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VOL. 35 NO. 28 Wednesday, July 20,1988 35c PER COPY
WE ARE THE CHAMPIONS. Lynbrook Fire Chief
Richard Neidecker, second from left, joined by Deputy
Chiefs, from left to right, George Tierney, William Donald
and Frank Abrams hold the trophies won in the 4th Battlion
Parade and Drill held in Rockville Center on June 24th and
25th. The Lynbrook Fire Department won "Best Appearing
Department Overall". The Lynbrook Junior Fire Depart-ment
also took first place while Lynbrook's band received a
third place trophy. During the drill the Lynbrook Juniors
won the Juniors Tournament. (Photo by John Cribbin).
New Postmaster For
East Rockaway
Crisetta M. Hatwood has
been appointed Postmaster
of East Rockaway, NY by
Northeast Regional Post-master
General. William R.
Cummings.
Mrs. Hatwood was
appointed in accordance
with Merit Selection Proce-dures
of the Postal Reorgan-i/.
ational Act. She began her
career in 1971 as a Substi-tute
Clerk in the Jamaica,
NY Post Office and has
since served in various Post
Offices inQueensCounty. In
1987 she was Officer-In-
Charge in Seaford, NY. Her
present position is that of
Manager, Kew Garden Sta-tion.
Throughout her postal
career, she has always per-formed
in a most efficient
and effective manner and
maintains a fine rapport
with customers and fellow
employees as well.
Mrs. Hatwood attended
Queens College from 1967
to 1968. She has also com-pleted
numerous postal
managerial training courses
and is the recipient of several
letters of commendation
and a p p r e c i a t i o n . She
resides with her husband,
Theodore: her daughter,
Sharhonda Evans; and her
son, Theodore Jr., in
Roosevelt, NY where she is
very active in community
affairs.
Mrs. Hatwood will head
an office with 27 employees,
with an annual mail volume
of approximately 13 million
pieces. She succeeds Mr.
Joseph Carrigan who retired
earlier this year. In the inte-rim,
Mr. Paul Pluda served
VILLAGE ^OARD REPORT
Lynbrook
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as Officcr-ln-Charge. He
will return to his regular
position as Maintenance
Program Specialist in the
Hicksville Division.
Bank Rubber
Nabbed
Det/Sgt. Donald Sond-ergaard
of the Robbery
Squad reports the arrest on
7/12/88 at 11:10 am. of a
man for numerous bank
robberies that occurred
from Jan. '87 thru Feb. 11,
1987.
John A. Taylor 43, of the
Roanoke Coutity Jail,
Salem, Virginia formerly of
Northport, Long Island,
was arrested for robbery I.
It is alleged that the defend-ant
robbed the following
banks:
1. l / 8 / 8 7 - E u r o p e an
American Bank-830 Port
Washington Blvd. Port
Washington.
2. 1/10/87-Savings Bank
of America-255 Hempstead
Ave. West Hempstead.
3. 1/17/87 - Fidelity of
New York bank-464 Atlan-tic
Ave. East Rockaway.
4. 1 / 2 2 / 8 7 - N a t i o n al
Westminister Bank-1600
Hillside Ave., New Hyde
Park
5. 1/30/87-Savings Bank
of America-2307A Jericho
I pke. Garden City Park.
6. 2 / 6 / 8 7 - E m m i g r a nt
Savings Bank-6311 North
Hempstead Tpke., East
Norwich.
(Continued on Page 12)
The highlights of the
Lynbrook Board of Trustees
Meeting held at Village Hall
on Monday evening, 8 p.m.
on July 11, 1988 was a pres-eiitation
of a citation and a
public hearing on a request
for a variance.
Mayor Bill Geier pres-ented
a citation to young
Conan Burns from Belfast,
Northern Ireland, designat-ing
him as an Honorary res-ident
of Lynbrook. Conan is
one of the youngsters who
are visiting the U.S. this
summer under Protect
Children, which brings over
500 children a year to Amer-ica.
The Nassau County
Emerald Society of the Fire
Department sponsored
Kevin and he was the guest
of Lynbrook Trustee Steve
Grogan and his wife Jane for
a time since his arrival in late
June. He will visit other Fire
D e p a r t m e n t Eni-eraid
Society members on Long
Island this season. Project
Children has been in opera-tion
since 1975 and has been
a boon to the children from
Northern.Ireland.
Trustee Eugene Natale
was appointed official liason
with the Lynbrook Library
and the Library Board of
Trustees. Tom Commerford
from the Building Depart-ment
was appointed OSHA
officer for Lynbrook.
