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C-4 THE RECORD. FRIDAY, JULY 26. 1985 BERGEN NORTH Lane closings li for the week Here is where travelers can ex 6) MONMOUTH COUNTY: On Yirca. imam, ii i il iiimr i fr 5EP yL Long Island 'A 1 pect delays today through Aug. 2.

New Jersey 1) BERGEN COUNTY: The left southbound lane, south of Exit 1, on the Palisades Interstate Parkway will be closed starting Monday to repair a hole on the overpass in Englewood Cliffs (over road to Allison Park). Work expected to take a week. East Ridgewood Avenue in Ridgewood will be closed to all through traffic between Van Dien Street and Maple Avenue for completion of storm drain installation. Follow posted detours via Lin-wood Avenue. DeGraw Avenue, Teaneck, lane closings from Route 80 to Teaneck Road from 9 a.m.

to 4 p.m. Monday through Saturday for six months for intersection improvements. 2) PASSAIC COUNTY: On Route 80 between Squirrelwood Road in West Paterson and River-view Drive in Totowa, there will be lane closings Monday through Saturday from 7 p.m. to 6 a.m. for road surfacing.

Some ramps may be closed from midnight to 4 a.m. On Route 23 from Ratzer Circle in Wayne to the Pompton River in Pequannock, there will be lane closings until April 1986 on weekdays between 9 a.m. and 4 p.m. for reconstruction of Route 23 and elimination of the circle. 3) HUDSON COUNTY: Widening of the westbound lane of the Route 495 viaduct in North Bergen has closed ramps to Route 1 and Route 9 north for traffic exiting the Lincoln Tunnel.

Follow posted detours via Kennedy Boulevard. 4) MORRIS COUNTY: Lane closings and detours at Netcong Circle, where Route 80 flows into Route 206. Project continues through November 1987. Only one lane open northbound where Route 206 crosses over Route 183; bridge repair project continues through August. In Mount Olive, Exit 26 ramp on Route 80 westbound to Budd Lake and Route 46 is closed for bridge rehabilitation.

5) SOMERSET COUNTY-MIDDLESEX COUNTY: Major delays during peak hours on Route 287 from Piscataway north to Bridgewater because of Route 9 from County Line Road (Route 526) in Lakewood north to Route 195, there will be lane closings for road widening through the end of the year. 7) NEW JERSEY TURNPIKE: Newark Bay-Hudson County Extension, one lane will be closed in each direction between interchanges 14 and 14A weekdays from 9:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. for replacement of the median barrier. The work is scheduled to end Wednesday.

8) GARDEN STATE PARKWAY: Travelers should expect delays at toll plazas because of heavy weekend traffic. New York 9) GEORGE WASHINGTON BRIDGE: Eastbound motorists will find one lane closed at all times on the ramp from both levels of the bridge to Henry Hudson Parkway and Riverside Drive southbound. HENRY HUDSON PARKWAY WEST SIDE HIGHWAY WEST STREET: From 160th Street to Dyck-man Street, one lane may be closed in both directions during nonrush hours on weekdays. Northbound roadway between 158th and 178th streets closed weekdays from 11 p.m. to 6 a.m.

Northbound entrance at 158th Street closed. From 79th Street to 160th Street, one lane might be closed northbound from 9:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. weekdays and southbound from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Southbound entrance at 72nd Street closed. Riverside Drive: Closed in both directions from 122nd Street to 135th Street at all times. Follow posted detours. HARLEM RIVER DRIVE FDR DRIVE: One lane in either direction from 79th Street to 91st Street might be closed weekdays between 9 a.m. and 3 p.m.

At 91st Street, two lanes might be closed in one direction and one lane closed in the opposite direction tomorrow from 11 p.m. to 8 a.m. and Sunday through Friday from 11 p.m. to 6 a.m. Delancy Street at Essex Street: Two westbound lanes closed weekdays from 10 a.m.

to 4 p.m., and two eastbound lanes closed from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Staff photo by Steve Hockstein Not-so-heavy metal Michael Hessol, 14, of Tenafly, was engrossed in sculpture, but another art form obviously was on his mind as he finished an aluminum foil and wire rock and roll band. Michael produced the work during Tenafly High School's summer art program. 10) HUTCHINSON RIVER PARKWAY: Reduced permanently to one lane northbound from just past the city toll booth to the 3rd Street exit.

