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Christmas Pagoont (Cont. from Paga 13) (. WISHING THEM A MERRY, MERRY CHRISTMAS Santa Claus and Mrs. Claus grealed more than 1,500 youngsters last Saturday, December 19, at the Freeport Recreation Center. Santa (Richard Gordon of West 4lh Street) and Mrs. Claus (Rory Gordon) were aided by special helpers and storybook characters from Mary Hall's Recreation Department Drama Club (top photo). Among the kiddles who came to tell Santa what they wanted for Christmas was Joelle Cona (bottom photo), whose wishes are being translated by grandma, Jo Cona, president of the Freeport Chamber of Commerce. The Chamber and the Freeport Recreation Department co-sponsor the annual event which brings Christmas (oy to thousands of local boys and girls. flute; Enrico Caruso, the barv tone; and Joseph Barr, Kim Bcrrin, Mary Beth Fee, Marquise Johnson, Marie McGrath and Ralph Rimpel, the clarinet. Vicki Cteraci WM announcer for the 'pageaint and David Dickson was Scripture narrator. The eighth, g ^ e c r i e r s saiig several Oiiistmas carols, followed by the' sUth*-'grade prophets singing \Isaiah What Chu Say.” Eighth graders were stars of the Nativity Scene, with Therese Oriani speaking as the Angel of Light; Uchard Ippolhi, the stable;^ Thomas Fee, the donkey; Robert Brunie, Joseph; and Roseann Basile, Five-month old Edele Basile, Roseann's cousin, proved to be a beautifully.behaved baby Jesus, ■ who didn’t utter' a single cry during the whole program. First graders brought light as they entered carrying stars, and seventh graders Katey Dunkle and Dina Herring sang \Star of Wonder.” The second and thrid gra^e angels sang \Hark the Her^d Angels Sing” and in a pageant full of scene stealers, the kinder garten lambs, .with their white costumes and little black ears, stole the show as they came down the aisle crying “b-a-a, b-a-a, ba-a” and then sang theif song, \Little Lambs.” The fourth grade shepherds sang \Friendly Beasts,” the seventh grade Wise Men sang \We Three Kings” and the fifth grade villagers sang \O Come All Ye Faithful.” The seventh grade, did \Poor Utile Jesus” with Lisa Ciytis, Katey Dunkle, Dina ^trlfig, EtJ; McBride, 'J.R. VaHote, piane Olio, and Heather WUlkcy as soloists. A duet by & tey Dunkle and Dina Herring, \Uttle Drummer Boy,” accompanied the,appe«- ance of the 'second and third grade drummers. The p r o g i^ ended with all children singing \Silent Night.” Helping Miss Gibson with the production were Mrs. Susan Rosenfeld, music director; Miss Gail Cummings, band director, and the stage crew comppsed of Paul Fjeldstad, Joseph P iz^o, Maurice Larrea and Christopher Kramer. Lynn Johnson, a sixth grader, designed the program cover. The Fteeport team travelled to Nassau Community' College on Sabirday, December 20, for the annual Swim Coach Carnival and - the team fm'ished 11th out of 14 schools. Freeport's _ 250-yard. Sprint Relay team with Oscar McDonald --(25^ yards), Jeff DeSalvo (50 yards), Danny Lawless (100 yards), Dave McAndrews (50 yards) and Jeff Groder (25 yards), received medals for the'ir s'uth place finish. ' Home meets are scheduleif-for' the Recreallori Center on January 8, 1982 ^against Flainview; January 12, against Great Neck North; January 2S, against ' Kennedy! Mepham and Calhoun; January 29, against Wantagh; and February 12. the last meeting of the season, against Westbury. Competitions begin at 4 pm. \i t t — ! .. 1 ■ ' 1 11- 1 . . .1 w I i 1 * 1 Swim Team (Coni, from Page 12) competing against boys on Long Island. Combining the two teams has made **the boys work harder and the girls get better/* according to Coach Konen. Team Captains are Cormac MoUoy and Judy Hashagen. Other team members are Leueen Molloy, Craig Rosen, Rob Caristo. Jeffrey Groder, Jeff DeSalvo, Katy Fox, Michele Soto, Danny .Lawless, Joe Lawless, Adrienne Loughlin, Tom O'Brien, Kieran MoUoy, Tim Selby, Oscar McDonald, Dave McAndrews, Hugh Cohen and Todd HoUy and team managers Anthony Soto, Blanche Artis and Cynthia Grisset. The team’s first swim meet of the season was held Monday, December 14. Freeport defeated Hicksville 90 to 78. The 200-yard Medley Team, consisting of Todd Holly. Joe Lawless and Kieran and Cormac MoDoy, finished second with a time of 2:05.9. David .McAndrews, the team’s ■ * only diver, came in first place scoring eight points, The ' Freeport High School team was then ten points behind. Then Tom O'Brien took first place in the -100-yard