The-Leader_1984-02-09

              - • Ot/icial
. Nemspapei
Village of
Freeport
•
Freeport
School District
«
Baldwin
School District
FREEPORT, NEW V0RRVFEBRUARY9.1984
48th YEAR, No. 42
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lawyer&Jlearing
^^rns Park Also Asks
Tor Added Police
FREEPORT - Some two dozen residents of the Steam's Park area of
the village attended the February 6lh public meeting of the Freeport'
Village Board of Trustees to ask for more communication about icrimes
in their area and for more police.
--Ilic-residenls,-«ppalfently inemb«rs~6rTfie"^teim's Park Civic
Assodatisai,^ tefentd ; several-
PTAs Celebrme Allege Baldwin School
Founders' Day People Were Anfi-Sawyers
•FRHFPOBT .-g-i-Tatsdayr-
February 14, the Freeport Coun-
.cil of PTAs.-EilL celebratt its
annual Founders' Day at Dodd
Junior High School.
, On Founders' Day, ineml>ers of
PTA take the time to reflect upon
the continuing ideals and goals of
the organization, which was
esublished in 1897 by Alice
•McteIIan~Blftr<qr"ana" Phoebe
Apperson. Hearst. .Fotmders'
. J)ayis also Ihr. time that the eight -
PTA unvu and the PTA Council
honor, with life Membership
and Service Awards, those mem­bers
of the conunnnity who have
worked hard for the welfare of
t>y Joan Os/ansy
BALDWIN - The eighth day of public hearings in the case of 0*
Baldwin School District against teacher Robert Sawyers was som^hat
disjointed with few if any references made to the alleged charge that
Sawyers "tampered with an air filter.'' The ({uestioning contfooed with
far-ranging tcstinioijy from three witnesses" concerning backgroiind
infomatioa and motivltion.
Robert Oearfield, Sawyer's
lawyer, once again attempted to
introduce into testimony the
content ^ d results of Sawyers'
workman's compensation case
cancer was caused by exposure'to
toxic substaiKcs encountered in
the course of his work as an
. industrial arts teacher.
limes to a' meeting the associa­tion
had held the week before,
which their president - Harry
Pollack described as "heavily
attended."
• Both the group's meeting and
the attendance at the Village
Board' meeting were proraDted,
speakers said, by a recent "crime
wave" in the Steams Park area.
(Steams Park, the extreme north­west
section of the village, lies
within the Baldwin School Dis- •
(ricl.)
• The house burglaries referred
to by the speakers were a series of
break-ins committed while people
were at home, and during which
the cxxiipanls were terrotired.
Two suspects have since been
apprehended, one' by village'
tne cnucrcn of t'reeport."
PTA Council's festive evening
.programs wiQ begin at & pm and
_everyoDe is welcome to attend.
Freeport Stores
- Offer
Sale Days
FREEPORT - A special WintCT
- D « ^ - Days_ sjle has—b»ir
planned by local merchants to
begin on febraary 13 and nm
through the "Presidents' Birth­day"
hcdidays.
problems.
The other accidents were
simply filed as reports and.
included such situations as a~gash~
from a Udder and a back injury ....
against-the-District. TTiis COJU^ -frorarlifting-heivy—p*tteU'=or~T®'"> " o chirgei with several
plaint charged that Sawyeis' industrial art supplies. Ehrllch . ^ = ^ " 5 ^ " * ? ' ' f " " J « P '"
made continued references to urV"'°''^*°.'lE»stMe^.
Sawyers' tnoUvaUon m 61ing .** .»*nmarued by Wlack,
>thesc reports. Finafly Sawyers who spoke first, his membership
firmly not«! that he''resented'' '^"fJnfd«l~<lt"^e$carcity"
Qearfield's attempt brought an • — Df^oBcrpnretf ItrSlgaRi* Park
angry response ftom the School
District's . . attorney Jerome
Ehrlicfa, ~ who denied ibit he
himself had introduced the topic
during his own cross examination
of Sawyers the previDiu week.
