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FREEPORT. NEW YORK. SEPTEMBER 19.1985
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No. 22
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Parade To Welcome Grover Back
Baldwin Schools
Fear Tax Impact
village Declares Sunday,
Sept. 22"GraverDay"
FREEPORT - Al Grover will receive a "hisro's welcome" with a'
Village-wide parade and reception Sunday afternoon, September 22.
. The SS-year-old Grover, a Freeporter since childhood and a boat
buildei and maiuia owner on the Village's waterfront, recently made
the record books by being the first to cross the Atlantic Ocean in an
outboard motorboat.
N / ' Freeport Vamps
Sweep 7fh F/rs*
Place Win
"FREEPORT - In » summer of
. unprecedented parade. victories,
the Freeport Hre Department has
won yet another parade^ competi-
' tion, capbiiing the major trophies
. at the Garden Gty Fire Depart­ment's
Old Fashioned Parade.
• The win was the Freeport Fire
Department's seventh first place
win this summer season, and was
. made even sweeter by a first
place finish for the Junior Fire'
Department and a third place
finish by the Freeport Fire De­partment
Band. • , '
Under the, direction of Chief
' Lee Tncholsii, the. department
has concluded oiie of- its most
successfiil parade' seasons ever,
winning" virtually every major
' parade of the summer, tDduding
the State Parade in August.
Parades are judged by a team
,of Nassau Coiuty Parade Offi­cials;
and firefighters are judged
in a number of categories, in­cluding
staying in line, unUbrm
appearance, haircuts, ..shoe
' shines, and many other fine
points. In order to maintain an
element of fairness due to the
wide disparity in the sizes of the
•' Various partidpating depart­ments,
individual trophies are
awarded lo departments in vari­ous
sizes; ie, under 25 men in­line,
25-50, etc... Since Freeport
usually turns out a large contin-'
gent at the parades, the depart­ment
is generally placed in the
largest category, competing
against such excellent marching
departments as RockviUcXentre,
Oceanside and Valley Stream.
Despite the tough competition,
Freeport's volunteers took all the
big prizes this year.
"I sincerely express my thanks
to all the men in the department,
who turned out so well during the
season. Its been an experience
• - .which'l iiriU:Cherish for the rest
of my life," Chief TucboUki said.
Tax Cocfe Change
Could Hurt Education
' byJoanOelaney
_BALDWIN - At its first regular meeting of the school year, the Bald­win
Board of Education urged members of the audience'and Baldwin
School District residents.to write to members of Congress regarding
proposed changes in the tax code which would eliminate local and state
tax deductibility fiom the federal inc»me tax form", "(see this issue's
"Just Write" by Joan Delaney,
page 5). Explaining the problem.
School Board member Lorraine
Deller, liaison to. various legis­lative
groups involved with
finance and taxation, outlined the
problem and the impact such .
changes would have on com­munities
like Baldwin.
According to lax revision
proposals, citizens would no
longer be able to deduct sute
and local taxes fiom their federal
income tax form. For communi­ties
like Baldwin with a low
property base (that is little com­mercial
wealth) the burden of
school taxes' rests' almost ex­clusively,
on the homeowner.
Deller expl^ned that, although
Baldwin is one of the lowest
spending school districts on Long
Island, its taxes is one.of the highr
est for homeowners because of
the absence of commercial
enterprises to ofiset the costs.
The one saving grace in past
years has been the ability of
Baldwinites to write oR school
taxes on their federal income
taxes.
Ueller added that the Baldwin
School District is joining with
various coalitions, among them
the Nassau School Boards As­sociation
and the Nassau/Sof-fott
School Boards Association to
"reject and fighl" revisions
ivhich eliminate state and local
tax deductibility. The organiza­tion
with the acronyn SALT - D
(Suie and Local Tax Deduct­ibility)
urged citizen participa­tion,
particularly on September
18th, and thereafter in antici-paUon
of a late Septembw or
early October Congressfonal
committee vote.
