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Civics OK historic merger Move brings 2K homes together

BY N O A H M A N S K A R North New Hyde Park’s two civic groups voted to merge last Wednesday night, bringing about 2,000 households under one umbrella.

Members at the groups’ PHOTO BY NOAH MANSKAR meeting unanimously approved the merger, in which the Lakeville Estates Civic Association ab- The Greater New Hyde Park Chamber of Commerce placed about 100 of these signs in store windows to promote local shopping in sorbed the North Lakeville Civic November. This one is seen at Crown Trophy on Jericho Turnpike.

Association.

Papers were mailed to Albany on Thursday to make the merger oďŹƒcial in state records.

The members also unanimously elected three oďŹƒcers to lead the new group: Bill Cutrone will continue as president, Bobby Thind of North Lakeville is vice It’s an eort to turn the “shop businesses on its website, from shops rather than big-box retailpresident and Jean Capobianco B Y N O A H M A N S K A R localâ€? catch phrase into real sup- a free Thanksgiving turkey proers. of North Lakeville is the treaLocal business leaders, port for small businesses, said motion at ShopRite supermarsurer.

Sandwiched between Black though, say the importance of Jerry Baldassaro, the New Hyde ket to a 10 percent discount at “This is the best thing going Gourmet Bake Shop on Hillside keeping dollars close to home Park chamber president. forward,â€? Cutrone said. “We can Friday and Cyber Monday is “We want all of our busi- Avenue. goes beyond just a single day. go out more uniďŹ ed and talk to Small Business Saturday, an ocThe chamber is also giving That’s why the Greater New nesses to succeed, and we have the neighbors and ďŹ ght for each casion for millions of shoppers across the country to buy their Hyde Park Chamber of Com- to come up with innovative ideas away two $50 gift certiďŹ cates to any member business in an onContinued on Page 67 holiday gifts at mom-and-pop merce launched its ďŹ rst-ever to make that happen,â€? he said.

In addition to putting signs line drawing. “Shop Local, Shop Greater The chamber hopes its New Hyde Park Month,� a promoting local shopping in campaign to drum up sup- about 100 storefronts and two monthlong campaign will show port for local businesses banners on New Hyde Park shoppers the importance of local throughout the month of streets, the chamber has posted businesses in a holiday season 21 “hot deals� from member November.

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Biz groups push for local shopping Small shop support should go beyond Thanksgiving weekend, leaders say

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Timing key to success Kron, Schwartz of Herricks projects vie for ed board Costs, competition make planning important: officials Among 8 in race for 1 G.N. seat

BY S A M U E L GLASSER The timing of construction is important to the success of a major package of building projects at Herricks schools, district officials said last Thursday.

On Dec. 6, voters will consider the first $28.3 million in spending for the $29.5 capital improvement program, which includes renovations at the district’s seven buildings.

Under the current plan, the renovations will be phased in beginning with the 2017-18 school year and finishing in 2023.

At the Thursday school board meeting, Trustee Brian Hassan said many other school districts are also looking to do building work in the next five years, and said he was concerned that the competition for contractors’ services would drive up costs.

The district’s architectural advisor, Fred Seeba of Patchogue-based BBS Architects, said price escalations were built into the cost projections.

“Timing is everything. We need to be smart how we plan,” Seeba said. “The economy is picking up, New York City is busy and materials prices are going up.”

He said the district needs to make sure that plans are sent to the state Education Department on time as its approval is needed before work can commence.

A backlog in the state Education Department’s plan review office has delayed school construction projects by several months in recent years.

School officials have said that delay can also drive up costs.

Lisa Rutkoske, the assistant superintendent for business, said there are a lot of moving parts

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take advantage of new technologies.

He said in 2004 he set up a real estate investment company and founded a real estate finance company.

Kron said he and his wife, Vivian, have been very active in the community.

His wife served on various boards and committees of the schools their four children attend and he served on various committees and boards of the Great Neck Synagogue, of which he is a member.

He decided to run for the Great Neck Board of Education, he said, because he felt it was time to “bring new blood to the board.”

Kron said he wanted to bring his business and entrepreneurial experience to the school board.

“I have a strong experience in understanding new technologies and techniques from the business world and academic research world and wanted to share that with the board,” he said. “It is already an amazing school district but it needs the newest ideas to continue to grow into the 21st century needs of our children.”

Kron said that higher education is one way for students to progress after high school, but it is not the “only path.”

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Great Neck Board of Education candidate Nikolas Kron said he wants to bring his business and entrepreneurial experience to the board, while one of his opponents, Lori Beth Schwartz, said she wants to bring her experience of serving the schools in various capacities.

Kron and Schwartz are two of eight candidates running for an open school board seat, which could see more candidates step forward before the Nov. 28 deadline, Both said it was positive that eight candidates are vying for PHOTO BY NOAH MANSKAR an open board seat as it shows a strong interest in community Herricks school district Superintendent Fino Celano disinvolvement. cusses a $29.5 million capital projects plan at Herricks High The eight candidates also include Donald Panetta, Josh RatSchool in September. that will determine the success struction of a new fitness center, ner, Nicholas Toumbekis, Donna of this project, and schedules science lab renovations and new Peirez, Michael Darvish and Grant Toch. They are running to will need to be met every step of windows.

The projects are the highest fill a seat that was held by Mothe way for several years.

To make sure the work stays priorities on an $80 million list nique Bloom, who resigned in on track, the district is looking of fixes identified in a building September because of corporate travel commitments. to hire a construction manager survey last year.

Kron, who was born and Voters will decide next who would report to the board month whether to authorize a raised in Dublin, Ireland, and regularly.

“We have key milestones,” $25 million bond and allow the moved to Great Neck with his Rutkoske said. “We have done a district to spend $3.3 million wife in 1999, worked as a strategy from an existing capital reserve. consultant for Ernst & Young and lot of detailed planning,” The district expects to fund Cap Gemini S.A., advising healthApproximately 60 percent of the work involves “health the remaining $1.2 million from care, pharmaceutical, energy and and safety” upgrades at all five the same capital reserve if ad- consumer clients on how to best schools, Shelter Rock Academy ditional funds are set aside and and the Herricks Community voters approve at a later date.

Rutkoske said the bond Center; 39 percent of the work overall is dedicated to the high would not affect property taxes.

The current annual debt exschool.

Improvements will include pense is $3.1 million per year, new sidewalks, doors and locks she said.

During the 2021-22 school in all buildings, renovations to bathrooms, ventilation improve- year, $2.1 million in debt payments, and electrical and plumb- ments will be retired, replaced by the new bond the following ing fixes.

Also, new artificial turf on year, she said.

The new bonds would have the high school field, a new press box, bleachers and lights a term of 15 years and the for the track, a major renovation board’s financial advisors fore- Nickolas Kron and Lori Beth Schwartz are among 8 candiContinued on Page 67 of the high school cafeteria, condates running for one seat on the Great Neck school board.

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Deadline for building ideas extended The Village of Floral Park is giving developers two more months to submit proposals for its historic Centennial Hall building.

The village extended the deadline for submissions to Jan. 12 after receiving only one proposal by the original Nov. 10 deadline, Mayor Thomas Tweedy said. A second proposal was submitted last week, and two other firms have expressed interest, he said.

Both plans include retail and office space, and one indicates it would set aside some of the building’s 8,500 square feet for use by community groups, said Gerry Bambrick, the village administrator.

Bambrick and Tweedy declined to say which firms have submitted bids or expressed interest in the 91-year-old building to maintain the fairness of the bid process. But Tweedy said all of them have toured the building and are familiar with the village’s efforts.

“They’ve been part of the process from the beginning,” Tweedy said.

The village issued a request for proposals in October seeking plans from private companies to develop the historic but deteriorating former Masonic temple at the intersection of Tulip and Carnation avenues.

Village officials plan to present the proposals it receives at a public meeting sometime after the Jan. 12 deadline,

retained to help determine Centennial Hall’s future.

Village officlals also continue to evaluate whether it would be feasible for the village to hold onto the property, Bambrick said.

“The public use option is still very much on the table,” Bambrick said.

It is up to the village Board of Trustees to choose a proposal, or reject all of them and move forward with its own plan, or reissue the request for proposals, Bambrick said.

The village may sell or lease the property, or sell it and lease some portion of it from the buyer for public use, Bambrick has said. CBRE will make a 5.5 percent commission on whatever deal is closed.

Some Floral Park residents questioned the village’s reluctance to release more information about the firms and the plans they have submitted.

“To say who bid and what they’re looking to do seems like it should make sense,” considering how passionate many residents are about the future of the “iconic” building, said Matthew Sexton, an officer in the South Side Civic Association and frequent critic of Tweedy.

PHOTO FROM GOOGLE MAPS Tweedy said releasing information about the bids would put firms that subThe Village of Floral Park is seeking proposals to renovate the aging Cenmitted at a competitive disadvantage and tennial Hall building. possibly discourage or prevent them from changing or withdrawing their proposals. als that preferably set some space aside Tweedy and Bambrick said.

“This isn’t a question of trying to be The village purchased the building in for use by community groups, according clandestine. This is a question of being 2005 with a $1.5 million bond. It is seek- to the request for proposals prepared by fair,” Tweedy said. ing commercial and residential propos- CBRE, a real estate firm the village has

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Interfaith service encourages unity

BY G R AC E MCQUADE Leaders from seven dierent Long Island religious aďŹƒliations came together in a spirit of unity at a pre-Thanksgiving interfaith service Friday evening at Temple Emanuel in Great Neck that was attended by more than 150 area residents.

Through spirited readings and music, a prayer of mourning for loved ones lost and moments of laughter, the crowd of about 150 people heard a universal message of peace and unity after a divisive presidential election year, coinciding with a holiday that symbolizes gratitude and inclusion. “We come from dierent backgrounds, dierent cultures, dierent expressions of religiosity and yet we’re one as Americans, all of us,â€? said Rabbi Robert Widom of Temple Emanuel, who presided over the service. “We ought to be grateful for the multiplicity of cultures and traditions that we have in this countryâ€? and “we ought not be afraid of dierence and never confuse unity with conformity.â€?

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It featured musical performances ranging from a classical ute solo to a hit song by the pop star Sia and the ballad “Rise Up,â€? both sung by Tahseen Rabbi of the Long Island Muslim Society.

A candle blessing to signify bringing light into the world was led by Naju Hossain of the Long Island Muslim Society, an Islamic center in East Meadow.

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In her opening prayer, the Rev. Natalie Fenimore of Manhasset’s Unitarian Universalist Congregation at Shelter Rock invoked the spirits of compassion, respect and deep humility

to overcome division, anxiety, fear and hate.

Bertha del Carpio, who represented St. Aloysius Roman Catholic Church and oversees homeless programs in the Great Neck community, read a prayer that said everyone must open their eyes to the wrongs they inict upon others.

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Study IDs big changes for parking in Mineola

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A parking study recommended building a 425-space parking garage over this lot in Mineola.

BY N O A H MANSKAR Mineola needs big changes to its parking rules and infrastructure to help alleviate parking woes and aid businesses in its downtown business district, according to a villagewide parking study released last week.

The village should build a parking garage with at least 425 spaces, change parking hours for 65 spaces, add 34 parking meters and raise some parking fees to “create new parking opportunities for village residents, commuters, employees, shoppers and visitors,” according to the study conducted in the spring by Level G Associates, an Old Bethpage consulting firm.

The proposals would aid the growth of an area with the largest imbalance of parking supply and demand from customers attracted to successful businesses, Long Island Rail Road commuters and traffic at Winthrop-University Hospital, the study found.

The results “verify what people who live and work in Mineola have known for years — it is very difficult to find available parking in this area of the village between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. on weekdays,” the study says.

Changes in other parts of the village could reduce congestion and make parking easier for residents, the study says.

The village commissioned the study in September 2015 to evaluate possible parking fixes as it continues efforts to revitalize the downtown area.

Mineola’s Village Board will weigh the rec-

ommendations in the coming months and likely implement some of them after gathering feedback from business owners and residents, Mayor Scott Strauss said.

“I would have liked to have gotten some of these things already in the works, but we’ve got the report now and we’re going to go forward with it,” Strauss said.

The study found 85 percent of the 1,538 munipal parking spaces in downtown Mineola were full on a weekday at peak parking times, compared with 50 percent on a Saturday, when the absence of commuters and local workers reduces the number of cars there.

The 591-bed hospital, busy LIRR station and successful restaurants have given Mineola “a unique downtown environment and energy” but also “overburdened” the parking supply, the study says.

The study proposes a 425-space parking garage built over the 120-space lot at First Street and Third Avenue, where a garage once stood, to increase parking capacity. That would help make parking less of a headache for local shoppers, Strauss said.

“I think if we can get that parking garage built, increase the number of spaces down there, the businesses will flourish, and they’ll flourish from our own residents,” he said.

The garage could be financed in part by an additional commuter permit that would offer a guaranteed parking space for a higher fee, the study says.

A standard commuter per-

mit currently costs $55.

The village could also seek to use 160 underutilized spaces on the roof of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority parking garage on Main Street as commuter spots, the study says.

Other recommendations include changing 60 commuter and 12-hour spaces to two-hour parking spaces; increasing fees for on-street spaces to 75 cents or $1 per hour from 50 cents per hour to discourage meter-feeding by business employees; and replacing 34 meters on Willis Avenue, Main Street and Mineola Boulevard that were removed during construction.

The downtown parking struggles are not related to the two commuter apartment complexes that have opened near the LIRR station, as some critics have worried, Strauss said. Two other complexes are set to be built.

Tony Lubrano, president of the Mineola Chamber of Commerce, said he favors the parking garages and any other measure that will make it easier to patronize downtown businesses.

But the village should consider ripple effects of any changes before making decisions, Lubrano said.

“There’s no such thing as an easy answer, because every answer raises two more questions,” he said.

Strauss said changes will not be “implemented overnight,” and any decisions will involve public feedback.

“We need buy in from everybody on this, that’s for sure,” Strauss said. “I don’t like to do things in a box.”

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In a 12-7 party-line vote, the Republican-controlled Legislature approved an â&#x20AC;&#x153;amnestyâ&#x20AC;? program reducing ďŹ nes for business owners who do not report income and expense data to the county for their revenue-generating properties, which could raise at least $36 million.

That was a way to cover revenue lost by lowering County Executive Edward Manganoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s proposed traďŹ&#x192;c ticket surcharge to $55 from $105, now expected to raise about $28 million. The tickets will add $55 to the cost of any traďŹ&#x192;c violation but will now not apply to parking tickets.

Also approved Monday were several other new and increased fees expected to raise about $13 million.

The measures balance the $3 billion 2017 budget the Legislature approved Oct. 31 without about $77 million in revenue from dozens of new and additional fees Mangano, a Republican, proposed, but on which the legislators did not vote.

The vote came ďŹ ve days after legislative leaders received a letter from the Nassau Interim Finance Authority saying it would reject any budget plan that relied on ďŹ nes from the income-and-expense law, which is being challenged in court.

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Eric Naughton, the deputy county executive for ďŹ nance, wrote in a letter to NIFA. Democratic legislators on Monday contended the ďŹ ne revenue was a risky budget bandage that pushed the county toward another showdown with NIFA, endangering social programs such as youth services and bus routes. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s shaky revenue, no matter how you slice it,â&#x20AC;? said Legislator Laura Curran, a Baldwin Democrat who is running for county executive.

If NIFA rejects the budget, Manganoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s administration plans to cut $15 million in unborrowed payments for property tax challenges; suspend $3.8 million in additional funding for Nassau Inter-County Express buses; provide only three months of youth services funding; suspend two community-policing programs; and suspend county aid to villages, among other cuts to county departments and contracts.

Mangano ďŹ rst proposed the $105 â&#x20AC;&#x153;public safety feeâ&#x20AC;? as a traďŹ&#x192;c and parking ticket surchage to fund the hiring of 150 new police oďŹ&#x192;cers and 81 civilian police department personnel.

But it met criticism from Democrats

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The Nassau County Executive and Legislative Building in Mineola. and other groups as an unfair and unstable revenue measure. In a statement Monday, Minority Leader Kevan Abrahams (DHempstead) called it â&#x20AC;&#x153;an illegal motorist tax.â&#x20AC;?

The county is now seeking reduced ďŹ nes owed by commercial property owners who did not report income and expenses related to their properties for 2013, 2014 and 2015, as required by a 2013 county law. The county prevailed when the law was challenged in state Supreme Court, but it is awaiting a hearing in state appellate court.

Republicans argued the revenue estimate was conservative and that there was nothing legally stopping the county from collecting the ďŹ nes. They also criticized Democrats for not submitting any alternative budget proposals.

The law is intended to make the property tax assessment system more accurate, which GOP lawmakers and oďŹ&#x192;cials said would save money in the future. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The eďŹ&#x20AC;ect of this would be simply to forgive part of it but to hurry it up, just in terms of the cash,â&#x20AC;? Legislator Howard Kopel (R-Lawrence) said.

But NIFA last week told legislative leaders any budget plan with that revenue would be immediately rejected and returned for â&#x20AC;&#x153;speedy modiďŹ cation.â&#x20AC;? The authority would subsequently reject all contracts and borrowing if the county does not follow its directives, its Nov. 16 letter says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The disagreement between NIFA and the Legislature on supporting revenue will be determined in January,â&#x20AC;? Mangano said in a statement. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Until that time, the administrationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s suspension plan keeps services going while providing the Legislature an opportunity to prove its projection correct or take alternate action to avoid catastrophic cuts to important health, safety and welfare initiatives and mandates.â&#x20AC;?

NIFA rejected the Legislatureâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s adopted budget last year, similarly threatening to impose drastic spending cuts, a hiring freeze and stricter contract controls.

NIFA and the county eventually agreed to quarterly budget reviews to ensure spending and revenue targets were being met.

This yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s dispute follows Manganoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s indictment last month on federal corruption charges. He has pleaded not guilty and has refused to resign.

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BY J OE N I K I C The $2.6 million spent by a pro-charter school group to support Republican Elaine Phillips in her successful 7th Senate District race was part of a statewide eďŹ&#x20AC;ort to ensure that the GOP retained control of the state Senate.

Jenny Sedlis, executive director of StudentsFirst NY, which formed the political action committee New Yorkers for a Balanced Albany, touted the PACâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s eďŹ&#x20AC;orts in aiding candidates who would continue support for charter schools in the state. â&#x20AC;&#x153;New Yorkers deďŹ ed expectations by rejecting a state Senate that would have turned its back on the needs of all public school students across the state,â&#x20AC;? Sedlis said in a statement after the election. â&#x20AC;&#x153;With the help of New Yorkers for a Balanced Albany, families who believe that every child deserves a great education regardless of their ZIP code stood up to the special interests to protect our most vulnerable children.â&#x20AC;?

In addition to the $2.6 million in television and radio advertisements, New Yorkers for a Balanced Albany also spent $136,100 for polling in Phillipsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; race against Democrat Adam Haber and in other state Senate contests.

The $2.6 million was part of $3.14 million spent on Phillipsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; behalf by independent expenditure groups compared with $925,700 spent on behalf of Haber, according to a review of 11-day pre-general election ďŹ nancial disclosure reports

by Blank Slate Media.

Taking into account $1.03 million received by Phillipsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; campaign and $1.37 million received by Haberâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s campaign, the independent contributions gave Phillips a nearly 2-1 edge in spending over Haber â&#x20AC;&#x201D; $4.17 million to $2.3 million.

There are no charter schools in the 7th Senate District, with most in the state located in New York City. Phillips did not address the issue of charter schools during the campaign. Haber, a member of the Roslyn school board, has said he was opposed to charter schools.

Phillipsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; campaign often focused on

preventing New York City Democrats from taking control of the state Senate, which she said would lead to more school aid for city schools and higher taxes on suburban residents.

The Jobs for New York PAC, whose treasurer is listed in state Board of Elections data as William Auerbach, the CFO of the Real Estate Board of New York, spent about $330,000 on digital media advertisements, wages and polling for the Phillips campaign.

In her statement, Sedlis said StudentsFirst NY had â&#x20AC;&#x153;tremendous partnersâ&#x20AC;? in the Real Estate Board of New York.

She also congratulated Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan for his â&#x20AC;&#x153;impressive stewardship.â&#x20AC;?

EďŹ&#x20AC;orts to reach Sedlis and Flanagan for further comment were unavailing.

Phillips defeated Haber by 4,161 votes â&#x20AC;&#x201D; 65,709 to 61,548 â&#x20AC;&#x201D; taking 51.6 percent of the vote to Haberâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 48.4 percent.

Nassau Democratic Party Chairman Jay Jacobs said it was the spending by independent expenditure groups that had the biggest impact on the race and led to Phillipsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; victory, not the issues in the district.

Chris McKenna, a spokesman for the Phillips campaign, said it was the Republican candidateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;hard workâ&#x20AC;? and â&#x20AC;&#x153;superior messageâ&#x20AC;? that resonated most with voters.

The New York State United Teachers, which represents both public and charter school teachers, was Haberâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s biggest backer, spending nearly $655,000 on television advertisements, home mailers, telephone calls to voters and polling.

Carl Korn, NYSUTâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s chief press oďŹ&#x192;cer, said NYSUT â&#x20AC;&#x153;proudlyâ&#x20AC;? represents charter school teachers, but has â&#x20AC;&#x153;concerns over how they are funded and how they operate,â&#x20AC;? and that public schools should be the funding priority.

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BY ST E P H E N ROMANO A Port Washington student found a swastika drawn on the wall in a boys bathroom at Paul D. Schreiber High School on Friday, Superintendent Kathleen Mooney said in a statement on the school district’s website.

The bathroom was closed immediately and the wall was cleaned, Mooney said.

“This type of behavior is completely unacceptable, does not represent who we are as a school district or a community, and will not be tolerated,” Mooney said in the statement. “We commend the student, who acted appropriately by reporting this isolated incident, and we will begin an investigation to determine who was responsible.”

A Schreiber student posted a picture of the drawing on Facebook, saying “This is not 1930s Nazi Germany, this is the men’s bathroom in Schreiber High School circa 2016” “A swastika is not a joke, and I’m not going to waste my time explaining why this is the case,” the student said in the post. “I don’t care if our bathrooms are closed down in school because of this, a swastika in my school is even more sickening to me than a long line for a urinal. I truly pity you” Mooney said once the investigation into PHOTO FROM FACEBOOK POST the drawing is complete, the school will take appropriate disciplinary action.

A swastika was found in the boys bathroom at Paul D. Schreiber High “As a school district, we have and always School. will provide a nurturing and supportive envi-

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“Recent news of a surge in anti-Semitism and hate crimes in general is extremely disturbing,” Bosworth said in a statement. “This incident at Schreiber High School comes only days after our Governor announced that New York has set up a hotline to report hate crime cases due to an increase in bias incidents.

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City money’s big role in 7th Do you remember the vigorous discussion that Elaine Phillips and Adam Haber had about charter schools in the race for the 7th Senate District?

Neither do we. That’s because there was no discussion on the subject.

But as it turns out the issue of charter schools, which in New York State are located mainly in New York City, appears to have played a large if not decisive factor in Phillips’ victory in the 7th District here in Nassau County.

New Yorkers for a Balanced Albany, a political action committee formed by the pro-charter school group StudentsFirstNY, had spent $2.6 million in radio and television advertising on behalf of the Phillips campaign when the 11-day pre-general election financial disclosures were filed.

The $2.6 million spent by New Yorkers for a Balanced Albany was part of the $3.14 million spent on behalf of the Phillips campaign by independent expenditure groups at that point and alone exceeded the $2.3 million spent by Haber and outside groups on his behalf.

In addition to the $2.6 million in television and radio advertisements, New Yorkers for a Balanced Albany also spent $136,100 for polling in the Phillips-Haber race as well as other state Senate contests.

StudentsFirst was joined in support of charter schools by the Jobs for New York PAC, whose treasurer is listed in state Board of Elections data as William Auerbach, the CFO of the Real Estate Board of New York, which

spent about $330,000 on digital media advertisements, wages and polling for the Phillips campaign.

