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THE ISLANDERS PUPPY WITH A PURPOSE Winter Blues and Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) Manage Your Holiday Stress

New Tree Policy: Town board listens to public’s requests (See page 4)

Boy Scouts: Port troop helps out at Turkey Trot Turkey Trot Returns: Residents are excited to continue a town tradition (See page 8)

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Meet The Candidates For The 2021 Police Commissioner Election

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his year’s Port Washington Police Commissioner election features two candidates, Commissioner Angela Lawlor Mullins and Michelle Hsiao.

Mullins and her family have lived in Port Washington for 24 years now and she was elected commissioner in 2010.

During her tenure, she said that she’s impacted the department in many positive ways. Mullins said she is is eager to get the chance to continue her work.

Hsiao has lived and grown her family in Port Washington since 2015.

Although Hsiao doesn’t have a law enforcement background, she has detailed her expansive work experiences and how they have prepared her for the duties of police commissioner.

The election will take place on Tuesday, Dec. 14 at Polish Hall, located at 5 Pulaski Place, Port Washington.

Commissioner Angela Lawlor Mullins (Contributed photo from the Port Washington Police Department Website) Also, improving and utilizing technology to communicate better with the community, including social media such as Facebook, Twitter and Instagram, will also enable relevant information to easily be accessible.

Michelle Hsiao (Contributed photo from Karen Marotta)

safety issues, scams, internet crimes, burglaries, traffic and pedestrian safety.

At these meetings the community was encouraged to discuss any pressing needs or priorities, resulting in the district using the necessary resources Commissioner Angela to address their concerns. It is our plan In what ways will your previous Lawlor Mullins: that after COVID-19, the PWPD will professional experiences make What made you want to run for return to public meetings. you continue to thrive as police re-election of Port Washington While the PWPD is a community-oricommissioner?

Police Commissioner? ented police district, we can always Having served as detective with I am running for re-election do better.

I’m committed to always the New York Police Department because now more than ever Port improving police relations with all for 14 years gives me direct experience Washington needs a commissioner members of our community. I am in with how departments work that can with police-centric experience, strong the process of implementing a commuonly be learned from working on the leadership skills and high integrity, job. As a detective, I have effective com- nity liaison to interact with the youth who is truly vested in the well being in our community in sports activities, munication skills, a sense of personal of our growing, robust and diverse responsibility, integrity, and resilience. church, music, synagogue events, etc. community.

I look forward to continuing to serve Prior to my employment as a police As commissioner, you take part officer, I worked in the financial field. our community, as we work together in overseeing the formulation of with residents to keep Port Washington I gained a back ground in budgeting, budget. How can you assure the tax contract negotiations and finance, a safe community, where families live payers of Port Washington that their which aids me effectively in allocating and prosper. tax dollars are being put to good use? funds from the taxpayers, grants and It is important to know that 85 If re-elected as police commispercent of the budget is mandatsioner, what are going to be some other monies. My diverse background provides an overall direction and ed, which includes salaries, retirement of your main issues, based on your leadership to manage the budget, while pensions and health insurance. During platform? implementing department and public my tenure as a police commissioner, Implement police reforms, acpolicies with the community and other I have developed a reputation as a knowledging police enforcement governmental units. conservative spender, which is my across the board has changed. The How do you plan on building responsibility to the taxpayer. Last year combination of community policing relationships between the Port during COVID-19, we implemented has shown a renewed confidence that Washington Police Department and a revised working schedule for the public safety means pursuing security the community? police officers, which resulted in lower in partnership with the public. The Prior to COVID-19, the PWPD held overtime than normal and less sick ethos of the community policing forums at the Port Washington time. I am committed to providing ever creates opportunities for interactions Library, the Litting House, the greater police services with integrity between the community and police Chabbad, Salem School, the Landmark and fiscal responsibility. officers, not just in the context of on Main Street, Port Washington responding to crime. This means Senior Center and the Amsterdam. The Michelle Hsiao: more interaction in general, but more What made you want to run forums were held as an effort to keep importantly, it means more positive for Port Washington police the community informed of current interaction.

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I have been considering delving into community involvement in a deeper way for a while now. My family and I have very happily made Port Washington our chosen home and I have been involved in various community organizations, such as volunteering, etc., since the moment we moved here. When I learned about the role of the police district commissioners here in Port Washington, and how they work as executive leaders on behalf of the residents, business owners and police force, it felt like a perfect match for my extensive and successful track record of financial leadership, partnership building and constituent and team engagement.

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If elected as police commissioner, what are going to be some of the main things you will focus on, based on your platform?

I will have three overarching focuses for when I am elected: One, fiscal and budgetary management (of our taxes).

Two, transparency and communication of what the commission and police force are doing. Three, community engagement and partnership.

I will elaborate a bit on each. It is important that the police commission has an experienced financial executive leader who is focused on conserving our financial resources, who thinks creatively in terms of expense savings, doesn’t just rubber stamp last year’s [budget] and add the allowable increase, and also applies entrepreneurial thinking to identify opportunities for revenue outside of tax income.

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Town Approves New Tree Policy And Tree-related Local Laws

upervisor Judi Bosworth, Council Member Veronica Lurvey and the Town Board recently approved a series of amendments to update the town’s tree code and policy pertaining to tree preservation and removal. The effort included significant public participation and was designed to, among other things, preserve trees, increase the tree canopy cover and ensure that the right types of trees are planted in the right places.

“The newly enacted provisions to the tree code and policy are the culmination of an almost year-long effort by the town to seek comments from the North Hempstead community regarding the proposals,” said Supervisor Bosworth. “The adopted changes were crafted in large part based on resident input, and we are so proud of the level of participation they provided. The result is a tree code and policy that will positively benefit our environment and communities for future generations.”

Some of the highlights include: • Updated legislative intent detailing the importance of preserving existing

trees, including environmental and be planted, creating a plan to assess aesthetic benefits trees provide the Town’s tree inventory and canopy and acknowledging that trees help cover, plans to manage and address moderate climactic extremes. ivy growth and more.

• Establishment of a Tree Preservation • Increase in the size of replacement Fund to be spent on tree plantings trees for public and private property: and other tree related initiatives. must be three inches in diameter and • Re-establishment of the Tree Advisory measured at 4 ½ feet.

Committee that will include members • Additional requirements to permit of the public and an arborist. The applications for a tree removal on code provides a list of specific tasks private property, including providing for the committee to work on and a photo of the tree to be removed. provide input, including a tree master • Clarifies requirement about replantplan, recommendations for trees to ing trees when a tree was removed.

• The Tree Advisory Committee will help determine the locations for “Mini-Groves” which will include the planting of six or more native trees near each other, as part of an effort to increase the tree canopy cover.

• Tree removal notices and other tree related information will be included on the town’s website. Residents can sign up to receive tree removal notices via email for trees proposed to be removed within their zip code.

“This has been a collaborative process from the beginning, and I am grateful for all the input and comments we received,” said Council Member Lurvey. “I am proud to say that we were able to enact a tree code that works to preserve, remove, and plant trees in a more environmentally responsible manner. This legislation is extremely beneficial for our residents, our community and our environment.”

To view the final tree policy, visit: www.northhempsteadny.gov/ treepolicy.

—Submitted by the Town of North Hempstead

POLICE COMMISSIONER from page 3 Transparency and communication in a proactive, timely and accessible way, of information on meetings, projects, and opportunities for community input are currently lacking. There have been several situations in the past where decisions were made in secrecy and without any resident knowledge or involvement that negatively impacted the community, including financially.

This is unacceptable.

There are great examples in Port Washington of entities that are transparent in strong and collaborative ways—for example the school board. It needs to be the job of the police district commissioners to initiate, facilitate, listen and respond. This includes standard best practices that are not currently in place like active citizen boards, a regularly updated website, a social media presence sharing meeting details and the recap after the meeting, etc.

That communication leads right to engagement and connecting our police and community in positive and ongoing conversations and support.

We have an incredibly experienced and committed police force here in Port, with wonderful people from diverse backgrounds. Their voices and desire to connect in positive ways with our

equally diverse residents of all ages will be impactful and serve our community in fantastic short and long-term ways.

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How do you plan on building relationships between the Port In what ways will your previous Washington Police Department and professional experiences make the community? you thrive as police commissioner?

This is absolutely crucial to the I’ve described the role of the success of Port Washington and police commissioners as the our police force. Currently there is very “board of directors.” Meaning the little ongoing dialogue. It is essential chief, his deputy and assistant chiefs that the commissioners re-institute oversee the day-to-day running of the citizen boards for headquarters police force, fueled by their nearly 100 facility decisions, expand police officer years of combined law enforcement involvement in community activities, experience. The commissioners act partner and be seen in proactive ways as executive leaders for budgetary with business owners and the school control and decisions, drive the district. Establish and maintain an strategy and execution direction for active and informative website, social facilities, buildings and services, and media, connect with ambassadors in build mutually beneficial partnerships the community who will share feedwith government entities, vendors, the back from the citizens and also share union and more. out the fantastic stories of our police All of these responsibilities are what force’s impact and accomplishments.

I have been doing in my professional Live stream the commission meetings. career for 25 years. Overseeing $200I brought this up, along with 300 million budgets, entrepreneurimproved and timely information on ially finding revenue opportunities, the website and social media, as a building partnerships, negotiating concerned citizen at a commission multimillion-dollar deals and meeting a few weeks ago. engaging with my teams, my partners As commissioner, you take part and my constituents has been the in overseeing the use of the foundation upon which I have built my career. All of this is what makes me Police Department budget. How the ideal police commissioner for Port can you assure the taxpayers of Port

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Washington that their tax dollars are being put to good use in the Police Department budget?

The three commissioners have the ultimate decision power and control over the budget. It is their responsibility to be educated and skilled at financial strategies and processes for managing the district’s $24 million budget. I have that successful track record of financial leadership that is needed. I not only have strategies for expense savings that will not impact our police salaries and benefits, but also have creative and innovative ideas that are doable for revenue generation. This is new and innovative thinking that I am excited to work with the two mid-term commissioners and our chief on, and to partner with government leaders and business owners on. Port Washington is a wonderful place to live and to raise your family, as I am doing. We have much to be proud of, but there is also opportunity for improvement, a need for fresh eyes and experience, and I bring that to the table and more.

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Boy Scout Troop 7 on the sidelines of the Thanksgiving Day Run.

Scouts helping keep runners hydrated.

(Contributed photos from Boy Scout Troop 7)

Boy Scout Troop 7 Serving At The Port Washington Thanksgiving Day Run

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roop 7 has been a part of Port Washington’s fabric since 1914. Scouts from this troop reminded us that as we celebrate this wonderful holiday, serving is at the

heart of it.

For the Thanksgiving Day Run in Port Washington, the Scouts from Troop 7 assembled several tables stacked with cups of water. The Scouts

bundled up to support the runners and helped distribute the water cups to many grateful runners. After the race, Troop 7 worked together to get all the trash cleaned up and

discarded.

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Port Washington’s Turkey Trot Returns After A One-Year Hiatus

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fter a year without the annual Turkey Trot, Port Washington residents were once again able to run around the town on Thanksgiving morning. This year’s race, which had nearly 3,000 participants, was a long-awaited return to a 40-year-old tradition in our town. Run by the Port Washington Community Chest, the Turkey Trot raised thousands of dollars for the organization, which funds various activities and services for Port Washington residents.

They have worked hard throughout the COVID-19 pandemic to provide gift cards, shelf-stable food, meats and chicken along with other personal care items and necessities for Port Washington residents.

On the cold morning, thousands of people, not just from Port Washington, scrambled to get to Manorhaven Park by 8:30 a.m. Most were bundled up, but there were many runners wearing costumes, from turkeys to reindeer, to celebrate the start of the holiday season. When the starting gun sounded, runners started down

Lucas Milgrim Student at Schreiber High School in Port Washington

Manorhaven Boulevard. Not all of the 3,000 racers started immediately, as walkers were set up towards the back of the race.

The race continued down Cow Neck Road and then onto Middle Neck Road, where racers could take a quick break at one of the few water stations situated throughout the course before running up the biggest hill of the race. These stations consisted of volunteering Port Washington residents. Many people also spent their Thanksgiving morning standing outside, cheering on their friends and

family as they pushed through the five mile race.

After three hard miles, racers turned onto Sandy Hollow Road, before running to Shore Road, where the four-mile marker was placed. The end was in sight, but for many, myself included, this was the hardest part of the morning. Runners returned to Manorhaven Boulevard, and finished the race at the finish line in Manorhaven Park.

This year’s race was won by Luke Ellwood, an 18-year-old Port Washington resident. He finished the race in an incredible time of 25:57, beating out the second place finisher by nearly a full minute. Theresa

McCabe of Manhasset won the race in the Women’s category, with a time of 29:18. These two, and the top three finishers of each of the 5-year age groupings, were given awards for their excellent performances.

The Turkey Trot was a tradition that many missed last year due to the COVID-19 pandemic. All of Port Washington welcomed back the holiday run in 2021, and look forward to next year’s race.

Lucas Milgrim is a junior at Schreiber High School, who is currently a copy editor for The Schreiber Times. He enjoys watching, playing and writing about all sports, especially baseball.

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Angela Lawlor Mullins

Dedicated to Community-Focused Policing Focus on Diversity • Strives to hire a diverse police force with 40% of hires over past 5 years being women and minorities Committed to Safety: • Experience and leadership helped Port Washington be rated the second safest city in New York (Source: backgroundchecks.org) Building on Experience: • Was a former NYPD Detective, Intelligence Division, Manhattan District Attorney & Robbery Squad • Exceptional budgeting and finance experience gained from 7 years in the financial services industry

On Tuesday, December 14, Re-Elect Angela Lawlor Mullins

For Exceptional Experience, Involvement and Integrity

Commissioner Mullins is committed to providing prompt, strong, and effective services in the most fiscally sound and responsible way.

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Emphasis on Community: • Focuses on community-oriented policing that ensures a strong and positive working relationship between the community and PW Police District • Established a Community Liaison Unit and outreach programs to determine how the PWPD can better serve our community Fiscally Sound: • Saves over $100,000 per year by re-aligning civilian duties, in addition to significant savings by adjusting police officers’ salary structure • Helped keep five years’ budget increases to about 2% yearly, far lower than tax base growth or inflation

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TUESDAY, DECEMBER 14 12 – 9 P.M. at POLISH HALL – 5 PULASKI PL. Ellen and David Adler

Jessica Prince Clateman

Rachael and Neil Adler

Barbara Cohen

Sam Adler (12 years old) Karyn Alevy

Lynn and Dan Couture James Cowles

Caren Franklin David and Suzette Franklin The Furtado Family

Glen Andersen

Francesca Cristofano

Star Anthony

Joyce Decosta

Sonia Arora

John Defilppi

Fiona and Alan Garfinkel

Joseph Bares

Mary and John Delach

Joan Gerken

Alana Benjamin Shayna Blumenfeld (14 years old) Rosemary and George Borris Liz and Paul Brensic Claire Brezel and Family Maggie and Frank Burke Patricia Class

Carrie Diamond Lina and Alessandro DiMeo Lisa and Dan Donatelli Linda Eckhardt John Featherston Alexandra and Andrew Feigin

Victoria Klein

Jane Palasek

Larry Greenstein

Jonathan Konoff

Hildur Palsdottir

Angela Hardy

Stephanie and John Krajewski

Maryalice Pauley

Jonathan Kulick

The Petta Family

Lori and David Leeds

Brunino Pino

Emma Feldman Margot Gramer

Margaret Galbraith

Mindy and Victor Germain Rachelle and Damon Gersh Rachel Gilliar Meghan GettingStraesser The Ginsburg Family Susan and Mark Goldman Phyllis Govan

Jean and James Harford Scott and Alice Harford Nancy and John Hellnschmidt Amanda and Mitch Hill Angela Jaggar Paula and Howard Johnson Nancy and Steve Kaplan Lydia and John Keane Michelle Keller

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Fred Pollack Ellen and Gary Pribek

Gail and Ed Schwartz Michelle and Randy Shain Jeffrey Smith Jeanette and Frederick Strang Ann Teitel Jane Thomas Marni and Kenny Tuch

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Michael Ward

Antonette and Burchard Lewis

Raju Rajan

Jessica Weaver

Marcia Reed

Jon Weinstein

Loren & Neil Lieberman

Irene and John Reidy

Allison White

Pat and Jude Maher

Wilma and Alexander Rekow

Jill Mindlin

Christina Keller

Eleanor and Arthur Minkoff

Kim and John Keiserman

Michele & Joseph Mirane

Madalena Santodonato Hon. Michelle Schimel

Michelle Whitman Cindy and Peter Witkow Giovanna and William Yorio Martha Zebrowski

Neighbors and Friends:

Commissioner Brackett’s three decades of steadfast leadership, delivering Port Washington a safe and sustainable water supply, is the continued experience we need making the tough decisions for our community. Brackett’s expertise and proactive approach to so many important issues has been invaluable in protecting, conserving and managing our water systems. Experience matters when it comes to our most valuable natural resource!

JOIN YOUR NEIGHBORS AND RETURN DAVID TO THE WATER DISTRICT. EXPERIENCE MATTERS!

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Thank You! We are filled with gratitude to our Sponsors, Donors, Fundraisers, Volunteers and Participants for making the 2021 Port Washington Thanksgiving Day Run a GIANT success!

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Port Washington, Nassau County, and Sands Point Police Departments Port Washington Fire Medics Town of North Hempstead Department of Parks & Recreation, Highway Department & the Office of Councilwoman Mariann Dalimonte Villages of Baxter Estates, Manorhaven, Port Washington North & Sands Point Nassau County Department of Public Works

Peter & Jeri Dejana Foundation, Jean-Marie Posner Finish Line Road Race Technicians, David Katz Baker Air, Kris Baker Yoga Life, Drew Kane PW Boy Scouts Troop 7, Howard Hernandez Schreiber Key Club members Skybox Images, James Maguire Dr. Eddy Barasch Fran & Joe Foster

RUN COMMITTEE COMMUNITY CHEST THANKSGIVING DAY Noal Goldfarb, Chair Ross Baltic Rachel Fox Jerry Federlein Howard Hernandez Drew Hershkowitz Becca Keen Neil Lazar John Neil Dr. Roy Nelson Bob O’Brien Paul Oliveri Skip Stern AND the too-many-to-name Community Volunteers

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TOPISLAND STORY AROUND LONG

Islanders Back Home On Long Island Governor hails ‘spectacular’ arena

BY FRANK RIZZO

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overnor Kathy Hochul gave her seal of approval to the new UBS Arena in Elmont at a recent ribbon cutting. Sparing no superlatives, the state’s chief executive called it “spectacular,” “awesome” and “as good as it gets” after stating that she had been in plenty of arenas.

Noting the quick realization from its conception in December 2017 and groundbreaking in September 2019, Hochul praised those who “helped us write the screenplay for the 2021 edition of miracle on ice. You are witnessing the miracle on ice right here because you got it done in two years during a pandemic.”

The state put out bids to develop the underutilized 53 acres adjacent to the track and grandstand and a team headed by the Islanders’ ownership under the umbrella New York Arena Partners won approval from the Empire State Development (ESD) state agency.

Construction was delayed for two months in 2020 because of COVID-19.

As part of the development, the LIRR built its first new station in 50 years at the north end of the property. The Elmont station is only serving eastbound trains until its western platform is built next summer.

Several team owners had sought to move from or replace the Nassau Coliseum, the Islanders’ home since the club’s initial 1972 season. Though the building was beloved by many fans and held memories of the dynasty years, it was seen as outdated and a drag on the Islanders’ finances.

After bidding farewell to the Coliseum at the end of the 2014-15 season as it faced reconstruction, the Islanders moved to Brooklyn’s Barclays Arena from 2015 -20. In 2020-21, the team played games at its old and new venues as the UBS Arena started taking shape.

“Today is a monumental day for New York and the Islanders as we cut the ribbon on the world-class new UBS Arena,” Hochul said. “This is the first step in the newly redeveloped Belmont Park, which will serve as an internationally recognized destination for sports, entertainment, retail and hospitality. As New York continues to recover from the COVID pandemic, Belmont Park will be instrumental in strengthening the regional economy and boosting tourism for generations to come.”

