Mid-Island Times (3/22/2019)

SERVING PLAINVIEW, HICKSVILLE, AND LEVIT TOWN

BIRTHDAY WISHES FOR ALL

Hicksville group wins competition with anti-vaping project

BY GARY SIMEONE

“How to stop vaping in schools” was the topic that a group of five freshman girls at Hickville High School had to work with in this year’s Medical Marvels Competition. The girls, Maeryam Nasari, Sarah Chavez, Kaitlyn Verdugo, Roxy Dias and Bisma Omer, took home first place in the competition, which was held at the Feinstein Institute for Medical Research in Manhasset earlier this month. 38 schools from Nassau, Suffolk and Queens competed in the event, where students had to present their projects in front of a panel of judges. The Medical Marvels Competition was developed to encourage Long Island high school students in 9th and 10th grade to pursue careers in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math, (STEM) field.

Oyster Bay Town Supervisor Joseph Saladino honored Birthday Wishes of Long Island which is an innovative and unique organization serving thousands of homeless families allowing chil-

dren, regardless of their living situation, to celebrate their birth-

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Restaurant’s proceeds benefit autism school

BY GARY SIMEONE

It was a special day at the Miller’s Ale House in Levittown last Thursday, as the restaurant donated 15% of its sales for the day to the ELIJA (Empowering Long Island Journey through Autism) School. This was the second year in a row that two establishments worked in conjunction with one another.

“We gave back 15% of our total food sales for the day to the ELIJA School, when any of our custom-

ers mentioned the school while ordering,” said Lance Wolff, aassistant GM at Miller’s. “Our staff is very welcoming and supportive of the school and we even have some of their students come help us out once in awhile.”

Wolff added that throughout the years, the restaurant has put together similar give-back events to help support the school.

Monica Howard, associate executive director at the ELIJA School, said that she was very grateful for the support that the

restaurant has given the school over the years.

“This is a great thing, not only from a financial standpoint, but it also gives our students the opportunity to learn vocational skills,” said Howard. “I know Miller’s has hosted other fundraising opportunities in the past and we are thankful for

The ELIJA School opened in 2006 in Bethpage before moving to its current location in Levittown

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“This is a unique type of competition which is geared towards freshman and sophomores and helps them in areas like gaining speaking experience, helps them to write a paper and answering questions from audience members.” said Stephanie Piscitelli, a social science research teacher at the school. “We’ve been participating in this competition for the last five years, and this is the first time we’ve come away with the first prize.”

This year’s competition presented a hypothetical challenge where a high school principal is tasked with coming up with multiple solutions to remedy a growing vaping problem in their school district. The girls,  playing the role of the principal, put their heads together to come up with two long-term solutions and a short-term solution to help solve the vaping scourge among students.

The students put together a 15-page research proposal, entitled, “A Cloud Over Your Mind,” and presented their work for a total of two minutes in front of the panel of judges.

“One of our main long-term solutions was to adjust technology on the vape pen, in this case, the access code, to make it harder for the buyer to purchase the pen without proper identification,” said Dias. “The seller of the pen, most likely an adult, would create this access number and would be the only one able to unlock it successfully.”

She added that most young people get vaping devices from

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Supervisor Saladino commended Birthday Wishes of Long Island Director Jamie Rapfogel (second from left) and presented her with a citation. Jamie was joined by Long Island Coordinator Susan Gold (left) and a few of the incredible volunteers who make this all possible.

Assault arrest in Levittown

A Levittown woman was arrested on Tuesday, March 12 for allegedly injuring a police officer during an arrest.

According to Nassau County Police detectives, units responded to the residence of Donna Cipley, 63, who was wanted for criminal contempt. Upon arrival, police say she became verbally abusive and struck a detective with a door. As detectives attempted to place the defendant into custody, she allegedly flailed her arms and legs and grabbed a detective’s thumb, forcefully bending it back. This caused the detective substantial pain and swelling.

The detective was transported to a local hospital for treatment. Ciply was transported to a local hospital for evaluation.

She was charged with Assault 2nd Degree (With Intent to Cause Physical Injury to a Police Officer) and Resisting Arrest.

Please join us as Laurie J. Levine, MD, Dermatologist, discusses the following:

• Which factors contribute to the aging of our skin

• How to avoid skin aging and skin cancer

• How to recognize different types of skin cancer

• How to use skin care products and procedures to look and feel younger at any age

Thursday, April 11, 2019

Sign in: 6:45 PM Program: 7:00 PM NYU Winthrop Research & Academic Center 101 Mineola Blvd. (Corner of Second Street in Mineola) Treiber Family Conference Center

Admission is free, but seating is limited

For reservations: Please call (516) 663-3916 or email: inspiringwomen@nyulangone.org

Inclement weather & parking information call: (516) 663-9761

DECA students compete at NYS conference

Members of Division Avenue High School’s DECA chapter competed at the DECA State Conference. Pictured with adviser Mark Engels (left) and chaperone Chris O’Donnell (right).

Members of Division Avenue High School’s DECA (Distributive Education Clubs of America) chapter in the Levittown Public Schools, competed at the DECA State Career Conference in Rochester from March 6-8. Advised by Mark Engels, three of the 17 Division Avenue High School DECA members took home medals in their event categories. The students competed against 2,300 business students from across New York State.

DECA is an extracurricular activity that helps prepare future leaders and entrepreneurs through role play competitions in business themed areas. Sophomore Nikhil Keer earned two medals for his role play scenarios and a medal for making the top 10 in New York State for the category of Business

Photo courtesy of the Levittown Public Schools

Finance. Senior James Pizaro earned a medal for his Quick Serve Restaurant Management role play event and senior Jamal Zafar took home a medal for his role play scenario and another medal for making the top 10 in New York State for the category of Automotive Services Marketing.

The district congratulates the three students on their achievements and all the Division Avenue High School competitors on their hard work. This includes Michael Avner, Molly Botros, Jacquelyn Devaney, Ryan Dwyer, Alex Lunetta, Amanpreet Minhas, Pritpaul Minhas, Katherine Oswald, Ryan Powers, Brandon Smith, Ethan Sochinsky, Danielle Spiegel, Fern Surary and Sean Wolf.

Donna Cipley

When Irish eyes were smiling Hicksville Historical Society

March meeting

The Hicksville Historical Society will hold its March meeting on Tuesday, March 26 at 7:15 pm.

The topic for the meeting is "Theodore Roosevelt: His Life and his Home Sagamore Hill"

The program will commemorate T.R. during the centennial of his passing.

Sagamore Hill National Historic Site was Theodore's only home and served as the nation's first summer White House. Theodore raised his six children

in Oyster Bay alongside his wife, Edith Kermit Roosevelt. Join the Society as it delves into the home that it treasures. A park guide from Sagamore Hill will present a talk that will feature Theodore Roosevelt's life as well as his beloved Sagamore Hill.

The program will take place at Hicksville Public Library, 169 Jerusalem Ave.

All are welcome. Refreshments served.

Earth Day cleanup event

The Levittown Community Council will be holding its 13th annual Earth Day Clean Up Event on Saturday, April 27 (Rain Date: Sunday, April 28) from  1 to 4 pm.

Community volunteer credits will be given to students, confirmands and others needing volunteer service hours.

For more information, please contact  levittowncouncil@yahoo.com

Sign up and registration at Veterans Memorial Park, Hempstead Turnpike and Shelter Lane in Levittown. There is no cost.

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

Robert Patrick Lynch serenaded the residents of Central Island Healthcare via the bagpipes. He strolled throughout playing Irish tunes on the morning of St. Patrick’s Day.

Religious School open house at Temple Chaverim

Students taking a moment out to spin the dreidel during Hanukkah

Come down with the family and learn about Temple Chaverim’s Religious School on Sunday, March 31, between the hours of 9:30 – 10:30 am. With flexible class schedules, including optional online learning for fifth and sixth-grade students enrolled with ShalomLearning, and an interactive learning environment, Temple Chaverim Religious School brings Judaism alive and relevant to the students. Temple Chaverim strives to meet the needs of each student and their family, and additional academic support is available for those students who may need it.

Craig Wolfson, chairperson of the Religious School Committee noted: “Temple Chaverim offers a top-notch religious school experience.  We offer welcom-

ing, technologically advanced programs with an emphasis on a love of Judaism.  If you are looking for an enthusiastic group of teachers, staff, parents, and students, then this is the place for you.”

The community is invited to see firsthand the Religious School and what it offers to our members, students and families. Please join us on March 31, meet the faculty and some of the clergy, tour the building, visit a class and participate in some hands-on fun, meet other families and enjoy a snack provided by Hasson Caterers.

For further information, please call Eileen Schneyman or Debbye Brandell at 516-367-6100 or email info@templechaverim.org.

Some boys enjoying Religious School.

