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Friday, August 25, 2017

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SUNDAY FUNDAY AT THE POOL

BY RIKKI N. MASSAND

With the last days of Summer officially upon us, the Garden City Pool hosted its annual Sunday Fun Day sponsored by Adelphi University. Children had a wonderful time playing on huge inflatable slides, trying their hand at fun games and enjoying these last couple of weeks of summer vacation. Towel forts also popped up everywhere as friends played games, made loom crafts and laughed the afternoon away.

Pictured are Pals: Amelia Moran, Madelyn Gebhard and Claire LeLeonnec.

Village board hears report on finances

BY RIKKI N. MASSAND

At the Board of Trustee’s Thursday August 17 meeting, Village Treasurer Irene Woo announced that her department is finalizing field work with the audit firm for Garden City’s year-end audit. General Fund revenues have come in 3% favorable to the budget projections due to higher than expected Building Department inspections’ fees as well as a couple one-time, unbudgeted revenue

sources.

“We received a grant from a special grant from the state for reimbursement of a recycling truck. We also had a premium on securities from the bonding that we did last December and higher than expected state aid for the mortgage tax. Year-overyear revenues we were flat and slightly better than our forecasts presented during budget development,” Woo said.

One technical adjustment on the accounting side is the

allocation of building and permit fees for the new Ring Road Marriott Residence Inn hotel (Simon Properties and OTO Development project) that Garden City expected to receive by the end of the last fiscal year, May 31. Woo said that came in once the 2017-2018 fiscal year started in June and “that was offset by these one-time unbudgeted revenues and higher Building Department revenues See page 22

At the beginning of summer the Garden City Board of Trustees’ Priorities List for 2017-2018 caused a stir with a proposal to redevelop the St. Paul’s main building by keeping only the facade facing Stewart Avenue, while creating a new recreation venue with three to five playing fields (made of synthetic turf) behind the exterior. The stated plans would involve relocation of the village’s Recreation Department into a new facility and possibly changes to the recently-renovated Cluett Hall and the Fieldhouse.

An architecture firm was scheduled to be hired this summer but August’s Village Board meeting did not address the proposal. Still the Priorities List maintains a target of February 1, 2018 for a consultant to come to the Board of Trustees with “a complete plan, including operational plan and architect renderings, with any changes to Cluett Hall and the Fieldhouse.”

Brian Pinnola, the former president of the Garden City Historical Society, sought an update from the Board in July. He asked for details, as the mayor provided a thought on potential consulting architects that had toured St. Paul’s structure with village staff. Yet no resident or trustee commented on St. Paul’s at the August 17 meeting. When the Board of Trustees’ gathers for their September 21 meeting, there may be a voice that initiates further dialogue and encourages the Garden City community’s full participation in any decisions on the edifice.

Pinnola is a board member of SPLIA – the Society for the Preservation of Long Island Antiquities. In his comments to the Board of Trustees at their July 20 meeting about St. Paul’s future, Pinnola touched on the interest St. Paul’s draws from preservationists, professionals and history fans all across Long Island.

Sarah Kautz is the preservation director for SPLIA, which is based on Main Street in Cold Spring Harbor. St. Paul’s has been listed as an endangered historic place by SPLIA in 2010. The information is currently listed on SPLIA’s website under “Preservation,” and on August 17 an article in The Suffolk County News highlighted the recent listing of Idle Hour in Oakdale, the former Dowling College location. Kautz and SPLIA cover the entire island, but they followed news on St. Paul’s as the Board of Trustees’ Priorities List placed its intended usage and scope of work as a top-level priority. On August 18 she spoke with The Garden City News over the phone.

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To the Editor: As a born Spaniard and specially and most importantly, as a human being, I could not hide my anger, disbelief, physical and mental emotions after watching the horrific massacre in Barcelona this past Thursday. I covered my eyes and loudly screamed NO, NO, NO!!

I could hardly avoid tears sliding down my cheeks. Why...? I asked loudly and to no one in particular. Evidently, the intention of these terrorists is not just to spray panic and to hurt a city and country but rather, spread widely this terror to many others. They have done it in Berlin, Paris, London, Brussels, Nice, Stockholm, etc. To those cities we must now include Barcelona, a cosmopolitan, sophisticated, and very well known for her history, and attraction to the world traveler and tourism industry. The purpose and intention of these murderers and terrorists undoubtedly inspired and directed

by ISIS, purposely done to inflict the mayor number of casualties and overall chaos but also, to create international attention, to spread fear and panic.

Unfortunately, they are accomplishing their goal. No doubt that these acts of unimaginable barbarism will remain a national drama for quite a long time before the victims can feel secure, comfortable, supported, and at home. On the other hand, the terrorists will con-

tinue to be what they already are with their loss of humanity, love, respect, compassion and an ever increasing hate and abomination. Religious fanaticism know no borders. The ‘civilized’ world must unite for the common cause and purpose of destroying these terrorists. Otherwise, these criminal acts will continue and escalate profusely. Also, and regret to say it, we may be their next target and victims. ISIS or ISIL must be eradicated from the surface of the Earth before it is too late! This is, indeed, the clash of civilizations. I also read and heard that Pro-Islamic State accounts on the Telegram messaging service, shared news of the attack with one channel saying: “Expansion of the Caliphate’ and posting a video of the scene with a message in Arabic saying: ‘Terror is filling the heart of the Crusader in the land of Andalusia’. I guess that they were referring to the Crusaders sent to the Middle East to take and safeguard the shrine of the Saint Sepulcher. Andalusia (Andalucia in Spanish) was the last enclave in Moorish-Islamist possession known as the Kingdom of Granada until its conquer and surrender to Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand in 1492. It marked the end of the Muslim occupation in Europe and which lasted six centuries.

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BY RIKKI N. MASSAND At its Thursday August 17 meeting, the Garden City Board of Trustees approved expenditures for surveys of Garden City’s Wye Lot, also known as Village Parking Field 6E, as well as Field 9E. The Board voted to transfer $27,000 from the Contingent account in the 2017-2018 village budget into “Street Administration” to fund the contractual services of Lynbrook-based firm Carman-Dunne, P.C. The Board then approved two separate contracts; the Field 6E (Wye Lot) study for $19,000 and for Field 9E, $8,000, with amounts allocated from the village’s Operating Budget.

Department of Public Works Superintendent Joseph DiFrancisco presented news on the study of village-owned parcels adjacent to the LIRR and a revived effort to discern boundaries with Third Track expansion planned. The topic arose one month earlier, at the Thursday July 20 meeting, when the Village Board of Trustees heard initial plans for survey work through a third-party firm to survey the Wye lot and determine the location of easements for the Long Island Railroad and utilities.

“Because of the Third Track, it’s come up to inquire what pieces the village owns and what we don’t own.

There are portions that are sidewalk that have to be re-done. During the Third Track conversations, we ran into questions from the railroad and our side about ‘who owned what’ with the Wye parking lot,” Mayor Brian Daughney said in July.

Last week, DiFrancisco said the request of the Board “to clearly identify the boundaries of the Wye Parking Field” the research to date shows there were five parcels of land consolidated in 1960, in a transaction with LIRR. “In addition we will be 9E which is just north of there. In conjunction with the Recreation and Parks Department, we’ve cleaned up the Wye Lot (6E) and trimmed back some bushes and worked on the condition of the pavement,” DiFrancisco said.

At July’s meeting Cyril Smith, former village historian, said pedestrian walking paths next to the Wye parking lot need attention from Parks and Recreation or Public Works maintenance staff. “A couple of passageways have an overgrowth situation. It may be a surprise to some people but the paths are heavily used by pedestrian traffic coming through,” he informed the Board and executive staff last month.

On August 17, Mayor Daughney said the village’s work on the parking fields falls into line with greater civic plans to clean up Franklin Avenue, Seventh

Street, adjacent parking lots and other commercial traffic, and pedestrian areas.

“The Planning Commission is looking at all of these (including specific reviews for Lots 7S and 7N, allocated by the Board of Trustees). This one (6E) was sort of the first step to get the lot cleaned up, to the extent we can, very quickly and very succinctly.

Let’s figure out what the village owns over there. Part of this is if we can make that a better parking lot that can help us with decisions for Lots 7S and 7N. Some of thought that people living maybe in the Grove Park vicinity and families driving downtown to a Friday Promenade on Seventh Street, if Lot 6E is a good lot to park in then why cross Franklin Avenue to get into Lot 7S? The closer lot would be lit, clean and there is easy access,” Daughney told the trustees and residents at the August meeting. He added that the strategic thinking “across topics” is the new order for the Board of Trustees.

Village Buildings HVAC Issues Addressed

Also at the Board of Trustees’ meeting on August 17 two agenda items for air conditioning repairs at village-owned facilities were approved. The Board approved a transfer of $26,057 from the

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Village to survey, clean up Parking Fields 6E, 9E

Contingent account towards Garden City’s Building - Maintenance of Plant account to pay for repairs of various air conditioning components including electric motor, PCV board and a compressor in the Village Hall/ GCPD headquarters at 351 Stewart Avenue as well as repairs to a leaking pipe at the police department and fire department radio room.

Another $3,551.25 was moved last week from the Contingent account into Building – Maintenance of Equipment to fund air conditioner tower at Village Hall and the air conditioner for the Garden City Public Library. Contained in the 2017-2018 Board of Trustees Priorities List published in June are a few items related to air systems.

One secondary task and project is to complete an evaluation and provide recommendations on the HVAC systems at Village Hall and the library by September 30. More pressing was the “primary task and project” for analysis of all hard assets in the Village of Garden City involving reviews of life spans, physical status and replacement requirements, which held an August 30 deadline. The older municipal buildings’ HVAC systems and in particular GCPL’s air conditioning were scrutinized after multiple malfunctions and problems in the summer heat of 2016.

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Water tower bids to be opened on September 1st

BY RIKKI MASSAND

Superintendent of Public Works and Deputy Village Administrator Joseph DiFrancisco brought the Board of Trustees and residents up to speed on the new water tower project, a high capital expense ahead. Bids for the water tower were initially advertised on Friday August 4. The Village will accept bids for four weeks, until September 1, and the bid opening is scheduled on that date.

On August 17 DiFrancisco joined consultants from H2M Water, Village Administrator Ralph Suozzi and staff from village engineering to host a prebid meeting for potential contractors to visit the Old Country Road water tower, next to the Ethical Humanist Society property.

“We had three potential bidders at the site. They had a lot of good questions and I thought it was a good review.

In fact there might be an addendum to a bid based on some of the discussions we had this morning related to the scope of the job,” DiFrancisco said.

Trustee Stephen Makrinos asked DiFrancisco about the types of water

tank that the village is soliciting bids on. One bidder is Aquastore, a vendor that accompanied H2M Water’s Joe Todaro, deputy market leader, as he presented to the Board of Trustees back on Tuesday February 21. Aquastore as a parent company is in the market as a glass-fused to steel composite tank vendor. Administrator Suozzi says Landmark, another visitor, represents the most traditional pedestal design and composite steel tanks. The third vendor does both steel tanks and composite with steel on top. As of August 17, DiFrancisco says nine copies of the project scope have been sent to vendors and contractors as far away as California.

DiFrancisco added that for preparations, he’s spoken with DPW in Mineola because when Garden City’s tower comes down the village will use Mineola’s to maintain water pressure in the village. “Those plans and discussions are in the works between the villages,” he said.

Initially, the project was supposed to have moved forward faster as it falls into the 2017-2018 Trustees’ Priorities List under “primary tasks and proj-

ects.” The Board of Trustees looked at a timeline at their June 1 work session that included approving a model and payment plan (cash and/or bonding) for the water tower by August 15, which would have required a vote by the August 17 board meeting. Also the 20172018 Priorities List had the build phase for the new tower commence by this October.

Mayor Brian Daughney announced that related to police activity, emergency response and cellular connections – a subject that drew much scrutiny with Crown Castle issues in the last 18 months -- as the new water tower goes up there will be communications equipment installed on top of it.

“The water tower will be built with the ability to mount antennas or whatever is necessary on top of the tower,” DiFrancisco said The mayor says village staff and the Board of Trustees are discussing hosting an online bidding system for projects through the village’s home website. “That is on our list of things to get done,” Daughney said. The topic came up as DiFrancisco mentioned that the water tower is the first project adver-

tised solely on discs and not with packets of paper. The mayor and Trustee Louis Minuto shared a quick joke that use of a little flash drive might be “the wave of a future,” but the village is taking small tech-savvy steps.

Village-wide communications are another strategic upgrade planned along with the new water tower.

Suozzi announced that Garden City is working to enhance its SCADA systems – controls that provide the village with alarms at its wells and water pumps. Radio testing, cellular signal and secondary communications from Cablevision are also being worked on and Garden City is pursuing a grant to add funding for system upgrades.

Suozzi added with the potential for Verizon to install a new wireless communications facility in the West section of Garden City, “which will supplement this nicely.” He did not provide details on that concept plan but he says the assistance to local police, fire and ambulance responders would be crucial and some money would be saved on the village’s side with Verizon’s project.

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Mayor Brian Daughney and members of the Garden City Board of Trustees joined Kevin Ocker, chairman of the Board of Commissioners of Cultural and Recreational Affairs, staff from the Department of Recreation and Parks, members of the Recreation Commission, coaches and players from local soccer, lacrosse, and football sports groups as well as former Trustee Richard Silver at a ribbon cutting ceremony at the newly renovated multi-sport turf field at Community Park on August 17, 2017.

As local sports teams christened the field, the Garden City Board of Trustees held a ribbon cutting ceremony August 17 on the newly renovated multi-sport turf field at Community Park, the latest example of the Department of Recreation and Parks’ Strategic Plan in motion.

“I believe this multi-sport field is an incredible asset for the Village. We look forward to scheduling the field and maximizing its use for the benefit of all those participating in our great local sports programs,” said Kevin Ocker, chairman of the Board of Commissioners of Cultural and Recreational Affairs. “We thank the Recreation Commission, all of our local sports organizations, the Board of Trustees, and former Trustee Dick Silver for their collaboration and support for this project. All can be very proud of adding this premier field to our recreational facility inventory.”

The multi-purpose field is used for soccer, lacrosse, and football. Sports groups using the new turf field for practices and games in the upcoming year include Garden City Centennial Soccer,

GCAA Thunder Football, Garden City Rams Girls’ Lacrosse and Garden City Youth Boys’ Lacrosse.

Rick Harken, president of the Garden City Centennial Soccer Club, attended Thursday’s ceremony. “We have over 220 home travel soccer games this fall so the additional field space is a welcomed enhancement to the other field locations in the Village. It will also allow our teams to schedule evening games and practices.”

Harken added, “The turf itself is a technological advancement over previous versions and should reduce the number of turf related injuries. The Village officials who conceived and executed the Department of Recreation and Parks’ Strategic Plan should be commended for their excellent foresight.”

It is anticipated that anywhere between 12 and 20 games will be played during the weekends during the spring and fall seasons, with each group receiving dedicated practice time during the week nights. The field is now fully lighted with permanent stadium lighting.

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Used golf balls will benefit soldiers overseas

BY GARY SIMEONE

Last week, Hempstead Town Supervisor, Anthony Santino announced a new initiative that would benefit soldiers serving in the United States military overseas. The initiative will include collecting stray golf balls from both Merrick and Lido Beach golf courses and sending them to soldiers stationed overseas and to wounded warriors living stateside as part of the ‘Bunkers in Baghdad’ charity program.

“Both of these beautiful Town golf courses receive a large amount of play and our employees are constantly finding stray golf balls when tending to courses,” said Santino. “Bunkers in Baghdad offers a gratifying way to deal with the surplus of golf balls while giving us the opportunity to continue to support our troops.”

Supervisor Santino made his announcement from the Lido Beach Golf course alongside other politicians including Town councilman, Anthony D’Esposito and councilman, Dennis Dunne SR. He said that US soldiers have been using golf as a positive recreational outlet and that the Town would do all they could to help them.

“Through this charity we are donating all of our stray golf balls to soldiers currently serving in combat zones. We are also asking residents if they have any extra golf equipment lying around

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their home, to please bring it to Lido Golf Club, where it will be donated along with a package of balls.”

Bunkers in Baghdad was founded in 2008 as a non-profit charity by Buffalo resident, Joe Hanna.

After learning that stationed soldiers were creating makeshift driving ranges in the desert as a way to de-stress from the ravages of war, Hanna began sending over an abundance of used golf clubs and balls to troops. Starting with a small initial shipment, Bunkers for Baghdad has given over 8 million golf balls and 600,000 clubs to soldiers stationed in Afghanistan and 64 other countries.

“We are extremely grateful to the Town of Hempstead and to everyone who plays at Merrick and Lido this season, for welcoming Bunkers in Baghdad into the strong golf community here,” said Hanna. “Any ball or equipment donations speak volumes about the warmth and generosity of the people who live, work and play in the Town of Hempstead.”

He said that the soldiers who are stationed overseas appreciate any item they can get from people back home.

“Every contribution, whether it’s a handful of golf balls from the garage, a single putter or a second best set of clubs represents a comforting slice of home and a gesture of appreciation for the sacrifices made by the men and women of our military.”

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GARDEN CITY UPDATE NEWS AND INFORMATION Mayor@gardencityny.net

As previously announced, the Board of Trustees and the Village Staff have embarked on new methods and procedures to communicate with members of our community, including our residents, commercial tenants and landlords, visitors, friends at Adelphi and local merchants. We are no longer publishing the “Mayor’s Column.”

This weekly column is intended to advise our residents and community of matters that the Village is working on, events and other important information. And of course, please visit our website for additional information: www.gardencityny.net. We are constantly updating and making changes to the website in order to keep it relevant and provide new information. We also encourage you to attend Village Board of Trustees meetings.

See the schedule of meetings on our website.

Water Tower Replacement

The bid for the water tower project was advertised on August 4. The Village will be accepting sealed bids for four weeks, with a bid opening scheduled for Friday September 1.

A pre-bid meeting was held on August 17 at the water tower site with companies planning on bidding on the job. This meeting was attended

by Public Works Superintendent Joe DiFrancisco, Village Administrator Ralph Suozzi, Scott Blum from the Village’s Engineering Department, Jim Gildea, supervisor of water pumping for the Village, as well as the Village’s water consultants, H2M. Mr. DiFrancisco has also spoken to his counterpart in the Village of Mineola as they are coordinating plans in order for Garden City to use their water tower to provide pressure while Garden City’s tower is down. “This is one of the largest projects in the Village’s history and I want to ensure we’ve covered all bases,” he said.

Survey of Parking Fields 6E and 9E

Earlier this month, Village crews cleaned up overgrowth, repaired asphalt and made repairs to storm drains in the Wye parking field, which is located behind the Chamber of Commerce building on Seventh Street. Trustees are also considering re-paving the entire lot and adding more lighting. This work is being undertaken to make the lot user-friendly, which could help alleviate parking problems in other lots, such as 7S. Over the years, there have been numerous conversations and questions about legal ownership of this lot and rights of way and who has the responsibility to repair this lot because of its location adjacent to the

Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) tracks.

Trustees engaged the services of Carman-Dunne, P.C. to prepare a survey of Parking Field 6E, which is the Wye Parking Field, as well as Parking Field 9E. This survey will clearly identify boundaries of both parking lots. The Wye lot consisted of five parcels that Village records show were consolidated back in 1960 in a transaction with the Long Island Rail Road.

Village Hall Roof

Repairs to the Village Hall roof’s parapets and masonry are underway. According to Public Works Superintendent Joe DiFrancisco, the Village was advised to complete this work before replacing the roof as this masonry work being done could have potentially damaged a new roof.

The roof replacement will begin when this work is complete. One of the reasons for the length of some of these projects is the presence of asbestos. Before the Village starts any work it tests for the presence of asbestos. If it’s detected, like in this case, it must be abated before the project can proceed.

Inventory of Village signs

The Department of Public Works will be undertaking a village-wide inventory of signs, such as the Village Hall sign. Once the inventory is complete the Department will pursue a contract to upgrade to new signs or repair and refurbish existing ones.

Treasurer’s Report

According to Village Treasurer Irene Woo, General Fund operating expenses are six percent favorable to the Village budget. General Fund operating revenues are three percent favorable to the budget. Year over year, expenditures are flat and slightly better than the forecast.

The Village’s cash balance totaled $39,946,000. Money market accounts have a balance of $9.5 million.

Library resumes Sunday hours

The Garden City Public Library will resume Sunday hours beginning the Sunday, September 10, 2017.

The Library’s regular hours from Monday through Saturday remain unchanged throughout the year. The Library will be open from 1:00 to 5:00 p.m. on the following Sundays from September 10, 2017 through June 17, 2018: September 10, 17, 24; October 1, 15, 22, 29; November 5, 12, 19, 26; December 3, 10, 17; January 7, 14, 21, 28; February 4, 11, 25; March 4, 11, 18, 25; April 8, 15, 22, 29; May 6, 20; June 3, 10, 17

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THE OFFICE CAT

BY GABBY TABBY Credit card theft: An employee in a Garden City Plaza business office reports the theft of three credit cards from her wallet. The cards were subsequently used for unauthorized purchases in Brooklyn.

Multiple violations: On August 17th, during joint investigation with Nassau County Probation, Garden City Officers arrested a 22 year old Mineola man for allegedly driving with six driver license suspensions.

He was charged with aggravated unlicensed operation and expired registration.

Metal theft: On August 17th twelve 2.5” brass hose valves were reported stolen from the garages of 1225 and 1325 Franklin Avenue.

Commercial mischief: On August 17th Garden City Police investigated a criminal mischief to a vehicle parked outside a commercial building on 2nd Avenue.

Excessive speed: On August 17th a Garden City Police officer assigned to traffic enforcement stopped a vehicle on Clinton Road for excessive

speed (55 MPH). Upon investigation, the driver, a 22 year old Roosevelt man, was charged with driving with a suspended license.

Placard stolen: On August 18th a handicap parking placard was reported stolen from a vehicle parked at a 3rd Street residence.

Flooding conditions: On August 18th Officers responded to reports of multiple disabled vehicles on Cherry Valley Avenue as well as Meadow Street due to flooding conditions caused by heavy rains.

Vehicle scratched: On August 19th Garden City Police investigated a criminal mischief where deep scratches were found on a vehicle parked in a Hayes Street driveway.

Credit card fraud: On August 21st Garden City Police investigated a report of fraudulent charges exceeding $2,100 against a resident’s credit card account.

Fire alarm: On August 22nd Garden City Police Officers assisted

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Lewd act: On August 22nd a female victim told police that she was walking her dog on Grove Street when a vehicle, described as an older model light colored minivan, stopped and the driver asked her directions. While asking he performed a lewd act. The vehicle then left the scene. The driver is described as a white man, 20-30 years

of age, medium build, with slightly long curly brown hair.

Item stolen from vehicle: On August 22nt a female victim reported that someone broke the rear driver’s side window to her vehicle which was parked in Garden City Plaza. A tote bag was stolen from the vehicle.

Additional reports of thefts were made from vehicles parked in the central and eastern sections of the Village during the overnight hours of August 23rd. Items stolen include a wallet, money, and other personal items.

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The Long Island Fair is seeking volunteers for the 2017 Long Island Fair in order to continue a tradition of a volunteer-run fair that began 175 years ago. The fair will be held at the Old Bethpage Village Restoration Saturday and Sunday, September 16th and 17th, and Saturday and Sunday September 23rd and 24th.

Volunteers are needed to welcome visitors, bring water to thirsty farm animals; sell doughnuts, peanuts, pumpkins, gourds and apples; judge corn-husking contests, help with children’s races and games of skill; work at

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Our Times Coffeehouse presents A Tribute to Phil Ochs Friday, September 15, at 8 PM 38 Old Country Road, Garden City

Our Times Coffeehouse is proud to open the Fall 2017-18 season with a Tribute to Phil Ochs featuring Greg Greenway, Reggie Harris, Tom Prasada-Rao and Pat Wictor. Ochs wrote hundreds of songs and released eight albums in the 1960s and 1970s.

Harris, Prasada-Rao, Wictor and Greenway will take turns resurrecting, interpreting and paying tribute to his work.

Ochs, a protest singer and songwriter with a sardonic wit, was known for his sharply-honed humor, political activism and insightful lyrics, as well as for his unmistakable voice. While his best-known songs, which include “I Ain’t Marching Any More,” “Draft Dodger Rag,” and “There But for Fortune,” are political, he also penned beautiful ballads such as “Pleasures of the Harbour” and “Changes.”

