Spend a cool August evening
poolside at the Freeport Recrea-tion
Center, 130 East Merrick
Road.
Every Friday evening, 8 to 10,
MOVIES for the entire family will
be featured. On Saturday, August
21, the outdoor pool area will be
the scene of a SOCIAL DANCE
featuring live music, free
"Hustle" lessons and plentiful
food to be enjoyed on the outdoor
dining terrace. For those wishing
to bring their own liquid refresh-ments,
set ups will be available.
The dance will begin at 9 pm and
end at 1 am.
Music for both listening and
poolside dancing will be featured
on Sunday, August 8 and Sunday,
August 22, from 8 pm to 10 pm.
The Belmonts will present a lively
'50's revival on the earlier date
while the latter event will feature
The Marc Arnold Orchestra with
music from the 40's to the 70's.
Both CONCERTS are subject to a
grant from the New York State
Council of the Arts.
Cost for the August 21 social
dance is $4 per person. The event
is limited so it is recommended
that reservations be phoned in to
223-8000 as early as possible.
Tickets must be paid for at least
one week in advance.
All other events are free to Dis-count
Ticket holders. Others must
pay the regular Health Wing ad-mission
charge of $2 for adults
and $1 for children under 18.
They may be accompanied by
non-resident guests for which the
fee is 50* higher. Those purchas-ing
admission may do so anytime
during the day of the event allow-ing
them full use of the Wing's
Olympic pool, diving tank, kiddie
pool and playground, outdoor
handball court, locker rooms,
steam and sauna, exercise room
and gymnasium. Food, from
•snacks- to -full meals, - is available •
for purchase.
It is suggested that those at-tending
evening events at the
Recreation Center come prepared
for the cool breezes that usually
prevail. In inclement weather,
events are held within the
Center's building.
Please note that registration for
the Recreation Department's
September KIDDIE CLUB will
be held at the Recreation Center
from August 24 to 27 although
monthly registration is usually
held the last week of every month
The popular Kiddie Club is for
children ages three to four and a
half and involves movement and
games, music and dance, arts and
crafts, creative drama and pup-petry,
story telling and films and
special events. Children may at-tend
the morning session, 9:15 to
11:30, on Tuesday and Thursday
or on Wednesday and Friday; or
the afternoon session, 1:15 to 3:30
on Tuesday and Thursday or on
Wednesday and Friday.
Cost is $15 per month payable
at registration which is limited to
a first comer first served basis
each month.
It may seem a long way from
the football season, but registra-tion
and tryouts for the Freeport
Kiwanis-Recreation Midget
FOOTBALL program will be held
beginning the week of August 16,
6:30 pm to 8:30 pm, at Raynor
Field, Raynor Street between
Church and Bedell Streets.
The program, which is under
the auspices of the L.I. Midget
Football League, is designed for
boys ages 12 and 13 and boys 10
to 12 who constitute the junior
varsity. The maximum age in
each group may not have been
reached by September 1, 1976.
Flyers and posters will be distrib-uted
throughout the Village prior
to registration.
Join the Recreation Center for
a refreshing tour of MONTAUK
POINT, Wednesday, August 18.
Included in the tour will be a visit
to the famed lighthouse com-missioned
by President George
Washington and a buffet lunch-eon
at luxurious Gurney's Inn
overlooking the ocean.
The fee of $12.50 includes
tour, lunch and transportation.
The bus will leave the Recreation
Center at 9 am and return about
4 pm. Advance reservations may
be phoned in to 223-8000, ext.
10 with monies due by August 5.
All participants must have a Free-port
"Activity Card . ~ ~ ......
quarters, 40 North Ocean Ave-nue.
The one time 25$ registra-tion
has proven to be a deterrent
to theft while giving Police
Officers an opportunity to exa-mine
equipment for any defects
and instruct bikers as to the rules
and regulations they must follow.
Equipment must be brought
to Headquarters so a metal
identification plate can be affixed.
REFERENCE
The Heritage Train, a special
two-car bicentennial exhibit train
co-sponsored by the Long Island
Rail Road and Nassau County,
will be on display at the Freeport
freight station August 4 through
August 15. Freeport is one of
only five stops the exhibit train
will make during its summer tour
of Nassau County.
One of the two 1913 railroad
cars features a pictorial display
showing the complex architectur-al
development of Nassau County
contrasting the "yesterday" and
' 'today'' of its growth.
