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VOL. 34 NO. 37 Wednesday, September 23,1987 30i PER COPY
Visiting The Lady
THEY'RE ON THEIR
WAV. Cultural Arts Coun-cil
Chairman Emma Tolm-ach
(center) displays a Lib-erty
Centennial flag with
East Rockaway Deputy
Mayor Anthony Santino
while, from left to right,
Trustee Charles Formont,
Ethel Brenner of the Cultu-ral
Arts Council, and Mayor
Irving Shaw look on.
POSING IN BETWEEN
THE RAINDROPS. The
group admires the Statue of
On Sunday, September
13, almost filty hardy souls
f r om East Rockaway braved
the wind and the rain lor a
bus trip to the Statue ol Lib-erty.
Last year. East Rock-away
won fame lor its
elTorts to raise funds for the
rehabilitation of the Statue
in time for its lOOth birthday
on July 4, 1986.
While on Liberty Island.
Liberty from her base on
Liberty Island.
the East Rockawayites had a
chance to view their Vil-lage's
name on a plaque
honoring those people who
contributed to the restora-tion
project.
Despite the weather, all
agreed that the trip was one
of the best ever sponsored by
the Cultural Arts Council of
East Rockaway.
Rev. Midtyling To Be Installed
by Irma Kaempf
On October 11th the
Reverend Ralph Midtlyng
will officially become the 8th
spiritual leader in the 75-
year history of St. John's
Lutheran Church, Lyn-brook
when he is formally
installed by the Reverend
Carl Weaver (Dean of the
District) at the Service of
Installation beginning at
4:00PM. It is expected that
clergy from all the local
churches and temples will be
joining in the Procession
and the Reverend Michael
Dickson will preach the
sermon.
The Reverend Midtlyng
has worn many "hats," hav-ing
served as a therapy
coordinator for the Kings-bridge
Boys Group Home in
the pronx, in New York
S t a t e ' s Department of
Social Services and, most
recently, working in a team
ministry at Lutheran
Church of the Epiphany in
Hempstead. It was while he
was in social work that Pas-tor
Midtlyng said "the desire
for the ministry was always
there so finally I just said
"I'll do it!" All are most
warmly invited to attend the
Installation and to share in
this important event in the
life of St. John's and the
community at large.
Oceanside Landfill To Close
Hempstead Town Presid-ing
Supervisor Joseph N.
Mondello, along with
Councilman Martin B.
Bernstein, have announed
that the Hempstead Town
Board has adopted a resolu-tion
which will close the
town's Oceanside Landfill to
household waste by spring
198&i The board authorized
Presiding Supervisor Mon-dello
to sign a consent order
with the New York State
Department of Environ-m
e n t a l C o n s e r v a t i on
(DEC), which paves the way
for the way for the landfill's
final closure.
"This marks the begin-ning
if the end for the
Oceanside landfill," said
Supervisor Mondello. "The
development of a firm
timetable for the closure of
the landfill clearly demon-strates
the town's commit-ment
to preserve the unpa-ralled
quality of life
enjoyed by our residents."
Presiding Supervisor
Mondello noted, "In accor-dance
with the agreement
recently negotiated with the
DEC, the town will discon-tinue
the dumping of house-hold
waste at the Oceanside
facility within one month of
the construction of a new
Village Board Report
by Annette Ling
The Lynbrpok Board of
Trustees Meeting held on
Monday, September 14,
1987,8 p.m. at Village Hall
was highlighted by three
major items on the agenda.
The most interesting
item was the Public Hear-ing
on a Special Exception
requested by the owner of
the property at 11 Atlantic
Avenue, the site of the
closed Studio One Thea-tre.
Attorney Dominick
Minerva represented the
applicant and noted that
he had been unable to
bring along the engineer
originally slated to appear
because the gentleman had
passed away over the wee-kend.
The property was
purchased for $405,000
and comprises a total of
9,672 square feet which,
includes two stores on
Atlantic Avenue, one
vacant and one rented by
Arnee Department Stores,
Inc. There is at present
parking for 5 cars and if the
conversion of the space is
approved for retail opera-tions,
would require at
least 26 parking spaces.
