The Syosset Advance

SIKH RELIGIOUS FESTIVAL

Nassau county Comptroller George Maragos recently attended Vaisakhi Event organized Veer Entertainment and Pinki Jaggi held at Cotillion Restaurant in Jericho. Vaisakhi is a historical and religious festival in Sikhism. Pictured are: Miss India New York, two guests and NC Comptroller George Maragos. Photo by Bina Sabapathy of Hicksville.

Syosset named “Best Community for Music

The Syosset Central School District has once again been honored with the Best Communities for Music Education designation from the NAMM Foundation for its outstanding commitment to music education. Syosset CSD joins more than 500 districts across the country in receiving the prestigious award in 2017. This marks the 16th time the district has received this designation.

The BCME designation recognizes outstanding efforts by teachers, administrators, parents, students and community leaders who work together to assure access to music learning for all students as part of a well-rounded education. Districts that have been recognized by the NAMM Foundation are often held up as models for other educators looking to boost their own music education

programs. To qualify for recognition, district officials answered detailed questions about funding, graduation requirements, music class participation, instruction time, facilities, support for the music program and community music-making programs. Responses were verified with school officials and reviewed by the Music Research Institute at the Uni-

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Woodbury resident runs for Town Supervisor

BY GARY SIMEONE

Marc Herman wants to change the ongoing corruption that has been running rampant in the Town of Oyster Bay. The Woodbury resident and member of the Democratic party said that he plans to run for the position in the upcoming election in November.

“I’ve been standing on the sidelines for all these years watching the scandal in the Town of Oyster Bay government and I say that the corruption has to be removed,” said Herman, a practicing dentist and a former President of the Syosset school board. “My feeling is that it shouldn’t be about who you know in politics but what you know.”

Herman and three other candidates were announced as Democratic nominees last Wednesday to run against the all Republican Town Board.

The three other candidates running for Town council include Woodbury resident, Robert Freier, Seaford resident, James Versocki and Eva Pearson of Farmingdale.

Herman said his campaign focus includes eight broad categories which he feels are problems in the Town that are in need of a solution.

The categories he listed include finances, ethics, environmental, patronage, open contracting, open bidding, taxes and permits.

“Everything needs to be done in a cost effective, efficient manner and government needs to be transparent so that people know where their tax dollars are being spent,” said Herman.

Herman brings experience to the position having served on the Syosset school board for eighteen years and working as a dentist in Woodbury for thirty eight years.

“I have a lot of experience in things such as payroll, bookkeeping and hiring and firing of employees. One thing about me I am the hardest worker the world has ever seen and I’m one of the most ethical people the world has ever seen.”

Herman also served as President of the Gates-Ridge Civic Association of Woodbury and is an active member of the Cerro Wire Coalition, a community group in Syosset that is actively opposed to the building of the new mall. He has also held a voluntary

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Marc Hermann

Skin conditions: Addressing common problems

Skin changes are common as we grow older. Some problems are natural and harmless, yet others are more serious, such as skin cancer. To learn more, the public is invited to attend a free lecture sponsored by NYU Winthrop Hospital, “Skin Conditions: Addressing Common Problems,” on Wednesday, May 10, at 1:15 PM. The program will be held at the Mineola Community Center, 155 Washington Avenue in Mineola, one block south of Jericho Turnpike, between Mineola Blvd. and Willis Avenue.

Peter E. O’Neill, MD, Chief of Dermatology at NYU Winthrop, will dis-

cuss what you need to know about aging skin. 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 presented by the Department of Public Affairs, Geriatric Health Services and the Winthrop Home Health Agency. For information on other programs at the Hospital, please call 1-866-WINTHROP.

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Skin ConditionS:

addreSSing Common problemS

Skin changes are common as we grow older. Some problems are natural and harmless, yet others are more serious, such as skin cancer. Learn the difference.

Peter E. O’Neill, MD, Chief of Dermatology at NYU Winthrop, will discuss what you need to know about aging skin. A question & answer period will follow.

1:15PM

Wednesday, May 10, 2017 Mineola Community Center 155 Washington Avenue, Mineola (One block south of Jericho Tpke., between Mineola Blvd. and Willis Ave.)

Admission is free, but seating is limited.

Please call (516) 663-3916 for reservations.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Perfect choice for School Board

To the Editor:

Being a resident of Jericho for over forty years, there is a great deal of pride in knowing that the Jericho Union Free School District has such a high standard and is very passionate about the education of its students. With such a responsibility to uphold, it is extremely important to carefully choose school board members who will help strengthen the educational environment. This is exactly why I believe Dr. Pam Wasserman-Heath is the perfect choice for the School Board Seat in this coming election.

Looking at the election and then attempting to put myself in the position of choosing a candidate, where I would not be personally familiar with any of those seeking election, there would be a series of characteristics that I personally would look for. First and foremost I would question the character of each candidate. When it comes to the character of Pam Wasserman-Heath, I honestly could give very few people any higher praise. Her integrity and selflessness has truly been an incredible model for students and residents alike. She is

a woman of compassion, intelligence, dedication and tremendous action.

Dr. Wasserman-Heath is a psychologist working with trauma patients and has served as president of the Jackson PTA as well as a board member of her synagogue. Pam has vast experience helping to form coalitions and this specific set of experiences has allowed her to engage on a personal level with the individual as well as the whole. She finds the weaknesses and takes the burden onto her own shoulders to see that a solution is made, with no regard to herself, but solely for the good of those around her.

My family can personally attest that Pam is vigilant in her care for the safety of others. She checks in on her neighbors all year to make sure that they are safe and healthy. Anyone would be grateful and lucky to have a neighbor such as Pam. She is a fine human being and someone that everyone can look up to.

I encourage all of the residents of Jericho to vote for Pam with the assurance that she will work hard and intelligently for the benefit of our children.

Susan M. Weissberg

What’s Happening

April 28

The film “Sully” will be shown at the Syosset Public Library at 2 p.m. Rated PG-13, the film is 96 minutes long.

“Science of Magic” for children in grades 3 to 5, will be held at the Syosset Public Library from 4 to 5 p.m.

April 30

The Independent Art Society will hold a closing reception for the art on display during April at the Jericho Public Library Gallery. The reception will be held from 2 to 4 p.m. Compiled by Meg Meyer

Lions Club Charity Breakfast

The Plainview Bethpage Lions Club will be holding its annual Charity Breakfast on Sunday, April 30th between 10 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. at the Marriott Residence Inn, 9 Gerhard

Road, Plainview. A Capella groups from Plainview Old Bethpage High School will be performing.

Town of Oyster Bay “Battle of the Bands” competition

Oyster Bay Town Supervisor Joseph Saladino announced that the Town of Oyster Bay, through the Cultural & Performing Arts Division of the Town’s Department of Community & Youth Services, will be conducting a “Battle of the Bands” competition to showcase some of the Town’s young musical talent.

Supervisor Saladino, himself a musician and member of an accomplished local band, said that selected bands will be given an incredible opportunity to compete live at the Town of Oyster Bay’s Music Under the Stars Concert Series on Saturday, August 5, 2017 at John J. Burns Town Park in Massapequa.

“If you’re under 21 years of age and at least one member of your band lives in the Town of Oyster Bay, you are eligible to compete in this exciting contest,” Supervisor Saladino said. “The Town of Oyster Bay’s “Battle of the Bands” provides an awesome opportunity for rising musical stars to experience playing before a large audience and garner exposure for their band.”

To be part of the contest, interested bands simply need to record their best original song and a cover song and e-mail it to Sharon Betz of the Town’s Cultural and Performing Arts Division at sbetz@oysterbay-ny.gov. They can also be mailed to: The Town of Oyster Bay Department of Community & Youth Services, Attn: Cultural & Performing Arts Division, 977 Hicksville Road, Massapequa, New York 11758.

“Please include with your submission a brief biography of your band and a list of members’ names, addresses, phone numbers, ages and instruments,” Supervisor Saladino said. “I am sure that this will be the catalyst for a truly great experience for each and every participant of our contest.”

Supervisor Saladino noted that all submissions for the “Battle of the Bands” contest must be received by May 31, 2017 to be considered. For further information, please contact the Cultural & Performing Arts Division office at (516) 797-7925.

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RESIDENTS celebrates spring

RESIDENTS for a more beautiful Syosset will hold its annual flower planting at Memorial Park on the corner of Underhill Boulevard and Jackson Avenue in anticipation of the celebration of Memorial Day. Community members are invited to volunteer their time to assist in planting many flats of annual flowers in this garden. This event will take place on Saturday, May 13th at 9:30 a.m. The rain date is Saturday, May 20th. All interested community members should bring with them their trowels and garden gloves. For further information, call 921-7052.

High School’s National Honor Society officers and advisers being congratulated by (far left) Principal Dr. Giovanni Durante and (far right) Superintendent of Schools Dr. Tom Rogers.

More than 300 inducted into Syosset NHS

This year, Syosset High School’s National Honor Society inducted 315 new members into the Thalian Chapter during two special ceremonies held in the school’s Harvey P. Karp auditorium, which was filled with proud parents, faculty, school officials and scholars.

NHS advisers Jessica Rosenberg and

Beth Waschitz welcomed the audience as Syosset High School Principal Dr. Giovanni Durante and NHS President George Chai each gave accounts about the dedication and hard work that goes into becoming a NHS member, as well as all of the wonderful efforts of NHS members over the years to make

Syosset High School and the community a better place.

Executive Board members lit the ceremonial candles that represent the four key principles of NHS membership: character, scholarship, leadership and service. Then, one by one, the new inductees’ names were announced and

each stepped up to the stage to receive their certificates prior to taking the NHS pledge.

Special thanks to the Syosset High School chamber orchestra, led by Stephanie Merten, for providing the processional, interlude and recessional.

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Photo courtesy of the Syosset School District

Veterans honor Syosset writers with awards

Syosset Post 6394 of the Veterans of Foreign Wars recently honored two Syosset students for their impressive writing.

Syosset High School student Michael Wang was a recipient of the Merit Award in the VFW’s “Voice of Democracy” scholarship program. Michael was acknowledged as an “Outstanding Spokesperson for Democracy” for his

essay, which captured the essence of this year’s theme titled “My Vision for America.”

The Voice of Democracy competition, now in its 69th year, provides students the opportunity to compete for more than $2 million in scholarship monies and incentives by writing and recording an audio essay that captures the annual theme. Michael

received $500 for his contribution.

