Observer_1985-10-16; East Rockaway/Lynbrook Observer

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VOL. 32 NO. 45 Week of Wednesday, October 16,1985 30c PER COPY
Gulotta Announces Lynbrook
Traffic Funds
ITALIAN, IRISH LEADERS ENDORSE KlNG.Nassau
County Comptroller Peter T. King (centfr) has been
endorsed for re-election by Nicholas Viglietta (left),who is
Nassau County President of the Ancient Order of Hiberni-ans.
Viglietta and Forde hailed King "for his outstanding
record of independence and for supporting the human rights
of all oppressed peoples."
Schools To Help
Save The Lady
by Carol Monaco
Hempstead Town Presid-ing
Supervisor Thomas S.
Guiotta, Vice Chairman of
the Nassau County Board of
Supervisors, today an-nounced
the execution of an
agreement between the
County and the New York
State Department of Trans-portation
which will lead to
the reconstruction and
improvement of traffic sig-nals
within the Village of
Lynbrook.
"This most recent action
is the outgrowth of an
agreement between the Vil-lage
of Lynbrook and the
County which saw the trans-ference
of approximately 30
traffic signals from Village
to County ownership,"
Gulotta noted. "The signals
received from the Village
were found to be outdated
and no longer in confor-mance
with accepted State
traffic device standards and
in need of extensive
modification."
According to Gulotta, the
lionshare of the funding for
these important safety
improvements will be pro-vided
by a grant received by
the County under the auspi-ces
of the Federal-Aid
Highway Program.
S p e c i f i c a l l y , G u l o t ta
noted that the planned traf-fic
safety program included:
modernization and recon-struction
of the existing traf-fic
signals and the intercon-nection
of signals for safer
traffic movements. Addi-tionally,
the installation of
additional traffic safety
Gloria Costs Lynbrook $80,000
The community fundrais-ing
drive for the Statue of
Liberty's restoration streng-thens
as the schools in the
village of East Rockaway
join in to help Save the
Lady.
"Schoolchildren played a
vital role in helping the
Statue 99 years ago and they
play an even more impor-tant
role today in restoring
her," said Emma Tolmach,
Chairman of the East
Rockaway Liberty Centen-nial
Committee.
To kick off the schools'
participation in the fund-raising
effort, East Rock-away
High School, Centre
Avenue, Rhame Avenue,
Marion Street, Waverly
Park and Saint Raymond's
schools are preparing a cele-bration
for the Statue's 99th
B i r t h d a y on Monday,
October 28. According to
some of the teachers, the
children are thrilled about
the celebration. "The child-ren
are excited about partic-i
p a t i n g in the program
because the statue is a sym-bol
of the wonderful things
our country stands for,"
stated Eleanor Sussman,
C e n t r e Avenue music
teacher.
The birthday celebration
will be held at the high
school starting at 7:30 p.m.
Tolmach said having the
students of each school cele-brating
together is symbolic
of the united effort to restore
the Lady.
"It's a feeling of bringing
us closer together," said
Phyllis Kubach, music
instructor at Waverly Park
School.
Along with patriotic
songs, the schoolchildren
are preparing a short play
about the Statue for the
October 28th celebration.
A c c o r d i n g to Rhame
Avenue School instructor,
Suzanne Mills, who is help-ing
the children with the
skit, the students are work-ing
very hard. "They were
really pleased to be asked.
They are really putting 100
percent into it," she said.
Following the celebra-tion,
each school will engage
in their own fundraising
activities during the school
year to help the restoration
drive in the community.
Annette Ling
One of the most timely
and interesting reports dur-ing
the Lynbrook Board ol
Trustees Meeting at Village
Hall on Monday, October 9,
1985 was news from Mayor
Bill Geier that the cost of
Lynbrook of damages dur-ing
hurricane "Gloria"
would be $80,000. This
amount does not include the
disposal of the approxi-mately
800 tons of debris
such as tree limbs which
must be disposed of at a cost
of $25 per ton. The pile of
tree branches is at Wilcox
Alley near the Fire Head-quarters
Building at Greis
Veterans Memorial Park.
Mayor Geier and the
members of the Boards of
Trustees were out during the
storm aiding the D.P.W.
and trying to coordinate
things with LILCO, from
which source they obtained
very little coopoeration.
Mayor Geier praised the
expert and skillful work of
the hard-working Lynbrook
D . P . W . in r e m o v i ng
downed trees and clearing
streets etc., and doing work
that had them working 16
hour or more shifts.
The Board issued a Proc-lamation
of the celebration
in Lynbrook of National
Fire Prevention Week which
will be held from October
6th to the 13th with the Fire
Dept. giving Free rides to
the children at Greis Park on
Saturday, October 12th.
T h e L y n b r o o k - E a st
Rockaway Lion's Club gave
a donation of $500 to the
Fund for Eddie Mitchell
which was started during
Lynbrook Week in June of
this year. Lions, Dondal
Matzen, Lion President
Clarie Matzen, Paul Berger
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signs and road markings will
also be undertaken.
According to Gulotta the
majority of traffic signals
effected by the measure
adopted today are located
on Merrick Road, Ocean
Avenue, Scranton Avenue,
L a k e v i ew Avenue and
Hempstead Avenue, all
w i t h i n the Village of
Lynbrook.
"One of the most impor-tant
aspects of this program
will be the inclusion of these
traffic signals in the Coun-ty's
centralized Traffic Con-trol
Computer in Mineola,"
Gulotta stated. "As a result
of the most up-to-date tech-nology,
one central compu-ter
has the ability to assure
the proper flow of traffic on
all roads where traffic" sig-.
nals have been incorporated
into the system. The imple-mentation
of this program
will result in smoother traf-fic
flow and heightened
safety for area motorists."
(Continued on Page 10)
Only The Cannon Still Stands
by Mildred Roemer
The elegant White Can-non
Hotel that offered a
shore dinner for $1.00 to
their high class clientele
stood on the banks of the
Talfor Boat Basin on Main
and Front Streets. The old
photo, from the Grist Mill
Museum , was taken about
1901. The photo showing
the many windowed addi-tion
of a large banquet and
dance hall was donated by
Clarence Matzen of Lyn-b
r o o k . The American
Legion used the building as
their clubhouse for many
years» then two fires finally
erased the interesting land-mark
from East Ropkaway.
The cannon was to have
come from the Spanish
American War and legends
(or facts) have grown up
about it through the years.
One was that it had been
fired every fourth of July,,
then cleaned, and unused
until the following year. The
story goes that one year it
had not been cleaned prop-erly
and there was an explo-sion
when it was fired, caus-ing
the cannon to land in the
canal. One man was report-edly
killed. Later the cannon
was brought up from its
watery grave, but has never
fired since.