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Journal Monday. May 2. 1988 North East's bicentennial WIGHT: Millerton Mayor Jake Shoifet and North East Town SuperVisor Mary Lyman cut the birthday take during North East's 20Qth Birthday party Saturday at the WeButuck School LOWER LEFT: Former Town Supervisor Frank Perotti identifies the "old Millerton." LOWER RIGHT: 6-year-old Theresa Mucciolli entertains the crowd. Jason Sheckley COMMUNITY CALENDAR Area I BICENTENNIAL Each Monday, the Journal publishes a list of municipal meetings for theweek in Dutchess County and western Ulster County. MONDAY, MAY 2 BEACON CITY COUNCIL 8 Municipal Building.

427 Main 831-0302 CLINTON TOWN PLANNING BOARD 7 30 pm. Town Hall. Centre Road. 266-5721 FISHKILL TOWN BOARD 7 30 p.m.. Town Hall.

Bedford Avenue. 896-6731 LAGRANGE TOWN ZONING BOARD 8 pm. Town Hall, 120 Stringham Road, 452- 1830 PAWLING VILLAGE BOARD 7 p.m.. Village Hall, 9 Memorial Ave 855-1122 POUGHKEEPSIE CITY COMMON COUNCIL 7 pm. Mid-Hudson Library Anriex.

105 Market St. 431-8362 Tree crew Continued from page 5A make home visits most people change their minds." 9 In place of the Dutch elms killed County's Senior Citizens of the Year honored By Luis Monteagudo gathering of about 200 people at the "If it wasn't for her, I'd be lost," rence Bennett, D-96th District, for ARLINGTON Maurice "Joe" Peattie and Helen Nixon never expected any recognition for helping their fellow senior citizens. But Friday, the two got just that, receiving Senior Citizen of the Year' awards from the Dutchess County Association for Senior Citizens Inc. Association President Franklin Hazard announced the awards to a group's annual luncheon "Joe is the type who does SO many charitable things because he supply enjoys life and likes to share it with people." Hazard said "Above all, he is a very nice person." Peattie, 70, who lives in the Town of Poughkeepsie, declined to make a speech. But before accepting the award he credited his wife, Mary.

with helping him on his projects. Vincent Charles Juchnewicz HOPEWELL JUNCTION Vincent Charles Juchnewicz, 18, a junior at the Arlington High School North Campus, died Friday as the result of an automobile accident in Poughquag. A lifelong local resident, he was a member of Boy Scouts Troop 77, Poughquag, and the Lutheran Church of Christ the King, Pawling. He was born March 13, 1970, in Poughkeepsie, to Vincent and Roberta Bullwinkle Juchnewicz. His parents survive in (Hopewell Junction.

Other survivors include a brother, Richard Juchnewicz of Washington, D.C.; three grandparents, Robert Bullwinkle of Dover Plains, and Mr and Mrs. Joseph Wor of Stormville: and several aunts, uncles and cousInS. Calling hours will be from 2 to 4 and 7 to-9 p.m. today at the Horn Thomes Funeral Home, 83 E. Main Pawling.

Services will be held at 10 a.m. Tuesday at the Lutheran Church of Christ the King. Route 22, Pawling. The Rev Arthur Gronbach will officrate. Burial will be in the Beckman Cemetery, Poughquag.

Memorial donations may be made to the Lutheran Church of Christ the King, Building Fund, Route 22, Pawling, Y. 12564. Michael A. Spoto MILTON Michael A. Spoto.

57, a staff engineer with IBM East Fishkill, died Sunday at his home after a long illness. A local resident most of his life, he was president of the Marlboro Youth Baseball, Minor League and a member of the IBM Slow -Pitch League. He served in the U.S. Navy during the Korean conflict. Mr.

Spoto was a member of the St. James Roman Catholic Church. Milton. He was born Aug 9. 1930, in New York City, to Nicholas and Lucy Mortellaro Spoto.

He married Phyllis A. Levy, who survives at home. Other survivors include three sons, Michael S. Spoto and Christopher A. Spoto, both of Montgomery (Orange County), and Gregory M.

Spoto at home; two stepsons, Fred E. Casey Jr. and Kevin P. Casey, both of Marlboro; four daughters, Deborah Kropp of Gardiner. Kathleen Spoto of Kingston, Stephanie Spoto of Montgomery, and Sandra Walker of Monroe (Orange County), a brother, Vincent V.

Spoto of San Jose, Calif five grandchildren, and several meces and nephews Mr. Spoto was predeceased by a stepfather, Frank Zambito. Calling hours will be. held from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 today at the Di Donato Funeral Horne, Route 9W, Marlboro. A Mass of the Christian Burial will be offered at 10 a m.

Tuesday at the St. James Roman Catholic Church, Milton. Burial will be in St. Mary's Cemetery, Marlboro. Memorial donations may be made to the Marlboro Youth Baseball League, Stephen Aurigemma South Road, Marlboro, N.

