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Bulk Rate Mailing Permit No. * Carrier Sorted Chappaqua. N.Y. itSU Chappaqua Serving the Town of New Castle 342 NY ^0514 VOLUME 1, Number 44 Chappaqua, N.Y., Thursday, June 25,1981 25 Cents A Copy, $\10.00 A Year Called \prophet\ on sprinklers, alarms Councilman Nicolaysen's advocacy of stricter fire safety standards finding new support on Board by Eric Thoroman Town Councilman Erik Nico- laysen has been trying for years to enact a town ordinance impos ing stricter fire safety stand ards. He has encouraged man datory sprinkler systems in single-family residences and multi-family complexes, but has been a lone voice on the Board. Following the Stouffer's and Las Vegas disasters-which have spurred more interest in fire safety-there has been more support on the Board for some of Mr. Nicolaysen's ideas, espe cially as applied to multi-family housing. Mi*. Nicolaysen said Thursday that the State was enacting its own fire code for multi-family housing but \the emphasis is misplaced\--therefore the Town wants to supercede the State ordinance and mandate stricter controls. The code proposed by the State calls for smoke detec tor alarm systems in the sleep ing quarters of individual resi dences. \There are problems with this,\ Mr. Nicolaysen said. \Fires can start in the base ment, garages, kitchens.\ Also, in the close-quartered multi- family units, the alarm may warn the person immediately affected, but not his neighbors, who may also be in danger. Mr. Nicolaysen proposes an ordinance mandating two types of alarms in each unit: a rate-of- rise heat detector in the kitchen, which reacts to sudden increases in temperature, and smoke detec tors throughout the house, all connected to a waterproof warn ing bell outside the building that can be heard not only by those immediately in danger, but also the neighbors. Increased awareness The need for stricter fire codes, according to Mr. Nicolaysen, please turn to page 6 - Valedictorian at Horace-Greeley High School is Beth Snell. See her pg .8. graduation address on Farewell to Dr. Agresta: some roasting, some praise Jean Mazzella wins $250 scholarship by Eric Thoroman Dr. Joseph Agresta sat on the Chappaqua School Board for the last time on Monday, June 22. President Robert Mattson presented him with a plaque honoring his six years on the Board. \Let me say we'll miss him,\ Mr. Mattson said. \We'll miss his advice, his counsel, his fortitude, his calm. I'm sure he leaves here proud, with a sense of good feeling for- his accomplishmen ts.\ please turn to page 4 Interns named at elementary schools Claudia Crawford will intern at Roaring Brook and John Free man at Douglas G. Grafflin school, during the 1981-82 school year. Ms. Crawford, who is adminis trative assistant to the president of the Bank Street College of Education, graduated from Kalamazoo College and holds a master's degree from Bank Street. A former instructor at Lake land Middle School and the Bank Street School for Children, she has also taught English at schools in Saudi Arabia, Pakis- please turn to page 4 Jean Mazzella of Helena Drive, Chappaqua, received a $250 scholarship from the Westches ter Association for Retarded Citizens, as a member of the agency's Northern Westchester Youth-ARC. The award was presented at the annual meeting in White Plains by Mrs. James B. Hosmer, Chairwoman of WARC's Schoiarsnip Committee. Miss Mazzella is a graduating student at Horace Greeley High School, planning a career in special education. She has been a member of Youth-ARC for three years, and during the past year served as president of the Northern Westchester Chapter. In the absence of an adult advi sor to the group, she coordinated all activities, recruited new members, prepared the pro grams for the. coming year and conducted a training session for new members. She worked as a volunteer at WARC's Mt. Kisco Training Center and partici pated in Special Olympics, A Very Special Arts Festival and Chappaqua's Community Day. Disney features shown for free Walt Disney movies will be shown free, sponsored by the New Castle Recreation Dept. and Squires Mens Wear, on Tuesday evenings at dusk on the Recreation Field, and if it rains at 8 pm in the Horace Greeley High School auditorium. The movies are: 101 Dalmations, July 7 Darby O'Gill and the Little People, July 14 North Avenue Irregulars, July 21 Candleshoe, July 28 Cat from Outer Space, AugusW Unidentified Flying Oddball, August 11 (Note: \Darby O'Gill\ in cludes the arrival of Death per sonified in a black coach, which might be frightening to adults). \Summer Arts\ for children The New Castle Arts Center will begin a Summer Arts Program for children on Monday, June 2&. at the Kipp Street School. \Morning Arts\ for Kindergar teners and First Graders will begin Tuesday, June 30 and end Thursday, July 30. It will be held please turn to page 7 Alice Reddy: \Supermom\ and \Dynamo\ at once Planning Board report Planners, developers debate roads, setbacks on