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Shooting sparks N. Shore school safety reviews

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Port district pledges to enhance security after Florida tragedy 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 In the wake of the school shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, North Shore schools are examining their security measures and urging students and parents to talk to district counselors about potential threats. Roslyn Superintendent Allison Brown said the shock of the school shooting, which killed 17 students and adults, had her contemplating the district’s plan for security and safety across its five schools. “In the last few years, we have put in place strong emergency protocols and practice them regularly,” Brown said in a statement. “Every one of our schools tests these protocols in coordination with local police, who have given us high marks for preparedness.” Brown said under the advice of

law enforcement, the details of the protocols are not discussed publicly because disclosing specifics could potentially compromise safety. She did say, however, that much of the new construction in the district has included more secure entrances, and the staﬀ conducts a number of emergency drills, including lockdowns, lock-outs, shelter-in-place and evacuation to prepare for diﬀerent types of intruder situations. At Roslyn High School,"only the main entrance is accessible to students and visitors, and all the schools have a single point of entry during school hours. The district also employs security cameras on the buildings and fields as well as electronic student IDs, door alarms and panic buttons. “We are conducting a review audit of all of our security-related technology this week,”" Barry Edelson, the Roslyn communications director, said. “Such reviews have been undertaken a number of times previously, Continued on Page 71

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Manorhaven students created their own Kabuki masks and headbands as part of their studies about Japan during the school’s annnual Cultural Studies Week.

Town learned late of Troiano’s tax liens BY LU K E TORRANCE AND JANELLE CL AUSEN

Thursday that former town employee Robert Troiano failed to list federal tax liens on at least one financial disclosure statement. Carole" Trottere, a" town The Town of North Hempstead appeared to confirm on spokeswoman, said in a state-

ment that Troiano had listed a federal tax lien on his 2016 financial disclosure, filed in May 2017, but made no mention of a financial disclosure filed in 2014. Blank Slate Media reported Continued on Page 59

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Board of Ed talks budget, security District seeks money for new hires BY LU K E TORRANCE

A serious discussion of Jewish comedy Columbia prof to discuss book at Temple Beth Israel BY LU K E TORRANCE Jewish comedy can trace its roots all the way back to biblical times and remains at the forefront of popular culture to this day, through comedians like Jerry Seinfeld and Sarah Silverman. Jeremy Dauber sought to document the way Jewish history has aﬀected Jewish humor and vice versa in his book “Jewish Comedy: A Serious History,” which he will discuss at an event at Temple Beth Israel next week. The event with Dauber will be held at the synagogue in Port Washington on Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. Attendance is free and refreshments will be provided. “We’ve never had anything remotely similar to this,” said Bob Epstein, who organizes events for Temple Beth Israel.

“We’ve never had anything regarding Jewish comedy or comedy in general, so it’s kind of a new look at that, which is always kind of a good thing.” Epstein said Dauber will talk about his book and then answer questions from the audience. There will be a book signing afterward. Dauber is a professor at Columbia University specializing in Yiddish and Jewish literature and culture. He received his undergraduate degree from Harvard and attended Oxford University for his doctorate as a Rhodes scholar. “Jewish Comedy” is his fourth book. Epstein said Dauber’s visit is part of the temple’s association with the Jewish Book Council. The council has authors give a presentation on a recent book and then passes on the names of authors to groups who are

part of the program. Epstein said synagogues in Great Neck and Huntington are also part of the program. “They come up with a whole reference brochure about each author and a summary of their book … we select two authors, and it’s on a first-come, first-serve"basis,” he said. He said this was the temple’s second year in the program and he has been pretty satisfied with the authors who have come to Temple Beth Israel. Epstein said he was very excited to have Dauber come speak. “We’re glad to have him, he’s very highly thought of,” he said. “People will have the opportunity to learn" things that they don’t know about comedy, and about some of the deeper meanings or relevance and how it shaped our history and world.”

The Port Washington Board of Education spent most of Tuesday’s meeting looking for ways to close a gap in its budget, but also reassured concerned parents that the district was doing everything it could to keep children safe in the wake of the Florida school shooting. During the last meeting, the board faced a $1.5 million gap in the budget. That number shrank to zero on Tuesday as a result of cuts in administration and oﬃce supplies. The total budget is currently $155,230,960. “We’re in a better place right now than we were last week, but we still have a ways to go,” said board President Karen Sloan. The draft budget does not include any money for hiring new staﬀ, so it was suggested that" $950,000 could be taken from the unassigned fund balance which would be able to fund new teaching hires. Assistant Superintendent Mary Callahan said the district had other sources from which to pull funds.

The board, she said, could take $900,000 out of the school’s debt service fund, which she said was set aside for this purpose," and to consider taking an additional $962,228 out of the" employees’ retirement reserve. Callahan said the numbers had changed since the last meeting and will continue to change, especially when the district hears how much state aid will be provided by Gov. Andrew Cuomo. “I would like to reiterate, as I do each time, that this is a moving target,” she said. Her report showed that the Port Washington School District spent $26,388.47 per student during the 2016-17 school year, down from $26,777.03 the year before. That number was the lowest of 12 local districts that included Manhasset, Great Neck and Jericho. “Port Washington has been for many, many years, the most cost-eﬀective"of all of these districts,” Callahan said. During the public comment period, a parent raised the issue of safety in the district following the school shooting in Parkland, Continued on Page 71

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The Port Washington Board of Education during a meeting.

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Village Club looks beyond Sands Point New program seeks to add members from the village, Port Washington and beyond BY LU K E TORRANCE To become a member of the Village Club of Sands Point, you don’t have to be a Sands Point resident. You don’t even have to live in Port Washington, but! Kevin Dudleston understands there is a bit of a misconception. “People! always had the idea that club membership was only open to Sands Point residents, and it is open for everyone,” said Dudleston, who serves as the club’s membership sales and marketing director. Dudleston admitted that the club could do more to promote membership to non-Sands Point residents. That is why the club announced a new introductory rate that essentially works as a trial period. “It allows them to discover the Village Club and see what aspects of it they like,” he said, adding that the club was looking to increase membership by 30 to 40 people. The membership is called “Discover the Village Club” and is $7,000 for Sands Point residents

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and $9,000 for nonresidents. After one year, members can either choose to continue their golf membership at full price or move to another membership category. In addition to an 18-hole golf course, the club includes an outdoor pool, tennis courts, racquet courts, and outdoor basketball and volleyball courts. Although Dudleston said the Village Club is thriving, many other country clubs around the

country are struggling to attract new members. The National Club Association, an advocate and source of information for private clubs, blamed the decline in membership over the last decade on several factors: the recession, changing lifestyles and more competition for people’s entertainment dollar. While all clubs are feeling the eﬀects of decreased membership to some extent, an NCA presentation from 2014 said middle-tier

clubs will bear the brunt of the decline, not top-tier clubs like the one in Sands Point. The Village Club of Sands Point has several other advantages — it receives funding from the local government, it carries the prestige of being located on a former Guggenheim estate, and it is located in one of the wealthiest areas of the country, according to data from the U.S. Census. The last one is especially important, according to the National

Club Association, as its data from 2013 showed almost half of all members lived within three miles of their country clubs. Still, the club is not resting on its laurels, oﬃcials said. Unlike some other clubs, Sands Point does not have an initiation fee and allows members to leave the club when they want. “Very often you’re kind of locked in,” Dudleston said. “You can’t leave until you get somebody to replace you, or sometimes there is a charge if you leave the club early and you may lose the initiation fee you already paid as well.” He also said that the club is considering open days where anyone can experience the facilities that the club has to oﬀer. The club is looking to increase the rounds of golf played each year— an area of the club important to Dudleston, who left his job with investment bank Credit Suisse to become a PGA Professional. “That’s the idea, to bring people around,” he said. “Get a quick golf lesson, explore the estate, work with tennis, those sort of things. But it’s still a work in progress.”

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Sands Point simplifies village code Planning Board to handle all matters regarding subdivisions, fines increased BY LU K E TORRANCE

Building a subdivision in Sands Point became a simpler!process Tuesday, as the village’s Board of Trustees voted to only require the approval of the Planning Board. Previously, those looking to create or purchase a subdivision had to get approval from both the Planning Board and Zoning Board. Now the Zoning Board will only have to get involved if there is a building variance. With that change, the board also had to update another area of the village code. The filling, excavating or grading of land had traditionally been the domain of the Zoning Board in Sands Point, but the code was changed to allow the Planning Board to oversee this part of the construction process for properties — like subdivisions — the board has approval over. In addition to changing those two sections of the code,

A third oﬀense within a period of five years can now draw a fine of up to $7,000 from $1,000. The board also approved the purchase of an additional license plate reader, following the installation of three of them last December. The reader will be installed at the intersection of Astor Lane and Middle Neck Road. “It was deemed that this was the most appropriate way to monitor the access to the! Harbor Acres, its residents and the participants at the Village Club,” said Deputy Mayor Marc Silbert. “I would move this as a prudent and logical extension of the network that we have right now.” The reader costs $17,669, which will include maintenance. The trustees considered several upgrades to the Village Club of Sands Point and approved the restoration of the marble floor of PHOTO BY LUKE TORRANCE the club’s mansion. Trustee Peter Forman was The Sands Point Board of Trustees during Tuesday’s meeting appointed as telecom coordinator for the village. “I’m in favor of it,” Forman the trustees also bumped up the Fines for a first violation can while fines for a second oﬀense penalties for violations. now go up to $3,000 from $350, can go up to $5,000 from $700. said.

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Mangano’s former top aide indicted BY LU K E TORRANCE Richard! “Rob” Walker, who was chief deputy county executive under former Nassau County Executive Edward Mangano, was charged last Thursday with obstruction of justice and making false statements to the FBI. Walker, 43,!a Republican and former state assemblyman from Hicksville, pleaded not guilty after the two-count indictment was unsealed in federal court in Central Islip. Mangano,! his! wife,! Linda, and former Town of Oyster Bay Supervisor John Venditto, are scheduled to face trial in federal court this month. Edward Mangano has been charged with conspiracy, bribery, wire fraud and extortion. Linda Mangano has been charged with making false statements, conspiracy, extortion and obstruction of justice. Venditto is facing charges of conspiracy, bribery, securities fraud, wire fraud and obstruction of justice. Each has pleaded not guilty. Walker’s indictment came more than two years after he confirmed while testifying in the corruption trial of former state Senate

Majority Leader Dean Skelos that federal prosecutors were investigating his role in county contracts that went to political campaign contributors. The U.S. attorney’s office described Walker’s felony charges as the result of an ongoing federal investigation into whether Nassau public officials have taken money from county contractors and if those parties then tried to conceal their actions, according to Newsday. U.S. Magistrate Judge Anne Shields released him on a $200,000 bond. His next court date is set for May 16. Prosecutors said the charges against Walker stem from a Notre Dame football game in Indiana that he attended as the guest of a Nassau County contractor in October 2014. After the game, Walker allegedly accepted a $5,000 cash payment from the contractor before returning to New York. “Lying and obstructing justice by those who are sworn to serve the public will never be tolerated,” U.S.!Attorney Richard P. Donoghue said in a statement. “This office, together with our law enforcement partners, is committed to holding officials who violate the public

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Rob Walker trust accountable for such crimes.” Authorities said that when Walker learned last year of a federal investigation into corruption in Nassau County government, including circumstances surrounding the payment, he spoke to the contractor several times “in an attempt to convince the contractor to conceal the existence of the $5,000 payment from the grand jury.” Walker then tried to return the $5,000 at a meeting with the contractor at a park in Hicksville,

according to federal oﬃcials. Unbeknownst to Walker, the meeting was under surveillance by the FBI, the authorities said. After the meeting, the envelope containing the payment was handed over to the authorities, according to the federal statement. When Walker was interviewed by the FBI later, he lied several times, including the claim that he never received a cash payment from the contractor, according to federal investigators. “As alleged, Rob Walker, while serving as a public oﬃcial, accepted money from a contractor who was performing work for Nassau County. When he found out the FBI was hot on his trail, he tried to cover up his corrupt behavior, even going so far as to attempt to convince the contractor to lie to a grand jury,” FBI Assistant Directorin-Charge William Sweeney Jr. said in a statement. “Walker and others who engage in similar schemes are reminded today that there’s no way to undo what’s already been done.” Walker served earlier in his career as deputy parks commissioner in the Town of Oyster Bay after first working as an assistant to Venditto. He then served in the state Assembly after winning a 2005 special

election. Walker is the son of Rose Marie Walker — a Republican Nassau legislator and former Town of Oyster Bay councilwoman. Walker drew attention when his Hicksville Republican Committee ran a fundraiser in which 87 percent of the $58,350 raised was provided by county vendors. This included $2,925 contributed by VIP Splash Waterways Recovery Group, which received a $12 million deal from the county for Superstorm Sandy cleanup work. The federal corruption probe also allegedly found that Mangano and Venditto had, in exchange for contracts, received kickbacks from! restaurateur Harendra Singh, including a! $450,000 noshow job for Mangano’s wife, prosecutors said. Federal prosecutors had also investigated Skelos, the former Republican majority leader from Rockville Centre, who was convicted alongside his son, Adam, in 2015 on charges including bribery, extortion and conspiracy. A retrial was ordered for Skelos last September, although the appeals court said the evidence in the case was enough to allow a “correctly charged jury” to reach a guilty verdict.

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Zero tolerance for gifts: Curran

County exec issues order barring employees from accepting presents from vendors BY LU K E TORRANCE Nassau County Executive Laura Curran announced an executive order on Monday establishing a zero-tolerance policy for gifts given by vendors to county employees. She also announced a new program to promote standards of ethical contracting in the procurement process. “A lack of transparency and self-dealing have not only led to corruption but prevent an open, fair and competitive marketplace,” she said. “My administration is dedicated to promoting a culture of transparency and accountability, free of corruption and fraud.” Curran rattled off some examples of gifts that county employees handling contracts and procuring can no longer accept: meals, holiday gifts, holiday baskets, gift cards and" tickets to golf outings or sporting events. When asked later if employees can accept a cup of coffee from vendors, Curran said “pay for your [own] coffee.” The previous standard barred gifts worth $75 or more. Vendors that do business with Nassau must disclose if they have any family members working for the county govern-

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Count Executive Laura Curran announces contracting reforms at the Executive and Legislative Building in Mineola on Monday. ment, Curran said. “We view this as one eﬀective tool in our battle against entrenched special interests, political insiders and unscrupulous"vendors,” she said. Curran announced several other changes as part of a broader contracting reform package. Instead" of having one person at the executive level approve all contracts, the deputy county execu-

tives will have oversight. The county is working" to implement electronic filing for vendor disclosure forms."And all contracting oﬃcers will be required to take annual compliance"training. “These measures, taken together, serve as another level of checks and balances on a county contracting and procurement process that oversees more than $1.3 billion in annual contracts,”

Curran said. The policy announcement comes after Rob Walker, chief deputy county executive under former Nassau County Executive Edward Mangano, was charged last week with making false statements and obstructing justice over a $5,000 payment he allegedly received from a contractor. And Mangano himself is to appear in court over charges that he received kickbacks in exchange for county contracts. Curran said the timing was a coincidence. As for what the punishment will be for those who accept gifts, Curran said that there would be “serious repercussions.”" John Chiara, deputy county executive for compliance, said punishments for each violation will be up to Curran’s discretion. Curran was asked whether the reforms would make the contracting process even more" cumbersome than it already is. Curran said she was trying to strike a balance. “That is always the dance, putting in reform while not increasing the bureaucracy and the hoops people have to jump through,” she said. “That’s something we’re very, very mindful of, to make this as eﬃcient as possible.

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Ryder approved as Nassau’s top cop BY LU K E TORRANCE The Nassau County Police Department has been led by an acting commissioner since Thomas Dale stepped down in 2013. That fouryear vacancy finally ended Monday when Patrick Ryder was approved as commissioner. “For the past two months, I’ve felt like a caged lion,” said Ryder, who has served as acting commissioner since July and was nominated for the permanent position by County Executive Laura Curran in January. Ryder was approved unanimously by the county Legislature but first had to discuss a letter sent over the weekend to each of the county legislators accusing him of sexually harassing women in the Police Department. “I did not and I would not ever degrade a woman, ever,” he said, his voice quivering with emotion. “I am here to tell you that none of these accusations are true and it was investigated this past weekend and I believe you all have found the findings that it is not true.” According to Newsday, the letter alleged that Ryder had made

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Patrick Ryder (center) is sworn in as Nassau County police commissioner by County Executive Laura Curran (left). inappropriate remarks during a meeting with union oﬃcials in early January, such as referring to one woman as “legs.” Ryder’s assertion that the allegations were unfounded was backed by members of the Legislature. “I was contacted by the county executive over the weekend, and

she did mention that they undertook"an investigation by an outside entity … and that the allegations were completely unfounded,” said Presiding Oﬃcer Richard Nicolello (R-New Hyde Park). Ryder was also questioned about his private business, Real Time Intelligence Limited, which taught oﬃcials from foreign coun-

tries the techniques of American law enforcement. He said he founded the business in 2010 and that none of his work there was done on county time or using county resources. Ryder also said he plans to dissolve the business next week. Aside from those questions, the Legislature mostly oﬀered praise of

Ryder. Nicolello called him a “cop’s cop” and Delia DeRiggi-Whitton (D-Glen Cove) said he was a key component of a “clean start for Nassau County.” After his approval from the Legislature, Ryder was sworn in by Curran. After reciting the oath, he was applauded by the audience, which included many of the county’s top police oﬃcials. Aside from approving Ryder, the Legislature also approved the waiving of a $1 million penalty, clearing the way for the Islanders to return to the Nassau Coliseum. The penalty would have been imposed if the team did not play at least six games per year in Nassau through 2027. In January, Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced" that the Islanders would split their home games between the Coliseum and the Barclays Center in Brooklyn while a new area is being built in Belmont. Although legislators held reservations about waiving the penalty instead of deferring it, all agreed that not waiving it would sabotage any plans for the Islanders to play at the Coliseum. In the end, the measure was approved unanimously.

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specific goals for the village in his next term other than to continue to work with surrounding villages and local government to “keep Baxter Estates a wonderful community.” Peckelis joined the Board of Trustees in the fall"of 2006 to fill a vacancy. She first ran for trustee in March 2007 and has served on the board ever since. Eﬀorts to reach Peckelis were unavailing. With an estimated population of 1,059, according to the U.S. Census, and an area of 0.2 square miles, Baxter Estates is the smallest village in the Port Washington area in both population and area.

