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VOL. 19 NO. 50 Week of March 21 - March 2f, 1985 20 cents per copy
P iscove ry D ay 11 _ A First For L . I . F . E ^^ Leader Meets Leader
On Sunday, March 24th, Plainvicw-Old Bethpage resi­dents
will again join their neighbors at a unique conlerence,
POB DISCOVERY DAY M, to be held at John F. Kennedy
High School in Plainview, 12-5 pm. Part ol Project Out­reach,
a high-school student-service program. Discovery
Day has been planned to enhance residents' awareness of
and appreciation lor their community.
As an unicorporated hamlet, Plainview-Old Bethpage,
lacks a strong community identity. Since 1983, student
volunteers, through Project Outreach, have sought to
strengthen the sen.se and spirit ol community in Plainview
Old Bethpage. The.se community-awareness programs
included a 1984 parade and Discovery Day conlerence;
ahead in May is a POB Celebration Day street lair. These
activities are linked to a .student-sponsored Neighborhood
Watch Program. "Our goal" said Project Outreach Student
Coordinator Judy Krebs, "is to encourage people to partici­pate
in Neighborhood Watch by making them feel good
about their communiiv."
Project Outreach in generiil, and Discovery Day in par­ticular,
use community pride to combat the area's high
home-burglary rate. "This is a positive approach to crime
prevention,'' said Brian Heitner, a student Discovery Day
coordinator: B3^4waenngcrimeprevcrttion-t^^^
nnuiity awai-enes.svjhieitner went on, "we are trying to avoid -
the kinds of vigilantisrii that have occurred in other places.
We want peopleto U)ok out for each other," Heitner con­cluded,
"not to take thcjaw into their own hands."
The keynote speaker for Discovery Day is Moorhead
Kennedy, a former U.S. hostage in Iran. Mr. Kennedy,
during his captivity, learned first hand what can happen when
the rule of law is disregarded. "Kennedy's experiences as a
hostage are a moving testament of the need to .strengthen the
bonds of community at all levels," said Dr. Richard Koubek,
Project Outreach Teacher Coordinator. Kennedy's speech is
titled, "The Global Community is Rooted in Neighborhood:
Lessons from the Iranian Hostage Crisis." The Bernhurd
Goet/. case will figure prominently in Mr. Kennedy's
remarks. "As a victim of lawlessness," Koubek observed,
"Mr. Kennedy is quite concerned that we find another
approach to crime."
In addition toMoorhead Kennedy's keynote speech. Dis­covery
Day win contain a free brunch, an exhibit of student
service projects and some 13 seminars and panels devoted to
POB history or current issues. "Some of this year's programs
are very challenging" said Discovery Day coordinator Lisa
Gruiiberg. One.panel, composed of community religious
leaders, is tilled, "An Interfaith Dialogue: How Should the
Public Schools Teach MoralityT' Another program is a
seminar, which deals with a current issue troubling the
community, is tilled "Saftey Issues Concerning Incinera­tors."
In addition, there are five programs devoted to POB
hi.story.a panel titled "The POB.School District in 1985: A
Cricitcal Juncture," a panel devoted to the problems of
community youth and another dealing with senior citizens.
Discovery Day will be followed by a spirit-raising street
fair scheduled to. be held at POB High School on Sunday,
March I9th. JclTNaness^a Celebration Day student coordi­nator,
observed that "Celebration Day will be very much
like an old-fashioned. New York City ethnic festival. Our
hope," he said, "is to. get hundreds of residents to come
together for Celebration Day, to feel and act like good
neighbors."
Other components of Project Outreach include a Peer
Counseling program in which high school students are
trained to teach community-awareness or crime-preyention
lessons to younger children, a comprehensive Neighbor­hood
Watch program, a county conference to help other
school districts launch similar programs and student
research projects devoted to community issues and history.
