The Garden City News

Friday, August 4, 2017

Vol. 93, No.46

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Former Golf Club caddy files suits over lewd behavior, wages

JUMPING INTO SUMMER

BY RIKKI N. MASSAND

This past week Brownie Troop 1242 had a special summer get together at the Garden City Pool. The girls were excited to spend time together playing mini golf, swimming and catching up with one another.

Village to commemorate WWI 100th anniversary At noon on Saturday, August 12, Garden City will host a commemoration of the 100-year anniversary of the United States’ entry into World War I. The village is preparing for a large-scale event with a crowd coming from around the country. The event has drawn interest from veterans of the Rainbow Division, which was stationed in what is now the eastern section of Garden City.

The ceremony will take place at the Village’s 1941 monument, situated in a triangular strip off St. James Street South and Clinton Road, near Commercial Avenue.

Retired Major General Joseph J. Taluto spoke with

The Garden City News via telephone on Tuesday, August 1. He says distinguished invitees for August 12 include local leaders from the entire village administration and Board of Trustees to U.S. Congresswoman Kathleen Rice and State Senator Kemp Hannon, each longtime Garden City residents, as well as Town of Hempstead Supervisor Anthony Santino and Nassau County Executive Ed Mangano.

“The host of the ceremony of course is Garden City but the organizer is the Rainbow Division Veterans Foundation.

It was our initiative to get this ceremony put together and we coordinated with the village to bring this all together. We have

a lot of local officials invited, the commanding general of the 42nd Division will attend, and veterans’ organizations will be on hand. I was even contacted by the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) group in the area and they will hand out flowers and remembrances,” Taluto said.

Another honorable guest will be a New York State representative of the national World War I Commission. Details of the August 12 event and elaborate background of its sponsoring organization, the Rainbow Division Veterans Foundation, are online at RainbowVets.org.

On August 1 the village conSee page 36

Two federal lawsuits have been brought by a former caddy at the Garden City Golf Club. One suit, which was filed last month,ellette, behaved in a sexually lewd manner to one of the caddies, and that such behavior was racially and sexual harassment.

A second lawsuit was filed by the caddy in October 2016, claiming that caddies at the club did not receive proper compensation for their hours worked, or receive basic worker protections. The plaintiff in that suit has asked the court to make the case a class action representing current and past caddies. Both suits have been filed in United States District Court.

In the more recent suit, filed on July 17th, veteran caddy Robert Lee Wiggins claims he was asleep “on an approved break” one day in or around September of 2015. The suit states Ouellette then posed next to “the sleeping and unsuspecting plaintiff.” The suit says that Ouellette made a sexually explicit gesture towards the face of the sleeping caddy and a photo taken by another caddy at the club was posted online a month later. According to Wiggins, that’s when he learned of the apparent “prank” played on him at work.

One of the attorneys for Wiggins is Anthony V. Merrill of Frank & Associates, P.C. “the workplace litigation law firm.” He spoke with The Garden City News over the phone on August 1 and said Wiggins could not continue working at Garden City Golf Club as he could not bear to face his coworkers and golfers he caddies for.

The Garden City Golf Club is also known as “Garden City Mens Club” as it doesn’t allow female members.

The case names Garden City Golf Club and George Ouellette as the defendants. “At all relevant times, defendant Ouellette was the caddy manager of the Garden City Golf Club and is directly responsible for the management and oversight of the work performed by the club’s caddies….at all times, defendant Ouellette controlled plaintiff’s schedule, pairing plaintiff with golfers at his sole discretion.

The News asked Merrill why another caddy who is presumed to have taken the picture is not named in the lawsuit. In 2015 the News received a call and an email with the now-infamous photo, but details were unverifiable and there was no case filed against Garden City Golf Club until the wage case in October 2016. Merrill says the club is accountable for what happened.

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A WORD FROM THE PUBLISHER

Why publish that story?

Our lead story this week is about a lawsuit that was filed against the Garden City Golf Club by a former caddy who claims that he was harassed while employed there.

We actually had been aware of the allegations over a year ago when someone else, purporting to be another caddy, sent us a copy of a sexually explicit photo. He claimed that it showed that there was racial and sexual harassment taking place at the club.

However, when we tried to arrange an interview with him he abruptly ceased communication.

Since there was no way to verify the authenticity of the photo we decided that there was really no story to tell.

However, since the caddy in the photo has since come forward and filed

a lawsuit against the club, that has changed. We don't have an opinion on the case - we'll leave it up to the court system to make that determination. But we suspect that some readers won't like the fact that we've covered this story.

While the topic is clearly not "family friendly" we've tried to cover the facts in a relatively delicate manner. We're certainly not going to be publishing the picture, even in a censored manner.

We'll leave it up to our readers imagination (or online research skills) if they want more detail.

At the same time, the fact that the club is facing two major law suits is relevant information to the club's members and the community as a whole.

And that's why we have covered the story the way we did.

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St. Paul’s Revisited

To the Editor: Didn’t we all vote to SAVE St. Paul’s a few years ago? Now we want to gut it? Looks like we already spent a lot of money on lighting. If it is such a beast, why are we highlighting it after dark? I have a plan, let’s start with all the top floors. Mothball them or rent them out for storage. Now take the first floor. Ask the big stock brokerages in town if they would like to help pay to renovate the two main parlors off the front door. Then they can hang a big brass plaque with their names on it.

Let them have as many wealth gathering seminars as they want there. I bet they would get big crowds just out of curiosity. When not in use, it reverts to Village use. We could have cocktail party fund raisers. Get a band to play or maybe some clowns. We could also use the field house for a larger fundraising venue. Now let’s move on to the Chapel with Tiffany stained glass windows. If you opened it up to the public, I bet you would get people wanting to have their weddings there, and guess what is right below the Chapel? A dining hall where we all ate lunch back in the day. I bet you could get a concession in there who could make a profit.

Did anyone ever contact the Montauk Playhouse as Ron Hildreth had suggested about ten years ago? I was told the whole fund raising effort was started by the lady that runs the laundromat in town. How did she do it? One of the great mysteries in life. We can’t figure this out? Really?

Check it out: http://www. montaukplayhouse.org/ Robert Reid

Backlash because there’s no cash

To the Editor: Andrew Cuomo flew to Washington this week and no he didn’t take the train because he never takes the train.

Cuomo flew down to Washington to beg President Trump for money to fix NYC’s subway system and to build the

Gateway tunnel. You are in charge of the MTA , right? I didn’t see DeBlasio flying down to Washington so my money is on you, baby. You haven’t been to Washington in four years but you need more money so you flew down to see the President. You’d be a really bad first date. You want fed money now because state money just isn’t enough for you.

Where are you going to get the money to do the LIRR Third Track? Why did you force the New York State Legislator to pass your last ditch “I will put it in, now I will withdraw it 2 billion dollar third track amendment.” It’s the hokey pokey dance. It’s shell game time. It’s not nice to sell sand in the desert or snow in the winter. I know you are going to try to float bonds to try to pay for your LIRR Third Track, raise fares, and get more money from the hard working taxpayers for your unnecessary Third Track project. We all know where the bottleneck is, Andrew, and it’s not between Floral Park and Hicksville. No one is even using your extra ferries and buses to get to work during your so called “summer from hell.” The LIRR put extra cars on their existing trains and ran more trains outside of rush hour and bam the LIRR’s problem is solved.

Also people work from home nowadays. I am sure you work from home.

Also remember this kiddo: AMC which means Add More Cars. Bam, your problem is solved.

Karen Reiter

Support Historical Society’s idea

To the Editor: I disagree with the proposed use of St. Paul’s as a facade for turf fields.

We already have athletic facilities and fields. However we really need a cultural institution that could educate our children and grandchildren about the history of their beautiful hometown.

The Garden City Historical Society does not want St. Paul’s to lose its position on the National Register of Historical Places.

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On Father’s Day weekend at the Jay Gallagher tournament, a bone marrow drive was held for the National Marrow Donor Program.

Seven kind individuals read the consents, completed cheek swabs, and agreed to join the registry. They will have their DNA tested for bone marrow markers and their names will be placed on a list of available donors. These donors may save a life. When usual medical treatments fail, or in the case of

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The event was made possible thanks to Dr. Randi for including the drive at the tournament, the Be The Match organization, GC Tent for donating chairs, those who volunteered to help with the event, and the Cancer Center for Kids.

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GCHS’s Heart to Heart Club makes life better

On June 20th, members of Garden City High School’s Heart to Heart Club set up a reading nook at the Westbrook Preparatory School, a residential school that is part of the SCO Family of Services. “We ran a book drive in the spring and collected donations of a rung, lamps, room décor, and book shelves,” said advisor and high school English teacher Amy Regis. “We are proud of the club’s work and especially of the members who volunteered that day.”

Pictured here with the reading nook they set up at the school are (left to right): Alex Bensen and Chase Gladd (standing), and Abby Cox, Claire Castellano, Alexandra Michael, and Jenny Ban.

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Pink Aid-LI grant helps uninsured breast cancer patients

The Adelphi NY Statewide Breast Cancer Program is the recipient of a grant from the Pink Aid-LI Chapter.

This grant helps fund the salary of a bilingual social worker who provides counseling, patient navigation and support services at Nassau University Medical Center and the Adelphi Breast Cancer Program to uninsured and underinsured Nassau and Suffolk County patients diagnosed with breast cancer. The grant also allows the Adelphi Breast Cancer Program to support non-medical emergent needs for uninsured or underinsured Nassau and Suffolk County patients and their families while undergoing treatment and/or post-operative care for breast cancer. These services include transportation to and from treatment, wigs and other prosthesis, grocery cards and assistance with household bills.

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Laurie Cohen and Michele Pincus (on both ends) members of the Pink Aid - LI Advisory Council present the award check to Reyna Machado, Hillary Rutter, Angela Papalia and Lois Goetz (staff at the Adelphi Breast Cancer Program). The grant helps bilingual social workers provide counseling, patient navigation and support services at Nassau University Medical Center. established in 1980, offers free emotional support and information for breast cancer patients, professionals and the community. The hotline can be reached at 800-877-8077.

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THE VIEW FROM HERE

On Turning 65

BY BOB MORGAN, JR.

GCHS student honored by DA

Mairead Pfaff, of Garden City High School was awarded the Nassau County District Attorney’s prestigious SHIELD Award. District Attorney Madeline Singas, who developed the award, honored Mairead Pfaff at a ceremony in the court house on June 28 in Mineola. The SHIELD Award is presented to the senior or junior who, selected by the school, showed outstanding strength of character, commitment to self-growth and the spirit and initiative to bring about positive change in their community.

In a few days, I will be attaining the rather ripe old age of 65. Like it or not, I will be eligible for Medicare and more senior citizen discounts.

A few thoughts on this rather dubious milestone.

When I was younger, I thought that old people felt, well, old. But now that I am on the cusp of being included in the elderly group, I find that this really isn’t the case.

Although there are some more than obvious signs of physical decline (to take one of many, my eyesight isn’t nearly as good as it was 40 years ago), overall I don’t feel much different than I have in recent years.

While I can’t stay up until 2 and in the morning and then rally for work, as I could in my twenties, I don’t feel the need to pack it in early in the evening either. So far, thank God, I have been blessed with good health. As I mentioned a few months ago, I have gone on a major diet and that has increased my energy and also improved my sleep. I actually take fewer naps than I did five or ten years ago.

I also don’t have any immediate plans to retire. I like what I do as an attorney and I like the opportunity to engage in political and community activities as well as to write this column. I guess the time to end my business career will come in the next few years, but I really would have to rethink how I spend my day. Working provides considerable structure in my life. I certainly don’t feel ready for a retirement community or the 4:30 blue plate dinner special.

On the other hand, a colleague who retired a few years ago at age 64, an avid skier and golfer, had something of a point when he said that he would be able to enjoy his pastimes far better at his chosen retirement age than he ever would

ten years later. I’m not nearly as athletic as this fellow, but it does make sense to take advantage of retirement years. So I I’m not planning on working to the end.

I don’t think you get smarter as you get older, but it is possible that you get wiser. At a minimum I feel like I am less excitable than I was in my younger day and significantly more patient, with more of an inclination to give people the benefit of the doubt. I also like to think that the advice you give gets better with age.

Obviously, I don’t know what the future will bring. I don’t discuss my personal life in this column (I will mention if I or a family member gets married or engaged, but that’s it).

However, it would be nice to spend my older years remarried to someone special, but that remains to be seen. It has been the source of considerable gratification that my son, now 23, has turned into a mature and thoughtful young man.

Of course, there is also a grim reality associated with turning 65, which cannot be wiped away by sugar-plated terms like senior citizen or golden years. Mortality (ok, death) is not that far away. According to the actuary table, the life expectancy for a 65 year old male is 17.9 years, still a while away, but only as close to now as 1999. Yes, the actuary table is just a mathematical estimate, but, putting aside religious beliefs, no one has ever left the planet alive.

At some point, like everyone else, I will be just a memory, hopefully later rather than sooner.

I want to enjoy the experience of the years to come, but I also want those who remember me to believe that I made at least some positive impact on their lives and on the community as a whole. And, yes, I’m looking forward to a birthday drink.

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BY GABBY TABBY Passenger ditches fare: On July 27th a taxi driver reported that he transported a female passenger from Manhattan to 6th Street. He further stated when he arrived at 6th Street, the passenger exited the vehicle and fled the scene without paying the fare.

Power outages: On July 27th Garden City Police responded to multiple traffic light malfunctions in the central section of the Village due to local power outages.

Hit and run: On July 27th officers investigated a report of a vehicle leaving the scene after striking and damaging an unoccupied vehicle parked in Parking Field #5.

Scofflaw: On July 28th a vehicle determined to be a Garden City Court scofflaw due to unpaid parking tickets was impounded on 2nd Street.

Carbon monoxide alarm: On July 28th Garden City Police assisted the Garden City Fire Department who responded to a 7th Street business for a carbon monoxide alarm activation.

Bike stolen: On July 29th a locked

bicycle was reported stolen from the rear of the Healthtrax Fitness and Wellness Center.

Gates down: On July 30th Garden City Police officers responded to the New Hyde Park Main Line Railroad Crossing for a report of a gate malfunction.

Gas odor: On July 28th Garden City Police assisted the Garden City Fire Department for a call for an odor of gas on Franklin Avenue. The cause of the odor was determined to be from a leaking pipe underground. PSEG work crews responded to repair the leak.

Excessive speed: On July 30th a vehicle was stopped by an officer for excessive speed on Cathedral Avenue at 4th Street. Upon investigation, the driver, a 22 year old Queens man, was charged with driving with a suspended license and speeding.

Carbon monoxide alarm: On July 30th Garden City Firefighters and Police responded to a Harvard Street residence for a carbon monox-

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Arrest in car theft: On July 30th Nassau County Police Detectives arrested an 18 year old Queens man for the alleged theft of a vehicle from a 5th Street residence on July 20th.

Identity theft: On July 31st Garden City Police investigated a report of identity theft in which two unauthorized charges totaling $860 were made

against a resident’s credit card.

Credit card fraud: On August 1st police investigated a report in which a computer valued at $2,800 was purchased by someone using a resident’s credit card number without authorization.

Railroad gates down: On August 1st Officers responded to a railroad gate malfunction at the Cathedral Avenue crossing.

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GC Library to host blood drive Long Island Blood Services will hold a blood drive in their Blood Mobile in front of the Garden City Public Library located at 60 Seventh Street, Garden City on Tuesday, August 8, from 2:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.

All donors will receive an electronic voucher for two tickets to see the New York Mets at Citifield.

Area hospitals are in need of local residents’ help. Each donation can help to save up to three lives. Eligible donors must be between 16 and 75 years of age, with a minimum weight of 110 lbs., and no tattoos within the past 12 months. Sixteen year olds must have

parental permission and donors age 76 and over must present a doctor’s note.

All donors must have valid ID with signature or photo. Donors are encouraged to eat well (low fat) and drink fluids. For medical questions concerning blood donations, call 1-800-688-0900.

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GARDEN CITY UPDATE - NEWS AND INFORMATION As previously announced, the Board of Trustees and the Village Staff have embarked on new methods and procedures to communicate with members of our community, including our residents, commercial tenants and landlords, visitors, friends at Adelphi and local merchants. We are no longer publishing the “Mayor’s Column.” This weekly column is intended to advise our residents and community of matters that the Village is working on, events and other important information. And of course, please visit our website for additional information: www.gardencityny.net. We are constantly updating and making changes to the website in order to keep it relevant and provide new information. We also encourage you to attend Village Board of Trustees meetings. See the schedule of meetings on our website.

Building Dept. digitization project

To date, the vendor has scanned more than 100,000 documents. The vendor is still scanning older, delicate files which take more prep time to properly scan, however, the vendor is still on track in completing phase one within eight months or less, as required by the RFP. The scanning vendor is coordinating with the software vendor to ensure the files are properly tagged as required in order for the parcel software to upload the scanned documents in their appropriate locations.

