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VOL. 32 NO. 42 Wednesday, September 11,1985 30c PER COPY
Vulcan Company Sweeps
Fourth Home Tourney
BUCKET BRIGADE. Vulcan Co. member Al Amalfitano
hands bucket to Guy Izzo during bucket brigade.
Combining four first
place finishes with two
seconds out of eight events,
Vulcan Engine Company #2
swept to its fourth consecu-tive
victory in the annual
Lynbrook Fire Department
Home Tournament. This
year's event held at Greis
Field on Sunday, September
8, may have seen both par-t
i c i p a n t s and spectators
dampened by a passing
shower, but the rain did not
deter the enthusiasm of the
"Green Machine."
Vulcan Company won
The Running Hose, Run-ning
Hose replacement Effi-ciency
replacement and the
East Rockaway Village Board Report
two-in-one Hose plus a
second in the running hook
and ladder. Their total of 33
points was four more than
second place Engine Com-pany
who took three first
place finishes in Running
Hook and Ladder, Effi-ciency
and Buckets. Truck
Company was third with 26
points while Tally Ho and
Hose company tied with
fifteen.
Next time you visit Greis
Park, notice the color of the
Firemen's Memorial Arch.
It will remind you of this
y e a r ' s L y n b r o o k Fire
Department's Tournament
Champs.
TROPHY WINNERS. Chief Robert CItKovic, second
from left, presents winning team Captain Clenn Staudier the
first place trophy. Looking on, left to right, is 2nd Deputy
Peter Skeris, Lt. John Mat/en, 1st Deputy Robert Gleason,
3rd Deputy Richard Neidecker and Tournament Chairman
Richard MiJIer.
The members of the East
Rockaway Village Board
met at the Village Hall on
Monday, September 9, 1985
in regular session.
The Police Department
reported 11 arrests and a
total of 494 traffic viola-tions,
as well as 19 accidents.
Trustee George Perry con-gratulated
the Fire
Department for the many
trophies it won over the
summe:r months, while
Trustee Anthony Santino
reported on the Youth
Board and a meeting
between Nassau County
Executive Francis Purcell
and the members of the
Board regarding the contin-uing
problem of traffic on
Ocean Avenue. Trustee Irv-ing
Shaw congratulated the
Cultural Arts Council Co-
Chairman Emma Tolmach
and Charlotte Berch for a
suctessl'vl Arts and Crafts
Fair, and Mrs. Mildred
Roemer for another success-ful
year of operation at the
Grist Mill.
The Fire Department
reported 92 rescue calls, 9
You Can Fight
Airplane Noise
Many residents have
complained of low-flying
airplanes over the Villages
of East Rockaway and Lyn-brook.
there are minimum
standards that each airline
must adhere to in order that
they be allowed to continue
to land at LaGuardia and
Kennedy Airports.
There is a way to combat
noise from low-flying air-craft.
Clip this article and
keep it near your telephone,
and call these numbers each
and every time you believe
an airplane is flying too
close to the ground.
PORT AUTHORITY
(516) 747-1417
(516) 371-2330
FEDERAL AVIATION
ADMINISTRATION
(516) 285-6880
Residents are urged to call
these numbers and leave
their name, address and time
name, address and time of
day that they are calling .so
that these agencies may
monitor the aircraft that fly
over Long Island. The more
people to call, the more
pressure that can be exerted
over the companies that use
the airspace over the homes
of the residents of Nassau
County.
general alarms, 4 still
alarms, 2 chiefs investiga-tions,
and 7 training sessions
for a total of 872 man-hours.
Chief Thomas Cittadino
noted that he had just driven
home the new car approp-iated
for the Fire Depart-ment,
and stated that it met
all specifications. The Auxil-iary
Police reported that it
had patrolled 417 miles and
put in 236 man-hours, while
the Department of Public
Works stated that it had col-lected
719 tons of garbage
and 34 tons of rubbish, and
swept 225 miles of roadway.
The Library reported an
addition of 512 books and
films, for a total monthly
circulation of 10,509, which
is almost 1,000 ahead of last
year.
