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Opt-outs low for N. Shore

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Most students take state tests

BY A M E L I A C A M U R AT I , J A N E L L E CL AUSEN, REBECCA KLAR AND LUKE TORRANCE Thousands of Nassau County students opted out of the state’s English Language Arts test last week, but far fewer students on the North Shore chose not to participate than in the rest of the county.

The North Shore in general has lower opt-out rates than average on Long Island, and the Herricks school district has the lowest rate, with only 11.9 percent of the students opting out.

According to data accumulated by Newsday, the opt-out rate across Long Island’s school districts – save for nine who did not report – was 49.1 percent overall. A majority of students opted out in 53 of Long Island’s school districts and 62 districts reported numbers of 49 percent or lower.

Nassau County’s opt-out rate was 40.7 percent overall with 35,535 students out of an eligible Continued on Page 73

PHOTO BY REBECCA KLAR

Jesse Cooper, a problem-oriented police officer for Nassau County, addressed parking concerns raised by the Lakeville Estates Civic Association at a meeting last Wednesday. See story on page 2.

Dad needed a kidney. I had 1 to give A Blank Slate Media reporter tells her story of helping her ailing father

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his money on overpriced espressos and baguettes.

He was bed-bound in the When my dad was first admitted to the hospital for kidney New York-Presbyterian intensive failure I was in Paris spending care unit. I was at the Louvre pretending to enjoy ancient art while thinking of Instagram captions.

Nearly two years later he was back there in a hospital bed. This time I was

there, too. Not visiting but in a bed of my own around the corner.

I’d like to say I put a lot of thought into deciding to donate my kidney to my dad. But I didn’t.

It seemed like an obvious choice from the start; I had an extra and he needed one. Looking back a couple weeks after

the surgery, I think I should have put more thought into it than when I loan a friend an iPhone charger.

The truth is the outcome would have been the same. I was determined to donate. It was only a matter of convincing my dad – an art I’ve fine-tuned over the last two decades.

Continued on Page 26

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Civics ask POP cop to Foundation honors address illegal parking late NHP teen The issue is magnified during Ramadan, prez says Donations will fund annual scholarship

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As the Islamic holiday Ramadan draws near, members of the Lakeville Estates Civic Association said they are concerned about illegal parking problems on the streets surrounding the Hillside Islamic Center in New Hyde Park.

The civic association brought up the issue to Jesse Cooper, a Nassau County problem-oriented police officer, during a meeting last Wednesday.

State Assemblyman Anthony D’Urso and North Hempstead Town Councilwoman Lee Seeman also attended the meeting.

Civic Association President Brill Cutrone said during the month-long holiday members of the mosque block homeowners’ driveways as well as fire hydrants.

Cutrone said the mosque draws large crowds from Queens.

“The mentality is a little different because they love to double park in Queens,” Cutrone said. “But we have a problem [with it] in Nassau County.”

This year Ramadan begins on May 16 and ends on June 14.

During the 30 days, observers fast from dawn to sunset.

Residents have called 911, but police do not respond until “well after the fact,” Cutrone said.

Cooper said this is not the first time he has heard of this problem, and that the department is aware it.

Cooper said that while residents should continue to call 911 to file reports, parking violations fall lowest on the list of the calls officers respond to.

“Unfortunately it’s going to go on the bottom of the list until an officer becomes available if there’s no other higher priority calls, and that’s when they’re

A favorite saying of Leah Kuczinski, a New Hyde Park Memorial High School sophomore who died in a go-kart accident in February, was “make every second count,” her family said in a letter to Blank Slate Media.

To honor that, the Kuczinski family established the Leah Kuczinski Legacy Foundation, which they said “will carry on her spirit and make a difference in the lives of others.”

Those interested in supporting the foundation can make a donation at 1980 Miller Place, Merrick, New York 11566.

Kuczinski’s mother, Maria, said the family is in the process of setting up a website for the foundation, too.

Kuczinski was"a cheerleader and junior varsity field hockey captain," according to Newsday, which reported that she was killed over February break in a go-kart accident at the Palm Beach International Raceway in Jupiter, Florida.

Part of the donations raised will go toward a scholarship fund for a New Hyde Park Memorial High School student.

“Every year we’ll give a scholarship to someone who radiates what my daughter was,” Maria"Kuczinski said. “Kind and caring and loving and a friend to everyone.”

Other donated funds will go toward helping children with special needs, an interest of her daughter, she said.

The family plans on constructing handicap playgrounds for children with special needs, Maria"Kuczinski said.

To start, she said her family is going to make sure there is

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Bill Cutrone, president of the Lakeville Estates Civic Association, said there is an issue with illegal parking near the Hillside Islamic Center during the month-long holiday of Ramadan. going to show up,” Cooper said, adding that often it’s not until after the illegal parkers have left.

“We have to designate the manpower for the more important emergencies.”

Issues that rank higher on the priority list would include shootings or auto accidents, Cooper said.

Cooper said he has spoken to the leader of the mosque, who he said is “very receptive” and understands the problem.

“He told us he tells his followers repeatedly to obey the parking laws … and that if they don’t we have every right to write tickets,” Cooper said.

Several civic association members asked if the auxiliary police could address the situation.

Cooper said the auxiliary police are not authorized to write summons.

The Islamic center is across the street from the Stop and Shop supermarket on Hillside Avenue in New Hyde Park.

Cooper told the civic associ-

ation he can try to broker a deal with the owner of the supermarket lot – which one civic member said he previously tried to do to no avail – to allow people to park there during Ramadan services, which typically fall in the morning, from about 3 a.m. to 10 a.m.

Cutrone also brought up an issue where residents say a young woman who claims to have fallen outside asks homeowners if she can wash up inside.

Cooper said the department has received two logged phone calls of the incident.

Cooper said that no crime was committed, since there wasn’t a break-in.

Cooper added that the department is aware of the woman and know where she lives and works.

He also said her story to detectives aligns with what residents reported.

Cooper said if residents see her again and she’s “up to her Continued on Page 72

at least one piece of equipment in every playground in the area that is handicap accessible.

Maria" Kuczinski said her daughter also loved to help animals.

Donations will also go toward helping animals in some way, she said.

Leah Kuczinski was honored at a February vigil held at the school following her death.

In addition to members of the community, Hailee Steinfeld attended the vigil after Tiffany Salcedo, a Spanish teacher at New Hyde Park Memorial, asked the singer to come on Twitter.

Kuczinski had tickets to attend Steinfeld’s concert in July.

PHOTO COURTESY OF THE KUCZINSKI FAMILY

Leah Kuczinski’s family thanks the community for outpouring of love after the loss of their daughter in February.

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Trinity Church organist leaves the keys

BY A M E L I A C A M U R AT I A longstanding musical figure in the Trinity Episcopal Church of Roslyn will perform in her final concert this weekend before her retirement this summer.

Organist and choir director Martha Regalmann, who is retiring in June, started with the church on Northern Boulevard in 1977 and will direct “With a Voice of Singing” at 4 p.m. Sunday, a celebration of music in her honor.

“She’s somebody that has served for all her tremendous worth and energy, she is someone who has quietly and brilliantly served God and her craft of music, changing lives and shaping children across many decades,” Trinity Church Rector Margaret Clark said. “Those are stories that sometimes go unsung.”

Regalmann, who began piano lessons in seventh grade, was asked to play the organ at her Franklin Square church as a high school freshman.

“I got to tell the altos, including my mother, to stop talking,” Regalmann said.

“How much fun is that when you’re 14?”

Regalmann, of Garden City, studied church music and organ at Westminster Choir College in Princeton, New Jersey, and moved back to Long Island, working at Mineola First Presbyterian Church before moving to Trinity Church.

Regalmann also served as director of the Mineola Choral Society for about 25 years and will also be retiring from Friends

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Martha Regalmann will retire from Trinity Episcopal Church this summer after 40 years.

Martha Regalmann has also served as music teacher at Friends Academy for 26 years.

Academy in Locust Valley at the end of the school year, where she has taught vocal music and music theory for 26 years as well as serving as musical director for a host of concerts, musicals and shows.

Regalmann said she discovered the Friends Academy position through choral member Sally Vuillet, who also served as the school’s assistant headmaster, and she created the middle school choral program to better prepare the students before the high school choral regimen.

Regalmann said a handful of preachers have come and gone during her 40 years at the organ, including the Rev. E.

Nils Blatz, who she had met many times before joining Trinity Episcopal Church.

“When I was a little girl at the Episcopal camp in Wading River, he was on the work crew, and he would bring my cabin extra desserts, and we loved Nils,” Regalmann said. “Years later, he hired me, and he was a young priest starting here.”

Regalmann said her final concert on Sunday will be a fitting culmination of her time in the church, ranging from songs she’s been performing since she started with the church as well as a new contemporary piece the choir has never performed.

“We’re all going to miss her,” Michael Callahan, the church’s sexton, said. “It’s been a wonderful experience to have her all these years with us. She’s a great benefit to our worship every Sunday with the music and the way she selects the hymns and prepares the choir.”

After her retirements in June from the church and the school, Regalmann said she is moving to! Ilion in upstate New York to be closer to her mother and sister.

Her official retirement celebration for the church is set for Trinity Sunday on June 10.

Of all her memories from her decades with the church, Regalmann said she will most miss the people and the concerts.

“The one concert that pops into my mind is when my parents sang with the Mineola Choral Society, and my husband at the time and my brother were also singing with the church,” Regalmann said. “We combined choral society people and church people, and we sang John Rutter’s ‘Requiem,’ which is a beautiful piece that mixes English and Latin. We did it here on a Sunday afternoon, and the sun was coming through these windows, and there was something about the whole feeling that was just magical.

“Every time I come in, I feel like everyone I’ve known who has been here — their spirit is swirling around the room.”

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$29.88M F.P. budget tops 2% tax cap

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The Floral Park village board adopted a $29.88 million budget, which exceeds the 2 percent tax cap.

BY R E B ECC A K L A R The Floral Park village board unanimously adopted a $29.88 million budget that exceeds the 2 percent tax cap at a meeting last Tuesday.

The budget is $1.5 million

more than the 2017-18 budget.

The tax levy will increase by 2.93 percent.

The tax rate per $100 of the assessed value of a house is $13.32 – a 32-cent increase from the current year.

During an April 11 meeting,

the board voted unanimously to have the ability to override the 2 percent tax cap.

The tax cap, introduced in 2012, is an effort on behalf of the state to eliminate villages, according to Trustee Archie Cheng and Mayor Dominick

Longobardi.

“The law is designed to eliminate the Village of Floral Park,” Longobardi said. “Now everybody chose to live here for a reason, and we respect that tremendously and we will make sure we maintain that despite whatever New York wants to do. Also, we will maintain that within reason for what people need to do to be able to live here.”

Cheng asked how the village is supposed to stay within the 2 percent tax cap when health insurance costs are expected to increase by 8 percent for the 2018-19 fiscal year.

The total budget for the village is $32,295,816, including the $1.28 million library fund, approved by a separate library board, and the $1.12 million pool fund.

The Floral Park Police Department costs account for $6.8 million of the $29.88 million budget. There is a 1.05 percent increase in the department budget from 2017-18.

Included in the budget is the purchase of a new police vehicle.

The department has 20 vehicles in use, three of which

have been in use since the 90s, two since the 2000s, and the remainder since 2011, Cheng said.

There is also a 4.18 percent increase in the budget allotted for the Fire Department.

The total budget for the department is $408,800; it includes $3,500 for new uniforms and $15,000 for new radios.

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There is also $1.4 million allotted for a contingent account, which may go toward settling labor negotiations with the Civil Service Employees Association and the Police Department.

The negotiations are in their third year, Longobardi said, and will resume on June 1.

The $1.4 million in the contingent account can also go toward future snow removal.

“Whatever is left over we can put back into savings,” Longobardi said.

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Kaplan announces state Senate run Dem N. Hempstead councilwoman seeks seat currently held by Republican Elaine Phillips

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Kaplan, who was elected in 2011 in the town’s 4th District, said in a Facebook Town of North Hemp- post she would formally stead Councilwoman Anna announce her Democratic Kaplan of Great Neck an- campaign at the Yes We Can nounced on Facebook Tues- Community Center in Westday her candidacy for New bury at 3:30 p.m. Friday York’s District 7 Senate seat, alongside state Sen. Mike currently held by Elaine Gianaris, Town of North Hempstead Supervisor Judi Phillips (R-Flower Hill).

Bosworth, Nassau County Democratic Party Chairman Jay Jacobs and North Hempstead Town Democratic Party Chairman John Ryan.

Port Washington resident Brad Schwartz has also filed to run as a Democrat in the Sept. 13 primary.

“With nearly two

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months remaining in the Legislative Session and much work yet to be done, now is not the time for politics,” Phillips said in a statement. “My sole focus is my responsibility as State Senator and keeping the momentum going on important issues I have proudly championed into law this year, including landmark sexual harassment legislation and protecting victims by removing firearms from individuals convicted of domestic violence. At the appropriate time, I will turn my attention to the fall election and the multiple potential candidates vying for this seat. In the meantime, I remain focused on best representing the interests of the hardworking taxpayers of the 7th Senate District.”

Kaplan was defeated in her 2016 primary race against U.S. Representative Tom Suozzi (D-Glen Cove).

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Sewanhaka adopts $198.6M budget

BY S A M U E L G L A S S E R The Sewanhaka Central High School District’s final budget for the coming school year has “good news from the state,” Superintendent Ralph Ferrie said during a meeting last Wednesday when the Board of Education approved the budget for the 2018-19 year.

But otherwise it is essentially unchanged from the preliminary budget presented in February.

State aid is slated to increase by $3.2 million, or 8.5 percent, to $41 million, from the $37.8 million in aid allocated for the current school year. It is a $613,000 increase from the original state aid estimate.

Ferrie said that there will be no cuts to programs or staff.

Enrollment for the coming school year is projected at 8,405 students, down by 87 from the current student body.

The new budget is $198.6 million, an increase of $5.5 million or 2.9 percent from the current year. The tax levy is $144.3 million, an increase of 1.09 percent. Tax collections will account for 72.9 percent of the new budget and state aid will be 20.4 percent of the budget; the remainder is made up of payments in lieu of taxes and other sources.

On the expenditure side, contributions to the state teacher retirement

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Superintendent Ralph Ferrie said there will be no cuts do programs or staff in the tentative $198.6 million Sewanhaka budget approved by the school board last Wednesday. system are projected to increase by 8.5 percent, contributions to the employee retirement system will be unchanged and the cost of employee health insurance increased 8.6 percent as of January.

Kevin O’Brien, deputy superintendent for finance and operations said the district has “very little debt.”

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His presentation showed that debt service, which includes payments on the 2014 bond issue to finance the districtwide capital improvement program, is 4.3 percent of the budget, or $8.5 million.

The final phase of construction under the bond referendum was completed ear-

lier in the school year as were the energy performance upgrades to each of the five high schools.

The district will continue to maintain and upgrade its facilities.

The district has budgeted nearly $500,000 for capital projects in the coming year, including a new proprietary lock system, swipe-in locks at strategic door entrances at each school and upgraded security including a “buzz-in” system at each school with a visitor management system.

Ferrie noted that the district safety committee will meet in the near future and will include community representatives with expertise in law enforcement and safety.

Last month, the administration conducted a day-long appraisal of school safety and will report the findings to the board in April, he said.

The district is also working with the state to procure $200,000 to renovate the science labs at H. Frank Carey High School. Ferrie noted that the district is developing student laboratory manuals in house so students do not have to purchase them.

Ferrie also said that when school opens in September the phase-in of iPads will be complete and all students in grades seven to 12 will have one.

The budget vote is on May 15.

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County crime rates dropped: Curran Murders, burglaries down; lowest homicide rates in Nassau since the 1960s, exec says

BY LU K E TOR R A N C E Nassau County Executive Laura Curran and Police Commissioner Patrick Ryder said on Tuesday that crime had dropped in the county.

“Under [Ryder’s] leadership, the NCPD has implemented important crime-fighting initiatives, and I’m proud to say that they’re working,” Curran said at a news conference.

She cited the 15 homicides in 2017, the lowest number in Nassau since the 1960s. And the decline in homicides continued: there were three before April 23 in 2017, but only one so far this year.

Almost all crimes were down from the same period last year: burglaries dropped from 258 to 205; stolen vehicles decreased from 127 to 118; and assaults, both felony and misdemeanor, fell from 314 to 292.

But grand larceny was up, 900 to 962, as was rape (three reported in the county this year, while there were none last year).

Total major crimes decreased slightly, from 1,525 last year to 1,520 in 2018.

“Of course, we still face major threats,” Curran said.

Those threats were the increasing use of opioids, gang culture and residents’ concerns over mass shootings that had taken place in different parts of the country.

PHOTO BY LUKE TORRANCE

Nassau County Executive Laura Curran (speaking) updates the press on several crime-fighting initiatives.

In order to tackle the first issue, Curran announced a county program that tracked the location of overdoses would be named after Natalie Ciappa, who died of a heroin overdose 10 years ago. Her father was present on Tuesday and said the county was making progress after years of weak initiatives.

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Ryder then spoke about the overdose mapping program and said that community involvement would be essential to fighting the crisis. In four communities in the county targeted by the department, the police had made over 300 arrests related to heroin with many more made countywide.

He also said the department was using

social media to reach 18-to-25-year-olds, who he said were most vulnerable to opioids.

“We’re starting to see things trending in the right direction,” he said.

Ryder detailed some of the steps the department had taken to improve safety in schools following the mass shooting in Parkland, Florida, earlier this year. The Police Department has trained over 180 principals and superintendents at public schools on how to handle an emergency and has officers stop by schools once per day.

He also took time to address the MS13 gang, which last week threatened to kill police officers in the county.

“You’re not going to threaten a cop in this county … without getting a reaction from law enforcement,” Ryder said.

He said the department increased patrols in Hempstead, where the threat was issued, and made 46 arrests over a fourday period, including 34 drug users associated with the gang. MS-13, which operates around the country, was blamed for several recent murders on Long Island. Many of the gang’s members come from Central America.

Ryder also expressed thanks for support from the community and the county executive in the wake of the threats.

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THROUGH THE EYES OF AUTISM

GOP backs hike in age to buy tobacco

BY R E B ECC A K L A R A bill proposed by members of the Nassau County Legislature’s Republican majority would require people to be 21 or older to purchase tobacco, extending a rule already in effect in much of the county.

The GOP-backed bill follows years of opposition to the law introduced most recently by Legislator Arnold Drucker (D-Plainview), and previously by his predecessor Judy Jacobs, who died in 2016.

Presiding Officer Richard Nicolello (R-New Hyde Park) said he believes the votes are now there on both sides for the bill, which the Rules Committee is scheduled to consider on May 7, to pass.

The bill would only change the laws in a “small sliver of the county,” Nicolello said, noting that the towns of North Hempstead and Hempstead already require tobacco purchasers to be 21.

In the past, those opposed to the bill thought 19- and 20-year-olds have the ability to make decisions themselves, Nicolello said.

However, “with the use# of vaping products being used for marijuana paraphernalia as well as vaping products in schools and problems developing there,” Nicollelo said the majority thought it was

time to reconsider.

The bill states that raising the legal age to 21 means “those who can legally obtain tobacco are less likely to be in the same social networks as high school students,” limiting the prevalent electronic cigarette devices in high schools that have “normalized tobacco use.”

If the law passes, stores would be fined for selling tobacco products, including cigarettes, cigars, chewing tobacco, herbal cigarettes, rolling papers and and electronic cigarettes, to underage customers.

A first penalty fine would range from $300 to $1,000, and additional fines for subsequent violations would range from $500 to $1,500.

Drucker said the legislation is long overdue.

“It’s something that is so important,” Drucker said. “It’s a piece of legislation that’s going to save lives.”# Drucker said he is happy and gratified that the majority recognized this change needs to be done in a #bipartisan way.

Drucker added that he hopes the bill portends a new level of cooperation among the two parties on measures “that aren’t of political nature,” but rather are about quality of life and human nature.

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‘One-stop’ shop to help residents State officials on-site at Town Hall to help those building after Sandy

BY R E B ECC A KLAR The Town of Hempstead will have a “one-stop shop” to help the approximately 1,000 residents still rebuilding after Superstorm Sandy, Hempstead Town Supervisor Laura Gillen announced last Thursday.

“Too many families are still struggling with the nightmare of rebuilding after Superstorm Sandy,” Gillen said.

“We are pleased to announce that starting on Monday residents and homeowners can seek assistance from the town and the state right here at Town Hall.”

Staff from the Governor’s Office of Storm Recovery will be on site at Hempstead Town Hall as part of a new residential assistance program that will help homeowners apply for permits and submit designs for rebuilding homes damaged by the storm in 2012.

Town officials are anticipating a surge in permit ap-

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Hempstead Town Supervisor Laura Gillen announced a new residential assistance program that will aid approximately 1,000 residents still struggling with Superstorm Sandy-related damage. plications before the April 1, 2019, deadline for homeowners to receive funding from the NY Rising Housing Recovery Program, Gillen said.

The program operated by the Governor’s Office of Storm Recovery facilitates home repairs, rehabilitation, mitigation and elevation of family homes damaged by

storms.

To avoid a last-minute rush, the town’s communications office has been reconfigured to host the staff of the Governor’s Office of Storm Recovery to help the process along.

“The Town of Hempstead is here to say that we’re putting processes in place to

make the final steps easy and painless as possible,” Gillen said.

The announcement follows the Town Board’s decision last month to waive Building Department permit fees and clerk fees for document replacement for residents repairing their homes after Sandy-related damage.

Residents seeking replacement of documents such as birth certificates, death certificates, marriage licenses and passports lost during the storm will not have to pay the clerk’s office for replacements.

Town Clerk Sylvia Cabana said she was proud of the initiative to make the process easier on those who have struggled.

Gillen said the road to recovery has been far too long for far too many.

“But today, we are here to say that the finish line is in sight,” Gillen said. “And the Town of Hempstead is here to help in whatever way we can.”

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Gillen, Sweeney spar on suit

BY R E B ECC A K L A R Hempstead Town Supervisor Laura Gillen and Councilwoman Erin King Sweeney disagree over whether council members are being sued personally or solely in their official positions in a suit filed by the supervisor.

Gillen is suing the Town Board members, former Supervisor Anthony Santino, and the town’s union in an effort to nullify a contract that prevents her from laying off employees even during a financial crisis that was approved during Santino’s last meeting in charge.

The suit names all Town Board members, even Sweeney, Councilman Bruce Blakeman and Councilwoman Dorothy Goosby, who voted against the resolution in December.

Sweeney called the suit a “colossal waste of resources,” according to Newsday video footage of a Town Board meeting on Tuesday.

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Ashkenase appointed COO, V.P. of NUMC

BY JA N E LL E C L AUS E N

The NHCC, in turn, approved Ashkenase to be an executive committee The Nassau University Medical Cen- member of the Nassau Queens Performter’s board of directors unanimously ing Provider System, composed of Northwell Health, Nassau University approved the appointment of Great Neck native Donald Ash- “ here’s not Medical Center and the Catholic Health System. kenase to be chief operating This organization oversees officer and executive vice presi- equal access dent last week, putting him in to health care the delivery system reform incentive payment, or DSRIP, proa position to lead the hospital’s and the poor gram, which aims to restructure restructuring plan.

Ashkenase brings with him sometimes the delivery of health care by reinvesting in Medicaid and reexperience at Montefiore Medical Center as its executive vice get denied the ducing avoidable hospital visits.

“There’s not equal access to president, at Long Island Jewish quality of care health care and the poor someMedical Center as chief financial officer and at the New York City that we should times get denied the quality of Health and Hospitals Corp. be providing care that we should be providing everybody,” Ashkenase said.

He was also the chairman everybody.” “I just want to make sure NUMC of Healthfirst, first founded in is there to meet the needs of the 1993 with the goal of providpeople who need it the most, ing low-cost health insurance in Donald whether they have insurance or the New York City area, for 15 Ashkenase not.” years.

The move comes as Cur“I would hope to be here GREAT NECK NATIVE, long enough to facilitate the CHIEF OPERATING ran appointee George Tsunis, the chairman of NUHealth, the transformation of the economOFFICER AND public benefit corporation runics of the medical center,” AshEXECUTIVE VICE ning the East Meadow-based fakenase, also the vice president PRESIDENT cility, has honed in on the hospiof the Great Neck Board of Edutal’s contracting and purchasing cation, said on Thursday, noting that this would mean the ability to help practices.

Since he took the position, the board more people.

Ashkenase said this would entail has moved to purge more than $2 million boosting the “case mix” of the hospital, worth of high administrative positions, expanding the ambulance care delivery establish a contract review committee system and “have it be a bridge to grow- and stop officials from taking business trips to the Cayman Islands. ing our managed care business.”

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45 more days for homeowner permit North Hills approves an extension for longstanding construction project on I.U. Willets

BY A M E L I A C A M U R AT I The Village of North Hills Board of Trustees approved another extension for a longstanding home construction project on I.U. Willets Road.

Mayor Marvin Natiss and trustees unanimously approved a final 45-day extension, recommended by Natiss, for Manheet Singh’s building permit for his 90 I.U. Willets home at a board meeting last Wednesday.

In February, Trustees Phyllis Lentini and Gail Cohen convinced the board to extend the permit for an additional 60 days.

Before that, an extension was granted on May 17 for 30 days followed by a second on Sept. 19 for 45 days and another on Nov. 15 for 30 more days. At the Dec. 20 meeting, trustees rejected!a request for an additional extension before the renewal in February.

The original! building permit was transferred to Singh’s name in November 2013, North Hills Building Department Superintendent Donald Alberto said.

“We’re between a rock and a hard place,” Natiss said. “If we don’t approve this for you, the extra time, it’s only going to delay more. My thinking is let me at

least help you get this done.”

While Singh asked trustees for 30 days, Alberto said the amount of work would likely take longer.

“I think there are some coordination issues between the inside and the outside,” Alberto said. “I think it’s not likely to be finished in 30 days for the outside and inside, but I certainly think the inside could be done in 30 days.”

Deputy Mayor Dennis Sgambati said he would rather see the outside of the home finished first, but Singh said the final step is the driveway because it is the most costly.

“I think we have to take the thinking of Mr. Levin and tell Mr. Singh that we want the outside of the house done,” Sgambati said. “I really don’t care; I’m never going to go into that man’s house.

Your home is in dire straits. I feel for you, but you’re not helping us. How could I say yes to what you’re asking when you know in your heart you’re not going to be finished in 30 days?”

Singh said the floors, plumbing fixtures, bathroom tiles, kitchen, interior doors, front door and driveway still needed to be completed. Due to financial struggles, Singh said he was saving landscaping work until the end of the project.

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The home at 90 I.U. Willets Road in North Hills has been under construction since 2013.

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Battle stars for Curran’s union fight

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roof that Nassau County Executive Laura Curran is on the right track with county unions appears on the cover of the county Police Benevolent Association’s most recent newsletter.

That is the newsletter with the headline “United! Against Labor” over an election night picture of Curran holding her hand up in the air with Nassau Democratic Chairman Jay Jacobs.

Curran’s sin?

She recently legally challenged a memorandum of agreement concerning longevity pay with the PBA and four other public unions in the waning days of the Mangano administration.

This does not make Curran anti-labor. It makes her pro-fiscal responsibility. This is a position rarely taken in a county whose finances have been under state supervision since 2000.

The memorandum of agreement offers an excellent example why.

For starters, it was negotiated

by Mangano’s chief deputy, Rob Walker, who at the time was under federal investigation for county deals with contractors.

Walker was charged in February with obstruction of justice and lying to FBI agents as part of a federal investigation into corruption in Nassau County and whether public officials received money from contractors. He pleaded not guilty.

As has his former boss, who is currently on trial on unrelated corruption charges.

We would like to think that a union representing the county’s police would show at least a hint of embarrassment in defend-

ing a contract negotiated by a man under federal investigation while serving a county executive charged with federal crimes.

The agreement negotiated by Walker calls for increases in longevity payments, which had been frozen since 2011, to begin again in July in return for the county agreeing to not lay off any union members for the first six months of this year.

The unions say the deal saves the county $5 million because the longevity increases were supposed to start in January. All five county unions subsequently ratified the agreements.

But Mangano’s own county attorney,# Carnall Foskey, said at the time the pacts were not binding.