Pat Wictor, whose most recent CD “This is Absolutely Real: Visions and Versions of Phil Ochs,” wrote: “He was, as many of you know, best known as a great topical/political songwriter, with a gift for turning the news of his day into song. But his songs are not simply still politically relevant. Phil Ochs was a writer of great melodies

and a poet of the highest order, and his best songs endure as great art. . . Long before today’s problems with propaganda and ‘fake news,’ Phil Ochs’ songs, some using fantastical imagery, asked probing questions about the limits of power, the boundaries of what is real, and where the human heart can reside in a (seemingly) unfeeling world.”

Doors open at 7:15 PM that evening for ticket sales. The suggested donations are $20 adults and $15 students with ID; sorry, no pre-sales are available. Our Times Coffeehouse is in the Ethical Humanist Society building, 38 Old Country Road, two miles west of Meadowbrook Parkway next to the blue water tower. For more information, please visit www.ourtimescoffeehouse.org or call 516-741-7304.

Our Times Coffeehouse, staffed entirely with volunteers, has been presenting live music for 27 years. OTC is dedicated to supporting affordable folk music on Long Island, and over the years has hosted hundreds of outstanding performers in a warm, intimate setting. The Our Times Coffeehouse is a joint project of the Ethical Humanist Society of Long Island (EHS) and the Long Island Progressive Coalition (LIPC), with the assistance of the Research and Education Project of Long Island (REP-LI).

P.E.O. International Bridge and Game Luncheon The Garden City Chapter X of P.E.O. will hold its fourth annual fundraising Bridge and Game/Luncheon on Monday, September 25, 2017 at the Orchid Restaurant beginning at noon.

Anyone planning to attend this event should send a $35 check made payable to P.E.O. Chapter X to Ann Paulson at 73 Brompton Road Garden City, NY 11530. Raffles and Lucky Bucks will be available for purchase at the event.

Attendees should bring their own game of choice. When reserving a table, please indicate the names of all those who will be playing together. Mahjong players should also indicate the names of those with whom they are playing.

If you are attending alone, you will be seated with others. Raffle prizes and a Lucky Bucks drawing will available.

The organization’s goal is to provide encouragement and financial support to women who are seeking to extend their education. P.E.O has several opportunities which it affords women to apply for, including scholarships and low interest loans.

Cottey College is fully funded by P.E.O. Women who are admitted to Cottey College can receive two year and four year degrees funded by the organization. The proceeds of this event will help provide funding for the educational opportunities for which women will apply.

Members of the chapter are working together to make the event both a social and financial success. Information about P.E.O. is available online at PEOInternational.org

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Too much politics

BY BOB MORGAN, JR.

I’m writing this on an Amtrak train, and, as usually happens on a Sunday evening, I’m searching around for a subject to write about in this column. I wrote a fairly heavy piece last week on the events in Charlottesville, so I don’t think that readers are looking for two columns in a row of this type.

What I’m settling on this week is another riff about how we have overpoliticized too much in recent years.

I recognize that in some ways this type of piece is a little incongruous since I write a column that touches upon politics fairly often. I am interested in ideology and public policy implications of political decisions. I also enjoy reading and writing about political strategies and the molding of public opinion.

But not always and everywhere.

Much of life has little or no political implications. And it also helps from time to time to focus on subjects well afield from politics. Indeed, this week such topics as the eclipse, remembering the colorful career of Jerry Lewis or the problems of the Yankees in Fenway Park all serve to give us a sense of perspective not available to those who think in purely political terms.

There is obviously no shortage of good recent material on overpolitization (for example, late night television has become far more political in recent years), but some examples border on the comical.

Here’s a representative tale. At University of Southern California Trojan home college football games, the team uses a white Arabian horse named Traveler, ridden by a student dressed as a Trojan warrior, to ride across the field in celebration of the team’s touchdowns. This tradition apparently dates back more than 50 years when a Hollywood figure persuaded the university to use the original horse named Traveler, who previously had appeared in some movies, to ramp up enthusiasm at games. (There have been a number of successor Travelers over the years.)

According to the Los Angeles Times, however, use of the white horse named Traveler at games was criticized by student activists

as emblematic of white supremacy.

The activists note that Robert E. Lee’s horse was named Traveller, although the general used an extra l in the spelling of the name. I need not spend much time explaining my opinion that the connection between Traveler the horse and racism seems nonexistent. Sometimes a horse is just a horse.

The academic world provides another wonderful example of politics run amuck. According to the New York Times, students at Oberlin College protested that the college cafeteria service was engaging in cultural appropriation (the improper taking over of another culture’s creative or artistic forms) and cultural insensitivity. African American students demanded that more fried chicken be added to the menu. As to the cultural appropriation, it allegedly occurred when recipes or preparation of food served in the cafeteria deviated from a dish’s original ethnic origins. An example cited in accounts of the controversy was an Americanized version of the banh mi Vietnamese sandwich which was served with pulled pork and coleslaw on ciabatta bread, rather than using more traditional ingredients on a baguette. The complaints also touched upon poorly prepared sushi and General Cho chicken prepared with steamed rather than fried poultry.

Again, this seems ridiculous.

Complaints about college cafeteria food are not exactly new and perhaps students should be served more of what they want, including fried chicken. But it just can’t be offensive for a food provider to experiment with versions of a dish that appeal to local audiences, that may fit better within a budget, or that are mixed with other culinary influences. Indeed, many top restaurants would likely go out of business if fusion dishes were outlawed. This cafeteria food issue just isn’t in the political sphere.

In short, there are many important political issues in our time, but it is most unhelpful to ignore that many parts of life are simply, and properly, nonideological and nonpolitical.

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Garden City residents were caught up in the fervor to see the Great American Eclipse that swept across the nation on August 21st. Although Garden City

wasn’t in the path of totality, residents were able to see a partial eclipse in which the moon covered a large part of the sun.

The line for free solar eclipse glasses stretched around the Garden City Public library Monday morning. Unfortunately supplies were limited sending many amateur astronomers home empty handed. Photo courtesy Sam Myers

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THIS WEEK AT ROTARY NYS Sen. Phillips Addresses LI Issues

On Monday, August 14, The Garden City Hotel’s Wine Room was packed with members and guests of the Mineola-Garden City Rotary Club who heard NY State Senator Elaine Phillips speak of the many issues and concerns faced by Long Islanders.

Senator Phillips reported to the room filled with attentive listeners that she had been a Rotary Exchange student in Brazil “back in the day,” and that Rotary had meant the world to her in preparation for her future pursuits.

“Without Rotary’s influence and direction, I’m not sure where I would be today,” she said. To that, a resounding hand followed by the assembled group.

Senator Phillips represents the Seventh District (which covers northwest sections of Nassau County). In the senate, her focus has been on economic development – continually working to deliver tax relief and fiscal responsibility.

Environment initiatives are high on Elaine’s list of concerns. She stressed working to protect Long Island water with support from the state to fund infrastructure, to address the problem of salt water infusion, and to develop long-terms solutions to protect Long Island’s most valuable resource.

Among major concerns is the heroin and opioid epidemic throughout Long Island and beyond which is receiving national attention. The Senator serves

Members of the RotaCare Board of Directors (L-R): Martin Lord, Thomas Gelsdorf, Alba Spinelli (Club President), Helmut Schuler, Jim Brady, Adam Karol, Maureen Clancy, Bob Schoelle and Gary Fishberg. on the task force to develop treatment, more stringent law enforcement, and funding for treatment centers. “We all need to face and acknowledge this epidemic,” she advised. During the traditional “Happy Bucks,” Senator Elaine Phillips was lauded for her comprehensive and informative presentation.

Visit the Senator’s website at www. phillips.nysenate.gov.

Rotary meets on the first and fourth Mondays of the month, 12:15, at the Garden City Hotel. For information about Rotary, please call Alba Spinelli, Club President at 515-307-8870.

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(L-R): Alba Spinelli, Club Present, NYS Senator Elaine Phillips, guest speaker and Althea Robinson, presenter.

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At the August 14 meeting of the Mineola-Garden City Rotary Club, President Alba Spinelli, along with members of the RotaCare Board of

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Birds of prey can be seen winging across the sky. But the sight on August 12th was most unusual. Unfazed by onlookers and indifferent to photo seekers, a red-tailed hawk concentrated on his luncheon meal of squirrel.

After 45 minutes he left - only to return

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Red Tailed Hawks visit Garden City later in the day to consume what little remained. Perched atop of a roof, he gave a last look at spectators below before flying away. Note: The hawk wore a silver band on his right leg indicting he has been tagged.

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From page 1 “The specifics of what the trustees are considering remain unclear but they’re thinking about more or less removing everything but the façade, where the building would be gutted and Garden City would make athletic fields.

It would be really sad to tear down a National Register building to do that. I am not saying there isn’t a good reason for athletic fields, but I don’t think you need to tear down St. Paul’s School to find a place for them,” she said. SPLIA considers the position expressed by Pinnola in July, on behalf of the Garden City Historical Society. Kautz said the two preservation groups are united to oppose demolishing the interior or any parts of the main St. Paul’s School.

Kautz says since 2010, with the “endangered” listing SPLIA has been involved in trying to advocate for “the successful rehabilitation and adaptive reuse of St. Paul’s.” That, per SPLIA’s tradition, would need to meet standards set by the national Office of the Secretary of the Interior. She says that federal level sets the general guidelines for any property on the National Register of Historic Places, as St. Paul’s is.

“Those are pretty robust standards and they’re designed to have the best outcome, where you retain the signifi-

cant characteristics. It depends on what the use is. As far as I know in Garden City the community has never reached a consensus on what use they would like to see there. Until we’d know what the use is it is very hard to plan for the rehabilitation; different uses would mean different kinds of rehabilitation. It has been a very languishing process for St. Paul’s,” she said.

Kautz detailed unique history attached to the building and said St. Paul’s was designed by E.H. Harris and built by the wife of (Garden City founder) Alexander Turney Stewart, as a memorial to him – just as Village Historian Bill Bellmer noted in his April 18 Letter to the Editor.

“It is a fabulous building. It was a school, it’s an architecturally significant building and it is such an important part of the community. Any kind of adaptive re-use and rehabilitation of the structure should be done in such a way that it retains its historic character.

There’s lots of options for it. That does not mean it has to become a museum.

We’d love to see those options explored, maybe through holding a community design charrette (an intensive planning session with citizens, officials, and designers collaborating on a vision for development). Garden City can come up with ideas for what the building could be used for if they really go to the com-

munity and start opening that dialogue up,” Kautz said.

In her view the history of A.T. Stewart’s Garden City as an early American planned community relates to St. Paul’s standing as a big component of that fabric.

In an April 28, 2017 article in The Garden City News about Pinnola as the honoree of the May 11 Historical Society Benefit Gala held at Garden City Country Club, Pinnola is quoted considering St. Paul’s future: “No vision-no progress. Akin to A.T. Stewart’s development of a planned community on the barren Hempstead Plains, Garden City could again make a name for itself among preservationists, urban planners, architects and the public through a thoughtful, sustainable, renovation and adaptive use of St. Paul’s into a Village cultural, sports and community center.” The Board of Trustees’ Priorities List debuted at a work session held immediately following the board’s Thursday, June 1 regular meeting. That meeting coincidentally fell on the first day of the new fiscal year for the village.

Kautz worries that the Board of Trustees will not hold a public discussion on the plans but the vote on expenses – taxpayer funds to go towards an architect and eventually the physical project costs – in front of an audience, could turn volatile.

“I would not be surprised if it goes that way just given the history of what’s been going on with this property. SPLIA has always advocated for more community involvement. The community should engaged and there should be a dialogue on what’s being done with this building – there’s been a lot of ideas but no options have really been flushed out or explored in a good systematic way,” Kautz said. She hopes the Village Board could explore St. Paul’s future “in an open and comprehensive way, possibilities for adaptive re-use.” She would like a start to be the board deciding on a firm that takes a full look at rehabilitation with the building.

Grant monies are another option Kautz wants the Village of Garden City to actively explore for St. Paul’s.

“A plan like this where it could be completely gutted and only the façade remains would be very regrettable. It would not be the best reuse of that building. The village can apply for grant money and there’s many opportunities, many resources available to Garden City for the village to get funding to do adaptive reuse sort of work. They do not have to go it alone, if the funding remains an issue there are resources and avenues to explore. That’s certainly a possibility and SPLIA can raise this See page 22

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Preservation groups oppose Trustees’ idea for St. Paul’s

From page 21 in a letter to the village and the Board of Trustees,” Kautz explains.

She volunteers to attend an upcoming Board of Trustees’ meeting to ballast comments Pinnola and the Historical Society have already expressed in that venue and in The Garden City News. Kautz also said she is open to joining Pinnola for a sit-down with the Board of Trustees to present other options for St. Paul’s.

She cautions the board, “before you make this decision, make sure you’ve looked at every option and that it will be an informed decision on the best possible use. It is a historic resource and we do not call them resources for no reason. They are really unique and special, they should be honored and celebrated and not seen as liabilities,” Kautz said.

As a decision looms she encourages residents of

Garden City to proactively approach their POA representation and the Board of Trustees directly about St. Paul’s future.

“We (SPLIA) can’t legislate anything. As a nonprofit organization we don’t have an official regulatory role – our role is advocacy and education. If there is a concern from the community the trustees should respond to that. That is their job – to listen,” she told the News on August 18.

More than St. Paul’s has come to the local preservation forefront this summer. On Monday, July 31, Kautz was the guest speaker at Huntington Public Library’s community event, “Saving Long Island’s Historic Properties.” The forum and SPLIA’s mission was billed as an important movement taking shape and a poster for that event was created to rally residents: “Learn about what you can do to preserve Long Island’s historic buildings,” it read.

Kautz earned multiple degrees including her doc-

torate at the University of Chicago. She specialized in preservation and public history, working with museums from around the world and living in Japan, South Africa, the southern U.S. and many historical locations in between. She has contributed research to the Museum of the City of New York and the Landmarks Preservation Commission, building a searchable online database for collections at the New York City Archaeological Repository.

Aside from her role at SPLIA, Kautz is a historical anthropologist and archaeologist who, according to her online bio, “worked closely with material artifacts, historical media, and oral narratives to study practices of early global European maritime commerce across the Atlantic and Indian Ocean.” For a graduate thesis she intensely studied the Japanese artificial island of Dejima, built in 1636 to cloister Portuguese traders and the former Asian home of the Dutch East India Company.

Village board hears report on finances

From page 1 for other projects,” she said.

Mayor Brian Daughney asked Woo and Superintendent of Building Ausberto Huertas if higher Building Department revenues from fees were a result of any particular project or an overall surge in building activity. Huertas soon told him there’s more activity and general fee and permit revenues coming in and new applications.

Garden City ended fiscal year 2016-2017 with $39,000,946 in its Cash Account balances. In the village’s money market and investments $9.5 million remained.

On the expense side several factors pointed to the various staffing realignments in departments across Garden City as well as the flux in legal fees for representing the village in a few high-profile cases as well as arbitration, such as the GCFD (paid firefighters) grievances. Woo hinted at addition by subtraction for the total sums.

“I wanted to provide a preliminary view on how we ended the last fiscal year. For General Fund expenses we ended 2016-2017 about 6% favorable to our budget.

It was mainly due to some attrition, some vacancies and open personnel positions within village departments and the benefits that are related to those open positions. We also had lower Judgments and Claims that we settled, due to the timing of settlements, with about $500,000. We also had lower than budgeted legal fees in 2016-2017. Year-over-year village expenses were flat in total – compared to our forecasts that we had worked on during the 2017-2018 budget formulation (the past spring) we were running favorable to that forecast due to some open positions that remained open throughout the fiscal year and the lower legal fees,” she said.

Daughney acknowledged that Village Trustee Stephen Makrinos, who has extensive corporate finance experience working in Manhattan, recently met with the village’s auditors. The mayor wanted to hear about a timeline to complete the last fiscal year’s audit, as it can impact the village’s bond rating.

“We have to bond on occasion and we want to have our SEC obligations up to date,” Daughney said. Woo told him the last two weeks of August would conclude with village finance staff and auditors putting together a management report, and full financial statements will be due back in October. A preliminary report will be submitted to New York State by September 30. After the statements are back in October the village’s bond-

ing will be done in later October or November, as Woo stressed the need for having Garden City‘s financial reporting completed.

Raises for Head of Village Finance, Communications Consultant

Woo, who joined the Village Hall administration in the summer of 2015 when former Village Auditor James Olivo retired after 38 years, also received Board approval for a raise. The local resident and village executive staff member will make $175,000, as a transfer of funds of $7500 was approved from the Contingent account to Finance department (Regular Salary) for her salary increase. Village Administrator Ralph Suozzi said the raise was in recognition of Woo’s outstanding work as village treasurer in the last two years.

“Mrs. Woo has done an exceptional job in reorganizing Village Finance, improving process, marking our costs, clean audits and maintaining our village’s Triple A bond rating. She has done an excellent job in the two years she’s been here and I am thankful to her and the Board,” Suozzi said.

Mayor Daughney also thanked Woo for her outstanding performance working for the Village of Garden City, which all started with her work as a consultant assisting Olivo and Village Administrator Ralph Suozzi in his first village budget cycle, on the 2015-2016 budget.

Daughney commented on Woo’s pay rate increase and said the Village Board “remains mindful of paying salaries to public employees, but we are also mindful that you have to pay for talents.”

With another Board approval on August 17 a transfer of $10,000 in funds from the village Contingency account to Publicity will increase the monthly payments for consultant (former Garden City Patch editor) Carisa Giardino, the village’s communications and public relations consultant responsible for contents on the village website and “Garden City News and Information” press releases. Giardino, a Rockville Centre resident, will now receive contract compensation of $3,000 per month.

New Volunteer Firefighter

The first order of business for the Board of Trustees at its August meeting was its approval of new volunteer firefighter, Jo S. Chan. He comes to Garden City’s department after serving as a volunteer firefighter in the Village of New Hyde Park. Chief Thomas Gallo

said Chan moved here recently and he had already begun firefighter training in New Hyde Park, but Chan will finish the training process with GCFD. “That is a great asset for us, to have somebody join this village that is already on their way. I had a couple of NHP ex-chiefs come up to me at local meetings and say they were upset to see Jo go,” Chief Gallo said.

The mayor thanked Chan for volunteering and said Chan joins a great group of guys with the GCFD, and Chan should learn and have fun with his fellow firemen.

Building Department Considering New Law

As revenues have soared from projects around Garden City, improvements to the Building Department process include a large-scale digital scanning project to convert millions of pages into downloadable computer files, replacing paper. Huertas also explained a municipal change that is in the works to further boost funds and set controls over permits – expiration dates.

“One of the local laws we are looking into implementing would be permit limitation. That has other components to it but basically it is to limit the amount of time a permit we issue stays active and open. A perfect example is that I’ve gone through files where a permit was open for 12 or 15 years and nothing was done – they just stayed dormant and open. This regulation would provide that when work gets done the applicants and/or contractors need to make sure they close out the application in our system,” he said.

Huertas explains that in the event that someone wants to sell their house, they may have the closing on a Friday. A last-minute scramble would take shape if all the applications would remain open and the Building Department is not be able to close those out in three days.

“It would also prevent people from over-using the limitations of an open permit because they could use it for other means other than constructing on the site.

Some are storing stuff that shouldn’t be stored there and the site becomes an eyesore for other residents to see construction debris, because the application may technically still be in construction. That would solve that issue as there will be a limitation – contractors would need to get the work done as quickly as possible,” he said.

Mayor Daughney summarized that is isn’t fair to any neighbors for a resident to hold open a permit with house construction “that’s three-quarters done See page 23

From page 22 for four years.”

“Maybe residents are trying to sell a house and people (agents or prospective buyers) and coming to see it and they say ‘what the heck is this mess next to you?’ It is just not right. We will try to solve that as well as solving it on our Finance Department’s side, tracking these deposits (revenues from permits) as Mr. Huertas said they could be staying open for 15 years and through new owners and contractors. Who does the money belong to and what will we do with it?

There will be a cutoff date if there’s a deposit sitting there and applicants will lose it,” Daughney said.

Village Paving Update

With the 2017 road paving program in full swing this summer DPW Superintendent Joseph DiFrancisco updated the Board of Trustees at the August 17 meeting and supplemented the notices often posted on the

village website.

“I am sure residents have seen paving around their neighborhoods – we’ve currently completed concrete work on Brompton Road, Merillon Avenue and additional St. Paul’s parking areas as well as sidewalk work at the Rainbow Division Memorial off Clinton Road. Paving of Brompton, Merillon and St. Paul’s parking will be completed in the next three weeks along with striping. Euston Road concrete work is scheduled to begin within the next week to 10 days as a next step in the process,” he said.

Signage Inventory

DiFrancisco told the Board of Trustees DPW is taking a look at the inventory of signs (mainly white and green ovals) for village facilities and landmarks, including the sign for Village Hall. Once the inventory is complete DPW will put together specifications of a contract to upgrade and/or order new signs, depending which ones need repair or refurbishing and which

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may be obsolete. “A lot of it is going to come down to cost,” he said.

Vehicle Analysis Gets Rolling

Last week the village and its financial advisors from CMA commenced an analysis of Garden City’s municipal executive fleet. Village Administrator Suozzi said CMA will conduct its analysis with insights from the village mechanic. “It will help us with future insight and considerations for lease/purchases for the village fleet,” Suozzi said.

As part of the Board of Trustees’ Priorities List from June, the formal analysis of leasing vehicles “for certain village departments including the Building Department” was scheduled to start July 15, so the August update is timely. The Priorities List specified a completed date for the analysis of September 15, less than a week before the Board of Trustees’ next meeting on Thursday, September 21.

Teens urge Congress to fight against cystic fibrosis As part of the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation’s 9th annual Teen Advocacy Day, three teens from Nassau and Suffolk Counties joined more than 160 advocates from across the country in Washington, D.C. to meet with elected officials and advocate on behalf of their loved ones living with cystic fibrosis. This group includes Stephanie Ross, age 14, from Huntington Station; Max Genova, age 15, from Garden City; Julianna Brogan, age 16, from Bellmore.

Cystic fibrosis (CF) is a life-threatening genetic disease that causes progressive lung damage and makes it difficult to breathe. An estimated 30,000 people in the United States, and 70,000 worldwide, have CF. During the event, the teens met with senators, representatives, and congressional staff to advocate for adequate, affordable health care for people with CF and other chronic diseases and to protect current laws that help them get the care they need. For instance, the advocates spoke with their members of

Congress about the importance of robust funding for Medicaid, which one half of children and one third of adults with CF rely on for coverage.

The teens also shared their personal experiences of how the disease has impacted their family members who have CF. This event is an opportunity for teen advocates to travel to Washington, D.C., and speak on behalf of those who cannot be there to speak for themselves. Because people with CF can spread or receive dangerous germs from each other, which can lead to serious lung infections, it is recommended that they avoid close contact with other people with the disease.

“I am so grateful for the opportunity to advocate on behalf of my brother, Jake” said Genova. “Seeing someone I care about fight this disease every day has inspired me to come here today and do my part to help everyone who lives with cystic fibrosis. I know how vital it is that people with CF have access to new treatments and quality care, and I delivered this message

to our representatives in Washington.”

This was the second year in a row that all three teens traveled to Washington, D.C. to advocate. Max Genova and Julianna Brogan both went on behalf of the same person- Max’s older brother and Julianna’s cousin- Jake Genova. Stephanie Ross advocated for her older brother, Christopher Ross.

This year’s event, held on June 22, marked the Foundation’s ninth Teen Advocacy Day. The number of advocates participating in Teen Advocacy Day grows each year and plays an important role fight for adequate and affordable health care for people with CF, as well as funding for CF drug research and development.

For more information or to get involved, please visit CFF.org to get in contact with your local CF Foundation chapter.

Theatre professionals collaborate at Adelphi Leading national theater organization, New York Theatre Workshop (NYTW), has a long history of fruitful collaboration with the Adelphi University Performing Arts Center (AUPAC). This summer, Adelphi hosted the workshop’s sixth summer residency from June 5-18, where 11 students from the Department of Theater gained a significant edge in the world of theatrical project development.

Founded in 1979, NYTW’s productions have received a Pulitzer Prize, 17 Tony Awards and assorted Obie, Drama Desk and Lucille Lortel Awards.

