The Garden City News (6/12/20)

END OF AN ERA Village Board to allow outdoor dining

Trustees consider issues for pool season (if there is one)

BY RIKKI MASSAND

If the coronavirus pandemic continues to slow in New York State, the state may enter into  Phase IV of the economic and social reopening protocols outlined by New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo by mid-July.

If that happens and all criteria are met, Village Superintendent of Recreation and Parks Paul Blake advised the Board last week that the

Garden City Pool could open for summer -- with a limited capacity and new safety and distancing measures in effect -- on the weekend of Saturday, July 11 and Sunday, July 12.

The Board of Trustees’ meeting via Zoom on Thursday, June 4, provided much insight into the decision-making process involved for village officials, only once the Nassau County Department of Health and New York State guidelines

provide enough structure for the village to plan operation of the pool facility, and with adequate preparations and fewer patrons than any regular summer.

Village Auditor Courtney Rosenblatt said she and Blake had a discussion on potential pool season hours prior to the Board meeting. Blake told the Board five

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Thursday-Sundays

BY RIKKI MASSAND

The Village Board of Trustees recently hosted three discussions on the potential to close 7th Street for outdoor dining this summer, during its meetings May 21 and June 4 held over Zoom and this week, in-person at the St. Paul’s Fieldhouse. Finally on June 9 a consensus was reached for approving the outdoor dining plan, and related closure of all of 7th Street (except for entrance ways of the apartment residents at its west end), hopefully later in June. The village confirms that an official starting date “is to be determined” pending the filing and approval of an application for Municipal Extension with the New York State Liquor Authority.

As approved the main local shopping hub and ‘restaurant row’ of Garden City will be open for outdoor, on-street dining and closed to vehicular traffic on Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays for dinner hours -- 5 p.m. to 10 p.m. The street closure will need to begin at 3 p.m. on those four days of the week, as to allow proper time for village employees and restaurant staff to have the areas prepared with secured barricades, social distancing measures and more precautions.

The period for the street closure and initial outdoor dining, with distancing between tables, is formalized for a 12-week period this summer, through Labor Day weekend (September 5-6-7). The Board of Trustees will revisit the outdoor dining operations and protocols at its Thursday, July 16 meeting.

As the plan exists now for 7th Street, the Garden City Police Department will block off the street from Franklin Avenue all the way to Hilton Avenue as it had in prior years for the summer’s Friday Night Promenades.  Police aide vehicles will be stationed at the Hilton Avenue/7th Street intersection and the Franklin Avenue/7th Street intersection similar to the Promenades.

The village Department of Public Works will coordinate the use of pails as temporary barricades that can be moved quickly if necessary.

A long debate took place on the timing of the street closures during the Board’s Tuesday, June 9 meeting and Village Administrator Ralph V. Suozzi explained that there could be adjustments to precisely when the initial stages of the 7th Street closure takes place, as afternoons are quieter and there are “lunch crowds” for certain businesses, right now with operations for takeaway and delivery-only.

“The Board and the Garden City Chamber of Commerce talked about

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Flexible thinking

Kudos to the Village Board for working with the business community to allow outdoor dining four days a week in various locations around town. This will give a much needed boost to local restaurants which can now only provide takeout and delivery service.

At first blush we thought this was a great idea, but there were several issues that arose during consideration that needed to be addressed.

The Fire Department needed to be able to access the street quickly in case of emergency. Several merchants felt that the loss of on-street parking would be detrimental. The loss of handicapped accessible spaces was also an issue. However, the Board, to its credit, worked on each of these issues and came up with solutions that satisfied

all of the concerns. Nice work, and we think this will really be a hit with both businesses and diners.

Just as the outdoor dining seemed at first to be a terrific idea, the distribution of new large green recycling containers has been praised by many residents. However, one unforeseen issue with them is that some older folks, and people with disabilities, may have trouble trundling the big cans down to the curb each week. One reader who called said that she would like to continue to recycle, but won’t be able to because she can’t handle the new cans.

Maybe a little of that flexible thinking could be used here too, and residents who can’t manage the big cans could use smaller ones of their own?

Vote fraught with problems

To the Editor

I am grateful that the governor extended the school vote till next week, as I never received my absentee ballot in the mail.

At the School Administration Office, I was told that absentee ballots had to be mailed and could not be given out by hand.

I am not alone.  It seems the whole process is fraught with problems.

Where is my ballot? Lost in the mail? Delivered to wrong house? Do the powers that be check the returned ballot is legitimate? Are the signatures checked? Are there enough personnel to review a completed ballot?  Enough time? And so forth.

No. I feel absentee ballots on a mass scale are not a good choice and should not be considered as a permanent exercise.

Cynthia Brown Uncaring Village Board

To the Editor:

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Like many of the residents in the Northern Estates section I am frustrated with the lack of support we are getting from our Village Officials in regards to the Third Track Disaster. For  many months the residents of Kensington, Brixton, and Kilburn Roads and streets west of us  have gone through loud construction noise, including at night. This of course has kept a good number of our young children up at night. The beautiful landscaping at the end of our streets was completely ripped out including some on Village Property. Our streets have been badly damaged by the large trucks going back and forth to the tracks. The field between Brixton and Kilburn has been completely destroyed. Most recently as I think most of the Village knows, 93 foot high poles were constructed along Main Ave. and then they continued from Nassau Blvd. East to Whitehall Road.

The Mayor and the Trustee’s did nothing about any of this. Apparently

one of our Trustees was able to convince the MTA to reimburse the Village for $1.6 million out of the Third Track Contingent Fund. That $1.6 million will be used to do parking lot renovation on the under utilized parking lot at the Nassau Blvd. Train Station.

Now you might ask, why would our Trustees want to take money out of the Third Track Fund for a project that has nothing to do with the Third Track Construction? The answer is because paving the Train Station has been a pet project of former mayor and current trustee Brian Daughney. Could it be that Brian Daughney and Trustee  Colleen Foley live half a block from the train station? This is an outage! The rest of the Board doesn’t  seem to care to stand up for  the residents most effected by the third track construction.

My next door neighbor is  a retired industrial engineer who worked for the LIRR for 35 years. He knows quite a bit about these projects. He’s asked to see the plans of what the LIRR and Third Track Construction Co.  plan to do with the ripped out  landscaping. It’s been 8 months since he asked and he’s gotten nothing.

The Monster Poles were put in by PSEG and Third Track Construction in violation of their agreement with the Village. They are horrible to look at and have caused undue stress for hundreds of Residents. The Mayor and Trustees again have done nothing and apparently don’t intend to.

This is another good example of why the whole Village at one time should be able to vote for several candidates for mayor and trustees.

Bruce Chester

Misleading information from Village

To the Editor:

Compounding their failure to take any steps to stop the transformation of the Merillon Avenue Station from a sleepy stop en route to Jamaica to a faux Grand Central without the restaurants but with a massive magnetic field, the

Outdoor dining: Plans for 7th Street, NHP Road & Franklin Ave.

BY RIKKI MASSAND

The official start date for outdoor dining in the Village of Garden City, for now, is “to be determined” pending the filing and approval of an application for Municipal Extension with the New York State Liquor Authority. But following the village trustees’ decision on Tuesday, June 9, to move forward with the process for permitting outdoor dining, ‘al fresco’ plans will be coordinated by individual restaurants in up to four unique areas of the village. Aside from the variety of food choices on 7th Street, there’s outdoor dining made possible behind several Franklin Avenue-facing restaurants and in front of two New Hyde Park Road establishments.

Dennis Donnelly, executive director of the Garden City Chamber of Commerce, attended the Board’s June 9  meeting at the St. Paul’s Fieldhouse, as did Chamber 1st Vice President Sean Martens and John Wilton of Garden City Properties Inc., chair of the Chamber's Merchants/Professionals Retailers group.

Donnelly spoke with the News a day after the Board’s approval for outdoor dining in evening hours, 5 to 10 p.m. Thursdays through Sundays. He said the Board’s meeting was filled with good dialogue, including a legal briefing by Village Attorney Peter Bee and

his associate on any potential liability issues and details on filings for the New York State Liquor Authority, as well as how physical distancing and limits of table size (no more than 10 persons) would impact this particular piece of planning.

Parking spaces in Village Parking Field 8 (west of Franklin Ave.), including a few handicapped spaces, would be converted into outdoor seating areas for Novitá (860 Franklin) and Waterzooi (850 Franklin) just to the north of CVS. Donnelly advised that this will only take up the spaces directly behind those restaurants and the tables/chairs can only be laid out along “the width of the two restaurants.”

He explains that restaurants will determine the total number of tables or outdoor seating spaces within their designated outdoor area, regulated space not crossing into another property. The decisions start with whether that can be several tables for 2 or 4, just a few tables (for groups of 6 to 10) or a mix with six feet between each table, on all sides.

As part of the trustees’ decision Tuesday, each restaurant that will participate in outdoor dining during this phase of reopenings is responsible for purchasing or renting their own tables, chairs, umbrellas and any other usable furniture that they can store, set up

at appropriate times, clean thoroughly and utilize consistently.

Donnelly explains that Revel restaurant (835 Franklin Avenue) would have a setup of tables and chairs outside its back entrance along Kellum Lane, and Revel has for several years obtained a permit from the village for outdoor dining at its Franklin Avenue frontage. Asian Moon will have tables and chairs set up behind its establishment, next to New York Sports Club.

“The reason for the Kellum Lane closure would be that Asian Moon and Revel do not have a back area due to the narrow sidewalk at the buildings’ rear, to the parking lot. There would not be any tables/chairs set up on Kellum Lane between Stewart Avenue and the former (first-floor) location of H.L. Gross Jewelers because there are no restaurants there,” he said.

One block north on Franklin Avenue, Calogero’s (919 Franklin) already has an outdoor dining area, and the space behind their establishment did not need to be addressed with the street or parking space closures in the adjacent areas for other restaurants on Franklin.

For New Hyde Park Road (near Saint Anne’s Church and School, just south of Dartmouth Street) Repeal pub and restaurant at 55 New Hyde Park Road and the remodeled, renamed Enzo’s

Pizza of Garden City (52 New Hyde Park Road) will have tables and chairs set out directly in front of their storefronts on the rather wide sidewalk.

A consideration for the restaurateurs to evaluate is their sales, based on how “tables with a larger group of family tend to linger for a longer period of time, socially” he said. That could be either good or bad depending on what is purchased.

“For many restaurants, you would get table turnover for tables of 2 or for 4 but you may not get enough turnover on a table seating 10,” Donnelly said.

Former Western Property Owners’ Association president, former chairman of the Garden City Mobility Impaired Committee and former Wilmington, Delaware city councilman Gerry Kelly initially had several concerns about what was proposed just over a week ago, to close 7th Street for the duration of the summer, through September and ending October 1, for all vehicular traffic 24 hours a day and 7 days per week. Kelly, represented by pro bono attorneys of law firm Covington & Burling, was successful in summer 2019 with a favorable agreement validated in federal court for his lawsuit over the village’s previous decision to exclude on-street handicapped parking on 7th Street. He

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Residents demand village take action

BY RIKKI MASSAND

Residents continue to demand action from their village government to address what they see as a violation of municipal accord with the Long Island Rail Road’s expansion project -- the Third Track stretch through Garden City -and the most egregious construction of 93-foot-tall steel utility poles (PSEG service) along the LIRR property.

The Village Board of Trustees, during its regular meeting held on Zoom Thursday, June 4, approved $25,000 towards retaining the services of a familiar firm -- Madison Avenuebased Beveridge & Diamond P.C., “for legal services in connection with the Village’s relationship to the MTA/LIRR for certain Third Track issues.” In order to allocate the funds for the firm’s retainer agreement, the Board approved a budget transfer of $25,000 from the village Contingent account to Litigation.

With a number of strong statements delivered during the Board’s meeting regarding the contract for legal services and what else the village is or is not doing about this with the MTA/ LIRR, residents remain distressed over the ‘monster poles’ and lack of a firm position from the Board in trying to see the poles removed and put up instead on the north side of the LIRR tracks,

as was originally proposed a few years ago, or potentially burying the PSEG transmission lines underground. Board members stated that the move to hire Beveridge & Diamond takes the first critical step towards proper process for fighting the issue of the unsightly, potentially hazardous poles in residential areas of the village.

Forty months ago, on May 5, 2017 in the pages of The Garden City News, former Village Trustee and Mayor Nicholas Episcopia detailed the village’s initial hire of Beveridge & Diamond and Massachusetts-based environmental engineering firm Vertex to review the LIRR Third Track project’s 1,000-page Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS).

John Cantwell of Kilburn Road asked if the retainer would be specifically used to challenge the location/installations of the tall poles in the Estates section. Village Attorney Peter Bee explains that the first order of business for Beveridge & Diamond is investigating “what has happened, and to the report to the Village Board what legal options, if any, exist for the village to take.” He noted that once this occurs the Board could have the choice of any legal options to pursue against the MTA/ LIRR, although the poles are PSEG Long Island utility conveyors.

Chris Kelly of Kilburn Road spoke about the overarching issues behind a Change.org petition started by Estates’ resident Matt Hess, which had gained over 1200 signatures by the time of the June 5 Board meeting (detailed in the News last week). Leslie Mesnick, MTA Community Outreach Manager for the LIRR Expansion Project, told several residents and the Village Board at their May 21 meeting that MTA officials had also seen the petition and the points raised therein.

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“It’s my opinion and that of many of my neighbors that the looming presence of those new utility poles has severely damaged our Garden City neighborhood near the Merillon Avenue train station. The damage will be permanent unless the Board takes action -- the Village entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the LIRR and under the section titled ‘Utilities’ unfortunately the Village only required the railroad to bury such utilities where the LIRR determined it to be feasible. The railroad, as one would expect, decided that burying the utility lines was not feasible and two months ago they started putting up these monster poles -- this Board’s Third Track Committee sent a letter to the LIRR

complaining about five 120-foot-high utility poles between Nassau Boulevard and Weyford Terrace. The letter advised that they should not install any other poles on the south side (Garden City side) of the main line. The committee claimed that placement of these poles was in bad faith and a breach of the memorandum, nevertheless the LIRR continued with building the monster poles and the Village did nothing,” Kelly told the trustees last Thursday.

The clause he refers to in the MOU states: “the RFP will recognize the preference of the Village not to have utilities mounted on poles alongside the LIRR right of way. The RFP will require the Design-Builder to bury such utilities where determined by LIRR to be feasible, based on consideration of cost, safety, operational need and the consent of the owner(s) of such utilities. LIRR will consult with the Village on this subject prior to making a final determination.”

He asked why two months have gone by since the poles were installed in late March, without an environmental impact study and without notice provided to nearby homeowners.

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Implications for 555 Stewart Avenue project discussed

BY RIKKI MASSAND

At a special Board of Trustees’ meeting on Zoom held on Thursday, May 28, the trustees voted for the Village of Garden City to discontinue its participation in the Nassau County urban consortium.

Mayor Theresa Trouvé introduced attorney Ariel E. Ronneberger, partner with law firm Cullen and Dykman LLP on the matter. She explained the background of why Garden City was part of the consortium for several years until this year and the Board’s decision. On May 4, 2020 the Village received a letter from Nassau County advising of its opportunity to terminate participation in an existing cooperation agreement.

“The final federal court judgement in the MHANY management/ ACORN litigation against the Village of Garden City required the Village to join the Nassau County consortium if Nassau County did not sell the Social Services building site within a specified period of time. The County did not sell the Social Services site and in accordance with the final judgement the Village entered into a cooperation agreement with Nassau County to join the consortium, on or about April 16. 2015 and the Village’s official membership in the consortium began September 1, 2016. The federal judgement required the village’s participation in the consortium in good faith for consortium activities,” Ronneberger said.

Requirements set forth upon Garden City joining the consortium were originally set to expire on April 22, 2019, but in 2016 the court extended that timeline until September 1, 2020. The next qualification period of the County consortium begins October 1, 2020 for a threeyear period but the Village has opted out with the Board’s vote to terminate.

The vote was unanimous at 8 to 0 with a few of the trustees gathered at Village Hall for the virtual meeting, and others signing in on Zoom.

“If the Board decides to terminate the cooperation agreement the Village still remains a member of the consortium through September 30, 2020, beyond the requirements of the MHANY federal court judgement. The letter from Nassau County as well as the relevant notice from the Office of Housing and Urban Development requires the Village to notify Nassau County of its intent in writing by June 7, 2020,” Ronneberger explained before the Board’s vote.

Attorney A. Tom Levin, the contracted special zoning counsel to the Village of Garden City from local firm Meyer, Suozzi, English & Klein P.C. participated in the May 28 Zoom Board

of Trustees’ meeting. The main discussion came from concerns raised and multiple questions by the Village’s Fair Housing Compliance Officer, Anthony M. LaPinta, as he suggested relevancy for the 555 Stewart Avenue parcel and project for 150 apartments, 10% of which (15 units) would be set aside as affordable housing.

“We’re well aware of Garden City’s circumstances here having lived through the impacts of the case and judgement for close to five years now. Your determination that the judgement requirements extend to this September is accurate. One of my concerns is the viable 555 Stewart Avenue project going on in the village, and a second project that is not as far towards the approval process as that is. Being that the Village of Garden City is currently a member municipality in the consortium there would be certain funding available for that (555 Stewart Avenue) project.

If the village terminates its participation in the consortium in September, the available funds for that project and any other proposed project would not be available -- Garden City’s participation in the County consortium would be able to yield additional funding for the project,” LaPinta said.

He spoke about the original developer’s financial issues prior to Southern Land Company taking over the parcel and project, noting a setback since the timing of the early 2018 change of hands.

“There is a history of financial problems with that project but fair to say it is a project that is very important to everybody because it would be the first and only new development in your jurisdiction that would include affordable housing pursuant to the MHANY judgement and the village’s subsequent Fair Housing Law,” LaPinta informed the trustees prior to their May 28 vote. He added that he hoped Garden City would have extended its participation in the Nassau County consortium far beyond this September “because of at least one very good reason to do so with available funding for the 555 Stewart Avenue and other projects.’

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BY RIKKI MASSAND

The Village of Garden City municipal operations continue at Village Hall on Stewart Avenue are reopening to the public, with precautions due to the coronavirus pandemic.

To prepare for a smooth and safe transition from employees mainly working remotely to operations at Village Hall and in departmental offices/settings, last Thursday the Board of Trustees approved a resolution declaring an "emergency" suspension of competitive bidding, and simultaneously the Board approved a $48,000 purchase of 150,000 3-Ply Masks from Morristown, New Jersey-based vendor Global Geeks, Inc. The agenda item noted that telephone solicitations of other vendors of these masks “indicated that alternative pricing would be significantly higher... and staff engaged in a due diligence investigation of Global Geeks so as to be satisfied with its reputation and reliability.”

At the Board’s June 4 meeting, Village Auditor Courtney Rosenblatt explained that this supply of 150,000

masks is anticipated to last the village departments excluding police and fire departments, which have their own supplies, through at least the end of 2020, “with ample supply to make sure everybody is safe when they’re visiting village facilities.” The supply will also be distributed to village residents and others who are frequently in village facilities -- as Rosenblatt said that would include to the Recreation and Parks department offices and facilities as well as to the Garden City Public Library. The 3-ply masks, bought for 32 cents apiece with this village purchase, are regular (disposable) surgical masks and not the more protective and tight-fitting N95 face masks.

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$1,499,000 | 3 BR, 2 BA, 2-Half BA | Web# 3218425

Laura Mulligan: M 516.729.6885

Norma Quigley: M 516.236.7996

Open House Sunday 6/14, 2:00-4:00pm

Garden City | 147 Chestnut Street

$949,000 | 4 BR, 3.5 BA | Web# 3202891

Michelle McArdle: M 516.306.4134

Garden City South | 206 Dorchester Road

$675,000 | 3 BR, 2 BA | Web# 3208665

Katarzyna Kamer: M 917.548.7106

The Biden Tax Proposals

BY BOB MORGAN, JR.

Maybe it's time for a column substantially unrelated to the coronavirus or the protests in the wake of George Floyd's sad death. After all, whoever is elected President this fall will have to deal with many problems and issues unrelated to the virus and racial inequality.

One key difference between the presumptive party nominees, President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden, is the issue of taxes. Here is a brief review of Mr. Biden's proposals and what they may mean. Of course, for any of this to happen, Mr. Biden would have to be elected President and his party would have to control the Senate, which would require a net gain of at least three seats.

In essence, Mr. Biden promises to raise $3.4 trillion in new tax revenue by repealing President Trump's 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act and adding a number of additional levies.

The top tax rate would rise from 36 percent to 39.6 percent, although in a break for high tax states like New York and California, the state and local tax deduct would be restored. The top corporate rate would rise from 21 percent to 28 percent and there would be a minimum 15 percent levy on large corporations. There will also be an effective limitation on the value of deductions (including for state and local taxes) to 28 percent from 37 percent.

Perhaps the most significant tax proposal of Mr. Biden relates to the capital gains tax, which is levied when a capital asset like stock or real property is sold after a required holding period. His proposal would increase the capital gains maximum tax from 21% to 39.6% for taxpayers earning more than $1 million in addition to an existing 4 percent surcharge on high earners. He also proposes to eliminate the carryover basis, the provision which raises at a taxpayer's death the basis (essentially the deemed purchase for tax purposes) of the taxpayer's property to the fair market value of the property. To use an example, if a taxpayer

has stock or real property which cost $500,000 and the property is worth $1 million at the taxpayers death, and is later sold for $1.5 million, under carryover basis rules the tax is calculated on a gain of $500,000. Under Mr. Biden's proposal the taxable gain would be $1 million.

There are numerous questions associated with the Biden plan. For example the $1 million threshold on income subject to capital gains tax sounds like a large amount, unless the value of the sold asset is included in the income amount. Take the example of a couple with $ 80,000 in wage income selling a house that cost them $200,000 30 years ago for $1.2 million. Is this couple really required to be taxed at 38.6 percent? Even if you factor in the one-time $500,000 principal residence exclusion, it does not take an affluent lifestyle to be caught up with the maximum tax. Also, it is assumed, but not certain, that the carryover basis elimination will not require that property be deemed sold at death for tax purposes.

But beyond the questions as to details in the program are overall policy issues. At least before the pandemic, the American economy was roaring along with record low unemployment and record high stock prices. Republicans are certainly going to argue that the Biden tax plan will make the country revert to the lackluster economic performance of the Obama-Biden era.

Of course, there might be more to be said for Mr. Biden's tax increases if the revenues were used to cut budget deficits, which already are high and have been greatly increased by emergency pandemic spending. However, Mr. Biden reportedly plans to spend 1.7 trillion on a slimmed down Green New Deal and an additional $750 billion for both health care and education, so any budgetary impact will be slight.

Like it or not, the Biden tax plan deserves to be debated, sooner rather than later.

First Showing

22 Tremont Street

Open House By Appointment

Saturday 2-4PM & Sunday 12-2PM

Built in 1931, this classic English Tudor was designed by renown architect Olive Tjaden. Tjaden designed over 400 homes in Garden City between 1925 and 1945. She was best known for her beautiful tudors featuring grand foyers, sweeping staircases and leaded glass windows.

This home has been owned and meticulously maintained by the same family for over 75 years. The beautifully landscaped property is 125 x75 and features two patios and a 2 car detached garage. The roof, windows and two split central air conditioning units are newer.