Combined with $1.03 million received by Phillips’ campaign the independent contributions gave Phillips, the Republican nominee, a nearly 2-1 edge in spending over her Democratic opponent — $4.17 million to $2.3 million.

The Nassau Democratic Party chairman, Jay Jacobs, said that while Hillary Clinton’s loss in the presidential election may have played a role in Haber’s loss he believed the spending by independent expenditure groups on political attack ads against Haber had the biggest impact on the race.

In what should win an award for chutzpah, the New York Citybased PACs focused their attacks on New York City, tying Haber to New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio and New York City Democrats. But they did not specifically mention charter schools.

“The truthful answer is take the political answer and add to it literally millions of dollars pumped in by independent expenditure groups and Republicans to smear with false lies Adam Haber’s integrity [and] make him look like a sleazy politician,” Jacobs said. “People bought it and they voted for the lady who looked nice.”

Jenny Sedlis, the executive director of StudentsFirstNY, didn’t disagree about the impact of her group’s spending.

“New Yorkers defied expectations by rejecting a State Senate that would have turned its back

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on the needs of all public school students across the state,” Sedlis said. “With the help of New Yorkers for a Balanced Albany, families who believe that every child deserves a great education regardless of their ZIP code stood up to the special interests to protect our most vulnerable children.

We congratulate Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan for his impressive stewardship. We also had tremendous partners in the Real Estate Board of New York.”

In public appearances during the campaign, Phillips often focused on how her election would help prevent New York City Democrats from taking control of the state Senate as well as her record of cutting taxes as mayor

of Flower Hill and protecting the environment.

She argued that the Democrats’ taking control of the state Senate would lead to more school aid for city schools and higher taxes on suburban residents. No mention was made of charter schools.

Haber, a former commodities trader who serves on the Roslyn school board, said he opposed charter schools, citing the potential loss of support for public schools.

Chris McKenna, a spokesman for the Phillips campaign, said independent expenditures were not the reason for Phillips’ narrow victory.

“Elaine’s win can be chalked

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up to her hard work on getting out and meeting with as many voters as she could, as well as a superior message and ideas that will make a difference for Long Island,” McKenna said.

The debate over charter schools — taxpayer funded, for profit, privately owned and managed institutions of K-12 education — is a worthy one.

But charter schools are private businesses primarily located in New York City.

Are their concerns really what should determine the outcome of elections on Long Island?

And, if that is the case, shouldn’t the candidate benefiting from the support of pro-charter school groups explain why?

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KREMER’S CORNER

Looking ahead while looking back

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or quite a few people ,even though the national election took place almost a month ago, it seems that the division within the country will continue for some time to come.

No matter where I travel these days, I overhear arguments between husbands and wives, mixed groups and grown children over the results of the election.

Having been a student of history, an elected official and a commentator at the national and state levels, I have seen quite a few elections where the country was polarized by the two presidential candidates, but not to the extent of this one.

I have endured the losses of Walter Mondale, Hubert Humphrey, Al Gore and enjoyed winning quite a few.

But, when those elections were over, the country went back to work paying little attention to the aftermath of the campaigns.

The 2016 election will be seared into the memory of millions of people for a number of reasons.

At the top of the list is the impact of social media and the news media.

With so many people on Facebook, the universal use of cellphones and the easy flow of communication, negative news spreads fast and it feeds into how the public forms its opinions about the candidates.

The mass media was the source of a torrent of news about the candidates.

For 16 months we were subjected to day after day of so-

JERRY KREMER Kremer’s Corner called “breaking news,” which in quite a few cases was either inaccurate or was on a number of occasions retracted by the anchor, too late to catch up with people who had already spread

the word.

Facebook is also enduring a heavy share of the criticism over the fact that it is alleged to have been the spreader of false news, paid for by the Republican candidate.

At the beginning of the campaign many in the media treated the candidacy of Donald Trump as some type of circus act that would help drive ratings and increase advertising dollars.

On each and every occasion that candidate Trump was willing to offer an opinion on something, he would get top billing.

In most cases, the media reports on Hillary Clinton were often negative and repetitive.

The irony of the mass media’s addiction to Mr. Trump was when they decided that he might actually win, they

changed their tone from positive to negative.

The end result was that the general public became more and more confused and unable to figure right from wrong.

All elections are battles about issues and ideology.

This one left us with a nation in a state of mass uncertainty about the future.

The winners get congratulated and the losers get condolences.

But going forward we must follow political events and news with the same degree of attention as we did during this campaign.

We will be exposed to four years of heightened coverage of the new administration, and the good news is that in the blink of an eye it will be 2020.

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Madison offers Trump a governing path

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am one of the lifelong members of the Conservative movement who did not vote for Donald Trump.

Yet I must confess, while not a Trump fan, I was delighted Hillary Clinton lost.

With that out of the way, let’s focus on governing.

There has been much blather from Washington pundits in recent years about “gridlock government.”

The implication being that by its very nature, such a prospect is “evil.”

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The Madisonian constitutional system of “checks and balances” was designed to avoid policy decisions that were “impetuous,” “overheated,” “hasty,” “impulsive,” “rash” or “premature.”

Madison wanted government to be “focused on ‘permanent single’ needs rather than immediate desires.”

Pietro S. Nivola of the Brookings Institute explained the purpose of our Madisonian bicameral legislature this way: “To keep the House’s hypersensitivity to public opinion

in check, the Constitution had summoned a uniquely intricate form of bicameralism.

The Senate — a smaller deliberative assembly composed of members mostly representing larger, hence more internally diverse, polities and chosen to serve longer, staggered terms-was deliberately designed to be less receptive to impulsive popular moods.

Senators, as Madison had hoped, could be more statesmanlike under pressure.”

The Senate, Madison wrote in Federalist No. 63, would be “a defense to the people against their temporary errors and delusions.”

To avoid mobocracy, Madison approved of factions and reasoned that to “divide the trust between different bodies of men who might watch and check each other... [would prevent] fickleness and passion and [the temptation] to commit injustice on the majority.”

Political partisanship, conflicting political philosophies and a purposely designed inefficient system prevents fleeting majorities from becoming tyrannical.

“America’s public dysfunction exists,” George Will has pointed out, “not because de-

GEORGE J. MARLIN On The Right mocracy isn’t working but because it is.”

Madison’s separation of power prevents a president from becoming a dictator and the Legislature from becoming a tyrannical mob.

This system forces people of goodwill and strong principles to “reason together” and to design consensus policies, programs and laws that appeal to both sides of the political spectrum.

By adhering to this approach, President Ronald Reagan confounded Washington insiders and got his supplyside tax policies enacted.

Reagan would boast time

and again, that he generally got about 80 percent of the loaf because he was willing to negotiate in good faith with his Democratic opponents.

For a president and Legislature to ignore this approach to governing can be disastrous. A recent example is Obamacare.

When the Democrats controlled the White House and both branches of Congress (2009-2011), President Obama, Speaker Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, rammed through the Affordable Care Act without one Republican vote. There was no consensus. The legislation was a one-sided, hastily drafted hodgepodge that no one actually understood.

Reacting, angry Americans came out in the 2010 midterm elections and gave control of the House of Representatives to the Republican.

These cognitive Madisonians approved of divided government in 2010, 2012, 2014 to slow down the imposition of rash legislation.

The American electorate preferred health-care, budget, environmental, welfare, and tax policy congestion until they decided what direction their government should go.

On November 8, 2016, the people spoke and awarded the Republican Party unified control of the national government.

The Republicans have an incredible opportunity to implement “Reaganesque” policies built on consensus that can improve the lot of the American people.

And President Donald Trump can use his skills to make that happen.

When I was executive director of the Port Authority of N.Y. and N.J., I dealt with numerous real estate developers.

I quickly learned that they are master negotiators.

Despite Trump’s many shortcomings, he is a proven real estate negotiator.

If he applies that skill to dealing with the Congress and peels off enough Democrats to avoid filibusters and other stalling tactics by giving them a piece of the loaf, he and his GOP confreres could change the political trajectory.

However, if Trump fails to heed James Madison’s advice on government, the American people will come roaring back in 2018 to punish him and to cripple his administration by imposing divided government.

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A LOOK ON THE LIGHTER SIDE

Some Thanksgiving turkey tales

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hanksgiving is the one holiday that every American has in common.

In theory, that is a wonderful thing.

In practice, however, what it means is that almost every person in America is on the move, trying to get to their family before the turkey hits the table.

Which puts them all on the road, in front of me, as I try desperately to get to my own family Thanksgiving!

Why, you might ask, do I not stay in one place and make everyone come to me?

That’s simple. I’m terrified.

Sitting in a five-hour traffic backup, no rest room in sight, only to arrive after the last crumb of pie has been cleared away — that, I know how to do.

What I don’t know how to do is buy a turkey; calculate how long it needs to cook; backtime accordingly, and have the turkey cooked enough not to poison anybody; and also have seven different side dishes all warm and ready at the same time!

You would have to be a member of the Director’s Guild of America, with both a Macy’s parade and a Superbowl under your belt, to pull off all of that.

Which is why Thanksgiving usually finds me and my beloved on the road, driving south to one set of in-laws or the other.

I’m afraid I became rather famous, in my family, for the travel updates I issued no matter when we called: “We’re in New Jersey.”

“New Jersey, eh?” my dad always wanted to know. “Exactly where in New Jersey? Abouttocross-over-into-Delaware New Jersey? Or just coming through the Holland Tunnel?”

“You’re so cynical, dad. I won’t dignify that question with a response!”

“Ah. Holland Tunnel. Well, drive safely, and we’ll leave you some dinner in the fridge.”

The one time I had to stay put and make Thanksgiving was the year my brother and sisterin-law called my bluff. “Yes, we’d love to come and see you,”

JUDY EPSTEIN A Look on the Lighter Side they said.

“Bu-bu-but I’ve never cooked a turkey,” I stammered.

“Don’t worry — I’ll do it with you,” said my sister-in-law.

“I’ll even do it for you, if you want.”

True to her word, she did every bit of the work and got that turkey into the oven. How was she to know that, when I finally tried to help, and took it out at the very end, I would run the broiler pan over my hand, slicing one finger nail down to

the cuticle bed? A week later, my doctor told me I should have gotten stitches — but who goes to the ER on Thanksgiving? So that fingernail grew back a little weird.

But at least it wasn’t radioactive! When my brother was a physics grad student, his turkey was still frozen solid on Thanksgiving day — and there was nothing in his grad-student kitchen that could warm it up.

So he put it in the car and drove down to his workplace — which happened to be a nuclear lab.

“I didn’t put it in the linear accelerator, or anything,” he says now. “It was just the cyclotron —” “The what? You nuked the turkey?”

“As I was saying, the cyclotron simply had a bigger microwave than my kitchen at home.”

“Are you sure it wasn’t radioactive?”

“I promise. It was just a little bit dry. Oh, and the leftovers glowed in the dark.”

Another year, at a different table, I was watching the

delicious cranberry Jell-o-mold coming down the table towards me, when I realized, “Something about that cranberry dish seems familiar.” But I couldn’t quite figure out what. I took my portion and passed the rest along, still trying to place the nagging thought.

Suddenly, I had it! “Oh! I recognize that bowl. It’s your dog’s water dish!”

The dish hit the table with a clatter. One of the uncles said, “What’s Judy going on about?”

“Well,” spoke up the Jell-obringer. “There was one time I used this for the dogs, because it’s nice and heavy and doesn’t move across the floor when they drink. I guess that’s when you were visiting us, Judy.” She turned to the rest of the table. “I washed it out!”

I got more than my share of the Jell-o, that year.

Also the Golden Turkey, for diplomacy.

Here’s hoping everyone’s Thanksgiving this year is safe, delicious…and diplomatic

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Right way to oppose Trump’s radical plans

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e have had a year and a half to find out what Donald Trump thinks and plans for the unfortunate losing half of the electorate.

To be specific, more than half voted for Hillary, but the state Electoral Colleges determined in whose hands the

power will lie.

We now are faced with what will be an enormous effort to prevent radical changes in our country.

Republicans have the majority over the Executive and Legislative branches and we are in danger of a losing a majority in the Judicial — our

Supreme Court.

Many progressive advances may be reversed if we do not exert enormous constant efforts to prevent destruction of what so many devoted altruistic thinkers have accomplished.

Much expert analysis of what went wrong is being ad-

vanced and many will document what must be watched.

History provides ample evidence of what extremists have destroyed in formerly democratic societies, and no lies, misinterpretations, hatreds and downright ignorance should be allowed to go non-criticized, unexplained

and unchallenged.

The challenge for all of us is to be vigilant, vocal and persistent.

We still have free speech and we must use it — without violence.

Esther Confino New Hyde Park

Cilluffo has earned re-election to park district I have always loved our park district, but I was beginning to think it was getting at little stuck in the mud.

It didn’t seem that our park officials were trying to keep up with our own residents when it

came to things like the environment.

But this year the park officials surprised me when they hired a group called Osborn Organics.

I don’t know who we should

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thank for this but my guess is we should thank everyone: all three commissioners and the new superintendent.

But I also think it has taken the new chemistry of some younger officials, namely Frank Cilluffo and Superintendent Jason Marra, to really get the job done.

I’m not saying that commissioners Lincoln and Nachmanoff don’t deserve any credit; they do.

But I’m convinced some of these things wouldn’t have hap-

pened so soon if the younger officials had not been so committed to some new ideas.

Of course, Mr. Marra is appointed by the board so we can‘t re-elect him.

But we can show our support for these new directions by reelecting Frank Cilluffo.

He has only been a commissioner for two short years, but he’s worked hard at trying to catch up with the other two commissioners.

Now that the new board and

its new superintendent have gotten to know one another, I hope that Frank Cilluffo will be reelected on December 13th.

The park district’s combination of new and older officials is working well for all park residents.

I hope we keep Frank in office.

With luck maybe the board will come up with even more ways to help protect our environment.

Steve Steel

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Cilluffo brings parent’s passion to G.N. parks

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here’s a [Great Neck] Park District election on Tuesday, Dec. 13.

I confess: I only know Frank Cilluffo at the park district because he coaches the young ice hockey players.

But this is what I have seen for myself.

Frank’s joy in passing on his knowledge of the sport is so contagious that even shy kids feel more confidence when he helps them.

This love of our kids is something that can ‘t be faked. Not only does Frank give of his time, over and over, but he takes even more time to reach out to the children who may not be star quality.

His special attention to kids who need more shows the man‘s real heart.

I can’t thank him enough for helping the kids who happen to

be close to me.

Frank‘s energy is catching and so is his can-do spirit, which he tries to show in every coaching lesson.

Our children learn how real grownups behave not just from their parents, but from teachers and coaches and all the other adults they see day after day.

I know there is another candidate running for this office, but I for one hope that everyone votes for Frank Cilluffo.

He has shown himself to be just the right example for our kids, especially in our parks.

These parks of ours are supposed to be fun, not political battlegrounds .

Frank has proved himself over the past two years by always showing up for the kids, always giving more than 100 percent of himself.

But the most important les-

son he teaches is that these park games should be fun!

Kids who won’t grow up to be sports heroes can still come home feeling proud of their game.

They had fun with their teammates and want to talk all about it. And isn t that the real point of games in the park district?

Someone always has to teach children that losing a game or missing a goal or not making the team is not the end of the world. The lessons our kids learn in sports will stay with them, for good or ill, for years to come.

From what I can tell, the lessons Frank teaches on the ice aren‘t just about the hockey rules or how to make a backhand pass.

I think Coach Cilluffo really wants to see our kids have fun and feel good about themselves .

No one can fake his type of commitment to our children’s learn-

ing through fun and sports.

I can‘t give kids those lessons in ice hockey and sportsmanship and fair play and constant efforts to get better at a sport that they love.

Those lessons can only be learned on the playing fields, whether those fields are made of ice or water or grass or hardwood.

I can‘t thank Frank enough for being the example he bas become to these young people.

If kids could vote, I know Frank would be elected.

Children always seem to know who is really on their side.

I hope everyone will take a cue from their own offspring and keep Frank Cilluffo in office as one of our park commissioners.

Because it’s not just the administrative skills of our officials that make the difference in our lives.

Sometimes it‘s the effect they have on the people we love.

In a few years’ time I bet no one will remember much about some park budget item.

But I think all parents will remember the thrill their kids felt when they made the team, or mastered some tricky bit of ice work.

Maybe when they get into middle school or high school or college they will still be using the skills and patience they learned from their park district coaches.

I really want everyone’s children to keep learning from coach Cilluffo. His kind of dedication just can ‘t be faked or dressed up for an election.

I hope you vote for him on the 13th of December.

Joanna Silver Great Neck

Cilluffo has helped breathe ‘new life’ into parks At about this time every year candidates emerge to run for our local special districts: the Great Neck Park District and the Water Pollution Control District.

Dec. 13th brings us another one of these annual exercises in

unwanted surprises.

Just like clockwork, people we’ve never seen before suddenly reach out to us to say that even though they have no experience whatsoever, we should still vote for them to take care of these important local offices.

After the retirement this year of Deena Lesser, the longtime commissioner of the water pollution control district, it seems that only one person has declared as a candidate for the office she held along with two other commissioners. Perhaps

I’m old fashioned, but it seems to me that a position requiring a high degree of scientific, hydraulic and/or engineering understanding should not be filled by anyone without that background.

But we’re not always that

lucky.

It seems that as far as the Water Pollution Control District is concerned, voters can just stay home this year because no qualified candidate has appeared.

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Gilliar book rescue Trump brings needed skills serves G.N. well I

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’d like to thank and commend Rebecca Gilliar for her drive to return thousands of discarded Great Neck Library books to Great Neck’s residents.

Also, thank you to everyone else who is helping with this effort (including this newspaper, which has publicized the book give-away).

I stopped by Great Neck House the other day, chatted with Ms. Gilliar, and saw all the tables piled high with books, which Great Neck residents are welcome to bring home and keep for free.

One of the great pleasures of a library — or a book give-away such as this — is that “you never know what you’ll find.”

While browsing there, I stumbled across a book called

“Prokofiev’s Soviet Years” — something that would never have occurred to me to look for.

As a musician and history buff, with fond childhood memories of listening to a record of Captain Kangaroo narrating Prokofiev’s “Peter and the Wolf,” I immediately thought “hmm, this looks interesting!”

So that book has a new home now.

But there are may more books sitting over at Great Neck House that need good homes too.

I hope that more Great Neck residents will stop by and enjoy the book give-away.

Elizabeth Berney, Esq. Great Neck

s Trump Qualified?

The answer to my own question is a resounding yes! Donald Trump is a successful manager, and what a successful president needs to be is a successful manager.

He appoints the best people to various departments and gets rid of those who cannot perform.

President-elect Trump will use his managerial skills to the benefit of our country.

To me he is the best qualified president-elect I have seen in years.

Further, American capitalism created the greatest middle class in history and it’s about time we got a capitalist for president.

It’s a step away from the burgeoning socialism that a Clinton presidency would have brought.

If I am right,we have every reason to be optimistic about the next four years of a Trump administration!

Milton Brody East Hills

Gilliar rescue to aid many

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want to thank Rebecca Gilliar, Load of Books Find a New Home in Great Neck — Nov. 11, for solving the mystery of the disappearance of many books from the Parkville Branch of the Great Neck Library.

It seems they were shipped to the main branch when it finally opened in October of this year.

It is a shame that the main branch felt it necessary to discard so many books and then deplete the satellite branches

to fill the its shelves.

I also want to thank Ms. Gilliar for saving 10,000 books for people to continually enjoy.

Jane Billings New Hyde Park — Great Neck Library taxpayer

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Trump’s priorities wrong Katz experience

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ast weekend Vice President-elect Pence attended a performance of “Hamilton.”

Pence, a history buff, was greeted with some boos and cheers.

Actor Brandon Nixon, while holding hands with the cast at the end, reminded Pence that the diversity of the cast represents those in America who are “… alarmed and anxious that the new administration will not protect us, our

planet, our children, our parents, or defend us and uphold our inalienable rights.”

Nixon hoped that the show had “…inspired him to uphold our American values and work on behalf of all of us.”

Pence praised the show, which is the story of Alexander Hamilton, and is sold out for months.

In two interviews on television, he said he was not offended.

But Trump, as we could

have expected, promptly twittered that the cast should apologize to Pence; he chose to berate the cast, noting that the show is overrated.

At a time when he was meeting with potential cabinet members, he managed to depart from his agenda a few times, to peevishly express his chagrin.

Oh well!

Esther Confino New Hyde Park

Vote yes for Herricks bond

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e are all fortunate enough to live in such a high-achieving, multicultural district as Herricks with an administration and Board of Education that’s always pushing hard to improve the quality of education into the 21st Century.

Part of that improvement comes in the look of our buildings and outdoor facilities since they are a big indicator of how well our schools are run and how high achieving we are.

Recently, our facilities,

which are still in the same shape as they were when they opened in the 1950s, have been getting tired, outdated and in a huge need of a facelift.

Because of this, I’m asking everyone to go out Tuesday, Dec. 6 to the Community Center Gym from 7 a.m. to 10 p.m. to vote yes on the bond referendum that will give our buildings the makeover it deserves.

Even though I’m a high school senior and can’t vote and won’t be able to experience the new upgrades, I want the current and future generations of

Herricks students to get to experience the brand new look our buildings will have like updated bleachers, cafeteria and fitness center at the High School. Updated bathrooms, windows and doors at all of the schools and Community Center. Even if you don’t have kids or aren’t involved in the schools, still show your support for the children by voting yes especially since there is zero tax impact from this bond referendum so it is a win-win for everyone.

Richard D’Orazi Manhasset Hills

Trump victory, people’s loss

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s we saw in these Nassau County elections, how the forces of special interests ganged up to get their way: To heck with the will of the people.

They exhibit no bounds in ignoring what is right, moral and ethical.

As is now in the news, Trump has offered $25 million to settle the claims against his so-called university.

Of course there is still a long way yet to go until this money is actually in the hands of the injured. You know what I mean.

Note that Trump made no effort to defend his honor as would be expected of one who is innocent.

By his action, he has convicted himself of having committed a crime, which is to say that he is a criminal.

Perhaps he considers that better considering how he is constituted than being handed a verdict by an American judge of Mexican descent.

It is also unfortunate that he will be a tyrant dictator as President crushing the will of The People he is meant to serve.

Charles Samek Mineola

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right for district

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y friend, Patty Katz, is running for commissioner on the Great Neck Water Pollution Control

District.

Patty and I have worked on numerous projects during the past 10 years; however, I have known her much longer than that.

She is a wonderful mother; she is a wonderful spouse; she is a wonderful friend; and she is a wonderful worker.

Give her a job to do, and she will do it no matter how difficult.

She has volunteered on behalf of The Town of North Hempstead and other locales as an environmentalist and community advocate.

She displays keen leadership skills, is creative with her ideas, and remains focused on her goals.

It is always a pleasure to work with her as noted by some of her commendations: appointment to the Town of North Hempstead Ecological Commission by former Town Supervisor Jon Kaiman, recipient of the May Newburger Women’s Role of Honor award and Chairwoman of the Reach Out America Green Committee.

Now she is the vice president of Reach Out America.

Patty Katz deserves your vote on Dec. 13 at Great Neck House or at the Great Neck Social Center. It is important that she is elected for the good of our town.

Harriet Becker Great Neck

Port Times wrong on Baxter House

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he recent article in the Port Washington Times addressing the Baxter House unfortunately contains significant inaccuracies.

It unnecessarily created anxiety within the community.

All members of the community can rest assured that the village is adhering to all relevant procedures that relate to changes to the Baxter House, which, as you know, was designated as a historic structure by the Village years ago.

Also, all should understand that the designation by the village pertains only to the exterior of the structure — the village jurisdiction does not extend to the interior.

The Baxter House is a private residence, and the configuration and contents of its interior are entirely up to the owner, not the Village.

This is entirely different from, for example, Sagamore Hill National Historic Site, the former homestead of President Theodore Roosevelt, which is owned and maintained for the public.

