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FREEPORT. NEW ydRK. OCTOBER 18.1984
49th YEAR. No. 26
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White Fights For Freeport Power
Son Nabs Mom's
gger In Baldwin
Mayor Urges A "No" Vote
Off Counfy Proposition
FREEPORT - When Nassau County vosers go to the polls Election"
Day, Mo%-ember 6, they will find on their ballots a proposition for a local
law to create the Nassau County Public Utility Agency.
Mayor William H. While, of Frecpott, wWch has its own municipal
electric utility, says he will urge Freeport residents, businessmen and
those employed in the village to
R^idents Bring
Local Problems
To Village Board
FKEEPORT - Neighborhood
problems appeared to take up
most of the Freeport Village
Board of Tnislees' fuiblic session
Monday evening, October 15, as
residents and property owners
appealed to the Board for help in
matters ranging from frequent
automobile accidents to frequent
garage sales.
Representatives and members
of two nortlwest civic associa­tions
(Steams Park and 00-
FRONS) told the Board of a prob­lem
Involving » house on West
Seaman Avenue which, although
vacant at the time, has had three_
garagesales in recent montEs.
According to the residents
present the house has not been
occupied since 1980, when it
suffered s fire and is, in fact, still
partially boarded up.
One speaker complained that
the garage sales offered for sale
furniture that allegedly was
"tracked in," a violation of the
village's licensing ordinance,
whidi permits three garage sales
a year, but specifies that the
items offered come from the
premises.
Others talked about litter and
refuse left on the curb apparently
with little regard to sanitation
pickup schedules.
Mayor William H. While, nol^
ing that he had some awareness
of the problems, said he had gone
by the house that weekend, but
there was no sale at that time.
The matter, he said, had been
turned over to the Village's
Building Department and he was
awaiting a report. '
ViUage attorney Joe Edwards
said he believed the Bonding De­partment
had issued a summons
sis or seven weeks before, for
selling merehandise not belong­ing
to the owt>er, but it is — said
• Edwards —• a difficult matter to
prme.
Some residenu said they had
seen trucks bringing furniture
in and Edwards said these wit,
• nesscs and the actual non-occu-
(Conf.cn Page 20)
Svpermarkm Emphi/eos
Foil Pockefbook Snofch
BALDWIN - Workers at a local supermariiet apprehended an alleged
mugger Friday night, October 12, as he tried to get away with the
pocketbook beksn^g to the mother of one of them.
Tbe victim, a Franklin Square woman, was standing in ftonl of the
Pathmark Store on Grand A%'enue in Baldwin, at 11:30 pm; when she
was suddenly knocked to the
ground and had her pocketixmk
yanked ftom her grasp.
tbe woman's 23-year-oSd. son,
who was inside the store, ap­parently
saw what had happened
and immediately ran outside with
some of his co-workers.
The supermarket employees
were able to apprehend Dwayne-
Bonapart, a M-year-old stock -
boy; who lives at 14 Champlain
Avenue in Lakeview. .The men
held Bonaparte until police ar­rived.
The victim suffered an Injury to
her knee and ankle but refused
medical aid at the scene. Her
pocketbook was recovered.
' Bonaparte has been charged
with second degree robbery.
(Morale To Present
"Unsinkabie Moiiy Brown"
FREEPORT-Ibis year's show, ed by all ages
"The Unsinkabie Moiiy Brown"
wBI be the 37th annual production
of the Freeport Community'
Chorale.
Under the direction of Gerald
J, Kirby, the MerediUi Willson
production will tun Fridays and,
Salurdays, November 2-3 and
9-lOin the auditorium of Freeport
High School, South Brookside
Avenue between Sunrise High­way
and Merrick Road, Ftccport.
Kathy Keats of Merrick will
play the pan of Ihe vhirious
Freeporlers, who will appear
in . this year's production, are
Stephanie Ax Pctcrsoii', as Mrs.