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Public meetings to be held for Belmont

Empire State Development seeks local feedback during March sessions at Elmont Library BY R E B ECC A K L A R The Empire State Development Corp. will hold two public meetings on March 22 on the proposed Belmont Park development project. The announcement came on Tuesday along with the release of a 32-page public notice about the scope of an environmental impact statement. The two-hour meetings will be held at the Elmont Memorial Library at 3:30 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. They follow months of public disapproval, mainly from the Belmont Park Community Coalition. The coalition has previously raised issues about the delayed forming of the Belmont Community Advisory Committee and what it said was the Empire State Development Corp.’s failure to give the group information. Aubrey Phillips, an Elmont resident and vice president of the Parkhurst Civic Association, said the coalition is welcome to the open meeting if in fact it is open not only in name. Phillips said a previous open meeting, held in December where

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Plans for the site of a future arena at Belmont Park. the public heard from two bidders for the request from proposal, was “scripted.” He said residents had to write questions on sheets of paper and said the questions from supporters of the project were read aloud. Phillips said the coalition is not interested in another meeting of that kind, which he would call a “sham.” In December, Gov. Andrew

Cuomo announced that the New York Islanders would return to Nassau County with the Belmont development. The winning request for proposal went to New York Arena Partners, a joint venture between Sterling Development and Oak View Group, to create an 18,000seat arena, a multipurpose event center, a retail center and a hotel on 43 acres of state-owned land

OPEN HOUSE

currently used for parking spaces at Belmont Park. The public notice includes two site plan options, each with a Site A and Site B. Option one has Site A with the proposed arena, the hotel, approximately 85,000 gross square feet of an “Entertainment District” retail space, approximately 350,000 gross square feet of luxury outlet stores within a “Retail Village,” ap-

proximately 30,000 gross square feet of commercial oﬃce space, approximately 1.2 acres of publicly accessible open space and approximately 1,339 parking spaces below the arena. Option one’s Site B would include 10,000 gross square feet of community space, approximately 6.1 acres of publicly accessible open space and approximately 2,360 at-grade spaces for parking. The sites would be connected by two pedestrian bridges. Option two diﬀers in that the retail village would be at Site B. There would also be 500 parking spaces below the arena, and 1,700 spaces of below-grade parking at Site B. Option two also has 6.5 acres of publicly accessible land at Site B. Option two also has one pedestrian bridge connecting the sites. The document states that the “applicant is seeking community input and consulting with retail specialists to understand how to optimize the arrangement of uses for the Proposed Project’s visitors.”

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Opinion

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Town transparency goes on holiday

udi Bosworth has often boasted, with much justification, that as North Hempstead town supervisor she seems to be everywhere, attending one event after another talking about the town. Which seems so odd given Bosworth’s unwillingness to answer questions about the financial statements Robert Troiano filed while serving first as director of operations for the town and then as a senior policy adviser. Troiano, who joined the town in 2014 after 10 years as a North Hempstead town councilman and county legislator, amassed! $81,533 in federal income tax liens between 2010 and 2014 as well as a $749,264 lien against a house he owns that was facing foreclosure. But rather than openness and transparency — words the town supervisor has often used to characterize her administration — the town initially declined to say whether Troiano had disclosed his debts on town financial disclosure forms. And, after Blank Slate Media reported that a 2014 financial disclosure form obtained under the Freedom of Information Law showed Troiano had not disclosed his debts that year, the town issued a statement that makes the small print in a credit card application look straightforward. “Robert Troiano listed a federal tax lien on his 2016 financial disclosure form which was filed May 2017 and reviewed by the Independent Board of Ethics,” town spokeswoman Carole Trottere said in a two-paragraph statement. “It was reported in Newsday that there may have been other tax liens. According to the Town Attorney, these were not listed on

earlier financial disclosure forms.” In other words, Troiano had failed to disclose his debts in earlier financial disclosure forms. In journalism, this is known as burying the lead. Trottere!concluded by saying “We have strengthened the Town code of ethics and added an antinepotism law. The issues raised regarding Troiano’s undisclosed tax liens suggest this process needs to be tightened further and we are doing that, including now requiring that senior appointees!submit financial! disclosures before starting their employment with the Town.” Does that mean senior appointees were not required to submit financial disclosures before starting their employment? And just who are these “senior appointees?” We’ve seen this movie before. In fact, just two years ago. Trottere’s!mention of town efforts to strengthen the town code refer to changes made in 2016 after former town Democratic Party Chairman Gerard Terry was found to have $1.4 million in tax debts while holding two posts with the town and ex-employee Helen McCann was arrested for allegedly stealing $98,000 from the Solid Waste Management Authority. “It’s not business as usual here in the town,” Bosworth said at the time. Two months earlier, town officials announced they would start enforcing a requirement in the ethics code that town political committee leaders file financial disclosure forms. The requirement had been made 25 years before. And never enforced. Terry never made any disclosure filings as a contractor or as chairman of the North Hempstead Democratic Committee.

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He was later charged with one count each of tax evasion and obstructing the Internal Revenue Service and later pleaded guilty to tax evasion.! He also pleaded guilty in Nassau County Criminal Court to failing to file a 2010 state tax return for personal income and to not paying more than $3,000 in state taxes. Will Troiano face any penalties for not disclosing his debts on town financial disclosure forms? Town ethics code violations are punishable by a fine of up to $10,000.! But based on what Trottere said in her news release it is unclear whether Troiano is covered under the ethics code. And neither Bosworth, Trottere or any town board member is willing to discuss the question.

Nor are they saying whether the town informed Nassau County Executive Laura Curran’s administration about the undisclosed tax liens when Troiano was named the acting head of parking and traﬃc violations for the county. Curran and her administration appeared to be unaware of Troiano’s tax liens at the time of his appointment. But somehow Republicans in the county Legislature, where Troiano served before joining the town, knew. “Troiano would have been questioned about his financials by the Republicans” during a! confirmation hearing if he had not resigned, said Frank Moroney, a spokesman for Nassau Republicans. “The sheer volume created

doubts in people’s minds,” Moroney told Newsday. Instead of answering the Republicans’ questions, Troiano withdrew his nomination for a job that would have paid him $155,000 a year. He then took a job paying $140,000 a year at the county Board of Elections. We hope this is not the only penalty Troiano faces. Bosworth and the board also ought to be straight with the public and disclose what they knew! about Troiano’s debts and when they knew it, and what they intend to do about it. They should explain why the public should believe they will not be back in another two years with another promise to clean up the town’s ethics.

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ON THE RIGHT

How is Laura Curran doing so far?

ince taking office on January 1, 2018, Nassau County Executive Laura Curran has made serious strides to eliminate the flawed policies and practices of her federally-indicted predecessor, Ed Mangano. She has also made a few rookie mistakes, but they can be easily corrected. First, the good news. Curran has appointed a deputy for compliance to review all county contracts to ensure there are no political influences. She has prohibited appointees from holding political party posts and has banned them from making contributions to her campaign fund. A Property Tax Task Force has been empowered, according to Newsday, to tackle policy issues, “including how to pay off hundreds of millions of dollars in accumulated refund debt and how best to staff up Nassau’s assessment review operation.” Curran has mandated that real estate be reassessed before the tentative tax roll is unveiled on January 1, 2019. And she has extended deadlines for residential property tax

challenges to April 1. Most impressive has been the shake-out at the County’s most prominent political dumping ground, the Nassau University Medical Center. Curran’s NUMC chairman, George Tsunis, has moved swiftly to cut wasteful spending by $2.34 million. Two of Mangano’s top political flunkies, earning annually $199,000 and $165,000, respectively, have been canned. Politically-connected marketing and public relations firm contracts have not been renewed. Tsunis has also referred several discoveries over to District Attorney Madeline Singas. As for misjudgments, the first was Curran’s request to borrow $45 million to pay a judicial award. Utilizing this fiscal gimmick will not get the county back on the road to fiscal sanity. I am surprised Curran’s CFO Mark Page went along with this request. As a former New York City Budget Director and NIFA consultant, he knows better. Curran’s biggest blunder, however, has been the appoint-

GEORGE J. MARLIN On The Right ment of Richie Kessel to the board of the County’s Industrial Development Authority. I’m assuming that no advisor shared with Curran the December 2013 State Inspector General investigation report into the New York Power Authority during Kessel’s tenure as Chief Executive Officer. One disturbing IG finding was “an apparent violation of the Public Oﬃcers Law and NYPA’s Code of Conduct regarding a financial loan made by a subordinate to a superior.”

Kessel accepted a $15,000 loan from an employee and both failed to “report this loan on their Annual Statements of Financial Disclosure as required by and in violation of the Public Officers Law.” The report concluded “the loan by a subordinate to a superior by itself appears to violate the Public Officers Law and NYPA’s Code of Conduct.” The IG also determined that Kessel appeared “to have violated the New York State Public Officers Law and NYPA’s Code of Conduct” by failing “to disclose an ongoing personal legal relationship he had with Ruskin Moscou Faltischek, PC, which responded to and was awarded Legal Services Counsel contracts.” The IG found that Kessel failed to disclose the relationship “which he had retained to represent him in an ongoing personal legal matter that continued for the duration of the selection process and involved a significant outstanding balance in legal fees that persist to date.” These findings are only a snippet of what is contained in the 40page IG report.

One other Kessel tidbit: Syracuse Post-Standard reporter,Julie McMahon wrote on Feb. 19, that the disgraced lobbyist, Todd Howe, who has pleaded guilty to eight felonies, “dropped many names of people in high places during his testimony [in the Percoco trial] which made clear the access he enjoyed to the biggest names in state government” including NYPA CEO Richie Kessel. “Howe said he and Kessel worked together many years. Howe arranged meetings with Kessel for the Hudson Valley power plant project.” Laura Curran pledged a transparent administration. Ergo, considering the IDA’s checkered past, I can’t figure why she reached out to Richie Kessel, a life-long political hack who has failed to make required disclosures in the past. If Kessel possesses one iota of political integrity, he will resign from the IDA to avoid embarrassing Curran further. Overall Curran is oﬀ to a good start. To keep the momentum going, she should stay away from political retreads.

A LOOK ON THE LIGHTER SIDE

And the Academy Award winner is….

ver since the Motion Picture Academy allowed more than five films to be nominated for “Best Picture,” I’ve considered it a personal challenge to see them all. Most years I fail. This year I made it to all but one, so I feel like a winner already! Of course, I have some opinions. If “Three Billboards Outside of Ebbing, Missouri” wins on Sunday, I think its producers should oﬀer the statue to President Trump — because it is his stunning victory, based in that part of the country, that gives the film a heightened importance. The billboards were rented by grieving mother Mildred Hayes, who’s incensed that police have made no progress solving the gruesome rape and murder of her teenage daughter seven months before. They read: “Raped while dying…” “And still no arrests?” “How come, Chief Willoughby?” Sadly, the film feels as fake as its name. There is no “Ebbing, Missouri.” And I looked at the moun-

tains in the background of virtually every shot and thought, “Where did they film this? Not in Missouri!” More like the Great Smoky Mountains of North Carolina, where the tax incentives were better. Rape and murder are drama enough. But not content with that, director/writer Martin McDonagh tossed on more, like a child with birthday-cake sprinkles. Most oﬀensive, to me, is the reference early in the film to Police Oﬃcer Dixon (Sam Rockwell), as a “(N-word)-torturer” — apparently just so the character can joke that “It’s ‘persons-ofcolor-torturer,’ now. ” Ha ha, very funny. The trouble is, the director does none of the work required to earn that reference: What? Torture? You mean, like in Chicago, where the Police Department actually had a building where police “disappeared” AfricanAmerican arrestees for up to 24 hours at a time, torturing them into false confessions, over a period of almost 20 years? It ended in 1991 and they’re

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A Look on the Lighter Side still dealing with the repercussions. You can’t just drop something like that into a dialog and run away. Worst of all, they never solve the murder! No need for spoiler alerts because there’s nothing to spoil! For a film where American race relations are handled without a single false note, I recommend “Get Out,” by Jordan Peele. Peele has said that he wanted to make a film that was completely authentic from the black

person’s point of view, without alienating any white viewers. I am precisely the kind of white liberal he might be making fun of — and yet he never lost me once from beginning to end. That’s an even bigger achievement when you know I usually avoid horror movies like the plague… yet I loved this one. Greta Gerwig’s “Lady Bird” is equally authentic in its own way. I’ve praised it elsewhere, so I’ll just say I’d be thrilled but not surprised if either “Get Out” or “Lady Bird” takes Best Picture. “Dunkirk,” “The Post,” and “Darkest Hour” are all masterful films, but seem more like history lessons than original creations. As for “Phantom Thread”: When Casablanca’s Humphrey Bogart told Ingrid Bergman that “the problems of three little people don’t amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world” — the characters in “Phantom Thread” might just be the three people he had in mind. There’s a moody fashion designer, who simply can’t bear it when his new girlfriend butters her toast too loudly; the noisy

girlfriend; and his sister, who pops in and out as if she owns the place (which maybe she does). But if they were living and bickering together in a doublewide trailer — say in Missouri — instead of luxury lodgings in Europe, no one would care. Which brings me to “The Shape of Water.” The characters in this movie have real-world problems. Real Cold-War-1960’sAmerica problems. There is a cleaning woman who is mute; another who is black; and an aging gay man; and it is up to this band of misfits to save a strange species of fish/man/god from a Dr. Strangelove-military type who wants to dissect the creature. Add a team of Soviet spies — the old-fashioned kind who shoot bullets and don’t fool around. Spills and chills ensue. And, without giving too much away, there is even some hope that love might eventually conquer all. One thing I know: when I come out of a movie feeling good about life, that movie is a winner. That’s why my money is on “The Shape of Water.”

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PULSE OF THE PENINSULA

Act now to preserve net neutrality Well, it happened. Despite overwhelming opposition, Federal Communications Commission Chair Ajit Pai, the former Verizon thug, overturned net neutrality rules. The proof of how evil this is: the next day, moments before Pai was to speak at the Neo-Nazi CPAC convention, the NRA honored him with the “Charlton Heston Courage Under Fire Award” for repealing the net neutrality rules. They weren’t allowed to bring Pai’s “prize” on stage – a handmade rifle (how ironic) – but it was forthcoming. Pai, a former Verizon lawyer who joked in December about being “Verizon’s puppet” argued that the net neutrality rules were too “heavyhanded.” But net neutrality proponents – including consumer advocacy groups and tech companies – counter that the rules are necessary to prevent monopolistic broadband providers from engaging in censorship and from harming competitors. Overturning Net Neutrality rules mean that Big Cable companies can censor content, slow or throttle sites, inhibit newcomers from ever

taking hold, and shakedown viewers for more and higher fees. It means it will be harder for the next innovator, the next Facebook or Reddit or Twitter or Netflix to get a foothold. For instance, Comcast owns NBC Universal and, before, was not allowed to throttle Netflix streaming speeds to make it less desirable for viewers compared to its own NBC Universal content. You would think this means that Google can accede to massive pressure to shut down NRATV, but that is doubtful. The NRA isn’t worried because they know that in the new paradigm, money talks, just as Citizens United turned political campaigns into a Fantasy League sport of billionaires. Media providers become the conduit to culture, and culture is values. News Corp, Disney, Comcast, Universal – which dominate media – can decide which programs convey the social message they want and price accordingly, both to the content provider and the consumer: NRATV promoting gun violence under guise of “Sec-

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Pulse of the Peninsula ond Amendment freedom? Free. Documentary on Elizabeth Warren and a fair deal for all? Expensive for both the producer and for consumers to subscribe to see it. Or think of charging a premium to producers of “Will & Grace,” a show which helped America see LGBT community as real people, or “Murphy Brown,” which promoted women’s rights, but giving evangelist Franklin Graham unlimited distribution. A coalition of 23 state attorneys general is challenging the repeal of net neutrality rules in court, as are Mozilla, Vimeo and consumer advocacy groups. Sen. Ed Markey (D-

Massachusetts) said last week after Pai issued the new rules that he is pressing forward with a resolution to scrap the FCC’s recent move. So far, that effort has garnered the support of 50 senators. Just one more vote in the Senate could overturn the repeal. Under the provision of the Congressional Review Act, a simple majority of Congress in both the House and the Senate can overturn the FCC’s repeal of net neutrality if they act within 60 legislative days (which takes 4-6 months)— and the pro-Big Cable leadership can’t stop them. The Trump Administration, which from public education to health care to Social Security, energy, environmental, trade and foreign policy has demonstrated that money talks, has nothing but contempt for free and fair flow of media. The federal budget proposes to slash funding altogether for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (PBS and NPR), yet has done little to force Facebook and Twitter to adhere to the same disclosure rules as every television and radio station, newspaper and magazine must adhere to, to prevent Russian agents from

undertaking propaganda and disinformation campaigns intended to suppress voting and sow conflict and discontent. It goes to the overall theme of Trumpism: weaponizing wealth – dollars are not just “free speech” (as Scalia and the right-wing Supreme Court said in Citizens United) but a measure and means of political power – and pulling up the ladder to upward mobility for everyone else – public education, public access TV and radio. Instead of “Got Milk?” Trump administration slogan is “Got Cash?” A survey conducted by the University of Maryland late last year revealed that 83% of Americans – including 75% of Republicans — disapproved of the planned repeal. Congress needs to act and legislate the reality that the online world, the Internet, the world-wide-web is an essential utility, a critical tool for nationhood and democracy, and access and messaging should not be determined by money. This week, there was an all-out social media campaign for #OneMoreVote to save net neutrality.

Contested elections in W.P. a good sign

want to thank the Williston Times for its informative article providing information!on upcoming village elections.! The article included the election date and!an overview of the candidates.! Williston Park is gifted with an array of mature!and qualified 2018 candidates. At this time Mayor Ehrbar and the present village board run the village quite!well.! Our streets are plowed, trees are trimmed, sidewalks are repaired, our! waste is collected and the pool is

beautiful.! Our taxes are a little high, but! they give us the benefit of being independent and apart from being just one!more area in the Town of North Hempstead waiting for snow plows to open our streets. Mayor Ehrbar and the present board, that includes Kevin Rynne, all work for!the good of the village, and that means you and me.! ! But, it is a healthy sign of “grassroots democracy” for Chief Gagliardi, Bill

O’Brien and Chief Sais to oﬀer their! energy, experience and ideas to the Village.! They should have an opportunity and a!forum to present their concepts to make our village lives even better.! Trustee Teresa Thomann has worked long and hard as a Trustee.! Her decision!not to run for reelection, in my opinion, and that of many others, is a great loss to the village.! However, her desire to continue to work through the civic association is great.

In fact, it might be good for the association to schedule a Candidates’ Night! where each one may present his thoughts and ideas to an interested! citizenry.! I volunteer to work with Trustee Thomann for that and even moderate!it if it can be scheduled I am needed. Alan J. Reardon, Esq. Former village justice and former trustee

Sabino right choice for Munsey Park

e write to recommend that you vote for Anthony Michael Sabino as your next trustee.! Anthony is seeking to fill the seat that will be vacated by John Lippman – who we sincerely thank for his enthusiastic and eﬀective service.

We think Anthony will be an excellent replacement.! We have known Anthony as neighbors and professional colleagues for more than 20 years, and have found him to be at all times warm and cordial, intelligent and professional, and helpful and competent.