With respect to the Baxter House, to this point, informal discussions between village representatives and the homeowner

and her representatives have included the possibility of major renovations and also demolition followed by reconstruction of the Baxter House.

But those are informal discussions, and the Village has not yet received an application, let alone reached a decision.

The homeowner has now retained an architect, who has, at the Village’s request, submitted blue print drawings depicting the details of the existing house.

Ms. Wu’s attorney has advised the Village that drawings for a proposed project should be completed in a week or so, at which time a formal application to our Landmarks Commission will be made.

Only then will the Village schedule a public meeting for the application.

The Village will give notice to our residents, who will have the opportunity to attend the meeting and view Ms. Wu’s proposed project.

In the meantime, the village has issued two outstanding orders to remedy, which are being appealed by Ms. Wu. Nora Haagenson Village of Baxter Estates Mayor

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Toasting the Scobee Diner, things past

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t was a sad day for many Great Neck residents six years ago today when Scobee Grill in neighboring Little Neck closed their doors for the very last time Sunday night, Nov. 28, 2010.

Growing up in the neighborhood during the late 1960s and early 1970s, going to Scobee was part of my life and of many others.

Twenty years ago, I met my wife on a blind date at a booth in Scobee.

We had returned every year on the anniversary of our first meeting.

My wife and I made our final visit on the last day of operations.

How disappointing that the site until a few months ago still stood vacant today.

Several years later construction was completed to support a new bank and dentist’s office — today the building still stands vacant.

Within several blocks on Northern Boulevard in Little Neck are four other banks, three dentists’ offices and a number of additional vacant first and second-floor storefronts.

On very cold winter nights or hot summer days, rather than eat at home we would walk a few blocks over to Scobee.

Over time, we have gotten

to know many of the staff on a first name basis.

Eating at there was like joining your family for a good home cooked meal.

Frequently, the portions were so generous that we had a doggy bag to take home providing a second meal the next day.

Over the past decades, we witnessed many other changes to our neighborhood.

On Northern Boulevard, our old Acme Bowling Alley, the original Scobee Dinner, the mini-Sears Roebuck on Great Neck Road, North Shore Bicycle, Little Neck Movie Theater, Bill’s news stand, the old 5 & 10 Virginia Variety, Patrick’s Pub, Little Neck Inn, Villa Bianca, Villa Bianca Bakery, Nelsons, Subway, Staples, several supermarkets along with other stores have come and gone.

Walking down Northern Boulevard in the evenings, my wife and I see fewer people dining out and shopping, except on Friday and Saturday nights.

Years ago, we would never see any vacant storefronts — today, there are many.

In these difficult economic times, it is especially important to patronize our remaining local neighborhood businesses.

My wife and I along with many Great Neck neighbors are regular patrons of the lo-

cal community stores in neighboring Little Neck on Northern Blvd. from Glenwood Street at the City Line to Marathon Parkway.

Why drive and waste time?

There are so many great local businesses. Leave your car in the driveway, save some gas, say hello to neighbors and take a walk around the neighborhood to get some exercise.

We frequent North Shore Hardware, Greek Isles, Little Neck Pharmacy, Queens County Savings Bank, Chef Joe’s Marathon Food Shop, King Wok, Capital One Bank, Stop and Shop, Aunt Bella’s Italian Restaurant and others.

We don’t mind occasionally paying a little more to help our local businesses survive.

Don’t forget your cook and server at your favorite local neighborhood restaurant.

We try to tip 20 percent against the total bill including taxes.

If it is an odd amount, round up to the next dollar. If you can afford to eat out, you can afford an extra dollar tip.

When ordering take out, don’t forget to leave a dollar or two for the waiter or cook.

Trust us, it is appreciated.

Remember these people are our neighbors. They work long hours, pay taxes and provide lo-

cal employment.

If we don’t patronize our local community stores and restaurants to shop and eat, they don’t eat either.

This helps keep our neighbors employed and the local economy growing.

With the loss of both the Seville Diner in Douglaston and Scobee Grill is the lack of a good neighborhood diner.

I have enjoyed many excellent meals for decades when frequenting any one of many local diners.

Over the years, we have seen the demise of the Gold Star in Bayside, Seville in Douglaston, Sage in Elmhurst, Saravan in Flushing, Palace in Flushing, Future in Fresh Meadows, Fame in Jamaica, Scobees Grill in Little Neck, and others.

Diners have been part of my life from teenage years to today.

Eating out is a periodic ritual with either friends or family — portions are generous.

Who never took a doggie bag home with leftovers to eat the next day.

Between the customary soup, salad, rolls, coleslaw and pickles along with the main course — dinner could satisfy the heartiest appetite. Many time, we bagged our desserts to go.

Many neighborhoods have

seen changes over time. Many new immigrant groups sometimes favor their own ethnic foods and restaurants.

Diners have also lost customers over time to numerous fast food restaurants.

Many of their menus have expanded to also include breakfast items and a greater variety of items to select from for lunch or dinner.

Remember these people are our neighbors.

Our local entrepreneurs who own and operate diners have continued to invest in our community creating new employment opportunities without the assistance of federally-funded taxpayers’ stimulus dollars.

They work long hours, pay taxes and provide local employment. If we don’t patronize our local restaurants, they don’t eat either.

Why not honor the found memories we had at the Scobees Grill along with other diners which have come and gone by continuing to patronize our remaining diners.

Let us toast the memories of good times gone by at Scobee Diner and make sure we don’t lose any more.

Larry Penner Great Neck

Cilluffo has helped breathe ‘new life’ into parks Continued from Page 17 Luckily, the same cannot be said for our park district.

At least with that special district we’re lucky enough to have an incumbent park commissioner, Frank Cilluffo, who’s got a solid record to campaign on.

With just the past two years as his parks’ experience, Commissioner Cilluffo has already proven to be someone who is prepared to do the hard work of first understanding a job and then doing it well.

He seems to be everywhere in the park district, learning about tennis courts, fixing the lighting, improving the ball fields, learning about our local environment, supporting better camp programs, researching the need for new facilities, teaching ice hockey, and so on.

He even threw political caution to the winds so he could entertain us with his antics as a musician (pretty good, actually).

There doesn’t seem to be an area of park district business

that Commissioner Cilluffo has not tried to learn everything he can.

Even before he was elected two years ago, Frank had showed his serious commitment to our parks by attending two prior years of park meetings — just to learn what the issues were before he ran for office.

This is the kind of local candidate who takes our resources seriously.

He is obviously willing to put in the time to do his homework before he asks for our

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Although Commissioner Cilluffo has been a parks’ commissioner for only two years, he has already made a difference.

Maybe it’s because they are sort of the same age, Commissioner Cilluffo and our new parks’ Superintendent, Jason Marra, seem to have breathed new life into the kinds of programs the park district is exploring.

So now the work load among the commissioners is more evenly divided than it was

a few years ago, and that’s a good thing.

Bob Lincoln continues to lead the park district with the kind of measured respect that we’ve become used to, and Dan Nachmanoff still plays the old philosopher.

And now we have the “new kid”, Frank Cilluffo, who has already earned our respect and so should be rewarded with our votes on the 13th.

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Liv Markowitz Great Neck

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8 tapped for L.I. builders hall of fame

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Henry Klar

Lois Fricke

Michael Dubb

Mike Souto

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The Long Island Builders Institute recently inducted eight individuals into its hall of fame at a ceremony on Wednesday, Nov. 9 at the Woodbury Country Club.

The inductees were David Scro, Michael Dubb, Lois Fricke, Henry Klar, David Sloane, Mike Souto, John Ratto and Sigmund Spiegel.

“All of these individuals are the cream of the crop of LIBI members who, over the years, have accomplished so much in their careers,” Mitchell H. Pally, LIBI chief executive officer, said. “It was an honor to be part of such a great evening.”

Each inductee played a major role in the development of the real estate industry on Long Island, according to a press release from the Long Island Builders Institute.

“For over 75 years, the Long Island Builders Institute has led the way in the development of single family, multi-family and mixed use developments across Long Island, providing a home for millions of Long Islanders,” Brian Ferruggiari of AVR Realty and President of LIBI said. “The eight individuals added to our Hall of Fame have played major roles in meaningful real estate development throughout the years — including the building, marketing and selling of many Long Island homes.”

Adelphi trains $1.8M grant for spine study cancer helpers Dr. Nadeen Chahine of the Feinstein Institute for Medical Research in Manhasset was recently awarded a five-year, $1.8 million grant from the National Institutes of Health’s National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases to explore inflammation’s role in degenerative disc diseases of the spine.

Chahine’s study, “Mechanobiology of Inflammation in Intervertebral Disc,” will observe molecule and receptor interactions to determine the triggers of degenerated intervertebral discs in the spine, according to a press release from Feinstein.

IVD is a condition where the rubbery discs in the spine begin to shrink and lose integrity.

The study will follow the high

Photo: New Breast Cancer Hotline Volunteers Seated, from left: Randee Adan (Woodmere), Aimee Kurdt (Garden City), Yolanda Peter (St. Albans).

Standing: Debbie Langendorff (East Rockaway), Grace Verderame (East Islip), Christine Demosthenous (Westbury), Mary Massa Dr. Meryl Ain will speak with (Rockville Centre), Barbara Hammonds (Westbury), Niccretia guests regarding tips for getting Young (Jamaica).

Dr. Nadeen Chahine mobility group box one, HMGB1, molecule, a protein expressed by dying or stressed cells.

“Dr. Chahine is an extraordinary investigator, leading innovative research and this NIH

support is an important step to improve the lives of patients,” Dr. Kevin J. Tracey, president and chief executive officer of the Feinstein Institute said.

Chahine has said this protein could be a trigger for inflammation and disc degeneration.

“Disability and pain stemming from degenerated intervertebral discs affects more than 40 percent of adults in the US and costs more than $100 billion annually,” Chahine said. “I’m extremely grateful for NIAMS’ support to embark on this study, which brings together bioengineers, clinicians and biologists to explore a unique combination of inflammation and mechanobiology in this common condition that is understudied.”

Talk on grief during holidays

Nine women from throughout Nassau, Suffolk and Queens recently completed a 12-hour training session with the Adelphi New York Statewide Breast Cancer Hotline & Support Program.

As volunteers, the women will be taking calls from people concerned about breast cancer throughout New York State, and represent the hotline at health fairs and other educational programs, according to a press release from the Adelphi New York Statewide Breast Cancer Hotline.

“Breast cancer is no longer my grandmother’s disease,” Christina Demosthenous of Westbury said, who was 32 when she was diagnosed 11 years ago. “We younger women should know that breast cancer doesn’t stop us, it’s just another obstacle we need to cross — I wanted to be able to learn and educate more women in my community.”

To reach the Adelphi Breast Cancer Hotline, call (800) 877-8077.

through grief over the holidays and her new approach as well as sign purchased copies of her new book “My Living Memories Project Journal” on Tuesday, Nov. 29 at The Book Revue in Huntington at 7 p.m.

Ain is a grieving expert who offers advice to those who have experienced a loss, according to a press release from Allison Gayne.

“After the death of my mother,

I healed and comforted myself through research and writing — this journey allowed me to find a number of ways to help others overcome their losses by inspiring them to keep memories of their loved ones alive,” Ain said. “It is important for people to focus on how their loved one lived, rather than how he/she died.”

Book Revue is located at 313 New York Ave. in Huntington.

For additional information, visit thelivingmemoriesproject.com.

Dr. Meryl Ain

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Kron, Schwartz run in G.N. Continued from Page 2 He added that getting students prepared for the next level of their lives is important and that he would work to make them aware of all the options available to them.

Kron said he wants to “modernize the flow of information” between the board and the community through social media and ensure that the board hears all of the concerns from the community.

When it comes to the district’s budget, he said, he wants to make sure the community understands what is being voted on and that everyone’s voice is heard.

“What I think happens is parents trust in the district and therefore feel that they don’t have to worry about these sorts of things,” Kron said. “It becomes a problem when parents are not showing up for votes or important decisions and then stand back and say ‘that’s not what I wanted.’”

“The district has to listen to community and the community has to work with the district,” he added.

Kron said that through attending programs and events his children are involved with, he has gotten to meet a number of people from different backgrounds, which he said is a “unique opportunity” to get feedback and hear what the community wants.

He said voters should vote for him because of his business experiences and the fact that he has children attending schools in the district.

“What I want people to do is to think carefully about the election, about the right mix of skills and experience on the board,” Kron said. “I think that I fit nicely in the middle of the right age demographic with a vested interest because of my children in the school system and a strong understanding of how the real world works and keeping abreast with the latest technologies and techniques.”

Schwartz, a former United Parent-Teacher Council president, also said that it was important to have a member on the board with children in the district.

She said she moved to Great

Neck in 1996 shortly before getting married.

Schwartz said she had her own jacket manufacturing company, went on to sell it, but continued to work for the company as the vice president of business development.

She said she decided to retire after starting a family, which led to the beginning of her involvement with the Great Neck school system.

Starting with volunteering at the Great Neck Community School, Schwartz said, she went on to serve on various boards and committees on the schools her children attended: Saddle Rock Elementary School, John F. Kennedy Elementary School, Great Neck North Middle School and Great Neck North High School.

She said she was elected to be a delegate to the UPTC and served as co-chair of the Health Education Committee.

From 2012 to 2014, Schwartz served as UPTC president and served for a year on the board after her presidency as a member-at-large.

She currently serves as chair of the Total Community Involvement Committee and PTO co-president at North Middle School.

Schwartz said that her “motivating factor” to get involved in the school system was for more parental input and that one of her goals is to get more involvement from parents in the district.

“There is a lot of data that shows that strong parental involvement really does affect the efficacy of the schools and the achievement of, not only your particular children, but the children of the community,” she said. “I did feel very strongly that helping out to whatever capacity I could to achieve the goals of the administration and the teachers in all the schools would help not only my child, but all the children in the district.”

Schwartz said that through her community involvement, she has been able to meet people of different cultures and ethnicities and worked to “build bridges” connecting different groups.

“I think it’s really important

for a board of education to be able to align their vision to what the real vision is of the community,” she said. “Sometimes you assume that people feel a certain way, but unless you really build those bridges of friendship where they feel comfortable coming forward and really telling you what they feel, sometimes you get a surprise when you reach out in a meaningful way.”

Schwartz said one thing she would like to pursue if elected is finding a way to fully assess a student’s success beyond the use of standardized test scores.

“I would love to see all the stakeholders work on some sort of accurate assessment of the intangibles,” she said. “We have data that gives us the academic results, but our students come away with so much more.”

“We have so many programs that build 21st century skills like collaboration, the ability to build consensus, perseverance, things that are hard to assess,” Schwartz added.

She said the district should consider recording and archiving board meetings, as it is difficult for parents to find time to come to all the meetings that go in both in the district and in the various schools.

“If you’re a very active parent, to be able to consistently come to Board of Education meetings is practically impossible,” Schwartz said. “I think that would be enormously helpful to so many parents who just find it impossible to spend one more night away from home.”

She said voters should vote for her because of her understanding of the inner workings of the district and the process of getting things done.

“I think I have a depth and breadth of understanding of the programs that the schools offer and the understanding of love for your teachers, love for your schools, wanting to support them in the deepest of ways,” Schwartz said. “And also trying to look to the future to make sure you protect that for the future.”

The election will take place on Dec. 6 from 7 a.m. to 10 p.m. at the E.M. Baker School and Great Neck South High School.

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County offers homeless beds With cold weather approaching in the coming weeks, Nassau County Executive Edward Mangano has announced that WARMBED, Nassau County’s Emergency Shelter Relief Program for homeless individuals and families during the winter months, will be activated Wednesday, Nov. 23 beginning at 4:45 p.m.

“No resident should have to spend nights in the freezing cold when they can call the Nassau County Hotline and be placed in a warm shelter right away,” Mangano said. “Homeless residents calling the hotline will be connected immediately to a person who can help them get out of the cold and obtain the services they need to restart their lives — help is really just a phone call away.”

The Nassau County Winter Homeless Hotline, WARMBED, will operate seven days a week and run through March 31, 2017, according to a press release from the Nassau County executive office.

If winter conditions persist beyond March 31, the program will continue until warmer weather arrives.

Between the hours of 4:45 p.m. and 8 a.m., Monday thru Thursday, and Friday from 4:45 p.m. thru Monday at 8 a.m., employees from WARMBED and the Department of Social Services will make appropriate referrals and provide shelter placement.

Once placed, the staff at DSS and the Office of Housing & Community Development will contact those who are homeless in order to access resources for permanent housing.

Mangano also urges Nassau’s homeless veterans to take advantage of the WARMBED program, where they will be assisted by the Nassau County Veterans Services Agency.

During the 2015-16 season, a total of 287 individuals were housed by the WARMBED program — these referrals included 219 adults and 68 children.

NHP dancers win at contest

MOBA Dance Academy students took home national titles at the 2016 Sheer Talent National Competition. From left: Nicolette Ciociano won Ms. Pre-Teen, Nellie Licul won Ms. Senior, Eva Giacalone won Ms. Junior and Ellie Chang won Ms. Small Wonder.

MOBA’s first competition of the 2017 dance season will be at the Sheer Talent Regionals at the Brooklyn Marriott from Jan. 14 to 15.

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LIU Post prof takes silver screen

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IU Post assistant professor of film Lisa Robinson has directed a new film “Claire in Motion,” starring Betsey Brandt, who is best known for playing Marie in the television series “Breaking Bad.” Co-directed by Annie Howell, the film is a tale of a husband and wife who decide to embark on a hiking trip that quickly goes awry, when the husband goes missing.

Not only is the husband missing, but Claire, the main character, realizes she is missing crucial bits and pieces about their relationship.

Robinson said, during an interview with the Pioneer, the LIU Post student newspaper, that she did not have an “agenda” for this film, but she hopes the film allows viewers to understand the uncertainty of life, and how difficult it may be to find the real truth.

Initial impressions of someone or something may not be exactly what they were perceived to be, in the end.

“We wanted to tell a story about a woman who was at a time of her life when she felt like she knew who she was, who her husband was and then this event happens to upend and destroy some of what she knew and even her sense of herself,” said Robinson of the protagonist.

This is Robinson’s third film as both a writer and a director.

She directed and wrote the 2011 feature-length film “Small, Beautifully Moving Parts” as well as a short film, “Breaker,” in 2002.

Co-director Annie Howell understands that a

movie about a missing spouse isn’t anything new, but “Claire in Motion” changes that a bit.

“We knew there are narrative expectations that come with the missing person story, and it was exciting and challenging to subvert those,” Howell said.

Relationships are a recurring theme in Robinson’s films.

“Small, Beautifully Moving Parts” featured an anxious pregnant woman and “Breaker” featured a curious teen’s quest to know more about her father. Robinson received her B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley, and an M.F.A. from New York University’s Graduate Film Directing Program.

She is the recipient of the Martin E. Segal Prize, the Mitsubishi Digital Media

Lab Award for Excellence, and a New York Fo u n d a t i o n for the Arts Fellowship.

“Claire in Motion” was shot in Athens, Ohio and premiered at South by Southwest, a music and film festival, in March 2016.

It was the opening film at the Voice of A Woman film festival in lower Manhattan on Nov. 5. The film opens in theaters on Jan. 13, 2017.

This article was originally published in the Pioneer, LIU Post’s award-winning student newspaper that is celebrating its 60th anniversary in 2016, www.liupostpioneer.com. The article is republished by Blank Slate Media with the permission of the Pioneer.

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America became a global household name and paved the way with an impressive string of hits following the success of their first #1 single. Forty plus years later, these friends are still making music together, touring the world and thrilling audiences with their timeless sound.

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Ebi, the Internationally renowned singer, and as one of the most popular and enduring Persian singers, he is noted for his unique voice and is considered by many to be the best pop singer of his genre.

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Pooh Friday, Dec. 2 at 8 p.m.

Come celebrate 50 years of Pooh’s career through the musical notes of a repertoire that has made the history of Italian music and that will be converted to five voices for a historic live concert.

Where: 960 Brush Hollow Rd, Westbury Info: (516) 334-0800 • venue.thetheatreatwestbury.com

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Thursday, Dec. 1 at 8 p.m.

It was on that California street corner, just five years ago, that New York-born Andy Grammer earned his stripes as a pop star, truly shaping the rare and unique dimensions of the artist he is today. Signed by S-Curve Records, Grammer released his 2011 selftitled debut album and became the first male pop star in a decade, since John Mayer in 2002, to reach the Top 10 at Adult Pop Radio on his first two singles.

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Saturday, Nov. 26 at 8 p.m.

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Grammy winner and Long Islander Danny Weinkauf returns to the LICM Theater for some Thanksgiving weekend fun. The longtime bassist for They Might Be Giants wrote several of the bandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s popular childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s tunes, including â&#x20AC;&#x153;I Am a Paleontologist,â&#x20AC;? as well as â&#x20AC;&#x153;B is For Buildâ&#x20AC;? for â&#x20AC;&#x153;Sesame Street.â&#x20AC;?

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Come create and decorate your own paper cup drum craft. Be sure to stop by our Sound Showers gallery to play with our collection of international drums.

Where: In front of GCP Citibank at 2301 Jericho Turnpike, Garden City Park Info: (516) 741-2718

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THE CULINARY ARCHITECT

Twist on after-Thanksgiving dinners The day or two after Thanksgiving my family loves to eat turkey pot pie.

However, why does it have to be the unctuous cream loaded version with peas and carrots?

Haven’t you eaten enough at Thanksgiving?

I researched different types of French and Italian “pies” and came up with the following recipe.

It uses unami flavored mushrooms — 10 ounces of mushrooms only have 60 calories.

The recipe also includes Marsala wine, which gives it an Italian bent.

Add a healthy green leafed salad with vinaigrette dressing and you have a delicious meal that uses your Thanksgiving Turkey to the fullest.

I promise you that you will love this recipe so much that you will want to serve it often — just substitute roasted or rotisserie chicken for the turkey.

This, too, will become your traditional way to use turkey leftovers in your home.

MENU Serves 6 Healthier Turkey Pot Pie Green Leaf Salad* Extra Virgin Olive Oil Vinaigrette

A Healthier Turkey Pot Pie 1 tblsp. olive oil 1 medium onion, chopped finely 10 oz. mushrooms, such as button or cremini, thickly sliced 3 tbls Wondra flour 1 tsp. fresh thyme 1/2 tsp. paprika (I like Penzey’s) Salt and ground black pepper 1 lb. boneless leftover Turkey shredded into chunks (or chicken) 2 tblsps. butter 1 cup homemade chicken broth 1/2 cup of dried wild mushrooms soaked in 3/4 cup of Marsala in the refrigerator 1 sheet puff pastry 1 egg, beaten with 1 tblsp. water 1. Heat oil over medium heat and add the onions and cook, stirring often, until the onions are softened. Then add the button mushrooms. Cook, stirring, until mushrooms are browned and slightly softened.

2. Now add the wild mushrooms and the Marsala, stir. Add butter and melt over medium heat.

Add turkey and cook for 5 minutes.

Extra Virgin Olive Oil Vinaigrette

ALEXANDRA TROY The Culinary Architect Sprinkle in Wondra and stir. Pour in stock, Scrape bottom of the pan and let simmer about 5 minutes, until thickened. Taste for salt, pepper and adjust the seasonings. Heat oven to 400 degrees.

3. Transfer turkey and sauce to a 9-inch round pie dish or 8-inch square baking dish, sprayed with oil.

Drape puff pastry over filling, making a few slits of decorative holes on top. tuck edges down around filling and brush crust with egg wash.

Place on a baking sheet to catch any overflow before transferring to oven.

4. Bake until crust is browned and filling is bubbling, 20 to 30 minutes.

Let cool slightly, at least 10 minutes before serving with a big spoon.

1 tblsp. balsamic vinegar 1 cup best quality olive oil Salt and Pepper to taste 1/4 cup red wine vinegar 1 pinch sugar 1. Mix vinegars and olive oil together in a tightly capped jar.

