The-Leader_1983-06-02

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Freeporl
School District
' Baldwin
School District
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FREEPORT, NEW YORK. JUNE 2,1983
48thYEAR, Np.6
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Vandals Ruin 0.H.R. Renovations
Baldwin Board To
Sell Clyde Rd. Land
Man Shot In His Fed Funds Awaifed For nothing tppirentl; waa cenwved
ot taken from the cfanidi sdiool.
Sigmond St. House Senior-Cifizen Apartments . J S B * ^ ^ -^
Water Floods 3"*, ^n** and
jsf Levels Of Schoof
F8EEP0RT-Most four weeks fram the day that Out Holjr Kedeeiner
pariah memben «nd clergy celdsated the completiaa of extesinve
ratovatkios and restoration work on the chnnd) and sdioal, what
appears to be deliberate rasdilism caiued eiteosve damage in the
school boildiiig. . ~ .
- The fteepott P[diee Department report Bsts the events of Saturday,
May 28, as a btirglary, although
FREEPOBT - Nassau Coanty
police bomidde dctectires are'
ijivrstigatlag the (laying oT a 50- .
yeir^ld Ftee^drl roan' hi his
home op- Wednesday- night,
J one I.'at aboat 9:45 pm.'
AcciJrding to-Ccanty-pciice-sources
in Mineola, Stanley
Statkel was shot fai fals left temple
through the glass window in the
front door of the bouse, at 431
Sigmond Street.
Police uy Ibe shot was beard
by a neighbor, who then called
the victim's boose and, when
recehring no answer, called the
police. Frteport poBce respond­ing
found Stackers body lying on
the .floor behind the door. He was
pronounced dead at the scene
at !0;44pmbyDr.Chak.
Police ate giving out few de­tails
at this time, allhoogb one
local source said' there were-
"some suspects" and the .des­cription
of someone seen in the
neighborlMod was circulated
right after the shooting was <lis-covered.
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Stackel was said to have been
employed by the New York Oty
Transit Authority. County police
reports said (le Gved alone. Re
and his wife. Kathleen, hcfwevcr,
first moved to the house on
Sigmond- Street in 1978. Mrs.
Stackel is a teacher at Freeport
High School.
Ugtits 6o Out In
Reepoft, Again! .
FBEEFOKT -.Tlds viUage'a
residents and bitsiaesspeople lost
their electric power on Wednes-
' day, June i, lot the seeoad time
in less than two weeks. .
Power went off in the entire
viDage Vt ll'J4 am and was
restored gtarteally ant the next
38 minutes until, by 12:12 pm, the
last customer had its Bghts back
on. *
On Friday, May 20, the entire
' village lost its electric power at
12:43 pm, with total power re­stored
thtougbout the village
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-tyJduiDtlaniy
BALDWIN - On Tuesday evening,' May 24, the Baldwin Board of
Education voted to aotboifae its ptoidest, lottaineDener, to sign'an
agreement with Halandia Omsirnctioa Company and Messrs. Engd'
and Wdss f » the sale of four acres rfOyde Koad Property.
The vote was taken at "a pobBc'sessimi, following'a discassion la
executive sessica.
bard-to-obtain money.
— Accor£sg to Moosignoc
Saverio C Mattel, the. damage'
was dcoe ^ •j|ar]ge"ainbiints of
water cascading from the tUrd to,
the second to Ihe-first floor of the
School builifing. .
It was like 'Niagna FaBs,"
Mattel. Water was all over the
room . and . the books were
completely soaked.
The recently dedicated Sumner
Hall, however, didn't bre.as '
badly as other parts of the build-,
ing. ,Tbe' Boor was. wet, said
Msgr. Mattei, bat the new drop
ce^ig probably won't • be
aSected. - Msgr. ' Mattei said
ej^petts from the Diocese staff
were coinang in to estimate the.
iiiaif$»:Mattel,^«Jdffih»---«offl0rte-«atrat-af:tbe-da^
TIbe sale is contingent, how­ever,
upon one of the companies
sectning fedoal money, wfaidi b
expected.to become available
through HUD. Various builders
are currently submitting pro­posals
to the federal govern­ment
fee the approval of ntes and
for the housing Ajnds.
' Halandia intends to buDd
.apartments on the piuperty for
senior citizens.
If either HalancUa or Messrs.
Engel and Weiss jb awarded the
fiinds, the proposal to se0 the
property would then have to be .
submitted to the voters of the
school district for their apprmal.
Actonling to sdiool spokesperson
Janet Nfim'in, full details of the.
fiaandal package and conditions
of tbe.sale would be pnbBc^ed
wen in advance of any such vote.