Further lane restrictions possible during off peak hours in both directions from the toll plaza to the Cross County Parkway and in the vicinity of Mamaroneck Avenue. NEW ENGLAND THRUWAY: Two lanes maintained in each direction on the southbound roadway at all times between Exit 10, Gun Hill Road, and Exit 15 in New Rochelle. 11) PALISADES INTERSTATE PARKWAY: The left southbound lane, south of Exit 1, will be closed starting Monday to repair a hole on the overpass in Englewood Cliffs (over road to Allison Park). Work expected to take a week. Possible delays on Parkway north of Route 202 because of construction of northbound exit ramp in vicinity of Thiells-Mt.

Ivy Road. Expect delays in the vicinity of the Anthony Wayne Recreation Area for rebuilding of the southbound roadway. 12) NEW YORK STATE THRUWAY: North the New Jersey state line between exits 14 and 16, near the interchange with Route 17, there will be lane restrictions northbound because of construction. ALBANY: Exit 24 project expect major delays because of re- building of interchange with Interstate 90 where the 1-87 Thruway becomes 1-87 Northway. INTERSTATE 684: Roadway reduced from three lanes to two in both directions where 1-684 crosses over Guinea Road and at Route 124 near the Putnam and Westchester county lines.

Lane restrictions possible northbound in the morning and southbound in the afternoon for bridge painting between the Cross Weschester Expressway and Hard Scrabble Road throughout the summer. INTERSTATE 84: Some delays during daytime hours because of work at Route 9W. In Putnam County, lane restrictions from two lanes to one in both directions for bridge repairs in several locations TACONIC STATE PARKWAY: Southbound lanes restricted from three lanes to two at the bridge over Croton Reservoir until autumn. INTERSTATE 80: West of the Pennsylvania border, lane restrictions in both directions for reconstruction from Route 33 west to I-380; work to continue through next year. INTERSTATE 78: For drivers heading west into Pennsylvania, there will be lane restrictions in both, directions for about 13 miles after the road becomes Route 22, from the 13th Street Exit in Eastern to Route 191 in Bethlehem.

NANCY LONGAN LaPOFF grants to provide training for disabled The Record's Trenton bureau TRENTON The state has awarded $740,000 in grants for care of the developmentally disabled. Most of the money will be going to organizations that will help provide training and relief services for about 200 severely handicapped individuals and their families. The organizations include Appropriate Living for the Autistic Inc. in Wyckoff, Spectrum for Living in Closter, the Hudson County Association for Retarded Citizens in Jersey City, $64,055. Additionally, United Cerebral Palsy of New Jersey is getting $67,000 to develop plans for group homes for developmentally disabled adults.

"Our goal is to expand alternative living arrangements for develop-mentally disabled people and to actively support those programs which allow those who are disabled to live in their communities with their families, whenever possible," said Acting Human Services Commissioner Geoffrey S. Perselay. Ramp in Woodcliff Lake Tickets, at $18 a person, may be purchased from Vincent Cupo, P.O. Box 28, New Milford 07646. Our Neighbors Parkway exit finally opens Kathy Spitzfaden and Vilma Valdez of Hacken-sack have been elected co-presidents of the Center of Modern Dance Education Board of Directors for two-year terms.

Other officers are Peg Narin, Woodcliff Lake, vice-president; Sue Bodine, Teaneck, treasurer; and Jackie Arkin, Teaneck, secretary. Also on the board are Lorraine Bogert, Ruth Draper, Sue Jackson, Jo Savoye, Douglas and Sally Tamburelli, Hackensack; Mr. and Mrs. Cornelius Enright, Maywood; Carol Gottlieb, Park Pidge; Cindy Pratt-Low, Fort Lee; Debra Silver and Cindi Park, New Milford; Marian Small and Diane Stokes, Paramus; and Mr. and Mrs.