Attorney Minerva pres-e
n t e d the a p p l i c a n t 's
income tax returns for
1986 and a portion of 1987
and noted that he was pay-ing
$15,000 in real estate
taxes with only one of the
stores occupied and that he
had been unable to interest
any theatre chain or other
operators in renting the
theatre space. His proposal
was to convert the existing
theatre area into approxi-mately
4 retail stores with
the same entrance in the
front and one door for
egress on the Broadway
side. His total presentation
was that the purchase of
the property had resulted
in financial loss to the
owner and that it was a
"hardship case." It was
also reported in the testi-mony
that they wished to
retain the present theatre
marquee (citing historical
reasons), and to lower the
interior ceiling to a sort of
standard store level.
Mayor Geier asked Mr.
Minerva the number of
^Stores proposed for the site
and Mr. Minerva replied
that he did not know as the
"number of stores would
depend upon the market
conditions." When the
Mayor asked him about
what type of retail stores
would be built, Minerva
said he didn't know
because they did not have
any protective tenants.
Mayor Geier explained
that the Board would feel
more "comfortable" having
knowledge of the proposed
tenants, and Minerva
repeated that he did not
know who the tenants
would be. Mayor Geier
wished to know if the
applicant would be agree-ab
e to a restriction as to
the number and type of
stores to be built on the
premises if the Board
granted approval. Minerva
stated that he would "resist",
that most definitely and
that he would only consent
to the actijal Village Code
restrictions. Mayor Geier
then asked if the applicant
would agree to "reasonable
limitations" in the pro-posed
use of the building,
'to insure no tremendous
influx of traffic." Minerva
refused. Trustee Dreyer
noted that the application
was for one store and
Minerva replied that it
should have stated "retail
use." Their plans call for
one door for egress on
Broadway. Minerva stated
that no traffic study has
been made due to the death
of the engineer. The owner
of Arnee Dept. Stores,
who is also the Chairman
of the Merchants' Com-mittee
of the Lynbrook
Chamber of Commerce,
stated that he felt the plans
were too vague and said
that he would not encour-age
any moves until the
entire concept was presented
and also stated, "I respect-fully
hope that the Board
will withhold their judge-ment."
The Board reserved
decision.
Cameron Engineering,
Lynbrook Village Engi-neers,
with coded-colOred
street maps of Lynbrook,
made a presentation about
their survey of road condi-tions
in Lynbrook. John
Cameron and Ken Prit-chard
appeared for the
firm. John Cameron ex-plained
that they have just
completed a survey of all
Lynbrook village streets
and were presenting what
Mayor Geier called an "in-frastructure
problem" and
a tentative proposal for
repairing certain village
streets taking those most in
need of work first.
Cameron explained that
their presentation was a
preliminary finding and
study of the roads and their
evaluation. The engineers
reported that the roads in
the worst category made
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waste transfer station at the
landfill."
The town has filed a per-mit
application with the
DEC for theconstruction of
the Oceanside transfer sta-tion
and is awaiting appro-val.
The town further agreed
that construction of the
transfer facility be com-pleted
within seven months
after a permit is issued by the
DEC.
The town will continue to
accept construction , demo-lition,
and agricultural
waste, as well as clean fill,
after the dumping of house-hold
garbage has ended.
The town has also agreed
to immediately assign addi-tional
staff at the landfill, on
as needed basis, in order to
control blowing papers.
Furthermore, four perman-ent
laborers will be added to
the landfill staff for the
express purpose of improv-ing
site maintenance.
In addition, the town will
immediately begin installing
the intermediate and final
cover on the southeast
corner of the east side of the
surface landfill. This project
will be completed prior to
March 1, 1988.
Finally, the town has
agreed to install, within six
months, three new ground-water
monitoring wells to
compliment the four cur-rently
in place. A permanent
bird deterrent system will
aljso be established at the
site.
"Hempstead Town is
forging ahead in its effort to
permanently close the
Oceanside landfill," Coun-cilman
Bernstein said.
"Today's town board action
is an example of the town's
leadership position in the
a r e a of s o l i d waste
management."
COORDINATING VICTORY IN NOVEMBER. Nassau
County Executive Thomas S. Gulotta, center, confers with
Peter Hart and Maura Christ, both of East Rockaway, on
issues important to area residents. Hart and Christ are the
area coordinators for the election of Gulotta this November
3 as County Executive.