Observer_1983-04-21; East Rockaway/Lynbrook Observer

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VOL. XVI, NO. 24 EAST ROCKAWAY, NEW YORK 11518, THURSDAY, APRIL 21, 1983 lUFEK COPY
FLOWER DAYS
South Nassau Communities Hospital Flower Days will be held on
Thursday and Friday, April 28th & 29th, in East Rockaway and
Lynbrook as proclaimed by the mayors of both Villages. The Centra
Central Council of Auxiliaries to the 401-bed teaching, community
hospital in Oceanside will be selling cymbidiums in several locations
in both Villages at $1.25 apiece, with proceeds benefitting South
Nassau's expansion fund. At top, Flower Days Chairman Dorothy
Horn pins a cymbidium to East Rockaway Mayor Theodore
Reinhard's lapel, and below, Flower Days Chairman Mary LaPlac
presents flower to Lynbrook Mayor William Po Geier.
Assemblyman Arthur J.
Kremer has won restoration of
$124,000 in special state aid
to the Village of East Rockaway
and $265,268 to the VUlage of
Lynbrook in the state budget
recently adopted.
"Under Governor Guomo's
original budget proposal, all
special state aid to local govern-ments
was going to be elimin-ated,"
said Kremer. '*But local
governments need these emer-gency
funds to maintain ser-vices
and hold down local taxes,'
As a result of pressure from
Assemblyman Kremer, munici-palities
throughout the state will
receive $71 million, which can
be used to supplement local
government operations.
"I am pleased to have played
a major role in providing these
funds for the second year in a
row," Assemblyman Kremer
VILLAGE AID RESTORED
said. "As a legislator I am always
trying to find ways to help local
governments increase their ser-vices
to the public and these
badly-needed funds will help."
DAYLIGHT SAVING
TIME BEGINS
SUNDAY, APRIL 24
2 a.m.
MOVE CLOCKS
AHEAD 1 HOUR
Anthony Santino, newly-elected
Village Trustee who re-placed
retired Trustee Nicholas
Cinque, was appointed liaison
officer for the Grist Mill
Museum Committee at the re-cent
Village Organization Night.
Trustee Santino will have his
first opportunity to meet mem-bers
of the committee, plus
representatives of the organiza-tions
who will be taking part in
the upcoming Huckleberry
Frolic at their organization
meeting on Wednesday, May
4th, at 8 Pom, in" the Village HaU
basement. This will be the one
and only meeting for the par-ticipants
in the Frolic so it is
most important that all be
present in order to report on the
type of booth or game they will
be having. In return, the Com-mittee
will promise sunshine for
the day - June 18th from 10
aomotdlOp.m,
At times those who work
through the Igng day serving
food or supervising games, ask
how their hard-earned dollars
have been spent. Since last year,
and the most recent acquisition,
a new sophisticated burglar
alarm system has been installed,
A number of years ago a fire
alarm system was installed.
There will also be a new custom
made cabinet to use as a stand
for the 1900 miniature village
built by John Bishop. The MUl
model has also been moved to
the schoolroom where it will be
displayed. New blown-up poster
photos are being mounted to be
displayed in the Petretti Barber
Shop and a 1910 blow-up of the
Woods Avenue School, when
there were many trees and no
houses in the vicinity, will be
shown along with some original
pencil drawings by the Woods
Avenue students, A new case is
being built to be placed in the
"fire room'* to display old LIRR
material and photos. If any local
retired trainman has anything
from old timetables to a rail-road
car, the committee will be
happy to hear about it.
Don't forget, mark your
calendar - May 4th - Frolic
Meeting!
You see it FIRST
And most times ONLY
In the OBSERVER
Village Board
Report
Lynbrook U.S.A.
The Lynbrook Village Board
held its regular meeting on
April 18th. The meeting was
convened without Trustee
Maurice Ornstein, who had run
(or was still running) in the
Boston Marathon that morning.
