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CO t- C2 Asbury Park Jan. 8, 1985 Ocean to ban pet grave destruction (iriiirY.JiriisfW Facts on Social Security CONFUSED ABOUT your Social Security taxes? The Social Security Administration, in cooperation with Brookdale Community College, has produced a brief videotape for local cable television channels that will provide viewers with information. The tape, which explains the new provision on partial taxation of granted a permit to build a single-family home, according to Councilman James R. Garrity. The permit was revoked when it was learned the Re-maleys were building a two-family home, Garrity said.

The couple is seeking to have the permit reinstated. In another matter, David Hiers, fire commissioner of the Oakhurst Fire Department, protested some plans for the completion of Route 18. Hiers said there was no northbound entrance to Route 18 from Deal Road, and no southbound entrance from West Park Avenue. Both are needed in case of emergencies, he said. site.

Michael Annunziata, who organized the protest, said the group would continue to fight until an ordinance was enacted. In other business, the council unanimously approved salary increases of 6 percent for non-union, non-supervisory township employees. The raises are retroactive to Jan. I. An additional 6 percent increase, effective in October, was granted to some technical and non-supervisory employees.

The council also authorized Crawford to defend the township in a lawsuit filed by Lawrence and Dorothy Remaley. The couple, who own property on Monmouth Road, near the Oakhurst Country Day School, was English said council members and Dennis Crawford, township attorney, would review the California statute, and possibly have an ordinance1 ready to be introduced at the Jan. 21 meeting. "We will follow through, and do whatever we have to do," English said. "When we do it, we'll do it right" Although Millar will not disclose any plans, Bill Brown, Ocean Township's chief sanitarian, said last month Millar spoke with him, saying he wanted to "get rid of the cemetery." More than 20 people attended the meeting last night, some carrying receipts showing they paid hundreds of dollars to bury their animals on the Press Asbury Park Bureau OCEAN TOWNSHIP Responding to outcries from owners of animals buried at a pet cemetery, Mayor Richard E.

English III said last night the township would draw up an ordinance prohibiting the destruction of animal gravesites. Owners of animals buried at the Millar Animal Hospital pet cemetery on Monmouth Road repeatedly have told council members they do not want remains removed or graves relocated. The owner of the cemetery, Dr. Harry C. Millar, consistently has refused to comment on any plans for the property.

The only state with laws regulating pet cemeteries is California. Social Security benefits, will air on Storer Cable Communications, Monmouth ablevision, and Ocean and Jackson Cable. Eileen F. Sheridan, district manager of the Social Security office in Asbury Park, said approximately 179,000 residents in Monmouth and Ocean counties will receive the SSA-1099 statement of benefits this month. For nine out of 10 people, this statement will be informational only, and no taxes will be due, she said.

For a personal explanation without leaving the living room, viewers can see "Social Security and Your Taxes on: Storer Cable Communications, today and Saturday, 8 p.m. Monmouth Cablevision, Ocean and Jackson Cable, Jan. 22 and Jan. 29. both at 8:50 p.m., and Feb.

3 and Feb. 10, both at 6:30 p.m. Auditions scheduled for drama Staff takes bulk of Middletown budget i 1 I I 1 I 1 1 -1. .1 I 1 1 1 I 1 1 I AUDITIONS FOR "Sabona," an original drama about South Press Red Bank Bureau budget had to be earmarked for sala ticularly in the area of special educa little kids and bright, and because 'they're just going to make it on' their Atnca presented by the Simy theater, will be 6 p.m. Jan.

20 at the Howell Township Recreation Building, Preventorium Road. The cast includes black actors ages 30 to 50; white actors ages 20 to 30. and black male and female dancers. The show is sponsored by the Howell Township Cultural Arts Committee. Workshop on cancer prevention own, said Ronni Lieberman, a parent who said she believed gifted children need extra attention.

