NOV 79 -,$;•
Permits Required
For Stoves
Mayor William White cautions
all homeowners in Freeport that a
permit from the Village's Build-ing
Department is required be-fore
the installation of a coal or
wood stove or fireplace. Not only
is the failure to obtain a permit a
violation of the Village code, it
presents a potentially condition in
that the installation is not in-spected
' to assure that no fire
hazard exists. Should a fire occur
because of improper installation,
it is possible that an insurance
company would not cover the
loss.
Permits,, at $15, may be ob-tained
.from the Building Depart-ment
on the lower level of Village
Hall, 46 North Ocean Avenue.
Those who have already installed
such facilities may obtain a
permit without penalty and an in-spection
will follow.
Holiday Festival
The Freeport Recreation
Department, in cooperation with
the Freeport Chamber of Com-merce,
will hold a free Holiday
Festival for adults and children
alike, at the Freeport Recreation
Center on Sunday, December 2,
1 to 6 pm.
Among the activities will be a
visit from Santa Claus and a
special program showing how the
holidays are celebratedinSweden.
The Freeport Meadowbrook
Scandinavian Society has ar-ranged
for the LI Vasa Folk
Dancers and Junior Wings to
appear and perform traditional
Lucia Day ceremonies which
includes the appearance of a
Queen wearing a crown of lighted
candles. The hour and a half per-formance
will include dancing
and singing and children in the
audience will be asked to partici-pate.
Following the performance,
punch, coffee and Swedish
pastries will be served. The
performance will begin at 2 pm in
the Center's gymnasium.
Please watch the local media
for further details on the Holiday
Festival.
A Good Shot
The occasion was an inspection by the Board of Trustees of the Free-,
port Police Benevolent Association-maintained pistol range used by all
members of the force to keep up with their marksmanship.The.complex
has recently been renovated by members who invited Mayor William
White (behind barrier) to try his hand at shooting. The life-sized target
"got if" in the mid-section. PBA members also demonstrated their
considerable skills. Others, left to right, are Officer Bryan Whitty, Sgt.
Bryon Sullivan, Trustee Alfred Sirlin, Trustee Timothy Peternana and
Sgt. John Honkanen. The officers are firearm instructors at the range.
Preventing Fires
The Village's new fire inspector, John Provenzano, looks at sprinkler
system valve he found chained in a "closed" position at a retail store
rendering it useless in case of a fire. Another violation is at upper right
where cover is off hydrant. Recently employed in the part-time Vil-lage
position, Provenzano, Who is third Deputy Chief of the volunteer
Freeport Fire Department, is routinely inspecting all multiple dwell-ings
and places of public assembly for fire hazards. He has the power
of summons to bring violators into Village Court.
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NOVEMBER 1979
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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.
New Community Development Director Named Ice Skating Lessons
Eric Hemphill, 51, has been
named by the Board of Trustees
to serve as Freeport's Director of
Planning and Community Devel-opment.
He replaces James
Dunne who resigned in August
for a position with a Village
engineering firm.
Hemphill, an Oklahoma native,
comes to Freeport after serving
for six years as executive director
of Appleton, Wisconsin's Re-development
Authority. He
served simultaneously as Director
of the Community Development
Block Grant program for the over
72,000 population city and as
Executive Director of the Project
76 Corp., a private non-profit
organization composed of key
leaders from local businesses and
industries.
Hemphill was previously
Executive Director of the Charles-ton,
W.Va., Urban Renewal
Authority and held a similar post
in Kingston, N.Y. He .started his
career with the Redevelopment
Authority of the City of Phil-adelphia
where he had major
responsibility for the restoration
and private sale of 125 homes
dating back to Colonial days and.
located .near Independence Hall.
The project received national
acclaim. Among his professional
memberships is the National
Association of Housing and Re-development
Officials and
National Housing Conference. He
received a bachelors degree from
Oklahoma State University and
his masters from the University of
Pennsylvania.
Eric Hemphill
Freeport's new Community
Development Director and his
wife, Patricia, will be purchasing
a home in the Village.
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FREEPORT
MERCHANTS
Registration for the first ses-'
sion of ice skating lessons at the
Recreation Center will be held on
Wednesday, November 14, 1 to 6
pm, in the skate lounge. Cost is
$15 for eight half hour lessons.
Classes are available for .those
age four and over. A special
course for adults only is held, on
Thursdays, 7:30 to 9:30pm and
consists of four one hour lessons
at the same cost.
