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43rd YEAR No. 11 FREEPORT, NEW YORK. JULY 13.1978 PRICE 15< PER COPY
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Of Sl^n Ordinance
Paroici Named Local Flfm Profesfs
rchool^Boo^ Review BoordRulfng
FREEPORT - In a 3-2 vote, the
Freeport Board of Education has
chosen Jim Parola to serve as its
president for this coming 1978-79
year. Parola. a resident of North
Long Beach Avenue, was first
elected to the Board in 1977.
Sara Holly, who was re-elected to
the Board of Education for. a
• second three year term this year.
. was unanimously selected by her
feQqw trustees to serve as vice-
/I^e^dcnt. -
.=^-Parola-was-nominated-by" Ed
Monroe..t- George Boalukos
FREEPORT - The village's sign
ordinance, passed into law last
October, received its first appeal
last Monday night as a Freeport
businessman, asked the Village
Board to reverse a decision of the
Architectural Reviw Board.
Created by the new ordinance.to
regulate signs in the village, the
Architectural ^Review Board had
ruled that the two signs of
Meadow Reproductions. 45-
Church Street, did-not conform to
the-requirements of the-law.~ In
protest, the firm's president.
ments against the new sign, the
Reviev# Board had two arguments
against the old signs.
. Speaking for the Review Board,
David Schiff contended that the -
old signs "were not attractive,
not well-placed. With so much,
work gone into the improvement
of thatl}ui]dlng. it's a pity and a
shame to put signs on it that do .
no.tfif." Secondly. Schiff con­tinued,
the size of the old signs
far exceeds the square footage
-permitted by village ordinance.
The two signs measure a total of
NondnatedHoUy."Vnth:BoiatJkos_l Donald Pantina. appeared at the 42 square, feet; the ordinance
and Holly vojdng^for herself, and -Village^Boa^d tneeting to explain allows 8; maximum of 27 square
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• Last February. Pantina told tlie"^^~'-VVIth-'b6th"_sidcs-of the case
triistees; his printing, company, .stated, a.siIent_moment.ofJnde
M^C?oe, Reffly and Parola vbdng -
fvParola;PJ^Irb*came.Presl- ••
dent^IMonroe.: then .-nominated
• Holly; for'the second-spot. No
1 otbier nominations were made.'
Parola took over'the job-as
poresi^jg o8ice commennng that
the sdiool distoict has a budget.,
.J^-^^ "Wt dtn't satisfy everyone In Uie
"^-^ ~ community,' * he said, "but I hope"
we can satisfy the majority."
Boazd Appoiatmenta
. The organization' meeting _pf
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had moved fitopi Grove Street into.
the renovatea building that pre­viously
housed King George
store. At the time he submitted
an application for a single sign.
ojiisliting uf blue plasliu letters
set into the white stucco front of
the new building. Liking the idea,
the Review Board approved his
application.
After the move
however, Pantina
jcasons for not erecting the sign
cision ensued. As Mayor William
White had earlier noted, "this is
the first appeal we've ever done.
How do we go about doing it?"
The silence was broken by
-Pantina as" he came up_wlth_a
A SATURDAY ON THE MALI.; Hawaiian dancers from the Terry
Fprtay School of Danca (top), an exhibition by the American Kennel
Club (center) and free pony rides (bottom photo) were among the
actlrltlea heated by the mofchants rooontly on the Frooport Malli The
day's evehti were part ot a cdntlnuThg program, planned t)y thg Mall:
Merchants to Introducs-the-new-afibpplng faSnty-tn-residanf- —^
Great Canoe Race
Interest Lively
RT_^Infbmiatip.n, on,
early - entricsfor . this year's.
Freepoii Oreat. Canoe Races
indnde queries and applications
from places far and near.~A
Califoniia" family has-pianned-a^
businesstripto the East Coast to
coincide with the eyent so that
they can participate in the fiin
desoihed to them by Long Island
relatives. A story publislied in a
statewide magazine umed .at
^canoeists and bad^packers has
resulted in inquiries from-as far
away as th&Canadian border.
The Gteat ^•Canot
sponsored by the
Chamber of Commerce,
place Sunday. July 23.
solution. Although his offices take
up only the south half.of the
building's. front. Jiis .shop itself
encompassdc'~two floors of the
was made, i entire building. Would it be
fotmd two permissable. he asked, to erect
one of his signs on the north half
Qf45 Church Street?
_ Lou - Bello. 'Superintendent of
the Building Depa^ment. calcu-
First, he stated, the cost wotild be
prohibitive; second, the low'
placement of. the plastic letters
would have been^easily mhjeet to tatprf that the arrangeinent might
vandalism. Instead, he took the prove satisfactory, ^sing both.
n^jwii^gns .Meadowjiedjised lfor_ halvcs-fif Jhe_f»cadc,_ Meadow__
several position yeeda trhse omn oGvreorv teh Set wreientd aonwds wotild be sanctioned 54 square
of his office-^^Hpcated-in the
south half of the new building's
-spltt.ftontfiacadc.___ -• •
A Pity a n d * Shame
- Just as Pantina had two argu-feet
in sign size;~the 42 square
feet of the present -signs would
then fall within the lawi -.
_: As for aesthetic appeal,
Pantina promisedto repaint the
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will
extensive
vlsUdra. ^-
Mall Bike Rider Fined
-' FREEPORT - A"1 7-year old
JFreeport yonth_was fine! SIO in
Vinage. Court ie«otly for. viola­tion
of a local ordinance prohib­iting
the riding of a bicyde on the
sid^Talk of a bosinrss district
by Myonc over the age of 10.
Steven Bryant, of Raynor Street,
appeared before Jnsti<^ Ralph
Franco.in Village*Cdort, after
he had been issued a summons
by a viUlge police officer.
".Whil^. on. foot, patrol of the"
Freeport Mall on the afternoon
of June 15, Freeport Police
Division^ Chairman
Tigadis has' announced ' that'
"we-must alert Frecp«ters that
if they, wish to take part in tlie
races in zay manner, the time tQ_
act Is now. The "event's, original '
Officer Michael WoodwardJhad—intention,"-Pigadis explained,
spotted Bryant riding his bike "was-tp. involve first Frecportcrs
southbound on.the Mall. When
the officer-warned Bryant to get
off the bicycle and walk with it,
he refused. ' Wopdward then
ordered him to stop and took him-to
PoEce.G^eadquarters where he
issued a summons to appear in
Court.
aiTd then other South. Shore:
residents. Over the last four years
it lias grown to'sucfa proportions
we are feaiful Freeporters could
be shut out. Heats must be
liniited in size due to' rental
canoes available, and, most
importantly, for safety reasons.
THEY'LL DISCUSS "WATEflFRONT WEEKEND," Dorothy
MacLennaateoond 'TOm '•) Interviews 0- io r-)i>srothy Bryant; Bob
Statoon, Sara Holly, Baine Stettner and Evelyn Stetson for the WQBB
program, "Something Special From Freeport," to be aired Sunday,^
July ie.^t 11 pm.'The yofiinteers'workera will discuss the July 22 and "
23 •'Waterfront Weekend" in Freeport featuring the Great Canoe
Races sponsored by the Chamber of Commerce, and the NautlcaTFair
K-.andArtSbow/Sal^sponaoTBdbytheHistorJolSociety..-, . . , . . , .-.