The-Helm_1965-12-16; Lynbrook Helm Independent Review

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H.E.R. L.I.F.E,: Last Sunday Lynbrook.and East Rockaway service
clubs, civic and fraternal organizations held a cocktail party at
the Lynbrook Elk's Clubhouse to raise money for little Winifred
Kennedy, who has had to journey to Canada for special heart sur-gery
and will undergo additional operations in the near future.
"Little Yank", as she is called, is shown picking one of the win-ning
numbers from the drum as (left to right) Mayor Charles M.
Krull of East Rockaway; George Perry, President of the East
Rockaway Kiwanis Club; Frank Nulty, Past Grand Knight of the
K. : of C.; and Mayor George Mangravite o f Lynbrook look on.
Winners of the Color TV sets were Mrs. John Settele of East
Rockaway and Miss Dee Holler of Lynbrook. Close to $2,500 was
raised to help defray expenses for the costly surgery.
Torch Run
For the first time on Amer-ican
soil, a re-enactment of a
tradition of the Jewish people that
is over 2,000 years old, will take
place in Nassau County on Sat-urday
evening, December 18th at
7 P.M., in an historic five mile
torch rua connecting Synagogues
on the night of the firs: candle
of tha Feast of Lights, Chanukah.
Torches will be carried five
miles from Oceanside to Lyn-brook
where at Congregation Beth
David, the first candle of a gi-gantic
Menorah on the roof of
the Congregation will be lit by
one oif the torch carriers, Steven
Powitz, a member of the Congre-gatix)
n and ^ student at Yeshiva
University.
Police motorcades of Ocean-side,
Rockville Centre and Lyn-brook
will accompany the runners
on this historic occasion which
re-enacts the spreading of the
Light of Freedom from the Ma-ccabean
stronghold of Modin th-roughout
all of Israel.
The Maccabeia, the Internat-ional
Olympics of Jewish Athle-tes
which takes place in Israel
begins with just such a torch
run. This was the inspiration for
the event in Nassau, to show tha
unity of the various Synagogues
who are ever faithful to their
tradition of standing up and being
counted when ^ha rights and lib-erties
of any group are threa-tened.
Last week the Lynbrook Chapter of the American Field Service
held a panel discussion at Lynbrook High School between Amer-ican
and Foreign Exchange Students. Emblems were presented
to all members of the Junior Group of the American Field Service.
Pictured above (left to right) are Use Coeletto, a Brazilian Ex-change
Student; Peter Murray, President of the Student Chapter
of AFS; Henry Simmons, President of the Adult Chapter and Jane
Brieff, Use's American sister.
ERHS Musical
The East Rockaway High Sc-hool
Music Department will pre-sent
the annual Christmas Pro-gram
December 21, at 8:30 P.M.
The Junior and Senior Bands
under the direction of Mr. John
Pellicane will continue the tra-dition
of providing select music
appropriate to the holiday sea-son.
The High School Chorus has
prepared a program of special
.interest. It is an attempt to
show, through readings and ap-propriate
music, that this season
is a joyous one because of the
impact of the two great reli-gions,
the Jewish and the Christ-ian.
The final music to be per-formed
is the Cantique de Noel
with the solo part performed by
Kenneth Roemer of the Class
of '62. He is active at present
in the music department of Har-vard
University. All former
graduate members of the East
Rockaway Chorus will join the
present group for this final tri-bute
to the season.
The program is open to the
public, free of charge.
ATLASIA P.O.
The Post Office Department is seeking competitive bids to
build and lease a new post office building for Lynbrook, the Post-master
General has announced. .
The purpose of competitive bidding is to encourage the most
attractive and economical offer to the Government and to achieve
the best possible postal service at the least possible cost.
Under the Department's Lease Construction Program, the op-tion
to purchase the site will be assigned to the successful bidder,
who will purchase the property, construct the building according
to departmental specifications and lease it to the Post Office De-partment
for a basic period of twenty years with six separate and
consecutive five-year renewal options.
The Department's capital investment will be limited substan-tially
to postal equipment. The building will remain under private
ownership, with the owner paying local real estate taxes.
bidding documents are now available at the Main Post Office
in New York City, where the Real Estate Officer will supply bid-ding
forms, building specifications, lease provisions and other
information. Bids must be submitted to the Real Estate Officer
by February 1, 1966.
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VILLAGE TAKES OVER LIBRARY: On Monday night, December
6th, ceremonies were held at the East Rockaway Village Hall, in
which the deed to the library was officially turned over to the
Village. Lyman Davison, the last remaining trustee of the original
Baisley Free Library, gave a history of the library from its in-ception;
Raymond Gallo, Library Director, told of plans for the
expansion of the library; James Clair, Village Attorney, spoke on
the extensive legal entanglements regarding the transfer, and
Mayor Krull and Trustee Edward Lerner gave short acceptance
speeches. Pictured above (left to right) are Lyman Davison, Ray-mond
Gallo, Trustee Lerner, Jamos Clair and Mayor Charles Krull.