourpoint guard as far as running theoffense and keeping things moreunder control.

"Our seniors have matured and it:shows in our record."

GL is also new to Central Jersey,Group 2 this year and should make (he tsection. Roselle Park and GL couicljmeet again in the section playoffs. <

The UCT will be seeded nextweek. The championship game is setfor Feb. 25 at 3 p.m. at the ElizabethDunn Sport Center.

R. PARK 11 14 5 22-52DUNELLEN 11 11 13 11-46

ROSELLE PARK: Bryan Caicedo 7-0-2-16, Remick Garcia 4-1-2-13,Kenny Marciano 2-0-3-7, Visar Gocaj.1-0-5-7, Mike Mazza 1-0-3-5, IgorSkaro.0-0-4-4. Totals: 15-1-19-52.DUNELLEN: Travis DeNapoli 2-0-1-5, Dean Hoski 3-1-1-10, KyleLendach 0-1-6-9, Westley Wallen 1-0-0-2, John Schleppenbach 5-0-0-10,Mike Bartilotti 3-0-1-7, Lim Beltran1-0-0-2, John Velasco 0-0-1-1. Totali:15-2-10-46.

R. PARK PANTHERS (11-2)Dec. 16 (A) R. Park 65, Dayton 62 . :

Dec. 17 (A) R. Park 73, Belvidere 49: i'Dec. 19 (A) RP 69, South Amboy 53Dec. 20 (A) R. Park 51, Metuchen 37Dec. 22 (A) RP 56, Bound Brook 47Dec. 27 (H) Hanover Park 71, RP 60Dee. 28 (H) R. Park 48, Johnson 47Jan. 6 (A) R. Park 39, Glen Ridge 37Jan. 10 (H) RP 72, Technology 61Jan. 13 (A) R. Park 82, Manville 40Jan. 17 (A) R. Park 66, Brearley 57Jan. 25 (A) R. Park 52. Dunellen 46 '•Jan. 28 (A) Gov. Livingston 52, RP 41Jan. 31: at New ProvidenceUpcoming:Feb. 2: Dayton, 4 p.m.

Summit Junior Baseball evaluations hereSummit Junior Baseball holds player skill evaluation

sessions prior to selecting teams. All baseball players arerequired to attend a skill evaluation session.

The following have been scheduled:Saturday: Baseball, grades 3 and 4, Summit High

School gym, 3 p.m. Feb. 11: Baseball, grades 5 and 6,Summit High School gym, 3 p.m.

Feb. 13: Makeup session for anyone missing the priorskill evaluation sessions will be at LCJ Summit Middle;School, 6 p.m. March 4: Suburban League, grades 7, 8 and9, skill evaluation session will be at Summit High Schoolgym, 5 p.m. March 7: Makeup session for SuburbanLeague will be at LCJ Summit Middle School gym, 6 p.m.

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Top wrestlersfor2005

By JR ParachiniSports Editor

Rahway outscored the field for thefirst time since 1996, capturing itsthird Union County Tournament titlewith 196.5 points at Union. RosellePark was second for the secondstraight year with 182.5. Defendingchamp Scotch Plains was fourth with153, behind New Providence, thirdwith 179.

Champs were more spread out thanever, with Railway^ ;R. Park, NewProvidence, Scotch Plains, Union andCranford boasting two. Brearley andJohnson had one.

TEAMS: 1-Rahway 196.5. 2-Roselle Park 182.5, 3-New Provi-dence 179. 4-Scotch Plains 153. 5-Union 123. 6-Brearley 105.5. 7-Lin-den 101. 8-Cranford 99.5. 9-Johnson83. 10-Elizabeth 74.5. 11-Gov. Liv-ingston 58. 12-Westfield 52. 13-Plain-field 40. 14-RoselIe Catholic 0.

FINALS103: Anthony Priore, Johnson, dec.

Peter Terrezza, New Providence, 15-0(TF5:18).

112: Ryan Wilson, Rahway, pinnedAdelAfzal, New Providence, 1:32.:••• 119: Joe Blackford, Roselle Park,pinned Sal Gano, Scotch Plains, 1:08.

125: Ross Baldwin, New Provi-dence, dec. Ross Soares, Roselle Park,15-0 (TF 5:43).

130: Tom Duffy, Union, pinnedBrian Swick, Roselle Park, 5:57.

135: Darrion Caldwell, Rahway,pinned Steve Mineo, S. Plains, :54.

140: Pat Mineo, Scotch Plains,pinned Joe Acevedo, Rahway, :29.

145: Pete Jacangelo, Union, dec.MarcNeuwirth, New Prov., 15-2.

152: Troy MacDermant, R. Park,dec. Andrew Shaffer, Westfield, 11-5.

160: Pat Hogan, Cran., pinnedJesse Von Linden, Union, 5:11.

171: C.J. Feixara, Cranford, dec.Jose Nazario, Union, 18-2 (TF 4:19).

189: Shane Mallory, New Prov,,pinned Jose Otero, Plainfield, 2:27.

215: Jesse Boyden, Brearley, dec.Julio Loperena, Linden, 10-4.

HWT: Marc Fabiano, S. Plains,dec. Andre Neblett, Rahway, 6-5.

Outstanding Wrestler (103-140):Darrion Caldwell, Rahway.

Outstanding Wrestler (145-HWT): Shane Mallory, New Prov.

Finished Third103-Nelson Orellana, Plainfield112-Sam Kramer, Westfield119-Eric Ogada, Elizabeth125-Ralph Celstin, Linden130-Dakiem Gaines, Scotch Plains135-Mike Coler, Johnson140-Mark Mross, Roselle Park145-Carlos Nicasio, Rahway152-Hany El Shiek, Brearley160-Shedrick Goodridge, Rahway171-Dan Whitney, Westfield189-Richard Tabor, Elizabeth215-Nick Giannaci, Scotch PlainsHWT-Ronnell Orr, Linden•

Finished Fourth103-Robert Piper, Brearley112-Kevin Blatt, Roselle Park119-Rob Couglilin, Gov. Livingston125-Joey Mraz, Brearley130-Mike Boccellari, New Prov.135-Ben Aumenta, Gov. Livingston140-Mark Horzepa, Linden145-Marco Renderos, Linden152-A.J. Watson, Scotch Plains160-Johnny Granados, New Prov.171-Alex Allman, Rahway189-Jimmy Sinatra, Roselle Park215-Anthony Weiland, Roselle ParkHWT-Manny Lewis, Brearley•

Top Seeds103: Anthony Priore, Johnson112: Ryan Wilson, Rahway119: Joe Blackford, Roselle Park125: Ross Baldwin, New Providence130: Brian Swick, Roselle Park135: Darrion Caldwell, Rahway140: Pat Mineo, Scotch Plains145: Pete Jacangelo, Union152: Troy MacDermant, Roselle Park160: Pat Hogan, Cranford171: C.J. Ferrara, Cranford189: Shane Mallory, New Providence215: Julio Loperena, LindenHWT: Marc Fabiano, Scotch Plains• As many as 12 top seeds won cham-pionships for the second straight year.The two that didn't - Brian Swick at130 and Julio Loperena at 215 - fin-ished second. Swick was third at 112in 2004.• Of the five returning champions,three repeated. Those grapplers wereRyan Wilson, 112 in 2004; DarrionCaldwell, 103 in 2003 and 119 in 2004and Shane Mallory, 189 in 2003 and2004.• Five first-time champs - Priore,Baldwin, MacDermant, Hogan andFabiano - lost in the finals in 2004.• Caldwell can become the fifth grap-pler and first from Rawhay to win fourUCT titles. The previous four areLarry Guarjno and Dave Bubnowskiof Union and Craig Frost and DanAppello of Roselle Park.• R. Park has won the most team titlesand won every year from 1997-2003.

Brearley grapplers haveopportunity to triumphState-ranked Bears after their first crown

By Jeff CumminsStaff Writer

AREA - Brearley wrestling coach Brian Luciani is opti-mistic about his team's chances in this weekend's UnionCounty Tournament, but his manner remains cautious andrealistic.

His Brearley team took a 20-2 record into last night'sscheduled home match against Bound Brook, but he knowsthat defending champion Rahway, a challenge for anyone,awaits his team in the UCT.

The two Union County powers clashed back on Dec. 21in Kenilworth, with, the Indians coming out on top by ascore of 39-33 score.

Rahway and Brearley even found themselves rankedamong the state's Top 20 teams last week. Rahway was19th and Brearley 20th.

Brearley's only other setback was a 41-27 decision toParamus at Hackettstown on Jan. 7.

Paramus was ranked second in Bergen County and 15thin the state last week with a 13-2 record. Bergen Catholicwas No. 1 in Bergen County and No. 5 in the state.

Rahway, with a record of 12-0, and Roselle Park, with arecord of 11-1 and a seven-match winning streak, were toclash last night in Roselle Park.

Roselle Park edged Rahway 32-28 in Rahway last year.It's been quite some time since Rahway defeated RosellePark.

Brearley defeated Roselle Park 34-24 in Roselle Parkback on Jan. 11, the first time in a long time that the Bearsbeat the Panthers.

There's no denying that Brearley has a good chance tocapture its first UCT this weekend. A cursory glance at theBears' roster leaves the impression that it wouldn't be atotal surprise if Brearley actually won the thing.

It certainly wouldn't surprise all the mothers yelling"CROSSFACE," from the Brearley bleachers last Saturdayat Millbum High School.

The UCT seeding meeting is tonight at Union at 5:30.Competition commences tomorrow night at 5 at UHS andconcludes with the finals Saturday at 3 p.m.

Several Bears had near-perfect records entering thisweek's competition. Freshman Kenny Knapp brought a 23-1 mark at 103.

Sophomore Jesse Boyden returns as the UCT's defend-ing 215 champion. He began the week with a 22-1 mark at215.

Returning UCT champions include Johnson juniorAnthony Priore, Rahway junior Ryan Wilson, Rahway sen-ior Darrion Caldwell, Scotch Plains senior Pat Mineo,Cranford senior Pat Hogan and Boyden.

Caldwell will attempt to become the fifth wrestler to winfour UCTs. Union's Larry Guarino did it first in 1988 andUnion's Daye Bubnowski second in 1996. Roselle Park'sCraig Frost did it third in 1999 and Roselle Park's DanAppello fourth in 2002.

Boyden is a quarter of the way there of doing it himself.Connor Shannon, Brearley's lone senior, may well have

turned in the team's best performance last Saturday, pin-ning Sam Shwartz of Millbum in 2:30 at 189 in the PaulFinn Memorial Tournament. Shannon's record was 16-6following Brearley wins over Bernards, Parsippany Hillsand Millbum. He won all three of his matches.

Standout freshman Joe Lospinoso began the week witha 19-1 mark at 119.

"Rahway beat us head to head and they're very good,"Luciani said. "lean think of four or five wrestlers right offthe bat who are going to do extremely well. They're theteam to beat, still."

That's true, but when you listen to Luciani rattle off thewrestlers from Brearley who can contend, it becomes pret-ty clear that the Bears have a decent chance to actually winthe tournament.

"Right now, I think Knapp, Lospinoso and HanyElshiekh at 160 can contend," Luciani said. "Hany's recordis 12-8 and not crazy like the rest of them, but he should bethere."

Boyden defeated Julio Loperena of Linden 10-4 in lastyear's 215 championship bout.

"Boyden, absolutely, will contend at 215 again,"

Luciani said. "I think Anthony Evans at 152 lias a chance toget to the Finals."

Evans began the week with a winning record of 14-7.Rahway won the UCT last year for the first time since

capturing its second crown in 1996. Rahway's first came in1995.

Roselle Park has won the tournament the most times andcaptured the crown seven straight seasons from 1997-2003.Scotch Plains won for the' first time in 2004. This year'stournament is the 31 St.

Brearley looks strong this year, but Luciani's deter-mined to keep fueling the Bears' fire, hence the tough quadand tri-matches he gets for his team, like the Finn Tourna-ment.

Three Brearley victories did not come easy, but, thenagain, that may just have been Luciani's plan. Brearley isn'tcoasting through the latter portion of the season. Luciani'sstrategy is to have his squad finish strong.

"We knew Parsippany Hills was going to be tough,"Luciani said. "Parsipanny Hills beat Paramus. Millbum hasa district champ at 103 and at 112 and has five kids who canscore six very easily on you. When you cradle, it's a greatequalizer, and they do. We knew it would be nip and tuckthe whole way."

Brearley's Joe Mraz defeated Matt Lauterhahn 15-1 at130 to clinch the Bears" 34-25 win over Millbum. Brearleypreviously defeated Bernards 52-26 and Parsippany Hillsby a score of 42-18.

NOTES: Brearley also has a secret weapon that coach-es consider invaluable; wrestlers who aren't dominant, butwon't give up pins easily - or at all. Eric DuBeaii, Brear-ley's 275-pound wrestler, personified that when he cap-tured a 2-0 overtime win over Millburn's Travis Brown.

It was a match in which DuBeau relentlessly fought offshot after shot by Brown, easily dodging a dozen legitimatescoring attempts by him. .

Dubeau finished the tournament 3-0, with Luciani point-ing out that he is only a second-year wrestler in the middleof his first varsity season.

Luciani's job is made easier by the wrestling-heavy cul-ture of Kenilworth, where many grapplers compete on theirown time. Some are dedicated enough to attend wrestlingclubs like The Edge, which is conveniently located forBrearley wrestlers right in Kenilworth.

"The team is ready," Luciani said of the UCT. "Theyknow what they want to do and it's going to be a total teameffort. Jesse's a returning coimty champion and there willbe a different type of pressure on him. He works hard andhe wants to do everything right.

"For the rest of them, it's really a new experience. Manyof them are freshmen and sophomores, so it'll be new forthem."

BREARLEY BEARS (20-2)• Dec. 16: (A) Brearley 63\ Verona 7

Dec. 17 (H) Brearley 58, Iselin Kennedy 15Dec. 17 (H) Brearley 56, Columbia 13Dec. 17 (H) Brearley 70, Union 2Dec. 21 (H) Rahway 39, Brearley 33Dec. 27 (H) Brearley 54, Cedar Grove 15Dec. 27 (H) Brearley 48, Seton Hall Prep 18 •Dec. 27 (H) Brearley 38, Sayreville 27Jan. 4 (H) Brearley 63, Boonton 12Jan. 7 (A) Paramus 41, Brearley 27Jan. 7 (A) Brearley 34, Hackettstown 31Jan. 11 (A) Brearley 34, Roselle Park 24Jan. 14 (A) Brearley 53, Scotch Plains 12Jan. 14 (A) Brearley 32, Hanover Park 31Jan. 14 (A) Brearley 52, Randolph 25Jan. 18 (A) Brearley 41, Gov. Livingston 16Jan. 21 (H) Brearley 58, St. John Vianney 18Jan. 21 (H) Brearley 68, North Plainfield 0Jan. 25 (A) Brearley 70, Johnson 11Jan. 28 (A) Brearley 52, Bernards 26Jan. 28 (A) Brearley 42, Parsippany Hills 18Jan. 28 (A) Brearley 34, Millbum 25•Staff writer Jeff Cummins may be reached for cpirm n<

at: jcummins@thelocalsource.com.

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UNION COUNTY TOURNAMENT WRESTLINGRahway's Caldwell goingfor fourth championship

By SR ParachiniSports Editor

Let the tournament segson begin!After holiday tournaments, regular-season matches and

Ail-Star events, it's time to get down to the nitty gritty.Let's just see who the best wrestlers in Union County are.

The 31st annual Union County Wrestling Tournament isset to commence at Union High School tomorrow night at5 and conclude Saturday with the finals at 3 p.m.

The seeding meeting is set for tonight at UHS at 5:30.History has a chance to be made on Saturday. Railway

standout senior grappler Darrion Caldwell, who began theweek undefeated and yet to be scored on, is ranked No. 1 inthe state at 152 pounds.

Caldwell is a two-time state champion, seeking a third.This weekend, Caldwell is seeking a fourth straight

UCT championship. He can become only the fifth grapplerwin four UCTs and be the first from Rahway to accomplishthe impressive feat.

The first to do so was Larry Guarino of Union in 1988.Guarino won at 158 as a freshman and sophomore, at 170as a junior and at 171 as a senior.

The second to be so fortunate was Dave Bubnowski ofUnion in 1996. His older brother Ron is the head coach atUnion. Dave won at 103 as a freshman and sophomore, at121 as a junior and at 135 as a senior.

The third to accomplish the feat was Craig Frost of•Roselle Park in 1999. He was the first to win the UCT atfour different weight classes.

Frost won at 103 as a freshman, at 112 as a sophomore,at 130 as a junior and at 135-as a senior. He finished with alifetime record of 133-10 (.930) and is still Roselle Park'swinningest wrestler, lifetime.

The fourth to capture four was Dan Appello of RosellePark, son of longtime highly-successful Roselle Park headcoach Sam Appello, in 2002. Appello was the first to winthe UCT at four consecutive weight classes.

Appello won at 103 as a freshman, at 112 as a sopho-more, at 119 as a junior and at 125 as a senior. He finishedwith a 40-1 record as a senior, setting the school record formost wins in a season. His career mark was 128-9 (.934).

Caldwell, the NJSIAA Tournament champion at 119 in2004 and at 130 in 2005, moved up in weight for last year'sUCT to capture the 135 crown. He pinned Scotch Plainssenior Stephen Mineo in 54 seconds in the final. Mineo isnow wrestling at the University of Maryland. Caldwell'sfirst title came at 103 his freshman season of 2003. Hepinned Rob Mench of Westfield in 1:05 of the champi-onship bout to earn Outstanding Wrestlers honors for the

weight classes 103-140. He was the top seed. Caldwell wasthe top seed again at 119 as a sophomore in 2004. In thefinal, he pinned Ross Baldwin of New Providence in 2:44.Again, he was the Outstanding Wrestler for weights 103-140. Also the top seed at 135 in 2005, Caldwell gained histhird consecutive Outstanding Wrestler award for theweights 103-140 and was believed to be the first wrestler inUCT history to gain three Outstanding Wrestler awards. Ibelieve he can become the first grappler to win four Out-standing Wrestler awards, this year having an opportunityto do so for the upper weights - 145-heavyweight.

Caldwell is one of six returning UCT champions. He isjoined by teammate Ryan Wilson, who won at 112 last yearas a sophomore and is ranked fourth in the state this year at130 as a junior. The tandem went on to become state cham-pions last year, with Wilson winning at 112. It was the firsttime in 53 years that Rahway had two state champions.

The two standouts also helped Rahway win its first UCTtitle last year since 1996 and third overall. Rahway cap-tured its first in 1995. Rahway won last year's UCT with196.5 points and also had Andre Neblett reached theheavyweight final, where he was edged by Scotch Plainssenior Marc Fabiano 6-5. Neblett, a senior, is the fifth-ranked heavyweight grappler in the state this season.

Joe Acevedo also finished second for Rahway last year,falling to Pat Mineo of Scotch Plains by pin in 29 secondsat 140. Acevedo is wrestling at 145 this season. Mineo, ajunior, is one of the other four returning UCT champions.

The other three include Johnson junior Anthony Priore,Cranford senior Pat Hogan and Brearley sophomore JesseBoyden.

Priore reached the 103 final as a freshman in 2004 andas a sophomore in 2005. Two years ago, Priore was pinnedby Mench in 1:50 in the final. Last year, Priore blankedPeter Terrezza of New Providence 15-0 (technical fall 5:18)in the title bout. Priore will attempt to capture the 119championship this weekend.

Hogan reached the 152 final as a sophomore in 2004,'falling to James Garrison of Roselle park by pin in 5:41.Last year, Hogan pinned Jesse Von Linden of Union in 5:11in the 160 title bout. Hogan, ranked eighth in the state at171 pounds, will attempt to win that weight class over thenfext two days.

