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THE lEABER FREEPORT'S
OFfllinL
NEWSPAPER
40th YEAR. No. 43 FREEPORT. NEW YORK, FEBRUARY 19,1976 PRICE: 15^ PER COPY
Seek Input For CDA $$$ Spending
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Residents, Organizations
To Speak At 2 Hearings
FREEPORT — Two public hearings before the Village Board
of Trustees have been scheduled to allow residents an oppor­tunity
of suggesting how next year's $1.3 mllliori in Community
Development Act funds should be spent. .
-ResidentS-cajLAttendieLtherjDr both meetings. The first will be
held Thursday, Feb. 26,8 pm, and
the second one, Monday, March
'l,;9 pm. Both will be at Village
Hall. These meetings are the first
in a series of activities which
must be accomplished before the
U.S: Department of Housing and
Uriian Development will release
"tlie funds.
»I.11ie iyUJage. 9^ Freeport will _
recieive a:total~of |5.3 millloh,
over'5'years, front the F^eral
government. The first year's
allotment of $1.3 covered a one
year-period which ends July 30,
197iB?-'Th6-Vtllage is now eligible
for the same amount in tlie
second year.
Although public hearings,
dealing with the first year's
allotment of funds, were held last
alloted to improvements in the
Central Business' District.
In the areas of housing and
neighborhood rehabilitation,
$386,500,' or 29% of the funds, was
allocated during the first year.
According to a Task Force
spokesperson, the Village has
, begun_^^lmnlementatloh of its
libmesteadlng program. With 34%
ol the funcls, or $454,000, alloted tb
development of North Main
Street, the Village has engaged in
an "aggretoive advertising and
direct mall campaign'- to bring
hew businesses and developers
into North -Main Street and the
Central Business District.
• 'An ongoing study of the
Freeport waterfront is being
January, the actual, money .was undertaken_;_wj.th_ 1% Pi _tbl8_.,
not released until the end of ctirrent years CDA_fun(is, or
November. The Village has $20,000, alloted to that area. The
OAR'S Historical Essay Contest
FIFTY. YEARS AGO. the first dats graduated Our Holy Redeemer school. Now, picturei, albumi,.
:graduation programs.and newspaper clippings are surfacing as OHR parishioners'prepare to ntebrate
'their school's Fiftieth Anniversarv, at tiie parish's annual Friendship Ball, Feb. 27, at Mallbu Beach Club.
Thomas O'Keefe, father of one of the members of that first graduating class, found this picture of gradu* -
ation exercises held June.27, 1927. Father John L OTooIe, pastor of OHR from'1913-1935, is shown
with {I. - r., top row) Joseph MacDonald, Joseph Callaghan, Raymond'Weber. Cornelius O'Keefe;
(second row) John McSwiggan, Leo McSwiggan, Charles Behr, Edward Murphy, rEdward Dbyle,~Jack "
• Leonard; (third row) Grace Conneltan, Audrey Meyers, Beryl Oates, Elizabeth Shore, Mary Rita Halpin;
.(fourth row) Adele Coujuris, Marie .Kelly, Vera Chusiano, Mae; Whittaker, Ruth Olion, Elva Jackson, ;
• Marie Churato; (bottom row) Evelyn Kremeiberg, Catherine Cronin, Helen McNally and Helen Kelly.
Special Schedule
At Rec Center
FREEPORT — The Freeport -
Recreation Center will be closed
at 5pm, Sahuiiay, February 21,
for an but holders of tickets to the
Freeport Bicentennial Com­mittee's
Presidential Birthday
Party which win begin at 8pm.
The facflity's Health Wing and.
ice skating rink will also be
closed to partygoers.
The Center will reopen on
Sunday at noon for skating and at
Ipm for swimming.
Rna! Reglstratibn
For Little League
FREEPORT — Youngsters
wishing to jiaiticipate in the 1976
season of the Freeport little
League must register, if they
have not already done so,
Saturday. Feb. 21, at the
Freeport Recreation Center, 10
I., am to 4 pm. No-cafididates-will be
• -• .« (ContinnEd'tti Page 5)
; FREEPORT - With February
selected as American History.
