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4 I I « I Freeport • Baldwin Year..No.16 Freq)ortN.Y. 11520 OfBcialDewspaperoftbeVillageofFireepoA^FrecportaDdBaldraScboolDisincts Thursday.April20.1989 25^ Heritage Alive! . - : .* Blue ribbon message: Freeport says no to drugs *, 4 ; ^ / FROM iNOIATO FREEPORToomM lUmda C M .hom itM «taC)i Of M w t a . who«riip«fonn th«1.000year old *TNuratp«Itety*firdMce«ltht April 3 0 Heritage A M FestivrfipoMored by the Arte CouncB. For deteKt on tf>e potpourri of eiaMrieeeufroundhig the ethnic end merttkne event seepage 13. From May 1 to May 14 the look of Freeport will obaoge a Uttie bit. During these two weeks Freeporten are being asked to paridpate in a Blue Ribbon Dis* play that Says Ko to Drugs. Building on the success of last yeark effort, all Freeporters are again being asked to tie a blue_ ribbon around a tree in front of- their home on the weekend of April 29>30, and to keep the rib bon on display until May 14 after which they should-be removed. Apartment residents, businesses aM bomeowoers without trees can attach the ribbon to their front door, railing, etc. The Blue Ribbon Display is being sponsored by the Freeport Advisory Task Force on Diugs, the ihiee year old group d e ^ loped by Mayor Storm and Tnts* tee Ralph Smith. ThoTask Force is planning this event as p a n of ha F r e ^ r t Says No to Drugs campaign. Blue Ribbon win kick off with a short program on Saturday. April 29. at 12 noon at the Mozey^Rigby apartments on B u f ^ Avenne in Freeport. In case o f rain, the pro gram will be moved to the Free port Family Community Center at 17 B u ^ o Avenue. publie is invited to attend. It is the intention of the Task Force to “get the Blue Ribbon Campaign off to a good sun,\ according to Blue Ribbon Cam paign committee member. Pat Reid. “We hope that Freeporters will display blue ribbons and }oin with us on the 29th to kick off Freeport's blue ribbon display.\ Ribbons for the project are available free of charge b a n n ing April 29 at several Freeport loca tions it^uding Village Hall, the Freeport U b m y , the Freeport Recreation Center. Freeport EOC, Operation Pride and many area dmrefaes. AH Freeport ele mentary students will tove rib bons sent home with them on April 28. Ribbons wiQ also be available for Dodd Junior High and Freeport High School students. Said Marianne Endo, who is chairing this project for the Tax Force. \Last year we were very proud to see the way many Free porters west on record as saying *No*to drugs by displayinga blue ribbon.\ For more information on these efforts. Freeporters can cootaa Task Force Chairman Tedd Levy at 546-2821 County - Audubon Society ceremonies created Brookside Preserve Freeport M ayor Dorothy Storm, members of the South Shore Audubon Society, and interested lesideots and n d ^ bora gathered on Tuesday, April 11. to awah the forsul ceremo nies with County Ezecurive Thomas Gulotta, whidi would coo^kte an agreement betw^ n Nsssao County and the South Shore Audubon Sockty. The agreemeta allows the Society to manage a acre par ed o f woodlands to be known as Brookside Preserve al no tax payer cost The Society inteods to install tpuh. paths, a trail marker s y s t ^ stream crossovers, and an ~ S d e n u fi^on system to mark the Qora indigenous tatbe area. As part of-'the-apeem e n t.-the imUft ft- along Brookside Avenue and maxntzin~afi'feocic^rarouDd~the* property. The County win also mstall an entrance gate. County Executive Gulotta, in commenting on the'agreement, laid that be was “delighted that we have been able to reach agreement with the Aodobon Society to manage this important pared of natural beauty.\ He described the land as *Vaviroo- mentally sensitive.\ Joan Butke- reit. Vice President of the Society. Chairperson of the Brookri^ Presm e Committee and Conservatioo Chdtpetson of the Society dgned the agree-, meat in bdialf of the grot^. She' said U was a \ p rivily to work with the Graaty.*Joaeph Grupp, President of the Sodety, who is a tearhrr at Baldwin High School and not able to be ptesest, w u quoted in a statement by the ^ u n ^ Ezecstitve as saying that \Thb b a unique opportunity to demonsttate bow govemmem can work together with reddems to preserve some o f the natsial beauty which nature has bes towed upon our County. We are excited about the prospect of devdoping an effectivt manage ment ^ a n for thb she.\ Betsy Gulotta, who was Pred- TT73^ iA-1. ' dent of the Audubon Society at the lime that the bulk of the nego tiations took place, said that the Society has \dreamed of Hs own nature sanctuary\ for years. She said that Freeport was the Sode- ty*s bomebase, and she appboded the efforts of Mayor - Uemtewd en 13} StOIONQ MANAOCMEIcr AGREEMENT by wMcb rim Sourii on rim Ceunty-ewmed praaanw am Aodtibcn Sodoty Vlcn- Pfuddam Joan Burisaratt of Fraaport and County Exacuriva OutoCta. NATURAL 8ETT1NQ prodded riia bacfcdtcp for the dadfcarien of t t a Broekdda Fsaaarwa lass weak. Mayor Oeroriiy tlam v right ipoka aa County Ezaouriva Thomas Oulotm and Ma wHa
