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Island Trees Serving Bethpage Plainview - Island Trees - Plainedge - Seaford
VOL. 6 No. 43
Old Bethpage
Thursday, August 31,1972 10c par copy
School Openings at a Glance YES Ends Another Year Of Service
Bethpage
DISTRICT No. 21
Opening Date - Wednesday -
September 6th
New Tax Rate - For School
District and Library - $12.63 per
$100 of assessed valuation.
Names of Board Members -
Herman Slavin, President;
Kestulas Miklas, Vice President;
Richard Gorman; Anthony
LaFaso; Elizabeth Regan and
new members Anthony Cotton
and Salvatore Iannello.
Island Trees
DISTRICT NO. 26
Opening Date - September 6th
...v,. New Tax Rate T $11.92 per $ipg
of assessed, valuation (on
austerity)-*Iabrary, which is not
on austerity, is 31 cents per $100
. of assessed valuation.
Names of Board Members -
Lillian Rosa, President; Robert
. Evans, Vice President; Louis
Thomas Mulcahey; William
Richter and new Board Member
Richard Ahrens.
Lunch Program - Cafeteria
services are cancelled because of
Bus Information - Most tran-sportation
for elementary
students is eliminated and only
those living within 2-10 mile
radius will be eligible. Tran­sportation
for secondary students
only between the 3-10 mile radius.
Parochial schools students not
eligible above the 10 mile
distance.
Textbooks - There will be a fee
of $2.25 for elementary students
in grades 1-6.
School Supplies - There will be
fees for school supplies assessed
at: $9 for Kindergarten - 6 (in
addition to textbooks), $12 for 7 - 9
and $15 for 10 -12.
Plainview
SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 4
Opening Date - Wednesday -
September 6th.
New Tax Rate - $15.99 per $100
of assessed valuation.
Names of Board Members -
The new President- is CtariesM".
Mattingly;"Jr.; Jay M. Bernstein,
Vice President; Harvey Brick-man
(Past President); Alvin fX
Belamant *'B^imis~-K«iiBe1iyt
Mitchell Lamb and Joseph
Scholnick. ,
Plaihedg<
DISTRICT NO. 18
Opening Date - Wednesday -
New Tax Rate -^111^^88?
School Dstrict and 66 bents for the
Library per $100 of assessed
valuation.
Names of Board Members -
Tbei
Henry Cardella, Vice
President; Michael Cimina;
Donald Kantor and new members
James Edelmann, Dominick
Gagliardo and Franklin
McGrath.
Bus Information - Still same
schedule.
Lunch Program - No lunch
program except for sandwiches
and milk.
Transit Secretary To
Address Garagemen
Long Island Garagemen's Association Board Chairman Gene
Ravasio (left) of West Islip and New York State Auto Body
Federation President Rick Marchitelli of Bethpage (right) present
United States Transportation Secretary John Volpe with an honorary
LIGA membership in preparation for his appearance at the L1GA
Dinner-Dance to be held September 15th at the Colonie Hill, llaup-pauge.
United States Secretary of 10th Annual Dinner-Dance of the
Transportation John A. Volpe Long Island Garagemen's
will be the guest s&t&ker atthe Association, td be held Friday
The Bethpage Youth Em­ployment
Service, operating in
conjuction with the Town of
Oyster Bay Youth Bureau and the
Bethpage Youth Council, ended a
successful nine-week operation
two weeks ago after having
placed 85 young people in jobs
and referring an additional 113.
The Youth Employment Ser­vice
opened its doors for the first
time in June of 1971 and became
the first, full-time employment
service of its kind in the Town of
Oyster Bay. Nearly 100 youths
were placed in jobs through the
service during its first year and
many of them were rehired this
year by their original employers.
Youth Employment Aides
Mark,Sandler and Walter Lip-pinrott,
both 1971 graduates of
Bethpage H.S., received training
from the New York State Em­ployment
Service on how to run.
the service and keep records.