Harry B. Thompson Middle School student Emma Leiman earned second place in Nassau County in the VFW Patriot’s Pen Essay Contest. The theme for this year’s contest was “The America I Believe In.” In addition to a certificate of recognition, Emma received $100 for her contribution.

H.B. Thompson Middle School student Emma Leiman is congratulated by Gus Scutari (far left) and Bill Santini (third from left) of Syosset VFW Post 6394 along with H.B. Thompson Principal James Kassebaum and Emma’s social studies teacher, Heather Schulman.

Syosset HS student Michael Wang was congratulated by Bill Santini (far left) and Gus Scutari of Syosset VFW Post 6394, along with Michael’s social studies teacher, Jennifer Lamond.

Photos courtesy of the Syosset School District

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THE POLICE BLOTTER

Incidents that have occurred recently in the local area include:

At 3 a.m. on April 3, a 27-year-old man from Searlngtown was arrested and was charged with Driving While Intoxicated on Northern Boulevard in Manhasset.

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At Saks Off 5th in Westbury, a 25-year-old woman from Ridgewood was arrested and charged with Shoplifting at 5:30 p.m. on April 3.

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Sometime between 11 p.m. on April 3 and 7 a.m. the next morning, a victim reports that unknown subjects slashed all four tires of his vehicle while it was parked on Mineola Blvd. in Mineola.

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Criminal Possession of Marijuana was the charge brought against a 22-year-old man from Fresh Meadows, when he was arrested on April 4 at 9:40 p.m.

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At 4:10 a.m. on April 5, a 34-year-old woman from Westbury was arrested at the intersection of Salisbury Park Drive and Old Country Road in that town.

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A 23-year-old man from Hempstead was arrested at 4:50 p.m. on April 6 and charged with Shoplifting from Bloomingdales in East Garden City.

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At the Home Depot in Jericho, assorted property was stolen from a vehicle between 8:20 and 8:30 p.m. on April 7.

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A 20-year-old man from Hempstead was arrested at 9:45 p.m. on April 7 in a parking lot on Quentin Roosevelt Boulevard in East Garden City and charged with Possession of marijuana.

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At 1:38 a.m. on April 8, a 27-yearold man from Ridgewood was arrested and was charged with Driving While Intoxicated on East Broadway in Roslyn.

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An 18-year-old man from Brooklyn was arrested at 2:35 p.m. on April 8 and charged with Shoplifting from Bloomingdales in East Garden City.

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At 6:41 p.m. on April 8, a 44-year-old

man from Locust Valley was arrested and was charged with Driving While Intoxicated on North Broadway at Birchwood Park Drive in Jericho.

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A 42-year-old woman from Westbury was arrested and charged with Shoplifting from Target in Westbury at 7:45 p.m. on April 8.

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At Macy’s in East Garden City, a 52-year-old woman from Brooklyn was arrested and charged with Shoplifting at 8 p.m. on April 8.

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At 11:15 p.m. on April 8, six subjects were arrested at a parking lot on Stewart Avenue in Westbury. Arrested were three 19-year-old men from Westbury, a 19-year-old man from Levittown, a 20-year-old man from Westbury and a 20-year-old man from Levittown. All were charged with Criminal Possession of Marijuana.

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On the South Service Road of the Long Island Expressway at North Hills, a 19-year-old man from Roslyn Heights was arrested at 4:25 a.m.on April 9. He was charged with Driving While Intoxicated.

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A 27-year-old woman from Brentwood and a 31-year-old man from Rosedale were arrested at 6:45 p.m. on April 9 in the Roosevelt Field Mall parking lot in East Garden City and charged with Possession of marijuana.

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A victim reports that unknown subjects threw a rock through the picture window of his home on Willis Avenue sometime between 6 p.m.on April 10 and 10 a.m the next morning.

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At 1:30 p.m. on April 11, a 47-yearold woman from South Hempstead was arrested and charged with Shoplifting from JC Penney in East Garden City.

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On Liberty Avenue in Mineola, a 35-year-old man from Levittown was arrested and was charged with Criminal Possession of Marijuana at on April 12. Compiled by Kate and Meg Meyer

Education series for prostate cancer patients

NYU Winthrop Hospital’s Department of Urology is offering an educational series for patients newly diagnosed with prostate cancer. Meetings are held on a quarterly basis during the year at the Winthrop Wellness Pavilion, 1300 Franklin Avenue, Suite ML-5 in Garden City. The next meeting will take place Wednesday, May 10, 2017, from 6:30 to 7:30 pm.

The meetings will provide information about genetic testing, nutrition and self-care, imaging and treatment, available clinical trials, cancer treatment side effects and what to expect. A question and answer period will be included. For additional information or to register for this educational series, please call 516-663-2316 or email kowens@winthrop.org.

Winthrop and NYU Langone are joining together to make Long Island healthcare even stronger.

When two great academic medical centers combine their talents and resources, local communities can access a larger, more versatile network of world-class physicians, leading-edge facilities and award-winning nurses and professionals. Patients can find precisely the right specialist, whatever their illness or condition. And two leaders in research and training can work together to find the cures and prepare the healers of tomorrow. To learn more about this exciting milestone in Long Island healthcare, call 1-866-WINTHROP or visit winthrop.org.

Sandwich Sunday: A community unites to help others

Jericho Jewish Center, Congregation L’Dor V’Dor, and Temple Beth Torah recently sponsored the 6th annual Sandwich Sunday, a special community service/hunger relief event, held at the Jericho Jewish Center.

The day was an overwhelming success! The local community gathered to make sandwiches and pack bagged lunches, which were then donated to 10 different food agencies in the Nassau/ Suffolk area. Over 1400 sandwiches were made and distributed to those in need! Non-perishable food items were collected as part of the event, and were

donated to local food pantries. More than 200 volunteers of all ages from the surrounding neighborhoods came to lend their support to this worthy cause. Everyone who participated had a great time & were united as a community in a common cause; giving back and helping those less fortunate.

Jericho Jewish Center, Congregation L’Dor V’Dor, and Temple Beth Torah collaborated with “rock CAN roll ®” for this event. rock CAN roll ®, Inc., is a volunteer, 501c3, non-profit, hunger relief organization.

Transporting trays of sandwiches

Making sandwiches

Sorting bags for each delivery location On the assembly line

Happy Volunteers

It takes a Village!

Decorating lunch bags

Delivering lunches

Getting ready to make a delivery

Boxing food donations

All smiles after a successful event!

Pausing for a photo op

Checking and stapling bags

San Francisco’s Haight-Asbury district delights visitors with its psychedelic colors

BY KAREN RUBIN

My, how time flies!

It’s the 50th anniversary of San Francisco’s Summer of Love, when, in 1967, nearly 100,000 young people converged on the HaightAshbury neighborhood, turning San Francisco into the epicenter of a cultural phenomenon known as the Summer of Love. During this transformative time, music, fashion, art and new ideas flourished and there was a feeling that everything was possible.

The city of San Francisco was a magnet for musicians, artists and social rebels in the mid-to-late 1960s. They created a counterculture bound by leftist politics, tribal spirit, music and art. Long stamped a literary bohemia,

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attracting nonconformists like the Beat Generation writers of the Fifties, it was a natural progression for free-thinking San Francisco to give birth to a radical new movement eventually embraced by the rest of the world.

The 50th Anniversary Celebration – with some 60 different events, special tours, concerts – is already well underway in San Francisco and I’m guessing that tens of thousands of Baby Boomers will grab their tie-dye t-shirts, bell-bottom jeans, and put a flower in their hair and join in for a mind-blowing time-travel blast back into the past.

I’ve just returned from my magical mystery tour – more precisely, HaightAshbury Walking Tour: A Musical Trip of The 60’s, a musical Summer of Love walking tour with Wes Leslie of Wild San Francisco Tours – when I was stunningly, and eerily transported back to my past.

Let me say at the outset that I can’t recall taking a historical tour where I personally lived the history.

Wes (he jokes that he is called “Wild Wes”) is perfect to lead this tour, using his guitar at opportune points – in front of the homes where the Jerry Garcia and the Grateful Dead, Janis Joplin, Country Joe (of the Fish) and others lived – to recreate the iconic music of that era. What is more, in keeping with the spirit of the Hippie Movement, the tour during this anniversary year is “free” (you pay a suggested donation at the end).

Though I lived through that era –memories came flooding back with Wes’ narration – there is so much more of the inside, behind-the-scenes, backstage stuff that I hadn’t known. It is kind of like sitting around a table with relatives and finding out inside scoop you hadn’t realized went on.

Wes’ anecdotes and folksy style make the tour as entertaining and fun as it is informative from a historical and cultural point of view.

Indeed, what I come away with is a realization that the Summer of Love would not have happened without The Pill and how that spurred cultural changes – most significantly a willingness to challenge the entrenched White Patriarchy and Power Structure. I come away with is a new appreciation of how the Women’s Liberation movement actually fueled the Hippie movement, which, through its counter-cultural, antiestablishment, anti-institutionalism, then paved the way for civil rights, gay rights and peace movements – methods and organizations and themes which are eerily resurgent today.

During this Wild San Francisco walking tour through Haight-Ashbury (with music!), I learn about the rise – and fall– of the Hippie Movement that reached its pinnacle during that Summer of Love, when some 100,000 descended and overwhelmed San Francisco (consider that the city has a population today of 800,000), much to the horror of local Hippies who decried that famous song, “If you’re going to San Francisco, be sure to wear flowers in your hair.”

The very “success” of the Summer of Love proved the undoing of the

Hippie Movement, much to the delight of Mayor Shelley at the time, who went after the hippies with such vengeance that he told area hospitals not to help young runaway teens who OD’d, and told the police to stand down so that chaos would reign. It is a complete surprise to me to learn about how brief this movement was in Haight-Ashbury – like a brief, shining light.

The Hippie Movement, which emerged 1965-1967, was aimed at overturning the 1950s culture of uniformity, conformity and obeisance to The Man (whether that is the

Capitalist or the Authority of the white patriarchy power elite). The “Hippies” (named because they were the nextgen Beatniks but not quite the Hipsters the Beatniks were, according to San Francisco Chronicle columnist Herb Caen who coined the names for both) renounced capitalism and embraced everything “free” (free food, free concerts, free health clinics, free love), which is why they were considered so dangerously radical (Communists!) and vilified by The Establishment. After all, America was still in the throes of the Cold War.

