17TH ANNUAL
WINTER MODEL
TRAIN SHOW &
EXHIBITION
Sponsored By
The Great South Bay Model RailRoad Club
FREEPORT RECREATION CENTER
130 E. Merrick Rd., Freeport, NY
SUNDAY, JANUARY 7, 2007 -10:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Operating Model RR Layouts in all Major Scales
Admission: $5.00 - Children Under 12 FREE with Adult
~ - Door Prizes-- Raffles $1.00 each-- 6-for $5.00T'""""'
2 RAFFLE PRIZES \
1. Lionel Train Set 2. HO Starter Set
Donated by Nassau Hobby Center - Donated by Trainville Hobby Depot
13 W.Merrick Rd., Freeport, NY 11520 535 S,. Broadway, Hicksville, NY 11801
Holiday Week Sanitation
Collection Schedule
There will be no garbage collection or recycling on
Christmas Day, Monday, December 25,2006 or New Year's Day,
Monday, January 1, 2007. The Monday collections will be
moved to Tuesday, December 26, and Tuesday, January 2,
because of the holidays. If Tuesday is your regular collection
day, we ask that you put your materials at the curb for collec-tion
on Wednesday, December 27 and January 3. There will
be no yard waste pickup on Wednesday, December 27, 2006,
or Wednesday, January 3, 2007.
The first date for Christmas tree collection is Wednesday,
January 10, 2007. Cardboard boxes should be placed at the
curb on the regular newspaper recycling day. They should be
folded and securely tied in bundles not to exceed 4 feet in
-Jength and 2;feet. inj/vjdth, ^ . . . _ . _ _ , . . . . . -
/ Cardboard is collected on newspaper recycling day only.as
noted on the sanitation calendar. Cardboard will not be
picked up with regular refuse or on the recycling day desig-nated
for bottles, cans and plastics.
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DECEMBER, 2006 THE HOME OF CHAMPIONS
lebrating the
oliday Season
Pictured in the photo getting ready to join the Nautical Parade of lights down
Wooddeft Ave. are: First Assistant Fire Chief Joseph Stallone, Fire Department Executive
Director Ray Maguire, Police Chief Michael Woodward, Chamber of Commerce 2nd
V.P. Jerri Quibell, President Pete Vita, Hempstead Town Councilwoman Angie Cullin,
Chamber of Commerce 3rd V.P, llona Jagnow, Mayor Bill Slacken, Frank RKO owner of
the "Miss Freeport", Nassau Legislator David Denenberg, Hempstead Town Clerk Mark
Bonilla, Trustees Bill White Jr., and Don Mauersberger. The three children are Patrick
Mars, Gina Sparaco, and Dennis Mars,
Santa chats with youngsters in his workshop.
Chamber of Commerce 2nd VP. Jerri Quibell Rich Ventfcentinque, and
Cub Scouts from Pack 18, along with Scoutmasters Artie Juers and Peter Vono,
helped decorate Woodctefi Ave.
Residents and visitors to this water-front
community enjoyed a unique
Parade of Boats led by Santa Claus and
his elves along Wooddeft Canal on
Dec. 2nd, and a parade of floats along
the Nautical Mile on Dec. 3rd. The fol-lowing
weekend Santa was back to
light the holiday displays at the Canon
Triangle and open Santa's Workshop at
the Freeport Recreation Center.
The Freeport Chamber of Commerce
sponsored a two-day event beginning
Saturday, December 2nd, with a
Christmas Tree decorat-ing
contest at the
Esplanade. A cruise with
Santa followed aboard
the "Miss Freeport,"
which led a flotilla of
local boats carrying excit-ed
youngsters up
Wooddeft Canal.
On Sunday, December
3rd, a group of young-sters
enjoyed breakfast
with Santa on board the
"Nautical Princess."In the
afternoon, there was
a magic show, face
painting, and other
attractions for children
on the Esplanade. Groups of
volunteers helped decorate the street,
including Cub Scout Pack 18.
