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VOL. 33 NO. 1 ^QSt Roc?favv^V^esday, December 11,1985
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Helping Miss
by Carol Monaco
More than $800 was
raised by East Rockaway
High School students for the
Statue of Liberty's restora-tion
fund.
The students raised the
money through their annual
Halloween party held for the
elementary schoolchildren.
The high school class presi-dents
presented their check
to the East Rockaway Lib-erty
Centennial Committee
last week. "It's good we all
got together and helped
out," said John Meagher,
sophomore class president.
East Rockaway resident
Ed O'Reilly, the Statue's
Coordinator of Local Union
28, joined Emma Tolmach,
Pauline Casalaspro and
Carol Monaco of the Cen-
HELPING MISS LIBERTY. East Rockaway Liberty Cen-tennial
Committee accepts tiie iiigli school's contribution to
Statue's restoration fund. From left to right are Lisa Mongi-tmtf
John Meagher, Kristie Levonius, Pauline Casalaspro,
Committee Chairperson Emma Tolmach, Ed O'Reilly and
Carol Monaco.
!]fu6iK%^Chairmen Named
COMMITTEE CHAIRMEN MEET. The members of
Lynbrook's 75th Anniversary Committee recently held a
meeting at Lynbrook Village Hall. They are, from left to
right: (seated) John Jaye Markos, Publicity; Roy Solace,
Souvenir; Don and Gerry Matzen, 75th Anniversary Co-
Chairmen; Elaine Montgomery, Secretary; Annette Ling,
Journal; (standing) Art Mattson, Historical; Louise Janet
Campbell, Picnic and Fair; William Hahl, Hospitality;
Eileen Matzen, and Clarence Matzen, Fireworks; Len Lle-wellyn,
Historical; Dick Flynn, Softball Game; Trustee Ste-phen
Grogan, Liaison; Mayor William Geier; Murray
Levitt, Gala Ball; and Deputy Mayor Norman Dreyer,
Liaison.
Lynbrook 75th Anniver-s
a r y C o m m i t t e e Co-
Chairmen Don and Gerry
Matzen have announced
that Subcommittee Chair-men
have been named and
are in the process of drawing
up plans for the two-week
extravaganza scheduled for
June, 1986.
"I am pleased to report
that several distinguished
residents of the Village of
Lynbrook have agreed to
serve as subcommittee
chairmen on the 75th Anni-versary
Committee," stated
Co-Chairman Don Matzen.
"Many ideas have been dis-cussed
and the committees
are devising interim plans
for the events to be held next
year."
The following individuals
have agreed to serve as
Chairmen: Roy Solace,
S o u v e n i r C o m m i t t e e / -
Treasurer; John Jaye Mar-kos,
Publicity Committee;
John Hambel, Public Rela-tions;
Elaine Montgomery,
Secretary; Annette Ling,
Commemorative Journal
Committee; Murray Levitt,
Gala Ball Committee; Mrs.
Manuel Messing, Tickets;
Art Mattson and Len Lle-wellyn,
Historical Commit-tee;
Louise Janet Campbell,
Picnic and Fair Committee;
James Grismer, Parade
Committee; Clarence Mat-zen,
Fireworks Committee;
Dick Flynn, Softball Game
Committee; Janice Graffag-nino.
Road Race Commit-tee;
William Hahl, Hospital-ity
Committee; William
Connors, Time Capsule
Committee; Marge and Don
Colwell, Open House
Committee; John Cribbin,
Photographer; and Otto J.
DiMola, St. Anthony
Festival.
"We are off to a good
start, but we still need volun-teers
to make sure that Lyn-brook's
75th Anniversary
Celebration is a tremendous
success," concluded Co-
Chairman Gerry Matzen.
"We urge all interested Lyn-brook
residents to contact
Don or myself at 887-4396
or 599-830iO as soon as pos-sible.
This Anniversary is for
Lynbrook, USA, and every
one of its residents. Let's all
work together to make our
Diamond Jubilee a time to
remember."
Rock Rivalry Meeting Set
East Rockaway High
School alumni and anyone
else interested in helping to
plan a special event to honor
the 50th Anniversary of
Rock Rivalry are urged to
attend a preliminary plan-ning
session at 7:30 p.m. on
Tuesday, December 17,
1985, in the High school JMSicxQOm.
t e n n i a l Committee in
a c c e p t i n g the c h e c k.
O'Reilly then presented the
students with photographs
of the Statue of Liberty
being restored.
