Observer_1984-04-25; East Rockaway/Lynbrook Observer

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INCORPORATED VILLAGE
Lynbrook
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VOL. 32 NO. 23 Wednesday, April 25,1984 25c PER COPY
In a rare photograph
given to the Grist Mill
Museum, Professor Wells is
shown with a group of his
students. The year was 1893
and they are in front of the
old Village Hall building,
used at that time for both
day and Sunday school. The
present Village Hall stands
on the same site as does the
Museum on the site of the
two-story Woods Avenue
School which was demol-ished
in 1939.
Early residents of the Vil-lage
were deeply concerned
with the education of their
children. Today there are
f o u r schools: Centre
Avenue, Rhame Avenue, St.
Raymond Parochial, and
t h e High S c h o o l - m o st
recent of the four to have
j o i n e d the " h a l l s of
learning."
C e n t r e and Rhame
Avenue School bands in
their neat. uniforms have
always marched in the
" m i n i " o p e n i n g Frolic
parade, directed by Karl
San/.enbach. Within the
Museum, samples of art-work
loaned by the public-schools
are featured alter-nately
with those done by St.
Raymond's students. There
are also fine pencil sketches
in the Museum's one-room
school exhibit done in the
1920's by .Woods Avenue
pupils. Two scrap books,
one for grade schools and
one for the high school, are
also available. Gloria Chris-
Two Rescued in Easter Fire
SWORN IN. Newly-elected East Rockaway Fire Chief Guy
Donza (left) is sworn in by Major Theodore Reinhard at the
Fire Council's reorganization meeting on April 17.
Schools Work /
For Frolic
ind Museum
by Mildred Roemer
tiano of the Grist Mill
Museum's committee, her-self
a school teacher; is in
charge of arranging the
room.
Centre Avenue students
will add to the entertain-ment
by singing under the
direction of music teacher
Ellie Sussman, and several
St. Raymond youngsters
will perform a "breakaway"
dance. Others, still uncon-firmed,
will appear and be
announced on the program.
To volunteer, students or
"oldsters" should contact
Vincent Christiano, enter-tainment
chairman at 599-
8499, who would be glad to
hear from you. One need not
be an Oscar winner to per-form
in the showmobile!
High School students
have contributed to the
Frolic in many ways. The
large posters seen about the
Village heralding the Frolic
were pairited by studujits
under the guidance of art
teacher Kathy Palmeri.
John Bishop, Jr. High art
teacher, had his students cut
out and paint the life-size
comic "flats", each with an
open space at the head for
Frolic visitors to take snap-shots
of their friends. Stu-dents
have worked on the
popular clown make-up,
and this year-the races and
sports will return, organized
by the Class of'85. Pins and
ribbons will be awarded
winners. Thanks 85!
On rare occasions, the
handsome Rock Rivalry
stands have been saved for
the Frolic. "Hope springs
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by Steve Grogan
The still of Easier morn-ing
was interrupted by the
sound of sirens as a lire
swept through the second
lloor of a wood-framed
house on Denton Avenue.
East Rockaway. A 27 year
old man was apparently
overcome by smoke and
died before firefighters
could reach him; however,
Linda Ginty. 90 years old,
and her quadriplegic daugh-ter,
Claire, were rescued
through the efforts t^i two
teenagers from Lynbrook
and two off-duty police
olficers.
In an exclusive interview,
Robert Gordon, 18, and
Stephanie Stone, 15, both of
Lynbrook, stated that they
were returning from sunrise
mass on Easter Sunday
morning when they stopped
for a traffic light at the
corner of Atlantic and Den-ton
Avenues in East Rock-away
at approximately 6:30
A.M. Robert, looking down
Denton Avenue, saw heavy
smoke emiting from a house
about four houses irom the
intersection.
This is Robert Gordon's
account of the story:
Robert drove his car down
the deserttid street and
stopped at 80 Denton
Avenue. Both he and Ste-phaniejumped
from the veh-icle
and ran to two front
doors on house. The fire at
this point was already blow-ing
out from a second story
window. Entering the smoke
filled house they found an
elderly woman on the phone
attempting to call for help.
Having difficulty explaining
to a telephone operator
what the problem was, Ste-phanie
took the phone from
the woman and called the
East Rockaway Fire
Department.
