The Republican from Springfield, Massachusetts (2024)

July 10, 1990

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The Republicani

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Springfield, Massachusetts

Issue Date:

Tuesday, July 10, 1990

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45

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11 UNION NEWS TUESDAY JULY 10 1990 AG Riverside seeking to recoup funds from concerts By KEVIN CLAEY The president of Riverside Park in Agawam is seeking a federal order to freeze the proceeds of a concert that was moved by a New York City promoter to Springfield Symphony Hall from the' amuse ment park A petition from Edward Car roll Jr in US District Court Springfield asks the proceeds from a concert riday by Melissa Etheridge' and Del Amitri be Impounded until a breach of con tract lawsuit against James Koplik and Cross Country Con certs is decided A hearing is planned Thursday On June 26 Riverside Amuse ment Park filed a $25 million lawsuit against Cross Country Concerts and Koplik charging that they breached a contract by moving the Etheridge Del Amitri show and four others from the park to other locations Carroll in a four page affidavit filed in support of the petition charges that Koplik suggested that he the of Aga wam in an effort to cancel a con cert series because of reduced profits brought on by low ticket sales and high production costs Carroll said he refused suggestion and his affidavit states took steps to secure any necessary permit for the con struction of the stage and at the request of Cross Country con tacted Mountain Staging Corp Two days after sugges tion to Carroll the shows were moved by Cross Country because of uncertainty about allowing 8000 seats on the track" Carroll said there was no problem with Agawam officials The raceway has 7000 seats on the sides of the track but promot ers wanted to add 8000 more seats on the track The Agawam Building Depart ment had requested certified engi neering plans showing the exits for those seats but those plans were never presented In affidavit he noted the park has spent $86000 for improvements half of which was to be paid by Cross Country Car roll also said those attending con certs spend at least $3 each in the park depriving Riverside of $82 000 in revenue of the defendants has any assets subject to attachment or trustee process in the Common wealth of Massachusetts andor according to the peti tion is entitled to re coup the proceeds from the concerts held at other the park claimed in the lawsuit Shows moved from Riverside to Lake Compounce in Bristol Conn were the 52s with Ziggy Marley and the Melody Makers on June 26 The Radiators NRBQ and Max Creek last Thursday Bonnie Raitt the Jeff Healey Band and Charles on Aug 8 and the Allman Brothers Band on Sept 16 According to the affidavit Riv erside had discussed hosting a concert by Crosby Stills and Nash and at least one other unnamed group But because of the agree ment with Koplik and Cross Coun try the park booked no other major live musical concerts for the 1990 season except for the Budweiser Summer Concert Series The improvements outlined in affidavit are $39000 for paving $28000 for electrical work $12000 for wristbands $5 500 for relocation of a scoreboard and $1500 for removal of a utility pole Terms of the contract accord ing to the lawsuit called for Riv erside to receive 10 percent of the gross ticket receipts at least 15 percent of the net sales of pro grams shirts novelty items and other souvenirs as well as the en tire concession for food bever ages and parking Collamore proposes ethics plan A candidate for Hampden Coun ty register of probate yesterday said he would push for legislation that would curb the practice of elected registers engaging in pri vate real estate sales Springfield Democrat Robert Collamore in a campaign statement said his proposed legis lation would be aimed at incum bent Register John who in the past was involved in buying and selling estate prop erties recorded in his office could not be reached for comment Collamore compared his pro posed bill to a 1978 law that pro hibited district attorneys from practicing private law Collamore termed it both dy and for an elected official to engage in realestate sales" admitted in a 1988 Sunday Republican story that he had purchased renovated and re sold several estate properties that were first listed in his office A Although the practice is not pro hibited by law later said that he would give up real estate sales to avoid any appearance of conflict of interest A Among the duties is to keep the records of estates of de ceased persons of Hampden Coun ty who leave real property not in cluded in a Will i Collamore said he would seek to file legislation barring real estate sales by registers He said he would