The-Leader_1977-08-11

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BLJDDINQ AffTISTS/ Two of the young participants In the Freeport
Recreation Center's summer/proorsmoonoBntrate oh'learning aol
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FRfeEPOBT - Th* village will net over S317,00p from the sale of
property in'tl» Industrial Park, the'.yfllage Board" of Trustees an-noiuced
at their regoIafMonday night open vo^flg session held earlier
this week. The Bond adopted'sl relation to seU the I37,1S3 square
foot parcel to the Town ^of'Hempstead Development Agency which
in turn will contract to se0 it to
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Gemco Ware. The S2.50 square
fqot.piice will only,bc o&et by .
the subtraction'of agreed bulk-,
heading'costs "ctf S25,250. The
land w^ also revert back on the
ft»T Tr.1<~c • « H mn y>f.jniuiiiMhf-owned.
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Other Matters
The Board, at the recommenda­tion
of Police Commissioner Da­vid
Meehan, authorized removal
- of a parking meter from the front
ot the North Main Street branch
of the National Bank of N<ath -
America/e^Iaining that it bloda'.
—.thedriveway eafrance. VNo Park-'
ing to Corner" signs wil} foe tn-stalled
for 23 feet at the inter-.
sections of North Main Street
wiai East Milton, West Milton
and West Dean Street. The signs,
-=.whidi already eziit on East Dean
Street, were a&o recornmrndrd
byMftehan.
~ The Board unanimously voted -
(4-0, Trustee Dorothy Storm was
absent) to approve the village's
application for Section 8 homing
under the Community Dcveloji-ment-
Act. Assistance will be^
given 'for" 50 already ' existing"
unils; 40 fa eldcriy residents, the
rest for non-eideriy residents.
On September 26, the Board
win hold a public hearing for the*
purpose at dediiiag Arthur
Street a special assessment dis­trict
merce's request to hold their
annual Holiday Parade and Fes-,
rival November 19 (with a rain-date
:of. November"^)" was ap-;
proved.
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The first of two public hearings
on the village's application for an
additional federal discretkmary-grant
of S300,000 was held at 8
pm." Community Development
Agency IHrector James Dunne
niade the ptesentatian.
Dunne explained that it ap­pears
that the village'a cariicr'
application for a S300,000 grajit in
discreti<naiy funds wiQ be sac- -
cessful and that this, application
"win add te thiramoanti -r-
Dunnie outlined the criteria
used ly tiiir'fiederal agencjr to
determme appBcaats* du^bility.
The extent <k substandard boos­ing
in an area and^e'extent of
. poverty, coupled with the extent
of benefits the activities would
accrue to people in the area were
the first three items the agency
director ..gxplatnpd. The federal
goverameot 4dso looks at'the ez-
—tent-to
improve boosing, alleviate i»ob-lems
of health and safety or dem­onstrate
cither funding posribili-ties.
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. To date, Dunne explained, dis-cretionaiy
grant funds have been
used fat rehabilTtatioa loans and'
ByRlcttsrdSandtrs/ :
FREEPORT - "Haste,makes
waste" goes the old adage, but.
this was ridiculous.
Last-Friday morning. 48-year-old
Irving Jarvls — a guard at the"
National BanE of Noitb America,
."' Siinrisie • Hirfiway' and. Grove:
Street — arrived for work a few.,
'minutes before 8HX), the bank's 1
(Wenlng" time-- As uisual, Jarvls
waldng'fof Ute dbqcs^ be tin.:
.lodged, and among them was a!
rdan later identified as Emmanuel.
- - Hkkson, 28, of North Long beach -
Avenue, F^Mport.
" : Jarvis remembered . .Hickson_
because, lb tontrast to tiie 'other..
impatiently waiting customers, he
was casually dtting on the buk's.
.fitmt step,.otDiandedly-doodling
on a~ folded newspaper.
Promplfy-at 8:00, the bank's
night custodian opened the doors.
' Altmg with the customers, Jarvis
entered the building and assumed
his usual position: standing inside
the lobby which separates the
outer door from the bank's inter­ior.