The social, political ideologues shaping the movement were The Diggers, Wes explains (a group I had never heard of before even though I lived through this era) and must have been news to the other people on our tour, who hailed from Wales, Australia, Hungary, Berlin and Los Angeles (that fellow had taken two other tours with Wes).

The Haight-Ashbury district, where the Hippies were concentrated, today seems an odd locale for these counterculture radicals, because this district is dominated by the most magnificently preserved (expensive!) Victorian-era homes, some dating from the 1890s, surviving the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire which destroyed 80 percent of the city. Wes explains that by the 1960s, the district was run-down and cheap to live in after white flight to the suburbs. Back then, you could rent an entire Victorian house for $175 a month and divide that among 10 people (amounting to $80 a month per person in today’s money, compared to the $3400/month rent for an apartment the district now commands). So naturally, it attracted artists, writers and musicians.

In the 1960s, half the American population was under 25 years old. These were the Baby Boomers and they were coming of age, disillusioned with income inequality, segregation, the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.

“Maybe they hadn’t figured out the solutions but they wanted whatever was furthest from whatever set those things into motion,” Wes tells us as we face one of the most magnificent Victorians, known as “Hippie Temptation”, so they reclaimed the derelict urban cities, swore off capitalism, and embraced drugs that were emerging and love and a philosophy of individual discovery and expression.

They picked up where Jack Kerouac (“On the Road” was a handbook for the Beat Generation) and Alan Ginsberg (“Howl”) left off.

The emergence of drugs (and the

drug culture) was a significant element that led to the rise of the Hippie Movement– like LSD (which was legal), which led to the rise of “psychedelic” experimentation and provided the subtext for culture of “seeing the world in a new way” and a devotion to individual expression, rather than conformity. “Turn on, tune in, drop out,” declared Timothy Leary.

The Diggers, Wes explains, took their name from a 17th century group of anarchists in England who would take over unplowed fields and would give away the harvest to end inequality.

San Francisco didn’t have farms, but it did have food waste, so the Diggers would go dumpster diving and brought the food to All Saints Parish Church (where we find ourselves standing) and would make a pot of Hippie Stew which they would bring to Panhandle Park (where our tour began, named for the shape, not for handouts), to distribute for free. (The church still gives away food weekly.).

One day, The Diggers gave away free food on the steps of City Hall, which enraged San Francisco’s mayor. “’We are not a charity,’ the Diggers declared,” Wes tells us. “’We are an anarchist organization doing what government should do’.” (a philosophy that is reemergent with the antiTrump activism) It was the act of it, in

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contrast to the liberals at Berkeley, the intellectual kids, who were theorizing.

“The Diggers said, ‘Just do it, don’t theorize.’ The Diggers started putting ‘free’ in front of everything: free food, free concerts, free health care.”

Wes traces the actual beginning of the Hippie Movement that led up to the Summer of Love to “The Death of Money” March the Diggers put on. The Diggers, he says, were the activist branch of the San Francisco Mime Troupe, a political satire and theater group.

Hundreds came out wearing dark clothing and carrying a coffin filled with cash and coins – “50 years before the Occupy Wall Street movement and Bitcoin.”

They opened a free store, stocked with contributions from shopkeepers and what they could scavenge. Tie-dye?

That gender-bending fashion innovation developed, Wes says, because the Diggers would get contributions of white shirts and would die them.

Interestingly, Wes points out, there was a revolution within the Diggers because the men were writing the manifestos but the women were actually doing the work.

Ultimately, he relates, “the structure of the Diggers - who eschewed “leadership” (they were anarchists)falls apart.” But they will be forever

Jerry Garcia of the Grateful Dead, still beloved in Haight-Ashbury, immortalized in a mural © 2017 Karen Rubin/goingplacesfarandnear.com

remembered for coining the famous phrase: “Today marks the first day of the rest of your life.” And for providing the template for social innovations that followed.

By now, we are standing in front of the most famous house in HaightAshbury: the “crash pad” for the Grateful Dead, the most beloved group

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What’s absolutely great about Spring!

in San Francisco, “hallowed ground for Haight-Ashbury.”

As Wes is talking, a 60ish man in long white beard, long flowing hair, wearing a tie-dye shirt and bright colored vest comes out of his bright colored house and into his red car, looking every bit the part.

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BY CLAIRE LYNCH

Now that the cold days and snowy mornings of winter have gone, I welcome the warmer, brighter, feel-good days of spring. With the flowers blooming and trees showing their green leaves again, Long Island looks much cheerier. Here are some of the things that I like best about this season of spring.

April Showers Are Sure to Bring …

The accepted meaning of the poem “April showers bring May flowers” is essentially a simple one. April, usually a rainy month, will eventually give way to the month of May, a month where flowers typically bloom thanks to the water April provided. So something good came out of all of that rain. As a young child, I always thought that it actually read: “April showers bring Mayflowers,” i.e., the Pilgrims, etc. Silly me. I really thought that. Several years later I thought about it and realized that since May is the first warm month of the year, and since the rain during the month of April helps things grow, we are bound to have some beautiful flowers appear in May. The actual origin is from the sixteenth century. The rhyme is an excerpt from “500 Points of Good Husbandry” (a book about farming) by

the English poet and gentleman farmer Thomas Tusser. Published in 1557, this little poem originally read: “Sweet April showers Do spring May flowers.”

Oh Spring, Glorious Spring!

On a glorious spring day when I throw open all of the windows and let the fresh air in, I notice that my young cat, Bette, is excited, also, by the improvement in the weather we are having. Hopping up on the windowsill, she sits for what seems like hours inhaling the various scents of the season, watching the people and cars going by and watching the birds as they fly from here to there. While activities go on in my living room, Bette is oblivious. Instead, she is glued to the events outdoors. They are rather routine to me, but this fantastic weather makes everything so fascinating to her. Her enthusiasm for our “perfect weather” is pretty contagious so a friend and I grab some light jackets and head outdoors to take a walk and drink in all of the beauty of the season. I’ll take the four seasons any time and this one in particular, spring, is so perfectly enjoyable.

Seeing Forsythia on Long Island

What’s great about the season? I notice that the daffodils come up first

every spring and I practically jump with joy – at their sight, at the brilliance of their yellow color. Then, a few days or a few weeks later, I see the first signs of forsythia blossoming. Driving along the Northern State Parkway, I see long lines of forsythia off to the side and for this Long Islander, that’s always a sure sign that spring has sprung where we live. My routine? Once I spot the forsythia on the parkways, I look for it in people’s front yards. Usually the forsythia that are in yards facing south start to blossom first. These bright yel low bushes decorate people’s lawns –and light up our worlds. And after a winter that is always cold, windy and icy, I welcome those blooming for sythia. Here’s a bit of trivia: Forsythia

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BY TOM MARGENAU

Today’s column won’t focus on a single topic. Instead, I’ll just reach into the mailbag (well, really my email inbox) and pull out a hodgepodge of questions.

Q: I was a minister for many years. I never paid into Social Security while serving my church. But about eight years ago, I left the ministry, and I have since worked at a series of jobs where Social Security taxes have been withheld from my paycheck. I am now 60. My 64-year-old wife has worked all her life and paid into Social Security. Her estimated full retirement benefit is $2,200 per month. Is it worth it for me to continue at these jobs to build up my own Social Security record?

A: If you are working because you like your job or because you need the income, well, then of course you should continue to work. But if you are working just to build up your Social Security account, then I suggest you quit tomorrow. And that’s because you will always get more money as a dependent husband on your wife’s Social Security record than you would ever get on your own account. I’ll explain.

You need 40 Social Security credits (some people call them “quarters of coverage”) to be eligible for Social Security retirement benefits. You earn four credits per year. In other words, you need 10 years of work to qualify for your own Social Security. It sounds as if you’d have those 10 years by the time you are 62 years old. But someone who ends up with that bare minimum of one decade’s worth of credits qualifies for a very small monthly Social Security check. My guess is what it would be about $100 per month.

On the other hand, once your wife retires, you will be due anywhere between one-third and one-half of her age-66 retirement benefit rate (depending on your age at the time your wife retires). It sounds as if that will be about $700 to $1,100 per month. And that is way more than you would be due on your own account.

Let me put that another way. Let’s say you were to get your 40 credits and end up with a Social Security retirement benefit of $120 per month. And let’s further say that you were to be due $1,100 in husband’s benefits. What would happen is that you would get your own $120 and then get $980 in husband’s benefits, for a total of $1,100. Whereas if you were not to have the 40 credits and end up with no Social Security benefit of your own, you’d still end up with $1,100 in husband’s benefits. That’s why it wouldn’t pay for you to work just to build up your own Social Security.

Q: My wife and I own a successful small business. We both delayed our Social Security payments until 70. I am now 76 and receive $2,797. My wife is 71 and receives $1,632 on her

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own account. All of our current business income, about $120,000 a year, flows to me. And that extra income boosts my Social Security check by about $20 per month. Would it make sense for my wife to take some of that as her salary and let it boost her Social Security check?

A: I’m not a financial planner or a tax specialist. You’d have to consult that type of person to get a proper opinion. But from solely a Social Security perspective, it makes the most sense to continue on your present course. In other words, keep building up your Social Security check. Why? Because of the potential benefit it will have for your wife in future widow’s benefits. Chances are you are going to die before she does. And when that happens, she’ll start getting widow’s benefits. Her own benefit will be supplemented by up to 100 percent of whatever you are getting at the time of your death. For example, let’s say you died tomorrow. Your wife would get her own $1,632, and then she’d get an additional $1,165 in widow’s benefits to take her up to your $2,797 rate. So again, the higher your benefit goes the more she will get in widow’s benefits when you are gone.

Q: My 88-year-old wife recently died. We were married for 12 years. She was married before and was getting widow’s benefits on her first husband’s Social Security account. Can I get her Social Security benefits now?

A: I’m not sure what you mean by “her” Social Security benefits. If you are asking whether you can get the widow’s benefits she was receiving on her first husband’s record, then the answer is no. But if your wife had her own Social Security account, you are due widower’s benefits if the amount of those benefits exceeds what you are currently getting on your own record.

Q: In a recent column, you talked about a maximum amount of Social Security that is payable to a family. My wife and I are both about to turn 66 and plan to file for our respective Social Security benefits. According to Social Security Administration estimates, I will be due $2,550 and she will be due $2,480. Will we be impacted by this maximum amount you mentioned?