As a lawyer, he has the training and experience to address whatever issues arise and serve the best interests of the village. As a long-time resident, he has a deep familiarity and understanding of our needs and the strong motivation to

meet them. We heartily endorse Anthony for village trustee.! Thank you. Leslie Barr Rosanne Harvey Munsey Park

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READERS WRITE

Papers fulfill role exposing corruption

his newspaper, as well as Newsday, have published some clearcut stories of local government corruption. Corruption in local government? As old as the first village, no doubt; certainly, something that has been common to local, rural county government as well as big city rule since the beginning of our country. Human nature travels with the immigrants of all types who cross oceans to settle new lands. As my grandmother used to say,” we bring ourselves to wherever we go”. In reading Newsday’s recent series profiling Gary Melius and his vast tentacles of self-dealing and power, we see through one very fine, microcosmic example how self-dealing and narrow selfinterest – some simply call it: greed! – can cost everyone. ! Reading how Melius was part and parcel of the creation of the six-figured salary Nassau police system and the broken, bankrupt county finances created

with the first Mitchel Field leases, I could not help comparing reading the series to a feeling that I would have had if I saw a truck going over a cliﬀ one fearsome! clip at a time. Corruption may seem ‘harmless.’ It lines the pockets of one or a few, it is said, but does not necessarily beggar the community. That is nonsense. Melius’ story is a readable template that overlays the story of how our local finances, governments, ways of doing business and the pressing, high levels of taxation and fees retard meaningful economic growth. To use Malcolm Gladwell’s appropriate terminology, we may well have reached a “Tipping Point” on tolerating the tightly woven fabric of insider deals, self-dealing corrupt cronyism, a total erasure of propriety lines between governing and enriching, and a class of elected oﬃcials who kowtow to the Melius’ of the world. Maybe.

Gary Melius’ foundation has done many good things. It has helped many fine, vital causes and people. So too has he backed good government electeds who govern well and, in the public’s, best interest. Melius’ way of doing business is metaphor, illustration and case study method for understanding. Cicero posited that ‘biography is destiny’. It is, too when reading of the smaller-bore corruptions that this paper, too, has ably reported. The tipping point is a decisive action that is an additive to many of the same types that finally ‘tips’ action towards resolution – but not always positive resolution. Take 1974. The first election since “Watergate” saw a revolutionary sweep in Congress. Younger, more modern people were elected to both houses. First-time changes on seniority power, committee rule, scope, budget process and a new recognition of more dissident voices occurred.

Always for the long-term better? No. But changes come in slices, not one massive loaf. The tipping point may well have been reached with the elections of Madeline Singhas, Laura Gillen and Laura Curran; the public spoke against cronyism and insiderism in recent elections. The open government activities fostered in Glen Cove and North Hempstead, for instance, are responses to this newfound ‘tip’ towards governmental cleanliness. No entity is perfect. Bad apples of both parties still bob up in the barrel. Greed, cronyism and the desire to fix, arrange, manage and control gain will always exit if people have money. Power is money, and money is power. But so, too is a free press, the lamplight of democracy’ as Paine, Jeﬀerson, et. al. has said. And let it shine on here on Long Island. Jon Weinstein Port Washington

Catholic bishops strayed from path

t was good works, compassion, helping those less fortunate and spreading the good news of love and equality in the sight of God that brought the Catholic Church into being in the first place. Not the other way around. But it has been the moral weakness and greed of men over the following centuries that has steered it toward the amassing of great riches and political influence and warped its guiding motivation into the protection of that wealth and power at the expense of those very principles that inspired its birth. This has never been more evident than in the current battle in Albany over the Child

Victims Act. When the CVA is finally passed in New YorkState, and it looks like this could be the year, the RomanCatholic Church, along with all the other institutions that profess to hold our souls in their care, will suﬀer an even more dramatic decline of faith in their leadership than we can already see at present. It is crystal clear that church leaders are actively fighting against the CVA for their own self-interests at the expense of today’s and future children’s safety. They are fighting hard, pouring millions of dollars into lobbying politicians to keep any bill with a “look-back-window”

from gaining traction in the New York legislature while at the same time claiming to be protecting children by advocating for versions of the CVA that change the statute of limitations going forward but have no lookback window. This is not only a disingenuous argument but a calculated eﬀort that sacrifices our children’s safety in order to protect the church’s own reputation (read reputation as the preservation of their own wealth and power). The purpose of the one year window, in which previously time-barred civil claims can be pursued, is to end the ability of sexual predators to remain at

large any longer. In stark contrast, the purpose of the bishop’s obstruction of the CVA’s window is to keep secret its own decades-long complicity which if exposed would jeopardize the fundraising that supports their empire. They take this position even though they know the only way to have an impact on the predators who are in our homes, classrooms, parishes and youth groups today is to allow access to the justice system for those survivors who are ready to confront their perpetrators now! To the institutions that oppose the CVA (Catholic Bishops, Boy Scouts of America, Agudath Israel, insurance companies,

and others) this would threaten the survival of the whole clerical hierarchy upon which these institutions have molded themselves. Their elite leadership might not survive such a cataclysm, but good works, compassion, helping those less fortunate and spreading the good news of love and equality in the sight of God will have no diﬃculty living on without them. Brian R. Toale Survivor of sexual abuse while attending Chaminade High School in Mineola Advocate for Child Victims Act New York, New York

Support election team headed by Ehrbar

y husband Jim and I ask you to join us in electing Paul Ehrbar as Mayor of the Village of Williston Park, Kevin Rynn and Bill O’Brien as trustees and Kevin Kiley as village justice. Paul, running for his third term, has been a dedicated, honest, and hardworking mayor. Most days he is at the Village Hall from 9!!a.m. to 5 p.m. He is very involved and hands-on in all the workings, and activities of the village.

The Village Board, under the leadership of Mayor Ehrbar, has been fiscally responsible in its spending to keep our taxes low while improving services. Mayor Ehrbar is also very concerned with the well-being and comfort of all the residents. He has attended centennial birthdays, Scout honor events, fundraisers and wakes or funerals for most residents of the village who have passed away. Since Paul Ehrbar has been mayor of Williston Park, our vil-

lage has flourished. The commercial districts, both Hillside Avenue and Willis Avenue, are filled with many prospering Businesses. Williston Park has fine restaurants well renowned throughout Long Island. The retail shops, service centers and oﬃces all add to the economy. There have even been a few movies filmed in the village. The mayor has both encouraged and pursued these businesses. Kevin Rynn as deputy may-

or has worked beside Mayor Ehrbar for the past eight years. He has assisted in all of the projects and activities of the Village. Kevin has been invaluable as liaison to the Pool and Fire Department. Bill O’Brien, running for his first term as trustee will be an added asset to the Village Board. Bill has extensive experience and contacts working with the Little League that he will transfer to the village. Kevin Kiley has been our

neighbor and friend for over 30 years. Since becoming village justice he has greatly improved the eﬃciency of the court. In order to continue, we must reelect Paul Ehrbar as mayor, Kevin Rynn and Bill O’Brien as trustees and Kevin Kiley as village justice on Tuesday, March 20. Voting is at the Village Hall from 12 noon to 9 p.m. Jim and Maryann McDermott Williston Park

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NRA does not own Congress; we do

’ll start this letter with a controversial view. The NRA has not bought our politicians. Instead, a critical mass of elected oﬃcials leads many to this conclusion when they do not act in the face of tragedy when they respond to a political reality within their support base. That reality is that a representative’s seat will be in jeopardy if factions of their supporters become activated and move against them for taking a position that they do not favor. Plainly, there are a significant number of voters who care deeply about this issue and vote on it as one of their top concerns. This is what leads to inaction on gun issues, not the financial power of the NRA. Furthermore, promoting the view that it is financial power, rather than the contentions of actual voters, instills an unwarranted sense of cynicism in our political process and robs us of the agency we have to change it when we are not satisfied. With this point in mind, it becomes clear that one’s ability to achieve a legislative change of our nation’s gun laws is the job of those seeking reform to make eﬀective arguments to accomplish their desired political ends. Recognizing that it is people and not special interests that

dominate this issue can inform eﬀorts to achieve policy changes that the overwhelming majority of Americans support to help avoid tragedies like the mass shooting that occurred in Parkland, Florida on Feb. 14. To address the question of the financial power of the NRA, one would be well served to view a graphic posted by The New York Times opinion page on Oct. 4, 2017. The graphic details which senators and congressmen have received the most financial support through both direct contributions and independent spending on their behalf from the NRA during their careers. The individual at the top of this list is Sen. John McCain. The piece states that the NRA has spent $7,740,521 to support the senator during his 34-year career in Congress and the Senate as well as during his presidential run in 2008. This number pales in comparison to the roughly $500 million he has raised in exclusively direct contributions during his time in oﬃce. While Sen. McCain is a bit of an outlier from the group due to his prodigious fundraising record, we can take the case of Congressman Mike Simpson, the fourth largest recipient of NRA support of current members in the House of Represen-

tatives, as a more characteristic example. In his 18 years in Congress, the Times found that the NRA had spent $385,731 to support the Congressman directly and indirectly, again a small figure compared to the $9,650,569 in direct contributions alone that he received over that span. While this spending surely has an impact on the Federal debate around gun violence, it simply can’t be true that this relatively minor amount of funding is causing the failure of the legislature to pass even broadly supported measures that would deal with the access of arms for those with mental illness, ban sales to those on no-fly lists or institute background checks at private gun shows. Pew found that over 80 percent of Americans support each of these reforms while conducting polling in 2017. Money doesn’t stop progress on issues with so much support. Rather, a more likely case can be made that a significant number of voters, most prominently present among those who vote in Republican primary elections, care a lot about gun rights and are activated to vote on this issue when they see it being debated. This fact needs to be recognized and should feature prominently in any campaign that

seeks to impact our gun laws. What needs to be understood is that campaigns that pursue reforms that a subset of voters vehemently oppose are unlikely to become law and certainly will not at the federal level unless the Democratic Party gains significantly more political power. With this in mind, campaigns seeking reform should put forth specific messages that clearly present to these voters that a massive reform agenda that would activate them is not being presented. Instead, one that focuses on issues like the availability of the bump-fire stocks that were used in the Las Vegas shooting in October 2017, the banning of sales to those on no-fly lists, the increase in funding for both research and treatment for mental illness, the institution of liability for reckless distributors and users who do not safely store their weapons, and certain reforms to ensure private sales cannot occur without proper vetting. These items have a fair chance to become law and, while I personally may favor more broad measures, one must be wary of an overreach that put a chance at real progress in jeopardy. A watered down campaign is unsatisfying to many and will surely not serve as a panacea. However, we are in the midst

of a national crisis that, while seemingly impossible to eradicate, can be mitigated if a campaign is led with proper moderation. In fairness, moderation can be a difficult task for most to express when facing the outrage that comes so naturally after an event like we just saw in Parkland. We read stories of teachers sacrificing their lives for their students, of brothers texting each other in terror and of the unimaginable horrors that grieving parents have been forced to suffer through after an event like this one. For families touched by something as terrible as the Parkland shooting moderation is probably an impossible response. However, for those of us who do have the capacity to moderate, even if we are tempted by the promise of more, moderation offers us the potential of progress. Simply put, we owe it to the families that will be at risk in a next tragedy to do what we can to deliver a clear message that has the support to become law and can save lives. Peter Fishkind Roslyn Heights

Noone, Sabino, Turano right for Munsey

or the third time in five years, the elections in the Village of Munsey Park are once again contested. We urge the residents of the Village of Munsey Park to show their support for the Residents for a Better Munsey Park by casting their vote on Election Day for Jennifer Noone, Anthony Sabino and John Turano. Jennifer Noone is running for a third term as village trustee. Incumbent Trustee Jennifer Noone has served the village for five years. She is a dedicated resident of the village, and has donated her personal time and expertise first as a member of the architectural review board and subsequently as a village trustee. During her tenure, she has dedicated her time to take on various projects throughout the Village. Jennifer is currently work-

ing on the Hawthorne Place/ North Eakins road repaving project that will be completed this spring. # She completed the repaving of Inness Place, the intersection of MWR and Bellows, Burnham Circle, Allston Circle, parts of Abbey, Stuart, Eakins, and Kensett to name a few. She is constantly on village streets evaluating and overseeing all road issues, initiating road repairs to fix decaying curbs and sections of the street to improve the safety of village roads; accomplishing all of this in spite of the village paying oﬀ the 2007 $2.75 million road bond, approximately $300,000 a year. She creatively uses state funds, current cash flow and applies for state and municipal grants to balance the debt burden.

Jennifer also initiated the comprehensive road study and ratings map, helped organize and complete the Waldmann beautification project, installed a new sidewalk outside the main entrance to Munsey Park School and is working on the walkway project to connect the Congregational lot to Munsey Park School. Anthony Sabino is running for Village Trustee. He has volunteered on the architectural review board for the past five years. Mr. Sabino has balanced the rights of property owners and the aesthetics of the Village. He has assured that residents are treated with respect and accorded due process when presenting their building plans to the village. He was also appointed to the village Board of Ethics and is already drafting a set of “best

practices” for ethics in Village government. In addition to his law practice, Anthony is a Professor of Law at St. John’s University and is frequently quoted in the media on important business and legal issues. He is a member of the board of directors of the Manhasset Community Fund, holds various positions with the Nassau County Bar Association, and is active with other professional groups. John Turano is the incumbent village justice. He has practiced law for the past 48 years. He has served the village as its Justice for the past 14 years. He brings to the oﬃce his prior experience as an assistant district attorney, deputy town attorney for the Town of North Hempstead, and prosecuting attorney for the villages of Lake Success and New Hyde Park. Through his eﬀorts, he

recently improved the functionality of the village court by streamlining its function and combining arraignments, conferences and trials into one evening session as well as arranging to allow fines to be paid by credit card. In his courtroom, all are treated fairly and with respect. In addition to his experience, John has the temperament to best serve the people of Munsey Park as their village justice. Please join me in supporting the continued commitment of Jennifer Noone, Anthony Sabino and John Turano to the Village by voting for them on Tuesday, March 20 from 12 p.m. to 9 p.m. at Village Hall Richard and Joy Susi Munsey Park Letters Continued on Page 53

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Man lured girl to watch porn: cops BY A M E L I A C A M U R AT I A Glen Cove man was arrested Saturday afternoon after allegedly showing a 4-year-old girl pornographic videos in a car dealership waiting room, Nassau County police said. Fei Du, 53, is charged with! public display of oﬀensive sexual material and endangering the welfare of a child. County detectives said Du was sitting in the Rallye Mercedes’ service center waiting room around 12:30 p.m. Saturday while watching sexually explicit material on one of the dealership’s computers. Du allegedly motioned for the nearby 4-year-old to come watch the video with him, detectives said. The girl’s mother, 45, saw the interaction, took her daughter out of the waiting room and called 911. Police said Du was arrested without incident at the dealership.

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Sexual harassment training proposed Drucker announces plan for all Nassau County officials to receive biannual education BY R E B ECC A K L A R Nassau County Legislator Arnold Drucker (D-Plainview)!announced a proposal on Monday to have all elected county oﬃcials and department heads undergo sexual harassment prevention training. Drucker said the legislation is neither political nor partisan, calling it a human rights issue. The bill has bipartisan support in the county Legislature. At a news conference Drucker was joined by Nassau County Executive Laura Curran (D-Baldwin) and members of the minority, including Minority Leader Kevan Abrahams (D-Freeport) and Legislator Delia DeRiggiWhitton (D-Glen Cove).! No members of the Republican majority were present at the news conference, but in an interview, Presiding Oﬃcer and Majority Leader Richard Nicolello (R-New Hyde Park) said the bill is “definitely” one the GOP would support. Drucker said Nassau County should be at the forefront of the

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Nassau County Executive Laura Curran and Legislator Arnold Drucker. culture change happening across the nation in the wake of the #MeToo movement. “The countless experiences relayed by victims or survivors of sexual harassment or sexual

violence in the entertainment, business and political landscapes mandate that we take meaningful measure to eradicate this societal problem by reviewing, enhancing and modernizing our

existing policy,” Drucker said. Nassau’s equal employment opportunity policy, which was last updated in 2003, states that the county will “conduct training and education sessions in accordance with the requirements of this policy.” The proposed resolution would require all county elected officials, deputy county executives, heads of departments and office members of county boards and commissioners to receive biannual sexual harassment training, according to a copy of the resolution provided to Blank Slate Media. The training would include at least two hours of classroom or “other effective interactive training and education” on sexual harassment, according to the resolution. Drucker said he was not sure of the exact cost of a training class, but said “it shouldn’t be a big number.” Curran said she pledges to not only support this legislation, which she called “an advance in the right direction,” but also to

ensure a “safer, sexual harassment free workplace” in her administration. The proposed legislation follows a more comprehensive sexual harassment policy overhaul! this month in Suffolk County. Last Wednesday, Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone signed legislation mandating tracking of past and future sexual harassment complaints, lawsuits and settlements involving the county, according to Newsday. When asked by a reporter why not “go as far Suffolk,” Drucker said, “we have to start with small steps.” “I think if we make it too comprehensive in the beginning it makes it more difficult to get everyone on board,” Drucker said. “But I think this is the perfect first steps.” Curran added that this legislation still needs to be approved by the county Legislature. “I would say let’s start with this legislation … and take it from there,” she said.

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Doctor to serve community, country Northwell Health’s Dr. Robert Duarte appointed as captain in New York Guard BY JA N E LL E CL AUSEN

Dr. Robert A. Duarte said he did not know anybody in his family – or any close friends – who had served before he was appointed to the New York Guard as a captain earlier this month. But after discussions with the surgeon general of the New York Guard and other military personnel at the Guard’s Centennial Ball, Duarte said he felt a strong desire to volunteer and give back to the country. “That was sort of the clincher to me,” Duarte, the director of the Northwell Health Neuroscience Pain Center in Great Neck and president of the New York State Pain Society, said in an interview. “As a physician, you help serve the community and as a member of the New York Guard, I will be helping to serve the New York PHOTO BY CAPT. MARK GETMAN/NEW YORK GUARD Guard community.” The New York Guard is a state volunteer force that sup- Col. David Warager, New York Guard acting commander, swears in Robert Duarte of Northports the New York National well Health. Guard through planning, training for and executing emergency gal and medical pre-deployment Duarte will serve with the primary physician for the Long Issupport, as well as providing le- services to units as requested. 244th Medical Division as the land region. In that role he will be

responsible for medically evaluating New York Guard recruits and re-enlistees and could be called on to assist the National Guard in state emergencies and local disasters. Duarte, who is also a member of the Concussion Center at Northwell Health, said he feels his expertise could also help educate military personnel on traumatic brain injury and other issues. Duarte said he hopes his volunteering for the New York Guard will help inspire others in the medical and non-medical profession to give back and serve the country. When asked to give advice to someone thinking of joining the New York Guard or volunteering, Duarte said, “it must be a decision from their heart and soul.” “I can only provide this person some knowledge on what is involved, what is necessary, but again it is up to that individual person to make that decision,” Duarte said. “It is not something that I can force on.”

