Observer_1985-04-17; East Rockaway/Lynbrook Observer

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INCORPORATED VILUGE
East Rockaway
SCHOOL DISTRICT
INCORPORATED VILLAGE
Lynbrook
SCHOOL DISTRICT
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VOL. 23 NO. 21 Wednesday, April 17,1985
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T R E E PLANTING. East Rockaway Mayor Theodore
Reinhard, Trustee Anthony Santino and Village Historian
Mildred Roemer toss in the first shovels of dirt in planting a
tree donated by Cub Scout Pak 84.
Following last week's
completion of the New York
State budget for 1985-86,
with its healthy increase in
state aid for education, the
East Rockaway Board of
Education began final prep-aration
of the specal issue of
Insights, outlining details
of the proposed 1985-86
school district operating
budget of just under $9.5
m i l l i o n . The proposed
budget includes an increase
of $3.90 over last yiear's
budget of $29.03 for a final
proposed tax rate of $32.93.
School Tax Rate of
$32.93/Hundred Sought
" L a s t year's revised
budget of $8,658,045 repres-e
n t e d an increase of
$846,374 over the 1983-1984
budget of $7,811,671," said
Board President Richard J.
Meagher, "while the pro-posed
budget of $9,493,198
for 1985-1986 represents an
increase of $835,153."
Contractual increases in
salaries and fringe benefits
for district employees make
up the lion's share of the
over-all increase, more than
half a million dollars,
according to Meagher.
• On Saturday, April 13th,
Cub Pack 84 donated a
white flowering Dogwood
tree to the village of East
Rockaway in commemora-tion
of the Boy Scouts of
America's 75th Anniver-sary.
The tree planting
ceremony took place at the
Old Grist Mill with Mayor
Ted Reinhard, Trustee
A n t h o n y Santino and
Mildred Roemer, Chairman
of the Old Grist Mill and
Town Historian.
Special thanks to Van's
Nursery, Linden Blvd.,
Elmont for their assistance
in procuring this beautiful
tree.
Village Appointments Made
by Annette Ling
The Board of Trustees
Meeting of the Village of
Lynbrook held at Village
Hall on Monday, April 1,
1985 at 8 p.m. was notable
for the changing of the
guard in # e village govern-ment.
Bethany Church:
A Century of Sharing and Caring
i May 26, 1985, marks the
Qne Hundredth Anniver*
sary of Bethany Congrega-tijonal
Church in East Rock-a,
way as a corporate entity.
teginning was as Union
Chapel, eastablished in 1867
tb provide religious educa-tion
to the children of East
Rockaway. Many promi-njent
East Rockaway fami-lies
were involved in the
drganization of Bethany,
and their names are still
observable in the names of
some of our streets.
The name "Bethany" car-ries
with it the concept of a
place of rest and refresh-ment,
as indicated on the
stained glass representation
of the Church Seal over the
front doors. This window,
along with the Sanctuary
windows, will be pictured in
the Journal issued in con-nection
with the Centennial
Celebration.
Special events have been
planned-watch for dates
and details.
It was built, first as a
chapel, when East Rocka-way
was called "Near Rock-away."
The chapel was con-structed
to house the active
S u n d a y S c h o o l that
Lorenzo Simons had started
after he moved from Brook-lyn
and found there was no
place or worship for the
children. Adults in the vil-lage
had to travel to the
Sand Hole Methodist
Church on the border of
Lynbrook or to the Episco-pal
Church in Hewlett for
t h e i r Sunday worship.
Occasionally services were
held in the chapel by circuit-riding
ministers.
In 1885 a meeting was
held between 11 concerned
citizens who wished to form
a church of their own com-bined
with the Sunday
School. The eleven founders
all belonged to various reli-gious
denominations. So as
to show no favoritism, they
selected the Congregational
Church, related to the Pil-grims
of old, as their choice.
Senator Skelos
To Speak
New York State Senator
Dean Skelos will be the
guest speaker at the Thurs-day
evening, April 18, meet-ing
of the Lynbrook Good
Government Party.
Senator Skelos will dis-cuss
his recent legislation
that will allocate $40,000 to
help rebuild Lynbrook's
Greis Park children's play-ground
area and $10,000 for
LINK, Lynbrook's com-munity
Counseling and
Drug Abuse organization.