This is the first year that
all four high school classes,
g r a d e s 9-12, w o r k ed
together on the Halloween
party which has been a
senior project in the past, "it
was a concerted effort,"
Principal Dr. Kathleen
Semergieff said.
The high school is among
the six schools in East
Rockaway participating in
the community fundraising
effort to save the Lady. The
schools kicked off their
involvement in the drive on
Oct. 28 when they joined
(Continued on Page 13)
Report
by Annette Ling
The good news at the
Lynbrook Board of Trustees
Meeting held on Monday,
Dec. 2, 1985 at 8 p.m. was
. that the Village of Lynbrook
has a tentative price of
$85,000 for the LILCO light-ing
system in Lynbrook
which will mean a savings in
user costs of $120,000 per
year according to Mayor
Bill Geier who announced
the purchase offer. How-ever,
the amount is tentative
because LILCO insists that
Lynbrook must publish bid
specifications for the light-ing
system and accept bids.
Lynbrook has suggested this
because of problems they
have had in the past in their
municipality dealings. This
is also because of state laws
mandating the bidding
procedure as well. As a
result of the survey of Lyn-brook's
lighting system done
by John Cameron & Co., the
Lynbrook Board of Trustees
feels that it would be much
more advantageous to buy
the system because LILCO's
a n n o u n c e m e n t that it
intends to go out of the
street lighting business alto-gether.
By the purchase of
the LILCO street lights.
Mayor Geier hopes to reha-bilitate
the lighting aJong
Sunrise Highway, Atlantic
Ave., Broadway, and Mer-rick
Rd. A date of Jan. 6,
1986 was set for the formal
Bid Opening.
Earlier in the Board meet-ing
bids were opened for
surplus Sale of Equipment
such as Rifles, Shot Guns,
and Vehicles with the final
bids to be determined after
study by Police Chief Frank
Kehr in the matter of the
guns and on the surplus veh-icles
by D.P.W. Supt. Jack
Woessner. One extra matter
came up when one of the
bidders for the DPW vehi-cles
asked for further con-sultation
and clarification
with the DPW, on the bid
wording and specifications.
(Continued on Page 13)
A special orie-night event
of selected highlights of
Rock Rivalry entrances
"through the years" to be
performed by past graduates
from each decade is being
explored for possible pres-entation
in February or
April.
"We have heard from
groups from the classes of
1979, 1975, 1969, and 1956,"
said School Board member.
Richard Meagher, "and
individuals who range all the
way back to the very first
Rock Rivalry." Meagher is
serving on a Board commit-tee,
along with Board Presi-dent
John van Houten and
Board Vice President Elaine
Boll, all three of whom are
graduates of East Rockaway
High School, to "sound out"
the degree of community
interest in such an event,
Ed Power, Class of 1975,
indicated strong support for
such an event was evidenced
at his class's 10th anniver-
..saiY-rcunitiniigld durinje^e
Thanksgiving weekend.
"We need to hear from
more groups and more indi-viduals,"
said Meagher.
"The 50th Anniversary of
Rock Rivalry deserves spe-cial
attention."
Interested alumni unable
to attend the December 17
meeting at the high school
c a n c o n t a c t R i c h a rd
Meagher, 85 Vincent Place,
Lynbrook, N.Y. 11563(599-
9122) or either of the other
two committee members or
the district office.
"We welcome everyone's
p a r t i c i p a t i o n , " ^ said
Meagher.
HERJC Damaged By Fire
The Hewlett East Rocka-way
Jewish Center was
moderately damaged by a
fire that raged out of control
last Tuesday, December 3.
The fire which forced the
evacuation of approxi-mately
fifty students from
the school adjacent to the
temple, and damaged a stor-age
area above the kitchen
as well as the roof, was
brought under control in
about 35 minutes.
The East Rockaway fire
department responded with
8 pieces of equipment, and
assistance was received from
the Oceanside fire depart-ment
who sent an additional
3 pieces of equipment. In all
about 100 fire fighters
fought the blaze.
Because Chief Cittadino
could not immediately
determine the cause of the
fire the Nassau County fire
marshal was called to the
scene. The cause of the fire is
still under investigation.
The rabbi and his assist-ants
were able to move the
Torah to a safe location, and
efforts were under way to
reopen the school and to
have the temple ready for
two weddings that were
scheduled for the weekend.
The East Rockaway fire
department remained on the
scene for about four hours
to assist the marshal with his
investigation and to insure
the fire was completely^
extinguished. There were no'
injuries as a result of the fire.
Second Asaistant Chief Shelton surveys the damage to the
Temple after the fire was extinguished.