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VOL.10 No. 23 Thursday, April 29, 1976 10 cents per copy
YM & YWHA Purchases Plainview School
Plan >3 Million "Y" Complex To Be Completed By1978
The first step in the creation of
a major YM & YWHA facility for
Long Island was taken on April
27th in Plainview, with the
signing of a contract between the
United Jewish Ys of Long Island
and the Plainview-Old Bethpage
Board of Education for the
purchase of the Fern Place
Elementary School for $750,000.
The school lies on an eight and
one-half acre tract located in
Plainview just north of Old
Country Road and one-half mile
west of the Oyster Bay
Expressway. It will provide the
core structure of what will
Ultimately be a $3 million
building serving the entire mid-island
area. A campaign for that
sum to finance the venture is
currently being organized under
the leadership of Harold Leviton,
President of theUJYs and Joseph
Rogers, President of the Mid-
Island YM & YWHA.
The contract, which was signed
by Alvin Delman, Chairman of
the Plainview-Old Bethpage
Board of Education, and Mr.
Leviton, calls for the Mid-Island
Y to take over the new facility
just as soon as a special permit is
obtained from the Town of Oyster
Bay.
After signing the contract, Mr.
'Delman declared that the School
Board was "enormously pleased
by this action. In an over­whelming
referendum of 3,578 to
196 December 17th, our com­munity
expressed its acceptance
of this splended new facility.
Instead of a vacant school
building, we will be able to offer
bur entire population the use of
extensive facilities for health,
education and recreation. Our
people are most pleased that this
site has been chosen and we want
to assure our new Y neighbor that
we will work together in every
way to make this venture a
success."
Speaking for the UJY's, Mr.
Leviton stated that "all residents
of this area will welcome and use
this marvelous facility. It is our
hope that it will serve as a prime
example of what the private
sector can accomplish - without
government support - on behalf of
the community. People of all
ages, from nursery school tots to
older adults will find in this
beautiful new building a full
complement of activities
designed to enrich their lives in
every respect."
"Moreover," Mr. Leviton
added, "the new structure will
serve as a flagship facility, an
example to the rest of Long
Island of what can be ac­complished
when communities
unite in concert to build - creating
facilities far surpassing any that
could be built by the individual
communities alone. We call on
every mid-island resident to join
us in bringing this project to a
speedy and successful fruition."
Present at the signing was
Joseph Rogers, President of the
Mid-Island Y, and Chairman of
the Campaign Cabinet. He ex­pressed
his hope that use of the
Girl Scouts Step Lively
For Bicentennial Show
DRILL TEAM OF the Mid-Island Council of Girl Scouts steps lively during practice for a special
public performance during the "Yankee Doodle Jamboree" set for Saturday, May 8 in Eisenhower
Park, East Meadow. The Drill Team, all Girl Scouts are 14-17, will guide their horses through a
variety of formations to the accompaniment of music, with horses provided for the occasion by the
Bethpage Stables. Performances begin at 12:45 p.m. near the Sled Hill and Safety City (Parking
Field No. 1). The Jamboree, a huge overnight camp-out of Nassau's 1000 scouts, is co-sponsored by
the Mid-Island Council of Girl Scouts, Nassau Council of Girl Scouts and Nassau's American
Revolution Bicentennial Commission, with the cooperation of the County's Department of Recreation
and Parks. A wide array of activities and displays, from arts and crafts to songs and skits, all with a
Bicentennial touch, are open to the public from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., with visitors required to use Parking
Fields No. 1, 2 or 6. „.'.«•.
Leading the Drill: Andrea Halasy - B; Cynthia Eagle - Mass.; Allison Spettman - Hick.; Francie
Goldstein - Lev.; Kelly Mac Azclay - Sy.; Lisa Smith - Old B.; Barbara Clark - West.; Karen Dowd -
Mass.; Margaret Eagle - Mass.; Julie Franklin - B.; Carole Justus - Plain.; Maureen Ly«ich - Sy,;
Lou Ann Piccano - Mass.; Donna Wenner - Farm.; Lisa Schwenzfeger, Farm.
new school building could start
some time during the coming
winter and continue without
interruption during construction
of the additional facilities. Martin
Eglow, Chairman of the UJY
Building Construction Com­mittee,
estimated that new
construction would start during
the Spring of 1977.
