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I Is Sun-Sentinel Monday, Oct. 29, 1984 cz HH9B "1 Oktoberfest leaves neighborhood divided By Rebecca Theim Suff Writer LANTANA The bands are headed Iback to Germany, the merrymakers have deserted the circus tent and the last keg of -beer has been drunk at this year's American-German Club's Oktoberfest. The club's festivities may have ended, but a neighborhood controversy continues. "It's terrible we can't get in and we can't get out," said Harvey Fountain, a four-year resident of 52nd Drive, the same road the club is on. "It's like conducting a football Superbowl, with all of the people coming in on one road." But Sherman Tarr, a resident of the 5600 block of Oldsmobile Drive, about 2,000 feet from the club, disagrees.

"I am for it 1,000 percent," Tarr said. "We have parties and get-togethers, so why can't they?" Fountain and Tarr represent the two extremes of a neighborhood conflict that has existed virtually as long as the Oktoberfest itself. The six-day festival has become a tradition in the community, since it opened as a one-weekend event in 1973. In 11 years, the crowd has grown from 2,500 to more than dition that should never move from the club's grounds. "It's only two weekends a year and it's the biggest thing in the area," said Pat Zaccheo, a resident of the 5400 block of Thunderbird Drive, the first road west of the club.

"How can you get that upset over something that lasts only a few days a year?" But residents opposed to holding the fest at the club grounds feel they have a reason to be upset. "They've violated every single zoning ordinance governing the property," said Robert Ackerman, a resident of West Lan- 65,000 people joining in the beer-drinking, merrymaking and the general gemutlich-keit German for "cordiality, friendliness" that dominate the festivities. And the thousands of people drive thousands of cars, drink thousands of gallons of beer and listen to thousands of bars of authentic, resonant German music. The crowds, loud music and traffic are more than the neighborhood should have to bear, according to some residents. They feel the festival has outgrown its grounds and should be moved from the residential area where the club itself is located.

Others say it's a neighborhood tra tana Road, about 1,000 feet from the festival site. "You simply can't have such a small piece of property and throw such an enormous event." "The facilities are inadequate for the tens of thousands of people who attend every year," said Nancy Davis, a resident of the 5600 block of South 52nd Drive. "The American-German Club has had it in its power to do a lot of things to lessen the impact on the neighborhood, but they seem not to care to spend some of all that money they make with the Oktoberfest to help the neighborhood." Please see NEIGHBORS, page 14 Center -Inside? News turning youths around i v- i NT V. AM i Neighbors rally to block landfill An angry Dieter Heuser stands between a cream-colored Mercedes and a shiny Oldsmobile parked in the garage of his $250,000 home. He's thinking about the mammoth trash dump the Palm Beach County Solid Waste Authority wants to build a mile away.

"What'll happen?" said Heuser, 52 and the owner of Mima a packaging business. "It'll increase traffic. Probably it will deflate the value of the houses and it'll smell." His wife agrees. "We believe this is quite an exclusive area," said Marlene Heuser, 51. "It's an outrage to even think of putting a dump site here." Story page 2 Planned mall faces uphill battle The vacant, 26 acres situated at the edge of a residential neighborhood on Boca Raton's southeast end will become a shopping center if a Miami-based development firm has its way.

The Planned Development after several months delay, is going ahead with the $20 million project, and today will present the mall plan to the Community Redevelopment Agency. Story page 7 People Entertainment "Stairii-uTWcHdUs "Von staden From left, Maureen Scheiwe, Nancy Brown, Sue Dibler, Gert Pedersen and Herman Wanner exercise as Responsibility comes with job 7 1 The gray hairs started ap- 1 pearing last year and are I not a result of his new job, 0DD said Edward G. Hillery, police chief of Boynton tseacn since uci. is. Kina A.

of like them," Hillery said. "For a while there I thought I was going to spend my whole career in I. I David Gibson Suff Writer BOYNTON BEACH From around the area and across the state they come to the house on Northeast 19th Avenue. The house is a temporary home for up to eight boys who have been sent there by juvenile courts for offenses that would have sent them to jail if they were 18. "You name it, they've done it," said Carla C.

Tinstman, group home supervisor for the state's Department of Health and Rehabilitative Services. "But their crimes are irrelevant to us," Tinstman said. "They come here after being treated like garbage; they feel like garbage; and sometimes they act like garbage. "We try to turn around the negativity and give them some strength to deal with the situation they left when they return home." Residents at the Palm Beach Group Home Treatment Center stay an average of six months before being released and returned to their homes, Tinstman said. Staffers and volunteers try to provide an environment of love, structure and discipline for their charges to help keep them out of trouble after they are released.

Tinstman said the home enjoys good relations with its neighbors in the community. Boynton Beach City Manager Peter Cheney said the city has not received any complaints about problems caused by the boys in "about four or five years. And those were quickly taken of." A neighbor said her biggest problem with the home being nearby is that sometimes the boys use offensive language and she is concerned about the effect it might have on her young son. Now, Tinstman is seeking volunteers to work with the boys and serve as role models and activity directors. "I would like for them to be able to go camping and canoeing, and things like that," she said.

