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VOL. 35 NO, 21 Wednesday, June 1,1988 35c PER COPY
A "Moving" Experience!
by James Groark
On Thursday afternoon,
May 12th, at precisely 1:45
PM, a flat bed truck carry-ing
a bungalow on its back
sauntered out of the parking
lot of the Donza Funeral
Home in East Rockaway
and onto Atlantic Avenue.
After nearly a week of prep-aration
— slipping huge I
beams under the house, dis-connecting
the water, sewer
and gas lines, and even sev-ering
the base of the fire-place,
this four-room
"honeymoon cottage" was
on its way to a new resting
place.
It crawled south along
Atlantic Avenue with the
bright sun shining on the
black asphalt shingled roof
and on the two acrobats who
said they were riggers just
doing their job. Pushing tel-ephone
and electrical wires
Beginning the Journey
up so that the ridge would
clear these lines, these men
looked like they were doing
a trapeze act for Barnum &
Bailey. When the house
approached the intersection
of Maxwell street and
Atlantic Avenue, corner of
the now defunct Criterion
Theatre, they cradled the
traffic lights in their arms,
lifting them high enough to
allow the moving cottage to
slide under. After this was
done, one of them jumped
over the ridge on the front
side of the roof to push
another traffic signal to the
side of the house — "What
an act!" — and without a
net.
Trying to beat the 5
o'clock rush hour traffic, the
house was slopped by the
aluminum arm of the blink-ing
red light in front of the
Moving slowly down Atlantic Avenue
Village's Rescue^'Squad
Building. Our two acrobats
with as much force as they
could muster lifted the end
of the arm as the hauling rig
moved ever so slowly under
the light. As the house made
the big left-hand turn in
front of Savings of Ameri-ca's
bank and found itself in
f r o n t of F o o d t o w n,
shoppers stopped in their
tracks. One housewife
wasn't so amused as she bent
down to pick up her box of
Ronzoni macaroni that had
fallen out of her brown
paper bag. Visibly upset, she
said, "O My God, I knew I
should have made that
mortgage payment on the
first of the month." She was
relieved when she realized
that her house had four win-dows
on the side, not three,
and come to think of it, her
place didn't have a little
back porch. But, it was the
same cream colored siding.
Thank God, her husband,
Pat would never believe this
one.
Now in front of Davison's
Boat Yard building, the one
bedroom house on wheels,
made a right in front of the
railroad tracks and headed
south on New Street. Wait-ing
for its new resting place
was brand new concrete
slab thaj had recently been
reinforced with piles. A
happy ending for the trip of
the honeymoon cottage.
Crime Prevention Day A Success
On Saturday, May 21,
1988 the Lynbrook Police
and Lynbrook Recreation
Departments conducted
crime prevention day at
Greis Park in Lynbrook.
Officer Fred Fusswinkel
of the Lynbrook Police
Department, and Mr.
Richard Flynn of Lynbrook
Recreation Department
planned the event with the
assistance of Mr. Chuck
Pennington, Drug and
Alcohol Awareness chair-man
of the Lynbrook Elks
and Lions Clubs, and Mrs.
Last Call For "Phantom"
NEW TRUSTEE, J U S T I C E T A K E OFFICE. At the Vil-lage
Board Meeting of May 16th, Mayor William P. Geier is
shown here giving the oath of office to new Village Trustee,
Eugene Natale, Center. Natale was appointed to fill the seat
vacated by Leo Lnning who recently retired and moved to
South Carolina. Also sworn in was Michael Coleman who
replaces Natale as Associate Village Justice. (Photo by John
Cribbin).
As the June II evening
performance of "Phantoms
of the Grist Mill" draws
closer, the mail order
method of requesting
reserved seat tickets ends as
of June 2, to be replaced by
in-person ticket sales from
II a.m. to 2 p.m. on both
Saturday, June 4 and Satur-day,
June 11 in the audito-rium
lobby of East Rocka-way
High School.
In addition, telephone
reservations for tickets will
be accepted beginning June
3 by Gail Meagher at 599-
9122. Remaining tickets will
be available for sale at the
door just prior to the 8 p.m.
performance on Saturday,
June II, 1988, in the audito-rium
lobby at East Rocka-way
High School. Commun-ity
members planning to
attend, however, are urged
to have purchased their
tickets beforehand, or at
least to have made their res-ervations
by telephone in
advance, if at all possible.
Tickets are $7.50 each
($6.00 for senior citizens, 60
and over, upon request),
with payment by check
made payable to the East
Rockaway High School
Alumni Association.
The cast of almost 30
alumni and other members
of the community are prac-ticing
up a storm for this
once-in-300-years produc-tion
that will kick off an
entire week of special anni-
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Marion Johnson of Aid
Association of Lutherans.
The Lynbrook Police
Benevolent Association,
Lynbrook Auxiliary Police,
Lynbrook Elks Club, Lyn-brook
Lions Club, St.
Mary's Council of Knights
of Columbus, Mike and
Hope Kostyra and the Vin-cent
Place Neighborhood
Watch, The Nassau County
Police Department, and
United States Customs Ser-vice
all helping to make the
program a success.
The program was extreme-ly
well attended with over
300 youngsters taking
advantage of the Lynbrook
P.B.A. sponsored Kid-Print
Fingerprinting Program.
The fingerprinting was done
by Lynbrook police detec-tives
James Curtis and
James Fleming. Over 350
children were issued Photo-
ID cards by Nassau County
Police officer Peter Lambert
who conduted the Kid-Pix
Program. The U.S. Customs
Service had two of its offic-ers
present to answer ques-tions
and demonstrate the
anti-drug policy of the fed-eral
government. Lynbrook
auxiliary officers Sgt. Dave
Penso and Aux. P.O. Cun-ningham
engraved serial
numbers on some 60 bicy-cles,
while Mr. Raymond
Johnson and Mrs. Marion
Johnson, along with several
volunteers from Aid Associ-ation
of Lutherans engraved
serial numbers on approxi-mately
40 car radios. Nassau
police officer Michael Clare
of the N.C.P.D. Mounted
Unit was in attendance
along with his horse to
answer questions and dem-onstrate
the role of the
mounted police in police
work. McGruff the crime
dog also visited several times
to give the younger children
tips on how to stay safe.
Senator Dean Skelos and
Assemblyman Gregory
Becker highlighted the pro-gram
when they presented a
$10,000 dollar check to
Lynbrook Mayor William
Geier and polic officer Fred
Fusswinkel. The check
represents the amount of a
$10,000 dollar grant for
crime prevention which
Officer' Fusswinkel applied
for under the direction of
Lynbrook Police Chief
Joseph Lauriano. The grant
money will be used to
finance equipment, training,
and materials for Lyn-brooks
crime prevention
program.
Another highlight of
crime prevention day in
L y n b r o o k was the
P.R.l.D,E..program display
demonstrating the commit-tee
of Lynbrook's fifth grade
students to develop high self
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