The-Leader_1976-11-11

              Holiday Parade
& Festival This Saturday
FREEPORT
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NEWSPAPER
41st YEAR No. 29 FREEPORT. NEW YORK. NOVEMBER 11.1976 FRIGE 15* PER COPY
Rec Dept. Will dniy Do
Recrediion Programming
1-1—FREEPORT—-The village B c ^ of^IVustees-voted-four'ta-one,-
Monday night, lo remove the mechanical mjdntenance of the Re-creationjOenter
fixjitithe Recreation Dcpartmeht and put it onder the .
operation of the Department of Public Wbrks.'Several raohths a'go.'tKe"
Board separated the Department of Parks and Recreation, under
Superintendent Stanley Brebie.
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'•••'•''' -^^i&JTI?ENS C^MMITTCE^ M((yw William Whitai ^atfed.'Mniti^) rBvifiwa depart-
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t -• :/-;MahIt2Bs; Stanley, JV><^ HIrsctifeld, Kay Benda anVl Roger Marks. Not.shown are
IT' ."}/':'r^^ Bernard Hader. Day-long sMaions are now taking, place
..^ eoch^Sittintey t)etW86() the Board of Trustees, ^^
\.::~_.-. . . ^ artftelSTT-TSpfopowd municipal budget to^prepared for a;publlc'hearing In January.-
' --:- Mesldentstire encourag'ed to bring any questions or siiggestlons to.members of the citizens
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^ FrcKlpbri's foyiand P
iCpniin^ This Soturday ^
. ;FBEEPOBT - TWs Saturday, November 13, one of 'the largwt"
Toyland Parades to.be seen in Freeport win begin at 9:30 am. Staiting^
at'I^pbrt High SdiooI, the parade wiO proceed sooth on'BrOokside
Ayqme to'Merridt Road; then east on. Merridc Road passing the -
.reviewing stand in front iff Socolov's. It win then go nbrtib on Sooth
Main Street to Sunrise Highway -. -
and iaston Sunrise Highway to Corpsof the Valley Stream Police
Henry Street. At the dose of the Boys Club: the Freeport Fire
parade there win be a Holiday 1, Department Band; the OceanJside-
•Festival 6a Newton Boulevard off ~ Legionnaires: the. Red Coat'
.Grenadiers of XJniondaie; the U.S.
Marine Corps; and the Marching
Mustache Band. Others partid-pating
are Freeport Cub Packs
#138 and #212; Preeport Spirit of
'76 Bicentennial Committee; Miss'
Freeport Waterfront. Freeport
Recreation Department Twirlers;
Nathan's .Clown; the Freeport
jHre Department;' the Freeport
Girl -Scouts; Tiny, the Teddy
Bear. Oznpb, the Wizard; JoUy
Jazzfao, the Magic Clown; and
- thC: Village Party.- Many digni
taries have accepted invitations to
ride in the parade as well.
The Festival, also sponsored by
the Chamber. wiU feature game
booths and such rides as the
Swing. Whip. Moon. Walk - and
Ferris Wheel. Refreshments
availahlp inrhirff hot rir>g«;, «:oda,
South 'Main Street, which wiU
' last until 4 pm. In case of rain, the.
Parade end Festival are resche­duled
for November 20. •.
. Sponsored again this year by •
thelFreepoft' Chamber of Com-"'
" merce. the parade ; will include
the. Freeport Junior and Senior
High School Maidiing Bands;
the Mrs.-Merry Christmas float;
•Wes Carman's - Marina; the
. William Qhiton Stopr Post of the
American Legion with the Proud
Rebels and Bill's Bays; and the
: Chamljer float featuring Mr. and •
Mrs. Santa Claus^ Gndrcna,
V the "F^w Godmother, Prince
^--Charmin^., little Red Riding
Hooirr-tKe Wolf. Raggedy Ann
and Andy, Snow White, Jadt-In-
The-Box, Alice. In Wonderland
andflanscl-and^jreteli-The-otherH
musical units indude the award-winnliig
St. Benedict's Fife and
Drum Corps of the Bronx; St.
Robertones Band; the Huntington
Thunderers; the Firebrnls Drum
Seats l^rCommunit]^
Chorale Available
FREEPORT - One more week­end
and two-more performances
are scheduled • for this" year's
production -of—7the: Freeport
Commnnitx.piorale-,-- -
The GcOTge Getsbwin, Pulitzer
Prize winning musical "Of Thee I
Sing" can be-seen Friday and»
Saturday evenings. November. 12
> and 13, at Freeport High Sdiool.
Performances will begin, :.at
S':30pm.-: - y . .
