Residents are reminded that
the Annual Discount Plans for the
use of the Recreation Center's
Health Wing of indoor and out-door
pools, steam and sauna,
exercise room, gynasium and
handball court will not be sold
after Labor Day. Cost for the
Annual Plan is $125 for a family
and $60 for an individual with
senior citizens receiving a 50%
discount. Summer Discount
Plans, at $55 for family and $25
for an individual, are also cur-rently
on sale.
Those not wishing to purchase
a Discount Plan may use the
Health Wing on a daily admission
basis. Cost to an adult resident is
$2 with children under 18 paying
$1. An out-of-town guest may
accompany a resident at a cost of
$2.50 per adult and $1.50 for a
child. Residents using the Health
Wing must have a Freeport Activ-ity
Card which costs $2 annually
and may be obtained at the
Center.
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The Recreation Department
has planned two trips for children
and one for adults during August.
: Each trip is by bus which will
leave from, and return to, the
Freeport Recreation Center at 130
East Merrick Road. All partici-pants
must have a Freeport
. Activity Card and all trips are
limited on a first come, first
served basis.
The trips for children are limit-ed
to those age six and older. The
first is on Wednesday, August 3
with the destination being Ad-ventureland
where the children
may go on rides as many times as
they want for the cost of $4.50
which includes transportation.
Tripgoers will be asked to bring
lunch and a beverage. The bus
will leave at 11:45 am and return
about 4 pm. The fee must be paid
at the Center no later than July
27. The next trip is to the West-bury
Music Fair to see the classic
musical, "Young Robinson
Crusoe" on Friday, August 12 at
a cost of $2.50. The bus will leave
at 1 pm and return about 4:30 pm.
Deadline for fee payment is
August 5. All children must have
a permission slip signed by a
Mayor William White has ap-pointed
Ramona Crook, a resident
of South Long Beach Avenue, as
coordinator of the Stabilization
and Affirmative Housing Task
Force. A part-time position, Mrs.
Crook will receive an annual
salary of $5,000 to be paid
through federal Community
Development funds.
Mrs. Crook is a graduate of
Freeport High School and the
Skinner Secretarial School. Prior
to retiring to raise a family, she
was a sales representative with
the Reuben H. Donnelley Corpor-ation
of Manhattan. On a local
level she has served on the Vil-lage's
Beautification Committee
for the past three years and as a
leader, consultant, public rela-tions
and program chairwoman,
and presently Community Asso-ciation
Chairwoman, of the Free-port
Girl Scouts. She was active
with her sister, Martha DeSalvo,
in the cease and desist campaign
which successfully led to coopera-tion
with the Secretary of State's
office for the halting of "block
busting" techniques. Mrs. Crook
was also involved in a county-wide
human relations workshop
program conducted by the Girl
Scouts.
In her duties, Mrs. Crook is
charged with the coordination of
all the activities of the Stabiliza-tion
Task Force and the volun-teers
working under it. This in-cludes
the continued testing of
area real estate firms which led
to the successful prosecution of
five salespersons by the Secre-tary
of State. Mrs. Crook will also
be involved with the Homefinders
Service which matches buyer to
sellers at no cost to either party,
and in an upcoming promotional
campaign. She will work closely
with the other members of the
Task Force which includes
employees from the Human Re-lations
and Code Enforcement
offices as well as private citizens
active in civic affairs.
Residents who have any matter
for the Stablization Task Force
are invited to call Mrs. Crook at
FR 8-4000 or see her at Village
Hall, Monday, Wednesday and
Friday afternoons.
parent before being allowed to go
on-atrip. .. -
An air conditioned bus will be
hired on August 11 to take adults
to Colonie Hill to see a perfor-mance
by Sammy Davis Jr. The
cost -of $16 covers show, buffet
lunch and transportation. Bus will
leave at 11:30 am and return
about 6:30 'pm. Deadline for fee
payment is July 25.
Telephone reservations may be
made for all trips by calling
223-8000, 9 am to 4 pin, Monday
through Friday.
Remember when you could see
a good wholesome movie on a
Friday night for a quarter? Those
days are back again in the air
conditioned Youth Lounge of the
Recreation Center during. July
and August.
Films scheduled for August are
"Won Ton Ton, the Dog That
Saved Hollywood" on the 5th,
"The Little Prince" on the 12th
and "Willy Wonka and the
Chocolate Factory" on the 26th.
