Friday, September 21, 2018
Vol. 95, No.1
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Patriot's Day PAGES 42-43 n Rock for Kids PAGE 18
GC School Board reviews A/C issues at GCHS auditorium
THE LAST PROMENADE
BY RIKKI N. MASSAND
This past Friday evening, The Seventh Street Promenade closed out its wonderful season by hosting a Circus Night. Residents were treated to a fun night filled with acrobats, jugglers and flame throwers. It was a fantastic way to end the season. A big “Thank You” to the Chamber of Commerce for its hard work! By Regina Moran
Gutenberg Bibles unveiled at GC Library BY RIKKI N. MASSAND On Sunday, September 16 community members gathered at the Garden City Public Library on 7th Street for a welcoming reception and unveiling of the new display of Gutenberg Bibles, reproductions of Bibles printed by Johannes Gutenberg in 1450 A.D., which were donated to the village’s library by longtime residents Gilbert and Lynn Pavia. The family lived here in Garden City for 36 years and now resides on the North Fork in Suffolk County.
Nearly 90 years ago Gil Pavia’s father Virgil entered into the bookbinding industry, after he spent four years in trade school in Turin, Italy. In 1947 Virgil Pavia grew his own bookbinding business to include his family members, and the company started making the high-quality reproduction Bibles in and around 1961 and continued throughout the 1960’s. Their replica Gutenberg Bibles were printed in Jersey City, New Jersey by New City Printing, and Pavia calls them the best printing job he has ever seen. He explained the background
At its regular monthly meeting at the Garden City High School library on Wednesday, September 12 the Board of Education listened to an update on construction of the high school auditorium’s new air conditioning infrastructure. One month ago consultants raised a concern over the ceiling and the potential for plaster to fall into the seating and performance (stage) area. At the school board’s August 14 meeting, in an update from Gary Gonzalez from Park East Construction, construction consultants to the district, the board heard about the start of work on the roof of the auditorium including abatement of the auditorium and removal of the existing mechanical system overhead. “During construction we did run into some issues with some of the existing ceiling in the auditorium. We did see (plaster) coming down and we brought in BBS Architects to do a thorough review of the existing ceiling, with concern primarily over the two front lower sections of ceiling closest to the auditorium stage,” Gonzalez explained to the board.
"Failures of finished plaster"
of his family’s business and the making of the two Bibles on display at GCPL: “At the age of 16 my father left Italy and he arrived in New York in 1928, while my grandparents were already here. My father worked as a bookbinder in a variety of places, including at the Federal Reserve. Gradually he worked his way up and opened the business in 1947 -- he was very into binding books with fine and leather binding. He was in touch with Cooper Square
This month Gary Schiede, a partner with the district’s consulting architecture firm, Patchogue-based BBS Architects, Landscape Architects and Engineers, P.C. presented the school board with the September monthly construction report, immediately addressing the HVAC at the auditorium. He says the spider-cracking in the ceiling’s flat front plaster noticed over the summer as well as some sections that were “seeing some failures of the finished plaster” and falling apart easily. In early August the process began when BBS had an engineer review conditions of the ceiling as well as the structure supporting it, above the finished (plaster) ceiling. A report was produced for BBS after the attending engineer finished their inspection. According to Schiede the report mentioned some damage that may have been caused by the roof leaking years ago. “Last month (on August 14) we advised the board
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