The agreement, Foskey said “exceed[ed] the ordinary terms and usual substance of a MOA.” The county’s financial control board, the Nassau Interim Finance Authority, insists longevity increases were eliminated in labor pacts that were negotiated in 2014. But those pacts, which expired in December, did not address longevity.

Curran’s willingness to take on the agreement is an indication that she is serious about cleaning up Nassau’s financial mess.

Yes, Curran’s plan to address a dysfunctional assessment system, imperfect as it may be, will help.

And yes the agreement Curran reached with Republicans in the county Legislature on an independent inspector general to oversee county contracts is a major step in the right direction.

But the county’s finances will never be put on sound financial footing until sanity is brought to

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labor contracts starting with the county police.

As we recently wrote, Nassau police are the highest paid county police in New York state with compensation plans that have made the 11 highest paid county employees in the state Nassau police.

More than 400 members of the Nassau Police Department make more than $200,000 a year.

Nassau police also have one of the most – if not the most – generous benefit plans in the state.

Which in effect has left Nassau taxpayers on the hook to pay for two high-priced police forces – current members of the force and those who have retired.

Do the police earn their#salaries?

As we have said, Nassau County police do an excellent job performing a sometimes very dan-

gerous service. Crime is down and people feel safe.

But is what they do worth so much more than every other county in the state of New York? At a time when taxes are universally considered too high and the county can’t even balance its budget?

The truth is that police salaries in Nassau County are not based on public safety or performance but politics.

Newsday recently published an exhaustive study of Long Island’s scandal-plagued political system that showed how Republican officials in the late 1960s began awarding public employee unions led by the police generous contracts in return for political support.

This can be seen in the PBA’s support of every Republican candidate for county executive for

more than 50 years.

The last Democratic county executive, Tom Suozzi, attempted to rein in the number of police, their pay and their benefits.

He also proposed on two occasions that an outside consultant assess the police department’s staffing, management and operational needs – a proposal that Curran ought to take up now.

Like Curran, Suozzi also faced claims of being anti-police and anti-union and engendered the political opposition of the police unions that continues to this day.

We understand that union leaders are paid to represent the interests of their members.

But we hope Curran and voters now understand that what’s best for the PBA and other municipal unions is not what’s best for Nassau County.

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ON THE RIGHT

Gillen taking on the hacks in court

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he election of Laura Gillen as Town of Hempstead Supervisor in November 2017 ended 112 years of Republican rule.

For generations, Hempstead had been the breeding ground for GOP political hacks who believed the town existed to benefit themselves, not taxpayers.

Power, pensions and perks drove GOP political honchos and government employees were their lackeys. Bureaucrats had to follow the party line or join the unemployment line.

In the post-World War II era, the most powerful Hempstead Republican was Boss Joseph M. Margiotta.

Margiotta was the great dispenser of political patronage. No one got a job without his blessing.

To keep their posts, appointees were expected to contribute a portion of their salaries to party coffers and to be party activists. In Margiotta’s political heyday, the New York Times reported 75 percent of Nassau’s 2,000 Republican committee-

men were on a government payroll.

Margiotta abdicated after he was convicted on Federal mail fraud and extortion charges in December 1982.

Interestingly, after hearing the guilty verdict, Margiotta revealed the arrogant, elitist attitude that has guided the GOP machine to this day.

He told reporters: “I was not convicted by a jury of my peers.

They are not in the same station of life as me. They live in a different world, in which politicians are viewed with suspicion and antagonism.”

Can one blame the common folks for being suspicious of condescending politicians who find them inferior while happily taking their hard-earned dollars to finance their lifestyles?

Margiotta begat Boss Joe Mondello, who had served as Hempstead Supervisor and spent the last three decades running Nassau’s GOP into the ground while enriching himself.

To get out of town, Mondello recently accepted a very

GEORGE J. MARLIN On The Right minor ambassadorship to Trinidad and Tobago.

According to the April 2 edition of the N.Y. Law Journal, required Federal financial disclosures reveal that Mondello disclosed “more than $1 million in real state earnings and more than $775,000 in income from a Garden City law firm and his work for the party” during the past 2 years.

Approximately $520,000 came from a small law firm where Mondello served as “of

counsel” in the municipal and government affairs practice.

(I wonder how many Republican-controlled municipalities hired that firm?)

Mondello begat Anthony Santino, who after serving for years as Boss Joe’s political valet, was finally permitted to run for Hempstead town supervisor in 2015.

As arrogant as his mentor, after serving only one term the voters had the good sense to boot Santino from office last November.

Resigning several days before his term expired on January 1, 2018, Santino was rewarded for failure with a job at the political graveyard for political hacks — the Board of Elections. He was appointed an “administrative assistant” for a preposterous salary of $160,000 a year.

However, before leaving office, Santino pulled one last stunt.

He rammed through Town board resolutions that severely limited the ability of the new supervisor, Laura Gillen, from fir-

ing employees and protected his top political lackeys from being dismissed.

What gall! And gutless Republicans on the board, learning nothing from Santino’s defeat, shamelessly voted in favor of this iniquitous and contemptable legislation.

Refusing to roll over dead, Supervisor Gillen proved her mettle by filing a lawsuit to undo the no-layoff clause.

The 100-page legal brief and exhibits filed with the court, justly argue the Santino resolutions “were adopted in bad faith to strip the Supervisor and Town board of powers they were duly elected with, to wreak havoc on the Budget and the Town’s finances and to protect former Santino’s political allies still employed by the Town.”

In other words, Santino hacks were reassigned with their salaries to unbudgeted civil service jobs in “departments that were not financially positioned to handle the additional salary expense.”

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A LOOK ON THE LIGHTER SIDE

Playing follow the thought-leader

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Hurry up!” I whispered to my husband. “They’re about to start!”

We were going to one of those dinners that’s really a sales pitch for something, and I didn’t want to miss a single delicious — I mean, fascinating moment.

I was doing well enough until I heard the MC: “And now, here is James Eversold, who is a real thought leader in this field.”

My husband leaned over to me and asked, “What on earth is a ‘thought leader’?”

“I was just going to ask you that,” I whispered back. “Someone who leads thoughts, I guess.”

I paused. “But how do they know? How could they measure thought-leadership, anyway?”

“In liters, of course.”

“That’s ridiculous,” I said.

But it made as much sense as the idea of “thought leaders” in the first place.

It turns out, anyone can be a thought leader, these days; if not in finance, then in food, or fashion, or what-have-you.

I Googled it all, on my

phone: “Being a thought leader can help you to grow a business.”

I must digress to mention how much I dislike the phrase “grow a business.” You grow a plant. You grow hair. You grow warts, if you’re unlucky. But saying that you “grow” a business makes it sound like you’re doing something active and organic, when what you’re really doing is watching other people work.

“Of course, thought leaders need experience in their field,” said one article. Oh, of course.

“But thought leaders do one more thing that sets them apart from the crowd. They let people know that they are innovative.”

How do they do this? Through blogs, and posts, and articles… and comments on everyone else’s blogs and posts and articles.

It reminds me of the kids you always heard, all summer long at the pool, yelling “Mom! Mom! Watch me, Mom! I’m going down the slide! Mom, are you watching?”

It all sounds quite tiring, … but leadership requires sacrifices. It’s no good being a thoughtleader in a vacuum!

JUDY EPSTEIN

A Look on the Lighter Side It also makes me wonder — when are these leaders supposed to do the work that they’re thought-leading in?

This is not my idea of being a “thought leader,” anyway.

When Copernicus proposed his new idea that the Earth went around the Sun instead of the other way around — I would call him a “thought leader.”

When Edward Jenner proposed that you could protect people from deadly smallpox by injecting them with a tiny bit of

something almost as bad (cowpox) — that was new. You could call him a “thought leader,” although perhaps “scientist” was enough.

If you have just discovered a new particle in physics, or written a best-seller, or invented an anti-gravity field that lets people lift up the china cabinet and shampoo the rug underneath it — you may call yourself a “thought leader.”

But when you have simply come up with some deadly prose which you have blethered, and blogged about, every chance you got — you are not a “thought leader.” You are, in fact, a bore.

After our thought-leaderdinner, my husband and I made it home, where I continued my research. “Hey, sweetie, listen to this: “ ‘Entrepreneur’ says that “through hard work, dedication and creativity, almost anyone can be a thought leader.’ ” “So everyone’s a leader? No one’s a follower?”

“I guess so. Seems they never heard that ‘Too many cooks spoil the broth.’ ” “Never mind the broth,

Judy — did you have to walk out before the dessert?”

“It was too rich for you, anyway.

Here, let me peel you an orange.”

Absent-mindedly, I started peeling it from the bottom instead of the top. “Hey, would you look at me? I’m a “thought-leader” in peeling oranges!”

“Why settle for thought leader? You could be a thought guru!” It’s possible we’d had a few glasses of wine.

“Or a thought-Orchestrator!”

“A Thor-chestrator!”

“Or you could be an Innoventor, coming up with inventions and innovations!”

“Are you sure someone hasn’t done that already?”

“Of course I’m sure — I’m the thought-leader, and I’m think-leading the way!”

Or here’s a thought. How about people just stop puffing themselves up with phony superlatives, and just focus on doing the best possible job for their customers? If they did that, I would follow them anywhere.

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VIEW POINT

Complete Streets worth considering

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o one from the Village of Great Neck government was at the Vision Long Island Complete Streets summit this month, but the village’s consultant, VHB, which has received $100,000 to do a Corridor Study for the village, was a presenter.

Still, had Mayor Pedram Bral or a trustee or the public works superintendent been there, they would have had a better “vision” for the village, which is now contemplating the most dramatic redevelopment of Middle Neck Road and East Shore Road in its history.

As it is, the draft document (which can be seen online), which the mayor has said is just a survey, just the opening to a conversation about redevelopment, is unintelligible, impossible to visualize.

The single message that comes through is that the village is looking for more mixed-use development, more multi-family, senior and affordable housing construction, and the singular tool it can use to get it is new incentive zoning.

In a word, more density, as the way to dig the village out of its

moribund state.

What’s interesting is that most of the properties along Middle Neck Road are highlighted by VHB as “properties of interest.”

What does that mean? Well, if a property owner says they want to build a five-story apartment building, just ask.

But had the mayor or any other village official been at the Complete Streets Summit, he would have seen what making a hazardous road like Middle Neck Road safer for pedestrians and cyclists could also calm traffic (and motorists), beautify the streetscape, encourage people to stroll and linger and spend money at the stores and cafes which the mayor dreams will open in the village.

He would have seen examples of villages that have undertaken Complete Streets improvements – the before and after photos – like the project underway on Grand Avenue in Baldwin – and learned of New York State Complete Streets legislation, met Glenn Murrell of state Department of Transportation which hands out grants to villages (like Great Neck Plaza which has used them so ef-

Ray Beach, Florida, or Louisville, Kentucky, perhaps, supported with advertising and merchants.

He would have heard from Bernard Macias of AARP NY, which has some 300 volunteers who are happy to do a walkability study of a village, free of charge.

“We want people to age in place. It takes engineering and education, but it takes community elected leadership and community inclusiveness and consideration to make walkability in a community happen, and make a community livable.

“Great Neck Plaza is great example of community-elected leadership that took the baton of age-friendly liveable communities.

The Plaza created an action plan and is building off it.” Indeed, North Hempstead and Great Neck Plaza are two of the 17 communities designated “age-friendly” in New York State.

The timing is critical because Middle Neck Road, a Nassau County road, is due to be completely repaved as soon as 2019.

That would be the village’s once-in-a-generation opportunity to work together with the county

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fectively).

He would have heard from Jivanna Bennaeim whose husband was killed by a hit-and-run driver crossing Middle Neck Road on his way to the railroad, who has become active in Families for Safe Streets; and from Sylvia Silberger of Car-Less Long Island about incorporating transportation alternatives to cars. Perhaps he would have gotten new ideas of how to connect the Old Village with the Long Island Railroad, which would be an asset for home values – a cutesy trolley car like in Del

to make the road safer, and the village more walkable, bikeable, aesthetic. And that would benefit the merchants and landlords, as well.

Mayor Pedram’s redevelopment strategy, it seems, boils down to encourage merchants and landlords one by one as properties changeover, is foolish – at that rate, women will reach income parity before the village has a liveable, workable streetscape.

The mayor speaks with tremendous pride over getting the new bakery to open a rooftop sitting area, which required a waiver.

But in fact, the village has little control over what merchants come. What a village does have control over, though, is the streetscape and zoning.

You can’t just open your arms to four and five-story buildings without also addressing what happens to traffic and demands on infrastructure.

So if higher density structures – assisted living facilities, workforce housing, senior housing – are being pursued, there has to be a code requiring the property owner to provide shuttle transContinued on Page 83

READERS WRITE

Architects of our destiny, part 2

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n last week’s letter I discussed the difference between liberalism and conservatism’s attitude toward government.

I wrote about Louis Brandeis and F.D.R. as exemplars of the progressive tradition and how the New Deal attempted to reform and restructure our capitalist economy.

The W.P.A. (Works Progress Administration 1935-1943) employed more than 8,000,000 people building roads, highways, bridges, schools, and airports.

The AAA of 1933 was designed to keep embattled farmers’ prices high. To regulate banks, Congress passed the Glass-Steagall Act (1933).

The F.C.C. (Federal Communications Commission – 1934) today# governs all radio, T.V. and cable licensing. The Wagner Act (1935) protected labor unions. The S.S.A. (Social Security Administration-1935) provided pensions for retired workers.

From this flurry of activities, it can be seen that Roosevelt was doing everything in his power to reform the system and to save capitalism. #It has been argued that in spite of these Herculean efforts the New Deal did not appreciably reduce the number of unemployed.

According to Stephen Moore of the Heritage Foundation,# “U.S. unemployment# averaged 18 percent during Roosevelt’s first eight years in office…after eight years, unemployment# still averaged…14 per cent.”

So what did get us out of the depression?

Most would agree it was World War II! I will not dispute these statistics or their interpretation. What I would point out is that F.D.R. offered more than economic nostrums.

His “fireside chats” where he spoke by radio directly into the homes of millions gave our citizens hope. He also informed his countrymen that there was “nothing to fear but fear itself.”

In 1936, he ran for a second term against Governor Alf Landon winning all but two states in a landslide victory. And what was his campaign theme song?

“Happy days are here again The skies above are clear again So let’s sing a song of cheer again Happy days are here again” I would argue that one should not underestimate the importance of psychological factors when explaining economic phenomena.# Case in point# – F.D.R. What do conservatives believe? Terrence Jeffrey writing in Human Events points to ten bedrock beliefs of which six appear below.

“Life is the first God-given right.

Marriage and Family Come Before the State.

Private property is the Servant of Freedom.

Government Dependency is the Seed of Tyranny.

The Constitution Means

What It Says.

Taxes Are Justified Only To Fund Necessary Government Speeding.”

In other terms, conservatives believe in God, the sanctity of marriage, private ownership, small government and a strict interpretation of the Constitution.# There are many exemplars of these beliefs, including# some already mentioned like Taft, Goldwater, and Reagan.

There are also a host of Fox News broadcasters like Sean Hannity as well as radio personalities like Rush Limbaugh.

These right-wing partisans are not well respected, but others like George Will and Charles Krauthammer are more scholarly.

So, the lines are clearly drawn between liberals and conservatives. At the 1936 Democratic Convention, F.D.R. stated that his generation had a “rendezvous with destiny.”

On the other hand, an article called “Why Government

Is Your Enemy” appeared in The Federal Observer. “From Social Security, to welfare, to Medicare…to money, to food, to water…we are at the government’s mercy,” it argued.

Commenting on efforts to shrink government, Emily Bazelon and Eric Posner wrote in the New York Times, It turns out that the public often likes regulation – because it keeps the air and water clean, the workplace safe and the financial system in working order.”

Two final thoughts:# # Ecclesiastes tells us that “to every thing there is a season and a time for every purpose under heaven.”

Maybe this applies to economic theory as well.

On the other hand, I end up siding with Dante who wrote: “Divine Justice weighs the sins of the cold-blooded (read conservative) and the sins of the warm-hearted (read liberal) on different scales.”

Dr. Hal Sobel Great Neck

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Eng faces long journey as LIRR prez

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he greatest issue facing new LIRR President Philip Eng is dealing with ongoing Penn Station capacity and operational problems.!

His predecessors were unsuccessful to solve these issues for decades.!

“Ex E.W. resident names LIRR prez” (Luke Torrance — April 20).!

Several hundred Long Island Rail Road, New Jersey Transit and Amtrak trains operate daily during rush hours.!!

The ongoing problems at Penn Station Mr. Eng now inherits is nothing new. !

In the early 1990’s, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority & Long Island Rail Road conducted the East River Tunnels Life Safety Study.!

This report clearly documented the need for investing several hundred million dollars to bring the East River Tunnels back up to a state of good repair.!

All four tunnels built between 1904 and 1909 outlived their useful life long ago.!

They! have been! in desperate need for major upgrades decades ago.! ! Sadly since that study, over!past Five Year Capital Plans, the MTA & LIRR programmed insufficient funding to perform these tasks.!

As a result, over time there has been an increase in the!frequency of major service disruptions due to storm and signal problems in the East River Tunnels.!

These problems periodically also occur between the Tunnel Portals and Harold Interlockings west of the Woodside Station.! ! The MTA and LIRR! also failed to develop and complete a specific implementation plan with Amtrak who actually owns the tunnels to complete this badly needed work within our lifetime.

There is no! room to run additional trains into or out of Penn Station during rush hours via the East River tunnels with connections to Long Island.

This has been the case for decades.

Three of four tunnels running inbound mornings and evening rush hours have tight spacing between trains.

One tunnel is shared by the LIRR, NJ Transit and Amtrak for reverse train movements with equally tight spacing during rush hours.

There is no!platform capacity at Penn Station to accommodate additional trains during rush hour.!!

Penn Station is currently operating at 100 percent capacity during rush hours.! If one of the four tunnels is temporarily out of service,!the result is!numerous delays and cancellation of trains.!!

There are a number of competing new services looking for nonexistent rush hour Penn Station platform, track and East River tunnel capacity.

Metro North wants to begin service at a cost of $700 million plus from the east Bronx via the Hell Gate Bridge and Harold Interlocking in Sunnyside!Queens to Penn Station by 2023. Metro North also has future plans ($200 million) to run additional service from Poughkeepsie! and other stations via Amtrak Empire Corridor Hudson Line using tracks on Manhattan West Side. !

The LIRR!has invested $450 million to complete double tracking on the Ronkonkoma!branch. !

Once the Main Line Third Track is completed at a cost of $2.6 billion, the LIRR!has plans to expand Ronkonkoma!branch rush hour Penn Station service. !

Gov. Cuomo wants to provide new frequent direct LIRR!service on the Port Washington branch between Penn Station and Mets Willets!Point station. !

This is to support his $1 billion LaGuardia!Air Train. Additional service from Grand Central Terminal to Mets Willets Point station may also begin once LIRR East

Side Access to Grand Central Terminal is completed.

Cuomo also wants a “One Seat Ride” from Penn Station and probably Grand Central Terminal to Kennedy Airport.!

Cuomo has recently requested the LIRR to create frequent service from Penn Station to the new Belmont Park Islanders Arena by 2022 to coincide with facility opening.!

Some! Queens residents want restoration of LIRR! service on the old Rockaway! Beach branch, which suspended service in 1962. (Today NYC Transit runs the A subway along a significant portion of the old LIRR!right of way.)!

Both Amtrak (Northeast Corridor between Washington and Boston along with Empire Service north to Albany & Buffalo) and NJ Transit have future plans to expand Penn Station service. ! Both the $29 billion Hudson River Gateway Tunnel (two additional tracks connecting New Jersey to Penn Station) and $3 billion Moynihan! Station Farley! Building projects fail to add any new additional Penn Station tracks or platforms.

This results in no capacity increase for any new! rush hour Amtrak, NJ Transit, LIRR or future new Metro North trains to serve Penn Station.

The LIRR!may begin service into Grand Central Terminal in December 2023.!

Most of the promised 24 peak hour train! service will be either new trains or those which previously terminated at Atlantic Terminal Brooklyn. !Few will be diverted from Penn Station.

It is doubtful that the LIRR! will give up any current!peak hour service train slots at Penn Station when expanding operations into Grand Central Terminal.!!

Amtrak continues to delay the decade’s overdue major repairs to the four East River tunnels until after the LIRR begins service

into Grand Central Terminal in December 2023.!!

Delaying the start of work by six years from 2019 to 2025 will increase costs by 300% to $1 billion.!

Continued deterioration of the East River Tunnels over this time period could result in an increased scope of work. and accompanying service disruptions.!

Combined with responses to the procurement process from contractors, this could then result in a final price tag of several hundred million more than the current engineers’ estimate.

Only one of four East River Tunnels can be taken out of service at a time for reconstruction.!

It will take one to two years to finish work on each tunnel.! As a result, this project may not be completed until 2032.

Until this work is over, it is virtually impossible to increase rush hour Penn Station capacity and guarantee reliable uninterrupted service.!!

There will continue to be a three-way competition between Amtrak, LIRR!and NJ Transit for rush hour access to Penn Station,!

Metro North will also looking for rush hour access to Penn Station resulting in a fourway competition.

There may be no changes to level of Penn Station rush hour service in the!foreseeable!future until 2032.!

Will new LIRR President Philip Eng be any more successful than his predecessors?!

Time will tell.

Larry Penner (Larry Penner!is a transportation historian and advocate who previously worked in !31 years for the US Department of Transportation Federal Transit Administration Region 2 NY Office)!. !

Many reasons to vote yes America mourns Barbara Bush for Port school budget

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ote yes on Tuesday, May 15!to support the proposed budget for the Port Washington School District.

This budget has been carefully and thoughtfully developed to address the needs of a growing enrollment within the tax cap.

Vote yes for this fiscally responsible budget that maintains small class sizes and adds muchneeded staff to our buildings while remaining within the tax cap.

Vote yes because our involvement as parent volunteers has allowed us to witness the tireless efforts of our administration and faculty to ensure an outstanding curriculum.

Vote yes to be certain our teachers can continue striving for excellence.

Vote yes for the proposed addition of a 6thgrade teacher, elementary special education teacher, middle-grade world language teacher,

high school math teacher, and associate administrator of literacy for grades 3-5.

Vote yes because quality education is paramount on every parent’s list of priorities for their child’s well being.

Vote yes to support our community of families that expects and demands the very best from our public schools.

Vote yes to maintain Port Washington’s standard for excellence in education.

Vote yes on Tuesday, May 15!to continue forward movement in our school district, ensuring each of our children have the tools and support needed to exceed our expectations, and their own.

Vote yes on Tuesday, May 15!at the only polling location; Weber Middle School.

Amy Snorteland and Sheryl Spring Port Washington

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ormer First Lady Barbara Bush has just passed away at age 92 and leaves many of us quite sadden.

She was a wife and mother to two presidents, George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush.

But she was more than that in her lifetime, for she cared about the many in need of compassion.

Barbara Bush tried to get others to volunteer at homeless shelters and Headstart projects and promoted AIDS awareness.

As First Lady she pro-

moted reading by starting the Barbara Bush Foundation for Literacy. And finally, she was an advocate for the American family as well as many more accomplishments, for that! she will be dearly missed.

Let me at this time!offer my heartfelt prayers to her family, friends and all who loved her dearly.

America mourns a truly great lady and of whom we will never forget.

Frederick R. Bedell Jr. Mineola

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Gillen taking on Thank you NHP community the hacks in court O

Continued from Page 15 Santino’s political shenanigans will, if upheld, cost Hempstead taxpayers more than $2 million a year because his cronies would not be “immune from termination as a result of budgetary reasons.”

Two clauses in the suit aptly sum up Gillen’s case: “112. The appointments serve no viable purpose, directly contradict the provisions of the Contract that was entered into only four months before and previous comments made by former Supervisor Santino regarding the

need for limited government and less spending.

“113. The two resolutions perpetrate a fraud on the Town and constitute a waste of public funds.”

Former Supervisor Santino apparently learned nothing last fall, but his lameduck transgressions prove he learned plenty from Boss Mondello — smugness and contempt for voters.

Supervisor Laura Gillen is “fighting the good fight” against entrenched institutional corruption.

Hopefully, the judicial system sees through Santino’s ploy and concurs.

Taxes in the days of old

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have often wondered how taxes were handled in the old days.

The problems of administering a fair and equitable system!were numerous.!

No records of any kind.

Certainly no idea of who had what. I cannot imagine any method short of just stealing or holding persons for ransom. But there must have been better ways.

I am currently reading a most fascinating book, The Year 1000.! It is about the everyday life of the of people in England around the year 1000.

At the time there were 10 mints in England. Silver coins (sterling: 92.5 percent silver) were minted. !

Minted coins were good for only three years.

They did not have a date on them so they were identified by what was imprinted

on the obverse and reverse sides of the coin.!

When your coins expired you turned them in for newer coins that were valid for three more years.!

So what did all this have to do with taxes?! You turned in 10, they only gave you perhaps eight in return. !

Note that the richer one was the more he was automatically taxed, a quite ingenious system.

By the year 1600 or so coins had ridges around the outer edges.! Why? Well before that people would shave off bits of silver from the edges.!

Ridges made shaving obvious.! It was Sir Isaac Newton who was the mint master then who invented the ridge process.!

Theodore Theodorsen Manhasset

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ver the past month, the New Hyde Park community has come together to support our family after the sudden death of our beloved Leah.

Your love, generosity and acts of kindness mirror the wonderful and beautiful girl that blessed our family and touched the lives of so many in her short life.

We are sincerely grateful to the entire community for your

condolences, support, donations and kind words during this difficult time.

We are overwhelmed with the outpouring of love.

There are too many people, organizations and groups to list with many going above and beyond for our family. We deeply appreciate your thoughtfulness.

As you may already know, one of Leah’s favorite sayings was, “make every second count.” She did exactly that

and the “Leah Kuczinski Legacy Foundation” has been established to carry on that spirit and make a difference in the lives of others.

Any interested supporter can donate to the Leah Kuczinski Legacy Foundation at 1980 Miller Place, Merrick New York 11566.

With Sincere Appreciation, The Kuczinski Family: Peter, Maria, Alyssa and Brian

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Fear Monger!” he cried.

Not once, but on multiple occasions, the mayor (seated high on the dais) directed these words towards me at a Board of Trustees meeting.

You would be correct in surmising that there were few witnesses to this cringe-worthy scenario. !Isn’t that what the act of bullying is all about?

A serious injustice has been perpetrated by Village of Great Neck government against its citizens. Yet, only a scant half-dozen residents know about it.

With round-the-clock coverage of our national government’s failings, isn’t it high time that local village government received the same level of scrutiny?

Question: !How is it possible in a community of college graduates, MD’s and Ph.D.’s that the majority of citizens have limited, or no understanding of the lawsuit initiated by a Great Neck resident against village government?

Answer: ! Only a well-informed resident, knowledgeable of hard facts and aware of his/her legal rights will initiate a lawsuit against their own local government.

But why should any resident have to? ! Why should any resident have to dig deep into their personal savings, fighting to receive the justice that should have prevailed at open meetings?

Why is it that citizens of incorporated villages, have no recourse when the Mayor and Board of Trustees authorize poor choices — with known, 100 percent guaranteed poor resident outcome? (The LED streetlamp debacle, for instance.)

Where is the oversight? !Where are the checks and balances?

What if the Mayor succeeds in undermining the checks and balances?

When elected mayors fail to hold public hearings, fail to conduct postal mailings, fail to demonstrate public inclusion in the decision-making process – the citizens suffer.

And when elected leaders fail to pay attention to resident submissions of 1. peer-reviewed articles linking blue light exposure to retina damage or 2. nation-wide protests and LED streetlamps or 3. ground-breaking research linking blue light with potential breast cancer — the citizens suffer.

It is already a proven fact that blue light leads to disruption of the human biological clock, otherwise known as circadian rhythm.

And it is proven fact that young children and the elderly are most vulnerable to blue light exposure.! These timely health issues should not be dismissed by elected leaders who come to the table with their own agenda.

The Village of Great Neck mayor and Board did as they pleased, precisely because they could get away with it under the current regime.

Under the current regime, elected mayors are accountable to no one.

