The Daily Register from Red Bank, New Jersey • 6

The Daily Resistor Friday, august 3, 1984 AROUND THE COUNTY Part of the third floor was severely damaged when fire broke out in one of the women's rooms. The adjacent rooms were damaged by water and smoke, with the remaining two floors sustaining only water damage, fire officials said. The 120-year-old building was recently named an historic site by the federal government. Site plan process amended OCEANPORT The Borough Council last night passed an ordinance amending the requirements for minor site plan applications here. Councilman Philip D.

Apruzzi, who offered the ordinance, said it is designed to bring Oceanport's zoning laws in line with the zoning laws of neighboring boroughs." The councilman added that he hoped the amendment would make the process of applying for a minor site plan easier for both residents and members of the Planning Board. The amendment gives the board the right to waive notice and public hearing requirements on minor site plan applications. It also requires the board to approve or turn down a minor site plan application within 45 days of the date it is filed. Failure of the board to act within this time frame will constitute approval, according to the amendment. The amendment also changes the definition of "lot width in the ordinance.

The council also passed a $104,800 bond ordinance to fund its 1984 road program. An estimated $87,500 of the money will be used for reconstruction of the Borough Hall parking lot, the public works garage parking lot, and Sagamore Avenue including instalation of storm drainage. The remaining $17,300 will be used for an overlay between the westerly end of Iroquois and Port-au-Peck avenues. Lake restoration funds sought TRENTON A bill that would appropriate state funds for the restoration of silt-choked Deal Lake, the largest lake in New Jersey south of the Raritan River, was introduced recently by state Assembly member Anthony M. Villane Jr.

Villane, R-Monmouth, filed the legislation (A-2373) that would appropriate $500,00 in the Assembly following a meeting at the state Department of Environmental Protection with representatives of communities bordering the 162-acre lake. This bill would authorize spending $50,000 more than a $450,000 outlay that was approved late last year, but was not carried forward into this year's budget, Villane said. REVIEWING THE SITUATION Keansburg girder which will become the "Screamin Demon, boardwalk co-owner Al Reid surveys the miles of an all-steel roller coaster. New roller coaster not ready No bids taken on property ATLANTIC HIGHLANDS No one bid last night on a 10.5-acre waterfront tract owned by Atlantic HighlandsHighlands Regional Sewerage Authority. Bid specifications set a minimum price of $1V million.

Although 20 people from the metropolitan area had asked for specifications, authority members speculated that summer vacationing distracted potential bidders, according to authority Secretary Muriel Smith. The authority voted unanimously to extend the deadline for accepting bids to Sept. 20. The authority will begin purchase negotiations with the highest bidder as soon as bids are received. Its a gorgeous hunk of property, Smith said.

The triangular lot features approximately 3000 feet of frontage on Sandy Hook Bay, with views of the bay, the Shrewsbury River and the Atlantic Ocean. There are a number of dunes along the water. Certified New Jersey Assessor Cornelius J. Guiney, commissioned last year by the authority to review the land, recommended townhouses as an appropriate use. The tract is zoned for residential use single-family homes or townhouses.

The authority intends to sell the tract to the highest bidder without considering the development plans of the bgidder. The authority bought the tract in the early 1970s for a sewerage treatment plant. However, changes in state and federal environmental regulations in the intervening years now preclude the use of that site, according to Smith. After the authority concluded an agreement with Middletown to have its sewerage treated at the boroughs facilities, the land became surplus. In a related matter, the authority plans to take bids at its Aug.

16 meeting for the construction of a pumping station and force mains to channel the boroughs sewerage to Middletown. The hook-up is slated to be completed by March 1985. Relatives help fire victims RED BANK Ten elderly residents who lived in Red Bank Womans Club building on Broad Street have found new places to call home at least for now. A fire at the club Wednesday morning left the senior citizens temporarily homeless when flames destroyed several rooms in the top floor of the historic structure, where the women lived. While six of the residents were taken in by relatives on Wednesday, four stayed at the Sands Hotel in Eatontown, courtesy of the American Red Cross.

But this afternoon, the remaining four will be picked up by relatives living as far away as Pennsylvania, said Ethel Frankel, director of the Red Bank Senior Citizens Center. "We were able to contact all the relatives, and every one of the residents has been taken care of, said Frankel. More good news came yesterday when some of the residents were allowed into the charred building to get some of their clothing and other belongings. The residents, none of whom were injured in the blaze, will be picked up from the Sands at noontime today. From there, they will travel by mini-bus to the senior center where they will be served lunch.

After that, its homeward bound for the residents until the club building can be repaired and reopened. We expect they will be staying with their relatives for two or three weeks, said Frankel, quickly adding, if the Womans Club isnt completely condemned." It is now up to the borough fire department and other authorities to decide if the blaze severely weakened the wood-frame structure, making the building unsafe. If the club can repair the building, then the women can move back in," explained Frankel. the boardwalk is 2S cents. Thats all the eats, pop, beer and rides.

