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Singas swept towns in DA race landslide

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N. Hempstead led with 62-38% margin for Manhasset resident

BY N O A H M A N S K A R While District Attorney-elect Madeline Singas carried all three Nassau County towns in last Tuesday’s election, Board of Elections data show North Hempstead was her biggest Democratic stronghold.

While turnout was only about 20 percent, the lowest since 2011, Singas won the town by an 24-percent margin, getting 62 percent of the vote to Republican Kate Murray’s 38 percent.

Within the town, Singas found her biggest pockets of support in parts of Great Neck, Garden City Park, Roslyn, Plandome Manor, Port Washington, Old Westbury and New Cassel.

Singas won by a margin of more than 50 percent in 50 election districts in those areas, including all of the villages of Thomaston, Great

Neck Plaza, Great Neck Gardens, Plandome Manor, Roslyn Harbor and Roslyn Estates.

Singas, a resident of Manhasset, had margins of victory between 35 and 45 percent in the areas surrounding these deeply Democratic parts, including most of the Great Neck and Cow’s Neck peninsulas and a broad strip of the town stretching from Lake Success to New Cassel.

Her biggest margin — 86.5 percent — came in a district in New Cassel, where she won 307 of the 333 votes to Murray’s 19.

These numbers are typical for North Hempstead, Nassau Democratic Party Chairman Jay Jacobs said.

The town is generally an easy win for Democratic candidates, particularly given its large population of highly educated voters, he said.

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A crowd of about 100 people gathered in Floral Park Tuesday night to welcome home Sgt. Pat Barry, a 25-year-old resident of the village who just finished a nine-month tour of duty in Iraq with the U.S. Army’s 82nd Airborne division. “It’s really a nice, touching thing on a rainy night...Perfect timing (with Veterans Day),” said Jill Iaquinta, the mother of Barry’s girlfriend Bianca Iaquinta.

“We’re excited for him to be home.”

Tax break package OK’d for Village Green project

BY N O A H MANSKAR After months of controversy, the Nassau County Industrial Development Agency approved a tax break package Monday for

Village Green, Mineola’s third downtown commuter apartment complex.

New Hyde Park-based Lalezarian Developers agreed to a payment-in-lieu-of-taxes, or PILOT, agreement to pay an es-

timated total of $9.1 million over 20 years for the $77 million mixed-use development at 199 Second Street.

“We’re pleased to have the IDA’s support and confidence,” Continued on Page 49

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Trustees hear plan for E.W. responds to Corpus Christi site spate of robberies Mill Creek proposing 197 high-end apartments

Hires private patrol car

B Y N O A H M A N S K A R commanding officer, said in most Nassau County police and East Williston officials are putting boots on the ground to address a recent spate of robberies in the village that has made some residents feel uneasy.

Police have stepped up patrols in the village and are working with plainclothes officers as the Third Precinct’s two burglary detectives IMAGE COURTESY OF THE MILL CREEK RESIDENTIAL TRUST investigate the series of crimes, The Mill Creek Residential Trust, the developer behind the seven-story Modera Mineola apartment Inspector John Berry said at Moncomplex, wants to build another pair of buildings on Searing Avenue in Mineola, near the site of the day’s village Board of Trustees former Corpus Christi Elementary School. The 197-apartment complex would be the fourth “transit- meeting.

The village has also hired a oriented” housing development near the village’s downtown area. private patrol car from Bethpagebased PDQ Security to further One four-story, 68-foot build- a Corpus Christi parishioner.

BY N O A H Other residents, though, they bolster the police presence, which ing would sit on the north side of MANSKAR Searing Avenue between Willis were worried the influx of people will report any suspicious activity If a real estate developer and Avenue and the Long Island Rail- and cars causing parking and traf- to police, Mayor David Tanner said.

“At some point it becomes a the Corpus Christi Parish get their road tracks, the school’s current fic congestion in the area.

A traffic study by Hauppage- critical mass,” Tanner said. “... At way, Mineola will get its fourth location.

The other would go on the based VHB Engineering found the that point it became obvious to us downtown commuter apartment south side of the street, near a pair development would not cause any that we ought to notify all our resicomplex next year. significant issues, but some at the dents.”

The proposed $68 million de- of Little League baseball fields.

So far this year, East Williston The portion facing Searing hearing said new cars would exacvelopment by Mill Creek Residential Trust would replace part of Avenue will also stand four sto- erbate traffic problems on Second has seen 20 reported instances of what police call “major crimes” — the old Corpus Christi Elementary ries, but the portion facing the Street and Willis Avenue.

“I’m all in favor of develop- such as burglary, assault and larSchool on Searing Avenue with fields would be three stories, or ment, but you can’t get to it, and ceny — up from 12 at this point in two buildings holding a total of 51-and-a-half feet.

Both buildings would have you have to address it,” resident 2014.

197 high-end apartments.

Berry, the Third Precinct’s The church’s congregation amenities such as a courtyard, Madeline Maffetele said.

The village Board of Trustees has shrunk over the years, and club room and gym, similar to selling the school is its only viable other similar projects in the vil- set another hearing for Jan. 13 so it could process the proposal and path to repaying its $400,000 lage.

Several residents spoke develop questions for the developdebt to the Rockville Centre dioin favor of the development ers. cese, Msgr. Robert Batule said.

If approved, the buildings “We’re not going anywhere, Wednesday, saying it would put we’re not retreating, but this is go- the church back on solid finan- would join three others trying to ing to be very helpful to us to be cial ground and benefit Mineola attract young, affluent commuters able to stay in the community in businesses by attracting new resi- in the village’s downtown, part of a vital way,” Batule said at a pub- dents, as the other recent apart- an effort to revitalize the area as part of Mineola’s “Master Plan” lic hearing about the project on ment complexes have.

John Farrell, an attorney rep- for growth and development.

Wednesday.

Stover said Mill Creek sees Mill Creek approached Cor- resenting Mill Creek, also noted pus Christi about the project in building would grow the village’s high demand for these kinds of 2013, noting its ideal location near property tax base, as the church is apartments in places with close proximity to entertainment and Mineola’s train station and Mill tax-exempt.

PHOTO BY NOAH MANSKAR “It’s a good thing that we have transit service.

Creek’s other “transit-oriented” So far the firm has leased Police Inspector John Berry adcomplex in the village, Modera that asset, and it’s a good thing to Mineola at 240 Old Country Road, see that it’ll be something that’s 60 percent of the apartments in dresses residents at the Nov. 9 said Jamie Stover, the firm’s vice going to benefit the parish itself the seven-story Modera Mineola, East Williston Board of Trustees and the village,” said Gus Lodeto, president for development.

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of the recent cases, the robber has entered through the back of the house in the late afternoon or early evening, when many people are not at home.

“They don’t want to be in your house long,” he said. “They’re going to get in and they’re going to get out.”

Tanner said residents are grateful to have the patrol car, which the village plans to keep around through the end of the year.

“I think people are very pleased to where they felt a little bit more safe -- as safe as people can feel under the circumstances,” he said.

Berry said the Third Precinct’s burglary detectives have taken forensic evidence such as fingerprints and DNA traces from the robbed homes, but no arrests have been made. Berry could not say whether there are suspects in the cases.

Some at the meeting said the lack of available information on the crimes makes them feel uneasy and asked for police and the village to communicate as much as possible.

“I’ve been living in this village for 50 years and we’ve never had this problem,” resident Hal Cronk said.

To protect their homes from theft, Berry said, residents should leave lights on, lock all windows and doors and hide valuables in places thieves are less likely to look — under the kitchen sink, for example.

Berry also said residents should call 911 immediately if they have been robbed or if they see or hear anything suspicious.

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Keri Bradley named soccer MVP

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Catholic High School Association names Williston Park resident top player on L.I.

BY N O A H M A N S K A R As the Catholic High School Girls Athletic Association’s most valuable soccer player on Long Island, high school senior Keri Bradley is a dedicated athlete.

The Williston Park resident captains soccer teams in New Hyde Park and Sacred Heart Academy in Hempstead, where she was the top scorer this season.

And as a volunteer with TOPSoccer, a program that teaches the sport to children and adults with special needs at the Center Street School, she’s also dedicated to giving back to the community that has helped her get so far.

“On the field I’m determined to be there for my teammates and be there for my coaches, and to be the best I can be for my teammates,” Bradley said. “And it’s the same ... with my community — I just want to be the best I can be for those other people.”

Bradley started playing soccer at age 4 on intramural teams in New Hyde Park. She worked her way onto premier teams; and when she was in sixth grade, she made an Olympic Development Team with the best young players from around the state.

The competition of the game is what got her hooked, she said.

“I love to be in games. I love to fight for the ball, or just to be in that kind of environment,” Bradley said.

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Keri Bradley, a Williston Park resident and student at Sacred Heart Academy in Hempstead, has played on soccer teams in New Hyde Park since she was four years old. Next fall she will join the NCAA Division I team at Marist College in Poughkeepsie.

She played on the middle school team at Williston Park’s St. Aidan School, where she and her parents, Shannon and Lawrence Bradley, have been parishioners since she was young.

Bradley said she decided on Sacred Heart for high school because of its strong soccer program.

She has been with some of her New Hyde Park teammates since the beginning.

They have become some of her closest friends, she said, and “know each other better than ... anyone on the field.”

Playing on so many teams and forming those deep relationships has taught her how to work with many different playing styles.

“It teaches you a lot about how not to be selfish and learn (from) other people,” she said.

Next fall, Bradley will continue her soccer career at Marist College in Poughkeepsie, an NCAA Division I school to which she committed in January.

She said she plans to study medicine and become a physician’s assistant, inspired by her mom’s work as a nurse and the care physician’s assistants gave her grandfather.

Beyond college, Bradley said, she wants to provide medical care to people “underdeveloped” countries around the world, part of a penchant for helping others that she attributes to Sacred Heart.

The school has a 20-hour-a-year community service requirement, which Bradley has no problem exceeding.

In addition to her work with TOPSoccer, she builds houses with Habitat for Humanity and does breast cancer awareness walks with Sacred Heart.

For Bradley, community service is a way of giving back to the community in Williston Park that has consistently supported her and her family.

For example, she said, people in the village rallied around the Bradleys when her father was deployed for a 16-month tour in Iraq in 2004.

“It just really was amazing to know that everyone was supporting us and helping us through it, so it gave me hope and strength to stay strong and keep going for my dreams,” she said.

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Mineola voters pass Helicopters left out of school upgrade project authority noise study

BY N O A H M A N S K A R Two Mineola schools will get a large makeover after district voters approved a $7 million renovation package Tuesday.

The 442-162 vote allows the district to use money from its capital reserve fund to pay for the project, which will give the Hampton Street School and Mineola High School new sports fields, classrooms and other upgrades.

Mineola school board President Christine Napolitano said the board is “very happy” the renovation package passed.

“We were hopeful that the community would see the value of all the projects and more importantly, the value of saving for them instead of borrowing for them,” she said in an email Wednesday.

The Hampton Street School, an elementary school, will get a new synthetic turf athletic field with lights and a concession stand, as well as a new bus loop, cafeteria, multi-purpose room and classrooms, improvements worth $5 million.

The other $2 million will build another synthetic turf field, outdoor track, technology lab and additional storage space at Mineola High School.

All proposed projects that use money from the capital reserve fund require voter approval.

In this case, using the reserve fund meant the district did not have to borrow any money or raise taxes to pay for the renovations. The district can also apply for help from the state because the project includes new construction.

In September, Mineola school Superintendent Michael Nagler said holding the vote in November rather than including it in the May budget vote made it more likely that the district would get state approval for the projects in time to start construction in June of next year.

The school board will discuss the project’s timeline at its next meeting Nov. 19, Napolitano said.

The last reserve fund vote came in 2013, when district residents voted 363-112 to fund a $3.8 million repair package for all seven of the district’s schools.

A $15 million ceiling on the capital reserve fund also passed 295-169.

BY N O A H M A N S K A R

An aircraft noise study of the area surrounding John F. Kennedy Airrport has been underway for about a year, but to New Hyde Park officials, it’s missing a key component.

For several months, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey has measured noise from airplanes and helicopters that start or end their trips at JFK or one of New York City’s three other metropolitan airports.

But the state-mandated study deletes readings from any aircraft that don’t take off or land at an airport — including most of the low-flying helicopters that have inundated New Hyde Park, Floral Park, Mineola and the Willistons with noise for the past several years. “(T)he helicopters and the jets going into Kennedy have such a combined effect I think we naturally assumed that everything is being taken into consideration,” said Lawrence Montreuil, New Hyde Park’s deputy mayor.

These helicopters that start elsewhere in the city and fly out to central and eastern Long Island compound the area’s aircraft noise problem, Montreuil said.

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Because helicopters have to be separated

from planes by at least 1,000 feet, they are only 500 to 800 feet above New Hyde Park and other villages that lie on their air route along the Long Island Railroad tracks, adding to the noise.

Montreuil said he learned the Port Authority’s noise study, ordered by Gov. Andrew Cuomo in March 2014 and started last November, doesn’t keep noise records from these helicopters at an Oct. 29 public workshop.

There, he told Port Authority representatives the village thinks it should keep the records because the location of JFK’s landing strips cause their low flight paths, he said.

The village also plans to send the Port Authority a letter making that argument.

“They were very persuaded, I would say, by my argument to keep it and that it does in fact have to be entered in because the airport does in fact cause the noise,” Montreuil said.

A Port Authority spokesperson deferred to the Federal Aviation Administration on issues relating to helicopter noise.

The noise study came as a result of efforts by state lawmakers and a Hempsteadbased noise abatement committee to get the Port Authority and federal officials to mitigate aircraft noise in Nassau County, Queens and other areas near New York’s JFK and LaGuardia Airports and New Jersey’s Newark Liberty and Teterboro Airports.

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Mangano vetoes amended budget Legislators aim to keep property tax hike out, Kaiman and NIFA still threatening action

By J oe N i k i c

The GOP and Democratic caucuses of the Nassau County Legislature submitted separate resolutions Tuesday evening overriding County Executive Edward Mangano’s budget veto.

“We have every confidence that the county executive will successfully manage the 2016 budget as passed by this Legislature without a tax increase,” Presiding Officer Norma Gonsalves’ (R-East Meadow) said to Newsday.

The county Legislature needs a two-thirds vote, or 13 of the 19 legislators, to pass an override of Mangano’s veto.

With 11 votes, Republicans would need the assistance of the Democratic county legislators to override Mangano’s veto.

Another meeting of the Legislature was scheduled for Friday — the deadline to override the veto.

Minority Leader Kevan Abrahams (D-Hempstead) said Monday the Democratic caucus was submitting its resolution to over-

Republican Nassau County Executive Edward Mangano vetoed a budget last week that GOP county Legislators had amended. Their changes included removing a 1.2-percent property tax increase. ride the veto.

“Today, we actually are submitting our resolution to override,” Abrahams said. “Unfortunately this doesn’t go anywhere without the 13 votes needed to pass the resolution.”

Mangano vetoed an amendment to the 2016 county budget on Friday that eliminates his proposed 1.2 percent property tax increase. The amended budget was approved in an 11-7 party line vote on Oct. 27.

The GOP majority-amended 2016 budget removed the property tax increase, which was expected to generate $12 million in revenue for the county.

Mangano said the tax increase and fees were necessary to balance the county’s budget.

“Due to rising health care costs and adjusted sales tax receipts, the revenue is necessary to meet county obligations,” Mangano said in a statement.

Mangano did not veto a GOP majority-voted amendment that cut two fee increases in half, which would have created $16 million in revenue for the county.

He had proposed increasing the mortgage recording fee from $150 to $300 and the tax map verification fee from $75 to $225.

Abrahams said Gonsalves’ decision against committing to override at the county budget vote hearing made him think the Republican majority would not join them.

“To be honest, it gave me the sense they would not join

us in the event there was a veto,” he said on Monday. “It seems that they will not join us, but we will see where it goes.”

The budget vote also sets up a potential battle with the Nassau Interim Finance Authority, a state monitoring board in control of the county’s finances.

NIFA Chairman Jon Kaiman told Newsday that neither Mangano’s budget nor the amendments addressed $191 million in what he characterized as risky revenue assumptions.

“Our larger concern is that $12 million is insufficient to cover the county’s obligations,” said NIFA Chairman Jon Kaiman. “We need to look at the bigger picture and take whatever actions are appropriate to meet our responsibilities.”

According to Newsday, Kaiman has said the NIFA board could reject the budget if no major changes were made. If NIFA does not accept budget revisions, the board has the authority to make its own budget changes.

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Roslyn doc found; no condition disclosed B y harr i son mar d e r A Silver Alert issued by Nassau County Police Saturday said missing Roslyn cardiologist Randy Kiewe was found, but police refused to confirm whether he was he found alive or dead.

Police said there are no further details regarding Kiewe and they are unsure when additional information is going to be released.

Kiewe, 47, was last seen parking his BMW near the Roslyn train station around 6:30 a.m. on Sept. 22, police said.

A Silver Alert that was issued that day said Kiewe was in need Randy Kiewe of medical attention and medication for the treatment of depression.

It also noted that Kiewe had attempted suicide in the past.

Police described Kiewe at 5-foot-seven and 210 pounds, with straight brown hair, hazel eyes and glasses.

Kiewe is the medical director and founder of the Lake Success practice CompleteCare Cardiology PLCC, and is considered a regional expert in angina, arrhythmias, hypertension, cholestoral and lipid diseases, heart attacks and heart failure, specializing in the manifestation of heart disease in women, according to his biography on the CompleteCare website.

With a bachelor’s degree from Brandeis University and his medical degree from the University of Pittsburgh, Kiewe is board certified in internal medicine, cardiovascular diseases and nuclear cardiology.

A former cardiology fellow with North Shore University Hospital, Kiewe is a consultant to Long Island Jewish Medical Center’s Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology and frequently lectures on the topic.

The Long Island Press this year named Kiewe best cardiologist as part of its annual “Best of Long Island” contest.

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A Great Neck cardiologist pleaded not guilty Monday following a grand jury’s 77-count indictment against him for allegedly contracting hitmen to kill a competing doctor in a muder-for-hire conspiracy that included the sale of assault weapons, arson, and criminal sale of prescription drugs, Acting District Attorney Madeline Singas announced.

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Dr. Anthony Moschetto, 55, of Sands Point, faces various charges including first-degree criminal possession of a weapon, four counts of third-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance, four counts of third-degree criminal sale of a controlled substance, and second-degree conspiracy.

“The defendant was a respected member of the community, caring for patients in Nassau County, but allegedly he had a sinister side and ordered the death of a rival cardiologist,” Singas said. “Working with our partners in the NCPD and DEA, we were able to break up this complex murder-for-hire plot before someone got killed.”

Moschetto, who is due back in court on Dec. 9, faces up to 25 years in jail if convicted on the top charge of first-degree criminal possession of a weapon, a B violent felony, Singas said.

County prosecutors said they had been investigating a high frequency of Oxycodone prescriptions Moschetto had been writing when they discovered a link between the cardiologist and an unsolved arson plot in Great Neck in February.

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On Oct. 29, 2014, members of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration Long Island A psychiatrist who had been stripped of his Division’s Tactical Diversion Group, including license to practice medicine was indicted for agents and officers from the DEA, the Nassau selling prescriptions for Adderall and Xanax to County Police Department, the Rockville Centre patients for cash out of his office in the Roslyn Police Department and the Port Washington Posection of Flower Hill, the District Attorney’s Of- lice Department arrested Mahler and Hubsher at Hubsher’s office. fice announced on Friday.

Assistant District Attorney Christiana McSMarshall Hubsher, 65, of Sands Point, was charged with fourth-degree conspiracy and loy, Deputy Bureau Chief of Singas’ Street Narcotics and Gangs Bureau, three counts of unauthoris prosecuting Hubsher’s ized practice, according to drug case and Assistant prosecutors.

District Attorney Cristina Hubsher faces a Colon is prosecuting Hubmaximum of one and sher’s rape case, prosecuone-third to four years tors said. in prison if convicted on Records show that the top charge. Bail was Hubsher has a history of set at $240,000 bond or misconduct that dates $120,000 cash. back to the 1980s.

“The defendant allegIn 1987, the state edly sold prescriptions for health department highly addictive and dancharged Hubsher with gerous drugs, without the professional medical misauthority to do so and with conduct based on three no regard for public safety or any patient’s health,” Marshall Hubsher, 65, a psychia- specifications.

First, in 1982, HubActing District Attorney trist who practiced in Flower Hill, Singas said. “Prescription faces up to four years in prison for sher pled guilty to federal drug charges in United drug abuse is all too comillegally selling prescription drugs. States District Court, Eastmon in our communities ern District of New York, and it is important that we when he was knowingly in stop bad actors who seek possession of 2,000 Quaaludes. to make illegal profits from their sale.”

The second occurred in 1983 when a state Hubsher was already scheduled to appear health commissioner found Hubsher had issued in court on Dec. 15 to face rape charges.

He was arrested in April 2012 and charged a control a prescription for a false date.

In 1987, the third incident took place with third-degree rape for allegedly having sexwhen Hubsher pled guilty to falsifying Medicual relations with a patient. aid claims.

In June 2012, Hubsher surrendered his Hubsher’s medical license was suspended license to practice medicine in New York to reby the state education department in 1988 after solve multiple unrelated charges brought by the he was charged with medical misconduct.

State Board for Professional Medical Conduct, In 1995, records show that Hubsher’s liprosecutors said. cense was revoked after the department of Singas said Hubsher and Dr. Howard health discovered he was practicing psychiatry Mahler conspired to sell Adderall and Xanax with a suspended license. prescriptions to patients in Hubsher’s former Reports said Hubsher was also not keeping office in Roslyn, where Hubsher continued to records of the treatment and evaluation of his receive patients even after losing his license to patients. practice medicine. On at least two websites, a The state Board of Regents voted to grant Dr. Marshall Hubsher is listed as practicing at Hubsher’s application for the restoration of his 1025 Northern Blvd. in Flower Hill. license at their meeting on March 21, 2006.

On at least three occasions, prosecutors “The Education Department and the Board said, investigators found that Hubsher met pa- of Regents always consider the recommendatients in “a non-traditional setting” such as the tions of the Office of Professional Medical Conoffice hallway in order to ask medical questions duct in restoration cases,” said Jeanne Beattie, and receive cash. a spokesperson for the New York State EducaProsecutors said patients were then di- tion Department. “It is critically important to rected to Mahler, a licensed doctor, who would note, however, that when making its recomwrite prescriptions for Adderall or Xanax, based mendations, OPMC sees only the original apin part on the information that was given to plication forms — they do not see any of the Hubsher. subsequently developed record, which includes On one ocassion, prosecutors said, an un- the investigation, Peer Committee hearing, and dercover detective posed a patient who was [Committee of Professions] meeting, as well as addicted to a variety of prescription pills and re- documentation submitted throughout the proquested that Hubsher give him a higher dosage cess. So, by definition, OPMC makes its recomof Adderall so that he could sell the unused pills mendation based only on a very small piece of to pay for purchases of Oxycodone. the full record. The Regents take a very serious Hubsher’s lawyer denied the charges. approach to restoring licenses. The premise of “These allegations are false,” said David [New York’s] law (and remember, this is all Schwartz, who is representing Hubsher in the driven by statute) is that licensees can rehabilidrug and rape cases. “Marshall Hubsher will tate themselves and that restoration is always defend these allegations with vigor and will be possible.” eventually be found not guilty. He looks forward The education department’s web site curto his day in court when he gets to challenge the rently lists Hubsher’s license as being “surrenlack of evidence from the Nassau County DA.” dered”

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“There is nothing that I would [want] to wear as a recovering addict,” the Flower Hill resident said. “Nothing edgy or cool.”

Khan said she also often struggled trying to find gifts to give to someone she knew who was celebrating “a sober anniversary.” “[Everything] was very cheap [and] in poor taste,” she said. “ [There was] nothing out there that I would want to surround myself with as a reminder of my recovery and mindful living.”

Armed with a background in women’s accessories, Khan said she had been a part of a number of successful companies.

But, Khan said, she lost her last company due to her drug and alcohol addiction. “[I] always wanted to get back to what [I] did in some form, Khan said. “[I wanted] to get back into the game” In October 2014, Khan got “back in the game” when she launched 24ave, a website dedicated to “redefining sobriety in the 21st century.”

24ave sells cards, journals, apparel, jewelry, art and accessories that Khan said are meant “to make people feel good about their sobriety [and] their recovery.”

Products on the site contain messages including “progress not perfection” and “one day at a time.”

24ave also offers customers the opportunity to purchase jewelry that is hand-stamped with the date they became sober. “[24ave] is about mindful living,” Khan said. “Being sober and in recovery is a priceless [gift.]”

Prior to the launch of 24ave, in October 2013, Khan, who was sober for only a few months at the time, was at an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting when she met Albertson resident Francine Aulicino.

Aulicino, a recovering drug addict who battled an addiction with prescription painkillers, was at the meeting because of a suggestion from her counselors in rehab.

Her rehab counselors, Aulicino said, told her to go the meeting, even though she did not have a drinking problem, so that she could find a sponsor.

Aulicino said that at the time she “was very new to sobriety.”

After Khan spoke at the meeting, Aulicino said, Khan’s words “resonated with her.”

“She was edgy and cool as opposed to stuffy and boring,” Aulicino said. “I loved what she said” Aulicino said she asked Khan to be

her sponsor, and Khan accepted the offer.

The two began working toward recovery together and got to know one another.

In 2013, when Khan and Aulicino were spending time together at Starbucks, Aulicino said, she mentioned her background in social media, marketing and promotion.

Aulicino said Khan’s eyes “lit up” after she told her about her experience in promotion and social media, and that Khan told her “[they] have to talk.”

Describing herself as a “natural networker,” Aulicino said, in the summer of 2008 she began to dabble in social media and was independently promoting her friends products and businesses from her Albertson home.

Despite not making much money, Aulicino said, this gave her great experience in social media and marketing.

After waiting for a few months to talk, in early 2014, Khan presented Aulicino the opportunity to become a part of the 24ave team.

Aulicino said Khan told her that 24ave’s “missing piece” was someone who had a background in social media and marketing. “[It was] a great opportunity,” Aulicino said. “It was a way for me to give back.”

Once Aulicino was on board, she said both she and Khan worked up to seven days a week for nine months to get the website together.

Both Aulicino and Khan said 24ave is meant to help rid the negative social stigma that is attached to addiction. “[Addicts are a] lost segment of population,” Khan said. “People look at us as drug addicts and alcoholics. I’m still a person. I still like nice things. I’m not a piece of trash. We want to make people feel good about their sobriety, their recovery and I want them to know it is okay.”

Khan said that “breaking anonymity” is an integral part of 24ave. “[Aulicino and I] want people to see we are moms,” she said. “I am very open about my addiction.”

Aulicino is the mother of 7-year-old triplets and Khan has two children who are 21 and 17 years old. “[We want people to] be in recovery and be proud of it,” Aulicino said. “[We want them to] celebrate recovery. A life in recovery is an amazing life.”

Khan said “being an alcoholic and addict is the best thing that ever happened to [her.]”

“I get to live two lives in one lifetime,” she said. “I get a do over with my life” Reach reporter Harrison Marder by email at hmarder@theislandnow.com, by phone at 516.307.1045 x215 or on Twitter @hmarder5. Also follow us on Facebook at facebook.com/theislandnow.

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Time for NIFA No need to reduce to take control lanes on Roslyn Road

f you are an optimist, you might hope that the Nassau County Legislature was merely engaging in craven, political posturing prior to an election when they approved a $2.95 billion 2016 budget that stripped out a 1.2 percent tax hike and slashed two fees increases proposed by County Executive Edward Mangano two weeks ago.

Afterall, once the election was over and the legislators were re-elected with the help of gerrymandered districts, they might come to their senses and develop a realistic budget. Or so an optimist might hope.

But we’re not optimists.

We think the evidence is fairly overwhelming that either the Nassau County Legislature and county executive simply don’t get it. Or won’t get it.