"That's where we need help the most." A big part of the program is making sure the boys engage in plenty of good, clean fun. "Our feeling is they should have fun," Tinstman said. "When they're having fun, they feel better about themselves." But they are not looking for all play and no work. "We would also like for them to put something back into the community," she said. She said they are looking for ideas on community projects to which the boys could donate their services.

They are also looking for odd jobs or other work the boys could do to earn money. Now they collect and Please see HOME, page 15 vice LJtrud use a au Hillery young." Hillery, 44, a 22- year police veteran and a 14-year member of the city department, was picked by the City Council to succeed William Hamilton, who retired to enter law school. His appointment as chief caps a career-long goal to head a department, he said, and now he is realizing the difference between being the chief and being one of the officers. "The difference is the realization you have the ultimate responsibility. Before, you shared in that responsibility, but now you have the whole ball of wax," he said.

Story page 9 Mimes integrate mind and body By Rich Pollack Suff Writer The room is quiet except for the soft sound of 10 feet scurrying across a linoleum floor. Suddenly there is a flash of fluorescent overhead lights, and five people wearing white faces and black clothing enter a world of slow motion and total silence. Several minutes later, the five mimes, perched on chairs, stand motionless. The "statue" exercise is one of several practiced during a two-hour session of the Gold Coast Mime Workshop. The workshop, held Tuesday nights at the Boca Raton Community Center, is presided over by Jude Parry, a 34-year-old professional mime who trained for several years in London and Czechoslovakia.

Parry, one of the driving forces behind the Gold Coast Mimes, started the sessions in early October as a response to what she believes is a growing interest in the specialized art form. "There isn't a mime class in all of South Florida," Parry said with a British accent. "Now I think demand is growing." Mime, Parry said, is an alternative to other forms of performance, which spells out ideas and themes in specific detail. "It seems to me to be the art form that offers the most scope for the imagination," she said. "It's one of the most exciting things I've done in years," said Maureen Scheiwe, who has been with the Gold Coast Mimes for about a year.

"It's integrating the mind and body and raising it to a level of art." The three other students, Sue Dibler, Nancy Brown and Herman Wanner, all have been clowns and have enrolled in the Please see MIMES, page 15 Sports Recreation 4 Students focus on mind, body Visions of Bruce Lee or David Carradine kicking and punching opponents into submission is a popular conception of the martial arts. Violence is emphasized, while positive aspects are neglected. John Artemik, director of the Martial Arts Academy in Lake Worth, does not share this view. He always stresses the positive and offers a bushido karate course designed to help students do the same. It seems to be working for several Lake Worth residents.

Story page 12 Police report Names faces. 6 Business 8 11 Standings 13 Maureen Scheiwe applies makeup before show. Veteran waitresses hope closing won't end careers "1 rn 1 it 4 1 ft if-. when I heard the definite news, it hit me like a rock. "There are so many good memories here, I don't want to leave." No matter which restaurant branch Jessie hooks up with, she will probably still wear her pin that announces in bright colors "Pumpkin Pie 99 cents." Dot, 66, who describes herself as a counter girl, wears her badge as if it were a military decoration.

"29 years." it reads, describing the number of years she has been proudly serving Walgreen's malts and hamburgers Dot and Jessie are a team. They'll try to stick together through the move, but if they can't, they'll grin and bear it, they said. Occasionally, they've crashed into each other with milk shakes or spilled a glass of water on a customer, but it's all part of the routine they've grown accustomed to over the decades. "Oh, sure, we have our ups and downs, but that's what life is all about, right, honey?" said Jessie "Mmmhmm," said Dot, adjusting her pointy-cornered glasses. They have seen many changes in the downtown area from within the walls and windows of the restaurant and store.

They believe that when the Palm Beach Mall opened in 1967, dowr-town started falling apart. "All the big stores left and evryone shops out there now," Dot said "It's been tough at times, but I wouldn't change it for nothing," Jessie said. By Maria Goodavage Suff Writer WEST PALM BEACH Jessie Bamett, 71, has a way with policemen. Call it motherly, call it military, they eat it up like the food she's been serving them for the last 33 years at the Walgreen on 225 Clematis St "WelL well what're you doing draggin' up the rear? You should've been here with the rest of the officers, baby. Well, what do you want, honey, the regular? Speak up, I can't hear you." Neither Jessie nor co-worker Dot Carvahlo, a veteran of the Walgreen for 29 years, will be dishing out french fries or advice in the restaurant after December.

The facilities, which have been sold, are old and not quite up to Walgreen standards, according to Walgreen's corporate officials in Illinois. So the store and restaurant will be closed by the end of the year. The place is so old that some of the shelving and fixtures will be used in an exhibit called "Yesterday's Main Street" in Chicago's Museum of Science and Industry. Walgreen officials in Illinois said they thought the store was 55 years old. but local Walgreen managers said the store opened 47 years ago.

Either way, Jessie and Dot have been here for manv of those years, and they don't want to see it close. "We had heard that this store might close down, but 1 never really thought it would actually happen," Jessie said. "Then Staff pMt PHIL SUNN Kit Dot Carvahlo, left, and Jessie Bamett serve ap food and advice at Walgreen's. 1.