Shake. Add seasoning and shake vigorously. Serve with green leaf salad.

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Butterflies welcome at Arts & Entertainment Calendar new museum garden The Science Museum of Long Island in Plandome Manor recently unveiled a butterfly-attracting garden behind the museum’s main building on Saturday, Nov. 5.

The unveiling was held courtesy of The Grounds Guys of Garden City, who donated the services of the landscaping company’s crew, plant materials, and landscape design, and volunteers from the community, according to a press release from the Science Museum of Long Island.

“Each year, I select a local not-forprofit organization as the recipient of a ‘give-back-to-the-community’ activity — this year, we chose the museum as the site for our “We Care Initiative,”” Jim Schim-

menti, owner of The Grounds Guys said.

Several museum members turned out to volunteer, and half a dozen eighthgrade boys from Manhasset were on hand.

Webelo Cub Scouts from New Hyde Park’s Troop 201 also pitched in to assist the professionals. ” “Our new butterfly garden is not only a gorgeous addition to the preserve, but also serves as a teaching tool for our onsite springtime butterfly programs,” Cara O’Donnell, chief administrator at the museum said.

For more information, visit www.smli. org or call (516) 627-9500, ext. 12.

LANDMARK ON MAIN STREET 232 Main Street, Suite 1 Port Washington (516) 767-1384 ext. 101 www.landmarkonmainstreet.org Thanksgiving weekend, Nov. 26 and 27 The Nutcracker, Long Island Ballet Theatre’s Annual Classic GARVIES POINT MUSEUM 50 Barry Dr. in Glen Cove (516) 571-8010/11 • www.garviespointmuseum.com THE 50+ COMEDY TOUR 2016 SCHEDULE Saturday, Dec. 31 at 6 p.m. and 8 p.m. at Theatre Three in Port Jefferson Paul Anthony Rich Walker Keith Anthony Saturday, Dec. 31 at 8 p.m. at The Madison Theatre in Rockville Centre Eric Haft Tina Giorgi Rob Falcone Saturday, Dec. 31 at 8 p.m. at Cultural Arts Playhouse in Syosset Peter Bales Steve Lazarus Carie Karavis NYCB THEATRE AT WESTBURY 960 Brush Hollow Road, Westbury (516) 247-5200 venue.thetheatreatwestbury.com Friday, Nov. 25 at 7 p.m. Saturday Nov. 26 at 7 p.m. and 9:30 p.m.

Jim Gaffigan:Fully Dressed Sunday, Nov. 27 at 8 p.m.

Sirius XM pres. The Brian Setzer 13th Annual Christmas Rocks! Tour Wednesday, Nov. 30 at 8 p.m.

Ralphie May THE SPACE AT WESTBURY 250 Post Ave., Westbury (516) 283.5566 www.thespaceatwestbury.com Saturday, Nov. 26 at 9 p.m.

Ebi Friday, Dec. 2 at 8 p.m.

America Saturday, Dec. 10 at 8 p.m.

Alive! ’75, Schism and Live After Death Friday, Dec. 16 at 8 p.m.

KTFO and ACC Presents: Worlds Collide Thursday, Dec. 29 at 8 p.m.

Gogol Bordello THE PARAMOUNT 370 New York Ave., Huntington (631) 673-7300 ext. 303 www.paramountny.com Friday, Nov. 25 at 8 p.m. and Saturday, Nov. 26 at 8 p.m.

Dark Star Orchestra – Celebrating The Grateful Dead Experience: Fall Tour 2016 (2 Nights) Thursday, Dec. 1 at 8 p.m.

Andy Grammer with Special Guests Oak & Ash and Sir Cadian Rhythm Friday, Dec. 2 at 8 p.m.

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Daughtry Acoustic Trio Sunday, Dec. 4 at 8 p.m.

Glorious Dead Presents: Flatbush Zombies “3001: The Tour” Thursday, Dec. 8 at 8 p.m.

BLI’s ”Home for the Holidays Concert” Featuring Long Island¹s own: Jon Bellion & Nick Tangorra - A Benefit for Cohen Children¹s Medical Center Tuesday, Dec. 13 at 8 p.m.

Gavin DeGraw ADELPHI UNIVERSITY PERFORMING ARTS CENTER Westermann Stage, 1 South Avenue, Garden City (516) 877-4000 aupac.adelphi.edu Wednesday, Nov. 30 to Sunday, Dec. 4 Fall Dance Adelphi: Aszure Barton Sunday, Dec. 16 at 8 p.m.

The Celtic Tenors LONG ISLAND CHILDREN’S MUSEUM 11 Davis Avenue, Garden City 516-224-5800 • www.licm.org Tuesday through Friday (Nov. 1-30) from 2:30 to 4 p.m.

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LICM Theater - Danny Weinkauf and the Red Pants Band Saturday, Nov. 26 from 2 to 4 p.m.

The Beat of Your Own Drum Tuesday, Nov. 29 and Thursday, Dec. 1 from 11:30 a.m. to 12 p.m. stART (Story + Art) Thursday, Dec. 1 and Friday, Dec. 2 from 2:30 p.m. to 4 p.m.

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Messy Afternoons Sunday, Dec. 4 from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m.

Winter Wonders LAMANTIA FINE ART GALLERY 127 Main Street, Northport (631) 754-8414 If I Ran The Zoo — The Secret Art of Dr. Seuss Exhibiting through Sunday, Nov. 27 GOVERNORS’ COMEDY CLUB 90 Division Ave. Levittown (516) 731-3358 • http://tickets.govs.com/ index.cfm Friday, Nov. 25 at 7:30 p.m. and 10 p.m.

Mike Bisbiglia’s Working It Out Saturday, Nov. 26 at 7 p.m. and 9:30 p.m.

Bobby Collins Friday, Dec. 2 at 8 p.m.

Tim Krompier Saturday, Dec. 3 at 7 p.m. and 9:30 p.m.

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Irrational thoughts are unhealthy We all have our concerns.

Dire or trivial these issues weigh us down.

They take up space. We may not reflect on them every day but they certainly cross our minds and when they do we may feel negative emotions: depression, frustration, remorse, regret, shame or embarrassment.

It is healthy to express strong emotions when something goes wrong in your life and should be encouraged.

It is part of the healing process.

But what if those emotions are damaging?

What if they compound our problems and make them worse?

If someone were to experience a loss of a relationship or loss of job, we would likely expect this person to feel sadness.

Such an emotion would be appropriate for these circumstances.

However, what if this person’s feelings deteriorated into depression that caused him to isolate and turn away from the people who would love and

support him?

What if this depression crippled her motivation to pursue a new job? Would these emotions be rational?

According to the rational emotive behavior therapy framework, a rational belief is preferential — i.e., non-absolute — in nature and is expressed in the form of a desire, wish, want or like.

“I wish the circumstances concerning my job were different.”

These beliefs are considered rational because they are flexible — we accept that we don’t always get what we want) and they don’t impede us in the attainment of our goals.

“Losing my job was bad, but not terrible. I don’t like it, but I can deal with it and find another job.”

On the other hand, irrational beliefs are expressed in the rigid form of musts, shoulds, oughts, and so on.

“The life I live must absolutely be the way I want it to be, and if it isn’t I’ll be miserable, poor me.”

“I must be successful and

JEREMY SKOW approved of by others, and if I’m not, then I can’t be happy.”

Irrational beliefs tend to lead to inappropriate negative emotions such as anxiety, depression, shame and anger.

They are inappropriate for three reasons: 1. they cause the individual to experience a great deal of pain and discomfort; 2. they can motivate someone to engage in self-defeating behavior; 3. they can impede someone from carrying out behaviors necessary to reach their goals.

Our goal for happier living would therefore be realized

by minimizing our irrational thoughts.

Awareness is the first step toward cleaning out your emotional closet. The more you are aware of your torment-creating irrational thoughts, feelings and behaviors, the more successful you will be at getting rid of them.

It might be easy to recognize if you are severely anxious or depressed. Recognizing the appropriateness of these emotions may be much harder.

The next step involves actively disputing your irrational beliefs. When you are irrational you oppose reason and refuse to accept things for the way they truly are.

Where is the proof that I am unattractive to others because I lost my job?

Where is the evidence that the loss of my job indicates I am incompetent and unlikely to ever experience success again?

The third step is based on the rational emotive behavior therapy theory that we have the ability to change our thoughts and feelings by acting against them.

Thoughts, feelings and behaviors are believed to interact and affect each other.

Crazy ideas lead to frantic feelings and strange acts.

Frenzied feelings bring on foolish notions and behaviors.

Rash actions cause bizarre convictions and delirious emotions.

The fear of a pool might only be overcome if you actively decide to test the waters.

Forcing yourself to keep doing what you are afraid of has the potential of ridding you of your irrational fears.

This spring inventory your thoughts, feelings and behaviors. Make an effort to challenge yourself when you’re being irrational.

Focus on behaviors that are consistent with your goals and live happier.

Jeremy Skow maintains a private practice in Manhasset at (516) 322-9133.

For speaking engagements or media inquiries, you may reach Mr. Skow in his office, by email: jskow@lmhcny.com or www. mentalhealthcounselingny.com

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UNDERSTANDING VEIN DISEASE

by Dr. Mark Schwartz MD, FACS, RPVI

Vein disease is a common ailment that affects 30% to 50% of the adult U.S. population. Symptoms may include pain, swelling, superficial blood clots, skin changes and even ulcer formation on the lower extremities. With awareness, however, symptoms can be caught at an early stage and treatments as well as preventative measures can be taken. Typically, women are often more affected than men, but men present with more severe symptoms including skin changes and ulcer formation.

A series of one-way valves control the actual flow of the blood in the veins. When valves malfunction and fail to operate properly, disease may develop. In this case, it may allow blood to leak or flow backwards especially in the lower extremities. This backward flow, called venous reflux, is what precipitates symptoms. These symptoms arise from an elevated blood pressure in the veins and may be referred to as venous hypertension. This process leads to an intense inflammatory process both in the vein wall and valves as well as the skin and underlying healthy tissue.

Spider veins and varicose veins are two of the more common vein problems in which people are typically more familiar. Spider veins lie just below the skin’s surface and usually appear as red or blue blotches. They are typically not dangerous and are simply cosmetic in nature.

Varicose veins also lie just below the

issue and are visually undesirable; skin’s surface but may represent therefore, many patients prefer to a more serious problem and have them treated. It is a relative require medical attention. They easy procedure and can quickly be often appear as twisted, bulging done in a doctor’s office with the or lumpy veins and are usually injection of a sclerosing agent or quite noticeable. Varicose veins topical skin laser. Varicose veins and underlying venous hypertenwith underlying venous valvular sion may lead to blood clots, insufficiency can be treated with skin damage, inflammation and minimally invasive procedures, leg ulcers if left untreated. with little or no down time and can Symptoms can often be present for many months or years withDr. Mark Schwartz be performed in the doctor’s office as well. out escalating into serious probThere are a variety of non-invasive minilems. When symptoms develop slowly, people start to accept them as part of the regular mal venous treatments that will eliminate the aches and pains associated with aging and visible effects and potentially prevent more serious health risks. These minimal invasive simply ignore their presence.

In addition to the appearance of spider or procedures include endovenous radiofrevaricose veins, there are many other symp- quency ablation, endovenous laser ablation toms to watch for including swelling, discol- and ultrasound-guided foam sclerotherapy oration with inflammation, along with com- among others. All of the modalities listed plaints of pain, heaviness and tenderness have completely eliminated the need for along the affected areas. Some patients have painful stripping procedures that led to proa sensation of itching or burning within the longed convalescence, hospital admissions affected leg. Another complaint is restless leg and general anesthesia. All patients with syndrome. This typically occurs during the symptomatic vein insufficiency can be treatnight as the cramping leg muscles contract to ed, almost regardless of age. We have treatpush the blood out of the legs back toward ed patients as young as 16 and as old as 95.

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General Surgery and Phlebology (specialist in the diagnosis and treatment of disorders of venous origin). He is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons, is certified in vascular ultrasound interpretation and holds the RPVI degree from the American Registry of Diagnostic Medical Sonographers. He has been consistently named one of America's Top Surgeons by the Consumer Research Council of America and a Top Doctor by Castle Connolly Medical Ltd. Dr. Schwartz serves as the Medical Director of the North Shore Vein Center, a national training center for advanced vein treatment, where physicians travel from across the country to learn about his advanced techniques and cutting edge technologies in the management of vein disease.

The Center is the largest vein dedicated facility on Long Island, where over 10,000 vein procedures are performed annually. The North Shore Vein Center is fully certified by the Intersocietal Accreditation Commission (IAC). The IAC endorses expertise in the field of venous disease, certifying that the center’s procedures and processes are of the highest standards in the management of venous disease. The North Shore Vein Center is one of the first 50 centers across the country to achieve this distinction, is the only accredited facility in Nassau County, Queens and Brooklyn, and is only one of 5 such facilities in the entire State of New York to receive this recognition.

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Massage is the conversation that a therapist has with the musculature of the human body that helps relax and figure out what is going on by mapping out the connections between muscles, their attachments and the network of neighboring muscle groups. There is nothing like getting a great massage after a long week- especially when that week has been particularly grueling and the mental gymnastics are abuzz.

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Simple ways to dress up your home for the holidays T

he holiday season is rife with traditions that focus on fun and family. One such testament to the festive spirit of the holiday season is the many homes and businesses decorated with the lights and colors that have become synonymous with the season.

Decorating for the holiday season can be time-consuming. While decking the halls may not consume as much time as holiday shopping and wrapping presents, according to data from a 2013 American Time Use Survey, interior and exterior decorating for the holidays may consume anywhere from 2.5 to 3 hours per session.

Holiday decorating includes things as simple as setting up a menorah or as complex as stringing lights on the exterior of a home. Though elaborate displays can take hours to erect, timecrunched holiday celebrants can still create festive, welcoming displays.

Hang holiday wreaths. Holiday enthusiasts without much time to decorate can invest in a couple of holiday wreaths, which can be dressed up as much or as little as celebrants prefer. If you do not have the time to string lights on the house, wrap them around wreaths hung in windows or hang the wreaths on a home’s main entrance. Celebrants who want to go a less traditional route can hang wreaths made of holly, citrus fruits, ribbons, or any other greenery instead of the more customary evergreen wreaths.

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Decorate with ornaments. Ornaments are not exclusive to Christmas trees.

Fill a vase or bowl with metallic

ornaments and place it in a prominent location, such as a busy hallway or the foyer of your home. Hang ornaments on clear filament from the mantle or within the main window of the house, where they can reflect tree lights and add sparkle.

Bring in more greenery. Drape evergreen boughs on staircase handrailings or on the mantle, or use greenery to frame doorways. The scent will be inviting and things instantly will look more festive.

Use throws and decorative pillows.

Change the look of a room with holiday-colored decor if you do not want to clutter the space with knickknacks. A red and green blanket draped over the sofa can give off a comforting holiday vibe.

Focus on the front door and entryway. Celebrants who do not have the time to decorate their entire homes can create a warm, inviting space by decorating their front doors and entryways. Place greenery, bows, tinsel, lights, and winter-inspired accessories by the front door so friends and family visiting for the season catch the holiday spirit the moment they walk through the door.

Place LED candles in windows.

Rather than contending with twinkle lights and electric cords, homeowners can employ battery-operated faux candles to create a homey appeal in windows and hallways throughout their homes.

Simplify holiday decorating with some easy tips to make houses cozy and festive.

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5 ways to make holiday guests comfortable T

he time between Thanksgiving and New Year’s Day marks one of the busiest periods of the year for long-distance travel. The United States Department of Transportation says that come Thanksgiving, the number of long-distance trips (50+ miles away) increases by 54 percent, and around Christmas that number rises by 23 percent over the remainder of the year. Those travelers ultimately need a place to rest their heads, and many stay with family and friends.

Entertaining during the holiday season involves accounting for guests’ comfort, and that often means hosts must put their visitors’ needs over their own. Although some sacrifices need to be made, there is a way to find a happy compromise that can help the holidays go smoothly and happily.

Consider these ways to help guests feel welcome whether they stay for a few hours or a few days.

1. Cater to specific dietary needs.

One of the ways to treat guests kindly is by being aware of any special dietary needs they may have when it comes to preparing holiday meals or other foods during their visits. Some guests may require low-sodium diets, while others may be monitoring their blood-sugar levels and must dine accordingly. Vegetarians and vegans limit the foods they eat, while others may avoid foods based on religious preferences. Offer a variety of foods and try to cater to guests’ needs as much as possible. When in doubt, consult with the guest so he or she feels welcome and does not go hungry.

2. Make sleeping spaces as private as possible. Not everyone has a separate guest room for overnight stays, but try to make sleeping areas as private as you can when visitors spend the night. Use privacy screens or set guests up in a family room that’s away from the center of activity. Hosts may want to give up their own rooms for the comfort of guests.

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3. Offer storage space. One way to make guests feel comfortable is to give them their own storage space. This can include space in a closet, a couple of drawers to stow their belongings,

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Guests are a large part of the holiday season. Help them feel comfortable whenever they visit your home.

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Select educational gifts for children

When shopping for holiday gifts for children, shoppers can easily be overwhelmed by the many toys, electronics, apparel and other items available for kids. Those who may not be up-to-date on the latest trends may even find shopping for kids a bit like solving a difficult puzzle.

While some shoppers may want to get kids the flashiest toy, others may prefer gifts that are both fun and mentally stimulating.

Developmental toys and educational games for kids make for popular gifts. Toy and game manufacturers continue to develop products that integrate logic, reasoning, language stimulation, and motor skill development. Shoppers looking for fun, educational toys and games for the kids on their shopping lists have a host of items to choose from.

Building blocks: Blocks that enable children to design and construct are popular among youngsters of various ages. Blocks come in many different forms, from early education wooden blocks that fill nursery floors to the more intricate, interlocking building sets that are coveted by older children.

STEM toys: Some of the latest trends in children’s toys veer away from regular video games and apps and cater to the rising interest in STEM. STEM is an acronym for science, technology and math. Early introduction to STEM-related skills can pay dividends later in life, considering students who have an emphasis on STEM knowledge are highly coveted among

employers. STEM toys may include robotbuilding kits, toys that help young learners test the boundaries of physics, apps that help kids learn computer programing, and even scientific experiment kits that illustrate cause and effect.

Sensory toys: Young children can benefit from toys that stimulate the senses. Items to consider include water toys, sands (including the newer kinetic varieties), playdoughs, musical instruments, and bubbles. Even food-related toys, such as those that encourage baking or cooking, will appeal to various senses and can help kids learn valuable skills.

Imaginative play toys: Imaginative play is an effective way to stimulate creative thinking and may help children become better learners.

The Creativity Institute, specializing in toys for creative play, says playing is important to children and the way they practice growing up.

According to an article by Dr. Scott Kaufman that appeared in Psychology Today, “Systematic research has increasingly demonstrated a series of clear benefits of children’s engagement in pretend games from the ages of about two and one half through ages six or seven.” Dress-up toys, puppets, dolls, action figures, and toys that mimic real-life activities are all examples of products that promote imaginative play.

Educational toys can be included on holiday gifting lists. Not only will they encourage children to play and have fun, but they’ll serve as building blocks to a lifetime of learning as well.

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Diet and exercise needs change as men and women age

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aintaining a healthy weight is important at any age. But avoiding being overweight or obese can be particularly crucial for seniors, considering many illnesses are tied to body weight.

Maintaining a healthy immune system also can require eating a balanced, nutritionally sound diet.

The Geriatric Research, Education, and Clinical Center at Durham Medical Center in Virginia says people need to change how they eat for every decade they reach. Caloric intake should be reduced because individuals are generally moving around less, have less muscle and their metabolic rates decline. People who find that they are having trouble losing weight in their 50s and older may be basing weight-loss goals on calorie recommendations for younger people.

One challenging thing about eating less overall is supplementing with more nutrient-rich foods. Older bodies still require similar amounts of protein, vitamins and minerals as younger ones, but older men and

women must balance that need with their need to consume less calories. Consuming more fruits, vegetables and lean protein sources, including beans, and choosing whole grains over refined starchy foods can be the key.

Watch what you drink, as well. Soft drinks and other sugary beverages may be packed with calories you don’t need. Choose unsweetened beverages and opt for water as much as possible. Protect yourself against dehydration, which can be harder to detect as you get older.

In addition to modifying food and beverage choices and reducing their calorie intake, seniors should continue to exercise. Healthy eating paired with moderate exercise remains one of the best combinations for healthy weight loss or weight maintenance. The goal is to consume fewer calories and expend more energy. While cardiovascular exercises can be a good way to get the heart pumping and stimulate your metabolic rate, as you age you should perform strength-training and weight-bearing exercises as well. Muscle mass naturally diminishes with age, and according to the Mayo Clinic if you avoid

strength exercises you can eventually lose muscle and increase the percentage of fat in your body.

Strength training also helps you develop stronger bones, which can help prevent fractures. In addition, as you gain muscle, your body will begin to burn calories more efficiently, making your time in and out of the gym more productive.

Apart from diet and exercise, aging adults may need to consult with their doctors about nutritional supplements. Your body may produce less stomach acid as you get older, making it more difficult to absorb vitamins from food, including vitamin B12 and vitamin D. Aging skin is less able to transform sunlight into the vitamin, which can affect the body’s ability to absorb calcium. Deficiencies in vitamins D and B12 and calcium can result in a number of health conditions.

Routine blood work can help pinpoint whether you are deficient in key nutrients.

The body’s nutritional and fitness needs change as a person ages. Those uncertain about the lifestyle changes they will need to make should speak with their physicians.

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epetitive stress injuries, or RSIs, can impact muscles, ligaments, tendons, and nerves. Though The Mayo Clinic estimates that three million people in the United States are affected by such injuries, some may not fully understand just how they reached a point where they are suffering from an RSI. RSIs are a condition that occurs when too much stress is placed on one part of the body, typically a joint, over and over again, resulting in inflammation and potential tissue damage. RSIs typically happen when a person repeats the same movements again and again. It comes as no surprise then that RSIs are commonly experienced by athletes and office workers.

The elderly are most affected by RSIs, but these types of injuries are also known to occur in younger adults and children. These injuries tend to develop over time and tend go unnoticed in their early stages.

Prevention is the best defense against RSIs. Start by using proper equipment at all times to help keep the body protected and in neutral positions.

Such equipment may include support devices for wrists or knees, and shoes that fit well and provide ample support.

Athletes should make sure their gear is properly sized to their bodies.

Using the wrong size tennis racket, for example, may contribute to elbow strain when serving and hitting.

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muscles, which help support joints in the body. Speak with a doctor or nutritionist if you suspect your diet has room for improvement.

RSIs can be troublesome for office workers. Maintaining neutral body positioning is the best defense against pain and injury, according to the pain prevention resource Tifaq.com.

Tifaq.com suggests following these procedures in addition to stretching and exercising at the office: â&#x20AC;˘ Keep your head level, forward facing and in line with your torso. â&#x20AC;˘ Feet should be flat on the floor or on a footrest. â&#x20AC;˘ Shoulders can be relaxed and arms hanging normally at your sides. Your elbows should be at about 90-degree angles. â&#x20AC;˘ Support your back with a lumbar support or a small pillow. â&#x20AC;˘ Sit vertically or lean back slightly while at your desk. â&#x20AC;˘ Keep frequently used items close by so you do not need to stretch. â&#x20AC;˘ Position your monitor so it is directly in front of you and at eye level. â&#x20AC;˘ Take frequent breaks to stretch or take a walk around the office.

Examples of RSIs include carpal tunnel syndrome, rotator cuff injuries, tendinitis, and trigger finger.

Always consult with a doctor if pain from routine activities is persistent.

Individuals may benefit from working with a physical therapist to learn strategies to avoid RSI activities.

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Anger in America leads to health woes class finally shouted in unison, “We’re mad as hell and we’re not going to take this anymore!”

When a nation feels chronic anger for These are interesting times in Amerso many years people will either drink ica.

