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VOL. 33 NO. 50» Wednesday, December 10,1986 30^ PER COPY
RAGAMUFFIN PARADE. The East Rockaway Kiwanis
Club held its annual Ragamuffin Parade on Thanicsgiving
Morning. Following the parade, the kids were treated to
cartoons, candy and prizes at the Grant Avenue Firehouse.
From left to right are: John Krull, Joe Williams, John Celli,
Irving Shaw, Denis Motherway, Mike Pizzino, Bob Sisco,
A1 Smith, and Anthony Santino. (More photos on page 3).
Alumni Association Board
Members of the East
Rockaway High School
Alumni Association attend-ing
the December 3 meeting
of the Executive Board' at
the high school learned that
their November 8 fundraiser
had netted a total of
$1,457.00; that Association
membership had climbed to
a total of 491 paid members;
that data entry for the com-puterized
alumni data base
would begin in January
1987; and that publication
of the Association's first
newsletter is proceeding on
schedule for late January
1987.
In addition, a first step
was taken concerning the
creation of a committee of
class representatives who
would be appointed by the
Executive Board initially for
the period from 2/1/87 to
6 / 3 0 / 8 8 . They would
receive a monthly mailing
from the executive Board
(including the agenda) and
would be actively encour-aged
to attend the monthly
Board meetings and to serve
on Association committees.
Class r e p r e s e n t a t i v es
would be asked to serve as a
contact between the Associ-ation
and their class in two
ways: first, they would be
expected to help track down
missing members of their
class and to encourage their
classmates to join the Asso-ciation;
second, they would
be expected to help set up a
telephone link chain among
their classmates for use once
or twice a year to help
spread the word about fun-draisers
and the member-ship
drive.
Allumni interested in
serving as a class representa-
Convictions Made in
The mystery surrounding
the rape and murder of 16-
year-old Theresa Fusco of
Lynbrook in 1984 came to
an end with the conviction
of John Restivo and Dennis
Halstead last week by a Nas-sau
County jury after 13'/^
hours of deliberation.
The verdict represents the
third conviction concerning
the death of the East Rock-away
High School junior,
w h o was k i l l e d on
November 10, 1984, and
whose body was found on
December 5, 1984 in a
wooded area near the Long
Island Railroad in Lyn-brook.
Earlier this year,
John Kogut, 22, of Island
Park, was convicted on sim-ilar
charges.
Assistant District Attor-ney
Fred Klein contended
that Restivo, 27, Halstead,
32, and Kogut raped the
Lynbrook teenager in Resti-vo's
van before Kogut
strangled her and the three
buried her.
Restivo and Halstead
were convicted of two
counts of second-degree
murder and one count of
first-degree rape. They face
a possible life in prison and
will be sentenced on January
16, 1987 before Nassau
County Court Judge John
O'Shaughnessy.
Attorneys for Restivo and
Halstead stated that the case
would be appealed.
Lynbrook Village Board Report
by Annette Ling
At the Board of Trustees
Meeting of the Village of
Lynbrook'held at Village
Hall on December 1,1986 at
8 p.m., the Lynbrook Fire
Department was given
approval to hold their popu-lar
annual program of Free
Skelos Calls For Tax Cut
tive or interested in nomi-nating
a classmate to serve
can contact Association
President Richard J.Meagher
(516-599-9122) or any other
officer or trustee or write to
the. Association c/o East
RockawayHigh School.
In other action, the Exec-utive
Board accepted the
minutes of the meeting of
November 5, 1986 prepared
by Recording Secretary Jan-ice
Sanders and the Treasur-er's
Report of December 3,
1986 presented by Treasurer
Elaine Boll.
The Board also gave a
hearty round of applause to
f a l l Event Committee
Chairman Ed Carey and his
committee, especially Genie
Kubat and Raffle Coordina-tor
Janice Sanders.
Membership Committee
Chairman Andy Ferretti
r e p o r t e d that 2,559
addresses had been located
so far, ahhough 13 classes
were still substantially
under-represented. Newslet-ter
Editor John Hambel
noted that much of the
material for a four-page
newsletter was already in his
hands. Vice President John
Brennan sounded out the
Board on various alterna-tives
for the Hermanson
Field sign that is to be
erected at the high school by
the Alumni Association.
Discussion on the Spring
1987 Alumni Event focused
on a Saturday evening in
April. An informal format
for the evening similar to the
Fall event drew much sup-port,
as did the concept of
honoring (roasting?) some
of our well-remembered
faculty and administrators.
(Continued on Page 5)
Senator Dean G. Skelos
(R: Rockville Centre) is cal-ling
for a necemry and p r ^
found reduction Tn W
York State taxes to offset
the projected $2.4 billion
"windfall" expected to result
f r om the Federal Tax
Reform package recently
passed by Congress.