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Residents can recycle materials
while aiding the programs for
children sponsored by the Recrea-tion
Department. Needed are
coffee cans, small juice cans,
quart size bleach bottles and
plastic butter containers. They
can be dropped off at the Recrea-tion
Center weekdays between 9
am and 4:30 pm.
JULY 1977
A PUBLIC INFORMATION BULLETIN OF THE VILLAGE OF FREEPORT
46 NORTH OCEAN AVENUE TELEPHONE FReeport 8-4000 WILLIAM H. WHITE. MAYOR
Public Meetings On The 1st and 3rd Mondays Of The Month, At 8:00 P.M.
In left photo, some South Main Street merchants discuss how their businesses are not being
disrupted as the Village constructs a shopping Mall in the central business district. The expanded
lots adjoining the shopping district offer ample free parking with many stores opening directly on
to the lots. Several openings allow pedestrians to cross from one side of the street to the other.
Shown, left to right, are Buddy Bryckof Barasch's, Warren Samet of Samet's, Alex Khanamirian
of Hunter's and Julie Farb of Weber's. In right photo, a construction worker lays an underground
drainage pipe down South Main Street, a facility the street did hot have In the past.
The Freeport .Arts Council,
co-funded by the Village and
School District, will present the
Atlantic Players, in "Hit Tunes
From Flop Shows," August 13,
8:30 pm, at Dodd Junior High
School. The four singers and
pianist, who have drawn stand-ing-
room only audiences through-out
the metropolitan area, will
survey 75 years of unforgettable
music from some of Broadway's
otherwise unmemorable flops.
The music of George M. Cohan,
Eubie Black, Cole Porter and Irv-ing
Berlin will be included.
Tickets are $3 each.
The Council's Third Annual
Summer Teen Theatre will pre-sent
"Good Evening Steven,"
on the evenings of August 19,
20 and 21. The show is based on
the music, of Steven Sondheim.
and Steven Schwartz and was
written, ^nd directed by Steve
Pagano, a Freeport youngster.
The production was made possi-ble
by a grant received from
Exxon based on the excellence of
the past summers' performances.
Cost is $1.50 for adults and $1
for senior citizens and children.
Call 223-2522 to obtain informa-tion
on location.
Tickets to Council events may
be obtained by sending a check to
Box 97, Freeport, together with
a stamped, self-addressed
envelope.
Trustees: Thomas J. Lovelldge, Dorothy Storm, Wayne Jordan, Alfred Sirlln
Village Clerk: Thomas DeVlncenzo - Treasurer: James J. Lyons - Counsel: Oakley Gentry Jr.
The Freeport Board of Trustees
has selected Monday, August 8,
8 pm, as the time during which
the Board will consider a rezoning
of North Main Street as proposed
by the consulting firm of Ray-mond,
Parish, Pine and Weiner
after a study financed through
the Village's federal Community
Development grant. The majority
of the Village's northern corri-dor,
stretching from the railroad
to the Roosevelt line, has been
zoned Planned Unit Develop-ment
(PUD) since 1972.
The public hearing, which will
be held at Village Hall, wasTpre-"
cipated by communications from
Director of Planning and Com-munity
Development Director
James Dunne in which.he stated
that while he had received num-erous
inquiries by potential de-velopers
and businesses "who
are indicating strong interest in
this area," the present zoning is
not in line with the interest ex-pressed
by the investors.
Under the consultants' pro-posal
the lower half of North
Main Street, which recently saw
the introduction of Gouz Farms
and the Reverend Mallette Senior
Citizens Apartments, would re-main
a PUD zone from Lena to
Washburn Avenues south to the
railroad station. Under the modi-fied
PUD regulations, all new
residential uses except multiple
housing units., for.,, the elderly^
would be prohibited in the area..
The study also suggests the loos-ening
up of PUD zoning to~ allow
such interests as movies, bowling
and tennis facilities while noting
that the area near the downtown
and railroad station lends itself
primarily to "higher density
office and commercial space."
Building height would be in-creased
to 70 feet or approximate-ly
six stories; Prohibited in the
southerly area would be gasoline
service stations, motor vehicle
dealers, auto repair shops or
service centers, car washes and
all other uses not specifically
permitted. The clause calling for
mandatory relocation payments
would be eliminated in the PUD
zone.
