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1 VOL. 20 NO. 32 Week of November 14 - November 20,1985 20 cents per copy
Keep Waste Oil Out Of Groundwater Plans To Be Aired
Nassau County District Attorney Denis Dillon
today issued a warning to consumers and gasoline
retailers concerning criminal penalties for the
improper disposal of waste oil. The DA's warning
follows a New York State Department of Envir­onmental
Conservation finding that many
homeowners are a source of groundwater con­tamination
on Long Island by dumping hazard­ous
products in drains and on the ground.
Dillon, in a letter to the Long Island Gasoline
Retailers Association asked that its membership
be advised that there is a law requiring service
stations to accept and properly dispose of used oil
in quantities of less than five gallons per day per
person. Further, that the law requires stations to
post a conspicuous sign stating, "We Accept Used
Oil for Recycling." Violation of the law is a mis­demeanor
and Dillon said he would prosecute
violators.
The District Attorney wrote, "A recent study
conducted at Stony Brook University indicates
that virtually none of the service stations on Long
island are obeying this law. In fact, many con­sumers
do not even realize that waste oil may
properly be disposed of in this manner."
Dillon said motorists who change their own oil
and improperly dispose of it constitutes a signifi­cant
source of groundwater pollution in Nassau
County. Dumping the waste down ad rain or
pouring it on the ground may be the easiest way of
disposing of waste oil but residents must realize
we're creating a serious problem with our„
groundwater in the future.
NCC Welcomes "Age Qf2t 99
The students and faculty of the Students Against Driving
Drunk chapter at Nassau Community College are pleased to
announce a very special event on Saturday evening,
November 30, 1985 from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m.
The SADD chapter is organizing a "COUNT­DOWN....
21," a non-alcholoic "New Year's Eve Type"
dance party in joyous celebration welcoming the December
1 date our state has designated as the beginning of the 21
year old minmum drinking age. The chapter has invited
many Long Island and Queens students from other SADD
chapters in colleges and some high schools to gather at our
Garden City campus fo the momentous occasion.
In the words of student chairperson of the S.A.D.D.
chapter, Ann Tlasek, a marketing major from West Babylon
"the "COUNTDOWN....21" is our way of proclaiming some
degree of victory, particularly because so many of our stu­dents
are between the ages of 19-21, and these kids are
anxious to see further reductions in highway deaths in their
own age group."
The group has invited Governor Cuomo, County Execu­tive
Francis Purcell and Hempstead Presiding Supervisor
Thomas Gulotta.
Please contact S.A.D.D. at Nassau Community College
c/o Prof. S.M. Haft, faculty advisor, for further info.
Mid Island Hospital Honored
Coitimissioner Adelaide Attard, second from
right, Nassau County Department of Senior Citi­zen
Affairs, presents plaque to James Dickson,
Administrator, Mid-Island Hospital, Bethpage,
citing hospital's involvement with the
Department-funded meals to the home-bound
elderly program. Looking on are Florence Van
Keuren, Executive Director, Visiting Home
Health Services, and Sheldon Katz, Director,
Food Services, Mid-Island Hospital. The pro­gram,
sponsored by Visiting Home Health Ser­vice,
delivers two meals a day five days a week,
using a corps of volunteers, to those older persons
who are certified homebound, live alone and are
unable to prepare meals for themselves. For
further information call 535-5861.
Nassau County Comptroller Peter T. King's dis­cussion
show ''Questions and Answers" will be
telecast on Cableyisibn Channel 22 on V^ednes-
^ay, Nqyember 20 at^OiQd P.M^ and^ will be
.repeated on Thursday, I)ec. 5, at 8:00 P.M. King
w4ll be interviewed by Jerry Cassidy of the Daily
News and Dick Zander of Newsday. The topics to
be covered include the results of the recent
county-wide election, the political ramifications
of that election and the future plans of the Nassau
County Republican Party.
Central General
Honors Employees
Twenty-six employees of Central General Hospital will
receive recognition for their outstanding professional servi­ces
and length of service time, Wednesday^^December 8, at.
the hospital's Annual Awards Luncheon, it was announced
this week by Robert Bornstein, Administrator of the 300-
bed Plainview health care facility.
"Employees eligible for the top honor awards have been=
with Central General for ten or twenty years as of July I,
1985," Bornstein said.
Six employees have worked for Central General for
twenty years and will receive diamond pendants and tie tacs.
Twenty employees with ten-year service will receive gold
pendants and tie tacs.
Twenty-year service recognition will go to the following:
Jean Hitchea, Hicksville, Executive Secretary to the Admin­istrator;
Wilma McGregor, Copiague, R.N.; Ann Donohue,
Northport, R.N., Nursing Care Coordinator; Daisy
Luprello, Hicksville, I.C.T.; Anne Thompson, Bethpage,
R.N.; and John Agres, Massapequa, Chief Radiology Tech­nician.
Ten-year service awards will be made to: Mary Czubay,
Plainview, Clerk, Admitting Office; Jane Kemp, Central
Islip, Clerk, Business Office; Celeste Fritzson, Setauket,
Supervisor, Datn Processing Office; Juan Santiago, Bel-
Iport, Dietary Helper; Anthony Prisco, Plainview, Dietary
Helper; Louis Multer, Massapequa, Maintenance Helper.
More Ten-year service: Linda Palumbo, Plainview,
Secretary, O.R.; Maryann Bogsted, Plainview, Ward Clerk;
Stephanie Miller, Mastic Beach, Nurse Assistant; Nancy
Seta, Smithtown, R.N.; Margaret McDowell, Plainview,
Nurse Assistant; Leslie Brownell, Levittown, Ward Clerk;
Patricia Rosenberg; Levittown, R.N.; Sheila Duranti, Oak-dale,
R.N.; Jane Pullen, Levittown, L.P.N.; Thomas
Cowan, Northport, Nuclear Medical Technician; Dorothy
Kelly, Douglaston, Quality Assurance Coordinator; Angel
Urmaza, Islip, Housekeeping Helper; Jimmie Williams,
Brentwood, Housekeeping Helper; and Barbara Hymson,
Plainview, Switchboard Operator.