The meeting will be held
at the American Legion Hall
on Union Avenue at 8 PM.
All residents are invited to
attend and refreshments will
be served.
Senator Dean Skelos
The Lynbrook Good
Government Party holds
their meetings on the third
Thursday of each month at
the American Legion Hall.
Former Trustees Eugene
Scarpato and murice Orn-stein
were presented with
plaqpes by Mayor Bill Geier
with thanks for their years of
service to the people of Lyn-brook
as Trustees.
Mayor Geier adminis-tered
the oath of office to
newly elected Trustees, Ste-phen
Grogan and Leo Lan-ning
and Village Justice
John R. O'Connor and both
new Trustees took their pla-ces
on the Board.
Mayor Geier presented a
Citation of Appreciation to
Joseph Cervoni of the
D e p a r t m e n t of Public
Works who formally retired
from village service.
The village government
will work as follows: with
Mayor Geier acting as liason
with the Volunteer Fire
Department; Trustee Gro-gan
as liason with the Police
Department, the Building
Department, the Assessors
and the Drug Council; Dep-uty
Mayor Norman Dreyer
as liason to non-contractual
employees and with the
Recreation Commission,
and Trustee Bud Lanning
liason with the Lynbrook
Library and the Department
of Public Works. Trustee
Peter Ledwith will be liason
for OSHA, TVASNAC and
the village Insurance Com-mittee.
Mrs. Shirley Moskowitz
was a p p o i n t e d Village
Clerk, Chief Budget Officer
and Collector of Taxes,
Michael J. Foley was
appointed Treasuref, Jay F.
Korth, Village Attorney,
Robert Barra, Deputy Vil-lage
Attorney, Carol
Hansen, Deputy Treasurer,
Michael Krawchuk, Consul-tant
to the Mayor and
Board, Phil Marino, Village
(Continued on Page 10)
Other significant increas-es
include: insurance costs,
up $54,000; maintenance/
utilities costs, up $63,000;
debt service, up $73,000;
textbooks, up $18,000;
computer aided instruction,
up $34,000; transportation,
up $16,000; cost oif replacing
a part-time consultant with
a full-time Business Admin-istrator,
up $31,000; and
first-year costs of the dis-trict's
new asbestos abate-ment
program, $40,000.
According to a budget
message developed by the
Board for inclusion in
Insights, the 1985-1986
budget includes "costs of
...new labor contracts, bond
issue interest costs, oil spill
clean-up costs, and the first
year costs of our asbestos
removal/ encapulation/-
containment program."
Anticipated educational
improvements include "the
introduction of an Elemen-tary
computer program, the
development of an East
Rockaway Writing Pro-gram,
the coordination of>
curriculum, and the institu-tion
of'team teaching' in our
Junior High."
Anticipated economies
includes the reduction of
three teaching positions due
to the continued decrease in
enrollment.
Counting all building aid,
total state aid for East
Rockaway in 1985-1986 is
c u r r e n t l y estimated to
increase by $375,408 to a
new high of $2,402,988.
(Continued on Page 10)
Organizations
Signing
Up For
Frolic
by Mildred Roemer
Chris and Joan Chiaffi^
telli (front row, left) met
with heads of several organ-izations
and the Grist Mill
Committee to discuss plans
for the 1985 huckleberry
frolic to be held on June 15
in Memorial Park. Those
who have offered to run
games or have food booths
i n c l u d e the American
Legion, Bay Park Civic
A s s o c i a t i o n , Bethany's
Mens Club, Cultural Arts
Council, Boy Scout Troop
332, P.T.A.'s of all the
schools. Republican Club,
Peninsula Counseling Cen-ter,
Jr. Fire Department,
and the Lynbrook-East
Rockaway Lions Club. The
Student Council of the E.R.
High School will again con-duct
the youngster's sports.
Other "old faithful" organi-zations
will send in their
selections after their local
meetings. The FINAL meet-ing
for the Frolic will be held
on May 15 at 8 p.m. in the
Village H a l l . . . j u s t one
month from the Frolic! Vin-cent
Christiano, entertain-ment
chairman, is searching
for talent. Upcoming "stars"
may contact him at LY
9-8499.