Co-Sponsored by the Village of Freeport
and Long Island Arts Council at Freeport
FREE CONCERTS
THURSDAYS 7:30PM
FREE PARKING - RAIN* OR SHINE
*Rain Location: Freeport Recreation Center
130 East Merrick Road, Freeport
Limited seating is available. We recommend you bring your own chairs.
For further information, please call the Arts Council at (516) 223-2522.
JULYS
IMMERSION DANCE COMPANY
On Natural Ground - Enjoy a variety of dance styles mixed with a
humor and emotion that sets this company apart from the rest
Village Hall Courtyard __ „
JULY 12
MULTICULTURAL PEACE MISSION CHOIR
Celebrating Diversity - Intergenerational and ethnically diverse
singers perform classical, spiritual rock & roll and Broadway songs
in Korean, Spanish, Italian, Hebrew and Japanese
Nautical Mile Esplanade
JULY 19 - FAMILY PROGRAM
THE ADVENTURES OF CHOCHKA WITH SHERRY JOY AND
DONNA LEE
A magical place where Chochka and her friends live and learn
lessons to last a lifetime through puppets, music, singing, magic, and
more
Village Hall Courtyard
July 26
LINDA CIOFALO
Hot Gold, Hot Jazz - Jazz, Blues and irresistible standards from the
Great American Songbook
Nautical Mile Esplanade
Hie Nautical Mile Esplanade is located on Woodcleft Avenue in Freeport. Traveling south, the
Esplanade is approximately one-quarter mile on the left side. It is across the street from a large
parking lot.
The village Hall Courtyard is located on N. Grove Street - 2 blocks north of Sunrise Highway.
There is a large parking lot adjacent to the Courtyard. The Courtyard is behind Village Hall,
located at 46 North Ocean Avenue.
Itie Freeport Recreation Center is located at 130 E. Merrick Rood - 4 traffic lights west of the
Meodowbrook Parkway.
Freeport Welcomes
Annual Annapolis Visit
This year Freeport will once again
welcome the men and women of the
United States Naval Academy Sail
Training squadron to our Nautical
Mile for a 3-day visit. The Annapolis
midshipmen, sailing eight single-mast
Navy vessels, will arrive on
Saturday, August 11th.
The sailboats, crewed by 80 mid-shipmen
and their instructors, will
dock at the Esplanade on the
Nautical Mile at approximately 3:00
p.m. The Annapolis visitors will spend
a long weekend in the village, visit-ing
New York City, Jones Beach and
other well-known attractions before
leaving Monday, August 13th. While
here, the sailboats will be open to
the public from 12 noon to 4 p.m. for
tours and the midshipmen will pro-vide
information and answer ques-tions
about the Academy's 4-year col-lege
program.
The eight sailboats docked at the
Esplanade and manned by the mid-shipmen,
provide a pleasant summer
destination for visitors to the water-front
and offer an opportunity to
experience the revitalized Nautical
Mile.
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office with Police Officers Gene Hall and David Karp and Gunnar, his K-9 companion pose for pictures.
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Adopt A
Cop
Program
Holds End
of Year
Picnic
Horses, dogs, scuba divers and
helicopters wowed the youngsters
at the eleventh annual Adopt A
Cop picnic at the Freeport
Recreation Center. The children
were treated to pizza, hot dogs,
soda and snacks while viewing
demonstrations on life-saving tech-niques
by the scuba divers and the
Freeport K-9 dog, Gunnar, with his
handler P.O. David Karp.
The youngsters from the four
elementary schools were part of
the Adopt A Cop program,
which pairs volunteer police offi-cers
with fourth grade classes to
help educate the children on the
positive aspects of law enforce-ment,
and to build trusting rela-tionships
between the youngsters
and the officers.
Among the volunteers at the
picnic was high school student
Laurie Gutierrez who was in the
Adopt A Cop program when she
was in the fourth grade. Ms.
Gutierrez said she was very grate-ful
to the program. "It helped me
understand the job of the police
officers and provide a positive role
model for me," she said.
The youngsters gathered around Police Officer Richard Samuels and his motorcycle
A MESSAGE FROM THE MATOR Nautical Festival Entertains Record Crowds
As the weather turns warmer, the level of
construction activity has moved into high
gear. Already underway is the reconstruc-tion
of South Ocean Avenue between
Archer Street and Atlantic Avenue, and
Southside Avenue between Guy Lombardo
and South Long Beach Avenues. Later this
summer, work is expected to begin on the
reconstruction of Randall Avenue
between North Long Beach and
Pennsylvania Avenues. In the Fall, work
will begin on So. Main Street between
Sunrise Highway and Henry Street
through the heart of the Central Business
District.
At the same time that this work will
be going on, look for several more com-mercial
buildings either to be rehabilitated
or constructed anew, particularly along
South Main Street, Guy Lombardo Avenue
and Merrick Road. Some of these projects
are being designed and funded through
the Freeport Community Development
Agency's Commercial Facade
Rehabilitation Program, while others are
being funded through the private sector
by the property owners themselves.
