The Courier-News from Bridgewater, New Jersey • Page 14

Our Open house Guidance counselor's verse celebrates everyday things OWNS from Central Jersey's towns. Consul General of the Netherlands, Tjaco T. van den Hout, will visit and tour the facility. This visit by the consul general comes at an auspicious time in the museum's history: A major restoration project is about to begin this summer to return the house and grounds to its original condition, which Cornelius Low first realized when he built the structure in 1741 at the height of Dutch settlement in the region. Although the museum is being readied for the seven-month restoration, and no exhibits are on display, a series of posters depicting various stages of the house's history have been mounted and plans for the upcoming restoration will be available at the event.

For more information call the museum at (908) 745-4489. Laurie Levoy DUNELLEN Ladies auxiliary officers appointed DUNELLEN The slate of officers appointed to serve the Ladies Auxiliary Tri-Boro Memorial No. 5479 of the Veterans of Foreign Wars for 1995-96 includes: Barbara Taylor, president; Irene Cooper, senior vice president; Angela Thpmas, junior vice president; Margaret Ference, treasurer; Helen Hager, chaplain; Wanda Krempa, conductress; and Joan Enz, guard. Named to a three-year trustee post is Leslie Ricci; two-year trustee, Bree Chaplin; and one-year, Mary Kreick. Gertrude Herbst will serve as secretary, and Bree Chaplin, patriotic instructor.

Officer installation will take place at 7 p.m. May 13 at the post home, 201 Prospect Ave. in Dunellen. The next meeting of the auxiliary is scheduled for May 10. For more information, call (908) 722-9532.

Laurie Levoy PISCATAWAY Health panel will holdwalk-a-thon A 3.5-mile walk-a-thon designed to raise funds to purchase life-saving rescue squad equipment will be held May 7 by the Piscataway Health Advisory Commission. Registration for the event starts at 8:30 a.m. at the Stelton Lanes, 1665 Stelton Road. Money raised during the walk will be matched by the Prudential Insurance Company and used to purchase defibrillators, which are computer-controlled devices used to revive someone whose heart has failed. The defibrillators will be used by the River Road, North Stelton and Arbor Rescue Squads.

Walkers are asked to raise at least $50 through pledges for the events, which follows a course leading from Stelton Lanes, through the township and ending at North Stelton Rescue Squad. Sponsors will provide prizes and refreshments to walkers. For more information, call the township Health Department at (908) 562-2323 or the Mayor's office at (908) 562-2301. Bonnie Sinnock Technical Schools Foundation received a $3,000 donation from Ethicon Corp. in Bridgewater.

The gift will pay for scholarships for high school and technical institute students. The newly created foundation is seeking contributions to supplement ongoing education programs and provide scholarships. For information, call (908) 526-8900, ext. 227. Kristen Alloway Students furnish calendar artwork Fourteen area students from second through 12th grade have provided artwork for the 1995 Multicultural Calendar produced by the Somerset County Cultural Diversity Committee and the United Way.

The calendar highlights the holidays and celebrations of various ethnic and cultural groups from around the world. Each pencil or ink drawing shows an ethnic celebration. The calendars, and a guide that explains the meaning of each holiday, were distributed to the county's public elementary and middle schools. They also were sent to youth service organizations, child care centers, libraries, municipal offices and county agencies. The students who contributed include: Elizabeth Goemaat, Kerri Linthicum, Christine Clancy, Dana Sestokas, Lara Wilson, Mike Vitollo, Matthew Boiseau, Vinitha Kaushik, Jennifer Reis, Alan Fried, Nickhil Gupta, all from Warren Middle School; Tubal Eduardo and Valerie Ellis from Middle Earth; and Lea Kamecke from Montgomery Middle School.

Calendars are still available from the United Way of Somerset County. Call Donna Stevenson at (908) 253-6507 for information. A $2 donation is suggested to pay for printing and distribution costs. Kristen Alloway BERNARDS Synagogue gives books to library Congregation B'nai Israel will present four books to the Bernards Public Library on Thursday, in commem-oration of Yom Hashoah, or Holocaust Remembrance Day. Children from the Hebrew School will offer the following titles to Children's Librarian Beverly Francis in a presentation that will start at 4:20 p.m.: "Tell Them We Remember: The Story of the Holocaust" by Susan D.

