The-Leader_1980-08-21

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NEWSPAPER
45th YEAR, No. 17 FREEPORT, NEW YORK, AUGUST 21.1980 PRICE 20* PER copy
Garbage Conversion Plan Dead!
\ LBJUe. Dropped MayorrBoard Vote To Stop
From Program
FREEPORT-. At their .regular
weekly'open legisladve session
on Mcnday.' Ai^gust 28.-the vil­lage
Board of Trustees voted to'
drop North. Long Beach Avenue,
from Randan to Seaman AvenueSt
bom fl!£ village's Street Improve­ment
Progrtm. .
At the .Monday, August 11th
board meetiiig, several joea
residents had presented a peti­tion
from more tham 30 propnty'
owners opposing the installation
ofcoibs.
Some of tliem had stressed the
rnnl feeling of their area; ethers
stated that inflation and fixed
Jnoomes made anotiier' assess-
Negotlafions^ WifhBW
. FREE?QRT- In a move which had the suppnt'bf the entire v i U^
Board of Trustees, a proposal to bwld a garbage disposal plant on ^e
' site of the'now-d^ed-down Freeport munidj^ indncerator lias been
dropped. Mayor William H. White, as the final itein of a short agenda
at Monday, AuguistlSth's legislative session of the :bbard. asked the
tro^ees for a-inotion to direct
Village Counsel to. drop all negbti-'
ations with BW E h e ^ System.
BW Energy Systems had pro­posed
to purchase the indnerator
site and build a facility tlut would
dispose of the village's,garbage
tluou^ a liigh Itut pryolyus
In'a prmared stateinent be^
iif^^i^^^fff^JPSte.siddJhp,
Uter/the board'a^ced to sell
the mio^^ial land to the com­pany,
provided a coatract could
be negotiated,.which' would ih-corpdrate
spedfic stfeguards.
' For tlie past several montlis,
village counsel and BW were
in negotiations. At pt\bUc meet­ings
during this time. White tried
j[o makeit deacthat tbe.ixnste^
enj^eering-reason'why streets
could not be' p^ved withoat
the fnstanation of curbs.
-^A'TASK OKt^ONOR.Moe Scalamandre^O.) and Steve-N|collmr(r.)-
^"^wers among th08<n>artthlonert of Holy Red^emeclwnorea withpfacea
'Injha Si. R0CCO FteUvvt proceesloii Seturday evening,'AuQust t6. The
J proc8U(5n of den)y> parnhlonera and civic leaders started at Our l^lDiy
': RetfsemecR.'^. ^Ureh, Joltowlng a spedal Mass at 6j>m, and ended at
^tlM Fatlvd grouAdf, the OHR school yard. Mortey donated in honor of
iStPRocco (attached td the statue) will be given to aid In the work of Jhe
• St. Vincent d^PaulSoelety. 1 '. ' . , ' ' . -
i ^ ^^^CstlfRoct^^^ To Run ^: - .^?^
• ^ ^ 1 - 1 ^ " ^
• ^ ; . - . '. Through August 24
r^-^!"
ng for everyone
;-,FREEPORT- The St. RwcoJlFeast-Baxaar at Our Hdy Itedeemer
rRl C,',Cfanrch^s sdio^yard, wOTremain opra throogh Sunday evening,
-/August 24. Featuring rides,' food an'd games, ihe bazaar opens Tbnrs-riCiy
and Friday at7 pm and Saturday and Sunday at 6
.-^"..New rides have beenTadded and'there.b sometl
''ftoffl Uddie dze tolarge aduh,"
'iwy oo-dia]ipersons~*Ptter. and
-»MaiyLouAn^^Bm^'^ • •, *-;
\ ' Out Hdy^Redeeiner parishioo-
<',ers aiid thdr Mends helping at
xthe bazaar attest to the,good
tfood avdlable. there. Many* of
ithem say they have thdr eveniog
'meal therej choosiflg from tiie
1 wide assortment of Italian foods
~ '—'such as sausage and pepper
^iheroesi kcs, zeppole.and cslzone
frrr the Ainerican hot dogs, luun-
Jn a tent on the sdtod grounds,
pifts ^ven in'Jbonot of the
saint at the bazur win gate help
support the extensive diaritable
works of the parish's St ^^ncent
de Paul Sodety. according to the
Rev. Sahratore Miragiia and Jim
Fortunato, co-ctiairmen of the
feast pait-of the bazaar.
• HigliUgfat of the festival was
a Mass in English and Italian
and a procession for. St; Rodeo ~
tburgers, • pop coni' and cotton h. ,e,l d: S, a-t urday-. A., uvg-u s^t ^1 6t.. T*h!.e
Icandy. 'and^dn weekends, Phil-: ^ J ^ ' ' " , ' S ^ ' l S ^ l h L ^
^:_Kv ^'=--^=^^^—'-^«'^'*^-CTo: - pastor, the Rev sawno Mattai.
