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VOL. 35 NO. 24 Wednesday, June 22,1988 35c PER COPY
"Phantoms" A Success
HUCKLEBERRY FROLIC. Nassau County
Executive Thomas S. Gulotta, (fourth from right),
attended the annual Huckleberry Frolic and
Parade which was held at the Village of East
Rockaway's Memorial Park. County Executive
Gulotta presented a County of Nassau Proclama-tion,
in recognition the 300th anniversary of the
Old Gristmill Museum. Joining the County Execu-tive
Gulotta, left to right: Assemblyman Gregory
Becker; State Senator Dean Skelos; Ted Reinhard,
Chairman of the Frolic; East Rockaway Village
Mayor Irving Shaw; Mildred Roemer, who was
honored as Frolic Chairman for 20 years; U.S.
Congressman Norman F. Lent of East Rockaway;
Hempstead Town Councilman Patrick Zagarino;
George McDougla, Master of Ceremonies, (More
photos inside).
Lynbrook Village Board Report
by Annette Ling
New Lynbrook Trustee
Eugene Natale, former Act-ing
Village Justice of Lyn-brook
took his seat at the
Board of Trustees Meeting
held at Village Hall on
Monday, June 13, 1988 at 8
p.m.
The Board polled and
gave approval for the lowest
bid submitted for the recon-struction
of Stauderman
Avenue in the amount of
$88,785, which was awarded
to A.T. Asphalt Co. Mayor
Geier announced that the
original New York Sta'te
Chips Grant of $90,000 allo-cated
for Stauderman Ave.
would now be used to pro-ceed
with the rewiring of
Sunrise Highway on the
north side between Penin-sula
Blvd. and Horton
Avenue. This side was
selected because it is a grassy
area and less expensive to
dig up. The village will float
a Bond of $40,000 to help
defray the costs along with
the surplus from the $90,000
Chips grant and the project
calls for eventually rewiring
the entire area of Sunrise
Highway to get the needed
lighting. Bids on the project
will be accepted on July
27th, and a contract
awarded on August 1.
The Mayor issued a Proc-lamation
June 12th to June
19th as Lynbrook Flag
Week and June 14th as Lyn-brook
Flag Day and men- .r
tioned that the Lynbrook
Elks had invited the com-munity
and all organiza-tions
to join them in their
Flag Day celebration at the
Elks lodge.
Mayor Geier announced
that an extra New York
State Grant for the Senior
Mini-Bus of $2500 had been
received through the efforts
of Senator Dean Skelos and
would be added to the pre-vious
last year's grant which
should be enough to cover
the cost of the much-needed
mini-bus.
Janet Louise Campbell
reported that the Lynbrook
H i s t o r i c a l Committee
would use the grant they
received for adding another
historical marker in the vil-lage.
She explained that the
committee hopes to eventu-ally
have enough markers to
form a regular "Walk"
throughout the village.
The representative of the
N . Y . P u b l i c I n t e r e st
Research Group was granted
permission for the group's
representatives to canvass
and solicit throughout the
village for the next two and
half months. They must
wear identifying badges, reg-ister
with the Lynbrook
Police and follow all the
procedures, however.
Lynbrook's Insurance
Consultant Peter McSherry
reported that the insurance
premiums for Lynbrook in
municipal liability insurance
will come in about $30,000
lower than in 1987. He
explained, "The insurance
market has softened and the
decrease is explained because
the insurance companies
hate "frequency of claims."
The safety programs insti-tuted
by the village has made
claims go down.
The total coverage in
premiums is now $299,025
and in 1987 it was a total of
$3332,333.
The Lynbrook Fire
Department was given per-mission
to attend the 116th
New York State Convention
in Utica and to bring along
some units from the de-partment
and to visit the
Firemen's Home in Hudson,
N.Y.
The Board received one
bid for 8 Bell Fire Breathing
Apparatus units from South
Shore Fire Safety Equip-ment
and was studied and
then turned over to the Fire
Dept. for further evaluation.
A change in the village
assessment roll was approved
on a two-family home that
was previously listed as one-family
and the increased
valuation set $900.
Next on the Agenda was a
Public Hearing on changing
the Local Law pertaining to
electrical standards. In this
alteration which is designed
to keep watch on illegal con-version
of one-family to
two-family homes it will
require the on-site verifica-tion
of occupancy upon the
installation of a second
meter or raising the voltage
to 200 amps (suggested by
the Electrical Examiners of
the village). The fee was set
at $10 for the Electrical
Permit and the Village
Inspection later. The Village
under this change in the
Local Law now has the right
of entry to prevent two fam-ily
houses that are in viola-tion
of the zoning.
The date of July 11, 1988
was set for a Public Hearing
on the property at 639 Mer-rick
Road. The owners are
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On the warm June even-ing
of Saturday, June 11,
1988, an even warmer, super
responsive audience of 443
came to see "Phantoms of
the Grist Mill" in the Harry
Bunting auditorium at East
Rockaway High School. In
brief pre-curtain ceremo-nies,
East Rockaway High
School Alumni Association
President Richard J.
