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BALDWIN
ROOSEVELT
MERRICK
THB LEABER
FREEPORT'S
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44th YEAR No 12 FREEPORT. NEW YORK JULY 19.1979 PRICE 20* PER COPY
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More Mall Parking In Works
New Plan Seeks To Use
Some CD. Funds
FREEPORT • A public hearing will toon be held on plans for an
assessment district which w-ould extend the Freeport Mall and add 35
additional parking spaces to that area. At a meeting of the Village
Board of Trustees Monday evening. July 16, Director of Community
I>e\'e]opment James Dunne described a proposal that would allow
Ojmmunlty Development (fe-
WHAT.FREEPORT jS ALL ABOUT. Water sport was more than ever the order of the day this past
Sunday, as Freeporten and thousands of people from all over Long Island, and points north, aouth
and west assembled for the annual Canoa aind Kayak Races. Starting at 9 am^and tasting till 3:30 pm.
shore-to-shore.oontestants and spectators enjoyed rpces, jousting maichevand'lols of good cleanfun
.Just as mother nature meant for her waters to be enjoyed. See story below, additional photos dn
page 5W.
Sundoy's Canoe Races
Top All Previous Years
——(LEADER phote by Evart Keller)
Arts Council
Elects Officers
FREEPORT - Ray and B*ib Heal will receive Ihe perpetual tn)ph.v of
the Freep<in Cam>c Races for "Best Time «>f Day." The Heals,
veterans of the Frecp*>rt Chamber of Commerce's Cahinr Races "which
were run for the fifth year last Sunday. t»H)k ihe mile-long a)ursc in
7:08.7."Average-lime was Icn minutes..Oyer 250 petipic participated in
the different events.
All first, secvind and third place
winners of heats will be presented
u-iih trophies at the Awards
Dinner to be held this Friday.
July 20. at Salty Bay Yacht Qub.
The Dinner is open to the public
whh the SIO tickets including a .
family-style dinner and music.
There w-ill be a cash bar. Reserva-,
tions must be made through the.
Freeport Chamber of Com­merce's
ofTiees. FR 8-7402. and
the tickets may be paid for at the
diK>r. The evening's festivities
will begin at 7:30 {nn.
place for the Glass 0\en Bakery
and Betty Paulik and Laura Sentz
came in third for Bob's Deli. In
the second event. Shelter R>ini
Marina's Debra Cavanagh and
Joyce ColtKi tix)k .first place
honors followed by Captain Ben's
Beth Kuchar^keand Nancy Abma
and the Freeptm Recreation
center s Kithy Mullen and Cathy
Reder.
Two events were run in the
male/female mixed division. Bill
-and.Regina Costello and Danny
Kt«:h and Joan Kcnney were the
FREEPORT - Judy Ehtenfeld
was elected president of the
cxecutiie committee and Hale
Smith diairman of the board of
the Freeport Aru CbancU. The
election took place at the annual
Board of Directors meeting in
June. •-^. :__.
Other' ofiicers of the group
elected at that time were Gloiia
Nevard, vice-president; Jack
Holly.' second vice-president:
Phyllis Weisberg, secretary: and
Seymotir Klempner, treasurer.
Members of the board of directors
an George Boglokoc. Ira Brjtk,
4n-thc female youth racesrthc—first - place • winners". TalTng
_jirst,place-winners wertJudy-^scc*md place were Bt)bErwig and
Hashagen and Liz Eberst pad- Uz Phillips sponsored by the
dling fur Mayfair Marine. Second Pennysavcr and Carol Kane and
^-ptace—winhers-^^ljrcpe—Lynda JobiCl^idcr. .Third.place honors
Ostrb(sli:yand'JiIl'Crtiok paddlmg winii to MafE'Sutlivan aifd Fatty
for Jay.Zee Bikes; "while third ' Becker and Frank and Dea
place««« won by Susan Ostrofsky ..Backlcy of Custom Tritti.
—and-Kathtyh"^M<»iyo for G & M In the "<ncr-40" racc.Dtmald
Serrfce.'-'. ' - • -.. . ... Gardta and , Philip Ehrhart of
- - In the male ybbth-•divisioo. , CapUm Ehrhart's trt* the first
Sheher Poiiu Marina's entry of. place trophy with Helen Razzaro
Paul Stetson and Peter Hanioofc ^ B^iae Latham iakio|>Moi»d_
first {^ceh^MsrStasn GtowiK^^^^'^^^^ *»*^M»»?y;
and Al Cwda crossed the'gmsh ' MdBnde.ihird- ' ^ ^ 7 : , - :
line baci*anb'biii win vfL i . i -Themalrraoeswt^rantnfive
deral) funds to be used to pay for
25% of the costs and the property
owners of the assessment district.
to pay for 75%.
The assessment district would
ran from the south side of Free-pottPlaza
East on the north to the
north side of Merrick Road on the
toutb; and from the east side of
Church Street, as Us westerly
border to the west side of Benson
Place on its easterly border.
. Besides the 35 pairUn'g spaces
wh)d» woiild be created, the mall
would be extended on its Newton
Boulevard side and parking field
fl2. expanded fiom behind
Samet's store. The proposal calls
for acquiring and leveling the
check cashing, sign, fish and
record stores on Newton. The car
wash presently there would
remain.
