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42nd YEAR, No. 16 FREEPORT, NEW YORK. AUGUST 18.1977 PRICE I5t PER COPY
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Fieepdrt Rec Swini Tcom
Win Five In A Row
- FREEPORT • The Sea Devils, Freeport Recreation Center's swim
team, is coming to the close of a stunning summer season.; Although in
existence only three years, the Sea Devils have amassed an undefeated
1977 record (5-0), are now champions of the Division IV Dual Meet Sea­son,
and possess two gold and two silver medals from the.Nassau
.County Swim Conference Class A • I-
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;'L •- " '; i-'- ""VlctbRy 8MILES aris flashed by metnberalof the Sea D^lla,' Freepoct
. ' ' ; : Becreatlon'C^ter'stnvlrh team,'after captuhng the Nassau Coijnty DK
r : . ; ; viSloih'IV, Dual Meet Championship. "Much tfedlf for the youngsters'
'•'.••": t^tevement must go to Coach]OennM-Eberhardt (I.) and Assistant
": . rCqach Joe Hall {r:), both merobeii of the fl^ '.•,:-.'
FREEPORT • One village residieiat i^)peax<»l befm
Trustees this past Monday night; at its bimonthly public i^eeting, to
man, of Weijt Scaunan Avenue, cDmj>lalned thft^sanitation men some
Champjoniship finals.
Commenting on the Sea Devil's
success. Mayor William White
gave praise to the team members
and the Rec Center staff, and ex­pressed
thanks to the members'
patents, whose fund raising cfr
forts, strong attendance, and be-
,Uet.ln the fledging team.contri-
.' buted substantially to its victor-;
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'Wo now havejaflie group_of .
•;hardwotldiig Freeport • young^"
sters,!* "teflectwi the Maypft,
"reirfisenting ,dur"'community'
throughout'the" regioii,; and atv
tracting inany. visitors £rom:eIse-wheiie
to bur Recreation center.".
Coadsed Iw Dennis Eberhardt,.
the team of boys and girls —-
ran^g in age from seven to 17
— have bieen competing agidnst
23 other County teams, cpmpris-ing.
a total field of over 3,000
swimmers.
Frwporl Vamps, Will S^^.'^A^^^
swam to a impressive 219-100 vic­tory
over Bath Park, thus captur­ing
the fifth s&aigbt win of thrir
. ROCKVUXE CENTRE;- Free-port's
fearless firemen-won the
Southern. New York Old Fash-street
parking on New-York Ave­nue,
fitjm Seaman to Craig,' to al­low
for. proper cleaning of the
streets;. He'told the. Board that
a neighbor ..repairs -and resells '
cars and keeps them parked in the
street forTaSg" periods of-time. -
White pronused that the village
would-look-into that particular
and
TC>-
strect
teer department bad a total of-
23 points, five more than second
place East Meadow.
Freeport Truck Company I took
firsts in the Three Man -.Ladder
event and a fourth in Running
Hose fulded to their point ac­cumulation.
Second-place-Eitft Meadow,
also took two first places and
established a new state record in
the Running Hose cvynti •
times dump thfe btg5 In tlie mlddleof the strwt iuid leav'^^ The vUlage's veluB.
.there. He also spoke of the men
"stomping an ovet-the lawns...!
can't put up a f eiicfc between niy_
house and next &or,". Gerstman
complained. '". '
Mayor'Wtliiam White, chairing
the meeting,' suggested that if
Gerstman were to put up a fence
TheTH5ir»*Bld1iIve to go ardiiiid""
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. "They do three Iwuses at-once."
Gerstman • frrplaineri.—case and ' other • problems
"and I hate to stop them from do-
Lngthat." - , . ; .
Gerstinan told the Board that
his objection to back yard pickup
was not to economize money.
. "We.liave to put the trash out
once a week and we can-do h
three times, a'week," he said.