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Rabbits and reptiles and dogs, Oh My! year to the expo on Saturday and Sunday only. " third yea Dogs: Forget about “Dancing with the Stars.” * Dancing D IIt’s Dancing With Your Dogs. Diana Frohman and her golden retrievers will be dancing the weekend away he Long Island Pet Expo with their Dancing with your Dog performances at w returns for the 9th year at Suﬀolk Community College in Brentwood on the Pet Expo." It is a wonderful display of communication relationship between dog and handler, set to music. Saturday, March 3 and Sun Sun- day day, March 4 4, with new and rela Saturday * Rainforest Reptile Show: For all the kids out there who animal attractions and acts. Long Island’s own Family Pet Shows hosts the expo and are" interested in reptiles, this is an exciting, fascinating it has something for animal lovers at every age. " Kids and adventure through the rare and endangered reptile world. adults alike will love this show that includes incredible pet Many exotic reptiles will be at the show, including alligators, snakes, lizards, turtles and more." Reptile and wildlife acts and many educational animal and wildlife exhibits." The show is also pet friendly — pet owners can bring experts will be talking about all kinds of our scaly reptilian their leashed and well-behaved pets with them to also enjoy friends. * Butterfly Experience: Step into the magical world of the show." Pet parents can shop throughout the expo at over butterfl ies and learn about their life cycle, see them flutter 100 vendor booths, meet adoptable pets, learn from veterinarians and groomers, and see many new pet products to the around, and have a go at feeding them." Partnering with the U.S. Wildlife on Conservation of Butterflies, informational market. “We are always excited to be home to host the L.I. Pet materials will be provided. There is a $2 fee for adults and Expo and it is wonderful to bring our show again to Suﬀolk $1 per child to enter the Butterfly Garden, which includes Community College in Brentwood for the 9th" year,” said about 200 live butterflies, painted ladies, and monarchs that show organizer Karen Garetano of Family Pet Shows. “This families can feed. * Schutzhund Demonstration: Maximum K9 Service will year we have a new feature, Lure Coursing, and dogs love to fly around the course — and it is big hit for spectators." be doing a Schutzhund demonstration, which will include Pet parents can try the course with their own dog! We ex- obedience, dumbbell retrieval, tracking, protection work and pect over 12,000 people and many pets to enjoy the week- a detection demonstration. * Dog Agility: Interested in learning about agility with end event — and we are excited to once again bring new your dog? Doggie U K9 Academy will be doing dog agility entertainment, educational exhibits, exotic pets, local animal rescue groups and tons of shopping of new pet items for pet demos all weekend in the main show ring. * Long Island Parrot Society – if you are a feathered parents to learn about.”" Attendees can expect to be wowed with dancing, acro- friend enthusiast, you want to be sure to see the LIPS attracbatic dogs and dogs flying through the new lure course, rab- tion at the show!" Learn about parrots of a kinds, how to care bit hopping, dog agility, exotic animals, the rainforest reptile for them and their experts will help you decide what bird would suit your home best as a pet. show, petting zoo, meet parrots of a kinds and more. * Adoptable Pets: Many Long Island rescue groups will In addition to the lure course for dogs, other new pet enbe there with adoptable pets. "This is the perfect time to find tertaining acts and features at this year’s show include: * Rabbit Hopping: It’s not the bunny hop you’re thinking a furry new friend to add to your family. Nearly 100 pets get of — but talented rabbits who love to jump. Allikatt’s Bunnies adopted at the show every year. Ticket prices are $13 for adults, $6 for children 12 and will present an agility demo of rabbits hopping and guinea pig agility all weekend — and there is a seminar so you can under and free for kids 3 and under." Adult attendees can purchase a weekend pass for only learn how to get involved in this sport with your own hare. * TICA Championship Cat Show: For cat lovers who have $20 online ahead of the show ($9 for a weekend pass for never been to a cat show, this is a purrific way to see all dif- kids 12 and under). "For more information about the Long ferent breeds of cats up close. TICA cat show returns for the Island Pet Expo go to www.familypetshows.com"or call 631423-0620. "

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Saturday, March 3 at 8 p.m. This year, in celebration of the 100th anniversary of Bernstein’s birth, Grammy awardwinning pianist Bill Charlap is touring with his Trio, featuring bassist Peter Washington and drummer Bill Stewart, and will perform songs from Bernstein’s extensive music catalog. Where: Landmark on Main Street, Jeanne Rimsky Theatre 232 Main St., Port Washington Info & Tickets: (516) 767-1384 • landmarkonmainstreet.org

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Saturday, March 3 at 8 p.m.

Enjoy an evening with Kurt Elling, the Grammy winner who is considered one of the world’s foremost jazz vocalists. Where: Tilles Center for the Performing Arts 720 Northern Blvd., Brookville Info & Tickets: (516) 299-3100 • tillescenter.org

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Wonderous Stories: Concert for Bangladesh

Saturday, March 3 at 8 p.m.

This all-star tribute to George Harrison celebrates his legendary 1971 concert at Madison Square Garden, the first large-scale rock and roll benefit for the people of Bangladesh, and includes Harrison songs that were missed at the original show. Where: The Space at Westbury, 250 Post Ave., Westbury Info & Tickets: (516) 283-5566 • thespaceatwestbury.com

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Tommy James and the Shondells Saturday, March 3 at 8 p.m. Enjoy a night of classic rock with Tommy James and the Shondells, whose hits include “Crimson and Clover,” “Mony, Mony,” and “Crystal Blue Persuasion.” Where: NYCB Theatre at Westbury, 960 Brush Hollow Road, Westbury Info & Tickets: (516) 247-5211 • thetheatreatwestbury.com

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Celebrity Authors at Molloy: Kathie Lee Gifford and Roma Downey Tuesday, March 6 at 6 p.m. and Wednesday, March 7 at 7 p.m. The Madison Theatre at Molloy College, in concert with Turn of the Corkscrew Books and Wine, will host two well-known entertainers and authors: Today show co-host Kathie Lee Giﬀord discussing her book, “The Rock, The Road, and The Rabbi: My Journey Into the Heart of Scriptural Faith and the Land Where It All Began,” on March 6; and actress Roma Downey talking about her book, “Box of Butterflies: Discovering the Unexpected Blessings All Around Us,” on March 7. Where: Madison Theatre at Molloy College 1000 Hempstead Ave., Rockville Centre Info & Tickets: (516) 323-4444 madisontheatreny.org

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Saturday, March 3, 9 a.m. to 12 p.m.

Kids can hone their powers of observation in this hands-on workshop where they will construct a periscope to expand their view. Once the periscope is built, they can decorate it with paint and stickers. All kids must be accompanied by an adult and get to keep their craft, as well as receive a certificate of achievement, a workshop apron, and a commemorative pin while supplies last.

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Saturday, March 3 at 12 p.m. (check in between 10 and 11:30 a.m.)

Head on out with friends and family and take the chilly plunge at this annual event that raises money for the athletes of Special Olympics. Every participant who raises $150 receives an oﬃcial Plunge sweatshirt.

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Saturday, March 3 at 8 p.m. (Molloy) and Sunday, March 4 at 1 p.m. (WWBA)

With St. Patrick’s Day approaching, celebrate the tradition of Irish dancing. The Madison Theatre at Molloy College will host the Dublin Irish Dancers in “Stepping Out.” In case you miss this evening show, then head to the Walt Whitman Historic Birthplace the following afternoon to enjoy a performance of Irish dancing by teachers and students from the Mulvihill-Lynch Studio of Irish Dance, champions on the competitive circuit. Where:

Madison Theatre at Molly College, 1000 Hempstead Ave., Rockville Centre Info & Tickets: 516-323-4444 or madisontheatreny.org / Walt Whitman Historic Birthplace, 246 Old Walt Whitman Road, Huntington Station Info & Tickets: 631-427-5240, ext. 113 or waltwhitman.org

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Each year, the Diabetes Research Institute Foundation’s Carnival for a Cure attracts adults and children of all ages to play the latest video games, try their skill at bowling, cue up for pool, bounce on an inflatable, take a chance on incredible prize drawings and more. There will also be an array of food available, including Cold Stone Creamery ice cream.

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Thursday, March 7 at 7 p.m.

Today show co-anchor, Hoda Kotb, will speak about and signs copies of her new children’s picture book, “I’ve Loved You Since Forever,” a celebratory and poetic testament to the timeless love felt between parent and child that is inspired by the adoption of her baby girl, Haley Joy.

Where: Book Revue, 313 New York Ave., Huntington / Info: 631-271-1442 or bookrevue.com

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Ask these questions first when hiring a contractor

s it time to update your kitchen? Or maybe you’re thinking of a beautiful princess tub in a gorgeous marble bathroom. But who is going to do the work? How do you choose the best contractor for the job? Many people enter into agreements with contractors they don’t know well and end up disappointed – or worse – when things don’t go as planned. Hiring a contractor is like hiring anyone else who is going to work in your home or for your business. You should plan to interview the contractors you are considering, and they should be prepared to answer all of your questions patiently and thoroughly. Here is a list of questions that can help you have the best possible experience with your home improvements. Is the contractor licensed? Contractors in New York must be licensed by the counties in which they do work. In

Nassau County, contractors are licensed by the Office of Consumer Affairs in Mineola. The licensing process ensures that the contractor’s identity and address have been verified, that the company is a properly registered business, and that the necessary insurance is in place – but ask them about their insurance anyway.

Is the contractor properly insured? Contractors should carry two types of insurance: liability insurance, which covers property damage and some injuries, and workers compensation, which provides coverage for the contractor’s employees in the event of on-the-job injury. Without these types of insurance, you could end up having to file a claim against your homeowner’s policy for any incidents that occur on your property and could even have to pay out pocket for what your homeowner’s policy doesn’t cover. Ask to see your contractor’s Certificate of Insurance.

If the contractor uses subcontractors such as electricians and plumbers, make sure that those businesses are also properly insured, and that the homeowner is listed as additionally insured on the certificates of insurance.

What is the contractor’s process for paperwork and payment? This should include a written contract for you to review and sign, a clear description of the work to be done, the cost and payment terms, and a projection of how long the project will take. What about permits? Ask if the contractor plans to secure the appropriate permits for the type of work you will have done. Experience working with the Building Department in your municipality – the Town of North Hempstead or Town of Oyster Bay – is helpful and proper permits are a must. If a contractor talks about bypassing or neglecting the permit process, run the other way!

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How will the day-to-day operation of the job be handled? Will the contractor be on site to oversee the project? How and when will the contractor communicate with you regarding progress and possible issues that may arise? How many employees do they have? Will you be seeing the same team throughout the project? And if your contractor is using subcontractors such as electricians and plumbers, be sure to ask if they have worked together before. And what is the cleanup going to be like on the job site – not just at the end of the project but daily. Will equipment be left on site, and if so, where? Be sure to ask how long the contractor has been in business and what type of work they typically do. Companies that have been in business for longer, doing the type of work you need, have had the opportunity to develop experience in dealing with the variables and unforeseen circumstances that may arise. Ideally, they also

have learned how be on time and on budget. And to check on the claims of quality, reliability, and punctuality, don’t hesitate to ask the contractor for references. Call two or more of their former customers and ask about their experience with the contractor. And remember, there are scammers out there so be sure to listen to your gut and be suspicious of anyone who shows up at your door offering to do work with “leftover materials,” people who pressure you to make a quick decision, and bids that are unusually low. These people may be looking to take your deposit and disappear. So ask these questions, and listen to the answers. It may be tempting to go with the lowest price, but in the long run, this could end up costing you far more than going with a reasonably priced, experienced, licensed and insured contractor who will deliver high quality work that will provide you with years of happy enjoyment of your newly customized home. Information provided by John Santos, Island Contracting, www.Islandcontractinginc.com

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Complete these home improvements over the weekend H ome improvement projects ramp up when the weather warms up, as homeowners channel the rejuvenating feelings of spring and tackle their home todo lists. Large-scale renovations can greatly affect a home, but smaller projects can yield impressive results and be completed over the course of a single weekend. If time is of the essence, these weekend or one-day projects may satisfy homeowners’ desires to fix up their homes.

Create an accent wall. Painting a focal wall in a home can create a serious impact. The bonus is it will not take as long or require as many materials as painting an entire room. Accent walls frequently feature a bold color, so decide on placement and tackle this project in less than a day.

Install stair runners. Dress up hardwood stairs with decorative carpet runners. Runners come in elongated pieces of carpeting or individual pieces that can be placed on each step. If carpeting doesn’t fit with the home’s design,

painting individual stair treads also can create visual appeal. Dress up the entryway. An entryway is a guest’s first impression of a home. Many entryways can use a minor overhaul, both inside and outside. Paint the front door a different color so it pops from the curb. Install a new mailbox or decorative house numbers. A new welcome mat can change the look as well. Inside, consider laying a new floor. Resilient vinyl tiles come in many different patterns and can mimic the look of wood, travertine or marble. Installing a floor can take a day or two.

Install a new faucet. Instantly improve a kitchen or a bathroom with new fixtures. New faucets can provide aesthetic appeal and lowflow faucets can help conserve water. Create a gallery on the staircase. Gather and arrange framed photos, artwork or wall accents so that they ascend the wall of a staircase. This creates a designer touch and can dress up an often barren area of wall space.

Install a fresh light fixture. Improve drab spaces with a little illumination. Better Homes & Gardens suggests replacing an existing fixture with something new and vibrant. If hanging a new fixture is not within one’s skill set, free-standing table or floor lamps also can cast a new glow on a space.

Add molding. Molding can add instant aesthetic appeal to a room. Molding is appropriate near the floor, at the top of walls where they meet the ceiling, or even mid-wall as a chair rail. Some homeowners like to create framed molding on walls in formal living spaces. Update kitchen or bathroom hardware. Replacing hardware is a fast and easy project, but one that can have immediate impact. Swap out tired or outdated hardware for newer brushed metals and more impactful shapes and designs. Home renovations do not need to take weeks or months. Many projects can be completed over the course of a weekend.

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How to hang photos and artwork with ease

ersonal touches turn a house into a home. Hanging pictures, whether they’re personal photographs or artwork, can really change the character of a room. Unfortunately, some people may not know the proper ways to display pictures on a wall. Design maven Martha Stewart advises that the first step is to gather all of the pictures that are in consideration for hanging. This will enable a person to see what is available and edit their selection based on the space available, theme or color scheme. Having the artwork there enables a person to move it around like a puzzle until the placement feels just right. Next, plan on hanging artwork at 57 inches on center, according to the renovation experts at Apartment Therapy. “On center” means the middle of the photograph or painting will always be at 57”, as this measurement represents the average human eye height. This height is regularly used as a standard in many galleries and museums. When the goal is to hang multiple

pictures, treat the entire grouping as a single unit. This means creating the layout and finding the center of the middle piece of the grouping. To make picture grouping easier, use paper templates with arrows to indicate whether the artwork will be hung horizontally or vertically. These templates can then be easily taped to the wall and rearranged until the grouping is ideal. There are no hard and fast rules concerning frames, meaning they do not all have to match. But placing framed artwork side by side can give a person a feel for whether the images and the frames work together in the space. Some people like to use frames of similar colors and sizes. Others want the eclectic mix-and-match appeal. It’s ultimately up to the homeowner. Measuring is key to hanging a picture correctly on the wall. Take into consideration the type of attachment, whether it’s D-rings, sawtooth hangers, wire, or other fasteners on the back. Measure from the top of the frame to the hanger. Measure the wall to achieve the 57” on center location, and then calculate where

this falls within the height of the artwork and frame top. Adjust accordingly and mark. Then measure the distance from the frame top to the hanger location on the wall. Be sure to take the weight of the picture into consideration when selecting hanging hardware. Wall anchors may be needed if measurements determine a wall stud will not help secure the artwork — to keep the frame sturdy in the drywall. Home improvement resource Today’s Homeowner also suggests using self-adhesive rubber bumpers to the bottom corners on the back of the frame before hanging so that the picture will not damage the wall and will help it hang level. It can take a few attempts to hang pictures correctly, but with practice it should come with greater ease. The good news is there are new products constantly being evolved to make picture hanging easier, including those that enable removal and relocation of artwork without damaging walls.

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Home security in the modern era D o you own or rent a home or apartment? You should be aware of your residential security. Hopefully when you moved in to your residence you rekeyed or replaced your outer locks. These are the primary barrier and security features of your home. If you have purchased your locks from a “ Big Box Store” you are sharing your keys with thousands of other folks across the area. They sell packages of keyed alike locks which share the same key so people can buy multiple locks and use one key for all of them. This is a dangerous breach of your security. You might be thinking “if a person wants to get in then they will find a way”. This is NOT a valid argument. Home burglaries are easier when doors are equipped with cheap (normally weaker and poorly made) locks and many doors only have a doorknob and no deadbolt. Doorknobs are a convenience function used to open and hold your door closed: they are not meant for security. Deadbolts are the locks on your door that provide the security. Your door should have a

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Empty the garage. The first step when organizing a garage is to empty it completely. Old machinery and rusted lawn and garden tools have a way of disappearing in garages, and those items may remain there for

years if the garage is never emptied. Once you have emptied the garage, you might be surprised to learn just how much or even how little space you have to work with. Clean the garage top to bottom. After you have emptied the garage, give it a thorough cleaning. Cleaning the garage serves multiple purposes. A clean garage is less likely to be overcome with dirt and/or critters, both of which can contribute to the deterioration of tools and machinery stored in the garage. In addition, you may be less likely to let a clean garage fall back into disorganization, saving you the trouble of reorganizing the garage next spring. Look up. Many homeowners fail to make adequate use of the vertical space in their garages. But keeping items off the floor can make it easier to clean the garage and will provide more

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also group items by who uses them. For example, parents can designate one area of the garage for their tools, while kids can get their own area for their toys and bicycles. Resolve to park in the garage. One of the best ways to keep a garage organized is to park your vehicle or vehicles inside the garage each night. Parking in a garage protects your vehicle(s) from the elements, and you also won’t be tempted to leave items lying around on the garage floor if you know you will eventually be pulling your vehicle in. A few simple strategies can make springtime garage organization more effective and efficient.

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Things to consider Add curb appeal before expanding to your property your home M any people are familiar with the idea that a strong first impression can go a long way. While that idea is most often referenced in regard to personal interactions, it’s also applicable to real estate.

When selling a home, homeowners who emphasize curb appeal may find it far easier to sell their homes. Curb appeal refers to the impression a home’s exterior makes on people seeing the home for the first time. In 2014, the online real estate database Zillow® surveyed real estate agents and found that curb appeal was one of the five most important factors when selling a home. Projects that improve curb appeal can be vast undertakings or simpler projects, and the following are a handful of projects to improve a home’s curb appeal that run the gamut from simple to complex.

omeowners who feel their homes are a little confined may be interested in expanding their homes to make them more comfortable and serviceable. Several questions may come to mind when homeowners are considering adding on to an existing home. Expanding a home requires careful consideration. While the end results can be spectacular, expansion is typically a long and costly process that will impede on the lifestyles of a home’s inhabitants during the renovation process. Expect loud noises, work crews and sawdust throughout the project. Depending on which areas are being renovated, residents may feel their lives are in upheaval until the expansion project has been completed.