Deller urges residents lo write
to RepresenUtive Dan Rosen-kowski,
Chainnan of'the }foi|Se
Ways and Means Coram'ittee arid
to Senator Robert Fackwbod,
Chairman of the Senate Finance
Committee, to let them know of
this negative impact such dianges
would have on areas such as Bald­win
which have high local school
taxes.becanse of their low prop- •
erty base. Both Deller and Bald­win
School Superintendent
RoUand Jones noted the support
and effiorts of New York govem-jment
officials who are attempting'
to fighl these changes.
Deller stressed thU not only
would these tax revisions cost
Long Islanders money, but that
they have would an antic^ated
negative effect on the wuling-ness
of voters to support local
school boidgets if the costs could
not be deducted. She said.that
the problem of providing excel­lence
in education would be made
even more difficult if monies
were reduced because' of citi­zens'
unwillingness or inability
to support education.
Baldwin Board of Education
president - Bernard Fittinsky
stressed the "unfairness" of tax
revisions, which eliminate write-ofis
for homeowners bat which
still allow write-offs for business
people.
Asbestos Removal
In other business. Dr. Jones
announced that all non-fiiable
asbestos had been removed ac­cording
lo a previously an­nounced
maintenance schedule
at several schools this stimmer
with pre- and post testing in
accord with government stand­ards.
Jones said the results
were significantly less than
those allowed by government
rulings.
Teacher Finalist
Dr. Jones announced the
'selection of Baldwin , Senior
(Com. on Page 6)
The Village of Freeport's
welcome home celebration for
Grover will include the parade
along Merrick Road, entertun-ment
by the Long.I^and Mum­mers,
and a champagne reception
at the, Freeport Recreation
Center.
Freeport Mayor Dorothy Storm
has deagnated Sunday as -"Gro­ver
. Day" in* the Village and.
various organizations, fiiends and
relatives will form a parade at
1 pm at Freeimrt High School,
South Brookside ' Avenue, to
march eastward along Merrick
Road to the Recreation Center.
islands.
Grover and AI Jr. left SU Pierre
Island off the 'coast of Newfound­land
on August 1 and, after a
brush with two gales and a battle
with Hurricane Claudette, arrived
in the Azores on August 22.
After refueling and with Dante
Grover in his brother's place as
The parade will be followed by
presentations and entertainment
by the Mummers at the Recrea­tion
Center.
Following the entertainment, a
$7.50 per person champagne '
reception wQI be held in the
Center's restaurant lounge and
Terraoearea.
The reception win include
fiiiger sandwiches, champagne,
white wine, soft drinks, coffee
and cake.
Tickets will not be sold at the
door, but are available at the
Recreation Center at this time.
Grover, accompanied first by
his son A], Jr. and later by his
son, Dante, made the 3,000 mile
trans-Atlantic voyage in a 26-foot
"Groverbuilt" skiff with diesel
run Cvinrude motors. Carried
aboard for the journey were
542 gallons of gasoline, not much
to spare when a small boat is
cross'ing the Atlantic Ocean
and'trying to sight several small
1905 '
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• Al Grover
mate, the GroveibuUt left for the
800-iniles trip to Lisbon, beating
Rosemarie "Artie" Grover, who
flew over to Portugal to congratu­late
her husband and sons.
Anyone wishing to participate
in'the parade and/or to purchase
tickets to the reception should call
either - Wilma Buchanan at
378-4000, weekdays, 8J0 tm-
4:30 pm; or Marian KnocUer,
378-7402, weekdays, 10 am-
2 pm.
Two Sentenced For Bike Riding
On Freeport Mall
FREEPORT - Two 17-year-old
Freeport youths will each be
doing seven hours of community
service under sentences imposed
recently by Village Court Justice
Ralph Franco.
lion law, of 67 North Colum­bus
Avenue, and Thomas Sil­vers,
of 206 Jay Street, had
pleaded guilty to \ioUting the
Village .qrdinanee ' prohibiting
. the riding of bicycles on the Free-port
Mall. They had been issued
the summonses by Freeport
Police Officer • Christopher
WUson.
The community service pro­jects,
which are under the di­rection
of the Village's Depart­ment
of Public Works, include
the removal of graffiti in parks
(Conl.onPagelS)