The-Leader_1983-10-20

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FREEPORT. NEW YORK, OCTOBER 20.1983
.4«tbyEAH,No.26
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Villagers Seek Relief From Crime
Baldwin BOCES To
Close By Mid-1984
^ Four Freeport Decision Announced As
Civic Groups
Ask Pofke Chief Efar
To Step Down
FSEEP08T - An oaasoaDy well-attesded ineetuig of the Village
Board of Tmstees Mooda; evening. October 17, was punctnated witl>
several requests &r Village Poiice CUef Anthoirf Elax to resign.
Attended by residents of tlte vilUge's northeast section, as wen as.
sappottive rejarscntattves of one assodatiaas from the village's
other sections, tfte • meeting
Receive Funds For
Civilian Patrols
ALBANY - Ihe Freeport
Ctizen QviBao Patrd has re­ceived
a 520,000 state grant to
contirow -its uliuc preveatioa
efforts. ^
As umbrella.group composed
of the North East Freeport Ovie
Association (NEFCA). - the
Steams Park.Ovic Assnriatiori.
CONFKONS (Concerned Freeport
Residents cf the Northern Sector)
and the South of Sunrise Cvie
Assodaton (SOSCA), the Free-port
Citizen Civilian. Patrot
applied earlier this year for fund­ing
under the state's new Neigh­borhood
Crime Prevention .Pro­gram.
Assemblywoman Barbara Pat-'
ton, a Freeport resident, and rep-rcscnUlive
of Ihe 18th Assembly
DUtrict. in which three of the
(Cont. onPag«20)
Residenis Meef
iyJo*aD*ltiuy_
BALDWIN - Desinte heavy fog. rain and a halftear bUck-oot, ap^
proximately 225 Sooth Baldwin cesidedts attended a recent meeting at
Baldwin Paik .with town officials aiid representatives of.BO&S
(Board of Coocerathre Edncational Services) and tbe Baldwin Harbor
BOCES scfaool..Tbe meetiog in Thnisday, October 14. was held in
.order to protest alleged sepirity:J ;.- • < - • , - . ; MTK ;.
problems and a "faightening sit- > Maniui-SOCES Baldwin Harbor
oaSon." which re^dents .were.' Sdnd't Principal Mrs. Ibemian;
complaining have "put the com-muiiitv
in fear."
In attendance at the meeting
were BobertWilBams. legal aide
to Hempstead Town Presiding
Supervisor Thomas Gulotta;
Town Commissioner of Public
Safety Michael . Limongelli:
Supervisor of the Park 'Andy
Rhodes; Police Inspector Andrew
Mulrain: Assistant Director of
the Nassau CouUy Commission
on Human Rights William G.
Lewis; BOCES public-relations
representative Natalie Canavor;
BOCES represenutive Ed Mc-
A SUCCESS STORY. On Thunday. Octobar 14. construction bagan on
ms Ptaza Scfwoi playground and. by Sunday (abova photo^aph),
iha facility waa'virtually eompMa. Mambara of tha Plaza Scfwol
community and Baldwin rasldants and-friand*. Including 8cixx>l D^•
trkt «taH and Board of Education mainbar*, wWdad power tooU,
sanded bewna and pourad grsval In ttia culmination oi a yaar-tong
draam. Coordlnalora ol ttw proiaci apoka of tli« doaaoass
and (aallng of conmunlly during tha building phaae of tlw pr^act,
as retidania of all agaa — from ehlldran to aanior dtbana — and butl-nesspeopla
gava ol Ihalr tlma, Ihalr atlorta. producti'and monay;
(A full page of pkturfa and "thank youa" ara on papa I I of thia
week's lasua.) ; . -
' photo by ShaiU Cohan
as wen as'Jim Sandhaas. aide to
AssemUjinan Armand D'Amato;
and Steven Scharoff. aide to Nor­man
Levy.'