either file the bill himself as a private citizen or would have a local legislator file it for him Collamore and Wilbra ham Democrat Thomas Moriar ty are seeking the Democratic nomination as register in the Sept 18 primary with the winner to face Republican Roger rench next November Mulcahy pledges change A district attorney candidate yesterday pledged to have offend ers make restitution to victims and to have jail inmates do com munity service work Springfield Democrat Eugene Mulcahy said in a statement that jhe would make these an 'part of the criminal justice sys tem in Hampden The county is in theright by making jailinmates do community servicework when they near the ends of 'their sentences he said i Inmates being held at the Hol 'yoke National Guard armory re cently made news when they fixedthat potholes while YorkStreet jail inmates in Springfieldwork on a jail farm in Agawam and also help clean school building exteriors Mulcahy said offenders who to lead productive livesshould be given a chance to paysomething to their victims whilegaining self discipline and self re spect I time drug use offenders can be ordered to pay fines to help Support school drug education pro grams such as DARE (DrugAbuse Resistance Education) inaddition to whatever other sanctions may be statement said I He also believes inmates should their time to pay back taxpay ers who are paying for their room land board behind bars Mulcahy said many inmateslack job skills and employment re cords but those who performcommunity service work learn most basic skill of all ishowing up for work on time 'every TV JOB ourteen year old Erica rain of Chicopee waters the plants yesterday at public television station WGBY on Hampden Street in Springfield She is helping out at the maintenance depart ment over the summer HMRJ wl 1 i HIEBKt 1 Staff photo byDavid Molnar Salvadoran organizer calls lot of coffee workers a bitter cup olgers is the leading US label to use Salvadoran coffee and boycotters believe that if it stops using Salvadoran beans other companies will follow suit Kane said the boycott which has been endorsed in the United States by numerous polit ical and religious leaders and union officials has already begun to have an impact He told of a protest on the West Coast in ebruary in which long shoremen refused to unload a freighter of Salvadoran coffee date the effect of the boy cott has been said Kane who with other Salva doran Coffee Boycott Com mittee members hopes that local people and businesses will join the boycott The boycott committee is to met again July 26 to discuss strategies for increasing local participation in the boycott Committee member Michael Kane said that the boycott of Proctor and olgers Coffee was launched by Neigh bor to Neighbor a national numan ngnts ana aavocacy group as way to cut off the coffee profits that help to fund the war in El Salvador and to in crease public pressure to end US funding for the war Coffee revenues are a major source of Salvadoran military funding second only to US mil itary aid which totals more than a million dollars a day accord ing to organizers Coffee is a $400 million annu al cash crop in El Salvador and Attempts to improve living conditions in her country through unionization have been met with bloody opposition from the government said Menjivar who fled for her life from her native county in November are many examples of union she said majority of union workers know they may very well be killed but the majority goes forward to make El Salva tax revenues from the coffee dor a better place to industry total $250 million most Menjivar spoke last night at of which goes directly to the war St Episcopal Church as a effort Kane said guest of the Salvadoran Coffee need to send a message to Boycott Committee a recently the coffee oligarchy that numer formed coalition of consisting of ous individuals in the U'S are in area church and solidarity terested in seeing the war come groups to an Kane said moral financial or physical Rosa Maria Menjivar Labor organizer By GEORGE GRAHAM NORTHAMPTON A union LJ organizer from El Salvador last night spoke 7 Of the brutal As Salvadorans we need your support be it oppression enuureu oy woiKers in her country and urged local citizens to participate in a na tionwide boycott of olgers cof fee to protest the injustices Salvadorans we need your support be it moral financial or said Rosa Maria Menjivar through an interpret er Menjivar is an organizer for the National ederation of Sal vadoran Workers the largest labor organization in El Sal vador Easthampton hires company for spill cleanup By GEORGE GRAHAM EASTHAMPTON If the weather stays dry clean up offi cials hope to remove the North ampton Street chemical spill this morning things being equal and if the weather holds out it should be gone by tomorrow said Karl