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VOL. 34 NO. 38 Wednesday, September 30,1987 aoe PER COPY
' - ^ ^ Groundbreaking Set
/V 5513 For October 10
G r o u n d - b r e a k i n g cere-monies
for the new Rhame
Avenue School have been
scheduled for Saturday,
October 10th, at 11 AM by
the East Rockaway Board of
Education.
With plans and specifica-tions
completed and NYS
E d u c a t i o n D e p a r t m e nt
approval, contracts haVe
been awarded to five prime
contractors and work is
scheduled to begin the week
of October 12th.
Board of Education Vice-
President Carol Burris has
announced that community
members are invited to join
the Board at this ceremony,
marking the start of a new
Come Home, Alumni!
200TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE CONSTITUTION.
Nassau County Executive Thomas S. Gulotta, (right),
signed the "Living Constitution" at the 200th Anniversary of
the Constitution Celebration which was recently held at the
Supreme Court Building in Mineola. Also present is Vincent
Luisi of Roslyn, (left), who is representing Major William
Jackson, the Secretary of Convention.
Seagull Classic Run
The 4th Annual Village of
East Rockaway Seagull
Classic, sponsored by St. ^
Raymond's CYO is less than
two weeks a way. Every-thing
is all set for you to
come & enjoy a fun filled
day @ Bay Park. The kids
1-Mile Fun Run starts @
9:00 am sharp, and the more
challenging 5K (3.1 mi) @
9:30 am.
Applications available (5)
St. Raymond Rectory or
church @ Foot Locker, or
just register at the School,
Friday - October 9 7 to 9
p.m. and Satuday Oct. 10th
9 to Noon, or at the Race
7:30 to 9:00 p.m.
Running shirts will be
presented to the first 400
Pre-Registrants, so Hurry!!
ST. RAYMOND'S CYO
5K RUN AND 1 MILE
FUN RUN
DATE: Sunday, October
11th, 1987
TIME: Start Times: Fun
Run - 9:00 AM 5K Run -
9:30 AM
ENTRY FEE: $7.00 (Pre-
R e g i s t r a t i o n ) $ 8 . 00
(Post Registration)
COURSE: 5 Kilometers
flat. Start & Finish at Bay
Park, E. Rockaway Timed
by "Start to Finish Corp.",
Splits at 1 and 2 miles.
1-MlLE RUN: Open to
all ages. Course is within
Bay Park. Ribbons to All.
AWARDS: Top 3 Fin-ishers
Male &. Female 10 &
under, 11-15 and 16 & over.
REGISTRATION: Pre-
Registration - Entries Post-marked
by October 1, 1987.
Post-Registration - to 8:30
AM on Race Day at Bay
Park.
SHIRTS: Short Sleeve.
To all Pre-Registrants.
CHECK IN: St. Ray-mond
School Cafeteria,
Atlantic & Grant Ave. E.
Rockaway. Friday, October
9, 1987....7:00 PM to 9:00
PM
Saturday, October 10,
1987....9:00 AM to 12:00
Noon Bay Park on Race
Day (Sunday, October 11)
7:30 AM to 9:30 AM
"Come home, alumni!" is
the call being sounded once
again by the East Rockaway
High School Alumni Asso-ciation
for the "big doings"
on Saturday, November 7,
1987.
First is the annual Home-coming
Football Game at 1
p.m. scheduled for Herman-son
Field at East Rockaway
High School with all game
proceeds going to the Louis
Cosenza Memorial Fand.
The Rocks will be playing
against Manhasset.
Next is the Gala Alumni
Homecoming Party at the
newly renovated Main
Street Firehouse in East
Rockaway starting at 5 p.m.
and ending??? Dee-Jay Ed
the Head will spin platters
from your favorite decade,
and a hot buffet and an open
bar (5 p.m. to 9 p.m.) is
included in the $22.00 per
person donation.
Most important is the
c h a n c e to renew eld
acquain-tances while you
support your own Alumni
Association.
"Come home. Rocks,"
urged an Alumni Associa-tion
spokesman. "Catch the
spirit. Ifyoucameto Home-coming
last November, you
already know the feeling. If
you missed last November,
don't miss out again!"
Donation checks for res-ervations
made payable to
the East Rockaway High
School Alumni Association
can be sent to Genie Kubat,
36 Birch Street, Lynbrook,
• NY 11563(516-599-5627). .
era in the history of Rhame
Avenue School.
Representatives of the
a r c h i t e c t u r a l firm, Fred
Thomas Associates, the con-tractors,
school officials, vil-lage
officials, PTA leader-ship
and local media will be
invited to attend.
It is expected that the con-struction
schedule will call
f o r c o m p l e t i o n in 15
months. The District is
hopeful that students and
teachers may move into their
new school for the second
semester, starting February
1989.
