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LEAtER
FREEPORT. NEW YORK. NOVEMBER 29,19&4
47th YEAR, No. 32
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NewCondos Pianned On Waterfront
G.S.'little House"
Future Doubtful
Libraiy To Be
dosed For
'"Moving" Week
FREEPORT - Tbe expansion of
the Freeport Memorial library
into its n'ew building on West
Memck Road will Vale place
December 10-16 and the library
wit! be closed for that week.
On Monday, December 17,
the ientire: library, including the
new West Wing, will be "open
for business."
The former btinl entrance will
be closed. The new entrances
may be reached either from the
back pufcing field or from Mer­rick
Road, on which the building
fronts.
No fines will be charged for
materials due during the moving
week.
Tbe library's Bookmobile will
be on the road with its regularly
scheduled stops during the week.
FHS Choruses
To Perforin
FREEPORT - A* Ihe holiday
season approaches, the Freeporv
High School Mixed Chorus and
Selecv Chorale will be adding to'
the season's festivities by per­formances
both in and ouV of Ihe
local community. On Friday,
December 7, the 80 vocalists will
present their yearly winter con­cert
for senior citizens at the
Freeport SalvaUon Anny Corps
Community Center.
. The following week, the tto-dents
will perform in New York
Gty. On December 13 they wfll
sing at the Pam Am Building and
St. Patrick's Cathedral. The
groups are conducted by Freeport
High School Choral Music Di­rector
Stephen Pagano.
Jewish Music
ftt Concert
FREEPORT - A Jewish Music
Festival »-i]l be presented, by
the Arts Council at Freeport on
-Saturday, December 8, at 8:30
pm, at the Bayview Avenue
School, West Merrick Road,
Freeport.
The festival will feature the
(Con«.onPaa«<l
Nassau Girl Scouts To
Discuss Faciiify Dec. 12
by Jo*n Deltnty '
BALDWIN - The hilure of the Ctrl Scout Utile House, located on
Park Avenue in. Baldwin, is part of the larger question of trying to
look to the future of scouting as weQ as to its historical past according
to Wrenella Lowe, Eiecutive Director of the Nassau Council of Oiri
Scouts.
Public Hearing On Miller
Avoc Reveofs Proposal
FREEPORT -'Mote new condominium apartment unit buildings are
being planned for South Freeport, according to information discussed
at a recent public hearing before the VUlage Board of Trustees.
Held on Motiday evening, No^-embec 26, the hearing wu on the pro-
• posed disccntinuance of the southernmost portion of Miller Avenue.,
But Village Mayor William H. White noted that the matter actually
dealt with additional issues, in-
> The sutus ot Baldwin's Utile
House is^one of the items In a 6S-page
report, which was prepared
for Nassau Council by the con­sulting
firm of Harrison, Hetape
»Jl4.McCall of Amesr4o«a. The
report considers many aspects <k
scouting although its recom­mendations,
according to Ms.
towe, are simply recommenda-
"lions, with "nothing definite in
black and white."
However, the concern of
Baldwin scout leaders, as ex­pressed
by Jane Moreland,
Associ4.1ion Chairman for Bald­win,
is that the facility which has
housed girl scout activities for
over 40 years will be eliminated
with alternatives not dearly
spelled out.
According ta Moreland, ^l
scouts from neighboring com­munities
including Freeport and
Oceanside have long used tlie
UtUe House which aJIows scout
leaders to provide a wide variety
of indoor and outdoor prpgrams
conveniently, at low cost, and
without the cost and problem of
transportation. The house, which
was deeded to Girl Scouts, can­not
be sold. If Nassau Council
elected to dispose of the property,'
the House would revert to the
estate of the former owners. But
Moreland and lawe agree, how­ever,
that the question of the
UtUe House 'is not one wb^h
is based on finances but rather
one which involves a conflicting
view of what scouting thould
be and what fiitore possibilities
should exist. •~^
Ms. U>we has tndicated-that a
meeu'ng will be held at Nassau
Council on December 12 at which
time the report and its recom­mendations
will be only one part
of a long agenda. She indicated
that (hey are receiving the
advice cf their legal counsel on
how that meeting should be con­ducted
and who should be in­vited
to attend it. She said,
however, that each Association
will .be receiving a copy of the
entire report and seemed to
feel that, if (he report were read
in its entirety, people cculd bet­ter
understand the various al­ternatives
with which the Execu- ,
live Board will be dealing.
