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82 Tuesday, May 29,2007 The Intelligencer To Place a Classified Ad Call 215-345-3010 215-957-8125 21S-538-6362 Cleanup along river scheduled for June 9 www.phlllyburb9.com BY ANDREW McGiLL THE INTELLIGENCER With debris littering the banks of the flood-battered Delaware River, a local man is teaming up with area schools to take out the trash. Upper Black Eddy resident Tom McBrien is working with private and state agencies to organize the Delaware River Cleanup, an event on June 9 that will clean 62 miles along the river. The conservancy organization American Rivers lists the Upper Delaware River as this year's fourth most endangered waterway in America. "I grew up on this river for 41 years of my life," McBrien said. "This river needs to be taken care of.

And who better than kids, so they can have it for future generations?" Participants, including student volunteers from six school districts, will pick up litter between Upper Black Eddy and Centre Bridge, using more than 40 canoes provided by Bucks County River Country. Years of flooding has left the shoreline strewn with trash. "The debris has also collected more and more trash that needs to be removed not only for the eye to enjoy the river, but for the wildlife and fish to survive," McBrien said. Trash will be recycled when possible. The event coincides with National River Cleanup Week, an event founded in 1991 to highlight the importance of protecting riverside environments.

Volunteers will meet at 7:30 a.m. at Tinicum Park, where transportation provided by Bucks County River Country will take them to the cleanup sites. Palisades School District Superintendent and former State Secretary of Education Francis Barnes will speak to the participants. "As a community, we hold dearly die responsibility of trying to look out for our neighbors whenever we can," Barnes said. The superintendent and McBrien have worked together before to involve Palisade School District students in the construction of a Sept.

11 memorial flag. The Marine Corps, Navy, Coast Guard and local fire companies will lend their assistance, recruiting throughout the event. Interested volunteers are enc6uraged to contact McBrien at (610) 982-5694 or through email at McBrien hopes diat his efforts will spur further cleanups along the Delaware River and an increased awareness of conservation. Andrew IHcGIII can be reached at (215) 345-3169 or Winner Continued from Page B1 struggling with these issues, according to the American Lung Association. An estimated 45 million people in the United States smoke.

At least 4.5 million adolescents smoke cigarettes. About 90 percent of smokers pick up the habit before the age of 21, according to the lung association. The contest commercials not only educate people about die dangers of smoking, they also are helping bring a lot of people to the coalition's Web site at www.tobaccofreemont- co.org. The coalition said it had a 1,300 percent increase in die number of visits to its Web site during a two-week period. Halbom, who heads to Southern Virginia University in the fall to study directing and theater, said it was exciting to have their advertisement picked.

"It was a huge learning experience and to have it played on TV," Halbom said, "that's amazing." Smoking has become a hot topic in die movie industry. The Motion Picture Association of American announced earlier this month that its ratings board now will consider smoking by adults when assigning film ratings. The move adds smoking to a list of such factors as sex, violence and language in determining the association's PG, PG-13, and NC-17 ratings. Film raters will consider the pervasiveness of tobacco use, whether it glamorizes smoking and the context in which smoking appears, as in movies set in the past when smoking was more common. Melissa Busch can be reached at (215) 957-8168 or Parks Continued from Page 1 Council Vice President Mitch Meyerson, who chairs die park and recreation committee and spearheaded die drive to use borough funds on die park, sees die issue differendy.

In fact, he said, "die naysayers are out of dieir minds." For Meyerson, restoring Blue Jay Park, and improving die town's six other parks, is exacdy what taxpayers' dollars should be spent on. "All diese parks need help diey have been neglected for years. This is what people want," he said. But Councilman John Abbott said voters sent a clear message when diey rejected die referendum. "The voters said diey did not want a tax to improve parks.

You have to question whedier Chalfont wants to spruce up its parks." Abbott said he only supported die Blue Jay Park project because the public works department said it could not do die job and diere was money in die parks budget for die job. Widi die borough's population becoming younger, Meyerson said, die demand for places for families to gather is only going to grow. The parks committee is encouraging residents to attend its meeting tonight at 7 at borough hall to help identify which park should next get attention. Meyerson said die borough hopes to "fix neighborhood park after neighborhood park." There is some $6,000 sitting in die park and recreation budget for materials and supplies, said the councilman. "No money is being wasted." Even Ben Romano, a Democratic candidate for council, a leading opponent of die referendum and a vocal critic of die council, said spending on die parks is a good investment.

"It's about time," he said. As for the flood plain, Meyerson said Blue Jay Park, designed in die 1960s, will be regraded, with die playground equipment dial's now sunk in mud moved to higher ground. Freda R. Savana can be reached at (215)345-3061 or Community Calendar Today Bingo, doors open at 5, games begin 6:45 p.m., St. Anne Ukrainian Catholic Church, 1545 Easton Road (Route 611), Warrington.

Admission: $10. Bingo, doors open at 4 p.m., games begin at 6:30 p.m., Corpus Christ! School Hall, Sumneytown Pike, Upper Gwynedd. Smoke-free, wheel-chair accessible. (215) 362-0104. B.I.LY.

(Because I Love You), 7 p.m., parent support group, Abington Memorial Health Center, 2510 Maryland Road, Upper Moreland, (215) 576-5216. Bucks County Barbershop Chorus, 7 p.m., Lenape Middle School, 313 W. State Doylestown, free singing lessons. (215) 230-7712 or (215) 3488024. Children's Chess Club, 6:30 to 8 p.m., WREC, 1101 Little Lane, Warminster.

