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unveils Rt. 1 fixDOT plan calls for upgrades to intersectionsBy Paul Koepps ia ff W rite r

Seven intersections of Route 1 in the township are set to receive improvements from the state De­partment of Transportation, but work will not start before 2010 at the earliest.

Township officials said that while they appreciate the “quick- fix" efforts to address congestion on Route 1, the plans fall short of their ultimate goal of having the road widened to three lanes throughout South Brunswick.

DOT officials made a presenta­tion Tuesday to the Township Council outlining plans to improve traffic flow at the intersections of Route 1 and New Road, Wynwood Drive, Deans Lane, Henderson Road, Raymond Road, Sand Hills Road and Major Road.

The recommendations came after a study conducted by the DOT this summer of all 13 Route 1 inter­sections in the township, as well as two in North Brunswick. The DOT announced in May that it did not have enough money to widen the whole length of Route 1 in the township.

Bemie-Boerchers, of the DOT, told the council that the eastbound

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Council takes aim at drinkingOrdinance to focus on teen alcohol useBy Paul KoeppStaff W rite r

Underage drinking is the target of two ordinances introduced Tues­day by the Township Council.

. The council introduced one or­dinance diat would prohibit the pos­session or consumption of alcohol on private property by underage drinkers, as well as another requir­ing beer kegs to be registered prior to sale. They could be adopted after public hearings at the Sept. 25 council meeting.

The first proposed ordinance would allow the driver’s license of a minor caught drinking alcohol on private property to be suspended or postponed for up to six months after the minor is of legal age to drive. It also establishes a fine of $250 for a first offense and $350 for subse­quent offenses.

The keg registration ordinance would require retailers to place an identification label on every keg sold so that police can track the pur­chasers of kegs found at parties where minors are discovered drink­ing. Retailers must keep a record for 90 days of the buyer’s driver’s li­cense number, the date and time of the purchase, the keg’s identifica­tion number and the buyer’s signa-

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Lifeguard revives 2-year-oldBy Paul KoeppStaff W riter

A toddler nearly drowned Tuesday afternoon in the pool of the Southridge Woods apartment complex off North­umberland Way in Monmouth Junction.

A Hillsbofough High School stu­dent, Ray Sanchez, 17, who was acting as lifeguard for the pool, saved the life of the 2-year-old boy, whose name was not released by police.

According to police, the lifeguard heard commotion and found the child

lying face down in the 3-foot shallow end of the pool. He carried the boy, who was blue in the face, out of the pool and performed CPR until the child was able to .spit up water, police spokesman Detective Jim Ryan said Tue.sday evening.

Police arrived within a minute and

the Kendall Park First Aid Squad .soon arrived and took over CPR.

The boy was transported to Robert Wood Johmson University Hospital in New Brunswick shortly after 4, p.m.i where he was in stable condition. De­tective Ryan said.

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Heidi Tesar and Brooke Valan wash their hands before snack time during kindergarten orientation at Greenbrook School recently.

Back to school: Seven days and countingKindergartners get trial run

By Madeleine JohnsonSocial Editor

While many students are getting ready for the first day of school, kin­dergartners are getting ready for a whole lot of firsts.

And their teachers are here to make sure that their first taste of elementary school'— set to begin Sept. 6 — is an inviting adventure, not an intimidating change.

Between Aug. 21 and Aug. 24, Greenbrook Elementary School held its kindergarten prep program, which in­troduced incoming kindergartners to

•their new school and the daily routines of 3L typical academic day.

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“Basically, we get the children ready for school,” said Laura Davido- witz, one of the kindergarten teachers who helped run this year’s program. “We get them used to a routine, they get to know each other, they get to know the school."

The teachers understand that their kindergartners might be_a little appre­hensive of their new suiroundings and

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Helping sixth-graders make the transition to middle schoolBy Paul KoeppStaff W riter

As another school year begins and a fresh crop of sixth-grade students fills up the middle schools, teachers are getting ready to do everything they can to make a difficult transition easier.

Part of that task/was accomplished with an ori­entation program. Fantastic Voyage, which teachers and staff held on several dates in July and August to make the incoming classes feel at home in their new school.

The half-day program included skits, scavenger hunts and questipn-and-answer sessions that taught the students the layout of the building and attempted to calm their fears about entering middle school.

One of the biggest leaps for the kids. Crossroads North language arts and math teacher Alicia Fultz said Monday, is trading in their elementary school desks for lockers.

, “ It’s a big deal for sixth-graders," she said. “How do Topen the locker? Will I remember the combination? Will someone shove me in my lock­er?” ' ; .

Ms. Fultz said getting used to a big building after several years in a small, familiar .school is also a tough step.

“They’re very uneasy about finding their way through the school. Getting to class on time is also a big worry,” she said. “They’re not used to moving by themselves. You don’t walk in lines anymore.”

At Crossroads South, sixth-grade teachers.par­ticipating in the orientation program put on a skit in

which they acted out all the worst fears of incoming students, only to show in the end that it was just a bad dream.

Sandy Behn, a social studies teacher who took part, summed up some of those fears Tuesday: “Will my teachers be mean? Will I have any friends in my unit? Will I get stuffed into my locker?"

Writing teacher Noreen O’Donnell said some of the students’ anxieties are more mundane, like how to navigate the cafeteria and how the food will taste. But she said the whole orientation exercise is aimed at building trust among the students, as vvell as be­tween them and the teachers.

“ It’ll fall apart later if we don’t build it now,” she said. “We want them to feel like a family, and .

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Even though the first day of school isn’t until Wednesday, students and teachers alike crowded into the computer, lab at St. Augustine of Canterbury School on Aug. 21 for a crash course in Web design.

The workshop, the first of three lessons that reached out to both teachers and students, taught participants how to use Dreamweaver, a Web-develop­ing program, to personalize the look and content of their own Web sites.

The school began its Dream­weaver education last year in an attempt to give SL Augustine students a technological advan­tage.

"We wanted to go with the industry standard so that when the students leave this school, they’ll be exposed to what most companies use,” said Laura Gra- zianb, consultant and St. Au­gustine’s former technology co­ordinator.

The workshop also coincides with the Middle State Accredita­tion goals and the school’s tech­nology plan for the next 10 years, which means that students will be trained to create class Web sites with their teachers.

The students present at the workshop were invited to attend

,the program and, like seventh- grader Francis Cap, many were members of the school’s Comp Tech team. Comp Tech students help the faculty with computer maintenance, ranging from cleaning the machines to fixing any technological problems.

“If there’s any trouble with the computers, or if a computer breaks down, we^help the teach­ers fix them,” Francis said.

Having worked with other kinds of software and computer equipment, Francis enjoyed the opportunity to leam more about Dreamweaver.

“I learned how to create a basic Web site. It’s the first time I’ve designed a Web site, and it feels pretty good. It feels good just to be able to create some­thing,” he said. “It’s really good software. I’ve tried others, and this is the easiest.”

Other students also felt they benefited from the experience.

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Seventh-grader Erika Elechi- con agreed.

“I want to play, around and discover new things (about Dreamweaver) and show them to people,” she said.

Erika said Dreamweaver makes creating a Web site much easier.

“1 like that you can make a Web site but don’t have to go through the whole process of looking at the coding,” she said.

The students weren’t the only ones who walked away from the workshop feeling as though they learned and accom­plished an awful lot in just three hours., r

• “We’ll have our own Web pages to do for projects and homework so parents can see what we’re doing,” said fourth- grade teacher Sharon Stout. “I’ve learned some and I’m a little more comfortable with the navigation. I’ve never done this before and I’m looking forward to getting more proficient in this program.” ,

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Part of the program’s suc­cess comes from the students’ and teachers’ pre-existing tech­nological understanding, thanks to the school’s computer educa­tion program.

“They’ve already learned Microsoft Word, Excel and Pub­lisher and are ready to move on,” Ms. Graziano said.

Debbie Knox, the school’s computer teacher, makes sure that the degree to which students are exposed to computers and the Internet are appropriate fbr their age levels, anT-slresses in­ternet safety to every class.

“We start them on computers when they’re in kindergarten,” Ms. Knox said. “We teach them about Internet safely and reiter­ate it over and over. Every year we review all the Internet safety mies, what can and can’t be done."

By allowing the students to experience a variety of computer programs, the school hopes it will be helping the children get a head start in the future.

“Our goal is that when they go off to high school, they can decide if they want to pursue this,’’ said Ms. Graziano. “If they do, it opens doors for them."

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Crossroads set for opening dayBy Paul KoeppStaff W riter

When Crossroads North Middle School opens its doors Sept. 6, its 877 students will have a little more room to roam and some new rooms in which to learn.

A ramp leads down seam­lessly from the former end of a hallway into the building’s 10,910-square-foot addition, which was finished last week and includes five classrooms, two small instructional spaces, one science lab, and an assistant principal’s office.

The new wing wili eventual­ly let Crossroads North add 200 students, bringing its enrollment more in line with Cro.ssroads South, which has about 1,200 students enrolled this year.

Students will be transferred from South to North in a phased plan, with .some sixth-graders

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making the move next year and some sixth- and seventh-graders doing the same in 2009-2010, according to school district Business Administrator Anthony Topzini.

“The idea is to bring some parity between the ■ middle .schools,’.’ Mr. Tonzini said Mon­day during a tour of the addition. “It won’t be exactly 50-50, but it should be about 60-40.’’

Mr. Tonzini said the con­struction of the new wing began 'In November and was completed on time and under its $3.3 mil­lion budget. Construction -costs totaled about $2,8 million, with

fees for the architect and other professionals bringing the tab to around $3.2 million, he said.

The project was the last of several in the district funded by a December 2003 bond referen­dum, which also provided for additions and renovations to Brunswick Acres, Cambridge, Constable, Greenbrook and Monmouth Junction schools.

Crossroads North Assistant Principal Mark Kmiec .said the addition will make the school less reliant on portable instruc­tional space and "keep classes and departments from moving around as much as they have in recent years. ,

“This will give the world languages a definite spot,” he said, adding that special educa­tion classes wilk now have a larger group space.

Seventh, and eighth grade science teacher Ana Liplalj, who has been teaching for 20 years, said her classroom in the new wing, with an updated computer and cutting-edge lab equipment, will help her incorporate tech­nology into her teaching.

“This is an amazing science room. It’s built to do basically, state-of-the-art science,’’ she said. “It will give the students a true hands-on experience.’’

As Ms. Liptak unpacked boxes Monday and prepamd for the Start of classes, she marveled at other features of her class­room, including its two dry- cradle boards, and the cluster of lab benches and tables. in the back oi'the room.

.“It’s set up the way it should be.” she said. ‘

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Proposed sewer plan put on holdBy Paul KoeppStaff W rite r

“ A project that would bring water and sewer service to Deans Pond Lane and adjacent roads is onjiold while studies of well contamination in the area are completed.

The Township Council voted Tuesday to postpone indefinitely a bond ordinance to cover $500,000 of the startup costs for the project, which could involve installing either a pump station or a gravity line.

The township has asked the- Middle.scx County Public Health Department tq study the level of contamination in the area’s wells. When contamination is found, as it has been at some residences where new wells were drilled, the state provides treatment, usually a charcoal fil­tering .sy.stcm. The results of the county’s study will help the council decide how to proceed with the water and sewer proj­ect,.council members said Tues­day.

Some residents of the Deans Pond Lane artia spoke at the council meeting about contami­nation in their wells, while oth­ers expressed concerns that hooking up to water and .sewer .service would bring them high utility costs and increased tax as­sessments.

