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Mlnt own Hercules to get a rest from labors charter sc Dorney Park to replace ft principal resigns Don Fisher The Morning Call STUDENTS HAVE ROBERTO CLEMENTE Charter School in Allentown on wooden coaster with a steel one in 2005. By Joe McDermott Of The Morning Call The Hercules roller coaster at Dorney Park and Wildwat-er Kingdom lifted its last passengers on Labor Day. It will be replaced in two years by a $13 million floor-less coaster, South Whitehall Township commissioners were told Wednesday. Dorney General Manager John Albino said the as yet-unnamed coaster will be installed for the 2005 season. "Since we've purchased Dorney Park we've put millions into the Hercules roller coast Wednesday, the second day of the new school year.

It also will be contained fully within park limits, unlike Hercules, and will go under ground level five times during the almost 3-minute ride. Hercules comes within 236 feet of Haines Mill Road and 240 feet of Dorney Park Road. The new ride will be 460 feet from Haines Mill and 493 feet from the park road, Albino said. In addition, the running tracks and backboards, like -Talon, will be filled with sand -to reduce the nuisance of noise to neighbors. Hercules officially closed Labor Day.

It will be disassem- bled. Rainy weekends during a good part of the summer affect- ed attendance this year when 10 new rides were introduced at Wildwater Kingdom. The rides earned the park a third-place national ranking among I water parks from Amusement Today magazine. Albino said he was prohibit- ed by Securities and Exchange Commission rules from com- menting on this summer's atten- dance figures until Dorney's parent company, Cedar Fair of -Ohio, releases its third-quarter figures. teachers had consistently praised Vazquez's hands-on approach.

He gave students rides, lent money, talked to parents and advised students, they said. "Evervone's saving they parents group, Carmen Mal-donado said HAO Chief Administrative Officer Lupe Pearce refused to allow Vazquez to make decisions. "He didn't have freedom to do what he wanted," said Mal-donado. Pearce referred all questions about Vazquez to Agus-tin Garcia, president of the charter school's board. Garcia said Vazquez resigned Friday for "personal reasons." Garcia declined to specify the personal reasons when contacted Tuesday.

Garcia also wouldn't comment on the alleged friction between Vazquez and the HAO. Maldonado said the parents group wants to talk to the board, possibly next week, to make sure the next principal would have the ability to make administrative decisions without difficulty. The HAO founded Clem- miss him," said seventh-grader Parents group says he felt he lacked freedom to make decisions. By Romy Varghese Of The Morning Call The principal of Roberto Clemente Charter School in Allentown said he resigned last week from the school he had steered for the past three academic years because of the way he was treated. In an e-mail to The Morning Call, David Vazquez wrote, "I was treated unfairly." Vazquez wouldn't elaborate.

But an informal group of parents who meet to talk about the school said Vazquez was frustrated with officials from the Hispanic American Organization, the nonprofit group that runs the school and operates out of the same building at Fourth and Union streets. Speaking on behalf of the Desiree Darlington, 12. The school's board is seek-ine a rjermanent principal to ente as a way to help at-risk youth. Becoming the first charter school in Allentown to win approval, Clemente began in September 2000. It now has 180 students in Grades 6-12 and receives funding from the Allentown School District.

Vazquez, a former Northampton Community College administrator, came on board as principal in October 2000, succeeding the first principal who quit after the first day of class. Vazquez resigned four days before the start of Clemente's fourth school year on Tuesday. Under Vazquez's tenure, the charter school had its first high school graduating class in June. Students, parents and start as soon as possible, Garcia said. In the interim, the board named Richard DiBlassio, a retired principal from the Phila delphia area, to serve as princi pal, Garcia said.

romy.varghesemcall.com 610-820-6509 er, AlDino toia tne commissioners, adding that Hercules was the park's lowest-rated coaster. "We proposed replacing it with a steel roller coaster." Designed by Bolliger and Mabillard of Switzerland, the firm that designed the popular Talon coaster, the new ride will be 3,200 feet long and carry 32 passengers instead of the 24 carried by Hercules. Lower Macungie man gets prison for knifing wife floor. After she called an ambulance and police, authorities -found Ernest Grunewald still on the floor, too feeble to get up. His 56-year-old wife, who also was frail, suffered a small .) i i 4 i I i I 1 superficial abdominal cut when she stepped back to avoid the knife.

She told police that her husband was feeling particularly ill that day. Houck said Janice 'Grunewald agreed with the negotiated plea in which the prosecution and defense didn't reach an agreement on the sentence and left that up to the judge, i When police questioned Ernest Grunewald, he told them that he planned to kill his wife, place her in a plastic bag and put her body in the basement freezer. He also told police that he planned to sell all their possessions. Bail initially was set at $250,000, and Ernest Grunewald was incarcerated in Lehigh County jaiL In June, the judge granted a request for unsecured bail in that amount if Ernest Grunewald could be placed in a medical care facility. Grunewald was ordered not to have contact with his wife and was to be supervised by Lehigh Valley Pretrial Services.

Ernest Grunewald receives up to 3 years, plus 7 years' probation. By Debbie Garlicki Of The Morning Call A Lower Macungie Township man, who was distraught over financial problems when he stabbed his wife in their home, was sentenced Wednesday to 16 months to three years in state prison. Ernest Grunewald, 60, also received seven years' probation Grunewald, who is ill, arrived in a wheelchair to his hearing before Lehigh County Judge William H. Piatt. Grunewald pleaded guilty to aggravated assault in stabbing his wife, Janice, on Nov.

4 in their house at 4904 Liberty Lane, Wescosville. A combination of failing health and financial difficulties led to the incident, according to Chief Deputy District Attorney Terence Houck. Both Grunewalds, who have a grown son, were very ill, Houck said. Ernest Grunewald was spending money without his wife knowing about it, and they couldn't afford to get medication the day of the stabbing, the prosecutor said. Grunewald decided he wanted to end it all by stabbing his wife and possibly harming himself, Houck said.

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