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HOME & DESIGN

Heat Awareness

PSEG Long Island is prepared to meet the increased electrical demand that high temperatures bring, reminding customers to properly protect themselvers during the high heat days of summer.

During extreme heat conditions, customers should: • Stay hydrated by drinking plenty of water.

Avoid drinks with caffeine or alcohol. • Avoid wearing dark colors. Dark colors absorb the sun’s rays. • Never leave children or pets alone in enclosed vehicles. • Avoid overexertion during work or exercise, especially between 11 a.m. and 6 p.m.

Customers on qualifying life-support equipment can register for the PSEG Long Island Critical Care Program to receive enhanced notifications from the company. During severe weather, registered customers will receive additional outreach from PSEG Long Island. Customers who rely on such equipment are responsible for planning ahead to meet medical needs in the event of a power outage. If power is lost, every effort will be made to restore it as soon as possible. Participation in the Critical Care Program does not guarantee priority power restoration. To register, call 1-800-490-0025.

High temperatures can also lead to higher energy use, resulting in higher electric bills. To help save energy and money this summer, PSEG Long Island offers the following tips to customers: • Do not cool an empty house. Set your thermostat higher when you are away, or use a smart thermostat to control the temperature in your home. • Seal holes and cracks around doors and windows with caulk or weather-stripping. • Replace air filters monthly. Dirty filters make your air conditioner work harder. • Operate appliances in the morning or evening when it is cooler outside. • Set refrigerators and freezers to the most efficient temperatures. • Replace old appliances with new, energy efficient ENERGY STAR appliances. • Close blinds and draperies facing the sun to keep out the sun’s heat. • Ceiling fans cool fast and cost less than air conditioning. (In hot weather, set your ceiling fan to spin quickly, counterclockwise to push air downward toward the floor.)

Extreme temperatures and high electric demand can sometimes cause scattered, heat-related outages. Customers can prepare by keeping PSEG Long Island’s contact information handy. During extreme heat, PSEG Long Island will have additional personnel available to address outages safely and as quickly as possible.

Stay connected:

• Download the PSEG Long Island mobile app to report outages and receive information on restoration times, crew locations and more. • Report an outage and receive status updates by texting OUT to PSEGLI (773454).

You can also report your outage through

PSEG Long Island’s app, its website at www.psegliny.com/outages or with your voice using the Amazon Alexa or Google

Assistant app on your smartphone. • To report an outage or downed wire call

PSEG Long Island’s 24-hour Electric

Service number: 800-490-0075. • Follow PSEG Long Island on Facebook and Twitter to report an outage and for updates before, during and after the storm. • Visit PSEG Long Island’s MyPower map (www.mypowermap.psegliny.com) for the latest in outage info, restoration times and crew locations across Long Island.

PSEG Long Island energy efficiency programs provide residential and commercial customers with tools to lower energy use and save money. Visit www.psegliny.com/ savemoney for more information about energy saving programs and tips. —PSEG Long Island

HOMES Recently Sold

This charming Colonial located in the heart of Williston Park at 229 Park Ave. sold on May 24 for $800,000. It is located within the Herricks School District. The existing floor plan provides buyers with a great opportunity to expand and open the home’s layout. The front room, living room, formal dining room, kitchen and screened-in porch are spacious. There are three bedrooms with a full bathroom on the second floor with an enormous walk-up heated attic, which could double as bonus space. Additional features of the home include a new front walkway and a long pavered driveway. The yard is fully fenced, landscaped and has in-ground sprinklers. This home is in a great location, near shopping, restaurants, and Caemmerer Park.

This great and cozy, all-brick, semi-detached Tudor at 491 Horton Hwy. in Williston Park sold on May 6 for $685,000. It is most conveniently located less than 10 minutes away from stores, restaurants, highways and public transportation. The home has charm and has had upgrades completed within the past year. Enjoy a brand new modern kitchen with stainless steel appliances, granite countertops, water filter and a coffee station. The master bathroom is totally renovated with a shower tower. The full attic space runs through the entire length of the house. The fully finished basement has a separate entrance, a full bathroom and two rooms. The home has a smart thermostat, smart locks on all doors with keyless entry and a Tesla charger. The totally renovated garage has been transformed into a heated gym, new roof and new cement. There is an oversized deck in backyard. The driveway can accommodate up to four cars. The home is in excellent condition overall.

Homes shown here represent closed sales, sold by a variety of agencies and are 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.

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‘Senior Prom’ To Unite Senior Cats (8+ Years) And Potential

Senior citizen adopters at newly renovated cat sanctuary

The Patricia H. Ladew Foundation, Inc., a cat rescue, sanctuary and adoption organization, will showcase its innovative Seniors for Seniors program on Saturday, June 11 from noon to 5 p.m. in a clever “Senior Prom” themed event. Staff and volunteers of the Ladew Cat Sanctuary will be on hand to give guided tours of the newly renovated Victorian home in which the cats reside.

Thanks to a very generous donation to the Ladew Seniors for Seniors program from long-time supporter Jordan Salvit, co-founder of KitNipBox, the subscription box for cat toys and treats, the Ladew Foundation will announce at the event that it will be expanding the Seniors for Seniors program. Going forward: • The age for eligible cats will be reduced from 10 years old to eight. • The foundation has partnered with a growing list of veterinarians in Nassau,

Queens, Brooklyn, Westchester and

New Jersey to allow senior adopters to see participating veterinarians closer to home.

