The-Leader_1980-11-20

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45th YEAR. No. 30 FREEPORT, NEW YORK. NOVEMBER 20, J980 PRICE 20*1>ERCOI»Y
Hew Sup't. Of Schools Selected
Tenants Compbin School Board Picks
Noffh.Shore Administrator
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THETa^W^K'^Q BEIJEFITTCD OTHERS. Youthful participants,
m Fraeport Cancer Care's recent Fourth Annua) WalK-A-Thon.were -
l)onore<n^t weekl)y Mayor William H. White tn'hIsTViUage Viall
office. Showing thelr^Cancer Care Certiiicates are (I. to r.) Anna
Oii^iedo,^Michael Combs, Rose Tartagllone, (Mayor White],'Cathy.
Tartaoljone, Paula Candldus and Jeffrey Groder. - ' ..(Story on P. 6}
\ Freepqrf Jo:Build.
Fir0 Training Center
FREEPORT - A large, group of
village apartment house tenants
were.at Monday. November 17*s
Preepprti-iBoariLi of, _ Trastws
meenns to complaln'abdiit a lack'
of heat hi their buildings or apart­ments.
Led by. Ethel Dorman,'
president of the Freepbrt Tenants
Association, they asked the Vil­lage
Board to help them with
what th^" described as long­standing
heating problems.
Dorman spoke first and thank-eU
the Board for votingUo'-raise
the. "mfoimuiti 'temperature
during' daytime hotlrs to ~ 70
degrees, but, she addo!, so many
people bere""bave--tSt-iiad^y
heatafalL""^ -'
•FREEPORT - A 33-year old assistant superintendent bf sclibols in
Port Washington has been named by the Freeport Board of Education
as-tbe-isuccessor-tp Frecport^-preMOt^
Costlow..;' : •;-; :'••_'.:;;- "^•".'•" ;:"l^'/:v^"'^^.-i''^^i^.••V^'?-•-^•r^•-t;•"•• ''••
:' In aseat«^process wluchbegan tnote thanseyeninphtiis ago.^the
flvie-person Board of Education diose JobnlE. Bierwicthifrgni t^f^P^^..
of H8applicants. - . .
and dirwtor'of
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HIEEPORT - The Village Board of Trustees has ^ven their nod of
ap^Qval to the Freeport Fire Department's request for a village-located
Fire Training Center.-
^ e r bearing the reasons for such a facility, as advanced by former
Freeport Fire Chief Donald 11. Mauersberger. chairman of a special
committee*6fihe Fire Council, .- / . .^ _ 'V
and viewing the architectural reri-' or sick;' Mauersbetger pointed
derings, the trustees directed'the out. he may not receive trainmg
village treasurer to prepare for a J for another year.- "•
S200,000 bond issue. • The academy is more than 30
The committee's presentaion round trip miles from Freeport.
and the Village Board's special .Therefore, the village is without
action took place-during a special one company^s service" for the
Bierwirth, who presently is
assistant. superintendent for
personnel and general' admin-istratiop
in Port Washington,
wfll^ receiveral.$49,Q00 .annual
salaryjfi^m Freeport and'a ihree'
year contract. " ^'*
-According to Sdiool Board
presdent Sara HoUy, Bierwirth
will begin February J, 1981. J
'.^^'Aflionpthe-bmldings-Dorman ' ^^^ ff"ed bierwirth .-'an
r^'^fra--^as^'probl«h*-^spdli"^an5~^»n^«e«»Wf,---T-^
20(fWcstM«rlctRoaa,4S North """«'•' * dis-
Icgislative session Saturday;
November 15. at Village Hall.
The meeting had been publicly
announced along with a schedule
of^ opcn~ttf-the-public "budget
workshops in THE LEADER.- -
The Training,Center for Free--
__ port's volunteer department will
.'be built at Parking Reld *23, at
the foot of.Hanse Avenue. In
.October, 198nj^.» Fire TfepaH.