Bachrach; "Jacob's Rescue: A Holocaust Story" by Malka Drucker and Michael Halperin; "A Pocket Full of Seeds" by Marilyn Sachs; and "The Last Sunrise: A True Story" by Harold Gordon, who writes of his own experiences as a child in Nazi concentration camps. Congregation B'nai Isreal is located in the Basking Ridge section of Bernards. Valerie Kellogg BERNARDSVILLE Theater to reopen after rocky start The Bernardsville Cinema may reopen tonight, if the theater receives the final OK from inspectors, the owner said. The new triplex movie house opened the weekend of April 14 then shut down, said Dale "Bud" Mayo, the president and the chief executive officer of the Clearview Cinema Group, which owns the theater and others in New Jersey. There were problems with the sound and projection equipment, show train station New Jersey Transit will display its preliminary design work for the new Edison train station building at the intersection of Plainfield and Central avenues in Edison at an open house on May 10.

The event will be held at the Dorothy K. Drwal Stelton Community Center, 328 Stelton Road, from 4 to 7:30 p.m. The new station will replace a temporary trailer now serving at the site. Plans for the new handicapped-accessible structure include a waiting room, ticket vending area, bathroom and a possible retail area. For more information, call (201) 491-7078.

Bonnie Sinnock Whitman presents fitness citations Whitehouse Station resident Neil Torino was one five people who received the New Jersey Healthy American Fitness Leaders Award, the state's highest achievement in fitness and sports. Gov. Christine Whitman presented the award at the Statehouse in Trenton. Sponsoring the awards program, with assistance from the Allstate Insurance was the New Jersey Fitness and Sports Foundation. This state program is a prototype of the national award, presented by the President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports, the U.S.

Junior Chamber of Commerce, and Allstate. Laurie Levoy Firemen's group to honor heroes The state's Firemen's Mutual Benevolent Association will present commendations at its annual Valor Awards Dinner Saturday at the Landmark Inn on Routes 1 and 9 in Wood-bridge. In addition to the medals and certificates to be presented to the "bravest of the brave," the morning crew of radio station WPLJ will receive the Humanitarian Award for their ongoing support of the firefight-ing community. Local members of units who will be honored at the dinner include: Firefighter Christopher Boyler of the New Brunswick Fire Department, association Local 17, who will receive the Silver Medal of Valor. On Sept.

9, 1994, Boyler rescued a 3-year-old girl trapped in a house due to a stove fire. Lt. Mark Perrotto and firefighters Donald Bingle and Richard Russo-man, all from the Union Fire Department, association Locals 46 and 246, will be presented with EMS Medals of Valor. They were part of a response team to an emergency home childbirth on Jan. 10, 1994, during a heavy snowstorm.

Anthony Moye of the Basking Ridge section of Bernards, slated to receive a Civilian Award for his courageous response on Jan. 12, 1994, to a car crash and fire on Route 78 in Union Township. Moye and another motorist pulled the- accident victim from the burning car and carried her to safety. Laurie Levoy Dutch official to tour historic house A reception will be held Thursday, 11 a.m., at the Cornelius Low House-Middlesex County Museum, 1225 River Road in Piscataway, when the TODAY SOMERSET COUNTY North Plainfield Borough Council, 8 p.m., agenda meeting, Municipal Building, 263 Somerset St. (908) 769-2900.

Somerville Planning Board, 7:30 p.m., regular meeting, police headquarters, 24 S. Bridge St. (908) 725-2300. HUNTERDON COUNTY Clinton Township Council, 7:30 p.m., regular meeting, Municipal Building, 43 Leigh St. (908) 735-861 6.

Raritan Borough Planning Board, 8 p.m., regular meeting, Municipal Building, 22 First St. (908) 231-1300. MIDDLESEX COUNTY Middlesex Board of Education, 8 p.m., reorganization meeting, High School, 300 Kennedy Dr. (908) 968-2442. UNION COUNTY Berkeley Heights Planning Board, 8 p.m., regular meeting, Municipal Building, 29 Park Ave.

