The-Leader_1982-04-08

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FREEPOKT. NEW YORK, APRIL 87198J
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QnotifflRS Law. .
FKEEFOKT - The viSage's
"batkiag - dog" (or briTiag'
doolEt;) onlioaace TQI be the
tnbjett of a "cooitftlSonal"
argnmettt wheii a-Milkc^Woae
in Church OHlceL
FREEPORT • Tlmolby ^MeTnana. paitw of the Fail Presbyterian '
Church of Freeixirt and a member of the vaiage Board of Trustees, was
, . - , t^^5 fooiid seriously wounded Taesday eveidog. April 6. ia his cfaorcfa
umf—*«*"> «Wx«^'»«W«e-^~ftBdy. the victim, Nassaii County police soorcds say of a possible
Ftwport ViBaiprCoorf Thraday borgUryand assault.. " --^- - ..
The 40-year-oId Felenana was nisbed by Freeport Fire Department
ambolance tij Sooth Hassan Com-jAersooD,
ApA 23.
VISITORS FROK} CHINA. OavM U« <2n(i trom r.), prtttdant of th»-
crilne«» Center on Lono Island aod • ZO-yatr rMldant o( FrtMporl,
recently aeoompanlad two vialtort tnm ih« Paopla'* R«publ(e of China '
lo /naervllteg* Mayor WWiamWhila at Vlilae* Hall; WuMin Vn If.)
ii Deputy EdItor-lfl-Chltf of ihi.P«lili)fl Rivi«w,.a wiridjt iwwa-maaazina
publlihad lit (1v« IsnguaMi and'cimiiaffd worfrf>wfd«..
Sh(9uan0~Hii CZnd from I.} la an axpart in Chlnaa* llttratura wltl) tha~
stme. publtcaiion.' tha^vtsHora alto tourad tha Fraaport Bacraailoh
Center and the aanlor cittiena housing compMx on South^Maln &trtt«t.
Baldwin Vofers Defeat ,
$5.7AI Bond Referendum^
* b)/JOM D»Utn»Y
BALDWIN • Bjr a vote of 116S to 839, Baldwin resSdeaU have tnn&d
down a t5,7 wfllioa bond which would have been osed for district
rcnovatioo* afid reptin and «lte wort at tae s^loThlgh^zhixdrTlii
reitilt of the March 3t vole did not appear to be e^>ected by the
Baldwin Board of Edncatioo, althoogb member* did exjpreu ooooeni
about comnuolty.apathy at the
FqOowing a cMference be­tween
the two opposing' at-,
toroeyf, Depoty VilUge Cacmael"
V. Roy CsceiatDre, the praaecs-lOr,
and Freeport attorney Jobs
MoUaaii, for the defense, the
jnatter oif acliarge against the
ISibbaid &fflify was bonndover
ftr trial iwAjjiU 21.
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•TMs;-; pMl.rr-Jaimaryf;-• the r
Gibbardt; owjMra of two dogs, '
were served with a sammonalor
the second time, aitegedly «poo .
the complaint of oefghbon oo
Naisan Aveoae, the streeJLbeUnd--
"theirs. ^
. TheordiDance.vndersirhidithe
Gibbuds have been diarged —
Artide 78. Section 6 of the vmage
Code of Ordinances — states t u t
"no'person owning or ptiwesting
mnnities Hospital where, after
sevend hoius.<tf surgery, he was
ptaeed In the Intensive Care Unit.,
His condition the next morning
was still listed as guarded. Picdic«
report that Fetemana had suf­fered
a firaetured skull.
Petenusa was found lying ia a
pool of blood in hiaofOce at the
dutrcb. ITS S t ob Ocean Avcmte"
vtrioas informatiodal meetings
on the bond, held during the past
~roontb. Two general meetmgs
attracted fewer thaa-Sfr-peaple,
and the. many preseatatlo&s'ta
varioua community gtoupt given
by Board member Lorraine OeOer
and Assistant Superinteodeni
Richard -Dbpsovk alto .usually
attracted few 'pittple. Dunog the
day of the vote, people tri«l to
predief the results 6t>cn the voter
tunxxit. One poQ wwker said that
by 2.pm.appRn&sudeiy only 200
people had voted.' •"
After tise voting reauha were
announced at 10 pra. Board
Tni-mhrr Bernard Pittinsly told
THE- lEADER that be'
prepared to go ahead with the
needed repaht out of the regular
capital-budget. Board Prcttteat
Arnold tarie stated that - be ~
needed time to reflect and think
about the optioBS that are avaU-abie,
DeOer said, that it was
"voter apatfiy wUcS defeated the
bond" and added that "being
• onabie to pay for the repairs over
a loog period of time is going to
resah in a larger and uiifair
burden oo the preseiit community
in Baldwin."
iMtMInteOppwIdM
Organized oppo^tioo to the
txmd was not visible cstil tike
actual week of the referendum,
when .a Bjer agaeid, by - dje
Indepoxlent ' Jenifers • - of
Baldwia was distributed by hand
at:-the railroad ttatioa UST in.
many neighborhoods. The fiver,
listed comparative inlormattoa -
coDcerning 'district TSfBee* in-
Baldwio and oelgbboriog achooi
districts and contained a variety
of information, much of which did
not relate to the bond itteif. Some
people present when the results
wer? anoooseed,' attributed Oe
defeat of the bond to thlT flyer,
but several Board members
indicated that it Wasnol the flyer,
but the apathy of the people
whicJ] caused the defeat.