First Floor: large entry foyer, living room with fireplace, formal dining room, kitchen, breakfast room, den and powder room.

Second Floor: master bedroom and bath, three additional bedrooms and a hall full bath.

Third Floor: bedroom, full bath (original maids quarters), cedar closet

Offered at $899,000

Please call listing agent Chris Connors (516) 426-8890 or Jayne McGratty (516) 286-2831 to schedule an appointment. Limited appointments available.

Chris Connors

516.426.8890 cconnors@coachrealtors.com

Jayne McGratty Armstrong

MODERN

LUXURY CONDO IN THE HEART OF GARDEN CITY! 222 7th Street, Garden City, Apartment 2E

Manhattan meets Garden City!

Here’s your chance to own a one of a kind, truly unique Condo that has it all.

Recently renovated with new windows, this versatile Seventh Street Condo is located in the heart of Garden City just steps from upscale restaurants, bars and shops. Only a 5-minute walk to the Garden City LIRR for commuters. This NYC styled apartment has gone through a complete renovation this year. The living room features an exquisite exposed brick wall, French molding and modern track lighting. The office area can be easily converted into a 2nd bedroom or dining room. Its Spa inspired contemporary bathroom features a huge shower, modern lighting and marble throughout.

The cozy kitchen boasts new Whirlpool Stainless Steel appliances (gas stove, a double door fridge, microwave and dishwasher). It also has a modern Chandelier, subway tile backsplash and concrete veneer countertop. The over-sized bedroom has two closets and receives a ton of natural light.

To add to the lure of this apartment, the building’s common area was recently renovated, has a private Courtyard and an owner-owned unit for additional secured storage in the basement (6x6x7). The first floor has a laundry room for convenience. There is also unlimited parking located in the back of the property.

This is a perfect home for someone who wants to enjoy the convenience of being centrally located in the heart of Garden City while enjoying a uniquely designed condo!

Priced At $589,000

For more information contact Tom: (516) 410-5869

THE OFFICE CAT

Demonstrations

Garden City Police provided traffic safety support for rallies and marches in and around Garden City every day during the June 3rd through June 9th period. Marches and rallies were held on Franklin Avenue, Old Country Road, Washington Avenue, Commercial Avenue and Eleventh and Twelfth Streets. In addition, on June 6th officers were assigned to monitor a planned demonstration at Roosevelt Field Mall. The events were part of the nationwide protests in the wake of the killing of George Floyd by a Minneapolis Police Department officer.

Suspended license

On Officers investigated a two-vehicle accident on 11th Street on June 3rd. One of the operators, a 24 yearold Elmont man, was charged with driving with a suspended license. There were no reported injuries.

Hot and not cold

Garden City Police and Firefighters responded to a Sunset Lane residence for an outdoor air conditioning unit fire on June 4th.

Vehicles entered

A wallet was reported stolen from a vehicle parked on Chestnut Street. Other vehicles in the area were rummaged through with no loss reported.

Excessive speed

A 39-year-old motorist was charged with driving on Clinton Road with a suspended license and excessive speed on June 4th

Bad week for A/C units

While on patrol on 10th Street at 6:25 AM on June 5th, a Garden City Police officer observed flames from an outdoor air-conditioning unit going up the side of a house. He evacuated the residents. The Fire Department responded and extinguished the fire.

Transformer fire

Garden City Police and Firefighters responded to First Street for an electrical transformer fire on June 5th.

Elevator rescue

Garden City Police and Firefighters rescued two persons stuck in an elevator inside a Stewart Avenue apartment complex on June 6th.

Domestic incident

Upon investigation of a domestic incident on June 6th, Garden City Detectives arrested a 38 year-old Syosset man for alleged violation of a court order to refrain from specific actions. He was charged with criminal contempt.

Juvenile arrest

Upon investigation of a disturbance in Garden City Plaza on June 6th, police arrested a 17 year-old juvenile on an outstanding New York State Family Services warrant.

Stolen car recovered

On June 8th Garden City Police investigated a report of a stolen vehicle from a Prospect Avenue residence. Upon responding to a report of a suspicious vehicle in New Hyde Park which matched the description of the vehicle, Garden City Police confirmed that it was the the missing vehicle. A 32 year-old New Hyde Park man was arrested and charged with grand larceny.

Truck violations

A Glen Cove landscaping company was charged with the operation of a truck on Clinton Road with a revoked registration on June 8th as well as numerous equipment violations.

Looking for laser

On June 9th the FAA reported a green laser light illuminated the cabin of an airliner flying over South Avenue. Officers responded to the area to investigate the origin of the laser. The investigation is ongoing.

DWI arrest

As a result of a traffic stop investigation on Rockaway Avenue, Garden City Police arrested a 23 year-old Mineola man for DWI, excessive speed, passing a red light, improper turn, and unlicensed operation.

RECENT REAL ESTATE SALES IN GARDEN CITY

The information about the homes and the photos were obtained through the Multiple Listing Services of Long Island. The homes presented were selected based solely on the fact that they were recently sold.

Sold price: $1,481,000

Date: 05/19/2020

4 bedrooms, 2 full/1 half baths

Style: Dutch Colonial

Total taxes: $24,565

Lot Size: .18 acres

MLS number: 3202418

Broker: Coach Realtors Fennessy Associates

Charming, oversized Dutch Colonial in the heart of the Estates Section. 4

Spacious bedrooms on 2nd floor with 2 full updated baths. Beautiful eatin-kitchen with luxury appliances & large island adjoins family room with dramatic stone fireplace and cathedral ceiling. Ideally located in close proximity to both LIRR train lines and GCHS. Private yard space with awninged patio area.

Sold Price: $1,550,000

Date: 05/21/2020

6 bedrooms, 3 full / 1 half baths

Style: Colonial Total taxes: $26,070

Lot Size: 100 x 133

MLS number: 3202650

Broker: Coach Realtors Fennessy Associates

This beautiful Colonial situated on one of the most desired streets to live in the Estates Section of town offers an abundance of living & entertaining areas. Features spacious LR w/ fp, elegant FDR, new Eik w/radiant & sun drenched FR w/fp. Second boasts Mbr suite w/newer bath/radiant & three additional nicely sized Brs w/ full bath. Third offers 2 Brs, full bath & storage & bsmt rec rm, office & sauna. Nice private yard with deck & patio - close to LIRR station.

SHOWN BY APPOINTMENT ONLY 79 BRIXTON ROAD, GARDEN CITY

Stately and spectacular, this breathtaking classic house is situated on impeccably maintained lush property. This home retains much of its original charm, yet provides modern state-of-the -art living with every amenity.

There are 3 bedrooms with 2 full bathrooms plus two half bathrooms. Gourmet eat -in chef’s kitchen with professional grade appliances. Living room with gas fireplace, den, sunroom, and entertainment room.

This property has a manicured backyard for enjoyment and entertaining. It needs to be seen to be truly appreciated, an absolute showplace with attention to the exquisite architectural details throughout. 80x100 property with taxes of $20,315. Offered at $1,499,000

LAURA MULLIGAN

Licensed Real Estate Salesperson

Mobile: 516.729.6885

Laura.Mulligan@elliman.com

NORMA QUIGLEY

Licensed Real Estate Salesperson

Mobile: 516.236.7996

Norma.Quigley@elliman.com

130 Seventh Street, Garden City

Vinny Muldoon Owner and Garden City Resident

Good news! On Wednesday, June 10th, we began to move closer toward complete reopening. We were cleared to open many of our restaurants on an outdoor dining basis. This will involve closing Seventh Street and placing tables out in front and down into the street for our restaurants there, tables in the back of sections of Franklin Avenue east and west, New Hyde Park Road, even Kellum Place. At a special meeting of the Village Board I and the Trustees voted unanimously on a contingent plan to set the wheels in motion. Outdoor dining will take place Thursday through Sunday. You will receive all the details well in advance. Let's not forget social distancing will be followed along with masks when it makes sense.

The only acceptable materials allowed in the green recycling bins are certain plastic, glass, tin and aluminum. Specifically, the following items, which must be cleaned and washed, can be placed in the green bin:

• Plastics #1 (Water Bottles, Clamshells)

•Plastics #2 (Laundry Detergent, Bleach Containers, Clear Milk Jugs)

• Tin Cans

• Aluminum (Cans, Foils, Pans)

• Glass Bottles and Jars only

Other numbered plastics #3-#7 which are commonly found in yogurt containers, plastic cups, plastic flower pots, etc. should not be placed with recycling neither should aseptic packaging used in milk and juice boxes.

If you don’t feel well, contact your doctor immediately. If you need immediate medical assistance, call 911. We have a Village email: mayor@ gardencityny.net and a telephone number: 516-465-4000. Let us know if we can help you. Should you wish to share your thoughts with me, you can reach me directly at 516-650-8847. Please be well and be safe.

The people of Garden City are strong, and we will come through all of this stronger than we ever were before. All of you are in my thoughts.

Important Recycling Changes

In response to changes in global recycling markets, our recyclers have informed us of changes in what they will accept from the Village.

Paper must be tied and bundled or put in paper bags and placed curbside next to the recycling bins. Cardboard should be bundled and placed out on Wednesdays with Rubbish or dropped off at the Village Yard for recycling.

Non-Paper Recycling should not be placed in ANY type of bag. If it is, it will not be collected. Granted, this previously was acceptable, but it is no longer being accepted at the recycling centers.

Household Metals such as tools and appliances should be placed to the curb with your recycling.

The Village has begun distributing the new recycling bins. Bins will be distributed on the day your recycling is normally collected. Please be advised that recycling bins are the property of the Village. As part of this distribution process, the Village is collecting your old recy-

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Mayor Theresa Trouvé

OUTSIDE DINING IS NOW OPEN FOR LUNCH & DINNER

Delivery through:

Grimaldi’sisproudto beservingthecommunity forover15years.We,asafamily, continuearehereforyounowandwill tobeheretoserveyouinthefuture.Wewishyouall healthandhappinessduring thisverytryingtime!

FAMILY MEAL #1 - $28

One 18” Pizza

with choice of Spinach and Artichoke Dip Or Grimaldi’s

Mixed Salad

Plus a 2 liter bottle of soda

FAMILY MEAL #2 - $34

TWO 18” Pizzas

with choice of Spinach and Artichoke Dip Or Grimaldi’s Mixed Salad

Plus a 2 liter bottle of soda

FAMILY MEAL #3 - $34

One 18” Pizza

One order of Penne alla Vodka with choice of Spinach and Artichoke Dip Or Grimaldi’s Mixed Salad

Plus a 2 liter bottle of soda

*Family Meals are Pickup / Curbside only...Toppings not included*

LARGER FAMILY CATERING PLANS

*Feeds up to a family of 6*

CATER OPTION #1 - $65

-Choose one salad option and one hot tray option

1/2 Tray of Mixed Green Salad, Caesar Salad, or Chopped Salad AND

1/2 Tray of Penne ala Vodka, Chicken Parmigiana, or Eggplant Rollatini

- Plus a 2 liter bottle of soda

CATER OPTION #2 - $95

-Choose one salad option, one appetizer option, and one hot tray option

1/2 Tray of Mixed Green Salad, Caesar Salad or Chopped Salad AND

1/2 Tray Pinwheels, Buffalo Wings, Tomato/Mozzarella or Antipasto AND

1/2 Tray of Penne ala Vodka, Chicken Parmigiana, or Eggplant Rollatini

- Plus a 2 liter bottle of soda

*Orders Must be Picked Up by 5:00pm. Please Give 2 Hours Advanced Notice for Family Catering Plans*

CURBSIDE & DELIVERY

SUNDAY THROUGH THURSDAY 12-9

FRIDAY & SATURDAY 12-10

NEW DRINKS-TO-GO SPECIALS

- $10 Mix & Match 6 Packs Bottles

- $10 Four Tap Beers in To-Go Cups

- $20 Any Bottle of Wine

-$35 Any TWO bottles of Wine

See the bartender!!

* AND Please don’t forget to show our staff your gratuity any way you can as we to continue to serve you and the community through these tough times

FAMILY FUN NIGHT PIZZA KITS - $15.00

❤ - 18” Dough

❤ - Tomato Sauce

❤ - Mozzarella Cheese

• Additional Toppings AVAILABLE upon request for an additional charge.

For curbside pickup just call (516) 294-6565 and place your order. Let us know the make and model car you are in, the license plate number, and we’ll deliver right to your car!

Garden City students play in Taps Across America

Kudos to the 12 Garden City School District band students, ranging from grades 5-10, who participated in Taps Across America throughout Garden City. This national initiative allows trumpet and bugle players to salute those who gave their lives for our country’s freedom in the absence of traditional Memorial Day parades canceled due to the pandemic.

Garden City students performed “Taps” for grandparents and neighbors, some of whom are veterans. They were joined by Garden City band directors Jennifer Iovino (Garden City Middle School) and Daniel DellaMonica (Garden City High School) who reached out to them about the event, which officially took place at 3 p.m. on Memorial Day. Iovino even wrote out parts for students to perform on any instrument (not just trumpet).

The effort helped fill a major void for many of these students who may have otherwise participated in the annual Garden City Memorial Day parade.

Congratulations to the following students for their salute to our veterans:

• Shea Burns: Seventh grade clarinet.

• Casey Dennis: Fifth grade trumpet (performed for grandfather Dewey Dennis, Air Force).

• Grace Dennis: Seventh grade euphonium (performed for grandfather Dewey Dennis, Air Force).

• Anastasia Follender: Eighth grade clarinet.

• Joseph Fontanetta: Eighth grade trumpet (performed for grandfather Philip

Fontanetta, Army Corps of Engineers).

• Tyler Glenn: 10thgrade trumpet.

• Tracey Huang: Seventh grade flute.

• Augustin Mingoia Murphy: Eighth grade trombone.

• Juliana Mitchell: Seventh grade trombone.

• Kate Pogozelski: Eighth grade trombone.

• Amelia Scianablo: Fifth grade alto sax.

• Julianna Scianablo: Seventh grade alto sax.

Photos courtesy of the Garden City School District

Garden City students Grace and Casey Dennis participate in Taps Across America, playing in honor of their grandfather, Dewey Dennis, U.S. Air Force.

Garden City Middle School student Shea Burns plays Taps Across America.

CARTERET PLACE

PRIMEST LOCATION IN GARDEN CITY

ONE OF A KIND

Beautiful Estate Home on the “Hill”, the most sought after location in Garden City. This unique, timeless architectural masterpiece featuring 13,500 square feet of elegant but practical interior living space features 8 bedrooms, 7 full and two half bathrooms. Large master suite with a classic wood burning fireplace, Jacuzzi, steam shower and enclosed bar with copper sink, refrigerator, wine racks and 18 by 15 foot walk-in dressing room/closet system.

The seven zone central air conditioning system and the unique three boiler energy efficient gas heating system creates interior comfort for every season of the year. A full size generator provides power to the entire home in an electrical outage. The basement, with 9’6” ceilings, has endless possibilities. This residence has all the amenities and more that one would expect in an estate home.

In a neighborhood known for its superb traditional architecture and scenic landscaping, the curb appeal of this home is second to none.

The home presents a 140 lineal foot wraparound porch (140’ by 15’) to entertain or sit in privacy and enjoy the private, quiet surroundings. Purchaser can modify the landscaping and return it to its North entry, creating a view of the beautiful golf course and the spacious 100’ by 250’ backyard with room for a large pool. The three car heated garage adds additional comfort and convenience.

Jerry Logan turned 89 on June 6! Jerry, a 50-year resident of Garden City, was celebrated by friends and family with a car parade. Jerry is a loyal patron of the local establishment, Uptown Grille. By the time Jerry walks into the restaurant, his signature drink, Dewars on the rock with a splash of water no twist, is already on Table 24, his usual spot. He misses Uptown and they miss him! Owner Michael Sweeney and his staff joined the car parade. Poppop, as his grandkids call him, was happy to see old friends!

Special Zoom session for breast cancer patients

Monday, June 22, from 6-7 p.m. on Zoom

As medical offices are reopening, breast cancer patients have many concerns regarding their safety in entering the establishment. In a Zoom session on Monday, June 22, from 6 to 7 p.m., Barry K. Douglas, MD, FACS of Long Island Plastic Surgical Group, will discuss what doctors are doing to keep patients safe and what questions to ask:

• What safety precautions are being taken with waiting rooms, office visits, and surgeries?

• Are there options for telehealth consultations for new and existing patients?

• What surgeries for breast reconstruction are currently taking place?

This event, which is sponsored by the Adelphi NY Statewide Breast Cancer Program, is free, but registration online is required. No phone RSVPs at this time. To register: https://breast-cancer.adelphi.edu

Instructions on how to access the Zoom will be sent to registrants.

This forum is sponsored by the Junior Coalition of the Manhasset Women’s Coalition Against Breast Cancer.

Barry K. Douglas, MD, FACS

College Notes

Andrew McCann has graduated from Northeastern University Honors Program cum laude with a BSc in computer science. He will start full-time as a software developer in Boston this summer.

n Veronica McCann finished her first year at Adelphi University with a 4.0 gpa. She is in the nursing program and the Honors College.

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Caroline Madigan of Garden City has been named to the Spring 2020 Dean’s List at Bucknell University. To be included on the Dean’s List, students must achieve at least a 3.5 grade point average in a normal program, with no incomplete grades.

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Bucknell University has released the Dean’s List for outstanding academic achievement during the spring semester of the 2019-20 academic year. A student must earn a grade point average of 3.5 or higher on a scale of 4.0 to receive dean’s list recognition. The following students have achieved Dean’s List status:

Kelly Aneser, Class of 2020

Stefan Gollisz, Class of 2021

Dylan Laderoute, Class of 2020

Caroline Madigan, Class of 2022

Julia McNally, Class of 2022

Peter Sceusa, Class of 2020

Nora Bennett, Class of 2022

Emma Cashwell, Class of 2022

n Samantha LaRose of Garden City has earned a Bachelor of Science in chemical and biomolecular engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta.

LaRose was among approximately 4,050 undergraduate and graduate students who earned degrees during the Spring 2020 semester.

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Caroline M. Bianchi of Garden City earned a Master of Accountancy with a major in accountancy at the University of Scranton’s virtual graduation.

n Assumption College has announced that Lauren Hammersley of Garden City, Class of 2022, has been named to the College’s Dean’s List for the Spring 2020 semester. Students must achieve a grade point average of 3.5 for a five-class, 15-credit semester to be included on the prestigious list, which is announced at the completion of the fall and spring semesters.

n Bucknell University presented degrees to over 800 graduates at Commencement on May 17.

Kelly Aneser of Garden City

Peter Sceusa of Garden City

n More than 500 students earned Dean’s List Honors during the spring

2020 semester at SUNY Canton. Students are recognized for earning a grade point average between 3.25 and 3.74.

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Garden City students recognized include:

Katherine Dirks, a SUNY Canton criminal investigation major.

Stephen P. Pappacena, a SUNY Canton game design and development major

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The University of Alabama awarded some 6,326 degrees this spring. Among the graduates were:

Luke Iandoli of Stewart Manor, who received a Bachelor of Arts.

Brendan Schick of Garden City, who received a Bachelor of Science in civil engineering.

n

Brigid Mary Stenson of Garden City graduated from Clemson University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in history.

Stenson was among more than 4,007 students who received degrees awarded in May.

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Samantha LaRose of Garden City made the Dean’s List for the Spring 2020 semester at the Georgia Institute of Technology. This designation is awarded to undergraduate students who have earned a 3.0 or higher academic average for the semester.

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Kyle F. Ascher of Garden City was among the 15 members of The University of Scranton’s Class of 2020 who graduated from its Business Leadership Honors Program, which is one of Scranton’s programs of excellence.

Ascher majored in accounting and finance.

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A total of 1,834 SUNY Oneonta students earned Dean’s List honors for the spring 2020 semester. To qualify for the Dean’s List, a student must earn a grade-point average of 3.5 or higher while carrying a course load of 12 hours or more.

Haley Alagna of Garden City, business economics

Victoria Miserere of Garden City, digital & studio art

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Hailey Harder of Garden City graduated with a Bachelor of Science in public health from College of Charleston in May 2020.

Harder was among the more than 1,500 students who received degrees.

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Jake Genova, a member of the GCHS Class of 2017, was named to the Dean’s List at Florida Institute of Technology.

Major: Applied Mathematics

GCHS student named National Merit Scholar

Kayla Quinn, a student at Garden City High School,  was one of 26 Long Islanders who are among 3,300 second round winners of the National Merit Scholarships for 2020. The National Merit Scholarship Corporation announced the list of scholars on Wednesday.

The finalists in the second round will receive $500 and $2,000 annually for up to four years of undergraduate study at the institution financing the scholarship. An additional group of scholars will be announced in July, bringing the

total number of college-sponsored Merit Scholarship recipients in the 2020 competition to about 4,100.

The merit scholarship winners announced this week were among a group of about 7,600 high school seniors who will receive National Merit Scholarships for college undergraduate study worth over $30 million. Earlier this spring, 31 Long Island students were named winners of corporate-sponsored Merit Scholarship awards and National Merit $2500 Scholarships.

Waldorf student creates environmental organization

BY GARY SIMEONE

The mission statement on the website, cleaneroceansinstitute.org, states that the global, student-led organization is intent on enacting positive change to combat the environmental crisis at hand and that a fight for the future is dependent of the fight for a better Earth. That is exactly the message that Sanaalee Troupe, founder of the organization, wants to spread to her peers and members of the community.

“I’m trying to get more students and people involved in climate advocacy and educate students on an environmentally local and global level,” said Troupe, who is about to finish her sophomore year at the Waldorf School of Garden City.

Troupe said she came up with the idea for the website after taking a family trip to the island of Antigua last summer.

“I was out kayaking with my brother, and I saw this other couple throw their used food containers into the beautiful blue ocean. They just had a total disregard for the environment around them. After witnessing that action I decided to start this global organization.”

The website promotes environmentally conscious activities like beach and bay cleanups and fosters policy oriented goals in order to expedite the passing of certain environmental bills.

“As a team we try to come up with

climate solutions on a smaller level, like with recycling programs and on a broader level with instituting policies and preserving the environment as a whole,” said Troupe.

The website is also dedicated to displaying articles on the environment,  posting information on upcoming fundraisers and using social media platforms to spread the word on making positive changes in our oceans.

Cleaner Oceans Institute has five different chapters across the globe with members who are dedicated to cleaning up our environment.

Two chapters are located outside of the United States in Shanghai, China and in Canada. The other three chapters are located in New York, in California and the city of Houston, Texas.

“Each chapter is vastly different than the other one but we’re all in it for the same cause,” said Troupe. “Just recently we had members of our Houston chapter speak to their mayor in a Google Zoom meeting regarding environmental issues in their neighborhood.”

The New York chapter has the most members with over thirty students from area schools including Waldorf, Garden City Public Schools, Great Neck, Herricks, Hicksville and Stuyvesant High School in Manhattan.

To find out more information you can visit the website, cleaneroceansinstitute. org.

The Welcoming Club of GC

Upcoming Events:

6/10 - Book Club

6/17 - Craft Club

6/18 - Sip and Shop

7/9-  Ladies Floral Arrangement Night Out

Join a Group

Book Club

Enjoy a good book amongst good friends. Our book club meets on a monthly basis to discuss the page turner of choice. For upcoming book club events, please email WelcomingClubBookClub@gmail.com.