The Department has also processed multiple F.O.I.L. (Freedom Of Information Law) requests and delivered them in digital format since the project has commenced. “The files have been well received by residents & contractors thus far,” Building Superintendent Ausberto Huertas Jr said.

Rainbow Monument Centennial

Residents are cordially invited to attend the 100th Anniversary of the 42nd Division’s establishment and deployment from Camp Mills, which was located in the southeast area of Garden City during World War I. A ceremony will be held at the newly restored Rainbow Division Memorial located on Saint James Street South Saturday, August 12, 2017 beginning at Noon.

Active and retired service members are encouraged to attend in uniform. A cake cutting ceremony will take place at a reception immediately following the ceremony at the Senior Center on Golf Club Lane.

“It really is going to be a very touching ceremony,” Deputy Mayor Theresa Trouvé said.

Multi-use field ribbon cutting

All major construction components of the Multisport Field Project have been completed. There is a short punch list of items to be completed by the contractor within the next week.

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& 4 will be removed as soon as the new sod is mature enough and playable.

The Board of Trustees is planning a ribbon cutting at 6:30 p.m. on Thursday, August 17, 2017. All are invited to attend. Soccer, lacrosse and football youth sports teams will also be present to highlight the evening.

Staff is currently preparing the field use schedule, with usage to begin on or about August 16.

Water tank replacement project

The water tank project is moving forward and remains on track with our fall timeline. The bid specifications have been thoroughly vetted by the Village Engineering Department, the Village Attorney’s office and the Village’s water consultants, H2M. “We are satisfied with the specs that have been prepared. We are prepared to advertise next week,” Department of Public Works Superintendent Joe DiFrancisco said.

Highlights of note regarding this project include: • Advertising bids for three water tank designs: • Single pedestal steel tank • Composite steel tank • Composite glass-fused to steel tank The consultants feel that advertising three styles of tanks will help create competition between vendors and result in more favorable pricing • Bid specs will also be submitted to the Department of Health, as required • The Village has made it a requirement of all bidders that only Americanmade steel be used in the construction of the tank “Our neighbors in West Hempstead are also replacing their water tower.

I have been in communication with the Superintendent of Public Works in West Hempstead and we have discussed this process,” Mr. DiFrancisco said. “We have agreed to continue sharing ideas and information as this process moves forward. I will also be reaching out to the Village of Mineola in order to start preparing for the use of their water tower during our construction project.”

The next public update is scheduled for the September Board of Trustees meeting. At that time Mr. DiFrancisco anticipates presenting the Mayor and the Board with the bid results and recommendations on how to proceed.

Wye Parking Lot issues

We are working on several issues and topics related to what is referred to as the “Wye” parking lot. This lot is located behind the Chamber of Commerce building on Seventh Street.

Over the years, there have been numerous conversations and questions about legal ownership of this lot and rights of way and who has the responsibility to repair this lot because of its location

adjacent to the Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) tracks.

The lot appears to be made up of several deeds and parcels. We are working with Counsel and title companies to determine exact ownership and geographical boundaries as well as grant of easements to third parties, including the LIRR, Long Island Power Authority (LIPA) and other utilities. It appears that the five lots composing the Wye lot were originally purchased in 1960 from the railroad.

This week we sent crews to the lot to clean up overgrowth, do asphalt repair work and make repairs to storm drains. We are considering re-paving the entire lot. We are also considering adding additional lighting. We are undertaking this work for obvious reasons, but also because we believe that making this lot more user-friendly could help alleviate parking problems in other lots, such as 7S located behind Walk Street, Burger Spot and Prost Grill & Garten and 7E located behind Neptune Camera.

Stewart Field cleanup work

As part of the Department of Recreation and Parks’ long-term capital plan and its normal operations, the Village is considering changes to Stewart Field. Last year we renovated the fenced in baseball field and added sprinkler systems to much of the entire Stewart Field, including the area that has been traditionally used by Thunder football. The grass areas have improved because of the irrigation.

The parking lot at Stewart Field is too small to handle parking needs and although the Stewart School parking lots are available we are considering changes to the field space. Our Recreation and Parks crews have commenced clearing away brush and vegetation that has accumulated over the years, especially at the north end of the field. To enhance parking needs, we may be able to add spaces at the north end of the field on the newly cleared space, as well as use what was formerly the Long Island Motor Parkway, with access through Russell Road. We may move or remove fencing or make an access gateway at that end of the field.

Aggressive driving enforcement

The Police Department has been conducting an aggressive driving enforcement program that has concentrated on violations such as, but not limited to, speeding, tailgating, reckless driving, passing a red traffic light or Stop sign, unsafe lane/turns, failure to yield and passing stopped school buses. During this campaign numerous tickets have been issued for these violations. Many of these vehicle stops for aggressive driving have resulted in vehicle impounds as well as arrests for drug possession, wanted persons, DWI

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offenses and serious traffic offenses.

Motorists are encouraged to be courteous to other drivers and not retaliate to other persons’ driving habits or mistakes. Road rage incidents often escalate into serious offenses such as assault or other serious offenses.

As such, motorists observing serious and dangerous driving behaviors are encouraged to call 911 rather than take matters into their own hands. Motorists are also advised of state legislation enacted regarding Distracted Driving, which includes texting, using a mobile phone and activating or using any portable electronic device while driving. A person convicted of this offense will be assessed five points against their license.

In addition, the Garden City Police Department will be participating in the statewide initiative “Speed Enforcement Week Enforcement Mobilization” August 2- 8. During this initiative, grant money will be utilized to fund extra speed enforcement patrols at predetermined locations in an effort to reduce vehicle crashes. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) data indicates three out of 10 drivers speed. Statistics also show that nearly 30 percent of fatal crashes list speed as a contributing factor. The Police Department urges all motorists to make our streets safer by obeying all traffic laws, particularly speeding.

“The Police Department will continue to make traffic enforcement a priority in an effort to make our streets safer,” Police Commissioner Kenneth Jackson said.

Blood Drive

Long Island Blood Services will hold a blood drive in their Blood Mobile in front of the Garden City Public Library on Tuesday, August 8, 2017 from 2:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. All donors will receive an electronic voucher for two tickets to see the New York Mets at Citifield.

Eligible donors must be between 16 and 75 years of age, with a minimum weight of 110 lbs., and no tattoos within the past 12 months. Sixteen year olds must have parental permission and donors age 76 and over must present a doctor’s note. All donors must have valid ID with signature or photo.

Donors are encouraged to eat well (low fat) and drink fluids. For medical questions concerning blood donations, call 1-800-688-0900. Call the Library at 7428405 x210 to schedule an appointment.

Walk-ins are also welcome.

Board Meeting Schedule

The Board of Trustees will meet once a month in August and September on Thursday, August 17, 2017 and Thursday, September 21, 2017. Both meetings will begin at 8:00 p.m. in the Village Hall Board Room. Residents are encouraged to attend.

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Eighty-eight Garden City High School students were inducted into the National Honor Society (NHS) at the 82nd Annual Induction Ceremony held at Garden City High School on May 24th. Each inductee was called to the stage by teacher and NHS advisor Diana Young, congratulated

by Superintendent of Schools Dr. Robert Feirsen, Principal Nanine McLaughlin, and NHS officers. The students recited the pledge and enjoyed a long and loud round of applause from attending parents and friends.

The NHS Pledge: I pledge myself to uphold The high purposes of this society To which I have been elected, Striving in every way, by word

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Congratulations to: Philip Acinapuro Steven Asfar Nicholas Bambino Kathryn Bass Julia Beckmann Ashley Boccio Kaylah Bozkurtian Kieran Brown Emily Burns Alana Campbell Isabel Cara Nicole Castoro Margaret Chiang Julia Choi Siobhan Coen Catherine Conway Connor Cowie Lauren DeLuca

Andrew DeSantis Christopher M. Donohue Kaleigh Donovan Johnathan Dorotheos Lauren Durand Harrison Ernst Meghan Galligan Ryan George Christina Giannone Brandon Gong Matthew Granville Alex Grasso Thomas Grlic Lauren Hagan Claire Haggerty Caroline Hegarty Klea Hysenbelli Stephen Iovino Greta Jaye Alan Jian Christopher Jordan Evan Jozkowski Julia Kavan Hope Kelly

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Pack 55 Cub Scouts and family members recently attended a fun filled weekend at Schiff Scout Reservation in Wading River, New York. The weekend provided a great opportunity for Cub Scouts to enjoy the great outdoors and to participate in the many activities offered during an “All Fun & Games” themed weekend. Cub Scouts, siblings and parents played human foosball, life size billiards and bingo, went fishing and swimming, engaged in paddle boat battleship, utilized the archery and BB gun ranges, attended campfires and ice cream socials, made s’mores, and performed in flag ceremonies and campfire skits.

Attendees included: Sebastian Bernardo and Joseph Lippens (Webelos), John Barone, Andrew Byrnes and Chase Martone (Bears), Patrick Corrigan, Ryan Lotito, Elvin Mele, Sean Santare and Ethan Wu (Wolves), Matias Archer (Tigers), Aiden Shih (incoming Scout), and Leah Lotito and Angelina Shih (siblings).

For more information on Pack 55 please visit Pack55GardenCityNY on Facebook. Registration for the 201718 year is currently open and all boys entering grades 1-4 are welcome!

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In her talk for Rotarians, Senator Phillips will recap the first six months during which, as a newly elected Senator, she is focusing on Economic Development and Environment Initiatives.

Prior to joining the Senate, Elaine Phillips served as the Mayor of the Village of Flower Hill where she worked to restore fiscal responsibility to the Village, thereby decreasing property taxes while improving services to residents and adopting a multiyear strategic plan. Elaine is recognized for having strengthened the Village’s ethics policy, having created an ethics board and making all public documents accessible on the Village website.

In the Senate, Elaine works to deliver tax relief, fiscal responsibility and a fair share of the of state aid for local schools and municipalities to help reduce the burden on hardworking Long Island families. She is known to be a strong fighter for ethics reform and greater transparency to help rebuild the public’s trust in government which has been weakened by corruption scandles.

Senator Phillis is fighting tirelessly to protect our environment because she knows clean water and clean air are necessities, not luxuries.

Before her public service, Elaine worked for over 20 years in the financial services sector as a financial analyst for Met Life and JP Morgan Securities, and later, as a Vice President in Institutional Sales at Goldman Sachs.

Elaine Phillips is a graduate of Penn State University, where she earned a Bachelor’s degree and a MBA in Finance. She and her husband Andy reside in the Village of Flower Hill and are the proud parents of three daughters. The Club looks forward to welcom-

NYS Senator Elaine Phillips, guest speaker ing the Senator on August 14.

The Mineola-Garden City Rotary Club meets on the second and fourth Mondays throughout the year, 12:15 at the Garden City Hotel. The Club hosts notable speakers from various fields.

For information about membership, please call Club President Alba Spinelli at (516) 307-8870.

Upcoming Events and Activities

• August 14 – NYS Senator Elaine Phillips, guest speaker • August 28 -RYLA students presen tation • September 11 – Open meeting • September 25 – Members report about their business affiliations or life experiences.

• October 9 – Blythe Daylong, Exec.

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Dir., New Ground Organization • November 13 - Dr. Christine Riordan President, Adelphi University, guest speaker • November 27 – “Bring a Friend to Rotary” Luncheon • December 8 & 9 – Ring Bells for Salvation Army • December 11 – Holiday Fellowship Luncheon

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James T. Hirata James Hirata, 89, of Mililani, Hawaii died peacefully at home with his family at his bedside on July 9, 2017. He was born on April 13, 1928, in North Hilo, Hawaii.

James was an elementary school teacher in Hawaii for 17 years before moving to New York with his family in the summer of 1969 to accept a teaching exchange position at Village Green Elementary School in Huntington.

He taught there for two years before being hired with the Garden City School District in 1971. He began his employment with the GCSD at Stewart Elementary School as a sixth grade teacher from 1971-72 and moved the following year to Stratford Elementary School. James taught fourth grade students at Stratford until his retirement in 1994, ending his 37-year career as an elementary school teacher.

James thoroughly enjoyed his teaching experience with the students and parents of Garden City and often commented how blessed he was to have such bright and enthusiastic youngsters to work with in the classroom.

His passion to make learning active and exciting for his students was evident in how he creatively incorporated multi-cultural activities, plays, dances, artwork, etc. into the curriculum. Some of the unique experiences he planned for his students included field trips to NYC to attend Broadway musicals, to Japanese restaurants so they could experience Asian cuisine and the art of using chopsticks, and lessons on Hawaiian hula and ethnic dance. James’ class was selected to write Kidsday/Newsday articles and interviewed special celebrities and artists such as Olivia Newton-John, Levar Burton, Stan Lee, and Maurice Sendak.

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He was preceded in death by his wife, Bertha Emiko Hirata, who died in 1977.

He will be greatly missed by his family.

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This month at the GC Kiwanis Club

Each year, the Kiwanis helps kids around the world.

Local clubs look out for our communities and the international organization takes on large-scale challenges, such as fighting disease and poverty.

We are generous with our time.

We are creative with our ideas.

We are passionate about making a difference. And we have fun along the way. For more than a century, Kiwanis has created opportunities for children to be curious, safe and healthy regardless of the community in which they live. When you give a child the chance to learn, experience, dream, grow, succeed and thrive, great things can happen.

Service is at the heart of every Kiwanis club, no matter where in the world it’s located.

Members stage nearly 150,000 service projects and raise nearly $100 million every year for communities, families and projects. By working together, members achieve what one person cannot accomplish alone. Our local GC Kiwanis club focus is on changing the world by serving children, one child and one community at a time.

Scholarship Winner

Each year, the club selects HS seniors from the GC community who have demonstrated a genuine commitment to helping others, particularly children.

The selection process is a competitive one and includes a written application with interviews

conducted for semi-finalists.

Brandon Singh and Caroline Munn, both graduates of Garden City High School, were the recipients of this year’s Garden City Kiwanis Scholarships. Each student was awarded $2,000 and received formal recognition at a dinner meeting held on June 21, 2017 at the Garden City Hotel.

Caroline received an award from the club because of two innovative programs she initiated as a result of her volunteer work at the Mary Brennan Inn in Hempstead. These programs included a monthly birthday party for regular Inn visitors to allow them to celebrate their special day with others.

The idea quickly became very popular as many celebrants claimed that this was their very first birthday party! She also developed “Night, night.....sleep tight” for children residing in shelters. She collected various items, (including sheets, pillows and night lights) to place in a backpack so that each child would feel a bit safer and more secure at night.

Brandon served as Key Club President. Key Club is a high school organization sponsored

by Kiwanis International and assists Kiwanis in carrying out its mission to serve the children of the world. He also assumed a leading role in promoting STEM in the Garden City school district. STEM is a curriculum based on the idea of educating

students in four specific disciplines - Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics.

Applications become available in March of each year and all resident high school seniors are encouraged to apply.

Member Highlight: Jay Lynch

This week we highlight Kiwanis Board Member, Jay Lynch. Jay joined GCKC in the early 1990s, and soon after, he spearheaded the club’s support for the Island Harvest mission. For almost 25 years, under Jay’s leadership, the club members have made weekly pick-ups of donated bagels from the Bagelman in GC, delivering them to the Mary Brennan Inn, the soup kitchen in Hempstead.

“Our club has some of the nicest people in the community, people who willingly offer assistance to neighbors in need,” said Jay. “They’re all active professionals & local business people, who make time to support this worthy cause.” Jay has also supported the annual St. Patrick’s Day luncheon, the leading fundraising event for the Kiwanis, for the past 25 years.

Jay is managing partner at Lynch & Lynch in Garden City, and has 38 years of legal experience, in the area of civil litigation. He is a well-respected and involved member of the community and is active in the Chaminade Golf and Tennis Open Committee, Saint Anne’s Parish, the Knights of

Jay Lynch Columbus at St. Anne’s, and the Chaminade HS Alumni Board, where he currently serves as vice president. He has held leadership positions on the St. Anne’s School Board, Western Property Owner’s Association, the Catholic Lawyers Guild, and the GC Community Fund. He is a member of the Friendly Sons of Saint Patrick and has been a basketball and soccer coach for his three children, Jim, Mike and Teresa.

Jay and his wife, Jan, have been active members of St. Anne’s Parish since they moved into Garden City in 1982, serving on a variety of committees and ministries. Over the last 15 years, Jay said he has had more than his share of fun running the Respite Basketball Program, coaching children with special needs in competitive basketball games. He also is proud

Scholarship winner Caroline Munn with Kiwanis members Carol Russo, Club Secretary (back left) and Angela Romano, Club President (Center). that he is one of the founding members of St. Anne’s Spirit Day Committee. “Spirit Day is a great day for our church and a great day for our community,” said Jay. Both Jan and he also have served as a Eucharistic Ministers for many years.

Interested in joining the Kiwanis? Please contact Adam Karol at 222-0777 and he would be glad to discuss more info on the Kiwanis & how you can become a key member of such an altruistic and worthy cause.

Next month we will highlight the distribution of worthy Garden City residents scholarship winners!

