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VOL. 33 NO. 35 Wednesday, August 27,1986 30^ PER COPY
Residents Protest Dry Cleaning Opening
CULTURAL ARTS FAIR. State Senator Dean Skelos
(R-Rockville Centre), second left, presents a Citation of
Appreciation to Cultural Arts Co-chairmen Charlotte Berch
and Emma Tolmach and Village Trustee Anthony Santino
for another successful Cultural Arts Fair, held in Memorial
Park on Saturday, August 23, joining Senator Skelos is
Cultural Arts Council member Brian Meyer. |
by Annette Ling
The major part of the
Board Meeting of the Vil-lage
of Lynbrook held on
Monday evening, August
18, 1986 was the agenda item
of a special exception for a
proposed dry cleaning store
in Philips Pfaza at 683 Sun-rise
Highway.
The residents of Endview
Avenue, Evergreen Avenue,
and Putnam Avenue voiced
their deep concern during
the public hearing over the
proposed opening citing
possible accidents, toxic
chemicals used, health
hazards to the area, odors
and spillage due to the fact
that clothing would be actu-ally
dry cleaned on the
premises.
Attorney Philip Bensi,
representing the Knicker-brocker
Cleaning Corp.,
was seeking a special excep-
The newly created East
Rockaway High School
Alumni Association held its
first Executive Board meet-ing
on the evening of August
at the home of Association
P r e s i d e n t Richard J.
Meagher.
Treasurer Elaine Boll
reported that there were 123
p a i d members a l r e a dy
signed up for 1986-1987.
Vice President John Bren-nan
read from a written
report prepared by Mem-bership
Committee Chair-man
Andy Ferretti which
indicated that progress on
the Alumni Master List had
reached 1400 addresses for
the 4,300 names researched
from 50 years of yearbooks
by his committee.
A major membership
recruitment mailing is being
planned fro mid-September.
Alumi wishing to assist in
preparing envelopes, etc.
can report to the high school
at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday,
September 4 or Monday,
September 8 to help out.
Special "charter member"
membership cards in tradi-tional
orange and black
have been designed for
1986-1987.
The Board voted to accept
the minutes presented by
Recording Secretary Janice
Sanders of the Association's
inaugural meeting of June
24 and to adopt the follow-ing
schedule of meetings for
1986- 1987, all on Wednes-day
evenings beginning at
7:30 p.m. at the high school:-
9/10/86; 10/1/86; 11/5/86;
12/3/86; 1/7/87; 2/4/87;
3 / 4 / 8 7 ; 4 / 1 / 8 7 ; 5/6/87;
6/5/87. The May meeting
was also designated as a full
meeting of the Association,
at which the annual elec-tions
would be held.
Much discussion followed
the report of Ed Carey's Fall
Kick-off Event Committee,
focusing on a cocktail party
following a home football
game in late October or
early November. The event
will be firmed up by the Sep-tember
meeting.
Preliminary discussion
also took place on a tenta-tive
Association budget for
1986-1987 which Treasurer
Elaine Boll will refine for
September and on an
expanded Constitution/By-
Laws presented by Trustee
Ken Hettler.
"We will soon also be
turning our attention to
planning our Spring Major
Fundraiser," noted Presi-dent
Meagher, "as well as
our first AlumnfNewsletter."
All alumni are actively
encouraged to attend future
Executive Board meetings.
HAPPY 75TH BIRTDAY! Hempstead Town Presiding
Supervisor Thomas S. Gulotta (left) joins in the celebration
of the 75th Birthday of Lynbrook resident, Regina J. Wie-ninger
at the party given in her honor. Pictured are (L-R):
John Flaherty, grandson; Supervisor Gulotta; Honoree,
Regina J. Wieninger; Raymond Flaherty, son-in-law; Reg-ina
Flaherty, daughter; Kristin Flaherty, grand daughter.
