- NOTICE -
ELECTRIC CONSUMER DEPOSITS
IN ORDER TO AVOID PROVIDING A TWO-MONTH DEPOSIT AS SECURITY
FOR PAYMENT OF ELECTRIC BILLS, ALL SAID BILLS MUST BE PAID WITHIN
TWENTY-FIVE (25) DAYS, OTHERWISE CONSUMER WILL BE CONSIDERED
DELINQUENT AND REQUIRED TO PROVIDE DEPOSIT AS PER SECTION 117 OF
PUBLIC SERVICE LAW.
L.I.R.R. Resident
Parking Stickers
The 1984 parking stickers,
necessary for use of commuters'
parking lots in the Village, are
now on sale for use beginning
January 1, 1984.
In order to obtain a sticker,
it will be necessary for residents
to present their current auto
registration for the car they will
be using at the lots, AND THEIR
CURRENT ELECTRIC BILL.
The annual $10 fee per car
will remain the same.
Non-residents may not use the
commuters' parking lots. There is
a $50 fine for illegal use of a
commuter parking sticker for
each violation.
The stickers may be obtained
at the Registrar's window. Village
Hall, 8:30 am to 4 pm, weekdays.
Jewelry-Making Demonstration
The Arts Council at Freeport
will present a jewelry-making
demonstration on Saturday, Jan-uary
14 from 10 am to noon.
In the course of this exhibition,
which will take place in the Arts
Council Room in the Freeport
Recreation Center, you will learn
how to string, knot and clasp.
There is no admission charge.
You may purchase a $10 packet
supplied by the demonstrator,
Frank Mathies of Oriental World-wide
Imports, Freeport, enabling
you to make a beaded necklace
and earring set valued at $40.00.
A beaded necklace will also be
given away as a gift. To register,
come to the Arts Council office
at the Recreation Center or call
223-2522.
Playwrighting Workshop
The Arts Council at Freeport is
offering a 10-session Playwright-ing
Workshop taught by Warren
Goodson beginning Thursday,
January 19 at 7:30 pm. The
course, which ends at 9:30 pm
This
and which has been made pos-sible
with support from Poets
and Writers, Inc., will be given
in the Arts Council Room of the
Recreation Center. For infor-mation,
call 223-2522.
MUST HAVE
DRIVER'S LICENSE,
DEPENDABLE
TRANSPORTATION.
I Christmas-
Shop Locai|
Merchants |
^ '4.00 per hour
12 - 20 hours per week
Uniform supplied.
Must be d resident
of Freeport.
AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER
Apply: Village Hall
Office of the Village Clerk
46 No. Ocean Awe. 9AM • 4PM
no telephone inquiries.
DECEMBER 1983
A EubJic Information Bulletin
of The Village Of Freeport
46 North Ocean Avenue
Telephone FReeport 8-4000
William H. White, Mayor News
Public Meetings on the 1st. and 3rd. Mondays of the Month, at 8:00 P.M.
It's Time For Greetings Of The Season
A SPECIAL FREEPORT GREETING. (Please see story on page 3)
- - =. The. Board- of Trustees and the Municipal Staff - -
join in
Wishing You and Your Family
ALL THE HAPPINESS OF THE SEASON
and
A HAPPY & HEALTHY NEW YEAR
Trustees: Dorothy Storm, Alfred Sirlin, James Clark, Vincent OiCostanzo
Village Clerk: Thomas DeVincenzo; Attorney: Harrison J. Edwards, Jr.; Treasurer: Thomas M. Molloy
Know YOUR Neighborhood
The Village of Freeport has
joined the U.S. Commerce
Department-'s'Cerisus'Bureau in a-special
Neighborhood Statistics
program. The purpose of- this
program is to produce Jdemo-graphic
and economic information
based on the results of the 1980
Census of Population and Hous-ing
'for officially recognized
neighborhoods.
There are five such neighbor-hoods
in the Village: Northwest,
Northeast, Ceniral, Southwest
and Southeast.
Starting this month, and for the
next four months, the "Village
News" will publish the Com-merce
Department's data on each
of the five neighborhoods.
NOTE: It is important to keep
in mind that this data was collect-ed
in 1979-80.
Northwest Freeport
For this purpose, the Com-merce
Department defines the
northwest as the area bounded by
Sunrise Highway and the north-erly
Village line, and North Main
Street and North Brookside
Avenue.
