Observer_1985-07-17; East Rockaway/Lynbrook Observer

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VOL. 32 NO. 34 Wednesday, July 17,1985 30c PER COP^
McGrath Cites Police Gulotta U r g c s B a y P a r k I m p r o v e m e nt
CERTIFICATE OF MERIT. Congressman Ray McGrath
congratulates Nassau County Fourth Precinct Police offic-ers
on receiving the Congressman's Congressional Certifi-cate
of Merit at an awards ceremony held in Congressman
McGrath's Valley Stream office. Police officers Frank Mor-ris
(second right) of Lynbrook and Robert Gaily of North
Valley Stream wer« commended for a robbery arrest which
took place in the community of Inwood. Officer Michael
Risolo of East Rockaway was commended for a burglary
arrest which took place in the Village of Lawrence. Each of
these officers were recommended to receive the Police
Department's third highest award, the Medal of Commen-dation.
Also attending Congressman McGrath's award
ceremony is Fourth Precinct's Commanding officers,
Inspector Herman Jorgensen (second left) and Deputy
Inspector Richard Littell (left). The Fourth Precinct over-sees
the communities of the Five Towns, East Rockaway,
Oceanside, Island Park among others. AFS Bus
At the urging of Hemp-s
t e a d Town Presiding
S u p e r v i s o r Thomas S.
Gulotta, the Nassau County
Board of Supervisors has
giv6n the County Depart-
. ment of Public Works
authorization to conduct an
engineering study which will
lead to improvements in the
sludge transmission main
which links the Cedar Creek
Water Pollution Control
Plant in Wantagh with the
Bay Park Water Pollution
C o n t r o l Plant in East
Rockaway.
According to Gulotta, in
the 13 years since the com-pletion
of the 10.5 mile long
cast iron transmission main,
repeated failures of the sys-tem
have occurred resulting
in the spillage of sludge or
secondary effluent.
"Failures of this type,"
Supervisor Gulotta noted,
"cause significant disruption
to the sewage treatment pro-cess
as well as resulting in
increased odors in the sur-rounding
communities."
Recent studies indicate
that the corrosive nature of
the surrounding soil has
caused the integrity of the
piping system to be signifi-cantly
undermined. In the
last year alone, repeated
breaks in the force main in
the tunnel area at the Bay
Park Plant have caused
On Saturday night, July
6, at East Rockaway High
School, the AFS Chapters
of ERHS and Lynbrook
hosted a bus stop for 39
exchange students from
many countries such as Ice-land,
South America, Israel,
J o r d o n , West Germany,
Italy, Spain, etc.
The above picture shows
East Rockaway Supermten-dent
of Schools Robert
Parry with some of the stu-dents
as they completed
their pot luck dinner. Na-tive
dishes such as La-sagna,
swedish meatballs,
homemade bread and Ken-tucky
Fried Chicken were
served.
Thanks to Bob Parry,
operating difficulties at both
plants as well as an increase
in noticeable odors.
"The Board of Supervi-sors
has approved funding
for a complete engineering
study of possible modifica-tions
to the existing force
main," Supervisor Gulotta
noted. "Completion of this
study and the implemeitta-tion
of its findings will not
only enhance the safety and
efficiency of the operations
at Cedar Creek and Bay
Park, it will mean still
further rec'uctions in the
odors which must be borne
by area residents.
Gulotta termed this latest
project just another step in
the County's efforts to pro-vide
residents with essential
services while exerting every
effort to maintain the qual-ity
and integrity of our
environment.
Museum Celebrates Scouting Anniversary
AFS had the use of the
school cafeteria to accomo-date
the 87 people who
a t t e n d e d . After e a t i ng
beyond capacity, singing
and dancing followed until
9:30 P.M.
The party then resumed
intact to the home of Tom &
Bea Klepak. (President,
AFS Chapter East Rock-way).
Sandy Lehner, E.R.
AFS Coordinator, put in
many long hours arranging
the dinner and four days of
h o s t i n g . The schedule
included a picnic, Softball
game, a day in New York
City, Talent Show at Lyn-brook
High School and
thanks to the host families, a
party for the kids every
night.
if you would be interested
in being a host family for 3
days to I year, and to be
involved in an interesting,
exciting, wonderful expe-rience
for you and your
children call: Sandy & Phil
Lehner - 599-5343, Bea &
Tom Klepak - 599-5603,
Eleanor & Jack Wetchler -
887-1967, Carolyn & Joe
Stein- 599-6155.
