The Courier-News from Bridgewater, New Jersey • Page 11

HUNTERDON C-2 Friday, April 24, 1987 THE COURIER-NEWS In Brief Califon Free rabies clinic, tomorrow, Rescue Squad Academy Street. Cats from 1 to 2 p.m.; dogs from 2 to 3 p.m. Environmental Commission, 3rd Photo Contest (see Hunterdon County item). Clinton Township any of the clinics. Animals must be at least six months old.

Dog vaccinations free; cat vaccinations $2 each. Bring proof of license. Call 356-8090. Open House, tomorrow, 1 -3 p.m., ware-Raritan Girl Scout Council's Camp Sa-cajawea, Sparta Township. All interested families invited.

Call 800-572-2656 or 821-9090. United Scleroderma Foundation, Central New Jersey chapter, annual workshop, April 26, p.m., Hamilton Hospital, Hamilton Township. Call Don Patterson, 873-3028. Pancake breakfast, April 26, 8-1 p.m., Watchung Fire Co. No 3, Tea Street, Bound Brook.

$3.50 adults, $2.50 senior citizens and children under 12. school. Eisenhower PTO, April 27, 7:30 p.m., school library. All members welcome to attend. Bridgewater-Raritan Regional School District registering children for two federally funded pre-kindergarten classes the weeks of April 27 May 4, Harmon V.

Wade Admin. 836 Newmans Lane, Martinsville. Registration each day, p.m. Parents may register children on April 30 May 7, p.m. Children must live in Bridgewater or Raritan and be 4 years old on or before Oct.

1, 1987, to be eligible. Bring child's birth certificate and identification to establish address. Children not required to be present during registration. Call 563-1888, ext. 252.

League of Women Voters of the Bridgewater-Branchburg area, April 29 (see Branchburg item). Scott A. Smith of Clinton has been named to the dean's list at Florida Institute of Technology. Hunterdon Art Center's 1987 Gala Fund-raiser. (See Hunterdon County item).

Senior Citizens meet first and third Thursdays, 1:30 p.m., Clinton Presbyterian Church. Morris County Flemington Hillsborough Any child who wears an Easter bonnet or an Easter hat, or carries an Easter egg will receive free candy today, 11-2 p.m., in front of the "Village" building at Flemington Fair Flea Market. American Diabetes Association raffle drawing is today. Tickets can be obtained at Hunterdon County Chapter, 203 Main Flemington. Contributions are tax deductible.

Call 782-3103. Glen Gardner Hillsborough-Montgomery Welcome Wagon Club sponsors "new" clothing sale, tomorrow, p.m., Hillsborough School, Route 206 and Amwell Road. Jane's Fashions. Cash or check only. Call 359-3717 or 359-2593.

Board of Education, April 27, 8 p.m.; Environmental Commission, April 27, 8 p.m.; Township Committee, April 28, 8 p.m.; Historic Commission, April 28. Annual High School Magic Showcase, May 1 2, 7:30 p.m. Tickets $3, available from any cast member or by calling New hours of Glen Gardner Post Office, Zip 08826, are 7 a.m. -5 p.m., Monday to Friday, and 7 a.m.-noon Saturday. Morris Museum, "Imagine theater, mime and juggling, today, p.m., $5.

The Carolyn Dorfman Dance Company, modern dance for children, April 26, 3 p.m., $6. Safe Rides program sponsored by Morris Area Chapter of Red Cross to help students who have been drinking or using drugs, today and tomorrow, 10-1 a.m. Call 538-2163. Watchung Hills Tri-County Garden Show, tomorrow, Passaic Township Community Center, Warren Avenue, Stirling. For details call Jonathan Jeans at 647-5456.

Children's Hopes Dreams Foundation, Smile-A-Thon, free dental check and teeth polishing for children under 14, tomorrow, 8-1 p.m., 2839 Route 10, Morris Plains, eastbound lane. Appointments at 540-9440. "Our Family is Growing," one-session introductory course on becoming a brother or sister, tomorrow, 9:30 a.m., Morristown Memorial Hospital. $15. To register call 540-5027.

