Observer_1983-02-17; East Rockaway/Lynbrook Observer

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Congressman Ray McGrath (1) presented Lynbrook Police Officer
Richard Neidecker with a Congressional Certificate of Merit for his
outstanding police work in 1982o
Neidecker earlier was chosen by the top officers of the Lynbrook
Police Dept. as recipient of the Lynbrook Police Officer of the Year
Award for his role in apprehending threft men in coiinection with a
series of super market stickups that occurred in Queens.
McGrath, who noted that many felons cross the Queens/Nassau
line to commit crimes here, said that as a result of Neidecker's
"dedication and devotion to duty three armed criminals are behind
bars today and our community is that much safer from the criminal
element." (Photo by John Cribbin)
SNOWBOUND
By STEVE GROGAN
As the snowfall finally ended early Saturday morning, Lynbrook
residents awoke to find almost 2 feet of snow had fallen. As one
looked out the window, the white snowy scene looked like a belated
Christmas card. If you were a fireman, you spent all night in a
firehouse.
At 5:30 p.m. Friday, volunteers of the Lynbrook Fire Dept.,
leaving their families h6me alone, responded to their respective fire-houses
for snow stand-by duty.
Stand-by is normally requested when driving becomes too hazard-ous
or travel too time consuming to reach the firehouses. The same
scene was repeated in the surrounding Villages and throughout Long
Island.
Thanks to our fire safety conscious residents, not one fire was
reported during the 18 hours the Lynbrook Fire Dept. was on stand-by
duty. Approximately 75 men were on duty throughout the'
storm, amounting to over 1300 man hours expended for the resi-dents
of the Village of Lynbrook. These volunteers spent the long
night in the five firehouses eating cold cuts, watching the weather
stories on TV, or tyring to get some sleep in a chair or on the floor.
The only transmissions heard on the house scanners were that of
the Lynbrook Police responding to disabled vehicles and stranded
motorists.
After the snow stopped and the sun came up, the fire trucks took
to the snow-clogged streets to begin the digging out of fire hydrants.
At 11:30 a.m., with all hydrants cleared. Chief Ryan released the
Lynbrook Fire Dept. from duty. After the long night and the shovel-ing
of fire hydrants, the firemen had two additional chores before
their work was done. The first was to dig out their cars from the fire-house
parking lots, and secondly to go home and shovel out their
own houses.
Who said the groundhog didn't see his shadow?
E.R. SCHOOL BOARD OPEN WORKSHOPS
ER; Wednesday, March 2, 7:30
p.m. at the high school; Monday,
March 7, 7:30 p.m. at the high
school.
Residents are invited to
attend any of these meetings.
The Board will be examining all
areas of the 1983-84 school
East Rockaway School Board
President Mrs. Rose Marie
Brande has advised that there are
changes in dates for upcoming
School Board Open Workshops.
The revised dates for these
meetings are: Monday, Feb. 21,
at 7:30 p.m. at 41 Grant Ave.,
ALL VILLAGE
CANDIDATES
INVITED TO
LYNBROOK DEMS
The first forum to be held
this year that will include all
candidates for Village office in
the upcoming election, will be
sponsored by the Regular Demo-cratic
Club of Lynbrook at a
special meeting on Feb. 23rd.
According to Bud Lanning,
20th AD Leader, "This could be
the only opportunity for all
Lynbrook residents to hear and
see the candidates who seek
their support."
The Club has scheduled this
meeting for a Wednesday even-ing
at the American Legion Hall
on Union Ave., beginning at
8:30 p.m., and ^ residents are
cordially invited and urged to
attend.
CARER CELEBRATES
The CARER organization,
Community Action Residents of
East Rockaway, is celebratirtg its
first anniversary on Wednesday,
Feb. 23rd, at 8 p.m. in the
East Rockaway Village Hall
Basement.
For the past year CARER*s
members have focused their
energies on building a viable,
positive community oriented or-ganization,
with lines of com-munication
beginning to be
opened between various parts of
the community.