That was almost the price in 1904, when the boardwalk first opened its gangplank to swarms of steamboat visitors from New York City. Well, maybe few pennies more. Lets not haggle. A doesnt turn 80 years old every day. Germany, to install the gray, turquoise, red and orange thriller, and although theyre working like crazy, the only way it will be up for Monday is if birds start swimming, according to boardwalk coowner Al Reid.

Have no fear. The celebration will go off as planned. From 6 p.m. to closing Monday everything on KEANSBURG The Keansburg Boardwalk will be forced to celebrate its 80th birthday Monday without the Screamin Demon. The new, all-steel, 75-foot-high, 225-foot-long roller coaster will not be ready for the occasion.

Experts arrived Wednesday from the manufacturers, the Schwartzkopf Company, Munich, Developers present proposal to build planned community POLICE BEAT housing units, the board cannot reject the proposal as long as it conforms to zoning specifications. However, the board cannot grant approval until it and the Township Committee adopt a zoning ordinance amendment defining the requirements of a Planned Unit Community District, or PUC zone, not currently covered by the ordinance. The PUC zone would call for specifications similar to those of PAC (planned adult community district) zones, according to board Attorney Francis C. Accisano. BY TED LOUD FREEHOLD TOWNSHIP Developers who want to build a planned community with 375 homes and a small commercial area last night presented their proposal to the township Planning Board.

The Poets Corner community, I consisting of condominiums, a shopping center and a professional office building, would be located on Ian undeveloped 110-acre site at Kozloski and Burlington Roads near East Freehold Road. Because of a consent decree permitting construction of the fV -v n'tn Man still in critical condition MANALAPAN A township man remains in critical condition due to stab wounds sustained in a fight with a Howell man Wednesday night. William Prisk, Millhurst Road, is still in critical but stable condition at Freehold Area Hospital, Freehold Township, according to a hospital spokeswoman. Prisk was admitted to the hospitals intensive care unit shortly after the stabbing occurred. Salvatore Belviso, Fort Plains Road, Howell, was charged with the stabbing and is being held at Monmouth County Jail on $20,000 bail, according to police.

Police said the incident happened at about 11 p.m. Wednesday in front of the Yorktowne Social Club, Millhurst Road. Iceman cometh 5 in book Jerome M. Selvers, attorney for the developer, John Bukiet, said the consent decree was the result of litigation between the township and the propertys former owner. The current owner of the property is Poets Corner Inc.

Because of the decree, settled during the 1970s, the project has to go, according to Selvers. He said the site plan presented last night was drawn up in conjunction with the consent order. Board member Arthur R. Kon-drup said he favored changing the name of the site to Freneau Estates in honor of the poet of the Revolution, Phillip Freneau, who died at the site of the proposed community. He added that the county Historical Society agreed with the need to honor he 18th century poet.

Under existing plans, the main street of the development would be called Freneau Drive, with other streets to be named for other noted poets including Longfellow and Emerson, according to James Kovaks, an engineer with Abington-Ney Associates, Freehold. The main street of the development will connect with Burlington Road and Kozloski Road, joining with Center Street to create a four-way intersection there, Kovaks said. He added that sidewalks would be provided within the development and also along the 3, 800-foot stretch of property at the front of the site. Architect Daniel Cahill, of Cahill Associates, said the community would also feature a small manmade pond and a bicycle-jogging trail running throughout the development. BY MIM BRYAN MIDDLETOWN If summer heat is getting to you, an icy book might help.

Americas Icemen, recently i published by Joseph C. Jones formerly of Middletown, provides a glimpse of the ice industry from 1665 to 1925. In the book, packed with photographs and drawings, Jones shows the techniques of harvesting ice on lakes and rivers, and its storage and delivery by icemen making their rounds. The winter harvesting and summer delivery of ice was a major industry for hundreds of farmers and others in New Jersey and other northern states before refrigeration came into use. Jones became interested in iceboxes during the early years of his marriage, when he and his wife decided the only way they could furnish their home was to buy and restore old furniture.

I started collecting and restoring iceboxes, which led me to write a book about collecting and restoring them, he said. While I was gathering information for that book (published in 1981), I found that the ice business was fascinating. Here was an industry that was very important to us to preserve food and provide employment. Even fermentation could be better controlled. Beer, for example, could be produced year round.

The ice industry had a tremendous impact on development of our country, although it has now virtually disappeared." A copy of Americas Icemen is in the book collection at the Red Bank Library. Copies may be ordered by mail from the publisher, Jobeco Books, Box 3323, Humble, Texas 77347. toys sfflSSSSs Lego KINKELS ENTIRE STOCK SPRING AND SUMMER SHOE SALE! HMOR STPBE PRICES 3TRY SPECIAL PRICE CHEAK Famous Name You Know! OrMt iMn. Hot ootoro 1st awy 1 oooIoh. Prtcod you CM yuteMM jCOYCTd potr.

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