County Park System, Folkcraft Day, tomorrow, 1-4 p.m., Fosterfields Farm; Arbor Day, tomorrow, 1:30 p.m.,, Frelinghuy-sen Arboretum, 53 East Hanover Morris Free. Sisters of Charity of Saint Elizabeth, Project Turnstone, special dinner to benefit Saint Anne Villa, home for 130 elderly Sisters, April 26, 4 p.m., Xavier Center, Convent Station. $100. Call 292-63916490. Somerville Hampton Elizabeth Monroe Boggs of Hampton, known internationally for her volunteer work in the field of mental retardation, received the 1987 Wallin Award this week in Chicago.

It is the highest national award of the Council for Exceptional Children. "LightenUp," a new weight-loss program. Sessions are Mondays, pm, and Wednesdays, 10-11 a.m. Registration $20. Refunds for lost weight.

Call for details at 788-6130. Hunterdon County Cultural Heritage Commission sponsors "N.J. Artists Look at Hunterdon County," Juried Art Show to be exhibited in July-August. Judging entries by slides. Call for a prospectus at 788-1256.

Hunterdon County YMCA, Senior Adult Group's regular program: Monday, exercise class, 11:30 a.m.; lunch, 12:30 p.m.; square dancing and cards, 1:30 p.m. Tuesday, swimming, 10 a.m. from the pick up at St. Edward's 10:15 a.m.; shuffleboard, cards and Scrabble, 1 :30 p.m! Wednesday, arts crafts, 1 p.m.; bridge, 1:30 p.m. Thursday, Kitchen Band, 10 a.m.; exercise class, 1 1 :30 a.m., followed by lunch and cards.

Friday, bowling at Frenchtown Lanes, 1 p.m. Trip tickets available at reduced prices. For more information call 995-7367. Farmers Home Administration gives loans andor grants to rural low-income elderly homeowners of Hunterdon and Somerset counties whose houses needs fixing up. Write to 8 Main Flemington, or call 782-3813.

North Hunterdon Senior Center, Bunn-vale Community Assembly of God Church, Route 513, Bunnvale, is open to everyone 60 or older, on Monday, Tuesday and Thursday, p.m. For information, reservations or transportation, call 638-6515. Regular activities: Mondays, 10-11 a.m., exercise for older adults; noon-2 p.m., quilting; noon, bridge and pinochle. Tuesdays, 9:30 a.m., Craft Day. Thursdays, 10-1 1 a.m., exercise for older adults; noon, pinochle.

For transportation call "The Link," at 735-7077. Special activities in April: Covered Dish, April 27, noon; Quilting, 12:30 p.m.; Bird-feeders with Voorhees High School students, April 30, 11 a.m. For more information call 638-6515. Briteside Adult Day Care Center for frail elderly, designed to decrease loneliness and foster a sense of belonging, five days a week. For information call 782-8080.

Y-Knots Family Camping Club of the Hunterdon County YMCA invites new families to join their group of tent and trailer campers. Interested persons may contact the Deer Path YMCA at 782-1030. Senior Multipurpose Center, a free program to take the worry out of minor home repair and maintenance for seniors of Hunterdon County. Only charge is for materials used. Call at 798-1359, p.m., weekdays.

Califon Environmental Commission is sponsoring pwo contest for amateur photographers. Color and categories in three groups: children, young adults (9-12 grades) and adults. For entry forms, call at 832-7850. Deadline, April 30. Birth Works, a 10-week child birth course that focuses on how to avoid unnecessary medical procedures and unnecessary Caesareans, will begin May 11 in Rin-goes.

For more information call 788-4027. Hunterdon County Park System has openings for maintenance workers, children's nature program instructors; canoe trip leaders. Applications at the Administration Building or by calling 782-1158. "Field Crop Production Recommendations for 1987," a 56-page Rutgers Cooperative Extension publication is off the press. Stop by the Extension Center and get a copy.

$4. Checks payable to the Agricultural Advisory Council. Delaware Valley Family Health Center has extended evening and weekend hours. For information and appointments call 995-2251. Seeds of "Oritani" sweet bell pepper are available from Rutgers.

For a packet with planting instructions send $1 and a stamped self-adressed envelope to Dr. G.D. Lewis, P.O. Box 231, New Brunswick, N.J. 08903.

Perth Amboy OKs homes deal TEWKSBURY In a $1.2 million tradeoff, officials in Perth Amboy on Wednesday approved a plan to assume half of Tewksbury's low- and moderate-income housing requirement, Mayor Everitt Landers said yesterday. The township will pay $1.2 million to rehabilitate 45 existing housing units in Perth Amboy at a cost of $26,667 each, Landers said. Twenty-six units will be rehabilitated this year, and the remaining 19 next year, Landers said. The two communities agreed to the plan in principle last month, and the agreement was finalized on Wednesday. "And now we're all set to go," Landers said.

