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School District g FREEPORT. NEW YORK. MAY 17.1984
Baldwin !5il
School District 1^1 49th YEAR, No. 4
PRICE 25* PER COPT
Plan More Parking For Mid-Freeport
BigPBCRaceIn
Baldwin This Sunday
Conferonce For 4''* Ahnuol lO km Run
-Nassau^Femmts^Td Benefit HandicappecT^
Village fioord Okays
DemoiitlGn Of Buildings
- FREEFOKT • The long-standing complaint of inadequate pariitng in
the village's Centra) Business District Is somewhat closer to. a parfial
solution this past week as the Village Board of Trustees authorized
publication for bids for demolition of some abandoned buildings on
Church Street and on the sciuthwest comer of the Freeport MaU.
Merchants on the Mall have
conUnuallv urged IhS ViUige Church Street parcel was recenUy
Board to increase the number of donated by Freeport biisiness-
• patUi\K spais avaUtble tur\huy-—uuu Uuuel SucuWv »i;d lib v.tft
FREEPORT - In cooperation
with the Tenants' Coalition of
Nassau County, the Freeport
Tenants' . Association has an­nounced
a lecture/workshop pro-_
gram to be held on Saturday,
May 19. 9 am-3 pm, at Hemp­stead
High School.
Two sessions have been
planned, for morning and after­noon,
and each win cover the
same subjects. The morning
BALDWIN - Some 500 runners are expected in Baldwin this coming
Sunday morning, May 20, for the fourth annual Baldwin PoUcc'Boys
Oub (FBQ 10 Km (6.2137 mBe) Run: Scheduled to begin at 9 am in
Baldnin Park, the run will proceed out of the park, wind through five
. miles of Iree-lined communjly streets and return to the finish line back
in the park
The race course will be clearly
marked and traffic control win
be provided by the Nassau
County'Police Department and
the Nassau County Auxiliary
Police. •
all ages. Awards will be giveri to
the top male and female runners,
along with trophies for' the top
three male and female finishers in
pers use.
Both retailers and teiunts
of offices on Sunrise Highway
have also been appealing to the
Ba'ard.for'relief froih the lack of
suitable legal spot* for their cars.
The rehabilitation of the okl
Granu building and the Freeport
Theater and A^re Diner is also -
leading to a present, and even
more acute future curtailment of
Lorraine, to the village, with the
stiptUation that it be tucd for
parking and rehabilitated for
such use within two years.
.session, which begins at 9 am,
will be preceded by free coffee
and cake; the afternoon session,
'• which starts at 12 noon, will be­gin
with a free light lunch.
The workshop/lectures
planned include one on "Co^op
Conversions,'.' featuring an at­torney
from the Stale Attorney
General's office,' and Jeanne
Kippel, president of the Tenants'
Coalition of Nassau and Hotising
Commissioner of Great Neck.
Martin Schlufroan, Deputy
Counsel of the Stale Division dT
Housing and Community Renew­al,
and W. Robert Balalaos,
Senior Rent Administrator of
ihe New York Suie Division of
Housing and Community Renew­al,-
Nassau Office, will discuss
"Rent and Stabilization and Rent
Control (the &nergency Tenants
ProlecfionAct)."
"How To Organize a Tenants
Organization" win be the topic
of MichaelMcKee. co-leader of
the New York Stale Tenant and
Neighborhood CoalitiOTi,
The run is sponsored ._by._
European American Bank, with
all oroceeds from the event going
to help fund FBC's special handi­capped
program.
Race officials predict that this
year's event wiU be the "big­gest"
yet, with more than 300
'paijicipanls already pre-regis-lered
the week before race day.
Number pick-up'and post en­tries
will be handled 7i30-8:45 am
on race day. The first 500 runners
registered wfll receive a T-shirt
commemorating the event.
EnliyfeeisSS.
Entry is open lo runners of
The*other piece of land — and
the two sections wiU meet —
was recently purehased by the
village from Nassau County for
SI speciflcally for tise for un-metered
parking.'
According to a village spokes-
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the following age grcMp$M2Md^jj^^jj5p,fl,n£,^_„{_R^^^
«?™*icr^*-19r~20'29r--3©^39, ffltMoSj .d»ertisinB-for-denK>li---3St>arkinirsixrt«tatheTJiWhlown
spou.
