Observer_1983-04-07; East Rockaway/Lynbrook Observer

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INCORPORATED VILLAGE
East R o c k o w o y
SCHOOL DISTRICT
INCORPORATED VILLAGE
SCHOOL DISTRICT
OBSERVER -cxi'^'
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VOL. XVI, NO. 22 EAST ROCKAWAY, NEW YORK 11518, THURSDAY, APRIL 7, 1983 PER COPY
Last Saturday, the Easier Bunny made his annual visit to Memorial
Park in East Rockaway to supervise the Egg Hunts prepared by the
East Rockaway Recreation Commission. On hand to welcome
him/her (?), along with hundreds of young people, were (1-r)
Village Trustees Pauline Wipfler and Anthony Santino, and Mayor
TedReinhard. (Photo by C. Warner)
COMMUNION BREAKFASTS
St. Raymond's Holy Name
Society will hold its Annual
Communion Breakfast on
Sunday, April 10th, at 10 a.m.
(after 9 a-m^ Mass), in the school
cafeteria. Guest speaker will be
Fr. Don Gannon, SJ., Retreat
Director of St= Ignatius Retreat
House in Manhasset. Tickets can
be obtained by calling Frank
Bertone, 599-0712, or Ed
Venable, 593-8834; adults $5,
children under 12, $3c
LYNBROOK BOARD
OF ED MEETING
The Lynbrook Board of Edu-cation
will hold its next open
meeting on Wednesday, April
13th, at 8 p.nic ih the high
school cafeteria. The public is
welcome to attend.
Father Tom Hartmann, Direc-tor
of Communications for the
Diocese of Rockville Centre will
be the guest speaker at the
Msgr. Walsh-St. Raymond
Knights of Columbus 3rd
Annual Communion Breakfast
on Sunday, April 17th, at 10
a.m. (following the 9 a.m. Mass)
in St. Raymond's School gym.
Tickets are $5 for adults and
$2 for children under 13.
Tickets may be purchased by
calling Ben Melfa (593-6994),
Frank Contaldi (599-5514) or
Frank Altamore (599-2349)o
REMEMBER
You see it first...
And many times only
in the
OBSERVER
TESTIMONIAL - Retiring Lynbrook Chamber of Commerce
President Frank Lenhart receives a pique in recognition ofa "job
well done" during his tenure in office from new President Gisela
Giese at the recent Annual Dinner of the Chamber, held at the
Lynbrook Elks Club. (Photo by John Cribbin)
Organization Night was held
in the Village of Lynbrook on
Monday, April 4th, as required
by law (first Monday in April),
with the new Mayor and
Trustees taking their seats.
Village Justice Co William
Gaylor administered the oath of
office to newly-elected Mayor
William P, Geier and Trustees
Peter K. Led with and Michael
Krawchuk (see photos).
Upon taking over the meet-ing,
Mayor Geier thanked former
Mayor Glenn Spielman and
Trustee William Buzzeo for their
many years of service to the
Village, noting that they both
worked very hard for the better-ment
of the Village. He then
proceeded to make appoint-ments
for the ensuing year:
Deputy Mayor, Trustee Michael
Krawchuk; Board Liaisons -
Mayor Geier, Fire Dept.; Trustee
Krawchuk, Building and Assess-ment;
Trustee Scarpato, DPW
and Recreation; Trustee Orn-stein,
Police Dept., Library and
Drug Abuse; Trustee Led with,
Insurance, Safety and
TAVASNAKo Meeting dates
were set for the 1st and 3rd
Mondays of each month, the
"East Rockaway/Lynbrook Ob-server"
and "The Local News"
were designated as Official
Newspapers, various banks in the
area were designated as deposi-tories,
the Deputy Treasurer was
authorized to invest Village
monies, check signers were desig-nated
and security bonds auth-orized
for certain personnel.
Appointed or re-appointed
were the following: (it should
be noted that many positions
were not up for appointment,
having been originally appointed
for more than a I-year term,
and others were not filled at this
time in order for Mayor Geier
to familiarize himself with them)
Shirley Moskowitz, Deputy
Treasurer; Jay Korth, Village
Attorney; Joseph Vitale, Con-=
sultant to the Board; John
Calderone, Animal Warden;
Frank Hillgartner, Supt. DPW;
Lester Forest, Assistant Village
Justice; Philip Marino, Prosecut-ing
Attorney; Steve Grogan,
Director of Public Relations;
Hon, Francis X. Becker, Village
Historian; William HahL' Chief,
Civil Preparedness; John Cribbin,
Photographer; Annette Ling,
Press Liaison; Rich Koch,
Library Trustee.
352 eee DISCUSSION
The most lengthy portion of
the meeting, the most contro-versial,
and probably the most
At the April 4th meeting of the Lynbrook Village Board, the
opening meeting of the new Village year, William P. Geier (r)
was sworn in as Mayor by Village Justice C. William Gaylor (I).
(Photo by John Cribbin)
important, was the discussion on
the proposed adoption of Sec-tion
352 eee of the General
Business Law of the State of
New York, having to do with
rights of senior citizens and the
handicapped when apartments
are turned into co-ops or condo-miniums.
Mayor Geier opened the dis=
cussion stating that 352 eee
was a misunderstood issue, with
many differing viewpoints as to
whether its adoption would be
good or bad for the Village, He
noted that it had been a contro-versial
issue for the past two
years. Throwing the floor open
for discussion, the many people
who have spoken in behalf of
the adoption of 352 eee over the
past years, again urged the new
Board to do so - LeRoy Fitz-gerald,
William Fine, A1
Sampson, Beney Phillips and
others. There were also a few
non-apartment dwellers, speak-ing
against the adoption. No
new ground was broken, the
arguments being the same on
both sides as in the past, which
have been reported on at various
times over the past couple of
years.
Trustee Maurice Ornstein
made an eloquent plea for adop-tion
and Trustee Eugene
Scarpato did the same against
adoption saying that he thought
the same results could be achiev=»
ed without another law on the
books. Trustee Peter Ledwith
said that he was of the opinion
that it would be illegal to adopt
this law with a public hearing
being called and held and that if
tested, it would be declared un-constitutional.
(Mayor Geier and
Village Attorney Jay Korth dis-agreed
with this interpretation.)
As more and more hands
were raised to speak. Mayor
Geier said that if there was no
new ground to be broken, he
was going to call a halt to dis-cussions,
which he did.
Continued on Page 12
Village Justice C. William Gaylor (1) swears in new Village Trustees
Peter Ledwith and Michael Krawchuk. (Photo by John Cribbin)