2. Visit your building inspection or municipal office to learn the local regulations. You want to ensure that any renovations you make are done in keeping with safety codes and laws. 3. While you’re thinking of your neighbors, give them the heads up on your potential plans. This way they will not be surprised by the extra noise and activity when the renovation begins.

Familiarizing yourself with the expansion process and recognizing potential snags along the way can make planning and coping that much easier.

4. Remodeling can cost anywhere from $200 to $600 per square foot added. You’ll need to figure out a way to pay for the renovations, and you may consider refinancing your home. Make sure it is a smart time financially to do so based on current real estate market conditions. Also know that additions will likely increase your home insurance coverage needs. Consult with the insurance company about estimated charges and any restrictions they have.

1. Many homeowners first consult with a contractor when mulling over expansions. However, you may want to speak with an architect first. He or she may be able to suggest renovations that fit with your neighborhood and appeal to prospective buyers when you decide to sell your home in the future.

5. Consider a standalone structure when mulling over your options. Sometimes the cost of putting up a free-standing office or another structure on your property may end up being less expansive than expanding on what you already have. Think creatively and research all of your options before committing to a project.

Clean up the yard. Cleaning up the yard is among the simpler yet most effective projects to improve a home’s curb appeal. When selling their homes, homeowners should clear the yard of any clutter, including kids’ toys, grass clippings or items that might be scattered throughout the yard. A cluttered yard suggests homeowners do not care much about their home’s appearance, and that may lead buyers to think that indifference extended to maintaining the home’s interior as well. Many buyers will ignore properties without any external aesthetic appeal, but cleaning up the yard does not require much effort or expense on the part of sellers. Make the main entryway more inviting. Creating a more inviting entryway won’t be as simple as cleaning up the yard, but it can help create a strong first impression without breaking the bank.

To begin, remove plants and furniture from the front porch or area surrounding the doorway, as such items can create a cluttered feel. If the front door is old, replace it. Custom doors may be expensive, but they might add the wow factor buyers are looking for. If a new door is beyond your means or just unnecessary, repaint the door, ideally in a color that complements the color of your home and the surrounding landscape. Address pavement problems. Paving problems are not necessarily an expensive fix, but the cost of repairing driveways and walkways can add up if it’s been awhile since these areas were refurbished. Still, one of the first things buyers will notice when getting out of their cars is the ground they’re walking on, so patch and repair or even replace driveways and walkways that have fallen into disrepair. Add or upgrade outdoor living spaces. Outdoor living spaces also can set a property apart from others on the market. A recent study from the National Association of Realtors found that buyers would not hesitate to pay asking price for homes with outdoor living spaces. When adding or upgrading outdoor living spaces, try to depersonalize the spaces as much as possible, as buyers want to picture themselves, and not the sellers, enjoying these areas. Include some comfortable furniture, adequate lighting and a dining area in your outdoor living space as well. Curb appeal can add a lot to a home, while lack of such appeal can make a home difficult to sell. Homeowners who want to sell their properties for asking price or more should address curb appeal before putting their homes on the market.

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Museum talk shows horrors in Myanmar The Holocaust Memorial and Tolerance Center of Nassau County will present a program, Atrocities in Myanmar: Rohingya are Being Raped and Murdered as You Read This, on Sunday, March 4 at 2 p.m.! While the Myanmar government commits genocide against its citizens, it denies the atrocities to the world. Global silence and inaction allow the massacres and rapes to continue. ! The Holocaust Memorial and Tolerance Center will host an international panel of activists, scholars and human rights attorneys to clarify what is really happening to the Rohingya people and what Americans can do to help. Speakers will include Regina Paulose, international criminal Law and human rights attorney with A Contario; Nurul Islam, chair of the Arakan Rohingya National Organization; Adem Carroll, United Nations program director for the Burma Task Force; John Packer, professor

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Jose James to take the stage at Landmark Sunday nights at the Jeanne Rimsky Theater continue to push the boundaries of jazz as Jose James!takes the Landmark on Main Street stage on Sunday, March 4 at 7 p.m. A deep and soulful young vocalist whose international profile has exploded in the last few years, James has transcended his reputation as a jazz singer to embrace influences including R&B, Moroccan Gnawa music, hip-hop and gospel. On the heels of 2015’s beguiling Billie Holiday centennial tribute, Yesterday I Had the Blues, and the electro-pop of this year’s!Love in a Time of Madness, James returns with a celebration of the music of iconic soul singer and composer Bill Withers. James’ flexibility and omnivorous musical taste is reflected in his hugely diverse résumé, which includes work with jazz great Chico Hamilton, as well as electronica hero Flying Lotus. In his review for!The New York Times, writer Ben Ratliﬀ described James as “a romantic baritone with a deep-funk band, stretching out songs, evoking both the ’70s of Roberta Flack and Gil Scott-Heron and the ’90s and oughts of J Dilla.” In a program called Lean on Me, James oﬀers his reverent-yet-expansive take on Withers’ classics including “Ain’t No Sunshine,” “Use Me,” and “Just the Two of Us,” backed by a stellar band. Vetted personally by Withers himself, the show is an exploration of the deep musical catalogue that touched millions

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The Art Guild is inviting the public to view “Something Blue,” a juried competition and exhibition from Saturday, March 3 through Sunday, March 25, 2018, with an artists’ reception and awards ceremony taking place on March 3 from 3 to 5 p.m.!Both the gallery and the reception are free and open to the public. Is blue the color of the sky or the sea down below? Is it just a feeling or a rhythm to which you tap your toes? Come see for yourself if there’s more to blue than what you know in this exhibit that includes all mediums except photography. The exhibit, featuring 59 artworks by 51 artists, presents a wide variety of interpretations of “Something Blue” — from vivid abstracts and lush florals to expressive portraits. ! Artists included in the show are: Sylvia Ayala, Diane Bares, Anne Barash Breitstein, Jean Marie Bucich, Susanne Corbelletta-Hippel, Caryn Coville, Aleta Crawford, Christine D’Addario, Kathy D’Amato-Smith, Rachel Dove, Patty Eljaiek, Morgan Farra, Ivan Frisch, Alicia Gitlitz, Yana Golikova, Mayra Guillen, Lois Hellman, Susan Herbst, Susan Reina Hicks, Shelley Holtzman, Frances Ianarella, Sabine Jean-Bart, Richard Kanter, Marceil Kazickas, Karen Kirshner, Rosemary Konatich. Randy Kraft, Bruce Laird, Kirk Larsen, Linda Louis, Karen Mahoney, E. Craig Marcin, Patricia McGrath, Amanda Mienko,

Deborah Miller, Stephanie Navon-Jacobson, Eileen Neville, Ann Pellaton, Annette Proimos, Linda Ruden, Gia Schifano, Ellen Hallie Schiﬀ, Jose Seligson, Ilene Silberstein, Barbara Silbert, Rosemary Sloggatt, Barbara Stein, Joan Stevens, Alexandra Valme, Margo Vignola, and Theodora Zavala. The juror-of-awards for this exhibit is Frank Porcu, an artist and teacher known for his dynamic, larger-than-life lectures on anatomy for art and medical students. !He specializes in! monumental! figurative works and!portraiture in the classical Hellenistic!tradition.!He is also well!known for his extraordinary skill and mastery!of drawing!and painting.! In addition to this exhibit, The Art Guild is oﬀering a wide range of workshops this spring: Simple & Sophisticated Relief Printmaking with Stephanie Navon-Jacobson, March 10 and 11; Colored Pencil with Kristy Kutch, April 20 to 22; a One-Day Cellphone Photography Workshop with Howard Rose on April 28; and Silkscreen Monoprint with Navon-Jacobson, May 19 and 20, as well as classes for children, high school students and adults year-round. The Art Guild is located at Elderfields Preserve, 200 Port Washington Blvd. in Manhasset. For more information about the exhibit and these classes, call 516-3045797 or go to www.TheArtGuild.org.

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Curious George production at Adelphi Join the inquisitive, lovable little monkey Curious George, star of books, movies and the award-winning PBS television show, in this delightful new musical from Theatreworks USA. “Curious George: The Golden Meatball” will take place on Saturday, March 10 at 2 p.m. on the Westermann Stage, Concert Hall in the Adelphi University Performing Arts Center located at 1 South Ave. in Garden City. This production is recommended for children in grades pre-K through 3 and their families. All–you-can-eat Meatball Day comes just once a year. George has

waited all month for that day, a day almost bigger than his birthday. On Meatball Day, George helped his friend Chef Pisghetti cook some delicious meatballs and serve them to the hungry crowd. But this year, the crowd vanished. !Something was keeping people away. Something pretty big. And that “something” was Phinneas T. Lightspeed and his speedy Meatballs O’Matic machine. In despair, Chef Pisghetti vows to cook no more. Determined to help his friend, George goes on a mission to enter the chef’s meatballs in the world-famous Golden Meatball Contest… in Rome. With every swing and

flip, George takes the audience through a fun-filled adventure in which he learns more about Rome — and meatballs — and the “secret ingredient” to cooking. Tickets to this event are currently on sale for $20 with discounts available to seniors, students and alumni. Information is available online at pac. adelphi.edu or at the Lucia and Steven N. Fischer Box Office at 516-877-4000 or boxoffice@adelphi.edu. Regular box office hours are Tuesday through Friday from 1 to 6 p.m. The box office is also open two hours before most scheduled performances.

Temple to host policy talk by Col. Wilkerson Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson (retired), former chief of staff for former Secretary of State Colin Powell, will be the guest in the pulpit at Temple Emanuel of Great Neck on Friday, March 9 at 7:30 p.m. He will offer the talk, “America Needs A Future: What a Sound Foreign Policy Would Look Like.” Wilkerson is visiting professor of Government and Public Policy at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Va. His last positions in government were as Secretary of State Colin Powell’s chief of staff (2002-05), and associate director of the State Department’s Policy Planning staff under the directorship of Ambassador Richard N. Haass. Before serving at the State Department, Wilkerson served 31 years in the U.S. Army, including as deputy executive officer to then-General Colin Powell when he commanded the U.S. Army Forces Command (1989), special assistant to General Powell when he was chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (1989-93), and as director and deputy! director of the U.S. Marine Corps War College at Quantico, Virginia (1993-97). Since leaving the State Department,

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Wilkerson speaks to groups all over America, publishes articles in newspapers and magazines across the country, and regularly oﬀers commentary on television. Wilkerson’s talk is preceded by a brief service. Following his talk, there will be a Q & A, and, in conclusion, refreshments will be served. All members of the community are invited to attend. Admission is free. Temple Emanuel of Great Neck is located at 150 Hicks Lane in Great Neck. For further information, please call 516.482.5701.

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Buckcherry to play at Paramount on March 9 The Los Angeles-based hard rock act! Buckcherry!formed in mid-1995, after singer Joshua Todd and guitarist Keith Nelson were introduced through their tattoo artist. After cutting several demos, the duo recruited bassist Jonathan “J.B.” Brightman and drummer Devon Glenn and began

performing live, quickly earning a local following for their swaggering, grungeflavored music. Following the subsequent addition of second guitarist Yogi Lonich,!Buckcherry signed with DreamWorks Records and issued their self-titled, debut LP in 1999. Singles such as “Check Your Head” and

“For the Movies” became modern rock hits, allowing! Buckcherry! to quickly raise their profile. The band will now be heading to Long Island, performing with special guest Revel at The Paramount on Friday, March 9 at 8 p.m. The Paramount is located at 370 New York Ave. in Huntington.

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Israeli art exhibition, sale at Temple Judea An exhibition and sale of Israeli art will be held in the newly-renovated ballroom at Temple Judea from Thursday, March 15 through Sunday, March 18. The exhibit and sale has been arranged by Safrai Fine Art Gallery of Jerusalem. Admission is free for visitors and will give all an opportunity to support Israeli artists and Israel by visiting the show and purchasing a unique work of art on this 70th!anniversary of the State of Israel. The event will include a Klezmer concert on! Thursday, March 15 at 7:00 p.m. – 9:30 p.m.,as well as a Kosher Wine Tasting and Sale on! Saturday evening, March 17. An unusual and highly anticipated event will take place on!Sunday, March 18!at 10:30 a.m.!when an Israeli breakfast will be prepared and served by Rabbi Todd Chizner who will present his culinary expertise.

An RSVP is required for the breakfast which has a charge of $10.00 per person. A film, “In Search of Israeli Cuisine” will be shown on! Sunday, March 18 at 12:15 p.m.!following the breakfast. A raﬄe to win a beautiful lithograph as well as four posters is also part of the event. The drawing will be held on Sunday, March 18 at 2:00 p.m. Winners need not be present at the drawing. The dates and times of the!Israel Art Exhibition and Sale are: Thursday, March 15, 7:00 p.m. – 10:00 p.m. Friday, March 16, 10:00 am – 3:00 p.m. Saturday, March 17, 8:00 p.m. – 10:30 p.m. Sunday, March 18, 10:00 am – 4:00 p.m. Temple Judea of Manhasset is located at 333 Searingtown Road (oﬀ exit 36 on LIE). For more information call!(516) 621-8049!or visit the website!www.temple-judea.com.!All are welcome.

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Port Washington Library Port Washinton Public Library is located at One Library Drive in Port Washington. For more information about these and other events, go to www.pwpl.org. SANDWICHED IN Friday, March 2 12:15 to 2 p.m. “The Twenties: A Panoramic View.” Don Parker provides an overview of the decade, and Tony Traguardo explores how new technology led to the creation of the modern entertainment industry. To be followed by a Q&A. SCRABBLE Friday, March 2 2 to 5 p.m. Join the game! CINEMA: 7:15: ROARING 20S REVUE Friday, March 2 7:15 to 9 p.m. “The Jazz Singer” (1927), starring Al Jolson, launched the talking picture industry and doomed silent film. Philip Harwood leads a discussion.

CHESS:Tuesday, March 6, 2 to 4 p.m.

SOUNDS OF THE ROARING 20S Saturday, March 3 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. Students from the Port schools perform hits from the 1920s. We welcome 5th grade singers from Guggenheim and a flute ensemble from the Schreiber High School Concert Band. ASK THE EXPERTS: HEALTH SCREENINGS Sunday, March 4 2 to 4 p.m. Six medical specialists discuss often- confusing guidelines on mammograms, colonoscopies, skin cancer checks, and heart, brain, and lung evaluations. To submit questions in advance, email reference@ pwpl.org. Presented in cooperation with Northwell Health. CINEMA: 7:15 Monday, March 5

CINEMA: Monday, March 5, 7:15 to 9 p.m. “It” (2017-135 min.). 7:15 to 9 p.m. “It” (2017-135 min.). Bill Skarsgard plays the demonic clown Pennywise in the second screen version of Stephen King’s novel. CHESS Tuesday, March 6 2 to 4 p.m.

SCRABBLE: Friday, March 2, 2-5 p.m.

CINEMA: 7:15 Thursday, March 8, 7:15 to 9 p.m. GREAT BOOKS “Mother!” (2017-121 min.). John Bosco Wednesday, March 7 screens and discusses this polarizing tale of 2:30 to 4:30 p.m. “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” by Maya a poet (Javier Bardem), his wife (Jennifer Lawrence), and some strange houseguests. Angelou. Copies available at the Info Desk. Recommended for adults. Join the game!

Manhasset/Port Washington Community Calendar PROJECT INDEPENDENCE BEREAVEMENT SUPPORT GROUP Are you grieving the loss of a spouse? Are you feeling overwhelmed with sadness and not knowing how to cope with your feelings? Learn more about the grief process and coping skills with other supportive people who are sharing the same experience. Meetings take place the first and third Friday of each month from 11 a.m. to 12 p.m. Located at 80 Manorhaven Blvd. Port Washington. (For those 60 and over).

Registration required. Please call 311 or 516-869-6311 to register or for more information.

St., Port Washington, hosts Story Time, every Tuesday at 3:30 p.m. for children ages 3 and up. No registration is required.

MUSIC & MORE The Dolphin Bookshop & Cafe 299 Main St., Port Washington, hosts Story Time, every Friday at 11 a.m. for children ages 2 to 4. Advanced registration is required. $10 per child. 516-767-2650.

PORT WASHINGTON & MANHASSET TOASTMASTERS Learn public speaking! A Toastmasters group makes learning to speak in public a fun and empowering experience. From beginners to professional public speakers, the supportive learn-by-doing format encourages all participants to take their communication and listening

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skills to the next level. Ongoing. Meets first and third Mondays of every month, 7:30 p.m. sharp until 9 p.m. Call 516474–1402 for more info. Toastmasters is a nonprofit organization. CHAIR YOGA Every Friday. Eight classes for $99, 10 10:50 a.m.. Rolling admission. Advanced registration and payment required. Call New Dimensions Physical Therapy, Manhasset, 516-304-5373.

COMMUNITY & SCHOOL NEWS

Insight into college recruiting

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A panel of college coaches and athletic directors provided valuable insight to more than 170 student-athletes and parents during an NCAA recruiting information workshop held at Schreiber High School. The Port Washington School District athletic department and the Viking Sports Foundation coordinated the event. The Port Washington School District Athletics Department and the Vikings Sports Foundation recently

hosted an NCAA recruiting information workshop in the Paul D. Schreiber High School cafeteria before 170 parents and

student-athletes in grades 7-12. Moderated by Stephanie Joannon, the district’s director of physical education, athlet-

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ics and health, a panel of Division I, II and III college coaches and a college athletic director provided timely and relevant insight into the recruiting process. The panel also answered questions on college admissions, scholarship opportunities, scouting services, communication, NCAA eligibility and preparing an athletic profile. “These college coaches volunteered their time to inform and educate our athletic community,” said Joannon. “Their presentation was outstanding. They showed the realities of the recruiting process and delivered solid, factual information.” Coaches also discussed the major diﬀerences between playing at the Division I, II or III level and advised against focusing on schools merely based on the level of competitiveness. Instead, they encouraged students to pursue colleges that make sense for them based on academics, social environment and the potential for playing time. Maintaining good grades from freshman through senior year was also highly recom-

mended, and students were advised to have access to their transcripts at their fingertips. Maintaining good behavior on college trips and being cognizant of what students are posting on social media were also emphasized by the panel, who shared examples of how possible recruits were denied opportunities as a result of poor judgment or behavior. Every coach agreed that the choice of college should be a family discussion. “Some of the feedback from the attendees was that there was so much more involved with recruiting on the diﬀerent levels,” said Vikings Sports Foundation President Peter Smith, whose organization not only fundraises for the nonbudgeted athletic equipment, but also looks to help Port athletes continue their playing careers beyond the high school athletic seasons. “Tonight’s panel painted a clear picture of what our student-athletes can expect going forward.”

Salt Cave gets Deeb-Westervelt honored $2,000 award

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The Greater Port Washington Business Improvement District’s New Tenant Bonus Program recently awarded Port Salt Cave with $2,000. “The BID Grant will be used for our sign and to improve the curb appeal of our location,” said Sue A. Sullivan, owner of the Port Salt Cave, located at 403 Main Street (Inspiration Wharf). “The purpose of the New Tenant Bonus Program is to allow our organization to help start a business within

the BID District,”! said Mariann Dalimonte, the BID’s executive director. “We are excited that Port Salt Cave has chosen Port Washington and we wish them much success.” To find out more about the Greater Port Washington Business Improvement District’s new Tenant Bonus Program, please contact us via e-mail at gpwbid@optonline.net or visit our website at www.portwashingtonbid. org for a listing of rules and specifications.

