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FREEPORT MEMQRIAL LIBRARY;
Northwest Civic Association Meeting
Thursday, Seotember 2il, at the
Freenort Public library
: Maureen O'Connell, Nassau County Clerk
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74th Year, No. 40 Freeport, N.Y. 11520
The Community Newspaper
Thursday, October 1, 2009
New boats for SPLASH Merrick fair
tliis week
The annual fall festival, sponsored by the Merrick Chamber of Commerce to fund holiday lights and other community improvements is coming October 2-4.
The grand opening ceremony will be on Saturday, October 3, at the Showmobile.
Merrick Avenue will close during festival hours from Loines Avenue south to Sunrise ^Highway. Friday night is for rides and entertainment only.
Camival rides will be provideH by Newton Shows, and continue Saturday "from.sl.i a.m.-10 p.m. and Sunday, 11 a.m.-6p.m. - .
The festival features live entertain-nient, a pettingiZOO,vpony/rides,;-fre.e|";, 'piSareating; and pie-eating-contests, "* face-painting, kiddie tattoos, 24-foot rock wall climbing, and arts and
crafts. New this year: Bring your Disney pins to trade.
Festival sponsors include Roslyn Savings Bank/NY Community Bank, Dr. Michael Belfiore D.O.P.C. state Senator Charles Fuschillo Jr., state Assemblyman David G. McDonough, American Airlines, First National Bank of Long Island, Orlin & Cohen and Capital One.
New this year to the fall festival is a section with a "green theme," where exhibits by Biltwell and Port Energy and New York Power Authority are planned, along with
.|Sh,oqUenergy>p.rpjects. ,, „^ ,^,^,. For information call Chamber
.^President Margaret Mueller, or festi-Co-Chairs Ira Reiter and Randy Shbtland at 771-1171 or visit Merrickchamber.org.
preservfi land to Ue sold
by Laura Schofer
The Roosevelt Preserve, 73 acres nestled within the Meadowbrook corridor, will be a little smaller now that the Nassau County Legislature has approved the sale of 3.86 acres of that land to Coleman Country Day Canp on Babylon Turnpike,
just west of the Meadowbrook Parkway. The county Legislature, in a partisan
Democrat-Republican vote of 11 to eight,
approved the sale of the land for $650,000,
of which half must go to New York City as
per the conditions, in'-the'original land -transfer. Also^the^ land-will not be trans-t-,' feired to the day camp until the state' Legislature approves it in two separate sessions over the course of several years.
Now parks advocate and Executive Director Bruce Piel of PARCNassau, a parks advocacy group, is urging residents to write to their state representatives, including Senator Charles Fuschillo Jr. and
Assemblywoman Earlene Hooper, to
oppose tiiis sale.
"The preserve is for park and parkway
purposes only," said Mr. Piel. "This is a poor idea at best and is certainly a case, of aUenation of parkland."
Parks & Trails New York, a nonprofit group dedicated to preservation of park space in New York, defines park alienation as "efforts to convert the recreational
use of parkland to other uses, or to restrict public access to parkland." In this case, the 3.86 acres of land in the Roosevelt
Preserve will be transferred to the day
camp, thus eliminating public access to the land.
George Coleman, owner of Coleman Country Day Camp, said the land in question has been used as a camp for six decades going back to the 1950s and was never accessible to the public.
In 1972 Nassau County permitted then-Cairip Bauman to use the 3.86 acres of the Roosevelt Preserve as a nature study area.
The property, about 1,750 acres along the,Meadowbrook Parkway and including
the 73.2 acres of the Rooseveh Preserve, was owned by the Brooklyn Watershed but
was transferred to the county in 1981.
(continued on page 3)
"Cash for candy" in Baldwin
SPUVSHboat dedicated
page6
Jplin IVIcKinney dies at 77
page 13
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| Title | The-Leader_2009-10-01 |
| Subject | Newspaper |
| Description | This is a Newspaper distributed locally within the Village of Freeport and Baldwin. |
| Creator | Linda Toscano |
| Publisher | L&M Publications, Inc. |
| Contributors | Scanned by Imaging & Microfilm Access, Inc. (Bohemia, NY 11716) |
| Date | 2009 |
| Type | Periodical |
| Format | PDF; TIFF |
| Source | Freeport Memorial Library |
| Language | English |
| Coverage | United States |
| Rights | This digital image may be freely used for educational uses, as long as it is not altered in any way. No commercial reproduction or distribution of this image is permitted without written permission of the Freeport Memorial Library, 144 W. Merrick Road, Freeport, NY 11520 or email: frreference@freeportlibrary.info |
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