The News Journal from Wilmington, Delaware • Page 99

THURSDAY, OCT. 21, 1993 THE NEWS JOURNAL CROSSROADS 3 ThatR ooted Feeling AROUND TOWN Do you have news from around your town? Here's how to get your information to us: I is 41 StrMt addrMi 950 W. Basin Road New Castle 19720 Faxi 324-2865 Mailt Box 10887 Wilmington 19850 Phonw 324-2864 TDD number for th hearing Impaired! 324-2580 Items of interest must be to us 10 days prior to publication date. IN WILMINGTON COUPON BOOK FOR SALE: The Northern Delaware Youth for Christ is seling "Entertainment '94" books to raise money for its countywide programs. The book offers 50 percent savings at more than 200 restaurants and savings at events, hotels and stores.

Each book costs $25 and can be ordered by calling 995-6937. 1, ICS i Road Warrior 0 0 0 VI; smtr I The News JournalJIM GRAHAM REST IN PEACE: At Halloween Mike Molitor's front lawn sprouts "gravestones" bearing neighborhood kids' names. (5) Walnut Street bridge on U.S. 13B south of Wilmington Amtrak station: Traffic reduced to two lanes through May 1. (6) Interstate 495 from Edgemoor to Delaware 141: Inside lane closings through Oct.

29. (7) Stanton Heights) Argonne Avenue, Verdun Avenue and St. Mihiel Avenue closed, local traffic only, through Dec. 24. (8) Delaware 141 at Crippen Drive: Lane restrictions through Nov.

15. (9) Delaware 7 between Churchmans Road and Stanton: Lane restrictions 7 p.m. to 6 a.m. or 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., depending on weather, through Friday.

(10) Interstate 95 northbound ramp to northbound Delaware 7: Lane restrictions through Friday. This listing of road construction and closings in the area is provided by the state Department of Transportation. ELSMERE-NEWPORT-NEW CASTLE-DELAWARE CITY (1) U.S. 13 north of Interstate 295 to Wilmington: Lane restrictions through December. (2) Interstate 95, 295 and 495 southbound near Delaware 141 overpass: Lane restrictions through Dec.

15. Possible left lane closings of southbound I-295 and I-495 between 8 p.m. and 6 a.m. Possible left lane closings of northbound I-95 between 9 a.m. and 3 p.m.

(3) Forest Avenue bridge, Elsmere. Closed. (4) Market Street bridge, U.S. 13, Wilmington, 3-ton weight limit. One lane each direction through December.

mm PUMPKIN PIE SPECIAL LARGE 10" $99 Fresh Baked Weekday Special until Oct. 31st limit two MUST PRESENT COUPON ANOTHER TIME: Most of the homes in Elmhurst, located just north of Newport, were built in the 1930s. BOY AND HIS DOG: Matthew Farley, 6, of Elmhurst, hugs Sam. SERPE BAKERY Community Profile jjz I WM 1411 KIHKWOUU MWT. RAR Elmhurst residents like to plant themselves and one likes to 'plant' the kids.

By KELLY YAN Staff reporter RICHARDSON PARK In Elmhurst, kids can eat, drink and be buried. Or so it appears looking at the Molitors' front yard on Matthes Place. It's covered with cardboard grave markers bearing the names and eulogies of kids in the neighborhood. One reads, "Tina and Lisa came by one day, and now here they'll stay." But don't call the police yet. Mike Molitor, 35, is no killer.

He just loves Halloween. The kids are very much alive, and love coming to see their final resting places each October. In past years, members of the Molitor family have hanged from fake nooses, jumped out of coffins, and sat in a box with a "severed" head sticking out to the delight of neighborhood trick-or-treaters. Simone Acha, 28, said Halloween in Elmhurst is like no other she's known. "I buy 20 pounds of candy, and I go through it all," the DuPont engineer said.

"You can't even close the door because the next group is right behind. Sometimes I wonder if they're importing kids in here for Halloween." No need to import them kids are probably the most visible part of the small community just north of Newport near Maryland Avenue. On a typical day, you might see Matthew Farley, 6, chasing his rambunctious dog Sam, 13-year-old Josh Pierce pitching a tennis ball to 12-year-old Jeff Flanagan across a street intersection, or 11-year-old Jackie Brown-lee "just walking around" with her friends. Though many residents are young, the community has been around a long time. Marie Cloud, 72, remembers sledding down hills now covered with developments, peddling her father's garden vegetables from a small wagon (cucumbers went for a nickel), and going to Richardson Park Elepentary School when it first opened.

