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Chappaqua Journal Serving the Town of New Castle Volume 1, Number 3 Chappaqua, N.Y., Thursday, September 11,1980 25 Cents A Copy, $10.00 A Year Miss Hilary Russo with her dog, Lucy. Photo by Joan Szabo More photos on page 4 Chappaqua's two new fire engines are christened at dry 'wetdown' by Rhonda Stearley At least 50 people - including New Castle Town Board members - appeared Sunday morning at the Bedford Road Fire Headquarters for the Chap paqua Fire Department's chris tening of two new trucks. Board members, fire chiefs, officers and their wives from Millwood, Mt. Kisco, Plea-, santville, and Armonk, were invited to the event. Fifteen chiefs from other towns or vil lages were also invited. Tradition calls for a \wetting down\ of the vehicles, but fire officials decided'to keep this event simpler and drier. \Sometimes if you use the hose, everybody gets wet, including those who don't want to get wet,\ said John O'Farrell, First Assistant Chief. \We wanted to avoid that. If a demon stration had been requested, we would've done that. Nobody asked though, and we never got around to it.\ The absence of the wetting did not dampen people's enthusiasm for the trucks. As the sun reflected off the highly polished trucks, spectators gathered to admire them. Children, scram bling like monkeys, delighted in climbing on top of the big red fire engines. \They're great machines,\ Mr. Norman T. Marten, Jr. said as he wiped a spot off one new truck with his handkerchief. Mr. Marten is captain of the Chap- paqua Volunteer Fire Patrol. One truck is a 1980 red Blazer that will be used by Fire Chief William Murphy. The other truck, a yellow four-wheel drive is called a \mini attack pumper\. Designed for rough terrain, the mini-attack will arrive at a fire sooner than the larger trucks and contain the blaze until the bigger equipment is hooked up. This truck has limited pumping ability, but is capable of extinguishing smaller fires. The vehicles' costs totalled $59,000, with the Blazer costing $14,000 and the pumper at $45,000. \We've used them a couple of times,\ said New Castle Town Board member Erik Nicolaysen, who is a volunteer fireman. \They've been very effective.\ Before the christening, fire men prepared a breakfast for their guests that included cham pagne, beef steaks, scrambled eggs, hash brown, french toast and fruit slices. Community Day Events Schedule 10 a.m. - Parade participants, including the Greeley High School Band, the Boy and Girl Scouts and tots, will assemble at the Community Center to march through town. Children wearing* red, white and blue will receive a free American flag. 10:30 a.m. - Flag-raising cerem ony in the Triangle. 11 a.m. - Pet show contest. First historic bus ride of the day. The bus will leave from the Mobil station, S. Greeley Ave. The rides will last for an hour and 15 minutes. There is a fee o f 254. 12:30 p.m. - Second historic bus ride leaves. 1 p.m. - Pie-baking contest. Par ticipants must bring their recipes or they will not be please turn to page IS New Castle officials open tax office to help Millwood Residents get mail by Rhonda Stearley New Castle Town Board officials are cooperating with U.S. postal authorities to determine whether Millwood residents are eligible for home mail delivery by providing Millwood names and addresses from the town assessor's rolls. Millwood residents who have Millwood addresses must pick up their mail at the post office. If a Millwood resident wants home mail delivery he must have an Ossining address. Although the problem was not on the Sept. 3 agenda, Board members discussed the problem in response to a letter from Mil lwood resident Neal Dorman of 22 Pamela Place. ' 'We are helping in any way we can,\ said Supervisor Charles G. Banks, Jr. \This has been a problem for several years.\ According to Board Members, Ossining Postmaster Robert Fin ck would not like all Millwood mail delivered through the Millwood Post Office, because this would result in a loss of mail through Ossining. Mr. Finck, however, said he doubted his pay or position would be affected. \I don't think this will change my pay. Actu ally, in a broader view, I don't make all that much anyway.\ \I came in here on the merit system and it's not like I made my position on one delivery,\ Mr. Finck said. \I'll go either way. Even if I was angry, there's not much I could do about it.