Lisa Belli^.io, of Homestead Lane, said contamination was found at her residence when her family drilled a new well in 1996, and that costly treatment has been needed ever since. She said the treatment system pro­vided by the state did not fix the problem, but only put a “Band- Aid" on it.

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Ms. Bellizio also said she is concerned that if her family tries to sell the house, its value will be driven down, and she warned that other nearby families could have the same problem.

“It’s only a matter of time before more houses are affect­ed,” she said.

Joseph Jardim, of Deans Pond Lane West, said that runoff from Route 1 drains directly into the area, and he said septic sys­tems are “a thing of the past."

“Carcinogens can affect any­one in your family," he said. “I don’t think my neighbors realize how contamination washes down from that highway.”

However, Peter MedelL of Homestead Lane,. said he was surprised to Icam that the project was being considered, since he has never had any problem with his well or septic system. He said he was worried that he would be forced to accept a service that he does not need and that could be costly.

“I don’t have money set aside for this,” he said.

Chris Rodriguez, of Vine­yard Lane, said that a survey of residents to find out how many, wanted water and sewer service was skewed, because some peo­ple own more than one lot in the area. He said he voted "no" on the survey and wants to see a de­tailed plan before reconsidering.

Council members said they would vote on funding the proj­ect after getting the results of the county’s study. They also are waiting for a study by (he town­ship utility engineers, the Alaimo Group, on whether it, would make more sense to build a new pump station or to run a gravity line down to a connec­tion bn Northumberland Way. The bond ordinance for startup costs could be adopted after a public hearing at any action meeting in the future.

“We’re not going to rush to judgment,” said Councilwoman Carol Barrett. “Before we vote.

every resident wijl know exactly what it will cost and wc will an­swer all of your questions. You will be informed.”

Mayor Frank Gambatese and Councjlman Chris ' Killmurray said that, all other things being equal, they prefer to see water and sewer service extended to as many residents as possible, due to health considerations.

j “Maybe I’m just a city guy, but 1 like to provide city water to people if it’s possible,” Mayor Gambatese said. “This council is not just the council, it’s also the Board of Health in this town­ship.”

He .said he did not want to force anybody to take a service they don’t want, but if there is a health issue, the township would try to correct it.

Mr. Killmurray said that while the state will pay for some treatment of cont:iihinated wells, he realized that the cost of hook­ing up to'water service would be' “a pretty big'hit” foo the. rc.si- dents.

Legislative candidates in the 14th District arc working bn plans for at least two de­bates in the run-up to the No­vember election.

The Democrats running for Assembly, Assemblywo­man Linda Greenstein of P la insboro and W ayne DeAngelo of Hamilton, pro­posed two debates as required under the Fair and Clean Elec­tions pilot program.

The rules of the clean elections program, require one debate between Oct. I and Oct. 15 and another between Oct, 16 and Oct. 30. The state Electibn Law Enforcement Commission must be notified, of the' finalized debate plans by Oct. 3 so they can be certi­fied by Oct. 7.

. Under the Democrats’ pro­posal, the Assembly candi­dates —- including Republi­cans Adam Bushman, of Jamesburg, and Hamilton Councilman Tom Goodwin — would participate in one de­bate’in each county, Middle­sex and Mercer, represented in the i4 th District. ,

One debate would host­ed by the Monroe Township League of Women Voters at

the Monroe Township Public Library, while the other would be hosted by the League o f Women Voters of the Prince­ton Area at Mercer County Community College in West Windsor.

Elizabeth Meyers, spokes­woman for the Democratic campaigns, said Tuesday that the Democrats were still wait­ing for Mr. Bushman and Mr. Goodwin to confirm the spe­cifics of the planned debates. She said there would also like­ly be two debates between the Senate candidates. Republican Assemblyman Bill Baroni, of Hamilton, and Democrat Seema Singh, of South Bruns­wick.

However. Mr. Baroni said Tuesday that he would prefer to have debates with all six legislative candidates present,

‘ including himself and Ms. ^ingh, because state senators and Assembly members from the 14th District have worked so closely together in the Leg­islature in the past.

. He said he expects the candidates to participate in in­formal forums as well, includ­ing one planned at the 'West Windsor Senior Center on 9ct. 22.

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This week we ask residents to join in the debate on:

W hether the Planning Board was cor­rect to deny Matrix approval for a ware­house on Route 130 and Friendship Road;

The state’s latest plan for fixing Route 1 without widening the highway;

W hether the Township Council’s pro­posed rules targeting underage drinking are appropriate;

The state Senate and Assembly races — including who readers think are the best candidates and what the top issues are this year.

• Our weekly forum question. This week:

’’Should the Township Council allow warehouse construction on Friendship Road west of Route 130?”

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. " . staff photos by John Keating

Above, kindergarten teacher Lois Anzek reads "Caps for Sale” to her new class; bejow, Nkltha Dlxth listens to Ms. Anzek.

Sixth. School.Continued from Page lA

. families don’t beat up on each other.”

"The first couple weeks are pretty stre.ssful,” Ms. O’Donnell said. “But it’s mostly because

■ of their own fears.”

Another important goal of. the teachers is to make the tran­sition easier for the students by making it as gradual as possi­ble. •

Jason Bloom, a science teacher, said “the big goal is to make them feel safe and at home as quickly as possible. We don’t start actual academics for about a week. We try to ease them in.”

“They’re learning a whole new way of life, and they learn pretty quick," Ms. Behn said. “There are a lot of physical, em otional and m aturity

changes, and that’s huge when you’re 12.”

The teachers all said they enjoy teaching sixth grade, even though the students are at such a rambunctious age.

‘This is the age where they’re the most social. They’re finding their place among the pack and meeting friends? Ms. Behn said, adding that each year’s class has a unique char­acter.

“It’s like anticipating the unknown. Every class has its own dynamic,” she said.

Ms. O’Donnell said that she “can’t imagine teaching another age” and enjoys seeing her stu­dents develop over time.

“When they come in, they’re still like fifth-graders, almost babies, and then they evolve over the year," she said.

Mr. Bloom said the teachers try to help the students mature by integrating a character edu­cation program into insthiction and activities, looking for “teaching momenUs” where the kids can work on making deci­sions and taking responsibility.

“It’s built in throughout ev­erything we do, directly and in­directly,” he said.

With just a week until classes begin, Ms. O’Donnell said the teachers are “just as stressed as the children.”

Mr. Bloom agreed, saying that “ every year is another learning year” for the teachers.

And all of the teachers said that despite .some, initial anxi­ety, the students adjust quickly to their new environments.

“After two weeks, they’re pretty comfortable," Ms. Fultz said.

Drinking.Continued from Page lA

ture.Councilman Joe Camarota

said township groups like SUDZ, Stop Underage Drinking Zone, had petitioned the council to look at measures similar to those that have been adopted in nearby towns to crack down on underage drinking.

“It’s a good control to give police another instrument to stop underage drinking,” Mr. Camarota said. •

He said he was especially impressed by the way Township Attorney Don Sears crafted the private property ordinance to focus on groups of unsuper­vised underage drinkers, creat­ing exceptions for religious fes­

tivals and situations where parents are in charge.

Mr. Sears said the ordinance was not designed to be overly invasive, pointing out that po­lice would still need probable cause to go on to private prop- erty. .

Mr. Camarota also said the punishment of putting underage drinkers’ driver’s licenses in jeopardy would be more effec­tive than fines.

“Fines can be irrelevant be- cau.se the -parents often pay them,” he said. “Tliis puts the onus on the minors because it could suspend or postpone their license for up to six montlis.”

Linda Surks, of the Munici­pal Alliance and the local branch of the National Council

on Alcohol and Drug Depend­ence, said that nine towns in Middlesex County -— Edison, Metuchen, Woodbridge, Sayre- ville. South River, Spotswood, New Brunswick, North Bruns­wick, and GId Bridge — have adopted forms of the private property ordinance.

“This is a fabulous initiative they’re undertaking because they’re really leading the pack,” Ms. Surks sajd. “It’s really im­portant because we know there is underage drinking in the township.”

“Alcohol affecting the teen­age brain is a critical issue,” she said. ' “We’re trying to protect young people from the prob­lems that alcohol cdtt cau.se in their lives."

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. a new schedule, so they use the kindergarten prep program as a way to help the new students see that new isn’t always scary.

“We try to make it a smooth transition,” Ms. Davidowitz said. “We connect to the things tliat they know — something as simple as what they did over ^ e

•summer — so they feel com­fortable.”

Getting the students accli­mated to their new school is one of the most important aspects of kindergarten prep.

“We took them on a*tour of the school, .so they got to see the school before class begins. They get to meet.the principal and the vice principal, so they start to get a sense of who’s in the .school,” Ms. Davidowitz said.

Just a week of three-hour prep sessions is often enough to a.ssuage the children’s fears.

“At, the beginning of the week, they’re more quiet,” Ms. Davidowitz said. “As the week progresses, they get more com­fortable, they get more confi­dent, therefore they’re more ex­cited about doing new things.”

Ms. Davidowitz said the program helps the studSftts create bonds and make friends .so that they’ll have a buddy or two before the school year even begins.

“ By the end of the week, the kids have already formed won­derful friendships with each other,” she said. “They grasp together quickly and sit together

' at snack time and play together on the monkey bars. They build strong friendships quickly.”

According to- Ms. Davido­witz, spending a week with the students also benefits the kin­dergarten teachers.

Staff photos by John Keating

Kindergarten teacher Lois Anzek reads "Caps for Sale” to her new class.

“It gets us ready. It helps us get to know the children and their parents prior to school,” she said.

And, sometimes, - parents need more assurance than their kindergarten-bound children. Ms. Davidowitz said that, in her five years of experience at Greenbrook, it’s usually the par­ents who shed the most tears on the first day of school.

■ “The parents are probably more emotional. It’s all new and they’re excited for their chil­dren, but it’s a new step and it’s scary on both'sides,” she said. ‘There are tears on both sides.”

Kindergarten may be the be­ginning of a child’s educational career, and Ms. Davidowitz feels that it is the most impor­tant step.

“It’s the foundation of their education and it’s the beginning of the real world,” she said. “You’re catching them while they’re young and doing new things. Everything’s an adven­ture and they absorb .so much information.”

* *And she hopes that the stu­

dents will spend thejr first year at Greenbrook, absorbing all they can so that they can leave kindergarten with a wealth of academic, personal and social knowledge.

“I hope' they leave* ifvith a better .sense of who they are and how they leant and how to work with each other and how to make friends,” Ms. Davidowitz said. “The social piece is so big in kindergarten.”

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Dub takes aim at llglits and stages of Great White WayBy Kristin Boyd The Packet Group

One day, maybe when they’re walking the red carpet or accepting the Tony Award for best new musical, writer Diane Oniman and pianist Kevin Cot­ter will tell the story of how they met, which, in a nutshell, goes like this;

Woman revisits lifelong pas­sion. Woman has chance meet­ing with man at a quaint Prince­ton cafe. Woman and man form a creative partnership that later produces two “babes” — an award-winning musical parody and independent movie.' “We call it serendipity,” Ms.

Uniman says. “It’s our serendip­ity moment. Now, I pay atten­tion to people all the time. 1 wake up and wonder who’s around the comer today? Maybe it’s nothing. Maybe it’s some­thing. You never know."

With their latest project, “Tink!," earning rave reviews and awards, Ms. Uniman and Mr. Cotter are detennined to be­come the next Rodgers and Hammerstcin and take Broad­way by stonn. In the meantime, they say, they’re happily basking in the bright lights o f Central Jersey.

