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Deerfield Students Head Back To Classrooms Wednesday, Sept. 8 New Italian Restaurant is Proposed
In Former Paprika Grille Location
had directly contacted the new owners of the Elm Street building, former Westfield Councilman Norman Greco and a partner.
“He (Mr. Gjebuka) offered a better price,” Mr. Marcotte commented.
Mr. Marcotte operated restaurants in downtown Westfield for the last 11 years.
His most recent endeavor, Paprika Grille, situated at the Elm Street location, closed on July 26.
Prior to that, he and his wife, Nancy, operated Ken Marcotte International Delicacies – commonly known as Ken Marcotte – in the same location for 10 years.
When he closed Paprika Grille, Mr. Marcotte commented that the restaurant business had exhausted him and his wife and that he wanted to spend more time with his family.
Since he closed the business, Mr.
By KIM KINTER
Specially Written for The Westfield Leader and The Times
WESTFIELD – Westfield may soon have a new Italian restaurant.
Ken Marcotte, who operated a restaurant at 115 Elm Street for the last 10 years, told The Westfield Leader
that he has sold his former operation to a man who intends to open a northern Italian style eatery at the downtown Westfield location.
Mr. Marcotte said he has sold the restaurant’s equipment and the restricted liquor license he held for his former establishment to Faruq Gjebuka for about $200,000.
The closing of the sale is scheduled for Wednesday, September 15, Mr. Marcotte said.
He added that he had been dealing with two interested buyers for his operation, one of whom had come to him directly. Mr. Gjebuka, however,
Marcotte has become executive chef at the Old Mill Inn, a restaurant located on the shore in Spring Lake. He has been there about a month, cooking the restaurant’s current offerings, and has created some menu specials.
In the fall, however, Mr. Marcotte will revamp the entire menu for the restaurant at the request of the owner, Joe Amiel. Mr. Marcotte said that he will be bringing some of his specialties used in his Westfield restaurants to the Old Mill Inn and will also be developing some new creations.
He added that he eventually will enhance the restaurant’s menu with some of the homemade ice cream for which he became so well known in Westfield.
Mr. Marcotte, his wife and daughter will be moving to the Spring Lake area sometime in the future. “It will be a real change of pace,” he said.
Mr. Gottko Tells Rotarians About Town Government SHARING HIS EXPERIENCE… Town Administrator and Westfield Rotary
Club member Edward A. Gottko, center, is flanked by Rotarian Jane Sentivan, this year’s Program Chairwoman, and Dr. William B. Bonsall, Westfield Rotary Club President. Mr. Gottko served as guest speaker at a recent organization meeting, where he discussed his position and the functions of municipal government.
WESTFIELD — Westfield Town Administrator Edward A. Gottko addressed fellow members of the Rotary Club of Westfield at a recent meeting of the organization.
Rotarian Gottko described his duties as Town Administrator, and told how the Town of Westfield operated on a budget of $23 million with 210 employees, 140 parttime employees and 140 seasonal work people.
He explained the system whereby many of the functions of government are under statutory departments.
After 29 years in municipal government, including 20 years in Westfield, Mr. Gottko will be retiring from government service at the end of this year. He does, however, plan to continue to live in Westfield and maintain his membership in the Westfield Rotary Club.
Decorative Workshops Set At Westfield Y This Fall Area Residents Among
Yeshiva Graduates Jeffrey Weisslitz of Westfield and
Jeffrey Kohn of Scotch Plains were among the more than 2,000 members of the Class of 1999 receiving degrees at Yeshiva University’s 68th annual commencement held May 26 in The Theater at Madison Square Garden.
Jeffrey Kohn received a Bachelor of Arts Degree from Yeshiva College and Jeffrey Weisslitz earned a Master of Arts Degree from Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology.
WESTFIELD — The Westfield Y will hold a series of Decorative Arts workshops this fall.
Beginning with “Introduction to Decorative Painted Finishes,” which serves as a prerequisite for the other classes in the series, participants can learn the basics of marbling, stenciling or woodgraining.
