Observer_1986-09-03; East Rockaway/Lynbrook Observer

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Wednesday, September 3,1986 30i PER COPY
ERHS Teacher Honored
GRAND OPENING. Mayor William P. Geier offers a
**good luck" in Chinese to Shirley Yuien and her husband
William at the Grand Opening of their HSIN HSIN CHI-NESE
KITCHEN now located at 180 Hempstead Avenue in
Lynbrook. Also joining in is Village Trustee Steve Grogan.
HSIN HSIN was formerly located at Merrick Rd and Wil-son
Avenue.
Seagull Classic 5K Run
The "SEAGULL CLAS-SIC'S
Kilometer (3.1 Miles)
run will be held on Sunday,
October 12th in the Bay
Park area of East Rocka-way.
This race, which is
open to all age groups, is
part of St. Raymond's R.C.
Catholic Youth Organiza-tion's
annual program of
community events.
The race will start at 9:30
AM at Bay Park and will be
timed by "Start to Finish
C o r p . " Prizes will be
awarded to the top Male &
Female finishers in each of
these categories: the Top 3
finishers overall, the Top 3
Teams and the Top 3 fin-ishers
in age groups begin-ning
with "12 & Under"
through '60 & Over." (Spe-cial
awards will be presented
to the East Rockaway and
Lynbrook residents (Male &
Feni^le) with the best time.
As an added attraction, a
1-mile "fun run" for youngs-ters
12 and under will be
held, beginning at 9:00 AM.
Prizes will be given to all
those who finish the I-mile
run.
Post race fun will con-tinue
at Bay Park with
refreshments and raffles of
many great prizes including
s p o r t s w e a r , s p o r t i ng
e q u i p m e n t , t i c k e t s for
games of major NY pro
teams (e.g., NY Giants, NY
Islanders). "Dinner-for-
Two" at the East Point inn
and much more. Special
Logo Tee Shirts will be
available for the first 500
runners who register for the
5K race or the 1-mile fun
run.
Entry forms are available
now -at Olympic Village,
Roosevelt Field, Barry
Sport Store and Wolfs
Sport Store both at Rock-ville
Centre. (Registration
fee ls $7). Be sure to sign up
for this great racc and the
fun that will follow. For
information or registration
forms please call Bob Croke
(516) 599-4547.
Ms. Diana L Bryant-
Friedman of Valley Stream,
N.Y., a teacher of English at
East Rockaway High
School in East Rockaway,
N.Y., has been selected to
participate in a four-week
Summer Institute in Classi-cal
Studies for High School
Teachers, beginning July 14
at Skidmore College in
Saratoga Springs, N.Y.
Ms. Bryant-Friedman is
one of only 30 high school
teachers of Latin, social stu-dies
and literature form
puiblic, private and paroch-ial
schools chosen from
throughout New England
and the Middle Atlantic
States to participate in this
p r o g r am designed to
increase teachers' under-standing
of classical civiliza-tion
and enhance their abil-ity
to teach the study of these
civilizations.
Participants in the Insti-tute,
funded by an $88,000.
grant from the National
Endowment for the Human-ities,
will take part in a col-loquium
on Athens in the
fifth century B.C., several
seminars, workshops on
teaching methods and lec-tures
delivered by promi-nent
classical scholars,
noted Dr. Thomas S. W.
Lewis, professor of English
and Director of Classical
Studies at Skidmore.
"Schools, teachers and
families are.rediscovering
and appreciating the solid
foundation found in the
knowledge of the past ~ a
keystone of liberal educa-tion,"
noted Lewis of the
burgeoning interest in clas-sical
studies on the secon-dary
school level.
Skidmore College is an
independent, coeducational
college located in Saratoga
Springs, N.Y. Distinguished
by a curriculum balanced in
the science, social sciences
and humanities, the college
offers majors in the liberal
arts and preprofessional
areas and grants the B.A.
and B.S. degrees.
King Blasts MIA Overbilling Practice
"Once again," Nassau
County Comptroller Peter
T. King announced today,
"the Metropolitan Trans-portation
Authority has
overcharged the county for
maintenance of the Long
Island Railroad stations.
But this year. Governor
Cuomo has added insult to
injury by cavalierly vetoing
the bill passed by the state
legislature which would
have given Nassau and the
oth^r counties within the
MTA region some recourse
to fight back against the
MTA."
"Our audit of the MTA
station maintenance bill,"
East Rockaway Completes 4th
Summer Program
Successful
The East Rockaway
School District has just
completed its fourth suc-cessful
year of summer pro-grams.
The 85-86 program,
under the direction of
Summer School Principal
Peter Henry Fund
The Peter Henry Fund
has now surpassed $15,000
in c o n t r i b u t i o n s , as
announced by Mr. Dick
Flynn recently. The pro-ceeds
of the Fund will be
used to help defray part of
the medical expenses of
Peter Henry, a young Lyn-brook
resident who suffers
from leukemia. Peter will
u n d e r g o bone marrow
surgery this week at Johns
Hopkins Medical Center in
Maryland.
It is also announced that
Duncan Donuts of Lyn-brook
has won the "cannis-ter
competition" by raising
more money through Peter
Henry cannisters than any
other business establish-ment.