The mayor said the township will finance the $1.2 million through the sale of bonds. The Middlesex County Planning Board and the New Jersey Housing, Mortgage and Finance Agency both must approve the plan, but Landers called their agreement "procedural." "This is the best way to handle our housing obligation. We have no public transporation, no jobs. So it is the best way possible to deal with our 90 units," he said. Housing opponents to meet FLEMINGTON Residents opposed to the conversion of St.

Magdalen's Church to senior-citizens housing will meet Sunday to discuss strategy at 14 Bonnell St. at 7 p.m. Councilman George Sirusas and business partner Joseph Massimo, a Whitehouse architect, plan to buy the 45-year-old borough landmark on Park Avenue and convert it into low-cost rental apartments for senior citizens. The parish is raising $1 million to build a new church at the site of its Mine Street community center and rectory. Man charged in child assault SOMERVILLE A 26-year-old Branchburg man was arrested yesterday on charges of sexual assault against a child 2 Vi years ago.

Joseph M. Welsh, of 9 Lamington Road, allegedly assaulted a girl younger than 13 years old sometime in the summer of 1984. He admitted removing the child's clothes, lying on top of her and fondling her, according to the Somerset County prosecutor's office. He was released from the Somerset County Jail on $15,000 bail. Man held on sex violation SOMERVILLE A Raritan Borough man has been charged with sexual fondling of a 14-year-old boy on Somerset Street.

James M. DeCarlo, 67, allegedly grabbed the youth between the legs April 20, according to police. DeCarlo was charged with criminal sexual contact, and was being held at the Somerset County Jail last night. Bail had not been set yet, jail officials said. Middlesex awards jail pact NEW BRUNSWICK The Middlesex County Board of Freeholders yesterday awarded a $1,698,052 contract to the architectural firm of Rothe-Johnson Associates of Edison to design and supervise construction of a $16 million addition to the Adult Correction Center in North Brunswick.

The company designed the county's new youth shelter at the Route 130 corrections site. Freeholder Director Donald Wernik said the three-level addition will add 252 beds. Internal alterations of the existing structure will provide another 60 beds, he said. Plans and specifications must be completed within a year. Construction of the facility is expected to take another two years.

The present corrections center was filled to capacity shortly after it opened in 1984. It was intended to permit the razing of the 60-year-old county workhouse, but new laws requiring mandatory sentencing for crimes committed with guns and for other offenses resulted in more than 700 High Bridge Crime Prevention Week: Police go door to door with crime prevention tandouts, today, 1-5 p.m., "Neighborhood Watch," presentation, today, 7 p.m., police headquarters; "The Dangerous Stranger," presentation, tomorrow, 10 a.m. 1 p.m., police headquarters. Children and parents invited. Somerville merchants hold Moonlight Sale, today, 7-11 p.m.

Pancake breakfast sponsored by Rotary Club, April 26, 8-1 p.m., Watchung View ilnn, Route 202-206, Bridgewater. $4 adults, $3 senior citizens, $2.50 children under 12, under 5 free. Tickets at door. Any group interested in participating in the Memorial Day Parade should call Tony Paternoster, 526-6608. High Bridge High Alumni Association, monthly planning meeting, April 28, 8 p.m., Liberty Hose Co.

firehouse. Lebanon Township Valley Seniors Club meets second Wednesday of the month, First Aid Hill Road. Call 638-6296. Somerset County Out of Town Readington "Adolescent Epidemic Depressed and Suicidal Children," topic of Healthcare Information Network cable television program, today, 1-2 p.m., Atkinson Amphitheater, Carrier Foundation, Belle Mead. "EMS Vitals: Communications," will be shown from p.m.

Concerned Women for America of New Jersey hold first statewide Family Issues Conference, tomorrow, Somerset Marriott. Full-day conference will educate residents on issues affecting families. "Pilgrim's Program," animated movie for children, today, 3:30 p.m., Somerset County Library, North Bridge Street and Vogt Drive. Free and open to public. Sponsored by Grace Community Church.