Girl Scouts to return to GC headquarters Girl Scouts of Nassau County (GSNC) announced that it will return to its headquarters located at 110 Ring Road, Garden City, this August, after spending a year temporarily relocated in Hicksville, while their facility was being renovated. The headquarters—which houses the GSNC corporate offices, Cookie Cupboard and Girl Scout Shop— underwent extensive upgrades, executed by design firm Danita Otruba Architect of Westbury, A ribbon cutting ceremony is scheduled for Tuesday, August 1, with their actual move scheduled for later in August.

“We worked with our architect to ensure that our building would live up to the Girl Scout Mission and Laws. Namely to make the world a better place

and to use our resources wisely!

This means we have incorporated architectural and design innovations that are environmentally friendly and will bring us into the future with a focus on giving every G.I.R.L. a place to flourish,” said Donna Ceravolo, CEO of Girl Scouts of Nassau County. “It is exciting for our organization, and we are thrilled to return to our newly renovated headquarters.”

One brand new addition, the headquarters will now feature a “Living History” exhibit, containing a collection of Girl Scout uniforms and treasures from the last century. The headquarters also received much-needed structural updates, including a new roof, new windows and updated insulation that will

The Girl Scouts of Nassau County’s newly renovated headquarters on Ring Road. save costs related to utilities and security. In addition, the interior underwent several cosmetic changes, including updates to the kitchen area, a redesign

of the existing Girl Scout Shop and program space, and a new Volunteer Resource Center.

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Stratford Elementary School’s Math Olympiad team at the June 14th awards ceremony with teacher and advisor Mr. Seth Messier (far right).

Stratford’s Math Olympiad team scores in top 10%

Congratulations to Stratford fifth grade students who qualified the school as a National School of Excellence by scoring in the top 10% of schools nationally in the Math Olympiad for Elementary and Middle Schools (MOEMS) program.

Two students received perfect scores: Niamh Pfaff and Elaine Wang (back row,

center). Scoring in the “Top 2%� were (alpha order): Daniel Brennan, Jack Brock, Kevin Byrnes, Olivia Donohue, Justin Grisolfi, Holden Herrera, Jack O’Neil, Alexander Palmer, Teddy Quinn, Bella Scianabla, Robert Seaman, Sophia Sethi, and Kevin Young. Scoring in the “Top 10%� were (alpha order): David Digan, Emmet Duffy, Brady

Knoll, Matthew Liberopolous, Molly Martin, Kayla Pontecorvo, and Riley Shaw.

Created in 1977 by Dr. George Lenchner, an internationally known math educator, the Math Olympiads went public in 1979. Last year nearly 170,000 students from 6,000 teams worldwide participated in the Olympiads.

All 50 states and about 30 other countries were represented. To be eligible, students participate in a series of five monthly contests of five problems each, from November to March, and weekly practice sessions under the supervision and coaching of teachers.

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Camp Mills 100th Anniversary Commemorated STORY BY JOHN ELLIS KORDES

As I drove down Clinton Road recently past the former Clinton Road Railroad Station and the monument to Camp Mills, I could not help but imagine what happed there 100 years ago. In August, Garden City today can appear as a sleepy bedroom community with a jogger here and a dog walker there.

However, in August 1917 it was quite a different scene. Garden City had less than 2,000 residents then and less than 400 houses (today we have about 23,000 residents and over 6,500 houses).

The beginning of the 20th Century saw Garden City as a rising star on Long Island. In 1899, the famous Garden City Golf Club’s 18 holes were completed. That same year Garden City became part of a new county - Nassau.

The seat of government would be located within Garden City’s borders. In 1901, the third and most famous Garden City Hotel opened. In 1908, the Long Island Motor Parkway was begun and it was headquartered in Garden City.

In 1910, the famous Doubleday Book Publishing Plant was built on Franklin Avenue. During this same period, two of the earliest airfields in the country were begun in Garden City, one east of Washington Avenue and south of Old Country Road and the other west of Nassau Boulevard and north of Stewart Avenue. In 1912, the two fields would merge east of Clinton Road as the Hempstead Plains Airfield (later renamed Hazelhurst Airfield).

In 1914, war broke out in Europe and raged for years as America tried to stay out of it. By April 1917, it became clear that the United States had to step in to win this war. They called it the “Great War”, the “War to End All Wars” and “The World War”. Little did they know we would eventually have to number these wars. Thus, this one was called World War I. In August 1917, Camp Mills was set up in the southeast part of Garden

City south of the railroad tracks and east of Clinton Road. It was named for Brigadier General Albert L. Mills.

The location was ideal due to the railroad and the airfield just to the north.

Initially, the camp was made up of tents with an entrance at Locust Street.

It consisted of National Guard units from every state in the Union. They came together and formed one division known as the “Rainbow Division”.

One of the officers at the camp was Douglas MacArthur who became a famous general in World War II. While at the camp, residents from Hempstead, Garden City, Mineola and Westbury tried to do everything they could for the boys who numbered in the thousands. On Sundays (visiting day) it was estimated that over 50,000 people visited the troops. The logistics of that is mind boggling looking back as I drove down Clinton Road.

Almost 3,000 of these young soldiers would be killed and over 13,000 would be wounded in the fierce fighting in Europe. In 1918, as the war dragged on, Camp Mills was made into a more permanent camp with hundreds of buildings being built. The war ended on November 11, 1918, with over 100,000 American soldiers killed in just over a year of the United States involvement.

Millions died in the entire war on both sides. Unfortunately, the war did not “end all wars”. In fact, it sowed the seeds for a century of wars - World War II, Korean War, Vietnam War and the Gulf War. A monument to Camp Mills is located just to the south of the former Clinton Road Railroad Station where those brave boys stepped off 100 years ago.

The monument was placed there in 1941 just months before the United States entered World War II. How ironic.

Next time you are in that area with your children stop and walk over to the monument and read the inscriptions.

Ponder for a moment what happened there 100 years ago.

This house on Locust Street just west of Clinton Road was the commander’s house.

It still exists today as a private home.

This 1941 monument to Camp Mills is all that’s left to remind the world that something on a huge scale happened there.

On July 14, 1918, one of the pilots who trained at Hazelhurst Airfield was shot down and killed in the war. He was 20 year old Quentin Roosevelt, the youngest son of President Theodore Roosevelt.

In his honor, Hazelhurst Airfield was renamed Roosevelt Airfield. He had left Harvard University to become a pilot when the U.S. entered the war in 1917.

Garden City lost six of its sons in WWI including William Bradford Turner.

For his bravery in combat he was posthumously awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor. In 1919, Garden City’s new American Legion post was named the William Bradford Turner Post. There is a monument to these six soldiers from GC in front of the Middle School.

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This candid shot shows activity at the Clinton Road Railroad Station. Note the trolley on the tracks that could shuttle people to the Garden City Railroad Station.

Also, note the primitive movie camera in the center of the photo on a tripod.

Camp Mills in 1918 as hundreds of buildings had been built to make it a more permanent camp. By the mid-1920’s all the buildings were gone and todays’ houses were being built, as if it all never happened.

A marching band leads the troops down Clinton Road to the camp’s entrance at Locust Street on the east side of Clinton Road.

Another view of the troops marching into Camp Mills with spectators lining the route.

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GCMS sixth graders give back with desserts from the heart

BY TRISH ROBERTS, TEACHER

Garden City Middle School sixth grade students from Mrs. Roberts’ homebase class recently volunteered their time at the Ronald McDonald House (RMH) in New Hyde Park. Their passion for helping others was beautifully demonstrated when they participated in the RMH Little Hands Baking program.

The Ronald McDonald House of Long Island is a home for families who have a sick child in a local hospital facility. The “home away from home” philosophy of the RMH provides volunteers an opportunity to give back to the community in a very rewarding way. Mrs. Roberts, a volunteer at the RMH for several years, knew that her students would welcome the opportunity to give back. Her students prepared and served delicious desserts to the family residents as they returned from nearby hospitals.

The Garden City Middle School’s philosophy encourages community involvement and provides students with an abundant amount of volunteer opportunities. Throughout the year, many students share their time and talents to support such programs as the

GC for a Cure, Toys for Tots, Pennies for Patients, and Saint Jude’s Children’s Hospital, to name a few.

Mrs. Roberts’ homebase class spent weeks planning, collaborating, and preparing to bake at the RMH. Many students rearranged their schedules, and some even missed out on their after-school tennis and dance classes.

As Sydney said, “It’s good to give back to others because it must be hard dealing with a situation where a family member has cancer.” Every student in the class purchased something from the extensive shopping list of baking ingredients needed to make the eight, planned, scrumptious desserts.

When the twelve students arrived at the Ronald McDonald House, the courteous, welcoming and appreciative staff greeted the boys and girls with a tour of the beautiful “home away from home.” The children quickly realized the impact that their time and baking talents were going to have for these families - they were ready to start baking!

They began measuring, mixing, melting and pouring. It didn’t take long before the sweet and savory aromas of chocolate, cinnamon, and vanilla filled the ‘house.’ Soon after, delicious desserts

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Everyone should be very, very proud of these students. They put an abundance of love into making these desserts and gave up their time to help others.

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Come Visit

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Nicholas Dimmling (center) receiving his award for outstanding community service, pictured with Captain Sean Helling of MVAC, and State Senator Elaine Phillips

Nicholas Dimmling honored at First Responder Ceremony

On July 5th at a First Responders Appreciation Night ceremony organized by State Senator Elaine Phillips, members of half a dozen local Fire Departments gathered in dress uniform, with each Department honoring a few of their colleagues for their accomplishments. Nicholas Dimmling of Garden City was honored for his work as a volunteer Emergency Medical Technician (EMT) with Mineola Volunteer Ambulance Corps (MVAC).

Nicholas Dimmling has been a volunteer EMT at Mineola Volunteer Ambulance Corps for two years, and was credentialed by New York State as an EMT in 2016.

At the ceremony, Dimmling’s Capitan at MVAC, Sean Helling, related to the other First Responders the nature of Dimmling’s service which resulted in his being honored.

The very night he was credentialed as an Emergency Medical Technician, Dimmling responded to a call about a cardiac arrest victim, and succeeded in re-starting the person’s heart and getting them to the hospital and further

care. Only weeks later, he repeated this action with a different cardiac arrest victim, with the same success. It’s highly unusual for a newly credentialed EMT to be asked to put their skills into action so soon after being certified, with positive results, and more, to have to do so twice in short order. For demonstrating this capability, Dimmling was one of two people honored by MVAC at First Responders Night.

This past June, Dimmling passed the NY State exam designating him a Critical Care EMT, a level above his previous position, one requiring more medical skills. The son of Leslie Dimmling, and the late William Dimmling of Garden City, Nicholas hopes to become a Rescue Medic. Currently he works for a private ambulance company in New York City.

Senator Elaine Philips personally presented an award certificate to each honoree. She stated that the evening honoring First Responders was something that “needed to be done” and “was long overdue” as she thanked those assembled for their work and service to their communities.

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SOCIALLY SPEAKING

Ideas for summer With ATHENA

There it goes - the little black box on the screen that gives us the news of the day plus the weather report and of course - the ads - telling us school will soon be open and you should be sure to get your supplies for that opening. WOW! We still have a month to go with August starting and ending with he Labor Day weekend to start September. I will bet that many of the teachers have not decided what supplies they will tell you that you need in September but you will find that out on the first day of school. Do not worry about this as there will be plenty of those supplies handy even at the last minute.

The weather has been good for the pool swimmers and they are taking full advantage of it. A number of them stay for the whole day and have their lunch there. What is not to like and so take advantage of it all.

The ladies of the Community Club of Garden City and Hempstead are busy planning for their Friendship Luncheon. It will be held on Wednesday, September 27th at the Westbury Manor, 1100 Jericho Turnpike, Westbury. The starting time is 12 noon and parking is no problem - they have a big lot. Judith Dolan is Chairlady and her committee will be mailing out the invitations in mid-August. This is always a good time to get back together and discuss what you did this summer and how good it was. Its also good to get to see everyone and attendance at the Luncheon will be a lot of fun.

Judith will be sending more information into this paper and I hear that the invitations will be mailed in mid August.

Somehow one cannot believe that we are already at the half-way point for Summer.

Happy birthday wishes go to

L a u r i e Hazlet, who will do her celebrating on August 4th and to Edward Brennan who will do the same on August 6th. All good wishes for a great year that will be filled with health and happiness.

Maureen and Duncan Fraser have a favorite place that they do enjoy and that is a trip down to their favorite beach and they sit down on the Boardwalk benches and watch the ocean waves, the folks strolling on the boardwalk and later a lovely lunch at their favorite place. This is something that many can enjoy and at different beaches on our south shore. It’s peaceful and relaxing and we should all take advantage of it.

It can even be enjoyed during the winter season.

Have you been taking in the wonderful “old movies” at the Garden City Library? They are truly wonderful and you can enjoy them all over again - unless you missed them the first time around that it means it will be a first time treat. You might just want to check out a book while you are there. They are always ready to help and if they don not have it, they will check to see if it is at another library. What more could you ask for?

We are half way through the summer by now and you are still wondering where you could go that would make a wonderful and peaceful walk - it would be Clark Gardens in Albertson on I.U. Willets Road in Albertson.

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100 years ago this month, Camp Mills was established in the southeastern section of Garden City. World War I had been raging in Europe since 1914 and in 1917 the United States entered the conflict and turned the tide of the war in the Allies’ favor. This photograph (taken by a low flying plane) is looking southeastward across the railroad tracks and what today would be Commercial Avenue. This tent camp was located east of Clinton Road and south of the railroad tracks. In 1918, as the war dragged on, the tents were replaced with over 800 buildings. The war ended on November 11, 1918, and the camp served as a demobilization center for returning troops.

This site in Garden City was chosen due to the excellent railroad transportation and the airfields just to the north (Hazlehurst Field and later Roosevelt Field).

Tom Phelan to read from novel

On Monday, August 14, at 7 p.m., novelist Tom Phelan, a retired member of the GC Public Schools, will be one of four authors reading from their works at the Summer Gazebo Readings, Schoolhouse Green, 65 Foxhurst Rd., Oceanside. This event is free--and includes dessert and coffee.

Founded in 2007, the Summer Gazebo Readings are held every Monday evening in June through August. Sponsorships raise funds to send underprivileged kids to Kamp Kiwanis, a summer camp run by the

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Phelan’s memoir pieces about growing up as a farmboy in Mountmellick, Co. Laois, Ireland, appear regularly in the Irish Echo newspaper.

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Email: Editor@GCNews.com

From page 2 A proposed use that would achieve the goal of maintaining its position on the National Register of Historical Places is to create a Garden City Historical Museum at St. Paul’s. The history of Garden City reflects the progress and positive aspects of New York, Long island and America. Our children and grandchildren would learn about their own heritage here in Garden City if St. Paul’s became a historical museum. They would learn the significance of the unique architectural history of Garden City as reflected in the apostle and disciple houses as well as the Cathedral of the Incarnation and its traditions and relationship to the Stewart family who founded our village. In a way Garden City represents also the best model suburban lifestyle with its excellent schools and community organizations and facilities.

If we had a Historical Museum in Garden City, it could become a resource for Adelphi University, Hofstra University, and Nassau Community College all of which are located in or near Garden City. Perhaps it could attract scholars and students of architecture as well. In addition, St. Paul’s has connections to the Theodore Roosevelt family as well as the Trump family. Perhaps

the Trump Foundation would be willing to offer support for such a museum along with descendants of the Roosevelt family. The museum could become a resource for the study of presidential history. This is just one suggestion. I am certain other residents of Garden City could develop other cultural ideas for the use of St. Paul’s rather than just another athletic use (after all we are already blessed with a great deal of athletic spaces in Garden City). But there are never enough historical, cultural and educational institutions for the edification of Garden City citizens of all ages.

I hope the Village of Garden City leaders open their minds to this suggestion as well as the suggestions of other members of our community. Let’s not impose parameters in what is supposed to be a free society as represented by our model American hometown. Let all ideas enter the marketplace and may the best one win out. Isn’t that the American way?

Francis N. Elmi Ph.D. Professor Emeritus City University of New York

a daughter more than two years after the death of her father, who was a police officer slain in the line of duty.

Officer Wenjian Liu was killed while on patrol in Brooklyn in December 2014. He had been married not quite three months.

On the night of the grieving, Sanny Liu, the widow, asked a hospital to retrieve his sperm so she might someday have his child. She had a dream in which he handed her a baby girl.

That dream materialized few days ago with the birth of Angelina, a name quite appropriate since the picture that I saw in the newspapers does indeed resembles an angel, a beautiful one.

Her mother’s smile and expression, also reveals the intensity of her joy and happiness. Judging from the facial expressions of the baby, I must agree with her mother’s comments that Angelina does

indeed resembles her father.

Reading the article, seeing the pictures of mother, daughter and her deceased father, brought an almost uncontrollable, emotional sensation and yet I was able to hold a tear or two trying to slide down my cheeks.