Robert found a second
elderly woman in the bed-room
who was confined to
her bed. he picked her up out
of bed and carricd hcM" out to
the porch and then to the
front lawn. Racing back into
the house, Robert found
Stephanie searching other
rooms lor additional occu-pants
while the first woman
stayed by the front door.
As the smoke got heavier
and continued coming from
the second lloor. Robert
told Stephanie to get out of
the house. Stephanie then
took the first woman and led
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Parking Ordinances Proposed
The Parking Committee
for the Village has been
meeting, investigating park-ing
problems and .working
since August of 1983. The
first results of the Commit-tee's
efforts takes the form of
a new Local Law which was
Structural Problems
Addressed
The proposed 3.3 million
dollar renovation bond issue
for East Rockaway schools
focuses mainly on "those
items which are essential to
the safety of our children
and the long-term structural
life of our buildings or which
bring us into compliance
with the law," according to
the latest issue of Insights,
the Board of Education
newsletter mailed out to all
district residences on April 19.
Replacement of built-up
roofs which have failed is a
key item at both elementary
schools and for the flat-roof
.sections of the high school.
Repointing brickwork and
siliconing brickwork with
subsequent replastering and
refinishing interior water-damaged
walls will be done
at all three schools where
appropriate, with additional
waterproofing work and a
storage facility needed at
Rhame Avenue.
Windows in the worst
shape at all three schools
will be replaced while others
will be repaired. Those exte-rior
doors in the worst shape
at all three schools will
be replaced.
As required by law, one
elementary school (Rhame
Avenue) and the junior/se-nior
high school will be
made accessible to the
physically-handicapped.
Additional work at the
high school includes repair-ing
and repainting the cup-ola,
installation of alumi-num
gutters, replacing win-dow
wall systems, renovat-ing
six bathrooms, re-furbishing
bleachers and
cinder tracks, providing an
exterior storage facility,
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proposed on March 19, 1984
and several proposed Board
Resolutions which will be
considered at the May 7,
1984 Board Meeting.
It is an acknowledged fact
that parking m the Village,
particularly in the commu-ter
and shopping parking
fields, has become increas-ingly
a cause of serious con-cern.
Our suburban Village
is automobile-oriented and,
as the number of drivers and
cars increase (as has been an
ongoing development), so
do the parking problems.
The municipal parking
fields serving the commuter
and the shopper were once
quite adequate lor Lyn-brook's
needs, but today
there are simply not enough
parking spaces to accom-modate
the demand.
While the Village has
twenty-two municipal park-ing
fields and approximately
1 , 5 0 0 p a r k i n g s t a l ls
throughout the Village, it is
the commuter and the
shopper whose needs are not
being sufficiently met. His-torically,
the Village exer-cised
only a moderate degree
of. regulation in the use of
the municipal parking fields.
However, today, in order to
obtain the maximum benefit
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Lynbrook T o Vote on School Budget
Lynbrook residents will
go to the polls on Wednes-day,
May 2 and vote on a
p r o p o s e d $17,453,939
school budget for the 1984-
85 year. The budget, sup-ported
by the School
Administration, the Board
of Education and the Lyn-brook
Council of PTA,
represents a 2.3 percent
increase since last year and is
estimated to cost taxpayers
of one, two and three family
homes, an additional 79
cents per $100 assessed
valuation.
Superintendent of Schools
Bern Seiderman stressed the
major priority of the Board
of Education to minimize
increases without penalizing
Lynbrook's educational
programs. "Too, the Board
is sensitive to the need for
maintaining our physical
plants at a level commensu-rate
with a safe and sound
learning environment," he said.
A summary ol expenses
notes the largest hikes are in
teaching, pupil transporta-tion
and employee benefits.
Teaching provides for salar-ies
of classroom teachers,
reading teachers, health and
physical education, home
economics, industrial arts,
sciences, language arts, bus-iness
education, driver edu-cation
and substitute teach-ing.
Instructional equipment,
supplies, textbooks and tui-tion
to BOCES are also
included.
Pupil transportation is
provided to pupils within
the district in grades k
through five, who reside
more than one mile from the
school to which they are
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EAGLE SCOUTS. Former Assemblyman Dean Skelos,
candidate for the State Senate, (right) joins Troop 332
Scoutmaster Gerard Salmon in congratulating Sean
McHugh, Dan Rachek and David Glenister on attaining the
rank of Eagle Scout.