They work with more than 1,800 artists annually and have developed hundreds of productions including Adelphi alumnus Jonathan Larson’s Rent, Doug Wright’s Quills and Martha Clarke’s Vienna: Lusthaus. Emerging playwrights, actors, dramaturgs and more have gained success through NYTW’s Artist Workshop activities, including participating in residency programs as fellows.

During the course of the residency, students and NYTW fellows worked on projects that were shared at the end of the residency as work-in-progress readings. Students were able to make connections with the artists, observe new ways to develop art, refine acting techniques, complete historical research and learn new theater terms and procedures. Though their

responsibility was to assist the residency, collaboration played a key role in the experience.

“The first day we sat down, and all the actors read the play, they asked us what we thought. We were able to contribute, which we didn’t expect and they were receptive to it,” said Harper LaBrozzi ’20, one of the student interns. “It was truly ‘Hey really, what do you think of this?’ and that was something you do not get everywhere.”

Some students enjoyed the program so much that they decided to participate for a second year.

“Well coincidentally, the first time I saw a show at NYTW, which was my freshman year here, I immediately thought ‘I would love to do a show there,’” said Joanna Georghiou ’20, who described the experience as one to help students reach their future goals.“That’s a goal for myself, to be cast in a show at the Workshop.

I feel like I’m closer to that now because I’ve done this twice and I’m getting to know the people who work there and see how they run which is amazing.”

The NYTW guest artists were eager to participate in the program and work with the students. One of the artists, Amauta Marston-Fermino, described the program as refreshing because groups of people come together to focus on creating art. Other artists agreed that the program will have a lasting effect. “If any one

of these students were like ‘Hey I’m moving to New York, do you know anyone? Can you help me find an apartment? Can you put me in touch with who you know at X Y Z?’ I would be glad to do it,” said Ato Blankson-Wood, another guest artist.

The program began as an initiative led by the College of Arts and Sciences. Over the past six years, the program has extended its residency at Adelphi to provide more time for collaboration.

“It’s a tremendous opportunity for us to bring artists outside of New York City and work within Adelphi’s space aided by the theater students,” said Artistic Producing Associate, Rachel Silverman from NYTW. “It is very meaningful to us and to the artists we bring up to be able to work in such great facilities and be taken such good care of. One of my favorite parts is seeing how much work is always accomplished within each residency, and to see how the resources at Adelphi have helped to develop the piece in ways it may not have gone had we been working elsewhere.”

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WPOA plans Pizza Party

The Western Property Owners Association will hand out a preview of a first draft of the proposed Fall Schedule at its summer pizza party this Saturday, August 26, from 2 PM to 6 PM at Edgemere Park. Residents can comment on what activities they like and provide any feedback on regular meetings and possible future speakers.

Please come out and enjoy the games for children and families on Saturday at Edgemere Park (Rain Date Sunday August 27 Noon).

The WPOA (Western Property Owners Association) will have activities for children, including clown face

with beanbags, ring toss, and bowling game. In addition to pizza, residents will share popcorn, ice cream and other refreshments. The party will end with an adult-child water balloon toss, children egg on spoon race, and an adult raffle for NY Mets tickets ($5 for one $25 for 6 raffle tickets).

The WPOA will be collecting dues for 2017 and 2018 for any resident who would like to join and support our organization. (Dues are $25 a year).

Residents who would like to volunteer for the party or the WPOA, please contact Gerry Kelly at gerry7th@gmail. com or 302-547-0800.

Mobility Impaired Committee to meet The Mobility Impaired Committee appreciates all the work the Parks and Recreation Commission, the Pool staff, the Village and Commissioner Ocker have made for GC Pool 2017. The courtesy all members of the pool have shown the disabled this year is also appreciated very much. The committee’s goal is to provide access to all and we appreciate all the suggestions to the changes at the GC Pool. The next MIC meeting will

be Saturday September 2 at 12 noon at the Pool. The Committee will update its recommendations for GC Pool 2018 and prepare for the Traffic Commission hearing on Thursday, September 21 at 7 PM at Village Hall. For more information please contact Gerry Kelly at 502-6710 or gerry7th@gmail.com Meetings are open to all and the group usually meets around the adult pool near the mobility-impaired gate.

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BY RIKKI N. MASSAND At the Board of Trustees’ August 17 meeting, five days after the Rainbow Division (42nd Infantry) 100th year Celebration marking the United States’ entry to World War I, Garden City’s leaders reflected on what they participated in and what the village helped organize for a momentous occasion. Police Commissioner Kenneth Jackson confirmed that GCPD counted 400 total attendees after estimates per hour. Village Administrator Ralph Suozzi said in his initial conversations with Retired Lieutenant Colonel Paul Fanning, memorials officer for the Rainbow Division Veterans Foundation, a crowd of 50 people was expected.

Trustee Mark Hyer thanked Cyril Smith and Bill Bellmer, the village historian, “for putting the event together and doing everything that you did.” Hyer praised Suozzi, DPW Superintendent Joseph DiFrancisco and others for their outstanding job.

He spoke about the American flag arch that was put up by the Garden City Fire Department and Chief Joe Nadolny.

“The police department was there, they closed off the streets and kept everybody safe – thank you to all our personnel and volunteers. It was a great celebration and I was honored to be there,” Trustee Hyer said.

Suozzi thanked every contributor

to the event and preparations that Garden City put into it, and he commended Joseph Piersa from Garden City Engineering and DPW as the point-person working with the monument’s restoration. He also applauds the Recreation and Parks and DPW personnel for cleaning and maintenance as well as the sidewalk repair near the site.

Deputy Mayor Theresa Trouvé, who along with Trustee Hyer, Trustee Stephen Makrinos and Mayor Daughney attended the ceremony and met dignitaries from all over, also reflected. She and Cyril Smith discussed the contributions of Layne Meyer, a rising Garden City High School senior and senior student ambassador for the Central Property Owners’ Association (CPOA). “He worked right along Cyril’s side and he handled it so well as it was one of his projects for the Central POA. Layne has a lot of dedication and a great personality and we were really lucky to have him working on this project,” she said.

Mayor Brian Daughney commended village personnel and all contributors “on a great job.” He pointed out Smith and Bellmer and thanked them “for taking charge on this and helping the village get it done.”

“It was a special ceremony and several of the trustees were able to make it. Downstairs Cyril and Bill have brought the placards with Camp Mills and Rainbow Division history downstairs. We

Garden City mayor Brian Daughney addresses veterans, distinguished guests, fellow village trustees, and 400 attendees of the August 12 ceremony at the Rainbow Division Memorial. should consider some way of preserving them and taking three or four placards and displaying them at the Rainbow Monument that would give it context and front-and-center explanations of the history marked. I have asked Mr. Bellmer to provide some information on the costs of doing that and we should definitely do that with some way of preserving these,” the mayor said.

The mayor added praise for the work artist David Bliss completed in restoring the Rainbow Division monu-

ment. He added that feedback from the Rainbow Division (alumni and current regimen) and National Guard in attendance was extremely positive.

“They were so appreciative, they really loved the ceremony and refurbished monument. They even commented that ‘we don’t get this number of people at their ceremonies usually’ and they were all really impressed,” Mayor Daughney said.

Garden City’s Deputy Mayor Theresa Trouvé and CPOA student ambassador, GCHS senior Layne Meyer, at the August 12 ceremony.

Retired Major General Joseph J. Taluto (standing at podium) addresses attendees of the August 12 ceremony.

Artist David Bliss of Sprung Monuments worked 100 hours on restoring the Rainbow Division Memorial. He spoke with the News and met residents and village staff on August 12, attending with his girlfriend Mary and their Chihuahua, Buster.

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From the 42nd Division Infantry Brig. Gen. Raymond Shields speaks at the August 12 Rainbow Division Centennial event.

Deputy Counsel General of France Eric Bayer addressed the crowd in Garden City at the August 12 ceremony.

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This past week parents were busy making plans to pick up their children from camp, purchasing new clothing for them as it seems that they have grown a few inches during the Summer, either gained or lost a few pounds and very little in their closet fits them any longer. You do not have much time and most children do not enjoy trying on clothes.

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The Community Club of Garden City and Hempstead have swung into action. Their programs for September and October are printed and in the hands of the members.

Reservations are coming in for their September Friendship Luncheon on the 27th of that month. Monday, September 18th is the deadline so do not delay! On October 4th the Club will present their first program for the season and it will be Jean McCormick in “Music in the Air” at the Garden City Casino.

Happy Birthday wishes go to Jane Nelson who will blow out the candles on her cake close to Labor Day. This gentleman deserves a special spot as he will celebrate his birthday on August 20th and that will mark his one hundred and fourth birthday! What a record! His name - Ed Palkot.

The Garden City Pool will soon be closing and Labor Day is the final day. The children will be going back to school and students at Adelphi University will be using the pool parking lot to park their cars - and yes, Adelphi does pay for that.

The Garden City Casino will soon be starting their Casino Bridge. It is a luncheon bridge and is very popular with the ladies.

It might surprise you to learn that several ladies in town have not only started their Fall cleaning but they have finished it. What comes next ladies - writing your Christmas cards? I must say they are really organized.

Unfortunately there is always some bad news. This past week marked the passing of Herb Kent.

Herb was a member of the Retired Men’s Club and was an avid bridge player and had planned to go on a vacation to Florida. He will be missed by his family and his many friends.

The Garden Department of the Community Club of Garden City and Hempstead will also be sponsoring a trip to the Brooklyn Botanical Gardens on October 10th. There were many members who asked for this trip so get your reservation in as soon as possible and I am sure it will fill quickly.

Time really flies these days but that is not a problem in Garden City. We have clubs that sponsor programs on many subjects and we have many bridges that you can attend - especially if you have a foursome. There are classes you can join in Adult Education in many areas of study. The Community Club of Garden City and Hempstead has many excellent programs and if you join the club you can attend a wide variety of these programs. Adult Education also has any number of programs and tours you can sign up for. If you love bridge you can attend most of the bridges and you can both enjoy the game and meet new people. Adult Ed gives classes where you can learn many things that you will enjoy and they also have trips by bus to many new places you will be interested in seeing.

Summer is a quiet time but even here we have the Garden City Pool and you can meet new people as folks there there to swim , chat and make new friends. They even have groups that play cards and it’s all in fun. If you have children - they will also love it. Yes, I know that it’s all overt in a little over aa week, but there is always next year, so go fro it. See you next week

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Williams - Ienna Engagement

Anthony Ienna and Kaitlyn Williams It is with a great joy and best happiness that Jeanne and Richard Williams of Garden City, announce the engagement of their daughter Ms. Kaitlyn Kelly Howley Williams to Mr. Anthony Joseph Ienna With a wistful glance during a class at the Garden City Middle School, the early spark of a friendship began.

Into high school years, the connection remained dormant until midway through their high school senior year.

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Northwestern University and Anthony to Pennsylvania and Dickinson College, the relationship blossomed. Despite a hectic collegiate Division 1 athletic career at Northwestern, Kaitlyn and Anthony remained in close contact, supporting each other throughout college.

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The bride’s father, Richard, is the CEO of a family owned ‘experiential solutions’ marketing firm, American Guest USA, offering corporate meeting, event, and incentive programs throughout the US, Canada, and the Caribbean while the bride’s mother, Jeanne, is an educator in Garden City.

Kaitlyn’s siblings, Jeanne Williams Gawlik, John R. Williams and Dennis P. Williams and their families all live in Garden City while Kimberly Williams Pellish resides with her family in Washington, DC. A 2014 graduate of Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois with Bachelor of Science degree, she completed a Capstone project evaluating the linkage of vitamin absorption and development issues in children.

Kaitlyn played on Northwestern’s nationally ranked Field Hockey teams which rose to Big 10 championship status in her junior and senior year.

She also held a managerial role with Northwestern’s Athletic Department during her tenure. In 2010, Kaitlyn received her diploma from Garden City High School, where she was a member of the NYS championship field hockey teams.

Anthony J. Ienna, is a graduate of St John’s University, School of Law where in June, 2017, he was awarded a Juris Doctorate. While in law school he participated in several prestigious programs including Bankruptcy, Admiralty and International Law. While at law school, he had the honor of interning at both the International Court of International Trade and for a District Court judge where he prepared several court rulings for judicial review. Anthony sat for the NYS Bar in late July and will begin his formal legal career in mid-September at a medium level firm. A graduate of Dickinson College, Anthony spent a year in Italy studying International Law and Trade attending Johns Hopkins University programs. Anthony graduated from Garden City High School in 2010 where he excelled in Latin and Italian language studies.

Anthony is the oldest son of the prominent Periodontist, Anthony Ienna, Sr. DDS and Guistina Ienna, a registered pharmacist also residents of Garden City. Dr. Ienna has his periodontal practices in Rockville Center and Franklin Square New York. The senior Ienna is also an Assistant Clinical Professor at Stony Brook University and an Attending Clinical Professor at Winthrop University Hospital.

Kaitlyn and Anthony plan to wed in Garden City in September, 2017 followed by a reception at a Long Island yacht club. They will be surrounded by their families, friends and others who have guided, supported, and shared in their journey together over the past several years.

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It’s What’s Happening for Young Adults at the Library Congratulations to the Winners

Congratulations to the winners of this year’s Tweens and Teens Summer Reading Club! One hundred and thirty seven tweens and teens signed up for the Summer Reading Club this year and 588 review cards were submitted.

The winners of our raffles this year were: • Jacqueline Bass, Grade 7 – Ice Cream Maker • James Griffin, Grade 6 - $50 Gift Card to Lacrosse Unlimited • Paulette Leune, Grade 7 – Polaroid ZIP Mobile Printer • Jason Li, Grade 8 - $50 AMC Gift Card • Emma Nagler, Grade 8 - $50 iTunes Gift Card • Ryan Sievers, Grade 7 – Art Gift Set Additionally, Emma Nagler won the $50 Barnes and Noble Gift Card for the most books read, reading 55 books this summer! Congratulations to all the winners and thanks to everyone for participating in this year’s Tweens and Teens Summer Reading Club.

First LEGO League Sixth Grade Robotics Team

The Garden City Public Library is proud to be running its first ever First LEGO League Robotics Team for sixth graders beginning this fall!

Registration is required and begins Wednesday, September 6 at 9:30AM online via Eventkeeper (www.gardencitypl.org ). As per First LEGO League rules, there is a limit of 10 members per team and therefore registration is limited to the first 10 sixth graders who sign up. The team will meet after school weekly and on some Saturdays beginning in September and running through January.

All team members must attend at least 20 meetings before the qualifier in order to participate in the competition and team members should also be prepared to do work at home. Sixth graders who sign up and their parents will be required to attend a parent meeting on Monday, September 18 at 7:00PM to review the commitment and responsibility required by team members. Please note the schedule is subject to change and additional dates may be added as we get closer to the competition, particularly as dates for events/ competitions have not been announced yet. More dates may be added beyond January depending on the results of the January competition and how the team places.

Team meetings will be held Tuesdays and/or Thursday from 4PM-5PM, except where noted: • Tuesdays, September 19, 26, October 3, 10, 17, 24, November 7 (9:30AM-11:30AM due to Election Day/ Schools Closed), 14, 21, 28, December 5,

12, January 2, 9, 16, 23, 30 • Thursdays, September 21, 28, October 12, 26, November 2, 16, December 7, 14, January 4, 11, 18, 25 • Saturdays, 9:30AM-11:30AM, September 23, November 4, 18, December 2, 16, January 13, 27 Thanks to the Garden City Friends of STEM for their ongoing help in the formation of a First LEGO League Robotics team at the Library. Please contact Young Adult Librarian Laura Giunta via email at laurag@gardencitypl.org or via phone at 516-742-8405 x242 for questions.

Mentors for First LEGO League Sixth Grade Robotics Team

If you are a high school student (Grades 9-12) with FLL Robotics experience interested in earning volunteer hours by mentoring the team, please contact Young Adult Librarian Laura Giunta via email at laurag@gardencitypl.org or via phone at 516-742-8405 x242 for questions.

Children’s LEGO Club – Tween and Teen Volunteers Needed!

Earn volunteer hours by helping out with the Children’s Department’s LEGO Club. The LEGO Club is an hour program for children in Grades K-5 and meets monthly. Registration to volunteer begins Wednesday, September 6 at 9:30AM online via Eventkeeper (www. gardencitypl.org ). Volunteers must be in Grades 6-12 and will be asked to help with set-up and clean-up before and after the program. This program has been funded by the Friends of the Garden City Public Library.

Volunteers can sign-up for the following Thursdays, 3:30PM-5:30PM: • Thursday, September 14 • Thursday, October 12 • Thursday, November 9

Tween Chess Club

Join us for the monthly meetings of the Tween Chess Club. The Library will provide chess boards for tweens to play.

This program is for Tweens Grades 4-7. Registration begins Wednesday, September 6 at 9:30AM. Tweens should have a general knowledge of how to play chess as no instruction will be provided. The chess club will meet on the following Wednesdays, 4:00PM-5:00PM: • September 13 • October 11 • November 29

Teen Advisory Board Meetings

Tweens and Teens Grades 6-12 can earn volunteer hours and help work on fun programs and projects at the Library, including working on the Locked-in-the-Library Halloween Party on Friday, October 27, creating new Quidditch Hoops for our Tween Quidditch Tournament on Saturday,

November 18, and making decorations for our Teen Holiday Cookie Swap and Movie on Saturday, December 16. Signup for meetings will begin Monday, September 11 at 9:30AM online via Eventkeeper (www.gardencitypl.org) The Teen Advisory Board will have general meetings on the following days from 5:00PM-6:00PM: • Wednesday, September 20 • Monday, October 16 • Tuesday, November 7 • Wednesday, December 6 Can’t make a general meeting? Find ways to still help out by contacting Young Adult Librarian Laura Giunta.

Additional volunteer hours will be posted in the Tweens and Teens Room at the Library during the last week of each month for the following month; postings will include when volunteers can begin signing-up online via Eventkeeper (www.gardencitypl.org ) for the upcoming month’s hours.

Pumpkin Painting

Tweens and Teens Grades 6-12 are welcome to join us for an afternoon of painting pumpkins on Saturday, September 23, 2:00PM-3:00PM. Each registrant will paint a pumpkin for display in the Library during October as part of our Pumpkin Painting Contest.

Registrants will not be allowed to take pumpkins home until the pumpkin display is complete, which will run through November 3. Please note, this program is pending pumpkin availability and may be canceled or postponed if pumpkins are not available for purchase before the scheduled date of the program. Registration begins Monday, September 11 at 9:30AM online via Eventkeeper (www.gardencitypl.org).

This program has been funded by the Friends of the Garden City Public Library.

Pumpkin Painting Contest

Help make the Library festive this October by participating in our Pumpkin Painting Contest! This program is for Grades 6-12. Those who register for the Pumpkin Painting on September 23 are automatically registered for the contest. Those who are not registered for the Pumpkin Painting program on September 23 must supply their own pumpkin. Registration to participate in the contest is required and begins Monday, September 11 at 9:30AM online via Eventkeeper (www. gardencitypl.org). Pumpkins should be submitted between September 25 and October 15. Pumpkins will be displayed October 16 through November 3.

Pumpkins can be picked up beginning November 4 and will be available to pick up until November 10. Pumpkins not picked up by November 10 will be thrown out. Pumpkins must be painted, not carved. Winners of the contest will

be announced by October 25. This program has been funded by the Friends of the Garden City Public Library.

ACT/SAT/PSAT Practice Exam

C2 Education will be conducting a practice exam on Saturday, September 23, 10:00AM-2:00PM. Registrants may choose the ACT, PSAT, or SAT to take.

Registration begins Monday, September 11 at 9:30AM online via Eventkeeper (www.gardencitypl.org ).

Babysitting Workshop

Tweens and Teens Grades 6-12 can sign-up for our Babysitting Workshop.

This is a two part workshop on: Mondays, September 25 and October 2. Registrants are required to attend both sessions to receive a certificate.

Registration is required and begins Monday, September 11 at 9:30AM online via Eventkeeper (www.gardencitypl. org). This program has been funded by the Friends of the Garden City Public Library. The Babysitting Workshop will meet on the following Mondays: • September 25, 4:30PM-5:30PM – Safety Session. Officer Richard Pedone from the Garden City Police Department and Steve Espey from the Garden City Department of Recreation will conduct this safety session.

• October 2, 4:30PM-6:30PM – First Aid Session. RNs Georgette Basso and JoAnn Tanck will conduct this first aid session. Participants are asked to bring a doll so they may practice the proper ways to hold a baby while feeding or diapering.

Yak and Snack Book Club Meetings

Join us for this fall’s book discussions. These programs are for Grades 6-12. Registration begins Monday, September 18. Registrants can pick up a copy of the book in the Tweens and Teens Room. Drinks and snacks will be served at the meetings. Meetings will take place on the following Mondays, 7:00PM-8:00PM: • October 16: Coraline by Neil Gaiman • December 11: Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life by James Patterson.

Teen Book Club Leaders

Earn volunteer hours by being a teen book discussion leader during one of our Yak and Snack Book Club meetings on either Monday, October 16 or Monday, December 11, 7:00PM-8:00PM. There is a maximum of two volunteers per meeting. Volunteers may only volunteer for one book club meeting per season. If you are interested in volunteering to be a Teen Book Club Leader for one of our book club meetings, please contact Young Adult Librarian Laura Giunta via email at laurag@ gardencitypl.org or via phone at 516742-8405 x242.

Garden City Public Library Thursday, September 28, at 2PM Marilyn Carminio will discuss three decades of high society on both sides of the Atlantic beginning in 1870’s New York and concluding with the Edwardian Era in London. She will examine the intricate codes of conduct defined by “the” Mrs. Astor, society’s undisputed leader, along with changes brought about from the entrance of the new rich led by Mrs. Vanderbilt.

Then it’s off to Edwardian England and the American “Dollar Princesses” who exchanged money for titles. This social history of the era will define appropriate etiquette for ladies and gentlemen of the period from the right way to cut a cherry tomato to the “proper” rules of conducting an affair! All are welcome.

No registration is necessary.

This program is generously sponsored by The Friends of the Garden City Public Library.

News From the Children’s Room The Summer Reading Club for 2017 ended with our annual Festival on Wednesday, August 2.

The Grand Prizes Under Water Cameras were won

by Cooper Glick , who is entering 2nd Grade and Ayomide Oyelana, who is entering 4th grade. Long Island/New York Nets Softee Basketball Hoop Sets, which were donated by the NY Nets Organization, were won by YuJun Lin (5th grade), Liam Rogers (2nd Grade), Eva Vitale (5th Grade), Katherine Pfeiffer (4th Grade), Brianna Kashimer (3rd Grade), Matthew Kumpel (K), Nikko Maldari (2nd Grade), Madison Sandgren (2nd Grade), Anna Langley (3rd Grade), Gracie Corrigan (2nd Grade), Zoe Griffo (K), and Alex Eschmann (1st Grade).

Congratulations to all the winners!

As a reminder, Summer Reading Club prizes will be available until the end of August. We enjoyed the program and hope the children did as well.

Dog Days of Summer

The month of August is known as the “Dog Days of Summer”.

Many people believe the phrase “dog days of summer” stems from the fact that dogs tend to be a bit on the lazy side during the hottest days of summer. Of course, who can blame them? With that much fur, dogs that exercise during the hot days of summer can overheat easily. However, the phrase doesn’t stem from lazy dogs lying around on hot and humid days. Instead, to find the answer, we only need to look to the summer sky.

The ancient Romans called the hottest, most humid days of summer “dis canicurs” or “dog days.” The name came about because they associated the hottest days of summer with the star Sirius. Sirius was known as the “Dog Star” because it was the brightest star in the constellation Canis Major (Large

Dog). Sirius also happens to be the brightest star in the night sky. Sirius is so bright that the ancient Romans thought it radiated extra heat toward Earth. During the summer, when Sirius rises and sets with the Sun, they thought Sirius added heat to the Sun’s heat to cause hotter summer temperatures. For the ancient Romans, the dog days of summer occurred from about July 24 to around August 24. Over time, though, the constellations have drifted somewhat. Today, The Old Farmer’s Almanac lists the traditional timing of the dog days of summer as occurring from July 3 until August 11. Whichever date you choose, the month of August is the “Dog Days of Summer”!

The Children’s Librarians have set aside summer reading books required by the Garden City School District. This includes Stewart, Stratford, Hemlock, Homestead, Locust and St. Joseph’s.

These books are very popular so come in and get your copy today. If you don’t see what you want, ask us and they can always be interloaned from another library.