Perhaps I am guilty of being in possession of a few high degrees of emotional, sentimental romanticism but I could not control, overcome the emotion and pride felt toward all those involved in this truly majestic work of exquisite humane masterpiece and which I still call a ‘miracle’ even though the science readily exists to make such marvelous, fantastic, incredible miracles. A truly magnificent work of human art. I am sure officer Liu is now smiling gratefully and peacefully. I truly wish and hope so!

Antonio Moreno

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fyi F O R S E N I O R S Recreation and Parks Gazebo concert series

July 13th started our popular Summer Gazebo Concert Series on the Village Green. Concerts are held every Thursday at 7:15 pm so bring a blanket or a lawn chair and join us! We will have the following performers: August 10 - Joel Zelnick and Move August 17 - The Capris Concerts are held rain or shine. In the case of less than beautiful weather, the concert will be moved indoors to St. Paul’s Cluett Hall at 295 Stewart Avenue.

Fall trips for Garden City Seniors

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

Payment must accompany registrations.

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

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

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

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

Tickets for this show are $40, checks only

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

Exercise for Seniors

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

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

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

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Schedule of Events

Monday, August 7 - Regular Meeting (Changed from sandwiches) Monday, August 14 - Regular Meeting Monday, August 21 - Pizza or sandwiches Bowling every Friday during season at Herrill Lanes. Contact Joe Leto at 248-9022.

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

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

versation, camaraderie, and to make new friends.

Lunch is served roughly twice a month.

About the GC Retired Men’s Club

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

Annual dues are a very “expensive” $10. Meetings are on Mondays, and a less busy meeting is on Thursdays. Both begin at noon and end at 4 pm. The Club offers a large screen TV, card games (bridge, poker, cribbage), chess, backgammon, and billiards. In good weather we offer BBQ, bocce, shuffleboard and horseshoes.

Senior Bridge results

On July 31st there were seven tables playing. The results: North/South East/West 1--Joan Kiernan & Claire Burns 1--Carrie & Bob Flapan 2--Pat Fontaine & Terry Schoenig 2/3--Rudy Kaiser & George Salem 3--Grace Kelly & Carol Anderson 2/3--Liz Tetro & Carol Cook

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Former Golf Club caddy files suits over lewd behavior, wages

From page 1 club. He was fired a month later (October 2015) and in retaliation for being fired, he posted the picture of Wiggins on Facebook,” Merrill explained this week.

In the court filing, the visibility for “any person in the world, instantly” was noted with Ouellette’s apparent role in “this outrageous, lewd, and wholly inappropriate act.”

“The photograph is extremely evocative of similar images from the antebellum south, in which white slave owners asserted their ownership over their black slaves through sexual imagery.

The depiction was willfully intended to be reminiscent of this form of race relations, with the black man being subservient and in a position of slavery to the white overseer,” the court filing states.

Merrill said Wiggins is concerned

that his four-year-old son will one day see the picture online, as the Facebook posting circulated more intensely.

The Garden City Golf Club communications officer, Katherine Heaviside, spoke with the News on August 2. She said the club’s president is away on vacation this week and he can’t be reached. Before leaving for vacation he did approve a brief official statement on the Wiggins case: “This case is before the court. The Garden City Golf Club will not comment on pending litigation.” Heaviside said the club would like to share more with the community but until the club president returns, she cannot.

Ouellette has participated in many Long Island golf and country club associations, and along with his son he has competed at the Metropolitan

Golf Association (MGA) Father & Son Championship.

The case has been reported on in major news outlets such as the New York Daily News, New York Post, News 12 and various other media. In several of those outlets the club responded with the following comment through their public relations firm: “There are inaccuracies in the complaint which the club will vigorously defend. We believe that the alleged misconduct does not reflect any pattern of behavior among persons associated with the club.”

The damages Wiggins is seeking from Garden City Golf Club include five million dollars for Civil Rights violations, emotional damages and punitive damages – including monetary compensation for the non-continuation of his position as a caddy at the club “The incident

resulted in the plaintiff’s constructive discharge,” the lawsuit stated. Beyond that Merrill says his client is not able to find work as a golf caddy anywhere else on Long Island. He said over the past year and a half Wiggins has applied to many of the well-known golf clubs in the area but they have rejected his job applications.

“He feels that he’s been black-balled and none of the other courses are accepting him because of what happened here. He’ll be looking for a different field of work and change his whole career around because of this,” he said.

The lawsuit states that as a result of Ouellette’s conduct, Wiggins found the work environment hostile or abusive and that “defendants knew or should have known that the work environment See page 39

Village to commemorate WWI 100th anniversary

From page 1 tacted the News about an advertisement for the August 12 ceremony at the Rainbow Memorial, following up on an announcement by Mayor Brian Daughney at the July 20 Board of Trustees meeting and a press release on the restoration project status in the July 28 edition of the newspaper. On June 1, the Board of Trustees approved $10,500 towards the restoration of the monument, with power washing and chemically cleaning the monument, re-caulking and color highlights totaling $9,625 plus an $875 contingency amount. Sprung Monuments of West Babylon is the contractor.

When the village committed to restoring the monument, immediately the Rainbow Division Veterans Foundation responded by offering to contribute 50 percent of the necessary funding. General Taluto sent a letter to the Board of Trustees, as Village Administrator Ralph Suozzi announced back on June 1. Taluto, who was appointed Adjunct General (in charge of the New York State National Guard)

by Governor George Pataki and re-appointed by Governor David Patterson and Eliot Spitzer, said the contribution was an ideal opportunity.

“When the village announced that, we stepped up to the plate and offered to pay 50 percent of the cost. Part of our foundation’s mission is memorial sustainment and memorial establishment. That is why the foundation was established by the original World War I veterans. That is what they wanted us to do with money that was left, and we have maintained an endowment and we’ve invested so we could continue to do these things. I think it is a great deal for the people in Garden City and for the foundation to share the cost of making this memorial right,” General Taluto explains.

The concrete benches around the monument will be refurbished as well. Department of Public Works and Parks and Recreation staff is involved in sprucing up the grass, brush and shrubs nearest to the monument “above and beyond the restoration,” as Suozzi announced in early June. Suozzi also publicly thanks Joseph Piersa, a DPW and engineering staff member of Garden City, who was the main contact in getting price quotations from the contractor and “he has been step in step with them all the way.”

General Taluto and his Rainbow Division colleagues applaud the efforts and dedication the Village of Garden City has displayed with this momentous occasion coming up. A week ago he heard back from Paul Fanning, the Memorials Officer and member of the Rainbow Division Veterans Foundation Board of Directors. Fanning retired from the National Guard in 2011 after serving as the Guard’s New York State public affairs officer for many years. As Administrator Suozzi said on July 20, Fanning visited Garden City two weeks ago and reported back to General Taluto and the “Rainbow Vets” on the progress made at the monument. He also met with Police Commissioner Kenneth Jackson about the details of August 12. Taluto touted “very positive reports” and pictures Fanning took in Garden City are being distributed to veterans. General Taluto says the village’s efforts to take care of this memorial area started “a nice honor” to the service of the Rainbow Division.

“We are very pleased so far and we’re looking forward to seeing the finished product. This is really special, we feel good about doing this (contributing funds to the restoration) and we feel good about what the village is doing.

The village cooperated and reached out

to us and they’ve taken a great interest in this. The village has taken care and gotten a very thoughtful vendor in there to do good work…We feel like the Rainbow Division Memorial is restored and getting lots of attention in the centennial of World War I, when the 42nd Division paid a heavy price with over 14,000 American casualties in the war. Over 2,000 from the Division never came back, and we will have a great turnout in their memory,” General Taluto said this week.

Along with the many veterans coming out, the current 42nd Division commanding general will speak, the Color Guard from the 42nd will be displaying and the 42nd Division band will play music. A native of upstate New York’s Capitol district, Taluto lived on Long Island in Rocky Point for two years when he worked on a missile base. At the time Nassau and Suffolk Counties had more farmland, but he says the area has become more metropolitan now with urban sprawl and thousands of shopping areas. Still, the preservation of the area’s rich American history is inspiring. He praised former Village Historian and war veteran Cyril Smith’s initiative for the new Residence Inn by Marriott, which will open on Ring Road, to feature some photographs of Camp Mills and Camp Black sites in its first floor.

“It’s about education, it’s about remembrance and honor. You can’t do those things in parking lots, and that’s a reason why the Rainbow Division Memorial is so important. That beautiful little triangle there in Garden City with our memorial to remember our boys is so wonderful. For Garden City to remember their history and put that out there it’s great. You can’t stop communities’ progress but you do these things to remember, and that’s why our Rainbow Veterans Foundation and so

many other foundations exist,” he said.

Every year the Rainbow Division gathers at the monument to hold its wreath-laying ceremony. The sprucing up was much needed as according to Smith and Village Historian Bill Bellmer, the finishing of the monument dated to the 1941 unveiling. Smith addressed the Board of Trustees at their July 20 meeting and called the monument a village asset.

“I met with Administrator Suozzi and Department of Public Works staff, as Joe Piersa was heavily involved with this. The monument has been undergoing renovation and they started the color enhancing of it, and previously the village had only seen how gorgeous the monument was in October of 1941 (when it was unveiled). It is a village asset and when it is finished, Mr. Suozzi has excellent ideas about enhancing it in the future,” Smith said.

Also at the Board of Trustees’ July meeting Deputy Mayor Theresa encouraged the Garden City community to fully participate next Saturday.

“The celebration is open and available to all Garden City residents, you are cordially invited to come. There will be adequate parking on Brook Street and St. James South. There will be an event in the senior center immediately following the ceremony there, as there will be a cake-cutting and all members of the community are invited. An interesting thing I read that was touching is that all active and retired members of the military are encouraged to attend and wear their military uniforms. It is really known to be a touching ceremony and something very, very important being commemorated that day,” she said.

General Taluto said he will present historical background when he takes the microphone on August 12. He begins See page 37

BY RIKKI N. MASSAND Weeks before a reversal of fortunes with the LIRR Third Track project, the Village of Garden City and the railroad’s officials came to an impasse over village-owned properties, vacant parcels and green spaces, close to the LIRR line. At the Board of Trustees meeting on Thursday July 20, a special discussion was scheduled on the Wye Parking Fields “Consideration of survey and consolidation of parcels.” The Wye parking field is the lot located behind the Chamber of Commerce’s building at the east end of Seventh Street.

The Village Board is weighing survey work through a third-party firm to survey the area and determine the location of easements for the Long Island Railroad and utilities.

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

There are portions that are sidewalk that have to be re-done. During the Third Track conversations we ran into questions from the railroad and our side about ‘who owned what’ with the Wye parking lot. I do not know if we’ve fully been able to track down the different deeds,” said Mayor Brian Daughney.

During a village Environmental Advisory Board (EAB) meeting in 2016, maps of the areas adjacent to the proposed Third Track were examined by EAB members Leo Stimmler and Laurence Quinn, with the help

of Department of Public Works and Engineering staffer Joseph Piersa.

He confirmed the village owning properties close to the tracks. DPW Superintendent Joseph DiFrancisco commented on the need for a closer look at five small and unique parcels in the vicinity.

“We are still digging through the records and it encompasses five different lots, five pieces put together with the parking lot. In some cases it goes back 100 years. We will probably have to do surveying work to figure out where boundaries lie and there are easements involved. The village does own the lot, it is just a matter of the boundaries and which easements exist,” DiFrancisco said at the trustees’ July 20 meeting.

Mayor Daughney requested that once the lines are confirmed DiFrancssco and staff should have a memo, “so ten years from now we know what the answer is.” The mayor thanked Village Historian Bill Bellmer for helping the village personnel find information on the Wye lot.

Bellmer’s colleague Cyril Smith, a former Garden City village historian, told the Board of Trustees on July 20 that some pedestrian walking paths next to the Wye parking lot need attention from Parks and Recreation or Public Works maintenance staff.

“A couple of passageways which have an overgrowth situation. Public Works has been good about cutting them back. The bushes’ natural growth

is so close to the paths that two weeks after the guys cut there they encroach again on the passageways. It may be a surprise to some people but the paths are heavily used by pedestrian traffic coming through,” Smith said.

He also said the Wye lot is due for repaving in the near future but there’s some islands of dead shrubs and greenery in the area. Smith says the plants died as they were cut down to the stump. “Possibly as the trustees look into the Wye lot, they can consider some replanting of those little green areas. It would make the Wye lot a little less of an asphalt desert that it is now,” he suggested.

Cleaning contracts consolidated

With several contracts for building/ facility cleaning at Village Hall and the Garden City Public Library approved by the Board of Trustees and included in budget calculations, the village will look to streamline its vendor list as contracts come up for renewals.

Mayor Brian Daughney announced that the Board of Trustees will look at consolidating cleaning services for village-owned facilities, as Garden City now has “one or two companies that do three or four buildings.”

During public comments on July 20, Steve Ilardi of Meadow Street asked about an item to approve a contract for $480 a month for Above N Beyond Office Cleaning, LLC, of 420 Garden Boulevard to clean the fire headquarters (behind Village Hall). Village Administrator

Ralph Suozzi said Above N Beyond does clean Village Hall and the GCPL, but that falls under the annual library budget line item.

With the item last month the Board also approved contract terms for the company to strip, wax and maintain the fire headquarters’ new flooring four times a year, for $3,400. Ilardi was not pleased that the agenda item listed the company’s address as Garden City, consistent with their postal code, when the physical address is in Garden City South. “It appears we are hiring a firm in Garden City to do cleaning in Garden City, but we are not. I don’t know if everybody was aware of that so I wanted to raise the point,” he said.

Trustee Robert Bolebruch wholeheartedly agreed but he explained that the agenda must include the address the company (vendor) gives the village.

“Mr. Ilardi I couldn’t agree with you more and it is an absolute pet peeve of mine. The reality of it is that as long as they maintain the same zip code it is impossible for us to get it corrected.

Many businesses will put in Garden City when they are not based in Garden City. If that is the address they give us it is the address we have to use,” Bolebruch said.

Mayor Daughney smirked and said the mall (Roosevelt Field), the Cradle of Aviation Museum and Long Island Children’s Museum are not technically in Garden City even though that is listed in their printed addresses. “They don’t pay any taxes to us,” he said.

Village to commemorate WWI 100th anniversary

From page 36 with an education in government history just prior to World War I. In 1916 the National Defense Authorization Act allowed the President (then Woodrow Wilson) to call up National Guard units into Federal service for an unlimited period of time. Before 1916 the country could not do that.

“Our leaders were looking ahead and knowing that we (National Guard) had to be able to participate in World War I, and that they had to call upon National Guard units (called militia at the time). Certainly the stage was set in 1916 and in 1917 it was decided that all the units would be called up from around the country, the National Guard was experienced having fought in the border war with Mexico. The U.S. had a small army and we needed more men, and the National Guard could be trained quickly. Second – by calling up the National Guard units from 26 U.S. states you built support for the war. You had communities and sons of the families leaving home to go to World War I, so people in those communities became more involved

to learn why our entry was necessary and what we needed to do,” General Taluto said.

Douglas MacArthur, then a major working at the office of the Secretary of War (War Department), is credited with naming the Rainbow Division as “the 42nd Division stretches like a Rainbow from one end of America to the other.” At Garden City’s Camp Mills the New York regiment was joined by people who arrived from 25 different states. Taluto noted that many of the soldiers from places like Alabama and Texas had never been as far north as New York or “east of the Mason-Dixon Line” and their training here left a lasting impression. And as a unique chapter in American history, the Rainbow Division signifies the first National Guard unit in the U.S. serving in the World War overseas.

“It was quite the story just in bringing all this diverse humanity together at Camp Mills to go serve in World War I. This was well-thought out over a year, and Camp Mills was the deployment site. Soldiers went through limited maneuver training as well as discipline. Troops were there from

September 5 through November of 1917 – two months to gather, get equipment, train and learn weapons firing. When they got to France they were put into more intense combat training before they got put into the combat lines. It is not unlike what we do today,” General Taluto said.

He reminisced on his leadership commanding the 42nd Division in the Operation Iraqi Freedom war 12 years ago. General Taluto made parallels to the units from across the United States he saw merge to form the 42nd Division in that deployment. “Not unlike World War I, we came to Fort Drum New York to train together for a period of time to get equipped and to become more proficient. Then we were sent over to Kuwait and we trained over there intensely before going into combat in North Central Iraq. Thinking about it, almost 100 years later the 42nd Division was doing what it did 100 years ago for World War I – assembling National Guard units from across the country at Fort Dix then and Fort Drum, went overseas, trained more and went into combat for one year,” General Taluto said.

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The 42nd Division soldiers that served during World War II were different than the National Guardsmen who comprised the World War I edition of the regiment, as in the early 1940’s the draft was a driver of Army numbers.

“The significance of bringing up the militia into Federal service was recognized, and in 2004 and 2005 for the Iraq war the country did exactly the same thing. It’s a pretty interesting story, the 42nd Division relieved the Army first division in Iraq but the 42nd Division in World War I fought alongside the first division,” Taluto explained.

