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Newsline: July 2001 Islip’s Teamsters Get the Beaches Ready for Fun and Sun Members of Local 237’s Long Island Division have been laboring for months to assure that the more than 300,000 residents of the Township of Islip will be able to enjoy the surf, sand and sun even more this summer. The Teamsters, who work for the Township’s Dock, Recreation and Maintenance Departments, have been kept busy preparing for the onslaught of summer — a brief touch of which we felt with 90 degrees temperatures last month. The work crews are responsible for keeping the township’s many beaches, docks and marinas clean and in repair. Among the projects in which they were involved were the construction of new bathrooms at Kismet and Fair Harbor Beaches on Fire Island, and the removal of Japanese pine trees at Atlantique Beach that were killed when they were infected with beetle blight. Danny Atkins, a 13-year member of the Township’s Recreation Department, said they built the brick bathroom at Kismet Beach from the ground up, clearing the land, installing a foundation, and laying the bricks. The members of the Township’s Maintenance Department were responsible for the installation of the electrical equipment in the facility. The Maintenance Department is also responsible for making sure the electrical connections for boats tying up at the township’s docks and marinas are in good shape. Nothing and No One Are Overlooked In Fair Harbor, a new restroom, complete with a ramp making it accessible to the handicapped, was built by the members of the Township’s Dock Department. “We would go out very day in trucks to do whatever was needed,” Atkins said. Probably the toughest work fell to the Recreation Department, whose members had to rid the area around Atlantique Beach of the dead pine trees. Raymond Grimm attacked the problem with a power saw and sound deadening ear protection. Richard Kloppenborg’s approach was more technical. He got rid of the old trees and debris with a powerful tractor. It was a lot of hard work for Local 237 Teamsters, but now it’s sand, surf and sun for thousands of Long Island’s beachgoers. |
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 New construction at Kismet Beach is within sight of the lighthouse landmark.  Teddy Gutierrez, a maintenance worker with the Recreation Department, does brickwork on a new Kismet bathroom.  Richard Kloppenborg in his tractor getting ready to clear the area of dead trees and brush at Atlantique Beach. |
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