A: No, you will not. The “family maximum” I discussed in a recent column applies only to Social Security accounts involving benefits for children. If, for example, you had minor children (and surprisingly, more than a few retirees still have young kids at home), there would be a limit to how much money could be paid to those children. Those “family maximum” rules are too complicated to explain here. But that’s OK, because they don’t apply to you and your wife anyway.

Speaking of maximums, however,

you and your wife might want to consider the “file and restrict” maximizing strategy that I have discussed hundreds of times in this column. That is a procedure with which you, for example, could apply for husband’s benefits on your wife’s Social Security record and then, at 70, switch to 132 percent of your own benefit. Or you could turn

that around. Your wife could file for wife’s benefits on your account and then, when she turns 70, start getting 132 percent of her own benefit. Give that some thought.

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

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Wes regales us with stories about Jerry Garcia, the Grateful Dead, the Hells Angels, Country Joe and the Fish, Janis Joplin as we visit their houses and important landmarks.

The Hippie Movement had its “greatest moment” not in the Summer of Love, but in January 1967, with a Human “Be-In” in Golden Gate Park. It was supposed to attract a few hundred

would have some place to sleep, and left town themselves. The Diggers opened “The Switchboard” putting visitors in touch with apartments (sounds like a forerunner of Air BnB), with jobs, and provided a central place for parents to send messages to their runaway kids.

The “success” of the Summer of Love was actually the undoing of the movement, which unraveled after that, Wes explains.

The Grateful Dead left, the Hippies

San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury district has the most magnificent surviving Victorian-era homes, like the one known locally as Hippie Temptation © 2017 Karen Rubin/goingplacesfarandnear.com

people. Instead, some 20,000 turned out. The Diggers provided free food; the Hells Angels provided child care, Wes says. (Photos of the event are on view at the De Young Museum in Golden Gate Park, which this season has a special “Summer of Love Experience” exhibit.)

Kids 12 to 14 years old were running away from home to join the Haight-Ashbury scene, and they were overdosing on the ubiquitous drugs.

Dr. David Smith, who was then a 28-year old medical intern (he still lives here), decided to do something and opened a free medical clinic in June 1967, which despite Mayor Jack Shelley’s efforts to shut it down, actually still exists (as we discoverthat we are standing in front of it) and has served as the model for some 2,000 free clinics since.

As the Summer of Love event approached, the city was freaking out at what would likely be an invasion of some 50,000 (the museum says 100,000 came). Mayor Shelley shut down the clinic and the police, hoping people would be turned off from coming.

Instead, the locals who occupied those Victorian houses turned over their keys to The Diggers, so that the visitors

moved to North Bay where they created a farming commune, the Diggers disbanded.

“The Last Hurrah was the ‘Death of Hippies’ march” paralleling the “Death of Money” march which initiated the movement. The Diggers, again wearing

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dark clothing, carried another coffin, this time with a Hippie inside, covered with flowers and incense.

The Hippie Movement, they said, “was killed off by fame,” adding, “If you care about this, take what you learned and radicalize it.”

Indeed, they did: the Hippies willingness to take on the Establishment unleashed the Women’s Movement, the Civil Rights Movement, Gay Rights Movement and Peace Movement.

But Haight-Ashbury sunk further and further into decline, becoming an outright derelict and dangerous place, until the Dot.Com resurgence of San Francisco in the early 2000s, and tourism which has resurrected the

colorfully decorated shops, including Earthsong, and Amoeba (which Wes says is the world’s largest independent record-album store).

Wild San Francisco’s other tours – such as “Radical SF”, a walking tour through the Mission and Castro districts - are focused on the people’s history and social movements (there is also a historical ghost tour for good measure).

Wild San Francisco’s co-founder

Wes Leslie is a third-generation San Francisco Bay native (I admire his ring with the insignia of the Golden Gate Bridge and 3 diamonds, which he tells me was his grandfather’s, a transit driver for 3 decades). He makes “bedroom soul” music as  Wes Leslie, the Bedroom Player (wesleslie.com)

and fixes cocktails at Mrs. Jones on Market Street.

Contact Wild San Francisco Tours, 415-580-1849, http://wildsftours.com/, info@wildsftours.com

Special Tours Celebrate Summer of Love Anniversary

2017, the 50th Anniversary of the Summer of Love, is being marked with a year-long celebration of San Francisco’s counter culture with a 1960s throwback including some 60 exhibitions, performances, literary events, tribute concerts and recognition of significant moments in time.

While the Summer of Love remains a key moment in history, the free love movement can be experienced through a number of geography specific tours, neighborhoods and performances throughout the year. In addition to Wild San Francisco’s offerings, other tours include:

Flower Power Walking Tours: Walk in the footsteps of Janice Joplin and the Grateful Dead on the Haight Ashbury Flower Power Walking Tours touching on the history of it all, from rock and roll to art, fashion and architecture. (www.haightashburytour.com/)

FOOT! Fun Walking Tours: is presenting a special tour, Flashback: From the Summer of Love to the Winter of Discontent, from the highs of the summer of 1967 to the restlessness that followed. Follow in the footsteps of music legends like Janis Joplin and Jerry Garcia with this walking tour in the iconic Haight Ashbury neighborhood. (www.foottours.com).

San Francisco City Guides

Haight-Ashbury Tour : Explore streets, sidewalks, parks and vistas

that tell the story of a Victorian era resort site subsequently developed by comfortable merchants, whose gingerbread homes still grace its streets. Offered most Sundays, see website for details. Somewhat strenuous. San Francisco City Guides offers free (donations welcome), volunteer-led tours of a variety of neighborhoods, landmarks and topics. To bring eight or more walkers to a regular tour, click here for information on private group tours. (www.sfcityguides.org, tours@ sfcityguides.org.

Detour’s Walking Tour : Walk through the epicenter of the Summer of Love with Detour’s Walking Tour of the Haight, narrated by one of the activists who was at its center, Peter Coyote. ( www.detour.com/san-francisco/ haight-ashbury).

Avital Food Tours, Haight Ashbury: Did you know that local food co-ops were born out of this era? Delve into one of the world’s best food scenes to hear the stories of restaurant owners, chefs and industry experts for a culinary experience in San Francisco. Walking tours are available in iconic neighborhoods across the city including Haight Ashbury. (http://avitaltours. com/san-francisco/)

San Francisco Love Tours: Ride a VW hippie bus with San Francisco Love Tours and experience modern day San Francisco infused with the spirit of the 60’s. (http://sanfranciscolovetours. com/)

Magic Bus Experience: This twohour+ adventure, “Time Machine to the 60’s,” is a “mind-bending” combination of professional theater, film, music

and sightseeing that allows tour goers to travel back in time to the summer of 1967. The Magic Bus is an actual bus colorfully painted and filled with a sound system, micro projectors and screens that periodically lower over the windows making the bus into a moving movie theater. (http://magicbussf.com)

To help visitors plan their “trip,”

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the San Francisco Travel Association has launched a special website,  www. summeroflove2017.com, which provides an ever-expanding guide to the whole groovy scene, including events and itinerary ideas.

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visit. We make a day of it, enjoying the fresh air and each other’s company. This year we chose Prospect Park Zoo in Brooklyn and had a great time checking out the many different animals. As soon as we made our way through the zoo’s grand entrance, we saw the sea lions exhibit. We were lucky in that shortly after we arrived it was feeding time for the sea lions. What a treat it was to watch the sea lions swimming in the water and jumping for their food. In other parts of the zoo we saw kangaroos, baboons, the dingo, cows, the birds in the aviary and plenty of turtles. Prospect Park Zoo is smaller than the Queens Zoo or the Bronx Zoo but it was good to visit on a day when the sun was shining and the land was green.

Little Robin Red Breast

It’s a sure sign of spring when I see my very first robin of the season. My family, friends and I are sure to compare notes about this because it’s been a long-standing tradition for the first person in our circle to get a clap on the back and some congratulations. When I go to work and go about doing errands on weekends I temporarily forget about looking for robins until one day as I walk I see two robins standing on the grass searching for the earthworms in the dirt and looking for the insects that they can eat. I always thought that robins listened to the earthworms moving about but it turns out that they look for the earthworms. (wbu.com) These birds

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are so pretty. The male robins have a dark gray to almost black back and tail with a rust or brick-colored breast. The female is paler all over but both strike me as gorgeous, especially on quiet spring days when I am surprised to see them so close by grazing in the grass and showing off how beautiful they are.

Biking With a Friend

Once spring arrived I pulled two bicycles from the garage and a friend and I planned a short biking trip. We knew that we were rusty from the winter months when we stayed inside on cold winter days making hot chocolate and baking cookies and didn’t do any biking at all. That meant that we needed an “exercise tune up.” Before heading out, we did some gentle stretching exercises to limber up. We made Christopher Morley Park our destination and after packing our gear and some food, we headed out on the 5-mile trip. Once there we took in our beautiful surroundings and enjoyed taking some leisurely walks. We later found out that Christopher Morley was a journalist and a novelist. Born in 1890 in Bryn Mawr, Pa., he studied in Oxford, England, and married Helen Booth Fairchild in New York City. They lived in Hempstead then in Queens Village. They then moved to Philadelphia and in 1920 the Morleys made their final move, to a house they called “Green Escape” in Roslyn Estates. They remained there for the rest of his life. In 1934 Christopher Morley built a cabin at the rear of the property called the

“Knothole” which he used as his writing study. He died in 1957 and in 1961 the 98-acre Christopher Morley Park on Searingtown Rd. in Roslyn was named for him. The cabin he built, along with his bookcases and some furniture, was moved from his former house to the park for people to enjoy. My friend and I biked the 5 miles back home and felt refreshed and invigorated from our little excursion.

“No More Hibernating”

And no more couch potatoes. Now that spring is here it’s “no more hibernating” time. The cold winter days are past us and I for one have had my fill of watching movies on Netflix, catching up with books I’ve been meaning to read, sleeping late and doing some

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sewing. Now it’s time to go outside and play. It’s jump rope time and jogging time. It’s time for some long walks on the trails in a local park and for some yoga on a mat outside on the grass in a huge park surrounded by some big, old trees with some cumulous clouds floating by overhead. Sitting on my pink yoga mat, I center myself and as I breathe in and out ever so slowly, I feel all of my stress go away. I bring a green smoothie along and now that I really feel “health conscious,” it’s a good time to maintain a regular exercise program because when I do, I feel great!