The Rainbow Division Veterans foundation was established in 1971 by World War I veterans, today existing as a 501c3 nonprofit. Taluto says originally they established the foundation “so that the legacy of service and the deeds by 42nd Division people would be perpetuated.

“We wanted to preserve our legacy. They erected the World War I memorial and it was one of several throughout the country plus over in Europe. But this Garden City memorial From page 39

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Lieutenant Steven Braun (seventh from right) and Sergeant Kevin Reilly (fifth from right) took their oaths of office during a brief ceremony at Village Hall Thursday, July 20, 2017. Both gentlemen are pictured here with (from left) Garden City Trustees Mark Hyer, John Delany and Robert Bolebruch, Mayor Brian Daughney, Deputy Mayor Trouvé, Police Commissioner Kenneth Jackson, Trustees Stephen Makrinos and Louis Minuto and Deputy Mayor John DeMaro.

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Deputy Mayor Theresa Trouvé administers the oath of office to Lieutenant Steven Braun during a brief ceremony at Village Hall Thursday, July 20, 2017.

Deputy Mayor Theresa Trouvé administers the oath of office to Sergeant Kevin Reilly during a brief ceremony at Village Hall Thursday, July 20, 2017.

It was Police Commissioner Kenneth Jackson’s privilege and honor to introduce Lieutenant Steven Braun and Sergeant Kevin Reilly to the Board of Trustees July 20, 2017 speaking highly of their accolades while serving the Village for a combined 43 years.

Deputy Mayor Theresa Trouvé administered their oaths of office during a brief ceremony at Village Hall.

Lt. Braun is a 26-year veteran of the Garden City Police Department.

During those years, he was assigned to the Bureau of Special Operations as a Detective in 1997 and promoted to Sergeant in 2008.

Throughout his career, Lt. Braun has been the recipient of many departmental

Law & Order Award and the Nassau County Municipal Police Chief’s Association Distinguished Service Award.

He has spent nearly 24 years with the New York Army National Guard. He retired as a Major in November 2006. He spent six months deployed to Ground Zero, one-and-a-half years active duty deployment in 2004 and 2005 and was activated out of retirement in 2008 for two years of active duty deployment to Maiwand, Afghanistan. He was Commander of the PMT Mongoose, a 12-man team that advised, trained and mentored the Afghan Police and District Leadership. While deployed he was awarded the Bronze Star and the Purple Heart as well as other awards.

Garden City Police Lieutenant, Sergeant take their oaths awards, as well as the Congressional Certificate of Merit, the Nassau County Municipal Chief’s Distinguished Service Award and the Town of Hempstead Police Service Award.

Lt. Braun resides in Suffolk County with his wife, Theresa. He has three children, Max, Bella and Lucas.

“Lieutenant Braun has proven himself to be an exceptional officer and has established himself as both an effective investigator and leader,” Commissioner Jackson said. “We have no doubt he will do well in this new role.”

During Sgt. Reilly’s nearly 18-year career with the GC Police Department, he too has received numerous awards and citations, including the American Legion

He and his wife, Erin, who is retired from the New York City Police Department, have been married for 25 years. They have a son, Brett, a Petty Officer, First Class, in the United States Navy, Active Duty, attending SUNY Maritime for Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering in his senior year.

They also have a daughter, Bridget, a junior at SUNY Albany studying Digital Forensics.

“Sergeant Reilly is of outstanding character and integrity and has distinguished himself through his hard work and devotion to public service. He will be an excellent role model for the officers he will be supervising,” Commissioner Jackson said.

From page 36 was hostile and abusive towards African Americans…. defendants acted with malice and/or reckless indifference to plaintiff’s constitutionally protected rights.“ Merrill explains an abrupt change for Wiggins after the photo was put online.

“He was there for 20 years and this was his sole means of income. He caddied for celebrities who are members of Garden City Mens Club, from New York Giants quarterback Eli Manning to CBS Sports broadcaster and former NFL quarterback Boomer Esiason.

Mr. Wiggins created a lot of personal relationships at the club and after this incident he was too embarrassed to go back. His family was distraught and people kept calling to ask him what was going on because they saw this picture online,” Merrill said. Right after Wiggins found out about the picture posted online, he left his longtime position.

In a separate court filing by Wiggins on October 27, 2016, motioned as a class-action lawsuit, Wiggins is seeking unpaid wages for the caddies who worked alongside him throughout his years at the club. That lawsuit specified between 25 and 70 other caddies who were not receiving proper compensation and healthcare during their employment, which was described in the wage lawsuit: “throughout their employment, golf caddies have neither been classified as employees not independent contractors, and as a result have been deprived of basic rights guaranteed to all employees under federal, state, and local laws.” The claim infers that caddies were deprived of basic statutory protective benefits, not paid any wages by defendants (Garden City Mens Club) and they were not paid even minimum wage.

In the wage lawsuit Wiggins stated his dates of employment at the Garden City Golf Club as 18 years,

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from 1997 through September of 2015. But it does not make mention of conditions behind his exit from working at the club. That lawsuit alleges that “golf caddies receive assignments and duties and are subject to discipline by the caddy master (Ouellette). In all aspects of their employment caddies are employees, but they are treated as one would treat robots who only require regular programming, daily “turn on” and maintenance. The suit states the conditions as a basis for recovering unpaid wages “for such damages as may be determined for negligent or intentional infliction of emotional distress, unjust enrichment and the deprivation of benefits required by federal and New York State law.”

For the Civil Rights and punitive damages case, Merrill says a compliance conference with the judge is scheduled for mid-to-late August. Depositions from Ouellette and others are scheduled for September.

Village to commemorate WWI 100th anniversary

From page 37 was special – it was at Camp Mills, where the military organized and deployed to World War I from.

In 1941 the memorial went up and 30 years later the foundation was established. They (veterans of WWI) knew that they would be all gone one day and nobody would hold a service or memorial in their honor – who was going to remember what we did?

Here we are 100 years later, and our foundation chips in 50 percent of the cost with the village,” General Taluto explained.

He said there’s already positive feelings from

Garden City to the many Rainbow Veterans across the country that the War that happened 100 years ago and a memorial established 76 years ago resulted in a restoration this summer to honor those who served.

Looking at the National Guard service in World War I and more recently in Iraq, General Taluto said “history has a way of repeating itself.” The refreshed and reinvigorated partnership between U.S. military veterans and the memorial inside the village honoring their service, culminating in the August 12 event, represents years of remembrance with investments and dedications from a new generation. It may not be

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1917 or 1941, two very uncertain times for America at war, but remembering the country’s history and the service of those who died for freedom continues to bring people from all walks together, again united in Garden City.

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Garden City “A” Swim Team swimming in the Rain

Despite the cold and the rain, the Garden City “A” Swim Team rallied together to win their fourth meet of the 2017 season by defeating Clinton Martin Park. Winning nearly all their races the team triumphed with a score of 243 over Clinton Martin’s score of 75. With only one meet left, the team will spend this week preparing for their final meet and upcoming Division I Champs where they will swim to defend their title. The team hopes to finish this season undefeated. Go GC!

Tim Voelker swimming freestyle for boys 11-12

Sarah DeCicco swimming freestyle for girls 13 & over

Thomas Santos swimming butterfly for boys 11-12

Mae Gaffney swimming butterfly for girls 8 & under

Ella Newmark and Brooke Tarr swmming the butterfly for girls 11-12

James Burke swimming the butterfly for boys 13 & over

Thomas Santucci swimming freestyle for boys 9-10

Ian Straus swimming the freestyle for boys 8 & under

Jonathan DeCicco swimming freestyle for boys 11-12

Andrew Sallusto swimming butterfly for boys 13 & over

Aidan Gaffney swimming backstroke for boys 13 & over

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Hayes Street holds block party

On Saturday, July 22nd, the residents of Hayes Street enjoyed a block party. It was a warm summer day and the street was filled with good neighbors, friends

and the laughter of children. The party was a great success and residents hope to make it an annual event.

The bouncy house was very popular.

Hula hoop contest

Everyone had a great time

Neighbors got to meet

Neighbors with the block party banner

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Mansions on Fifth Historic Boutique Hotel in Pittsburgh’s Shadyside Lets You Reside in Gilded Age Splendor

BY KAREN RUBIN

The jaw-dropping grand Mansion on Fifth, in Pittsburgh’s tony Shadyside neighborhood, home to Carnegie, Frick and other celebrated industrialists and bankers, now a boutique hotel where you get to feel as if you were transported back to the Gilded Age © 2017 Karen Rubin/goingplacesfarandnear.com

I return to Pittsburgh when I come back to do my second Railsto-Trails Sojourn on the Great Allegheny Passage, a fantastic rail-trail that stretches across Western Pennsylvania, from Cumberland, Md. to Pittsburgh, this time a longer trip, 150 miles, that finishes on the Montour Trail (see stories, 7/7, 7/14).

I had been dazzled by Pittsburgh on my first visit a year ago and the same is true this time.

It is no wonder that this city, built on steel and coal, rejuvenated, revitalized, has been named one of America’s most liveable cities.

What is best about it is how it retained the best of old and new.

This time, as luck would have it, I choose a historic hotel, Mansions on Fifth, that is in the tony Shadyside neighborhood, a short walk away from the Carnegie Museums and the Cathedral of Learning, so that my all-too-brief time in this glorious city is spent immersed in the city’s leading cultural attractions that I had not been able to visit a year ago. It also puts me right into the Gilded Age part of Pittsburgh’s

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story, almost literally in the footsteps of the Industrialists, Moguls and Robber Barons who so dominated American society and politics, immortalized by the legacies they left: Andrew Carnegie, Henry Clay Frick, George Westinghouse, Andrew Mellon.

Mansions on Fifth – which is actually two neighboring mansion homes that have been converted into a boutique hotel - is the sort of place that when you pull up, your jaw drops. And for the brief time that you are here, you feel what it must have been like to be part of Pittsburgh’s upper-crust, the society of industrial titans. You know how historic places being “living history” places because of people? That’s what you feel like when you stay and inhabit these rooms, continuing the life and spirit of these structures that seem to have a life of their own and stories to tell. People come and go, after all, but these structures remain, albeit in the care of stewards who take on the awesome responsibility.

(Whenever I travel, I first check out Historic Hotels of America’s site, historichotels.org, to see if there is a member property because the experience is always extraordinary; for my last visit, I stayed at the Omni William Penn Hotel, an iconic property right downtown. Mansions on Fifth used to be an HHA member, prior to being acquired in 2016 by Priory Hospitality Group, Pittsburgh’s premier owner, operator and developer of independent

hotels and event spaces. Among its other holdings, Priory Hospitality Group owns and operates the Priory Hotel and Grand Hall at the Priory on Pittsburgh’s North Shore.)

Indeed, Mansions on Fifth puts you right back into Pittsburgh’s history and its story: “The late 1890’s and early 1900’s were in many ways Pittsburgh’s golden age, measured by prosperity and economic might, if not by a clean environment.

Pittsburgh was a financial and industrial powerhouse as well as a center of river and rail transportation.

In 1900, Pittsburgh produced more than half of the crucible steel in the nation, and by 1910, it was the eighth most populous city in the country.

“It was also a time where giants of the business world traversed Shadyside’s Fifth Avenue – ‘Millionaire’s Row’ – on a daily basis. Names such as Carnegie, Mellon, Frick, Westinghouse and Heinz were among the leading citizens of the day.”

This 20,000 sq. ft. mansion was built in the early 1900s by Willis F. McCook, a prosperous attorney and legal counsel to steel and coke magnate Henry Clay Frick for himself, his wife Mary and their 10 children.

McCook was most famous for having represented Frick, but he was highly accomplished in his own right, the notes show. “A groundbreaker in modern day corporate law, McCook studied law at Columbia University following his graduation from Yale in 1873. He was also a pioneering athlete, serving

as captain of Yale’s first football team and playing in the first intercollegiate football game in the nation. Later in life, he served as president and director of the Pittsburgh Steel Company, and was a partner in the law firm McCook & Jarrett. He died in 1923 at the age of 72.”

Here among the leafy green trees on a hilltop, it is easy to imagine how clean and cool the air was in comparison to the choking atmosphere of the steel mills that shrouded the city below. This was heaven befitting these massively successful titans; that was hell.

While his mansion was being built, McCook’s daughter Bessie became engaged, so he contracted to build a more modest (but still spacious at 8,000 square feet) home adjacent to his own.

The smaller mansion (now the Mansions on Fifth Hotel’s Amberson House) was completed first, and the main house (now called the Fifth Avenue House), was finished in 1906.

The two mansions were designed in the Elizabethan Revivalist and Tudor styles by the architectural firm Carpenter & Crocker, of Pittsburgh’s East End. Many of the firm’s other projects, which range from Florida to Washington state, exist today, including the iconic Trinity Cathedral Parish House in downtown Pittsburgh. The contractor on the McCook estate was Thomas Reilly, who also built the massive and magnificent St. Paul’s Cathedral just down Fifth Avenue from the estate. Reilly also worked with Carpenter & Crocker on the Parish

House at Trinity Cathedral.

“McCook and his designers and builders spared no expense, using some of the finest craftsmen of the era, including master ironworker Cyril Colnik (fixtures and decorative items), Rudy Brothers Art Glass (leaded and stained glass installations), and Rookwood Ceramic Tile (for the decorative tile around the fireplaces in the houses). The stunning carved wood in the Grand Hall of the Fifth Avenue House was produced by Woolaeger Manufacturing of Milwaukee. The total cost of the project was $300,000 in 1906 ($7.6 million in today’s dollars).

After McCook died in1923, the family continued to live in the main mansion through the 1930’s. But the Great Depression took its toll and the family was unable to keep current with their property taxes. Seized for sheriff’s sale by the Allegheny County Sheriff’s Department, the mansion was purchased in 1949 by Emil Bonavita, Sr. and his wife Margaret for $28,000.

The Bonavitas moved into the mansion with their two children, Emil, Jr. and Charles.

As a way to pay for upkeep for the massive building, the Bonavitas rented out rooms on the upper floors to students at nearby Carnegie Mellon University. Students were thoroughly screened, and many of those attracted to the historic property were studying at CMU’s prominent arts and theater schools. According to Pittsburgh PostGazette architecture writer Patricia

The Amberson House, built for McCook’s daughter, Bessie McCook Reed, next door Light streams in to a wood-paneled lobby from stained glass windows on the to the main mansion. She lived in the home from the time of her marriage until her staircase of the Mansion on Fifth to one of the cozy sitting areas in front of a fireplace passing in 1966. It is now part of the Mansions on Fifth historic hotel © 2017 Karen © 2017 Karen Rubin/goingplacesfarandnear.com Rubin/goingplacesfarandnear.com

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screened, and many of those attracted to the historic property were studying at CMU’s prominent arts and theater schools. According to Pittsburgh PostGazette architecture writer Patricia Lowry, tenants included Albert Brooks, Andy Warhol, Shirley Jones and George Peppard.

Margaret, who acted as a house mother to the many students who resided at the home over the years, resided in the McCook mansion until her much mourned death in 2003.

Bessie McCook Reed, for whom the Amberson House was built in 1905, lived in the home from the time of her marriage until her passing in 1966. Three years later, Emil Bonavita, Jr. and his wife Marie acquired the Amberson House and moved in to raise their family of four children. Emil and Marie also assisted in the boarding operations at the larger Fifth Avenue House.

In 2004, the Fifth Avenue House, the main mansion, sustained a devastating fire which caused extensive damage to the upper floors. The building became uninhabitable, andcould no longer house the students. Emil and Marie looked to sell the damaged mansion to a purchaser who would restore it.

Pittsburgh preservationists, husband and wife Mary Del Brady and

Richard Pearson, acquired both houses of the former McCook estate from the Bonavitas for $1.5 million. Their idea was to redevelop the property into a boutique hotel and event center.

Restoration and repair work, which was extensive given the fire damage, began in January 2010. The Fifth Avenue House, the primary mansion, was completed in early 2011 and opened to the public in March of that year with 13 guest rooms and suites, the grand hall event space, a library, the Oak Room pub, and two private dining rooms. The adjacent Amberson House, with 9 guest rooms and suites, opened in November 2012. The total cost exceeded $8 million.

The properties were recognized as an historic landmark by the National Trust for Historic Preservation in 2012.

New Era for Mansions on Fifth In late September 2016, Pittsburghbased boutique hotel owner/operator Priory Hospitality Group acquired the operating assets of the Mansions on Fifth Hotel and assumed operations of the Shadyside property. Owned and operated by the Graf family since 1986, the Priory Hospitality Group’s properties include the award winning Priory Hotel (a Tripadvisor Hall of Fame member), Grand Hall at the Priory event facility (Best Wedding Venue – City Paper 2016; Best of the Knot 2006-2016;

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Priory Hospitality Group invested a considerable amount to upgrade the properties and its amenities, while preserving its historic character and charm.