Levittown

CHAMBER OF COMMERCE

ACCOUNTANTS

Alfonso J. Molica, CPA

516-597-4991

Brian Cleary, CPA, PC 516-433-6442

Fred Form, Accountant 516-735-0500

APPLIANCES

Jay’s 516-796-3232

PC Richards 516-731-4422

ATTORNEYS

Law Offices of Jon Michael Probstein 1-888-795-4555

Nicolini, Paradise, Ferretti & Sabela 516-741-6355

Robert L. Ryan, Esquire 516-253-5529

The Galante Law Firm 516-269-9357

AUTO SERVICES

Center Island Autobody 516-735-2222

BAKERIES

Sweet Surrender Bake House 516-731-2424

BANKS

Bethpage Federal Credit Union 516-688-0000

HSBC 516-490-1100

NEFCU 516-561-0030

Peoples United Bank 516-520-4150

Sterling National Bank 516-731-3388

BEAUTY

Phenix Salon Suites 516-418-2801

Signature Hair Salon 516-579-2373

Trinity Hairdressing & Makeup Academy 516-557-2525

CAR DEALERSHIPS

Levittown FORD LLC 516-719-4000

CHILDREN”S FITNESS

All Star Gymnastics 516-796-2188

CHIROPRACTIC

Nogan Chiropractic 516-520-0274

Park Ave, Chiropractic 516-433-4114

CHURCHES

St. Bernard’s Roman Catholic Church 516-731-4220

CLEANING SERVICES

County Cleaners Corp 516-478-9214

Merry Maids 516-931-0758

CONTRACTORS

Great Additions Construction Co. 516-799-8500

LevitStyle Home Remodeling LLC 516-579-0045

DANCE STUDIOS

5-6-7-8 Dance 516-735-2266

Steppin-N-Style Dance Inc 516-796-5174

DENTAL CARE

Dental 365 516-597-4005

Dr. Peter DeTolla, DDS 516-735-1234

Dr. David Ostreicher 516-735-8315

Great Expressions 516-731-0040

Dr. Gregory Seiden D.D.S.P.C. 516-731-6041

Levittown Oral & Implant 516-735-8723

My Town’s Little Dentist 516-226-7337

DISABILITY SERVICES

LI Center for Independent Living 516-796-0144

ELECTED OFFICIALS

Dennis Dunne Sr., Councilman 516-812-3180

John Ferretti Jr., NC Legislature District 15 516-571-6215

John Mikulin, Assemblyman 516-228-4960

Laura Gillen, TOH Supervisor 516-489-6000

ENTERTAINMENT

ACC DJ Productions 516-318-7375

The Grindhouse Radio 516-308-0582

Levittown Lanes 516-731-5700

Long Island Laser Bounce 516-342-1330

The Killing Kompany Dinner Shows, Inc 212-772-2590

Mobile Flicks 2 U 516-250-8690

EYE CARE

Davis Visionworks 516-520-0286

Dr. Perry S. Mollick 516-579-5400

FINANCIAL PLANNING

Main St. Financial Group 516-579-6259

FIRE DEPARTMENT

Levittown Fire Dept

FITNESS

516-731-5800

Royal Fitness 516-513-1843

FLORIST

Petite II Florist 516-735-7000

FUNERAL HOMES

Thomas F. Dalton Funeral Homes 516-796-0400

Charles J. O’Shea Funeral Homes

516-731-5550

GIFTS/CRAFTS

Bob Peduzzi, Woodcrafts by Bob farmfolk162@gmail.com

HEALTH & WELLNESS

Melaleuca Wellness Lori McBride

516-395-5526

HEARING & SPEECH

Long Island Hearing, Inc 516-735-9191

HEATING & AIR CONDITIONING

A & R Technical 516-827-9570

Mac Heating & A/C 516-735-0055

Meenan 516-783-1000

INSURANCE

Liberty Mutual, Kathi Donnelly 516-953-5970

State Farm, Bob Masterson 516-826-1600

IT SERVICES

MJN Technology Services – LLC 516-543-3170

LAWN & GARDEN SERVICES

Aries Lawn Maintenance 516-796-1736

LIBRARIES

Island Trees Public Library 516-731-2211

Levittown Public Library 516-731-5728

MARKETING/PUBLIC RELATIONS

LuCas Communications 516-735-5901

MEDIA

All Island Media 516-281-9673

Litmor Publishing 516-780-1462

Levittown Tribune 516-747-8282

Newsday Media Group 631-843-3480

MEDICAL SERVICES

ARC Urgent Care 516-346-5090

North Shore/LIJ Go Heath Urgent Care 516-558-9860

Plainview Hospital Northwell Health 516-719-3000

TLC Companions & Supply LLC 516-719-0909

Zwanger-Pesiri Radiology 516-992-6437

ORGANIZATIONS

Knights of Columbus Holy Innocents 516-731-9018

Levittown Community Council 516-579-2831

Levittown Historical Society 516-434-7140

Levittown Island Trees VFW Post 9592 516-579-4420

Levittown Island Trees Youth Council, Inc. 516-241-3680

Levittown Kiwanis 516-731-5016

Levittown United Teachers 516-796-5660

Lions Club of Levittown lionsoflevittown@aol.com

Marco Polo Lodge #2214 Sons of Italy of America

Nassau Lionel Operating Engineers 516-735-6370

Wantagh/Levittown Volunteer Ambulance Corp 516-731-1485

POLICE DEPARTMENT

Nassau County Second Precinct 516-573-6245

PRINTERS

Minuteman Press 516-731-4892

Signarama – Hicksville 516-938-2370

REAL ESTATE

Century 21 American Homes Kathleen Bruno & Owen Kirby 516-735-9500

Century 21 American Homes Lisa Testagrose 516-735-9500

D & F Developmenyt 516-437-0900

Island Smart Home Inspection 516-242-2273

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Free tax grievance workshop

The Town of Oyster Bay will be hosting a free Grievance Workshop for residents looking to acquire information on how to challenge their property tax assessments. The workshop will be held on Thursday, March 28 at 7 pm at Hicksville Middle School, 215 Jerusalem Avenue in Hicksville.

“The assessed value of your property helps determine what share of property taxes you’ll pay to your school district, County, Town and Village governments,” said Town of Oyster Bay Supervisor Joseph Saladino. “While Nassau County determines your value, we in Town government want to make sure you know that you have a right as homeowner to challenge your assessment.  Remember, your assessment can only be lowered as the result of a challenge – it can never be raised – and this workshop helps you challenge for free.”

In January 2019, Nassau County notified residents of their home’s new tentative assessed value for the 2020/2021 school tax period and the 2021 general tax period.  Any residents who did not receive the notice may view it online

at www.mynassauproperty.com or contact their local County legislator.

“I encourage all homeowners who are unhappy with their current level of assessment to grieve their property taxes,” said Legislator Rose Marie Walker.  “I have been hosting Property Tax Grievance Workshops for the past 10 years in order to teach residents how to grieve their property taxes on their own.  Hundreds of residents have already taken advantage of these informative workshops.”

Residents who live in an Incorporated Village within the Town of Oyster Bay should note that they generally must file separately with their Village for tax purposes, in addition to filing with Nassau County.  Village residents should contact their local Village Hall for information.

For more information on the Free Property Tax Grievance Workshop, residents should call (516) 624-6380 or visit www.oysterbaytown.com.  For more information regarding your assessment, visit www.nassaucounty.gov/arc.

Levittown Chamber of Commerce

Spotlight on Business

Gary Tarlov

SUBMITTED BY DONALD PATANE

The Levittown Chamber of Commerce would like to introduce Gary Tarlov who is the owner of EmbarkNation, a Cruise Planners full service travel franchise, located in Levittown. Tarlov has been a member of the Chamber for the last couple of years and is active in attending the general meetings. He has also participated in the Chamber Fall Festival and has supported fundraising efforts of one the Chamber’s non-profit

Join us for a FREE screening of the 2013 Academy Award winning short film, INOCENTE, an inspiring, coming-of-age story about a homeless, creative, unstoppable 15-year-old girl in California who refuses to give up on her dream to become an artist.

Following the film:

• Q&A with film’s Executive Producer Dr. Susan MacLaury and other experts

• Hands-on art workshop for all who wish to particate

• Refreshments

organizations.

Tarlov’s business model is as an American Express Travel Representative that works with all the major cruise lines, hotels and tour operators around the world. Tarlov’s business specializes in both ocean and river cruises for singles, couples, families and groups of all sizes.

Tarlov resides in the Island Trees section of Levittown with his wife Betty & daughter Alexa. His wife Betty has been known to help him out on different occasions.

Tarlov says he enjoys working with and assisting people in planning their vacations and prides himself on quality service responding to his client’s needs and requests in a timely manner giving them the quality service they deserve and expect. He offers competitive pricing as well as on board cabin credits for cruises and other amenities as a thank you for your business.

In addition to his competitive pricing, Tarlov says that if you mention “REWARD CARD,” you will receive $50.00 off your next booking with him of a 7-night or longer vacation.

Gary Tarlov can be reached at 516558-2630 or Gary.tarlov@cruiseplanners.com or check out his website, www.EmbarkNation.com, for special travel deals.

"Why Does Your Back Hurt?"

NYU Winthrop Hospital will offer a free program open to the community, “Why Does Your Back Hurt? An Evening with Neurologists,” on Tuesday, April 2,  at 7 pm.   The program will be held at the Hospital’s Research & Academic Center, located at 101 Mineola Boulevard, at the corner of Second Street in Mineola.

Kenneth Chao, MD and Anastasia Eswar, MD, attending neurologists at NYU Winthrop Hospital, will discuss back pain, including the prevalence of back pain in adults, relevant anatomy, the various causes and red flags of low back pain, and when to seek care.  Tests that your doctor may order and treatment options will also be addressed.   A question and answer period will follow the lecture.

Limited parking is at the Research & Academic Center. Parking is available across the street in the garage behind the 120 Mineola Blvd. building.  Entrance to the garage is on First Street.  Please proceed to park on the third floor, use the walkway to enter the building, take the elevator down to the first floor, and cross the street to the Research & Academic Center.

Attendees are asked to arrive at 6:45 pm to register.  Admission is free, but seating is limited and reservations are required. To reserve your space, please call (516) 663-3916.  For information about other programs at the Hospital, learn more at www.nyuwinthrop.org/community-programs or call 1-866-WINTHROP.

Students' artwork adorns walls of IKEA Long Island

BY GARY SIMEONE

During the month of March, passersby at IKEA Long Island in the Broadway Mall will get to see a wide display of artwork from Hicksville High School students. 27 students created 40 unique pieces of art including colorful portraits, renderings and collages.

