Friday, May 25, 2018
Vol. 94, No.35
FOUNDED 1923
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GCPD brings serial rapist to justice
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LOCALLY OWNED AND EDITED
An afternoon tea PAGES 54-55 n Remembering the fallen PAGE 3
GOING TO THE SEMIFINALS
Library Board considers new security plans BY RIKKI N. MASSAND
Nassau County District Attorney Madeline Singas announced that a Hempstead man has been sentenced to 1-1/3 years to four years in prison and must register as a sex offender for exposing himself to several women in Garden City and possessing more than a thousand images and videos of child pornography. Cameron McDermott, 32, pleaded guilty on March 28 before Judge Robert McDonald to Possessing a Sexual Performance by a Child (an E felony) and Public Lewdness (a B misdemeanor). “This sexual predator terrorized women throughout our region as he accumulated a despicable collection of child pornography at home,” DA Singas said. “Our community is safer with this menace behind bars where he belongs.” DA Singas said from September 2016 to January 2017, the defendant commitSee page 30
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The Girls Lax team advanced to the Nassau County Class B Semi-final with a convincing 17-2 win over visiting MacArthur on May 16th in the quarter final game. Above, The Girls Lacrosse team getting psyched to take on Long Beach in the County semi-final.
The Garden City Public Library Board of Trustees is actively searching for a new library director, a civil service position in the village, with the assistance of consultant George Trepp. In late April and in early May, his services turned to the collaborative efforts to enhance security and fire safety protocols at the public library in Garden City, an initiative that came up to the Village Board of Trustees when the 2018-2019 Library Budget was presented in a March work session in the weeks following the Parkland school shooting tragedy in Florida. Trepp provides expertise from his experience in the City of Long Beach and grooming several Long Island public library directors over the past few decades. At the GCPL Board meeting on May 14 he presented the library board, members of the Friends of GCPL, and a few residents in attendance with a list of Security and Fire Safety Suggestions that GCPL could implement to bolster the safety of an operational, open public building. Trepp worked on the security list after touring the library with Garden City Police Sergeant Bill Grimes and GCPL staffers Joanne Kastelek and Eileen Hawkins on April 24. Chairman of the GCPL Board J. Randolph Colahan made a motion to accept the Security and Fire Safety suggestions on paper from Trepp and Sgt. Grimes, telling fellow board members there were things that can be done right away and there shouldn’t be a delay. Trepp outlined steps the GCPL and its Board of Trustees can take now to have emergency preparedness and protocols covered, hopefully never finding the situation calling for See page 30
As GC Pool's season nears, finances and plans evaluated PAGE 6 Challenger Division: Sports for special needs PAGES64-65