As night fell, a special Nautical Mile
Parade, with Mayor Bill Glacken as
Grand Marshal, made its way down
Wooddeft Ave. with Santa carried high
on a village fire truck. The event was
organized by Freeport's Chamber of
Commerce 3rd Vice President llona
Jagnow with special help from the
other officers and directors, including
President Pete Vita, 2nd Vice President
Jerri Quibell, and Director Michael
Danoh.
On Saturday, December 9th, the
Village held its official Holiday Display
Lighting ceremony, at the Canon
Triangle at Sunrise Highway and
Church St. The site features a Creche, a
Christmas Tree, a Menorah and
Kwanzaa display. Then everyone head-
One of the many boats in the Santa flotilla along Wooddeft Canal.
ed to the Freeport Recreation Center
for the opening of Santa's Workshop,
where the children watched the model
trains beneath the forest of decorated
holiday trees, and had a chance to
tell Santa their wish list. Later, the
Freeport Skating Academy performed
its special Holiday On Ice show in the
ice rink.
A MESSAGE FROM THE MATOR Deputy Mayor Frierson Addresses Freeport Rotarians
2006 has been a very busy year in
Freeport, and much has been accom-plished
throughout the Village. On the
waterfront, the bulkheading, docks, rail-ings
and boardwalk have been completed
at the property at the foot of Miller
Avenue. A dockmaster's building equipped
with water, electric and Internet connec-tions,
as well as bathrooms and showers
are next up for construction.
In addition to the foregoing, two
major neighborhood road projects have
been completed. The first, in southeast
Freeport involves Colony Park. The second,
in northwest Freeport, involves
Willowbrook Lane, Tanglewood Lane and
Delaware Avenue between Brookside and
Seaman Avenues. It had been well over
forty years since the streets in these neigh-borhoods
had been repaved, and they
were in a serious state of disrepair. Now
they look beautiful._
With respect to downtown revitaliza-tion,
the long-awaited Guy Lombardo
Avenue project is nearing completion. As
you may know, that portion of Guy
Lombardo Avenue from Sunrise Highway
south to Atlantic Avenue is currently a
county road. Through a unique inter-municipal
agreement which I was able to
negotiate between the Village and the
County with the great assistance of County
Executive Tom Suozzi and County
Legislators David Denenberg and Kevan
Abrahams, the Village completed the
design work, bid the project, selected the
contractor, supervised the project and
maintained quality control, while the
County paid for the project. Upon comple-
.tion of.the project,.the Village.will.assume
ownership of the street, and be responsi-ble
for future maintenance. It is a wonder-ful
example of inter-municipal coopera-tion,
and the good that can be accom-plished
when different levels of govern-ment
work together for the common
good.
The Guy Lombardo Avenue project is
a major step forward in our downtown
revitalization efforts. Over the next three
years we will be improving Church Street,
South Main Street, Henry Street, Pine
Street, both sides of Merrick Road and
both sides of Sunrise Highway between
Guy Lombardo Avenue and Henry Street.
The rehabilitation of key commercial
buildings in the Central Business District
under the Community Development
Agency's Facade Improvement Program is
continuing with several new sites
scheduled for work in 2007. The
accompanying before and after photos of
the rehabilitated storefronts show the
incredible changes accomplished by this
program.
85 SOUTH MAIN STREET
I recently attended the Mayors'
Institute for Urban Design, sponsored by
the United States Conference of Mayors,
the Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
and the National Endowment for the Arts,
held on the campus of M.I.T. The purpose
of the conference was to bring eight may-ors
from the Northeast together to discuss
and try to solve several difficult develop-ment
problems with the help of experts in
architecture and urban design from M.I.T.
and the N.E. A. The problem I presented
was the need to redevelop the North Main
Street corridor.
Many ideas were discussed, including
.modifying the.existing zoning to.allow.for
taller buildings and structures with greater
density and mixed use, such as residential
over retail, and residential over commer-cial
offices; narrowing the width of North
Main Street from six lanes to four, by
widening the sidewalks, and possibly
including a center median, transforming
the street into a boulevard; and taking
maximum advantage of the street's
proximity to both the railroad and the
bus terminal to drive the redevelopment
process through the preparation and
implementation of a solid redevelopment
plan using the principles of Transit-
Oriented Development.
