The-Leader_1984-04-26

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Freeport
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Baldwin
School Dislrici
iiHS. H33E.1T COU:uiU\X
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FREEPORT, NEW YORK, APRIL 26.1984
49th YEAR. No. 1
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^^nteporte^uhiytfed On Stadium
•p a^ U • Pi* Various Preferences Senf
Two Baldwin Firemen '« Mayor. Vmage Boanf
-Are^tedforValor
faster Sunday Medols Presehfed Jo
Incident On Ex-Copfs.J|rownJlfiug/or
-^—' Ann^Drive ^
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FKEEFOKT • Afler meeting {or tome nine iDonttu, and taUng an
official — althpagh a sectet — vote at wltat was annoonced aa their .
to the Freeport Monidpal Stadlmn was called together onie last time
Wednesday, AprD 18, to discuss thdr report/iepotts to Mayor William
H. White.
FR&POST • A sltHd-oB
siloation i>etween police and an
.armw^ Frr«Tnrt trmi fijilfit fiii
some tiiree hours on Easter
Sunday on Ann Drive in South
Freepori.
The man, 39-ycar-<ild Robert
- Wengfcrr" hid " "SD^edly bosn
holding his wife hostage for a
little more than an boiir nntB her
_screams-alerted ndghbors who
called Freeport pc^ice head-qoaiteis.
Apjnrently, Wengler and his
wife, Marlene, are estranged and
Wengler came back to the house
that afternoon.
At about SiSO pm that Sun­day,
April 22, sevetal taUs were
recejvol at'Freepori police head­quarters
reporting a woman in
a boose on Ann Drive was
screanung for lielp. Freepori
police officers responding to the
scene were_refused a^nission
into the house, but eventually,
as Mrs- Wengler illrmptH '•-•
UNIONDALE - Two'Baldwin volunteer firefighters received Silver
Medak of Valor at the Third Annual Awards Ceremony sponsored by the
Nassau County Fire Commission.
The Awrilv NJE*" •"" h*''^ "^'''v "'jy ^I'l" ?>. »< ^h> «.h>pru.i
VanNess Fire Station Hall in Unidndale.
Ex-Captain James Buglarand
ex-Captain John Brown, both of much fuel was in the tank.'
the Baldwin Fire Deparlmtlit. Various Baldwin unitsknocked—
wefe"honofed for actions showing down a large volume of fire under
great personal risk. .' ' and surrounding the tanker. Then
ExrCaptain'Buglar's award was—Buglamof-Hose—C0r~N6."73;
the result of his actions during a advanced on the tanker with a dry
The 14-member committee had
been appointed by WWte to dis­cuss
and come up with possible
.eeornmendations on the future of
the village's Stadium and its
"pounds. White 'had tcfiued to
renegotiate a new leasf with the
present operators of the Speed-way,
Campl Enterprises, and the
village s jikwd of Trustees had propoMlatomalntafaithesUdhim
sought bo^e rule fc^slatlon, with racing and other evenU.
from th^. State, allowing the vil- Commerical proposals bad also
lage to alMt pc lease the property been ii«iyed,_ tanging, from
asUwanted.r——^ -• ^Thtoter.'who said he had a
received.
The proposals listed were from
Campi Enterprises, Suffolk
Motordrome, laia Island Midget
Racing Onb, SabeOi Brothers,
Janies Brown, Vital Developert
Corp., a Mr. Anderson and
Getffge W. Bogart.
An of fhtse mtie t/lai
fire at a gas station on April 2,
198J.
The Baldwin Fire Department
had responded to a signal 10 at
about 9:50 that morning. A gaso­line
tanker was on Tire at the
station, located on the.comet of
Merrick Road and Central Avenue.
The tanker lad not loplured or
exploded and it was important that
the blaze be extinguished carefully
due to the heavily populated sur­rounding
area.. .
Fire department personnel at the
jCTtjeJiajLlillle-otJW-i»fe«ns*i«n-tjolt
-out. the door, they were
able to force their own way in.
According to police sources,
Mrs. Wengler was taken froni the
scene as her husband barricaded
himself into a bedrootn.
as the.driver had fled. There was,
therefore, no u-ay of knowing how
chemical (ire extinguisher. He
' positioned himself between the fire
on the ground and the tanker
\:alves. This enabled him to close
any valves to check flowing gaso­line
from refeeding the blaze.
Assisted by ex-Captain John
Brown of Truck Company No. I _
(who won a Silver Medal for j-et
another incident). Buglar removed
the fill hose from the tanker and
secured all vahes and caps.
Buglar's actions were cited as
"rising above courageand become
fiiiij) heiul(!. I he environment at
the time was considered "extremely
(Conl.onPaoeS)
—WeffglefTwho reportedly owns -
a service station In the V^ley
Stream area, had with him three
licensed ^ns: a 9mm auto­matic,
a 25 caliber automatic and
a 22 target pistol. The subiect is a
member of the Freeport Revolver
and RiSe Qab.
After Mrs. Wengler was
rescued from the boose^ police
evacuated several bouses on'
either side of the. Wengler
bonie, across the street, and
across the canal which backs on
the property.
