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VOL. 34 NO. 47 Wednesday, December 2,1987 30e PER COPY
RAGAMUFFIN PARADE. Nassau County Executive
Tom Gulotta (third rigiit) was on iiand for Tiianiisgiving
: ~ «t<Mming festivities tA llic siinuai Ragamuffin Farade, tpon-sored
by the East Rockaway Kiwanis Club. Distributing
gifts t o the ragamufRns are, from left to right, Auxiliary
Police Chief John Kiemeler, Marie Fritz, Coiilmander o f
American Legion Post No. 958, East Rockaway Deputy
Mayor Anthony Santino, Mayor Irving Shaw, County
Executive Gulotta, ERFD Chief Chris Shelton, and Kiwan-ian
Al Smith.
ERA Party Election
,Destroying
nisiory
by Mildred Roemer
Can*t help but wince when
the bulldozer's heavy ball
smashes down one more old
house or large building in
the name of "Progress", ($).
Have been concerned
recently to hear that the old
I700's Hewlett home on
East Rockaway Road may
soon go under a demolition
crew's TLC is a new site is
not Ibund. Many years ago
the plans had been to
remove it board-by-board to
Old Bethpage Village, but it
is now said the cost to move
it to that location would be
prohibitive. The property at
Rock Hall was also consi-dered.
but it was deemed
IBGAI NOTICe
The December 7, 1987
regularly scheduled Board
of Trustees Meeting of the
Incorporated Village of Lyn-brook
Is hereby canceled.
The next regular scheduled
Board Meeting will be held
on December 21, 1987 at
8 : 0 0 P.M. in the V i l l a g e Hall.
BY ORDER OF THE
BOARD OF TRUSTEES
Shirley Moskowitz,
Village Clerk
Lynbrook, NY
Dated: 1 2 / 2 / 87
ERLO # 6 9 9 1 2 /2
there was not enough space
there I'or it.
The old historian has seen
all too many buildings go,
mostly because of the lack of
foresight and the almighty
dollar. Thankfully, because
of our Village government
under the leadership of the
late Mayor Charles Krull
and the urging of the late
Village attorney, W. Wesley
Hill the building for our
Grist Mill Museum was
saved. It was sad the old
Davison home on Main
Street (site now occupied by
Wendy's) could not have
been saved after it burned to
the ground. In older paper
clippings the building was
deemed "savable!" Oh well!
Another not too historic
but tiny abode of interest is
up for the "taking" if a taker
can be found. It is the small
house in back of Donza
Funeral Home on Atlantic
Avenue. A suggestion was
made that it would make a
nice addition to the Museum
in the Park. However, it
would take a bundle of
"huckleberries" from our
Huckleberry Frolics to
move it, even if Village
fathers were to approve.
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Members of the East
Rockaway Action Parly will
be called upon lor the first
time in many years to choose
a Club President and Vice
President. The election will
be held on Monday.
December 7. 1987 at 8:30-
PM in the Grant Avenue
Firehouse.
I n c u m b e n t s Murray
Eskina/i and Rita Van
Buren are seeking third con-secutive
terms in office.
They arc being challenged
by William Kelleher and
Martin Evans. Three candi-dates
to the ERA board of
directors, Michael Mullin,
Robert McTague and Ted
R e i n h a r d are running
unopposed.
All members in good
standing are urged to cast
their ballot on Monday,
December 7, 1987, at 8:30
PM in the Grant Avenue
Firehouse.
Tree Lighting in
East Rockaway
The Beautification Com-mittee
of East Rockaway,
with the support of the mer-chants
of the Village, will
light the tree on Legion
Place (intersection of Main
Street and Atlantic Avenue)
this holiday season.
The children from the
schools of the Village will
participate. Decorations for
the tree are being made by
the children of Centre
Avenue, Rahme Avenue
and St. Raymond's Schools,
while a garland will be made
by the Junior High students.
The tree lighting cerem-ony
will be held at Legion
Place on Monday, December-
7,1987, at 7:00 p.m. Various
choral groups from the
community will participate,
and the American Legion
will supply hot chocolate.
This will be a great commun-ity
get-together. Please join
us.
