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July 4th Celebration

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If It’s the Fourth of July There Must be Fireworks By MELISSA BETKOWSKI

Specially Written for The Westfield Leader and The Times

WESTFIELD — For years, the Fourth of July has meant three things to Americans: food, fun and works.

But for residents of Scotch Plains, Fanwood and Westfield, the Fourth of July will mean traveling to an other town to see those awesome pyrotechnic displays.

Cranford will hold its annual fire works display at 9 p. m. on Tuesday, July 4 at Nomahegan Park. Admis sion is free. The rain date for the fireworks display will be July 5.

The Borough of Mountainside will present a fireworks display at Deerfield School at 8: 30 p. m. on the Fourth.

Springfield will also present fire works at 9 p. m. on July 4 at Spring field Park on Meisel Avenue Admis sion is $5 for adults and $3 for chil dren.

In addition, a festival with food, games, rides and entertainment will begin at 4 p. m.

Union will also have a fireworks display at Biertuempfel Park at Winslow Avenue and Vauxhall Road at dusk.

A representative from the Town ship of Scotch Plains told The Westfield Leader/ Scotch Fanwood Times that the ity takes turns with other ties in terms of holiday celebrations.

Scotch Plains holds an annual Me morial Day parade which draws par ticipation from other towns and, wise, participates in Plainfield’s nual Fourth of July parade.

The parade in Plainfield will begin fireat 10 a. m. on Tuesday at Johnston

Avenue. Itwill includefourmarchingbands and four helium parade balloons. In addition, there will be two street festivals as part of this year’s ties.

One, featuring David Aaron chestras, a five piece band, will take place at Richmond and East Front Streets. The other will include tainment from Phoenix Rising turingAndrea Brachfeld, a fivepiece

Latin Jazz group, and will take place at Race and Somerset Streets, North Plainfield. The festivals will begin at 8 a. m.

Neighboring Scotch Plains and Fanwood, Clark will also offer a fireworks display on Sunday, July 2 at 9 p. m. at Johnson High School on Westfield Avenue. The rain date will be Monday, July 3.

In Westfield, a representative from the Town Administrator’s office told

The Westfield Leader/ Scotch Fanwood Times that fireworks are not held due to safety and space concerns.

In Berkeley Heights, the Plainscommunity’s annual fireworks municipaltravaganza,

which is held as part of communithe Mt. Carmel Society threeday

celebration,will beheldSunday,July 16 at 11 p. m. Admission is $5. The rain date is Monday July 17.

Senate Confirms Mark Boyd As New Labor Commissioner

WESTFIELD — Promising to work to improve literacy in the workplace, MarkBoydofWestfield was confirmed by the full Senate on Monday as the state’s new La bor Commissioner.

He replaces Melvin L. Gelade, who has been nominated by Gover nor Christine Todd Whitman to be a Superior Court judge.

“My primary goal is to improve literacy,” Mr. Boyd told

LeaderandTheTimes.

Mr. Boyd, the current Deputy Labor Secretary, has worked for

likethe state for six years. He said

antoday’s workforce is deficient in basic skills including the ability to speak English, as well as math ematics and reading skills.

Governor Whitman, upon nomi nating Mr. Boyd to head the Labor Department on June 9, said, “Mark

festiviBoyd’s impressive background in

the Labor Department and his com Ormitment

to our state’s workforce make him an obvious choice.”

Mr. Boyd has served as Deputy feaCommissioner of the Department

of Labor since 1998. He has been responsible for a diverse range of

department programs and tives, including New Jersey’s One Stop Career Center System, Unem ployment and Disability Insurance operations, Vocational Rehabilita tion Services, Labor Standards and Safety Enforcement, and Labor Research and Analysis.

He was a selfemployed busi nessman for 10 years before he joined the Department as Director of Job Training Partnership Act Programs. He also has served as the Department’s Director of the Division of Employment and Training and Assistant sioner for Rehabilitation and Dis

ability Programs and Workforce New Jersey.

A graduate of the University of Maine, he is currently pursuing a law degree from Rutgers Univer sity School of Law in Newark.

He is a former Westfield Plan ning Board member and ran for the town’s Board of Education in 1995.

Mr. Boyd resides in Westfield with his wife, Pam, and their three sons, John, Mark and Matthew.

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Freeholders OK Design Phase for Bridges Declared Structurally Deficient by State By PAUL J. PEYTON

initiaSpecially Written for The Westfield Leader

ELIZABETH — Following the passage of a $500 million bond issue by New Jersey voters last fall, the UnionCountyBoard holders last Thursday authorized

agreements with various firms to begin work on a number of ally deficient bridges throughout the

county. As part of last year’s bond, the county will receive a little over $12 million through the state Department of Transportation’s (D. O. T.) wide Transportation and Local

Bridge Fund. CommisThe bridges targeted for ment are the Valley Road Bridge

over the Rahway River in Clark; LibertyAvenueBridge beth River in Hillside; Goodman’s

Crossing Bridge, which passes over theRobinson’s BranchoftheRahway River in Clark and Scotch Plains; Jefferson Avenue Bridge over the Robinson’s Branch of the Rahway River in Rahway, and the Grandview Avenue Culvert which passes over a stream in Westfield.

enterOther bridges to be replaced are

the Eastman Street Bridge over the Rahway River in Cranford; Cooper Road Bridge over the Robinson’s Branchofthe RahwayRiverinScotch Plains; the Division Avenue Bridge over Salt Brook in New Providence, and the Raritan Road Bridge over the Clark Reservoir in Clark.

Timothy Mettlen of the county’s Bureau of Engineering indicated that the design phase will take up to 13 months to complete.

Director of Operational Services, Frank Dann, explained that the Plainsvatecontractors hiredwillbeginwork immediately on the design aspects of the project.

County Engineer G. Bruce Connor said none of Union County’s bridges are closed at this time, although some have been restricted to certain types of truck and vehicular traffic. ofChosenFreeState officials, who inspect bridges

every two years, declared the bridges structurally deficient. structurIn other business, the freeholders

passed a resolution stating Union County government’s opposition to the state’s transportation capital proworkplace gram for FiscalYear 2001. The legisTheWestfield lation is known as the Transportation stateTrust Fund Renewal Act.

The resolution noted that Union County, the fifth largest of New replaceJersey’s 21 counties, was allocated

only 1 percent of the state’s $1.2 billion in transportation aid in Fiscal overtheElizaYear 2001.

“What we are saying in this reso lution is that we do not support it (the legislation) in its current form. And the reason we do not is because it does not, in fact, give us our fair shakeandourfair sharehereinUnion County for the many valuable trans portation projects that we have been working so hard on,” said Freeholder Linda d. Stender of Fanwood, spon sor of the resolution.

These projects include the New arkElizabeth and Cross County rail link projects and the new Union Township train station proposed for NJ Transit’s Raritan Line.

Freeholder Stender charged that Union County continues to be “will fully underfunded.” She said the county is typically last in transporta tion funding it awarded by Trenton lawmakers.

In order for the county to support prithe state’s plan, Mrs. Stender said the

state will have to allocate another $7 million to Union County.

The board also approved a resolu tion to enter into an agreement with

the state D. O. T. for the rehabilitation and reactivation of the old Staten Island and Rahway Valley railroad tracks.

The county is interested in devel oping light industry along the rail lines.

Talks with one rail company, CRX, broke down, according to Freeholder Chairman Daniel P. Sullivan, after the rail company expressed more interest in using the tracks solely for rail links for heavy freight transfers

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