Congratulations to Port Washington School District Assistant Superintendent for Curriculum, Instruction, and Assessment Dr. Wafa DeebWestervelt, who is the recipient of the LIU Post Phi Delta Kappa Chapter 1524 Distinguished Service Award for professionals in education. Dr. Deeb-Westervelt will be honored at the annual Phi Delta Kappa Induction Dinner and Awards ceremony to be held at the Brookville Country Club in April. “Truthfully, I was not aware that I was being considered for this award,” ! Deeb-Westervelt said.! “It was a complete surprise to me, and I’m genuinely humbled and honored to have been chosen.” The Phi Delta Kappa Board unanimously named DeebWestervelt a recipient, citing her outstanding accomplishments, tireless eﬀorts, and dedicated service to students and teachers at LIU Post and the Port Washington School District. This includes running highly regarded professional development workshops on instructional procedures for developing a valid and research-based understanding of

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Port Washington Assistant Superintendent for Curriculum, Instruction and Assessment Dr. Wafa Deeb-Westervelt is the recipient of the LIU Post Phi Delta Kappa Chapter 1524 Distinguished Service Award for professionals in education teaching. “Your focus on the type of instruction – being the voice for all children, an admirable advocacy for all students – extends beyond our LIU Post campus

community,” wrote! Roberta Levitt, the! Phi Delta Kappa Chapter 1524 co-president and associate professor in LIU’s Department of Special Education and Literacy. Well-regarded for her knowledge of curriculum and instructional best practices, Deeb-Westervelt organizes ongoing professional development workshops for Port Washington teachers, and the training she has provided at LIU Post has resulted in many teaching candidates receiving excellent evaluations. “Dr. Deeb-Westervelt is a hard-working, caring professional who establishes a positive rapport with the Port Washington school community and community at large,” said Port Washington Superintendent Kathleen Mooney. “She works collaboratively with colleagues and parents. Her knowledge of curriculum, her initiative for bringing relevant, innovative educational programs to the district, and her expertise in facilitating instructional professional development for staﬀ as well as analyzing instructional data are delivered with skill and professionalism.”

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SCHOOL NEWS

Manorhaven school studies Japan

We will be “Freezin’ for a Reason” at the 14th Annual Town of North Hempstead Polar Plunge Saturday, March 3, 2018 North Hempstead Beach Park Pt. Washington Check-in between 10:00-11:30 PLUNGE @ NOON

Last year over 600 Plungers braced the chilly waters while hundreds of spectators watched on. Help raise money for the athletes of Special Olympics New York by asking your friends, family, co-workers, etc. to support you in taking the PLUNGE! Every Plunger that raises $150 receives an official Plunge sweatshirt…raise more money and receive more great prizes! Whether you plunge or support a Plunger, come join us on March 3rd!

Manorhaven Elementary School in Port Washington continued an annual tradition of Cultural Studies Week — this year delving deep into Japanese culture with a fair filled with fun, hands-on activities. Manorhaven’s library was a center of activity as it was transformed into a Shinto shrine (built by a parent) where students gathered to listen to Japanese folklore. While there, children also connected with nature by creating their own mini Zen gardens, practiced the art of origami, made Kabuki masks and learned about the country’s geography, all through rotating stations. Nearby, in the school’s cafeteria, students learned to used chopsticks to dine like the Japanese and also made rice balls, a Japanese delicacy. The school gymnasium hosted karate and Japanese dancing lessons to help strengthen student bodies and minds. Representatives from the Long Island Science Museum visited classrooms to speak on the importance of volcanoes, seismic technology, wildlife and advancements in Japanese technology, allowing students to program Dash robots to emphasize this point. Japanese culture, geography, language, music and religion

were also explored through diﬀerent activities. Students even combed the hallways to collect interesting facts and artifacts during a Japanese scavenger hunt. Manorhaven’s Japanese students performed a special song during the week’s opening-day ceremonies, and Japanese folk, dance and martial arts performers Ryu Shu Kan closed out the week with a special performance of their own. There was also a family night, highlighted by a drumming performance by COBU, led by Yako Miyamoto from the Broadway show “STOMP.” Parent Lainie Leber and Manorhaven ENL teacher Bridge Green co-chaired the Cultural Studies Week committee, organizing activities and connecting with the many parents who volunteered to make the event interesting and informative for the students. “Manorhaven Cultural Studies Week is a long-standing tradition that is treasured by students, staﬀ members and even those parents who participate,” said Superintendent Kathleen Mooney. “On behalf of the district, I thank all of the Manorhaven teachers and parents who worked together to provide this authentic cultural experience to our young students.”

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READERS WRITE

Ehrbar best for W.P.

arch 20, 2018 marks the day for village elections in Williston Park. Since 2010, Mayor Paul Ehrbar has proven his ability and dedication to Williston Park. Please vote for the following Integrity Party Candidates to ensure

continued improvement in our Village: Paul Ehrbar, Mayor Kevin Rynne, Trustee Bill O’Brien, Trustee Kevin Kiley, Trustee Xavier Fleming Williston Park

Blame Albany, not village

nder New York State Election Law 15-108(8)(b), “a certificate of acceptance or declination of an independent nomination for an office to be filled at the time of a general or special village election shall be filed not later than three days after the last day to file the petition which made such independent" nomination.” Thus, people who file petitions by the Tuesday 2/13/18 deadline in a village clerk’s office to run for office are required

to confirm by Friday 2/16/18 that they want to run. Whether the filing of petitions is a suﬃcient indication that people are seeking oﬃce without asking them to prove they really mean it is a question for the New York State Legislature not the village clerk. Palma Torrisi Village Clerk Village of Port Washington North

Vision, strong record

y wife Barbara and I are pleased to announce our support for Williston Park Integrity Party candidates Paul Ehrbar for Mayor, Kevin Rynne and Bill O’Brien for trustees, and Kevin Kiley for village justice in the upcoming village elections to be held at the Village Hall on Tuesday, March 20. This is a tested and proven leadership team having represented our taxpayers and community well in various capacities

for the past several years. We look forward to the continued success of their vision in the coming four years. We urge you to join us at the Village Hall on Tuesday, March 20 between the hours of noon and 9 p.m." in casting a vote for continued responsible growth and progress for our village. Barbara and Tom Malley Williston Park

Back Ehrbar’s team

andidates most times ask for your vote, in my opinion, Williston Park Village Mayor Paul Ehrbar has earned it. Seeking a third term, Paul has displayed a willingness to listen to all residents. He is always respectful and easily accessible. Being Mayor is a part-time position that he embraces with full-time vigor. His accomplishments are tangible. I have seen major improvements throughout our village to our infrastructure, as well the resurfacing of many of our streets and the major repaving of our roads. The refurbishing of Kelleher Field was timely, critical and a wise investment as it is the centerpiece of activity in the Village for both young and older. He has rekindled a vibrancy in our village. Paul has an appreciation for rec-

ognizing the necessity of working collaboratively with others. He shares important endeavors with Deputy Mayor Kevin Rynne, himself a valued public servant and trusted colleague. Paul embraces the notion of an engaged village board and works hard to foster a working relationship with all the trustees to ensure they have a meaningful voice in our village’s well being. I know first hand the critical importance of working together at the Village level of government, so I ask you then on Village Election Day,Tuesday March 20, to please vote for Mayor Paul Ehrbar and “The Team” of individuals who will help him do just that! Re-elect Mayor Paul Ehrbar, Trustee Kevin Rynne, Village Justice Kevin Kiley and elect William O’Brian as trustee. Rocco Iannarelli Williston Park

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READERS WRITE

Transit system needs more capital dollars

he New York City Council passed legislation! that requests the MTA to allow New York City residents to pay a comparable fare on the Long Island Rail Road or Metro North Rail Road as the New York City Transit subway!sounds great on paper.! It was signed!by Mayor Bill de Blasio and supported by both Comptroller Scott Stringer and Public Advocate Letitia James.! Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams endorsed the same. ! He proposes a pilot project on the Atlantic Branch in Brooklyn for those boarding East New York, Nostrand and Flatbush Avenue stations.! This concept will be introduced for residents of Southeast Queens to take advantage of heavily discounted LIRR fares starting later in 2018.! If adopted on other LIRR branches, this proposal could have significant adverse impacts on other Queens, Nassau and Suffolk County residents who are daily LIRR commuters.! This holds! true for offering the same riders a free transfer from either the LIRR! or Metro North! to the NYC Transit Subway.! Elected officials from New York City Council clearly illustrated their lack of understanding concerning how transportation works.! How many who supported this bill!have a Metro Card and ride any public transportation! systems like constituents do on a daily basis? Those NYC residents who already! utilize either the LIRR, Metro North, MTA Bus or NYC Transit Express Bus are aware the cost is!more than either the bus!or subway.! If you agree and follow this logic, there should be a! reduction in!the cost of any NYC Transit or MTA Express Bus Service as well.! There are already almost! 100,000 NYC residents who travel!weekday to and from work paying extra to ride the

LIRR, Metro North, MTA Express Bus or NYC Transit Express Bus.! All are aware that they are paying extra for a premium service. Existing scheduled LIRR trains serving the Port Washington branch would have a diﬃcult time accommodating hundreds to several thousand new riders.! Few will have seats. Additional riders beyond that number would have to stand if they are! lucky enough to be able to board.!! There are few! if any! available seats west of Flushing.! More! customers may! be attempting to board when the new Elmhurst Queens LIRR Station opens by 2023.! Imagine the crowds,!if several thousand!of the daily 66,000 NYC Transit subway riders who utilize the Flushing Main Street No. 7 station decide to become regular daily LIRR customers.! What if you add potentially!even more new riders!attempting to board an LIRR train at Woodside?! What about new riders with luggage in hand who will want to connect with the future LaGuardia Air Train at Mets Willets Point LIRR Station?! There is no way existing Port Washington branch rush hour service!could accommodate several thousand more!new Queens and LaGuardia Air Train rush hour customers without adding more trains.! Part of the problem is the! cost of $2 million or more per car or $20 million per ten car train set.! Between design, engineering, procurement, manufacturing and delivery along with inspection and acceptance,! it can easily take five years before the LIRR can acquire additional rolling stock.!! Another problem is track capacity to accommodate additional trains west of the Woodside Station.! The LIRR! also! needs additional maintenance and storage capacity for any significant

LIRR fleet expansion.! We are all already aware of what happens!due to equipment malfunction, inclement weather, switching or crossing gate!problems.! Don’t forget the! increase in the frequency of major service disruptions due to storm and signal problems in the East River Tunnels. These problems periodically occur between the Tunnel Portals and Harold Interlockings west of the Woodside Station.! This results in canceled and combined trains. People are packed standing in the aisles.! There is no way for conductors to check tickets. Train trips take longer as more time is needed at each station for riders to enter and exit.! At Penn Station, it could take five or more minutes before everyone can depart the train.! Think of the chaos with thousands of additional daily riders. ! There is no room to run additional trains in or out of Penn Station during either a.m. or p.m. rush hours via the East River tunnels with connections to Long Island. Three of the four tunnels running inbound during a.m. and outbound p.m. rush hours have very tight spacing between trains. One tunnel is shared by the LIRR, New Jersey Transit and Amtrak for reverse train movements with equally tight spacing during rush hours. There is no platform capacity at Penn Station to accommodate any additional trains during rush hour. Penn Station is currently operating at 100 percent capacity during both rush hours. If one of the four tunnels is temporarily out of service, the result is numerous delays and cancellations of trains. Nothing will change until LIRR Eastside Access to Grand Central Terminal is open for revenue service.!! The anticipated revenue service date has slipped on numerous occasions from the original 2011.! The MTA “party line” schedule claim (based on the most

recent project recovery which has also changed numerous times during the life of the project)! calls for a December 2023 opening day.! Based on the previous!history of!delays and recovery schedules adding up to 11 years worth of broken promises, the first day of revenue service might be 2024 or later. ! The $70 million estimated cost for a $6.50 fare for all trips for residents within NYC riding on both the LIRR and Metro North!including a free NYC Transit subway transfer is just a guess.! It is not based upon any concrete data.! The cost!could easily be $100 to $200 million or even more indirect farebox revenue loses for the LIRR, Metro North and NYC Transit.! The MTA has!no surplus operating dollars available under the $32 billion 2015-2019 Five Year Capital Plan to cover these costs.! Neither Mayor Bill de Blasio or the NYC Council have offered to increase NYC’s level of operating assistance to pay for this.! ! For decades, NYC politicians have discussed this issue.! They!claim two-fare bus to subway! neighborhoods is! a desert when it came to public transportation. As a result,! residents only choice was! to rely on! automobiles.!!! Look at any Queens, Bronx, Brooklyn! or Staten Island bus map.! More than 95 percent of outer borough residents living in two fare zones! have an elaborate local or select limited-stop bus service within one-quarter mile (10-minute walk) or less on weekdays. Many also have access to express buses.! ! ! There are other issues to contend with for NYC public officials who want to offer new NYC LIRR and MNRR riders a free transfer to the NYC Transit Subway.! They obviously have never traveled through! either Grand Central Terminal or Penn Sta-

tion during rush hours.! Both the eastside! No. 4, 5, and 6 subway lines or west side No. 1, 2, & 3 subway lines are!already operating at!or above capacity.! Many!wait for a second subway train to arrive before being able to board.! The same is true to a lesser extent for Atlantic Avenue Brooklyn Station travelers attempting to access subway lines.!! There is little!room for!new riders who might want to take advantage of a free commuter rail to subway transfer.! If offered, there are thousands of NYC residents already riding the LIRR and Metro North who would also want the same free transfer.! People! who moved to neighborhoods in eastern Queens!knew full well that they would be living in a two-fare (bus to subway) zone with longer commutes to and from work.! In! the end, it all comes down to the availability of increased! funding for additional transportation service for residents of two-fare zones in NYC outer boroughs.!! Operating subsidies are required to increase the level of service and reduce the amount of time one waits for a bus on existing routes.! Same for adding more off-peak, late night and weekend service. Capital dollars are required for the purchase of additional buses, off-board fare collection equipment, real-time communications systems to notify riders of the anticipated arrival!of the next bus,!shelters and facilities.! Introduction of Limited Stop Service, Select Bus Service or Bus Rapid Transit!is not a new idea that needs to be studied once again.!! !Larry Penner Great Neck !(Larry Penner is a transportation historian and advocate who previously worked 31 years for the US Department of Transportation Federal Transit Administration Region 2 NY Office)

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READERS WRITE

Kudos to town on tax help Closed primaries

he change in property tax laws impacts negatively on itemized deductions for many Long Island homeowners. ! Thus at the last minute, Gov Cuomo and Rep Suozzi arranged for certain 2018 taxes to be paid late in 2017 so as to enable the deduction to be taken in 2017. In freezing cold weather homeowners lined up on long lines to prepay. Judy Bosworth, supervisor, Town of N Hempstead, and

Charles Berman, receiver of taxes, made special arrangements to keep town tax oﬃces open until late in the evenings and also on the last available weekend of 2017 so that by paying taxes then, homeowners could save money. Not only that but to combat freezing temperatures on line, town oﬃcials gave numbers to people waiting outside, then accompanied them into town hall to keep them comfortably warm until it was their turn.

When I paid my taxes on Sunday, there was Judy working hard at a desk opening large stacks of letters. A hearty thank you to Judy, Charles, the board, and the tax office staff for your compassionate efforts and support in taking such good care of us citizens at such a difficult, stressful time. Naomi Penner Great Neck

Noone, Sabino and Turano

ennifer Noone, Anthony Sabino and John Turano deserve our vote. All three of these dedicated residents have selflessly given countless hours of their time and attention to making the necessary improvements that our village needed over the past several years. As a village trustee Jennifer has been in charge of our roadways, and thanks to her eﬀorts she has secured grant monies to help oﬀset the cost of resurfacing village roads so our taxes don’t have to be raised. Anthony Sabino served for the past several years on the Building Advisory Committee and helped transform this board into a very pro-resident forum.

Having served alongside Anthony I saw first hand his willingness to assist residents navigate the tricky waters of renovations to meet our village codes, while at the same time help homeowners save time and money with many great suggestions. John Turano is one of the finest people I have had the pleasure to meet in our village. His keen legal mind and even disposition make him perfect to continue in his position as our village justice. We are very lucky to have John represent our village in this capacity. Every one of these three great people that have volunteered to serve our village deserves our complete support.