According to the census,
9,071 persons lived in the area on
April 1, 1980. They comprised
23.7% of Freeport's total popu-lation
of 38,272. Of that number,
5,556 were White; 2,628 Black;
17 were among the American
Indian, Eskimo and Aleut group-ing;
and 44 of the Asian and
Pacific Islander grouping.
Persons of Spanish origin (who
may be of any race) numbered
1,240. Among residents of the
northwest, 22% were under age
15 and 10.8% were 65 or older.
The area's median age was 32.6
years as compared to total
Freeport's 30.9 years.
The northwest's 3,267 house-holds
represent 25.7% of all Free-port
households. Among the
3/267 households, 24.5% con-sisted
of one person and 7% had
six or more persons.
~~ Among persons in the north-west
age 15 and older, 58.3% of
the 3,300 men and 51.3% of the
3,775 women were married
(excluding separated) at the time
of the census. Of 2,326 families,
80.9% were maintained by a
• married couple, •~l-4r3% ~by 'a
female householder with no
husband present, and 4.9% by a
male householder with no wife
present.
Foreign born in the area was
14.4%. In terms of ethnic or
national origin, 515 persons were
.of Irish ancestry, 426 of Italian
and 419 of German.
In the northwest, 2,444 persons
ages three and over were enrolled
in school. They included 107
in nursery schools, 1,199 in
kindergarten through eighth
grade and 664 in high school. Of
the students in grades K-12,
13.3% were enrolled in private
schools. Of those over the age
of 25, 12% had a grade school
education of less, and 78.6%
were high school graduates,
including 46.2% who had com-pleted
one or more years of
college. About 25.8% had com-pleted
four years or more of
college. Of civilians 16 years and
over, 16.3% were veterans,
including 33.2% of the males.
~~OT the total of 8,335 persons,
five years and older, living in the
northwest in 1980, 40.5% had
been living in a different house in
the United States five years
earlier. Of those movers, 63.9%
had lived in Nassau County;
32.6% had lived in New York
State but in a different county;
and 3.5% had lived in a different
state. On the other hand, 30.6%
of all householders in the north-west
had lived in their housing
units 10 years or more.
The unemployment rate for the
area in 1979 was 5.7% — 6.1%
for White persons; 5.1 % for Black
persons; and 4% for Spanish
origin persons. In the area,
68.7% of all working-age (-16 or
older) persons and 57.8% of
working-age females were in the
labor force.
Those employed included 906
in administrative support occu-pations
including clerical. An-other
721 persons said they were
in professional specialty, occu-pations,
and 628 persons were in
executive, administrative, and
managerial occupations. Of the
4,410 employed persons, 71.7%
worked for wages or salary for a
private entity. Another 22.1%-
held " local?""staIe''""bT'"'federal
government jobs. The self-employed
represented 5.6% •
of the total.
The median income in 1979
for families in the northwest was
$25,553. The median income for
White families was $25,694;
$26,883 for Black families; and
•$15,000 for Spanish origin
families. There were a total of
912 persons below the poverty
level ($7,412 for a four-person
family) in 1979. There were' 49
persons 65 years and over below
that level, or 5.4% of all elderly in
the area. Of the 198 families
below the poverty level, 63.1%
had a female householder with no
husband present. The poverty
rate for White persons was 8.1%,
13.7% for Black; and 20.5% for
Spanish origin persons.
The census showed that of the
3,267 year-round occupied
housing units in the northwest,
54.6% were occupied by owners
and 45.4% by renters. Of the
1,785 owner-occupied housing
units, 65.9% were occupied by
While; 30% by Black; 1% by
the American Indian, Eskimo and
Aleut grouping; 2% by Asian and
Pacific Islander grouping; and
6.2% by Spanish origin. Of the
1,482 renter-occupied housing
units, 75.4% were occupied by
White; 12.5% by Black; 3% by
American Indian, Eskimo and
Aleui.grouping; 4% by Asian and
Pacific Islander grouping; and
15.1% by Spanish origin.
The census found that about
2.1% of the housing units were
built in 1970 or later, while 30%
had been built before 1940.
Median value, in 1980, for owner-occupied
homes was 48,100 as
compared' to $43,900, ' total
Freeporr median. Median con-,
tract rent paid for rental housing
units was $320 compared to total
Freeport median of $308.
