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VOL. 36 NO. 26 Wednesday, July 19,1989 35c PER COPY
Farmer Johnson At
The Museum
by Mildred Roemer
"Farmer Johnson," in a
new farm exhibit in the Grist
Mill Museum, is holding a
"seeder" plow that belonged
to Floyd Johnson. The
seeder was donated by John
Bishop of the High School,
who also arranged the
exhibit.
Floyd Johnson helped
start our East Rockaway
Fire department and also
drove a stagecoach from the';
Village along the old east/ >
west plank road enabling
residents to reach Brooklyn
and Manhattan(the final trip
by ferry) in the "short time"
of 12 or more hours. John-son
was a prominent citizen
of the Village. Last year the
"farmer" pictured was wear-
Legion Dedibaff;
New Flag P^e-
East Rockaway Board Report
ing a Naval uniform belong-ing
to Dr. Herbert Mayer,
but he was mustered out.
Last week a group of
adults from Far Rockaway
toured the Museum. They
were quite interested in the
beautiful white dresses worn
by the manikins in the "Pic-nic
in the Park" exhibit as
well as the realistic Bay
e^ibit.
\ tj^e new exhibit for July
rkon'i^he upper floor is an
lexhibit of fine old dishes
arranged by committee
member Carol Ferretti of the
E!R. l^tbrary. It includes old
pieces l^^m Bavaria, Eng-land,
Sweden, and an Amer-ican-
tea set from the early
eighteen l;l{kndreds.
(Continued on Page 9)
by Emma Tolmach
The regular meeting of the
Mayor and Board of Trus-tees
was held on July 10,
1989 at 8:30 P.M. at the
Village Hall.
Sergeant Manchin
reported on the activities of
the N.C.P.D., Fourth Pre-cinct,
for the month of June
1989.7 arrests (1 posssession
of marijuana, 3 D.W.L, 3
counts assault, and 2 assault
third.); 99 moving sum-monses
and 162 injured; and
2 major crimes reported (1
burglary at 105 Main Street
and 1 burglary at 315 atlan-tic
Avenue). The Mayor
indicated that due to the
number of accidents occur-ring
on Atlantic and Ocean
Avenues that the Fourth
Precinct be requested to post
additional patrol vehicles in
these areas for the purpose
of issuing summonses to
those who are in violation of
speeding.
Chief Wiliiara Gipson
reported 5 general alarms, 1
mutual aid fire, 10 still
alarms, 1 investigation, 46
rescue calls, 4- mutual aid
rescues, 6 training sessions,
3 parades. The Fire Depart-ment
attended 3 parades
during the past month with
the folowing reslults: Wood-mere
Invitational - 3rd place,
4th Battalion in Lakeview -
1st place (first time in history
of the Department). Nassau
County Parade in Malverne
- 1st Place Class "B" Cate-gory
and 1st Place Overall
(first time in history of
Department).
Mrs. Rand reported for
the Department of Public
Works as follows: 766 tons
of garbage, 74 tons of rub-bish,
collection of recycing
of 62.32 tons of newspapers
and 10.85 tons of cans and
bottles; approximately 200
miles of roads swept.
Mrs. Kathy McNulty
reported that the Beautifica-tion
Committee has been
very busy during the summer
months and were instrumen-tal
in the formation of the
newly formed Board of
Trade. She said that flowers
were being planted under
trees along the main tho-roughfares
of the Village
with the assistance of Boy
Scouts, working toward
their Eagle Scout Status.
Mrs. McNulty reported that
the Committee participated
in the Frolic and presented
a sizeable donation to the
Grist Mill Committee.
Mr. Vincent Columbo of
104 Fourth Avenue pointed
out that flooding had
occurred 4 times last month
and twice so far this month
and stated that he had left
a copy of letter from County
at Village Hall regarding the
County proposal to make an
access road in conjuction
with Town of Hempstead
project on Marjorie Lane.
Mayor Shaw stated that he>
had mailed a letter to Dep-uty
Commissioner Merklin
on Friday regarding the
raising of flood prone streets
and pointed out that the
proposed project would
have a serious negative
impact on the Village resi-dents.
