The-Leader_1989-05-11

              Freeport •^aldwin
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Baldwin Library
dedicates Wing
by Joan Delaney
Hapiwiess. appreciation and
rcoewrd commitineiit marked
the dedication cefcmonies for tbe
Dcwchildrtn^ wing of the BaJd-win
tibruy. The event took
place oaSoaday. May 7from Ito
5 pjiL «od the tceoc was one of
p r ^ aod festzveiKo.
At I*JO P.IO., the oHicial pro­gram
began with letnaxlu by
library Board Picsideot Kevin
KankCA and Library Director
Barbara HopJdm. Mr. lUmen
paid tiibDte to present library
Trustees Barbara Joster. WiUiain
Athas. Seymoor Weber and
Edward D^Iamonte as well as to
past tnutees. partknlaily Q i a ^
B<»^ Ingrid Mabkr and Lco-naro
Mdnan who vued dniisg
weir teonrcs to proceed w^
expanrott plans. Abo tbanked
was past Director Walter Haber
who with his wile Barbara
attended the ceremony.
. --Mr. Kamen rtflcctcd oa ^he
history of the cxpansioa which be
taid woold 'spearhead the cos-mtroity
into the next decade.* He
a id the decision to expand was a
difiicult one with toogb deci*
-^slorU* as weflTii' mtafr^dHLTle"
noted that *tomorrow is what
comtts and tomorrow is only 24
btcran away." He said that the
fibtaiy wis contintie to grow" and
told the community that "ihe
chalkoge is on you."
Director Barbara Hopkins
paid tribute to the representatives
of many organizations who were
present and received tributes
from representatives of Cotmty
Executive Thomas GuJotta. Pre*
tiding Supenisor Joseph Moo-deUo
and State Semuor Noraua
Levy. Mai McGarry, rcprtscm-ing
Mr. Gnlotta. spoke of the
library as "building strength to
better urtngth." Assemblyman
Chartea O'Sbea praised the work
ofpast and present library Trus­tees
and spoke of his pleasure as a
BaldwTiuie himself in witnessiag
thisexpantioiL
.ChOdrsn ttdttM
The most tooching portion of
the program was a presentation
of readings and poems by ddld-ren
who arc me<nbers of Bald­win's
various girl scout troops.
Their poems praised the new
cbildren'k wing and described^
joyi and bdie&t} of reading and
libraries. The poems were entitled
-I Had A Mother Who Read To
Me.""TV Childrenlj Wing" and
The Baldwin Public Ubrary"
and the audience smiled in appre-tixtioirof
Ihe-ingennocaDesi-ttf-the
children.
Qiiklren's librarian Doris Giv-lott
thanked the conmiuniiy and
by Linda Tbscxtno
S«veral mytha about
R»*port*a power were exposed
at last I\iesday's well-attend­ed
Freeport Chamber of Cora-meres
meeting.
Myth Number One i» that
Freeport produces most of its
own electrical power. Actually,
aa guest speaker John Lenn^,
vice president for public
affair* for the New York
Power Authority, pointed «)t,
Freeport buys 93 percent of its
power from^NYPA- Another
two percent is tourcbased from
ULCO,and \ ^
five to seven "peTecn^tT^eUing
some of i t to ULGO in turn.
Myth Number Two i s that
Freeport does not need to
build any other power plants
or look for any other supi^ers
because NYPA !• building a
26.3 mil*^ cable across the
LonjT Island Sound to bring in
more electrical power for L ^
Island.
According to Mr. Lenncy,
the 600 megawatu to b«
brought in upon the cable's
completion in 1991 will be
wheeled through UOLCO and
sold to others only if LILCO
does not need them. But
LILCO had been counting on
the Shoreham nuclear power
plant, dated to be deoommis-noned,
for 800 megawatts of
power. Under the settlement
between the state and LILCO.
NYPA will, If asked, build
three 300 megawatt planta Tot
LILCO, to be completed in
2005 or 2010.
Myth Number Ihree is that
with electrid^ available from
the cable, LILCO customers
win eryoy the same low elec­trical
rates Freeportera havct
As realtor Sid Lisberman
Dointed out, Freeport's electric
utility has long been a selling
point for b ( ^ residential and
commercial real estate cus*
tomer*.
But Mr. Lenney said
Freeporters should say
"Thank God I live in Freeport,
which is wholesaled by the
NYPA' and where rerident*
pay half what their ndghbors
in Baldwin are charged for the
same wattage from LILCO.
And the Freeport advantage
will last "forever," ho predicta.
Comlnos concerned
William Cominoe, head of
Freeport's electrical depart­ment,
sees the "dock ticking
away" as Freeport's demand
for electrical power grows *
without steps being taken to
either generate or amnge to
import more. Although he
understands the nllage board'
's recent decision to set a 90-
day mcratorium on actica), fol­lowing
heated controversy
during the March electoral
campaipi, he is frankly "con­cerned."
At preaent, Freeport's trans­mission
lines are ot full capac­ity
and cannot import more
electrical power.
Mr. Cominos says Freeport
must choose between several
solutions involving either a
generator to produce more
power and/or a substation to
accept more power,
Freeport • NYPA ties
Freeport wos the fifth
municipality to become a cus­tomer
for NYPA's power,
beginning in the early 1970s
with interruptible power and
first receiving firm power in
1979.
It is dealing »ith the largest
producer of electrical power in
Che state. NYPA sell* one
third of all the state's electri­cal
power, serving as whole­saler
to private companies and
municipalities. It is helped
along by your tax dollars in
the sense that its bonds are
tax free.
The NYPA began producing
hydroelectric power back in
the 1950'8 from the St.
Lawrenee River, with the
largest plant in the Western
world. About 20 percent of
NYPA's total production now
comes from nuclear plants,
and it is the biggest nuclear
power plant operator in the
state.
If all goes as plarmcd under
a aettlcment between LILCO
and New York State, which
must be approved by stock­holders
at a June meeting, the
Long Island Power Authority
will buy the Sboreham nude-ar
plant built by LILCO for
t l , and the NYPA will Mrve
as contractor to decommission
il at a coat to LILCO of $400
million. "And if they don't pay.
we won't do it," Mr. Lenney
declared.
NYPA Operate Shoreham?
Several factory and busi­ness
managers had questions
for Mr Lenney about the
NYPA - LILCO connection.
Owen Deringer of Inscom
Electronic asked if NYPA
could operate Shoreham. Mr
Lenney answered that was
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Smoky desk fire
closes Bayview School
by Sue Morgan
Bayview Avenue School
remained dosed evly this week
after a fire in a Cm floor dasv
room desk left a- gttasy.tetidoc of
soot throughout tbe two-story
building. Both school and fire
ofQcials termed the Saturday
morning Hre su^ndous.
- Freeport Pobce had been
called about 9 a.m. Saturday by a
-'Seaioy resioem wnu obscfveu'aii '
open wi^ow and flashing red
bghi at tbe school Freeport fire­fighters
who arrived almost
immediately used water cans to
easilydouse the smoldering fire in
a desk in Elizabeth McCcough'i
second grade daxsrtwm. said
Qnef Julius Ellison, but be added
that tbe building suffered heavy
smoke damage.
"Itcockl have been worse, bui
thank God it wasnt," com­mented
Chief Ellison. 'Tbe Nas-san
County Fire Marshatl'i
Office is investigating.
Oexners from Milro Serwxs
began Saturday to dean the^Uun..
-ffinr of {^lyTB^rcoveiing alniost
eveTytlur.g in tbe schooU Supcrin-lendcnt
of SchooU Dr. John
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