Help Keep
Freeport Clean
SAFETY is
NOT
ah ACCIDENT
A Special Freeport Greeting
by William Gillespie,
Village Safety Director
Before heavy snow falls:
1. Double check your*car for
winter driving safety — tires,
antifreeze, brakes, hoses, belts,
battery, lights, etc.
Don't let fuel tank go below
one-half full. Add gas deicer.
Carry booster cables-, shovel,
ice scraper, flashlight, salt or
sand, and rags to clean glass,
lights and mirrors.
2. If you must drive in a storm,
allow exira time, i.ell family your
route, destination and expected
arrival time and telephone to
announce your safe arrival.
3. When driving on ice or snow
use chains, avoid sudden starts
and stops and sharp turns. Give
yourself plenty of room — don't
tailgate.
Avoid skids, but if skid
starts, don't brake, steer in
direction you want to go. Squeeze
brakes gently on and off.
4. Always use SAFETY BELTS
and approved children's CAR
SEATS.
5. Limit alcohol intake to one
ounce per hour if driving and
select coffee as "one for the
road."
The typical Freeport waterfront.
scene on the cover of this month's
"Village News" was one of four
such designs being worked on by
resident Jane Fenyo at the time
of her tragic -death -in a motor-cycle-
auto collision this summer.
The retired head of C.W. Post's
English department, Mrs. Fenyo
also excelled as a teacher in fine
arts and piano. Active as a Board
member of the Arts Council at
Freeport, Mrs. Fenyo created
and served on many fine arts
projects and was Council Secre-tary
at the time of her death.
She had created the four designs
for the benefit of the Council.
Freeport artist-Mary Wester-:
ing, the Council's Second Vice
President, has taken the Fenyo
designs and prepared them for
embossing. They now join a
series of designs available on all-purpose
greeting cards sold by.
the Council for $1.50 each. The
cards are white on white emboss-ing
of forms from nature, pro-fessioanlly
designed and hand
produced -on 100% rag -papers
There is no message on the in-side
so that one can .write a per-sonal
message. Each comes with
a colored envelope. The cards can
also be used as frameable art.
Proceeds from the sale of the
Fenyo cards will go towards the
Jane Fenyo Memorial Arts
Scholarship, a speical fund set
up by the Arts Council which
has been set up to perpetuate a
scholarship to a Freeport High-
School senior excelling in the area
of the arts. . . . - - -~
The cards may be purchased at'
the Arts Council Office located in'
the Freeport Recreation Center. /-
When It Snows....
When a Snow Emergency is
declared, your car must be off
the street or it is subject to being
towed away at your expense.
Streets must be kept clear for
snow plows, fire trucks and other
emergency vehicles.
Sidewalks should be cleared of
snow as soon as possible. This is
the responsibility of the property
owner or tenant.
The Freeport Fire Department
also reminds homeowners with
fire hydrants on their property
that the area around the hydrant
should be the first area cleared of
snow. Loss of life and/or property
could result if the Department is
unable to locate the hydrant
quickly.
Announcements on closings in
the Village and other important
information in an emergency
situation will be aired by WGBB,
which is 1240 on your radio AM
dial, and WHLI, 1100 on the AM
dial.
Arts Council Plans Kids' Activities For February Break
The Arts Council at Freeport
has planned two special activities
for youngsters during their Feb-ruary
school recess.
On Sunday afternoon, Febru-ary
5, a bus will take the young
people — and any interested
parents — to Manhattan to see
the New York City Ballet perform
the second act of "Swan Lake"
and excerpts from three other
ballets. The bus will leave the
Freeport Recreation Center at
11 am and tickets are $15, which
includes transportation and ad-mission.
On Tuesday, February 21, chil-dren
ages eight through 12 are
invited to the Nassau County
Museum of Fine Art in Roslyn,
where they will be given a sensi-tive
lecture/walk-through of the
current exhibition and will meet,
various performing artists. The
youngsters will also participate in
a dance group and experience a
hands-on workshop, whicji will
give them the opportunity to
experiment with the ideas they
have visually and physically
experienced.
The bus will depart from the
Freeport Recreation Center at
8 am and will return at approxi-mately
2:30 pm. Children are
asked to bring a bag lunch. The
cost for the entire excursion is
$5. • -
Because space is limited,
early reservations are- urged by
calling the Arts Council office
at 223-2522. Checks should be
made payable to The Arts
Council at Freeport, and mailed
to it at P.O. Box 97, Freeport,
N.Y.11520.
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