Act I, Scene 1;Setting the stage• Growing up in Buffalo, N.Y.,' Mr. Cotter began taking piano lessons at age 5 — at his parents’ insistence. He studied music on and off through high .'{chool, his interest in the piano rising and falling like’ the notes of a score.

While studying microbiolo­gy at Princeton University, he rarely played the piano. In 1996, the year he graduated with a de­gree in genetics, he agreed to perfonn during a local fund­raiser. He fell in love with music again. 1.

Mr. Cotter now works full­time with the university’s Young Alumni program. At night, he works on his music, an fusion of improvisation and classic chord patterns.

“As I was preparing for that event, I Just got back into it,” he says. “I wanted to do it. I wanted

to do something different with my music.”

Ms. Uniman, the daughter of physicians, was raised in Phila­delphia. She has enjoyed reading and writing poetry much of her life, but it was a summer theater production of “Kiss Me Kate” that showed her how a stage play could sparkle.

“The lights came up, and wow,” she says. “I thought, ‘Oh, my God. This is magic.’ ”

Ms. Uniman has since in­dulged her “right brain and left brain,” she says. A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the Universi­ty of Pennsylvania, she became a criminal defense attorney and an established opera singer. She has performed with the New Jer­sey State Opera Chorus.

Now, she works part time, reviewing state criminal appeals from her North Brunswick home, where she lives with her husband, Howard. She spends the remainder of her time foster­ing her budding playwright ca­reer, which has become her life’s paision.

“ T h iy 'T s ^ y calling,” she says.- “It’s necessary for me to do this.”Act I, Scene 2: Serendipity

After visiting Israel four years ago, Ms. Uniman began working on her first script — or pipe dream, as she Jokingly calls it. The screenplay, “Pyramid

.S^cheme,” which uses humor to bring together Arabs and Jevys, is part screwball comedy, part conflict resolution. The tagline; “ Peace Through Comedy. It’s No Joke.”. One morning, as she .sat at Small World Coffee on Wither­spoon Street, poring over her in- the-works script, she felt com­pelled to move to another table. She scooped up her Jumble of items, including her laptop com-, puter, and plopped down at a ta-

. ble kross the room that seemed, she says, to have a bright light shining on it.

“1 swear, you’ll think it’s crazy, but I felt an energy pull­ing me there,” she says.

, Mr. Cotter was sitting at the next table, talking, with a frieprj about architecture. A bit nosy,

Ms. Uniman admits, she eaves­dropped on the conversation, then introduced herself. She had a friend in Israel, she told Mr. Cotter, who worked in theater architecture and was looking for American contacts.

The pair began talking, and. Just like a razzle-dazzle movie scene, became instant friends. She told him about the indepen­dent movie .she was writing; he told her about his musical back­ground. They immediately de­cided to work together.

Act I, Scene 3;Perfect harmony

Ms. Uniman and Mr. Cotter are determined to become the next great songwriting-playwrit- ing duo.

They work together, often by the piano in Mr. Cotter’s Prince­ton apartmUnt. She’ll relay a piece of the script, and he’ll frame music around it. Or he’ll come up with a few bars, and she’ll add lines — or even a new character — to fit with the rhythm and tone.

They bounce ideas off each' other and flesh out questions, There arc no egos and no preten- sion.s, Ms. Uniman say.s. “ We help each other with the creative process,” she says. “ We figure it out together, and. we work back and forth. It’s exciting. Inspira­tion comes -from so many places,”.

Shortly after meeting, the pair begati working on the musi­cal parody “ Tink!,” which was inspired by Ms. Uniman’s love of Tinkerbell..

“Sometimes your characters speak to you,” she says. “I al­ways wanted to be Tinker Bell, and a good friend of mine told me I remind her of Peter Pan. So, I decided I was going to write a musical about Tinkerbell

-and explore her as a person, look 'at the emotional, the hurpan side of her.” *

In the play, Tinkerbell must decide whether she’ll follow her heart, and thus love, or save Pet­er Pan’s portal to childhood, which has been threatened.

“Everything I do has to have music,” says Ms. Uniman, who learned'how to play flute as a

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child; “1 love the way (Mr. Cot­ter) is fluid. He has a bell-like quality and his range of emotion is huge. He’s able to translate that to music. His music has a younger spin. It’s memorable. It sticks, and it speaks to your soul;”

Mr. Cotter mixes arj eclectic sampling of classical music. Jazz standards and Broadway show- tunes. His style, or musical thumbprint, as he calls it, com­plements Ms. Uniman’s charac­ters and storylines.

“We don’t emulate. We have our own flair, our own twist, our own collaboration,” he says, adding “Tink!” bridges the gap between Broadway musicals and modem-pop music. “Our voices are Just different from what’s out there now.”

Act II, Scene 1: Awards season

. Ms. Uniman and Mr. Cotter are no strangers to receiving ac­colades. He’s a two-time Olym­pian and world-champion rower, and she previously won first place in the American Society of Composers, Authors and Pub- li.shcrs’ national legal writing contest.

Still, they were unprepared, Ms. Uniman says, for the num­ber of awards their “babes” have received during the past two years. •

So far,-“Pyramid Scheme” has won five awards, including best comedy and ranner-up for best screenplay at the Pocono Mountains Film Festival and best comedy at the Beverly Hills International Film Festival.

The film has also been nomi­nated for several awards, includ­ing best film score at the Moon- dance International Film Festival and best screenplay at the Bos­ton Intemational Film Festival.

‘Tink!” has won two awards, including best music in a featu­re-homegrown at the Garden State International Film Festival and best musical feature at The Indie Gathering.

The play has also been nomi­nated for a host of other awards, including best screenplay at the Reelheart Toronto International and the Barebones International film festivals.

Staff photo by Mark Czajkowski

Tossing a few ideas around are writer Diane Uniman and compos­er Kevin Cotter. ‘We help each other with the creative process,’ Ms. Uniman says. ‘We figure it out together, and we work back and forth, it's exciting, inspiration comes from so many piaces.’

'We call it serendipity. It's our seren­dipity moment. Now, I pay attention to

people all the time. I wake up and wonder who's around the comer to­day? Maybe it's nothing. Maybe it's

something. You never know.'DlaneUniman

Act II, Scene 2: The Great White Way

As they continue to rake in awards, Ms. Uniman and Mr. Cotter are looking for producers, in hopes “Tink!” will someday make it to Broadway. “People are ripe for this type of humor. We want to have the next ‘Wicked.’ We Just want to get the story out there and get the music out there,” Ms. Uniman says

Besides taking Broadway by storm and becoming the next great playwright-.songwriting duo, Ms. Uniman and Mr. Cotter say their goals are simple ones; To leave the audience wanting a little bit more, and, ultimately, through their music and lyrics, to leave the world a better place.

“I always ask myself, ‘What if? What if I am the person who, on some small level, could touch people’s hearts, with.music and humor?” Ms! Uniman ’ Says. “That would be wonderful.”

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CAPITOL NEWS AND COMMENT

Nearly 40 stale governments throughout the country are ag­gressively launching or expand­ing preschool education pro­grams for 3- and 4-year-oId children. But a new report con­tends that unless those states also develop policies and strate­gies to address the need for new and better facilities, these prom­ising pre.school programs run the risk of falling short of their goals.

Building Early Childhood Facilities: What States Can Do to Create Supply and Promote Quality, a joint publication of Rutgers University’s National Institute for Early Education Re­search (NIEER) and Local Ini­tiatives Support Corporation (LISC), is the first report to highlight the role of the physical environment in generating pro­gram quality and meeting state early education policy goals. It both .sounds a warning and of­fers hope in the form of an ex­tensive menu of program ahd policy options available to statc.s. '

The most prominent of state early education policy goals is closing the achievement gap and preparing young children for the rigors of elementary school classrooms. Studies have found that high-quality preschool pro­grams — those that support a child’s .social and emotional de­velopment and teach basic lan­guage and related skills — result in lifelong benefits such as high­er graduation rates and higher earnings.

“Little attention is paid to the role facilities play in .shaping high-quality preschool .pro­grams,’’ said Dr. Steve Barnett. NIEER director. "States need to carefully consider the kinds of environments where children .spend many hours each day and policymakers must recognize that the adequacy and quality of the learning environment is an important part of building an early education .system.”

The report describes a wide variety of state programs and policies, ranging from new pro­posals to little-known pilot ef­forts successfully tested in a number of stales. These policies are designed to address capital needs, gaps in the capacity of the production system and the ele­ments of a supportive policy and regulatory environment.

“Building early learning cen­ters is an essential part of creat­ing su.stainablc communities — good places to work, do business and raise children,” said Michael Rubinger, president and CEO of LISC. “When building new fa­cilities, pre.school programs face all o f the challenges that com­munity developers face in rais­ing affordable capital and man­a g in g tiic re a l e s ta te development process. Stales can borrow lessons learned in the community development field to overcome these hurdles.”

The report recommends comprehensive policies to ad­dress financial barriers, design and real estate development practices and the policy and reg­ulatory environment. It calls for capital subsidies for renovation or. new construction; develop­ment of technical, organiza­tional, real estate and architec­tural capacity; facility standards that address program quality in addition to health and safety; and a reliable system and sup­portive policy and regulatory en­vironment.

The report also itemizes the obstacles — affordability, access to private debt, training issues, physical design practices, etc. — that. states . typically... encounter when developing early child care facilities programs, and pro­vides recommendations on how address tho.se situations. The policy brief is based on a more comprehensive report.’ Both re­ports are available on both the NIEER and LISC Web sites, www.lisc.org and www.niee- r.org.

The following items are tak­en from reports issued by legis­lators representing Central Jer­sey communities and other items o f political concern.

AppointmentsGov. Jon S. Corzine on

Aug. 22 announced the follow­ing interim and direct appoint­ments. The appointees will be subject to advice and consent when the Senate reconvenes.

COUNCIL ON AFFORDA­BLE HOUSING

Appoint interim member Timothy J. Doherty (Law- renccvillc)

INTERSTATE COMPACT ON INDUSTRIALIZEDBUILDINGS COMMISSION

Appoint Michael E. Baier (Robbinsville)

NEW JERSEY COMMIS­SION ON HIGHER EDUCA­TION

Appoint Guillermo Jose Gonzalez (Roebling)

NEW JERSEY COMMIS­SION ON NATIONAL SERV­ICE

Appoint Lucille E. Davy (Pennington), and Wardell Sanders (Lambertvillc)

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Inclusion urgedSenate President Richard J.

Codey on Aug. 22 called on New York officials to consider revising their membership on the newly formed New York City Traffic Mitigation Com­mission to include reprc.senla- tives from New Jersey, which sends an average of 250,000 commuters across the river to Manhattan every day.

“ This is a collective failure on the part of New York’s lead­ership to recognize New Jer­sey’s important role in this deci­sion making process,” said Sen. Codey. “The stakes involved in this process are far too impor­tant to be governed by purely

parochial political considera­tions. I would hope that the powers that be will seriously re­consider their appointments and find a way to incorporate New Jersey’s perspective, into this massive undertaking.”

The panel, announced Aug. 21, includes 17 individuals rep­resenting Manhattan,, the outer boroughs. Long Island and the Slate of New York and excludes any New Jersey residents. Sen. Codey reached out to New York City officials by phone yester­day to convey these concerns, but was informed that the ap­pointments had already been made.

“We’re not asking for pref­erential treatment, just fair rep-

~rcsentation for our commuters who have an enormous impact on New York’s economy. While it’s clear that officials have made it a point to include repre.sentatives from the outer boroughs and the surrounding New 'York area. New Jersey has been completely left out of the equation.

