The-Leader_1983-02-17

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BlizzariT Doesn't Faze Freeport
"We lost No Sfreeti" Says
^-RubUc-Works-DtepactmBiii
FREEFOKT - Sute Fi«epotten contd compUin tl& past weekend
lOUt iutuuveniences. lack of some food, noa-delivety of mail aiul
newspapen, cold, wet saow, snow and more saow. Bat they were not
alone. Up as far as Foogt^eepsie and west to New Jeisej, the Metro­politan
New York area and neighboring oonunimities w.eii; liit by a
winter storm tbat'played the same ~ ~
havoc in Nassau toast;. West- „ a hot water since Thursday
Chester Coonty, Essex. County evening.at7pm.
and Kmgs. County, to give jusT— M „ . storm immediately
four examples; contacted the -vBlage's Soper-
The'stoon, which on its way iniesdentbfBnildings, MikeKuiz
iMcth to lis irtiSte-blanketed cities
TV "STARS." Th« WNEW-TV em* hKl tlrmdy Wt FrMpO(t'« Aretm Stntt School wtMit these
plaaaod and proud fourth oradtrs potsd for • erciip photograph. Ttiay had Just filmad tOtlMi break
slogint (or Channel 5. Shown viith th«lr tMCh«r. Mr*. PatrieU CrwMbrd, ttta aoon-to^M (amoik (aces
«r* (sitting, I. to r.) fU>ben« Collin*, Nicola MIslta. Janin* HonMy. George Nelson, Erie Ma^ch,
Christian Encamadon, Ctaudia Melar«, Uhnaen Porter, Kim Rubino; fiheatlng, I. to r.) Joan
' Estrella, Brian WlrU, Nicholas Wantz, Brian O'Hara, Tlmottiy Saeley. AMn Jactaon, Rosa Utthain, '
Michaal Magna, Qragg McClaodi (ttamUng, I. to r.) Olanza Badger. Kenny Ehdo, Ira MInkon,
Eduardo Ramirez, Scott Clark, Christy Mn%:M2irtstlan Walkar. Laura Sythet and Canqua Gray.
Mfaaing from photo was Alton HaJnsworth. Sama9-|f»aUtion break skigana created by the youngr
atetaare "XMdyou Share withafrlend today?", "DMyoull»>ento^fciur4aacher-lod»y?:iaodi^DM.you
remember yourmannera today?" The station break* are scheduled to appear starling In Martft.
Baldwin Board Begins
^udgiBf Review Process
'•-- y—--' byjo*n0«l»n«y
BALDVVpl - In a lengthy meeting las&ig.aiidl 12:4S am and at­tended
by only three membiers of the comouiuty.and a reporter from
THE LEADEX, the Baldwin Board of Edncatiaa began its budget re-view
process. Members of the Heahh and Physical Education Depart-'
ment. including Direttor Dee Alan Tyson^ Asnstaat Director Dr.
Arlene A^. and Junior fCgh
School Coordinator . George
Marth. presented a detailed oat-line
of budget requests, and da-cussed
program impact. Then
Sheldon Fodis, Marsj^of Plant
and FaoTite, ntcsented the
take plajeon Tuesday. Mardi I ,,
It «m-6 pm. Both activities win
~ be at tbe jutnot Ugh school under
• the'direction of anction^rjack
Doughteiy.
Opetatkm and Ma3nteaaace':btfd-::_£?bI ^.I #srp uUpnrgo bloefm , the-S aslddwnoial
get* and an outline of'vatioas SchoiJ-^upointendent Dr. Rd-planned
preventive m^tetiaitce
programs and procedures.
In the course of the meeting,
such items as the devtlopmest of
the 1983-M school" calendar,
concerns regarding the iiie of and
roonitotisgZof-school fan&ties
after school hoars, and the sale of
- obsolete equipment from Baldwin/
Junior High $diool were dis­cussed.
The Board aniroved a VMcm-orabiiia
Sale" of the closed jnnkr
high school'* surplus item*, to
be held Saiurdaj, February 26.
. .11 .va-A. pm_ .An .auction. yiO.
land -Jones explained Ihat. after
many meetings of Ownty School
supeiintendents. there is oo
onsmfflity. TrxfitiooaDy school.
begins on the \7ednesday after
Labor Day with teachers report­ing
ob the Tnesdsy after Labor
Day. This year, labor Day falls
on September-5r and reEgJoos
' telidays, for which schools most
be dosed, are Thursday and Fri-
• day, September 8 and 9. There-"
fore, if school were to be sched­uled
as usital. there would be only
-one dty of school that first week.
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Freeport School
Board Honors
49 Sludehts
by Ed SlNcrman '.
