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r Waterfront Leader In This Issue S>S5?SSRW >>*aaa=sSa^3SS«%5^«8S3SSS3S»=!B.^!i«=!«S^ “as MStOniCAl. ElSEHUOViER PARK • EAST UE.UO'‘i N 'f FREEPORT BALDWIN ROOSEVELT MERRICK L eakr FREEPORT'S omuni NEWSPAPER 44ihYEAR No 21 ( KV.nPORT. NEW YORK. SEPTEMBER 20.1979 PRICE 20* PER COPY Block Associations Planned / Sfabilization Task Force Seeks Volunteers FREEPORT ♦ The village's on-gotng stabilization and afTirmalive housing.progratn wascxplalned at a piibiic meeting Wednesday night. September 12. Nforc than 100 people gathered in the main amference room of Village Hall to hear Michael Kinvan. coordinator of the village's StabilUation and AfTtemative Housing Task Force, describe the group's activities since its Thr«e.FI^ Sehiors^^^^ Chamber Holds Noiibncil Merit Semifindlists inception three years ago. Klrwan also announced the start of a new Block Association program, which the Task Force and the Freeport Association are planning. The Freeport Association's president. Qlen Extract, and Citibank representative Sai Vella were In the audience arid also spoke about the Block A s io^tlon -progrim.-GtibankJiaa.^V£iUhe^ Freeport AssbcUtlon seed money forthe.prdgrtm 's lnc^loh; North Baldwin.'ihe maj ^§m ipg^ 9 tC wUh mlriorlty people, E^REEPORT • '•'firo Freepoirt High Sdiool -senion. R a ^ l Cohen. Gomel and M ari Manitzasr have.been named Natioaa] M ^ t Sdiolarship Those setnlftnallsts who advance to finalist standing in the competition will be considered for the approximately 43,000 Merit SdwUrshlps to bcawarded In the spring of 1980. In addition to following an ‘ ' was an editor of Voyagenr Year book, on the \staff of Flashings and a homeroom announcer. La^ year, she was p resent^ with the George Washington Award for E xct II ctcc in Sdence and Mathe matics. Interested in a theatrical career. Mary has partidpsted in ■*te Freeport Arts C o u n ^ Teen Special Meeting W»h Citibank honors and accelerated academic inogram, Radiel Cohen has been active bi extra-curricular activ-'' ides at Freeport High Sdiool. A d iss oEBcer for three' years. Radml has also participated in the FHS htoching BazuS. Concert Batid.'NCxed Chorus a ^ Select Chorale. A Mathlete. she 1 ^ also * ' been involved with thFTMasque^/rheatre for the past three and Wig Drama Club, and/sum m e rs, the Freeport Actors Cabaret Theatre and other dramatics groups. •WFHS, arid is a member of the Honor Society. She has been a ttaff member of Voyageur Year- .., book. Flashings and was a home- : room* announcer. Rachel has woo - prise, in the Hirst Reading . ftt^ram In * Americaii History., sponsor^ ’by the Freeport . Memori^ library. In 1978, an essay she wrote about Freeport’s attributes .was broadcast by 2 WINS. Saciiri spmit the snmmrr on978riodylngOrgaideCbemb' V 'try 'S t ‘-Hrtmew, University te Jenmaleia. and the saintner of l979: earoQed .fai Cocadl Uni' ^ m s h y 'a a d v a o ^ pbgiam in . >. JSiok^, Sbe'is Ipoidag fiatwaxd to ' - ^:acaftetinBiietfel»c.-r-^.i,;LT. — ’ S e ^ - M M ^ \ G o a e i bas Marit Manitsas, a member of Nadona] H o ^ r Society, has been involved in the Voyagmir Year-, book and Mathletes during tus > years a t Freeport High School. I n . 1978 he enrolled in the Hamp shire College Summ ^ Studies In malhematkst During the 1978-79 school year. Mark capogyd first place in the Nissan County Inter- scfaoUstic Math League which allowed him to become a member of Che Nassaa AR-Star Mathe matics t e a s for con^eddoD in the New'.Yofk State 'Mathematics 'leajpe and the Adamic Region ' M ath.Jagoe;.K e 'also qualified FREEPORT . The invited to attend a E^ronomic Development Seminar arrang^ by the Freeport Cham ber of Commerce In conjunction with Citibank.' The program will follow an open boam meeting of . the Chamber which will begin at 8 pm, Wednesday. September 26. at Salty Bay Yacht Club. West- side Avenue. *The seminar will feature Citibank econom'ist Steve Smith, who will discuss \1979 The Economy — Freeport. Wheie Do Wc Go ^ r a Here?” Refreshments win be served., . Waterfront A ob / J Mj|ik<®r _ FREEPORT - The ViUige Board has reserved decision on (he creatioo of a Mtritime/Apan- ment Zone decision following a ' pnblic hearing Monday n l ^ ^ ' ^Kirw-tn were several m e m ^ rs of. the Task Foree-and Estelle ScHe. who described h e i^ lf as being in the real estate business. Serle nas been brought into.the village to run workshops and seminars for voiumeers. She will Instruct them on how to obtain listings of houses for sale, how they should be advertised* and how they should be shown in a \profes sional manner.’* Volunteers for the village’s Home Finders Ser vice. the Block Associations and for other activities of the Stabilization Task Force were solicited during the meeting. Kirwaji n lled the Tssk Force's program one not of exclusion. \The reality.\ he said. \Is that only in certain communities — and Freeport is one of them — can minorities find a home...and a while person has difficulty in finding a home in Freeport. This has been verified lime and time Freeport short.\ but many do. \They assume that no uhlie person would move next dour to a black person.” Kirwan said. Mutllple Listing Service (MLS) was called a problem by Klrwan. who Is also Ihe village's Human Rights Commlssioncrt-He'Cited statistics that, showed, as an example, that In one 12 month iDCffod. a Queens broker had sold 12 homM m rreepon and fiye in ijority to pvujilw. > * Kirwan .explained, how' Home Finders functions with .minority people, \If a rhinority peiaoh comes to me to buy a house.** he said. \I will tell him the truth.” He said he would describe the situation in Freeport and explain how minorities are excluded in other areas where they should also look. If they want (o buy In Freeport. Kirwan said. \That's fine, too.\ Home Finders Service coordinator Marilyn Margolies said out of ten houses she hat sold since June, two have been purchased by Hispanics and one to a black family. One of (he things, community residents should do. Kirwan said, is to tell the trulh about Freeport. If a resident must sell their home.~ they should attempt to use Home Fnders or local brokers, rather lhaa place the listing with out-of- the-area (Queens) brokers. If local brokers arc used. Kirwan igain.\.Kirwan asserted, refer-, suggests that they be^told they, ring to the village's program of have the listing \exclusively\ having volunteers lest real estate and not to plaw with MLS. brokers. .Referring td brokers who racsiITy~tTeer pruspeettvo borne, buyers to certain ardas. Kirwan aaj(t_ pot all realtors ■)t to placi QuesUona on Brokers In an lengihly question and^ answer periM that followed.* (Coiit.onP^Tig)- f I .September 17. . The j proposed zone, would be establtriied.-tn an area soolh of Manhattan Street and between Miller and Sooth Ocean Avenues* A t'th e same time, (he ■< heard a s appDcation from T.E.D /- I -—.a - ____________ __________ iK taiB & J tiSp oa a e -TCbhanictioa «id Whl|g -C » p -p m» iedg h a a m r im{Mm» liile. SMte* M,l)i Ol^wpiirt trim T H , - BMhyfor i n tputtatat bodse cb I^. fiafing fime fcr K liw brolTe-,: M * * •* . . . -.o K i i t f a 'f ^ s e x t n - c a i i i c n l t t Coiombfai UtdfctM y.-.Sddice K tivitk,. H a K initfe, iiKiade 'H o i i c n R n g m fcr H v b S c h p o ( :A m n lin g ^ (a ^Jolia. Mlotz,' bolfiag d o * o flici.iad . n a a catew ta tnrefeatathre. to Ibe GenetaT tbefiebfofSdead^. Om&ation. Adieedeada; she ' Orer l . l Biilfibaaodatttes- faas abb been mrcIrediagjnBUiai* ,roOd. m about 18X00 Ingb- tic adhitiea. tbe temss ebb — teboob enteted tbe 1980 Merit acring abo as nrrity teiuns Pngm n bjr tatbg :tbe 1978 maniger— thbMisqneriid Wig cpiaBf)fiag test, the PSAT/ DramaChbasdMixedaiotss.A NMSQT. Senbimalttb tie tbe m r m h r r of tbe Narioosl Honor highest scoreis b esd> stste. Soeietj; M si 7 was also named to . named. 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