"Project Outreach is a very unusual student-service pro­ject"
>said POB Superintendent Louis Ferrara. "We are
proud of the work our youngsters are doing to revive com­munity
spirit and resolve community problems," Project
Outreach, Ferrara noted, has already been awarded a Presi-
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Oyster Bay Town Supervisor Joseph Colby (second from
left) meets with representatives of organizations sponsoring;
the First Annual YomHashoa Observance marking the
liberation of The Holocaust survivors. Showing Colby a
poster advertising the event is Sarah Ducorsky, Executive
Directoiir of the L.LF.E; Center for Holocaust Studies. Also.
on hand for the meeting ^ere Boris Chartjein of Plainyiewr
Presidelit'ofthe^Long:Isiand'Gommissioii'for Holocaast'•
Survivors; Rabbi Myron Fenster of the L.l. Commission for
Holocaust Survivors. The Yom Hashoa is scheduled for
Sunday, April 14, at Nassau Community College beginning
at 11 AM. Colby will serve as Master of Ceremonies.
Flower Show Awards
The 1985 Long Island Flower Show attracted over 50,000
to its nine-day exhibit^^jNdarch 2-10, at Farmingdale State
University. The Long Island Trophy/Marie BonGiorno
Memorial for the top Flower Show exhibit was presented to
Flower Time, Inc. This trophy is presented to the most
outstanding exhibit and is sponsored by Suburban Nursery.
The New.sday/ Bea, Jones Memorial Trophy for excellence
in overall garden design went to Queens Botanical Garden,
and the President's Trophy/SUN Y at Farmingdale award
for excellence in foliage plant display to Angel Plants.
Other silver trophies for "best in class" awards included
Suburban Nursery which received the Nassau Trophy/-
Jimmy Maccarone Memorial for outstanding garden by a
professional landscaper, contractor or nursery; Flower
Time, Inc. received the Suffolk Trophy/FloryGiartfagna
Memorial for outstanding florist garden or display; Nassau
Tech at Old Westhury received the Fortunoff Trophy for
outstanding garden with an education/recreational theme
by a public or private institution or agency; Long Island
Retail Florists Association received the New York Florists
Club Trophy for outstanding floral "trade association
exhibit, and Cooperative Extension Service received the
Edwin Costich Memorial Trophy for outstanding educa­tional
exhibit.
Parota On LI. Water
Resources Commission
Resource Needs of Long
Island, I will be evaluating
these reports and making
recommendtions on how to
stem the contamination and
depletion of Nassau ai>d
Suffolk Counties' water
supply.
*'I also will work with the
commission on locating new
and uncontaminated water
sources and proposing
methods of preserving and
protecting water resources
for future use.
Assemblyman Fred Par-dla
(R,C-Wantagh) today
announced his appointment
by Assembly Republican
Leadef CD. "Rapp" Rap-pleyea
to the Legislative
Commission on - Water
Resource Needs of Long
Island. ^
'•Recent studies and
reports show that Long
island's water supply may be
in jeopardy," said Parola.
"As a member of the Legis-
, lative Comnnission oh Water
Our own Nassau County Comptroller Peter T.
1C1nig(l.),'wfio was thie Grand Marshal of the New
York City St. Patrick's Day Parade, met with
Archbishop John J. O'Connor (2nd 1.) at St.
Patrick's Cathedral on the day of the Parade and
introduced his son, Sean (c); his daughter, Erin
(2nd r.); and his wife, Rosemary (r.), to the Arch­bishop.
King, who was the youngest Grand Mar­shal
in history, dedicated the Parade to the
oppressed, suffering people of Northern Ireland.
Senior Citizen Affairs
Congressman Norman F. Lent (R^East Rockaway), dis­cusses
the problems of senior citizens at a legislative break­fast
hosted by the Nassau County Department of Senior
Citizen AfTairs with Dr. Joseph Kuhn, Chairman of the
Legislative Technical Advisory Committee, and commis­sioner
Adelaide Attard. Lent told those senior citizens pres­ent
of his efforts on their behalf in the House of Representa­tives
and answered their questions regardhig the Social
Security Administration.
**Long Island depends
solely upon underground
sources for its drinking
water," the assemblyman
continued; "Our water
supply is especially susceptr
ible to contamination and is
a fragile resource -which
must be protected."
Our underground aquifier
could be threatened by the
hazards created from the
dumping of garbage. One of
the best ways for removing
this threat will be through
the e s t a b l i s h m e n t of
resource recovery plants.
Three state senators and
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