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town ·Hall Notes\ •· \ I . • ~ DeMott hospitalized Recently retired Islip Councilman Norman DeMott has been in Saint Francis Hospital in Roslyn for three weeks foDowing a slip on the ice in front of his home. According to his daughter Lori MacQueen, the 74-year~ld DeMott complained of heart trouble after his fall, and was hospitalized soon after. Doctors at St. Francis discove~d DeMott had four blocked arteries, and immediately perfonned a triple bypass on him As DeMott was recovering from the sw:gery, MacQueen said, he took a turn for the worse last weekend. He was rushed into the Intensive Care Unit with abnonnally low blood pressure. \It's been a rough three weeks,\ MacQueen said \The poor guy's had a tough time of it. He never had a minute to el\ioy his retire- ment. Fortunately, the prognosis is good and the doctors are cautiously optimistic.\ Anyone wishing to send cards, letters or flowers to DeMott can send them to his home on 50 Canal Road in Oakdale, 11769. \Every card, call and inquiry brings a smile to his face,\ MacQueen said · Aging seminar tonight The Town of Islip Division of Human Development is offering an infonnational works}\op; entitled •vou and Your Aging ParentsiRelatives,\ which will address car- ing for an elderly·parent, relative or friend Scheduled for tonight at 8 from 7-9 p.m. at the Sayville Senior Citizens Center on Greeley Avenue, this seminar will discuss common conce~, coping strategies and what resources are available. ~ addition, . ~ternatkfes to home care an~ nursing home p~me~~ ~ ~- co~red .. This workshop will be conducted by ~inda Costanza, ASCW,. who is foimder of the \Caring For Our Elderly Parents\ support group program in Suffolk County. The fee for this workshop is $10. Space is limited, and early registration is suggested. For additional infonnation or to register, · please call224-5325 o1r 224-5329. AIDS Walk, Spring Fest OK'd _ · The Islip Town Board granted the Oakdale Chamber of Commerce and the Long Island Association for AIDS Care permission to host tw()·events this year. The Oak:daie chamber will host their annu- al Springf'est on May 18 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Oakdale 'Railroad Station, and IJAAC wiD hold the AIDS Walk at Heckscber Park in East Islip on October 6. In other town board actions: •Bay Shore boat ramp to be rev&JDped The town board passed a resolu- tion Tuesday~ granted Penataquit Marine Construction of Bay Shore the bid to rebuild the Bay Shore Marina's boat launching basin. Penataquit was low bidder. at $207,000. Work will begin in the spring. • Slben named to Bay Shore BID The town board tapped Andrew Siben of the Bay Shore law firm Siben and Siben to be a new member of the Bay Shore Business Improvement District's Board of Directors. ~ • Board OKs Bro~ 's River Road improvements The Islip Town Board grant- ed the Hauppauge finn Cashin Associates the bid to improve sections.ofBrown's River Road in Sayville at a price of$38,900. Brown's River Road has long had a problem with flooding. 8 Nobody home · The Great·Soiith Bay was eerily quiet Saturday momlng opposite Vanderbilt's Wharf In Oakdale. It was so cold the ferries couldn't Rln because ihe bay froze over. Suffolk County NeWS/Hank Shaw A .. hot lunch on: the horizon? . . . ... Connetquot s\-'perintendent predicts school lunches in March by John Lee When the voters vetoed the budget and sent the CoiUletquot school district into austeriey last smnmer, one of the casualties was the school lunch program. 'Ibis made Cometquot rather unique, but, according to the rules that apply during an austerity period, a lunch program must be discontinued if it is losing money. Cormetq\lot's has lost approximately $100,000 overa 10-yearperiod. Now,· after several false starts, the program may return by springtime. Senators Caesar Trunzo (R- Brentwood) and Owen Johnson (R-Babylon) have recently ~d to get $50,000 of unallocated state school aid earmarked for Connetquot to restart its lunch program. 'Trunzo spokesperson Chris Molluso. saW that \ColUletquot seems to be unique in losing money on its lunch program We hmre tcld the di...cUict that we could arrange for officials from the School Educational Department to come down to advise them on the adminiStration of the program, but they've never taken us.upon it;, Christine Lamberson, president of the school board, put the blame for the deficit squarely on the school administration. \'t's their job to make it pay,\ she said \If outside ven- dors took over the program, it would be all right with me. It's been an ongoing, 10-year problem. Pete Marwick, the auditing firm, recommended that the pro- gram not be subsidized, which we did to the tune of $250,000 over the last three years. \I don't think I can support this move,\ Lamberson added. \'t's become a political item We need to fix the basic problem before we move forward\ Jolm Merscoff, president of the CSEA, the union that oopresents the food service workers laid off as a result of the lunch programps demise, said of the losses: \If the workers were doing snm~tllin_g W!'Q!!S; they weren't coiTeCted. I know that the superintendent has worked really hard to get the problem resolved and I just hope that the workers can go back to work It's been really hard on some of those women. The board, however, is divided. The men seem to want to .rPStore the program PIBBIH tum to page 19 lazio: no quick end for budget battle by Hank Shaw The ongoing Battle of the Budget in Wasllington has many in Congress won:dering when it will all end; when the legislature can returl\ to work governing the nation. Sophomore Congressman Rick Lazio (R~Brigh.twaters) is one such lawmaker. Despite his youth, Lazio is the House Deputy Whip and p~ some role in the House Republican's main decision-mak- ing process. The way he sees it, both President Bill Clinton and ele- ments within the Republican Party are violating the cardinal rule in politics -. compromise. With nei- ther side ready to budge on issues such as welfare reform, Medicare, a balanced. budget and middle class taX relief, La2io sees no end in sight to the impasse. \My sense is that progress is being made, but we are not on the verge of an agreement,\ he said. \If you look at any one session, you might be discouraged, but this is part of a larger process.\ One such \session\ was Clinton's release of a 20-page bud- get document earlier this week. Lazio called it \embamlSSing\ and said that such a minuscule docu- ment - budget outlines typically run over 1,000 pages - smacks of political grandstanding. \When you put out a 20-page document with no specifics, no details and an increase in spend- ing without any idea of where that money will be spen~\ Lazio said. PIMse tum to 1J119B :13