In the case of Village of Great Neck government, the deception was so meticulously calculated that less than a half-dozen residents regularly witnessed shocking testimony at 2017 Board of Trustees meetings.

No surprise here, village government repeatedly blames residents for not attending village meetings – articulating that residents are responsible for checking the village website.

Not so fast.

Isn’t it the responsibility of elected leaders to keep citizens informed?

Likewise, is it responsible to

hold a critical meeting at 5 p.m. in August to approve a $600,00 LED streetlight purchase?

It feels like democracy and transparency have failed in the Village of Great Neck.

We have 800 naked, unprotected LED streetlights that contradict safe practices. ! The American Medical Association and peer-reviewed studies say so.

They are blindingly bright and painful to look at. !They disrupt our quality of life. !But it is so much more than that. Our village government failed us.

A young family with bedroom windows facing the new LED streetlight has announced that they are selling their singlefamily home.

Had village government responded appropriately when Ms. Glass and I advised that the preliminary sample streetlights on display were too bright – no one would be engaged in a lawsuit or moving away.

I strongly urge all citizens and elected leaders to mark their calendars for Wednesday, May 23 at 7:00 p.m.

Join us at the Great Neck Library (Main Branch) where Patti Wood will give a talk entitled “Is our Technological World Putting our Health at Risk?”

Get the latest scientific facts on health hazards of wireless technology, LED exposure at night-time, and 5G technology.

Patti Wood is a well-respected advocate for public health and the Executive Director of Grassroots Environmental Education.

If you want to be an informed citizen, don’t miss this event.!

You will not hear this factual presentation elsewhere – least of all a Board of Trustees meeting – lest you be labeled a Fear Monger.

Judy Shore Rosenthal Great Neck

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EX USMMA student files $5 million claim

BY JA N E LL E C L AUS E N A lawyer for the victim of an alleged sexual assault by soccer players on a U.S. Merchant Marine Academy team bus filed a federal tort claim against the two federal agencies overseeing the academy, according to court papers, seeking $5 million for personal injuries.

Thomas Grasso, who is representing “John Doe” in the case, filed the claim under the Federal Tort Claims Act against the U.S. Department of Transportation and the U.S. Maritime Administration, which directly oversees the academy.

It claims negligence on the part of the two federal agencies and the Kings Pointbased academy, as well as the men’s soccer coaches and members of the team for failing to “provide adequate sexual harassment and assault training and resources to students, faculty and staff.”

According to court papers, the victim – referred to as “John Doe” and “claimant” – was being yelled at on a soccer team bus on the way to a tournament.

Then, after being slapped by a banana in the face and throwing it behind him, the victim went to the back of the bus to seniors who he thought wanted to have a chat with him.

But they shoved him to the ground, pulled his shorts and boxers down, and tried to shove a banana and possibly hands into his anus and privates, the victim wrote in a statement to the academy before his resignation from the school, while something was being poured on him – possibly urine.

Then, after a “few minutes of struggling,” the victim said he ran back to his seat as “the seniors tried shoving their fingers in my butt as I ran by.”

“Their excuse to me later was, ‘It happens to every plebe,’” the victim said in the statement. “As soon as I got off the bus at the hotel I was told how bad I

smelled and was not spoken to by anyone.”

The victim, court documents allege, had also faced systematic harassment prior to the incident relating to his home state of West Virginia with associates alleging he’d slept with family members.

Midshipmen also wrote “derogatory personal remarks” on his desk and on a whiteboard outside his room, the court papers continue, with the coaches doing nothing to stop it.

Grasso signed the document on April 9 and said he got confirmation of its receipt by the agencies on Monday, April 16.

Shaun Hogan, the attorney for five of the soccer players, said his clients received the federal notice of the claim and “categorically deny” the accusations. He said there are “numerous problems with the allegations set forth there.”

“I’m confident that my clients are not guilty of any of the allegations,” Hogan said on Monday.

In an interview Grasso, a 1991 graduate of the academy, said there is a “very well documented history, unfortunately,” of harassment at the school in government and newspaper reports.

But Grasso hadn’t seen any incidents regarding its sports teams before this case, he said, and he believes there may be many other victims.

“In all this, I hope we achieve some proper change and the students are properly looked after and the victims are properly looked after,” Grasso said. “Having talked to him and his parents … the impact on the family is huge. I feel that’s something that needs to be said.”

The incident in question has been the subject of a Department of Justice investigation, officials told the congressional Board of Visitors overseeing the academy in November.

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G.N. panel talks social media, bullying

BY JA N E LL E C L AUS E N Children today live in a more dangerous world than their parents did because of social media, panelists at a forum at the Great Neck Library told parents and students on Monday night, while outlining actions people could take to be safer.

The panel,! organized by the United Parent-Teacher Council and the Sephardic Heritage Alliance Inc., featured Superintendent of Schools Teresa Prendergast, school psychologist and mental health counselor Rena Gombo, Nancy Kaplan, an associate provost at St. John’s University, retired detective Rory Forrestal and Judge John Iliou.

Each touched on different aspects of the social media phenomenon, such as how it can be weaponized against people and how students need to be more vigilant about what they post online. They also spoke about bullying in general, the scars it can leave, how social media can amplify it – and how intervening! can save someone’s life.

“Name calling and bullying as we all know has been a reality for generations for youngsters,” Prendergast said.

“But as we talked about earlier, today’s youth are exposed to a particularly vicious strain and that’s worsened by social media and technology.”

Forrestal, a retired Suffolk County police detective who specialized in investigating sexual crimes before working to create an internet safety program geared toward fifthand sixth-graders, highlighted stories of tragedy resulting from cyberbullying.

Among them were Alexis Pilkington, a popular 17-year-old senior at West Islip High School who was targeted by anonymous commenters on formspring.me before killing herself.

There was also 13-year-old Megan Meier, whose exfriend and her mother created a fake persona – a boy named Josh – to communicate with her and pretend he loved her with the intent of getting revenge against her.

The last message she received before committing suicide was: “Everybody in [the town of] O’Fallon knows who you are. You are a bad person and everybody hates you …!

The world would be a better place without you.”

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Retired Detective Rory Forrestal fields audience questions after the panel discussion.

Among Forrestal’s recommendations to students were to only add people they know, keep things private, report any malicious behavior and not respond to messages. He also advised friends to speak up and do what they can to help.

“You could be saving their life,” Forrestal said. “You really could.”

Gombo, a school psychologist and a parent, said that the act of bullying – whether physical or passive – happens very frequently, with 86 percent of kids between 12 and 18 reporting having been bullied, and creates “very, very deep” scars.

“What everyone I spoke to remembered was that they were scared, that they felt helpless, and that they felt this big,” Gombo said, bringing her thumb and finger close together.

Gombo said bullying has always been “a play with three characters:” bully, victim and bystander. Conse-

quently, Gombo said, it is imperative for fellow students and friends to stand up for victims, for parents to listen to their children and to “always tell someone.”

“Many bystanders are afraid that if they say something, then they’re going to become the victim or they feel somebody else will step in, so they don’t really have to,” Gombo said. “But the truth is, without a bystander being there, most bullying would stop and it would stop very quickly.”

Gombo pointed to research showing bullying ends within six to eight seconds when someone intervenes.

Kaplan, an assistant provost at St. John’s, member of the Merrick school board and a social justice advocate, said there are also potential consequences – both good and bad – in using social media when it comes to college and job prospects.

One example was a young woman who took some questionable selfies, Kaplan said, and later went on to be an excellent student and secure a full scholarship for “her dream school.” But once that school scrolled through her Twitter feed to see those old photos, her scholarship was revoked.

“It is a harsh, harsh lesson for a young person to learn: that everything you have worked for can be taken away in a second,” Kaplan said. “It’s not an issue, by the way, that’s only an issue for children.”

But conversely, Kaplan said social media also provides a way to “tell your own story,” demonstrate leadership, and fight back against posts meant to hurt other people by saying they shouldn’t be doing it and report it.

“And if you begin to develop those habits now, I can guarantee you those are the habits that travel with you through every part of your life experience,” Kaplan said, “and that will be what makes you different from all the students around you.”

Many people sought to ask questions after the discussion – including current students. One boy asked why there aren’t “more repercussions” for people who bully or stand by while it happens, for example, and an elementary school student asked!about how to deal with a group of older students bullying her.

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BY A M E L I A C A M U R AT I Sarah Kirsch, a researcher at the Feinstein Institute for Medical Research, has poured herself into research about autism spectrum disorder since she was in high school and has now turned her passion into a published research study.

Along with Dr. David Meryash of Manhasset, she completed an anonymous questionnaire study surveying 378 patients and children with autism spectrum PHOTO COURTESY OF THE TOWN OF HEMPSTEAD disorder who made an emergency room visit in the last three years to help hospiPictured, from left, are Nassau County Police Department Commissioner tals nationwide work with patients with the disorder both in the physical environPatrick Ryder, Rockville Centre Police Department Commissioner Charles ment and through staff training sessions.

Gennario, Hempstead Town Supervisor Laura Gillen, Garden City Police Kirsch, of Setauket, said she is very Commissioner and Chief’s Association President Kenneth Jackson, Malclose with her brother, who she said sufverne Police Chief and Vice President John Aresta and Great Neck Estates fers from severe autism, and has heard Police Chief John Garbedian. horror stories from other families with autistic relatives who need emergency Hempstead Town Supervisor Laura Gillen attended the Municipal Police Chief’s medical care.

Association 34th annual Distinguished Service Awards Luncheon held at Chateau Bri“I know a lot of families who also and located in Carle Place.

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NHP teens test math skills

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The 2-year-old students at Garden Manor Nursery School play at block time.

PHOTO COURTESY OF THE SEWANHAKA CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL DISTRICT

Pictured, from left, New Hyde Park Memorial High School students Saumya Sharma and Vishwajit Sharma, Principal Richard Faccio, student Daniel Son, and mathematic teachers Sheena Kurian and David Sime.

Approximately 100 students in grades nine to 12 volunteered to participate in the American Mathematics Competition administered at New Hyde Park Memorial High School. The purpose of these exams, sponsored by the Mathematical Association of America, is to promote problem-solving skills, identify talent and foster a love of mathematics.

For the AMC-12 students who placed include Vishwajit Sharma, first place, Saumya Sharma, second place, and Daniel Son. third place, for the AMC-12. For the AMC-10 students who placed include Megha Gopal, first place, Thomas Stec, second place, and Lamya Islam, third place.

Students blossom at Garden Manor F.P. ‘Heroes’ educate youth Spring is in the air and it is clear that the 2 year old students at Garden Manor Nursery School have come a long way from their first days in September.

A routine is in place and the students are following the structure of the day. Teachers have created an atmosphere where the children are able to explore and have fun while learning about the world around them.

The children enjoy painting and crafting during table time.

They love to explore on the playground and enjoy free play in the classroom. The students are exposed to colors, shapes

and learned the first letter in their name. They sit for stories, love to sing and dance as well as use the rhythm sticks.

Students are also learning how to share, follow directions and be kind to their friends.

Garden Manor Nursery School at Christ Episcopal Church is located on Jefferson Street in Garden City. It offers pre-school programs for 2, 3 and 4 year olds and is currently enrolling for the 20182019 school year. To find out more about Garden Manor Nursery School or to schedule a tour visit the website at www.

GMNS.org or call "(516) 7752626.

NHP-GCP to survey parents on food program The New Hyde ParkGarden City Park Union Free School District is required by the New York State Child Nutrition Program Administration to survey the community regarding parent’s interest in a Breakfast Program.

The Hours of the program at Garden City park School, Manor Oaks School and Ne Hyde Park Road

School will be 8 a.m. to 8:20 a.m.

The cost of the breakfast is $2.50, daily.

A survey can be obtained at the child’s school. Hillside Grade School is exempt from this survey.

Parents should complete one form for all children currently enrolled in the schools.

PHOTO COURTESY OF THE SEWANHAKA CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL DISTRICT

Floral Park Memorial High School students recently taught Floral Park-Bellrose School students as part of the Junior Achievement program.

Thirty-six students from Floral Park Memorial High School went to Floral Park-Bellerose Elementary School to participate in the Junior Achievement High School Hero program on April 10.

The students attended two training sessions to prepare for this event, learning how to prepare lesson plans and activities for elementary-

age children."The students were then assigned to a kindergarten, first- and second-grade class and taught them based on the subjects of family and community.

The event was coordinated by Margaret Nelson of the Floral Park Business Department. Nelson accompanied the students, along with Erin Sebber.

Gillen speaks to F.P. AARP At its April Meeting, the Floral Park AARP Chapter 5224 was honored by Hempstead Town Supervisor Laura Gillen.

Members said her openness and willingness to speak about some of the hidden problems facing her administration was refreshing and enlightening.

PHOTO COURTESY OF FLORAL PARK AARP

Floral Park AARP hosted Hempstaed Supervisor Laura Gillen.

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Maheshwari advances in Intel

PHOTO COURTESY OF THE SEWANHAKA CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL DISTRICT

Elmont Memorial High School senior Melody Randolph, center, is pictured with Art Department chairperson Christopher Yee and teacher Catherine Nolan.

All-County art honors for Elmont The artwork of students Andrew Guaman, Kasia Lewis and Melody Randolph was selected to represent Elmont Memorial High School in the 2018 All-County Exhibit sponsored by the Art Supervisors Association at Farmingdale State College. Melody also received a senior scholarship award.

The Herricks High School Science Department announced that Science Research student Eish Maheshwari has advanced from the regional competitions to compete on the international level at the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF). Eish, a junior, won first place in his category of Translational Medicine at the Long Island Science and Engineering Fair held on March 15, and also received the Yale Scientist Award.

Eish’s research project, “Strategies for Tuning the Release Profile of CurcuminLoaded Nanoparticles to Improve Drug Bioavailability and Optimize Sustainable Delivery,” was completed at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine under the mentorship of Joel Friedman, Department of Physiology and Biophysics. At Herricks High School, he is mentored by

teacher Renée Barcia.

Considered to be the Olympics of science competitions, Intel ISEF brings more than 1,700 students from the United States and more than 70 countries, regions and territories together to compete for scholarships, grants, internships and a trip to attend the Nobel Prize ceremonies.

Eish won an expense-paid trip to this prestigious competition, which will be held in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania from May 12-18.

Intel ISEF competitors will be provided the opportunity to present their independent research projects to doctoral level scientists, Nobel Laureates, engineers and industry professionals who serve as Intel judges. Eish will compete for more than $5 million in prizes and scholarships at the world’s largest pre-college science fair.

PHOTO COURTESY OF HERRICKS PUBLIC SCHOOLS

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Dad needed a kidney. I had 1 to spare

Blank Slate Media reporter tells her story of coming to the aid of her ailing father Continued from Page 1 I had a few weeks left studying abroad in London in 2016 when I discovered my dad was hospitalized with kidney failure, the cause of which is unknown. My mom didn’t initially tell me when it happened, not wanting to ruin my weekend in Paris.

I came home for the summer, went back to Binghamton University for my senior year, graduated, interned upstate the following summer – all while my dad was on dialysis.

He went to dialysis three times a week for two years at the NYU Winthrop Dialysis Center in Mineola.

Until I was back home working as a reporter for Blank Slate Media, I didn’t understand the toll it took on him. Dialysis centers are a miserable place to be.

The only sounds breaking the deafening silence are beeping machines and nurses shuffling around the floor.

He was on lists for a deceased donor’s kidney. The average life expectancy for a patient on dialysis is five to 10 years, though some patients live for 20 or more years, according to the National Kidney Foundation."

He visited several hospitals to be placed on their lists to increase his chances.

In September he went to the Mayo Clinic; I came along mainly to make sure he was OK – and partly to see the Mall of America.

I sat through a video seminar with my dad at the Mayo Clinic that repeatedly mentioned the benefits of a living donor over a deceased donor. " On average, a kidney from a deceased donor lasts about 10 to 15 years and a living donor kidney can last about 15 to 20 years or more.

That’s five to 10 more years of seeing the latest Marvel movies together. Five to 10 more years of family vacations. Five to 10 more years of letting him embarrass me in public.

Later that day, I called to start the process of getting tested, which began with a blood test, the first of many. I got an appointment and the blood work was done right there at the Mayo Clinic.

My dad still wasn’t thrilled with the idea but humored me enough to let me get started.

A few weeks later I got a call. I was a perfect match.

Being a perfect match felt like a sign — a blessing. Even though we share half our DNA, a match within a family isn’t a given. But finding out I was a match was just the start.

Getting worked up as a donor was one of the most emotionally exhausting experiences I’ve had. In my opinion, the evaluation was more difficult than the surgery or recovery.

And they don’t give you any Percocet for surviving this part.

The transplant process is split between two teams: the donor team and the recipient team. Your doctors, nurses

PHOTOS COURTESY OF REBECCA KLAR

Rebecca Klar with her father, Richard, the morning of the surgery when she donated her kidney to him. and social workers are all separate to help ensure that the donor is making her own decisions.

I chose to finish my tests and evaluations in one day, missing minimal time away from work. It was the Friday before Christmas; I had a friend’s birthday party that night and so I traveled around the maze of a hospital in my black skinny jeans with a tiny Sephora bag in hand.

My first stop that morning was to meet with the psychologist.

From what I’ve read now of donor stories, my experience doesn’t differ from most, but at the time I had no idea what I was getting myself into. The entire process makes you second-guess every decision you make.

I faced a flurry of questions that came out more like accusations, about my choices, motives, decisions, family, future – my age factoring into most.

I’m only 23; my brain is not fully formed to make decisions.

I’m only 23 — how would I feel if my future, hypothetical unborn child needed a kidney and I no longer had one to donate? As if everyone holds onto their organs like they save old wedding and prom dresses. The process is also highly hypocritical.

The psychologist lays out all the rea-

sons in the world to not donate: emotional toll, recovery time, risk of death.

Then she said, “Why doesn’t your mom, sister, aunt, uncle, neighbor, mailman, or anyone else in the world who knows your dad want to donate?”

Maybe for one of the 68 reasons you just listed.

The intent is to play devil’s advocate, so the donor really thinks about the decision and the possible outcomes. My age just gave them extra bait.

I left the meeting drained, exhausted, and with my party-perfect makeup in disarray.

I roamed the halls trying to find the rooms for the physical portion of the evaluation, including a chest X-ray, an EKG and a CAT scan.

While I cried at a reception desk, lost and confused, a friendly administrative aide helped me out. She took me to the right desk and helped me through the process.

The woman behind the desk asked if I was a donor.

“She’s an angel, that’s what they should call them,” my hero of the day replied for me.

The real joy in the donor evaluation process is you’re never done. Even when you think you are, there’s always another

blood test or urine sample they’ll call you for.

For me, it was my glomerular filtration rate.

I had to go back about a month later for a full-day test that consisted of a dye put into my body and testing my blood every hour to see how fast it was filtered out.

The downside was I had to fumble my way into Washington Heights without any coffee at 8 a.m. The upside was I got to binge “The End of the F**ing World” on Netflix, so not a terrible day overall.

A few weeks later, I got a call that my glomerular filtration rate was questionable and I couldn’t donate.

At least, that’s how I heard it.

I was devastated, and my dad was disappointed. Yet another hope dangled in front of him and ripped away.

What struck me the most was not a single part of me was relieved. I didn’t feel like I got out of a terrible decision — that’s when I really knew this was the only choice.

The next day, I called again. The nurse told me the nephrologist said my number was fine and I could donate.

To this day my mom is convinced it was some psychological test played on me.

I’m pretty sure it was the doctors making sure I was physically able, but either way, I knew on all fronts the answer was an overwhelming yes.

All we needed was a date. About two weeks before the initial surgery date of March 22, I got a call that a slot was available and we could do the operation.

But if donating an organ is said to be the most selfless thing you can do, why did I spend those two weeks feeling guilty in all aspects of my life?

Guilty that my sister had to take off from her residency and come home from Pittsburgh. Guilty that my colleagues had to pick up for work I was missing. Guilty that relatives were taking time off from work or would have to help with the recovery process.

The hardest part of it all was the look on my mom’s face in the weeks leading up to it.

Throughout my life my mom has looked at me with many emotions; a lot of love and pride, many times with confusion, and once or twice with disappointment.

But until this process she’s never looked at me with sympathetic, overprotective eyes; like I was a made of sand and would be blown away by a gust of wind at any moment.

I also learned to forgive her for sheltering me from details.

I forgive and thank her for not telling me initially about my dad’s illness when I was in Paris, even though I was mad at first. And I forgive her again for not telling me right away about issues he had two weeks after the surgery until he had to go back to the hospital.

I know that my mom and I are

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A daughter chooses to donate kidney Despite warnings, decision to help her father was easy after finding she was a match friends, and I’m lucky for that. But sometimes, even at 23, I have to let her be a mother, too.

All of the worries and cares I had throughout the process didn’t seem to matter 24 hours out.

It was the fourth snowstorm of the year, this one falling on the brink of spring. I left work early that Wednesday to meet my mom and sister and get to the city, where my dad had been since Monday getting dialysis three times to prep him for surgery.

As I walked through the spring snow to my car, I broke down and cried. I cried alone in my car all the way home.

But by Thursday morning, I had no more worries. As I went in for my preoperative appointment, I was feeling pretty calm.

That was up until the nurse told me I had to remove all my jewelry – resulting in a mental breakdown and an hour of my sister, the nurse and I all crowding around my iPhone watching videos to figure out how to remove a nose ring.

My sister managed to pull out my cartilage hoop, not without a handful of profanities thrown and more than a few drops of blood shed, but the nose ring that seemed like a good idea to get pierced two years before in Barcelona was determined to stay intact.

In an effort to calm me down, the nurse put a piece of tape over it and called the operation room to let them know in advance and that the patient said they could cut it off if they had to.

The moment finally came for the doctors, a television-worthy anesthesiologist and his sidekick to take me into the operating room.

I imagined being wheeled, but much to my surprise I walked into the room.

With my IV bag in one hand, I followed McDreamy into the room. On the way, I passed my dad, getting prepped for surgery, too, and gave him one last hug before a piece of me was placed inside of him.

“What’s your favorite cocktail,” the model doctor asked me as I scooted myself onto the table. “Because it’s about to feel like you just drank three of them.”

That’s the last thing I remember before waking up in a new room, shivering.

Warm blankets were tossed on me from all directions.

Out of the corner of my eye, I saw my mom and sister. My sister had a urine sample cup in one hand. Inside: the remnants of my nose ring.

The nurses eventually made them leave, along with my aunt and cousin who also came in to see me, so I could recover before being transferred to my room.

When it was finally time for me to be rolled to my room I got to see my dad, who now had three kidneys to my one.

They told me he was doing well, too.

The first night I pointed to a spot on the left side of my lower back and asked my sister, who’s a doctor, why it hurt.

She told me that’s where my kidney was.

I had braced myself for the worst pain imaginable, but on a pain scale of one to 10, I often registered at a four and only once at a seven.

I recovered a week more at home, weaning myself off pain medications and onto Tylenol — and then off of Tylenol, too.

I continue to feel fortunate every day — fortunate I was a match, fortunate it went well for me and my dad, and fortunate to have friends and family who supported me through the process.

I would make the same decision a million times over.

My surgery was on Thursday, and I was out of the hospital by Saturday.

My dad joined me back home in Jericho two days later.

I know that this journey is not yet over, and though his life is exponentially improved, it’s not a perfect solution. There are pills, appointments and tests that he’ll live with the rest of his life.

But on that Monday night as I sat beside my dad on our couch, with my sister and mom with us watching TV, everything felt normal again.

“Where’s the remote?” my dad asked.

My sister and I shrugged.

“You lost the remote,” he said.

“I gave you my kidney,” I said, half paying attention, half scrolling through Instagram.

“It wasn’t supposed to be a trade.”

Klar at 4-years-old with her father.

Klar and her father in May, more than a year after he started dialysis, at her graduation from Binghamton University.

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Roslyl Village Gallery is hosting "Through the Eyes of Autism" this weekend, an art show and sale showcasing the works of Long Island artists Alec Leto, Andrew King and Alexa Krevatas. A portion of the proceeds will be donated to Life's Worc and Spectrum Designs.

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n honor of Autism Awareness Month, the Roslyn Village Gallery is hosting an art show and sale this weekend with the works of three artists on the autism spectrum.

The works of Alec Leto, Alexa Krevatas and Andrew King will be on display from 3 to 9 p.m. Saturday and Sunday.

Gallery owner Marsha Tarlow said 50 percent of the sales go to the artist and the other half is split between Life’s Worc, a nonprofit that provides comprehensive services and support to more than 2,300!people with developmental disabilities and autism in Queens and across Long Island, Spectrum Designs, a clothing manufacturer that is one of the largest employers of adults with autism in the country that recently moved to Port Washington, as well as the gallery.

“This is not an art show about autism,” Tarlow said. “This is a showcase for three talented artists who happen to be autistic.”

Alexa’s mother, Inga Krevatas of Franklin Square, said she bought her daughter

an easel and a paint-by-numbers set for Christmas when she was 15.

Alexa, now 17, has grown as an artist, now practicing the pour-over method with her art, using different colors and types of acrylic paint poured over the canvas.

“She’s developed her own individuality,” Inga! Krevatas said. “It helps her go to a nice, calm place for a couple of hours during the week, and she enjoys it. It’s part of her life now.”

All three artists are taught by Mary Schneider in her Manhasset home.

Inga!Krevatas said her daughter often uses her hands instead of brushes for her works, which include landscapes, beach scenes and portraits, including a painting of Geraldo Rivera that she gave him at a fundraiser a few years ago.

Alexa’s twin sister, Sophia, who is also on the spectrum, does not paint but is the ultimate cheerleader for Alexa, Inga!Krevatas said.

Alec’s mother, Linda Leto of Glen Head, said her son began painting about nine years ago during his freshman year of high school.

“It’s therapeutic. It’s calming,” she said. “It’s incredibly rewarding for him because when someone sees his paintings and compliments him or offers to buy it, he gets extremely excited. I don’t think he looks at it as work.”

Quickly, Alec, now 23, took to the visual arts and his second painting, a self-portrait, has been distributed across Philadelphia by a company that bought the rights to reproduce his work to use in its buildings.

In 2011, Alec began working with oilbased paints, graduating from acrylics, and he began working with Schneider in 2013.

“He used to draw in mosaics,” Linda! Leto said. “When you looked at his paintings, it looked fragmented, but the further you stood back from it, you could clearly see the image. Sometimes when you look at a picture, it’s overwhelming and don’t know where to begin. She would break it down for him, and that’s how he learned.”

Andrew’s mother, Lauren King of Manhasset, said her son began drawing at 7 years old by copying famous cartoon

characters.

“We quickly discovered he had a talent,” Lauren said. “He was always running around the house with a Disney videotape in his hand. The art therapist had a hard time getting him to sit still, so she decided to sit on the living room floor and draw the tape in his hand. He started watching her, and by the time she was about to leave, she had him drawing the characters.

He started by drawing Disney characters, and he developed into all different types of media.”

Andrew, an employee at Spectrum Designs, has donated one of his sunset paintings to the company, where it hangs in the front lobby.

Lauren! King said Andrew, now 23, will spend hours on his art, but when he decides the piece is finished, he moves on to the next project.

“He does have a sense of pride in what he does,” she said. “He’s definitely a lot calmer since he’s been painting, but he doesn’t have much attachment to his paintings. Once he’s done with a painting, he’s done with it.”

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The Longines Masters Series rides into New York this weekend, the grand finale of the international, equestrian series that captures all of the glitz and glamour from its origin city of Paris. The weekend highlights include The Longines Speed Challenge on Friday night, The Riders Masters Cup, pitting Team USA vs. Team Europe, on Saturday night, and The Longines Grand Prix, awarding the best in show jumping on Sunday.

Where: NYCB Live, Home of Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum 1255 Hempstead Turnpike, Uniondale Info & Tickets: (516) 231-4848 or (800) 745-3000 • nycblive.com

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The Butterfly Ball Saturday, April 28 at 7 p.m.

The Butterfly Ball takes flight this evening with cocktails and hors d’oeuvres, a farmto-table chefs’ dinner, and dessert and dancing to a live band, along with a live, exotic butterfly exhibit — all to benefit and enhance the preserve’s beautiful landscape with new features and programs for everyone to enjoy.

