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8t> Sk MISS BDK4 i ™E L.I. HXS-r, KERRPOWT A CLIN1 BROOBLTN 2, N. Y A Prize Winning Weekly Serving The Greater Farmingdale Area Since 1920 tfffo\ An Official Newspaper for the Village of Farmingdale Vol. 59 No. 1 Second Class Postage Paid in Farmingdale, N.Y. 11735 Thursday, October 27, 1977 Copyright 1977 by The Farmingdale Post price 15c - $5 per year Village Residents Urge Sr. Housing For Main St. Site Farmingdale residents tilled the small upstairs meeting room of the Village Hall Monday night to protest the construction of a shopping center on the site of the Main Street School and asked the village trustees to zone the site for senior citizen housing. Two Charged With Murder ifm ANNIVERSARY of Farmingdale's Big Brother/Big Sister program was marked Monday night with a presentation of a village proclamation honoring the organization and its sponsors, the Far- mingdale Youth Council and Youth Board. Shown with the proclamation are Mrs. Lucille Meyerson, president of Youth Council; Jack Goor, Youth Board director; Cathie Malara, co-director Big Brothers/Big Sisters; Mayor John T. Hallahan and Leonard Marino, co-director Big Brothers/Big [Post Photo by Bob Starrett] Big Brothers, Big Sisters Honored The Farmingdale Big/Brother - Big Sister Program has been in existence for the past 17 years and was honored by the Village of Farmingdale Monday night to mark their anniversary. This program is subsidized by the Farmingdale Youth Council through the Farmingdale Youth Board. It provides services to fatherless and motherless boys and girls - ages 7 through 18. This program was one of the first on Long Island and has been used as a model in helping to establish the Nassau County program two years ago. • At the present time, 40 boys and girls are in this program. Cathie Malara and Leonard Marino, co-directors of the program, are constantly looking for volunteers. Right now, there is a waiting list of 12 children. The Farmingdale Big/Brother - Big/Sister program is looking for interested, concerned adults over [Continuedon page 12] KittaH^ Gunmen Rob Sun Station The Community Interfaith Collection for UNICEF, a project of the Women's Interfaith Council of Farmingdale, will be observed during the month of November. Instead of \trick or treating\ for UNICEF on Halloween, youngsters will be requested to keep the UNICEF container at home and place a small coin in it at mealtimes. Containers are to be returned to the Farmingdale • Public Libraries on November 28, 29,and 30. Instructions will be distributed to the children shortly. UNICEF containers may also be returned to participating religious schools. For additional information please call 293-9340 Two Lindenhurst men were arrested early Saturday morning and charged with the murder of Glenn Myrato of East Far- mingdale on August 19. Myrato, a driver for- a wholesale tobacco and candy firm, GMS Distributors of Farmingdale, was found shot three times in his delivery van, parked about 250 feet west of the Northern State Parkway en- trance near Sunny side Blvd., and Woodbury Road. Charged with second degree murder and attempted robbery of Myrato and Joseph Mosca, 22, and Peter Papandrew, 21, both of Lindenhurst and both co-workers [Continued on page 12] Deputy Mayor Willis B. Car- man, Jr. and Village Attorney Joseph Stern informed the group that the village had not yet been officially approached by the proposed purchasers of the Main Street School site with a request for zoning change. Stern said he had just had one preliminary \meeting with the proposed purchasers. Carman said that when a formal request for a zoning change is made to the board, a public hearing will be set. At the hearing the detailed plans for the proposed construction would be presented to the board and the public. Objections from village residents would be heard to the proposed plans at the official hearing. A Weiden Street resident asked if the public would be allowed to vote on the proposal and was told that was not the legal procedure. [Continued on page 12] A Farmingdale Sunoco Station was held up by two armed rob- bers Saturday evening, October 22. The station, located at 511 Fulton Street, was held-up at 6:50 p.m. The 16 year old station at- tendant told police two unknown white males, armed with a. gun, took $110 in cash from him and escaped. Eighth precinct police also reported two burglaries during [ Continued on page 12] Teens Down Cadillac Blimp Four Bethpage youths were' arrested last Friday for shooting down an advertising blimp at Sarant Cadillac in Farmingdale with a .22 rifle. The Cadillac dealership- has two blimps that they have been using for the past few months, one 12 ft. and the other 20 feet long. They are hung, one at a time, depending on weather conditions, 80 feet over the showroom. At 5:45 last Friday afternoon, according to police; four youths in three cars stopped on the northbound entrance ramp of the Seaford - Oyster Bay Ex- pressway next to the dealership. Police said the passenger in one of the cars then fired five shots from a .22 cal. rifle at the 12 ft. blimp, rupturing it. A Sarant employee, George Fuggia, heard the shots, looked [Continuedon page 12] A U.S. FLAG, which was flown over the Capitol in Washington was presented to Mill Lane Junior High School by Congressman Jerome A. Ambro. The flag and its accompanying certificate are shown being examined by Joseph Lubell, chairman of the Social Studies depart- ment; and Guy Valentine, acting principal. [Post photo by Claire Studios]