McGlone; Jack Holly, as Father
Flynn; Marty Foi, as Michael
Tobin; Anthony PeriUo, as the
Sheriff; Richard Allman, as
Roberts; and Marty Adler.
Vemex Becks, Norman Greene,
Linda Grempel. Pearl Haslam,
Christopher Kurti, Blen Rosen­berg,
BeUy Taylor, Valerie
Taylor and Nancy Vogel.
vole "no!' to the proposition,
which is the subject of a media
campaign by County Executive
Fran Purcell.
Purcell and While, both Re-publicans,
disagree on this issue.
While explains he is the mayor
of Freeport and, in his remarks
Ihis past week, stresses that the
village is his prime concern.
At a luncheon hosted for the
weekly newspapers by the Coun­ty's
- Industrial ' Development
Agency last Friday, Oclobet 12,
copies of a press release from
Purcell urging a "yes" vole on
the proposition were in • packet
iven to each member of the
press. Purcell also made the
matter » subject of his spoken
remarks.
Only three long Island areas
are now able to buy hydro­electric
power from the Power
Authority of the Stale of New
York (PASNY). Besides Free-port,
ihe""vHUgej 1^ Hockvine"
Centre and Gteinport, 'which also
have municipal electric utilities,
save their consumers a great deal
ofjnoney each month. .
While explains that this
saving is to the credit of the
villages, which planned In ad­vance
and, when fossil oil was
much lower ihan It is today,
still looked to the ftiitire and
floated bonds so that during the
past few years, as tttCO con­sumers
have been faced with
Increasingly high rales. Free-port's
residenls and businesses
have not been.
The local law urged by PurccH
sets up by the necessary mech­anism
— a "paper utility," as
Purcell calls it — so that it can
purchase cheap hydro-electric
power from PASNY if it becomes
available nest year.
While ibe sUle legislature
must first respond to open
legal questions and there might
be more court cases behce
Nusau County could purehase
hydro-electric power froth
PASNY. Purcell wants the'agency
set up so (hat'It might get iu
share.
According-to Purcell, "the
agency will exist only on paper...
It will be composed of county
employees who will receive
no extra pay. It will cost Ihe
t«ipayers nothing. It will not
benefitULCO. Its sole function,"
said Purrell last week, "will be
to biiy cheap hydro-electric
power from PASNY, rent private
ulUify lines to deliver it. and sell
it to ULCO, which might then be
able to reduce or siabiliie its
electric rales to reflect its cheaper
fuel costs."
It't that "might be able"
that seems to worry Freeport
village officials. Last year, in a
letter to Freeport electric utility
consumers. Mayor White pointed
out that if the available hydro-
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Kaihy Keats
Molly Brown and John Oak of
Babjion will co-star !n the role
of handsome Johrr.y Brown.
. The fun-fi.'led sho"* can tc ;r.joy-
Curtain time for aB perfonn-ances
will be 8:30 pm.
Tickets are $7 general ad­mission
with children under 12
admitted for $5 on Fridays only.
All seats are reserved.
Tickets are available from any
. Choral member, or may be order-
' ed by sending a stamped, self-addressed
envelope with a check
and indication of date and num­ber
of tickets desired to; Freeport
Community Chorale, P.O. BoJ
413, Freeport. New York 11520.
, The Freeport Community
Chorale offered its first ftiU-staged
production,, "H.M.S.
Pinafore,'' in «948. Throng
many years of light opei a, operet-t
«s and musical coff.edica, the
CTwrale has never repeated a
ihow,-
A TENTH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION lor Liberty Paris In Free-port
was held recently and Hempstead. Town Presiding Sup«rvlsor
Thomas Quiotia presented • special citation. Joining him •! the event
were (I. to r.) Rabbi Reuben M. KaU; fre^fon Village Mayor William
While; Flora Sparrcw, Chairperson o' ma ResltJenis' Commlitee;
JGulotiaj; and Btverenil John Dischlnger, Chairman c( mo Board cl
' Director* of Liberty Park.
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