; )nent had;^"aske3^far and tjeeir
-granted .permission f«^ such use
of the site by the.Town of Hemp-f
stead. . ! • -' '•,
... '- Exrchicf. Mauersbejgcr ex-'
. • "plained that Emmanuel MesaCTa..
th'e archited. is a leading author^
• - hy' do Firc; Training Centers,
——having designed fiva to.seven-siich
facOities .timmghout the
' cGutttiy as well:as all of those'in
^- ifewYoriXityi-r ' - ' -
.^VM«ierrf)crgcr;toId the board
that "„.fpTUic fire, department
to survive in Fnepdtt, »-e~must
have this Center." He pointed out
that the number of alams and the
large inQux'of new members in­crease,
the Irhancss of serious,
injury or death.'
Presently, a fnre Service
Academy .is located in Old Beth-page
Because course time there
must be divided equally between
the County's 72"departments,
maxinurn time giyefl to an indi­vidual
company is five oi^ts
per week. If a member a working
entire evening.
Mauersbergcr poiiifed out that
five nights per year cannot ade­quately
train the firefighters.
"The Freeport^departmenl has_«
larg5._'tUTnoyer of new .people.
••IBve to seven guys on a truck
have less than two years of ex-peripee>
yie told the board. He
also pointed tolthe "increased
firqoad" jn.the community^
wa -get .the same aiyount of
timeasrStewart Mfnor.and any
small - cbmnuudtre^,'' - Mauersr!
bcrgef said. "We must have a-
•place to practice-to keep abreast
of new techniques.'-*
— '• Maffnibeiger-also-poyitea^out-thafit
Bethpage, Freeport cbip-
_p^^"aTe_teamed up with those
from other" di^artments^with
whom they practice. ""Wc need to
- work with oqr own companies fn*
Ocean Avenue, 56"North Long
Beach Avenue and 110 Btooklyii,
AvenuerTenants of those build^
ings were-present to d^cribe '
their conditions to the Board of
TrustCM.';. \ •
• Talking of the tenants-of the;
buUdings, Dorman said, "We
don't want to drive people out of
Freeport. We want; to keep
themhere-" ..-:
Nancy Hemberger* a tenant of
IDO^West Mcrr&r Ri»d,- clffimS^"^-
that in.ber bnllding the heat is
put'on for only two hours in the-morning.
"We don't know what
it is to have hot water in the mom-
^ing,1she alleged.^adding that in
the evening, there is "a little JHt'
of heat."
Hemberger told the board that
her landlord has been issued
summonses, but a S250 She, she
noted, "is a drop in the bucket
•forhim." ^~ . ~
Mayor Willkm H. .Vniite
agreed that "S2S0 is' not .mudi
money" compared to the savings
'on oO bms, "bat S250a day would'
addgp:? - • • 7 .^V"'
~—. A :4S-^NoTtb Ocean—Avchue-iena^,
Tom Preston, told the
Board that "code compliance
nomenal...We (the school
trictl are lucky^" shesaid.'
Bierwirth, Holly j>aid, has a .
broad experience in curriculum,
guidance, personnel and negotia­tions.
"He goesrinto an area,.,
examines it'thoroughly. makes a
plan and .thexi implements ac­tion,"
she said;' describing his.
ability to "get along with people,
work out problems and make
things move smoothly.'-' . .
•J According. to Holly, she and I
twouothcr members of the board '
had.spenta Kalf-day in the Port
Washington School •' District'
before settling on their choice."
They spoke to administrators
.there, school principals, a.repre-
-sentatK-e of the-P<Hl-Washington :
School' Board,- tbe.head Jof- the
Teachers Association, etc.
"Everyone." Holly said, "con-finned
everything that we felt
abouthim." .' •. -^.
- "Bierwiilh "has been with Port
-Washington since 1977. Prior to
that, 1974^1977. :be had beiai
whh the Hefmpstead pnblic^school .
;^stem as director of Federal and
"State; programs
personnel.''^•••;^'.:;";•':,>. -, ^,•.^'•
. Frbm'19i72-i974;*be:was With; ;'
the National; Alternative^Sch6ols • i
• pr^hjin^f-;jhe /J[Jniveraity^.pf^
MasMchiSettsrileJIw^rWrertOT'"^^
-of a;proj«?ct tp^set^np analterMf .^^^ :
- tive • .high'C school i in'"Woir«steri
' Blermrth'sivbadcgro •^alsoi
indiiy«';tirae; {»>a;teai;hef and, -
-jibuBselbraUM«JGraij^3iliU-Street- ^--
AdiiIemy.n9TOrl972.~'aiidras. a;
sixth 'grad^.teacher in a middle
school, in"-Bridgeport,- Conn..
