The-Leader_1982-09-09

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FREEPORt.NEWYORK. SEPTEMBERS 1982 -
47thYEAH. No.20 ^^^^EPOPT M^IMCni^- LIDRAHl'
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'Two Guys'' Store To Goto Bulova
"^j^J* £'""*l' village Board Approves
Welcomes New - •% - *•
Interim Pastor Leasing For Paris Ass^efiiolyr
THE OATH OF OFFICE waa admlnMarad to.naw Fraaport Vlliaga
Trtntaa.Vinoanl 0<Coatanxo (r.) ly FamUy-Court JudotfMM
CoHlM, aiao a fntfieii ra«idafll.~OK»atanzo, who waa rworn In at the
Board of Tnwtaaa, Auguat 30 maatbiff, waa appointed by Mqror
WlltUm White to the unexpired term of the late Trustee Timothy -
Petemana. A raeldent ol Areher Street and currently president ol the
Freeport Utile Laegue, OlCostaflioU a 13-yeer resident ol the Vlllege..
Teochers Reoch Agreement
With Baldwin DIsfrlcf
• bv Joan D»l$n»y
BALDWIN > According to an aanoaacement at the Wednesday,
September I Baldwin Board of Education meeting (which was also
discotsed In ,a pbooe Interview with Dave Rogers, public telatioas
lepresentative of the Baldwin Teadiers' Union), the Baldwin School
Duttict and the Baldwin Teachets' Union have readied a tenutive
settlement of contract negotia­tions.
The agreement came at
approximately 8:30 pm on
Tuesday evening, August 31,
tlie evei^g before the September
1 meeting with the PESB fact­finder
was scheduled to take
place. .
Baldwin Superintendent of
Schools Rolland Jones explaiqed
that the agreement is expected to
be ratified by the Board of
Education and the teachers
"sometimes next week" (that is
—tlteofcfk of SrptrmJTer-S). jlogen.
said that the teachers were being
notified of the tenutWe settle­ment
by mail and it was expected
. that a meeting to rati^ the ,
contract would take place on '
September 8, the first day of
school.
According to various spokes­men
for uie district and the
teadiers' union, the differences
t>etween the teadters snd district
were not confined to money, but
involved many different issues.
Both sides seemed pleased' that
the sciiool year would begin with
a settled contract, particutatiy in
view of the beginning of the 9-12
high school this Seotemtjer.
geargsnlratVni Hana
Other items discussed at the
Scpteml)er 1 Board meeting
included a request by the school
district administration for several
reorganization consttaints so tiiat
h could l>cgin xeorganiiation
planning. The constraints in­cluded
"that the scope of the
reorganiiation be from K-6," and
that it be clear that the 7-U reor­ganiiation
including a 7-8 junior
high school and a 9-12 high sdiool
is complete. The second con­straint
was tlsat district offices
remain at the former Harbor
Elementary School on Hastings
Street. The third was that the
Baldwin Junior High Sdu»l
property is "still for sale," and
the fourth is that at the outset.
"paretrts'6r'tny=:drild"Trt«o-musl^
be transported to be told that
lundi facilities and a lunch
FREEFORT - Rev. Carl C.
Schiffeier has been appointed
Interim Pastor at the First
Presbyterian Cfanrdi of Freeport..
Rev. Schiffeier** appointmeni by
the church's Board of Tnistees
was made fdlowing the ifcom*
meodatioa of its Interim Paster
Search Committee.
Rev. Schifiieler temporarily
replaces the late Rev. TiuMthy C.
Petenana who died following an
alleged robbery/assault hi. his
stn^ at the cfauich this past
April. The new pastor win remain
at: the Freeport dnucfa for 18
raooths, daring wfaidi time, the
dinrcb's ' governing bostd will
search f9r a petpuoeat pastor.
Most recently. Rev. SchiSelet
served as pastor of the Memorial
Presbyterian CSturch in Bald-more,
and before that l>e was
pastor in Newbnrgh, New Yotk,
and at Tremont Cluuth in the
Bronx.
Rev. Schiffeier,'ids wife. Jota
and daughter wiH be livfaig in
Freeport in Uw dinrch's msnse
on St<Aes Avenue.
Ttse mem)>ers of the congrega­tion
will welcome Rev. Schiffeier
and his family at a family night,
pot-luck supper Sunday, Sep­tember
12, at 6 pm. at the church.