Cloud's family moved to the community from Wilmington about 1925. "It was country then," she said. "I can remember walking down Maryland Avenue when there was so much snow you couldn't walk on the sidewalk there were no snow plows then." Cloud moved to Glasgow when she married, but returned to the house she grew up in so her four children could attend Richardson Park Elementary and Conrad Middle School. Her oldest son was one of the last students in a kindergarten Cloud's mother ran when kindergarten was not included in elementary schools. For years, Lucille Clouser taught about a dozen students for 75 cents a week at the Matthes Place home where Cloud now lives.

"Things weren't always as mobile as they are today," Cloud said. "When I was growing up, you grew up, got married and lived in the same area." Most of the homes in Elmhurst, each distinctively different from the next, were built in the 1930s. Acha said it was her Lorewood Avenue home that sold her on the neighborhood four years ago. "Back then you didn't choose a floor plan. They built the house for you," she said.

"If you walk in the front door, it's like a giant hug. You can tell happy people lived here." Acha, who collects antiques, raves about the house's hardwood floors, crown molding, glass doorknobs and delicate scroll work on the paneled doors "little things they don't even know how to do "A LOT OF MY FRIENDS HAVE MOVED OUT AND COME BACK, AND SOME OF US WHO FOUGHT AGAINST EACH OTHER AS KIDS NOW LIVE CLOSE TOGETHER." MIKE MOLITOR, Elmhurst resident. COMMUNITY: Elmhurst. THE HOMES: About 500. Selling for $60,000 to $120,000.

SCHOOL DISTRICT: Red Clay Consolidated. FEEDER PATTERN: Richardson Park Elementary School, Conrad Middle School, Wilmington High School. CIVIC ASSOCIATION: No. Mo Newark I' t. The News Journal hurst.

She says Newport, or Five Points, or even Boxwood or Richardson Park, the two neighborhoods that sandwich the little community. But the people in the community don't care that many outsiders don't know where it is. "The people who live here know," Acha said. "They live here, then their kids come back. A lot of people are in their roots they're not going anywhere." GOOD SEATING: Joseph Gerres relaxes at his daughter's home.

anymore." The Molitors own the newest home in the neighborhood, a house Mike Molitor and his father built 11 years ago. An abandoned mansion that was once an Underground Railroad stop stood at the site, said Molitor, a DuPont lab technician. Molitor said he has turned down chances to move because he feels tied to the area. He was "born and raised just across the highway" and has no intention of leaving. Standing on his porch between two plastic pumpkins, he and his wife Janet point to houses and list neighbors who grew up in the area and returned to their roots.

Steve Williams, 32, said things are pretty quiet in this mostly white neighborhood, where American-made cars and pickup trucks line the streets. The seven-year resident said he likes the wide spectrum of ages and good mix of blue- and white-collar workers. But he said he doesn't feel the community is closely knit, though "the neighbors you do get to know are good neighbors." When Acha gives directions to her home, she doesn't call it Elm PARAMOUNT PICTURES (WSf NTS JOE WIZANTCOD BLACK PRODUCTION A ROBERT LEBERMAN FILM FIRE IN THE SKY 01 SIM END ROBERT PATRICK CRAIG SHEFFER PETER BERG and JAMES NEHa MARK SHAM eoted BvSTEVE MIRK0VICH ACE dwector of photography BILL POPE ajPflOOUfiRS TRACY T0RME AM) ROBERT STRAUSS t. UECUM woouctP WOLFGANG GLATTtS smmjn si ihau 'y? it 'Ml PWAMOHWT wen Worried About Debts? Hounded for money you can't pay? A new consumer bankruptcy law can help you end those headaches and provide a perfectly legal way to get out of Penn Mart Shopping Center 16 East Basin Road Open daily 10 a.m. to 12 Midnight LEE'S Oitoooiu S40OFF FUTON SETS IN STOCK ONLY.

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