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Town rejects Ultra Lanes’ license bid This is not that. We just want to play music.” Ultra Lanes is a long-operatFor the first time in its histo- ing, family-owned bowling cenry, the Chamber of Commerce ter on Grand Avenue. It offers decided not to support a Baldwin bowling, food and drinks, but business’s effort to expand — recently it wanted to add live specifically, Ultra Lanes Baldwin music with a DJ. Khabie said she Bowl and Lounge’s applied for a cabaret pursuit of a cabaret license so she could license. install a DJ booth “This is the first and use part of the time the Chamber of lounge as a dance Commerce got up to floor. She wanted to speak against a busihost new events, like ness, ever,” said the birthdays and bar organization’s presimitzvah, she said, dent, Erik Mahler. but nothing like “Ask my dad, the foradults-only dancing. mer president of the “It’s funny — The chamber — he’s 85 Town of Hempstead years old. We’ve requires a cabaret never done this. This ERik MaHlER license to have a was a new prece- President, Baldwin DJ,” Khabie said. dent.” According to the Chamber of Cabaret licenses t ow n , a c ab a re t Commerce are controversial — license is required typically, they are for any space in associated with images of scanti- which professional entertainly clad dancers and rowdy m e n t , i n c l u d i n g d a n c i n g crowds. But Brenda Khabie, patrons, is permitted. Any venue Ultra Lanes’ owner, said she has with live music and a dance floor been misunderstood. — even a bowling center — must “That’s not our terminology; obtain such a license. that’s the town’s terminology,” The town Board of Appeals Khabie said of the term cabaret. denied the bowling center a spe“When I think of cabaret, I think of nightlife and disco dancers. Continued on page 14
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BRookSidE ElEMENTaRY SCHool, where a 4-year-old child wandered away from the school during dismissal but was found later.
4-year-old wanders off school grounds before being found By aNdRE SilVa asilva@liherald.com
A 4-year-old boy apparently walked off the Brookside Elementary School premises unsupervised earlier this month during dismissal. When Jean Lavelanet came to pick up his son, Lukas, from school on Sept. 12, he was told that Lukas was no longer there. Lavelanet, a Baldwin High School alumnus, said he feared for his son’s safety, and wondered
whether someone might have taken his child, or whether a car might have hit him, according to News12 Long Island. Members of Lukas’s family told News12 that the child walked for a third of a mile before he reached an intersection on the Baldwin-Freeport border. There, they said, he was spotted by a Good Samaritan, who, with the help of school staff, reunited Lukas with the family. Mary Furcht, a public
information officer for the Baldwin Union Free School District, said Lukas had stepped off the dismissal line after school that day to greet one of his classmates, and began walking home with that child, along with other students and families from the school. Furcht said the child was located within 20 minutes, and was found with other children and families. “The district immediately stepped into action and called Continued on page 4
his is the first time the Chamber . . . got up to speak against a business, ever.