This is the third year that IKEA Long Island has partnered with the school district in an effort to strengthen community and school relations. “This all started three years ago when I approached the manager of IKEA about presenting the students artwork on one of their walls,” said Craig Mateyunas, an art teacher at the High School. “One of my main goals was to get the community inspired by seeing this artwork from local students.”

Two students whose artwork was on display included senior Sage Boiko and junior Aqsa Ansari. It is the second year that both students' artwork was on display in the main entranceway of the store.

Boiko presented two pen/ink black and white drawings of nature scenes and Ansari showed off two colored pencil portraits of her family members. “I love drawing pictures of photographs that I’ve taken, especially of my family members,” said Ansari.

“I love the aspect of realism in art and one day would like to teach art education to younger students.”

Boiko, who works part time at a museum in Seaford, caring for animals, said a lot of her artwork is inspired by animal emotion.

“I enjoy capturing the emotions in the form of an animal as opposed to people,” said Boiko, who is attending SUNY ESF (College of Environmental Science & Forestry) in the fall. “My pictures are almost always drawn in black and white and I like the contrast between animals and natural settings.” Her drawings included a wolf snarling at flowers and the head of a ram surrounded by a bed of flowers.

Mateyunas said both students have their artwork on display in the school’s library and Ansari has her portraits displayed at the Colors of Long Island student art exhibition at the Long Island Museum in Stony Brook.

“Seeing ones work on display in a public venue is a unique and wonderful experience, one that instills a sense of pride and self-worth,” said Mateyunas.

The artwork from all 27 students will be on display at IKEA for the entire month of March.

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Artwork of Hicksville High School student Aqsa Ansari

Bethpage seniors selected as National Merit finalists

Bethpage High School seniors Stacy Kappel and Soham Maiti have been honored as finalists in the 64th annual National Merit Scholarship Program. The pair have advanced in the competition after being named semifinalists in September.

Stacy and Soham have been counted among the nation’s 15,000 finalists. They had to submit a detailed scholarship application that included their

academic records and list of extracurricular activities, community service, leadership roles, employment and past honors. Additionally, their SAT scores had to be equivalent to or better than their PSAT scores while also maintaining prestigious academic performance. A recommendation from a high school official was also written on their behalf.

Stacy aspires to major in engineering when she begins college in the fall. The

Bowlers wanted

The Glen Cove-Hicksville-Syosset League of Mercy Medical Center is looking for bowlers its our (non-money) Ladies League.

The group bowls on Fridays at 9:45

am at Syosset Bowl, Jericho Tpk., Syosset.

Come out and join the fun. For more information, please call Dolores Sartor at 516-931-4106.

Levittown Chamber offers scholarships

The Levittown Chamber of Commerce will award four $500 scholarships to high school seniors attending a college or technical school.

The scholarships are open to public & private school students living in the Levittown & Island Trees School Districts.

Visit levittownchamber.com for an application & for details regarding the scholarship.

Applications must be postmarked by April 19, 2019.

Are you a professional?

senior recently applied to local universities and is excited to decide on a college in the near future. At Bethpage, she is a member of the National Honor Society and Italian Honor Society. Outside of school, she has been a dancer for 14 years.

The president of the Philosophy Club and the team captain of the Ethics Club, Soham is also an All-State musician. He was also one of the founding members of

the school’s Chamber Orchestra while also being part of the Mathletes and National and Spanish Honor Societies. He intends on majoring in economics in college.

“Congratulations to Stacy and Soham on becoming finalists in such a prestigious program,” said Principal Nicholas Jantz. “The entire district wishes them the best of luck as they advance!” Photos courtesy of the Bethpage Union Free School District

Free lecture:

Diabetes prevention & staying healthy

NYU Winthrop Hospital will offer a free community lecture for seniors, “Diabetes: Prevention & Staying Healthy,” on Wednesday, April 10, 2019, at 1:15 pm.  The program will be held at the Mineola Community Center, 155 Washington Avenue in Mineola, which is located one block south of Jericho Turnpike, between Mineola Blvd. and Willis Avenue.  Please join us to learn about how you can know if you are at risk for diabetes and practical, every day steps you can take to prevent diabetes.

J. Lynne Chimon, MS, RD, C-ADM, CDE, director, Diabetes Education Center at NYU Winthrop Hospital, will discuss diabetes prevention, as well as

share tips on staying healthy for those who have diabetes.  A question and answer period will follow the lecture. Free parking is available in the lot adjacent to the building; metered lots (quarters needed) are across the street.  Seating is limited and reservations are required. To reserve a space, please call (516) 663-3916.

Health Update for Seniors is a free community health education program offered by the Department of Public Affairs and Geriatric Health Services. For information about these or other programs at the Hospital, learn more at www.nyuwinthrop.org/community-programs or call 1-866-WINTHROP.

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Bethpage High School seniors Soham Maiti (left) and Stacy Kappel (middle) were congratulated by Principal Nicholas Jantz (right) for being named finalists in the National Merit Scholarship Program.

Bethpage High School seniors Soham Maiti (left) and Stacy Koppel (right) have been honored as finalists in the National Merit Scholarship Program.

Photos: Lobby, The Bristal at North Hills | Exterior, The Bristal at Garden City | Country Kitchen, The Bristal at Westbury

Hicksville HS plays “Guys and Dolls”

The Hicksville High School Repertory Company recently presented three stellar performances of “Guys and Dolls” for the community, with patrons filling the school auditorium to enjoy the work of these talented young thespians, musicians and support crew members.

Set in Damon Runyon’s mythical New York City, “Guys and Dolls” follows the stories of Nathan Detroit (played by Viren Fernandes), his fiancé Adelaide (Isha Nagpal), gambler Sky Masterson (Jack Immanuel) and the straight-laced Sarah Brown (Krisia Romano) from Times Square to the cafés of Havana, Cuba, and even into the sewers of New York City.

Hailed as the perfect musical comedy, this award-winning classic gambles with luck and love under the bright lights of Broadway, and the Hicksville Repertory Company’s performance stayed true to form. Dena Civello directed. Student Isabella Weber designed the program cover.

From left: Krisia Romano, Jack Immanuel, Viren Fernandes and Isha Nagpal led the cast of “Guys and Dolls,” presented by the Hicksville High School Repertory Company.

The Hicksville High School Repertory Company recently presented “Guys and Dolls.”

Photos by Tony Dias courtesy of the Hicksville School District

Come Face to Face with T Rex, the Ultimate Predator, at the American Museum of Natural History

BY KAREN RUBIN

We have become well aware how terrifying Tyrannosaurus rex was, but who knew that T. rex hatchlings were fluffy and gangly, more like turkeys than the massive killing machines they grow to be? Or that it grew at the rate of 140 lbs. a month, weighing 6 to 9 tons when fully grown and lived no more than 28 years? That it had excellent vision and sense of smell, but puny hands that probably had no function but were evolutionary vestiges? T. rex: The Ultimate Predator, the first major exhibition of the American Museum of Natural History’s 150th anniversary celebration, brings us face to face with  the most iconic dinosaur in the world through lifesized models—including the most scientifically accurate representation of T. rex to date--fossils and casts, engaging interactives, and the Museum’s first multiplayer virtual reality experience. And we see T rex in a brand new way.

T. rex: The Ultimate Predator opens Monday, March 11, 2019 and will be on view through August 9, 2020, when the exhibit will likely go on tour.

Founded in 1869, the Museum has a long and celebrated history of international exploration and research in paleontology dating back to the 1890s, with an outsized influence in a field that sits at the intersection of cutting-edge science

and the popular imagination. The Museum has a particularly special relationship to T. rex: its famous paleontologist, Barnum Brown, was the first to discover T. rex - in 1902 in Montana - and the first T. rex on display anywhere was here at the museum. This makes the new blockbuster exhibit, T. rex: The Ultimate Predator, inspired by a legacy of scientific exploration and bringing the latest science to the public, a natural launching point for the museum’s 150th anniversary programming.

With more than 120 years of dinosaur research and discovery, the

Museum continues to be a leader in this field. Its paleontology collection is one of the largest and most diverse in the world, with specimens that have led to major discoveries, including the identification of the first dinosaur eggs and early evidence of dinosaur feathers. A number of recent discoveries about the tyrannosaur group – many that take place in its own paleontology laboratories - are highlighted in this exhibition.

“Dinosaurs, and Tyrannosaurus rex in particular, are such an important and iconic part of the Museum and have been throughout our history,” said Ellen V. Futter,

President of the American Museum of Natural History. “So it seems fitting to launch the Museum’s 150th Anniversary celebrations with a major new exhibition on the everintriguing King of Dinosaurs. This exciting and fascinating exhibition will do what the Museum has done throughout its history and continues to do today: share the latest scientific breakthroughs with the public, introduce visitors to the researchers on the cutting-edge of discovery, shed new light on the great story of life on Earth, and inspire wonder

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and curiosity in visitors of all ages.”

Indeed, while Barnum assembled the most complete collection of dinosaur fossils in the world for the museum, the museum is much, much more than its dinosaurs, with some 34 million specimens and artifacts – one of the most important collections of natural history anywhere. Its library and archives of research documents – like Barnum’s own field notes and letters which show how painstaking and difficult the expeditions were - are the most complete and extensive in the world.

”Dinosaur fossils, like other echoes

of ancient life, are discoveries of the science of paleontology. But dinosaurs have a special status that transcends their importance to science—they fascinate and inspire the masses like few other animals—living or extinct— can,” said Michael Novacek, the Museum’s senior vice president and provost for science. “Chief among them is T. rex, perhaps the most famous and celebrated dinosaur that ever lived.”

