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BALDWIN UABER
54th YEAR, NO. 37 FREEPORT, NEW YORK THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 15,1988 PRICE 25* PER COPY
Animal shelter's boiler fails
KEEPING COZY with • frtond i* "Baby C«t". • rMMant of the
Long laland Humana and Dog Protactiva Aaaodation't aninMl
•haltar in Fraaport. Tha ahaltar naada fund* for wintar haating.
by Maurice Forge.
Shelter manager Doreen Herr
seemed heart-broken in con­templation
of approaching fall
and winter without headng fo'
the animals and the staff. The
1932 oil boiler at the Long
Island Humane and Dog
Protective AsaociaUon's animal
shelter at 2 Ryder Place, coiner
of Hanse Avenue in .the
Freeport industrial park gave
out and has been declared
beytmdr^air.
Tlie present population at tlus
home for abandoned or. lost
animals is 2S dogs and 30 cats.
The normal capacity is 33 dogs
aad 35 cats, llie'guests" at the
Humane Society are mostly
transients, since there is a
steady process of adoption by
people seekbg pets.
Ihe Association is financed
by voluntary contribution fiom
people sympathetic to. its
humane enieavors and services
to the community. It is run by a
volunteer board of direaors of
which Milicent McEvoy is the
President and Cheryl Saleia
Director.
According to manager
Doreen Herr, the animals are
Board weighs Harbor Lights condos
" by, Maurice Forge
Following nearly five hours of
presentation by the developer
and rebuttal by opponents
Thursday evening September 8 in
Village Hall, the Planning Board
undertook to go through the
voluminous record and render a •
decision on the application for a
91-umt condominium south of
Richmond Avenue between the
Miller Channel and the Schooner
restaurant'parldng lots. .
Joined in the'Village hearing
room by a near-capacity
audience, the Planning Board
members Peter Bivona, John
DiGrazia, Edel Marone, William
Teas and chairperson John
Bonner gave all parties free rein
to explain and clarify their state­ments
of fact and views of the
controversal aspects of the plaii
to build a new complex on the
present vacant land between
South .Ocean. Avenue and the
west side of MiUer Avenue where
the Sea Breeze Restaurant was a
landmark for many yean.
Village. Attorney William
Glacken opened the session, held
at the request of the Johansen
Organization of Hempstead, by
presentiiig IS exhibits submitted
on behalf of Harbor Lights Con­dominiums.
During the hearing
the list of exhibits grew to 25,
consisting of current and old land
and tax maps, notices, affidavits
and sundry contsponsence.
Attorney Armand D'Amato of
Island Park submitted a thick
book of documents representing
' the Final Environmental Impact
Study as reqiured by. local,
county, state and federal laws,
and asserted that all exceptions
and questions raised by officials
aiul interested, residents have
been met.
Nevertheless, a group of oppio-
Baldwin Board discusses personnel
fed and'bathed dally. The cages
are cleaned every day also. .
Ms. McEvoy and Ms. Salem
have sent their urgent appeals to
regular Shelter supporters and
to all animal lovers to come
forth with special contributions
in ;lie emeigeacy. As Ms. Heir
told us, "anybody who has a
spare boiler or wishes to donate
some mmey, please call us at
37fr4340.' She is It the Shelter
every day .7 to S and will be
glad to hear fiom everybody. Or
send a contribution to The
Humane Sodety, P.O. Box 693,
Freeport, N.Y. 11520
nents, led- by Ghainnair Charles
Wetiz of the Fishermen's Aaisod-ation,
and Marvin Iskols of the
South of Sunrise Civic Associa­tion,
and opponents mainly from
the south ends of Nassaii and
Miller Avenues and Miracle Mile
boatmen, voiced lively and at
times boisterous opposition.
Those who joined in the discus­sion
were Jim Kielt, Gary Lewis,-
Herb Jurist, Margaret Wood,
Michael Paceleo and Dorothy
Kielt
Opponents cite obiections
Opposition to'the construction
of 91 apartments on this 3 J4 acre
site was based primarily on fears
of exeesnve denrity, added ttafiie
and parking problems, use of
water, sewer and sanitation servi­ces,
impact on the school system,.
obstruction of the view of the
(continued oh paga t2)
by Joan Delaney
The Baldwin Board of Educa-tion
met on Wednesday eveniiig,
September 7, in a brief meeting at
which business and personnel.
matters were disetissed.
The Board approved the crea­tion
of two positions - a Clerk of
the Works to supervise the varr
ious buildings aitd grounds pro­jects
which will be undertaken as
a result of monies that have been
received from past sales of prop­erty.
In addition, they approved
the creation of the position
Supervisor of Operations wluch
wiU involve night time supervi­sion
of biiil<Iing and grounds
crews. •-' •
The Board also approved ret-,
• roaptive.contiaets relative to the.
]987-88 Legislative grant it
received,. The $50,000 grant was
used for an assoitment of curricu­lum
items including the Seattle-
Berkley program and the sub^
stance abuse counseling-progiam.
In an interesting discusnon,
the Board approved a request by
Nassau County to install two six
inch rods at the high schooL
These "survey monuments" will
become part of a County-wide
grid system whereby the County
will be able to set the exact l o n^
todinal and latitudinal coordi-luites
of a particular disk. When
all of the disks are cQprdlnaied,
the Coiinty will bcr'«bfe'io{$a«
them as 'Ttfereace"p6iiiis"iii
• detenniiiuig precise locations of
< sprrqnndin.g ,];roj>er^ie,t;,and.
Picnic with a lieart
LEGIONNAIRE HOSTS, abova, calabtatad with handicapped
guatts of honor at tha WlfHam Clinton Story Poat'a annual
benefit piciric held recently at Waterfront Park. Sharing a
burger, below, are from left, Mimtia Hager and pact legion
commander* Fred Heger and Tux Eapoaito. ^^^oceeda of the
event, which drew ever 1 SO gueate, went to handicapped and
retarded cjiHdren and the SpecM Olympic*.
features.
The intent of placing these
monuments is to allow' the
County to nnite all Public Works
projects and eventually all prop­erty
boundaries with a common
reference syitem.and so fadlitate
land records management on a
County, wide basisl In order to
establish the positioss of these .
"monuments' with a high degree'
of precision, the County will.be
using the govenmient^ NAV-STAR
satellites and highly
sophisticated computer technol­ogy.
The reason that the County
is requesting to use school district
propoty is because it is the only
location not in private ownership
in the area with adequate unoh-stiucted
sky to allow the recep-