All reside in Lynbrook.
tion regarding the installa-tion
of the dry cleaning
shop and in addition the
passage of a SEQRA Reso-lution
(State Environmental
Quality Review Act.) The
use of a chemical called per-clorethylene,
a toxic chemi-cal,
would be used in the dry
cleaning process. Sheldon
Schiff of the West Side
Corp. testified that the dry
cleanii^ machine he would
supply to Knickerbrocker
would be the most modern,
safe, made in Italy dry clean-ing
type and entirely self-contained.
Further testim-o
n y and q u e s t i o n i ng
brought out the fact that the
chemical was delivered in 50
gallon drums via truck, put
into the machine by hose
and would require no extra
storage. However, the filter
cartridges in the machines
would have to be removed
by a special EPA certified
waste disposal firm.
Mr. Peter Park, owner of
Loronet Cleaners on Mer-rick
Road in Lynbrook
stated while the new type of
machine was safer, the
chemical used in dry clean-ing
was carcinogenic and
toxic and that he had expe-rienced
accidental spills in
his own business. Burt Nel-son,
a real estate appraisor,
testified for Knickerbrocker
Dry Cleaning Corp. that the
site and proposed use was
proper and in "no way could
be considered an abuse of
the. area or harmful." He
claimed ithat the request for
the special exception met
every qualification for
approval in his opinion.
Mayor Geier asked if the
Knickerbrocker Dry Clean-ing
Corp. would consider
moving their location in
Philip Plaza to a store closer
to the Broadway side of the
mall. Mr. Bensi stated that
his client had been advised
by engineers for Philips
Plaza that the Broadway site
was considered inadvisable
by engineers for Philips
Plaza because of the weight
of the dry cleaning equip-ment.
The Board reserved
decision after hearing from
many residents of the area.
A public hearing was held
for a special exception for
Dr. George M. Blatty of 85
Hempstead Avenue. Local
law requires that any indi-vidual
operating a profes-sional
office in a residential
area must live there as well.
The testimony was that Dr.
Blatty expected no more
than a total of 400 patients,
approximately 25 cases per
day to require extra parking.
Dr. Blatty does not reside at
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East Rockaway Wins
Safety Award
Mayor T h e o d o r e S.
Reinhard announced today
that East Rockaway has
received the AAA Pedes-trian
Safety Citation Award
for a record of 9 years with-out
a pedestrian (atality.
The award was presented
to Village Trustee George
Perry of East Rockaway at a
special Awards Ceremony
to be held on September
17th, sponsored by the
Automobile Club of New
York.
The AAA Pedestrian Pro-tection
Program evaluates
communities with similar
populations throughout the
nation. Recognition is
awarded to those communi-ties
which have compiled the
best Pedestrian Safety
Records for the preceding
year.
The Award will be pres-ented
by Commissioner of
Motor Vehicles Patricia B.
Adduci. East Rockaway is
one of the four villages in
New York State with a nine
year record of no pedestrian
fatalities.
Lost» One Lion
Either he wandered away
or was induced to take a
walk with someone, but the
Lynbrook-East Rockaway
Lions Club lion vanished
from the garage of the
Union cafe on Union
Avenue where he had been
stored temporarily since the
Lynbrook parade and the
East Rockaway Hickleberry
Frolic. In recent years, the
lion has been retired to the
East Rockaway Senior Citi-zens
Center in care of the
Grist Mill Museum.
The lion was donated to
the club 30 years ago by Karl
Neiderstein and has only
once before suffered a kid-napping.
This was by the
Lev.ittown Lions, who
returned the animal in fear
of having their charter
revoked. No one believes
that any former "LIONS"
"borrowed" the Lion this
time, Mr. Neiderstein has
offered as a reward "dinner
for one" if returned to the
cafe... no questions asked.
At an annual picnic of the
Club last Saturday in Dr.
Wallace Smith's garden (Dr.
Smith is a forty year
member of the Club.) many
titles were suggested for this
article... "Where is our
Wandering Lion TonightT'...
or "Where is our Lion Lying
Tonight" plus many other
"flip" ones. Biit there is
nothing "flip" about their
feeling the loss of their Lion.
In the words of the old musi-cal
comedy song "Lover
(Lion) Come Back to Me!"