Times Observer (Newspaper) - February 27, 2007, Warren, Pennsylvania Serving All Of Warren County Barn burner B1 HMES OBSERVER Highest honor A5 18 Pages TUESDAY FEBRUARY 27 2007 500 Allday K proving difficult Schools panel grapples with cost logistics of allday kindergarten By CHUCK HAYES Times Observer Staff Writer Allday kindergarten may be on the way for the Warren County School Dis School teachers turned out in force Monday night to make the case for all day kindergarten to the school boards Curriculum Instruction and Technology Committee In the end committee member Jeff Lockett said I know the people of Warren County want this for their kids but their pockets are not Committee chairman Dr Jack Mar tin said If its the right thing to do those here by the way I think it is its up to the board to come up with the The committee authorized the ad ministration to report the options and consequences of establishing allday kindergarten before the committees March meeting At Martins suggestion the administration will also look at the possibility of phasing in allday kinder garten over a period rather Next Curriculum Instruction and Technology Committ tee meeting Q following the Physical Plant arid Facilities Committee meeting Monday March 26 Q Sheffield Area High School than making it next year A half dozen teachers addressed the benefits of as opposed to half day kindergarten Sue Kibbey who has taught kinder garten for 32 years told the committee The benefits are Any teacher will tell you that three hours a clay is not enough said Kibbey Kibbey said Theres nothing bad to be said about At Youngsville School where there has been a pilot program for allday kindergarten ad ministrator Dr Karen Pasqual said stu dents who attended allday kindergarten outscored other students on both the math and reading portions of the tests The majority of parents we have talked to are in support of allday said Pasqual But allday kindergarten will require See ALLDAY Fountain douses downtown Water company repairs line break By BRIAN FERRY Staff Writer Downtown Warren had a new spectacular fountain on display Monday Damage to water service lines created a muddy mess Monday morning in front of Allegheny Book Mart on Second Avenue near the junction with Pennsylvania Avenue Repair work was finished around 1 according to Phil Cynar Pennsylvania American Water communi cations and corporate responsibility specialist We have made the necessary But for a while the disruption fired occasional streams of water into the air higher than the buildings adjacent to the break The block of Second Avenue between Liberty Street and Pennsylvania Avenue was closed from about See DOUSES liii pi I ii Times Observer photos by Brian Ferry A crew from the Pennsylvania American Water Compa ny works to repair a broken water line on Second Avenue in Warren Monday morning Two die in crash on Rt 6 Police say snow slush contributed to fatal accident By VICTORIA BARONE Staff Writer Two Corry residents died as a result of in juries received in a collision on Rt 6 in Freehold Township on Monday morning According to state police Diana M Lewis E Main Corry and Richard Glen Wilcox 58 18306 S Main Corry were pronounced dead by Warren County Deputy Corner James Hig gins at the scene of the accident which occurred approximately one mile east of Sears Hill cause of death for both Lewis and Wilcox was noted as blunt force trauma to the head and chest Police said Lewis was driving west on Rt 6 when she lost control of her car on the roadway while ne a curve in the road According to police her car crossed the centerline and en tered the path of an eastbound vehicle driv See CRASH facility master plan reviewed By EMILY WHITAKER Staff Writer Next FDA food inspections languish As food recalls grab headlines inspections cut in half Plant M les Committee WASHINGTON AP The fed eral agency thats been front and cen ter in warning the public about taint ed spinach and contaminated peanut butter is conducting just half the food safety inspections it did three years ago The cuts by the Food and Drug Administration come despite a bar rage of food recalls We have a food safety crisis on the said Michael Doyle di rector of the Center for Food Safety at the University of Georgia Between 2003 and 2006 FDA food safety inspections dropped 47 percent according to a database analysis of federal records by The As Press Thats not all thats dropping at the FDA in terms of food safety The analysis also shows are 12 percent fewer FDA employees in field offices who concentrate on food issues tests for food have dropped nearly 75 percent from in 2003 to last year according to the own statis tics After the Sept 11 attacks the FDA at the urging of Congress in creased the number of food tors and inspections amid fears that See FOOD O 6Qp Monday March 26 Q Area The Warren County School Districts Physical Plant and Facilities Committee moved one step closer to creating a long range facili ties master plan at its meeting held Mon day night at Youngsville E 1 e m e n School Under the direction of Paul Zippel a consultant with Studio Z Architects of Pittsburgh the committee will undergo five proposed meet ings throughout the next few months to pri its facility needs My role is to be a said Zippel not a At the first of its meetings Zippel re viewed studies previously conducted by the See Index Classified Comics B4 Community Life Local News A3 Obituaries A2 On the Money B6 Public Notices C4 Sports Deaths Archie K Campbell 83 Jacksonville Fla Legislative reforms pass Pa house A3 This newspaper and its contents are protected by the copyright laws ol the United States Vol 41 No 201 Thanks For Subscribing To The Times Observer Robert Beckwith