The-Leader_1984-03-22

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Nertspapei
Village of
Freeport
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Freeport
School DistricI • ',
Baldwin
School District
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FREEPORT. NEW YORK. MARCH
48th YEAR, No. 48
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Two^lnspectors Report Bribe Try
Name Baldwin H.S.
—HoimrRoll Stodeiits
^Accuse Restaurant Owner
Of Offering Money, Liquor
FREEPORT • Two Village building inspectors rtBOttgdIy liimfd in -
Ocera To Be
Sworn In
-fls Proxy Of Chamber
74 Make Higl% Honors;
164 Named To Honor Roll
Ttrilleinpt to btiDe them this past week and, as • result; » Freeport
restaurant owner has i>een. arrested and charged with second degree
bribery. . "
According lb the Nassau County District Alloroey** office, Freeport
building inspectors John Provenzano and Frank Cany were each
allegedly offered $500 and a half-case
of scotch, if they would
certify that The Moorings, a
restaurant on Guy Lombardo
Avenue in Freeport, had a sealing
of his department had recently
attended a course dealing with
fires and arson; In which a film
graphically depicted several flres
FREEPORT - Local business­man
and resident, Michael
-Ocera
-dent <)f-thc Freeport Chamber of
Commerce Saturday evening,
March 24. United States Senator
A] D'Amato will install Ocera at
the Chamber's annual Dinner/
Dance at Salty Bay Yacht Qub.
Ocera and his wife, Theresa,
have lived in Freeport since 1957.
The Oceras are owners of Free-
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capacity more than that now a l - ^ n public places. Zarate pointed to
llfoflw>a.'>bMle >u-nudnielrrr tthhef> lla.ww . ' recent fires — such as the one at
Ul U jnJiu in M uniJ>l ^"i" SeniorIDgh Sdiaol,235studLiilAlia;u .u-liittml pljjMi lift the High
.*#-t„™£,.,„»^Honot and Honor RoH; - --
For High Honor rating, pupils having four major subjects must have
all As in these majors. PupUs having more than four major subjects
may have not more than two Bs
in the major subjects.
For Honor rating, a student
must have no grade below a B.
Students with less than four
majors are not eligible for Honor
roU.
For Honor Roll purposes,
Driver Education is to be con­sidered
as a major subject.
Twelve seniors have attained
High Honor Roll status. They are
Victor Chu, Usa Dansiger,
Catherine Fairweather, Jason
Frank, Palti Freiberg, Janet
Helms, Nancy Undblad, Scott
Moskowitz, Brett Schlifstein,
Katherine Weber, Kevin Wu and
Sun Hye Yang.
Juniors attaining High Honor
_are—Caiolyn-^Angetoa—
Barbara Ascher, John Basedow,
Michele Bolognese, Andrew
CadeV, Healhet Campbell, YeeVm
Chan, Marie Hines, Debra
JaveEne, Lauren Kriz, Stephen
Laber, James'Murphy, Rebecca
Nedostup, Louis Paul. Julie
*aHBessm«B-«Bd-p3nit7-3aeiander Press. Susan
Ocera has supported Raskin. Arlene Robinson, Paul
Michael A. Ocera
port Caterers on Merridc Road
As a local '
RUey. Elli Sacks, Michael
Salomon, Marc Sicgel. John
Walih, Sun-Jung Yang and Adam
Zalma.
HONOR ROLL
Honor Roll awards in the senior
class were Nidia Arias, John
Azzariti, Steven Bohn, Jill Burde,
Tod Burweil, Joanne D'Andrea,
Gary Dieber, Kristi Erdal, Gary
Foodim, Amy Forsberg, Gretchen
Gindlesperger, Nand Goldberg,
Stefanie Goldin, Kim Haltigan,
Sandi Jaffe, Mn Kelly, Alice
Kentrianakis, Lorraine Kessing-er,:
Patrick LaMantia, Annette
LaPrise, Anthony Maher, Robert
Martin, Michael Moccia, Stacey
^^Niditchr-Matia Poechi, 5i
Rohe, Melan! Rosenkrantz, Eve
Roth, Monica Saceanu, Jennifer
Scanned, Patricia Stanley, Joan
Tracy, Stephanie Usera, Monica
Volkmann, Hiiabeth Walker,
David Wasser and Usa
_JMlensky
ty-and the-VUlige-of^Freeport'"
recently changed their occupancy
laws to increase the mandatory
space from 10 to 15 square feel
per customer.
AcconUng to the District
Attorney's oBice, Gus Trastelis,
The Mooring's owner, wanted the
inspectors to certify his restau­rant,
which is located in a wood-frame
building, for 142 seats
rather than their 105 determina­tion.
Provenzano and Carry alleged­ly
reported the incident to their
superior. Village Building Super­intendent
G. Rail de Zarate,
who notified the District At­torney's
oEBce. The next day,
Mardi 16, under the direction of
the D.A.'s ofEice,Provenzano tt-turned
to the restaurant, "wired"
with a recording device^ Accord-ing
to Assistant D.A. Burt Rvan.
rastelis again offered Proven-zano.
tbe bribe and, in fact, put
the case of liquor in the inspec­tor's
car.
