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VOL. 35 NO. 15 Wednesday, April 20,1988 35c PER COPY
Lynbrook Approves Budget
NEW PRESIDENT. During the recent Lynbrook Chamber
of Commerce Anniversary celebration, Lester Forest (cen-ter)
was inducted as the new President. Shown above is
former Lynbrook Mayor GSenn Spielman (left) and fot mer
Lynbrook Trustee Eugene Scarpato (right), now current
President of the Lynbrook Independent Party, congratulat-ing
and extending best wishes to Mr. Forest for a successful
term of office.
Progress On
Anniversary
Plans
By Mildred Roemer
fourth grade as we had
reported) stated that a few
libraries might have the
book. He is digging for more
Frolic information, and did
reveal that the original Frol-ics
were held on what is now
the site of the Garden City
Hotel.
Health Fair
The Kiwanis Club of East
Rockaway is holding its
Annual Health Fair on Sat-urday,
April 30, 1988,
between the hours of 10 AM
and 4 PM at St. Raymond's
Church cafeteria, located on
Atlantic Avenue in East
Rockaway.
There will be free blood
pressure, hearing, eye and
diabetic tests, and there will
be visiting physicians, a
dentist and chiropractors
present.
All citizens are invited to
come and take full advan-tage
of these services, every-body
is welcome and these
. services .are .absolutely free.
Last week's planning
meeting for the 300th Anni-versary
for the Museum and
annual Frolic finalized some
events, and now it's up to
cooperation from organiza-tions
and interested parties
to help General Chairman
Ted Reinhard fit other
pieces of the puzzle together.
Emma Tolmach has agreed
to be Entertainment Chair-man.
Other important posi-tions
will be filled at a third
meeting. Date to be
announced through phone
calls and the mail. This
Anniversary program needs
teamwork, and we know the
volunteers will pitch in as
they always have.
Last week's article about
the Huckleberry Frolic of
1846 was from a book pub-lished
in 1912and written by
Daniel Tredwell, entitled
"Personal Reminiscences of
Men and Things in Early
Long Island". Thomas
Carty (6th grade teacher in
Centre Avenue School, not
by Annette Ling
The Lynbrook Board of
Trustees held its budget
meeting on Monday, April
11, 1988, and adopted a
1988-89 budget of $8,349,
712. Based on an assessed
valuation of $229,387,691,
the budget will result in a tax
increase of $3.64 per
hundred of a s s e s s ed
valuation.
The Mayor turned over
the meeting to Village Clerk
Shirley Moskowitz, who is
also Chief Budget Officer
for the Village. There was a
large resident group in
attendance as she went over
each item one each page
answering questions from
the audience about the dif-ferent
budgeted items.
Lent Offers
Agricultural
Yearbooks
Congressman Norman
Lent (R-4th CD) announced
that a limited number of the
1987 Yearbook of Agricul-ture
are still available to res-idents
of the Fourth Con-gressional
District.
The yearbook, entitled
"Our American Land",
offers an historical analysis
of land management policies
as it relates to the technolog-ical
applications used by
today's farmers. The infor-mation
provided in this pub-lication
was written by our
Nation's leading agricultu-ral
historians, economists
and conservationists on
behalf of the Department of
Agricuhure.
"1 am pleased to be able to
provide my constituents
with this highly informative
publication", stated Con-gressman
Lent. "This year's
Agricultural Yearbook Nyas
written in an historic theme
in honor of the Bicentennial
of the United States Consti-tution.
Supplies are limited,
so all interested residents
should order their copy
immediately". Lent con-cluded.
To obtain a free copy of
the 1987 Yearbook of Agri-culture,
constituents are
directed to write Congress-man
Lent at his District
Office located at 2280Grand
Avenue, Baldwin, New
York 1I5I0. Telephone
(516) 223-1616.
Mayor Bill Geier ex-plained
that taxes were
"increased because of the loss
of federal revenue sharing
and per captia aid, plus large
increases in Health Insu-rance
and tipping fees. The
village is also revamping the
fees charged by the village
for commercial garbage col-lection
and increasing park-ing
patrols to increase the
fines for traffic and parking
violations in order that the
line be held on taxes.
The Mayor cited "Sky-rocketing
costs for essential
services such as disposal of
garbage. It is almost impos-sible
to forecast with any
degree of accuracy how high
these costs for essential ser-vices
will go."
The total assessed valua-tion
of property in the vil-lage
is $228,974,954. The tax
rate for 1988/89 shows a
15.6 per cent increase and
the tax will be per $3.64
$1000 of assessed valuation.
The amount to be raised
by property taxes will be
$8,349,712.
There was a great deal of
questioning from the resi-dents
present which Shirley
Moskowitz answered as
they came up.
When polled, Mayor
Geier, Deputy Mayor Nor-man
Dreyer, and Trustee
Steve Grogan approved the
budget as submitted by the
Budget officer and Trustee
Dominick DeCarlo voted
against passage of the sub-mitted
budget.
The budget, message sub-mitted
by Mayor Geier is
reprinted in this issue.
Scholastic Achiever
186 students from schools
in Nassau, Suffolk and
Queens have been named
leading scholastic achievers
in the 25th Annual High
Honors Competition spon-sored
by Newsday.
East Rockaway High
School is pleased to
announce that one of its
graduating seniors, Sharon
Verity, is among the 75
achievers from Nassau
County. These students
were chosen for recognition
by a Newsday scholar com-mittee,
which is made up of
secondary school adminis-trators.
Next month the
final selection committee,
consisting of college and
university administrators,
will meet to select from
among this group the
winners of the Patterson and
Sharon Verity
Buskin scholarships and one
time grants.
The students and staff of
East Rockaway High
School congratulate Sharon
for her achievement and
wish her luck in the upcom-ing
competition.
Registration Days
The East Rockaway
Board of Education has
announced that voter regis-tration
and new voters
regarding the Budget Vote
and Trustee Election will
take place in the District
Office, East Rockaway High
School on the following
days:
Tuesday, May 3, 1988
from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Wednesday, May 4, 1988
From 9:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m.
Thursday, May 5, 1988
from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Friday, May 6 from 9:00
a.m. to 9:00 p.m.
Any East Rockaway resi-dent
who has moved from
one address to another
within the distrisct must re-register
on these days.
New voters and new resi-dents
must be Citizens of the
USA, 18 years of age and
residents of the district for
30 days.
In addition, registration
may be completed on voting
days. May 17th from 6:00
a.m. to 9:00 p.m. in the
gymnasium for persons not
registered with the school
district but who have voted
in the National, State or
County elections in the past
four years. Residents of the
school district for 30 days
still applies.
Absentee Ballot applica-tions
for registered residents
who will be unable to vote in
person on May 17, 1988 are
available in the District
Office, East Rockaway High
School.
LIONS HONOR ONE OF THEIR OWN. The Lynbrook/-
East Rockaway Lions Club gave special recognition at a
recent meeting with the presentation of a 15-Year Service
Chevron to Dr. Joel Weintraub (center), who has donated
his expertise as an eye doctor at numerous health fairs
sponsored by the Club over the years. Lion Paul Berger (left)
presents the Chevron, while Lion President Myron Jacob-son
(right) offers his congratulations. The Club is presently
completing its 52nd year of service to our two communities.
(Photo by Lion Art Roemer)