Where: Sands Point Preserve Conservancy, Hempstead House 127 Middle Neck Road, Sands Point Info & Tickets: (516) 571-7901 • sandspointpreserveconservancy.org

Cash Only • Alcohol not included • Lobster Dishes & 14 oz. Black Angus Steak not included.

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Buddy Guy Saturday, April 28 at 8 p.m.

American blues guitarist and singer Buddy Guy, who influenced eminent guitarists including Eric Clapton, Jimi Hendrix, Jimmy Page, Keith Richards, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Jeff Beck and John Mayer, will perform at this special, one-night concert event.

Where: NYCB Theatre at Westbury 960 Brush Hollow Road, Westbury Info & Tickets: (516) 247-5211 • thetheatreatwestbury.com

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Where: Tilles Center for the Performing Arts, 720 Northern Blvd., Brookville Info & Tickets: (516) 299-3100 • tillescenter.org

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2018 Greek Film Expo

Sunday, April 29 through Thursday, May 3 (see website for a schedule of screenings and times)

The Hellenic Film Society kicks off the 2018 Greek Film Expo at the Directors Guild Theater in Manhattan on Friday, April 27, with the festival hosting subsequent screenings at the Museum of the Moving Image in Astoria and Bow Tie Cinema in Manhasset. Two of the featured films include “Swing Away,” about a troubled golfer who travels to the island of Rhodes where she reconnects with her Greek roots, and “Worlds Apart,” three Greek love stories set in times of social and economic turmoil.! !

Where: Museum of the Moving Image, 36-01 35th Ave., Astoria / Bow Tie Manhasset Cinema, 430 Plandome Road, Manhasset Info & Tickets: (718) 531-5074 or (917) 710-3027 • hellenicfilmusa.org

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SiriusXM Presents: Todd Rundgren’s Utopia

Tuesday, May 1 at 8 p.m.

In celebration of their reunion tour, Todd Rundgren, Kasim Sulton, and Willie Wilcox will perform from The Road to Utopia: The Complete Recordings (1974-82), a collection that brings their seven classic albums to life with evergreen hits like “Hello It’s Me” and “I Saw The Light.”

Where: The Paramount, 370 New York Ave., Huntington Info & Tickets: (631) 673-7300 • paramountny.com

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Saturday, April 28 and Sunday, April 29, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.

This weekend event, co-hosted by Planting Fields Foundation and the New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation, includes face painting, circus acts, caricaturists, tree seedling giveaways, a petting zoo, live music, an appearance by Smokey Bear and more. $20 per vehicle.

Where: Planting Fields Arboretum, 1395 Planting Fields Road, Oyster Bay Info: 516-922-8678 or plantingfields.org

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Dream is a Wish Princess Tea and Concert

Saturday, April 28 at 11:15 a.m., 2:15 and 5:15 p.m.

The enchanting concert, A Dream is a Wish, returns to the Madison Theatre, with new adventures and Disney classics in which children can sing along to all their favorite Disney songs, such as “Let It Go,” “A Dream is a Wish Your Heart Makes,” “A Whole New World,” “I See The Light” and many more. There is a limited number of Breakfast and Tea tickets that accompany the performance.

Where: Madison Theatre at Molloy College, 1000 Hempstead Ave., Rockville Centre | Info & Tickets: 516-323-4444 or madisontheatreny.org

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Children ages 8 and up will investigate the wonders of nature and history’s mysteries. Fact-finding hunts through Westbury House and gardens will help to uncover clues and solve riddles. The event is free with admission.

Where: Old Westbury Gardens, 71 Old Westbury Road, Old Westbury Info: 516-333-0048 or oldwestburygardens.org

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reate a Butterfly Feeder and Family Butterfly Day

Saturday, April 28 and Sunday, April 29, 1 to 5 p.m. (Maritime Explorium) and Sunday, April 29, 2 to 4 p.m. (Sands Point Preserve Conservancy)

Kids can create a butterfly feeder using recycled Keurig cups while they explore various species of butterflies at the Maritime Explorium. Over the same weekend, the Sands Point Preserve Conservancy invites families to venture into their immersive, live butterfly exhibit in Hempstead House, which features more than 120 exotic butterflies and an indoor tropical garden.

Where: The Maritime Explorium, 101 East Broadway, Port Jefferson / Info: 631-331-3277 or maritimeexplorium.org and Sands Point Preserve Conservancy, Hempstead House, 127 Middle Neck Road, Sands Point Info: 516-571-7901 or sandspointpreserveconservancy.org

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herry Blossom Trees

Sunday, April 29 at 2 p.m.

In Japanese culture, delicate cherry blossoms signify the fragility and beauty of life. During early spring, these breathtaking blooms can be admired in many areas across the U.S. At this workshop, children ages 5 and up can create cherry blossom branches using tissue paper and natural materials to admire all year long. $4 with museum admission; $3 LICM members.

Where: Long Island Children’s Museum, 11 Davis Ave., Garden City Info: 516-224-5800 or licm.org

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All Types of Kinds wins Big Break contest

BY JA N E LL E C L AUS E N While New York City-based alternative band All Types of Kinds was the official winner at the sixth annual “Your Big Break” at the Gold Coast Arts Center on Saturday night, musicians said the biggest benefits came from two things: bonding over music and performing.

The annual contest, co-hosted by the Gold Coast Arts Center, Love Revolution Organization and Rick Eberle P.R., seeks out young but untapped talent through three rounds of performances. The winners then get a chance to perform at venues like the Paramount in Huntington – after performing for an audience and judges in Great Neck.

“It definitely felt good up there. I think it was the lighting and the audience really had a good energy and we rode it,” said Rocco Stroker, one of the band’s three guitarists, who played in the final round of “Your Big Break.” “We were feeling that energy, even if our instruments liked to go out of tune every now and then.”

In between performances, musicians could be seen congregating with fans and competitors alike. Lydia Von Hof, a 16-year-old singer and songwriter from Commack, for example, took a photo with All Types of Kinds.

Von Hof, who was also a finalist at last year’s Your Big Break, said she loves this show because of the chance to wit-

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All Types of Kinds made their big break on Saturday night, winning the sixth annual Your Big Break contest. ness other musical styles, share her own work and be inspired.

“It’s not really the winning spot that matters at the end of the day,” Von Hof said. “It’s the experience and the music – that’s what really matters.”

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to pursue music a few months ago as she works on her new album.

In fact, Shahira said “Your Big Break” was her first real show in New York – and a humbling one, at that – and that she looks forward to building friendships and branching out.

“It’s also just really nice to connect with like-minded people. Everybody here does have one thing in common: we either love music or we’re making it,” Shahira said. “There’s just a frequency in the room I really enjoy.”

For Great Neck band Psychopompous, made up of Great Neck South alumni Justin Kelly, Beni Hahitti and Maximillian Nero, it was also an opportunity for get to know each other again.

The group, which they first formed in middle school, had relegated itself to playing during vacations, band members said, because of obligations with college.

But the “Your Big Break” contest gave

them a rallying point of sorts.

“Honestly, we didn’t come for the competition,” Nero, the group’s bassist, said on Saturday. “We came because we like to share our playing and our music with other people.”

The group 37 Stripes, consisting of multi-instrumentalist Andrew Hahn and vocalist and guitarist Oscar Cellura, both of Manhasset Secondary School, as well as drummer Zach Levine of Syosset, recalled getting together for two hours every Friday night and Sunday morning to make sure they got everything right.

Ultimately many friends and family members came out to support them, applauding with each line Eugenia KellyViner, the co-director of Love Revolution Organization, read of their biographies.

And while the group did not win in the strict sense, members said performing there was definitely a worthwhile experience.

“Getting all the practice down, you ultimately get to a point where you’re so confident, you’re up there, no worries, everything is good, vibes are bouncing off each other – just having a good time,” Cellura said. “At the end of the day, win or lose, it was a great session.”

Music executive Mark Ambrosino, one of the judges, said skill level and originality were factors in rendering a decision. But for him, he said with a snap of the fingers, “it hits me or it doesn’t.”

And while one group “stood out above the rest,” Ambrosino said the contest was more of a “learning process” for contestants and that performers gave him hope about the future of the industry.

“I’m very concerned and I hold close to my heart the state of the music industry – or the lack thereof,” Ambrosino said on Saturday. “And I got a lot of hope from seeing some of the artists tonight.

“I didn’t know what to expect and I walked out of here saying, ‘oh man, these guys, girls, kids, bands, are doing really creative stuff.’”

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Many contemporary artists have now merged modern influences such as street art, graffiti, architecture and urban culture into their work..

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Centered around the launch of ‘Spectrum Designs’ new production facility in Port Washington, New York. The film addresses the Join us for an evening of food, music and a book positive impacts of developing profitable signing with author Francine Klagsbrun for her businesses while leveraging the unique book Lioness, Golda Meir and the Nation of Israel. capabilities of adults with autism. East Coast Co-presented by NY State Senator, Elaine Phillips. Premiere!

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Pulitzer Prize winning New York Times columnist Bret Stephens will speak at Temple Israel of Great Neck on Sunday, April 29, in conversation with Jonathan Greenblatt, the CEO and national director of the Anti-Defamation League.

Stephens, widely respected for his “contrarian twist” on issues, will discuss a wide range of domestic and foreign topics with Greenblatt, a leader of one on the most respected civil rights organizations.

They will then open the program to questions from the audience.

The presentation begins at 6:30 p.m. in the Temple Israel Sanctuary.

While there is no charge for the program, tickets are required for admission. They can be obtained online by going to: https://templeisraelofgreatneck.thundertix.com/events/125589.

“We at Temple Israel embrace diversity of opinions—especially now at this time in our deeply polarized country—and are proud to model a dialogue!anchored in respect and openness,” said Temple Israel Vice President Lynn Weitzman, who was instrumental in securing the Stephens’ presentation.

Temple Israel Vice President Veronica Lurvey, who also played a key role in arranging for the program, said she wanted to bring Stephens to Temple Israel because “he is insightful about so many issues.”

“We have a highly intelligent, knowledgeable community which values someone who takes the time to be thoughtful,” Lur-

vey said. “I think everyone will find this to be a fascinating presentation.”

Stephens began his career at The Wall Street Journal as an op-ed editor. He later worked as an editorial writer for the Wall Street Journal Europe, in Brussels. In 2006, he took over the paper’s “Global View” column and in 2009 was named deputy editorial page editor.

For almost three years he served as editor-in-chief of the Jerusalem Post. He is also a frequent contributor to Commentary magazine and a political analyst for NBC. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary, recognizing his 2012 columns for The Journal for “incisive columns on U.S. foreign policy and domestic politics, often enlivened by a contrarian twist.”

An ardent supporter of Israel, he says that “it remains vitally important that support for Israel remains fully bipartisan, not simply for the sake of Israel itself, but also for the moral health of both Democratic and Republican parties.”

During the last presidential campaign he was part of the “Stop Trump Movement,” regularly writing Wall Street Journal articles opposing candidate Donald Trump.

“I have heard Bret Stephens speak on a number of occasions and he is always riveting and enlightening,” said Temple Israel Rabbi Howard Stecker.

“We are thrilled that he will be appearing at our synagogue in conversation with the CEO of the AntiDefamation League, Jona-

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than Greenblatt.”

Greenblatt, the chief executive of the ADL, leads all aspects of one of the most respected civil rights organizations in the country. Since taking the position in 2015, he has modernized the organization while re-focusing it on the dual mission it has had since its founding in 1913: to fight the defamation of the Jewish people, and to secure justice and fair treatment for all.

Greenblatt has been vocal in criticizing the use of boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) against the State of Israel. He also led ADL’s creation of the #50StatesAgainstHate initiative pushing for strong hate crimes laws in every state after nine members of an African-American church in Charleston, South Carolina, were murdered by a white supremacist. Meanwhile, under Greenblatt, ADL continues its close collaboration on hate crimes with the FBI and law enforcement agencies coast to coast.

Prior to joining the ADL, he served in the White House as special assistant to President Obama and director of the Office of Social Innovation and Civic Participation.

Rabbi Stecker said “Temple Israel respects and celebrates diversity in multiple realms, including ideological and political perspectives. Given our diversity, we are uniquely positioned in our community to present a range of thoughtful approaches to the most pressing issues of the day. In this regard, the evening with Bret Stephens and Jonathan Greenblatt will continue an important Temple Israel tradition.”

The program was made possible! through a generous contribution from Rabbi Abraham B. Eckstein in memory of his late wife, Adele. Temple Israel of Great Neck, the region’s largest Conservative Jewish congregation, is located at 108 Old Mill Road. Further information about the program is available by calling 482-7800.

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Best-kept secret in pain management Expert diagnosis, medical reassurances often the most effect way to ease discomfort

BY D R .

TOM FERRARO Sport Psychologist

A patient has his yearly prostate checkup with his urologist who draws his blood for the PSA Test.

Up to this point, the patient has had no symptoms to speak of. The results come back and the patient receives the dreaded call that his PSA results are high and that he needs to get an MRI of his prostate.

At this point, the patient immediately begins to worry and to feel prostate pain as well.

The experience of pain along with anxiety continues unabated over the next two weeks as he schedules the MRI and then waits in fear to be told the results. The nurse for the urologist finally calls the anxious patient to tell him that his MRI is normal and that he can breathe easy.

Within seconds the prostate pain disappears completely.

This is a very common occurrence in medicine and tells us all we need to know about the

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Here is one secret pill stronger than all the rest. And you will never guess what it is. experience of pain.

To be human means to be anxious and to be in pain.

Almost everyone experiences minor pain on a daily basis.

In a typical study where you look at reports of symptoms over the past six months you find that 40 percent of people will have had some back pain, 17 percent abdominal pain, 12% chest pain

and 12 percent facial pain. Often these symptoms disappear over time and things go back to normal.

But on occasion, if the pain is bad enough, is unusual or persistent enough the person becomes alarmed, anxious and is motivated to make a visit to his local G.P. The majority of patients believe that their pain is

strictly a physiologic occurrence based substantially if not exclusively in the body.

What people often don’t realize is that the mind plays a major role in the experience of pain.

The real-life example I gave at the beginning of this article demonstrates the intimate connection between pain, emotions and what we think about the cause or meaning of the pain.

Medical reassurance is why patients so often feel better when the doctor gives them the news that their symptoms are not life-threatening and are treatable.

When someone runs to the doctor with chest pain and finally receives the results from the cardiogram that all is well, the chest pain usually diminishes dramatically.

To understand how and why this happens you have to understand the Gate Control Theory of Pain.

Pain sensations are first carried via nerves from the peripheral nervous system up through the spinal cord and passing

through the ‘nerve gates’ they travel up to the brain.

When these signals finally get to the brain then and only then will the patient experience the pain. This is the Gate Control Theory of Pain.

The primary question then is what causes the nerve gates to open or to close in the spinal cord.

This most obvious method for the closing of the nerve gates is based upon the medical reassurance given to the patient and that’s why a good bedside manner is so important. Going back to my brief example the patient became free of pain after the doctor gave the news that the MRI was normal.

A definitive diagnosis is often based upon clinical exam, an understanding of the patient’s history and sometimes with the use of test results. And when the patient is told that his or her pain is not serious, not life-threatening and is treatable, the nerve gates in the spinal cord close and the pain often vanishes.

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Make clear your health-care wishes

BY D R . D A N A L U S T B A D E R

will advocate on your behalf. An advocate can be a close relative or friend, but should be Imagine you are in an accident or sudden someone who knows you well and someone illness leaves you unable to speak for yourself. you trust to follow your wishes. ·" Talk with your advocate and doctor Your loved one or caregiver is faced with a difficult decision about whether to continue about your future care preferences. Let your life-saving measures. How does that person advocate and doctors know what’s most important to you in life. What are the activities know what to do? and abilities that make life most worth living?

"Discuss, decide and document.

These are three important steps to take What are the things that give you comfort to ensure your future care preferences are when you’re sick? When, if ever, should your advocate decide that it’s time to “let go”? And known."

April 16 to April 22 was National Health- who should they include in that decision? ·""Write it down. Formalize your decicare Decisions Week — a time to educate and empower people of all ages to create their ad- sions by putting them in writing. Learn more at www.optumcare.com/nhdd. vance care plan. ·""Give copies of your plan to your adAccording to the Conversation Project, more than 90 percent of people think it’s im- vocate, family members and doctors. Review portant to have conversations about end-of- the document with your advocate, doctors life care with their loved ones, yet less than and family members. Update and review the plan whenever your preferences or situation 30 percent have done so.

Planning for accidents or a sudden ill- changes. Have the document placed in your ness may feel awkward, but conversations medical records.

I have seen firsthand the sense of peace, with family members today can ensure your care preferences are honored and that your calm and satisfaction families experience caregivers don’t have to guess what you want." knowing their loved ones’ wishes are granted.

It’s simpler than you think to get started. Don’t make people guess what you want.

Make your future care preferences known.

Here are a few tips: ·" Choose an advocate. This should be Dr. Dana Lustbader is department chair of someone who knows you well, is calm in a crisis, understands your decisions, is not Palliative Medicine at ProHealth Care Associafraid to ask questions of care providers and ates in Lake Success

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Is organizing the new yoga?

Truth be told: there are way too many over-inflated articles on organizing these days…

“Conquer Your Clutter,” “How To Declutter,”yadda yadda yadda.

Who has time for that?! Let’s keep it simple. Life is stressful enough! An organized space not only elevates your mood, it contributes to your overall well-being and peace of mind.

Approach your home organizing in a small-scale way: taking 30-60 minutes a day is an attainable goal and will make you feel in control.

Decide which room or space gives you the most anxiety and start there – it’s all about taking baby steps. You will reach that end goal. · Closets: Peter Walsh says it best: “Opening up your closet should be like arriving at a really good party where everyone you see you like.”

To obtain this, you have to be honest with yourself. How much do you actually wear and more importantly how much actually fits? It’s depressing to open your drawer and see things that don’t fit.

To transform your life, start

by transforming your wardrobe.

First, pare down (sort-donate-toss). Then, analyze the space available to you in your closet and drawers – think of it as real estate.

Location, location, location is considered prime real estate that should be used wisely: this is where your “go-to’s” belong.

Next separate blacks, whites, colors. Use matching hangers. Pick a shelf on your closet to display your favorite pair of shoes or bags. · Office: Papers seem to mul-

tiply! Papers in piles are a “nono”… they’re impossible to see or sort.

Instead, use plain or colored file folders to help organize your papers into categories. Treat yourself to a simple two-drawer file cabinet if necessary. · Memorabilia: Don’t let memorabilia take up the ideal real estate. If you simply must have a reminder that this stuff was part of your life – take a photo and then let it go.

You can either hang the photo in a place where you will see it

and smile, or if you must keep the actual piece of memorabilia, place it in a suitcase you no longer use and keep it in one place with easy accessibility.

Here are some of our organizing pearls of wisdom: · Buying organizing containers doesn’t make you organized… it gets expensive and it appears generic. Instead, repurpose, repurpose, repurpose. Use funky shoe boxes to organize your bras and panties. Use your grandmother’s favorite crystal glass to hang your earrings. Use a see-through hanging shoe bag in either your pantry for odds-and-ends or in your child’s playroom for arts and crafts supplies – actually, the uses are endless….scarves, leggings, office supplies. Egg cartons are another useful organizing tool.

Remember, you space should be easy to navigate and items will be even easier to put away and keep organized. If you must buy organizing containers this should be the very last step in the process, absolutely not the first step!! · If you can’t see it, why have it? Your home is not a storage space. Minimalism is not about having less, it is about making

room for what matters. Your things should reflect your personality and you should be able to enjoy them. · You have to make it fun.

Have your best friend or favorite family member over for a fashion show to help you sort-tossdonate. Do this with music and a glass of wine to up the ante. · Want to elevate your boring bookcase to something specialarrange your books in rainbow order (ROYGBIV – Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo, Violet) and arrange some books vertically, then some horizontally you can even place interesting, eclectic pieces on the books – use your tchotchkes!

In the end, be realistic. Don’t compare your space to what you see in the magazines- remember, those spaces are “staged.”

Surround yourself with the things you truly love and reflect who you are – that’s the key to achieving an organized space and one that is most likely sustainable.

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Calories burned during daily activity

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ome people think they have to spend hours at the gym sweating on the treadmill or elliptical trainer in order to burn calories and lose weight. As it turns out, the things you do every single day could be burning more calories than you realized. Some discipline with your diet and certain healthy habits can make the difference for those attempting to lose weight.

Clean rain gutters and burn 372 calories in one hour.

Getting eight hours of sleep can burn more than 300 calories for the average person. But there’s a good chance you are interested in what activities you can do while awake to help burn calories.

Courtesy of Discovery Health and Harvard Medical School, here are common everyday activities and how many calories can be burned depending on weight. These figures are based on a person weighing around 150 pounds and a duration of one hour of activity.

240 cals.

300 cals.

160 cals.

200 cals.

Supermarket shopping: Pushing a wagon around the supermarket for an hour can burn 240 calories or more.

Up the ante by bagging groceries yourself and packing and unpacking them from the car.

Raking leaves: If you spent time manually raking leaves this past fall, you were doing something good for your body. In addition to working several muscle groups, you may have spent 300 calories.

Dusting: Spring cleaning is right around the corner, and that can be good news for your health. Dusting alone can burn as much as 160 calories.

Cooking: Here’s a reason to get fired up about cooking.

Making a simple meal can add up to 200 calories lost.

Just don’t sabotage those lost calories by cooking up a fattening dinner.

460 cals.

350 cals.

450 cals.

400 cals.

Moving: Packing and moving may seem like a big task one rarely looks forward to, but carrying boxes can burn 460 calories an hour. Packing, moving and unpacking yourself may be the diet plan you’ve been seeking.

Painting: Perhaps you’ve been procrastinating on that house painting project. Here’s inspiration to break out the rollers and brushes. Spending an hour painting can burn 350 calories.

After several hours applying a primer and then top coat, you may find you painted yourself thinner.

Community service: If you want to help the environment and your health, spending time picking up trash from a park or seaside can shed some serious calories — 450 an hour.

Playing with kids: Engaging in some fun family time can burn around 400 calories. Plus, it’s a great way for parents and children to bond.

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How to get going with grazing

A healthy breakfast of oatmeal and fresh fruit is a good breakfast for men and women adopting grazing as their approach to diet.

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ating healthy is a goal for many people. For some, altering what they eat is all it takes to shed those extra pounds and improve their overall health, while others find changing what they eat isn’t helping them reach their goals.

One option that has its share of supporters and detractors is grazing, which involves eating five or six smaller portions throughout the day instead of the more widely accepted diet of eating three square meals per day. Those who stand by grazing claim it keeps a person’s metabolism going all day, helping to burn more calories while encouraging men and women to eat smaller portions. Those who question grazing point to studies questioning its efficacy, namely that it does not have the calorie-burning effects its supporters suggest. In fact, researchers in the United Kingdom have said eating throughout the day (a standard grazing diet has men and women eating five to six meals per day, with three to four hour intervals between meals) undermines the body’s ability to burn fat.

The debate over grazing does not figure to go away anytime soon, as many people have found it a successful way to lose weight and get healthier while many others have found it ineffective. For those who want to give it a shot, consider the following advice.

Choose healthy foods. Grazing can only be effective if you choose healthy foods. Snacking on foods like chocolate or potato chips every three

to four hours is a recipe for disaster regardless of portion size. When grazing, choose foods that are low in fat and high in nutrients. Avoid sugary foods as well as those that are high in sodium. Foods that are strong sources of protein and complex carbohydrates, including chicken breasts, fish, low-fat dairy products and whole grains, will help you feel full and keep you feeling that way until the next time to eat rolls around.

Don’t skip breakfast. A healthy breakfast is an essential element of successful grazing. If you skip breakfast, you’re more likely to overeat, which could establish a domino effect of poor eating as the day goes on. A simple breakfast, such as a bowl of cereal with fat-free or lowfat milk or some oatmeal with berries mixed in, is all it takes to start the day off on the right foot.

Stick to a schedule. When grazing, meals should be eaten every three to four hours. If you stray from that schedule, you could wind up eating larger portions or more meals than you should be consuming. Stick to your schedule and remember the portions are supposed to be smaller, so you should not feel skittish about pulling a snack out at a meeting in the office or if you have company over at your house.

Prepare meals in advance. A problem many people encounter when they first begin to graze is the lack of availability of smaller-portioned meals and snacks. Large portions and snacks with no nutritional value are the norm, so finding smaller meals and healthy snacks when you’re away from home will be difficult. The best way to counter that problem is to prepare meals in advance and take them with you.

Cook enough food for the week over the weekend and store it in easily transportable containers. In addition, bring snacks with you to the office so you aren’t forced to eat unhealthy fare between meals.

Recognize results aren’t immediate.

No effective weight loss plan produces results overnight, and grazing is no exception. You will not drop 10 pounds in the first week, but you might notice heightened energy levels throughout the day shortly after you begin to graze, especially if you choose the right foods. Give grazing enough time to get going before judging if it’s the right approach for you.

The topic of grazing is one that continues to inspire debate, but men and women who want to lose weight and keep the weight off should consider grazing as a healthy and potentially effective option.

Can diet soda cause weight gain?

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Diet soda may seem a healthier option than sugary drinks, but it may cause weight gain and contribute to obesity.

or decades, people have turned to diet soft drinks as a healthier alternative to regular soft drinks. However, consuming diet soda on a regular basis may have some serious health ramifications, including weight gain.

It may seem counterintuitive to suggest that diet sodas may be causing people to gain weight, particularly because these sodas are commonly consumed by people who are trying to lose weight.

However, artificial sweeteners found in some diet sodas may increase a person’s risk of obesity.

It’s not entirely what you are eating that can cause weight gain but what the body thinks it is eating (or drinking) that plays a role.

There are two factors at play with regard to the artificial sweetener conundrum. First, The University of Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio has researched the potential link between obesity and artificial sweeteners.

Researchers have found that something in the chemical structure of these sweeteners alters the way the brain processes the neurotransmitter serotonin.

In addition to helping with sleep,

mood and other functions in the body, serotonin helps tell the body when it is full. When natural foods and sugars are consumed, serotonin signals to the brain to turn off your body’s appetite.

However, artificial sweeteners may prolong the release of serotonin, and your appetite remains in full force long after it should have abated.

Another component of artificial sweeteners, particularly aspartame, is that these chemicals can trick the body into thinking it has, in fact, consumed sugar.

That triggers the pancreas to produce the insulin needed to regulate blood-glucose levels. It also causes the body to store the glucose as fat. This can lead to low blood sugar, which may cause you to eat a sugary treat in response.

Having diet soda or eating a sugarless item once in a while won’t create any long-term effects.

But repeatedly relying on artificial sweeteners could affect appetite and change blood sugar levels for good.

These aren’t the only consequences to diet soda and other beverages. Drinking diet soda regularly may affect

cardiovascular health. According to the American Heart Association, research presented at the American Stroke Association’s International Stroke Conference found people who drink diet soda every day have a 61 percent higher risk of vascular events than those who reported no soda consumption.

Regular soda isn’t a better alternative. It can contribute to weight gain and cardiovascular issues as well as an increased risk for diabetes. A 2011 review published in the journal Circulation stated that a positive association has been shown between sugarsweetened soft drink consumption and weight gain in both children and adults.

Nutritionists and doctors have advised that instead of adding artificial sweeteners to water and other beverages, flavor them with lemon or lime juice. Instead of drinking diet soda, opt for unsweetened tea or plain water.

Although diet soda may seem a likely option to help curb calories and prevent weight gain, such beverages may actually be having an adverse effect on a person’s weight.

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The benefits of reading M

any people are avid readers, feeling that a good book remains the most entertaining form of escapism. But reading provides more than just an opportunity to leave the daily grind behind.

While many people may read to immerse themselves in something other than a movie or a television show, they may not know about all the additional benefits they are enjoying when cuddling up with a good book.

Reading can improve brain function.

A recent study from researchers at Emory University discovered that reading a novel can improve brain function in various ways. During the study, researchers found that reading fiction improves connectivity in the brain. In addition, reading fiction improved readers’ ability to put themselves in other peoples’ shoes, which might help them relate better to people in both the present and future.

Reading can benefit long-term brain health. While readers engrossed in a great book might only be worried about what’s coming on the next page, the benefits to reading are much more long-term than the next chapter. Researchers at the Rush University Medical Center in Chicago found that reading is one of a handful of mentally stimulating activities that can benefit brain health in old age.

