Bethpage-Tribune_1991-01-24

              YOUR OFFICIAL HOMETOWN NEWSPAPER
Serving Bethpage, Island Trees, Plainedge, Seaford, Old Bethpage and Plainview
VOL. 24 NO. 9 Celebrating Our 24th Year January 24-February 1, 1991 Celebrating Our 24th Year 25 CENTS
TOWN OF OYSTER BA Y
STAHDSBEHm OUR TROOPS
We want our neighbors, friends and
loved ones serving in the Persian Gulf
to know that their hometown of
Oyster Bay is immensely proud of
them and that our thoughts, our hearts
and our prayers are with them," said
Town Supervisor Angelo A. Delligatti
in offering special Resolution No. 1 of
1991.
The resolution, which was adopted
at the January 22 meeting of the Town
Board, goes on to extend to the
families of Oyster Bay service person­nel
engaged in Operation Desert
Storm, support and kinship and the
fervent hope for the safe return home
of their loved ones.
"Any war is a tragedy," said the
Supervisor, "but my fellow Town
Board members and I believe that,
regardless of personal judgements
about this conflict, all Americans
should now stand fully behind our
President and Congress and, most
especially, our courageous military
personnel in the Persian Gulf."
The Resolution further encourages
all town residents to fly the American
flag at homes and business and to
display the yellow ribbons that
"announce to the world our pride in
our countrymen and women and our
prayerful hope for their safe and
hastened return to us."
Town officials would like to deliver
this message of support to Oyster Bay
service personnel and plan to mail
certified copies of special resolution
No. 1 from Town Hall directly to them
in the Persian Gulf. Families and
friends of Town residents involved in
Operation Desert Storm are invited
to provide names and military
addresses of loved ones to Town
Supervisor Angelo A. Delligatti,
Oyster Bay Town Hall, 54 Audrey
Avenue, Oyster Bay, New York 11771.
JOHN VENDITTO APPOINTED
NEW TOWN ATTTORNEY
The Oyster Bay Town Board today
appointed North Massapequa resi­dent
and former Town Councilman
John Venditto as Town attorney,
according to Town Supervisor Angelo
A. Delligatti. The appointment took
effect on January 24th.
"John has been an outstanding
Councilman for the past ten years, and
1 have no doubts he will be an excellent
Town Attorney. While 111 miss him
as a fellow Town Board member, 1
look foward to his informed guidance
and advise in his new position."
A native of the Massapequas,
Venditto was a Town Board member
since 1981. He is a graduate of St.
John's Law School and has been a
practicing attorney since 1976. He is
a founding member and officer of the
Columbian Lawyers Association of
Nassau County.
Venditto and his wife are the
parents of three children and are both
active in numeorus civic, community
and church organizations.
NeiMT Contract Earns Money
For Recycled Ne^nrspapers
The Oyster Bay Town Board today
authorized the award of a 5-year
contract that will pay the Town $21
per ton for clean, high quality news­papers
collected through the Town's
S.O.R.T, program, according to
Town Supervisor Angelo A. Delligati.
"We're understandably pleased with
this contract," said the Supervisor, "in
that it marks the first time since the
1989 bottoming-out of the paper
market began that the town will be
receiving revenue for its newspaper."
The most recent price paid to recycle
the town's old newspapers was $41 per
ton.
According to Supervisor Delligatti,
the contract also represents another
important milestone for the town's
recycling program. "This new contract
provides the first ever long-term, fixed
price means of profitably marketing
our newspapers." All prior contracts
for the Town's recycled newspaper
tied plus or minus pricing to a regional
(Coatimud on page 4)
ROAD RUNNERS CLUB
DONATES $ 1 2 0 0 TO
BRETTON CHARITY GAME
Pictured here, Gary Bretton (c) accepts the check from POBRRC's Julie
Shapiro (L) and Oyster Bay Town Councilman Len Symons (R), a member
of FOBRRC and a competitor in the Ho Ho Ho Run.
One of the highlights of the January
15 meeting of the Plainview-Oid
Bethpage Road Runners Club was the
presentation of a check for $1200 to
the special fund established by Gary
Bretton in conjunction with the
Bethpage PAL to provide support for
needy families in Bethpage. Ihe
money was raised through the highly
successful John's Farms Ho Ho Ho
Jingle Bells 5 Kilometer Run through
the streets of northern Bethpage on
December 22.
"We are thrilled to have raised this
money for such a great community
endeavor," noted POBRRC Vice
President Julie Shapiro, who served
as Race Director for the Ho Ho Ho
Run. "Bethpage, its Board of Fduca-tion
and the community generally
have beea iiighly supfiortivc of our
running program, so it is especially
fitting that we give something back
to the Bethpage community in this
way."
A Letter of Thanks
The BeUipage Fire Deparimeni would like to extend tbeir sincere
tbmdis and appreciaiion to timse residents wiHt assisted Ibem involving
tbe tragic train Oi iderU wbidf occurred onjamutry 11.
Unforintfalel Aose caring individuals left the scene before their
names could Ite 4dained for a more fomml thank yon.
Once adjoin our heartf^eU tbaitks to those caring individnah.
The Belhpage fire Depi,