In a party-line vote just days before an election that preserved the status quo, the Legislature’s Republican majority did replace the $28 million in increased revenues proposed by Mangano with other revenue sources.

Democratic legislators also came up with revenues to replace amendments to the Mangano’s budget that would have eliminated the tax hike, all fee increases and $20 million in revenue from a video gambling parlor that does not yet have a location and which Democrats oppose.

But in a bipartisan show of irresponsibility, neither Republican legislators nor Democratic legislators fully addressed what the Nassau Interim Finance Authority, a state monitoring board in control of the county’s finance, identified as $191 million in risky revenue assumptions in Mangano’s budget.

All of which helps explain why Nassau County — one of the wealthiest counties in the New York — required a $500 million state bailout in 2000 and has remained under state supervision ever since.

Last week, Managano vetoed the Republican legislators’ budget amendments.

Republican and Democratic legislators then both submitted resolutions to override Mangano’s veto — separately. Thereby falling short of the 13 votes needed to override the veto.

Which means the veto stands unless Republican and Democratic legislators come together by Friday. And even then they fall well short of what NIFA says is needed.

We say enough’s enough.

Both Mangano and the Legislature have failed to develop realistic budgets in recent years, relying instead on dubious revenue numbers and gimmicks such as red-light cameras in school zones and casino gambling.

Nor have voters — admittedly hampered by gerrymandering — done anything to change the players.

Jon Kaiman, the former North Hempstead Town Supervisor who now heads NIFA, said the state monitoring board was ready to take action after the Republican legislators approved the amended budget.

“I am disappointed the Legislature finds it so easy to disconnect from Nassau County’s budget realities,” Kaiman said, according to report in Newsday.

“We are going to take actions of the legislature serious and anticipate moving forward with our responsibility to get the county’s finances in a better place sooner than later.”

Kaiman said if NIFA were to reject the changes, the monitoring board could impose changes, including a freeze on new hires, spending cuts for all departments and limiting approval of new contracts.

Our question to Kaman is: what are you waiting for?

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his Nov. 8 I went for a Sunday drive from Mineola north on Roslyn Road.

I have traveled that route many times, mostly to the Northern Parkway. In both directions.

I took the cut-off onto Locust Lane where I had never gone before. I turned around and went back to Roslyn Road.

I went on north and saw Powerhouse Road which is the North Service Road to the L. I. E. and that’s no lie.

I turned around and headed back to Mineola.

At Locust Lane, besides two lanes in each direction there is a left turn lane for southbound traffic besides the cut-off. It is that wide there.

There are thousands of vehicles going north and south on Roslyn Road every day and over the years, millions of drivers have used this route.

No doubt about it, these are good drivers.

The change from two lanes to one and back again is managed without a thought.

They also accommodate the ‘pokeys’ just like they do on the Northern Parkway.

Along that stretch of roadway there is seldom a driveway: Only streets. There are no sidewalks or parking. The properties are walled. No chance for a human or animal to take a driver by surprise.

Forty miles per hour is the correct speed limit!

Where the aforementioned conditions change, drivers take it into consideration and abide with common sense.

Now, because five or so drivers out of the millions made a mistake for whatever the reason was, the authorities have gone berserk and want to ruin it for everyone else.

At the moment, there has been almost every sign and traffic directive ever invented by man erected on that stretch of roadway.

They won’t prevent an error especially by someone who is so out of it who should not be driving.

My only suggestion is that the cut-off should be made into a normal right turn lane with arrows and a stop sign to give the right of way to a southbound driver having the opportunity to turn left due to a break in northbound traffic.

A situation not long ago was when a traffic light was wanted and needed on Herricks Road where it is convenient for students from the Mineola High School to cross.

The official blocking the installation said that it would cost $100,000. Then that the students should walk close to a quarter mile to Jericho to cross and then back again.

Two cases: One doesn’t need a light, the other did.

Finally, the people got the light.

I hope that the proper simple decision can be made regarding Roslyn Road and that the drivers can have what is correct without being hounded by cops.

Charles Samek Mineola

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A loo k on the li g hter si d e

What successful people do before breakfast

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was dashing past an airport bookstore last week, when this title caught my eye: “What the Most Successful People Do Before Breakfast,”

by Laura Vanderkam.

I had just missed breakfast, myself, trying to catch a plane; but when it turned out I had missed the plane, as well, I doubled back.

I couldn’t help taking it personally. Successful people probably catch their plane.

But Ms. Van-derkam’s main point is that if you only got up a little earlier — like 5 in the morning instead of 6 — and polished off a few tasks, you’d find yourself healthier, wealthier, and wiser.

“But what about happier?” my inner self wanted to know.

“What’s the book say about that?”

Don’t ask Laura that one. Instead, “Ask yourself what a great morning would look like,” she counsels. “For me, it would start with a run.” Well, there’s your problem right there, I wanted to say. No one in her book answered “Sleeping!” That’s for

losers. “Successful people turn high-value tasks into morning rituals.” Losers eat breakfast.

After your marathon by the dawn’s-early-light, and a shower, you might dash off a chapter of your memoir; read stories to, do crafts with, and make pancakes for your children, who have conveniently slept while you toiled.

Then you take them to school, on the way to your own “high-value job.”

Now, I don’t know a school in the world that lets you saunter in, half-way through morning, glitter crown askew above your syrup-stained smirk — but obviously that’s just because I’m not “successful” enough.

The folks in this book are the rats, on a treadmill of their own devising — only instead of cheese at the end of it all, there’s breakfast.

Of course, Vanderkam has a point. If you put the hardest task of your day at the beginning, you might indeed feel better after that. You might even get more done. But delaying my breakfast doesn’t motivate me to

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A Look on the Lighter Side do anything, except kill anyone in my way. At best, it makes me stupid.

I kept thinking of Alice’s encounter with the White Queen, in her second adventure “Through The Looking Glass.”

Alice says to the Queen, ”There’s no use trying, one can’t believe impossible things.”

“I daresay you haven’t had much practice,” the Queen replies. “When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible

things be-fore breakfast.”

The Queen and Vanderkam would get on like a house on fire. But they’re both wrong. Believing things before breakfast is easy. It’s doing them that’s hard.

As for writing, I don’t see how anybody could.

I don’t know what time of day E.B. White did his writing, but if I were to try something like his children’s novel “Charlotte’s Web” before breakfast, it would go more like this: “Oh, papa, look: the spider web says ‘Some Pig! We can’t kill him now!”

“I don’t care what it says; he’ll be even better as bacon.

Now pass me that hatchet.”

What might have become of other classics, if they’d had to be written on an empty stomach?

We might have “Pride and Orange Juice,” by Jane Austen: “It is a truth universally acknowledged,” it might still have started, “that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.” But it would become the shortest piece of literature in the English canon when it concludes: “But

all he really wants is his dratted breakfast.”

Charles Dickens might have written of “Oliver Toast,” an orphan boy who completely forgets his manners, saying “Never mind the ‘Please, sir;’ I’ll have some more gruel, and I’ll have it now, because I have a pistol.”

Victor Hugo’s “Les Miserables” would still be miserable.

But I’ll wager that Marcel Proust would have dipped that little madeleine cake into his tea and just snorfled it down, instead of going on and on for seven volumes about the memories it triggers.

Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina might well ask herself, “What am I doing, leaving my children to run away with Count Vronsky, when a perfectly good breakfast is waiting on the table at home?”

Shakespeare’s MacBeth might have asked: “Is this a dagger I see before me?”

“No, idiot, it’s a butter knife.

Now would you please pass the waffles before they get cold?”

As Edgar Allen Poe might have written: “Quoth the Raven — Eat Some More!”

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he late William F. Buckley Jr. declared in 1962, “I should sooner live in a society governed by the first two thousand names in the Boston telephone directory than in a society governed by the two thousand faculty members of Harvard University.”

Buckley had more faith in the instincts and good sense of the common folks than in academic, government and political elites. I have always agreed with his position that if one gives ordinary people facts, they will more often than not adopt the reasonable position and act accordingly.

And that’s exactly what happened in the Nassau District Attorney’s race.

When DA Kathleen Rice announced she would seek election to the 4th Congressional District being vacated by nineterm Democratic Representative Carolyn McCarthy in November 2014, Republican bosses were delighted.

They wanted Democrat Rice to go to Washington because they believed one of their hacks could easily win a 2015 special

election to fill the DA vacancy.

Also, with the stench of corruption emanating from GOPcontrolled county and town governments, having a friendly face in the DA’s office couldn’t hurt.

To ensure a Rice victory, the GOP nominated Nassau’s No. 1 political narcissist, Bruce Blakeman.

Having lost races for county Legislature, state Comptroller and U.S. Senator, he was the perfect patsy.

In the biggest Republican wave election since the 1920s, Rice easily beat the hapless Blakeman.

To take back the DA’s office this year, Republicans chose Hempstead Supervisor Kate Murray as their candidate despite the fact she had no prosecutorial experience.

They figured her popularity in Hempstead and their machine’s proven ability to get out the vote in off-year low turnout elections would catapult her to victory over the unknown acting DA, Madeline Singas.

But events did not go according to the GOP’s playbook.

Meanwhile, Madeline Singas devoted her campaign to promoting her credentials as a nonpolitical career prosecutor.

Before coming out to Nassau as top Deputy DA, she was trained by one of the most respected District Attorneys in the state, Judge Richard Brown of Queens County.

In late October Murray’s lack of experience caught up with her.

A series of devastating N.Y. Daily News editorials accused her of being unfit for the post.

GEORGE J. MARLIN The paper stated that in an On The Right interview Murray revealed she was “clueless about basics of criminal law and procedures;” The indictment of GOP Sen- showed no concern about her ate Majority Leader Dean Skelos; “federal indictment of her friend” revelations of corrupt contract Sen. Skelos; was “comfortable procedures in Oyster Bay Town- that her elected pals using taxship and Nassau County; brib- payer funds for promotional ery charges; and allegations the mailings before elections;” and County Executive accepted free “unconcerned about the federal meals and a free vacation from a investigation swirling around politically-connected vendor an- another friend, County Executive gered voters.

Edward Mangano.”

A Newsday poll released two Assuming voters were dopes, days before the election revealed the GOP ignored Murray’s thin that the No. 1 issue in Nassau legal resume and promoted her was government corruption. as a “tax cutter.”

On Election Day, however, the voters refused to be duped.

They were appalled by her lack of credentials and voted accordingly.

The results: Singas beat Murray by 15 points, 58 percent-43 percent. Twenty percent of Republicans and Conservatives crossed party lines to vote for Singas.

Most telling: in Hempstead, Murray’s home turf, people who supported her in past elections for Town Supervisor deserted in droves. Murray received only 45 percent of the Hempstead vote.

Tired of municipalities awash in scandal, common sense voters overwhelmingly rejected the scheme hatched by GOP bosses to put a political lightweight in the DA’s chair.

The Singas election was a victory for the common folks.

They refused to be manipulated by political elites and insisted on a DA who pledged to root out corruption, wherever it is and whoever is responsible.

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Dems rejoice watching GOP presidential circus

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n all of my many years I have never witnessed such a weird presidential candidate race.

Is it real? What is going on ?

I cannot believe that the two current leaders, Trump and Carson, would ever be elected president.

One scares me because he can’t keep his mouth shut and the other because he believes that God created the earth in six days.

Surely the public would never actually cast a vote for either of these candidates. I have to believe that.

Also it is my belief that pol results are actually the publics way of expressing their outrage at the way our government has been run.

Congress and politicians in general have the lowest public approval ratings ever recorded.

Politicians no longer, seem to have the interest of their constituents foremost but rather in their own selfish concerns such as getting elected to a cushy job with outrageous perks.

Promises made during election campaigns are quickly forgotten. The public recognizes this as never before.

What compounds the search for a respectable presidential candidate is that even the candidates, and there are a few, who are in my opinion of presidential caliber unfortunately are caught up in the general distrust of politicians.

So pervasive is this distrust that it is difficult for anyone to rise above the disarray.

Unfortunately I see no easy solution to the Republican debacle.

They have to hope that some outstanding outsider emerges.

Meanwhile the Democrats, who also have their own “politician problems”, must be euphoric watching this Republican circus implode as it takes the heat off of them for the moment at least.

Theodore Theodorsen Manhasset

DiNapoli takes page from Democratic playbook A recent audit by state Comptroller Tom DiNapoli claiming that New York sends more money to Washington than we get back, resulting in our being shortchanged, is nothing new.

DiNapoli continues to play from the same old liberal Democratic playbook.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo, Sen. Charles Schumer, Sen Kirsten Gillibrand, New York City Mayor Bill De Blasio along with most of our Congress members continue to blame Washington for all of our problems just like their political ancestors from past decades.

All have an insatiable appetite for more and more federal assistance with no concern about increasing the confiscatory level of taxation to generate the revenues along with increasing long-term borrowing to pay for this or how the billions of dollars are spent. They believe throwing more taxpayer dollars at problems will solve all of society’s ills.

Moving tax dollars from Washington to New York State redistributes the wealth from the haves to the have-nots.

The late Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan documented how New Yorkers sent more money to Washington than we get back.

Many of the 50 states could make the same argument. This imbalance also holds true in the distribution of state aid from Albany to the 62 counties of New York state including Nassau

County.

Within New York City, residents of Brooklyn, Bronx, Manhattan, Queens and Staten Island (or each of the fifty-nine community planning boards) don’t always get back the same amount of money sent to City Hall, Albany and Washington.

Within Nassau County or any of our other 61 counties, you could take this analysis down to every town, village and local census tract in New York state.

Same for the communities of Great Neck, New Hyde Park, Herricks, Albertson, Searingtown, Williston Park, Garden City, Manhasset and Roslyn.

Since this imbalance will never change, we would be better off leaving tax levies at the most local level of government.

There will be significant savings in administrative costs and a greater percentage of locally generated revenues remaining in our communities. Generating, keeping and spending local funds in your communities also allows greater accountability and oversight by public officials and citizens from the same neighborhoods.

The real question is how New York State manages the billions of dollars they are already receiving from Washington every year.

Federal support for New York State has remained consistent and growing. It has actually increased over past decades.

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When a crises occurred, be it 9/11 in 2001 or Hurricane Sandy in 2012, Washington was there for us.

Additional billions in federal assistance above and beyond yearly formula allocations were provided.

In 2009, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act provided billions more.

Most federal transportation grants require a 20 percent hard cash local share.

In many cases, Uncle Sam accepted toll credits instead of hard cash for the local share.

This saved the MTA $1 billion dollars in the previous 2010 2014 Five Year Capital Program.

Does New York State submit grant applications on time?

Are current federally funded programs being completed on time and within budget? Are all federally funded grant staff positions filled?

Employees are needed to manage projects and programs to insure compliance with federal rules and regulations.

Are construction projects being completed according to original specifications with few if any change orders? Is there any waste, fraud or abuse for expenditures of any taxpayers dollars?

Has state Comptroller Tom DiNapoli conducted audits of each respective state agency and authority to see if they are doing a good job managing current federal aid programs?

Have state Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan or state Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie conducted public hearings to do the same?

Have either Flanagan or Heastie ever asked any of their respective legislative committee chairpersons to do the same?

The state Departments of Transportation, Education, Health, Housing, Economic Development Corporation, Metropolitan Transportation Authority along with many other state agencies and authorities have to submit quarterly milestone and financial progress reports with their respective federal agency counterparts who review and approve funding from Washington.

They document the progress being made by the recipient of federal funding. The reports might make interesting reading for those who want to find out how the state DOT, the MTA, other state agencies and authorities are spending the billions from Washington.

It is difficult to convince Washington for more money when Uncle Sam faces annual short-term deficits of several hundred billion dollars accompanied by a long-term national debt of over $18 trillion dollars!

We should learn from past mistakes and attempt to reduce both borrowing and long term debt instead of allowing them to grow yearly.

The combined New York

City, New York State and federal debt is already over eighteen trillion dollars and growing. This inheritance could bankrupt future generations.

Government at all levels needs to do a better job with the billions of dollars in taxpayer generated revenues already available, rather than pick the pockets of taxpayers for even more. It is time for a return to pay-as-you-go budgeting; means testing for all government assistance programs; real balanced budgets without smoke and mirrors; stop hiding spending under so-called independent authorities whose budgets are off line with little or no oversight by both the Comptroller and State Legislature along with actual surpluses and down payments to reduce long term debt for all levels of government.

How ironic that after winning the Cold War against the Evil Empire of Communism, it may be mismanagement of our economy that defeats us in the end.

Unless we change our ways, America is on the road to losing our status as the world’s number one super power.

Just like mighty ancient Rome before the collapse, we are going down the path to become the world’s super debtor.

Larry Penner Great Neck

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armest congratulations to President Barbara Berkowitz, Vice President Lawrence Gross, Trustee Donald Ashkenase, Trustee Monique Bloom, and Trustee Susan Healy for their years of dedication and outstanding service to

We look forward to continthe Great Neck community.

As we celebrate School Board ued excellence in our district Recognition Week in New York with their guidance.

State, we acknowledge their comJoanne Chan & Sarah Moss mitment to excellence, hard work, Presidents and the many hours spent in helpUnited Parent-Teacher Council ing our schools in providing an Great Neck Public Schools exemplary education for all.

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GOP’s war on women obvious to everyone

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he “War on Women” is a phrase used to describe Republican policies and proposals which restrict women’s rights, especially reproductive ones.

Republicans counter that the “war” is a figment of Democrat’s imagination. This essay will present myriad examples proving beyond a shadow of a doubt that the Democrats’ contention is correct.

The evidence is so overwhelming it brings to mind Christopher Morley’s line “There was so much handwriting on the wall that even the wall fell down.”

On January 29, 1998, Emily Lyons was working at her job as a nurse at the All Women’s Health Care Center in Birmingham, Ala. A bomb packed with nails went off. Lyons, a 42 year old mother of two had her shins blasted away, her entire body was riddled with shrapnel and her left eye was destroyed.

She has endured multiple surgeries, excruciating skin grafts and scrubbing of abscessed wounds. What crime had Ms. Lyons committed?

She worked at a clinic that performed abortions.

On May 31, 2009, Dr. George Tiller was ushering at the Reformation Lutheran Church in Wichita, Kan. Scott Roeder entered and shot Dr. Tiller through the eye.

Dr. Tiller’s crime? He was the medical director of Women’s Health Care Services which performed abortions.

While these events may not be typical anti-abortion activities, they do represent the extreme factions which exist within the movement.

There has been a marked increase in violence against clinic doctors and staff. Physicians have been harassed at their homes, their faces and addresses appearing on wanted-like posters.

Richard Mourdock, Indiana state treasurer said that “life was something that God intended” even if the pregnancy was due to rape. Dr. John C. Willkie, president of the National Right to Life

Committee, wrote that when undergoing rape, the female body can physiologically prevent conception.

He also stated that women can be “frightened tight.” These factually incorrect statements stem back to 1972 when Fred Mecklenberg of the University of Minnesota published an article stating that pregnancy from rape is “extremely rare” and that “rape-induced trauma Impedes ovulation.”

Lies die hard. In 1988, a Pennsylvania state representative said the odds of pregnancy resulting from rape were one in “millions and millions.”

And in 1998, a Republican senator from Arkansas talked about “fear- induced hormonal changes” making pregnancy unlikely.

But among the most inane thoughts about pregnancy are those of Todd Akin who served six terms in the House of Representatives and who in 2012 was the Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate from Missouri.

On a radio show, he famously spoke about “legitimate rape.”

One can only wonder how he would define “illegitimate rape.”

Admitting that he misspoke, he clarified by saying what he meant was “forcible rape” which leads to the question — when is rape not forced? The good voters in Missouri saw to it that Akin did not go back to Washington.

Not to be outdone in the ignorance category, we have the words of Foster Friess.

When being interviewed by NBC’s Andrea Mitchell, Mr. Friess said: “Back in my days, they used Bayer aspirin for contraceptives.”

To clarify, he went on: “The gals put it between their knees.”

Who was this insensitive and politically incorrect person?

A supporter of Rick Santorum for president in 2011, Friess gave over $330,000 to a Santorum super PAC. Based on the foregoing, I think it fair to say that if there’s an anti-science party, it’s the G.O.P. Not only do they question

evolution and climate change, but they postulate theories about rape which have absolutely no validity.

Arnold Toynbee once said that “history is just one damned thing after another.”

Facetious as this may be, I hold that history is, indeed, a story and it can be a most fascinating one when properly told.

Let’s go back to Eric Rudolph whose bomb eviscerated nurse Emily Lyons.

Violence was nothing new to Rudolph.

In the 1996 Olympic Games held in Atlanta, he planted a bomb which took one life and maimed 111 others. In 1997, he bombed the Birmingham clinic where Lyons worked.

What is instructive in the Rudolph story is the public’s reaction to his crime.

Two country music songs were written about him and many bought a T-shirt which read: “Run Rudolph Run.” For five years, he evaded law enforcement, a fugitive in the Appalachian wilderness. It is likely that this “folk hero” received assistance from sympathizers in spite of his being on the F.B.I.’s 10 Most Wanted list and the offer of $1 million for information leading to his capture.

The lesson to be learned here is that we are not dealing with one psychotic individual, but with an organized movement of persons for whom violence is an acceptable tactic. How does the Rudolph story end?

The anti-abortion murderer is serving three consecutive life terms in a Supermax federal prison. He is alone 22 and a half hours a day in an 80-foot concrete cell.

The weapons in the “War on Women” are many and varied. The list below is a sample of ideas which misogynists have devised to thwart progress for women.

• Doctors are harassed by having their pictures and home addresses placed on “Wanted” posters.

• Extreme members of Op-

eration Rescue make the case for “justifiable homicide” and use of “lethal force.”

• Money which could be spent on women’s health issues is expended on clinic security.

• Clinics are being forced to close at a rate of 1.5 every week.

• Clinics must meet the same standards as ambulatory surgical centers which can be prohibitively expensive.

• Doctors performing abortions must have admitting privileges at a nearby hospital, but in a “Catch 22” scenario, often these hospitals deny the privilege to physicians who do abortions.

Texas put such stringent regulations in effect that, only five of the state’s 42 clinics met the standards. Patients in the Rio Grande Valley have to travel 300 miles to the nearest clinic.

• Some states require an ultrasound before performing abortions.

This is but another obstacle placed in the way of a woman who has made up her mind about the procedure.

• Waiting periods lasting from one to six days are common. South Dakota uses this time to enforce mandatory counseling at an anti-abortion crisis center.

• Some states require women who want an abortion to listen to the fetal heartbeat.

To me, this sounds like “cruel and unusual punishment” interposed by a state which is meddling in the doctor patient relationship.

• Physicians’ scripts are prepared and must be read to women seeking an abortion. The argument in favor of scripts is that it makes for “informed consent,” when oft-times medically inaccurate information is conveyed, such as abortion increases the risk of breast cancer.

• In 1976, the Hyde Amendment authored by Congressman Henry Hyde of Illinois became the law of the land. It prohibited federal funding (Medicaid dollars) from being used for most abortions.

As a result, over 20 million women have been denied this

safe, common, and medically necessary procedure.

It is shameful, that most women affected are poor, many black and Latina. We are fortunate to live in a country which values equality except for the poor and minorities!

• Maltreatment of women extends into the military.

In one year there were 20,000 instances or reported rape and sexual assault. In many cases the military have ignored the facts and given the perpetrators a slap on the wrist.

They have not acted on behalf of the victims because they didn’t have to. Company commanders act as judge and jury and until guilt or innocence is taken out of the chain of command, justice will not be served.

All of the above are shameful examples of the successes made by those who oppose women’s rights.

America stands at the crossroads. Some believe that the “War on Women” is over and women have lost. Others like Wendy Davis have not thrown in the towel yet.

Ex-Sen. Davis held a seat in the Texas legislature, and in 2013 rose to oppose a bill severely curtailing women’s rights.

Wearing pink sneakers, for eleven hours she defied attempts to end her filibuster.

While the governor, Rick Perry, was able to call a special session of the legislature and get his Neanderthal bill passed, the example set by Davis inspired women across the country.

I recently came across a hand-lettered sign which read: “Thou shalt not mess with women’s reproductive rights” Fallopians 4:28. I also saw a poster which read: “New Commandment: Thou shalt not write laws pertaining to body parts you don’t have…God.” And so the fight goes on, and try as they may, Republicans cannot turn back the hands of time…Venceremos!

Dr. Hal Sobel Great Neck

Town need less photo ops and more action

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he first time I wrote top you I signed “anonymous.” The second time I wrote I had it published.

Now I am writing you about the lady with the white hair. I just found out who she is.

All I know is if she wants to have her picture taken every day of the week in every paper, mostly Great Neck News and everywhere else she could have her picture taken, maybe she could go to Hollywood, Calif., and have the picture of herself taken every day.

I am assuming she is volunteering. I hope so because if she is getting paid I would like to know what she is getting paid for.

I went to several meetings already here, when I like, and also Cuttermill Road and Ipswich Avenue, where they had more politicians pointing out what they were going to do regarding the accidents on Cuttermill Road going to Ipswich Avenue.

Nothing to this day has been done and now you

could add to the big clock on Middle Neck Road and everything else that is going on in Great Neck that will make this one big town to live in.

Enough with her pictures already.

Let her do some work for Great Neck instead of for the cameras.

M.K. “Disgusted” Great Neck

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Common Core talk obscures school successes

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ith all of the backlash against Common Core, much of our dialogue about our local schools has consisted of common complaints.

Mainly, these complaints have to do with the amount of hours our children have to take less-than-quality standardized tests.

Many of us feel that these tests seem to set our children up for failure. Along with this over-testing, many are appalled at the age-inappropriate Common Core curriculum which, in an attempt to teach children to think critically, have more often than not seemed to frustrate and confuse students.

Teachers are stressed about their own “testing,” too — an evaluation system that seems so burdensome to our pedagogues, that it hampers their spirit in the classroom.

Parents and teachers are often equally confused by this new curriculum and new methods, doubting much of its usefulness.

Worse than being useless, many worry about the strain that it is putting on our children and that it is robbing them of the essential aspects of childhood that allows them to develop into joyful and well-rounded individuals.

An unsuccessful attempt to propel ourselves into a supposed race with other worldwide math and language scores has left many to fear that the social and emotional well-being of our future generation is being compromised in the process.

However, with all the well-deserved scrutiny that Common Core has received lately, there still seems to be a large gaping hole in our dialogue about our local schools.

In a desperate attempt to rally against the ills of the current system, many of us are forgetting all the good, and all that we have to be grateful for, when it comes to our local schools.

After all, gratitude is not only nice, it is useful. It makes us realize what should be valued and nurtured.

I think, just maybe, that some of the things that I am grateful about when it comes to our schools, others are grateful about, as well. I’m grateful that over the past few years, my elementary-aged son has met wonderful, sensitive, smart, and engaging teachers and staff that generally care about whether he has a smile on his face, or not.

When I see him get off the bus at the end of the day and he is smiling, I know that somewhere along the way, a teacher inspired that smile.

I’m grateful that the administrators in my son’s school district see technology as a way to motivate learning and differentiate instruction, rather than as a new necessary evil.

My son’s school recently hosted “Meet the IPad” night, where staff helped teach parents about the applications on their children’s IPads. One such application help students take ownership of their schoolwork by submitting work and receiving feedback quickly and directly from their teachers.

Other apps provide interactive reading material on the child’s specific reading level with high-interest, child friendly topics. I’m grateful for this engaging new technology and for the administrators and staff that were not only there that night, but were really

“present” and ready and willing to engage enthusiastically with parents.

I’m grateful that my son voluntarily, and “just-for-fun” plays an app on his school-issued IPad that teaches him how to “code” and another one that helps him learn Presidential facts. I’m grateful that although he may not always be a fan of all of his homework, he actually looks forward to going to school.

He genuinely likes his classroom teacher and the welcoming and engaging environment that she has fostered. He also looks forward to all of his “specials” which include science lab, library, Spanish, art, physical education, music, and special instrumental instruction with an instrument of choice.

