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<u 60 CL (N Q C3 XJ H QH § u uu X THE LEADER Member Audit Bureau of Circulations Freeport»Baldwin Publisher Editor: Paul Laursen Assistant Editor: Baldwin Editor: - Circulation: • -Advertising Manager: Advertising Account Executive Stall Writers: ESTABLISHED 1935 AS A COMMUNITY SERVICE _. -Linda Toscano Supervisor Nicolas Toscano Jason- Gers Joan Delaney Joyce MacMonigle Mark Treske Suzanne Handley Linda Hendrickson Member Published Every Thursday By L&M Publications, Inc. PO Box 312, FreeporVN.Y. 11520 1840 Merrick Avenue, Merrick, NY 11566 Telephone 378-3133«Fax 378-3139 e-mail LMpub@optonline.net www.freeportbaldwinleader.com Second Class postage paid at Freeport, N.Y. (USPS 307-320) PRICE: 50 cents per copy, $15 a year, $26 for 2 years, $36 for 3 years Outside Nassau County - $30 per year Composition responsibility: Not liable beyond cost of space occupied by error. All ads prepared by our staff, art work, layout and editorial content remains sole property of the LEADER and may not be reproduced in whole or in part without written permission of L & M Publications.Not responsible for return of materials submitted for publication. , POSTMASTER: Send address changes to THE LEADER, PO BOX 312, FREEPORT, N.Y. 11520-0312. The community newspaper - the glue that helps hold a community together, and the spur that helps keep it moving forward. Is there a Santa Glaus? by Jacob Riis No Santa Claus? Yes, my little man? there is a Santa Claus, thank God! Your father had just forgotten. The world would indeed be poor without one. It is true that he does not always wear a white beard and drive a reindeer team - not always,\ you know - but what does it matter? He,is Santa Claus with the big, loving, Christmas heart, for all that: Santa Claus with the kind thoughts for every one that make children and grown-up people beam with happiness all day long. And shall I tell you a secret which I did not learn at the Post Office, but it is true all the same - of how you can always be sure your letters go to him straight by the chimney route? It is this: send along with them a friendly thought for the boy you don't like: for Jack who punched you, or Jim who was mean to you. The meaner he was the harder do you resolve to make it up: not to bear him a grudge. That is the stamp for the letter to Santa. Nobody can stop it, not even a cross-draught in the chimney, when it has that on. Because - don't you know, Santa Claus is the spirit of Christmas: and ever and ever so many years ago when the dear little Baby was born after whom we call Christmas, and was cradled in a manger out in the stable because there was n'ot room in the inn, that spirit came into the world to soften the hearts of men and make them love one another. Therefore, that is the mark of the Spirit to this day. Don't let anybody or anything rub it out. Then the rest doesn't matter. Let them tear Santa's white beard off at the Sunday-school festival and growl in his bearskin coat. These are only his disguises. The steps of the real Santa Claus you can trace all through the world as you have done here with me, and when you stand in the last of his tracks you will find the Blessed Babe of Bethlehem smiling a welcome to you. For then you will be at home. -Jacob Riis Freeport leaders celebrate literacy with Columbus Avenue parents and children Parents in the Freeport Family Literacy Program have made~a yearlong commitment to Family and workforce training programs to better their own lives and t.he lives oT their children. To pay tribute to their hard work, Mayor Bill\ Glacken, Police Chief Mike Woodward and County Legislator Kevan Abrahams joined these parents and their children at Columbus Avenue School to celebrate Family Literacy Week. Legislator Abrahams applauded parents for their.. efforts, and asserted that as a community \we must work together to challenge ourselves to be better citizens, parents, educators and leaders.\ Chief Woodward spoke to parents about child safety and about the challenges of raising non- vio- lent children in an often violent world. Mayor Glacken then gathered the children and their parents around him to share a story together. \It's important for you to read and write.\ he told the children, as parents nodded in agreement. The gathering ended with a luncheon to cele- brate a community commilm'enrio family values and education. FREEPORT MAYOR BILL GLACKEN visited Columbus Avenue School to celebrate Family Literacy Week with parents and children in the Freeport Family Literacy program. Children gathered around the Mayor as he shared one of his favorite storybooks with them. COMMUNITY LEADERS joined members of the Freeport Family Literacy program to celebrate their shared commitment to family and education. Seated, from left, are are Clinton Fields, Shaisha Fields, Darelle White and Tanisha Fields. Standing, from left, are Freeport Police Chief Mike .Woodward, program director Marilyn Stuzin, Delores Fields, Ronald Grant and County Legislator Kevan Abrahams.
