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ParkMobile woes plague Island Park By KEPHERD DANIEL kdaniel@liherald.com
Courtesy Rhonda Glickman
What better way to spend a snow day? Two-year-old Emma, of Oceanside, with her first snowman during last Tuesday’s snow storm.
She’s happy to detail her triple bypass Spreading the word about heart disease in women By JANET PRETE CORRESPONDENT
Cardiovascular disease is the number one killer of women in the U.S., and Merrick resident Jayne Dickie is trying her best to significantly lower those numbers. Her efforts come after Dickie, 70, recently encountered a scare of her own with the disease, which is responsible for one in three deaths among women. She told her story at Mount Sinai South Nassau Hospital in Oceanside on Feb. 2, as part of the hospital’s Go Red for Women event, promoting awareness of cardiovascular disease in
women. Dickie, a trim, petite woman who was a selfdescribed gym rat in her younger days, eats mostly healthy foods, with occasional indulgences like potato chips. The mother of five and grandmother of 11 said she felt perfectly healthy before she woke up in the middle of the night with what she thought was food poisoning, nine months before she visited her cardiologist. She vomited throughout the night, and when she looked in the mirror, she saw that her face was extremely flushed. At that point, she asked her husband to call an ambulance because she realized something was Continued on page 14
Residents and merchants blasted Island Park’s new electronic parking management system during a village board meeting last week, one charging that it’s “going to kill” local businesses. ParkMobile, the village’s new parking system, became fully operational starting Feb. 1, and the initial reviews have been horrible. Paying by using an app became mandatory in all village parking lots, from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m., Monday to Saturday. Drivers were initially given a grace period while village officials worked on the system internally and rolled out the new parking plan, but as of Feb. 13, violations be gan to be enforced and tickets were handed out. While parking is $1 an hour, residents also must pay a 45-cent surcharge when using credit cards through the app. For drivers who don’t own a Smartphone, a phone number is available for them to pay for parking. The Village projects an estimate to take in $50,000 to $100,00 in revenue from the new parking system. According to
the village, $12,000 has been generated since the first week of implementation. As of press time, the total from fines has not yet been calculated. Representatives from local businesses, including restaurants, florists and laundromats, as well as dozens of Island Park residents, packed the village courthouse during the Feb. 15 village board meeting, complaining that the system was hurting business and reporting a significant drop in customers and revenue since the system’s implementation. “For the quick in and out, someone’s going to pay $1.45 for a five-minute park job to grab a slice of pizza and go home. I don’t think that’s fair,” Charles Natalello, of Jack’s Pizzeria, said. “They get to come in and grab a slice and pay on top of the slice.” Re s i d e n t s, p a r t i c u l a rl y seniors, expressed difficulty using the app-based parking system. Some were concer ned about their technology skills and the inconvenience of using mobile apps for those who may not be familiar with Smartphone technology. “I’m 60, I cannot do an app,” resident Christine Servidio Continued on page 10