The Mansions on Fifth today offers

22 elegant guest rooms (each one different; you feel more like a family guest than an out-of-towner) in the two distinct historic buildings – the main 20,000 sq. ft. Fifth Avenue House and the adjacent 8,000 sq. ft. Amberson House. The Fifth Avenue House also has the hotel’s reception desk, dining room, Oak Room pub, chapel, library See page D5

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The Good Old Days?

BY MARION LAMBERSON LEISTMAN

I have fond memories of the 1937 to 1950 time period. It was a time when life was simple, a time of feeling safe in small town America. We kids, unsupervised, could walk in the woods and wade in the stream, play in empty lots, sleigh ride on hills at a nearby estate.

We could take a bus to the shopping district and meander around, just for something to do. We played hide and seek through the backyards, and we rode our bikes around town.

We enjoyed the neighborhood conviviality when every household on the block sat on their front stoops until the house cooled down enough to consider going to bed. Being allowed to stay up late was a bonus. Not remembered fondly was that while we were chatting, we were constantly swatting mosquitos. Our stoop time was reduced when window exhaust fans became popular, as the hot air was expelled and cool air from outside was drawn in. The cool air made it possible to sleep, but the mosquitos came in with us and when I was awakened by buzzing, I had to get up and check the walls. If I went back to bed without finding the culprit, I would surely wake again to the buzzing sound around my head.

Now I sleep comfortably on

the hottest summer nights because of the wonderful invention of air conditioning. I am not awakened by hungry mosquitos because Nassau County Mosquito Control has practically eradicated them.

My mother was an excellent cook and baker, turning out delicious roasts, pies, cakes, and cookies. I remember so well seeing her stick her hand in the oven to ascertain when it had reached the correct temperature.

Fortunately, by the time I began to cook, an oven that could be set for the appropriate temperature had been invented. I don’t think I would be so adept at hand temperature control as Mom was. Now my wall oven preheats to the desired temperature, beeps to let me know when that temperature is reached, and I can set an alarm to go off when cooking time is finished.

Cleaning the oven with gooey cleaners was messy, hard work, and a task Mom hated and I hated for the many years I had to do it. Now when the oven needs cleaning, I just push some buttons and the job is done for me. No more fretting over overflowed blueberry pie!

I save energy by using my toaster oven instead of the big oven. I marvel at how swiftly my microwave oven

heats food.

When I was a child, flypaper hung in the kitchen and we had a flyswatter at the ready to swat the annoying flies; now, as with mosquitos, I am never bothered with them.

We didn’t have a telephone until World War II ended, and then all that was available was a four person party line. If you wanted to make a call and someone was already using the line, you had to wait. Also, the other parties could listen in on all your conversations. Not an ideal situation, but better than nothing. What a relief when at last we had our own private line. The original rotary dial phones eventually were upgraded to push-button phones.

Now I have a phone with caller ID

that tells me who is calling and voice mail that takes messages when I am not available. In addition, I have a cell phone that I can carry with me wherever I go, so that I have the peace of mind of knowing that in an emergency I am able to quickly communicate the problem.

When I was a child, the radio brought news and entertainment into our homes. We listened intently to programs such as The Lone Ranger, I Love a Mystery, The green Hornet, Fibber McGee and Molly, Fred Allen, Jack Benny. We listened to the news when we ate Sunday night supper, and one unforgettable Sunday evening we See page D6

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Explaining Medicare Card Codes

BY TOM MARGENAU

Q: My wife and I are both on Social Security and Medicare.

Her Medicare card has my Social Security number with a “B” after it.

When I die, I know she will get widow’s benefits. But will she continue to get Medicare on my record?

A: Yes, she will continue to get Medicare on your record. The only thing that will change is that she will get a new Medicare card, still with your Social Security number, but this time with a letter “D” behind it.

The Medicare people simply use the Social Security claim number as your Medicare number. Currently, your wife is claiming benefits on your account.

“B” is the symbol the Social Security Administration uses to denote wife’s benefits. When you die, your wife will be claiming widow’s benefits on your record. And “D” is the symbol SSA uses for widow’s benefits.

Q: Can you explain the little letter symbols the Medicare people use on our Medicare cards?

A: I put your question here on purpose because it nicely dovetails into what I wrote in the last answer.

As I said, your Medicare number simply mirrors your Social Security claim number. And the little letter symbols behind the SSN signify various kinds of Social Security benefits. SSA calls them BICs. That stands for beneficiary identification codes. They run from A to W. And many of them have subsets, like B2 and C3, etc. So I simply don’t have the space to get into all of them. I will just give the most common ones.

--A: retirement benefits.

--B: wife’s benefits.

--B6: divorced wife’s benefits.

--C: child’s benefits.

--D: widow’s benefits.

--D6: divorced widow’s benefits.

--E: mother’s benefits (widows under age 60 with minor children).

Q: I am 67 and getting widow’s benefits from Social Security. My own retirement benefit was small -- only $455 per month. My widow’s rate is $2,175. In a prior column, you told a woman in a situation similar to my own that she was actually getting benefits from both her own and her husband’s Social Security account. I’d like to know if that’s true in my case, too. Can you prove it to me?

A: The easiest way of proving it would be to check your Medicare card.

I will bet my next pension check that it shows your number with a letter “A” behind it. (This woman got back to me and, sure enough, her Medicare card has her number with an “A.”) As mentioned above, the Medicare number reflects your Social Security claim number. So that means you are claiming retirement benefits on your own Social

Security record. That’s your primary Social Security account. Then they are supplementing your retirement with the extra widow’s benefits you are due.

Or to put that another way, you are getting $455 in retirement benefits and $1,720 in widow’s benefits to take your total monthly income from Social Security up to your $2,175 full widow’s rate.

Q: I just turned 70 and I am so confused about my Medicare card.

It started out with my own Social Security number followed by the letter “T.” Then for several years, I had a card with my husband’s number followed by a “B.” And just recently, I got a new Medicare card -- and it’s back to my Social Security number, but this time with an “A” behind it. It’s confusing enough for me. I can’t imagine how it is messing up the Medicare billing clerks! What’s going on?

A: What’s going on is that your Social Security claims situation has changed over the years. When you were 65, you signed up for Medicare only. Because you weren’t claiming any benefits, there was no claim number to add to your Medicare card. So they simply used your own Social Security number with the letter “T” behind it. The “T” originally stood for something else in the SSA BIC code dictionary. But it became useful in these situations. So think of it as meaning “temporary.”

When you turned 66, you must have employed the “file and restrict” maximizing strategy, claiming wife’s benefits on your husband’s record with plans to save your own retirement benefits until age 70. So between age 66 and 70, you were claiming wife’s benefits on your husband’s Social Security account.

That’s why your Medicare card during those years had his number with a “B” behind it -- the code for wife’s benefits.

When you reached age 70, you switched to your own retirement benefits, getting the 132 percent rate payable to folks who delay filing for retirement until 70. So now, your Medicare number switches back to your own Social Security number, but this time with an “A” behind it denoting the fact that you are getting retirement benefits.

By the way, the decision to use the Social Security claim number as the Medicare number dates back to the 1960s when the federal health insurance program began. At that time, nobody was playing games with their Social Security benefits, switching back and forth from one account to another. So it made perfect sense to just adopt the Social Security claim number as the Medicare number.

For a while now, there has been some talk of setting up a completely separate numbering system for Medicare cards.

But I don’t think those plans will go anywhere for two reasons. One: Who

wants to add another government ID number to the list of things they have to remember? And two: These maximizing strategies are going away in a couple years, so people will no longer be switching back and forth from one Social Security account to another. And

that means Medicare numbers won’t be changing either.

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

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The Front Desk is staffed 24 hours a day to provide help with directions, restaurant recommendations, check in, , while butlers are available from 7 a.m. to 11 p.m. every day to assist.

My room is in the Amberson House,

glass and ceramic shower enclosures, Gilchrist and Soames organic bath and shower amenities, and soft, thick towels woven with bamboo fibers.

Some guest rooms and suites also feature fireplaces and jetted tubs. The spacious Presidential Suite has two separate bedrooms and baths and nearly 1,000 square feet of living space.

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Now Serving Breakfast Daily 7:30-11:00AM My room at Amberson House makes you feel more like a weekend guest of the McCook family rather than an out-of-towner © 2017 Karen Rubin/goingplacesfarandnear.com which for my all-too-brief stay makes you feel like you are really at home in a mansion. The Amberson House offers its own cozy and comfortable first floor common areas in addition to guest rooms, and there is coffee set up in the entrance way. It would be perfect for a family or group to take over (indeed, during my stay, there is a large wedding party.)

You can appreciate the renovations: each of the elegant guest rooms and suites features a spacious bathroom with

In addition, the Mansions on Fifth Hotel offers a wide variety of amenities and services, including: complimentary continental breakfast (with a more hearty ala carte breakfast available at an additional cost); complimentary newly upgraded Wireless Internet service; complimentary on premise parking (not a small matter in Pittsburgh); guest computer with WiFi access and printer; See page D6

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Mansions on Fifth Historic Boutique Hotel in Pittsburgh’s Shadyside Lets You Reside in Gilded Age Splendor C ontinued from page D5 Fitness Center and The Oak Room pub, open 4 p.m. to 11 p.m. daily, featuring craft cocktails, fine wines, and a variety of microbrew beers.

The Oak Room pub also is the venue for a variety of weekly events, from wine flights, to whiskey tastings, to live music.

Mansions on Fifth is a delightful venue for weddings (there is one that had just finished when I arrive), family reunions and special events. You can basically take over the two mansion homes.

(I am also intrigued to visit the Priory Group’s historic, 42-room boutique hotel that was once a Benedictine monastery, built in 1888, meticulously restored to modern standards and featuring all the amenities of a large downtown property with the intimacy of a small European hotel, located in Deutschtown on the North Shore, a near walk to the Andy Warhol Museum and downtown Pittsburgh. The Priory Group spent $2.7 million to upgrade the property, adding a new, larger front desk and a cozy pub -- the Monks’ Bar

– in the original building, a Fitness Center and Business Center, as well as state of the art meeting space in a new wing.)

Mansions on Fifth, 5105 Fifth Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15232, 412-381-5105, 800465-9550, http://mansionsonfifth.com/.

For more information, contact Visit Pittsburgh, 412-281-7711, 800359-0758, 877-LOVE PGH (5683744), info@visitpittsburgh.com, www. visitpittsburgh.com.

Next: Exploring Pittsburgh’s Oakland Cultural Attractions

W R I T E R’S C O R N E R

The Good Old Days?

C ontinued from page D3 heard that Pearl Harbor was attacked.

Now I watch a flat-screened television in color. With my DVR I can record programs that broadcast in the middle of the night and watch them at my convenience, and I can watch DVDs and tapes.

My parents both drove our 1937 Willys Overland with a stick shift, but if automatic shifts hadn’t been invented and I had to use a manual shift, I don’t know if I could ever have driven. It certainly would have been a struggle, and turning the wheel was not easy until power steering came along.

I learned to type on a standard Underwood typewriter. I had to pound the keys and forcefully push the return lever. If a mistake was made, it had to be carefully erased and typed over so that it was undetectable. When I went back to work years later, electric typewriters had been invented. That was a big improvement which necessitated retraining myself to use a very light touch.

Then came the invention of dedicated word processors, with the ability to make mistakes disappear. This was a typist’s dream come true. Today I have

word processing on my multifaceted computer. I can compose documents, easily make changes to them, store them, and restore them. With email I communicate with family and friends instantaneously. I can obtain information on any subject from the search engine Google, and I get comprehensive up-to-minute news from my home page.

I marvel at how the computer can talk to me. If I make a typo when googling, it asks if that is what I meant to say. I sometimes think there is a teeny little man inside my skinny machine. I also talk to the computer, or rather I scream at it, when it doesn’t seem to understand me. Usually, though, we get along fine and it is indispensable to me.

How could I not miss the bygone days of swimming in the nearby pristine beaches, lakes, and ponds. How could I not miss the days when a group of kids unaccompanied by an adult could go to a 25 cent movie on a Saturday afternoon. How could I not miss the scent of the clean, fresh air we breathed. I would like to go back to such a time, but only if I could take with me my television, microwave oven, cell phone, the ubiquitous computer, and most indispensable, air conditioning!

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Keep Your Cool in the Heat of Summer

BY MARY HUNT It’s summer, and it’s a scorcher in my time zone -- 103 degrees F. But the heat where I live, in northern Colorado, is dry -- only 10 percent humidity. I know, you’re laughing -- as if 103 degrees and dry were any more tolerable than a more humid 103. Actually, it is, or so the weather experts tell us.

As the summer heat continues to bear down across the U.S., millions of window-mounted air conditioners are getting a real workout. Chris Hall, president of RepairClinic.com, says his company is ready for the seasonal spike in questions from consumers who are wondering why their AC unit isn’t working properly. In many instances, consumers can rectify the problem themselves if they have the right advice.

Hall says: “More than any other household appliance, air conditioning units are often neglected.

This is a pity because they are big energy users and a little maintenance means that homeowners can save money on both utility

and repair bills.” His company provides consumers with the information and parts they need to fix their appliances themselves. “If the unit does stop working, we can often save consumers a visit from a repair technician,” he says.

All residential window air conditioners have a cooling system consisting of four primary components: a compressor, an evaporator, a temperature-sensing device and a condenser. Air conditioner cooling systems are better understood if you think of them more as a device that removes heat and humidity from the air than a device that cools the air.

These are the essential maintenance steps you should take to keep your window-mounted air conditioning unit operating in tiptop condition while using the least amount of energy: 1. Every month during the months of operation, replace (or clean) the filter located in the front grill.

2. The condensing coils on an air conditioner get very dirty, and the dirt tends to accumulate on the

inside of the coils (out of sight).

Once a year, remove the entire cover of the air conditioner to gain access to the coils, and then clean them by blowing compressed air on them or scrubbing with a soft bristle brush.

3. Don’t despair if you’ve accidentally bent the aluminum fins on the rear of the unit. RepairClinic will send you a handy fin-straightening comb for $2.

And here are expert answers to the top three dilemmas: --A motor is running, but no air is blowing. Air conditioners have two motors: the compressor and the fan motor. It is possible that only one is running. If after removing the cover of the unit you discover the fan blade is very stiff and difficult to rotate, the fan motor may need oiling or to be replaced.

--Water leaks from the front of the unit. This is normal. All air conditioners should be installed so they tilt slightly backward to allow for proper removal of condensed water that accumulates.

The air smells musty. Air conditioners remove moisture from the

air. Most of it is evaporated from the unit. However, it is possible for some water to stagnate in the base of the air conditioner. Also, dirt, lint or dust can collect in the water pan at the base of the unit and absorb water, allowing mold and mildew to grow. All this leads to bad smells. Thoroughly clean the water pan each year when you clean the condenser coils.

Need more help with your window-mounted air conditioners?

Check RepairClinic.com. You may find exactly what you need. Or call a customer service representative for help at 1(800) 269-2609.

Mary invites questions, comments and tips at mary@everydaycheapskate.com, or c/o Everyday Cheapskate, 12340 Seal Beach Blvd., Suite B-416, Seal Beach, CA 90740. This column will answer questions of general interest, but letters cannot be answered individually. Mary Hunt is the founder of www.DebtProofLiving.com, a personal finance member website and the author of “Debt-Proof Living,” released in 2014. .

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During checkout at your next vet appointment, you can also round up your bill to make a donation. Please see your local VCA Animal Hospital for details. The flyer for this program can be downloaded from our website: http://lasthopeanimalrescue.org/penniesfor-pets-at-vca-animal-hospitals/

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The cowboys and cowgirls of Garden City moseyed on down to seventh street last Friday night for a rootin’ tootin’ grand old time at the Wild West Promenade. The villagers could be heard hootin’ and hollerin’ as they rounded up their cowboy loot and attire supplied by the Chamber of Commerce.

Jake’s Rockin’ Country Band filled the streets with good old foot stomping music while everyone enjoyed outdoor dining, restaurant specials, face painting, balloon animals and much,

much more.

A highlight of the evening was Wild Bill the Mechanical Bull. Proving this wasn’t Garden City’s first Rodeo, the kids burned the breeze on the back of Wild Bill into the sunset and beyond!

An evening of good old-fashioned family fun, grub and horsin’ around was enjoyed by all who attended.

Don’t forget to “Swing into Seventh” at 6pm for tonight’s swing dancing promenade featuring JB and the Showmance Band!

Wild Bill the Mechanical Bull was a popular attraction.

Getting ready to ride the bull.

A couple of cowpokes try on a hat.

Sharing some ice cream a the Wild West Promenade It was a lovely evening to meet up with old friends.

The bull was surrounded by inflatable bumpers to protect the riders.

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Riding the mechanical bull was a blast.

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SCORE Small Business Workshops

Garden City Public Library Tuesday, September 19th and Tuesday, September 26th at 7PM The Garden City Public Library welcomes SCORE: Counselors to America’s Small Business, which is hosting two workshops this fall. Starting your own business can be fun and rewarding. A little knowledge on how to begin and sustain a business is more than helpful. SCORE volunteer counselors are people who have had careers in business who enjoy sharing their knowledge and experience with new entrepreneurs. This first workshop on Tuesday, September 19th at 7PM is for people who are thinking about starting a new business or people who already have a small business. It includes financing a

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

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

You will learn marketing disciplines, budgeting and the key elements to write a marketing plan to reach your specific audience, advertising.