Building plans call for one of
the finest facilities in the entire
New York Metropolitan area.
Included will be a 450 seat
auditorium, two gymnasiums, 3
indoor handballjcourts, a squash
court, nursery school, health
club, an Olympic size pool, 4
outdoor tennis courts, ballfields,
club and craft rooms, a large
Judaica library, lounges and
game rooms, among other at­tractions.
There will be a full,
year-round calendar of cultural
events, sports competitions and
educational activities.
The United Jewish Ys is the
umbrella organization providing
leadership in planning, coor­dinating,
developing and ex­panding
Y services on Long
Island to serve the substantial
Jewish population of 525,000 in
Nassau and 125,000 in Suffolk
Counties. The organization's
Executive Director is Percy
Abrams. The present Mid-Island
Y has Taeen serving the mid-island
community for 20 years,
and has a current membership of
1,500. It is located at 3833
Jerusalem Avenue in Seaford.
Wedding Bells Are Golden
The Rockville Centre Catholic
Diocese will hold its annual
Golden Wedding Celebration at 3
p.m., Sunday, May 2, in St. Agnes
Cathedral, Qualy Place, Rock­ville
Centre. Bishop Walter P.
Kellenberg will preside at the
event, sponsored by the Diocesan
Family Life Bureau, and will also
give to each of the jubilarian-couples
a certificate acknow­ledging,
their fifty years of
married life.
More than 230 couples from all
areas of Nassau and Suffolk
Counties will be participating in
the annual event. Designed pri­marily
to honor couples who have
achieved fifty years of marriage,
the event also celebrates the
greatness and holiness of the
married state. Golden jubilarians
stand as a true witness of the
unbreakable marriage bond and
to the happiness and fidelity
which they, with God's grace,
have achieved.
Monsignor Edward L. Melton,
Administrator of St. Agnes
Cathedral, will welcome the
Golden Wedding couples. Bishop
Kellenberg will make the actual
awards to each of the couples,
assisted by Rev. Alfred B. Soave
and Rev. Anthony Savastario.
Preacher for the occasion will be
Rev. John C. Nosser, secretary to
Bishop Kellenberg.
At the conclusion of the awards
ing of certificates, Bishop Kellen­berg
will lead the honored
couples in a renewal of their
marriage vows. He will then
conclude the ceremonies with
Benediction of the Blessed Sacra­ment.
Assisting the Bishop for
Benediction will be Monsignor
Martin J. O'Dea, pastor emeritus
of Holy Family Church in Hicks-ville
and Rev. John J. Byrne,
pastor of St. Martha's Church,
Uniondale.
The following named couples
from this area will be included
among those honored:
H1CKSVILLE
Mr. and Mrs. Michael Rien-ecker,
Mr. and Mrs. Peter Hock,
Mr. and Mrs. Louis Masciarelli,
Mr. and Mrs. William Beczak,
Mr. and Mrs. Felix Tuton, Mr.
and Mrs. Francis Martin, Mr.
and Mrs. George Gargiulo and
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Scalisi.
LEVITTOWN
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Bird, Mr.
and Mrs. Harry Whritenour, Mr.
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Arturo's Keeps Them Rollin In
(Not Just People)
The newly opened Arturo's
Pizza & Pasta at 440 No.
Wantagh Ave. (Bethpage
Marketplace), Bethpage not
only keeps the customers
rolling in. Last Thursday
something very unusual rolled
thru the door - a wheel from a
trailer tractor truck.
The freakish incident oc-cured
at 3:00 p.m. when the
driver of the truck stopped for
a traffic light at the in­tersection
of Wantagh Ave.
and Hicksville Road. The
vehicle's left rear wheel flew
off and rolled up Wantagh
Ave. onto the Bethpage
Marketplace parking field. It
continued on missing all the
parked autos, hit the curb in
front of Arturo's then bounced
off the roof and rolled thru the
door. Narrowly missing a
customer, it ended it's trip by
smashing into the cigarette
machine.
Perhaps a miracle was
performed last Thursday, for
during this whole weird
happening not one human was
injured. Who said? "Life is
stranger than fiction",
by Therese Spellman