Nearly every major intersection on too much, eat too much, turn to medicaLong Island has a CVS, Walgreens or Rite tion or get sick. And lots of people do all Aid drugstore open 24/7. And the reason of the above. And when all these things the pharmaceutical industry thrives is be- fail they overturn the government.

This is what happened this year. In cause there is now an epidemic of psychosome way we are undergoing a revolution. somatic illnesses in America.

We witnessed the collapse of the twoMy research as well as Dr. Paul Shorter’s suggests that nine out of 10 Americans party system and a full-on repudiation of experience some psychosomatic illness the Washington establishment.

And what we now see is the expreswithin any one-month period.

They will report headaches, back sion of anger from nearly every segment pain, skin problems, digestive illness or of America.

Liberals transient infecmarch in the tion or pain. streets, conservaDespite an tives shout epiabundance of thets, the media available health expresses its disprofessionals of gust, Broadway all kinds, people shows like “Hamseem to be sicker ilton’’ pronounce than ever. Why is their concerns to this? the audience and Firstly as sothe presidentcial media has elect tweets his grown there has indignation in been a simultathe middle of the neous loss of real night. Madness is community.

It upon us. has gone so far The label that now iPads “Ugly American’’ are regularly inis truer today stalled in strollers than ever before. so the infants can Trump is the watch TV. quintessential exLong gone emplar of aggresare the days of sion, competitivethose predicable ness, arrogance, and friendly fam- These are angry times in America. entitlement and ily dinners to convulgarity. nect with those However, he is also a man for our you love.

We are all on the go and very busy times.

The silent majority has finally spoken. chasing the American dollar and the It has suffered long enough, for nearly American dream.

In fact we’re all so busy we wouldn’t four decades and this has resulted in a recognize the American dream if it hit us population with an abundance of menin the nose. We are like that scene in “Al- tal illness, drug addictions, obesity and a ice in Wonderland” where the Mad Hatter growing list of psychosomatic diseases.

President-elect Donald Trump, a man says “I’m late, I’m late for a very important with no political experience at all, won date.”

The result of this endless rushing because he remains America’s last great hope. about is anger, lots and lots of anger.

I can’t complain one bit because the Our current epidemic of psychosomatcurrent emotional state in America has ic illnesses is based upon the above.

The MIT professor Noam Chom- given me a thriving psychoanalytic pracsky refers to this as generalized anger in tice.

But others do have a right to complain America. The failure of the middle class to achieve economic growth has resulted and do have a right to feel neglected and in chronic overwork for nearly every mid- enraged.

In all revolutions boundaries collapse, dle-class family.

Mothers work, fathers work overtime protocol is demolished and propriety ends. and kids are left to fend for themselves.

Trump tweets madly away as a It doesn’t take a genius to understand that Donald Trump’s election was largely Broadway show expresses its concern to Vice President-elect Mike Pence, who was based upon generalized American rage.

Like Howard Beale in the 1976 black in the audience.

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How occupational therapy can help chronic pain sufferers

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Chronic pain sufferers can benefit from working with occupational therapists.

illions of people suffer from acute or chronic pain every year, and the effects of that pain extend far and wide. While pain sufferers understandably focus their attention on treating their conditions, it’s important for all people to recognize the nonphysical burdens pain places on people as well.

Estimates vary regarding the overall financial burden of chronic pain on healthcare systems, but numerous studies have suggested the overall costs are in the neighborhood of half a billion dollars every year. A recent report from the Institute of Medicine estimated that pain costs American society as much as $635 billion every year, a figure that includes both the costs associated with treating pain and the money forfeited to lost productivity.

The costs of chronic pain are substantial in Canada as well. Though the population of Canada is just 35 million (compared to nearly 320 million in the United States), a

2010 report estimated the costs associated with chronic pain and lost productivity and sick days in Canada to be around $37 billion annually.

Chronic pain can be uncomfortable and costly, but there are ways to manage the effects of chronic pain and lead an active, productive life.

Occupational therapy is one way for chronic pain sufferers to combat their conditions and improve their quality of life.

What is occupational therapy?

According to the American Occupational Therapy Association, occupational therapists and their assistants utilize everyday activities to help chronic pain sufferers participate in the things they want to do and need to do, including work.

What can occupational therapists do?

Chronic pain sufferers rely on occupational therapists in various ways. Occupational therapists may identify the cause of their patients’ pain, suggesting alternatives to activities or behaviors that aggravate that pain. Such identification may include evaluations of patients’ homes and work environments.

Occupational therapists also

teach methods for decreasing the frequency and duration of painful episodes. This may include adapting environments that tend to trigger pain.

For example, if an office environment is identified as the cause of the pain or a primary trigger, occupation therapists can recommend adjustments and equipment to make that environment less conducive to pain. Occupational therapists also teach clients how to use the equipment so their pain decreases while they perform necessary tasks, such as those associated with their jobs.

Many occupational therapists work in conjunction with other healthcare professionals who are treating their clients.

This cooperation can help to determine the ideal course of treatment and may help patients hesitant to treat their conditions with medication find other avenues to overcome their chronic pain.

Chronic pain is a potentially formidable foe that affects millions of people across the globe. Chronic pain sufferers can learn more about the role occupational therapists can play in combating their conditions by visiting www. aota.org.

Anger in America leads to health woes Continued from Page 49 Trump promises a big wall to hold us all together, to keep intruders away and to re-establish an American identity.

Shaky times for America and I have never seen such political interest. This seems even more sinister and more important than the cultural revolutions of the late 1960s.

Maybe that’s the way it ought to be. It’s been said that this revolution is a backlash to the cultural changes that began in the 1960s.

We’ve all been wondering when things will begin to get better. We all know there is too much road rage, too many school shootings, too much competition, too much overwork, too much drug use, too much exhaustion, too

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much illness and too much malaise.

The pharmaceutical industry and the social media industry are just about the only industries that seem to be thriving.

So let us pray there will be real change, real growth and real connection in our homes and towns.

Who would have guessed that a man called Donald Trump would be needed to bring some hope and some peace to

our land. And if he succeeds I guarantee that we will slowly begin to see less use of medication, less illness, less alcoholism, less obesity and more of a sense of community.

My guess is that America is looking for some spiritual light leading us out of our current malaise. But until that light comes along we may have to settle for a new president.

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A&E Calendar cont’d Continued from Page 30 BROKERAGE COMEDY CLUB 2797 Merrick Road, Bellmore (516) 781-LAFF (5233) GovernorsFeedback@gmail.com Friday, Nov. 25 at 8 p.m.

John Mulroney with Mick Thomas Saturday, Nov. 26 at 3 p.m.

Billy Kelly/Family Comedy Show Saturday, Nov. 26 at 7 p.m. and 10 p.m.

Mike Bisbiglia’s Working It Out Friday, Dec. 2 at 8 p.m. and Saturday, Dec. 3 at 7:30 p.m. and 10 p.m.

Kurt Metzger Northport Chorale’s Holiday Concert, with selections performed with the Northport Community Band Laurel Hill Road, Northport www.northportchorale.org Contact Debi at (631) 223-3789 Friday, Dec. 9 at 8 p.m.

OLD WESTBURY GARDENS 71 Old Westbury Rd, Westbury 516-333-0048 • www.oldwestburygardens. org Wednesdays and Sundays at 10:30 a.m.

Tai Chi Thursdays and Saturdays at 11:15 a.m.

Yoga NASSAU COUNTY MUSEUM OF ART 1 Museum Dr., Roslyn (516) 484-9338 www.nassaumuseum.org Nov. 19 to March 5, 2017 Ansel Adams: Sight and Feeling Nov. 19 to March 5, 2017 Light Works: 100 Years of Photos Nov. 19 to March 5, 2017 New Photos: Long Island Collects Ongoing Sculpture Park Walking Trails Gardens Events FILM SCREENING Nov. 19 to March 5, 2017 Stryker’s America: Photographing the Great Depression FILM SCREENING Nov. 19 to March 5, 2017 Cartier-Bresson’s Century For The Family Sundays, 1 p.m. to 4 p.m.

Family Tour at 1 p.m.

Art Activities at 1:30 p.m.

Jan. 8, 22, 29 Feb. 5, 12, 19, 26 Neiman Marcus Family Sundays at the Museum Sunday, January 15, 1 p.m. to 4 p.m.

Super Family Sunday Merrymaking in a Gold Coast Mansion 11 a.m. – 2 p.m.

Tuesday, Feb. 21 Wednesday, Feb. 22 Thursday, Feb. 23 Family Art Making Days February Three-Day Break for Art New Program Tuesdays, 1 p.m. to 2 p.m.

Jan. 17, Feb. 14 Sketching in the Galleries Exhibition Lecture Thursdays. 1-2 p.m.

January 5, February 2 Brown Bag Lectures: Riva Ettus

THE DOLPHIN BOOK SHOP & CAFE 299 Main St., Port Washington (516) 767-2650 • www.thedolphinbookshop. com Fridays at 11 a.m.

Music in the Cafe The ART Guild 200 Port Washington Blvd.

Manhasset www.TheArtGuild.org Dec. 8 and Jan. 12 from 6:30 p.m. to 9 p.m.

Sip & Sketch — Life Drawing — Second Thursday of the month Friday, Nov. 18 at 7 p.m. at Village Club of Sands Point Art Lover’s Fling HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL AND TOLERANCE CENTER OF NASSAU COUNTY 100 Crescent Beach Road, Glen Cove (516) 571-8040 • http://www.hmtcli.org Barnes & Noble Bookfair Sunday, Dec. 11 from 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m.

1542 Northern Boulevard Manhasset Up to 20 percent of your purchases benefits HMTC’s Holocaust and anti-bullying education programs.

Must mention HMTC at checkout or Bookfair ID 11993094.

Conference on Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Wednesday, Nov. 30 at 7:30 p.m.

The attack on Jewish college students and companies doing business in Israel Keynote speaker New York State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli Old Westbury Hebrew Congregation 21 Old Westbury Road Old Westbury (516) 433-0433 Professional Development Workshop for teachers with Facing History and Ourselves Wonder: The Challenge of Difference Dec. 14 from 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m.

MOLLOY COLLEGE 1000 Hempstead Ave. Rockville Centre A Gospel According to Jazz Christmas with Kirk Whalum & Norman Brown Saturday, Nov. 26 at 8 p.m.

Book Signing by NY Times Best Selling Author, Anne Rice Tuesday, Nov. 29 at 6 p.m.

The Art of James Lewicki Nov. 28 thru Dec. 21 Opening Reception Dec. 1 from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m.

Book Signing by NY Times Best Selling Author, Wally Lamb Wednesday, Nov. 30 at 7:30 p.m.

Santa’s Workshop Eryn Hornung at 516.323.3455 December 10 from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.

The Rockville Centre Guild for the Arts and Leggz Ltd. Ballet Presentation: Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker Dec. 2 at 7:30 p.m., Dec. 3 at 5 p.m., Dec. 4 at 4 p.m.

TOWN OF HEMPSTEAD ROCK HALL MUSEUM Storytelling by the Fireside Kirsten’s Surprise: A Christmas Story (516) 239-1157 Thursday, Dec. 8 from 4 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.

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light classics concert Temple Sinai of Roslyn hosted their Light Classical Concert featuring pianist Oxana Mikhailoff and Soprano Hanna Golodinskii on Sunday, Nov. 13.

“Mikhailoff played classical compositions flawlessly and Golodinskii awed the audience with her powerful and enveloping voice,” Shelley Skolnick, adult engagement and marketing manager, said.

“The audience was left spellbound and uplifted following the classical compositions performed by these extraordinary musicians.”

Temple Sinai of Roslyn is located at 425 Roslyn Road in Roslyn Heights.

For more information, contact Alison Stamm, executive director at (516) 621.6800 or visit mysinai.org.

Wilkerson to talk on climate change threat Retired Col. Lawrence Wilkerson sistant to General Powell when he was will be the guest in the pulpit at Temple chairman of the joint chiefs of staff Emanuel of Great Neck, where he will from 1989 to 1993, and as director and offer a talk “The Consequences of Cli- deputy director of the United States mate Change: A National Security Per- Marine Corps War College at Quantico, spective,” on Friday, Dec. 2 at 7:30 p.m. Va., from 1993 to 1997.

Since leaving the State Department, Wilkerson is a visiting professor of government and public policy at the Wilkerson speaks to groups across the country, publishes artiCollege of William and cles in newspapers and Mary in Williamsburg, magazines across the Va., according to a press country, and regularly release from Temple offers commentary on Emanuel of Great Neck. television.

His last positions Colonel Wilkerson’s in government were as talk will be preceded by Secretary of State Colin a brief service.

Powell’s chief of staff Following his talk, from 2002 to 2005, and there will be a Q&A, associate director of and, in conclusion, the State Department’s refreshments will be policy planning staff served. under the directorship Retired Colonel Lawrence All members of the of Ambassador Richard Wilkerson community are invited N. Haass. to attend. Admission is Before serving at the State Department, Wilkerson served free.

Temple Emanuel of Great Neck 31 years in the United States Army, including as deputy executive officer to is located at 150 Hicks Lane in Great then-General Colin Powell when he Neck.

For further information, call (516) commanded the United States Army Forces Command in 1989, special as- 482-5701.

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Community Calendar ETHICAL HUMANIST SOCIETY OF LONG ISLAND Free Monday Talks at the Ethical Humanist Society of Long Island 38 Old Country Road At the western end of Old Country Road Paths To Humanism Monday, Dec. 5 WALT WHITMAN BIRTHPLACE ASSOCIATION 246 Old Walt Whitman Road Huntington Station Yuletide Family Day Sunday, Dec. 4 at 1 p.m.

WINTHROP-UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL 200 Old Country Road, Suite 250 Mineola, NY 11501 Winthrop-University Hospital’s Department of Neuroscience Offering Free Support Groups Brain Tumor Support Group for Patients: First Monday of the Month 10:30 am to 11:30 am on Dec. 5 Winthrop Wellness Pavilion, 1300 Franklin Ave., Suite ML-5, Garden City 3:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. on Nov. 28, Dec. 19 Dystonia Support Group for Patients – Fourth Monday of the Month Winthrop Wellness Pavilion, 1300 Franklin Ave., Suite ML-5 Garden City 7 p.m. to 8 p.m. on Dec. 14 Epilepsy Patient Support Group – Third Wednesday of the month Winthrop Research & Academic Center, 101 Mineola Blvd. Room G-020 Mineola 10 a.m. to 11:15 a.m. on Dec. 12 Huntington’s Disease – 2nd Monday of the month Winthrop’s Research & Academic Center, 101 Mineola Blvd., Room G-013 3:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. on Dec. 8 Relapsing & Remitting Multiple Sclerosis and Newly Diagnosed MS Winthrop Wellness Pavilion, 1300 Franklin Avenue, Suite ML-5, Garden City Head and Neck Cancer Patient Support Group Offered by Winthrop-University Hospital’s Center for Cancer Care 1300 Franklin Avenue, Suite ML5 Garden City Third Monday of the month, from 12 p.m. to 1:30 p.m.

The Samuel Field Y Two Weekday Programs For Preschool Children With Developmental Disabilities Contact Amanda at (718) 423-6111 ext. 242 or e-mail asmith@sfy.org 58-20 Little Neck Parkway. Little Neck On Wednesdays from 3 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.

TEMPLE JUDEA OF MANHASSET 333 Searingtown Rd. Manhasset (516) 6218049 temple-judea.com Three Days of Duplicate Bridge The game schedules are: Mondays and Tuesdays at 12 p.m. and Thursdays at 10:30 a.m.

Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Old Westbury Hebrew Congregation 21 Old Westbury Road Wednesday, Nov. 30 at 7:30 p.m.

SINGLES ASSOCIATION OF L.I. For further information on any or all these events, call 516-465-3953 or email singlesassofli@optimum.net.

Sunday, Dec. 4 at 4 p.m.

Apple Bee’s Restaurant 1300 Corporate Drive (off Merchants Concourse) Westbury Saturday, Dec. 10 at 6 p.m.

Ben’s Carle Place Restaurant 59 Old Country Road Carle Place End of the Year Christmas Dinner Social Saturday, Dec. 17 at 6 p.m.

Domenico’s Restaurant Levittown Shopping Center 3270A Hempstead Turnpike Levittown TEMPLE BETH SHOLOM 401 Roslyn Road Roslyn Heights, NY 11577 516-621-2288 Wednesday, Nov. 30 at 10:30 a.m.

Sisterhood Daytime Book Discussion Saturday, Dec. at 7:30 p.m.

Club TBS Sunday, Dec. 4 at 8:30 a.m.

Blood Drive Wednesday, Dec. 7 at 10:30 a.m.

Current Events/Discussion Group Friday, Dec. 9 at 7:30 p.m.

Friday Night Live Tuesday, Dec. 13 at 7 p.m.

IDF Musical Ensemble Wednesday, Dec. 14 at 11:30 a.m.

Senior Luncheon Thursday, Dec. 15 at 7:30 p.m.

Sisterhood Author Talk SID JACOBSON JCC 300 Forest Drive East Hills, 11548 www.sjjcc.org/jll.

Thursdays from 12:30 p.m. to 1:30 p.m.

Meditation Classes To Calm The Spirit Temple Chaverim Hosts 11th Annual Blood Drive Temple Chaverim 1050 Washington Avenue, Plainview (516) 507-9992 Sunday, Dec. 4 from 8:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.

Ninth Annual Suicide Prevention Coalition of Long Island Symposium Wednesday, Dec. 7 from 8 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.

Melville Marriott Hotel 1350 Old Walt Whitman Road Melville NASSAU COUNTY BAR ASSOCIATION 15th & West Streets Mineola, 11501 COMMUNITY VOLUNTEERS FOR EDUCATION Currently looking for community volunteers, with a music background, to assist our music teachers with students for one or two hours a week in the New Hyde Park-Garden City Park School District.

(516) 434-2306.

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Community Calendar cont’d SAMUEL FIELD Y WEEKDAY PROGRAMS FOR PRESCHOOL CHILDREN WITH DISABILITIES 718 423-6111 ext 242 asmith@sfy.org 10:30 a.m. to 12 p.m. at Little Neck site on Nov. 20, Dec. 4, 18 Sunday Fun Day Program CAREGIVER SUPPORT GROUP Meetings are held every month and are open to residents of Nassau County.

(516) 227-7071

Project Independence Support & Social Group Call 311 or (516) 869-6311 for more information.

Trivia Challenge Last Wednesday of every month at 7 p.m.

Havana Central Restaurant Roosevelt Field, Garden City.

For more info, call (516) 676- 1976.

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.

Area Cyclists Unite Weekdays before work or after work Parking lot across from Great Neck

Diner - Corner of Bond Street and Grace Avenue.

Contact David (Speedy) Emanuel at speedyemanuel@optonline.net or 516840-9370 or 516-487-8065 before 9:45 p.m. for schedule and to confirm your participation.

North Shore University Hospital Weekly Stroke Support Group 300 Community Dr., Entrance 3 Building #304, Manhasset Every Friday from 10 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.

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Acclaimed pianist to play in Freeport Dec. 10 The Freeport Community Concert Association is presenting Jeffrey Biegel on Saturday, Dec. 10 at 8 p.m.

Following comments from Leonard Bernstein, praising Biegel as a “brilliant performer,” they launched Biegel’s 1986 New York debut in Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall, according to a press release from Freeport Community Concert Association.

Biegel studied at The Juilliard School and is currently on faculty at the Conservatory of Music at Brooklyn College.

He will be performing selections from Bach, Mozart and Liszt.

After intermission,

he will be joined by three other musicians to perform “Bolling’s Suite for Flute and Jazz Piano.”

Individual tickets may be purchased at the door for $20 on the evening of the performance which is performed at Freeport High School, 50 South Brookside Avenue in Freeport, just south of Sunrise Highway. $5 for children under 18.

Credit cards are not accepted — call Jill Kaplan for further information at (516) 867-1195.

For upcoming concerts and further info regarding the Freeport Community Concert Association, visit freeportconcertassociation. com.

1st Chamber Players concert on Nov. 27 Chamber Players International will present the first event of its 2016-17 Landmark series on Sunday, Nov. 27 at Old Westbury Gardens Red Ballroom, 71 Old Westbury Road in Old Westbury, with the concert at 2 p.m. and a sitdown buffet immediately following in the Westbury House Atrium.

Chamber Players International is a regional performing arts organization presenting between 25 and 30 concert events serving the entire New York metropolitan area.

This program features Brahms’ B Major Piano Trio, Op 8 and Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 3., according to a press release from Jeffrey James Arts Consulting.

Performers will be violin soloist Bela Horvath, along with members of Chamber Players International’s core ensemble of international soloists.

Admission is $60 per person, with group rates available.

For tickets, call (877) 4444488 or visit chamberplayersinternational.org.

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New Hyde Park Community Calendar LIKE TO SING? The New Hyde Park Senior Chorus welcomes new members. The chorus meets Mondays 12:30 to 2:30 p.m. at The Clinton G. Martin Park, Marcus Avenue and New Hyde Park Road. To join us, call 516775-8118.

the Facebook site of the Adelphi NY Statewide Breast Cancer Hotline & Support Program, is offering useful tips on the site every Saturday.

To access the information, visit #saturdayswithsabaa and https:// www.facebook.com/adelphibreastcancerhotline. To reach the hotline call 800-877-8077.

COMMUNITY VOLUNTEERS FOR EDUCATION We are currently looking for community volunteers/retirees for one or two hours a week in the New Hyde Park-Garden City Park School District. You will be assisting students under the supervision of a classroom teacher. There is no prior experience necessary to participate in the program. Volunteers do a variety of activities with children such as reading to students or helping with classroom projects. If you would like more information on this program, please call Eileen Bileski at 516434-2306.

New Hyde Park Senior Chorus Welcoming New Members Like to sing? We are welcoming new members. The chorus meets Mondays from 12:30 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. at The Clinton G. Martin Park, Marcus Ave. and New Hyde Park Road. To join us, call (516) 7758118. Starts on Sept. 19. We need male voices.

EXERCISE CLASSES Ongoing Program - FREE Silver Sneakers Exercise Classes For All Levels: Balance, agility, strengthening, endurance and osteoporosis for eligible seniors.

Monday through Saturday.

Garden City, Roslyn and Great Neck. Call 516-745-8050.

FREE EXERCISE CLASSES Ongoing Program - FREE Silver Sneakers Exercise Classes For All Levels: Balance, agility, strengthening, endurance and osteoporosis for eligible seniors.

Monday through Saturday. Garden City, Roslyn and Great Neck.

Call for more details, including seeing if you are eligible and class times, (516) 745-8050.

ONGOING: Exercise Classes.

Ongoing: Community Volunteers with Music background needed.

AARP Floral Park Chapter 5224 TUESDAY NIGHT BINGO Veterans of Foreign Wars Post #5253 will host bingo on Tuesday nights from 7 to 11 p.m. The top prize is $1,500 with additional cash prizes totaling $1,700. Admission is $4 at the post, which is located at 155 Searingtown Road in Albertson.

AMERICAN THEATER DANCE WORKSHOP Adult beginner ballet classes on Tuesdays, 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. and Adult Ballet classes Monday through Friday from 10:30 a.m. to 12 p.m. are at the American Theater Dance Workshop, 999 Herricks Road, NHP. 516-2486420.

SENIOR CHORUS New Hyde Park: Entertainers Senior Chorus welcomes new members.

The group meets 12:30 to 2:30 p.m.

Mondays at Clinton G. Martin Park, Marcus Avenue and New Hyde Park Road. Contact 516-775-8118 for more information.

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COMMUNITY VOLUNTEERS FOR EDUCATION We are currently looking for community volunteers, with a music background, to assist our music teachers with students for one or two hours a week in the New Hyde Park-Garden City Park School District.

For more information on this program, please call Eileen Bileski at 516-434-2306.

Ten upcoming AARP defensive driving courses at Clinton G. Martin Park in New Hyde Park for 2017 The classes, open to drivers age 50 and older, will be held on February 4, March 11, April 8, May 13, June 3, June 17, Sept. 9, Oct. 14, Nov. 11 and Dec. 9.

