Municipal Service Request
Do you have a specific problem that needs the
attention of a Village department?
If so, please use this Service Request form to
bring it to the attention of your Village ad-ministration.
It will be acknowledged and giv-en
to the appropriate department- head for ac-tion.
We recommend that you include your name and ad-dress.
It will not be disclosed to any third
party, but it will enable us to let you know
what was done or why it couldn't be done.
You.may conveniently send your Service Request
to Village Hall by including it in the same re-ply
envelope with your Electric Bill payment.
SERVICE REQUEST
TO: Mayor William H. White, Municipal Building, Freeport, N.Y. 11520
Action Requested or Nature of Problem
Address or Location (Please be specfic)
For Referral to: Sanitation Highway
Electric Water Sewer
Parking Fields Vacant Lot Clearance
Stadium_ Sign Shop Other
Your Name
Address
Building Department Code Enforcement_
Narcotics Guidance Parking Meters
Police Tire 'Recreation and Parks
Phone
REFERENCE
News
A PUBLIC INFORMATION BULLETIN OF THE VILLAGE OF-FREEPORT -*• «:
46 NORTH OCEAN AVENUE TELEPHONE FReeport 8-4000 WILLIAM H. WHITE. MAYOR
Public Meetings On The 1st and 3rd Mondays Of The Month. At 9:00 P.M.
Over 1,000 At Recreation Center Event JULY, 1975
Pictured above is just one of the activities en-joyed
by the over 1,000 persons attending the
June 21 Open House and Dedication at the Freeport
Recreation Center, 130 East Merrick Road.
With many residents purchasing seasonal and year-ly
Discount Tickets even before summer program-ing
began, Superintendent of Recreation and Parks
Stanley Brekne, surveying the crowd in the 100,-
000 square foot Raynor Rock Smith Building and
elsewhere on the 13-acre recreational complex,
expressed confidence that the Center appeared
"well on its way to its first successful summer."
Dedication ceremonies, led by Mayor William White
and former Mayor Robert Sweeney, had the partici-pation
of Congressman Norman Lent, Senator Norman
Levy, Assemblyman Armand D'Amato, Hentpstead Town
Presiding Supervisor Francis Purcell and Super-visor
Alfonse D'Amato. Acknowledged during the
event was John DiGrazia who had donated a mural
he created to the Center and John Abbate whose
Freedom Shrine is installed in the building.
Sharing the honor of unveiling the plaque of-fically
dedicating the Center's building to the
heroic Captain Smith was Village Bicentennial
Chairman Robert Raynor who introduced several
other descendants who had come to Freeport for
the occasion.
Trustees: Thomas J. Loveiiage, Ralph P. Franco, Dorothy Storm, Wayne Jordan
Village Clerk: Thomas DeVincenzo-Treasurer: James J. Lyons - Counsel: Oakley Gentry Jr.
Campaign Help Starting The Blood Flowing
Mayor William White (left), as a private citizen,
kicks off the Freeport Chamber of Commerce's pro-motional
campaign by making his donation to Cam-paign
Chairman Lou Faust, General Manager of Ra-dio
Station WGBB, as Chamber President Fred Scal-amandre
looks on. The campaign, to involve Free-port
businesses, individuals, and social and ser-vice
organizations, has as its aim the promotion,
through major regional media, of the Village as a
community, as a shopping center offering person-alized
service, and as a locale of fine restau-rants.
Center's Champ
Assistant Superintendent of Recreation Frank Le
Sueur (left) presents James Stefano with his
Yearly Discount Ticket to the Recreation Center's
Health Wing, the first to be issued for the 1975-
76 season. A user of the pools since December,
the Cary Place resident has been swimming ^,000
yards daily for a total of 60 miles. He will
represent the Recreation Department in the N.Y.S.
Long Course Swim Championship, Christopher Morley
Park, August 8, 9 and 10.
Chief Warns About Con Games
Police Chief Antnuny Elar cautions Freeporters
not to be taken in by swindlers who use one of
the oldest "con" games known to man. He warns
against being fooled by "get-rich-quick" schemes
in which elderly or poor people are most frequent-ly
cheated. Reports have come in that Freeporters
have been victimized by the old confidence racket
based on the lure of easy money.
A pocketbook or wallet containing what appears
to be a large sum of money is found by one of the
pair of swindlers in view of the selected victim.
The victim is then approached by the "finder" who
explains that although he actually found it, he
is in a hurry to catch a bus or train and for some
reason cannot take it with him. At this point,
the other member of the pair, presumably a disin-terested
party, joins in and suggests that the
victim hold the money until the next day when he
will meet with the "finder," and they will then
share the findings. For security and to assure
them of his good faith, the victim is asked to
give the disinterested party whatever money or
valuables he has on him. In the meantime, the
"find" has been switched and when the victim
gets home he finds that he has been given a purse
or wallet filled with paper and has been swindled
out of his own money and valuables.
Freeport merchants should be aware of yet another
con game. A man walks into a store, and in full
view of the owner, unsuccessfully attempts to in-sert
a large number of $1 bills into a gift en-velope.
He then asks the owner for five 520 bills
in exchange for the 100 singles he's trying to get
into the envelope. He hands over 99 singles, re-ceives
the 20's and places them into the envelope
which he seals, and places in his pocket as the
owner counts the singles. When challenged about
the J99, he withdraws a sealed gift envelope, a
second one containing only paper, leaves it with
the owner while he "just run to the car to get a
dollar from my wife," and dissapears $100 richer.
Should anyone approach you with such schemes,
play it cool and refuse to participate. Then
notify the Police Department giving them as good
a description as you can of the people who approached
you, including car model and make, and license
number if a car was involved.
Inter-County Blood Services Director Dr. Theodore Robertson (left) and Area Adminstrator John But-ler
look on as Mrs. Elizabeth Buck checks on Mayor William White as he donates blood to start the
Village's campaign to help meet the blood shortage which annually occurs during the summer vacation
months. All Village employees are being urged to participate and Mayor White, in proclaiming Au-gust
as "Blood Donor Month," is asking all Village businesses, organizations and individuals to
Contact Inter-County at 536-7100 to arrange to donate to help others while insuring that the blood
needs of their family will be met for the next year.
Telephone Service Requests
When calling Village Hall to request a particu-lar
Municipal Service, please ask for the depart-ment
involved, such as Sanitation, Highway, Elec-tric
Billing, etc. However, if you are not sure
which Village department would handle your request,
please very briefly tell the switchboard operator
the gist of the problem and she will refer your
call to the proper department or individual.
Please note that the Department of Recreation
and Parks may now be reached through 223-8000,
the number of the Recreation Center.
