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Grovel’s Boat G ok to Feds Tire Parks Police at Gateway Nalionu! Recreation 'Area will be; protecting the public in a brand new boat thanks to a federal con tract awarded to a Freeport firm. Congressnran Norman F. Lent today announced that the Nation al Parks Service will spend SIO.307 to purchase a new 26‘/i foot fiberglass boat from Al Grover's Marine ^ s e Inc., on the Woodclcfi Canatjin Freeport. The new boat will be used by the Park Police to patroj the Gate way Recreation Area, the new federal park which stretches from (Jiicens to the Jersey shore. - • Wetlands Prove An Invaluable Asset “ Freeport's reputation as a boating center has traveled far beyond . Nassau County,” Lent said. \When the federal govern ment needed equipment for Gate way’s • vast marine recreation area jt was only natural that they come to Freeport to gel it. Boating Courses MERRICK U.S. Coast Flotilla 13-8, Guard Auxiliary, will offer four different courses in boating at Seaford and Beth- page High Schools. —. Scheduled ace series of 12 les sons in Boating Safety and Sea manship; three lessons in Out- Board ■ Motor Maintenance; three lessons in Inboard Motor Main^nance; and the'four les- ALBANY - Even today the tra ditional view that swamps . and marshes are waste land, and something that should be con verted to better economic use, is prevalent in many quarters. Wetlands made travel inconven- ienrifor .early settlers, they har bored disease-earning ' insects and they tied up rich soil in cat tails instead of carrots. Only the . fiir trapper or market hunter had . much to say in their favor. In those early days New York •, had more than a million acres of - v» V . ,, wetland, so there seemed to be no sons rn New York State Young shortage, particularly considering ’ Boatmans Courso, for ton to 16 _ ,heir known value. As long « the y e a r o J d s . __ _ . , slip-scraper and mule were the At &aford ^ ig h Schtwl, ^ efficient means of conquer- for. - Bethpage, High: School, evenings--on. - September -27 For details, call 781-3254 or 868-5204.. Chess Tournament le settlers made surprising headway. With the advent of , the bull-, dozer, dragline and backhoe, the attack on wetlands was stepped up ^ drastically, until over half were destroyed.\N0W\dhly about 150,000 acres of those remaining are good enough to have any^r^l value for wildlife; Even those with tittle wildlife value have many FREEPUHI ubALER HONORED. An Award of Sales Excellence was presented to Mr. and Mrs. Charles PIgadls (center) of Lake's Yacht Sales, Freeport, by Dooley Culbertson (r;), President of P ^ m a k e r Corporation. PIgadls was honored tor outstanding sales achievement In the sales and marketing of Pacemaker Sport Fisherman, Motor •Yachts and Cruisers during the 1975-76 Model year. Looking on Is Jack Leek (I.), Chairman of the Board of Pacemaker. The award, for sales In excess of $750,000, was presented during Pacemaker’s Annual Dealer meetirig In Annapolis, Md. York is now spending millions to upgrade sewage treatment plants to remove as many of these around - lakes and along water ways, incorporating large irnounts of nitrogen and phos- wildlite value have many nutrients as possible. .phorus-into-the-grxiwing^ssue oF EA5TJM.1^0P.WJ*.The annual • contest. Two hours are alloted per — lTraddittorrtO 'the^'‘*one ^Irit” . ' plantsflt Is th&rtfecvcifd into th e . place at : Hempstead Harbor. Beach Park i a Port - Washington .. Saturday, September .il. begin ning at. 9 ani. Chess players of all ages, poMessing a leisure pass, may ' register; until tour nament time. = The event will be held-tmtdoofs if the weather i s favorable, Tin- doors if necessary. Players are encouraged to bring their^ own sets and have a go at ad- ■ vaheing in the iingle’ elimination' nutnent pollution like sewage treatment plants, which can be controlled, there are nutrients Fish and Wildlife values are the just drain off the land every- most obvious, V for waterfowl, where. The most notable of these hejons^ Wackbirds, ^ u skrats and “ nonpoint” . sounreS are from .* — « ’ agricultural land, but wherever : IDOlitMEW other birds and animals can be readily seen. Not seen, but now I f ' .'' “'well-known to be dependent on ' wetlands \are many of the fish which live In nearby open waters, but which. like tfie p'lke a^d pickerel, seek the wetlatids as preferred spawning areas. The value of ■ the recreation • time generated by 'this wetland' wildlife is hard to give'a dollar water washes over decaying vege- web oflifeofamarsh. Water — either too much or too little — Is of vital concern to .. the public. Wetlands play both sides of the fence. They are Mother. :Nature’s flood control areas, absorbing many acre-feet of water before it begins to spill tation or through the soil, it picks over onto the flood-plains we have up nutrients and carries them into usurped, for our own purposes. men, hikets and nature S. Main s i.- . value of similar time spent at the ^ ~^orie of ball park. The rich- plant community is ^ream sandlakesr- ,, “'While agricultural scientists are working oh such projects as liquification of mahure so it can ' be stored during winter when the; ground is ^ z e p . and put on • fields avhen'it cai^be utilized. Nature has provia^d a slmtildahif' effective 'way of preventing nutrients from getting into lakes.. She traps them 'in wetlands Water held in wetlands helps recharge the underground wSter table, replacing water drawn off by domestic, agricul- tural and industrial pumps; Based on the'replacernent'cosf of all functions.«kQrie Lducks. - Univenlty-oi ■Wisconsiu-botanist-i—~ cslimayes onA acre of wetland t o ' be worth about $50 or $60,000. That's worth protecting, . w. ^ ricn-piani commumiy is t behind the fish and wildlife, . . 379-7852 A making possible their abundant N o ' ^ numbers. BehiihLlte .plants are -5 ^ ■ Y vast stores of vital nutrieiits \ which have collected, over the Beach Buses Continue In Sept. V years. This ability of wetlands ^ to collect nutrients is a value % thatisju^becomingrecognized.. MMnDRLOOK * ' aaaai-»T kmiim b t IIV T1Q..WK CARLE PLACE - The Metro; is a value ‘ politan Suburban Bus'Authority kV (iiaiu>just.yi,vuuuug aCcognized.. (MSBA) will;, on a limited sched- ^ Only recently has the public .ule, continue to offer bus service » become, aware of the fart that from the Freeport Long Island, ft clean water can irarry pollution m ' Rail- -Road. Station to* Jones S the fotro of nutrients’which-in Beach (JB62) through September turn cause excess algae and other 26.. All otgheT Jones^ Beach bus ft - plant growth. These can'be b a ^ service will terminate as of mid-; « in themselves, but the decayirig night, September 6. S of the dead plants rem'bves oxy- . B u s s c ^ c e will be offered on gen vital to all aquatic life. New September 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12. from the Freeport station to both the Ewt and West Bath houses and the Central MaH^ On September 18, 19, 25 and 26, service vfill run from Freeport to the Central Mall only. Additional infomiation,. in cluding scheduled departure times, can be.obtained by calling the Bus Information Cednter, 625-3000.