Probably the most important
item of business was the adop-tion
of the 1983-84 Budget. As
reported in last week's issue, the
budget calls for the same tax
rate as this year, $2,48 per $100
of assessed valuation.
As always at the second
meeting of the month. Depart-ment
Reports were submitted by
all Department Heads covering
activities during March. In his re-port,
Fire Chief Thomas Ryan
noted it was his last and intro-duced
the new Chief, Kevin
Michaud, and his deputies.
Along with Police statistics.
Chief Frank Kehr reported on
the voluntary fingerprinting pro-gram
.which will be instituted in
the Lynbrook Schools.
Mayor William Geier appoint-ed
and swore in the following:
Edward Montgomery, Kenneth
Hughes (Board of Architectural
Review); George Xydias, Barbara
Keenan, Roland Bell (Zoning
Board of Appeals); Kevin
Murtagh (Deputy Prosecuting
Attorney).
The Mayor also issued various
Proclamations: May as Senior
Citizens Month; Law Day, May
2nd (see article page 7); Buddy
Poppy Month for the VFW;
Continued on Page 3
VENDING MACHINES
REMOVED IN LYNBROOK
The Village of Lynbrook has
made the Gannett Newspaper
Chain remove the "USA Today"
vending machines which appear-ed
on Village streets over the
weekend of April 9th.
Mayor William P, Geier had
Gannett contacted after it was
determined that no permit had
been issued for placing these
blue and white boxes, chained to
utility poles, on Lynbrook street
corners. Village ordinances re-quire
a permit for any obstacle
placed on a sidewalk.
The vending machines were
removed on Friday, April 15th,
by a crew of 5 Gannett work-men,
after the Village threaten-ed
to remove and impound the
vending machines if the com-pany
failed to do so.
The County of Nassau, the
Town of Hempstead and New
York City rare also discussing
the removal of these machines
in their jurisdictions.
East RoekaMay
School Board
BUDGET HEARING
RETIREMENTS
BALLOT PLACES
Highlights of East Rockaway
School Board Meeting Monday
night:
* Presentation of the Budget
for 1983-84 (printed in the
recent INSIGHTS mailing-and
worked up in a new format)
adopted later in the evening. The
estimated tax rate was updated
(see following item) to an esti-mated
$26,24 per $100.
Since the publication of the
initial 1983-84 budget request
several changes have occurred.
The sum total of which will re-duce
the estimated tax increase
for the resident. The following
adjustments have been made
during the past few weeks:
Fuel oil, reduced anticipated
cost per gaUon-$18,000
Change in BOCES special
education tuition ration from
Tier II to Tier I - $27,000
Increase in projected fund
balance - $177,000,
The new reduced estimated
tax rate depending upon final
setting by the Nassau County
Board of Supervisors wll be
$26,24, This represents an in-crease
of $ 1.88,
(The preceding amounts were
made pubhc by Superintendent
Michael Maiden)
* Acceptance of resignations
effective June 1983, under the
terms of the new "Retirement
Incentives Plan" of Mrs. Rita
Barrett, Mrs. Isabel Hefele, Mr.
Francis Henrich, Mrs. Dorothy
Larson, Mr. John Pellicane, Mr.
Howard Pollock and Mr. John
Ruckdeschel.
Selection of positons on
the ballot for the election to be
held May 10th: 1) Mary Jane
Brezenoff, 2) Rose Marie
Brande, 3) Michael Racanelli,
4) Eileen Campbell, 5) Richard
Meagher, 6) Michael Stock.
4 PTAs SPONSOR
CANDIDATES FORUM
East Rockaway's 4 PTAs will
sponsor a forum, giving members
of the community the oppor-tunity
to ask questions of the six
candidates who are bidding for
the two available seats up for
election to the Board of Edu-cation.
The forum, being moderated
by a representative of the
League of Women Voters, will
be ehld on Thursday, April 28th,
at 8 p.m, in the East Rockaway
High School Auditorium,
All members of the commun-ity
are urged to attend to help
in selecting a candidate care-fully
and intelligently.