Craft Club

The craft club is a great way to meet with friends and practice your crafting skills. This club meets every few months and creates a seasonal project. If you are interested in joining, please email GCCraftClub@gmail.com.

Supper Club

Bring your significant others out for this one! This is a great way to make new friends as a couple. You will be paired up with 3-4 other couples to set up a rotation of dinner events. Host your new friends at a potluck dinner or head out to try our local restaurants. Please email GCSupper@gmail.com for more information.

Bowling Club

Join us!! No experience necessary! We are looking for new faces to join our Wednesday morning league. Occasional pacers are also welcome. Anyone interested, please contact Ellen Diller (Diller05@aol.com) Carol Santangelo (santa060@yahoo.com) or Elizabeth Colantonio (mcdea@aol.com).

Bunko

Bunko is a simple dice game usually played in a group of 12. It is a great way to meet people and make new friends. The game is easy to learn and play. If you are interested, please contact WelcomingClubBunco@gmail.com.

Toddler Activities   A great way for you and your little ones to make new friends. Activities include stroller walks each Tuesday around our beautiful neighborhood and a visit to the park. Stroller walks are on hiatus due to the pandemic.  Once the pandemic is over, we can resume our playgroups where we meet with moms and kids from the town that are similar in age.  Please email GCToddlerActivities@gmail.com for more information.

Golf

Golf lessons at Cherry Valley Club are always a big hit! Golf pro Ed Kelly helps us GCWC ladies improve our golf game. If you are interested in reserving your spot for the spring 2020 session, email WelcomingClubGolf@gmail.com.

Tennis Tennis lessons and group play at the Garden City Bubble! Please contact WelcomingClubTennis@gmail.com to reserve a spot for the fall 2020. Want to join the fun and make a difference? We invite you to join the club! For just $37 a year you will have access to lots of great events and many fun members-only clubs and events.  Complete the easy online membership form today at www.thegardencitywelcomingclub.org in the “Join” section of the website.  While you are there, browse the site for lots of great information about the club.

OUTSTANDING INDIVIDUALS CREATE OUTSTANDING COMMUNITIES

The dedication, compassion, and strength that The Bristal team displays daily is evident – especially to those who choose to call The Bristal home, as well as their families. The happiness and well-being of residents means everything to us, so their heartfelt appreciation is both powerful and motivating. We’re proud to share their sentiments for the outstanding individuals who make The Bristal such a special place.

On behalf of my mother and our family - thank you. You chose to be caring, to bring a smile with you every day, to try to get a laugh out of the residents and to make them comfortable. Whatever your role has been in the community, we thank you for continuing to keep their home a safe place to ride out this terrible pandemic. Stay safe!

– Caroline P. (family

member)

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IN MEMORIAM

Irene Elizabeth Noda

October 9, 1943 - June 2, 2020

Irene Noda formerly of Garden City, NY and Brooklyn, NY died June 2, 2020 at home surrounded by her children, Jennifer Noda and Donald (Chuck) Noda in Chagrin Falls, OH.

Irene was a giver and helper to everyone she came in contact with.  Her immense empathy for people led her to teach special ed students at Little Village School in Garden City.

Later on, she attended Hunter College for her masters degree at the School of Social Work.  Several months before graduation, she suffered a major stroke and was not able to complete the program.  Regardless, her desire to help people continued, leading her to write a book about her experience in recovering from the stroke called “A Head Injury Handbook:  Going Home”.

Irene’s proudest accomplishment

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was as a mother, and she always put her children’s needs first. She was always ready to help out at their school, choir mom, working backstage at dance recitals.

She was an active member of her community at the Cathedral of the Incarnation and Christ Episcopal Church in Garden City, and later after moving to Chagrin Falls, Ohio, at the Federated Church completing the Stephen Ministry program which trains congregation members to provider one-to-one care for those experiencing a difficult time in life.  Irene loved to play tennis at the Casino in Garden City and had a passion for dance and telling jokes.

She is survived by her daugh -

Walter Patrick MacLeod

Walter MacLeod, a resident of Garden City for nearly 65 years, passed away peacefully on May 23, 2020 in Portland, Oregon surrounded by family at the age of 93. He was predeceased by his wife, Diana. He is survived by his four sons; Robert, Donald, Ian and Douglas, and his grandchildren; Laura, Bonnie, Devon, Skye, Fiona, Alana, Kyle and Flora.

He was born to Walter Patrick McLeod and Margaret Cash in Brooklyn, New York.

Walter’s father passed away when he was young child and he was raised by his mother, Margaret, and a large number of Irish relatives. He joined

ter Jennifer Noda and her husband Joseph Wade, grandson Lincoln Wade, son Donald (Chuck) Noda, and his wife Mandy, granddaughter Piper,  Irene’s twin sister Lorraine, and brother William.  Her husband Donald of 42 years passed away in 2011.

In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to Fundly.com/memoriam-Irene-noda:  Funds will go toward the printing of Irene’s book “A Head Injury Handbook:  Going Home” to be distributed to other stroke survivors and continue Irene’s legacy of giving.

Condolences may be sent to the family at:  murphyfamilyfuneralhome.com

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the U.S. Navy in August 1943, the month he turned 17 years of age. He served in the European Theater on the USS BROOME and was discharged after the war in Lido Beach, N.Y. He attended Saint John’s on the GI Bill before meeting the woman that would become his wife of 66 years. Diana and Walter were married on Valentine’s Day in 1953.

Walter spent 30 years at First Boston, although his true passion was coaching his four sons’ baseball and football teams. His teams frequently won the Stewart School Major League Championships and went on to compete in the All-Star Championships. His football teams, The Garden City Rams, won the Long Island Championship multiple years, and Walter frequently travelled to New England colleges to watch those same boys continue their athletic careers. Later in life, Walter could frequently be found at St. Paul’s or the Garden City High School athletic fields with Diana, watching his sons, and then his grandchildren’s athletic events.

Walter will always be remembered for his no-nonsense coaching style, his sense of humor, and the full day basketball tournaments he hosted on his backyard basketball court, where he demonstrated his two-hand set shot. He especially enjoyed running into his players and players’ children on the fields of Garden City.

A military service will be held upon his return from Portland Oregon. Memorial contributions in memory of Walter may be made to the Garden City Men’s Association.

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Town recognizes valedictorians, salutatorians

and salutatorians,

With many graduations, proms and other school events canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Supervisor Don Clavin and Councilman Tom Muscarella wanted to ensure that the top students of America’s largest township had an opportunity to be recognized for their outstanding educational achievements.

On Wednesday, May 27, Clavin, Muscarella and the Town Board welcomed valedictorians and salutatorians from every corner of the Town of Hempstead during a safe, socially distanced event at Merrick Golf Course. Supervisor Clavin and Councilman Muscarella were joined by Senior Councilwoman Dorothy Goosby, Councilman Bruce Blakeman, Councilman Anthony D’Esposito, Councilman Dennis Dunne, Councilman Christopher Carini, Town Clerk Kate Murray and Receiver of Taxes Jeanine Driscoll.

“Hempstead Town’s valedictorians and salutatorians maintained their commitment to education during one of the most difficult periods in our nation’s history,” stated Supervisor Clavin. “Their commitment, dedication and ability to adapt to change are all qualities that will serve them well in the future, and we are confident that they will continue to make us proud in the

years to come.”

Supervisor Clavin recognized students from high schools across the Town of Hempstead, inviting them to be a part of an aerial photo with a congratulatory banner to provide the valedictorians and salutatorians with a memory of their special year. Nearly 40 students, separated into smaller groups for the photos, were in attendance at the special ceremony.

Representing Garden City High School were Valedictorian Mary Foxen and Salutatorian Katherine Staub.

“We hope that this recognition event will restore some piece of normalcy for our local students during this turbulent time,” said Councilman Muscarella. “Congratulations to our Valedictorians and Salutatorians for their outstanding accomplishments and hats off to all of our 2020 graduates.”

“In the future, my hope is that these young men and women can look back at these photos and tell their families about how they managed to overcome adversity during the pandemic and still achieve their goals,” Clavin said. “These young men and women are going to be key leaders of our society for years to come, and I commend them for their accomplishments at such a young age.”

THI S WEEK AT ROTARY

Rotary Holds Virtual Meetings

Over the past few weeks, the Mineola-Garden City Rotary Club has been holding virtual meetings through Zoom. These very successful virtual meetings have enabled members of the Club who were not always able to get away to attend our regular lunch meetings twice a month at the Garden City Hotel. However, we are looking forward to resuming our person-to-person meetings once the Hotel is once again open for business.

This past Monday Rotary hosted Rotarian Sonia Saleh, member of the JFK Club and also Rotary district governor-elect for the 2022-2023 term. Professionally, Sonia is a consultant for non-profits. Her topic was “fundraising.” It was amazing to learn from Sonia of the unlimited opportunities non-profit organizations have in order to hold various virtual meetings and even virtual events; and of the many ways to raise funds virtually. Sonia Saleh stressed the importance of social media, reporting that links to virtual meetings and events can be posted on Facebook. She advised that organizations should keep their Facebook pages current.

Security Expert to Speak on June 22

On Monday, June 22, Rotary will welcome Reynaldo Tariche, SVP Security Officer for Flushing Bank. Mr. Tariche is responsible for all internal and external security investigations. (The Garden City branch of Flushing Bank is a corporate member of the Mineola-Garden City Rotary Club.) Mr. Tariche will provide a virtual presentation delving into the “world of security.”

Interestingly, prior to joining Flushing Bank, Mr. Tariche served for 27 years as a FBI Special Agent in the Los Angeles and New York Field Offices before retiring out to the FBI Long Island S.W.A.T. certified operator and

section leader for over 24 hears. Mr. Tariche deployed and operated internationally in Afghanistan, Yemen, Africa, and Central America in support of the FBI counters terrorism and criminal missions.

Mr. Tariche was the two-term elected president of the FBI Agents Association FBIAA), a private nationally recognized organization made up of over 14,000 Active Duty and retired FBI Special Agents. As the president of the FBIAA, Mr. Tariche managed and directed a high volume of lobbying, legal and charitable activities for the organization, having developed enduring, professional, non-partisan relationships across the U.S. Government and private sector.

Should you wish to receive a link to this virtual presentation on zoom, please call Joseph Packard, Club president, at 516-742-7433.

The Town of Hempstead honored its valedictorians

including Garden City High School’s Mary Foxen and Katerine Staub, at a socially distanced event on the Merrick Golf Course.

Reynaldo Tariche, SVP Security Officer for Flushing Bank.

A.T. Stewart Consignment Shop: Ready, set, shop!

A. T. Stewart Exchange Consignment Shop Director Melissa Jaeger is getting ready to reopen.

BY MELISSA JAEGER

We’re ready for you! Grand re-opening, starting Tuesday, June 16th!! Please, wear your mask. We’ll be wearing ours. And, while we appreciate if you wear gloves, we will provide hand-sanitizer for all to use. Not sure if we’re open? Check for the “OPEN” flag which is hung on the front porch of the Museum.

Thank you for your patience and continued patronage! We look forward to seeing the happy faces of our regular customers and look forward to making new friends. Be patient with us, as we attempt to keep you – and us – safe with sanitizing protocols and social distancing rules.

Flag Day is almost here -- June 14th. It’s not too late to purchase your flag from The Garden City Historical Society (TGCHS) and its Exchange. Purchase your 3’x5’ flags (with embroidered stars), priced at only $20 and/or flag kits (flagpoles and anchors) for $38. Please continue to show your pride and fly your flags throughout the summer.

For those unfamiliar with the Exchange Consignment Shop, we are housed in The Garden City Historical Society Museum on 109 Eleventh Street (in the basement of the building). In addition to the flags, we sell all kinds of consigned items, including but not limited to jewelry, china and crystal, lamps,

Adelphi’s tele-mental health services make online transition

BY GARY SIMEONE

With everyone nowadays living in the virtual world because of the after effects of the coronavirus pandemic, there are some services that have found it more difficult to make the transition. One of those is the area of psychological counseling and clinical services that rely heavily on face-to-face interaction.

“In the middle of March they closed the (Adelphi) university’s campus because of the pandemic and it affected our patients who are members of the community and Adelphi students,” said Dr. Johnathan Jackson, who runs the Gordon Derner School of Psychology PHD program. “Our patients have been used to in-person psychotherapy so we needed to figure out how to continue our services and training opportunities for students in an alternate manner.”

It was a relatively smooth transition to online services because the University had previously made an investment in distance learning.

They had setup a version of Google Zoom that was compliant with HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act,) which would help to protect people’s privacy and keep their records secure.

“People using tele-Health or video conferencing is not a new thing,” said Jackson. “The only thing was that there wasn’t a hundred percent reliance on tele-Health as there is now. For the past few months, this has been the exclusive way we’ve delivered our services.”

patients with their online therapy,” said Jackson.

One of the biggest challenges with using Google Zoom was working without all of the social cues that are apparent during in-person therapy.

“It’s not just the words we speak but the body language facial expressions and cadences that are hard to capture on a two dimensional screen,” said Jackson. “Am I registering with patients on my side of the screen, am I expressing myself and are they receiving these non-verbal cues of communication?”

Another factor that he said was missing in an online session is the smell component which can be vital in the doctor-patient relationship.

“When you’re working face-to-face, smell is important because it tells you things like is the patient using alcohol marijuana cigarettes or some other type of substance. That alone can change the whole dynamic in the room.”

Jackson said that a challenge he’s faced is losing a certain percentage of his client base because of online access and privacy issues.

“Some of our patients don’t have an internet connection or they have access issues. Others don’t have that level of privacy in their homes as they would if they were in the office. I’d say in the past three months, we’ve lost %10 of our regular patients.”

furniture, silver, paintings and collectibles.

People always ask what kinds of things we need. Right now, we could use a few small pieces of traditional furniture, particularly small tables, small desks and bookcases. If you have such items, email photos (include sizes) to store@atstewartexchange.org, and we will let you know if you should bring in your items. Though we are re-opening as of the 16th, we will not accept items for a couple of weeks, in order to control the numbers of people in the shop and the influx of items, as well as give us a chance to disinfect those incoming items. Stay tuned for updates. You can also call to consign by appointment.

Continue to shop, at the click of a button, via

• the tgchs.org website (where we have a link to our online store)

• our online store at: stores.myresaleweb.com/at-stewart-exchange.

Remember: all proceeds from the Consignment Shop support the maintenance and upkeep of our TGCHS Museum. Work on the outside of the Museum will resume shortly.

The shop is located at 109 Eleventh Street. Shop Hours: Tues–Fri10:00–4:00; Sat- Noon–4:00.

Please call (516) 746-8900 for more information.

Jackson said that he and his student trainees had to become proficient in using tele-health services which presented a couple of early challenges.

“We had to familiarize ourselves with the new technology and I had to train our student therapists, as well as help

One idea that the psychology department has proposed, and is going to be implemented by the university in the fall, is students using the school offices for therapy sessions.

“In the fall, we plan to provide offices in our clinic for students to use and they’ll be able to use a computer to connect with the therapists, who’ll be working from home,” said Jackson.

St. Joseph’s reopens for Mass

St. Joseph Parish will be reopening for public Mass beginning Saturday, June 13.  This will be a gradual resumption of Masses, with an abbreviated schedule of liturgies:

• Weekends: Saturday: 5:00 p.m.  Sunday: 7:30 a.m.; 10:30 a.m.; 1:00 p.m.; and 5:30 p.m.

• Weekdays, Monday through Friday: 8:00 & 9:00 a.m.  Saturday morning: 8:30 a.m.

Following government directives, the church is allowed to admit 25% of

possible occupancy – approximately 180 people.  Worshippers will be expected to bring their own face coverings and to wear them while they are in the church, as well as to maintain proper distancing.  Pews have been marked to indicate which pews are open and which are closed. Proper seating is also indicated.  Elderly parishioners and those with health issues are encouraged to continue to remain at home and avoid any crowds.

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Local artist creates “Art in Isolation” virtual show

While we are all spending more time at home than ever before, it is most important that we utilize as much of those empty hours with something positive and fun. Local artist and instructor Arleen Rueth Urban missed teaching her classes at Cluett Hall and the Community Club of Garden City and Hempstead. While these times of quarantine gave her more time to paint, she also wanted to find a way to give other local artists an opportunity to display and share what they have been creating since the pandemic. Her wish became a reality with “Art In Isolation” a visual art exhibit and competition.

Through the Village Art Club of Rockville Centre, a long time Long Island based art club that offers artists numerous opportunities in the art world, she knew “Art In Isolation” would be a welcomed venue. During good times, the club offers beginners as well as seasoned artists several exhibitions a year, artist demonstrations, live drawing classes, and plein air painting.

Times being what they are, Arleen knew that a virtual show was in order for the Village Art Club.. She worked diligently with Tom Troland, creator of the Village Palette, to formulate their very first ever virtual art show. She feels this may be the way of the future, or at least a great way to supplement the traditional shows until better times are upon us. To keep with the theme of the show, half of the proceeds will be donated to the Long Island Covid 19 Fund. Meredith Boysen, local commercial and graphic artist, graciously volunteered to serve as judge.

If you would like to see the show from the comfort of your iphone or computer, just visit the VAC Palette. You can even cast your vote for your favorite. The website is http:// vacpalette.blogspot.com/ You will see 32 beautiful works of Long Island artists, five of which are Garden City residents. Winners will be announced on the website on June 13. However, the show still can be viewed beyond that time. For now, here’s a sampling of the work you will see by our Garden City artists.

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Christine Pape - “Erik”

Arleen Rueth Urban - “The Disney Princess”

Phil Costa - “Staying Strong”

Josephine Krawczyk - “Monkey”

Meredith Boysen, juror for the show: “The Rose”

Margherita Dougherty - “Peaceful Tranquility”

Rev. Thorpe will preach at GC Community Church

Rev. Earl Y. Thorpe, Jr.

BY MELVA VICTORINO

Who would not like a good challenge? Much more a challenge of the Holy Spirit. With the present unrest, tumult and disruption in America, it is not easy to keep silent. Silence is an acceptance of evil in itself. The current violence, added to the pandemic of COVID-19, creates an uncertainty that challenges not only our well being but our Spirit. A challenge to action!

Garden City Community Church (GCCC) pioneers in Justice Witness, protection of Human Rights, those marginalized, stands against oppressions, and persecution. We are standing on the edge of lethal destruction of our freedom and we need to shout out the injustices we are witnessing around us. Our voices can be a challenge to ourselves to act, to care, and to love our neighbors as what God expects us to do.

To help us bring more of the Spoken Words to you, the Rev. Lynn Sullivan, Senior Pastor of GCCC invited the Rev. Earl Y. Thorpe, Jr. to preach on Sunday, June 14 at 10:30 a.m. in our Virtual Worship Service to be livestreamed from our sanctuary. Rev. Thorpe will preach on, “The Challenge

of the Holy Spirit,” inspired from the Acts of the Apostles - Acts 4:29-31. Rev. Thorpe is asking us to discern the message even before we hear the Words.   Personally, I love a challenge.  A good challenge!  The challenge of the Holy Spirit reminds me of what Mahatma Gandhi said, “That whatever you do in life is insignificant, but it is very important for you to do it.”

Reverend Earl Y. Thorpe Jr. is the ninth pastor called to Church-in-theGarden. His vision as pastor is for Church-in-the-Garden to be a social and cultural ecosystem providing its members with the knowledge and resources they need for this life and for the world to come. This vision is based on Jesus’ great commission to meet people at the point of their needs (Luke 4:18) — not simply to join them at that place, but to supply them with what is lacking. Rev. Thorpe believes God’s mandate for all of us is to partake in the advancement of the Kingdom of God on Earth: a kingdom in which necessities are provided for and blessings abound.

Pastor Thorpe, as he likes to be addressed, rather than Rev., uses traditional and contemporary ministry

models along with Christ-centered alternatives to engage the church in spiritual development, social activism, and economic empowerment. Under his leadership, Church-in-the-Garden has completed a major renovation of its sanctuary, bathrooms, and choir room. He believes the church is a home that has to reflect a welcoming environment for all. With these physical improvements, the church has witnessed increased attendance, widespread spiritual growth, and young people newly committing their lives to Christ. Pastor Thorpe deeply loves his congregation and considers it a blessing to be guiding them as they pursue new paths in discipleship, worship, evangelism, and social concern.

Prior to being called to Church-inthe-Garden, Pastor Thorpe was a supply pastor with the American Baptist Churches of Metropolitan New York preaching extensively throughout the New York region and beyond. He also was the leader of the Singles Ministry and a co-chair of the Men's Ministry at the Abyssinian Baptist Church.

Pastor Thorpe was licensed to preach the Word of God and ordained to the Gospel Ministry by his pastor, the Reverend Dr. Calvin O. Butts III, and the Abyssinian Baptist Church in association with the American Baptist Churches of Metropolitan New York.

Born in Albany, New York, to a family of devoted Christian parents and four adoring sisters, Pastor Thorpe was an exceptional high school athlete and garnered numerous athletic and civic honors. He earned his Bachelor of Arts in politics and Japanese at New York University. His calling to ministry led him to Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York, where he earned a Master of Divinity in biblical studies with a focus on the New Testament. He has travelled extensively and lived abroad.

Pastor Thorpe believes God’s love, grace, mercy, power, and daily blessings through Jesus Christ will continually and effectively change our individual situations, our lives, our communities, the church universal, and the world. He seeks to do as the apostle Paul admonished the Thessalonian church (I Thess. 5:16–18): “Rejoice always, pray without ceasing, and give thanks in all  circumstances; for this is the will of God in Christ

Jesus for you.”

Presently, Pastor Thorpe is writing his dissertation at Fordham University on Non-Profit and Faithbased Leadership and Administration. He claims, “I speak Japanese, although not as well as I used to.” Pastor Thorpe likes sushi. As a reply to my dumb question, his answer was, “I don’t think I can rank sushi here to the sushi in Japan.” He further added, “I love fish dishes. Such as a pan seared whole fish. Farro with octopus, shrimp, and bay scallops.”

My conversation with Pastor Thorpe ended with his farewell, “Blessings of Health, Hope, Healing, Comfort, and Courage.” In the present troubling times of our Nation, Pastor Thorpe is the voice we need to hear to make the Words of Jesus Matter.

Don’t miss this gift of God, Join us on Sunday, June 14 a.m. by going on our website and click on worship: www.gardencitycommunitychurch. org

Come and join us all week long. Out of an abundance of caution and following the mandates set by the village, county and state, we have closed our building until further notice. GCCC increasing security with our online services. For our services via zoom, please be advised that you will be directed to a waiting room and “zoom ushers” will screen to make sure participants are known to us. There may be a slight delay in starting, please be patient. Participants will not be permitted to share screens, video, or audio without hosts’ approval.

For information regarding our virtual worship services and programs, please go to our website:  www.gardencitycommunitychurch.org.

The Garden City Community Church is part of the United Church of Christ and is an Open and Affirming congregation that welcomes people of all ages, races, gender identities, and sexual orientations to participate in the life of our community.

The physical church of Garden City Community Church is located at 245 Stewart Avenue between Whitehall Blvd. and Kensington Road. For more information, email churchoffice@ thegccc.org or call (516) 746-1700. And as previously mentioned, you may also visit our website at  www.gardencitycommunitychurch.org.

