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VOL. 8 NO. 37 Thursday, August 1,1974 10 cents per copy
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SCHOOL ADOPTS INNOVATIVE HEALTH PROJECT. The Seaford
school district was one of seven specially selected by the Nassau
County Oept. of Drug and Alcohol Addiction to participate in the
innovative Elementary School Drug and Health Education Project.
Its "hands on" approach makes learning more interesting for
students, fa/ilitates their decision not to har^Jfoefctli^i'Mwtth
ceaafnl prwject'back to the Seaford Manor School's sixth graders and
their teachers were, 1. to r., Pat Cunningham; Annette Klein; Sal
Provenzano; John McCabe; Joe De Bonnis. The Intensive two-week
workshop, July 8-12 and 15-19, was held at the Roosevelt Jr-Sr H.S.
AT THE OPENING-An overflow crowd attended the opening of
Yevoli campaign headquarters last week at 778 Old Country Road,
Plainview.
The evening was highlighted by ribbon-cutting ceremonies of­ficiated
by Stanley Harwood, Democratic County Chairman. Pic­tured
are (L to R): Aaron Britvan and Carole Fishman (candidates
for Democratic State Committee posts), Lew Yevoli, and Mr.
Harwood.
Lewis Yevoli was designated as Democratic candidate for New
York State Assemblyman at the 10th Assembly District designating
convention last spring.
PLINKING AWAY: That's Oyster Bay Town Councilman Salvatore
R. Mosca getting a private banjo lesson from Gerri Schmidt of the
Ail American Banjo Team and the Director of the group, Bill Buzzeo.
The banjo experts were sponsored in a free performance at the
Bethpage Community Park by the Town's Cultural and Performing
Arts Division, Department of Community Services.
County Executive Ralph G.
Caso announced today a federal
award of $846,538 - Nassau's
largest alcoholism grant - to the
Department of Drug and Alcohol
Addiction for creation of the first
free impatient alcoholism
rehabilitation unit for county
residents.
"This grant represents
recognition by the federal
government of the leadership
role Nassau County has taken in
providing rehabilitation services
for this burgeoning social
problem."
The three-year grant from the
National Institute on Alcohol
Abuse and Alcoholism provides
$250,835 for the first year, $279,418
in the second and $316,285 in the
third. Over the life of the federal
grant, the county will contribute
the facility and maintenance and
supportive and back-up services.
The department's Alcoholism
Rehabilitation Unit, the first of
mmmmsfeW^m state msm
a state hospital, will open in the
fall, Commissioner Harold E.
Adams said. The unit is expected
to service 300 male and female
Nassau patients a year in a four-to-
eight week program.
The program will include in­dividual
counseling, group
Plainview
To Vote Again
In response to com­munity
pressure, the
Plainview-Old Bethpage
Board of Education voted
at their meeting Tuesday,
July 29 to submit a third
budget to the residents for
their approval. The budget
will be voted on by the
public August 13, from 10
AM to 10 PM, at the
Jamaica Avenue, Old
Bethpage, and Joyce Road
Elementary Schools.
Registration will take
p) je on August 7 from 6-
10:00 PM at the elemen­tary
schools.
Although the Board had
taken action at its June 22
meeting to adopt a con­tingency
budget, the
public showed adequate
support for a third budget
vote to warrant the
suspension of austerity
plans until the third vote is
taken. In response to a
petition presented by a
group of parents at the
meeting June 22, the
special public meeting was
held this week, during
which the Board scheduled
the third budget vote.
therapy, lecture discussion
sessions, occupational and
recreational therapy and
vocational services.
For the patient's family, the
department provides free
counseling, educational lectures
and group therapy and recom­mends
involvement with Al-Anon
and Ala teen, organizations which
assist families of alcoholics.
"This newest program ad­dition,
" Adams said, "will
bridge the gap in county services
between our seven-day alcohol
detoxification unit and our six-month
job-oriented halfway
facility, Recovery House."