The Boan}-has now authorized
40-49.-50-59,-and eOandwitf
Awards will be given lo the first
family entry to finish (first three
members of a family) and to the
first team to finish (first five
members of team). A total of 47
awards wiU be presented.
The course is T.A.C. (Ihe
Athletic Congress) certified, with
course measurement and licung
'administered by David Katz,
president of Finish line' Pro­motions
— Road Race Consul­tants,
Inc., the most precise'race
administrator in the country.
(Cont. from Page 7).
advertising-for-demoll-—3Sparking-spot(totheiiowtilowh~
tion of a parcel of land known as area.
39-41 Church Street, 35 Church The demolliion bids will be
Streetand 1 Little Pine. The 39-41 opened at Village Hall on June 4.
Memorial Day Parade Set
Grandfolk To Have &and Time At Columbus
Ethel Dornun, president of the
Freeport Tenants Association and
-Secretary of the Tenants Cbalition
of Nassau.'
Former Assemblyman Irwin
Landes, an attorney and an aide
to Assembly Speaker Stanley
Fink win speak on "How the
Poliiical Process Impacts on Ten­ants
Rights."
Landes is said lo be responsible
for the passage of the ETPA in.
An)anyinl974. ^
"Small Claims Owrt; and
Landlord-Tenants Cojirt'! ..wiB-be
under discussion by Judge Ira
Raab and Baldwin attorney
Lewis Edelstein.
(Com. ort Page 16) '
MINEOLA^ A special Grand­parent's
Day win be held at Free- _
port's Columbus Avenue School'
on Wednesday and Thursday,
May 23 and 24.
The event, one of two dozen •
planned in Nassau County,
celebrates Senior Citizen Month
and inMay_
they observe daily lessons, such
as computer learning, and are
entertained by. the yoongsteri
with musical concerts and drama
preseiitalions..
Nassau County Commissioner
of Senior Citizen Affairs Adelaide
Attard explains, "This yearly
-intergcner»tional~~prBgriin
FREEPORT ^ The Vinage's
annua] Memorial Day Parade, co-sponsoted
by the Village of Free-port
and the, Freeport American
Legion, is set lo kick-off at 10 ain
sharp on Monday, May 28, from
Freeport High School.
The line of march wiU proceed
eastbound on Merrick Road to
Ihe Freeport Memorial Library,
where appropriate ceremonies
will honor the brave men and
women who have Jost their lives
in the service of their country.
There w-iH be four divisions.
'ihe tirst will include acuve serv­ice
and veteran groups; the sec-.
end features the Freeport Fire
Department; the third. Boy and
Girl ScouU and other Yiwlh
Organizations; whUe the fourth is
made up of frstemd, civic and
political clubs.
An outstanding feature of this
yeu's Memorial Day actKrities
will be the display o( a mam-mouth
American Flag, which
was the pride and }(9 of the
Legion's Past Commander Frank
Manz and wiU be displayed in
his memory.
The "Grandparents' Day at
Schod" program is sponsored by
the Nassau Oninty Department of
Senior. Gtizen Affairs in co­operation
with local schools.
Grandparents are invited by
children into classrooms, where
[fetrict Sponsors Arts Festival
pro­vides
an excellent opportunity for
children and otder persons to
form a daser link between the
generations. Grandparents' Day
((xuscs on the positive role cUer
persons play within their families
and communities."
FREEPORT - The Freeport
Public Schools win bold iU 16(h
annual Festiva] of the Arts on '
'Thursday. Friday and Salorday^
May 17-19, beginning at 7 JO pm,
in Freeport High School.
On May 17. the Dodd Junior
High School Orchestra and
Seventh Grade Chorus win
There wffl also
of Dodd student
perform,
displays
work.- - - -
May 18 wiU feature perform­ances
by • the Freepcrt High
School Ninth Cmie Chorus,
Orchestra- Ninth Grade Select
(Cont. on Page 15)
PLANNING THE PARADE. Plans (or Freeport't annual Memorial
Day Parada tre being completed by commitiM metntien (Handing,
I. to r.) Ed Licence, P.O. Emia Stumpf, P.O. Rogw Gaynor. P.C.
Fred Hager, P.C. Charlie Jackson, Tom Judge; (ttttlrtg, f. to r.) Qrai«d
Marshal Wally Guest, Ullian Manz and Grand Marshal Frank Curley.
This year's parade wUi begin at 10 am on Monday, May 28, and march
eastward on Merrick Road from FrtepSin High School. (Sea alary, this
pags.)