Jack Spratt, Englewood. The nonprofit dance center offers modern dance, jazz, and ballet classes for 3-year-olds through adults. For a schedule of fall classes, call 342-2989. By Georgia Brackett Correspondent WOODCLIFF LAKE Garden State Parkway Exit 171 is a reality, at last. After five years of planning, counterproposals, litigation, and interborough tensions, motorists can exit from the parkway onto Glen Avenue in Woodcliff Lake.

The new northbound exit opened yesterday. A companion entrance ramp at Glen Road has been open since late March. The two ramps are intended to ease traffic congestion spurred by the boom in office construction in Woodcliff Lake and Montvale during the past 10 years. A traffic light at the foot of the new exit ramp controls the flow of traffic onto Glen Road. Motorists coming off the ramp are permitted only to turn left and head west toward Chestnut Ridge Road.

When the plan was proposed in 1980, it had the support of Montvale, Park Ridge, and the Bergen County freeholders, but officials in Woodcliff Lake vigorously opposed it. They said the ramps would solve the area's traffic problem at the expense of Woodcliff Lake, which they contended would absorb traffic from neighboring towns because of the ramps. At one point Woodcliff Lake initiated a lawsuit, and neighboring Saddle River volunteered to help finance it. The action was dropped, however. The ramps also became an election issue in Woodcliff Lake, with Republicans and Democrats charging each other with not showing enough aggressiveness in fighting the proposed ramps.

In recent years, however, the ramps became nearly a nonissue. Official resistance was weakened over time by the county's promise to make a series of road improvements along Glen Road and Chestnut Ridge Road and by parkway officials' clear intentions of going ahead with the plan. The freeholders have approved a $l-million package of improvements in Woodcliff Lake, which include widening of Glen Road west of the new ramps, and widening and improving the intersection of Chestnut Ridge Road and Glen and the intersection of Chestnut Ridge and County Road. Traffic lights will be installed at both intersections. Work on these improvements is slated to begin this year after land aquisition and engineering studies are completed by Woodcliff Lake and the county.

Condo owners balk at tax rise Bergen Community College and Thomas Edison State College were honored at the New Jersey Military Academy at Sea Girt recently. They're partners in the New Jersey National Guard's "Adopt a School" program. Col. Anthony R. La Mastra, commandant, and Lt.

Col. Vincent J. Zolnoski education coordinator, gave academy certificates of appreciation to Dr. Mary Robertson-Smith of Bergen Community College and Jules Kahn of Edison State College. The colleges are partners with the academy in its effort to meet new higher education standards set by the National Guard Bureau they have been supporting the guard in fostering education for officers and enlisted personnel.

Find yourself with nothing to do this summer? Why not spend a few hours a week doing volunteer work for public-service organizations? The Volunteer Bureau of Bergen County has a list of more than 200 local agencies and organizations that need help. The choice of jobs is as wide as the imagination: Special Olympics coaches, tutors, mental-health aides, museum and nature-center guides, friends to abused and neglected children, interpreters, theater production assistants, and more. For a complete list of volunteer opportunities, call 489-9454. The Volunteer Bureau is at 64 Passaic Hackensack. A fund has been established to help pay the large medical expenses of Jeanne Lee, a Bergen County resident who was in a coma after a serious fall in her home.

She is improving, although her condition is still serious, and she has to have private-duty nursing care around the clock. Mrs. Lee, a county resident for 35 years, has been suffering from progressive impairment of her vision for some time. A dedicated gardener, she continued to live in her own home and work with her flowers in spite of her continually decreasing vision. While she can't communicate verbally now, because of a tracheotomy tube inserted in her throat after the accident, she has learned to respond to her family and close friends by squeezing their hands yes or no in response to questions.

"Her courage and will to survive in the face of her handicap was an inspiration to all her friends and family," said Susan Payne of Bergenfield, a close friend. After the accident, she made dramatic progress, although doctors had said her chances were slim. "The same spirit that served Jeanne all her life has been evident in this difficult time when most people woulld simply have given up. Even her doctors have been amazed at her progress," said Phyllis Bek-gran of Paramus, who has known Mrs. Lee well for more than 20 years.