Kevin Law, the former longtime head of the Long Island Association

The new arena will be an impressive sight at night, especially from Hempstead Turnpike, which this side faces. (UBS Arena)

By The Numbers Arena cost: $1.1 billion Total project jobs: 10,000 Permanent full time jobs: 3,200 Hockey capacity: 17,250 Bathrooms: 68 Bars: 8 Clubs/lounges: 5 Outdoor terraces: 2 Construction economic impact: $2.7 billion Annual economic output: $850 million County, town, state and MTA fiscal revenue: $44 million Payments in lieu of taxes to schools, fire districts: $270 million Sources: UBS Arena, Governor Hochul

and nominee to chair the ESD, said the arena “will create a significant boost to tourism and economic activity for the region. Tourism and hospitality are important to the state’s economy and the redevelopment of Belmont Park will transform the area into a premier entertainment destination.”

Also on hand for the ribbon cutting was NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman, who said, “I want to congratulate Governor Hochul, the Islanders, their fans and our partners in government and the private sector whose vision, hard work and commitment made this historic day possible. For years the Islanders have dreamed of a first-class, state-of-the-art arena they can call home. Today, that dream comes true.”

According to published reports, the arena, along with its Northwell Health Ice Center practice facility in East Meadow, will allow the franchise to

attract and retain players.

Nassau County Executive Laura Curran said, “It’s a historic day for Nassau County and for Islanders Nation. The Belmont project has benefited our local communities since day 1, creating new jobs and economic activity, expanding our public transit network and bringing our beloved Isles home for good-a hat trick for Nassau.

As an avid supporter of this effort, I’m proud of the team that got the job done.”

New York Arena Partners is also renovating nearby Elmont Road Park after community input and planning workshops, and providing improvements to Hendrickson Avenue Park.

Future projects include a 350,000 square-foot destination entertainment and retail complex, a 250-key hotel and a community center.

A slew of high profile entertainers have already played or slated appearances at the arena, including Harry Styles, Journey, Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters and comedian Sebastian Maniscalco, who sold out his Dec. 27 show in 30 minutes back in July.

day—all while promises of community benefits remain thus far unfulfilled,” Solages said. “Residents are furthermore disappointed that the future train station—which was promised for Elmont—will be located in Bellerose Terrace and the question of how they will get between the bus stops along Hempstead Turnpike and the new train station at the north end of the Belmont property remains unresolved.”

Floral Park, which borders Belmont Park and the new UBS Arena, is reportedly facing some adverse effects. “ A number of issues arose with regards to the opening of the arena,” Mayor Kevin Fitzgerald said in a letter to residents. “A number of these issues, especially in and around the North—now called Emerald Lot—that we sadly and accurately predicted would occur, have occurred. We continue to speak with our state elected representatives, state agencies and others on a daily basis to work on rectifying most of these issues.

We have proposed several steps that can be taken that we believe are reasonable solutions that can and should be quickly implemented.”

Opposition Fitzgerald said that any pre-existing The project has faced lawsuits from gates in the village to Belmont Park will both the Village of Floral Park and be locked permanently. Residents in the Elmont residents over various issues. The village reported seeing people climbing lawsuits were dismissed in May 2020. fences at certain locations to gain access Nassau County Legislator Carrié to and from Belmont Park. Fitzgerald Solages (D–Lawrence), whose 3rd district includes Elmont, stated that though urged residents that if they want to attend events at the arena, the better way the arena is a positive for the Islanders, to get there if they don’t want to drive is he would not attend the ribbon cutting taking the Long Island Rail Road. as he could not support the project.

Additional reporting by Anthony “This project seemed to have been Murray. pushed through by former Governor Cuomo at the expense of local residents, To comment on this story, who have been forced to contend email frizzo@antonmedia with traffic, garbage, pollution and group.com construction noise at all hours of the

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Suozzi Announces Run For Governor Demands a ‘holiday plan’ for COVID

BY NATALIA VENTURA

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n Nov. 29, Democratic Rep. Tom Suozzi declared he will be withdrawing from the race for New York’s 3rd District to focus on running for governor of New York, joining in a race that is already packed with candidates including Governor Kathy Hochul, Attorney General Letitia James and New York City Public Advocate Jumaane Williams.

With Suozzi dropping out of the race, this places Melanie D’Arrigo as the only 2022 Democratic Congressional nominee for NY-3. This puts her well ahead of anyone else who decides to enter.

“My opponent just announced that he is no longer running for this seat, and that means this race has just become one of our best chances to elect another progressive to Congress who will center the needs of working people,” D’Arrigo said.

Suozzi refers to himself as a “common sense Democrat,” and on Dec. 1 he called upon the state in a news conference, to deliver a more effective and thorough plan to take on COVID as the holiday season nears.

“New York needs a holiday plan for COVID. Why do we need a holiday plan? Because everybody is going to be gathering, because we already have the concerns regarding Delta and because of the fact that the Omicron variant is something we should be worried about because we don’t know what’s going to happen,” he stated.

His slide presentation consisted of graphs based on recent infection rates in different parts of New York, and how the amount of average daily cases almost doubled in November.

“We’ve seen a dramatic spike in the rate of infections in New York over the past month or so, and there are a lot of different factors that could be contributing to this but we have to be conscious of the fact that we’ve had key revenue drivers, certainly in downstate New York but it’s affecting all of us.”

The strategies he discussed included developing more mass vaccination sites and focusing on booster shots since, “right now there’s 13 mass vaccination sites in the state of New York.

That’s half the number of what we ran

Rep. Tom Suozzi, who joined the race for NY governor, has scrutinized Gov. Kathy Hochul for not having a thorough plan against COVID-19. (Photo by Natalia Ventura) earlier this year. So I think that between now and New Year’s, especially during this holiday season, the greatest gift you can give for the holidays is to get a booster shot.”

Suozzi continued with emphasizing the importance of the state’s MicroCluster Strategy, the need for aggressive testing throughout the state, and for New York to plan for testing and quarantine conditions for international travel and borders.

“So we have to encourage booster shots, we need a microcluster strategy, and we need to encourage aggressive testing so that we can keep track of this,” he said. “Especially looking to find out if the Omicron has come here. We have to look at testing and quarantine requirements related to international travel and the Northern border of New York State. We’ve got to worry about Canada, and who’s coming in from Canada into the United States of America. And we have to set up protocols for testing and quarantine for people coming into the state.”

In order to increase the vaccination rate in New York, Suozzi believes developing a marketing campaign to

provide incentives to people to get vaccinated would encourage them.

He would also push to get doctors and hospitals involved to help motivate the people to get vaccinated.

When asked about how his political style compares to former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, and his handling of COVID-19, Suozzi stated, “He and I have pretty different styles, but I’m not taking away from him that he did accomplish a tremendous amount. He’s got his flaws, he’s got problems, he’s got very serious allegations about his conduct which should be very concerning to all of us, but you can’t take away the fact that during COVID he was there every single day laying out a comprehensive plan and coordinating the state on these issues.”

Suozzi continued, “Governor Cuomo had a reputation for being very controlling of everything, I’ve been in elected office long enough that I know you can’t do that. You have to let your people flourish, and be creative, and give you their ideas and keep things moving forward. You can’t keep controlling everything like that. That’s

the difference between he and I.” Suozzi also commented how Governor Hochul has not been present enough when it comes to handling COVID and directing the people of New York.

“I think the governor can do a better job of laying out a comprehensive plan that looks at all the factors, not letting things out piecemeal, one thing here, one thing there. Its got to be a comprehensive plan, its got to be done every day, and we have to be constantly advising the public and the health care professionals throughout the state, and the county health commissioners and county executives as to what we’re doing and what needs to be done. I always used this expression when I was county executive, and I did emergency management, ‘Be prepared, not scared.’

We’ve got a lot of little pieces, but it has got to be a comprehensive plan and its got to be doggedly pursued with vigilance certainly over the next 30-40 days.”

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ore than 125 current and former students from Hicksville High School earned the designation of Advanced Placement Scholars for excelling on their 2021 AP exams.

Congratulations to the following students on achieving this honor:

AP Scholars With Distinction

Granted to students who receive an average score of at least 3.5 on all AP Exams taken, and scores of 3 or higher on five or more of these exams.

Alex Abraham, Alok Aenugu, Samuel Aronov, Ariya Bakhteri, Benjamin Choi, Roxy R. Dias, Anaya A. Ger, Lena L. Girdhar, Alejandro Gonzalez, Cailin J. Hoang, Lirim Iljazi, Aryan Jain, Xiang Jin, Maria John, Keshveen Kaur, Jaskaran S. Kohli, Timson Lai, Serena Lam, Kayla A. Mathew, Ben M. Mercado, Maeryam Nasari, Jesse A. Natarajan, Daren Ni, Alina M. Nodrat, Julia V. Parlewicz, Aric Peng, Arianna A. Psareas, Joseph R. Quan, Arena Rahman, Mallika Rangi, Daniel A. Rivero, George B. Sekavec, Donna S. Shair, Navpreet Singh, Lindsey M. Smith, Felicite Tien, Irene X. Tsesmetzis, Kaitlyn C. Verdugo, Brinda

Vutukuri, Eric Y. Wang, Sam Zhen and Sean Zhen.

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Granted to students who receive an average score of at least 3.25 on all AP Exams taken, and scores of 3 or higher on four or more of these exams Sarah Aljonubi, Jade Amador, Josef P. Aronov, Sarah C. Chavez, Aniruddh K. Chittabathini, Kaitlyn G. Curtin, Sarah M. Gabriel, Stephanie Gabriel, Nicholas S. Geonie, Joseph Glaudino, Cameron L. Hall, Teresa M. Hammer, Stephen P. Harran, Krish G. Jain, Prakriti Khanal, Jihan Kumar, Matthew L. LaBarca, Sydney J. Mathis, George Nakashyan, George D. Palermo, Nadia Y. Pelaez, Matthew A. Rakhar, Purnima Sengupta, Jawad M. Shamim, Ashish Sharma, Saba Sohail, Michael S. Varghese, Rayaan Zaidi and Eric Zhang.

AP Scholars

Granted to students who receive scores of 3 or higher on three or more AP Exams Aleena Abraham, Gianna Adamo,

Jabir Ahmed, Sara Ashraf, Rani Basnet, William A. Beiner, Jude C. Campbell, Roman V. Charan, Prisha K. Dass, Julia C. DeTurris, Isabella A. Diaz, Rafay Ejaz, Bassam Faisal, David M. Giannuzzi-Costa, Jenna E. Gobbo, Alisha Goraya, Sneha Gouli, Tanzia Hassan, Fiddi H. Hilmi, Zhong J. Hou, Allyson S. Jackson, Jason Jiang, Daniel T. Joyce, Gurmehar Kaur, Kauthar Khorami, Muneer Lalji, Teresa Lam, Pratiksha S. Malayil, Eliana S. Mendolia, Alisina Menhaji, Abdullah Mohmand, Rhafi Omam, Bisma Omer, Dua Omer, Padmanabh Pareek, Rabia K. Rana, Christopher C. Rath, Kelly P. Ryan, Gagan Sapkota, Aaryan J. Shah, Alisha B. Shah, Ayush Shah, Vasanth Shakelli, Himanshu Sharma, Ekam Singh, Kanishka Sivarajah, Aniket Sonika, Shari M. Thorsten, Shannon M. Tuohey, Shanna V. Varghese, Jing Wang, Ashley N. Wulff, Eli Yoo, Ivan Zheng and Anthony A. Zizzo.

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Granted to students who earn scores of 3 or higher in AP Seminar and AP Research but not on four additional AP Exams Gianna Adamo, William A. Beiner, Bassam Faisal, Joseph Glaudino, Zhong J. Hou, Aarshia Hukmani, Prakriti Khanal, Kauthar Khorami, Timson Lai, Teresa Lam, Sydney J. Mathis, Alina M. Nodrat, Mallika Rangi, Daniel A. Rivero, Purnima Sengupta, Himanshu Sharma and Abhiram Thotkura.

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assau County’s incoming District Attorney Anne Donnelly introduced her transition team, who will assist her as she prepares to take office as Nassau County’s new top law enforcement officer. Donnelly’s transition team includes a diverse group of talented lawyers, professionals, community educators, and others committed to the safety of Nassau County neighbors and the well-being of at-risk members of society.

“I am excited to take important steps that will enable me to ‘hit the ground running’ as Nassau’s next District Attorney,” stated Donnelly. “I am working with a group of talented and committed individuals who are all focused on keeping the public safe and providing positive options for members of our society who are at risk.”

The transition team includes former prosecutors, law professors, a college educator, a former member of the New York State Attorney General’s Office, a member of the Amistad Bar Association, a retired Nassau County administrative judge, a past president of Nassau County Criminal Court Bar Association and the head of an association that provides resources to recent immigrants to the United States.

At the same time, Donnelly announced that she and/or members of her transition team will be meeting with a host of groups and individuals in an effort to develop strategies, policies and priorities to best serve the residents of Nassau County.

Some of the types of people and groups with which the incoming top prosecutor will meet include victims’ rights advocates, drug counseling representatives, executives with Mothers Against Drunk Driving, veterans’ organizations, Nassau County Youth Board executives, law enforcement officials and union representatives, groups involved in combatting food and housing insecurity, Nassau Corrections and Probation Department administrators, representatives of the clergy, as well as other groups that are focused on combatting crimes which are motivated by bias, racism, anti-Semitism or other forms of hate.

The transition team will focus on a variety of priorities, along with the incoming district attorney. Among the points of focus are establishing an Anti-Bias Crimes Unit, and expanding resources in the Technology Crimes Bureau is also a top priority identified

by Donnelly during the campaign.

District Attorney-elect Anne Donnelly.

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Additional imperatives include providing more support and programs for at-risk youth, and the incoming district attorney is committed to furnishing enhanced counseling, treatment and education resources in response to the opioid epidemic and other dangerous illicit drugs.

Nassau’s next top law enforcement officer will also squarely target drug dealers and drug distribution networks. The incoming “Top Cop” also indicated that more must be done to provide positive alternatives for at-risk young people who are being recruited into gangs.

Donnelly noted that she will continue to strongly back law enforcement and work with them to fight crime and enhance relationships with community leaders. She will work to remove illegal guns from our communities.

Also high on Donnelly’s priority list is developing strategies to deal with the corrosive effects of the so-called “bail reform” law, along with working with other district attorneys to lobby Albany for major changes in the law.

Finally, the career prosecutor indicated that she will work to support and equip the district attorney’s team of prosecutors, investigators and other staff members in a display of heartfelt respect for their dedication and to ensure the success of the Office’s mission.

“I have a long list of priorities, and a great team of leaders to help me accomplish key imperatives and implement policies that will keep Nassau County the safe suburban community that we love,” said Donnelly. “From helping at-risk youth and combatting drug abuse to removing illegal guns

from the streets and coping with the dangerous ‘bail reform’ law, I am ready and eager to get to work for Nassau neighbors.”

“I am excited to be working with our next district attorney, Anne Donnelly, as well as a transition team, which is comprised of talented and experienced individuals,” said Chairman Brian Griffin. “I know that we will be successful in identifying important goals and establishing a meaningful agenda.”

“I want to thank the members of my transition team for their guidance, expertise and willingness to serve our residents,” concluded Donnelly. “I know that these individuals will help me to shape policies and priorities that will keep Nassau residents safe.”

The Team Members of the transition team include: Chairman Brian J. Griffin, Esq.: Partner, Foley Griffin, LLP; Past President, Nassau Criminal Court’s Bar Assocation; Former ADA, Nassau County District Attorney’s Office.

Vice Chair Martin Meaney, Esq.; Private practice attorney; Former ADA/Senior Litigation Counsel, Nassau County District Attorney’s Office.

Fred Klein, Esq.; Professor, Hofstra Law School; Former Chief, Major Offense Bureau Nassau County District Attorney’s Office; Former Asst.

Attorney General, NYS Organized Crime-Medicaid Fraud Bureau.

Dennis Farrell; Dennis Farrell & Associates, LLC; Former Commissioner, Muttontown Police Department; Retired Commanding Officer, Homicide Division, Nassau County Police Department.

Hon. Anthony Marano; Retired Administrative Judge, Nassau County; Former Nassau County Supreme Court Justice; Former Nassau County District Court Judge.

Patrick McCormack, Esq.; Professor, LIU College, Molloy College and Hofstra University School of Law; Former Chief Assistant, Nassau County District Attorney’s Office; Former Staff Attorney, Nassau County Legal Aid Society Geoffrey Prime, Esq.; Law Office of Geoffrey Prime; Former ADA Nassau County District Attorney’s Office; Parliamentarian Amistad Bar Association; Mayor, South Floral Park.

Jane Zwirn-Turkin, Esq.; Former Regional Director, NYS Attorney General’s Office, Medicaid Fraud Unit; Former Chief, Pharmaceutical Diversion Unit, Nassau County District Attorney’s Office; Former Supervisor, Major Case Housing Task Force, Bronx County District Attorney’s Office.

Margarita Grasing; Executive Director, Hispanic Brotherhood; Operates multi-faceted programs for the Hispanic community; Provides immigration, employment and housing services.

—Submitted by District Attorney-elect Anne Donnelly

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ictoria Goodman has been a proud Great Neck resident for more than 23 years. She is an involved and a concerned parent of three boys. Goodman is a graduate of Queens College, having majored in Political Science. As a 7-year-old in the Soviet Union, she immigrated to the United States with her family in 1979, escaping religious persecution. Since then, Goodman embarked on a career in the fashion district, growing and then serving in upper management at well-known companies in the private sector, dealing with supervision, managing staff, fiscal responsibilities, and increasing revenue.

Goodman and her family, have enjoyed and appreciated the amenities and the privilege offered by the Great Neck Park District.

At the heart of Goodman’s platform are the district’s parks themselves, and improving them and what they

Victoria Goodman

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offer Great Neck’s 10,000+ deserving recreation for Great Neck residents. residents. Goodman promises to Striving to keep these public jewels give fair review and consideration to in safe and pristine condition—inpromote issues and initiatives that she cluding public pathways, bathrooms has encountered firsthand, as well as and landscape-- must be an ongoing those she has learned are important to priority for today’s residents and other Great Neck residents. future generations including pathThese include: way repair, segregated and fenced • First and foremost: Safety, adherence pet areas, and organic garden and to rules, and proper supervision composting sites. to ensure all Great Neck residents • Recreation. Our parks should serve maintain priority access to enjoy the our community as extensions of District’s parks free from interference our own backyards. And for our or unwelcomed activity. apartment-dwelling residents, the • Initiatives for an Indoor recreational importance of the green space our center, possibly including an indoor parks offer cannot be overstated. pool, soccer, basketball, and senior Goodman is a strong believer in recreation, providing year-round encontinuing and growing Great Neck’s joyment to all Great Neck residents. robust offering of activities and • Park improvements and mainteevents in an inclusive environment nance. Sprawling Park properties, for everyone—from infants to seincluding Allenwood Park and niors, and every resident in between.

Stepping Stone Park, as examples, —Submitted by Victoria represent invaluable beauty and Goodman’s campaign

Insurance May Cover Repairs To Water And Sewer House Connections The Great Neck Water Pollution Control District (GNWPCD) is pleased to inform its residents that it has learned that some insurance companies are offering new insurance coverage designed to assist a homeowner in the repair and/or replacement of their water and sewer house connections.

This new coverage can be especially helpful to homeowners, as they are responsible by law for the repair of their house connections. More than a half dozen major insurance carriers licensed to do business in New York are known to have this coverage, so homeowners are advised to contact their broker or insurance company directly to see if they offer this level of insurance.

“We are always looking to help our neighbors save money whenever possible, and upon learning about this offering by some, we wanted to ensure residents knew to inquire about their policy,” GNWPCD Chairman Steve Reiter said. “We strongly suggest our residents contact their insurance provider to see if they are covered for these repairs and/or replacements.

Having this coverage can save you thousands as the cost to repair or replace these lines without insurance can exceed $10,000.”

The District has been made aware that the following companies have started offering these service line connection insurance policies: Andover, Kingstone, NatGen, Narraganset Bay,

Occidental/Sage, Utica, Berkshire Hathaway and Sterling.

There are many instances in which homeowners are unknowingly responsible for repairs to underground pipes and wiring which bring several vital services into and out of their homes. Under this insurance policy, not only are these service line

repairs covered, but also any damage to outdoor properties caused by these repairs, such as lawns, driveways and walkways. Additionally, if your home is unhabitable during the repairs, hotel and other costs may be covered as well.

