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for larger version       Looking Backward What The Wave Said 20 Years Ago... Reconstruction of O'Donahue Park (at Beach 17 Street and Seagirt Boulevard, Far Rockaway) should be completed by May 1988. Rockaway's biggest St. Patrick's Day Parade will step off this Saturday afternoon, March 12, at two o'clock from Beach 129 Street and Newport Avenue, Belle Harbor. After a separation of 30 years, five members of the Romas family got together this winter at the Boynton Beach, Florida residence of sister Pauline and George Tobin. Pauline is one of the first set of triplets to be born in Rockaway Beach. That was on January 19, 1930. The other two triplets are Louis Romas, who with his wife Mary still lives in Rockaway Beach, and Peter Romas, who resides in College Point, Maryland with his wife Georgia. James Jackson and Nigel Ricketts of Public School 197 in Far Rockaway are among 17 students chosen as winners in "the New York City Anti-Smoking Ad Contest." They were chosen from more than 100,000 entries by New York City and Long Island elementary, intermediate and high school students. More than 250 people will join in celebrating Passover early (dancing, singing and performing the traditions of Passover) at a model seder to be held for students in the Jewish Heritage Program for Developmentally Disabled Adults and Adolescents on Sunday, March 20, from 10:30 a.m. to 1 p.m., at the Gustave Hartman YMYWHA, 1800 Seagirt Boulevard, Far Rockaway. Peace Grows, a learning experience in alternatives to violence sponsored by the Rockaway Catholic-Jewish Council, will be led by the Reverend Jack Kelley, Ph. D. (Father Jack) this spring for a limited enrollment at the Beach Channel Adult Center. Trial of two men charged with torching a homeless one in Far Rockaway in April 1984 continued this week in Queens Supreme Court amid complaints that The Wave last week failed to say that a third man, who was released after the judge decided jail was not a safe place for him, was not threatened while incarcerated. Enthusiasm is in high gear throughout Rockaway as people welcome the appointment of Sandra C. Hassan as principal of Beach Channel High School in Rockaway Park. 30 Years Ago... Merchants and parking lot owners are asking why there are no parking meters installed at Beach 94 Street. There is a large lot there and everyone parks free. Beaches in the Riis Park area have also been shortened by erosion. The longest beachfront area on the peninsula is no longer so. Senior citizens at the Hammel Center are complaining about fires being set to their quarters. We hope they get to move soon. We saw Concorde the other day. It took off from Kennedy airport at 3:50 p.m., Wednesday. It still is a beautiful sight. 40 Years Ago... The way things sound these days it seems that if people were not held in check, the entire Jamaica bay would be filled in for airport runways and building lots of one kind or another. Sunday morning of last week Leonard Samuels and Bill McSharry were awakened by the police at 5 a.m. to hear that their drugstore at Beach 75 Street and the boulevard had been entered and that among other things the cash register had been removed. Loeb & Mayer, the local wholesale butcher firm, has been in business here for 75 years. During that time Adolf (Otto) Mayer has been a local resident. Last week he received a piece of mail stamped "Moved - Not forwardable." There must be some new help at the post office. With all the fuss that is being made about filling in more of Jamaica bay, how come they're still talking about creating all those acres in the bay for Beach Channel High School? Of course a school is not presumed to be as noisy as a jet plane. 50 Years Ago... Actress Judy Garland has leased the Phil Baxter home at the ocean and Beach 143 Street. The Daniel M. O'Connell Post American Legion Post #272, will honor 20 surviving founders of the local post at its annual St. Patrick's Day party. Richard Grager, a resident of Rockaway since 1919, was elected chancellor commander of the Rockaway Beach Lodge #622 Knights of Pythias. Things have been more quiet in the 100 Precinct during the last few days, but Captain Peterson, precinct commander, says if there is more trouble he will assign an unmarked car to the area.
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