WhUe the board directed
village counsel to prepare for the
public hearing and-asked the
village treasurer and engineers to
cooperate in determining the
assessment district and individual
costs, several flexible general '
figures were quoted by Dunne.
He told the board that the total
assessed valuation of the district
proposed is SI,933,080 and that
the costs for acquiring the land,
deroolitbn, construction and
administrative expenses are
figured to be approximately
ding to the village
treasurer, a quick, calculation
detervalnal that property .owners
would jiay S931.16 for each
S10.000 of assessed valuation if
they were to pay their share in
one payment, u they coted to pa^r-
H ov«.a_15 year bond Isiuetithe
cofts would be SQ78'over tiiat
tfaaespan. _ . . - -
_Apfpposal^madc!ait year/to
crtat more parking (or the MalT
iarea was never acted upon the
Board, but Trustee Timothy
called the plln "necessary...!
think" she said, "thit 35 parking
spaces would alleviate some of
the congestion."
• Dunne Indicated to the board *-
that, by their next meeting (July
23), he would probably-hiVflhe
facts necessary to allow them to
schedule the necessary public
heating.
• In December, 1978, the ViUage
Board held a public hearing to
consider the establishment of a
special assessment district that
would create 100 new parking
spaces and would spread the
costs 75% to property districts in
a larger assessment district and
25% to the village as a whole. The
proposal was greeted by miied
feelings from residents and
business people. Residents
opposed paying the 25% of the
costs and some who lived within
the wider drawn district ve­hemently
protested the sped*]
tax. Businessmen, on the other
hand, suggested that even more
parking was necessary for the
Central Business District.-The .
board reserved decision on the
proposal and never acted on the
measure.
Use of some Community
Development funds for a proposal
that would include a logical
extension of the Mall wu pro­posed
by Pctemana and Trustee
Jim Oatk when they tan for
election this past winter.
_ AMeawrialFor
A Fireman „
The Ftre Department hu been
given permission to have a 12 foot
— square-memorial—to- Jerry-E^
. Cotignola erected on the Village
CrSn. • The ' young FrScpwT
-voiuateet firemaa JosL. bis-IUia
whBe fighting a fire on4he Mag
more than a year ago.
Pfctcmaaa noted that that woold
bavecnCowners of property ip
that assessment distrut S21 per
SlOO anesied vaJiutioo rstber
get a
second " place troplqr- _for _ At
GTOTCT'S. Moontcastlc's entry, of
. Greig- -Pnichalpo' .and' Patrick
Clearyscoi third place.,
r There'were two female'races.
For-the sccimd year in a row.
Valerie Pantina and Lisa Scala-ma^
re. paddling:.fat the Salty
xBayTacht dcfo.'won first place in
llie first C'.iuL Sharon ".
and Mary FtedsaO took second
beats. Fitxt ptace wrins were taken
by SMtet Point Mariiu^'s Rodger
Stebonand jc^urifeane. Captain
Ben'sSai Wat&m ftad Ken Sicke;;^
Ray and Sob Healfwho also took
best time of the day). Hap
Whelpley and John Coral and
John Honkanen and Harry Heal,
Seedttd . place wirmers were
raaeha Yonth Centty's John
Judy.Eftr»ntoW,»J4aia8miih_
Bersard Calbaa. Albert Cobea,
Dr.-Jess Edward. Daniel P.
ftdfaun. Alfred Sfafin. DoSfiy . . . ^ ^ X S J ^ J t T . l S
StcKiu. Maxaha Wall and hUry T " ^ , « 1M PiMi.Ptaate « the
(Cont.onPag«6—W)
. Westring.
' . Aceomag to a Coondl spokei^
perioii, tfaeuewy elected board g
iooklng finratd «9 a stirrriwfiBf'
jearoTgrowth and ptuyeia as i t'
.''We expect in cootlnae'tbe
Coad's fai^nct oo the qufitjr al-
.att wot ' FfjBCpiKtCtf' a m ' t>it~
"•"f Ighhwlnf fimmiTnUfci.^ aaid-'
cost Uitot as wen as becatue it
woold remove a "blighted area":
and open.op parking (hat would^
be diiwdy iHTPttfHf to tbeloog*
^oKtacast fonnerCnnt's store
oatbeMaQ. ^ -
- Noting that tbeptopeul woold
leqnire ita nddmiDnal-taseS'M;'
gfff j"fff*if*« fijr.sHDaite tesidentf
oof aide cifcJhfc
MakMSacgMdaw
' Lionel Socolov, a local btiti*
nessman. and_ resident of the
.village, was presets during the
. meetiag and. at. the twicer-,
mrath ptibiic sessloa, he, made
leYtxal cdtnnents.^' Z " .J
- iSocDiov mggested that * jreariy. -
ncmsf Of vmding fee-be-
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(Com: on Page 12} Di^otjr Mayor
OS btuinesses that feO food, drink
etc-fer tske-bitf, 'iii^order' to
imb^^ze (be'cosu of .a sftdH
"VMet patrol.'^, AcobrdiBg • to
Soooiov; owners of some dt (be
local i"tatrert»" agreed »i(b bis
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- - Mayor White, VaXx^% (o
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