Visitors to T. rex: The Ultimate Predator encounter a massive lifesized model of a T. rex with patches of feathers the definitive representation of this prehistoric predator. The

exhibition includes reconstructions of several T. rex hatchlings and a fouryear-old juvenile T. rex. Scientists have yet to figure out what T. rex might have sounded like but you can try your hand with a “roar mixer” where you can blend sounds from other animals. There’s a shadow theater featuring a floor projection of an adult T. rex skeleton that leaps to life; and a life-sized animation of T. rex in a Cretaceous environment that responds to visitors’ movements At a tabletop “Investigation Station,” you can explore a variety of fossil casts ranging from coprolite (fossilized feces) to a gigantic femur, with virtual tools including a CT scanner, measuring tape, and a microscope to learn more about what such specimens can reveal to scientists about the biology and behavior of T. rex.

T. rex: The Ultimate Predator is curated by Mark Norell, who joined the Museum in 1989. Norell, who is the Macaulay Curator in the Museum’s Division of Paleontology and its chair, has led and participated in a number of scientific investigations into the biology and evolutionary history of tyrannosaurs and other theropods—the group of dinosaurs most closely related to modern birds. His work includes the first discovery of a feathered tyrannosaur, Dilong paradoxus , in China in 2004. In addition to Dilong, many of the species studied by Norell and his colleagues and former students, and recent research findings, are featured in the new exhibition.

“In the last 30 years, we’ve seen a

huge increase in both the number of tyrannosaur fossil discoveries as well as the availability of technology that lets us explore complex questions about these charismatic animals,” Norell said. “I never would have imagined that one day we’d be able to look at the shape of T. rex’s brain, analyze the tiny daily growth lines on their massive teeth to determine how quickly they put on weight, or use advanced biomechanical modeling to figure out the force of its bite.”

Humble Origins

T. rex may have been a megapredator, but it evolved from humble origins. The full tyrannosaur family includes more than two dozen different species and spans more than 100 million years of evolution, with T. rex appearing only at the very end of that period, between 66 and 68 million years ago. Most dinosaurs in the superfamily Tyrannosauroidea were not giants like T. rex, which, fully grown, weighed between 6 and 9 tons. Early species were small and fast, likely avoiding confrontations with larger dinosaurs. We’re more accustomed to encountering dinosaurs as skeletons, but in the exhibit, we come face to face with life-size models of a number of tyrannosaurs as they would have looked in life. These include: Proceratosaurus bradleyi, the earliest known tyrannosaur that lived about 167 million years ago and was about the size of a wolf with a crest on its snout; Dilong paradoxus, which like many early tyrannosaurs, had arms that were relatively long and capable

of seizing small prey, and was the first tyrannosaur found with fossilized feathers (discovered by exhibition curator Mark Norell and his colleagues in China); and Xiongguanlong baimoensis, a mid-sized tyrannosaur that, when it was discovered in 2009, offered a rare glimpse of a transitional species between the smaller early tyrannosaurs and the later giants. Throughout the exhibit are interactive elements: visitors are tasked with placing various tyrannosaur family members in the correct time period on a magnetic wall and can experiment with a praxinoscope that animates the difference between walking and running— T. rex could only truly run when it was young. A hands-on interactive lets visitors attach the right size tail to a T. rex torso to create a balanced posture.

Getting Big

How did T. rex get so big when its ancestors were so small? And how did a young T. rex, the size of a turkey grow to the size of a truck? The simple

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answer: by growing very quickly. T. rex reached full size by its early 20s— about as fast as a human does—but it put on much more weight in that time, gaining up to 140 pounds (65 kg) per month. The exhibition shows T. rex in early developmental stages, showing how the dinosaur transformed from a vulnerable hatchling with a more than 60 percent chance of succumbing to predators, accidents, disease, and failure to find food in its first year of life, to a gargantuan predator at the top of the food chain. No T. rex has been found that has been identified as being older than 28 years.

“T. rex was the ‘James Dean’ of dinosaurs; he would have been very beat up,” said Gregory Erickson, paleobiologist from Florida State University.

Much of what we see in the exhibit is the result of a new approach to studying dinosaurs – integrating other scientific disciplines, such as molecular biology and chemistry, and comparative techniques to contemporary animals

such as crocodiles and birds, as well as new technologies like 3D scanning.

The latest understanding also presents T. rex’s “arms” as even tinier than before, suggesting that they had no function and were vestigial in the course of evolution. Also, the “hands” have two fingers instead of three.

So far, though, the scientists have been unable to determine a dinosaur’s sex from the fossil remains. “It would be nice to know the sex ratio to understand population biology, how bodies changed over their lifespan,” Erickson said. “You have to appreciate just how rare these specimens are – just 1,000 dinosaurs have been named.”

Erickson explains that though scientists know what strata to search for fossils, it has to be relatively close to the surface for paleontologists to safely extract the fossils without damaging them; also, many of the sites where dinosaurs might be found are in very remote, difficult places. And it may well be true that there were relatively few of the largest dinosaurs, because of the

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As I See It

BY LOU THEODORE

On Purely Chaste, Pristine and Random Thoughts XXVII

Here we go once more…my 27th. This one’s a mixed bag, with both sports and personal commentaries.

• Still fighting to keep my weight down. My diet, described in an earlier newsletter, has really helped.

• Humanity can survive without numerous amenities. However, it cannot survive without energy or potable water.

• Had a successful visit with three of my guys to the simulcast facility at Monmouth Park Racetrack and (naturally) dropped by their Sport Book. My bets? The Nets (750-1) to win it all. The Mets (22-1), Atlanta (181), and Diamondback (750-1) to win it all. Virginia (15-1), Buffalo (75-1), Tennessee (16-1), Kentucky (17-1) and we have Marquette (25-1) to win the NCAA. Partners with two others. Wish me luck.

• Working on desalination projects. Hoping to come up with a viable economic process that will provide potable water. Someone is going to get rich in this area but it won’t be me. My best so far involves geothermal energy. My associate and former classmate is working on mangroves and hybrid processes.

• I’m also still working on accident and emergency planning/response issues, particularly as they apply to terrorism. Stopped giving seminars but my book is still selling.

• NYRA is a disaster; they have effectively destroyed Belmont Park, the most beautiful racetrack in the world. But hope springs eternal. Kay, the CEO, has thankfully left. We now await another Cuomo political appointment who no doubt will also fail to right the ship.

• I used to think that energy and water were the critical issues that mankind needed to address this century. Nope! It’s water, and solely water.

• Go Mets!

• I should stop complaining. I still go out for dinner, walk almost 2 miles a day, do 8 pushups on awakening, write books, keep pace with my newsletter, go to the track several days a week, bet horses every day, etc.

• A few of my guys are now claiming they have property in Oz.

• Insecure people use profanity.

• There are days when I wish I could go back in time and relive my Killen’s Tavern basketball memories.

• I have tremendous difficulty throwing anything away, particularly things related to my books. And yet, when I go, they will certainly find a home in a circular file.

• I’m still addicted to hot pastrami sandwiches, hot dogs with kraut and mustard and hamburgers. Perhaps Trump and I have something in common.

• People continue to ask me out to lunch or dinner. My usual response: “Can I have the money instead?”

• Please remember that the fanatical green environmental self-defined experts-engineers and scientists alike

supply of resources available to support the population.

The exhibits display T. rex at various stages of its development.

We see a life-size model of a fouryear-old T. rex, which although not yet the “king” it would become in adulthood, would have weighed about five times more than a four-year-old boy and was as large as any other predatory dinosaur in its habitat. Fully covered in feathers for warmth and camouflage, this juvenile T. rex had relatively long arms (unlike its adult counterparts), a slim body, and bladelike teeth that could cut through flesh but were not yet capable of crushing bone.

We encounter a real fossil of a T. rex toe bone and a touchable cast of a T. rex thigh bone to gain a sense of scale for the fully grown giant, which stood about 12 to 13 feet high at the hip and was about 40 to 43 feet long. Fossil casts from a close relative to T. rex, Tarbosaurus bataar, illustrate that T. rex wasn’t the only tyrannosaur See page D5

– who have certified (*!*$#%*) the existence of a global climate/warming problem would be out of business if no problem actually existed.

• I’m often asked: How am I doing? I often respond with “How good could I be doing if I’m talking to you?” Is that a politically incorrect response?

• I’ll be 85 come April. Hard to believe! But I’m still good looking… well, sort of.

• The major effect of breaking my back (fractured vertebrae) 1 ½ years ago is that I am now 2 inches shorter. Not good for a guy like me.

• Let’s hope one of the sports will ban players from spitting. It’s disgusting, particularly in baseball.

• The second edition of my Basketball Coaching 101 book is now officially on hold due to numerous other commitments.

• I hope to soon publish details on my basketball “umbrella offense.”

• Travel has now become such a hassle. Visiting Florida is the only place that has been acceptable. There obviously will be less travel in the days ahead.

• I’m hoping to do an article on taxes in the near future. Here is a checkbook list of mine: Federal, State, County (Nassau), Town (North Hempstead), Village (East Williston), and School (East Williston). Add to this sales, gasoline, gambling (when I occasionally win), etc. Twenty percent tipping has added to my woes.

• Legendary sports historian Art Lovely (my dear friend) recently celebrated his 90th birthday with

his beloved Red Sox winning the 2018 World Series. Unfortunately, I needed the Dodgers at 8-1.

• Kudos to yours truly. I hope sports aficionados will finally come to agree with me that Eli Manning is the luckiest and most overrated athlete (not just quarterback) of all time. Thank you Lou for letting us know early on.

• Blew a couple of big consulting jobs as an expert witness…more and more people are apparently questioning my claim to be the world’s premier environmental authority.

