1977-03-31

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An Official Newspaper for the Village of Farmingdale
Vol. 58 No. 20 Second Class Postage Paid
irvFarmingdale, N. Y. 11735 Thursday, March 31,1977 Copyright 1977 by
The Farmingdale Post price 15c - $ 5 per year
ASSOCIATION FOR THE HELP OF RETARDED CHILDREN
representative Nancy Cattabiani presents a plaque to Michelle
Osterfeld, Howitt Junior High School Fund Drive Coordinator in
appreciation for $ 2200 raised by student collections, cake sales
by the Freshmanettes and Girls Leaders Club and donations. The
Board Lists Money
plaque was made by AHRC youngsters at Brookville. Principal
Robert Hess [ 1.] and advisor Donald Wachs [ r.] were present as
were Michele team of Cathy Orobona, Diane Siclari, Kathy
Marino and Michelle LoCastro.
In remarks made prior to last
week's preliminary budget
hearing, Farmingdale Board of
Education Finance Chairman
Louis J. Avallone seconded the
call of taxpayers and legislators
for fiscal restraint, but called for
recognition of the efforts and
sacrifices that have been made in
Farmingdale.
" I do not know of anyone who is
against the idea ... but we must
set the record straight about
what this Board of Education has
accomplished over the past
couple of years."
Speaking for the Board at the
meeting on March 21, Avallone
told the audience, " We have
made progress and are proud of
it." The progress was made with
some very difficult decisions and
sacrifices on tye part of many
people. The past few years have
not been easy ones for the Board
of Education or the taxpayers,
but the financial picture has been
turned around without taking
apart "... what is still a very
good, a very sound, school
system."
The finance chairman in­dicated
some of the ac­complishments
of the Board,
particularly in regard to finance.
" The spiral of escalating tax
Egg Roll
This Sunday
The Kiwanis Club of Far­mingdale
will hold their annual
Easter Egg roll on Palm Sunday,
April 3, at 2 pm in the baseball
field behind Weldon E. Howitt Jr.
High School. Children 3 to 10 are
eligible. There will be no ad­mission
charge.
Kiwanis President Frank
Piccolo and chairman of the
affair, Ed Vaughan, invite all the
children to participate. The Egg
Roll will be divided into four
different age groups ( 3- 4) ( 5- 6)
( 7- 8) ( 9- 10). All contestants will
receive Easter candy and prizes
will be awarded in each age
group.
In the event of bad weather the
Egg roll will be rescheduled for
Easter Sunday, same time- same
place.
increases has been stopped. This
past year the district actually
had a tax rate decrease. The year
before last, when rates of in­flation
were 10%, taxes were
raised under 5% in this particular
school district."
Three years ago Farmingdale
had the highest tax rate in the
county. Avallone said the Board
Sorry, Wrong Number
The wrong telephone numbers
for Catholic Charities'
Ecumenical Center for Senior
Adults appeared in the recent
article about the opening of the
non- sectarian program on March
28. The correct numbers to call to
register for the program, located
at 145 Prospect St., Farmingdale,
are 694- 3521 and 694- 3524.
The center offers low cost, hot
lunches, social services and
recreational activities to
residents of Farmingdale, South
Farmingdale, Massapequa,
Massapequa Park and Seaford
age 60 and over. There are no fees
involved; participants are asked
to donate what they feel they can
afford.
is, " proud of the fact that this
year we are down at about 13th or
14th place when compared with
the other 50 districts."
Taxpayers must remember
that the district has overcome a
loss of 2 million dollars in
assessed valuation during the
last six years ( MTA takeover of
Republic) and that means
overcoming a loss of half a
million dollars a year in revenue.
Fa/ mingdale is virtually the only
district. where the amount of
taxable property value has not
increased in several years.
The Board of Education has
adjusted, the management of our
finances. This has helped to cut
down on the cost of our borrowing
and the financial picture is now
so sound that the school credit
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Correction
The home address of a Far­mingdale
man arrested for
burglary was incorrectly listed
as 40 Clinton Ave. in the March 10
issue of the Post. Paul Carlin,
who was charged by police,
resides at 675 Conklin St., not
Clinton.
Confirmed
At a work session open to the
public, the Farmingdale Board of
Education confirmed its decision
to close the Parkway Oaks
Elementary School at the end of
the semester. The School Board
had initially indicated its course
of action last April but promised
residents it would take a look
again this year to see if there was
any information which would
influence them in the direction of
changing their initial decision.
At the Wednesday, March 23,
session the administration was
asked if they had developed any
new information which the Board
should be made aware of since
the public meeting held Ott
February 15 regarding the
planned closing. Acting
Superintendent Charles Manso
indicated that nothing had oc­curred
. which he would like to
bring to the attention of the
Board. No further public action is
required of the Board at this
time.
Declining enrollment and the
economic status of the district
were the major factors in con­sideration
of building use.
Elementary school enrollment is
expected to drop by 303 students
next fall from an actual
enrollment last September of
4,400 students. The trend is ex­pected
to continue for some time
and projections indicate in 1980
an enrollment of 3,165.
With the declining enrollment
and transfer of remaining Park­way
Oaks students to other
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Bogus Bills
In Farmingdale
Counterfeit money in $ 5, $ 10
and $ 20 bills has been showing up
in Farmingdale stores during the
past week. Complaints about the-bogus
twenties were reported
earlier, but this is" the first in­dication
of smaller
denominations being circulated.
The fives and tens the Post
viewed this week at the Far­mingdale
branch of the
European- American Bank ap­peared
well rumpled and aged
and looked faded or washed out.
They were good reproductions of
genuine bills, however, although
they lacked the red and blue
threads that are woven into the
paper of the real bills. In one five
dollar bill the ending " B" in the
serial number was defective and
slightly smeared.
Merchants and residents are
warned to be on the alert for the
bogus bills.
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