The-Leader_1985-05-23

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*T?EePORT MeMORJAU LIBRARY
FREEPORT. NEW YORK, MAY 23,1985
SistYEAR, No.5
FREEFORT MEMORIAL LIBRARY
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Parades, Rites Mark Memorial Day
vyVillage Proposes Two NeW Lows
. FREEPORT - Several new and
restrictjve village ordinances are
being considered according to
discussions at last Monday, May
20th s Freeporl Village Board of
Trustees meeting. _
- Explaining that'the Town of
Hempstead has already, adopted
a law restricting the use of float­ing
homes and houseboats,
Village Mayor Dorothy . Storm
asked'village counsel to also look
into drafting' a local law. "We
have been incurring some addi­tional
houseboats;" noted Storm.
Mayor Storm also recom­mended
restricting parking on
certain village streets (e.g.
Gordon Place, East Bedell Street,
West End Avenue) to residents
and their guests. Explaining that
she has learned that such or­dinances
have been passed in
Washington, . California - and
Boston, Storm noted stich a law
can designate only certain blocks:.
Special stickers, she said, could
be made available to residents for
theiruseandthatoftheirguests. ^
Residents of several local
streets, particulariy in south
Freeporl, have frequently com­plained
of parking and IrafRc:
problems.' Charles Wertz, of
Gordon Place," |ater told THE
LEADER that he was in favor of
such a law.
In other matters brought up
during the board's legislative
session, some SS,000 in Com­munity
Development funds,
originally earmarked for the pur­chase
of trees in Housing Im­provement
Area #2, was trans­ferred
to be used by the Freeport
Housing Authority for the Senior
Citizens' housing on South Main
Street. The residenU of HIA #2
had said they didn't want more
It
of
trees planted there because
would. involve the clean-up
fallen leaves.
The legislative session was
short, but as were most of the
past meetings since Mrs. Storm
took ofRce as mayor, the public
session of the Monday night
meeting was longer.
The first- residents to" address •
the Board were Hany Pollack, '
president of Stearns Park pvic-
Association, and Richard Thayer,-
a former president. The two
discussed a Steams Park drive to
defeat the U.S. Treasury plan to.
end the deductions on Federal
incpme tax forms for slate and
localtaxes.
Pollack called it a "catastrophe
for the modest income family, if
the deductions were allowed." .
Pollack. and Thayer have _
explained that .^tliey had-first-proposed
that the village govern­ment
take on the fight at a
May 8th meeting of the Council of ..
"Civic" Associations (COCA) with '
Mayor Storm.. They said that
Storm had agreed that it would be
devastating to the village govern­ment
as well.
- "Schools, which have already
. lost much Federal aid, will find it
harder to get budget proposals
passed &om beleaguered tax-
. payers," explains Pollack. He
notes that the Baldwin School
Board has become interested in
joining the campaign to defeat
this aspect of the Treasiiry plan,
which specifically hits New York
and California hard.'
Thayer, who is presently first
vice-president of Steams Pari
Civic, has drafted a sample letter
which is being circulated, not just
(Cbnt.onl'ageS)
A Show Of
Solidarity
A FATAL ACCIDENT. A 2 am Iwo-vehlcle collision (above) at Sunrise
Highway, Just west of No. Grove Street Tuesday, May 21, resulted in
ine aeain o> the driver of the 1974 Mercury. According to police, the
car — eastbound on Sunrise — crossed the double yellow line to crash
into the Five Counties Carting gart)age truck being driven westbound.
This was the second early morning fatal accident In four days on Sun­rise
Highway in Freeport. (See story, this Issue.)
Photo by Jerry Garf
by Joan Delaney
BALDWIN '- Over 400 com­munity
members attended a
service of solidarity with the
South Baldwin Jewish Center on
Monday evening. May' 20. The
service, whichwas sponsored by
,th(;_Baldwin Qergy Fellowship
and the Baldwin Interfaith Con­ference,
was prompted by an inci­dent
of arson and desecration
which occurred at the temple 'on
Sunday, May 5.
, Noting that "an attad on one
is an attack on all," Thomas
Ryley. president of the Baldwin
Interfaith Conferenrar, which con­sists.
of' lay people of. all de-nnminations
in the community, -
began the evening service. Solo­ists
Barbara Owens of St. Christo­pher's
Church and Cantor
Emphraim Shapiro of South
Baldwin Jewish Center theh sang
the 23rd Psalm, she in English, .
he in Hebrew.
