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42nd YEAR No. 17 FREEPORT, NEW YORK, AUGUST 25.1977 PRICE 15^ PER COPY
More Mall Parking Proposed
Expansion Of Henry Sfreef
Porfcfng Field Considered
FREEPORT - The village b considering! intteased parking foj the
Freeport Mall (Central Business District) area, THE LEADER learned
this week. Although the matter was removed from this Monday night's
agenda, the Board of Trustees did enter into some discussion of the
question of directing the Mall's architect to prepare plans and specifi­cations
for the expuiion of Park-'
A:LARQ£ CROWD tiirnfld out last Friday to aae the'Fre*port S M •
Devils, the Rscreation Center's unbeaten team, win another big one.
The Division IV championship meet was awum In the vlllafle'a Recrea­tion
Center pool..On home ','ground," the Sea Devils accumulated-
1209 points, 26 over the second place winners, Cantlague.
Swim Team Sweeps Meet, Agdin I
FREEPORT - The Village Recreation Center swim team swam their
way to another dean sweep victory last Friday during the Nassau
"County Swim (ConfenSace Divi^n IV.championsbip niect. The Free-port
Sea pevUs massed 209 points'to beat back second place Cantalgue
withtheir 183 points.' O&et teams entered in the meet were Christp-pher
Morley, Levittown u, Man- . •• • ,'-.^ . '_• r——"-——.
oriiaven and Rath Park. - ' • .
In existence only three years
and hampered by a lack of team -
members in the 15 to 17 age cate­gory,
the Sea Devils neverthe­less
ended their 1977 season un­defeated
-r- champs in the Divi­sion's
Dual meet, possessors of
one gold and .two silver medals,
and now overall champs of Divi-
. sion IV. Their iniprfciistve recbnT^
will see them moved up to Divi­sion
in placement next summer.
At the Friday, August 19, meet
three Sea Devils broke records
they had previously established in
the Division. Jackie Bade, holder
of a gold medal and swimming in
the girls 11 to IX year old class,
did the 100-yard freestyle in
1:02.1 Kieman MoUoy, in the
' boys nine to 10 year old class, did
the SO-yard badtstroke in :40.K
The third record-breaker -was
• Clare Dunkle, vyho backstroked
her way to a first with a time of
1:16.4.
Placing in freestyle events in
. both 50-and lOO-yard «alegories,
aside from Bade's win. Heather,
McKeown took a third (time
:36.9); Don Lawless, a second
Public Hearing
SetFor;4iorth
Main Rezoning
(:344); Chris McCarthy, a third
(1:13); Eileen Lawless, a second
(1:09) and Sharon McCarthy (a
first, 1:07):
In backstroke, joining: Molloy
and Dunkle as winners of various
events, were Jill Spelina (a first,
:43), Michele. Moreo (a: second, -
;57;2), Steve Quinton (a fourth
place,: J».4) jiml_ Bol> Lnghlm_
(a second, with atime of f:13).
Those amassing-: points for-
Freeport in the breaststroke cate­gories
were Tracy O'Brien (a
second, :45.5), Todd Holly (a
first, :46.5), Adrienne Loughlin
(a first, :40.5), Joe Lawless (a
second, :41.6). Gayle Spelina (a
first, 1:23.3) and Kren Bessel (a
second. 1:28J). . '
In the various-butterfly events;
Freeport wins were taken by Rob­in
Traub (a first, :18J). Mat
Dunkle (a fourth. :18.2), JUI
Crook (a first ;32.6). Tom O'Brien
(a first, :3l), Qare Turner (a
fourth, :43.5) and Don Turner (a
fourth. ^36.6).
Going into the 200-yard relays.
"tfie'Sea .Devils were—ten points
. (Cont. on Page 12)1
FREEPORT-A public hearing
will be held here this coming
: Monday, August 29, to consider
the rezoning of North . Main
Street. The hearing lief ore the
Village Board of Trustees is
scheduled to begin at 8 pm in
Village Hall...
DetaiTs of the prxjpbsed re­zoning
have been previously,
. published in THE LEADER iissue
of July 28). The suggestion to re-zone
was made by the village's
' consulting tirm of Raymond,
Parish,-Pine-"and" Weiner," who"
_s^died the_area under the Cora- ,
muniiy Development (CDA) pro­gram.
In requesting the change, the
village's Community Develop­ment
Director, .James Dunne,
dted "numerous" inquiries by .
(Cont. on Page 7)
Freeport FD Jhljrd
In State Contest
The Freeport Ftre Department
captured third place in the New
-York State 1977 parade compc«-
titioo held Sunday, August 21, in
up-state SytacusCf , .
(C:ont. on Page 12)
Ing Field 12. The Item wQlbe vbt-
•ed upon at some future' meting
when the amount needed for.-thc ~
aixiiitect'sworic is deafly sped--
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.Parking Field 12 goes behind
some of the stores oii the east side
of the.Mall. The suggestion is to
expand it to Newton Boulevard,
thus giving the properties north
of that street easier accessibility
, to public parking and, perhaps,
. creating more -interest in the
presenUy vacant storp fortnerly
occupied by Grant's. .
^ CarWashSIte
The Sunrise Highway site-of a
car wash, had been also consi­dered
at one rime for public
parking, but the property pres­ently
is undergoing constructional'
^ wort:_as It has, been reanUy sub.-
~ leas«il>y~Majesric'Cficvrolcl for
use as a used-car lot in connection
. with their present facility; South
Nassau Communities Hospital, a
village spokesman said, is the
actual owner 6f the proeprty, as
well as the Grant property, but a
labor union has a long-term lease
on it.- -.-.-•- • - - -.. 1...
• OncePaAlng Field 12 Is ex­tended;'
an additional 34 cars
could be parked there.
• Village sources had previously
mentioned that the expansion of
parking facilities would be paid
for wi3i a special-assessment on
proeprdes in that area desig-.
nated as a spedal assessment
district. :
Otber Matters
During their open voting ses­sion,
the Board aho asked vil­lage
counsel to research and
make recommendations on laws
governing minimum standards
for miaintenance of lawns, as rec­ommended
by Village Clerk Tom
DcVincenzo.
—The-Board-also voted upon a
Bond and Capital Note REsolu-
4ion,-for-4he- raishig .of.Arthur
Street, not to exceed SIW.OOO
without sidewalk work.-
A report from village counsel
(Com. on Page 9)
THEY WON AQAINI The Conference.trophy was prMorTtedty village
Mayor William White (r.) to the Recreation Sea Devils who again won
a Division IV CfiAfTPlONSHlP, For the second time In two weeka, the
Recreation Center swim team beat back all competition, as this past
Friday they took the Nassau County Swim Conference Division IV Dual
Championship. Accepting the trophy, on behalf of their team, are (I. to
r.) Coach Dennis Et>erhart, Tommy O'Brien and Jackie Bade. Bade
brought home a gold medal and O'Brien two silvers from the Confer­ence's
Class A Meet. Next season Freeport's three year old team will
move up to Division ill by virtue of their undefeated 1977 season.