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FREEPORT. NEW YORK, APRI|,n. 1985
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Holdener ElecfeiCdrdAsstr Chief
FREEPORT - Richard Hold­ener,
of Exc^kior Truck Company
II, was elected third assistant
chief of the Freeport Rre Depart­ment,
at the department's annual
elections held Thursday, April 4,
at fire headquarters.
In the same election, First
Assistant Chief tee TucholsU,
Second Assistant Chief George
MuIhoUand, and Third Assistant
• Chief Bob Terry were "victorious
in their uaconlesfed races for the
next highest respective office.
Holdener, a department mem- '
Richard E. Holdener
ber for 12 years and "former
cajiiaiB of Tredt, defeated Gary
Elder rf Emergency Company by
a mar^n of 46 votes. Holdener
polled. 150 votes against Elder's .
104. A total of 2W Freeport fire- •
fighters voted in the two hour
election. . .^
TucholsU, with -217 votes; •
Mulholland mth 16S and Terry,
with 190 win step up lo the neit
highest office under a system
which has always been a tntdition
and has_ rarely been conlesttd
over the years.
In other voting, out-going Chief
lOf the Department Les Beldsa
'was elected to the position of
Second Batalion Delegate polling
165 votes. He was not contested
for this position, which has a
.three year term. - .
• III a somewhat unusual elec-
Uon, the Battalion Delegate for a
."ooS year period was set up for
- election,'due to former Delegate
Steve Wenk's decision to re­linquish
the last year of his three
year term, la a two-way. race,
•former • Chief Arthur Lewis of
Bayview Hose 0>. Hp. 3 defeated
former Chief William Sarro of
Hose 2 (Vigilanl Hose Co.) by a
margin of 38 votes (136-94).
AH the" newly elected chiefs and
delegates will be formally' sworn
into ofiice by Freeport Village
Mayor. Dorothy Sfprm and the
Village Trustees at the depart­ment's
acnoal instaliation and
dinner on April 26. However, the
day-trnlay operations will be
truisferred • following . the
Tuesday, April 16th Omncij
meeting. • -
LEADER To Be Honoreci B^ Roiaiy
On Its 50th Anniversanf
FREEPORT - THE LEADER.
wRich completes 50 years of
=contittnoos-pubiicatioi4~with ^-iis
Dedicated to the service "of
the^Freeport ^and_Baldwin com- -
muilities, THE LEADER is con-bsseof
April 18, win be honored sidered to be independent, ob-by
the Rotary Qub of Freeport at jective and unbiased,
a dinner meeting' on Thursday, For more than 45 years, THE
AETJLia^m 6:30 patr^t-^antee—LEAOER-gppH^ its~philosophy"
aipper Restaurant, 295 South- of independent journalism to
Main Street, Freeport.
I Freeport Rotary will be pre­senting
its Ovic Leadership
Award of the Month to THE
LEADER and to Ira KeBef.' its
publisher since the issSie of May
24,1973.
The "ofHcial paper" rf the
Village of Freeport' THE
LEADER carries legals of the vil­lage,
the Freeport School Dis­trict,
the Freeport Library, the
Baldvdn School District and the
Baldwin library. The term
"official newspaper" applies only
to the publicatign of legal iioticcs
and, Keller points out, in no way
commits'the paper to be the voice
or appologist for any village
_govcn>meni.
the Freeport jsnnmunity and
then, in 1980 it extended its
coverage into the Baldwin School
District to better service its read­ers
living in Steams Park in
northwest Freeport. ' Within " "a"
matter of months, THE LEADER
again expanded its coverage as-it
became accepted as their local
newspaper by many Baldwin resi­dents.
The Freeport Rotary extends an
invitation to all Freeport copi-munity
members to join its tri­bute
to THE LEADER'S SO years
of publication. Reservations for
dinner can be made by calling
Yankee Oipper. 546-S500. Din­ner,
including gratuilirs, is 512
per person.
W-Hello, PRIDE
To Receive
Special Slate Grants
ALBANY - Two Freeport .
groups .have just been awarded
special legislative grants accord­ing
to local legislators. Assembly­woman
Barbara Patton and St4te
Senator Norman JF. Levy.
Hi-Hello Day Care Center will
receive a total of S32,S00 and ~
_PRIDE a $5,000 grant.
Patton announced that, at her
request, a S20,000 state grant for
Hi-Hello has been included iit
the recently passed state budget.
Hi-Hello ctirrently operates at~-
two locatiotu and serves some
160 chndrea between the ages of
nine months and 12 years.' The
Centers second site at the First
- Presbyterian Church ;in Freeport
will be unavailable after Septem­ber,
explained Patton, necessitat­ing
expansion c^ Hi-Hello's main
facility on South Ocean~ Avenue •.
to assure - uninterrupted opera­tion.