The Board approved a
request by the East Rocka-way
Athletic Association
(Raiders) to hold its annual
parade on Saturday, Sep-tember
21 beginning at 7:30
pm in Bay Park and pro-ceeding
through the Village.
It also approved a request
from the East Rockaway
Liberty Centennial Com-mittee
to install a 4 X 8 foot
sign at the American Legion
Triangle from October 1,
1985 through July 4, 1986.
The Board appointed Mr.
Joseph Lores to the Youth
Board, for a term expiring
on Aprit 1, 1986, and autho-rized
the installation of a
tree on the front lawn of the
Village Hall in commemora-tion
of former Mayor Cha-rles
Krull, who served as
Trustee from 1955 through
1959 and Mayor from 1959
through 1967. The Board
approved the scheduling of a
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Closing Of The Mill And Loss Of A Friend
by Mildred Roemer
"Haven't seen anything
like this on the Island!"
exclaimed a tall, dark man
from Freeport who, with his
wif& and children, visited the
Grist Mill Museum the last
hour on the last day of the
1985 season. Mary Gipson,
h o s t e s s on duty, and
Mildred Roemer, commit-tee
chairman, both agreed
that a tape recorder should
be kept on hand in the future
for his and many other
favorable comments.
The museum committee is
proud of the continued pro-gress
in being able to share
new exhibits and keep the
building in repair, mainly
due to dedicated volunteer
work and the support of the
community through the
Huckleberry Frolic.
Labor Day, the closing
day, also marked the sad
passing of a good Friend, W.
Wesley Hill in Phoenix,
Arizona. If it had not been
for the efforts of Mr. Hill,
Village attorney some 20
years ago, along with the
late Mayor Charles Krull,
Mr. and Mrs, Lyman Davi-son,
Gene Torberg, and
Douglas A. Wilke, the 1688
structure would have been
bulldozed into rubble, a fate
that has robbed the Village
of other landmarks.
Mr. Hill was a resident of
many years of Lynbrook,
where he lived until 1968,
when he retired to Arizona.
He was a graduate of St.
John's School of Law and
served as an attorney in pri-vate
practice in Lynbrook
with the firm Hill, Lent and
Iroescher. He also served
the community as Lynbrook
School Attorney, East
Rockaway Village Attor-ney,
and the Bay Park Fire
District Attorney.
He is survived by his wile,
Ruth, daughters Nance
W. Wesley Hill
North and Barbara Harri-son,
three grandchildren
and one great-grandchild.
Funeral arrangements were
made by Lundberg Golden
Door Chapel, and burial
was in Sunland Memorial
Park, Arizona.
When the museum first
opened, there were but a few
exhibits to be seen. Only the
Davison office on the main
floor, the fire pumper in the
"fire room", and the milling
area were completed. Also
completed on the upper
floor was the Bay exhibit
with the Bayman, clad in
authentic oilskins standing
in his punt before a back-ground
of Hewlett Bay. The
duckboat in which he stands
is supplied with a rare jock-ing
lantern and is filled with
eel and clam baskets. Later
the Home Life exhibit, the
Tool exhibit, and Shipwreck
displays were added as was
the Sam Rhame Store
downstairs. In recent years
the Indian exhibit and a spe-cial
case for revolving exhib-its
were added, and near
Sam Rhame's store there is a
barber shop, dentist's office,
and a schoolroom. None of
these "happenings" could
have been achieved without
the hard work of volunteers,
the organizations who raise
funds at the Huckleberry
Frolic, and Wesley Hill,
whose influence on East
Rockaway as Village attor-ney,
and the involvement of
a handful of others brought
their dream of a Museum for
the Village into a reality.
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DRIVE SAFELY FOR OUR KIDS. Lynbrook Mayor Wil-liam
P. Geier and Trustee and Deputy Mayor Norman L.
Dreyer remind residents that SCHOOLS OPEN - DRIVE
CAREFULLY. Posters, as shown above, have been put up
throughout the Village. (Photo by John Cribbin)