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An Official Newspaper for the Village of Farmingdale
Vol. 59 No. 1 Second Class Postage Paid
in Farmingdale, N. Y. 11735 Thursday, October 27, 1977 Copyright 1977 by
The Farmingdale Post price 15c - $ 5 per year
Village Residents
Urge Sr. Housing
For Main St. Site
Farmingdale residents tilled the small upstairs
meeting room of the Village Hall Monday night to
protest the construction of a shopping center on the site
of the Main Street School and asked the village trustees
to zone the site for senior citizen housing.
Two Charged
With Murder
ifm ANNIVERSARY of Farmingdale's Big Brother/ Big Sister program was marked Monday night
with a presentation of a village proclamation honoring the organization and its sponsors, the Far­mingdale
Youth Council and Youth Board. Shown with the proclamation are Mrs. Lucille Meyerson,
president of Youth Council; Jack Goor, Youth Board director; Cathie Malara, co- director Big
Brothers/ Big Sisters; Mayor John T. Hallahan and Leonard Marino, co- director Big Brothers/ Big
[ Post Photo by Bob Starrett]
Big Brothers,
Big Sisters
Honored
The Farmingdale Big/ Brother
- Big Sister Program has been in
existence for the past 17 years
and was honored by the Village of
Farmingdale Monday night to
mark their anniversary.
This program is subsidized by
the Farmingdale Youth Council
through the Farmingdale Youth
Board. It provides services to
fatherless and motherless boys
and girls - ages 7 through 18. This
program was one of the first on
Long Island and has been used as
a model in helping to establish
the Nassau County program two
years ago.
• At the present time, 40 boys
and girls are in this program.
Cathie Malara and Leonard
Marino, co- directors of the
program, are constantly looking
for volunteers. Right now, there
is a waiting list of 12 children.
The Farmingdale Big/ Brother -
Big/ Sister program is looking for
interested, concerned adults over
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K i t t a H ^ Gunmen Rob
Sun Station
The Community Interfaith
Collection for UNICEF, a project
of the Women's Interfaith Council
of Farmingdale, will be observed
during the month of November.
Instead of " trick or treating"
for UNICEF on Halloween,
youngsters will be requested to
keep the UNICEF container at
home and place a small coin in it
at mealtimes. Containers are to
be returned to the Farmingdale
• Public Libraries on November 28,
29, and 30. Instructions will be
distributed to the children
shortly. UNICEF containers may
also be returned to participating
religious schools. For additional
information please call 293- 9340
Two Lindenhurst men were
arrested early Saturday morning
and charged with the murder of
Glenn Myrato of East Far­mingdale
on August 19.
Myrato, a driver for- a
wholesale tobacco and candy
firm, GMS Distributors of
Farmingdale, was found shot
three times in his delivery van,
parked about 250 feet west of the
Northern State Parkway en­trance
near Sunny side Blvd., and
Woodbury Road.
Charged with second degree
murder and attempted robbery of
Myrato and Joseph Mosca, 22,
and Peter Papandrew, 21, both of
Lindenhurst and both co- workers
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Deputy Mayor Willis B. Car­man,
Jr. and Village Attorney
Joseph Stern informed the group
that the village had not yet been
officially approached by the
proposed purchasers of the Main
Street School site with a request
for zoning change. Stern said he
had just had one preliminary
" meeting with the proposed
purchasers.
Carman said that when a
formal request for a zoning
change is made to the board, a
public hearing will be set. At the
hearing the detailed plans for the
proposed construction would be
presented to the board and the
public. Objections from village
residents would be heard to the
proposed plans at the official
hearing.
A Weiden Street resident asked
if the public would be allowed to
vote on the proposal and was told
that was not the legal procedure.
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A Farmingdale Sunoco Station
was held up by two armed rob­bers
Saturday evening, October
22.
The station, located at 511
Fulton Street, was held- up at 6: 50
p. m. The 16 year old station at­tendant
told police two unknown
white males, armed with a. gun,
took $ 110 in cash from him and
escaped.
Eighth precinct police also
reported two burglaries during
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Teens Down Cadillac Blimp
Four Bethpage youths were'
arrested last Friday for shooting
down an advertising blimp at
Sarant Cadillac in Farmingdale
with a .22 rifle.
The Cadillac dealership- has
two blimps that they have been
using for the past few months,
one 12 ft. and the other 20 feet
long. They are hung, one at a
time, depending on weather
conditions, 80 feet over the
showroom.
At 5: 45 last Friday afternoon,
according to police; four youths
in three cars stopped on the
northbound entrance ramp of the
Seaford - Oyster Bay Ex­pressway
next to the dealership.
Police said the passenger in one
of the cars then fired five shots
from a .22 cal. rifle at the 12 ft.
blimp, rupturing it.
A Sarant employee, George
Fuggia, heard the shots, looked
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A U. S. FLAG, which was flown over the Capitol in Washington was
presented to Mill Lane Junior High School by Congressman Jerome A.
Ambro. The flag and its accompanying certificate are shown being
examined by Joseph Lubell, chairman of the Social Studies depart­ment;
and Guy Valentine, acting principal.
[ Post photo by Claire Studios]