. .
"For over 15 years, Hi-HeUb
has provided vital child care ser­vices
at minimal ccsts to inany
families in Preeport and Nassau_.
County," said Patton. "I am par­ticularly,
pleased that the state
has been able to help finance (his
necessary- expansion of- the
largest day care center in Nassau
County."
Levy, a member of the Senate
Finance Committee, was success-fijl
in obtaining a special S 12,500
Senate Legislative grant for Hi-
HeUo.
'.'With more and more faifiilies
having "both parents oiit in the
work force, it is important for
them to know that there is a day
care center where tfieir children
will receive excelleiit care as well
- as wholesome tecreatiotr and edu
cation programs," said Levy,
Hi-Hello has previously been
a recipient of federal grafits
conduct pilot proi<yl.T a^d f'^'
as a training center for students
afiiliated with several local
' schools and colleges. The Center
also provides comprehensive
screening and evaluation ser­vices,
in cooperation with North
Shore University,, iiospila], - for
'chiidten with speech and lan­guage
delays.
S5.000for PRIDE
Levy was also able to secure
a $5,000 grant for Operation
PRIDH, an anti-drug abuse Free-port
service organization. These
- funds, said Senator Levy, will
help enable this not-for-profit
organization to expand their anti­drug
summer youth recreational
program into a year-round
program.
Levy eiplainid that "Opera-
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freepoif, Baldwin's Tofak
Each GnecrferThan 1984-85
-•ALBANY - The Freeport and Baldwin School Districts will each
recehre more Stale'Aid than they did last year, local legislators ei-
/plained this week.
Freeport win receive $1,481,605 and Baldwin S6SS370 irfcreases in
. SUte Aid to Education with the passage of the 1985-86 SUte Budget.
State Senator Norman J. Levy, Nassau Coniity's senior member on '
the Senate Education Committee,
called the increases "in sharp
contrast to the $873,990 and
$229,840 bottom life increases
proposed earlier in the year by
Governor Mario Cuomo in his
Executive Qudget"
Local Assemblywoman Barbara
Pattoii also released announce­ments
of the budget increases.
Patton . noted - that Baldwin's
6.9% increase in aid is the second
largest that school district has
. received .in the past", ten years,
surpassed only by the school aid
awarded the district in 1979-80. -
Baldwin School Board member
Lorraine Deller, who is the School
-District's legislative liaison-teas'
well as president' <rf REFTF,
tiie consortiom of high tax-low"
wealth school districts,- said
Baldwin's increase "for a non-election
year shows the good
'results of our iobbying efforts."
Both she and Freeport School
Board member George Boulukos
said they were pleased with -the
figures for their districts.
Deller noted, however, that the
increase while "a little more than
prqected ($600,000)" was not "a
wiiidfall...We called it fairly close
in the budget brochure," she
said.
Not only was the conccgt-of
Save Harmless saved. Levy said,
but for the Freeport School Dis­trict
he was able id 'obtain an
increase ' in operating ud of
$1,056,311.
Operating - Aid represents
neariy two-thirds of each indivi­dual
school district's total budget.'
explained Levy. Under-a new
formula concept. Levy SMdhe and
"the" Nassau Kepublican Le^ia-tive
Delegation developed, the
Freepo'rt-School District will see
an additional increase in.supple-^
mental operating aid of $283,377.
and the Baldwin Schogl District
vrill receive $206,697,
Deller also said she was
pleased that the Save Harmless -
concept has been retained and
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SAFETY TIME. Village Mayor Dorothy Storm (3rd I.) presents a pro­clamation
designating April as "Bicycle Safety Month" to 0- ' " ''•)
Freeport Police Lt. Joseph Boland, Freeport PTA Council Safety Co-
Chairperson Carol Klarikailis, PTA Council President {}ofeen Engle,
Freeport School District Director of Transportation and Safety Ronald
^Braz and Safety Committee Co-Chairperson JoAnn Aymar. All school-age
youngsters are invited to bring ttieir bicycles on Saturday, April
20, 9-11 am, to Giblyn School, or 12 noon-2 pm to Atkinson School,
10 have their equipment registered and to participate In road safety
tests conducted by the Freeport Police Department. The Freeport
Chamber of Commerce will pay the registration costs of 25« per bi­cycle.
Prior to Bicycle Safely Day, police officers will be visiting the ele­mentary
schools TO encourage wide participation i,T this School-PTA-Pclice
effort.