“Reducing congestion and its environmental impact is in everyone’s best interests, but we want'to make sure that what­ever plan gets hammered out is done in an equitable manner and doesn’t place an unfair bur­den on New Jersey’s commut­ers. A large portion of New Jer­sey commuters, unlike commuters in the surrounding New York area, do not have an available mass transit alterna­tive to get into Manhattan. We need somebody who recognizes this key factor and will help convey those concerns during the planning stages of this proj­ect.

Full cash bailSen. Shirley K. Turner on

Aug. 22 proposed legislation to require illegal immigrants to post full ca.sh bail if they are

charged with crimes in New Jersey.

“When illegals commit crimes, they should be taken off our streets,” said Sen. Turner, D-Mercer. “Full cash bail should crack down on the un­derground escape routes of ille­gals with nothing to lose.”

' Senator Turner said her pro­posed legislation was inspired by the tragic deaths of three Newark college students, who were lined up in a school yard and shot in their heads while a fourth was .seriously wounded but survived the attack.

*‘A suspected ringleader in these murders (Jose Carranza) is an illegal Peruvian immigrant who \Vas walking the streets after posting just 10 percenf of his already-reduced $150,000 bail for charges of robbery and repeated sex crimes against a child,” Sen. Turner said. “That’s an outrage.”

Sen. Turner, who sponsored a full cash bail requirement for those charged with violent crimes, said she recently met with .state Attorney General Anne Milgram who told her it has proved to be an effective deterrent to bail jumping.

“Illegals who. commit crimes, like most violent crimi­nals, usually have no links to the community and belieye flee­ing is a better choice than facing the justice system,” Sen. Turner said. “Bail is meant to ensure that defendants face justice -—not an ,escape route. My bill

, is designed to do just that.”Sen. Turner also sponsored

a law, to require source • bail hearings which require proof that bail money comes from le­gitimate sources — not from or­ganized or gang-related Crimi­nal activity such as drug cartels. Another pending proposal she is sponsoring would add posses­sion of illegal weaffons as grounds for triggering the full cash bail requirement.

“If defendants ean’t docu­

ment where their bail money is coming from, they .should just sit tight behind bars until their trials,” Sen. Turner said.

For illegals, especially those with Central or South Americ;m connections, Sen. Turner said access to underground escape routes to foreign countries is easily available. ;

“But for the highly effective police work which led to the capture of the Newark murder suspects, the killers might have c.scaped this countiY in nq time,” Sen. Turner said. “All ip all, suspects like these are better off in jail because they won’t, find clean dbllars for full cash bail.”

Sen. Turner said she expect^ a bill draft shortly from the Of­fice of Legislative Services and will request expedited legisla­tive approval as soon as the Senate and Assembly recon­vene.

Health cuts decriedSen. Joseph F. Vitale, chair­

man of the Senate Health, Hu­man Services and Senior Citi­zens Committee, issued the following statement Aug. 21 re­garding President George Bush’s newly adopted standards for expansion of the State Chil­dren’s Health Insurance Pro­gram (SCHIP) which, the sena­tor says, are “a poorly veiled threat to eliminate health insur­ance for hundreds of thousands of our nation’s children.”

“New Jersey is one of many states around the nation that rec­ognizes what a hardship health care costs can be on low or mid­dle-income families. In New Jersey, we’ve sought to increase support for families struggling to meet soaring health-care costs. The SCHIP partnership of federal and state resources has worked to increase access to care and the well-being of chil­dren.

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turn lane and the westbound through lane at. the New Road intersection operate at the F lev­el’ of service, llie worst grade. He said that adding auxiliary lanes and improving lane align­ments could “enhance safety and increase capacity” at the in­tersection, giving it a D or E level of service.

An F level of service indi­cates a location where speeds

are substantially reduced and traffic stoppages can occur for a long or short period of time.

However, to build the decel­eration lanes that would provide the best remedy, easements would have to be acquired.from several properties along Route 1. Mr. Boerchers said. He added that a driveway for the Exxon gas station is eloser to the inter­section than state code allows, which would make improve­ments difficult.

Mr. Boerchers said the con­cept planning for the New Road intersection fixes could be done by the end of September, and a feasibility assessment could be done by January.

The planning for all of the improvements is being con­densed from two years to six months, he said, adding that the process could be expedited be­cause many of the fixes are su­perficial, like traffic signal changes, striping and ' added

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The improvements to the Wynwood Drive, Deans Lane, and Henderson Road would mostly involve changing lane alignments to eliminate danger­ous merging, Mr. Boerchers said.

He said fixes at Henderson Road could improve the east- bound left turn lane and the westbound through lane from F levels of service to D or E rat- ing.s.

“It’s not stellar but it would be- noticeable to residents,” he said. I

The Raymond Road, Sand Hills Road, and Major Road in­tersections would receive addiL tional highway lighting, sinc^ the DOT study showed that night accidents along Route 1 in the township are above average^ Mr. Boerchers said. ]

Couneil members said they appreciated the presentation but would remain committed to making sure that $7 million ii) federal funds dedicated to study a widening of Route 1 woula not be diverted to other purposr es. ;

“I don’t want anyone at the state to think that they’ve taken care of South Brunswick antj pul widening Route 1 on th^ back burner,” said Councilman Chris Killmurray. “This is not a substitute for what we all kno^- needs to be done, and that’f widening the road.” <

Councilrnan Joe Camarota said he was disappointed in th^ DOT presentation because all o f the improvements described are still two to three years away. 1

He pointed out that Sout^ Bmnswick has one of the only two-lane stretches of Route 1 in the state. Route 1 is three lanet in North Brunswick and Plain)- sboro, which can cause traffic problems when cars funnel into the two-lane section in South Brunswick.

“Our two main problems are .still at Aaron Road and Inde­pendence Way, where we go from three lanes to two,” he said.

Sgt. James StocLdard, head of the Police Department’s Traffic Safety Bureau, said that while the DOT presented “solid concepts,” they lyere only short­term fixes.

“When you move traffic ef­ficiently, you move it safely,” he said. ’TTiis (plan) is not the Cadillac, it’s not the gold stan­dard, and it’s not the widening that everyone hoped for.”

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OBITUARIESEileen V. Spilatore

Eileen' V. Spilatore, 64, of Monmouth Junction, died Mon­day, Aug. 20, in the Robert Wood Johnson University Hos­pital, New Brunswick.

Bom in Massachusetts,, she was a lifelong resident of Mon­mouth Junction.

After graduating from Edi­son High School, she was em­ployed as a dental hygienist for many years in the office of Dr. Howard Diamond, New Bruns­wick. She was a member of St. Augustine of Canterbury Church, Kendall Park!

Her husband, Barry R. Spila­tore, is deceased. She is survived by a daughter, Lisa Sassman; a son, Barry Spilatore; a brother, Walter Streeter; . two sisters, Marie Emrich and Vem Hansen; and three grandchildren.

The funeral was held Friday, Aug. 24, from M.J. Murphy Fu­neral Home, 616 Ridge Road at New Road; Monmouth Junction. A Mass of Christian Burial was celebrated at St. Augustine of Canterbury Church, 45 Hender­son Road, Kendall Park. Burial followed in Kingston Presbyteri­an Church Cemetery, Kingston.

Harry RubelHarry Rubel, 92, an actor,

director, filmmaker, photogra­pher and artist of Kendall Park, died of heart failure Wednesday, Aug. 22, at the University Med-

. ical Center at Princeton.He was bom in New Bmns-

wick on Dec. 24, 1914, where his father and mother, David and Janet, operated a family store on lower Church Street. He spent his life in New Brunswick until he joined the army in 1942, serv­ing as a Sergeant Major in the European Theatre of Operations and earning three Combat Stars.

In the 1930s Mr. Rubel’s early passion was as an actor in New Bmnswick, where he per­formed widt.the Habema Guild with Thelma Speilberger. He studied acting at The Actors Stu­dio in New York under Lee Strasberg, along with Tony Cur­tis (known then as Bemie Schwartz) and Rod Steiger. After the war he was invited to study directing with famed di­rector Jose Quintero.' Mr. Rubel will be remem-: bered for his work as one of New Jersey’s outstanding pro­fessional photographers. Upon returning from the war, he stud­ied photography in New York

. and opened his first portrait stu­dio in New Brunswick on Schu- reman Street. In the early 1950s he moved his studio to George Street, where Johnson & John­son’s International Headquarters

now stands. Even though he moved on to work for Filmtron- ics in Manhattan, he continued his love of photography and earned many awards for his black and white prints of New Bmnswick and the Delaware and Raritan Canal. A number of these pieces are in the permanent collection of Johnson ^ John­son. He also combined his love of the theatre and photography by creating a large body of work for the nationally acclaimed Crossroads Theater in New Bmnswick.

His feature length documen­tary, ‘The Old Mill,” was set at Neshanic Station and demon­strated the wet-on-wet technique of oil painter Valdi Maris. “The Old Mill” aired on PBS.

Mr. Rubel leaves behind an unfinished film f the Delaware

and Raritan Canal, which he filmed from its beginning at Bull Island to Raritan Bay.

He was alhong the early members of the fledgling Villag­ers Bam Theatre in Franklin Township, when it functioned out of the bam behind what is now O’Connors Restaurant. As a prize-winning theatre director, he earned statewide recognition for the Villagers with produc­tions including Moliere’s“ Sly Fox” and Larry Gelbart’s “The Brick and The Rose,” which were showcased at McCarter Theater in Princeton and judged by esteemed artist Arthur Lith- gow as part o f the New Jersey Theatre League’s annual com­petitions. His last production for the Villagers was “My Fair Lady,” produced on their new stage in the Franklin Township Municipal Complex. On New

Year’s Eve 2005, the Villagers honored him with a newly creat­ed Founders’ Award.

Mr. Rubel also directed for other community theatre groups, including the East Bmnswick Players, Circle Players in Wood- bridge, Edison Valley Play­house, and the Princeton Play­ers. He was among the first to direct for the Middlesex County Board of Freeholders’ Plays in the Parks and counted “The King and I,” “Abe Lincoln in Il­linois” and “You’re A Good Man, Charlie Brown” among his favorites.

In 1962, Mr. Rubel and his wife, Jacqueline, opened the Creative and Performing Arts, a multi-disciplinary summer arts camp in Griggstown, outside of Princeton.

When he could no longer

work in the dark room, Mr. Ru- bef turned his creative talents to shooting painterly colored pho­tographs of the canal; then to creating playful, geometric acrylic paintings; and most re­cently to assembling whimsical collages. His last collage was completed in Decem ber-2006. He continued displaying his work in area exhibitions coordi­nated by the Printmaking Coun­cil of New Jersey, the South Bmnswick Arts Commission, the Plainsboro Library and the Princeton Photography Club. His last one man show was this year, in the South Bmnswick Municipal Building.

Mr. Rubel also loved to teach, as all his daughters and grandchildren can attest. Among his star pupils, he counted East Bmnswick architectural photog­rapher, Rob Faulkner.

Harry’s daughter Sherry con­tinues the family legacy as a portrait photographer.

Besides his wife Jacqueline, Harry leaves behind his daugh­ter, Kaaren Sydney and grand­sons, Sean and Dameon of Mi­ami Beach, Florida; daughter Debi Rubel and son-in-law Sam Missimer of New Bmnswick; and daughter Sherry Rubel, son- in-law K d ie Stephenson, grand­children Dylan and Jessica of Kendall Park.

