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VOL. 35 NO. 48 Wednesday, December 7, 1988 35c PER COPY
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Santa Arrives bi Lynbrook
SANTA CLAUS arrives in Lynbrook on the Taily-Ho lire
truck: to tiie d e l i s t of the Lynbrotrik children.
VILLAGE TRUSTEE Steve Grogan welcomes Santa to
Lynbrooii as Chamber of Commerce President Lester Forest
looiis on.
SANTA'S HELPERS. At the Lynbrook Theatre where all
the children saw a free movie Santa is shown here with
his helpers. From bottom, left to right. Trustee Dominic
DeCarlo, Trustee Steve Grogan, Lester Forest Chamber
President and Trustee Eugene Natale. Second row, left to
right, Harold Reese, Chamber Director, Santa, Annette
Ling, Executive Secretary of Chamber of Commerce, and
Karen Weiner, Mrs. Ling's godchild, and Joseph LaRocca
Chamber Director. Top row is Jason Ling and Murray
Levitt, Chamber Director. (Photo by John Gribbin).
On Saturday, November
26, Santa Glaus arrived in
Lynbrook USA at the Earle
Avenue parking field on the
Tally-Ho fire engine compli-ments
of the Chamber of
Commerce and the Village
of Lynbrook. this is the 30th
year that the Lynbrook
Chamber of Commerce and
the Village have brought
Santa all the way from the
North Poll to greet the
children of Lynbrook USA.
Special thanks goes to that
jovial Fred Barsch of the
Elks Club.
Lynbrook To Repair Streets
by Annette Ling
At the Lynbrook Board of
Trustees Meeting held at
Village Hall, Monday,
November 21, 1988, Deputy
Mayor Norman Dreyer
reported on the results of the
Village survey sent to resi-dents.
A total of 8,000 ques-tionaires
asking about the
major priorities facing the
Village government were
sent and a total of 683
answers were received with
the number one answer:
repair of the Lynbrook
Library and number two: the
repair of Village streets.
Mayor Geier reported that
the Village had already met
with the Library Board, and
intended to repair the Vil-lage
streets which were the
"worst" according to the
Viil^e Engineers, Cameron
Engineering. Ken Prit-chard
from Cameron Engi-neering
passed out a map
designating the worst three
areas of streets badly in need
of repair which were referred
to as Area-A, Area 2-A and
Area 3-A. Area A-1 includes
parts of Hawthorne Street,
Stevenson Street, Whittier
Street, Lowell Court and
Holmes Place and Byron
Street. Area 1-B, contains
portions of Bristol Street,
Driving Park, Ruth Place,
Lawrence Avenue, Water-view
Place, Allen Street and
Buckingham Place. Area 1-
C includes parts of West-minster
Road, Surrey Com-mons,
Tottenham Road,
Canterbury Gate, and
Reyam Road. Pritchard
stated that these designated
roads would be repaired in
year one of a fifteen year
project in the Village. He
also explained that the
repairs would not be a
"Cadillac Job" and would
focus on stresses in the road,
severe "alligator" cracking
and joint problems and
would not repair sidewalks,
curbs, and he made the
suggestion that residents in
the designated areas repair
their own sidewalks and
curbs before the actual
Village-wide Area One
repairs begin. The first part
of the work will be covered
by an $875,000 bond. The
Village Board approved the
Bond Issue in an unanmous
motion. The estimated time
to cover all of these areas is
15 years with the costs at
about $875,000 each year.
Mayor Geier officially
administered the oath of
office to Carol Hansen as
Village Treasurer, stating
that he did so "with great
pleasure."
Lion Jerry Sanetti, repres-enting
the Lynbrook-East
Rockaway Lion's Club Pres-ident
Edward Nasierowski,
presented Police Officer
Fred Fusswinkle with a
symbolic frame. The Lions
have donated 225 frames for
the certificates presented to
the children who participate
in the "Pride Program."
Pastor Thomas Sinnott
from Our Lady of Peace
Church commended the
work of the Police Depart-ment's
Drug Prevention
Program.
Maijorie Johnson of the
Lutheran Aid Association
made a presentation of spe-cial
calendars to Mayor
Geier, Officer Fusswinkle
and two cub scouts, Robert
Hortpn and Richard Nei-decker.
The association has
already donated the
McGruff suit used by Officer
Fred Fusswinkle in his work
with school children.
Christopher Tranquellino
of Lynbrook was presented
with a check in the amount
of $5,711.11 as the recipient
of the 1988 Lynbrook Week
Fundraiser. Chris is in a
wheel chair and the funds
will be used to facilitate his
recovery at home.
A public hearing was held
on a request for special
exception for property at
213 Hempstead Avenue,
Lynbrook with attorney
Dominick Minerva repres-enting
the owners. Dr. Mark
Berg, presently on Scanton
Avenue, Lynbrook, would
like to convert the residential
home into a professional
suite of offices and rent the
upstairs i)ortion to a tenant.
TTie Zoning Code of Lyn-brook
prohibits the profes-sional
office use in a home
unless the doctor is living on
the premises. A special
exception was requested to
construct a 900 foot exten-sion
to the fust floor for
addional office space. The
parcel has an irregular shape
and a depth of 129.85 ft. The
plan is to landscape the rear
of the property to be used
as a paved parking area. The
addition will be made to the
rear of the house. On-site
parking will be maintained
with a 6 ft. stockade fence
and shrubbery and will
include nine parking spaces
in the rear area. Mayor Geier
noted that the Nassau
County Planning commis-sion
had denied the applica-tion
for the proposed dental
office as "overintensifica-tion"
of land use which
would alter the residential
existing character of the
neighborhood and "have a
Lynbrook Village Survey Results
AREA OF CONCERN 1 2 3 4 5 6
Road Improvement 324 288 • 197 103 59 45
Library Renovation 489 144 130 85 69 104
Business Revitalization 89 156 146 198 154 211
Street Lighting 106 204 216 208 134 105
Greis Park 38 83 109 155 243 304
Beautification 40 84 140 157 212 306
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by Mildred Roemer
Gifts From The Sea
A number of years ago the
late John Swane called and
asked if the Grist Mill
Museum could use a "small"
eel spear. Of course the
answer was "yes", so he
brought in a twenty foot
spear! It is now hanging in
the Bay exhibit of the
Museum. These long spears
are used for winter spearing"
when the creatures feel snug
and safe at the bottom of the
sea.
Last fall a resident of Bay
Park scooped up some hor-seshoe
crab shells from Tix-tin
Creek for the museum.
These were only inches long
so were placed in an exhi-bition
case. Horseshoe crabs
are one of a few living
creatures still with us from
ancient times.
A few weeks ago a call
came from a young lady,
Karen Klein of Waterview
Street. Karen lives in the
vicinity of Bay Park where
many baymen and fisher-man
live. She said that she
was passing an old house
that was being cleared out
and had spotted what she
believed to be an eel trap that
was being thrown out. She
asked if the museum could
use it. As usual the reply was
in the affirmative.
Last week a knock on ye
historian's door revealed five
foot plus Karin holding a six
foot" five woven straw sort of
trap! One observer said that
it looked like a straw zep-pelin.
Ye historian always
with history in mind, sug-gested
it could have been a
sort of basic mummy case
for an Egyptianbut couldn't
be an eel trap!
Perhaps the mystery will
not be solved until the spring
when the museum opens and
the "Old Salt" will exclaim,
"Why that's to catch fish, v'
see this was put down in
"hallow water and the fish
swam in, then there is an
opening for the fisherman to
get them out later."
Maybe out. Perhaps a
photographer can be urged
to take a picture of it for the
Observer!
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