Duncan Donuts will
receive 20 complimentary
movie passes provided by
the Lynbrook Theater.
The L y n b r o o k 75th
Anniversary Committee will
continue to accept dona-tions
to the Peter Henry
Fund, c/ o the Lynbrook Vil-lage
Hall, 1 Columbus
Drive, Lynbrook, New York
11563.
Donna Mullen, included an
Enrichment program, a
Remedial Program, Summer
Band and Driver Education
programs. In addition East
Rockaway sponsored a full
day Special Education
Summer Program for han-dicapped
children of this
district and neighboring dis-tricts,
funded by state and
county sources.
A common theme stressed
throughout all program
activities was "learning is
f u n " "whether children
attend the Special Educa-tion
programs. Remedial
programs or Enrichment
p r o g r a m s t h e y come
because they want to con-t
i n u e t h e S e p t e m b er
through June learning pro-gress"
stated Superintend-ent
Robert Parry. "It's our
job to keep that interest in
learning alive. Children
f r om both Centre and
Rhame schools have an
opportunidy to learn not
only with each other< but
with district children who
attend private school as
well. Whether the program
is Summer Band, Enrich-ment,
Remedial or Special
Education, we try to blend
education and recreation in
a positive way."
The Special Education
and summer principal's
salary are funded entirely by
a Nassau County Grant. The
District receives state aid for
the Remedial Program, Pre-
K program. Driver's Ed
program and most of the
Enrichment Program.
King stated, "shows the
MTA overbilling Nassau
County by $1,998,311. The
total bill covering the
MTA's fiscal year ending
March 31, 1986 includes
such improper additions as
$427,756 for capital coiv
struction charges at more
than nine stations in Nassau
County and $1,242,004 in
overcharges resulting from
the MTA's use of "esti-mated"
costs rather than
actul costs."
King e x p l a i n e d the
county is not responsible for
the MTA's capital construc-tion
charges, "According to
the Public Authorities law,
the MTA may bill the
county only for day-to-day
station maintenance costs
and not for capital expendi-tures.
Yet, the MTA has
been performing structural
work at a number of stations
and systematically billing
Nassau County for the
work."
"For example," King said,
"The MTA spent over
$113,000 at the Rockville
Centre station and over
$37,000 at the Great Neck
station for capital improve-ments
which were improp-e
r l y billed to Nassau
County."
Another 3^8,551 was
improperly billed to the
county and described as
police protection costs. .
"As for Governor Cuo-mo's
action, or inaction on
this issue," King added,
"The Governor saw fit to
veto the bill sponsored by
State Senator Norman Levy
and supported by the bi-partisan
coalition of comp-trollers
1 formed in 1985
which included: New York
City Comptroller Harrison
J. Goldin, Suffolk Comp-troller
Joseph Caputo and
Dutchess County Comp-troller
Paul Hackett."
"That legislation," King
Explained, "would have
required the state Budget
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Skelos Applauds Anti-Crack Efforts
Senator Dean G. Skelos
( R / C ; Rockville Centre)
today commended Nassau
County Police Commis-sioner
Samuel J. Rozzi's
formation of a special drug
task force to step up investi-gations
into crack transac-tions.
"By assigning 19 officers to
this newly created special
drug task force the County
has taken a significant step
to combat' the spreading
drug epidemic. The most
effective way to bring this
tragic drug problem to an
end is to provide additional
manpower where it can be
most effective - on the
s t r e e t s , " Senator Skelos
stated.
Action such as this by
localities, combined with the
recent initiatives at both the
State and Federal levels is a
vital element in our battle
against this drug scourge. In
praising the County's action
Skelos also noted President
Reagan's newly declared
war on drugs. "While the
President will continue to do
his job to cut down the
importation of drugs into
our country, we at the State
and Local level must also do
our part by apprehending
and throwing these vermin
drug dealers where they
belong - in jail," Senator
Skelos said.
Sparked by the meteoric
rise of crack, an alarmingly
popular cocaine derivative
whose appeal has spread
rapidly among young users.
S e n a t o r S k e l o s co-sponsored
a new law that
doubles the prison terms for
drug pushers convicted of
selling to children within
1,000 feet of a school. This
provides a sensible and fair
apptroach to resolving the
tragedy of drug abuse
among school children by
t a r g e t i n g pushers for
enhanced punishment when
they ply their trade in or
near schools.
S e n a t o r Skelos was
extc&nely pleased when the
Governor signed this bill
into law in July and even
more so when Governor
Cuomo recently endorsed
another Skelos initiative
which would impose life
imprisonment upon certain
drug pushers. "While it is
gratifying that the Governor
has come out in support of.
such a measure, it is unfor-tunate
that he had not done
so prior to the recess of the
S t a t e L e g i s l a t u r e . The
Senate passed a similar mea-sure
which was not acted
upon in the Assembly, 1 am
sure the Assembly would
have joinied us in this much
needed effort had the Gov-ernor
indicate his support
e a r l i e r , " Senator Skelos
said.
"This concerted effort by
Federal, State and Local
officials can do nothing but
curtail the spreading epi-demic
of drug abuse in our
society today. Commis-sioner
Rozzi and other local
officials are to be com-mended
and encouraged to
continue this crack down on
the low life dope pushers
infesting our society." Con-cluded
Senator Skelos.