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ome shop for holiday gifts at a Christmas Boutique at Trinity Episcopal Church in Roslyn on Saturday, Dec. 11 and Sunday, Dec. 12. It will feature a wonderful selection of many new and gently-used items such as home goods, books, toys, CDs, DVDs, seasonal

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Trinity Episcopal Church in Roslyn will host a Christmas Boutique event this weekend. (Contributed photo)

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Trinity Episcopal Church is located at 1579 Northern Blvd., in Roslyn.

Student Named County Math Champion Kaito Cavallo, a Flower Hill resident and a fifth-grader at The Green Vale School, earned first place in the Sumdog Nassau County Math Competition by answering 1,000 questions out of 1,000 correctly over a seven-day period—a perfect score. Roughly 500 students from across Nassau County participated in the competition.

In addition to Cavallo’s first place win, all the Top 10 winners were students at The Green Vale School.

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This beautiful, detached single-family, south-facing home at 26009 Kensington Place in the University Gardens section of Great Neck sold on Nov. 17 for $910,000. It has three floors, plus a legally finished basement with a separate exit, high ceilings and good lighting. The long, private driveway leads to a one-car garage. The home has three bedrooms on the second floor, two full bathrooms and a stand-up, finished attic. This home is located in the boundaries of one of the best public school districts on Long Island, zoned for Great Neck South High School and two minutes walking distance to Lakeville Elementary School. This home is also only a five minute walk to N20 public transportation bus stop and within walking distance to the train station. It is close to local amentites like grocery stores, restaurants and shopping. It has low property taxes and a high value.

This beautifully renovated, detached side-hall Colonial on a 60’ x 103’ property at 37 Nassau Road in the University Gardens section of Great Neck sold on Nov. 17 for $1,025,000. It has four bedrooms, two and a half bathrooms and a full, finished walk-up attic. The large open kitchen has granite countertops. The guest bedroom and a full bath are on the first floor. The basement is finished and has a half bath. There are hardwood floors throughout the house. The deck leads to a beautiful backyard. The garage fits two cars. This home is close to public transportation, including the train station and public bus service. It is near parks and shopping and is located within the Great Neck South High School-zoned district.

t should come as no porches, sheds, etc. surprise to those who live • If you have bird feeders, along the north shore that make sure the food is stored coyote sightings have become securely and regularly clean a regular occurrence over the the areas around feeders, past year or two. A wildlife seeds on the ground invite biologist at Seatuck, a local small mammals. conservation organization • Coyotes rarely attack said, since last year, at least humans and have a natural nine coyotes are residing aversion to people. on Long Island.

• Never run from Six are in the a coyote. That can Manhasset and Port trigger their instinct Washington region to chase. and three are in • Keep pets on leashes Suffolk County. when walking them The Eastern Eastern coyote and do not leave them coyote is beneficial alone in the yard, especially to the ecosystem of the island. at dusk or nighttime.

Without predators, the white• If you do see coyotes in your tailed deer population has yard, make them feel unexploded, especially out east.

Long Island was once home comfortable until they leave, to gray wolves and bobso that they are less likely cats—both of which would to return. Look big and be hunt deer. Since deer carry loud, yell at the coyote and ticks, their high population advance towards it slowly greatly increases the number until it completely leaves the of tick bites and Lyme disease area. Bang pots and pans, transmission. use noise makers or whistles, The coyote is an omnivore, or spray a hose at it. eating insects, fruit, snakes • If the coyote is not moving and grass to supplement or keeps stopping and turntheir primary diet of rabbits, ing to look at you, continue rodents, frogs, fish, voles, this behavior because they squirrels and deer. will eventually run away.

Visit www.dec.ny.gov/ HOW TO COEXIST animals/9359.html for more • Coyotes look for food and about coyotes from the New shelter.

York State Department of • Make sure trash/compost/ Environmental Conservation waste is secured if stored outdoors and try not to leave (DEC). Also visit www. seatuck.org to learn more it accessible.

• Keep sheltered areas cleared about conserving wildlife on and closed off such as under Long Island.

Homes shown here represent closed sales, sold by a variety of agencies and selected for their interest to readers by the Anton Media Group editor.

Except where noted, data and photos are provided courtesy of Multiple Listing Service of Long Island, Inc. and Zillow. compass.com

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Locust Valley Garden Celebrates

BY DAGMAR FORS KARPPI

Members of the club enjoyed a Thanksgiving feast, t was an exciting day for the centered around a turkey that Locust Valley Garden Club was roasted to perfection by in their new digs, Mill Neck club President Dean Yoder Manor. and Vice President Jonathan Originally scheduled for Grimm.

Nov. 17, the event took place Club historian Kassie Miller on Monday, Nov. 22. Filming Roth handcrafted a turkey at the manor caused the centerpiece made from a 500 change and the mystery: page book. Josie Bliss providAre they bringing Downton ed the pumpkin table settings, Abbey to America? It would be which sat on a tree round base perfect. made by Tony Bliss.

With the filming still going Service projects for on, the peripatetic garden December include decorating club was given a different the Locust Valley Library, Pat and delightful spot on Bruderman, chair; decorating their campus to host their the Bayville Library, Judy event. The room provided McQuiston, chair; and holiday a pull-down screen to show greeting cards provided for slides, while members Meals On Wheels by Susan were seated at tables set for Caravello. The club anlunch at noon. Spacious and nounced that their Christmas windowed, it is the perfect Party will be hosted at The environment for those who View in December. love the outdoors.

The next open meeting is in Speaker for the day, Master March 2022. For information Club Historian Kassie Miller Roth, President Dean Yoder with Master Gardener Barbara Ann Gardener Barbara Ann about the club, contact Dean Levine. (Photo by Dagmar Fors Karppi) Levine, talked about growing Yoder at dyinteriors@yahoo. up and always being more com. New members are interested in “working in the we are affected by plants give us the anesthetic opium, plant a seed and suddenly, one always welcome to share their beds outside, rather than the love of gardens, learn what’s physically and emotionally.” coffee helps our cardiovascu- morning, seedlings appear. beds inside.” new, and volunteer for service That includes the medicinal lar system, catspaw is used in “They give you a reason to Levine spoke on Flower uses plants provide. The cancer medicines, etc. wake up,” Levine said. You can projects.

Power, “From the moment —Dagmar Fors Karppi is a willow tree provides us with Her most important hear Levine’s wisdom at Old we wake up in the morning contributing writer for acetaminophen/aspirin, aloe message was that gardening Westbury Gardens where she until we fall asleep at night, Anton Media Group helps with burns, poppies is the path to a happy life. You gives weekly “Talks & Tours”. editorial@antonmediagroup.com

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Long Island Sled Hockey Team Wins National Championship On Sunday Nov. 21, the Long Island Rough Riders won the Tier 5 division finals in the NHL Classic Sled Hockey Tournament in Wayne, NJ. The tournament was sponsored by the National Hockey League. The Annual Classic was played with 27 teams from around the nation representing 17 NHL franchises. The Rough Riders represented the New York Islanders NHL hockey team.

The Rough Riders went undefeated in their qualifying games and went on to win the Tier 5 Division Championship with an

exciting 4-3 win over the Buffalo Sabres, a team comprised of military veterans.

The Rough Riders are an enthusiastic team of disabled and handicapped sled hockey players who call the Town of Oyster Bay Ice Skating Center their home.

This victory would not have been possible without the many loyal and dedicated supporters. To learn more about Long Island Sled Hockey please visit www. lisledhockey.org or contact President Frank Martin at 631-848-3751.

—Submitted by Long Island Sled Hockey

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North Shore Middle School Viking Explorers Examine Local Life Forms

iking Explorers is an elective class that teaches students Robotics, Marine Biology, Geology, Environmental Science and so much more. On the students first trip,they visited Tappen Beach and examined local life forms. The students walked out into the water in wader boots and used a seine net to catch small specimens to examine. The Viking Explorer students caught spearing, killies and even some jellyfish.

After that, they read the text The Outer Lands and learned about how Long Island was actually formed by a glacier.

The students then tested the water with pH strips and tested for other chemicals as well. The students got the opportunity to pilot their

Viking Explorer students using a net to catch various small species at Tappen Beach.

(Contributed photo from North Shore Central School District)

underwater robot that they’ve been building and examined underwater with the help of GoPro cameras.

On the students second trip, they went to Garvies Point Museum and Preserve.

They went on a Biotic Communities hike and learned about the woods, the local trees and plants, including invasive species.

Following the hike, they were taught about geology and erosion with the help of the museum geologist.

Examples of their learnings were shown with a model called a stream table and found clay on the beach that was older than Long Island.

—Written by Christian Kilada and Shaan Abidi (Viking Explorer Students) —Submitted by North Shore Central School District

Greater Long Island Running Club Makes Donation To The Nassau County Firefighters Museum The Greater Long Island Running Club (GLIRC) was pleased to donate $875 to The Francis X. Pendl Nassau County Firefighters Museum & Education Center out of the proceeds from the Fred von der Heydt Memorial 6 Hour 60th Birthday Run. The check was presented to John V. Murray, Chief Instructor at the Center, by Myron Bellovin, the Director of the 6 Hour 60th Birthday Run, GLIRC Membership Director Sherry Bellovin, and GLIRC Executive Director Katie Pearlman.

Murray, a 50-year fire chief veteran, has guided thousands of young visitors through Stop-Drop-Roll, Home Escape Planning and other safety exercises, and has shown older visitors how to protect themselves, their family and their property from fires, burns and other common household hazards.

From left: GLIRC’s Myron Bellovin, Chief Instructor, John V. Murray, GLIRC’s Sherry Bellovin and GLIRC’s Katie Pearlman (Contributed photo) The Nassau County Firefighters Museum and Education Center provides a unique setting for the preservation and interpretation

of our local volunteer fire services heritage via the collection, restoration, and exhibition of historic and contemporary firematic

memorabilia and equipment.

The visitor experience at the Center increases public appreciation and awareness of the fire services in Nassau

County and stimulates volunteer recruitment in local departments. A major goal of the Center is to educate and inform the public about fire safety and prevention and to display the proud history of volunteer firefighting in Nassau County. The Museum and Education Center is located at Museum Row in Uniondale. For more information, visit www.ncfiremuseum.org/index.php.

“It has been our privilege to have been able to make donations to the Museum/ Education Center for several years out of the proceeds of our 6 Hour Run,” Bellovin said. “Volunteer firefighting has a long and proud history in our County, and we are thrilled to be able to do our small part to help increase public awareness of that history.”

—Submitted by The Greater Long Island Running Club (GLIRC)

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Plainview Water District Receives Gold Award The Plainview Water District (PWD) is proud to announce it has received the Gold Engineering Excellence Award from the American Council of Engineering Companies (ACEC) New York for their Advanced Oxidation Process (AOP) pilot studies done in conjunction with their consulting engineers from H2M architects + engineers. This award represents all of the hard work the PWD has put in over the past several years in piloting AOP treatment systems to treat the community’s drinking water for the emerging contaminant 1,4-dioxane. The initial pilot studies completed have now culminated into the District having six AOP systems up and running in record time.

“Receiving the Gold Engineering Excellence Award is a testament to the dedication from everyone here at the Plainview Water District and our consultants

at H2M architects + engineers,” said PWD Chairman Marc Laykind. “Our commitment to the rapid installation of AOP treatment systems to ensure the safety of our residents’ drinking water has been second to none these past few years. We are truly honored to have the recognition from ACEC New York for our collective efforts.”

Before installing the new AOP water treatment technology, water providers were required to test the efficacy of the treatment systems by conducting pilot studies on each impacted well. These studies and the data generated were instrumental in allowing the District to quickly construct full-scale AOP treatment systems. This award further cements the PWD as a leader in this island-wide treatment endeavor as the information collected during the pilot period was instrumental to the deployment of AOP systems

throughout the District.

“All of us at the Plainview Water District are committed to not only distributing the highest quality water possible, but being leaders in water treatment,” said PWD Commissioner Amanda Field. “From my fellow commissioners and staff as well as our engineers, this award is a reflection on our team and speaks volumes to their dedication to keeping the water flowing safely and efficiently in Plainview-Old Bethpage.”

The most recent AOP system to come online, at Plant 3 on Orchard Street, is a $2.2 million system specifically designed to produce up to 2 million gallons per day of the highest quality drinking water for the Plainview-Old Bethpage community. The PWD now has the ability to treat over 11 million gallons of water every day for 1,4-dioxane. The District had planned these treatment

facilities back in 2018, two years before these regulations were put into effect. Due to their efforts, the PWD was able to ensure all water being distributed to the community was in compliance with the maximum contaminant level (MCL) regulations before they went into effect.

“Our team here at the PWD has been nothing short of spectacular in getting these facilities up and running as quickly as they did,” said PWD Commissioner Andrew Bader. “Our District has always been committed to making the necessary investments to benefit the community, but this recent wave of infrastructure needs was certainly unprecedented in both size and scope. We are honored to have this award to recognize all of the progress we have made.”

Since 2017, the Plainview Water District has been awarded over $9 million in infrastructure grant money in

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order to build these necessary AOP treatment facilities. The removal of 1,4-dioxane from wells across Long Island is estimated to cost $840 million in capital investments with an additional $50 million per year in increased operating and maintenance costs.

For more information about emerging contaminants and the steps the District has taken thus far, visit www.plainviewwater. org/resources/emerging-contaminants/. If you have questions or seek additional information, please call the district at 516-931-6469 or email info@plainviewwater. org. Residents are also encouraged to sign up to receive information by submitting their email address through the District’s homepage or following them on Facebook in order to stay up-to-date with District activities and initiatives.

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Meet Your Levittown Fire Department Joel Bearman

have to handle between employees and the crew office.

The lifetime Levittown resident is the incumbent fire commissioner, having spent 20 years in the position.

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In your 20 years as commissioner, what would you say are some of your proudest achievements?

JB: The ability to get four or five grants worth somewhere between $700,000 and $1 million. We were able to bring that in to buy new gear, new equipment, new ambulances and a new dispatch office. We got the money in to do the extras.

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I know you’ve been with the department since 1974. What drew you to this position?

Joel Bearman: Commissioners handle the business end of things.

They maintain the trucks, buildings and equipment and that always interested me. I did serve a lot of time as part of the staff, so I was always helping them make up a budget and doing things like that.

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In the 20 years you’ve served as commissioner, what are some of the challenges you’ve come across?

JB: Maintaining the budget, so as to not to have to raise taxes. Deciding priorities—deciding what needs to be addressed, purchasing the apparatus—over the past 20 years, we’ve

houses?

JB: The plan is to do it over one to two years. Start one project and then go into the next one and then the next one. A lot of it is replacing the roof and windows. Headquarters needs a new heating and air conditioning system. At Hickory Lane, we’re looking to add a meeting room and redo a kitchen.

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Why should voters re-elect you?

JB: I’ve put in 47-years plus in the department. I am the past What are some of your goals if president of the Nassau County you’re re-elected?

Association of Fire Districts. I’m JB: Right now, we’ve been working the past president of the Nassau with an architect, because all three County Executive Fire Council. I’m buildings are old. We started in 1950 the New York State Director of the and we’re putting together a plan New York State Fire Districts, so to refurbish all three firehouses.

I’m very involved with it. I attend We have a goal to get a bond so as a lot of meetings. I’m also involved that we won’t have to raise taxes to with the Nassau-Suffolk Legislative pay the yearly fee right from your Committee. I’m a past chairman budget. So that’s a big goal. of that. We take trips up to Albany to talk to the lawmakers to try and How long do you think it would make things better for the New York take to renovate all three fire State Fire Service.

Q Levittown Fire Commissioner Joel Bearman (Photo courtesy of Joel Bearman)

basically replaced the entire fleet.

We usually do a 20-year plan on the trucks, so I handled that. Then there are always disciplinary situations you

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as you rose up through the ranks?

CB: I think getting more training for the membership. People work two jobs now trying to support their families. It’s hard to retain membership. I know when I was chief, we had about 255 members.

I believe we’re now down to about 210 give or take. It’s hard to retain membership.

Chris Behrens and his family moved to Levittown when he was three months old. After joining the fire department as a Junior Fire Cadet, he ascended through the ranks before becoming a captain of the department having served just over 26 years as of July.

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Can you please walk me through how you worked your way up the ladder?

CB: At the age of 14, I joined the Junior Fire Cadet Corps. That was after I became an Eagle Scout for the Boy Scouts. I moved onto the fire department and continued to help the community out. As a cadet, you learn how to be a firefighter, learn EMS skills and First Aid. At the age of 18, I joined Ladder Company 6, where I spent my time. I rose through the ranks from lieutenant

Levittown Fire Department Ex-Chief Chris Behrens

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to captain. I was elected 3rd Deputy Chief in 2005 or 2006. I rose through the ranks to become chief of the department in 2013.

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In this area of your life of public service, what are some of the challenges you came across

Why should voters elect you?

CB: It’s time for a new face on the board. Some of the guys back there are great guys, but they’re going on being there 20 or 25 years.

It’s time to get some fresh ideas back there.

Q

What are some of the things you would like to see the fire department address?

CB: I would definitely like more training for the membership to protect the community better. I would like to bring the ALS (Advanced Life Support) program back to Levittown for the ambulance corps.

I want to try and get that back into

our department, so we can help our community and our members so we can help ourselves and not rely on outside sources.

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Should you get elected, what are some of the things you’d like to see get done?

CB: I would like to put a retention program in place to retain our members and maybe change things around a bit. I’d like to work on getting members. I know we have some things in place, but I think we have to work a little harder to bring more community members in to help out.

Maybe go into the schools more and try to get the young kids [involved]. I know we have a college program the state started a couple of years back, but maybe we can work on that and bring more of our younger generations in to work out.

The Levittown Fire Commissioner election is taking place on Tuesday, Dec. 14, at 120 Gardiners Ave. in Levittown. Poll hours run from 4 to 9 p.m.

Re-Elect John Hirt South Farmingdale Water District Commissioner

Farmingdale native John Hirt has served the public as South Farmingdale Water District Commissioner since 1998. John has dedicated his life to his amily and community, worked tirelessly for public safety and is a pillar family of volunteerism. The improvements made within the District under John’s leadership will have a lasting effect for generations.

Farmingdale Resident Since 1958 Water District Commissioner Since 1998 Past President and Current Member, Nassau Suffolk Water Commissioners’ Association Member, American Water Works Association Member, Long Island Water Conference 20 Years of Experience as Operations Manager, FedEx Past Fire Commissioner and 45+ Year Member, South Farmingdale Fire Department • Past Assistant Fire Chief, Republic Airport, Farmingdale (1971 – 1986) • Served in U.S. Navy During the Vietnam Conflict (1965 – 1968)

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Levittown Seniors Sign Letters Of Intent

Division Avenue senior Julianna Stanley will play lacrosse for the University of Richmond.

(Photos courtesy of the Levittown Public Schools)

Division Avenue senior Jordyn Pasqueralli will play softball for Adelphi University.

Seniors at Division Avenue High School and General Douglas MacArthur High School in the Levittown Public School District recently signed letters of intent, pledging to continue their athletic careers at a variety of colleges and universities.

From Division Avenue, Juliana Stanley will play women’s lacrosse for the University of Richmond; Jordyn Pasqueralli will play softball for Adelphi University; Michael Knapp will play baseball for Molloy College; Alyssa Weinberg will play softball for Fairfield University and Maggie McCabe will play women’s lacrosse for Eastern Michigan University.

From MacArthur, Matthew Papach will play lacrosse for Wingate University; Giavanna Stamatelo will play lacrosse for Davenport University; twins Hailey and Madison Hnis will play soccer for the University of Albany; Fiona Kilian will play soccer for Xavier University; twins Cian and Luca Runyan will play lacrosse for Adelphi University; John Rebaudo IV will play lacrosse for Seton Hill University and Killian Foy will wrestle for the University of Pittsburgh.

—Submitted by Levittown School District

MacArthur senior Matthew Papach will play lacrosse for Wingate University.

MacArthur senior John Rebaudo IV will play lacrosse for Seton Hill University.

MacArthur senior Fiona Kilian will play soccer for Xavier University.

Division Avenue senior Michael Knapp will play baseball for Molloy College.

MacArthur seniors and brothers Cian and Luca Runyan will play lacrosse for Adelphi University.

MacArthur senior Giavanna Stamatelo will play lacrosse for Davenport University.

Division Avenue senior Alyssa Weinberg will play softball for Fairfield University.

Division Avenue senior Maggie McCabe will play women’s lacrosse for Eastern Michigan University.