He even likes the more mundane and nonacademic aspects of the day, including schoolbought lunches, recess, and bus-rides.

This means that he feels that he is part of a community, not just a school.

So, I’m grateful not just for the teachers and administrators but for all of the other staff and parents that make our children feel that they are part of a cohesive community. I’m grateful for the district’s secretaries, nurses, aides, monitors, custodians, cafeteria workers, bus drivers, and all the PTA moms and dads that work hard to raise money and plan events.

No school is perfect, and no community is perfect. But, I am certainly grateful that the children in my son’s school district are part of a real community of learners and are able to go to school every day in a place that values not just test scores, but also social, emotional and character development. They get to go

to school in a place that is not afraid of the word, “fun.”

They are learning to be not just hoarders of information, but real citizens. It is a community that values diversity, culture, empathy, individual talents and passions. I’m grateful for the way in which the vast majority of our local educators help our children feel successful and reach their potential in a happy and healthy way.

After all, if we want our children to be “college and career ready” then we want them to have a positive experience about what it means to be a productive part of an enriching society so that one day they will not only be ready, but will be able choose the right kind of college and career for themselves.

The American dream may have changed over time and become a bit more liberated.

Yet, still, at its core the dream is that sense of having the freedom to celebrate our own individualism while engaging in a thriving community. This is what our schools help our children achieve.

So, as we serve the turkey (or tofu) and cranberry sauce this Thanksgiving, I will try to remember the gratitude that I feel towards what is really the heart of our community: our local schools. I’ll try to remember all of the common gratitude that our ancestors have had for decades and centuries, and I’ll say Thank You. Diana Poulos-Lutz Mineola

NHP Fire District frustrates pubic participation

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hile the vast majority of municipalities either cancelled or had the forethought to schedule their monthly board meetings around Election Day, the New Hyde Park Fire District once again inexplicably held their public meeting on Election Day, frustrating the public’s ability to participate in the political process.

The scheduling of meetings around the second Tuesday of November is routine.

It provides the public and those that work for municipalities and those citizens who would like to participate in local board meetings with the opportunity to get out and vote. To participate in the political process and have their voice heard. The New Hyde Park Fire District and its staff choose, once again, to hold a board meeting on Election

Day, showing a lack of concern and common courtesy for their own constituents.

This is nothing new.

The New Hyde Park Fire District has continually attempted to frustrate public participation in their meetings.

They have refused, on many occasions, to respond to questions regarding key budgetary issues during regular and budget meetings, failed to make their board meetings more accessible to the public by holding their meetings in smaller rooms in the district offices or posting small signs on the entry door of headquarters stated that a meeting will be held, when they have an operational taxpayer funded digital billboard on the building, require Freedom of Information requests to view board meeting minutes and board members are generally rude and

disrespectful to residents who ask questions and seek clarification regarding certain issues, providing smug remarks or refusing to respond to questions altogether.

All of this occurs when board members actually appear for board meetings. Indeed, this has been a serious problem for Commissioner Stephen Derenze, who has shown an absolute disregard of his duties and responsibilities for the district, missing a total of six of 13 meeting in the first year of his five-year term.

No explanation for his absences has been provided. It seems that this behavior has only increased since it was uncovered that the board was improperly changing meeting minutes to reflect a vote that never occurred.

This is a board run amuck, who maintains the attitude that we can do whatever we

want and no one can impede our actions.

Unfortunately, these actions are just further examples of the board’s lack of openness and transparency in their governmental operations and budget process.

While other fire districts, like Oceanside or Franklin Square-Munson, have moved their meeting minutes online or posted podcasts or audio recording of public meetings, this district pulls away, allowing the “good ol’ boys” on the board the opportunity to do what they wish with taxpayer funds without any true transparency or oversight.

This must stop! I encourage all district residents to come to a meeting and witness this behavior firsthand.

Deirdre Dolan New Hyde Park

Congress short-shrifts Ground Zero workers

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here is going to be cuts in the Zadroga bill as it stands now. 9/11 responders who worked at Ground Zero are now dying and others could be getting sick and coming down with Cancer.

The proposal is for five years and that

just will not do. These people deserve the needed health care now and further in the future that extends more than five years.

I’m find this quite troubling and appalling and a insult to these hero’s and their families who bear the burden and should not be forgotten.

These heroic responders need to get U. S. Rep. Carolyn Maloney [D-Astoria ] and other congressional leaders has what they deserve for serving America in asked for a fully funded Zadroga Health its’ time of need and now they need Congress to step up and do the right thing !

Compensation Act extension.

Now I fully applaud their actions and Frederick R. Bedell Jr. hopefully it gets done and those who are Glen Oaks Village against this finally see the light.

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The day the circus came to Williston Park If you were lucky this week you got to see some of Hollywood’s superstars work their magic right here on the streets of Williston Park.

Hildebrandt’s and its small town charm attracted a film crew to its counter once again.

And in this case the film is called The Book of Henry with Jurassic World’s director Colin Trevorrow and starring Naomi Watts and Sarah Silverman.

The screenplay was created by bestselling novelist Gregg Hurwitz and is about a single mother raising two kids, one of which is a boy genius.

Anyone who was walking down Hillside Avenue on Tuesday could not help but notice all those big trucks, cranes with huge lights, and all those assistant producers, camera men and actors lounging around between takes.

If you were exceptionally lucky like me you got to see Naomi Watts herself doing some shopping in Peter Andrews between takes.

Ms. Watts was in last year’s blockbuster “Birdman” and my guess is that this film may be an-

other Oscar contender given the principals involved.

For a while now I have been thinking about how certain filmmakers use the circus as a metaphor for life and art. Fellini’s “8 ½” has that wonderful scene at the end where the five circus clowns are marching through the movie set, playing their instruments and lead the entire cast and crew into a circle where they all hold hands as they march around the ring.

So sweet and yet also so sad.

Because just as soon as they circle the ring in joy the music ends and they all disappear leaving the little boy standing there alone in the dark.

Wim Wenders’s “Wings of Desire” and E.B. White’s famous essay “Ring of Time” are also about the bittersweet nature of the circus. The circus is that which brings magic to a town but the magic leaves as fast as it comes.

This of course is just what happened to us this week.

The circus came to town, marching about, showing their wonder and beauty for a brief time.

In the early evening when the

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sun set the film crews giant lights and screens went on and many of us locals just stood around and watched in awe as Hildebrandt’s became the star for a day.

Then just as quick as they came they were gone. And if you are thinking I am exaggerating just look closely at the picture I took of Naomi Watts.

All at once you can see someone with great beauty but with sadness and fragility and fear as well.

Not everyone can show all that in their face but she can. And it is not because I am a master photographer like Henri Cartier-

Bresson who knows how to capture ‘the decisive moment.’ I assure you I am not.

These great actresses can somehow show magic in the face and that’s why she is one of those superstars we get to see on film.

So if you were not so lucky as to see Ms. Watts or Sarah Silverman or all those other actors and actresses that graced our main street and brought some magic this week do not be too sad.

You will just have to wait till the summer to see them on the silver screen.

And won’t it be fun to see good old Hildebrandt’s with another starring role. Who would have guessed?

And maybe if they get nominated for an Oscar we will all be invited to the Oscars in March of 2017.

Now wouldn’t that be fun.

Naomi Watts shopping in Peter Andrews between takes during the filming of The Book of Henry at Hildebrandt’s.”

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Two accused of theft E.W. seeks extension of $119K at Macy’s of teacher evaluations

BY N O A H M A N S K A R Two Queens men were arraigned Thursday for allegedly using stolen credit card numbers to buy more than $119,000 worth of cosmetics and handbags from a Manhasset Macy’s.

Flushing residents Zhaolong Wen, 25, and Jianhui Zhuo, 30, were arrested on one count each of second-degree grand larceny and two counts each of

third-degree grand larceny.

The men allegedly re-encoded Citibank, Discover and Macy’s credit cards with stolen numbers and made several purchases at the Macy’s store at 1100 Northern Blvd. in Manhasset between Aug. 7 and Sept. 9.

As a result, police said, Citibank lost more than $60,000, Discover lost more than $20,000 and Macy’s lost more than $39,000.

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The East Williston school board voted Wednesday to apply for an extension of the state’s deadline for the district to develop a new teacher evaluation plan based on the Common Core standards.

The board submitted a Annual Professional Performance Review Hardship Waiver under the advisement of the district’s attorney.

“If we haven’t gotten this first waiver approved, there was potential that we wouldn’t be able to get any increases in state aid,” district Superintendent Elaine Kanas said.

The submission of this

Board members said heir new goals would focus on professional development under the state requirements, current staff needs, advancing academic offerings, continuation of existing policies and updating the district’s facilities.

Committee discussion surrounded cleaning up language about existing board committees including the Strategic Planning Committee, the Education Advisory Committee and the Financial Advisory Committee.

New board goals and committees will be officially presented at the next school board meeting on Monday, Dec. 14.

Herricks ed board OKs policy revisions B Y M A TT G R EC H cilities that charge admis- practice for the most part, The Herricks school board approved revisions to several district policies at its meeting on Thursday.

The board unanimously approved revisions to the district’s Public Use of School Facilities, Student Policies Goals and Equal Educational Opportunities policies. The changes were focused on the clarification and updating of the policies’ language.

The Public Use of School Facilities policy saw the addition of a new requirement for school-related groups using the fa-

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Any additional extensions would require additional waivers to be submitted.

The Herricks school board also approved a waiver application in October.

In other business, the board discussed its goals and the potential reorganization of board committees.

Discussion included updating the board’s goals to reflect the new school year and the conclusion of the district’s current five-year

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sion to use these proceeds towards the facilities’ expenses.

“I think what we wanted to do was clarify the fee schedule,” district Superintendent Fino Celano said. “Organizations and groups that are affiliated to the school are not subject to the fee schedule, but are subject to that if there is an admission fee required to an event, they would be required to pay for the additional services such as custodial and security.”

Celano said this is something that has been in

but was not in writing.

Under recommendations from the district’s auditor, the board clarified the addition in the newest policy revision.

Revisions to the district’s Student Policies Goals and Educational Opportunities policy were simple language changes.

The board began discussions regarding the use of a $27,894.65 FEMA reimbursement the district received to cover repair costs after Hurricane Sandy during the 2012-13 school year.

District officials said they are unsure of how this reimbursement will be spent, and currently has plans to include the money in the district’s general fund until further discussion.

Celano also announced the board will hear a presentation on the recommendations from an investigation regarding the start time of the Herricks High School at the board meeting on Dec. 10.

The next board meeting is scheduled for Nov. 19.

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Show of faith from G.N. to Charleston Temple Beth-El holds interfaith service with Charleston church members, local community

By J oe N i k i c Four months after visiting Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, S.C., where nine people were shot and killed during Bible study on June 17, Rabbis Meir and Tara Feldman opened the doors to Temple Beth-El of Great Neck for the family of Myra Thompson, one of the congregants killed during the shooting.

Temple Beth-El congregants were joined by members of the community and elected officials in welcoming Thompson’s family at services held last Friday evening and Saturday morning that combined the temple’s regular services with aspects of Emanuel AME’s prayers and gospel singing.

“I think that what happened on this weekend, I hope, is the beginning of something that brings people of different faiths together,” Meir said. “So often, religion is looked at as the cause for hatred and anger and pain. What these dear friends in Charleston teach is religion can be and should be the source of healing for people.

That inspires me as a religious person.”

Thompson’s family, her eight sisters and two of her brother-in-laws, made the trip to New York last Friday afternoon before the service.

“This is truly a beautiful experience,” one of Thompson’s sisters said. “The

PHOTO BY KAREN RUBIN

Singers from the Emanual A.M.E. Church in Charleston, South Carolina perform at an interfaith service at Temple Beth-El in Great Neck on Nov. 6. warmth and the reception that we’ve received since coming here can’t be met.”

The shooting of the nine worshippers, including Rev. Clementa Pickney, a prominent state senator, during Bible study in the 199-year old church, which has played an important role in the Civil Rights and Black Lives Matter movements, garnered widespread national attention. President Barack

Obama would later deliver the eulogy at Pinckney’s funeral Attention grew when words of forgiveness were spoken by family members of the slain congregants to suspect Dylan Roof, a 19-year-old who had been photographed wearing symbols sometimes worn by white supremacists, such as the flag of apartheidera South Africa and a Confederate flag.

The photograph of Roof with the Confederate flag touched off a national debate about the presence of the Confederate flag in public places.

The South Carolina state Legislature at the urging of Gov. Nikki Haley and other South Carolina officials later voted to remove a Confederate flag that hung on the grounds on the State Capitol.

The Feldmans said they went down to Charleston July 1, before returning the next day, to help the families of the nine congregants grieve.

“Our primary goal and intention was to do what Jews do; when someone suffers a loss we go and visit the family and sit and listen to stories of their loved ones,” Meir said.

The Feldmans were invited to join the community for the 6 p.m. Wednesday evening Bible study, the same class at which the shooting occurred only two weeks prior.

While at the Bible study, the Feldmans said, they met many family members of the nine slain church members, including some of Thompson’s sisters.

The Feldmans said they remained in contact with Blondelle Gadsden, one of Thompson’s eldest sisters, who told them in early October she hoped to bring her sisters to Great Neck.

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Singas takes all 3 towns in DA landslide “They were the ones that were most attracted to the ‘prosecutor, not a politician’ argument, and playing that again and again, I think particularly with the people in North Hempstead ... that resonated,” Jacobs said.

The race pitted Singas, a 24-year prosecutor who was not a known public figure until she took the helm of the DA’s office in January, against Murray, an established Nassau Republican who served 12 years as Hempstead’s Town Supervisor.

The candidates battled often over their qualifications and approaches to tackling political corruption and heroin-related deaths.

Singas coupled criticisms of Murray’s lack of criminal law experience with vows to take down corrupt officials in the county in the wake of federal indictments against state Sen. Dean Skelos (R-Rockville Centre) and Assemblyman Sheldon Silver (D-Lower Manhattan).

Murray admitted she was not a prosecutor, but countered that she would manage the DA’s office more effectively and be tougher on drug dealers than Singas.

Murray won 20 of North

PHOTO BY JOE NIKIC

Democratic District Attorney-elect Madeline Singas won all three Nassau County townships -- North Hempstead, Hempstead and Oyster Bay -- by at least a 10-percent margin in the Nov. 3 election against Republican Kate Murray, Hempstead’s former Town Supervisor.

Hempstead’s 205 districts. She carried one in Carle Place by about 20 percent, her largest margin of victory in the town.

Along with parts of the Willistons and Mineola, Carle Place was in one of Murray’s four main pockets of support. The others were Saddle Rock in Great Neck, a portion of Manhasset bordering Munsey Park, and northern

portions of New Hyde Park.

She fared better in Hempstead, which leans Republican and where Murray was an established name. Singas had a narrower margin of victory there, with 55 percent of votes to Murray’s 45 percent.

Murray, who lives in Levittown, was most dominant in Garden City, Franklin Square,

Malverne, East Rockaway, Island Park, Seaford and her hometown of Levittown.

She won most of the Five Towns in Hempstead’s southwest corner, carrying Lawrence, Inwood, Cedarhurst and a portion of Woodmere.

But Singas took most of Hewlett and all of Hewlett Neck, Hewlett Bay Park and Hewlett

Harbor.

In no election district did Murray achieve as large a margin of victory as Singas won in her strongest districts.

She won only two districts by more 50 percent of the votes in the county, one in Lawrence that cast 209 votes and one in Hewlett that cast 10.

She won eight of the votes in the latter, and the former favored her by a 59-percent margin, 161 votes to Singas’ 39.

Singas’ Hempstead strongholds were Elmont, most of Valley Stream, Hempstead village, East Garden City, Uniondale, Baldwin, Freeport, Lakeview and Roosevelt.

While Hempstead voters had a level of “affection” for Murray as a familiar figure, Jacobs said, Singas’ message resonated with many Republicans there.

“What we found was that voters Republican voters in Hempstead would continuously say that if Kate was running for supervisor again then (they’d) vote for her, but she just isn’t qualified to do the job,” Jacobs said.

Nassau Republican Party Chairman Joe Mondello could not be reached for comment.

Cardiologist pleads not guilty to contract hit try Continued from Page 8 knives, swords, axes and a hand grenade in a secret room in his home that was controlled by a switch-activated bookshelf, prosecutors said.

Singas said some of the weapons found by investigators were illegal, but Moschetto did own some legal weapons.

The investigation began following various drug purchases by undercover Nassau County Police and Drug Enforcement Agency officers that were then linked to Moschetto, prosecutors said.

As the deals progressed, prosecutors said, officers began purchasing weapons, and during a sale on Jan. 22, the seller requested dynamite needed to blow up a building.

Weeks later, the seller said the dynamite was no longer needed because fire was set to the building instead.

Moschetto is accused of hiring codefendants James Chmela, 43, and James Kalamaras, 41, to burn down Heart Diagnostic Imaging, at 38 Northern Blvd. in Great Neck, on Feb. 25 Moschetto once worked at the practice with Dr. Martin Handler, who Moschetto allegedly tried to have killed.

Singas said the two “had a business dispute, a professional dispute that ultimately caused him to want to hurt him.”

During one of the undercover drug buys, a conversation was had about the February arson that detectives were sub-

He is currently in “Waive to Grand Jury” status and no future court date is available, according to the DA’s office.

Singas said Moschetto was giving blank prescriptions and prescription pads as payments.

“Certainly it was used for payment so that he could pay for the murder-of-hire,” she said. “But he was selling prescription pads and prescriptions and trafficking in weapons before that.”

A DEA official said Moschetto had been selling prescription pads “for years” prior to the investigation.

Singas said Moschetto still had his license to practice medicine, The Office of Professional Medical Conduct handles the revoking of licenses, she noted.

Singas said a felony conviction would automatically revoke his license.

The case is being prosecuted by Assistant District Attorney George Smit and Deputy Bureau Chief Anne Donnelly, who works in Singas’ Organized Crime and District Attorney-elect Madeline Singas announcing the indictment of Anthony Rackets Bureau.

Moschetto (inset) at a press conference Monday.

Efforts to reach Kevin Keating, the attorney representing Moschetto, were charges of third-degree arson, third-de- unavailing. sequently able to link to Moschetto.

Moschetto also set up an assault and gree burglary, and second-degree crimiReach reporter Joe Nikic by e-mail at later a murder agreement of Handler to nal mischief. He faces a maximum life jnikic@theislandnow.com, by phone at sentence. an undercover detective, offering $5,000 Chmela was indicted in April and 516.307.1045 x203. Also follow us on for the assault and more than $20,000 for murder, prosecutors said. The plot was faces up to 15 years in prison if convicted Twitter @joenikic and Facebook at faceexpected to be executed sometime in May. of the top charge of felony second-degree book.com/theislandnow.

Kalamaras was indicted in April on criminal possession of a weapon.

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Renovation begin on Nassau Coliseum Mangano touts $260M project touted as major economic boost, 1st of several area projects B y H arr i son M ar d e r Long-awaited renovations to the aging Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum are officially underway following a ceremonial groundbreaking Thursday afternoon in Uniondale.

According to a press release from Nassau County Executive Edward Mangano’s office, the renovation of the 43-year old Coliseum and construction of its surrounding retail and entertainment center is expected to create more than 1,035 direct construction jobs, and more than 570 additional indirect and induced jobs in Nassau County.

Mangano, developer Bruce Ratner and other elected officials were on hand to kick off the construction.

“This wonderful coliseum is being built with private dollars,” Managano said. “A $260 million investment. This is only the beginning as the property will be further developed to create health care-related jobs, including Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and other exciting initiatives.

The renovation will also generate more than $330 million in economic activity for the County, the release said.

The Coliseum is scheduled to reopen in December 2016.

A week before the groud-

breaking, Brooklyn Nets owner Mikhail Prokhorov announced his purchase of a majority stake in Nassau Events Center, the company created by Ratner to run the arena.

Onexim Sports and Entertainment, established by Prokhorov and based in Moscow, is going to assume 85 percent ownership of Nassau Events Center.

Ratner, who is executive chairman of Forest City Ratner Companies, will retain 15 percent ownership of Nassau Events Center under the agreement.

According to officials, Ratner’s vision for the property will be maintained by Onexim and Onexim is going to abide by lease agreement’s terms with the county.

The lease agreement said Nassau Events Center will pay the county more than $500 million in rent and sales taxes during the 34-year lease.

On Aug. 4, the release said, the project’s construction team fully mobilized on site, completed an extensive program of environmental testing and conducted pre-demolition activities, such as exterior sign removal, food service equipment disconnects, and furniture and fixture removals.

“There were very few bumps,” Ratner said. “We said we take over the Coliseum in August. We did that. We started

PHOTO COURTESY OF NASSAU COUNTY

Nassau County Executive Edward P. Mangano speaks at the groundbreaking of construction on the Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum last Thursday. all of our environmental work and then we closed before our deadline.”

The architect for the Coliseum facade is SHoP Architects, the architect for the interior renovation is Gensler, and the construction manager is Hunt Construction Group, according to the release.

The $260 million that Mangano referenced comes in private investment from Nassau

PHOTO COURTESY OF NASSAU COUNTY

Nassau County Executive Edward P. Mangano swings a ceremonial sledgehammer at the groundbreaking of construction on the Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum Thursday.

Events Center and is used to fund both the Coliseum and the retail center.

No tax dollars are being used to construct the Coliseum and its surrounding retail and entertainment center, according to Mangano’s office.

Under terms of the agreement, $194.5 million is the minimum guaranteed revenue the county will receive during the 34-year lease with Nassau Events Center.

Payments began pre-construction in August 2015, and will be used to keep county property taxes down.

Additionally, Mangano’s office said, $3.7 million in annual sales taxes from the arena will be generated, along with an estimated $2.7 million in annual sales tax from new retail and entertainment surrounding the area.

The Coliseum, county officials said, will also continue to be owned by the taxpayers, and Nassau County taxpayers will shed significant costs related to operating the arena.

On Aug. 1, Nassau Events Center, took responsibility for all costs related to operating, insuring, maintaining and providing utilities at the Coliseum, according to county officials.

The agreement also provides direct financial relief to taxpayers by eliminating millions of dollars in annual expenses for utilities, parking lot

repairs, and capital expenditures, county officials said.

When complete, the Coliseum will host hundreds of events annually, including six New York Islanders games, a Brooklyn Nets preseason game, boxing, minor league sports and college basketball, as well as concerts and family-fun entertainment.

“We are thrilled to bring an exceptional guest experience and a dynamic and diverse slate of events to the reimagined Nassau Coliseum,” said Brett Yormark, CEO of Barclays Center.

“From sports, to music, to family entertainment, to outdoor festivals and other special events, our soon-to-be-announced programming schedule will complement the local audience and bring the best to Long Island.”

In the months after construction of the Coliseum begins, work will begin on the plaza surrounding the arena to build a movie theater, family sports and entertainment facilities, and restaurants, officials said.

“Long Islanders have waited far too long for a premier entertainment destination that they can be proud of,” Ratner said. “Today marks an important milestone and step forward in delivering a state of the art entertainment venue and retail destination that will truly have an incredible impact on the region.”

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Coliseum to get Nets’ ‘D’ league team

The renovated Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum will be home to the Long Island Nets, the newly announced NBA Development League affiliate of the Brooklyn Nets, starting in the 2017-18 basketball season. The team will play its first season next year at Barclays Center in Brooklyn, current home of the Brooklyn Nets and New York Islanders hockey team.

BY N O A H M A N S K A R

the Long Island Nets that will play its home games at the Nassau Coliseum, The New York Islanders left big shoes team officials said Friday.

After playing their first season next to fill in the Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum, but the Brooklyn Nets are try- year at Barclays Center in Brooklyn, in 2017 the Long Island Nets will become ing to fill them.

The Brooklyn team has bought an the Nassau Coliseum’s first professional NBA Development League affiliate called sports team since the Islanders’ departure

for the Brooklyn arena.

“The Long Island Nets will have a world-class sports and entertainment destination to call home once transformation of the new Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum is complete,” Nassau County Executive Edward Mangano said in a statement.

The announcement came a day after county officials broke ground on a $260 million renovation to the aging Coliseum that will overhaul and downsize the arena and build an adjacent retail complex.

Brooklyn Nets and Barclays Center CEO Brett Yormark and Nets owners Mikhail Prokhorov and Bruce Ratner, the developer behind both Barclays Center and the Coliseum renovation, will also own and run the Long Island team, the 12th in the D-League to have such an operational structure.

Yormark touted the move as a step toward developing talent for the NBA team “in all areas of (its) business.” A Nets press release said five of its players and two of its coaches started in the D-League.

“The Long Island Nets will be a great brand extension of the Brooklyn Nets, and will give us the opportunity to reclaim a territory that was once ours,” Yormark said. “The creation of the Long Island Nets is indicative of our ownership’s commitment to the Nets and to the franchise’s future success.”

Prokhorov owns 80 percent of the Nets, and in late October he bought an 85-percent stake in Nassau Events Center, the corporation Ratner created to run the Coliseum. Ratner holds a 20-percent stake in the Nets.

The Long Island Nets are the Brooklyn team’s second foray into the D-League.

The Springfield Armor in Massachusetts was its affiliate form 2011 to 2014, when the team moved to Grand Rapids, Mich. after the Detroit Pistons bought it.

Town dedicates caseworker to vets

BY N O A H M A N S K A R The Town of North Hempstead is shifting some of its social work resources to devote more time to veterans’ needs.

A caseworker from the town’s Department of Services for the Aging will be available seven to 10 hours a week to meet specifically with veterans and help them access benefits and services, town officials announced last week.

“Our veterans have given so much to our community and our country and I am honored to be able to provide them with this service,” North Hempstead Town Supervisor Judi Bosworth said in a news release.

Any of the town’s 1,200 veterans will be able to meet with the caseworker by appointment at the DOSA offices, located at Clinton G. Martin Park in New Hyde Park.

The program will not cost the town any extra money, as it only reallocates existing caseworkers’ hours, the news release said.

Reach reporter Noah Manskar by email at nmanskar@theislandnow.com or by phone at 516.307.1045 x204. Also follow us on Twitter @noahmanskar and Facebook at facebook.com/theislandnow.

PHOTO COURTESY OF THE TOWN OF NORTH HEMPSTEAD

From left: North Hempstead Town Supervisor Judi Bosworth, Thomas Buzzita, Staff Sergeant Timothy Turane and town caseworker Gail Selig.

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Annual Island Harvest event raises $310K Island Harvest Food Bank’s 22nd Annual Taste of the Harvest Celebration raised $310,000 to help provide food assistance to more than 316,000 Long Islanders who face not having enough to eat each day.

The event, which was held Oct. 20 at the Crest Hollow Country Club in Woodbury, was attended by approximately 480 business and community leaders, as well as friends of Island Harvest.

A combination of the efficient movement and storage of food, a resourceful staff and a corps of 5,000 dedicated volunteers, allows Island Harvest to put 94 cents out of every

dollar donated directly towards programs and services, making Island Harvest one of Long Island’s best-known and most trusted nonprofit organizations.

This year’s Taste of the Harvest Celebration featured a sumptuous array of 36 of Long Island’s finest food establishments, which treated guests to a sampling of a wide-variety of tantalizing gourmet food, desserts and local wine from some of the region’s best restaurants, catering facilities, dessert shops and vineyards.

The occasion was also used to honor longtime Island Harvest supporter Newsday Charities, a McCormick Foundation

Fund, for its funding of hungerrelief efforts on Long Island.

The Taste of the Harvest Celebration was co-emceed by K98.3 on-air personalities Jon Daniels and Tara Reifert.

Long Island businessmen Philip Wachtler, principal at Wachtler Knopf Equities LLC, and Gabriel Alonso, president/partner of Unitrends USA Inc., both of whom are long-standing, dedicated supporters of Island Harvest served as co-chairmen of the Taste of the Harvest Celebration.