Gerstman told the Board that he-had
taken a picture of the street
after a bag had been dumped
there and not picked up by the ,
sanitation men. White explained
that the Board liad discussed tiie^
question thoroughly, as had the
Citizen's Budget Committee, at'
past budget sessions and the
community appeared to want to
retain the present system.
Gerstman, the only person to
speak before the Board, also re-
- quested 'alternate side of the
ioned-P-ai^de-and-DriBr^ield-in^P^^. ^''^^ -Fladng-ia-thfr
RockviQe Centre last Saturday.
meet, which"was held at th"FRec
Center. • were; Tracie O'Brien,
Heather McKeown, Dan lawless,
Mat Dunkle, Mark Abma, Jill
Crook, Jatkie Bade, Robin Sni-pas,
Steve Quinton, Chris McCar­thy,
PeterQmstrom, Eileen Law­less,
Geraldlne McCarthy, JiiUe ..
McCarthy, .Chris Arcuri. Frank-
Leach, Tirii. McCarthy. Karen
Bcssel,: Sharon -McCarthXi;::Jill -.-
•"SpellnaV'^EhiinyYIEImsifoin, Ty^-^^-
rone Fislvw', lUeninMoUy. Tara;
McCarthy." Mlchele" Moreo. Tom
O'Btien; Katie Dunkle, Robin
• Traiib. MaryMckeown, Adrienne
LoQghlin. Lynda! Ostrofeky, Butch
•McCarthy. Russell Traub. Todd
Holly. Joe Lawless, Chris Mc—
- Carthy, Don Turner, Bob Lough-lin,
Clare Turner, Gsyle Spelina,
Jim Laughlin. Beth Wlkman, Paul
Traub, Kathy Elmstrom, Maria
Moito and Keith McCarthy. •
For the first.time in its,short
history, Freeport's team was able
to qualify swimmers in the Class
- A Category, the highest level of
competition. In the ' Class A '
Championship. Jatkie Bade won
— -(Coat.-otrP«jiel6r , ~~~
garding parking
sweeping.
-" J^on-anPritafion Ohffnanrti
-At the public, voting session of
the Board, which preceded the
public meeting, tlie .Board re­quested
Village Counsel to pre-' -
pare for a change in an ordinance
to allow a village franchisee
Cm this case Cable TV) to solicit
door-to-door while banning such
solicitation thnragjiout the vil­lage.
^OtberMaHen .
A3 ainendmerif.was discussed
and voted upon which would pre­vent'
parking for 50 feet on the
south side of Atlantic Avenue at
Westside Avenue.
Wlute was authorized to sign-
"in casement with Nassau County
. .(Co5t.onPage3) ,
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Teen Theofer
FREEPORT - The Teen Music­al
Theater, an activity of the Free-
.port Arts Council, will present a
musical review Thtirsday, Friday
and Saturday — August 18, 19
and 20 — at 8 pm, at Freq>ort
High School.
Therewew, titled "Good Even­ing,
Stephen," is based on the
" music of Stephra Schward: and
Stephen Sondheim. ^ •
Tickets are SI for the Thursday
night preview and S2 for adults,
SI for students and senior dtizens
on Friday and Saturday. They will
be on sale at the door.
(Coot, on Page 6)
IT FITS JUSTillGHTl Eight year old Bobby Smith takes time out from
shopping for back-to-school clothes at Barasch's, on South Main
-Street, to help-Mayor-WllUam White don-a promotlonal-iihard-hatii-tef^
the Freeport Mall. Many of the South Main Street-Freeport Mail mer­chants
are giving away the colorful plastic hats with a minima] pur­chase.
The hats proudly sport the legend "Freeport Mall," which Is
presently under construction. Wearing their hats are (I. to r.) David
Schiff, of the Freeport Community Development Agency; Warren
Samet, owner of Samet's on South Main Street;' Ira Bryck of Barasch's;
Bobby: the Mayor; and Barasch's owner Bill Bryck, who conceived and
organized the promotion. •