C o n s t r u c t i o n will be
supervised by the architects,,
the Superintendent and Bus-iness
Administrator and by
a full time Construction
Manager employed by the
school district to protect the
district's interests.
Local Assistance Program
Nassau County Executive
Thomas S. Gulotta today
announced that the Coun-
Judicial Slate Named
"Uniquely qualified" were
the words used by Nassau
County Republican Chair-man
Joseph N. Mondello in
endorsing the candidacy of
Oyster Bay Supervisor
Joseph Colby for Justice of
t h e New York State
Supreme Court during the
Tenth Judicial District
Nominating Convention
held on Tuesday, Septetfiber
22.
"Joe brings with him a
blend of legal and govern-mental
experience that will
give him a solid foundation
as a Supreme Court Jus-tice,"
asserted Mondello.
"He is uniquely qualified to
serve as a Justice of this dis-tinguished
court."
Supervisor Colby has
served as Oyster Bay Super-visor
since 1977 being
elected five times to the
s u p e r v i s o r ' s post. Colby
brings with him an extensive
legal background on several
levels of government as well
as 27 years as an attorney in
private practice.
Since 1975 to 1977 he held
the post of Oyster Bay Town
Attorney, the town's chief
legal officer, a former
member of the Nassau
County Board of Assessors,
Colby also served as legal,
counsel to the Oyster Bay
Town Public Employees
Relation Board, the New
York S t a t e Assembly
Health Committee and
counsel to the Massapequa
P a r k Village P l a n n i ng
Commission.
Prior to entering public
service, Colby was engaged
in private practice and was
admitted to the New York
State Bar in 1950 and in the
subsequent years admitted
to practice before the U.S.
District Court in the South-ern
and Eastern Districts,
the United States Supreme
Court and the U.S. Court of
Military Appeals.
A World War II veteran,
he attended Adelphi Univer-sity
and Brooklyn Law
School. Active in his home
community of Massapequa
Park, Colby is past director
of Temple Sinai, member of
the Knights of Pythias and
B'nai B'rith. He has held the
posts of president and direc-tor
of the Bar Harbor Civic
Association, president of the
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ty's proposed 1988 local
assistance program, which
provides sales tax revenues
to the County's composite
Towns and Cities, will pro-vide
a record breaking total
of 31.9 million in 1988.
Gulotta indicated that the
proposed 1988 revenues
were $3.6 million higher
than comparable revenues
in 1987.
"Under our plan, the
revenues generated by 1/4%
of the sale tax revenues in
Nassau County will con-tinue
to be tunneled back to
the County's three Towns
and two Cities to help hold
the line on property taxes
and to aid in resolving solid
waste disposal problems,"
Gulotta said. "I am deligh-ted
that we were able to
implement a 1988 local
assistance program which
offer an unsurpassed total of
revenues to our Town and
Cities."
Gulotta explained that
the higher local assistance
program was made possible
by several factors:
* Actual reconciliation of
1986 sales tax payments
* A 7% budget growth for
1987 in sales tax revenues
* An anticipated growth
of 7.5% in sales tax revenues
for 1988.
Under the Gulotta pro-gram,
the 1988 local assist-ance
program will be allo-cated
to the Towns and
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Constitution Awards
Ceremony
On Wednesday, Sep-tember
16, 1987 a Constitu-t
i o n Celebration and
Awards Ceremony was
presented by the Lynbrook
200th Anniversary of the
Constitution Committee in
Village Hall. Shown in the
second row from the rear the
Constitution Committee
members are left to right,
Peter McSherry, Mark
Gold, Art Mattson, Joan
Mathie and Louise Janet
Campbell.
Joining in the festivities
are the Lynbrook Village
Board shown standing in the
rear row are Trustee Bud
Lanning, Trustee Steve
Grogan, Mayor William
G e i e r , T r u s t e e Dom
DeCarlo, and Trustee Nor-man
Dreyer.
The Committee awarded
first prize plaques to the
winning entrants in the U.S.
Constitution Project which
was run throughout the
local schools in honor of the
200th Anniversary of the
Constitution. The students
are proudly holding their
awards for first prize in their
grade level in school. The
winners who received
plaques are (in Grade level
order), Nicholas Acosta,
LaurenMinderman, Sabrina
Aloi,Nicholas Mileo, James
Matier, Jay Thompson,
Stephanie Toti, Nichole
Acosta, Kathryn Kraemer,
Jonathan Podlaski, Alfred
DeFatta Jr., Brian Gunn,
Katie Sorensen, Keith Bar-kaus,
Anthony Picone,
Tracy McNamara, Con Sul-l
i v a n , Neil Fitpatrick,
Suzanne Kraemer and
Alanna Turk.