The-Leader_1977-10-13

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42nd YEAR No. 24 FREEPORT, NEW YORK. OCTOBER 13.1977 PRICE 15* PER COPY
Police Booth Considered For Moll
Board Of Ed Villaffe Offered Nautical
MeetingOct. 19 ^ ^ ^ .^ « ^r
Structure For Boom—"— FREEPORT--The next regular
public meeting of the Freeport
Board of Education will be
held Wednesday, October 19,
8:15 pm. in the Atkinson School
Library on West Seaman Avenue.
Parents Liable
For Damages
FREEPORT- In a recent letter
to the pTA Central Council,
Superintendent of Schools Donald
Costlow commented on the prob­lem
of vandalism. "One of the
reasoiis/-'^he stated, "that we
FREEPORT - The wheel house of a tug boat could be the South Main
Street Mall location of a post of the Freeport Police Department.
The nautical structure, offered to the village, is being viewed by. the
Community.Development agency with a eye to its cost and feasibility
as a permanent police booth on the Freeport Mall.
__Mayor—Wmiam—White,—In—• : '•
-X;^E6IA^WESK/FfMpon Mjtyxn- w/lliam White (r.) shows the vil­lage
proclanT^ioni'dflclarrno Catholic Oaughtes of America week to two
local CDA.members. On hand, to receive the prbclaimatlon are Mary
filaneyfe;).;Regent of th© Court Stella Marls #822 of the Catholic
Datjghters of America; and Marita Noone, Vice-regent.: .
Museum Celebrates Fifteen Years
which was also celebrating its '
80th year. On this occasion, the
.Freeport Board of Education gave
the Freeport' Historical Sodety
the conierstone'boxes~from'the~
1892 and 1922 schools..
The third anniversary supper.,
being held this year, jointly com­memorates'
the Museum|s 15
years of; existence and the SSth-anniversary
of both the incorpora­tion
of the village of Freeport and
of the Church of the Transfigura-
. tion. On this evening, the Society
make other village anniversaries.
discussing the proposal with THE
LEADER, called the "sea-faring"
booth "classy." The Mall, which
is ncaring a late-'Novcmber
completion date will have a
nautical motif.
The location of a police booth
on the Mall, THE LEADER learn­ed,
is in.response to both |he de­sires
of the community and edi-.
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-;,.,.'*y*^*?*y?-^;*^Ri^P«>^ Freeport .Police Cominlssloner
lenfofvaiiHalbai utfaerxontrbl ts'"l)avid Meelian "has :'"approvc3
-FREEPORT - Celebrating 15
years of existence for the Freie-port
Historical Museum, the
Freeport Historical Society will
- hold tts-third^onday Night~Anni-~
versary Stipper, on October 23, at
the parish house of The Church of
the Transfiguration.
The first anniversary supper of
the Society was held in Octobert
1%7, at the conclusion of the
activities celebrating the 75th
incorporation of the village. At
that supper, the Freeport Histor-
_JcaL^Museum's- mortgage, was
the. diligence.of our staff and
parents in the past."
Costlow also noted the-enact-,
ment of new state legislation
which provides that parents and
legal guardians are responsible
for up to SI ,000 in vandalism to
public—including school—pro­perty
committed by their children
aged' 11 through 17. The lawr
stipulates thai damages can be
coUected in court i if neces­sary
from parents of those child^ .
rcnwhb "willfully/maliciously or -
unlawfully damage or destroy real
or personal property owned or
maintained by a school district."
The law. applies to all public-owned
property.
Reading Seminar
the plan ^f a police booth on the
Mali because, White said, he
felt it could solye some problems.
Commtmity . . Development
Commissioner Jim Dunne did
caution that the wheel-house
mlg^t not meet the necessary
spedfications. •
Mayor "White also mentioned
this week that- the village
is anxiously waiting for Nassau
County Civil Service Commission
to release the latest police lists in
order for the village to canvas
them. Meehan has been directed
to pursue the quick obtaining of
the lists to enable the village to
hire more poUcepersons and
reach the deparfment's aUtJioriz-ed^
sttengtH of eighty. •.
" ?In'dIsc»issing''the~probIe"m of
bicycling on the mall, which has
caused concern to shoDoers and
storekeepers,: White pointed
out that there were presenUy ho
bicycle racks theife. They will be
provided as sodn as possible, he
stated and explained that the vil­lage
could then prohibit bikes .
from the mall area: completely.