Boyden came on the scene as a freshman last season andcaptured the 215-pound weight class. He surprised top-seeded Julio Loperena of Linden 10-4 in the final for whatcould be the first of four UCT crowns for him.

Also a solid two-way lineman in football, Boyden willbe after another 215 championship.

Johnson grapplers tastevictory, eye own success

By Jeff CumminsStaff Writer

CLARK - Johnson wrestling coach Nick Cilento had aslight smile on his face last Friday night, discussing thisweekend's Union County Tournament. Johnson hasn't hada vintage season, but the UCT offers his wrestlers new life.He seemed confident that some of his wrestlers couldthreaten for county titles.

Naturally, his first choice is junior Anthony Priore,whose record was 17-0 after he pinned Evan Williams ofCarteret in 3:51 at 119 during last Friday's 54-19 home win.Johnson won again the next day, beating host HighlandPark 53-19. :' .

Priore finished second at 103 as a freshman in 2004 andfirst at 103 as a sophomore in 2005. He is seeking his sec-ond straight UCT championship and third consecutivefinal.

The seeding meeting is tonight at Union at 5:30. Com-petition commences at UHS tomorrow night at 5 and con-cludes with the finals Saturday at 3 p.m.

"I think he's going to have a great tournament again thisyear," Cilento said. "He won it last year as a sophomore andtook second as a freshman. He's been wrestling qualitycompetition the.last couple of weeks, getting ready for thecounty tournament"

In the 2004 UCT, Priore was pinned by Rob Mench ofWestfield in 1:50 in the 103 final. In the 2005 UCT, Prioredefeated Peter Terrezza of New Providence 15-0, technicalfall 5:18, in the 103 final.

"He beat Joe Lospinoso of Brearley last week," Cilentosaid. "He beat a very t0ugh Anthony Cifelli from Nutley,who I believe took fourth in his region last year and the daybefore that he wrestled Notes from New Providence. Hebumped up to wrestle him and it was a very good match.He's at the top of his game right now. We expect him to,hopefully, repeat as champion."

Does Priore, who is not ranked among the top wrestlersin the state in his weight class, have what it takes to win thetitle in a heavier division?

"He was at 103 last year, but if you look at him, he lookslike a very big 119-pounder," Cilento said. "Part of thissport, unfortunately, is controlling your weight and he'sdoing a very good job of doing that. He just looks like he'sa lot more energetic and the weight really isn't botheringhim at all."

Johnson has endured a tough season, but Cilento wasquick to point out that the team's challenging conferenceschedule could serve to help Ms wrestlers in the countytournament.

Johnson wrestlers will face many of the same tough

grapplers in the UCT that they have already competedagainst, which could be good or bad, depending on howthey approach the challenge.

"We run into some tough teams," Cilento said. "Brear-ley is in the state's Top 20 as is Rahway just ahead of them.New Providence is always a very tough team. We're in avery tough conference, with Rahway and Brearley." .

Johnson has other talented grapplers in addition to Pri-ore.

"We expect some positive things from Mike DiMaio,our 125-pounder, and Mike Rusin, our 130-pounder,"Cilento said. "Rusin had a really good match last week,beating a Nutley wrestler who took second in his region.He's heating up at the right time. He had a tough stretch,but, hopefully, he's coming into his own."

Cilento was also hopeful that sophomore Tony Sansonecould be a threat in the UCT.

The real question for Johnson is how far its wrestlershave come. The season is a tough grind and as Januaryturns into February, fatigue can become a factor.

Still, there's no guarantee this tournament will goaccording to script. Johnson's wrestlers could surprise, par-ticularly since they have already wrestled some toughopponents, which should help them prepare for the event.

"UnfortunateJy, last year didn't show that," said Cilento,whose team placed ninth with 83 points.

While Priore was the only Johnson wrestler to reach thefinals for the second straight year, Mike Coler was third at135. Priore was the top seed at 103 last year after Menchhad that distinction in 2004.

"We do try to wrestle some quality competition and Ijust try to keep the kids from getting down on themselves,"Cilento said. "When you're out there on the mat, there's nota whole lot your teammates can do for you.

"That's the thing about this sport, it's the most humblingsport in the world. It doesn't matter who you are, eventual-ly you're going to lose."

NOTES: Johnson's last scheduled match before theUCT was at home last night against Governor Livingston.

"Rahway, Brearley and Roselle Park, they're alwaysgoing to be fighting for that top position," Cilento said."The surprise team this year is Westfield, which beat a goodCranford team. Scotch Plains is always tough, but I thinkit's going to come down to Rahway and Brearley."

Rahway won the UCT for the third time last year andfirst time since 1996. Roselle Park has won the mostcrowns and captured seven straight from 1997-2003.Scotch Plains won the UCT for the first time in 2004.

Staff writer Jeff Cummins may be reached for commentat: jcummins@thelocalsource.com.

4-TiME UNION COUNTY TOURNAMENT WRESTLING CHAMPIONS

LARRY GUARINO OF UNION, class of 19881985»was the champion at 158

1986 - was the champion at 158

1987 - was the champion at 170

1988 - was the champion at 171

DAVE BUBNOWSKI OF UNION, class of 1996

1993 - was the champion at 103

1994 - was the champion at 103

1995 - was the champion at 121

1996 - was ifrie champion at 135

CRAIG FROST OF ROSELLE PARK, class of 1999

1996 - was the champion at 103

1997 - was the champion at 112

1998 - was the champion at 130

1999 - was the champion at 135

DAN APPELLO OF ROSELLE PARK, class of 2002

1999 - was the champion at 103

2000 -was the champion at 112

2001 - was the champion at 1192002 - was the champion at 125Indians

faced RPlast nightWas a big bafflebefore weekend

By JR ParachiniSports Editor

Before this weekend's UnionCounty Tournament, there was a hugematch involving county foes lastnight.

Rahway was scheduled to competeat Roselle Park, putting its 12-0 recordon the line against a Panther team thatwas 12-1 and riding a seven-matchwinning streak.

Roselle Park was previously thesight of very big match back on Jan.11. That night, Brearley defeated thePanthers 34-24 to beat Roselle Parkfor the first time in a long time.

Rahway also entered last night'smatch without a win against RosellePark in a very long time. The Indianscame close last season, falling 32-28at home.

Rahway, Brearley and Roselle Park- in that order - are the top threeranked teams in the county. Rahwayand Brearley are also state-ranked.

Roselle Park's only loss was toBrearley. The Panthers easily handledManville 82-0 on the road Jan. 25 andCranford 41-12 at home last Saturday.

Rahway was in control of host NewProvidence 47-24 Jan. 25 and visitingManville 63-12 last Saturday.

Rahway will be competing in theCentral Jersey, Group 2 playoffs andBrearley and Roselle Park in the Cen-tral Jersey, Group 1 field.

Needless to say, Rahway - thedefending champion - Brearley andRoselle Park are among the favoritesto capture this weekend's UCT.

UCT SCHEDULEHere's a look at the times for this

weekend's UCT competition at Union:

TONIGHTSeeding meeting at UHS, 5:30.'*TOMORROW5 p.m.: Pre-preliminary, prelimi-

nary rounds.7:30 p.m.: Quarterfinals.9 p.m.: Consolation preliminary.

SATURDAY10 a.m.: Semifinals and consola-

tion quarterfinals.11:30 a.m.: Consolation semifinals.2 p.m.: Consolation semifinals for

third and fifth places.3 p.m. Finals.

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Desmond Wade (No.11) has proven to beone of the top sopho-more guards in thestate for Linden. TheTigers began the weekat 12-4 before confer-ence games at homeagainst Westfield Tues-day and Scotch Plainstoday. Linden remainsat home for a 1 p.m.game Saturday againstEwing.

Photo by Sean Havcy

Linden boys' basketball iscompeting at a high levelHosts winning Scotch Plains squad today

. By JR ParachiniSports Editor

This is an interesting week for the No. 5 ranked boys',basketball team in the state.

Linden took a 12-4 record into Tuesday afternoon'sscheduled home game against an improved Westfield teamseeking to qualify for the North 2, Group 4 playoffs.

The Watchung Conference-National Division foes firstmet on opening night, with Linden coming out on top by acompetitive score of 74-65 Dec. 16 in Westfield.

Westfield entered Tuesday's conference clash with arecord of 8-6.

The state playoff cutoff date is Saturday.While Linden is ranked as the No. 1 Group 4 team in

New Jersey, the Tigers will not be the top seed in their sec-tion. That distinction, will most likely go to East OrangeCampus, which began the week with a 14-0 record, includ-ing a victory over Seton Hall Prep.

Linden has rebounded well from a tough 56-52 setbackat Plainfield back on Jan. 12 by winning five of six prior toTuesday's game against Westfield.

While Linden head coach Phil Colicchio thought thepressure would be off his team after that loss to Plainfield,the Tigers still remain the fifth-ranked team in the state,despite a close 51-46 setback to unranked state power St.Benedict's Prep of Newark in the Jan. 22 Dan Finn Classicat the Jersey City Armory.

Linden continues to stifle opponents with its in-your-face man-to-man defense. The latest victim was an 11-2Newark East Side team last Thursday in Newark.

Linden defeated East Side 62-56, with junior guard Dar-rell Lampley coming up big with 18 points.

His play helped Linden outscore the Red Raiders 27-16in the fourth quarter after the Tigers were outscored 13-4 inthe third. .

Senior guard L.J. McGhee added 16 points and sopho-more guard Desmond Wade six.

Two days earlier at home, the Tigers took care of Kearny97-35. Wade netted 14 points, McGhee 12, MohammadWilkerson 12 and Charles Miller 10.

Today, Linden hosts Scotch Plains at 4 p.m. in confer-ence play.

The two met back on Dec. 20 in Scotch Plains, with Lin-den coming out on top by a 64-33 score.

Scotch Plains entered Tuesday afternoon's scheduledWatchung-National game at Shabazz with an 11-5 recordand will be part of the field in North 2, Group 3.

The state playoffs commence around New Jersey the

week of Monday, Feb. 27.Linden will be out to win North 2, Group 4 for the first

time since 2000. The Tigers fell to Bridgewater-Raritan inlast year's championship game.

UCT to be seeded next week: The Union County Tour-nament will be seeded next week, with the top three seedslikely to go 1-St. Patrick's, 2-Plainfield and 3-Linden or 1-St. Patrick's, 2-Linden and 3-Plainfield.

\ St. Patrick's has been in the final the past 13 seasons(1993-2005) and has a 9-4 record in the title game duringthat span.

St. Patrick's defeated Linden in last year's final. Lindenlast won the crown in 2001.

The semifinals will take place at the Dunn Sport Centerin Elizabeth on the nights of Tuesday, Feb. 21 and Wednes-day, Feb. 22. The final is scheduled for Saturday, Feb. 25 at3 p.m. at Dunn.

NOTES: Linden will wrap this week's schedule with anon-conference home game Saturday at 1 p.m. vs. Ewing.

The remainder of Linden's regular-season schedule hasit at Cranford Thursday night at 7, vs. DeMatha Feb. 10 at7:30 p.m. at the Sovereign Bank Arena in Trenton andhome vs. Shabazz Feb. 23 at 4.

Linden Tigers (12-4)Dec. 16 (A) Linden 74, Westfield 65Dec. 18 (A) Bloomfield Tech 62, Linden 54Dec. 20 (A) Linden 64, Scotch Plains 33Dec. 22 (H) Linden 71, Wardlaw-Hartridge 21Dec. 28 (A) Linden 52, Springfield Delco 41Dec. 29 (A) Linden 70, William Allen, Pa. 61Jan. 5 (H) Linden 70, Cranford 46Jan. 7 (A) Linden 69, Shabazz 59Jan. 10 (A) St. Anthony 51, Linden 47Jan. 12 (A) Plainfield 56, Linden 52Jan. 14 (H) Linden 79, Union 32Jan. 17 (H) Linden 66, Irvington 41Jan. 19 (A) Linden 53, Elizabeth 35Jan. 22 (A) St. Benedict's Prep 51, Linden 46Jan. 24 (H) Linden 97, Kearny 35Jan. 26 (A) Linden 62, Newark East Side 56Jan. 31: Westfield, homeUpcoming:Feb. 2: Scotch Plains, 4 p.m.Feb. 4: Ewing, 1 p.m.Feb. 9: at Cranford, 7 p.m.Feb. 10: vs. DeMatha, 7:30 p.m.at Sovereign Bank Arena, Trenton

Chavanne, Kropa and Gallolocal winners in group trackCarter leads Rahway girls'to second place

By JR ParachiniSports Editor

Some of the best performances in the state were turnedin by area track and field performers at last weekend'sgroup relays held at Princeton's Jadwin Gym.

Group I and Group 4 competition took place Saturdayand Group 2 and Group 3 competition took place Sunday.

Here's a look at some of the top efforts of the weekend:GROUP 4

In the boys' competition, Union senior Latif Brewerplaced third in the 55-meter dash in a time of 6.75 seconds.Reggie Dixon of Plainfield was first in 6.52 and Ken Brittof Bayonne second in 6.67.

Those who placed among the top six in their eventsqualified for the Feb. 12 Meet of Champions at Jadwin.

Josh Chavanne of Elizabeth captured the pole vault witha throw of 13-0 feet. His effort tied the record previouslyset by Don Smith of Eastern last year. -

Vincent Spencer of Elizabeth was tied for fifth in the200-meter dash with Dale Parris of Millville, both finishingin 23.29. Phillip Reid of Rancocas Valley was first in 23.01.Elizabeth's Kareem Andrews was fourth in the high jump at6-2. Ryan Manning of West Orange was first at 6-6.

Christian Brothers Academy won with 26 points. Eliza-beth was seventh at 15.5 and Union tied for 20th with six.

In the girls' competition, Union's Nicole Bryant alsohad a good day. She was ninth in the 55-meter hurdles in8.84,14th in the 400-meter run in a new UHS indoor recordtime'of 62.18 and was 16th in the 200-meter run in 27.02.

Jackson won with 41 points.GROUP 1

In the boys' competition, Roselle Catholic did well tofinish third with 25 points. Haddon Heights was first with37 and Highland Park second with 31.

Roselle Catholic senior Joe Kropa won another highjump title, this time at 6-0. Another RC senior, Bobby Tre-tola, was tied for second with Michael Monahan of Ridge-field Park at 5-10. Mark Givens placed second for RC inthe 400-meter run in 52.00. Bryant Fitzgerald of HighlandPark was first in 51.71.

In the girls' competition, Dayton's Ashley Little wassixth in the shot put event with a toss of 33-2. StephanieScaramella of Bishop Eustace was first at 39-8.5.

Haddon Heights won with 46 points.GROUP 2

Johnson, Cranford and Rahway athletes excelled on theboys' side.

In the 55-meter dash, Vincent Reis of Johnson was sec-ond in 6.72 and Dan Manuyag of Cranford fifth in 6.76.AJ. Bunton of West Deptford won the event in 6.60.

In the 200-meter dash, Reis did well to place sixth in23.43. Bunton was first again, this time in a meet record22.58 seconds. The former record of 23.05 was establishedlast year by Carl Smith of Camden.

Paul Jones Burden of Rahway placed sixth in the 400-

Daytoo, R. Park girls'qualify for the states

The Dayton and Roselle Park girls'basketball teams qualified for the stateplayoffs in their respective sections.

Dayton made the grade in North 2,Group 1 and Roselle Park in CentalJersey, Group 2.

Dayton entered Tuesday's sched-uled home game against Roselle withan 11-4 record. The Bulldogs won sixstraight since a 46-14 setback atRoselle back on Jan. 12 and eight ofnine since a 2-3 start in December.

In last Thursday's 45-31 win vs.visiting St. Mary's, freshman Jacque-line Kuczynski netted 20 points, SamiKennedy eight and eight rebounds andKatelyn Viverito six.

Roselle Park began the week with a9-4 record and was riding a three-game winning streak.

In last Friday's 66-56 win atNewark Central, Brandy Guarnaccioscored 19 points and grabbed sixboards, Katie Bundy had 13 points and13 rebounds and Michelle Rose had15 points and six steals.

meter run in 52.04. Garrett Kroner of Indian Hills was first.,in 49.65.

Rahway's Watson Estelari was fourth in the SOO-incterrun in 2:02.31. Anthony LaMastro of Pope John was first in1:58.99. •;

Cranford's Joe McKenney was second in the 3,200-,meter run in 9:39.14.

Oliver Haney of Johnson was fifth in the shot put event,with a throw of 51-4.75. Steve D'Arcy of Hanover Park;:,was first at 55-5. [!

Morris Hills won the team title with 31 points. Johnsonwas 10th with 11, Cranford tied for 12th with Hanover Parkand Matawan with 10 and Rahway 22nd with five.

On the girls side, Rahway, Summit and Cranford ath-letes were among the best.

Pleasantville was first with 42 points and Rahway right :behind with 33 for second. Summit was IOth with 14 andCranford 12th with 11. ;

In the 55-meter dash, La'Shonda Carter of Rahway wasthird in 7.31. Nia Ali of Pleasantville, who became the firstrunner to win four events and also set a record in one ofthem, was first in 7.20.

Ali, a senior transfer student from West Catholic inPhiladelphia, established a new record in the 200-meterdash, finishing in 25.19. The old mark was 25.84, set lastyear by Carter. This time, Carter was second in a better timeof 25.63. Ali also won the 400-meter run in 59.54 and the55-meter hurdles in 8.32. Carter was second to Ali again inthe hurdles, finishing in 8.70.

Another event that Carter finished second in was thehigh jump, tying Nicole Passeri of Pinelands with a mark of5-2. Clarese Bradley of Neptune was first at 5-4. ,;

Samantha Lee of Summit did well to place-second in the1,600-meter run in 5:15.49.

Cranford standout junior Laura Gallo captured her firststate title by winning the 3,200-meter run in an impressivetime of 11:22.40.

GROUP 3Monmouth Regional won the boys' competition with a

total of 39.75 points. Roxbury was second with 24 aridColts Neck third with 20. Winslow Township won the girls'competition with a total of 38 points. Colts Neck was thirdwith 35 and Roxbury third with 32.

S. Plains, PlairsfieSd win county titles iScotch Plains won the boys' county meet for the second

time and Plainfield the girls' meet last week at the DunnSport Center in Elizabeth. ;

Carter set a record in the girls' high jump at 5-7. ;

Brewer was second in the boys' 60-yard dash in 6.5,Union's Marques Wallace sixth in 6.7 and Union's MikeSacca sixth in the one-mile run in 4:59.2. \

Union's Dave Barragan vvas seventh in the shot put at44-.75, while teammate Tobi Oyetunde had a personal-best5-8 in the high jump.

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Out to. qualify Basketball program designto enhance positiwe behawiRahway Renaissance provides recreational opportunities

Photo by Barbara KokkalisThe Brearley girls' basketball team, lifted by Caitlin Martin (No. 44 at left) and CandaceEhmann (No. 5 at right), entered Tuesday's scheduled game at Newark Central with a7-6 record. The Bears play at Bound Brook tomorrow night at 7, needing to have wonTuesday or tomorrow to clinch a state playoff berth in North 2, Group 1. Roselle Park,sparked by Carolyn Franco (No. 23), made it in Central Jersey, Group 2. Brearley's boys'team was 7-7 as of Tuesday, needing to beat Dayton at home Tuesday to qualify.

UHS bowlers strikeKearny to win W-A title

Union defeated Kearny 3-0 on Jan.24 before falling to Cranford 2-1 lastThursday. With the win over Kearny,Union was able to win the WatchungConference^-Americaa Division cham-pionship. Union's final regular-seasonrecord was a winning mark of 9-5.

