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Thursday, July 13, i 9 7 2
Old Bethpage
^ N ^ N ^ u CQIWty Economic Itty Corn-receives
lift as Donald P . raising
Manager, Mineola Branch of the
Band, and Bethpage resident presents donation to Mrs"
Pauline Washington, EOC Chairwoman. All funds
received will be used to help defray operating costs, of
the Commission and its eleven delegate agencies.
OYSTER BAY - The Town of
Oyster Bay's search for a teen
beauty queen to reign as Miss
Tobay begins Friday, July 28, at
the Bethpage Community Park,
according to Town Councilman
Saivatore Mosca
The schedule of competition
among the girls residing in the
Town between the ages of 14-19
years of age begins at 8:30 PM
(Rain date, July 31).
Eight semi-final winners of this
annual competition will enter the
townwide finals, which will be
held on Friday, August 4 at 8:30
PM at the Mid-Island Shopping
Plaza Mall, and will be eligible
for trophies, gifts and cash
awards donated by the Mid-
Island Shopping Plaza Mer­chant'^
Association.
Girls interested in par­ticipating
in the Town of Oyster
Bay Beauty Pageant may obtain
applications at Town Community
Parks or by calling CAPA
(Cultural and Performing Arts
Division of the Town's Depart­ment
of Recreation and Com­munity
Activities) at 921-5944.
Nassau County Executive
Ralph G. Caso today announced
that a series of "entertaining and
enlightening" International
Nights, featuring dance and song
from nine different nations, will
be te; lured at the Lakeside
Theater in Eisenhower Park,
East Meadow, beginning July 10.
The program, which will run
through August 28, will open with
a sakxtafp Germany. Following,
that performance, Nassau*
County's "melting pot" series
will salute Puerto Rico, on July
17; Poland, on July 24; the West
Indies on July 31; Ireland, on
August 7; Greece, on August 14;
the Afro-Haitians, on August 21
and the Israeli-Yiddish, on
August 28.
In announcing the summer
program, Caso said, "This most
entertaining and enlightening
series is part of the multi-faceted
recrealtbtral^progpam which th&
county offers to its citizens. It is
my hope that everyone gains
pleasure and enrichment from
this series and from the overall
program."
All of the International Nights
are free and begin at 8:30 PM. In
the event of rain, the
performances will be on
Tuesdays instead of Monday.
The race is on at the Bethpage
Public Library! The Summer
Reading Olympics is in full swing
and the club members are busy
selecting books and competing in
the reading race. Well over one
hundred children have already
joined the summer game.
Pre-School Story Time, for
youngsters V a to 5 years, had its
first session this week, and the
first live play by the Teen
Repertory Theater, "The
Gingerbread House", presented
by ti.e Cultural and Performing
Arts Division of the Town of
Oyster Bay, Department of
Recreation and Community
Activities, was enjoyed in the
auditorium of the library on
Thursday afternoon, July 13th by
a full room of school-age
youngsters.
The puppet show, Jungle Book,
presented by the Nassau County
Department of Recreation and
Tatks, will be held, on Tuesday,
July 25th, at 2: P.M., on the front
lawn of the library. Admission
will be by ticket only, on a first-
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Burke Announces JOB
Landfill-Park Site Plan
Oyster Bay Town
Supervisor John W. Burke
today announced that the
Town Board will conduct a
public hearing August 15 to
consider acquisition of a
65-acre property in
Plainview that will be
developed in a landfill-park
program.
Burke said acquisition of
the property will enable
the Town to meet its
sanitary landfill spac«*
J^§ds_JhrouglW985J_ancl
will allow the Town to
mold the land through a 4'textbook approach to
landfilling with inert
feials," into a planned
this is
step the Burke ad­ministration
;has un­dertaken
in its multi-pronged
approach to
handling the solid waste
disposal problem that has
reached crisis proportions
throughout the country.
Burke cited the $5
million in renovation work
how "p"e1ng=ctjmpieted en
the Town's, two in­cinerators
in Old Beth­page,
the success of the
Town's newspaper
recycling program which
began earlier this year,
and the Town's plans to
construct a bulk refuse
burner to supplement the
regular incinerators as
other avenues the Town is
traveling to meet the crisis
on the local level.
The Plainview landfill-park
site is a triangular-shaped
parcel located
northwest of the in­tersection
of Round
Swamp Rd. and the Long
Island Expressway. The
site is bordered on the
south by the Expressway,
on the west by the former
Shattuck Estate property
now owned by the County
of Nassau for park pur­poses,
and on the east by
.the Huntington Town line.
Most of the 65 (actual
figure is 64.666).acres is
presently zoned for in­dustrial
use.
Burke said that
recommendations for
utilization of the site have
been made by David
Mafrici who is Director of
the Town's Division of
Environmental Control as
well as the Town's Public
Health Engineer; Public
Works Commissioner
Gerard Trotta and the
engineering firm of
William F. Cosulich
natural growth presently
existing, will be main­tained
and the southern
portion of the property will
be landscaped.
"Ingress and egress to
the property wiU be made
only off the north service
road of the Expressway,
thereby avoiding any
traffic flow into local
streets.
"I feel it
feMMJlLWasted
is an ideal
NEW LANDFILL SITE: Oyster Bay Town Supervisor
John W. Burke, left, is shown on recent tour of in­spection
of 65-acre parcel in Plainview which the Town
plans to acquire to use as a sanitary landfill to bury
incinerator residue. With Burke is consulting engineer
William F. Cosulich whose firm made a study of Qie
Town's landfill needs for the N.Y. State Environmental
Facilities Corporation and suggested the above site.
Associates of Plainview
Mr. Cosulich's recom­mendations
were made in
a report issued by the New
York State Environmental
Facilities Corporation in
April of 1971, following a
joint commission by the
Town and the State to
determine the most
suitable landfill sites
available in Oyster Bay's
108- square miles.
"We have considered
alternatives,"Burkesaid,
"but the Plainview
location stands out as our
most logical choice. There
are no homes adjacent to
any portion of the
property, but, nonetheless,
a buffer strip, which in­cludes
trees and other
location since it offers
centralization as well as
many other advantages.
The future, or con­templated
land use would
be similar to the operation
in the Town of Brookhaven
where the Environmental
Facilities Corp. is
developing a park in
conjunction with a landfill
program.
"The old version of a
garbage dump will not be
what passersby view here.
The most modern and
scientific techniques will
be utilized to turn this
property into valuable
recreational land.
"A determination on t^e
best use of the property
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