MacArthur seniors and sisters Madison and Hailey Hnis will play soccer for the University of Albany.

MacArthur senior Killian Foy will wrestle for the University of Pittsburgh.

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Following his puppy raising, he Guide Dog Foundation, pro- Monte will return to the Guide Dog viding guide dogs to individFoundation campus in Smithtown to uals who are blind or visually begin his formal guide dog training. impaired, is thrilled to partner again Concluding his training, Monte with the New York Islanders in their will be matched at no cost with an “Puppy with a Purpose” program. individual who is blind or visually In celebration of the foundation’s impaired.

75th anniversary, the Islanders will “It’s an absolute sponsor the training of future pleasure to partguide dog “Monte.” ner again Monte, a 9-week-old, with our male black Labrador puppy, made his debut with the Islanders on Oct. 11 during the team’s fifth annual ‘Pucks and Paws 2022’ calendar photoshoot. The calendar, benefitting the Guide Dog Foundation and supported

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friends at the New York Islanders to help celebrate the Guide Dog Foundation’s 75th anniversary,” John Miller, president and CEO, Guide Dog Foundation said. “The partnership is outstanding. Ownership, coaches, the team and fans, all have embraced the program and we couldn’t be any happier to continue this life changing program with the team.”

Monte is the third dog the Islanders have partnered with the Smithtown-based organization to raise and train. In June, the Islanders and America’s VetDogs, sister organization to the Guide Dog Foundation, placed service dog-in-training, Tori, with retired U.S. Navy veteran and FDNY Lieutenant Chris Roberto.

The Islanders’ first dog, Radar, was successfully placed as a guide dog in August 2020 with gold medalist Paralympian swimmer and Long Island native Anastasia Pagonis.

It costs more than $50,000 to breed, raise, train and place one assistance dog; however, all of the VetDogs’ services are provided at no charge to the individual. Funding comes from the generosity of individuals, corporations and service and fraternal clubs.

MEET PUPPY RAISER LISA ROSSANO When not volunteering her time with America’s VetDogs and the Guide Dog Foundation, Monte’s puppy raiser Lisa Rossano, keeps busy with her two sons, and husband of 34 years Ernie.

Rossano started volunteering at the Guide Dog Foundation 15 years ago when her boys were volunteering their time running and playing with the dogs in the kennel on weekends. Prior to taking on this experience, Rossano volunteered in the nursery socializing newborn puppies, is a member of the speaker’s bureau and adoption team, and is an area coordinator for Long Island puppy raisers.

The first dog Rossano and her family raised was Toby. That experience has since led the family to raise 10 dogs, with Monte making it 11. Six of their dogs have been placed with veterans and or visually impaired clients.

Rossano and her family currently have four dogs at home; Guide Dog breeder Mikey, two released dogs, Bliss and Olympia and of course little Tori.

“I think raising the Islander puppy with a purpose for the Guide Dog Foundation is going to be my best adventure and a great privilege and honor,” Rossano said.

Visit www.GuideDog.org to learn more about the organizations.

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Tips To Help Manage Holiday Stress

BY DON STANGLER

health care programs that can range from caring for your mental health to treatment for substance abuse, with a goal of helping improve your overall well-being. For example, Sanvello® offers clinically validated techniques and tools to reduce stress, anxiety and depression within a single app.

Sanvello is free to download from the app stores and you can do an instant eligibility check in the app.

• Enjoy, even if it’s virtually. In the flurry of holiday activities, we sometimes forget what we’re celebrating, so remember to savor the time with people you love. If you or others you know are unable to meet in person, use a phone or set up a Zoom call to celebrate and spend time together. It’s important to minimize any feelings of isolation.

• Talk to your doctor. If it feels like you’re not able to get a handle on your stress, talk to your doctor. She or he may recommend a counselor who could help you find other ways to help reduce or manage the unhealthy stress in your life.

Visit UHC.com for more health and wellness information.

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eeling stressed? You’re not alone.

Stress levels are rising due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the numerous disruptions in our daily lives.

The American Psychological Association recently reported that “we are facing a national mental health crisis that could yield serious health and social consequences for years to come.”

And it’s not just adults who are feeling it. The report reveals that our children are “facing unprecedented uncertainty, are experiencing elevated stress, and are already reporting symptoms of depression.”

A quick chat with your doctor can help remedy holiday stress.

Although a modest amount of stress is normal, high levels of stress can be • Learn to recognize your holiday getting away to take a brief walk can dangerous to your health and may stress triggers and relievers. give you time to unwind and recharge. contribute to serious health problems Financial pressures and personal de• Make time for your health. In the such as high blood pressure, heart dismands are two common triggers. Also, holiday rush, don’t let your well-being ease, diabetes, anxiety and depression. beware of unhealthy stress relievers. fall by the wayside. Try to stay on your Therefore, make sure to keep a close eye Holiday stress may cause some people normal sleep schedule, incorporate on your well-being and the well-being to fall into bad habits such as smokhealthy foods and get regular exercise. of your loved ones during the holidays. ing, drinking or eating too much.

If you can’t find a 30-minute chunk of It’s true, there is no magic bullet to time for exercise, break it up into three • Give yourself a break. While doing make stress disappear forever, but we 10-minute sessions spread throughthings for others, it’s easy to forget to can take action to help reduce stress. out the day. take care of ourselves. If you feel stress Here is a list of tips that may reduce • Check your health plan benbuilding up, take a break for a few your stress and lead to a more enjoyable minutes. Listening to calming music, efits. Some insurers, such as holiday season.

UnitedHealthcare, offer behavioral taking time to watch a movie, or just

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inter invokes happy memories of watching holiday movies and building snow forts for some, but for others, the season can create added mental health woes. Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD), a form of depression that typically surfaces during the fall and winter, can wreak havoc on sufferers’ overall well-being. This rings especially true against the backdrop of a global pandemic, when many already feel emotionally fatigued from being cooped up in their homes.

“The symptoms of seasonal depression vary from person to person. Some may have difficulty concentrating and feel exceedingly anxious, stressed or sad. Others may isolate themselves and stop participating in activities that once brought them joy,” said Lisa Westerson, LCSW, director of residential services at Mountainside Treatment Center with facilities in Huntington, Manhattan, Chappaqua, Connecticut and New Jersey. “For those who struggle with seasonal depression, these symptoms will typically diminish during the warmer months when the sun is out and the days are longer.”

In addition to a general lack of light

Light box therpy eases the winter blues. and shorter days during the colder months, the onset of SAD—a more intense form of the “winter blues”—can be largely attributed to an individual’s genetics and stress levels. Another risk factor is major depressive disorder, with the National Library of Medicine noting that 10 to 20 percent of those who struggle with this disease also experience SAD. Some research, such as a 2017 study in psychiatry research, likewise points to an overlap between seasonal depression and alcohol use disorder, though drawing a definitive correlation

between the two remains difficult.

“Because stress can weaken the immune system, sufferers may find themselves feeling physically ill,” Westerson said, “Other physical signs of seasonal depression can include wanting to stay in bed or overeating— by reaching for sweets or carbohydrate-rich foods in particular. People struggling with seasonal depression often have low serotonin levels and therefore crave carbs because they contribute to the production of serotonin, which elevates mood.”

Establishing healthy coping

mechanisms for handling seasonal depression is especially dire during the COVID-19 era. While having a strong immune system is top of mind for many, maintaining wellness can prove challenging in the face of unprecedented stress. In adjusting to a “new normal,” individuals can still pursue teletherapy and should prioritize maintaining a routine consisting of regular sleep, exercise and mindful eating.

“Treating both the body and the mind is critical for managing symptoms of seasonal depression,” Westerson said. “One can start by consulting a mental health professional, trying light box therapy and eating healthier foods.”

Visit www.mountainside.com/ beat-holiday-stress to register for Mountainside’s free, virtual holiday season workshop for tips on coping with mental health concerns during the winter holidays. Visit www. mountainside.com/holiday-support if you struggle with addiction or mental health disorders throughout the winter season and need someone to talk to or dial the center’s holiday helpline at 833-200-6665.

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Hepatitis A is the most common cause of acute viral hepatitis in the United States. It is caused by a virus that infects and can damage the liver. Anyone, regardless of age, who has not been previously infected or who has not been vaccinated against hepatitis A can become infected and ill from the hepatitis A. The older you are, the sicker you can become.

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carried on an infected person’s hands and spread through direct or indirect contact. For example, eating food that was prepared or transported by an infected individual. This is the reason restaurant food handlers are frequent vectors of disease transmission. In some cases, it can be spread by sexual contact, usually rectal contact or by consuming contaminated water or food (e.g., raw shellfish, fruits, vegetables). New York City has seen a significant increase in cases of hepatitis A among bisexual or men who have sex with men.

People with hepatitis A usually complain of fatigue, poor appetite, fever and nausea. Less commonly, vomiting and abdominal cramping can occur. Urine may darken followed

by yellowing of the eyes and jaundice may appear. The symptoms usually present 15 to 50 days after exposure; most often, the symptoms appear within four weeks. Most people recover in a few weeks without any complications. Infants and young children tend to have very mild symptoms and are less likely to develop jaundice than are older children and adults. Infected adults are at higher risk of severe infection and either not surviving or needing an emergent liver transplant.

There are no special medicines, antibiotics or over-the-counter therapies that treat hepatitis A. Health care providers will usually recommend rest, good nutrition, fluids and treatment of symptoms. Infected people should avoid alcohol and medications that can harm the liver such as acetaminophen. Some people might need to be hospitalized for the illness, mostly for the inability to eat or the development of easy bruising or confusion. The good news is that once an individual has recovered from hepatitis A, he/ she cannot get it again and poses no health risk to others.

Hepatitis A can be prevented with careful hand washing after using the toilet, changing diapers or before

eating or preparing food. People should avoid eating raw shellfish taken from potentially contaminated waters.

Infected people should not handle foods during the contagious period.

Hepatitis A is preventable by obtaining a vaccine. Hepatitis A outbreaks continue to occur fairly frequently across the country, the majority of which are caused by an infected food handler in a restaurant. The hepatitis A vaccine is recommended for children, travelers to certain high-risk regions such the Caribbean, Central and South America, Africa, Eastern Europe, and parts of Asia and for people at high risk of getting infected with the virus.

I would encourage anyone who has previously been infected with hepatitis A and who has not vaccinated against this virus, to go out and get vaccinated.

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It’s The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year Farmingdale Village Holiday Parade

The Dalerettes Kickline doing their best impression of Santa’s reindeer

The Farmingdale Chamber of Commerce’s annual Holiday Parade began at noon Santa Claus managed to squeeze his way into at Northside Elementary School. It feawalking along with the Farmingdale High School tured the Farmingdale High School Marching Marching Band Band, Dalerettes Kickline and Santa Claus.

Participants marched down Main Street, cheered on by friends and family.

For more information about the Farmingdale Union Free School District, visit www.farmingdaleschools.org and like the Facebook page: @FarmingdaleSchoolDistrict.

—Submitted by the Farmingdale School District

Along the way, a reindeer infiltrated the marching band’s drum line

Farmingdale High School’s Marching Band and Dalerettes came out in full force to participate in Farmingdale Chamber of Commerce’s annual Holiday Parade

Members of the Farmingdale Board of Education headed up the annual Holiday Parade (Photo courtesy of the Farmingdale School District)

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upervisor Don Clavin, along with the entire Hempstead Town Board, authorized a $305,040 relief grant to The INN (Interfaith Nutrition Network) for the reimbursement, purchase, and distribution of food items and prepared hot healthy meals (soups, meat/protein with starch and vegetables) for individuals and families who are hungry and unemployed amid the pandemic.

Clavin made the announcement along with Senior Councilwoman Dorothy Goosby, Councilman Bruce Blakeman, Councilman Anthony D’Esposito, Councilman Dennis Dunne, Sr., Councilman Tom Muscarella, Councilman Chris Carini, Town Clerk Kate Murray, Receiver of Taxes Jeanine Driscoll, and The INN’s Chief Executive Officer Jean Kelly.

Between March 2020 and March 2021, the Mary Brennan INN soup kitchen served a total of 239,599 nutritious meals to nearly 56,431 guests and 15,898 pantry bags of groceries were given out to families. This grant has been made possible through the federal CARES Act funding provided to the Town of Hempstead last year. Millions of dollars in CARES funding was allocated by the Town of Hempstead to provide economic aid to local organizations, nonprofits, and individuals impacted by the pandemic, including a previous $1 million grant to The INN last year to cover unbudgeted expenses incurred by the pandemic such as Personal Protection Equipment (PPE) including masks, gloves, and sanitizers to the staff, volunteers, and those who seek assistance safe.

“Thank you, Senator Schumer for securing the extension of the CARES Act funding that made initiatives like this one possible as the pandemic continued into 2021,” Supervisor Clavin said. “It is our pleasure to partner once again with The INN, an organization that continues to work non-stop to meet the increase in demands of families in need. It is critical to provide families and individuals with meals as well as the peace of mind of not having to think about when the next one is going to be.”

Every day, The INN receives hundreds of guests. Staff, volunteers, LVM Events, and Diane’s Desserts work together to prepare nutritious meals in volume. With the CARES Act grant, The INN will be able to purchase additional meals for Thanksgiving and Christmas.

Even though the organization will be

From left: The INN’s Chief Executive Officer Jean Kelly, Supervisor Don Clavin, Councilman Tom Muscarella and Town of Hempstead’s Receiver of Taxes Jeanine Driscoll. (Contributed photo)

closed during the holidays, they will give out holiday meals before and send each guest home with a frozen meal to heat up those days.

“We have seen a significant increase in the number of guests who need our services in the community,” Jean Kelly, Chief Executive Officer of The INN, said. “Thank you to Supervisor Clavin and the Hempstead Town Board for their overwhelming support in providing a critical service to families and individuals affected by COVID-19.

We have seen the extent and severity of how this pandemic has affected the guests we serve every day, but this grant is helping us combat those effects.”

—Submitted by the Town of Hempstead

Until The Last Dog Comes Home

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“What happens there is truly awful; it is like nothing you can imagine,” Jacqueline Finnegan, vice president of No Dogs Left Behind, Inc., told Anton Media Group in an interview describing the annual Yulin Dog Meat Festival in East Asia.

The organization reported that dogs that are victimized by the dog meat trade suffer horrific abuse. They are beaten, bound with wire around their jaws and feet and crammed into sharp metal cages, where they endure long transports without any food or water.

Although the festival began in 2009, dog meat consumption in many cultures around the world has been recorded for centuries and continues legally in Nigeria, Switzerland and Vietnam, among others nations.

In 2016, Jeffrey Beri founded No Dogs Left Behind after successfully leading a historic rescue effort, which culminated in the transport of 121 Yulin slaughterhouse survivors from Asia, to their forever homes in the United States.

Beri and his team spent eight months in East Asia rehabilitating, treating and socializing the dogs, developing effective shelter protocols and establishing a vaccination and microchipping program. This historic rescue accomplished what no one had ever done before: executing a full-scale rescue operation from

Hercules was rescued by the organization and is now living his best life here on Long Island. (NDLB) slaughterhouse to final transport, with the largest number of dogs that had ever been attempted, all within an eight-month period.

Beri went back to the region to bring 50 more dogs out of the dog meat trade, drawing on the experience he had gained in the first rescue and implementing the same shelter protocols he had developed.

Finnegan said that when the dogs are rescued, they are wounded, starved, dehydrated, sick and terrified. It takes countless hours of effort to show these survivors that they are safe and to teach them to trust humans again.

No Dogs Left Behind works handson with activists through emergency response, pulling dogs directly from slaughterhouses, dog meat trucks, wet markets and traffickers. The organization’s mission extends beyond borders worldwide, advocating for the creation and enforcement of animal

welfare laws and raising awareness for a cruelty-free, sustainable world in which no animal is violated, exploited, tortured or slaughtered for commercial goods or profit.

With nearly 500 survivors in the organization’s care, No Dogs Left Behind operates sanctuaries in Dayi and Gongyi. In these safe-havens, these once victimized and exploited dogs receive medical care, nutritional support and rehabilitation on an ongoing basis.

In July, the U.S. suspended the importation of dogs. The organization had to divert its “Freedom Flights” to Toronto temporarily until the United States lifts its ban.

“International pressure has helped because we’ve seen Indonesia and also South Korea have both taken a stance against the consumption of dog meat; that’s huge, but there are so many more countries and they have taken the position, but they have not enacted laws yet,” Finnegan said. “The pressure will always comes with the dollars. How people spend their money helps move the needle one way or another.”

On Dec. 16, No Dogs Left Behind is hosting Raise the Woof, a comedy show awareness fundraiser at Governor’s Comedy Club (Levittown), at 8 p.m. Tickets are $50. Show is for guests, ages 16 and older, two-drink minimum purchase required. Visit www.nodogsleftbehind.com for more.

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he American Red Cross on Long Island named José Dominguez as its new CEO. Dominguez will oversee Red Cross program management, represent the organization, and manage daily Red Cross activities across the island.

Dominguez will work with the Long Island Red Cross Chapter Board of Directors to effectively mobilize support and resources for the Red Cross mission and with volunteers to enhance service delivery.

The Red Cross provides emergency relief after local disasters, deploys team members to emergencies across the country, helps prepare local communities for the unexpected, helps retired and active service members (and their families) navigate the challenges of military life, and supports international Red Cross programs.

“I am thrilled to have someone of José’s caliber and experience to step up and lead the American Red Cross on Long Island,” said American Red Cross in Greater New York Regional CEO Mary J. Barneby. “José is known for his ability to tailor his decisions to the needs of the communities we serve and make swift adaptations to policies and practices as needed to ensure the delivery of our critical mission. His experience building and managing teams--including volunteers—as well as his commitment to the Red Cross will be an invaluable asset to our team.”

“José impressed the selection committee and our board of directors with his vision for strengthening our capacity to reach vulnerable communities, his knowledge of the Red Cross and his spirit of service. We are certain his passion, drive, and experience will help elevate our work across Long Island,” said Red Cross on Long Island Board co-chairs, Matthew Thompson and Anthony Acampora.

“The mission of the Red Cross inspires me every day and I am thrilled to serve in this new capacity to lead the amazing work of our organization across Nassau and Suffolk counties.

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José Dominguez is the new Red Cross CEO. (American Red Cross) connecting with our partners and supporters from the north shore to the south shore,” said Dominguez.

Dominguez assumes this role after a 15-year career with the Red Cross. In his most recent position as Regional Volunteer Services Officer for the Greater New York Region, he oversaw the engagement and recruitment of more than 5,000 volunteers annually, the backbone of the Red Cross. He previously served as the Regional Disaster Officer and Volunteer Services Officer for the Central and South Texas Region.

During his tenure, Dominguez has deployed to support more than 54 national disaster relief operations, most recently the response to Hurricane Ida in Louisiana and the tragic building collapse in Surfside, Florida. In 2017 after Hurricane Maria, Dominguez was stationed on the Virgin Islands for more than six weeks helping to manage and coordinate hundreds of relief volunteers. During deployments, Dominguez has shared his expertise in various operational management activities, including Staff Services Management and as the Assistant Director of Workforce Cares.

A native of Texas, Dominguez received his Bachelor of Fine Arts in Vocal Performance from Southwest Texas State University. For more information, visit redcross.org.

—Submitted by the American Red Cross on Long Island

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UNY Old Westbury’s Maguire Theater will host “Lumière Ballet’s Nutcracker, A Cherished Family Tradition,” on Saturday, Dec. 11 at 7 p.m.

A press released stated, “A masterpiece of music and dance vividly showcasing a glittering array of accomplished dancers from the school’s excellent depth and range with a playful approach to the stage.

The Children at the Party, the Waltzing Snowflakes and the Land of the Sweets will bring you treasured memories that will last a lifetime.”

Founded and directed by Svetlana Caton and Venti Petrov, the Lumière Ballet Company has been performing the classical repertoire and new works in theaters and other celebrated venues throughout Long Island and New York City since 1997.

Caton’s dance training and academic education stems from French, Russian and American traditions. She works with dance artists of various styles but her personal teaching method reflects the Russian classical style in its

pure form. In Belgium, her teacher Lydia Pavlova, (formerly, in Russia, a classmate of George Balanchine), brought Svetlana who was then 12 years old, to the prestigious “Concours de Danse” in Paris where Svetlana was offered a scholarship to study at the Paris Opera Ballet.