Here's a look at Union scores:Jan. 24: Union 3, Kearny 0Union totals 2,548 pins.Veronica Arias 234-167-178-579JeffThomas 191-175-197-563Nick Del Duca 164-168-199-531Charles Sansone 157-148-148-453Joe Rodriguez 151-148Frank Santangeto 123 '9

Jan. 26: Cranford 2, Union 1Union totals 2,696 pins.Veronica Arias 176-215-198-589JeffThomas 171-182-174-527Charles Sansone 148-176-182-506Nick Del Duca 152-196-156-504Joe Rodriguez 166-159-145-470

Here's a look at Union JV scores:Jan. 24: Union 3, Kearny 0Jessica-Arias 142-167-180-482Deral Ingram 120-173-111-384Lashanna Armour 135-148Carlos Torres 157

Jan. 26: Elizabeth 2, Union 1Mike Chums 199-169-190-558Frank Santangelo 135-195-192-522Lashanna Armour 133-143-126 .Deral Ingram 186-130Jessica Arias "155-143Carlos Torres 178Kireem Dewindt 169

Roselle Park toppedby Roselle Catholic

Despite strong outings by NicholasMilici,, Marc Dos Santos and MikeMarshall, the Roselle Park varsitybowling" team dropped a tough matchto Roselle Catholic last week. The losswas the first in overall match play forthe Panthers, who had beaten sevenstraight opponents.

In a relatively close match, RoselleCatholic outscored the Panthers intotal pins by a margin of 1,678 -1,483, an average of 65 pins per game.Milici led all Panther bowlers with a552 series, including two games of199. Dos Santos added a 182 and 181,respectively,' while Marshall tossed aseason high for him of 181.

"Naturally we were disappointedwith the setback," Roselle Park coachVince Fucci said.

"Hopefully, we'll bounce rightback and pick up where we left off theprevious week."

Entering the Roselle Catholicmatch, the Panthers were just onegame out of first place in the Moun-tain Valley Conference, second only toUnion Catholic.

Cranford's Smith onsome kind of streak

By JR. ParachiniSports Editor

. Cranford sophomore center Simon Smith is one of the hottest boys'basketball players in Union County.

After netting 25 points in back-to-back Cougar victories, Smith wasslowed a bit by only scoring 22. He then rebounded to score 30 points inhis team's next two games.

His 132 points in a five-game span for an impressive 26.4 averagehelped Cranford win three of five contests to improve to 5-11.

Although the Cougars will not qualify lor the North 2. Group 3 playoffsthis season, their future looks bright with Smith in fold for two more cam-paigns.

* Cranford was to host Newark Arts Tuesday afternoon and today isscheduled.to play at Shabazz at 4 p.m.

Cranford will then piay in the Bernoskie Games at the Rahway Recre-ation Center Saturday at 4 p.m.

Cranford's Simon .Smith scoring exploits:Jan. 19: (A") Cranford 72, Keamy 55 - Smith nets 25Jan. 21 : (H) Cranford 58, Ridge 50 - Smith nets 25Jan. 24: (A) Irvington 79, Cranford 63 - Smith nets 22Jan. 26: (H) Elizbeth 77, Cranford 69 - Smith nets 30Jan. 27: (H) Cranford 76, Technology 63 - Smith nets 30

Rebel Softball League registration ends Feb. 11The final registration date for the spring season of the Rebel Softball League

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The Rebel Softball League is celebrating its 31 st year of serving the youth ofUnion. The league is open to all boys between the ages of 8 and 17 who live inUnion. Games are played on Saturdays and Sundays from April until mid-June.

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By Jeff CumminsStaff Writer

You could say that Ed Sasportas espouses basketballwith a mission.

Sure, almost every coach will tell you that participatingin a sport and adhering to discipline will build character.Hopefully, that discipline will even keep participants fromengaging in dangerous behavior.

Sometimes discipline and participation aren't enough,though. So Sasportas developed a program that goesbeyond basketball, working to enhance positive behavior inyoung people through community involvement.

He founded the Rahway Renaissance Basketball Pro-gram two years ago to provide positive recreational oppor-tunities for local youth and also to establish adult mentor-ing relationships.

The team, which is affiliated with the Amateur AthleticsUnion, has participated in several AAU tournaments, aswell as some tournaments that aren't affiliated with theAAU. In addition, the team has developed relationshipswith other local organizations, including Rahway TeensEmployment and Teens In Motion/Young Leaders-.

"We started this program with one team in 2004," Sas-portas said. "I'm originally from New York City. 1 grew upplaying basketball in the community and I was fortunateenough to go on to college.

"I felt that, from my own experience, basketball andsports in general, play a pretty strong role in helping toshape young people. We felt there was a much greaterdemand for those types of activities in the urban areas,especially in the Rahway area, but we're not just limiting itto Rahway. We're providing structured basketball activi-ties, teaching fundamentals, giving them exposure thoughcompetition and beyond that we stress academics and com-munity service activities, gang awareness and nutrition.

"There are a lot of elements we want to hit. It's alldesigned to help the young person in his self-awareness andto become a contributing member of society."

Much of Sasportas' determination to build an organiza-tion to help youth in the Rahway area comes from his ownexperiences growing up in the Gun Hill Road section of the

Bronx, where he first discovered the benefits of beinginvolved with a basketball program that kept him focusedon positive efforts.

"Growing up in NYC, there are many prognmis likethis, the Gauchos probably the most famous." Sasportassaid. "Also, the Riverside Hawks, who play out of Rivejyside Church. There are other major AAU programs as weji'I personally worked in the Philadelphia area with the OakLane Youth Association and I helped direct some of theirprograms while I was in the Philadelphia area."

In addition to the basketball component, Sasporms isdetermined to spark an interest in cultural history amain1,those who join his program, pointing out that he chose thenickname, "Rens," because he was inspired by the old bas-ketball team, the New York Rens.

"The Rens, in a way, is to get people to ask the question,'what are the Rens'?'" Sasportas said. l i want to get peopleto go to the library and look things up, to find out aboutpeople who have gone before us. There's a method to ourmadness, so to speak."

Sasportas said that his Renaissance program, nicknamed"The Rens," is incorporated under the Rahway TeensEmployment Services, Inc. and offers people the chance tocontribute tax-exempt contributions to it. He also noted th:itsponsorship opportunities for his group are available. •

"We're seeking patrons who would invest in youth, whowant to help them shape a positive direction," Sasportassaid. "We've targeted interested people and businesses whowould be interested in being support partners in our efforts.To enter tournaments, there are a lot of expenses.

"We're not asking these young people to pay exorbitaiijamounts of money. We're just trying to ease the burden,economically, of those trying to participate." i

People interested in opportunities with Rahway Renais-sance Basketball may contact Sasportas at 551-208-4554.or may send inquiries to: Rahway Renaissance, P.O. Box193, Rahway, N.J. 07065. ;

Sasportas acknowledged that his group has experiencedsome hiccups in its first couple of years, but he's confidentabout the direction it's taking now - and about its opportu-nity to strengthen the foundation for local young people. '

Clark 6th grade girls'having successful seasonMaertz, Wilson, Frost filling up the baske

The Clark 6th grade girls' basketball team got out to agood start this year, winning seven of its first 11 games.Clark won two of three last month to improve to 7-4.

The season started back in November with the IHMTournament. The girls finished with a record of 2-2 andmade it to the semifinals.

Clark's leading scorers for the tourney were NoelleMaertz with 45 points, Cyndi Wilson with 32 and AmyFrost with 19. Other scorers included Nicole Imbriaco withsix, Michele Smorol with four and Ali Faro, Sarah Panettaand Amanda Wnorowski with two each.

In December, the girls began play in the Central JerseyLeague. The Crusaders went 2-1 in the month, defeatingWestfield 33-16 and St. Mary's 36-13 and falling to Wood-bridge 41-29.

Leading scorers were Maertz with 30, Wilson with 24,Frost with 18 and Smorol with 17 for the three contests.Other scoring was done by Imbriaco, Panetta, Faro,Wnorowski and Loretta Vill, each netting two points.

Play resumed in January with a victory at EastBrunswick 23-18. Wilson led the way with 11 points, whileImbriaco added 4, Maertz and Frost three and Vill two.

Clark fell to Cranford 51-46 in Cranford, with Maertzpacing the team with 15 points, while Wilson had 13, Frostnine, Panetta four, Vill and Imbriaco two and Smorol one.

The girls bounced back by beating Westfield 44-24 andChatham 48-32. Wilson had 10 points and Smorol, Frostand Maertz eight in the win over Westfield. Vill and Faroscored four and Panetta two.

Clark outscored Chatham 28-6 in the second half afterbeing down 26-20 at halftime.

Seven different scorers helped balance the attack, led byWilson's 17. Frost and Maertz scored eight. Jessica Remoand Panetta contributed four, while Vill and Imbriacochipped in with two.

Getting to the middle of the season, the Crusaders lost toNorth Plainfield 42-30. Maertz led all scorers with ' 1 ipoints. The girls came back to dominate Scotch Plains; 32-4, with Wilson scoring 16 points. •

Clark also defeated New Providence 41-32. As many aseight different Crusaders scored, paced by a 16-point per-formance by Frost.

This past weekend saw victories over Old Bridge 26-21at Johnson High on Saturday and over Cranford 48-2S atBrewer Middle School on Sunday. '

Against Old Bridge, Maertz netted 10 and Frost nine tolead all scorers. Against Cranford, the Crusaders avengedan earlier defeat. Cyndi Wilson had a career-high and shehigh for the travel season with 33 points. Amy Frostfchipped in with 10. '

During this Super Bowl weekend, Clark's travel pro-,gram will host 11 games, three on Saturday and eight onlSunday.

Here's the schedule:Saturday6th grade girls at Johnson at 1:15 p.m.7th grade girls at Brewer at 5 p.m.5th grade girls at Brewer at 6:15 p.m.

Super Bowl Sunday at BrewerFront Gym5th grade girls at noon4th grade boys at 1:15 p.m.4th grade girls at 2:30 p.m.6th grade girls at 3:45 p.m.Back Gym7th grade boys at noon5th grade boys at 1:15 p.m.6th grade girls at 2:30 p.m.8th grade boys at 3:45 p.m.

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Union County Savings Bank's Statementof Condition reflects steady growth in 2005 with asurplus and reserve position that is among thebest in the nation. For many years, UGSB.hasbeen considered one of the safest and strongestbanks in the United States.

The officers, managers and staff wish tothank our more that 43,000 depositors whosetrust and confidence have helped sustain thisposition of strength and high regard within thebanking industry. Since the bank's founding in1883, it has been committed to generations ofcustomers as a neighborhood bank with solid val-ues and policies. It is this heritage which helpspreserve our 122 year tradition of Security, Safetyand Service.

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ASSETSCash on Hand and In Banks $ 23,164,109.55US Government Securities 739,762,939.98Other Bonds 68,639,161.49Stock 66,193,573.98Real Estate Mortgage Loans, Net 126,429,265.49Collateral Loans . 2,626,080.75Other Loans . 10,400,000.00Furniture and Fixtures 1,078,770.47Banking Premises 1,450,029.67Interest Accrued on Investments 9,989,788.46Other Assets 2,383,315.03

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Springfield Nettes win 3to improve record to 8-1Lies, Weber, Kuczynski lift girls' youth squad ^

The Springfield 5th and 6th grade Nettes basketballteam upped its record to 8-1 with three more wins lastweek.

On Saturday, the Nettes played their best game so farthis year, beating a talented Green Brook squad 47-26.Point guard Anna Lies had a "double-double," scoring 12points and dishing out 12 assists.

Ally Weber had her best game yet as a Nettc. Ally com-pletely dominated this game with her own "double-dou-ble," getting 14 rebounds and scoring 12 points, all frominside the paint.

jJennifer Kuczynski also excelled on offense, scoring sixpoints arid getting 10 assists of her own. Emily MacDon-nell, once again, led all scorers, working hard for her 13points..

Amanda St:ein sank a 15-foot jumper for her two points,while Rachel Usdin ripped down an offensive rebound andput it up and in for two. Breanne Mooney put in anotherfin&sfrbrt, spending time at every offensive position on theteam:; •

As usual though, it was the team effort on defense thatput the Nettes in position to win. Playing exceptionally wellat the point on defense were twin sisters Katelyn Condonand Jessica Condon. Their play, as well as that of BrookeLantier, Krista Delia and Lindsey Gaoiv caused many GreenBrook turnovers.

Earlier in the week, the Nettes defeated BerkeleyHeights 19-14 at home. In this non-league game, the Netteshad to overcome a first-quarter deficit and allowed only onebasket in both the second and third periods.

Stellar Nette defense once again won the game. Kuczyn-ski directed the offense and scored five points. Lies playedanother solid game, scoring eight. Delia sank a 10-footjump shot for two points and Rachel Usdin made a niftypost move to score her two. Emily MacDonnell roundedout the scoring with two points of her own.

The Nettes capped their impressive week by winningtheir sixth straight game. It was a 39-25 win over Cranford.

Once again, the solid team defense contributed by 5thgraders Jessica Condon, Gaon, Stein, Jessica Farber andUsdin set the tone for the game. The Nettes ran away in thefourth quarter, outscoring Cranford 15-4.

Lies took control of the game by scoring 12 points to goalong with her five assists and five steals. MacDonnell alsoscored 12 points and grabbed five rebounds. Kuczynski hadfive steals, three assists and scored two.

Katelyn Condon scored two points and contributed twosteals. Weber had another fine game, scoring six points,grabbing five rebounds and blocking two shots.

Mooney played tough defense and scored three points.Lantier played solid.down low and chipped in two points.Delia played tenacious defense, with".three rebounds.

The Nettes are next scheduled to compete against LongHill Township.

Wfinutemen 8th grade team victoriousThe Springfield 8th grade Minutemen basketball team

did well to outlast New Providence by a 60-54 score in dou-ble overtime.

With one minute remaining in regulation, Titus Uptonmade a free throw to give Springfield a 46-44 lead. AfterNew Providence tied the score, Upton gave Springfieldanother lead of 48-46 after making a layup.

New Providence was fouled with no time remaining andmade two free throws to send the game into the first over-time tied at 50-50.

Upton and Josh Kest scored in the first overtime, whichended with the game still tied at 52-52.

Clutch free throw shooting by Jason London and ElliotKarp helped seal the victory for the Minutemen in the sec-ond overtime.

Kest paced all scorers with 22 points and also grabbednine rebounds. Upton contributed 13 points and pulleddown eight boards. Alex Popoloni added 11 points andTommy Clark four.

Springfield was defeated by Berkeley Heights 43-42 ona last-second shot. Kest paced Springfield again, this timewith a 12-point, 14-rebound performance.

Upton scored nine points and pulled down 10 boards.Karp scored 10, Popoloni seven and Dan DuBeau four.

St. James 5th grade girls' triumphThe St. James the Apostle of Springfield 5th grade girls'

basketball team evened its record at 3-3 after defeatingHoly Trinity of Westfield 17-7 last week.

Breanne Mooney and Allison Weber paced a balancedSt. James attack with four points and several assists. MeganCieri was a major force on the boards and added a basket.

Melanie Rossamando, Heather Fritzen, Lea Ginefra andNicole Bunge, while Dierdre McElroy had three assists andprovided strong defense. Kayla Aljure and Ariana Contehad several steals.

Summit legend Wilson to speak at Hot StoveThe Union County Baseball Association will honor a

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: The two youngest members of theNew Jersey State Senate, Tom KeanJr., and Nicholas Scutari, both fromUnion County, are wrestling with theresponsibility of confirmation.

For Scutari, the Linden Democ-rat, sitting on the Senate JudiciaryCommittee means dealing with thebevy of new nominations made bythe administration of Gov. JonCorzine. The nominees, includingthose for cabinet offices, come to theJudiciary Committee as part of theadvice and consent process.

Scutari has been decidedly morelow-key than Kean, who does notsit on the committee. His techniquehas been to focus on the substantiveimpact the different Cabinet offi-cers' duties have on his district.During the daylong questioning ofreturning Department of Communi-ty Affairs Commissioner SusanBass Levin, Scutari focused on thereports of a feud between Levin andthe Department of EnvironmentalProtection. He practically wanted toknow the impact.

LeftOutBy Frank Capece

In terms of the appointment ofPublic Advocate Ronald Chen fromBerkeley Heights, Scutari temporari-ly held up the appointment until hehad the chance to interview himdirectly about his views on improv-ing housing opportunities in thecounty.

Recently, Scutari gained praisefor his legislation enacted into lawmodifying the state procurementprocess. Scutari worked with theState Commission of Investigation to

For Kean, the confirmationprocess has been on the nationallevel. The Westfield Republican andlikely Republican nominee for Sen-ate came out last week to support thenomination of Supreme Court candi-date Samuel Alito Jr. It was a little bitof history revisited. Kean's father,when he served in the Legislature,had a strong relationship with Alito'sfather, who was involved in the statelegislative service office. Publishedreports speculated that the elder Keanwent to bat with then President Bushin the late '80s to secure a federaljudgeship for Alito's son.

The fernily circle continued whenKean, campaigning in Mercerville,announced his! support for Alito'snomination to the U.S. SupremeCourt. Drawing a distinction from

See SENATORS, Page 19

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Payroll, benefits may be scrutinizedBy Lauren BeFilippo

Staff WriterBudget hearings that promise to

take a hard-nosed look at the county'sproposed $413 million budget are setto begin next week.

Whether the county payroll willdraw much discussion in the hearingsremains to be seen, but on the outside,salaries, raises and benefits are oftenscrutinized.

The county employs just shy of3,000 people in its various depart-ments.

Rising costs that the county is man-dated lo pay — health insurance, pen-sion benefits, and utilities costs —havebeen steadily increasing, County Man-ager George Devanney said Jan. 17.

In 2005, the county's budgettopped $390 million, more than $40.6

million of which went toward employ-ee insurance related costs. Thatamount represents a $3,499,828increase over costs in 2004.

Each of the nine elected membersof the Board of Chosen Freeholderstakes home a salary and is eligible forhealth benefits. On Dec. 15, 2005, thefreeholders approved a 5.3 percentraise for themselves, their largest since1998, and their first since 2003.

Following the freeholders' approval,County Manager George Devanney andParks and Recreation Director CharlesSigmund each earned a 5 percentincrease, while each of the other sixdirectors received raises between 3.75and 4.99 percent. All of the raises areretroactive to Jan. 1, 2005.

Additionally, County Clerk JoanneRajoppi, Sheriff Ralph Froehlich, and

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Golfers at the county's three courses may soon be payinghigher fees. '

Golf fees on the riseBy Lauren DeFHippo

Staff WriterIn an attempt to raise revenue for

the county, golfers frequenting thecounty's three courses might have todig a little bit deeper into their pocketsto hit the greens.

At its Jan. 26, the Board of ChosenFreeholders, passed unanimously theintroduction" of an ordinance thatwould raise fees during "twilighthours."

• Golfer and freeholder meeting fix-ture Jerry Goldman of Elizabeth hasbeen recommending the fee increasefor some time.

When Parks and Facilities DirectorChuck Sigmund mentioned the pro-posed fee increases at the freeholder'sagenda meeting Jan. 19 in Elizabeth,Chairman Alexander Mirabella calledthe nominal fee increase "very cre-ative."

Mirabella's comments came justdays after the county announced its$413 million proposed budget thatincludes an average tax increase of

$67.24 across the county.The proposed charges include an

$ 18 fee for weekday twilight sessions,and a $19 fee for weekend ones forcounty residents.

Senior citizen county residents canhit the links at $ 11 on weekdays and$18 on weekends, while youth resi-dents can play a round for $10 on aweekday and SI 3 on a weekend.

Out-of-county residents will becharged $36 per weekday outing, and$38 per weekend one, according to theproposal.

Out-of-county seniors using any ofthe three courses will be charged $22per weekday round, and $36 on week-ends.

Youth golfers residing outside thecounty will be assessed a $20 fee onweekdays and a $26 fee on weekends.