Senator Skelos, speaking
from the State Capitol in
Albany, stated, "The Gov-ernor
must provide leader-ship
quickly and stop pro-crastinating
or New York
taxpayers will be subjected
to a tidal wave of new taxes.
It must be remembered that
New York bases its tax code
on a system that conforms
with the Federal tax code.
Therefore, if New York does
not adjust its own tax rates.
New Yorkers will be sub-jected
to an unfair 'back-door'
tax hike. I think it is
unconscionable that our
Governor would sit idly by
and allow State taxpayers to
be victimized by the $2.4 bil-lion
windfall."
Skelos continued, "The
bulk of this tax increase bill,
as usual, hit the middle class
the hardest ~ those earning
between $20,000 to $75,000
a year. My Republican col-leagues
and 1 in the State
Senate are prepared to
return this documented tax
windfall to you and, in addi-t
i o n , exact a series of
responsible family-oriented
tax cuts."
"Unless this action is
taken by the first of the year,
the Federal changes will
unfairly place the burdon on
t h e weary, t a x - r i d d en
shoulders of the middle
class. Without State action,
New York's economic stand-ing
will be severely wea-kened
compared to neigh-b
o r i n g s t a t e s such as
Connecticut, New Jersey
and Massachusett," Skelos
explainied. ' '
Over the past two years,
thie Senate Republican
majority has made great
strides in providing tax relief
to millions of New Yorkers.
In 1986, the Senate called
for a new series of family-oriented
tax programs pro-viding
family tax relief in the
form of a personal exemp-tion
increase from $800 to
$1,200; a sales tax exemp-t
i on for clothing under
$75,00; and an educational
(Continued on Page 5 )
Rides in a fire truck to Lyn-brook
children from the
Earle Avenue Parking Lot
on December 20th from 1 to
3 p.m. The rides for Fire
Dept. and Pohce Dept. fam-ily
children will be from the
Wright Avenue Headquar-ters
from 12 noon to 1 p.m.
on Saturday, December 20tn.
Mayor Geier presented
two representatives of the
Doe Club, the Elk*s Auxil-iary
with a Proclamation
h o n o r i n g t h e i r 60th
Anniwrsary.
Lynbrook Engine Co. 3,
Talley-Ho Company of the
Lynbrook Fire Department
was given Board permission
to solicit ads for their 75th
Anniversary v'hich will take
place in 1987.
The date of December
15th was set for a Public
Hearing on a change in the
local law pertaining to
Required Lot Frontage
which will be changed from
40 ft. to 50 ft. with the excep-tion
of those properties
already built with a 40 ft.
frontage.
Approval was given for
the payment of an increase
in the Auditor's fees in the^
sum of $2300 to be paid to
the Village Auditors Maine,
Hurdman Co.
The Board passed a reso-lution
requiring an authori-zation
to apply for funds
from the Nassau County
Consortium for further
improvements at Greis
Veterans Memorial Park.
Urkler a t h r ^ year program
Lynbrook received $ 100,000
in 1986 for Greis Park
improvements and play-ground
equipment and
Mayor Geier stated that he
expects that Lynbrook will
get about $40,000 for 1987.
A Bid award for a surplus
Fire Department Floodlight
Truck was accepted from
Guy Pratt, Inc. in the sum of
$1336.
A Bid award for a new
s a n i t a t i o n truck was
awarded to T / F Motors of
(Continued on Page 10)
Overnight Parking Restrictions Changed
Over the last several
years, many Village resi-dents
have complained
about the present 4 AM to 6
AM Overnight Parking
Regulations causing them a
hardship when moving vehi-cles
from the driveway to the
street.
With the additional time
it now takes to commute to
places of employment resi-dents
are leaving earlier,
thus requiring them to move
their vehicles prior to 6 AM
to the street thereby placing
them in violation of Village
Code and subject to a
summons.
In line with that thought
the Mayor and the Village
Board had unanimously
voted to change the Over-night
Parking Restrictions
from the present 4AM to 6
AM to 3AM to 5AM, ther-eby
allowing early commu-ters
the opportunity to park
their cars on the street one
(1) hour earlier.
The new change went into
effect on 12/1/86 and
should alleviate some of the
present problems encoun-tered
by many of our early
commuters.
FIREMAN CELEBRATES 25TH ANNIVERSARY.
Fireman Edward Murphy of Vulcan Company celebrated
his 25th Anniversary on 11/22/86 at a dinner held in his
honor. Mayor Geier presents Fireman Murphy with his 25
year pin on behalf of the Incorporated Village of Lynbrook
and thanked him for his 25 years of dedicated service to its
residents (Photo by John Cribbin)