Her professional dance career began at the Royal Theater of Liège, in Belgium. In the United States, while completing post graduate studies, Svetlana continued to dance, coach and teach in New York City, Connecticut and Long Island.

In 1995, she founded the Lumière Ballet Co., Inc. She conducts a year-round multilevel training program in classical ballet and character dance, an introduction to French and Russian vocabulary and a course in dance history and classical music appreciation.

Petrov is a graduate of the Sophia National Choreographic Institute in Bulgaria. He is a national and international award winner at several ballet competitions.

He has performed in Europe and in more than 25 states as a featured

dancer and a permanent member of several ballet companies. He has worked with Suzanne Farrell of New York City Ballet and Alexander Vetrov of Bolshoi Ballet. Petrov has led ballet classes at the New York Conservatory of Dance and lectured at Morningside College in Sioux City. In New York City, he premiered his own original fully-staged story ballets: “El Cid” in 2011 and “Dear Nadezhda” in 2014. He released four CDs for ballet classes and two ballet

class DVDs with principal dancer Oksana Maslova. He has also written two songs:“Christmas at Your Door” and “I See In Color”.”

The main entrance to the college is on Route 107, slightly north of the Milleridge Inn. General admission is $25. To purchase tickets, call 631-586-2921.

For more information visit www. lumiereballet.com.

—Submitted by the the Lumière Ballet Company

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Musicians Accepted Into ACDA Eastern Division Honor Choir

ix singers from Mineola High School have been accepted into the American Choral Directors Association (ACDA) Eastern Division High School Honor Choir.

Congratulations to the following students: Matthew (Checkers) Bischoff; Bridget Cunningham; Isabella Galan; James Keesee; Aidan Levin; and Alexis Panebianco.

These singers were in competition with the finest high school singers across the 11 states that make up the Eastern Division of the ACDA. They were selected from a blind audition and were required to perform an advanced classical solo.

In February, the selected students will travel to Boston for the ACDA Eastern Division conference where they will rehearse and perform with an award-winning conductor.

—Submitted by the Mineola Union Free School District

Six singers have been accepted into the American Choral Directors Association (ACDA) Eastern Division High School Honor Choir. (Contributed photo)

Supervisor-elect Jen DeSena Taps Team To Guide New Administration North Hempstead Town Supervisorelect Jen DeSena (R-Manhasset) has appointed a 17-member transition team.

The group will provide counsel to her as she prepares to form a new administration and take office on Jan. 1, 2022.

“The transition team has provided invaluable assistance to me as I prepare to bring the changes to town government that voters sought on Election Day,” Supervisor-elect DeSena stated.

Before seeking elective office, DeSena was an attorney at the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and executive director of the Manhasset Community Coalition Against Substance Abuse (CASA).

“The North Hempstead town board voted this year to increase by 15 percent the town supervisor’s budget for next year,” Supervisor-elect DeSena added.

“This decision gives our administration the additional resources it needs to recruit exceptional candidates for key roles in town government.”

The supervisor’s office includes professionals who work in Constituent Services, Finance, Intermunicipal Coordination, Legislative Affairs,

Procurement, and Public Information.

The town Historian and the director of Business and Tourism also Town of North are part of the Hempstead Supervi- supervisor’s sor-elect Jen DeSena office, which (Contributed photo) will have a budget of $2.2 million in 2022 as compared to $1.9 million in 2021, according to the town’s adopted 2022 budget.

Supervisor-elect DeSena’s transition team includes the following individuals, listed in alphabetical order: Michael Barry, former North Hempstead town public information officer; Dr. Pedram Bral, Mayor, Great Neck Village; Peter Cavallaro, Esq., Mayor, Westbury; Dr. Isma Chaudry, chairperson, Islamic Center of Long Island; David Chiang, president, Chinese American Assn. of North Hempstead; Dina DeGiorgio, Esq., former North Hempstead town councilwoman; Christopher Devane, Esq., Mayor, New Hyde Park Village;

Paul Ehrbar, Mayor, Williston Park; Michael Going, Acting Treasurer, Carle Place Civic Association; Michael Koblenz, Esq., Mayor, East Hills; Jack Martins, Esq., former New York State Senator; Madhvi Nijjar, Deputy Mayor, New Hyde Park Village; Bonnie Parente, Esq., Mayor, East Williston; Joseph Scalero, Village Clerk, Mineola; Edward Scott, Albertson Civic Association; Scott Strauss, Mayor, Mineola; and Desiree Woodson, Tenant Commissioner, North Hempstead Housing Authority.

Supervisor-elect DeSena is the first Republican nominee to win that office since 1987. North Hempstead Town Clerk-elect Ragini Srivastava (R-Manhasset Hills), who also will consult with the supervisor-elect’s transition team, is the first Republican nominee to win that office since 1997.

The Town of North Hempstead is home to about 230,000 residents in northern Nassau County.

—Submitted by the North Hempstead Town Supervisor-elect Jen DeSena’s campaign

Mineola Fire Department Operation Santa The Mineola Fire Department will once again be sponsoring its Operation Santa program for the residents of the Village of Mineola. Personal visits will begin on Friday, Dec. 10 and continue through Thursday, Dec. 23. Santa, Rudolph, Frosty and his elves will come to residents between 7 and 10 p.m.

No exact times will be given within the window of Santa’s visit to homes.

Residents will have the option of a visit inside or outside their residence.

Ex-chief Gary Mazur will take requests by calling 516-830-2770.

Please make your call early as dates will fill up quickly.

—Submitted by the Mineola Fire Department

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ach year during the holiday season—for more than 30 yeas—it has been the tradition of the Mineola-Garden City Rotary Club to assist the Salvation Army with its Bell Ring project. On Saturday, Dec. 4, Rotary volunteers assisted by Garden City Boy Scouts manned the Salvation Army’s Red Kettle at the rear entrance of Kings market.

Dedicated to doing the most good for men, women and children who need it most, the Salvation Army of Greater New York serves more than 600,000 New Yorkers each year in over 140 community and social service programs. The Army also provides Thanksgiving and Christmas assistance in addition to serving food pantries, emergency rent programs sand medical expenses for people in need throughout Nassau County.

The Mineola-Garden City Rotary Club includes its annual bell ringing to assist the Salvation Army as one of its many service projects and thanks Kings Supermarket for allowing the club to ring the bells outside its store.

Thanks also to Rotary bell ringers Jim Brady, Frank Marone, Joanne MeyerJendras, Kumun Sinha, Diana O’Neill, Jennifer Poupis, Althea Robinson and Bob Schoelle, project chair since the onset of Rotary’s involvement more than 30 years ago; more thanks to Boy Scouts of Troop 243, sponsored by St. Joseph’s R.C. Church. The Scouts volunteer to help Rotary ring the bells as community service.

Holiday Lunch Party Returns To Hotel Dec. 13

Everyone is welcome to join with Rotary to celebrate this afternoon of good cheer, fellowship and networking at the Garden City Hotel on Dec. 13 at noon. Featured will be the presentation of Rotary’s Community Service award to Greg Bavaro, owner of Garden City Pizza and Tony Lubrano, owner of Piccola Bussola in Mineola. Spotlighted will be the Mineola High Chorus singing out tunes of the season—along with a great Garden City Hotel lunch.

To reserve by Dec. 8 at $75 per person ($700 for table of 10), make your check payable to the Mineola-Garden City Rotary Club and mail with reservation(s) to Rotarian Meg Norris c/o The Garden City News, 821 Franklin Avenue, Suite 208, Garden City NY 11530.

—Submitted by the Mineola-Garden City Rotary Club

Troop 243 Boy Scout volunteers with Rotarians Althea Robinson and Bob Schoelle, long-time coordinator, at a previous Bell Ringing at King’s Supermarket. (Contributed photo)

Village Provides Update On Lead Found In Water The Village of Garden City was recently notified of a high lead level in the domestic water supply sample at a home in Garden City. The village contacted the county Health Department for information and any guidance, and simultaneously conducted tests for lead at each of its active well sites where the treated water enters the village-wide distribution system. Those tests came back “non-detect” for lead and the results were shared with the health department. Preliminary results indicate that the home in question has a lead service line connection to the village water main.

The village is awaiting a final report from the Health Department’s investigation and any recommendations that may be forthcoming. According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), lead can enter drinking water when plumbing materials that contain lead corrode, especially where the water has high acidity or low mineral content that corrodes pipes and fixtures. The most common sources of lead in drinking water are lead pipes, faucets, and fixtures. In homes with lead pipes that connect the home to the water main, also known as lead service

lines, these pipes are typically the most significant source of lead in the water.

Among homes without lead service lines, the most common problem is with brass or chrome-plated brass faucets and plumbing with lead solder.

The village immediately conducted tests for lead at each of its active well sites where the treated water enters the village-wide distribution system.

Those tests came back “non-detect” for lead and were forwarded to the Health Department. H2M, the village’s water consultants, is evaluating the effectiveness of corrosion control treatment throughout the village. The village has conducted all required lead and copper compliance mandates as required under the Federal Lead and Copper Rule, including the most recent sampling conducted in 2020, and was found to be in compliance. The village is aggressively monitoring the water supply and is in regular communication with the Health Department during its investigation. We will remain vigilant and provide updates as more information becomes available.

Residents can immediately request free lead testing kits through the New York State Department of Health. Email

FreeWaterTesting@health.ny.gov and provide the following information: Your name; your phone number; your e-mail address; address for sample location and address for mailing test kit, if different; county for sample location; first choice for participating laboratory selected from the list below; and second choice for participating laboratory selected from the list below.

You should be aware that the results of these samples are not made available to the village. If you wish, you can forward a copy of the results to the village Water Department, but it is not a requirement of your participation in the state Department of Health program.

List of Laboratories: Advanced Analytical Technologies, Orangeburg, Rockland County; EMSL Analytical, Inc., New York, New York County; Envirotest Laboratories, Inc., Newburgh, Orange County; Erie County Public Health Laboratory, Buffalo, Erie County; NY Environmental and Analytical Labs Inc., Port Washington, Nassau County; and Westchester County Department of Laboratories and Research, Valhalla, Westchester County. —Submitted by the Village of Garden City

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dward Malcolm Krinsky’s death made headlines beyond the region because he was the basketball maven who rescued Anthony Mason from an obscure minor league career to enjoy glory years with Pat Riley’s New York Knicks in the 1990s.

Much more impactful were the 35 years he spent as a teacher, coach and guidance counselor at Westbury High School, influencing countless lives.

Krinsky (Feb. 22, 1933–Oct. 28, 2021) was recalled by those contacted

by Anton Media Group.

Dave Graff, retired teacher and former boys varsity basketball coach at Westbury, said, “When I first got to Westbury in 1987 Ed was the director of guidance. He was also as respected a person in basketball as there was in the game. Ed coached at Westbury HS for many years. He also initiated and ran the United States Basketball League (USBL). It included semipro players like Anthony Mason of the Knicks. Many coaches, including myself, would seek out Ed for talks about coaching and basketball and he was always willing to share his knowledge.

Ed stayed in the game well into his senior years, becoming an assistant coach at SUNY Westbury. Ed was a role model for many of us younger coaches and will be missed.”

Westbury School District Director of Athletics Doric Capsis said, “Ed came back to spend time visiting with the boys team in 2010 when we made the run to New York State semifinal, winning the Nassau and Long Island boys basketball championship along the way. That is when I got to know him a bit. I enjoyed that.”

Lenore Walsh, director of athletics, SUNY Old Westbury, said in an email: “Ed brought a lifetime of basketball experience to our campus and was invaluable in helping our students grow athletically, academically and personally. From the stories he told on long bus trips to the quick, direct instructions he would give in practice or during games, were educational for not only the students he coached but for all of us, coaches and administrators alike, who got to spend time with him. His impact on our entire program, and on the students and alumni he worked so closely with, has created a legacy within Panther Athletics that we will be proud to continue.”

According to his bio on the SUNY

U.S. Army, he returned to Harvard and earned his Master of Arts in Teaching from the Graduate School of Education. While there, he coached the Harvard JV basketball team and the MIT freshman baseball team.

Krinsky started his 35-year career at Westbury HS in 1957, teaching history and serving as the director of Guidance. According to his obit, “he took particular pleasure in helping students get into college and other post-graduate programs and in seeing them thrive. He kept in touch with former students for decades.”

In 1980, at the Maccabiah Games in Israel, Krinsky was the assistant coach of the American team which won the gold medal. He served as advisor to Ed Krinsky helped many basketball programs find success. national teams in Israel and Egypt.

(Courtesy of SUNY Old Westbury) One of his players, Joe DePre of Westbury, was recently inducted into Old Westbury website, “Krinsky regisRockets (1978-79), as well as the the St John’s Athletic Hall of Fame tered a career record of 278-124 during baseball Baltimore Orioles (1964-68). along with former Knicks guard his 20-year career as varsity basketball Funeral arrangements were entrust- Mark Jackson and legendary coach coach for Westbury High School. His ed to Donohue-Cecere Funeral Home Lou Carnesecca. DePre played for teams won 12 division championships, in Westbury. A full obit may be found Carnesecca and was drafted by the two North Shore championships and at www.donohue-cecere.com.

NBA Phoenix Suns in 1970, but opted one Nassau County championship Born and raised in Brooklyn, he to sign with the Nets of the ABA here during his tenure.” attended Harvard College, earning on Long Island. DePre averaged It also made note that he served letters in baseball and basketball and almost 24 minutes and 8.8 ppg in his spells as an NBA scout for the Detroit was captain of the basketball team first and best of three seasons with Pistons (1976-78) and Houston his senior year. After two years in the the team.

Successful Thanksgiving Food Drive Carle Place’s Cherry Lane Elementary School students took action and participated in an Adopt-A-Family Food Drive as a way to support families in the community during Thanksgiving.

Under the organization of Leigh Malinsky and Alyson Cruz, food donations included canned goods, sides and desserts. These donations were on display throughout the month of November and were donated to families in need.

Students had the opportunity to set their sights on a big goal and then watched the progress, helping a total of seven families in the community.

—Submitted by the Carle Place School District

Cherry Lane Elementary School students participated in an Adopt-A-Family Food Drive as a way to support families in the community during Thanksgiving.

(Photo courtesy of the Carle Place School District)

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LETTER TO THE EDITOR A MODEST PROPOSAL FOR THE COUNTY-EXECUTIVE ELECT by top musical groups in Eisenhower Park, I ask Mr. Blakeman to ask ex-wife Nancy Shevell to ask husband Paul McCartney to ask Ringo Starr (and his All-Starr Band),

plus John Lennon’s sons Julian and Sean, plus George Harrison’s son Dhani—to all join McCartney in a free Summer 2022 concert in Eisenhower Park.

And Mr. Blakeman should also ask Sir Paul to invite his friend “Billy” (Joel) to join this one-performance-only Super Group.

—Richard Siegelman

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Suburbia Gone Wild Alright, Long Island is unique. We have a great history, the Atlantic shoreline, beautiful parks, museums and fantastic wineries.

But Long Island is also the mirror image of dozens of suburban areas around the country. Landscapes dotted with patches of strip malls all containing the same stores.

On a cross-country trip you wouldn’t know if you’re in Iowa or New York. Common to all suburban sprawl is people working brutal hours just to empty their wallets on mortgage payments, exorbitant school taxes, landscapers and watering systems in an attempt to keep up with their neighbor’s perfectly

when the edging isn’t in alignment. This passion even shows in Long Island fiction.

In The Great Gatsby, Nick Carraway, the character that rents the house on West Egg, has no intention of manicuring his lawn. Jay Gatsby had to send his gardeners over to take care of the gross negligence before his luncheon Daisy.

LONG ISLAND STORIES with Back to the main point.

Thomas Kuntzmann Suburbanites have abandoned sensibility due to the manicured lawn. Let me talk stress endured from these about that for a minute. responsibilities. And what’s Manicured lawns have the best way to relieve that always been like Greek statues stress? Drive in traffic while to Long Island. The visual maneuvering a 5,000-pound effect has become so essential vehicle. that people cringe in pain I’ll start with the increasing rate of normal people turning into crazy, self-entitled drivers. For years that rate held steady at dangerous.

Recently, it has vaulted to harrowing. F-150 trucks trying their hardest to crush the wimpy SUVs. Neighbors blow by stop signs rushing to get to the 7-11 located 30 seconds away. Those strip malls have people speeding out of the parking lot, lunging into traffic, hoping like hell someone stops and lets them enter the fray. Blame Gridlock and the aggressive driving culture that comes with it, are an intrinsic part of suburban living (CC BY-SA 3.0) it on society for allowing the

mantra of “anything goes” to continue for too long.

The driving habits of people on local roads are bad enough.

But the true-blue everyday commuters have turned highways into autobahns weaving in and out of lanes like they’re trapped in a maze. Most of the remaining drivers witnessing this outrage have adapted ways of getting back at them. The most popular method is also the easiest; we speed up and at the appropriate time flip them the middle finger. The more aggressive seek revenge by catching up with the ugly aggressor and sitting on their tail. As if that will do anything.

Being a former commuter, I am familiar with the mindset and understand the thinking of those drivers playing speed racer. Simple enough, they need to arrive at work on time since it helps tremendously in keeping your job. Yes, like the

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MTA Forecast Of $15 Billion In Congestion Pricing Revenue Continues To Be In Jeopardy Earlier this year, the Federal Highway Administration instructed the MTA to develop and submit an Environmental Assessment (EA), rather than a more detailed and time consuming Environmental Impact Statement (EIS). It was never a cause for celebration.

There is still much to do and other unanswered questions.

Since November 2019, former Governor Andrew Cuomo and New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio delayed announcing their appointments to the MTA Traffic Mobility Review Board. Mayor de Blasio finally got around to fill his one seat in July 2021. When will Governor Kathy Hochul fill her five seats? Under Cuomo, and now Hochul, it is two years overdue. Details of who will pay what can never be resolved until this board is established and completes its mission. It was previously announced that they will be meeting behind closed doors. This is inconsistent with both Cuomo’s and de Blasio’s promises of open transparent administrations under their watch. Will Hochul and Mayor-elect Eric Adams reverse this? Tolling pricing recommendations were originally promised to be made public by November 2020.

This process is politically sensitive. The MTA has admitted that any congestion pricing may not kick in until January 2023. We now have learned that even this date may not hold. If these

vacancies continue to remain and the environmental review process takes even longer, the MTA will miss the revised forecasted January 2023 start date for Congestion Price Tolling. This was supposed to have raised $15 of the $51 billion MTA 2020-24 Five Year Capital Plan. The MTA earlier this year stated that they need 16 months rather than four months as previously announced just to complete the federal NEPA environmental review process. Final details of who will pay still need to be established. Elected officials will lobby for discounts or exemptions for police, fire, teachers, low income, outer borough residency, seniors, physically disabled, small commercial delivery businesses, users of electric vehicles or other special niches. These discounts or exemptions will be adopted to placate the constituents of elected officials running for reelection in 2022.

You can’t capture five years of toll revenues estimated to be $1 billion per year (leveraged to raise $15 billion in support

MTA’s $51 billion 2020-24 five year capital plan) when you implement the program three years or more after 2020.

This late start for implementation, downturn in the economy, more people telecommuting full and part time along with a series of discounts and exemptions to tolls will result in billions of lost anticipated revenue. Just how will the MTA bridge a future funding shortfall of up to $15 billion within the previously approved $51 billion 2020-24 Five Year Capital Program?

Like it or not, sooner or later some difficult decisions will have to be made by MTA Chairman Janno Lieber and MTA Board members.

MTA budgeted $6.9 billion for Second Avenue Subway Phase Two. This project benefits a handful of the preCOVID-19 5 million daily transit riders. There is also $1.5 billion for the Bronx East Metro North Access to Penn Station.

Both projects need to be postponed until the next MTA 202529 Five Year Capital Program.

Preservation of safety and state of good repair projects are a higher priority than any new system expansion projects.

End both the MTA “Arts in Transit” one percent expenditure requirement for capital projects and Cuomo’s “New York Buy America Act.” Lobby the New York Congressional delegation for more reasonable federal Buy America requirements. This impacts the ability of MTA to get the

best return when spending $1.5 billion in annual grant funding from the Federal Transit Administration.

Stop wasting several hundred millions on outside consultants. Use available inhouse resources to do the same work. Go after deadbeat riders who refuse to pay their fare.

In pre-COVID-19 2019, they contributed to $300 million in lost revenue. Even in COVID-19 times, there is still similar significant revenue losses.