. Month, Freeport's Ruth Floyd
Woodhull Chapter of, the
' Daughters of the American
Revolution has just concluded its.
part of the DAR's-American
History Essay Contest
This year, the topic of the
essays, written by fifth through
eighth grade middle school and
the Dodd Junior Hi^ SchooL In -
Baldwin, with a different school
setup, children in those grades' in
1 inine-schools-partlcipaled.- More_
than 200 more young people wrote -
entries than last year, a total this ,
year of 605, Of these, 70 were
submitted to the DAR Chapter,
-Tweiity jwinners have been
chosen, the' names of whom win
be announced by the schools
within the next few wedcs. The
eleven bronze medals and "11
certificates, as weH as the two top
silver maJab, were contribute
• -1 i hy. ibelocal DARiChapter.M. J {, ,'.'i
TbeDAR Ruth Floyd WoodbuB
Chapter,- had three people;
reatUng the essays: Eleanore^
Low, Nellie Davis and Arlyene
MuUens, a retired fifth-grade
teacher who is not a member of
the organization. The essays
were; then reviewed ;by Mary •
Scott, American History Month
Chairman of the local unit;
Gladys- Mapes," the Chapter's
Regent; and Ms. Mullens.
The winning essays in each
grade have lieen sent by the
Chapter to the.State Chairman,
iwhere. they _will _be_ judged. on .
state,-divisional and national
levels by a panel of three non-
DARJudges.
The DAR inaugurated" the
observance of American History
Month to further its programs of
education, good citizenship and
study of American history. This
year the local chapter has placed
posters and book displays in the
•Freeport Memorial Lilnary and
:3gldiBin Public-. Lila'ary: doting;
ttis montti;•••--•:• ••••>-^''/ '•'•'•": '•''
already begun the acqvdsition of
property in the Central Business
District (South Main Street area)
to begin rehabilitation and
revitallzation. One business has
been moved and appraisals have
been madei on two properties. A
pedestrial walkway from the
Church Street parking lot to
South Main Sfreet -wiU be con­structed.
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The Village Task Force is in the
process of obtaining easements
from property owners to
faciUtate the realignment of the
rears of buUdings that back'onto
the parking fields at Church
Street and Henry Street. They
win be repaved and beautified
with plantings, sitting areas and
iniproved'.llghting with the first
year's CDA money
remainder of the- current
aUocations include $20,000, or 1%
for Village-wide improvements;
and $83,600,- or 6%,- for ad­ministration
and'management.
The law requires 9% of the total
amount to be held as a con­tingency
fund.
Using the Input received at the
two scheduled public hearings.
Mayor William White's five-person
Task Force (composed of
the Village Clerk, Public.
Relations Officer, Superin­tendent
of Public Works,
Superintendent of BuUdings and
Director of Community
Development) and the Village
Citizen's Committee (whose
members represent various
Freeport groups and
organizations) wUl draft their
Twenty per cent of the. first final recommendation for " the
year's grant, or $274,900, was Village Board's consideration.
Royal Marines To Perform For Freeport
JFREEPORT - Sale of tickets
for "The British Are Coming," a
spectacular display of swirling
kilts and precision drills, vnQ aid
the treasury of the Village's
Blcentenidal Committee. .
"The^ massed bands, pipes,,
dnims. and dancers of Her'
Majesty's Royal Marines^and the
Black Watch of the ScotUsh
Highlands are touring the United
States "to salute America's'^00
Years of Independence in a
spectacular display of pomp and
ceremony." The two regiments,
who have not been in this coantry
together since the American
Revolution when- they par-
• ticipated^ in i the: i Battlesc of-
Lexington and Concord, will
perform one night only, March
19, at the Nassau Coliseum.
The Village's Bicentennial
Clommittee has taken a block of
tickets at box office prices of
$6.50, $5.50 and $4.50 with a
portion of the funds to be retained
by the Committee for future
community-wide events.
CWldren are half price.' -
The Umited amount of tickets
are avaOable by calling Mrs.
Hong,-MA 3-5663, or they may be
purchased at the Bicentennial
Boutique at the Fulton Savings
Bank.
If enough Freeporters express
• a -. need,< ikm-cost transportation i
win be provided to the Coliseum.
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