Jump in, wade in or slide down the flume, but get in the community pool on June 17, the opening day of what promises to be a great summer season. This year we may have a couple of competitive meets like the one last year with Stewart Manor, whose swim team is about on the same level as ours. Once again, registration for swimming lessons will be like last year. People got in line at 8 a.m. and within two hours every person in the line had been taken care of. The popular adult swim will be from 8 to 8:45 a.m. weekday mornings. The pool staff numbers 24 and the pool manager, Dan Kopetic, picked the best applicants.

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Postwoman Mary Gorry is a season ticketholder and goes to every Met game. She actually stayed through a long delayed contest that lasted five hours. Mets won.

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Two wonderful neighbors, Ron and Cathy Woyciechowski, are moving to North Carolina. Cathy was born in Mineola, went to Corpus Christi School and volunteered at Winthrop Hospital. Ron is a retired prison warden and was a part-time bus driver. They will be missed.

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Charlie Melvin, longtime Corpus Christi usher and MC for the Leisure Club, has retired from his ushering job because of physical problems.

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At a meeting of the University Club at the Inn at New Hyde Park were Walter and Joan Hobbs, Grace Sanders, Fran Dempsey, Theresa Irace, Arline Cavanaugh, Joan Flanagan, Anne Kitt, Margaret Fleming and many other Mineola residents. The guest speaker was Dr. Robert Scott, president of Adelphi.

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Nick Siciliano, formerly of Mineola and now of East Williston, has worked at Lafayette Pharmacy for the past 17 years. His dear wife is Barbara. Nick was formerly a letter carrier and some may remember his dad, also Nick, who owned Siciliano Moving and Storage Co.

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Three houses are going up at the southwest corner of Jericho Tpke. and Andrews Road where Reese Buick's used car was located.

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That beautiful young woman in our office the other day was Sophia Hall of CBS radio. We listen to her almost every morning while having breakfast.

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Village historian Neil Young and his wife, Joan, celebrated their wedding anniversary May 12.

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Mary Calfapietro was part of a large group that joined Father Tomaz Gomide on a trip to Belgium, France and the Netherlands.

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Our daughter, Sister Annmarie, runs Father Gomide in a close second. She is just back from Anaheim and Orlando and is off to Indianapolis and St. Louis. She and the Rev. Gomide should start their own travel agency.

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Jimmy and Sharon O'Dwyer enjoyed themselves at Dunkin Donuts. They hail from County Kerry and now live in Williston Park.

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Tom and Carole Muldoon lunched at the Jericho Diner.

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Had the pleasure of talking to Father Joseph Duc Minh. He served at Corpus Christi from 1973 to '81 and before that at Chaminade for 10 years. Since then, he has received his degree in Advanced Asian Studies and earned his doctorate from the University of London. Since we last saw him he has been stationed in Maryland, Iowa and California. He has returned once to his native Vietnam. He says that most people still call the old city Saigon rather than Ho Che Min City. He stayed with the Donnellys while in Mineola.

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Robert Mondello of Roslyn Road was a big help to us getting the caboose to Memorial Park.

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Msgr. Edward Tarrant, who gives those great homilies, has been a priest for 66 years.

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Tina Vacchio recently marked her first year of working at the Jericho Diner. She and her boyfriend, John Morrison, live in Carle Place. Tina used to work at the Post Ave. CafŽ in Westbury and at the Empire Diner in Hicksville.

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Dolores Mangold of Wardwell Road and Josephine Kennedy of Albertson, along with two friends from Garden City, lunched at Washington Manor.

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Sean Burke of Beebe Road injured his arm on the job. His wife, Donna, is taking good care of him.

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Good luck to the new Chamber of Commerce President Steve Ford of Willis Hobbies.