•',quetasv'."V ' • '>:• ' ';'-•-•- -
' -: SliUs at such games 9is tbssiiig
- rings and tlirbwing darts iiave
. 'gataed the winners 'sinffod ani-iijaals,-
feoas sgJHiSr-ifid^-^t^
-^Tiears to smiUer, l<avferodons
Saverio Mattai,
as piindpal celebrant- Father
Mattd delivered th^ honrily in
Engli^ and the Rev. Joseph
Catanzarro - gave the homily in
UaliaBr' '?^^' "• f-'-'" ?^ - -
Village Mayor Winiam White
—rkr^beasts.: - .P{aB{r=^&r r -nowi;
":^^-j r^/and, g(ddfislu:for children
"" " "amaig the"pcynlar prizes,
___J=^beAat^in»f
trnioaj^~'^'Ci»?^^!^'"^'?' **^* proccs-are
say
sion, wliidi mard^edfirom' tlie
cimidi on North Ocean Avenue.
jr-At this'-secoad meeting, -Mayor
WilRa^H: White noted that the ^
villagt^had never put in~ gutters
vritixxvt^coxbs during fi»dc Street
Improvement Programs. With the ^
Mayor commenting'that ttie vil­lage,
would'continue to'malnt^
the streets, as best ii^cbold.'^jaie-boud
-agreed, to^ dnpp'fiiue'
streets; Boiirihe\r^viQg pro-,
gram. ' «'. ^ _-7' •^' • -
At^the later public secdpn of
tlie meeting,^ Devany yjdced ob-jectioos
to tlie board's action. He
claimed that Mx residents want­ed
the streets te^vd,'bat did
not want curin. • " '^ '
free Shots :
MtNEOLA.- A fiee immun­ization
dinic .win 't>e oGFered
in Freeport by the Nassau County
Department of Health.
THE LEADER has been asked
to point out tlut one of the dates
printed in "ViHage News,'.' which
accompanied . the most recent
dectricbin. was wnmg. - I
. r Tlie dinics wffl l)e at the Free-
' port Recreation' Center on Mon-rdays,
Aiigust 25,and Sqptemb^ _^
/^S-iSjaiailljiajajaBdJ^piarTfeid"?!
at the Freeport-RooseveltHealtlj '
Center, 466 North Main Street,
• on Tuesday, August 26, Sep­tember
2 and 9,9 am-11^ am.-
-- AttiwssicB^rpre-sdwol and
-sduial-al;^:'youngsters, ages
tluee to 18 years (^ age, can t>e
immumrgd against the duld-
- laod disfusrs of mumps, mea-pjng
his support'of'tiie'pft&: Ri*M?^-^?t§'&l, .
Afterbecondudedhis stafebwit,-«»»^- "?*!5*'"^'^*?5^-*•"*
'the mottoa was made by Trustee would germft the board tosus-
J^Dtl^LPeternana 8ndi«condol--P«"»«*: "^^ pUufr-operatxm if
"b y T^ rustee Jhn CUrk/Ony four of a pouuting.-hazaTdous, environ
the five trustees were j)resent,
but White explained that he had
caned Def u^ Mayor DcnMhy
Storm, vautioning m Cdifomia,
.."sothat lJaiow,'7-he said. "aU
Board members are in agree­ment."
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,, _.-:;^ E1n(Piep*'*Bd' -
^ In 1979"
Tile plan to buOd the plant, -
by a pnva& company using pri­vate
funds, had first been pro­posed
hi-1979. Oti^nally. the
trustees had rejected the sug-gesticm^
and then';BW ^ Energy
. Systems 'came 'back' "a second
time. The company's «bmisskm"
to tlie tMiard was'nude at apublic
meeting ^and,. several weeks
mentally unsatisfactosy condition
were ..created,' but since" the
flant neededrthe yillage'a gaf-age
to operate, tbe supply could
bestoppedafattytin>e.\. • ^ -_
'But the- po^biBfy of-audi
'safeguards did not ifjeem to alter
tbe opiidons of o^pantnts to.the
pIan.'^'.:;.Merricic PfA''-v groups,
dvic, assodations.and resJilfiits
appeared at several public meet­ings,
objecting to,such a fadlity
dooe'to them.' Several Freeport
dtizeiis,also spoke out at public
'0ieetiii^;> most.'of -than 're-
' ^ » t ed 3ut Jnd^iendent ehviron-mental
impact s t a^ and investi-
(ConLonPageS)
-For adults.lJLas Vegas gspes
-sre^alUbie:
Presiding over the festival is
St. Rocco's statue, wfaidi stands
^^oolh OUldieu musl .be trnmnnTred in
Bergtai Place-and Merrick Road ord« to jttend schod in .Sep-
-baeitotfaesaiobljTKd. ^^^'^-.^ . ,
In the proc«sion at church.. - All dnldren commg to the;
' . - dime must be accompanied by an
(Conl. on f>age 13) adult.
CONGRATULATING THE NEW" COMMANDER. Ed Licence (r->.
Fred Hager (Second from r.) and Frank Manz (second from'J.), Past
-Commanders of the Freeport Amerfcan l.egion, era all amjles^aajhey-
, .„ . ,• jTxwr . „ congratulate newlv-^fHa^'JH CflmtPf^tr-JTn^wnittfiil (I ) tinntmni nnri"
sles. mbena, prf'" «nj ppT-An—n^-^tii itl tUflrnm will hn imfnllrfl in short, formal ceremonies at.the
William-^ Cllntoh Story Post's Dugout, 49 West Sunrise Highway,
Friday evening, September 5. A roast beef dinner will be served at
7 pm sharp, followed by the Installation at 8:30 pm. Dandng to IWe
music begins at grpm. The dlntier and the music are under the direction
of Vlto Tarulll. Tldcets are $7.50 per person and Indude three free
drinks.
-till.