The report also notes that the
consultants have concluded "that
the PUD zone, without the in-fusion
of public funds beyond
those which appear to be current-
. ly available, will not be able to ef-fect
a transformation in the
street's character" and suggests
the establishment of a Service
Business (SB) zone for the re-mainder
of North Main Street
proper and the change in zoning
from PUD Secondary to Resi-dence
A of properties adjoin-ing
Main Street "as these areas
are comprised of homes in basi-cally
sound condition.''
Permitted in the Service Busi-ness
District of North Main Street
would be all uses allowed in resi-
^.dence districts elsewhere in the
"~Village "except"'for "actual" new
residences. Also allowed would
be retail, service, gasoline sta-tions
with accessory service,
distribution facilities, assembly
and fabricating, office, data pro-cessing,
printing, restaurants
(including fast-food operations),
gardening centers, nurseries,
' landscaping businesses and other
similar uses. Specifically prohibi-ted
would be vehicular body re-pair,
wrecking or painting es-tablishments,
all uses prohibited
in industrial manufacturing dis-tricts,
any use which may be ob-noxious
or offensive, open air
parking lots operated as such for
more-than five vehicles and live
• poultry storage.
All uses in the SB district
would have to be screened from
the view of nearby residence
zones by suitable landscaping
'arid-'fencing:'The Residence-. A-zone
would be amended to permit
accessory off-street parking to
serve the SB uses provided that
the parking area is immediately
adjacent to such usage and is
suitably screened.
In some instances the SB Dis-trict
would include properties
fronting on side streets such as
the Columbia Bronze property,
the south side of Evans Avenue
and West Dean Street and the
north side of Lena Avenue.
All buildings in the SB zone
would be restricted to 35 feet in
height. Each would be required to
have a minimum of 10 feet of
landscaped frontage. In cases
where a side yard adjoins a Resi-dence
A zone, a mimimum of
15 feet of open space would
separate the two properties.
Rear yards will be. required to.
have a minimum depth of 25
feet. The buffer zone between
SB and Residence properties
would be required to contain
evergreen shrubs and/or hedges
placed at close intervals or a con-tinuous
wall or fence at least four
feet in height (six feet if abutting
a residential use or if a loading
zone is to be screened).
Under the consultants' recom-mendations
every non-residential
building erected or altered on a
lot in excess of 4,000 feet will
have to have vehicular access to '•
the rear, side or into the building
for loading purposes. When a "
building is less than 50 feet wide,
and fronts on North Main Street,
space and facilities for off-street
loading and unloading
would have to be provided.
BSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSJ
Harry Weksler Sr. (right), found-er
and Chairman of the Board of
Weksler Instruments, shows
Mayor William White a compo-nent
manufactured by his firm for
use in nuclear submarines.. The
Mayor's tour of the'firm's faci-lities
took place following cere-monies
held by the Small Busi-ness
Administration honoring
Weksler Instruments as the out-standing
contractor of the Eastern
District. Similar ceremonies had
been held in Washington, D.C.
Weksler Instruments was found-ed
in 1954 and was located on
Merrick Road prior to a move to
Freeport's Industrial Park.
Joe and Roseann Cleary of Archer Street and their children,
Peter, Paul, Patrick, Mary and Eileen enjoy the Recreation
Center's outdoor pool.
Because We Found We Can Enjoy A Year-Round Vacation Of Fun,
Exercise and Recreation At The Freeport RecreaMon Center
At Less Cost Than A Weekend Away From Home"
Olympic-size outdoor pool, steam and
sauna, exercise equipment diving tank,
wading pool with play area, indoor pool,
locker and shower rooms, handball
court fully equipped gymnasium, bocci
and shuffleboard, game and lounge
areaf special events and discounted"'
ice skating in season
Resident Discount Plan
$125 per family or $60 per individual,
now through May 31,1978
$55 per family or $25 per individual,
now through Labor Day
Non-Resident Discount Plan
$185 per family or $90 per individual,
now through May 31,1978
v $75 per family or $35 per individual,
now through Labor Day
(50% discount for senior citizens on all Plans)
Also: summer camp programs; instruction in all the arts, for all ages;
exercise programs; swimming, diving and skating lessons; pre-school
programs and much, much more — offered year-round at additional
nominal fees through the Recreation Department
(A municipal facility of «ha Village of Fir&aporlt)
The Complete "Spa" For All The Family
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