Registration fee is $10. (215) 4435428. Crooked Billet Women's Club Card Party, 10 a.m., Lehman Methodist Church, Hatboro. (215) 674-4474. North Pennsmen Barbershop Chorus, 7:45 to 10:30 p.m.

rehearsals, Central Schwenkfelter Church, Route 363, Worcester. Learning tapes and music are provided. (215) 393-1940. Wednesday AL-ANON, 8 p.m., Salem United Church of Christ, 186 E. Court Doylestown.

Coalition for Peace Action, 7:15 p.m., St. Paul's Lutheran Church, 301 N. Main Doylestown, (215) 345-0653. Gilda's Club Delaware Valley, noon, 200 Kirk Road, Warminster. A new members meeting.

(215) 441-3290. Plerogle and klelbasa sale, St. Anne Ukrainian Catholic Church, 1545 Easton Road, Warrington. Call between 9 a.m. and noon and pick up between 12:30 and 3 p.m.

Late pickup available at 6 p.m. (215) 343-9809. Veterans Assistance, 9 a.m. to noon, Government Services Building, Route 309, Quakertown. Assistance with benefits, disability claims, and medals replacement.

(215) 345-3307. i Vlnce Intelligencer Pipers (from left) Wayne McDonald, John Boyd and Michael Allen of Cairngorm Pipes and Drums of Warminster perform at the Warminster Memorial Day parade on Monday. Service members honored in Warminster Route 132 was renamed Armed Forces and Veterans Memorial Highway during a ceremony Monday. BY ANDREW McGiLL THE INTELLIGENCER Navy veteran Mike Huffman of Warminster remembers when he couldn't leave a base in uniform for fear of being assailed by protesters. "I've been spit on," the Vietnam veteran- recalled.

Now, he reflected, watching the Warminster Memorial Day parade, attitudes have changed. "Different things, different times," he said. Marching bands, fire engines and Boy Scouts paraded down Warminster streets from the township building to the local VFW, waving and throwing candy to spectators packing the sidewalks. Willow Grove Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base commander Capt. Michael Remington led the procession from a military jeep.

A memorial service held prior to the parade honored area veterans, featuring poetry readings and rifle volleys. Placing a ceremonial wreath by the township building's flagpole, Remington thanked parade- goers for supporting the troops fighting overseas. Calling the Philadelphia area "the cradle of democracy," he said Warminster has always been hospitable to his Navy pilots. "I've been here for about a year now, and this community has welcomed us," he A firefighter waves to onlookers. The parade also included marching bands and Boy Scouts.

Miss Susquehanna Valley 2006, Marie- Teresa Grinneby, treated the crowd to a rendition of the national anthem. This was the Penn State student's third year performing at the parade. "I love it," she said. "This is my first year in a while that I Warminster Soon, even one of the streets paraders marched down will become a memorial to those in the service. Department of Transportation spokesman Charlie Metzger and state Rep.

Kathy Watson unveiled the renaming of Street Road to "Armed Forces and Veterans Memorial Highway," honoring soldiers from all military branches. Watson, a "child of Vietnam," said she didn't want the troops returning from Afghanistan and Iraq to face the hostility that greeted those who came back from the war in Asia. "We don't want to go to that place again we want to honor them." she said. Route 132, from the beginning of Street Road in Bensalem to the end in Warminster, will bear the new title. Warminster resident and Vietnam veteran John Rousis was glad to see the crowd's patriotism.

He said that soldiers are fighting a war muddled by "politicians." "You have to be politically correct in combat now," he said. "If a car bomb goes off, you have to go over and ask the people if.they did it before you can shoot them not right. War is always war." He also warned spectators against wantonly wearing or discarding the Stars and Stripes, calling such behavior "disgracing the flag." "I've picked them up off the ground after cars have run over them," he said. "That hurts the people who have served." Andrew McGIII can be reached at (215) 345-3169 or Road Continued from Page 1 "We pay as much taxes as anyone else and all we ask for is fair treatment from diis township," Flannery said. "We're paying twice for our roads to be plowed." Township Commissioner President Scott Brown and engineer Joe Nolan recently met with the Hidden Meadows Homeowners Association to discuss the issue of private roadways.

Taking over the private road would be an unprecedented move for the township, Brown said at the commissioners meeting last week. Brown has asked township employees to determine the cost of maintaining the road. They also will ascertain how many other private roads there are in Hatfield Township and determine whether any nearby municipalities have taken private roads into their public road systems. The results of their research will be discussed at the July 25 meeting. "We will try to address some of these issues," Brown said.

Annie Tasker can be reached at (215) 957-8167 or Continued from Page 1 while she doesn't know how to spell that off the top of her head, she could probably figure it out. "I just sound it out best I can and spell what I think it is," she said. Jessica's parents, brother and two grandparents are accompanying her to the bee, held in the Grand Hyatt Washington. The family has plans to visit the White House and Annapolis, while in the area. The final round will be tele- vised live Thursday on ABC; those looking for an earlier start to the action can catch the semifinals a few hours earlier on ESPN.

Jessica's mother doesn't think the potential media attention will faze her daughter, but Jessica admitted some trepidation. And if she doesn't win die champion's trophy? Jessica is unsure if she'll compete again next year. "It's a good experience, but I might want to let someone else try it," she said. Andrew McGIII can be reached at (215) 345-3169 or LAW OFFICES MELLON WEBSTER SHELLY A PROFESSIONAL CORPORATION SARA WEBSTER and ELISSA HEINRICHS CRIMINAL DEFENSE Drunk Driving License Suspensions Motor Vehicle Offenses CIVIL LITIGATION Federal and State Court Theft and Fraud Grand Jury Drug Offenses COMMERCIAL AND CORPORATE LAW Juvenile Offenses Felony Assaults Misdemeanors THOMAS E. MELLON, JR.

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