However, his (Ejections were
overruled by the hearing officer
Jonas Silver, and the compen­sation
case was entered into
evidence although Silver caution­ed
Oeaifield on the extent to
which he could use the infiirma-
. tion. •—^-~ •
o^s^ a<
Because this evidettce was
accepted, Ehrllch requested the
right to have Sawyers put bade oo.
the stand. Ehriidi then leafed
throo^ various papers and
referred to accidents reported by
Sawyiers during the course of his
Baldwin. How-ijnestionisg
- by
Qearfield, it was pointed outjhaI_
tiuwt of the instances referred
to by Ehriich and seemingly men­tioned
as workman's compensa-tioi)
cases, were in fact regular
accident reixxts as are required
by the District. la hJs-27 years in
Baldwin, Sawyers has had only
three workman cotnperisatioa.
claims. One goes back approii-roately'
20 years when he broke
his ankle while sap«rvisng a
gym activity. The othtr two are
IlWTmwi&e'ttr'WefldlrferV^P'n^of'fliirTUine trdSiT iSSrk-ice
and good'bargains, cottpled "i*"'* compensa^on case wl^h
with free parking, is expected to indndci the daim
bring thotjsands of coslmntrs to ' cMca-and anaddcndMi
Iheaica- ' P**"' regarding respiratory
Freeport 'Mall stofes, as well
' as othir "dowiitorwn" retaiLl employment in
eslabGdinieots, will be ofi^nng ever, in later
sales of tip to 50% oS.'pronuses
Ira Bryck. chairman of the Free-port
" Chamber of Comiiierce's
.Retul Division,' which is ay-ortUnating
the evenl-
"It's just in time for Valen­tine's
Day," added Bryck, noting
that it was the local merchants
way of sbowiiig ihrir "Jove"
for their customers.
TKe—UoplEalJons of thrliciiT" i t : ,. . ^ - . s
quesUoning. Sawyers said that he »nd.the lack of tommnnicaUon
was not even allowed to recewc •" *<: "vie asMcutwn about
time"^fieriTi- attended the-^-^l^e'nlhearea. _^,— -:
National Cancer InsUtote and had . Mayor William H-White, while
• received a letter from the District •»l*"''g t»^»* »^= ^'^ ^'>^ ^^^
telling him that he would be
"docted" for the time.
The ..questioning of James ;
Morrow, chairman of the Baldwin
Teadiers' AssociaOoa Gticvaaec
Commhlec, then followed.
Morrow re-explained Ms meet^|-__
with teadier.run Chambers aftSEl,
. Chimhen had-iestlfied far-the—-
District at Sawyeta* hearing.
Morrow bdicated that if. as a
rpsult of Chambers' tcstimoay,
the District brought • charges
against Chambers, the onioa
. would represent Chambers.
However, he said, since Cham'
he would have handled the recent —
situation any diSerently, noted
that prior to the burglaries he
had corresponded with the Coun­cil
of Civic Assodattons (COCA)
in response to it* request for in-tomiatlon
about crimes.
COCA had asked to receive the
village poljcfc's daily consolidated —
reports, but. White explained,
Village Counsel has ruled it
would be illegal to allow, the
groups or their representatives to
see them, because of other Infor­mation
they o6ntain. Instead, said
VOiite, he had written COCA'i
executive secretary that a list of
burglaries, violent crimes,
etc. would be sent to COCA on
a tegular basis. White said he
had asked COCA Op cdmmnnicate
back to him but.' still had not
heard from the group; (Steams
Park Civic Association is a mem- •
berofCOCA.) / s
/ ~ l i i response to th'e residents' re-
^qjicit bt roorefpolice patrols in
^eit at^a, Villige Police Chief
Anthony Elar.
area is one' ot;
trolled" In the •
car assigned
(Cent, on 1
loted that the
the "best pa-lage.
There is a
rre 24 hours a
'age 24)
bers has not been charged, the
union has no responsibility to
represent him. Morrow described
Chambers u saying that he never
thought his complaint-would go
this far. Morrow, also indicated
that an appointment was made for
Chambers to meet with the
anion's attorney but that Cham­bers
"failed to show up."
MMTDW made additiooal com-roents
regardmg a complaint tuea
by both Sawyers and Mark
Clatnua regarding iuzardons
conditions and stressed that the
asBfilaiiir'was ixinSnited to
asbestos. He also noted thtt aQ
~»,~-..-i-» nnionaltempU to bring la experts
.^J^Kr-toiiinspetarihej^n^-rwerB;
• fConi.ofTpafle'ZO)'
A PTA EVEKT=-ff»eport Vlll«8« Mayor WHK*nt-WW(« prattflUrr
^^~^.f»..^l/^n flti'opMffta T'''*^*y, c^»'«i«^-*^r«»-"P«»«»pert-PTA^
Cogr«« Foundwa' D«y" to PTA.CouncU-TrMwr«rJii2J.A5*»«t-#.)
and First Vle« PrMfcJent Phytllt 8chl«*tir. Th« toc«l PTA Counell't
Foundwa* D«y ««r»monl*i annually ««!uta mtmbarf p» JN eomniuntty_
:«vno davote th«ma«fv«* to UmmiCfari of Ih* v<l)ao«'« cMkSrwi. TM*
year's svent «»1lt b* held beginning on FM>ruary 14, « 8 pm, at Dood
Junior High School.