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—Afiet—several- loihules.- the
guard again encountered H}ck-
-«oDT-?h5»-tilBfr-^he-ca3Btrf-cuito=-
mer was slowly emerging from
Firm
'.' FREEPOfiT •An enrire restructofbig.of village ordinances dealing
with signs, both residential and coininerda), is bebg'contemplated
by the Freeport Wlage Board of Ttustees. Mayot WilUam White
said eaiUer tUs week that the ^oard had received a: "more than
20 page" proposal &t)in_the consulting firm of-RayttKud, Parish.
Pine and Wiener, whOt caQed for inoce-restckfive-vlQage-wide or­dinances
to - prevent garish,' - ^ "
over-large tigns.
Midiael Wener,'of the Conr
nectit^-based consuIfiniT &m ..
'•tfaidl faakJieen wockiaawith ^ -
village on all Commmuty Devel­opment
Act funds, prepared the
repMf, YHiite eq>lalned, follow- ^
ing a study which began. more
than a'year'ago. The'first draft "
of.the.report was completed.this
past February. ''-^ , r -
The consultant, a grapUcs-ex­pert;
^ ' a s t u d y cdt ngns and
their impact on neigbborlioods-'
and,-White said, explained that
the'neon type signs comroon on
Hempstead Turnpike degrade, a'
nelghbortidodasi^iposedtothose '
found in areas soai as Garden
Gty. White voiced enthusiasm for
the report and for the proposed
changes in Frceport's village or­dinances.
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The village counsel's ofiBce is.
presently reviewing -Wiener's .
piopt^w. as>.Jt..irtlatesl to\pree-,
rport's' -cunent - sign-- ordinance.
White said that counsel bias been
directed to prepare its report in
time for (ncfuswn on the agenda
of the Board of Trustee's August
22 meetfajg. Thie Board could then
vote to set a date for a public .
• hearing on the new ordinance;—~
AccOTdihg to .White, the. or­dinance
as.ptop6s«d would'deal
specifically with various areas of
the village: the mall, other bus­inesses
and commerdaJ proper­ties,
professional: signs, the
' waterfront area and residential
areas. "It would cven-cbver the
residential "for sale" sign situa-
- tion brought up by the Supreme
Court in its decision early in May.
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the bank's inner doors and, spot­ting
Jarvis, be stopped for a
friendly chat, as many people are
wont'to do. What was dtfferent
about this conversation was that
Hickson puHed two $5 bills'from
his folded newspaper, handed
them to Jarvis, and said: "this is
- for you, broiicT — I owe you
this."
Taken aback, Jarvis responded:
"ygo_don|t^ owe me anythbg. 1
never saw youl>cfore in my life.'^—
But Hjdson, undaunted, re­fused
to take the tip back. In­stead,
he strdled to tte other side
of the lobby and stood by the.
door, watching the etzfy morning
traffic accumuliti&g on Sunrise
Highway. _j-/
ft was only a few moments la­ter,
when the bank's manager —
Charles Brady — rushM tteoagh
i.rea-_
nzed anything was amiss. "The
bank's just been robbed!" Brady
shouted and, pointing at Hickson,
cidaimed: "and thae's the guy
that did itl"
What Hickson had been scrib-blmg
on his -paper were the
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"SOMEONE LIVES WHEN SOMEONE GIVES." Following thralogan
.onjhe Intercounty BfooOLSarvfces poster hanging cfL.the ¥raJf above
their heads, Freeport Mayor Wlltlani White Q.) and village employee
Joe.Santronl jpln^ close to 90 members of the village branch of the
Civil Service Employees Association In donating blood recently. Mary
DiMicell, R.N., of the Rockvllla Cemre branch, discusses with them-
'ihe every-summer emercency naed tor blood while the two donors en­joy
their post-dof»Uon treat of orange Juice and coffee. SantronI,
Employee Drive Chairman for ttie third year, recently lost his wife
following an Illness during which she had required the use of sbc pints
of t>{ood he and his employees had assured wouk) be available.
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