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VOL. 33 NO. 16 Wednesday, March 13 1985 30c PER COPY
Mayor and Trustees Clash at Board Meeting
AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY. East Rockaway Vil-lage
Trustee Anthony Santino (2nd from right) was among
the many local dignitaries to attend the Annual Wine and
Cheese Party of the Lynbrook/East Rockaway Chapter of
the American Cancer Society. With Trustee Santino are
(1-r): New York State Senator Dean G. Skelos; Gerry Baer,
Chapter Secretary, Dale Schroeder, Chapter President and
Steve Grogan, Good Government Party candidate for Lyn-brook
Village Trustee.
Annette Ling
The most outstanding
part of the Board of Trustees
Meeting of the Incorporated
Village of Lynbrook, held
on Monday evening, March
4, 1985, was the intense ver-bal
clash between the three
Lynbrook Trustees of the
Independent Party and
Lynbrook Mayor William
P. Geier which came at the
close of the meeting under
Good and Welfare.
Mr. John Termini from
the Mayor's Committee on
Senior Citizens was given
the floor and read a report of
the committee on their activ-ities
to date. He reported
that both he and retired
Trustee Michael Krawchuk
has several fruitless meet-ings
with representatives of
The March meeting ot the
East Rockaway Village
Board, held on Monday,
March 11, dealt in large part
with the current problem of
drug and alcohol abuse by
the youth of the community.
Special attention was drawn
to the problem of the exte-rior
of the Village Hall and
t h e B a s e m e n t Youth
Program.
Several residents objected
to an erroneous article
printed in the Local News,
which incorreclty stated that
the Youth Board was with-out
a paid director and
further incorrectly related
an incident that had occured
in the Basement late last
month. These residents alos,
complained about the youth
that congregated just out-side
the doors of the Base-ment
program, that do not
participate in the program,
who they allege abuse both
alcohol and marijuana, and
stated that they haVe noticed
an influx of cocaine use in
the community.
One resident complained
that the inside of the Base-ment
was "dingy," and
asked "How can we expect
Correction
In last week's issue of the
Observer, a typographical
error appeared in an article
regarding Rock Rivalry
ticket sales. It should have
read "Children not yet in
seventh grade are admitted
with adult supervision. '
Senior Citizens are admitted
free." We apologize for any
confusion.
Board Meeting
our children to participate in
surroundings that look like
that?" Several residents
asked for increased funding
for the Basement program
to provide better facilities
for the youth of the com-munity.
Mayor Reinhard
assured those present that
the Village Board was aware
of the problem and would be
searching for various ways
to deal with the situation.
He stated that letters had
gone to every merchant who
sells alcoholic beverages,
and stated that he would be
meeting with officers of the
Fourth Precinct to make
them aware of the problems
being experienced in Mem-orial
Park.
This being the last meet-ing
at which Trustees Eske-nazi
and Wipfler would be in
attendance. Mayor Reinh-ard
turned the meeting over
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Polling Places
Residents of East Rockaway and Lynbrook voting in
the election to be held on Tuesday, March 19, 1985, may
do so in the following places;
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Clark Street Firehouse
Centre Avenue School
Grant Street Firehouse
Marion Street School
Marion Street School
V.F.W. Building
Village Hall
Main Street Firehouse
Lynbrook
Clark Avenue School
Clark Avenue School
Lynbrook North Middle School
Davison Avenue School
Davison Avenue School
Hose Company, Blake Avenue
Vulcan Firehouse, Denton Avenue
Village Hall
Village Hall
Village Hall
American Legion, Union Avenue
American Legion, Union Avenue
Rescue Firehouse, Earle Avenue
Vulcan Firehouse, Denton Avenue
Davison Avenue School
HUD, the Federal Agency
for Housing, and werfe
informed that New York
City would likely be given
the lion's share of any funds
for senior citizens' housing
as the need was so great in
New York City and that they
also has much open land and
available sites to construct
new housing under the
HUD requirements. Mr.
Termini further stated that
they conferred with HUD
several times and also
attended a Seminar on how
to meet with HUD require-ments
for federal funds etc.
They made a brief report to
the effect of how they were
unsuccessful in their efforts
a report which was given to
Mayor Geier. The Commit-tee
is still seeking new ways
of private funding or spon-sorship
for possible new
housings for seniors in
Lynbrook.
The report brought out
the sharp rebuttal from
Trustees Ornstein, Ledwith
and Scapato, who stated
that they could not recall
ever hearing or reading such
a report from the Senior
Citizens Committee. The
definition of a report meant
by the three Trustees was a
formal written report that
could be read at a public
meeting. Since the lack of a
Senior Citizens' Report was
an issues raised at the Can-didates'
Forum, there were
remarks made about "Polit-ics,
name-calling," and gen-eral
heated exchanges
between the Trustees and
the Mayor. Mrs. Miriam
Annunciata, also a member
of the Senior Citizens'
Committee, remarked that it
seemed to narrow down to
the definition of what con-stituted
a report, but said
that the matter had been
discussed.
The Board approved
"Buddy Poppy Month" and
the Proclamation by Mayor
Geier on behalf of the How-ard
Lathrop Post #2307 of
the V.F.W.
Sgt Leonard Sprague was
promoted to the rank of
lieutenant in the Lynbrook
Police Dept. Lt. Sprague is a
veteran of 24 years of service
with many commendations.
He was sworn into office by
Mayor Geier.
A suggestion was made by
Fred Dean from Hart Street
that architects Bentel & Ben-tel
should make a new study
of the possibility of extend-ing
the present Lynbrook
Library out into the village
parking lot in the rear, thus
enlarging the building.
A proposed Amendment
to the Local Law on Parking
in regard to the hours for
parking in Field No. 8, Lyn-brook's
largest lot, will be
discussed at a Public Hear-ing
to be held at the next
meeting.
Mayor Geier asked for
additional street lighting for
the village deadend street
called Park Place, the site of
a recent tragic murder and
explained that he had been
conferring with executives
of Long Island Railroad
about adding lighting under
the trestles in that area as
well as many spots under the
LIRR in Lynbrook. The
Mayor is awaiting their
r^ply.
Members of the Recrea-
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Frolic Meeting
To Be Held March 30
Chris and Joan Chiaffi-telli,
co-chairmen for the
1985 Huckleberry Frolic,
have set March 20th at ^
p.m. for an organization
meeting for all of those who
have taken part in the Frolic
in past years and might want
to this June 15th. It will be
held downstairs in the Vil-lage
Hall. The Chiaffitelli's
are comparative newcomers
on the Grist Mill Museum
Committee and have always
enjoyed attending the Frolic
but never have been part of
it. The Frolic does not just
"run itself as many believe.
There is a lot of work
involved and hopefully eve-ryone
will pitch in and help.
A letter is in the mail to
the head of each organiza-tion
with a file card
enclosed. This card should
be filled out with the name
of the organization, their
member in charge, and a
suggestion as to what booth
by Mildred Roemer
or game they will have.
Let's make the 1985 Frolic
a bigger one than ever. The
Museum Committee already
have their sights upon the
300th anniversary of the old
Mill in 1988. Plans are being
made to invest Frolic pro-ceeds
left pver from work
needed on the Museum, so
that the entire Village will be
able to turn back the clock
300 years for a three day
"Brigadoon"-like celebration.
Christopher and Joan Chiaffiteili