Chilean poet-diplomat and politician Pablo Neruda once said:

“You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep Spring from coming.”

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APARTMENT FOR RENT

GARDEN CITY BORDER APARTMENT: Spacious, bright 2 bedroom with dining area, gated parking, laundry, A/C, hardwood floors. NO BROKER FEE, near LIRR. $1,750 + electric. ALSO 1 bedroom with balcony $1,585.00 + electric. Both available approximately June 1. www.gcbapts.com or 516-742-1101

GARDEN CITY

Sunny large 3 rooms. Freshly painted, new granite counters, 2 A/C, 1 Bed, parking. $2,100

First floor. Three rooms, 1 Bed, LR/DR combo, new EIK, A/C, Doorman. $2,400

Corner Unit. 4 rooms, 2 Bed, DR/EIK, parking. June 1. $3,200

Garden City Properties 516-746-1563 / 516-313-8504 OFFICE SPACE

GARDEN CITY

1565 FRANKLIN AVE RESERVED PARKING

Large Windowed Offices in newly built professional suite. Conference room, reception, copier, pantry included. Available June 1st. Call 516-248-3048

VACATION RENTAL

HAMPTON BAYS SUMMER RENTAL

4 Bedroom, 2 1/2 Bath, large lot in private community with private bay beach. South of Montauk Highway, close to train, restaurants, beaches and shopping.

July and/or August available. Single family only, no group rentals.

July $10,000. August $11,000. July & August $20,000.00 Call 516-426-2247 and leave a message. References / Security required.

CLASSIFIEDS Call 294.8900

REAL ESTATE FOR RENT

HAMPTONS: ON SHINNECOCK BAY

Minutes to ocean, train, stores. 2/3 Bedroom, 2 Bath house, open Kitchen. Moor your boat free.

Mem. Day to Labor Day $19,500 June $11,500 July to Labor Day $18,000 No Pets or Smokers.

References/Security required. Call 516-554-2008

OCEAN CITY, MARYLAND

Best selection of affordable rentals. Full/partial weeks. Call for FREE brochure. Open daily. Holiday Resort Services. 1-800638-2102. Online reservations: www.holidayoc.com

SAG HARBOR

SUMMER RENTAL

Upscale Community. 100’ Noyac Bay Beachfront. 3 BR, 2 Bath, LR, DR, Kitchen, Porch, Bayfront Patio, CAC, Sunsets. Available Aug-LD Call or Text 201-919-6574

SUMMER RENTAL

CANOE PLACE LANDING

A HAMPTON NEW LUXURY WATERVIEW TOWNHOUSE.

Two bedrooms, two and a half baths and waterview decks. A private gated community, heated pool and club house. Walking to Cowfish, short drive to ocean, 15 minutes to wine country. Call agent for details. 727-656-2131

REAL ESTATE FOR SALE

HOMES FOR SALE

GARDEN CITY ESTATES

Expanded Split. 3-4 Bedroom, 2.5 Bath. LR, DR, Kit, Den, 2 car garage, AC, Sprinklers. Prime block: Close to LIRR, Stratford School. Low taxes. $949,000. Principals. Owner: 516-747-1024

GARDEN CITY

Open House

Sunday, April 30 1-3pm

3 Bedrooms, 4th bedroom on third floor. Great family block in the western section. Finished basement with full bath. Close to Church and railroad. Mitsubishi split a/c units throughout the house. Low taxes, approximately $13,300.00 with STAR. Sprinklers, wood burning fireplace, kitchen has granite countertops and stainless steel appliances, hardwood floors.

38 Cambridge Avenue. $799,000.00 Call Joe 516-551-3019

REAL ESTATE FOR SALE

LOTS FOR SALE

NORTH CAROLINA MOTOR

SPEEDWAY FOR SALE

Fastest 1 mile paved race track in the world. 250 acres, 34,000 seats,m multiple uses. New cost $75 Million. Buy today for $3.750 Million. Iron Horse Properties, broker 910-997-2248

PINEHURST, NC

1,485+/- Acres For Sale. PUD plan available, Merchantable Timber, Lakes, Foxfire area with Equestrian / Golf, Road Frontage, Great Weather, Low Taxes, $6,632 per acre, $9,875 Million, Iron Horse Properties Broker 910-997-2248

WATERFRONT LAND SELL

OFF! April 29th & 30th. 16 Estate sized lakefront tracts from $89,900! Buy at a fraction of market price! Private wooded setting, spring fed lake with trophy bass! 3 hrs NYC! EZ terms avail! Call 888-479-3394 to register. NewYorkLandandLakes.com

OUT OF TOWN REAL ESTATE

SOUTHAMPTON: Long Island Noyac Road, Waterfront with dock on North Sea Harbor! 3 Br, 2 Ba, sunroom & deck. Incredible sunsets! $1.1m Owner 917-291-3067

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

LAMPS FIXED $65

In home service. Handy Howard. 646-996-7628

RAFTER ONE CARPENTRY:

Kitchens & Baths, Windows & Doors, Wainscoting & Molding, all general home repairs. References. License #H010478/Insured. Bill Ryan 516-491-6222

SKY CLEAR WINDOW and Restorations Inc. Window Restorations, Outdated Hardware, skylights, Andersen Sashes, new storm windows, wood windows, chain/rope 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

INTERIOR & EXTERIOR

PAINTING

Plastering, Taping, Sheetrock

Skim Cutting, Old Wood Refinish

Staining, Wallpaper Removal & Hanging, Paint Removal Power Washing, Wood Replacement

JOHN MIGLIACCIO

LAND WANTED: Cash buyer seeks large acreage 200+ acres in the Central/Finger Lakes and Catskills Regions of NYS. Brokers welcome. For immediate confidential response, call 607353-8068 or email info@NewYorkLandandLakes.com

SERVICES

FIX’N FLIPS, HARD MONEY

/BRIDGE LOANS, No Documents Stated Income Loans, up to 90% PP, 100% Rehab, Purchase Refinance, One-Four Units, Mixed Use, Commercial Building, 888-565-9477

Licensed & Insured #80422100000

Call John anytime: 516-901-9398 (Cell) 516-483-3669 (Office)

JV PAINT

HANDYMAN SERVICES

Interior-Exterior Specialist Painting, Wallpapering, Plastering, Spackling, Staining, Power Washing.

Nassau Lic#H3814310000 fully Insured Call John 516-741-5378

SERVICES

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

TRANSPORTATION

DRIVER AVAILABLE:

Life long resident of Garden City available to provide rides for trips to town, stores, doctor visits, any kind of ride assistance. Available Monday Saturday. Call Joe 516-650-1903

TUTORING

CHEMISTRY TUTOR: Call Jonathan, Ivy League Ph.D. AP, SAT II, Regents. I also tutor Biology, Physics, Earth & Environmental Science. itutorchem@gmail.com or 516669-0587

SERVICES

TUTORING

ELEMENTARY

TUTOR:

Elementary teacher dual certified in general and special education (Birth-6th grade) available to work with your student to support, enhance and reinforce important skills in Math & Literacy. Call Jeanine 516-2251044

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.

IVY LEAGUE GRAD TUTOR: 8+ years experience. Specialities include Physics, Chemistry, Math (all levels), SAT, SAT II. Rate $100/hr. Sessions held in Library. Skype tutoring available. Call 718-415-8118

CLASSIFIEDS Call 294.8900

SERVICES

TUTORING

MATH TUTOR: Middle & High School, Common Core Algebra, Geometry and Algebra 2. Regents and Finals prep. Contact: kjomalley91@gmail.com or 516426-8638

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

SCHOLARSHIP STUDENTS

WANTED! Leona Handelman, Half Hollow Hills Math Teacher. Empowering students K-12. Common Core and enrichment, PSAT, SAT, ACT, Regents / test prep, professional licensing exams. Free evaluation and personalized tutoring programs. 516-652-9851 or 516-627-0024

INSTRUCTION

BASEBALL INSTRUCTION

Top rated on Long Island New York State Certified Go to: coachup.com/coaches/johns-22 for reviews and info.

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

CLEANING

HOUSE CLEANING:

Experienced service, great references, reliable, English speaking. Please call Mirian at 516642-6624

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

SERVICES CLEANING

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

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

TWO LADIES EVONNE

& ROSA

HOUSEKEEPING & BABYSITTING SERVICE

Housekeeping for apartments, homes, condos. Also clean offices. Babysitting services available weekends morning or evening. Responsible & Reliable! Evonne 516-7323803 Rosa 516-499-1390 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

BABYSITTING & PET SITTING SERVICES: Garden City Mom (and teacher) is available to babysit and /or care for your pets. Available weekday and weekend evenings. References available upon request. Please call or text: 516-713-0896

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

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

FC Finishing Touch Masonry: pool coping, pool patio, driveways, sidewalks, brickwork, Belgium block, retaining walls, patios, steps, pavers, Nicolock, Cambridge, stucco, cultured stone, stone veneer. Facebook FC Finishing Touch. web: fcfinishingtouch.com Nassau H0432180000. 516-635-4315

SERVICES

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

OVERWHELMED by inefficient use of living space? Drowning in an ocean of paperwork? We create order out of Chaos. Free Consultation. Neat Freaks Lisa Marx and Randi Yerman. 917-751-0395 www.neatfreaks1976.com Instagram:organizethisnthat

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.

VOLUNTEERS NEEDED

Join the Last Hope cat rescue and adoption team! Volunteer orientations are held at our Wantagh adoption center the second Sunday of each month at 3:00 PM. Reservations not needed, but please fill out and fax a volunteer application in advance to 516-765-9181. You can download the application from our website: http:// lasthopeanimalrescue.org. Click on “How to Help”, then “Become a Volunteer!”. Our adoption center is located at 3300 Beltagh Avenue in Wantagh. We look forward to having you on our team.

Last Hope Animal Rescue’s Flea Market

Doing some spring cleaning?

Please put aside donations for Last Hope!

The next flea market and jewelry sale will be on Saturday, May 20th from 10am-2pm at The Church of the Advent in Westbury, 555 Advent Street, just off Jericho Turnpike. Donations will be accepted at the church on Friday May 19th from 2:30pm to 7pm.

After this sale, Last Hope will be on a summer hiatus. Be sure not to miss this one! The next sale won’t be until September 9th. All proceeds benefit the Special Needs Animal Fund at Last Hope.

