Observer_1984-03-21; East Rockaway/Lynbrook Observer

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INCORPORATED VILUGE
Lynbrook
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VOL. 32 NO. 18 Wednesday, March 21,1984 25c PER COPY
Religous
Groups
Religiously speaking East
Rockaway's places of wor-ship
have always supported
the Frolic, whether by man
(or woman) power or finan-cially.
Mrs. Owen Simonson
of the Church' of the Naza-rene
donated two huckle-berry
bushes to be planted
by the Mill 15 years ago
when the Frolic was first
suggested by Don McHugh
of Lynbrook, then a teacher
in Centre Avenue School.
He and former Mayor
Winfred Berg planted the
bushes. Today the plants are
gone but the seeds from their
fruit are still generating
good will.
The Nazarene Church on
Ocean Avenue and Garfield
Place, with Rev. Harold
Lake, Jr., the pastor, has
two services on Sundays and
Sunday School. During the
first years of the Frolic the
ladies sold huckleberry
shortcake from their booth,
but recently their men and
boys have turned to some-thing
more literary and
mind-stimulating, offering
good used books for sale.
St. Raymond's Roman
Catholic Church has often
had two booths: the
women's sodality of Our
Lady, which either donates a
check or sells homemade
by Mildred Roemer
sweets; and the men's Holy
Name Society, which helps
the youngsters to get sticky
with cotton candy and spin-off
art. St. Raymond's
Church is on Atlantic
Avenue off Carman. Father
William Singleton is their
pastor. A parochial school
consisting of grades 1
through 8 is run by this
church.
Bethany Congregational
Church, founded in 1878
and the oldest in the Village,
is on Main Street near
Rhame Avenue. Their
Men's club have for years
offered piping hot hambur-gers
with trimmings at the
Frolic. The ladies formerly
offered toys but recently
their table has been laden
with indoor and outdoor
plants. Rev. George E.
Hardy has been pastor of the
church for the past 14 years.
There is a Sunday morning
service and Sunday School.
The Hewlett - East Rock-away
Jewish Centre does
not participate with a booth
at the Frolic due to religious
commitments oif Saturday,
but they donate a generous
check as their way of sup-porting
the Grist Mill
Museum. Rabbi Stanley
Platek is leader of Congre-gation
Etz Chaim. A reli-gious
school is connected
with the Temple.
Board Delays Bond Vote;
Special Meeting Tonight
GATHERING TOGETHER. A large contingent of East
Rockawayites were on hand at the Oceanside Republican
Club "Gala Cocktail Reception held at the Oceanside Coun-try
Club on March 18. From left to right are Village Trustee
Anthony Santino, Republican Executive Leader Phil
Christ, Oberserver Editor John Hambel, and Congressman
Norman Lent.
Unable to reach a consen-sus
on a proposed renova-tion
bond referendum at its
March I9th meeting, the
East Rockaway Board of
Education has scheduled a
special meeting to be held
tonight, March 21 at 8 pm in
the East Rockaway High
School.
Using the recommenda-tions
of the Citizen's Advi-sory
Committee on Renova-tion
and Repair as a
guideline, the Board of Edu-cation
sought to further
decrease the final total of the
p r o p o s e d r-eferendum,
which by Monday evening
had risen to $3,551,730.
Board member Barry Ack-rongold
expressed his fear
that should the final figure
not be s u b s t a n t i a l ly
reduced, possibilities for
passage of the bond issue
would be seriously impaired.
President Richard Meagher
then stated that several
recommendations had been
made that reduced the pro-posed
final total by more
that $100,000.
C o n t r o v e r s y e r u p t ed
when President Meagher
suggested the possibility of
removing the elevator that is
currently included in the
currently proposal. The ele-vator
would allow greater
accessibility for the handi-capped
by making the entire
second story of the old
building available to those
unable to negotiate the
stairways. There was a near
unanimous consensus of
opinion by members of the
audience, composed in great
part by members of the advi-sory
committee, against the
elimination of the elevator.