Corporate and other sponsors of the event included Unitrends USA Inc.; the Judy and Fred Wilpon Family Foundation,

Inc.; the Frank J. Antun Foundation; Capital One Bank; Jill & Jay Bernstein; NIC Holding Corp.; Ellen & Harvey Sanders; Robin & Philip Wachtler; Cart-

er, DeLuca, Farrell & Schmidt, LLP; MSC Industrial Supply Co.; Judy & Donald Rechler and Bouchard Transportation Co., Inc.

Applications open for state veteran awards With Veterans Day approaching, Senator Jack M. Martins (R7th Senate District) is reminding veterans and their families about the military awards offered by New York State to honor New Yorkers who have served in the armed forces.

“New York State created

these awards as a way to show its appreciation for the service, heroism, and sacrifice made by the brave New Yorkers who answered the call of duty,” Martins said. “I invite veterans or their families to learn more about obtaining them by contacting my office.”

New York State offers several

military awards to veterans who currently live in New York State or who were New York State residents at the time of their military service: · New York State Conspicuous Service Cross · New York State Medal for Merit · New York State Conspicuous

Service Star · New York State Cold War Certificate Eligibility for these awards is based on the applicant’s military service record. A complete list of eligibility criteria can be obtained by calling Martins’ office at 516746-5924 or visiting his website,

martins.nysenate.gov.

These medals can be awarded posthumously to the family of a deceased veteran.

Veterans or family members of veterans who would like more information or applications for these awards can call Senator Martins’ office at 516-746-5924.

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Village Hall, 209 Harbor Hill Road, East Hills (516) 621-5600 East Williston School District Board of Education Meeting November 16 @ 8:00 p.m.

The Wheatley School, 11 Bacon Road Old Westbury (516) 333-1630 Village of East Williston Board of Zoning and Appeals Meeting November 19 @ 7:30 p.m.

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Maxfield Parrish exhibit takes over NCMA um” including some of his original works as well as vintage prints.

Judy Goffman Cutler, who is he Nassau County Museum of Art announced its newest the director and co-founder of the exhibition “Maxfield Parrish: National Museum of American IlPaintings and Prints from the lustration with her husband LauNational Museum of American Il- rence Cutler, said her museum has lustration” will be on display from the largest collection of Parrish’s works in the world.

Nov. 21, 2015 to Feb. 28, 2016.

“The exhibition will open their The exhibition will feature works by American imagist Max- eyes to the talent and splendor of field Parish, and will be drawn from Parrish’s paintings and prints,” the National Museum of American she said. “Everyone should come to see this exhibition. It will be fanIllustration in Newport, R.I. Museum Director Karl E. Will- tastic. It will be well worth the aders said “Maxfield Parrish is well mission price.”

Cutler said that her museum known and much beloved.”

“Maxfield Parrish has a real fol- and the Nassau County Museum lowing and this exhibition is likely share the same concept of being a to attract people from around the gilded age mansion that was maintained in the past and then connortheast,” Willers said.

Willers said that nearly 200 of verted into a museum to make it Parrish’s works will “fill the muse- accessible to the public.

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This concept, Cutler said, made the Nassau County Museum a “perfect fit” to showcase Parrish’s work.

On Dec. 5, Judy and Laurence, who are also the curators of the exhibition, will be giving a talk about Parish and other American imagists. “[Laurence and I] are two experts,” Judy said. “[The talk] should be fun and knowledgeable.”

“Parrish Blue: An American Art History,” a 30-minute documentary, will be screened daily, the release said.

The documentary includes images of many of Parrish’s original canvases and features comments made by Maxfield Parrish Jr., Parrish’s son, and Normal Rockwell, a friend and fellow artist.

Screenings of the documentary

are free with museum admission.

Three Brown Bag Lectures will be given by Museum Docent Rita Ettus on Dec. 17, Jan. 7 and Feb. 4, where Ettus will discuss Parrish’s works and career, the release said.

Gemini Journey will also present a violin and cello concert on Dec. 19 featuring music from the early 20th century, which the release described as “the Golden Age of Illustration”.

“We’re extremely excited especially for an exhibition that is tailor made for our audience here on Long Island and beyond,” Willers said. “It’s quite a wonderful show.”

Additional information about these and other events, as well as registration for the Dec. 5 and 19 events, will be available on the museum’s website, nassaumuseum. org/events, beginning on Nov. 9.

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The Tenors Friday, Nov. 13, 8 p.m.

Clifton Murray, Victor Micallef, Remigio Pereira and Fraser Walters make up The Tenors, a Canadian group turning in support of their new album, “Under One Sky,” which marks the first time the group’s songwriting talents stand toe-to-toe with their vocal prowess. In the process, they’ve created a rich collection that expands on their earlier efforts, while delving deeper into their collective strength as artists.

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Paul Taylor 2 Dance Company Saturday, Nov. 14, 8 p.m.

The Paul Taylor 2 Dance Company returns to AUPAC to showcase the athleticism, humor and range of emotions found in Paul Taylor’s work. This program will feature three acclaimed Paul Taylor dances. The striking and heroic Runes, the Taylor 2 company premiere of the subtle and emotional Cascade, and the classic Paul Taylor masterwork Esplanade. Tickets are $35.

Where: Adelphi University Performing Arts Center Westermann Stage, 1 South Avenue, Garden City Info: (516) 877-4000 • http://aupac.adelphi.edu/

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Sinatra Sings Sinatra Saturday, Nov. 14, 8 p.m.

Frank Sinatra, Jr. pays homage to his father with this unique multimedia performance, sharing recollections of life on and off stage, as he performs the music along with orchestra. Enjoy video footage of life at home with Ol’ Blue Eyes and the whole Sinatra family. Single ticket prices range from $128, $83, $53. Prices include a $3 facility fee.

Where: Tilles Center For The Performing Arts | LIU Post 720 Northern Boulevard, Brookville Info: (516) 299-3100 • http://tillescenter.org

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Jerry Herman on Broadway Saturday, Nov. 14, 8 p.m.

The Madison Theatre will be celebrating the music of multi-Tony award winning composer and lyricist Jerry Herman. Herman’s career spanned more than four decades with such Broadway classical hits as “Mame,” “Milk & Honey,” “La Cage Aux Folles,” “Hello Dolly,” “Parade,” “The Grand Tour,” and many more. Directed by Mark York with Musical Direction by Aaron Gandy, the performance will feature Tony Award Winners Karen Ziemba, Walter Willison with Klea Blackhurst, The South Shore Symphony and performances by the Molloy College CAP21 BFA Students.

Where: The Madison Theatre at Molloy College 1000 Hempstead Ave., Rockville Centre Info: (516) 323-4444 • http://madisontheatreny.org.

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Adam Ferrara Friday, Nov. 13, 8 p.m.

Long Island native and comedian Adam Ferrara presently hosts the critically acclaimed Top Gear US on The History Channel, in addition to being an internationally touring headliner, two-time nominee for best male stand-up by the American Comedy Awards with three Comedy Central specials under his belt. He played Chief Needles Nelson on the FX drama Rescue Me and Frank Verelli on Showtime’s hit series Nurse Jackie.

Where: Brokerage Comedy Club, 2797 Merrick Road, Bellmore Info: (516) 785-8655 • http://tickets.brokeragecomedy.com

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Pumpkin...breakfast, lunch and dinner I am not a big fan of canned goods, but with canned pumpkin, I make an exception. Of course, you may make your own pumpkin puree, but it is time consuming and produces inconsistent results.

Canned pumpkin, NOT canned pumpkin pie filling, is a versatile ingredient that is available year round, is reliable and easily stored in the cupboard.

There are several brands of canned pumpkin available in supermarkets. I prefer “Libby’s 100% Pure Pumpkin”, probably because that’s the brand and taste I grew up with. It is easy to use and produces a a consistently delicious tasty pumpkin flavor.

Canned pumpkin is not only versatile but also healthy. A 1/2 cup serving is only 50 calories and contains 280% of your daily viatamin A requirements. It has 3 grams of fiber and no cholesterol.

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Pumpkintini French Toast Pumpkin Apple Bacon Soup Pasta and Pumpkin Alfredo Sauce Pumpkin Quick Bread* *Recipe Not Given* Pumpkintini 1 part Vanilla Vodka 1 part Hiram Walker Pumpkin Spice Liqueur or suitable facsimile Ice Optional Garnish Butterscotch Candy 1. Fill a martini shaker with ice. (If making for a crowd, fill a pitcher with ice.) Add vodka and pumpkin spice liqueur. Shake (or stir if using a pitcher).

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French Toast Pumpkin Cream Cheese Mixture 8 oz. cream cheese 1/3 cup canned pumpkin 1 tblsp. maple syrup 1/2 tsp. pumpkin pie spice French Toast 4 slices Challah, with a pocket cut in each one 4 eggs 1 cup Half & Half 1/4 cup maple syrup, extra for serving 1/4 tsp. pumpkin pie spice 2 tblsp. butter

1. Make the cream cheese mixture, in a food processor combine all the ingredients.

2. Fill the pocket of each Challah with cream cheese mixture.

3. In a large bowl, whisk eggs, Half and Half, maple syrup and pumpkin spice. Add the stuffed Challah and soak one minute.

4. Melt butter in a skillet and cook French Toast until golden, flip and cook the other side until golden.

5. Serve with maple syrup, if desired.

Pumpkin Apple Bacon Soup 2 tblsp. butter 1 cup peeled, cubed apple 1 15 oz. canned pumpkin 2 cups chicken broth 1/2 cup cream 1/2 tsp. pumpkin spice 2 tblsp. maple syrup 4 pieces cooked bacon, crumbled, if desired 1, In a soup pot, saute apple in butter until fragrant and soft.

2. Add pumpkin, chicken broth, cream and pumpkin spice.

Heat through and stir constantly.

3. To serve, pour soup into 4

bowls and garnish with bacon, if desired.

Pasta with Pumpkin Alfredo Sauce 12 Sage Leaves 2 tblsp. butter 1 cup canned pumpkin 1 cup cream 1 pinch nutmeg 16 oz. cooked pasta Freshly Grated Parmesan Cheese 1. In a sauce pot, melt butter and saute leaves.

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Arts & Entertainment Calendar GOLD COAST ARTS CENTER 113 Middle Neck Road, Great Neck (516) 829-2570 • http://goldcoastarts.org Sept. 27 through Nov. 23.

Abstract Architecture Exhibit LANDMARK ON MAIN STREET 232 Main Street, Suite 1 Port Washington (516) 767-1384 ext. 101 www.landmarkonmainstreet.org Saturday, Nov. 14, 8 p.m.

Madeleine Peyroux Trio: Keep Me in Your Heart for a While Sunday, Nov. 15, 7 p.m.

Hugh Masekela & Larry Willis: Friends Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2 p.m.

An Afternoon of Opera with Elizabeth Francesco Thursday, Nov. 19, 7:30 p.m.

The Weight: Songs of The Band Saturday, Nov. 21, 8 p.m.

The Pine Hill Project – Lucy Kaplansky & Richard Shindell Friday, Dec. 4, 8 p.m.

George Winston: A Solo Piano Concert Saturday, Dec. 5, 8 p.m.

Darlene Love Sunday, Dec. 13, 7 p.m.

The Klezmatics Present Happy Joyous Hanukah, Lyrics by Woody Guthrie Friday, Dec. 18, 8 p.m.

Dar Williams Friday, Jan. 8, 8 p.m.

Upright Citizens Brigade Friday, Jan. 16, 8 p.m.

On Your Radar with WFUV’s John Platt Friday, Jan. 29, 8 p.m.

Robyn Hitchcock Friday, Feb. 5, 8 p.m.

The Second City – Hooking Up With the Second City Saturday, Feb. 27, 8 p.m.

An Evening with Peter Yarrow with Special Guest John Gorka Sunday, Feb. 28, 2 p.m.

Dan Zanes Saturday, March 5, 8 p.m.

Leo Kottke Friday, March 11, 8 p.m.

Paula Poundstone Sunday, March 13, 8 p.m.

Pink Martini Sunday, March 20, 11 a.m., 2 p.m.

The Very Hungry Caterpillar & Other Eric Carle Favorites Friday, April 1, 7 p.m.

Karen Mason Sunday, April 3, 7 p.m.

Tom Rush & John Sebastian Saturday, April 9, 2 p.m.

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Friday, April 15, 8 p.m.

Tommy Tune: Taps, Tunes & Tall Tales Saturday, April 16, 8 p.m.

Dennis Elsas: Rock’n’Roll Never Forgets Saturday, May 7, 3 p.m.

Pushcart Players in Peter & the Wolf

Community Calendar PROJECT INDEPENDENCE SUPPORT & SOCIAL GROUP The Town of North Hempstead’s Project Independence would like to remind residents that they offer free support and social groups. Call 311 or (516) 869-6311 for more information.

FREE MONTHLY LEGAL CONSULTATION The Nassau County Bar Association (NCBA) provides free monthly legal consultation clinics for Nassau County residents 65 or older. Seniors have the opportunity to meet one-on-one with a volunteer attorney for a half-hour private consultation on any topic of concern. The next Senior Citizen Free Legal Consultation Clinic will be held Friday, Nov. 20, from 9:30 to 11 a.m. at NCBA, 15th and West Streets, Mineola. This popular free program regularly fills up quickly.

Registration is required by calling 516747-4070.

INSTYLE MAGAZINE Calling all NY fashionistas between the ages of 25-40! InStyle Magazine is hosting a free event at Bloomgindale’s Roosevelt Field in Garden City on Saturday, Nov. 14 from 1 to 4 p.m. Dana Avidan

Cohn, InStyle executive style correspondent, will be sharing her favorite fashion tips, picking out her favorite pieces from NYDJ (known for their original slimming jean) and much more. Plus, you’ll be entered to win an entire NYDJ look styled

by Dana and you’ll receive an InStyle gift bag with a free issue and gift when you make a purchase. RSVP at https://nydj. splashthat.com/.

FOR TRIVIA LOVERS At 7 p.m. Two Wednesday nights each month at Page One Restaurant, 90 School St. Glen Cove. Call (516) 6258804 for information.

Singles Association of L.I. For information on events, please call (516) 825-0633 or (516) 333-2851 or email singlesassociationofli@yahoo.com.

YOUR WIDOWED SOCIAL GROUP The group meets on the third Wednesday of the each month (except July and August) from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. at St. Joseph’s R.C. Church on Franklin Ave. and Fifth Street, Garden City. There is a $5 fee for members and a $8 fee for non-members. For additional information, please call (516) 481-9280.

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Children’s museum to host fairy tale fest Once upon a time, a magical space opened on Long Island to inspire creativity, exploration and imagination in the kingdom’s youngest residents. That space, known as Long Island Children’s Museum, will be the setting for a “Fairy Tale Festival” on Saturday, Nov. 14 from 6 to 9 p.m. The after-hours celebration will serve as a “Family Fundraiser” to support LICM’s programs and community outreach.

Long Island Children’s Museum can’t get enough of fairy tales this fall.

The Museum’s autumn exhibit, “Once Upon a Time… Exploring the World of Fairy Tales,” is a big hit with the multiple generations that visit LICM on a daily basis. Visitor reaction prompted LICM to create a special night at the Museum celebrating the enduring stories passed down among the generations and across geographic boundaries.

“The Children’s Museum wanted to offer an event that allows our visitors to show their support for the work that we do every day and allows as many people as possible to participate,” explains Su-

zanne LeBlanc. “This Family Fundraiser will do that while highlighting the creative approach we bring to children’s learning year round.”

During the event, guests will meet favorite fairy-tale characters up close, take part in interactive story times, visit enchanted craft areas, watch a musical fairy tale come to life, sample magical potions and taste charmed treats, and much more. Guests are encouraged to dress as their favorite story book character.

Enchanted treats will be provided by Party Bars (www. partybars.biz).

Be prepared to fall under the spell of the Long Island Children’s Museum!

Proceeds from this Family Fundraiser will support the Museum’s year-round programs, performances and community outreach efforts.

Tickets for this special enchanted evening night are available online at www. licm.org or by calling 516-224-5802.

Tickets ($20/person) are fully tax deductible and support the Museum’s exhibits, programs and performances.

Troupe to perform musical ‘Pinkalicious’ Special family programming returns to the Adelphi University Performing Arts Center (AUPAC) with the Vital Theatre Company production of Pinkalicious, The Musical.

Based on the best-selling children’s books, this youthful, endearing and thoughtful piece will be performed on Saturday, Nov. 14 at 2 p.m. on the Westermann Stage in the Concert Hall located at AUPAC, 1 South Avenue, Garden City. This musical performance lasts approximately one hour and is specially designed to delight children 2 to 7 years old and their families.

Based on the book Pinkalicious by Eliz-

abeth Kann and Victoria Kann, Pinkalicious can’t stop eating pink cupcakes despite warnings from her parents.

Her pink indulgence lands her at the doctor’s office with Pinkititis, an affliction that turns her pink from head to toe — a dream come true for this pink-loving enthusiast.

But when her hue goes too far, only Pinkalicious can figure out a way to get out of this predicament.

With music by John Gregor and lyrics

by John Gregor, Elizabeth Kann and Victoria Kann, this fun afternoon of theatre is not to be missed.

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Adelphi to host revolving art exhibit A revolving exhibit? Yes! Here and Gone: Excerpts from the University Art Collection will be exhibiting gems from the Adelphi University Art Collection. Be sure to come often, as a new succession of treasures will be on view each week. The works will be on view in the Performing Arts Center second floor gallery through Dec. 23..

A curator’s talk will be held on Nov. 17 at 4 p.m. in the gallery. All are welcome. Light refreshments will be served.

The Exhibitions Program and the University Art Collection are excited to present Here and Gone which will feature more than 100 selections of works from each of the various collections: prints, paintings, photographs, musical instruments, African implements, sculpture, ceramics and drawings.

The illustrations of the infamous Albert Dorne, the dramatic painter Joseph Cummings Chase, and the inimitable figure drawings by Calvin Albert, along with the photographs by Robin Bowman, the prints of Audrey Flack, Red Grooms, Risaburo Kimura and Richard Lindner will be among the pieces on display.

A myriad of media will be featured including drawings by Julian Levi and Kuniyoshi, sculptures by Nathaniel Kaz, Robert Cronbach and Charles Morrongiello, and the figura-

tive ceramic sculptures of Evelyn Wilson. African ceremonial implements and sculpture from the Frederick and Claire Mebel collection will also be featured as well as musical instruments from our Stoelzer Collection.

The prints, paintings and drawings by Department of Art and Art History faculty Richard Vaux, Harry Clayton Davies, Peter Jennerjahn, Milton Goldstein and Robert Cronbach along with alumni Melissa Berrios, Alexandra Diana, Jacqueline Laurita amongst many others will also be highlighted.

In collaboration with the exhibit, students from the undergraduate and graduate Creative Writing Program will be composing written master works relating to the art on view. The works will be collected under the title Ekphrasis, which is defined as a literary description of or commentary on a visual work of art. To view these collaborative compositions, please visit villageofcrickets.org or art-galleries. adelphi.edu.

The Performing Arts Center Gallery is open daily, from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. To learn more about the artists and view glimpses of the exhibition, please visit art-galleries.adelphi.edu.

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DA R WI L L I A M S COME S TO P O R T

Nature hike to be held at Muttontown Preseve The Muttontown Preserve will present a guided autumn nature hike on Sunday, Nov. 15 from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m.

Comprising 550 acres of fields, woodlands, ponds and estate grounds, Muttontown is Nassau County’s largest nature preserve and one of the most beautiful settings on Long Island. The preserve includes miles of marked nature trails with local wildflowers, trees, birds, mammals, reptiles and amphibians. Muttontown also has several structures, including the renovated Chelsea estate, which is listed on the

National Register of Historic Places.

The walk is $5 and begins at the Bill Paterson Nature Center on the preserve.

Enrollment is limited and pre-registration is required. Muttontown Preserve is located on Muttontown Lane, south of 25A, in East Norwich. For more information please call 516-571-8500.

For more information about the Nassau County Department of Parks, Recreation and Museums, please call 516572-0200 or visit the website at: www. nassaucountyny.gov/parks.

A native American Thanksgiving feast Singer Dar Williams is on the road in support of her latest independent release, “Emerald,” which was recorded with friends such as Richard Thompson, Jill Sobule, Jim Lauderdale, the Milk Carton Kids, Lucy Wainwright Roche, Suzzy Roche and the Hooters in various studios across the U.S. from Maine to NYC and Nashville to L.A. She will be performing at Landmark at Main Street, 232 Main Street, Suite 1,Port Washington, on Friday, Dec. 18.

Visit www.landmarkonmainstreet.org for tickets.

Garvies Point Museum and Preserve will be holding the Annual Thanksgiving Native American Feast on Saturday, Nov. 21 and Sunday, Nov. 22 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. This celebration of Native American culture has been held the weekend before Thanksgiving for more than 25 years.

Participants will enjoy hands-on activities including: face painting, sample Native foods, learn tool making, pottery making, dugout canoes, fire making, open-fire cooking, use the Atlatl (spearthrowing), artifacts, and nature trails.

Native American films will be shown hourly. Participants can also take this opportunity to view the museum’s exhibition hall, which explores Long Island Native American culture and archaeology, as well as New York State and Long Island geology.

Fun for families; all ages welcome.

Special program fee of $5.00 per person; children under 4 are free with adult.

There is no entry fee for Friends of Garvies Point members.

Garvies Point Museum and adjoining 62-acre preserve are located at 50 Barry Drive in Glen Cove. Regular admission to the museum is $3 for adults, $2 children 5-12 years.

The museum is open Tuesday - Saturday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. For more information about Garvies Point Museum, please call 516-571-8010/11 or visit the website at: www.garviespointmuseum.com.

For more information about Nassau County Department of Parks, Recreation and Museum, please call 516-572-0200, or visit the website at: www.nassaucountyny.gov/parks.

1863 Thanksgiving at O. Bethpage Restoration The annual “1863 Thanksgiving Holiday Celebration” at Old Bethpage Village Restoration will be held on two consecutive weekends: Saturday and Sunday, Nov. 21 and 22, and Saturday and Sunday, Nov. 28 and 29 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Visitors to Old Bethpage Village, the re-created mid-19th Century village, will be able to enjoy the sights and aromas of an old-fashioned Thanksgiving including decorated pumpkin pies baked in a beehive oven, and turkey roasted over an open fire. In addition, each afternoon, Traditional Fiddle music will be played, and children’s stories will be read several times each day.

Old Bethpage Village Restoration, located at 1303 Round Swamp Road in Old Bethpage, provides visitors with a

unique and wonderful opportunity to step back in time and experience life in a recreated mid-19th Century American village set on more than 200 acres.

The hours of operation at Old Bethpage Village Restoration are: Wednesday through Sunday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Entrance fees are: $10 for adults, $7 for children (5 – 12), seniors and volunteer firefighters. *Please note that Old Bethpage Village Restoration will be closed for the Thanksgiving holiday on Thursday, Nov. 27 and Friday, Nov. 28. For more information, please call: (516) 572-8401.

For more information about Nassau County Department of Parks, Recreation and Museum, please call 516-572-0200, or visit the website at www.nassaucountyny.gov/parks.

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Offenders will be ticketed.

This is a temporary situation while the firehouse is undergoing renovation.

Here are some new arrivals to the library: Early One Morning — Virginia Baily Heart Goes Last — Margaret Atwood In Order to Live: A North Korean’s Journey to Freedom — Yeonmi Park Pretty Girls — Karin Slaughter Better: How I Let Go of Control, Held on to Hope & Found Joy in My Darkest Hour — Amy Robach Fancy Dancer — Fern Michaels Ghost to the Rescue —

Carolyn Hart Saturn Run — John Sandford House of Thieves — Charles Belfoure Pretending to Dance — Diane Chamberlain

programs Local Author Lecture Monday, Nov. 30 at 7 p.m. in the Assembly Room of Village Hall. Former Newsday reporter/editor Jim Smith has written a selfpublished book on his 197172 tour of duty in Vietnam called “Heroes to the End: An Army Correspondent’s Last Days in Vietnam.” The book is based on more than 75 articles that he wrote for the Stars and Stripes daily newspaper during the period Jan. 1, 1972-Aug. 1, 1972 during the North Vietnamese Easter Offensive.

Children After School Story Hour Thursday, Nov. 19 at 4 p.m. in the Library for kids K-2.

Sign up at the Circulation Desk.

Lego Time Wednesday, Nov. 18 at 4:30 p.m. in the Children’s Room for grades K+. Sign up at the Circulation Desk.

Fall Story Time Wednesday, Nov. 18 at 1:30 p.m. in the Children’s Room for children ages 3 1/2—5.

Sign up at the Circulation Desk.

Story Hour for Tots Thursday, Nov. 19 at 11 a.m. in the Children’s Room for kids 1-3 years old. Sign up at the Circulation Desk.

Ceramic Snowman Friday, Dec. 4 at 4:30 p.m. in the Assembly Room of Village Hall for children in grades K-2.

Pierce retires After 17 years of dedicated service, longtime employee Mary Ann Pierce is retiring from her post at the Williston Park Library. An “open house” celebration was held on October 30 with light refreshments for everyone. According to one fellow staffer, Pierce “greeted everyone with a smile, and her laughter and sense of humor were a joy to be around. We will miss her so much, but we know she will enjoy this new adventure.”

Mineola Public Library Mineola Library Museum Passes: The library has added the Children’s Museum of Manhattan to the list of great museums that you can visit. CHOM is located at The Tisch Building, 212 West 83rd Street, NY, NY 10024. Reserve it at the Reference Desk, (516) 746-8488, ext. 2 or www.mineolalibrary.

programs In the Gallery: November 2015 View works with oils, landscapes of Jack Grimando, Old Bethpage resident, Display Case (on the main level of the library): April Diane of the Crochet Connection community on Facebook will be displaying Disney characters and crocheted dolls.

Alexa Politis in Concert Saturday, Nov. 7 at 2 p.m.

Join us for an exciting afternoon performance with singer dancer, Alexa Politis.

Enjoy listening to a variety of Broadway and current pop songs.

icon with his performance as the Wolf Man. The original classic has inspired countless sequels and reboots ever since.

Blood Drive at the Library* The library will be hosting a Blood Drive by the Long Island Blood Services on Thursday, Nov. 12 from 1:30 to 7:30 p.m. Please donate now. Please register at the Reference Desk or 516746-8488, ext. 2. Walk-ins are always welcome.

Film and Discussion 6:30p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 18 —The Wolf Man (1941) Lon Chaney was a star for Universal during the silent era. In 1941, his son, Lon Chaney Jr. achieved the status of Universal Monster

p.m. Save the date for a western musical experience. Inspired by Marc Berger’s lifelong love affair with the American West, the Ride Band Quartet captures the vastness and romance of the West’s wide open spaces

CHILDrEN & YoUNg aDULT Grades 6-12 Open Registration for: Adopt-a-Shelf Volunteers; Book Review Volunteers; Toy Paramedics Volunteers Feature Film Series Thursdays at 6:30 p.m. and Fridays at 11 a.m. Nov. 12 and 13 — Love & Mercy.

The Marc Berger Ride Band Concert Saturday, Nov. 21 at 2

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Lego Builders Club Mondays. Remaining Session: Nov. 9 at 4:30 p.m. Kindergarten and up may sign up for all three sessions. Create unique structures with our Lego pieces and meet others who love to Lego!

Graphic Novel Club Remaining Session, Tuesday, Nov. 24 at 4 to 5 p.m. Kids and Teens 6th-12th grade may sign up to attend. Discover what’s new in the world of Graphic Novels, Manga and Anime.

Refreshments will be served and prizes will be raffled off.

Hunger Games Movie Night Monday, Nov. 19 at 3:30 to 5:30 p.m. For teens in the 8th-12th grades. Let’s get ready for the new release of Mockingjay 2 by watching Mockingjay 1. You won’t be “hungry” because refreshments will be served.

Pokémon Gaming Club Remaining Session: Tuesday, Nov. 17 from 4 to 5 p.m. Open registration for ages 7 and up. Meet other

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Pokémon fans, trade cards, battle Pokemon with them on your Nintendo DS or on the library’s Nintendo Wii. Free raffle prizes will be given away!