The second car contains an ex-hibit
of LIRR memorabilia, in-cluding
railroad tickets and maps
dating back to the early 1900's
and a true-to-scale model of the
East Williston station.
The exhibit will be open to the
public, free of charge, daily
10 am to 6pm.
(II
A Healthy Business
Community LessensThe
Burden Of ,The .Taxpay.-,.
Because of the success of the
drive to have all bicycles in the
Village registered with the Free-port
Police Department, it has
been decided to eliminate the first
Saturday of every month regis-tration
sessions.
Bicycles will continue to be
registered each Wednesday,
8:30 am to 4 pm, at Police Head-ing
Resident
o by broadening the tax
base
o by providing employ-ment
o by attracting more
tax-reducing develop-ment.
You can Help By Thinking
"Freeport First"
For Purchase Of Goods
and Services
JULY 1976
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.
The weekend of August 14
and 15 has been selected as the
Village's next Bicentennial
Weekend with the emphasis on
sports and games of the past and
present.
Sponsored by the Village's
Bicentennial Committee in co-operation
with the Recreation
Department and the Recreation
Programs Committee, the
two-day event will take place at
the Recreation Center, 130 East
Merrick Road, and the surround-ing
area.
Preliminary plans call for walk-ing
races, hoop rolling, a "greas-ed
pole" event, bowling, check-ers
and chess competitions,
swimming events, wrestling,
canoeing, tug-of-war, "fishing,"
badminton, etc. Also planned is
"The First-And-Once-And-
For-All Softball game "between
the Freeport Fire Department
and the Village Police Depart-ment.
Aimed to please all family
members, the weekend will in-clude
music and dancing for
spectators and participants alike.
An Awards Dinner at the Recrea-tion
Center will conclude the
activities.
Please watch the local news-papers
for further details.
Superintendent of Electric Utilities Ludovic Long (standing) looks on
as Mayor William White signs contract with the Power Authority of the
State of New York which authorizes the purchase of hydroelectricity
produced by the Niagara Falls by the Village until 1985. Freeport is one
of only three Long Island villages eligible to buy the power due to the
existence of municipally-owned power plants with which to receive the
energy. The-PASNY'power; available ori'a IjmitedTb'asTs at,'present,Is
expected to eventually reduce Freeport's electrical rate by some 15%.
The Bicentennial Committee's
Heritage Division, chaired by
Miss Doris Nickerson, has pre-pared
"A Bicentennial Tour of
Freeport, New York, 1976".
The tour, which can be taken by
car, bicycle or on foot, takes in 15
sites including the Village's old-est
church structure, the Spanish-
American War cannon, the area
where walking races were held
during the 1870's and 1880's, the
site of the old Oyster Houses on
Freeport River and the location of
the Raynor Mill in the area of the
first settlement in 1659, the Mott
Raynor House with its tilted chim-ney
to keep out witches and the
only church in the nation housed
in a World's Fair Pavillion.
The brochure containing the
tour may be obtained a
Hall during business hours.
Trustees: Thomas J. Loveliage, Ralph P. Franco, Dorothy Storm, Wayne Jordan
Village Clerk: Thomas DeVincenzo'Treasurer: James J. Lyons - Counsel: Oakley Gentry Jr.
If all goes according to a very
tight schedule, several of 19
"Homestead" houses presently
boarded up, will be the sites of
happy Thanksgiving dinners for
new Freeport homeowners.
Mayor William White's
Community Development Task
Force composed of Village de-partment
heads,- is currently
interviewing applicants for the
Village's Urban Homesteading
Demonstration. Foreclosed
houses were turned over to the
local Communty Development
Agency at no cost by the U.S.
Department of Housing and
Urban Development for rehabili-tation
and sale at reduced prices
to owner-occupants. Freeport,
which had already elected to do
such a program with a portion of
its $5.3 million federal Commun-ity
Development grant, was the
only Incorporated Village, and
one of only 22 municipalities
throughout the nation, to be part
of HUD's Demonstration pro-gram.
While 19 houses are in-cluded
in the initial Demonstra-tion
phase, it is contemplated
that upwards of 80 houses will be
turned over to modern day Home-steaders
during the next three
years through the Village's own
program. All the houses are in
Housing Improvement Area #1
(bounded by the railroad tracks,
Babylon Turnpike, Wallace
Street and the Village's north-ern
boundary.)
