The-Leader_1989-04-06

              Annual VlOase
appointments
seepa{{eS Freeport •Baldwin
SSlh Year, N a 14 FrecpOft, N.Y. nS20 Official newspaper of ibe Village of Frcepon^Freeponind Baldwin School District] Thursday, April 6.1989 25«
'Little Freeport' to rise
Oh Bayview Avenue
by Sue Morgan
Ba^-kiew Village is coming!
If this sounds suspiciouity like
a new condominium project or
shopping mall, just check out the
excitement in the air at Bay\iew
A\Taue School to disco%-cr that
Biy^iew Village will be a unique
cbild*si2ed "town" complete with
buSdit^gS, cars, streets and Unds-caping
which will rise on the
School'k grotmds Qcar iu existing
pUj-ground.
The fimH3f>tts*kind play area
iv a joim> effort of parents,
teachers, admiiustiaton and the
kids themsetvcF. and they have
uodettakCQ t btumtorming ai^d
fundraisirig cfTori to make the
cobtful display modd of stores.
stneU. school, homes aod dvk
buildings a reality by Spring of
1990.
While the project is certainly
intended to eolertain the kids
who use it, they will be leaning ts
wcU — about the meaning and
importance of commnnily living
with learning poiribilities *is
endless aid crcati>« as individual
teachers can make them."
enthuses Bayview parent Debby
Weber, chairperson of the
piojecs-
The planners are confident
that the Freeport community will
join in supporting Ihc venture,
with merchants sponsoring mini­ature
versions of their own busi­nesses
and c%-en participating in
(he educational aspecu of the
completed \i^age with demon-stratiorts
of their occupations.
Local businessmen Shelly
Minkon of Atkrtaft and Tom
Morritt of Sir Speedy Printing"
Service* have already signed on
to share a "storefront" which will
bear their logM, and the Bay\-iew
Village Commiiiec plans to share
their excitement with the Free-port
Chamber of Commerce at its
luTKbeon at the Schooner ApiU
IS. The new village is also enVfs^
oned as the perfect spot for visiu
by the police and fire depart­ments
for saiiety edtxatioo.
Meanwhile, the fnndraistng
effon is in fuXUofc^at Bsyview.
Sweauhirts.sporu bags and even
shoelaces beating the Bayview
village logo, designed by one of
the parents, have been sold and
resulted in every Tuesday b^ng
dubbed "Sweatshirt Day," when
kids and adultt alike appear with
their newly purchued shins and
shoelaces (on Shoes and as neck-ties!).
Raffles of baked goods.
candy houses aod other parent-donaicd
items have added to the
village^ growing nest egg. With
warm weather coming, the next
fundraiser will be a t-shirt sale
-design to be detCTinined by the
resulu of "Tbe tlreai T-Shin
Design Contest."
In addition to "building" spon­sorships,
the Committee is also
Kcking donations of materials
such as bricks, mortar, marine
paint aitd pljwood, and hard-wan,
and the services of young-al-
heart masons, electricians,
painters and carpeaiers to buiU
the clever designs of Bayview
parents Tim F«gan and John
Hubcr.
• .Wrth th<Hhonghi.stH could
be a kid vgittn loiowing what 1
know now._;* the two fathers
created an inviting layout of curv­ing
roads around a viUsge square
which will be painted onto the
pavement behind the school and
occupied by devtily c^lapisible
buildings which can be stored
away at the end of each school
day. Kid-powered cars (and pos­sibly
firetrucks and police can?)
win travel the thoroughfares,
iprinkkd with the appropriate
trafnc signs. Adding to the
ambiance will be costumes to be
BET THEY CANT WAIT unto thla modal of Bayvimf Vm»g«, •
chOd aiiad play and laamlng town cocnplata with cottunwa and
vtMdM appMra It Bayvtaw AvaniM School n n t Spring. From
toft ar« Bayvtow booataia Mori Soaar, Darryl Haynto. Jaanine
Galdam«L Olbvany TortM, Eric Morwna, THfany WBBama.
Stav«n Unwnvy and Slannon Wan.
donned by the young "villagers.*' aerobic activities-
Porsches, stretch timos and
Umborghinis were among the
vehicles snggestcd by Bayview
kids who exdtedty itspooded to
Mrs. Webcrls class visiu to ask
for their ideas. And how about
thetwin towers and McDooald^i?
Despite the uiuque aspect of
Bayview vUlage, the town is only
one of three parts to the project.