To register for an AARP defensive driving class, please make your check payable to AARP. The cost is $20 for members and $25 for non-members. All participants must be 50 and older. Please be sure that your check contains your name, address, phone number and the date of the class you wish to

attend. Seating for each class is limited.

Please mail all checks to: Defensive Driving Coordinator, Department of Community Services, 1601 Marcus Ave., New Hyde Park.

Once checks are received, a seat will be reserved in your name and a letter confirming your registration will be mailed to your address.

CHANUKAH BOUTIQUE Temple Tikvah of New Hyde Park will hold its annual Holiday Fair Dec. 11, Sunday from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.

There will be a variety of reasonably priced items for children and adults to purchase. Highlights include jewelry, scarves, toys, books & gift items for Chanukah and other occasions; Temple Tikvah borders the tip of Nassau and Queens at 3315 Hillside Avenue, New Hyde Park. For further information call 516-746-1120.

National council jewish woman/ lakeville section Meeting on <onday, Nov. 28 at 12 p.m.

Clintoon Martin Park on Marcus Ave. East of New Hyde Park Rd. Guest will be Dr. Stanley Pugliese Topic: 2000 years of italian jewish history For more information, call 718343-6222 Garden City Park Christmas Tree Lighting Saturday, Nov. 26 from 6 p.m. to 7 p.m.

In front of GCP Citibank 2301 Jericho Turnpike Garden City Park Cookies, hot coco and a visit from Santa

Shelter Rock Library Create Holiday Greeting Cards Monday, Nov. 28 from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m.

For all hands on classes, you must visit the library prior to the date of the class to register your device.

In this hands-on and demonstration class, learn how to copy a photo from your digital camera to your computer, edit the photo using an image editing program, create a greeting card using your photo, specialty fonts, graphics,

word art and more.

December Movie Thursday, Dec. 1 at 2 p.m. and 7:30 p.m.

Our Kind of Traitor Directed by Susanna White 2015, Rated R, 108 Minutes Cast: Ewan McGregor, Naomie Harris, Stellan Skarsgard Sea Glass Ornaments Friday, Dec. 2 at 10:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m.

Have fun learning about glass!

Touch old bottles from our collection to find out if glass is a liquid or solid in hands-on experiment (you’d be surprised).

Create your own sea glass mosaic holiday ornament or decoration. For Grades 1-5 Senior Rap Group Monday, Dec. 5 from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.

For the 55+ Set Who have a Lifetime of Experiences to Share

Come and join Shelter Rock Public Library Senior Rap Group on selected Mondays 11:00 AM to 12:30 PM. This group discussion is led by longtiime group member David Marx.

Anyone interested in joining is welcome.

The topics vary and the conversations are lively and provocative.

Contact : 248-7363 ext. 233

Tots Night Out Wednesday, Dec. 7 at 7 p.m.

Families with children ages 2-5 years are invited to participate in a program of songs, stories, and make a craft.

Jump for Joy Saturday, Dec. 10 at 10 a.m.

Dance, sing and play with costumes, musical instruments, puppets and more.

For children ages 18 months to 4 years with a caregiver.

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SCHOOL NEWS

Herricks graduate wins photo award A photo taken by Herricks High School class of 2016 graduate Aneri Ladhani was selected for inclusion in the American Association of Physics Teachers calendar.

The piece, which was submitted as an entry in the AAPT’s High School Photo Competition last year, was printed on the calendar’s August 2017 page.

Ladhani participated in the contest during her senior year with the encouragement of physics teacher Brendan Curran.

She took the picture for her digital photography class, taught by Allyson Zebrowski.

The photograph, “Curvature,” was entered

in the competition’s “Contrived” category and illustrates the school track refracted through a glass sphere.

As Ladhani explained in the description, “The sphere acted as a converging lens and produced an inverted real image because the object was positioned many focal lengths away.”

“The photo is extraordinary,” Herricks school district Superintendent Fino Celano said.

“It is a wonderful example of interdisciplinary STEAM connections. Great work by all.”

Aneri’s work is listed within the contest’s Top 100 Gallery on the AAPT website, www. aapt.org.

Kids raise $$$ 2nd digital honor in Mineola with candy Meadow Drive School has become the second school in the Mineola school district to be recognized as a Common Sense Certified School for Digital Citizenship.

Common Sense is a national nonprofit organization dedicated to helping kids and families thrive in a world of digital media and technology.

Meadow Drive was chosen for its commitment to taking a whole-community approach to preparing its students to use the immense power of digital media to explore, create, connect and learn, while limiting the perils that exist in the online realm, such as plagiarism, loss of privacy and cyber bullying.

The school has been using Common Sense Education’s innovative and research-based digital citizenship resources, which were created in collaboration with Howard Gardner of

Hampton Street Elementary School in the Mineola school district partnered with local orthodontists Dr. Weiss and Dr. Luccarelli to collect unwanted wrapped Halloween candy for a buy-back fundraiser.

The school earned $1 per pound of collected candy and the orthodontists made

a matching donation to the Make-A-Wish Foundation.

The collection is distributed to various local organizations such as Island Harvest and NUMC. Hampton Street collected 57 pounds of candy and proceeds will benefit local families in need this holiday season.

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the Good Play Project at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

The resources teach students, educators and parents tangible skills related to Internet safety, protecting online reputa-

tions and personal privacy, managing online relationships, and respecting creative copyright.

Mineola’s Jackson Avenue School received this same distinction last year and again this year.

Student’s peace essay wins Herricks High School freshman Carrie Hsu is one of only two second-place winners in the children’s category of the Goi Peace Foundation’s 2016 International Essay Contest for Young People.

Her piece, “Education Across Endless Clouds,” was selected out of more than 12,000 entries from 153 countries.

The contest’s theme was, “Education to Build a Better Future for All.” Students were asked to describe their concrete ideas for an ideal education, one that would help to address the world’s challenges and create a better life for all.

Hsu focused on the impor-

tance of children being at peace and feeling free to have big dreams for the future, unlimited

by fear.

An excerpt is as follows: “Children encounter fear and failure; all of their dreams get stuffed into a tiny corner of their heart until that storage is overtaken by fear, failure, and harsh reality. Education should dig into that corner and expand their views and dreams; humanity will advance to solve local and global problems everywhere in our lives. Reality will serve as motivation for students and children to better the world and promote the ultimate goal: for the world and everybody in it to be at peace.”

The winning essays, including Hsu’s, are listed on www.goipeace.or.jp.

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COMMUNITY NEWS

Town hosts senior Halloween dances

North Hempstead Town Supervisor Judi Bosworth, Town Council members Viviana Russell, Peter Zuckerman, Angelo Ferrara and Lee Seeman, along with Town Clerk Wayne Wink and Receiver of Taxes Charles Berman, hosted the town’s annual senior Halloween dances.

The events were held at Clinton G. Martin Park in New Hyde Park and at Charles J. Fuschillo Park in Carle Place on Oct. 21 and 28. Hundreds of seniors dressed up in costumes and celebrated Halloween with food, music and games.

NHP couple renews vows after 75 years Nassau County Executive Edward Mangano, along with his wife, Linda, hosted a Vow Renewal Luncheon on Thursday, Nov. 3 where over 250 married couples — including some with significant anniversaries — gathered to renew their vows.

The free luncheon reception was sponsored by the Coral House in Baldwin.

Married couples renewed their wedding vows to strengthen and honor their marriage. couples were invited to stay for musical entertainment, lunch, punch and wedding cake.

Couples were provided the

opportunity to take a professional photograph with their loved one as they celebrated their vow renewal.

Pictured above with the Manganos are the couples that have been married for 70 years or more.

From left are: Larry and Ruth Schifman of New Hyde Park, married for 75 years; Robert and Edith Kushner of East Meadow, married for 72 years; The Manganos; Sam and Han Sue of North Merrick, married for 70 years; and Ralph and Joan Keefe of Oceanside, married for 73 years.

Local scholar talks at Kristallnacht event Queens College held its annual Kristallnacht commemoration, presented by the Center for Jewish Studies at Queens College and Sinai Chapels of Fresh Meadows, to recommit to combating anti-Semitism and hatred.

The keynote address, “The Holocaust in American Film,” by award-winning author and educator Annette Insdorf, featured clips from the films “None Shall Escape,” “The Pawnbroker” and “Schindler’s List.”

The free program included a candle-lighting ceremony with Holocaust survivors and family members escorted by students from the college’s Center for Ethnic, Racial, and Religious Understanding, each of whom makes a commitment to combat anti-Semitism and hatred after introducing the survivor.

There was also a multicultural invocation and audiovisual and musical interludes.

Insdorf, a Manhasset Hills resident, is an internationally respected expert in film and Holocaust studies.

Her landmark study “Indelible Shadows: Film and the Holocaust” (with a foreword by the late Elie Wiesel) received the National Board of Review’s William K. Everson Award in Film History in 2003.

The child of Holocaust survivors and an alumna of Queens College and Yale University, she is an award-winning educator, scholar and public intellectual.

Formerly at Yale University, she is now a professor in the graduate film program and past director of undergraduate film studies at Columbia University.

She often serves as a juror at international film festivals; many New Yorkers know her through her popular “Reel Pieces” series at Manhattan’s 92nd Street Y.

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Athletes give F.P. students run blood drive back in Herricks Herricks athletes are making efforts to help others and give back.

The football team raised money and awareness for Stop Soldier Suicide, a non-for-profit organization devoted to helping veterans.

The director of Stop Soldier Suicide, Maj. Ian Fuller (U.S. Army, retired), traveled from North Carolina to participate in this initiative and attend the homecoming pep rally and game.

He was joined by Herricks alumnus Cpl. Aaron Kim (U.S. Marine Corps) and Sgt. Frank Wirth (U.S. Marine Corp.).

Youth Against Cancer and the Herricks Football Program organized the fundraising project, “Herricks Tackles Leukemia,” which took place on Oct. 22 at the Herricks football game against MacArthur.

This effort benefitted Memorial Sloan Kettering’s Pediatric Cancer division in honor of Ashley Kong, a Herricks student who lost her battle against leukemia two years ago.

Orange is the color of leuke-

mia and the students sold orange T-shirts and bracelets throughout the week.

Students and faculty donned the orange T-shirts in school on the Friday prior to the game as well as at the game.

Youth Against Cancer volunteers sold baked goods at the game, and Ashley Kong’s brother Taylor performed the opening coin toss.

The girls and boys varsity volleyball teams raised more than $1,400 at their annual Dig Pink Rally on Oct. 6 to benefit the Side-Out Foundation.

The girls team took on Uniondale and the boys played against Syosset.

This event brings together volleyball players from across the nation to raise funds for breast cancer research, demonstrate the power of teamwork and show support for people with the disease.

All money collected through Dig Pink support Side-Out’s game-changing cancer research and programs to develop the whole player.

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Floral Park Memorial High School’s Junior Lions club held its second annual blood drive in conjunction with Long Island Blood Services on Nov. 15.

Prior to the event, Junior Lions Club members hung posters throughout the school and community to promote the collection.

They also visited classmates during lunch pe-

riods and encouraged them to make a donation.

In all, 83 pints of blood were collected thanks to students, faculty and community members.

“Kudos to the students who donated blood,” Junior Lions adviser Kurt Brechtlein said. “Several of the Long Island Blood Services employees commended the students for being so nice, mature and respectful.”

COMMUNITY NEWS

Lions prep for holiday party Santa Claus will be at the Lions Holiday Party on Sunday, Dec. 4 from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Floral Park American Legion post on Elizabeth Street.

The Holiday Party includes a Santa Claus visit, a brunch buffet, goodie bags for kids, Chinese auction, raffle prizes, and friendly chatter and cheer.

Cost for adults is$10; children under age three are free; and children ages three to 10 are $5.

Placemat, business card, ads are available.

Proceeds to benefit charities, scholarships and the Guide Dogs for Veterans organization.

Drop off of donations of Chinese auction items from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. at Corbett office at 113 So. Tyson Ave. For information about placemat ads and prepaid event tickets call Lion Bill Greulich at 4373000 or Lion John Mansfield (914) 772-7558 or email floralparklionsclub@gmail.com.

Couple wins for vets essay The Floral Park Memorial High School girls varsity volleyball was seeded eighth out of nine teams in Conference A-1, the highest ability conference.

Despite getting familiar with a new coach and competing in a new conference, the team finished third in the conference with a record of 13-3.

In the playoffs, the Lady Knights won the first two rounds, defeating Hewlett and MacArthur. In the Nassau County semifinals, they came back from a two-game-to-one deficit to beat No. 2 seed Southside.

The Lady Knights then upset No. 1 seed Wantagh in a five-game match to capture the Nassau County Championship.

Stop & Shop’s Bob Young and historic reenactor Kevin Carroll from the Museum of American Armor welcomed New Hyde Park residents Marie and Klaus Konzack to the American Armor Museum in Old Bethpage.

They were among the contest participants recognized by the Museum of American Armor for an essay saluting the heroic efforts of U.S. military veterans.

The Konzacks and other participants in Stop & Shop’s “Operation Hometown Heroes” program were given the opportunity to ride aboard the museum’s historic armor vehicles in a joint effort coordinated by Stop & Shop, Nassau County and the Armor Museum that invited customers to write about the heroes in their own families.

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100,000 senior taxi trips Town reels in 12 The Town of North Hempstead’s senior initiative, Project Independence, recently surpassed 100,000 taxi trips for members.

The town began taking calls back in 2008, and Project Initiative signed up its 10,000th member in June 2015, according to a press release from the Town of North Hempstead.

“It’s a wonderful feeling to know that our Project Independence members have taken advantage of 100,000 free and discounted taxi rides, which have made their lives a bit easier,” Town of North Hempstead Supervisor Judi Bosworth. “Project Independence has given thousands of seniors a sense of well-being, made them more self-reliant and allowed them to remain in their own homes.”

New Hyde Park residents and Project Initiative member Adrianna Hatzis is a frequent rider of the discounted taxi rides.

“Over the past year two years Project Independence’s taxi service has truly bettered my life by

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The Town celebrates 100,000 taxi rides through North Hempstead’s Project Independence program. giving me transportation at a low cost when I was unable to drive, instead of depending on someone else,” Hatzis said.

Free rides to shopping and discounted rides to medical appointments are some of the initiative’s social services.

“Without these discounted and free taxi rides, who knows where some of these seniors might be or what they might be doing

without?” Council Member Lee Seeman said. “It gets them to their medical appointments and to the grocery store, all while giving them a great sense of independence.”

Created in 2006 as an agingin-place program for the town’s nearly 60,000 residents over 60 years of age, Project Initiative has assisted aging residents in remaining in their own homes and familiar surroundings.

Pictured left to Right: Chief Sustainability Officer Erin Reilley, North Hempstead Town Supervisor Judi Bosworth, and Chief Bay Constable Mal Nathan with the monofilament fishing line that was collected through the town’s collection receptacles.

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This monofilament fishing line that was collected will be sent to a company in Iowa which will repurpose it into fish habitats at no charge.

Pictured above from left to right: Aeji Kim, supporting chairperson; Y.B. Choi, co-chairperson; Sandra and James Mun of Jericho, both co-chairs; Nassau County Executive Edward P. Mangano; Olympic Champion Grand Master Y.H. Park of Levittown; Acting Police Commissioner Thomas Krumpter; Jason Aptekar of Merrick, tournament instructor; and Edward Park.

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Town of North Hempstead Supervisor Judi Bosworth, Chief Sustainability Officer Erin Reilley and Chief Bay Constable Mal Nathan recently announced that throughout the past year, the town has collected over 12 cubic feet of monofilament fishing line from receptacles located in six town parks.

The fishing line receptacle initiative was instituted last year and received the Environmental Champion award by the Environmental Protection Agency Region 2 for helping to reduce plastics in the waterways, according to a press release from the Town of North Hempstead.

“The addition of these fishing line receptacles to our Town parks has been a true success,” Bosworth said. “Not only are we able to protect birds and other marine creatures from becoming

entangled in the fishing line, but we are also helping to reduce the amount of garbage and plastic in our waterways — it is a win-win for everyone.”

All of the fishing line that has been collected will be sent to Berkley Fishing, a company in Iowa that has a program to repurpose the old monofilament into other products or into fish habitat structures.

There is no charge for the recycling of the fishing line, Reilley said.

To view an instructional video on how to make a fishing line receptacle and for free downloadable sticker templates, visit www. northhempsteadny.gov/fishingline.

For more information about the town’s environmental programs, call 311 or (516) 8696311.

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Cooking up treatment for brain injuries Catherine DiGiovanni recently showed nearly a dozen traumatic brain injury patients at Northwell Healthâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Transistions of Long Island in Manhasset, an outpatient rehabilitation program that treated her, how to make a no-bake Sâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;mores treat on Wednesday, Nov. 16.

DiGiovanni was in a near-fatal car accident in 2010, and a key factor in regaining her life and memory has been cooking, which is a passion of hers since childhood, according to a press release from Northwell Health. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Cooking has allowed me to unlock memories,â&#x20AC;? DiGiovanni said, as she instructed patient Allyson Wald to fold in graham crackers into a tray of melted chocolate.

Wald, 53, a former EMT, attends a structured day program at Transitions for people recovering from neurological injury or illness.

She is making progress after suďŹ&#x20AC;ering a heart attack ďŹ ve years ago that led to a loss of oxygen to her brain. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This makes me feel like Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m back to being me before I got injured,â&#x20AC;? Wald said.

DiGiovanni was a 22-year-old graduate of Culinary Institute of America with a dream of opening up her own restaurant

she pulled through, waking from a coma days later in North Shore University Hospital.

Nearly a dozen surgeries followed, and through extensive rehabilitation, she learned to walk again.

In addition to her brain injury, DiGiovanni also suďŹ&#x20AC;ered a collapsed left lung, lost vision in her right eye and a multitude of other injuries.

Losing her sense of smell was a devastating blow for the chef â&#x20AC;&#x201D; but she has slowly regained that back.

At Transitions, DiGiovanni learned to overcome and deal with several physical, cognitive and emotional challenges. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Catherine had a severe traumatic brain injury. The more severe the injury, the more challenging the journey,â&#x20AC;? Dr. Jean Elbaum, director of Transitions said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s made a remarkable recovery given the challenges she has faced.â&#x20AC;?

At 29, DiGiovanni has written a memoir/cookbook titled â&#x20AC;&#x153;Mis En Place of Life.â&#x20AC;?

For more information about Transitions of Long Island, contact (516) 719-3740.

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1st in east to A star-studded celebration use treatment The North Shore University Hospital was recently announced to be the first center in the Eastern United States, and the second nationally, to perform combined kyphoplasty intraoperative radiation therapy for spinal metastasis.

Andre Hayden, 47, of Wheatley Heights, received the treatment due to stage four colon cancer that metastasized to his spine, causing debilitating pain even after completing a course of spine external irradiation.

The minimally invasive joint procedure was performed on Thursday, Nov. 3 by neurosurgeon Ahmad Latefi, and radiation oncologist Dr. Maged Ghaly.

“For cancer patients with spinal metastasis, it is often recommended that after surgery to stabilize the spine, most of these patients will be offered short-course of conventional external beam radiation therapy, which has been associated with short-term pain control and low rates of complete response to pain,” Ghaly said. “Furthermore, approximately 20 percent of patients will suffer pain progression following cEBRT, requiring treatment.”

In Hayden’s case, he suffered from a painful, pathologic vertebral fracture caused by the tumor.

A second course of external irradiation would result in spine fracture progression.

“Kypho-IORT is a novel approach to combine kyphoplasty, a minimally invasive procedure with a single dose of intraoperative radiation therapy for the treatment of unstable or potentially unstable spinal cord metastases, even if patients had prior spine radiation,” Latefi said. “This integrated pallia-

PHOTO CREDIT: CARL ZEISS MEDITEC, INC.

Intrabeam needle applicator used in kyphoplasty-IORT case. tive treatment option improves the patient’s quality of life with quicker pain relief and without interrupting their systemic therapy.”

During the first part of the procedure, Latefi made a small incision in the spine and then inserted an Intrabeam needle applicator, manufactured by Carl Zeiss Meditec.

Ghaly performed the IORT procedure by delivering radiation treatment directly into the tumor, preserving the spinal cord and surrounding tissue.

During the next stage kyphoplasty, Latefi placed a catheter through the small incision.

A balloon placed at the tip of the catheter was inflated to restore the height of the vertebrae.

A cement-like substance was then injected into the spine, fortifying the vertebrae against future collapse.

After the procedure, Hayden was discharged the same day and was able to resume his daily activities.

To make an appointment to see if you are an eligible candidate for combined kyphoplasty IORT, call Latefi at (516) 773-7737 or Ghaly at (516) 321-3000.

Hundreds recently gathered for the recent celebration revealing the renovations of Lord & Taylor’s Garden City store. Pictured from left to right during the celebration is Garden City Mayor Nicholas P. Episcopia and Lord & Taylor Garden City, New York General Manager Tim Catalano with Celebrities Christie Brinkley, Sailor Brinkley Cook, Beth Ostrosky Stern representing North Shore Animal League America and Lord & Taylor and Hudson’s Bay President Liz Rodbell.

Lord & Taylor recently revealed the renovations of its Garden City store at a celebration on Wednesday, Nov. 9.

The department store announced its full plans to modernize and update the shopping experience in Garden City earlier this year, according to a press release from Corbett Public Relations.

“Lord & Taylor is delighted to be updating our footprint on Long Island where we have a long history and loyal customers,” Liz Rodbell, president, Lord & Taylor and Hudson’s Bay, said. “Elevating the design of Garden City will allow Lord & Taylor to better serve the community and deliver an exciting experience to customers for years to come.”

The Garden City renovation touched all areas of the two-level, freestanding building.

Both floors received upgrades to flooring, lighting, and fitting rooms.

Call buttons have been added to the fitting rooms, connecting to associates headsets, allowing customers to receive assistance quickly.

The store now has new finishes, and upgraded services. In addition to a new men’s environment on the upper level, the cosmetics area on the lower level has been enlarged with a new spa room and several new brands, including Flawless by Friday, Brow Gal and Fillerina.

There is also a Rebecca Minkoff pop-up shop on the lower level.

The renovation exposed the building’s original exterior windows, as well as an atrium inside of the main entrance.

The exterior of the building also has the new, modernized Lord & Taylor logo, and Lord & Taylor added two personal shoppers, one to assist with men’s and the other to assist with all shopping needs.

County opens two skating rinks Nassau County recently announced that outdoor ice rinks at Christopher Morley Park and Grant Park were recently announced to be open for the 2016-2017 winter season on Friday, Nov. 25.

Nassau County provides three separate ice-skating rinks for residents to enjoy, with outdoor rinks at Christopher Morley and Grant Park open from late November through March, and the indoor rink at Cantiague Park open yearround, according to a press release

from the Nassau County executive office.

All rinks provide public skating sessions, lessons, ice hockey sessions and opportunities to rent the ice for birthday parties and other events.

All three facilities offer skate rentals.

Improvements have been made to both Christopher Morley ice rink and Grant Park ice rink, including the replacement of both rinks, new boards, and new chilling systems.

Public skating sessions are as follows: Grant Park: · Mondays and Tuesday: 1:15

p.m. to 3:15 p.m. · Wednesdays and Thursdays: 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. and 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. · Fridays: 1:15 p.m. to 3:15 p.m.; 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. and 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. · Saturdays: 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.; 1:15 p.m. to 3:15 p.m.; 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. and 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. · Sundays: 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.; 1:15 p.m. to 3:15 p.m. and 4 p.m. to 6 p.m.

Christopher Morley Park: · Mondays and Tuesdays: 1:15 p.m. to 3:15 p.m. and 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. · Wednesdays: 10:30 a.m. to

12:30 p.m.; 1:15 p.m. to 3:15 p.m. and 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. · Fridays: 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. and 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. · Saturdays & Sundays: 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.; 1:15 p.m. to 3:15 p.m. and 4 p.m. to 6 p.m.

