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VOL. 20 NO. 35 Week of December 5 -12,1985
Proposed Establishment of Garbagt^^^^^^^
The Oyster Bay Town Board has set a December 17
hearing date to consider the establishment of a new. Gar­bage
Disposal pistrict authorized by the State earlier this
According to Oyster Bay Town Supervisor Joseph Colby,
the Board will consider creating the new district in ordei- to
provide Villages and special sanitation collection districts
within the Town a mechanism by which they may take
advantage of alternate disposal procedures.
"Presently," Colby said, "theTovvn-operated solid waste
complex at Old Bethpage is available to all municipalities
and districts within the Town for disposal purposes.
There are however, alternatives which have been deve­loped,
such as the City of Glen Cove's co-disposal incinera­tor,
which Villages or sanitation district commissioners
might wish to explore. Up to this point there has been no
way that the Town could exempt those who wished to use
alternate facilities from the costs to operate the Old Beth­page
faciHty.
The establishment^of the special disposal district will, if
approved by the Town Board, give those municipalities and
special sanitation collection; districts within the Town of
Oyster Bay. the right to opt but of the district., •
"Creation of the new district," Colby said,'"will also
greatly assist the Town's efforts to control the amount of
refuse that willbe brought to the Town's planned resource
recovery/waste-to-energy facility." •
The hearing.has been scheduled for Tuesday, December
17, beginning at 10 Am in the Town Board,East hearing
room, Audrey Avenue, Oyster Bay.
long Island Expression's
The wealth of culture oh Long Island will be the
focus of a prime time special airing Thursday
evening, Decmeber 12,9:30-10:00 PM, on WPIX.
The program is called "LONG ISLAND
EXPR#siON;S.",.:; •.•:,• ;..„: • ..•.•.,,,.......:. :,.:.:.;::„.
Host joe Sheehan will examine the vast offer­ings
in the areas of music,^ fine arts, science and
dance on Long Island, with visits to the Long
Island Philharnipnic/the Nassau County Fine
Arts Museum in Roslyh, the Gradle of Aviation
Museum in Garden City, the Eglevsky Ballet, the
Walt Whitman Home in Melville^ and the Van-derbilt
Planetarium £^nd Museum.
WPIX, two-fime^ F for spe­cials
on Long Island, will produce the program on
iotafiori m Long j^fahdi' -^ ^ - c
Sheila Melfe is the program's producer. Kat­hleen
S.M. Shepherd is Executive Producer.
MTA Still Owes Millions
Brave Heart New York City Comp­troller
Harrison J. Goldin,
Nassau County Comptroller
Peter t . . King, Suffolk
County Comptroller Joseph
R. Caputo, Dutchess
County Comptroller Paul
Hackett and Finance Com­missioner,
Philip Amodeo,
Putnam County Commis­sioner
of Finance John
Duffy and County Auditor
Annmarie Baisley, West­chester
County Comrriis-sioner
of Finance Joseph
Gulio and Rockland County
Treasurer Joseph St. Law­rence
have formed a biparti­san
coalition to support new
state legislation aimed at
eliminating the Metropoli­tan
Transportation Author­ity's
ability to block the dis­tribution
of state funding
during a dispute over station
maintenance charges.
Goldin stated the pro­posed
legislation, which
would amend 'Public
Authority Law Sec. 1277,
would require the State
Comptroller and the MTA's
Inspector General to rule on
disputes between the munic­ipalities
and the MTA
before any state aid could be
cut off. He added, "The
MTA should not be allowed
to run roughshod over local'
governments as if it were
Five year-old Jennifer Gelfand of Old IBethpage, a recent
cardiac patient at St. Francis Hospital, Roslyn, New York is
happy to receive her "Brave Heart" award for having under­gone
successful open heart surgery at The Heart Center as
her father, Marty; looks on approvingly. Presenting the
award to Jennifer is Candystriper Jackie Levine of. Port
Washington. .
Pioneering open heart surgery for children in the 1950's,
St. Francis Hospital today performs more open heart
surgery on infants, children and adults than any other hospi­tal
in New York State. The State's only designated cardiac
specialty hospital, St. Fmacis serves as referral center for
Long Island community hospitals..
The Brave Hearts of St. Francis is a supportive organiza­tion
to help those who are considering, as well as those who
have undergone, open heart surgery. For further informa­tion
on the Brave Heart organization, please call (516)
627-5047.5084.
20c<eii1:8per.copy
Anniversary
The Butehorn Brothers Post #4987, the Vete­rans
of Foreign Wars, will celebrate its 40th anni^
versary on December 7th. Commander Gordon
Roger on Friday December 6th. Town of Oyster
Bay Supervisor, Joe Colby, will be the guest
speaker.
In 1945, the returning Bethpage World War
Two veterans held a meeting at the old Powell
Avenue grade school - now the site of the public
library. Vito DeFanis, who is a charter member of
the post, Past Commander and current Quarter­master,
expilained that if was the beginning of the
Bethpage VFW and the first order of business was,
to select a name for the post. A list of Bethpage
servicjemen who lost their liyes during the war was
made. Among the honored dead were Joseph and
Charles Butehorn and. they were selected
because they were brothers.
Joseph was a 4th Division Marine guhner on a
torpedo bomber in the Pacific and was killed in
action- His brother Charles was in the army -
384th infantry in Europe. He had been wounded
and after recovering was sent out into the field
where he was killed. At the affair, Joseph's mem­orial
flag will hold a place of honor.
The first Commander of the Butehorn Bros.
Post was Ralph Amendpla, a World War One
veteran. Meetings were held for several years in
the auditorium of the Powell Avenue grade
school. Later, an old barracks from Camp Upton
was donated and moved to property on Lexing­ton
Avenue and given to the post by Raymond
Amendola. This became their clubhouse for over
20 years and is now the home of the Bethpage
Nursery School. Next, the Police Boys Club
became home for several years and currently, the
post meets at the Archie McCord American
Legion Hall located in the LIRR Bethpage station
parking lot.
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infallible. The fact is that the
MTA does make mistakes - -
multi-million dollar mis­takes
- - and the current law
leaves us at the mercy of the
MTA."
King said, "The measure
would also require the MTA
to pay interest and penalties
on any overcharges accumu­lated
on unresolved past bil-.
ling inaccuracies. Each
county has its own horror*
stories concerning station
maintenance abuses. In
addition to its inadequate
level of station maintenance,
the MTA has mneatedlv
Qverbilled and improperly
billed Nassau County, For
instance, we have been
charjged for LIRR stations
outside Nassau County, for
police protection that was
never provided and for capi­tal
costs disguised as operat-'
ing expenses. Even though
the MTA has.been forced to
repay Nassau $1.3 million,
there are millions of dollars
still being litigated".
Goldin commended King
for "the strong initiative he
has demonstrated in putting
together this coalition".