Call 722-1129 or 231-9593. "A Rabbit For Alice," "Georgie To The Rescue," "It's So Nice To Have A Wolf Around The House," and "Nicky And Rock, Working Sheep Dogs" will be shown April 25, 10 a.m., Somerset County Library-Bridgewater branch. All area children invit Vol. Fire Co. monthly pancake breakfast, April 26, 8-noon, firehouse on Hillcrest Road.

For more information call 534-9142. Al-Anon Alateen, a self-help family group, April 26, Rockaway Reformed Church, Route 253, Whitehouse Station. Beginner's meeting, 8 p.m.; regular meeting, 8:30 p.m. Anyone with a family member or a friend who is a problem drinker is welcome. Cal 744-8686.

Recreation Committee: Exercise classes, Mondays and Wednesdays, p.m., Whitehouse School; Tuesdays and Thursdays, p.m., Three Bridges School, $15; co-ed volleyball, Wednesdays, 7-9 p.m., Readington School, $5. For more information, call Mike Santo at 534-9752. Readington Township Education Association and the Home School Association are accepting applications for their Scholarship Awards for the 1987-88 school year. Contact Ginny DeLuca at 782-8604. Applications must be sent by May 22.

Purchasing Management Association of N.J., "CostPrice Analysis," seminar, today, p.m., Bloomfield College, Bloomfield. Call 379-1100. Montclair State College, "Hungary and Its Neighbors; Hungary and the West," American Hungarian Educators Association annual conference, today and tomorrow. $15; "Pucinni Night," opera, today and tomorrow, 8 p.m., Studio Theatre. Call 836-4869.

Sales Executives Club, "Mastering the Techniques of Involvement," today, noon-2 p.m., Saddle Brook Marriott. Call (212) 683-9755. "An Evening with the University of Delaware," spring extravaganza for alumni and guests, today, beginning at 6 Ramada Inn, 1053 Route 1, Princeton. Call 609-883-6130. Friends of Princeton High School, Florence Burke's 43 years of service celebration, with choral and instrumental music, skits and dancing to the PHS Jazz Band, today, 8 p.m., school gymnasium.

ed. Registration required; may be done at the Children Reference Desk or by calling 526-4016 by today. Jewish Federation of SomersetHun Tewksbury terdon Counties holds annual Yom Ha shoah Observance, April 26, 7 p.m., Temple Central Jersey Sholom, Bridgewater. Tewksbury Senior Citizens meet first and third Wednesdays of the month, 10:30 a.m., Pottersville Fire House. Call 832-7953 or 832-5495.

inmates jamming the county's corrections complex Jointure for Community Education Spring Art Series continues with April 26 performance by Bound Brook Community Orchestra, Bound Brook High School, 3 Branchburg p.m. Free and open to public. Call 271-2844 Families Anonymous, self-help group for relatives and friends concerned about drug abuse and behavioral problems, meets every Friday, 7:30 p.m., First Baptist Church, 450 New Market Road, Piscataway. Bound Brook, Green Brook, Middlesex, South Bound Brook and Watchung Boards of Health conduct rabies clinics tomorrow, May 2 May 9. Residents eligible to attend FARE (Friends and Relatives of the ElderlvV celebrates its first anniversary, April 2 12:30 p.m., Visiting Nurse Association of Somerset Hills, 12 Olcott Bernardsville.

League of Women Voters of Bridgewater-Branchburg area, annual meeting, April 29, Whitehouse Junction Restaurant, Route ,22. Cocktails at 7 p.m., dinner and meeting at 8. Election of new officers, followed by speaker Aari Parker, editor of Women's Newspaper of Princeton. Call 725-7915 for reservations. Township Committee, April 27, 7:30 p.m., auxiliary gymnasium, Stony Brook School (changed from the municipal bldg); Planning Board, April 28, 7:30 p.m.

Helping Hand in spaces designed to hold 400 people. Westfield confirms votes WESTFIELD More than two weeks after voters pulled the levers, the town finally knows the official school board election results. After checking the voting machines yesterday morning, Dr. William Foley was able to confirm that election night results for six candidates were incorrect. But winners of the election G.

Bruce McFadden, Susan N. Mullen and Susan Jacobson and approval of the school budget were not affected, as Foley predicted when he requested the recount. A representative of the state Department of Education agreed that results from only one machine were unclear, so only that booth from the Franklin School in Ward 1 needed to be checked. The amended final tallies affected six candidates. Patricia C.

Scott's total went from 440 to 442 votes; Robert S. Murch went from 514 to 516; B. Brian McDevitt went from 367 to 372; Robert E. Lee went from 338 to 340; Margaret C. Sur went from 593 to 643; and Scott Poston went from 124 to 44.

