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C- Sun-Sentinel, Monday, June 11, 1990 33 V5 Crash kills jouthful musician ft Taravella junior, 16, ws aboard motorcycle By TOM LASSITER i Staff Writer CORAL SPRINGS Police on Sunday identified the victim of a weekend motorcycle crash as Oren Bucker, 16, a 1 at ICirome rally COSTLY PROTEST Manpower and resources. used by v. 4 Loral Springs resident and Taravella High School student described by his teachers as a promising musician. "He was really a top-notch kid. He was my lead trumpet player part of this vear and he would Bucker have been the lead agencies during Sunday demonstration at Krome Detention Center: INS: 45 Emergency Response" Team members.

30 INS investiga- tors. 10 deportation, officers, 15 Border Patrol officers, 15 deten- tion officers, 8 Public Health Ser-' vice doctors and nurses, and 1 surveillance plane METRO-DADE POLICE: 50 riot-' trained officers Inside Krome, 50 officers in reserve in a nearby ce- ment factory, 3 Emergency Medi- cal Services units inside Krome and 3 outside the center, 5 officers on horses, and 1 helicopter FLORIDA HIGHWAY PATROL-. About 100 officers COST TO POLICE: About $130,000 in pay and overtime SOURCE: Immigration and Naturalization Service By ARDY FRIEDBERG and GARRY PIERRE-PIERRE StaH Writers MIAMI A crowd of about 500 demonstrators chanting "Gade Macoute, gade Macoute, veyeyo, veyeyo," shook the front gate of Krome Detention Center on Sunday afternoon and demanded the release of aliens held in the camp. But the protesters did not break through the barrier as a much larger crowd had done seven weeks ago. The chant of "Look at those Ma-coutes," referring to the notorious secret police force of Haiti's Duvalier family, was aimed at Immigration and Naturalization Service officers and other police units protecting the entrance to the 23-acre camp.

A force of nearly 300 armed, riot-trained law-enforcement officers from INS, the Florida Highway Patrol and Metro-Dade Police Department, including a SWAT team, a horse-mounted unit, a surveillance plane and a helicopter, had been gathered to prevent a repeat of the April 29 demonstration when an estimated 2,000 people broke through the center's outer fence. No one was hurt or arrested in the April demonstration or in Sunday's. Law-enforcement officials were expecting a much larger crowd than the estimated 500 people who showed up. At least 30 officers, many carrying tear gas and all armed with pistols, rifles, shotguns, or automatic weapons, stood in a 180-foot-square gravelled area behind the gate at all times. Because of the 90-degree heat, the officers rotated shifts every 30 minutes.

The dancing, singing crowd of protesters, mostly Haitians, carried signs, blew a conch shell, played drums and a bamboo horn, and sang the "Dessalin-ienne," Haiti's national anthem, giving the three-hour demonstration an air of a rara, a street party, instead of a political gathering. "We came here to ask for freedom and justice for refugees held by INS," Rev. Gerard Jean-Juste of the Haitian Refugee Center told the crowd. "You are brave to come out here today to help get our brothers and sisters out of here." On Sunday, there were 425 non-criminal aliens awaiting word on their asylum and deportation cases in Krome. Of that number, 210 were Haitians.

trumpet player next year," said Taravella jazz band director Kevin Phillips. "He had a lot of good qualities all rolled into one." Phillips said he had watched the young musician develop since middle school and was confident the boy would have won a music scholarship to the University of North Florida in Jacksonville, a school the boy wanted to attend. The junior was killed on Saturday when a motorcycle he was riding on col- -lided with a car at Royal Palm Boulevard and Coral Ridge Drive. Police said on Sunday the 5:40 p.m. accident was under investigation.

Scott Niebel, 18, the driver of the motorcycle, remained in critical condition on Sunday at Coral Springs Medical Center, a hospital spokeswoman said. Niebel, a resident of Coral Springs, is a former student at Taravella. Police said the motorcycle, northbound on Coral Ridge, collided with a southbound car turning left onto Royal Palm. The car was driven by Thomas Bodley Haines, 61, police said. A steady stream of Taravella students and parents visited the Bucker home in Coral Springs on Sunday.