Examples of the former include several
properties alrea"dy"Tehabilifate'd"thTdugh"
the FCDA's program on South Main Street,
Church Street and Merrick Road. Examples
of the latter private sector efforts include
the new CVS pharmacy going in at the site
of the old Compare Foods Supermarket at
the northwest corner of Merrick Road and
South Long Beach Avenue, and the brand
new Bethpage Federal Credit Union build-ing
being constructed on a long-vacant lot
directly across the street.
We are also making good progress
moving forward three Golden Age
Housing proposals to be sited on proper-ties
which are either within easy walking
distance of the Central Business District or
the North Main Street corridor. These pro-jects
will provide safe, quality, affordable
housing for our seniors within easy reach
of houses of worship, the library, the post
office, banks, supermarkets and restau-rants.
We are also making a concerted
effort to attract more professionals (doc-tors,
dentists, lawyers, accountants, etc.)
into the heart of downtown.
What all of these efforts have in com-mon
are a shared belief that Freeport's tra-ditional
downtown is worth rebuilding,
and that the best way of accomplishing
this is through a public/private partnership
between the local government and the
private sector. Government must rebuild
"its"infr^truTfture"to"ehcouTage"and"accorn::r
modate new investment by the private
sector. The private sector must have confi-dence
that when government makes a
commitment to improve an area, it will
follow through on that commitment so as
to make the private investment, often
worth millions of dollars, worthwhile.
What is clear is that neither government
nor the private sector can do it alone.
What is equally clear is that working
together, they cannot fail.
Freeport Honored U.S. Ariny 42rid Infantry
Division Band At Memorial Day Parade
Gathered around Mayor Bill Glacken and CWO Mark Kimes for the presentation are Post 1342 Commander Lincoln Parsons, Past Commander
Stephen Nicolino, Fire Chief Joe Stallone, First Assistant Fire Chief Kevin Muldowney, Second Assistant Chief Richard Layton, Rev. Dawley,
Trustees Don Miller, Jorge Martinez, Bill White, Jr., Second Lt. Tom Holdner, Ex-Captain Ed Friedman and Fire Department Executive Ray Maguire.
Mayor Bill Glacken, the members of the Board of
Trustees, along with several Fire Department
chiefs.the William Clinton Story American Legion Post
#342 officers and representatives of the
Chamber of Commerce, welcomed the 42nd
Infantry Division of the New York Army National
Guard Band to an old fashioned BBQ at Emergency
Rescue Company #9 following the annual
Memorial Day Parade. Mayor Glacken presented
Chief Warrant Officer Mark Kimes, the Grand Marshal
of the parade and Commander of the Army Band,
with a plaque thanking him and the band for their
participation in the event. The barbeque was
sponsored by the Chamber of Commerce, with
donations from Compare Foods, and BJ's
Wholesale Club.
Great weather greeted the thousands of
visitors who flocked to the Nautical Mile
Festival, which was celebrated the first
weekend in June. The 2-day event featured
music, specialty foods, carnival rides and a
variety of booths selling arts and crafts items
along the length of Woodcleft Ave. Young
children enjoyed the clowns, cartoon charac-ters
and the face painting, while the adults
sampled the seafood and other favorite
items offered by the restaurants, as they
strolled the waterfront or stopped to rest
and relax midway at the Esplanade, or at the
end of the street at the Scenic Pier.
Among the many elected officials
and local civic leaders on hand
for the official ribbon-cutting
ceremony for the Nautical
Festival were Mayor Bil Glackea
Trustees Bill White, Jr., Jorge
Martinei and Don Miller, along
with Legislator David Denenberg,
and Councilwoman Dorothy
Goosby. The Chamber of
Commerce was represented b'y"
President Peter vita 3rd VP Gerri
Quibell, and Directors llona
Jagnow, Barbara Jagnow, Lois
Howes, Rob Weltner, Ed Monroe,
Mike Danon and Hub Bianco.
The Rre Department con-tingent
included 2nd Assistant
Chief Kevin Muldowney, 3rd
Assistant Chief Richard Layton and
Executive Director Ray Maguire.
WRAP Program Celebrates Five Ye*
in Northeast Freeport
NeicnborWorks
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Mayor Bill Glacken thanked Citibank, which has donated
generously to the program since its inception, and to the CDC
of Long Island for its assistance. "Over the past five years we
have seen this program make a major difference in the lives of
the homeowners it has helped, and in the appearance of the
Northeast neighborhood," said the Mayor.
Mayor Glacken poses with Freeport CDA Director Ellen Kelly and
Electric Dept. Hub Bianco, along with CDC's Eileen Anderson, and
Citibank's Michelle Di Beneditto and other volunteers.
More than 100 homes have benefited during the past
five years from the Weatherization, Rehabilitation, and As-set
Preservation program (WRAP), a national pilot program
which provides repair, renovation and energy-saving im-provements
to single-family homes owned by low-income
and senior citizen residents in the Northeast section of the
Village. The program is assisted by the NeighborWorks Foun-dation
and administered through the Community Develop-ment
Corporation of Long Island with help from the Free-port
Community Development Agency. The Program's goal
is to preserve valuable housing stock and protect a family's
primary investment, its home.
Trustees Bill White. Jr., Jorge Martinez, and Don Miller joined Mayor Glacken and other
officials, including Legislator David Denenberg and Judge Richard Lawrence on the
showmobile at the picnic in Northeast Park.