Her friends held bake sales in June in Washington Township, New Milford, and Bergenfield. A giant garage sale, and a special picnic this Sunday, will be held in Bergenfield. For tickets and information, or to make donations, write to the Jeanne Lee Fund, P.O. Box 113, Oradell 07649. MARION B.

PAGAN A program designed to aid abused and neglected children has been named a winner of the 1985 President's Volunteer Action Award. In Bergen County, the project is known as Foster Child Advocacy Service (FOCAS), sponsored by the Greater Teaneck Section of the National Council of Jewish Women. FOCAS provides an advocate for the children in court cases. Trained volunteers intestigate the case by reviewing records and conducting in-person, in-depth interviews with all parties involved child, biological parents, foster parentscaretakers, social workers, and therapists. The volunteer submits an independent evaluation to the court or child placement review board and recommends a resolution of the case in the child's best interest.

Bergen County is the only New Jersey site for FOCAS. In its first full year of operation, the program has trained 26 volunteers and worked with 13 children. Nationally, the program is known as the National Court Appointed Special Advocate Association (CASA). There are 115 projects in 29 states. For information on FOCAS and the national council, call 836-4973.

The former Dirty Dozen has become the Garden State Harmonica Club with a membership of 100, but members' favorite hobby is still playing harmonicas. Professionals in the group include the former Borrah Minevitch Harmonica Rascals, Jerry Murad's Harmonicats, concert virtuosos, and instructors. Besides, there are soloists, duos, trios, quintets, husband-wife teams, and a 15-piece orchestra. Everyone performs statewide in nursing homes and hospitals, for charitable organizations, and wherever and whenever they are needed. The programs are free.

Members are scheduled to hold their annual festival at the Knights of Columbus Hall in Hackensack Friday and Saturday, Sept. 27 and 28. Friday is meet-and-greet night for the professionals, nonprofessionals, and friends of the harmonica, who gather from all parts of the United States and Canada for the festival. On Saturday, there will be a banquet and entertainment by harmonica acts from around the country. Pete Pedersen of Toronto will be emcee.

He said that taxes for comparable units in the building, which range from $60,000 to $150,000, are not consistent. "We have a two-bedroom unit on the 10th floor," Martin said, "which pays thousands of dollars more in taxes than the same unit on the 11th floor. There's no rhyme or reason to it. You're supposed to pay more for the higher units." The council assured the condominium owners that taxes would become more equitable once the revalution of the entire city is done. Cerbo said that the city was hiring a firm to do the revaluation, which should be completed in about 18 months.

Also on the subject of taxes, the city council last night announced that several appeals had been settled out of court. The property assessment for 14 office condominums at 27 Warren St. was reduced from $1.20 million to $1.05 million; a five-story apartment building at 100 Prospect Ave. saw its assessment drop from $1.1 million to $1 million; an apartment at 406 Prospect Ave. went from $1.1 million to $1 million, and the assessment of an apartment building at 40 Anderson St.

was reduced to $299,000 from $349,000. By Tom Toolen Staff Writer HACKENSACK About a half dozen condominium owners have complained to the city council about their property taxes, which one owner said had risen 85 percent over last ytar. "I don't mind a 10- or even 20-percent increase," Barry J. Klazura, who lives in the Devonshire on Overlook Avenue, told the council this week. "But an increase of 85 percent is unheard of." Klazura, an executive with Panasonic in Secaucus, said that he now pays $100 more a month in taxes, for a total of about $2,400 a year.

He moved into the 162-unit Devonshire about three years ago. The city council members expressed sympathy with Klazura and with Gene Martin, who heads the owners committee at the Devonshire. But Mayor Fred Cerbo said the owners would have to appeal to the city tax assessor, John Johnson. "I don't know how the tax rate was formulated," Cerbo said. "The assessor will have to give you that answer." Martin said after the meeting that "the owners are preparing a massive protest and tax appeal at the assessor's office, because there is something wrong here." SINGLES Dozens of activities, meetings, and parties to fill your book.

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