Fall Registration Update

Registration for all Fall storytimes will begin Monday, September 18 at 9:30AM. Registration for storytimes and programs will be done online on Eventkeeper (www.gardencitypl.org ). Patrons can either register online at home, from the office, or in the Library. Each child needs his or her own Library Card to register for storytime and programs. Registration for Book Discussions must be done in the Children’s Room. More information and flyers will be available shortly.

Please see our flyers for registration information for special programs.

Conversational, opinionated, wordsmith?

We are looking for writers in our community to compose news articles on local topics, opinions, reviews, worthy places to visit on Long Island, and even fiction. We aim to feature at least one new article and writer each week in our Discovery magazine section.

E-mail submissions: editor@gcnews.com

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• Attach article and any photos (1MB), along with your name and contact info.

Articles must be between 1,500 - 3,000 words. • Each writer will be reimbursed a stipend of $25.⁰⁰

Garden City Library Board Library resumes Special Meeting Sunday hours The Garden City Public Library will resume Sunday hours beginning the Sunday after Labor Day, September 10, 2017. The Library’s regular hours from Monday through Saturday remain unchanged throughout the year. The Library will be open from 1PM to 5PM on the following Sundays from September 10, 2017 through June 17, 2018: September 10, 17, 24 October 1, 15, 22, 29 November 5, 12, 19, 26 December 3, 10, 17 January 7, 14, 21, 28 February 4, 11, 25 March 4, 11, 18, 25 April 8, 15, 22, 29 May 6, 20 June 3, 10, 17

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There will be a Special Meeting of the Board of Library Trustees on Monday, August 28, at 8:00 p.m. in the Library’s Board Room located in the Administration office. The meeting may move into Executive Session.

Library closed

The Garden City Public Library will be closed for the Labor Day holiday from Saturday, September 2nd through Monday, September 4th.

Monday Movie Matinees Enjoy the Monday Movie Matinees at 1:30 at the Garden City Library Come enjoy the Monday Movie Matinees at the Garden City Public Library. Movies begin at 1:30 PM and are shown in the large meeting room on the Lower Level of the Library. The fall schedule of movies is listed below. Each month the movies have a theme. Please note that there is no movie on Monday, September 4th since the Library will be closed for Labor Day. The Monday Movie Matinees are sponsored by The Friends of the Garden City Public Library. All movies are unrated. Titles are subject to change.

All are welcome.

September-Hitchcock

11 The Lady Vanishes - 1938,97 min 18 The Wrong Man - 1956, 105 min

25 Strangers on a Train - 1951,101 min 02 09 16 23 30

October - In From Malverne

Sully - 2016, 96 min NO MOVIE A Man Called Ove - 2015, 116 min Lion - 2016, 118 min Spotlight - 2016, 129 min

November - Audrey Hepburn

06 NO MOVIE 13 Roman Holiday - 1953. 118 min 20 Sabrina - 1954, 113 min 27 How to Steal a Million - 1966,123 min December - It Happened in December 04 From Here to Eternity - 1953, 118 min 11 The Bishop’s Wife - 1947, 109 min 18 Holiday Inn - 1942, 100 min

GC author Edward A. McCoyd at Library

Garden City Public Library Sunday, September 10th at 2:00 PM The Garden City Public Library is honored to welcome Garden City resident and author Edward A. McCoyd to the Library on Sunday afternoon, September 10th at 2:00 PM. Mr. McCoyd is the author of two popular legal thrillers Simpson’s Will and Forester’s Will.

Mr. McCoyd uses his vast knowledge

of trust and estate matters, including litigation to bring authenticity to his books. Through his novels, Ed enjoys sharing what can happen when everyone heads to the courthouse. This informative and lively program is open to all. Books will be available to be purchased and personally signed by the author. No registration is required.

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From Mozart to Modern

The Park Quartet Garden City Public Library Sunday, September 17th at 2PM The Park Quartet is a Brooklynbased music collective comprised of four traditional stringed instrument players. The Quartet performs a mix of classical as well as contemporary jazz and pop arrangements, ranging from Mozart to the Beatles. Their performance will also include a discus-

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sion of music history progressing from baroque through 20th century, contemporary and pop music. Performances by the Quartet have been featured at diverse venues throughout the greater New York City metropolitan area to wide acclaim! All are welcome. No registration is required.

This program is generously sponsored by The Friends of the Garden City Public Library.

SCORE Small Business Workshops Garden City Public Library Tuesday, September 19th and Tuesday, September 26th at 7PM The Garden City Public Library welcomes SCORE: Counselors to America’s Small Business, which is hosting two workshops this fall. Starting your own business can be fun and rewarding. A little knowledge on how to begin and sustain a business is more than helpful.

SCORE volunteer counselors are people who have had careers in business who enjoy sharing their knowledge and experience with new entrepreneurs. This first workshop on Tuesday, September 19th at 7PM is for people who are thinking about starting a new business or people who already have a small business. It includes financing a

business, legal entity structures, paying taxes and keeping financial records, and business plan introduction.

On Tuesday, September 26th at 7PM, SCORE will present Marketing Your Own Business. If no one knows about your product or service, how can they buy it? Awareness is the first principle in marketing. SCORE mentors identify the basics to market your business and help to determine your target audience. You will learn marketing disciplines, budgeting and the key elements to write a marketing plan to reach your specific audience, advertising.

All are welcome. You may attend either or both of these programs. No registration is required for these programs.

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Suffering from hip or shoulder pain?

We’re here to help.

As we age, many of us experience stiffness, tenderness, instability or weakness in the hips and shoulders. If you are experiencing long-term pain, you may be a candidate for joint replacement surgery.

What’s New in Joint Replacement Surgery: Shoulders and Hips Cost:

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Thursday, September 28

Attend our free seminar to learn more about:

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– What’s new in shoulder and hip replacement

Location: Clinton G. Martin Park – Community Center 1601 Marcus Avenue New Hyde Park, NY 11042

– Current treatments for shoulder arthritis – When to consider joint replacement – How to prepare for joint replacement surgery – Rehabilitation trends in the joint replacement population – Living an active lifestyle after joint replacement

Presented by Northwell Health Orthopaedic Institute: Nicholas Sgaglione, MD Chair, Orthopaedic Surgery Sreevathsa Boraiah, MD Orthopaedic Joint Surgeon Michael Langino, PT Physical Therapist Snacks and light refreshments will be served.

Register now at Northwell.edu/NSUHjoint or call (844) 91-ORTHO (6-7846).

Orthopaedic Institute

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Discover what all the BUZZ is about!

This photo was taken in 1965 looking across Seventh Street where today’s Key Food is located. Back then, it was the Grand Union supermarket with Bell’s store on the right. In the 1970’s, Grand Union spread to the corner and Bell’s moved to the left side of this photo. Bell’s was something called a five and ten cent store (later 5 cent to a dollar store). These were forerunners of the 99 cent stores you see around today. Most places had “five and tens” as they were quite popular in the first two thirds of the 20th Century. As for this one in Garden City - do you remember old Mr. Bell? How about the mechanical horse in front for the little ones? Look closely at the photo - it’s there!

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Blood drive at St. Joseph’s School All are invited and encouraged to participate in a Blood Drive to support Long Island Blood Services to be held Sunday, October 1st from 7:45 a.m. until 1:30 p.m. in the St. Joseph’s School Gymnasium at 121 Fourth Street in Garden City.

Anyone between the ages of 16 and 75 who is in good health and weighs at least 110 pounds can donate blood.

Healthy individuals over 75 can donate blood if they present written permission from their physician. (16 year olds must have parental consent on a Blood Center form which can be accessed at www.nybloodcenter.org) Donors should have eaten and should bring reading glasses and ID with signature.

To register call (516) 319-2459 and leave your name and phone number. Please help save lives. Become a blood donor.

Why YOU should be a blood donor: • There is no substitute for blood.

The community blood supply depends on donations from people like you.

• Not enough people donate blood.

Less than 2% of the population donates blood each year. That does not satisfy hospital needs!

• The blood supply needs to be replenished constantly. Blood products have a short shelf life, only 5 to 42 days.

Donated blood is immediately prepared for transfusion to patients in hospitals throughout the community.

• Blood is in constant demand for accident and burn victims, surgery, and cancer patients and more.

• You can donate blood every 56 days.

That’s up to 6 times per year.

• When you donate, you get a mini-medical exam, including a blood pressure reading, iron count, and temperature.

• Donating blood takes only 10 to 12 minutes, and the entire process requires only about an hour of your time.

• Knowing that you gave “The Gift of Life” and those who received that gift will be forever grateful.

August 25, 2017

Saratoga Springs, Age-Old Mecca for Horse Racing Gets Better with Age

BY KAREN RUBIN

Tucked just above Albany, New York, small-town Saratoga Springs’ fortunes have been tied to tourism since forever. Its mineral springs has been drawing visitors since the 14th century, when Native Americans first discovered the healing properties of the springs, and were the first lure to

America’s earliest tourists. But along the way, the village also developed organized horseracing, which brought the elites, and later on, a rich cultural menu. And all of these come together during the six weeks of summer when racing is underway at the historic track, though Saratoga Springs is very much a four-season destination.

Saratoga Springs seems to have grown up around the Inn at Saratoga, which dates from 1843 and staying here gives you a sense of place. (The Inn at Saratoga, 231 Broadway, Saratoga Springs, NY 12866, 518-5831890, 800-274-3573, theinnatsaratoga. com.)

It’s just a very short walk from

Saratoga Springs, with its healthful mineral springs, has been attracting visitors since forever, but organized horse-racing is what put the village on the tourist map © 2017 Karen Rubin/goingplacesfarandnear.com

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the inn down Broadway to the heart of the culturally vibrant community decorated with painted horses (evoking its historic racing tradition) and ballet shoes (a tip of the hat to its cultural heritage) and banners – a stunning streetscape lined with Victorian buildings, where I go the night I arrive. It is late but there are still some live music venues, pubs, pizza places (open til 3 am), and plenty of people out and about.

A marker in front of the historic Adelphi Hotel, which dates from 1877, makes you appreciate all the more the work underway ($30 million worth) to reopen the hotel , which has been closed for five years. It is where the colorful Irish-born prize-fighter, gambling entrepreneur credited with establishing the Saratoga Race Course , New York State Senator and Tammany Hall enforcer John Morrissey, a regular of the hotel, died in 1878.

Indeed, the immediate impression is that Saratoga Springs is a combination of Louisville, Kentucky with its strong racing tradition, and Lenox, Massachusetts, with its superlative cultural offerings, with mineral springs and health spa thrown in for good measure.

The next morning, after a delectable breakfast at the inn, I walk through Congress Park, passed the Morrissey Fountain and the Casino, the gaming house for men which See page D2

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Saratoga Springs, Age-Old Mecca for Horse Racing Gets Better with Age Continued from page D1 Morrissey built (now home to the Saratoga Springs History Museum) to Union Street, where Skidmore College was once located (today there is the Empire College and absolutely stunning Victorian houses, several of which are bed-and-breakfast inns), to Saratoga’s historic racetrack. Passing by for the moment the National Museum of Racing, I stroll over to the track where riders are finishing up their morning workouts. The six-week racing season will begin in just a couple of weeks

(July 21 this year), but there is already harness racing and polo underway.

Thoroughbred racing did not actually begin in Saratoga Springs – the legacy heralds back to colonial days, 1665, with the establishment of the Newmarket course in Salisbury, New York, a section of what is now known as the Hempstead Plains of Long Island (attractive because it was flat), in the Westbury/East Garden City section of Nassau County. (Today, Belmont Park, the third leg of the prestigious Triple Crown races, is close to where the original track would have been. As

At Saratoga Springs, there are many ways to experience thoroughbred horseracing © 2017 Karen Rubin/goingplacesfarandnear.com

I subsequently learn at the National Museum of Racing, August Belmont originally owned, Man o’War, one of the most famous horses in all of racing, who is heralded at the museum.

The Saratoga Race Course in Saratoga Springs, one of the most famous horseracing tracks in the world, boasts being America’s oldest sporting venue of any kind. In 1863, the former undefeated bare-knuckle boxing champion John Morrissey staged the first organized thoroughbred meeting here at an old trotting course. In 1864, the racetrack hosted the Travers Stakes, named for William Travers, making it the oldest major thoroughbred horse race in America.

The racetrack grew to prominence for hosting The Travers, nicknamed the Midsummer Derby, which brings together the greatest three-year-old horses to the race course to compete for the $1.25 million purse, and the track enjoyed prosperity, expanding in 189192. Millionaires moved in, including the DuPonts and the Whitneys.

By 1890, there were 314 tracks operating in the United States. And in 1893, there was the Great Panic that led to an economic depression on the scale of the 1930s. The Saratoga race course was forced to close in 1896 because of financial hardship.

But the track regained renown with the dramatic match-up between Man o’ War and appropriately named Upset in the 1919 Sanford Stakes, in which Man o’ War suffered his only career defeat

(Man o’ War won the 1920 Travers). .When Triple Crown victor Gallant Fox was defeated by a horse (Jim Dandy) with 100-1 odds in 1930, Saratoga became known by an ominous nickname “The Graveyard of Champions.”

Saratoga has drawn the top names in thoroughbred racing - Secretariat, Seattle Slew, Affirmed, Rachel Alexandra, Curlin, Gallant Fox, the mighty Man o’ War, and American Pharoah.

One of the delightful aspects of the Saratoga race course is that horses walk right through the crowd, on a white-fenced path, to get to the paddock for their races so you get to see them up close. (I also find that you can come out around 5:30 am, and watch the horses being exercised from outside the fence.)

The course is stunning – with architectural majesty on par with Churchill Downs in Louisville, Kentucky – and it is interesting that it is here, rather than at one of the Triple Crown venues, that the Hall of Fame for thoroughbred horsing racing is located, honoring the most notable horses, jockeys, owners and trainers.

(Saratoga Race Course, 267 Union Avenue, Saratoga Springs, NY 12866; info about upcoming races at nyra.com.)

National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame Even if you are not particularly engaged in horse racing (and especially so), you will be fascinated to tour the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame, which opened in 1950 See page D5

Prize-fighter John Morrissey, who brought organized horse-racing and gambling to At the National Museum of Racing, you can ride a racing simulator to experience Saratoga Springs, was a regular at the Adelphi Hotel and died there in 1878 just a the thrill of the race from the jockey’s perspective © 2017 Karen Rubin/ year after the hotel opened; the historic hotel has been closed for five years, undergoing goingplacesfarandnear.com a $30 million restoration © 2017 Karen Rubin/ goingplacesfarandnear.com

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When New York City was New York City

BY LOU THEODORE I was born in New York City in 1934 and called it home until 1970. My first 7 years was spent in the north end of Hell’s Kitchen. The next 12 years were spent in an area that is known as Lincoln Center. The final 17 years was spent in Astoria, Queens. In effect, NYC was my home for the first 36 years of my life. This tale is the first of a 2-part series concerned with New York City during that 36 year time period.

This first article is concerned with the 1934-1953 time period. The 1953-1970 period will be addressed in a follow-up article early next year. On to this first article.

I have often written that following World War II, “anything was possible” in New York City. Nothing would compare to NYC around the middle of the 20th Century. The economy was booming. Its population was primarily comprised of first, not second generation Americans of European extraction, but mostly Irish and Italians and to a lesser degree, Germans, Poles and Greeks. The City was primarily white and Catholic. The Hamptons were some rich family living on Park Avenue. The migration from the Caribbean had just begun. The legal drinking age was 18. We had 3 baseball teams. The Garment District was just that. A $0.25 toll had been instituted on the Triboro Bridge . . . for maintenance purposes! McDonalds had arrived on the scene. TV? There was Uncle Miltie, Ed Sullivan, Danny Thomas, and my all-time favorite, Jackie Gleason. My all-time great entertainer, Louie Prima, would soon arrive on the scene. Movies?

Pick one. There was also Otto Graham, Joe Louis, Rocky Marciano, Joe D., Willie Mays, George Mikan, etc. The GI Bill - $110 a month to attend college or $50 a week for 52 weeks. 42nd Street was, well…you know. Rockaway Beach had already been officially renamed the Irish Rivera. The Catskills had been reassigned the title “The Jewish Alps” while Astoria, Queens, was now a colony of Greece. Finally, there was The Beatles, Alan Freed, “Sha Boom,” “Earth Angel,” “Eddie My Love,” “Mr. Sandman,” and, of course, Billy Joel’s frantic attempt to determine who indeed had started the fire.

But, what was life really like in NYC at that time? It would be impossible to squeeze it all into this type of article.

But, I do have an earlier unedited 1995 Litmor Publication article titled “On the Stoop” which follows. Hopefully, this is a satisfactory alternative.

“On the Stoop” (Down Memory Lane)

My friend, the writer Costas Anifantakis of Searingtown, had this to say about “the stoop” in his Volume II Issue 26, titled – “The View from The

Stoop”: “Using the word ‘stoop’ as a noun is probably unique to Old Gotham. The etymological derivative of the word is lost somewhere in the hustle and bustle of the city’s pubertal period. The brownstone exterior of eight to ten steps, known as the Stoop, might have been adopted from the fact that a pedestrian had to do just that (stoop) to negotiate an upward and forward motion simultaneously, the essence of stair ascension.

The stoop served and still serves a few functions. Primarily, it is a simple architectural expedient providing access to an upper entrance to a building. It not only constitutes a convenient place to ‘hang-out,’ but also is an excellent collecting point for the latest gossip. The stoop is a cosmos where one can observe the coiling and uncoiling of the street activity, and lastly, it constitutes an athletic playing field and stickball where kids, with the aid of a pink rubber ball (a Spaldeen) can play stoopball. Stoops come in a few shades of sandstone, varying in steepness-and depth and although each has its own distinct character, they all have one thing in common: an unmatched view of the world flowing by endlessly:” The stoop at 168 West 65th Street (between Amsterdam Avenue and Broadway) served as both an observatory tower and conference boardroom for me and the guys - on the south side of 65th Street during the late 1940’s. This area and the area due southwest was once described by Mayor LaGuardia as New York’s worst slum area. That area, just due north of Hell’s Kitchen, was leveled by the nefarious Robert Moses around 1950, to be replaced by what we now call Lincoln Center.

Here is what I remember most of the view from our stoop at 168 West 65th Street.

• We lived at 170 West 65th, Street, on the third floor, next door to the stoop. I had only a 10-12 foot walk from our tenement building to the stoop.

• Directly across the street on the north side of 65th Street was Commerce High School, essentially a non-technical School. It’s still there today.

• Further east diagonally and adjacent to Commerce High School was the Loew’s theater, later.to be converted to a CBS TV studio. It was here that a number of Jackie Gleason’s 8 pm Saturday night shows were staged. Afternoon programs featured a beautiful and slim singer named Rosemary Clooney.

• Due east near Broadway on our side of the block was Joe McGrath ‘s father’s bar. It was here that I would stand by the door and watch Buddy Young, Vic Raschi and Mickey Mantle. At age 17, I moved inside and was introduced to a “7 and 7”, AKA Seagram’s Seven Crown and 7-up.

• Diagonally west across the street

(on the northwest corner intersection of 65th and Amsterdam) was one of Con Edison’s generating plants.

• Around the corner - between 64th and 65th on the east side of Amsterdam was the Open Kitchen restaurant, one of New York’s premier eateries. It featured eleven stools along the counter and three small tables squeezed into a tight space at the end of the counter.

My father somehow managed to get us through the depression with this small establishment.

• Directly across the Street from the Open Kitchen restaurant on the west side of Amsterdam was the Ederle Bros. meat and pork store. Sister Gertrude achieved fame when she became the first woman to swim the English Channel.

• Further south and west was the “black” neighborhood. This area housed a chicken market (I think it was Kosher) and Ripley’s clothing factory. The bulk of my father’s customers were Ripley employees.

• There was a gym teacher at Commerce High School that lunched daily at the Open Kitchen. A retired colonel, we all addressed him as Colonel Reutershan. One day, he announced in his deep resonating voice: “George, the future is in chemical engineering. Send Louis to school to get a chemical engineering education.” That’s how and why I became a chemical engineer: I really had no say in the matter. My have times changed.

• There was a sign on the front door entrance of the Con Edison generating plant that read: Show Your Pass: Every now and then, I would mischievously meander over there at night and cover the letter “P”. Would this be classified as graffiti?

• The terrors of the neighborhood were the gang from 63rd -Street. They beat me up twice. The first time was real bad. They had asked for my money.

I only had 5 cents, but had mistakenly told them I had 15 cents.

• The stoop’s tenement had been converted to single furnished room apartments. It housed Korean War veterans of Japanese-Hawaiian descent who were attending a dental technician school on the G.I. Bill. I remember it as a scam for both the veterans and the school.

Despite this, I have nothing but positive memories of those guys. Almost to a person, they were kind, helpful and sincere people.

• It was through the same veterans that I was introduced to prostitution, dope and gambling. I believe nearly all of them smoked the weed. Prostitutes came and went at all hours. Blackjack and dice games occurred on occasions; horse betting was a daily ritual.

Fortunately, I only got involved with gambling.

• We often pitched nickels or pennies to a wall or a crack in the sidewalk. One

day I won $80, an unheard of sum in those days, pitching quarters to line on the tarred street. This started what I then called the “gambling fund,” and it has somehow managed to survive today.

• Stickball was played without gloves (some used gloves) with one sewer as home plate and the next sewer as second base. Broomsticks served as bats and a pink spaldeen was the ball. Our team matured in my eighteenth year and I believe we won all but one of our games that summer. There was at least $100 bet on each game and our team rarely could raise more than $25. I usually was the big contributor with $5. The rest of the money was put up by the owner of the stoop’s tenement; he turned a nifty profit that summer.

• Late one Saturday afternoon, the back door of the CBS TV studio opened and out came a group led by the great one, none other than Jackie Gleason, and Phil Foster, Jackie’s guest that night. They were all stewed to the gills and wanted to play stickball for a couple of bucks. We couldn’t believe our good fortune. It was 6-0 after 2 innings when they retired to the studio.

• I fell in love with a girl named Patricia Pike; but as the old joke goes, she didn’t know I existed. I still have that effect on people.

• The block was predominately Puerto Rican, but my best friend was a Cuban named Gustavo Carrion. Gus was the janitor/superintendent of our building. One of his responsibilities was feeding coal to the furnace in the basement. He picked up the nickname “Aqua Caliente” because everyone used to yell for more hot water during the winter months.

• During the Depression and World War II years, I would go to the restaurant and ask my father for a nickel to go to the movies. I could never quite figure out why some of the other kids couldn’t go because they didn’t have, or couldn’t get, a nickel. Saturday morning was a must for me because of the weekly serial. The one I remember most was “The Adventures of Naomi.” I fell in love with her too.

• When it came time to level our block, my father’s lawyer couldn’t appear in court to arrange for the settlement from the city for the Open Kitchen restaurant. At my father’s request, I went in his place. The judge awarded my father $750. I started yelling and the judge threatened to throw me in jail. I remember shutting my mouth immediately since I was overcome with fear.

Needless to say, the lawyer received a $250 fee, leaving my father with a measly $500 and without his near lifelong business.

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When to Actually File for Social Security Retirement Benefits

BY TOM MARGENAU

For some reason, I have been getting an awful lot of questions lately from seniors who are fretting about exactly when to sign up for Social Security benefits.

I’m not talking about people who are undecided about when to start their benefit checks -- I have written countless columns discussing that. I’m talking about people who have decided when they want their retirement benefits to start but are concerned about when to initiate the process. Other times, they are needlessly worried that they will make a big mistake and lose untold amounts in government benefits. Here are some examples of those questions.

Q: I will be 66 on Dec. 15, 2017. I want my Social Security checks to start at age 66. Some people have told me I need to file six months ahead of time. They said it takes that long for the government to do anything right. Others have told me I should wait until I am 66 before I file. What should I do?

A: Don’t believe those government-bashers who would have you believe it takes half a year to process your Social Security claim. In fact, the last statistics I saw show that the Social Security Administration processes the average retirement claim in about 20 days.

When I filed my own Social Security claim about five years ago, I did so on a Monday. By Friday of the same week, I had received a message from SSA that my claim was done. My wife’s claim took about 10 days. (By the way, we did all of this online.) And my neighbor said he filed his claim in person at our local Social Security office. It was processed in less than two weeks.

Even though SSA handles retirement claims rather expeditiously, they still advise filing two to three months ahead of time -- just in case there is some kind of glitch. So because you are turning 66 in December and want your benefits to start then, I suggest starting the process in October. You can file online at www. socialsecurity.gov. Or you can call SSA at 800-772-1213 and set up an appointment to file a claim by phone or in person at your local Social Security office.