All are welcome. You may attend either or both of these programs.

No registration is required for these programs.

Library to host blood drive

Long Island Blood Services will hold a blood drive in their Blood Mobile in front of the Garden City Public Library located at 60 Seventh Street, Garden City on Tuesday, August 8, from 2 – 8 p.m.

All donors will receive an electronic voucher for two tickets to see the New York Mets at Citifield.

Area hospitals are in need of local residents’ help. Each donation can help to save up to three lives. Eligible donors must be between 16 and 75 years

of age, with a minimum weight of 110 lbs., and no tattoos within the past 12 months. Sixteen year olds must have parental permission and donors age 76 and over must present a doctor’s note.

All donors must have valid ID with signature or photo. Donors are encouraged to eat well (low fat) and drink fluids. For medical questions concerning blood donations, call 1-800-688-0900.

Call the Library at 742-8405 x210 to schedule an appointment. Walk-ins are welcome.

Author Edward A. McCoyd to speak at GC Library

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

Mr. McCoyd uses his vast knowledge of trust and estate matters, including litigation to bring authenticity to his books. Through his novels, Ed enjoys sharing what can happen when everyone heads to the courthouse. This informative and lively program is open to all.

Books will be available to be purchased and personally signed by the author. No registration is required.

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Win Prizes by Joining the Summer Reading Club 2017

Registration is underway for the Tweens and Teens Build a Better World Summer Reading Club! Tweens and Teens can sign-up online via Eventkeeper (www.gardencitypl.org).

Once you sign-up, you can submit book review cards in the Tweens and Teens room or via email to laurag@gardencitypl.org. Submit one review and you’ll be invited to our End of Summer Pizza Party on Wednesday, August 9 and will have a chance to win one of this year’s raffle prizes! This year’s raffle prizes include: • Polaroid ZIP Instant Mobile Photo

Printer • Ice-Cream Maker • Art Gift Set • $50 Gift Card to Lacrosse

Unlimited • $50 Gift Card to AMC Movie

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

Registration is ongoing until Monday, August 7 at 9PM. Reviews must be submitted no later than Tuesday, August 8 at 9PM. Registrants must be entering Grades 6-12 in Fall 2017. The more books you read and the more reviews you enter, the more chances you have to win!

Movie Night: Rogue One: A Star Wars Story

Join us for some snacks and beverages on Monday, August 7, 6PM-8:15PM while we watch the newest Star Wars movie, Rogue One. This program is for tweens and teens entering Grades 6-12 in Fall 2017. Registration is required and began Monday, July 31 online via Eventkeeper (www.gardencitypl.org).

Space is limited, so check Eventkeeper for availability. This program has been rated PG-13. This program has been funded by the Friends of the Garden City Public Library.

Yak and Snack Book Club: Legend

Read Marie Lu’s dystopian science fiction novel Legend and then join us for a book discussion on Tuesday, August 8, 5:00PM-6:00PM. Registration is required and began Monday, June 19 online via Eventkeeper (www.gardencitypl.org).

Space is limited, so check Eventkeeper for availability. Pick up a copy of the book in the YA room to check out. Bring a dinner to eat. Snacks & beverages provided. This program is for tweens and teens entering Grades 6-12 in Fall 2017.

End of Summer Pizza Party

If you are signed up for the Tweens and Teeens Summer Reading Club, then join us for our End of Summer Pizza Party on Wednesday, August 9, 6PM-7PM! You must be signed up for the Summer Reading Club and have completed one book review by Tuesday, August 8 in order to attend.

Tweens and teens can sign-up for the Tweens and Teens Summer Reading Club until Monday, August 7 online via Eventkeeper (www.gardencitypl.org).

This program is for tweens and teens entering Grades 6-12 in Fall 2017. Pizza and soda will be served. Door prizes will be awarded to those who attend, including a gift donated by Madison Taylor Salon. The first 30 who arrive will get to select a young adult book to take home; tweens and teens will be select books on a first-come, first-served basis. The raffle prizes for the Summer Reading Club will also be drawn at the end of the party, although the winner does not have to be present to win. This program has been funded by the Friends of the Garden City Public Library.

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Every week until July 28, the Children’s Room will have a jar filled with an assortment of things. Your job is to guess how many are in there.

This week’s prize was won by two children. The prize was erasers shaped like tools. The two winners were Susanna Phinney who is entering 4th grade and Alex Pontone who is entering kindergarten. Susanna and Alex split the prize and each went home with plenty of erasers! Congratulations Susanna and Alex!

The Children’s Librarians have set aside summer reading books required by all the schools in the Garden City School District as well as St. Joseph’s.

These books are very popular so come in and get your copies today. Remember you can read anywhere! It doesn’t have to be at the library – read at the beach, read at the pool, read in your backyard,

read on vacation!

The Summer Reading Club for 2017 and the festival are over. Grand prize winners will be announced next week.

Prizes must be picked up by the end of August. Thanks to all who participated!

Planning for the fall is now underway. The schedule of storytimes and programs will be available near the end of August. Registration is expected to begin on Monday, September 18th at 9:30 AM. Please check the Library website www.gardencitypl.org for upcoming events and registration dates.

Funding for programs is provided by the Friends of the Garden City Public Library. Priority for registration and participation is given to children who are Garden City Public Library cardholders.

Coffee & Tea by the Book

Breakdown by B.A. Paris Garden City Public Library Tuesday, September 12th at 9:30AM In Person Registration Begins Wednesday, August 16th In person registration for Garden City Library cardholders begins on Wednesday, August 16th at 9:30AM at the Reference Desk of the Library for the next Coffee & Tea by the Book discussion. The program will be held on Tuesday, September 12th on the Lower Level at 9:30AM sharp. Librarians Laura Flanagan and Ann Garnett will moderate a discussion of Breakdown by B.A. Paris.

Would you stop to help the driver of a stalled vehicle on an isolated wooded road during a major storm? As the morning news reveals that the stranded driver had been brutally murdered,

probably minutes after Cass drove by, this is the question she repeatedly asks herself as she replays those moments from the night before. In the same vein as the author’s acclaimed debut, Behind Closed Doors, this riveting psychological thriller pulls readers into an engrossing narrative in which every character is suspect. With its wellformed protagonists, snappy, authentic dialogue, and clever and twisty plot, this is one not to miss.

You can pick up a copy of the book when you register at the Reference Desk. You are welcome to bring your own coffee or tea. Registration is limited to 25 Garden City Public Library cardholders. Non-Garden City Library cardholders may register in person beginning September 3rd if space is available.

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

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

No registration is necessary.

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

Beyond Downton Abbey: High Society in NY & London From Mozart to Modern:

The Park Quartet

Garden City Public Library Sunday, September 17th at 2PM The Park Quartet is a Brooklynbased music collective comprised of four traditional stringed instrument players.

The Quartet performs a mix of classical as well as contemporary jazz and pop arrangements, ranging from Mozart to the Beatles. Their performance will also include a discussion of music history

progressing from baroque through 20th century, contemporary and pop music.

Performances by the Quartet have been featured at diverse venues throughout the greater New York City metropolitan area to wide acclaim! All are welcome.

No registration is required.

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

Sharpen Your Memory, Sharpen Your Mind

Program at the GC Public Library Wednesday, August 16, at 7:00 p.m.

As we age, slowing down is inevitable, a fact of life but coming to a dead stop is not only a fact of life, but against all medical and scientific advice. After extensive research, librarian Barbara

Feinstein will share her information on how to keep our brains healthy, alert and active.

No registration. All are welcome!

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

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The other teddy bears are ready for the 4th of July picnic.

Patriotic play performed at Stratford School Miss McCavera’s second grade class at Stratford Avenue School recently performed the play, “The Teddy Bear Hero,” for parents, relatives, and classmates. “The students received scripts months before and began the process of memorizing lines,” explained Miss McCavera. “They practiced rehearsing with expression and a bit of acting. The story of ‘Tagalong,’ the red, white, and blue bear, is about treating others kindly. However, the play has a bit of flag history and etiquette and is a great social studies lesson. For example, did you know that some early flags had stars painted on

rather than sewn on? Or that stripes were first-used in our United States flag? How about that the first American flag was called ‘The Grand Union’?

Or that one early American flag had fifteen stripes and it was called the Star-Spangled Banner?”

“Parents, relatives and friends were treated to a performance that finished with a rousing chorus of ‘You’re a Grand Old Flag,’” continued Miss McCavera. “Each audience member also received a little American flag. The students loved performing in their final class play of the school year!”

The girls, pictured here with Miss McCavera, are looking for a good place to enjoy the picnic.

The boys are ready for the picnic fun to begin.

Tagalong Teddy is dressed in patriotic colors for the picnic.

Visitors to the Long Island Children’s Museum this week will be exploring a variety of environments – from the rainforest to local gardens and all the way to the stars in a variety of science and art workshops.

The LICM Theater is the perfect environment to introduce children to the joys of live theater.

This week four-time GRAMMY nominees “Trout Fishing in America” bring their eclectic folk/rock back to Garden City.

Safe & Warm: LI’s Largest Quilt Campaign

Monday, Aug 14, Wednesday, Aug 16 and Friday, Aug 18 from 10:30 am. – 12:30 p.m.

This free, drop in program allows families to create a quilt square to support Family and Children’s Association’s campaign on behalf of homeless teens on Long Island. A generous project supporter has underwritten squares created at LICM. Please help by sharing this initiative with your family and friends to allow them to contribute to the campaign and spread the word about this project- weblink.donorperfect. com/FamilyQuilt.

All ages. Free with museum admission.

Calling Young Scientists: Rainforest Ecology

Monday, August 14 at 11 a.m. and 12:15 p.m.

Calling Young Scientists!

Did you know that rainforests provide habitat to many different interesting species? From the forest floor to the canopy, learn about the different rainforest layers and the animals that inhabit them. Discover how water moves through this ecosystem as you make a terrarium to take home!

Ages: 5 and up. Fee: $3 with museum admission ($2 LICM members).

The Puppet Project

Monday, Aug 14-Friday, Aug 18 from 1 to 3 p.m.

Did you know that puppets have been crafted for thousands of years and used for storytelling in all cultures? Join in the fun as you design and engineer your own stick and rod puppet. Use exciting materials to build your own character as you learn how to create and operate your new creation.

Develop your puppet’s character and learn how to perform for family and friends. To ensure that visitors have ample

time to create their puppets, timed tickets will be issued.

Ages: 3 and up. Fee: $5 with museum admission ($4 LICM members).

Green Teens

Tuesday, Aug 15 and Thursday, Aug 17 from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Explore the worlds of science and nature with the Green Teens this summer in Our Backyard! Each week dig deeper into the unknown through hands-on learning experiences on alternative energy, water, habitats and more. Check out our website for Green Teens program updates. This is a free drop in program. Drop by anytime between 11a.m. –3 p.m. to participate. This program made possible with the support of National Grid.

Ages: 3 and up. Free with museum admission.

Written In the Stars: Summer ArtLab Series

Tuesday, August 15 at 2 p.m.

For thousands of years, people have been fascinated by the constellations that can be seen in the night sky. A constellation is a group of stars that form a recognizable pattern.

Constellations are traditionally named after their apparent form or mythological creatures. Learn about the 12 zodiacal constellations, and then make a “telescope” view your own constellation!

Ages: 5 and up. Fee: $3 with museum admission ($2 LICM members)

stART (Story + Art)

Tuesday, Aug 15 & Thursday, Aug 17 from 1-1:30 p.m.

Join us each week as we read childhood classics and introduce new favorites; followed by a take-home, book-inspired craft. This week in stART, we will be reading “Goodnight Sweet Butterflies”

by Dawn Bentley. After the story use paint to create your own colorful, glittering butterfly to take home!

Ages: 3-5. Fee: $3 with museum admission ($2 LICM members).

Trout Fishing in America presents” Musical Fun”

Wednesday, August 16 and Thursday, August 17 at 11:30am Keith Grimwood and Ezra Idlet, aka “Trout Fishing in America,” have been called “… the Lennon and McCartney of kid’s music.” The eclectic folk/

rock band is best known for family/children’s music. Songs like “My Hair Had a Party Last Night,” “18 Wheels on a Big Rig” and “When I Was a Dinosaur” have earned them a place in the hearts of kids and parents everywhere. LICM is pleased to bring back these four-time GRAMMY® nominees to our audience.

Ages: 4 and up. Fee: $9 with museum Admission ($7 LICM members), $12 theater only.

Music and Movement

Wednesday, Aug 16 from 11:30 a.m. – noon Enjoy creative movement exercises and interactive singalongs that get little bodies moving to the rhythm.

Ages: 5 and under. Fee: $3 with museum admission ($2 LICM members).

Young Makers: Summer Fun Creations

Wednesday, Aug 9 from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m.

Calling all DIY kids to join us to explore the creativity and innovation used in the art of making. Learn practical skills and spark your interest as we investigate different materials and get your creativity flowing. Take part each week and become part of the grassroots maker movement as you discover the inventor in you! This week: Create your own lo-tech summer fun when you make crankies and balloon busters.

This program is made possible with the support of PSEG. Age: 3 and up. Free with museum admission.

Citizen Science Fridays: Monarch Larva Monitoring Project

Friday, August 18 from 11 a.m. – noon Be a citizen scientist this summer and study monarch butterflies in LICM’s Milkweed Garden. By measuring plants, rainfall and monarch eggs you will be collecting real data for scientists at the University of Minnesota Monarch Lab. Your data will help them understand butterfly migration and will help conserve this threatened species! Each Friday morning, take a walk through this garden and see how the plants grow and are a habitat for visiting monarchs. This program is made possible with the support of the Rob and Melani Walton Sustainability Solutions Initiatives at Arizona

State University.

Ages: 4 and up. Free with museum admission.

Kids in the Kitchen Family Series

Friday, August 11 from 1:30-2pm LICM’s popular Early Childhood program expands in the summer to welcome older siblings who enjoy time in the kitchen. Have fun creating simple dishes that will inspire kids and adults to get cooking together. Create tasty treats and enjoy your yummy creations at the end of each class. This week’s treat: Cheeseburger Puffs.

Ages: 3-8. Material fee: $5 with museum admission ($4 LICM members).

Messy Afternoons

Saturday, Aug. 12 & Sunday, Aug 13 from 3:30-5 p.m.

We’ll be up to our elbows in oobleck, clean mud and slime… and we hope you’ll join us for the type of artistic activities that everyone loves, but not one likes to clean-up after.

Except us!

Ages: 18 months – 4 years.

Free with museum admission.

Traveling Exhibit: Pattern Wizardry

Through Sunday, September 3 Pattern Wizardry is a wildly whimsical sensory experience presented entirely in rhyme that features four interactive areas, each focusing on a specific type of pattern: Spiral Spells, Tessellation Station, Branch, Branch and Linear Lab. The exhibition also features a Wizard Library, a computer pattern station where kids can create their own patterns and Symmetry Sorcery, where children investigate how we use symmetry to organize patterns.

In this trilingual (English/ Spanish/French) exhibit, children are introduced to the fundamentals of patterns as the

building blocks of our natural and man-made world. Patterns teach children how to: • Use patterns to organize and enrich our lives; • Be creative by using their imaginations; • Build awareness and appreciation for mathematics, nature and world customs; • Work cooperatively; • Gain skills in research and critical thinking This exhibit is made possible with the support of Astoria Bank.

All ages. Free with museum admission.

Seasonal Exhibit: Our Backyard

Through September 3, 2017 Visit LICM’s award-winning outdoor exhibit; explore the sensory garden and play and experiment with the properties of water as you connect with your inner naturalist. Create summer showers “on demand” using a hand pump and showerhead. Try racing boats down two rills and splash in the streambed. Make evaporation art or take the helm of our weather boat.

All ages. Free with museum admission.

About LI Children’s Museum

All activities are held at the Long Island Children’s Museum, 11 Davis Avenue, Garden City, NY. For the safety of our visitors, Adults are not permitted in the Museum without children; all Museum visitors under 18 years of age must be accompanied by an adult at all times.

Museum Hours: Daily from 10 am.-5 p.m. Museum admission: $13 for adults and children over 1 year old, $12 seniors, FREE to museum members and children under 1 year old.

Additional fees for theater and special programs may apply.

For additional information, contact 516-224-5800.

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VILLAGE SPORTS Gazebo Concert Series announced

July 13th started our popular Summer Gazebo Concert Series on the Village Green. Concerts are held every Thursday at 7:15 pm so bring a blanket or a lawn chair and join us! We will have the following performers: August 10 Joel Zelnick and Move August 17 The Capris Concerts are held rain or shine. In the case of less than beautiful weather, the concert will be moved indoors to St. Paul’s Cluett Hall at 295 Stewart Avenue.

