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NEWSPAPER
44th YEAR. No. 32 FREEPORT. NEW YORK. DECEMBER 6.1979 ^"^^ICE 2 0 * PER COPY
d Revises C D . Allocations
WITH HIS BEARD WHITE AS SNOW AND HIS CHEEKS UKETWO
ROSES, a jolly Sanfa Claus was visited by more than 1,000 children at
the Holiday Festival, co-sponsored by the Freeport Recreation Depart­ment
and the Freeport Chamber of Commerce, at the Recreation
Center on December 2. Sanfa (Al Gordon, owner of the Right Track
•Inn) and Mrs. l^erry Christmas (Linda Bracco) flreet one of their,
younger admirers. The children each received a bag of goodies^nd a
balloon. Some 1,500 adults and youngsters enjoyed the all^ay event
which included free ice skating and entertainment by the Long Island
Vasa Folkdancers. Chairman for the Chamber of Commerce event.
Donald Panliria, termed the day. "a great success" with promises to
repeat the Chambers'/'hollday gilt to the children of the village" next
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Freeport Police Officers Make Speedy Arrests
FREEPORT - This viHajje Police Dqjartmcnt's own version of
Starsky and Hutch, a special plain-clothes unit put en the streets co
combat the increase in crimes felt in all of long Island's communities,
have come up with several swift arrests recently,
Wilhin a two week span, the two — Police Officers John
Westermann and Daniel Coppola
Board Proposes
Salary Hikes
FREEPORT - A 10% increase
in the salaries of the village
Mayor and trustees has been
written into the tentative village
budget for 1980-81. The hike,
whicn would bring the Mayor's
salary to $10,450 per annum and
the trustees to $5,500 each, was
agreed upon by four of the five at
a budget workshop session held
Monday c>-ening. December 3.
Trustee Al Siriin was not present.
The entire 1980-81 village bud­get,
which is still in an early stage
and does not yet have a Tinal
figure, will be'the subject of a
fublic ' HcarinK on . January 7.
980. Copies of the proposed line-
4 bv-iine budeet are usually avail­able
to the public some time the
f weekUefttrettiristmas.-r- --•
• Freeport's mayor jifesentiy
recrfves a salary of $9,500 per
year; the trustees • are earning
$5,000 each. The positions are
part-time, although Trustee
Timothy Petcmana remarked at
the budget workshop that, as a
new trustee, he was surprised to
note the large number of hours
Mayor William H. White devotes
' to his job. "I don't know how you
do it,' Petemana said to White.
White, in turn, told Trustee
Dorothy Storm that she devotes
more time to her position than
_any.trustee any place else on
Long Island.
At the beginning of the discus­sion.
White read to the trustees a
list of salaries for mayors and
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Hospifars Plan
Waterfront Historic Areas
To Get More Funds
FRHOPORT • More dollars for the village's watorfroni area atui for
historic preser\alion was a unanimous decision of the Board of Trus­tees,
made at an open legislative session Thursday cvcninp. November
29. Tlicir discussion followed a public hcaritifj the Monday prior «hcn
Coniniuniiv Development director Hric Hemphill outlined how ihe
appiiinicd Task Force rcc«mmcn-
— were responsible for the
conclusion of four specific cases
or incidents.
On November . 13. Freeport
police Headquarters received a
call~«f a possible burglary in
progress on the second floor of a
~two laiiuiy "liweIifng~oii~^Arcner
Street. The downstairs tenant told
police she believed she had heard
footsteps and knew her neighbor
wasatwork.-
Tbe can was answered hy
Coppote^We^ennans and Police
Of&er RayjDood Enstace. The'
thn^ somnsded the boose..
posely created a dtstorbance at
the front door, the alleged W=
pect cOmbed onto tl^ roof fam-a
rear window and then jti]iq>ed to
the grooad where Eastace was
- waiting at the rear of tbe ba^d'
ing. Arrested atid cbiracdrwitb
bnr^arjr -^ dnrd.: was fextaadb
' Ptetogez^aJIyeaf oidniaa wfao
gave as his address. 98 SoK St.
Reportedly. Pum^ue/ bad in tns
possessiaa lodes picis and screw
diivcis.
On Thaakspving Day, Kovem-ber
22, wliea Frceporteix were
tiome eajoymg their torkey
dmners. - Westemann . . and
Co2poin.'ifiTp..-hoaGcd. that
Freeport.Detective JnGe Pearse
had observed what he believed
was narcotic traffic in the area of
Rosolale Avenue and Broadway,
in the ikortheast section of the
village.
Joining Pearse, Coppola and
Jtesletmanjn doscdjn^on a sus-
'pErt~^fioTIsnhe-$bMie:-Ainara-thdn
: runner'' off-duty hours.
Westermann chased the 19-year
old Timothy LocUear to his home,
" about-jooe-quancr mile away on
Rutland'Road. Locklear entered
^fbe boose and ran, toward .the
Vback presumably, police say,,, in-aii
effort to escape out-a rear exit.