For more information contact Maureen at toestetra@hotmail.com.

To read more about Last Hope and to see photos and bios of the beautiful, adoptable cats and kittens of all ages, colors and personalities, visit our website: http:// lasthopeanimalrescue.org

PROFESSIONAL GUIDE

May book discussions at Syosset Public Library

Book to Film Discussion

Friday, May 5. 2 PM

Showing of the film The Girl on the Train based on the novel written by Paula Hawkins.

With Lisa Hollander & Meghan Fangmann, Librarians.

This film is rated R. Free. No registration required.

Evening Book Discussion

Tuesday, May 9. 7:30 PM

When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi

With Ralph Guiteau, Readers’ Services Librarian

Free. No registration required.

20 & 30-Something Book Discussions

Monday, May 15. 7:30 PM

The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion

With Jessikah Chautin & Stacey Levine, 20 & 30-Something Librarians Free. No registration required.

Afternoon Book Discussion

Tuesday, May 23. 1:30 PM

The Pearl That Broke Its Shell by Nadia Hashimi

With Lisa Jones, Readers’ Services Librarian Free. No registration required.

Upcoming Events at Syosset Public Library

Adult Programs

Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Thursday, May 4, 2 PM. Free Presenter: Ines Powell

This art museum is in the FenwayKenmore neighborhood of Boston. Isabella Stewart Gardner (1840–1924), an American art collector, created the museum and opened it to the public in 1903. Mrs. Gardner collected over 2,500 objects, including paintings, sculpture, tapestry and decorative arts. The collection includes examples of European, Asian and American art. Among the highlights are works by Raphael, Michelangelo, Titian, Rembrandt, Manet, Whistler and Sargent.

Let’s Chat

Friday, May 5, 11 AM – 12:30 PM. Free Presenter: Joyce Tobkes, M.A.

a multi-media show.

Current Events in Perspective

Thursday, May 18 2 PM. Free. Presenter: Michael D’Innocenzo, Hofstra University Distinguished Professor Emeritus of History and Advisory Board Member, Hofstra Center for Civic Engagement, discusses many noteworthy issues, in this ongoing series.

Health Reference Program: Spinal Hygiene

Friday, May 19 at 11 AM. Free.

Presenter: Dr. Lauren Kronowitz

The Town of Oyster Bay is seeking counselors for its TOB Summer Recreation Program, Oyster Bay Town Councilwoman Michele M. Johnson announced.

“Counselors have a unique opportunity to be a part of the Town’s highly acclaimed summer recreation program,” Councilwoman Johnson said. “Applicants must be 16 years of age or older and be available for the duration of the program, which runs 9:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. from June 28 through August 11.”

Councilwoman Johnson said the six week program is extremely rewarding for the counselors and entails creating an exciting, age-grouped summer experience for kids between the ages of 4 and 12.

“The job is ideal for young people seeking to build up their resume,” Councilwoman Johnson said. “They will have the satisfaction of making a true difference in the lives of others and will have a lot of fun at the same time. Counselors get real-world experience

and, many times, they make lifelong friends in the process.”

Depending on their ages, the Town’s Summer Recreation Program participants take part in trips, tournaments, shows and athletic events, including the always popular Tobay Games. “There’s a host of activities that keep both the counselors and the participants busy and entertained,” Councilwoman Johnson said. “Being a counselor is a great first job for many young Town of Oyster Bay residents.”

Councilwoman Johnson noted that the program is held at Marjorie R. Post (Massapequa),Plainview-Old Bethpage and Syosset-Woodbury Community Parks, Ellsworth W. Allen Town Park in Farmingdale, Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Park and Beach in Oyster Bay, and Tappen Beach in Glenwood Landing.

For more information and to set up an interview, prospective counselors should contact Diane Ramos the Department of Parks Recreation Division at (516) 797-4125.

Senior peer group discussion for facing some of the challenges of growing older.

Library Board Meeting

The Syosset Public Library Board of Trustees will met at 6:30 on Tuesday, May 9, 2017. The public is welcome.

The Route of the Maya Friday, May 12 at 2 PM. Free

Presenters: Carole & Richard Witkover

Carole & Richard Witkover traveled to Central America to explore Mayan ruins and meet the modern Mayan people living in El Salvador, Honduras, Guatemala and Belize. The Mayan civilization dates from 2000 BC & reached its peak from 250-900 CE. This presentation differs significantly from the old family style slide show of the past. It is

What is spinal hygiene? Do you take care of your spine the way you do the rest of your body? Why is it important? How can you use good nutrition to better serve your spinal health? We will go over these important topics as well as weight loss and becoming healthier. Find out how chiropractic can help conditions such as torticollis, headaches, ear infections, asthma, osteoporosis and many others.

Brain Training for Everyone

Thursday, May 25 at 2 PM. Free

Presenter: Stan Newman

Stan Newman, a crossword puzzle editor for Newsday for almost 30 years, will present this program for both non-puzzle and puzzle people. Stan will introduce numerous techniques of mental calisthenics that don’t involve puzzle-solving.

For more information please call 516-921-7161 ext. 240 or see: www. syossetlibrary.org

Syosset Public Library is located at 225 South Oyster Bay Road, Syosset.

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LEGAL NOTICE

Notice of formation of FORMFICIENT LLC. Articles of organization filed with the Secretary of State of N.Y. (SSNY) on 3/14/10. Office location: Nassau County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC, 100 Belvedere Drive, Syosset, NY 11791. Purpose: Ecommerce.

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Notice of formation of Cocobare, LLC. Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State of NY (SSNY) on 01/24/2017. Office location: Nassau County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against it may be served. The Post Office address to which the SSNY shall mail a copy of any process against the LLC served upon him/her is: 7014 13th Avenue, Suite 202 Brooklyn NY 11228. The principal business address of the LLC is: 5 Noel Lane Jericho NY 11753. Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

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NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING, BUDGET VOTE AND ELECTION OF THE SYOSSET CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT

TOWN OF OYSTER BAY, NASSAU COUNTY, NEW YORK

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that a Public Hearing of the qualified voters of the Syosset Central School District, Nassau County, Syosset, New York will be held in the Auditorium of the South Woods Middle School, 99 Pell Lane, Syosset, New York, in said District on Monday, May 8, 2017 at 7:30 p.m., prevailing time, for the transaction of business as authorized by the Education Law, including the following items.

1. To present to the voters a detailed statement (proposed budget) of the amount of money that will be required for the 2017-2018 fiscal year.

2. To discuss all the items hereinafter set forth to be voted upon by voting machines at the Budget Vote and Election to be held on Tuesday, May 16, 2017.

3. To transact such other business as may properly come before the meeting pursuant to Education Law of the State of

New York and acts amendatory thereto.

AND FURTHER NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that a copy of the statement of the amount of money which will be required to fund the School District’s budget and the Syosset Public Library’s budget for 2017-2018, exclusive of public monies, may be obtained by any resident of the District between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. prevailing time beginning Tuesday, May 2, 2017 except Saturday, Sunday or holidays, at the Office of the District Clerk, South Woods Middle School, 99 Pell Lane, Syosset, New York and at the Syosset Public Library, 225 South Oyster Bay Road, Syosset, New York between the hours of 10:00 a.m. and 9:00 p.m. Monday through Thursday and 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. on Friday, beginning on Tuesday, May 2, 2017. In addition, a copy of said School District budget will be available on the District website and to any resident in the District at each schoolhouse in the District in which school is maintained, during regular school hours and on days when school is in session, other than Saturday, Sunday or holidays.

AND FURTHER NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a Real Property Tax Exemption Report, prepared in accordance with Section 495 of the Real Property Tax Law, will be annexed to any tentative/preliminary budget as well as the final adopted budget of which it will form a part; and shall be posted on District bulletin board(s) maintained for public notices, as well as on the District’s website.

AND FURTHER NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that the Board of Trustees of the Syosset Public Library will hold a public hearing for the purpose of discussion of the expenditure of funds and the budgeting thereof on Tuesday, May 9, 2017 at 6:30 p.m. at the Syosset Public Library.

AND FURTHER NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that said Budget Vote and Election, will be held on Tuesday, May 16, 2017, between the hours of 6:00 a.m. and 9:00 p.m., prevailing time, in the three (3) Election Districts, described below, at which time the polls will be opened to vote by voting machine upon the following items:

1.To adopt the annual budget of the School District for the fiscal

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year 2017-2018 and to authorize the requisite portion thereof to be raised by taxation on the taxable property of the District.

2.To present to the voters a proposition authorizing the Board of Education to expend the sum of $7,727,990.00 from the previously established “2014 Construction Capital Reserve Fund” for the purpose of performing the following capital improvements: District-wide fire alarm systems; Districtwide removal and replacement of storage tanks; District-wide removal/replacement of corridor wall glazing; District-wide replacement of interior doors; District-wide installation of security vestibules, together with all related electrical, plumbing, and construction work, all of the foregoing to include all labor, materials, equipment, apparatus and incidental costs related thereto.

3. To elect three (3) members of the Board of Education for three (3) year terms commencing July 1, 2017, and expiring on June 30, 2020.

4. To adopt the annual budget of the Syosset Public Library for the fiscal year 2017-2018 and to authorize the requisite portion thereof to be raised by taxation on the taxable property of the School District.

5. To elect one (1) member of the Library Board of Trustees for a five (5) year term commencing July 1, 2017 and expiring on June 30, 2022.

AND FURTHER NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that petitions nominating candidates for the office of member of the Board of Education and member of the Library Board of Trustees shall be filed with the Office of the District Clerk of said School District in South Woods Middle School, 99 Pell Lane, Syosset, New York, not later than 5:00 p.m., prevailing time on Monday, April 17, 2017. Vacancies on the Board of Education are not considered separate, specific offices; candidates run at large. Nominating petitions shall not describe any specific vacancy upon the Board for which the candidate is nominated; must be directed to the Office of the District Clerk; must be signed by at least 38 qualified voters of the District (representing 2% of the number of voters who voted in the previous annual election of the Board of Education); must state the name and residence of each signer and, must state the name and residence of the

candidate. Vacancies on the Library Board of Trustees shall be considered separate specific vacancies. A separate nominating petition is required to nominate a candidate to each separate specific office. Such nominating petitions shall describe the specific vacancy upon the Library Board for which the candidate is nominated; must be directed to the Office of the District Clerk; must be signed by at least 38 qualified voters of the District (representing 2% of the number of voters who voted in the previous annual election of the Library’s Board of Trustees); must state the name and residence of each signer and, must state the name and residence of the candidate. AND FURTHER NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that personal registration of voters is required, either pursuant to Section 2014 of the Education Law or pursuant to Article 5 of the Election Law. If a voter has heretofore registered pursuant to Section 2014 of the Education Law and has voted at an annual or special District meeting within the last four (4) calendar years, he or she is eligible to vote at this election. If a voter is registered and eligible to vote under Article 5 of the Election Law, he or she is also eligible to vote at this election. All other persons who wish to vote must register.