Freeport Cancer Qroup
Raises Money For Research
burned, an act made possible by a
gift from the Freeport Rotary
Oub..
The second anniversary supper
was held in-1972, the tenth an­niversary
of the Museum. Again
^t was held in October, in recogni­tion
of the 80th anniversary of the
village. The supper was-held at
the Church of thcTransfiguration,
It is the 75th anniversary of Our
Holy Redeemer Church and of
Barasch's Youth Centre on South
Main.Street. as well as the 55th
anniversary of the Athena Qub of
Freeport.
Dinner will be served at 7 pm,
preceded at 6 pm.by a reception.
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Two FHS Students Receive Honors
FREEPORT- Brian Aho and '
Michael Diaivison, students at
Freeport High School, have been
awarded Letters of Commenda-tion
in the twenty-third annual
'jIMMj WiiliiiiiM ?ifmt Srhnlar-
. ship Program.
This honor is the result of each
student's outstanding perform­ance
on the Preliminary Scholi-astJc
Aptitnde Test/National
Merit Scholarship Qoaliiying Test.
(PSAT/NMSSQT) which was ad­ministered
nationwide to high
school juniors in October, 1976.
. Brian Aho has followed an.
Honors program at Freeport High •
' 'School in FsigYwh, Sodal Stndi^, [
-.German and Math. Correntlj he
- is enrpn^ m thf; «-hor)I'<s Ad-vanced
Placetdent courses in Bio­logy
and Chemistry. A member of
the High School yearbook staff,
Brian u expected to graduate in
the top 5% of this year's senior
class. _
Mjctiad. UavisoiTTias exccUca~
in the areas of Music and Math at
Freeport High &hooI and has fol­lowed
an honors.program in the
latter. Formcriy a member of the
cross OTuntry team. Michael is
.the son'of Rev- EmAst B. Davison
of freeport's United Methodist
Church.
A total of approximately 35,000
Commended students tfaroagh-out
the United States are being
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For Parents
FREEPORT - -A . Reading
Seminar for all Freeport parents
will be sponsored by Giblyn
School PTA Tuesday, October 18.
7:30pm. at the school."
The seminar will be given by
the Freeport-^Schobr District's"
Learning Resources Team', con­sisting
of Carol Reynolds and
„JK?tby .Heins,. aIonR_with. Elaine-
Mishkin, Giblyn School's correct­ive
reading specialist.
Questions will be answered for
~ the parents whose child is reading
above grade level as well as the
child who has difficulty with any
aspect of reading. Parents will be
—invited tu use—tfre-
MELVILLE • The Freeport
Branch of the American Cancer'
Sodety has raised more than
S2,700 in meinorials alone during
the year ended August 31,1977. .
"This money," stated Freeport
Memorial Chairperson Miriam
Hager, "is contributed by indi-vidiials
who want to • strike back
against the disease through pro-*
grams of research, service and
education."
. Checks payable to the Ameri­can
Cancer Sodety may be sent to
Mrs. Eager at 100 Brooklyn
-Avenue, Apartment 3K, Free-port,
New York 11520. A card will
then be sent to the family of the
bereaved.
" Mrs. Hager can also send a
"Happy .uccasjon'' card to cel6-
brate an anniversary, birthday,
graduation, etc. For more inform­ation,
call FR 8-2006.
u^e tlii: LLiiiipmefi>~
which will be programmed for
reading.
Because Giblyn PTA feels that
reading is the key to a child's
education and future, they urge
all parents to attend the seminar
ID see what the school system is
doing to insure that future.
-The EOC bus win be available
if transportation is needed to and
•from the school.
Coffee and cake will be served
by the PTA.
COMING ATTRACTION. An attractive newcomer to Freport's soon-to-be-
completed million dollar Mall Is the Patio Shopo (pictured above
in an artist's rendering). Under constn;ctlon by Freeport Florists
(which will also retain its present location Freeport. Plaza West),
the Patio will house at.least three stores: a mlnMlorai shop; an outdoor-
Indoor cafe featuring coffee, French, Italian and Danish pastries and
other gourmet delights; and another shop which has not yet been
finalized. The-iandscaped patio has been created in the old walkway
from the west side of the Mall to the Church Street parMng lot.