Sconzo said the need to upgrade special education precluded further expansion of the gifted program this year, although he hopes to implement such a A WORKSHOP about cancer prevention and detection, "Are You MIDDLETOWN TOWNSHIP The Board of Education introduced a $43,543,152 budget for 1985-86 that includes additional special education staff, but little funds for expansion of the district's gifted and talented program. The budget, up about $4 million from 1984-85, is just within the district's state-imposed 8.8 percent limit on budget increases. Current expenses total $40,833,430, up $4,089,369. Debt service, at $1,724,722, is a Gambling Lady?" will be presented Monday by Check-Mate, Monmouth County's anti-poverty agency. The session will begin 12:30 p.m.

at the Check-Mate Inc. Outreach Center, 157 Broadway, Long Branch. Sponsored by the American Cancer Society, the workshop is free and open to all women. Sharon M. Dutra has information.

Computer workshop planned ries before the board could consider increases in other areas, he said. "I don't mind personnel is important," Sconzo said. "But because of the 8 percent settlements, I don't have a whole lot left over. It's frustrating." Because the district failed state certification requirements last summer, Sconzo said his "number one priority" in recommending budget expenditures were improvements to help the district regain certification this spring. The state Board of Education voted against certifying the district after state inspectors found deficiencies in special education, facilities and other areas.

To meet state requirements, Sconzo included the hiring of two child study teams representing six staff members one bilingual instructor, six special education teachers, a speech therapist and additional instructional materials in the budget. "We must do this in order to be recertified by the state," Sconzo said. "This district has suffered too long from grossly inadequate services, par tion. We really have been remiss in that area a long time." The new personnel represent a budget increase of about $378,000, Sconzo said. In order to budget for state requirements, Sconzo said he had to eliminate the hiring of other needed personnel, including librarians, nurses, computer instructors and teachers for the district's gifted and talented program, Project Challenge.

Sconzo recommended hiring one additional gifted and talented teacher for grades four to six, the only grades that have a formal Project Challenge curriculum. Other grades have accelerated courses, however. But many parents who attended the meeting criticized Sconzo's decision to cut a proposed enrichment program for gifted children in kindergarten through grade three from the budget. The program would have been implemented this month. "I am personally outraged that the board is just going to forget about it for this year just because they're down $181,235.

Capital outlay is $985,000, up THE MONMOUTH COUNTY Library is having a free computer $2,000. Most of the money will go to program for the younger children as soon as possible. i A committee comprising parents, i board members, staff and administra tors is formulating a curriculum for i gifted and talented program that wouli be implemented at all grade levels if the future, Edwards said. an The state plans to make gifted an' talented programs mandatory soofvn and is expected to issue guidelines cP1 implementing such programs later thf tn year, Sconzo said. The budget is being sent to Superintendent of Schools Milton j.ng Hughes for approval.

A public hearing is set for 8 p.m. March 6 at High School North. Elizabeth Allert funding a $5.5 million renovation pro workshop on new applications tor personal computers 7:30 p.m. Friday at the library's eastern branch, Route 35, Shrewsbury. Investment workshop offered ject nearly completed at High School North.

The renovations, delayed months. A FREE WORKSHOP on tax-sheltered investment will be 7:30 should be finished on Jan. 16, said Paul Bennett, board secretary. The budget effect on the school tax rate was not available last night. p.m.

tomorrow at the Monmouth County Library's Holmdel Branch, rawfords Comer Road, Holmdel Township. Mental health group to meet "FAMILY AND FRIENDS for Mental Health," a self-help group Superintendent of Schools Guy M. Sconzo said about 80 percent of the of those who have friends or family members suffering from mental illness, will meet 7:30 p.m. todav in the Mental Health Association Office, 90 Monmouth Red Bank. Stroke Club to meet Jan.

19 THE RIVERVIEW Stroke Club will meet 10:30 a.m. Jan. 19 in Neuberger Auditorium, Riverview Medical Center, Red Bank. Dr. Fred Brustein, director of rehabilitation, and Leonor Goebel, nutrition sen ices, will present a joint program on calcium metabolism in relation to osteoporosis.

