NJN News; Thursday April 9, 1998 [Master, Original]

a month after a fire destroyed or high school special needs students from westwood are back in class together with striking teachers in paterson and ordered back to work for rowan university will present program female aggressive motors hammers home the point drive is not a competitive sport teenagers at this event today and thursday in this region i'm committed to serving customers preventing the unions are in medicaid providing health care

services emmy award winning engineer news with mary landrieu has been a bank and has the light off it was a nightmare for both students and teachers that they'll never forget the high school burned to the ground but less than a month after community high in westwood was destroyed by fire the school reopened today in a new location community hires a private school for children with learning disabilities but on this first day of class student show their ability to pull together rich young was there our staff is the first day of classes of the new community police

control uncertainty and uneasiness but also lots of smiles from those happy to assume our friends in enjoy with teachers american school yes alive because india's away yesterday in class and rains of my education the school's former location was destroyed in a blaze last month after a student allegedly set fire to a bath or fortunately no one was injured but students were left without a place to learn today one hundred thirty four young men and women were welcomed to their new temporary home on pollution college campus and rather firm for any school to be able to move even under normal circumstances he's an incredible feat and for us to do this in four weeks was just an unbelievable man of work in and we did it ourselves the new school does not have a lot of materials only five or fifty computer savant he won't rule they are shared with other classes of their notebooks were alive or what remains a tremendous spirit to sixty

days about massive that they seem to be ratcheted back and adolescents that the feelings that i went to know i've always had the best thing about school as a teacher the great part about this building is that its spacious was recently renovated was available for occupancy a less than a month the bear parker wishing college has its own plans for the building next year so this school has to vacate by june and once again find a totally new location after june thirtieth we don't have a place to be outsourced to looking for something for september thousands to rescue from all over north jersey in your city who remain in the area another group will be expensive and school facing a shortfall in funding they're asking the public for help richard injury and use rather it's a county judges ordered striking school employees in patterson back to work on monday weather twenty four hundred teachers secretaries and security personnel are on the picket lines again today schools were open but at kennedy high school students sign in there were some point

during this morning judge ramos saunders ruled that the strike illegal and he ordered any order the teachers back to the classrooms union says it can't guarantee its members will comply with the order teachers in the state drawn district have been without a contract since last july war talks are scheduled for sunday by aggressive drivers beware other motorists are watching and reporting you according to the state attorney general's office police have written more than fifty three thousand tickets says the aggressive driver enforcement program went into effect in six counties last april the hotline is also receive more than fifteen thousand calls reporting suspected violators and traffic fatalities in the six counties have decreased by eighteen percent today i remind aggressive drivers in new jersey that we demand responsibility on our roads i will not mince words if you are an aggressive driver chances are you'll be

stopped to get it and find them under the program offices target motorists of speed tailgate and cut off other drivers a hotline number is one eighty eighty eight as a half are all add say throw or palm seven seven when the soulful health officials are warning residents who live near the patterson chemical plant that exploded last night not to touch the yellow stuff that spewed from the site nine workers were injured in the blasts bath and fire warden chemical two are in serious condition with burns fire officials say plant employees were mixing chemicals when the explosion occurred the status of the us occupational safety and safety health and safety administration are on the same day this is one of the holiest shrines in the year christians celebrate easter jews passover and for muslims it's the highest the annual pilgrimage to mecca and it's really just time in another way to bring the past few years actress of observed a clear trend of more people searching for

spiritual meaning tonight we have two reports on this new wave of spirituality beginning with marine des moines the churches and synagogues may not be any more crowded in fact a recent poll finds only thirty nine percent of people in this country go to church or synagogue in any given week but many observers believe lately the world has become only replace your books movies and a proliferation of icons are people desperately seeking spirituality priests and religious scholars see a trend there seemed to be a move from indifference to curiosity in a lot of cases and that people are searching for something and are coming to the church looking for answers people are saying i want something in my life besides simply success money position power there has to be more to it than that and so they turned to the spiritual dimension theological student dave miller was an investment banker on the fast track but when spiritual like that didn't he answered came through my my pro life my devotion alive to sound so for some strange reason i was

being called were portland and into the new direction but many of today's soul searchers are not necessarily finding their way with in houses of worship or within organized religion you have anywhere for new wage to roman catholic as spiritual formation movements in the protestant church which is playing catch up that society it away is looking for something more different than what traditional religion has offered i know if there's a kid in the corner of political ocean trillion different odors church and religious leaders see one thing in today's renewed interest in matters of the spirit opportunity so when all of those so called easter sunday catholics and christians file in to worship this week and their challenge is to find a way to capture the minds and hearts to feed his spiritual hunger and keep them coming back reading lawyer and genius marianne that quest for spirituality for guidance from a higher power begins during

