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VOL. 36 NO. 11 Wednesday, April 1989 36c P ER COPY
Elks Honor
Mother of the Year
ELKS HONOR MOTHER OF THE YEAR. Lynbrook
Elks Lodge NO. 1515 honors Mrs. Joan Crockett of East
Rockaway as Mother of the Year. Presenting placque to
Mrs. Crockett is Exalted Ruler Roy Solace with Lodge
Chairman WilUam Bock. Photo by John Cribbfai.
June 17,10 a.m. to 9 p.m.,
**We the people" of East
Rockaway will be holding
the annual Huckleberry
Frolic in Memorial Park.
The theme will be the Bicen-tennial
of the Constitution,
George Washington's inaug-uration
on Wall Street, the
"Bill of Rights" and.."We
the People."
If it hadnt been for the
forsight of the PEOPLE
running the Village back in
Richard B. Cheney to Make First Major Address
Richard B. Cheney will
make his fu^t major address
as Secretary of Defense at
Hofstra University's Presi-dential
Conference on
Gerald R. Ford. Cheney,
former Republican con-gressman
of Wyoming and
Ford's Chief of Staff wUl
deliver a banquet speech,
titled "Gerald R. Ford: A
Retrospective," on Friday,
April 7 at 8 p.m. in the Main
Dming Room of the Hofstra
Student Center. President
Ford will make comments at
the banquet, after delivering
a Presidential Address ear-lier
in the day, 2 to 3:15 p.m.
in the John Cranfold Adams
Playhouse.
In August, 1974, Cheney
served on the Ford transi-tion
team and as Deputy
Assistant to the President.
From November 1975 to
January, 1977, he served as
Assistant to the President
and White House Chief of
Staff.
After returning to his
home in Wyoming to resume
investment banking activi-
Easter Program
L. TO R. - Trustee Dominick DeCarlo, Trustee Stephen
Grogan, Trustee Norman Dreyer, first prize whiner Elisa
Guilz, Easter Bunny, Mayor William Geier, Recreation
Commission members Don Matzen and Ken Hughes,
Recreation Commission Chairperson Pat Rupprecht,
Trustee-Elect Bill Hendrick, Trustee-Elect Mary Colway,
Kiwanis President Joe Pichichero, and Recreation Director
Dick Flynn.
The Thirty-Eighth
Annual Lynbrook Recrea-tion
Easter Program was
held on Saturday, March 25.
Approximately 250 children
and parents were entertained
by "Mickey the Clown".
More than 350 children
hunted for eggs hidden on
the grounds at Greis Park.
Prizes were given out to the
winners and every child
received Easter candy.
The program was co-sponsored
by the Lynbrook
Chamber of Commerce, the
Lynbrook/Est Rockaway
Lions Club, the Lynbrook
Kiwanis Club, the St. Mary's
Knights of Colombus , and
the Lynbrook Elks Lodge.
A drawing was held for
four Easter baskets donated
by Woolworths.
ties in May, 1977, he was
elected to Congress in
November, 1978. He was re-elected
in 1980, 1982, 1984,
1986 and 1988. For the 1981-
82 Congress, he was chosen
by his Republican colleagues
to serve as Chairman of the
House Republican Policy
Committee, and was re-elected
to this chairmanship
for the 98th, 99th and 100th
Confesses. In 1987, he was
unanimously elected Chair-man
of the House Repub-lican
Conference, a position
that made him the third-ranking
House GOP leader.
Cheney will receive a Pre-sidential
Medal from Hof-stra
University President
James M. Shuart at the
banquet. "Gerald R. Ford:
Restoring the Presidency" is
the Hofstra Cultural Cen-ter's
Seventh Presidential
Conference in a chronolog-ical
series that began in 1982
with Franklin Delano
Roosevelt. (The last confer-ence
was 1987's retrospective
on Richard Nixon).
The conferences, which
feature papers and panel
discussions by scholars and
government officials from
throughout the United
States, are critical examina-tions
of each presidency.