The meeting is open to all. Square dance club to meet THE SHORE SWINGERS Square Dance Club will have meet 8 p.m. Jan. and Feb. 4 in the Allenwood bchool, Allenwood-Lakewood Road, Wall Township.

Glenn Cooke, Manasquan, will be the caller, cued by Ellen and Allen Fury of Toms River. Refreshments will be served. A. Af ft rj'j. ripr r-r fwmtt w- rv JUt I.

I Bvf jVT Va Jr T- "'A A Li As 1 fir" Li VI rr 1 -V b. JFmt Search party volunteers needed MIDDLETOWN TOWNSHIP police are still trying to find enough olunteers to conduct a search for a 56-year-old East Keansburg woman who has been missing since Thursday. Police Capt. illiam J. Halliday said yesterdav if enough volunteers are found, a search would be conducted today, beginning at 1 1 a.m.

at the East Keansburg Fire Co. He said the search party would cover areas around East Keansburg. including swamp areas and the beachfront. Leocardia Stavitskie, 28 Kentucky has been missing since Thursday, when her husband, Alexander, reported the last time he saw her was at 5:30 a.m. while she was lying awake on the couple's couch.

When Stavitskie checked an hour later, his wife was gone, Halliday said. Police are distributing circulars with Mrs. Stavitskie's picture and description. She is white, 5-feet, 1 -inch tall, weighs about 150 pounds, and has brown shoulder-length hair and brown eyes. She was last seen wearing a black waist-length coat, brown shoes and stretch slacks, according to the circular.

The Stavitskies have three children. Alexander Robert and Jacqueline. MIKE VUOCOLOAsbury Park Press MAKING A POINT Members of the Lakewood Education Association picket outside the high school last night as Lakewood Board of Education members arrive for meeting. Union members, working without a contract since July, said they wanted the board to know they are anxious to reach a settlement, a spokesman said. Negotiations continue, but union leaders have been authorized to call a strike if talks break down.

Marlboro Ivan Portnoy said he received a letter from the architect of a proposed new elementary school, EI Associates, Newark, stating the architect will withdraw from the project. Portnoy, who said the letter was dated Dec. 1 8, would not give a reason other than there was "a mutually acceptable agreement" for the Stavitskie said his wife did not take her car, pocketbook. wallet or eyeglasses. Police were forced to suspend the search for Mrs.

Stavitskie on Saturday because of snow. Those with information about Mrs. Stavitskie's whereabouts should contact Detective Sgt. Richard Deickmann or Detective Leonard Moon at Middletown police headquarters. Freeholder named for post MONMOUTH COUNTY Freeholder Director Thomas J.

Lynch Jr. has been nominated for the post of second vice president of the New Jersey Association of Counties. The election will be at the association's annual meeting, 10 a.m. Jan. 1 6.

in the state Senate chamber, Trenton. Lynch, Middletown Township, is vice president for Mid-State Securities. Red Bank. The association represents county governments before the slate Legislature, the governor's office and the state's executive departments. "Our role is to watch out for the interests of our local and county taxpayers," said Linda Spalinski, the association's research director.

Nominees in addition to Lynch are: president. Pearl Bcatty, Essex County; first vice presdent, Freeholder H. George Buckwald, Ocean County: third vice president, Vernon A. Noble, Somerset County; fourth vice president, Anne Rieker, Sussex County, and secretary treasurer, Kirk Conover, Atlantic County. Compiled from Press staff reports er a separate referendum appropriating $400,000 for renovations to the Middle School when they vote on the budget in April.

Dugan said the money will be used to repair the roof and renovate the school. No date has been set for a public hearing. In other business, board President The board is expected to select a new architect Wednesday night. The firm had been selected from a field of 18 applicants. Thomas S.

Goas, El's vice president, had presented the board with plans for both a one- or two-story school building costing $5.5 million to $6.5 million. The school would ease overcrowding in the Middle School. From page CI $501,576. The district is expecting $6,992,343 in state aid, up $788,629. Voters will also be asked to consid Hotel In a related matter, Mayor Philip D.

