The-Leader_1988-04-28

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54lhYEAR,NO. 17 FREEPORT, NEW YORK APRIL 28, 1988 PRICE 2 5 * PER COPY ,
Recreation Center's seniors are super!
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Neither snow nor rain can keep ,
them from their daily activities,
but the Sedors at the Freqiort
Recreation Center aren't deliver­ing
the mail — theyVe dancing,
swimming, bowling, gardetung,
travelling, and just enjoying each
other's company.
"They have more desire and
motivation to come here in both
good and bad weather than any
other age group," says line dance
instructor Carol Monyak. "It^
their attitude," Mrs. :Monyak
continues, taldng a break from
leading her class of what one
dancer calls the "smoothly sliding
senors."
"They're enjoying life and their
age is meaningless," the instruc­tor
says. .-
The Recreation Center> facili^
ties provide an opportunity for
swimming, billiards, exerdnng
and most important, camarad­erie
in the comfortable, senior
lounge; equipped with a small
kitchen, piano and even a "back
.yard" for jummer clainbakes,
barbeques and gardening-
Center director Louise Albach
points out handmade banners
depicting some of the many
senior activities such as the
Thursday night supper club, the
ceramics group, the bridge club '
which raises funds for thi Helen
Keller Services for the Blind, and
the quildng club', whose handi­work
is promi^ntly displayed in
, the Recreation Center lobby.
Another wall in the lounge is
devoted to photographs, trophies
and other memorabilia from the
over-60 men's Freeport Seagulls
Softball league, displayed
between the lending library and
coupon exchange boxes. Coffee
tables among the comfortable
chairs are strewn with magaanes,
and plants tended by the seniors
provide a Bving memorial )o their
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friends who have died.
The Senior Fine Arts and
Crafts program culminates each,
year in a sale for which customers
line up outside the Center to have
first pick of the lovely items for
sale, Mrs. Albach says.
While numerous activities
operate on a.regular schedule,
many events are spur of the
moment, with the seniors bring­ing
refreshments for an
impromptu get together, or plan-lung
a' hot Sunday brunch, Mrs.
Albach buying the food and the'
seniors doing the cooking and
cleaning up.
The location of the Recreation
Center's pre-scbool ''Kiddy
Qub"' directly across the hall
from the, senior lounge is an
opportunity for the monthly
grandma and grandpa's day, and
the two generations enjoy sing­ing,'
dancing and stories together.
Despite the enticement of the
many programs held at the
Recreation Center, the seniors
are ii travelling group as well,
making trips to Broadway and
upstate Elmsford for the&tre and
brunch and to area sightseeing
spots. Several cruises are
planned, and the softball and
bowling leagues will enjoy
awards banquets out
Mrs. Albach estimates that
there are close to 600 members in
the group, which is about equally
divided between freeport resi-
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Board approves school budget 1 Baldwin school board
Giblyn rezohe plan adopted
•. by Maurice Forge
the 1988-1989 school budget
was uiianimously approved by
the five trustees of the Freeport
School Board at the public hear­ing
\itli in Caroline C. Atkinson
School Thursday evemng April
21 and will be submitted to the
district^ voters on May 11. Board
-Pitiidiht'Dorothy. Pii^4rged'ii
large turnout for that Wednes­day's
voting to get a genuine;
expression of the people.
At' the same meeting the
School Board adopted its Rezon-tng
Plan for'grades oni to four,
described as Plan A. with the fol­lowing
modifications arrivpd at
in consultation'with the respeo-
Uve PTAs and! parents .whose
children are affected by the
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I. The area including the fol*
lowing addresses which no w goes
to the Archer Street School but
which once went to the Bayview
Avenue School shall be returned
. to Bayview. This area includes:
Smith (between B*y^ew~sna~
Long Beach), Elm race. West
Merrick Road (ttom 330/301 to
•• 220/223), Porterfield Place
- (77y84down),Pinefrom2SS/256
to 19S/200), Taft PUce; Uxing-ton
(68 to 15/16), West Sunrise
(280/281 to 196/199), McKinley .
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dents and non-residents, from
BayvUle in the East to Queens in
the West. This diversity "enriches
the program," according to Mrs.
Albach. .
Annual membership fee is S4
for Freeport residents and SS for
nob-r<eitidents. All of the pro-grains
are run on a non-profit
baus. Non-residents must join
the Health Wing to use the pooL
"It^ a' busy program," says '
Mrs. Albach, "but the whole staff
of the Recreation Center comes
to my rescue when I need them." -
She hopes to add a senior exei=_
dse program and a coune in .
designing sweatshirts next year,
saying, "I believe in. meeting
needs." "s.M.-
election seepage?
2. The area in northeast Free-port
to be rezoned to the Gi1?lyn
School will be changed. The nor­theast
rezoning will include the
following addresses: The north
side of Grand Avenue from
Mam Street to Rutland Road,
Main Street from Grand Avenue
to Washington Avenue, Wash-bum
Avenue (both rides). Den-'
'Wlf'AViWJtfJiiy'Street betwMn*
GRand Avenue, and >yashbum
Avenue and Graffing Place
between Grand Avenue and-
Washbum Avenue.
' Parents of students currently
in lldrd grade who live in Attend­ance
zones schedoted to' be'
changed from one school' to
another as of September'. 1988
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