- Various alleged incidents of: i
assault and harassment by
BOCES students were described
at the meeting and town officials
announced that - tbe BOCES
facility is expected to be dosed
at the end of June. .1984. But.
officials were adament in stating '
that the closing'was not related
to this meeting nor to the alleged
inddentsi Instead. Ii>^. closing is
the result of dedhung enrotlment
and is a. move that has been ex­pected.
Officials also noted that the
facility, which has been in
Baldwin slhce IVf), has a lease .
which is due to expire. BOCES.
tbe speakers said, had mXified
the town of their intention nci to
renew that lease. Official an­nouncement
had not.previously
taken place since BOCES was in
. tbe process of ."negotiating the
consolidation" of facilities. How-.'
ever. Williams said that he. had
been authorized by Predding
. Supervisor Gulotta and by
BOCES (rfCdals to make the
aimboncemient at this meeting.
He added that' the lease calls
for the ^'removal irf the bnilifing"
and said that tmudcipal law has
stringent restraints on tbe use of.
monidpal park land.Beiidcnts
expressed cooccra. bowcrer. say­ing
the Town could always "pass
a law" to change that.
The commonity meetittg had
grown out of a tchedaled pdrate
meeting between rcpresentatrres
of varioos town departmetits and
six Baldwin Harbor residents who
had officially rompfiinrd to
Cola<ta*s office. Apparently news
(Cont.onPagslO)'
apparently marked the one year
anniversary of ancther public
meeting of the Village Board,
when citizens called fin a clean­up
of ctime, particulariy in the
Broadway area.
"Last year we came in and got
some actwn," said'Fran Camp­ion,
presdeot of tbe North East
Freeport Gvic Assnriition
(NBFCA). "but it stopped after
three weeiks."
Mrs. Campion called for the
resignatian of Elar, who has been
diief of the village'* poUoe de­partment,
for 14 years and has
aboiit fbtir more years before he
is legally forced to retire at 70.
"We have a good poBce force,"
said Mrs. Campion, "who un­fortunately
can only follow the
orders of their police chief...
-We can no longer afford this one.
We DOW need a get tough, crime-fighting
police chief...We doot
think CUef Elar is qualified."'
Mrs. Campion ooiidnded, asking
Bar to step down from his post.
Campion was foBowed by
Bob Brauer. a resident of Btoad-way,
who slid "something should
be done about the drug problem
on Broadway...Maybe the reason
why there is nothing being done
is that our chief is not giving
authority to the department...
It's time for a change." said .
Brauer. ts he asked the Village
Board to "act now."
But Mayor Wiffiam H. Wlute
explained that the yiUage Board
does not appoint the police diicf.
"1 will only say that the chiefs
'position is dvil service as go^'em-
(Cont. on Page 4)
HONOniNQ THOSE WHO HELP. Standing behind a sampling ol food
eollactad for the naady. Fraapori Mayor William Wlilta prasants Uw
Prodamatkmdaalgnatlna Sunday. October IB, a* "National Catholk:
Daiightars of iha Americas Day." Actaptlng tha prodamatlen are
Mama Noona (2nd r.f, Rageni of Court StaOa Maria No. 822. COA.
Also praaant waa (2nd from I.) First VIca Ragant Margarat Cantanno
and.Mary O'Nalll, Chairwoman of tha Thanksgiving Proiact, coor-dinatad
1^ Iha COA of.Qjir Holy Radaamar Church. Tha mayor'a Pro-damatkm
spaafca of COA's ."Haarl Spaaka to Haart Program" which
saw Fraaport mambara car>trtt)uta 4,000 hour* of voluntaei; #arvfca In
ona yaar. Mora of thoaa hour* win ba axpandad as donatad food is
eollactad lor Iha making ol Thanksgiving baak«ts for Iha naady. Tha
food program, which la tiahl In conjwiction with tha 81. Vlncant daPaul
Sodaty and vlnoantian Parish Outreach, may ba raachad at 8884289.