May 14, 2014 • www.theobserver.com • Vol CXXVI, No. 51
COVERING: BELLEVILLE • BLOOMFIELD
‘Can’-do spirit aids pantries
• EAST NEWARK • HARRISON • KEARNY • LYNDHURST • NORTH ARLINGTON • NUTLEY
No language barrier
By Ron Leir Observer Correspondent KEARNY – Six area food pantries are the beneficiaries of this year’s Kearny High School Canstruction project, dividing up more than 28,000 cans containing a variety of fruits and vegetables. That haul, collected with the help of community donations fundraised by a team led by indefatigable volunteer Paul Rogers, topped last year’s total by about 8,000 cans, according to KHS business teacher Melody LaRossa, who helped coordinate this year’s effort. LaRossa and science instructor Chuck Polk co-advise the KHS Engineering Club whose members assembled several colossal structures made entirely out of full cans of food to heighten awareness of world hunger. Since the charity Canstruction was founded in 1992 as a means of providing some measure of hunger relief, projects like Kearny’s have helped raise more than 25 million pounds of food in North and South America, Australia, Europe and Asia, according to the Canstruction website. The cans collected by Kearny volunteers – making the third straight year the high school has participated – were distributed among pantries see CANSTRUCTION page
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Photo courtesy Ana Placencia
Members of the Peruvian Civic Association with KFD Chief Inspector John Donovan and Firefighter Juan Barroso.
By Karen Zautyk Observer Correspondent KEARNY – “Permanezca en la cocina mientras esta friendo o coci-
nando con aceite o grasa.” Despite our high school Spanish, we do not know what that means. (And we apologize for our ignorance.) However, it is certain that
more than a few Kearny residents understand it completely. As the demographics of the town have changed, there is an increasingly bilingual
aspect to the town. But for some Kearnyites, especially newcomers, Spanish is the primary language, which can see FIRE SAFETY page
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Trial date for Kearny’s Leadbeater By Ron Leir Observer Correspondent
mortgage fraud enterprise. Leadbeater’s Jersey City attorney Thomas Cammarata told The Observer last week KEARNY – that the federal government John Leadbeater, a former has assigned a trial date of Kearny Town Councilman Dec. 1 for his client. and a current member of the A federal indictment unBoard of Education, will be gosealed March 22, 2013, charges ing on trial later this year for his alleged role in a $13 million Leadbeater, 54, of Kearny,
and Daniel Cardillo, 49, of Wildwood, with conspiracy to commit wire fraud. Leadbeater is additionally charged with conspiracy to commit money laundering. Cammarata said that his client is innocent of the charges and expects to demonstrate that the accusations are false
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during the trial which will take place in Camden Federal Court. The U.S. Attorney’s Office will set out to prove that Leadbeater and Cardillo were involved in a scheme that used fake documents and “straw see LEADBEATER page
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