adolescence in the teen years some turn away from organized religious observance would still seeking meaning in their lives through spirituality they enjoy the freedom of being able to express the connection even though they may be catholic my family heritage teenagers have their own idea of what it means to be catholic for this generation the experience of god is much more personal for young catholics in the st joseph harrison got it as their best friends now instead of saying no traditional prairie of satire business and it just brings unlikely setting realistic and break down the stereotypes in any challenging now another legendary amount of sheer granite mixing iran they like iraq almost all of the seniors at st josephs high school have intently explore their faith on a three and a half day retreat they use the time to find out what spirituality means to

them instead of what others tell that it should mean is rosa what the real message is an annoying you or a church or a summons or even beyond that he wanted status gone churches jerry slowly they will make a mistake marianne mccune npr news comes at her stay with us coming up on a good news in health watch healing fractures will tell you about a new way to speed the process and democrats in essex county manager says right now their efforts to regain the county executive school systems the point as we first reported

last night to down the candidates for the powerful essex county executive job have joined forces county free older president joe di vincenzo is abandoning his bid in backing former newark mayor can get so so this morning essex county democrats gathered for a unity breakfast mr michael aaron was on hand so was the quarterback of the old world football league you know how to throw passed away since nineteen eighty six and it continued right through nineteen and that way we can win this race in november is binding united decision mayor and to work for sixteen years andrea says suddenly vincenzo have been locked in a month long struggle for the right to stand against republican essex

county executive jim trap and you're in november it was thought they'd fight it out all the way to the june primary analysts say last weekend's of the vessels that would be the stronger candidate against the consensus i mean in the convention so i was alerted and many party leaders came out to celebrate all the assets democrats plus jim mcgreevey michael murphy tom firm understand castro and menendez they want control of the county in democratic hands again for the big elections of ninety nine two thousand and two thousand one cent events and so for his sword for the sake of his friends it was based on stay human services commissioner william

walton will retire from his cabinet position in july provide social services runs state psychiatric hospitals and administers welfare waldman has led the state's largest agencies since nineteen eighty two he leaves to become executive director of the american public welfare association a nonprofit group which provides legislative and technical assistance to human service agencies across the country meanwhile rowan university is welcoming a new president fifty six year old tunnels they're out of the school community a former provost and vice president for academic affairs at sonoma state university in california becomes zero and sixteen in tonight's health watch watch sticks and stones may break your bones and a broken away can keep him sidelined from arts but its all the medical correspondence early tesla reports there's a new way to speed the healing process involves ultrasound this week we lay the shield see you or feel you don't hear this is the latest an ultrasound device that

delivers low intensity stimulation to fractures this scowl on construction worker broke his right leg two years ago you fell off a roof and basically through the compound fracture my both labels when the screws bolts and ride inches is les failed to heal the fractures completely his daughter turned to ultrasound and a new device manufactured by oxygen of middlesex county medical supply company received at the joint surface is again powell to the ground dr cramton parents who chairs you wendy and jay's orthopedics department says daley twenty minute ultrasound sessions speed the healing process initially it may increase in growth also small blood vessels later on he also helps is affordable to put far more calcium you're trying to get the cells to start

doing what they're not doing well in a fresh rack of course try to make him do it faster recent studies published in the journal of bone and joint surgery showed that ultrasound therapy accelerates bone healing by thirty eight percent of the overall healing rate is ninety three percent he is a lox now on rahm i was quite mystified as to how it really good work frankly porno in the end of the four months that work this device isn't widely available yet but some day it may become part of the standard regimen in fixing compound fractures certainly kessler enchant news new york up next a look at the day's business jersey's attorney general promises to go after big tobacco built in washington settlement is reached and sharpen your sweet tooth over the place the easter bunny shops boutiques this it's

been the push back it denies new jersey visits to the pending merger of course dates and forced union as another hurdle to clear pennsylvania's attorney general has set preconditions that first union must agree to before his office will sign off on the deal first you you must've asked some assets to prevent it from having a stranglehold on parts of the banking market it must extend affordable banking services to the poor and elderly and the attorney general of pennsylvania want a

