The-Leader_1984-11-15

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Village inspection Finds Unsafe Cabs
Baldwin Bd. Hears
Health Curriculum
Spread Of Pilot Program
Now At Lenox Discussed
Taxi Owners Fined By
Court For 37 Violations
FREEPORT - ThU vUlage's lax! setvices will have lo pay $925 in
fines levied by the VHIage Court •ntanday. November 8, on sum­monses
pending sinc« July 18. .
The summonses were issued by the Fieeport Police Department
during an unannounced safely inspection of village cabs held «t the
munidpal garage on July 18.
Arts Council's
Annua! Craft Fair
At Rec Center
FHEEPORT - The Arts CouncU
at Freeport. will hold its fifth
Annual Pre-Holiday Craft* Fair
and Sale on Sunday, Novem­ber
18, 11 aro-S pm, al the
Freeport Recreation Center.
The Fair is held in cooperation
with the Freeport Reareation Dfe-'
partrnent and is partially funded
by the Nassau County Oftice of
Diltural Development.
in 'addition to the sale of
hand-crafted items, the day will
feature activities for the whole
family.
The Grumman Theater Guild
will present "Tennis Anyone?"
and actor Bernard Marsh will
speak on "The Art of Show
Business."
There will be games and prizes
for children, along with a puppet
show and a children's art eshibiU
The Cantore Family of living
American Heritage Inc. will
present a delightful program of
puppets, songs and dances,-with
folktales from around the world.
Ftee babysitting will be avail­able.
Over 75 craftspeople wiJI dis­play
Iheir works at the Fair.
Craftspeople from Freeport will
include TheUta Blanco, Karen
Schanke, tinda Jenkins, Ronne
Bozzanca, Gloria Hudgins,
Falalia Block, Judith Martin,
Susan Morgan, Ann Jackson and
Rita Mayt.
Donahue (nstaiied
As Postmaster
In Freeport
FREEPORT - The selecUon of
Paul J. Donahue as Postmaster
of Freeport has been announced
by the Northeast Regional
Postmaster General John G.
Mulligan.
Donahue was installed at (he
Post Office on Thursday, Novem­ber
8, in front of a Urge audience
consisting cf his family, friends,
regional and local postal officials
and post office pers^mnel, and
commnnily leaders.
The new post master's »e-
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by.Joan Delaney
BALDWIN - D. Alan Tyson, Director of Health for"the Baldwin
School District, presented an overview of the K-i2 health curriculum at
the November 7th Baldnin Board of Education meeting. The presenta­tion
was in part motivaled by questions from the community at past
meelings, as well as a desire, apparently, to update the Board on
changes in this year's program.
particularly the pilot Seattle-
Berkeley program, at . Lenox
School - which' - centers primarily -
on a sequentij, positive pre­ventive
approach to the sludy-of
drug and alcohol abuse.
According lo Baldwin Super,
infendenl of Schools Roltand
Jmies, the District's priority,
coricem with the health cur>
ticulum can be seen in Tyson's
job responsibilities *h>ch have
been adjusted so that he can bet-ler
monitor and evaluate the
health program's implementa­tion.
Tyson indicated that this
year his activities have included
personal visits lo each school
and discussion with principals
to verify the program's imple­mentation.
The existing K-12 program,
accordings to Tyson, includes a
-Baldwin developed health cur­riculum
at the elementary level
which had been created some
years ago with input from leach-ers,
the communily, psycholo­gists
and medical professionals.
That Baldwin curriculum includes
four sU-ands of study: Growth
and Development (primarily den­tal
health and nutrition], the
Sociological strand (tobacco, drug
and alcohol informalion}, the
Enyironmenlai strand and the
Safely strand. Only the sociolo­gical
strand is actually mandated
by (he State. Another strand,
called the MenUI Health Strand,
'which includes family living and
sex educaUoh, is not implemen­ted
by in Baldwin at the elemen­tary
level.
Tyson explained that this
health curriculum, which also
incorporates such State mandated
topics as fire safety, bus safety
and pedestrian safety, is taught
by the dassroom teacher, tike
most corrkuU, the goals are
den but (he method of presen-
Uli<m and selection of resource
materials are left-(o (he dis-
. cretion of the classroom teacher.'
In contrast. Tyson explained
the SeatUe-Bcrkeley Substance^
Abuse program; Vhich is lii place*'
in grades K-3 at Lenox School
as a pilot program. This is a high­ly
structured, sequential cur­riculum
which requires worit-shop
training by teachers and
administrators and stresses a
"hands-on" approach that re­quires
parent volunteers at vari­ous
"stations."