St. Joseph School’s virtual learning bridges the gap

It’s 8:30 on a Tuesday morning in May and students from St. Joseph School join together for their daily prayer. It’s been over 2 months since the school community came together physically, but every school day at this time, the students know that their classmates are joining them in the same prayer - separated by space, not in spirit. As they pray each day, the words, “We, at St. Joseph School, are a Catholic community of faith…”, have more meaning than ever before and exemplify the outstanding job the school’s administrators and teachers have done to keep the school community united and hopeful during this difficult time in which schools are learning to educate their students without actual classrooms.  St. Joseph School is not unique in the challenges it faces during this epidemic as an early education, elementary and middle school. But SJS stands out for how it has overcome these hurdles to continue to provide a quality, personalized education to each of its students. Through the use of a variety of technologies and virtual meeting rooms, St. Joseph School bridged the gap and created an effective distance learning model. As School Board President Robert York said, “The quality of education at St. Joseph School never wavered during this period of remote learning.” St. Joseph School has demonstrated a definite advantage in this crisis due to its already broad use of technology prior to March 2020 for not only the Middle School students, but across all grade levels. This administrative focus on technology has allowed the teachers

and students to expand on tools already in use and seamlessly add other Google apps that further bolstered distance instruction. Proof of this was shown on the first day of distance learning. Unlike other schools in the area, St. Joseph School did not miss a single day of its calendar! According to Principal Brian Colomban, “using technology as a learning tool has been a focus of ours over the past few years. Because these things are a part of who we are as a school, we were

able to adapt very quickly to this very new situation.” Our Primary and Early Childhood teachers also took advantage of professional development opportunities and meetings with their colleagues and administrators, and very quickly opened up the Google Suite to their students and families.

Students in Early Childhood are immersed in read-alouds, live crafts and special events like show and tell. Elementary and Middle School students enjoy both live full classes and small group lessons and discussions. In addition, these students benefit from instructional videos recorded by their teachers, and online resources that supplement the SJS learning curriculum. Elementary students participate in fun, more socially focused activities as well, such as talent shows and bingo. Middle School students have opportunities for discussion and present projects through live video apps. Plus, special classesArt, Music, Technology, Spanish, and Research (for Middle Schoolers) - are still a part of the weekly schedule of live classes. These live classes have allowed the students to feel connected to their teachers and fellow classmates and have improved the outcomes of distance learning. As one School Board member stated, the success of SJS these last few months “is a result of the amazing faculty and staff whose commitment to the mission of the school remained intact and their role as advocates for their students was prominently displayed.”

Another thing that set St. Joseph School apart from other schools, both private and public, was the integral role that parent and student feedback played. Several surveys were conducted periodically throughout the last few months, and those responses were used to adapt certain aspects of the online platform

to meet the needs of all families. It was important to administrators and teachers that they do all they could to allow students to participate meaningfully in their education and not just feel like they were receiving glorified homework assignments.

Beyond the academic aspect of school, the administrators and teachers’ approach continues to foster the “family feel” that is at the heart of the SJS experience. The school Guidance Counselor provides parents and students with check-in activities that help manage the stress of this new environment, and created a series of events for families to participate in during their very own Wellness Week. The Family Association, administration, and staff worked together to create Spirit Week, which included a family at-home scavenger hunt and a video collage as a tribute to Mary, the Mother of the Church, during the month of May. "Our community spirit is very much alive and well, even during this difficult time," says Principal Colomban.

While the 2020-2021 school year remains a looming question for all families of school-aged students, St. Joseph School families are certain of one thing, no matter what challenges they may face, the school, its administrators and teachers will rise to those challenges, always striving to provide a well rounded and dynamic faith-based education with a strong sense of community.

St. Joseph School provides a virtual tour of their school on their website, https://st-josephschool.com. On their website, you will find links to their Facebook and Instagram pages to keep up with all of their virtual learning, activities and events. You can also contact them via email for questions now, and all summer long, at office@ st-josephschool.com.

An elementary student participating in a live class with his fellow classmates.

Some members of the school community participating in Wellness Week.

Garden City Foundation awards business scholarship

Stephan Michael, recipient of the Garden City Foundation’s “Althea Robinson Excellence in Business Education Scholarship,” received first place in Business Law from the Long Island Business Teachers Association.

At Garden City High School’s virtual presentation of its Senior Awards and scholarships on June 4, senior Stephen Michael was awarded the Garden City Foundation’s “Althea Robinson Excellence in Business Education Scholarship.”

Stephen was selected by the Garden City High School Business Education and Guidance Departments as the student who

best exemplifies the spirit of the Garden City business community by achieving academic success in the area of business, criteria set by the Foundation.

The scholarship in the amount of $3,000 will go toward Stephen’s college education. He will attend New York University Stern School of Business with plans to major in finance. Along with his business teach-

ers, the Garden City Foundation salutes Stephen for his remarkable achievement throughout his high school years.

Excelling in numerous business courses, Stephan had also served as president of the Future Business Leaders of America (FBLA) and had participated in numerous business competitions, earning first place in Personal Finance and Business Law. He had served as president of the Stock Market Club, and in his junior year, Stephen founded the Garden City High School Physics Club and had served as co-president for the past 2 years.

Stephen was inducted into both the National Honor Society and National Spanish Honor Society. He is also a member of the National Business Honor Society. Stephen placed in the top percentile on the WISE Financial as a Financial Literacy Scholar. In addition, Stephen and the Stock Market Club have given back to the community through its annual charity Rock, Paper, Scissors Tournament in support of the Bobby Menges “ I’m Not Done Yet Foundation.”

Stephen is quick to thank his business teachers, Dr. McKinstry, Mr. Sclafani and Mr. Bilello for their continued support and encouragement in his pursuit of business, and for helping to shape him into the individual he is today. Along with his business teachers. the Garden City Foundation salutes Stephen for his remarkable achievements.

The Garden City Foundation is a non-profit organization. Its mission is to promote and support Garden City’s civic and charitable organizations; to assist Garden City residents in need; and to award the “Althea Robinson Excellence in Business Education Scholarship” to a deserving Garden City high school senior.

Volunteers who serve on the Garden City Foundation’s Board of Directors are: Kevin Walsh, president; Althea Robinson, secretary; Timothy McCue, treasurer; and Maureen Clancy, Stephanie Cullum, Susan MacDonald, IPP; Sean Martens, Joanne Meyer-Jendras, Linda Ryan, Monica Schoelle and Michael Sniffen, directors.

Joanne Meyer-Jendras and Althea Robinson representing the Garden City Foundation, with Garden City High School business teachers Dr. Erin McKinstry, Reid Sclafani and Steve Bilello.

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The

Board of Trustees, on its website under the tab “LIRR 3rd Track Information,” has posted a misleading section entitled “FAQs: Garden City Utility Poles.”

In the section, a series of questions and answers is presented which can only be designed to lull Merillon Avenue Station area residents from uncomfortable apathy to comforting sleep.  Before giving an example, allow me to say that one of the most laughable reasons listed for putting the poles next to Garden City residences is the need to maintain “active train operations.”  Why there was/is any need to maintain active train operations when ridership is about 3% and the trend is clearly against mass transportation and to remote work is not explained.

I also note that the listed idea that a “visual buffer” from these visual horrors will be created at the station is only true if they are bringing in a bunch of Sequoias, one of the few trees that is taller than the Monster Poles.

As for the FAQs, I think the FAQs are more properly referenced as Misleadingly Framed Questions.  For example, the question is posed “Is Garden City the only community getting new tall steel poles?”  The answer given, in part, is:  “No. Garden City is not the only community getting new tall steel poles.  3TC will be installing 93 steel poles along the project corridor.”

Now, if not so misleading, that might be a good reason for the Monster Poles installation, at least for those who think it’s acceptable to destroy the Merillon Avenue neighborhood as long as you are destroying other neighborhoods as part of the project.  In truth, that question is not about the Monster Poles at all.  What that slippery Q&A does is equate putting up a shorter steel pole in an industrial area of another community with putting up an unprecedented string of Monster Poles next to Garden City residences.

The question posed is not “Is Garden City the only community getting so much as a single Monster Pole so close to homes that, if it falls, the pole will land in a home?”  The answer to that question is Yes, of course.

The list does not contain the question:  With all the empty land and industrial areas along this ten mile project, why were all the Monster Poles installed to date on this misguided unnecessary project bunched together in a quarter mile stretch next to dozens of Garden City residences?

The answer to that excellent question is because PSEG/MTA knew it was cheaper and quicker and, with the community on lockdown and with the Board having failed to properly negotiate a Memorandum of Understanding that protected all estate residents from Monster Poles, they could get away with

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it and didn’t have to bury the lines.

Of course, don’t expect any fight because, if the protected area of the Estates is getting a new red brick parking lot at their LIRR Nassau Boulevard Station out of this environmental, visual and neighborhood disaster at the Merillon Avenue Station, then it’s all good.

Finally, a request:  If the Board will not take these misleading FAQs down from its website, I ask that they at least add a warning:  “Caution: Consumption of these FAQs May Be Dangerous to Your Understanding of What We Have Done To Your Neighborhood.”

Charles P. Kelly

LIRR should do the right thing

To the Editor:

These days, Americans are angry about many things, which very often boil down to the abuse of power by those in a position to do so.  The widespread demonstrations across America were triggered by an officer of the law who did not carry out his duty—unlike the overwhelming majority of his peers— but abused his position of power and disrespected the very people he was assigned to protect.  The first article of impeachment for the President was abuse of power in attempting to strongarm a smaller and weaker counterpart.

When Dan Rather interviewed former President Clinton about the Lewinsky affair, Clinton offered up this explanation: “I think I did something for the worst possible reason -- just because I could. I think that’s the most morally indefensible reason that anybody could have for doing anything.”  Lord Acton—a British historian—succinctly observed that power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.  In other words, a person’s sense of morality diminishes with an increase in power.

How does this relate to the LIRR?

Regardless of one’s opinions about the third track infrastructure project, many villages were “railroaded” into this massive New York State project over the protests of many thousands of homeowners, business owners, and local governments.  As a means of pacifying the opponents to the disruptions and quality-of-life impacts, the Long Island Railroad and its contractors signed memoranda of understanding with the mayors of villages adjoining the project.

It was clear that the project would remove much of the trees, bushes, and natural buffers to the noise and visual pollution required of the construction.  LIRR committed to restore the greenery, upgrade the natural surroundings where necessary, generously apply community benefit funds for highly affected areas, and institute sound

attenuation walls to offset the increased noise pollution from greater traffic on more raised tracks.

Unfortunately, while the trees that were adjacent to the tracks have been razed—since as early as the fall of 2018—no replanting or landscaping work has begun in Garden City despite the sound walls having been completed in the spring.  The areas adjoining the Merillon Station project have endured an eyesore for nearly two years—with construction materials, ugly fencing, cement blocks, etc.—while parks such as Strawberry Fields have turned into a mud bowl.  Residents who used to see trees and bushes to block out the trains, now only have gray cement walls and monster 93’ utility poles overarching their homes.

Rather than consult with local communities and governments, LIRR and its 3TC contractors unilaterally decided to ignore its originally submitted plans to upgrade utility poles on the industrial side of the tracks.  In April and May, residents were overwhelmed by these high voltage monstrosities being implemented on the residential side without notice.  In an FAQ slide deck explaining the construction, LIRR Expansion asserted that village approval of this design change was not required as the poles were on LIRR property, but promised to “enhance landscaping plans to provide a visual buffer and improve the overall aesthetics of the area”.  In other words, LIRR allowed its contractor to muscle in a major design change impacting residents’ quality-of-life and property values “because it could”.  Its reassurances of landscaping improvement ring hollow because no such remediation or landscaping improvements have been made to date.

To our elected representatives— Gov. Cuomo, County Exec. Curren, Hempstead Town Supervisor Clavin, Mayor Trouve, Congresswoman Rice, NY State Sen. Thomas, NY State Assemblyman Ra—please help the people you have sworn to serve.  More than 1,300 voters have signed a petition at http://chng.it/R86kK8kSxG

To LIRR President Phil Eng, please engage with your project teams to do the right thing.  Residents have patiently endured the inconveniences and quality-of-life impacts.  Do not compound the problem with unannounced permanent encroachments. Tear down those poles, bury the lines, enhance the landscaping, and restore the natural buffers that this Third Track Project has destroyed.

James Kumpel

NY Drivers Ed petition

To the Editor:

I am a resident of Garden City and I started a petition to Governor Cuomo about making temporary changes to the

NYS Drivers Ed rules.

Please sign and share my petition to ask Governor Cuomo to make immediate and necessary temporary changes to the NYS Drivers Ed program during the Covid 19 pandemic. This would allow the current spring semester and immediate future semester of Drivers Ed student to complete their program that would allow them to get their full NYS license before turning 18. This affects 100s of kids in NYS. And it is an easy fix.

Jennifer Sullivan

Editor’s note: A link to Jennifer’s petition can be found with her letter on our website.

Giving thanks

To the Editor:

Please convey to the Sanitation Workers of Garden City my gratitude for the work they have done during this Virus crisis. While residents were home and cleaning out their homes, garages and what not, the workers have collected a lot of trash.

During this stressful times, they have been so helpful, courteous, and friendly. I’ve spoken to friends from other Towns and they do not have the same experience. Thank You to all of you in the Department!

Geri Moratti

Assign offenders to help out

To the Editor:

Here are some ways for Mayor Bill de Blasio to honor the MTA New York City Transit request to find 3,000 volunteers to hand out masks and hand sanitizer.  The following would could also apply to Long Island Rail Road, Metro North Rail Road, New Jersey Transit, PATH and NYC DOT Staten Island Ferry.

Every year judges sentence thousands of non-violent offenders to perform many hours of community service.  Why not assign some of these individuals the task of helping the MTA NYC Transit distribute masks and hand sanitizer?

Do the same for the hundreds of people recently arrested for disturbing the peace, committing arson, breaking windows, destroying public property, looting or assaulting police or other law enforcement officers. Virtually all are being released without bail with no consequences for their illegal actions.

Larry Penner

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NOTICE OF PUBLIC MEETING BY THE ZONING BOARD OF APPEALS

Pursuant to the provisions of the General Municipal Law and Chapter 200 of the Code of the Incorporated Village of Garden City, New York notice is hereby given that the Board of Appeals of said Village will meet in the Village Hall at 351 Stewart Avenue, Garden City, New York on Wednesday, JUNE 17th, 2020 at 7:00 p.m. to take action on the following matters:

1. APPEAL OF 25 YALE STREET LLC. For a variance of provisions of Sections 20052, and 99-2.A of the Village Code, allowing for the issue of a permit to maintain 84.6’ of previously installed 6.0’ high wood fence, at the premises known as 25 YALE STREET (Map of Shaw Gardens, Block T, Lot 16, R-8 District), the granting of which would cause; A. a fence to exceed (6’) in height where (4’) is permitted.

B. (34.6’) of (6.0’) high fence to be as close as (30.0’) to Yale Street where (50.0’) is required. *Adjourned at the February meeting.

Building Department application # 2019-7296

2. APPEAL OF MICHAEL & SUSAN MIRANDO for a variance of the provisions of Section 200-52.H of the Village Code, to allow for the installation of a freestanding 110 gallon oil tank at the side of the existing dwelling known as 223 CLINTON ROAD (Map of Descriptive Property, Block D-6 Lot 2115, R-6 district) the placement of which would; A. cause the required plot line setback for freestanding cooling equipment of (10.0’) to be reduced to no less than (8.4’).

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*Adjourned at the February meeting.

In accordance with a plot plan filed with the Building Department.

3. APPEAL OF MUHAMMAD

A MUZAFFAR for a variance of the provisions Sections 20052 of the Village Code issue a permit for 27.0’ of previously installed 4’ high white vinyl fence and the installation of an additional black fence in the two front yards of the corner premises known as 91 MEADOW STREET (Map of Garden City Lawns, Block 45, Lot 7, R-6 district), the erection of which;

A. has caused the ( 50.0’ ) required setback for accessory structures from Clinton Road, to be reduced to no less than (30.0’ ), with respect to the existing fencing.

B. will cause the ( 50.0’ ) required setback for accessory structures from Clinton Road, to be reduced to no less than (.08’), with respect to (96.0’) the proposed additional fencing.

C. will cause the ( 30.0’ ) required setback for accessory structures from Meadow Street, to be reduced to no less than (.08’), with respect to (88.0’) of the proposed additional fencing.

*Adjourned at the February meeting.

Building Department application # 2020-7462.

4. APPEAL OF THOMAS & JOANNE GORDON for a variance of the provisions of Sections 200-47.2 & 200-52.H of the Village Code, so as to permit the reconstruction of an existing landing and steps, and to maintain the placement of (2) two previously permitted A/C compressors at the side yards of the premises known as 152 POPLAR STREET (Map of Garden City Lawns, Block 15, Lots 18, R-6 district) the granting of which would; A. maintain the encroachment into the minimum (5.0’) side yard by the reconstruction of existing porch steps, to be no less than (3.43’) from the side plot line~

B. cause the required (10.0’) setback for freestanding cooling equipment to no less than (8.0’).

Building Department application # 2019-7378, Barbara

Maiello Ruggiero R.A.

5. APPEAL OF RAEGAN MORGAN & CHRISTOPHER FONTE for a variance of the provisions of Section 200-15, 200.46.C & 200.52.A of the Village Code, so as to permit the erection of a 219 sq. ft. second floor Clinton Road front, and 30 sq. ft. first floor side additions, a 108 sq. ft. portico and, (2) two 15 sq. ft. walkin Bay windows at the Brook Street front and 53 sq. ft. rear portico, and the placement of two A/C compressors, at the existing dwelling known as 98 BROOK STREET (Map of Garden City East, Block 111, Lot 9, R-12 district) the granting of which would:

A. reduce the required 60.0’ ft. minimum front yard setback to Clinton Road to not less than (56.4’) ft. with respect to the (219) sq. ft. second floor addition (where (56.4’) currently exists of which (22.4) sq. ft. encroach into the required front yard),

B. reduce the required (60.0’) ft. minimum front yard setback to Brook Street to not less than (49.1’) ft. with respect to the proposed (108) sq. ft. portico (where 53.2’ currently exists),

C. maintain the existing (13.5’) side yard setback where (15.0’) is required with respect to the (30) sq. ft. first floor side addition,

D. reduce the (60.0’) required setback for accessory structures to no less than (55.0’) for one A/C compressor.

Building Department application # 2020-7506, Barbara Maiello Ruggiero R.A.

6. APPEAL OF ANITA ELISE ALMA for a variance of the provisions of Section 200-52.H of the Village Code, to allow for the permitting to maintain a previously installed A/C compressor (installed 1980), at the side of the existing dwelling known as, 160 WETHERILL ROAD (Map of Country Life Development, Block J, Lot 182, R-6 District) the granting of which will;

A. cause the required plot line setback for freestanding cooling equipment of (10.0’) to be reduced to no less than (2.09’). Application # 2020-7507 survey & photographs filed with the Building Department.

7. APPEAL OF RAYMOND

& HELEN MCCLEARY for a variance of the provisions of Sections 200-15 and 200-52 of the Village Code, allowing for the amendment of a building permit to allow for the maintenance of an for an 50 sq. ft. deck and a 74 sq. ft. shed, at the rear of the existing dwelling known as 74 JEFFERSON STREET (Map of Stewart Manor, Block 17, Lot 4, R-6 District) the granting of which would;

A. cause the required rear yard setback of (25.0’) to be reduced to no less than (21.1’) with respect to the deck,

B. cause the required accessory structure property line setback of (3.0’) to be reduced to no less than (2.5’) to the rear and (2.7’) to the side for the shed.

Building Department application # 2020-7525, Emilio Susa R.A

8. APPEAL OF STEVEN AFFRONTI for a variance of the provisions of Sections 20015 of the Village Code, to allow for the amendment of a building permit for construction of a 170 sq. ft. screen porch at the rear, while currently erecting an 800 sq. ft. second floor side addition with 48 sq. ft. front portico, at the existing dwelling known as known as 25 HOMESTEAD AVENUE (Map of Shaw Gardens, Block 1, Lot 31, R-6 district) the granting of which would;

A. cause the required rear yard setback of (25.0’) to be reduced to no less than (20.7’) with respect to the proposed screen porch.

Building Department application # 2020-7547, plans by Thomas P. Domanico R.A.

9. APPEAL OF GREGORY & SUZANNE GENTILE for a variance of the provisions of Sections 200-46 of the Village Code, so as to permit the erection of a 29 sq. ft. front first floor and 1,374 sq. ft. second floor additions with a 147 sq. ft. porch (while demolishing existing 575 sq. ft. ½ story & dormer), at the plot known as 31 ADAMS STREET (Map of Stewart Manor, Lot 21, Block 62, R-6 district) the construction of which would;

A. extend vertically the existing ( 5.9’ ) minimum side yard setback where (8.0’) is required.

B. extend vertically the existing 18.2’ aggregate of side

yard setbacks where 20.1’ is required.

Building Department application # 2020-7462, plans of John J. Viscardi, RA.

10. APPEAL OF BALAZS SZABO for a variance of the provisions of Sections 200-52 of the Village Code, to allow for the amendment of a mechanical permit to maintain the location of (3) three additional A/C compressors placed alongside a previously installed compressor (1989) and the maintenance of 46.9’ of 4’ fence, the locations of which were permitted as an R-12 district, recently placed during the construction of a 46 sq. ft. first floor addition with 72 sq. ft. portico at the front, a 1,731 sq. ft. second floor addition, an 88 sq. ft. portico and 84 sq. ft. deck at the rear (while demolishing a 680 sq. ft. 1/2 story and 300 sq. ft. rear deck), at the existing corner dwelling known as 15 ST. JAMES STREET NORTH

(Map of Garden City East, Block 133, Lot 10, R-20 district) the granting of such will;

A. cause two of the three (3) newly installed compressors to be as close as (72.9’) to the Butler Place property line, where (80.0’) is now required~

B. allow (46.9’) of (4’) fence to be as close as (44.7’) to the St. James Street North property line, where (60.0’) is now required.

Building Department application # 2020-7552, Joseph M. Bello, R.A.

11. APPEAL OF CAROL & ROBERT KERLER in accordance with the provisions of Section 200-52.A, of the Village Code, to allow for the issuance of a permit for the installation of a 42.0’ ft. of Green chain link fence and (2) two gates, at the corner premises known as 101 NEWMARKET ROAD (Map of Garden City Estates, Block 20, Lot 33, R-8 District), the granting of which would cause;

A. allow the encroachment of a (40.0 ft.) section of fencing

and gate to be as close as (32.0’) from Roxbury Road, where (50.0 ft.) is required.

In accordance with a survey and photographs filed with the Building Department.

12. APPEAL OF BARRY TROTZ & KIMBERLY PROKOPCHUK-TROTZ for a variance of the provisions of Sections 200-46 of the Village Code, so as to permit the erection of a 70 sq. ft. rear first floor addition, at the premises known as 61 TRANSVERSE ROAD (Map of Mineola Gardens, Lot 28, Block 45, R-6 district) the construction of which would;

A. extend horizontally the existing (5.0’) minimum side yard setback where (8.0’) is required.

B. maintain the existing (15.2’) aggregate of side yard setbacks where (18.0’) is required. Building Department application # 2020-7493, plans of Daniel Fabrizi, RA.

