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VOL. 9 N O . 17 Second Class Postage has been paid at Farmingdale, N. Y. 11735 • Published by THE OBSERVER, INC., Box 146, Farmingdale, N. Y. Thursday, D e c e m b e r 16, 1 9 71
Lions Fete
Draws Closer
How often will a Farmingdale
resident have a chance to
clebrate such an important event
as the Nassau county cham­pionship
in Football? If one
listens to the coaches and
players, then this event will be an
annual affair from no on. But one
never knows, does one?
Let's be on the safe side and
figure that a county cham­pionship
does not become an
automatic Farmingdale domain
and, just maybe, could be won by
other teams in the county. In this
case, nobody who is a football
afficionado can afford to miss
Farmingdale's own victory
celebration on January 13, when
the Football Banquet will be held
at the Huntington Town House.
Tickets can be ordered from Ray
Kienc"- j at the Specialty Print
Shop, 477 Main Street, Tel.: 249 -
0337 or 249 - 4699, from Bob White,
Tel.: 694 - 3738 or from any
member of the Farmingdale
High School Football Dinner
Committee.
Tom Baldwin Elected
New Hawk President
No sooner has one football
season ended, than thoughts are
aimed already at the next one.
For the governing body of the
Hawks, the Farmingdale Midget
Football Assn. this means the
election of new officers, which
took place last Thursday, with
the following results: President
Tom Baldwin; Exec. Vice Pres.
Al Duranti; 1st Vice President,
Special Events Tom Ahrens; 1st
Vice President Purchasing
Frank Ambrosio; 1st Vice
President, Field & Safety Jim
Veccia; Recording Secretary Al
Rehwinkel; Correspond. Secret.
Merle Steiner; Treasurer Jack
McClorey.
Dates to remember for the
Hawks are January 9, the day of
the annual Awards Dinner, held
at the Four Seasons Country
Club, and January 13, when the
championship football team of
Farmingdale High is honored at
the Town House in Huntington.
A sad note was the news that
little Mary Baldwin, daughter of
just elected president Tom
Baldwin, is seriously ill
BUSY SANTA: Right now is Santa's busiest season. So busy in fact that he
needs hundreds of substitutes to sit in for him at countless places in stores and on
the streets. The children are fascinated by the jolly one each year all over again
and they file by him in a never ending flow whispering their wishes and con­vinced
that Santa will take care of them. Ah, to be young again...
Photo: Jack Pokress
Shopping Mall Plan Is Almost Ready
There are at least two more
people in Farmingdale who
believe that the idea of a shop­ping
mall in Farmingdale is not
so crazy, after all. In response to
the OBSERVER'S editorial of
last week, which broached the
question of such a mall for Main
Street, Messrs. Barbera and
James, of Barbera & James
Associates, Planners and
Designers, seconded our motion.
More than that: They, too, had
given considerable thought to the
problem of keeping the business
district of Farmingdale, which
primarily is Main Street, healthy
and vital. And also came up with
the idea of a mall Apparently
long before us, because, as Mr.
Joseph Barbera informed us, a
graphic presentation will be
ready for public unveiling in
about a month.
This presentation, for which
information was accumulated for
about one year, is to be presented
to the Village Board of Trustees,
which shortly will be asked for an
appointment.
Mr. Barbera expressed the
hope that this in turn will lead to a
public discussion, involving not
only the village government, but
all segments of the community.
Here are some of the ideas and
proposed solutions to existing
problems, as outlined by Mr.
Barbera:
1. To increase the capacity of
the present parking areas, I
propose decked parking in
existing areas.
2. To ease traffic congestion
and truck deliveries, institute one
way streets in the village area,
with special delivery routes for
trucks.
3. Building a more modern
town hall, with police and fire
stations incorporated, on the site
presently occupied by Main
Street school.
4. Close Main Street between
South Front Street and just north
of Grant Street for a tree lined
pedestrian mall.
Once More:
When to Park
And When
This year's last meeting of the
Farmindale Village Board of
Trustees dealt once more with
the question of the new alternate
side parking rule on Main Street
vs. the old regulation, which
permitted parking on both sides
of the street.