Q: I will be 66 on Aug. 25. That’s when I want my Social Security checks to start. Recently, I began the process of signing up for benefits online. But I was confused by a statement that was filled with a lot of legal language about the importance of using July 24 (the date I went online) as the “official date of my application.” I’m afraid that if I consent to using that date, they will send me a check for July. I don’t want benefits to start in July, which would involve taking a reduced retirement rate. I want my full 100 percent retirement benefits to start in August. Please help!

A: The official date of your application is only important for possible legal reasons later on. For example, it could be an issue in the very unlikely event that you later change your mind and decide you want benefits to start in July. So don’t worry about that “official date of application” business.

What you are much more concerned about is the month you want your benefits to begin. Somewhere on that online application it must ask something similar to this: “Please indicate the first month you want your Social Security benefits to start.” And as long as you answer that question with “August,” you will be fine.

Q: I will be 66 on Aug. 10. I know my first Social Security check won’t be due until September. The online application I tried filling out asked me what month I want my benefits to start. I didn’t want to answer “August” because I want my full benefits to start in September. I don’t want to get a check in August, which would be a reduced payment for July. I want my first check to come in September. Yet it didn’t seem to give me that option. What can I do?

A: Don’t worry about the month that your first check will be sent out. Worry only about the month you want to be the effective starting date of your benefits.

You are correct that Social Security benefits are sent one month in arrears.

In other words, the Social Security check that comes in September is the benefit payment for the month of August.

But the application isn’t asking you which month you want your first check physically sent to you (or rather, sent to your bank account). It’s asking you which month you want your benefits to start. And for you, that would be August.

Q: I will be 66 on Aug. 29. I want my Social Security to begin at age 66. When I started the application process online, they asked when I want my checks to begin. I didn’t want to say August, because I want nothing reduced. As I am not 66 until near the end of the month, I figure I should say I want my checks to start in September.

A: Social Security checks are never prorated. So that’s good news for you. Even though you are 66 for only three days in August, you get a Social Security check for the whole month. So you should indicate August as the first month you want to start your Social Security benefits.

Q: I will be 70 in September. I am going to sign up for Social Security then. I want my full benefit, plus the 32 percent bonus I get for delaying my benefits. I’m really afraid that if I apply now, they might send me greatly reduced benefits. Should I wait until after my 70th birthday to file?

A: You should apply right now. Just make sure you indicate September as

the month you want your check to start.

And even if there was a glitch and you got benefits paid back to August, it’s really no big deal. There is nothing that special about waiting until age 70 to start your benefits. Instead of getting 132 percent, you’d get about a 131.4 percent

benefit rate if your checks started one month early. As I said: no big deal.

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

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Saratoga Springs C ontinued from page D3 (located directly across the boulevard from the Saratoga Race Course) and has been expanded and improved since. You see in paintings, documents, artifacts, that show how engrained horse racing is in American culture, America’s first major organized sport going back to colonial times. Early presidents including George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison up through Ulysses S. Grant were avid race-goers.

Andrew Jackson’s passion for horse racing and gambling was well known and he reputedly once fought a duel over a wager; Jackson also bred racehorses at the Hermitage and operated a racing stable from the White House during his presidency.

You get to see the lineage of the hall of fame horses (they all trace back to just a couple of horses). You can even try your hand on a racing simulator – a mechanical horse synchronized to move with jockey cam videos, so you experience a race from the jockey’s point of view, racing for the finish (this is actually much harder than you would think, and some riding experience is necessary). Horse racing is visually stunning, as much as it is dramatic, and this comes through in the exhibits.

The National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame’s honorees include horses such as Man o’ War (1957), Seabiscuit (1958) and jockeys like Willie Shoemaker (1958), and you can also watch videos of the Hall of Famers. On view this year is a special exhibit for Man o’ War at 100 (through 2018). The museum also hosts Oklahoma training track tours from June-October; reservations required.

(191 Union Avenue, 518-584-0400, www. racingmuseum.org) While thoroughbred racing had not yet started this season, harness racing and polo matches were already underway.

Saratoga Polo Matches are held every Wednesday, Friday, and Sunday night starting at 5:30 pm during the Saratoga Polo season, which runs from July 10 to Labor Day. Tickets may be purchased at

the gate beginning at 4 pm the day of the match. Casual chic is the recommended attire at the highly social polo match gatherings. (Saratoga Polo Association, 2 Bloomfield Road, Greenfield Center, NY 12833, saratogapolo.com) For more information or to help plan your visit, Saratoga Convention & Tourism Bureau, 60 Railroad Place, 855-424-6073, 518-584-1531, https:// discoversaratoga.org/.

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Nassau County Museum of Art Becomes Destination for Arts Education with Opening of Manes Center

BY KAREN RUBIN

Housed in what was Childs Frick’s natural history laboratory where he studied paleontology, the newly opened Manes Family Art & Education Center on the grounds of the Nassau County Museum of Art – Frick’s former estate - gives the museum a new dimension in arts education and appreciation.

The Manes Center, named in recognition of Museum Trustee Dr. Harvey Manes and the Manes Foundation’s $1 million gift, gives the museum the space to offer a dynamic and creative environment in which audiences of all ages and abilities can find creative engagement through a variety of activities, classes and projects. This includes new hands-on programs for children as young as 3, adults from beginners to skilled, and an ambitious curriculum for autistic individuals.

The environment is special: Childs Frick, the son of Henry Clay Frick, was a vertebrate paleontologist and a trustee of the American Museum of Natural History. The center has repurposed Frick’s labs into art “labs,” each dedicated to a specific type of art learning, to address the multiple learning styles, interests and abilities of adults and children: Hands-On Studio Lab, Indoor/Outdoor Lab, Reading Resource Lab and Design Tech Lab, as well as additional exhibit space.

This means that for the first time, the Museum will be able to offer handson multi-day workshops across the visual arts disciplines.

“Family programs at the Manes Center provide children and the adults in their lives the opportunity to take time from their busy schedules to reconnect while talking about and making art together. Each week we offer projects that encourage curiosity and experimentation, and creative thinking through a variety of experiences and materials inspired by current exhibitions.”

“Before, we always scrambled for space in order to run programs at the museum,” commented NCMA Director Karl E. Willers at the ribbon-cutting ceremony, August 3. “This facility allows us to enhance and expand all kinds of classes... Programs can be geared to exhibits as well as to open to the surrounding landscape. Many art programs integrate science and the natural world. It adds a new dimension to our educational offerings – extended hands-on workshops, more events going on simultaneously spanning age and ability groups, when before we were limited by the space availability in the mansion.”

The building, which was designed for Charles Frick’s paleontology

Ribbon-cutting ceremony of the Manes Family Art & Education Center with Dr. Harvey Manes and grandchildren. The new center gives the Nassau County Museum of Art, housed on the former Childs Frick estate in Roslyn Harbor, Long Island, a new dimension in arts education, spanning ages and abilities © 2017 Karen Rubin/goingplacesfarandnear.com research (the specimens he collected Indeed, 10 of the gardens that are are now at the Museum of Natural immortalized in the photographs are History), is a series of laboratories that gone, and many others are in jeopardy. are being repurposed for making art in During this introductory period, all its forms. The floors are finished to through September 7, admission to the accommodate workshops and there are Manes Center is free (free admission sinks! offer does not include the main building, “We can offer proper professional the Saltzman Fine Art Building). art spaces for people to look at and The building now looks as a low-level make art in contemporary studio white box, but that will soon change. facility,” said Reem Hussein, who was The pop/surrealist modern artist brought in to manage the center. We Kenny Scharf is being invited to paint are bringing in technology – i-Pads to the exterior. After that, it is anticipated create art with technology. But we are that the landscape architects Oehme, mindful of people who want traditional van Sweden will create a new garden. art making.

Preview of Educational Programs “These are programs we don’t offer at Manes Center now. We will able to offer more series Among the arts education programs programs, rather than one-shots and that will be available at the Manes lectures.”

Center beginning this fall: She said that the rooms are called Early Childhood Programs: “labs” to pay homage to Frick.

Programs for young children and their The New American Garden adult companions at the Manes Center Inaugural Exhibit are all about discovery. Both in the The public is invited to preview the galleries and in the art studio, children Manes Center and take in its inaugural find opportunity for self-expression, exhibit, “The New American Garden: socialization, and experimentation, The Landscape Architecture of through creative play and exploration Oehme, van Sweden.” through open ended developmentally Organized by The Cultural appropriate experiences. Looking at Landscape Foundation, The New and talking about art fosters visual American Garden is a traveling literacy in young children. photographic exhibition which Programs include Story Time for chronicles the careers and influence 3 to 5 year olds, featuring gallery of Wolfgang Oehme and James van exploration and hands-on art activities.

Sweden who revolutionized landscape Young Artists (ages 3-5) programs architecture with the creation of a type for children and their adult companions of garden characterized by large swaths consist of hands-on activities designed of grasses and fields of perennials. The to experiment and become familiar with gardens are the penultimate merger of art materials and processes. man and nature, and the ultimate in An Outdoor Classroom program is “installation” art’s ephemeral quality. envisioned that would consist of guided

and self-guided activities for children to encourage the exploration of the natural environment through experiences that make the connection between art and science. Activities are designed to encourage open air exploration and imaginative play.

A drawing class geared to children 8-11 years old, to learn the rules of traditional drawing by practicing line, shading, and perspective through drawing in the studio and gallery and using experimental materials.

A program tentatively titled “Imagine, Design & Build,” for children 11-15 to experience the design process through sketching and building as they dive deep into creative thinking and problem-solving to explore the connections between design, art, science, and technology.

A program for teens 13-17 is aimed at supporting high school students who are preparing portfolios as part of their college applications. Group and individual instruction focus on elements and principles of art and design through application to students’ own work and conversations about art work in the museum’s galleries. Student will have the opportunity for work with live models, critique sessions, and portfolio reviews.

Adult Studio Programs Hands-on studio programs are being designed for adults of all levels of art making experience, taught by experienced artists. The programs focus on group and individual projects to help adults explore and learn art skills and processes, and have opportunities for personal expression. Adults will learn techniques of drawing & painting, sculpture, and printmaking and have opportunities to draw from live models.

“The Creative Process” dovetails with every changing exhibition in the Manes Center’s contemporary art gallery: visitors are invited to create in response to the art on view through hands on activities that focus on artists’ themes, processes, and materials.

Projects are designed to pique curiosity and inspire creativity, and gain new insights into the creative process.

Life drawing at the Manes Center will present the opportunity to draw from a live model through gesture sketches and longer duration poses under the guidance of a teaching artist.

Adults can learn the basics of drawing and painting and explore materials such as graphite, charcoal, and conté crayon, watercolor and acrylic paint. Projects will be inspired by art history and current gallery exhibitions.

The center will also offer programs in using digital art tools to create traditional and experimental works of

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Reduce kids’ risk of getting colds at school

School-aged kids who catch colds or the flu from their classmates can quickly spread those colds to their family members, who then might spread the colds further when they go to work. Preventing the spread of colds and flu at school is a team effort that requires the assistance of not just parents, but also teachers and students. Still, parents might be the first line of defense when it comes to preventing the spread of cold and flu at school.

According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, more than 38 million school days are lost to the flu each year. Those lost days can affect students who miss lesson plans, but also affect parents, who often must take days off from work to tend to their sick children.

While there’s no way for parents to guarantee their children won’t catch a cold or the flu this school year, they can take various preventive measures to increase kids’ chances of staying healthy and achieving perfect attendance.

• Make sure kids are immunized and that their immunizations are current. Vaccinations bolster kids immune systems. That’s important, as kids’ immune systems are naturally less mature than adults’, making them more vulnerable to germs and viruses. The CDC recommends that adults and children receive their flu vaccinations in October while noting that such vaccinations can be administered as late as January and still prove effective. The CDC also recommends that

adults and children receive flu vaccinations each year.

Additional vaccinations may not need to be administered as often, but parents should still ensure kids’ are up-to-date with their shots.

• Make sure kids regularly wash their hands. Kids often catch colds by rubbing their hands that have been exposed to cold virus germs on their noses or eyes. To prevent that, parents can teach kids to wash to their hands thoroughly, including scrubbing the backs of their hands, between their fingers and around their fingernails. Kids should know to wash their hands regularly, but especially after they use the bathroom and before they eat, drink or touch their mouths, noses or eyes.

• Keep kids home when they are sick. Parents don’t want their children to miss school, but kids who are suffering from colds or flu should be kept home. This prevents the spread of colds and flu to classmates and teachers, and time to rest at home may help youngsters recover more quickly.

• Teach kids to avoid common germ spots. Germs can be lurking anywhere, but some spots seem to make more welcome homes for germs than others. Studies have shown that kids were most likely to encounter germs in schools on water fountain spigots and on plastic cafeteria trays. Teach kids to never put their mouths on fountains and to avoid eating any food that might fall onto their trays in the cafeteria.

School-aged children are susceptible to colds and flu when spending time in the classroom. But parents can reduce their youngsters’ cold and flu risk in various ways.

How to find the right school fundraiser for you

The school year is in full swing, and parents of school-aged kids have no doubt been involved in at least one fundraiser already. Fundraisers help schools raise money for supplies or special activities that may not have been included in the budgets established by the local school district.

Parent participation is essential for school fundraisers to be successful.

Though requests to join in a school’s fundraising efforts can be overwhelming at times, rather than avoiding fundraisers completely, parents should research the fundraisers to determine which fundraising efforts best suit their schedules and interests.

Parent-teacher organizations or the

fundraising committees are great sources of information for inquisitive parents.

Such groups may already have a schedule of fundraisers that you can peruse to find a match. If a fundraiser seems particularly attractive, you can mark your calendar to participate.

Attend PTA meetings to learn how fundraising dollars are being spent. This can make it easier to find a fundraising activity to support, as you are more likely to participate in activities when you know just where the fruits of your labors will be going once the event has come and gone.

It’s also important for parents to understand the rate of return on fundraisers.

Schools and other organizations receive

a percentage of return on a fundraiser. It may be 50 percent, less or more.

Aim to participate in fundraisers that provide schools with the best return on their investments. Purchasing a T-shirt for $15, $10 of which will go directly to the school, is more effective than participating in several fundraisers that only offer marginal returns.

Another way to ensure your participation will yield results is to choose fundraisers that are being operated in conjunction with companies that have a long-standing record of success. When choosing a school fundraiser to pitch in with, ask the school if its efforts are being made in conjunction with a local business. If so, ask about the school’s

track record with this particular business. If the results are good, you might feel better about offering your help.

Don’t be afraid to offer your opinions if you feel a fundraiser is not being run as efficiently or smoothly as you think it could be. Speak up at a PTA meeting or volunteer your services to a committee.

Other volunteers may just need a push in a new direction or some fresh ideas to make fundraising efforts more effective.

Schools often offset miscellaneous costs by soliciting communities and parents of their students for assistance through fundraisers. People can select the fundraisers that interest them and offer the best return on investment to the school.

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Avoid back injuries by choosing the right backpack

Finding the right backpack is an essential component of back-to-school shopping. Children may have their own ideas of what’s in style, but parents should look for backpacks that are functional before factoring in style. Marrying form and function together can be challenging, but it’s necessary to prevent students from developing back problems. But parents must give consideration to more than just the size of their children’s backpacks.

Depending on school schedules, students may be carrying backpacks for up to 10 hours per day, five days per week. Backpacks may be filled with several pounds of stuff, such as textbooks, binders, laptops, and other supplies, potentially leading to injury.

According to the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, at least 14,000 children are treated for backpack-related injuries every year. The American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons says that the weight of a backpack should not exceed 10 to 15 percent of a child’s body weight. But many students pack their bags with much more weight than that.

Improperly sized, worn and overstuffed backpacks can injure joints and lead to neck, back and shoulder injuries. They also may affect children’s posture.

• Choose a streamlined model. Select a backpack that will get the job done without much added bulk. Many backpacks have been designed to hold technological devices as more and more schools integrate technology into the classroom. A less bulky bag might be lighter and easy to carry.

• Consider shopping at a sporting goods store. Employees at camping and sporting goods retailers understand how to fit backpacks for hikers and outdoor ad-

venturers. They can help measure a student and find a pack that will fit his or her body frame. Also, these retailers may have a wider selection of backpacks than some other stores, increasing the chances of finding the right fit.

• Select a pack with a waist strap. According to the American Chiropractic Association, the body is not designed to carry items hanging from shoulders. By using the waist strap in conjunction with taut shoulder straps, students can distribute the weight in their backpacks over their hip bones instead of the shoulders. The padded and adjustable shoulder straps should be at least two inches wide. All straps should be used each time the pack is worn.

• Backpacks should be loaded properly. Heavy items should be near the center bottom to distribute the load, rather than placed on top. Students should only carry what is necessary, visiting lockers or desks as needed to lighten their packs.

Backpack fit and functionality is something parents should take seriously when shopping for school supplies.

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“Teaching an equal balance of technical skills embraced with artistry is of utmost importance to me, as one without the other is detrimental to the dance student, the future dancer, and the art form as a whole.” This is a motto Carolyn Zettel-Augustyn, Director and Founder of Classical School of Ballet LI (CSB) carries with her as she steps into the studio as she greets her students.

For more that thirty years Carolyn Zettel-Augustyn has educated herself in the art of teaching to ultimately provide her students with the best possible training, no matter the age and no matter if they choose dance for personal fulfillment, gained physicality, or to pursue dance as a professional career. “Regardless of their choice, the students that pass through the doors of Classical School of Ballet LI are given the opportunity to enrich their lives in the true art of ballet that embraces the whole person, mind, body and spirit.”

“I invite my students to perceive their training in ballet as a constantly evolving and enriching experience building upon a solid foundation that is tried and true, following in the tradition of classical ballet that dates back to the 1600’s. At CSB we have adopted the American Ballet Theater (ABT®) National Training Curriculum.

This curriculum provides safe and sound training principals that are age-appropriate with the students well-being in mind. “I’m very proud that CSB holds annual ballet examinations where an ABT® examiner adjudicates the students work.”

Carolyn began her training at age 10 in Waterloo, ON Canada in 1974. She was awarded a scholarship to attend the Washington School of Ballet. Upon her return, Carolyn’s first ballet teacher, Anne Suetta was ready to retire and offered Carolyn her school. Carolyn apprenticed with Suetta and during that time she became a fully certified teacher with the Society of Russian Ballet Schools and the Canadian Dance Teacher Association where she later became Vice President of the Ontario Branch which consisted of 400 schools.

Carolyn’s first small school outgrew the building and she expanded into a 5000 square foot space, and soon after opened a second location in a neighboring village.

Carolyn’s school soon became known as the go to ballet school in the area and attracted guest artists including the late Betty Oliphant, founder of the National Ballet School, Arnold Spohr, former artistic director of the Royal Winnipeg Ballet, and the celebrated, internationally acclaimed dancer Frank Augustyn, who later became Carolyn’s husband. Frank’s illustrious dancing career ended and soon after he was invited to become the Chair of the Department of Dance at Adelphi University, Garden City, where he currently serves. In the first few years that Carolyn lived here she worked for a few local dance schools. In 2011 she founded Children’s School of Ballet, and later changed the name to Classical School of Ballet LI which more fully embodied what the school represents. In 2009, Carolyn began her teacher training program with ABT® National Training Curriculum. Carolyn is an ABT® Affiliate Teacher who has successfully completed the ABT® Teacher Training Intensive Primary through Level 7 of the ABT® National Training Curriculum and in 2016 Carolyn became an ABT Examiner.

How art benefits young brains

Art enriches lives and can be used to connect people from all walks of life. Among the many additional benefits of art is its effects on young people and the development of their brains.

The American Association of School Administrators notes that neuroscience research has shown that the effects of the arts on a young brain’s cognitive, social and emotional development can be profound.

• Art helps to wire the brain. The AASA notes that especially young children spend much of their time playing, and that play often includes forms of art such as singing, drawing and dancing. These artistic activities engage various senses and help to wire the brain so it can learn. As children age, these seemingly basic activities remain essential for young brains.

• Art helps children develop their motor skills. Dancing and other movements that might be prompted by exposure to art help children develop motor skills. Motor skills are necessary for kids to perform important and necessary daily tasks while also promoting independence.

• Art helps kids learn to think. The AASA notes that art can be a valuable tool in instilling essential thinking tools in children, including the ability to recognize and develop patterns,

the ability to form mental representations of what is observed or imagined, and the ability to observe the world around them.

• Art can improve memory and focus. The AASA cites studies that listening to music can stimulate parts of the brain responsible for memory recall and visual imagery. In addition, background music played in a classroom has been shown to help students remain focused while completing certain learning tasks.

• Art can positively affect how students approach other courses. Studies have shown that incorporating arts into core curriculums can have a number of positive effects on students’ overall academic performance and benefit students socially. Studies indicate that students involved in such integrative programs are more emotionally invested in their classes and work more diligently than those not studying in such conditions. In addition, students may learn more from one another when the arts are integrated into core curriculums than when they are not.

Art is often mistakenly seen as a strictly fun component of children’s education. But the effects of art on young brains is considerable, helping young people develop in ways that may surprise many men and women.

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Classical Ballet School LI is a destination school. It doesn’t attract the masses but rather attracts those interested in learning the art of ballet and all that embodies it.

Students commute and car-pool from Huntington Bay, Islip, Great Neck, Jericho, Syosset, Jamaica, Queens and local communities including and around Garden City such as Floral Park, Mineola, Franklin Square, West Hempstead and more. Carolyn is looking to open a location to the Syosset area to ease the burden of commuting students during the weekday classes, yet, they will continue to commute to Garden City for their weekend classes.

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Carolyn is excited to welcome former student and professional dancer Beth Lamont to teach in late June. Beth has accepted the title at CSB as Guest Visiting Artist.

“My joy and rewards come from knowing and seeing the success of my students, many of whom have gone on to professional careers, and others that carry with them the love for ballet and still many more that greet me with an abundant amount of energy and desire to learn. When the studio lights go out at the end of the day, I know I can sleep well knowing that I have done my job well.”

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Scholastic athletes should take advantage of the opportunity to relax and recover that summer presents. But athletes who hope to compete in the fall can still work with their parents to ensure they’re ready once the school year and sports season begins.

As the school year begins anew, lice often becomes a subject of conversation among concerned parents. In certain areas, such as in classrooms and locker rooms, lice easily can be transferred from person to person. Understanding this common foe can help students avoid it and parents recognize it when it’s present.

A louse is an ectoparasite, meaning it feeds on its host while living on the surface of the host’s body. Although lice can affect various parts of the body, they are most notably present on the scalp.

Research indicates that head lice have been spreading among humans for millenia. Ancient Egyptian and Greek books of medicine make reference to lice, and they have even been found on prehistoric mummies. No one is quite sure just how lice originated, though it is suspected they once targeted another host species, but then adapted to living among humans.

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Despite these benefits, music and art education is slowly disappearing from the classroom. At many schools across the nation, stages are dark and band and chorus rooms are empty. Budget cuts have been unkind to music education programs. To keep up with the demand for technology in the classroom, certain school programs have to be scaled back, and art and music are generally the first to go. This leaves it up to parents to involve their kids in music education.

Private lessons have long been a great way for kids to learn music, and many such music coaches are former music teachers. With private lessons, kids get to benefit from working with certified instructors, and parents are happy to make music a part of their youngsters’ lives. The following are a handful of ways parents can find private lessons for their kids. * Word of mouth: Begin by asking neighbors or friends in the community if they know of any reliable music teachers. Someone is bound to know a person

or have a connection to a music teacher. Speak with members of a community music ensemble, such as a church choir, or even amateur or professional musicians you see playing at a restaurant or bar. There’s a good chance you can get a referral. You may also have a friend or neighbor who is a talented musician and will agree to offer lessons on the side. * Community music programs: While schools may not have music classes, community centers offer programs for both adults and children. A community arts center may offer instrument training and/or vocal lessons, so look into such organizations in your community. A community YMCA or a similar organization also may have after-school music programs. * Nearby colleges: Music students at local colleges may want to make extra money by offering music lessons. They may be able either to meet at your home or use the music room on campus to conduct lessons. * Newspaper classifieds: Tutors frequently advertise their services in the newspaper. Look in the classified section to see if anyone is offering music lessons. Many newspapers now offer their classifieds both online and in print, so utilize both options to ensure your search is as thorough as possible.