Limit employee overtime to legitimate needs such as additional cleaning and maintenance due to the unexpected impacts of COVID-19 and dealing with malfunctioning equipment, accidents or adverse weather conditions when attempting to restore service. End

of cereal on your lap while steering with your knees. Let’s not forget people texting, rest of us. But if you’re going to be reckless, do it with class. women applying makeup and guys cutting nose hairs in the Don’t like my speed? Fine, not a problem. But don’t burn rear-view mirror while doing rubber past me doing 70, then 60.

There is one issue that cut in within inches of my bumper, finally gunning it and possibly could be rampant in other states around Long taking off showing me those Island but reigns supreme style points. here on the Island. This issue Then you have the other pertains to driving habits but class of drivers hogging the roads with stupidity. Those ig- feel free to apply it to all life norant ones whose logic says situations.

We all live in seventh gear if they take it slow, there’s not thinking that lightning speed a problem balancing a bowl

is needed to accomplish goals. I don’t buy it. Seventh gear is unnecessary. We brag about that special East Coast attitude and perseverance, so take it down a few gears.

Take your hand, place it on the gear shift and push down from seventh to maybe fourth.

Go work your eight-hour day and tell me if you get the same amount of work done.

The answer is yes, resulting in the stress level plummeting.

Think about it. If you’re going to get aggravated why not do it in a lower gear? Also, with the

extra energy, the after-work cocktail can be enjoyed without the eyes shutting during the toast.

To finish up with a positive, there is one saving aspect for suburbia, especially Long Island. The huge uptick in online ordering has resulted in a major decrease in holiday traffic. I’ve noticed the exit leading to Roosevelt Field off Meadowbrook Parkway is no longer backed up for miles. Then again, people seem to thrive on holiday stress, so unfortunately that’s

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PENNER STATION Larry Penner

approving excessive overtime used as the basis to fatten up pensions calculated on the final year’s base salary.

All combined could save the MTA billions. All of the above will be needed to bridge the inevitable multi-billion budget shortfall. Better to bite the bullet now, rather than pay a higher cost later.

—Larry Penner—transportation advocate, historian and writer, who previously worked for the Federal Transit Administration Region 2 New York Office. This included the development, review, approval and oversight for billions in capital projects and programs for the MTA, NYC Transit, Long Island Rail Road, Metro North Rail Road, MTA Bus along with 30 other transit agencies in NY & NJ.

New York City Mayor-elect Eric Adams inherited the task of naming appointments to the MTA Traffic Mobility Review from his predecessor Bill de Blasio (Photo by KrystalB97/ CC BY-SA 4.0)

stuck around. For example, a friend of mine that raced like a maniac to get to the mall. Then once she arrived, she had a mini anxiety attack when finding out that Macy’s ran out of comforters in hunter green.

—What did you think of this story? Email tfiction@hotmail. com to share it with Tom Kuntzmann. He is an outdoorsman with main interests in hiking and golf. His column focuses on local outdoor events and suburban stories.

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William Shatner, Shakespeare And A Trip To Space the time, this refers to our dog Luna’s flatulence, which is both silent and deadly.

Dogs of war, indeed.

The whole “dogs of war” phrase intrigued me, especially where it related to a Shakespearean-quoting villain with excellent diction.

Why was Plummer chosen?

And what was up with all the quotes from Shakespeare?

It turns out that when the screenplay was written, Patty Servidio The Wrath of Khan director Nicholas Meyer was a huge Hubby and I have been Shakespeare buff. He also avid Star Trek fans since we wrote General Chang with began our courtship togeth- Christopher Plummer specifer. We saw several Star Trek ically in mind to portray the films in the general area, Shakespeare-quoting villain. including the old theater that After speaking to Leonard used to be in the Plainview Nimoy, Meyer stated that if Shopping Center. I was a they could not get Plummer huge fan from childhood, as for the role, nobody else could my parents often watched adequately fill it and they the sci-fi adventure. From wouldn’t have a film. Meyer time to time, Hubby or I was also a self-professed will quote a phrase from “fanatic Plummer fan.” the iconic TV show when Plummer rejected the appropriate. One of Hubby’s request twice, but finally favorite lines is Engineer came around to the delight of Scott’s/Scotty’s line, “It’s like Meyer and the rest of the cast. sending up a flare.” Most of Plummer requested not to

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wear the traditional Klingon long-haired wig because it “looked phony” and Meyer championed him. Plummer’s General Chang was bald, precise and had perfectly clipped speech. It was a perfectly delicious role and he played it with gusto.

Plummer and Shatner were friendly rivals back in the 1950s, when Shatner was understudy for Plummer in a Stratford Shakespeare Festival production of Henry V. Plummer, who was out one night due to illness, had to miss the performance.

Shatner stepped up to fill in. Not only did Shatner rise to the challenge, but he also completely upstaged Plummer’s performance.

William Shatner was destined, from that moment, for greatness. Of special note is that both Plummer and Shatner are Canadian actors.

William Shatner is not only an accomplished actor, writer and “musician” via several spoken lyric albums, but he is involved with the American Tinnitus Association, a

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condition from which he suffers. Years ago, his kidney stone fetched $25,000, the funds which were donated to Habitat for Humanity. Shatner breeds and shows horses and is a leading force for the Hollywood Charity Horse Show, which often donates to charities for children. He has also been known to work

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William Shatner recently made history as the oldest person to enter space, all thanks to Blue Origin, LLC and their New Shepard spacecraft. Although the launch lasted approximately 10 minutes, the nonagenarian who is best known for his portrayal of James Tiberius Kirk in the original Star Trek series was moved to tears.

“It’s extraordinary,” Shatner told Jeff Bezos upon landing.

“I hope I never recover, that I can maintain what I feel now.”

It’s one of those capstone moments in a person’s life that is truly tough to forget.

An acquaintance of mine posted a picture of his meatballs on the day of the launch in what I can only assume is a tribute to Shatner.

His quotation was a play on words uttered by Christopher Plummer’s General Chang in the 1991 film, Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country: “Cry havoc and let slip the meatballs of war.” Of course, the items of war from the Shakespearean play Julius Caesar were dogs.

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Opting In Or Out–That Is The Question A friend of mine, let’s call him Steve, has illegally gotten pot ever since he was a kid.

Now in his 60s, there’s a good possibility that he can walk into a store in New York and buy it legally soon.

There are a lot of people like Steve out there.

“Oh man, I can’t imagine what it’s gonna be like,” Steve said while discussing legal purchasing. “I’ve been doing it underground for so long, I’ll probably still be looking over my shoulder on my way out, even though I’ll have a receipt.”

New York State is hoping there are many Steves out there needing a lot of those receipts.

The politicians are estimating pot sales will reach $3.2 billion a year. Of course, they are more interested in the 13 percent tax revenue that will be generated.

Still, that’s a lot of legal hooch.

Steve read about the law that took effect in April 2021,

place, let alone carried it with me. I know what an ounce of weed in a plastic bag looks like.

I can’t imagine where I would even put 80 bags in my house.”

Individual counties, villages, and towns that sell the legal pot will share 4 percent of the 13 percent tax revenue as part of their local taxes. Yet, some places on Long Island are deciding not to allow the sale and usage of pot.

“They must be crazy,” Steve Paul DiSclafani pdisco23@aol.com said, “Don’t they know their residents will just go to the next town allowing New York State resito buy weed? I’ve gone all the way dents over 21 to legally possess to The Bronx when I had to.” and consume marijuana.

Of course, legally buying Adults can possess up to three pot over the counter doesn’t ounces of weed and 24 grams become a reality until someof edibles on their person. You time in September 2022. That’s can possess up to five pounds the deadline for the State in your home or on your Legislature to adopt regulations property (that’s 80 ounces). for the usage and distribution “I don’t know about you,” of cannabis to the public. Since Steve said, “but I’ve never even no one knows what those seen three ounces of weed in one regulations may look like, local

authorities have the option to “opt-out” of allowing the sale and usage of cannabis in their villages or towns.

But there’s a catch–if you don’t opt-out by the end of 2021, you can never opt-out. However, if you do decide to opt-out, you can opt back in at any time.

If a town decides to opt-out, pot smokers will undoubtedly spend their money at the “Cannabis Café” in the next town. “I know I will, man,” said Steve. “Then, I’ll head across the street to McDonald’s or 7-11 for munch items before I head home to watch Netflix.”

Like cigarettes, you can only smoke weed in designated smoking areas, like outside next to the nearest dumpster. Unlike cigarettes, you can’t smoke cannabis in your car. You can possess it in your vehicle, but don’t drive across state lines because that is illegal.

Maybe it seems prudent for

towns and villages to opt-out before the end of the year so they can wait for the regulations to be finalized and make an informed decision. However, towns and municipalities that are preparing to hit the ground running next September will have a financial advantage over those that did not. Once people start developing their purchasing habits, it may take a while for them to change.

But will the lure of legal weed end the clandestine nature of purchasing pot for long-time users? “I’ve had a relationship with my guy for years,” said Steve. “I’m not sure that I’ll ever not have that relationship. But I’m kind of looking forward to buying gummy bears, man.”

With or without a receipt.

—Paul DiSclafani’s new book, A View From The Bench, is a collection of his favorite Long Island Living columns. It’s available wherever books are sold.

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NEIGHBORS IN THE NEWS Town of North Hempstead Supervisor Judi Bosworth and the town board celebrated the town being recognized as a “Tree City USA” by the Arbor Day Foundation.

This is the tenth year that the Town has received the designation of “Tree City USA.” This designation is given out to towns and cities that have a viable tree management plan and program. In order to be eligible to be recognized as a “Tree City USA” community, certain requirements must be met such as having a Tree Board or Department, having a Tree Care Ordinance, having a Community Forestry Program and the observance of Arbor Day. The “Tree City USA” program

was created by the Arbor Day Foundation, which is the nation’s leading community forestry program that provides a foundation for effective and well-organized community tree care. It is also facilitated in cooperation with the USDA Forest Service and the New York Department of Environmental Conservation. This program provides direction, technical assistance, public attention, and national recognition for urban and community forestry programs in thousands of towns and cities that more than 93 million Americans call home.

—Submitted by the Town of North Hempstead Legislator Arnold W. Drucker (second from right), speaks at the grand opening of Theodore’s Books as owner and former Congressman Steve Israel (far right), looks on (Photo courtesy of the Office of Legislator Arnold W. Drucker)

Former Congressman Steve Israel Celebrates Grand Opening Of Theodore’s Books

Town of North Hempstead Supervisor Judi Bosworth and the town board celebrate their municipality receiving the designation of “Tree City USA” for the tenth consecutive year. (Photo courtesy of the Town of North Hempstead)

Twelfth Annual Turkey Trot Is Run Mayor Daniel Pearl sounded the horn at the starting line of the YES Community Counseling Center’s 12th Annual Massapequa Park Turkey Trot. Pearl was joined by Deputy Mayor Tina Schiaffino and trustees Dana Durso and Todd Svec to cheer on the runners at the starting line.

More than 600 runners and walkers participated in this event, making it the second largest in race history.

All proceeds from this 5k run/walk benefit YES Community Counseling Center.

—Submitted by the Village of Massapequa Park (Photo by Ed Cox)

On Small Business Saturday, which fell on Nov. 27 this year, Nassau County Legislator Arnold W. Drucker (D - Plainview) joined well-wishers and his colleagues to celebrate the grand opening of Theodore’s Books in downtown Oyster Bay. The proprietor of the brand-new bookstore is former U.S. Congressman Steve Israel—an avowed bibliophile and fan of Theodore Roosevelt who named the bookstore in honor of the former President and Oyster Bay resident.

TR’s nearby Sagamore Hill estate was known as the “Summer White House” during his administration.

“Establishments like Theodore’s Books give Nassau County’s downtown business districts their unique charm and flair,” Drucker said. “By calling upon two of his life’s great passions, Steve Israel has added a new dimension to the Oyster Bay business community and enriched its standing as a destination for commerce. I wish him all the best on this exciting new venture and urge everyone to support small businesses throughout the holiday season and in the new year to come.”

—Submitted by the Office of Legislator Arnold W. Drucker

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Mineola Student-Athletes Commit To Colleges Congratulations to seniors Maggie McMahon and Julianna Sousa for committing to play lacrosse at the next level.

McMahon committed to the University of Louisville, signing her official letter to make her an incoming member of the 2022-23 Cardinal lacrosse roster. As a standout player in Nassau County, McMahon has scored more than 100 goals and looks forward to her senior season this spring.

Sousa will be attending and playing lacrosse at Wilmington University next year. She is excited to bring her speed and defensive tenacity to the next level.

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Seniors Maggie McMahon and Julianna Sousa have committed to play lacrosse at the next level.

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Department are proud of these student-athletes and wish them continued success.

—Submitted by the Mineola Union Free School District

Reading To Rudy At James H. Vernon Rudy the therapy dog is making his rounds at Vernon and helping students in the process. Fifth grade classes who won the school’s summer reading contest earned the opportunity to visit with Rudy during library. Mr. Kiamos’ fifth grade class won the summer reading contest with a collective 10,042 reading minutes.

Students first learned about Rudy’s life, including how he became a therapy dog and the many ways he helps others. Then, they went over some tips to keep Rudy comfortable during their visit.

The fifth graders broke off into small groups to spend some more time with Rudy. They asked questions about his life outside of work and even had the chance to read books out loud to him.

Mr. Kiamos’ fifth grade students enjoying Rudy’s company during library. (Contributed photo from Oyster Bay-East Norwich Central School District)

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Seaford High School’s student government coordinated its annual Thanksgiving food drive to benefit families in the community.

(Photo courtesy of the Seaford School District)

Seaford Student Food Drive A Success Yet Again Thanksgiving is a holiday steeped in tradition, and at Seaford High School, that tradition is a food drive that supports the local community. Thanks to the efforts of student government, 25 families received complete Thanksgiving meals this year.

Nonperishable food items were collected throughout November at the high school, Seaford Middle School and Seaford Harbor Elementary School. Several local businesses also made donations. All of the food was delivered to the student council office to be sorted and bagged. High school students and staff also contributed money for supermarket gift cards for perishable items.

Student government, under the

direction of advisers Tania Cintorino and Shari Raduazzo, has been holding the Thanksgiving food drive for more than two decades. Food goes to families in Seaford, with leftover items going to local food pantries.

“It just feels really great to give back to my community and see the abundance of food that was donated,” student government officer Taylor DiFondi said. “That’s why I love student council, because we help our community so much.”

The student council at Seaford Manor Elementary School held its own food drive, with donations going to Island Harvest.

—Submitted by the Seaford School District

Reading to Rudy boosted students’ self-confidence, eased stress and gave them a unique opportunity to practice their reading skills.

—Submitted by Oyster Bay-East Norwich Central School District

Students at Central Boulevard Elementary School in Bethpage teamed up with the local Knights of Columbus on Nov. 23 to provide Thanksgiving baskets of food for families in need. (Photo courtesy of Bethpage Union Free

School District)

Fourth graders in Susan Crimarco’s class at Fairfield Elementary School passed a combined 856 reading lessons in iReady during a month-long competition. (Photo courtesy of the Massapequa School District)

Contest Energizes Fairfield Readers Fourth graders have greatly improved their reading skills in a short period of time at Fairfield Elementary School in the Massapequa School District thanks to some friendly competition. Students in Susan Crimarco’s class participated in an iReady reading contest, with a goal of having everyone pass at least 20 lessons on their reading paths.

The program, which students access on the Chromebooks, is an individualized digital tool that students use to improve their reading skills. It focuses on phonological awareness, vocabulary and comprehension of fiction and non-fiction texts. Crimarco can see the results of these lessons to monitor each student’s reading progress and personalize instruction

Bethpage Students Partner With Knights Of Columbus For Thanksgiving Central Boulevard Elementary School in Bethpage partnered with the local Knights of Columbus on Nov. 23 to provide approximately 30 Thanksgiving baskets of food. The baskets were equipped to serve a family of four and includes a turkey as well as a cooking pan. While the event was canceled last year due to the pandemic, students were excited to lend a helping hand to families in need.

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For one month, Crimarco’s class passed a collective 856 lessons, far exceeding an average of 20 per student. The top reader passed 105 lessons, earning the top prize of no

homework for a week. The entire class will be rewarded for their efforts and enthusiasm with an ice cream party.

—Submitted by the Massapequa School District

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Interim Director of Athletics, Health and Physical Education Bob Panariello coordinated the event and welcomed attendees.

Students, dressed in attire representing their future colleges, assembled on the bleachers and were applauded by their guests.

Nine of the athletes are planning to play lacrosse next year. Jack Cascadden and Brendan Staub will both join Cornell University’s

team, Carla Curth will attend Binghamton University, Kristen Hegarty has committed to American University, Caitlin McNaboe will head to Marist College, Jay Ottomanelli and Luke Schmitt will both join Trinity College’s team, Meghan Rode has committed to Syracuse University and Rowan Stenson has committed to Williams College.

Renee Gollisz and Nicholas Bernieri will play soccer at Marist College and Lafayette College, respectively.

Christopher Reilly will join the swim team at Holy Cross, Anthony Cuccia has committed to the track team at Lafayette College and Patrick Heber will play on the baseball team at Bentley University.

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Friday, Dec. 10

James Webb Space Telescope. Visit www.cradleofaviation.org

View a detailed model railroad in Farmingdale on Dec. 11-12.

Craft & Gift Show Daily from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. through Sunday, Dec. 26 at Broadway Commons Mall, 358 North Broadway, Hicksville.

Vendors selling art, crafts, and gifts for the season.

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Kenny “Babyface” Edmonds At 8 p.m. at NYCB Theatre at Westbury.

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Sweet Honey In The Rock At 7 p.m. at the John Cranford Adams Playhouse at Hofstra University, Hempstead. Celebrate the holidays with the celebrated singing group.

Register at www.news.hofstra.edu/ events for this free show.

Also Dec. 12. Visit www.tmbmodel trainclub.com for more info.

Genesis Original members unite for 8 p.m. concert at UBS Arena, Elmont. Visit www.ubsarena.com for more info.

History of Caumsett From 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Caumsett State Historic Park Preserve, Lloyd Harbor. Walk and learn about the park’s social, economic, architectural and political history. Reservations required.

Call 631-423-1770.

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Festival of Games From 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. at the Cradle of Aviation Museum, Charles Lindbergh Blvd., Garden City. Retro video games, toys, comics, collectibles and unique retro gaming experiences. Visit www. cradleofaviation.org for tickets.

Model Railroad Layout The TMB Model Train Club will display its elaborate layout from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. at 120 Schmitt Blvd., Farmingdale.

A Celtic Christmas The Landmark on Main Street, 232 Main St., Port Washington presents Irish-American supergroup Cherish the Ladies at 7 p.m. Information and tickets at www.landmarkonmainstreet.org or call the box office at 516-767-6444.

A Christmas Carol A solo performance of Dickens’ classic holiday tale presented at 2 p.m. by the North Shore Historical Society

Museum, 140 Glen Street, Glen Cove.

Visit www.northshorehistoricalmuseum.org to RSVP. Andrew Dice Clay The comic returns to the The Paramount in Huntington. Visit www. paramountny.com for more info.

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Magic of Lights 2021 Through Jan. 2, 2022 at Jones Beach State Park. A dazzling, drive-through holiday lights experience. Visit www. magicoflights.com for tickets and more information.

Hubble Comes Down To Earth At the Cradle of Aviation Museum, Charles Lindbergh Blvd., Garden City.

Traveling exhibit immerses visitors in the magnificence and mystery of the Hubble mission and introduces the

Toys For Tots Drive Assemblyman Michael Montesano (R– Glen Head) will be collecting new and unwrapped toys for Toys for Tots from now until Dec.15 at his district office, 111 W. Old Country Road, Hicksville.

Monday through Friday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Shoppers Market Every Saturday and Sunday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Samanea Mall parking lot, 1500 Old Country Rd., Westbury.

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Shimmering Solstice Light show along the garden paths at Old Westbury Gardens, 71 Old Westbury Rd., Old Westbury. Visit www. oldwestburygardens.org for info.

Christmas House Long Island Daily through Jan. 4, 2022 at 1500 Old Country Rd., Westbury. Described as “A wondrous 45-plus minute walk-through of all things Christmas.” Visit www. christmashouselongisland.com.

