Annual Holiday Festival
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The Freeport Chamber of Com-merce,
in cooperation with the
Freeport Recreation Department,
will again present the Annual:
Holiday Festival for children of
" all. ages. This year's event will,
be held* on Sunday, December 18
at the Freeport Recreation Cen-ter,
2 to, 5 pm. There is no ad-mission
charge.
Budget Hearing
The Board of Trustees will hold
the annual public hearing on the
municipal budget at Village Hall,
Monday, January 9, beginning at
8 pm. The hearing follows
meetings between the Trustees
and Village department heads
which began early this month.
Persons wishing to speak at
the hearing will be asked to sign
in so that all may be called in
order.
Copies of the tentative 1984-85
budget will be available at the
Office of the Village Clerk in the
latter part of December.
Safety Is NOT
An Accident
It is not too late to complete
raking and disposing of leaves.
Fallen leaves, particularly when
wet, are as slippery as ice and
do cause falls and serious injur-ies.
Now is the right time to winter-ize
your yard and grounds as
well as your car. A blanket of
snow can cause a tripping or
slipping hazard. Eliminate haz-ards
now! Plan to keep walkways
and steps safe by using sand, salt
or chemical after snow has been
shoveled.
Pass Red Light
And) Pay '50
Village Justice Ralph Franco is
advising all motorists that the
minimum fine for passing a red
light is now $50 plus a $10 man-datory
surcharge.
The change was adopted by
the State Legislature and became
effective on September 1.
Children, up to the age of 10,
will be able to visit with Mr. and
Mrs. Santa- Claus and receive a
gift.
Free ice skating will be offered
during-the afternoon as well'as'
other entertainment and sur-prises.
Please watch the local media
for further details.
Building Summonses
Increase
G. Ruiz De Zarate, Freeport
Superintendent of Buildings, has
reported an increase in the num-ber
of summonses issued by his
department for code violations
including over-occupancies.
For the entire year, January to
December, some 412 summonses
were issued in 1981. For 1982,.
the total rose to 661' for that
entire year. This year, from
January to July 1, the total was
already, at 588. In the first quarter
of 1983, January through March,
there was a 212% increase in
the number of fines issued over
the same period: in 1982. In the
second quarter, April through
June, the increase was 71% over
1982.
Mayor William White has conr
gratulated' De Zarate and mem-bers
of the Buildings Department
for their diligence in bringing
violators of the Village Code
of Ordinances before Village
Court.
Portable Heaters
Banned
Residents are reminded' that
the. use of portable heating
equipment which uses a flame,
gasoline or kerosene is pro-hibited
throughout the Village,
be it in a private home or in a
place of public assembly.
Such equipment has been pro-hibited
in Freeport for many
years as being both a fire hazard
and emitting dangerous gases.
Portable electric heaters are
not covered under this ban.
I
HOLIDAY
SHOPPING
BLUES?
Then Stick To Freeport
South Main Street, Merrick
Road, Woodcleft Avenue,
Guy Lombardo and. Atlantic
Avenues, all around town...
• discover the old, and
many new businesses in
your Village which can
meet your gift-giving
needs all year around.
• avoid parkway traffic
and that fatiguing crip
home.
• escape the crush of
shopping centers. Spend
more time at home enjoy-ing
the warmth of the holi-days
with your family
and friends.
IT
MAKES SENSE-TO
$HOP FREEPORT
A Healthy Business
Community LessensThe
Burden Of The Taxpay-ing
Resident . . .
• by broadening the tax
base
• by providing employ-men
t
• by attracting more
tax-reducing develop-ment.
You can Help By Thinking
"Freeport First"
For Purchase Of Goods
and Services
NOVEMBER 1983
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A Public1 Information' Bulletin--
of The Village Of Freeport
46 North Ocean Avenue.
Telephone FReeport 8-4000
William H. White, Mayor
Village
Public Meetings on the 1st. and 3rd. Mondays of the Month^atsiuO P.M.
Stitching For A Good Cause
Jackie Raynor (right) admires the handmade quilt she won by raffle with its creators, members of
the Recreation Department's Circle In A Square Senior Quitters. Meeting, every Tuesday morning at
the Recreation Center, the quilt took a year to complete. Proceeds of the Quilt Raffle will go towards
the assistance of patients on kidney dialysis. The quilters, left to right, are Ruth Daye, Diane Kantror
witz, Caroline Schultz; Ida Wilson, Dorothy LeCun, Rosalind Hill and Alice Borgerson. Missing are
Madeline Biehler, Emily Weiss and Louise Albach, coordinator of senior activities.
Trustees: Dorothy Storm, Alfred Sirlin, James Clark, Vincent DiCostanzo
Village Clerk: Thomas DeVincenzo; Attorney: Harrison J. Edwards, Jr.; Treasurer: Thomas M. Molloy
yStadium Committee Update
The Freeport Stadium Citizens
Advisory Committee, appointed
by Mayor William White in July,
has been meeting on a twice-a-
month basis.