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Art Talks for adults invited scholars, academics and exhibiting artists to introduce and discuss topics in the field of art with visitors in an intimate salon style setting.

Art Programs for Special Needs Art education programs are also being designed for children, teens and adults with special needs.

One program invites families affected by autism into the galleries and art studio to talk about and make art.

Throughout the course of this program parents and caregivers will gain skills in behavioral methods that they can employ when bringing their child into a community setting. Families will join the Art Educator trained in Art Therapy in fun interactive gallery experiences that provide opportunities for everyone to look at and talk about art in a group setting. Then off to the studio for hands on art making activities that encourage experimentation with new materials, processes and creative play.

Another workshop is aimed at building social and vocational skills for teens and young adults with autism through arts-based workshops. During this workshop series, teens will receive hands on training in basic artistic processes that can be translated into practical job skills. Based on current exhibitions in the galleries at Nassau County Museum of Art, these workshops will encourage participants to explore different methods of art making and design and how a museum can be a resource for creative inspiration.

Students with autism will have the opportunity to apply their artistic skills and functional academic learning in a real world setting.

Explore picture & art books and related resources about art history and museum exhibitions. This space is equipped with manipulatives and simple drawing materials for young children.

The Manes Center will also be available for birthday parties, with appropriate art project activities. Party bookings are available on Saturdays 12:30 – 2 pm.

Sculpture Park, Gardens & Hiking Trails The focus on gardens for the inaugural exhibit at the Manes Center is also appropriate for this grand estate.

Most of the 145 acres originally belonged to poet, lawyer, conservationist, political activist, patron of the arts and preservationist William Cullen Bryant, who settled in Roslyn in 1843. The long-time editor of the New York Post built is home, Cedarmore, and founded Roslyn’s public library. In 1862, he built a cottage for his friend and fellow poet, Miss Jerusha Dewey (you can see the cottage when you explore the hiking trails on the grounds). In 1900, Lloyd Stephens Bryce purchased Bryant’s ‘Upland Farm’ and commissioned architect Ogden Codman, Jr. to design Bryce House, the present mansion.

Henry Clay Frick, co-founder of US Steel Corporation purchased Bryce House in 1919 as a gift for his son, Childs Frick, a Princeton graduate who became a vertebrate paleontologist and naturalist.

For museum-goers, the estate grounds also offer: Sculpture Park: Approximately 30 works, many of them monumental in size, by renowned artists including Fernando Botero, Tom Otterness, George Rickey and Mark DiSuvero among others, are situated to interact with nature on the museum’s magnificent 145-acre property.

Walking Trails: The museum’s 145 acres include many marked nature trails through the woods, perfect for family hikes or independent exploration.

Gardens: From restored formal gardens of historic importance to quiet little nooks for dreaming away an afternoon, the museum’s 145 acre property features many lush examples of horticultural arts. View the expanded gardens and beautiful new path to the museum.

Today, Frick’s mansion is the Saltzman Fine Arts Building, home to the Nassau County Museum of Art, which has put on world-class exhibitions and has a notable collection, including 150 Tiffany paintings and drawings which were bequeathed to the museum.

Currently on exhibit in the Saltzman Fine Art Building (through November 5, 2017) “New York, New York”: From its earliest years, New York City was the stage on which the transformation of America played out, reflecting economic and historic upheavals that led to the city’s place as the financial and art capital of the world. This exhibition, guest curated by Director Emerita Constance Schwartz, portrays the city’s grit and glamour, its excitement and bustle, the heartbeat of a great metropolis, through more than 140 works by artists such as John Sloan, Reginald Marsh, Childe Hassam, Red Grooms, Robert Henri, Fairfield Porter, Berenice Abbott, Milton Avery and Georgia O’Keeffe among many others.

“Glamour Icons: Marc Rosen”: Through the work of the awardwinning designer Marc Rosen, Glamour Icons celebrates fragrance and cosmetic packaging as an art form. This retrospective spanning the designer’s 40-year career includes many of his most iconic designs as well as some vintage 20th-century perfume bottles from Rosen’s personal collection. The designer’s work has been recognized with many industry awards and is also in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art in New York and Musée de La Mode in Paris.

Family Sundays – 1– 4 pm (free with admission): Be inspired by an exhibition based gallery conversation, then explore new art materials and learn new art-based vocabulary and ideas in the studio with our museum educator.

Super Family Sundays – 1-4 pm (admission plus $10 materials fee): Families immerse themselves in artmaking and exploring the Museum, the grounds, and sculpture collection during Super Family Sundays. Multiple activities are offered in collaboration with teaching artists in a variety of media, from performance to monumental cardboard constructions.

Themes connecting the artmaking activities are inspired by the art on view in our galleries, the Museum’s history or the changing seasons on display in our forests and gardens.

New Director Meanwhile, Charles A. Riley II, Ph.D. has been named director of the Museum, succeeding Karl E. Willers, Ph.D. who served as director for seven years. Dr. Riley’s long association with Nassau County Museum of Art includes having served as curator-atlarge and popular presenter of many lectures offered for many exhibitions.

He helped curate the Museum’s Picasso, Surrealism and Abstract Expressionist exhibitions and recently curated the permanent installation of Western art at a major new private museum in Taiwan as well as several exhibitions in Berlin, Amsterdam, Lausanne, Manhattan and Long Island’s East End.

Nassau County Museum of Art, consisting of the Saltzman Fine Art Building and The Manes Family Art & Education Center, is located at One Museum Drive in Roslyn Harbor, just off Northern Boulevard, Route 25A, two traffic lights west of Glen Cove Road. The Museum is open Tuesday-Sunday, 11 a.m.-4:45 p.m. Admission is $12 for adults, $8 for seniors (62 and above) and $4 for students and children (4 to12). During the August 3-September 10 preview of the Manes Center, there is no admission fee (this does not include admission to the Saltzman Fine Art Building). Members are admitted free. Docent-led tours of the exhibition are offered at 2 p.m. each day; tours of the mansion are offered

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NOVENAS/PRAYERS

HOUSE CLEANING: Experienced cleaning service available. Pleasant, responsible. Provides own quality clean products. Own transportation.

Local references. Spanish​/​English speaking. Free estimates.

Approximate cost: Small home $79, Mid size $99, Large $118.

Please call Diana 516-859-7084

PRAYER TO THE BLESSED VIRGIN (Never known to fail).

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

Amen. This prayer is never known to fail and is to be said for 3 consecutive days. Publication on granting of the favor must be promised and done.

(MAK)

PRAYER TO THE HOLY SPIRIT Holy Spirit thou who made me see everything and showed me the way to reach my ideals. Thou who gave me the divine gift to forgive and forget the wrong that is done to me, and thou who art in all instances of my life with me. I thank thee for everything and confirm once more that I never want to be separated from you no matter how great material desire may be, I want to be with thee and my loved ones in Your perpetual glory. Thank You for your love towards me and my loved ones. Pray this prayer for 3 consecutive days. After 3rd day your wish will be granted no matter how difficult it may be.

Promise to publish this dialogue as soon as your favor has been granted. ( M.J.M.)

MATURE CARING WOMAN seeks position in child care, elder care, housekeeping. Available full time, part time, live in, live out. Excellent references.

Please call 516-565-4802

MATURE CERTIFIED Home Care Aides seek position to take care of your loved one.

Ten years experience. At home or will do live in. References upon request Vivene 347-742-3575 or Lorraine 347-595-0454 LOVING CAREI am a certified nurses assistant seeking to take care of your loved one. Hospital & nursing home experience.

Available mornings, evenings, nights, overnights, weekends, anytime. Driver. Please call 516297-8648

ANNOUNCEMENTS GOT LAND? Our Hunters will pay top $$$ to hunt your land.

Call for a free info packet & quote. 1-866-309-1507 www.basecampleasing.com

EMPLOYMENT HELP WANTED

JOB OPPORTUNITY For a Full Time Registered Nurse Monday–Friday At Our Mineola Location

Competitive salary/benefits Email cover letter and resume to:

careers@harborchildcare.org

PRAYER TO THE BLESSED VIRGIN (Never known to fail). Oh Most Beautiful Flower of Mount Carmel, fruitful vine of Splendor of Heaven, Blessed Mother of the Son of God, Immaculate Virgin assist me in this necessity. Oh Star of the Sea help me and show herein you are my Mother. Oh Mary Mother of God, Queen of Heaven and Earth I beseech thee from the bottom of my heart to succor me this necessity (make request). 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 (three times). Oh Holy Mary I place this cause in your hands (three times). Thank you for your mercy to me and mine.

Amen. This prayer must be said for three days and after three days your request will be granted. The prayer must be published after the favor is granted.

Grateful thanks. (L.S.)

Love to write?

We are looking for articles on local topics, opinions, ideas, nice places to visit on Long Island, and even fiction.

In our Discover magazine section, we will try to feature one new article and writer each week. Each writer will be reimbursed a stipend of $25.00, and articles should be between 1,500 and 3,000 words.

If you want to be published and be part of an issue of Discovery, you may submit your article to: editor@gcnews.com

PRAYER TO THE BLESSED VIRGIN (Never known to fail). Oh Most Beautiful Flower of Mount Carmel, fruitful vine of Splendor of Heaven, Blessed Mother of the Son of God, Immaculate Virgin assist me in this necessity. Oh Star of the Sea help me and show herein you are my Mother. Oh Mary Mother of God, Queen of Heaven and Earth I beseech thee from the bottom of my heart to succor me this necessity (make request). 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 (three times). Oh Holy Mary I place this cause in your hands (three times). Holy Spirit, you who solve all problems, light all roads so that I can attain my goal. You who give me the divine gift to forgive and forget all evil against me and that in all instances in my life you are with me. I want in this short prayer to thank you for all the things as you confirm once again that I never want to be separated from you in eternal glory. Thank you for your mercy towards me and mine.

The person must say this prayer 3 consecutive days. After 3 days, the request will be granted. This prayer must be published after the favor is granted. M.J.M.

Grandparents:

Send in your grandchildren’s photos and enter our “World’s Most Beautiful Grandchildren” contest.

Just send a photo and a brief description of the child (or children) along with your name and address to: editor@gcnews.com

MARKETPLACE INVITED SALES

BY TRACY JORDAN Consignment Shoppe and Auction House Open 7 Days a Week Consignments by Appointment Monthly Live & Online Auctions Tag Sale, Appraisals and Estate Sale Services Complete House Cleanouts Moving Services Home Staging Services 839 Stewart Avenue Garden City, NY 11530 516-279-6378 www.invitedsales.com

Friday, August 25, 2017 Classifieds

CLASSIFIEDS

PRIVACY HEDGES FALL BLOW OUT SALE. 6’ Arborvitae (cedar) reg. $149 NOW $75.

Beautiful, nursery grown. FREE installation​ / FREE delivery.

Limited supply! ORDER NOW! 518-536-1367 www.lowcosttrees. com

WANTED TO BUY

ABE BUYS OLD STUFF

Antiques, Bronzes, Paintings, Sterling Silver & All Contents

917-817-3928

LOOKING TO BUY! Oriental items, clothing, art, old & modern furniture, estates, jewelry, silver, glassware, dishes, old photos, coins & stamps, flatware. Call George 718-3861104 or 917-775-3048 TOP CASH PAID: JEWELRY, Furniture, Art, etc. Please call 718-598-3045 or 516-270-2128. www.iBuyAntiquesNYC.com

TAG SALE *BROWSE *SHOP *CONSIGN A.T. STEWART EXCHANGE CONSIGNMENT SHOP China, Silver, Crystal, Jewelry, Artwork, Furniture, Antiques, Collectibles Tues-Fri 10-4 Sat 12-4 Every Tuesday: 10% Senior Citizen Discount.

All proceeds benefit The Garden City Historical Society 109 Eleventh Street Garden City 11530 516-746-8900 email: store@atstewartexchange.org www.gardencityhistoricalsociety. org

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CLASSIFIEDS MARKETPLACE

GARAGE SALE 89 Suffolk La., Garden City Friday & Saturday 8/25, 8/26 9am-5pm. No previews Designer clothes, handbags, shoes, many household items, Christmas items, golf clubs and more.

PETS PET SERVICES A GARDEN CITY ANIMAL LOVER doesn’t want to leave your precious pooch or fantastic feline alone all day. I’m reliable, dependable and will walk and feed your pet while you work or travel. Please call Cheryl at 516-971-3242

DO YOU HATE KENNELS? OR STRANGERS IN YOUR HOUSE? HOME AWAY FROM HOME will care for your dog in my Garden City home while you are away.

Dog walking also available.

Pet CPR & first Aid Certified.

Numerous referrals and references. Limited availability.

Book early!

Annmarie 516-775-4256 MYA’S K9 CAMP Full Service Pet Care Professional Dog Grooming Training Boarding Walking EFT Pet Therapy Therapeutic Healing GC Resident 516-382-5553

AUTOMOTIVE AUTOS WANTED DONATE YOUR CAR to Wheels For Wishes, benefitting Make-a-Wish. We offer free towing and your donation is 100% tax deductible. Call 631-317-2014 Today!

REAL ESTATE FOR RENT APARTMENT FOR RENT GARDEN CITY BORDER APARTMENT: Huge bright 2 bedroom, 1 bath with dining area, gated parking, laundry, A/C, hardwood floors, NO BROKER FEE, near LIRR. $1,685 + electric. rentals@gardencityborder.com or 516-524-6965 (text or voice)

Call 294.8900

REAL ESTATE FOR RENT

REAL ESTATE FOR SALE

APARTMENT FOR RENT

CONDO/CO-OP FOR SALE

GARDEN CITY RENTALS One & Two Bedroom Apts $2200​—​$3200 Pet friendly, elevator, updated Kitchens & Baths Immediate Garden City Properties 516-746-1563/516-313-8504

GARDEN CITY, STEWART Ave. Co-op. Bright, spacious 1 BR, 1 Bath. Walk to town, LIRR. Low maintenance in immaculate building, hardwood floors, newly painted. $349,000. Call 516-313-1122

GARAGE SPACE FOR RENT COMMUTER PARKING AVAILABLE: 2 blocks form Port Washington Railroad.

516-883-3200

OFFICE SPACE GARDEN CITY 1565 FRANKLIN AVE Large Windowed Offices in newly built professional suite. Conference room, reception, copier, pantry included.

Call 516-248-3048 NEW HYDE PARK: 6 Tuxedo Ave., first floor, 1500 sqft, private entrance. Please call for details. Owner 516-650-4880

WILLISTON PARK 1300sf. office space avail on Hillside Ave. Prof building, parking lot, close to RR & parkways. Full commission paid. Call Tony 516248-4080.

VACATION RENTAL OCEAN CITY, MARYLAND Best selection of affordable rentals. Full​/​partial weeks.

Call for FREE brochure. Open daily. Holiday Resort Services.

1-800-638-2102. Online reservations: www.holidayoc.com 5% base rent discount​ —​ use code NYPS17-2. Ends Oct-01-2017

Grandparents: Send in your grandchildren’s photos

and enter our “World’s Most Beautiful Grandchildren” contest. Just send a photo and a brief description of the child (or children) along with your name and address to: editor@ gcnews.com

HAMPTON BAYS EAST END SUMMER HOME

Beautiful Summer Home 5 BR, 4 Bth, Pool, Jacuzzi. Waterviews.

Weekly, Monthly Kathy 516-984-8430

LOTS FOR SALE HUDSON VALLEY SACRIFICE! 10 acres was $49,900 NOW $39,900. Pine woods, stonewalls, stream! 20 mins from Albany, 2 hrs NYC G’teed buildable Call 888-905-8847

SERVICES HOME IMPROVEMENTS AMBIANCE PROFESSIONAL SERVICES *Handyman & Remodeling *Kitchen Installations *Furniture Assembly *Finish Carpentry *Minor Electrical & Plumbing 23year GC Resident Lic & Ins H18E2170000 Call BOB 516-741-2154 GEM BASEMENT DOCTOR: One stop for all your home improvement needs! Basement, bathroom & kitchen remodeling, carpentry, crown, wainscoting molding, closets, doors, windows, sheetrock, painting, siding, decks power washed, stained and built. 516-623-9822

LAMPS FIXED $65 In home service. Handy Howard. 646-996-7628

Get results!

Place an ad in our Classifieds for reasonable rates and prompt results. Call the G.C. office at 294-8900 for more information.

TRUMBULL

SERVICES HOME IMPROVEMENTS MASONRY All types of stonework Pavers, Retaining Walls, Belgium Block Patios, Foundations, Seal coating, Concrete and Asphalt driveways, Sidewalks, Steps.

Free Estimates Fully Licensed & Insured #H2219010000 Boceski Masonry Louie 516-850-4886 SKY CLEAR WINDOW and Restorations Inc. Window Restorations, Outdated Hardware, skylights, Andersen Sashes, new storm windows, wood windows, chain​ /r​ope repairs, falling windows, fogged panes, mechanical repairs, wood repairs, restorations, all brands. Call Mr. Fagan, 32 years experience.

631-385-7975 www.skyclearwindow.com

PAINTING & PAPERHANGING JV PAINT HANDYMAN SERVICES Interior-Exterior Specialist Painting, Wallpapering, Plastering, Spackling, Staining, Power Washing.

Nassau Lic#H3814310000 fully Insured Call John 516-741-5378 PAINTING PAINTING PAINTING: Interior​ / ​ E xterior. Summer Specials! Call Steve cell 972-998-8573

PARTY HELP LADIES & GENTLEMEN RELAX & ENJOY Your Next Party!

Catering and Experienced Professional Services for Assisting with Preparation, Serving and Clean Up Before, During and After Your Party Bartenders Available.

Call Kate at 516-248-1545

TUTORING

HISTORIC NICHOLS, Area/Trumbull.

4 BR, 3 Bth, 3,500 sq ft. Home. Features 2 Fireplaces, Dedicated Office, Hwd Flrs, 3 Car Gar, Manicured Landscaping & Gardens, Large Yd (1.1 acres) w/Inground Pool & Waterfall. Loc Near Excellent Schools & Route 95/Merritt Pkwy For Convenient Commuting • MLS No. 99176570

PRICE REDUCED! $689K OWNER RELOCATING

Contact Homeowner at:

203-258-3274

AP BIOLOGY tutor using the Campbell or Sadava books. I use the test banks to show you what you are weak in. Will test you on each chapter or topic and review results with you. If you read the chapters and review with me, this is a pathway to a 5! Ephraim Himelstein. 516384-9865. ephraimhimelstein@ gmail.com

SERVICES COLLEGE ESSAYS: Make your application stand above the rest. Call Jonathan, 516-6690587or ifixessays@gmail.com, an Ivy League PhD with proven Ivy League results.

ENGLISH TUTOR: Diane Gottlieb M.Ed., M.S.W. SAT​ /​ ACT, College Essays, AP, Regents, ELA Test Prep, Reading comprehension and writing proficiency. 917-599-8007 or email: dianegot@gmail.com LongIslandEnglishTutor.com Providing one-on-one professional support to build confidence, knowledge and skills in every student.

MATH, PHYSICS, SAT​/​ACT TUTOR, adjunct professor Calculus I,II, Algebra, trig, AP & Pre-Calc, IB, NYS Certified, highly experienced. Raj 516-7871026

MATH, SAT, ACT TUTOR: Algebra, Geometry, Algebra 2 plus Trig, Pre-Calc, AP Calculus. Norm 625-3314 ENGLISH, ACT, SAT TUTOR: 25+ year experience Critical Reading, Writing, Grammar, Essays. Lynne 625-3314 SPANISH TUTOR: There is a difference. Over 30 years of teaching and tutoring all levels, flexible scheduling, periodic contact with child’s teacher if required. Experienced, dedicated, flexible, collaborative, William Cullen, M.A. Spanish. Call​ /​text 516-509-8174 wdctutor@aol. com

INSTRUCTION PIANO LESSONS

By Ira Baslow. Experience the joy of playing the piano. Private lessons in your home, free no-obligation piano lesson, all levels, all styles, all ages. Beginners a specialty. 516-312-1054 www.iwantmypianolessons. com POPPA’S MUSIC: Back to School instrument rentals. 20% off with ad on already low priced school rental rates! Offer expires 9/30/17. Affordable, high quality rentals for all band and orchestra instruments. 168 Jericho Tpke., Mineola. Email allan@ poppasmusic.com 516-747-5107

Our Service Directory is sure to bring results.

Call 294-8900 for rates and information.

SERVICES

SERVICES

CLEANING

CLEANING

MARIA’S CLEANING SERVICE Our excellent cleaning team will get your home or office spotless! Available Monday thru Friday 7am to 6pm Supplies provided if needed Own transportation Excellent references provided CALL 516-849-2026

STRONG ARM CLEANING: Residential and commercial cleaning specialist, post construction clean ups, shipping and waxing floors, move ins and move outs. Free estimates.

Bonded and insured. 516-5381125 www.strongarmcleaningny.com

SPRING INTO ACTION LET US CLEAN YOUR HOUSE WINDOWS GARDEN CITY WINDOW CLEANING Home Window Cleaning Service by Owner Free Estimates Inside & Out Fully Insured 25 Years Experience 631-220-1851 516-764-5686

Are you a professional?

Our Professional Guide is sure to bring results. Call 294-8900 for rates and information.

SERVICES 1-866-We Junk It: All phases of rubbish removal & demolition. Residential, commercial, construction sites, kitchens, bathrooms, clean-ups, attics, basements, floods, fires. All size dumpsters. Same day service.

Fully insured. Bob Cat Service. www.1866wejunkit.com 516-5411557

A & J MOVING & STORAGE: Established 1971. Long Island and New York State specialists. Residential, Commercial, Piano & Organ experts. Boxes available. Free estimates. www. ajmoving.com 516-741-2657 114 Jericho Tpk, Mineola NYDOT# 10405

DONATE YOUR CAR

Wheels For Wishes

SERVICES

SERVICES

SERVICES

COLLEGE ARTS ADMISSIONS: College Counseling in the Visual and Performing Arts. Dance, Musical Theatre & Drama. Film, Instrumental & Vocal Music. Audio Recording & Production. Theatre Technology & Production. Visual & Graphic Arts. Resume, Essays, Repertoire Lists. Michele Zimmerman. 516-353-6255 CollegeArtsAdmissions@gmail.com www.CollegeArtsAdmissions. com

OLD VILLAGE TREE SERVICE: Owner operated since 1989. 24 hour emergency service. Licensed​/​insured. Free estimates, member LI Arborist Assoc. Please call 516-466-9220

PROFESSIONAL LETTER WRITER: Will write your letters of: Complaint, Regret, Applications, Correspondence, Thank You’s, Speeches, Reports, Cover Letters, Newsletters, Editing and more. Your letters will get results! Ron Goldberg 516567-8434 ron.e.goldberg@gmail. com

COMPLETE JUNK REMOVAL​/​DEMOLITION SERVICE: Strong Arm Contracting Inc. We haul anything and everything. Entire contents of home or office. We clean it up and take it away. Residential​/​Commercial. Bonded​/​Insured. Free estimates. 516-538-1125 GENERATORS Sales and service. Maintenance contracts.

Generac, Kohler. Mohrmann Electric Co., Inc. 516-826-3311

PRIVATE SCHOOL BUS TRANSPORTATION for upcoming school year. We cover Elementary through High School.

Herricks School District. DOT inspected school buses driven

by NYS DMV certified 19a professionals. Monthly payment plan available after initial down payment. Call Sandra Transportation at: 516-469-7684 and leave a message. We will return your call within 1 business day.

PSYCHOTHERAPY: Efrat Fridman, LCSW. Individual, couple and family therapy. effiefrid@gmail.com 2 Pinetree Lane, Old Westbury, NY 11568. 516-224-7670 or 225 West 35th Street, NY 10001 718-887-4400

Our Service Directory is sure to bring results.

Call 294-8900 for rates and information.

Wine Tasting helps animal shelter

*Free Vehicle/Boat Pickup ANYWHERE *We Accept All Vehicles Running or Not *Fully Tax Deductible

Benefiting

Make-A-Wish® Suffolk County or Metro New York

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Suffolk County

Call: (631) 317-2014

WheelsForWishes.org

Metro New York

Call: (631) 317-2014

* Car Donation Foundation d/b/a Wheels For Wishes. To learn more about our programs or financial information, visit www.wheelsforwishes.org.

