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BALDWIN
ROOSEVELT
MERRICK "" LEADER FREEPORT'S
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NEWSPAPER,
44th YEAR. No. 27 FREEPORT. NEW YORK. NOVEMBER 1.1979 PRICE 20* PER COPY
d For Elks Rezonlng
Resetve Decision On Re^mmends Club Parcetl
fK^m . ^f^v^Use Be Changed To Business B
POUNDING ttw fvories, Mayor William White (seated) was (raMed to
a special rendition.of "He's just our Bill, an ordinary guy..." when he
delivered a Proclamation 4o a rehearsal of "Showboat" recently; The
Proclamatlqi^'-designates November. 2. 3, 9.and 10 as "Freeport
Community.-Chorale pays.'^JDn those,days, "Showtsoat" will be per­formed
by the chorale etFfeepbrt High School .-Freeport cast memljers
serenading ttie Mayor are.(l< to r.) At Cross, show producer Gerald
Kirby, Emerson Jones, Jack Holly, Ellen Kelly, Betty Taylor, Ellen
Rosenberg. and Tony Perillo. Tickets may be obtained by calling
623-6307.
New Appointments Made
To Village Board Of Ethics
FREEPORT - The village's Board of Ethics received two new mem­bers
this week as Mayor William H. White appointed Rabbi Lawrence
Coltbtirsptfltaal leader of Union.Reform Teniple in Freeport. and
attorney Haidd Mahoney to serve on the Board.
The Board of Ethics had not been at fuU-strength. a situation noted
by White at a meeting of the
village board several weeks ago
The two appointments bring the
. Ethics Board up to its mandated
number of five. The other three
members are Ludovic Long. Free-port's
Superintendent of Electric;
Hale Smith; and Robert Allyn.
According to the village code.,
the Ethics Board acts in an advi­sory
capacity. Requests for its
opinion must be made tn writing
and its answer must also be in
«-riting and only to the person
who originally requested it.
-OU>egAppwntiaeal»-_
Tlje Board of^frustees maffc
several other appointment at
their Monday night. Octobei\29.
meeting. Tom Connors and Hel^n
.Rosati were named to fill IWo
• vacancies existing on the Citi­zen's-
Community Development
Advisory Board. A vacancy on the
Water and Light Cbmmittion
^ has been Sled by the: appoint-..
• mentof George Krakora;
Meetings At .
Kec Ceaier
, Adtscussionbythe'tnuteesoa.
fees to be chafed for" orgafl-aatioa
meetinES. oc other events,,
at the Fireeport Recreation Cento-led
to a deacon to kMrd- the
~;fcnt^,cfaarge on use of. the op-statrs
Restaurant/Lounge from
$200 to SI00. Any action on
changes-irfeej TiJI- tHeettngSTIn"
any other rooms of the building,
was tabled for a week.
Buffer Zone To
BeEipioccd
The trustees unanimoosly ap­proved
the use of Community
Development Funds to allow the
CD. director to explore the con­struction
of a park area just east
of the Liberty Park apartments.
This would indude facilities for
—.jchildira.^
XayOQslKeTa
Sewer Plant Cloalng
The planned phase-out of the
village*j( sewer disposal plant
when the village fitiks up with
Nassaa.Cbunty's disposal system.'
win lead to a layoff of village
Pnblic_ Works empkqree^. For
economy reasons, toe .Board
voted unanimoosly , that the
layoffs would indnde a sewer in-spedor^
a stock assistant, three
(aborers and a motor, eqnipmenl
operator. Mayor WiOiaoi White
io<ficated that he had met mtb
^wcial CdioaselHobert-.Sireeoey
and . vaiage' CSEA pmddeat
Robert Ford previoos-.lo- the
BoardVvDte.
Holldoys Cause PijckupGiciftg<M(
FREEPORT - Two early No-veoba
hoBdays--Bectioo D^.
oo Toesday, fioveiiiber 6« aad
Veterans Darf on Moeday,
November ,\1 have cassi^' 'a
cfua>£B m tibe gatiwce aad taab
eoOfrtioo scfaednks ns two 9"**
oftbeVaiage.
There wiQ be no garbage
.V . (Conf.onPao«12l -
Zoning Board of Appeals has re­served
decision on the application
of Dr. Cari NcM-roan, owner of
Lydia E. Hall Hospital, for a var­iance
necessary to build an ex­tension
to imprxive the fadlity's
Emergency Room section.
In his arguments before the
2^ning Board. Newman's attor­ney
Jules Mlntz described the
present situation at the hospital.
The entrance to the Emergency
Room b reached by a steeply in-ding
outdoor ramp which ices .
over in the winter and is slippery
in indement weather. The -
method of entry and the location .
of the Emergcnc>' Room in the I
building causes a two to three
minute lau'.of tim'e. MlMt ex."
plained, which could be fatal In'
some cases.
The present limited space,
Mintz. Newman and several
doctors later Jold the Board of
Zoning Appeals, is insuffident for
multiple cases or complex ones.
