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‘No surprises’ yet in school capital work

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Officials detail start of projects to district buildings, Memorial Field BY B I LL SAN ANTONIO Construction has begun on the first wave of projects in the Manhasset School District’s $22.6 million capital plan, while plans for work slated to take place next year have been submitted to the state Department of Education for approval, district officials said Tuesday. “We haven’t had any surprises yet,” district architect John Grillo said. The summer work has consisted primarily of pouring concrete foundations and repairing drainage systems at Shelter Rock and Munsey Park elementary schools and Memorial Field, as well as the early stages of a new bathroom facility at the field and the conversion of the district’s bus garage into a new central administration office. Manhasset School Superintendent Charles Cardillo said district

administration had conducted regular meetings and site visits with Grillo, facilities director Armand Markarian and project engineers detailing the work. More intensive work is set to take place in 2016 and 2017, including classroom upgrades at all three schools. Grillo said drainage to a playground at Shelter Rock has completed, and safety surfaces would be installed within the next week. In the next two weeks, Grillo said wall pads at Munsey Park and Shelter Rock’s gymnasiums would be replaced and the wall partitions there would be removed. Partitions would be replaced by moveable wall curtains. At Munsey Park, two old sheds on campus have been completely removed, and Grillo said metal studs for replacement facilities would be installed in the next week. At Memorial Field, where the Continued on Page 50

Pictured is the musical group, Tim and the Space Cadets, which performed Monday at the Mary Jane Davies Green as part of the Town of North Hempstead concert series’ “Family Night.”

Longtime English teacher Jon Whalen dies at 79 BY B I LL SAN ANTONIO

his hometown part of his permanent address. The former Manhasset Jon C. Whalen inherited High School English teacher his mother’s house in upstate reconnected with old friends Auburn after she died in 1987, and enjoyed the small-town and shuttled back and forth so environment, his son Bernard frequently he eventually made Whalen said, attending Auburn

Doubledays baseball games and taking his boat out on the Finger Lakes. And until he died July 12 at Auburn Community Hospital of congestive heart failure at age 79, Bernard said his father Continued on Page 50

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