Reunion
Committee
A committee is being
formed to make plans for
the 10th reunion of the
members of the Class of
1978 of East Rockaway
High School.
The initial meeting of the
•reunion committee will be
held on Sunday, December
6. 1987, at 2 pm in Bethnay
C h u r c h . All interested
members of the Class of
1978 (all three of us who still
live in East Rockaway)
should meet at the Church
oHice entrance.
For more inlormation,
call David Donovan at 593-
3248 and let him know if
you'll attend the meeting.
Village Board
Reports
HunwtooA^
by Annette Ling
The highlights of the
Lynbrook Board of Trustees
Meeting held at Village Hall
on November 16, 1987 were
Police promotions and the
announcement of two resig-nations
from the Building
Department.
Mayor Geier explained
that two weeks ago, a com-plaint
was received from a
homeowner about two
building inspectors. The
complaint was handled by
the Police Chief Joseph
Lauriano who conducted an
i n v e s t i g a t i o n . "It was
determined that the two men
should be suspended and
that their resignations were
in order. Since that time
their was a determinations
that their resignations
in order and that the resig-nations
were in fact submit-ted.
The facts on the case are
now being investigated by
the District Attorney's office
and are going on at that
level." The two building
i n s p e c t o r s are Charles
Sabella and Al Amalfitano.
The Board could not answer
any other questions because
the matter is beinj; investi-gated
by the District Attor-ney's
Office.
Officer Alan Cochran was
promoted to the rank of
Sargeant, Officer James
Fleming was promoted to
D e t e c t i v e , D e t e c t i ve
Richard Neidecker was
promoted to Detective Sar-geant,
and Sargeant Joseph
Neve was promoted to the
rank of Lieutenant. Mayor
Geier praised the four men
f o r their o u t s t a n d i ng
records mentioning that
Cochran had been involved
in many community rela-tions
programs, Lt. Neve
was the recipient of five
d e p a r t m e n t a l awards,
Richard Neidecker, has
been a detective for one year
and has a record of sixteen
departmental awards and
citations, and James Flem-r.
ig ha» eiiceller:?*recc»ro
as a field training officer.
The men's families were on
hand to witness the promo-tions
and received the con-gratulations
of those in
attendance, the Police Chief
and the Mayor who also
wished them the best of luck
in their new positions.
A {}ublic hearing on
amending a local law. Chap-ter
252 Zoning was next on
(Continued on Page
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by Emma Tolmach
The Mayor and members
of the East Rockaway Vil-lage
Board held their regular
monthly meeting on Mon-day,
November 9, at 8:30 pm
in the Village Hall.
Sergeant Mitchell read
the report of activities of the
4th Precinct as submitted by
Deputy Inspector Faust for
the month of October 1987
as follows: 3 arrests (1 leav-ing
scene of incident, 1 crim-inal
mischief, 1 criminal
contempt); 184 moving vio-lations
and 202 parking
summonses issued; 2 resi-dential
burglaries reported;
22 accidents with 12 injuries.
Mayor Shaw requested
that Sergeant Mitchell ask
for additional surveillance
on Main Street, Ocean
A v e n u e and Atlantic
Avenue due to the number
of accidents reported. He
pointed out that of the 22
a c c i d e n t s r e p o r t e d 9
occurred on Main Street
which led him to suspect
excessive speeding.
Trustee Perry reported
that Mayor Shaw has been
diligently contesting the
proposed rate increases of
Long Island Water Com-pany
to the Fire Department
for Hydrant rentals and had
recently attended a meeting
to submit a formal protest.
Mayor Shaw indicated that
Trustee Perry attended the
last meeting held in New
York City. Deputy Mayor
S a n t i n o c o m m e n d ed
Chairman Kathy McNulty
and her Beautification
Committee for their work in
making the first annual
"Clean Up Day" in East
Rockaway such a success.
He indicted that the Com-mittee
is working hard on a
number of future projects
for the Village.
Mayor Shaw reported
that the work presently
being done at the Ox-Bow
Park (Ocean Avenue, north
of Railroad) is prog'-'?ssing
slowly at. "lopes to com-plete
the projv, "ior to the
onsv bad weather. He
reporteo i. t the Board had
attended a ceremony honor-ing
Harold "Jigger" Holmes
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