A memorial tree planting and celebration of his life is planned for Sunday, SepJ. 9. Tax exempt contributions may be made in his name to the Villag­ers Theatre, 475 Demott Lane, Somerset, N.J. 08873. For ques­tions call the Theatre at (732) 873-2710. For memoriar cele­bration details call (732) 422-7438.

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EDITORIAL

New Jersey should ban aluminum bats

New Jersey needs to do New York City one better.

The Big Apple has banned the use of metal bats in high school baseball games — a ban upheld by a federal judge Tues­day — saying balls hit with metal bats move faster than those hit with wooden bats, giving players less time to react.

The bats have been blamed for injuries to numerous players around the country, though the bat industry denies there is any connection, t

They cite a \ick of scientific evidence to show that aluminum bats are less safe, while pointing to a handful of studies that show wood and aluminum perform about the same.

That not only contradicts the anecdotal evidence — most coaches and players would say that aluminum bats allow them to hit the ball farther — but a larger body of analysis that appears to show that alu­minum bats increase the speed and dis­tance of batted balls.

Th^bulk of these studies make these points:

• Aluminum bats are lighter and can be swung at a greater speed.

• They have larger “sweet spots,” or areas on the bat that produces solid contact with the ball.

• And they create a “trampoline ef­fect” in which the bat compresses rather than the ball, causing the ball to lose.less energy and fly farther and faster.

Basically, as Philadelphia Inquirer col­umnist Jeff McLane pointed out earlier this year, “aluminum bats are like bats on steroids.”

That’s why we are hoping the state Senate will adopt legislation already ap­proved by the state Assembly earlier this year that would ban metal and composite wood bats for baseball and softball leagues that involve players who are 17 or younger. The bill has been introduced in the state Senate, but has yet to be heard by the Senate Law and Public Safety and Vet­erans’ Affairs Committee.

The New Jersey ban, according to news reports, would affect 192,000 young boys and girls in the state in addition to those playing for 370 American Legion teams and 400 high school teams.

Opponents say the ban would increase ’ the cost of running youth leagues. They also believe younger and smaller players, who might not be able to handle the weight of wooden bats, would give up on the game — a contention we doubt, given that the game existed for decades before the fifst aluminum bat was used.‘ In the end, this should not be about money but about safety. We believe there is enough evidence, scientific and anec­dotal, to support a ban. Aluminum bats mean that fielders — especially young in- • fielders and pitchers — have less time to react to batted balls and that fraction of a second in lost reaction time could result in serious injury.; That’s what happened last year to '13-year-old Steven Domalewski, who was; struck by a line drive from a metal bat and sustained a traumatic brain injury.; Waiting for a study to definitively prove what we already know is not only foolish, but dangerous.

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Baroniteam best on Rt. 1To the editor:

South Brunswick residents have been overwhelmed by traffic along Route 1 for far too long. Thankfully our. Assemblyman Bill Baroni has stood up"*for—us countless times urging the widening.of Route 1 and preventing the Route 92 project. He called on the Department of Trans­portation to find solutions for traffic congestion. Assemblyman Baroni has been an ally in our fight to alleviate the traffic congestion along Route 1.

His running mates Tom Goodwin and Adam Bushman share Assembly- man Bill Baroni’s determination for a better South Brunswick free of Route 1 traffic congestion. South Brunsr wick residents have suffered through this traffic congestion long enough.

lam proud to support Bill Baroni for State Senate, and Tom Goodwin and Adam Bushman for state Assem­bly. I am confident they will work hard to get the results we need to To tlie editor: w idenRoutel.

Singh should come cleanTo the editor:

In a recent letter to the South Brunswick Post on Aug. 9, state Sen­ate candidate Seema Singh said that she was “enthusiastic about taking part in th'e clean elections pilot pro­gram” and called clean elections a “wonderful tool for me.” ~

If Ms. Singh is so excited about participating in a clean campaign, she should first do two things: she needs to come clean about a reported inves­tigation of her by the state Ethics Commission and she needs to sign the clean campaign pledge that her opponent, Bill Baroni, and his run­ning mates signed.

Hopefully, Ms. Singh will “come clean.” Until she does, we can’t have an open, honest discussion about the issues facing the voters.

Audrey SudranKendall Park

Singh will fight for New Jersey

For my first time volunteering on Frank O ’Shea, a political campaign, I am excited to

Kendall Park be involved in Seema Singh's fight

for the state Senate seat. My family has known Ms. Singh for several years now, and to know that she is a favorite candidate to make a differ­ence to the 14th District where 1 live has really got me interested.

The issues she chooses to priori-’ tize convince me that she is the best candidate to take the position she is running for. I have always been an avid conservationist, doing anything possible to help the environment. She thinks along the same lines and has promoted clean and renewable ener­gy sources, as well as letting people know about energy conservation from her position in the governor’s cabinet. As a student in high school, problems regarding fuel and energy will linger -because of diminishing natural resources, and making sure that people are educated on this po­tential crisis is crucial’in the long run.

I will be watching the race and the outcojne (if thl^ 'Veins''state' Se|ii' • ate election ift 'a‘Way 1 rtCVet'haVebe- '' fore. Ms. Singh addresses issues thk will benefit a vast majority of the New Jersey population. If I met the age requirement to vote, I would un­doubtedly select Ms. Singh. Because I cannot, I hope the voters of the 14th District see my point and vote for Seema Singh. ' • .

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Matrix shows flaws in state lawRound one has gone to the resi­

dents.But that does not mean they’ve

won the boxing match."The South Brunswick Planning

Board earlier this month denied an application from the Matrix Develop­ment Group to build a build a . 744,0(X)-square-foot warehouse at the northwest comer of Route 130 and Friendship Road. The board was con­cerned about the building’s size and the impact the warehouse would have on the intersection, which also con­nects with the westbound terminus of Route 32 and is a primary access point onto Route 130s for cars and trucks leaving the N.J. Turnpike.

It also rejected a variance request from Matrix that would have allowed the company'to place the .building’s loading zone along Route 130.

The Aug. 15 decision was met with cheere by residents of the Four Seasons adult community, which is adjacent to the site.

» Matrix, however, has signaled that it plans to push ahead with the plan — though it has not said how. It blamed what it called the NIMBY, of “not in my back yard,” attitude of residents for the decision and said it plans to “vigorously defend our rights to develop this property,” which has been zoned industrial for more than 20 years.

Translation: Round two is likely to be foughttfefore a judge in state Superior Court.

And this makes what might seem a purely local issue into something that should be of concern across the state. Should a court side with Ma­trix, it would effectively negate the ability of local residents to petition their governments or control the ’ manner in which their communities develop.

Yes, residents, through their gov­ernments, do have the ability to re­vise municipal master plans and zon­ing maps. TTiat’s fine, as far as it goes.

TTie fact is that the detrimental impact of most development applica-

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tions — even those that meet the let­ter of local zoning laws — cannot be identified until the application is filed. That’s because lines on a larger zoning map rarely indicate the con-. fifets likely to show up down the road when developments are actually built. .

And that’s what happened here.The Matrix zoning may have

been in pjace for 20 years, well be­fore the township rezoned what was to become Four Seasons for planned adult housing. But Matrix has yet to build, while residents have been liv­ing in Four Seasons for about a year.

So while the Matrix application met most of the requirements of the warehouse zone, as company offi­cials pointed out, the project would have been out of character with its immediate neighbors.

You might blame the council and Planning Board for not anticipating ■ this when they approved the adult- community zone. And you would be correct to do so.

Or you might blame the residents for not doing enough research to un­derstand what kind of development might be built on neighboring par­cels.

You could even blame Matrix for waiting until housing was built alongside its property to offer a de­velopment proposal.

But finger-pointing is fruitless.The fact is the Four Seasons resi­

dents are here and it is to them that the Township Council is responsible —- as South Brunswick Mayor Frank Gambatese, a member of the Plan­ning Board, pointed out Aug. 15.

“We have a responsibility to lis­ten to the opinions of our residents,” Mayor Gambatese said. “We have to look at what is the common good.”

• The question is whether the courts will view things this way.

Mayor Gambatese, in casting his vote, pointed to a recent appellate court decision that found that plan­ning and zoning boards could take the objections of the community into account when considering an applica­tion.

The July decision — in the case of Riya Finnegans LLC y. South Brunswick — is based on very differ­ent circumstances and might not be relevant in the Matrix case. In Riya, the Township Council had rezoned a 12-acre parcel from retail to office after the Planning Board denied a variance for a strip mall at the comer of Finnegans Lane and Route 27.Both the Planning Board and the council took into account strong op­position to the shopping center by residents living near the site.

“In adopting this rezoning ordi­nance, the Township Council was performing a legislative function,” stated the ruling by appeals court judges Mary Catherine Cuff, Michael Winkelstein and Jose Fuentes. “As such, the Township Council was enti­tled to rely on the view expressed by the Township residents.”

My fear is that the courts will side with Matrix — and, by exten­sion, builders around the state — and protect the company’s right to devel­op, even if that development comes

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Letters sent via e-mail must be included in the text of the e- mail message. We cannot ac­cept letters sent as attachments.

We reserve the right to edit letters and to limit length and frequency.

• Mail letters to:Hank Kalet, managing edit­

or, The South Brunswick Post, P.O. Box 309, Dayton, N.J. 08810.

• Sehd e-mail to:hkalet@pacpub.com.

• Fax letters to:(732)329-8291.

• Or, deliver them to our office:

401 Ridge Road,. Suite 1, Dayton Professional Center (behind Dayton Video).

Please call (732) 329-9214 to confirm receipt of faxes or e- mails.

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How to reach local officialsContact information fo r South Brunswick township and the

South Brunswick Board o f Education follows:

South Brunswick township offices:P.O. Box 190, Monmouth Junction, N.J. 08852; telephone,

(732) 329-4000; Web, www.twp.south-brunswick.nj.us/.Council and staff e-mail addresses:

, • Mayor Frank Gambatese(D)—-mayor@sbtnJ.net.• Carol Barrett (D) — carolb3440@aol.com• Joe Camarota (D)— joeatwork@aol.com• Charles Carley(D) — chascarley@msn.com• Chris Killmurray (D) — ckillmurray@hoaglandlong-

o.com *Board of Education:

P.O. Box 181, Monmouth Junction, N.J. 08852; telephone, (732) 297-7800; fax, (732) 297-8456; Web, www.sbschool- s.org

School board members and staff e-mail addresses:• Martin Abschutz, president —- martin.abschutz@sbs-

chooIs.org• Robert F. Long, vice president — robert.long@sbschool-

s.org ^• Attilio DeFalco — Attilio.DeFalco@sbschools.org• Harry J. Delgado-— harry.delgado@sbschools.org• Barry Nathanson — Barry.Nathanson@sbschools.org• Stephen F. Parker — Stephen.Parker@sbschools.org

. • Matthew Speesler — matthew.speesler@sbschools.org• Deborah Taylor — Deborah.Taylor@sbschools.org• Anna Tupe —•anna.tupe@sbschbols.org• Gary McCartney, superintendent — gary.mccartney@sbs-

chools.org •• ' Joanne Kerekes, assistant superintendent for curriculum

— joanne.kerekes@sbschools.org• Anthony Tonzini, school business administrator — antho-

ny.tonzini@sbschools.org• James Warfel, director of student services — James.War-

fel@sbschools.org.School contact information:

• Brooks Crossing School, 50 Deans Rhode H ^l Road, Monmouth Junction, N. J. 08852; (732) 821-7478; Gary W. Abbamont, principal, gary.abbamont@sbschools.org

• Brunswick Acres School, 41 Koty Drive, Kendall Park, N J. 08824; (732) 297-6621; Joseph Anzek, principal,joseph.an-

' zek @ .sbschopls.org• Cambridge School, 35 Cambridge Road,-Kendall Park, N.