In the next year, we will be develop-ing
such a plan, so that as we are finishing
up the revitalization of the Central
Business District, we can begin rebuilding
North Main Street in earnest.
Have a blessed holiday season.
The members of the Freeport
Rotary Club invited Deputy Mayor
Renaire Frierson to address their
annual holiday dinner recently.
They had a number of questions
concerning the status of the Guy
Lombardo Ave. project and the
Village's plans for the Central
Business District.
Mrs. Frierson explained that
the Guy Lombardo Ave. project is
nearly complete and the official
opening event is expect to be
scheduled early in the new year.
She described the Village's reha-bilitation
work on shops and stores in the
Central "Btisifie'ss' "bistrict"and 'the" pla'hs • to
duplicate the storefront facelifts and struc-
Deputy Mayor Renaire Frierson posed with the officers of the Rotary Club: Treasurer John Bozza, President
Michael Vddo, and Sgt. at Arms Chris McBride.
tural imProvements program along the
•North-MairuStreetcorridorThe businessmen
and women also asked about the Plaza West
movje
project and the plans for the for-mer
Meadowbrook Bank building.
Ms. Frierson said the village
recently received a $1.5 million
grant from New York State ear-marked
for the redevelopment of
the Plaza West site. Other topics
included the plans for improving
the parcel of land just west of the
Scenic Pier, which was formerly
known as the Johannson proper-ty.
Ms. Frierson also answered
questions concerning the need for
additional "family-friendly" enter-tainment
in Freeport, such as a
theatre, bowling alley arid other
people and adults.
Santa Brings Miles of Smiles to Freeport Children
The gymnasium at Dodd Middle School
was the setting for some pre-Christmas cheer
Pictured with some of the youngsters who received special gifts from Santa are
Nassau Legislator David Denenberg, Freeport Police Chaplain Angelo Rios, ..
P.O. Steve Rampenelli, Police ChiefVichael Woodward and P.O. Cindy Cummings.
for a group of youngsters who
received presents from Santa Claus.
The gifts were donated by vol-unteers
organized by Angelo
Rios, a Freeport Police
Department Chaplain. The chil-dren
are all local youngsters
whose schoolteachers suggest-ed
they could use an extra toy
this holiday season.
At the Police Benevolent
Association office, a group of
Freeport police officers^ also
collected an array of gifts for
the Tovs for Tots Pr°9ram
SPpnsored .by.,,*!16.. .UnjJ,?,<;L
Marine Corps. The volunteers
At the Freeport Police Benevolent Association helping to distribute the toys were Police
Officers Dave Brodsky, Fred Pererra, Shawn Randall, Del. Patrick Franzone, P.O. Erin
Urbanski, Major Charles Kilbride, and Nassau Legslator Dennis Dunne, ST., who served
as the vice chairman of this year's Toys for Tots campaign in Nassau County.
States able to match up some of the local young-
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were sters' wish lists with the donated toys.
f PAL Soccer and Flag Football Awards
Freeport's PAL Soccer and Flag Football
Awards ceremony took place at the Village's
Recreation Center on the Saturday following
Thanksgiving. With 450 youngsters partici-pating
in the program, PAL Executive prograrfrandj00 youngsters on the flag foot-
Among those in the photo standing behind the youngsters are Joe Madigan,
Mayor Bill Glacken and Tom Clements
Director Michael Pomerico split the event
into two separate sessions.
Mayor Bill Glacken helped dis-tribute
the awards and reminded the
children of the important lessons to
be learned from being part of a
team: good sportsmanship, dedica-tion
and cooperation.
P.O. Pomerico told the parents
that the PAL organization is always
in need of friends and family mem-bers
to help out as coaches or assis-tants.
Last season, the organization
had 350 boys and-girls in the soccer
.
ball teams. For more information, you may
call the PAL organization at 516-379-5933.
PAL Executive Director Michael Pomerico and Mayor Glacken
congratulating some of the youngest soccer champs.