"There must have been 150 kids, and parents I didn't even know," the boy's mother, Bella Bucker, said on Sunday. "He was very well liked, very loved." She said her son, who had attended Ramblewood Elementary School, began playing trumpet six years ago. He was an honors student. Neil Jenkins, director of the marching and concert bands at Taravella, said the boy played in each of the school's three bands. The show of force was meant as a de- terrent, INS of icials said.

"I'm not a nice guy anymore," Richard Smith, INS director in Miamfcil "If they can't control the crowd, and they didn't last time, I'm not going to make any accommodations." At about 3 p.m., two hours into the demonstration, a small group of demon- strators began shaking the fence some threw rocks and aluminum cans--at the officers guarding the gate. 1 "If they hit the gate hard again, these guys SWAT team are going to fire smoke cannisters over their heads and someone could get hurt," said Ken Pow- ers, INS assistant district director. "This is the front line, and we're goinf to hold it." Smoke was not necessary, and 15 minutes later, many of the proC testers, wearing red-and-blue outfits fc and waving red-and-blue Haitian flags, walked the quarter-mile back to Krome Avenue. Jean-Juste promised to return to-v Krome and demonstrate once a month until all detainees are released. I Staff photoNICHOLAS R.

VON STADEN Hallandale. About 20 children took part in the ceremony at Dixie Park, Gym. Good Godmother's is a federally subsidized center and one of the oldest in Broward County. One small step Darrel Filmore waits his turn while receiving a helping hand from teacher Juanita Osborne on Sunday during graduation ceremonies for Good Godmother's Day Care Center in Services will be at 2:15 p.m. today at Star of David Memorial tnapei, yyiu Bailey Road, North Lauderdale.

.3 The Tess' honored at special program Joseph Ely's success as educator remembered it. mi im. ft DIGEST Staff reports Lauderdale loses bid Fort Lauderdale lost its bid to be named one of 10 communities designated an AU-American City, marking the second time the city made the list of 30 finalists and failed to get the award. Tampa was the only Florida city among the winners of the National Civic League's 41st annual competition. Fort Lauderdale was one of 113 communities entered this year and was a finalist in 1988.

The awards were announced on Saturday in Phoenix. The designation is given based on how well cities solve local problems through community leadership, citizen participation, government, '-civic education and philanthropy. Cities receiving the award were Southgate, a suburb of Los Angeles; Bakerafield, Charlotte, N.C.; Hamlet, N.C.; Coeur d'Alene, Idaho; Abilene, Texas; Sioux City, Iowa; Harrisburg, and South St. Paul, Minn. Topic to be the homeless HOLLYWOOD Community leaders will gather for the first time at City Hall on Tuesday to form a special task force to discuss solutions for the homeless.

The group, formed by Mayor Sal Oliveri, will include members of the clergy, police and fire officials, city and county commissioners and downtown merchants. Oliveri hopes to form the task force from the participants. City officials are eager to reduce the number of transients around Young Circle, in an effort to boost business and development in the city's ailing downtown. Oliveri said he hopes the group will discuss relocating two downtown soup kitchens. The meeting begins at 2:30 p.m.

in the fourth-floor conference room at City Hall, 2600 Hollywood Blvd. A sign hanging behind the stage read: "Educating Small Minds to Become Great Minds." "Honoring this man means a lot, especially with so many kids dropping out nowadays," said Corliss Hepburn, whose daughter Autrea, 8, participated in the program. "It's important to show the bright spots of education." Ely, who was reported to be more than 100 years old when he died in 1984, is credited with convincing the Broward School Board to extend the school year for black children, which was six months at one time. He also got school officials to give the name Dillard High School to what was then known as "the colored school." Ely also secured the first federally supported school lunch program in Broward County, helped get raises for black teachers and successfully petitioned the governor and state Legislature to build a girl's correctional school near Ocala. Ely was a strict disciplinarian who wasn't against using palmetto branches By DAMON ADAMS Staff Writer HOLLYWOOD Alexander Ash, 7, never met Joseph A.