According to Sigmund, the feeswould be in place year round, but twi-light hours would vary depending onthe season.

Twilight hours begin at noon in theSee FREEHOLDERS, Page 19

Surrogate James LaCorte eachreceived a twofold raise.

The resolution provides for eachconstitutional officer to receive a 3.75percent pay increase retroactive to Jan.1, 2005, and a second 3.75 percentincrease effective Jan. 1, 2006.

In 2006, the county will experiencea $6 million increase in health insur-ance; a more than $3 million increasein pension costs; a $4.2 millionincrease in contractual salaries; anincrease of $1.8 million in public safe-ty and correctional services; a $1.2million increase in the Welfare pro-gram; and a more than $2 millionincrease in operational costs includingutilities, leases and energy.

According to the county's payroll,68 of the county's employees, or less

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Salary ranges of county employees2006 salary ranqeLess than $40,000

Between $40,000 and $60,000

Between 560,000 and 580,000

Between $80,000 and $100,000

More than SI00,000

Number of employees979

1,047

695

168

68

Highest paid county positionsPositionMedical director

Managing physician/psychiatrist

County manager

County prosecutor

First assistant prosecutor

Source: Union County Payroll

2006 salary$177,182

$154,000

$144,258

$141,000

$140,000

County aims to link agenciesBy Lauren DeFilippo

Staff WriterEditor's Note: This is the first in a continuing series

on homeland security in Union County.Five years ago, domestic preparedness, especially at the

county level, referred to floods and power outages. Today,when freeholders talk about domestic preparedness,they're also talking about homeland security, and how welllocal police departments are equipped to handle a terroristattack.

The terms "homeland security" and "domestic pre-paredness" are used almost daily, and interchangeably.

Freeholder Chairman Alexander Mirabella said that thephrases go hand in hand.

"It's all about keeping the residents safe," Mirabellasaid.

Freeholder Rick Proctor, who chairs the county'sHomeland Security Committee said that he did not reallysee a difference in the two terms either.

"They're two of the same thing," he said, adding thatwhat usually determines the difference is the type ofagency carrying out the response.

Homeland security intones government continuity,while domestic defense and preparedness denotes anti-ter-rorism, and surveillance for terrorist behaviors, heexplained.''••••" Mirabella and Proctor, who were both serving on thefreeholder board the day terrorists struck neighboring NewYork, talked about the changes they've seen in the last fiveyears.

"There's a sense of urgency....the awareness is greater,"Mirabella said of homeland security issues. "(We're) morecautious view of how we distribute money to public safe-ty."

Proctor, who has worked in public health for more than30 years has seen the impact slightly differently.

"Emergency management has gone from floods andpower outage to international world events on a dailybasis. Emergency management is geared toward all haz-ards," he said.

So just how safe is Union County? According to bothmen, the answer is, pretty safe.

"What we talk about is our local police departments,"Mirabella said. "Are they prepared with the training andequipment they need to respond."

The chairman also noted that the county also focuses onschool safety.

This concern was embodied in the county's school safe-ty conference held this fall where the Columbine tragedywas used as a model of what to do and what not to do.

Municipal and county officials from schools, ̂ ind lawenforcement and governments participated in the two-dayprogram.

The county was also one of the first in New Jersey tocomplete a state-mandated survey of each of its schools,Mirabella said.

The survey was to collect all of the vital information,locations of fire extinguishers, exits and more, withinevery school, in each of the county's school districts.

Last year alone, the Office of the Attorney General dis-tributed $21.7 million to each of the state's 21 counties.

Union received $1,272,710 of that funding, a $827,290decrease over the amount it received in 2004.

According to Mirabella and Proctor, the HomelandSecurity Committee decides how that money is spent.

"We want to be able to accept it and distribute it asquickly as possible," Mirabella said.

Prior to this year, a certain percentage of homelandsecurity grant money had to be allocated to specific pur-poses like critical infrastructure protection, equipment,inter-operability — the ability for various agencies to worktogether successfully — training, and regional-based plan-ning, Proctor said.

This year, however, funding will allocated toward rec-ognizing of national target capabilities in the area. Thesites listed were based on a risk analysis conducted in partby the county, the federal government, and the state, heexplained.

Funds will also be spent on a national Incident Man-agement System, which was developed by the national FireProtection Agency in response to large-scale forest fires.

With every agency in the county following the sameincident protocol, miscommunication will be less frequent.

There is also a push toward information sharing betweenagencies and an additional emphasis on collaboration,Proctor said.

"We're trying to develop a real fusion," he said.The goal of that fusion, he said, is to also bring in pub-

lic health and emergency management agencies into thatfusion, rather than simply limiting it to law enforcementpersonnel.

However, in order to receive funding, each county isrequired to compile a Emergency Operation Plan that cov-ers all manner of events, from influenza pandemic to ter-rorist attack and hurricane-related flooding.

Revisions to the EOP are required every three to fiveyears Proctor said.

The EOP is overseen by the New Jersey State Police.Lauren DeFilippo can be reached at 908-686-7700, ext.

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Learn about nature at Trailside• Children of all ages, when accom-

panied by an adult, can discover thepreparations, precautions and the"do's" & "don'ts" of hiking, Saturdayfrom 1 to 2 p.m. during TrailsideNature and Science Center's OutdoorAdventure series.

Learn how to use a trail map, readtrail blazes and lead the group down amarked trail. Trailside is a facility ofthe Union County Department, ofParks, Recreation and Facilities and islocated at 452 New Providence Roadin Mountainside. Call 908-789-3670for more information.

• On Feb. 11, from 10 to 11 a.m.,children and adults can discover whatmice, shrews and voles eat, wherethey live andhow they avoid predatorssuch as fox, coyote and owls as part ofTrailside Nature & Science Center'sSaturday Outdoor Adventure Series.

Visit the meadow to search forsigns of these elusive animals andtheir hidden tunnels. Trailside is afacility of the Union County Depart-

ment of Parks, Recreation and Facili-ties and is located at 452 New Provi-dence Road in Mountainside. Call908-789-3670 for more information.

•Adults, ages 18 and older, can cel-ebrate President's Day weekend with amulti-dimensional, historical presen-tation from 7:30 to 9 p.m. on Feb. 17.Museum educator and lecturer StacyRoth will explore reasons why tea wasimportant in 18th century America.

A unique tea tasting will followthis costumed presentation of tea lore,history, poetry and songs. This freeprogram is made possible in part byfunding from the NJ Council for theHumanities.

Trailside is located at 452 NewProvidence Road in Mountainside.Call 908-789-3670 for more informa-tion.

• Children of all ages, when accom-panied by an adult, can see how 100percent real maple syrup is made fromthe sap of a sugar maple tree on Feb.18 from 1 to 2. p.m. Find out what you

need to collect sap and take part in ataste test to try to identify the realthing. Pre-registration is required. Thefee is $4 a person for Union Countyresidents and $5 a person for non-county residents.

Trailside is located at 452 NewProvidence Road in Mountainside.Call 908-789-3670 for more informa-tion.

• Children of all ages, when accom-panied by an adult, can discover themany strategies of survival used byplants and animals during the wintermonths on Feb. 18 from 3 to 4 p.m.Hike through the nursery trail to lookfor deer paths and other animal signsas part of Trailside's annual FebruaryFestivities program. Stop by the Back-yard Wildlife Habitat to see which ani-mals are visiting the feeding stationand conclude around a campfire withhot chocolate and marshmallows. Thefee is $4 a person for Union Countyresidents and $5 a person for non-county residents.

Freeholder meets with Lions club

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Union County Freeholder Angel Estrada, standing, speaks with Elizabeth Lions ClubVice President Herman Nook Schrieber and Secretary Richard B. Lee during the group'sJan. 24 meeting at the Europa Restaurant in Elizabeth. Estrada attended the meeting tospeak with the Lions members about county government.

From left, Committeeman Clifton People Jr., Deputy Mayor Brenda Restivo, David Weis-bod and Joan White, of White Realty, Committeeman Joseph Florio and Mayor Peter A.Capodice celebrate the White Realty Business of the Month dedication.

Realtor is named 'Business of the Month9

The White Realty Company, locat-ed at 1423"' Stuyvesant Ave. in Uftion,was recentlyfnamed Business of theMonth by the Union Township Com-mittee.

White Realty Co. was establishedin 1950 as the James F. White RealtyCo., and is now in its second genera-tion of real estate service. The compa-ny is the longest-running real estatefirm in Union and one of the oldestfamily-run businesses in the state ofNew Jersey, with more than a 50 yearsof experience.

Joan E. White, owner-broker ofWhite Realty Co., was born and raisedin the real estate business. Her father,

James F. White, and mother, Ermalin-da R. White, founded'the real'estateoperation in 1950. Joan has made acareer in real estate professionalismand ethics, spending half her lifelicensed in real estate, continuing themore than half-century of family tradi-tion.

Since 2000, White Realty has beenthe home of two Realtors of the Yearas chosen by the local Board of Real-tors. Joan was awarded that honor in2000 and her husband, director ofdevelopment at White Realty, DavidWeisbrod, won that prestigious awardin 2002.

David is the current president of

the' Greater Union County Board ofRealtors. -Joan -serves- as the Vice-Chair of the Professional • StandardsCommittee of the New Jersey StateAssociation of Realtors.

Both Joan and David have wonnumerous honors in the real estateindustry.

In addition, Joan is a past Directorof the Union Township Chamber ofCommerce, and served for many yearson the board of directors of a localbank as well as its corporate secretary.

Joan is a native "Unionite," a grad-uate of the Union School System andKean University. She and David haveone child.

NorthfieidBthanks driveparticipants

John W. Alexander, chairman andCEO of Northfield Savings Bankexpressed his appreciation to the hun-dreds of Northfield customers andemployees who made the holidaysbrighter for so many children throughtheir support of Northfield's 10th Annu-al "Secret Santa" Holiday Toy Drive.

New, unwrapped toys were collectedduring the month of December at everyNorthfield Savings Bank location anddelivered to local charities for distribu-tion to needy children.

"Due to the generosity of our cus-tomers and employees, over 750 toyswere collected at Northfield SavingsBank branches and distributed to localchildren this holiday season," statedAlexander. "We thank everyoneinvolved in this program for their part inbringing joy to children within ourcommunities."

Organizations distributing the giftsincluded the Port Richmond Day Nurs-ery; NYC/ACS NYC Administrationfor Children's Services; St. Clement-SiMichael Parish; Saint Mary of theAssumption Parish; Project Hospitality;Seamen's Society for Children & Fami-lies; and the Perth Amboy, NJ Chapterof the Salvation Army.

Northfield Savings Bank, a mutuallyowned savings bank founded in 1887,has 19 full service banking offices inStaten Island, New York and Union andMiddlesex counties in New Jersey.

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Sharing network unveils 'paired exchange'Diabetes and hypertension are occurring at all-

time highs, and the ravages of these two diseasesoften result in kidney failure. As a result, of the 3,000people waiting for an organ transplant in New Jersey,about two-thirds of them are in need of a life-savingkidney. The wait can be agonizing; the average wait-ing time is close to three years in New Jersey. Thosewho go on dialysis must tolerate the decreased qual-ity of life that this difficult treatment imposes.

Given this situation, it is not surprising that livingdonor transplants of kidneys have increased dramat-ically. Often, a spouse or family member volunteersto donate a healthy kidney, but if the two people arenot medically compatible, this will not work.

Recognizing this frustrating situation, NJ Organand Tissue Sharing Network has unveiled a newconcept — New Jersey Paired Exchange Program— that will match those donors and recipients withthose who are compatible.

Here's how it works:Say John needs a kidney and his wife, Mary, is

willing to donate her kidney. But blood tests showsthat they are not compatible. At the same time,another couple, Susan and Bill are in the same situ-

ation, with Susan in need and Bill willing to donate,but they just don't match. After careful screeningand testing, it is determined that Mary's kidney willwork for Susan and Bill's kidney is perfect for John.New Jersey Paired Exchange Program was devel-oped to make these kinds of matches happen.

"NJ PEP maintains a computerized registry thatwill match donor/recipient pairs, based on all neces-sary medical information," said Joseph Roth, Presi-dent and CEO of NJ Sharing Network. "This inno-vative initiative allows us to pool the candidatesfrom five different transplant centers in the state inorder to increase the number of opportunities for asuccessful living donor match. It is extremely grati-fying to be able to offer one more way that New Jer-seyans can save lives through organ donation."

William Reitsma, director of clinical services atNJ Sharing Network, serves as the registrar for NJPEP. "This program is very exciting because itincreases the number of transplants as well as thequality of the match," he said. "Studies have shownthat a living kidney donation provides better organfunction than a deceased donor transplant. In fact, a .live donor kidney lasts twice as long, on average, as

a deceased donor kidney."Those interested in learning more about the

paired exchange program should contact NJ SharingNetwork at 1-800-SHARE-NJ or the transplantcoordinator at one of the transplant centers listedbelow: Hackensack University Medical Center, 201-996-2608; Newark Beth Israel Medical Center, 973-926-7555; Our Lady of Lourdes Medical Center,856-757-3840; Robert Wood Johnson UniversityHospital, 732-235-8695; Saint Barnabas MedicalCenter, 973-322-5938

NJ Sharing Network is the nonprofit, federallydesignated, state-certified recovery agency responsi-ble for providing donated organs and tissue for NewJersey residents in need of transplantation, as well asthose on waiting lists nationwide. The organizationhas full, unconditional accreditation by the Associa-tion of Organ Procurement Organizations. For moreinformation on organ donation, the organ donorlicense plate, obtaining a donor registry brochure orto learn more about saying "yes" to organ donationon the new digital driver's license, call NJ SharingNetwork at 1-800-SHARE-NJ or visitwww.sharenj.org.

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Brianna Brown, right, a fourth-grader at Summit's Lin-coln-Hubbard School, and Emily Cooper, resourceroom teacher at the school, enjoy the comforts of a pil-low they made together as part of a project coordinatedby Summit's SMARI Mentoring Program.

Far Brook hosts open houseFar Brook School, located at 52 Great Hills Road, Short Hills, will offer tours

for parents who are considering enrolling children for the 2006- 07 school year.Far Brooks will be accepting applications for all grades from nursery school

through seventh grade. There will be play groups scheduled for nursery appli-cants on weekdays and Saturdays. New students are not admitted for eighthgrade. For information or to make reservations, call 973-379-3442.

The tours will begin with "Morning Meeting," a distinctive feature of life atFar Brook, where the entire school gathers each day for announcements byDirector Mary Wearn Wiener, student presentations, faculty readings of proseand poetry, and songs led by Music Director Allen Artz. Following MorningMeeting, parents will visit classrooms accompanied by volunteer members ofthe recruiting committee, who are parents of current students and of alumni.

For those unable to attend any of the group tours, individual tours can bearranged. For more information, visit www.farbrook.org, or send an e-mail toMurphy at mmurphy@farbrook.org.

Senators look at nominees

Ediee Lynn and Scott Andrew Bacek

Lynn to wed BacekAnn Primich Bacek and Donald Bacek of Clark have announced the engage-

ment of their son, Scott Andrew Bacek, to Ediee Lynn, daughter of Susan and;Edward Strode of Spotswood.

The bride-to-be graduated from Spotswood High School and Rutgers Uni-versity's Mason Gross School of the Arts, and is an art director in New YorkCity.

The groom-to-be graduated from Arthur L. Johnson High School, Clark. Heis an electrician in Secaucus.

A May wedding is planned in St. Thomas the Apostle Church in Rahway.

Freeholders OK fee hike

(Continued from Page 17)Democrat opponent U.S. SenatorRobert Menendez, Kean Jr. said, "If wecan't count on our two senators to fightfor New Jersey and a highly qualifiedjudicial appointment, who can we counton to fight for us," he questioned.

The Kean support drew a sharprebuke from a Menendez spokesman.Matthew Miller said, "We take theopinions of all of our constituents veryseriously." It has been speculated thatin the coming campaign, the nomina-tion of Alito will define candidates aseither liberal or conservative. Onepolitical columnist wrote, "Keanneeds to prove to the GOP that he hasa shot at winning and thinks likeRepublicans do."

For Scutari, the low-key approach

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has had its rewards. Last week, he wasnamed vice chairman of the powerfulSenate Commerce Committee. Thecommittee regulates large numbers ofconsumer and commercial issues thatcome to the Legislature.

Among the Trenton watchers, Scu-tari and Kean are seen as makingalliances on both sides of the politicalaisle. The conservatives have praisedScutari for his belief in scrutiny ofjudges that come before the JudiciaryCommittee. Kean, before announcingfor the U.S. Senate, revealed a easy-going style not expected of his patri-cian background. Still the confirma-tion process requires choices to bemade. Not everyone is going to agreewith our two young senators' views onadvice and consent.

An attorney, Frank Capece is a res-ident of Cranford.

(Continued from Page 17)winter months and as late as 4 p.m.April through August, he said.

The county operates three coursesthroughout the county: Ash Brook inScotch Plains; Galloping Hill inKenilworth; and Oak Ridge in Clark.

In 2003, the county raised its golffees for the fourth tune in four years.

At the time, the fee increases werejustified by helping to pay for exten-sive improvements to the courses.

Freeholder Daniel Sullivan esti-mated that the county had spent morethan $10 million on maintaining andimproving the courses, he said in a j2003 interview.

The final reading of the ordinanceis scheduled for Feb. 16 at 7 p.m. atthe County Administration Building inElizabeth.

Lauren DeFilippo can be reachedat 90-686-7700, ext. 119 or union-countyb@thelcoalsource.com. ;

Payroll costs are outlined(Continued from Page 17)

than 3 percent percent take home morethan $100,000 annually.

Nearly half of those employees areassigned to the prosecutor's office.

Of the remaining employees, fourare assigned as administrators at thecounty-owned Runnells SpecializedHospital, and eight, including DirectorHarold Gibson and Sheriff RalphFroehlich work in public safety, assuperior officers.

The other high-earners includeCounty Clerk Joanne Rajoppi and

County Surrogate James LaCorte,who each receive $124,081, and Pros-ecutor Theodore Romankow, whoearns $141,000. :

On the other end of the spectrum,nearly 32.6 percent of the county;sworkforce, or approximately 979employees will earn less than $40,000in 2006. !

Nearly one-third of all countyemployees earn between $40,000 and!$60,000. Approximately 5 percent, or168 county employees earn between$60,000 and $80,000.

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PUBLIC NOTiCENOTICE TO ABSENT DEFENDANTS(L.S..) STATE OF NEW JERSEY TO'SARITA JOHNSON, her heirs, devisees,and personal representatives, and her.^f1^! 31. any of their successors Inright, title and interestERIN SERVICES CO., LLC

b i rXSK .^ -HEREBY SUMMONED ANDREQUIRED to serve upon ZUCKERGOLDBERG & ACKERMAN, ESQS;. plSn-tiffs attorneys, whose address is 200Sheffield Street Suite 301, Mountainside,New Jersey 07092-0024, telephone num-oer 1-908-233-8500, an Answer to theAMENDED Complaint filed in a civilactjon, in which Greater Plalnfield Habitat^ i t t l y jE fH"^ '"?• i s Plaintiff, and SARITAJOHNSON, et a!., are defendants, pend-ing in the Superior Court of New Jersey,Chancery Division, Union County andbearing Docket F-18423-05 within thirty-five (35) days after 02/02/2006 exclusiveS£,-£u,£!L..dat,e,',^'°L ! f published after02/02/2006, (35) days after the actualdate of such publication,, exclusive ofsuch date.. if you fail to do so, Judgmentby default may be rendered aqainst youfor the relief demanded in the AMENDEDComplaint. You shall file your Answer andproof of service in duplicate with theClerk of the Superior Court of New Jer-sey, Hughes Justice Complex-CN 971.Trenton, New Jersey 08625, together withyour check in the sum of $135.00 repre-senting the filing fee in accordance withthe rules-of civil practice and procedure.