J. 08824; /732) 297-2941; Glenn Famous, principal, glenn.fa- mous@sbschools.org

• Constable School, 29 Constable Road, Kendall Park, N. J. 08824; (732) 297-2488; Richard Chromey, principal, rich- ard.chromey@sbschools.org

• Greenbrook School, 23 Roberts St., 'Kendall Park, N. J. 08824; (732) 297-2480; Patricia Holliday, principal, patrici- a.holliday@sbschools.org

• Indian Fields School, 359 Ridge Road, Dayton, N. J.08810; (732) 329-1043; Mark Daniels, principal, mark.da- nieIs@sbschools.org ,

• Monmouth Junction School, 630 Ridge Road, Monmouth Junction, N. J. 08852; (732) 329-6981; Maribeth Edmunds, principal, maribelh.edmunds@sbschools.org

• Crossroads North Middle School, 635 Georges Road, Monmouth Junction, N. J. 08852; (732) 329-4191; Judith Black, principal, judith.black@sbschools.org

• Crossroads South Middle School, 195 Major Road, Mon­mouth Junction, N. J. 08852; (732) 329-4633;

• South Brunswick High School, 750 Ridge Road, Mon­mouth Junction, N. J. 08852; (732) 329-4044; Timothy Mathe- ney, principal, timothy.matheney@sbschools.org.

WHERE TO WRITEThe names, addresses and telephone numbers o f elected officials representing South Brunswick at the federal level follow:

President• President George W. Bush:

The White House, 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, Washington, D.C. 20500; telephone, (202) 456-1111 (for comments), (202) 456-1414 (for switchboard); fax, (202) 456-2461.

E-mail: comments@whitehouse.gov , -Web: www.whitehouse.gov . ------

U.S. Senate• Frank Lautenberg (D):

Washington office: 324 Hart Senate Office Building, Washing­ton D.C. 20510; (202) 224-3224; fax, (202) 228-4054.

Newark office: One Gateway Center, 23rd Floor, Newark, N.J. 07102; (973) 639-8700 or toll free, (888) 398-1642; fax, ,(973) 639-8723.Web: http://lautenberg.senate.gov/

• Robert Menendez (D):Washington office: 502 Hart Senate Office Building, Washing­

ton D.C.20510; (202) 224-4744.Web: http://menendez.senate.gov

U.S. House of Representatives• Rush Holt (D-12):

District office: 50 Washington Road, Princeton Junction, N.J. 08550; (877) 874-4658.. .

Washington office: 1630 Longworth House Office Building, Washington,P.C._20515-1901; (202) 225-5801.

E-mail: rush.holt@mail.house.gov Web: http://holt.house.gov/

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at the expense of its neighbors;If the courts do side with

Matrix on this, it’s because the state’s land-use law is rather ar­chaic and protects property rights above all other considera­tions. There is a need to revise the municipal land-use law to grant more power to communi­ties to take into account health, safety and quality-of-life issues, at the time of an application — even on generally conforming a p p lic a tio n sa n d not just at the time that the master plan is being revised and the town’s

zoning code is approved.As I said, the detrimental ef­

fects that a developm.ent might have on neighboring properties too often are not apparent until well after the zoning is in place.

. What good, after all, is a cit- izen planning board if it’s not allowed to listen to its fellow citizens?

Hank Kalet is managing editor o f the South Brunswick Post and The Cranbury Press. His e- mail is hkalet@pacpub.com and his blog, Clmnnel Surfing, can be found at w^.kalelblog.com.

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SENIOR HAPPENINGSSEPTEMBER HOURS

Weekend hours: The South Brunswick Senior Center, locat­ed on Kingston Lane, will be open Saturdays, Sept. 15 and 29 from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. and every Sunday from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m., except for Sept. 2, for the holi­day weekend.

For more information about any event, unless otherwise specified, to receive one-on-one computer instruction or to sug­gest a weekend program, call the senior center at 732-329-4000, ext. 7670.

EVENTSSenior Week; Celebrate Na­

tional Senior Week at the senior center from Monday, Sept. 10 to Saturday, Sept. 15. Weeklong food drive, free class samples and more.

Casino afternoon: Black jack,' poker, money wheel for tickets toward door prizes and more. Monday, Sept. 10 at 12:30 p.m. Part of the Senior Week celebration.

The Good Wife: Live per­formance featuring an actress/ historian portraying Mrs. Benja­min Franklin. Tuesday, Sept. 11 at 10:30 a.m. Part of the Senior Week celebration.

Barbecue lunch: Hot dogs,- hamburgers, vegetarian options, ice cream and more. Advance reservations are required and can be made by calling Karen at 732-329-6171. Part of the Senior Week celebration.

Art and craft show: Pick up an entry blank at the senior cen­ter to enter. The show will be Thursday, Sept. 27 from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., with a lecture about George Segal’s art at 1 p.m. For more information, call the senior center.

CLUBS AND SUPPORT GROUPS

Environmental Club: Newclub for South Brun.swick senior

citizens who are interested in en­vironmental protection and want to learn more about the environ­mental problems facing us and our world. First meeting is Fri­day, Sept. 7 at 11:15 a.m. Call the senior center for more in­formation.

Chronic pain educational support group: Various speak­ers will discuss techniques that can be u.sed to cope with chronic pain. The six-week program be­gins Sept. 11 and will meet at 10:45 a.m. in the senior center. Participants will receive relaxa­tion tool for home use. Registra­tion is free but limited. For more information, or to register, call Caryl Greenburg at (732) 329-4000, ext. 7212.

Billiards Club: Three tables in rear of lobby, anyone is wel­come to play, tournaments held home and away. Membership re­quired for tournaments. Call (732) 329-4000, ext. 7670.

Golden Age Club: Brings seniors together with trips, par­ties and picnics. Dues arc $8. Meets the first and third Wedne.sday of the month at 1 p.m.

Knit and Crochet Club:Knit and crochet for good causes. Free lessons, yam and supplies. Group meets Wednes­days from 9:30 a.m. to 11 a.m. For more infomiation, call Ber­tie at (732) 329-4000, ext. 7688.

South Brunswick Senior Club: Meets the first and third Tuc.sday o f every month at ,1 p.m. in the senior center. Meet­ings, monthly Atlantic City trips, a yearly picnic and more. For more information, call (732) 422-9341.

Successful Aging: Discus­sion and support group toleam memory improvement • tech­niques. Meets at 1:30 p.m. on Fridays. For more information, or to register, call Caryl Green­berg at (732) 329-4000, ext. 7212.

CLASSESBridge with Janet: Free be­

ginner lessons at 9 a.m. and in­termediate bridge lessons at 10а. m. Classes will be held on Tuesdays. For more information, call the senior center.

Memoir writing apd jo u r­naling: Learn how to write ^about your unique life experi- "ences. Ten-week series of once- a-week classes, beginning Sept. 11 from 12:30 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. $20 fee. Bring a notebook and a pen. Registration is open now. Call the senior center for more information.

Drum circle workshop:New sessions of the drum circle workshop, where participants can explore music making and discover inner rhythms and songs. Meets Mondays at 12:30 p.m.. Sept. 10 and 24 and Oct. 15 and 29. $5 for four weeks of drumming. Call the senior center for more information.

TRIPSCanadian Islands: From

Aug. 28 to Sept. 2. Tour the Ca­nadian Islands and their cities, casinos, mountains and sites, as well as go on a whale-watching cruise and more. Cost of trip is $585, including 10 meals. Call Lillian at (732) 422-9341 for more information.

Free local trips: All trips begin at 10:30 a m. Columbus Flea Market is Thursday, Sept.б. Wal-Mart and Burlington Coat Factory is Wednesday, Sept. 12. Hometown Buffet, Farm Market and Entenmanns is Wednesday, Sept. 19.

Melissa Manchester con­cert: See Grammy Award-win­ning singer/songwriter Melissa Manchester at the PNC Art Cen­ter in Holmdel. Tuesday, Sept. 11 at 1:30 p.m. Free transporta­tion for those who don’t drive. Bus will leave from Woodlot Park at 10:30 a.m. and stop at Adelphi Diner for lunch. Sign up at the senior*center: tickets are limited and will be distributed on a first-come, first-served ba­sis. For more information, call the senior center.

Sept. 5

......South.Brunswlck Cam eraClub meeting: Focus on shared discussion of photo­graphs brought in by members. Participants may bring up to three photos for discussion, but everyone is welcome to attend to either share or.lisleq. 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. in the meeting room of the South Bnin^wti^ Li­brary, Kingston Lane. For more information, call either Seymour Schwartz at 732-297-3042 or - the Arts Commission at 732-329-40CI0, ext. 7635.

Sept. 7

Jazz Caf6; The Jazz Cafd series returns with a perform­ance by Nicki Denner and the Latin Trio, featuring original piano trio arrangements and classic salsa standards. 8 p.m. in the Herb Eckert Auditorium in the South Brunswick Munic­ipal Complex, Ridge Road. $5 admission, which includes re­freshments. For more informa-

T H I N G S T O D O

. tion, contact the South Bruns­wick Arts Commission at 732-329-4000, ext. 7635 or^e- mailarts@sbtnj.net.

Sept. 8Community Unity Day:

Sponsored by The Mayor’s Task Force on Substance Abuse. Camival-like atmos­phere and a fun-filled day for children, teenagers and adults. Noon to 5 p.m, at Woodlot Park, New Road. For more in­formation, call 732-297-2051. Rain date is Saturday, Sept. 15.

Sept. 9Autotrendz GTQ meet

and car. show: 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. next to Bandito’s in the South Brunswick Square Mall, Route 1. Free^admission. For more information, call Gregory Bpylan or Sara Spengler-Catn- panella at 732-422-8899. Rain date is Sunday, Sept. 16.

Garden Field Day: Rain- or-shine event about horticul­tural advice, environmental

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stewardship and tours of the fa- cilities. Noon to 5 p.m. at the ' . Earth Center,. Davidson’s. Mill ^ Pond Park. For more informa- tion, call 732-398-5262.

Sept. 11Free or low-cost health

insurance: Opportunity forresidents to obtain assistance in applying for free or low-cost health insurance from NJ Fam- ilyCare. 9 a.m. to noon at South Biunswick Health • De­partment, Ridge Road. To find out what materials and docu­ments to bring, or for more in-

, formation, call 866-411-7782.Child health conference:

Immunizations, pediatrician physical exams, nutrition coun­seling, tuberculosis and lead screenings and more for South

. Branswick residents between 2 months and 18 years who do hot have health insurance or are American Indians or Alas­kan natives. To make an ap­pointment, or for more inform­ation, call the South Brunswick Health Department at 732-329-4000, ext. 7238.

ANNOUNCEMENTS

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Miller Memorial Presbyterian

ChurchRidge Rd. & New Rd, Monmouth Junction

10:00 a.m.-Worship Services w ith Coffee Hour following

Pastor J o h n Maltby732-329-6262

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. 362 Georges Road‘ Dayton Telephone: (732) 329-2463 www.ntstpresdaytoniij.org

10:00 a.m. Worship Service ■ (Child cate nvailnble)

■The Rev. Susan Dee Rcisinger ______ Interim Pastor______

A C hrisUan com m unity where friends congregate.

