Diamond Anniversary for Atlantic Nursery
It was the perfect
setting for Earth Day as
civic and business lead-ers
gathered on April
22, to commemorate a
Freeport tradition,
shopping for Spring
plantings at Atlantic
Nursery. Begun in 1929
by Karl Feile at the pre-sent
location on Atlantic
Ave. in Freeport, the
business has remained
in the family for 75
years and is currently
run by Sig Feile and his
daughter, Christina.
The just over two-acre
site provides room
for greenhouses, out-door
landscapes and a
vast array of plants,
flowers, shrubs and craft
items. Right now the
nursery is featuring
lovely displays just in
time for Mother's Day.
_ Congratulating Sig Feile, his wife Janet,jnd daughter Christina, on their success are: Freeport Trustees^tlaiiersberger..Bi!I.Wbite, Jr.,
Councilwoman Angie Cullin, Senator Charles Fusthillo, Assemblyniaif Dave McDonough.
Freeport Fire Department
Needs EMT Volunteers
Freeport's Fire Department provides one of the best emergency med-ical
response teams in Nassau County thanks to the dedication of
Emergency Rescue Company #9 volunteers. Rescue Company is always
looking for new recruits to fill positions as paramedics, emergency
medical technicians, and qualified individuals interested in being
trained as emergency medical technicians.
If you are willing to volunteer your time and talent to help your
neighbors, please attend the Open House at Fire Department
Headquarters at 15 Broadway, Freeport, on Sunday, May 16th, from 1
p.m. to 4 p.m.
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For more
than half a cen-tury,
the
Freeport Little
League has been
offering young-sters
a safe, con-structive
place to
learn the funda-mentals
of the
great American
Came of base-all,
while teach-ing
them cooper-ation,
discipline
and teamwork,
all while having a
good time. Since
1972, it has been
doing the same
with softball.
Established in
1952, the organi-zation
now has
more than 700
boys and girls
from the ages of
5 to 18 playing
on more than 50
Little League
teams for the
2004 season. The
youngsters play
in Freeport's vil-lage
parks, three
of which have
recently been
outfitted with
special night
lighting. Glacken
Park, Northeast
Park and Randall
Park are avail-able
to accom-modate
the
older players at
night, enabling
the younger chil-dren
to use the
daylight hours to
Little League Celebrates
Opening Day
Freeport Trustee Bill white, Jr., Mayor Bill Glacken, Little League Coach Mike Pecoraro, Hempstead Town Councilwoman
Dorothy Goosby, Coach Kevin Richardson, Trustee Don Miller and County Legislator Kevan Abrahams all took part in Little
League Opening Day Ceremonies. • • '• . •'•• -
Hundreds of players, parents, coaches, managers, and friends (Bled the stands at the Freeport High School field during the
Little league Opening Day Ceremonies. •• •
schedule . their
games.
Mayor 1&ill
Glacken, a fbr-mef
Freeport
Little Leaguer,
League President
and coach, took
part in the
Opening Day
Ceremonies held
on April 17th
under blue skies
and a bright sun,
and later in the
day watched his
granddaughter
and her team-mates
play soft-ball
at Randall
Park. Trustee Bill
White, Jr., did
the same with his
daughter at her
game at Freeport
High School.
Both of Bill
White's daugh-ters
played back
to bacK .games
the next day at:
Glacken Park. All
the youngsters
are supported
and encouraged
by contributions
from local busi-nesses,
which
sponsor teams
and provide
donations for
supplies: ^
It's not too
late to volunteer
to help a team.
For more infor-mation,
call the
Little League at
516-379-2696.
A MESSAGE FROM THE MAYOR Fire Department Honors its Heros
Freeport's 106-year history of
providing safe, dependable electricity
to commercial and residential cus-tomers
has reached a milestone with
the April 1st operation of the new,
dual-fuel powered turbine generator
at Power Plant 2. A second generator,
owned and operated by a private
company, is expected to go online in
June. Each generator can produce 47
megawatts of power. The Freeport-owned
generator will sell 10
megawatts of electricity to the Long
Island Power Authority (LIPA) for the
next 30 years for distribution
throughout Long Island, with the
remainder available to Freeport con-sumers,
as needed, and the market in
general, when not needed by
Freeport.
Freeport's initiative in con-structing
and developing new power
supplies at Power Plant 2 benefits our
residents and ratepayers in several
ways. Profits from the sale of electric-ity
generated by Freeport Electric will
be used to offset the costs of opera-tion
and help stabilize electric rates.
Both Freeport Electric and the devel-oper
will make lease payments and
payments in lieu of taxes to the
Village.
—;—With this additional- energy,--
readily available through the Village's
Electric Utility, Freeport remains able
to respond to such emergency events
as the sudden blackout that affected
the entire Northeast Region of the
United States last summer. On August
14th, 2003, Freeport was one,of the
very few bright spots on the east
coast in a vast sea of darkness.
This summer the utility will
provide sufficient electricity to keep
air-conditioners, refrigeration, com-puter
systems and other critical ener-gy-
driven operations running smooth-ly
in our homes and businesses,
because the Village maintains a
municipally-owned and operated util-ity.
Freeport has a long tradition of
being a public-power community, and
will continue to do so into the 21st
Century.