The Fire Department was
given permission to attend
the International Fire
Chiefs Convention from
August 26th to September 2,
1988. Vulcan Co. was given
permission to take some of
their fire apparatus to take
part in the Parade in Brews-ter,
N.Y. Hook, Ladder and
Bucket Co. was given per-mission
to host the Fourth
Battalgroup from July 22nd
to 23rd. They were given
permission to solicit funds
for the renovation of their
fi rehouse.
There was a public hear-ing
on a request for a Zoning
Change" on the former
Reddi-Wipp property at 639
Merrick Road. The owner
was requesting a change to
light manufacturing for a
section of the property
zoned residential.
Attorney Allen Stein of
Mineola represented the
applicant, Mr. Sebastian
Castelango. The proposal
was to demolish the present
building and erect a smaller
East Rockaway
by Emma Tolmach
The Board of Trus-building
with m o r e ' ^ r ^g
for a Jeep Eagle Car deali^ ...eDomuui i rus-
' T t y ' p t p Z n i h'a'-vf^V^-' of th. Village of
parking spaces with 20 sep* ast Rockaway met on
vice bays when the plans c a l t^ ^k>nday, July 11 at 8 pm
for only 62 parking spaces. he Village Hall.
Tfehnec inpg,r oplaonsdesdc apaindge quaantde
security lighting that would
not intrude on adjacent resi-dential
home owners. They
asked for a six day week
operation, "noting that from
Monday to Friday they
would be open 8 a.m. to 9
p.m. and on Saturdays from
9 a.m. to 6 p.m. They
reported that they would
have 20 to 34 employees and
anticipate selling 75 cars per
month, 800 cars per year.
Delivery of new cars and
clerical supplies would be
made on site on the prop-erty.
Mr. Bert Nelson, a
Real Estate Appraiser, and
another traffic expert pres-ented
architechttiral draw-ings.
plans and photos for
the csnsideration of the
Board. Several adjacent res-
(Continued on Page 12)
Deputy Mayor An-thony
Santino reported
that the Cultural Arts
Council sponsored a
Concert in the Park on
Sunday, July 10, pre-senting
banjo music by
Bill Buzzeo. He indi-cated
that there were
approximately 50 peo-^
pie in attendance, and
that both young and old
enjoyed the perfor-mance.
Trustee George
Perry noted that he had
attended a Testimonial
Dinner on Sunday, July
10 in honor of East Rock-away
resident Ralph
Luisi, who recently
completed his term as
Nassau County Fire Com-missioner.
Officer O'Leary of
the Nassau County Pol-ice
Department repor-ted
that for the month
of June, there were 2
arrests, one for agg-ravated
harassment and
one for driving while
intoxicated, 89 moving
summonses and 260
parking summonses is-sued,
2 residential bur-glaries,
as 26 accidents,
with 12 injuries.
Lieutenant Gewan-ter
of the Auxiliary
Police reported that the
department served 214
man-hours, including
service during the
Huckleberry Frolic and
Parade. Superintendent
Gene Torborg of the
(Continued on Page 12)
Deputy Mayor Santino Addresses
Lions Club
With vision of Coke &
Sprite cans being turned
into compressed metal and
coming back to us as brand
new Chevorlets, Anthony
Santino gave the Lynbrook-
East Rockaway Lions a talk
on RECYCLING this past
Thursday. Speaking at the
U n i o n A v e n u e Cafe,
Anthony, who is Director of
Communications for the
Town of Hempstead and is
also Deputy Mayor of the
Village of East Rockaway,
gave the Lions a detailed
description of what exactly
would be expected from the
homeowner and the sto-reowner
when this program
becomes effective.
Because of the closing of
the Oceanside and Merrick
landfill areas, which, if kept
open would contaminate the
water we drink, we will be
separating newspapers,
metal cans, plastic and glass
bottles from our regular
garbage. In the long run, our
Village and Town taxes,
according to Deputy Mayor
Santino, will be stabilized at
a reasonable rate because
the contracts being signed
with recycling companies
who will pick up the separ-ated
garbage items. As a
matter of fact, the present
tax monies that go toward
garbage removed should be
less than at present under
this RECYCLING pro-gram.
In addition, our Vil-lages
and Towns will be a lot
safer for us and our children,
enviornmentally, which is
the biggest asset.
Mr. Santino was pres-ented
with a Certificate of
Appreciation by the newly
elected president of the
Lions, Ed Nasevowski, at
the conclusion of his talk.
LION'S LUNCHEON. Pictured left to right are Lions,
Jerry Sanetti, East Rockaway Deputy Mayor Anthony San-tino,
Edward Nasevowski, Jim Groak, and Sal Armelino.
outside the Union Avenue Cafe.