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Police Arrest Westbury Man requested to view a tray of jewelry from For Assault

for calling the Garden City Police Garden City Police Arrest Department on Nov. 15 to falsely reMan Wanted For Armed port a burglary in progress at a Garden behind the store Robbery Third Squad Detectives report the City residence. He was charged with Upon the investigation of a suspiarrest of a Westbury man for an assault counter. The subfalsely reporting an incident and cious vehicle related to an incident at that occurred on Nov. 20 at 8:45 a.m. in ject then grabbed stalking on Nov. 24. the tray of jewelry CVS, on Nov. 27 Garden City Police Westbury. .............. and exited the store officers determined one of the occuAccording to detectives, police Police Investigate Serious pants, a 19-year-old male, was wanted without paying. A responded to Bowling Green Drive for Accident In Farmingdale for an armed robbery that occurred in reports of a disturbance. After a further 39-yearold male Kobeen Castillo The Homicide Squad reports the employee followed New York City on Nov. 26. The subject investigation police attempted to place (Photo details of a serious auto accident that the subject into the Orellana courtesy of NCPD) was placed under arrest and held 22-year-old Cristhofer Peralta Liriano occurred on Nov. 26 at 10:56 a.m. in until NYPD detectives responded and into custody. He resisted arrest and be- parking lot and fell assumed custody of the subject. gan to fight with police. Officers ordered to the ground attempting to retrieve the Farmingdale. merchandise. Upon police arrival, an According to detectives, there was an .............. the defendant to stop resisting arrest, ambulance was requested for the male automobile accident at the intersection Garden City Police Make he continued to refuse and fight with victim, who was suffering pain from the of Clinton street and Conklin Street.

DWI Arrest In Single Car officers. Officers were forced to deploy fall and he refused medical treatment at A 2011 Nissan X-terra was traveling Accident an electrical control device to control the scene. westbound on Conklin Street and a 2006 On Nov. 27, upon investigation of the defendant. The officers managed to A thorough investigation conducted Mercedes was traveling eastbound on a one-vehicle crash in the vicinity of get the defendant into custody. by police, identified 20-year-old Clinton Street.

Both occupants of the Cathedral Avenue, just south of First Five officers were injured during this Kobeen Castillo Orellana as the person Nissan were injured and taken to local Street, Garden City Police officers arrest. One officer suffered injuries to responsible and he was located at his area hospitals for evaluation. The driver arrested the 30-year-old male driver his shoulders, hands, back and neck. residence. While police were attemptof the Mercedes was in critical condition for DWI, unregistered vehicle, and Another officer suffered a laceration to ing to place Orellana into handcuffs, and transported to a local area hospital switched license plates. his forehead, requiring multiple stitches he became combative and kicked an .............. for treatment, but the aided was later to close it, along with other lacerations officer. After a brief struggle, officers Police Search For Bank pronounced by hospital staff at 3:52 p.m. to his face and head. The remaining eventually secured the defendant.

Robber In Franklin Square The investigation is ongoing. officers all suffered lacerations and As a result of the defendant actively ..............

The Major Case Bureau reports injuries to their faces and bodies. resisting arrest, the officer suffered Westbury Female Struck By the details of a robbery that occurred Liriano is charged with second-deminor injuries and was transported to a Car In Hicksville, Police on Nov. 30 at 4:20 p.m. in Franklin gree criminal contempt, petit larceny, local hospital for treatment.

Investigate Death Square. resisting arrest, five counts of secA subsequent investigation also Homicide Squad Detectives are According to Robbery Squad ond-degree assault and endangering revealed that the defendant was reporting the details of an incident detectives, an unknown black male the welfare of a child. The defendant responsible for a larceny that occurred that occurred on Nov. 26 at 5:18 p.m. in entered the Chase Bank located at was arraigned on Nov. 21 at First at Kay Jewelers, located at 850 Sunrise Hicksville.

925 Hempstead Tpke. The subject District Court in Hempstead.

Hwy. on Sept. 29.

According to detectives, police approached the teller and demanded ..............

Orellana is charged with second- and money. The teller complied and the Police Make Grand Larceny third-degree grand larceny, two counts responded to Stewart Avenue, east of the Levittown Parkway, for reports of subject fled on foot with an undisclosed Arrest In Massapequa of second-degree assault and resisting a woman lying in the roadway.

Upon amount of money.

Seventh Squad detectives report the arrest. He was arraigned on Nov. 22 at arrival, police discovered a deceased There were four employees and two First District Court in Hempstead. arrest of a Bay Shore man for grand Asian female laying in the eastbound customers present inside the bank at .............. larceny that occurred on Nov. 21 at 2:45 lane of Stewart Avenue.

It appears the the time of the robbery. There were no

Garden City Police Charge p.m. in Massapequa. woman was struck by an unknown reported injuries.

Man For Stalking According to detectives, a male vehicle which left the scene. The The subject is described as a black Upon investigation, Garden City subject entered Forever Diamonds investigation is ongoing.

Police later male, in his mid to late 50s with an detectives arrested a 35-year-old male located at 5508 Sunrise Hwy. and identified the victim as 43-year-old Nayi average build and he was wearing a Harsida of Westbury. green jacket.

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Joan Forrest Horne Mrs. Joan Forrest Horne, 86, died peacefully on November 22, 2021 in Willow St., Pennsylvania.

A Funeral Mass will be offered at Notre Dame Church in North Caldwell, NJ on Saturday, December 11, 2021 at 9 AM. Interment will follow at Immaculate Conception Cemetery in Upper Montclair, NJ. Mrs. Horne was born in Orange, NJ, the daughter of Robert and Eleanor Forrest, and grew up in Verona. She attended Our Lady of the Lake School and graduated from Mount St. Dominic Academy in 1953. She earned a degree in business from the University of Connecticut and enjoyed a 38-year long career as a marketing and sales executive with The Eastman Chemical Company in New York, New York. In 1965, she married William Hardin Horne and they made their home in Port Washington, NY. After her retirement, they relocated to the Willow Valley community in Lancaster, PA. Mrs. Horne was a talented gardener and enjoyed many years as a member of the Port Washington Garden Club. She derived great pleasure growing perennials and creating arrangements for friends and neighbors. She loved history and travel. Mrs. Horne and her husband traveled extensively during retirement and one of her favorite destinations was Ireland. She was a devoted and caring aunt and godmother to her nieces, nephews, and close family friends.

Mrs. Horne was predeceased by her husband of 54 years, William Horne, in 2019. She will be missed by her surviving sister, Robin Forrest Gerberg and her husband Donald of southern Delaware; her nieces, Teri Gerberg Windisch (husband Matthew) of Doylestown, PA, Susan Gerberg Pac (husband Leon) of West Caldwell, NJ; and her grandnieces and grandnephews.

In lieu of flowers, donations to the Sjgren’s Foundation would be greatly appreciated, www.sjogrens.org or Sjgren’s Foundation, 10701 Parkridge Blvd. Suite 170, Reston, VA 20191.

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Doris Z. Valenta Doris Z. Valenta, of Madison, NJ, passed away peacefully on Monday, November 29, 2021, at Morristown Medical Center. She was 93.

Doris was born and raised in Brooklyn, NY on April 23, 1928, to the late Frank and Marion Zero. She was the youngest of her two siblings, Anthony and Domenick.

After graduating from Bay Ridge High School, Doris was accepted to the City College of New York where she majored in accounting. As one of very few women in her class, she excelled in college both academically and socially.

She was elected president of the Newman Club, a Catholic organization on campus where Doris first met her husband of 66 years, Louis Valenta (Lou). The couple were engaged at their senior prom and married in January of 1951. Upon graduation from CCNY, Doris accepted a position with Pan American Airlines, while Lou pursued a career in advertising and sales. Both career paths afforded and instilled in them their lifelong love of world travel and family vacations.

Doris and Lou spent their first years together in Sunnyside, Queens. Then in 1959, they settled in Glen Cove, Long Island where they welcomed three children, Louis, Victoria, and David. Doris put her career on hold while her children were young. She was a wonderful, loving mother, involved in all aspects of their lives as well as many community activities. Doris was also an active parishioner in St. Patrick’s Church in Glen Cove and had a strong faith, which she instilled in her children.

Doris enjoyed golfing, bowling, and playing bridge with the women’s social league of Glen Cove, where she forged many lifelong friendships. Doris and Lou had many dear friends and enjoyed an active social life. Doris loved to sing and dance and enjoyed planning a good theme party for the “group” as she fondly referred to them.

In 1975 Doris returned to her formal career in accounting when she accepted a position at Flower City Architectural Metals in Sea Cliff, Long Island, where she worked her way up to Assistant Controller. She retired in 1998 to begin the next chapter of her life as a full-time grandmother. Doris was delighted with her new role and treasured the time she spent with her six granddaughters.

She and Lou also continued their occasional trips, domestic and abroad, visiting family and friends and throughout retirement.

Shortly after the passing of her beloved husband Lou, Doris moved to Madison, NJ in 2019 to be closer to her children and grandchildren.

In addition to her parents, Doris was predeceased by her husband, Louis Valenta, Sr.; her brothers, Anthony and Domenick Zero; and her son-in-law, Robert Burger.

She is survived by her children, Louis (Maria) Valenta, Victoria Burger; and David (Sun Ju) Valenta; cherished granddaughters, Alexandra, Noelle, Adrianna, Elizabeth, Jenna, and Ava; her sister-in-law Marie Zero as well as many loving nieces and nephews.

Relatives and friends attended a memorial Liturgy of Christian Burial to celebrate Doris’ life on December 4, 2021, at St. Vincent Martyr Church, 26 Green Village Road, Madison. Funeral arrangements were entrusted to the Madison Memorial Home.

In lieu of flowers, the family requests that charitable contributions be made in Doris’ memory to the ASPCA. www.ASPCA.org

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Alfred Zeff

Al and Doris moved to Glen Cove in 1958 where they lived together in the same house for 56 years and where Al continued to live after her death with his son Robert. His work with the

New York City taxicab industry evolved into ownership of the ITOC News, the trade publication read by every independent taxi owner driver in New York. His involvement in establishing a credit union which allowed many in the industry realize the dream of purchasing their own medallion - thus becoming their own boss - was something that gave him great pride. Al was even prouder to be involved in his beloved hometown from the time he moved here, and as Congressman Tom Suozzi said upon meeting Al’s grandson Nathaniel recently, “Everyone in Glen Cove knew Al Zeff.”

Al’s community activism saw him serve as communications strategist for two mayors, Andrew DiPaola and Vincent (Jimmy) Suozzi, as editor of the Record Pilot, and in leadership roles with the Roxbury Community Association, Glen Cove High School Athletic Boosters Association and Glen Cove Junior Baseball. Al coached many Glen Cove youth baseball, football and CYO basketball teams during the 1960’s and 1970’s and was a fixture at Glen Cove City Stadium and ardent supporter of Glen Cove High School teams for many years.

In more recent years, Al traveled the country watching his grandsons compete and continuing to coach them from the sidelines.

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Alfred Zeff, beloved husband of the late Doris Zeff, loving father of Richard (Leslie) and Robert, devoted grandfather of Harrison (Kristen) and Nathaniel passed away Monday, November 29, 2021 at the age of 93. He is also survived by nieces Gail Liner (Robert) and Karen Cracco (Ben), nephew Mark Hirsch (Rosalie) and Eric Hermansen (Sunni) and many grandnieces and nephews.

Al was born in the Bronx in 1928 in the shadow of Yankee Stadium, and in the ensuing 90 plus years was an avid Yankee fan cheering on every new generation of Yankee star from Babe Ruth to Aaron Judge. He graduated from LIU in 1950 with a degree in journalism after having served as the school’s sports editor during the golden era of LIU basketball. Upon graduation, Al immediately was called to service in the Army and served proudly during the Korean War. Eager to begin his journalism career, Al was honorably discharged in 1952, and his career quickly took him to trade publications serving the New York City taxicab industry. It was at this time that Al met Doris in the NY City Public Library. His very clever pick up line led to a wonderful marriage of 60 years until Doris passed away in 2014.

Amy J. Lentz, born on a sunny June 11th, in the year of her choosing, peacefully slipped away into the hands of God on November 26th 2021, after a brief illness. Amy was surrounded by the love of her family, under home hospice care.

Amy was the center of her family.

Always smiling and vibrant, her heart was as beautiful as her spirit.

But nowhere was Amy more beloved than by her husband of 66 years, Larry. He was the young soldier who stole the heart of the beautiful Amy Buonaguro in the yellow tea rose dress. The rest was history. Amy is survived by her husband Lawrence and her four precious children and their spouses: Karen Magovern & Bob Wilsusen of Manhasset, NY, Greg & Gretchen Lentz of Greer South Carolina, Cindy & Jonathan Wallace of Guilford, CT, Jodi & Terrence Crimmins of Natick, MA. Adored grandmother of Maggie & Adam Szmidt , John & Katie Magovern, Laura & Eric Hynes, Rachel & Andrew Lentz, Justin, Connor & Austin Wallace, Ian & Harper Crimmins.

Incredible great-grandmother to Hannah May & Lily Jane Szmidt, Evelyn Grace & John Christopher Magovern and to many more to come.

Holding a special place in her heart for the love and kindness of Sophia Kelleher, Jaime Conway and Erica Vicino.

Amy left her successful career as an executive secretary with MONY in Manhattan to start her family with Larry.

Born in Brooklyn, NY and raised in Maspeth, Queens, Amy & Larry ventured out to Old Bethpage, Long Island in 1957 to raise their family, embracing the suburban boom. Amy & Larry fostered the family’s strong ties to St Pius X in Plainview and participated in The Rosary Society. Amy embarked upon a creative artistic outlet in oil & watercolor painting.

Her inspiration was nurtured by her instructor & dear friend, the late Barbara Sugarman of Great Neck, NY. Amy continued her love of the arts throughout her life.

Ultimately, Amy and Larry relocated to Guilford, CT in 1979. Her passion for art continued by attending the Shoreline School of the Arts & Music in Branford and volunteering at The Guilford Arts Center. Amy was a communicant of St George Church in Guilford, CT. Amy’s passions included traveling, antiquing, trips to Mohegan Sun, and hosting parties for family, friends, and neighbors. Amy naturally connected with people in a sincere and heartfelt way. A dedicated“Shop Local”supporter before it was trendy. Amy appreciated each individual’s contribution to their business and understood the importance of community.

In her final act of mothering, Amy eased our pain with wisdom and kind words, bravely laying out support for our path forward. Her selfless love will see us through.

Special thanks to those who cared for Amy during her final weeks; the caregivers at The Guilford House, the incredible staff at Saint Raphael’s ER & MICU, Susie, Claire & Cathi, and VNA Hospice nurses Lori and Angela. Thank you for caring for mom with kindness, grace and love.

Mass of Christian Burial was celebrated on December 1, 2021 at St. George Cemetery, in Guilford, CT Please consider donations in honor of Amy to: VNA Community Healthcare and Hospice 753 Boston Post Rd, Suite 200, Guilford, CT 06437 or The Guilford Arts Center 411 Church St, Guilford, CT 06437 Arrangements were in care of the Guilford Funeral Home, 115 Church St, Guilford.

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MANHASSET LEGAL NOTICE PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a public hearing of the Zoning Board of Appeals of the Village of Flower Hill will be held on the 15th day of December, 2021 at 7:00 PM, at Village Hall, 1 Bonnie Heights Rd., Manhasset, NY 11030.

Application of Mr. Thomas Schwan, 137 Dogwood Lane, Manhasset, NY 11030 also known as Section 3, Block 141, Lot 37 for a variance of §240-6(N) and §119-2(A) of the Code of the Village of Flower Hill. The applicant seeks to maintain an existing retaining wall where the setback is 0.6’ at the east property line and 0’ and the north and south property lines where the minimum permitted is 4’; and the retaining yard height in the front yard is 3.67’ at its highest point where the maximum permitted is 2’.

Application of Mr. James Serafino, 5 Knolls Lane, Manhasset, NY 11030 also known as Section 3, Block 64, Lot 5 for variances of §§1192(B), 240-7(C), 240-7(I)(1) (a) and (b) of the Code of the Village of Flower Hill. The applicant seeks to construct a detached garage, retaining

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walls, deck, pool with patio, patio with BBQ and pergola where the garage retaining wall height is proposed at 9.17’ at its highest point and the pool patio wall is 8’ at its highest point when the maximum permitted is 4’; the proposed lot coverage is 7,364.71 (16.9%) when the maximum permitted is 6,534 (15%); the garage sky plane exposure is 2.8 on the north side where the maximum permitted is 1; the side yard setback for the garage is 10’ where the minimum required is 20’; the garage height is 22’9” where the maximum permitted is 12’.

Application of Mr. Arthur Isakov, 10 Peachtree Lane, Roslyn, NY 11576 also known as Section 6, Block 5318, Lot 18 for a variance of §2406(N) and (G) and §119-2(A) and (C) of the Code of the Village of Flower Hill. The applicant seeks to maintain an existing driveway with a width of 27.9’, flaring out to 29.3’ where the maximum permitted width of a curb cut is 16’, flaring out to no more than 17.5’; replace an existing retaining wall along the west property line in the same area where the wall is .5’ from the property line and the minimum setback required is 4’; the proposed wall is in a front yard with

a height of 5’ where 2’ is the maximum permitted and the side yard height is 5’ at the highest point where 4’ is the maximum permitted.

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By Order of the Zoning Board of Appeals Michael Sahn, Chairperson Ronnie Shatzkamer, Village Administrator Flower Hill, New York Dated: December 8, 2021 12-8-20212-1T#228504-MAN LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING INCORPORATED VILLAGE OF PLANDOME MANOR ZONING BOARD OF APPEALS PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that the Zoning Board of Appeals of the Inc. Village of Plandome Manor will hold a public hearing on Thursday, December 16, 2021, at 8:00 p.m. at Village Hall Located at 55 Manhasset Avenue, Manhasset, New York 11030.

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Adele Constance Fullam

Adele Constance Fullam, 92, died peacefully on November 30 and in her last days was surrounded by loving family members.

Adele was born and raised in Flushing, Queens. She was the oldest of two, the other being her younger brother Joseph Mikalauskas.

Adele attended St. Luke’s Grammar School, then Mary Louise Academy, ultimately graduating from St. Joseph’s College. While Adele knew her husband, Gene, in grammar school, it wasn’t until college that Adele was allowed to date Gene. Not until he returned from service in WWII, as a US Marine, First Marine Division, did the love affair really begin to blossom. Married 11/22/1951, this love affair lasted beyond his death (9/9/1997) till her last breath.

Adele was a devoted mother and grandmother. Her grandchildren were the apple of her eye. And, as grandparents often do, Adele spoiled her grandchildren. But, she also taught all the importance of family, perseverance, forgiveness, and kindness. She rejoiced in her children’s accomplishments and in their families.

Adele enjoyed a full life and engaged in several beloved activities including spending time with her Pearsall Ave Bridge Club members, the Glen Cove Women’s Club (formerly St. Patrick’s), the Glen Cove Senior Center, and was a long-time member of Nassau Country Club.

Adele was a devoted alumna of the Mary Louis Academy “MLA” and St. Joseph’s College (Brooklyn).

Beloved wife of the late Eugene Fullam and daughter Anne Fullam Goeke, Adele is survived by her four children and spouses, Gene (Susan) Fullam, Peter Fullam, Kristin Fullam, and Karen (Brennan) as well as by her five grandchildren who were her greatest treasures: Patrick, Ryan, Carly, Sean, and Amy. She is predeceased in death by her brother, Joseph Mikalauskas. Adele will be missed by her nieces, nephews and close friends.

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The following application will be reviewed at the meeting: Application of Stefanos Kilis, 1 Gulls Cove, Plandome Manor, NY 11030 seeking the following variance relief: (1) a variance of §225 Attachment 1 of the Village Code of the Incorporated Village of Plandome Manor to construct a new home with a substandard front yard setback of 28.33 feet, where the Village Code states that a minimum setback of 45 feet is required; (2) a variance of §225 Attachment 1 of the Village Code of the Incorporated Village of Plandome Manor to construct a new home with a substandard rear yard setback of 24.93 feet, where the Village Code states that a minimum setback of 45 feet is required; (3) a variance of Village Code §225-7 Sky Exposure Plane and §225 Attachments 3 & 4 where the sky exposure plane is interrupted in the front and rear yard. Applicant also seeks a determination from the Board regarding the Building Superintendent’s identification of the front of the property. All in connection with the construct of a new 2 story single family home. Property located at 1 Gulls Cove, Plandome Manor, NY 11030. Nassau County Tax Map No. Section 5, Block E, Lot 32. Property is zoned in R-22 Zoning District.

