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FREEPORT. NEW YORK. NOVEMBER 12.1981
46th YEAR. No. 29
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'TwoGuys
Toddler Rescued Parent Company Reducing
From Waters Of dumber Of DiscoOnt stores
SMILING JACK 0't>\NTERNS wero part of the celebration of
Hallawe«n by the second grade GIblyn School elass'of Mrs-.-Gloria '
Lamb. With money contributed by the Gjblyn PTA, Mrs. Lamb was
able to purchase a piimpkln for each of her 26 students. She bought
them while on a trip to Pennsylvania and brought them back to Free-port
for her pupils to decorate and personalize. Mrs. Lamb and school
principal James Glennon and all the "Jacks" are loined by (I. to r.):
Sandra Galano. Michael Ekiund, Kelly Exum, Suzanne Casta, Karlbay
Crummell, David Rodriguez, Joseph Angeion and Lisa Leipfert.
Baldwin Bond Delay
Affecfs School Budget
ty Joan Delaney
BALDWIN - The Nov. 4 Baldwin Board of Education meeting left the
school district in approximately the same state it found itself in last
August, relative to the "energy bond" issue. Presently, however,
flnancial concerns and facilities problems have reached more critical
levels because necessary decisions have been postponed and antici­pated
actions did not occur.
The question which prompted
Board and Administrative
discussion, which at times was
sharp and divisive, was the
question of financing the renova­tions
tq the senior high sctioo) in
order to prepare its use as a 9-12
school in September, 1982. Board
member Bernard Pittinsky
quickly admdnished the Adminis­tration
for not making the Board
aware of the fact that no monies
were available in the regular
budgetforthisptnposer ^ '
After some heated exchanges,
"^ Richard —Dopsovic.—Assistant-
Superintendent for Finance,
showed the Board numerous
instances over the past three
years where the costs of the
renovation were clearly outlined.
He showed the original estimates
in the 1979 reorganization plan
and several other accountings in
various architect's surveys.
Pittinsky's point, however, was
that at no time did the Adminis­tration
actually tell the Board that
it needed $220,000 for renova­tions
and that these monies '*eTe
not in any budget.
Board member Victor Rohe
finally put the controversy in
perspective when he said that the
high school renovation was being
taken out of context. He showed
how the high school repairs had
become part of the larger "ener­gy
bond" question. He said that
when it became cleat that there
were numerous large facilities
and maintenance needs in the
district, th,e Board opted to
include them all in a bond issue
which could receive state aid. The
constant delaying of the bond
jssue, without otherwise making,
provision for the senior high
school renovations, has led to
-thcpieseiit miiditiun.
Board President Lurie and
Superintendent Holland Jones
stated that the bond issue was
never intended simply as an
"energy bond."
lEdiior's note: The use of the
term "energy bond" was em­ployed
by the Board until several
weeks ago. Onginally most items
in the bond referred to items
connected with energy conserva­tion.
As discussion of the bond
issue progressed and particularly
after architects were emploved to
uncover all the "energy needs of
tne distnct" laalities and site
(Cent, on Pag* 8)
Woodcleft Canal
FREEPORT - A grateful father
has sent a cake to a Freeport Fire
Department chief to say thank
you for the life-saving techniques
used on his two-year-old son. The
youth, Tatsuya Ishikawa, had
fallen into Woodclefi Canal last
Wednesday afternoon. Novem­ber
4, after he had wandered ftom
his father's car where he bad
been left to wait for a. few min­utes.
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The father.. Hirp Ishikawa. a
Rocfcviile' Centre' reitatiratenr
and wholesale grocer, was pur­chasing
fish at Capt. Ben's on
Woodcleft Avenue and had left
his son in Ids parked and locked
car. Mr. Ishikawa later ex­plained
that he often took his son
with him during the day. when he
went somewhere on-business. "1
-told him to stay in the car."
said Ishikawa. but the youngster,
who the father said knew how to
open the door, obviously did and
wandered on.
When the father returned to
the car a few minutes later and
noticed the boy missing, he began
to search for him. Within five to
10 minutes, the child was seen
floating face downward in the
Canal, just north of 255 Wood­cleft
Avenue. Mr. Ishikawa
jumped into the water and
brought his son to land.
