The-Leader_1977-11-24

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FREEPORT
BALDWIN
ROOSEVELT
MERRICK
42nd YEAR No. 30
FREEPORT'S
OFFICini
NEWSPAPER
FREEPORT, NEW YORK. NOVEMBER 24,1977 PRICE 15f PER COPY
Fire Damgges Date For PuUlc Hearing
Fish Market stillTa Be Announced FREEPORT - A general alarm
fire, termed by the Freeport Fire
Department as sosptdous, caused
an esthnated $25,000 In damage.
carlySunday^mbming^t-Captain=
Ben's Fish Marict. 319 Wood-cleft
Avenue.
,>Theinital alarm was sounded at
2:03 am. and during the next two
hours,the blaze was battled by 10
places of apparatus and approxi­mately
75 firemen. No injuries
were reported.! ' . ,
The major extent of the damage
was on the'sonth and east sides of-the
building, -although Captain
Ben's was aWe_.to_open for
business later that same- day.
How'ever, for reasons not re­vealed,-
.-Freeport; Fire-r^Chlef
. Richard yMWddfeflcAUcdior ah
jSmeJiale^nyer^SaHon'-tjy!^ tHe'
Nassau FireTttarshall. -
VVhitr And Ounne
A R e n i i n i M e f i^
FREEPORT—The Village Board of Trustees entered into a one hour
discussion of a proposed employee residency law .at their legislative
.meeting Monday night. November ,21. ftresent at the open-to^the-public
meeting were only a reporter'ftom THE LCADliK, r radio sla-'
tinn representative, two village employees and a local civic association
president. :'•
No date has yet been set for the
necessary public hearing that pre­cedes
the passage of any viUa'ge
ordinance. Village counsel OaUey
Gentry was authorized to iadvert-
Ise for a public hearing for the
proposed law following, several
.suggestions made by. the Board..',
• Gentry "explained to the trustees
that a proposed ordinance may be. •
'altered at acceptance time provld-
:.ed:thatth(::lina}.wording -is Jessj
, "coeibus"-thaajthiriMntea; j ^ ^
vOTtseffvenloiC ^-^:L^l!^.„'J'" .
An -employee - rissidency law
i would require aU newly, hired.vill­age
employees (induding mem-bersjof
the village, jpolice depart­ment)
to live within the village.
—SeveraI-w«eks-agOF-thfaKprbpMJd-was
brought before the board by
Village Clerk Thomas DeViocenzo
9n Long Island, DeVincenzo poin­ted
to Philadelphia: as a munici­pality
which had already enacted
such a law. The reason for its sug­gestion
by the .Task Forcic, De­Vincenzo
wrote, **;jhould be obvl-
- ous; It would-help"^ stabilize the
^ .Village, as does any poHcy.that
' gives any good citizens another
_ rea^n for staying In Freeport or
.'moiHng into Frecppit."'
' •'At this .'past Monday night's r
legislative, meeting; DeVincenzo
' pointed out' to theBo'ard that "a
.great majority of them (non-res-
. ident employees) ate former Fre-eporters
who onced lived here.
, and have moved out.''-
Thi' RtMnfl <]in>«tinnfH some of
the particular sections of the pro­posed
law as dnlfted by their le-
On" HnrnP^PariinJEr at Uie suggestion* he then expl*.--S*l.<Jei>«riiirent,-lwairwas prtnt
yll -nWII»U»UIIIJJ . ._. - STvinaBe'a Stablization ed out that those provisions wert
f: -"^^
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THE LASt-MlNUTE RUSH 8«t» ewybody Invohred, as nwmben of
pur Holy RedMm«r School's Auxiliary maiis.lindJ preparations for tha
WfniniWohderiiuKl'Bazaaf; scheduled to tipen Depsmtwr.d. In thejop
.phpto. thaCtKlstmas treeanjisl Juat completed by Elizabeth 01 Gregor-
: ^ io gets a (ooic of appl'oval from Marie Martin(r.). In the Ixittom photo,
- '-.worfclng hard on plaques, ornsments ami other gift items Is the Angllm'
•.'>1flmily:(fromJ.)ChrlatlhoVMary Lou; Kathleen and Peter, "^^v -'
# Sqlariei And St^^
FRKPORT - A variety of subjects were covered last Wednesday
iiight. November 16. by the Freeport Board of Education at their
monthly meeting, and fbreemost among them was money. By uhani-
/nous vote', the Board approved a three-year contract with the Freeport
' Education .Staff-Assodation, granting salary increments of-:3%,
' 3.-'/.I5n% a a nredl"a4teftd. m. ove-, the Board; "
adopted a five-step pay schedule
for hall atdes^-t>e^nning at $335
.to 53.75 per iioaz and continuing
at S3.80 to S 4 . ' ^ to S4.50 and
S4.2S to S4.75. Hall aide super­visors
were given a S5.50 to S6
per hour bracket.,
Providing a uniform pay sche­dule,
explained Superintendent
Donald Costiow, would ^ e the
haQ aides equal respotxsibility—
"a vast improvement over past
methods. These people, I should
tcO you. are not full-time employ­ees.