Previously, people in need of
continuing inpatient treatment
had to be sent out-of-county, to
Central Islip or Pilgrim State
Hospitals.
Appropriate patients will enter
the new rehabilitation unit
directly following detoxification
or after 48 hours free of alcohol.
Referrals are expected to come
from the Department of Drug an
Alcohol Addiction and from other
county programs, hospitals and
service agencies. In addition, the
planned program will be the only
one of its kind in the metropolitan
area • to accept suitable court
referrals. All other programs
accept only voluntary ad­missions.
Before discharging a person
from the rehabilitation unit, the
staff will make arrangements for
transferral to the next phase of
rehabilitation, either the
department's alcoholism after­care
therapy program or
Recovery House; find spon­sorship
into AA, and encourage
membership in an "alumni
association." .
REVIEW toft-Of** Dmt.M*m*mx»-
Park Curfew Causes Discontent
An 11 p.m. curfew for the East
Village Green Park will be
considered by a volunteer "ac­tion"
committee which formed
Thursday, July 18 at a town
meeting for "Co-Operation
between,the Police Department,
the Town- of Hempstead Parks
Department, and the youth of
Island Trees." The committee
should meet sometime this week
with the Parks Department
Commissioner, to formulate a
workable plan for an extension of
the present 9 p.m. "Green'Tark
curfew.
The committee volunteers
were among the approximately
60 residents and 40 youths of the
community who met in the
Karopczyc School Gymnasium
with Councilman Anthony C.
Imbarrato and 8th Precinct
representatives, Captain
Petersen, Sargeant Pawlow, and
Detective Florio. Also present
were Island Trees School Board
President, Richard Ahrens, and
fellow Board member, James
Burke. The meeting was started
at 8:10 p.m. by Moderator George
Nager, of the Civil Liberties
' Union.
The "Green" Park, which
includes a swimming pool, an ice
skating rink, a basketball court,
and playround equipment, and is
sided by a small shopping center,
has been a congregating place for
teenagers during the warm
weather nights. The situation at
the "Green", according to Mr.
Nager, is that teenagers on the
Park grounds after 9 p.m. (when
the lights are turned off) are
subject to arrest, and arrests
have been made.
The arrest of Joseph Saitta, 16,
on the evening of June 5, for
disorderly conduct at an East
Village Green Park storefront,
was the catalyst which prompted
his mother, Virginia, to organize
the evening's meeting, and to
seek community interest in ex­tending
the "Green" curfew to 11
p.m. The police charge against
her son, according to Mrs. Saitta,
is that he failed to obey three
requests by police officers to
leave the East Village, Green
area. On the day prior to the
meeting, Mrs. Saitta claimed
that at the time of her son's
arrest, he "Wasn't doing
anything", and she believes that
he was arrested solely because he
was a teenager in the
"Green"area past the 9 p.m.
curfew.
Mr. Nager, was retained as
legal counsel by Mrs. Saitta and
other parents whose sons were
arrested at the "Green",
following their reports of police
harrassment to the Civil
Liberties Union. According to
Mr. Nager, this meeting, and the
three meetings which preceded
it, were a means to avoid con­frontation
between the Police
Department and the Youths of
the community. "I think that the
police have been made the
'heavy'" stated Mr. Nager, and
that the discussion of specific
incidents of alleged police
harrassment should be avoided.
He felt that the audience should
seek ways to "Establish a
program where the community
and police can work towards a
common purpose."
The consensus voiced among
most of the audience was that the
curfew should be extended, so
teenagers could legally
congregate at the "Green"
during the later evening hours,
with the stipulation that there
should be some type of super­vision
of the area. Councilman
Imbarrato stated that the tax­payer
would be the one to bear
the cost of any policy changes in
the "Green" Park.
Another problem in extending
the curfew, he said, would to be
"Make sure that the residents in
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