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BAiDWfN LEADER
54th YEAR, NO. 10 FREEPORT, NEW YORK
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MARCH 10, 1988 PRICE 25* PER COPY
Three candidates vie fpr^ 18th Assembly District seat Tuesday
Eariene Hill
Three candidates will he pb the '
ballot innuesday's speciiiefec-
Uon callep by Governor Maiio
Cuomo td mi the 18th Assembly
District' seat vacated by Dem^
crat Barbara Patton,' who wa^
appointed to head the State
Workmen's''Compe'nsatioB
Board. - i
The candidates^are Republica'r
Briding Newell, Democrat-Eir-lene
Hill, and Right-to-Life
noininee, Dennis McCarthy^ -
The District is comprised of
portions of Freejwrt, Baldwin,
Hempstead, Uniondale, Roose­velt
and Merrick.
18th A.b. polls open
The Nassau County Board of
Elections has listed tiw following
polling places in Freeport and
Bai4wi>. which win be open from
6 a.m. until 9 p.m. on March IS
for the special election:
In Freeport, Caroline Atkii^
son School, Seaman. Avenue;
Leonard Avenue Firehouse,
Leonard Avenue; Exempt Fire-mans
Association, 9 North Long
Beach Avenue; Freeport Hose
Company, ffI, !£it soutEside
. Avenue; Municipal Building,
North Ocean Avenue; Columbus.
Avenue School; Freeport Hous­ing
Authority, 100 North Main
Street; Viplant Hose Company
tf2, IS Broadway; Bayview
Avenue School; Freeport
Library, Merrick Road and
Ocean Avenue; and Excelsior
Hook and Ladder Company #1,
Church Street.
In Baldwin, Shubert School,
Centennial Avenue.near Grand
Avenue; and Broi^kside School,
Ent SSanloik AvcBtifr..'
For information on wheie to
vote, call the Nassau Coimty
Board of Elections at S3S-24n.
Forum
postponed
The Freeport-Baldwin-
Ra"<ijevtli"^comniunlty-forHm-sponsored
by State Senator
Norman Levy and Assemblyman
Charles O'Shea has been post­poned
from Thnndajr, March 10,
to Thursday, March 24 at 7:30
p.m. at the Atkinso'n School
Library oh West Seaman
Avenue, Freeport.
Anyone interested in spesking
is asked to call Senator Levy^
District Office atMMlOO.
Briding Newell
EarlwM Hill
Democratic candidate Eariene
Hill, who has been endorsed by
Mrs. Patton, is a professional
social worker who has lived in the
Vfflaie df Hempitead for \mtiicf
years. She'is • owmber <A the
N AACP,the fUoipdiead Hei^htt
Civic Anpciation, the executive'
board of. the Public Employees
Federatioii, and the Negro Busi­ness
and Professional Woment
Association. . . .
Mrs. HiU holds a Bachelor of
Arts degree from Norfolk State
-College juid.«.M«>tenjl«gRk.iff.
. 'Social Work from Adelphi Uni­versity.
She and her husband
Thomas are the parents of a
daughter, Charisse.
Mrs; Hill has presented sis part
of her platform a ten point pro­gram,
to fight drugs, which she
said is "the number one problem
that we fight in my district," and
pledged that the battle against
drugs "will beatthe top of.my .
legislative agenda when I serve in
Albany."
Mrs. Hill uid her program
"entails stronger penalties for
those who deal in drugs or use
drugs; afto.rds law enforcement
officials with more muscle to'
crack down on those who deal or '
use drugs; offers preventive edu­cational
programs to stop drug
abuse before it begins; and offers
rehabilitation programs for those
> in need. of help who wish that
help."
: Among the Democratic candi­date's
other proposals are tax
incentives for developers to
reinvest and redevelop dilapi­dated
stores and abaitdoned
homes, protest against new jgroup
homes in the 18th A.D. unUl
. "Hither areas accept their fidr
share, and increase police officers
and street patrols."'
Roosevelt reddent Briding
. Newell is the Republican Party^
candidate. She currentiy serves as
Executive' Assistant to Hemp­stead
Town Presiding Superior
Joseph Moadello, and pre­viously
worked as' assistant to
~Sen8.tor—John—Dunne—and-
AssemblynuTn Kemp Hannon.
The mother of two'children,
Ms. Newell has been active with
the Minority Business Advisory
Board of the Long Island Associ-attoo,
the Nassau County Couo^
cil of Boy. Scouts, the Women's
Advocacy Project, The Fine Arts
Mtiseum of Long Island and the
Dennii McCarthy
N AACP. She holds a Bachelor of
Arts degree in social science from
San Jose'State University. '
Like the other two candidates,
Ms. Newell has said that fighting
drug abuse and ttiffeniiig penal­ties
for pushers wonld be among
her top {Hiofities, and she has
prpppied a SUbJarhan Dwig Task
I^rce iadudiag rrprfwintstlwi -
.of Nassau Coimty. its towns.
New York State, the FBI. U.S.
Customs and local.PTAs and
scbdo)> superintendents to. deal
with tlfe problem.
She has opposed New York
Qty's plan to increase the com-
-ffltriefrtaxrflad-ha«-plodged--to-fight
to reduce taxes aiid increase
State aid to local education.
. D«nni« McCarthy
Dennis McCarthy, candidate
of the Right of Life Party, lives in
IVeeport with his wife, Sharon,
(continued on psge 2)
Girl Scouts celebrate (see pages 8,9,12,13,16)
YUMMY TBEATS war* bakMi by br«»wnJ«i of Troop5Jl3 for
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Tha troop maaU at Bayyiaw Ava. School.
BALDWIN BROWNIES: Mambara of Brownla Troop 2298 dacorata a traa. A ctory about this
troop wS appsarnaxt waak, along with photos from othiar troops.