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This project consists of three separate contracts for compliance with Wicks Law and generally consists of the construction of a new advanced oxidation process facility including a building enclosure and new piping, valves, chemical treatment, standby generator, a new booster pump and building enclosure, and all appurtenances and accessories as shown on the Drawings and specified herein. The work also includes all associated connections to the existing well, nitrate removal, and granular activated carbon facilities at the site, power, controls, SCADA, all wiring and devices, site paving and restoration, and other utility work as shown and called for in conformance with the Contract Documents.

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The Contract Documents, consisting of Advertisement for Bids, Instructions to Bidders, Bid, Bid Bond, Agreement, General Conditions, Supplementary Conditions, Payment Bond, Performance Bond, Maintenance Bond, Drawings, Specifications and Addenda may be examined at the following locations: Port Washington Water District 38 Sandy Hollow Road Port Washington, NY 11050 D&B Engineers and Architects, D.P.C. 330 Crossways Park Drive Woodbury, NY 11797-2015 Complete digital sets of Bidding Documents, drawings and specifications, will be available on Wednesday, December 8, 2021, and may be obtained online as a download at the following website: www.revplans.com under ‘public projects’. Neither Owner nor Engineer will be responsible for full or partial

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Complete sets of Bidding Documents, Drawings and Specifications, may be obtained from REVplans, 330 Route 17A, Suite #2, Goshen, New York 10924 Tel: 1 877272-0216, upon payment of a $49.00 non-refundable bid fee. Any bidder requiring hard copies of the documents shall make arrangements directly with REV and pay for all reproduction, packaging and shipping costs.

Each Bid must be accompanied by a certified or bank cashier’s check made payable to OWNER, or a Bid Bond issued by a surety licensed to conduct business in the state where the Project is located and having a Best Rating of A- or better from A.M. Best Company and named in the current list of “Companies Holding Certificates of Authority as Sureties on Federal Bonds and as Acceptable Reinsuring Companies” as published in Circular 570 (amended) by the Financial Management Service, Surety Bond Branch, U.S. Department of the Treasury, in an amount not less than five percent of the amount of the Bid submitted. The list may be ordered from the Government Printing Office Bookstore, 26 Federal Plaza, Room 110, New York, NY 10278, (212) 264-3825.

Each Bidder must complete and submit with his/her bid the “Iranian Investment Activities Certification” provided in the Bid Form in compliance with General Municipal Law 103-g, Iranian Energy Sector Divestment.

Each Bidder must complete and submit with his/ her Bid the “Certification of Compliance with New York State Labor Law Section Two Hundred One-G” provided in the Bid Form regarding the implementation of a written policy addressing sexual harassment prevention in the workplace.

The Bidder to whom the OWNER proposes to award the Contract will be required to furnish performance and payment bonds and the necessary insurance certificates as prescribed in the General Conditions and the Supplementary Conditions upon the execution of the Agreement.

Bidders are required to execute a non-collusive bidding certification required by Section 103-d of the General Municipal Law of the State of New York.

The attention of Bidders is particularly called to the requirements as to the conditions of employment to be observed and the minimum wage rates to be paid under the contracts.

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November 30, 2021 constitutional, the court’s or12-8-2021-1T- der or judgment shall not afination provisions of Sections #228409-PORT fect, impair, or invalidate the 290-301 of the Executive Law remainder of this local law, of the State of New York.

LEGAL NOTICE but shall be confined in its The OWNER reserves the LEGAL NOTICE OF operation to the clause, senright to reject any or all of the ADOPTION OF LOCAL tence, paragraph, subdivision, Bids received, to readvertise LAW SUBJECT TO or part of this local law or in for Bids, to abandon the projPERMISSIVE its application to the person, ect, to waive any or all inforREFERENDUM individual, firm or corporamalities in any Bid received PLEASE TAKE NOTICE tion or circumstance, directly and to accept any proposal that the Board of Trustees of involved in the controversy in which the OWNER decides to the Inc. Village of Manorhav- which such judgment or order be for the best interest of the en, at a regular meeting held shall be rendered. Section 5.

OWNER. on November 24, 2021, duly Effective date. This local law Note: All questions must adopted a resolution, subject shall take effect immediately be submitted in writing to to permissive referendum, upon filing with the Secretary Peter Connell no later than that would enact as a Local of State. Pursuant to Cannabis 2:00 p.m. on Wednesday, Law 4 of 2021, A local law Law § 131, this local law is December 15, 2021. Ques- adopted pursuant to Cannabis subject to a permissive reftions must be sent via email Law § 131 opting out of li- erendum and thus may not to: pconnell@dbeng.com. censing and establishing retail be filed with the Secretary of Board of Commissioners cannabis dispensaries and/or State until the applicable time Port Washington on-site cannabis consumption period has elapsed to file a Water District establishments within the Inc. petition or a referendum has Date: December 2, 2021 By: Village of Manorhaven, as been conducted approving Italo J. Vacchio, follows: Section 1. Legisla- this local law.

Superintendent tive Intent. It is the intent of Dated: Manorhaven, New York 12-8-2021-1T- this local law to opt the Inc. November 30, 2021 #228414-PORT Village of Manorhaven out of By Order of the hosting retail cannabis dispen- Board of Trustees of Inc. LEGAL NOTICE saries and/or on-site cannabis Village of Manorhaven INC. VILLAGE OF consumption establishments Joan Corbo Hanna, Esq., MANORHAVEN within its boundaries. Section Village Clerk-Treasurer PLEASE TAKE NOTICE 2. Authority. This local law is 12-8-2021-1Tthat the Board of Trustees of adopted pursuant to Cannabis #228408-PORT the Village of Manorhaven Law § 131, which expressly will hold its regular monthly authorizes cities and villages LEGAL NOTICE meeting on Monday, Decem- to opt-out of allowing retail INCORPORATED ber 20, 2021 at 3:00 p.m. at cannabis dispensaries and/or VILLAGE OF the Village Hall, 33 Manor- on-site cannabis consumption SANDS POINT haven Boulevard, Port Wash- establishments to locate and BOARD OF TRUSTEES ington, New York 11050. operate within their boundPUBLIC HEARING PLEASE TAKE FURTHER aries. Section 3. Local Can- PLEASE TAKE NOTICE NOTICE These meetings are nabis Retail Dispensary and/ THAT the Board of Trustees open to the public. All those or On-Site Consumption Opt- of the Incorporated Village of wishing to attend are invited Out. The Board of Trustees Sands Point will convene to do so. Persons in need of of the Inc. Village of Manor- to hold a public hearing on special assistance should noti- haven, County of Nassau, Wednesday, December 22, fy the Village Clerk-Treasur- hereby opts-out of allowing 2021, at eight o’clock in the er in sufficient time to permit retail cannabis dispensaries evening via the Zoom App as arrangements to be made to and/or on-site cannabis con- authorized by N.Y. Legislaenable such persons to par- sumption establishments from ture Bill No. S50001/A40001 ticipate. Meeting can also be locating and operating within signed into law by New York accessed via ZOOM telecon- the boundaries of the Inc. Vil- State Governor Kathy Hoference. Login details will be lage of Manorhaven. Section chul, to consider the followavailable on the Village web- 4. Severability. If a court de- ing proposed local laws: site: www.manorhaven.org. termines that any clause, senNew: B Y O R D E R O F T H E tence, paragraph, subdivision, 1) Proposed Local Law BOARD OF TRUSTEES or part of this local law or the Amending Chapter 83 of VILLAGE OF application thereof to any perthe Code entitled, “Fences” MANORHAVEN son, firm or corporation, or and Chapter 176 entitled, Joanie Corbo. Hanna, Esq. circumstance is invalid or un“Zoning”

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LEGAL NOTICES 2) Proposed Local Law Amending Chapter 172 of the Code entitled, “Wells” and Chapter 176 entitled, “Zoning” Continued: 3) Consideration of a Proposed Local Law Amending Chapter 110 of the Village Code entitled, “Noise” 4) Consideration of a Proposed Local Law Amending Chapter 85 of the Village Code entitled, “Filming” 5) Consideration of a Proposed Local Law Amending Chapter 132 of the Village Code entitled, “Site Plan Review”; Chapter 145 entitled, “Subdivision of Land”; and Chapter 176 entitled, “Zoning” 6) Consideration of a Proposed Local Law Enacting Rules & Regulations re Fireworks While this public hearing will be open to the public, there will be no “in-person” attendance at Village Hall. All of the proceedings will be conducted remotely through the Zoom App by entering 828 8230 9219 as the Meeting ID and 783566 as the Passcode, or by using the following link: https://us06web.zoom. us/j/82882309219?pwd=dDhuR0xHQ3RtQ1Jjb2JLaUF3bkd6dz09 If any interested members of the public would like to provide comments at the hearing, comments can be e-mailed to liz@sandspoint.org or called in during the hearing at +1 (929) 205-6099, Meeting ID: 828 8230 9219 and Passcode: 783566.

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BY THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES INCORPORATED VILLAGE OF SANDS POINT Peter A. Forman, Mayor Liz Gaynor, Village Clerk 12-8-2021-1T#228349-PORT LEGAL NOTICE PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a public hearing of the Zoning Board of Appeals of the Village of Flower Hill will be held on the 15th day of December, 2021 at 7:00 PM, at Village Hall, 1 Bonnie Heights Rd., Manhasset, NY 11030.

Application of Mr. Thomas Schwan, 137 Dogwood Lane, Manhasset, NY 11030 also known as Section 3, Block 141, Lot 37 for a variance of §240-6(N) and §119-2(A) of the Code of the Village of Flower Hill. The applicant seeks to maintain an existing retaining wall where the setback is 0.6’ at the east property line and 0’ and the north and south property lines where the minimum permitted is 4’; and the retaining yard height in the front yard is 3.67’ at its highest point where the maximum permitted is 2’.

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Serafino, 5 Knolls Lane, Manhasset, NY 11030 also known as Section 3, Block 64, Lot 5 for variances of §§1192(B), 240-7(C), 240-7(I)(1) (a) and (b) of the Code of the Village of Flower Hill. The applicant seeks to construct a detached garage, retaining walls, deck, pool with patio, patio with BBQ and pergola where the garage retaining wall height is proposed at 9.17’ at its highest point and the pool patio wall is 8’ at its highest point when the maximum permitted is 4’; the proposed lot coverage is 7,364.71 (16.9%) when the maximum permitted is 6,534 (15%); the garage sky plane exposure is 2.8 on the north side where the maximum permitted is 1; the side yard setback for the garage is 10’ where the minimum required is 20’; the garage height is 22’9” where the maximum permitted is 12’.

Application of Mr. Arthur Isakov, 10 Peachtree Lane, Roslyn, NY 11576 also known as Section 6, Block 5318, Lot 18 for a variance of §2406(N) and (G) and §119-2(A) and (C) of the Code of the Village of Flower Hill. The applicant seeks to maintain an existing driveway with a width of 27.9’, flaring out to 29.3’ where the maximum permitted width of a curb cut is 16’, flaring out to no more than 17.5’; replace an existing retaining wall along the west property line in the same area where the wall is .5’ from the property line and the minimum setback required is 4’; the proposed wall is in a front yard with a height of 5’ where 2’ is the maximum permitted and the side yard height is 5’ at the highest point where 4’ is the maximum permitted.

Persons who may suffer from a disability which would prevent them from participating in said hearing should notify Ronnie Shatzkamer, Village Clerk, at (516) 627-5000 in sufficient time to permit such arrangements to be made to enable such persons to participate in said hearing.

By Order of the Zoning Board of Appeals Michael Sahn, Chairperson Ronnie Shatzkamer, Village Administrator Flower Hill, New York Dated: December 8, 2021 12-8-20212-1T#228503-PORT LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE TO BIDDERS Sealed bids will be received by the Incorporated Village of Sands Point, at the Village Clerk’s Office, at the Village Hall – 26 Tibbits Lane, Sands Point, NY 11050-0109 until 10:30 AM (Local Time) on December 15, 2021 at which time bids duly delivered and submitted will be considered for: GOLF CART CHARGING STATION INSTALLATION THE VILLAGE CLUB OF SANDS POINT

The Bid Documents consisting of the Notice to Bidders, Instructions to Bidders, Bidder’s Experience Statement, Bidder’s Certificates and Affidavits, Bid Bond, Bid Proposal, Form of Contract, Plans and Specifications, and State of New York Department of Labor Prevailing Wage Rate Schedule may be examined at the Village Hall of the Village of Sands Point, 26 Tibbits Lane, Sands Point, NY 11050-0109.

All bidders must obtain a set of the Bid Documents, which may be obtained beginning December 8, 2021, at Village Hall. Alternatively, the Bid Documents are available electronically and may be obtained by emailing the Village Clerk, Elizabeth Gaynor, CMC RMC, at liz@sandspoint.org.

All bidders must comply with the rules and regulations for the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990.

Any bid received after stated closing time will be returned unopened. If bids are sent by mail to the Village Clerk, the bidder shall be responsible for actual delivery of the bid to the Village Clerk before the advertised date and hour for opening of bids. If mail is delayed by the postal service, courier service, or in the internal mail system of the Village of Sands Point beyond the date and hour set for the bid opening, bids thus delayed will not be considered and will be returned unopened.

Information concerning the bid specifications may be obtained by contacting Elizabeth Gaynor at 516-883-3044 or via the email address listed above.

Bidders are required to execute a non-collusive bidding certification required by Section 103-d of the General Municipal Law of the State of New York.

Bidders are also required to comply with the anti-discrimination provisions of Sections 290-301 of the Executive Law of the State of New York.

The attention of Bidders is particularly called to the requirements as to the conditions of employment to be observed and the minimum wage rates to be paid under the contracts.

The Village reserves the right to reject any or all of the Bids received, to advertise for Bids, to abandon the project, to waive any or all informalities in any Bid received and to accept any proposal which the Village determines to be the Lowest Responsible Bid in accordance with Article 5-A of the General Municipal Law.

BY ORDER OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES INC. VILLAGE OF SANDS POINT ELIZABETH GAYNOR VILLAGE CLERK Publication Date: Friday, December 8, 2021 12-8-2021-1T#228524-PORT

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ARIES (March 21-April 19). No matter how well you plan things, it’s when they veer off-plan that things get interesting. This is what makes a creation singular.

The unpredictable error; the striving for an unachievable aim; the childlike hope woven into a failed attempt. This elevates the work to a level of art that is human and relatable.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20). The destination you seek is not a place but a state of mind. Still, there’s a longitude and latitude marker for where it happens. Take an objective look at rooms you inhabit. It will be easier to achieve your aims in the environment that supports them. How can you adapt the environment to better suit you?

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GEMINI (May 21-June 21). The way you live gives something to others without you even realizing it. Following your interests, maintaining a cheerful tone, carrying a mood with you that’s easy to be around, living by your own principles... these behaviors inspire. They are perspective-broadening advice you give without saying a word.

CANCER (June 22-July 22). The unacceptable thing will also be the truest.

Most will overlook, dismiss or reject it on its face. Take a look. It gives you the advantage. Without the drama of being offended or astonished, you can use information to understand the full scope of a situation. You’ll see what’s useful.

You’ll land on solutions.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). Making connections is a little trickier than it looks.

People like to earn acceptance. They will be skeptical when it’s given too readily.

There’s an art to letting people know you like them. It’s easier to do indirectly and through a general tone. Trust is built through a consistent rhythm; it takes time to establish.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). The experience of being you is often packaged in a swirl of thoughts that whisper and shout and are helpful and unhelpful, aligned and chaotic. The week brings experiences to calm and harmonize the swirl.

Being physically active will be a huge contributor to your most enjoyable and productive moments.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21). It’s not fair to make your self-love conditional. You’d prefer yourself to stick with the plan, perform in a particular way and get certain results. But don’t turn on yourself when you fall short. Have compassion as you learn to work with yourself. Surround yourself with teachers, supporters and role models.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19). You’ll be thinking deep thoughts. It all starts with a question. You’ll be curious about how things work and why, who is running it and where it’s going. Most importantly, you’ll want to know your purpose inside it all. One small certainty will send you down a kind of yellow brick road.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18). You’ll label things for the sake of organization.

It works in a notebook, a closet, and in your own internal emotional and social landscape. Putting a label on relationships and feelings will help you process them. Name things carefully with benevolence and specificity. And remember -- labels can change.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). It’s easier to feel like you’re winning when people are actually rooting for you. But when you’ve done a thing enough times to be intimately attuned to exactly the work most needed to succeed, that work becomes its own cheer squad. The feeling of growing masterful is more satisfying than any external reward.

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You choose roles that are clearly for the strong and the brave. People will count on you, an honor that will organize your days. The more heart you put into the plan, the less money you’ll need to pull it off. February brings a twist and new faces.

A relationship born of fantasy will get an exciting real-life test run. March starts a period of training and building. Competition will bring out your best. There will be many games leading up to an epic main event, all of them important.

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VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). There will be no work more noble than the effort to conquer your own reactive impulses. No special equipment or training is needed for this strength training. You become mighty as you move through everyday experiences, compromising, cooperating and persevering as a team.

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LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). There are those who would take advantage of your soft heart. There’s a gift in this. You’ll realize where the edges of your comfort lie.

You’ll get clear about what you’re willing to do for others. You’ll understand where the boundaries should go because you can’t maintain or defend a boundary until you know where it is.

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HBO’s Sex and the City may have become a major television franchise, but its origins come from columnist Candace Bushnell’s 1997 book of the same name. Fast forward to 2021 and the veteran author has taken her latest book, Is There Still Sex In the City? and turned it into a one-woman show currently playing off-Broadway at the Daryl Roth Theatre.

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Her ancestors emigrated from England in 1639.

Father Calvin L. Bushnell was one of the inventors of the Air Cooled Hydrogen Fuel Cell used in the 1960s Apollo space missions.

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What has your experience been like going from being an author to being front and center onstage?

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What inspired this project?

CB: In the last five years or so, I’ve been more drawn a little bit more to theater. I realized that when you sell the rights to your books, you sell your stage rights. I decided to try and keep them. When I sold the rights to the book, Is There Still Sex In the City? to TV, the concession they made was that I was only able to keep the rights to a one-woman show. Then I met our producer Art Johnson, who produces a touring show for David Foster and he said he thought he could do something like that for me. We took it to the Bucks County Playhouse, had a successful run there this past summer and now we’re in New York. It’s very exciting. We’ve done our rehearsal and tech phases,

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Candace Bushnell: It’s not the first time I’ve been on a stage. I’ve done lecture tours and been in front of audiences a lot. I just never put anything together formally as a show.

Even when I was doing lectures, I used to just wing it. I got paid a lot of money to do lectures and I never once wrote anything down. This is written and structured. It’s wonderful because I really feel like I can get my points across.

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Sex & the City was based on a 1993 column wrote for The Observer that ran for two years starting in 1993 and shared the same name.

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we’ve done previews and had opening night on Dec. 7. It’s been a great, oncein-a-lifetime experience.

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Going back to what you said before, what are the points you want to get across with this one-woman show?

CB: I think it’s a very feminist perspective about relationships, women’s roles and it’s also my life story. How I created Sex & the City, how hard I worked to get there and what happened to me after.

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What were some of the challenges you came across with this particular project?

CB: I think the biggest challenges and

surprises were the physical aspects.

That’s the big difference between being a writer and being on stage. I wear rigged-up Spanx. As a writer, yes, I get out of my pajamas, but I’m not putting on Spanx—that’s for sure.

I have to wear rigged-up Spanx with microphones and mic packs. I absolutely have to exercise because you need a lot of energy, bouncing around on that stage. I’ve had to take voice lessons and a little bit of voice training.

I’ve had a little bit of acting/coaching classes. The creative part is still there, it’s just modifying it from one medium to another. It’s just the physical aspect that’s really different.

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In 2009 she wrote a web series, The Broadroom, a comedic series about women over 40 dealing with workplace issues, starring Jennie Garth.

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She dated Condè Nast publishing executive Ron Galotti, who became the inspiration for Sex & the City’s Mr. Big. —Dave Gil de Rubio

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Overall, what does Sex and the City mean to you?

CB: I think it really gave women all over the world a different perspective about their lives. It arrived at a time when women’s lives were expanding beyond being married and having kids.

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