They have done quite a lot over the past several years and they know that there is still a lot more that needs to be done. Please remember that everyone… needs to vote. As a resident, you owe those who give countless hours of their time, a few minutes of your time on March 20th to go to Village Hall and vote. Your vote will show your thanks to these three wonderful people who have already done so much for you. Your vote for them will also ensure that we can continue to improve the Village of Munsey Park to be the best that is can be. John Penn Munsey Park

LED criticism falls short

n Friday, Feb.!16, Karen Rubin, columnist for the Great Neck News, published an article which assessed the wisdom of the Great Neck Village’s decision to install LED street lights in place of expensive to operate, obsolete sodium vapor lights. I thought Karen did an excellent job in exposing the many areas of disagreement such as adequacy of information provided to the public, weather the agreement to install was suﬃciently transparent, the possible dangers of the blue-light content of the lights, and other issues linked to the electronics of the installation. In my view, I believe Karen’s review was fair and analytically sound and I recommend the column to everyone. Karen concluded that the project is worth

the village’s decision to go ahead and I agree completely. It did not take long for opposition objections to erupt. On Friday Feb. 16, the Great Neck News printed a column by Amy Glass titled “Setting the Record Straight.” (Amy Glass was a copy editor for the American Institute of Physics and worked as a consultant in statistics and computer technology.) This article heavily attacked Rubin, but fell far short in the most important issue she raised. Is there any scientific evidence that LED lights pose a health risk? In an earlier article, Ms.Glass quoted two older studies that suggested LED lights could do damage, but the exposure has to be chronic, acute, daylong, lifetime exposure. Hardly what residents will

experience in Great Neck. In a more recent study from Harvard, the investigators followed 109,672 nurses over 15 years. Using satellite data to determine light exposure where they lived, they found that the only outstanding subgroups for women’s disease were smokers, former smokers and night-shift workers. Thus it seems the scientific data Ms. Glass frequently refers to is pretty weak, if not nonexistent. It is noteworthy that Ms. Glass never mentions the benefits of LED streetlights in terms of cost, eﬃciency and not the least of all safety. Leon Korobow Great Neck

protect machines

his is in response to Kathy Rittel’s view in 2/23/18 edition of Herald Courier.! I could not agree with her more on the unfairness and infringement these closed primaries present.! ! I, for one, became incensed when, my son, Frank Scaturro, ran for Congress as a challenger for the 4th District Congressional seat three times.! Case in point: The League of Women’s Voters had sponsored a candidates’ night for the public to have an opportunity to hear the political views and ask questions of the candidates. It was very common for the political party’s “pick” to not show up – even cancel within an hour of the event, in which case, the primary challenger of that same political party was not permitted to speak to the public that came out to hear the various views on the issues at stake.! ! I phoned The League of Women’s Voters and questioned why they have a policy not to

allow the challenger to speak if there is a “no show” by the other candidate?! The response I received was, “Those are the rules we follow.! Complain to your political party about that.”! Well, a lot of good that would do. Political machines are not in favor of the public having open, transparent choice in an election.! It does not take a genius to see that.! I’m also in agreement with Ms. Rittel’s opinion about the burden of collecting signatures from members of one’s party to allow for a candidate to run for oﬃce.! As she pointed out, these practices (closed primaries and candidate’s petition signing) are not the rule across the country, which means that the voting results in some states, namely New York, have an unfair (negative) bias due to this way the voting process is handled here. Rosanne Spinner New Hyde Park

Open Munsey Park

e are endorsing Nathy Yukaitis and Brian Dunning for trustees in the Village of Munsey Park. We feel that they both will fulfill the duties of trustees to uphold the code, always keeping the residents and our beautiful village in mind.!! The current board does not follow the Open Meetings Law, which has very clear rules regarding agendas, minutes, the conduct of monthly meetings and public input. We attend these meetings on a regular basis and are shocked at how poorly the residents are treated by members of the board. Their meetings have one item on the agenda, then they go into Executive Session. When and where are the minutes, the building inspector report, the police report, the justice report approved? Why are they not part of the agenda? We love Munsey Park and

feel that Nathy Yukaitis and Brian Dunning will see that it remains the unique community it is. They will govern fairly, kindly, and with dignity. They will ensure that the Open Meetings Law will be observed, that the community and the local media will have the prescribed access to the agenda and the minutes in a timely manner, and that there will be a public discussion time set aside at each board meeting for resident input. We have served the village for over 35 years under various mayors – Deborah as trustee, deputy mayor, chair of the Zoning Board, and the tree committee; George as a member of the Building Advisory Committee. Please vote for Nathy and Brian on March 20, at the village hall. George and Deborah Miller Munsey Park

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COMMUNITY NEWS

Local students’ college achievements Lauren D. Esposito!of Port Washington was named to the President’s List at LIM!College for the Fall 2017 semester. To be placed on the President’s List!students must earn a grade point average between 3.8 and 4.0. Roslyn Native Molli Michalik was named to Dean’s List at Ithaca College!for the fall 2017 semester. Seton Hall University has! announced the following students who qualified for Fall 2017 Dean’s list and to congratulate them for their outstanding academic achievements:! ! Kevin Johnson of Albertson Sarah Rudolph of Mineola Sarah Weynand of Albertson, i s performing in Wilkes University Theatre’s production of The Crucible Feb. 22-25. The performances will take place on Feb. 22, 23 and 24 at 8 p.m. with matinee performances on Feb. 24 and 25 at 2 p.m. The production will occur at Wilkes’ Dorothy Dickson Darte Center for the Performing Arts, 239 S. River St. Weynand is playing the role of Mercy Lewis. SUNY New Paltz announces its Dean’s List for the fall 2017 semester, a recognition for students who excel academically and earn at least a 3.3 gradepoint average in a semester with a fulltime course load. The following New Paltz students made the Dean’s List in fall 2017: Jenna Cohen of Port Washington Caitlyn Salstein of Port Washington! Jacqueline Waters of Port Washington Kelly Nardone of Port Washington!has earned a Bachelor of Science in Biomedical Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta. Nardone was among approximately 3,100 undergraduate and graduate students who received degrees during Georgia Tech’s 254th Commencement exercises on Dec. 15-16, 2017, at the McCamish Pavilion. Twenty six SUNY Oneonta students attended The NAMM (National Association of Music Merchants) Show in Anaheim, Calif., from Jan. 25 to 28. The annual trade show is a The NAMM Show is a place for professionals in the music industry to explore and discover innovative new products being released in the new year. The students got a firsthand look at how music retail and music business go hand-in-hand, testing out the latest products from more than 7,000 brands, attending cutting-edge industry education sessions and demonstrations, and seeing lots of live performances. The following area students went on this trip: Laura Kobrinsky of Port Washington! Scott McCann of Port Washington! Derek Moss of Port Washington Christopher Seifert of Port Washington! Audrey Brooker of New Hyde Park has been named to the Deans’ List/Ex-

plore Center List of Distinguished Students at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln for the fall semester of the 2017-18 academic year. Brooker, a freshman broadcasting, and sports media and communication major, was named to the Dean’s List for the College of Journalism and Mass Communications. More than 5,100 students at Nebraska have been named to the Deans’ List for the fall semester. Brandon Martinez of New Hyde Park graduated in December 2017 from the State University of New York College of Technology at Delhi with an associate’s degree in Criminal Justice Studies. Denny Li of Roslyn Heightswas part of a team that placed first in the Residential Construction Management Competition held by the National Association of Home Builders in conjunction with the International Builders Show in Orlando, FL in January. “This first place finish is a great complement to the SAFE Award received last year from the NAHB and to the third place finish in the same competition received in 2016,” said Assistant Professor Alex Brownell, team coach and club advisor. “Over the past four years, we have performed exceptionally well at this event, proving the superior level of instruction students receive in SUNY Delhi’s Residential Construction program.” Saumya Valasareddi has been named to the fall 2017 Dean’s List at University of the Sciences. Selection for this award is based on completing and passing all assigned courses with no grade below a “C” and attaining an academic average of at least 3.4 for courses taken in the fall of 2017. Valasareddi of Albertson is a biomedical sciences student. Hofstra University is proud to announce the Fall 2017 Provost’s List, which recognizes students who have earned a perfect 4.0 grade point average. Local students who achieved this academic honor include: Sabreen Bhuiya of Albertson Tanzim Bhuiya of Albertson Erick Pacher of Williston Park Jillian Pallone of Mineola Bhakti Patel of Albertson Nicole Triebe of Albertson Andrew Adamo of East Williston The following local students have been named to the Marist College Dean’s List for the Fall 2017 semester: Jessica Commisso of Port Washington!is a member of the Class of 2018 and is majoring in Psychology/Special Education. Gina Golden of Port Washington is a member of the Class of 2021 and is majoring in Psychology/Special Education. Michael DeMaria of New Hyde Park is a member of the Class of 2018 and is majoring in Accounting.

Thomas Famularo of New Hyde Park is a member of the Class of 2019 and is majoring in Computer Science. Charles Grippaldi of New Hyde Park is a member of the Class of 2019 and is majoring in Information Technology and Systems. Maya Guzman of New Hyde Park is a member of the Class of 2020 and is majoring in Psychology/Special Education. Connor Kearney of New Hyde Park is a member of the Class of 2019 and is majoring in Business Administration. Lauren Kurre of New Hyde Park is a member of the Class of 2018 and is majoring in Fashion Merchandising. Nicole Tremblay of New Hyde Park is a member of the Class of 2018 and is majoring in Communication. Samantha Cumming of Williston Park is a member of the Class of 2020 and is majoring in Mathematics. Diana DeBenedittis of Williston Park is a member of the Class of 2019 and is majoring in Psychology/Special Education. Katarina Mueller of Williston Park is a member of the Class of 2020 and is majoring in Digital Media. Thomas Vestuto of Carle Place is a member of the Class of 2020 and is majoring in Business Administration. Crystal Barroca of Roslyn Heights is a member of the Class of 2020 and is majoring in Biomedical Sciences. James D’Arpino of Roslyn is a member of the Class of 2020 and is majoring in Computer Science. Jessica Messina of Roslyn Heights is a member of the Class of 2018 and is majoring in Fashion Merchandising. Dean Musto of Roslyn is a member of the Class of 2021 and is majoring in Political Science. Marist College, recognized for excellence by The Princeton Review, U.S. News & World Peter Conlan of Manhasset is a member of the Class of 2021 and is majoring in Accounting. Sara Malvey of Manhasset is a member of the Class of 2021 and is majoring in Communication. Dietrich Mosel of Manhasset is a member of the Class of 2018 and is majoring in Business Administration. Biagio Raimondi of Manhasset is a member of the Class of 2020 and is majoring in Business Administration. Anthony Raimondi of Manhasset is a member of the Class of 2020 and is majoring in Communication. Hofstra University congratulates local students named to the Fall 2017 Dean’s List for their outstanding academic achievement. Students must earn a grade point average of at least 3.5 during the semester to make the Dean’s List. The following area students were

named to the Dean’s List: Sydney Blass of Port Washington Matthew Canigiani of Port Washington Liam Carlton of Port Washington Adam Castar of Port Washington Julian Faccibene of Port Washington Rachael Fox of Port Washington Caroline Stigliano of New Hyde Park, NY has been cited for academic achievement for the Fall 2017 semester by achieving the Dean’s List at the State University of New York College of Technology at Delhi. Stigliano is pursuing an associate’s degree in Veterinary Science Technology. To qualify for the Dean’s List, students must have an academic average of 3.50 or higher within the semester. The following local students made the University of Dayton fall 2017 dean’s list for achieving a minimum 3.5 GPA for the semester. Erin Freehill of Mineola Aileen Holbrook of Williston Park Mary McLoughlin of Williston Park The University of Hartford is pleased to announce Guojun Johnson Ao of Roslyn has been named to its Dean’s List for Fall 2017. Manhasset native Isabel Vigliotti an Ithaca College student majoring in Music Education, was named to the Dean’s List in the college’s School of Music for the fall 2017 semester. Ithaca College congratulates students named to the Dean’s List for the fall 2017 semester. Rebecca Amir of Great Neck, a Speech Language Pathology and Audiology major, was named to the Dean’s List in the School of Health Sciences and Human Performance. Danielle Edelstein of Great Neck, a Speech Language Pathology and Audiology major, was named to the Dean’s List in the School of Health Sciences and Human Performance. New Hyde Park Native Abby Wizel Named to Dean’s List at Ithaca College Katie Conte of East Williston, a Health major, was named to the Dean’s List in the School of Health Sciences and Human Performance. Emily Roach of Williston Park, a Music Education major, was named to the Dean’s List in the School of Music. Kerri Barnett of Mineola, a Music Education major, was named to the Dean’s List in the School of Music. Alison Ricchiuti of New Hyde Park graduated from Ithaca College with a BS in Therapeutic Recreation. The degree was awarded in December 2017. Cristina Pinto has been named to the Siena College Dean’s List for the Fall 2017 semester. Pinto is from Mineola. To be named to the Dean’s List, a student’s grade point average for the semester must be between 3.5 and 3.89.

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Business&RealEstate

How to do deals on ‘off-market’ homes It seems lately that we are doing more “oﬀ market” transactions than ever before! What is an “oﬀ market deal”, people are asking me? Well, this is how it works. We have our most important network of special connections locally and in around the U.S. as well as internationally. As an example, I am selling a home in Voula, Greece, just outside of Athens and another McMansion in Bella Vista, Uraguay, because I am a Certified International Specialist Broker. You might ask, how can I do this, and I will tell you, it’s all about one’s local and global connections. When you go to the local and national conferences (25,000+ agents come from around the Globe to our National Conference, this year in Boston, Mass Nov. 3-5th, 2018)), that some of us smart Realtors go: June 7, Oct. 11, and Dec. 5-7 you are able to make and create amazing long lasting relationships, that will further your career and the success of your business! Less than 1,000 agents show up in June At the Crest Hollow Country Club out of 28,000-plus registered MLS agents; so what does that tell you? In turn, if you do what I do, and take it to another level, and be part of “Habitat for Humanity” and spend an extra day, “paying it forward” and assist in the construction of homes in the locations that need our help, you will also meet very giving, “no limit” brokers, associate brokers and agents, who again, are always, thinking of giving, instead of taking. I have always said, “Nobody cares how much you know, until, they know how much you care,” which separates those that are so laser-focused on their deals and making money, that they make no time for giving back to their own towns or anywhere else. By acting and performing in the correct fashion and being the right kind of person and human being, I promise, you will always attract business, as an indirect result of giving; and if you give enough, you will be surprised how it can sometimes come back to you tenfold. One will also feel a sense of tremendous accomplishment, satisfaction, and the sense of needing and wanting to do “the right thing” while feeling really good about it.

All these suggestions and ideas go a long way in making and building connections and rapport and great relationships to those who have “off market” properties for sale and investment. The reason I mention these things is that most realtors do not participate in what I would call “the networking” and “connecting” part of our industry; to participate in growing their business. As I always say, “you are in business for yourself, but not by yourself,” unless you are a wallflower; then you need a job! If your mouth is closed, your business is closed! Building rapport and relationships are the secret and real key to earning a 6+ figure income. Now to get back to the main subject of making and doing “offmarket” deals, one must have those critical and crucial connections first hand to be able to obtain those types of properties. They are exposed and known to a small group of, what I call “special realtors” which I can say that I am honored to keep company with. These relationships and connections provide many times much more lucrative properties than the exclusive in-house listings that we all have been taking lately, in this unbelievably insane, sizzling hot market. So, does your broker or agent have them? Off market properties come from one’s most important relationships in the real estate business with owners and landlords and even other brokers; the more one has, the more potential off-market deals that can potentially be consummated. Having the correct marketing tools and setup with 3D Tours and crisp, high definition and high-resolution photos for those types of properties is extremely important in the “wow factor” for owners and at the same time, enabling your purchasers to see a different and professional and creative approach and profile of the properties. This allows your investors to really see and understand the big picture and be able to do their due diligence in determining the cap rates (R.O.I) and whatever is necessary for deciding to purchase or not. Many deals have to have a phase one, two or three type

PHILIP A. RAICES Real Estate Watch

inspections (to be discussed in a future article or you can contact me for more info) by a professional and licensed expert in commercial inspections or one that only specializes in that specific situation. In the market today, many transactions, especially in New York City are “oﬀ market” and this is the way that many owners want their sale to work. I assume that they do not want their tenants, close associates or whomever, to know their business for whatever reasons they may have. Sometimes, I wonder why? Will the tenants leave them? Will they lose their friends or business relationships? Would the increase and greater exposure hurt their sale or help it? The more exposure an owner has, the greater the chances that more than one oﬀer would be presented because there will be more “eyeballs” seeing the property online, as I have said, with 3D Virtual Tours, high-resolution

photos and excellent descriptions. There are excellent brokers and brokerages that do provide these superior services to their sellers, but they are far and few between. Owners who want to earn more profit need to expose their oﬀ-market properties to a wider audience, especially with the multitude of “cash” purchasers that are out locally and internationally, searching for their next investment. However, some will not agree with my concept of exposure and I have to respect what they want, even though I believe they might be wrong; but aren’t we in this business to maximize their profits and assist in the process of doing a tax-deferred 1031 exchange within the legal limits? I want to push the upside as much as possible and that is the job of a professional broker, to earn their seller the most dollars while finding a purchaser that sees the upside and future potential of their investment. Dealing with oﬀ-market properties must be handled with “kid gloves” with respect to honoring the wishes of the seller. You may not agree with their style or how they want it sold, and the way they want it exposed and marketed. However, if you explain your method of searching out those special buyers and why you need to do what you need to do, and educate them, as best you can with your methods of doing what you do best; I have found, more than you might imagine,

many owners will tend to listen to you, if you are smart in your approach; and the ones that won’t; well, just do your best and try to be on the same page as them, less arguing and disagreeing and then hope for the best. So, keep your fingers crossed, be a little lucky or as I say,“try to make your luck, by being in the right place at the right time, whatever that might be. Know when to hold and know when to fold, meaning walking away, if the vibes are not right and either is the price, based on your research and comparable sales. We are not in the business of inventorying properties, but finding buyers to get them sold. Lastly, be and act professionally and be a more knowledgeable as an expert; learn to be a sponge in learning and absorbing and elevating your stature in whatever situation; for we are never done, until we are six feet under. Do what you love and love what you do! Phil is the owner of Turn Key Real Estate at 7 Bond St. in Great Neck. He can be reached by email: Phil@TurnkeyRealEstate. Com or by cell (516) 647-4289 to answer any of your questions. To search for any type of properties or to see what your home is worth or homes that have sold in your area, go to:: WWW.Li-RealEstate. Com Or if you desire a free, no strings attached customized comparative market analysis to see today’s market value, just call me for an appointment.

58 The Port Washington Times, Friday, March 2, 2018

Recent Real Estate Sales

79 Essex Court, Port Washington

Port Washington Real Estate Market Conditions

Sold Price: $925,000 Date: 10/02/2017 3 beds, 2 Full baths Style: Split # of Families: 1 Lot Size: 134x100 Schools: Port Washington Total Taxes: $13,393 MLS# 2953615

in Port Washington

MEDIAN SALES PRICE $845,000 Demographics near Port Washington, NY Population Population Density Median Age People per Household Median Household Income Average Income per Capita

City 15,847 3,787 43.6 2.7 108,767 58,668

County 1,361,350 4,744 41.3 3 98,401 42,949

10 Highfield Avenue, Port Washington Sold Price: $825,000 Date: 01/12/2018 4 beds, 2 Full/1 Half baths Style: Colonial # of Families: 1 Lot Size: 50x100 Schools: Port Washington Total Taxes: $16,979 MLS# 2975985

44 Essex Court, Port Washington Sold Price: $1,140,000 Date: 12/18/2017 3 beds, 2 Full baths Style: Split # of Families: 1 Lot Size: 75x93 Schools: Port Washington Total Taxes: $10,264 MLS# 2982750

8 Pepperday Avenue, Port Washington Sold Price: $835,000 Date: 12/15/2017 4 beds, 2 Full/1 Half baths Style: Contemporary # of Families: 1 Lot Size: 60x100 Schools: Port Washington Total Taxes: $16,153 MLS# 2937349

Editorâ€™s note: Homes shown here were recently sold in Port Washington by a variety of real estate agencies. The information about the homes and the photos were obtained through the Multiple Listing Services of Long Island. The homes are presented based solely on the fact that they were recently sold in Port Washington and are believed by Blank Slate Media to be of interest to our readers.

