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VOL. 35 NO. 47 Wednesday, November 30, 1988 35c P E R COPY
FIGHTING THE WAR AGAINST DRUGS. East Rockaway
Village Trustee Charles Formont (left), who also serves as
Chairman of the East Rockaway Kiwanis Club Coloring
Book Committee, presents "Just Say No!" coloring books
to James Newman, Principal of Centre Avenue School.
The club distributed more than 1,000 to the five ele-mentary
schools in the East Rockaway area.
Anily Durso
Andy Durso
By Mildred Roemer
Andy Durso took his last
bow from the stage of Life
at his home in Valatie, N.Y.,
on November 25. His 66th
birthday would have been on
the 27th. Andy had suffered
from Lou Gehrig's disease
for several years. He was a
veteran of World War 2,
serving in the Pacific area.
Andy grew up in East
Rockaway. He attended the
Rhame Avenue School
where he was called upon
oftem to take part in school
plays. He also starred in the
P.T.A.'s Pageant, "The His-tory
of East Rockaway,"
written by Mrs. Dennis
Murray. It was not only
presented in the schools, but
on East Rockaway Day in
the 1939 Worlds Fair. In
E.R. High School he had the
opportunity to use his tal-ents,
especially in Rock/Ri-valry,
He had the honor of
being the first one on stage
• at the first Rock Rivalry held
in the then new high school
and again was the first on
stage when the East Rocka-way
High School Alumni
Association presented their
50th Anniversary, Rock
Rivalry review. On stage
Andy walked with a cane,
but directed the opening
songs by waving his arms
and mouthing the words
since his speach had already
become impaired.
As a community service,
Andy served as Master of
Ceremonies and drum major
of the parade during the
annual Huckleberry Frolics,
the event that raises funds
for the Grist Mill Museum.
Many will remember him
leading the^ parade, and
singing lustily, "When the
Saints Come Marching In"
along with the grade school
bands.
Andy was a great baseball
fan of the St. Louis Cardi-nals
and managed to be
taken to one of their games
last Fall. When in East
Rockaway, he was president
of the Lynbrook East
Rockaway Lions Club. He
had retired in Valatie, N.Y.,
and the local church groups
there built a ramp at his
home for his wheelchair,
assiked in obtaining a lift for
his car, and provided other
conveniences.
Following Andy's retire-ment
before moving upstate,
he gave much of his time to
Bethany Church where he
had previously served as Sun-day
School Superintendent,
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EAST ROCKAWAY-Lf NBROOK OBSERVER
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Attention Lynbrookites!
The Village of Lynbrook
would like to advise Lyn-brook
residents of the fol-lowing
announcements.
1. "Newspapers" under
our recycling program are
not to be put out on a
"holiday." Please hold your
papers until the following
week's pickup for newspap-ers
even though the Village,
for operating reasons, finds
it necessary to have sche-duled
garbage pickup on
said holiday.
2. There will be no gar-bage
pickups on Monday,
December 26, 1988, and
January 2, 1989.
3. There will be no BULK
PICKUPS the weeks of
December 26, 1988, and
January 2, 1989, because of
the holidays.
4. BULK PICKUP items
are not to be placed at
curbside until Tuesday night
provided arrangements have
been made with the Depart-ment
of Public Works.
BULK PICKUPS are made
on Wednesday morning and
are generally completed by
Thursday but if there is a
large amount of items to be
picked up, the final pickups
could be on Friday.
5. Leaf removal has been
completed at least once
throughout the Village. We
are now into our second pass
through out the Village.
Please do not place your
leaves at the curb until signs
have been posted for leaf
removal. If you wish to rake
before your scheduled
pickup, please bag those
leaves.
Veterans Day Ceremonies
Toys For Tots Campaign Begins
Village Trustee Steve Grogan, Lynbrook*s coordinator for
the U.S. Marine Corp Reserves' TOYS FOR TOTS
campaign joins with Ed Browne, Past Commandant of the
Marihe Corp League and Chairman of the TOYS FOR
TOTS campaign during the taping of a cable TV show
promoting the campaign. Both are shown here being
interview^ by Mara Gottesman of Cablevision.
Each year the Western
Long Island Detachment of
the Marine Corp League
joins with the Reserves in
providing totys to needy
children during, the holiday
season. One p f the ways the
Village of Lynbrook is
assisting this worthy cause is
by placing toy barrels at
Village Hall, the Recreation
Center at Greis Park and at
the Library. It is hoped that
the residents of Lynbrook
help to fill those barrels with
new un-wrapped toys. The
TOYS FOR TOTS cam-paign
runs until the week
before Christmas.
The cable TV show can be
seen on Monday and Friday
evenings at 6:30 PM on
C a b l e v i s i o n - L y n b r o o k
Chartnel 12 A.
VETERANS DAY CEREMONIES, members of the
Lynbrook Veterans of Foreign Wars and its
Auxiliary, the American Legion, the Northwest
Detachment of the Marine Corps League and
Lynbrook Village officials attend services at the
Doughboy Monument in commemoration of
Veterans Day on November 11,1988.