Observer_1983-05-26; East Rockaway/Lynbrook Observer

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VOL. X V I . NO. 29 E:AST ROCKAWAY, NEW YORK 11518, THURSDAY, MAY 26, 1983 15^ PER COPY
Memorial Day
At Gettysburg, at San Juan Hill,
In Flanders Fields now all is still,
But men still drill and march away
Like yowwho made Memorial Day.
In Normandy, and on Bataan, ^
At Inchon, Khe Sanh, and in Iranf
Selflessly the need you met.
And now we know we must not forget.
Those who fought and those who fell.
To hear the bell of freedom knell.
We crouch beside your graves today;
These wreaths of vernal buds to lay.
And to you who died for freedom's sake,
A pledge to carry on we make:
The torch that you so bravely bore
Shall be our beacon evermore.
EAST ROCKAWAY
Memorial Day in East Rockaway will start
out with an Interfaith Service at 8 a.m. at
the Hewlett-East Rockaway Jewish Centre,
with Rabbi Stanley Platek, Past George Hardy,
Pastor Harold Lake, and Father William V.
Singleton, the four spiritual leaders of East
Rockaway's Houses of Worship, officiating.
The annual parade will step off at 10 a.m.
sharp from in front of the VFW Hall on Main
St. at Waldo Ave., proceeding down Main St. to
Ocean Ave., to Centre Ave., to Atlantic Ave.,
to the viewing stand at Memorial Park.
Ceremonies will follow with the guest
speaker being Village Trustee Pauline Wipfler.
Following the ceremonies at Memorial Park,
services will be held in Bay Park at the head of
the Grand Canal on North Blvd.
There will be open house at both American
Legion Post 958 and VFW Post 3350 following
ceremonies, to which all are invited.
We pray that by its guiding light
We'll find our course and hold it right.
We hope it may throughout the years
Bring an end to blood and tears.
For we're a nation proud and free.
And sorhetimes it is hard to see
Where friendship for our cause abides
And where a foe of freedgm hides.
You have found peace while we still weep
And wail o'er charges we must keep.
There'll be no peace until we find
A way that's just for all mankind.
—William J. Ackcr
LYNBROOK
In Lynbrook, prior to the annual parade and
ceremofiies, there will be three Memorial
Services. At 8 a.m. there will be Memorial
Services and the placing of wreaths at American
Legion Post 335 on Union Ave.; at 8:30 Lyn-brook
Firemen will gather at the Firemen's
Memorial on Sunrise Hwy. and Earle Ave. for
annual Services; and at 9:15 a.m., a wreath will
be placed at the Veterans Memorial Stone in
front of VFW Post 2307 on Merrick Road
and Vincnt Ave,, where a short Service will be
held and a volley fired.
The nnual parade will start tat 10 a.m,
sharp at Charles St. and Merrick Road, pro-ceeding
down Merrick Road to Columbus
Drive, past the reviewing stand, with ceremon-ies
following at the Doughboy Monument at
Ross Plaza.
This year there will be a special memorial to
PFC Martin Spinelli who was born in Lynbrook
and killed in action in 1944,
ISLANDERS HELP GRIST MILL
A prized autographed (by the
Islander team) hockey stick is
among the prizes offered this
year by the Grist Mill Museum
at the Huckleberry Frolic that
will be held on June 18th.
Chances may be obtained at the
Museum on Memorial Day when
it will be open after the cere-monies
in the park until 4 p.m.
They will also be on sale at the
Museum weekends thereafter
and also from local organiza-tions.
Vincent Christian©, who
has done a great deal of work for
the Frolic this year, was able to
obtain the stock.
Other prizes to be offered
are: for the gourmets, dinners
for two at our local East Point
Inn, Ship's Inn and Santino's;
for the younger generation, an
Atari, and for home cooking, a
hostess set.
Among the new exhibits that
will be seen at the Museum this
seasoii is a 1920 set-up in the
Fashion Corner, complete with
sounds from the twenties and
photos of Rudolph ValentinO
and Wally Reid. This exhibit will
be displayed during June. In our
large showcase on the upper
floor, there is a series of photo-graphs
showing how the old
Mill was moved to its present
location 20 years ago. This
exhibit will also honor those
who helped save the Mill from
the bulldozer and carefully re-constructed
it. The late Mayor
Charles Krull was in office at
the time and the five who es-tablished
the Society that wrote
the by-laws for it at the time
were W. Wesley Hill, Lyman and
Lillian Davision, Eugene Torborg
and Douglas Wi^ke.
More on the Frolic and Grist
Mill exhibits will appear in up-coming
issues of the Observer.
LYNBROOK BEAUTIFICATION DAY
Mayor William Geier and the
Village Trustees invite all resi-dents
to join in Lynbrook's
Beautification campaign.
With the warmer weather
upon us, now is the time for all
families to work outdoors clean-ing
out the winter debris, fertil-izing
the lawn and planting seeds
and flowers.
Mayor Geier and the Trustees
wUl be doing their share by
sweeping up Atlantic Avenue on
Saturday, May 28th. They urge
all residents to do their share by
beautifying their own part of
Lynbrook.
Increasing Lynbrook's beauty
is everybody's duty.
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Memorial Day
Week Is Coming
June 19 - 26
FISH WEEK - The wee k of May 22-28 has been proclaimed FISH
WEEK in the VUlage of Lynbrook by Mayor WUliam Geier. FISH,
which is presently seeking volunteers and donations, was honored
for its friendship, emotional support and transportation it gives to
those in need. Accepting the ftoclamation from Mayor Geier on
behalf of FISH is volunteer Louise Campbell. At its meeting a week
earlier, East Rockaway Mayor Theodore Reinhard also proclaimed
the week as FISH WEEK. (Photo by John Cribbin)