Butterfly with a 1:02.4 time and Kieran MoUoy took second with 1:11.9. These two wins put Freeport just one point behind Hicksville. Freeport's . Free Relay Teams took first and second to bring in the winning scores. Freeport High Sdiool was swimming in a division above themseives in this winning meet against Hicksville. On Friday, December 18, Freeport swam against Farming- dale High School. Tom O’Brien took first place in the 100-Fly with a time of 1:02. Danny Lawless took first in 100-Free with 1:01.76; and Katy Fox got a first in an extremely close 500-yard Free race, finishing in 6:44.1. The final score was 104*66 with Farmingdale winning, but once again, Freeport, a Division II team; was swimming against Division I. {Cont. from LOOKING IN OR LOOKING OUT, the windows at the Freeport Recreation Center are something special..,the result of an invitation by Freeport Recreation Department staffer Rick Lehman to Rita Carter s fourth grade class at Bayview Avenue School. The class spent an afternoon recently at the Center's skate lounge and gave the area a festive look for the holidays. Divided into two groups (above), they decorated the lounge’s eight picture windows and then enjoyed an hour of skating \on the house.” FroaportHadaiiah icom. irom Page 121 computed from July 1, and al ready S500.000 has been sent bv the Nassau Region to national Headquarters. Helen Goldman, president of Frecport-Rooscvcll chapter, received several aw*ards for the chapter, including: education of members'ih hi^oncal background and current events (Phoebe Kapor. chairman). Outstanding Programs (Judy Darter, chair man). the promotion of Youth Activities for young people from ages nine to 25 (Eva Leitner. chairman), and all the member ship awards. From the quotas assigned, a 100% goal was achieved in new- Hadassah Associate members (Sylvia Kaplan, chairman). 9S% mem bership rcenrollmeni (Miriam Shapiro, chairman). 100% New Members goal (Helen James, chairman). 75% new Life Mem bers goal (Nona Macklerjchair- man). and a special 100%* Mem bership goal. Just Wrttu... accurate in reality is a distortion of the truth. One would like to think that such control -by the print media is unusual; however, this may not really be the case. The decline of so many newspapers in the metropolitan area has resulted in only one. viable afternoon paper and, on the bland, one local daily paper. During a recent publicized trial, it was noted that if praple had had access to the whole truth and not just what was in one paper, their attitudes and opinions might have differed. Even locally one sees evidence of suppression of certain news and- the attempts by some to control the dissemination of news releases.' The distortion of material, the printing of only one side of the stoty, the lopsided quantity of publicity to certain people and groups are the same sorts of devices that have been used in the past to control people’s minds and to prevent the real flow of information. As this New Year begins, we at THE LEADER renew our pledge to honestly and fairly report on all the new»in the community, to search out to the best of our abilities the entire story and to encourage all people and groups to communicate their ideas and information. We urge you, the reader, to be aware of media which panders to the select few, which curries fayor from a privileged group, and which avoids presenting all of the information to which you a r e ^ titled. *«« On Sunday evening. Decem b er27. at 7:30 pm. THE ST. CHRISTOPHER S FIFTH ANNUAL CHRISTMAS CONCERT will take place at the Church on Merrick Road in Baldwin. The choir will be under the direction of FATHER PETER NGUYEN VAN NGUYEN and the New Jerusalem Choir led by FATHER RONALD KAYDE will present a program of seasonal music. The proceeds from donated offerings will go to the St. Christopher's Conference of the St. Vincent de Paul Society which provides emergency help regardless of religious affiliation. All are invited. ^ There was a combination of happiness and sadness a's the-children of .Milburn School wished a happy retirement to crossing g u a rf AUDREY COMSTOCK who had served at her post over 25 vears. The children presented her with a plaque in recognition of her love and concern for them and the PTA. representing many grateful parents, presented her a gift. Our w’ishes to all of our readers for a very happy and healthy NEW ^EAR — one which we hope will be filled with personal and world wide peace.