According to. Mrs. Defler, the
Board is also in active nego-tiatkas
for the tale of the remain--
ing four acres of the Qyde Road
property.
S^staitce Abuse Progmt
At the open meeting, the Board
also met with administralots Dee
Alan Tyson, Director of Health
and Riysial 'Education; Dr.
James SpbaUs, Director d
•Psyrhnlogical Services . and
Testfatg; and Bruce Singer, who Is
in dtarge of district transpofta-tfcn,
Tyson asked' the Board- to
approve. a pUoC program, for
grades one and two at. Lenox
School, to inttcidnre the Seattle-
Berkley Program as a means of
upgrading the District's sob-stance
abuse instruction in the
health curriculum. The recom-mesdatiaa,
Tyson notol. is an
out-growth of the District Drug
Conunittee wfaidi iadaded PTA
representatives.. The . present
'curricuinm has becA in eSecf for
five yeazx and re<jaires updating. .
The use of tiie pilot program,
explained Tyson, is a good way
ttf> update the. present program
while evaluating the new pro-,
gram. •
- - The Seattle-Betkely ftogram,
'a structured program with pre­scribed
fessoos, requires teacher
training. )^>proximateIy SO
percent of the Nassau Sdiool
districts use' it. By introducing it
as a pilot program, Tyson said the
distiict could evaluate it and
decide whether to use it, reject
it or use parts of it. The ^ot
program would inchide Principal
William Gordon of Lenox Schocd
and four teachers. According to
the Baldwin Teadiers'.Associa­tion
contract, the teachers would
be paid for attendinig traimng
sessions winch would be held the
wieek after sdiod,doses. The
tuitioii for the traimng is paid &r.
by the Hassan County Drug and
Alcohol Department. Materials
and resources cost appnnmately
$2,000oaaoaetim£Msis. - ,
According to Tyson, although
the original chSdren - in the
Seattle-Betkely program have not
yet reached their twenties, it
appears that at tl;^ point Oie
progiam is tnccessml. The
primary rmphfT** Is that of
- creating a po^^ive self'teage and
does not only indude drug and
akobol informatiaa. Scbooi Board
member Bernard ' Fittinsky
stressed the importaiKe of setting
up curticulum goals and the
criteria (br'data coOectioa and
eva}uatioo..Tlie reoxnmendfiioa'
was unanimously approved by the
Board. .
'restoijro
Bt Evaluated
Dr. Sp^akis recommended a
three vreik summer workshop for
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slop tisks on the third floor had
been stuffed with what appeared
to be disposable deaidng doths
• ^ the hot and cold water bncets
ttuned'oa and left running.
' Besides the-water damage,
which Msgr. Mattei was still
unable to estimate several days -
later, pictntes and bulbs had been
removed fiom ibev usual places
and put on the floors.
Msgr. Mattei said the school
' building had been secured after
Friday ni|^'s Bingo g ^ e s , but
he said he noted, after the
vandalism was dtscoverpd, that
the loof door seemed tampered
«rith and p^ier put in the bolt.
The sdwol's Ul»ary, «t»d\ is
sitiuted on the first floor of the
building, seems ruined, said
and what would have to be done.
. The damage was ifiscovered
Saturday by merabers of the OHR
Cfanrdi's Spanish, gnop, who
were coming m, to use the hall,
and t^ Msgr. Mattei. At Sunday
mortuag'a early Mass,. the
atuation was described from the .
pulpit and more than SO people,
u wea M. 'teachers froin the "
school, -volunteered to>»ro»k to
dean up the water-logged rooms
and ready them for the students.
Several days later, Msgr.
Tklattei still spoke sadly, about the
damage as he trfd •fHE LEADER
how very hard the patish'ioners
bad worked to paint o e i y class­room
as part of the church's total
(Com. on Page 15)
ON THE REVIEWINa STAND. Among the dignitaria oil the raview-
Ing stand al FrMporl'a MamorUt Day Parada ware 0, to r.) Charles
Herbert of Freeport. a World War I veteran and Chef d« Gars 40/8;
World War t veteran Frank Curtey ol Freeport; Hempstead Presiding .
Supetvtsor Tliomaa Gulotu; Ken Cotnba of Freeport, VFW Poal 1310;
' Freeporler Dr. Mervin ScMoss, a World War I Veteran; and World
War-f-teteran Wa/(y Quttt of Merrick. Curtey, Schloss, Guest and
Godfrey Gilbert,:«nother World War I. veieranj served as the parade'*
" Grand MarahaJs.-