(908) 464-2700. THURSDAY SOMERSET COUNTY Bound Brook Planning Board, 7:30 p.m., regular meeting, Municipal Building, 230 Hamilton Ave. (908) 356-0833. Bridgewater Township Committee, 7:30 p.m., work meeting, municipal annex, 505 Routes 202206. (908) 725-6300.

Manville Board of Education, 7 p.m., reorganization meeting, High School. (908) 231-8500. North Plainfield Board of Education, 7 p.m., special meeting, By EVELYN APGAR Courier-News Writer PLAINFIELD Jonathan Haklik, a guidance counselor in the city's Cook Elementary School, says the writing of poetry is "not so much different from what I try to do with counseling share experiences and to help other people" express themselves. A city resident, Haklik, 48, recently saw four of his poems "City Snow," "Loons," "Washington Square, Early Spring," and "Casting for Rainbow" published in New Jersey English Journal, the official publication of the New Jersey Council of Teachers of English. The journal is published annually and distributed nationally.

Haklik describes his work as "free verse poetry," in which he tries "to just let it come out of me." Haklik frequently writes mood pieces to evoke a mood or feeling in a style he described as "magical realism finding the mdgic in such everyday things as a sunset, snowfall, rainbows and nature things that are there but you have to look at." "When you look at them, they're so brilliant they knock me out," said Haklik, who says he sees special beauty in snowfalls. "Except for last winter, it's (a snowfall) a miraculous transforming agent. Things become magical and mysterious and absolutely beautiful," said Haklik. Haklik describes his feelings about, snow in "City The snowfalls softly on Bedford Street. Silver crystals flutter through a silver night.

Halos of muted luminescense form around the softened glare of sodium vapor lamps, fuzzy puffs ofcoalescent light. The darkness glitters, sparkles at my feet, flickers about my face like thousands of fireflies. I am surrounded in light. Mayo said. Electrical, fire and safety inspectors were expected to visit the cinema today or by the weekend, he said.

"When we do reopen, we're going to offer for the first full weekend a reduced ticket price," Mayo said. "We think it's a good way to get people in the place and to kind of make it up to the people who came the first weekend and experienced some Valerie Kellogg BOUND BROOK Board inaugurates 3 new members Three newly elected members of the borough's Board of Education were sworn in Monday night at a reorganization meeting. Ben Auletta, Elizabeth Strallow and Joseph V. Yarashas are the three newcomers to the nine-member board. The board elected Paul Hasting as president and Howard Wagner as vice president for the upcoming year.

Mark Albert was re-elected as board secretary and business administrator for a second year. The borough council will convene on Thursday to discuss the fate of the failed school budget. The council and the board of education must come to an agreement by May 15. If the board does not agree with proposed cuts made by the council, it may appeal to the state commissioner of education. Paul H.B.

Shin MONTGOMERY Princeton Airport to hold blood drive A blood drive, spearheaded by Princeton Airport Manager Ken and Jacquelyn Schwalenberg, 30, both of Piscataway, were charged early Tuesday with possession of a controlled dangerous substance in a car parked in the 1300 block of South Second Street. Esther Coles, 30, of Park Avenue was charged Monday with possession of a controlled dangerous substance in the 700 block of South Second Street. Andrew Reid, 39, of Edison was charged Monday with possession of a controlled dangerous substance in the 1300 block of South Second Street. Tools valued at $450 were reported stolen Monday from a vehicle in the 800 block of East Third Street. A radio was reported stolen Monday from a car in the 1 00 block of East Seventh Street.

A bicycle was reported stolen Monday from the 500 block of Madison Avenue. RARITAN TOWNSHIP John B. Painter, 64, of Hampton was charged Monday with driving while intoxicated on Route 31 A digest of news stories mittee Against Hate, is open to the public. According to county Prosecutor Andrew K. Ruotolo, several members of the Human Rights Coalition of Billings, will attend and speak at the forum.

