The-Helm_1971-07-22; Lynbrook Helm Independent Review

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LYNBROOK MALVERNE EAST ROCKAWAY
VOL. U N O . 9 LY 3-1300 THE FAMILY NEWSPAPER Thursday, July 22, 1971 10<
Friendly Ice Cream
Opens In Lynbrook
On hand for the ribbon-cutting ceremonies at the newest Friendl)^ Ice Creann
Taft Avenue - are
a buch of happy kids. Behind
iendly's Training Supervisor;
Property Originally Set For Police Dep't
Given a choice between a
Police Department headquarters
building and a cool, clean ice
cream parlor, most kids wouldn't
have much difficulty in making a
hasty selection. And that explains
the crowd of happy faces that
became a part of the opening day
ceremonies on Merrick Road
near Taft Avenue where the
Friendly Ice Cream Company
opened its newest store on July
2nd.
The property on which the
building stands was purchased
originally by the Village of
Lynbrook and earmarked for a
new Police Department
headquarters building. It had
become evident to Mayor
Mangravite (then in office) and
the Trustees that the Police
Department facilities in the old
Village Hall (now the basement
offices of the Motor Vehicle
Bureau) were inadequate for the
needs. When Mayor Becker was
elected to office in 1967, he and
the new Board^ of Trustees
reviewed the entire master plan
and determined that if a new
Village Hall Building were
planned properly, it might again
house the Police Department
without need of a separate
location. The rest, of course, is
history. Once the new Village
Hall was operational -- and
Lynbrook's Police Department
was set up in its new home -- the
property on Merick Road became
"surplus" to the Village. It was
put up for sale and purchased by
Friendly Ice Cream.
Now, the taxpayers of Lyn-brook
are happy because the
property which appreciated in
value was sold at a profit. Mayor
Becker and the Board of Trustees
are happy because their plan to
consolidate Village Hall and
Police Headquarters worked out
well and enabled the Village to
sell the property. The Friendly
Ice Cream people are happy
because they have an excellent
new location. And the kids in
Lynbrook are happy because
they have a brand new place to go
on these hot summer evenings.
The moral of the story might be
that while the Police Department
engenders security and peace of
mind, happiness is still a cold ice
cream sundae.
Lynbrook
Police Dep^t
Personalities
by Annette Ling
.4nil MongcIH Dorothy liomuiig
''The Beautification Twins^^
Lynbrook, U.S.A. has two ladies who have identical aims and are
also very good and close friends for many years. Although they are
unlike each other in appearance, no two people have ever worked in
such close harmony and excellent teamwork as Co-Chairladies than
Ann Mongelli and Dot Hornung in trying to promote and actually come
up with concrete ideas for making their community a better and more
beautiful place to live in. —
location - Merrick Road near thenn (left to right) are Bob Windhorst, Fri< ^ _ . .
Project Manager Tony Aroto; Friendly Manager Ron Porter; Lynbrook's
Village Clerk, Joseph Vitelli; Mayor Francis X. Becker and Deputy Building
Inspector Jerry Sanetti.
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Robert Harami, 18 years of 14
Mansfield Place, Lynbrook, New
York, was arrested by Ptl.
Martin French, of the Lynbrook
Police Department and Daniel
Ruskiewich, 18 years of 477
Merrick Road, Lynbrook, was
arrested by Det. Carey, 5th Sqd.
Nassau County Police Depart-ment
on a charge of robbery.
Both subjects were charged
with the robbery at knife point of
$90.00 worth of tickets for the
Grand Funk Concert at Shea
Stadium from an East Rockaway
youth, and were arraigned in 1st
District Court , Mineola, New
York.
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Eugene McGuire, 24 years of 8
Plainfield Avenue, East
Rockaway, was arrested by Ptl.
Leonard Sprague of the Lynbrook
Police Department for
unauthorized use of a motor
vehicle, leaving the scene of an
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Mrs. Ann Mongelli was born in
New York City to the late
Salvatore and Lucy Mongelli.
Her mother passed away just
twelve weeks ago. She has a
brother, Michael who resides
with his wife, Nancy and family
in Northport. Ann also has a
sister, Joan (Mrs. John Pen-tasuglia)
who makes her home
with her husband in Rolling
Heights, California. Ann went to
Public school for awhile and then
graduated from the parochial
school in Brooklyn called "Mary,
Help the Christians." She was
graduated from Franklin K. Lane
High School and went out into the
business world, first as a steno
and then as an executive
Secretary. She was an executive
Secretary for a large insurance
firm in New York City, when her
husband, Vito, who also worked
there, noticed and I quote, "Her
gorgeous legs and merry ex-pressive
eyes." Then as time
went on, the office group went on
a picnic and Vito volunteered to
date the "cook" for the event,
never dreaming that his "dream
girl" was also an excellent cook.
Ann swears to this day that it was
not her nice figure but her
culinary skill that won Vito, but
in my opinion he was a "gone
goose" as they say, the minute he
spotted her in the office. Of
course, Vito, a fine and merry
gentleman who obviously adores
his three girls, one wife, and two
daughters, has a lively sense of
humor and is a tease, but the fact
remained that he did pick the
"cook" and knew a good thing
when he saw it. Ann swears that
the true way to a man's heart is
through his "tummy." I tasted'
her luscious cake and frankly I
can see why Vito has to be such
an active man to keep his weight
down as she bakes like an angel
with the most vivacious, kindly
and wonderful personality to
match. She has an excellent
figure, and is a 5 ft. 2" brunette
Dorothy "Dot" Hornung, the
otlier m e m b e r of the
"Beautification Twins" is living
proof that even thotigh one goes
to business, there is still time to
help and get involved in your
community to help make it a
better place to live.
Dot was born in Burnside,
Illinois to Floyd and Vernell
Heak, now residents of Hemp-stead.
She has a brother, Carl
who lives with his wife Ellen and
three children in Mundelein, 111.,
and one sister, Joanne, (Mrs. A1
Baggett) of Hammond, Indiana.
She grew up in New Burnside
until the 8th Grade, when her
family moved to Chicago and she
graduated from Senn High School
there. She met her husband, A1
Hornung at a U.S. Navy Dance
where he states that he simply
had to "bring back the best
looking blonde there, to his own
Bronx and to his own family as
his beloved bride."
Although, A1 was a native of the
Bronx, he was stationed in
Chicago in one period of World
War II and he succeeded in
capturing the nicest girl in town
and bringing her home to the
Bronx. Dot is a slim, good-looking
blonde very much like Ann
Mongelli in her outlook on various
things and it is not surprising that
they eventually became such
good friends.
Dot became an Executive
Secretary when she moved to the
Bronx for a New York firm, after
attending Grace Business In-stitute.
The Hornung family first came
to Lynbrook in 1962 and Ann had
arrived before they moved here.
The Hornungs have one son,
Michael, age 10 a student at St.
Paul's Boys' Prep School in
Garden City where he is an honor
student. Michael simply adores
baseball and his favorite player
is Tom Seaver of the N.Y. Mets.
This year, A1 and Dot Hornung
promised him that if he got top
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