In their Rush Memory and Aging Project, researchers examined nearly 300 elderly men and women, giving them tests of memory and thinking throughout the final years of their lives.

When participants, who were surveyed as to how often they engaged in

mentally stimulating activities such as reading, passed away, their brains were examined for signs of Alzheimer’s disease and dementia.

Researchers discovered that the participants who engaged in mentally challenging activities most often had slower rates of memory decline.

In addition, even those who had symptoms of brain damage that are commonly associated with Alzheimer’s and dementia seemed to benefit from the stimulation that mentally challenging activities produced.

Reading can help reduce stress.

Another big benefit of reading is its relationship to stress. According to a 2009 study from researchers at the University of Sussex in England, reading can reduce stress by up to 68 percent. In addition, reading might help relieve that stress even faster than other forms of stress relief because it allows for a more immediate escape from the stress of daily life.

Reading can help you get a more restful night’s sleep. According to the National Sleep Foundation, engaging in a calming activity for an hour before going to bed can help your body wind down and ready itself for sleep. Some people may struggle to fall asleep after reading on an electronic device, such as a tablet or e-reader, as the light that emanates from such devices may be activating the brain. If need be, stick to reading traditional print books and magazines before going to bed.

Reading is not only a favorite activity for many people, but it’s also something that can benefit the body in myriad ways.

Distinctions between Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis

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nflammatory bowel conditions affect millions of people. Some of these conditions share symptoms, but may have certain distinctions that set them apart from one another.

Ulcerative colitis and Crohn’s disease are two conditions that are similar but not one and the same. As a result, only a doctor can properly diagnose each condition.

The UCLA Center for Inflammatory Bowel Diseases says both colitis and Crohn’s are characterized by inflammation of the digestive tract. Both diseases can develop at any age, but often occur in teenagers and young adults. They also affect men and women equally.

Another similarity is that the causes of UC and Crohn’s disease are unknown, although environmental, genetic and an inappropriate response by the body’s immune system can be factors.

To the average person, it may be difficult to figure out if they are suffering from UC or Crohn’s disease because of these startling similarities. Yet, Healthline says there are important differences as well, which include the location of the illness in the gastrointestinal tract and the way each disease responds to treatment.

Here’s a look at what sets UC and Crohn’s apart.

Crohn’s disease Crohn’s disease may affect any part of the GI tract (mouth to anus). However, Crohn’s is most often to blame for symptoms at the end of the small intestine, called the small bowel, and the beginning of the colon, or the large bowel.

WebMD says Crohn’s disease can affect all layers of the bowel walls.

Those with Crohn’s may have healthy areas interspersed with inflamed spots.

Rectal bleeding or blood in stools is less common in Crohn’s sufferers, and

because it can impact more areas of the body, those with Crohn’s may experience mouth sores, anal tears or infections.

Crohn’s also may affect areas outside of the GI tract, including the skin, eyes, joints, and liver.

Ulcerative Colitis Contrary to Crohn’s disease, UC is confined to the colon and only affects the inner lining of the colon. Those with UC will have much more continuance to their inflamed areas with no interruption.

Also, UC is more likely to produce blood in stools because it appears at the lower end of the large intestine.

UCLA Health also says approximately 10 percent of cases of inflammatory bowel diseases exhibit the features of both Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis. These are typically known as indeterminate colitis.

Shared symptoms People with UC or Crohn’s disease can expect to encounter one or more of these symptoms: • cramps and pain • diarrhea • urgent need to visit the bathroom • diminished appetite • weight loss • fatigue • night sweats Symptoms may flare up and then go into remission. Doctors will use testing such as a colonoscopy or a CT scan to diagnose the right form of IBD. Even though there is no cure for these conditions, medication and lifestyle changes can help minimize symptoms.

The best-kept secret in pain management Continued from Page 38 Studies have shown that when a soldier undergoes a wound requiring surgery they often need far less pain medicine following the surgery then a civilian.

The explanation for this is that the soldier is told that they will be sent home and this makes them feel good and less anxious.

The civilian back at home who had a comparable wound/surgery feels more ongoing surgical pain because their circumstance following surgery may not be as good.

They may be faced with career-threat-

ening changes and so they remain both anxious and in pain.

It is true that sometimes pain medication is needed to cope with pain and sometimes tranquilizers are needed to calm the patient’s anxiety but clearly one of the most potent medications for pain is an expert diagnosis and the medical reassurance that all is well and there is nothing to worry about.

The soothing and reassuring voice of your family doctor often has the strength of morphine or oxycodone and with far fewer side effects.

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Safe ways to deal with sinus pressure S inuses are bony, hollow, air-filled cavities inside the face and skull. They are located in the low-center of the forehead, behind the eyes and in bones behind the nose.

Cedars-Sinai Medical Center says the sinuses lighten the skull and produce a mucus that moisturizes the inside of the nose. Unfortunately, when colds or the flu strike, sinuses may become one of the first spots affected by these illnesses.

When the sinuses are working properly, mucus will drain into the nasal passages or out the back of the throat.

Most of this drainage goes unnoticed. However, the American Sinus Institute says that factors such as allergies, illness, weather changes, dehydration, and dry air can make the sinus mucus thicker and drainage more difficult. This is when problems like infection, stuffiness or throat irritation may occur.

In order to combat sinus

congestion and drainage concerns, people may try certain strategies that include flushing the sinuses and thinning the mucus. It is imperative to use safe flushing methods to keep the sinuses healthy.

Neti pots are among the more popular methods to flushing sinuses. These small teapotlike devices with elongated snouts have become a fixture in many medicine cabinets.

Because they are drug-free alternatives, they can be handy for those worried about antihistamines making them drowsy or reacting with other drugs. Neti pots and other nasal irrigation systems use saline to moisten and clear out nasal passages to promote drainage of sinus cavities.

However, according to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, using these devices improperly can increase one’s risk of infection. CBS News says that neti pots have even been linked to the deadly Naegleria fowleri,

which is otherwise known as the “brain-eating” amoeba.

The key to preventing infection is to only use previously boiled, sterile or distilled water to irrigate. Tap water is not adequately filtered, says the FDA, and may contain low levels of organisms that can stay alive in nasal passages and potentially cause serious infections.

Those who are concerned about nasal irrigation safety may be wise to skip neti pots and use pre-packaged, sterile saline solutions that are bottled for the purpose of alleviating congestion. However, when prepared water is used in a clean neti pot or other device, these methods can be perfectly safe.

Sinuses can get clogged for many reasons. To free up breathing, people are urged to consult their physicians to learn more about how to safely irrigate their nasal passages.

Basis behind cognitive behavioral therapy

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epetitive behaviors, depression, anxiety, compulsions, and even phobias are just a few of the mental health issues millions of people across the globe deal with every day. Symptoms of these conditions may range from mild to debilitating.

The World Health Organization says that one in four people in the world will be affected by mental or neurological disorders in their lives. Roughly 450 million people currently suffer from such conditions, which puts mental disorders among the leading causes of ill health and disability worldwide.

Mental health is not something people may feel comfortable discussing. Problems may go untreated for years, and some individuals may use selfmedicating behaviors such as drinking alcohol or using illegal drugs to alleviate their symptoms. Others continue to persist with illnesses when they do not have to. Cognitive behavioral therapy is one of the more successful methods to address mental health issues.

The National Association of Cognitive-Behavioral Therapists defines CBT as a general term for a classification of therapies

with certain similarities. It does not exist as a distinct therapeutic technique. CBT is a short-term, goal-oriented psychotherapy treatment that takes a practical form to problem-solving, advises Psych Central. The power is in the hands of the person engaging in the therapy. The therapist simply provides the ideas to get started.

CBT is used to treat a wide range of issues, including insomnia, anxiety, depression, alcohol abuse, relationship problems, and more. The process involves changing attitudes and behavior by focusing on the thoughts, beliefs, and attitudes that influence the way a person behaves.

The Mayo Clinic says CBT talk therapy is performed in a structured setting, with a limited number of sessions. CBT identifies negative thinking so that challenging situations can be viewed more clearly and perceptions changed. While it is a tool in treating mental health disorders, anyone can benefit from CBT, especially those looking to cope with stress or other hurdles.

Cognitive behavioral therapy was developed by psychiatrist

Aaron Beck in the 1960s. Beck was doing psychoanalysis at the time and discovered there was a link between thoughts and feelings. Beck discovered people weren’t always aware of automatic thoughts that popped up in their minds, particularly those negative in nature. By identifying these thoughts, a client could overcome certain difficulties.

CBT is a balance between placing personal meaning on things and situations as well as the relationship between problems. Many therapists personalize CBT to meet the needs and personality of their patients.

Individuals who prefer a nonpharmaceutical approach to treating their mental health condition may find CBT can be helpful. Stress or uncomfortable feelings may arise, but therapists can work to avoid uncomfortable situations.

Finding a therapist with whom they feel comfortable can help people make the most of CBT. Cognitive behavioral therapy is a commonly used regimen for helping people change behavior by exploring their feelings and thoughts.

Cognitive behavioral therapy helps many people work through their thoughts and feelings to change behaviors.

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Choral society tribute to Bernstein at temple The sixth season of Stephen C. Widom Cultural Arts at Emanuel continues on Sunday, May 6 at 3:00 p.m., with A Centenary Celebration of the Music of Leonard Bernstein, performed by the Mineola Choral Society Chorus & Orchestra, Thomas W. Jones, conductor.

A musician of extraordinary gifts, Leonard Bernstein gained international fame as a conductor, composer, pianist and educator.

His compositions cover a remarkably wide range of styles and genres, from the modern complexity of his early three sympho-

nies, through two operas (“Trouble in Tahiti”! being the best known), thjazzinfluenceded dance music from “Fancy Free,” chamber music, songs, film music (On the Waterfront—nominated for an Oscar) and music theater, with the musicals “On the Town” and “Wonderful Town” (a Tony Award Winner).

The 80-voice Mineola Choral Society and 37-piece orchestra, along with a 20-voice children’s chorus from Grace Christian Academy in Merrick and soloists with boy soprano will present music from the shows “West Side Story” and “On The Town,” with selections from Mass and

Chichester Psalms.

This season, the Mineola Choral Society celebrates 70 years of presenting the highest quality choral music to Long Island communities.

Conductor Thomas W. Jones joined the society in 2006 and is also conductor of the Huntington Men’s Chorus and the Stone House Singers, a chamber choir in Park Slope, Brooklyn.

Tickets are $20 or 2@$35. For further information about subscription discounts and to purchase tickets, call (516) 482-5701.

Temple Emanuel of Great Neck is located at 150 Hicks Lane in Great Neck.

Lecture of diseases of blood at Emanuel Dr. Kanti Rai, will offer an Issues in Medicine lecture, “What Is New in Diseases of the Blood,” at Temple Emanuel of Great Neck, on Thursday,

May 3 at 7:30 p.m.

The Issues in Medicine series is part of SCW Cultural Arts at Emanuel.

Dr. Rai is currently

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Kanti Rai to offer lecture on diseases of the blood.

the Chief of the Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia Research and Treatment Program at North ShoreLIJ Cancer Institute, an Investigator at the Peter Karches Center for CLL of The Feinstein Institute for Medical Research, and Joel Finkelstein Cancer Foundation Professor of Medicine at Hofstra North Shore-LIJ School of Medicine, where he also holds the title of Professor of Molecular Medicine.

He is an international leader in the clinical evaluation and management of patients with CLL and his research in the field of CLL has pioneered contemporary approaches to this disease.

A Q&A and refreshments will follow the lecture.

Admission is free.

Call 516.482.5701 for further information.

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THE CULINARY ARCHITECT

Jazz hors d’oeuvres for spring parties Recently, Culinary Architect catered the opening of Anything Goes: The Jazz Age at The Nassau County Museum of Art in Roslyn.

This fabulous, multimedia exhibition, curated by the museum’s director, Dr. Charles Riley, highlights the art, music and literature of the Roaring Twenties.

The challenge of catering this opening was to create a display that is delicious to eat and is in keeping with The Jazz Age. The staff of Culinary Architect immediately started to polish silver to give the table an opulent feel.

We filled elegant silver bowls with endive and salmon pate, crackers and marinated mozzarella. On silver trays we presented skewered, organic cheeses and cucumber cups filled with jumbo shrimp salad.

All of these recipes have been reduced to serve 12 people instead of 250 and may easily be duplicated for home entertaining with ease. Let these delicious hors d’oeuvres be your masterpiece!

MENU (Serves 12) Endive with Salmon Pate

Shrimp in Cucumber Cups Marinated Mozzarella Organic Skewered Cheese* Assorted Crackers* *Recipe Not Given Endive with Salmon Pate 4 endives, leaves separated 4 oz. cream cheese 1 cup flaked cooked salmon 1 1/2 tsp. lemon juice 1/2 tsp. salt 1 1/2 tbsp. minced chives 1/2 tsp. freshly ground white pepper 1. In a food processor, fitted with a steel blade, pulse the cream cheese and salmon, until combined. Add the lemon juice, salt, pepper and chives, pulse again.

2. Pack the salmon into a crock. Serve with endive spears, French, Italian, pumpernickel bread or vegetables.

Shrimp in Cucumber Cups 1 lb. jumbo shrimp, cooked and peeled 2 tbsp. dill 2 tbsp. parsley 2 tbsp. tarragon 1 tbsp. lemon juice Salt, to taste 3 English cucumbers, washed

ALEXANDRA TROY The Culinary Architect

1. In a food processor, fitted with a steel blade, place all of the ingredients, except the shrimp and cucumber and combine.

2. Add shrimp, pulse to coarsely chop.

3. Make cucumber cups.

Score the cucumber with a fork.

Cut into 1 1/4” slices. With a melon baller, remove the center to make a cup. Place cucumber cup upside down on a paperlined baking sheet. (This removes any excess water.) Let drain in the refrigerator for up to 4 hours.

4. Just before serving: Fill cups with shrimp salad. Place on silver tray.

Marinated Mozzarella 2 16 oz. container of freshly made organic Bocconcini, drained 1/4 cup best quality extra virgin olive oil 3 tbsp. Herbs de Provence 1. Place all of the ingredients in a covered plastic container.

Shake. Let marinate for a minimum of 4 hours and up to 24.

2. To serve, place in a crock and put pretty toothpicks or skewers in a glass, so that people may help themselves.

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Alexandra Troy is owner of Culinary Architect Catering, a 35-year-old, Greenvale-based company, specializing in private, corporate and promotional parties.

Bumpcasso art 4th annual L.I. LitFest at Yes We Can kicks off in Huntington The Town of North Hempstead Supervisor Judi Bosworth has announced that the President Barack Obama Series by the worldrenowned artist Bumpcasso will be on display at the gallery at the North Hempstead “Yes We Can” Community Center in Westbury.

The reception for this art exhibit will take place on Saturday, April 28 from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m.

Bumpcasso is a painter from Atlanta, Ga. who has been commissioned and painted famous subjects around the country.

He is well known for his Michael Jackson and Barack Obama collections, among many others.

Bumpcasso has parlayed that artistic genius into a vast array of paintings that showcase his tech-

nical mastery of diverse mediums.

He creates on canvas, utilizing oils, watercolors, clay and wood.

Bumpcasso’s experience and persistence as an artist have led to commissioned works for wall murals, portraits, and abstracts. On display at “Yes We Can” is the President Barack Obama Series which includes 11 paintings depicting the presidency of Barack Obama.

The reception is open to the public and light refreshments will be served.

The art will be on display in the gallery for the month of May. For hours of operations and for more information, please visit www.northhempsteadny. gov or call 311 or (516) 869-6311.

Word Up: Long Island LitFest is entering its fourth year with a new hosting venue, Cinema Arts Centre in Huntington, and a new roster of bestselling authors, including Meg Wolitzer, former Rep. Steve Israel, Alan Zweibel"(back by popular demand for the fourth year in a row),"Annabelle Gurwitch, husband and wife team,"David Denby and Susan Rieger" in conversation, and Long Islanders" Tom Clavin" and" Alyson Richman."

“We are delighted to welcome one of Long Island’s premier cultural events, Long Island LitFest, to the Cinema Arts Centre,” says Dylan Skolnick, Cinema Arts Centre co-director." " “Claudia Copquin and LitFest have been great partners with us on numerous events, and it’s great that we are now working together on LitFest’s beloved annual celebration of

which begin at 11 a.m. and 1 p.m."

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Arts & Entertainment Calendar NYCB THEATRE AT WESTBURY 960 Brush Hollow Road, Westbury (516) 247-5205 • www.thetheatreatwestbury. com Saturday, April 28, 8:00 p.m.

Buddy Guy Sunday, April 29, 3:00 p.m.

Dick Fox’s Spring Doo Wop Extravaganza Wednesday, May 2, 8:00 p.m.

Always & Forever: An Evening with Luther VanDross Starring Ruben Studderd Thursday, May 3, 8:00 p.m.

ABBA The Concert THE PARAMOUNT 370 New York Ave., Huntington (631) 673-7300 • www.paramountny.com Friday, April 27, 8:00 p.m.

Dweezil Zappa Tuesday, May 1, 8:00 p.m.

Todd Rundgren’s Utopia Wednesday, May 2, 8:00 p.m.

An Evening with... ThePianoGuys Thursday, May 3, 8:00 p.m.

Night Ranger — 35th Anniversary THE SPACE AT WESTBURY 250 Post Ave., Westbury (516) 283-5566 • www.thespaceatwestbury. com Friday, April 27, 8:00 p.m.

Steel Panther NYCB LIVE, NASSAU VETERANS MEMORIAL COLISEUM 1255 Hempstead Turnpike, Uniondale (516) 794-9300 • www.nycblive.com Thursday, April 26 through Sunday, April 29 at various times Longines Masters of New York TILLES CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS 720 Northern Blvd., Brookville (516) 299-3100 • www.tillescenter.org Friday, April 27, 8:00 p.m.

New York Philharmonic Saturday, April 28 at 7:30 and 9:30 p.m.

Spider Saloff in Irving Berlin: The American Dream Sunday, April 29, 2:00 p.m.

Martha Graham Dance Company Thursday, May 3, at 7:30 p.m.

Criss Angel RAW — The Mindfreak Unplugged LANDMARK ON MAIN STREET 232 Main St., Port Washington (516) 767-1384 • www.landmarkonmainstreet. com Friday, April 27, 8:00 p.m.

Janeane Garofalo Saturday, April 28, 7:30 p.m.

Endless Summer Live! A Tribute to the Beach Boys Sunday, April 29, 3:00 p.m.

ABBA Live! A Tribute to ABBA GOLD COAST ARTS CENTER 113 Middle Neck Road, Great Neck (516) 829-2570 • www.goldcoastarts.org Through May 11 Festival of the Arts Student Art Show NASSAU COUNTY MUSEUM OF ART 1 Museum Drive, Roslyn Harbor

(516) 484-9338 • www.nassaumuseum.org Friday, April 27, 9:30 a.m.

Fri-Yay Art Days! at The Manes Center Saturday, April 28, 11:00 a.m.

Studio Saturdays at The Manes Center Sunday, April 29, 1:00 p.m.

Family Sundays at the Museum SANDS POINT PRESERVE CONSERVANCY Hempstead House, 127 Middle Neck Road, Sands Point (516) 571-7901 • www.sandspointpreserve. org Saturday, April 28, 7:00 p.m.

The Butterfly Ball Sunday, April 29, 2 to 4:00 p.m.

Family Butterfly Day LONG ISLAND CHILDREN’S MUSEUM 11 Davis Ave., Garden City (516) 224-5800 • www.licm.org Friday, April 20, 11:30 a.m. to 12 p.m.

Kids in the Kitchen: Mini Spaghetti Pie For children ages 3 to 5. Fee: $5 with museum admission ($4 LICM members) Sunday, April 29, 2:00 p.m.

Cherry Blossom Trees Ages 5 and up will make Cherry Blossom branches using tissue paper and natural materials. Fee: $4 with museum admission ($3 LICM members).

BARNES AND NOBLE 1542 Northern Blvd., Manhasset (516) 365-6723 • www.barnesandnoble.com Saturday, April 28, 11:00 a.m.

“Scientist, Scientist, What Do You See?” Story Time Same date and time at the Carle Place store, 91 Old Country Road.

BOOK REVUE 313 New York Ave., Huntington (631) 271-1442 • www.bookrevue.com Saturday, April 28 Independent Bookstore Day Tuesday, May 1, 7:00 p.m.

Author Maureen Calamia, “Creating Luminous Spaces” CINEMA ARTS CENTRE 423 Park Ave., Huntington (631) 423-7611 • www.cinemaartscentre.org Saturday, April 28, 12:00 p.m.

Film Screening: “Giselle: The Royal Ballet” Sunday, April 29, 10:00 a.m.

Word Up! Long Island LitFest Wednesday, May 2, 5:00 p.m.

Photography Art Silent Auction to Benefit The Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center MADISON THEATRE AT MOLLOY COLLEGE 1000 Hempstead Ave., Rockville Centre (516) 323-4444 • www.madisontheatreny. com Saturday, April 28 at 11:15 a.m., 2:15 and 5:15 p.m.

A Dream is a Wish: Princess Tea & Concert ADELPHI UNIVERSITY PERFORMING ARTS CENTER 1 South Ave., Garden City (516) 877-4000 • www.aupac.adelphi.edu Friday, April 27, 7:30 p.m.

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A&E Calendar cont’d Sunday, April 29, 4:00 p.m.

Adelphi Chorale and Adelphi Vocal Ensemble THE DOLPHIN BOOKSHOP & CAFE 299 Main St., Port Washington (516) 767-2650 • www.thedolphinbookshop. com Sunday, April 29, 1:30 to 3:30 p.m.

Youth for Youth Concert PLANTING FIELDS ARBORETUM 1395 Planting Fields Road, Oyster Bay (516) 922-8678 • www.plantingfields.org Saturday, April 28 and Sunday, April 29, 11:00

a.m. to 4:00 p.m.

Arbor Day Family Festival TURN OF THE CORKSCREW BOOKS AND WINE 110 N. Park Ave., Rockville Centre (516) 764-6000 • www.turnofthecorkscrew. com Monday, April 30 at 12:00 p.m. through Sunday, May 6 at 9:00 p.m.

Children’s Book Week COLD SPRING HARBOR FISH HATCHERY & AQUARIUM 1660 Rte. 25A, Cold Spring Harbor

(516) 692-6768 • www.cshfishhatchery.org Saturday, April 28, 10:00 a.m.

Spring Festival THE WHALING MUSEUM & EDUCATION CENTER 279 Main St., Cold Spring Harbor (631) 367-3418 • www.cshwhalingmuseum. org Thursday, May 3, 9:30 to 10:30 a.m.

Little Fishies: Whale of a Mom Children ages 2 to 4 will create a card for their maritime mom. $12 for adult/child pair; $4 per additional sibling.

HOLOCAUST MUSEUM & TOLERANCE CENTER OF NASSAU COUNTY 100 Crescent Beach Road, Glen Cove (516) 571-8040 • www.hmtcli.org Sunday, April 29, 2:00 p.m.

Unknown Heroes: Chinese Rescuers During the Holocaust and a Special Exhibit: “The Wings of the Phoenix” BJ SPOKE GALLERY 299 Main St., Huntington (631) 549-5106 • www.bjspokegallery.org Saturday, April 28, 1 to 4:00 p.m.

Tri Jewelry Designer Trunk Show and Sale

Community Calendar UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST CONGREGATION AT SHELTER ROCK 48 Shelter Rock Road, Manhasset (516) 627-6560 • www.uucsr.org Friday, April 27, 10:15 a.m.

Tai Chi and Qi Gong Wednesday, May 3, 7:30 to 9:00 p.m.

Inisfada Zen Meditation NOTRE DAME SCHOOL “TOGETHER WE SHINE” 18TH ANNUAL GOODS AND SERVICES AUCTION AND DINNER Friday, April 27, 7:00 p.m.

At Verdi’s of Westbury, 680 Old Country Road, Westbury Dinner is included in the ticket price, along with raffles and a silent auction.

Tickets not sold at the door. If you are interested in attending, email: ndsauction2015@gmail.com RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE OF LONG ISLAND WALK OF LOVE: 5K RUN & WALK: PRESENTING SPONSOR WALGREENS Saturday, April 28, 8:00 a.m. to 1 p.m.

At Ronald McDonald House of Long Island, 267-07 76th Ave., New Hyde Park All proceeds will benefit the programs and services RMH-LI and the Ronald McDonald Family Room at Stony Brook Children’s Hospital provide for families of seriously ill children. $25 pre-registration ($15 children 12

and under); $30 day-of registration ($20 children) For more information and to register, call 516-775-5683 x129 or email: evollmer@ rmhlongisland.org.

SID JACOBSON JCC 300 Forest Drive, Greenvale (516) 484-1545 • www.sjjcc.org Saturday, April 28, 10:30 a.m.

Tzedakah Sprouts: For children ages 2 to 5.

Ages 21+ years. Celebrate like you are in Israel with food, open bar and a DJ. $55 per person; $70 at the door.

SANGRIA & SONG AT TEMPLE CHAVERIM Saturday, April 28, 8:00 p.m.

At Temple Chaverim, 1050 Washington Ave., Plainview This event honors Rabbi Jonathan Hecht for 25 years of service.

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LIU Post’s forgotten campus arboretum

BY A S H L E Y B OW D E N A walk around the LIU Post campus in Brookville during the autumn or spring will showcase the colorful foliage of the numerous trees that decorate over 307 acres.

A closer look at certain tree trunks will reveal labeled plaques with the common and scientific names of trees and the region they naturally grow in. These are all part of what was once known as the Community Arboretum.

The arboretum was coordinated by Vincent Simeone (LIU Post ‘03) as part of his thesis project.

Simeone worked with ground staff to identify and properly label each plant.

He also helped design and produce a brochure and walking tour map that is no longer available to students.

“I saw the little notes describing what the trees were, but I didn’t know it was a tour or anything,” Nikolas Kahl, a current LIU Post sophomore art education major, said. “I don’t think we’re losing anything [by not being told about it], but it’s nice to walk around and just happen upon them.”

Now, the arboretum consists of about 40 acres of labeled trees with over 70 different native and exotic species.

“We focused on original[ly] restoring trees that were part of the estate, and some of the more unusual trees along the walk that highlight them,” Simeone said.

Many of the trees hold horticultural or historical value, such as a 100-foot tulip tree, an 80-year-old American elm and a weeping elm planted in the 1920’s.

All three of these trees stand around the campus admissions building.

“Tree Talk” was the name of a newsletter published about the arboretum each semester until the winter of 2013.

It featured the newest additions to the arboretum and other environmental and horticultural news relative to the campus.

“Tree Talk was a really excellent tool to be able to publicize sustainability issues. We lost something valuable when the university discontinued that,” Scott Carlin, an LIU Post associate professor of earth and environmental science, said.

Though new trees and flowerbeds are planted every so often, students rarely take notice that the campus even has an arboretum. Approximately 50,000 bulbs were planted in the central arboretum area by Case Joosse, head groundskeeper. “I feel like it does go really unnoticed, but now that I know about that, I have a lot more respect for the entire thing,” Argyro Papathanasiou, a freshman fine arts major, said.

The arboretum contributes to campus sustainability and serves to help students connect to the natural world, according to Professor Carlin. “Trees are an incredible testament to how we as humans relate to the natural world; they are so essential to our health,” he said. “They filter water through the roots in the soil and produce oxygen; they’re incredibly important for purifying the world.”

The arboretum is no longer advertised as a guided tour, but it is maintained regularly for the benefit of students, faculty and staff.

“It’s really a wonderful thing to have because people have come to this campus for years and said how beautifully natural the whole scene is,” Kay Sato, director of the LIU Post Hutton House Lectures, said. “New York City is [close], but . . . you’ve got this wild landscape you can’t find anywhere.”

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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Community Calendar cont’d Continued from Page 57 NORTHWELL HEALTH (516) 881-7000 • www.northwell.edu Sunday, April 29, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Preparation for Childbirth Class at North Shore University Hospital, 300 Community Drive, Manhasset This class should be completed 3-4 weeks prior to your estimated delivery date.

Bring a snack and beverage.

Must be pre-registered. Go to eventbrite. com.

SINGLES ASSOCIATION OF LONG ISLAND Sunday, April 29, 7:00 p.m.