This action has been instituted for thepurpose of (1) foreclosing a Mortgagedated 04/2272002 made by Sarita Johnsonas mortgagors, to Greater Plaihfield Habi-tat for Humanity, Inc. recorded on06/03/2002 In Book 9262 of Mortgages forUnion County, Page 0252 which Mortgagewas assigned to the plaintiff, GreaterPlainfield Habitat for Humanity, Inc. byAssignment Of Mortgage which is

PUBLIC NOTiCEunrecorded at this time; and (2) to recov-er possession of, and concerns premisescommonly known as 65 Everett Place,Piainfieid, NJ.

If you are unable to obtain an attorney,you may communicate with the New Jer-sey Bar Association by calling 732-249-5000. You may also contact the LawyerReferral Service of the County of venueby calling 908-353-4715. If you cannotafford an attorney, you may communicatewith the Legal Services office of theCounty of venue by calling 908-3S4-4340.

Sarita Johnson, her heirs, devisees, andpersonal representatives, and her, theiror any of their successors in right, titleand interest are made party defendants tothis foreclosure action because executedplaintiff's obligation and mortgage beingforeclosed herein and may be liable forany deficiency and because the owners ofrecord of the mortgaged premises beingforeclosed herein and for any lien, claimor interest may have in, to or against themortgaged premises.

E F M SERVICES CO., LLC Is made aparty defendant to this foreclosure actionby reason of a certain judgment enteredin the Office of the Clerk of the SuperiorCourt of New Jersey bearing judgmentnumber DJ-025288-2002 on 01/30/02, inthe original sum of $1,559.94, whereinyou, ERIN SERVICES CO.. LLC are thejudgment creditor and SARlTA JOHNSONis the judgment debtor and for any lien,claim or interest you may have in, to oragainst the mortgaged premises.

DONALD F PHELAN, CLERKSUPERIOR COURT OF NEW JERSEY

THIS IS AN ATTEMPTTO COLLECT A DEBT.

ANY INFORMATION OBTAINEDWILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE.

File XCZ 63085U136108 WCN Feb. 2, 2006 ($71.25)

PUBLIC NOTICENOTICE TO ABSENT DEFENDANTS

(L.S.) STATE OF NEW JERSEY TO:KAREN M. ANNICCHIARICOJOSEPH M. ANNICCHIARICO, JR., andeach of (heir heirs, devisses, and per-sonal representatives, and his, her,their or any of their successors Inright, title and Interest

YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED ANDREQUIRED to serve upon ZUCKER,GOLDBERG & ACKERMAN, ESQS.. plain-tiff's attorneys, whose address is 200Sheffield Street, Suite 301, Mountainside,New Jersey 07092-0024, telephone num-ber 1-908-233-8500, an Answer to theComplaint and Amendment To Foreclo-sure Complaint filed in a civi! action, inwhich Deutsche Bank Trust CompanyAmericas formerly known as Banker'sTrust Company, as Trustee and Custodianby: Saxon Mortgage Services, Inc. f/klaMeritech Mortgage Services, Inc. as itsaltorney-in-fact Is plaintiff, and KAREN M.ANNICCHIARICO, et at., are defendants,pending fn the Superior Court of New Jer-sey, Chancery Division, Union County,and bearing TJocket F-18714-05 withinthirty-five [35) days after 02/02/2006exclusive of such Hate, or If publishedafter 02/02/2006, (35) days after the actu-al date of such publication, exclusive ofsuch date. If you fail to do so, judgmentby default may be rendered against youfor the relief demanded in the Complaintand Amendment To Foreclosure Com-plaint. You shall file your Answer andproof of service' in duplicate with theClerk of the Superior Court of New Jer-sey, Hughes Justice Complex-CN 971,Trenton, New Jersey 08625, together withyour check in the sum of $135.00 repre-senting the filing fee in accordance withthe rules of civil practice and procedure.

This action has been instituted for the

PUBLIC NOTICE

purpose of (1) foreclosing a Mortgagedated 02/24/2003 made Tjy Karen Si.

Annlcchiarico and Joseph M. Annlcchlarl-co, Jr., his wife as mortgagors, to Ameri-ca s MonayLlne Inc. recorded on03/21/2003 in Book 9967 of Mortgages forUnion County Page 0973 which Mortgagewas assigned to the plaintiff, DeutscheBank Trust Company Americas formerlyknown as Banker's Trust Company, asTrustee and Custodian by: Saxon Mort-gage Services, Inc. f/k/a Meritech Mort-gage Services, Inc. as Its attorney-ln-factby Assignment Of Mortgage which Isunrecorded at this time; and (2) to recov-er possession of, and concerns premisescommonly known as 122 Midway Avenue,Fanwood, NJ 07023.

if you are unable to obtain an attorney,you may communicate with the New Jer-sey Bar Association by calling 732-249-5000. You may also contact the LawyerReferral Service of the County of venueby calling 908-353-4715. If you cannotafford an attorney, you may communicatewith the Legal Services office of theCounty of venue by calling 908-354-4340.

Joseph M. Annlcchiarlco, JR. and KarenM. Annicchlarico, his wife, and each oftheir heirs, devisees, and personal repre-sentatives, and his, her, their or any oftheir successors in right, title and interestare made party defendants to this foreclo-sure action because they executed plain-tiff's obligation and mortgage belrtg fore-closed herein and may be liable for anydeficiency and because they are the own-ers of record of the mortgaged premisesbeing foreclosed herein and for any lien,claim or interest they may have in to oragainst the mortgaged premises.

. DONALD F. PHELAN, CLERKSUPERIOR COURT OF NEW JERSEY

THIS IS AN ATTEMPTTO COLLECT A DEBT.

ANY INFORMATION OBTAINEDWILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE.

File XCZ 70239FU136106 WCN Feb. 2, 2Q06 ($73.50)

PUBLIC NOTICENOTICE TO ABSENT DEFENDANTS(L.S.) STATE OF NEW JERSEY TO:JAMES B. NEWSOMECINDY D. NEWSOME, and each of theirheirs, devisees, and personal represen-tatives, and his, her, thsir or any oftheir successors in right, title andinterest

YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED ANDREQUIRED to serve upon ZUCKER,GOLDBERG & ACKERMAN; ESQS., plain-tiff's attorneys, whose address Is 200Sheffield Street, Suite 301, Mountainside,New Jersey 07062-0024, telephone num-ber 1-908-233-8500, an Answer to theAmended Complaint filed In a civil action,In JP Morgan Chase Bank, NA, as TrusteeIs plaintiff, and JAMES B. NEWSOME, etal., are defendants, pending In the Supe-rior Court of New Jersey, Chancery Divi-sion, Union County, and bearing DocketF-957-06 within thirty-five (35) days after02/02/2006 exclusive of such date, or Ifpublished after 02/02/2006, (35) daysafter the actual date of such publication,exclusive of such date. If you fall to doso, judgment by default may be renderedagainst you for the relief demanded in theAmended Complaint. You shall file yourAnswer and proof of service in duplicatewith the Clerk of the Superior Court ofNew Jersey, Hughes Justice Complsx-CN971, Trenton, New Jersey 08625, togetherwith your check in the sum of $135.00representing the filing fee in accordancewith the rules of civil practice and proce-dure.

This action has been instituted for thepurpose of (1) foreclosing a Mortgagedated 03/17/2004 made by James B. New-some and Cindy D. Newsome, h/w asmortgagors, to Amerlquest MortgageCompany recorded on 09/13/2004 In Book10839 of Mortgages for Union County,Page 320 which Mortgage was assigned

PUBLIC NOTiCEto the plaintiff, JP Morgan Chase Bank,NA, as Trustee by Assignment Of Mort-gage which is unrecorded at (his time;and (2) to recover possession of. andconcerns premises commonly known as727 Coofidge Street, a/k/a 727-27Coolldge Street, Plainfield, NJ 07062.

If you are unable to obtain an attorney,you may communicate with the New Jer-sey Bar Association by calling 732-249-5000. You may also contact fha LawyerReferral Service of the County of venueby calling 908-353-4715. If you cannotafford an attorney, you may communicatewith the Legal Services office of thoCounty of venus by calling 908-354-4340.

James B. Newsome and Cindy D. Naw-soma, h/w, and each of their heirs,devisees, and personal representativesand his, her, their or any of their succes-sors In right, title and interest are madeparty defendants to this foreclosureaction because executed plaintiff's obli-gation and mortgage being foreclosedherein and may be liable for any deficien-cy and because the owners of record oftrie mortgaged premises being foreclosedherein and for any lion, claim or Interestmay have In, to or against the mortgagedpremises.

DONALD F. PHELAN, CLERKSUPERIOR COURT OF NEW JERSEY

THIS IS AN ATTEMPTTO COLLECT A DEBT.

ANY INFORMATION OBTAINEDWILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE.

File XCZ 74218FU13B130 WCN Feb. 2, 2006 ($65,25)

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The Township of Union Division of Pur-chasing will receive sealed Bids for VAR-IOUS PRINTING SERVICES FOR 2006-2007 at the Main Meeting Room MunicipalBuilding, 1976 Morris Avenue, Townshipof Union, Union County, New- Jersey onWednesday, February 15, 2006, at 9:30A.M. sharp, at which time and place allBids will be publicly opened and readaloud.

Proposed forms of Contract Documents,including Plans and Specifications, are onfile in the Division of Purchasing Office,Township of Union.

Copies" of the documents may beobtained in person only, at the Division ofPurchasing Office, Lower Level, MunicipalBuilding between the h6urs of 8:30 A.M.,and 4:3T) P.M., Monday thru Friday. DOC-UMENTS WILL NOT BE MAILED. BID-DERS MUST APPEAR IN PERSON ATTHE SPECIFIED TIME AND DATE OF BIDOPENING.

Each Proposalmust be accompanied bya Certified Check, Cashier's Check or BidBond payable to the Township of Union Inthe amount equal to Ten Percent (10%) ofthe Bid. The Surety on the Bid Bond mustbe a Corporate Surety licensed to signSurety Bonds in the State of New Jersey.No Certified Check, Cashier's Check, orBid Bond will be accepted if the amount isless than Ten Percent (10%) of the TotalBid Amount but in no event need thesame exceed $20,000.00. Depositsaccompanying Bids shall be sealed In theBid Envelope.

Alternative Bids wlil not be consideredunless specified otherwise in the Techni-cal Specifications. The successful bidderwill be required to furnish and pay for asatisfactory performance and paymentbond or bonds.

Bidders are required to comply with therequirements of P.L.1975 C.127, NJ(NJAC 17:27) (Affirmative Action Act),P.L. 1963, C.150 (Prevailing Wage Act),and Chapter 33, Laws of New Jersey 1977(Stockholder Names). If awarded a con-tract your company/firm wiil be requiredto comply with the requirements of P.L.1975 C.127 (NJAC 17:27).In accordance with THE PUBLIC WORKS

CONTRACTOR REGISTRATION ACT, P.L.1999, c.238 (NJSA 34:11-56.48 et. seq.),no contractor shall bid on any contract forpublic work as defined In section 2 of P.L.1963, c.150 (NJSA 34:11-56.26) unlessthe contractor is registered pursuant tothis Act. No contractor shall list a sub-contractor in a bid proposal for the con-tract unless the ̂ subcontractor is regis-tered pursuant to'the Public Works Con-tractor Registwtlon Act at the time the bidis made. NJ}, contractor or subcontractor,including a subcontractor not listed in thebid proposal, shall engage in the perform-ance of any public work subject to thecontract, unless the contractor or subcon-tractor is registered to that Act.

The Township of Union reserves theright to reject any or all Bids or to waiveany informalities in the bidding. TheTownship of Union reserves the right tosever and make awards of all or parts ofany Bids to one or more bidders. No Bidshall be withdrawn for a period of sixty(60) days subsequent to the opening of

• Bids without the consent of the Townshipof Union.BUSINESS REGISTRATION CERTIFI-CATE FORM MUST BE SUBMITTED WITHBID

All business organizations that do busi-ness with a Local Contracting Agency arerequired to be registered with the State.Proof of that registration should be pro-vided to the Township with its bid. TheTownship may not enter into a contractwith the business absent such certificate.P.L. 2004 C 57.

One (1) copy of the Bid must be fullyexecuted and presented on the proposalform provided.Bids must be presented by a representa-

tive of the Bidder, when called for by thePurchasing Division, and not before orafter. BIDS WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED BYMAIL. Specifications are not to be submit-ted with Bid documents.By Order of theTownship of Union CommitteeEILEEN BIRCH, TOWNSHIP CLERKU136310 UNL Feb. 2, 2006 ($49.76)

RESOLUTION 2006-034TOWNSHIP MEETING January 10, 2006

RESOLUTIONWHEREAS, the governing body of a

municipality, by resolution, may appointnot less than 2 nor more than 50 consta-bles pursuant to N.J.S.A. 40A:9-120, and

WHEREAS,.the Township Committee, asa result of enforcement problems andadministrative problems associated withthe appointment of constables desires toeliminate all appointed constables, andWHEREAS, the Township Committee, by

resolution, hereby eliminates the positionof constable within the Township of Union,and

WHEREAS, anyone currently serving inthe position of constable, is to within 7days of receipt of notice by the townshipdelivered either personally or by certifiedmail, return receipt requested, shallreturn their constable badge to the clerk,and '

WHEREAS, anyone currently serving inthe position of constable, shall no longerperform any functions as a constable ofthe Township of Union, upon adoption ofthis resolution.

NOW, THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED,by the Township Committee of the Town-ship of Union in the County of Union that:

1. The position of constable in the Town-ship of Union is eliminated.

2. Anyone currently serving as a consta-ble in the Township of Union shall, within7 days of receipt of notice by the town-ship delivered either personally or by cer-tified mail, return receipt requested,return their constable badge to the clerk.

3. Anyone currently serving in the posi-tion of constable, shall no longer performany functions as a constable or the Town-ship of Union, upon adoption of this reso-lution.

4. A notice of this action shall be pub-lished in the Union Leader.

I, EILEEN BIRCH, Township Clerk of theTownship of Union, in the County ofUnion, do hereby certify that the above isa true copy of RESOLUTION NO. 2006-034, passed at a REGULAR TOWNSHIPCOMMITTEE meeting of said Township,held on the 10th day of January 2006.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereun-to set my hand and seal of the Townshipof Union, the 10th day of January 2006. .

EILEEN BIRCH, Township ClerkU136301 UNL Feb. 2, 2066 ($27.90)

TOWNSHIP OF HILLSIDE• PUBLIC NOTICE

The following ordinance published here-with has been passed by the TownshipCouncil at a meeting held at the MunicipalBuilding, Liberty and Hillside Avenues, onTuesday, January 24, 2006 and wasapproved by the Mayor on January 24,2006.

R-06-001AN ORDINANCE AMENDING CHAPTER171 (GRAFFITI) OF THE CODE OF THETOWNSHIP OF HILLSIDE

Peter D. Corvelli, Council President

Approved: January 24, 2006Mayor Karen McCoy OliverAttest: Janet VlaisavljevicTownship ClerkU136242 UNL Feb. 2, 2006 ($9.77)

PUBLIC NOTICESEALED BIDS will be received from bid-ders classified under N.J.S.A.27:7-35.1 etseq.; in the NJDOT MULTIPURPOSEROOM, New Jersey Department of Trans-portation, 1035 Parkway Avenue, Trenton,NJ 08625; until 10:00 A.M. on 3/2/06-andopened and read for:Route 82/County Route 629 (MorrisAvenue), Cont. No: 001950174 Street-scape and Intersection Improvements;From Lousons Road to Orchard Street,Township of Union & City of Elizabeth,Union CountyFederal Project No: STP-7528 (106)

DP No: 05161

Bidders are required to comply with therequirements of P.L.1975, c.127 N.J.A.C.17:27. Pursuant to N.J.S.A. 52:32-44, forFederal aided projects; bidders must reg-ister with the New Jersey Department ofTreasury; Division of Revenue, prior tothe time of contract execution. Appropri-ate proof of registration should be provid-ed to NJDOT as soon as possible afterreceipt of the Notice of Award.Pursuant to the "Public Works ContractorRegistration Act", N.J.S.A. 34:11-56.48 etseq. (P.L.2003, c.91), bidders must regis-ter with the New Jersey Department ofLabor, Division of Wage and Hour Compli-ance.The Department, in accordance with TitleVI CIviL Rights Act of 1964, 78 Stat.252U.S.C., 49 C.F.R., Parts 21 and 23 issuedpursuant to such Act, and Section 504 ofthe Rehabilitation Act of 1973 will affordminority business enterprises full oppor-tunity to submit bids in response to thisinvitation and will not discriminate againstany bidder on the grounds of race, color,sex, national origin, or handicap in thecontract award.Drawings and specifications for the pro-posed work are available at Bid Expressweb site www.bidx.com. You must sub-scribe to use this service. To subscribefollow the instructions on the web site.The ifea is $35.00 per month for unlimitedaccess to view and download the docu-ments and additional $95.00 per monthfor unlimited access to download theplans, directly payable to Bid Express.Drawings, special provisions, and biddocuments may be inspected (BUT NOTOBTAINED) by contracting organizationsat our various Design Fiela Offices at thefollowing locations:

200 Stierli CourtMt. Arlington, NJ

973-770-5141

Route 79 & Daniels WayFreehold, NJ732-308-4025

1 Executive CampusRoute 70 WesfCherry Hill, NJ856-486-6624

New JerseyDepartment of Transportation

Division of ProcurementBureau of Construction Services

1035 Parkway AvenuePO Box 605

Trenton, NJ 08625January 26, February 2, 9, 2006U135711 UNL ($118.58)

NOTICE OF DECISIONS AND MEETINGSOF THE

ZONING BOARD OF ADJUSTMENTOF THE

BOROUGH OF ROSELLE PARKTAKE NOTICE that on January 25,

2006, the Zoning Board of Adjustment ofBorough of Roselle Park, County ofUnion, State of New Jersey took the fol-lowing actions;

1. Granted with conditions applicationfor side yard of 1.7-feet to permit deck atBlock 803, Lot 7, 527 Spruce Street,Roselle Park New Jersey to Kelly Rox.

2. Granted with conditions and subjectto site plan approval application for usevariance and bulk variances for parking,sign, rear yard, front yard and side yardto permit appliance store and two apart-ments at Block 311, Lots 34-37, 225 WestWestfield Avenue, Roselle Park, New Jer-sey to John Zaleski.

Resolutions memorializing decisions arefiled in the office of the municipal clerkand are available for public inspection.

Meetings of the Zoning Board of Adjust-ment are scheduled on:

FEBRUARY 22, 2006MARCH 22, 2006

APRIL 26, 2006MAY 24, 2006

JUNE 28, 2006JULY 26, 2006

AUGUST 23, 2006SEPTEMBER 27, 2006

OCTOBER 25, 2006NOVEMBER 15, 2006DECEMBER 13, 2006

JANUARY 24, 2006ALL MEETINGS ARE HELD AT 7:30 P.M.

ROSELLE PARK BOROUGH HALLCouncil Chambers110 East Westfield AvenueRoselie Park, NJ 07204

ROSELLE PARKZONING BOARD OF ADJUSTMENT

U136335 UNL Feb. 2, 2006 ($24.65)

PUBLIC NOTICEPublic notice Is hereby given that Boardof Health Ordinance #1-21)06 entitled "ANORDINANCE REGULATION SANITARYPRACTICES AT PLACES OF COSME-TOLOGY, HAIR AND NAIL STYLING" wasintroduced, read and passed on first read-ing by the Roselle Park Board of Health ata regular meeting held on January 17,2006. The Board of Health will furtherconsider the same for final passage onMarch 14, 2006 at 7:00_p.m. The meetingwill be held in the 2nd Floor Council Con-ference Room of the Roselle Park Munici-pal Building located at 110 East WestfieldAvenue, Roselle Park, NJ 07204 at whichtime and place members of the public willbe given an opportunity to be heard con-cerning the said ordinance.