13. APPEAL OF BRUNO & SUSAN BAUER for a variance of the provisions of Section 200-15, 200-46.C & 200-52.H of the Village Code, so as to permit the erection of an 81 sq. ft. one story rear addition, and the relocation of an existing A/C compressor, at the premises known as 81 GARFIELD STREET (Map of Shaw Gardens, Block N, Lots 15, R-8 district) the granting of which would;

A. reduce the required (25.0’) rear yard setback to not less than (23.6’)~

B. extend the existing aggregate (16.25’) of side yard setbacks by (6.0’ ) to the rear where (18.0’) is now required~ C. cause a freestanding A/C compressor to be no less than (8.5’) to a plot line where (10.0’) is required.

Building Department application # 2020-7584 , Daniel Fabrizi, R.A.

14. APPEAL OF 71 ROXBURY ROAD LLC. for a variance of the provisions of Sections 200-15 and 200-46.C

of the Village Code, so as to permit in a R-8 district, the minor sub-division of the existing 12,000 sq. ft. premises known as 71 ROXBURY ROAD (Map of Garden City Estates, Block X, Lot X, R-8 District) into two (2) equal plots of 6,000 sq. ft. respectively, and maintain an existing 1 family dwelling (while demolishing a 220 sq. ft. one story side portion and 200 sq. ft. rear deck) whichA. on each plot would;

1. cause the ( 75.0’ ) required plot width to be reduced to no less than (60.0’) -

2. cause the required plot area to be reduced from (7,500 sq. ft.) to (6,000 sq. ft.).

B. would create a non-conforming dwelling that will;

1. exceed the allowable building area of (1,500 sq. ft. or 25.0% by 129 sq. ft.) (1,629 sq. ft. or 27.1%),

2. maintain the (20.5’) front setback of the existing portico from Roxbury Road, where (25.0’) is required,

3. maintain the existing (4.6’) minimum side yard where (8.0’) is required.

Building Department application # 2020-7548, presented by Craig G. Biscone, Esquire.

15. APPEAL OF JOHN & BRITTA GARCIA for a variance of the provisions of Sections 200-3 and 200-15, of the Village Code, so as to permit a minor sub-division of the existing 56,172 sq. ft. plot into two (2), a 30,013 sq. ft. improved and a 26,159 sq. ft. unimproved plot, at the premises known as 107 ROCKAWAY AVENUE (Map of Garden City Central, Block 49, Lots 1-2, R-20 district) the granting of which would;

A. reduce the required (125’) minimum plot width to not less than (12.5’) at the required (50.0’) setback.

Building Department application # 2019-6688, presented by Craig G. Biscone, Esquire.

END OF CASES

The Board may transact any other business that may properly come before the meeting.

DATED: June 10, 2020

Garden City, New York 11530

Karen Altman Village Clerk

The Incorporated Village of Garden City does not discriminate on the basis of disability for admission to, access to, or participation in its programs, activities or public meetings, and has designated Karen M. Altman, Village Clerk, as Disability Compliance Coordinator. Persons with a disability who wish to attend a meeting should contact Karen M. Altman at least 24 hours in advance of meeting at: 351 Stewart Avenue Garden City, New York 11530 (516) 465-4051 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

NEXT MEETING: WEDNESDAY, JULY 8TH 2020

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NOTICE OF BOND RESOLUTION

The resolution, a summary of which is published herewith, has been adopted on May 7, 2020, and an abstract thereof has been published and posted as required by law and the period of time has elapsed for the submission and filing of a petition for a permissive referendum and a valid petition has not been submitted and filed. The validity of the obligations authorized by such resolution may be hereafter contested only if such obligations were authorized for an object or purpose for which the Village of Garden City, in the County of Nassau, New York, is not authorized to expend money or if the provisions of law which should have been complied with as of the date of publication of this notice were not substantially complied with, and an action, suit or proceeding contesting such validity is commenced within twenty days

after the date of publication of the notice, or such obligations were authorized in violation of the provisions of the constitution.

Karen M. Altman Village Clerk

BOND RESOLUTION OF THE VILLAGE OF GARDEN CITY, NEW YORK, ADOPTED MAY 7, 2020, AUTHORIZING THE CONSTRUCTION OF IMPROVEMENTS TO THE VILLAGE WATER SYSTEM, CONSISTING OF WELLHEAD TREATMENT IMPROVEMENTS FOR EMERGING CONTAMINANTS AT WELL NO. 9, STATING THE ESTIMATED MAXIMUM COST THEREOF IS $5,200,000, APPROPRIATING SAID AMOUNT FOR SUCH PURPOSE, AND AUTHORIZING THE ISSUANCE OF BONDS IN THE PRINCIPAL AMOUNT OF NOT TO EXCEED $5,200,000 TO FINANCE SAID APPROPRIATION, AND AUTHORIZING THE EXPENDITURE OF ANY GRANT FUNDS RECEIVED OR TO BE RECEIVED FOR SAID PURPOSE

The object or purpose for which the bonds are authorized is the construction of improvements to the Village water system, consisting of wellhead treatment improvements for emerging contaminants at Well No. 9, as described in the report prepared for the Village by H2M Architects + Engineers, at the estimated maximum cost of $5,200,000.

The period of probable usefulness of the bonds is forty (40) years.

The maximum amount of obligations authorized to be issued is $5,200,000.

A complete copy of the bond resolution summarized above shall be available for public inspection during normal business hours at the office of the Village Clerk, Village of Garden City, 351 Stewart Avenue, Garden City, New York GC 1082 1X 06/12

Antidote to Cabin Fever: Road Trip to the Great Outdoors!

BY KAREN RUBIN TRAVEL FEATURES SYNDICATE GOINGPLACESFARANDNEAR.COM

The worst of the coronavirus crisis appears to be coming under control mainly because people understand the protocols necessary to stop the spread (capacity limits for social distancing, masks, hand sanitizer, cleaning protocols), just in time to salvage summer vacation travel. People are burning with cabin fever but are understandably cautious about where and how to travel.

Here is the antidote the cabin fever: I’m thinking outdoors, great open vistas, clean, fresh, well-circulated air. This is a great time for a throwback to the 1950s family road trip to discover what adventures lie driving distance away. Instead of a station wagon, pack up the SUV and set an itinerary that revolves around national and state parks, wildlife areas, nature preserves. I’m thinking camping (koa.com) or the more luxurious glamping (glampinghub.com). Iconic national parks may not be so easy to reach but New York State has amazing ones and has just reopened its campgrounds to reservations (Advance reservations necessary: 800-456-CAMP or  http:// newyorkstateparks.reserveamerica. com).

I’m thinking dude ranch: Duderanch.org lists 100 in Wyoming, Montana, Colorado and such, but there are also dude ranches as close as the Catskills and Adirondacks of New York State, like the Pine Ridge

systems and our mental health are significant. But it is critical that we do so in ways that will keep us safe and minimize the spread of the pandemic,” writes Ryan Chao, President of Rails-to-Trails Conservancy. Rails-to-Trails’ Conservancy has compiled resources, provides

Rent your own Lockmaster canal boat from Erie Canal Adventures, and float where whimsy takes you on the Erie Canal, New York State © Karen Rubin/ goingplacesfarandnear.com.

Dude Ranch (30 Cherrytown Road, Kerhonkson, NY 12446), Ridin’ Hy, year-round inclusive ranch resort in the Adirondacks Preserve near Lake George, Warrensburg, NY 12885, 518494-2742, www.ridinhy.com); and the ever-popular Rocking Horse Ranch (600 State Route 44/55,Highland, NY 12528, 877-605-6062, 845-691-2927, www.rockinghorseranch.com).

I’m thinking cottage on a beach (Cape Cod and Martha’s Vineyard are my favorites), or a cabin in the wilderness.

“It’s vital that people find ways to engage in physical activity during this time; the benefits to our immune

information on the latest on trails, walking and biking and the COVID19 pandemic (Visit railstotrails.org/ COVID19), and provides a trail-finder website and app, TrailLink.com, which is free for anyone to use to find particulars on more than 37,000 miles of multiuse trails nationwide, including trail maps, walking and

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biking directions to get to the trail, and contact information for local trail management organizations (visit railstotrails.org).

Bike tour companies are accommodating to the change by focusing on small groups, customized programs and self-guided trips (ideal for a family) that bring you into uncrowded even rural areas – with starting points that are just a drive away.

Discovery Bicycle Tours , operating from Woodstock, Vt., is resuming operations in destinations that have reopened for outdoor adventures, with important new health precautions in place. The company is also highlighting its small-group active vacations and can customize private tours (https:// discoverybicycletours.com/privatetours). e trips are organized to bike through rural places where you can leave the crowds behind and bike freely, and with fewer inn transfers. (Discovery Bicycle Tours, Woodstock, Vt, 800-257-2226, info@discoverybicycletours.com, discoverybicycletours.com)

Wilderness Voyageurs a wide-ranging outdoors company with an extensive catalog of biking, rafting, fishing and outdoor adventures throughout the US and even Cuba, offers many guided and self-guided bike itineraries built around rail trails like the Eric Canal in New York, Great Allegheny Passage in Pennsylvania and Katy

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Trail in Missouri. Last year we thoroughly enjoyed the six-day “Badlands and Mickelson Trail” bike tour of South Dakota. Wilderness Voyageurs, 103 Garrett St., Ohiopyle, PA 15470, 800272-4141, bike@Wilderness-Voyageurs. com, Wilderness-Voyageurs.com.

Butterfield and Robinson , the luxury active vacations company, is focusing on private groups of family and friends who are looking for exclusive experiences at remote highend properties or luxury camping. The price point is around $700-1000 per person, per day. The options range from guided biking and walking

experiences to lodge- based single stay experiences. (Butterfield & Robinson, Toronto, Ontario, 866-551-9090, http:// butterfield.com/)

RV rentals are going gangbusters this summer. What about an RV on the water? You can rent your own canal boat to ply the canals of Europe, but you don’t have to go so far: discover the charming villages and towns and see unfold before you the making of America as you sail your own Lockmaster canal boat on the Erie Canal, stretching from Buffalo to Albany. It is thrilling to have the lock keepers open the locks or raise bridges for you. The experience is made possible by Erie Canal Adventures

(formerly Mid-Lakes Navigation, whose founder specially designed these charming canal boats). You can rent a boat sized for a couple or a family. You get to float (the boats go a maximum of 3 mph), tying up pretty much where you like in these charming small and uncrowded canal towns, and ride bikes along the Canalway. The boats are pretty self-sufficient, with galley kitchen and refrigerator, fuel, water, even a bbq, but there are plenty of picturesque outdoor cafes if you prefer. The company has an intense COVID-19 safety plan, describing its enhanced cleaning/disinfecting procedures. (Erie Canal Adventures, 315-986-3011,  www.

Tomato Seedlings

BY JEFF RUGG

Q: I bought a wisteria vine from a mail order catalog. When it arrived, it was about as thick as a pencil and about 3 feet long. It didn’t even have leaves. I planted it, and to my surprise, it grew just fine. After just a few years, the trunk was about as thick as a baseball bat. Unfortunately, a record cold winter two years ago killed the top. Last summer, it sent out a bunch of new shoots from the roots that all grew to about 2 feet long, and all of them just laid on the ground. How do I get a nice central trunk again?

A: It is no surprise that what you got in the mail was a bare root and dormant plant. That is the way many mail order plants are shipped. The vast majority do grow just fine if they are planted soon after they arrive.

I have a question that you probably can’t answer, but maybe the mail order company can. Was the wisteria grafted? If the top was grafted on to a root stock and it died, the roots may send up new shoots, but they won’t produce the flower color you were looking for.

My guess is that since you describe the plant as a stick, and you don’t mention it having a bunch of branches, it was probably not grafted. If I am right, you can use one of the new branches as the new trunk.

The main goal in picking a new trunk is to look for one that is straight. Loosen any mulch, and lift each branch to see if it can be raised to become a trunk. Pick one that is coming up from the roots and not off the old trunk. The old trunk will decay, and you don’t want the new trunk to be attached to a rotting stump.

Strap the new trunk to a stake or trellis. Don’t tie it so tight that it will become girdled as it grows. Cut off all the other branches, and keep cutting off any new ones so all the energy from the roots is focused on the single trunk. It should grow rapidly.

Q: I started some tomatoes and other vegetables from seeds in small pots. In some cases, two or more seeds grew. I left them to see which one was the strongest, but now they are all about the same size. I am afraid to try to separate them because I might damage them all. If I just cut one off, will the dead roots harm the plant I am keeping?

A: If one of the tomato plants is a lot smaller than the other one, then I would cut it out. If they are close to the same size, can you tell if the roots are similar, or does one have more roots? Keep the better one. If they are identical, you can cut either one. Keeping both isn’t a bad thing, but one may dominate the other one anyway. Keeping both is similar to having one that branches low to the ground.

Q: My mom gave me a lot of summer blooming bulbs and roots for plants like dahlias, cannas, Peruvian daffodils and other summer bloomers. I can’t plant all of them this summer. Can I store them until next year?

A: I am sorry, but your success rate for storing the bulbs for that long will be very low. If you can’t plant them in the ground, can you plant them in pots? If the answer is still no, then you should give them to friends who can enjoy them this summer, with the caveat that at the end of summer, they share some of the bulbs with you so you can store then un-

til next summer.

This is a win-win situation. They get pretty flowers this summer, and you get free summer storage. You both get to keep some bulbs in the fall for next year.

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Two visionaries: The designers of the American Flag

BY CLAIRE LYNCH

With Flag Day on June 14, it’s a good time to remember why we commemorate this holiday. Most people know that Betsy Ross designed the first flag of the U.S. in Philadelphia. The “Betsy Ross flag” features 13 stars to represent the original 13 colonies with the stars arranged in a circle.

Ross family tradition holds that General George Washington, the commander-in-chief of the Continental Army, plus two members of a congressional committee, Robert Morris and George Ross, visited Mrs. Ross in May of 1776 about sewing the first flag.

Washington had met Betsy Ross because they both worshipped at Christ Church in Philadelphia. In fact Betsy’s pew was next to George and Martha Washington’s pew in the church.

In talking about the design, Betsy Ross convinced George Washington to change the shape of the stars in a sketch of a flag he showed her from six-pointed to five-pointed by demonstrating that it was easier and faster to cut the five-pointed one.

Betsy Ross, who was born in Philadelphia, Penn., on January 1, 1752, grew up in a strict Quaker household. Betsy was the eighth of 17 children. Like her sisters, she attended Quaker schools and learned reading, writing, sewing and other crafts that were common in her day. She was later apprenticed to a local upholsterer.

The Betsy Ross Bridge, connecting Philadelphia with Pennsauken Township, N.J., across the Delaware River is named in her honor. On January 1, 1952, the U.S. Post Office issued a commemorative postage stamp to honor the 200th anniversary of her birth.

It shows Betsy Ross presenting the new 13-striped, 13-starred flag to George Washington, with Robert Morris and George Ross present. The design was taken from a painting by Charles H. Weisberger, one of the founders and first custodian of the Memorial Association, who operated the Ross House. Ross made flags for the Pennsylvania navy during the American Revolution. After the Revolution, she made U.S. flags for over 50 years, including 50 garrison flags for the U.S. Arsenal on the Schuylkill River during 1811. (wikipedia.org)

It’s hard to separate all of the facts from all of the fiction surrounding Betsy Ross’ making of the first flag. One thing that’s clear, however, is that George Washington, the first president of the U.S., wanted to proudly show off the flag of this new country.

On June 14, 1777, the Continental Congress, seeking to promote national pride and unity, adopted the national flag. “Resolved: that the flag of the

United States be 13 stripes, alternate red and white; that the union be 13 stars, white in a blue field, representing a new constellation.”

Much has changed in the U.S. since Betsy Ross presented Washington with the first flag centuries ago. Additional states were added so the flag had to be changed and updated.

In 1960, the official new 50-state flag was presented. Did you know that Robert G. “Bob” Heft of Ohio and Michigan is the person who designed the 50-star U.S flag?

Here’s the story: Stanley Pratt, Heft’s American history teacher at Lancaster High School, asked his students to design a flag for the admittance of Hawaii and Alaska as U.S. states.

Heft chose to arrange the 50 white stars on a blue background in alternating horizontal rows. Five rows had six stars, and four rows had five stars. Seven alternating horizontal red and six white stripes completed the flag, representing the original 13 colonies. The flag’s three colors, red, white and blue,

and was acknowledged on a new 49-star flag at a flag-raising ceremony at Fort McHenry in Baltimore, Md., on July 4, 1959.

The 49-star flag, however, wouldn’t last for long. In fact, it was the shortest in U.S. history at only one year.

While Hawaii also earned statehood in 1959, it did not occur until later in the year, August 21, after the 49-star flag had already been adopted.

In the end, Heft’s prediction that the U.S. would have a 50-star flag came true. In 1960, Rep. Moeller succeeded in having Heft’s design adopted as the new U.S. flag.

Heft’s original flag has flown over the White House, every state capital building and 88 U.S. embassies. It remains in the possession of Robert Heft’s family, although numerous people and museums have offered to purchase the flag. Heft’s design was the twenty-seventh official flag of the U.S.

Heft was born in Saginaw, Michigan, but he moved to Lancaster, Ohio, at the age of one. Heft was raised there by his

represent courage, purity and justice.

Designing a new flag isn’t easy. Each new flag has a very careful design and the arrangement of the stars must be precise and symmetrical.

It took Heft 12 1/2 hours to sew the flag together. Stanley Pratt gave Heft a B- as the grade for the flag. Pratt supposedly stated that Heft’s design lacked originality, that it lacked creativity, but his teacher offered to raise the grade if Heft could get the flag accepted as the national flag of the U.S.

Bob Heft sent his flag to Walter Moeller, his Ohio Congressman, with a note that in the event that both Alaska and Hawaii became states the Congressman submit the 50-star design on his behalf.

Over time, Heft made numerous phone calls to Representative Moeller’s office, and sent 21 letters and 18 phone calls to the White House to check on the status of his flag submission. Congress eventually approved and the states ratified Alaska, which officially became a state on January 3, 1959,

200-plus speaking engagements per year schedule right up until the week before his death, according to mlive.com.

He especially enjoyed talking to school children about his role in making the 50-star flag. He would tell his story then ask the students to join him in saying the Pledge of Allegiance. They would recite the Pledge then rush forward to meet him. It meant a lot to him to speak with the children and friends say that Bob Heft always encouraged the children to follow their dreams.

He’d state that when he was a boy he had read Betsy Ross’ story about how she had created the country’s first flag. He was inspired by that.

Armed with an idea, Heft took his family’s 48-star flag and removed the blue portion of the banner.

It took him nine hours to cut out the 100 fabric stars needed to cover each side of the flag’s top corner, he said. Heft went the 50-star route because of talk that Alaska and Hawaii would become states.

Heft asked his grandmother to sew the blue section onto the flag, but she refused after realizing that he had taken apart his family’s flag which had been a wedding gift to his parents.

“She didn’t want anything to do with it,” Heft recalled. (chron.com)

Out of options, Heft took matters into his own hands, sewing his version of “Old Glory.” Bob Heft worked hard on that particular project until he was happy with how the 50-star flag looked.

In his speaking commitments across the country, Heft enjoyed addressing the various veterans groups, too. Heft visited the White House 14 times under nine different presidents. On several occasions he flew on Air Force One.

grandparents yet he always referred to them as his parents.

He returned to Saginaw after retiring from Northwest State Community College in Archbold, Ohio, where he was a professor. He also served as the mayor of Napoleon, Ohio, for 28 years. In Saginaw, he was employed as the Education Manager of the Saginaw County Junior Achievement.

Bob Heft traveled across the country giving speeches regarding “Old Glory” - about the U.S. flag and his role in designing the 50-star flag. He brought his original flag with him to most of his speaking engagements. Heft kept up his

Bob Heft’s relatives said that he also designed a 51-star flag in case a new state joins the U.S. Robert Heft died in 2009 in Saginaw at the age of 67. (ohiohistorycentral.org)

Heft received a lot of recognition over the years for designing the 50-star flag. He was recognized in the Distinguished Alumni Hall of Fame at Lancaster High School. In 2003, the Ohio Historical Society commissioned a historical marker to be placed at Lancaster High School to commemorate Heft making the flag in 1958 while a junior at the school. In 2005, “Ripley’s Believe It or Not!” featured Bob Heft and his flag story.

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BY TOM MARGENAU

I’ve been writing this column and answering people’s questions about Social Security for more than 20 years. And more often than not, I’ve been answering the same questions over and over again. And I really don’t mind that because I understand there are always new people reading this column who haven’t seen the answers before. Other people have been reading the column for a long time, but finally, their Social Security times has come, and they can’t remember how I answered a certain question in the past.

So, I get it. My role is to go over this stuff again and again so that, eventually, everyone who needs to know about Social Security understands how the program affects them. But every once in a while, I like to take a break from that routine and instead share a few stories from my long career as a Social Security Administration employee. And today, here is one of those stories.

In 1973, I was a brand-new SSA employee assigned to my very first Social Security office. It was a recently opened branch office in the tiny farming community of Litchfield, Illinois. At the time, the office had all of five employees. I would be number six. There was a manager, two claims-taking personnel (I would be one of those), a teletype operator (does anyone remember teletype machines?) and two clerical employees.

Trying to impress my new boss, I showed up early on my first day. Just before the office was scheduled to open, the senior claims representative and the branch manager were walking in the employee entrance. It was a heavy metal door -- and a gust of wind came up and slammed the door onto the hand of the claims rep. There were screams! There was blood! There was pandemonium!

The manager turned to me and said, “Are you Tom -- the new guy?” I nodded rather sheepishly. And then he said, “Well, you’re in charge. I’ve got to get Wanda to the hospital!” As they were heading back out the door, he saw the frightened look on my face. “Don’t worry,” he said, “this is a small office. Nothing unusual ever happens here.”

Five minutes later, one of the clericals unlocked the front door to the office. About a half-dozen people filed in, including a very demonstrative old man who marched right up to the front desk and barked out, “I demand to see the manager!” The receptionist explained that the manager was called away on an emergency. But this didn’t deter the very determined old goat. He said, “Well, someone must be in charge, and I demand to talk to that person.” The receptionist looked back at me and said, “Mr. Margenau, can you help?”

I was still shaking from the door-slamming injury incident and was nervously setting up my desk -- unpacking a little

My First Day on the Job

box of personal effects I had brought into the office. But I mustered up what little courage I could and walked up to the front desk. “Hi, I’m Tom Margenau,” I stammered. I was about to explain to him that not only was this my very first day in this office but it was also my very first day working for the Social Security Administration (not counting the fourmonth training class from which I had just graduated). But before I could do that, he jabbed an angry finger in my chest and blurted out, “If you’re the guy in charge, I’ve got a bone to pick with you!”

The teletypist came up to me and whispered in my ear: “Why don’t you take him back to the boss’s office.” And away we went. So, there I was, all of 10 minutes into my first day on the job, and I was sitting in the manager’s office about to get an earful from a very irate customer!

It turns out the guy was upset because he got a letter from the office -- and the letter had a couple of typos in it. He just thought this was very unprofessional. “I can’t believe my tax dollars are paying for this kind of incompetence!” he stammered.

What I wanted to say was this: “Are you serious? I mean, with all the problems in the country right now (the Vietnam War was dragging on; President Richard Nixon was about to get impeached, etc., etc.), you’re upset because you got a letter with a misspelled word and a comma out of place? C’mon -- get real, buddy!”

But, of course, that’s not what I said. Instead, I apologized and told him that such work was unacceptable. He wasn’t satisfied. He asked me what I was going to do about it. My mind raced. How could I placate this guy, I wondered. And then I hatched a plan.