Huhn is scheduled to appear on a cable television program with the Ma-loneys to discuss their proposal. The show will be taped Thursday afternoon in city hall, and is set to air 7:30 p.m.--Jan. 16 and 23 on Channel 34. 4 Janet Mazur plans for Ocean Place called for a hotel complex, not residential dwellings. In August, the city rejected a proposal from the Jeffersonian a Washington-based company, after the company failed to produce a site plan within the 90-day negotiating period.

That company submitted the sole pro posal for Ocean Place when the city called for public bids early last year Officials are saying, with the exception of hotels in Atlantic City, Gem Holding project is the first major oceanfront hotel to be built on the Atlantic coast from Maryland to Boston in the last 100 years. From page CI opment, he said, because the city's Asbury park press monmouth county NEWS BUREAUS Russian Orthodox Christmas celebrated NORTHERN MONMOUTH Red Bank 15 Monmouth St. 201-741-5400 Deena Welde, bureau chief Elizabeth Allert Ken Branson Steve Chambers William Conroy Sherry Figdore William K. Heme James Dundas Kathie Reed Focus Freehold fAsburyl "The western way is to celebrate ahead of time," Ms. Kizenko said.

"With us, we start at Christmas Day and celebrate for 12 days." During the holiday season, families visit each other while children walk from home to home carrying an eight-sided star, illuminated by candles or light, singing the Kolyadka, Russian Christmas carols. Festivities continue until the eve of the Epiphany, which celebrates the baptism of Jesus Christ and the adoration of the magi. Sanctified water is blessed twice, on the eve of the Epiphany and on the Epiphany, and is used to bless each parishioner's home when the priest visits between Jan. 19 and 27. "The Epiphany signals the end of our festive season," Father Lukianov said.

"We then begin our fasting again and begin preparing for the celebration of our high holiday, Easter." From page CI cautiously." Under each place setting or in the center of the table, straw is scattered, symbolizing the manger where the Christ child was born, she said. And following religious customs, one additional place is set at every family's table. The additional seat, Lukianov said, is left vacant in case a stranger or someone in need knocks at the door. On Christmas morning parishioners attend Christmas or "Nativity of the Lord" services. Although, in the Christian sense, there is not much difference between Eastern and Western religion, Lukianov said, the term "Nativity of the Lord" is preferred, because it evokes a deeper spiritual meaning.

Both the Liturgy of St. John Chrys- roshki is a dough made from eggs and flour stuffed with ground meat and then fried. A variety of rich baked goods, including heart-shaped butter cookies, slices of light fruit cakes, filled cooked and square pastries layered with jam also graced many tables. Following dinner, children gather around the Christmas tree, which is decorated with little houses, dwarfs, balls and candy, Ms. Kizenko said, and open their presents.

"Of course there is' a Santa Claus." Ms. Kizenko said, "and although he is known as Father Frost to those who were born in Russia, he has become Americanized and is called Santa Claus by the children." And although most Western Christian religions view Christmas as the culmination of festivities, members of Russian Orthodox churches mark the holiday as the beginning of their celebration. 0 ostom, 4th century patriarch of the church, and the Liturgy of St Basil the Great were read during the service, which lasted almost three hours. "It is a festive liturgy," Mrs. Pe-trovsky said.

"Although the prayers are a little longer, the music is upbeat and very festive." Following church services, families returned home to begin 12 days of celebration. "In Imperial Russia it is the opening of the festive season," said Tama-rah Kizenko, an associate at St. Vladimir's. "People get together and it is very lively." Typical Christmas Day menus for members of St Mary's featured Russian kielbasi sausage, piroshki, golubtsi (stuffed cabbage) and boiled ham. Pi- COASTAL MONMOUTH Asbury Park Press Plaza 201-774-7000 Celeea Dee Berry, bureau chief Rose Ananthanayagam Patricia Battle Jay Johnston Maritee Loboda Patricia M.

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