Nancy CallendoBoara Secretary

Copies of proposed Ordinance #1-2006are available for review between thehours of 9:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. - or byappointment, at the office of the WestfieidRegional Health Department, located onthe second floor of the Municipal Buildingat 425 East Broad Street, Westfield, NJ07090.U136184 UNL Feb. 2, 2006 ($14.88)

NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALEThe Union Township Board of Education

having found certain items of schoolequipment no longer necessary for schooluse offers them for public sale. A publicsale will take place at 10:00 a.m., Tues-day, February 14th, 2006 at which timesealed proposals will be received in theoffice of the Board Secretary, Administra-tion Building, 2369 Morris Avenue, Union,NJ 07083.The property is offered "as Is where is"without any representation as to quality crcondition and without any warranties asto fitness or merchantability1. Muratek F6+Fax Model #015202. Dell Computer Monitor & Keyboard

Model #152353. Everett Piano4. Vaulting Horse5. Pole Vault Standards (3)6. Large Round Standard Base7. Scoreboard - portable8. Chair with wheels9. Wood Toe Board10. Ping Pong Tables (3)11. Starting mocks (3)12. High Jump Standards (3)13. Volleyball Base Standards (3)14. Wooden Team Rackets (4)15. Volleyball Standard Poles (5)16. High Cross Bars (10)17. Javelins (35)

.18. Canon Multi-pass C5500' Fax Machine Model #12129

19. 3M Overhead'Model #15283Please be advised all equipment Is in

very poor condition and/or no longeroperable.

No bidder may withdraw his bid for aperiod of thirty (30) days after the dateset for the opening thereof.The Board reserves the right to establish

minimum prices and to reject any or allbids, or to accept the bid, which In itsjudgment will be in the best Interest of theunion Township Board of Education.

By Order of the Union Township Board ofEducation, Township of Union, County ofUnion, New Jersey.U136231 UNL Feb. 2, 2006 ($24.18)

NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE

The Union Township Board of Educationhaving found certain items of schoolequipment no longer necessary for schooluse offers them for public sale. A publicsale wiil take place at 10:00 a.m., Tues-day, February 14th, 2006 at which timesealed proposals will be received in theoffice of the Board Secretary, Administra-tion Building, 2369 Morris Avenue, Union,NJ 07083.The property is offered "as is where- is"without any representation as to quality orcondition and without any warranties asto fitness or merchantability1. Ryans Thacter Turf Aerator

Model R18-32. Walk Behind Lawn Mower

Model BKND3. Ryans Sod Cutter Model BKN4. Walk Behind Blower5. Goodway Power Washer

Model GPW 30006. Snapper Big Six Lawn Mower

Model 013821387. Cutting Deck for Old Simplicity8. Clarke Walk Behind Vacuum

Model LV-309. Toro Porline Walk Behind Lawn Mower

Model 2204010. Snapper Big Six Lawn Mower

Model P21601211. Power Trimmer12. Little Wonder Giant Vacuum13. Microtree-NJBS

(stripped to motherboard)ComputerPlease be advised all equipment is in

very poor condition and/or no longeroperable.

No bidder may withdraw his bid for aperiod of thirty (30) days after the dateset for the opening thereof.The Board reserves the right to establish

minimum prices and to reject any or ailpt the bid, ' ' ' '•

' RESOLUTION 2006-52TOWNSHIP MEETING January 24, 2006

RESOLUTIONWHEREAS, the Township of Union

entered into an agreement with TamkeTree Experts to provide tree trimmingservices to the Township of Union for aperiod of one year; and

WHEREAS, the term of the contract wasFebruary 8, 2005 through February 8,2006 and:

WHEREAS, the township wishes to exer-cise the extension option of the contractfor a period of one year at an amount of$72,800.00

NOW, THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED,the Township Committee of the Townshipof Union authorizes the extension of thecontract to Tamke Tree Experts, 706Martlnsvilie Road, Liberty Corner, NJ07938 for the term of February 8, 2006,through February 8, 2007; and

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that acopy of this Resolution be publishedaccording to law within ten (10) days ofits passage.

I, EILEEN BIRCH, Township Clerk of theTownship of Union, in the County ofUnion, do hereby certify that the above isa true copy of RESOLUTION NO. 2006-52, passed at a REGULAR TOWNSHIPCOMMITTEE meeting of said Township,held on the 24th day of January 2006.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereun-to set my hand and seal of the Townshipof Union, the 24th day of January 2006.

EILEEN BIRCH, Township ClerkU136300 UNL Feb. 2, 2006 ($18.14)

NOTICE OF CONTRACT AWARDED

The Township Committee of the Town-ship of Union has awarded a contractwithout competitive bidding as a non-fairand open contract pursuant to N.J.S.A.19:44A20.4 et seq. This contract and theresolution authorizing It are available forpublic inspection in the Office of theMunicipal Clerk.

BY ORDER OF THETOWNSHIP COMMITTEE

Eileen Birch, Township Clerk

Dated: January 10, 2006

Awarded to: Charles Femminella, Jr.Certified Valuations, Inc.Plaza 447, Suite 8, Route 10

Randolph, NJ 07869

Services: Perform real property apprais-al service and testifying before the UnionCounty Board of Taxation and the NswJersey Tax Court

Costs: not to exceed $25,000.00 '

Duration: January 1, 2006-December 31, 2006

U136304 UNL Feb. 2, 2006 ($14.88)

NOTICE OF CONTRACT AWARDED

The Township Committee of the Town-ship of Union has awarded a contractwithout competitive bidding as a profes-sional service pursuant to N.J.S.A.4 0 A 1 5 ( 1 ) ( )

PUBLIC NOTICE

40A:115(1)(a).This contract and the resolution author-

izing It are available for public inspectionin the Office of the Municipal Clerk.

BY ORDER OF THETOWNSHIP COMMITTEE

Eileen Birch, Township Clerk

Dated: January 24, 2006Awarded to: Housing & Community

Development Services4 Sloan StreetSouth Orange, NJ 07079

Services: To provide technical assis-tance with the preparation of the annualconsolidated plan

inimm pbids, or to acceptj d t ill b i

ds, o to accept the b i , which in itsjudgment will be in the best interest of theUnion Township Board of Education.

By Order of the Union Township Board ofEducation, Township of Union, County ofUnion, New Jersey.U136237 UNL Feb. 2, 2006 ($24.18)

Public Notice

Kenilworth Board of Health Public NoticeAnnual Notice Pursuant to New JerseyLaws 1975, C.231. The Open PublicMeetings Law, the Board of Health Of theBorough of Kenilworth in the County ofUnion, New Jersey, hereby provides"Annual Notice* of its Schedule of regularmeetings for the year 2006, as follows:Dates:

January 19th Reorganization MeetingJanuary 19th Regular MeetingFebruary 16thMarch ISthApril 20thMay 18thJune 15thJuly REPESSAugust RECESSSeptember 21stOctober 19thNovember 2ndDecember 21st

Meeting time for all meetings at 7:00 p.m.in the Borough Hail, 567 Boulevard,Keniiworth, NJ. A copy of this notice hasbeen posted, at the Borough Hall, 567Boulevard, Kenilworth, NJ.U136187 UNL Feb. 2, 2006 ($14.42)

which in its Costs: not to exceed $20,000.00Duration: January 1, 2006 -

December 31, 2006

U136306 UNL Feb. 2, 2006 ($14.42)

NOTICEThe Township Committee of the Town-

ship of Union has awarded a contractwithout-competitive bidding as a profes-sional service pursuant to N.J.S.A.40A115(1)( )40A:115(1)(a).

This contract and the resolution author-izing it are available for public inspectionin the Office of the Municipal Clerk.

BY ORDER OF THETOWNSHIP COMMITTEE

Eileen Birch, Township Clerk

Dated: January 10, 2006Awarded to: Meyner & Landls

Gateway OneNewark, New Jersey 07102

Services: To defend the Township ofUnion In litigation from Interstate OutdoorAdvertising 1 . P.

Costs: increase of $5,000.00,not to exceed $7,500.00

Duration: until completionU136302 UNL Feb. 2, 2006 ($13.95)

PARKHEARIti

TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:PLEASE TAKE NOTICE THAT KENNETH DUDA (SUN TAVERN), the undersigned

has applied to the Borough of Roselle Park Planning Board, Union County, for the fol-lowing: Site Plan Approval and Variance to utilize the existing patio area for "outdoor"seasonal patron seating, as follows:Article 128-110. Paragraph G:

Parking:VARIANCE REQUESTED

Proposed: 82 Spaces (Pre-Existing)Zoning Requirements: 91 Spaces

together with any and all other variances, waivers or relief which may be necessary orrequired by the ordinances of the municipality, and which may be required by theBoard, ana its professionals, upon their review of the application and plans, in orderthat the applicant be permitted to develop and use the subject premises as proposedin the application.

Application is made for the approvals above described on the premises of Lot 2.01,BIOCK 212, Zone-B-3, on the Tax Map of the Borough of Roselle Park, New Jersey (600Westfield Avenue, Roselle Park, New Jersey).

Any person or persons affected by this application may have an opportunity to beheard at the meeting to be held Monday evening, the 20th day of February, 2006, at7:30 P.M., before the Planning Board of the Borough of Roselie Park, 110 E. West-field Avenue, Roselle Park, New Jersey 07204.

A copy of the application has been filed in the Office of the Borough Clerk and maybe inspected by the Public between the hours of 9:00 A.M. and 4:00 P.M. at BoroughHall, 110 East Westfield Avenue, Roselle Park, New Jersey.JOSEPH CASTELLUCI, ESQ.Attorney for ApplicantPeluso, Castellucl & Welntraub, P.C740 Broad StreetShrewsbury, NJ 07702(732) 345-6445U136103 UNL February 2, 2006 ($33.48)

PUBLIC NOTICETake notice that the following applications for Zoning Variances were heard by the Board of Adjustment of the Township of Union

on Wednesday. January 25. 2006 at 7:30 p.m. in the Municipal Building, Frlberger Park, Union, N.J. Resolutions memorializing.

Calendar #

Cal. #3043

Cal. #3042

Mama of Applicant &Premises Affftnteo

Diana Amorim1592 Union AvenueBlock- 1901 Lot-4

Victor Delia Pello991 Rahway River Pkwy.BIock-3402 Lot-44 -

VariancesRequested

2 story addition toexisting 2 family

ustmantGranted by Resolution

Construction of a deck & fence Carried for Resolutionof Approval on Feb. 1, 2006

NOTICE OF HEARINGPlease take notice that an application

has been made by Elaine Finnegan for avariance from the requirements of theTownship of Union Land DevelopmentOrdinance (and for subdivision/site planapproval) as to permit maintenance offront porch recently erected located at942 Garden Street which is in violation ofsection(s) 170-51 of the Land Develop-ment Ordinance.

Any person or persons affected by thisapplication may have the opportunity tobe heard at the public hearing to be heldby the Board of Adjustment on February22, 2006 at 7:30pm in the MunicipalBuilding, 1976 Morris Avenue, Union, NewJersey.All documents relating to this application

may be inspected by the public betweenthe hours of 9:00am-4:00pm in the officeof the Secretary of the Board of Adjust-ment in the Municipal Building, BuildingDepartment, 1976 Morris Avenue, Union,New Jersey.

Elaine H. FinneganApplicant

U136132 UNL Feb. 2, 2006 ($13.49)

NOTICE

The Township Committee of the Town-ship of Union has awarded a contractwithout competitive bidding as a profes-sional service pursuant to N.J.S.A.4 0 1 1 5 ( 1 ) ( )40A:115(1)(a).

This contract and the resolution author-izing it are available for public Inspectionin the Office of the Municipal Clerk.

BY ORDER OF THETOWNSHIP COMMITTEE

Eileen Birch, Township Clerk

Dated: December 13, 2005

Awarded to; Glenn Scotland of the firmMcManimon & Scotland, LLCOne Riverfront PlazaNewark, New Jersey 07102

Services: To represent the Township inthe Redevelopment of Schaefer Salt

Costs: not to exceed $50,000.00

Duration: until completion

U136303 UNL Feb. 2, 2006 ($13.49)

NOTICE OF CONTRACT AWARDED

The Township Committee of the Town-ship of Union, in the County of Union, hasawarded a contract without competitivebidding as a Professional Service pur-suant to N.J.S.A. 40A:11-5(1)(a). This:contract and the Resolution authorizing itis available for public inspection in theOffice of the Municipal Clerk.

BY ORDER OF THETOWNSHIP COMMITTEE

Eileen Birch, Township Clerk

Dated: January 11, 2006

Awarded to: T & M AssociatesServices: Stormwater Management

Tasks A B and CTime Period: 1/24/06 to 4/15/06Cost: $20,000.00

U136305 UNL Feb. 2, 2006 ($12.09)

NOTICE OF HEARINGPlease take notice that an application

has been made by Dawn Ciamacco for avariance from the requirements of theTownship of Union Land DevelopmentOrdinance (and for subdivision/site planapproval) as to permit conversion ofgarage to living space located at 951Wewanna Avenue which is in violation ofsection (s) 170-136.1 of the Land Devel-opment Ordinance.

Any person or persons affected by thisapplication may have the opportunity tobe heard at the public hearing to be heldby the Board of Adjustment on 2/15/06 at7:30 pm in the Municipal Building, 1976Morris Avenue, Union, New Jersey.All documents relating to this application

may be inspected by the public betweenthe hours of 9:00am - 4:00pm In the officeof the Secretary of the Board of Adjust-ment in the Municipal Building, BuildingDepartment, 1976 Morris Avenue, Union,New Jersey.

Dawn CiamaccoApplicant

U136612 UNL Feb. 2 200S ($13.02)

BOROUGH OF ROSELLE PARKPLANNING BOARD

NOTICE OF DECISION

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the fol-lowing action was taken by ths RosellePark Planning Board at a public meetingon January 23, 2006 for the below refer-enced application:1. Joseph C. Viliani and Gina Vlllani, 21Deerpath Circle, Greenbrook, New Jersey- Resolution memorializing approval for apreliminary and final major subdivisionand variance to permit the subdivision ofan existing single-family residential lot tothree (3) single-family residential lotslocated on the premises of 825 WalnutStreet, Roselle Park, New Jersey, morespecifically known as Lot 4, Block 702.APPROVED. . . .

The aforesaid resolution is on file andavailable for Inspection in ths MunicipalBuilding, 110 East Westfield Avenue,Roselle Park, New Jersey.

Roselle Park Planning BoardBy: Kathy Vail, Secretary

U136778 UNL Feb. 2, 2006 ($20.52)

PUBLIC AUCTION NOTICEThe undersigned shall expose for sale in accordance with RS 39:10A-1 et seq. at

public auction on February 23, 2006 at 10.00 a.m. at Expert Collision located at 1204East Elizabeth Avenue, Linden, NJ 07036, the following motor vehicles which cameinto possession of Expert Collision through abandonment or failure of owners to claimsame. These motor vehicles may be examined at the aforementioned location at 9:00a.m. on February 23, 2006. All sales are "as is*. Vehicles must be removed by awrecker within two working days.

Expert CollisionJoel Soltys

The following vehicles will be sold with an application for title from the State of NewJersey, Department of Motor Vehicles. Expert Collision does not guarantee title onlythe application. It is the responsibility of the public to inspect vehicles before sale.

MAKE YEAR

CHEVROLET AVEO 2004NISSAN ALTIMA 2000

SERIAL #

KL1TD52634B1437B41N4DL01A1YC178158

COST OFREPOSSESSION

$18,486.10$18,513.00

U136293 UNL February 2, 2006 ($20.46)

SUMMARY OR SYNOPSIS OF AUDIT REPORT FOR PUBLICATIONSUMMARY OR SYNOPSIS OF 2004 AUDIT REPORT OF

TOWNSHIP OF UNION AS REQUIRED BY N.J.S. 40A.-5-7

COMBINED COMPARATIVE BALANCE SHEETS

A S S E T SCash and InvestmentsTaxes, Assessments, Liens and

Utility Charges ReceivableProperty Acquired for Taxes - Assessed ValueAccounts ReceivableFixed Capital

• Fixed Capital Authorized and Uncompleted-UtilityDeferred Charges to Future Taxation -

General CapitalDeferred Charges to Revenue of Succeeding

YearsGeneral Fixed Assets

TOTAL ASSETS

DECEMBER31. 2004

DECEMBER31. 2003

$20,145,169.70 $16,817,997.634,305,659.35

129,413.944,544,764.911,690,457.86

3,048,146.34129,413.94

4,019,084.021,690,457.86

27,927,488.49 25,100,060.26

357,000.0045.731.868.00

854,000.0044.806.967.00

$104,831,822.25 $96,466,127.05

LIABILITIES. RESERVES AND FUND BALANCEBonds and Notes Payable • $22,031,815.04 $21,486,383.09Improvement Authorizations 5,663,921.17 3,435,315.08Other Liabilities and Special Funds 15,051,961.33 12,626,038.84Amortization of Debt of Fixed Capital

Acquired or Authorized 1,489.520.28 1,468,205.51Reserve for Certain Assets Receivable 6,704,363.12 5,270,544.30:Fund Balance 8,176,373.31 7,372,673.23Investment in General Fixed Assets 45.731.868.00 44.806.967.00

TOTAL LIABILITIES, RESERVESAND FUND BALANCE $104,831,822.25 $ 96,466,127.05 :

RECOMMENDATIONS* That a physical inventory of General Fixed Assets be taken and reconciled withthe property records on a periodic basis.That Sewer Utility charges be billed on a timely basis.

'Unresolved 2003 audit recommendationA Corrective Action Plan, which outlines actions the Township of Union will take to

correct the findings listed above, will be prepared In accordance with federal and staterequirements. A copy of It wlil be placed on file and made available for public inspec-tion in the Office o f fne Township Clerk in the Township of Union.

The above summary or synopsis was prepared from thB report of audit of the Town-ship of Union, County of Union, for the calendar year 2004. This report of audit, sub-mitted by Suplee, Clboney & Company, Registered Municipal Accountants and Certi-fied Public Accountants, is on file in the Township Clerk's office and may be Inspect-ed by any interested person.

Eileen Birch, ClerkU136299 UNL February 2, 2006 ($59.52)

Richard Malanda, Board of Adjustment SecretaryU136222 UNL February 2, 2006 ($25.11)

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For a long time, it has been thedream of breast cancer survivor ClaraManheim, curator and artist, of "pre-senting a message of hope for thefuture" through artistic endeavors.

So less than a year ago, she organ-ized an art exhibition by 29 profes-sional artists from Union and Essexcounties and from California, Wash-ington, New York and other New Jer-sey cities to participate in a growingcampaign to alert and to entertain thepublic.

Members of the New Jersey Com-mission on Cancer Research have sup-ported "Breast Cancer: An Artist'sView," which will be exhibited Sun-day through March 5 at the WatchungArts Center, 18 Stirling Road.

The exhibition will be the third ofits kind. The other two had been dis-played at Gilda's Club Northern newJersey in Hackensack from Dec. 5through Dec. 17, and the second, at the1978 Arts Center.

It was reported that "the beautifuland powerful exhibit as an importantway to enhance awareness of this rele-vant and important subject." The exhi-bition includes "diverse works of art,such as collage, fiber arts, painting,sculpture, printmaking and concep-tional art providing a unique perspec-tive reflecting reactions to breast can-cer." It is highlighted by Manheim'sown creation of a quilt, "to which shehas added her unique creativitythroughout the seven years that has

Clara Manheim, a breast cancer survivor, as well as cura-tor and artist, is the driving organizational force behind'Breast Cancer: An Artist's View,' which will be exhibitedSunday through March 5 at the Watchung Arts Center.

been a cancer survivor," said CynthiaSmith Weiss, one of the artistic con-tributors.