Junior Chefs: Caramel Apples On Friday, Nov. 20 from 4 to 5 p.m.. Dip an apple into caramel and roll it in sprinkles and other goodies! This program may contain food allergens.

Grades 3 and up. Sign up begins Monday, November 2. Location: Community Room Tissue Paper Turkeys Join us Wednesday Nov. 25 from 7:15 to 7:45 p.m. for a Thanksgiving story and make a hanging turkey out of tissue paper. Ages 2 and up. Sign up begins Monday, November 2.

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STEAM fair a huge district success At the Technology Committee’s recommendation, the former Math and Science Night at the North Side School and the districtwide Technology Fair were reborn as the East Williston STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Math) Fair last evening.

I’d like to acknowledge and thank the North Side and Willets Road PTOs for their support last year in incorporating STEM events into our traditional district-wide technology fair. Their support laid the groundwork for this year’s, and now annual, district-supported STEAM Fair.

So many families were in attendance and there were so many events to attend!

I watched students constructing model bridges and then testing their viability with weighted buckets hanging from them. I heard children excitedly talking about the “Lights Camera, Action: Be a Weather Reporter” activity where they learned about using green screen effects.

I marveled at an elementary student looking at a real frog’s heart in the Dissection Room. I witnessed excited students lining up to enter the Star Lab to explore the constellations in the night sky and rushing to the IMC for such Technology/Arts workshops as “Reflection and Symmetrical Design Using Photoshop CC6” and “Digital Painting on the iPad.” Numerous math activities included “BrainPop Food Webs,” “Online Math Resources” to introduce various apps and websites to enhance mathematical skills taught in school, “Math Art”, and “Thaumatropes” which had children creating a simple toy that helped them understand how their eyes worked.

In addition to all of our own wonderful staff members who organized and ran the many inspiring activities for our students, the STEAM Fair partnered with the Cradle of Aviation and the Microsoft Store for events and workshops as well, including Heat Shield where students designed and tested a heat shield to protect people and machinery during a Mars entry simulation and robotic surgery where participants were able to see an actual robot that is used during surgeries.

Many parents made a special effort to thank our organizers and presenters and I can only add my voice to that round of appreciation.

Many thanks to all who worked on this special event for

our students.

A special thank you to our planning team who made this event work and set a precedent for future years: director of Science and Technology David Casamento, Audra Beberman, Karen Gilligan, Kim Kelleher, Erik Larsen, Lisa Minerva, Jerry Pokrywka, Joanna Schrager, Rochelle Sroka, Diana L. Viola and Jason Williams. Thank you to the following staff members who also worked so hard to make this event so successful: Tom Storck, Jim Abdale, Matthew Gottlieb, Tim Schwalm, Bridget Lennon, DJ Paulson, Alexis Blondrage, Steve Finkelstein, May Beth Devine, Ellen Lazarow, Michelle Ricci, Jeanne O’Connor, Katerina Skiadas, Jessica Liakonis, Kirsten Donaghy, Jessica McGee, Steve Fitzko, Natalie Brew, Ronald Roaldsen, Dr. Jeffrey Lessen, Jill Widyn, Leslie Rubin, Kim Wetzel, Kristin Griswold, Monica Gibson, Stephanie Granville, Christine Truskiewicz, Lynne Kaye, John Coyne, Susan Soliman, Allison Douglas, Holly Conklin, Cie Antogiovanni, Donna Casano, Tracy Chirel, Jackie Heney, Caroline Goodman, Allison Chanin-Bermudez, Kelly McCotter, Lisa Lyzinski, Nikki Girgenti, Melinda Gomez, Robert Owen, Chris Campbell, Emily DeVito, Henry Kupstas, Bonnie Klein, Kiki Kyrou, Ed Lattari, Melissa Flecker, Janine Agostino and Ann Simeone.

Instructional Advisory Committee As I’ve shared before, each year our Leadership Team, comprised of all district and building administrators, department chairs and directors, with the input of our faculty, develop districtwide instructional goals.

Our broad picture goals tend to remain constant over a period of years, while our SMART (specific, manageable, attainable, realistic and time bound) goals are new each year and are objectives to be accomplished by the end of each school year. SMART goals move us forward toward our big picture goals.

To view our 2015-16 Instructional Goals click on here or go to our website at www.ewsdonline.org > click on Our District > click on 15-16 Instructional Goals.

One of our ongoing big picture goals is Goal No. 1: A common framework and language supports unified practice and collaboration among all staff for achieving student learning. A smart goal for 2015-16 in support of this ongoing goal is: Create opportunities for articulation

within and across content areas and grades within the context of a collaborative professional learning community.

In support of our yearly SMART goals, various actions are planned and taken. In support of the SMART goal noted above, the district has established an Instructional Advisory Committee, consisting of administrators and teachers from K-12th grade to further build instructional articulation and shared purpose across the three buildings.

This Committee, in addition to the continued work of our Leadership Team, provides additional opportunities for ongoing collaboration between staff members in the area of instructional planning.

Elaine Kanas Superintendent

The inaugural activity for this new committee was helping to plan the Nov. 3 Superintendent’s Conference Day. True to the SMART goal identified above, many of the events involved shared collaboration across or within grades.

Thank you to the members of our Instructional Advisory Committee for all their hard work: Audra Beberman, Jacqueline Busking, David Casamento, Allison ChaninBermudez, Stephen Collier, Kathleen Cunningham, Jennifer Fatone, Steven Finkelstein, Meryl Fordin, Dr. Danielle Gately, Nicole Girgenti, Dr. Peggy Ho, Karen Homer, Diane Ilkiw, Dr. Elaine Kanas, Stephen Kimmel, Karen Klapper, Ellen Lazarow, Dr. Jeffrey Lesser, Jessica Liakonis, Lisa Minerva, Katerina Skiadas, Susan Soliman and Diane L. Viola.

Thank you to our staff for their feedback which helped in the planning of this day of learning and staff development tightly focused on our student’s ongoing learning and development.

Superintendent’s Conference Day – Nov. 3 The day was filled with a variety of staff learning and collegial work activities.

At the end of the day our staff, from kindergarten through 12th grade, in the many content areas, met together in the Wheatley cafeteria to reflect back and share the many activities engaged in throughout the day. This recap further illuminated the connections made for our students, grades K-12.

Just a few examples of the many terrific activities teachers and administrators participated in, are shared below.

Teachers in grades K-5 worked with their grade level colleagues and Elementary ELA Content Area Leader Kathy Cunningham and utilized Fountas & Pinnell Benchmark results to inform planning for small group guided instruction. Teachers of seniors, in all content areas, met to discuss senior project planning.

Members of the Technology, Science and Math Departments came together to engage in a discussion regarding STEM which connects their separate disciplines. In the middle school, teachers from several content areas met within a collegial circle to continue to support ongoing academic vocabulary work that crosses disciplines.

Staff from all three buildings participated in an interdisciplinary K-12 Outdoor and Environmental Education experience facilitated by Wheatley science teacher Steve Finkelstein, titled “Preparing for a Sustainable 21st Century,” with a focus on opportunities for cross discipline, cross grade planning.

A team of faculty and administrators at Wheatley had an informational meeting on the AP Capstone program. ELA Secondary Department Chair Steve Collier led a workshop on reading entitled “Honest Talk about Reading – Strategies to Help Across Grades and Content Areas.” Our music teachers from all three buildings attended the Balanced Mind Conference together. In cooperation with the New York State Council of Administrators of Music Education (NYSCAME) and the Art Supervisors Association, the BOCES Arts in Education Program cosponsors a series of professional development workshops for music and art educators. (Wheatley’s very own music teacher Dr. Peggy Ho was one of the presenters).

Various members of our art department engaged in museum visits designed to support their classroom projects and continued planning together.

Technology workshops in-

cluded WeVideo: an application to create online videos for or with students and Digital Tools, Social Networking for Education. Lisa Minerva, Elementary Math Content Area Leader and various elementary grade level teachers continued work on math curriculum mapping and benchmarking. Some of our physical education teachers attended Hofstra for the PE sponsored consortium of workshops, while others attended an Outdoor Education Learning Experience in Huntington.

Members of our guidance department engaged in a variety of activities that further supported our students’ social and emotional development including cross discipline strategies in student intervention. Our high school guidance counselors visited Fordham University’s admission office. There were so many other examples of our staff working and learning and planning together, they are just too numerous to list here.

It was a successful day of learning, reflection and planning with a focus on the articulation and connection that supports the development of our students from a whole child perspective, kindergarten through grade 12.

Reminder: Almost, Maine – Wheatley Theatre Company’s Drama – Nov. 19, 20 and 21 “One cold, clear Friday night in the middle of winter, while the northern lights hover in the sky above, Almost’s residents find themselves falling in and out of love in the strangest ways…. “ Come join the Wheatley Theatre Company present this special play by John Cariani on Thursday, Nov. 19, Friday, Nov. 20 and Saturday, Nov. 21 at 7:00 p.m.

Our students have been hard at work, under the direction of Wheatley English teacher Colin McKenna, and are looking forward to you joining them.

The cast members and crew are listed here: Justin Vega, Caroline Crimmins, Ariana Arralde, Elan Mizhiritsky, Lianna Golden, Devyn Bennett, Morgan Misk, Max Hochstein, Jaclyn Stroud, Jason Manzaro, Alana Osroff, Noelle Molstad, Josh Dinetz, Sydney Behar, Kimberly Esquilin, Michael Koszalka, Liz Nolan, John Wanamaker, Assistant Director: Madison Misk, Production Stage Manager: Talia Rosen and understudies Hallie ArbitalJacoby, Victoria Manfredi and Alex Kasparian (there will be an understudy performance for friends and families), Costumes: Continued on Page 40

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Modera Mineola celebrates opening State Sen. Jack M. Martins (R-Mineola) recently attended the grand opening of Modera Mineola.

Modera Mineola is a transit oriented development with 275 apartments located in Mineola’s downtown, close to the Mineola Train Station and multimodal transit center.

Built by Mill Creek, it was designed using “smart growth”

concepts consistent with the village’s Master Plan, which was developed with input and support from the Mineola community.

The project, along with its component Hudson House, a senior housing complex, was first proposed and vetted during Martins’ tenure as mayor of Mineola and continued under current Mayor Scott Strauss.

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Tickets are $10 with complementary tickets for our senior citizens.

You can purchase your tickets online by going to the district website at www.ewsdonline.org > scroll down to Wheatley Theater Company > Almost, Maine tickets. For a direct link to buy tickets, click here for TICKETS. If you’d like to place a program ad in the Almost, Maine Program, follow the directions to the tickets noted above but choose program ads.

Thank you in advance for supporting our student thespians.

Mark Your Calendars: College Financial Aid Night 101 – Nov. 17 Do you know what the FAFSA is or when you can fill it out?

Which schools require the CSS Profile?

If you don’t think you qualify for financial aid, should you still apply for it?

When are the deadlines?

On Tuesday, Nov. 17 at 7:30 p.m., The Wheatley School Guidance Department will answer these and many more questions at Financial Aid Night.

The department has arranged for an expert speaker to cover all the “ins and outs” of the financial aid process along with information that will help you better understand what is available to you and your family.

All families are encouraged to attend, as it is never too early to prepare. If you have any questions, please feel free to reach out to the Guidance Department at 333-7506.

Calling Volunteer Profession-

als for Wheatley’s First Annual Career Fair!

We are excited to share that during the morning of Thursday, Jan. 28, 2016, Wheatley will host its first Career Fair for high school juniors and seniors to support them in exploring future career options.

Wheatley is looking for interested professionals who would like to share what they have learned as our students prepare for and consider their own future.

You don’t need to have a student at Wheatley to volunteer! We are reaching out to our whole East Williston community to solicit volunteers. If you can help, please contact Wheatley English teacher and Career Fair Coordinator, Natalia McMillan at mcmillann@ewsdonline.org .

Thank you!

East Williston Staff Member Presents This past week, our very own Director of Guidance Greg Wasserman presented at Marist College to a group of 200 guidance counselors from all over the New York and New England area. The topic of his workshop was guidance technology resources.

Wheatley Winter Sports PreSeason Meetings The remaining winter sports pre-season meetings are listed below.

Monday, Nov. 16 • 2:30 p.m. – Boys Winter Track Pre-Season Meeting in the gym – Coach Walsh For a student to be eligible for try-outs, each student-athlete must have a completed and updated Health Appraisal Form (be less than one year old) on file in the Health Office.

The Parent-Student Consent Form must be completed for

each new season and sport and submitted to the school nurse for her signature. All these forms must be completed prior to your student-athlete being permitted to participate in try-outs.

Any questions, please contact Athletic Director Tom Fitzpatrick. You can access the Health Forms and Consent Forms on the district website at www.ewsdonline.org > Athletics > Athletic Forms.

Virtual Backpack Flyer Update Just a reminder: Please check the VB periodically for the latest postings. (On the district homepage, www.ewsdonline.org > scroll down left side vertical navigation bar to Virtual Backpack > click on VB.) The following is a listing of the new flyers posted on the VB this week: • Wheatley National Honor Society Food Drive – Thanksgiving Canned & Boxed Foods • Wheatley National Honor Society “Drop & Shop” Information and Registration flyer • Wheatley College Financial Aid 101 • Wheatley PTO Bake Sale • Wheatley Inter-Cultural Unity Club (ICU) Preparations for annual ICU Luncheon • Wheatley Inaugural Career Fair • Wheatley PTO Fourth Annual Summer Opportunities Fair • Long Island Tech Day • Thanksgiving Weekend: Thank Goodness for Animals – Tackapausha Museum & Preserve Congratulations & Commendations Student-Musicians at Willets

Road Honored Congratulations to our Willets Road student-musicians who were selected for the Long Island String Festival Orchestra: Eric Ness – Cello, Elizabeth Yuen – Violin, fifth grader Michael Wang – cello and Bridget Ye – violin.

These LISF student-musicians will be attending rehearsals with other Long Island studentmusicians in February preparing for a concert the weekend of February 26, 2016 at Uniondale High School.

Congratulations to our Willets Road student-musicians who were selected as All-County musicians: Chorus: Brianna Werny - Soprano Division 3 Chorus and Vittoria Papa - Alto Division 2 Chorus; Orchestra: Eric Ness - Cello Division 3 Orchestra, Elizabeth Yuen - Division 3 Orchestra, Julian Chang - Cello Division 2 Orchestra, Joyce Chen - Violin Division 2 Orchestra, Andrew Kim - Violin Division 2 Orchestra, Michael Wang - Cello Division 1 Orchestra, Bridget Ye-Violin Division 1 Orchestra and Sophia Zhong - Cello Division 1 Orchestra; Band: Sarah Fieldman – Saxophone Division 3 Band, Ian Kim - Oboe Division 2 Band, Siddhant Jain - Percussion Division 2 Band and Kavin Shukla - Flute Division 2 Band.

The All-County studentmusicians will be attending rehearsals with other Long Island student-musicians in January, preparing for a concert the weekend of Jan. 15, 2016 at the Tilles Center.

Wheatley Student Named Long Island Young Scholar of Mathematics Congratulations to eighth grader Aaron Zachariah who is among 84 Long Island students named a Long Island Young

Scholar of Mathematics and has been accepted into the Institute of Creative Problem Solving for Gifted and Talented Students at SUNY at Old Westbury.

Students selected through nominations, school transcripts, teacher recommendations, a brief statement written by the student and a rigorous entrance exam, are expected to attend 60 hours in class over the course of 20 Saturday mornings. Congratulations Aaron!

Wheatley Senior Presents at Philosophy Conference Wheatley senior Jeffrey Poomkudy presented at the Long Island High School Philosophy Conference held at The Stony Brook School, Stony Brook, New York on Saturday, Oct. 31.

He gave a presentation titled “Augustine and Spinoza: A Dichotomous Approach to the Good Life.” You may remember that Jeffrey represented the United States in the 23rd International Philosophy Olympiad in Estonia last year. Congratulations to Jeffrey and his advisor, Social Science Research teacher Andrew Ardito.

Save the Date – Family Math Day – March 5, 2016 Nassau County Math Teachers Association and Nassau County Association of Math Supervisors will be holding their 28th annual Family Math Day to be held on March 5, 2016 at the Stratford Road School in Plainview. I will include additional information as the date gets closer.

Have a Good Weekend As always, please email me at kanase@ewsdonline.org or call me at 333-3758 with any questions, suggestions and/or any topics you would like to see in this newsletter.

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Herricks athletes aid vets, cancer fight Herricks High School athletes successfully organized a number of fundraisers in October, raising more than $5,000 in donations collectively to assist veterans in need and to help in the fight against cancer.

The football team joined forces with the Vocational Independence Program to raise $1,700 for the American Patriot Heroes Fund, a not-for-profit corporation dedicated to the assistance of our nation’s honored heroes.

VIP is a life skills program for students with special needs.

Volunteers sold T-shirts throughout the week of homecoming, and members of the football team wore black camouflage jerseys for the game in honor of the cause.

The game culminated with VIP student and team manager Liam O’Brien scoring a touchdown.

The football program also collaborated with Youth Against Cancer in coordinating the Herricks Tackles Leukemia fundraiser.

The initiative benefited the pediatric cancer division at Memorial Sloan Kettering in honor of Ashley Kong, a Herricks High School student who died of leukemia last year.

Ashley, who underwent treatment at Memorial Sloan Kettering, is remembered as a beloved student, athlete, friend, daughter and sister who had a passion for life and a courageous spirit.

The event, which raised approximately $3,000, took place during the Herricks football game against Port Washington on Oct. 31.

Throughout the week, students sold orange t-shirts and bracelets that they, along with faculty members,

donned at the game to represent leukemia awareness, research and support.

Youth Against Cancer sold baked goods at the game as well, and Ashley’s brother Taylor did the opening coin toss.

The girls volleyball team raised close to $700 in their annual Dig Pink fundraiser to support the Side-Out

Foundation, which raises proceeds to support breast cancer research and treatment.

The event took place on Oct. 26, when the team took on the Manhasset Indians.

The players wore pink jerseys, sold T-shirts throughout the week, held raffles and sold baked goods during the game.

Center Street kids celebrate pumpkin season Center Street School enjoyed celebrating the season of pumpkins.

Students in kindergarten through fifth grade visited a pumpkin patch from which they were each able to choose a pumpkin donated by the PTA. The students were also offered the opportunity to decorate their pumpkins at home and bring them back to school for a contest.

The finished products were displayed in the cafeteria for the week leading up to Halloween, and on Oct. 30, judging was facilitated by the fifth-graders.

A number of winners were announced, ranging from funniest to scariest to most creative pumpkin.

Denton Avenue School students had the opportunity to pick their perfect pumpkins, thanks to the PTA. The annual pumpkin patch celebration was held after school on Oct. 16 in the school playground, which parents transformed into a small harvest area.

Each student selected a pumpkin, which they were invited to decorate at home and bring back for entry in a school-wide contest.

The Denton Avenue cafeteria was decorated with a variety of creative pumpkin designs.

Denton Avenue School kicked off Halloween weekend with a PARP Secret Reader Event coordinated by the School Librarian Donna Deodato and the PARP committee.

On Friday, Oct. 30, parent volunteers and faculty members visited classrooms and brought stories to life through their imaginative costumes and engaging book readings.

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Herricks mixes it up to teach tolerance All three of the Herricks Public Schools’ elementary buildings participated in Mix It Up at Lunch Day, a national campaign that was launched by Teaching Tolerance with the goal of helping students interact with those outside of their usual social circles.

Fourth- and fifth-graders at Center Street, Denton Avenue and Searingtown schools got to know their peers better and explored the importance of being open to new friendships.

The schools held their respective Mix It Up at Lunch Days, organized by school psychologist Cheryl Finkelstein in collaboration with administrators and faculty members from each building, during the week of Oct. 26.

Prior to the lunch periods, students engaged in classroom conversations that focused on ways to get to know others, how to observe a person’s character and the value of learning who someone is on the inside rather than judging their appearance.

Each student was provided with a lollipop and assigned a color that correlated with a specific table in the cafeteria where they sat during lunch.

Together, the groups completed bingo boards as icebreaker activities, which prompted them to discover similarities and foster connections.

Cohen selected as Herricks valedictorian

Matthew Cohen

Herricks High School is pleased to announce Matthew Cohen and Ranzhuonan Chen as Class of 2016 valedictorian and salutatorian, respectively.

A National Honor Society member and AP Scholar with Honor, Cohen will graduate in June with an Advanced Regents Diploma with Mastery in Math and Mastery in Science.

Cohen participates in DECA, for which he won Top 10 Overall and Top 10 Role Play at the state level in 2013, and has competed in National History Day for the past five years, during which he has earned a number of achievements.

He won first place at the regional level competition and fourth place in the state in 2014, and placed fourth in the state in 2015.

Cohen’s National History Day projects and research have received spotlight through publication in The Concord, presentation at New York University and incorporation into Herricks Middle School lessons.

With a great concern for animal rights, Matthew founded the high school’s Animal Welfare Club, for which he has served as co-president since 2013.

He has volunteered at a myriad of animal sanctuaries, both locally and in Texas, and created an advocacy program for animal rights.

He collaborated with faculty, adminis-

trators, students and community officials in order to raise awareness, provide outreach and advocate for the organization.

Chen is an avid scholar and takes passion in every endeavor, from delivering meals to homebound elderly citizens in East Harlem to competitions on various degrees of scale.

Extracurricular involvement includes holding leadership positions in clubs such as Mock Trial, Model United Nations, Student Action for the Environment, GayStraight Alliance and the school newspaper.

Chen has interned in industry and academia alike, spending summers at places like the Grove School of Engineering, New York University, Goldman Sachs and Bloomberg LP. An ultimate goal for Ranzhuonan is combining computer science and political activism to transform society to be more open-minded and aware of privilege, intersectionality and socioeconomic inequality.

“Congratulations to Matthew and Ranzhuonan on their momentous accomplishments,” Superintendent Fino Celano said.

“We are proud to have such hardworking, dedicated students representing our senior class. They have each made what is likely to be a lasting impression here in Herricks, and will surely have a valuable impact on the world outside our schools as well.”

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Herricks Leisure Club welcomes fall B y Doro t hy Da l y

Nature – once again – rules the world.

The golden days of the summer of 2015 set the stage for a spectacular season that delighted the members of the Herricks Leisure Club. And now autumn with its vibrant hues and cooling twilights enchants our spirits and reinvigorates our lifestyle.

As we bid farewell to lazy, hazy pastimes, we hail the advent of a new club year. Our first meeting on September 10 featured a warm “welcome back” from the Board and fellow members. After offering a moment of silence for the loss of former president Marianne Virgilio, our Director Frances Kivatisky introduced our new president Marie Cristello and vice-president Mary Carotenuto who now assume their duties. Corresponding Secretary Terry Lanese reported on illnesses suffered during our recess and Mrs. Carotenuto gave a moving recollection on the September 11 tragedy. An ice cream “party” followed.

September 17 rendered a busy schedule. We remembered the passing of longtime member Armand Villa and learned that our Recording Secretary Bud Taverna had been hurt in an auto accident. Dorothy Daly subbed for him and wished him well.

Three new members were acknowledged

by Membership Chairlady Jeanette Kovalsky. A timely presentation on managed long-term care was given by guests Adam Abraham and Eric Turner from Elder Care The smiles of this happy group say it all.

Insurance. Social worker Erena Di Gomes submitted a discourse on natural remedies as a primary way of treating medical conditions.

Birthdays and anniversaries were celebrated on September 24 with special recognition of the 90th birthday of Mary Wesley and the 96th of Charles Gill. Active longevity is a trademark of our organization.

Sadly, we were also advised that our Director was injured in a fall. Our thoughts and prayers are with her as she recuperates.

Donuts were a treat on October 1 and 2 anniversaries and 9 birthdays were commemorated at our assembly of October 8.

A bountiful White Elephant Sale was the feature of the day. Member Howard Abbondondello spoke about running for Albertson water commissioner.

The Herricks Leisure Club Board admires the delectable anA pleasurable diversion awaited our niversary cake. group when we traveled to the Yonkers Casino on October 14. The next day’s convocation proved informative. President Cristello announced a trip to Lancaster, PA for a Christmas show and lunch and Mrs. Fiorentino invited us to “Pasta Night” at the VFW on October 21 to meet the candidates.

Our guest, Sherry Azim, from the Helen Keller Services for the Blind, enlightened us to the assistance that is available for those experiencing sight maladies.

The eminent occasion of the month was our rendezvous at one of our favorite restaurants, The Pompei, to celebrate our club’s 40th anniversary. An abundance of succulent fare, wine and musical enhancement by our new musician John Walters, coupled with warm repartee, made for an “afternoon delight”.

Indeed, we are back in the swing of senior life as the members of the Herricks Lillian Ciesluk, seated right, chaired this delightful event.

Leisure Club welcome the vibrancy of fall.

Our club’s 40th anniversary is enjoyed by this festive table.

Celebrating 69 years of wedded bliss are Mike and Marie Rallo.

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Mineola charity holds annual ball

Oreste honored State Sen. Jack Martins (R-Mineola) recently congratulated Chamber of Commerce of the Willistons member Dominic Oreste on being named 2015 Small Businessperson of the Year. Martins joined with the Chamber in honoring Oreste at the Nassau Council of Chambers of Commerce’s 31st annual Small Businessperson of the Year ceremony. Oreste is the owner of D&J Printing Company and has been serving the Willistons since 1981.

Veterans of Foreign Wars Auxiliary Albertson Auxiliary will hold its

ANNUAL HOLIDAY BAZAAR on Saturday, December 5, 2015, at Post 5253 Headquarters 155 Searingtown Road, Albertson from 10 AM to 4 PM

• New Merchandise • Jams, Jellies, Candies • Home-baked Kitchen Treats • Jewelry & Accessories • Handmade Crocheted Items • Snacks • 50/50 • Raffle Prizes • Holiday Decor • Stocking Stuffers • Grandma’s Attic Treasures

All Bazaar proceeds benefit Veterans, their families and active-duty military. Help us help our Veterans.

The Mineola-based Family & Children’s Association will hold its ThanksGiving Ball Nov. 19 from 6-9 p.m. at the Garden City Hotel.

The annual ball raises funds to help the organization carry out its mission of protecting and strengthening Long Island’s most vulnerable children, seniors and families.

It will feature dinner, dancing, prizes and a fashion show

by Fashion Societe and performances by Dance Stylez Entertainment.

Raffle and silent auction prizes will include a stay at the Miami Diplomat Resort and Spa; a night at the Oheka Castle; dinner for four at Café Morso in New York City; an autographed bat signed by the New York Mets’ David Wright; and more.

The ThanksGiving Ball will also honor the Family & Children’s Association’s three 2015 Women of Distinction: Christine M. Riordan, Dale Cole and Diana Holden.

Riordan is the first woman to hold the position of president at Adelphi University. In the position, she will continue the school’s partnership with FCA, which gives funding to the organization’s Scholarship Fund and provides interns and training programs for its staff.

As Newsday’s Community Affairs Project Manager, Cole has supported FCA’s Step Up Success Intitiative for at-risk youth through Newsday Charities.

Holden is the executive director of Adventures in Learning and the first recipient of FCA’s Carol Wessel Award, named for the longtime FCA trustee.

Holden was chosen for the award because of her dedication to the education of some of the neediest children on Long Island, particularly in Great Neck and Manhasset.

To become a sponsor, contact mpaladino@familyandchildrens.org or call 516-746-0350, ext. 364.

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Hampton kids sell back candy for good cause Under the guidance of nurse Laura Schneebaum, students at Hampton Street School in the Mineola Union Free School District recently participated in a Candy Give Back.

The Hampton Family partnered with its community orthodontists Dr. Weiss and Dr. Luccarelli to help others while helping ourselves maintain good dental hygiene.

These dentists offered to buy back Hal-

loween candy from students at a rate of $1 per pound.

The proceeds will be used to purchase gift cards to help Hampton Street families during the holidays.

The school is proud of our Hampton Family, which raised $53 from candy they brought in to school the week after Halloween.