Taught by local decorative painter Lynne Applebaum, whose work ranges from trompl’oeil wall treatments to custom furniture painting, these workshops will enable the student to understand how to approach a project from start to finish. Ms. Applebaum has studied this art form at the New Jersey Center for Visual Arts and the Old Church Cultural Center in Demurest with noted decorative artist Sandra Holzoen.
“Introduction to Decorative Painted Finishes,” which will be held on Saturday, September 18, from 10 a. m. to 3 p. m., is a fourhour workshop that will teach the student how to create glazes, mix colors and use a variety of brushes and tools to paint a textured finish on a wall or piece of furniture. There will be a onehour break for lunch.
Preparation for walls and furniture prior to painting, as well as some basic faux techniques, such as ragging, marbling and sponging will be covered.
The fee for this course is $90 for Westfield Y members and $110 for nonmembers. All materials will be included.
After completing the prerequisite course, students can choose to learn
more advanced techniques. “Introduction to Marbling” will be offered on Saturday, October 2, followed by “Introduction to Stenciling” on Saturday October 16, and “Introduction to Woodgraining” on Saturday, October 30. These classes will run from 10 a. m. to 12 noon.
The fee is $60 per course for Westfield Y members and $75 per course for nonmembers. All materials will be included.
Participants may register for any one or all of these workshops at the Westfield Y, 220 Clark Street in Westfield. For more information, please contact Karen Simon at (908) 2332700, Extension No. 246.
Mountainside School Times Listed
MOUNTAINSIDE – Mountainside students attending the Deerfield School, which contains the district’s Kindergarten through 8th grade classes, should be in their classrooms by 8: 40 a. m. on Wednesday, September 8. Doors open at 8: 30 a. m. Students will be dismissed at 3 p. m.
Extendedday kindergartners will be dismissed at 1: 30 p. m. At Governor Livingston High School in Berkeley Heights, where Mountainside students attend 9th through 12th grade, classes begin at 8 a. m. Dismissal is 2: 40 p. m.
Governor Livingston students actually began school today, September 2, with freshmen having had a halfday of school yesterday, Wednesday, September 1.
County Rape Crisis Center Seeks Community Volunteers
WESTFIELD — The Union County Rape Crisis Center, 300 North Avenue East in Westfield, is looking for volunteers to assist sexual assault survivors, their families and significant others.
Volunteer trainees will receive approximately 40 hours of training, which will address the different types of sexual assault and traumatic reactions of survivors and family members. The legal and medical aspect of sexual assault will also be covered.
Volunteer training classes will be held from 6: 30 to 10 p. m. on Tuesdays and Thursday, September 28 and 30, October 5 and 7, 12 and 14, 19 and 21, 26 and 28 and November 4, 9, 16 and 18.
The Rape Crisis Center, a program under the Department of Human Services, Division of Planning, provides free and confidential services for survivors of sexual assault, their friends and family members in Union County. These services include individual and group therapy, a 24hour crisis hotline, a speakers bureau, inservice training for hospital personnel, law enforcement, mental health professionals and educators, and consultations with professionals who work with survivors.
The Center also provides information and referral services to professionals and the general public Volunteers may serve on the hotline, accompany a victim to a hospital or through the court pro cess, or work on the Speakers Bureau
to provide educational programs on sexual assault topics to schools, groups and organizations. Volunteers may also distribute information to the community. For further information, please call (908) 2337273 between 8 a. m. and 4 p. m., Monday through Friday.
By KIMBERLY A. BROADWELL
Specially Written for The Westfield Leader and The Times
MOUNTAINSIDE — As summer recess draws to a close, students from Deerfield School and Governor Livingston High School will be trading in their beach passes for hall passes.
According to school officials, students from both schools will discover new procedures, programs, curriculum, equipment and staff upon their return.
Dr. Gerard Schaller, Chief School Administrator for Deerfield School, said the school will reopen its doors to over 600 students next Wednesday, September 8.
