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SUNDAY NEWS, JULY 29, 1973 Wev Amraby iaim ce for WSDDovbirook Area -9? "People realize they could be eon-fronted with an emergency of some kind or another and are glad to hear that help will be at hand if needed." Lugero said his grandmother recently suffered a slight heart attack and he was able to administar oxygen immediately. Patrol Cars Equipped "AH my patrol cars are equipped for such emergencies," explained. i "My men are all trained in Red Cross -work, too, and have often gone to someone's assistance in the course of their work." "I started the patrol agency about a year and a half, ago, realizing the need for additional security on both the Island and in Brooklyn." Hires Vietnam Vets The agency now ha3 12 cars and some 60 employes. "I make it a point it to hire Vietnam vets first, then retired cops, and my men know that I'm available to them 24 hours a day if any problem arises," he said. His cars have the latest equipment and often pick up radio calls for emergencies.

Such calls underscored the need for more ambulances, he says. The tall, blue eyed Lugero twirled his moustache and proclaimed. "Our motto is service and protection." He hopes to have the ambulance in operation by By MARY ENGELS If there's one thing that Richard Lugero values more than anything else it's friendship. "Money you can always make," said Lugero, "but friendship is something you can't buy. And for me it's the biggest thing in life." To prove it, Lugero, who runs the Willowbrook Security Patrol Agency, is buying an ambulance for use in his neighborhood.

(Willowbrook and environs) and "wherever else we can be. of assistance." "If there's one thing I've noticed on the Island it's been the tremendous lack of ambulances. I know they've started two volunteer ones on the Isle, but there is none for this area," Lugero said in his Willowbrook Road home-office the other Passing Out Leaflets For the past few weeks, he and members of his agency have been ringing doorbells and passing out-leaflets to drum up suppport to keep the ambulance running around the clock. "I'm paying for the ambulance myself," (it will cost roughly SI 0,000) said Lugero, "but in order to pay for drivers, phones and general upkeep, I need the support of the community." So far, he said, it's been -'vi. Willowbrook Security Patrol Agency president Richard Lugero (left) chats with Capt.

Elliot Harlton. Richard Lugero to him, real security is in friendship. Willowbrook' new ambulance. wmmmmmm 4 I A group of girls builds dreams and sand castles at South Beach, Seashore Lamentf Baching beauties are still plentiful and more of them are being seen, what with bikinis and all, but the spirit' doesn't seem to be quite as ic used to y. Maybe it's because the- swimming isn't either.

Since the area hi become polluted, there isn't much opportunity to enjoy an ocean dip. It doeso't deter some, however. There are still amusements, if you wander off the Beach down Sand Lane. But even they seem tame by comparison when one recalls riding the daredevil Loop-the-Loop. Youngsters enjoy the Old-timers recount the days spent' at South Beach with fond rememberanee.

"That was when you could take a ferry there and spend the day with a picnic" basket and then take a ride on the erris wheel or whip," said one. Another remembers when the SIRT trains ran directly to South Beach. "The population of the Isle was small, but there were three train routes then. Today, with its increased growth, we're lucky to have one line left to cover south route." Nowadays, throngs still flock to Sooth Beach but it's not quite the same. True, the beach area has been cleaned up somewhat, and there is a lovely new boardwalk that stretches along the sands.

Also, thwe -are brand sew lackers and parking kiddy ride3 sucti i tne lire engine, pillar and turtle or maybe tne jerr wheel, but somehow the enthusiasm a visit to South Beach once arou in natives and Other visitors isn't thl "It is to know the place is i there. I gueaa- thatVmeUUig, 3 A potantial fireman gets hookand ladder training. merited ons old-timer..