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VOL. 33 NO. 44 Wednesday, October 29,1986 PER COPY
Lynbrook Junior Firemen Honored
ON THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL. State Senator Dean Skelos
greets Mrs. Pauline Casaiaspro of Ryder Avenue, East
Rockaway on a recent campaign swing.
Faraway Places
"Getting away from it all"
is great at times, but so is
coming home again to East
Rockaway.
In Texas where son Ken
lives there were the usual
round of many activities and
one, in particular, reminded
me of our Museum and the
American Indian exhibit.
We took d 400-mile round
trip (these Texans don't
mind distances!) to an
Indian Affair in Oklahoma.
It was held by the Kiowa
Indians, who unlike our
Long Island Indians, were
not all pushed out of their
land by the paleface immi-grants.
The event was an
annual salute to the Indian
men and women who served
in World War I through Viet
Nam. Hundreds of former
Indian soldiers, sailors, and
air pilots took part in the
colorful ceremonies that
included old-time victory
dances to the beating of a
huge drum by four
drummers. Their village was
complete with a penned-in
herd of buffalo. Quite
exciting!
My thoughts went back to
our Indian exhibit in the
Museum, which next to the
fire pumper and shipwreck
story, has proven most
interesting to visiting school
children. Many still seem to
believe that there are really
no more indians or that,
they are still as "wild" as on
TV. The children are
amazed at the number of
tribes that once lived on our
shores...peaceful people cal-ling
this the "land of shells."
Many East Rockawayites
have for many years been
by Mildred Roemer
about our South Dakota
Sioux Indians who are not
as properous as the Kiowas
of Oklahoma, although by
our standards even they do
not fare well. Bethany
Church is preparing for their
annual White Gift service at
which time new gifts of clo-thing
and some toys are sent
to a reservation for a
Christmas party for the
children. This will be held on
November 23 at the 10:30
service. Last week ye old his-torian
gave a talk on the
Sioux to School 5 in
Oceanside.
By Annette Ling
The Lynbrook Board of
Trustees Meeting of the Inc.
Village of Lynbrook held on
Monday evening, October
20th at Village Hall was
noteworthy because of the
tribute and honors both well
deserved which Mayor Bill
Geier and the Board gave to
the Lynbrook Junior Fire
Department. The Juniors
.have won an amazing total
of 5 trophies for first place at
parades held in Nassau
County, Southern New
York, South Shore, Fourth
Battalion and Valley Stream
in recent months. The advi-sors
of the Junior firefigh-ters,
former fire chiefs,
Ronald Festa and Robert
Forte were also com-mended.
Each junior
received an individual cit-ation
of commendation
from the Mayor and Board
including the following:
Michael Pizzo, Jeffry
Wiener, Chris Cunningham,
Dan Offer man, Paul
Agruso, Keith Festa, Peter
Skeris, Jr., Peter Festa, Joe
Mistretta, Edward Ryan,
Mike Vacchio, Steven Pol-lackov,
Paul Martino, Larry
Loiselle, Michael Hynes,
Alec Lozowsky, and Scott
McCrodden.
Students and advisors
from North Middle School
were granted permission of
the Board to hold the
Annual Walk-A-Thon on
November 22nd from 12
noon to 2 p.m. The money
raised will be donated to the
Skelos Announces Sunrise
Highway Improvements
State Senator Dean G.
Skelos (R/C: Rockville
Centre) has announced that
the New York State
Department of Transporta-tion
has begun installing a
new traffic signal computer
system on all of Sunrise
Highway in order to re-establish
synchronization of
the traffic lights.
Work in the Valley
Stream-Lynbrook area
should begin in late
Novembr and it is expected
that the system will be com-pleted
within six months.
In September, Senator
Skelos sent a communica-tion
to the Department of
Transportation explaining
the traffic light problem
commuters are experiencing
while traveling on Sunrise
Lynbrook Fire Department.
The Board also granted
permission to Christ Epis-
'copal Church to hold it's
Annual Fair on Saturday,
November 8, 1986 from 10
a.m. to 4 p.m.
D u r i n g the v i l l a ge
departmental reports, Supt.
Bruno Arena of the Lyn-brook
Building Department
informed those present that
a "Stop Work" Order has
been issued to construction
company working at the site
of the old village Hall on
Merrick Rd. and Lynbrook
Avenue where Nathaniel
Bryant, employee of the
James Madden Construc-tion
Company lost his life on
October 10th due to the
Hooding of a ruptured water
main. The Village Engineer
issued the "Stop Work
Order" until certification is
received that^the site is safe
and secure.