The new turbine at Power
Plant 2 is proof that a municipally-owned
and-operated utility is a viable
option in the quest to provide safe,
reliable, electricity at affordable
prices. This $73 million state-of-the-art
complex will attract new develop-ment
by offering businesses and resi-dents
readily available and reasonably
priced electric power, while also mar-keting
electricity to the surrounding
region.
This renovation of Power
Plant 2, through the decommissioning
ofj aging -diesel ^generation and-its1:
replacement with a state-of-the-art,
environmentally safe turbine, is
another significant example of the
Glacken Administration's commit-ment
to rebuild Freeport from the
ground up. It represents the adminis-tration's
largest single investment in
the infrastructure of the Village and
its continuing faith in the future of
Freeport and its people.
Deputy Mayor Frierson Reads at
Atkinson School
Deputy Mayor Renaire Frierson reading to the sixth grade students at the Caroline G. Atkinson School.
The youngsters in Jeanne Dione's sixth grade class
were fascinated to learn that their teacher had taught
Deputy Mayor Renaire Frierson when she was in the fifth
grade at the Caroline G. Atkinson School.
Ms. Frierson read to the students an inspiring story
detailing the early childhood of 1960 Olympic champion
Wilma Rudolph, the first American woman to win three
gold medals. Ms. Rudolph, who was African-American,
was sickly as a child and was stricken with polio. Her large
family helped her exercise her weak left leg so that even-tually
she was able to walk again, and she went on to
become an excellent basketball player and track star.
Ms. Frierson told the youngsters about her high
school, college and law school experiences and her duties
as the Village's Deputy Mayor. She shared with them that
she is Freeport's first female African-American Deputy
Mayor.
This year, the department selected
as one of its honorees Firefighter
Fred Florenzie, a 69-year veteran
of the Freeport Fire Department.
Over that time, he has served in a
variety of positions including Chief
Driver of Bayview Hose 3 for over
12 years, Warden to the Fire
Council for 5 years and Delegate to
the South Shore Firemen's
Association for over 25 years. In
the 1990s, Florenzie was the recip-ient
of Honorary Chief status.
Florenzie comes from a
long line of volunteers, including
hisr.father, Fred _Sr.;,.who,,was. a ,
member of Wide Awake Engine
Co. #1, and his uncle, Irving Ellison,
who was a member of Eveready
Hosel.
Also singled out for honors
was Emergency Co. 9, which
received the Unit Citation for its
outstanding work in response to a
school bus accident involving over
20 youngsters. Emergency Medical
Technician Certificates of Merit
were awarded to EMTs Lauren
Sperber, Leshelle Riddick, and
Stefanie Norris. Firefighter William
Chimeri received the Rotary Club
Civic Leadership Award and Ex-
Chief Rick Holdener was honored
..with the Class."A".Award.for»his
quick action in safely rescuing the
victim of a house fire.
' 'Freeport Trustee and Ex-Chief Don Mauersberger, Trustee Bill Whiter Mayor Bill Glacken, Firefighter Fred Florenzie,
Hempstead Countilwoman Angie Cullin, Ex-Chief Rick Holdener, Trustee Don Miller, and Firefighter Bill Chimeri.
Block Party Celebrates NeighborWorks Week
Once again,
Freeport will cele-brate
NeighborWorks
Week with a special
event, including food,
entertainment and
fun on Saturday, June
12th, from 12 noon to
3 p.m., at Northeast
Park on Parsons Ave.
The program encour-ages
"neighbors to
help neighbors" in
sprucing up their
homes and yards. The
block party "clean
up" is one part of a
cooperative effort
designed to upgrade
and improve housing
stock nationwide by
providing energy-conserving
rehabilita-tion
to local home-owners.
Freeport's Community
Development Agency and the
Community Development Corp. of
Long Island, which is a member of
the NeighborWorks network, are
a d m i n i s t e r i n g the WRAP
(Weatherization, Rehabilitation, and
Asset Preservation) Program. The
program has been underwritten with
federal and state funds and a
$300,000 grant over three years from
Mayor Bill Glacken and CDC President Bill Klatsky helped paint a home in the northeast section of Freeport last year during the
NeighborWorks event.
the Ford Foundation. Freeport is one
of the first four communities nation-wide
to participate in the WRAP
Program. The program targets
seniors and low-income homeown-ers,
particularly single-parent fami-lies
with homes that are in need of
energy-conservation repairs and
improvements. Ultimately, these
improvements help homeowners to
save money, maintain their most
valuable investment,
their home, and pre-serve
neighborhood
property values.
Mayor Bill
Glacken, who will be
on hand for the festivi-ties
on June 12th,
along with other local
elected officials, said,
"This program has
been very beneficial
for our village, bring-ing
national attention
to our current rehabili-tation
work, while
increasing the aware-ness
of other commu-nities
of what can be
done to preserve and
protect local neighbor-hoods."
Over the past
year, the program has
provided either ener-gy-
conservation or
rehabilitation work to more than 50
homeowners.
Applications for assistance from
the WRAP program will be available
at the block party, or can be
obtained by calling Freeport's
Community Development
Coordinator, Annette Wright, at 377-
2223.
