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VOL. 33 NO. 48 Wednesday, November 26,1986 PER COPY
KIWANIS CLUB DINNER DANCE. Hempstead Town
Presiding Supervisor Thomas S. Gulotta (5th right) attends
the Kiwanis Club of East Rockaway Dinner Dance, which
was held at them American Legion Hall in East Rockaway.
Pictured are: (left to right) Anthony Santino, East Rocka-way
Milage: Trustee; Eugene Torborg; Louis Hauge; George
L. Perry, East Rockaway Village Trustee; Dr. Robert A.
Abel, Lynbrook; Supervisor Gulotta jLynbrook Village
Mayor William Geier; East Rockaway Village Mayor
Theodore Reinhardt; Irving Shaw, Chairman; Denis Moth-erway,
Kiwanis President.
Turning Back Ths
by Mildred Roemer
Readers of the OB-SERVER
three weeks ago
might have gotten out their
magnifying glasses to search
for the Davison horse ridden
by Harry W. Kolyer in the
pasture in back of 20 Cam->
merer Avenue. The horse
must have wandered off, but
here he is pictured about to
take a jaunt around the vil-lage.
As we mentioned in the
previous article most of the
entire area between Main
S t r e e t and A l t h o u se
Avenue, was pasture, with
Nassau Tax Lien Speculation Ended
livestock including chickens
to horses and cows. This
photo submitted by Mrs.
Aldine K-olyer, Harry's wife.
John Befell's blacksmith
shop, located on Front
Street near Althouse was a
busy place when the main
roads were made of oyster
-shells and other dirt that
were occasionally "oiled"
down. Bedell did not just
fashion horse shoes, but also
made many iron tools and
other iron articles over hisi
flaming hearth.
Stating that "A system
which does not take into
consideration the sanctity of
one's home and which con-dones
the taking of one's
property without fair
remuneration is a system
which can no longer be
countenanced," Hempstead
Town Presiding Supervisor
Thomas S. Gulotta and
Supervisor James D. Ben-nett
led the Nassau County
Board of Supervisors in the
passage of a Local Law
which effectively ends Nas-sau
County's 47 year old tax
lien speculation system - a
system which allowed some
disadvantaged homeowners
to lose their homes to. tax
lien speculators for only a
few dollars in unpaid taxes.
"The existing tax lien specu-lation
system is dead,"
Gulotta said.
According to Gulotta,
majority leader of thp
Board, the tax lien reform
measures passed by the
Board of Supervisors
"Impose a humane and
compassionate system of
checks and balances on the
method by which the
County collects past due
taxes. Primarily, the Board's
action ensures that no one
will ever again lose the
equity in their home to a
speculator for the failure to
pay a few dollars in property
taxes.
The reform legislation
promoted by Supervisors
Gulotta and Bennet has
three major provisions. The
most radical change in the
tax lien collection procedure
ends the practice whereby
tax lien speculator would
purchase a lien against a
home in tax arrears and
then, at the expiration of a
two year period, gain full
title to the home solely for
the amount of the unpaid
tax. Under the newly
adopted legislation, at the
end of the two year tax lien
period, if the homeowner
were stil in tax arrears, the
purchaser would be required
to institute a court super-vised
foreclosure proceed-ing,
with the full value of the
home, after the payment of
the past due tax, mterest and
any reasonable court costs,
going to the homeowner.
In addition, the new legis-lation
provides for an
improved n o t i f i c a t i on
procedure in plain and sim-ple
language. Under the new
system, homeowners in tax
arrears will be made fully
aware that they owe past due
taxes, and what steps must
be taken so as to not jeo-pardize
their home. "By
requiring personal notifica-tion
to the homeowner in
plain and simple English,
rather than complex legal
terminology, we will be
ensuring that no one will be
put in the position of losing
their home unknowingly
and without a full opportun-ity
to pay their back taxes,"
Supervisors Bennett said.
" I he tax lien speculation
systeiji is dead," Supervisor
Gulotta ileciared. "No one
in Nassau County will ever
again lose the value of their
home because of' the non-payment
of taxes. This
reform legislation provides
the protection that every
Nassau County homeowner
deserves."
Car en StieMer Weds Joseph Behn
Caren J. Stiehler, daugh-ter
of Mr. and Mrs. Richard
E. Stiehler of Rockville Cen-tre
became the bride of
Joseph Behn, son of Mr. and
Mrs. George Behn of
Maiden Bridge, New York.
The bride is the grand-daughter
of the late Ruth
and John A. Stiehler, resi-dents
of Rockville Centre
for many years. Her parents
are the owners of Stiehler's
Flower and Power in
Baldwin.
The wedding took place in
the First Church of Baldwin
United Methodist in Bald-win.
A wedding reception
was held at the Coral House
in Baldwin.
The bride and groom are
graduates of the State Uni-versity
of New York at
Farmingdale. They reside in
Khaca, whre they are both
attending Cornell Univer-sity
and majoring in plant
science.
A belated honeymoon to
Texas and Mexico is
planned during college
vacation.
Interfaith
Service
Planned
Catholic Charities Pro-gram
for the Blind and Vis-ually
Impaired is planning
an Interfaith Holiday Cele-bration
on December 11 at
St. James United Methodist
Church, Lynbrook starting
with an interfaith service at
11 a.m. and followed by a
dinner dnace at the Coral
House Restaurant. The pub-lic
is welcome to attend.
Clergy participants at the
interfaith church service will
be: Rabbi Harold I. Saper-stein,
Rabbi Emeritus of
Temple Emanual of Lyn-brook
and Reverend Robert
Richmond, Pastor of St.
James United Methodist
Church, Lynbrook.
For reservations and/or
information, contact Marie
Paluseo at Catholic Chari-ties,
272 Merrick Road,
L y n b r o o k , 5 9 3 - 4 6 0 0.
Dinner Dance admission;
$10.
Still Missing!
What a w o n d e r f ul
Christmas present it would
be for the East Rockaway-
Lynbrook Lions Club, if
whoever "borrowed" him
after the Lvnbrook Parade
and Huckleberry
Frolic, would return it safely
to the Club with a holly
wreath around its noble
neck!
He could be returned to
the Union Cale from whence
it was abducted or to the
Perry Funeral Parlor (not
for internment) where he
had been stored for a while,
or to the E.R. Village Hall
where it would be returned
to the Senior Citizen's
House where he had resided
under the watchful eyes of
the Grist Mill Museum. No
questions asked! Please!