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Efeclion *«9 * Election '89 • Election '89 flTff^ff Viltago Board candidate profiles Inside Eiecclones en Freeport ei 21 dp mrzo, Lea Ui$ Leader^ elntormese Freeport • Baldwin • .\'r 55ihYctr; No. 11 FrecpQttN.Y. 11520 OfTtcUI newspaper ofifieViflji^ of Freeport*F«cportiod Baldwin School Districts TluifScUy, March 16,1989 25r v: '•’f ^ t ' '- 4 i : % HUNDREDS OF EASTER £ 0 0 $ h a v t a h ttd y b - n stu f M by fT»aportlQw«nieft«,abov»froml^JehnO*Coonor,IVwrida>it C M R«, R l Mbits M t 0 « y S d m d « , for d w Khnnia d u b Annual E » a w Egg Hunt March 18. Festwod la s vlah from the Esefear Bunny, ahmvn baiew a t last y«ar*t avant with aoma happy huntars. Egg hunt is coming! A sura sigD of Spring is tha Freeport KIwanis Club's Annoal Baster Egg Hunt, a Ota Csxmly b v onta that al»a 3 r« attracts a largo crowd of eager youeg searchers seven a ^ tjxtder: Ttos y i t / a ereol will ba h d d Saturday, Mazefa IS, at 10 sum. in tha fVsaportHjdt School K d d . Parents are enemnaged to bring their jroongstars not fir tha Host, hut also fir p r i i ^ baOocm, lota of fun. and a ehanea to xocat and greet that spedsl S p rier visitor, tha E aster B o m ^ _ In the event o f iadaaasQt weather, tha Easter Egg H a st wiQ ha h sU in tha aaw PBS crmoaslum. Future Party fights for ballot slot As The Leader went to press Tuesday, the outcome of . the appeal of FteeportY Future J to y to theTfew Yorlc S u te Supteme Counb AppeUaie Divisos to overtaro a K a n s u Couoty Judged dectiioa that its oomisat- isg pet^oos for the March 21 bge c k ^ o a were mvalid had not yet been deckled. Ftttun PirW^ mayoral candi* date> Vmeeot Campioo urged Fretporters to call Party bod* quartets St 578'4823 or to esQ the ViUsge Clerk^t Oilkc to find out what form the Ensl ballot w3J take. _ C o s t 2 mnng its fight for a place 00 the March 31 ballot, Free> poitb Future Party had Ckd a Qotke of appeal late Ian week with the New York Stale Supreme Court's Appellate Ditison. The Party was seekiag a rewr* sal of Nassau Cousty Supreme Court Judge Robert Roberto'S decttioa that the Future PtnyY Dommating petitiooi were invatid because the cover letter omhted the addresses of the Party'll four candidates. The Future Partyk petitions had been cliallesged by thrM Home Rule Party supporters and subsequemly ra id invalid by the Nassau County Board of Eleo tiona. The' BoardV dectston was upheld by Judge Roberto. FuWre Party attorney and jodloil candidate Douglas Hof' fmana told The Leader tt was the Futuie Partyk contentioo that the secdoo of S u te Elecdcm Law providing for todependetu nomi nating petitions on village eke- tioBs Usts no requirements for cover sbeeu. VUIage elections are the osly ones singj^ out in a spe- cial section, Mr. Hoffmann emphtsatd. and argued that a more geoeul section on which Judge Roberto based tusdecisioo t h o ^ not be applicable to viK tage elections. Voters desiring the option of a writC'in vote wiU find a paper roU on the voting machine with instructions on how lootft such a ballot, according to the Village Oerkk Onioe. Personnel al each polling place can astisunce to voters unsure of how to write' in a vote. ’Waterfronters' join in positive cainpaign hy Maurice Forge Freeportk fishing, excursion and retail fleet owaett, testauTan> tenn and waterfront merchants^ are merging their hhheno s p r ite campaign into one united [ effort to advance the intertsu of the various Eoarttime tildes. They g^ve positive evidence of that at a meeting in the Freepon Recrea tion C ^ ter Match t where about [''forty representatives of all aspects of the VUbge^ nautical activities agreed on a course of action. The meeting was called by Bill McDermott, newly elected third vice-prtside'K of the Frerport Chamber of Commerce, and Frank Cotiiofe. a Chamber director and waterfront bus>- nessmaa who has been one of the promotm of the Summer WatcfV' ■ front FestivaU bsld for-the p a sf three years. Po^tlvb approach n—dad “We need a campaign for posi tive thinking and acting about our waterfront,\ Mr. Cositore stressed. \We have gre« things to olter visitors and residents and H is our respontibiUty to make our boats, our products and our wares ever more attractive.\ The group responded by mak ing suggestions as to what should be done and what defeatist atti tudes should be discouragpd. At the coodusiod they a g r t ^ on a four-prooged progirara. Pint t h m traa a '^uemon for ati w aierr^ot buti- ness people who are not now Chamber members to join and to enlarge their repttsestatioo oa the body\* board of directors. Tluongh this mechanism they win beep the group in coosunt coDsnlutioa and coordioated activities. Institnie a campaign of self- poHdng to keep ibe canals, waterways, w atcrfroai streets and boats clean and atttaaive. This to he combined with requests from ibe Village to pro- (centiAuvd on n*?* 2S) Lorraine Deller, Bob Jordan and Ira Matetsky to run for Baldwin board by Joan Delaney At the March 8 Baldwin Board of Education meeting, incum bent B ^ a rd of E d u c a tion members Lorraine DeDer and tra Mateuky safil that they would be r u n n ^ for reeketioo. After the . meeting, fonnet Board member Bob Jordan who was present said that be. too. will be running All candidates have until Api9 10. 1989. to submit petitions of cain- didaey to run in the ai large eleC' tion for one of the two available seau which carry a three year cernw ' The Board meetmg was fiOed with a variety of b r a n e a and odticatioea} i tm a For the first hour, the Board entenained the 5th ^ade French students who are vititisg Baldwin for three weeks as part of the French; American exchange. The Board presented each Frcwch student whba white bear \Bntin” mascot. The students, their American cousurpam and families wiQ be participating in an assortment of educational and socia} occasions during the next three weeks. The Board approved the pro posed MTw ranl^g po&cy which has been developed over the past year with from various soureea tnchaling work by a conurnwee o f 15 people chaired by SHS pTmopel R ^ Mehxd and e p e m st^ of a (rcagspttido of administrators, teachers, stu dents and parents. There are sev- cral main changes. Course*-woiflhtod AH h i ^ school counes will be w d ^ ted in proportion to each other. Frcvioosly. only honon (H) or acederated (E) courses received additional weigbong Now. C tack courses be weighted above B track which is w e ired above A track. Regarding the concept of e x t e r ^ credits wbkh was the crux of the problem that occerred la the rankifig process for 1988-89. tbc poBcy states that (concirKiadort paga 271