According to Assistant Super­intendent
Gene Lanzaro, the pro­gram
itself does not require
evaluation since it is over ten
years old and has had nation­wide
success. Rather it is the
implementation process that
needs evaluating with such con­cerns
as the .acquisition and '
distribution of materials and most
importantly the time and cost of
the five day (raining of teachers.
Regarding Ihe health curricu­lum,
Tyson noted that (he tra­ditional
Baldwin health cur- .
riculnm makes use of an assort­ment
of outside resources includ­ing
presentations by members
of the Town of Hempstead Drug
and Alcohol, department, police
programs, xafetyrama kits, mate­rials
from (he Dental Assoda-lion,
nutrition materials from (he
Dairy Council and the Learn Not
to Bum curriculum provided by
the Fire Department. All have
periodic updating, he said.
Answering questions from
members of the School Board,
Tyson stressed that the Baldwin
curriculum is a "subtle- ap­proach"
particularly regarding
substance abuse. When Board
member Bernard Piuinsky noted
that there did not seem to by any
real emphasis on stibstance abate
- prior io sixth grade, Tyson noled
that "we start discussion as early
as kindergarten," but agreed
that it was in relation to other
areas of sludyi for exjrople
pedestrian safety and (he effect
j(ConJ.onPaB««
The annua] inspection is con-dufied
under the auspices of the
Freeport Police Departmenu
The companies — Barnes
Taxi. C»nnon Taxi and Eddie's
Taxi —- received a total of 78
summonses from police at the
July inspection.
Last Thursday, November 8,
the cab company operators an-swoed
the summonses in Vil­lage
Court and pleaded guilty
before Judge Ralph Franco lo •
37 of the charges.
The violaUons found on the
various-vehicles included unsafe
brake hoses,' faulty ball joints, '
unnecessary smoke exhaust,
inadequate emergency brakes,
lack of steering fluid, unsafe
brake drums, unsafe tires, faulty
brakes, unaccessible seat belts,
faulty steering, etc.
AH defects were found lo have
been corrected .at the second
inspection conducted by the
police before the Court date.
Eighteen of the $25 fines must
be paid within two weeks of the
November 8ih court date, with
the remaining 19 due to be paii,
within four weeks. .
Other summonses involving
.the lad of lone maps, rale cards,
driver photographs and taxi
licenses were dismiiscd, when
the documents were pnxiuccd
in court.
Medallions on taxis, in the
Village of Freeport. are issued by
the village. All three cab com­panies,
operating within the vil­lage,
are apparently owned by
the same-person.
(EDtTOR'S NOTE: THE LEA­DER
had received complaints,
early in the summer, from Free-port
residents, who were cus­tomers
of the local cab service.
The complaint* were passed on to
Village Hall at that time. A vil­lage
source then explained to this
.office that an unannounced.in­spection
was planned for Ihc near
future.)
Holiday Schedule
FREEPORT - All Freeport
Village municipal oRices will
be closed Thanktgiving Day,
Thursday, November 22 as well
as on Friday. November 23. The
latter day is in lieu of the Election
Day holiday not taken by village
employees.
_ There'will be no garbage or
trash cotlcctloii Th~the~ii6tthefir"
section of the village on Thanks­giving
Day. Friday. Nwcmber 23,
ii not a holiday fur the private
cjricr and garbage and trash
(Com. en Page 19)
PLANNING THEIR TELEVISION "DEBUT." Member* of (he Senior
Ctttzeiii' prcfiram, run ibrouoh the Freeport Recreation Department,
' met recently with Deputy Mayor Dorothy Stcrnf to discuu the laplng ol
aCablevitlcn ihcw en their •ctlvltlet. Storm will hostess the program,
which will be thcwn en Tuesday, November 20, «t 6:30 pm, and again
en Tuesday, November 27, at 9 pm, over Channel 22. Talldng about
$uch ttnlcr citizen program acilvlliei as arts and cralit, quilting
and ipcrti'witi be (1. to r.) Louise Albach. director of the village
Recreatlcn Department t lenicr ctttzen programming; Harry Kova! c)
Ixng Beach; Katherlne Savage of Freepcrl; Mr*. Storm; Florence
and Bernle Slegel cf East Meadow; and Rostyn Oanzlger-Hili pi Free*
pert. -