• Tickets are priced at S3.50
for adults and S2.S0 for students
and setiior dtizens. AU seats
are reserved.' Sorfie tickets will
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Freeport History
Boole On Sole
FREEPORT- Village Historian
Qinton Mctz's book. "Freeport
As ItrWas." will be offered for
sale for the first time this Satur­day,
November 13. The pabiica-tion,
which reviews three centur­ies
of the Village's past, will be
sold at the Bicentennial Com-and
gave the maintenance of the
liarks to Public Works, under its
Superintendent Ed Prefer.
Although Trustee Wayne Jor-'
dan called Prefer a "super star,
among Village, employees,"
rhe argued against the move, ex­plaining
. that he wanted more
evaluation. of - the finandal im-pjici&
tions first. 3ordan pointed
ont.that'both Breknc and. Prefer
- had indicated Uiat they • were
.; "riot anxious!* to have the change
take placej* Prefer later told THE .
f.tEM)ER.tlu* be only hoped that':
• he ~<^uld handle "the'.work load
-properly wiihlthe men iand equip-
' ment at his disposal,'but he would '
agrce.to whatever the-Trustees';^
reqiiestedofhim; _.•
Brekne was not at the meeting, .
~ aft. opch voting session of the
Board, but told THE LEADER
: the 'next jnomlng that, he had
; "no comment" on the change.
"1 work for.the Board;" he said,'
, "and I address ihy comments to .
them.",He did state, however,,
that he was against Uie change •
land had' also been opposed;to'
.the removal of .the parks from his.
jurisdication..
In his comments, Jordan
suggested that the details of any
changes should be Well worked
out before the changes a^re
madd noting tha^ both Super­intendents
were instrurted by
the' Boad's motion tp meet and
work out the specifics later.
.' Both at Monday night's meet­ing
arid on Tuesday, in conver­sation
with THE LEADER,
Jordan charged th« the reasons
for the change were "too skim­py...!
think y ou should give the
real reasons," he told the Board.
He suggested that if the reasons
were economical, the Board
should consider a proposal-sug-,
gested by Roger Marks, at the
Aimual Budget Meeting, to con­solidate
all custodial personnel.
Jordan ' told . THE LEADER
that be was "trying to get Mayor
White to be more specific."
He saldnhat he was opposed to
"trying to drive Brekne out by
chipping away at his position,"
"1 have no reason to want to
fire "him," Jordan stated. "He
is not the most brilliant adminis­trator,
I am sure, but in terms of
the'xecreation program, he is do­ing
a good job."
Jordan charged that two mem-
_b£r5L-gf_the_Board nf Trustees.
pop com, cotton candy and jelly
apples. Through the generosity
pf Nathan's and Columbia Meat
Market, aH children under 12 win
(Cont. on Page 10)
mnfee's booth at the~Hdnaay
Festival following the annual
.Toyland Parade. The booth will
be open II JO am to 4 pm on
. (Cont. on Page 16)
were, members when Brekne
was hired and when the Recrea­tion
Center ideas was conceived-
"Now they are seeing the Center
is too much financially "and are
blaming Brekne." he said.
"Bring Brekne up on charges."
Jordan ttcommcnded, stating
that he recommended a disciplin'
ary hearing right now to "dear
the air."..
"I think he would be deared in
such a hearing," Jordan stated,
adding that he felt White was .-
'-'weak and ihdedsive" in his
-handling of the inatter. - -
< ; White'sVl«>r--. •'
. Mayor. :White .'explained at
. ^Monday.. night's •: ineeting „that.
PreTef had said he 'could handle .
the -'a(|ded responsibilities. It -
.would be. worse, -White said,
to make such a change in March
whcn_ the Superintendent in
charge of the Center'would be
operating • under a.. budget pre­pared
by another person.
Jjiter White told this news­paper
that the move was not just
for economy. "Actually," he said
"I had a basic dissatisfaction
with mechanical mabenance at
the Recreation Center Jot well
ovefayear, and It hasn't been re­solved."
VHilte explained' that
he believed that Prefer had both
the personnel aiid expertise
in his department to handle the
problems. . . C"
When asked if he would agree
with Jordan on the question oV
having a-disdjpliiiaiy hearing at
this time, ' White answered,
"1 have no comment at this
time/l .' . —1^— ..
In explaining ^he majority's
position. Trustee Dorothy Storm
said that Brekne had been notifi-ied
at least a year before that the
Board was concerned about prob­lems
in the maintenance of the
Recreation Center. Although he
!*had ideas." she stated, "he
never did anything about it."
She mentioned that he recom­mended
dismissal of an employee
and his replacement; by another
which, she said, "according to
what I had found out would^have
a dbasterous result;" Storm'also
explained that there hadT)een an
Inventoty problem"and that there
was need for spedal consultants
in areas in which Brekne was not
familiar (such as heating and
air conditioning), which would
cost the tax—payers, additional
money. "We should not waste
any more of the tax payers'
money," she.said, "by keeping
- the Recreation Center under
. Drckne^
Storm also dted how overtime
charges in the Parks Department
had been substantially decreased
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