Bowling at Herrill Lanes, 465 Herricks Road, Garden City Park Bowling events are held the last Sunday of the month.

For more information, call 516-741-8022.

SOCCER FOR THE COMMUNITY: YOUTH SOCCER CLINIC At Michael J. Tully Park, 1801 Evergreen Ave., New Hyde Park (516) 869-6311 • www.soccerforthecommunity.com Tuesday, May 1, 5:00 p.m.

Six-week Course: Every Tuesday beginning March 20 through May 1.

Friday, May 4, 5:00 p.m.

Six-week Course: Every Friday beginning March 23 through May 4.

GAME ON TRIVIA Tuesday, May 1, 7:30 p.m.

At Olde Trading Post, 1218 Jericho Turnpike, New Hyde Park (516) 492-3195 • www.oldetradingpost. com Every Tuesday night.

NYU WINTHROP HOSPITAL (866) 946-8476 OR (516) 663-8300 • www.winthrop.org Thursday, May 3, 7:00 p.m.

Senior Scams: What Seniors & Their Families Need to Know At NYU Winthrop Research & Academic Center, 101 Mineola Blvd. at the corner of 2nd St., Mineola Admission is free, but seating is limited.

To register, call 1-866-946-8476.

Thursday, May 3, 10, 17 and 24, 5:45 to 7:30 p.m.

Free Tobacco Cessation Program At NYU Winthrop Research & Academic Center, 101 Mineola Blvd. at the corner of 2nd St., Mineola Admission is free, but seating is limited.

To register, call 1-866-946-8476.

Tiffany art exhibit on display at Heckscher The Heckscher Museum of Art recently launched a new exhibit,"The Age of Tiffany: Between Nouveau and Deco, which will be on display through Sunday, July 22.

The years preceding and following the turn of the 20th century witnessed a revolution in the

decorative arts in America.

In an era when many traditionally trained painters and sculptors collaborated on decorative schemes for grand public buildings, other artists created functional objects for the home that were notable for their aesthetic appeal.

Louis Comfort Tiffany

was the central figure in this movement. Renowned for the ground-breaking glass processes he developed, Tiffany produced countless decorative windows, stained glass lamps, and opalescent and favrile glass vases and bowls.

This exhibition places Tiffany within the context of other decorative art from the museum’s permanent collection, including garden sculpture by Frederic MacMonnies and Edward Berge, a decorative panel by Charles Prendergast, a rare tapestry by Arthur B. Davies, and a modernist rug by Bertram Hartman. The installation also features work by Enid Bell, Max Kuehne, Paul Manship, Hunt Diederich, and Henry Varnum Poor, among others.

To view the new exhibit, head to the Heckscher Museum of Art, located at 2 Prime Ave. in Huntington. For more information about this and other exhibitions and events, go to www.heckscher.org.

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Kaplansky headliner Adelphi chorale, vocal at Folk Music Society Ensemble on April 29 Lucy Kaplansky will be the featured artist during the Folk Music Society of Huntington’s monthly First Saturday Concerts series on May 5. The 8:30 p.m. concert at the Congregational Church of Huntington (30 Washington Drive, off Route 25A, in Centerport) will be preceded by an open mic at 7:30 p.m.

Hailed as “the songwriter laureate of modern city folk” (The Boston Globe), Kaplansky is a New York City-based contemporary folk singer-songwriter whose recordings have frequently topped the folk and Americana radio charts.

“Lucy has been a favorite of FMSH and Long Island audiences for years, and we’re delighted to welcome her back as the Folk Music Society of Huntington celebrates its 50th anniversary,” said Michael Kornfeld, president of the volunteer-run nonprofit organization’s board of directors.

A Chicago native, Kaplansky began singing in bars while still a teenager — even traveling to Norway to perform as a country singer. After high school, she headed to New York City, where she immersed herself in the then-flourishing Greenwich Village folk scene of

the 1980s before opting to pursue a doctorate in psychology and start a private practice.

Shawn Colvin, her frequent duo partner during the ’80s, and on whose Grammy Award-winning album, Steady On, she harmonized, lured Kaplansky back into music and produced her debut album, The Tide (1994).

Two of Kaplansky’s subsequent recordings — Ten Year Night and Every Single Day" — were cited as Best Pop Album of the Year by the Association for Independent Music.

In 1998, Kaplansky teamed up with Richard Shindell and Dar Williams to form the folk supergroup Cry Cry Cry. The trio embarked on a national tour of sold-out concerts in support of its critically acclaimed and commercially successful self-titled album and recently regrouped for

a series of concert and festival gigs. She and Shindell also reunited a few years ago to record and perform as The Pine Hill Project. Kaplansky also has toured and recorded an album as part of Red Horse with Eliza Gilkyson and John Gorka.

An in-demand harmony singer, Kaplansky may be heard on albums by such artists as Bryan Ferry, Nanci Griffith and Suzanne Vega, while her luminous voice has been featured in films and on television. She also sings on tribute albums to Greg Brown and Bob Dylan.

Tickets, priced at $25 ($20 for FMSH members), may be purchased in advance online at www. fmsh.org, using a credit card, or at the door (cash and checks only). For more information, visit the website or call (631) 4252925.

Light rock show to play The Paramount May 4 The" Yacht" Rock" Revue, “the Greatest Show on Surf,” will come to The Paramount on Friday, May 4 at 8 p.m.

Considered by many to be one of the finest tributes to 70s-era light rock, the show features" spot-on renditions of the music of Hall & Oates, Michael McDonald, Steely Dan, and many more performers who enthralled fans during this decade.

It’s no surprise that the" Yacht" Rock" Revue has taken their show on the high seas, performing showcase sets on music cruises with fellow headliners Weezer, Kid"Rock, Train, Zac Brown Band, Sister Hazel, and fitness guru Jillian Michaels."

To purchase tickets to the upcoming concert, go to www. paramountny.com.

The Paramount is located at 370 New York Ave. in Huntington.

The Adelphi choral ensembles celebrate the tenth anniversary of the Adelphi University Performing Arts Center with a beautiful concert under the baton of Karen Faust Baer.

The Adelphi Chorale and the Adelphi Vocal Ensemble will perform on Sunday, April 29 at 4:00 p.m. on the Westermann Stage, Concert Hall in the Adelphi PAC at 1 South Ave. in Garden City.

In the first half of the concert, the Adelphi Vocal Ensemble performs

a selection of madrigals as well as the Billy Joel classic “And So It Goes.”

Then, the Adelphi Chorale performs Vivaldi’s Gloria in an arrangement by Clayton Westermann, a former Adelphi adjunct professor for whom the Westermann Stage is named.

Enjoying a diverse career in solo performance, conducting, accompanying and pedagogy, pianist Karen Faust Baer maintains a vital musical presence.

Presently, she is the conductor of the Adelphi

choral ensembles and teaches in Adelphi’s Department of Music Education.

Baer has been heard in recital at Lincoln Center, Town Hall, BAM, Israeli Cultural Foundation, the Tanglewood Music Institute, Princeton, college campuses and WQXR and WNYC radio stations.

In recent years, Baer has appeared as piano soloist with the South Shore Symphony performing works by Beethoven, Gershwin and Chopin

Walt Bogdanich to speak at Reach Out America Three-time Pulitzer prizewinner Walt Bogdanich may be America’s best investigative journalist.

His keen abilities to find a story, follow it with deep dive detective work and turn it into elegant, page turning prose have consistently characterized his over 40-year career at The Wall Street Journal, 60 Minutes, ABC News and the New York Times.

For risky reporting on medical malfeasance, tobacco industry cover-ups, scandal on railroad tracks and racetracks and so much more, he has been recognized by every award-granting body in journalism.

Right now investigative reporting is front and center, driving politics, policy and contentious debate; it couldn’t be a better time to hear from a master of the form.

Wednesday, May 9 at 12:30 p.m., Veatch House, Unitarian Universalist Congregation, 48 Shelter Rock Road, Manhasset.

Admission is free, refreshments are provided, all are welcome.

Coming up: In June: our paid-up membership luncheon. For more check out our website: www.reachoutamerica.com. (Questions?

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MINDFULNESS BASED STRESS REDUCTION Tuesday, May 1, 1:30 p.m.

According to the American Psychological Association, 72% of U.S. adults surveyed responded that their stress level has increased or stayed the same over the past five years and 66% believe their stress has impacted on their physical health. While it is not always possible to eliminate the sources of stress in our lives, it may be possible to learn better ways to deal with life’s stressors so that they don’t have such a strong negative impact on our health. One technique that is used to help train the mind to better control its approach to stress is Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction. Mindfulness is the practice

of moment to moment awareness, by purposely focusing one’s attention on the present moment without any pre-conceived expectation or judgement.

SENIOR RAP GROUP Monday, May 7, 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.

This group discussion is led by longtiime group member David Marx.

CANASTA Monday, May 7, 1:30 p.m. A nurse from St. Francis Hospital will be conducting free blood pressure screenings on the fourth Tuesday of each month. No registration required. Participation will be on a first-come, first-served basis.

Great Neck Library The Great Neck Library Station Branch is located at 26 Great Neck Road (2nd level) in the Gardens at Great Neck Plaza.

The Lakeville Branch is located at 475 Great Neck Road. The Parkville Branch is located at 10 Campbell St. in New Hyde Park. Following is a sampling of upcoming events. For a complete listing, go to www. greatnecklibrary.org.

THURSDAY FILM ENCORE THE STATION BRANCH The Thursday film at the Station Branch is an encore of the film shown on Wednesday at Main. Refer to the Librarywebsite for information on the films scheduled. Bring your library card, driver’s license or other ID show-

ing your Great Neck School District address.

SCRABBLE AT STATION Enjoy a game of Scrabble on Wednesdays from 1 to 4 p.m.

ADULT COLORING AT LAKEVILLE Fridays from 1 to 2 p.m.

PROJECT INDEPENDENCE AT PARKVILLE Social Discussion Group on Thursdays, 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. and Men’s Group on Fridays, 10:30 to 11:30 a.m.

GREAT NECK LIBRARY CLOSING/CANCELLATION INFORMATION ONLINE Library patrons connected to the Internet are asked to

check the website: www. cancellations.com for Library weather related closings/program cancellations.

In order to access this service, Library District residents can log on to cancellations.com, type in their zip code or Great Neck Library and obtain information on program cancellations or Library closings. In addition, at no charge, residents can request automatic e-mails from cancellations.com when the Library has posted any information. This is a great way for Library District residents who are connected online to be advised of weather related changes in Library hours or programs.

Hillside Library The Hillside Public Library is located at 155 Lakeville Road in New Hyde Park. Following is a sampling of upcoming events. For a complete listing or to register for programs, go to www.hillsidelibrary.info/ events. You will need to have your library barcode number for registration. The library collects used cell phones (with their chargers) and reading glasses. The donation boxes are on the first floor.

MOVIE: “PHANTOM THREAD” Friday, Apr. 27, 1:30 p.m.

Drama/Romance. Rated R. Starring Daniel Day-Lewis and Lesely Manville. A tailor finds his meticlous professional life upended after he falls for a working-class woman.

TALES FOR TYKES Thursday, May 3, 10, 17, 31,

Community Calendar THE INCORPORATED VILLAGE OF NEW HYDE PARK VILLAGE Board meetings are open to the public and take place on the first and third Tuesdays of the month at Village Hall, located at 1420 Jericho Turnpike at New Hyde Park Road.

For more information on the topics covered at each meeting or for any issues related to the Village of New Hyde Park, call 516-354-0022 or go to www.vnhp.org.

NEW HYDE PARK SENIOR CITIZENS’ GROUPS/MEETINGS Extra Years of Zest Club meets the first and third Mondays of the month, 10:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m., at First Reformed Church, Jericho Turnpike and Herkomer St. in New Hyde Park; New Hyde Park Senior Citizens, Inc. (516-869-6311) meets Tuesdays and Thursdays, 10 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., at Clinton G. Martin Park, Marcus Ave. and New Hyde Park Road; Notre Dame Golden Age Guild (516-352-7203) meets Wednesdays (except in July and Aug.), 1:15 to 3:30 p.m., at Notre Dame R.C. Church, Mayfair Road and New Hyde Park Road; New Hyde Park Senior Chorus (516775-8118) meets Mondays, 12:30 to 2:30 p.m., at Clinton G. Martin Park, Marcus Ave. and New Hyde Park Road. For more information on these and other senior groups, call the Town of North Hempstead at 311 or 516-869-6311 or go to www.northhempsteadny.gov.

NEW HYDE PARK KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS Meeting location: Holy Spirit Church, Martin Hall, South Sixth St. in New Hyde Park (516-352-2852).

Business meetings are on the second Tuesday of the month at 8 p.m.; NHP Charity Foundation meetings are on the third Tuesday of the month at 8 p.m.; open meetings are on the fourth Tuesday of the month at 8 p.m.; and senior club meetings are on the first and third Wednesdays of the month, 11 a.m., at Michael J. Tully Park.

COMMUNITY VOLUNTEERS FOR EDUCATION

June 7 and 14. Story time fun for children ages 3 to 4 years old. Must be pre-registered.

AARP LONG ISLAND SEEKING NEW VOLUNTEERS Thursday, May 17, 12:00 p.m.

AARP Long Island always welcomes new volunteers to help conduct programs and events that benefit the 50+ and general community. If you are interested in helping to distribute information that is useful and vital to the quality of life for

LI Seniors, as well as assisting with local events like food drives, beautification efforts, free document shredding days and, much more, please attend the next informational meeting for more details without any obligation. As a volunteer, you can pick the activities you wish to participate in and determine how much time and effort you are able to provide. It’s a great way to give something back and meet great people at the same time.

If you would like volunteer in the New Hyde Park-Garden City Park School District, call Eileen Bileski at 516-434-2306. You will assist students under the supervision of a classroom teacher. There is no prior experience necessary to participate in the program.

FREE EXERCISE CLASSES Ongoing Program — Free Silver Sneakers exercise classes for those 65 and older at all levels on balance, agility, strengthening, endurance and osteoporosis for eligible seniors on Monday through Saturday. Locations are in Garden City Park, Lake Success and Floral Park. For more details, including seeing if you are eligible and class times, go to www.toolsatsilversneakers.com or call (516) 745-8050.

AARP DEFENSIVE DRIVING COURSES AT CLINTON G. MARTIN PARK FOR 2018 The classes, open to drivers age 50 and older, will be held on Feb. 10, March 3, April 7, May 12 and June 9.

The cost is $20 for members and $25 for non-members. To register, make your check payable to AARP. Be sure that your check contains your name, address, phone number and the date of the class you wish to attend. 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.

Floral Park Library 17 Caroline Place, Floral Park 516-326-6330 www. floralparklibrary.org MADE WITH LOVE KNITTING GROUP Monday, Apr. 30, 7:00 p.m. Wednesday, May 2, 11:00 a.m. Whether you’re a beginner, an expert, or somewhere

in between, Made with Love knitting and crocheting group welcomes all to their weekly evening group.

No sign-up required.

FRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY BOOK CLUB Monday, May 7, 10:30 a.m. The Friends of the Library book club will

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by Margaret Gargiulo.

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“We are taking appropriate action to ensure the safety and security of our officers and medics,”" Nassau Police Commissioner Patrick Ryder said.

A person described as a “credible news source” warned the department that the gang is looking to shoot an officer on Long Island, according to News 12.

A man named Christian reportedly told the informant that the gang is looking to retaliate for the arrest of several members and take back the streets. He also said that any member of the gang could carry out the attack.

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Ryder said that there were no specific officers being targeted, according to Newsday.

The Nassau County Police Department has increased patrols and several organizations, including Nassau’s Police Benevolent Association, have offered thousands of dollars in rewards for information about the gang.

“As we investigate the circumstances surrounding this threat, residents are encouraged to call 911 immediately if they see or hear anything suspicious regarding any threats,” Ryder said.

Nassau County Executive Laura Curran pledged her full support for the department.

“We stand behind our men and women of the Nassau County Police Department,” she said in a statement. “We will not tolerate a threat on our police officers or residents and will do whatever it takes to keep Nassau County safe.”

The MS-13 gang is active in several parts of the United States, according to the FBI, including Los Angeles and the mid-Atlantic area. Many of the gang members come from Central America, particularly El Salvador.

The gang has been blamed for several gruesome murders on Long Island. Earlier this year, 17 alleged members and associates of MS-13 were indicted on charges of murder, conspiracy to commit murder and drug trafficking in Nassau County and across several states.

County adopts sexual harassment policies

BY LU K E TOR R A N C E The Nassau County Legislature voted unanimously to strengthen sexual harassment policies on Monday.

“Any step that we can take to make people feel comfortable at work is a good one,” said Legislator Delia DeRiggi-Whitton (D-Glen Cove).

Under the new policy, the county’s"Office of Equal Employment Opportunity must disclose violations of the county’s sexual harassment policy that lead to discipline to the county attorney"and the Legislature’s presiding officer and minority leader within 30 days of an incident.

Any settlements must be disclosed to legislative leaders. County officials have 30 days to distribute the new harassment

policy to all county employees, who will have to complete an online tutorial.

The bill was proposed by Legislator Arnold Drucker (D-Plainview) in February.

“It sends a good message to all the employees,” DeRiggi-Whitton said. “The work"was done on both sides and it was nice to work in unison.”

Every legislator voted in favor of the bill, although" Minority Leader Kevan Abrahams (D-Freeport) was absent.

“It’s incredibly timely legislation,” said Legislator Josh Lafazan (I-Syosset).

“Around the country,"elected officials have not behaved to a standard that is acceptable for public office. I think this moves us in the right direction.”

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The official, John Maguire, said Mangano’s former assistant Laura Munafo told him “who the [expletive] are you to pick a caterer?” according to Newsday.

Maguire said he believed Munafo was speaking for Mangano.

Maguire’s testimony was part of the ongoing trial of Mangano, Mangano’s wife, Linda, and former Town of Oyster Bay Supervisor John Venditto at a federal court in Central Islip.

Mangano and Venditto are charged with conspiracy to commit federal program bribery and honest services wire fraud. Mangano was additionally charged with extortion and Venditto with securities fraud.

Linda Mangano is charged with conspiracy to obstruct justice, making false statements to the FBI and obstruction of justice. All three have pleaded not guilty.

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For many of the student winners of the “Not in Our Town” photo contest, cosponsored by the Town of North Hempstead and Long Island Press, getting a good photo was personal.

Just ask Great Neck South High School student Hannah Pei, a sports photographer who captured an image of women – one of them being a friend – of different races reaching for the same basketball. On it were also black and red boxes that declared, “We rise together, not alone.”

Pei, a member of the school’s photography club who said she was once “bullied a lot” for not being a “girly girl,” said she chose to make the photo black and white to give it a more serious tone.

“The reason was to create a deeper meaning to show that this is a very serious issue, that bullying is one of the biggest problems in society today,” Pei said.

As for the composition of the shot, which won second place in the 10th to 12th grade division, Pei said it was to showcase the power of unity.

“They’re reaching for the same goal,” Pei explained. “They both want to do it together instead of by themselves.”

The “Not in Our Town” photo contest invited elementary, middle and high school students to capture images addressing bullying and how they stand up to it. All 12 contest winners were from the North Shore, residing in places like Albertson, Mineola, Port Washington and Great Neck.

The Town of North Hempstead joined the “Not in My Town” movement, an antihate initiative aiming to prevent and fight back against incidents of hate, bigotry and intolerance, in 2017.

In the kindergarten to sixth-grade category, Brayden Barthelemy’s photo of children standing arm and arm to support a fellow student at the Meadow Drive

School in Albertson won first place.

The second-place photo, submitted by Eli Sevanayev, featured a diverse group of students in Mrs. Pearsall’s class gathered in the Meadow Drive School, with an image of “Be a Buddy, Not a Bully,” projected onto a smart board.

Third place went to Matthew Durham, Erin Gayson, William Raia and Estefany Aguilar," students at the Hampton Street School in Mineola, whose photo shows a boy with his hand raised stood between two students armed with snowballs and a crying student.

Leah Heimowitz, of the Saddle Rock School in Great Neck, got an honorable mention for a collage of photos showing a student comforting another covered in sticky notes, protecting her with other students and calling on people to “stop bullying.”

Eliana Wong of Great Neck South High School won first place in the grades 7 through 9 category, where two hands – one in black and white – formed a heart.

Lower-cased text also read, “love no hate.”

Ryan Kim, also from Great Neck South High School, took home second place for his" largely black and white photo featuring a student writing down words like “stress,” “bullies,” and “despair.” The one colored portion of the photo comes with the words “Love” and “unity,” encased in a red heart.

“There’s a lot of negativity in the words you can see and there’s one person writing positive messages,” Kim said. “[It shows] how that can change the mood of a photo.”

Third place went to Christopher Gee of Great Neck South High School, whose photo says “bullying stops,” while Sheryl Huang, also of Great Neck South, got an honorable mention for photographing a sketch of two hands which features the phrase, “Strength in unity.”

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Photos fighting bullying Continued from Page 66 Jenna Franklin and Shelley Phillipson of Schreiber High School in Port Washington secured first place in the grades 10 through 12 division. In their photo, a girl tries to protect herself from a person, withcapitalized words enclosed in a black silhouette over them.

“Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will always hurt me,” the photo says.

In second place was Pei of Great Neck South High School.

Daniella Erfanian, of Great Neck North High School, won third place for her photo of two hands clasped together. “You are” and “not alone” are written on the respective arms, with the back of one’s hand putting “bullying” inside a “no” symbol.

Erfanian said she never entered a photo contest before, but she said she thought this contest was a “good idea” with a good cause of trying to encourage people to get help and combat bullying.

“They shouldn’t refrain from getting help because getting help is the only thing that will make it better,” Erfanian said.

Ryan Chen, of Great Neck South High School, got an honorable mention for a photo of his friend rolling her head back super-imposed with a flock of birds flying free.

“Basically, I was trying to do something that was different from everyone else, because everyone else was doing, ‘don’t bully me,’” Chen said. “I wanted to do more of an ‘I’m stronger than you’ kind of thing.”

The student winners and participants will be honored at an awards ceremony on May 8 at Clinton G. Martin Park.

“The most successful Not in Our Town communities engage young people as leaders in their efforts to stop bullying, hate and intolerance, so it is exciting to see this diverse group of student photographers sharing their vision with the North Hempstead community,” said Patrice O’Neill, the founder and CEO of Not in Our Town.

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Clark Garden spring festival

D’Urso speaks on Yom Ha’shoah State Assemblyman Anthony D’Urso got a chance to talk about his experiences growing up in Formia, Italy during WWII at the Yom Ha’Shoah Holocaust Remembrance held at the Nassau County Legislative Building.

He has told his story to many school-aged children so that they get a sense of history from that time by someone who has been there so events will not be forgotten. This time his audience was a room full of adults.

As a small boy, D’Urso was tasked with playing outside and calling out to his mother, in Ital-

ian, whenever he saw German soldiers approaching. With his help, his family was able to save the lives of a large extended Jewish family (Sinigallia) in his hometown on the Mediterranean coast. A few months ago Tony made a trip to Italy to reunite with the descendants of the family his family saved.

“This story and stories of other survivors need to be told and retold,” D’Urso said. “We must not forget our history and we must pass our stories on to future generations so that nothing is forgotten.”

PHOTO COURTESY OF THE TOWN OF NORTH HEMPSTEAD

Fairies from the National Circus Project at the Clark Garden Spring Festival pose with local officials.

Town of North Hempstead Supervisor Judi Bosworth and the Town Board will be welcoming spring with the Third Annual Clark Botanic Garden Spring Festival on Saturday, May 5 from 12 p.m. to 5 p.m. at Clark Botanic Garden in Albertson.

The Spring Festival will celebrate spring and the beauty of nature at the bountiful Clark Botanic Garden. The day-long event will feature: • Fairies on stilts from the National Circus Project, an organization that aims to encourage children to learn and

have fun at the same time.

• A craft tent run by The Little Art Studio • An exotic reptile show by My Reptile Guys • Live musical performances by Tiger Folk Music • Activities with Mad Science “After a long winter we are excited to finally welcome the warmer weather with our annual spring festival,” said Supervisor Judi Bosworth. “Bring the whole family for this festival filled with activities, performances and of course beautiful flowers blooming

throughout the garden.”

All attendees can enjoy the 12 manicured acres of Clark Botanic Garden which includes labeled gardens, trees, ponds and streams and provides an oasis of peace and aesthetic enjoyment for all. Clark Botanic Garden is located at 193 I.U. Willets Road in Albertson.

For more information about the Clark Botanic Garden Spring Festival and for a full schedule of events, please call 311 from within the Town, or (516) 869-6311 from outside the Town.

Second half school taxes due May 6 Town of North Hempstead Receiver of Taxes Charles Berman reminds taxpayers that the last day to pay the Town of North Hempstead 2017-2018 School taxes – second-half bill without a penalty is Thursday, May 10.!

The U.S. Postal Service must postmark mailed payments on or before May 10 to avoid a penalty.!

By law, office postage meters are not official postmarks.!

The Receiver of Taxes recommends that taxpayers mailing payments on the last day have their payments hand stamped at the post office to ensure a timely postmark. ! The town receiver’s office office will be open from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Thursday, May 10.!

In addition to paying in person at the Receiver of Taxes’ office located at 200 Plandome Road (Town Hall Annex) in Manhasset, taxpayers may also pay in person with only a check or money order at the following local collection sites: SECOND-HALF 2017-2018 SCHOOL TAX LOCAL COLLECTION SITES Monday, April 30! 10 a.m.

– 12:00 p.m. at Port Washington Parking District, 15 Vanderventer Ave., Port Washington Monday, April 30 1 p.m.2 p.m. at Hector Gayle Roslyn Community Center, 53 Orchard St., Roslyn Heights (Parking lot on Lincoln Ave.) Tuesday, May 1 from 10 a.m. – 12 p.m. at Fuschillo Park, Carle Rd. & Broadmoor Ln.,

12 p.m.! -2 p.m. at John D. Carle Place Tuesday, May 1 from 1 p.m.!! Caemmerer Park, Wentworth – 2 p.m. at “Yes We Can” Com- Ave., Albertson Taxpayers are advised to munity Center, 141 Garden St., bring their entire bill with you New Cassel Wednesday, May 2 from 10 when paying in person. ! Regular office hours are a.m. –!!!! 12 p.m. at Clinton G. Martin Park, Marcus Ave. and 9 a.m. to 4:45 p.m.! For more New Hyde Park Rd., New Hyde information, taxpayers may visit the Town’s website at www.

Park Wednesday, May 2 from 2 northhempsteadny.gov or by p.m. – 3 p.m. at Broadway Park, calling 311 or 516-869-6311 Broadway & County Courthouse from outside North Hempstead. !A town e-mail payment reRd., Garden City Park Thursday, May 3 from 10 minder service is available.! To a.m.-12 p.m.! at Great Neck So- sign up, please go to the Town cial Center, Inc., 80 Grace Ave., website and click on “Our Government” followed by “Receiver Great Neck Thursday, May 3 from 1 of Taxes” and then click the “Tax p.m.-3 p.m. at Michael J. Tully Office Email Alerts” tab.!

A reminder will be emailed Park, Evergreen Ave., New Hyde approximately 10 days before Park Friday,!May 4!!!!!!!!!!!from! the last day to pay the tax with-

out a penalty. !In addition, property owners may register online for “no cost” access to their General and School property tax information.

You can log on to our website at any time to view, print, or check the payment status of your property tax bills.

Additionally, for a reduced “convenience fee” property owners will also be able to pay their tax bills using American Express, Visa, MasterCard or Discover or by “Automatic Electronic Check.”

Conventional payments via the U.S. mail or an!! in-person payment will continue to be “without any convenience fee or charge.” !

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COMMUNITY NEWS

Guidance Center program talks stigma On Friday April 13, North Shore Child & Family Guidance Center hosted a program featuring Long Island author Nicole Nagy.

Nagy’s book, “Creative Mind: A Diary of Teenage Mental Illness,” is a moving first-person account of her mental health challenges and also of the roadblocks she faced when trying to access timely and affordable treatment.

Nagy, a graduate social work student at Stony Brook, has also become a Project Access advocate, fighting alongside the Guidance Center for timely, affordable access to mental health and addictions care.

The April 13 program featured Nagy’s discussion of her journey to healing and also addressed the battle to overcome stigma.