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Town promotes Small Business Saturday The Town of North Hempstead is urging residents to support Small Business Saturday on Nov. 28, as part of a national effort to drive consumers to shop at local independently owned businesses on the Saturday after Thanksgiving.

For the second straight year, the Town is a proud sponsor of Small Business Saturday, a joint partnership between Women Impacting Public Policy (WIPP) and the Small Business Saturday Coalition.

“Downtowns are the lifeblood of our local economy, and it is our responsibility to help them flourish,” said Supervisor Judi Bosworth. “We must continue to work to grow our downtowns because when our downtown corridors succeed, so do our towns and villages. I urge everyone to support Small Business Saturday.” “’Buy Local’ is great to say, but does it really mean anything? The answer is YES - It means everything,” BTDC Executive Director Kim Kaiman said. “Businesses play an important role within North Hempstead and supporting them can make or break a business’s chances of survival here in our town. Remember to not only support your local businesses on Small Business Saturday, but any time you think of making a purchase.”

In 2014, 456 city and town officials joined together to support Small Business Saturday. The Town of North Hempstead looks forward to joining in this effort once again. An estimated $14.3 billion was spent nationwide at small businesses on 2014’s Small Business Saturday.

For more information on Small Business Saturday log on to www.northhempsteadny.gov/smallbusinesssaturday.

Exhibit to raise money for Games Trainville Hobby Depot will host a Model Train Exhibit on Saturday, Nov. 21 and Sunday, Nov. 22 from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Bethpage Senior Community Center located at 103 Grumman Road West in Bethpage.

The Model Train Exhibit includes operating model layouts and other displays coordinated

by Trainville Hobby Depot. Donations are being accepted at the exhibit to support the Nassau County Empire State Games for the Physically Challenged.

Admission in to the exhibit is $5, children ages 4-11years are $3 and entry for children under that age of 4 is free. Additional donations will be accepted and are greatly appreciated.

For further information, please visit www.trainville.com or call 516-433-4444.

Clockwise from top left: The opening of Bare Burger in Port Washington; The grand opening of a new Stop N Shop; The opening of Olga Lucia Permanent Cosmetics in Manhasset; a new Laundromat in New Cassel; Ribbon cutting on the Maharaja Super Market in New Hyde Park.

Talk on ending marijuana prohibition On Sunday, Dec. 13, members of The Drug Policy Alliance will present a program on efforts to reform New York’s marijuana policies.

The free talk and discussion, “The End of Marijuana Prohibition and the Repairing Process,” will take place at the Ethical Humanist Society of Long Island in Garden City.

This event begins at 12:45 p.m. and is open to the public.

Speakers will provide an understanding of key marijuana policies and analyze the effects of marijuana prohibition, as well as discuss ongoing marijuana reform efforts and New York’s Legalization Bill (Marijuana Regulation and Taxation Act).

The Drug Policy Alliance will show how marijuana prohibition has not been effective in stopping or remotely curbing marijuana usage across New York State. Prohibition, instead, they assert, has fueled and encouraged the growth of an underground industry and has been disproportionately enforced in

communities of color.

“The Marijuana Regulation & Taxation Act will address the failed policy of marijuana prohibition and work to undo some of its negative results by creating a

responsible and well- regulated industry that will prohibit access to minors and generate millions in tax revenue to support communities that have been most harmed by marijuana prohibi-

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tion,” said Chris Alexander, policy coordinator, New York, Drug Policy Alliance.

The Ethical Society is located at 38 Old County Road, Garden City.

Nassau County Comptroller George Maragos recently attended the Nassau County Police Department’s Detectives Association Law Enforcement Night. From left: Maragos, county Legislator Rose Walker, Honorary Law Enforcement 2015 Nassau County Supreme Court Judge Jerald Carter, Law Enforcement 2015 Man of Year Chief Steven Skrynecki (Chief of Department), Career Achievement Award 2014 Detective Roger O’Hara, Detective Association President Glenn T. Ciccone, Detective of the Year 2014 Detective Nelson Lopez, Detective of the Year 2014, Detective Dwight Hill, Nassau County Legislator Laura Schaefer, Detective of the Year 2014 Detective James Marinucci, and Detective of the Year 2014 Detective Samuel Morales.

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Promoting prostate cancer awareness Nassau County Executive Edward P. Mangano presented a proclamation this week to Rhonda Samuel, executive director of Integrated Medical Foundation in recognition of Prostate Cancer Awareness Month.

Joining the fight against prostate cancer, Mangano and IMF encourage men over the age of 40 to have their PSA level checked annually and to sign up for the Nov. 15 Blue Ribbon Run for Prostate Cancer.

The run, with the help of the Greater Long Island Running Club, takes place in Syosset Woodbury Community Park and throughout the streets of Woodbury.

Participation in the race will help fight prostate cancer by raising funds for prostate cancer awareness, education and support. Both 5K and 10K routes will be available, winding through the beautiful Syosset-Woodbury Community Park and surrounding neighborhoods. Awards in both 5K and 10K races in many age categories will be presented.

Free on-site prostate cancer screenings will be available from 8 and 11 a.m. for all men age 40 plus who have not been previously diagnosed with prostate cancer.

To register for the Blue Ribbon Run for Prostate Cancer visit www.IMFcares. org or www.glirc.org. Online registration Nassau County Executive Edward P. Mangano with Rhonda Samuel, executive director of Integrated Medical Foundation. closes 8 a.m. on Saturday, Nov. 14.

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Town to host seminar to aid biz openings, expansion On Wednesday, Nov. 18, from 8:30 to 10:30 a.m., the Town of North Hempstead Business & Tourism Development Corporation is hosting a free two-hour seminar in conjunction with the Town of North Hempstead’s Building & Planning Departments on “What to Know Before Opening or Expanding a Business: A Guide to the Building Permit Process” within the township.

This free workshop will take place at the Harbor Links Club House, One Fairway Drive, Port Washington.

This seminar will provide an overview of what needs to be done to set up shop or expand your premises within the Town.

Town and local village building departments along with the staff from the Town’s Planning Department and outside legal counsel will be on hand to answer ques-

tions.

Learn: What you should research before signing a lease or contract. How to research building records. How to file for a building permit. What is a site plan review? What is a Certificate of Occupancy?

No business is too small or too large to send a representative to attend. Commercial property owners, commercial real estate brokers, real estate attorneys, developers and local chambers of commerce members are all invited.

A Continental Breakfast will be served.

Please find attached the seminar’s flyer and press release. You may register online at http://www.btdc.biz/Online Registration.asp (if the link doesn’t work, please copy and paste into your internet browser). You may also register by phone at 516-869-7614.

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Get your retirement soaring B y D i an e B rangman

Social Security District Manager in Mineola, New York Wright Brothers Day, observed on December 17, marks the day in 1903 that two adventurous brothers in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina took to the air for the first time. It was a modern miracle at the time and a catalyst for the age of intercontinental travel. Over a hundred years later, it’s commonplace for people to fly across the country. Most of us don’t consider all the preparation and patience it took to achieve this modern feat of flight.

Luckily, planning your financial future isn’t as daunting as pioneering modern aviation. Social Security has secure and easy-to-use online resources that can ensure your retirement soars above the clouds. The sooner your start planning for retirement, the better prepared you’ll be. Just like building a reliable airplane, you’ll need finely tuned parts that will work together for you to take flight.

Think of your retirement strategy as

a flight plan that propels you higher. We have many resources at www.socialsecurity.gov/planners/retire that help you find the age at which you may first become entitled to unreduced retirement benefits, estimate your life expectancy, and calculate your estimated benefits.

These tools explain how much money you will need and for how long — something you can adjust through personal savings, pensions, and other benefits.

You can also get personalized benefit estimates using the Retirement Estimator at www.socialsecurity.gov/es-

timator. The Estimator shows different scenarios, like how future wage changes or alternate retirement dates will affect your future benefits. Benefit amounts may differ from the estimates provided because: Your earnings may increase or decrease in the future.

After you start receiving benefits, they may be adjusted for cost-of-living increases.

Your estimated benefits are based on current law. The law governing benefit amounts may change because, by 2034,

the payroll taxes collected under current law will be enough to pay only about 79 cents for each dollar of scheduled benefits.

Your benefit amount may be affected by military service, railroad employment or pensions earned through work on which you did not pay Social Security tax.

As you can see, your flight plan to retirement may change over your lifetime. It’s important you understand that no matter where life takes you, the long journey to retirement is one of your most important trips. With every right decision, you’re making your retirement flight plan a success that will carry you through the heights of your golden years.

It’s never too early to start planning.

Whether you are nearly ready to retire or if you’re just getting off the ground in your career, I recommend you create your own my Social Security account so you can also learn about all the future benefits available to you. Visit www. socialsecurity.gov/myaccount to create your account.

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Asian buyers boost Long Island market On Monday, I left for San Diego on a business trip to attend the National Association of Realtors Major Convention for 2015.

This conference presents the latest technology, pertinent information and the greatest opportunity to network with 20,000-plus agents from around the Globe convergeing upon San Diego.

I have friends from around the world, some (my friend shinji and my other friend Jiong, both spending upwards of $7000-plus to attend this conference., coming all the way from Shanghai and Bejing, China.

They have told me it is the best and most important conference in the world due to the amount of foreign nationals that are relocating here especially from China and India as well as other destinations.

These purchasers and investors have markedly helped the U.S. with increasing our economy and have enabled our real estate market to excel at a very

healthy pace.

This past week the U.S. Labor Department came out and said that unemployment is now down to 5 percent; obviously, much less than the 9 percent plus that the previous administration left us.

Real estate has been the locomotive as well as small businesses to begin the slow road back for our economy’s health from the bottom (2007-2011) to now a respectable increase of 3-5 percent increases in real estate around the U.S. This also depends on what states and cities you are living within.

Long Island has greatly benefited from the new influx of Asian purchasers — Chinese and Indian.

They have singlehandedly transformed many markets from under performers to super hotspots.

Some of those areas are Syosset, Jericho, Woodbury, New Hyde, Great Neck, etc.

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Schools seemed to be the overriding factor for them moving and relocating into these areas and begin to grow their families and roots in the communities.

They as well as other groups are the “New America” and I am very thankful and extend an olive branch to all who relocate here whether from other countries or from areas such as

Brooklyn, Queens and New York City.

Some may not feel comfortable with this change; however, it is no different from 100-150 years ago, when the new immigrants from Italy, Ireland, Russia, Poland, etc. and other countries came here for new opportunities and freedom that they obviously were not experiencing in their own countries.

Well it is no different today, when governments can take your bank accounts or businesses away without notification or due process of law or for any reason at all.

There is a mass exodus out of China of many high-end families and for those that can afford to leave or pay to leave and reestablish themselves here in the “Free” U.S. Again, schools and opportunity are the factors that are driving our new immigration into the U.S. Some may think of them

as foreigners; but really, who is truly an American, no one, except those that walked over from China or other areas via Alaska, when it was attached to Asia 10,000 plus years ago!

Those are the real original Americans, (Indians too!).

We have to learn to be understanding and compassionate of the transformation of the U.S. and our new immigration. Yes, everyone should come in legally and most, I believe are.

Those that are here illegally for five to 25 years, I believe, should gain legal status, so they will report their earnings, instead of working off the books and hiding their income, as well as trying to be incognito and afraid to be known.

Many are being underpaid and deserve a fair wage for those jobs that most Americans will not do anyway (gardeners, dish washers, service type jobs, nannys etc.)

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Help available to first-time home buyers The struggle facing some Long Islanders looking to purchase their first home may have just gotten a little easier.

According to Nassau County Ed Mangano, $500,000 in Federal HOME Investment Partnerships Program funding, provided by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, will be made available to eligible first-time homebuyers. Under the plan, applicants could collect up to $25,000 towards a down payment/closing costs for the purchase of an eligible new or existing single family home.

The Long Island Housing Partnership (LIHP), as an agent for Nassau County Office of Housing and Community Development, will be accepting

applications, until they have approximately 70 completed and accepted applications submitted from first-time homebuyers for down payment/closing cost assistance towards the purchase of a principal residence.

“My administration has made it a priority to create ways in which to assist families, seniors, and young adults with new housing opportunities,” Mangano said. “With this Federal HOME Investment Partnerships Program funding, my administration and the Long Island Housing Partnership will truly help residents achieve the American Dream of home ownership. Since taking office, my administration has helped create over 1,325 new housing op-

portunities in Nassau County as well as launched veteran housing initiatives.”

The applicants must provide a minimum down payment of at least $5,000 in addition to satisfying the mortgage lender’s minimum down payment requirements and being able to secure a mortgage. Homeowners are required to reside in the home for a minimum of 10 years or HUD will require a full repayment of the grant.

More than 20 applicants were assisted in the home buying process under the same program during Fiscal Years 2013-14. To be eligible, an applicant must be a first-time homeowner having not owned a home during the three years immediately prior

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to purchasing a residence with HOME assistance funds and must occupy the property as a principal residence. In addition, their gross annual income must not exceed income limits as outlined in HUD guidelines below, taking overtime and assets into consideration.

Applicants must attend a mortgage counseling session, be able to secure a mortgage, and have a minimum household income of at least $30,000.

Eligible homes for purchase must be pre-existing or newly constructed residences located within the Nassau County boundaries. They must be single family dwellings, which include townhouses, condominiums, cooperative apartments and manu-

factured homes and be occupied as a principal residence. The maximum Appraised Value cannot exceed $354,000.

To request an application please call the Long Island Housing Partnership at 631-435-4710 or visit its website at www.lihp. org to fill out a request form.

Income Guidelines: Family Size Maximum Income 1 $ 61,050 2 $ 69,800 3 $ 78,500 4 $ 87,200 5 $ 94,200 6 $ 101,200 7 $108,150 8+ $115,150

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Tax break package OK’d for Village Green Continued from Page 1 said Kevin Lalezarian, who is heading the project.

Developers say PILOT agreements, which let them make predetermined payments less costly than property taxes, are necessary to make large residential projects economically feasible.

For Village Green, Lalezarian will pay the county $210,150 for the first five years. After that, payments will increase at equal increments each year to 10 percent of the total rent, which depends on the real estate market but is estimated to hit $895,592.

The IDA package also includes up to $725,000 in mortgage recording tax exemptions and up to $2.9 million in sales tax exemptions.

Once it opens, Village Green will have a total economic impact on the area of nearly $132 million, including more than $5.8 million in tax revenue for the village and county, IDA Executive Director Joseph Kearney said.

The building will create 18 permanent full-time jobs and 180

construction jobs over the two-year building period, the developers said.

Kearney said Lalezarian has committed to sourcing 90 percent of its building labor and materials from Nassau and Suffolk counties, as far as they’re locally available, after meeting with labor union representatives.

“In response to the requests of labor to have more access to this process, we the IDA decided to bring everybody together to sit and talk,” Kearney said.

IDA Board Chairman Timothy Williams said the agency could recall the tax breaks if the developer doesn’t follow through on the 90-percent agreement.

Lalezarian said he expects to begin construction in February on the U-shaped Village Green, which includes a parking garage, courtyard and 14,000 square feet of retail space on the ground floor.

Rents for its 112 one-bedroom apartments and 154 two-bedroom apartments will be in the mid$2,000 range, he said. Twenty-sev-

Kevin Lalezarian en units will be set at “affordable” rents for tenants who make up to 80 percent of the county’s median income.

Village Green will join two other apartment complexes targeted at affluent young commuters located near Mineola’s Long Island Railroad station and Nassau InterCounty Express bus hub.

Mill Creek Residential Trust has leased 60 percent of the apartments at its seven-story, 275-unit Modera Mineola building at 140 Old Country Road, which was com-

pleted in the spring. Mill Creek expects it to be full by summer 2016.

Lalezarian’s other 315-unit, nine-story building at 250 Old Country Road is under construction and is expected to be finished at the start of next year.

Lalezarian said he expects to start leasing apartments there “very soon.”

Efforts to reach Mineola Mayor Scott Strauss were unavailing.

Mineola’s Village Board approved the Village Green project in May after it sparked a debate about local aesthetics as the village works to revitalize the downtown area as part of the Master Plan it adopted in 2004.

Several residents complained about the building’s nine-story height, moving Lalezarian to remove 30 apartments from the plan and reduce the height by one floor.

Others worried it would cause parking and traffic congestion, but a traffic study the developer commissioned indicated the building would not cause significant traffic issues.

Its bid for IDA tax breaks also drew concerns from Mineola school Superintendent Michael Nagler.

The school district cannot include buildings with PILOTS when calculating its “tax base growth factor,” meaning it could not raise taxes to account for the students the development would bring into Mineola schools.

Proponents of these “transitoriented” developments say their tenants do not bring many children into local districts.

Lalezarian said he thinks the district stands to benefit from the additional tax revenue Village Green’s tenants will bring.

“We think long-term, this project is a fantastic investment for the school district as well,” he said.

Efforts to reach Nagler were unavailing.

A second hearing for Mineola’s fourth transit-oriented apartment project, Mill Creek’s proposed pair of buildings near the former Corpus Christi Elementary School, is set for Jan. 13.

Trustees hear plan for Corpus Christi site ented development in the region,” which was completed this spring, Stover said.

The village approved New and expects it to be full by the Hyde Park-based Lalezarian Develsummer.

“We wouldn’t be putting in opers’ own 10-story, 315-unit comthis application if we didn’t believe plex at 250 Old Country Road in in a deep market for transit-ori- 2012, after three years of changes Continued from Page 2

to the original proposal.

Lalezarian got approval in May for a second 266-apartment building at 199 Second Street, known as Village Green, despite vocal opposition from residents based on the building’s size.

Both Modera Mineola and Lalezarian’s Old Country Road building got tax breaks from the Nassau County Industrial Development Agency.

The IDA will decide Nov. 9 whether to give Lalezarian tax

breaks for Village Green.

Mill Creek also plans to pursue them for the Corpus Christi project because it and others like it would not be economically viable without them, Stover said.

Air noise study doesn’t track many helicopters Continued from Page 4 Larry Quinn, Garden City’s representative on the noise abatement committee, said it would be helpful to have the noise measurements from the transient he-

licopters. But the Port Authority’s sensors are placed about a mile from the helicopter route, he said, meaning they miss a lot more noise altogether.

“Ostensibly those noise moni-

tors were set up to monitor noise entering or leaving JFK or LaGuardia, so they don’t want to have other noises compounding the issue, whereas someone on the ground, it doesn’t make a differ-

ence to us where the plane or helicopter came from,” Quinn said.

“We’re just being annoyed by the noise.”

The Port Authority doubled the amount of noise monitors it

owns to conduct the study.

Quinn said he would favor a separate study to get a fuller picture of the helicopter noise, but added that it’s uncertain who would fund one.

S.C. shooting victim’s family comes to G.N. temple Continued from Page 21 The Friday night service was attended by just under 500 people, Meir said, including both members and non-members of Temple Beth-El, as well as clergymen from various churches, synagogues, and places of worship across Long Island and New York City.

While Temple Beth-El has had many other interfaith services, Meir said, this service with Thompson’s family was the most significant.

“We have done so many interfaith services, which are often moving and special, but none of them come to close to the significance of this experience,” he said.

Meir said hearing Thompson’s family express forgiveness for Roof was influential.

“The members of the family from Charleston spoke on a number of occasions and talked about how their faith in God called them and required them to forgive this boy Dylann Roof,”

he said. “It was really amazing and such a powerful experience.”

Several elected officials attended the interfaith service including Nassau County Legislators Kevan Abrahams (DHempstead), Siela Bynoe (DWestbury), and Ellen Birnbaum (D-Great Neck), North Hempstead Town Council members Anna Kaplan (D-Great Neck) and Lee Seeman (D-Great Neck), Village of Saddle Rock Mayor Dan Levy, Board of Regents member

Roger Tilles, Great Neck Public School Superintendent Teresa Prendergast, and Holocaust Memorial and Tolerance Center of Nassau County Chairman Steve Markowitz.

“The service at Temple BethEl was one of the most inspiring demonstrations of interfaith respect and love that I have ever witnessed,” Birnbaum said. “The message of forgiveness that we heard from the family of a victim of the shootings will have a major impact on our entire com-

munity.”

Temple Beth-El, Tara said, has a Torah study every Saturday — similar to the Bible study that takes place every Wednesday at the Emanuel AME. “It felt very much like it could have been us,” Tara said.

“We make those sacred texts relevant in our lives, to make ourselves better too, and even though some of the texts may be different and our metaphors for God are a little different, in that way we felt a bond with them.”

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East Library East Williston Williston Library

DAYTIME BOOK CLUB: “The Orchardist” by Amanda Coplin. The group will meet on Tuesday Dec. 8 at 1:30 p.m.

are Monday and Thursday from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. and Wednesday from 3 to 7 p.m. Photo identification is required. Documents to be notarized must be signed at the time of notarization, not before. You must bring your own witness if needed.

Please telephone the Library to confirm a notary is available.

EVENING BOOK CLUB: “The Rosie Project” by Graeme Simsion. The group will meet on Thursday, Dec. 10 at 7 p.m. Please register at the library. The discussion is limited to 15 readers.

TUMBLEBOOK LIBRARY: TumbleBook Library is an online collection of animated picture books which teach

young children the joys of reading in a format they’ll love. Visit us at www.

ewlibrary.org N0TARY PUBLIC: Hours

OLD WESTBURY GARDENS and NY HISTORICAL SOCIETY PASSES: The passes are available to East Williston Library card

holders. Each family pass (two adults and children under 18 years of age) may be borrowed for a threeday period. Passes may be reserved in advance.

LEARNING EXPRESS LIBRARY: Whatever your goal, LearningExpressLibrary’s resources will help you succeed. The various “Learning Centers” offer the information you need to achieve the results you want at school, at work, or in life.

Are you looking for a new job? You’ll find an entire

Learning Center dedicated to helping you get the one that’s right for you. Visit us at www.ewlibrary.org COLLECTION ON DISPLAY: During the month of November, the East Williston Library Friends are pleased to have the charming and decorative craft creations of Louise Bosnack on display in the Village Hall. For further information, please speak to the Library staff.

Register for all programs by calling 516-741-1213 or email us at ewpl@ewlibrary.org

Shelter Rock Library MUSEUM PASSES @ SRPL Shelter Rock Public Library cardholders can reserve a Museum Pass online for free admission to a variety of museums and gardens on Long Island and in New York City. Go to www.srpl.org and pull down the Library Services Menu then go to Museum Passes.

Click the Reserve Now link and look for the red Request Pass button to see if the Museum Pass is available.

Your library card must be in good standing. Advance reservations will be accepted for the next 60 days (one Reservation per family every 30 days).

SHELTER ROCK PATRONS MAY RESERVE PASSES FOR: American Airpower Museum • Children’s Museum of Manhattan • Cold Spring Harbor Fish Hatchery • Cradle of Aviation • Garvies Point • Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum • Long Island Children’s Museum • Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) • Nassau County Firefighter’s Museum • Nassau County Museum of Art • New York Botanical Garden • New York Historical Society and Library & Dimenna Children’s History Museum

programs ART LECTURES American Artists Present A SLICE OF AMERICAN LIFE with Nancy Traeger, Docent, Nassau County Museum of Art co-sponsored by Brandeis National Committee - LI Chapter Tuesday, Nov. 10 at 1:30 p.m.

EUGÈNE DELACROIX with Ines Powell, Educator, Metropolitan Museum of Art Friday, Nov. 13 at 1:30 p.m. Eugène Delacroix, the leader of the French Romantic school, is known for his exotic subjects painted with expressive brushstrokes and carefully

studied color effects. Inspired

by Rubens and Venetian painting, Delacroix be lieved that art should express the artist’s true feelings and convictions.

FRANK STELLA: A Retrospective with Mary Vahey Monday, Nov. 23 at 1:30 p.m.

Frank Stella’s art was included in Sixteen Americans at the Museum of Modern Art before he was twenty-five. He is considered of one of the most important living American artists. This visual lecture compliments The Whitney Museum’s retrospective of the artist, on view through Feb. 7, 2016.

2:30 to 4 p.m.

This support group is designed for all caregivers. It provides an opportunity for participants to share experiences and help one another. First time attendees or for additional information, please call 516227-7055.

PLAY MAH JONGG Tuesdays at 1:30 p.m., Nov. 17., Dec. 1, Dec. 15. Join others in playing the game that has fascinated people for so many years with its strategies, sequences and combinations.

Bring a team, a friend or come by yourself and enjoy the game. Limited materials will be available, so if you own a set, please feel free to bring it with you. Registration is not required.

THURSDAY MOVIES At 2 and 7:30 p.m. Nov. 19 - LITTLE BOY: Directed by Alejandro Monteverde 2015, Rated PG-13, 106 minutes. Cast: Jacob Salvati, Michael Rapaport, Emily Watson, Tom Wikerson An eight-year old boy is willing to do whatever it takes to bring his father home from fighting during the Second World War. The story reveals the great love a father has for his little boy and the love a son has for his father.

COMPUTER BASICS for ADULTS with TEEN TUTORS Would you like an individualized computer or technology tutoring session with a trained teen volunteer? Are you interested in learning the Internet, e-mail or computer basics? Bring your own device (tablet, laptop or Smartphone) or use ours.

You may sign up for up to three sessions.Bring your computer questions and join us in the Conference Room for a 45 minute session on the dates and times listed below.

Thursdays, Nov. 19 from 4:15 to 5 p.m. or 5 to 5:45 p.m. and Saturdays, Nov. 14 and Dec. 12 from 10:15 to 11 a.m. or 11 to 11:45 a.m. Registration begins Oct. 19 at the Reference Desk.

CAREGIVER SUPPORT GROUP with Marguerite Dilimetin, Group Facilitator, Nassau County Office for the Aging and Mental Health Wednesdays], Dec. 16, from

CELEBRATING the 150th ANNIVERSARY of ALICE in WONDERLAND with Shirley Romaine, actress.

Monday, Nov. 30 at 1:30 p.m.

Lewis Carroll was a professor of mathematics at Oxford, a

SENIOR RAP GROUP ... for the 55+ set who have a lifetime of experiences to share! Anyone interested in joining the group is welcome.

Topics vary and the conversation is lively and provocative.

Monday, Dec. 7 from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Come and join the Shelter Rock Public Library Senior Rap Group. This discussion group is led by volunteer facilitator David Marx

writer, photographer, poet and a man of great imagination. Learn how Alice Liddell became the inspiration for this beloved story and see excerpts that show some of the film attempts to adapt the adventures of Alice and the creatures she encounters.

CREATIVE NEEDLES A Needlework Group Friday, Dec. 4 at 1:30 p.m.

Registration is not required.

Bring your projects and supplies to knit, crochet, needlepoint, embroider or cross stitch in the company of other needle craft lovers. A time for conversation, crafting and simply sharing tips and techniques while “the needles fly” with other craft enthusiasts.

ADULT BOOK DISCUSSION led by SRPL Librarians Chris Karlssen and Ellen Miller THE LADY IN GOLD: The Extraordinary Tale of Gustav Klimt’s Masterpiece, Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer by Anne-Marie O’Connor on Wednesday, Dec. 2 at 2:30 p.m. Registration begins Wednesday, Nov. 4. Klimt’s portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer had been confiscated by the Nazis and proudly exhibited as The Lady in Gold with no reference to Adele. Sixty years after the painting was stolen, the painting became the subject of a decadelong litigation between the Austrian government and the Bloch-Bauer heirs.

DEFENSIVE DRIVING CLASS for drivers of all ages.

Saturday, Nov. 21 from 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.

To register please contact Mr. Stephen Donnelly at 516-4370705.

HOPEFUL SINGLES

for ages 55 plus with Marla Matthews, TV Host Thursday, Dec. 3 at 3 p.m. Life is unpredictable, there are no guarantees and change is always happening. With new friends and inspirational guidance, compassion and support, your journey can be easier!!

Be part of this group of single adults 55 plus to find hope for your future.