The coalition rooted out and served notice to a group of well hidden but active hatemongers in Billings that acts of violence, intimidation and hatred would no longer be tolerated. Billings Police Chief Wayne Inman is also expected to speak at the temple and a videotaped interview, to be aired on cable and public television, will be shown. For more information, call the temple at (908) 232-6770. Laurie Levoy PLAINFIELD School board OKs reform proposal The Board of Education has agreed unanimously to approve Superintendent Larry Leverett's proposal for a new approach to school reform. The board agreed Monday to authorize payment of $17,000 to Conflict Management Incorporated of Cambridge, to conduct three days of "principled negotiations" training in May.

The training will allow the board, the Plainfield Education Association, and the Plainfield Association of School Administrators to "jointly identify an agenda for change," Le-verett said. He also distributed a "discussion starter" flier listing a 12-step framework for school reform in the district. Among key points are rethinking the district's mission, redefining roles, decentralizing decisionmaking, forging partnerships among all involved in educating children, expanding the role of technology and improving communication. The framework is based on the Panasonic Foundation's Framework for District Success. Bernice Paglia Vo-tech students awarded medals Three Somerset County Vocational Technical High School students received medals in a state skills competition this month.

More than 600 students from vocational schools around the state competed in the Vocational Industrial Clubs of America Skill Championships in Ocean County. Chris Wall, a second-year student from Hillsborough, placed first in the air-cooled gasoline repair competition. Chris Weckenman, a post-graduate student from Branchburg, won a bronze medal in collision repair technology. Joe O'Cone, a Somerville senior, competing in diesel equipment technology, garnered a third-place medal. The schools' club was honored as the "Outstanding VICA Club in New Jersey" for its community service projects, leadership training and sponsorship of local and regional competitions.

The school chapter will compete at the national level in June in Kansas City, Mo. Wall will compete, and Alex Abrahantes, a North Plainfield performing arts student, will run for a national club office. Students are trying to raise money to attend the competition. For information and to make a donation, call (908) 526-8900, ext. 227.

Kristen Alloway Ethicon donates $3,000 to school The Somerset County Vocational FRANKLIN (Somerset) Stereo equipment valued at $1,500 was reported stolen Monday from a car at Harrison Towers. A 1990 Ford was reported stolen Monday from Atrium Drive. A burglary was reported Thursday at a residence on Delar Parkway. Nothing was reported missing. A VCR valued at $200 was reported stolen Monday in a burglary at a residence on Ralph Street.

HILLSBOROUGH Robert Kusman, 45, of 510 Auten Road was charged April 18 with driving while intoxicated on Route 206. Jewelry valued at $4,200 was reported stolen April 13 in a burglary at a residence on Pioneer Drive. A bicycle was reported stolen April 14 from River Road. A bicycle was reported stolen April 12 from a garage on Michelle Lane. A burglary was reported April 19 at Hillsborough Lawn Garden Jonathan Haklik guidance counselor, poet The wonder of it flutters the heart like a free base rush.

Besides the English journal, Haklik has also been published in Poetry West, New Voices in American Poetry and The Quill. Haklik is trying to get "Casting for Rainbows," a collection of poems, published and is searching for a publisher willing to take a chance that his poems will sell. It's not easy to get a book of poems published because "even major publishers tend to lose money on poetry," Haklik said. Before coming to Plainfield three years ago, Haklik taught at Wagner College and Staten Island, Academy. He holds a bachelor's' degree in English from Moravian College in Pennsylvania, a master's degree in English from Wagner College and a master's degree in guidance and counseling from Kean College.

He is the father of two daughters. Do you have a neighbor or coworker who has an interesting hobby or career or is just plain interesting to be around? Call Michael Daigle at (908) 707-3121 after 3 p. m. with your suggestion. Nierenberg, the pilots and nearby residents, will take place from 9 a.m.

to 1:30 p.m. Saturday at the airport, 3.5 miles north of Princeton on Route 206. Professional staff from North Jersey Blood Center will be on hand to attend to the donors. Donors' names will be entered into a drawing to win an hour of sightseeing for three adults, or, for those who already fly, the flight school will offer a discount of 10 percent toward the next purchase of airplane rental, pilot supplies or fuel. Potential donors must bring positive verification via Social Security number and a signed identification card to the donor site.

