 My name is Jim Swartz. I am the mayor of Freeport Borough. I've been mayor since October of 2009. The most exciting change was back in 1964 when they did put the community park in, put the swimming pool in, the basketball courts, the farm and would always freeze it throughout the winter. And that's where we did our ice skating over where the old golf courses today. That used to be a ski slope. So we always went over there to either toboggan or ski. Mostly we did the tobogganing. And they had a little train that ran around the park, about a two mile route that went the whole way around. Had a tunnel you went through and the train station was over by where the soccer fields are now. And you would pay a quarter and get on the train. And that is my understanding. Someone got hurt getting on or off the train and was a lawsuit. So he took the train out. They have tennis courts up there, baseball fields. They've added a lot of baseball fields since I was growing up and I was growing up they had two little league fields and a senior little league field. Now they have girls softball fields, T-ball fields. So they probably have probably eight different fields up there now that utilize for the baseball program and softball program. And they have lobby hall up there, which was built in 1964. And that's usually rented out mostly every weekend. It's a very nice place to have weddings and banquets. So other than that, I mean that was that was a big accomplishment in that park. I mean that got a lot of, because we used to, when I was growing up, we swam in the river. You know, there used to be a beach down there. There was an old beach house where we would go and change your clothes and that. And whenever the pool opened, I think it opened in 1964, 65. And sadly, it's closed now. I mean, there's a complete overhaul and you're probably talking a million, million and a half to do that. We just, nobody has the funds to do it. It'd be nice if I hit the lot. I'd put the pool back in for them. Some of my favorite memories is when I was growing up the downtown area. I mean, it had, that was before the malls came. And you had all kind of unique little shops. You know, we had a shoe shop, a jewelry store, a state store, couple barber shops, few meat markets, grocery store, clothing store. We had the longest John A. Shoe clothing, I think was 1831. It was established and that was the oldest clothing store in the United States. And he just shut down probably 10 or 11, 12 years ago because of his health. And just to look back, when I was a child, I kind of wished I would have went around town and took pictures of the town back then and what it looked like then and what it looks like now. I mean, you had everything, hardware store, Ben Franklin 5 and 10. When I was in high school in the late 60s, I worked every evening after school with the Ben Franklin store on Friday nights. I'd work until 9 o'clock and put a 10-hour shift in on Saturdays. They were open 9 to 9. And just so many unique shops they had back then that then the big malls came. And I mean, we had appliance stores. You know, we had it all. And it's just sad to see when the big malls hit that how the town's kind of lost business. But as you see now, some of the malls aren't doing good either. So maybe we'll revert back to the small town. I think you're right. I think that's exactly what's going to happen. We're going to have more of a localized, centralized community again. The old shoot building has a lot of potential, but I think you could do a lot with that. But right now it needs a lot of repairs. It's up for sale. Another old building that's quite unique is over in the Laneville section of Freedported. And it's the old Mickey's Mill Grist Mill. They used to make buckwheat there up until 1965. And after Mickey's Mill, it was called Valley Mills. But someone just recently bought that and I haven't talked to the people that bought it, but I don't know what they're going to do with it. At one time, whenever the park owned it, and they were going to put like a there was talk putting like a trolley down from the park down to there, you know, to take tours and that, but never came to fruition.