“In her book, Nicole writes with an authentic, courageous voice as she talks about her experiences with depression and anxiety,” said Andrew Malekoff, executive director of the Guidance Center. “With this book, Nicole has helped lift the fear of stigma by so honestly sharing her story. In addition, her advocacy for people struggling with mental health issues is very powerful.

The battle for access to care is a matter of civil rights for millions of people.”

Even with excellent health insurance,

Nagy said that getting access to treatment was very difficult. “It took weeks to get an appointment after I was hospitalized for a suicide attempt,” she said. When she was finally able to get the help she needed, she “learned to own and manage my illness and love myself.” Her goal is to share her story with everyone she can and give them hope.

The April 13 event included insights from an outstanding panel: Nancy Manigat, chief program officer of CN Guidance & Counseling Services; author and

psychotherapist Sean Grover; Kerry Lynn Eller, a social worker at North Shore Child & Family Guidance Center who has experienced the difficulty of accessing mental health care in her own family; and the Rev. Gideon L. K. Pollach, rector at St. John’s Episcopal Church in Cold Spring Harbor.

“Nicole’s story shows that having mental illness and being successful are not mutually exclusive,” said Eller. Grover talked about the need for adults to remember what it was like being a teenager and to “tap into our humanity,” while Pollach

spoke of the need for communities of faith to fight for parity for mental health and addictions treatment.

Manigat, Chief Program Officer of CN Guidance & Counseling Services, applauded Nagy for being an advocate, and also spoke about the importance of the Project Access study, which surveyed 650 Long Islanders about their experience trying to find mental health care. “We are so grateful for the opportunity to work with North Shore Child & Family Guidance Center on this very important study with the goal of improving access to lifesaving services for individuals living with a mental health and/or substance use disorder,” said Manigat. “Through our participation with Project Access, we were able to provide significant data which helped identify obstacles to care. At CN Guidance and Counseling Services, we believe in every individual’s ability to recover – and access to care is a necessary component of treatment. We are enthusiastic about the potential for change to come through the results of this survey.”

For more information about Project Access, email Guidance Center CEO Andrew Malekoff at amalekoff@northshorechildguidance.org. You can order “Creative Mind” on Amazon.com.

American Heart Association’s annual ball The American Heart Association’s Long Island Annual Heart & Stroke Ball will be celebrating its 55th year on Thursday, April 26 at the Garden City Hotel with a Rock n Roll theme.

The Long Island Heart & Stroke Ball is an annual social event held to celebrate outstanding accomplishments of individuals and companies in the area of cardiovascular science and leadership in wellness.

This year’s event will be cochaired by Todd Fabricant, CEO, Todd Mitchell Associates and Renee Pope, executive director, KPMG, LLP. The 55th Annual Heart Ball will honor Dr. Kimon Bekelis, Catholic Health Services of Long Island who will receive the Neu-

rological Science Honoree Stroke & Brain Aneurysm Award and Dr. Jorge L. Gardyn, Island Occupational Medical Resources P.C who will receive the Cardiovascular Science Honoree Heart Disease Intervention in Fire Services Award.

This year’s event emcee will be WBAB Afternoon Drive host Fingers.

The American Heart Association promises that we will have an extraordinary impact on your life by empowering you and your loved ones to save lives, live healthier and enjoy more peace of mind about cardiovascular disease.

Our goal by 2020 is to improve the cardiovascular health of all Americans by 20 percent, while reducing deaths from cardiovascu-

lar disease and stroke by 20 percent.

The Heart & Stroke Ball is expected to have more than 500 attendees from the Long Island medical and corporate community.

The evening will include din-

ner, dancing and a silent auction offering an exciting assortment of generously donated items.

This year’s Heart & Stroke Ball Sponsors include: The Jade Foundation, Castagna Realty-Americana Manhasset, Leviton, KPMG,

NYU Winthrop Hospital, Catholic Health Services, Berdon LLP, AVZ, Cardiovascular Medical Associates, Carter, DeLuca Farrell &, Schmidt, LLP, Sterling National Bank, Long Island Neurological & Pain Specialists, Nassau Community College, Ruskin Moscou Faltischek, P.C., Todd Mitchell Associates, WBABFM 102.3 and WBLI-FM 106.1 and Anton Media Group Tickets are $600. Cocktail Hour starts at 6:00 p.m. followed by the program, dinner and dancing at 7:00 pm.

This year’s music will be provided by Dane Wright Band. For more information, tickets or for sponsorship opportunities, visit longislandheartball.heart.org or call 516-962-0802.

Phillips at Safe Center LI’s conference State Sen. Elaine Phillips recently attended The Safe Center LI’s 8th annual “Many Faces of Family Violence Conference,” which brings together professionals and stakeholders from the social work, law enforcement, child protection and education communities.

This year’s conference

focused on sexual violence and also featured workshops throughout the day on various forms of interpersonal violence, including child abuse, intimate partner violence, and human trafficking.

“The Safe Center LI is to be commended for their unparalleled commitment to assisting

victims of domestic violence in our region and for hosting events such as this to continue educating those who work collaboratively to protect all victims of violence,” said Phillips.

“In the wake of a tidal wave of sexual abuse and misconduct allegations sweeping the country, this annual conference is criti-

cal for bringing awareness not just to sexual violence, but to all types of interpersonal violence that are prevalent in our society and providing a means to restore hope for victims of abuse.”

“We at The Safe Center are grateful to Senator Phillips for securing important funding for the Center as well as for

her presence and welcoming remarks at this year’s conference,” Joshua Hanson, associate executive director of the Safe Center LI said. “Her support of the 2018 ‘Many Faces of Family Violence Conference’ underscores her commitment to be a leader on issues of interpersonal violence and community safety.”

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Business&RealEstate

Where world is going today, part 3 Unfortunately, more and more families and people are leaving Nassau, Suffolk and Queens, due to the high cost of living and just being able to survive!

Three out of five or maybe more, married women are working to pay their mortgages, bills, etc.

Is this quality of life, I ask?

Not really! Many are moving down south and west, where the cost of a mortgage is approximately 29 percent of one’s income, instead of the almost 67 percent of income needed here to pay for the mortgage and other required expenses, for a basic home.

Why is this? My sisters live in Atlanta and their real estate taxes range from $5500 to $6,800!

Are the unions to blame, teachers escalating pensions that are mandated from Albany down to all the counties?

We obviously will always need excellent and superior teachers for our children to learn, so they will be able to flourish as adults; if you went into teaching, did you do it to become richer than most or was it the ideals of teaching and educating?

It was a choice that you made, but who knew that pensions would be costing us approximately 60-65 percent of our real estate taxes?

Moreover, is the educational

system adapting properly to teach, educate and prepare our children properly in order to survive financially?

I am not convinced that it’s succeeding in the correct fashion. I have interviewed so many people, and they can barely, add, subtract, divide or multiply without or even with a device.

Their English and sentence structure is so poor, it’s amazing they can communicate properly with the consuming public, who also need guidance; it’s like the blind, leading the blind!

Our overall health in the U.S. is about as low as it has ever been in our history; although we are living longer, with more Centurions (100+ years old) than ever before.

But do they have quality of life or is it just quantity of surviving longer through advanced technologies, drugs, etc. barely keeping us alive?

The financial strain our health care systems is monumental and will be a downward spiraling failure, if our political leaders don’t stop the ridiculous and waste of time, arguing and disagreeing and begin to do the right thing and sit down and put their heads together, talk, create new options and stop the G_D damn partisan politics and do what’s good for the whole entire country and not just

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in their own backyards, we will be surely doomed in the future!

Most critical and important, is the total U.S. domestic and foreign debt, they say is 19 trillion, but I would beg to differ that it’s many more multiples of that, if you do your research! How are we going to pay for it? China controls their currency, we don’t right?

So, if they floated their currency, it just might be the most expensive denomination on the globe, thereby making our exported goods less costly for Chinese consumers to purchase, (with much better quality than their own) and some other countries to import; thereby reducing and potentially eliminating our debts and putting us in a surplus; like there was when President Bill Clinton was in

office and provided, I believe, 500 million extra dollars into the national treasury for President Bush, who spent it all on another one of our idiotic and wasteful wars!

Unemployment, although less than 4 percent, is not accurate whatsoever, if you factor in the information about those who drop out and no longer are looking for work, the number is considerably higher, but we feel good when we see a low number; it puts a positive spin on our economy and our mindset, so maybe, feeling good makes us work smarter and harder?

Not sure about that, since our middle class is disappearing and we eventually will be divided into the haves and have-nots!

My belief, is that the entire political systems throughout the world have to really get their heads together and somehow and someway, take this sinister and world killing greed out of the equation, so we can all try to live and survive in the most beneficial and peaceful way, allowing all to believe in whatever they want, without killing or making someone believe in something that they choose not to; having the respect for all religions and their belief doctrines, without the killing!

Many need it to keep our chaos at a minimum and without it,

it just might be like the “walking dead” or an apocalypse of enormous proportions that would do us all in even sooner than later!

Living in peace and harmony is an idealistic concept for most; but it could and can be accomplished, if the respect and consideration of all people would be practiced on a daily basis.

But that just maybe asking for too much, because the human race has never adapted very well conceptually to those ideals.

We are the only species that kills, not for personal survival, but for religious, political and financial reasons.

The animal and insect kingdoms, kill for survival only and will be here, whatever is left of them, after we kill them, pollute the oceans, reduce their livable habitat for human consumption and use, long after we are all gone and maybe, just maybe, the world of the future, will be a much more peaceful environment for them to survive and live in.

Also, maybe Alon Musk, with his Space X company is thinking ahead, figuring the earth is on a path to destruction with no return and Mars, just might be our next real estate takeover and compound to call home for future generations, maybe our new Earth No. 2? Only time will tell.

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Sales in New Hyde Park New Hyde Park Real Estate Market Conditions MEDIAN SALES PRICE $650,000 Demographics near New Hyde Park, NY Population Population Density Median Age People per Household Median Household Income Average Income per Capita

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1497 New Hyde Park Drive, New Hyde Park Sold Price: $765,000 Date: 03/15/2018 3 beds, 3 Full baths Style: Colonial # of Families: 1 Lot Size: 68x102 Schools: New Hyde ParkGarden City Park Total Taxes: $15,528 MLS# 2985354

607 Leonard Blvd, New Hyde Park Sold Price: $580,000 Date: 03/06/2018 4 beds, 2 Full baths Style: Cape # of Families: 1 Lot Size: 50x100 Schools: New Hyde ParkGarden City Park Total Taxes: $11,630 MLS# 2984362

200 Lowell Avenue, New Hyde Park Sold Price: $892,000 Date: 03/22/2018 4 beds, 4 Full baths Style: Colonial # of Families: 1 Lot Size: 80x100 Schools: New Hyde Park-Garden City Park Total Taxes: $13,895 MLS# 2990077

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Ex USMMA student files $5 million claim Continued from Page 19 The seven members of the soccer team named in the case had also been barred from graduating in June because of the investigation, which in turn prompted the students to sue the school, U.S. Department of Transportation and Rear Adm. James Helis, the school superintendent, in federal court.

In that suit, the students claimed their right to due process had been violated and denied all the charges levied against them.

Ultimately, the students were al-

lowed to walk during graduation. After private executive board meetings, the midshipmen were able to receive their degrees and licenses.

That suit was ultimately dismissed, according to court papers filed last week.

Hogan said the withholding of their diplomas was an issue “thrust upon them right before they were to graduate.”

The school’s soccer team, which had been suspended because of the investigation that began in the Department of Transportation’s Office of the Inspector General, has also been reinstated.

Grasso also sent a letter to the Board

of Visitors and Department of Transportation requesting they raise the issue of sexual assault at a meeting and further investigate the allegations.

Grasso said this letter was addressed at the Board of Visitors meeting on Monday, where Sen. Roger Wicker of Mississippi said the allegations were “graphic and stunning” and asked whether the coaches were still involved with the team.

According to Grasso, Helis said the coaches were still on staff but the deputy commandant was now involved in coaching the soccer team – something he feels

is “highly unusual.”

Grasso said the other steps the school is taking like adding victim advocates, adding ways to report sexual assault and harassment, expanding the Sexual Assault Prevention and Response office and fostering the “Be KP” program piloted by midshipman Liz Grove, are encouraging.

“I think they’re coming to terms and accepting that there’s a problem and rightly, it is a culture problem,” Grasso said. “I think they’re addressing it correctly, but unfortunately, you have a lot of damage left in the wake that has to be dealt with.”

Feinstein study seeks to improve ER visits Continued from Page 20 have children with autism, and I’ve heard a lot of unfortunate stories about taking their child to the emergency room and nightmare experiences these parents and their children have gone through, so I thought it would be a perfect idea for a study, to look into how to make the experience more positive for these patients,” Kirsch said.

Autism spectrum disorder is a developmental disability in which children and adults exhibit, to varying degrees, social challenges that include difficulty communicating and interacting with others. They can also display narrow interests and repetitive behaviors. The social challenges these individuals have

— especially and including an inability to communicate their symptoms and reacting negatively to external stimuli — can make visits to the emergency room difficult for them and their families.# Meryash said the study, published in the Journal of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics, focused on patient satisfaction, which he said is an important indicator of health care quality.

The study helped rank different possible contributors to satisfaction, and researchers looked at behaviors related to interpersonal skills and professional skills of the staff.

While both Kirsch and Meryash said it’s important for the medical staff to be trained, it is just as important for the

security and reception staff be equally trained as the first people a patient typically encounters in the emergency room.

Kirsch also said that some things a typical patient would see as welcome distractions or standard waiting room features, such as televisions and bright lights, can unnerve an autistic patient.

“A lot of kids with autism are hypersensitive, so the loud noises, the bright lights in the emergency room that don’t really bother you and me are overbearing to them,” Kirsch said. “They’re already upset, and that makes it much worse.”

In addition to all-staff training, other recommendations included that health care staff members should encourage parents to discuss their child’s unique-

ness as soon as they arrive — what they like and dislike, what sensory stimuli typically bother them, and what calming techniques work for them.

An important next step is for the health care professional who initially received this information to share it with the rest of the staff, so that the parents do not need to repeat themselves.

“This is more than looking at bedside manner,” Meryash said. “Everybody knows a physician encounter depends on how understanding the providers are, but this gets at the behaviors that they can engage in that understanding of individuals with autism and how they perceive an emergent visit.”

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Continued from Page 2 same old tricks” they should call 911 and report the incident.

“We have her information, and that’s golden because if something happens later on or if she’s spotted later on in the act of a crime we have that information,” Cooper said.

Cutrone also asked Cooper about multiple “attempted and actual car break-ins that have recently occurred.”

Cooper said there have been nine auto larcenies in the area year so far this year.

One was a broken window, Cooper said.

Two were construction vehicles where tools were taken, which follows a pattern happening throughout the county, he said.

The others were all unlocked cars, Cooper said.

Cooper said residents can also keep up with the updates from the police by following Facebook and Instagram pages.

Amid monthslong public concern over the proposed arena at Belmont Park, developers revealed slight alterations to the plan during a public meeting at the Elmont Memorial Library on Tuesday.

The project will include a new arena for the New York Islanders, as well as a shopping complex, a hotel and open community space.

During Tuesday’s meeting developers said the new plan would include a 150feet cap on the height of the hotel, 10 stories shorter than the initial proposal, according to Newsday.

The hotel height was a concern Floral Park Mayor Dominick Longobardi raised in a message to residents in March.

He said the then proposed 265-foothigh hotel would be one of the tallest buildings in the county.

Longobardi also raised concern over PHOTO BY REBECCA KLAR the 40,000-square-foot electric substation that was to border the Bellerose ElemenJesse Cooper, a problem-oriented tary School. police officer for Nassau County Developers said a new location is being sought for the power substation, according to Newsday.

The power substation proximity was also an issue Floral Park resident Kristine Flood expressed at a March 27 meeting.

Flood had said she’s concerned about the future of her two small children.

“She’s the future of Floral Park. She is the child who is running around playing soccer at Floral Park Bellerose School,” Flood said. “She plays on the playground, and she does not need this impeding on her quality of life — not now, and not 30 years from now should she choose to raise her family in Floral Park as I have.”

The Empire State Development agency and Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced the project’s approval in January.

The proposed development by New York Arena Partners, a joint venture between Sterling Development and Oak View Group, includes a 19,000-seat arena with 18,000 seats available for New York Islander games, a 250-room hotel, 435,000 square feet of retail space, 30,000 square feet of office space, 10,000 square feet for a community space, up to 8.5 acres of public open space and up to 3,700 parking spaces.

The project is slated to be complete by 2021.

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Gillen, Sweeney spar over supervisor’s suit Continued from Page 11 be gained by suing all Town Board members in our personal, individual capacity,” Sweeney said.

Goosby also expressed concern over the lawsuit.

Blakeman, whose father, Robert, died on Saturday at 92, was not at the meeting.

Both Sweeney and Gillen are attorneys.

Gillen was a partner at the law firm of Westerman Ball Ederer Miller Zucker & Sharfstein until taking over as town supervisor this year. She graduated from Georgetown University, earning undergraduate and law degrees.

Sweeney, a partner at Eckert Seamans Attorneys at Law, graduated from the University of Notre Dame and its law school.

Gillen said it is surprising that “someone who holds a law degree from a very prestigious institution and university doesn’t understand that she’s not being sued in her personal capacity.”

She added that as the plaintiff of the suit, she thinks she would know if people were being sued in their individual capacity.

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Hempstead Town Supervisor said town board members are not being sued in their individual capacity during a public dispute with Councilwoman Erin King Sweeney at Tuesday’s board meeting.

The town attorney recused himself from the discussion and the trial because of conflicts of interest.

The board voted 5-1 in favor of an outside law firm to represent Santino, according to Newsday.

Gillen voted against hiring Bee, Ready, Fishbein, Hatter & Donovan LLP to represent Santino in the case, stating the firm has a conflict, according to Newsday.

Gillen hired an outside attorney to file the suit but plans to apply for the town to cover her legal costs, according to Newsday.

In a statement, Sweeney said that Gillen’s suit “has created the need for legal representation that will come at what is expected to be a substantial cost to taxpayers.”

“These costs only add insult to injury on our already-overtaxed residents,” Sweeney said."

Sweeney, who serves as the Town Board’s Republican majority leader, said on Twitter that the town comptroller will send monthly updates on the cost of the lawsuit.

Sweeney said she will post the costs to her social media accounts for residents to view.

N. Shore schools see low opt-out rates Continued from Page 1 87,278 students opting out. Suffolk County, on the other hand, had 56,439 students out of 100,141 opt out — a rate of 56.4 percent.

This year’s exam was shortened from three days to two.

Sewanhaka Central High School District saw some of the highest opt-out rates for North Shore schools.

Thirty-seven percent of the 2,635 eligible students opted out, almost the same as last year’s 37.7 percent rate.

New Hyde Park-Garden City Park, one of the five elementary districts that feed into Sewanhaka, had a 27.7 percent opt-out rate this year, according to Newsday.

Last year, 37.9 percent of New Hyde Park-Garden City Park students opted out of the tests, Newsday reported.

Herricks’ 11.9 percent optout rate was the lowest on the North Shore, and among the lowest across the Island based on data reported in Newsday.

Two hundred and eighteen third- through eighth-graders at Herricks opted out of the test out of the 1,825 students eligible.

The Great Neck Public Schools had one of the lowest opt-out rate rates for the ELA tests on Long Island, with only 16.7 percent of students – or 497 of 2,978 eligible students – declining to take the state exams.

This is a considerable drop

from last year, where 653 out of an eligible 2,910 students – or 22.4 percent – refused to take the ELA exams, according to Newsday.

In Manhasset, 19.3 percent of the third- through eighthgraders opted out of the test, a 5 percentage point increase from last year.

Manhasset administrative assistant Patricia Narofsky said 288 students opted out, including 102 eighth-graders, or 39 percent of the 261 students.

In addition, 30 third-graders, 24 fourth-graders, 23 fifthgraders, 46 sixth-graders and 62 seventh-graders opted out of the test.

In Roslyn, 26.9 percent of the 1,442 eligible students opted out of the ELA test, Roslyn Communications Director Barry Edelson said.

Last year, 35.6 percent of eligible students opted out of the test, nearly nine percentage points higher than those who chose not to take last week’s test.

Port Washington saw 688 of 2,554 eligible students opt out of the ELA test, or about 27 percent. This was a drop from last year when 742 students, or about 30 percent, opted not to take the ELA. Traditionally opt-outs are higher for the math test, which Port will hold next week.

As recently as 2014, ELA optouts were only at 4 percent. But state testing has become more unpopular in Port over the last

five years, spurring the Board of Education to announce it was working on a statement to the state at the April meeting. Board members said the tests were stressing out students and taking away valuable class time from teachers.

“They’re getting worse every year, and their credibility, which started at zero, is now in [the negatives],” said board member Larry Greenstein. “Perhaps we should ask for the resignation of the State Commissioner of Education [MaryEllen Elia].”

The East Williston school district also saw a decrease of nearly 9 percentage points in students who opted out of the test.

Overall, 28.4 percent of third- through eighth-graders chose not to take this year’s exam.

Third-graders had the lowest opt-out rates for the district, at 12.6 percent, and eighth grade had the highest, at 29.3 percent.

Last year, 46.26 percent of eight-graders opted out of the test.

Despite the decrease in opt-out rates, Danielle Gately, assistant superintendent for instruction and personnel, said the school did not approach the tests differently than prior years.

“Certainly there are changes in the assessments, but not our approach,” Gately said. “We believe that good teaching is good teaching, and generally leads to our results.”

The district also saw optout rates of 17.6 percent for fourth-graders, 12.9 percent for fifth-graders, 21.2 percent for sixth-graders and 22 percent for seventh-graders this year.

Mineola schools saw generally the same number of students opting out of the tests, at about 20 to 21 percent both this year and last.

Matthew Gaven, assistant superintendent for curriculum, instruction, technology and as-

sessment, credits the district’s educators for the lower opt-out rates compared with the Island’s almost 50 percent average.

“I think principals and teachers do a good job in making sure that parents understand the reason for the test, that it’s not the end all be all,” Gaven said. “We use them as a data point, and don’t spend a lot of time prepping for the tests, so the kids aren’t overwhelmed with that kind of material.”

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Dems win, GOP keeps County adopts sexual state Senate majority harassment policies

BY R E B ECC A K L A R After two special election wins on Tuesday night for Democrats, the party has the majority in the state Senate.

However, state Sen. Simcha Felder, a Brooklyn Democrat who caucuses with the Republicans, announced that he will continue to do so, according to The New York Times, giving the Republicans a 32-31 edge.

Shelley Mayer, a Democrat, won a heated race in Westchester County’s District 37 against Republican Julie Killian to fill the seat vacated by Democrat George Latimer.

Luis Sepulveda, a Democrat, won his seat in New York City’s District 32 against Patrick Delices, a Republican, and Pamela Stewart-Martinez, an independent.

There were also nine seats at stake in the state Assembly in the special election.

Only one was in Nassau County, in the 17th Assembly District, where John Mikulin’s win kept Republican control after the resignation of Thom-

as McKevitt to become a Nassau County legislator.

Also on Long Island, former Suffolk County Legislator Steve Stern became the first Democrat in 40 years to win the 10th Assembly District seat in Huntington, according to Newsday.

Stern will fill the seat vacated by Republican Huntington Town Supervisor Chad Lupinacci.

The state Assembly, which already had a Democratic majority, didn’t see a change in party power.

However, Assemblyman Chuck Lavine (D-Glen Cove) had said before the election results that the special elections could reflect voter disapproval with the GOP. “In the event that the Democrats do win, and the turnout is impressive, that will send a strong message that people are civically engaged again,” Lavine said. “It will be a message that Americans and New Yorkers are not satisfied [and] certainly not secure in Republican leadership on the national level.”

Continued from Page 62 Lafazan had his first bill passed by the Legislature on Monday as well. The bill called for American Sign Language interpreters to be present!at emergency news conferences organized by the county.

DeRiggi-Whitton said the bill stemmed from the fact that the closed captions that were being used for news conferences often did not say the right

thing.

Also passed on Monday was a resolution that requires the Nassau County Police Department to establish a reward for information leading to the arrest and prosecution of drug dealers in the county. The reward for information, submitted through a callin hotline, will be funded using seized asset forfeiture funds and will go up to $5,000.

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Continued from Page 64 for contracts. Linda Mangano was also paid $450,000 for what prosecutors have called a no-show job.

Last week, an attorney who served as outside counsel to Oyster Bay testified that Mangano told town officials to secure a loan guarantee for Singh, according to Newsday. Singh was able to secure a $1.5 million line of credit through the work of the law firm Rivkin Radler, where Mangano had previously worked.

Under the state constitution, this action was illegal. But former Town Attorney Frederick Mei testified last week that the bribes he received from Singh and the pressure from Venditto made it clear that he was to find a legal loophole, Newsday reported.

Howard Kurtzberg, the vice president and general counsel at NDH Capital Corp., testified on Tuesday that the bank would not have extended credit to Singh without Oyster Bay’s backing, according to Newsday.

Another Nassau emergency worker, Heather McNeill, testified that she saw Maguire in a heated exchange with Munafo over health code violations by county jail employees who served food to emergency!workers, Newsday reported.

McNeill testified that Munafo told her and Maguire that the county was “going with H,” which she understood to be Singh.

Later that day, McNeill said, a dinner service from Singh arrived at the county offices, according to Newsday.

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CAREGIVER LIVE-IN Seeking livein caregiver for a mature principal located in Garden City. The schedule is Sunday night to Friday night with Saturday and Sunday off. Your primary responsibilities will include supervising the principal in their daily activities, light housekeeping, simple cooking, grocery shopping, driving to appointments, engaging in conversation, both interacting with and supporting/supervising the other staff which include a part-time housekeeper, gardener and maintenance workers. The ideal person for this role will be engaging, kind and able to commit long-term. If you are interested in this position and have a US Passport, Green Card or EAC, please submit resume to: darehk@ yahoo.com

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Good with numbers. Familiar with internet. Will train. 516-365-2689 EXECUTIVE ASSISTANT to VP wanted for a midsize construction steel subcontractor’s satellite office located in Albertson. Responsible for day to day activities such as mail, email, phones, bills, errands, collections, etc. Should have 5 years prior office experience especially working with Excel, Word and Quickbooks.

Follow up on bids and some property management activities also required. 9am-3pm. M-F with some flexibility. Must be Notary. Email resume to ralph@strocchia.com or call 516-625-8800 LEGAL: Process serving company seeking part time detail oriented individual for office assistant in Williston Park. Computer knowledge a must. Will train. Email resume: LRadler@courtsupportinc.com For your latest news theislandnow.com

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Minimum 2 years outside sales experience. Newspaper sales experience will be a plus. Must have own car. Up to $60,000 first year. Salary + commission. Health Insurance & Holidays. Email resume and cover letter: sblank@theislandnow.com or call Steve at: 516-307-1045 ext 201.

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SITUATION WANTED A NURSES AIDE/COMPANION SEEKING position to take care of your elderly loved one. Experience and very good references. Live in or out. Driver. Light housekeeping, shopping, doctor appointments, etc.

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ELDER CARE: Woman seeking position caring for the elderly. Available to live out and work nights or overnights as well. Over 20 years experience including in nursing home. References furnished upon request. Call V 516-943-3172 OR 516-576-4736 HOME HEALTH AIDE Ukrainian woman (previously Physical Therapist in Ukraine) seeking live in position of home health aide. Overnights no charge. Excellent cook also!