I went back out into the office and talked to the secretary, Sandy, whose initials were on the letter. She looked at the letter and said: “I remember this. It was a bad day. I had to get out something like 20 letters that day. And I obviously messed this one up. I’m sorry.” (This was before computers, or even word processors. Letters were done on typewriters, with mimeograph paper for copies. It was a labor-intensive, messy business.) Anyway, Sandy and I talked things over, and we set my plan in motion.

I went back into the manager’s office with Mr. Obnoxious. And then, as Sandy and I had prearranged, I called her into the office. “Miss Smith,” I scolded, “this kind of work is totally unacceptable. In the future, let’s make sure that all letters that leave this office are perfect, with no typos or other errors, OK?”

“Yes, Mr. Margenau,” she said apologetically. “I’m really sorry. This will never happen again.” And I excused her from the office. (Sandy and I should have

gotten Best Actor/Actress awards!)

Mr. Obnoxious turned to me and said, “I like a man who takes the bull by the horns. You handled this situation like a true professional. Thank you very much.” And he left the office a satisfied customer.

After he left, the other employees in the office came up to me and thanked me for handling the boisterous old goat. I was sweating profusely and slumped down into the chair by my new desk and finished setting out my calendar, stapler, pen holder and other office minutiae. Then I got ready to get on with my career

as a newly minted public servant for the Social Security Administration.

About two hours later, the office manager returned with the injured claims representative, whose right hand was wrapped up in a thick cast with a sling around her neck. The manager looked at me and said, “Well, just like I told you, right? I bet nothing happened while we were gone!” All I could do was smile.

If you have a Social Security question, Tom Margenau has the answer. Contact him at thomas.margenau@comcast.net.

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The Emotional Benefits of Strong Money Management

BY CARRIE SCHWAB-POMERANTZ

Dear Readers: Even in the best of times, money concerns can cause a lot of stress. But according to a recent survey by the National Foundation for Financial Education, nearly 9 in 10 Americans say that COVID-19 is making money a primary cause of anxiety. Add to that the need to juggle working from home, child care, home schooling and health concerns and people are being stretched to the limit.

Understandably, people are worried about their financial future. Equally understandably, they often don’t feel like they have the energy to deal with it. But as overwhelming as it can seem, there are strategies to help you cope and stay calm. As I wrote recently, you may have to think differently to get through these times, but there are ways to do it. And it starts with awareness.

Be Aware of What You Can Control

No matter how uncertain you may feel, there are some financial things you can still control. That in itself will help ease your stress. For instance, to a certain extent, you can control your spending. That may mean you have to rethink your budget, but it’s in your hands. You can also control the way you prioritize your bills. It may require you to do some negotiating, but it’s possible. And you can control how much you save, even if you have to redirect some of your savings to more pressing financial needs for a while.

If you’re an investor, while you can’t control the markets, you can control the way you respond to market events. Trying to time the market is rarely a good strategy, and bailing out at the wrong time can be a costly mistake. So don’t. Rather than overreacting to current volatility, thoughtfully rebalance based on your own goals and timeline.

Smart rebalancing means systematically selling investments that have increased in value and buying those that have decreased in value. In short, rebalancing can help you limit risk by selling high and buying low.

In all these areas, you’re still in charge. Try to focus on what you can do proactively rather than reactively.

Understand How Anxiety Affects Financial Decisions

Studies have shown that anxiety has an adverse effect on almost all our financial decisions. Stress can make us spend more, save less and rack up credit card debt. Kind of like stress eating, we think spending will make us feel better. Saving, however, can provide you with peace of mind that you can better handle unexpected expenses, adapt to changes in income or take advantage of new opportunities. The best way to feel better right now might be to put unnecessary purchases on hold and save more.

Put Everyday Money Management on Automatic

If you haven’t already, clear your

mind, and save time by using bill pay for regular monthly payments like mortgage, rent, utilities, phone, internet, car loans, student loans, even credit cards. All these can be paid automatically through your bank so you don’t have to stress about missing a payment. (It might even qualify you for some discounts!) You just have to make sure you have the money in your checking account to cover them.

Do the same for your savings. If you have a 401(k), you’re already saving for retirement automatically. You can set up regular payments from checking to savings accounts for your other savings goals.

Share Your Fears

Still waking up at night with worry? Talk it out. If you have a spouse or partner, work through your financial fears -and your solutions -- together. Whether it’s your partner, a family member or a trusted friend, listening to another perspective may help you think more clearly. And sharing your concerns and voicing your questions can help you come up with a plan of action. Which brings me to my next point.

Reach out to an Advisor

For added peace of mind, consider talking to a financial advisor or financial planner. There’s a misconception that advisors are only for the wealthy. Not so. A financial advisor can help you see beyond today’s struggles and feel more confident in the future. And everyone can benefit from that.

From everyday budgeting to proper insurance to long-term goal setting for things like retirement or a child’s education, a financial planner can make suggestions on how to prioritize your current needs and outline steps you can take now toward future goals. Even a onetime consultation could offer you a helpful course of action. Plus, there’s a whole range of financial advice available to fit any budget. The Foundation for Financial Planning is even working to expand pro bono counseling to vulnerable populations including low-income individuals and families; military personnel and veterans; domestic violence survivors; and people affected by natural disasters like COVID-19 or serious medical crises.

Rather Than Worry About the Unknown, Prepare for It

Coming up with a plan of action during uncertain times can seem counterintuitive. How can you plan ahead if you don’t know what’s coming? By being flexible. Think of a plan as more of a process that will evolve over time as your goals, your life and the world around you change. It’s a way to replace worry with preparation.

To me, the best way to be prepared for whatever the future holds is to follow some tried-and-true money management principles: Spend wisely. Set goals. Save for emergencies. And invest for the longterm. These are the knowns you can count on to help you reach your financial goals in both good times and bad.

Do It for Your Health

While we may not be aware of it, money worries can be detrimental to our physical and emotional health. Conversely, it’s been shown that staying on top of our money can have positive side effects. For instance, savings can act as

an emotional buffer to reduce anxiety. A financial plan can give you more confidence and help you stay focused.

So just as you try to keep physically fit during this particularly difficult time, make a carefully thought out effort to keep yourself financially fit. You don’t have to do everything at once, but each extra step you take to manage your money will make you feel that much better -mentally, physically and financially.

Carrie Schwab-Pomerantz, Certified Financial Planner, is president of the Charles Schwab Foundation and author of “The Charles Schwab Guide to Finances After Fifty.” Read more at http:// schwab.com/book. You can email Carrie at askcarrie@schwab.com. The information provided here is for general informational purposes only and is not intended to be a substitute for specific individualized tax, legal or investment planning advice.

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Sometimes, I wonder how “Everyday Cheapskate” readers discover their handy ideas. I mean, who would have thought something that cleans brake parts would also remove stains from clothes?

CLEANS MORE THAN BRAKES

I have found that using my husband’s brake parts spray cleaner, Brakleen, works really well for getting out grease stains. It doesn’t affect the color and works when other stain removers have failed, even if the item has already been washed and dried. -- Cam

(You should always, without fail, test any stain treatment in an inconspicuous place first to make sure your fabric is colorfast. These days, most are, but please, do not assume anything.)

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Our town has two thrift shops that accept worn-out clothes. They remove the buttons and sell those. Then they bag up the clothes and sell them to a “rag man,” who gives them 7 cents per pound. So, really, nothing has to go to waste. I’ve begun doing this myself. My kids love the buttons for craft projects, and I make good use of the rags, too. --

Marcelle

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I have always had very strong body odor. It didn’t matter what kind of deodorant or antiperspirant I used; it never worked. Then I heard that regular milk of magnesia worked as a daily deodorant. I tried it, and I’ve been using it for over a decade. I pour a little bit of the store-brand milk of magnesia on a cotton square and then pat it on my armpit

and repeat with the other armpit. A little bit lasts all day. Milk of magnesia can dry out quickly in the bottle, so just add a little water, and shake well. -- Lynda DOUBLE-DUTY SALAD

Mary’s tip about turning leftover salad into soup is genius. My Greek salad from a recent dinner did not end up in the disposal. Instead, it crossed the Mediterranean and changed nationalities -becoming gazpacho the next night. I did what Mary suggested, tossing the leftovers in the blender and adding a little V8 juice. -- Betsy

PLASTIC CUTS IT PERFECTLY

When I bake brownies, I cut them with a plastic knife when they are still warm. The brownies don’t stick to the plastic knife or roll up when cut, but you have to cut them while they are warm. -- Sally WASP TRAP

We have a lot of wasps in the summer, and commercial wasp traps at my grocery store cost $12.99 each, so I make my own. I take an empty plastic sports drink container, cut the top off just below the point where it tapers and then invert the top and place it inside the bottom portion, put in a couple of inches of sugary juice, and set it on my deck.

The wasps fly or crawl into the bottle but can’t figure out how to get out. They eventually die. It works like a charm, and it’s free! When the trap gets full, I toss it and make another one! -- Linda Mary Hunt is the founder of EverydayCheapskate.com, a lifestyle blog, and the author of the book “Debt-Proof Living.”

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Say this prayer for three consecutive days: Oh Most Beautiful Flower of Mount Carmel, Fruitful Vine, Splendor of Heaven. Oh, Blessed Mother of the Son of God; Immaculate Virgin, assist me in my necessity. Oh Star of the Sea help me and show me you are my Mother. Oh Holy Mary Mother of God, Queen of Heaven and Earth I humbly beseech you from the bottom of my heart to succor me in this necessity (mention your request here). There are none that can withstand your power. Oh show me herein you are my mother. Oh, Mary, conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to Thee (say three times).

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It’s What’s Happening for Young Adults at the Library

Imagine Your Story!

Tweens and Teens

Summer Reading Club 2020

Registration begins on Monday, June 15 at 10 a.m. for the Tweens and Teens “Universe of Stories” Summer Reading Club! Once you sign-up, you can submit raffle entries for each book you read online (www.gardencitypl.org). Tweens and teens who submit one raffle entry will have a chance to win one of this year’s raffle prizes. Each raffle you submit is an entry toward this year’s Grand Prize: airpods! The more books you read and the more reviews you enter, the more chances you have to win!

Registration is ongoing until Monday, August 3 and is for tweens and teens entering Grades 6-12 in Fall 2020 only. Reviews must be submitted no later than Tuesday, August 4.

This year’s raffle prizes include:

$50 Gift Card to Amazon

$50 Gift Card to Starbucks

$50 Gift Card to GameStop

$50 Gift Card to TCBY

$50 Gift Card to Dunkin Donuts

$50 Gift Card to Target

Plus a $50 Barnes and Noble gift card will be awarded to the tween or teen who reads the most books!

You can also submit a completed Tweens and Teens Summer Reading Club Bingo Card online on our website (www.gardencitypl.org) for your chance at winning one of our Mystery Prizes! You can find more information by visiting our website (www. gardencitypl.org) or visiting our social media pages: Facebook: www.facebook.com/GCPLTweensTeens and Instagram: www.instagram.com/ GCPLTweensTeens .

Imagine Your Story! Tweens and Teens

Creative Arts Contest

The theme for this year's Summer Reading Club is Imagine Your Story, so be the creator of your own story by entering our Tweens and Teens Creative Arts Contest! There will be two categories for the Contest: Writing and Art. Tweens and teens entering Grades 6-12 in Fall 2020 can submit up to 3 entries per category. There will be a winner for each category. Each winner will receive a $50 Amazon Gift Card.

Submissions will begin being accepted online (www.gardencitypl.org) beginning Monday, June 15. The deadline to submit will be Friday, July 24. Winners

901 Stewart Avenue, Suite 230 Garden City, NY 11530

will be announced on Thursday, August 6. Artwork or writing may be used on our Facebook or Instagram pages.

Tweens and Teens

Dungeons and Dragons

Join us for a virtual meet-up, Tweens and Teens Dungeons and Dragons. During the month of July, shape your character and your story and learn how to play the fantasy role-playing game Dungeons and Dragons by participating in our weekly Dungeons and Dragons Meet-Up. Beginners are welcome!

The program will be held on the following Thursdays in July at 3 p.m.: July 2, 9, 16, 23, and 30. Each session will be approximately an hour and a half long. This program is for tweens and teens entering Grades 6-12 in Fall 2020 only.

We will be using Zoom Video Conferencing for this virtual program. For more information about Zoom, visit their website at zoom.us. Mobile users should download the Zoom app onto their device before the start of the meeting. Please register via Eventkeeper  (www.gardencitypl.org) to participate in this virtual program. Registration begins Monday, June 15 at 10 a.m. online via Eventkeeper. Registrants will be

signed-up for all 5 sessions in July. If you cannot find your library card to register, please apply for a digital card by visiting nassaulibrary.org/digital-card-application. Registration ends two hours before the start of the program. Registrants will receive an email with the login information to Zoom 1 hour before the start of the program.

Virtual Teens and Tots Storytime Training Session

The Library is hosting a Virtual Training Session for volunteers on Tuesday, June 23 at 4 p.m. Teens and Tots Storytime is a volunteer program in which tweens and teens read stories to children during the summer. The training session will also be an opportunity for past volunteers to ask questions about the new virtual format. The Tweens and Teens Department is collaborating with the Children's Department this year so the Library can still host Teens and Tots, as the Teens and Tots Storytime will have a new virtual format this summer via Zoom!

In order to participate, you must attend at least one training session. If you have attended a training session

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in previous years, but are interested in participating in this year's new virtual format, it is still strongly recommended that you attend a virtual Teens and Tots training. If you sign-up for this training session, you can also begin signing up for dates to volunteer. Tweens and teens must be entering Grades 6-12 in Fall 2020 to volunteer this summer for Teens and Tots.

We will be using Zoom Video Conferencing for this virtual training session. Registration begins on Eventkeeper (www.gardencitypl.org) on Monday, June 15 at 10 a.m. Please register via Eventkeeper  (www.gardencitypl.org) to participate in this virtual program. Registration ends two hours before the start of the program. Registrants will receive an email with the login information to Zoom 1 hour before the start of the program.

Teen Advisory Board Meeting

The next meeting of the Teen Advisory Board is Thursday, June 25, 4–4:40 p.m. The meeting is for tweens and teens entering Grades 6-12 in Fall 2020. We will be using Zoom Video Conferencing for this virtual program. Please register via Eventkeeper  (www. gardencitypl.org) to participate in this virtual program. Registration begins on Eventkeeper (www.gardencitypl. org) on Monday, June 15 at 10 a.m. Registration ends two hours before the start of the program. Registrants will receive an email with the login information to Zoom 1 hour before the start of the program.

If you are interested in helping to come up with some virtual programming ideas or social media outreach ideas for tweens and teens in Grades 6-12, consider joining the Teen Advisory Board Online applications are available at  https://www.gardencitypl. org/teen-advisory-board-application/  Applicants should be entering Grades 6-12 in Fall 2020

Tweens and Teens Summer Reading Kick-Off Ice Cream Social on Zoom

Join us for a virtual meet-up, Tweens and Teens Summer Reading Kick-Off Ice Cream Social on Monday, June 29, 4–4:40 p.m. Grab some ice cream from home and then join us as we hangout and kick off summer reading! This program is for tweens and teens entering Grades 6-12 in Fall 2020 only.

We will be using Zoom Video Conferencing for this virtual program. Please register via Eventkeeper  (www. gardencitypl.org) to participate in this virtual program. Registration begins on Tuesday, June 22 at 10 a.m. Registration ends two hours before the start of the program. Registrants will receive an email with the login information to Zoom 1 hour before the start of the program.

Tween Pictionary on Zoom

Join us for a virtual meet-up, Tween Pictionary on Tuesday, June 30, 4–4:40 p.m. Grab a paper and pen and then join us as we play Pictionary! This program is for tweens entering Grades 4-7 in Fall 2020 only and is a joint program with the Tweens and Teens Department and Children’s Department. We will be using Zoom Video Conferencing for this virtual program. Please register via Eventkeeper  (www.gardencitypl. org) to participate in this virtual program. Registration begins on Tuesday, June 22 at 10 a.m. Registration ends two hours before the start of the program. Registrants will receive an email with the login information to Zoom 1 hour before the start of the program.

If you have any questions, contact the Young Adult Department at https:// www.gardencitypl.org/young-adult-department/contact-the-young-adulttweens-teens-department/ or the Children’s Department at https://www. gardencitypl.org/contact-the-childrens-librarians/

Teen Scavenger Hunt on Zoom

Join us for a virtual meet-up, Teen Scavenger Hunt on Wednesday, July 1, 4–4:40 p.m. At the start of the program, participants will be given a list of household items and be required to find as many as you can in the time limit! This program is for tweens and teens entering Grades 6-12 in Fall 2020 only.

We will be using Zoom Video Conferencing for this virtual program. Please register via Eventkeeper  (www. gardencitypl.org) to participate in this virtual program. Registration begins on Tuesday, June 22 at 10 a.m. Registration ends two hours before the start of the program. Registrants will receive an email with the login information to Zoom 1 hour before the start of the program.

One Bowl Pretzels with the Baking Coach

Join us for a virtual meet-up, One Bowl Pretzels with the Baking Coach on Wednesday, July 1, premiering at 7 p.m. Gather up your cooking supplies and learn from the Baking Coach how to make pretzels in this prerecorded video!

This program is for tweens and teens entering Grades 6-12 in Fall 2020, but can be viewed by all ages. The video and recipe will premiere on our website beginning July 1 at 7 p.m. on our website here: https://www.gardencitypl. org  and will be available from the premiere date until July 30. This program has been funded by the Friends of the Garden City Public Library.

Teen Kahoot Trivia: Books and Movies on Zoom

Join us for a virtual meet-up, Teen Kahoot Trivia: Books and Movies on Monday, July 6, 4–4:40 p.m. Test your

knowledge of books and movies as we play Kahoot trivia! To participate, you will need a computer or laptop that allows a split screen option or two devices, one to run the Zoom app and one to run the Kahoot app.This program is for tweens and teens entering Grades 6-12 in Fall 2020 only.

We will be using Zoom Video Conferencing for this virtual program. Please register via Eventkeeper  (www. gardencitypl.org) to participate in this virtual program. Registration begins on Tuesday, June 30 at 10 a.m. Registration ends two hours before the start of the program. Registrants will receive an email with the login information to Zoom 1 hour before the start of the program.

Adoption Boards for Shelter Pets with Theresa Maritato

Join us for a virtual program, Adoption Boards for Shelter Pets with Theresa Maritato on Monday, July 6, premiering at 7 p.m.! Gather up your craft supplies and learn from Theresa Maritato how to make adoption boards for shelter pets in this prerecorded video!

This program is for tweens and teens entering Grades 6-12 in Fall 2020, but can be viewed by all ages. The video will premiere on our website beginning July 6 at 7 p.m. on our website here: https://www.gardencitypl.org  and will be available from the premiere date until August 30. This program has been funded by the Friends of the Garden City Public Library.

Teen Hangman on Zoom

Join us for a virtual meet-up, Teen Hangman on Tuesday, July 7, 4–4:40 p.m. Grab a paper and pen and then join us as we play Hangman! This program is for tweens and teens entering Grades 6-12 in Fall 2020 only.

We will be using Zoom Video Conferencing for this virtual program. Please register via Eventkeeper  (www. gardencitypl.org) to participate in this virtual program. Registration begins on Tuesday, June 30 at 10 a.m. Registration ends two hours before the start of the program. Registrants will receive an email with the login information to Zoom 1 hour before the start of the program.

Teen Crafternoon on Zoom

Join us for a virtual meet-up, Teen Crafternoon on Wednesday, July 8, 4–4:40 p.m. Gather up whatever art supplies you have at home and then join us as we work on art together while chatting! This program is for tweens and teens entering Grades 6-12 in Fall 2020 only.

We will be using Zoom Video Conferencing for this virtual program. Please register via Eventkeeper  (www. gardencitypl.org) to participate in this virtual program. Registration begins on

Tuesday, June 30 at 10 a.m. Registration ends two hours before the start of the program. Registrants will receive an email with the login information to Zoom 1 hour before the start of the program.

One Bowl Italian Bread with the Baking Coach

Join us for a virtual meet-up, One Bowl Italian Bread with the Baking Coach on Wednesday, July 8, premiering at 7 p.m. Gather up your cooking supplies and learn from the Baking Coach how to make Italian bread in this prerecorded video! This program is for tweens and teens entering Grades 6-12 in Fall 2020, but can be viewed by all ages. The video and recipe will premiere on our website beginning July 8 at 7 p.m. on our website here: https:// www.gardencitypl.org and will be available from the premiere date until July 30. This program has been funded by the Friends of the Garden City Public Library.

Vegetable Garden for Teens with Chris Buchman

Join us for a virtual program, Vegetable Garden for Teens with Chris Buchman on Thursday, July 9, premiering at 7 p.m.. Gather up your supplies and learn from the science teacher Chris Buchman how to make your own vegetable garden from vegetables you have at home in this prerecorded video! This program is for tweens and teens entering Grades 6-12 in Fall 2020, but can be viewed by all ages. The video will premiere on our website beginning July 9 at 7 p.m. on our website here: https://www.gardencitypl.org  and will be available from the premiere date until August 30. This program has been funded by the Friends of the Garden City Public Library.

Tweens and Teens Weekly Social Media Challenges

Each day on our Facebook and Instagram pages, the Tweens and Teens Department will post a new challenge or activity for you to complete during the week! If you participate in the challenges, earn community service credit by submitting it (or taking a photo of whatever you make to submit) here https:// www.gardencitypl.org/social-media-submission/. Not all submissions will be used on our social media and no submissions including photos of people are allowed.

Email Young Adult Librarian Laura Giunta at https://www.gardencitypl. org/young-adult-department/contactthe-young-adult-tweens-teens-department/ to be put on the Tweens and Teens Garden City Public Library email list and receive announcements about upcoming virtual library programming for tweens and teens in Grades 6-12.

News From the Children’s Room

Virtual Summer Reading Club

“Imagine Your Story”

The Children’s Librarians are preparing for the 2020 Virtual Summer Reading Club!   This year’s theme is “Imagine Your Story”!  Our Virtual Kick Off Show this year,  which features “Jester Jim,” will be held on June 18 at 2:00 p.m.  This is a YouTube program and information will be available on Eventkeeper and the Garden City Public Library Home Page at www.gardencitypl.org.

Summer Reading Club Registration is online on Eventkeeper (www.gardencitypl.org) beginning  June 15.   You will need to print out the Activity Sheet.  Everytime you read a book, or have a book read to you, a review form should be submitted to the Children’s Room at (https://www.gardencitypl.org/contact-the-childrens-librarians/).  Review Forms will be available online.  We will be having a live drawing for the three grand prizes on August 6.   One grand prize will be awarded for Preschool, Grades K-2 and 3-5.    We look forward to another fun summer!    Check the Garden City Public Library Website  for updates and additional programs.

Virtual Programs for  (Preschool–Grade 5)

Most taped virtual programs will offer multiple viewing opportunities after the “premiere date.”

Page Turner Adventures

There will be five  programs a week

for 10 weeks from June 15–August 21.  All programs begin at  12:00 p.m.