AARP SMART DRIVER COURSE Wednesday and Thursday, Dec. 2 and 3 from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. Please pick up a registration form at the Reference Desk or download from the Library website www.srpl.org

YOUNG ADULT ATTENTION TEEN ADVISORY BOARD (TAB) MEMBERS The next TAB meetings are on Wednesday, Nov. 18 from 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. in the Community Room. TAB is for registered members in Grades 7-12. TAB works with the YA Librarian to improve library services for teens. Limited registration for TAB begins August 1 and continues. If you are interested in volunteering with other teens to improve library services, please pick up an application in the Teen Room.

THE ROAD TO COLLEGE for High School Students and their Parents. See flyers for details.

SAT, ACT or PSAT Practice Test with Curvebreakers, Inc. Saturday, Nov. 14 from 9:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Registration began Oct. 30.

The New Rules Of College Admissions with Michael Binder, Monday, Nov. 16 from 7 to 8:30 p.m.

Registration began Oct. 30.

SAT, ACT or PSAT Test Review with Nick LaPoma of Curvebreakers, Inc Thursday, Nov. 19 from 7 to 8 p.m. Registration began Oct. 30.

BOOK CAFÉ For YAs Entering Grades 6 – 12 HEIST SOCIETY

by Ally Carter on Tuesday, Nov. 24 from 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. Tired of her lifelong involvement in her family’s illicit dealings, teenager Kat Bishop enrolls herself in a prestigious boarding school. After she is expelled, she enlists a group of teenagers who use their combined talents to vindicate Kat’s father, an international art thief, from a vengeful collector. Join us for a Socrates approach as we answer universal questions on this book. “Socratizing” is the idea that we learn more when we question with others.

We’ll also serve some international snacks which relate to locations in the book.

Registration begins Nov. 2 in the Teen Room.

CHILDREN 3D TURKEY CRAFT For Grades K – 5 Friday, Nov. 20 at 4:30 p.m. Registration begins Friday, Nov. 6.

GREAT BEGINNINGS This program of stories, simple songs, fingerplays and rhymes is designed for children ages 12 – 23 months with a parent or caregiver.

Choose one of the following sessions: Mondays at 10:15 a.m.

Nov. 16 – Dec. 7 or Tuesdays at 10:15 a.m.

Nov. 17 – Dec. 8 or Wednesdays at 11:15 a.m.

Nov. 18 – Dec. 9 Registration begins Tuesday, October 20.

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buyer’s guide ▼ antiques

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buyer’S guide ▼ Tree ServiCe

Asian buyers boost real estate market on L.I. Continued from Page 48

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There is that void in filling those jobs, that they are willing to do, which is beneficial, for the most part, for everyone. The jury is out as to whether a $15 minimum wage is the answer and I do not want to address that in this issue in this column.

However, the current wage that most get paid, especially in the service sector, is not a living wage and no one can afford to purchase any type of real estate, even a coop. It is a windfall for landlords, which I am included; however, the opportunity to own instead of renting will only come from either a higher wage and also from one’s own aptitude to gain the necessary knowledge, persistence and motivation to work towards the “American Dream” in owning their own business, leading to owning their own home.

I have seen and experienced individuals and families within a five-year period of time go from rags to riches. The main reason, I believe, is the fact that they are unstoppable with the fortitude, persistence, motivation, long hours and “never quit attitude” that leads to their success.

Many of the so called “Americans” complain that there are no jobs, “woe is me attitude” that some feel that they deserve the same income as they had previously made, before the almost complete collapse of our financial institutions and economy in 2007-2008.

We had become too comfortable with the “guaranteed job and income mentality” in our country, instead of figuring out how to become more self sufficient, going back to school to learn about the new economy, technologies and potentially learn a new trade.

I personally went from Landscape Design and being an E.P.A. Certified Professional Lawn-

Tree-Shrub Applicator for 25 years to into a completely different vocation.

However, I did this on a conscious level, that was fairly well planned out, back in the early nineties. Many of us really need to do some soul searching and decide what direction they want to go in.

However, one must start from somewhere, in order to finish.

As I always, say “Proper, Planning, Prevents, Piss, Poor Performance” and “Winners Never Quit and Quitters Never Win!” Thanks!

Enjoy a More Healthier, More Happier, & Hopefully More Prosperous 2015!

Sincerely, Philip A. Raices, Pres.

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REPORTER: Blank Slate Media, an award winning chain of 5 weekly newspapers and website on the North Shore of Nassau County is seeking a self starter with good writing and reporting skills to cover Great Neck.

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BABYSITTER P/T WANTED for GC family to care for 3 children, ages 8, 6 & 4. Mondays 6:30am-6:30pm. Must feel comfortable driving children to different locations. Additional hours a possibility. Please call Jennifer 917-282-4723 CHILDCARE WANTED: Local person wanted for childcare 2 days per week and one weekend per month 12 noon to 8:30pm. Call for more information: 917-882-3713 LICENSED AESTHETICIAN WITH FOLLOWING: Good salary + commission. Family friendly atmosphere. In business for 30 years.

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MEDICAL OFFICE CLERK: Part time, light diversified clerical duties with some medical testing. Will train right person. Email resume AnatBA@aol.com OFFICE ASSISTANT P/T Garden City law firm seeks detail oriented individual to assist with general office duties in Accounting Dept.

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Duties Include: • Delivering product to local stores using our company-owned 26’ box truck • Merchandising product • May include managing orders via computer Minimum Qualifications: • Must have experience driving a box truck • Must be able to utilize a computer • Must be at least 18 years of age • Must be able to pass a drug test • Must have valid driver’s license and a good driving record • Must be able to work weekends and holidays Compensation: • $17.75 per hour plus benefits including Health, Dental, Vision, Life Insurance, 401K, Paid Vacations, Holiday Pay • $1.00 shift differential • Overtime after 40 hours

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BAKERY PRODUCTS REPRESENTATIVE Work as a Full-Time, Entry Level Employee Servicing supermarkets in the New Hyde Park, NY area GREAT OPPORTUNITY FOR NEW GRADS!

A family-owned commercial bakery in business for over 100 years, Gold Medal Bakery produces and transports bakery products to major supermarkets.

Duties Include: Increasing sales by: • Merchandising products • Maintaining inventory and Managing orders via computer • Communicating with store management daily Job Work Week: • 8am-5pm with Wednesdays & Sundays off Minimum Qualifications: • Computer experience required • Good driving record and proper auto insurance needed • No experience necessary - we will train!

• Must be at least 18 years old • Must be able to pass a drug test Compensation: $625 per week plus benefits & mileage reimbursement

Don’t miss out- apply now! No resumes accepted - Unless accompanied by a complete application.

If interested, complete a general application at:: www.goldmedalbakery.com/jobs

SALES PERSON: full or part time. Unique gift store such as candles, handbags, home decor.

Location near Great Neck Station. Please call or text message 516-778-2600 TEACHER ASSISTANTS: Fast hire. Will train. Full (9-6) and part time (M-F flexible hours). Nassau County Childcare Center expanding. j10291@aol.com

Situation Wanted BABYSITTING COLLEGE STUDENT Available for babysitting full day on Mondays & Fridays.

Available flexible hours nights & weekends. 5 yrs experience.

Solid references. Has car. Call 516-404-1045 HOME HEALTH AIDE​/ NEWBORN CARE Kind, compassionate HHA seeking FT​/​PT position on weekdays, weekends or overnight. 25+ years experience.

References available. Call Liz 516-590-5338 ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT AVAILABLE: Available P/T 2-3 days a week. Experienced in Microsoft Word & Excel. Past experience includes Department of Education & Legal Secretary background.

Outgoing & strong work ethic. References available. Available immediately. Call 917-770-7965 AIDE​/​CARE GIVER: CARING, EFFICIENT, RELIABLE looking to care for your sick or elderly loved one. 14 years experience. Just ended 7 years with previous patient. Live in, live out, ft​/​pt nights, weekends. References available.

Call 516-448-0502 CARE GIVER: NEED A COMPANION or nursing assistant for your loved ones? Fear of your loved ones being alone? Need overnight companion care at home or a health care facility? Call 516410-9943 NY State certified nursing assistant.

CAREGIVER / HHA VERY HANDS ON LOVING, CARING, COMPASSIONATE HHA with over 10 years experience seeking FT live in or live out position. Great references.

Licensed driver. Please call Shawn 516-424-0091 CAREGIVER AVAILABLE FT​/​ PT days or evenings. Available immediately. 20 years experience. Live in or out. Able to run errands. Excellent references. Valid driver’s license & own car. Please call Lorraine 646-269-9540 or 516-214-6785

CERTIFIED AIDE: Looking to provide private duty care to Garden City or local area resident. Available Monday through Friday, part time or full time, flexible hours, own transportation, exceptional references. Call Annmarie 917-586-7433 CERTIFIED HOME ATTENDANT Nurse’s assistant available to care for the elderly.

Live in or live out. Offering compassionate home care full time or part time. Please call 347-543-5960 CERTIFIED HOME HEALTH AIDE​/ COMPANION seeks job.

Caring, reliable, compassionate. Hospital & nursing home experience. References available. Verona 631-772-4385 or 516-481-9357 CLEANING WOMAN AVAILABLE: English speaking Polish woman with years of experience, hardworking & responsible is available to clean your home. Reasonable rates, excellent references. Please call 516-564-0139 CLEANING: I CLEAN your house and leave it spotless.

Vacuum, clean the bathrooms and bedrooms, your kitchen, mop and dust. Please contact me at 516-943-7124. Excellent references and free estimates.

COMPANION / ELDER CARE / BABYSITTING Experienced, reliable, efficient, honest ! Seeking to care for elderly. Prepare meals, housekeeping, laundry.

Available for babysitting also.

Available full time. Will accept part time & weekends. Live in or live out. References available.

Please call 516-233-9481 or 347-441-9656 ELDER CARE PROFESSIONAL who has cared for our mother with love and enthusiasm is seeking full time position. Drives, cooking, light housekeeping.

Call 516-729-1688 ELDER CARE: MALE AIDE​/​ COMPANION with 15 years experience available to care for elderly. Days, nights, weekends.

Own car. Excellent references.

Call 516-353-1626 EUROPEAN HOME CARE attendant available for live in or live out. Garden City resident with 20 years experience. Excellent references. Very reasonable rates. Please call Jeanette 516-741-6347 or cell 516-710-7271, leave message.

EXCELLENT HOME HEALTH AIDE Striving to make elderly comfortable in their own surroundings. Seeking FT​/​PT position. Flexible hours. Have worked with many prominent people. Excellent references. Driver w/ car.

Will do errands, doctor appts, housework, light cooking. Call Lorna 347-425-2804

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ANNOUNCEMENTS

EXPERIENCED NANNY​/​HOUSEKEEPER and care giver to elderly available FT, weekends, overnight. Mother of three. 21 years experience including with two GC families. Call for more information.

Selena 347-624-9453

IF YOU HAD A HIP OR KNEE REPLACEMENT surgery and suffered an infection between 2010 and the present time, you may be entitled to compensation.l Call Attorney Charles H. Johnson 1-800-535-5727

EXPERIENCED POLISH HOUSE CLEANER Good references. Very honest, reliable, responsible and hard working. Own transportation.

English speaking. Flexible days​/​ hours. I will do a good job. Please call 516-589-5640

Novenas/Prayers

GINNY’S HOME CARE licensed Certified Nursing Assistant and Home Health Aide providing private specialized home care. www.ginnyshomecare.com 516-354-1803 HOUSE AND APARTMENT CLEANER with many years experience and good references available 7 days with flexible hours.

516-632-0169, 516-499-1384 HOUSE CLEANER AVAILABLE Good references. Monday​​Saturday. Experienced. Own car.

Will provide own supplies. Free estimates. 516-485-3543, cell 516-661-5282 HOUSE CLEANING: Experienced cleaning service available.

Pleasant, responsible. Provides own quality clean products. Own transportation. Local references.

Spanish​/​English speaking. Free estimates. Approximate cost: Small home $79, Mid size $99, Large $118. Please call Diana 516-859-7084 HOUSECLEANING Very honest and kind woman available to clean your home Mon-Fri. Own transportation, own supplies, great rates. Local references. Pet lover.

Spanish​/​English speaking. Contact Marleni 516-902-7249 NANCY’S CLEANING SERVICE Experienced cleaning service.

Homes, apartments and offices!

English speaking. Licensed driver with car Free estimates! Call or text Nancy 516-469-5517. Email: miranda-nancy@hotmail.com NEW YORK PHYSICIANS ASSISTANT: Care giver​/​companion available. Over 20 years experience available 24/7. Specializing in patients with CHF, Alzheimer’s, Dimentia, surgical procedures, hospice and more.

Call Jackie 5146-306-0257 or Joel 516-965-1940

ANNOUNCEMENTS

HUNTERS Our hunters will pay top $$$ to hunt your land. Call for a free base camp leasing info packet & quote 866-309-1507 www.basecampleasing.com

PRAYER TO THE BLESSED VIRGIN (Never known to fail). Oh Most Beautiful Flower of Mount Carmel, fruitful vine of Splendor of Heaven, Blessed Mother of the Son of God, Immaculate Virgin assist me in this necessity. Oh Star of the Sea help me and show herein you are my Mother. Oh Mary Mother of God, Queen of Heaven and Earth I beseech thee from the bottom of my heart to succor me this necessity (make request). There are none that can withstand your power. Oh show me herein you are my Mother. Oh Mary conceived without sin pray for us who have recourse to Thee (three times). Oh Holy Mary I place this cause in your hands (three times). Thank you for your mercy to me and mine. Amen. This prayer must be said for three days and after three days your request will be granted. The prayer must be published. Grateful thanks. (J.L.) PRAYER TO THE BLESSED VIRGIN (Never known to fail). Oh Most Beautiful Flower of Mount Carmel, fruitful vine of Splendor of Heaven, Blessed Mother of the Son of God, Immaculate Virgin assist me in this necessity. Oh Star of the Sea help me and show herein you are my Mother. Oh Mary Mother of God, Queen of Heaven and Earth I beseech thee from the bottom of my heart to succor me this necessity (make request). There are none that can withstand your power. Oh show me herein you are my Mother. Oh Mary conceived without sin pray for us who have recourse to Thee (three times). Oh Holy Mary I place this cause in your hands (three times). Thank you for your mercy to me and mine. Amen. This prayer must be said for three days and after three days your request will be granted. The prayer must be published. Grateful thanks. (L.B.) PRAYER TO THE HOLY SPIRIT Holy Spirit thou who made me see everything and showed me the way to reach my ideals. Thou who gave me the divine gift to forgive and forget the wrong that is done to me, and thou who art in all instances of my life with me. I thank thee for everything and confirm once more that I never want to be separated from you no matter how great material desire may be, I want to be with thee and my loved ones in Your perpetual glory. Thank You for your love towards me and my loved ones. Pray this prayer for 3 consecutive days. After 3rd day your wish will be granted no matter how difficult it may be. Promise to publish this dialogue as soon as your favor has been granted. (L.B.)

MARKETP{LACE

FURNITURE FOR SALE ETHAN ALLEN FURNITURE FOR SALE: LR chairs. Like new.

Recliner, 2 matching chairs & floral rocker. Also black oriental rug. Call for description & cost.

516-361-0424 or 516-361-1642 GARDEN CITY: Stunning antique sideboard, burl wood with white and gray veined marble top $2,500. Couch and armchair, mint condition $300. Drop leaf cherry end tables $50 set of two.

Color TV cherrywood console $25. Best offers. 516-864-3350

Wanted to Buy CASH BUYER! Buying ALL Gold & Silver coins, Stamps, Paper Money, Comic Books, entire collections, Estates. Travel to your home. Call Marc in NY 1-800-959-3419 CASH FOR DIABETIC TEST STRIPS Up to $35 /​Box! Sealed and Unexpired. Payment made SAME DAY. Highest prices paid!

Call Juley today! 800-413-3479 www.cashforyourteststrips.com LOOKING TO BUY! Records, oriental items, clothing, art, old & modern furniture, estates, jewelry, silver, glassware, dishes, old photos, coins & stamps, flatware.

Call George 718-386-1104 or 917-775-3048 TOP CASH PAID: JEWELRY, Furniture, Art, etc. Please call 718-598-3045 or 516-270-2128. www.iBuyAntiquesNYC.com

Tag Sale *BROWSE *SHOP *CONSIGN A.T. STEWART EXCHANGE CONSIGNMENT SHOP 109 Eleventh Street Garden City 11530 516-746-8900 China, Silver, Crystal, Jewelry, Artwork, Furniture, Antiques, Collectibles Tues-Fri 10-4 Sat 12-4 Every Tuesday: 10% Senior Citizen Discount. All proceeds benefit The Garden City Historical Society email: store@ atstewartexchange.org www. gardencityhistoricalsociety. org WILLISTON PARK: Resurrection Thrift Shop shared ministry between St. Aidan’s and Resurrection housed at Resurrection, 147 Campbell Avenue @ Center Street. OPEN Thursdays 9:30-1:00 and Saturdays 10-2. 516-746-5527. Jewelry, clothing, household items, etc. DONATIONS accepted Monday through Thursday 9am-1pm. CHRISTMAS SHOP open November 14th through December 19th.

DONATE YOUR CAR

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*Free Vehicle/Boat Pickup ANYWHERE *We Accept All Vehicles Running or Not *Fully Tax Deductible

* Wheels For Wishes is a DBA of Car Donation Foundation.

Tag Sale AUCTIONS, TAG SALES & CONSIGNMENTS INVITED SALES by TRACY JORDAN Live and Online Auction House, Estate Sales, Appraisals and Consignment Shoppe.839 Stewart Avenue Garden City 11530 516-279-6378 www.invitedsales.com OPEN 6 DAYS A WEEK! Tuesday & Thursday 10-4 Wednesday & Friday 10-6 Saturday 10-5 Sunday 12-5 Closed Mondays Located next to the La Quinta and behind the Garden Gourmet Deli. Live Auctions Monthly! Free walkin evaluations for items to be considered for Live Auction every Tuesday and Thursday 10am-2pm. No appointment necessary. Auctions are live every Wednesday from 8am-8pm and pre-bids are accepted at anytime. Visit www.invitedsales. com and click on the online auctions tab. Visit www.invitedsales.com to see pictures and information regarding our upcoming tag sales and estate sales. Our 50% off room is open everyday and includes items that have been in our shoppe for more than 60 days. To receive discount coupons and promotional information, join our email list. Text “invited” to 22828 and enter your email address when prompted. Consignments are taken by appointment to provide you with the best service. Please call the shoppe at 516-279-6378 to schedule an appointment or email pictures of your items to info@invitedsales.com. We can provide fair market values on any item that you may want to sell, consign or enter into auction. If you need advice on hosting a sale, selling an item or liquidating an estate, please call Tracy Jordan at the shoppe or directly at 516-567-2960 GARDEN CITY Fri & Sat 11/13 & 11/14 9:00 am to 3:00 pm 34 Maxwell Road Entire contents of home Including: DR, LR, Den, Kitchen, Rway custom Bedroom, piano, chandeliers, crystal, artwork, records, lamps AND MUCH MORE! YOU’RE INVITED! Monday, November 16 9:30 am 31 Hilton Ave Garden City, NY 11530 Many beautiful items for sale, lots of expensive yarn and TONS of huge gardening and knitting books, reupholstered vintage pieces, Asian inspired chests, clothing, costume jewelry, mid century dining table, dining chairs, handmade and machine made rugs, living room furniture, bedroom dressers, basement and packed garage and greenhouse. Many planting items too!...Visit www. invitedsales.com for pictures and details !

PETS

Pet Services A GARDEN CITY ANIMAL LOVER doesn’t want to leave your precious pooch or fantastic feline alone all day. I’m reliable, dependable and will walk and feed your pet while you work or travel. Please call Cheryl at 516-505-9717 DO YOU HATE KENNELS? OR STRANGERS IN YOUR HOUSE? HOME AWAY FROM HOME will care for your dog in my Garden City home while you are away. Dog walking also available. Pet CPR & first Aid Certified. Numerous referrals and references. Limited availability. Book early! Annmarie 516-775-4256

PROFESSIONAL DOG TRAINING Doggie Day Care Dog Walking & Running Mobile Socialization Program Backyard Clean-up GC Resident 516-382-5553

Automotive

Auto For Sale 1997 NISSAN ALTIMA 4 door automatic. Silver. Recently serviced. $1,700. Please call 516-437-5398 LINCOLN TOWN CAR: Silver 2001, 135k miles, new tires, factory service. Excellent condition $3,450 or best offer. 516-626-0390 or 646-721-2134

Autos Wanted DONATE YOUR CAR to Wheels For Wishes, benefitting Make-a-Wish. We offer free towing and your donation is 100% tax deductible. Call 631-317-2014 Today!

MOTORCYCLES WANTED Before 1985. Running or not.

Japanese, British, European.

Cash paid. Free appraisals!

Call 315-569-8094 Email pictures or description to: cyclerestoration@aol.com

REAL ESTATE ​ FOR RENT

Apartment For Rent WEST HEMPSTEAD: 2nd floor, private entrance. 1 bedroom​/ ​b ath, living room, EIK. Close to all. No smok ing​/ ​p ets. $900​/ ​i ncludes utilities.

Refs required.

516-313-4422 Please leave message

Room For Rent GARDEN CITY HOUSE SHARE: Beautifully furnished bedroom. Use of all common areas of house. Includes heat, w/d, a/c. Near public transportation.

No smoking, pets or overnight guests. $850​/ ​m onth.

Call 516-747-4293

Office Space GARDEN CITY SOUTH Ideal location, mint, large office space, 1st floor. Must see to appreciate. Near LIRR, stores. Available now. $1,475​/ ​m th.

Call Owner 516-538-7474 or 538-7476 GARDEN CITY: 1140 FRANKLIN AVE ABUNDANT PARKING 10 x 13 windowed office in professional suite: Atty​/ ​C PA Conference room, reception, kitchen included. 2 work stations, available November 1. Call Paul 516-248-3048 WILLISTON PARK Office Space: 1300 & 2000 sf. available on Hillside Ave. Professional Building. Parking Lot, near LIRR & parkways. Full commission Paid.

Tony 516-248-4080

Vacation Rental JAMESPORT BAYFRONT BEACH HOUSE for rent: pristine condition, unsurpassed views, on a private, manicured, one acre lot; only a 70 minute drive from Garden City. See photos on HomeAway site #4058365. Available weekends, weekly or seasonal. Call 516-320-0566 for rates and availability.

REAL ESTATE ​ FOR SALE

Commercial Property For Sale OCEANSIDE ATTENTION INVESTORS: Long Beach Road. Mixed use property for sale located next to major strip mall, high traffic, huge potential. Call 212-470-3856

Lots for Sale COOPERSTOWN LAND LIQUIDATION! 10 acres $29,900. priced at 70% BELOW MARKET! Woods, town road, utilities, private setting just 7 miles from village. terms.

888-479-3394 GREAT NECK: Land for sale.

5 Red Brook Terrace $895K. Taxes: $11,135.88. Lot size: 73x88. Zoned: Residential.

Approved plans and permit for new construction included.

Sheri Shulman 516-466-6680 or Hugo Ruiz 516-984-6681 MOHAWK VALLEY HOBBY FARM​4 ​ Bedroom/2 Bath Farmhouse 22 acres $149,900.

Horse barn, dairy barn, gorgeous setting w/views!

Just off NYS Thruway. Call 888-905-8847 for more info.

SO. ADIRONDACK FORESTLAND 40 acres $69,900 lake rights, stream, only 3 hrs NYC ! Town road, utilities! Terms avail! Call 888-701-7509

Open House AQUEBOGUE: HORSE FARM! Sunday 11/15 1pm to 3pm 524 Tuthills Lane Very private estate. 11 acres.

2500 sf custom solar powered Ranch with 2 Master Bedroom Suites is on 2 acres. The remaining 9 acres are agricultural with 11 stall horse barn, paddocks, outbuilding. Det 2 car garage. Forever farm vista views. Also would be a great vineyard. $1,095,000.

MLS#2783820 Colony Realty, Carll Austin 516-658-2623

Out Of Town Real Estate JAMESPORT: 1.69 ACRES of scenic property with pond & in ground pool. 5 BR, 3 Bath Colonial with newly updated kitchen and baths. Hardwood floors, LR​/ fireplace, Kitchen & DR. Unfinished bonus on 2nd floor. $750,000 MLS#2776551 Colony Realty, Dolores Peterson 631-413-7572 JAMESPORT: WATERFRONT AT IT’S BEST! Large updated 3 BR, 2 Bath Ranch. Custom Kitchen, LR​/ fireplace, dining area, full basement & 2 car garage. Lovely fenced backyard with patio. Private beach community. Stunning views of the bay! $1,100,000. MLS#2798588.

Colony Realty, Dolores Peterson 631-413-7572

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Homes Wanted HOUSE WANTED TO BUY: Good or bad condition to build or fix. Fast closing. Call George 516-972-8787

Garage Space Wanted PARKING SPACE WANTED: near Manhasset, Plandome or Port Washington train stations. Please call 917-494-6833 STORAGE SPACE: wanted to rent. 1 car garage or equivalent. New Hyde Park area. Please call Arnie 917-848-9591

Service Directory

Services NEED A CLEANOUT OR A MOVE? We can move it, sell it or haul it away! 2 Guys and a Truck Just $150​/ ​h r Call 516-279-6378 Invited Sales by Tracy Jordan 839 Stewart Ave Garden City, NY 11530 Bonded​/ ​I nsured www.invitedsales.com NEW YORK MARRIAGE AND FAMILY THERAPISTS: Joan Atwood, Ph.D. An experienced therapist makes all the difference. Individual, couple, family therapy and anger management. 516-764-2526. jatwood@optonline.net www.

NYMFT.com A & J MOVING & STORAGE Established 1971. Long Island and New York State specialists. Residential, Commercial, Piano & Organ experts. Boxes available. Free estimates. www.ajmoving.com 516-741-2657 114 Jericho Tpk, Mineola NYDOT# 10405 COLLEGE ARTS ADMISSIONS: College Counseling in the Visual and Performing Arts. Dance, Musical Theatre & Drama. Film, Instrumental & Vocal Music. Audio Recording & Production. Theatre Technology & Production. Visual & Graphic Arts. Resume, Essays, Repertoire Lists. Michele Zimmerman.

516-353-6255 CollegeArtsAdmissions@ gmail.com www.CollegeArtsAdmissions.com COMPLETE JUNK REMOVAL​ /​D EMOLITION SERVICE: Strong Arm Contracting Inc. We haul anything and everything. Entire contents of home or office. We clean it up and take it away. Residential​/ ​C ommercial. Bonded​/ ​I nsured. Free estimates. 516-538-1125

Services LIBERTY ONE HOME CARE LLC Safety and your well being are our number one priority. Personal Care Homemaker Services. Companion. Helping provide that extra hand! Email: libertyonehomecare@gmail.com or 516-243-9400 OLD VILLAGE TREE SERVICE: Owner operated sine 1989. 24 hour emergency service. Licensed​/​insured. Free estimates, member LI Arborist Assoc. Please call 516-466-9220

Home Improvements AMBIANCE PROFESSIONAL SERVICES *Repairs & Maintenance *Handyman & Remodeling *Vanity & Kitchen *Furniture Assembly & set up *Finish Carpentry *Minor Electrical & Plumbing 22 year GC Resident Lic & Ins H18E2170000 Owner Operated Call BOB 516-741-2154 GRACE ROOFING: Est. 1977. slate, tile flat roofs, asphalt and wood shingle roofs, gutters and leaders cleaned and replaced, professional new roof installation. Free estimates, expert leak repairs. lic​/ ​i ns, local references, residential​/ ​c ommerical 516-753-0268 HANDYMAN Meticulous & Reliable Serving GARDEN CITY & Surrounding Area since 2003 Repairs & Installations of all Types Built-in Bookcases, Woodworking, Carpentry, Crown Moldings, Lighting, Painting, Wallpaper and More.

30-year Nassau County Resident. Many References Lic #H01062800 Insured Call Friendly Frank 516-238-2112 anytime E-mail Frankcav@ optonline.net ISLAND CONTRACTING Full service general contractor, builder, remodeler for all residential and commercial projects. Interior​/ ​e xterior. Custom renovations, general carpentry and repairs. Licensed and bonded.