According to Freepori police,
the action was a necessary safety
precaution, althooah:_sevet^
Broadway Store Owner
Rne(H=br €ode-Violations
"people — whose Easter Sunday
dinners were apparently inter­rupted—
seemed angry,
Freeport SsSot—UL- Joseph
King, wixi was present at the site,
(aler explained that a bullet could
-go .ihiongb - a - firame - boiae' like ~
(Cont.onPagaie)
FREEPORT - Zahieh Zudi
Kisswani, owner of a store at ISS
Broadnay, appeared before Village
Justice Ralph Franco on April 19
and was conditionally fine$l S3,7SO
on 14 summonses issued to him by
the Freeport Building Department.
The summonses were for missing
tiles and boles in the ceiling
throughput the building, storage of
iwbunlicensedand unregistered
vehicles, maintaining a driveway
below grade which collects stag­nant
water.havingsub-standard
electrical wiring, illegal use of
"extension cords.amjifn"""''""'"''
of trash and debris.
Also for having no automatic
fire extinguishing system and for
failure to have extinguishers.
Summonses also included those
for having exterior «roodeViiurfa^
'ces'fih'tbe'building without a~
protective coating of paint or other
suitable preservative and for the
illegal use of a kerosene healer.
Judge Franco set various periods
for the violations to be corrected,
at which time the f.nes could be
reduced to {4|0.
During the same Village Cdurt
session, Rosetta Cave of Hemp­stead,
owner of a one-family house
at 30 Njorth Columbus Avenue,
was conditionally fined S 1.775 on
10 summonses. The summonses
were issued for uncut grass and
weeds exceeding eight inches, ren­tal
of the house without the neces-
-jatyp« rmit. trastiand dtbrinjil the"
premises, an unrepaired gutter,
missing glass and roof and wall
shingles and exterior wooden sur­faces
without a protective coating
of paint or other suitable preserva-jbac-
A-reductioa of-fine* was. set:
' pending future inspection by the
Building Department as to the
correction of y|l violati^tjs,.,,.,.
Oil Apnl,4t tiro dosed votes
of the coconditee' were taken,
_The_first l!:=L_which _ apparently -
sorpriscid even tbosie members of
the coinmittee who favored re­taining
the Stadium as an enter­tainment
or/and recreation coni-plez,
was five to four, with
the ruajbrity favoring keeping the
ttadiuni anSthe minority in uivor
ci commercial redevelopment.
A second vote immediately fol­lowed
and results were even more
definite, six to three, in favor of
retaining the stadium.
Ten members of the committee
were present at that meeting,
iiKlnding - Chairman 'John' Di-
Grazia, but DiGraiia did not vote
-httiHit. la, lliuuglll ht was sup-
. posed to out a ballot only in the .
event of a tie.
On April 18th, several other
members were present. DiGrazia
snbmitt^ a report be had drawn
_opJKeporls had also been written
1^ Richard Dina and James Reed,
neither of whom had been present
al the April 4th meeting.
IKCrada asked that a rnember
of the now-majority also write a
report and Fran Campion later
didso.
DiGrazia's tepoti — as weO as
' Dina's, Reed's and Campion'a,—
have now been forwarded to the
Mayor. Cornmittee members Kay
Benda and Louise Simpson have
also sent written statemenUto
White. The mayor's oCBce'con­firmed
that WUle has received
these teporis bui noted that,
copies bad oot yet been.sentio
—the-membera of the'Board <f
Trustees. No ' statement frorn
White, therefore, was forth-
.coming.
IMCrazia's report was signed
by the dtairtiian, and meiijbeis
Jack Cunaincbam, jA<i7^(!reb-.
"QaiT^adiey Mi^gette and Edd
Marooe. The multi-page repoti
summarized the committfc'a
.work Md.the.ptop3Mls.il.bad'
prospect '.'interested" in resi­dential
ooiidomininms, to a ware-
, house to-a fitmltute company,
to local builder Fred Scalaman-dre.
Dina's repoti favored com-'
roerdal redevelopment of the
site. In his two page statement,
Dina pointed out that no pro­moter
had come forth that would
"satisfy the needs at afl mem­bers
of a family and not only those
of racing fans," and that Free-port's
c i t i n g park system was
classified as "quite good" in a
1982 village report.
.„. Dina _ recommended - rexonlny
the site and the surrounding area
f.iT high iprh 1-^rT'•yJ—eke-
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Ironies, tetecoihmunicatibns, etc.
Presently the area is zoned manu­facturing.
Mrs. Benda also favored try­ing
to bring in Mgh tech busl-nessesy
In ber report, to White,
she recommended "definitely"
keeping the PBA pistol range
where it presently is. She pointed
out to the present coofilion of
the Stadium and the cost sl^ felt
would beincnrrtd lo both repair
and maintain it.
'' Mn. Benda did o|qpoae cordo-miniain.
bnOding and industrial
devetopinenU
Mrs. Simjsoa recoinmended
reioning the 'property lo Apart­ment
and Service Business,
bnOding affordable boosfaig for
mixed income bracteta and build­ing
businesses that will proride
the needs of the ^artment^
residents and the.sDrtoondin'g'
areas.
She pointed oat thai "afford­able"
hoiaing H needed bj "oat
adttU ddldicii, oa retirees or
soob' to be retirees and tbote
Fteeporters thai we stiB owe «
-debt io-^ the people tftpbeed by'
the IMMU Kesewal Pnieci."
Keed't letter to the Mayor and
the Board staled thai be "firmly"
(Cont.'oaP*0«4)