Observer_1984-12-19; East Rockaway/Lynbrook Observer

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VOL. 33 NO. 5 Wednesday, December 19,1984 25c PER COPY
FROIVI OF 4IS...IO all of you, the Publisher, Kdilor
and Staff of the KaM Kockaway l.ynbrook Observer extend
our very best wishes for a joyous holiday season and a
peaceful New Year.
Kremer Sponsors Bill
Assemblyman Arthur J,
Kremer will sponsor a bill in
the next legislative session to
provide a jail sentence
and I or fine for persons who
withhold public documents
from a "freedom of informa-tion"
request.
"The freedom of informa-tion
law was passed in 1977
to insure the media and the
pu,blic access . to govern-ment's
or public institutions'
documents," said Kremer.
"Unfortunately, it had no
provision to punish some-one
who lies about the
information sought."
The Kremer bill would
make it a misdemeanor for a
person to "knowingly and
falsely, with intent to
defraud, deceive or injure
(refuse a) request for any
record" under the freedom
of information act. An
offender could get up to a
year and a $1,000 fine. Kre-mer
is carrying this bill at the
request of Nassau District
Attorney Denis Dillon.
The legislation was
drafted after the district
attorney's office got a com-plaint
from a reporter for
the "Jewish Wprld" news-paper.
A spokesman for the
newspaper said in February,
1984, it had requested from
the State University at
Stony Brook "all documents
soliciting funds from Middle
Eastern governments or
businesses." The university
administrator said there
were no such dociiments,
reports the spokesman. "In
July, the 'Village Voice' pub-lished
an article saying that
the university had a grant
proposal for an $11 million
Islamic studies center to be
funded by the King Faisal
Foundation of Saudi Ara-bia,"
she added.
MOI.l.OY BAI.L. Among the many local dignitaries that
supported Motloy C ollege at its Annua) Ball this past month
were (left-right): Rev. Msgr. Kdward I.. Melton, Vice-
( hairman of the IVIolloy College Board of Trustees and
Pastor of St. Agnes Cathedral Parish in Rockville Centre;
Robert Becker, proprietor of Frank J. Becker Insurance of
l.ynhrook and a member of the Molloy College President's
Club; Sister Katherine (Jee, Director of the Mulloy College
Institute for International Peace and Justice; and Anthony
Santino, a member of the Kast Rockaway Village Board of
Trustees.
Becker
Outlines
PCB Plan
With the details now set.
Assemblyman Gregory R.
Backer (R-C, Lynbrook)
today outlined his five point
plan to remove the safety
hazards created by PCB-cooled
transformers and
capacitors.
PCS (Polychiorinated
Bipheryl) is a known carce-nbgenic.
Recent exposure of
F^CB'S'from burning trans-formers
and capacitors to
emergency personnel has
prompted Becker to take the
iijjitiative in identifying and
removing the potential
threat.
The five point plan calls
fbr:
~ ~ moving the phase but
date of PCB cooled trans-formers
and capacitors from
Dec. 31 1988 to Dec. 31,
1986.
~ mandating that all enti-ties,
public or private,
immediately provide the
Department of Environ-mental
Conservation with
the locations of all PCB-cooled
transformers and
capacitors.
— identification of the
dates when all existing or
replaced PCB-cooled trans-formers
and capacitors were
installed or removed.
~ identification of all
PCB spills within the past
seven years, and
~ identification of PCB
Manufacturers.
"Contamination by PCB^
pose a safety hazard and
place a considerable burden
on emergency services which
must pay for costly decom-tamination
of their equip-ment,"
Becker said.
"By simply . identifying
PCB-cooled transformers
and capacitors," he con-tinued,
"emergency person-nel
will be able to respond
with proper caution if they
ignite or explode. Local res-idents
will also have the
piece-of-mind of knowing
where these potentially
deadly threats are located.
"1 will be fighting for a
speedy adoption of this leg-islation.
Every possible
safeguard must be taken to
insure that needless expo-sure
to this carcenogen is
provided," Becker concluded.
Holy Name Society Awards
On Sunday the 9th of
December, awards by the
Diocesean Union of Holy
Name Societies were pres-ented
at St. Raymond's
monthly meeting. The occa-sion
was the Annual "KEEP
CHRlSTinCHRlSTMAS"
poster contest. The judges
were artists Rita Williamson
and Joan Chiaffitelli and
architect Bill Ruggiero; all
residents of East Rockaway.
The Diocesean Union con-sists
of all Catholic parishes
in Nassau & Suffolk
counties.
Members of St. Ray-monds
parish and residents
of East Rockaway should be
particularly proud of the
talent and imagination of
Miss Chritine Campagnoni,
a 3rd grader, who lives on
Ocean Avenue. Christie won
the grand prize for rendition
ofthe Nativity scene within a
Christmas wreath.
Awards for the best pos-.
ters by grade at St. Ray-mond's
school were as
follows:
Grade 1 - Timothy
Murphy
Grade 2 - Mary Jean Cea
Grade 3 - Christine Cam-pagnoni
& Catherine
Cafferty
Grade 4 - Kim Ricardo
G r a d e 5 - J o s e ph
Zambrotto
Grade 6 - Christine Bagley
The awards were pres-ented
by James Groark,
Chairman of this year's con-test
in addition to St. Ray-mond's
individual awards,
awards were presented to
other students throughout
the Diocese. Frank White,
past President ofthe Union,
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presented these awards to
these young "angels", with
their proud parents beam-ing.
Frank White and Co-
Chairman Mike Buscemi
were thanked by Lou Bosso,
vice president of St. Ray-mond's
Holy Name and
Rev. William Singleton,
pastor of St. Raymond's led
us in a prayer of thanks to
the Almighty for granting
these artistic talents on our
young people and impress-ing
upon us the true mean-ing
of Christmas. .
FIRST PRI/K. Contest Chairman.lim C^roark (toppiiiiire.
left) congratulates Christine Campagnoni on her (.Irund
Prize entry.
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WINNKRS. Kim Ricardo displays her prize winning entry
while her parents, Walter and Josephine Ricardo, look on.
Hippy HoMiyil ( ( 0N(;RATIILATI0NS. ( hristina Bagley is congratulated
I by her mother, Mrs. Terry Bagley, and brother Stephen.