516-747-5263 islandcontractinginc.com LAMPS FIXED $65 In home service.

Handy Howard 646-996-7628 ONE STOP FOR ALL YOUR HOME IMPROVEMENT NEEDS! Basement, bathroom & kitchen remodeling, carpentry, crown molding, closets, doors, sheetrock, painting, dry wall, repairs, spackling & wall paper removal and installation, decks powerwashed, stained and built. Gem Basement Doctor 516-623-9822. www.gemhome.com SKY CLEAR WINDOW and Restorations Inc. Window Restorations, Outdated Hardware, skylights, Andersen Sashes, new storm windows, wood windows, chain​/​ rope repairs, falling windows, fogged panes, mechanical repairs, wood repairs, restorations, all brands. Call Mr. Fagan, 32 years experience.

631-385-7975 www.skyclearwindow.com

Health & Fitness ADVANCED AT HOME PHYSICAL THERAPY HOUSE CALLS: Unable to travel to physical therapy?

We’ll come to you! Services covered by Medicare.

Scheduled with a geriatric specialist near you! Call today: 516-399-0051 www.Advanceathomept.com

Party Help LADIES & GENTLEMEN RELAX & ENJOY Your Next Party! Catering and Experienced Professional Services for Assisting with Preparation, Serving and Clean Up Before, During and After Your Party Bartenders Available.

Call Kate at 516-248-1545

Tutoring ENGLISH TUTOR: Diane Gottlieb M.Ed., M.S.W. SAT​/ ​A CT, College Essays, AP, Regents, ELA Test Prep, Reading comprehension and writing proficiency. 917-599-8007 or email: dianegot@gmail.com LongIslandEnglishTutor.com Providing one-on-one professional support to build confidence, knowledge and skills in every student.

Tutoring HIGH SCHOOL SCIENCE TUTOR: Cornell grad with degree in biology. Tutor for high school biology, chemistry and physics. GCHS teacher references available upon request. Contact Mike: 516-780-2506 or mnm56@cornell.edu MATH, SAT, ACT TUTOR: Algebra, Geometry, Algebra 2 plus Trig, PreCalc, AP Calculus. Norm 625-3314 ENGLISH, ACT, SAT TUTOR: 25+ year experience Critical Reading, Writing, Grammar, Essays. Lynne 625-3314 SPANISH TUTOR: High School​/​ Middle School, College. Spanish Grammar-Literature, SAT II, AP Exam. William Cullen, M.A., M.B.A., S.D.A. Chaminade, Fairfield Alumnus. 516-509-8174 wdctutor06@ aol.com

Instruction CLARINET, SAXOPHONE AND FLUTE LESSONS: Professional musician NYSSMA Adjudicator, motivating lessons in your home. All ages, beginner to advanced. Bernie Rose, Ph.D. 646-662-9373 PIANO LESSONS By Ira Baslow.

Experience the joy of playing the piano. Private lessons in your home, free no-obligation piano lesson, all levels, all styles, all ages. Beginners a specialty.

516-312-1054 www.iwantmypianolessons.com

Cleaning EVON’S SERVICES We offer the following services: Companions, Home Health Aides​/​Elder Care Child Care and Housekeeping Laborers Days / Nights Live In or Live Out NO FEE TO EMPLOYERS Call: 516-505-5510 I CLEAN 4 YOU Weekly, bi weekly, monthly or one time only!

Cleaning and organizing services for all needs. Excellent local references. Flexible days​/ hours.

Call 516-754-4446

Painting & Paperhanging

SPRING INTO ACTION LET US CLEAN YOUR HOUSE WINDOWS GARDEN CITY WINDOW CLEANING Home Window Cleaning Service by Owner Free Estimates Inside & Out Fully Insured 25 Years Experience 631-220-1851 516-764-5686

JV PAINT HANDYMAN SERVICES Interior-Exterior Specialist Painting, Wallpapering, Plastering, Spackling, Staining, Power Washing.

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

STRONG ARM CLEANING: Residential and commercial cleaning specialist, post construction clean ups, shipping and waxing floors, move ins and move outs.

Free estimates. Bonded and insured. 516-538-1125 www.strongarmcleaningny.com

We’re Growing Blank Slate Media, a fast-growing chain of 5 award-winning weekly newspapers and website, is looking for people who can grow with us.

We are currently looking for the following positions:

Reporter - full time

We are seeking a self-starter with good writing and reporting skills. Newspaper experience and car required. Experience with social media platforms and content management systems preferred.

To apply, please email your resume and work samples to sblank@theislandnow.com.

Reporter - freelance

We are looking for people to assist us in the coverage of local government. Newspaper experience and car required.

To apply, please email your resume and work samples to sblank@theislandnow.com.

Newspaper production

We are looking for a person experienced in Adobe In-Design to lay out newspaper pages Monday-Wednesday.

Editorial experience a plus.

To apply, please email your resume to sblank@theislandnow.com.

Community manager - part time

We are looking for someone to manage our social media, website and email marketing. Experience required.

To apply, please email your resume to sblank@theislandnow.com.

Display account executive

Earn up to $60,000 in the first-year representing the 10 weekly newspapers and 2 websites that make up the Blank Slate Media/Litmor Publications sales group. We are looking for an energetic, service-oriented professional with good communications skills to sell display, web and email advertising.

Compensation: Salary plus commission To apply, please email your resume to sblank@theislandnow.com.

Classified account executive full time or part time

We are looking for energetic, service-oriented professional with good communications skills to sell display, web and email advertising. Strong phone skills a must.

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SKENE, MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC. AS NOMINEE FOR FIDELITY MORTGAGE, A DIVISION OF DELTA FUNDING CORPORATION, NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT OF TAXATION AND FINANCE, “JOHN DOE #1” through “JOHN DOE #12,” the last twelve names being fictitious and unknown to plaintiff, the persons or parties intended being the tenants, occupants, persons or corporations, if any, having or claiming an interest in or lien upon the premises, described in the complaint, Defendant(s). TO THE ABOVE NAMED DEFENDANTS: NOTICE YOU ARE IN DANGER OF LOSING YOUR HOME IF YOU DO NOT RESPOND TO THIS SUMMONS AND COMPLAINT BY SERVING A COPY OF THE ANSWER ON THE ATTORNEYS FOR THE MORTGAGE COMPANY WHO FILED THIS FORECLOSURE PROCEEDING AGAINST YOU AND FILING THE ANSWER WITH THE COURT, A DEFAULT JUDGMENT MAY BE ENTERED AND YOU CAN LOSE YOUR HOME. SPEAK TO AN ATTORNEY OR GO TO THE COURT WHERE YOU CASE IS PENDING FOR FURTHER INFORMATION ON HOW TO ANSWER THE SUMMONS AND PROTECT YOUR PROPERTY. SENDING A PAYMENT TO YOUR MORTGAGE COMPANY WILL NOT STOP THIS FORECLOSURE ACTION. YOU MUST RESPOND BY SERVING A COPY OF THE ANSWER ON THE ATTORNEY FOR THE PLAINTIFF (MORTGAGE COMPANY) AND FILING THE ANSWER WITH THE COURT. YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to answer the Complaint in this action and to serve a copy of your answer, or, if the Complaint is not served with this summons, to serve a notice of appearance on the Plaintiff’s attorney within 20 days after the service of this summons, exclusive of the day of service (or within 30 days after the service is complete if this summons is not personally delivered to you within the State of New York); The United States of America, if designated as a Defendant in this action, may appear within (60) days of service thereof; and in case of your failure to appear or answer, judgment will be taken against you by default for the relief demanded in the Complaint.

NOTICE OF NATURE OF ACTION AND RELIEF SOUGHT: THE OBJECT of the above captioned action is to foreclose on a mortgage dated April 25, 2005, executed by JAMES R SKENE AND DIANE SKENE to OPTION ONE MORTGAGE CORPORATION to secure the sum of $392,000.00 and recorded in Liber M 28865 of Mortgages at page 371, in the Office of the CLERK of the County of NASSAU on May 26, 2005, which mortgage was thereafter Modified. Said Mortgage was assigned to WELLS INDEX # 4207/14 FARGO BANK, NATIONAL FILED: 10/27/2015 SUPREME COURT OF THE ASSOCIATION, AS TRUSTEE STATE OF NEW YORK​​ FOR CITIGROUP MORTGAGE LOAN TRUST, SERIES COUNTY OF NASSAU SUPPLEMENTAL SUMMONS 2005-OPT4, ASSET BACKED PASS-THROUGH CERTIFIAND NOTICE Plaintiff designates Nas- CATES, SERIES 2005-OPT4, by assignment of mortgage sau County as the place of trial. Venue is based upon which is dated August 5, 2013, the County in which the mort- covering premises known as gaged premises are situated. 146 Jerome Ave, Mineola, NY WELLS FARGO BANK, NA- 11501 (Section 0009, Block TIONAL ASSOCIATION, AS 00245-00 and Lots 00517, TRUSTEE FOR CITIGROUP 00518 & 00519). The relief MORTGAGE LOAN TRUST, sought in the within action is SERIES 2005-OPT4, ASSET a final judgment directing the BACKED PASS-THROUGH sale of the premises described CERTIFICATES, SERIES above to satisfy the debt de2005-OPT4, Plaintiff(s), scribed above. To the above against JAMES SKENE, JOHN named Defendants: The foregoing summons is served upon

Legal Notice File No. 2011-363804​/​A ACCOUNTING CITATION SURROGATE’S COURT​—​ NASSAU COUNTY CITATION THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, By the Grace of God Free and Independent To Surety Bonding Company Of America Helen Schneider Larry Schneider Iris Cohen Brenda Cohen-Perez NYS Attorney General any and all unknown distributees, heirs-at-law and next-ofkin of MARVIN SCHNEIDER deceased, if living, whose names, whereabouts, and addresses are unKnown to petitioner herein, and, if dead, having survived the decedent, the1r distributes, heirs-at-law, next-of-kin, executors, administrators, successors in interest and assigns, whose names, whereabouts and addresses are unknown to the petitioner herein, and any other person who might have an interest in the estate of MARVIN SCHNEIDER, deceased, as distributees or otherwise, all of whose names, whereabouts and addresses are unknown to petitioner herein, and cannot, after diligent inquiry, be ascertained by the petitioner.

A petition and an account having been duly filed by ANNE COHEN, whose address is c/o Smith Freed & Eberhard, 111 SW 5th Avenue, Portland, OR 97204 YOU ARE HEREBY CITED TO SHOW CAUSE before the Surrogate’s Court, Nassau County, 262 Old Country Road at Mineola, New York, on December 16, 2015 at 9:30 o’clock in the fore noon of that day, why the account of ANNE COHEN a summary of which has been served herewith, as administrator of the estate of MARVIN SCHNEIDER should not be judicially settled. And that the administrator be discharged and lending company be discharged.

Dated, Attested and Sealed, October 15, 2015 (Seal) HON. EDWARD W McCARTY, III SURROGATE s​/ Michael J. Murphy Michael J. Murphy, Chief Clerk Presented By Tel No 503-227-2424 (Note: This citation is served upon your as required by law.

You are not required to appear, however, if you fail to appear it will be assumed you do not object to the relief requested. You have a right to have an attorney appear for you, and you or your attorney may request a copy of the full account from the petitioner or petitioner’s attorney.

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you by publication pursuant to an order of the Hon. Thomas A. Adams, Justice of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, and filed along with the supporting papers in the Office of the Clerk of the County of Nassau on October 20, 2015. This is an action to foreclose on a mortgage. ALL that certain plot, piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements thereon erected, situate, lying and being in the Incorporated Village of Mineola, County of Nassau and State of New York.

Section 0009, Block 00245-00 and Lots 00517, 00518 & 00519, said premises known as 146 Jerome Ave, Mineola, NY 11501. YOU ARE HEREBY PUT ON NOTICE THAT WE ARE ATTEMPTING TO COLLECT A DEBT AND ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. By reason of the default in the payment of the monthly installment of principal and interest, among other things, as hereinafter set forth, Plaintiff, the holder and owner of the aforementioned note and mortgage, or their agents have elected and hereby accelerate the mortgage and declare the entire mortgage indebtedness immediately due and payable. The following amounts are now due and owing on said mortgage, no part of any of which has been paid although duly demanded: the entire unpaid principal balance of $379,368.04 to be immediately due and payable under the modified mortgage herein foreclosed, plus interest at the rate calculated in accordance with the provisions of the note from January 1, 2013, together with unpaid late charges in the amount of $347.80 that have accrued prior to this action as of October 25, 2013. UNLESS YOU DISPUTE THE VALIDITY OF THE DEBT, OR ANY PORTION THEREOF, WITHIN THIRTY (30) DAYS AFTER YOUR RECEIPT HEREOF THAT THE DEBT, OR ANY PORTION THEREOF, IS DISPUTED, THE DEBTOR JUDGMENT AGAINST YOU AND A COPY OF SUCH VERIFICATION OR JUDGMENT WILL BE MAILED TO YOU BY THE HEREIN DEBT COLLECTOR. IF APPLICABLE, UPON YOUR WRITTEN REQUEST, WITHIN SAID THIRTY (30) DAY PERIOD, THE HEREIN DEBT COLLECTOR WILL PROVIDE YOU WITH THE NAME AND ADDRESS OF THE ORIGINAL CREDITOR. IF YOU HAVE RECEIVED A DISCHARGE FROM THE UNITED STATES BANKRUPTCY COURT, YOU ARE NOT PERSONALLY LIABLE FOR THE UNDERLYING INDEBTEDNESS OWED TO PLAINTIFF​/C ​ REDITOR AND THIS NOTICE​/D ​ ISCLOSURE IS FOR COMPLIANCE AND INFORMATIONAL PURPOSES ONLY. HELP FOR HOMEOWNERS IN FORECLOSURE New York State requires that we send you this notice about the foreclosure process.

Please read it carefully. SUMMONS AND COMPLAINT You are in danger of losing your home. If you fail to respond to the Summons and Complaint in this foreclosure action, you may lose your home. Please read the Summons and Complaint carefully. You should immediately contact an attorney or your local legal aid office to obtain advice on how to protect yourself. SOURCES OF INFORMATION AND ASSISTANCE The State encourages you to become informed about your options in foreclosure. In addition to seeking assistance from an attorney or legal aid, there are government agencies, and non-profit organizations that you may contact for

information about possible options, including trying to work with your lender during this process. To locate an entity near you, you may call the toll-free helpline maintained by New York state Banking Department at 1-877-Bank-NYS or visit the Department’s website at www.banking.state.ny.us FORECLOSURE RESCUE SCAMS Be careful of people who approach you with offers to “ your home. There are individuals who watch for notices of foreclosure actions in order to unfairly profit from a homeowner’s distress. You should be extremely careful about any such promises and any suggestions that you pay them a fee or sign over your deed.

State law requires anyone offering such services for profit to enter into a contract which fully describes the services they will perform and fees they will charge, and which prohibits them from taking any money from you until they have completed all such promised services. Section 1303 NOTICE YOU ARE IN DANGER OF LOSING YOUR HOME If you do not respond to this Summons and Complaint by serving the copy of the answer on the attorney for the mortgage company who filed this foreclosure proceeding against you and filing the answer with the court, a default judgment may be entered and you may lose your home. Speak to an attorney or go to the court where your case is pending for further information on how to answer the summons and protect your property. Sending a payment to your mortgage company will not stop this foreclosure action.

YOU MUST RESPOND BY SERVING A COPY OF THE ANSWER ON THE ATTORNEY FOR THE PLAINTIFF (MORTGAGE COMPANY) AND FILING AN ANSWER WITH THE COURT. Leopold & Associates, PLLC, 80 Business Park Drive, Suite 110, Armonk, NY 10504 WT #142530 4x, 11/13, 20, 27, 12/04, 2015 #142530 Notice of Formation of NuArts Productions, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 8/14/2015 (Filing Date). Office location: Nassau County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

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Pioneers lose heartbreaker to Bentley B y Thomas S c av e t t a With just four seconds remaining in regulation, a 31-yard field goal by Bentley University (5-5) handed the LIU Post football team (6-4) a 30-28 defeat on Saturday, Nov. 7, in a Northeast-10 Conference showdown at Bentley University Field in Waltham, Mass.

Trailing 28-27 with just 30 seconds to go, Bentley received the ball on the 43-yard line following an unsportsmanlike conduct penalty. It only took the Falcons twenty seconds to move into field goal range as sophomore quarterback C.J. Scarpa threw a 31-yard bomb, which was hauled in by junior wide receiver Chris Calvanese at the LIU 14-yard line, setting up the game-winning field goal from kicker Alex Baron.

Heading into this game, Bentley only averaged 14.6 points a game, but history didn’t play its course as they scored 31 points. Calvanese had a field day for the Falcons, recording 10 catches for 154

yards and three touchdowns. The hosts also used a trick play to open up the scoring as senior wide-out Chris Walsh threw a 42-yard touchdown strike to Calvanese in the first period.

Down 27-14 in the fourth quarter, junior quarterback Jeff Kidd and the Pioneers’ offense flipped the switch; scoring two touchdowns to jump on top, 28-27.

Kidd first staged an impressive 17-play, 84-yard drive resulting in a 13-yard touchdown pass to sophomore wide receiver James Higgins, trimming the lead down to seven.

After Baron shanked a 35-yard field goal try, LIU Post capitalized, finding the end-zone once again. It wasn’t an easy task though as the Pioneers converted a fourth-and-long when Kidd hoisted a prayer that was hauled in by red-shirt sophomore wide-out Kyle Ward for 42 yards. The Oregon-native spread the ball around to six different receivers for 91 yards on the drive. Kidd checked down to junior running back Mike Williams for

an 8-yard touchdown making it a 27-26 game. LIU went on to score a two-point conversion as Kidd connected with Higgins in the back of the end-zone, giving the visitors a 28-27 edge with just 30 seconds left.

Kidd, the Northeast-10 Conference Player of the Week, completed 34-of58 passes for 417 yards and four touchdowns. Junior wide receiver Shane Hubbard caught seven balls for 97 yards.

Senior tight end Sean Binckes wasn’t targeted much until late in the game, but still had six receptions for 64 yards and one touchdown. However, LIU’s ground attack was non-existent; freshman wideout Ramel Joseph led all rushers with 28 yards on mostly reverses.

The Pioneers were once again depleted with injuries on defense as junior safety Clarence Sears left the game early and senior defensive lineman James Athan had to be helped off the field twice during the game. Junior cornerback Kareem Folkes and sophomore defensive back Richard

Wright were picked on early and often

by Scarpa, as the secondary continued to struggle against the pass. Several miscues and penalties also haunted the Pioneers throughout the course of the game, which was capped off by the unsportsmanlike conduct after the two-point conversion.

Junior linebacker Nate Feliz stood out defensively, leading the Pioneers with 12 tackles. Freshman linebacker Connor Farrell totaled nine stops and one pass-deflection. Sophomore defensive end Kevin Pettit-Frere pitched in with six tackles and a blocked extra point.

LIU Post fell to sixth place in the NE-10 as head football coach Bryan Collins and the Pioneers will travel back to Waltham to play Bentley again on Saturday, Nov. 14 in the fifth place game on Championship Weekend. Kickoff is yet to be determined.

This article was originally published in the Pioneer, the award-winning student newspaper of LIU Post, www.liupostpioneer.com, and is republished here by Blank Slate Media with the permission of the Pioneer.

Post captures East Coast Conference title the 35th minute after she corralled a loose ball in the box. After back-to-back goals by Roberts Wesleyan, which gave them a 2-1 lead, senior forward Susanne Vistnes struck in the 76th minute. Her goal, which tied things up at two, forced overtime.

In the overtime, junior midfielder Bella Mitrevski played the role of hero for her team as she scored the go-ahead and eventual game-winning goal in the 94th minute of the match.

B y M i c ha e l O t e ro Men’s Soccer Powered by a four goal first half, the top-seeded LIU Post men’s soccer team routed fourth-seeded University of Bridgeport 6-2 in the East Coast Conference Semifinal on Wednesday, Nov. 4.

Less than a minute into the game, the Pioneers began their assault when freshman forward Charlie Ledula notched a goal. After a quick response from Bridgeport a few minutes later, the Pioneers took it to another level.

After a goal by Bridgeport, sophomore back David Arvidsson fired a shot from nearly 30 yards out and it hit the back of the net, making it 3-1 in favor of the Pioneers. Nearing halftime, senior midfielder Per Forgaard made it 4-1. After the intermission, Ledula netted his second goal while fellow freshman forward Toby Ilomuanya added a goal in the 74th minute, making it 6-1.

The Pioneers looked to build on this win when they welcomed NYIT to the Pioneer Soccer Park on Friday, Nov. 5. Led by a great defense and great play from junior keeper Jesper Malmstrom, the Pioneers shutout NYIT 3-0 and won the East Coast Conference.

After a scoreless first half, the Pioneers got on the board in the 57th minute when Forgaard sent a header past the keeper. After another header which found the back of the net by the Pioneers, Forgaard was back at it again when he re-

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ceived a pass from junior forward Jason Lampkin into the mesh. The Pioneers now await seeding in the 2015 NCAA Men’s Soccer Championship.

Women’s Soccer With 45 minutes remaining in the contest and a one goal lead, the LIU Post women’s soccer team folded and allowed two goals to Roberts Wesleyan College, losing by a score of 3-2 in overtime.

Earlier in the game, junior forward Julia Backman gave LIU the 1-0 lead in

Women’s Volleyball Three sets was all it took for the LIU Post women’s volleyball team to take care of Roberts Wesleyan College on Saturday, Nov. 7. The Pioneers won the match easily, winning each set by at least 12 points.

Freshman outside-hitter Rachel Londot notched her 12th double-double of the season with 12 kills and 14 digs.

In addition to Londot, senior setter Monica Amador totaled 11 kills, three aces, and two blocks while sophomore outside-hitter Danielle Valenza finished with seven kills and six sigs.

The Pioneers returned to the court on Sunday, Nov. 8, to do battle with Daemen College in their house. In that match, neither team seemed to be able to gain an advantage as the first four sets were split among the two sides.

The Pioneers pulled out the win in the final set, thanks to help all match long from Valenza and senior libero Rachel Ringor. Valenza led both teams in kills

with 24 and also amassed 13 digs while Ringor totaled a game-high 28 digs. In that final and deciding fifth set, the Pioneers gutted out a 16-14 victory, giving them their 20th win of the season. The Lady Pioneers will wrap up their regular season with a trio of games which get underway on Thursday, Nov. 12, against Mercy College. First-serve from the Pratt Recreation Center on the LIU Post campus in Brookville is set for 7 p.m.

Wrestling In their first meet of the season for the LIU Post wrestling team on Saturday, Nov. 7, junior Vinny Turano was the star as he earned the 141-lb title. LIU as a whole placed seventh at the Monarch Invitational. Turano had close bouts in the semifinal against Wilkes University’s Pankil Chander, which he won 13-7, and then against York College’s Gregory Warner.

He upended Warner and won the bracket.

In addition to Turano, sophomore Jake Horton placed third at the 197-lb weight class while fellow sophomore Matt Langan finished one spot lower at four in the 149-lb class. The Pioneers return to the mat on Wednesday, November 11 against Shippensburg University and York College. The matches get underway in Pennsylvania at 4 p.m.

This article was originally published in the Pioneer, the award-winning student newspaper of LIU Post, www.liupostpioneer. com, and is republished here by Blank Slate Media with the permission of the Pioneer.

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Cosmos’ stars lead team back to final New York Cosmos stars and Spanish legends Raúl and Marcos Senna have earned the right to play for a championship sendoff.

The Cosmos defeated the Fort Lauderdale Strikers 2-1 on Saturday at MCU Park to reach the North American Soccer League Championship Final next Sunday, which New York will host at Hofstra University’s James M. Shuart Stadium.

Set to retire together at season’s end, the two former Spanish internationals left their marks on the match. A powerful free kick from Senna set up Gaston Cellerino’s equalizing goal in the 37th minute, and Raúl struck for the game-winner in the 61st minute.

“We have done enough during the year to deserve to be in the final,” Cosmos head coach Giovanni Savarese said. “I think it was a good game today. We knew that Fort Lauderdale was

going to be a tough team to play against. They had a lot of energy and have some quality players.”

The Cosmos will host the winner of Sunday’s semifinal between Ottawa Fury FC and Minnesota United FC. Danny Szetela teamed with Senna in the Cosmos midfield, holding off the Strikers in the second half after Raúl performed his magic.

“It felt like the first year we played together,” Szetela said.

“Obviously, it could have been his last game. He was out there, running around like he’s 20 years younger. The chemistry was there. Hopefully, I get to play in the final with him.”

They played together at the 2013 Soccer Bowl, as Senna scored the game-winner off a free kick in a 1-0 win over the Atlanta Silverbacks at Silverbacks Park.

The Strikers took Saturday’s game to the Cosmos early on, and grabbed a 1-0 lead in the

“He’s reaching a point right now that he is feeling very comfortable physically,” Savarese said. “I think at the beginning he was trying to get his top shape and I think he is finishing very strong physically.”

Maurer, who made a vital save on PC to keep the game within striking distance in the 32nd minute, felt both players made impacts in the waning minutes.

“You could tell that they were going to do whatever it took,” he said. “In the 85th minute those two were sprinting around the field pressuring Fort Lauderdale to win the ball back.”

Raúl and Marcos Senna will play their final games as Cosmos in The Cosmos will have a shot North American Soccer League Championship Final. at their seventh Soccer Bowl Tro16th minute on Brazilian mid- Meves. That set up the second- phy next Sunday at Shuart Stadium. Kickoff is slated for 5 p.m. . fielder PC’s goal that beat Jimmy half heroics from Raúl.

“He’s always been that play“Now that we’re through, we Maurer to the far left post.

The Cosmos knotted things er that puts some genius into have to work this week,” said Savarese. “And once we know who up before the half, as Cellerino game,” Savarese said.

It was Raúl’s third goal in his is going to be in the final, we’ll tapped in a rebound off Senna’s prepare for that as well.” free kick past goalkeeper David last four appearances.

Sewanhaka players represent Nassau vs. Suffolk Sewanhaka basketball players Matt Gonzales and Kamoy Silvero were named to the Nassau Futures roster for the 2015 Nassau All-Star Team after playing in the Top 40 Basketball Game held on Oct. 18 by the Nassau County Police Activity League and the Town of Oyster Bay in conjunction with the Nassau County Basketball Coaches Association.

Approximately 100 basketball players from Nassau County Public Schools had competed for a chance at one of the roster spots. Coaches from the Nassau County Public School System held tryouts at the Island Garden on Monday, Oct. 17 and Sunday, Oct. 18.

The 40 remaining players competed to comprise the Nassau County All-Star team which played against the Suffolk All-Star Team at the Town of Oyster Bay Athletic Center on Nov. 1. Two games were played, one featuring players in their senior year and the other featuring players in their junior year. Each all-star team was comprised of 10 players and two alternates.

The Nassau County PAL was once again a sponsor in conjunction with the Town of Oyster Bay and the Nassau County Basketball Coaches Association.

The events give the Nassau County PAL the opportunity to show its involve-

ment in the Nassau County community as ters and the Town of Oyster Bay Athletic it looks to continue to expand its role in Center has been the sight of the Top 40 the county. Nassau County Police Officers game for the past two years and donates Jethro Cardona and Sgt. Doug Kenah and a portion of its proceeds from the games Ed Dempsey represented the NCPAL at to the Morgan Center, which helps childthe games. hood cancer survivors to re-adjust to their “PAL is proud to be involved in host- families and society after they have sucing this, it is like watching the players cessfully finished their cancer treatments. come full circle, since a majority of the For more information about Nassau boys started playing basketball in a PAL County PAL youth sports and other proprogram,” PAL Basketball Director Ed grams or to inquire about volunteering Dempsey with NCPAL, please visit: CHERRYsaid.

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