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DAILY NEWS. Thursday. December 24. 1987 ItfipiFil FgD good dftfflo taxffl disposal program." Gloria Warshofsky of the Bayswater Civic Association said that her home is three blocks from the dump and that she hears the noise of garbage trucks there 24 hours a day. The landfill covers 178 acres and is adjacent to Jamaica Bay, from Beach 49th St to Beach 57th St It was opened in 1938 and is the oldest in the city system.

Dan Schneider, assistant counsel in the case, said the case will be heard in State Supreme Court on Feb. 4 and that it could drag on for a long time. But he noted that the matter is one of urgency. "This could be another Love Canal in the making," he warned. short while, 3,000 barrels were unearthed.

This site cannot hold toxic chemicals securely. Each day, 167,000 gallons of contaminated liquid leeches from it" Queens Borough President Claire Shulman noted that the state and city signed an agreement on Aug. 19 that allows the dump to expand from 500 to 1,200 tons a day. All-day noise The amount of garbage dumped in the landfill represents only 5 of all of the solid waste collected in the city, and its transfer to the Fresh Kills Landfill in Staten Islandthe city's only other functioning landfill would "not have a substantial impact on the city's solid-waste- damage to life and property," he said. 'Large-scale dumping' Kevin Callaghan, vice president of the Beach and Bay Civic Association, said he believes the Edgemere Landfill "may be the most toxic landfill in the world." He said that for 20 years the city's Department of Sanitation has "allowed large-scale dumping of waste oils in its landfills and has never thoroughly monitored the practice.

The city's policy was simply to divert the most noxious chemicals to Edgemere "The result of this practice surfaced when a bulldozer operator working at the Edgemere site struck a buried 55-gallon drum. Within a By STEWART AIN Daily News Staff Writer The Edgemere Landfill in the Rockaways is operating illegally, according to a coalition of community groups and politicians who have filed suit to compel the city and state to close it At a press conference in Queens Borough Hall yesterday, the group's lawyer, Ste ven Siegel, said that the state bars any dump from operating without a permit and that because the Edgemere Landfill doesn't have one, it must close. The suit asks simply that the state enforce its own rules, he said. "This is one of the most toxic, deadly landfills, and the community groups are saying they want to protect future HflDDDg North ''vC A "1 Duo to perform Violinist Thurston Johnson and pianist David Garney will perform in the Scandinavia Festival I at 8:30 p.m. Saturday in the Weill Recital Hall of Carnegie Hall, at 57th St and Seventh Ave, as part of the International Festival series.

Tickets are $15 and may be purchased at the box office. Muslim meeting A conference aimed at increasing understanding between Muslims and Americans of other faiths will be held tomorrow at noon at the Penta Hotel, 33d St and Seventh Ave. The conference, sponsored by the Council of Masajid of the United States, will include a banquet and a book fair. For information, call 627-4330. Exhibition An exhibition and slide show on upper West Side buildings such as the An-sonia, Eldorado and San Remo is on display at the Endicott on Columbus Ave.

between 81st and 82d Sts. The hours are noon to 5 p.m. each day except Christmas and New Year's weekends. The exhibit is presented by Landmark a preservationist group. For more information, call 496-8110.

Behind scenes The 92d St is offering behind-the-scenes glimpses of "The Nutcracker Plus," a new version of the classic being performed by the Joffrey Ballet at the City Center Theater. Tour participants will go backstage to meet the cast following the New York premiere on Wednesday, Dec. 30. Tickets are $26.50. Call the at 996-1105 for reservations and information.

Peace concert The Cathedral of St John the Divine at 112th St and Amsterdam Ave. will sponsor its fifth annual New Year's Eve Concert for Peace on Dec. 31, featuring the Brooklyn Philharmonic Orchestra, the Schubert Society Chorus. Leonard Bernstein will be the principal speaker. The evening will end with the lighting of candles for peace with music provided by the folksinger Odetta.

Admission is free. 1 "I i "as. i i LARRY KELLY welcomes fare with I if "-i grateful passenger a middle-aged housewife who preferred anonymity. Kelly, his blue eyes twinkling, noted, "People enjoy the holiday atmosphere so much they don't want to get off the bus. Actually, I love Christmas, and I like cheering up people during the holiday season.

It gives me a good feeling, too." Kelly has been driving for Triboro Coach since he joined the company in 1979. He said he has been decorating his buses each Yuletide since then and has been on his present run for the past four months. His bus No. 126 begins its daily run at 7:30 a.m. at Eliot Ave.

in Ma-speth. Kelly lives on Concord St in Franklin Square with his wife, Antoinette. One of their four children, Lawrence 22, is an office staffer at Triboro Coach's headquarters in Jackson Heights. A slim, brown-haired man standing 6-feet-4, Kelly is hardly a Santa lookalike, but the joy he generates at Christmas time is likely not to be forgotten least of all by his passengers. Kelly said he usually keeps his bus decorated until Little Christmas on Jan.

6, signifying the day the Three Wise Men paid homage to the child in Bethlehem. Kelly noted in a voice tinged with sadness, "I'm slated to be transferred to another run the Monday after Christmas, so I guess the decorations will come down then." is cEneoir By WILLIAM NEUCEBAUER Dairy News Staff Writer Larry Kelly is so imbued with the Christmas spirit that he literally carries it on the job, much to the delight of the passengers who daily ride his Q-54 bus on the winding, six-mile run from Jackson Heights to Elmhurst And while Santa starts reining up Donner, Blitzen and the other reindeer as a prelude to his journey tonight, Kelly, a 47-year-old Long Island father of four, will be taking the surface route of the Triboro Coach Corp. to herald the holiday season in his inimitable and highly visible fashion. Inside of the four-ton, 49-passenger carrier Kelly drives are decorations that make it seem a lot like Santa's digs at the North Pole. A colored picture of Santa in his sleigh adorns the entire back wall of the bus, and a two-foot-high Christmas tree nestles brightly on a little stand at the entrance door.

Garlands sweep the along the bus interior and small pictures of the jolly old gent in his red suit grace the bus windows. Next to the driver's seat is a big box of candy canes which Kelly doles out to riders getting on or off the bus during its 20-stop run. And finally, a tape recorder at Kelly's side plays Christmas car-ols as the bus rumbles onward. "It's the greatest Christmas treat a bus rider could want; it perks up everybody," said a -v i candy cane. nu.

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