Observer_1983-11-30; East Rockaway/Lynbrook Observer

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INCORPORATED VILLAGE
East Rockaway
SCHOOL DISTRICT
INCORPORATED VILLAGE
Lynbrook
SCHOOL DISTRICT
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VOL. 32 NO. 3 Wednesday, November 30,1983 25c PER COPY
Legal Probe of Board of
Education Finances Urged
KIWANIS HOLDS PARADE. The East Rockaway Kiwa-nis
Club held its Annual Thanksgiving Rag-A-Mul7in
Parade down Main Street, East Rockaway. The Parade
started at the Denton Avenue parking lot, and ended at the
Grant Avenue Fire House, where the children were treated
to cartoons, prizes and a visit by the old gentleman himself,
Santa Claus. Attending the parade were: (left to right) Bob
Sisko, Village Trustee Irving Shaw, Mayor Ted Reinhard,
Kiwanis President John Krull, Village Trustee Anthony
Santino, and two rag-a-muflHns.
Santa Comes to Town
Children will thrill to a-visit
fronri "Santa by Helic-opter"
Saturday, Dec. 10, at
six Nassau County Parks.
Nassau Recreation and
P a r k s C o m m i s s i o n er
Abram C. Williams said pre-
Handing festivities will begin
an hour prior to the arrival
at each park and will include
entertainment, clowns, car-oling,
hot chocolate, cookies
and candy canes.
The program is co-sponsored
by the Suburbia
Federal Savings & Loan
Association in cooperation
with the Nassau County
Police Department, which is
replacing Dasher, Dancer,
Donner, Blitzen and com-pany
for the day's air trips
by helicopter.
Scheduled arrival times at
the various parks are as fol-lows:
10:30 a.m., Bay Park
at the end of First Avenue,
East Rockaway
As the Christmas season
draws closer, and thoughts
of gifts "receivable" start to
dance in the heads of
youngsters, many Nassau
County parks will set up
beginning Thanksgiving
Day special "Santa's Mail-boxes"
for children to drop
off their lists.
Nassau Recreation and
P a r k s C o m m i s s i o n er
Abram C. Williams said
each child will receive a spe-cially
ornamented reply
from Santa's headquarters
at the North Pole. He sug-gested
that letters be
dropped off in the red and
green mail boxes by Sunday,
Dec. 18 and that names and
addresses be written legibly
so that Santa can send a
reply in time for Christmas.
"Santa's Mailboxes" will
be set up at the following
locations: Bay Park at the
end of First Ave., East
Rockaway; Cantiague Park,
For further information,
call the Special Events Unit
of the Nassau County
Department of Recreation
and Parks at 542-4442.
The Concerned Citizens
Against the Bond Issue have
called on New York State
Attorney General Robert
Abrams to launch an inves-tigation
into the Board of
Education's use of public
funds to publish and dis-tribute
literature advocating
passage of their $10.4 mil-lion
demolition bond issue.
In a statement issued by
the Citizen's Committee, the
' Attorney General was called
upon to "determine the
legality of the Board's
employment of public funds
for the advocation of the
passage of this bond issue."
The Attorney General was
also asked to determine
whether the Board of Edu-cation
was acting legally
when it contracted for the
services of a public relations
professional for the express
purpose of passing this
unwanted bond issue.
The Citizens' Committee
Against the Bond Issue
further called on the Board
of Education and the Super-intendent
of Schools,
Michael Maiden, to person-ally
reimburse the school
district for any and all funds
which have been expended
to promulgate the passage of
the proposed bond issue.
The Concerned Citizens
Against the Bond Issue also
stated that it was seriously
considering a civil suit
against Mr. Maiden and the
Board to recoup the funds in
question.
The Citizens' Committee
decried the recent "Insights"
publication of the Board of
Education as the most
"deceitful and distorted
piece of journalism every
perpetrated on the public. It
told only half the story—the
Board's story. It omitted the
preponderance of facts
which clearly point to a ren-ovation
bond issue as the
most practical manner in
which to solve the problems
facing the district. The
Board of Education should
be ashamed of their latest
issue of insights.' It is
clearly a blatant form of
propaganda which gives no
thought to truth or the facts
of the matter at hand."
The Conimittee attacked,
the Board for "playing with
the figures." "We are told
that new construction costs
only $34 per year more than
renovation. This is com-pletely
untrue." The state-ment
noted that a renova-tion
bond issue will mature
in 15 years, while a new con-struction
bond matures in 30
years. "The Board would
have us believe that the dif-ference
is only $34 per year.
This is true for the first 15
years. During the next 15
years, however, the differ-
Spring 1984 Internship Opportunities
Assembly Speaker Stan-ley
Fink has 'announced
spring internship opportuni-ties
in his Long Island
offices.
Internship positions are
a v a i l a b l e for qualified
under-graduate and gradu-ate
students enrolled at any
college or university.
Interns will have a unique
opportunity to have "hands-on"
experience in state
government while research-ing
public policy issues.
Interns will assist the Speak-er's
staff in community out-reach
designed to get feed-back
on existing and
pending state legislation,
interns are expected to fol-
Anyone who is currently not registered to vote and wishes
to do so in the upcoming bond referendum election may
register on December 3 and 6 at the East Rockaway High
School. Registration times vary, so all interested persons
should call the High School at 599-4550 for information.
Absentee ballots will not be used in this election. They will
be available for use in the East Rockaway School District
beginning in 1984.
ence is $121 per year. The
Board has been called to
task on this very point in the
past, yet they insist on
advertising this fallacy as the
truth. And that is playing
with the facts."
The Concerned Citizens
Against the Bond Issue
urged voters to consider all
the facts—not just the Board
of Education's lies and dis-tortions-
before they vote
on December 13th.
School Administrator Participates
In State Education Conference
Robert Jacoby of East
Rockaway Public Schools
, has just returned from a spe-cial
2-day fall conference for
new school administrators
that was coordinated by the
New York State Education
Department.
Commissioner of Educa-tion
Gordon M. Ambach
personally greeted the con-ference
participants and
provided them with a review
of the educational needs of
students in New York State
with particular emphasis on
the leadership at local levejs
that can have an important
impact on the improvement
of instruction. Commis-sioner
Ambach emphasized
that new school administra-tors
have a key role to play
in developing and streng-thening
the education pro-gram
in local schools.
Deputy Commissioner of
Education Gerald Free-borne
presented important
parts of the Regents Action
Plan and focused attention
on the need for improved
curricula and an increased
efficiency of instruction.
low up on constituent
inquiries and casework.
Applicants should
highly motivated and pos-sess
excellent writing and
research skills. Iifternship
hours are flexible but must
meet the standards of the
student's university. Interns
should arrange to receive
academic credit from their
school. There is no stipend
for these internships.
This internship is open to
students from all academic
disciplines, but applicants
should have a special inter-est
in New York State
government and community
relations. Please contact
Beth Hershenhart, Director,
Speaker's Long Island
offices, for an interview
before December 15. Call
(516) 333-2110.
HOLIDAY FESTIVITIES. The children «t the Jack and
Jill Montessori School of East Rockaway recently com-pleted
a unit on pilgrims and Indians. Each child made and
wore his own Indian headdress.