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FRiEPORT
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46th YEAR No. 5
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FREEPQRT. NEW YORKrMAY 28.1981 PRICE 20*PERCX)PY
Board Can't Cut School Budget
Freeport Spring fnpuf From Public flearing
Festival An -,/ ,* • . . . . -_
AM D„ Event Cons/dered, Vofe June 17
IN MEMORVOF THOSE WHO SERVED, the Village of Freeport
observed Memorial Day 1381 with a ceremony preceded by a parade.
(See story, this page.) On the lav(n at the Freeport Memorial Ubraty,
the Gold Star Mothers and members of the Datjghtefs of the American
Revolution (top photo) stand at attention facing the Color Guard.
On the reviewing stand, facing the library, Rev. Charles Sullivan
(bottom photo, c.) Freeport Fire Department Chaplain, delivers a
prayer honoring deceased members of the department. Among the
dignitaries on the reviewing stand were (I. to r.) Hempstead Town
Presiding Supervisor Tom Gulotta; State Senator Norman J. Levy.
Village Trustee C. James Claris; Village Trustee Al Sirliti; Father
Sullivan; Cmdr. David Kirk, U.S.N. Reserve; Lt. Gmdr. John Mount--
castle. U.S. Coast Gua'd Reserve; Msgr. Saverio Mattel of Our Holy
Redeemer R.C. Church; Village Justice Ralph Franco; William H.
White. Mayor of the Village of Freeport; Deputy Mayor Dorothy Storm
and her daughter. (LEADER photos)
Memorial Parade Thrills Spectators
FREEPQRT - Arts and recre-action
activities will be "bloom­ing"
in Freeport' on Sunday.
June T, as part of the statewide
"I Love New York Spring Flower
Festival." The Freeport Spring
Festival '81, jointly sponsored
by the Freeport Arts Council
and the Freeport Kecteatibn
Department, win be a free, day-long_
presentation of fine art;
Suality crafts; music, dance, and
. leatre performances^ recreation
.•ctirities .'-and demoasiratioiai
and special events far children. It
'win t«ke place II im-STpm Ip the
Freeport Recreation-Center.
The lobby of the Center will be
, alive with color, not only from the
balloons and buttons, the chil­dren's
"hands "^on" area for
creating crafts with a floral
' theme, and from masses of
flowering annuals on sale to
benefit the Arts Council, but also
from the artwork exhibited in
the Freeport Arts. Council's
Third Annual Juried Art Show,
which will have its official open­ing
that evening with a gala
Awards Reception from 5-7 pm,
for Friends of the Arts Council
and invited guests.
In the lower level Skate Lounge
and, weather permitting, in the
adjacent outdoor area, a crafts
exhibit and sale will offer the
work of close to 50 Lon^ Island
crafts people. Three diihensional
decoupage, tapestry, trapunto,
porcelain and stoneware, jewelry,
scrimshaw..--and work in wood,
leather, stained glass, shells.
FREEPORT - With less than a handful of residents in attendance at
the annual Budget Hearing of the Freeport Board ot Education, the
Board unanimously adopted the proposition to put its $26,768,678
proposed budget on the ballot on June 17. The five person Board of
Educatjoh also were in total agreement to include on the ballot a
proposition submitted by resident
Mary Brenner that would alter
the system of electing Board
members, to—one involving an'
at-large voting system
When Board president Sara
Holly opened the public hearing
Tuesday eveiiing. May 19. the
Freeport High School auditorium
was virtually emp^. Fourteen
members ofthc'SchooI "Ad^Inl-'
strwaoo wnd "Boax^ or education'
sat'at a long-table facing the
audience who, except for the
press, other members of the
Two others joined the audience
later in the evening.
With so few people present
in the. cavernous room, Mrs.
•Holly dispensed with the usual
format of going over the . pro­posed
budget item by Item and
asked instead for questions.
'Oiij one,nsident b ^ uiy qiies-;
* tidas bip comment on the budget.
wtojcsi'-wUJ "1p«mr*m'tmx"*UJCTe»sfe •
ofSl.97.
Questions "Bacfid Basing"
Allan Jay, of Smith Street,
School Administration—and—a-steady-Scbool-Board-meeting
members of the Freeport Mem- attendee, questioned the Dis-orial
Library Board staff, included trict's system of what he called
only two identified residents. (Cont. on Pao-3 12(
and fabric will Jje_shown and sold.
FREEPORT - A larger than usual throng viewed the village'^annual J ^ f ^ ^ ^ " : : ^ ^ l^^ •
Memorial Day Parade and Cerernony Monday morning, MMaXyV 2 ?5S. . & ..
Spectators lined the route of the parade which began at Freeport . , „ • „ „ •'j oust„m,,g?. ' ,„U. a e„ro,.b,.i„c
High School and proceeded down Merrick Road to the Free^rt ^hv™al" fifrsHaivities S^rts
Memorial Library. The Color Guard and Gold Star Mothers were on the P^^^ ^^^^^ ^^^ children and folk
library lawn, while the Reviewing
Stand was set up across Merrick
Road facing the library.
On the Reviewing Stand
were such invited dignitaries
as - Hempstead Town Presiding
Supervisor Thomas Gulotta.
who delivered the keystone
address. Gulona pledged the
support of his office and the Town
to the veterans and veteran
groups. Also on the Reviewing
Stand were Sute Senator Norman
J. Levy and Village Mayor
WilliamH. White. Deputy Mayor
tXirothy Storm and Trustees
Alfred Sirlin and C. James Clark.
Trustee Timothy Petemana.
who was in the Parade along with
ihe others, was also present
during the ceremony.
A limousine transported
Freeport's two remaining Gold
Sur Mothers. Alberta Harrison
and Catherine Snyder, along
the parade route to their places of
honor. Also honored and intro­duced
to the audience were
Ihe village's four remaining
World War I veterans: Frank
Curley. Wally Guest. Dick
Bennett and Dr. Mervin Schloss.
The Memorial Day Observance
Comminee was chaired by
Charles Jackson of the William
Clinton Story Post No. 342 of
the American Legion. Jackson
was joined on the Reviewing
dancing will be available for
community participation.
Music will fill the air through­out
the day. The old fashioned
harmonies of the South Shore
Four Barbershop Quartet, show-tunes
and choral music from
the Freeport Community Chorale,
and the sound of the Larry-
Jones Jazz Quartet' -w-iVl be
featured at showcase perform­ances.
Drtna and dance per­formances
will be offered by The
Long Island Theatre Company,
the Dickerson Performing Arts
Center, and P.L.A.Y.E.R.S.
For further information on the
dav's events, call the Arts
Council offKc at 2i3.-2522.
THE ART OF RESTORATION is discussed by Tom Chimenlo (I.).
Mayor William White and village Homefinders Director Ramona
Crook. Chimento is redoing his recently purctiased, at least ItX)-
year old house al 112 Lena Avenue. The house, which was in a
neglected state when Chimento txjught it, has 14 rooms on three levels,
three fireplaces, gaslight fixtures, oak floors, a widow's walk and a
barn. Chimento and his wife sold their Dix Hills house two years ago
and tried apartment living in Queens for a while. Homefinders
volunteer Bob Jaeger interested them in the challenge offered by the
multi-roomed Victorian where they are now "camping out." Chimento,
manager of a wood veneer company, is doing much of the restoration
wor*. himself and estimates it will t>e Christmas tjefore tt>e house
approaches the state he envisions.