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Village 6(
Freepoft
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School District
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Baldwin
School DislricI
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FBEEPOST.NEWYORK. JULYZl, 1983
4&hYEAB. No. 13
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Liglitning Strikes Freeport House
Baldwin School Bd.
Meets With BEA
Winning Paddleis Chairman Cohn Asks For
More Board CooperafIon
Summer Storms Plague
Freeiforf/BoUmn Area
FEHEPOST/BAUJVnN - ItwjesstnjdE by Dgbtsing, car accideaU,
power outages and downed teJepboue pdes and tree Hmhi were »ome
oT the resabs of the severe isomer thssderstonsj tbat tipped across
the Freepatt/Baldwin area thh past week.
The fiat of the storms octanred Friday afiemooa, Joly 15. WhBe
Fieeport esaped reUtivdy tin-
Take Home
Their Trophies
FREEPOIT - Under bticbt,
sunny sffex — wB6 tlie Freeport
Fiie Ocfattiiieiit track's bucket
overseeing the ptoceedingt from
its vaatase pdnt orer Wooddeft
Canal — the ninth ansital Free-
.pott Canoe Saces,' sponsored by
the FnSeport Ouunber of Con-.
raerce, got oS to • promising stait
Sunday monnng. Joly 17.
In what OiMiDbtt aWdiis
described as one of the best tnm-oats
they ever had and along a
race course lined with spectatcn •
both on land and in ptivate boats
moored along the udes. local and
non-arta paddlers vied for
trophies, medals and — for tlie
first time in the race's histoiy —
lottery tickeU.
Over-all female winners were
iCathy MoOen and Sosaii Lyons,
paddling for Tides Inn, who
ciossed the Gntsb line in 8:51..
Best time fbr the men was
achieved by John Pnkke and Fred
Wall, in an nnsponsored canoe.
Their 6:38 time gave them the
title of "Over-All Male Win-
»ners."
The first race* of the loondng
were the Parent/Child evenU.
First place winners were Bret
Watson and BiH Watson, pad-dfing
for Capt. Ben's. Their lime
was 4:38. Second place was
achieved by the team of Peter
Reinke and PWer Keinke. time:
4:41. Tbitd place went to Karen
Storm and ic^Ktt Storm, with a
time of 4-50- . .
femaU Races
Over an winner** in the two-female
catwe races were MaDen
and Lyons, foOowed by' Jody
Kashagen and Uz Eberst,
paddBng for Mayfait Power
Systems, in a time of 9:43; and in
third place. JIH Piperioo and
Karen CoDins, for Marshall.
Cavendish Corp., with a time of
10 minutes. These three canoes
also came in first, seomd and
third in the Btst beat ol the
female races.
Second !>eat winners were
hyJoanOe/anay
- BALDWIN-Possible charges for next year's study were discnssed at
a teceni fnotfing of the B»lovin Board of Edocatioo with mwnhers oC
the Baldwin Edncaticinal Assembly's (BEA) executive comnnttee.
Pteseot at the Wedne«U». Jiily U loeettn* wwe BEAtJ-tetnan
ArtttnrCotmand execotive board membert Mary Carter, Eaiph Cala-biese.
Jaiiies Pelaney, Jean Carr,
scathed, the BaldiRS Fire Depart­ment
was kept busy answetitig
calls caused by arching power
lines. In the most serioas inci­dent,
a mtjac b i ^ tecsioa wire
plunged to the ground at aboot
6:30 pm, setting the a^hsH road­way
on fire at Grand Avenue and
Smith Street, Btldwis. The wire
e of the appliances
(Conl. on P»a« '5J
Peter O'Neill. Peter McLaughlin,
Blen Silberman, Bob Jordan and
Eileen Vobtinger. .
Cohn impressed upon the
School Board the importance of
restoring interest and upgrading
attendance. To do this, he re­quested
that the Board not tun
down the committee's requests
for ceruin charges. Cohn $Uo
asked and received permission
to invite bad certain former
members who did not attetid this
year without their having to go
through a petitioo process.
The pitfxised charges cover
ttie foot sub-committee areas of
Student Isnies, Finince, Educa-tiooal
Program, and Policy and
Operations. Many "are carry­over
charges from last year or
variations of previoos charges.
Under Student Issues the reques­ted
charges-include: continatng
the study of the nnpact on stu-denu
and the school system rf
the growing trends toward single-parent
homes, reconstituted
fandlies and (amiSes with both
paterts working: a study rf the
methods used to inform studentt.
alwat coBeget; and a study of
the advisabiEty of a woetshop for
parents oa fiouKial aid for higher
education.