THERE WILL BE NEARLY 5,000

COURT REPORTING JOB OPENINGS OVER THE NEXT FIVE YEARS*, & THERE’S ONLY

ONE PROGRAM IN NYC TO PREPARE YOU. NOW ENROLLING FOR FALL 2017 CERTIFICATE & DEGREE PROGRAMS

718-502-6248 • PLAZACOLLEGE.EDU 118-33 QUEENS BLVD., FOREST HILLS *AS RECENTLY STATED IN THE WALL STREET JOURNAL & DAILY NEWS

Friday, August 25, 2017 Classifieds

CLASSIFIEDS

Please join Last Hope Animal Shelter on Friday night, September 15th, from 7-10 PM for its night of wine tasting at the Walt Whitman Birthplace, 246 Walt Whitman Road in Huntington Station.

Admission of $55 includes wine, a light supper and dessert.

All proceeds benefit the rescue efforts of Last Hope.

This is always fun night and will include a live auction, Chinese auction and 50/50.

Please purchase your tickets in advance using the PayPal link on the website

by September 12th. For more information, visit http://lasthopeanimalrescue. org/wine-tasting-friday-september-15th/ If paying by check, please mail it by September 2nd to be sure it’s received in time.

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Last Hope Flea Market Saturday, September 9th

THE WAIT IS OVER!

After our summer break, the next Last Hope Flea Market and Jewelry Sale will be on Saturday, September 9th from 10am-2pm at The Church of the Advent (Winthrop Hall) in Westbury, 555 Advent Street, just off Jericho Turnpike.

Items for donation will be accepted on Friday, September 8th from 2:30pm to 7pm at the church.

Things we don’t accept since they don’t sell: books, VCR/cassette tapes, toys, gym equipment, furniture, picture frames and clothing. Our customers are interested in knick-knacks and household items. Jewelry is a big seller for us–all kinds.

All proceeds benefit the special needs animal fund at Last Hope.

To see our adoptable cats and dogs and more information about Last Hope, please visit our website: http:// lasthopeanimalrescue.org For more information contact Maureen at toestetra@hotmail.com.

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CLEANING SERVICE

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TREE SERVICE

CLEANING RESIDENTIAL/COMMERCIAL

MASTER CLEANING

A Complete Home Service by Reliable Professionals Homes • Apts. • Offices • Carpet Cleaning • Window Wash • Floors Stripped & Waxed • Move In Move Out • Attics • Garages • Basements • Rubbish Removal • All Cleaning Supplies Included FREE ESTIMATES

Cell: 516-770-0514 MOVING SERVICE

CARPENTRY

Serving the community for over 40 yrs

SWEENEY CUSTOM CARPENTRY

BRIAN CLINTON

MOVERS

One Piece to a Household/ Household Rearranging FREE ESTIMATES

333-5894

Owner Supervised

Licensed & Insured Licensed #T-11154 175 Maple Ave. Westbury, NY 11590

and PAINTING

Renovations Custom Closets Sheetrock Repairs Interior/Exterior

New Doors New Windows New Moldings Free Estimates

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516-884-4016 Lic# H0454870000

HOME HEATING OIL

MASONRY

MOVERS ALL TYPES OF STONEWORK

FREE ESTIMATES LICENSED & INSURED #H2219010000

Sage Oil Save 5¢ per gallon

by visiting mysageoil.com and entering promo code SAGE5 at checkout.

HOME IMPROVEMENTS

ANTIQUES

516-485-3900

234099-1

FAMILY OWNED & OPERATED

CUSTOM DECORATORS

Residential | Commercial | Installation | Sales & Services

Window Treatments, Custom Upholstery, Custom Fit Slipcovers, Cushions and Pillows, Furniture Restoration.

10% OFF

on any project (Restrictions apply)

FREE ESTIMATES

85 Franklin Ave. Franklin Square NY 11010

516.216.1630

LAWN SPRINKLERS

Open Mon. to Sat. 9am to 6pm

www.TheSquareDecorators.com

AUTO DETAILING

DETTAGLIO DETAILING “We clean and pamper your car”

• • • • •

Spring Turn-Ons Backflow Device Tests Free Estimates Installation Service/Repairs

Joe Barbato (516) 775-1199

• We specialize in Imports: Mercedes-Benz, BMW, Audi, Jaguar & Maserati

• SUV’s, Vans & Pick-Ups also detailed at a higher price • We provide Mobile service

$10 OFF

Complete Detail Coupons not to be combined

Anthony Masia

Wash & Wax Spring Special $95 Cars only Coupons not to be combined

- 631-612-7152

Owner/Operator Check us out on Facebook

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SERVICE DIRECTORY PAINTING/POWER WASHING

ROOFING

PAINTING/POWER WASHING

SWEENEY PAINTING and CARPENTRY

Interior B. Moore Paints Dustless Vac System Renovations

Call 294.8900

PAINTING & WALLPAPER est. 1978

Exterior Power Washing Rotted Wood Fixed Staining

Interior and Exterior • Plaster/Spackle Light Carpentry • Decorative Moldings Power Washing

516-884-4016

www.MpaintingCo.com 516-385-3132 New Hyde Park

Lic# H0454870000

DEMO/JUNK REMOVAL

516-328-7499 Licensed & Insured

“PAULIE THE ROOFER” - Stopping Leaks My Specialty -

• Slate & Tile Specialists • All Types of Roofing LIC & INSD “MANY LOCAL REFERENCES”

(516) 621-3869

AWNINGS

ADVERTISE YOUR SERVICE HERE Enjoy Instant Shade & Comfort All Summer and

SAVE $200

INTERIOR & EXTERIOR / RESIDENTIAL & COMMERCIAL • Thermal Windows • Doors • Siding & Gutters • Dormers & Extensions • Basements • Kitchens • Bathrooms • Decks

GOLDEN HAMMER HOME IMPROVEMENTS

Perfection Is No Accident!

516-354-1127

FREE ESTIMATES Lic. & Insured

GENERATORS

JUNK REMOVAL

ALL PHASES OF RUBBISH REMOVAL & DEMOLITION Residential • Commercial Construction Sites

“POWER WHEN YOU NEED IT”

Kitchens • Bathrooms Clean-Ups • Attics Basements Flood/Fire

ALL SIZE DUMPSTERS

516-541-1557

Some Day Service, Fully Insured

Bob Cat Service

www.1866WEJUNKIT.com

HOME IMPROVEMENTS

10% off New Customers First Maintenance Call or First Service Call. (including any parts used) Mention this ad.

Mayfair Power Systems, Inc. Sales • Service • Parts • Maintenance

516-623-3007 www.mayfairpower.com

Servicing Long Island Since 1961

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ANTIQUES

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NEED $$ ?? NEED SPACE??

Have Old Comic Books To Sell??

Old Toys?? Old Pulps??

Collectibles?? Have to Move??

Have TV or Movie Memorabilia??

WE BUY!! $$ PAID IMMEDIATELY!!

$ BEST COMICS INTERNATIONAL

1300 JERICHO TURNPIKE, NEW HYDE PARK www.bestcomics.com

$

Since 1991

516-328-1900

ADVERTISE YOUR SERVICE HERE Call 294.8900 For Rates and Information

HOME IMPROVEMENT

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GEM - BASEMENT DOCTOR

516-623-9822 Lic. Nas. H3803000000

TREE SERVICE

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PROFESSIONAL GUIDE

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Call 294-8900 and let us begin listing you in our Professional Guide and Professional Services pages. Deadline is Monday, 12 Noon COMPUTER SPECIALIST

COLLEGE COUNSELING

FAMILY THERAPIST

SUSAN MURPHY, LCSW 111 Seventh Street, Suite #111 Garden City, New York 11530

SUSAN MURPHY, LCSW Individual and Family Therapist Child • Teen • Adult

(908) 868-5757 SMurphy824@gmail.com

LAW

PSYCHOTHERAPIST

D’Angelo Law Associates, PC Frank G. D’Angelo, Esq.

Divorce Mediation

HEALTH CARE MANAGEMENT

Family Care Connections,® LLC Dr. Ann Marie D’Angelo, PMHCNS-BC Doctor of Nursing Practice Advanced Practice Nurse Care Manager Assistance with Aging at Home / Care Coordination Nursing Home & Assisted Living Placement PRI / Screens / Mini Mental Status Exams 901 Stewart Ave., Suite 230, Garden City, NY 11530

Elder Law Wills & Trusts Medicaid Planning Estate Planning Probate & Estate Administration / Litigation 901 Stewart Avenue, Suite 230 Garden City, NY 11530

WWW.DRANNMARIEDANGELO.COM

WWW.DANGELOLAWASSOCIATES.COM

PSYCHOTHERAPY

CHEMISTRY TUTOR

(516) 248-9323

Efrat Fridman, Individual, couple and family therapy

EilEEn ToonE l.C.S.W

Psychotherapist

1975 Hempstead Turnpike East Meadow NY 11554 • Suite 404 P: 516 873 1288 C: 516 316 3350

(516) 222-1122

TUTORING

LCSW

PSYCHOTHERAPY

effiefrid@gmail.com 516-224-7670 2 Pinetree Lane Old Westbury NY 11568

Individual • Couples • Marital Therapy • Addiction Specialist

718-887-4400 225 W. 35th St. New York, NY 10001

TUTORING

call

Jonathan, Ivy League Ph.D.

669-0587

(516)

itutorchem@gmail.com I also tutor:

AP • SAT II Regents

biology, physics, earth & envi. sci.

NorthShoreAcademics.weebly.com

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Herbert Kent Herbert Kent of Garden City, New York died in his home at the age of 88 on Saturday morning. Herb boasted a long and productive career, and lived a full and well traveled life. After graduating from Forrest Hills High School, he began working as a gemologist but that was put on hold when he was drafted into the army. He returned from Germany after his tour of duty with his bride and young daughter and began his second career in the securities industry, where he is credited with having piloted the innovation of the unit investment trust solution in partnership with his friends at Merrill

Lynch. Herbert retired at the age of 62 and continued to enjoy life with his wife and family, traveling around the world, playing golf, tennis and bridge until Gloria’s unexpected passing in 2000. He is survived by children Karen Kent Crape and Timothy Kent and their families. He is also survived by his devoted wife Nadia and dearest sister Rita Calumet in California. It was a life well lived and full of love.

Callers will be received on Saturday, August 26 between 2-4pm at 70 First Street, Garden City. In lieu of flowers, donations would be welcomed by the Mary Brennan Inn Soup Kitchen, 100 Madison Ave., Hempstead

IN MEMORIAM Irene Romano Irene Fitzgerald Funke Romano of Seaford by way of Floral Park and Garden City, passed away on her birthday, August 21st of Alzheimers at the age of 71.

Irene loved playing trucks and Barbies with Kids – her kids, her grandkids, and her kids at Garden City Preschool. She also enjoyed spending time with her friends in “Club” and on Kensington Road.

Irene had many talents: She baked the best petit fours and chocolate mousses; painted the most perfect ceramics; and sewed needlepoint and Halloween costumes like a pro. She was a sharp legal assistant and self-taught computer expert.

She was too humble to accept compliments and had a wonderful laugh, which she did often.

Irene always left the house with full makeup on, her purse, and matching shoes. Her hair was rarely out of place,

even when she doggie-paddled in the shallow end of the Garden City Pool.

Irene is survived by her husband, Alex Romano, and her four children: Jennifer and son-in-law Greg; Matthew and daughter-in-law Jeannette; Michael and daughter-in-law Tina; and Susan and her five grandchildren. She is also survived by her brothers, Gene, Bob, and Bill Fitzgerald. She is preceded in death by her first husband, Vincent Funke.

Irene was a sweet, kind soul to the very end. And she never liked the song “Goodnight Irene.”

Irene lived her life the way she told her kids to behave every time she said goodbye to them: “Be good, have fun!”

Visitations will held at Dalton Funeral Home 29 Atlantic Ave. Florida Park on Friday, August 25 from 2-5 p.m. and 7-9:30 p.m.

Irene loved daisies if you wish to send flowers. Donations to Alzheimers. org are also appreciated.

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IN MEMORIAM Bunty Kelly Bernstein Former Garden City Resident, Bunty Kelley Bernstein, passed away on Thursday, August 17th at the age of ninety two. Bunty Kelley Bernstein (Nee’ Helen Margaret Douglas Kelley) was born on April 11, 1925 in London, England to Scottish parents- Nell Dunlop Kelley and John Douglas Kelley, an editor for Shell-Mex BP oil magazine. She began formal ballet lessons at age eight and began her professional career at an early age beginning with small character roles in movies and left school to pursue a full time position as a pantomime dancer at the age of twelve. Bunty embarked upon a full time career with the Royal Ballet Company (then Sadlers Wells) in 1939.

During the interim while the Sadlers Wells theater was closed during the Second World War, Bunty performed with the Rambert Ballet Company for noontime concerts. She continued to dance with Sadlers Wells when it reconvened in 1941 in order to perform for British troops in France and Belgium. Soon afterwards, Bunty performed in several musical shows in London before accepting a position with choreographer Agnes De Mille in the film ‘London Town”. In 1946, Bunty left London to join Bunty Kelley Bernstein in her dancing days Ms. De Mille in America to perform in the production of received status as Associate Professor Oklahoma on Broadway. During her until the early 1970’s. In the spring of tenure with Agnes De Mille, Bunty 1974, she began teaching at BOCES performed various roles in numerous Cultural Arts Center (now known as films and Broadway musicals. Some of Long Island School of the Arts), where the highlights included the following she stayed for twenty years. In 1960, she films: Oklahoma, , Carousel, Pajama married Harry Bernstein and in 1966 Game, The Best Things in Life are Free, Anything Goes and Silk Stockings they moved to 53 Willow Street where and the following musical shows: she resided until 2012.

Oklahoma, Gentlemen Prefer Blonds, She is survived by her daughter, Goldilocks and Brigadoon (Broadway) Flutist/songwriter Margaret Jean and Brigadoon (London).

Bernstein, her grandson, percussionist/ Bunty began her ballet teaching drummer Julian Jacobs and nieces career while she was still performing and nephews. At the request of Mrs. beginning with private classes in Los Bernstein, no funeral or memorial Angeles and in New York City and service will be held. In lieu of flowers, went on to teach at the Metropolitan donations can be made in her name Opera House where she taught until to the SAFE through the arts bullying the early 1960’s. She began teaching prevention program at Azalea Blossom, in the Dance Department at Adelphi Incorporated, POB 21777, Brooklyn, NY, University under the Chairmanship 11202 or at http://www.azaleablossom. of Harry Bernstein on Long Island in 1959 where she taught and eventually com/support/donate

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Ed Palkot’s 104th Birthday Party On August 21, the Garden City Retired Men’s Club celebrated member Ed Palkot’s 104th birthday at the G.C.

Senior Center. More than 30 members and guests attended.

Ed and best pal, Joe Leto. Combined age is 203 years.

Ed and his sons, Greg (from London) and Ed,Jr. (from Houston).

Members of the Retired Men’s Club

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Pastel Art Class with Arleen Urban

Our adult pastel art program is open to adults who are residents of the Inc. Village of Garden City. The class will meet for ten weeks from 9:00 a.m. to 11:30 am beginning Friday, September 15 in St. Paul’s Cluett Hall. The cost of this program is $140.

To register for this program, please visit the Garden City Recreation and Parks’ Administrative Office at 108 Rockaway Ave. or if you have a password, you can register online at www. gcreconline.gardencityny.net. For further information, call the Recreation and Parks Office at 465-4075.

Exercise with Joy!

Start your day with low impact exercise! Joy Cody has set a program with our senior and beginner population in mind!

Classes will take place on your choice of Tuesdays or Thursdays at 9 am at the Senior Center on Golf Club Lane beginning Thursday, September 7th. The one hour class will run for 10 weeks at a cost of $60. This program is open to any resident of the Inc. Village of Garden City.

To register for this program, please visit the Recreation and Parks office at 108 Rockaway Avenue.

“Zumba Gold" Classes for the Active Senior or Beginner

The fall session of our “Zumba Gold” fitness class will be held on Thursday afternoons at 2:15 pm at The Senior Center. Each 45 minute class, teaching the basics of “Zumba” exercise, is led by Felicia Lovaglio, our certified “Zumba” exercise instructor. This class is geared for seniors or the beginner adult. The eight week session will begin Thursday,

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September 14th. The price for the session is $48.

To register this class, please visit the Recreation and Parks Office at 108 Rockaway Ave.

Beginner Mah Jongg for Seniors

Garden City Recreation and Parks is pleased to offer beginner Mah Jongg lessons to our seniors. This six week course will cover the basics of the game and the rules so you can enjoy playing. The class will meet every Monday from 11 am to 1 pm beginning Monday, October 2nd. The cost of this six week class will be $48 and space is limited.

Checks should be made payable to the Village of Garden City.

To register for this class, please visit the Recreation and Parks Office at 108 Rockaway Avenue. Applications will be accepted until all 16 spots are filled.

PLEASE NOTE – an additional $10 supply fee will be payable to the instructor at the first class.

Fall trips for Garden City Seniors

Here is the beginning of Garden City Recreation and Parks’ fall trip list for seniors who are residents of the Inc. Village of Garden City. More trips will be added in the coming weeks. If you would like to register for any of our trips, please visit the Recreation and Parks Office at 108 Rockaway Avenue.

Payment must accompany registrations.

Wednesday, September 13 – Tour of Sagamore Hill. We will travel by Recreation bus to Oyster Bay Cove, where we will have a docent led tour of Sagamore Hill, the summer home of President Teddy Roosevelt. You will also have time to visit the other buildings on the property and the grounds.

“Grandparenting Matters: Inside and Out” Grandparents – are you up-to-date?

NYU Winthrop Hospital’s Inspiring Women™ educational series will offer a free program, “Grandparenting Matters – Inside and Out,” on Thursday, September 7, 2017, at 7:00 PM. The program will be held at the NYU Winthrop Research and Academic Center, located at 101 Mineola Boulevard, Mineola, in the Treiber Family Conference Center, Room G-018.

Ronald V. Marino, DO, Associate Chairman of Pediatrics and Richard A. Bagdonas, MD, Acute Care Surgeon, Department of Surgery, will offer an informative session on how to keep children safe inside and outside the home.

Grandparents will also understand updates on vaccines, SIDS (Sudden Infant Death Syndrome) prevention and safe sleep, and become familiar with

feeding options and choking hazards.

A question and answer period will be included with the session.

Attendees are asked to arrive at 6:45 PM for the 7 PM program. Admission is free, but pre-registration is required.

To register for this program, please call (516) 663-3916 or e-mail inspiringwomen@nyuwinthrop.org. For parking or inclement weather information, please call (516) 663-9761.

The program is being offered as part of Inspiring Women: The Women’s Wellness Initiative at NYU Winthrop, a free community education series dedicated to the health and well-being of women. For information about Inspiring Women events or other programs at the Hospital, please call 1-866-WINTHROP or visit www.winthrop.org/community-programs

We will then visit a local restaurant where lunch will be on your own. The cost of this trip will be $10, payable in cash.

Wednesday, November 8 at noon – Westbury Manor for lunch and “Fiddler on the Roof”. We will travel by recreation bus to Westbury Manor and return when the show ends. The cost of this trip will be $40, checks only made payable to Plaza Theatrical Productions.

Tuesday, November 14 at 2 pm – “Married to Broadway” featuring the stars of “Les Miserables” at NYCB Theatre in Westbury. We will travel by recreation bus and enjoy this musical revue, returning when the show is over.

Tickets for this show are $40, checks only made payable to Rendezvous Travel.

Wednesday, December 6 – Metropolitan Museum of Art and Bryant Park. We will travel by coach bus to the Metropolitan, where we will have time to view the Michelangelo exhibit as well as the MET’s famous Christmas tree and crèche and the many other wonderful treasures the museum holds. Lunch will be on your own at the museum. We will then visit Bryant Park’s Winter Village and Holiday Market before we head home. Please be advised that walking is involved in both the museum and Bryant Park. The cost of this trip is $67, checks only made payable to Rendezvous Travel.

Monday, December 11 - Join Garden City Recreation and Parks on a Senior Trip to the Metropolitan Opera House for a Performance of Vincenzo Bellini’s “Norma”.

We will travel by coach bus, leaving St. Paul’s parking lot around 3:15 pm.

When we arrive dinner will be on your own. There are many restaurants in the

neighborhood.

Show time is at 7:30 pm and we will travel home when the opera is over.

The cost of each ticket will be $85, checks only made payable to Jo Falabella.

Exercise for Seniors

Recreation and Parks is offering the following exercise classes for seniors at The Senior Center on Golf Club Lane.

For the next few months the classes will be free in order to for you to try each class, after which they will be offered at a nominal charge. Classes are open to all seniors ages 60 and older who are residents of the Inc. Village of Garden City. Classes might be canceled due to a special event or trip so please check the bulletin board at The Senior Center for updates.

MONDAYS Exercise with Felicia at 10 am Tai Chi with Connie at 1 pm Meditation with Connie at 2 pm TUESDAYS Yoga for all Levels with Allie at 11:15 am Chair Dancing with Felicia at 2:30 pm WEDNESDAY Exercise with Felicia at 9:45 am Chair Yoga with Connie at 11 am THURSDAY Exercise with Joy at 9 am (paid class, prior registration is needed) Yoga for all Levels with Allie at 11:15 am FRIDAY Exercise with Felicia at 9:45 am Resistance Bands w/ Felicia at 10:45 am Meditation with Connie at noon Tai Chi with Connie at 1 pm

GC Senior Bridge On August 21st, there were five tables playing. The results: North/South 1--Joan Kiernan & Claire Burns

2--Carmel Quill & Arlene Dausch East/West 1--Dian Kendrick & Carrie Flapan 2--Irene Christie & Elizabeth Green

Garden City Retired Men’s Club Monday, August 28 - Regular Meeting Monday, September 5 - Labor Day. No Meeting Monday, September 12 Regular Meeting Monday, September 19 Sandwiches Monday, September 26 Regular Mtg Bowling every Friday during season at Herrill Lanes. Contact Joe Leto at 248-9022.

Poker players: check with John Marino at 248-1770.

We welcome bridge, and especially non-bridge, players, in order to expand the variety of our activities. Some suggestions: poker, chess, backgammon, other card games, cribbage and billiards. Also you may come for just con-

versation, camaraderie, and to make new friends.

Lunch is served roughly twice a month.

About the GC Retired Men’s Club

All Garden City men, 55 years and older, are eligible for membership.

Annual dues are a very “expensive” $10. Meetings are on Mondays, and a less busy meeting is on Thursdays.

Both begin at noon and end at 4:00pm.

Check with the GCNews RMC schedule re upcoming meetings.

The Club offers a large screen TV, card games (bridge, poker, cribbage), chess, backgammon, and billiards. In good weather, we offer BBQ, bocce, shuffleboard, and horseshoes.

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Our adult pastel art program is open to adults who are residents of the Inc. Village of Garden City. The class will meet for ten weeks from 9:00 a.m. to 11:30 am beginning Friday, September 15 in St. Paul’s Cluett Hall. The cost of this program is $140.

To register for this program, please visit the Garden City Recreation and Parks’ Administrative Office at 108 Rockaway Ave. or if you have a password, you can register online at www. gcreconline.gardencityny.net. For further information, call the Recreation and Parks Office at 465-4075.

Exercise with Joy

Start your day with low impact exercise! Joy Cody has set a program with our senior and beginner population in mind!

Classes will take place on your choice of Tuesdays or Thursdays at 9 am at the Senior Center on Golf Club Lane beginning Thursday, September 7th. The one hour class will run for 10 weeks at a cost of $60. This program is open to any resident of the Inc. Village of Garden City.

To register for this program, please visit the Recreation and Parks office at 108 Rockaway Avenue.

Adult Yoga Fall Session

Connie McKnight, our certified yoga instructor, has designed adult yoga classes with all ages in mind. Our yoga class will be offered on Wednesday mornings at 9 am at the Senior Center on Golf Club Lane. This 10 week program will begin on Wednesday, September 6th. The cost of this class will be $90.

To register, visit the Recreation and Parks Office at 108 Rockaway Avenue.

Classes will meet – September 6, 13, 27, October 4, 11, 18, 25, November 1, 8, 15

Dance Conservatory Schedule 2017-18

Garden City Recreation and Parks is pleased to announce this year’s Dance Conservatory schedule. This schedule is for information only. Prices will be listed and registration will begin for our classes by mail and online on Friday, September 8.

