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LEA UR FREEPORT; N EW YORK. JANUARY 26, i984
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:48th YEAR. No. 40
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Nob 2 Suspects In Home Burglaries
Jgwye^liMriiig Alert Police Spof Cars
Stolen In freeport Caper^
Shortened By Snow
Bouiukos, Venzen Cross Examination Of
To &ek Reeieciion Baldwin Teacher Confinued
To Fweport Board
FREEPORT • Incumbent Free-port
School District Board of Edu-.
calion members George Bouiukos
and Cal. Venzen will run for re­election
this May,' according to a
conversation they had with this
reporter- following the School.
Board meeting Wednesday night,
January 18.
Bouiukos will be seeking his
third three year terra; Venzen his
second term. .
Bouiukos, who has been presir
dent and yice-presideht of the
-School Board several times, is
presently serving without pay as
School District Treasurer.
A long-time Freeport resident,
Bonliikos is owner/manager of a
successful waterfront business in
Merrick. He is a graduate of
Brown University. He and his
wife, Kathy, who is active in PTA,
have a home on Woodclefi Canal..
Their son, Nicholas, is a senior at
: Brown; daughter Samantha
attends Freeport High School.
Venzen, a resident of Wallace
Street tor the past six years, is
a medical sales representative.
He holds a degree in economics
from Long Island University.
The Venzens have two young­sters,
who atte.nd Freeport
schoolsr
This year's School
election .has been scheduled for
Wednesday^ay 9, with the polls
lobe open nlOpm.
Petitions for nomijtations for
School Board Trustees most be
filed in the ofBce of the School
District Clerk in the, Adminis-.-
^ tralion Building, 235 North Ocean
Avenue, on or before S pm Mon­day,
April 9. Prospective candi­date's
petitions must be signed''
by at least 78 qualified voters of -
the School District-.
Tum-our Disappointing
, The Janijaiy IBth School Board
' 'meeting was also the occasion of
the first of two scheduled public
meetings on the report of the
—^Tasfc-Force^lcali^g-^rith^he-dlf•"
position of Cleveland ^Avenue
School. A winter snowsKinn and
cold temperatures caused a can'
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by Joan Delanej
BALDWIN - Because of an anticipated heavy snow storm, the sixth
day of the public hearing in the case of the Baldwin School District
against industrial arts teacher Robert Sawyers lasted less than one
hour. Cross" examination by. the sc|ipol district'sattomey Jerome
Ehriich continued with many questions'a repetition of those of the pre­vious
week. Two additional days— • - . .
yers rei^nded,'"Yes', that was
my motiyation" in requesting-that
the materifl-be identified
in the first place.' WHen asked if '
the work might not hive been
completed, thus explaining the
cleaning up. Sawyers s^id^hat it
must .not have been coriipleted
since additional work was done
during Ihe following summer. He '
then added that all of the work
should have been done at a-time
when students were not in' the
building.
Ehriich then focused"on the
time sequence, asking Sawyers '
again for the names ot the stu­dents
whoih Sawyers said-stayed
for after-school help. -Ehriich
pointel out that according to
the teachers.'' contract;' teachers
^re suppbsed to keep a record of
those students - who stay for
helpr-He then produced* log
which did'not include a record
for after-school help by Sawyers
on March 4. Sawyers exptaintd
that he Yarely kept such a log.
particularly since many students
came and went to pick up bicycle
paris.' When asked to name the
students who 'stayed. Sawyers
said that he did not remember
and w;ould refuse .to do so even if
he did remember since he felt
that- it was not '.'educationally
sound to involve the names oif
students."
Ehriich then referred to Saw­yers'
confrontation with teacher
Tim Chambers, who has lesCfied
for the. school districf; and
•Chamben'.letter concerning the
incident. The letter indicated that
the entire department watched
the setroo of the'air filto' ma­chine,
Sawyers'iaid t}ia't he-was
not there for the set^p and in
- answer to a direct question bom
, EhrikKsaid, "it & a lie." When
asked why he didn't show cham­bers
the-"Kleenex" which Saw-of
hearings were scheduled for
January 23 and' January 30 at
10:30 am.
At first, Ehrlich's quesUons
focused on Sawyers' letter to
Baldwin Juninr High School Prin- .
cipal John Fitzsim'mons and
Sawyers'. "Right to Know"
requests. Ehriich insisted tha't the •
letter contain^ questions con­cerning
asbestos to which Saw- .
yers already knew the answers
and suted Uial the letter to FiU-simmons
was- an effort "to
embarass Mr. Fitzsiramons...a'
cover up...a set-up by Mr, Saw­yers."