Mrs. Patricia Kearney
stated than an absence of an
elevator for the handi-capped
would amount to
"discrimination," and con-tinued
"I would never sup-port
a bond issue without an
elevator for the handi-capped.
1 would actively
oppose it." Mr. Len Poli-koff,
however, asked rhetor-ically
whether it was fiscally
responsible to spend almost
$200,000 on an elevator
when there are no handi-capped
children in the High
School nor will there be any
in attendance for the fore-seeable
future.
The alternative to the ele-vator
would consider the
renovation of the new wing
of the high school into a
m u l t i - p u r p o s e r e s o u r ce
room for the handicapped.
The cost of this plan would
total $85,000, compared to
$190,000 for the elevator
facilities. Several members
of the audience pointed out
that, by law, the district is
required to provide a "least
restricted atmosphere" for
handicapped students. "This
plan certainly is not the least
restrictive plan available,"
stated Mrs. Jane Brezenoff.
"The biggest learning expe-rience
occurs when a child is
allowed to socialize. Res-tricting
a handicapped stu-dent
to a certain area is
discrimination."
Others in attendance
voiced their concern that
educational improvements
were being sacrificed for less
important areas. Mrs. Mar-ian
Cooney stated "It would
be a lot better if we could
eliminate less important
things, like repaving the
parking lot and resurfacing
the athletic field, rather than
eliminating important edu-cational
items."
In other matters, the
Board accepted with regrets
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Lynbrook School Board Report
The Lynbrook Board of
Education met at the Atlan-tic
Avenue Board Room on
Wednesday, March 14 at 8
pm.
S u p e r i n t e n d e n t Bern
Seiderman reported on the
possibilities of an expanded
or all day kindergarten pro-gram.
He also
asked that all resident tax-payers
remember to enter
code #357 on their New
York State income tax
returns so that Lynbrook
will qualify for whatever aid
is available through consid-eration
of income. He read
the report on the school
lunch advisory committee
and congratulated all of the
Regents scholarship winners
at Lynbrook High School.
The Board concluded the
following personnel mat-ters;
it accepted with regret
the resignations of Michael
Barston, physical education
teacher for the past 29 years,
a n d Freda BennetUrt
teacher of 18 years. The
Board wished both best
wishes for health and happi-ness
in the days and years to
come. It also granted leaves
of absence to Marie Becker,
elementary school teacher.
Nominations Open
for Candidates
Donna Smith, elementary
school teacher, Richard
Fehringer, industrial arts
t e a c h e r , and Roberta
Kaufman, music teacher in
t h e Lynbrook Public
S c h o o l s . The Board
appointed Kathy Fox as
long-term substitute ele-mentary
school teacher,
replacing Maria Becker; and
Raymond Howell a long-term
substitute teacher of
English, replacing Bernard
Haag.
Mr. Breakwell, director of
Music for Lynbrook Public
Schools, provided the fol-
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As Spring approaches, a
public-spirited resident's
thoughts may turn to con-sidering
running for a seat
on the Board of Education
of the East Rockaway
Union Free School District.
Three open seats on the
East Rockaway Board of
Education will be filled by
election on Tuesdav, June
r2, 1984.
One seat was left vacant
by the resignation of Rose
Marie Brande as of Febru-ary
1, 1984. The remaining
two seats are currently held
by Dolores Maggio (who
will be leaving the district)
and by A1 Kachinoski (who
has chosen not to seek a
second term).
The New York State
School Boards Association,
in their publication. Do You
Want to be a School Board
Member? states: ;"The local
board of education is a uni-quely
American institution
that has made the public
schools flexible and respon-sive
to the needs of the local
Communities, keeping them
relatively free from the sti-fling
effects of bureaucracy.
The school board represents
a continuing commitment to
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CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ELECTS. Mayor William
P. Geier administers the oath of office to Gisela Geise as
President of the Lynbrook Chamber of Commerce for 1984.
The swearing in took place at the Annual General Meeting
of the Chamber which was held at the Elks Club on the
evening of March 13th. Mayor Geier was guest speaker.
(Photo By John Cribbin).