The-Helm_1971-07-29; Lynbrook Helm Independent Review

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LYNBROOK MALVERNE EAST ROCKAWAY
VOL.. U HO. 10 Bat*r«d Second—Claaa Ifattar
Post Offle*, Lynbrook, N.Y. LY 3>1300 THE FAMILY NEWSPAPER Thursday, July 29,1971 10<
Personalities
by A n n e t t e Ling
Repo Norman F. Lent (leff) points out proposed new Senior Citizens' Housing
sites to Philip Rothblum, coordinator of the Long Island Builders Institute
(right) and Town of Hempstead Housing Authority Executive Director Donald
McLain.
Lent Moves For Nassau Elderly Housing
Washington -- Rep. Norman F.
Lent, Hempstead Supervisor
Francis Purcell and Oyster Bay
Supervisor John Burke an-nounced
this week that a major
roadblock which would have
virtually killed a $12 million
housing program for senior
citizens has now been cleared.
To Demolish
Abandoned
Bay Shacks
Hempstead Town's Con-servation
and Waterways
Department today launched a
campaign to rid the south shore
wetlands of unsightly and unsafe
abandoned bay shacks.
The structures ~ many 50 to 100
years old ~ will be demolished as
they are vacated by lease
holders. Under a local law passed
by the town board in 1968 all
leases for the shacks expire no
later than December 31, 1977.
There are 116 of the shacks still
standing throughout the 17»000
town owned wetland acres. Forty
of these buildings are now vacant
and will be demolished this year,
according to Conservation and
Waterways Director Harold F.
Udell.
"As they are abandoqed by
their occupants we will move in as
quickly as possible to prevent
them from becoming havens for
derelicts and to keep them from
falling victim to vandals and
arsonists," stated Udell.
The shacks are being torn down
by crane rather than a simpler
system of supervised burning in
order to avoid polluting the air.
After the structures are
demolished the debris will be
barged to the Town of Hempstead
incinerator and land-fill at
Oceanside for disposal.
"This program is part of
Hempstead Town's continuing
efforts to beautify the waterfront
and preserve the wetlands to
keep them a pleasant place for
both human recreation and
wildlife protection," stated Udell.
The 600-unit building program
involving low and middle income
housing for the elderly had been
approved by the Department of
Housing and Urban Development
and underway since 1970. Ground
had even been broken on several
projects when on April 30, HUD
released new guidelines making
it impossible for construction to
proceed.
The new guidelines sliced
government cost allowances for
construction of the apartment
units, stymieing the Nassau
efforts which had been planned
on earlier cost ceilings.
Burke, Purcell, Town housing
officials Albert Taufman and
Donald McClain joined with
Philip Rothblum, coordinator of
the Long Island Builders Institute
to take their case to Rep. Lent.
Said Lent, "There had to be
some mistake. Before the new
guidelines were issued, HUD
allowed up to $15,300 per unit for
the New York/Long Island
Region. Under new regulations,
only $8,900 would be allowed, a
cutback of 45% in a period when
land and construction costs are
rising.
Lent conferred with Housing
and Urban Development officials
in Washington to call for reap-praisal
of the new guidelines and
this week learned that cost
limitations had been revised
permitting the building to
proceed.
Lent said the Senior Citizen
Housing will go up in Wantagh,
Elmont, Massapequa, Bethpage,
Syosset and Hicksville.
Hempstead To Open
Animal Hospital
Hempstead Town will open a
wildlife animal hospital in a
temporary facility in Pt.
Lookout, it was announced today
by Presiding Supervisor Francis
T. Purcell.
He added that after a
discussion with Supervisor
Alfonse M. D'Amato and other
members of the Town Board it
was decided the hospital will be
the nucleus of an eventual animal
farm.
Purcell moved to establish the
wildlife animal hospital after the
courts ordered a Baldwin couple,
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Kowitt, to
shut down the hospital they were
operating on a volunteer basis out
of their home, a violation of the
town zoning ordinance governing
residential property.
Beginning Friday morning
(July 30) the injured animals will
be transported in town veHicles to
a vacant home on the property of
the town's Malibu Beach. The
house is one of three taken over
by the town when it acquired the
Malibu Shore Club and converted
it to a public beach.
Personnel of the Department of
Conservation and Waterways,
which will administer the
hospital, will be working in the
house on Wednesday and
Thursday to clean it and prepare
it to receive the wildlife.
The town's wilflife biologist
will oversee the entire project
and the Kowitts have indicated
that they will volunteer their time
and skill to insure a smooth
operation of the hospital.