Projects of such importance
as the Responsible Sellers Club
(retailers* cooperation with re-gard
to the sale of Alcohol to
minors), establishment of Parent
Networking systems, and "It's
OK Not to Drink" Campaign
have been achievements of
CARER thus far.
All residents of the East
Rockaway community are invit-ed
to help in the celebration on
Feb. 23rd. There will be open
house and refreshments will be
served.
For more information con-tact
Pat, 599-4891; Ann, 593-
3228, or Debbie, 593-1450.
REMEMBER
You see it first...
And most times only ...
In The
OBSERVER
budget from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m.
After that, observers will be
given an opportunity to com-ment
and make suggestions. This
format will be adhered to at
each of the above three meet-ings.
On Monday, Feb. 21, the
General Support Code of the
budget will be examined.
EAST ROCKAWAY
Village Board Report
The East Rockaway Village Board held its regularly scheduled
February meeting on Monday, Feb. 14th. The regular meeting was
preceded by a Special Public Hearing to consider returning Waldo
Ave. to a 2-way street, following the submission of petitions for
such change.
What appeared to be a routine public hearing, turned into a two
hour discussion when a few residents complained about the pro-posed
return to 2-way, because now their children used it as a play
street. After lengthy discussions pro and con, and Board members
stating their inclination to revert to 2-way status, decision was re-served
for a future determination by the Board.
The regular meeting then started and the Crime Resistance Unit
of the Nassau County Police Dept. presented a program, including a
15-minute film on burglaries and the need for resident awareness and
notification via 911 of any suspicious activities. This was a very in-formative
program and Trustee Nicholas Cinque noted that it was a
shame that all of the Waldo Ave. residents left after the public hear-ing
because many of them had complaints about conditions around
the rear of the library, in just the connection presented in the film
and discussion.
Mr. Steve Lander, head of the Village Youth Board, presented a
detailed report on the activities being conducted at the present time,
including the storefront operation and two programs at The
Basement. He emphasized that parental control was a big factor
needed to help alleviate the vandalism and other youth problems in
the Village. Again, this time Mayor Theodore Reinhard noted, that
all of the people who left would have been interested in the report,
since they have expressed concerns about youth activities.
Mr. George Berch, a member of the Lynbrook Board of Educa-tion,
and Mrs. Rhod a Dreifuss, President of the Lynbrook Teachers
Assn., both East Rockaway residents, requested the help of the
Board on the problems of cable TV, where part of the Lynbrook
School District was in East Rockaway which is serviced by Cable-vision
and cannot receive the school programs beamed by Adams-
Russell, the Lynbrook franchisee. The Board advised it would look
into the situation.
There was a lengthy discussion on traffic problems in the Village,
principally the corner of Grant and Scranton, where Nassau County
will be requested to make a survey for possible STOP signs or a
traffic signal. Mr. Walsh of Rhame Ave. thanked Trustees Cinque and
Shaw for their help on the continuing problems around Foodtown
(in this regard, there will be no parking on Rhame along the store
from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m., changed from 1 p.m.). Trustee Murray
Eskenazi noted that the snowfall pointed up the fact why overnight
parking was not allowed on streets in the Village, since snowplows
could not have done the tremendous job they did if cars were parked
on the streets.
There were many accolades on the snow removal in the Village
by the men of the DPW. A St. Raymond's Cout was given permission
to paint curb numbers as an Eagle Scput Project. Traffic signs were
authorized for the corner of Ryder and Ocean and Melrose and
Wilson. The Board wUl hold a special meeting on Feb. 24th, to
approve the Election Ballots, etc.
Next regular meeting March 14th.
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SMOOTH SAILING ^ Hempstead Town Presiding Supervisor Thomas
S. Gulotta (1) swears m Ernest Frascati of East Rockaway as commo-dore
and Mrs Regina Sena of Rosedale as president of the L^Ses
Auxibary at the East Rockaway Yacht Club's installation of officers