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Daily Record, Morris County, N.J., Sunday, September 12, 1999 A17 M49 FEDS TALK TO LATINOS Until April 1, thousands of volunteers in New Jersey are working to promote awareness and trust among Latinos so they will cooperate with Census workers. Volunteers hope 1 to show legal immigrants from South and Central America that being counted in the Census means more political clout and to assure illegal immigrants that information given on the census will not be used to threaten or deport them. Raymond Figueroa, coordinator of the Latino Census 2000 Project calls the outreach effort "the No. 1 civil rights issue of the coming century." RUSH IS ON TO SAVE LAND The county this year is considering a record number of applications from towns for open space trust fund grants. Twenty-five municipalities requested almost $13.7 million in funding for 32 projects, compared with 20 towns seeking $9.7 million for 23 projects last year.

Members of the open space trust fund committee will visit each site and make grant recommendations, which the freeholder board generally endorses. This year the trust fund holds $11,567,846, about $6 million of which is earmarked for town projects. Decisions on which projects will receive funding are expected by October. MICROSOFT SUES SHOP Microsoft accused PC Ware- house in East Hanover of pirating software and is suing the store for unspecified damages. The case was one of five filed simultaneously on Wednesday in U.S.

District Court four in Newark and one Trenton--against New Jersey retailers that Microsoft says continued to sell counterfeit programs after the company asked them to stop. An attorney for Microsoft said the company would be content with a pledge from the retailers to stop selling pirated software. The store at 36 Route 10 is an independently owned franchise of the chain based in Rochelle Park, Bergen County. It is a small shop that primarily stocks components and sells computers built in the Lovely Living Interiors NOW AT 2 NEW LOCATIONS 179 RT. 46W RockAwAy 973-586-3005 460 Bloomfield AvE.

Caldwell 973-364-1124 10-5 SAT. EvEs. By AppimT. WAllCOVERINGS FURNITURE ACCESSORIES CARPET Window TREATMENTS Fine Interior Design THE WEEK IN REVIEW shop. According to the suit, Microsoft received an anonymous tip the East Hanover store was selling counterfeit copies of Windows 95 and Microsoft Office Pro 97.

Two months after sending a letter asking the store to stop selling pirated software Microsoft sent an investigator to buy a computer Microsoft said was loaded with counterfeit software. Microsoft has filed 200 similar cases in the past year. NOW TO AID GIRLS TEAMS The National Organization for Women's Morris County chapter is going to go to bat for the Washington Township girls softball league, which feels pushed aside by boys teams. NOW wants to know why the township recreation committee has refused to dedicate at least one of its 11 playing diamonds to the 420-member girls softball league comprised of girls between 8 and 14. While the new Recreation Department Director Rick Blood said three fields were allocated to the girls softball league this summer, softball league President Tom Yanchek said boys teams had priority on those fields and all township fields are dedicated to boys baseball leagues.

Yanchek argued there are not enough township fields to go round. He said about 750 boys play baseball on several recreation leagues and in 1998 his league had to cancel more than 40 games because of rain and a shortage of fields. NOW members plan to protest the situation at the recreation committee meeting tomorrow. FOUR PLEAD IN DRUG CASE The owner of Sparta lawn mower store and three other men pleaded innocent in federal court Thursday to charges that they were part conspiracy to distribute 580 pounds of cocaine worth $6.6 million. Maximo Minaya, 42, of Union City, and the other men were arrested July 13 after U.S.

Customs agents followed a truck they said was carrying a shipment of cocaine from a hotel in the Bronx to Minaya's Route 15 business. Federal authorities claim in court papers that agents in a helicopter watched Minaya's movements the night of the arrest and videotaped him as he left his store--supposedly after realizing he was being watched. The truck driver told authorities Minaya asked him to leave because he had been followed. The truck, still full of cocaine hidden in cartons of mangoes, was stopped by police minutes later, authorities said. Minaya, who faces a minimum 10 years in prison if he is found guilty of the federal charges, has been freed after posting $500,000 bail.

He was indicted last week by a grand jury along with three other men, all from New York. Jose Marte, 30, Jose Mieses. 44, and Cristobal Perez, 27, have remained in jail since they were arrested by federal agents near Minaya's business. Juan Alberto Rodriguez, 25, of Texas, the driver of the truck, also has been in custody since the arrests, but he has not been indicted. For Home Delivery of the Daily Record Call 1-800-398-8990 SALE ALL Laura Ashley Frames in Stock I Amber Vision 470 Route 10 3130 Route 10 Ledgewppd Denville Commons 973-927-9180 973-328-0758 1 MORRISTOWN Bruce Aronwald, DO Anthony Cioce, DO Medical Jennifer Ambrose, MS, RD First Annual Community Health Fair Free Health Screenings Nutritious Snacks Raffles Giveaways Children's Activities Saturday, October 9, 1999 9 AM to 12:00 Noon 95 Madison Avenue, Morristown, New Jersey Just Stop By Guaranteed to Be Unique, Entertaining and I ducational COUNTY COLLEGE OF MORRIS Family Performing Arts Series Presents TOM CHAPIN and Friends in Concert BE 10 a IL SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 19 1:00 PM TWO SHOWS: 3:30 PM STUDENT CENTER DRAGONETTI AUDITORIUM.

Co-Sponsored by CCM Performing Arts TICKETS: $7 General Admission and The Office of Campus Life ($6 if ten children or more in group) Call The Office of Campus Life at (973)328-5225 for Ticket Information Towaco train station work to begin 360-square-foot building for bus pas- sit Administration. BY CLEMENTINA sengers. Historic railroad architect F.G. POPE Daily Record Other enhancements include a Neiss designed the train station in MONTVILLE Renovation of new 240-square-foot concrete low- 1924. the Towaco train station is set to level platform, new lighting, his- The old buildings were demolbegin next month, after the NJ toric platform railings, asphalt ished in 1970, when Conrail took Transit Board overlay, pavers, mini- over and refused to maintain a site of Directors ap- high level platform and landscap- often plagued by vandalism.

UPDATE proved a con- ing. The Towaco station, on NJ Trantract this week Tiffany-style lights standing 7 to sit's Boonton line, serves 137 daily with M.A. Angeliades of Long Is- 10 feet high, as well as antique win- passengers. land City, N.Y. dows and arched doorways, will add The project is expected to be comThe proposed improvements to to the historical flavor.

plete in February. the 75-year-old station include two Montville Township has conshelter buildings, a 600-square-foot tributed $225,000 to the $800,000 CLEMENTINA POPE can be reached at structure for rail passengers and a project funded by the Federal Tran- (973) 428-6633. A COMMUTER GUIDE MORRIS Route 24 Thursday between the New Jersey Denville Various single-lane Right lane in Turnpike toll plaza and Routes 1 closures on Route 53 at Route 46 both directions and westbound and 9 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. until Oct.

22 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. shoulder will be closed from JFK 3. Eastbound local right lane weekdays and 7 a.m. to 4 p.m.

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