Ely, a prominent black leader and educator in Broward County. But the Ebony Village School student figured Ely had to be a great man during his lifetime. Why else would his fellow students honor the man known as "Fess" for "professor" with song, dance and poems on Sunday at the school's annual Harambee program? "Freedom is the result of his efforts," said Alexander, speaking to about 75 students, teachers and parents gathered for the tribute at Bethune Elementary School, just blocks away from J.A. Ely Boulevard. Ebony Village's preschool and elementary students performed songs such as Climb Every Mountain and Let There Be Peace on Earth.

They cited Scripture and presented biographical sketches of Ely, a teacher and principal for 56 years at Attucks Middle School before retiring in 1963. 'Si PhotoJOEL STAHL Merita Lomack Green, left, and Josephine Ivey, right, present as paddles to inspire students. In March 1981, Hollywood city commissioners renamed North 22nd Street as J.A. Ely Boulevard at the request of residents. Blanche Ely, the longtime educator for whom Ely High School is named, re- Blanche Ely with a plaque honor ing her late husband.

members her husband working dawn to-, midnight trying to give black children 2 good education. )ut "He taught students to settle for noth- ing but the best," she said on Sunday. I Earl Washington of Dania taught and I coached basketball under Joseph Ely. 'RaT Freddy is ready to share his know-how of water a week by turning off Uie faucet while you brush your teeth, the district says. EYE ON 95 This week, workers are I coo I WATER jC WHYS Tips for i sJ the tap.

and trivia test. Trivia questions include: How many glasses of water does it take to grow the oranges for one glass of orange juice? What is the average rainfall per year in South Florida? What is the fastest speed reached by a falling raindrop? The answers are below. scheduled to demolish the old southbound Interstate 95 bridge The answers to those questions are: 50 glasses of water are used to make I oranges for a glass of juice. The average rainfall is 55 to 60 inch- es. In 1989, only 39 inches of rain fell along the east coast in South Florida.

at Hollywood Bouievara. inai work will close Hollywood Boulevard underneath 1-95 from 10 p.m. to 6 a.m. for about one He's "very rad" (or so he says), a skateboarder, green, and can be yours for free. He's Freddy the Alligator, the South Florida Water Management District's symbol.

You know you see him on signs above canals. But you probably haven't seen him like this: on a skateboard and wearing flowered shorts. Freddy has geared himself to the younger set in a 16-page, full-color student handbook on water conservation and South Florida's water system, available at the district's West Palm Beach office. And there is a teacher's guide and poster that go with it The handbook talks about water and weather, growing water needs, South Florida's natural water system and the man-made system carved out by the Army Corps ot Engineers. But more importantly, the handbook has conservation tips and a home water audit that helps youths find out how much water is used inside their homes.

The average person uses about 75 gallons of water a day inside the home, said water district Executive Director John Wodraska. The handbook also tries to make water fun with a water crossword puzzle raindrop. Have an interesting water conserva- tion method? Know someplace that is wasting water? Want a question about I the water shortage or restrictions an- swered? Please write to: Seth Boren- stein, Water Whys, Sun-Sentinel, 101 N. I Klom Pior DrivA Fnrf Jntltrt1a1a Fla It is raining, every other day or more. So it is time to take the timer on your lawn sprinkler and turn it to "off," said Bruce Adams, the district's water shortage coordinator.

Mother Nature is doing the job now. You can save 10 gallons to 25 gallons week. The bridge is scheduled to be demolished after workers finish shifting southbound traffic between Stirling Road and Hollywood Boulevard onto new pavement, and onto the new southbound Hollywood Boulevard bridge. The shift, and subsequent bridge demolition, was postponed several times last week because of rain and because workers had not completed striping work. BTrrrr -r-HrrnwinMiiHtyiiiiifc -u 33301-2293.

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