The-Helm_1971-05-06; Lynbrook Helm Independent Review

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LYNBROOK ArtALVERNE EAST ROCKAWAY
VOL. 10 NO. 50 Entered «• Seconal—Claa« Matter
Po«t Office, Lynbrook, N.Y. LY 3-1300 THE FAMILY NEWSPAPER Thursday, May 6, 1971 10<
Green Thumb Contest
Seeds For Lynbrook's Beautificotion Program
LYNBROOK BEAUTIFICATION 71 IS UNDER WAY: From left to r i ^ t ,
Lynbrook Mgyor Francis X, Becker, Beautification Committee ladies Dot
Hornung and Midge Korff and Marine Midland Asst. Vice President Frank
Lenhardt seem happy about the year's first project. Over 200 packets
of seeds donated by the Burpee Company were distributed to Lynbrook
residents. Their planting efforts are to be judged by the Beautification
Committee in August.
After two years of receiving
"Outstanding Achievement" a-wards
for beautification in the
national contest, Lynbrook's
Beautification Com Mittee is de-termined
to make 197.1 the year
they win a trophy. To get this
year's program under way, the
committee, wtiich Is headad by
Dot Hornung and Ann Mongelli,
arranged for a special seed
packet giveaway. They enlisted
the cooperation of the Burpee
Seed Company and the local
branch of Marine Midland (for-merly
the Community Bank).
Burpee donated hundreds of
packets of Marigolds and Zinnias
and the Bank offered its facilities
for the Beautification kickoff.
Over 200 Lynbrook residents
were given seeds to plant .d in
August the Beautificaiion Com-mittee
will be giving awards to
those who do the best job with
the seeds they received.
EAST ROCKAWAY'S REP. NORM LENT presents
flag to his old "alma mater" Cub Scout Pack 26
at Centre Avenue School, East Rockaway. Re-ceiving
flag on behalf of their fellow-members
are Christopher Blais (2nd from right) and Clinton
Ballard (right). Looking on are Mrs. Gloria Chris-tiano,
President of PTA who sponsored presenta-tion
and Asst. Scoutmaster Jonn Roberts, Acting
Cub Master.
Personalities
Wi: Annette LLnf;
Among this year's activities,
there is going to be a great rose
planting on the banks of the Long
Island Railroad sidings on Sat-urday,
May 8th, Over 500 plants
have been made available to the
Village to spruce up the areas.
New Fountains are being pro-grammed,
sweep-thrus and
clean-up campaigns are also on
the docket and a special paint-up
effort will again be made.
Mayor Becker has been lend-ing
assistance by writing to all
of the businesses in the Village
enlisting their cooperation. It
looks like another big beautifi-cation
year in Lynbrook, U.S.A.
LR. Sihool
Budget Passes
On May 4th at the Annual
meeting of the School Board the
taxpayers of the East Rockaway
School District, had the op-portunity
to accept or reject the
school budget as proposed by the
School Board and accept they
did. The Vote was 278 for the
budget as opposed to 207 against.
It is interesting to note that each
year the gap between is getting
smaller and smaller.
Also elected to the Board at
the same time was Mr, Harry
Bantii^ who received 391 votes
and Mrs. Carol Leahy who re-
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James Francis O'Toole, Of-ficer-
in-Charge at the Lynbrook
Post Office was born in Eliza-beth,
New Jersey in 1944. His
mother Elizabeth O'Toole re-sides
in Rahway, New Jersey, but
his father Edward is deceased.
He has an o l d e r brother,
Joseph living in Rahway who
works for G.M. and attends col-lege
at night, another brother
Dennis, who is in the United States
Air Force and one younger sister.
Colleen, who is a high school
student.
He attended local schools in
New Jersey, until he studied at
the high school l e v e l at the
Carmelite Seminary in Hamilton,
New Jersey. This p a r t i c u i a r
order was primarily a teaching
order, but they did observe a vow
of silence from 8:00 p.m. in the
evening until morning prayers...
After he graduated from the Sem-inary,
he attended St. Peter's
College in Jersey City,N.Jersey
from which he o b t a i n e d his
degree.
The next step in his career
was when he was employed by the
U.S. Health Service stationed in
New York City with Epidemology
as his specialty. He was next
Professional Relations man with
the Group at U,S. Public Health
Services in New York.
Following this, he was Asst.
Manager for the Public Health
Service for a number of years,
working in New York while he
commuted from New Jersey. He
met and married the beautiful
former Diane Mary Guidain 1961
in Jersey City. She is a graduate
of Jersey City State College.
During this period in his life,
he took Civil Service Exams for
U,S, Postal Services, Although
his actual home is in Washington
and he is assigned by the U.S.
Postal General, he works directly
out of their Washington head-quarters.
He is presently living
in Merrick, N,Y. until his next
assignment. He was inSan Fran-cisco
for six or seven months
prior to his assignment to Lyn-brook,
U.S.A. where he finds his
fellow personnel and co-workers
great guys and e n j o y s working
with them each day.
He is a lean, muscular 5 ft.,
10 in. in height at 145 lbs. but he
^H' f f
James F. O'Too'e
is quite fit even though he does
smoke a bit and Is trying to give
it up. He has brown hair, green
eyes, a lovely mustache, side-burns
and is a very handsome and
personable young man, who is
typical of today's new type career
men who are very much "with
i t " as they say and has a keen
Irish wit and sense of humor.
His hobbies are sailing, reading,
tennis and music when he can
find the time.
His most memorable life ex-periences
are yet to come as he
is still quite young in actual age,
and still he has managed to crowd
quite a bit into his active life so
far, he loves Lynbrook, U,S,A,
His favorite color is actually
a neat brown, which makes him
quite a rarity among the gentle-men
I have interviewed and in-dicates
a brilliant and highly in-dividual
personality.
He loves his wife's cooking of
all epicurean fine Italian dishes
at which she excells and this
writer found him to be a delight-ful,
interesting young man with
loads of charm and the intel-ligence
and good training and to
bring out the best in him each
and every day. It was a rare
privilege to meet and interview
such a great person as James F,
O'Toole and may God always
smile on him.
Beautification Help Wanted
The Beautification
Committee will be
planting 500 rose
bushes on the Long
Island Railroad sid-ings
on Saturday
morning, May 8th at
9:30 A.M. Please
com 3 armed with
rakes and spades
and pitch in. Every-one
will be meeting at
Peninsula Boulevard
and Sunrise Highway.
Co-Chairladies Dot
Hornung and Ann
Mongelli will be
joined by Mayor
Francis X. Becker
and the Trustees.
Join BEAUTIFICA-TION
'71,