•On the way, be/allegedly com-
"rmnaM fi'i f -•" ^**TT^T^ '"
."sic" Wcstennann who. had
followed htm into the. boose.
Westennana'soffcretl a dog^tie.
Minutes later Pearse and Coppola
. united, having foUowed by car.
subdued both the dog .and
Ijocfclear and arrested the latter
for assault second degree,
-^ A young female, described by.
CdppoU as "soper tlick" and a
^ ooGce suieaat resulted in the
arrest at an IB^ytn old Freeport
male for sexual abuse in the first
degree, fondling by coropolHOO,
two counts of assault second and
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Approved By ZBA
FREEPORT - Approval of an
application to build an extension
to Lydia E. Hall Hospital has been
approved by the village"s Zoning
Board of Appeals.
At their reeular monthly
meeting held Wednesday. No-
"Venibilr 28.-tfte'ZcTOn^ Board of
Appeals granted an application,
heard the month before, to build
the extension which will eiuble
the hospital to improve iu
EmergeiKy Rooni section.
The fioard did. however,
insist upon certain conditions to
its approval. They stipulated that
the extennon could only be used.
foe an Emergency Room, the need.
- «f>mpfrw^fTwtTt Vm<f enlargement
of which formed the basis of the
apjrfkant's argument. Sixteen
parking spaces. 12 of which are
. presetttiy located where the
extension win be constructed, win
be constructed on the Bayview
Avenue nde of the building and'
landscaping — to be apprt>ved by
the nUagel Building Departneat
—wOlbe'ptannedasabttlTer,
Responding to the need for
niore otfstnet patting for the
bo^pttal, as su^ested by three
ded the money be spent thai the
vintage was to receive from the
sale of Bennington Park land to
Two Guys Department Store.
Neither the waterfront area nor
historic preservation were to
receive any funds according to the
Task Force's proposals.
. The Task Force, appointed by
Mayor William H.. WhUe.con.
sUts of HcniphllU-Village Clerk
•Tom DtfVincenzo,'Superintendent
of Buildings Dav/d Lovejoy,
Superintendent of Public Works
Ed Prefer, Village Treasurer
James Lyons and Village Publi­city
Director Jean Peters.
Their recommendations for the
expenditure of" the $612,325
included (THE LEADER. 11/29/
79. p. 1) $51.000 for contingencies
and local options: SII6.000 for
administration and planning
management; $100,000 for Nonh
Main Street spot improvements:
$15,000 for Code Enforcement
and Education; $80,000 for the
expansion of Alexander Avenue
which w-as designed to conned
Two Guys to the Freeport Mall
parking field; $60,000 for expand­ed
Mall parking, the CDA's
promi-sed contribution at the time
the new-Tax Assessment District
was set up: $15,000 for the
removal of architectural barriers
in public buildings; $100,000 for
the Liberty Park play area;
$40,000 for additional Mall
improvements: $20,000 for the
Neighborhood Stabilization
Pn>(«ram; and $5,000 for street
sijjns in NeishborhmHl Inipr\ivc-nieni
Areas.
The Board had not voted upon
these recommendations at the
Monday nljjhi meeting because
some of the trustees wanted time
to consider the.individual alloca­tions.
Thursday . evening. Trustee
yDtmithy Storpi l^d off the discus-
• sion by ret^arking that each ilnic
.she passes the site of the. old
firehouse and house on Mill
Riiad. she is "appalled" at what
it (iK)ks like. Although monies
had been allotted - in previous
years for the Jjurchasc of the
"pnmeny for the cslabllslimcnt of
a.nremanic museum and other
historic preservation pnijects. .
nolhinc had been done. The land
had then been bought by a
fencing company and the project
had lagged.
Trustee Timothy Pclcrnana
described . what he under»t(X)d
had been the proposal made at an
eariicr public meeting by Robert
Ravnnr. representing the Free-port
Historical Society, He noted
that in his opinion the two major
sentiments expressed at that first
public hearing were for funds for
the waterfront and for. historical
purposes and that "neither were
reflected" in the Task Force's
recommendations, "^
Petcrhana mentioned that the
• village possessed certain "unique
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., area residents tSe evening of the
or^maf bearing, the Zoning
. Board of Appeals faitber stipu­lated
that any farther appQcatwa
nade for the hospital for.vari-
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GETTINO READY FOR 1960. Fr—port OIrt Scouts v eurrtnUy
setling Girt Scout calernJars to help vltlaoera "keep oo data" n«xt year.
Deputy Mayor Dorothy Storm (seated, r.) racelved her 1980 Girt
Scouf«Jefidar from Susan Rottiamet (Uand^Oonah Stanford, mem­ber*
of Brownie Troop 2199 which U comp^W of first flradert. Joining
the Brownies were (standing \n rtae, l..\o-*.) Leadtra Cynthia Botn-amel,
SosanSm.ilharxJ Elaine Stanford. . ..