We have amusement park tickets

The Garden City Recreation Department will this year again be offering discount tickets to area amusement parks. The tickets may be used any time during the 2017 park season and can be purchased at the Recreation Office at 108 Rockaway Avenue. Cash or check will be accepted for payment. These very popular discounted tickets are for:

Gate Discount

Price Price • Splish Splash Water Park

$42.99 $36 • Splish Splash - under 48 inches

$32.99 $29 • Six Flags Great Adventure & Safari

$72.99 $39.95

(under 54”) $39.99 • Six Flags Hurricane Harbor

$44.99 $31.45 • Hershey Park – 48 inches or over

$65.80 $51

under 48 inches

$42.80 $40

age 55 and over

$42.80 $40 • Dorney Park – 48 inches or over

$60.90 $44 • Mountain Creek

$45.99 $35

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The Garden City Recreation Department will conduct evening tennis lessons for adults who are residents of the Inc. Village of Garden City at the Community Park Tennis Facility. The lessons will run for one hour each week in three sessions during the spring/summer months. The

registrant has a choice of a Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, or Thursday class and a choice of time. There will be a maximum of four players per court. The dates and fees will be as follows: Session 3 • 4 weeks beginning Aug. 7. Cost $130 To register, please visit the Recreation and Parks Office at 108 Rockaway Ave to fill out an interest form. A check made payable to the Village of Garden City must accompany the form. Separate checks for each session please!

Summer Tots and Pee Wee Tennis Pee Wee Tennis is offered to children who are Village residents ages 4 to 6.

Eligibility is determined by the child’s age at the start of the session. Skills are learned by fun and easy to do drills taught by our tennis staff. Each child may register for a maximum of two sessions.

• Session F: July 31 – August 3 • Session G: August 7 - 10 • Session H: August 14 - 17 Where: Community Park’s Tennis Facility Time: 9 to 10 a.m.

Cost: $ 60 To register for this program, please visit the Garden City Recreation and Parks Office at 108 Rockaway Avenue, or if you have a password you can register online at www.gcreconline.gardencityny.net. For additional information please contact the Recreation Office at 465-4075.

USSI Field Hockey Camp

US Sports Institute will conduct a Summer Field Hockey Camp for girls ages 9 - 13 that are residents of the Village of Garden City.

Campers will be taken through all phases of the game, thoughtfully integrating technical and tactical components in a fun, innovative way. The camp will focus on individual skill development and the rules of the game, as well as the importance of playing together as a team. Players will be grouped by age, playing ability and experience level. No previous experience playing field hockey is required to attend the First Play Field Hockey Camp. Equipment will be supplied.

When:.......... Week of August 21 - 24 Where:......... St. Paul’s Field Time:............ 9:30 - 12:30 p.m.

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Fee:................$169 each week To register for this camp, register online at www.ussportsinstitute.com.

Summer Yoga for youngsters

The Recreation Department’s certified yoga instructor will offer yoga classes for boys and girls who are residents of the Village of Garden City in grades 1 -7.

Children attending this program will learn movements, postures, and breathing techniques which will help with relaxation, self awareness, and fitness.

When:......Week of August 14 -17 Where:.....St. Paul’s Center Time:........9 – 10 a.m. grades 1 - 3 Time:.......10:15 – 11:30 a.m. grades 4 - 7 Fee:..........$ 80 To register for this program, please visit the Garden City Recreation and Parks Office at 108 Rockaway Avenue, or if you have a password you can register online at www.gcreconline. gardencityny.net. For additional information please contact the Recreation Office at 465-4075.

Nature Adventures

Our Recreation Department and the Garden City Bird Sanctuary are joint venturing to offer a program experience “Nature Adventures”. Children ages six to nine invited to spend the morning at the Garden City Bird Sanctuary learning about how they can work hand in hand with nature.

This one week, two hour program will meet at Nassau Haven Park and then move into the Sanctuary, with walks, crafts, and take homes for each child involved.

When: Ages 6 - 9 Week of July 31 – August 3 Week of August 7 - 10 Where: Garden City Bird Sanctuary Time: 10 am to noon Fee: $ 80 To register for this program, please visit the Garden City Recreation and Parks Office at 108 Rockaway Avenue, or if you have a password you can register online at www.gcreconline. gardencityny.net. For additional information please contact the Recreation Office at 465-4075.

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Guest Pass Booklet Policy

Just a reminder that this seasons guest booklets DO NOT carry over into the 2017 pool season. The last day to use your guest passes is Labor Day, September 4th. When using the booklets guests must be accompanied by members for admittance to the pool.

Guest passes in the booklets can be used for residents and non-residents.

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Friday Family Night

Put some fun into your Friday night!

Join Candace and the Lifeguards this Friday August 4th in the main pool for Silly Swim Races for the kids and music beginning at 7pm

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Music starts at 2pm!

Mobility Impaired Gate

Our new mobility impaired gate is now installed and functional. The gate is located by the adult pool section of the facility and is for pool members and a caregiver (if needed) ONLY. The requirements needed for a pass are a copy of the memberâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s handicapped parking permit and a signature from your doctor on the application or a note stating your need to use the gate.

Applications can be can be picked up at the Pool Office. Only approved participants will be allowed to access the gate.

For additional information please call the Pool Office at 465-4074.

Teen Activities

Join us on this Saturday, August 5th for Teen Movie Night as we will be showing â&#x20AC;&#x153;Middle Schoolâ&#x20AC;ŚThe Worst Years of My Lifeâ&#x20AC;? starting at 8:15pm.

Come with your friends and enjoy a fun Saturday night at the Pool. $2 for middle school members and $4 for middle school non-member residents.

Tuesday Movie Night!

Our Summer Movie Series continues this week, Tuesday, August 1st at 8:15 pm. Come enjoy â&#x20AC;&#x153;Lost and Foundâ&#x20AC;? in the Picnic Area as brothers embark on a thrilling treasure hunt to restore their familyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s lost fortune on a remote and mysterious island.

Admission: $2 Members; $4 Guests of

Members; Popcorn $1.

Jobs Available

Our college students are heading off to school soon. If you have a child 16 or older and can commit to the Pool through Labor Day, please stop in the Pool Office for more details. We are looking for Nassau County Certified Lifeguards, attendants and gardener helper.

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There is still time to sign up for swim lessons for youth members. Lessons are conducted Tuesday through Friday, rain or shine and they are only canceled if the pool is closed for thunder &/or lighting. Children must be at least six years of age by the start of the instruction period. Our final session of swim lessons will begin Tuesday, August 8th. There is a nonrefundable $20 per child swim lesson fee. For class availGC-CHERRY 1-8 Page - 08-02-17_Layout 1 8/2/17 3:55 PM Page 1 ability please visit or contact the Pool

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Another amazing win for GC Swim Team “B”

Garden City “B” team continues its winning streak by defeating Echo Park, this past Saturday, at West Hempstead. This time the GC team won by an ample score of 211 vs 101. The GC team is having another incredible season this year after winning 224-94 against Rath Park; 202 vs 115 against Hempstead and 176 vs 152 against Lynbrook. Their last meet before Champs will take place at home on Saturday August 5 on which they will race against Newbridge. Best of Luck!

Connor McHugh swimming the breast stroke for boys 9-10

13 and Up girls happy to be swimming for the GC team “B”

8 and under Boys John Luca Antico, James Santucci and Brady O’Sullivan ready to race Breast Stroke.

Abigail Halloran swimming backstroke for girls 11-12.

Coach Candace Hall and GC team “B” swimmers celebrate after finding out their ample winning score against Echo Park.

Girls from teams 9-10 and 11-12 celebrating their win against Echo Park.

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John Bensen swimming back stroke for boys 13 and up.

Sofia Ammirati swimming the back stroke for girls 9-10.

Ryan and Tyler Glenn after swimming their races for boys 13 and up.

Diego Cadavid (L) and James Nagler (R) 11-12 boys relaxing between races.

8 and under Boys Jack Armstrong, Kelly Knapp and Oliver Gibson ready to race freestyle.

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Team makes state championships This yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s GC Williamsport team is the first 12U team in the history of Garden City that has made it to the state championship. The Championship is being held in the Bronx from July 25-30. The team beat Massapequa International in sectional play on Thursday 5-1

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101 Second Street, Unit C7, Garden City, NY SD #18. MLS# P1288573. $285,000.

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101 Second Street, Unit B7, Garden City, NY SD #18. MLS# P1289394. $274,995.

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36 Hamilton Place, Unit B, Garden City, NY SD #18. MLS# 2917563. $300,000.

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148 Cambridge Avenue, Garden City, NY SD #18. MLS# P1290863. $819,000.

35 Mulberry Avenue, Garden City, NY SD #18. MLS# P1290741. $600,000.

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OPEN HOUSE Sunday, August 6th | 2:15 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 4:00 pm 57 Vassar Street, Garden City, NY

This home is located in the Western Section of Garden City located near stores, railroad and houses of worship. This is a totally renovated home on 65 x 100 sq. ft. professionally landscaped property with private backyard. Upon entering, there is a formal living room with wood burning fireplace, formal dining room, beautiful kitchen including an island, eating area and heated floors, full bath/heated floor, and master bedroom. There are 2 bedrooms and full bath on second floor. The basement is a surprise for all. Seeing is believing. Amenities include central air conditioning, alarm system, irrigation system, gas heating system, updated electric, new windows, new roof, and central vacuum system. This is truly a home to bring your toothbrush and move right in. Please join us at the open house or call for private appointment. SD #18. MLS# 2960205. $985,000.

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OPEN HOUSE

Saturday, August 5th 11:30 – 1:00 pm 87 Huron Ave, Bellerose Village, NY 3-bedroom. 2.5-bath.

SD #22. MLS# 2954371. $659,000.

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Sunday, August 6th 11:30 – 1:30 pm 10 Keenan Place, Garden City 5-bedroom, 2.5-bath.

SD #18. MLS# 2956110. $980,000.

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Sunday, August 6th 12:00 – 2:00 pm 142 Brixton Rd, Garden City, NY 5-bedroom, 2.5-bath.

SD #18. MLS# 2931903. $1,499,000.

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Saturday, August 5th 12:00 – 2:00 pm 58 Huntington Road, Garden City, NY 5-bedroom, 3.5-bath.

SD #18. MLS# 2951961. $1,299,000.

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Sunday, August 6th 1:00 – 3:00 pm 28 Kensington Rd, Garden City, NY 6-bedroom. 2.5-bath.

SD #18. MLS# 2944846. $1,249,000.

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Saturday, August 5th 2:00 – 4:00 pm 69 Third St, Garden City, NY 6-bedroom, 3.5-bath.

SD #18. MLS# 2956815. $2,845,000.

Sunday, August 6th 12:00 – 2:00 pm 122 Third Street, Garden City, NY 4-bedroom, 3-bath.

SD #18. MLS# 2958751. $999,000

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Sunday, August 6th 1:30 – 3:30 pm 58 Washington Ave, Garden City, NY 6-bedroom, 4.5-bath.

SD #18. MLS# 2929647. $1,975,000.

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Sunday, August 6th 2:15 – 4:00 pm 57 Vassar St. Garden City, NY 3-bedroom, 2-bath.

SD #18. MLS# 2960205. $985,500.

Garden City, NY 3-bedroom, 1.5-bath.

SD #18. MLS# 2948170. $699,000.

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Garden City, NY 3-bedroom. 2-bath.

SD #18. MLS# 2938341. $719,000.

Garden City, NY 4-bedroom. 2.5-bath.

SD #18. MLS# 2942978. $849,000.

Garden City, NY 3-bedroom, 1.5-bath.

SD #18. MLS# 2948178. $889,000.

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Garden City, NY 3-bedroom. 3.5-bath.

SD #18. MLS# 2948179. $999,000.

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SD #18. MLS# P1286900. $1,099,000.

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SD #18. MLS# 2929913. $1,159,000.

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Garden City, NY 4-bedroom, 2.5-bath.

SD #18. MLS# 2955689. $969,000.

Garden City, NY 4-bedroom, 2.5-bath.

SD #18. MLS# 2951333. $999,000.

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Garden City, NY 4-bedroom. 3.5-bath.

SD #18. MLS# 2931190. $1,199,000.

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SD #18. MLS# 2936949. $1,198,000.

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Garden City, NY 3-bedroom. 2.5-bath.

SD #18. MLS# 2942707. $1,249,000.

Garden City, NY 5-bedroom. 4.5-bath.

SD #18. MLS# 2949363. $1,325,000.

Garden City, NY 4-bedroom, 2.5-bath.

SD #18. MLS# 2952819. $1,349,000.

Garden City, NY 3-bedroom. 3.5-bath.

SD #18. MLS# 2938046. $1,299,000.

Garden City, NY 5-bedroom, 3.5-bath.

SD #18. MLS# 2934634. $1,379,000.

Garden City, NY 4-bedroom, 3.5-bath.

SD #18. MLS# 2938713. $1,599,000.

Garden City, NY 6-bedroom. 4.55-bath.

SD #18. MLS# 2954430. $1,599,000.

Garden City, NY 6-bedroom, 4.55-bath.

SD #18. MLS# 2912129. $1,699,000.

Garden City, NY 8-bedroom. 3.5-bath.

SD #18. MLS# 2938302. $1,995,000.

Garden City, NY 6-bedroom, 3.5-bath.

SD #18. MLS# 2851595. $2,100,000.

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Garden City, NY 5-bedroom. 4.5-bath.

SD #18. MLS# 2936861. $2,195,000.

Garden City, NY 6-bedroom, 6.5-bath.

SD #18. MLS# 2938346. $3,798,000.

Garden City, NY 7-bedroom, 7.555-bath.

SD #18. MLS# 2801260. $4,999,999.

Stewart Manor, NY 3-bedroom. 2.5-bath.

SD #16. MLS# 2942805. $649,000.

Manhasset Hills, NY 4-bedroom, 3-bath.

SD #9. MLS# 2958684. $938,888.

Roslyn Heights, NY 3-bedroom, 2.5-bath.

SD #2. MLS# P1290056. $999,000.

Point Lookout, NY 3-bedroom. 2-bath.

SD #28. MLS# 2943446. $1,799,000.

Great Neck, NY 9-bedroom, 6.55-bath.

SD #7. MLS# 2910462. $2,650,000.

Westhampton Beach, NY 3-bedroom, 3.5-bath.

SD #2. MLS# 2923368. $2,798,000.

Orient, NY 4-bedroom, 4.5-bath.

SD #1. MLS# 2831834. $2,985,000.

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Friday, August 4, 2017 The Garden City News

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Condos / Co-Ops Floral Park, NY 1-bedroom, 1-bath.

SD #22. MLS# 2944492. $259,000.

Rentals

Garden City, NY 1-bedroom, 1-bath.

SD #18. MLS# 2957263. $440,000.

Garden City, NY 1-bedroom. 1-bath.

SD #18. MLS# 2948540. $2,450/mo.

Southampton, NY 6-bedroom, 4.5-bath.

SD #6. MLS# 2892643. $50,000/August – Labor Day.

2017 Wyndham Sale/Rental Activity to Date

111 Cherry Valley, Unit M-3, Garden City, NY 2-bedroom. 2.5-bath.

SD #18. MLS# 2940574. $4,700/mo.

100 Hilton Ave, Unit 712, Garden City, NY 1-bedroom, 1.5-bath.

SD #18. MLS# 2928996. $699,000.

111 Cherry Valley, Unit 519, Garden City, NY 1-bedroom, 2.5-bath.

SD #18. MLS# P1289512. $999,000

CLOSED: 100 Hilton Avenue, Unit 303, Garden City, NY 100 Hilton Avenue, Unit 810, Garden City, NY 100 Hilton Avenue, Unit M-27, Garden City, NY 100 Hilton Avenue, Unit M-2, Garden City, NY 100 Hilton Avenue, Unit M-20, Garden City, NY 100 Hilton Avenue, Unit M-32, Garden City, NY 100 Hilton Avenue, Unit 309, Garden City, NY

100 Hilton Avenue, Unit 418, Garden City, NY 111 Cherry Valley Avenue, Unit M17, Garden City, NY 111 Cherry Valley Avenue, #614, Garden City, NY 111 Cherry Valley Avenue, Unit 303, Garden City, NY 111 Cherry Valley Avenue, Unit 906, Garden City, NY 111 Cherry Valley Avenue, Unit 809, Garden City, NY 111 Cherry Valley Avenue, Unit 808, Garden City, NY

Consult a Wyndham Resale specialist when looking to buy or sell. Our on-site office staff is unsurpassed in providing thorough knowledge of the Wyndham Complex. Their years of professional experience and excellent service at this Five-Star Luxury Facility ensure a seamless transaction for both seller and buyer.

Wyndham Division • 516.739.7171 100 Hilton Avenue, Garden City, NY gardencity@danielgale.com

Wyndham Resale Specialists: Patricia Costello • Alfred Kohart • Mary Krener • Linda Mulrooney

Each office is independently owned and operated. We are pledged to provide equal opportunity for housing to any prospective customer or client, without regard to race, color, religion, sex, handicap, familial status or national origin.