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VOL. 35 NO. 10 Wednesday, March 16,1988 30c PER COPY
Crowd Jams
Lynbrook Board Meeting
ROTARY CLUB WELCOMES NEW MEMBER. Diane
Cristofari, Assistant Treasurer for the Lynbrook branch of
National Westminster Bank USA, has become the first
female member of the Lynbrook-East Rockaway Rotary
Club. Pictured (L-R) Louis Mirando, president; Diane Cris-tofari;
Alfred Sorrentino, District Governor.
Casting Decisions Near
The pace is beginning to
quicken, as casting decisions
begin to be made on March
23 for "Phantoms of the
Grist Mill", the East Rock-away
High School Alumni
Association's June 11 musi-cal
show celebrating the
300th Anniversary of the
Grist Mill.
There is still time to join
the cast! Singers and
dancers are still being recru-ited,
and some speaking
parts are still available.
Come to the East Rockaway
High School Auditorium at
7:30 p.m. on March 23 and
sign up. All interested
alumni and residents are
welcome to participate. A
total cast of some 50 persons
is anticipated.
Director Sharon Keane,
'68, says the production
promises to be "a fun time
for all of us and a chance to
be with old friends again."
Elaine Agruso Fuller, '68, is
handling the choreography.
John Brennan, '56, is chair-man
of the over-all Alumni
Planning Committee for the
event.
The script was written by
Harry Runacres, '46; Genie
Kubat, '69; and Paula Mari-naccio
DePietro, '70, based
in part on some orignial
concepts of Ed Power, '75.
A light-hearted romp
through 300 years of East
Rockaway history, "Plan-tons
of the Grist Mill" will
feature song and dance and
comedy,
with some ghostly appear-ances,
as the Grist Mill
weathers a modern crisis
that threatens its very
existence.
Beginning and ending in
modern times, the show
transports us back to such
periods as 1688, 1776, 1865,
1900, 1920, and 1945.
Reserved seat tickets for
the June 11 performance at 8
p.m. in the East Rockaway
High School Auditorium
will be available at $7.50
each. Mrs. Jane Brezenoff,
10 Riverside Road, Lyn-brook,
NY 11563 (887-
4101), has graciously agreed
to serve as Ticket Coordina-tor
for "Phantoms of the
Grist Mill". Early ticket
requests can be mailed to her
with checks made payable to
the East Rockaway High
School Alumni Association.
by Amiette Ling
Over 300 people, one of
the largest crowds in many
years attended the Lyn-brook
Board of Trustees
Meeting held at Village
Hall, Monday evening at 8
p.m. on March 6, 1988.
The 4-H Southern Village
Club was granted the
Board's permission to solicit
for funds by selling candy in
a Candy Sale from March
11th to April 6, 1988. About
30 or 40 children will take
part in the sale.
Mayor Geier announced
that due to consultation
with local taxpayers, the
Chamber of Commerce etc.
he was going to recommend
to the Board that the origi-nal
resolution to collect the
village taxes annually be
rescinded and that we go
back to a semi-annual col-lection.
He then explained
that a survey would be sent
out to all residents of the vil-lage
in order to get their
input on matters "of village
concern. Other issues will be
listed on the survey and all
pertaining to about 7 or 8
items which could be listed
under Capitol Improve-ments.
He stated. "The
Board wants to listen to the
will of the people." He went
on that there were over 75%
of neighboring villages
which collected the village
Turning the
Topcoats might not be
discarded just yet, even
though there was a robin in
the garden this morning,
and a lit^tle purple crocus
pushing through the dry
grass. "Rustle" of Spring???
There is not only that
Spring "rustle" around East
Rockaway, but an "awaken-ing"
of interest in ideas for
the 300th Anniversary of the
Grist Mill Museum that will
be celebrated in June — June
11th for the E.R. High
Alumni Association's play
in the High School and the
BIG Huckelberry Frolic on
the 18th. Other plans are
being thought of to fill up
those days between the play
and Frolic. Have any ideas?
It would be good if the
library might have some
special exhibit or event, and
taxes on an annual basis.
The Board in a Resolution
approved the motion to res-cind
the original resolution.
One resident declared: "I
want to congratulate the
Board for listening to the
people and I'd like to con-gratulate
the people for
speaking out." It was clear
from the comments from the
audience that the main rea-son
why the people were
present was because of the
issue of the annual collec-tion
of taxes. There was
some heated comments and
all were allowed to give their
opinions on the tax collec-tion
matter and other things
as well.