The Board of Registration will meet at Syosset High School on Wednesday, March 29, 2017 between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and noon prevailing time, at H.B. Thompson Middle School on Wednesday, April 5, 2017 between the hours of 4:00 p.m. and 8:00 p.m. prevailing time and at South Woods Middle School on Monday, May 8, 2017 between the hours of 4:00 p.m. and 8:00 p.m. for the purpose of registering all qualified voters of the District pursuant to Section 2014 of the Education Law; to add any additional names to the register to be used at the aforesaid election, at which times any person will be entitled to have his or her name placed on such register, provided that at such meeting of the Board of Registration he or she is known or proven to the satisfaction of said Board of Registration to be then or thereafter entitled to vote at such election for which the register is prepared. The register so prepared pursuant to Section 2014 of the Education Law will be filed in the Office of the

District Clerk at South Woods Middle School, 99 Pell Lane, Syosset, New York, and will be open for inspection by any qualified voter of the District beginning on Thursday, May 11, 2017, between the hours of 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. prevailing time, each day prior to the day set for the election, except Saturday, May 13, 2017 will be 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. and closed on Sunday, and at the polling place(s) on the day of the vote. AND FURTHER NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that pursuant to Section 2014 of the Education Law of the State of New York, the Board of Registration will meet on Tuesday, May 16, 2017, between the hours of 6:00 a.m. and 9:00 p.m., prevailing time, at each of the three (3) separate election districts to prepare the register of the School District to be used at the Budget Vote and Election to be held in the year 2017 and any special District meetings that may be held after the preparation of said register (not including the election on May 16, 2017), at which time any person will be entitled to have his or her name placed on such Register provided that at such meeting of said Board of Registration he or she is known or proven to the satisfaction of such Board of Registration to be then or thereafter entitled to vote at the school election for which said register is prepared, or any special District meeting held after May 16, 2017. AND FURTHER NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that applications for absentee ballots are available on the District website and also are obtainable during school business hours from the Office of the District Clerk at South Woods Middle School, 99 Pell Lane, Syosset, New York. To obtain a ballot by mail, completed applications must be received by the Office of the District Clerk at least seven (7) days before the election. To obtain a ballot in person, the completed application must be delivered to the Office of the District Clerk no later than the day before the election, Monday, May 15, 2017. Absentee ballots must be received by the Office of the District Clerk not later than 5:00 p.m., prevailing time, on Tuesday, May 16, 2017.

A list of persons to whom the absentee ballots are issued will be available for inspection to qualified voters of the District in the Office of the District Clerk on and after Thursday,

May 11, 2017, between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m., prevailing time, each day prior to the day set for the election and on May 16, 2017, the day set for the election, except that hours for inspection on Saturday, May 13, 2017 will be 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. and the Office of the District Clerk will be closed on Sunday, May 14, 2017. Any qualified voter may object to the voting of the ballot upon appropriate grounds by making his/her challenge and the reasons therefore known to the Inspector of Election before the close of the polls.

AND FURTHER NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that pursuant to a rule adopted by the Board of Education in accordance with Section 2035 of the Education Law, any referenda or propositions to amend the budget, or otherwise to be submitted for voting at said election, must be filed with the Office of the District Clerk of the Board of Education at South Woods Middle School, 99 Pell Lane, Syosset, New York, during the hours of 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., prevailing time, by Monday, April 17, 2017, except as to a question or proposition required by law to be stated in the published or posted notice of the meeting which shall be filed in sufficient time to permit notice of the proposition to be included with the Notice of the Public Hearing, Budget Vote and Election required by Section 2004 of the Education Law; must be typed or printed in the English language; must be directed to Office of the District Clerk; must be signed by at least 97 qualified voters of the District (representing 5% of the number of voters who voted in the previous annual election of the Board of Education); and must legibly state the name of each signer. However, the School Board will not entertain any petition to place before the voters any proposition the purpose of which is not within the powers of the voters to determine, which is unlawful, or any proposition which fails to include a specific appropriation where the expenditure of monies is required by the proposition, or where other valid reason exists for excluding the proposition from the ballot. AND FURTHER NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that Election Districts have been established in the School District. The boundaries of the Election

District are as follows:

Election District 13: Residents who live in the Robbins Lane and South Grove elementary school attendance zones will vote at Robbins Lane Elementary School, 157 Robbins Lane, Syosset, New York.

Election District 22: Residents who live in the A.P. Willits and Baylis elementary school attendance zones will vote at H.B. Thompson Middle School, 98 Ann Drive, Syosset, New York.

Election District 23: Residents who live in the Walt Whitman, Berry Hill and Village elementary school attendance zones will vote at Syosset High School, 70 Southwoods Road, Syosset, New York.

Ms. Francine Benjamin, District Clerk SYO 4039 4X 03/31,04/07,04/28,05/12

NOTICE OF SALE

SUPREME COURT COUNTY OF NASSAU

LNV CORPORATION, Plaintiff AGAINST ALLISON ALBERT, et al.,

Defendant(s)

Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale duly dated August 03, 2016 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 May 16, 2017 at 11:30AM, premises known as 106 IRA ROAD, SYOSSET, NY 11791. All that certain plot piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements erected, situate, lying and being at Syosset, Town of Oyster Bay and County of Nassau and State of New York, SECTION 15, BLOCK 105, LOT 0008. Approximate amount of judgment $523,429.26 plus interest and costs. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment for Index# 851/2012.

Francis X. Mcquade, Esq., Referee

Gross Polowy, LLC

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

SYO 4041

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NOTICE OF SALE

SUPREME COURT: NASSAU COUNTY. THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON F/K/A THE BANK OF NEW YORK AS TRUSTEE FOR THE CERTIFICATEHOLDERS

LEGAL NOTICES

OF CWMBS, INC., CHL MORTGAGE PASSTHROUGH TRUST 2007-10, MORTGAGE PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES, SERIES 200710, Pltf. vs. NICK KOULETTAS, et al, Defts. Index #011111/11. Pursuant to judgment of foreclosure and sale dated Aug. 30, 2016, I will sell at public auction on Tuesday, May 16, 2017, at 11:30 a.m. in the Calendar Control Part (CCP) Courtroom of the Supreme Court, 100 Supreme Court Dr., Mineola, NY prem. k/a 7 Berkley Lane, Syosset, NY a/k/a Section 12, Block 483, Lot 6. Said property beginning at a point on the easterly side of Bluebird Lane (Ronald Lane), distant 80.34 ft. southerly from the southerly end of a curve having a radius of 33.26 ft. and a length of 36.01 ft. which curve connects the easterly side of Bluebird Lane with the southeasterly side of Carolyn Court (Carol Street), being a plot 100 ft. x 75 ft. Approx. amt. of judgment is $748,700.02 plus costs and interest. This is a First Mortgage. Sold subject to terms and conditions of filed judgment and terms of sale. KAREN GRANT, Referee. DRUCKMAN LAW

GROUP, PLLC, Attys. for Pltf., 242 Drexel Ave., Westbury, NY. File No. 25772 - #91341

SYO 4043

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NOTICE OF PUBLIC MEETING BY THE ZONING BOARD OF APPEALS

Pursuant to the provisions of Chapter 246, Article III, Section 246-18-E of the Code of the Town of Oyster Bay, notice is hereby given that the Zoning Board of Appeals has scheduled a public meeting, which will take place in the Town Hall Meeting Room, Audrey Avenue, Oyster Bay, New York, on MAY 4, 2017, at 7:00 P.M., to consider the following appeals: BY ORDER OF THE ZONING BOARD OF APPEALS

APPEAL NO. 17-191

SYOSSET

MICHAEL & KIM JANUS:

Variance to allow existing 20.12 ft. by 9.20 ft. rear raised composite deck with stair having less rear yard setback and exceeding maximum lot coverage than permitted by Ordinance.

S/s/o Circle Dr., 163.94 ft. W/o Lincrest St., a/k/a 28 Circle Drive, Syosset, NY APRIL 24, 2017

BY ORDER OF THE ZONING BOARD OF APPEALS

TOWN OF OYSTER BAY, OYSTER BAY, NEW YORK

SYO 4044

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NOTICE TO FIRMS PROVIDING ACCOUNTING SERVICES

GENERAL INFORMATION AND REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS FOR ACCOUNTING SERVICES

The SYOSSET CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT is issuing this Request for Proposals (RFP) for the selection of a firm or individuals to perform Accounting Services. You are invited to submit a proposal in accordance with this RFP. Proposals must be received no later than FRIDAY, May 5, 2017 @ 11:00 A.M. at the Business Office of the Syosset Central School District, located at South Wood Middle School, 99 Pell Lane, Syosset, NY 11791. Late proposals will be returned unopened. RFP booklets may be obtained by contacting Gail Knoph, Purchasing Agent at 516 8378954 or between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 3:30 p.m. daily, except Saturdays, Sundays & Holidays.

An original and one copy of the proposal is required. To prevent opening by unauthorized individuals, your proposal should be identified on the envelope or other wrapper as follows:

“PROPOSAL – ACCOUNTING SERVICES FOR SYOSSET CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT”

Proposals should be addressed to:

Gail Knoph

Purchasing Agent

Syosset Central School District Business Office

South Woods Middle School 99 Pell Lane Syosset, NY 11791 BY ORDER OF: Syosset CSD 99 PELL LANE SYOSSET, NY 11791

SYO 4045

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NOTICE OF ANNUAL MEETING FOR BUDGET VOTE, CAPITAL RESERVE PROPOSITIONS AND ELECTION FOR THE JERICHO UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT AND THE JERICHO PUBLIC LIBRARY MAY 16, 2017 OF JERICHO UNION FREE

SCHOOL DISTRICT NASSAU COUNTY, NEW YORK

NOTICE is hereby given to the qualified voters of Jericho Union Free School District, Nassau County, New York, that the annual budget and election vote meeting of said school district will be held in the Gymnasium of Jericho High School, Cedar Swamp Road, Jericho, New York, on Tuesday, May 16, 2017 between 6:00 A.M. and 9:00 P.M.