Meagher announced that
the performance was being
dedicated to Mrs. Mildred
Roemer, and Association
Treasurer Elaine Boll pres-ented
Mrs. Roemer with a
dozen long-stem roses.
A standing ovation fol-lowed
the grand finale as the
entire cast of 30 sang "The
Best of Times is Now." The
same warmth had greeted
number after number as the
Alumni Association's two-act
musical tribute to the
300th Anniversary of the
Grist Mill unfolded.
The plot of "Phantoms of
the Grist Mill" centered on a
modern-day threat to the
future existence of the Grist
Mill as we know it, and how
the "phantoms" from our
past save the day by "freez-ing"
the villagers and-having
them experience a vaguely
historical "dream" of the
past to make them appre-ciate
their heritage.
The case included: Dave
Abut, Kathy Agruso, Nancy
Barry, Elaine Boll, Colleen
Brennan, John Brennan,
Richie Brennan, Tommy
Brennan, Ed Carey, Charles
Carre, Paula DePietro,
Andy Ferrettti, Elaine
Fuller, Babe Janes, Janette
Jonassen, Sharon Keane,
Genie Kubat, Gail Menagher,
Richard Meagher, Kitty
N o o n , Marilyn Piatt,
Umberto Postiglione, Jan-ice
Sanders, Sandra Tor-borg,
Steve Torborg, Susan
Benefit Game Scheduled
New York City Police
Officer Steven McDonald of
Malverne will be on hand at
the Lynbrook Week benefit
Softball games for Chris-topher
Tranquellino which
will be held on Friday even-ing
June 24th at Gr eis Park,
Lynbrook. The double-header
which pits the Lyn-brook
Mayor's All-Stars
against the Valley Streams
Mayor's All-Stars in the first
game at 7 PM followed by
the Jim Jenson CBS-TV All-
Stars against County Sports
at approximately 9PM.
Police Officer McDonald,
confined to a wheelchair
after being shot by an assai-lants
bullet will be at the
game to show his support
for Chris who was injured in
an automobile accident last
year. Chris, who is also in a
wheelchair, is paralyzed
from the waist down.
Money raised the evening of
the games through dona-tions
received and by the
sale of food will be given to
Chris and his family to help
pay some of the mounting
medical expenses and possi-bly
purchase a chair lift for
the house.
Trustee Steve Grogan,
Co-Chairman of the Lyn-brook
Week festivities urges
all our residents to come
down to Greis Park on the
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Torborg, Bob Vito, Sue
Vito, Joe Vito, and Morgan
Williams.
The Lighting/Stage Crew
consisted of: Tim Connolly,
Bob Decker, John Meagher,
Richard Meagher, Kevin
Pritchard, and Jonathan
Summers.
The Director of "Phan-toms
of the Grist Mill" was
Sharon Keane, assisted by
Elaine Fuller. Choreo-graphers
were Elaine Fuller
and Nancy Barry. Connie
Meleady was the accompa-nist.
Props and Back-Drop
were prepared by John
Brennan, Tom Brennan,
Andy and Carol Ferretti.
The Program and Posters
were prepared by Colleen
and John Brennan. Lillian
Chmiel served as Costume
C o n s u l t a n t , and Jane
Brezenoff as Ticket Coordi-nator,
assisted by Marion
Cooney and Gail Meagher.
John Brennan and Terry
Clifford handled publicity,
and John Brennan served as
Over-all Chairman.
Now Pastor
At St. James
The Bishop of the N.Y.
Annual Conference, C.D.
White, is pleased to
announce the appointment
of Rev. Dr. Wayne H. Smith
as pastor of the St. James
United Methodist Church of
Lynbrook, New York. Dr.
Smith has been the pastor of
the Cornwall United Meth-odist
Church, Cornwall,
New York, since 1980. He
has previously served
churches in New Jersey and
Connecticut.
Dr. Smith was born in
Bridgeport, Connecticut
and received his Bachelor of
Arts from Southern Metho-dist
University, Dallas,
Texas. The new Lynbrook
pastor has a Masters of Div-inity
and Doctor of Ministry
degree from Drew Theolog-ical
Seminary in Madison,
New Jersey.
Dr. Smith has worked
with Billy Graham at the
Boston, Ma. crusade and
has a t t e n d e d Robert
Schuller's School for Suc-cessful
Pastors. He is mar-ried
to Beverly Smith, for-merly
of New Jersey, and
they ha,ve two young child-ren,
r.uthan and Peter.
The r hs plan to move to
Lynb >k July 1, but Dr.
Smitl :'l preach June 26 at
10:00 fi. at the morning
Wors (p Service at St.
Janu 1 he and his family
will be V. jlcomed at a church
picnic.