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Town Receives $ 250,000
To Improve Burns Park
Oyster Bay Town Supervisor
Michael N. Petito announced the
approval of a grant- in- aid from
the State of New York Conservation
Department of $ 250,000 to
be used for the continuation of
the development of the John J.
Burns Park under the State Outdoor
Recreation Development
Program.
The project involves the complete
development of more than
50 acres of land at John J. Burns
Park in Massapequa as a multipurpose
recreation and park
complex. The development project
has been scheduled in two
phases. Phase I has been completed
and involved the construction
of a complete lighting-system
and modern ballfields,
used for the continuation of the
Little League and the Town Midget
Football teams. Phase II
includes the construction of a
marina, Community Building, installation
of playground equipment,
along with modem landscaping
and lighting features.
Petito said " the State grant-in-
aid will be a significant development
in terms of providing
modern, well- equipped recreational
facilities for the Town of
Oyster Bay, in that the State of
New York has provided a good
percentage of the total cost of
this facility, which will enable
the Town to proceed with the
Park's development at the lowest
possible cost to the taxpayer".
New Plain edge
Football Coach
Frank Scicchitano is the newly
appointed football coach for
Plainedge High School, succeeding
popular coach Gene Bonelli,
who tutored the Red Devils for
the past seven years. Bonelli offered
his resignation this past
May.
Tackapausha Pond To Get
De- watering Treatment
Tackapausha Pond in Seaford
will be dry for the next four
or five months due to " de - watering"
necessary for sewer
construction in Disposal District
# 3, it was announced this
week.
The interceptor now under construction
in Seaford will be installed
22 feet below the surface
of Seaford Avenue and other local
roads so the water level in the vicinity
has been lowered by about
25 feet by a system of well
points and pumps.
Once construction is completed
and pumping ceases,
ground water is expected to return
to normal levels within a
few days.
Mets, Yanks To Conduct Clinic
New York Mets' stars Ron
Swoboda and Ed Charles as-isted
by Yankee broadcaster Jerry
Coleman will conduct a baseball
clinic at Salisbury Park on
Monday, July 29.
The players and Coleman will
instruct in batting and fielding
fundamentals and will answer
questions. Each youngster present
will be given a number for
a drawingtobe held for bats, balls
and gloves.
The clinic will begin at 2 p. m<,
at Field ' B' located near Parking
fields # 4 and # 2.
Contract Awarded For 630
Student Dormitory
Students at State University
Agricultural and Technical College
in Farmingdale enjoy a wide
array of indoor and outdoor athletic,
intramural and recreational
facilities. The Theodore Roosevelt
Hall gymnasium, part of a
$ 1.6 million dollar combined recreational
and student structure
built in 1965, is one of the newest
and finest in the Metropolitan
area. Roosevelt Hall was
so named because Theodore
Roosevelt, who lived in nearby
Sagamore Hill, took such an active
interest in the founding of
the college in 1912.
Its facilities include a huge
gymnasium with bleachers for
some 2,000 persons and excellent
basketball floors; completely
equipped athletic training room
and spacious locker and shower
areas and a sauna. The auxiliary
gymnasium contains the latest
and most complete set of gymnastic
apparatus, the finest
wrestling equipment, training and
first aid set- ups. There are also
eight modern automated AMF
bowling lanes, a rifle range and
a fully equipped weight lifting
room, pocket billiard tables,
table tennis tables and equipment
Scicchitano played halfback at
Haddenfeld, New Jersey, High
School and then enlisted in the
Air Force and served for four
and one half years. During his
last two years in the service
he was stationed at Mitchel Air
Force Base where he played football
during the 1955 and 1956
season, m 1956, he received'
the Most Valuable Player Award,
was the leading scorer, and was
selected for the All - Air- Force
Team.
Scicchitano entered C. W. Post
College in 1959 and played both
half- back and quarterback there.
In his senior year he was selected
to the All Eastern College
Athletic Conference Football
Team and received the outstanding
football player award
from C. W. Post College.
Scicchitano camt to Plainedge
in 1963, and has worked as assistant
football coach and head
wrestling coach for the past five
years.
He is married and has four
children, two boys and two girls.
Leo Claus will continue to
serve as assistant football coach,
for playing checkers and chess.
The outdoor facilities at the
Farmingdale campus include a
brand new all- weather track,
eight handball courts, 16 tennis
courts, also for all types of
weather: five Softball diamonds,
a regulation baseball diamond,
soccer and lacrosse fields and an
artificial ice skating rink. Presently,
there's a three- hole golf
course, expected to be increased!
to nine, and work will begin on]
an Olympic size indoor swimmingj
pool and another field house.
When Roy itoss, ( left) age 7, of Massapequa, registered at the
Marjorie Post, Community Park, he became the 1,000 applicant
to join the recreation program that is being offered there. Accepting
his application is Lew Crandell, ( right) Senior Recreation
Leader, as Town Councilman Phil Healey, looks on.
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Welcoming New York Knicks basketball star Willis Reed, to Farmingdale, where
the team will begin training in the fall, is Dr, Charles Laffin, President of the
State University Agricultural and Technical College at Farmingdale and
Mrs. Caroline Bunting Klesh, Observer co- editor and co- publisher. The
Knicks were introduced to their new facilities at a luncheon held on Tuesday,
which included a tour of the new gymnasium which houses a basketball
court, bowling alleys and Sauna Baths. Knicks officials and players
then spent the rest of the afternoon getting acquainted with Farmingdale.
Farmingdale OBSERVER, Thursday, July 25, 1968
We Invite Your Inspection At Any Time
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TRACY H. LOGAN
Business Manager
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