Observer_1984-08-01; East Rockaway/Lynbrook Observer

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VOL. 32 NO. 37 Wednesday, August 1,1984 25c PER COPY
Citizens Advisory Committee
To Investigate Shortfall
A FLAG FOR THE PRESIDENT. While his mother and
stepfather Nellda and Wright Donnelly of Oceanside look
on, Dr. James Morrissey presented President Reagan with
an American flag flown at the top of Mt. Everest last year.
The June edition of National Geographic magazine featured
the story of Dr. Morrissey who led a team of ten Americans
to become the first ever to successfully climb the east side of
Mt. Everest, the world's highest peak. Rep. Norman F. Lent
arranged the White House meeting wjth the President. From
left to right are Vice President George Bush, Rep. Lent,
Nellda Donnelly, President Reagan, Dr. Morrissey, and
Wright Donnelly. Mrs, Donnelly is the owner of a reaiestate
firm in East Rockaway.
Ted Kell, tormcrly of East
Rockaway but now sharing
his time with Florida (that
state being overpopulated
with East Rockawayites)
had a long career with the
New York Herald Tribune
as a statT photographer.
When that fine paper folded,
he continued his work with
the Town of Hempstead
until his recent retirement.
The Museum feels privi-leged
to be able to show
some of his famous photos.
They are being included
with the camera display that
Attention
Lynbrook
Residents
As of August 1st new
commuter and overnight
parking permits are required
for parking in village park-ing
lots.
rhese parking permits
can be obtained from the
Village Clerk's office at Vil-lage
Hall, daily between the
hours of 8 am" and 4 PM.
Those requesting addi-tional
parking infomiation
niav call the Clerk's office at
599-8300.
Photos
On Display
bv Mildred Roemer
is being held over for
another month. One can
recogni/e Wally Simpson
(smiling with her Prince of
Wales), General Douglas
MacArthur, India's Nehru,
New York Governor A1
Smith with the vivacious
Mayor LaGuardia. and
many other celebrities who
faced Kell's cameras.
Though the June Huckle-berry
Frolic may seem far
away, the financial results
from all of those who
worked so faithfully will
soon be apparent when
painters will start scraping,
repairing, and painting the
old 1688 building. At' her
advanced age she is much in
need of a facelift. When the
building was first moved to
the park, help was needed
and was received from
organizations in the Village.
The K I W A N I S Club
donated several ol the show
cases and the LIONS Club
financed the blacksmith
shop display. Today's
youngsters, and adults too,
have been able to learn
about and respect the loy-alty
of the people in the Vil-lage
who have made the
museum a reality and incid-entally,
to save the taxpay-ers
money by the "do-it-themselvcs"
program-our
FROLIC.
East Rockaway Board of
E d u c a t i o n President
Richard Meagher has dis-closed
that the Board will
appoint a Citizens Advisory
Committee to investigate
the causes of the financial
shortfall that the District is
experiencing.
Meagher stated that
"Although a budget is a plan
made up of estimated fig-ures,
it is unusual for an
estimate prepared by admin-istration
to be so far off.
Now that corrective matters
St. Raymond's
Jubilee Year
rickets are now available
lor the October 5th drawing
of the "300" Club. Tickets
are $100.00 each and only
300 will be printed. First
prize is $10,000. Anyone
interested in buying one is
asked to call Kathy Rooney
at . 599-0457; Mike and
Dorothy Bock 599-8264 or
Barbara G r i b b o n at
599-5628.
Pledges and Plaque Pro-gram
will continue during
the summer months. Send
your pladge forms to the
Rectory or mail to St. Ray-mond's
Jubilee, P.O. Box
39, East Rockawav, N.Y.
115128.
A 5K race will be run
through the streets of East
Rockaway on Sunday
morning. October 14th.
There will be shirts and tro-phies
for 7 age categories,
male and female. Applica-tions
are now open and will
be accepted during the
summer months.
have been taken," (the
Board's action to raise
$89,200) "a calm and careful
review of the cause of the
problem will be undertaken
as one of the charges given a
Citizens advisory Commit-tee
on the Budget which will
be formed in August."
The Board has taken as
number ofsteps to offset the
$90,000 shortfall. In addi-tion
to raising the amount to
be collected through prop-erty
taxes, the Board has.
On the expenditure side
also approved a total of
$106,484 in budget transfers
within the voter-approved
total of $8,398,045. Acting
on all but one of a series of
line item reductions recom-mended
by Superintendent
Michael Maiden, the Board
then approved the transfer
of the $106,484 thus
obtained to various other'
lines, with the major amount
of $88,784 moving to the
emergency repair line to
help covet the costs of the oil
spill clean-up.
One budgetary problem
remaining for resolution in
August if the payment of
$23,545.91 for 1983-1984
Social Security expenses in
1984-1985, thereby adding a
new unbudgeted expense to
be contended with. "We are
Concert Planned
For Memorial Park
by Carol Monaco
Tempo's East Rockaway
Youth Service Center is
presenting their second con-cert
Wednesday, August
15th, in Memorial Park.
The "2nd Summer Cele-bration
Concert '84' will in
lude bands performing
music for youths and adults.
According to the center's
project director, Herman
Goldstein, the concert is for
community spirit. The
youth center, located on
Atlantic Avenue, has been
involving young people and
adults in worthwhile com-munity
projects for the past
few years.
The center along with
CARER, a community
organization, started the
concert in Memorial Park
last year when they helped
raise money for the Joseph
Crawford Schlarship fund.
The center and CARER also
have been working together
to help raise the communis
ty's awareness about drug
and alcohol abuse.
The center is not fundrais-ing
during this summer's
concert which begins at 7
p.m., but "it will allow
youths and adults to work
side by side and it will show
that people can have fun free
of drugs and alcohol," Gold-stein
said.
investigating several poten-tial
resolutions to this prob-lem,"
said Meagher, "and we
hope to act on one of them in
August." Meagher added
that the cause of this prob-lem
would also be investi-gated
"calmly and carefully"
after it has been resolved.
Even more importantly,
the collective bargaining
process is still going on
between the district and the
various unions representing
its employees. As the Board
of Education explained in
the budget newsletter and at
the budget hearing the costs
of collective bargaining set-tlements
can result in an
increase in the total 1984-
1985 budget thereby also
affecting the tax rate.
"Perhaps the greatest
budgetary problem facing
the East Rockaway School
District in the coming year,"
said Meagher, "is the loss of
flexibility to deal with the
unexpected. The reduction
in 'Use from Balance,' the
absence of any significant
'Undesignated Balance,' the
high estimates of the oil spill
clean- up costs and the
Social Security payments
problem have all combined
to reduce our flexibility at
the very beginning of a fiscal
year,"
RESERVE THIS DATE!
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The East Rockaway Cul-tural
Arts Council will hold
its Annual Arts and Crafts
Fair on Saturday, August 25
from 10 am to 4 pm in
Memorial Park, East
Rockaway.
Music will be provided
Irom 2 pm to 4 pm by Walter
Leege and his Dixiecrat
Band.
A special presentation
will be made to the East
Rockaway Fire Department.
Don't miss this great eveitt.
COMMUNITY SERVICE AWARD. Hempstead Presid-ing
Supervisor Thomas S. Gulotta (left) presented the Town
of Hempstead's Award for Community Service and Aca-demic
Excellence to Karen Serpico at the SOCES Rosemary
Kennedy Center. Shown (from left to iight) are: Supervisor
Gulotta, Karen, Ralph and Jo Ann Serpico of East
Rockaway.