Concerned with an initial 19
houses and swamped with 800
applications, the jTask __Force,
using the. priorities of Freeport
renters first and those employed
within the Village second, have,
using such factors as income,
employment_ record^ assets _and_
liabilities, been 'intensively
engaged in the group interview-ing
of some 100 initial applicants.
Successful candidates not re-ceiving
one of the 19 houses will
remain eligible for the Village-sponsored
Homesteading pro-gram
while numerous other
applications remain on file for
possible interviews in the future.
All houses will be rehabili-tated
up to Village code standards
by licensed contractors selected
through public bidding and
working under the supervision of
the municipal government
before occupancy by a Home-
The weekend of June 12 and
13 is now part of the history of
Freeport, well recorded and
preserved for the Freeporters
of 2076 in a Time Capsule pre-pared
by the GO of Freeport H.S.
The Bicentennial Weekend was
dubbed by native-born and long-time
residents as the greatest
steading family. The cost of the
rehabilitation will be the purchase
price of the structure to the
Demonstration Homesteader and
will be assumed as a home im-provement
loan at the maximum
rate of 8Vi% interest over ten
years. Federal loan monies allow
for a sliding scale according to
income. While each house will
be in move-in condition, interior
decorating and final decorative
landscaping will be the respon-sibility
of the Homesteader who
must adhere to a five-year family
occupancy clause in order to
obtain final deed to the property.
Any breach of the conditional
deed will have the house revert
to the Village for turnover to
another Homesteader.
Housing Improvement Area
#1 will also see federal monies
used for public improvements
such as streets, gutters, drainage
and curbing. Further Community
Development funds are earmark-ed
for the development of North
Main Street, the north-south
main artery of the area. Low-cost
improvement loans and direct
grants will also be available to
qualified present-day property
owners in that section of the
Village to encourage an overall
upgrading. - .
Applicants being interviewed
include family heads up to their
50's with the majority in their late
20's or early 30's. Some have
.children, .other hav.e,yet.tQ,.start a
family with both husband and
wife working. Careers include
professionals, skilled laborers
and government workers. All
have a common monetary pro-blem
of being unable to accumu-late
the necessary large down
payment to purchase a house
while also carrying an apartment.
All must prove to the Task Force,
and ultimately to .the Village
Board of Trustees, that they have
the upward mobility and dedi-cation
to Freeport to keep Hous-ing
Improvement Area #1 a
basically homeowner, stable
neighborhood.
m<
example of community out-pouring
and happiness they'd
ever witnessed. All ages, from
babes in arms to nursing home
residents, were visible during the
events put together by the all-volunteer
Committee who were
out to prove they could top their
successful Presidential Birthday
in February attended by over
700 persons.
"That they did. From Saturday
morning's ceremonies which saw
resident Guy Lombardo cut the
ritual ribbon until late Sunday
afternoon, thousands upon
thousands of Freeporters and
visitors regaled in the fine
weather and fun-filled events.
Colorful tents dotted the
grounds of the two-day Old
Fashioned Village Fair where
booths mounted by various organ-izations
offered items for sale,
interesting displays, and such a
wide variety of All-American and
ethnic foods that one fairgoer
was heard to say, "It's going to
take the United Nations to
straighten out the stomachache
I'm going to have!" Throughout
the Fair days, the Bicentennial
Committee's Heritage Division
presented a series of Freeport
historical tableaux utilizing the
talents of m a n y resident
"actors." Other on-stage enter-tainment
was provided by the
Freeport Arts Council, Freeport
School District and the Com-munity
Chorale.
The "biggest ever" Parade,
six-divisions long, passed some
10,000 persons on Saturday even-ing
with each displaying the
ingenuity of countless -organiza-tions
which had worked many
hours to present breathtaking
floats and marching units which
stepped professionally along to
the spritely .music provided by
numerous bands.
Robert Raynor, Director of the
Freeport, Spirit of '76 Bicenten-nial
Committee, Mayor William
White and the Board of Trustees
extend their thanks "to the resi-dents
who came out to enjoy the
weekend, members of the Com-mittee,
all organizations and indi-viduals
who participated and to
all the personnel of the many
departments within the govern-ment
who assisted in making one
more element of the Village's
celebration of the Nation's 200th
anniversary a meaningful and
enjoyable success."
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