Public skating fees for all three Nassau County ice rinks are as follows: · Resident adult with leisure pass: $8.00 · Adult without Leisure Pass: $22.00 · Resident child, 17 and under, with leisure pass: $6.00 · Child, 17 and under, without Leisure Pass: $15.00 · Veterans, disabled persons,

seniors, firefighters, ambulance corps, and auxiliary police with leisure pass: $5.00 · Skate rental: $5.00 *Ice rinks closes at 3:30 p.m. on Dec. 24 and Dec. 31. Ice rinks closed for the day on Dec. 25 and Jan. 1, 2017.

Cantiague Park, is located on West John Street, east of Cantiague Rock Road in Hicksville.

Grant Park is located at Broadway and Sheridan Avenue in Hewlett.

Christopher Morley Park is located in at 500 Searingtown Road in Roslyn-North Hills.

For more information, please visit the website at nassaucountyny.gov/parks

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COMMUNITY NEWS

N. Shore Child raises $400K

(L to R): Shevy Berkovits, Detective Sergeant and Deputy Commanding Officer, Community Affairs, Nassau County Police Department congratulates Holocaust Survivor George Oscar Lee.

Holocaust survivor honored During a program titled “Law and Order after the Holocaust,” George Oscar Lee, a Holocaust Survivor from North Hills, was recently honored by the Manhasset-Lakeville Fire Department and the Nassau County Police Department for taking it upon himself to create a fire brigade and professionalize the police force in the Föhrenwald Displaced Persons camp in Germany shortly after liberation.

On his second day in Föhrenwald, Lee saw smoke coming from one of the survivors’ apartments, ran

in and extinguished the flames, according to a press release from the Holocaust Memorial and Tolerance Center of Nassau County.

Realizing that the camp lacked a fire brigade, Lee got permission to form one.

He was also disappointed with the few residents who he said called themselves police and transformed them into a well-trained, professional police force.

For more information, call (516) 571-8040, or visit hmtcli.org.

The North Shore Child & Family Guidance Center held its annual Dancing with Our Stars Gala on Friday, Nov. 11 at the Garden City Hotel.

The evening included a cocktail reception followed by dinner, dancing, silent and live auctions, and a performance from the center’s dancing stars, according to a press release from the North Shore Child & Family Guidance Center.

More than 260 guests attended the event which raised over $400,000 to support the Guidance Center’s mental health services for children and families.

“The Guidance Center is proud of its commitment to provide essential mental health services to all children and families, regardless of their ability to pay,” Executive Director Andrew Malekoff said.

“The generous support of our donors tonight helps us to maintain the highest standard and quality of

care to our community.”

The lineup of Dancing Stars featured Matilde Broder of Power Travel; Lana Choy of Summit Associates; Pedro Davila III of Tiffany & Co; Minsun Kim of Long Island Conservatory; Fiona Lin of Liberty Land Abstract and Dr. Tina Narayan of Cohen Children’s Hospital.

The event co-chairs were Tracey and Seth Kupferberg and Nancy and Lew Lane.

Edward C. Kline served as the auctioneer and radio and television personality Len Berman served as the event emcee — as he has for the past five years.

This year’s honoree was Andrew Marcell, global head of strategy at Aon Benfield Group Limited.

A Sands Point resident, Marcell is invested in children’s mental health.

His wife Carol and their three children were in attendance in support of the Guidance Center.

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Look for Alzheimer’s signs November is National Alzheimer’s Disease Awareness Month, and the Long Island Alzheimer’s Foundation is providing a list of six early signs of brain disease.

The foundation has been providing supportive community-based services to Alzheimer’s families on Long Island for over 25 years, according to a press release from Corbett Public Relations.

“When individuals are diagnosed early they can access programs and get involved in activities,” LIAF executive director Tori Cohen said.

There is no cure for Alzheimer’s disease, however, early diagnosis and treatment has proven helpful.

The following are some of the observable behaviors and early signs of Alzheimer’s disease that should raise concerns and warrant medical evaluation: 1. Memory loss of recent events · Asking repeated questions · Telling the same story multiple times · Misplacing items 2. Disorientation · Becoming lost in places that used to be familiar · Difficulty following directions · Difficulty keeping track of dates and appointments 3. Difficulty communicating · Difficulty finding the right word when speaking · Difficulty recalling names · Calling objects or people by the wrong name

· Difficulty with written language 4. Personality changes · Becoming more mellow or withdrawn · Becoming more irritable or agitated · Becoming more self-centered or inconsiderate of others 5. Trouble with routines · Difficulty handling household responsibilities, such as balancing the checkbook or preparing a meal · Difficulty organizing the steps involved in completing complex tasks · Forgetting what has already been done and what hasn’t 6. Decline in hygiene, which can manifest as · Becoming untidy in appearance; failing to groom appropriately “These are potential warning signs and indicate the person exhibiting these behaviors should undergo a complete medical/neurological exam,” Cohen said.

“This is a vital first step in getting a proper treatment for the person as early as possible if in fact the diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease or some other malady is confirmed.”

For information about Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias, and the programs and services LIAF offers at 6 Channel Drive in Port Washington and at other locations in Nassau County, visit liaf.org or call Christine Rice at (516)767-6856, Ext. 19.

State Assemblyman Elect Tony D’Urso toured the Legislative Office Building in Albany with Debby Girgenti, Albany office director for the 16th Assembly District.

D’Urso, a former Town of North Hempstead Councilman, was elected in the November election to fill the seat of Assemblywoman Michelle Schimel who did not seek reelection.

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Business&RealEstate Be thankful for Thanksgiving My Rotary club distributed 1,000 frozen turkey dinners (with all the stuffing, vegees, and dessert) last Sunday Nov. 20 at The Merchant Marine Academy in Kings Point in Guinness World Record Time — just over three hours from start to finish.

We had never done this in 25 years of providing Thanksgiving Day Dinners. Thanks to Roger Chizever, our chairman of the Turkey Drive, with his organized and assembly line production of 50-plus adults, teens and preteens helping to bag every one of those turkeys, it never ever went this fast in the past.

We always bagged the birds on Monday to be distributed out, but, Roger figured, why not get everything done on Sunday, when everyone is around to help.

Well, that is what was done and the morning unfolded into a robotic pace with everyone making a very strong concerted effort to finish before 12 p.m. and I believe they did.

I had to leave early due to open houses and appointments.

But when I left around 10:10am, it appeared there were only 200 frozen turkeys left, combined with canned vegees, cranberry

sauce, stuffing and deserts, etc to pack.

So, I have to say, thank you Roger, for a job stupendously done!

We hope all those families that probably could not afford that special Thanksgiving Day Dinner, truly enjoyed what they received on Thanksgiving Day, from the Rotary Club of Great Neck.

A few tips to finalize winterizing your home: 1. Did you Cleanout all gutters and leaders before they freeze and clog them up sometimes forcing water under the soffits into your home?

2. Did you put away all your lawn furniture?

3. Did you start your snow blower, to make sure it is in working order and changed the oil (straight 30 W non-detergent, is the best weight to use)?

4. Do you have a good snow shovel?

5. Do you have ice melt to eliminate slippery steps and sidewalks; since there could be some liability, if someone trips, falls, or even breaks a bone or two!

6. Have you changed your antifreeze, oil, transmission

PHILIP A. RAICES Real Estate Watch fluid in the last 12—24 months? (as needed by your owners manual).

7. Have you begun putting out your holiday decorations and begun shopping for all those gifts to family and friends?

Hope you got some super deals on Last, “Black Friday.”

8. Have any planned projects, like painting the interior of your home, new kitchen and bathrooms, finishing your basement (you just might negotiate a better price now (interest rates are still at a 40-year low) than in the spring, when more people might consider those types of renovations.

9. You might want to fertilize your lawn with a broadcast spreader, one more time with a mixture of 28 percent nitrogen, 8 percent phosphorus and 8 percent potassium 28-8-8. These nutrients will be absorbed by the grass plants and stored, and slowly building rhyzomes and tillers, now and into the spring, when everything begins to sprout and pop. Your grass will look lush and green, the envy of your neighbors.

10. Make sure all your leaves and debris are cleared from your property, especially on your grass areas, so they don’t freeze and damage the existing grass plants.

11. When is the last time you cleaned your windows? It’s a great time to do it now. Also, winterize your faucets on the outside.

Prices on homes, Hoa’s, Condos, Coops should go up around 5 percent+ each year through 2020, according to the National Association of Realtors.

The pressure from the sheer demand, lower than normal inventory and 40 year low in interest rates, should keep fueling the real estate market for the forseeable future.

One last thing, if you are considering renting, don’t, because renting is now more expensive than purchasing, but exceptions will apply.

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Bonus information for our readers: If you would like to receive a digital copy of “Unlocking the Secrets of Real Estate’s New Market Reality, or “Our Seller’s Guide for “Things to Consider When Selling Your Home” just email me with your name, email and cell number.

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Recent Real Estate Sales in New Hyde Park New Hyde Park Real Estate Market Conditions Median sales price $600,000 Demographics near New Hyde Park, NY Population Population Density Median Age People per Household Median Household Income Average Income per Capita

City 9,698 11,277 44.5 3 94,063 35,837

County 1,338,712 4,702 41.2 3 97,049 42,286

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80 VanDerwater Avenue, Floral Park Sold Price: $493,500 Date: 09/23/2016 4 beds, 2 Full baths Style: Cape # of Families: 1 Lot Size: 40x188 Schools: Floral ParkBellerose Total Taxes: $11,198 MLS# 2861736

65 Maple Drive, New Hyde Park Sold Price: $730,000 Date: 08/31/2016 Exp Cape, 1 Family Beds: 4 Baths: 2 Full Lot Size: 49X100 Total Taxes: $10,643 MLS#: 2863467 Type: Single Family Schools: Great Neck

14 Leslie Lane New Hyde Park 25 Lahey Street, New Hyde Park Sold Price: $788,000 Date: 08/01/2016 4 beds, 2 Full baths Style: Cape # of Families: 1 Lot Size: 60x100 Schools: Great Neck Total Taxes: $10,028 MLS# 2859926

Sold Price: $430,000 Date: 09/26/2016 3 beds, 2 Full baths Style: Split # of Families: 1 Lot Size: 70x87 Schools: Elmont Total Taxes: $10,426 MLS# 2861657

Editor’s note: Homes shown here were recently sold in New Hyde Park by a variety of real estate agencies. The information about the homes and the photos were obtained through the Multiple Listing Services of Long Island. The homes are presented based solely on the fact that they were recently sold in New Hyde Park and are believed by Blank Slate Media to be of interest to our readers.

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READERS WRITE

G.N. Library discards books, fails readers

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he long and noble history of free lending libraries has come to a screeching halt under the aegis of this board. If the Library of Congress had done what this board has done, the nation would march on Washington.

Sixteen years ago, I coined the word bibliosanctum in a column I wrote for the New York Times Long Island section about our Great Neck Library. I described the library as an uncommon locale. Neither the word nor the description fit the shell of a library that remains now that the books are gone.

At this moment, there are 300 to 350 cartons of books tucked away in the back room at the Parkville branch, another 400 to 500 downstairs in the cage at Main.

At an average of 30 books a carton, this is 8,000 volumes, of which the board intends to discard more than half. These books, in fine condition, have been in storage for two years and were destined for the library shelves when Main reopened after renovation.

So before speaking about the serial discards of our library’s books, I here publicly entreat the trustees (DiCamillo, Krupski, Pizer, Marcus, Fuller, Solomon, Shaufeld) to desist from expelling any of these 8,000 books from our community.

It is too late for the more than 125,000 the library threw away and had carted away without our knowledge and without our permission since 2014.

The ones remaining can be saved.

In the design of the new library, patrons have an unobstructed view of Udall’s Pond.

To achieve this, there are fewer stacks and many of the shelf units are three feet rather than seven feet high, cutting in half the number of shelves where we used to run our eyes, and our finger, along a row of books and select our reading. Our library’s internal wealth apparently lost a competition with the scenery.

The books put in storage, we were told, will outrun the available shelves.

Therefore, by board directive, a lastminute and secret scramble to discard books was forced upon a library staff that has opposed what we now recognize as the purposeful and continued annihilation of our Great Neck Library’s core.

The librarians know what is dawning on the rest of us: the discarding has stripped our library collection of its historic value, throwing out centuries of wisdom and creativity.

This most recent abandonment of the books, I will call it discard No. 4. It differs markedly from the previous discards.

These books were still in storage when librarians were instructed to work from printouts, from lists rather than the actual books.

Sight unseen, each volume received a D, K, or B (discard, keep at Main, send to branches).

The librarians and the technical services staff (that processes books in and out of the library), like a chain gang before a whip, rushed to do the director’s bidding in the days preceding the reopening of the building.

The result of this blindness, for one thing, sentenced books signed by the authors to be sent to the Salvation Army, or to Big Brothers, Big Sisters, institutions whose worthy purpose does not include a reverence for books.

Nor do they distribute books to the underprivileged. It is not their fault we discarded first editions and illuminated manuscripts. Not their fault when our books ended up in a dumpster.

The discarding began in early 2014, three years ago, long before the residents voted in October 2014 to approve the $10.4 million renovation bond.

Those earlier massive discards were accomplished by setting the librarians goals in the form of percentages: they were to eliminate 40 percent, each librarian from his or her area of the library.

Then, during the two years Main was closed, the board demanded an additional culling at the three branches, again measured by a target percentage.

The verb “weed” is a term of language time-honored among libraries.

To weed a library’s collection is to seek out and pluck out books whose pages are torn and marred, as well as volumes whose information is both out of date and of no historical value. This is done on a regular basis.

Libraries manicure their lawn of books. They weed.

Yet during these three years (2014, 2015, 2016), the word “weed” became misused and abused here at our library.

It became shorthand for the unthinkable. You replaced the lawn with concrete and called it weeding.

When the library was “weeding” back in 2014, the community as a whole was kept in the dark.

By happenstance I learned of it: an organization that intended to donate our discarded library books overseas had a change of mind when faced with a prohibitive shipping cost.

I was asked to find a suitable home for 16 cartons of books. Having become aware that books were being “weeded,” I ferried further discards to a nursery school, a church, a synagogue.

I was the proverbial blind man with the elephant, feeling the trunk but unable to see the rest of the beast. Then the library closed.

Coming to the present, I received a phone call from a fellow resident telling me it was imperative I attend a library Relocation Committee meeting on the evening of Monday, Oct. 18, 2016. I went.

At the meeting, a handout was a piece of paper with squares for the days of the month, a calendar for the library.

When I saw the word “weeding,” I protested any further loss of books, but the board wanted the building to be pristine for the gala and the cartons of books were in the way.

Faced with the demise of my bibliosanctum, I heard myself say: “I’ll take the books.”

A few trustees were amused.

“Will you put the books on your front porch, Rebecca?” one said. Another offered a grandmother’s homily about

making promises one cannot keep.

The following morning the new, young assistant director phoned me: “Mrs. Gilliar, we have 25 cartons ready for you to pick up.”

That day, the day after the Relocation meeting, I had several options in mind.

My preference would have been to store the books until they could be returned to the library under new management, but that seemed unworkable in a hurry.

I did not know I had assumed ownership of 10,000 to 12,000 books.

On Wednesday morning, Oct. 20, I pursued my first-choice option.

I went to see Jason Marra, our superintendent of the Great Neck Park District.

I asked his permission to give the books back to the community from Great Neck House, which served as our library until 1970.

Jason said “yes.”

He did not form a committee.

He said, simply, it would be a service to the community and he comprehended the urgency.

When the library director refused me any help with moving a ton of cartons from the center of the library to the front door or down to the rear door saying she had a gala to prepare for, Jason provided a van, then a truck and a van, and a crew of three.

The library director, for her part, treated us as if we were carters late to remove the garbage.

I assume the director would not empty the library on her own say-so, but at the same time it is astonishing to me that a library director would violate the primary precept of her job: to protect the collection.

The destinations for the cast-offs from storage were a matter of convenience to the director.

Whoever would take a truckload first could have the books.

The board was clearing out the clutter of books at Main in preparation for celebrating a building rather than what it holds.

I saw mountains of cartons and the director’s unambiguous attitude. I witnessed frenzied “weeding.” The director had a rental truck full, intending to haul the stuff away out of town.

The head maintenance worker from the park district negotiated with his opposite number on the library staff to let their truck go to the Great Neck House parking lot. It was unbelievably tense.

The park district crew set up tables in Great Neck House and brought in the first 117 cartons.

Over a period of days, we picked up almost 400 cartons.

They stacked cartons three and four high, 60 in two rows behind the tables.

By day two, people who had come for books on day one returned to volunteer and offer ideas: fiction and non-fiction separate; a special area for authors of many different titles; someone to fetch bags daily from the supermarket; and, paperback fiction, computer books, college advisories, short stories, large type and foreign language books set apart.

And all day every day as books departed, we put a fresh supply on the tables from the boxes underneath.

Jason came to Great Neck House the first day and stood with me eyeing the inundation of books.

He is, after all, a person whose specialties are parks and recreation, so the quantity of books came as a visual shock.

He said, “What if no one comes for the books.” I answered, “The thought never crossed my mind. I’m more concerned that some people will bring shopping bags and leave too little for others.”

To date, in three weeks, residents have taken home about 7,000 books.

One woman said she had been on a waiting list for a book for months at the library and she finally has it: she found it on one of the tables at Great Neck House.

Residents came and browsed, single or in pairs or families. They looked for favorite authors and exclaimed when they found a book to their liking.

Some people researched authors and book titles on their phones.

With the prodigious support of the Great Neck Park District, I have been able to give the books to the community that paid for them.

It is an imperfect solution, and one that is bitter-sweet, but the alternative, the silencing of the books, has been averted.

The Great Neck Park District issued a publicity release.

The Great Neck News and Newsday sent reporters. The book give-away at Great Neck House continues.

I submitted a Freedom of Information Law (FOIL) request to the library on Friday, Oct. 14, 2016, asking for 12 numbers that will define how many we lost, but not how much.

A response under New York State law is overdue, even though the numbers are in the library computer, a part of regular record-keeping.

I wrote to the board about this. No response.

Thousands of books have found new homes, including books in Russian, Chinese, Korean, Yiddish, Hebrew and Spanish.

But many books are irreplaceable.

Residents have asked me if the library board can be impeached.

They have asked if the library board and the library director are financially liable for throwing away what our library owned. I think those are the wrong questions.

The absence of the collection bears witness to the purge of much we held dear at our library. A dumpster in 2011 took our periodical reservoir.

Four dumpsters in 2014 filled and were taken away. Trucks came and went and we never knew.

Behind our back and without soliciting our opinion or our consent, the board designed a library emptied of significance and meaning.

Rebecca Rosenblatt Gilliar Great Neck

The Herald Courier, Friday, November 25, 2016

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Biz groups push for local shopping Continued from Page 1 during which they’re competing with bigbox stores and online merchants, Baldassaro said.

“If we can counteract Cyber Monday with you coming into our businesses and purchasing it from a real person in front of you, we’ve done our job,” he said.

While it does not have a specific holiday shopping campaign, the Mineola Chamber of Commerce tries to drum up business for local stores year-round by hosting programs such as summer movie nights or hanging lights on village streets in the winter, said Tony Lubrano, the chamber president That kind of connection with their communities can give local businesses a leg up over their larger competitors,

who have greater name recognition and resources to draw customers in, Lubrano said.

“That’s really our goal, is to let people know, before you jump in your car and go to the mall, look around Mineola and see if there’s something there that might work for you,” he said.

The local efforts come amid a nationwide push in recent years to promote small business shopping. American Express in 2010 launched Small Business Saturday, a complement to Black Friday, or the day after Thanksgiving, usually the biggest holiday shopping day of the year in the U.S. Shoppers spent $14.3 billion on that day in 2014, according to American Express.

Countywide business groups have

also taken up the task. The Nassau County Industrial Development Agency and the Nassau Council of Chambers of Commerce partnered on a multimedia ad campaign last year to encourage local shopping.

The initiatives are important because healthy small businesses make for healthy local communities and are greatly important to the broader local economy, Baldassaro said.

About 80.7 percent of all Nassau County businesses in 2014 had fewer than 10 employees, according to U.S. Census data. And sales tax is Nassau’s largest single source of municipal revenue, accounting for 38 percent of its proposed 2017 budget.

“If we allow the Internet sales to take

over the retail sales, then why do we need stores anymore? Why do we need employees?” Baldassaro said. “In other words, basically everything falls apart without those stores.”

Promoting local businesses is “always an uphill battle,” Lubrano said, but some stores are adapting to the changing retail industry.

Willis Hobbies in Mineola, for example, moved some of its business online after finding customers were using the craft and hobby shop as a “showroom” and then leaving to buy the same items on the Internet, Lubrano said.

“The world’s changing and to the businesses that are able to have that type of profile, they kind of have to change with it,” he said.

2 NHP civic groups Timing key to success merge after decades of Herricks projects Continued from Page 2 Continued from Page 1 other.”

The groups’ officers agreed on the merger last month, saying a lack of volunteers for leadership roles left a small group of officers that could not sustain both organizations.

Members saw how the civic groups were struggling to grow participation and felt a merger would help the two groups be more unified and productive after several years of working jointly anyway, Cutrone said.

It will also make joining the group less confusing, Thind said — some people lived on the same street but belonged to different groups because of how they were geographically divided. ”Basically the challenges [have] not either grown or diminished, but what I would say is since we merged, now hopefully we would have more volunteers to step up to the plate to do a little bit more than what we could have done before,” said Thind, who proposed the merger earlier this year.

The civic groups were formed separately in the 1940s because their respective areas were within different water, fire and school districts, said Marianna Wohlgemuth, a former Lakeville Estates president and longtime New Hyde Park civic activist.

In recent years they have spearheaded crime-prevention efforts and beautification projects while advocating for services such as road repairs from the state, Nassau County and the Town of North Hempstead.

Officers plan to appoint one liaison to all fire departments, one to all water districts and one to all school districts covering the area, Cutrone and Thind said.

The unified group represents about 2,000 households in unincorporated North New Hyde Park and has about

cast that the interest rate will be 3.75 percent, Rutkoske said.

Also on Thursday, the Herricks school board voted to extend a property tax break to veterans of the Cold War era similar to an existing benefit granted to veterans of wartime service.

The board unanimously voted to exempt 15 percent of the assessed valuation of a home for veterans who served between September 1945 and December 1991.

Last summer, the state Legislature

Bill Cutrone 300 dues-paying members. That will give leaders clout with municipalities and others, Thind said.

“The numbers will speak for themselves,” he said. “Usually there’s power in numbers.”

Growing membership remains the group’s primary challenge, Cutrone and Thind said. Participation has dwindled in recent years as older members step back and younger newcomers juggle increasingly busy schedules, the leaders said.

The group may send a newsletter each year to every house in the area to raise awareness about its efforts and encourage residents to join, Thind said.

“We want people to know that we’re going to be out there and we’re going to be fighting for what we think is fair,” Cutrone said.

Wohlgemuth said she thinks two separate groups gave civic activists a more powerful and effective voice, but she sees promise in the merged group.

“I still have reservations, but I’m hopeful that this will be the cure for what ails the civic,” she said.

authorized school districts to offer the exemption after authorizing them in 2013 to offer the exemption for veterans who served during wartime, Rutkoske said.

Nassau County currently grants the exemption from county taxes for Cold War-era veterans to 61 households in the district.

Rutkoske said applying the tax break to school taxes would amount to about $16,000 per year; about $2 per year would be shifted to the other households.

The exemption will take effect on tax bills for the 2017-2018 school year.

Service at G.N. temple encourages unity Continued from Page 4 Joe Chang of the Tzu Chi Foundation, a Buddhist group whose mission is to relieve the suffering of those in need and create a better world for all, reminded the audience that “many nations around the world are embroiled in conflict, which has led to the displacement of millions who have had to flee their homelands.”