In adcGtion, most of them are
law-enforcement individuals,
and they've developed a good re­lationship
with the duldren."
Money was also the motivation
bdiind a letter, read to the public
Wednesday night, which is being
sent to the approximately 135
sdiool districts throagbout the
state that have growing enroll­ment.
The letter grew out of a
New York State School Board
Association Convention held last
month in Syracuse and attended
by Board member Sara Holly,
- (Cont.qnPage6)
: FREEPORT - Mayor WiDiam .
White and James Dunne, Free^^
port Planning and Communis^.
Development Director, traveled
to Washington. D. C. last week at
the invitation of the Federal
government to attend the Second
Annual IJriMtn ., Homesteading
Conference..
, The ...-two-day .- conference
brought together officials of the -
23 coitunumtif^ from across the
natiptr which are partictpating in J
the Urban Homesteuling Detoon-stration^
Of the 23. Freeport b the
only ; Village; the other com­munities
involved include Town-.
ships ahd.Oties such as ftew York ' •
City.: Atlanta.: Boston. Indiana- '
polis and Baftimore.f.
l_MQw^jiEo_ycarS-li>W,_JIrtan_i_
Homesteading . involves". the - re­habilitation
aiid forhing over of -
once • boarded-up •. houses to -
families who could not-otherwise ,
purchase their own homes. Free- •
port received funding beyond its
Community Developrrient Block •
Grant of $53 million to partici­pate
In the Demonstration.
Also, attending last -. week's .'
session were representatives of -
16 new. Demonstration com­munities,
which are just b e ^ -
ning to implcmenl" : their
programs. The newcomers were
given the opportunity to question
those~already involved.
Dunne participated in a panel
discussion with representatives
from Wilmington. Chicago, the,
Town of Islip and Columbus on
the Management of their Home­steading
programs. During his
ined,- of the village's Stablization
Tssk Force. When THE LEADER
at that time ques'tioned the justifi-.
cation for such a law (in an Edhor-ial,
issue of Novembers), DeVin­cenzo
repliol in a Letter to the'
Editor (November 10) tliat the
proposal was based^on a "Model
law suggested by the New York
State Confereii'ce of iMayora and
other Municipal. Officiate." Be-ides
tiie.village,of Sag Hartibr
but were
as Buggiested by the Conference
of Mayors. In partindar the am­ount
of time an employee would
be allowed before moving into the
village came lb for much discuss­ion.
The law as proposed Monday
pightgaye the newly hired erabl-oyces
s i z ^ n t h s to move into the
village, but Mayor WiEiam White
pobted out that siicb a clause
' ..(Cont.onP»gel2) .'
(Cont.o^Page3)
LAST BUT HARDLY LEAST In Saturday's Toyland Parade, sponsored
bythe Freeport Chamber of Commerce, was the Chamber's own float,
peopled with Christmas and fairy-tale characters. Greeting the crowds
on Merrick Road are (from i.) Jo Cona (the Rabbit), Genevieve Van
Buren (Ms. Claus), Joe Gert\auser (Santa himself), Gloria Pantina (the
Wizard of Oz's Dorothy), Donald Paritlna, Jr. phe Tin Man), Lisa
Pantina (the strawman), Beth King (the lion), a slew of volunteers
(Santa's helpers), and holding the (^umber banner on the extreme
right, JoAnn DeAngells. (See photo spread on page 5.)