Since 1971.. Mintz dted. the
emergeticy room caseload has in­creased
70%, with 60% coming _
from the Freeport area. If the im-provements
are not done. Mlntz
said, use of the Emergency Room
would have to be liimted .leading
doctors to use other hospitals and
possibly catuing a caseload drm
that could endanger the hospital s
(Cont. on Page 1.2) _
'^ (Mge In daSage
Pickup Saves Money
FREEPORT - TTie VUlage b oo
longer transporting its. toOd
wastes to New Jersey where costs
have been steadily increasing.
According to Freeport Soperin-tendcnt
of Public Works Edwin
Prefer, the transporting of trash
to the Oceanside landfill and gar­bage
to the Ton-n of Hcmpsissd
Resource Recovery. plant saves
the taxpayers S5.70 per ton.
The Town facilities operate six
^ys a week. 7 a0-3 pm. This
means that the last tmdc carry-ihg
trash or garbage timst leave
.Freeport ix> later than 2:15 pm in
order for refuse to be disixMed of
on the same day it is collected.
This new schedole - nrctsiitatet
that the Village's private carter
start coOectJoO'^t 6:30 am. AH.
eSbrt is behig eitended to keep
noise at a n&msn doting the
eaify{tours. -. _ -;.. •
The lecovery plant aooepts ooly
gMxbtge, IJC. tood.-matetiah:
while the ' Oceandde laadfiD
accfpts only trash, ud mffood
l>anables. Trash dwdjCbe^set
out at the c ^ oo the pneer 001-
lectioD'daTc: When gaibage is
mixed with trash, it will not be
pkfcedi^.
Balfcy.netal materials sodi as
' laws fnrnilure, bed springs, ete.
lecture a^jxidal paJuip. - - .-
FREEPORT - The five person village Planning Biurd has reciim-mended
a change of zoning for the Elks Club property, and the prop­erty
immediately cast of it on Merrick Road. The Bird's 3-2 decision,
which is purely an advisor>- one. was made at their regularly sched­uled
meeting Tuesday night. October 23. It followed by more than a
week the Nassau County Plan
nlng Board's disapproval of such
a change of rone for the Elks Club
site.
The Elks Oub property has
been purchased by two Freeport
businessmen. Morris Sussman
and George Bclicsls. who more
than a yar ago developed a small
group of retail stores on Atlantic
and South Ocean Avenues. The
two also purchased, and request-,
ed and received zoning changes,
•for property on-rtic- corner of
Atlantic Avenue and South Main
Street, where they plan con­struction
of other stores.
The application before the
Planning Board was to change the
zoning from Business AA to Busi­ness
B. The County Board In. its
disapproval called the change
''spot zoning." noting that the
surrounding and contiguous areas
to the plot Here zoned either
Business AA. the most restrictive
business zone in the village, or for
apartment houses.
Added A Piece
By adding the land Immediate'
ly east of the Elks^Oub. presently
- oectipied'by the Shell Group's
Medical CenfefTTo'lhe change of
zoning, the tanning Board hoped
to avoid the charge of "spot
zoning.", chaimun John Di
Gtazia ezplaloed to THE .LEA­DER.
DiGrazia. Bernard Ostrv>fsk\
and Adcle Neronc voted In favoi
of the rezonlng. Planning Board"
member Arthur Strunk voted
against it, favoring instead a
change to a more, restrictive
Business A. which would not
allow lor retail stores. The'fifth
member. George B. Smith." ab­stained
from voting for the recom­mendation
because he is a mem­ber
of the Elks Cub.
- iThc Soard's. recomm ndajfon
to" Itiir^udc "the Shell Medical
Building in a Business 0 Zone-was
not part of the original ap­plication.
DiGrazia said that after
the vole was taken they had re.
ccived a letter from the attorney
for the owners of the medicdl
building, Dan Man4cl. objecting
to the application to rezone.
The proposal brought before
(he' village s Planning Board by
Bclicsls and Sussman. for the
Elks Club site, showed plans for
building a MacDonald's fast-food
operation, a luo-story bank,
shops and a mini-duplex movie
theatre. On the plans, as printed
in THE- LEA.DEa'sJssuc_j>t-
"October 18.1979, there were slots
shown for 137 parking spaces.
DiGrazia explained that the
Planning Boartl had felt that the
MacDofuld's was the "weakest
^Qnt.onPiQel2)
THYINO TO STOP FIRES FROM STARTINO. The vUlage't IMW Fir*
Inspector, John Provaxano, looka at tfte^aprinkler ayatem vahrte he
found ctiained in a "doeed" poaMlbn at a local retail store. This
rendered the Valve* useiess in case of fire. Another vfotation la in the
upper ri^ht where the cover is off the hydrant. RecenUy employed In
the pert-lime vflleoe position, Proverano — who Is Third Deputy Chief
of the volunteer Freeporti^e Department —; is routinely. Inspecting all
mutapie dweitinss anfl pieces of public asaembiy. iit has'the power ol
sutmnoftsiotrlng violators intd village ^suirr ""^