Under Finance, the Committee
requested a study of the Budget
versus actual outlays for 1982-
83. This has been tequested.maoy
t i i t^ but has never been pvea as
a charge. Finance committee
peofrfe have imisted that it is
difiiciill to analyze lequests for
new budget expendttntex without
knowing actual oollsys. As it
stands mw, the end of ^ the
year budget transfers txmld
drasnatkaBy change budget oid-hyx
— a ftct stldch shoold.be
known whetrevakiating new bud­get
requests.
Other re<juests included a
study of the 1984-ffi budget, a
study of the cost and scope of
the= Physical Educatioa and
Athletics programs versus simi­lar
neighbotingdistiicts expendi~
Wres. and a study of the advisa­bility
and methods of financing
what was left out of the recent
bondreferenduin.
Under Educatiooal Program,
the Coioo^ttee requested a con-tinning
study of Oral Communica­tion
&IIa with an emphasis at
the secondary level; a smdy of
special pn^rams and support
servkes available to the "Aver­age
Student;" a study of the sW-
- dent use of computers K-12
(which Benurd Httinsky said
could be done in conjunctiod with
Ibe aiirens'Advisory Cotnmittee
oa Compuleis); and a study of
the art program in the elementaiy
schools.
Under Prficy and Operations,
the Committee requested a sttidy
of the legal impScaticm of single
parent and reonstttuted families .
in regard to the school's report­ing
pfocedores and' parental
contact; a study of studoit '
safety policies and ^ocedures;
and a study of a possible distiict
policy with regard to metit pay
for teachers.
Chairman Cc*n was loid that
the School Board, expected to
finalize these diarges by aad-
Augtsst so that coounnnicatiao
' cncld be sem to BEA {timbers
in time for an early September
general meetJBg. Cohn noted
the problem of ampleting char­ges
in droe with the budget vote
now in May rather than b June.
Generally the Admimstratioa
srodies the charges and makes
recommendatiaas to the Board
as to which ones should be ap­proved,
last year, however, those
recommendations, winle made at
- (Cont.onPagalt)
acpaiently touched iSown in the
vidnity of 27 Hampton Place,
between Sooth Bayview and West
End Avenues.
In the boose were Dodald
McKeawn and his l7-year.<dd
son FluBp. As McKeown
described k later, the lightning
seemed to hit the back tight
ZZ77tZ.'M„^^,^mMrn,ia-. • portioo.af the hoBse, His teea-ment
responded with six units someoffl)eaiml.ancesbeeanseof
and.abonr'Wiiiai S»t._Ajitt«>o»
Socco of Hassan Ooonty PoJke's
First Ptednct directed police
officen at the scene to evacuate
neaiby buildings, because of the
posnbility of an eiplosibn.
The &e was extinguished m
about-five"minute* and, after
ULCO declared the area safe,
residents were flowed to return..
A massive traffic tie-up resulted,
as wen as a power outage in the
area west of Grand Avenue
between Lenox and Ptaxa.
Schools. There were, however, no
repotted injuries.
Following a hot and humid
weekend. Mother Nature went <ai
atiother rampage late Monday
afieraoon. July 18. The storm,
which centered over this south
shore area, killed two bathers at
• Jones Beach. Both Freeport and
Baldwin experienced severe
direct Egbtning bdt hits, along
with torrential rains and heavy
winds.
The most serious incidetit of
the storm occurred at. aboot
5:11 pm. when a bolt of lightning
soroec,
tbii g***^'f f - ......
the radio. dectticBy boilt t^ by
the lightning strike traveled to his
hand iatsxing second - degree
bums to three fingers. .
The dder McKeown later said
he thought, that perhaps the
sodet was bad and went to kxdc
at it. Touching- the- wall, he
focnd it "re^hot" behing the •
bedroom and in the attic. There
was little smoke, just tome
smooldeiing, McKeown said, bm
he realized from the intensity of
the heat that the entae bouse
ooold blaze up quickly.
•There was a very actid.
smeD," said McKeown later.
"My eyes were bonjing." and be
ran down to get his garden hose
and call the Freeport Fire Depart­ment.
•rhey were really great,
McKeown said the next day about
the Freeport firemen. They were
there in the "Wink of an eye,"
McKeown sajd one of the first
vamps on the scene was 8ay
Maguire, and he enthusiastically
(Cant, on Page 20)
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A FINE FIHISH. Whll* placing lint In UK* partleolar beat. Otto a
S«a Grid ^bova). ona of the whaMwatx In • lertes of tpecUl events
during lh« rwsent eano« races in Freeport, earn* In third In over-all
limt. its 7 minutes, 23 second raca Urn* mm betted bt two wjlio™
championship teana: Baldwin Bay.Colooy, tlma ol 6:2». tna tne
Fre^jort Oariomo glflhf, a;31.