\ To establish a new route, Mr. Banks said, there must be at least 750 delivery points or a population of at least 2,250. He added that this isn't the first time the issue has been raised. ' 'This has been on the books for 10 to 15 years,\ said Mr. Dor- man. For two years he has pushed for home delivery, mainly he said, because of the hassle of picking it up every da\ . \It's a terrible inconvenience to have to drive one mile-not to mention the gasoline used- to pick up your mail. And it's worse please turn to page 13 Problems in Youth Baseball program aired at Rec. Commission meeting Problems in the New Castle Youth Baseball Program were discussed by the Recreation and Parks Commission at its meeting, Sept. 4. Discussion arose from a letter to Mr. Martin Mucher, Recreation Superin tendent, from Mr. Sabin Streeter, a New Castle baseball co-coach. \This past season was filled with many mechanical frustrations-the kind of problems that can disappear with a little extra effort on the part of the Rec Department,\ Mr. Sabin wrote, adding he not only cared, but was willing to help implement his suggestions. Mr. Streeter, who has coached New Castle baseball for the past five years, offered possible solutions for umpire absen teeism, rescheduling problems, please turn to page 4 Highway Dept's 4-day summer work week saves gas, get men's approval by Rhonda Stearley Working ten hours four days a week might not please everybody, but Albert P. Chaleski, Public Works Superin tendent, says saving $225 a week in gasoline costs compensates for those extra hours. Over 22 weeks, that adds up to $4,950. At the beginning of the sum mer, Mr. Chaleski, as Highway Superintendent, began the four- day work week for his crew. The Chappaqua Journal Survey New and renovated businesses dot Chappaqua's commercial landscape Bulldozers have been roaring, dirt flying, cement mixers whi rling and hammers, pounding away. In the past few months Chappaqua residents have become increasingly aware of the arrival of new stores, the expansion of existing ones and the changes in still others. We have been peering through new windows and clambering about bricklayers and meeting new people to give you a profile on some of the new faces in town. Greeley Country Store John and Marilyn Gabriel had been in their Greeley Country Store for only 10 months when it burned down on a Christmas Eve, They are very pleased to be back at their original site, after operating out of a tiny, tempor ary store for far, too long. Gree ley Country Store is now in the new, brick, completely fireproof building at 59, S. Greeley Avenue. Its occupants have an added bit of security because the foundations are steel pilings (the structure is on our infamous flood plains.) With the usual array of hard ware and gardening Items many suburbanites call them \grown up toys for homeowners\ - the Gabriels will offer lawn mower sales and services, a separate section for wall coverings, win dow shades and paint color chips and, new this fall, antique tools and many modern energy- saving devices such as wood- burning stoves. Even though the merchandise is contemporary, customers are please turn to page 12 - department will return to a five- day, 7 to 3 week Oct. 1. New Castle, Mr. Chaleski says, is one of the first towns in West chester County to go to a short week. He researched other departments in Massachusetts and the Midwest before deciding to try it out. \A ten-hour day increases our productivity. We've eliminated a whole day of breaks. We save on gas. We can finish a job the same day we start one. It's very frustrating when you have to leave a job such as blacktopping or drainange undone^vernight.\ Mr. Chaleski says the 26 depar tment employees at first were a little apprehensive about the new schedule. But, he added with a laugh, \Those three-day weeken ds, really get to a habit. Whether the department will work a four-day week in 1981 is undecided. The schedule is open for review by both the Town Board and the employees' union, and the Civil Service Employees Association, Inc. Leaves The department is preparing for this fall's leaf pick-up. Before please turn to page 13 30 International Exchange students return with new insights and ideas by Sue McCarthy Have you ever wondered what it would be like to live in another country? Well, it happened this summer to thirty Chappaqua teenagers who participated in the Chappaqua International Exchange's (CIE) Experiment in International Living (EIL) and American Field Service (AFS) Programs. The Exchange, in operation for thirteen years, gives students a chance to immerse themselves in the lifestyle and language of a foreign country and to become, for a period of a month or two, part of a culture sometimes vastly different from their own. For Helena Prebble, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank E. Preb ble of Paulding Drive, that meant getting used to the sights, sounds, smells, and tastes that make up India, a country she please turn to page 10