Superintendent de Zarate later
told THE LEADER that members.
aiouners in Westchester,
where lives had been lost.
The new law changing the
mandatory capacity in restaurants
went into effect this past Decem­ber
and the village has been re­certifying
restaurants as they
needed to be relicensed or when
they were on the premises for
any other matter. De Zarate
said that about 10 restaurants-had
already been checked and all
needed to have their maximum
seating capacity changed.
Provenzano Is a former Free-"
port Fire Department Chief,
who has been with the village's
Building Department for five
years.
Carry, who has been with the
Building Department for one-and-a-
half years, used to be a process
server with the Nassau County
D.A.'s office.
Trastelis, 39, is said to own a
second restaurant in Lindenhurst.
A resident of Dii KUls, he was
arraigned in District Court and
released pending a conference on
April 4.
resident.
many village-wide activities. He
was cluurman of the village's 90th
Anniversaty Ball, chairman of the
Chamber's Scholarship Drive for
Hcrfstra University, ania chairman
cdT the Drive for the Marathon for
ttie Freeport Rre Department..
He lias auo been.a driving force
behind the -annnal Holiday
Festival, sponsored b? ^^
Chamber each year with the
coc^>eration of the village's
Recreation Department, and has
helped with the Chamber's drive
to increase holiday Eghting
througboat the village.
Ocera, has been . an acthre
supporter of such successful
Ctumber-sponsored. village-wide
activities as the In-The-Water
Boat Shows, the Off Shore Power
Boat Races and the annnal Great
Canoe and Kayak Races.
In the catering business since
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Walsh. 'Debbie Werking, Hye
Jung Yang and Alysa Zalma.
Sophomores also made_High
Honor. Roll and these. f('er»~
Randeli Bynum, David Difusco,
Jean Field, Jay Freiberg, Sean
Greene, Stephen - Jackowicz,
Heidi Mactis, Oiristopher
Monaco, Andrew Ripps, David
Roberts, Sherry Simon,- Scott .
Slarkman, Ca^ia Surjapulra,
and June Wormsley.
Among the Freshman, cited for
High Honor Roll accomplish-
.ment were Paul Andco, David
Ascher. Heather Bacher.^Palrick
Brickel, Howard Coltoa, Jaoeen
Dcs Anges, Carolyn Gilchrist,
Christine Ciudice, Joseph Gold,
Deborah Goldberg, Joel Hamick,
Susan Jae'ger, David Levy,
Lauren Levy, Michael Mayer,
Donna Merriman. James
O'Brien, Joseph PersichiDi.
Christina Qniong, Victoria
Jonion attaining Honor RoD
included Mark Azzariti, Robin
Bandel, Fabio Bard, Stephanie
Bart, Martin BeOer, Arthur
Bemier, Kim Botte, Thomas
3rickel, Heather Cave, Donna
Anne Christensen, Sarah Chum-sky;
Randi Cohn, Frank DePalo,
Anthony Esposito, Heidi Febert,
Robin Geliinan, David Grin,
Barbra Hindin, Barbara Jaeger,
Elliot Kanfrnan. Eric Kehrer.
Stacey Kelly and Thomas Kelley.
Also Melanie Landwehr, Pbuoc
LeVinh. Steven Lerman, Stuart
Levine, Michele Libman, John
Malloy, Mary Manning, Midiele
Mirer, Kiel Nguyen, Jeanne
Pultre, Brian Robinson, Brian -
Ronan, . Michelle Rosenberg,
Steven Robin, William Ryan,
Theresa Santilfi, William Scelzo,
Sheryl Sdimidt, Jeffrey Schwartz.
Harris Sherman, Kathleen
Shotter. Paul Siragusa, Amy
.Sugin,' Motoo Uehara, Lori'
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Judgis Reserves DiSNCiifoh In
Woodcleft Fish Store Case
FREEPORT - After hearing
several hours of testimony last
Thursday, March 15, Village
Court Justice Ralph Franco
reserved decision in the village's
case against Timothy Swanson
and bis 'retail fish market, St.
Peter.
Swanson has been charged
with violating a village ordinance
wlucb makes It Ulegal to con­duct
a business- frnm an empty
lot. •
The issue of permanent versos
transient fish retail businesses
on the village's Wooddeft Aven­ue
has been a burning one.
George Maislin, attorney for
Swanson, referred more than
once to a meeting held in the vil-
' lage mayor's office and attended
by several fish-market owners,
who — Maislin Impfied — are
conccnifil • about places like
Swanson's, which sell from their
boaU.
"What they are trying to do
here," said MaUlb, in hU
final sommatlon Friday after-'
noon, "is find a section (in the
law) to put Timothy Swanson out'
ofbudnetf." -
In bis case against Swanson,
Village Prosecutxjr Hanisoo- Ed­wards
tried to show that the busi­ness
is a temporary one,- that it
is conducted irom an empty lot,
that the structures 00 the lot
(allegedly an iccibox and canopy)
had no permits and that they are
iOegaDy constructed between the
bulkhead line and pn^rty line.
"You can't get more temporary •
than a boat," said Edwards." We
have essentially a vacant lot with
some sheds on it."
Maislin, however, used a die-
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