A public Hearing was
held regarding Section 222-
17 of the Local Law pertain-ing
to the amendment of
senior citizen tax exemption
eligibility. There will be an
increase in the level of
income from $13,500 to
$ 15,025 regarding real prop-erty
taxes, and it was clari-fied
that if two persons own
property, both must be 65
years of age, and if owned by
a husband and wife, one
must be 65 years old.
Reported income must
include social security,
retirement income, and
salary.
A Public Hearing was'
held regarding Section 252-
14E of the Local Law per-taining
to required frontage
of one family dwellings. At a
previous Public Hearing on
August 4th, the frontage was
increased from 40 ft. to 50 ft.
as a preventive measure to
stop building developers
from coming into the vil-lage.
Since that date on
August 4th, certain "hard-ship
cases" have been
brought to the attention of
the Board who wished to
amend the law to allow 40 ft.
frontage if the property was
owned and existing prior to
the enactment of the law.
The hearing was adjourned
to a later date to allow more
time for the counsel to
review the newly written
language.
Another Public Hearing
was held to amend a typo-graphical
error in Section
252-24 of the Local Law
regarding a required lot
area. The law read that two
family dwellings must main-tain
6,000 feet of frontage,
while the correct figure is 60
feet.
Two Special Exceptions
were granted to petitioners
regarding off-street parking
at Clinton Avenue, south of
Railroad Blvd. and another
Petition for 120 Atlantic
Avenue was also granted.
Mayor Geier was pres-ented
a plaque commemo-rating
Lynbrook's 75th
anniversary from Malverne
(Continued on Page 14)
Seniors Receive Tax Break
At the October'20th
Board Meeting, the Mayor
and Board of Trustees
passed a new village law
amending the Senior Citizen
Tax Exemption eligibility
regarding the Real Property
Taxes.
There will be an increase
in the exempt annual level
from $13,500 to $15,025.
Kiwanis Dinner-Dance
Highway between Valley
Stream and Baldwin.
"The traffic lights on Sun-rise
Highway, which are
under the jurisdiction of the
N.Y.S. Department of
Transportation, are timed
so poorly that the flow of
traffic Ibecomes severely
hindered as travelers are
forced to stop for red lights
at about every intersection,
causing huge traffic snarls,"
Skelos stated. "I'm glad to
see that the Department of
Transportation has re-sponded
so quickly and
favorably so that we can give
pur commuters a break and
make the highway safe for
motorists and pedestrians,
especially our children, who
travel and walk across the
highway."
The East Rockaway
Kiwanis Club is proud to
announce that its Annual
Dinner-Dance will be held
at the Colonial Room, 71
Main Street, on November
15, 1986.
You are invited to partici-pate
in honoring three out-standing
individuals who
have distinguished them-selves
by their public spi-rited
service: Man of the
Year: Dr. Roberl Abel; Citi-zen
of the Year: Hon.
George Perry; Kiwanian of
the Year: Mr. "X"
Come for an evening of
excellent food, an open bar,
good music and dancing, A
feature of the evening will be
the presentation of citations
to our honored guests in
recognition of their many
years of activity on behalf of
our residents.
Tickets are priced at only
twenty-five dollars each
($25), or $250 for a table of
ten. This includes dinner, an
open bar with beer and
liquors, and a whole evening
of fun and dancing to the
live music of the Stan Cabot
Orchestra.
Please make your checks
payable to "Kiwanis Club,
E.R." For more tickets,
please call Irv Shaw at 593-
5912 or Dan Ganley at
593-9079.
If two persons own the
property, both must be 65
years of age; if however,
owned by a husband and
wife, only one must be 65
years of age.
Reported income must
include Social Security,
Interest, Dividends, the Sale
of Capital Assets, Retire-ment
Benefits and Salary
Income.
The Mayor and Board
feel that it is difficult for
Senior Citizens on fixed
income to cope in today's
economy and the new law is
designed to be of direct
assistance to aid Seniors
who must pay Real Property
Taxes.
MAY6R RECEIVES PLAQUE COMMEMORATING
LYNBROOK'S 75th.At the October 20th Board Meeting,
Malverne Mayor Louis Cocchi presented Mayor Geier with
a plaque commemorating the 75th Anniversary of the
Incorporation of the Village of Lynbrook, on behalf of the
Village Official Association. Mayor Geier is Vice President
of the Association, Mayor Cocchi is Second Vice President.
Photo by John Cribbin.