Y. 12542, or the Bishop Dunn Memorial School, Special Education Department, Gidney Avenue, Newburgh, N.Y. 12550. Albert 'Pete' Simmons Simmons married Eunice Feller Seaton, who survives at home, Other survivors include a sister, Laura Wager of Rhinebeck: and several nieces, nephews and cousins. Calling hours will be from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m today at the Dapson Funeral Home, 65 W.

Market St, Rhinebeck. Services will be held at 2 p.m. Tuesday at the funeral home. The Rev. John Koppenaal will officiate.

Burial will be in the Rhinebeck Cemetery. Memorial donations may be made to the American Cancer Society, Dutchess County Unit, Hope Lodge, Vassar Brothers Hospital, Reade Place, Poughkeepsie, N.Y. 12601, or the Rhinebeck Fire Rhinebeck, N. Y. 12572.

RED HOOK TOWN PLANNING LAGRANGE TOWN BOARD 7:30 Town Mall 120 Stringham Road, 452-1830 BOARD 7:45 p.m., Town Hall, Route 9, 758- 3561 NORTH EAST TOWN PLANNNG BOARD 7:30 Avenue, BOARD 518 7. 789-3778 30 Town Hall, Maple RED HOOK VILLAGE p.m. Village Hall, 24 S. Broadway, 758-1081 RED HOOK TOWN ZONING BOARD RHINEBECK TOWN PLANNING 7 45 Town Hall, Route 9, 758-5991 BOARD 7 30 p.m., Town Mall, East Market Street. 876-6296 THURSDAY, MAY 5 TUESDAY, MAY 3 AMENIA TOWN PLANNING BOARD -8pm.

Town Hall. Mechanic Street. 373-9334 ARLINGTON workshop. Central SCHOOL Administrative BOARD Office. 2329 BEACON PLANNING BOARD Dutchess Turnpike, 471-0009 m.

Municipal Building 427 Main St. 831-2087 BEEKMAN TOWN ZONING BOARD WEDNESDAY, MAY 4 -8 pm Town Hall County Road 7. 724-5300 DUTCHESS COUNTY LEGISLATURE DUTCHESS COUNTY LEGISLATURE 22 Market 2 committee meetings. 22 Market 2 p.m., committee meetings. 431- 6th-floor Board Chamber, 431-2020 6th Board Chamber, Poughkeepsie, 2020 FISHKILL TOWN ZONING BOARD 1 30 m.

Town Hall. Bedford Avenue. 896-6733 HYDE, PARK TOWN PLANNING BOARD pm. public hearing. Town Hall, LAGRANGE PLANNING BOARD East Market Street, 229-2103 m.

Town Hall, 120 Stringham Road. 452-1830 keeps city green by disease, tree crews planted 1,300 had been hollowed out by a bright crab apple trees during the 'late red woodpecker searching for wood 1960s. bores deep in the branch. "That's a toucby subject," Pros- "It's a full-time job just keeping pero said of the tree that turns side- up with that bird he flies faster its Journal staff RHINEBECK Albert "Pete" Simmons, 72, a lifelong Rhinebeck resident, died Saturday at his Oak Street home after a long illness. Mr.

Simmons had been employed at the Estate bf C.E. Sipperley Plumbing, Rhinebeck, from 1940 until his retirement in 1978. He was a longtime member of the Rhinebeck Fire Co. He was born May 23, 1915, in Rhinebeck, to William and Ada On Nov. 7, 1980, in Rhinebeck, he In Memoriam TURNER.

In Loving memory of Elizabetht. turner who passed away May 2, 1982. We love you and miss you very much. loving family. he said.

Of Nixon, Hazard said the 63-yearold Wappingers Falls resident has arranged many trips during her nine years of service at the Wappingers Falls center and recently joined the association's board of directors Nixon was not in attendance because she was traveling in Europe Also cited were State Sen Jay Rolison Jr. and Assemblyman Law- Obituaries Elmer Joseph Sepede VERBANK Elmer Joseph Sepede, 82. a 38-year area resident, died Saturday at St. Francis Hospital. Town of Poughkeepsie.

Mr. Sepede had worked for the Corbetta Construction Company of Poughkeepsie for the past 60 years, as a private chauffer and as a handyman at the Rip Van Winkle House, Poughkeepsic He had previously lived In the Bronx He was a member of the Union Vale Fire Department and the Verbank Methodist Church He was born Dec 4. 1905, in Philadelphia, to Mr and Mrs Gennerio Sepede On Jan 26, 1972. in the Town of Union Vale, he married Lucille Contessa, who survives at home Other survivors include 3 son, Elmer Sepede of Las Vegas. Nev, a daughter.

Geraldine Tramposch of St Louis, a stepson. Andrew Steiner of Verbank, a stepdaughter, Doloris Trampel of Katonah (Putnam County), and seven grandchildren Services will be held at 3.30 this afternoon at the Verbank Methodist Church, Verbank. Burial will be In the Verbank Cemetery, Verbank. Donations may be made to the Society for the Prevention Cruelty to Animals, Violet Avenue, Poughkeepsie, N.Y. 12601.