Members of the Committee are
Kay Benda, Atlantic South Civic
Association; Fran Campion,
Northeast Freeport Civic Associa-tion;
Jack Cunningham, Parks
Commission; Richard Dina, Plan-ning
Board; Albert Gerstman,
Northwest Civic Association;
Larry Grebinar, Chamber of Com-merce;
Edel Marone, Planning
Board; Bradley Midgette, Plan-ning
Board; Glenn Mitchell,
Concerned Freeport Residents of
the Northwest Section; Harry
Pollack, Stearns' Park Civic
Association; James Reed, Plan-ning
Board; Louise Simpson,
Concerned Neighbors; and
Carole Woods, South of Sunrise
Civic Association. John DiGrazia,
Planning Board Chairman, serves
as Chairman of the Advisory
Committee.
The group has been meeting
with individuals and firms re-sponding
to ads placed by the
Village in the "New York Times"
and "Wall Street Journal," and
with those who heard about the
Stadium's availability through
other means.
The ads placed by the Village
asked for proposals for:
(1) Renovation of present
structure by developer for con-tinued
use as family entertain-ment
center; OR
(2) Redevelopment of entire
parcel for office construction or
other commercial use.
The Committee has asked for,
and received, various pieces of
information on the Stadium site
and its financial picture over the
past few years. They have also
met with Freeport resident Roy
Cacciatore, Nassau County Com-missioner
of Commerce and In-dustry,
and William Heins who
holds the same post with the
Town of Hempstead.
Additional Proposals Sought
Advisory Committee Chairman
John DiGrazia is now inviting
residents who have proposals,
or suggestions, for the future
of the Stadium property to send
their written comments to the:
Stadium Advisory Committee,
% Office of the Mayor, 46 North
Ocean Avenue.
Jazz Concert
To Mark Arts
Council's 10th Year
A special concert starring
Billy Taylor and his Jazz Trio
will be held 8:30 pm, March 10,
1984, at Freeport High School.
A special advance purchase
discount price of $10 is available
for. tickets ordered bv December
1st. Price thereafter will be $12.
The concert is in celebration of
the tenth anniversary of the Arts
Council at Freeport which was
founded in 1974 with funding
from the Village government and
the Freeport School District.
Billy Taylor was among the
first artists presented in concert
by the Council after its formation.
A versatile jazz pianist, com-poser,
arranger and teacher,
he has written more than 300
songs, a dozen books on the art
of jazz piano, and has made over
30 recordings.
Tickets may be obtained at
the Arts Council office at the Rec-reation
Center, 223-2522, busi-ness
hours, or through PO Box
97, Freeport.
Village Court Fines Violators
Helen Hankins, owner and oc-cupant
with her family of 302
North Main Street, received a
conditional fine of $250 from
Judge Ralph Franco in Village
Court recently. Hankins had al-lowed
two women and their fam-ilies
to also occupy the one-family
house in violation of Village
Ordinances. The fine was to
be reduced to $125 if the illegal
tenants were removed within 14
days.
The owners of the apartment
house at 200 West Merrick Road
pleaded guilty to renting a base-ment
apartment to other than a
superintendent/porter. Judge
Franco levied a fine of $500,
the maximum on the two sum-monses
issued by the Building
Department. Anthony Sacco of
404 South Ocean Avenue also
pleaded guilty to maintaining
the premises with rodent harbor-age
and infestation despite a
court order lo exterminate against
insects, vermin and rodents.
The fine was set at $60 after Sacco
presented an extermination con-tract
to the Court.
Cassis Management of 100
Brooklyn Avenue, owners of 7
Wallace Street, were given one
week to pay a fine of $135 for
uncut grass, debris and rubbish
and failure to provide sufficient
garbage cans. Southland Corp-oration
of Levittown, owners of
the 7-11 store on Brooklyn Ave-nue,
were fined $100 for main-taining
the premises with an
illegal metal storage building, a
trailer. Richard Wegner of 91
Centre Street received a $500
conditional fine for storing fire-wood
in a Residence A zone
without the minimum three
inches.ground clearance, and for
storing a truck on the property.
Carol Garrison, 191 Moody Ave-nue,
received a conditional fine
of $250 for maintaining the prop-erty
with garbage, litter and
debris. An illegally parked truck
brought a conditional fine of
$250 to Fine Arts Industries,
224 Buffalo Avenue.
George Stewart of Roosevelt,
owner of 124 South Main Street,
failed to comply with an order to
correct a hazardous condition
involving dangerous and worn
wiring and cord leading to elec-tronic
games. He was required to
pay $250 if the condition was not
corrected within two weeks.
Piedad Garcia of 173 Rose Street
was conditionally fined $250 for
installing an electric stove, built-in
electric heater and an electrical
breaker box, all without neces-sary
permits from the Building
Department. The lack of a permit
will cost the Fire Command
Company of Long Beach. The
company installed a gas valve on
an automatic extinguisher system
at 46 Woodcleft Avenue without
a permit and received a con-ditional
fine of $250.