"After we have time to
evaluate all the requirements, we
will decide on a permanent site,"
Purcell said. He added that he
feels the hospital will work nicely
in conjunction with an animal
farm. "We need a place where
kids can go to see and feed and
touch farm animals," he
asserted. "There's just no facility
of that type around that I know
of."
Some of the wildlife nursed
back to health will be kept for
viewing at the animal farm but
most will be placed into the
town's 17,000 acres of wetlands
which would be more of a natural
habitat, far from the en-croachments
of civilization.
Mrs. Joyce Aigen is one of the
most capable, magnetic and
handsome organizational heads
or Presidents that this writer has
ever had the pleasure of in-terviewing.
She is a truly hand-some
and warm-hearted lady of
great charm and the type of
person who gives a bit of her
personal warmth to everyone she
contacts.
Joyce Aigen was born in
Doctors' Hospital in New York
City to the late Abraham Topel
and his wife, Janet, who now
makes her home with her
daughter and her family here in
Lynbrook. She attended public
school in the Bronx where her
family lived and graduated from
James Monroe High School and
the Fashion Institute of
Technology.
She became the Executive
Secretary to a Fashion Industry
Executive in New York City and
married her boss after about one
and a half years of working for
him and his firm. According to
her husband, George, who is a
great wit and born tease, she was
so efficient and pretty that she
was running both himself and his
partners into the ground. After
consultation with his brother and
another partner, & as the only
eligible bachelor, he vas selected
to marry the "gal." From their
mutual closeness ard sense of
humor and practicing of
"togetherness," it has been a
very happy and successful
marriage for both of them. Ob-viously,
George knew a good
thing when he saw it, and has
never regreted a minute of it.
They were married July 1, 1951
and they settled here in Lynbrook
on Tottenham Rd., exactly 16
years ago. They have just
celebrated their 20th Wedding
Anniversary and have three fine
children. George and Joyce
Aigen are a delightful couple with
immense charm and both make a
perfect foil for the other being so
well suited with the same gbod
humor and kindness and un-derstanding.
Their business has just been
given the title of "Joyce of Long
Island." They had been in
business together, but are
moving to Freeport because they
need more space, especially for
warehouse storage. Joyce is the
President of their latest business
venture, while her husband is an
officer of the corp. and they
practice "togetherness" in every
phase of their life and best of all
each has the highest respect for
the other's views and opinions.
They supply various things to
Super-Markets on concession and
have greatly expanded their lines
to carry all types of products not
commonly found in large
markets until a few years ago.
Joyce is 120 lbs. and 5 ft., 3 inc.
in height and so attractive that
she reminds one of Elizabeth
Taylor with the same type of
brunette beauty. She has a lovely
figure and dark hair and the
lovliest smile which lights up her
Airs. Joyce Aigen
whole face and soft brown eyes
and the expertise and innate good
taste to dress just right and look
as if she had just stepped out for a
very special time at any hour of
the day or evening.
The Aigens have a daughter,
Nancy, age 19 who is a darling
pixie-type young girl with a good
humored grin. Nancy is a student
at the University of Bridgeport,
where she is a Math Major. Their
next child is son Arnold, who at 15
yrs. is already over six ft. tall and
still going strong. He is a student
at South High School in Valley
Stream as they live in the
Yorkshire section of Lynbrook
and all the children have at-tended
Valley Stream schools,
although they are Lynbrook
residents. Their youngest is
daughter, Judith, age 11 1/2 who
will be entering Junior High
School in Valley Stream in
September.
The undisputed "boss" of the
Aigen family is a lovable plump
Beagle Hound with the name of
Bagle, the Beagle. She enjoys
special T. L. C. (Tender, Loving,
Care) from Joyce's mother who
is always sneaking special
snacks to her as she rolls her eyes
imploringly with a look that
would melt all but a heart of
stone. This whole family are just
so great it is no wonder that
Bagel, the Beagle is a born actor
and "bugles" or howls as hounds
will at each siren in the neigh-borhood
and would probably
make friends with a rabbit if she
ever saw one.
Joyce Aigen is a very busy
lady, and seems to do so many
things well, besides being the fine
business woman and good mother
that she enjoys so much. She
plays golf, and has acted in many
dramatic plays for "Bridge" the
organization to help prevent drug
addiction and offer counseling to
youths who need it in Valley
Stream.
The Aigens are members of
Congregation Beth David in
Lynbrook and in 1965, they were
both Presidents in B'nai Brith.
She was the Chapter President,
while George was the President
of Heritage Lodge.
Two ye^jrs ago, she started to
rtesijime as Acting President of
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