• Every time I meet someone socially, I ask about the $20 they owe me. One guy recently and a gal sometime back took me seriously.

• Every one of us is aware of the lazy, indifferent conduct of government employees…and most of us accept it. But now, their conduct has expanded to include criminality. The best way to solve the problem is to eliminate most of these positions.

• Baseball pitchers (and managers) have yet to figure out the truly negative results produced by walks.

• Hunkered down for another winter. Ouch! But I still have The Queen, the kids, and the grandkids, along with my other activities.

Feel free to get back to me whether you agree or disagree with my comments. Happy hunting till XXVIII.

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BY TOM MARGENAU

Baby boomers (like me) aren’t just getting old. Some of us are also getting frail. I’m a pretty good example. After a lifetime of essentially good health (I was once honored for using the fewest sick leave days by my former employer, the Social Security Administration), in the past few years, I’ve had to deal with issues as minor as a bum knee and as severe as blood clots.

And judging from the many emails I get from other health-ravaged seniors, I’m not alone. Many folks pushing Social Security age, and some already getting Social Security retirement, want to know if they are eligible for Social Security disability benefits. I sure don’t like giving wishy-washy advice, but I’m afraid the answer is “it depends.” So let’s spend the rest of this column discussing those variables that may or may not make you eligible.

But before I do that, I’ve got to explain two things. First, what is the advantage to getting disability benefits? In a nutshell, the answer is more money. I will get into this in more detail later in the column, but for now it’s enough to know that a disability benefit (no matter what your age) pays the same rate as a full retirement benefit.

The second thing you need to know is how Social Security law defines “disability.” Although there is a bit more to it than this, for today’s column, it is enough for me to say that in order to be considered disabled, you must have a physical or mental impairment that is severe enough to keep you from working for at least 12 months. The inability to work is key. In other words, you don’t get Social Security disability benefits because you have an impairment. You get benefits if that impairment keeps you from working. Further, the law says you must not only be unable to do your old job; you must also be unable to do any kind of work for which you are suited.

That’s a fairly strict definition. You have to be pretty messed up to qualify for benefits. For example, earlier I said I’ve had blood clots and a bum knee. My faulty leg would never be considered a disabling condition for Social Security. And even my blood clots, which were rather severe, would not have qualified me for disability because they went away in a month or two. It didn’t meet the 12-month duration requirement to get Social Security disability. But if you are a senior citizen who does have a severe medical or mental impairment, here is what you need to know.

If you are 66 or older, forget about it. Once you reach that age, disability benefits are no longer payable. Or to put that another way, a retirement benefit pays the same rate as a disability benefit

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Seniors with Disabilities

for people over age 66.

If you are under age 62 and you have an impairment that keeps you from working, then you should file for Social Security disability benefits.

If you are disabled and you are between age 62 and 66 and you haven’t yet signed up for Social Security, then you should file for retirement and disability benefits at the same time. SSA will start your retirement payments right away. Then if your disability claim is eventually approved, they will switch you to the higher disability rate.

But what if you are between age 62 and 66 and are already getting Social Security retirement benefits -- and then something happens to cause you to become disabled? The closer you are to 66, the less likely you are to be eligible for such benefits. That’s because your disability rate (normally equal to your full age 66 retirement benefit) must be reduced for every month you’ve already received a Social Security retirement check. And you will eventually reach a point where you simply gain little or nothing by filing for Social Security disability.

Here is a quick example of that. Sam filed for retirement benefits at age 62. His benefit was reduced roughly onehalf of 1 percent for each month he was under 66. He is getting 75 percent of his full age 66 retirement rate. At 65, he had a heart attack. If he files for disability benefits and if his claim is approved, his regular disability rate, again normally equal to his 100 percent full age 66 benefit, must be reduced by about onehalf of 1 percent for each month he’s received a retirement benefit. At age 65, he’s already received 36 retirement checks, so his disability rate must be cut by about 18 percent. So instead of a 100 percent disability rate, he’d get about 82 percent. Sam would have to decide if it is worth all the hassle of filing for disability just to get bumped up from his current 75 percent rate to 82 percent.

Those are the messages for senior citizens who are pushing retirement age and who have some kind of disabling condition and who are wondering if they are eligible for Social Security disability benefits.

But now let me address those many senior citizens who are already getting Social Security disability benefits. Some of them may even have been getting benefits for many years -- starting way back in their 50s or even younger. But as they push “full retirement age” (currently age 66), they write to me and wonder if they will be able to get “real Social Security.” I always tell them that disability benefits are “real” Social Security. They are just as real as retirement benefits. So they will never be switched from “unreal” Social Security to “real” Social Security.

But if they are getting Social Security

disability and turn age 66, they will be automatically converted to the retirement program. The money amount stays the same because remember: a Social Security disability benefit pays the same rate as an age 66 retirement benefit. So the changeover will essentially be transparent to them. What happens is primarily an internal bookkeeping transaction for SSA. When

they reach age 66, their benefits will start being funded from the Old Age and Survivors Insurance Trust Fund and not from the Disability Insurance Trust Fund.

If you have a Social Security question, Tom Margenau has the answer. Contact him at thomas.margenau@comcast.net. COPYRIGHT 2019 CREATORS.COM

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that looked and behaved dramatically differently throughout its life. A cast of the youngest and most complete juvenile tyrannosaur fossil found to date, a twoyear-old Tarbosaurus, has a delicate skull with thin bladelike teeth it likely used to catch small vertebrates and insects, while the cast of the huge adult Tarbosaurus skull indicates that when fully grown, it

bite through bone, thanks to fossils of its powerful skull and teeth. But now there’s proof in fossilized feces, or coprolites, which contain many tiny chunks of bones eroded by stomach acid. High-tech imaging tools like CT scanners, X-ray fluorescence, and microprobe analysis reveal that T. rex was one of the rare species on Earth that could pulverize and digest solid bone. In fact, some T. rex coprolites are 30-50 percent crushed bone. The exhibition features a

Scientists discuss the research that went into the new exhibit, T. rex: The Ultimate Predator: #1 Michael Novacek, Senior Vice President, Provost of Science and Curator, division of Paleontology; Mark Norell, chair and Macaulay Curator, Division of Paleontology and Curator of T.rex: The Ultimate Predator; Gregory Erickson, Paleobiologist, Florida State University and Jasmina Wiemann, Molecular Paleobiologist, Yale University. © Karen Rubin/goingplacesfarandnear.com

used its heavy, bone-crushing teeth and jaws to eat large animals.

Biggest, Baddest Tyrannosaur

All tyrannosaurs were built to kill, but the biggest and baddest of them all was T. rex. With its huge size, sharp claws, and teeth that could bite through bone, it dominated the competition. New research shows that a T. rex could bite with about 7,800 pounds of force—equivalent to the weight of three cars – compared to 3,700 pounds of force of a modern crocodile.

We see a fossil of one of these huge, banana-shaped teeth , which relied on deep roots to withstand the immense forces during a bite, as well as a cast of a fossilized T. rex lower jaw demonstrating the constant replacement cycle of its fearsome teeth. A full-scale reproduction of the T. rex fossil skeleton on display in the Museum’s Hall of Saurischian Dinosaurs— in a different pose—is the subject of the exhibition’s “shadow theater,” in which the skeleton’s 40-foot shadow (somewhat jarringly) “comes to life” and demonstrate to visitors how the animal moved and interacted with prey and its own kind.

Scientists long suspected T. rex could

cast of one of these telltale coprolites as well as a cast of a tail bone from a duck-bill dinosaur with an embedded T. rex tooth surrounded by new bone growth, indicating that T. rex was not just a scavenger but also attacked live prey.

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other top predators in the tyrannosaur subfamily, which lived side by side in Asia about 70 million years ago: Alioramus and Tarbosaurus. Bulky Tarbosaurus and nimble Alioramus likely specialized in different prey, much like lions and leopards do today.

Keen Senses of Sight, Smell

We know T. rex from fossils—but what was it like in the flesh? The exhibition’s massive life-size adult T. rex model is based on the most up-todate findings and represents the most scientifically accurate representation of this pop culture icon to date. New research on this powerful hunter’s senses show that keen vision, smell, and hearing made it very hard for this predator’s prey to avoid detection.

Brain casts indicate that T. rex had excellent vision. Its eyes, the size of oranges—some of the largest eyes of any land animal—faced forward like a hawk and were set wider apart than most other dinosaurs, giving it superior depth perception.

How can you tell the shape of an extinct animal’s brain? Soft tissues such as brains rarely fossilize. But fossilized skulls often contain a space where the brain used to be, revealing its precise shape. Scientists use these fossilized brain cases to make a model, or endocast, of the missing brain. They also use CT scanning to make a 3D printout of the brain. The exhibition includes a fossilized partial brain case of a T. rex as well as the endocast scientists created from it for study. By comparing the areas of the brain that are responsible for scent, vision, and hearing in tyrannosaurs’ closest living relatives, birds and crocodilians, researchers have determined that the T. rex brain had similar regions. For instance, T. rex had an unusually large olfactory region for a dinosaur, indicating it had a very good sense of smell. Also like their alligator and crocodile cousins, tyrannosaurs would likely have had highly sensitive faces. Visitors can inspect the series of tiny holes on a fossilized skull of Daspletosaurus torosus, a tyrannosaur that lived between 77 and 74 million years ago The holes are nearly identical in number and location to those on an alligator, which have jaws so sensitive to touch that they can gently pick up an egg or tiny hatchling without harming it. Fossils of T. rex show similar rough, pitted surfaces, suggesting it also had similar sense organs.