Kuehner owner of Southampton Sanitary Engi neering The company has been con tracted to remove the chemical that was the source of fumes that forced the evacuation of 15 to 20 Lyman Street residents riday and sent seven persons to area hospitals The seven were treated for nausea dizziness and eye irrita and then released Residents were allowed back into their homes late Saturday afternoon although police officials said yes terday that some had yet to re turn Irm'Jii' capped the drum riday and covered the im mediate area with plastic to pre vent more fumes from escaping Kuehner said yesterday that residents will be notified prior to the removal of the chemical which has been identified by Con Test of East Longmeadow as dich lorobenzene so they will be able to shut their windows ire officials said last night there were no plans to evacuate the area while the material is being removed a process that In District Court could take a few hours Dichlorobenzene is a constituent of cleaning fluid used on car engines and parts State Department of Environ mental Protection (DEP) officials police and firefighters and Board of Health officials were sum moned to the McCallum Har graves house 13 Northampton St' early riday evening after neighbors reported a strong chem ical odor After running tests the DEP traced the source of the fumes to a partially filled five gallon con tainer that had been stored inside a 30 gallon drum According to Lisa Jones an environmental engineer with the DEP the drum was knocked over during demolition work on a barn behind the building The owners of the property Thomas and David Boyle of Builders are teat ing down the barn and house to make room for a nine unit condo? minium complex Kuehner said that about twq gallons of the dichlorobenzene had penetrated into a 2 to 3 square? foot area of soil at the site According to Jones the short term effects of the fumes are not overly dangerous Soil testing does not indicate thd presence of any other chemicals in the area which has been cordoned off Kuehner said Cop impersonator given probation By DON EBBELING A six month probationary term was imposed in District Court yes terday on a Springfield man who posed as a police officer at the site of a traffic accident in eb ruary Judge George A Sheehy also assessed a $125 fine and $50 vic timwitness fee on Shandu Allen 19 of 126 Suffolk St for being a disorderly person Assistant District Attorney Joan Bannish told Sheehy that Allen greeted police officers at an acci dent on Main Street on eb 25 and flashed a badge saying he was a policeman and take care of 7 However officers double checked the badge and found that it was a security badge Allen cre ated a scene and was arrested for being disorderly and impersonat ing a police officer The court was not told if Allen was involved in the accident or why he was at the scene Albert Lanctot 31 of Main Street Agawam refused to accept concurrent two year House of Cor rection sentences on two counts of receiving stolen motor vehicles The case was marked for August hearing Assistant District Attorney Kelly Ryan Dilisio said police found two stolen cars parked in front of Agawam apart ment after investigating a stolen license plate incident in May of 1988 Defense attorney Edward Mul vaney asked for a lengthy sus pended sentence Lanctot was also found guilty on another count of receiving a stolen motor vehicle and received a sus pended 22 year House of Cor rection sentence and a victimwit ness fee of $25 Police arrested Lanctot in eb ruary of 1986 after he was seen with a car reported stolen earlier Sheehy ordered Ruben ig ueroa 36 of 73 Clayton St to per form 300 hours of community service on charges of drunken driving and driving an uninsured car He was also placed on proba tion for one year Police said a car driven June 11 by igueroa was seen making an illegal turn from Dickinson Street onto Sumner Avenue The vehicle was then seen driven erratically igueroa recorded a Breatha lyzer reading of 017 A reading of 010 or higher is considered a legal inference of guilt iled by Sheehy were related charges of making an illegal turn driving with nolicense or registra tion attaching plates and receiv ing stolen property license plates Defense attorney Nicholas Cafa relli said igueroa receives a monthly disability payment and would be unable to pay any fines or costs Luis Rivera 45 of 13 Edward St was placed on probation for one year and assessed court costs of $250 and victimwitness fee of $30 for drunken driving He was also ordered to attend the court alcohol education program Police said car was involved in a three car accident June 23 on Pearl Street His vehi cle was being operated on the wrong side of the divider on Pearl Street Rivera refused to take a Brea thalyzer test.

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