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VOL. 21 NO. 7 Week of May 29 - June 4,1986 20 cents per copy
Teens Lead Centennial Celebration
"We almost missed our
own centennial" State
Assemblyman Lewis Yevoli
said. "Here we have the
100th anniversary of Plain-view
and 50th jubilee of Old
Bethpage and, no one would
have known had the kids at
Kennedy High School not
told us," Yevoli, a Plainview
resident, pointed ut. In fact,
the Kennedy students have
done much more than
simply announce the anni­versaries,
they have planned
POBCELEBRATION WEEK-EN
D, a three day festival.
May 30th - June 1st, at John
F. Kennedy High School in
Plainview. The highlight of
the festival will be a parade,
street fair, and Grucci fire­works
display on June 1st.
Plainview-Oid Bethpage
is a community with an iden­tity
problem. Not long ago
some eighth graders were
asked to identify the center
of their community. The 14
students suggested 11 differ­ent
sites as the village "cen­ter";
most of the sites were at
or near their own homes.
One boy thought the
Family Friend
Frank Lourenso (Bethpage), Senior Vice Pres­ident
oi Chemical Bank is shown above with Dr.
Salvatore Ambrosino, Executive Director of
Family Service Association of Nassau County.
Mr. Lourenso was recently honored as a "Friend
of the Family" at the Long Island's 400 Ball. The
event for the benefit of FSA was recently held at
The Garden City Hotel.
bowling alley was the center
of town because he spent so
many hours there. In fact,
Plainview-Old Bethpage has
no center. Neither does it
have clearly marked boun­daries.
Visitors comment
that they have driven
through the village without
knowing that they had
entered or left a distinct
community.
This lack of distinction is
more than geographic. The
students who equated the
"center" of Plainview-Old
Bethpage with their homes
suggest a deeper problem.
Residents do indeed identify
more with their block,
church or synagogue, than
they do with the community
at large. With two names, no
elected mayor or village
council, two high schools,
no active chamber of com-merce
or community-wide
civic association, Plainview-
Old Bethpage suffers from a
weak sense of community.
Three years ago the stu-
'dents of John F. Kennedy
High School began a major
service program called
P.O.B. Project Outreach, to
build community spirit and
awareness in Piainvicw-Old
Bethpage. In this centennial-jubilee
year, their work
takes on special meaning.
This year is especially
i m p o r t a n t for these
Kennedy volunteers since
their high school is also
commemorating its 20th
anniversary.
PLAiNVIEW/OLDBETH-PAGECEL.
EBRATION V/EEK-Memorial
Day Observance
Assemblyman Fred Parola (R-C, Wantagh) joins with, from left to right,
Ray Galloway, Bert Carlson, Robert King (parade chairman) Marie
Rusch, Kay Mazzie, Dorothy Rabas and Herb Granberg for the annual
observance to pay homage to those servicemen and women who served in
our armed forces to protect our liberties. The Assemblyman who was the
guest speaker, stressed that Memorial Day is not a holiday but a day to
recall the sacrifices made to defend our freedoms and to rededicate our­selves
to the unfinished business of making our nation a better place to live.
(See parade photos on page 5)
END, a three day village and Senate Honors Brave
school festival, will include:
—Performances of "Cele­bration,"
a two hour musical
retrospective including
scenes from "Mame", "Bye
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Funds For Bethpage special use permit Application in Bethpage
The Bethpage Union Free
School District will receive
two special legislative grants
this year as the result of the
recently enacted State
Budget, Senator John
Dunne (R-Nassau) has
announced.
Approved were a $46,000
grant for an intensive writ­ing
program for high school
sophomores and a $50,000
grant for a program to dis­courage
high school dropouts.
"The $46,000 grant,"
S u p e r i n t e n d e n t John
Sommi stated, "will permit
the continuation of the 15-1
staffing ratio and develop­ment
of a writing laboratory
for the high school sopho­more
intensive writing pro-gram.
This program
requires that students spend
40% of the instructional
week in writing activities."
Senator Dunne sifid the
$50,000 school grant will be
used to implement an alter­native
school program for
potential high school drop­outs.
According to Superin-tende-
nt Sommi, "This
$50,000 grant will permit
freshmen and sophomore
students who have had prob­lems
with excessive absen­teeism,
class cutting, aca­demic
failure, disciplinary
infractions or alcohol or
drug inducement to receive
special instruction and
counseling."
In thanking Senator
Dunne for his efforts, Super­intendent
Sommi said,
"Over the years the continu­ing
efforts of Senator Dunne
have permitted the district
to initiate and operate many
new programs. The Beth­page
Board of Education is
very happy to have such a
good friend in Albany."
The Town Board has
scheduled a June 17, 1986
public hearing on a request
for a special use permit in
Bethpage.
The applicants, R & J
Realty Company, Stanley
A. Byczek, The Estate of
Raymond J. Policy, The
Estate of John Froelich and
Grumman Aerospace
Corp., are seeking a special
use permit to convert the
first floor ot the subject
premises to general office
use. The property is located
on the southwest side of
Stewart Avenue also known
as 1211 Stewart Avenue, in
Bethpage.
The iiearing will be in the
Town Hall East hearing
room, Audrey Avenue, Oys­ter
Bay.
Parent Watch Group At P^id-lsland Hospital
Parent WdTCh, Ltd, a non-profit family support group
which promotes awareness and education related to some­time
irrational adolescent behavior, is in formation at the
Mid-Island Hospital, Bethpage, it was jointly announced
today, by James J. Dickson, Hospital Administrator and
Dorothy Holmgren, President of the seven month old pro­fessional
counseling organization.
The new Bethpage chapter of Parent Watch will conduct
its first orientation meeting at 8 p.m., Wednesday, June 18 in
the lower level conference room of the health care facility
and will continue its meetings every Wednesday evening
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Senator Norman J. Levy presents a New York State
Senate Resolution to State Troopers Brodie C. Schulz, of
Babylon, and James B. Hockenberger, of Bethpage,
assigned to Bethpage Station - Troop L, commending the
officers for individual acts of bravery.
The two officers were the first to arrive at a Uniondale
house engulfed in flames, while they were on patrol on
December 31, 1985. Schulz and Hochenberger forced their
way through the front door and after a difficult search,
located and rescued the sole occupant, a woman asleep in a
second floor bedroom. Before searing flames and an explo­sion
completely destroyed the house, the two Troopers
evacuated the next door neighbors whose lives were also
threatened.