Newsday Does It Again
On Monday, October 24, News-day
printed an article which
began, "RACIAL PROBLEM: A
special committee of Freeport
teachers, parents, students and
school administrators will meet
again to discuss means of easing
racial tensions in the school
district." The problem, and the
meeting, involved FARMING-DALE,
NOT Freeport.
Mayor William White im-mediately
sent a "Letter to the
Editor" of Newsday. The text of
the letter follows. It is not known
at this writing whether or not
Newsday will choose to print the
Mayor's letter. They did carry a
"correction" of the item in the
October 25 edition.
"Once again Newsday demon-strates
its total lack of either
sensitivity, accuracy or social
responsibility in its columns. In
its Long Island Agenda section
(October 24, 1983) Freeport is
identified as having a racial prob-lem
in its school district that
necessitates new broad based
programs to ease racial tension.
A special committe, according to
the story, was to meet that even-ing.
' 'Residents of Freeport know,
of course, that there is a notice-able
absence of tension, racial or
otherwise, in our schools. They
know that there is no such
committee and that there was no
such meeting set for that night
or any other night. But, once
again, the damage is done.
"Freeport is an integrated
community. Therefore, if there is
racial lenison somewhere on
Long Island, it must be in Free-port.
That is the stereo-typical
thinking that Newsday perpet-uates
and that thinking will be
duplicated in many real estate
brokers' offices as white clients
are steered away from Freeport
on the pretext of racial problems
in the schools. The Newsday item
will be the justification.
"Calls to Newsday elicited the
information that the situation and
meeting attributed to Freeport
actually involved Farmingdale.
Newsday should investigate the
type of thinking that made some-one
on the Newsday staff sub-stitute
Freeport for Farmingdale
because, believe me, that type of
thinking permeates your staff
from top to bottom with predict-able
effects on the stories you
choose to carry.
Village On Cable when It Snows...
Cablevision subscribers should
check their December program
guide for the days and times of
the Village's next show on Chan-nel
22, "Focus on Freeport."
Guests on the show will include
Ira Bryck of Barasch's Better
Kids Clothes and Larry Grebinar
of Irving's Men Shop. The two
Freeport Mall merchants repre-sent
the latest generation to run
their families' retail stores in
the Village. They will discuss
the advantages of hometown
shopping.
Also on the show will be
Marion Harvie, director of the
Village's Alcohol and Substance
Abuse Center. The originator of
the now nationwide "It's OK Not.
To Drink" program, she will dis-cuss
the social pressures experi-enced
by those who would other-wise
choose not to drink alcoholic
beverages.
Ausiine White is hostess of
"Focus on Freeport."
When a Snow Emergency is
declared your car must be off the
street or it is subject to being
towed away at your expense.
Streets must be kept clear for
snow plows, fire trucks and other
emergency vehicles.
Sidewalks should be cleared
of snow as soon as possible.
This is the responsibility of the
property owner or tenant.
The Freeport Fire Department
also reminds homeowners with
fire hydrants on their property
that the area around the hydrant
should be the first part of their
property to be cleared of snow.
Loss of fire and/or property could
result if the Department is un-able
to locate the hydrant quickly.
Announcements on closings
in the Village and other important
information will be aired by
WGBB (12:40AM) and WHLI
(11AM) in an emergency situa-tion.
Assessor Appointed
Barry F. Dunn, Depuiy Asses-sor
since his employment with the
Village of Freeport in Septem-ber,
1969, was appointed the Vil-lage's
Assessor at the October 24
meeting of Ihe Board of Trustees.
Dunn, who was raised in Ihe
Village, resides on Whaley
Street with his family. His father,
the late Frank J. Dunn Jr., was a
real esiate broker with offices
in the Village. Dunn is a graduate
of Freeport High School and at-tended
Hofstra College. A U.S.
Navy veteran, Dunn served as
Commander of the William
Clinton Story Posi of the Ameri-can
Legion from 1974 to 1975.
Prior to his employment with
the Village, Dunn was an insur-ance
agent with Metropolitan Life
and assistant manager for the
J.J. Newberry Stores. He holds
a New York State real estate li-cense.
Certified by the New York
State Board of Equalization and
Assessment, Dunn is a member
of the State Assessors Association
and is First Vice President of
the Nassau County Assessors
Association. He is also a member
of the Long Island Board of
Realtors.
According to State law, an
Assessor "has the duty of asses-sing
real property for an asses-sing
unit for the purposes of
taxation and special ad valorem
levels." Dunn also administers
all partially exempt and wholly
exempt properties in the Village
and does liaison work in certiorari
matters with the Village At-torney's
office.
Holiday Schedule
All Village offices will be closed
on Mondays, December 26 and
January 2, for the observance of
Christmas and New Year. There
will be no meeting of the Village
Board of Trustees on those even-ings.
The Freeport Recreation Cen-ter
will be closed December 24,
25, 26 and 31 and January 1
and 2.
Due to the holidays, there will
be no collection of garbage in
the northern section of the Vil-lage
on Mondays, December 26
and January 2 and no collection
of trash in the section on Thurs-days,
December 29 and January
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