Mark, a sophomore at Nassau
Community College, studying
psychology and speech com-employment
agency while he was
serving as Chairman for the
Project Committee of the Beth­page
Youth Council:
Walter, a pre-med student at
JiOdlebury College in Vermont,
was then President of the Youth
Council, and he agreed the need
for such an agency and the
storefront office opened three
weeks later.
The Youth Employment Ser­vice
operated from a grant of
$2,500 per year from the Town of
Oyster Bay which they shared
with the Bethpage Youth Council.
"It was through donations,"
said Mark Sandler, "that we
were able to function so ef­ficiently
while keeping below our ;,
budgeted costs. Our storefront
was donated for our nine weeks
by the James J. Braglia Real
Estate Agency of Bethpage, and
evening, Sept. 15 at the Colonie
Hill Restaurant, Hauppauge. The
Long Island Garagemen's
Association,, is an organization
representing over 600 auto body
and fender repair shops
throughout Long Island, and is
affiliated with the Nw York State
Auto Body Federation.
According to Dinner Chairman
Rick Marchitelli of Bethpage,
-who serves -aa- Presidentnjif- the
New York State Auto Body
Federation, "The Secretary told
me this past week of his high
interest in our organization, and
he will have something of interest
to say to every affiliate member
of the auto-body industry that
. evening.''
LIGA Board Chairman Gene
Ravasio of West Islip com­mented,
"We are extremely'
proud and honored to have
Secretary Volpe, one of the
nation's most admired officials in
the Nixon administration, and
the head of the Cabinet Depart­ment
which concerns our in-
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READY AND WAITING: Pencils poised. Mark
Walter Lippincott of Bethpage take applications at their i
operation for the Youth Employment Service of Bethpage. The
service, which just ended its second summer, opera**" in eon-junction
with the Town of Oyster Bay Youth Bereau and the
Bethpage Youth Council. 393 applicants were interviewed this year
and 198 positions were placed or referred for placement.
a new Vega came to us without number nf jobs we filled with our
charge from HicksvilJe's Robert applicants. 3S3 young people
Chevrolet. came to us this summer looking
"The New' York State Em- for jobs and we expect that our
ployment Service furnished us reputation will bring us
with"all the necessary forms for more next year.'
pur applicants," he continued,
'and we were able to follow their
format of trying to place oar job-seekers
into positions that they
found interesting or in which they
had prior experience?' **
Most of the jobs secured for the
youths who used the service were
positions -goffered by the
homeowners of the community.
Over 6,000 brochures explaining
the service were mailed to homes
and an equal number were sent to
local business throughout Nassau
County.
According to Mark, "The
responses from our literature and
personal canvassing equalled the
The Bethpage Youth Em­ployment
Service has served as a
model for the other 10 youth
councils throughout the Town of
Oyster Bay. Sandler and Lip­pincott
were instrumental in the
organization of part-time ser­vices
offered this summer by the
Plainedge and Plainview Youth
Councils.
Bom Mark and Walter have no
plans for stopping there,
however, as they plan to continue
speaking to all the youth councils
to promote the idea of em­ployment
services for youth
throughout the Township.
Bethpage School Calendar
Teachers' Meeting - Orientation
Schools Open
Yom Kippur - Schools Closed
Columbus Day - Schools Closed
Veterans' Day - Schools Closed
All Saints' Day - Schools Closed
^lecTiolTDay^SclTOols^
Thanksgiving Recess - Schools Closed
Feast of the Immaculate Conception - Schools December
Closed
Christmas Recess - Schools Close at end of
day.
New Year's Day - Schools Closed
Schools Open
Lincoln's Birthday - Schools Closed
Washington's Birthday - Schools Closed
Easter Recess - Schools Close at end of day April
Schools Open
Memorial Day - Schools Closed
Schools Close
Month
September
October.
November
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December
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January
February
/ April
May
June
Dates
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6
18
9
23
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22
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12
19
13
25
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