To schedule an appointment call (609) 921-3100. Nierenberg added, "With the many crises around the country and the world, one never knows when he or she will be in need, as witnessed in Oklahoma City this past week." Laurie Levoy NORTH PLAINFIELD Jazz ensemble to hold free concert During the day, Andrea Metsopo- lous can be found at East End School, teaching 9-and 10-year-olds the ba-1 sics of reading, writing and arith-1 metic. At night, she can be found educat- ing adults about jazz music in unlike-1 ly venues, such as libraries and book- stores. Metsopolous and her jazz ensem- ble, Phoenix Rising, appear in con- cert Thursday at North Plainfield i Memorial Library. The performance begins at 7:30 p.m.

The concert is free and open to the public. The library is at the corner of Rockview Avenue and Grove Street. Wil S. Shamlin 1 SCOTCH PLAINS Lawrence J. Lamore, 31, of Iselin was charged Sunday with driving while intoxicated on Terrill Road.

Susan R. Donovski, 28, of Co-Ionia was charged April 1 9 with driving while intoxicated on Martine Avenue. SOMERVILLE A plastic container containing about $20 in contributions was stolen Monday from a counter at The Wall, 145 W. Main St. Police said two boys entered the record store, and while one distracted a store worker, the other grabbed the container, and both ran out.

WATCHUNG Herbeth Wilfredo Diaz, 43, no home, was arrested at 3:38 a.m. Monday for receiving stolen property. Police said they stopped the car he was driving on Route 22 because it had no lights on. During a routine check, police said they determined the 1981 Datsun had just been reported stolen from Du-pont Street in North Plainfield. Holocaust forum to host speakers Activities throughout the county to mark Holocaust Remembrance Week will culminate with a 7:30 p.m.

community forum Thursday at Temple Emanu-El at 756 E. Broad St. in West-field. Standing Together Against Hate, sponsored by the county's Com- Watchung School, 33 Mountain Ave. (908) 769-6050.

South Bound Brook Board of Education, 7:30 p.m., N.K. Brampton School, 125 Madison Ave. (908) 356-001 Watchung Borough Council, 6:30 p.m., workshop meeting; 8 p.m., regular meeting, Municipal Building, 15 Mountain Blvd. (908) 756-0080. HUNTERDON COUNTY Franklin Township Committee, 8 p.m., regular meeting, Municipal Building, 202 Sidney Road.

(908) 735-5215. High Bridge Borough Council, 7:30 p.m., regular meeting, Municipal Building, 71 Main St. (908) 638-6455. MIDDLESEX COUNTY Piscataway Board of Education, 7 p.m., special meeting, administration building, 1515 Stelton Road. (908) 572-3686.

South Plainfield Borough Council, 8 p.m., regular meeting, Municipal Building, 2480 Plainfield Ave. (908) 754-9000. UNIONWJNTY Berkeley Heights Board of Education, 7:30 p.m., regular meeting, administration complex. (908) 464-1601. Agenda is a list of scheduled meetings held by municipal boards that runs daily except Saturday and Sunday.

Boards included are: Borough Council, City Council, Township Council or Committee, Planning Board and Board of Adjustment. To be included or for information, please call Assistant Metro Editor Michael Daigle at (908) 707-3121 or mail the items to Agenda, The Courier-News, P.O. Box 6600, Bridgewater, N.J. 08807. Equipment.

Police said $50 was stolen from a cash register. MIDDLESEX BOROUGH A bicycle was reported stolen Monday from Middlesex High School. A skateboard valued at $115 was reported stolen April 18 from a yard on Wellington Avenue. A bicycle valued at $334 was reported stolen April 18 from a Lynn Avenue residence. A purse with contents valued at $236 was reported stolen Thursday from the rear of a residence on Benart Place.

NORTH PLAINFIELD A 22-year-old woman reported she was walking home early Tuesday near Rockview Avenue when a male grabbed her hair, took a gold necklace and demanded money. The victim said she gave him $30 before he ran off into nearby woods. PLAINFIELD William Schwalenberg, 28,.