FREEFORT • The former tetan discount "Two Guys" store, which
ha* stood empty Jbr about eight mottths, win be the nte of at least ooe
"light mannactarfaig" plant as the ViUage of Freeport's Board of
Trustees agreed last week to •Ilow-VoRudoJoc.JoJease_^rt of tbe
oti^nalstoie to a subsidiary of BulovaWatdi Company.
Vcmado is the parent company of 'Two Giiys," which opened to
great fan&re in tlie Village in the
spring of 1980. The store dosed
about one-end-a-half years later,
when Voraado moved to iSvest
itaeifof its retail operatiotts and
concentrate on its real, estate
holdings. .
The Bolova sabsidisty. also a
nstionsi ooopaay called Bolovs
Systems and hutxnmditj.''. vUl - _
lease 62,000 Isqiuae. feet of the jAngnsf 30/between'the; Village
I f n nftft mftn^i^ 4;,%^^' A^'mnm'm *TMW% B^mmJl ..X I ^ H . ^ A A . - • . . • C» — i . , .
The actual nature of the_
product, according to 'an easBer
Uerview THE LEADER had with
a Bidova executive, is a timing
device for munitkms,
A .verbal agreement, to allow.
Vomado to lease the pnmeity to
Bnlova, was reached'at an ezeea-tive:
aei^on Monday, evesdng.
110,000 square fool'foniier "Two
Guys" buadhig.
According to Freeport Village
spokespersons. Bulova's new
plant,.leased from Vomado for
five years with an option to
renew, b an expandon of its
present Valley Stieam fadBty.
The additionsi space, said village
sources, was necessitated by the
acceptance of a long-term govern­ment
defense contract. Jmall pre­cision
parts msnnfactnred
elsewhere, said the village. wiU
be assembled at the Freeport
. location by skilled and semi­skilled
workers.
Bosid of Trustees and Steven
Roth. Voinado's Board Chair'-
man. At that tbne, the VilUge
Board voted to have a stipniation
of agreement drawn up between
the Village and Vomado settSng
several contractual dispute*
arising bom the original ooottact
when the former municipally-'
owned nte,~at liberty Avense
l>etween Sunrise Highway and
Merrick Road, was wM bt eaa-struction
of the store. This o i i^
nal contract also cslled 'for erect­ing
a. second builifing, also for
(Cont. on Paae 9W)
program will b^^iart of any rear-gaimation
plan. (Ttus tias been a
complaint of the present, reor-gatuzation'
of elementary schools
and lud been a recurring com­plaint
by parents as far back as
eight years sgo, wiien Milbnm
Sdtool's first and second graders
were bused to Meadow School.)
There was lengthy discussion
concerning the di^rict-offices snd -
the junior high school property
witb ' School Board member
Bernard I'ittinsky questioning
' whether the removal of these two
buildings from reorganization
planning would in fact eliminate
options. Board member James
Magee said that he "shared
BeiTiie's concerns" adding that
he hoped that such constraints
(Cont. on Page6)
Police Chief Cautions
"School's Open, :
Drive Carefully"
FREEPORT - VdUge Police
Chief. Anthony Elar has an­nounced
that h'ls department is
partidpating in the Automobile
Qub of New York's annual
"Sdwol's Open-Drive Carefully"
campaign.
—ChietElarsa'id that his
ment has moimted the cdoifai
AAA "SdKX>l's Open" posters on
street poles to help protect the
lives of Fteepoit's sdiool-age
youngsters. The Auto Qub had
commended his department by
noting that "the assistance that
members of your department are
providing wffl add greatly to the
effectiveness of tUs iinportant
traffic safety program"
"Hundreds of childien win be
- wslkingto snji from school, many
for the first time" Chief Elar said.
"While crossing guards will be
on duty at sduxil crossings, many
children will be crossing at
unprotected ctimets or may step
off the sidewalks between parked
cars.
"Motorists should be es-pedally
carefnl when driving in
school areas and near garks and
(Cont. on Page 16)
CONCERNED ABOUT YOUR SAFETY. Village ol Freeport Fire
Inspector John Provenzano demonstrates one QI the area* ha tiaa t>een
checking during his on-floing nlght-llme examination lor finis vioiatlona
in the blllages restaurants and tiars. More than hall ol those placet
he nas already lookad at, Provenzano says, were stIlV laddng thelr-llre
exits or t\ad other violations. Provenzano, wtio wllVoonilrws fire
safety checks throughout the year, notes that local ^ars were very
cooperative this summer In keeping the numt>ers ol patrons wlthir
their legal limits and properly maintaining Ihelr exit doors and
emergeocy llghta.