(The following letter was sent to Mayor Pellegrino and is printed here at the writer's request.)

I read with interest your letter to the editor of the Port Washington News published in the Feb. 6 edition regarding Port North's waterfront project. Your letter was written to correct "some omissions" that appeared in the previous week's article. These "omissions" were the names of "those individuals who have contributed to the waterfront project." May I respectfully address an omission in your letter; namely, the name of Jay C. Fearon.

Jay, a Port Washington resident, dedicated his life to the Port Washington waterfront. As you well know, he operated Fearon Marine Service at 40 Shore Road for approximately 25 years. Years ago, a town councilman asked me why the Fearon Marine property (concededly never a waterfront showplace) couldn't look like the yacht clubs. In response, I asked him, rhetorically, how did he think the yacht clubs managed to look so pristine? The answer was Fearon Marine Service.

I explained Fearon Marine Service was not a "marina;" it was a boatyard. It was a place where many of the floats for the pristine yacht clubs (as well as many private homeowners) were constructed. It was a place where the pilings that held the floats in place were stored. It was a place where the barge crane (perhaps unsightly to some) that drives the pilings were stored. It was a place where the sheathing for the bulkheads for the yacht clubs and homeowners were stored. Although the Fearon Marine property was unsightly to some, Jay Fearon did more to beautify Port Washington waterfront than anyone else.

More than a year after his untimely death, 40 Shore Road is still referred to as the "former Fearon Marine property." I may be asking too much to have the park named the Jay C. Fearon Memorial Park, but I certainly hope one of the plaques you seek to erect will bear his name. Whatever your decision, to me and to many others, this property will always be known as the Fearon Marine property.

Bruce W. Migatz