"From Chaos to Confi-dence:
An Exhibit Docu-menting
the. Ford Presid-ency,"
on display in
Hofstra's Filderman Gallery
as part of the conference,
includes material on loan
from the Gerald R. Ford
Presidential Library in Ann
Arbor, Michigan. For
more inforamtion, call the
Hofstra Cultural Center at
(516)560-5669.
Huckleberry
Frolic
he sixties, there would be no
Museum today. The 1688
building would have been
pushed to the ground and
history would have been
destroyed. If it hadnt been
for the PEOPLE who res-tored
the building and
gathered local memorabelis,
the cases would remain
empty. If it hadn't been for
"We the People", made up
of many organizations,
churches, entertainers and
school children there would
never have been the First
Huckleberry Frolic, and the
museum could never have
grown into the fine show
place it is today.
Wit]^ the assistance of the
staff i^f the Cultural Educa-tion
Center in Albany, work
kits are being distributed to
teachers in all New York
State Schools. The books
are entitled, "Learning How
to Live With Others".
Museum is also receiving
posters, "We the People^
buttons to be given out or
award and the committee
has the possibility (almost
certain) of receiving a Float
from Albany for the Frolic
parade. These are being sent
to our Village to remind the
PEOPLE of what our fore-fathers
have done for us.
Perhaps a bit more flag wav-ing
can be done this year
during the Frolic as "We the
People" have had the privi-lege
through the "Bill of
Rights," to be heard and in
some small way tried to live
up to the dreams of those
early founding Fathers.
WASHINGTON VISITORS. Congressman Ray McGrath
(R-Valley Stream), far left, met recently with Lynbrook Boy
Scout Troop #214 in the Capitol Building in Washington,
D.C. The Scouts, under the leadership of Benjamin "Bud"
Meyer, third from left, were in Washington visiting various
sites including the White House and the Smithsonian
museums.
Crime Prevention Tips
for Spring
With the advent of spring
weather herp in Lynbrook,
officer Fuskwinkel of the
Lynbrook Police Depart-ment
urges residents to be on
the alert for suspicious i^r-sons
walking or driving
through their neighbor-hoods.
When residents are
working outdoors doing
spring clean-up and garden-ing
they need to be partic-ularly
careful to lock all
doors to their home. During
past years all areas of Nassau
have been plaqued by "gyp-sies"
who travel throughout
the United States conduct-ing
residential burglaries.
According to Officier
Fred Fusswinkel, the thieves
usually travel in teams of
two, and sometimes even
have small children with
them. Popular scams these
individuals use to gain
entrance to homes are to
knock on a homeowners
door and ask if thev can use
the telephone, or to allow
their child to use the
bathroom. While one person
is distracting the resident of
the house, the other jp^rson
or persons is helping himself
to Items.
Another tactic used by the
thieves is to engage a resi-dent
who may be outside
working in conversion, while
one thief is talking with the
resident, the other thief is
entering the house through
an unlocked door.
Chief Lauriano and
Officer Fusswinkel urge all
residents to report suspi-cious
persons and vehicles to
the Lynbrook police at 599-
3300. When reporting a
suspicious person or vehicle,
try to remember as good a
description as possible, not-ing
such things as clothing
type and color, race, height,
hair color, and in the case
of vehicles, license plate
number.
McGrath Academy Nominee
Congressman Ray
McGrath, R-VS congratu-lates
Brian Schwender, oi
Lynbrook, upon his nomi-nation
to the United States
Naval Academy.
Each student nominated
by the Congressman, based
upon academic excellence
and extra curricular activi-ties
after undergoing a
highly competitive interview
and review process.
The Naval Academy, ar
under graduate college of tlu
Navy, prepares men am
women to become profes-sional
officers in the Unit" '
States Navy and Ma
Corps, and to develop jiad-shipmen
morally, mentally
and physically to assume the command, citizenship and
highest responsibilities of government.
ADIfiMY NOMINEE. Pictured with the Congressman
^rlanV parents, Monique and Richard, and his brother
Mark, who is fai his fourth year at the Merchant Marine
Academy and who had been appointed to the Academy
by the Congrcamuui.