The first session will begin on
November 24 and ends on Decem-ber
20. The second session will
begin on January 5. Registration
for that session, and the third
beginning February 2, will be on-
• going and can be accomplished at
the rink any Tuesday or Thursday
at 5:45pm.
those registering have a choice
of a Saturday and Sunday course
or another given on Tuesdays and
Thursdays. The weekend course
is given on Saturdays between
12:30 and 2:30pm and again be-tween
3:30 and 5:30pm. On Sun-days
lessons will be given be-tween
1 and 3pm and again be-tween
3:30 and 5:30pm. The
Tuesday-Thursday, course..-is,
given between 3:30 and 5':30pm.
All classes, are subject to
change based on registration,
.class size and weather con-ditions.
The instructor will deter-mine
ability level of students at
time of registration. Rental skates
are available.
Trustees: Dorothy Storm, Alfred Sirlin, James Clark, Timothy Peternana
Village Clerk: Thomas OeVincenzo - Treasurer: James J. Lyons - Counsel: Michael Solomon
Nigel Blatchly, owner of Devon
Realty, West Hempstead, has
been found guilty of racial
steering by the New York
Secretary of State. His license to
operate has been revoked as a
fine for having "conducted his
office in a manner designed to
engage in a racially discrim-inatory
manner."
According to testimony,
Blatchly told a white undercover
State investigator, "I deal mostly
in West Hempstead, Uniondale,
and some in Hempstead, but
Hempstead is getting inter-racial.
Larry Moore ( black sales-man
for Devon) takes his
customer to Freeport and Roose-velt
and does real well...You can
get a good buy there, but I
wouldn't take you because it is an
interracial area." Blatchly told
another white investigator during
a later test visit to the agency,
"Don't worry about the black
man working over there. He is
just for the black customers. ...I
don't take you into an integrated
area where black people live."
The hearing officer in his written
decision concluded that Blatchly
conducted his office in a manner
designed to engage in a racially
discriminatory manner in that he
employed a black salesman to
service black clientele and he
himself serviced white clientele.
The effect of this practice was to
"steer" home buyers to specific
neighborhoods and bar them from
others because of their race.
Volunteers Sought
Michael Kirwan, Coordinator
of Freeport's Affirmative Hous-ing
and Stabilization Committee
points out that Freeport volun-teers,
working with the Secretary
of State's office, had been instru-mental
in the successful prosecu-tion
of five other area real estate
persons for similar racial steering
practices. "Our monitoring of the
real estate profession is an on-going
program involving Freeport
volunteers of all races," Kirwan
said. "Anyone who can spare an
afternoon to visit two real estate
offices with a companion is urged
to call me at FR 8-4000."
Under a Village ordinance
passed by the Village Board of
Trustees, all business establish-ments
and residences having out-side
gong or whistle alarms must
install a timing device which will
turn off the alarm within thirty
minutes or less.
The ordinance was passed
because of many -incidents in -the -
past where burglar alarms have
sounded for over 24 hours be-cause
the property owners could
not be located causing distress to
all in the area.
Violators of the ordinance are
subject to fines up to $250, up to
15 days in jail, or both.
An article read by Mayor
William White in a publication
issued by the National Solid
Waste Management Association,
has led the Village's Safety
Committee to issue warnings to
appropriate employees not to
carry disposable butane lighters
during working hours. The warn-ing
is also applicable to Village
residents.
According to the magazine
Mayor William White told a
State Assembly committee re-cently
that Freeport could save
an estimated $124,000 in insur-ance
costs if legislation were
passed permitting municipalities
to enter into • self-insurance
pools.
Freeport has already saved tax-payers
$300,0.00.in_ one year by
initiating a self-insurance pro-gram,
the mayor pointed out.
The hearing was called by a
joint committee of the Assembly
which is weighing legislation to
permit municipal self-insurance
pooling. New York State munici-palities
can presently self-insure,
but not form pools. Pooling for
the purpose of achieving lower
costs and broader coverage is now
practiced in 19 other states.
Mayor White, an insurance
broker by profession, said that
municipalities could afford far
greater liability protection as part
of a pool. He said that pooling
Residents are -reminded that
Village law requires that all
bicycles be registered with t
Freeport Police Department .-T
registration has proveft«to be
deterrent to theft. In addition,
when a bike is stolen, the regi-stration
numbers which is per-manently
affixed, aids in its
return to the rightful owner.
Registration can be accomp-
- lished-any Wednesday, 8:30 am
to 4:30 pm, at Police Head-quarters.