Monday: 11:30 Creative Movement - Ages 3.5 - 5 1:15 Ballet/Tap - Ages 4-5 4:00 Ballet/Hip Hop - Kindergarten-1st Grade 5:00 Ballet Hip Hop – 2nd-3rd Grade 6:00 Ballet/Tap - 4th-5th Grade 7:00 Ballet/Tap - 6th Grade and up Tuesday: 4:00 Ballet/ Hip Hop - Kindergarten-1st Grade 5:00 Ballet/ Tap - 2nd-3rd Grade 6:00 Hip Hop - 4th-5th Grade 7:00 Hip Hop - 6th Grade and up Wednesday: 10:30 Creative Movement - Ages 3.5 – 5 12:00 Ballet/Jazz - Ages 4-5

1:15 Creative Movement - Ages 3.5 – 5 4:00 Ballet/ Tap - Kindergarten-1st Grade 5:00 Ballet/Hip Hop - 2nd-3rd Grade 6:00 Ballet/ Hip Hop - 4th-5th Grade 7:00 Jazz - 6th Grade and up Thursday: 11:30 Creative Movement - Ages 3.5 – 5 12:45 Ballet/ Jazz - Ages 4-5 4:00 Ballet/ Tap - Kindergarten-1st Grade 5:00 Ballet/ Tap - 2nd-3rd Grade 6:00 Contemporary - 4th-5th Grade 7:00 Ballet - 6th Grade and up Friday: 1:30 Creative Movement – Ages 3.5 – 5 2:30 Ballet/ Jazz - Ages 4-5 4:00 Ballet/ Hip Hop - Kindergarten-1st Grade 5:00 Ballet/Hip Hop - 2nd-3rd Grade 6:00 Ballet/ Hip Hop - 4th-5th Grade 7:00 Contemporary 6th Grade and up Saturday: 10:00 Ballet/Hip Hop - Kindergarten1st Grade (New) 11:00 Creative Movement - Ages 3.5 – 5 1:00 Hip Hop – Grades 6th and up 2:00 Rehearsal ( 6th & up) 3:00 Tap 6th Grade and up with previous experience 4:00 High School Jazz

Fall Roller Hockey Registration

The Garden City Recreation & Parks Department will once again offer various roller hockey programs this fall for both youth & adults who reside in the Inc. Village of Garden City. Whether you played in the past or looking to get involved, there is no better time to sign up and experience all the fun. All programs take place at the roller rink located at Community Park. The cost of each youth program is $105.

Each participant is required to wear full equipment at all times: hockey helmet with a cage, hockey gloves, shin pads, elbow pads, roller blades, hockey stick, long pants, and a protective cup.

A description of each program we will offer is as follows: Kindergarten Pee Wee Clinic: No experience is required in hockey or roller skating. This hour long clinic will introduce the sport of roller hockey and all the basic fundamentals in a fun & safe environment. The program will take place Sunday afternoons at 1:30 p.m. beginning September 10th.

1st Grade Squirts Division: This beginner program will continue to develop our young players through drills and scrimmages. This hour long program will take place Sunday afternoons at 3:00 p.m. beginning September 10th.

2nd and 3rd Grade Mites Division: Games will take place on Sunday late afternoons with either a 4:30 p.m. or 5:45 p.m. game time depending on your child’s team schedule. Season begins on Sunday September 10th.

4th, 5th, & 6th Grade Junior Division: Games will take place on

Friday afternoons with either a 4:00 p.m. or 5:30 p.m. game time depending on your child’s team schedule. Season begins on Friday September 8th.

7th, 8th, & 9th Grade Senior Division: Games will take place on Friday evenings with either a 6:45 p.m. or 8:00 p.m. game time depending on your child’s team schedule. Season begins on Friday September 8th.

Adult Division for 30 and Over: Games will take place on Sundays at 7:15p.m. Games are in “pick up” format.

This program will begin on Sunday September 10th. The cost of this program will be $90.

For further info or to register, visit our offices at 108 Rockaway, download and mail an application from our website at www.gardencityrecreation. org, or if you have a password you can register online at www.gcreconline. gardencityny.net.

Community Tennis Center Programs for Children

We are pleased to announce the start of registration for our fall Tennis Program for children at the Community Park Tennis Center. Recreation and Parks offers classes for all levels of experience on weekdays after school and on Saturdays. To register, please visit our Recreation and Parks Office at 108 Rockaway Avenue. You may also register online if you have a password on our website at www.gcreconline.gardencityny.net.

Non resident children who would like to register for our tennis program must prove they attend one of the Garden City Public Schools. Proof must accompany registration and will be accepted beginning September 18. An additional $50 fee will pertain to anyone in this category.

Classes will begin on Monday, September 25 and run for 10 weeks except Saturdays, which will run for 9 weeks. Here are the class levels.

A schedule of classes and registration forms may be picked up at the Recreation office or downloaded off our website at www.gardencityrecreation. org.

Tots Ages 4-5 (not in kindergarten) and PeeWee - Ages 5 (in kindergarten) to 7: Introduction to Tennis, emphasizing basic movement and striking skills in a fun game playing environment.

Novice - Ages 6 to 7 Continued development of basic movement and striking skills on a full size court.

Serving and scorekeeping will be introduced. Past tennis experience required.

Junior - Ages 8 to 11 Extension of Novice Level program. Continued emphasis on striking concepts, movement, and skills related to tennis play.

Junior Advanced - Ages 8 to 11 For the more serious, more advanced students. These lessons are offered in 1 1/2 hr time slots. Experience required.

Senior - Ages 12 and older Extension of Junior Program, continued emphasis on fundamentals and skills related to tennis play.

Senior Advanced - Ages 12 and older - For the more serious, more advanced student.

These lessons are offered in 1 1/2 hour time slots.

Experience required.

Fall offerings by US Sports Institute

Garden City Recreation and Parks will work with US Sports Institute to offer the following fall classes at St. Paul’s: Tuesdays beginning September 19 Cost $145 for 7 weeks for 1 hr.

Ages 2 – 3 – Parent and Me Squirts Multi Sports at 9:30am Ages 3 – 5 Squirts Multi Sports at 10:30am Ages 3 – 5 Squirts Soccer at 1pm, 3:30 pm, or 4:30 pm Fridays beginning September 15 – Cost $145 for 7 weeks for 1 hr.

Ages 3 – 5 Squirts T-Ball at 1 pm, 3:30 pm, or 4:30 pm Sundays beginning September 17 – Cost $145 for 7 weeks for 1 hr.

Ages 2 – 3 Parent and Me Soccer Squirts at 9 am or 10 am Ages 2 – 3 Parent and Me T-Ball Squirts at noon Ages 3 – 5 Squirts Multi Sports at 9 am or 11 am Ages 3 – 5 T-Ball Squirts at 9 am or noon Ages 3 – 5 Squirts Soccer at 10 am or 11 am To register for any of these programs, please visit US Sports Institute’s website at www. ussportsinsitute.com.

If you register by August 16 and use code FALLEB17, you will receive at 10% early bird discount.

US Sports Institute “School Day Off” Camp

US Sports Institute, as part of Garden City Recreation and Park’s fall offerings, will offer a one day multi-sport camp on Election Day, November 6th, for children ages 5 – 11on St. Paul’s fields.

The times and prices offered will by as follows: 9 am to 4 pm Cost $75 9 am to 12:30 pm Cost $45 1 pm to 4 pm Cost $35 To register for this camp, please visit US Sports Institute’s website at www. ussportsinsitute.com. If you register by August 16 and use code FALLEB17, you will receive at 10% early bird discount.

We have amusement park tickets

The Garden City Recreation Department will this year again be offering discount tickets to area amusement parks. The tickets may be used any time during the 2017 park season and can be purchased at the Recreation Office at 108 Rockaway Continued on page 44

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L E G A L

N O T I C E S

NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT: NASSAU COUNTY. THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON FKA THE BANK OF NEW YORK, AS TRUSTEE FOR THE CERTIFICATEHOLDERS OF CWMBS, INC., CHL MORTGAGE PASSTHROUGH TRUST 2007-11 MORTGAGE PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2007-11, Pltf. vs. HENRIETTA CALANDRINO, et al, Defts.

Index #12-004498. Pursuant to judgment of foreclosure and sale dated Dec. 13, 2016, I will sell at public auction at the Calendar Control Part (CCP) Courtroom of the Supreme Court, 100 Supreme Court Dr., Mineola, NY on Tuesday, Sept.

12, 2017 at 11:30 a.m. prem. k/a 4 Main Ave., Garden City, NY 11530 a/k/a Section 33, Block 240, Lot 66 a/k/a being in the Incorporated Village of Garden City, Town of Hempstead, County of Nassau and State of NY, known and designated as and by the part of Lots Numbered 1, 2, 3, 4, 35 and 36 in Block 1 on a certain map entitled “Map of Garden City Gables”, and filed in the Office of the Clerk of the County of Nassau on July 29, 1926 as Map No. 610, Case No. 669. Approx. amt. of judgment is $765,147.04 plus costs and interest. Sold subject to terms and conditions of filed judgment and terms of sale. STEVEN KEATS, Referee. DRUCKMAN LAW GROUP, PLLC, 242 Drexel Ave., Westbury, NY 11590. File No. 37406. #92357 GC 0677 4X 08/11,18,25,09/01 LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE OF FORMATION of PAKA REALTY, LLC, Art of Org. filed SSNY 12/19/2005.

Office: Nassau County. SSNY designated as agent upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY to mail copy of process served to 607 Fulton Ave., Hempstead NY 11550.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

GC 0682 6X 8/25; 9/1,8,15,22,29 The Viscardi Center, Henry Viscardi School & Abilities, Inc. (Owner) will receive sealed bids at 201 I.U. Willets Road, Albertson, NY 11507 until 11:00am on Friday, September 22, 2017 for maintenance ser-

vice on various manufacturer’s automatic doors. At that time all bids will be publicly opened.

Vendors will receive specifications and a walk through on Monday, September 11, 2017 at 11:00am at our facility located at 201 I.U. Willets Road, Albertson, NY 11507, please go to rear of building to see the receptionist.

All interested Vendors must pre-register with Maureen Begina, Purchasing Manager at 516-465-1558 or email mbegina@viscardicenter.org prior to meeting.

The Owner reserves the right to reject any or all bids received and to accept any bid which it deems to be most favorable to the interest of the Owner.

No bid shall be withdrawn pending the decision of the Owner.

Bids may be sent via mail, email or hand delivered to: Maureen Begina Purchasing Manager The Viscardi Center 201 I.U. Willets Road Albertson, NY 11507 516-465-1558 – mbegina@viscardicenter.org GC 0683 1X 8/25 LEGAL NOTICE Notice of formation: H & R Trucks LLC, a New York limited liability company.

File with NYS Department of State Division of Corporations and State Records on August 8, 2017 NY office location Nassau County, the general nature of the business is to distribute office supplies in the Long Island area.

The office physical address is 30 Branch Place, Roosevelt NY 11575 GC 0684 6X 8/25; 9/1,8,15,22,29 LEGAL NOTICE Notice of formation of Fit to Function Occupational Therapy Services, PLLC. Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State of New York SSNY on 6-9-2017.

Office location: Nassau County.

SSNY is designated for service of process. SSNY shall mail copy of any process served against the PLLC at 11 Capri Court, Dix Hills NY 11746.

Purpose: any lawful purpose.

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VILLAGE SPORTS Continued from page 43 Avenue. Cash or check will be accepted for payment. These very popular discounted tickets are for: Gate Discount

Price Price • Splish Splash Water Park

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$32.99 $29 • Six Flags Great Adventure & Safari

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(under 54”) $39.99

• Six Flags Hurricane Harbor

$44.99

$31.45

• Hershey Park – 48 inches or over

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Friends of GC Football to hold Fourth Annual Dinner The Friends of Garden City Football will be hosting the Fourth Annual Dinner to help raise funds for the Garden City Varsity Football program.

The dinner will be held on September 7th from 7 to 9:30 p.m. at the Cherry Valley Country Club.

Cocktails and dinner will be served. $100 per

person; $60 for Junior Alumni (under 30 years old).

Please make checks payable to Steve Eckna, 68 Huntington Rd., Garden City NY 11530.

You may also purchase tickets or donate at www.friendsofgcfootball.org

Football clinic at GCHS

The Garden City High School Varsity Team and Coaching Staff will be holding a football clinic for grades K-8 on Monday, August 28 from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. at Garden City High School. $30 per player.

REGISTRATION: LAST NAME _____________________________________ FIRST NAME _____________________________________ ADDRESS _____________________________________ _____________________________________ HOME PHONE _____________________________________ CELL PHONE _____________________________________ Please return registration information to Steve Eckna, 68 Huntington Rd., Garden City NY 11530.

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BY KRISTEN LAIRD, DIRECTOR, GARDEN CITY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE “High quality things presented honestly,” is how chef Peter Mistretta describes the overall tone he aims to achieve with Perennial, his new farmto-table restaurant opening soon at 990 Franklin Avenue in Garden City. Upon first meeting Mr. Mistretta, it doesn’t take long to realize that he is someone you not only want cooking for you but also joining you at the family table for dinner. He has an understated countenance and generosity of spirit that is laid-back, trustworthy, engaging and exceedingly humble. Don’t let that fool you into thinking his vision for Perennial isn’t ambitious. His goal is to create an appreciation for the wide variety of fresh local food that is available to us right here on Long Island with a seasonal menu featuring farmed food that is beautiful, delicious and refined. When asked why he chose Garden City as the location for his new restaurant Mistretta replies, “I wanted to be in a beautiful community, where people appreciate good food and wine and where there is already activity.”

He hopes to help foster this wonderful sense of community by creating a place where people can easily gather at the bar with friends for a glass of wine and a few small plates or sit down in the back-dining room for a more ceremonious dinner.

From a very young age, Mistretta found the act of preparing and serving a large meal enjoyed by others to be immensely satisfying. “It (cooking) is just incredibly gratifying for me so I always did it for friends and family growing up. I never really thought about it professionally until I was in college.” It wasn’t until he was an undergrad at NYU studying abroad in Florence, Italy that he found his calling.

He was in a restaurant by the name of La Giostra enjoying a beautiful dish of burrata, before burrata had become the well-known artisanal cheese it is today.

The experience left an indelible mark on Mistretta. “I remember tasting this thing” recalls Mistretta. “There were only a couple of ingredients, a simple garnish of fried walnuts, toast and some type of grapefruit jam. I remember thinking that I had never tasted anything that was so paired down but also so full of flavor – so simple but so delicious. So memorable. So that was the beginning of me wanting to cook professionally.”

Upon returning home to New York City, Mistretta began working at restaurants for free on the weekends performing lowly tasks such as picking herbs or peeling potatoes, otherwise known as staging. “I got back to the states and I tried to do other things but I just always ended up cooking. I liked the environment,” says Mistretta, who went on to attend the French Culinary Institute in

Chef Peter inspecting the tomatoes at the Garden City Farmers Market New York City. He further developed his passion working alongside world renowned chef Michael White during an internship at White’s restaurant Marea and then as a chef for one of New York City’s most sought after Italian restaurants, Osteria Morini. “It was really intense,” says Mistretta when asked about the very high-profile SoHo opening. “All the other chefs were coming from restaurants like Grammercy Tavern and Marea. So, these are world class chefs… world class… and then there is me. I was so green. It was very humbling.”

After years of working long restaurant hours, honing his skills and perfecting his craft, he sought to branch out and started a private catering business.

“I got married and it was more schedule friendly, the pay was better and it gave me more flexibility.” Still there was something about the restaurant world calling Mistretta back, “I missed the adrenaline of being in a restaurant and that sense of perfectionism that comes with being a restaurant chef.

It’s very immediate and very intense but at the same time very gratifying.”

During this time Mistretta and his wife

Ashley (a south shore native) would spend their summer weekends driving around Long Island visiting different food and beverage purveyors and keeping an eye out for potential spaces to open a new restaurant. Then one-day last September, Mistretta was driving down the streets of Garden City and saw a “for lease” sign in the window of 990 Franklin Avenue. He thought to himself, “OK. This has potential. I parked the car and called the landlord directly and that was the beginning.”

In many ways, the vision behind Perennial can be linked back to the principles inherent in that first Burrata in Florence. “I want the best possible local product I can get and I want to do just enough to it to make it shine.”

The seasonal menu will serve up fresh ingredients that showcase the restaurant’s relationships with local Long Island farms and purveyors. The slightly French and Italian infected menu will place more emphasis on the food and quality of product and less on crazy techniques. “My hope is that the amazing products we are able to feature will leave people surprised by how much great food, wine and beer comes out of

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Long Island.” Mistretta plans on keeping a few staples consistently on the menu but for the most part the menu will change from week to week. “You can start to understand the seasonality of food that way and that’s exciting to a customer,” says Mistretta. “You want to see evolution. You want to see things change.”

The front half of the restaurant will be devoted to a 34 seat “come as you are” non-reservation based, casual bar. The bar menu will feature delicious, simple food all within a certain price point. It will include multiple wines by the glass, as well as a tap system containing a wide variety of local craft beers. Wine on tap will also be available, something Mistretta is very enthusiastic about. The back of the restaurant will host another 34 seats and have a more traditional, quieter and more formal atmosphere. “No linens. None of the superfluous stuff that doesn’t add to people’s enjoyment.

Very minimal.” In the warmer months, he hopes to have seats placed outdoors where people can enjoy happy hour or a full dinner. “People in the area seem to really like eating outdoors” he notes.

Another crucial element for Mistretta is finding the right staff for the restaurant. “The people who I look up to in the industry have very low staff turnover and I think there is something to be said for that. There is a feeling when people are having a good time … it’s obvious.” When asked what he looks for when staffing the restaurant Mistretta replies, “Ultimately, I look for work ethic, humility, a great attitude and people who want to be a part of something new. Learning the skill set to sauté a piece of fish … I can teach you that. But if you want to work in a restaurant you should do it because you enjoy it and because the result is making people happy and not for any other reason really. Certainly not for the money. Certainly not for the glamour.”

For Mistretta, his definition of success is longevity. “It’s having a restaurant be there for ten, fifteen, twenty plus years. I think if you’re there long enough, you’re doing something right.

The goal is to have a good time. Food is just a piece of it. A good restaurant is really just about memory investment.

It’s about looking back on it and having a nice memory and that’s why people continue to go out to restaurants in this day and age.” Although the movement toward local, sustainable food is relatively new to the Village – it is growing rapidly. Serving food that is fresh, nostalgic, creative, beautiful and pure, I have a feeling that this new restaurant will be perennially busy! “I have no ambition of getting my name into the blogosphere” claims Mistretta. I just want the restaurant to do well for a very long time. I want people to enjoy it. It’s that simple and that difficult.”

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Box lacrosse in the rink at Community Park

Twenty-Four Lacrosse organized an exhibition game of box lacrosse in front of the board of the GC Recreation on Thursday, August 17th at 5pm.

Parents were very happy with the gameplay and the kids really had an awesome time. They asked to continue playing until 6pm so the GC Village Board of Trustees could see the game in action (they were at Community Park for the ribbon cutting for the new turf

field).

Twenty Four Lacrosse would like to use the rink for practices and is willing to run a box lacrosse league via its league management software hosted on our website 24laxleague.com.

The kids who played may have made history. This may be the first game of box lacrosse ever played in Garden City.

Brendan O’Brien battles it out with Colin Healy

Christain Korzlowski open for a pass

A group shot after a great afternoon of box lacrosse

Boys finished up exhausted after a great afternoon of Box

Goalie Cody McClean runs out of the cage to make a play

Boys fight for a ground ball as GC rec members watch

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Anthony Vicari gets ready to make a move

Coach Pete McClean talks to the boys about the rules of the game

Liam Brennan makes a statement with his red hockey helmet

Tommy Esposito putting pressure on the D

Good game, boys!

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Inaugural practice on new field

Legislator honors Eagle Scout

Congratulations to Peter Joseph Gillette of Garden City on earning the rank of Eagle Scout, the highest level of achievement for the Boy Scouts of America.

Legislator Laura Schaefer attended the event to congratulate Peter and honor the occasion with a Legislative Citation. Pictured are: Legislator Laura Schaefer and Peter Joseph Gillette.

Thunder 9s on their home turf at Community Park. “It’s so cool!” they said at the ribbon cutting ceremony.

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The Garden City Girls Lacrosse Club is pleased to announce the inaugural season for select travel teams for 4th and 5th Grades (HS graduation 2026 and 2025). The travel teams will train and compete throughout the fall, winter, and summer. The teams will be trained by Garden City Tradition under the supervision of Kerin Boghosian.

Please see Trainer Bios below. The teams will be parent-coached at games and tournaments.

Team selection will be determined based on a two-day tryout September 12th and 13th conducted by independent high-school level lacrosse coaches from outside Garden City. Players must attend both days of tryouts to be chosen for a team. Registration for the tryouts can be found on the gcramsgirlslacrosse.com home page.

Number of teams

We will form at least one 4th grade team and one 5th grade team. If we have sufficient interest and the tryout results suggest we can field an additional competitive team in either grade, we will consider it.

Coaches

the team will host a number of round robins with other community teams/ travel teams.

We currently expect the teams to compete in the following tournaments:

the position and any player selected as a part-time goalie should be prepared to play at least half of every game at the position.

Fall:

When: September 12th and 13th 5:00-7:15 Where: St. Paul’s Cost: $50 Register at: www. gcramsgirlslacrosse.com Advantages of Garden City Girls Lacrosse Premier training by Garden City’s current and former collegiate lacrosse

Oct. 15th- Diane Whipple (12 vs 12) (Port Washington - Harbor Links)

Summer:

Jump into June (12 vs 12) (Manhasset) Lax Blast (12 vs 12) - (Sachem Soccer Complex) Summer Slam (12 vs 12) - (Port Washington - Harbor Links) Long Island 3 Lacrosse (12 vs 12) (Hofstra)

Tryout Info:

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Inaugural season for GC Girls Lacrosse Club

players Small teams to maximize training and playing time Local practices at St. Paul’s field or nearby facilities Playing with GC classmates and neighbors Coaches interested in coordinating with other Garden City sports and activities Training and competing locally throughout most of the year but with a goal of balancing family time Being part of a tradition like no other.

Cost

$1,200 per player. The team registration fee includes the costs of team training, 1 fall tournament, 4 summer tournament, winter practice facilities, ref fees for any round robins or scrimmages, uniform, shooting shirt, and bag. Any additional tournaments or winter leagues will be a la carte.

Once the teams have been formed, the head and assistant coaches will be chosen from interested candidates whose daughters have been selected for the team. Our Coaches’ Committee will interview candidates prior to the tryouts. If you are interested in being a head or an assistant coach, please contact Joe Gambino (gambino.inc@ gmail.com).

What we expect:

Games and practices will conflict with other activities and other travel sports. We expect players that take a roster spot will be fully committed to the team. The coaches will do their best to manage conflicts but if you are uncertain whether your daughter will be able to make a serious commitment to the team, we urge you not to try out. Our goal is to put together a highly-competitive team of players that develops skills and team chemistry throughout the course of the year. The Each team will work closely most important component in making throughout the year with several dedithat a reality is the commitment of the cated, highly-qualified, post- collegiate, players. former GCHS lacrosse players. Please It will be expected that GC Tradition see Trainer Bios below. We expect each players will not play for another travel team to practice no less than every lacrosse club. other week through the fall and winter All players will be required to parand no less than once a week in the ticipate in the Spring PAL season. spring and summer.

Players interested in trying out as goalie will have the option of trying out as a part-time or full-time goalie. Any Each team will participate in one player selected as a full-time goalie or more local fall tournaments and GC-CHERRY 1-4 Page HORIZ - 08-20-17_Layoutshould 1 8/20/17 3:47 PM Page 1 full games at be prepared to play 3-4 summer tournaments. In addition,

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Garden City, NY 3-bedroom, 1.5-bath.

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Garden City, NY 3-bedroom. 2-bath.

SD #18. MLS# 8341. $719,000.

Garden City, NY 3-bedroom, 2-bath.

SD #18. MLS# 2961913. $725,000.

Garden City, NY 4-bedroom, 2.5-bath.

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Garden City, NY 4-bedroom. 2.5-bath.

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Garden City, NY 3-bedroom, 1.5-bath.

SD #18. MLS# 2948178. $889,000.

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Garden City, NY 3-bedroom. 3.5-bath.

SD #18. MLS# 2948179. $999,000.

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Garden City, NY 6-bedroom. 2.5-bath.

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Garden City, NY 4-bedroom, 3.5-bath.

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Garden City, NY 6-bedroom, 3.55-bath.

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