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MARKETPLACE GARDEN CITY STROLLER FOR SALE ACTIVE JOGGER’S COLLAPSIBLE 3 WHEEL “EXPEDITION” STROLLER Call 516-7477751 INVITED ESTATE SALES BY TRACY JORDAN Estate & Tag Sales Online & Live Auctions Cleanout & Moving Services Home Staging Services Appraisals 5 1 6 - 2 7 9 - 6 3 7 8 www.invitedsales.com Email: tracyjordan@invitedsales.com PRIVACY HEDGES SPRING BLOW OUT SALE. 6’ Arborvitae (cedar) reg. $179 NOW $75. Beautiful, nursery grown. FREE installation/ FREE delivery. Limited supply! ORDER NOW! 518-536-1367 www.lowcosttreefarm.com

WANTED TO BUY LOOKING TO BUY! Oriental items, clothing, art, old & modern furniture, estates, jewelry, silver, glassware, dishes, old photos, coins & stamps, flatware. Call George 718-386-1104 or 917-775-3048 TOP CASH PAID: JEWELRY, Furniture, Art, etc. Please call 718598-3045 or 516-270-2128. www. iBuyAntiquesNYC.com

TAG SALE *BROWSE *SHOP *CONSIGN A.T. STEWART EXCHANGE CONSIGNMENT SHOP China, Silver, Crystal, Jewelry, Artwork, Furniture, Antiques, Collectibles TuesFri 10-4 Sat 12-4 Every Tuesday: 10% Senior Citizen Discount. All proceeds benefit The Garden City Historical Society 109 Eleventh Street Garden City 11530 516-746-8900 email: store@ atstewartexchange.org www.gardencityhistoricalsociety. org

GARAGE SALE GARAGE SALE GARDEN CITY FRIDAY 4/27 12:00 pm to 6:00 pm Saturday 4/28 10:00 am to 4:00 pm 138 Cambridge Ave (cross street Kensington Rd) Categories & Items: Infant & toddler items and toys; more toys and games for post toddleradolescence; sporting equipment, folding field chairs; skiis, hockey stuff, golf clubs/bags; children’s videos and books & fiction & non fiction books; guitars, audio mixer, stereo equipment & cabinet, cds; household furnishings/furniture, outdoor storage bin; painting, art, ceramics & knick knacks; luggage, backpacks

GARAGE SALE NEW HYDE PARK YARD SALE on Saturday April 28 and April 29 from 10am-4pm. 611 Eleventh Avenue, cross street Covert. Tools, baby, housewares, bric a brac and more THE ANDY FOUNDATION YARD SALE SHOP An eclectic selection of furniture, home decor, jewelry, china, artwork, antiques, housewares.

New donations daily 195 Herricks Rd Garden City Park, NY 11040 Tues Sat 10am-4pm 516-739-1717 info@theandyfoundation.org Proceeds benefit The Andy Foundation

PETS

PET SERVICES A GARDEN CITY ANIMAL LOVER doesn’t want to leave your precious pooch or fantastic feline alone all day. I’m reliable, dependable and will walk and feed your pet while you work or travel. Please call Cheryl at 516-971-3242

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▼ REAL ESTATE, SERVICES, HOME IMPROVEMENT PET SERVICES DO YOU HATE KENNELS? OR STRANGERS IN YOUR HOUSE? HOME AWAY FROM HOME will care for your dog in my Garden City home while you are away. Dog walking also available. Pet CPR & first Aid Certified. Numerous referrals and references. Limited availability. Book early! Annmarie 516775-4256 K9 Monk, LLC Located in Garden City, NY, K9 Monk, LLC is a full service pet care company who is committed to providing the very best care to your dog’s well-being by using cutting edge professional dog grooming, day care, overnight boarding, private training and energy healing techniques. 516382-5553 thek9monk@gmail.com www.facebook.com / k9monk www.k9monk.com

REAL ESTATE FOR RENT

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GARDEN CITY BORDER APARTMENT: Spacious, bright 2 bedroom with dining area, gated parking, laundry, A/C, dishwasher, hardwood floors. NO BROKER FEE, near LIRR, $1,725 + electric. Available May 1 www.gcbapts.com or 516-742-1101

GARDEN CITY Large One Bedroom Condo in the heart of downtown Garden City.

This 800 sq ft Condo boasts newly finished Hardwood Floors, Dining Room, brand new Bathroom & Kitchen with d/w. Low maintenance & taxes.

By ownerno broker. $579,000 Call: 646-499-1684

RENTALS Three Rooms. 1 Bed. EIK. Wood Floors, Parking.

May 1, $2,300 Large Five Rooms. 2 Bed, FDR, EIK, 5 Closets, Wood Floors, Immediate $2,750 Garden City Properties (516)746-1563 / (516)313-8504

AUTOMOTIVE

AUTO FOR SALE BMW 328xi 2013 44k miles, 8 speed automatic, meticulously maintained, Silver, black leather seats, navigation, bluetooth, sunroof, wood grain trim, weather tech mats, ABS (4-wheel), heated seats, No accidents. Asking $15,500 Tracey 516-984-4470

AUTO SERVICES CAR DETAILING done at your home, includes cleaning of interior, vacuuming. Very reasonable.

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AUTOS WANTED DONATE YOUR CAR to Wheels For Wishes, benefitting Make-aWish. We offer free towing and your donation is 100% tax deductible.

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OUT OF TOWN REAL ESTATE SEASONAL RENTAL STUART, FLORIDA VISTA DEL LAGO Building 25 Unit 10 1 Bedroom, 1.5 Baths Fully furnished 3 month minimum at $1300/month 4 months or more $1200/month Call 516-746-1858

VACATION RENTAL HAMPTON BAYS AVAILABLE JUNE 11-17 2018 US OPEN SHINNECOCK approximately 5 miles from Shinnecock. 4 Bedroom, 2.5 Bath, 1/2 Acre, Private Community, Private Beach, Large Patio, Music System, CAC, Laundry. South of Montauk Hwy. Close to train, town, beach and golf course. $6,000/ week or $1,100/night. References and security. No smoking. No pets.

Call 516-426-2247 HAMPTON BAYS SHINNECOCK 2018 US GOLF OPEN RENTAL 3 bedrooms, 2 1/2 baths, finished basement, central A/C, outdoor living space, solar heated swimming pool. South of the highway, close to all. Approx 5 miles to the golf course. Jun 11th thru 17th. $8,500 plus security deposit.

Call 516-306-5992

HOMES FOR SALE GARDEN CITY ESTATES Custom wide-line cape, 80x100.

4BR, 2.5 Baths, first floor master suite, fireplace, gas heat, central air, garage, IG sprinklers, finished basement, extra large fenced yard with brick patio, covered porch, mature perennial gardens. Close to LIRR. Award winning schools. Call 516-398-5666

LENDER ORDERED WATERFRONT LAND SALE! April 28th.

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4 BRs, 3 Baths. Indulge in the Luxury & Privately set In Ground Swimming Pool. Formal LR/fireplace, FDR, New Gourmet EIK & Family Room. Master Suite/Balcony.

Circular Drive, Garage, Full Basement. This one has it all. $649,000 Colony Realty, 631-722-5800

BAITING HOLLOW Sunday 4/29 1:00pm to 3:00pm 36 Beach Way Soundfront! Escape to this Dreamy Beachfront Cottage, Beautiful Sandy Beach! Extraordinary Sunsets & Sunrises. Unpretentious & Casual.

Paddle Boarding, Kayaking, Wine Country, Close to Tanger Mall & Restaurants. Your Simple Summer Lifestyle Begins Here. You won’t want to leave! $699,000 Reduced!

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OUT OF TOWN REAL ESTATE JAMESPORT 2 Story Expanded Cape on 1/2 acre. 4 BRs, 2.5 Baths, LR/Fireplace, EIK, Dining Area, Unfinished Bonus Room, Full Basement w/Outside Entrance, 2 Car Garage. New Roof. Al l this and close to the Beach! New Listing! $525,000 MLS#3007359 Colony Realty, Dolores Peterson 631-413-7572

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Amenities: swimming pool, gymnasium, locker rooms, sauna and steam rooms. Gated community, 24/7 guard, snow removal and garden maintenance. Condominium rented through March 2020, $3,300 monthly. $695,000. Residents 55+ Excellent investment opportunity and eventual move in possibility.

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▼SERVICES, TUTORING SERVICE DIRECTORY

SERVICES ** EVON’S SERVICES ** HOME HEALTH AIDES ELDER CARE CHILD CARE AND MORE! We offer the following services: Companions, Home Health Aides/Elder Care Child Care and Housekeeping Laborers Days / Nights Live In or Live Out NO FEE TO EMPLOYERS Call: 516-505-5510 CHILDCARE STARS & ANGELS For precious little ones. NYS licensed. Staff is CDA, Infant & Children Certified. Child Care Professionals Small groups in home setting. Provide exceptional individual attention & plenty of TLC. Indoor & outdoor activities in park like fenced in yard. Walk to Merillon train station. We provide organic foods for breakfast, lunch & dinner.

Educational age appropriate activities. 7:00 am6:00 pm with weekend & extended hours available. Spring Special $60/day Visit www.snadaycare.com or for more information or to schedule a tour call 516-8731853 DISH NETWORK Satellite Television Services. Now over 190 channels for ONLY $59.99/mo! 2yr price guarantee. FREE installation.

FREE streaming. More of what you want! Save HUNDREDS over Cable and DIRECTV. Add Internet as low as $14.95/mo! 1-800-943-0838

HOME IMPROVEMENTS AMBIANCE PROFESSIONAL SERVICES *Handyman & Remodeling *Kitchen Installations *Furniture Assembly *Finish Carpentry *Minor Electrical & Plumbing 25 year GC Resident Lic & Ins H18E2170000 Call BOB 516-741-2154 GEM BASEMENT DOCTOR: One stop for all your home improvement needs! Basement, bathroom & kitchen remodeling, carpentry, crown & decorative molding, closets, doors, decking, painting, roofing, siding, sheetrock, windows.

516-623-9822 Help your local economy and save money with Solar Power! Solar Power has a strong Return on Investment, Free Maintenance, Free Quote. Simple Reliable Energy with No out of pocket costs. Call 800678-0569 MASONRY All types of stonework Pavers, Retaining Walls, Belgium Block Patios, Foundations, Seal coating, Concrete and Asphalt driveways, Sidewalks, Steps. Free Estimates Fully Licensed & Insured #H2219010000 Boceski Masonry Louie 516-850-4886 LAMPS FIXED $65 In home service. Handy Howard. 646-9967628 ROOF LEAKS REPAIRED All types Roofing & flashing repairs, aluminum trim work and Gutter Clean Outs. Nassau Lic# H1859520000. B.C. Roofing & Siding, Inc. Text or call: 516-983-0860 SKY CLEAR WINDOW INC. Window Restorations, Outdated Hardware, skylights, Andersen Sashes, new storm windows, wood windows, chain/rope repairs, falling windows, fogged panes, mechanical repairs, wood repairs, restorations, all brands. Call Mr. Fagan, 45 years experience. 631-3857975 www.skyclearwindow.com rob@skyclearwindow.com

PAINTING & PAPERHANGING INTERIOR & EXTERIOR PAINTING Plastering, Taping, Sheetrock Skim Cutting, Old Wood Refinish, Staining, Wallpaper Removal & Hanging, Paint Removal, Power Washing, Wood Replacement JOHN MIGLIACCIO Licensed & Insured #80422100000 Call John anytime: 516-901-9398 (Cell) 516-483-3669 (Office) MICHELANGELO PAINTING & WALLPAPER Interior, Exterior, Plaster/Spackle, Light Carpentry, Decorative Moldings & Power Washing. Call: 516-328-7499

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Complete Street is worth considering Continued from Page 16 portation to the railroad, either just for the building or in concert with other buildings.

They could also be required to offer a certain number of zip cars to their residents, like at the Avalon development on East Shore Road, where the residents are completely dependent on cars, in exchange for requiring fewer parking spots.

There needs to be a plan to beautify Middle Neck Road (and East Shore Road).

How does a village pay for sidewalk improvements?

Well, most villages have a Business Improvement District, but the Village of Great Neck no longer does.

However, they can figure out the plan, take out a bond, and apportion the cost of annual debt service to the commercial property owners who benefit.

Right now, the Mayor’s next step toward achieving his highly ambitious redevelopment plan is to appoint a committee of individuals with varying degrees of expertise in development (a real estate developer is on the committee, but not allowed to have any commercial interest in the village).

Their function (which sounds more like a civic association which the Village of Great Neck also lacks) seems to be more of a sounding board and a public relations liaison to residents, who very likely will hear “higher density” and freak.

“The reason behind the study is to learn what kind of incentives [will promote development in the village],” Mayor Bral told me.

“Not to go overboard… to invite developers to make enough money to do what we as residents want – we want walkable, invitable, new, stores, enough light. We are asking the advisory committee to come up with ways to light sidewalks to be more inviting.”

“My vision,” Mayor Bral said, “is to revitalize Middle Neck Road to what it used to be, the jewel of the tri-state – people from Connecticut, New Jersey, other parts of Nassau County, and Suffolk would want to come to shop, dine, walk. How do I get there without destroying our infrastructure? We have limited resources… My job is to find the right incentive with the use of VHB and the committee to bring in the right investors, de-

velopers to do something that isn’t going to overcrowd the village, not lose its character, but bring back the delight, what we used to have. “ Let me tell you, Middle Neck Road in the Old Village was never “the jewel of the tri-state” or a destination.

“I give my word to a developer, to do what it takes and I won’t quit until he puts something, totally different, out of this world, nowhere else – except perhaps Manhattan. Rooftop seating – no one thought that could be done. . . I am very proud of what I was able to accomplish – because of that, across the street, Everfresh is doing the same – will change the façade.”

For the mayor’s edification, I will provide the essentials of Complete Streets, which came out of the Vision Long Island summit: Walk appeal is key.

This isn’t just a matter of safety but yields economic benefits: it raises property values, promotes economic activity; and households, particularly those seniors you are looking to draw, can do without a second car; health benefits; environmental benefits; social equity benefits; and other benefits such as reducing taxing wear and tear on roadways, traffic and parking demands.

“Properly designed complete streets benefit all roadway users, create a sense of community, promote local businesses, leverage growth and vitality.” You know who said that” Marwa Farwaz of VHB, the consultant the village paid $100,000 to do its Corridor study. “Complete Streets are a catalyst for economic development and downtown revitalization.”

And if you want to see examples, you don’t have to travel to Saratoga Springs, Sarasota or Del Ray Beach, Fla.; Louisville, Ky., Westbury, Farmingdale, Port Washington or any exotic, faraway place.

Just mosey up Middle Neck Road to Great Neck Plaza and you will see all the elements of Complete Streets and transitoriented development.

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NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT: NASSAU COUNTY. L&L ASSOCIATES HOLDING CORP., Pltf., vs. ANDREA S. THOLKE, et al, Defts. Index #16-005073.

Pursuant to judgment of foreclosure and sale dated March 2, 2017, I will sell at public auction on Tuesday, May 15, 2018 at 11:30 a.m. in the Calendar Control Part (CCP) Courtroom of the Supreme Court, 100 Supreme Court Dr., Mineola, NY prem. k/a District 5, Section 8, Block 153, Lot 5-6. Sold subject to terms and conditions of filed judgment and terms of sale and the right of the United States of America to redeem within 120 days from the date of sale as provided by law.

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NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT COUNTY OF NASSAU U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, AS TRUSTEE, SUCCESSOR IN INTEREST TO BANK OF AMERICA, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, AS TRUSTEE, SUCCESSOR

BY MERGER TO LASALLE BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, AS TRUSTEE FOR MORGAN STANLEY MORTGAGE LOAN TRUST 2006-3AR, MORTGAGE PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2006-3AR, Plaintiff AGAINST JESSICA ARMAS, et al., Defendant(s) Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale duly dated February 28, 2017 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 May 15, 2018 at 11:30AM, premises known as 40 ALLEN STREET, 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, County of Nassau and State of New York, SECTION 9, BLOCK 77, LOT 40. Approximate amount of judgment $764,617.28 plus interest and costs. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment for Index# 8724/09.

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NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT: NASSAU COUNTY. BANK OF AMERICA N.A., Pltf. vs. SHAGUFTA AHMED, et al, Defts. Index #810/16. Pursuant to judgment of foreclosure and sale entered April 27, 2017, I will sell at public auction on Tuesday, May 15, 2018 at 11:30 a.m. in the Calendar Control Part (CCP) Courtroom of the Supreme Court, 100 Supreme Court Dr., Mineola, NY prem. k/a 99 Executive Drive, New Hyde Park, NY a/k/a Section 8, Block 279, Lot 9. Said property being at Herrick Town of North Hempstead, County of Nassau and State of New York, known and designated by Lot No. 9 in Block No. 279 on a certain map entitled, ‘Map of Westwood Knolls, Section 3, situated at Herricks, Town of North Hempstead, Nassau County, New York, prepared by Charles E. Ward, P.E. & L.S., No. 13551, Great Neck, New York, June 1960’ and filed in the Office of the Clerk of the County of Nassau on March 17, 1961 as Map No. 7426. Approx. amt. of judgment is $750,152.97 plus costs and interest. Sold subject to terms and conditions of filed judgment and terms of sale. JAMES J. KEEFE, JR., Referee. COHN & ROTH, Attys. For Pltf., 100 East Old Country Rd., Mineola, NY. #94614 NHP #148134 4x 04/13, 04/20, 04/27, 05/04 /2018 #148134

NOTICE OF ANNUAL SCHOOL DISTRICT ELECTION AND PUBLIC HEARING on the 2018-2019 School Budget in the HERRICKS UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT Town of North Hempstead, Nassau County, New York NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the annual election of qualified voters of the Herricks Union Free School District, Town of North Hempstead, County of Nassau, New York will be held on Tuesday, May 15, 2018 in the Gymnasium of the Herricks Community Center, 999 Herricks Road, New Hyde Park, New York between the hours of 7:00 a.m. and 9:00 p.m. for the purpose of voting, on voting machines, on the following matters: A. to vote on the annual school budget as set forth in Proposition No.1 below: PROPOSITION 1 RESOLVED that the 2018-2019 annual school budget for the Herricks Union Free School District and the appropriation of the necessary funds therefore and the levy of taxes necessary to meet the expenditures in said budget be authorized.

B. to elect two Board members for a three-year term commencing July 1, 2018 to fill the vacancy occasioned by the expiration of the terms of Nancy Feinstein and Brian R. Hassan.

C. to vote on such other propositions as may properly come before the voters at this annual school election.

NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that the Board of Education will hold a public hearing at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, May 3, 2018 at the Herricks Middle School, 7 Hilldale Drive, Albertson, New York for the purpose of discussing the expenditure of funds for school district purposes and the budgeting thereof for the school year beginning July 1, 2018 and ending June 30, 2019 (the 2018-2019 annual school budget). At said hearing all persons in interest will be given an opportunity to be heard.

NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that a copy of said 2018-2019 Annual School Budget for the Herricks Union Free School

District containing a statement of the amount of money needed to meet the estimated expenses for school purposes for the 2018-2019 school year, exclusive of public monies, together with the text of any propositions, questions and resolutions which will be presented to the voters, will be made available upon request and may be obtained by any district resident at the following offices of the school houses, at the Herricks Community Center, on the District’s internet website (www.

Herricks.org), the Williston Park Library and at the Shelter Rock Public Library during the fourteen days immediately preceding the day of the budget vote and election, except Saturdays, Sundays, and holidays, between the hours of 9:00 a.m. and 3:00 p.m.

Center Street School, Center Street, Williston Park, NY Denton Avenue School, Denton Avenue, New Hyde Park, NY Searingtown School, west end of Beverly Drive, Albertson, NY Herricks Middle School, Hilldale Drive, Albertson, NY Herricks High School, Shelter Rock Road, New Hyde Park, NY Herricks Community Center, Herricks Road, New Hyde Park, NY Shelter Rock Academy, Shelter Rock Road, New Hyde Park, NY Williston Park Library, Willis Avenue, Williston Park, NY Shelter Rock Library, Searingtown Road, Albertson, NY NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN pursuant to Real Property Tax Law Section 495, an exemption report detailing exemptions from real property taxation shall be available and appended to any tentative, preliminary or final budget.

NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that each candidate for the office of a member of the Board of Education shall be nominated by petition and a separate petition for each such candidate shall be directed to and filed in the Office of the Clerk of said School District located in the Herricks Community Center between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 3:00 p.m., and no later than 5 p.m. on Monday, April 16, 2018. Each such nominating petition shall be signed by at least twenty nine (29) qualified voters of said school district, and shall state the residence of each signer, and shall state the name and residence of the candidate, and shall describe the specific vacancy on said Board of Education for which the candidate is nominated, which description shall include at least the length of the term of office and name of the last incumbent. No person shall be nominated by petition for more than one specific office.

NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that Herricks School District has personal registration of voters and that the Board of Registration for the School District shall meet in the Herricks Community Center, Herricks Road, New Hyde Park, New York, on Tuesday, May 1, 2018 between the hours of 4:00 p.m. and 8:00 p.m. for the purpose of preparing a register of the qualified voters of the School District who are entitled to vote.

In addition, registration can be accomplished on any school day from 8 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. at the District Clerk’s Office through May 10, 2018.

The register so prepared will be filed in the Office of the Clerk of said School District in said Herricks Community Center and will be open for inspection by any qualified voter of said School District between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 3:00 p.m. on each of the five days

prior to and the day set for such vote, including Saturday from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. by appointment only, except Sunday.

NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that a person shall be entitled to vote at the annual election who is: 1) a citizen of the United States, 2) eighteen years of age or older, 3) a resident of the School District for a period of thirty days next preceding the election he or she offers to vote at and 4) registered to vote for said election. A person shall be registered to vote if he or she shall have permanently registered with the Nassau County Board of Elections or with the School District’s Board of Registration. Only persons, who are so registered, may vote.

NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that said Board of Registration will meet during the hours of voting and at said annual election on May 15, 2018, at the Herricks Community Center for the purpose of preparing a register for school meetings and elections held subsequent to said annual election. Any person shall be entitled to have his or her name placed on register provided at such meeting of the Board of Registration he or she is known or proven to the satisfaction of such Board of Registration to be entitled to vote at school meetings and elections for which the register is being prepared.

NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that all propositions and questions, which qualified voters of the school district desire placed upon the voting machines at said election, shall be made by petitions subscribed by not less than one hundred (100) qualified voters of the district and filed in the Office of the Clerk of the School District between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 3:00 p.m. and no later than 5:00 p.m. on Monday, April 16, 2018 thirty (30) days prior to said election, except as to propositions and questions required by law to be stated in the published or posted notice of the annual election which shall be filed not later than sixty (60) days prior to said election. When the last day for filing a petition falls on a Saturday or Sunday, the petition may be filed on the Monday following the last day for filing.

Upon the filing of such a petition the Board of Education shall determine by resolution whether or not to place such questions or propositions on the voting machines. In the event that the Board of Education shall determine that it is not proper, feasible or practicable to place such proposition or propositions, question or questions, upon a voting machine, then such proposition or propositions, question or questions, as the Board of Education may resolve to place before the voters at said election shall be voted upon by the use of paper ballots.

NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that the applications for absentee ballots for election of members of the Board of Education, the adoption of the annual budget and vote on any other propositions and questions as may be legally placed before the voters at the annual district election may be applied for at the Office of the Clerk of the District. Such application must be received by the District Clerk at least seven days before the day of the vote, if the ballot is to be mailed to the voter, or by the day before the day of the vote, if the ballot is to be delivered personally to the voter. No absentee voters’ ballots shall be canvassed, unless it shall have been received in the Office of the District Clerk no later than 5:00 p.m. on the day of the vote. A list of all persons to whom absentee ballots have

been given shall be available for inspection in the Office of the Clerk of said School District and will be open for inspection by any qualified voter of said School District during regular office hours between 8:00 a.m. and 3:00 p.m.

DATED: March 9, 2018

BY ORDER OF THE BOARD OF EDUCATION New Hyde Park, New York Lisa Rutkoske, Clerk Herricks Union Free School District Town of North Hempstead NHP #147996 4x 03/30, 04/13, 04/27, 05/11 /2018 #147996

NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT COUNTY OF NASSAU Santander Bank, N.A., Plaintiff AGAINST Phillip Salli a/k/a Phillip A. Salli; Diana Salli; et al., Defendant(s) Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale duly dated March 28, 2018 I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction at the Nassau County Supreme Court, Calendar Control Part (CCP) 100 Supreme Court Drive, Mineola, New York, 11501 on May 29, 2018 at 11:30AM, premises known as 370 Nassau Boulevard, Garden City Park, NY 11040. All that certain plot piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements erected, situate, lying and being in the North Hempstead, County of Nassau, State of NY, Section 33 Block 564 Lots 42, 43 & 141. Approximate amount of judgment $515,495.41 plus interest and costs. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index# 16-008370.

Mark Goidell, Esq., Referee Shapiro, DiCaro & Barak, LLC Attorney(s) for the Plaintiff 175 Mile Crossing Boulevard Rochester, New York 14624 (877) 759-1835 Dated: April 5, 2018 NHP #148223 4x 04/27, 05/04, 05/11, 05/18 /2018 #148223

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Nearly 4,000 T-shirts have been created with the winner’s artwork.

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High School Honorable Mentions went to Gabriella D’Angelo, Manhasset High School; Cindy Jiang, New Hyde Park Memorial High School; Nicole Lee, Roslyn High School; Victoria Maciorowski, New Hyde Park Memorial High School; Amanda Poppe,

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G.N. schools host health fair The Great Neck Public Schools, in partnership with the United Parent-Teacher Council, or UPTC, will host a Community Health and Wellness Fair on May 8 at 6:30 p.m. at North High School, 35 Polo Road. This event is open to the entire community, and residents of all ages are encouraged to attend.

The Community Health and Wellness Fair will feature a keynote speaker, break-out sessions by a variety of health and safety experts, and an exhibitor’s space in the gymnasium.

The keynote address will be delivered by Dr. Warren Seigel, Chairman of Pediatrics and Director of Adolescent Medicine at Coney Island Hospital. Dr.

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cal health, including antibiotics, allergies, and asthma; opioid abuse; parenting and care giving; holistic health; physical fitness; and financial wellness for senior citizens.

Health and wellness information will also be available in the exhibitor’s space in the gymnasium, where more than 20 exhibitors will share information about organizations, products, and services available in the community.

For more information about the Community Health and Wellness Fair, please contact David Zawatson, director of physical education, recreation and athletics at (516) 441-4045 or dzawatson@greatneck.k12.ny.us.

‘Character counts’ awards Sewanhaka High School invited select seventh- and eighth-graders to the Character Counts Awards ceremony on April 12.

These students were selected by their team teachers because they exhibit strong qualities and are role models for their peers. The ceremony was hosted by Assistant Principal Frank Geritano and members of the Shared Decision-Making Committee.

More than 50 students were honored with awards. Each winner was presented with his or her award after listening to a reading about what positive qualities they possess.

G.N. schools launch new website The Great Neck Public Schools is proud to announce the launch of a completely redesigned website on April 30, 2018. The district’s web address will remain the same: www.greatneck.k12.ny.us.

The district’s technology staff and webmasters developed the new site over the past ten months using Blackboard Web Community Manager, a system adopted by many school districts on Long Island.

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pearance. In addition to its fresh new look, the website will also feature consistent navigation, search capability, language translation, an interactive calendar, and social media integration. It will also be ADA compliant and should display responsively on all devices, whether it’s on a personal computer, tablet, or smartphone.

For more information about the district website, contact Marc Epstein, director of technology, at (516) 441-4088 or mepstein@ greatneck.k12.ny.us.

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New school mission statement At its April 12 meeting, the Floral Park-Bellerose Union Free School District’s Board of Education officially adopted a new mission statement, as well as a series of 11 belief statements.

The mission statement reads: “FPBSD is committed to fostering a safe learning environment that promotes social-emotional, physical and intellectual growth where students use their creativity, critical thinking and

problem solving skills to be successful, kind and compassionate members of a global society. Students will be prepared for their future while embracing their individuality with an eagerness to face challenges. Through open, on-going communication, we strive to have our parents, teachers and community members actively involved in developing the whole child.”

The belief statements can be

viewed on the district’s website at:#www.floralpark.k12.ny.us.

“Our Mission-Vision-Goals Committee has worked hard the last three months at developing our mission statement and a set of core beliefs for the Floral Park-Bellerose Schools community,” Superintendent Michael Dantona said. “We are excited about how our community’s core beliefs will guide our distict for a generation.”

North Hempstead Town Supervisor Judi Bosworth spoke to members of the Cellini Lodge No. 2206 Order Sons of Italy in America during their meeting on April 9 at Clinton G. Martin Park.

Bosworth provided attendees with an updated on the projects impacting New Hyde Park residents, updates on the

town’s financial stability, information on upcoming events and more.

Cellini Lodge No. 2206, which is based in New Hyde Park, was founded in 1968 and has a membership of over 350 men and women. The lodge supports local charities, civic organization and community programs.

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