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for larger version       Looking Backward What The Wave Said 20 Years Ago... Several employment opportunities exist at the Gateway Jobs Corps Center. Individuals who are interested in positions as an occupational health nurse or as a residential group leader or as teachers are asked to contact Gerald Craddock, Jobs Corps administrator. Gateway National Recreation Area will hold public informational meetings on Wednesday, April 13, and Thursday, April 14, to discuss proposed rehabilitation of Jacob Riis Park. Rockaway Park residents, especially those living on the beach blocks where the sewer project is nearing completion are living in fear. The claim by these residents that the contractor is taking his time about repaving the blocks is not without merit. Mobile Observation Patrol (M.O.P.) is in operation again and is patrolling every weekend night. The crews patrol each sector of the 100 Precinct. In addition, there is a base operator who is in constant touch by radio and reports any needed items to the precinct desk officer. In addition, the base operator maintains a log of all reporters. Under the direction of teachers Brenda Liebling and Jewel Ringgold, the 50-member senior glee club of Public School 105 (420 Beach 51 Street, Edgemere) will present a choral performance on Wednesday and Thursday, March 30 and 31, for parents, the school's staff and other students. Operating rooms at the Peninsula Hospital Center have been provided with the latest state-of-the-art operating room tables and surgical lights. More than $100,000 has been invested in this equipment, which enables the operating room to function more efficiently, said hospital president Julius Granirer Port Authority of New York and New Jersey announced a $10,000 grant to help Community School District 27 continue and expand its "Project Aviation" program. The program promotes the awareness of job and career opportunities in the aviation industry for public school students and their parents. Nurses at St. John's Episcopal Hospital - South Shore have received a four percent salary increase. With this increase, the base starting salary for nurses at St. John's is over $26,000, making the hospital competitive with all other hospitals. 30 Years Ago... Rockaway Beach is going to get more sand - even though this winter's storms proved that nature often takes it away faster than man can bring it in. The snow mound at Beach 116 Street is slowly disappearing. Now what will be piled there during the summer months? Somebody must know something that we don't know. Property is turning over quickly in Rockaway. An auction held Monday saw a piece of property go for $16,000. This property was located at Beach 32 Street. Spring is here. We saw the first sign of spring on Edgemere Avenue and Beach 55 Street as a police radar unit was in place and the officer pulled over an offending motorist. The motorist was sporting Jersey tags on his car. 40 Years Ago... The new Far Rockaway library is probably bigger and better than its predecessor, but it's not nearly as attractive as the old Carnegie library it replaces. We hear a lot about the inferior service on the Rockaway Transit Line, but nobody says much when a ten car train pulls out of Rockaway in the early evening with less than a dozen passengers abroad. Bully for the West End Temple! Sunday night Herbert Johnson, curator of the Jamaica Bay Wildlife Sanctuary, just north of Broad Channel will speak at the temple about the wildlife sanctuary. It's a community attraction that too few people know about and the temple is taking steps to correct that situation. Target date for the opening of the new Dayton shopping center is April 20 when it is expected that the stores at the center will combine their efforts in a grand opening. 50 Years Ago... Last week's storms and accompanying high tides washed away quantities of sand from the beach. Bulldozers are being called into play at Atlantic Beach to repair the damage in time for the opening of the season. Another business addition to the ocean block of Beach 116 Street is to be Larry Lowy, Inc., whose novelty shop soon will be moved from its location opposite the firehouse into one of the Goldberg stores opposite the Park Theatre. Not all those sacks observed beside fisherman dropping their lines from the Cross Bay Bridge are filled with fish. Many of them containing more food and gear than anything else, although there have been some good catches, according to reports.
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