NOTICE is hereby given that the public hearing on the proposed budget of the school district will be held on Tuesday, May 9, 2017 in the Little Theatre of Jericho High School, Cedar Swamp Road, Jericho, New York, at 7:30 P.M.

NOTICE is given that a copy of the statements of the amount of money required for the ensuing year for school purposes and library purposes may be obtained by any qualified voter in the District at each schoolhouse and at the Office of the District Clerk, between the hours of 10:00 A.M. and 2:00 P.M. on each day other than Saturday, Sunday or holiday during the fourteen days immediately preceding such Budget Election Voting.

Voting will be held for the following purposes:

1. To elect two (2) members of the Board of Education for a three (3) year term commencing July 1, 2017 and expiring June 30, 2020 and one (1) member of the Board of Education for the balance of an unexpired term commencing May 16, 2017 and expiring June 30, 2019.

2. To vote upon the appropriation of funds to meet the estimated expenditures of the District for school purposes for the school year beginning July 1, 2017 and authorize the levy of necessary taxes therefore; said matter to be presented on the voting machines as Proposition No. 1.

3. To vote upon the expenditure from the Capital Reserve Fund known as ”Facilities Improvement Program II –Jericho Public Schools” said matter to be presented as Proposition No. 2 as follows: SHALL the Board of Education be authorized to expend a sum not to exceed $9,301,260 from the capital reserve fund known as “Facilities Improvement Program II – Jericho Public Schools” established on May 19,

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2015 for the purpose of completing capital improvements as follows: District-wide repairs, replacements, upgrades, installations such as: flooring, ceiling and lighting, air handling and ventilation; Burner replacements at the Jackson and Cantiague Elementary Schools; Air conditioning for Seaman Elementary School gymnasium; Replacement of exterior/ interior doors/frames/hardware at Jackson Elementary School; Replace exterior/interior doors/frames/hardware and install new cross corridor doors at Jericho High/Middle School; Demolish existing and construct new work/storage building at maintenance facility; Boiler and generator replacement and lighting/ plumbing/sanitary system/ masonry/asphalt replacement/ upgrades at the transportation and buildings and grounds facilities; Renovation of the home and careers science labs at the Jericho High/Middle School. All of the foregoing to include all labor, materials, equipment apparatus and incidental costs associated therewith.

4. To vote upon the establishment of a Capital Reserve Fund; said matter to be presented as Proposition No. 3 as follows: SHALL the Board of Education, pursuant to Education Law section 3651, be authorized to establish a Capital Reserve Fund known as the “Facilities Improvement Program III –Jericho Public Schools” for the purpose of district-wide replacements, renovations, upgrades, reconstruction, additions, and remediation of: roofs, exhaust fans, windows, masonry, doors, stairs, elevators, ceilings, lightings, plumbing,

bathrooms, ADA compliance, classrooms, labs casework, cafeteria/kitchen, electrical service, HVAC units, air handling, unit ventilators, security, emergency generators, energy efficiency projects, additional new space/new building additions, site-work, pavement, curbs, sidewalks, courtyard, athletic fields, tennis courts, stadium lighting, bleacher/concession stands, playgrounds, lockers, locker room, gymnasium, pool, weight room, technology/communication, hazardous material remediation, bus garage, auditoriums, storage, furnishings and equipment incidental to said projects. The maximum amount of the aforesaid Capital Reserve Fund shall be $20 million, plus investment income. The term is to be 10 years; the funds are to be transferred from surplus monies remaining in the general fund and/ or from existing reserves as allowed by General Municipal and Education Law including a sum not to exceed $10 million from the 2016-2017 budget and thereafter not more than $10 million for each remaining year of the probable term until the maximum amount of $20 million is reached. Upon the establishment and funding of said reserve, the Superintendent of Schools or his/her designee shall be directed to deposit monies of this reserve fund in a separate bank account to be known as the “Facilities Improvement Program III – Jericho Public Schools.” Upon the establishment and funding of said reserve, the Superintendent of Schools or his/her designee shall be authorized to invest, from time to time, the monies of this fund pursuant to section 1723-a of the Education Law. Candidates for the office

Education may be nominated only by petition directed to the District Clerk signed by twenty-five (25) qualified voters, stating the name and residence of each candidate, who must have been a resident of the District for at least one year prior to election. Sample form of petition may be obtained from the District Clerk. Pursuant to a proposition heretofore adopted by the voters of this District, vacancies upon the Board of Education shall not be considered separate, specific offices, and nominating petitions shall not describe any specific vacancy upon the Board of Education for which the candidate is nominated. Each petition shall be filed with the District Clerk on or before April 17, 2017 between 9:00 A.M. and 5:00 P.M.

NOTICE is given that the Annual Election of the Jericho Public Library will be held in the Gymnasium of the Jericho High School on Tuesday, MAY 16, 2017 between 6:00 A.M. and 9:00 P.M. for the following purposes:

1. To elect one (1) member of the Board of Trustees for a full term of five (5) years commencing July 1, 2017 and expiring June 30, 2022, one (1) member of the Board of Trustees for the balance of an unexpired term commencing May 16, 2017 and expiring June 30, 2019, and one (1) member of the Board of Trustees for the balance of an unexpired term commencing May 16, 2017 and expiring June 30, 2021.

2. To vote upon the appropriation of funds to meet the estimated expenditures of the Public Library purposes for the school year beginning July 1, 2017 and authorize the levy of necessary taxes therefore, said matter to be presented on the voting machines as Proposition

Candidates for the office of Library Trustee may be nominated only by petitions directed to the District Clerk, signed by at least twenty-five (25) qualified voters, stating residence of each signed and the name and residence of each candidate. Each petition shall be filed with the District Clerk on or before April 17, 2017 between 9:00 A.M. and 5:00 P.M. The name of the last incumbent shall not be set forth on the petition for the Library Trustee.

PLEASE TAKE FURTHER

NOTICE that only persons who are qualified voters as of MAY 16, 2017 shall be permitted to vote at the election to be held on MAY 16, 2017 on matters affecting the School District and the Jericho Public Library, as herein above set forth.

A qualified voter is defined as follows: A citizen of the United States, who is eighteen (18) years of age or over, and has been a resident of the District for thirty (30) days or more next preceding the meeting on which he/she offers to vote. Persons disqualified from voting under provisions of Section 5-106 of the Election Law are not eligible to vote in school district elections.

The School District may require all persons offering to vote at the budget vote and election to provide one form of proof of residency pursuant to Education Law Section 2018c. Such form may include a driver’s license, a non-driver identification card, a utility bill or a voter registration card. Upon offer of proof of residency, the School District may also require all persons offering to vote to provide their signature, printed name and address.

ABSENTEE

BALLOTS-

Application for an absentee ballot may be made at the Office of the District Clerk. Such appli-

cation must be received by the District Clerk at least seven days before the day of the vote, if the ballot is mailed to the voter, or by the day before the day of the vote, if the ballot is delivered personally to the voter. A list of all persons to whom absentee ballots shall have been issued will be available in the Office of the District Clerk during regular business hours.

BY ORDER OF THE BOARD OF EDUCATION

William Ferro, President Barbara Krieger, Vice President Jill Citron Daborah Lee

Gina Levy

JNJ 7845 rev 3X 04/14,28,05/12

LEGAL NOTICE

Notice of formation of Kessman LLC

Purpose of LLC is Real Estate Investments.

Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State of New York on August 25th, 2014. County location is Nassau County. Secretary of State of New York is designated for service of process. Secretary of State of New York shall mail copy of any process served against KESSMAN LLC to Steven Kessler, 11 Hedgerow Lane, Jericho, NY 11753. KESSMAN LLC designates Steven Kessler, 11 Hedgerow Lane, Jericho, NY 11753, as its registered agent upon process against it may be served within the State of New York. The existence of KESSMAN LLC begins upon filing of these Articles of Organization with the Department of State. KESSMAN LLC shall have a perpetual existence.

JNJ 7846

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Friday, April 28, 2017

Woodbury resident runs for Oyster Bay Town Supervisor

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position for over thirty years at NSLIJ, teaching residents in the dental field.

Herman said about his team running on the Democratic party line, that “sometimes a person needs to stand on the shoulders of giants to see farther.

With the four of us collaborating, we make for a better team. To me it’s not about Democrats versus Republicans, it’s about corruption versus honesty. It is the government for the people by the people, not the other way around.”

Syosset named “Best Community for Music

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versity of Kansas.

“This is a wonderful distinction for our program because it is an award that recognizes the Syosset community’s commitment to music education” said Syosset CSD Coordinator of Fine and Performing Arts, K-12 Michael

Salzman. “Syosset has long recognized the importance of music education in the lives of its young people. We have great teachers and talented students, all of whom achieve excellence because of the level of community support for music education found in Syosset.

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A Free Community eduCAtion SeminAr

Stroke AwAreneSS FAir

Free Stroke riSk ASSeSSment & Lecture

During National Stroke Awareness Month, attend our Stroke Awareness Fair, get a free risk assessment, and learn how to spot a stroke FAST.

Following the assessments, Shazia Alam, DO, Director, Neurohospitalist & Stroke Services and Attending Vascular Neurologist at NYU Winthrop Hospital will explain risk factors, prevention, the different types of stroke, and advances in treatment.

Representatives from hospital and community resources will be available to provide information about a variety of services.

Thursday, May 11, 2017

6 pm Assessments - 7 pm Seminar

Winthrop Research & Academic Center 101 Mineola Blvd. (corner of Second Street in Mineola)

Admission is free, but space is limited Please call (516) 663-3916 for reservations.

Town Supervisor at Chamber meeting

Oyster Bay Town Supervisor Joseph S. Saladino (second from left) and Oyster Bay Town Councilman Louis B. Imbroto (right), were recently welcomed at a meeting hosted by the Plainview-Old Bethpage Chamber of Commerce. Supervisor Saladino and Councilman Imbroto met with members in an effort to further a strong working relationship and to discuss opportunities to better businesses in our communities and to strengthen the relationship with the organizations within the Town. Supervisor Saladino was the featured guest speaker and shared his plans for the future of the town with members and guests.

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