Minutes later, Freeport Fire
Department personnel were on
the scene. First Deputy Chief
John Provenzano was several
blocks away at the Yank^ Qip-
BlI
FREEPORT - The Two Guys discount department store, which
opened in Freeport in April of 1980. will close, probably sometime
before this Christmas, executives of Vomado, Inc., the parent com­pany,
have announced. Rumored for months, the closing of the store is
just another one in a series that will leave only 12 Two Guys Stores, less
than one-half their original num-per,
a guest speaker at a Freeport
Exchange Club luncheon. Fire­men
Michael Sotira and Ray Mc-
Guire, both of.Engine Company,
and Blake McCauley, of Truck
Company, along with Provenzano
were first on the scene and the
four- administered resuscitation
to the little, boy who.il was said,
was virtually not breathing.JTtiey.
ber, open under the Two Guys
name.
All three of the Long Island
stores will close or, as Vomado
executives apparently prefer to
put it, will be sold or leased.
Besides the Freeporl' store.
Two Guys presently has stores in
Coram and New Hyde J'aric. Five
store$ in.'.Maiylaridr...'opei in
Pennsylvania and six bi northern -
New jersey will continue to be
operated as Two Gays stores.
According to Bob Grant,
vice-president in charge of reah
estate for Vomado, the reason
for the closings is apparently
simple. Vomado. says Grant,
wants to be in the real estate
business. Without Grant_ putting
it in just so many words, the
implication is that Vomado wants
out of the retail store-business.
However, the corporation ap­parently
has no present plans to
rid iuelf of the last 12 stores in
the chain.
Over the past year, as rumors
of an impending closing became
increasingly strong, THE LEAD­ER
checked with Grant several
times. Each time, including about
a month ago when it learned that
upstate stores were closing.
Grant denied any possibility of
the Freeport store shutting down.
Each time. Grant classified Free-port
as a solid profitable venture.
Grant hopes all stores will be
sold or leased to other operations,
with no store remaining dose'd
more than the time it would take
to convert it. He said Bradlee'^
a well-known .northeast chain.
was taking over the Milford,
Massachusens and New London,
Connecticut stores. The Reading,
Pennsylvania store, he , siid,
would become a Pathmark/
Rickels.
Freeport apparenUy will not
be sold or leased'to Bradlee's or
Pathmatt. Oaimiiig that they
were in the middle of negotia­tions
with someone over - the
store. Grant would not discuss
any specific interests In the Free-port
f tore of even if it were .to be
sold or'leased."He'would' qnly.
expriSs' optiinism 'tfiarUte store
would be taken over and the vil­lage
would be happy with it.
Stories circulating in the village
this week indicated that the take­over
would be by a New England
company and that the store would
be a "higher class" discount
operation than it is presently.
The owner of the property,
according to the terms of the ori­ginal
contract signed when the
Village of Freeport sold the land
to Vomado. has until March <A
1982 to develop an additional
30,000 square feet or lose that
part of the property. During the
past year. Vornado had tried to
interest various supermarket
chains and. reportedly, Mar­shall's,
Rickels and Channel's,
in the spot but to no avail. Grant
blames the high interest rates
and costs of building that present­ly
dominate the country's econ­omic
scene with -Vornado's lack -
ofsuccess in wooing in a tenant.
An application for a permit
to conduct a "Going Out Of
Business Sale" already has been
filed with the village.
Mayor William H. White,
when asked about the impending
closing, said, "I have every
confidence that they will be able
to sell the property to a concern
that will be good for the vil­lage."
rushed the two year old to Lydia
E. Hall Hospital in Provenzano's
Chiefs car. while continuing to
resuscitate him on the back seat.
When he arrived at Lydia E.
Hall Hospital, according to nurse-spokesperson
Sally Moran, the
youngster was still virtually
unresponsive and Emergency
Room personnel quickly began to -
work on him. Mrs. Moran said
ihcy knew they were successful
when the boy began to cry. With
his condition stabilized, young
Tatsuya was transferred to Nas­sau
County Medical Center where
he was reported in eood condi-
(Conf. on Page 10)
New Engineering Department Formed
FREEPORT - The Village of
Freeport is advertising for a new
Superintendent of Buildings this
week to replace its present de­partment
head. David Love joy.
who will be moving over to head a
new department of engineering
for the village.
According to Mayor William
H. White, the move will save the,
village money because it will
allow it to do iu own engineering
work rather than paying outside
interests. It would also permit.
White said, closer supervision of
work t>eing done, which would
also result in economies.
Lovejoy will be returning to a
title he held before he became
Superintendent of the Building
Uepartment, that of Deputy-
Superintendent of Public Works.
The position was recently rein-stituted
by the Village Board o
Trustees.
Lovejoy is a certified Profes­sional
Engineer.
The new Engineering Depart­ment
will have an additional two
or three employees. White said.