Time and again, however,
lowe stressed that the recom­mendations
were simply recom­mendations
and it could be '
passible for only portions of the
report to be accepted. She also
stressed that "nothing will be
taken away until they iind al­ternatives,"
noting that it would
be well into 1986 before any
recommendations could even be
Implemenled. She noted that in
order for Nassau Council to pro­vide
for the future of scouting,
It is possible • that they might
have to consider how to "setvke
the constituency in t different
manner."
When asked where scouts
would meet and how trans-porUtion
would be arranged,
towe noted that all these were
valid qoestions which Ihe Execu­tive
Board would have to ponder
i before agreeing to any recom­mendations.
She noted that the
questions raised already were
"not even the tip of the iceberg."
When asked whether Ihe problem
wasn't that Baldwin, scouts
know what they would Jose if OK
Utile House were closed, but not
what they would gain by the
various recoramendalionx, Lowe
agreed. noting that all of ihe
' information woaid be shared and
any decisions would be slowly
implemented.
Jane Moreland has asked that
• local residenu write to th« Nas­sau
Coondl cJo Marianne
Templeton, Roosevelt Field,
Garden City, N.Y. 11530. Ms.
Lowe agreed that letters to the
Board <rf Directort would be Ihe
• best method for cooimonity
resident* to express their view*
and provide the Board with
relevant input.. .
eluding a possible rezonlng of lite
old "Seabteeie" property at
the south end of Miller Avenue.
Whito explained that • Ted
Gaeta and Frank Fineo; owners
of The Schooner Restaurant,
which is situated at the southern
end of Woodcieft Avenue, also
own the property extending west­ward
from The Schooner and in­cluding
the Seabreeie lot. Pre­viously,
Gaels and Fineo had
also owned another plot, bounded
by Miller and Ocean and Rich­mond
and Manhattan, but had
sold that piece of land to a de­veloper,
who in turn resold it to
the Freeport Nautical Develop­ment
Corporation, which is pres­ently
conttniciing a'four-stoiy,
ISO-plus unit condominium de­velopment.
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When Gaels and Fineo had the
property — and this is before
they acquired llie Seabreeie
.. property -^ they a pplied to ha ve it
reioned from Marine Industrial to
one that would allow construction
of condominiums.
White noted that the Board
then felt tbe whole piece should
be reioned and that Is what it did.
Tljerefore part of the Gaels/
Fineo holdings are loned for
condominiums and part (the Sea­breeie
property) U stUl zoned
for Marine Industrial.
White noted that the discon­tinuance
of the Up of Miller
Avenue, as a public street, and.
lu subsequent sale to Gaeta and'
Fineo, would give them an tin-broken
strip of land. The mayor.,
also explained that h« understood
from discussions with Fineo that
they plan to consUuct condomin­iums
there.
This Fuieo laler verilied
when he spoke to THE LEADER.
He said the condominium units. -
about 80-100 of them, would be
luxury-type and that he and Caela
are still working out contractus]
. details with someone who would
develop the property with them.
In order to go ahead wilh their
plans, Gaels and Fineo would
also have to apply for a change of
rone for the "Seabreeie" proper­ty
and Mayor While told this
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DESIGN CONTEST WINNERS. In celebration ol Children'* Book
Week, the Freeport School Olttrtct'a Art and Reading 0«parim«nt*
sponsored ihe third'annual Freeport Elementary School Bookmark
Oeilsn Contai. Presen) for lh« awardf ceremony In the Children'!
Room ol the Freeport Memorial Library *ere (front row, I. to f.) .
BrlAn K I I K J (Bayview, Grade 2). Carol Oufauehard (Archer, Grade 3),
Rommel Garcia (Archer, Orxfe 3>,'Jennifer P/okasky (Bayview, Grade
\), KarenButlerfleld (Archer, Grade 1}; (second row, I. >Q r.) Aasltlani
Superlmendenl ol Schools Jacob C. Tlngman, Olttrtct' Director of
Reading Carole Reynolds-Hol), Kaihryn Huemmer (Atkinson, Grade
6), Melissa Delaney (Atkinson, Grade 5),~ Leila MalhadolOibtyn,—
Grade 2), Alyca Wright (Atkinson, Grade S), Detlree Correnle
(Giblyn, Grade 3), Bayview Avenue School Art teacher Nancy Shapiro
and District Art Chairman Raymond D. Johnson. Missing from the
photo are ccniesi award winner* Theomana Cheritol (Atkinson, Grade
6), Kelly Frailer (Archer, Grade *), Jessica Hebr«nk (Bayview, Grade
3), John Green (Bayview, Grade 4), Amber Peae* (Qlblyn, Grade 1),
and Joanna Alvlno (OlWyn, <i/ad» 4 ) . ' " '