Mrs. Nancy Gillies presented to
the Village Board the results of a
canvass of shoppers on Main
Street, who were asked their
opinion on the alternate side
parking rule. The canvass was
conducted by the Farmindale
Women's Club and showed that of
76 shoppers questioned, 58 were
in favor of the new alternate side
of the street parking rule, 15 were
opposed to it, and 3 had no opinion
one way or the other. An ad­ditional
survey of 11 members of
the Women's Club indicated that
all of them favored the new rule.
Mayor John Hallahan thanked
Mrs. Gillies and her ladies for
their effort in trying to shed
additional light on this issue,
which in another month or ae is
up for official airing by the
Village Board in line with its
promise to review the parking
situation after expiration of the
six month test period.
While handing out com­pliments,
Mayor Hallahan had
one for Public Works Superin­tendent
Newman and his staff.
The leaf- pick up program of Mr.
Newman's department had
elicited so many favorable
comments from the village's
residents, that the mayor felt
dutybound to pass this praise on
to Mr. Newman and his men, and
toaddsome more of his own.
A public hearing was held for
the purpose of considering an
amendment to article II of the
zoning ordinance by adding a new
section, to be called section 119 A.
Since no one appeared in op­position
to this proposal before
the Villag Board, the new or­dinance
was adopted on the spot
and becomes effective im­mediately.
The next meeting of the Far­mingdale
Village Board of
Trustees will be held Monday,
January 10, 1972.
f A little bit behind schedule, as
Supervisor John W. Burke ex­plained
at a briefing last Monday,
but not too much. By about April,
instead of February, the town's
planning firm of Raymond,
Parish & Pine, Inc. will have
everything ready for public
perusal and discussion.
The reason for Monday's
briefing was the release of a 300
page volume, entitled Prelude to
Planning. It is considered to be
the most comprehensive and
detailed study ever done on the
town. It is a catalogue and in­ventory
of facts, figures and
ideas, which will form the raw
material from which the plan is to
be fashioned. Once this is ac­complished,
and as mentioned
this will be sometime in April, the
Town Board will hold open
meetings get the public's reac­tion.
The Eyes of the Master
Planners Are Upon Us
It may be the season to be jolly, but apparently it is also the season for master
plans. There is the Bi- County plan there is the just published Nassau County
plan, there is one in Massapequa Park -- and now there will be one in the Town of
Oyster Bay, also.
Input for the Master Plan will,
however, come not only from
statistics, but from the affected
parties as well. To get a reading
of the people's mood, proposals
relating to specific areas are
presented by the Planning Ad­visory
Board and the Town Board
to the public in advance.
Such public meetings took
place already in Hicksville,
where the original proposals
were indeed changed to conform
more closely with the aspirations
of the residents and businessmen.
The next area coming under
scrutiny will be Jericho, with
meetings scheduled for the first
half of January, followed by a
discussion of proposals for
Syosset- Woodbury late in
January or early February.
Public meetings on the
proposals for the unincorporated
area of the town not included in
the above mentioned special
study areas are to be held in late
February. This then would be the
time where residents of the
Farmingdale - Massapequa area,
who do not live in the in­corporated
villages of Far­mingdale
and Massapequa Park,
will get their first peek at the
ideas reserved for them.
Before that time arrives, the
OBSERVER will have made use
of the 300 pages of catalogue and
inventory of people and facilities
in Oyster Bay by publishing the
findings contained in Prelude to
Planning as they affect the
Farmingdale - Massapequa area.
In using this approach, namely
involvement of the public in the
planning process before the
Master Plan is finished, the Town
Board, the Planning Advisory
Board and the planning con­sultants
hope to come up with a
document that anticipates the
residents' desires and thus lends
itself to calm discussion.
Copies of Prelude to Planning
will be made available at no cost
to school districts and libraries
throughout the town. A limited
number of copies will also be
provided for responsible
organization, so that anyone
interested in the findings con­tained
therein may have a look-see
for himself. J