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An Official Newspaper for the Village of Farmingdale
Vol. 58 No. 48 SgrSSSift S T S ' S Thursday, September 22,1977 Copyright 1977 by
The Farmingdale Post price 15c - $ 5 per year
Voters Approve
Energy Grant
In a special Farmingdale School District election held
Tuesday, September 20, voters approved a referendum
to allow energy saving measures to be taken with total
federal funding. The vote on the proposition was 619
" yes" to 21 " no."
PROPANE GAS FIRE at Farmingdale High School is contained by the South Farmingdale Fire Dept.
Monday afternoon. The tank outside the school's swimming pool, which provides heat for the locker
room hair dryers, burst into flame under suspicious circumstances at about 12: 30 p. m. Nassau County
Police arson squad is investigating and two witnesses have been found that say four boys dressed in
blue jeans were seen near the tank just before the fire occurred. Police suspect that the valve was
tampered with and the fire was set with either a match or cigarette.
[ Post photo by Bob Starrett]
Trade Zone
LIA Topic
Assemblyman Philip Healey
( R- C Massapequa) will be
principal speaker at The Long
Island Association of Commerce
and Industry ( LIA) breakfast to
be held at The Fox Hollow Inn,
Woodbury, on Tuesday, Sept. 27.
The LIA is a bicounty regional
chamber of commerce for both
small and large businesses on
Long Island. Assemblyman
Healey will discuss legislative
matters, especially the creation
of a Foreign Trade Zone, a plan
[ Continued on page 8]
Although construction im­provements
to school buildings in
the school district to conserve
energy are to be completely
funded through a federal grant,
voter approval was required
before the Board of Education
could negotiate a construction
contract.
The federal governiaaeaEkt » wilj
grant $ 113,000 to the school
district through the U. S.
Department of Economic
Development Administration.
Included in the grant proposal
is the installation of new windows
at the Woodward . Parkway
Elementary School and the in­stallation
of a new roof im­provement
at Farmingdale
[ Continued on page 8]
SnowR ernova I
Bill Still Alive
Responding to Oyster Bay
Town Supervisor Joseph Colby's
complaint that a bill to ease the
tax burden of snow removal costs
died in his committee, Assem­blyman
Arthur J. Kremer
assured Colby that its passage
remains very possible.
" My complaint about the bill
never being acted on by the
Assembly Ways and Means
Committee, although it was
readily approved by the Senate,
resulted in assurances from the
Committee's chairman,
Assemblyman Arthur J. Kremer,
that he will take steps to have the
legislation approved by the
Assembly when it reconvenes
next month," Colby announced.
" After learning of my com­plaint
and reflecting on my
comment that the legislation was
supported and pressed for by my
office while the Legislature was
in session, Assemblyman
Kremer called me and indicated
that he does recall the
correspondence on this matter
and the fact that during the
session he had written back that
he felt the legislation requested
was ' quite meritorious,' Colby
reported
According to Colby, Kremer
noted that the Legislature is
scheduled to reconvene in Oc­tober
and " the Assemblyman
said that he would take the
necessary steps to bring the bill
out of committee for a vote by the
Assembly. He also indicated that
he still believes the bill has merit
and asked that he write to him
again requesting the action be
taken in October." Colby in­dicated
that his staff is preparing
such a letter and it will be sent to
the Assembly Speaker and
Minority Leader in addition to
Assemblyman Kremer.
When the Assembly approves
the bill and it is signed by the
Governor, it will allow the
$ 400,000 used by the Town for
snow control to be bonded and the
1976 surplus funds which had
been used to pay this year's snow
control costs can then become
available again for the 1978 High­way
Fund. Under the bill, the
State would reactivate the
authority for local municipalities
to bond extraordinary snow
control costs caused by unan­ticipated
snow conditions. This
authority has been granted
regularly in the past
SEEDS TO AFRICA: The Farmingdale Rotary Club is engaged in the fourth year of its project for
sending vegetable seeds to Rotary Clubs in Africa for. free distribution to small village schools,
missions, orphanages, hospitals and elsewhere that the local Rotary Clubs find a need to help the
hungry raise their own food. This year some 10,704 packets of vegetable seed will be air- freighted to
Africa. Below the equator the growing season is opposite to our. starting around October, so that our
1977 unused seed loses little in germination. Many hours and days to sort the seeds was necessary
before the actual packaging. Pictured above sorting are Rotary members, George Cook, Joseph
Gallick, W. Ellery Follett, and from Boy Scout Troop 514 Anthony Carnesi. Thomas Giminaro and Paul
Schriro; Rotary Director Alphonse Perry and Committee Chairman David Allee, the man who started
this project and is not only keeping it alive but has doubled the amount from the first year. Dedication
like this means success for another Rotary project.