Edward Chung, co-chairman of the Chinese Center of Long Island, shared the teachings of Confucius to “forsake darkness” and “do God’s work to improve the human condition.”

The night ended with the entire music ensemble on the altar and the audience rising to their feet to sing “America the Beautiful.”

Lisa Huang, a member of the Chinese Center of Long Island who attended the event, said she most enjoyed the musical

PHOTO BY MALLORY WEBER

performances by Wen Ling Cheng, another Chinese Center member; and the performance of the gospel hymn “God Is” by the Saint Albans Presbyterian Men’s Ensemble and the Saint Paul A.M.E. Zion Church Choir, which led the room clapping in unison.

While leaving Temple Emanuel, a New Hyde Park resident, Ann Karp, praised the evening, calling it “a wonderful event” and “a gorgeous service every year.”

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Legal Notice Notice of Formation of Sky Steel LLC, Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 9/07/2016. Office location: Nassau County. SSNY has been designated for service of process. SSNY shall mail a copy of any process served against the LLC to 263 Robby Lane, New Hyde Park, NY 11040. Purpose: any lawful purpose.

NHP 144574 6x 11/11, 11/18, 11/25, 12/02, 12/09, 12/16 /2016 #144574

Notice of Formation of EWSAFE LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 7/28/16. Office location: Nassau County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 16 S 3rd St, New Hyde Park, NY 11040. Purpose: any lawful purpose.

NHP #144625 6x 11/18, 11/25, 12/02, 12/09, 12/16, 12/23 /2016 #144625

NOTICE OF SALE IN FORECLOSURE STATE OF NEW YORK SUPREME COURT COUNTY OF NASSAU WELLS FARGO BANK, N.A. Plaintiff v.

ROBERTA POWELL, et al., Defendants.

PLEASE TAKE NOTICE THAT In pursuance of a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the office of the County Clerk of Nassau County on May 25, 2014, I, the Referee named in said Judgment, will sell in one parcel at public auction on December 20, 2016 at the CCP (Calendar Control Part Courtroom) in the Nassau Supreme Court, 100 Supreme Court Drive, Mineola, County of Nassau, State of New York, at 11:30 A.M., the premises described as follows: 620 Wayne Ave New Hyde Park, NY 11040 SBL No.: 32-95-52 (lot grouping 52-53) ALL THAT TRACT OR PARCEL OF LAND situate in the Village of New Hyde Park, Town of Hempstead, County of Nassau and State of New York The premises are sold subject to the provisions of the filed judgment, Index No. 4765/10, any state of facts an accurate survey and inspection of the premises may disclose, to covenants, restrictions and easements, if any, to assessments or water charges not a lien upon the property, to violations, zoning regulations, prior liens of record, if any, and ordinances of the city, town or village in which said premises lie, to leases, tenancies and occupancies, and to other charges and liens with priority over plaintiff’s mortgage.

Ellen Durst, Esq., Referee Judgment Amount: $519,466.03 Aleksandra K. Fugate, Esq. Woods Oviatt Gilman LLP Plaintiff’s Attorney 700 Crossroads Building, 2 State St. Rochester, New York 14614 Tel: 585-987-2800 NHP #144612 4x 11/18, 11/25, 12/02, 12/09 /2016 #144612

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NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT COUNTY OF NASSAU, THOMAS MARRON, Plaintiff, vs. NEW YORK 1 PROPERTY HOLDING INC., ET AL., Defendant(s).

Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale dated September 29, 2016, I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction at the CCP (Calendar Control Part Courtroom) in the Supreme Court, 100 Supreme Court Drive, Mineola, NY on December 20, 2016 at 11:30 a.m., premises known as 1204 New Hyde Park Road, New Hyde Park, NY. All that certain plot, piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements thereon erected, situate, lying and being in the Town of North Hempstead, County of Nassau and State of New York, Section 8, Block 165 and Lots 56, 57 & 158.

Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index # 392/16.

Jeffrey Halbreich, Esq., Referee Berkman, Henoch, Peterson, Peddy & Fenchel, P.C., 100 Garden City Plaza, Garden City, NY 11530, Attorneys for Plaintiff NHP 144449 4x 11/18, 11/25, 12/2, 12/9/ 2016 #144449

NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT COUNTY OF NASSAU HSBC BANK USA, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION AS TRUSTEE FOR WELLS FARGO ASSET SECURITIES CORPORATION, MORTGAGE PASSTHROUGH CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2007-2, Plaintiff AGAINST PEDRO CAMPANA and MARCELA ARRIETA A/K/A MARCELA D. ARRIETA, et al., Defendant(s) Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale duly dated September 20, 2013 I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction at the Calendar Control Part (CCP) Courtroom of the Supreme Court, 100 Supreme Court Drive, Mineola, NY 11501, on December 13, 2016 at 11:30AM, premises known as 94 FULTON AVENUE, NEW HYDE PARK, NY 11040. All that certain plot piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements erected, situate, lying and being in the Town of North Hempstead, at Garden City Park, County of Nassau and State of New York, SECTION 33, BLOCK 147, LOT 1539. Approximate amount of judgment $557,769.74 plus interest and costs. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment for Index# 23054/09.

Frank Alleva Esq., Referee Gross Polowy, LLC Attorney for Plaintiff 1775 Wehrle Drive, Suite 100 Williamsville, NY 14221 NHP #144598 4x 11/11, 11/18, 11/25, 12/02 /2016 #144598

STATE OF NEW YORK SUPREME COURT COUNTY OF NASSAU SUPPLEMENTAL SUMMONS Index No. 15-009376 CAPITAL ONE, N.A., Plaintiff, -vsANY UNKNOWN HEIRS, DEVISEES, DISTRIBUTEES OR SUCCESSORS IN INTEREST OF THE LATE YOUNG HAN PARK, IF LIVING, AND IF ANY BE DEAD, ANY AND ALL PERSONS WHO ARE SPOUSES, WIDOWS, GRANTEES, MORTGAGEES, LIENORS, HEIRS, DEVISEES, DISTRIBUTEES, EXECUTORS, ADMINISTRA-

TORS, OR SUCCESSORS IN INTEREST OF SUCH OF THEM AS MAY BE DEAD, AND THEIR SPOUSES, HEIRS, DEVISEES, DISTRIBUTEES AND SUCCESSORS IN INTEREST, ALL OF WHOM AND WHOSE NAMES AND PLACES OF RESIDENCE ARE UNKNOWN TO PLAINTIFF, COMMERCE BANK, N.A., JPMORGAN CHASE BANK NA, JPMORGAN CHASE BANK NA, AS SUCCESSOR-ININTEREST TO JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, FORMERLY KNOWN AS CHASE MANHATTAN BANK, JPMORGAN CHASE BANK NA, AS ACQUIRER OF CERTAIN ASSETS AND LIABILITIES OF WASHINGTON MUTUAL BANK FROM THE FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE CORPORATION ACTING AS RECEIVER, AS SUCCESSOR-BY-ASSIGNMENT FROM THE BANK OF NEW YORK, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA BY THE INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE, NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT OF TAXATION AND FINANCE, and JOHN DOE, Defendants.

To the above named Defendants: 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 attorneys within thirty days after the service of this Summons, exclusive of the day of service, 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 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 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 can 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 THE ANSWER WITH THE COURT. This is an attempt to collect a debt and any information obtained will be used for that purpose.

The foregoing Summons is served upon you by publication pursuant to an order of Honorable Thomas A. Adams, Justice of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, signed the 6th day of September, 2016, at Mineola, New York.

Tax I.D. No. 9-515-34 All that certain plot, piece or parcel of land with the buildings and improvements thereon erected, situate, lying and being at Garden City Park, in the Town of North Hempstead, County of Nassau and State of New York, bounded and described as follows: Beginning at the Northwesterly corner of premises herein described distant the following two courses and distances from the extreme southerly end of the arc connecting the Southerly end of the arc connecting the Southerly side of

Wicks Road with the Easterly side of Schumacher Drive; 1. Southerly along the Easterly side of Schumacher Drive, 90.14 feet; 2. South 8 degrees 04 minutes 06 seconds East, along the proposed Easterly side of Schumacher Drive, 44.21 feet to the point or place of beginning; Running thence from said point of beginning, south 84 degrees 38 minutes 16 seconds east, 146.51 feet; Thence South 5 degrees 21 minutes 44 seconds west, 43 feet; Thence North 84 degrees 38 minutes 16 seconds west, 137.64 feet to the Easterly side of Schumacher Drive, as proposed; Thence Northerly along the Easterly side of Schumacher Drive, as proposed, the following two courses and distances: 1. Along the arc of a circle bearing to the left, having a radius of 50 feet, a distance of 11.62 feet; 2. North 8 degrees 04 minutes 06 seconds west, 32.37 feet to the point of beginning.

Subject to easements, covenants, and restriction of record.

These premises are also known as 42 Schumacher Drive, New Hyde Park, NY 11040.

WOODS OVIATT GILMAN LLP Attorney for Plaintiff 700 Crossroads Building 2 State Street Rochester, NY 14614 NHP 144532 4x 11/4, 11/11, 11/18 / 11/25 #144532

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING Town of North Hempstead Board of Zoning Appeals Pursuant to the provisions of the Code of the Town of North Hempstead, NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Board of Zoning Appeals of said Town will meet at Town Hall, 220 Plandome Road, Manhasset, New York, on Wednesday, December 14, 2016, to consider any matters that may properly be heard by said Board, and will hold a public hearing on said date to consider applications and appeals.

The following cases will be called at said public hearing starting at 10:00 a.m.

APPEAL #20272 - Lisen Liu, variances 70-26.A, 70-32.7, and 70-32.4 to construct a new dwelling exceeding the permitted ridge and eave height with an attached garage exceeding the permitted slope below the adjacent curb; N/side #20A Somerset Dr. S., 117.56’ W/ of Rutland Rd., Great Neck, Sec. 2, Blk. 94, Lot 314, R-A District.

APPEAL #20273 – Gary Hare, appeal for determination, or in the alternative, variances 7040.B & 70-42 to maintain the conversion of a vestibule to a one-story addition and the conversion of a greenhouse to a sunroom; SW/cor. #54 Harbor Hills Rd. & Slocum Ave., Port Washington, Sec. 4, Blk. 14, Lot 32, R-B District.

APPEAL #20274 – Jack Hoppenstand, variance 70100.2.A(4)(a)(5) to maintain fencing exceeding permitted height; N/side #83 Bar Beach Rd, 80’ E/of Birch St., Port Washington, Sec. 6, Blk. 16, Lot 24, R-C District.

APPEAL #20275 - Karen Mulqueen, variances 70-39.C and 70-100.2.A(2) to maintain additions and alterations exceeding the permitted floor area and fencing beyond the front building line; N/E/cor. 2 Newbury Rd. and Guilford Rd.,

Port Washington, Sec. 6, Blk. 69, Lot 1, R-B District.

APPEAL #20276 - North Hempstead Housing Authority, variances 70-203.G and 70-208.F to install a paved patio in a required buffer; S/W/ Cor. 201 Roslyn Rd. and Donald St., Roslyn Heights, Sec. 7, Blk. 66, Lot 41, B-A District.

APPEAL #20277 – Rita Jermyn, appeal for determination, or in the alternative, conditional use 70-203.F to harbor swine; E/side #962 North 4th St., 220’ S/of White Ave., New Hyde Park, Sec. 8, Blk. 16, Lot 86, R-C District.

APPEAL #20278 – Judith Heffernan, variances 70100.2.A(4) & 70-100.2.A(4) (a)(5) to construct fencing exceeding the permitted height and within a front yard; SE/cor. #28 Pinewood Ln. & Maple Dr., New Hyde Park, Sec. 8, Blk. 218, Lot 149, R-C District.

APPEAL #20279 - John Sanchez, variances 70-50.A and 70-101.B to maintain a portico within a required front yard setback; E/side 18 Lakeville Dr., 85.91’ N/of Maple Dr., New Hyde Park, Sec. 8, Blk. 334, Lot 13, R-C District.

APPEAL #20280 – Wen Chyi Wu, variance 70-100.2.A(4) (b) to replace fencing exceeding permitted height; E/side #36 Hamilton Dr., 734.29’ N/ of Shelter Rock Rd., Roslyn, Sec. 9, Blk. 653, Lot 11, R-A District.

APPEAL #20281 - Eleanor Sims, variances 70-102.5(A) and 70-100.2.A(4)(a)[5] to maintain an in-ground pool within a required buffer and fencing exceeding the permitted height; W/side 14 Peachtree Ln., 232.02’ N/of 12th St., Carle Place, Sec. 10, Blk. 280, Lot 13, R-B District.

APPEAL #20282 – John Peska, variances 70-100.2.A(4)(a) (5) & 70-100.2.A(4) to maintain fencing exceeding the permitted height; N/side #22 Pine Tree Rd, 91’ W/of Cantiague Ln., Westbury, Sec. 11, Blk. 417, Lot 17, R-C District.

APPEAL #20269 - Hyun Suk Park, variances 70-50.C and 70-103.A to maintain the conversion of a garage to habitable space and the enclosure of an open porch in a required front yard with insufficient off-street parking; W/side 79 Stephan Marc Ln., 721.11’ S/ of Leslie Ln., New Hyde Park, Sec. 8, Blk. K-6, Lot 46, R-C District.

APPEAL #20283 - Colin Reealty Co., LLC (Gino’s Pizza), conditional use 70-126.A and variance 70-103.A to construct alterations to convert a retail space to a food use; W/side

#451 Plandome Rd., 199.99’ N/of Bayview Ave., Manhasset, Sec. 3, Blk. 138-02, Lot 19, B-A District.

APPEAL #20284.A – Acadia Marcus Avenue LLC (Jersey Mike’s), conditional use 70-126.A and variance 70103.A.1 to construct alterations to convert a retail space to a food use with insufficient off-street parking; S/side 1600 Marcus Ave., 170’ E/of New Hyde Park Rd., Sec. 8, Blk. 302, Lot 27, B-A District.

APPEAL #20284.B - Acadia Marcus Avenue LLC (Chopt), conditional use 70-126.A and variance 70-103.A.1 to construct alterations to convert a retail space to a food use with insufficient off-street parking; S/side 1600 Marcus Ave., 170’ E/of New Hyde Park Rd., Sec. 8, Blk. 302, Lot 27, B-A District.

APPEAL #20285 - Janotta GCR, LLC (Greenvale Townhouse Diner), variance 70132.A to construct a canopy, stairs and accessibility ramp within a required front yard setback; W/side 49 Glen Cove Rd., 128.05’ N/of Wellington Rd., Greenvale, Sec. 20, Blk. N, Lot 76, B-A District.

APPEAL #20286 - PR Jericho Storage, LLC, variances 70103.A, 70-103.B, 70-192.B and 70-208.F to construct a rear addition to a nonconforming structure within a required rear yard setback and with insufficient off-street parking and parking stall dimensions; S/side 1990 Jericho Tpke., 161.34’ E/of Hoffman Rd., New Hyde Park, Sec. 33, Blk. K, Lot 309, I-B District.

All interested persons should appear and will be given an opportunity to be heard at such meeting and/or hearing.

DAVID MAMMINA, R.A., Chairman; Board of Zoning Appeals NHP #144654 1x 11/25/2016 #144654

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Sports LIU Post advances in 1st round

BY M I C H A E L OTERO Led by red-shirt sophomore running back Malik Pierre, who ran for 115 yards and three touchdowns, the No. 10 ranked and second-seeded LIU Post football team defeated seventhseeded Winston-Salem State University, 48-41, in the first round of the NCAA Division II tournament on Saturday, Nov. 19, at Bethpage Federal Credit Union Stadium in Brookville.

LIU Post 48 Winston-Salem 41 “He is an all-around great player,” head LIU Post football coach Bryan Collins said about Pierre. “He has a real nose for the end zone. We can get him the ball as a running back or as a slot receiver to work the matchups. He’s a weapon for us.”

With the win, the Pioneers improved to a perfect 12-0 season, winning an NCAA tournament game for the first time since 2005. The team also set a program record for the most wins in a single season.

After a deadlock at 14 after 15 minutes, the Pioneer offense exploded for 20 unanswered points to take a 34-14 lead. In that span, Pierre ran for two of

his three touchdowns and senior quarterback Jeff Kidd tossed a 34-yard pass to junior receiver James Higgins, who crossed the goal line to end the half with a lead of 34-17 for the Pioneers.

The Pioneers dominated the third quarter, as they added two more touchdowns; an 11-yard pass from Kidd to senior halfback David White and Pierre’s third on the ground.

By the time Pierre made his third trip to the end zone, the Pioneers had a 48-24 lead with 1:08 left in the third quarter.

In that 16-plus-minute span, the Rams scored 17 unanswered points and drew to 48-41, but could not climb out of the hole the Pioneers put them in.

Although the Pioneer defense was not as dominant as against Assumption College a week prior, the team made big plays that changed the game to earn the win.

Perhaps the most important play of the game occurred on the last possession as the Pioneers moved the chains on a huge third down and seven to go, thanks to red-shirt receiver Shane Hubbard. Kidd and Hubbard connected for 31 yards and rushes by the Pierre-White combination put the game on ice.

Kidd went 25-34 through the air for 320 yards and four touchdowns. Kidd connected with seven receivers. Kidd’s most frequent recipient, Hubbard, hauled in six catches for

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81 yards and a touchdown, while Kyle Ward brought in five balls for 72 yards and a score as well.

On the ground, Pierre’s three touchdowns stole the show, but White ran for 134 yards on just 20 carries; adding to his terrific season.

Defensively, red-shirt junior defensive back Jared Chester and junior defensive back Richard Wright each made seven tackles to lead LIU Post and they each also intercepted a pass.

Senior linebacker Ryan Renfroe also contributed, totaling four tackles including a tackle for loss while fellow senior

linebacker Nate Feliz added six tackles and a pass break-up of his own.

As a team, the Pioneers amassed 12 more first downs than the Rams, outgained them in rushing and passing yards and also forced more turnovers.

In addition to those numbers, the Pioneers also held a 10 minute advantage in time of possession and went an impressive 5-5 on fourth downs.

The Pioneers advanced in the tournament and will host third-seeded Shepherd University in their second round matchup on Saturday, Nov. 26, in Brookville.

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Shepherd University, like the Pioneers, has a perfect record at 11-0 and a potent offense; winning 70 points a month ago against West Virginia State.

They defeated Assumption College, a team the Pioneers handled twice this season, 4831.

Game time has 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.

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Carle Place/Wheatley lose in finals

BY G R E G ORY GIACONELLI The Seaford Vikings defeated the Carle Place/Wheatley Wild-Frogs 20-0 in the Conference IV Championship game Saturday afternoon at Hofstra University, led by Danny Roell’s two touchdown performance.

Seaford Vikings 20 Carle Pl/Wheatley 0 Roell rushed for 190 yards and Seaford’s defense silenced Carle Place’s running game to win the conference finals.

Carle Place/Wheatley head coach Tim Moran said the loss was hard to swallow but he gave credit to Seaford and their physicality.

“We knew they were going to be physical and we had to bring our A game,” Moran said.

“We had to play hard nose football against them. I tip my cap to those guys.”

Seaford scored the game’s

opening touchdown with 10:10 remaining in the first quarter.

Roell’s 23-yard run capped off a 57-yard drive and Josh Pinnock’s kick gave Seaford a 7-0 lead.

With 4:09 remaining in the second quarter, Seaford scored again on a one-yard run by Nick Calandra to complete a 72-yard drive.

However, the extra point attempt was blocked and Seaford took a 13-0 lead into halftime.

In the third quarter, Seaford attempted to put the game out of reach with 2:03 remaining. Quarterback A.J. Cain threw a pass that was intercepted by Luke Caliendo and Carle Place/Wheatley had a chance to get on the board inside Seaford’s 32-yard line.

Cain made up for his turnover with an interception of his own off Carle Place quarterback Chris Kelly with 25 seconds remaining in the third.

In the fourth quarter, Roell’s four-yard dash gave Seaford another touchdown with 3:37 left to play and Pinnock’s kick sealed the deal as Seaford

went on to win 20-0.

Moran said this season will go down as one of his most memorable moments as Carle Place and Wheatley have made

and we did that by taking it two steps further,” Moran said.

“We did what we wanted to do and it was a great run by the kids and the coaching staff.”

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2 Wheatley seniors sign letters of intent The Wheatley School Athletic Program recognizes the accomplishments of seniors Antonio Deodato and Shawn Mosca, who on Nov. 14 signed letters of commitment to Long Island University – CW Post in the East Coast Conference and the University of Maryland, College Park in the Big 10 Conference, respectively.

Both athletes are receiving scholarships.

Deodato is a returning three-year starter and senior captain for the Wildcats Baseball team. Last season, he earned All County recognition.

Deodato was a starting pitcher and centerfielder on the 2016 Class B Long Island Championship and Nassau County

Championship team. He has been a major contributor to Wheatley’s successful baseball program throughout his career.

Deodato is a member of the National Honor Society and La Società Onoraria Italica, the National Italian Honor Society. He also participates in community service and volunteers to help others.

Deodato is a member of the nationally ranked Long Island Body Armor Titans Baseball Club and was a member of this 2015 national championship team.

Deodato has been listed on the Blue Chip Prospects list of 2017 graduates for the past two years. In addition to playing baseball, Deodato helps younger baseball players develop their talents as a volun-

teer coach for the the Under 13 Travel Baseball team.

On Nov. 14, Deodato made his decision to accept the Long Island University – C.W. Post’s academic and athletic scholarship.

Mosca is a returning six-year starter for the Wildcats, a returning All State, state finalist, four-time All County and two-time Nassau County Champion.

As Wheatley’s most accomplished wrestler, Mosca has been a major contributor and the source for keeping the Wheatley wrestling program viable.

As the recipient of every wrestling recognition that Wheatley awards, Mosca has excited not only Wheatley enthusiasts

for the past five years, but Nassau County and New York State wrestling enthusiasts as well.

Mosca is entering his senior season as one of the top ranked wrestlers in the country. His focus and dedication to the sport of wrestling has allowed his talent to be sought after by many Division I wrestling programs.

Mosca has been a member of the Ascend Wrestling Club, where he has competed nationally and has achieved All American recognition.

Mosca returns the help and instruction he has received from his coaches by mentoring the younger members of the club as a volunteer coach and supporter.

LIU Post equestrian rests atop in region

BY M A X I M E D E V I LL A Z The LIU Post equestrian team ended its fall season on a high note on home ground Sunday, Nov. 13.

Comfortably looking down at its competitors from its saddle atop in the regional rankings, the team leads by over 50 points ahead of runners-up from Stony Brook.

If the team holds the position following the remaining shows in the spring, it will qualify for zones competition.

Eight individual riders have already qualified for regionals. But the team wants more.

“Maintaining number one in the region next semester is our plan,” said LIU Post student Heather Grova, one of the team captains. “We are hoping to qualify as a team for regionals and then zones. It would be great if we could make it to nationals. As long as we keep up our hard work, anything is possible.”

Jessica Sulkers, co-captain with Grova and Alexis Rand, weighed in. “The ultimate goal would be nationals, however… we don’t want to get too ahead of ourselves. It’s all about focusing on the moment, visualizing the steps that are necessary for success and blocking out the possibilities of failure and keeping positive.”

Many LIU Post riders snatched first spots in their respective classes and divisions. Mallory Slack and Grace Tice tied for high point rider and both won their classes— Slack in intermediate fences and flat events, Tice in open fences and flat.

“I think that the increase in amount of lessons we can take really has put this

team in a better position for success,” Rand said. “With more practices coach Brooke and Nicole can focus on fixing the little details that add up when we are being judged in the show ring.”

Regional Stands as of Nov. 6: 1. LIU Post 272 Columbia 107 2. Stony Brook 221 Adelphi- 88

3. NYU 174 4. St. Joseph’s- 163 5. Suffolk CC- 162

Hofstra- 62 Molloy- 57 Princeton- 49

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.

PHOTO COURTESY OF JESSICA SULKERS

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