Cost for the one-time
registration is 25$. The bicycle
must be brought to Headquarters
for registration in order that a
metal plate can be affixed. All
those registering also receive
bicycle safety materials.
lightens
article, two separate and fatal
accidents occurred to Union
Pacific Railroad workers when
sparks from the welding tools
they were using landed on the
butane lighters they were carry-ing
in their clothes. The sparks
burnt through the plastic covering
of the lighter exposing the volatile
butane fluid and causing it to
explode at the same magnitude as
approximately three sticks of
dynamite.
would enable Freeport to extend
its liability coverage from one
million dollars to an estimated
$10 million.
"The trend in jury awards in
negligence, cases is for. ever in-creasing
sums, and one million
dollars is no longer safe cov-
.erage," he said.
White suggested to the legis-lators
that any legislation permit-ting
insurance pooling provide for
the filing of quarterly reports to
the Department of Audit and Con-trol,
and that the Department
conduct an annual audit.
"I believe that such reports and
auditing would be sufficient to
provide full protection against
any possible financial failure of an
insurance pool," he said.
White urged that legislation be
free of "stringent regulation and
red tape that would make it'im-possible
for us to keep costs
down."
The Village is no longer'
disposing of garbage and trash at
a New Jersey landfill where costs
were steadily increasing. Gar-bage
is now being disposed of at
the Town of Hempstead Resource
Recovery -plant .and trash, at.the
Oceanside landfill. This repre-sents
a savings to the taxpayers of
$5.70 per ton.
Both the Oceanside and
Hempstead facilities operate six
days a week from 7 am to 3 pm.
Because the last truck must leave
Freeport no later than 2:15 pm to
dispose of refuse, the Village's
private carter must start col-lection
at 6:30 am. All attempts
are being made to keep noise to a
minimum during the early morn-ing
hours.
Trash Regulations
According to Village ordi-nances,
trash is only those
materials that can be incinerated.
Items such as bicycles, bed
springs, lawn furniture, etc. will
not be collected unless a special
pickup has been previously
arranged. In addition, trash is not
to be mixed with garbage. The
Hempstead Resource Recovery
Plant's machinery rejects non-burnables.
At the same token,
Oceanside will turn back any
truck carrying garbage mixed
with acceptable trash.
-pLgASg. -NOTE:' Trash' is T
picked up from the curb in the
south section of the Village on
WEDNESDAY — NOT SATUR-DAY.
Collection for the north is
on Thursday and on Friday for the
central area; Those placing trash
at the curb other than after 6 pm
the evening before or on the
proper collection day, are subject
to a summons.
FURTHER NOTE: When a
legal holiday falls on a garbage
pickup day, garbage will not be
picked up in that area until the
following collection day and no
trash pickup will be done until the
following week.
Some 200 people attended an afternoon dance at the Recreation Center
enjoying the music of jazz artists Jimmy and Marian McPartland and
homemade foods. All drinks were based not on high priced bottled
water, but Freeport's unbeatable water. The party climaxed "It's Ok
Not To Drink Month as proclaimed by Mayor William White (at right
with Mrs. White). The special month, as originated by Village Alcohol
and Substance Abuse Center Director Marian Harvie, focused on those
who choose not to drink alcoholic beverages but are exposed to social
pressures. The idea has created interest throughout the nation.
Four youthful vandals had en-counters
with the Freeport Police
Department recently.
Police Officers Metzgar and
Zimmer, investigating a report of
broken glass at Freeport High
School spotted two youths run-ning
out from the school's south
driveway. When questioned, the
two boys, both aged 15, admitted
to breaking the two panes of
glass. They were taken to Head-quarters
and their parents not-ifie~
d:'Accbrding'to School District
officials, the boys' parents have
been billed for the cost of repairs
as permitted under State law. If
no payment is forthcoming, the
parents will be sued by the Dis-trict.
On another occasion, a con-cerned
resident called the Police
Headquarters to report two girls
with spray paint in the area of the
Key Foods parking lot on Ocean
Avenue. On arrival, Police
Officers Pesale and Giordano saw
a mail box, two trees and a pri-vate
car besmeared with yellow
and red spray paint. They quickly
apprehended two girls, ages 12
and 13, still in the area and carry-ing
paint. The girls were ident-ified
by the complaining witness
and confessed. They were
charged on three counts of crim-inal
mischief and .handed.over to.
the Nassau County Police Depart-ment's
Juvenile Aid Bureau.
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