Jimmy Agnew of Garfield Avenue feels highly honored that he was one of those selected by Monsignor Robert Butule to have his feet washed on Holy Thursday. Jimmy has been an usher at Corpus Christi Church for 30 years and his daughter, Angela and her husband, Chris Macias, both live in Mineola. She is a cosmetologist and her husband is a lawyer.
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Glad to report that Virginia Seidel went through an operation with flying colors. Her husband, Dan, was a third precinct police office for 25 years. They live on Saville Road.
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Mayor Scott Strauss took time out of his busy schedule to call me and have a lengthy conversation. We discussed how he and his wife, Pat, are missing King Kullen in Mineola where they were regular customers. Scott has had a distinguished career in the New York City Police Department and the New York City Fire Department and saved lives in the 9/11 attacks.
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Eddie Amaral is manager of Entermann’s in Carle Place. This is the Entenmann’s that used to be on Roslyn Road. His wife, Hilda, has just undergone successful surgery. They live on Frank Avenue.
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Phil Immirato worked for 30 years for the airline TWA in the maintenance department.
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John Pavlovich of Dow Avenue has lived alone since his beloved wife died. He is seeking a new house to be near his son, Nicholas, in Greenvale. John served as a merchant marine in World War II and ferried ships across the north Atlantic, dodging German U-boats, usually from Boston to Liverpool. John owned that great restaurant of years past called The Executive on the corner of Mineola Boulevard and First Street.
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George and Helena Sommers of Skelly Place took a trip to Delaware to see their son-in-law and daughter, Theresa Zimmer. George, a professional civil engineer, did a great deal of work on the Roslyn Road grade-crossing in Roslyn, plus a number of other engineering jobs.
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This bad weather has had a bad effect on the Presbyterian Church in Mineola. They had so few people in the pews that on one Sunday they closed the church. The choir had been reduced to Mary Matson, Dottie Easton, and Mary Ann Guarino. Pastor Chester Easton and his wife, Dottie, are now both members of the Mineola Choral Society.
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Mary Matson, by the way, now has a job assisting aging people.
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For many years, Terry Hettinger was the head of the hospitality committee at Corpus Christi Church. Since she resigned, the position has been taken by Mary Ann Burns, who has 20 people working in the kitchen and doing a very good job.
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Lorraine Egan is just back from a two-week vacation in Florida. She lives on Colonial Avenue. Lorraine is a good friend of Ruth Kazden who lives on the same street. For many years, Ruth covered the Mineola Village Board and the Mineola School Board for this newspaper.
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Marie Antonick lives in Roslyn but likes this entire area.
Editor’s Note: Lou Sanders, who has his journalism degree from NYU, and his wife, Grace, a graduate of Adelphi University, founded the Mineola American in 1952, giving the village its first successful newspaper. Lou and Grace have lived in Mineola for 60 years and his popular column is a signature feature of this paper.