I969-I9TO^ :.; ;f :V-3;:.: ";^v -
Tbe;; incorning - Superinteii-'
. dent has a B~A. degree from Ya1«
Univesity' and' 'also/studied at -'
L.I.U. and the'^nivcrsity of
. Bridgeport. His.iEd^ D. ; was' ,
awj^ed: at the; Uniycjtsity ' of .
Massachusetts/Amherst.'
BierwirUi's. appointment was
. part of a "time line" search
'started by the Board in March,
after Cosflow " "arinou'nced he •'
would retire following 32 years
in the :Freeport School District.
The Board olEducatJon was
ass'isted in its search by BOCES
Superintendent Dr. Williani -
T. CaDah^..;: ^ :'
- A 'dinner hbiforing Cosflow will ••
be held January 14 ^ai .Coral
House in Baldwin, tickets arc -
S$22.50 per person and can be
obtained by calling Frecptm
'Memorial Library director Wil-fired
Morin at.379-3274. .Morin
is a member of a community-widc
retirement dinner cominJUee.
must be imprwwf'Heilescrib-^-
«4 \is beating; as 59. degrees
. . at'^ am;-."When :the heat came '
team coordination," he said.. He 'upattrTy^jm that «ly," he said,
nntcKi -fhaf -Mt^mnttr^A -»-.'n/i -••jj had.tMxh off Since IL pm.-
Fire Guts Eiiipj^ Building
M Comer (MMall^^
noted that Hempstead ""and
Oceansidc both have their own
trainmg centers. Freeport,
Manersberger explained, has >
diversification of areasnhe Nauti-
. cal Mile, Freeport Mall, an Indus­trial
Park, two Hospitals. Two'
Guys. etc. " .
Xa recommendinK the bond
issue.- Mayor White told the
board that the Fire'Couocil was
in favor of the plan*. . -" '
Bad Intenectian
; The board also discussed a
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Friday mght.-*' Hot-water-probr
lems, Preston said, were just as
bad. ftestbo}-went to duu^
that the U£at and hot water
breakdown "convemently were
when the viDige's IBiiJIdiiiig De-"
{fiutment is: dosed...and it
(the healing system] is repaired
when the 'Building Department is -
open." ; - .• .- '^-- ,:.
Preston said he had been com­plaining
to the Buildiag Depart*
ment ioc two yeaK^and '.'notinng
vX:ant.onPaae.l2)
— FREEPORT - The twastones'
above the ground floor stores in'
thetmildingoia the comer of Fine,
and the Freeport Mall bad been
empty d occupants nnce-Tefara-.
, 'The "fie apipdued to -have;
started aroohd tH^ middle of the'.
fop Qocw, said Sarro. its origm,-
termed suspicions..was ^GH under
investigation ear^ this week,by
ary, 1 ^ , when a State Supreme 'Nassau County Rre Marshals,
Court judge signed an csder to
vacate.
But ,Ute Monday afternopn.
-NovenAer —17,- the'- darkened
windows and empty rooms
glared with a harsh GgM as a
twTo-haela finrns tf cilaeJ IgbuiLtttehde fthire er coaommes. n r .is osfoQ repair.
. An Freeport units responded
to the general alarm wwA was
backed.. by.. mutaal aid ftnm'
Baldwin, "niat jidgbboring de-partmei^
sent ovn oiuts-indod^
mg a' 'jmnmer, fbodligjit'tmdt
and snorkd, rreeporTs annuel
'abbot 3 JO pn)~ and. Freqxirt.
Fire.'Department Chief Wafiam
SaxTO said, vns, repoii^'by^jt
Freeport poGce officer; •' - v>.
Altboagb aQ dectxktty in the
two stories ^emptietf'^^isrtiDeats-
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