At the 2 to 5 p.m. opening recep-tion on Sunday, there will be an artist'stalk at 3 p.m. At the closing receptionon March 5, there will be a stagedreading at 3 p.m. of "For Tiger LiliesOut of Season," an award-winningplay about breast cancer by AndreaGreen of Springfield, professor atUnion County College, with theAvenue Theatre of Maplewood.

Lois Shapiro, one of the partici-pants in the show and coordinator ofthe Watchung Art Center, explainedthat "it was a dream for two years toget the show on the road — the babyof Clara Manheim, a survivor. Herdream was to get 29 artists to partici-pate, volunteer and recognize as pro-fessional artists. Each one was invitedto meet Clara and to make a specialstatement of what she had in mind.What she wanted," said Shapiro, "wasa show to express one's feelings and

Artwork by participating artists, including Sean Quinn,Francesca Azzara, Debra Livingston and Vasileki Birrel.Those from Essex County include Fran Willner, MikelFrank, Deb Mell, Joanne Miller Rafferty, Joan Goldsmith,Susan Napack, Lisa Suss, SK Duff, Evelyn Grave andChuck Miley will be on display at 'Breast Cancer: AnArtist's View.'

the impact it had on the general pub-lic."

She mentioned that there wereproblems "getting a venue. Then theGallery 1978 in Maplewood was inter-ested and, in October of 2005, it wasexhibited to support and honor BreastCancer Month. Then we traveled toGilda's Club, which had been started

by Gene Wilder, when his wife, a tele-vision star, died of ovarian cancer."

Shapiro, one of the people "whohelped to found the Watchung ArtCenter about 30 years ago, added withenthusiasm, "I think it's wonderful tohave such an exhibition. The mostinteresting thing about it is that it isvery upbeat. None of the works in the

show are depressing or make youupset. It's truly a unique approach lothis prevalent subject matter."

Cynthia Smith Weiss of Mountain-side, another artistic contributor,explained that "it's really an uncon-ventional show on a very sensitivesubject. And its main purpose is topresent work from the individualartist's reflection of breast cancer amiits impact. The artists have put all tft* »•feelings into this art show." •'

She went on to say, "This exhibi-tion is for the benefit of cancerresearch through the New JerseyCommission on Cancer Research."

Nancy Heins-Glaser, a nurse, andan arts advocate in support of "BreastCancer: An Artist's View," said "theplan for the exhibition is to travel andwe're planning our next step. We hopeto travel throughout the countrybecause it is important and it isunique." :

The participating artists fromUnion County include Sean Quinn,Francesca Azzara, Debra Livingstonand Vasileki Birrel. Those from EssexCounty include Fran Willner, MikelFrank, Deb Mell, Joanne Miller Raf-ferty, Joan Goldsmith, Susan Napack.Lisa Suss, SK Duff, Evelyn Grave andChuck Miley.

Manheim concluded with "this is ;•celebration bound by our roots, ifound out about surviving. 1 = «ji •». >found that art/creativity was my sup-port group ... the healing process that 1needed. It is a celebration of freedom,and it is a long journey ahead."

The Manor offers entertainment mixed with fine cuisinBy Bea SmithStaff Writer

An ultimate, intimate, completelyItalian evening, perfect in every way,was celebrated Jan. 25 at The Manorin West Orange. From Italian cuisinedining in the Terrace Lounge withentertainment by that unique pianoman, Bobby Richards, to beingcrooned to by that renown Italian-American veteran vocalist, Julius LaRosa, one felt engulfed into anotherworld, a world of unending peace.

This special evening, highlightedwith culinary foods fit for the gods, cre-ated, prepared and provided by MichaelWeisshaupt, The Manor's executivechef and Luigi Baretto, internationalexecutive chef, now at the Ram's HeadTnn in Absecon, assisted by John Pozza,also featured preferred Italian wines.

And then, being sung to and havingan opportunity to sing along with thefabulous La Rosa was an experience initself. Somehow, during the hour of finemusic and comedy; one felt a personal"

kinship to the man with whom many ofus grew up. He endeared himself sothoroughly to the audience that one wasdisappointed that "Julie" didn't accom-pany us all home at the end of theevening.

But first things first. The culinaryartistic touches, which were touched offwith the chef's delicious delicacy of atiny portion of cherry tomato with abuffalo mozzarella. And for the "Prelu-dio per Buongustai," appetizer; I chosethe Tuscany iminestron& with• sun-dried*

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When my dining companion and I arrived at The Pearl for lunch, we were pleasantly surprised to seea full bar, complete with two television sets and severalseats, in addition to the more formal seatingarrangement nearby. Whether you're looking for a quick lunch or multi-course feast, you could find ithere.

After enjoying some bread and soft sheepsmilk cheese freshly prepared, my friend and I were serveda mixed vegetable Portuguese soup, which was the soup of the day. Our soft drinks were brought outand refilled promptly. If you're in the mood for wine, A Perola also offers an extensive wine list, includingbottles from Portugal, Chile, Franoe, Italy and the United States.

Unsure of what to choose from on the detectable menu, we began with Gambas com Alho, or garlicshrimp, and neck cockles Nazare style, one of the daily specials. Especially delicious was the grilledchonzo/flambed.in Aguardente- similar to Grappa -in front of diners, both a visual and tasty treat. Weenjoyed each dish, which whetted our appetites forihe main course.

Again, my friend and I decided to order our main courses and share them with each other, a movewhich our waiters were happy to accommodate. After placing each tray in a row in the center of thetable, my dining companion and I enjoyed Misto de Peixes Grehados, a broiled mixed fish platter whichoffered a scrumptious salmon, whitefish and flounder, with some clams thrown in for good measure,much of it Imported from Portugal. Our second dish was a tantalizing black Angus shell steak whichbarely had time to cool before we'd devoured it. Our last plate was the Cataplana de Tamboril comAmeijoas, or monkfish with clams in Cataplana, a delicious delicacy.

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meat was soft and flavorful and the truf-fle sauce whetted the appetite evenmore.

My companion raved about the ten-derness of her roasted organic beef ten-derloin "Rossine," and the especiallywonderful tri-color egg noodles, plusglazed beets and Barolo sauce.

With "Summertime," "Someone toWatch Over Me" and "What a Wonder-ful World," we both savored the"Desideri di Re" dessert, which was thetastiest almond tart with Zabaglionesauce that we ever had. And after theaccompanying strong Manor coffee andthe box of chocolate candies we man-aged to try out, we took ourselves up toLe Dome for other magical delights.

The moment La Rosa swept onstagewith his warm smile, his boisterousgreetings of "Hello!" to every individ-ual and his memorable songs offered inItalian, English and both — there evenwas an Italian song sung in Yiddish —.the sold-out audience was sold on JuliusLa Rosa.

The 70-something performer, whowalked among the tables singing, to oneand to all, such songs as "Days of Wineand Roses" and "Without a Song,"momentarily forgot a few lines andgrinned as he said, "senior moment."

With an accomplished SteveMichaels at the piano, La Rosa hadeveryone mouthing with his offerings of"E Compare," "Just Say I Love Her,"the Italian version of "Back to Sorren-to" and a special rendition of "I've Gota Crush on You."

The singer honored Frank Sinatrawith some of Sinatra's best, did a duetwith the sold-out audience of "Bye ByeBlues" and taught everyone the realvalue of love by singing "As Time GoesBy."

Even if La Rosa had to reach a littlebit to hit the high notes — and he did,sometimes with effort — he provedhimself a real showman. This is hissixth year at The Manor. The audiencein West Orange just loves him.

And when he sang "You Make MeFeel So Young," we all felt that young,too. And we knew we'd welcome himback to The Manor in 2007 — withopen arms and a song in our hearts.

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Historic role of Stepin Fetchit eOne-man play at Luna Stage casts a new light.on controversial figure

By Jeff CumminsStaff Writer

Many people are familiar with the name "Stepin Fetchit," but few know lit-tle about the man, aside from his name.

Roscoe Orman is determined to change that.Fetchit's birth name was Lincoln Theodore Monroe Andrew Perry arid, in an

era when society was considerably more segregated, he was among the firstblack actors in Hollywood to get any significant work in Hollywood. Unfortu-nately for Fetchit, his roles never reflected his talents.

Still, Fetchit rose above that, and carved out a significant niche in Holly-wood, which Orman intends to convey in "The Confessions of Stepin Fetchit,"a one-character play, which opens Feb. 16 at Luna Stage in Montelair and willcontinue through March 12.

For many years, Fetchit was regarded as a controversial figure and, in somequarters, he still is. He made his film debut in 1927 and often played slow,dimwitted characters, becoming a millionaire because of it, due largely to thefact that his brief appearances in films allowed him to do numerous films.

"The characters that he played (and was) really typified by... became a verymaligned character... He was the comic relief in scores of films," said Orman."He was the most successful actor of that kind during those years which ranfrom the late '20s until the last '30s. By the early '40s, that was all pretty passe,especially since civil rights organizations were trying to get rid of those imagesin film and move on to more respectable characters; so his career was prettymuch over by then."

Orman pointed out that this play was written by Matt Robinson, the first actorto play the role of Gordon on "Sesame Street." Orman said Robinson was talkedinto performing the role on the children's show, which he did for a few yearsbefore realizing that his preference was for writing and producing. Robinsonwas also one of the head writers on "The Cosby Show" in the '80s.

Robinson wrote "The Confessions of Stepin Fetchit" after meeting Fetchit inthe late '70s on the set of a movie that he had written.

"By then, Lincoln Perry had not been in film since he did a movie withJimmy Stewart in the 1950s, but that was the last thing that he had done," saidOrman. "But for years, he really tried to revive his career and establish his placein the history of Hollywood, especially among black performers. And he told hisstory to Matt, among other people, and Matt turned it into this one-character playthat we premiered in American Place Theater back in 1993.

"Since then, I've periodically revived it and taken it across the country toregional theaters and colleges and so forth. It's really a great history lesson aboutHollywood and about race in America," said Orman. "It really tells the story ofthis guy's rise to incredible fame, which is really hard for those of us whoweren't historic or film buffs to imagine how unusual this guy's career was. He

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was a millionaire a few times over, back in the '30s, which was a phenomenalfeat for a black performer."

Orman noted that one of the reasons ensuing generations weren't as familiarwith Fetchit's work was because his mere involvement was synonymous withnegative stereotypes of black people, due to the types of roles heplayed.

"Hisname became synonymous with that whole genre," said Orman. "StepinFetchit was synonymous to Uncle Tom, that kind of derogatory phrase. I didn'twitness it so much in mychildhood, but I know people my age wno grew up andwould hear phrases like 'Don't be a Stepin Fetchit' It was synonymous withlazy and shiftless and stupid."

Orman also noted that a new biography about Fetchit's life was recentlyreleased. "Stepin Fetchit: The Life and Times of Lincoln Perry," was written byMel Watkins, who has met with Orman several times, discussing Stepin Fetchit

Orman lauded Watkins' book, which gives readers a greater understanding ofwhat Fetchit endured throughout his career.

"Stepin Fetchit's characterization was so stylized and so specific and justextremely hilarious, to the point where you had to laugh, but audiences that aremore modern, you still laugh when you see him, but you kind of squirm becauseyou recognize what the origin of those characters was and, from the perspectiveof the film-makers, they were not even aware of his talent," said Orman.

"They really thought that's who he was, and-also because his characters fromthat period came to symbolize all of black America, because there were no Syd-ney Poitiers or Denzel Washingtons. There were no so-called positive role modelcharacters in film or in the media. There's a lot of pain associated with his story,which is why his (name) became kind of a curse word. To say Stepin Fetchit wasreally kind of a put down."

This one-man play should be essential viewing for people interested in gain-ing a better understanding of Fetchit because it allows audiences to see whoFetchit really was: an articulate, compelling actor who Orman described asbeing the opposite of his character.

Luna Stage is located at 695 Bloomfield Ave., Montelair. For more informa-tion, call Luna Stage at 973-744-3309, or by logging on to www.lunastage.org.

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ART SHOWS •THE ARTS GUILD OF RAHWAY,located at 1670 Irving St., Rahway,presents "A Separate Reality: AnEclectic Exhibition of Realistic VisualArtworks," from now to Feb. 10. Admis-sion is free. Featured artists includeThomas Andersen, Aileen Bassos,Allen Maertz, Jennifer Mazza, Dou-glass Newton, Leah Oates, RogerSayre, Charlotte Schuiz, Rebecca Sit-tler, Brian St. Cyr and RandallJ: Stoltz-fus. The exhibition will be curated bySamantha Mae Dorfman. For moreinformation, call 732-381-7511, or logon to www.rahwayartsguild.org.LANDSCAPES will be the focus of"Landscope: Recent LandscapeImagery," at the Arts Guild of Rahway,1670 Irving St., Rahway, from Feb. 19to March 17 with an opening receptionon Feb. 19 from 1 to 4 p.m. Admissionis free. Featured artists include PatriciaBrentano, Peter Giaccio, Laura LouLevy and Roger Tucker. For moreinformation, call 732-381-7511, or logon to www.rahwayartsguild.org.THE VISUAL ARTS CENTER of NewJersey will present the third exhibitionin its Emerging Artists Series, continu-ing through Friday. This special exhibi-tion will showcase the work of fiveMaster of Fine Arts candidates Who willbe graduating in 2006 The artists allattend New Jersey colleges and uni-versities offering Master of Fine Artsprograms. The artists chosen areStephen Shingler from Montclair StateUniversity; Neil Callander and JeffreyThompson from Mason Gross Schoolof Fine Arts, Rutgers; Lydia Viscardifrom William Patterson University; andTodd Doney from New Jersey City Uni-versity. For more information, call 908-273i9121, or log on to www.artcen-ternj.org for more information on class-es, exhibitions and special events.THE DONALD B. PALMER MUSEUMat the Springfield Public Library, 66Mountain Ave., Springfield, plans thefollowing exhibits:

• Robert Parker, through Feb. 16.• Louis Winarsky, Feb. 21 through

March 30, sFor information on these exhibits

and other programs at the Donald B.Palmer Museum, call 973-376-4930.BERKELEY HEIGHTS ARTISTNANC3CJQRI is featured at a perma-nent exhibit at Berkeley Heights PublicLibraryh,290 Plainfield Ave., BerkeleyHeights. For information, call 908-464-9333"SIMPLY ART," works by Lydia R.Watson, wiil be presented at the Chil-dren's Specialized Hospital, 150 NewProvidence Road, Mountainside, fromSaturday through March 31 in the PTWing. Art can be viewed daily using theAmbulance entrance. The event isfree. For additional information, call908-233-3720, ext. 5379."IMAGES OF CHILDREN," works byJennifer Foglia, will be presented at theChildren's Specialized Hospital, 150New Providence Road, Mountainside,from Saturday through March 25 in theeast wing. Art can be viewed dailyusing the Ambulance entrance. Theevent is free. For additional informa-tion, call 908-233-3720, ext. 5379."LENTICULAR IMAGING," works byJoel Katz, will be presented at the Chil-dren's Specialized Hospital, 150 NewProvidence Road, Mountainside, fromMonday through March 31 in the cen-ter hallway. Art can be viewed dailyusing the Ambulance entrance. Theevent is free. For additional informa-tion, call 908-233-3720, ext. 5379.

BOOKSGORDON T. WARD will appear at TheTown Book Store, 255 E. Broad St.,Westfield, on Saturday from 11 a.m. to1 p.m., to promote his new book, "Lifeon the Shoulder: Rediscovery & Inspi-ration Along the Lewis & Clark Trail." Ifyou are unable to attend this event,you may callthe store at 908-233-3535and reserve a copy of the book.

THE AFRICAN-AMERICAN BOOKGROUP will meet at Barnes andNoble, 1180 Raritan Road, Clark. Forinformation, call 732-574-1818.

THE "LORD OF THE RINGS" READ-ING GROUP meets the first Wednes-day of the month at Barnes and Noble,1180 Raritan Road, Clark. For informa-tion, call 732-574-1818.

KEAN UNIVERSITY'S OFFICE OFUNIVERSITY RELATIONS and TheStar-Ledger have partnered to publisha new book titled "World of WonderExploring the Realms of History, Sci-ence, Nature and Technology." Thebook brings together 90 of the mostfascinating subjects surveyed by the

World of Wonder series. The book isnow available for purchase in the KeanUniversity book store and on the Website of The Star-Ledger athttp://www.nj.com/worldofwonder.

WEEKLY STORY TIMES are present-ed on Tuesdays at 10:20 a.m. forpreschoolers and on Thursdays at 4:30p.m. at the Springfield Barnes & Noble,located at 240 Route 22 West, Spring-field. For information, cal! 973-376-6581.

CLASSES •-THE DUCRET SCHOOL OF ART islocated at 1030 Central Ave. and is sit-uated on a seven-acre campus in ahistoric residential area of Plainfield.The school offers full-time and part-time day and evening classes in fineart, graphic design/computer graphicsand illustration, For information call908-757-7171, fax: 908-757-2626, orvisit the Web site at www.duCret.edu.

tion, call 908-790-0700.FRED EAGLESMITH and the FlyingSquirrels will perform at The SanctuaryConcerts, 240 Southern Blvd.,Chatham, with special guest AlastairMook on Feb. 11 at 8 p.m. Admission is$20 and includes home-bakeddesserts and coffee. For information,call 973-376-4946, or log on towww.sanctuaryconcerts.org.

DANCEY-SQUARES, a local square danceclub, meets Tuesdays at 7:30 p.m. atFrank K. Hehrily School, Raritan Road,Clark. The fee for each lesson is $4.For information, call 908-298-1851,732-381-2535 or 908-241-9492.THE SUMMIT INTERNATIONALFOLK DANCERS group has begun a

. new season with sessions on Fridaysat 8 p.m. at the Connection, MorrisAvenue at Maple Street, in Summit.Beginners are welcome, no partnersare needed. All sessions begin at 8

Education, Arts Reaching Thousands— grant program. To request HEARTgrant information, contact the UnionCounty Division of Cultural and Her-itage Affairs, 633 Pearl St., Elizabeth07202; call 908-558-2550, Relay usersdial 711; or send inquiries via e-mail toculturalinfo@ucnj.org.

HOBBIESTHE MODEL RAILROAD CLUB INC.meets at 295 Jefferson Ave?, Union,behind Home Depot on Route 22 East.The club is open to the public Satur-days from 1 to 4 p.m. For information,call 908-964-9724 or 908-964-8808,send inquiries via e-mail toTMRCInc@aol.com or visit the Website at www.tmrci.com.THE HARVEST QUILTERS OF CEN-TRAL NEW JERSEY will meet the firstMonday of each month at Cozy CornerCreations quilt shop, Park Avenue,Scotch Plains,

ture the house band, Tempo, playing atDusty's Place on Monday, formerlyknown as The Cove, 112 Chestnut St.,Roselie. Saturday Jazz Showcase fea-tures top acts from the New York Met-ropolitan area. For information, call908-241-5675, or 908-241-1224.Patrons may also send a message bye-mail to salange@bellatlantic.net.

LIVE JAZZ PERFORMANCES will befeatured every Friday at 9:30 p.m. at22 West Restaurant and Lounge, 2185Route 22, Union. Patrons must be 21and older. For more information, call908-206-0060.

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The Friends of the Union County Arts Center have announced the winners of their mostrecent raffle. At the announcement of the winner of the semi-annual 50/50 raffle drawingare, from left, Anne McDarby, treasurer; Dorothy Kelly, fund-raising chairperson; rafflewinner Isabelle Tavormina, and Marge Gray, president.