sign promises that will get their first unit will land in poorer neighborhoods elsewhere the banking industry valley national stockholders are are generally happy lot of banks holding companies dating or meeting today chairman gerry lookin announced record fiscal first quarter earnings of twenty three point three million dollars and eleven percent increase over the same period last year valley national also to clarify for stock split and raised its regular dividend to stockholders censorship a day after an historic settlement or in tobacco companies and state attorney generals across the nation was scuttled new jersey's top cop says he'll see the big tobacco in court if necessary we have always been preparing for trial even when we negotiated along with the forty states or to the national agreement last year we are we're proceeding on two tracks both the national settlement and preparing for our own case in new jersey so that will go forward major tobacco company executives yesterday bailed out of the nationwide settlement after members of congress or the administration sought more in damages from the industry meanwhile

the us department of health and human services has launched a new ad campaign to discourage teen smoking today the secretary of that the part was in monmouth county talking to high school students about efforts to rein in tobacco companies the president wants to work with congress to write a comprehensive bill that stops the tobacco industry targeting all of you trying to entice you in this new federal study shows overall smoking problems among teens is on the rise starts got a bounce today they'd won after two days of declines the dow average soared one hundred three and a third points to close at eighty nine it for love the imax rose three and chains of nasdaq composite had thirteen guest be five hundred gained nine bombs and a slightly higher the thirty years you've added nearly a quarter point in price and you nearly unchanged stock and bond markets are closed tomorrow for the friday this is the hand across campus court in paramus store has been filled with customers all week in search of easter goodies the big seller

chocolate bunnies course the cross family says they'll sell among eleven thousand chocolate bunnies this easter season may say some customers spend as much as five hundred dollars other homemade easter talk to gerry or chocolate sports as well will take more stunts in the continent as and he's i'm very i guess the funders must remain on

and like is that we have fundamental angst a recent minor league baseball after getting off at the get off to a good start to the season with a win last night trayvon was back at it today this afternoon but only for seven innings that one play was suspended for rain trodden was trailing north for three in the seventh inning play was stopped in will be completed until labor day children has officially off to anyone an all star to the very new season changing gears again if you ever use the phrase i'm too old for that you may want to get in the line because there's a coach in moorestown with whom that phrase just won't fly morning duffy has more there have been here since nineteen forty nine mapped the field not the game but the coach this is the thomas bailey as mrs t at six years young she got his freshman field hockey lacrosse was town high school record this season misses two years have taken on a committee ninth graders i don't think you need to motivate you needed calm

them down that's the mouth pay attention that's all i say no practice time you're going to pay attention and have for years <unk> he could swim into along with her husband now both were all americans in college he in baseball and football she and field hockey women sports have changed since then people didn't recognize him you found very few parents coming to basketball games for example not very many came for hockey closely and understand it but when you can't plan and that's a good thing she says we're going to have success their failures and you're gonna have to be tough in other words i think and i think for it helps in june you can get their feelings to say coach thomas inspires her athletes because of our age would be too simple because she is the motivating young women from was fifty years now many are athletes say she doesn't call your she convinces you that you can compete and succeed cbs has a thirty one twenty one set in a lot of places they're like oh that's the town is where you can see zach ertz so when wilma city hangout for sneakers when you know when a girl

comes up and says i used to coat your grandmother i think that it's time to stop period no more i don't want to let any way with a delay with the game it's going to be empty unused morristown six what's on tap for this weekend millions of messages and when rain didn't quickly you will philip lee for a little while but they did vp of the play and the way that they live and tied to one of the winter is wreaking havoc on a lot of players and the tigers in this one night live performer and won't love me one last year believes he's right ok jerry thanks that thunder game we show you that was rained out might have been an omen wet windy an overall very fastest a tailor so there was a bright spot these four cities along route to ninety five in burlington county remind us all that april showers bring

may flowers the pollution watch for tomorrow most interstate could see color green or good there should see that is gold reader conditions here's a forecast in the northern part of the state a light rain possibly heavy at times blows in the upper thirties tomorrow mostly sunny height around fifty the southern part of the state tonight rainbows in the thirties tamara mostly sunny heists in the fifties well it isn't exactly the way it wanted to start its twenty fifth year but even the weather couldn't dampen the mood at six flags great adventure theme park has dubbed this season the ultimate thrill ride shows in the drive thru safari park is trying to capture the extreme i can even imagine is but that's the news for a very strict and jerry and all the rest of the npr news team a wonderful weekend the holiday can

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