Despite the high level of scientific research that has gone into T. rex: The Ultimate Predator, the notes that accompany the displays are designed to be accessible especially for young

A rare tour of the AMNH’s proboscidean laboratory, where scientists research mammals including mammoths and mastodons that would have lived 1-2 million years ago. The Museum’s five active research divisions and three cross-disciplinary centers support approximately 200 scientists and sponsor about 100 expeditions a year © Karen Rubin/goingplacesfarandnear.com

people who will be enthralled.

At the end of the exhibition, there is a 32-foot long animated projection of a T. rex and its offspring in a Cretaceousage setting. The huge dinosaur seems to react to visitors, leaving you wondering, “Did that T. rex see me?”

Engaging with T. rex in Virtual Reality

The Museum’s science visualization group renders the latest scientific discoveries in paleontology and other fields through the visualization of big data. Using digital technologies, scientists today observe, measure, and reproduce hidden dimensions of the natural world. From the edges of the observable universe to the evolution of life on Earth, researchers are developing a radically new understanding of nature that the Museum strives to communicate to visitors in highly authentic, intuitive, and novel ways. One of these is virtual

VIVE’s global platform and app store, for VIVE owners in summer 2019. Visitors need to purchase a timed ticket to see the exhibit. You can book online, https://ticketing.amnh.org/#/ tickets.

150 Years of Scientific Inquiry

Founded in 1869, the American Museum of Natural History remains one of the world’s preeminent scientific, educational, and cultural institutions. The Museum’s five active research divisions and three cross-disciplinary centers support approximately 200 scientists, whose work draws on a world-class permanent collection of more than 34 million specimens and artifacts, as well as on specialized collections for frozen tissue and genomic and astrophysical data and on one of the largest natural history libraries in the world. The museum is the launchpad for some 100 expeditions a year. Through its Richard Gilder Graduate School, it is the only American museum authorized to grant the Ph.D. degree and also to grant the Master of Arts in Teaching degree.

Viewers get a thrill when T. rex seems to come after them © Karen Rubin/

reality: an experiential tool that uses objects, models, photos, video footage, and other types of physical evidence of life history to engage and excite visitors.

As part of T. rex: The Ultimate Predator, the Museum will present T. rex: Skeleton Crew, its first interactive, multi-player virtual reality experience, created in collaboration with HTC VIVE The five-minute experience will be offered to visitors ages 12 and up within the exhibition.

The facilitated experience “transports” as many as three players at a time to a space similar to the Museum’s Hall of Saurischian Dinosaurs, where they team up to build a T. rex skeleton bone by bone. Once all of the bones are in place, the players watch as the T. rex comes to life in marshland that is now Montana, its home 66 million years ago.

A home version of T. rex: Skeleton Crew will launch on VIVEPORT, HTC

The Museum encompasses 45 permanent exhibition halls, including those in the Rose Center for Earth and Space and the Hayden Planetarium, as well as galleries for temporary exhibitions. It is home to the Theodore Roosevelt Memorial, New York State’s official memorial to its 33rd governor and the nation’s 26th president, and a tribute to Roosevelt’s enduring legacy of conservation.

The number of visitors to the museum has grown to 5 million a year and the Museum’s exhibitions and Space Shows are seen by millions more in venues on six continents. The Museum’s website, mobile apps, and massive open online courses (MOOCs) extend its scientific research and collections, exhibitions, and educational programs to additional audiences around the globe.

Open daily from 10 am - 5:45 pm except on Thanksgiving and Christmas. American Museum of Natural History, Central Park West at 79th Street, New York, NY 10024-5192, 212769-5100, amnh.org.

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Real Estate Watch

BY PHILIP A. RAICES

Should you pay down your mortgage early?

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Should you pay down your mortgage early or not and what will happen in the future with income taxes and your deductions?

Another question that my subscribers have asked lately is, should they pre-pay their mortgage, eg. make extra principle payments every other month?

As an example, if you had a $500,000 mortgage @ 4.5% interest and made payments of $2533.43 per month and made an additional principle payment every other month, you would save 32% or $286,450 of the normal interest of $912,032, over a 30 year payout and also reduce the amount of time by 19 years and 8 months.

This is a very substantial savings of interest and time, which substantially ramps up your equity and wealth factor for a potentially more rewarding and comfortable retirement. As you can observe from the previous example, the savings on interest is quite amazing and absolutely enables you to keep more of your hard earned dollars in your pocket. The critical and crucial question will be, do you have the mental attitude and discipline to stick with this beneficial payment option and keep it on a schedule year after year? Only you can determine if you have what it takes to do it!

Now, you don’t necessarily have to be as strict and disciplined as to have to pay an exact principle payment every other month; but you can choose whatever amount of principle you can comfortably pay, every other month and ask your lender what the effect it will have on your total interest payments and years saved over the life of your mortgage.

This will take a bit of planning and again, discipline and consistency, as well as reducing available funds for

other discretionary spending; but, I can assure you, that it will be worth it, when you look back and realize and know what you have accomplished in paying off your mortgage earlier than most! One must, as they say, “bite the bullet” in building and creating your wealth, for a brighter future. I am not saying this will be easy, but if you put your mind to it, you will succeed!

Most important, as you build equity over the years, this will enable you to tap into it, if need be, for upgrading and renovating or possibly using the funds for a vacation or retirement home or condo down in the warmer climates. The savings will also be a hedge against reductions in social security benefits, which I fear, the way the country is proceeding in their outlandish spending and deficits, it will potentially be an inevitable outcome, if a solution isn’t strategized and dealt with in the near term.

Real estate is a limited commodity and as long as they aren’t growing anymore, it isn’t replaceable. So, values should continue to increase over the long run. Whoever thought years ago that prices would be where they are today? So, owning your own home, as well as any other real estate investments (and maybe taking classes and learning how to invest in the stock market long term), will provide the necessary security for one’s retirement.

If you are not in a position to prepay your mortgage as explained in the previous example had shown; the next best thing to do is try to make some type of principle payments when you have the extra money and are able to do it. However, not to change the subject, but there could be an adverse effect on our deductions, if our income taxes increase and/or income tax brackets radically change and deductions reduced; due

to our very serious national and international deficits; which somewhere along the line, must be paid; or do we consider bankruptcy or insolvency as a nation? I dare not think so, but, our government must very, very soon start putting their foot down and begin figuring out how to decrease spending. Looking back, it has been a “pork barrel” for 242 years.

However, with the new 4.5 trillion dollar budget that President Trump has proposed (that’s four thousand five hundred billion dollars!), we are just adding to the burden that our grandchildren and future generations, will have to deal with when we are gone. What may have worked in the past, to reduce deficits aren’t necessarily going to work today in solving our current fiscal problems or those going forward; and my fear is that we are running out of time.

A few weeks ago, I sat in the office of a very important and wealthy client of mine and discussed the state of our state and country and the loss of Amazon and the billions of dollars and hundreds of thousands direct and indirect jobs that could have been created, but were lost. That would have been a benefit to New York City, its five boros, as well as the side benefits that would have been derived by Long Island and its local towns and our real estate values. Yes, some would wonder why did Mayor Bill Di Blasio and Governor Cuomo, and others offer 3.1+ billion in tax credits and incentives to such a wealthy company and Jeff Bezos (worth approximately 150 Billion+). The answer was and is the near and long term benefit that would have pumped our city economy with, as per Governor Cuomo was quoted In the Washington Post on November 13, 2018, nine times the incentives provided in the tune of 27.5 billion and I am quite sure, Long Island would

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have had some side benefits too. We might be heading into a recession down the road and those much needed jobs would have truly bolstered our economy and the side benefits would have been humongous and trickled down to many businesses and individuals (hotels, doorman, restaurants, vendors, cultural venues, etc.).

The displacement of tenants in rentals, which would have increased in price, created a grass roots effort by Congresswoman, Alexandra OcasioCortez with Congressman Michael Gianaris and City council member Jimmy Van Bramer, to create and grow a mass opposition against having Amazon in Long Island City. But one possible solution could have been to have the city use some of their windfall and construct or at least have renovated a few of their idle and empty buildings to house those people. Maryland offered 8.5 billion and New Jersey offered 7 billion to attract Amazon; so our incentives paled in comparison. My professional opinion is the benefits surely outweighed the detriments of the New York incentives.

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The next Last Hope Free Feral Cat TNR clinic will be held this Sunday, March 24th, from 8:30 am to 4:00 PM at My Pets Vet, 448 W Jericho Turnpike, Huntington, NY.

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South Oyster Bay Rd. crossing

MTA Long Island Rail Road crews will perform infrastructure rehabilitation by replacing the railroad crossing at South Oyster Bay Road in Hicksville this month.

LIRR engineering crews, including track, signal and third rail specialists, will proactively replace components at the crossing on Saturday, March 23, and Saturday, March 30, which will help prevent issues from occurring during

train operation, and provide a smooth crossing surface for vehicular traffic.

On these Saturdays, starting at 1:17 am and ending at 1:13 am on Sunday, one of two tracks will be out of service between Hicksville and Wyandanch to allow for the work to take place. On these days, some trains on the Port Jefferson Branch and Ronkonkoma Branch will run on adjusted schedules, with affected connections on other branches.

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days joyfully, surrounded by family, friends, and others who care.

Birthday Wishes of Long Island began having parties in one shelter, and since then, it has expanded to serve children in 80 shelters throughout Long Island and has over 500 volunteers that tirelessly give of their time, donate baked goods and party supplies.  Birthday

Wishes’ philosophy fosters the spirit of volunteerism and community service in the adults, children and families who donate their time and resources.  Birthday Wishes is the first organization in the country, and the only one in Long Island, to provide this invaluable service.