Scouting was a way of life
for many boys and young
men in East Rockaway start-ing
with Troop # I in 1940. In
a newsrelease in the VOICE,
Art Roemer wrote the his-tory
of the Troop's begin-ning.
Many of the names
therein may be familliar to
many still living in the Vil-lage
today. The Grist Mill
museum will feature two
special exhibits, this month,,
salvuing the -75th. anniver-sary
of the Boy scouts of
America.
East Rockaway's first
troop of Boy Scouts was
formed back in 1914, just
two years after the Boy
Scouts of America was offi-c
i a l l y c h a r t e r e d as-a
national organization by an
Act of Congress. Trop 1 was
anriong Nassau's original
units and with its formation,
a tradition of Scouting was
s t a r t e d here which was
strong enough to carry on
through the ups and downs
of the past 28 years.
Troop 1 was chartered by
a committee of men and a
group of boys, many of
whom are still active in East
Rockaway-and not a few
have retained their connec-tion
with Scouting ever since
that time.
The original committee
was made up of Dr. Jaques,
chairman; Mr Sackman,
Mr. Phipps, and Dr. Adair.
The sponsoring institution
was Bethany Congrega-tional
Church.
The officers were Charles
Curtis, Scoutmaster, and
Matthew Kuckens and Rus-sell
Davison serving at
Assistant Scoutmasters.
Among the Scouts were the
following: George Hunt,
Charles Johnson, Henry
Bang, Philo Lee, William
Reynolds, Charles Gibson,
Floyd Magee, David Mor-gan,
John Wilke, Howard
Mason, James Mount,
J a m e s Zimmer, Oliver
Langdon and Frederick
Schlick.
Carried along in a steady
wave of enthusiasm the
Troop soon reached the
standard size with four full
Patrols of eight Scouts each.
Under the supervision of
Harold Oakley in the drums
and James Dayton In Fife
and bugle, the first drum
corps was started and soon
became well known not only
in the village, but all over the
county.
Came 1917-and the Uni-ted
States entered the World
War. For Scouts from Long
Island to California there
had started the period of
wildest activity that the
organization has yet known.
By Congressional order, the
Scouts were mobilized from
coast to coast for War
Service.
Troop 1, East Rockaway,
was no exception. In the war
years from 1917 to 1919, it
made ah er^yiable record
only to be reached again if
the country is drawn Into
another lite and death strug-gle
with another nation.
In the summers of 1914
and '15 there were great
Scout mobilizations at
Mineola, where the boys
were addressed by Theodore
Roosevelt and Dan Beard.
Pup tents were staked out
and in the three day
encampment the scouts were
made ready for duty serving
the country at home in the
case of any emergency.
With the declaration of
war, the Scouts were pre-pared
to do their part
instantly. The village was
split up into districts and
soon many thousands of
dollars worth of Liberty
Loan bonds and War
Stamps were sold by the
troop. War gardens were
started to raise the needed
additional food, since a
rationing system had gone
into effect and people could
only buy limited food
supplies.
At night there was a grow-ing
demand for the services
of the drum corps to march
in parades followed by the
troop -each Scout carrying a
burning torch. In the pro-cession
came the Troop's
hand drawn "covered
wagon" trailer and the bicy-cle
patrol. Activity and
excitement were at a high
peak -days which will
forever linger in the memo-ries
of the Scouts who lived
through them.
Then came the Armistice
and peace in 1919 - the world
had changed and been
thrown out of joint. Gone
were the nervous hectic days
of the war years and Troop I
quietly relapsed - Scouting
had a seven year sleep until
Troop 50 started in 1926.
. 8 FINEST. Police Sergeant, Gary Knacke is
shown here receiving the "Lynbrook PEA Officer of the
Year" medal from PBA President James Fotis. Sgt. Knacke
also holds the Elks Club Award for "Police Officer of the
Year". Also present for the presentation were, from left to
nght. Mayor William P. Geier, Police Chief Frank Kehr and
Trustee Stephen T. Grogan, liaison to the Police Depart-ment.
(Photo by John Cribbin)