Find Relevant and PractialAnswentolifieQuestions._ _ . SaturdayWonhip: 6A0PM; SundayWorshlpi.WOandllflOAM

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To advertise all denominations,

please call Roxanne Kleinkaufat

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Miller Memorial Presbyteri­an Church, Ridge Road, is seek­ing vendors tQ^participate in its 47th annual Country Fair Fund­raiser on Saturday, Sept. 29 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the South Brunswick High School, Ridge Road. Tables start at $10. All welcome.

For more information, call th e c h u rc h o f f ic e a t 732-329-6262 or 732-297-1107.

♦ * *South Brunswick school

children in need can participate in a free shopping spree Sept. 9 from noon to 3 p.m. at the South Bmnswick High School’s cafe­teria, Ridge Road.

South Brunswick Social Services and Journey 2L2, a South Brunswick-based church, will be collecting new and gent­ly used clothing, new school supplies and new backpacks for school-ages children. Donated items can be dropped off at the South Brunswick High School auditorium between 9:30 a.m. and 11:30 a.m. on any Sunday through Sept. 2.

For more information, call Teresa Vann at 609-356-3169.

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The South Brunswick High School class of 1997, is planning its 10-year reunion for Saturday, Sept. 8. The reunion will be from 5 p.m. to 9 j3.m. at the Hyatt Regency in New Bruns­wick.

To attend, please pay $70 for alumni and $65 for their guests.

For more information, con­tact Robin Rolewicz at robin— rolewicz@yahoo.com or Chris Steib atchris.steib@gmail.com.

• * ♦ *

The South Bmnswick Arts Commission has issued a call for entries for an upcoming exhibit, which will be featured in the South Bmnswick Gallery in the Municipal Building, Ridge Road. Artists living or-working in and around South Bmnswick are invited to submit up to three pieces for each exhibit.

“All Creatures Wild and Tame” will mn from Oct. 30 to Jan. 4. Submissions can be in any media pertaining to this theme and are due Friday, Sept. 14 by 4:30 p.m. .

For more information, call 732-329-4000, ext. 7635 or e- mailarts@sbtnj.net.

* * *Veterans of wartime service

have many reasons to Join the American Legion, especially now during South. Bmnswick Post 401’s Early Bird member­ship drive. With the program, the $30 fee includes membership for the remainder of 2007 and all of 2008.

Members enjoy many bene­fits, including discounts on ho­tels, car rentals, Dell computers and Post hall rental, and have an opportunity to make a difference in their community, as well. Post 401 supports many local youth programs, such as Boys State, a Boy Scout troop, school pro­grams and an outstanding Amer­ican Legion Baseball Team.

The Post sponsors programs at the Veterans Memorial Home in Menlo Park, and hosts Memo­rial and Veterans Day services. Members are also be kept up to date on issues and entitlement information of importance to veterans.

For more information, or to join Pjo.st 401, stop by the Post home at 148 Major Road, or call 732-329-9861.

* ♦ *Panic Relief Inc., is a regis­

tered non-profit educational cor­poration located in Monmouth Junction. Programs are held Mondays and W.ednesdays at 7 p.m. on teleconference calls.

Learn how to manage and control panic attacks, anxiety and stress. To participate, or to receive more information, call 732-940-9658 or visit www.pa- nicreliefinc.com.

♦ ♦ +Tuesday’s Children, a non­

profit organization that provides

services and support to children ; who lost a parent in the Sept. 11 attacks, is seeking Prmceton- arca mentors for these children, i one of whom is a South Bruns-1 wick resident. ;

The program pairs the ch il-; dren, ages 6 to 16, with specially ' trained adult role models w ho! will support the children’s emo-1 tional and development needs, | and help them build the confi-: dence and skills they need to reach their potential. !

For more information, or to | volunteer to be a mentor, contact ■ Jennifer at 212-319-3988 o n jennifer@tucsdayschildren.

#The South Brun.swick High

School class of 1982 is planning its 25-ycar reunion for later this year.

For updates, submitting alumni contact information and photographs or for more inform-! a t i o n , v i s i t ; www.southbrunswickclas.sof82. ; com.

The South Brunswick MOMS Club ii) a non-profit or­ganization for mothers. In addi­tion to providing .support to mothers who choose to stay at home to raise their children, the club also participates in .service projects.

Once a month, the club’s members meet to create blankets for children, in need. The blan­kets can be sewn and crocheted, and are donated to Project Linus, which can be found at projectli- nus.org.

Members of the club and their children will visit the sdh- ior center on the first Wednes­day of the month. Children and seniors will interact with activi­ties .such as reading books, play­ing games and making crafts. %

For more information about the MOMS club, e-mail sbrun- swickmoms@yahoo.com or visit www.momsclub.org.

LIBRARY NEWSThe South Brunswick I^ublic

Library is located at 110 Kings­ton Lane, Monmouth Junction. Contact information for the fol­lowing announcements, unless otherwise noted, is (732) 329-4000.

Book Club selection: The2007 Book Club selection for September is “Awakening” by Kate Chopin. The discussion group will meet to discuss the novel on Monday, Sept. 10 at 7:30 p.m.

Singing Stories: Two high school students write and per­form songs for children 5 to 8 years old. Program held on se­lect Wednesdays.

M editation group: TheMindfulness Meditation Group

will meet on the first and third Wednesdays of the month. The group will practice meditation in various forms, do light reading and have discussions. The group is open to all and no registration is required.

Adult book discussion: The South Brunswick Public Library book discussion meets the first Monday of the month at 7:30 p.m. Books can be requested at the library Information Desk. Allow a minimum of two weeks for. delivery. Requests will not be taken more than eight weeks prior to the meeting date.

Anime Club: Watch and discuss anime on the fourth Wednesday of the month at the library’s Meeting Room A. 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Open to all sixth- through 12th-graders. For

more information,’ call (732X' 329-4000, ext. 7634. H

Creative writing groups Teen writers are invited to sharer their poems, songs, stories anlj- other written works with one an=r? other. Second Saturday of eaeJv; month at 1 p.m. Registration is' not required, but all participants" rnust be in grades six through' 12. Snacks are provided. For* more information,' call (732J-< 329-4000, ext. 7634. Tx

Images of America: Southt’ Brunswick: Copies of “Images;; of America: South Brunswick,” ! by Maria Kotun are available at! the South Brunswick Public Li^| brary. The book includes morcr- than 200 images portraying the! history of South Brunswick. The ; books are $19.99 each and are,; available at the circulation desk."*!

'The South Brunswick Board of Education is searching for a qualified candidate to fill a va­cancy on its board.

Board members hiust be reg­istered voters who have lived in the district for at least one year, must bp able to read and write, and cannpt hold a contract with or claim against the school dis­trict.

Interested candidates'should send their resume or letter of in­tent to: Anthony N. Tdnzini Jr.,

Board Secretary, P.O. Box 18), Monmouth Junction, NJ 08852.

Deadline for accepting appli­cations is Sept. 10.

* ♦ *During the summer, tele­

phone rewiring work was per­formed at Brooks Crossing (main campus and Dpans build­ing) and Indian Fields (main campus and Dayton building). As a result of this work, the tele­phone numbers for Brooks Crossing at Deans and Indian

Fields at Dayton have been dis-'! continued.

Anyone interested in reach-! ing either the main campus qri tlie satellite campus of either' school must call the main cam-) pus phone number for the school ! you are trying .to reach:; 732-821-7478 for Brooks Cross-; ing or 732-329-1043 for Indiam Fields.

Be sure to listen for thi? prompts, as they will,direct calLj ers to the proper extension or of­fice.

Sports Editor: Rich Fisher SportsFax: (732) 329-8291 Sports VoiceMail: (732) 329-9214, ext. 103 Sports E-Mail: Rfisher@pacpuh. com 7Sports Online: v\nm.southbrunswickpqst.coni SBHS Sports Skeds: WWWMghs^^^

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The South Brunswick Recreation W omen’s Faii Volleyball meeting for teams interested in returning to the league or potential new teams will be hcId^Sept. 6, at 6:30 p.m. in the Community Center on New Road in Wdodlot Park. New teams are welcome and will be admitted to the league on a space-available basis. A lottery will be held authe or­ganizational ' meeting to de­termine the order o f entry into the league if there are spaces. All new teams must be repre­sented at the meeting to partici­pate in the lottery.

Fees will be $15 for South Brunswick residents and $30 for each eligible non-resident (who works 20 or more hours per week in South Brunswick). All managers must attend the meeting or have a rcprc.scnta- tive present., If a team is not re­turning or for more informa­tion, call the Recreation/ Community Affairs office by

I Sept 5 at 732-329-4000, ext.17671 between 8:30 a.m. and •4:30p.m.

South Brunswick Vikings girls tournament team open tryouts will be held Sept. 15 at .Rowland Park and Sept. 16 at

^Woodlot Park. The tryouts the girls travel teams for the 2008 sca.son and will cover the fol­lowing age groups: UlO, U12, •UI4. Anyone interested is wel- ,com e, and tryout times are 4 to ',7 p.m. both days. For further

' information, contact John Ezzo ' at jczzo@.sbaa@comcast.net.

♦ ♦ *• South Brunswick; PAL

Flag Football is continuing to accept registration for its fail

' leagues until the end of Au-• gust. Applicants can register,

on-line at: www.leagueli-neup.com -South Brunswick PAL Flag Football. There is a 3rd-4th grade league as well as ,a 5th-6th grade league that

' practices and competes from September to November. For further information, contact A u d r e y B o n f i g l i o at (732)-951-9451.

The Future 12’s will be holding tournament baseball

' tryouts for players bom be­tween May .1 1995 to April 30 1996, to determine the players that will represent the age group in 2008. Tryouts will be

' held Sept. 28 from 5 to 8 p.m and Sept. 29 from 3 to 6 p.m. at Rowland Park’s Field No. 2. if necessary, a third tryout will be Sept. 30 from 3 to 6. For fur­ther information contact Jim Cooney at woof9@comcast.net

. or 732-261 -8847; of Jeff Cohen at cohcnjm@comcast.net, or609-924-9492.

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Club In-Town registration is' now open. The program is open .'to players from grades 1

through 12, and the season runs from early September through late November: Kindersoccer is also available for players entcr-

' ing kindergarten.To register log onto

sbsocccr.org. For further in- . formation e-mail • intown@sb- 'socccr.org.

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<irhe South Brunswick High gymnastics team isn’t as big numbers-wise as it was last year, but it might be just as good.

It won’t finish with the coach it starts with, but will conclude with one who still knows her stuff.

GYMNASTICS

Basically, it has the poten­tial to be another big season for the Vikings, who are coming off what could arguably be called the greatest-campaign in .school history.

South. Brunswick finished 6-1 in dual meets and set the team record for high score; fin­ished second in the Greater Middlesex Conference stand­ings and the GMC Tourna­ment; finished fourth in the state meet in its first season ever qualifying as a team; and finished second in the sectional tournament with the second, highc.st score in the state.

Individually the Vikings qualified for 32 different dvents in the sectionals.

Gone from that team are 10 .seniors who all helped in vary­ing ways. . . .......i —

returning are the irre­pressible Marissa Liptak for her Junior year, along with standout sophomores Jess Macay and Shannon Martin. All three are all-around performers that any coach would love to build a team around. *

Speaking of coaches, Erika Casey returns for her third sea­son, but it won’t be for long.

Casey is seven months preg­nant and is not sure how long she will be able to handle the rigors of coaching. But long­time Viking assistant Mindy Verderami is waiting in the wings.