FREEPOBT - For^-nine Free-'
port ICgh Sdiool students were
honored by the Board of Edoca-
-tion last week Tot their academic
achievemeiits as members of the'
Katiooal Honor Society. Induded
among thetti were two students,
who only in the last few years
lean>ed to qieak English.
T1>e honors commenced (bOow-ing
an extremely brief, monthly.
Board of Educatkn ineetiag *X
Atkinson . school ' last Wed.,
Fa>.9.
One by one, as Dr. i<Am-
Bietwirth, superintendent -of
sdiools. called their names,
the students'shook bands'.with
sdiool board tnembenT and lodi
their places facing a crowd c(
beaming parents and well-wish­er*.
"The students in this room
tonight is what (tdnoi' budget)
imoey fa'all about." Bkfwbth
said. "Moiiey is tight. And we
, spend less mooey than most com-mnrnties
in Hassan Coonty; but
we get more oat of it.
to the south, mrh as WasUngton,
D.C.,^ began • * Friday ^afternoon,-
Febtiiaty lltfa, in this area; and
by the trmr the - flakes bad
stopped '{aBuig. Saturday
morning, socamttlatiaas of fame
22-24 biciies had been rescfaed.
Actually Freeport Cued &iriy
weD, so wen, la fact, that Free-port
reaUlh Chatkne Kossdl
eaUed innage Han early this week
to say that her brother, a WINS
radio staS member, bad in«de
some very flattering remarks, on
the air, about tiie village's
snow reinoval.
HaBeat.NaFaad
. There were several fires in
the village; the only me of any
major consequence apparently
. started in a wan adjacent to tlie
deZarate. wbo-rwithohebf his ,
inspectors ^ drove bis persona]
four-wheel " drive , *_ vehide,
m^ti.pfig to get to the building
about 11 pm Friday evening.
. AcconUng to a village spokes- .
person, the buHdiag soperinten- .
dent placed the blame on a
bndcen boiler part aiul daimed
the replacement part was on a
tiiu^. snowbound on the Long
Island Expiessway. The village's
inspector called the' bmlding's
taua.genxBX aQ day Saturday and
on Sunday baroing received the
report that the truck had been
readied, the part secured and the-boiler
would be fixed by noon that '
day. , -
The problem, even though
subsiMluently scdved because
Mrs. Storm was at home and Mr.
fire^iiace in a Roosevelt Avenne •'de Zarate was reachable and had
home. During Friday and Satur­day,'
the poljce listed 19 aided
calls, ran^g from laceraficos to
mtoxicatioa (o cardiac cases, but
the'recurds did not indicste if any _
were actually storm rdated.
' Seven kcddeots were reportni,
inviahnng 13 vdiides': oiiiy one
scddent resulted in an injury,
cUssfied by inGce as a "bead
pain." .- ' "
'But stores quickly ran out of.
such essential food items as m3k
and breadjmd received no new
ddiveries'^pn Saturday; daily
newsp^ien ^ in the viOage —
were noo^xistdit aa SttatiUjx
no mail seiemed to make it to.
borne* and businesses; and
problems of no heat were com­pounded'by
the holiday wediend
. and ' tat inahiBty .of- the cold
tenants to get out of thdr'bigid
apartments to warm up some-vrhereclse.
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BcBefCuiBe ?*«^-
OdyACdlAwsy
On Friday, with trafBc. both
locally and inter-county at a
viniial standstill, a representative
of tbe.Frceport Tensnts Assods-tion
caOed Deputy Majnr Dorothy
••Ibejfoangpepptew«prodi«. jSjt^or-m^aj l; h; ^er- I-b^q uMMepu lingg t^h^^
. . . |C<y4«Qn?4ae.S),...,.,.....,..Aveasf.bad .been. iriiMt J i < ^ . .
a foot wheel drive veUde.
juggested the possibility of
further sddi occurrences in the
fiiture. THE LEADER, therefore,
questioned village spokesperson _
Jean Peteh about- "standard
ptocediire." We noted that
another three day holiday
weekend was but a weekaway-^ -
Saturday thrdngh Monday for
George Washbigton's Birthday — :
and a possibility of inore- snow
had beea pcedkted. What. THE
LEADER,-asked should routine,
proccdurebe?
Apartment tenanU in rieepot't
' wiD be pleased to know that there,
is now a telepbme nuaba that
can be called weekends, holidays
and after regular tnisisess bouirs
to report heat/hot water.
-mbleins. Manned by Nassan
. f^nnty, the nnmber is 6?l-3454.
During regular week day boars.'
Freeport tenants sbmld oontinoe
- l o - o l l -the' village's Building _
;,DepaitnMnr,378-4«)0- • '
. •• Fao«Paw*r
Thnagbbot 'the stomi iiea,
• the soon and more than 40-mile-an
boor'wintds brought-traftic
. first to a crawl and then, in many
places as cars were aboddooed by
' their owners, to a staadstBl. From
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