Dr. Schaller stated that a new policy has been implemented for security reasons regarding access to Deerfield School. He pointed out that entry to the school this year will only be possible through the main door of the building, located by the flag pole.
He also stated that all other doors will be locked at 8: 40 a. m. and that visitors will have to ring the bell and wait for an office staff member to admit them.
“Once our visitors have been admitted, they will be escorted to the office, required to sign in and issued a visitor’s badge, which must be worn while in the school and must
be returned prior to leaving the building,” said Dr. Schaller. He noted that a newlyappointed Assistant Principal has recently been added to the Deerfield staff.
“Dr. Elizabeth Keshish started working for the district on July 1,” said Dr. Schaller. He remarked that Dr. Keshish, who was formerly the Kindergarten through 12th Grade Language Arts Supervisor in Old Bridge for the last couple of years, “brings expertise in the area of curriculum development and implementation.”
Dr. Schaller observed that “Dr. Keshish has spent her first two months at Deerfield becoming very familiar with the Mountainside school district, and has already begun working with curriculum committees and myself in establishing guidelines and procedures to ensure a smooth school year.”
He noted that the district’s mathematics program has been rewritten, and new textbooks have been selected and approved by the Board of Education. He stated that parents will receive an outline of all new mathematics programs and that training sessions will be offered to parents, as well as a parent resource center.
Dr. Schaller also revealed that the Social Studies and Language Arts Literacy Committees met over the summer to “continue their tasks in aligning the curriculum with the (New Jersey Department of Education) Core Content Standards.”
According to Dr. Schaller, the industrial arts classroom has been updated with more current materials to enable the students to develop a more handson approach to team and individual projects. In addition, he said other classrooms have had carpeting or tile replaced.
Dr. Benjamin Jones, Principal of Governor Livingston High School, noted that the school will open today, Thursday, September 2, at 8 a. m. Dismissal will be at 2: 40 p. m.
Governor Livingston, which enrolls Mountainside students, will welcome 785 pupils this year — up from last year’s total enrollment of 750. Freshmen began with a half day yesterday, Wednesday, Septem ber 1.
Dr. Jones, who has been with the Berkeley Heights school system for almost 30 years, stated that Governor Livingston was in the process of revising its curriculum to align with the New Jersey State Core Content Standards. The high school is also molding the former regional district curriculum into a format specifically for Berkeley Heights.
Dr. Jones also stated that for the upcoming school year, Governor Livingston received two grants to upgrade school equipment.
The first of these, a $15,000 grant received from Lucent Technologies, has been allocated to upgrade the school’s digital photography equipment for students taking Advanced Photography.
The grant has also funded “The Buddy Project,” a yearround offering for students taking Photography II in which participants take pictures of all facets of school life.
According to Mary Ann Kjectsaa, District Supervisor for Industrial Arts, World Languages and the Media Center in Berkeley Heights, the Lucent grant will be used to purchase two computers, software, scanners, printers and digital cameras for the project, which will depict “a day in the life of a student attending Governor Livingston High School.”
Mrs. Kjectsaa added that the photography program will include sharing the pictures via email with schools in Italy and Spain, as well as some other schools in New Jersey.
“The project will let students see what a typical day in their school looks like, as well as give them a chance to make a portfolio of their work,” stated Mrs. Kjectsaa.
She added that part of the project will involve students critiquing their own work in their portfolio and said the work will be displayed on the school’s web page, www. bhs. k12. NJ. US/.
The second grant is an Access 2000 matching grant from the state in the amount of $500 that will be used for computer software in the World Language Department.
Reflecting on other areas of high school life, Dr. Jones stated that many of the school’s sports teams were doing well because of increased enrollment in extra curricular athletic programs.
He noted that the Girls’ field hockey team, led by newlyappointed Head Coach Linda Allocco and newlyappointed Assistant Coach Allison Greene, had an enrollment of 47 students.
“I am optimistic that our athletic teams are going to do very well this year because of our increased enrollment, and am happy to see more students getting involved on our teams and therefore getting more involved in their school,” he said.
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