Arrangements are under the direction of the Allen Funeral Home, Franklin Avenue, Millbrook. Barbara E. Kilgour RED HOOK Barbara Kilgour. 82, a former longtime South Broadway resident, died Sunday at the Columbia-Greene Medical Center, Hudson. She was a member of St.

Paul's Lutheran Church, Red Hook. She was born March 20, 1906, in Red Hook, to Charles and Grace Schlegel. Her husband. James Kilgour died October 1961. Survivors include three sons, James D.

Kilgour Jr. of Red Hook, Robert A. Kilgour of Craryville (Columbia County), and Glenn B. Kilgour of Germantown, Tenn; a brother, Malcolm Tenbroeck of East Park; eight grandchildren; four great -grandchildren, and a niece and a nephew There will be no calling hours. A memorial service will be held at 7 p.m.

Tuesday at the Burnett, Rockefeller Hand Funeral Home, 30 S. Broadway, Red Hook Burial will be in St. Paul's Lutheran Cemetery, Red Hook. Memorial donations may be made to the Red Hook Fire Red Hook, N. Y.

12571. their work on behalf of senior citizens. Other awards included plaques to Marie Tarver, director of the county's Community Development Program, and to John Henke, the assocation's past board president. Posthumous certificates of achievements were awarded to Dorothy Mastroianni and A. Louis Rubin, in whose memory the luncheon was dedicated.

Anna RHINEBECK Anna E. Ratte, 89, a homemaker and lifelong resident of Poughkeepsie, died Saturday at the Ferncliff. Nursing Home in Rhinebeck. From 1954 to 1964, she was a member of the Dutchess Golf and Country Club. She had also belonged to the St.

Francis Hospital Lady's Auxilary, and was a memeber of St. Mary's Catholic Church in the City of Poughkeepsie. Mrs. Ratte was born on March 8, 1899, in Poughkeepsie, to Thomas J. Ratte and Ellen K.

Engle Ratte. She was married on June 17, 1925, at St. Mary's Church, to Louis L. walks slick each year when its fruit falls to the ground. "We're still getting calls about the crab apple trees," said Martin.

The crew is plants its trees with care, taking into consideration power lines, buildings, traffic, cost and requests from neighbors. Prospero has been planting and trimming trees for the city since 1971. His training has come on the job, from forestry seminars and home study courses. On a rainy, weekday morning, Prospero Martin watched over a two-man crew removing a limb from a towering sugar maple on Adriance Avenue. A 10-foot-long section of the limb E.

Ratte Ratte who died June 8. 1964. Mrs. Ratte is survived by one son, Louis L. Ratte Jr.

and three grandchildren, all of Raleigh, N.C. Calling hours will be from 2 to 4 p.m. from and 7 to 9 p.m. Tuesday at the Joseph J. Darrow Sr.

Funeral Home 39 South Hamilton Poughkeepsie. A Mass of Christian Burial will be held at 11:30 a.m. Wednesday at St. Mary's Catholic Church, Poughkeepsie. Burial will follow at St.

Peter's Cemetery. Memorial donations may be made to the American Heart Association or the American Cancer Society. William V. Zeyak V. Zeyak ter, Lisa Sandford of Beacon; a brother, George F.

Zeyak of Beacon; a sister, Dolores Scardefield of New Hamburg; a grandson; and several nieces and nephews. A brother, Douglas Zeyak, died in 1946. Calling hours will be from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. Tuesday at the Halvey Funeral Home, 24 Willow Beacon. Services will be conducted by the Beacon Volunteer Ambulance Corps at 7:15, and the Beacon Lodge of Elks at 7:30.

A Mass of the Christian Burial will be offered at 10 a.m. Wednesday at St. Joachim's Roman Catholic Church, 61 Leonard Beacon. Burial will be in St. Joachim's Cemetery, Beacon.

Memorial donations may be made to the Beacon Volunteer Ambulance Corps, 1 Arquilla Drive, Beacon, N. Y. 12508, or the St. Joachim Church Fund, 61 Leonard Beacon, N. Y.

12508. Yes! You May hear well again with the Nuear Sound Sorter. than our crews can work" said pero. A woman passing by with her dog in tow tells Prospero the woodpecker has recently been heard down the street. The crew will trim hundreds of trees each year and take down another 400 or more.

But it's the planting and nurturing of trees that makes the job satisfying, the crew foreman said. "I won't live to see the end of my work," he said of newly planted trees that will grow far into the next century. "There's one sure way to know when you've been on this job for a while, that's when the trees you planted are ready to come down." Peddle it! $6 Super Sellers 454-2002 NEWBURGH William V. Zeyak, 51. a manager with IBM East Fishkill, died Sunday at St.

Francis Hospital, Town of Poughkeepsie, after a short illness. A Newburgh resident. Mr. Zeyak previously had lived for many years in Beacon. He was a charter member of the Beacon Volunteer Ambulance Corps, a member of the IBM Quarter Century Club and the Beacon Lodge of Elks and an exempt member of the Slater Chemical Glenham.

Mr. Zeyak was a member of St. Joachim's Roman Catholic Church, Beacon. He was born Dec. 1, 1936, in Beacon, to George and Agnes Trojan Zeyak.

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