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JULY 13-19, 2012

YOUR FIVE TOWNS HOMETOWN PAPER

ALLEGED MOLESTER PLOTTED MURDER OF VICTIM; USED VOODOO

LOCAL SOCIAL AGENCIES TO SEE BIG CUTS By Natasha Domanski The gavel has dropped and social service providers all over Nassau County have officially been cut as part of the County Executive’s effort to close a $41 million deficit. The cuts have affected more than 50 agencies that are aimed at providing mental health services and youth programs, including the Five Towns Community Center which stands to lose roughly $400,000 in youth program funding that serves more than 1,300 in this area. The Peninsula Counseling Center will also see about $136,000 cut for its youth addiction programs. Legislator Howard Kopel (R-Five Towns) said he briefly spoke with the Five Towns Community Center youth services program director, Bertha Pruitt, earlier this week about the cuts, and anticipates that this will be an ongoing conversation in attempt to downgrade the negative impact on Five Towns’ social services. Kopel is against the cuts, but he believes that the action to reverse the defunding has become the Nassau Democrats’ decision of whether

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VILARDI AIMS TO TACKLE RECYCLING IN 2ND TERM

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By Amanda Mayo

Please Don’t Eat the Daisies! Summer is awash in brilliant flowers throughout The Five Towns like these daisies in Woodsburgh on Thursday. Photo by Howard Barbanel

Broadway Being Resurfaced From Woodmere to Hewlett By: Natalia Kozikowska Broadway in Woodmere, between Woodmere Boulevard and the triangle where the street meets West Broadway in Hewlett is being completely repaved. This is not the only repaving project the Nassau Department of Public Works has in store for The Five Towns this summer. The DPW and Legislator Howard Kopel revealed that Peninsula Boulevard is next. Kopel says that the county felt that the pave-

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Broadway in Woodmere, near where the street is being completely repaved. Photo by Howard Barbanel.

Daniel Miller, the Inwood man who was arrested back in April and charged with sexual assault after drugging and sexually assaulting a 17-year old male employee was arraigned once again yesterday morning after allegedly plotting to kill the same teen in order to prevent him from testifying in the sexual abuse case, the Nassau County District Attorney’s Office said at a press conference Thursday afternoon. Detective Lt. John May of the District Attorney’s office said that Miller, who is a practitioner of Santeria, allegedly tried to find a hitman to kill the teen and also used a Voodoo doll to try to kill him. May said that using a Voodoo doll is attached to the religion of Santeria. “He believed by casting a spell on the Voodoo doll, it would have physical effects on his sex crime victim,” May said. Miller owned a Santeria religious artifacts store in Inwood, where the 17-year-old boy was allegedly drugged and raped his first day on the job back in January. Miller allegedly gave the employee a cup containing a liquid mixed with Lorazepam, a drug used to relieve anxiety, and told the employee to drink it, according to Special Vic-

Daniel Miller, of Inwood, was arraigned again on Thursday. He could face up to 25 years in prison. Photo courtesy of NCPD. tims Squad detectives. The employee awoke at 4:00 a.m. and found himself inside of Miller’s Inwood home. Miller then proceeded to drive the employee home, where he notified police soon after. Miller was arrested on April 19 at his Inwood home and charged with Criminal Sexual Act in the First Degree and his bail was set at $1,000,000. He remained in prison and, after a source came forward to the DA’s office in June to reveal Miller’s plot to have the 17-year-old victim killed, Miller was arraigned again with bail set for $5 million bond or $2.5 million cash. He is due back in court on August 1. If convicted, he faces up to 25 years in prison.

HEWLETT RESIDENTS ARE CONCERNED OVER SALE OF TEMPLE BETH EMETH

By Natalia Kozikowska

By Amanda Mayo

Jim Vilardi, who was appointed in 2005 and elected in 2007, was reelected for a second term as a Commissioner of Sanitary District 1. Vilardi, who ran unopposed, is hopeful that his second term will

On June 30th, Congregation Beth Emeth held their farewell party at the synagogue’s longtime home, 36 Franklin Avenue in Hewlett. It is now July and

Attorney General’s Office by the Hewlett Residents Association through the Freedom of Information Law (FOIL), the buyer is listed as Kingdom Resources, Inc. It was reported last month, however, that the buyer of the

Hewlett House’s mastectomy discussion group is all smiles. From top to bottom, left to right. Maria Blank, Barbara King, Barbara Milhaven, Christine Riccio, Geri Barish and Rosane Valletti.

Photo by Natalia Kozikowska

be successful by implementing new changes which include educating the public, keeping close relationships with residents and working in close correlation with the Board. Vilardi says that his second term will be an extension of what he has been doing for the past several years. “What we are really trying to do is

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Hewlett House: A Home For Those Fighting Cancer By Natalia Kozikowska When a patient is first diagnosed with cancer they become overwhelmed with anxiety and questions. What procedures do I need? Where can I receive treatment? Who are the best doctors? But most importantly, will I survive? For

those struggling with the life changing battle it’s hard to find the answers to these questions, but speaking to someone who has already been through chemo and other surgeries can make all the difference. For the 26,000 patients that have

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Hewlett residents want to know what is going on with the sale of local synagogue Congregation Beth Emeth.

Photo courtesy of Google Maps. some residents are wondering what exactly is going on with the sale of the synagogue. Peter Halperin of the newly formed Hewlett Residents Association said the group is simply looking for transparency in what’s going on with the sale of the building. In documents obtained from the New York State

building was Lilie’s International Christian Outreach, an organization led by Pastor Elsie Obed of Roosevelt Island. Kingdom Resources, Inc. is an entity that is also owned by Pastor Obed, and the documents state that Hewlett Tem-

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