LIBERTY HALL MUSEUM on MorrisAvenue in Union has scheduled itspopular Lunch and Learn series, whichis free to members of the public whoare invited to bring their lunch andlearn. Lunch and Learn takes place ona Tuesday from 12:15 to 1 p.m. Spaceis limited, so call 908-527-0400 for areservation.

Liberty Hall Museum, 1003 MorrisAve., Union, chronicles more than 200years of New Jersey and U.S. history.The museum is open to the publicWednesdays through Saturdays, from10 a.m. to 4 p.m., and Sundays, fromnoon to 4 p.m., April through Decem-ber. For more information aboutupcoming Liberty Hall events or forreservations, call 908-527-0400.

CONCERTSCROSSROADS IN GARWOOD willfeature the following:

Every Monday, Open Mic Night.Every Tuesday, Jazz Jam.Every Wednesday, karaoke night.The Crossroads is located at 78

North Ave., Garwood. For information,call Lee at 908-232-5666, Or visit theWeb site, www.xxroads.cbm.COFFEE WITH A CONSCIENCECONCERT SERIES of Westfield hasresumed. All shows start at 8 p.m. andthe doors always open at 7:30 p.m.Admission is $15 and will benefit theAIDS quilt. For information, call 908-412-9105, press 2. Other concerts willtake place at the First United MethodistChurch of Westfield, 1 E. Broad St.,corner of North Ave., Westfield.SUBURBAN COMMUNITY MUSICCENTER will host the following con-certs:

• Meet the Woodwinds, with NewJersey Youth Symphony coach DianaCharos, on March 5 at 2 p.m.

• Meet the Brass, with New JerseyYouth Symphony coach Remoh Mose-ley, on April 23 at 2 p.m.

The concert series continues at theSuburban Community Music Center,570 Central Ave., Murray Hill. For the18th year, the Suburban CommunityMusic Center, in cooperation with theNew Jersey Symphony Orchestra, willhost the Meet the Orchestra series forchildren ages 3 to 8. For more informa-

p.m.; newcomers may arrive at 7:30p.m. for extra help. Admission is $2 forthe evening. Call 973-467-8278 forinformation and a flier listing the sea-son schedule.DANCE THE NIGHT AWAY IN ELIZA-BETH. Pick your choice of social danc-ing, $9 per person, or Latin dancing,$10 per person, at the Bayway PolishClub, 625 Pulaski St. For information,call 908-355-3131."TEA DANCE: A DANCE EXTRAVA-GANZA" is not your grandmother'stea. Kean University notes this even isfor mature audiences. "Tea Dance"takes place on April 15 at 7:30 p.m.Tickets are $25: $20 for alumni, faculty,staff and seniors; $15 for students. Fortickets and information, cal! 908-737-7469, or log on to www.wilkinsthe-atre.com.BALLET MESTIZO ... THE BEST OFCOLOMBIA will be presented-on April29 at 7:30 p.m. at the Wilkins Theatreon the campus of Kean University inUnion. Tickets are $25: $20 for alumni,faculty, staff and seniors; $15 for stu-dents. For tickets and information, call908-737-7469.LUNA LOUNGE hosts "Tasty Thurs-days" with DJ Richie, who spins rag-gaeton and hip hop. Patrons must be21 or older, dress is casual but trendy.Parking is available. Luna Lounge islocated at 1906 E. St. Georges Ave.,Linden. Call 908-925-4120 for details.

FILMTHE 25TH BLACK MARIA FESTIVALPREMIERE FORTNIGHT will presenta screening Feb. 10 at 7 p.m. at KeanUniversity, Vauhn Earls Hall, MorrisAve., Union.

GRANTSTHE UNION COUNTY BOARD OFFREEHOLDERS invites local nonprofitorganizations, individual artists andscholars to apply for funding from the2004 Union County HEART — History,

KNITTING GROUP meets every Mon-day from 10 a.m. to noon. Knitters areencouraged to bring a favorite projectto the Springfield Barnes & Noble Cafe.For more information, call 973-376-6581.HICKORY TREE CHORUS, an award-winning women's chorus singing four-part a cappella harmony in barbershopstyle, meets every Wednesdayevening at 7:30 p.m. at the New JerseyYouth Symphony Music Center, 570Central Ave., New Providence. Open toresidents of both Essex and Unioncounties. To learn more about SweetAdelines, Hickory Tree and its quartets,women and teen-aged girls who singare urged to visit the Web site, hickory-treechorus.org., send a message by e-mail to info@hickorytreechorus.org., orcall 973-966-6815.

INTERNETTHE INTERNET LOUNGE, 256 SouthAve., Fanwood, hosts an Open Mic/Karaoke Night on Sundays at 7 p.m.Join the group for a cup of gourmet cof-fee and a wide variety of organic foodsand participate in an original poetryreading, a stand-up comedy routine ora musical number. There's no covercharge, and patrons can come in,make new friends, surf the Web or playa game of Diablo2, NeverWinterNights,WarCraft or Counter-Strike. To askabout a schedule of events, call 908-490-1234 or visit its Web site:www.theintemetlounge.com.

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CALLING ALL BUDDING ARCHI-TECTS — come learn about buildingcastle cards! What's small enough to fitin your pocket, yet big enough to holdan entire medieval jousting tourna-ment? Amazing building cards. Createa castle. For boys and girls 8 and older,today at 4:30 p.m., at Barnes andNoble, Route 22 West, Springfield. Forinformation, call 973-376-8544.

MusicTHE PEACEMAKERS salute peaceleaders from around the world with aconcert on March 31 at 7:30 p.m. at theWilkins Theatre on the campus ofKean University in Union. Tickets are$15; $12 for alumni, faculty, staff andseniors; $10 for students and children.For tickets and information, call 908-737-7469, or log on to www.wilkinsthe-atre.com.

JOIN MATTHEW HARPER for anevening of chamber music by today'sleading New Jersey area composers at"Ars Vitalis, The New Jersey NewMusic Forum," on April 26 at theWiikins Theatre on the campus ofKean University in Union. A pre-con-cert panel discussion will take place at7:30 p.m.; the concert begins at 8 p.m.Admission is free. For information, call908-737-7469, or log on to www.wilkin-stheatre.com.

PROGRAMSTHE FRIENDS OF THE UNIONCOUNTY ARTS CENTER will meetMonday at 7 p.m. at the Union CountyArts Center, 1601 Irving St., Rahway,for a special program. Coi. Peter O'Ha-gan, USMC, retired, a traffic safetyspecialist from the AAA Auto Club, willbe the guest speaker. O'Hagan will talkabout the timely topic of safe winterdriving and general traffic safety infor-mation. This meeting is open to mem-bers and their guests. Refreshmentswill be served.

RADIOTRI-COUNTY RADIO ASSOCIATIONwill meet at 8 p.m. the first and thirdMondays of the month at the WillowGrove Presbyterian Church on OldRaritan Road in Scotch Plains. Forinformation, call 908-241-5758.

SCRIPTSPREMIERE STAGES, the new Actors'Equity Association theater program atKean University, is currently acceptingplay submissions for the PremiereStages Play Festival from professionalplaywrights born or currently residing inNew Jersey, as well as in the sur-rounding areas of New York, Connecti-cut and Pennsylvania. There is no feerequired to submit a play to the Pre-miere Stages Play Festival. To requestentry guidelines, send a self-addressed, stamped envelope to LauraKelly, producing assistant, PremiereStages is at Kean University, 1000Morris Ave., Union 07083.

SINGLESINTERFAITH SINGLES, for singleadults older than 45 years old, willmeet every Sunday from 9 to 10:30a.m. for discussion and continentalbreakfast at First Baptist Church, 170

Elm St., Westfield. Donation is $2. Forinformation, call 908-889-5265 or 908-889-4751.SOCIAL SINGLES DANCING, for 45-year-olds and older, meets every Tiies-day at 7 p.m. at the Yankee BuffetGrand Ballroom, 2660 Morris Ave.,Union. Admission is $7. For informa-tion, call 908-688-8816. iSINGLES MIX AND MINGLE, everyThursday, starting at 7 p.m. Enjoy liveentertainment and free finger food atCafe Vivace, 1370 South Ave., andTerril) Road, Fanwood. Admission isfree. Call 908-753-4500 for details.

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YOUNG PLAYWRIGHTS will competefor the 2006 fourth annual Young Pl;-y-wrights Competition for New Jer$9\High School Students, sponsored '.The Theater Project, Union Coui .College's Professional Theater Ccr •pany. First-, second- and third- prs;;ewinners will receive $600, $400, and$200 U.S. savings bonds, respectively.The winning scripts will be honoredwith professional script-in-hand per-formances during New Jersey FamilyWeek at the theater in March whenprofessional theaters in New Jerseyoffer free programming for young peo-ple. The contest is open to students inNew Jersey in grades nine to 12.Scripts at any stage of completion areeligible. The deadline for submissionwas Tuesday. There is a $5 entry fee.Mail to The Theater Project, UnionCounty College, 1033 Springfield Ave..Cranford 07016. For information, call908-659-5189.

THE BACK PORCH in Rahway wil.present Open Mic Night every Thurs-day night, and live bands perform onFriday and Saturday nights. i >

Happy Hour is 4 to 7 p.m. Mondaysto Fridays, with $1 drafts and $3. LongIsland iced teas. Mondays are MexicanMondays with $2 shot specials, $2Coronas, $2 margaritas and $1 tacos.Wednesdays are Ladies Nights andkaraoke.

The Back Porch is located at 1505Main St., Rahway. For information, cal!732-381-6455.CROSSROADS, 78 North Ave., .Gar-wood, presents a series of jazz, bluesand comedy concerts, as well as fdot-ball-themed nights.

Every Sunday: Live comedy, funkand poetry; Live at Instant Coffee, 8p.m.

Every Monday: Open Mic Night,Happy Hour all night. ,

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For information, call 908-232-5666or visit www.xxroads.com.MOLLY MAGUIRE'S iRISH PUB inClark will present entertainment in thecoming weeks. Molly Maguire's islocated at 1085 Central Ave., Clark.,For information, call 732-388-6511.SECOND SATURDAYS COFFEE-HOUSE will take place the secondSaturday of each month at 8 p.m. inthe Fellowship Hall of the Summit Uni-tarian Church, 4 Waidron Ave., Sum-mit. Featured will be an "open mic"forum of music, poetry, comedy aridperformance art. Refreshments Eireserved. Admission is $4. Talent |issought for future dates. |

For information, call 908-412-1855or send a message by e-mail toinfo@secondsaturdays.org. !VAN GOGH'S EAR, 1017 StuyvesantAve., Union, will present a series ofmusical events. Tuesdays are"Acoustic Tuesday," some of which fea-ture open mic from 8 to 9 p.m. for folksingers, poets and comedians, fol-lowed by a featured folk performer.Open mic participants sign up at 7:30p.m. and get 10 minutes at the micro-phone. Jazz and blues are featuredSundays at 8 p.m. The cover charge is$3 for all Sunday concerts, unless oth-erwise noted. For information, call 908-810-1844. :THE CONCORD SINGERS, a urfque,non-auditioning women's communitychorus, seeks new members.Rehearsals are Mondays from 7:30 to10 p.m. at Calvary Episcopal Church inSummit.

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Wine Library is looking for people to join ourstock fulfillment team. We are a vastly grow-ing company with many opportunities, sonow is a great time to get your foot in thedoor. Part-time and full-time positions avail-able. Schedules must be flexible as holidaysand weekends are required. Some liquorindustry experience is preferred, but notrequired. Come in fill out an applicationtoday.We are located at 586 Morris Ave., Spring-field. Call 973-376-0005 with any questions.

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APARTMENT TO RENT3 BEDROOM 1 BATH. $1600. NO FEE!W/D, Parking for 2 cars. Avail March 1. PetsOK. 2 Family House. 347-668-5972

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Baris a semi-finalist in family business contestJcnxfan Bans Inc., an independent

real estate brokerage serving northernNew Jersey since 1952, has been hon-ored as a semi-finalist at the 2005New Jersey Famiiy Business of theYear Awards.

The awards, presented for the past13 years by the Rothman Institute ofEntrepreneurial Studies at FairleighDickinson University, recognize thesignificant role that famiiy-ownedbusinesses play in the nation's econo-my and their vital contribution to thestate and local business community.The program especially recognizesfamily-owned companies that exem-plify strong businesses acumen, activefamily engagement, innovation andcommunity involvement. Jordan BansInc. was one of the semi-finalists forthe second consecutive year in the cat-egory for companies with revenuesunder $10 million a year.

"This is a great family and a greatcompany," said Kim Dennis on,administrator for family business pro-grams with the Rothman Institute ofEntrepreneurial Studies. "One merelyhas to take a look at their Web site toknow that this is an organization thatis not complacent, they are striving toremain at the top of the industry. Cur-rent success does not seem to be asimportant as future success, in my

opinion. They truly value their com-munity and their customers."

More than 40 companies enteredthis year's competition, which has cat-egories for companies above andbelow the $10 million dollar annualrevenue level. Entrants have to fill outa long form detailing the coiiipany'shistory and contributions to the com-munity and finalists are interviewedby a panel from PNC Bank, one of theprogram's sponsors.

Jordan Baris Inc. was an entrant inthe under $10 million category. Thisyear's award in that category went toAlberta "Aunt Berta" Ferebee and herfamily,; -where .twe-generations —three if you include the ones who arestill in grade school — work at AuntBerta's Kitchen, a restaurant in Oak-lyn that is almost as well known for itsphilanthropic work as its food. Thewinner in the over $10 million catego-ry was Crystal Palace Caterers in Liv-ingston, operated by two generation ofthe Janoff family.

Dennison noted that Jordan BarisRealtors President Ken Baris has par-ticipated in many of the RothmanInstitute's seminars for entrepreneurs,one of the ways in which the Barisfamily has contributed to their com-munity and sought ways to improvetheir business.

"It is proof they are able to lookaround and use 'unorthodox, non-industry related' channels to gainknowledge to benefit their organiza-tion," said Dennison.

Ken Baris, son of the firm'sfounder and chairman, Jordan Baris,said his family was honored to beamong this year's semi-finalists.

"Our company has long prideditself on giving our sales associates thebest support and technology possibleand it's an honor to see that work rec-ognized," said Baris. "The companymy father founded 53 years ago hasgrown into a 210-person brokeragethat is still growing. That shows theimpact a family-owned company canhave on the community."

Jordan Baris Inc. is truly a familyoperation. Jordan Baris still plays anactive role in day-to-day managementand long-term strategy, coming to theoffice five days most weeks despitelikely being entitled to a bit of retire-ment. Ken, named president earlierthis year, helps guide the "firm's dailyaffairs and often jokes about how he iswaiting for his sons to join the compa-ny. The Barises all live in WestOrange, where their company isbased.

The Baris family's roots in thecommunity run deep. Jordan Baris has

been president of the Chambers ofCommerce in Irvington and WestOrange and was president of theNewark, Irvington and Hillside Northboard of Realtors. He was also presi-dent of the board of Realtors of theOranges and Maplewood. JordanBaris was also a director with the NewJersey Association of Realtors. JordanBaris founded the New Jersey Coali-tion for Safe Communities and the Irv-ington Anti-Graffiti Committee andhas served on the Irvington EconomicDevelopment Commission. In recog-nition of these years of volunteerwork, Jordan Baris is one of the fewbrokers to twice win the NationalAssociation of Realtors' CommunityService Award. During 2000, JordanBaris Inc. was named West OrangeBusiness of the Year. The Barises areactive with the National Kidney Foun-dation and were the groups "Family ofthe Year" in 2003. The family andcompany also support the St. BarnabasHospital Foundation.

Ken Baris has been president of theWest Orange and South OrangeChambers of Commerce and is amember of the board of the OscarSchindler Performing Arts Center inWest Orange, where Jordan Baris Inc.sponsors the "Broadway Comes to theMountain" series of shows.

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Tuscan is a thrifty alternateMark Maynard

Copley News ServiceTwenty-thousand dollars goes a

long way in the Hyundai Tucson GLS.Smooth riding, quiet and fairly fuel

efficient, this compact SUV is analternative to a midsize sedan thatcould cost an additional $5,000, ormore.

This is Hyundai's second SUV, anotch down from the Santa Fe, and ithas a value pack of extras.

All Tucsons cortje with remotelocking, air conditioning, power win-dows and locks, power heated mirrors,tinted glass, eight-way adjustable dri-ver's seat, six-speaker audio with CDand even heated windshield wiperrests.

And it is a safety cocoon - with sixair bags, including roof-mounted sidecurtain bags, four-wheel disc brakesand ABS with electronic brake forcedistribution and an Electronic StabilityProgram with traction control.

Buyers may choose from threemodels with two engines and trans-missions in two- or four-wheel drivewith pricing that starts at $18,094. Thetop-line LX 4WD is $23,394,

The base front-wheel-drive GLcomes with a 140 horsepower, two-liter double overhead camshaft four-cylinder engine with continuouslyvariable valve timing. The standardtransmission is a five-speed manual;upgrade to a four-speed Shiftronicautomatic for $850 more. Fuel econo-my is 22 mpg city and 27 highwaywith the manual, 21/26 for 4WD,using 87 octane.

Four-wheel drive adds $1,500, and

it's a slick, all-weather system. Theelectronic Borg Warner system —InterActive Torque Management —can route up to 99 percent of the avail-able power to the front wheels or up to50 percent to the rear wheels. The sys-tem monitors throttle position, front-wheel angle and wheel slips.

For those sending a grad off to col-lege, this isn't a bad way to protect theinvestment.

Thrift never seemed more extrava-gant, but for those who want absolutepower and leather-trimmed seats,there is the GLS and LX.

The GLS, today's tester, lists for$20,644 and-adds the 173 horsepowerV-6 and four-speed Shiftronic, foglights, leather-trimmed and heatedseats and an upgraded audio systemwith cassette and MP3. The only fac-tory option is a power sunroof, $850.

Tucsons of all levels are loadedwith good ideas and safe design ele-ments. For example, there are hefty16-inch BF Goodrich tires on attrac-tive alloy wheels. Durable plasticmoldings rim the lower body andwheel openings to fend off highwayrash and road salt.

Inside, there are helpful touches inthe purse or bag hook in the passengerfoot area, an adjustable front armrest,visors with extenders, an overheadconsole with sunglass storage and maplights, and back-seat coat hooks andgrab handles, so you don't have tohang dry cleaning from an assist grip.

The front passenger seat back fullyreclines or it can be folded forward asa work space for the driver or to openup space to load long tools or toys.

And there's even an exterior passengerdoor lock port — an item that has beenphased out of many cars to savemoney.

There was also plenty of budget forthe cargo area. The tailgate has flip-upglass so you don't always have to heftthe full door. Inside, there is a light,12-volt plug-in, cargo cover, undei-floor storage and lie downs, and therear mat is removable to hose out theplastic floor. ; ;

What's not to like? The suspensionis set for comfy not zoomy, so it mightdisappoint those' drivers who like tbpush hard through the comers. But thetidy 35.4-foot turning circle makes itvery nimble in tight spots. And theback seat area is small for a growingfamily, but there's always the Santa Fefor anyone in that position.

.. For Tucson, it's the attention todetail, how well it's put together andhow much it gives along every mile ofdriving that makes it seem like a smartbuy. ' ;

Chrysler has revved up itsHemi.com Web sitewww.Hemi.com — with new storiesand photos, more in-depth history andspecifications, and new multimediafeatures, including Hemi sounds.

The new Hemi engine story is con-tinued and expanded to include the 6.1liter version.

New galleries show 1950s Hemicars, 426 Hemi-powered vehicles andracing cars and boats of all kinds.

There are more vintage ads in theWeb site and twice as many rare-image wallpapers are available fordownload.