The date for a Public
Hearing on a request for a
Special Exception requester
by the owners of 183 Atlan-tic
Ave. was tabled until the
Board Meeting of March 21,
1988.
The date for the Public
Hearing on an application
for a Special Exception by
the owners of 77 Hempstead
Ave. was set for May 2nd
and the SEQRA Resolution
was deferred as well. The
date of March 21 Public
Board Meeting was set for
the hearing on amending the
Local Law 252-12 which
pertains to Boarders and
Roomers.
Trustee Stephen Grogan
explained the proposed for
revitalizing Atlantic Ave.
and reported that a commit-tee
made of Chamber of
Commerce up of representa-tives
from the Lynbrook
Chamber of Commerce, the
Lynbrook Architectural
Board of Review and others
from the village government
had been meeting for many
months to discuss and
explore the different ways
Atlantic Ave. could be
refurbished and up-graded.
An architect responsible for
the work on 7th Ave. in
Garden City had presented
some of his ideas to the
committee. He recently won
a prestigious national archi-tectural
award. The esti-mated
cost would be
covered in a Lynbrook Bond
Resolution of $600,000
which would contain'a
$ 10,000 architects fee for the
rendering which could be
shown at a Public Board
Meeting.
Mayor Geier mentioned
that the Chamber of Com-merce
had expressed appro-val
on any plan to revitalize
A t l a n t i c Ave. Mort
S c h u m s k y from the
Chamber of Commerce
stated that he for one would
be willing to pay his share of
costs for the Refurbishment
etc, but he would have to see
what the actual costs would
be. Ben Raskin, former
Trustee made several com-ments
about this project and
others in the audience
expressed doubts that it
would be in the neighbor-hood
of $600,000. One local
merchant oposed to the plan
also gave his views and
c o m m e n t s from the
audience in general were
made. Mayor Geier
explained that this Atlantic
Ave, proposed projects and
at least some other.items
would be on the residents'
survey which will be mailed
out too all Lynbrook
people.
A routine transfer of
funds was approved by the
Board and under Good and
Welfare many residents
were heard from on prob-lems
in their particular area.
One local resident menti-oned
to those present that if
niore of them came to the
Board Meetings they would
be better informed about
vvhat was going on in the
village.
Three Positions Open in Board Race
by Mildred Roemer
the schools have something
about E.R. history and the
Mill in their assembly pro-grams.
Maybe poster con-tests
to glamorize store win-dows.
This should put E.R.
on the map for the Mill is the
oldest building in Nassau
County (even though it had
a "face lift" last year and
looks quite spry). Former
Mayor Ted Reinhard is
Frolic Chairman this year.
I'd sure be happy to have
suggestions as to feasible
ideas. It would be great to
make this a real Community
affair. Let's show our celeb-rity
Don Murray when he
comes how much his once
sleepy, clam-digging Village
has spruced up - even
though we can no longer dig
those succulent clams!
At the Board of Educa-tion
meeting on March 9th,
President Alicemarie Bres-nihan
announced that there
will be three terms expiring
for seats on the Board of
Education this year. Vice
President Joan Hines, has
declared her intention to run
again. Robert Delmond and
Susan Ruchman have
decided to retire as members'
of the Board of Education.
Mrs. Bresnihan accepted
their decision and thanked
them both for their years of
dedicated service to the
children of the Lynbrook
School District.
Anyone interested in run-ning
for a position on the
Board of Education can
obtain a nominating peti-tion
from the office of the
District Clerk. Each petition
must be signed by a min-imum
of forty-five qualified
voters of the District, must
state the residence of the
candidate, and describe the
specific vacancy on the
Board of Education for
which the candidate is nom-inated
including the length
of the term of office and the
name of the incumbent. The
new terms will commence on
July I, 1988 and will expire
on June 30, 1991. Petitions
are to be returned to the Dis-trict
Clerk no later than
April 4th, 1988.
The election will be held
in conjunction with the Dis-trict
Budget vote on May 4,
1988.
NEW FLAG. Lynbrook Veterans of Foreign Wars presents
new American Flag to the Lynbrook Junior Girl Unit of the
V.F.W. From left to right are Commander George Athenas,
Pres. of Junior Girl Unit, Dawn Hoyt, Pres. of Ladies
Auxiliary, Anne Cerbone.