Hunterdon County I. Extension Center, "Easy Spring Menu." Learn how to make a 'meal-in-a-dish' pie, salad and dessert, today, 10-noon. Register at 788-1342. Council on Alcoholism, Families of the Alcoholic Adolescent, educational prog-ram, tomorrow. Call 782-3909.

Hunterdon Art Center, gala benefit Art Preview, a tribute to five regional artists who have created original paintings on behalf of the Center, tomorrow 67:30 p.m., Clinton. Further information ft 735-8415. Hunterdon Hills Kennel Club, A.K.C. Sanctioned Match Plan B-OB, April 26, beginning at 9:30 a.m., Ryland Inn, Route 22, Whitehouse Station. For complete details call 534-2267 or (215) 253-4710.

Hunterdon Hiking Club, "Central Park Stroll" with brunch at the Tavern on the Green. Trip leaves from Clinton's Laneco April 26, 9 a m. Limited to 15 people. Further information at 782-1158. Hunterdon Medical Center is offering Donations Volunteers Bridgewater Annual clothing and blanket drive of Church World Service, sponsored by Children's Specialized Hospital in Mountainside will honor the contributions of its 360 volunteers with a brunch, April 26, to kick off National Volunteer Week (April 26-May 2.) In 1986, approximately 25,000 volunteer hours were given by men and women ages 14 to 80.

Optimist Club of BridgewaterRaritan, annual Bike Safety Day, tomorrow, 10-noon, Van Holten School, p.m., Crim School. Bike registration, bike safety inspection, skill tests. First 25 youngsters at each school will receive T-shirts. $100 gift certificate awarded at drawing at each Church Women United in the Plainfield area, held at First United Methodist Church, April 26, between 12 and 2 p.m. and April 27, between 9 and 10 a.m.

Clothing should be boxed. There is no need for women's garments or heavy clothing. Shoes cannot be accepted. Call 668-6820. NJT's Raritan station on track to renewal r.

1 3 iff parking spaces for handicapped drivers and 10 new bicycle racks. An overhead signal bridge at Thompson Street, which has been inactive since the 1920s, will be removed. Calviero Construction Co. of Clinton will do the renovation, which will be paid for through a grant from the federal Urban Mass Transportation Administration. "It's important to get as many cars off the road as possible and for the public to use public transport.

With better facilities, we'll have more riders. Upgrading the whole system is important," said State Sen. John Ew-ing, who was praised by DiCicco for his help with the project. The work is part of a new five-year lease agreement that took effect March 1 between the borough, which operates and maintains the station and collects parking fees, and NJ Transit, hich owns the station. Street serves about 400 riders each weekday.

The work is not expected to disrupt service on the line, said Jerome C. Premo, executive director of NJ Transit. The Raritan station, one of the oldest serving the Raritan Valley Line, was built in 1890 and has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 1984. Planned work at the station includes interior and exterior renovation, with new restrooms, more telephones and a new low-level westbound platform with a canopy. There is no westbound platform now, just a grassy area where passengers disembark.

A new canopy will be installed over the existing eastbound platform and lighting will be improved overall. New fencing will be installed the length of the station between the eastbound and westbound tracks to prevent people from crossing. The project also provides for three By MARCIA CONRON Courier-News Staff Writer RARITAN BOROUGH Groundbreaking ceremonies were held at the borough's NJ Transit station yesterday to mark the beginning of a $497,000 renovation project. "This will be without a doubt one of the finest-looking train stations in the country. It will be a complete turnaround, done through a lot of hard work and effort.

No one is happier than I am," said Mayor Anthony De-Cicco, who recalled playing on the grounds of the station as a child 40 years ago. The 200-day renovation project will begin in the next two weeks, with work expected to be completed in December. "It will be a Christmas present to all borough residents, compliments of New Jersey Transit," said DeCicco. The Raritan station on Anderson fl-l 5. I Hi i g- A tiff "A XL -4 HI Li Couner-News photo by Kathy Johnson Raritan Mayor Anthony DeCicco, shovel in hand, conducts groundbreaking ceremonies for a $497,000 renovation project at Transit's train station.

Taking part in the ceremony were, from left, Peter Calviero of Calviero Construction, Somerset County Freeholder William Wahl and Assemblyman John Penii.