Sawyers responded by saying
. that he had a right to ask those
questions and emphasized that
'he wanted the suspected materiil
identified. He added that if any­one
was covering up, it was the
district which was "covering jip
envihjninental hazards." When
asked if he frequently communi- :
caled information'on asbestos and
Thliic substances to Fitisiramons,
District Sawjers said that "as a cancer
patient'.'.he bad spoken to various
doctors and "as I became aware
uf knowledge, I made it known to
ihedislrict."
When Ehriich asked who;n
Sawyers suspected of covering
up. Sawyers- was reluctant to
men lion names. However,, when'
Ehriich mentioned Manager of
Plant and Facilities Sheldon
Fuchs, Sawyers admitted. "He
had done some' very foolish
things.-"
Again Ehriich questioned Saw­yers
on why he agreed to relufn
to his classroom on March 4 if
he suspected asbestos contamina-tion.
Sawyers _ once again ex­plained
that he was so direaed
by the principal who "has the
responsibility for the cbniluct,
health and safety ia the build-ing."
FREEPORT -Two v'lllage police officers are being credited with the
apprehetision of £n 18-year-old Uniondale .m»n_who. along wtih an-
"aecomplice.'allegedly'burglarired several houses in northwest Free-port,
as well as in Uniondale and East Meadow, and terrorized the
occupants. "
-Freeport Police Officers Roose- burglary "n IVliwire Av,-,,.... nn
velt Hendricks and-AnhgrZim- j,nuary 16, was on a Chevrolet
totally ' unconnected with the
burglaries, parked on Moore
Avemie.
A shod lime late, al about 1 am
Saturday. P.O. Hendricks spotted
the stolen 1981 Honda on North
Main Street, Hendricks pursued
the car into Roosevelt and with
backup from other village- police
units apprehended the occu­pants,
on Royal'Court in Roose­velt.
In the car with Wyniers,
whose addrtss was given as 607
Krull .Street, Uniondale. wu a
IS-year-oId girl wljo was not
charged.
Eady was observed on Lake-wood
Avenue, Roosevelt,, by the
two Nassau County polic«r^,o{rt-cers.
while the suspect WM
driving the second car slolen In
coraroUslon of the same Delaware
' Avenue burglary.
Wynters has been charged with
five counts bf first degree burg-laty^<
one house on Delaware
Avenue and one on Connecticut
in Freeport, as reported in last
-week's Usue of THE LEADER:
the Januaiy 20ih burglary of a
Bcveriy Parkway house;'an East
'Mead(nv house and a Uniondale
home). Eady was charged wiih
one count of fust degree burglary
and three of second degree burg­lary
in the three burglaries in
Freeport and the one in East
- Meadow. Both suspects have also
been charged .with one couni of
"_ , (Conl.'lromPagelfi) '-
mer started the chain of events
leading to the capture and arrest
of Orville "Tony" Wynters early
Saturday morning. January 21.
At about 2:30 pm that same day
two Nassau County policement,
P.O. Mark Marshall and P.O.
Orsbie Wingfield. arrested the
second suspect, Michael Eady.
22. of 14 Catlin Avenue. Roose­velt.
Wyniers and Eady. who are
being held in bail of J50.000 each,
allegedly broke-inio homes in the
early morning hours, woke the
sleeping occupants and terrorized-them
before stealing jeweliy.
cash^ television 'sets, stereos,
microwave ovens, computers,
other smalt appliances and valu­ables,
and oflen leaving in the
families'cars.'
Apparently, it was the cars that
were their (indoing. Wynters was
arrested driving one of the stolen
. cars, Eady another.
^ According to-Freepon police,
the license plate from one of the
stolen cars was spotted en ah
-nnrelaled car by Officer Zlmmer
late Friday itight. • Zimmer wu
one of a number of village and
county police officep assigned to
the Steams Park area in a con­certed
push to caich'Ihe thieves,
who . — in-less than, three
weeks — mig'hi have commit led
more than half-dozen house burg­laries
in the area.
The license plaie of the car,
-which had been stolen during a
When asked whether he was
concerned for the-stix&hu, Sav- - -(C^owon-Paoee)-
SNOW SCULPTURE. All lh«< whi!« Huff thai fell en Long lalatvl las'
w>afc-t>fought something mere and better than snarled traffic- and .
bToSSdiidewalki. It gave youngsters and otdatert • chance t& be crea­tive.
At the Slassen house on Bedell Street, Ihree-year-cld SccUl and
Mary Blen. J, boin an enormcus teddy bear out of snow en the from
iawn.withsTittlehelpfrfcmthetrmo»n,'JoAoneSiassen.. • -. ,