Bethpage-Tribune_1986-05-01

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Got a Gripe?
Assessment Grievance Period-
May t to May 20
National Hospital Week
May It-17
Nassau County property
owners wishing to challenge
their tentative 1987 tax
assessments may file formal
protests from Thursday,
May 1 to Tuesday, May 20
as provided by state law,
Abe Seldin, Chairman of the
Nassau County Board of
Assessors announced today.
In order to better accom­modate
taxpayers wishing
to do this, the Department
of Assessment is establish­ing
special satellite offices in
each of Nassau's three town­ships
and two cities during
the tax grievance period.
Evening hours are also
being scheduled for the con­venience
ofthosepeopie who
cannot come in during regu­lar
work hours.
"Every property owner
should take advantage of
this opportunity examine
his or her assessment," Sel­din
said.
Owner occupants of one,
two and three-family homes
are permitted to challenge
their assessments in a special
small claims court, but, to
do so, they must first file a
grievance with the Board of
Assessment Review during
this 20-day May grievance
period. "The law is very
clear," Seldin cautioned,
"that if you don't file a grie­vance
you cannot go to
small claims court to try to
get your assessment and
property taxes lowered."
Owners of other types of
property wishing to file writs
of certiorari in State
Supreme Court must also
file a grievance before pro­ceeding
to court.
In Nassau County, pro­tests
are filed with the Board
of Assessors which forwards
them to the independent
Board of Assessment
Review for determination.
In addition to filing the writ-ten
grievance forms,
property owners are entitled
to request a hearing before
the Board of Assessment
Review at whigh they can
present the facts on which
their protests are based. The
review board is empowered
to order reductions in
assessment where war­ranted,
but not to raise an
assessment as a result of the
property owner filing an
assessment grievance.
Copies of the new assess­ment
rolls will be open for
inspection and protests may
be filed at each of five loca­tions
throughout the county
during the grievance period.
Property owners may also
examine their property
record cards at the Assess-r
ment Department's offices
at 240 Old Country Road,
Mineola.
Tentative 1987 Nassau
County Tax Rolls are avail­able
for inspection and pro-
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The Mid-Island will celebrate National Hospital Week
under the banner "Hospitals Make Healthy Neighbors"
which reflects the theme of contributions made by the 30
year old health care facility to the communities it serves, it
was announced today by James J. Dickson, Administator.
Special health education screening programs and profes­sional
counseling activities are scheduled, free of charge,
from 12 noon to 4 pm, Wednesday, May 14 in the hospital's
staff room.
Dickson said , "Mid-Island's celebration will increase
health care awareness by the communities we serve of the
relationship of caring and understanding on the part of our
hospital's health care team."
Health Fair events will include blood gjucose and blood
pressure screening, pulmonary function testing and nutri­tional
gudiance for planning healthy meals.
Exhibits at the health fair will include displays from
regional and national pharmaceutical companies, the Amer­ican
Cancer Society, American Lung Association, and the
Heart and Diabetes Associations.
; Mid-Island.Hospit^l department managers who will greet
the pubiicduringfhe Health F^ir are Sheidoh Ratz, Dietai-y
Service, Kyle Berris, Pharmacy Service, and Mark Johnson
of the Respiratory department.
For information about attending the free health fair call
Dorothea Salzberg, Health Fair Coordinator and Hospital
Staff Educator at (516) 520-2215.
Mid-Island Hospital serves residents of Eastern Nas­sau/
Western Suffolk Counties for more than three decades.
Communities served by the 233-bed facility include Far-mindgdale,
Bethpage, Massapequa, Levittown and sur­rounding
areas.
PROUD TO BE OF SERVICE in a caring, concerned
manner during National Hospital Week and throughout the
year are (L-R) Sheldon Katz, Dietary Service; Mark John­son,
Respiratory Department and Dorothea Salzberg, Hos­pital
Health Fair Coordinator.
Lighting Tlie Candle of Knowledge
On Wednesday,
April 16, 32 of Beth­page
High School's top
fanking students were
welcomed into the
Bethpage Chapter of
NATIONAL CHAMPS: These local members of Nassau Community
College Lacrosse Lions are defending their National Junior College
Athletic Association Championship May 9 and 10 in upstate Troy. The are
(I. to r.) Steven Scrofano of Syosset, Steve Walakovitz of Bethpage, Mark
Gehrke of Cold Spring Harbor, and Joseph Denicola of Massapequa.
They've won 13 of the last 16 championships, including the last four in a
row for coach Richard Speckmann of Bohemia.
the National Honor
Society at its annual
Induction Banquet,
organized by ithe
Bethpage Dad's Club
and the senior mem­bers
of the society
under the supervision
of Mrs. Harriet
Mensch.
The new members,
parents and guests
began the evening with
a full-course dinner.
Speeches by the Prin­cipal,
Ms. Cleary, and
the Superintendent of
schools, Dr. Sommi
and the society's offic­ers
on Scholarship,
service, Leadership and
Character (the ideals of
the Honor Society)
opened the formal
induction ceremony.
Following the speech­es,
the roll was read, the
new members signed
their names in the book
and lit candles, sym­bolic
of their search for
Knowledge and Truth.
When all of the new
members had been
inducted, all members,
old and new, recited
together the National
Honor Society Oath.
Congratulations to
the newly inducted
members. The whole
Bethpage Community
salutes you. And a big
thank you to the Dad's
Club for making the
evening such a memor­able
occasion for all.
The Bethpage High
Sch6ol salutes the fol­lowing
students upon
their induction into the
National Honor Socie­ty:
Saba Ashrat
Joanne AumuUer
Gregory Berardo
Michelle Boullianne
Vincent Calingasan
Shaiinee Chawla
Michael Cooper
Patricia Frisbie
Re nee Fournier
Glen Ha
Joann Isernia
Karen Jaeger
Joanne Kraiis
Joanne LaRosa
Todd Lustig
Deborah Maini
Carmela Marrone
James Melledy
Staci Miller
Joanne Pappas
Michael Pasyanos
Patrick Rhatigan
Karen Ripke
Carol Rubenstrunk
Theresa Schaefer
Laura Sylvester
Sabrina Tellalian
Michael Troken-heim
Daneen Venezia
Sandra Vrejan
Kenneth Weiner
Michael Zirkel