To date the program has placed about 40 cats, 10 or more years old, with senior citizen adopters, with the benefit that the foundation will continue to pay all reasonable medical expenses for the cat at the shelter’s clinic in Oyster Bay. Additionally, senior cats may return to the sanctuary if circumstances change in the adopter’s life. This has enabled older community members to enjoy the benefits of pet ownership, which can include improved physical and mental health, and longer lives with greater daily enjoyment, by eliminating the two major barriers to seniors’ adopting pets—potential cost of medical care for the cat and worry about what if something happens to the adopter. On June 11, the Ladew Cat Sactuary will also be offering tours* of the spectacularly redesigned Cat Sanctuary, planned and executed by Square Paws design team and Gerwald Construction, LLC. The major renovation was made possible by a bequest from a generous donor. The redesign of the cats’ living room, kitchen and recreation room features a whimsical retro theme in a nod to Patricia H. Ladew, the Long Island heiress who purchased the home for Oyster Bay’s stray cats back in 1975.

The main event will be outdoors under a tent; masks will be required for all individuals who go indoors.

The renovation has enhanced the home for the cats’ enjoyment and comfort while also creating a fun environment for people to come, meet up to 100 cats, and adopt. It includes cat-friendly furniture, fun and sustainable cat towers that are easy to clean with replaceable parts, eliminating the need to replace them over the months and years of use.

The Seniors for Seniors “Senior Prom” event will take place on the Patricia H. Ladew Foundation’s extraordinary property in Oyster Bay. Bequeathed to the Foundation by its namesake and founder, the sanctuary consists of a private house in downtown Oyster Bay with a yard, spectacular enclosed cat-friendly patio, and on-site medical clinic. A party atmosphere at “Senior Prom” will allow the Foundation’s senior cats to flirt with potential new life mates, as the senior adults get to visit with and get to know the cats and their unique personalities.

Cats like Simba are among the residents up for adoption at the Ladew Cat Sanctuary’s will be on hand to give guided tours of the newly renovated Victorian home in which felines like him reside.

(Photo courtesy of Christina Dieguez)

About The Foundation

The Patricia H. Ladew Foundation provides sanctuary, medical treatment and adoption services to cats who have landed on euthanasia lists in municipal shelters because their owners died or abandoned them, cats who were badly injured, and cats with acute and chronic health problems.

The foundation’s on-site veterinarian and staff maintain a homelike environment for the cats, and provide medical care and affection, making the cats adoption-ready once the intake process is complete. The foundation operates many innovative programs to raise funds and find adoptive homes for the cats in its care.

Programs include Sponsor a Cat for people who cannot adopt, the Have a Heart Fund to provide medical care for cats with cardiac problems, an Emergency Fund, the Sandra Atlas Bass New Hope Fund which directly supports rescue of cats on euthanasia lists and/or needing medical attention at municipal shelters, memorial gifts, special occasion cards and more.

For more information, contact Dr. Susan Whittred, executive medical director of the Patricia H. Ladew Foundation, Inc. and Ladew Cat Sanctuary at info@theladewcatsanctuary.org, 516-922-2287 or cell 917-974-3416.

—Submitted by the Ladew Cat Sanctuary

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THIS WEEK’S BIRTHDAYS

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South dealer. North-South vulnerable.

NORTH

♠ Q 9 8 5 ♥ A 7 4 ♦ Q J 9 8 ♣K 2

WEST EAST

♠ K 4 2 ♠ 7 6 ♥ 10 6 3 2 ♥ J 8 ♦ 10 3 ♦ A 7 5 2 ♣A 9 6 5 ♣J 8 7 4 3

SOUTH

♠ A J 10 3 ♥ K Q 9 5 ♦ K 6 4 ♣Q 10 The bidding:

South West North East

1 NT Pass 2 ♣ Pass 2 ♥ Pass 3 NT Pass 4 ♠ Opening lead — ten of diamonds.

You can’t see declarer’s cards when you’re a defender, but it is often possible to visualize them almost as if they were faceup on the table. The relevant inferences may be drawn from either the bidding or the play, but usually it is necessary to examine both of these areas.

Consider this case where East had to make a crucial decision at trick one. West led the ten of diamonds, on which declarer played dummy’s jack, and East had to decide whether the diamond lead was a singleton or a doubleton.

If East decides that the ten is a singleton, he should take the jack with the ace and return a diamond for West to ruff. If East had done this in the actual deal, South would have made the contract easily, losing only a spade, a diamond and a club.

But East donned his thinking cap and decided that the lead was almost surely a doubleton. Accordingly, he signaled with the seven of diamonds instead of taking the ace. When West later gained the lead with the king of trump, he returned a diamond to East’s ace and ruffed the diamond return to put the contract down one.

East knew from the bidding that declarer had four spades and four hearts. (North’s two-club bid was Stayman, asking South to bid a four-card major suit if he had one, and South had bid both.) It followed that South could not have four diamonds, since that would mean he had opened one notrump with a singleton club.

West’s lead therefore had to be a doubleton, and the best chance of stopping the contract was to proceed on the assumption that West could gain the lead before all the trumps were drawn and could then secure his diamond ruff.