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53rd YEAR. NO. 31 FREEPORT. NEW YORK November 12.1987 PRICE 25* PER COPY
Freeport and Baldwin say 'no' to drugs
Freeport marches in
anti-drug abuse parade
The "Freeport Sayi NO to
Drugs",parade will tegjn at-lOv
a.m. on SatuSIay, Ndvieiabcr 14.
The parade date was
announcod by Freeport Mayor
Dorothy Storm and Freeport
Advisory Task Force On Drugs
Chajiman Tedd Levy. The Task
Force is sponsoring the parade
after last year's w u cancelled due
to bad weather. This year's event
has a November 1S rain date.
The parade is dedicated to the
memory of the late James Rid-dick.
a 17-year-old who was
fataUy injured by a stray bullet.
an iimoce&t victim of a supposed _.
drug-related incidciit on iictober
18.
Over 2,000 paraders are
expected to march from Oodd
Junior High School, Pine Street
and Guy Lombardo Avenue,
west along Merrick Road, to the
Freeport High School on South
Brookside Avenue. At the high
school a short program will be
held at the George Emma Mem­orial
Field. Spectators are invited
to lice Merrick Road and then
, proceed^to the high school.
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special PuU-Out
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Athletes Help Athletes
at Baldwin SvH.S.
by Joan Delaney
pages 1A-4A
Fourteen professional athletes
were at Baldwin SHS on Mon­day,
November 2, to partidpale
in the Peer Leadership "87 Pro­gram
which ispartoftheAthletes
Helping Athletes (AHA) project.
AH A is a not-for-profit company
which has developed a series of
huinan resources programs for
athletes and coaches at all levels.
To conduct these programs, they
recruit and tr^n active and
retired professional and high pro­file
amateur athletes who work
with their professional staff. In
addition, they recruit and train
selected college and high school
student athletes to panicipate in
presentatiom directed to high
school, jum'ot high school' and
elementary students^
Baldwin Senior High School
hosted the Peer Leadenhip "87
program, inviting students, itafT
and admnlstrators from all 5S
Nassau County high schools. 47
.school districts responded. The
purpose of the day was to explain
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Winners of Freeport Schools anti-drug poster contest announced
Winners of the Freeport Public
Schools drug abuse prevention
poster contest were selected on
Friday. Two tnnners from each
grade level K-12 were selected
from each school. Judges were
TMd toy from Operation Pride,
Mariaime Endo of the Freeport
drug abuse prevention task force.
Chamber of Commerce past pres­ident
Dora Fhiilips, and Ellen
KSicas, youth counselor at the
Atkinson School. The contest
coordinator was Raymond John­son,
art supervisor for the Free-port
Schools.
The winners from each school
were;
Archer Street 1st grade, 1st -
Lauren Johnson; 2nd Machanie
McCall Archer Street 2nd grade.
1st • Mayra Duran; 2nd -Glen
Palmer. Archer Street 3td grade,
1st • Hildeliu Coralero; 2nd -
Elizabeth Farley. Archer Street
4th grade, 1st - Monica Martin; -
2nd - Yong Jian^.
Bayview - tst grade. 1st • Mon­ica
Arducido; 2nd - Julia Tho­mas.
Bayview - 2nd grade, 1st -
Verena Bryan; 2nd - Philip
Bacchus. Bayview 3rd grade. 1st
-Lisa McNicol; 2nd - Glenn
AppeL Bayview 4th grade, 1st -
Maria Fana^oUdlsr 2nd - Mat­thew
Lcvine.
Giblyn 1st grade, 1st - Vaugh
Peace; 2nd - Odaiis SurieL Giblyn
2nd grade, 1st - Soraida Rodri­guez;
2nd • Lamar Richardion.
Giblyn 3rd grade, 1st - Ben Ter-zulli;
2nd - Janine Leccese. Gib­lyn
4tb grade, 1st • Uura
Speicher; 2nd - Alan Richartz.
Atkinson 5th grade, Ist -
Aimee Schultls; 2nd - Jodi
Spechl. Atkinson 6th ^ d e . Ist -
Kifflberly Hosey; 2nd - JeBilifer
Foray.
Dodd 7th grade, Ist - Brian
Dunkle; 2nd - Jennifer Escaler.
Dodd 8th grade, Ist-Malgonata
Mikolajezyk; 2nd r Songhai
Carter.
Freeport High School 9th
grade. Ist - Valetu Martin; Zod -
Kathleen Martin. Freeport High
School 10th grade. 1st - Ramsee
Durfvier, 2nd - Shawn Seaman.
Grade 11, 1st -Btyanll oehaet;
2nd- David R. Franks. Grade 12,
Ist - Rich Bayer; 2nd - Gina
Nieto.
"NO DRUGS" PARADE l« them* of a poster by Soraida Rodriguai, wViich won Tin\ plaea
among poster contest antriea aubmlttad by second grade ttudentt at ^ * Qiblyn School.