Berenson condo project The hearings on the Berenson Property--on which developers want to build 160 condominium units-continued at the June 16 Planning Board meeting. The Planning Board closed the preliminary concept hearing so that thedeveloperscould concentrate on dealing with the State on questions of road access and wetlands implications setbacks. ThePlanningBoard has favored two accesses to the parcel, to minimize the traffic problem at the intersection of Old Farm Road and Bedford Road. There have been several accidents at that intersection in recent years, and some Board membes were ^concerned that an increase in traffic will increase accidents. The State Department of Transportation, however, has been opposed to the northern proposed intersection, and wrote to the Planning Board saying the intersection was \discussed a great deal\ but the State \would not grant access...regardless of thePlanningBoard recommendation.\ This puts the developer and the Board in a bind: the developer wants to put condominiums on the northwest corner of the- property and if there is no northern road access, that section of the parcel will require an access road built over the most substantial wetland on the property. \I don't think we can give up that area,\ Architect David Smotrich said of the northwest please turn to page 7 by Jackie Friedlander If a working wife and mother is a \Supermom\ and a very active volunteer is called a \Dynamo\- -what is someone like Alice Reddy of Chappaqua, who is active in both volunteer and professional work at the same time? She was recently chosen for the Family Services of Westchester Board of Directors. She is on the Parish Activities Council for St. John and Mary Roman Catholic Church and is an assistant class mother for the PTA at Grafflin School, where Marcus and Christian, 12 and 11, are students. At the same time, she is a substitute teacher in the Byram Hills School system and a Sarah Newman, Mickey Goodman win the Mort Ross Music Award SarahNewmanand Nicky Goodman, both sixth graders at Westor- School, have been named 1981 winners of the Mort Ross Music Award. The annual awards are based on musical ability, leadership, contributions to the school pro gram, and potential. Sarah has sung in the special chorus, played flute in the sixth- grade band and orchestra, and oboe in the fifth-grade band. She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Newman of Hilltop Drive. Nicky, who sang alto in the special chorus, played trombone with the orchestra, band and jazz band. The son of Mr. and Mrs. Brian Goodman of Old Mil lwood Road, he, like Sarah, per formed with the All County Kiev mentary Band in April. The award was established by ther Westorchard PTA in 1979 in honor of Mort Ross on his retirement after more than two decades as music teacher in the Chappaqua schools. Early deadlines for holiday issue The next issue of this paper will be a double issue dated July 1 and July 8. No paper will be published the week of July 8. All news items for the issue must be submitted by June 29. licensed real estate salesperson two days a week at EA Sherida^n- -across the street from Country Day Nursery, where Hilary is a student. Her navy blazer, khaki skirt and gold shrimp earrings fit into either a business or club meeting. They could have come right out of \The Preppy Handbook\ but Alice insists they didn't. \We dressed this way in the 50's, only we called it 'tweedy' and not 'preppy,'she states. \My college clothes are just coming back in.\ Asked how she finds time to function as both a \Supermom\ and a \Dynamo\ (making her, possibly, a \Superdynamom\) answers-as ifsurprised at the question--\You have to! My children benefit from all the men who volunteer as (soccer and baseball) coaches but my husband doesn't have time. I can't coach so I do other things. I can't do as much (volunteer work) as I used to, but once you get bitten by the bug it's hard to stop!\ prison library Before coming to Chappaqua, Alice Reddy is a real estate sales person for E.A. Sheridan and a Board of Directors member for Family Services. three years ago, she spent four years in Pleasantville. As vice- present of the Pleasantville Women's Club, she helped start a library at Westchester County Prison. \My father was a lawyer and he took me to visit his clients,\ she recalls, with the enthusiasm she displays for all her volunteer please turn to page 3 Anonymous gift provides $2000 per year for library An anonymous gift of income and mortgage principal has been ac cepted by the Trustees of the Chappaqua Library. This gift will entitle the Library to: 1. Income of $2,000 per year for 1981, '82 and '83, and of $4,500 per year for the years 1984 to 1,997. 2. An ownership position in a group of real estate mortgages due to mature in approximately, fifteen years with a potential value of up td$4.8 million. David E. Nierenberg, president of the Board of Trustees, in ac cepting the gift on behalf of the Library, expressed appreciation please turn to page 3