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in 2007. It is part of the ELIJA Foundation, which serves parents, educators, professionals and caregivers of children with autism spectrum disorders.

“When we opened in 2006, we wanted to extend the mission of the foundation, and start helping children with

autism on Long Island,” said Howard. “Our main focus is to empower families and to improve the competency levels of professionals, by providing training of the most advanced treatment and educational strategies to maximize the potential of those affected by autism.”

To find out more information on the school, visit their website, ELIJA.org

Hicksville group wins competition with anti-vaping project

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social sources such as adults who buy it for them illegally. The devices can resemble anything from USB drives to pencil sharpeners, making it hard for school administrators to spot them.

Another long-term solution that the team came up with is to add disabling technology like geo-fencing alerts to vaping devices. With geo-fencing, an administrator can set up a trigger when an illegal device, such as a vaping pen, enters or exits boundaries defined by the administrator.

“Both of these types of solutions would need approval by the FDA before moving forward,” said Dias.

Some quicker solutions to the vaping problem that the students came up with

were implementing seminars in schools to provide information to parents and fellow students and placing gas detection sensors around school grounds to detect smoke from vaping.

“The seminars would be similar to the D.A.R.E America Program to help both students and parents get information on the subject,” said Verdugo. “I know that as a result of that program, the overall smoking rates for tobacco products declined, so it might work with vaping.”

She added that gas detection sensors are affordable and can signal mobile phones when it senses smoke from vaping devices being used.

As a result of winning the Medical Marvels competiton, the group was awarded an $1800 check.

Heckscher brings Latino arts to Hicksville MS

Hicksville Middle School ENL students worked with the help of the Heckscher Museum staff to create stylized self-portraits in the spirit of famous Latino artists.

Hicksville Middle School ENL students created self-portraits in the spirit of famous Latino artists through an in-house field trip sponsored by the Heckscher Museum of Art.

English as a new language learners at Hicksville Middle School recently enjoyed an in-school field trip in partnership with the Heckscher Museum of Art in Huntington.

ENL students enjoyed the museum’s presentation on Latino artists from around the world, then celebrated their individuality and diversity by creating their own stylized self-por-

Hicksville HS wins Medical Marvels competition

Hicksville High School principal Ray Williams congratulated Dr. Stephanie Piscitelli and her social science students, who teamed up to win this year’s Medical Marvels competition, sponsored by the Feinstein Institute for Medical Research and Northwell Health’s Center for Workforce Readiness. Photo courtesy of the Hicksville School District

The Feinstein Institute for Medical Research in Manhasset and Northwell Health’s Center for Workforce Readiness has named Hicksville High School the winner of its seventh annual Medical Marvels Competition. The program was developed to encourage Long Island high school students in ninth and tenth grades to pursue careers in science, technology, engineering and math.

This year’s Medical Marvels competition posed a hypothetical challenge to all contestants: “You are the principal of a high school in New York State and your school district’s superintendent is extremely worried about vaping at the high school. The superintendent tasks you with developing and implementing a solution to end this crisis.” This was the problem Dr. Stephanie Piscitelli’s Introduction to Social Science Research students at Hicksville High School were asked to solve. This included examining the risks of exposure to nicotine and toxic substances, dependence and abuse, and secondhand exposure associated with e-cigarettes. The team then had to develop an innovative solution, a plan for enhancing awareness and a

measure for their work.

Students Sarah Chavez, Roxy Dias, Maeryam Nasari, Bisma Omer and Kaitlyn Verdugo examined this realworld scenario and developed the winning solution to end the problem and improve the health and safety of the student population. “We are extremely proud of the hard work and creativity of our young researchers in delivering an award-winning solution to this very real problem. They represent the next generation of visionaries in science and health research,” said Social Studies and Home and Careers Supervisor Dr. Rose Borda.

Thirty-eight teams submitted proposals in the competition. Each underwent an evaluation and judging process conducted by a panel of scientists, clinicians and health care administrators using the National Institutes of Health grant scoring criteria. Teams presented their completed proposals at the Medical Marvels competition on March 8 at the Feinstein Institute for Medical Research. Along with first-place honors, the Hicksville students won an award of $1,800.

traits. This included incorporating unique patterns into their portraits.

Students worked under the direc tion of museum staff and had a won derful time channeling their own cre ativity while following the technique of some of the greatest artists in the world.

Photos courtesy of the Hicksville School District

NOTICE OF SALE Supreme Court State of New York

WILMINGTON SAVINGS FUND SOCIETY, FSB, DOING BUSINESS AS CHRISTIANA TRUST, NOT IN ITS INDIVIDUAL CAPACITY, BUT SOLELY AS TRUSTEE FOR BCAT 2015-13BTT, Plaintiff, vs. BRUCE TOPOL; CELINA TOPOL, ET AL., Defendant(s).

Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale duly filed on October 25, 2016, I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction at the Calendar Control Part (CCP) Courtroom of the Nassau County Supreme Court, 100 Supreme Court Drive, Mineola, NY on April 16, 2019 at 11:30 a.m., premises known as 63 Carriage Lane, Plainview, NY. All that certain plot, piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements thereon erected, situate, lying and being in the Town of Oyster Bay, County of Nassau and State of New York, Section 13, Block 119 and Lot 140, Building No. 202, Unit 226 together with an undivided 0.75 percent interest in the Common Elements. Approximate amount of judgment is $392,627.83 plus interest and costs. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed

Judgment Index # 8827/13. Anthony Iovino, Esq., Referee Knuckles, Komosinski & Manfro, LLP, 565 Taxter Road, Suite 590, Elmsford, NY 10523, Attorneys for Plaintiff Cash will not be accepted. MIT 5793

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NOTICE OF SALE Supreme Court State of New York

WELLS FARGO BANK, NA, Plaintiff, vs.

COLLEEN P. TUZZOLO, MICHAEL P. TUZZOLO A/K/A MIKE P. TUZZOLO, ET AL., Defendant(s).

Pursuant to a Final Judgment for Foreclosure and Sale duly filed on August 26, 2014, I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction at the CCP (Calendar Control Part Courtroom) in the Nassau County Supreme Court, 100 Supreme Court Drive, Mineola, NY on April 16, 2019 at 11:30 a.m., premises known as 16 Prose Street, Hicksville, NY.

All that certain plot, piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements thereon erected, situate, lying and being in the Town of Oyster Bay, County of Nassau and

State of New York, Section 11, Block 310 and Lots 21-23. Approximate amount of judgment is $237,546.26 plus interest and costs. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index # 12/011033. Ann Marie Diaz, Esq., Referee Knuckles, Komosinski & Manfro, LLP, 565 Taxter Road, Suite 590, Elmsford, NY 10523, Attorneys for Plaintiff Cash will not be accepted.

MIT 5794

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NOTICE OF FORMATION OF ROGERS ASSOCIATES, LLC

Articles of Organization filed with the Sec. of State of NY (“SSNY”) on 09/27/2018. Office location: Nassau County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY may mail a copy of any process to the LLC, 299 Duffy Avenue, Hicksville, NY 11801. Purpose or character: To engage in any lawful act or activity. #96633

MIT 5795

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NOTICE OF SALE Supreme Court State of New York MTGLQ INVESTORS LP, Plaintiff AGAINST

Patrick Schmith, et al., Defendant(s)

Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale duly dated December 18, 2018 I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction at the Calendar Control Part (CCP) Courtroom of the Supreme Court, 100 Supreme Court Drive, Mineola, NY 11501, on April 16, 2019 at 11:30AM, premises known as 10 PINE STREET, HICKSVILLE, NY 11801. All that certain plot piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements erected, situate, lying and being in the Village of Hicksville, County of Nassau and State of New York, SECTION 12, BLOCK 254, LOT 59-61. Approximate amount of judgment $423,390.49 plus interest and costs. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment for Index# 16-002425.

Mark S. Ricciardi, Esq., Referee

Gross Polowy, LLC

Attorney for Plaintiff 1775 Wehrle Drive, Suite 100 Williamsville, NY 14221

MIT 5796 4X 03/15,22,29,04/05

NOTICE OF SALE Supreme Court State of New York

WELLS FARGO BANK, N.A., AS INDENTURE TRUSTEE UNDER THE INDENTURE RELATING TO IMPAC CMB TRUST SERIES 2004-6, Plaintiff against DANIELE DILEO, MARIA DILEO, et al Defendant(s).

Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered on May 16, 2018. I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction in the Calendar Control Part (CCP) Courtroom of the Supreme Court, 100 Supreme Court Drive, Mineola, N.Y. on the 23rd day of April, 2019 at 11:30 a.m. premises described as follows: All that certain plot, piece or parcel of land, situate, lying and being in Hicksville, Town of Oyster Bay, County of Nassau and State of New York.

Said premises known as 50 Heitz Place, Hicksville, N.Y. 11801. (Section: 0012, Block: 00234-00, Lot: 00023 & 00024).

Approximate amount of lien $ 310,193.47 plus interest and costs. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed judgment and terms of sale. Index No. 1241-16.

Lawrence M. Schaeffer, Esq., Referee.

McCabe, Weisberg & Conway, LLC

Attorney(s) for Plaintiff 145 Huguenot Street – Suite 210 New Rochelle, New York 10801 (914) 636-8900 MIT 5797 4X 03/22,29,04/05,12

NOTICE OF SALE

Supreme Court

State of New York

Ditech Financial LLC f/k/a Green Tree Servicing LLC, Plaintiff AGAINST Michael B. Mendonez, Jr. a/k/a Michael B. Mendonez, Gracia T. Mendonez a/k/a Grace T. Mendonez, et al, Defendant Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale duly dated 3/1/17 and entered on 3/17/17, I, the undersigned Referee, will sell at public auction at

the Courtroom of the Supreme Court Mineola, 100 Supreme Court Drive, Mineola, NY on April 16, 2019 at 11:30 AM premises known as 11 Berry Hill Lane, Bethpage, NY 11714. All that certain plot piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements erected, situate, lying and being in the County of Nassau, State of New York, SECTION: 49, BLOCK: 267, LOT: 7. Approximate amount of judgment is $410,614.09 plus interests and costs. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index # 005296/2014.

