PETA demonstration; Biker memorial; Bridge reopened

Young people demonstrated in front of McDonald's Friday afternoon.

Plainfield's downtown McDonald's was the site of a PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) demonstration Friday afternoon. The group of young people, who did not seem to be from Plainfield (I spotted a sweatshirt from the now-defunct Paterson Catholic High), held their placards protesting the treatment of chickens used in McDonald's products aloft as passersby honked their horns.

Friends created an impromptu memorial for biker Dosycar Carter Friday afternoon.

Word of the death of motorcyclist Dosycar Carter led his friends to set up an impromptu memorial at the site of the accident. Carter died from injuries sustained after he crashed into a vehicle attempting to turn onto West Front Street from Melrose Avenue after a large motorcycle rally in Plainfield last weekend.

Rebuilt Sycamore Avenue bridge was open to vehicular traffic Friday.

The rebuilt Sycamore Avenue bridge was opened to traffic on Friday, without notice or ceremony, giving folks once again the handy shortcut to Route 22 that avoids the busiest streets. The project, begun last summer, dragged on for months with no activity over the winter. Somerset County was responsible for the work. (Union County, which is responsible for the bridges EAST of Park Avenue, finished the Sandford Avenue bridge project in a far shorter time -- starting later, and ending before the winter season.)

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-- Dan Damon [follow]

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