Also iochxled will be an athletic
area featuring porubl^ equip­ment
soch as volleyball nets, bas-ketball
hoops and ictherball. and
a walking wellness pxlb fi^iowing
the perimeter of the playground
with "stop stations" for various
All three aspects of^^ project
win be available for use by other
schoob and commimity groups.
U the donations roU in as
quickly as have the creatt\T ideas
from the Bayview community.
the village should be a fait acom-pli
in no time.
"Freeport is an enormously
exciting community, one weVc all
proud to be a part of." says Mrs.
Weber. "We see tius underuking
as an opportunity to teach our
children what it means to work
together, to live together and to
play together in a creative and
i n s t r u c t i v e way.**
Truck Co.'s Newbery unopposed for FFD Third Assistant Ciiief
by Dave Vieser
Dn April 6, the FrPcport Fire
Department will again elect a
Third Assistant Chief from
within their ranks. Excdaor
Hook and Ladder Qo. «l nomi­nated
and unanimously endorsed
Ex-Captain Bruce Newbery for
thb position.
A lifdong Freeport resident
Bruce joined the Freeport Fire
Departoent in May of I96S. He
has bek) virtually every office in
Track Company and was Cap­tain
for two terms from 1974 to
1976. Bruce was Co-Optun of
Truck Company** very mccessf o)
toumastent team *Tbe Dead End
Kids" and held the state record
for iodividoal ladder which stood
for three seasons.
Acting in the capacities ts
Cliief lostractor. Assistant Chief
lastroctof and mcfflber of the
departments Training Cenur
BttildittS Committee. Bnxe has
foaaed hts dcpvtamt efforts o«
traintnt and safety.
Brace cooes from a fttc
firefighter in Concord. New
Hampshire.
In 1979 Bruce's profcssiooar
flrefi^oing career began when he
was appointed to the New York
Ciiy Fire DepartmcnL Presently
assigned to Kcsctx Company No.
I located innudtown Manhattan,
his duties are not just c^Sonocd to
firefighting but were expanded to
include various major inddenu
(auto extraction, building col­lapses
and water rescue emergert-cies).
Bruce is a certified rescue
di\-er and during his IO>Tars of
service in FDNY has been deco­rated
$e%tn times for bravery.
Bruce and is wife Karen live on
Rooscveft Avenue with their
three children. Their oldest
daughter Donru is a freshman at
SUNY ai Gcneseo. Daughter
Pam u very tctivc in the junior
dass of Freeport High at>d «as
recently elected President of the
Key Oub. Tbeir son Brian is an
eighth grader in Dodd Juntor
High and is an avid Ucrosv
pUyer.
Clean-up of wetlands to begin
by Joan Delaney
' Brtjc* NcwtMry
dep»rtmni> Uaaij. H» f^hcr
Percy is a veteran member with
33 year* tad his brother Davtd
haa 25 yean'tt Truck Company.
Hii brother Cay is a prnfttriooal
The property on the border of
Freeport and Baldwin, just i>orth
of Sunrise Highway behind the
old Waterworks property will be
Qndcrgoln|clean>«p and preser­vation
efforts.
On Sonday. April 2, members
of the Soutbshore Andnboa
Society, wbo have a managBment
agrecsaesl with Naxsao Cooaty
relitxvt to the property, are
hcgjnniBg tnor tffocts to retuia
tlie area to a "natsre preserve
which the pabGc can mt and
learn from."
In a phone interview with The
Leader. Audubon Society
member Beuy Golotta spoke of a
committee of 20 people who arc
beginning the project with a
"walk throng and dean up of
obvious litter aod debris." Sub-teqoent
plans call for "the deveV-opatetu
of existing and ikew tiaih
aitd eventual idenuficatioo of
flora and fauna. The Society
also hopes to write a ttail guide
and place bcncfacs ia the prcseve
in the process of dndopiag the
area (or pnbGc edncatica and « c
Several locaf people art
involved in the work of t(^
Society iaduding Baldwin Senior
High School science teacher Joe
Grupp. who is President of the
Soc^y. and Vice President and
Conservation Chairperson Joan
Backcreit as wcD as fialdwiiuies
June ReiUy and Peggy Corson
Mrs. Gulocta noted thai the
Society hopes to attraa many
otber local residents to -partici­pate
in the otk-going ckaiMtp and
pTEicrvatiDO efforts.
OB April II. Cooqty Exccntrvc
TboBftS Galocta wis vist the
ard for an U-JO^ML picsscoo-