It was not surprising that 62 percent of our school district voted "No" on the proposed $38 million bond issue. Most residents of Mineola and Williston have limited financial reserves and the expenditure was simply too much. This on top of the recent large expenditures for the new Mineola pool and the future expenditure for renovation of the library. We realize that a problem exists with the overcrowded conditions. We feel that a more modest proposal would pass.

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How about a clean-up campaign for the village? Too many of our stores have garbage and trash scattered around the sidewalks. We have too many overflowing dumpsters and ripped garbage bags. We can do better.

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Corpus Christi Pastor Kenneth Winkler and Deacon John and Mrs. Reinhart enjoyed breakfast at the Jericho Diner. During the week we also ran into Charlie and Helen Melvin of Emory Road and Terry Connor of Pershing Parkway at the Jericho.

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Good to see Joe Mannix in church on Good Friday. Joe of Royal Avenue is recovering from a serious illness.

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Bill and Judy Rohan of Raff Avenue visited Florida and took in several Yankee exhibition games.

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Eddie and Mary Krzeminski of Brown Street visited the British West Indies.

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Good running into Howard and Lorraine Schwartz. Howard used to own a weekly newspaper in Garden City.

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Peter and Karen Smith of Beebe Road went to the Automobile Show at the Javits Center.

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Elizabeth Sheridan of Geranium Avenue has lived in Mineola for 50 years. Geranium Avenue has been temporarily changed to Sheridan Avenue in her honor. Her son Kevin gave us the good news. He lives at Richlee Court.

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Sarah Berman of East Williston lunched at the Seacrest Diner. She says she is writing a column for a weekly paper.

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Dolores Sedacca, former East Williston mayor, has returned from a visit to France and Italy. While in France she went to Normandy to visit the grave of her father's brother who was killed on D-Day. He was just 18 years old.

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Good running into Tony Nocito of the Hometown Party the other day.

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For just $5 you can purchase a certificate which will allow you to partake of a gourmet meal at the Mineola Fair. The meal is prepared by the NY Guild of Chefs. All proceeds go to the Mineola Scholarship Fund and other chamber projects.

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Congratulations to Tom DiNapoli on being named the chairman of the Nassau Democratic Party. The Mineola High School Class of 1972, of which he was a member, produced some successful young people. Gerard Terry is the top "behind the scenes man" of the county Democrats; Judy Randall is an editor at the Staten Island Advance; and our son Tom is a CPA and comptroller and a vice-president of a large conglomerate in New York City, The Reliance Group Holdings Co.

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Fifth Army Veterans of the 1943, 1944, and 1945 Italian campaign will be returning to Italy Aug. 12 to Aug. 23 to celebrate the 54th anniversary of the Allied Drive northwards from Rome to Florence through the Appenines to Bologna, the Po Valley and finally Venice. Veterans of the 3rd, 34th, 36th, 85th, 88th, 91st, 92nd, 10th Mt., 1st Armored Divisions and their many support groups are urged to contact Sy Canton for reunion tour information at 432-3022.