Mondays – Show Day -  A different virtual comedy story theatre show  (4560 Minutes)

Tuesdays – Project Day - Crafts,   games, recipes, science experiments and activities  (30 Minutes)

Wednesday – Author and Illustrator Day - Fun interviews and activities with authors and illustrators.  Also, read-alongs, activities, trivia games, book giveaways!  (30 Minutes)

Thursday – Tween Day  For upper elementary & middle school kids – crafts & activities (Approximately 30 Minutes)

Friday – Special Guest Day  A bonus show with amazing performers, including Ringling clowns, world-renowned magicians, Grammy singers, ventriloquists, puppeteers and pirates!

Virtual visits to 30 zoos, science museums & International Clown Hall of Fame!  (Approximately 30 Minutes)

Preschool - Ages 2½–5

(Not yet in kindergarten)

Register for the Virtual Read to Me Summer Reading Club (The Unicorns) on Eventkeeper at www.gardencitypl. org,. starting on Monday, June 15 at 10 a.m.   Print out the activity sheet and do some fun activities!  Fill out a Reader Review Card available online every time a story is read to you!  At the end of the Summer Reading Club, a Grand Prize will be awarded in a lottery-style drawing! Below is a list of virtual pro-

Join the Librarians for a Virtual Title Swap on Zoom

Let’s talk about psychological thrillers! Join Librarians Laura Flanagan and Ann Garnett via Zoom for a Virtual Title Swap focusing on Psychological Thrillers on Wednesday, June 17 at 7 p.m. A psychological thriller focuses on the unstable emotional states of the characters, in combination with the mystery in the story. There are often unreliable narrators, locked rooms, weird relations, sketchy husbands, missing women, red herrings, suspects, hunches, and much more in these captivating novels. Whether this genre is familiar or new to you, you will leave the discussion with a list of new authors and titles to enjoy.

Online registration is required on Eventkeeper (www. gardencitypl.org ) for this virtual program to be held via

Zoom. The Librarians will share titles that they recommend and participants will share titles that they have enjoyed reading, including titles that are not psychological thrillers.  Registration ends on Tuesday, June 16, at 5 p.m. Bring your beverage of choice and maybe a little dessert to enjoy while the Librarians and other readers discuss psychological thriller books.

Please download the free Zoom app in advance. You can participate on your phone, iPad, or computer. For more information on Zoom, visit their website at zoom.us.  Registrants will receive an email with Login information to the Zoom meeting on the evening before the Title Swap. Have questions? Contact the Librarians by email at www.gardencitypl.org/speaking-of-books/  .

grams, with the exception of Teens & Tots Storytime, which is live on Zoom.

TEENS & TOTS STORYTIMES (Ages PreS–6) (Live on Zoom)

All at 1:30 p.m.   Join us as our Teens from the Young Adults Department, read to the Tots!  (Registration is required on Eventkeeper).

Mondays (6/29, 7/6, 7/13, 7/20, 7/27, 8/3)  & Wednesdays (7/1, 7/8, 7/15, 7/22, 7/29, 8/5)

PLAYHOORAY (Virtual)

Tuesday, June 30 at 10:30 a.m.

LIVE ANIMAL SHOW WITH JASON (Virtual)

Tuesday, July 7 at 7 p.m.

SCIENCE WITH CHRIS BUCHMAN (Virtual)

All at 11 a.m., Thursdays (7/2, 7/9, 7/16, 7/23, 7/30)

STORYTIME YOGA FOR PRESSCHOOLERS (Virtual)

Friday, July 10 at 11 a.m. Grades K–5

Register for the Virtual  Summer Reading Club (The Dragons) on Eventkeeper at www.gardencitypl.org , starting on Monday,  June 15 @ 10 a.m.  Print out the activity sheet and do some fun activities!  Fill out a Reader Review Card online every time you read a book!  At the end of the Summer Reading Club, a Grand Prize will be awarded in a lottery-style drawing!  Remember: the more you read, the better chance of winning!

Page Turner Adventures

Monday–Friday at 12 p.m.

IMAGINE YOUR STORY CREATIVE ARTS CONTEST

Monday, June 15–Friday, July 24. Write your own story using your creativity and imagination and enter to win a prize! (Grades 4 & 5 only).

LIVE ANIMAL SHOW WITH JASON Tuesday, July 7 at 7 p.m.

LET’S TALK ABOUT BOOKS! What have you been reading?  What’s your favorite book? What do you recommend?  Registration required on Eventkeeper for both  starting Tuesday, June 23 at 10 a.m..

Entering 2nd Grade - Tuesday, July 7 at 2 p.m.

Entering Grades 3-5 - Tuesday, July 14 at  2 p.m.

TRAVELING LANTERNS –MYSTERY SHOW

Tuesday, July 21 at 7 p.m. Solve a mystery with the world’s most famous detective -Sherlock Holmes!

SCIENCE WITH CHRIS BUCHMAN

All at 11 a.m.,  Thursdays (7/2, 7/9, 7/16,7/23, 7/30)

PAINTED ROCK TUTORIAL WITH SHIRLEY RUBY Thursday, July 9 at 1 p.m.

YOGA

Friday, July 10  at 1 p.m. – Grades K–2; 2 p.m. – Grades 3–5

Mindful Eating Workshop via Zoom Through the Library

Join Nicole Borukhov, MS, RDN, CDN from Cornell Cooperative Extension Nassau  for a virtual presentation and discussion via Zoom video conferencing on Mindful Eating on Thursday, July 9 at 7 p.m. Fostering a healthy relationship with food begins by looking inward and answering the question, “Why do I eat?” We want to understand our eating patterns without placing judgment and be able to balance eating for nourishment and eating for enjoyment. This class focuses on mindful eating and will offer strategies to be more thoughtful about when, what, and how much we eat. This workshop will also allow an opportunity to ask questions of the presenter.

All are welcome to attend this infor-

mative health workshop through the Garden City Public Library. Register online with your email address on Eventkeeper beginning Friday, June 26 at 10 a.m. Registration closes on Thursday, July 9 at 1 p.m. Registrants will receive an email with the Zoom link and log in during the afternoon before the program. This program is sponsored by the Friends of the Garden City Library.  This virtual program will be held via Zoom, a virtual conference platform.  Please download the free Zoom app in advance. You can participate on your phone, iPad, or computer. For more information on Zoom, visit their website at zoom.us.

June is Audiobook Month

Listen Up! June is Audiobook Month at the Garden City Library. Discover the world of digital audiobooks during the month of June. The Library has a large collection of new and popular fiction, nonfiction and biography digital audiobooks for children, young adults and adults. You can download digital audiobooks from the Nassau Digital Doorway on the Libby app and at nassau.overdrive.com. You can limit your search to digital audiobooks on both Libby and Overdrive.

Audiobooks have the power to transport the listener to new places or to evoke intense emotion. Narrators, who are specially trained and often wellknown stage and screen actors and actresses, can bring a novel or memoir to life for the listener. Listen to a digital audiobook on a drive, while you walk, or during your workout. Listen together as a family in the evening. It’s also fun to listen to a book that you are reading, or have read, to hear the emotion in the characters’ voices.

Each year, the Audie Awards recognize distinction in word entertainment and are sponsored by the Audio Publishers Association (APA). This year’s winner for Audiobook of the Year is “The Only Plane in the Sky” by Garrett Graff, which is also the winner in the multivoiced performance category and is narrated by a 45 person cast. For a full list of the winners in every category and genre, including children’s and teens, go to https:// audiofilemagazine.com/audies/?category=&winners=true. You can also read detailed reviews of audiobooks through the Audiofile Magazine website at https://audiofilemagazine.com/.

Staff Picks

Each week, the Adult Reference Librarians recommend books by popular authors, some were recently published or will be released soon. All

Speaking of Books

books recommended are available as eBooks, which you can request through nassau.overdrive.com through our website www.gardencitypl.org and in the Libby app. Look for more book recommendations by following the Library’s Facebook page.

As the Page Turns with Librarian

Laura Flanagan ---

New June Fiction and Nonfiction Titles

“The Lies That Bind” by Emily Giffin – released on June 2, 2020.  In the irresistible new novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of “All We Ever Wanted” and “Something Borrowed”, a young woman falls hard for an impossibly perfect man before he disappears without a trace... “The Lies That Bind” is a mesmerizing and emotionally resonant exploration of the never-ending search for love and truth— in our relationships, careers, and deep within our own hearts.

“ Countdown 1945: The Extraordinary Story of the Atomic Bomb and the 116 Days That Changed the World” by Chris Wallace with Mitch Weiss - released on June 9, 2020.  April 12, 1945: After years of bloody conflict in Europe and the Pacific, America is stunned by news of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s death. In an instant, Vice President Harry Truman, who has been kept out of war planning and knows nothing of the top-secret Manhattan Project to develop the world’s first atomic bomb, must assume command of a nation at war on multiple continents --and confront one of the most consequential decisions in history. Countdown 1945 tells the gripping true story of the turbulent days, weeks and months to follow, leading up to August 6, 1945, when Truman gives the order to drop the bomb on Hiroshima.

Up For Grabs

from Librarian Martin Bowe

Two Recommended Nonfiction Titles

Cluttered?

“Ali: A Life” by Jonathan Eigreleased on October 3, 2017.  Jonathan Eig has left the ballfield of his profiled athletes books on Lou Gehrig and Jackie Robinson to enter the boxing ring of his next subject Muhammad Ali. Eig has utilized over 500 interviews and numerous sources to essay the first full scale biography since the Champ’s death. All the famous fights are detailed---Sonny Liston, Joe Frazier, The Rumble in the Jungle, and Chuck Wepner, who is the basis of the movie character Rocky Balboa. The reader can trace the transition of the brash fighter from Olympic winner to counterculture hero to world icon without the noise and the smoke of the sweet science.

“Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee” by Casey Cep - released on May 7, 2019.     Harper Lee needed a subject to follow up her acclaimed first novel “To Kill a Mockingbird.” She had assisted Truman Capote with his interviews for what became “In Cold Blood” and found the answer in a local event involving a family murdering preacher, the preacher’s killer, and the lawyer who defended both men. Casey Cep gives us a triad account---a true crime thriller, a legal drama, and a miniature biography of Harper Lee. Sadly, like Truman Capote’s incomplete “ Answered Prayers ” , Harper Lee’s manuscript lies in limbo somewhere.

Bookmarked by Librarian Ann Garnett

Two Literary Fiction Debut Novels

“The Girl with the Louding Voice” by Abi Dare - released on February 4, 2020. This powerful debut novel is told  in the unforgettable voice of a young Nigerian woman who is trapped in a life of servitude but is determined to fight for her dreams and choose her own future. Adunni is a fourteen-yearold Nigerian girl who knows what she

wants: an education. This, her mother has told her, is the only way to get a “louding voice”—the ability to speak for herself and decide her own future. But while misfortunes might muffle her voice for a time, they cannot mute it. When she realizes that she must stand up not only for herself, but for all girls, she finds the resolve to speak, however she can—in a whisper, in song, in broken English—until she is heard.

“A Burning” by Megha Majumdar - released on June 2, 2020. For readers of Tommy Orange, Yaa Gyasi, and Jhumpa Lahiri, “A Burning” is a debut novel about three unforgettable characters -  Jivan, a Muslim girl from the slum, PT Sir, an opportunistic gym teacher, and Lovely, an irresistible outcast. All three  seek to rise -- to the middle class, to political power, to fame in the movies -- and find their lives entangled in the wake of a catastrophe in contemporary India. “A Burning” has the force of a sweeping epic while being so masterfully compressed that it can be read in a single sitting like a good thriller.

Psychological Fiction Title Swap

Let’s talk about psychological thrillers! Join Librarians Laura Flanagan and Ann Garnett via Zoom for a Virtual Title Swap focusing on Psychological Thrillers on Wednesday, June 17 at 7 p.m. Registration is required on Eventkeeper (www. gardencitypl.org) for this virtual program to be held via Zoom and ends on Tuesday, June 16 at 5 p.m. Registrants will receive an email with Login information to the Zoom meeting on the evening before the Title Swap.

Have questions? Contact the Librarians with questions about the Title Swap program, book recommendations  or to talk about books by emailing them  at www.gardencitypl. org/speaking-of-books/

Indulge Your Sweet Tooth

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Instant Pot Desserts via Zoom Through Library

You’ve heard all about it, now experience for yourself the delicious and fast acting wonders of the Instant Pot!  Instant Pot is a multi-cooker that can function as a pressure cooker, slow cooker, rice cooker, steamer, saute pan, and more. Indulge your sweet tooth at this interactive virtual program via Zoom.  Instant Pot expert Aidan Bouchelle of Pressure Cooker Passion will teach you how to make three delectable desserts, creme brulee,  chocolate lava cake and monkey bread in the Instant Pot on Wednesday, June 24 at 7 p.m.

All are welcome! No library card is required, just an email address, for online registration on Eventkeeper. Online registration closes on June 24 at 1 p.m.  Registrants will receive an email with login information to the Zoom meeting on the afternoon of the program. This program is sponsored by The Friends of the Garden City Library.

This virtual program will be held via Zoom, a virtual conference platform.  Please download the free Zoom app in advance. You can participate on your phone, iPad, or computer. For more information on Zoom, visit their website at zoom.us.

The Garden City News, Bethpage Newsgram, Jericho-Syosset News Journal, Mid-Island Times & Levittown Times, and Syosset Advance! Along with Blank Slate Media Papers: Port Washington Times, Manhasset Times, Roslyn Times, Great Neck Times, New Hyde Park Herald Courier, and The Williston Times!

Village to withdraw from Nassau Urban Consortium

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concluded that all home fund applications are directed straight to Nassau County.

“I had a conversation earlier with officials familiar with the County Home Fund program. If any municipality leaves the consortium then developers are still able to access ‘home dollars’ -but CDBG’s (Community Development Block Grants) are a whole other issue. CDBG funds are not really used by developers in these projects, and home dollar funds and IDA funding are still available to developers whether or not the project is in a village or community that’s part of the consortium,” Benrubi said. Attorneys Levin and Ronneberger backed this up, and said it is also their understanding.

LaPinta asked Benrubi if there were any financial advantages he understood for Garden City to continue its participation in the consortium, “that could yield any benefit to any developer, including 555 Stewart Avenue?”

Benrubi said his position is that what the village decides with this participation in the County Urban Consortium would not have any impacts on a developer seeking home dollars or IDA financing in the 555 Stewart project. Expressly, the 555 Stewart Avenue parcel is not planned for a low-to-moderate income area where public facilities could be involved and therefore other County grant funding would come into play.

LaPinta then asked if there would be any benefit to developers if the village pulled out of the consortium. Benrubi

concurred.

“It’s my opinion that Garden City pulling out will not adversely affect the developer,” he explained.

LaPinta asked if there was any benefit whether or not Garden City participates in the consortium for 555 Stewart Avenue or any other developments that could help facilitate the fair housing creation in the village.

“From what I understand of what is proposed for the 555 Stewart Avenue project, Garden City’s participation does not necessarily benefit the project. But I can’t say the same if there is another proposed project coming in the village,” Benrubi said.

LaPinta wanted to know under what circumstances could a developer, with a project that would include fair share housing in Garden City, benefit from

the village being or not being part of this consortium.

“In some circumstances the CDBG money can be used in project planning items such as a curb cut. I don’t see a CDBG being used for the 555 Stewart Avenue project, and it isn’t a publicly-owned space. There are some limited circumstances where public facilities infrastructure dollars may be used, depending on where in the municipality the project is. However the scope of an entire project the impacts would be kind of de minimis,” Benrubi explained.

LaPinta concluded by advising the Board that it would be a shame if in any occurence, the village pulling out of the County consortium ever resulted in 555 Stewart Avenue or any developers whose projects would include fair housing being negatively impacted.

Village Hall reopens, with precautions, PPE

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old, “because of the necessities of things going on in the village.”

Rosenblatt had advised the trustees and community back at the May 21 meeting that municipal staff operations are in compliance with New York State Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s executive orders.

“All decisions were made with careful consideration regarding the impact on the village’s operations, and also made only after consultations with the village’s labor and legal counsel as well as the Board of Trustees. Village staffing is governed by Gov. Cuomo’s executive orders regarding workforce limitations in the state,” Rosenblatt said two weeks prior.

On June 4 she answered a question by Deputy Mayor Robert Bolebruch on when village staffing could go past 50% in-person.

“Assuming the workforce limitations are not extended beyond June 6, we will start rolling out the plan to bring everybody back soon. It will depend on what areas the employees are working in and if the workspaces are ready for people to come back, or there are some modifications that would still need to be done to keep them and the public safe and healthy,” she explained.

Signing-in at Village Facilities

Village Trustee Stephen Makrinos thanked Village Auditor Rosenblatt, each department head and village administration for preparing the workplace and staff for a transition period in June “getting back into shape and bringing Village Hall close to back to business as usual.”

Makrinos asked Rosenblatt about implementing a new visitor manage-

ment system through all visitors and employees in each department signing in. He notes that a running record is a critical piece to any contact tracing for COVID-19 cases the village could become aware of.

Rosenblatt says while at the early stage the sign-in log will occur with pen and paper -- situated at each receptionist’s desk -- she’s exploring options for a digital sign-in system, which could be similar to the kiosks many doctor’s offices and labs have for people arriving for appointments.

“This morning I sat in a demo of an electronic system with James Tauer from Total Technology Solutions (IT consultants to the Village of Garden City). Next week another session is scheduled, and we may look into this. Prior to the pandemic shutdowns the school district put in a new visitor management system, so that’s something we can look into going forward,” she said.

PPE Planning

Mayor Theresa Trouvé asked Rosenblatt about other products from hand sanitizers to disinfectant wipes and disposable gloves. Rosenblatt offered some insights while noting that all village employees who needed these supplies at work have access to them in Village Hall and near to all workstations.

“Last week the CDC came out with guidelines that stated the wearing of gloves is not a recommended practice and not suggested due to the cross contamination that occurs. Wearing gloves provides for cross contamination if someone wore them all day long, so if a person went to a grocery store and then into the office with the same pair of gloves on, they would move germs from

one place to another,” she said.

Hand sanitizers, disposable masks, gloves, wipes and disinfectant are all available for staff and personnel are centrally located in every Village department. Rosenblatt noted that in the Business office there’s a supply located right behind the front counter, near the copy machine, which is where most employees pass by. At the Village Yard, Public Works employees have such supplies readily available by asking supervising staff.

The mayor asked her about work stations and counters that may require plexiglass or other barriers. Rosenblatt says any employee that is “public facing (at counters) or working within six feet.” There are now such barriers up at the Department of Public Works window, the Village Business office and the Building Department office.

Mayor Trouvé requested more details on how Garden City will be ensuring cleaning and sanitizing Village Hall on workdays. Rosenblatt said the CDC

guidance on “regular, routine cleaning” will be adhered to. She adds that all the cleaning products the village is using at its facilities for such regular cleaning are CDC-recommended products, per its 51 page report on “appropriate disinfectants to be used in cleaning.” The mayor then specified that the regular outsourced cleaning company who tend to Village Hall and other facilities will use these products at each visit.

Mayor Trouvé asked Rosenblatt what the village would be obligated to do per the Nassau County Health Department and New York State guidance at the moment. The Village of Garden City is obligated to remind staff and visitors at its facilities to wear masks or face coverings and to physically distance as much as possible from others.

“People (village personnel) are to wear masks when they are unable to distance by at least six feet from the next person. It is about being courteous and respectful to your colleagues and of the public,” Rosenblatt said.

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Residents demand village take action on 93' poles

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with many of my neighbors in stating how disappointed and angry that I am with the failure of this Board to protect our neighborhood from health and safety dangers presented by these monster poles,” Kelly said.

Wellington Road resident Susan Larocca asked how Beveridge & Diamond was chosen to represent the village, by whom and what the track record is of Garden City seeing successful results from its engagement of firms in related LIRR and numerous other matters.

“I know the Village of Eastport had an attorney that was very successful in having the poles removed. The poles are being removed in Eastport after a legal challenge over two years, and I don’t know why Garden City is not reaching out to that attorney as his name and info were made available to the Board... the village doesn’t have a good record of winning lawsuits, so I hope we are choosing wisely,” she said during the Zoom meeting.

Garden City Mayor Theresa M. Trouvé said Beveridge & Diamond is well-known in the field and she referenced their engagement from 2016 to 2017 in the initial stages of Third Track project development.

“We are proceeding in a logical manner and we’ll get information from this

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cling bins. The old bins are being taken out of service and are not available to be returned. Residents may call 465-4003 with questions and/or concerns.

Village Dump resumes Sat. hours

The Village Dump will resume Saturday hours this weekend, June 13. The hours of operation on Saturday will be from 8:00am – 3:00pm. In addition, going forward the Dump hours will remain 8:00am – 3:00pm Monday through Saturday.

For the safety of Village employees and fellow residents, access to the Dump will be restricted to no more than three vehicles at a time. Vehicles will be asked to queue outside the Dump until directed to enter the area. Dump rules, as listed in the Sanitation guidelines, will be strictly enforced. We appreciate your patience and cooperation with these guidelines, which can be found on the mailing schedule that goes out to all the residents.

Health and Safety of Employees, Public

The Board, at its June 4, 2020 meeting, declared an emergency to purchase without competitive bidding 150,000 3-ply masks from Global Geeks, Inc. for a total cost of $48,450 by reason of necessity in order to preserve the health and

firm. We intend to hold onto them if they do a good job. I think things will work out. This process has a ways to go and we’ll be in constant contact with the community,” she said.

Mayor Trouvé answered a resident’s question by stating she thinks the MTA/LIRR did not notify the Village of Garden City about the poles coming in south of the tracks. She asked residents about their initial reactions when the poles first went up. Minutes later the mayor stated “everybody was notified all at once, with pages on the internet,” referring to a PowerPoint put out by a contracting consortium to build the Third Track, 3TC.

Questions about notification

After a resident spoke Trustee Stephen Makrinos suggested that emails were sent out by the MTA to anyone (including residents) who had requested to receive email about the Third Track project. Contrary to the mayor’s description of how this unfolded, Makrinos says those MTA messages this spring contained notice “of when those poles were going to be put in.”

Several residents reported during the meeting that they had all signed up to receive notifications and updates from the MTA/LIRR, yet none of them did receive any. Not one resident said they had seen such a message, and Larocca commented that they would have more

than noticed such information being relayed. Trustee Makrinos told her he will check to see if her name appears on the distribution list.

Trustee Mark Hyer assured residents that the Board is now trying to do something about the poles by hiring the law firm. He noted that nobody’s happy with them. Larocca said everything should have been reviewed and coordinated well ahead of the surprising, highly obtrusive installations.

Larocca also asked about bright yellow wires up on the massive poles, and if the village was made aware of them. She noted that so many village residents are very upset with the poles that are up, and the residents will fight the MTA/LIRR “with the village’s help or not.”

Michael Ryder, a Western section resident and member of the village’s Recreation Commission, said he believes many residents listening to the Board’s discussions May 21 and June 4 on the subject “get the impression that the trustees may be more interested in defending the Long Island Rail Road and not the residents.” Ryder said this issue impacts all Garden City residents, not just those closest to the poles. He wanted to hear each individual board member state their commitment -- to the LIRR or to the residents.

Deputy Mayor Robert Bolebruch said this was an offensive statement.

The Mayor's Update

safety of employees and members of the public. Telephone solicitations of other vendors’ comparable masks indicated alternative prices would be significantly higher. Staff engaged in a “due diligence” investigation of Global Geeks so as to be satisfied of its reputation and reliability.