For sale information, please visit Auction.com at www. Auction.com or call (800) 2802832.

Nicole Forchelli, Referee FRENKEL LAMBERT WEISS WEISMAN & GORDON LLP 53 Gibson Street Bay Shore, NY 11706 BN 7369 4X 03/15,22,29,04/05

NOTICE OF SALE Supreme Court State of New York FREEDOM MORTGAGE CORPORATION, Plaintiff AGAINST Richard Greig, et al., Defendant(s) Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale duly dated November 21, 2018 I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction at the Calendar Control Part (CCP) Courtroom of the Supreme Court, 100 Supreme Court Drive, Mineola, NY 11501, on April 23, 2019 at 11:30AM, premises known as 54 SOUTH 1ST STREET, BETHPAGE, NY 11714. All that certain plot piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements erected, situate, lying and being at Bethpage, Town of Oyster Bay, County of Nassau and State of New York, SECTION 46, BLOCK 5, LOTS 46-48. Approximate amount of judgment $407,811.10 plus interest and costs. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment for Index# 16-003518.

Robert G. Litt, Esq., Referee Gross Polowy, LLC Attorney for Plaintiff 1775 Wehrle Drive, Suite 100 Williamsville, NY 14221 BN 7370

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Hicksville schools celebrate Dr. Seuss

In celebration of Dr. Seuss’ recent birthday, elementary schools in the Hicksville School District held fun, educational activities that paid homage to the works of the famous children’s author while promoting literacy and other subjects in a fun way.

East Street Elementary School held a week of activities that included a “Crazy Hat Day” and a “Wacky Hair

Day,” with many students replicating the hairdos of the famous Dr. Seuss Who characters. Students enjoyed reading Dr. Seuss books throughout the week in accordance with different themes of the day.

Students in Christine Moir’s fourthgrade class at Old Country Road Elementary School enjoyed some green eggs and ham and assorted colored

East Street Elementary School students celebrated Dr. Seuss’ birthday by replicating crazy Who hair and reading his books.

Christine Moir’s fourth-grade class at Old Country Road Elementary School enjoyed green and eggs and ham in honor of Dr. Seuss’ birthday.

Goldfish snacks while reading “Green Eggs and Ham” and “One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish.” They also made Oobleck (based on the book “Bartholomew and the Oobleck”) from scratch and played a ball toss game using handmade Cat in the Hat red and white hats for the basket. Students honed their math (graphing and fractions), science (states of matter) and

literacy skills through these activities, and had fun.

Every year schools throughout the country coordinate fun, Dr. Seussthemed activities in accordance with Dr. Seuss’ birthday on March 2.

Photos courtesy of the Hicksville Public Schools

Kindergartners in Mary Shurley’s class at East Street School in Hicksville came to school with crazy hair in honor of Dr. Seuss’ birthday.

Christine Moir and her students at Old Country Road Elementary School made Oobleck, based on the book “Bartholomew and the Oobleck,” in honor of Dr. Seuss’ birthday.

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Abbey Lane students share SEL programs with BOE

Abbey Lane Elementary School building administrators, students and staff with central administrators, student liaisons and board members.

Photo courtesy of the Levittown Public Schools

Students practice skills with the support of the NY Islanders

Division Avenue High School physical education teacher Thomas Tuttle (left), Principal John Coscia (right) and students with the donated floorball equipment from the New York Islanders hockey team. Photo courtesy of the Levittown Public Schools

Students at Division Avenue High School in the Levittown Public Schools recently engaged in an Islanders Floorball unit with the help of the New York Islanders hockey team. The school received about 30 jerseys, 14 hockey sticks and two goals which were donated by the New York Islanders as part of their Islanders Floorball Program.

Physical education teacher Thomas Tuttle applied for the program last June to benefit Division Avenue stu-

dents in grades 9-12 in their physical education classes. Physical education students throughout the state participate in the Islanders Floorball Program thanks to the professional hockey team to learn more about floorball, enhance their skills and practice teamwork.

“Levittown is such a close community,” said Tuttle. “It’s great that the Islanders to want to be part of our community so that we can build on having a relationship with them.”

The Levittown community learned more about what is being done at the elementary level for social-emotional learning during the Levittown Public Schools’ regular Board of Education meeting on Feb. 6. Abbey Lane Elementary School Principal Dr. George Maurer introduced Assistant Principal Milton Josephs, Abbey Lane staff members, 10 students, and a parent, as part of the special SEL presentation.

“The importance of addressing social-emotional learning and the development of students is a current highlighted focus within all of our schools,” said Dr. Maurer. “Before a student is ready to learn they must understand the basics of what being a part of the school community means, how to interact effectively with others and how to

regulate their emotions.”

The 10 students – Ava Brush, Sarah Cannata, Gabriella Florio, Hia Gospodarzec, Jack Harrington, Sam Kearney, Bella Kirk, Keira Quigley, Sydney Rochefort and Shane Villaume, spoke about the Beautiful Me, Big Buds, Gator Games, Get A Voice and Peer Mentoring programs. Some of these programs are found throughout the district, while others are unique to Abbey Lane.

Each student shared his or her experience with one of the programs and highlighted the positive effects it has made on him or her as an individual. Those involved in these programs have the ability to build connections, strengthen their self-esteem, confidence and more.

Hearts of kindness at East St. School

East Street School students documented 100 acts of kindness per grade level on heart-shaped cards which they displayed in the school hallway.

Students at East Street Elementary School in Hicksville participated in different heartwarming activities during the month of February, inside and outside of school. This included performing various acts of kindness for their fellow classmates, as well as family and friends.

Photo courtesy of the Hicksville Public Schools

In accordance with the 100th day of classes, grade levels collaborated on heart-shaped cards that documented 100 of their acts of kindness. These projects were later displayed in the school hallway for all to be proud of.

JFK sixth-grader Matthew Cusumano will have art work on display at the LI Art Supervisors Association Art Show on March 10.

Bethpage artists on display

Kramer Lane fifth-grader

Jessica Dexter will have art work on display at the LI Art Supervisors Association Art Show on March 10.

Five students from the Bethpage Union Free School District were selected to have their artistic talents displayed at two shows. They were chosen based on submissions entered by teacher Nancy Noskewicz.

A number of Ms. Noskewicz’s students at Kramer Lane Elementary

Kramer Lane fourth-grader

Johanna Scarpella has art work on display at the LI Art Show at the Long Island Museum until April 7.

School and John F. Kennedy Middle School had their work entered for consideration in the Long Island Art Supervisors Association Art Show and Colors of Long Island Art Show.

JFK sixth-grader Matthew Cusumano, along with Kramer Lane fifth-grader Jessica Dexter and

Kramer Lane third-grader Kaitlyn Corcoran will have art work on display at the LI Art Supervisors Association Art Show on March 10.

third-grader Kaitlyn Corcoran, will have work showcased at the Long Island Art Supervisors Association Art Show on March 10 at Farmingdale State College from noon until 4 pm. Kramer Lane fourth-grader Johanna Scarpella and second-grader Giuliana Viscome currently have their artwork on dis-

Kramer Lane second-grader Giuliana Viscome has art work on display at the LI Art Show at the Long Island Museum until April 7.

play at the Colors of Long Island Art Show, which will run at the Long Island Museum until April 7.

“These students showed exceptional creativity and craftsmanship and should be very proud of their accomplishments,” said Ms. Noskewicz.

Photos courtesy of the Bethpage Union Free School District

MacArthur’s math fair club sets students up for success

MacArthur High School math fair club members, freshman Ryan Castrillon and junior Zexaan “Clark” Zhang, showcased their research skills during the preliminary round of the Al Kalfus Long Island Math Fair on March 1, sponsored by the Nassau County Association of Mathematics Supervisors. The students competed at Hofstra University against students from across Nassau County, with the hopes of receiving an invite back for the final round of the math fair.

Castrillon’s project, “Math in Sports,” focused on how math is utilized in baseball, basketball and football. He spotlighted the way math affects sports, ranging from statistical reasons to strategy. Zhang’s project, “Riemann Hypothesis,” focused on the million dollar millennium question in mathematics which has never been solved. The students presented their research to two judges and fellow math fair participants during the event.

With the guidance of club adviser Melissa Lawrence, Castrillon and Zhang met on a weekly basis after school to prepare for the math fair.

Both students picked a mathematical topic that interested them. They then conducted research, wrote a full paper, practiced their presenting skills and created a poster. Lawrence said she enjoyed seeing how the students worked together, offering feedback during presentation practice and helping boost their peers’ confidence. The students have enjoyed their time together as well and the new experiences that have been presented.

“The best part about the club is that it gives you more opportunities,” said Zhang. “You get to represent the school, which I like doing.”

MacArthur High School’s math fair club provides all students who have a passion for mathematics the opportunity to compete and strengthen their research and presentation skills.

“The nice thing about the club is that it’s not for your highest achieving math students,” said Lawrence. “It’s for anyone who has an interest researching something in math. The club gives anyone in the building the opportunity to be able to research something and present it to a panel of people.”

MacArthur High School’s math fair club adviser Melissa Lawrence (left) and math fair club member/junior Zexaan “Clark” Zhang. Photo courtesy of the Levittown Public Schools

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