He stated that he, the
Board of Trustees and the
Village Engineer have
reviewed maps and corres-pondence
and are convinced
that there is the possibility
that more flooding will
occur to the detriment of the
residents. He continued by
stating that the County is
attempting to absolve itself
of responsibility by asking
the Village to obtain
releases, when i n f ^ t it is the
opinion of the Board that no
exact estimate of adverse
impact can be determined
without specific plans. He
stated that the County wants
all homeowners in the
affected areas to release the
County from any responsi-bility
for flooding and the
Village cannot ask its resi-dents
to sign away their
rights of recourse. Mr.
Columbo pointed out that
there is a "clapper valve"
which is not in operation and
which, if repaired, could
prevent some of the flooding
which is being experienced
by those living in the area,
not to mention newer valves
which could be installed to
prevent or help or eliminate
the flooding. Mayor Shaw
pointed out that these valves
become jammed and
inoperative.
Mayor Shaw has taken
the stand that the new map-ping
will put the responsibil-ity
of maintaining the road
on the shoulders of tl\e
Village, and the County
demand for releases will be
to the detriment of the
homeowners.
Village Attorney Kelleher
stated that the County is
willing to raise some of the
roads but not others, that
they want to raise the roads
going to the Bay Park facil-ities.
He stated that ihey
want the residents to sign
"hold harmless agreements"
which the village feels is not
fair to the residents.
Mr. Columbo pointed
out that Marjorie Lane has
been raised by the Town of
Hempstead and that he
understands that the Countv
intends to meet the 5' grade.
Mayor Shaw stated that the
driveways on Marjorie Lane
are lower than street level
but have been given the
advantage of more frontage.
Mayor Shaw stated that the
County intends to turn some
of the streets currently being
maintained by the County
over to the Village; and that
such a transfer could be
costly to the Village, if their
proposal of raising streets
goes into effect without
giving protection to the
homeowners for possible
flooding of their premises
caused by the road raising.
Mr. Howard Greisch of 74
Fourth Avenue stated that
he had spoken to Mr. Per-terson.
County Engineer on
proposes project, and that he
had indicated to Mr. Greisch
that the project would
benefit the residents and
would etiflo^to^cjiif^oodmg
at no cosrt Vfflfeige. He
indicated that he tould not
understand the hesitation on
part of the Village. Mayor
Shaw pointed out that any
communication with ' t he
County has been confirmed
in writing that we do not
have any letter from a Mr.
Peterson, and that the Vil-lage
desires to do what is
right for the residents. He
stated that the County has
"shifted gears" for many
years regarding this project.
Mayor Shaw stated that the
County Attorney, Mary
Pickard, has threatened the
Village indicating that if the
Village does not obtain
homeowners releases the
County will proceed with the
project on front Street and
Fifth Avenue only, and that
could cause additional
flooding to Village side
streetrs. Mayor Shaw stated
that the raising of Fifth
Avenue and Front Street
would create a dike, with
potential increased flooding
of homeowners' properties.
Village Attorney Kelleher
stated that on numerous
occasions the Village has
requested the County to
supply copies of plans an
aerial mapping to review, in
order to evaluate the project,
but are told that they are not
yet available. It was pointed
out that the -County has
plans for further expansion
of the Bay Park facilities and
that they are pushing the
project for this purpose. The
County has refused to show
dtailed plans and the village
intends to protect all resi-dents.
He stated that the
County should be more than
willing to show plans. Mr.
Kelleher stated that the
County wants the releases
from the residents prior to
construction and then "well
talk later". He stated that the
Village would like to project
to help the greatest numer
of people at the lowest costs
to the Village.
Mayor Shaw stated that
the present entrance to the
sewer plant would be closed
and only used in emergen-cies,
and that Fifth Avenue
will become the main
entrance. He again stated
that the County wants to
obsolve itself of all respon-sibility
from future damage
actions. The Mayor also
stated that the Village has
never received any commun-ications
from Mr. Peterson
and that if indeed he feels
that the porposed project
would have no adverse affect
on the Village, that he
should write to us and con-f
i rm his comments with
" b a c k u p " mapping and
plans.
Dr. Theta Spielman
On May 31, 1989, 'vjoctor
Theta Spielman,xlaugb*er pf
Marge and Gt^i^h Spielijian
of 87 Vincent Av'enue, Lyn-brook
eceived her Medical
Degree from Aiuert Einstein
College of Medicine. Doctor
Spielman was graduated
f r om Lynbrook High
School, as part of the Class
of 1981. She has begun her
residency in internal medi-cine
at Rhode Island Hos-pital,
affiliated with Brown
University. Congratulations
Doctor Spielman!!