Readings, remarks and singing
(Ccnl.onPage14)
Two Fatal
Accidents
On Sunrise
FREEPORT - Early morning
accidents on Sunrise Highway in
Freeport claimed the lives of
two people within four days.
The first accident, at about
2J0 am on Saturday, May 18,
cost Donald Monaco, a 27-year-old
Elmhurst, (Jueens man his
life, when the 1982 Datsun he was
driving apparently plowed into
the back of another car which had
stopped for a traHic light at Sun­rise
Highway and Brookside
Avenue.
According to the police report,
Monaco, who had no passengers
in his car, was westbound on
Sunrise when he struck the 1969
CThevrolel driven by Anthony
Bono of New Jersey. Bono and his
two passengers were hurt;
Monaco was killed by the crash.
The second fatal crash involved
a car and a sanitation truck for
Five. Counties Carting Corp. The
incident occurred Tuesday, May
21 at about 2:15 am. According to
the police report, Anthony Errigo,
26, of East Meadow, was driving
a 1974 Mercuiy eastbound on
Sunrise 'Highway, when it sud­denly
crossed the double yellow
line and struck the sanitation
truck going westbound.
The Mercury was smashed by
the truck and Errigo was declared
dead at the scene.
Services In Freeport And
Baldwin, Monday, May 27
FREEPORT/BALDWIN - Veterans' organizations, student groups,
.civic associations'and more will be "on the march" Monday morning, -
May 27, in both Freeport and Baldwin as part of the two communities'
observances of Memorial Day. The adults and youths will parade to the
strains of music provided by school bands, fire department bands, etc.
In Freeport, the parade will begin at Freeport High School at 10 am
and march eastward on Merrick >
Road to the Freeport Memorial
Library, where the metnorial ser­vices
will begin at 10:45 am.
In kaldwin, the parade will
J>egin at West Cai\ Avenue and
proceed south on Grand Aveiiue
to its ending at Silver Lake Park,
where services will start at 11 am.
FREEPORT. PARADE
The Freeport parade and ser- .
vices are sponsored by the,
- William Oinlon Stoiy Post 1342
of the American Legion and P.C.
Charles Jackson is chairman.'
World War I veteran Frank
Curiey is Grand Marshal with
Honorary Grand Marshals Walter
Guest. Dr. Mervin L. Schloss and
Dr. A.M. Hammond.
The services at the library will
include selections by the Freeport
Select Chorale, which,this year
will be on a platform enabling it to
be seen, and the Freeport High
School Band. Rev. John DuET
Grifiith, of the Rrst Presbyterian
Church of Freeport, will be the
main speaker." -'
Mary Undenfelser, who recent­ly
retired from the Freeport
Memorial library, will be recog­nized
during the observance. For
many years, Ms. Lindenfelser
did the art and layout .for the
Memorial Day Observance pro­gram.
Two or three members of the
chorale group will read a selection .
titled "Freedom Is An Ameri­can,"
written by John Plichta, a
Farmingdale- fiiend of Parade •
Chairman Charles Jackson.
Among those on the reviewing
stand will be Village Mayor
Dorothy Storm and Deputy Mayor
C. James Clark; Trustees Vic
Cohen and Ralph-Smith; Coin-mander
Ben (Haravino, USNR
(Ret.); Commander . -Roger
Gaynor, of the William Oinlon
Story ': Post #342, American
Legion; Florence Weinman,
president of the. Post's Ladies'
Auxiliary; the Commander and
Auxiliary president of the Henry
Morrison Deloney Post #785,
American Legion; Village Court
Justice Ralph Franco; Ms.
Lindenfelser; Plichta; and Sute
. Senator Norman J. Levy.
' Also the Commander and
Auxiliaiy President of the Henry
Theodore Mohr Post #1310,
Veterans of Foreign Wars; Msgr.
Saverio C. Mallei, pastor of Oat
Holy Redeemer Church; Jackson,
who will be acting as master of
ceremonies; Dr. John E. Bier-
.wirth. Superintendent of Schools;
and Rev. Griffith.
The First (Red Division) of the
Freeport parade will be headed
by Commanders Vito Tarulli and
(Com. on Page B)
LIBRARY DEDICATION. Stale Senator Norman J. Levy p.) and
Village Mayor Dorothy Storm (2nd r.)loin In presenting a proclamation
commemorating the dedication of the Freeporl Memorial Library's
expansion to Jacqueline Klempner (2nd I.), President ol the Library
Board of Trustees, and Gerald Nichols, the library's director. Cere­monies
were held al the library on Sunday, May 19.