Outdoor Dining in Business Districts

The Board held a special meeting on Tuesday, June 9, to discuss the Chamber of Commerce’s request to close Seventh Street to vehicular traffic for the summer, at least until October. After a brief discussion by the Trustees, Village Counsel and input from the Village’s Police, Fire and Public Works Departments and Chamber of Commerce, the Board of Trustees voted unanimously on a contingent plan to close Seventh Street and Kellum Place on Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays for 12 weeks, pending the filing and approval of an application for Municipal Extension with the New York State Liquor Authority. The Trustees will review this plan every two weeks. Outdoor dining will take place between the hours of 5:00 and 10:00 p.m. Social distancing guidelines will be strictly followed and masks will be worn when required.

LED Street Lights in

Anker’s Electric Service, Inc. was awarded the contract to install LED streetlight fixtures on Franklin and Stewart Avenues. Work is expected to begin later this summer. This phase of the capital improvement project began in June 2019 along Seventh Street and Franklin Avenue. After this work is completed, more than 2,200 streetlights in the Village will have been converted to LED. Conversion of the remaining 400 fixtures is the final phase of this project.

Third Track

Trustees retained Beveridge & Diamond, PC for legal services in connection with the Village’s relationship to the MTA/LIRR for certain third track issues. Mayor Theresa Trouvé executed the $25,000 retainer agreement, a copy of

“We understand the situation that occurred and one of the things the Board decided is that in order to move forward, we need to get the facts. From what I understand there are significant differences in the poles’ location in Suffolk (Eastport) and where these are in Garden City, for example with the right-of-way and County land. These poles are on LIRR property. We can sit here and get into emotional conversations but what makes more sense -- in order to get results -- is our hire of a firm with expert knowledge of the LIRR and this project. The firm has been involved with it from the beginning (2016) when the entire $2 billion project was projected,” Bolebruch explained.

Trustee Louis Minuto told residents that it’s too early in the process for the Board to be well-apprised of what can be done, legally.

“As you can see we’re voting for the hire of the firm which starts a process. I foresee that everyone would like to pursue this, but until we have the facts of what went down and how it went down the conversation here ends up circular. We will get the facts in order to proceed,” Minuto said.

Trustee John Delany capped the plans by stating “in addition to getting the facts, we have to ascertain the law and how it applies here -- the two go together.”

which is on file with the Village Clerk. Covanta agreement extended

Trustees extended an existing agreement with Covanta on a month-tomonth basis pending the negotiation of a successor agreement with a vendor for comparable services. The Village had an Agreement with Covanta Hempstead Company through May 31, 2020. In order to contract for a successor agreement for the disposal of waste, there is an extensive RFP and public hearing process that must be followed. The Board has already engaged D & B Architects, P.C. to assist the Village in the procurement of a successor vendor agreement for the disposal of solid waste.

Trustees consider issues for pool season (if there is one)

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Long Island municipalities -- Babylon, Brookhaven, Smithtown, Huntington, and Islip -- all announced on June 4 that they would not open and operate municipal pools and aquatic facilities in summer 2020 due to the pandemic.

“Right now, Arts, Entertainment, Sports and Recreation are all identified in Gov. Cuomo’s Phase IV -assuming that all three phases go as designed (in increments of two weeks for each) the earliest the pool could open is Wednesday July 8. Right now Recreation is targeting a potential opening on Saturday July 11, if the decision is made by the governor to allow pools to open, and assuming all the phases go for two weeks on the dot,” he said.

Deputy Mayor Robert Bolebruch noted that there is much more to evaluate than “just filling up the pool with water.” He says residents asked him why the village can’t make its own regulations for the municipally-owned and operated pool.

“We answer to higher authorities -- Nassau County and New York State. Once the State and County Health can give us the opportunity to open the pool facility we would then have to follow the

regulations they provide us for so many areas of the operation --- for chairs, for spacing, and then the amount of people permitted to attend,” he said.

Paul Blake confirms that first orders of state/county guidelines will include for physical distancing of attendees and for sanitation. He says this criteria will dramatically reduce the capacity “for all pools on Long Island” not set in someone’s backyard.

Blake says he has contacts in those five municipalities that decided not to open this summer, and he had left messages for directors at each to learn more about what went into those local decisions.

“The closures are based on their perceived inabilities to provide a safe, clean environment and also an inability to provide enough access for their residents. They are concerned that capacity requirements would be set so low that they could have problems with how many people may want to get in. These are all things that we’re going to have to consider as we get closer to Phase IV hopefully in July,” Blake explained.

Trustee Brian Daughney said the village would have to figure out both the capacity under direction from the state

and Nassau County Health Department, as well as how much the village should charge for pool access this summer. “Is it even realistic to open and do this at all?” Daughney asked.

Blake mentioned that due to COVID19 day passes could be a better idea than seasonal memberships. He added that potential for pool patronage this year would depend on those guidelines the village receives, as there could be plans to split operating days into two sessions for pool time -- one in morning, one in afternoons. The cap of people that could be at the pool facility for one session may be 300 people, Blake said.

Another alternative he mentioned was restricting people to choose to come on “odd or even” dates on the calendar. Nothing like these alterations have been formally discussed by the Board or Rec. Commission, and it’s too soon to finalize ideas for the village pool, if there is a season.

“We are beholden until we hear what Gov. Cuomo’s office and the Health Department give us in terms of their parameters,” Blake said.

Deputy Mayor Bolebruch added a thought on the possibility of asking any residents who come to the pool to

bring their own chairs for the pool deck, because the pool staff cannot safely ensure the cleansing or wiping down of village pool furniture with various people using them during the day, at different times and in different areas.

Blake told the Board people would have the option of bringing their own portable chairs or a beach towel or blanket to lay out on the grass, avoiding the shared use of materials/objects.

Blake also said a related issue would be storage of the village’s pool chair/ furniture inventory, as Recreation believes the state/county directive is likely to ban the use of the poolside furniture in July if the pool facility can open. Normally the pool furniture, when not on the pool decks during summer seasons, is stored inside the pool and covered from the elements.

“This boils down to regulations, challenges, the number of people permitted and the restrictions that will be imposed,” Deputy Mayor Bolebruch said.

Mayor Theresa Trouvé noted that these are among the factors that weighed heavily on those municipalities that announced they will not open this year.

Village Board to allow outdoor dining Thurs-Sundays

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a 5 p.m. to 10 p.m. timeframe. Backing up from 5 p.m. we feel that it takes 90 minutes to two hours for us to properly close the road to traffic and approximately half-an-hour or one hour for all restaurants to put out the tables and chairs,” he said

On a number of occasions in the last month, Administrator Suozzi, Superintendent of Public Works Joseph DiFrancisco, Police Commissioner Kenneth Jackson and Fire Chief Thomas Strysko met with the Chamber and its executive director, former trustee Dennis Donnelly on 7th street to closely examine all the logistics.

The re-routing of apartment-dwellers during the street closures would involve keeping the portion from Key Food around to the apartment building void of tables, chairs and dining (with hardly any restaurants in that area). Those accessing their residential buildings’ lots will pull in the opposite way onto 7th, through the driveway between Key Food and Dunkin’ Donuts, to reach their garages and buildings. From the driveways’ point west, the rest of 7th to Hilton would be closed and barricades would be up for safety.

A spreadsheet was provided for all the trustees to look at calculations of costs to the village, primarily for police and DPW staffing related to the street closure and outdoor dining preparations and timings.

“We put together the hourly rates (for employees, including overtime for the weekend nights) and the supplies and we came up with a dollar figure, which is what the Board asked me to do. For three nights of closures the costs for the village to bear would be $77,000 and with the fourth night that would total $110,000. And when evaluating the numbers, the village needs to back out (deduct) the regular summer factor of Friday evenings’ Promenades on which we spent $40,000. When you back out what we will not spend on the Promenades, you are approximately looking at another $62,000. These are gross projections that we think are fairly accurate, but this does not include any additional Sanitation prices for us,” Suozzi said. He noted that there are several hundred, if not 2,000 people on 7th Street each week for 14 Fridays of Promenades and this outdoor dining for four nights a week would never equate to the same crowds and activity.

“As I understand it the outdoor dining is really an expansion of indoor dining out into the street, for people to have food and drink, and this would be doing so to help our businesses and non-dining establishments. Our commercial sanitation people for the village do come by Fridays around noon and Saturday and Sunday mornings as well to empty the pails,” he explained.

Deputy Mayor Robert Bolebruch said there was consideration given for the people and businesses that conduct

more of their services and sales during the early hours of the day, and cannot be open during dinner hours -- such as places that primarily offer breakfast and lunch, as well as several stores that have traditional daylight hours.

On the back end of that street closure, Suozzi noted that “if customers are still having a dinner at a quarter to 10, the restaurant would not be forced to shut at 10 but they would wind down service and people would not linger outdoors, staying well past the time.” Deputy Mayor Bolebruch also noted that this situation has almost never been an issue during the many years in a row of Friday Night Promenades with outdoor seating for diners, as people have not made habits of hanging out too late on 7th Street.

Former mayor, current Village Trustee Brian Daughney explained on Tuesday that while the cost estimate of $90,000 to $130,000 for the village covers police, added Public Works personnel and other expenses, there is another part to the equation -- the time and allocation of those hours of village resources that could be spent on other municipal functions and tasks.

A Chance to Support Restaurants

In an interview with the News hours prior to the Board of Trustees’ special meeting on Tuesday, June 9, Garden City Mayor Theresa Trouvé explained the genesis of the plans to permit dining outside of restaurants, as the Garden

City Chamber of Commerce pushed for ways to give businesses in the village “a fighting chance” of economic survival as the peak of the pandemic’s wide-ranging negative impacts on Long Island and the nation has hopefully passed.

“The Chamber of Commerce’s Dennis Donnelly had written us a letter in April, initially, and in that he said the restaurant owners would agree their staff will be cleaning up the areas entirely and that they did not see a reason for the police presence. But I feel it would be much better to have the police presence -- not a heavy presence but these are trained officers in case someone became ill, or otherwise, and the officers can help out. This does take much thorough investigating, but I think we will see this be a good thing that works out nicely,” the mayor advised.

The mayor says keys for the trustees on June 9 started with the details of the permission of outdoor dining setups: “starting with safety measures, then who should be responsible for what; costs and who will arrange the seating, and can our GCFD firefighters get through feasibly should any emergency occur.” She noted that by Wednesday June 10, the Board and executive staff were expecting to hear an official update and direction from New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo that outside dining would be allowed.

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Meet Eammonn Flood, GC Schools new Athletic Director

BY RIKKI MASSAND

On Tuesday, May 19 during its virtual meeting the Garden City Board of Education approved 43-year-old Eammonn Flood as the new Director of Athletics, Physical Education and Health in the district. For the last 11 years Flood has served as Great Neck North High School’s athletic director and physical education department chair. At North he supervised the interscholastic athletics program as well as its Phys. Ed program. and ran the district’s summer sports clinics for elementary and middle school kids.

Flood succeeds Dawn Cerrone, who served as AD in Garden City since the summer of 2014 and announced this February that she was moving on to the role of AD at Our Lady of Mercy Academy in Syosset for the 2020-’21 school year.

In an interview with the News on Friday, May 29, Flood discussed his beginnings in education, specifically health and athletics administration and instruction. Flood was fresh out of his undergrad program at Xavier University in Ohio when at age 22 he was hired by Great Neck Public Schools in 1999. He had coached in the U.S. Olympic Development program and the Super Y League, all while still playing high-level amateur soccer. His four years of playing on Xavier’s NCAA Division I men’s soccer team also presented opportunities for experience at a high level of competition, as well as mentorship on both sides.

“I had done a lot of coaching because at Xavier I started training teams -- I was like a soccer team’s trainer (coaching position) in Cincinnati. Once I became a teacher in Great Neck I started at the elementary level after a number of years in early childhood education. After early childhood and elementary I moved up to the middle school and eventually on to the high school (Great Neck North) where I have worked over the past dozen years,” Flood said.

He holds a bachelor’s degree in health and physical education from Xavier, as well as a master’s degree in special education from Long Island University - C.W. Post, earned while working fulltime in the Great Neck school system.

Just prior to the school board’s unanimous vote approving Flood’s contract (4 years’ probationary) Superintendent of Schools Dr. Kusum Sinha commented on his stellar qualifications for the lead role in a community that has a proud history of sports success.

“Mr. Flood has over 20 years of experience working in public schools in the area of athletics, physical education and the health/sports environment. He brings a wealth of knowledge and many accomplishments as he joins us in Garden City...Eammonn began his career as an elementary-level physical education teacher where he both

designed and taught an early childhood inclusion Phys. Ed. program.”

“Eammonn’s references spoke highly to us about his strong interpersonal skills, which helped him move the athletic department forward at Great Neck North. He has the ability to problem-solve and to bring people along with him. Eammonn is reflective and inclusive of all students -- we are really pleased to introduce him to the board of education as a candidate,” Dr. Sinha said before the board confirmed Flood for the job.

he ultimately purchased in the late 1980s. Flood grew up in Great Neck Plaza and is now the parent of two middle-school aged children, 13 and 11, in the Great Neck district. His wife is child psychologist Dr. Pera Flood. He says the Great Neck North athletics experience was a process since his early days there, but a clear highlight was winning the 2007 high school boys’ soccer Nassau County Class A championship, one year after the team had just one regular season win.

and student-athletes over the last 20 years, he offered guidance on preparing students of today with a mindset of following their sporting and athletic interests well beyond the K through 12 experience. Flood played organized soccer well into his 30’s and he says longevity in sports participation is an important part of life.

For 27 years Eammonn Flood has served as a volunteer firefighter in the Great Neck Fire Department. If he did not pursue teaching, coaching and athletics administration Eammonn Flood would likely be among the FDNY’s ranks as he took the firefighter test.

“Being in a fire company is a lot like being on a sports team as everybody has a job to do, I love to go on a fire call, to be there to help people and to solve problems,” Flood said. In the Great Neck Fire Department, there have been numerous instances where Flood and some of his high school students who had joined as firefighters have had to go through drills and live-fire situations together.

“I love being around young people as they’re smart and they see the big picture. With firefighters everyone does their piece of the puzzle -- a metaphor for sports,” he said.

Flood’s love of teaching and working with children was developed in part by his mentor in Ohio who was very involved with preparing students for the Special Olympics. Flood’s mother was a special education teaching assistant, bringing her experience and positive outlook to help students into Flood’s unique makeup as an educator himself. She worked with children with special needs in elementary classrooms.

“The special needs population has always been very near and dear to my heart. In Great Neck Schools I was able to teach adaptive phys. ed courses at the elementary level,” he noted.

Flood’s parents are Irish immigrants. His father served in the U.S. Marine Corps in the Vietnam War. After owning a bar in Hell’s Kitchen his father moved to Great Neck to work for a real estate management company that

Flood knows there’s a difference ahead with the decorated Garden City Trojans’ history, which he’s very familiar with.

“Garden City is a tremendous school district, first, with all its history and traditions. In sports the number Long Island championships, Nassau County championships and New York State championships speak volumes about success in every single sport. It is one of the best school districts in the country in terms of athletics and academics. And as an opposing AD and coach in Great Neck, I knew that seeing Garden City on the schedule would always mean facing a very tough game. When Garden City students are lining up to play any sport, the other side had better be prepared to play because I know GC was prepared to play and they’re organized and wellcoached,” he commented.

Flood says the roles of physical education teachers are intertwined with oversight of coaching and sports administration. He believes young children can experience a love of movement and love of being active as well as passions of being involved with sports and team games.

He says students have the opportunity to excel in academics and athletics simultaneously, and that Garden City student-athletes have performed well in each area “for generations.”

“They complement each other -being a good student makes you a better athlete as you need to be an intellectual as an athlete. Conversely -- strong body, strong mind. They go together,” Flood said.

Lifelong Participation in Sports

Since Flood has played NCAA-level sports, taught physical education in all school levels and worked with coaches

“My hope is that students pursue playing sports well beyond high school, as they will gain amazing experiences and develop great relationships in high school athletics. If you want to play at the college level they can make strides, work hard and try out for teams -- but regardless, young people can continue to be an athlete post-collegiate level as well and in your adult life. When I stopped playing on soccer teams, almost right away I began racing triathlons -- it was a transition from one right to the other. I feel it’s important to live the lifestyle as you want to be fit, compete in sports and give back to sports, whether that is coaching or playing or even becoming an administrator. This can continue with athletics for the rest of your life -- it’s grounded in teamwork and in fun. Sports should be fun regardless of the nature of how you must compete in games, tournaments and championships. You will definitely want to continue to be involved with sports for your entire life -- and of course, legendary Garden City Trojans’ football Coach Tom Flatley is a great example. He was involved literally for his entire life,” Flood explains.

Local Sports Lore

Entering the position as the district’s AD, Flood says he has a multi-faceted goal. The first order of business is assessing everything that GCUFSD does so well with its student-athletes.

“The first steps include learning what people value, the things they do well and what we can do even better. My job will mean asking questions and listening and then trying to formulate a larger and longer-term plan with administration and coaches,” he said. He feels that Garden City has shown its competing Long Island districts and others that local sports builds community and keeps families, residents and schools staff interconnected.

“Sports provides one method for developing a spirit within your community -- that is a huge part of the district mission and its reach. The name on the jerseys say Garden City -- that is who you play for and it’s a very important thing. Sports provides an outlet like nothing else in the world can,” Flood explains.

The new AD is very familiar with a Garden City sporting legend, former athletic director of the Waldorf School of Garden City and former New York Cosmos’ teammate of Pelé, Paul LeSueur (Garden City High School

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alum) who passed away June 10, 2019 at Winthrop Hospital. In his remarkable career LeSueur was a soccer coach for Adelphi University and New York University teams as well as the athletic director for Port Washington High School, Floral Park High School and Wheatley High School. He was an AllAmerican at Springfield College in Massachusetts and part of the soccer team 1968 New England championship team, and inducted into the Long Island Soccer Players Hall of Fame in 2013.

Flood says he’s been an admirer of LeSueur’s dual commitments to playing sports at the highest level and passing his knowledge on as a coach and athletic director to so many students.

“Mr. LeSueur was such a gentleman and a class act -- his grandson and my son played against each other in youth soccer. This was the beauty of his amazing career -- he would coach at NYU and Adelphi and also at an ‘under-9’ youth soccer game.’ There are some professional coaches who could never have worked with young people but Mr. LeSueur was able to work at every level; with little kids and up to the professional level. He was equally well-respected among all levels and teams.”

Flood says examples such as LeSueur are something to emulate.

“I was able to connect with him a few times. He represents everything you would hope for someone to be in athletics -- competitive, smart, morally sound, physically fit; committed to his community and committed to the next generation. Paul LeSueur is a legendary person and I grew up in an era where he was among the first great players and advocates bringing soccer to this country and into the mainstream of Long Island’s landscape,” he said.

COVID-19 and School Sports

The pandemic forced the cancellation of the entire spring sports season. Flood has stayed abreast of every development and update from New York State and the Nassau County Department of Health.

“I have a tremendous amount of faith in New Yorkers and that we will all get through this and we will come back more creative and appreciative on the other side -- we can have even more gratitude for our athletics, building those relationships and camaraderie,” he said.

Flood advised that as of right now the Fall 2020 sports season is planned, however “just as spring sports were set to go on and the rug was pulled out underneath our young people, in fall the rug may or may not be.” He says the uncertainty is the most challenging part.

The National Federation of High Schools categorized sports as lowest, medium and high-risk for contact. Flood expects to receive detailed guidance from Nassau County Athletics and the New York State Public High School Athletic Association as they “brainstorm ideas” for the fall.

“We want to play sports but we need to do so safely and responsibly and in a way that honors everybody’s commitment. Hundreds of years of education has been uprooted by something that none of us alive today have really ever experienced. I am amazed at how our teachers and parents have evolved and I have a tremendous amount of empathy for all communities and families. My advice to our kids would be to continue to work out, train and exercise but continue to do the physical distancing protocols -- be prepared for athletics in some way, shape or form this August,” he said.

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a good leadup to the planning, though they did not result in final decisions (by last week). We were thinking through the best ways we can handle this. I know residents and people all over are feeling pent up, they want to go out…..I am in favor of outdoor dining plans as I think about how our restaurateurs have been waiting a long time, with money as such an issue at stake for anyone who owns a business. If we can do something that is good for them then the village would be glad to do it,” Trouvé said.

She was confident in the comprehensive strategy when asked about potential costs to the Village of Garden City for more police overtime, related to closure of 7th Street for any period to vehicular traffic plus being on-duty for added safety and assistance to residents and businesses.

Greater Civic Interests

Over the last several weeks, Mayor Trouvé has been able to reply to multiple letters and emails with ideas and questions of potential for outdoor dining and the main commercial street’s closure. The amount of letters received had picked up when a proposal to close 7th Street entirely to traffic, 24 hours a day and 7 days a week from now through

October 1 was initially brought before the Board at its Zoom meeting a week ago, on June 4.

Trouvé says the next few months will have to unfold in order for there to be any tracking of progress, ideas that need tweaking or adjustments. Trustee Louis Minuto has suggested that as the Phases of economic reopenings in New York State come down, two weeks apart at a time, hopefully, then the Board can revisit the permissible hours and days of outdoor dining as restaurants would be planning to reopen their interiors, if all goes accordingly and the State offices and Nassau County Health Department advise they can open.

“Eventually we’d imagine permission can be made for them to open their restaurants for customers (dining in) again, then they will want to open restaurants and their outdoor dining in good weather. I feel positive about the potential and frankly I am imagining this as a big success. If there is clear indication and a good result, in time we can decide about a start for the Friday Night Promenades as they are one of Garden City’s tremendous successes -- families have a marvelous time at them,” she explained.

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initially spoke for a formal request of three accessible spaces on 7th Street at the September 21, 2017 Village Traffic Commission meeting

June 12 ,

Gerry frequents establishments on 7th Street including the dry cleaners, banks, grocery stores and Seventh Street Gourmet Deli at 100 7th Street. His concerns were alleviated by the compromise worked out between Thursday June 4 and Tuesday June 9 with board approval after lengthy discussions.

“Living under the impacts of the pandemic and with all of us, the village and businesses facing such unusual circumstances, we all want the community’s businesses to thrive. The plans sound like a compromise; it’s not perfect but worth it. I hope our residents come out to support restaurants and all the businesses needing our help. I was concerned at first, hearing that 7th would be blocked off for four to five months. This is a good compromise although every business will offer its own recommendations and the opinions will vary a lot,” he told the News over the phone on Wednesday June 10.

He noted that these street and parking lot closures, from the lack of accessible parking in certain areas during the times given to the rerouting for residents of apartments on 7th Street during those evenings, would still mean some ‘sacrifices’ being made for the greater good of area businesses and Garden City’s community.

“Residents are cognizant of the sacrifices some are making, and we just make sure as best we can that all the businesses that can survive economic hardships and this pandemic do survive -- that’s is important for Garden City in the long-term. Our local businesses staying in business is very helpful to our community at-large and we are hoping that everyone comes through 2020 and the COVID-19 pandemic okay. It seems like our village trustees are working in good faith and in a much better way than the initial proposal called for,” Kelly said.

Places like Bagelman, the French Workshop and Garden City Gourmet would be in need of attracting the daily “breakfast and lunch crowds” -although they’d not be dining in yet -and the 24/7 closure of the street would

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“We would like to imagine the plan as a win-win but there’s so many different opinions on it. But with this com-

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