“I haven’t decided w h en j’j l give it up yet, the transition could be sooner, than later,” Casey said. “It will depend on how I’m feeling.

PAL teamsIf summer is ending, that

means Pop Warner football is beginning.

The South Brunswick PAL Vikings were no exception as they got underway this past sea­son in successful fashion.

The .Ju n io r Pee Wees opened with a 28-0 victory at West Windsor-Plainsboro. Jaier Garret led the offense with two touchdowns while Phil Camp­bell and Richie Hoff each scored a touchdown. Mohamad Jabbie helped out with a 57-yard kick­off return to start the second half.

’The Vikings defense domi-. hated the line of scrimmage.

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with outstanding plays all around and impressive efforts by Tyler Harpster, Nicholas Botett and- Brandon Siroki. The Vikes did not allow a first down.

South will meet Allentown in Fords Saturday. •

The Mitey Mites 2 squad also opened on a high note, tak­ing a 12-6 victory over Monroe. With 1:46 remaining. South Brunswick was at the 6-yard line when Hunter Basile found Vic­tor Heutz in the comer of theendzone to cap a 60-yard scoring dnve.

Photo by Suzette Lucas

Junior Marissa Liptak hopes to be exulting along with her teammates again this year, as she helps form a solid nucleus for tlie Vikings gymnastics team.

“But Mindy will be ready when I go. She has coached them at Cro.ssroads and did a great job with them. She took over the summer in South Brunswick last summer.and real­ly did a great job with the in­coming freshmen. I’m hoping to see a lot of improvement in their skill level after working with Mindy so much over the sum­mer.” ,,

As of Monday, South Bnins- wick had just , four incoming freshmen, as several had not got­ten cleared due to phy.sicals. But

. provided everyone stays healthy, there are really only eight posi­tions that need to be taken - four each at the fourth and fifth spots.

Martin, Macay and Liptak have the first three spots lockcd up after all three qualified for the state finals in all-around as individuals. It’s not often club gymnasts continue to return to their high school teams, but Casey’s low-key approach makes it enjoyable.

“I’ve always wanted their

high .school gymnastics to be fun so they don’t have that club pressure on them all the time,” the coach said. “It’s something you hope they continue to do. They all seem to enjoy it, so why not do something you en­joy? And they’re with their friends, so it’s their social time as well, it's not just being part of a team.”

Also reluming are seniors Chelsea Reilly and Arielle Lo­pez, along with sophomores Re- bekah Clavin, Illena Berger, Amanda Klein and Jenna May- field. Several others from the sophomore class decided to do cheerleading this year.

The freshman who have so far been cleared are Dana Vas- ers, Caitlyn Buffalo, Tori Kubi-

‘ak and Adrienne Greco."With Marissa, Shannon and

Jess, we’re starting out with three solid girls,” Casey said. “I’m glad they're healthy now, that’s always a plus. We’re look­ing to fill that fourth and fifth spot with the next highest score­

rs in each event. We do have great consistency in terms of skill level.

“I don’t believe the last two spots will be all-around. We’re really looking at Jenna May- field move in somewhere, and we do have some of those in­coming freshmen who are great on floor and beam. Bars are tough to fill, so we’re not looking for fourth or fifth all- arounders, just strong competi­tors at each event. With the in­coming freshmen, we have a well-rounded team.”

South Brunswick opens on Sept. 10 with a home meet against Piscataway. Casey is not making any predictions as to whether her team can repeat its strong showing of last year, and just wants the competitors to worry about what they can Control.

"We’re just trying to shoot for our highest team score again,” she said; “I think we

The Vikes took a 6-0 lead on the first play from scrimmage when Dazmir Harper took a pitch around the left side and sprinted 45 yards for a touch­down. The run was set up by the blocking of Anthony ‘ Sjolund, Mike Ugarte, Kyle Richardson and Dom Lombardo.

The defense, led by Tai Woods, Chris James, Jared Wo- jaezyk, Davey Weiss, Jerry Pel- lak and Nick Cauley, held Mon­roe to three first downs and one ; score. But after Monroe tied it,? the Vikings embarked on their winning drive. Basile ran for two first downs and mixed in strong runs by Nick Cauley and Harper. The QB also connected on key passes to Sjolund and Heutz.

The Mitey Mites tied Sayre- ville, 7-7, as Jaden Jackson opened the game with a 60-yard touchdown run for South Bruns­wick. Lineman Alfonso Domi­nquez blocked well all day. Say- reville’s lone score was set up by a recovered fumble at the Vi­king 15. Defensively, nose tack­le Sean Bocknack caused two fumbles and comerbacks Conner Robicheau and Mike Ragno pre­vented Sayreville’s outside run­ning game to develop.

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to figure out as seasonBy Rich FisherSports Editor TENNIS

staff photo by John Keating

Slndhu Shamasunder Is vying for a

■ It’s cutdown week on the South Brunswick High tennis court?, as coach Nancy McDon­ald tries to whittle approximately TO players down to a seven-girlstarting lineup.-

This week and next week will feature ladder challenge matches as the Vikes try to re­place four graduated starters and, for a little while at least, an in­jured sophomore.

Ali Noll, who claimed the first singles spot and went 9-11 as a freshman last season, has yet to practice due to a rib injury. McDonald is unsure when Noll will return, but hopes she can start to practice by next week. The Vikes opener is Sept. 7.

“She hurt it around the first of August, it could have been stress or an over-use type of in­jury,” McDonald said. “It’s a little setback for now and it’s a shame because she really feels like she’s ready to step up in ^ a t first singles spot this year.”

Until Noll’s return, the lone returning starters in the chal­lenge matches are seniors Divya Toshniwal, who went 9-9 at sec­ond doubles last year, and Sind^ hu Shamasunder, who combined to go 13-2 at second doubles with the graduated Prasannah Ashokkumar.

Despite a lack of varsity ex­perience, McDonald still feels there is .enough talent for the Vi­kings to at least equal last year’s

13-5 record, which included a 10-4 Red Division mark in the. Greater Middlesex Conference.

“The tajent is there, it’s just that we don’t have much experi­ence at the varsity level,” , said McDonald, whose team will once again try and challenge East Brunswick and J.P. Stevens. “They haven’t played the EB’s or the JP’s or West Windsor type caliber teams in singles. Only Divya knows what’s going to happen there.

“But I think they’ve had enough match experience on a the JV team, to where I think they’ll have some success. With­out Ali we definitely have to pull points from everywhere in the order. It always comes down to bottom of order and how deep you are, I think we have pretty' good depth. I had 30 giris come out and kept 23, so I didn’t have to do a major cut.”

Several newcomers are .used to winning, as the Viking JV had a 7-0 record last season.

Other than Toshniwal and Shamasunder, others who are vy­ing for spots in the lineup, are seniors Irene Donne, Anusha Kodoru and Priyanka Gehlot, juniors Hayley Berk and Brooke Adelung and sophomores Erin Kurkela, Karen Sendner and Leah Suttner. Donne and Kodoru got a taste of varsity play but wefe mainly JV performers.

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Members of the SBAA 11-year-old baseball team show off one of the numerous pieces of hardware they won this past summer. Team members Include (front row, from left) Scott Dunleavy, Patrick Kelly (batboy), Anthony Mastandino, Dylan Olsson, Freddie Strebeck, Jared Man, Ty Robinson; (middle row, from left) Dorn Boccio, Jake izzo,'James Kelly, Austin Morse, Matt Cooney, PJ Delacruz; (back row, from left) coaches Dave Morse, Dan Olsson, Jim Cooney and Jim Kelly.

stellar summer for SBAA 11 -year-oldsThe South Brunswick Ath­

letic Association’s 11-year-old tournament baseball team re­cently completed a successful summer campaign with a 31-12 record. The team competed in seven tournaments, and won the South Brunswick Spring Classic, Hillsborough Memori­al Day Weekend Tournament, and the Basking Ridge Super Summer Tournament for the second straight year. They also finished second in the Holmdel Recreation and Branchburg Summer tournaments.

The pinnacle o f the season was the defense of the Basking Ridge title.

After losing their first game, SBAA Won five straight including a 12-4 triumph over Long, Valley in the title game, Trailing 3-1 after three innings. South Brunswick scored three in the fifth and seven in the

sixth thanks to home runs by Freddie Strebeck, Ty Robinson and Dorn Boccio, who clubbed his fourth of the tournament.

Robinson pitched three solid .innings and Boccio allowed just one run over the final three frames. At the conclusion of the tournament, manager Jim Coo­ney accepted the Sportsman of the Tournament award in memo­ry of friend Tom Durkin, who passed away earlier this year.

South Brunswick captured the Hillsborough Memorial Day Weekend Tournament with a 10-9 extra-inning extravaganza against a solid Brooklyn Bull­

dog team. The game went late into the evening on Memorial Day and was in danger of end­ing in a tie due to the approach­ing darkness. South Brunswick, battled buck to.tie the game in both the bottom of the fifth qnd sixth before pu.shing across a run in the bottom of the eight for the win. Robinson pitched two per^ feet innings of relief for thewin.

The l l ’s had a balanced pitching staff, with nine players each throwing-over 12 innings and everyone seeing time on the mound. The pitching was led by Austin Morse, who threw the two complete games, Boccio,

and Scott Dunleavy.The hitting attack was lead

by Robinson, Matt Cooney, James Kelly, and Jared Man with the power supplied by PJ, Delacruz, who cracked 11 home runs, including six in a four- game span.

The defense was solid up the middle, led by shortstop Freddie Strebeck, second baseman Dy­lan Olsson and centerfielder An­thony Mastandino. The middle infield turned 13 ground ball double plays.

The coaching staff was com­prised of Dan Olsson, Dave Morse, Jim Kelly and Cooney.

Dumpers reach finals again In fast-pitch softballThe D&R Dumpers (16-2)

moved onto the finals of the South Brunswick Modified Fast- Pitch Softball League for the 29th. time in 31 seasons by sweeping the scrappy BamBooz- ers in the playoff semifinals Sunday, 9-3 and 7-6.

The Dumpers meet streaking Windsor Moving (11-6) in the finals. Windsor swept Mo’s Boys, ,7 ^ and 17-8, in their semifinal series.

In game, one, Dan Rodriguez was 3-for-3 while Mike Lepore (4 RBI) and Jim Baker had “two

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can break the record, but you don’t want to put pressure on any one person. Everyone has a good meet and everyone has ; a bad meet. You Just have to have a lot of people contribut­ing.

“Last year was a great yearr and it wasn’t Just participation; from a few people. We had; strong participation from the en-‘ tire team. Some of the girls stood out but there were others, who really worked Just as hard; to get us to sectionals and states.' You never know who will ton- tribute each day.”

BACKFLIPS: The Vikings; have a new assistant coach, as' Catherine DiGioia-Laird is-novy; on board. DiGioia-Laird was the' dance team coach last year and; Casey feels she will add a lot to the Vikings floor routine. “She’js' great with choreography,” the coach said. ',~*Z

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“Basically, whoever doesn’t make the top three as single/s players will be in the mix for doubles,” McDonald said. “TKjit usually pans out as to who the best doubles players. Anyone can hit the ball back and forth playing singles, but they’re not all good doubles players.

‘They're all really working very hard. They’re playing two out of three set matches in the heat so they’re getting in shape. Most of them have played all summer and are in pretty good shape. It’s Just a matter of work­ing through this process of elim­ination.” '

LOBS: McDonald has a ne)v JV assistant coach tliis year irt Sandra Lucarella, who played tennis in high school and is a guidance counselor at SBHS.