- MailiaJ Ot TiainUM
Loretta PoOacl, a resident
-«attEia-i^bfi^-Slto»tj*M^t_
heroppositioototbeboodaadthe -
oppositioo cf many of her ftieads,
were not to the needed teftin •
. but to the "method of fioaocisg"
the Kpiairs in the bond. Oo tlie
other hand'. Baldwin residcat
WiBtam Hodges, preiyest ot the
Dads and Boosters Qob, com*
menfed on the defeat of the hood
relative to the site wotfc wUcfa
was of particular importance to
his orgaoizatioo. He said thai-tte
fields at the high sdiool were ia
an "irreversible state" and added
rtial, if his son were prtaeatiy
playing fbotball. be "would not
permit him to play on the fields."
OpHaaaAvaflafato
There are several options avaH-abteto
the'Board of Eddcatioa sf
{Cwft.'oriPag«gr "
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. peace ouepose
of any persoos-in the ^cinity by
long, continued or frequent
ooiie."
Citlog the vagueness of tite
ordisaaoe, Attoney Molioaii has
sent a brief -to the Village
questionlttg the ttatnte-a cos*
stitutionaUty. "AS laws' have to
teH yon what you have to do and
.what you cannot do," opltined
M«tfasar{, daiming that one most
"gnesa" at the meaning-of tids
action. What is continued
barking, be asks, and what
cocstitutea the vidaity.
The Gibbards 6»t came before
Village Justice Ralph Franco ia
Timothy C.Patemana
ill Freeport, by the Church custo­dian,
Chester Kosmalski, who
lives next door.
Kosmalski, police say, saw a
Freeport ra^iice car pull up to the
-chm^. at about 6;25 pm Toes- -
day. ReoortedlyriSe police were -
respoooTng to tlie call of an open
door at the churdi. Weather
cooditiocs were stiQ Jieeziog
temperatures and high winds,,
following the freak spring-time
b l i i i a t d . : - ,.''.••.".•-;.•>. .--'-••'•'
-': Aecotdhig >lo kbie-:wssOAMfS,^
Kosmalski tcrfd the police officer
that Revi Peternana's nr'..wft
stm there and he would tell bam-about
the dooc.Tbe-cositodian
then went locddng for Fetemana
and found him, the.vk&n «rf a
head wound. The ofBce safe
doorwasopcu
. Police estinute tiiat the attack
on Petnnana ocoured sometime
between 4 and 6: IS pm..
Fetensana had been a Free-'
port resident and pastor of tbe-chnrch
since July, 1968. jtn
March, 197V~beimecessf5I5F
sought a four year term^Do tbe
Freeport Vflla^ Board of Trus­tees,
as a caniUdate of tbe Repob-
Ucao Party and tbe Village Party..
A long-time - dvic'' activist.
Petemaita was recently appoint­ed
to tiie Nassau Conn^ Commis­sion
on Humaii TUghts. Prior to
him election to the Village Board,
he had b<^n a member of die
(Cionl.pnP^«16)
April Blizzard K.O.t Spring 'tmis&
the second tommocis was served.
In a letter to Franco, Mrs.
Gibbard — not an attoroey
herself — said that with the taw.
"the village has established a
cfimale reminijceoi of the Nazi
regime of timing in oQe'a
neighbor." Her family's dogs,
she daims. "have never barked
excesdvelyrto the distnrbance of
any nd^bars...they {io bark
when someone stepi' on our
pttipetty who they do iiot know.
Last summer-," Mrs. Gibbard
explains, tbe dogs alerted dte
fanuly to ''several men trying to
break into my next door neigh­bor's
borne. I hardly think," says
Mrs. (Kbbardi 'ttiiat would
. disturb anyone but tbe thieves."
FREEPORT-Get those boots oat of the storage doset and that sno«f
shovel out of the attic! Spring was a Bltlebrte this year.
Ctocnaes, tulijM, earfy birds and just plMO fWk looked ia amawment
as the sua didn^t come up Tuesday momhig. April 6, to the sight of
- Oprit thowt^rs of snow. WhHe the New Yott area had had trouble
white Christmas this -^ —
area was tmffeted by the same
high, bfizzard-n^Ie-per-bour
winds as the rest pf Long Island.
Village Bectric Department
crews — *X 7 JO pm — were still
able to confirm to THE LEADER
that there had been oo fallen
wires, tio . reported power
•outages, ' -
The snow had fallen and by
about % pm had tapered off and
the streets were becoming icy,
but the Village's road crew* were
out and there was plenty of sand
and salt and man power to keep
tbe roads open.
The uDexpcflcdly late-in-tbc-miiitering
a white Christmas tfiis
past December, theananal Easter
Egg hunt might havi to be
through snow dri{is...if the
weather doesn't warm up.
Local weather bufb. trjteg to
recall similar happenings as this
biiizard in springtime, came np
with a St. Patrick's Day snow
storm in 1957 and an April one in
1880-«oroethhig-or-other. For
lore, this Tuesday's weatlier was
des&ied to be, if ac< an item for
Ripley's "BeCeve It or Not," at
(east a note in tbe fries of the
Freeport and Baldwin Historical
Museums.
Actna]ly,>.the. Village of Frea-port
fared quite weff. Though the (C^t.'oriPaga'it)