The Port Washington Times, Friday, March 2, 2018

L.I. preps for 1st liver transplant program BY A M E L I A C A M U R AT I North Shore University Hospital in Manhasset has earned contingent approval from the state Department of Health to establish Long Island’s first adult liver transplant program. The program, which is expected to be operational by December, will be led by Dr. Lewis Teperman. It will require a new intensive care unit dedicated to transplant patients at the hospital’s Sandra Atlas Bass Center for Liver Diseases, which treated more than 4,300 patients in 2017. Dr. Henry Bodenheimer, the program’s medical director, will lead the medical transplant team. Teperman, who has worked in transplantation for more than 25 years, said when he was working in New York City, about 40 percent of his patients were from Long Island and Queens. “They would continually complain of how diﬃcult it was,” Teperman said. “Having almost half of your business from one place, it became obvious that this group of patients was disadvantaged.” Since applying for the program in March 2017, the hospital has referred 35 patients for liver transplant evaluations and is expected to perform at least 20 liver transplants within its first two years. There are currently seven other hospitals in New York state performing liver transplants: Manhattan’s New York Presbyterian Hospital/Weil Cornell Medi-

PHOTO COURTESY OF NORTHWELL HEALTH

The state Department of Health has given contingent approval to North Shore University Hospital’s request to establish Long Island’s first adult liver transplant program. cal Center, Mount Sinai Medical Center and New York University Medical Center, Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx, SUNY Downstate Medical Center in Brooklyn, Westchester Medical Center and Strong Memorial Hospital in Rochester. Teperman said transplant candidates fall into two categories: acute failure and chronic failure. A chronic failure patient is usually

dealing with a disease that is causing liver failure and is given a Model for End-Stage Liver Disease score, more commonly known as MELD, ranging from six to 40. “Somewhere about 14 or greater, transplantation is better for you than not having transplantation,” Teperman said. “We don’t transplant in the state of New York until you often see 35 and 36 scores, so during that period of time a team deems them good candidates for

Town learned late of tax liens Continued from Page 1 last week that in the 2014 financial statement Troiano failed to list $81,533 in federal income tax liens and a $749,264 lien on a house he owned facing foreclosure. “The issues raised regarding Troiano’s undisclosed tax liens suggest this process needs to be tightened further and we are doing that, including now requiring that senior appointees submit financial disclosures before starting their employment with the Town,” Trottere said. “We will continue to review and enhance our policies and procedures as needed.” She said according to the town attorney no tax liens were listed on Troiano’s financial disclosure forms before the one filed in May 2017. The town announced a year ago that it had strengthened its ethics codes following disclosures that Gerard Terry, the former head of the North Hempstead Democratic Committee who held two jobs in the town, had racked up nearly $1 million in unpaid state and federal taxes from 2000 to 2017. Terry pleaded guilty to tax fraud in September of last year. The changes included requiring town employees to include more information in financial disclosures. The town also said it would begin enforcing a rule passed 25 years ago that required leaders of town political committees to file financial disclosure forms.

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North Hempstead Town Hall is seen in Manhasset. A tax lien is a governmental claim on property generally placed when someone fails to pay a tax debt, according to the Internal Revenue Service. This lien disappears once the tax debt is paid in full. Troiano left the town government early this year to join County Executive Laura Curran’s administration. Issues regarding ethics, conflicts of interest or financial disclosure are referred to the

Board of Ethics for review, the statement also said. Troterre declined to answer any further questions on Troiano. According to the town’s updated code of ethics, any reporting individual who “knowingly and willfully with intent to deceive makes a false statement or gives information which such individual knows to be false on such statement of financial disclosure filed”

transplantation, they have to wait and be taken care of by a transplant team until their score gets that high. That can take years, coming back and forth to the hospital all the time.” Acute failure patients, however, do not have time to wait. Given a score of “status one,” patients require a liver transplant within 14 days to survive. Teperman said a “critical organ shortage” is the cause of some of the transplant list wait time but said that immediate relatives such as siblings can be live donors, giving half of their liver. “The liver grows back in both individuals — you take two halves, and at the end of nine months, everyone has essentially two whole livers,” Teperman said, who has worked much of his career in the living donation area. While the common practice is to put organs on ice between harvesting and transplantation, Teperman said the center will be working with a warm-preservation system that will keep the liver closer to the 98.6 average human body temperature. Dr. Lawrence Smith, Northwell Health physician-in-chief, said North Shore University Hospital has been performing adult kidney transplants since 2007, increasing its volume to 65 transplants last year. The hospital is also expected to perform its first adult heart transplant soon at the Sandra Atlas Bass Heart Hospital.

could be subject to “a civil penalty in an amount not to exceed $10,000.” Between 2014 and 2017, Troiano served as the town’s director of operations and as the senior policy adviser to Supervisor Judi Bosworth. When he left the town to join Curran’s administration in January, his salary was $137,660. Troiano was tapped by Curran to serve as the county’s acting commissioner for traffic and parking violations at the end of last year. He stepped down at the end of January when his tax issues came to light, although Troiano maintains he left for other reasons. Frank Moroney, a spokesman for Nassau Republicans, told Newsday that Troiano would have faced questions about his financials and that “the sheer volume created doubts in people’s minds.” Troiano said Curran had not requested a financial disclosure form when he was hired by the new administration. Troiano served as a town councilman for District 1 from 2004 to 2010. He then served as a Nassau County legislator from 2010 to 2013. After he withdrew his nomination for commissioner for traﬃc and parking violations, Troiano was appointed as director of special projects in the county’s Board of Elections at a salary of"$140,000 per year. Curran’s spokesman, Michael Martino, declined to comment any further on Troiano. Eﬀorts to reach Troiano were unavailing.

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Survivor advocates for Child Victims Act BY R E B ECC A K L A R

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The Rev. Robert N. West, Unitarian Universalist Association president, and Sen. Mike Gravel (D-Alaska) held a press conference on Nov. 5, 1971, concerning Beacon Press’ publication of “The Pentagon Papers.”

N. Shore Unitarian Society aided ‘Papers’ BY A M E L I A C A M U R AT I The film “The Post,”!about the publication of the Pentagon Papers in the 1970s, is up for an Academy Award on Sunday, and a North Shore religious organization has a rooting interest because it played a role in the events decades ago. In 1971, the Beacon Press in Boston, Massachusetts, was approached about publishing! former Alaska Sen. Mike Gravel’s Vietnam Archive, more famously known as the Pentagon Papers,! a Pentagon history of U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War.

I can only hope for the opportunity to do something as daring and courageous as publishing these critical documents.”

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Joan Minieri, executive director of the Unitarian Universalist Veatch Program at Shelter Rock, said the request put a financial burden on the publishing house because of the controversial nature of the Pentagon Papers, and Beacon Press needed more funding to print the documents, which had been published in The New York Times and The Washington Post. “I can only hope for the opportunity to do something as daring and coura-

geous as publishing these critical documents,” Beacon Press director Helene Atwan said. “The story of the!Pentagon Papers!is one of my very favorites about this press and what Beacon stands for.” Minieri said the North Shore Unitarian Society, which resided on Plandome Road, made a $100,000 loan, immediately forgiven, through the Veatch Program to meet the “acute needs” of the Beacon Press, which also handled distribution for the Unitarian Universalist Association. With inflation, the payment would have the same buying power as!$622,781.41 in 2018. Now 50 years later, the organization is known as the Unitarian Universalist Congregation at Shelter Rock and has continued to provide grants through the Veatch Program since 1959. “Unitarian Universalism operates with seven core principles at its heart,” Minieri said. “It’s not a theological approach to religion. It has these values at its core: democracy, interdependence, dignity of every person. That’s what guides our grant making. Our strategy is to promote these strategies in the world.” The Veatch Program, which Minieri said provides grants for about 188 organizations nationally, helps fund groups that are working on building the Unitarian Universalist denomination or are pursuing social justice causes such as immigration, worker rights, environmental concerns and women’s issues. “It’s both a bold move on the part of the congregation but also of the Veatch Program as the funding arm of the congregation,” Minieri said. “The Veatch Program continues to act with courage and support issues around the country that are particularly under attack at this time. The decision to fund the Pentagon Papers is something the congregation is very proud of in their history.”

As a senior at Chaminade High School, Brian Toale said, he was sexually abused by a faculty club adviser. He did not get closure until about four decades later, when he wrote a letter to Chaminade, he said. While Toale said Chaminade’s response read more or less like an acknowledgment of receipt, it wasn’t the response that spawned his closure. “You live with this feeling like you’re guilty, you’re ashamed of your actions, you don’t want anyone to know about it …” Toale said. “When I wrote the letter to the school what I was doing was saying this shame that I lived with my whole life I now realize it doesn’t belong to me and it never did, and I’m handing it back to those adults at the time that were responsible.” Toale is now an advocate for passing the Child Victims Act, which would!expand the criminal statute of limitations to sex abuse victims who are up to 28 years old and the civil statute of limitations to victims up to 50 years old. The bill has passed the!state Assembly five times, but the state Senate has not put it to a vote. For the first time the Child Victims Act was included in Gov. Andrew Cuo-

mo’s budget proposal this year. The bill also has support from 90 percent of New York state voters, according to a recent Quinnipiac University poll. Toale, who was heading to Albany to lobby on Tuesday, said expanding the statute of limitations is a critical piece to the puzzle. He said many survivors, like himself, are not comfortable coming forward right away. Toale said the faculty adviser who abused him blackmailed him into staying quiet. After touching Toale inappropriately one day, the adviser told him “you should never have let me do that to you because I own you now,” Toale recalled. Toale said the adviser told him he had to do everything he said or else he would tell his friends and family. Toale said at the time he wanted to stay quiet, finish out the remainder of his senior year, graduate and put the incident behind him. Unfortunately, due to the abuse, Toale said, he fell behind in preparing for college. In a statement, Matt Markham, director of communications at Chaminade High School, said the school takes any Continued on Page 69

L.I.’s first heart transplants done BY A M E L I A C A M U R AT I Long Island’s first heart transplants were performed in February in Manhasset. Michelle Pinto, Northwell Health media relations director, said the transplants were performed on Feb. 19 and Feb. 26 at Sandra Atlas Bass Heart Hospital at North Shore University Hospital. A news conference is set for next week with more information and potentially one of the transplant patients, Pinto said. The North Shore hospital was approved in June!by New York Health Commissioner Howard Zucker to open the island’s first heart transplant program. Northwell hospitals collectively treat more heart failure patients than any other health system in the state. Over the past three years, Northwell facilities hospitalized 20,906 heart failure patients, 14 percent of the

statewide total. New York has the highest number of candidates waiting for a heart transplant, with 322 residents on the waiting list, according to the Organ Procurement Transplantation Network. Beyond Long Island, the state has five heart transplant centers: three in New York City, one in Westchester and another in Rochester. As part of developing a heart transplant center and in conjunction with!LiveOnNY, Northwell Health is trying to increase organ donations to meet the needs of all types of organ transplant recipients. Dr. Lewis Teperman, Northwell Health’s director of solid organ transplantation, said with increased awareness and internal programs for physicians, nurses and other clinicians to make referrals, organ donations for the health system improved by almost one-third in a six-month period last year.

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Include trains in Sound tunnel: planner BY LU K E TOR R A N C E If you want to leave Long Island by train or car, you have to go through New York City. A proposed tunnel under the Long Island Sound would give automobile traﬃc a way around the city, and now a planner is promoting adding trains to the tunnel proposal as well. The Regional Planning Association, a" Manhattan think tank, has advocated for the inclusion of trains in any tunnel under the Sound at the behest of its president, Tom Wright. “Our position is that an automobileonly tunnel is not smart in this day and age,” said Dani Simons, a spokeswoman for the association. “The only way we would support this is if there is a rail component.” The tunnel would connect Long Island with Westchester County. Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced last month that the state Department of Transportation had issued a Request for Expressions of Interest. The request invited interested parties to provide input on environmental, engineering, financial and operational considerations before April 2. That announcement followed a"study conducted by Montreal consulting firm

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Potential crossing routes of the Long Island Sound, by either tunnel or bridge. WSP that was released in December. The study considered three possible paths for a Sound crossing: on the east end of the island, from Wading River to New Haven and Branford; in the central part of the island, from Kings Park to Bridgeport and Devon; and on the western end, from Oyster Bay to Rye/Port Chester.

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Although the Oyster Bay to Rye/Port Chester is the shortest distance of the three, it is also the most expensive, with estimates ranging from $31.5 billion to $55.4 billion, and this is without an additional tunnel for trains. The study estimated that the Oyster Bay route would have 86,400 daily rid-

ers if the toll was $20"and that the route would generate at least $520 million annually in toll revenue. It also estimated that the Oyster Bay route would have a higher percentage of freight traﬃc (trucks) than the other two routes combined. According to the study, there have been eight major proposals for a Long Island Sound crossing since 1938, with the most recent being a proposal by local developer Vincent Polimeni in 2008. The Regional Plan Association has worked for over 90 years on public works, economic development and open spaces in the New York metropolitan area. The group was most recently involved with Long Island when it backed a third track for the LIRR. But Simone said the association believes that the state has more pressing concerns to deal with before a tunnel under the Sound should be seriously considered — namely, maintaining the tunnels that it already has. “We think that there are major other infrastructure projects like the Gateway Tunnel [underneath the Hudson River] that are much more urgent,” she said." “Fixing the roadways and regional rail network, that’s where the focus should be.”

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Passion for preaching drives pastor

Marc Herbst uses second career to spread word of God to Manhasset community BY A M E L I A C A M U R AT I The Rev. Marc Herbst said he found his calling to the cloth late in life. Herbst, who was ordained seven years ago this past Monday, was an engineer and a five-term state assemblyman before he took the leap, starting with just one class at the General Theological Seminary, an Episcopal institution in Manhattan. One class turned into one more and then Herbst was taking weekly flights to Chicago to continue his training at the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago. “At the time, I was relocated to Albany, and I would literally fly to Chicago on Sunday night, sleep on a couch, take courses all day Monday and fly back Monday night for two years,” Herbst said. Herbst, a Plainview native, joined the Church of Our Saviour, Lutheran!on Northern Boulevard in Manhasset in December 2015 after a two-year stint as New York!Bishop Robert Alan Rimbo’s chief of staﬀ and the director of strategic plan at the Metropolitan New York Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America. Herbst said after working for Rimbo, he was ready to go back to parish ministry, having previously served as pastor for Faith Lutheran Church in Syosset. “Our tradition is once the congregation calls, I stay here for as long as they feel the need to have me here,” Herbst said of his Manhasset congregation. “I

PHOTO COURTESY OF THE REV. MARC HERBST

Church of Our Saviour, Lutheran Pastor Marc Herbst was drawn to his calling later in life. have no interest in leaving, and I hope to retire here. The feedback I get is the same. It’s been a fabulous experience.” The congregation, Herbst said, is made up of about 130 families, and he said he sees about 100 people every Sunday for worship services. Herbst said the congregation ranges from small children and young families to senior citizens drawn from across 37 diﬀerent ZIP codes, which gives the congregation diversity but also hinders the

church’s youth ministry because the children are involved in their own community sometimes many miles away. Herbst has focused on the children, instituting a children’s message at the beginning of every worship service before they go to Sunday school. Herbst said he gives the children a preview of the gospel message and a small gift on theme with the message, which helps him build a relationship with the younger congregants that was missing

Assault survivor advocates for act Continued from Page 60 allegation of abuse seriously. Markham added that the staﬀ and faculty consider the “safety of those entrusted to our care our most important responsibility,” and said that any “allegations of this kind are forwarded to law enforcement.” Markham did not refer to Toale specifically. The subsequent years were filled with addictions and diﬃculty holding a job, Toale said. It was not until about 20 years after his high school abuse while in a 12-step recovery program that Toale connected his problems to the abuse he had endured, he said. “I started hearing people in the room talking about what their childhood had been like and I’m saying to myself I can relate on every level … I have these bePHOTOS COURTESY OF BRIAN TOALE haviors and these feelings but I don’t have the trauma, my parents never beat me,” Toale said. “And then it just dropped back Pictured left: Brian Toale said he was abused as a Chaminade High School into my mind that year in high school.” student. Now he’s an advocate for the Child Victims Act. Pictured right: BriNot only had it taken Toale about 20 ane Toale’s yearbook photo from 1971 as a Chaminade High School student. years to come to terms with his abuse, it also took him another few to be able to Regardless, Toale would have been Toale said many victims do not come process it and come forward, he said. At that point, he heard from the dis- long outside of New York state’s statute forward until their 40s if not later. “If you can’t bring a lawsuit against trict attorney that his abuser had died, he of limitations. He is not alone. someone, if you can’t charge them with a said.

from his childhood parish. Herbst has a wall of photos of churches he has preached at behind his church desk, a symbol of his passion for preaching and spreading his message beyond the walls of the church. “I believe houses of worship are where you re-energize yourself. It’s where you charge your batteries, but the mission is out in the world,” Herbst said. “We’re being sent, and as part of our liturgy, we have four sections — the gathering, the word, the sacrament and the sending. Oftentimes, people minimize the sending, but the idea is to be through the liturgical practice, to be inspired to go out and help others.” Herbst said he can often be seen at community events across the North Shore, giving him a more one-on-one interaction with those not in his congregation that could be of a different faith but looking for spiritual guidance during a dark time in their life or simply a new outlook on life. “The world has changed. It’s not the 1950s and ‘60s, and a lot of people lament that our houses of worship are no longer the center of our culture,” Herbst said. “In the old days, everything shut down on Sundays. We compete with all the activities on Sunday. There is more activity across the street at the Miracle Mile than there is at the houses of worship across the street. Does that mean we’re failing? No.” crime, you can’t expose them,” Toale said. “And if you don’t expose them they’re going to keep doing it.” New York’s weak law emboldens predators, Toale said. He said he advocates for the safety of today’s and tomorrow’s children. Toale said one of the main objections groups have to the Child Victims Act is a look-back window, which would allow a one-year period for cases past the statute of limitations to be revived. Since many victims do not speak out until later in life, without the look-back window it will be about 20 years before the act would have any effect on making children safer, Toale said. “The bill without the look-back window doesn’t help children, at least not for a few decades,” Toale said. This is the second year Toale has been part of the 12-year-long lobbying effort done largely by survivors and religious groups, he said. On Tuesday Toale was to be one of about 50 people meeting with lawmakers trying to persuade them to back the Child Victims Act, he said. This year, in the wake of the #MeToo movement and with Cuomo’s support, Toale said he feels the “ground is more fertile” and there is a potential to change minds. “I want to try and fix the system,” Toale said. “The law that we’re trying to change protects predators and protects the institutions that protect the abusers.”

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Youth sports: good, bad and ugly I’m currently reading the timely and well-researched book “Playing to Win” by Harvard sociologist Hilary Levey Friedman. It’s based on research she did for her dissertation while at Princeton where she embedded herself in the world of competitive soccer, chess and dance, interviewed large numbers of parents, coaches and kids in order to discover why they went through all that expense and time. If you happen to visit any sports arena at any hour on any day you will see that there are many families here in Nassau County exactly like the ones described in Dr. Levey Friedman’s book. She concludes that the parents felt compelled to invest endless time and money in these activities in order to give their kids a leg up in life. She rightfully posits that the current capitalistic landscape in America has seen flattened wages for decades and this has produced a harsh and competitive world that one must prepare your child for or else they will be left in the dust. Her book is an extension of Amy Chua’s bestselling Battle Hymn of the “Tiger Mother” but written from an American sociologists viewpoint. I think that Dr. Levey Friedman has done well in describing the intense crucible of pressure

common in competitive youth sports. I also think that she fell short in two ways. She has underestimated competitive sports inherent value and its inherent dangers as well. As a full-time depth sports psychologist I see on a daily basis both the benefits of elite youth sports and its possible damaging eﬀects. Doctor Levey Friedman’s treatise suggests that the benefits that the parent is hoping their child will obtain include: 1. internalizing the importance of winning 2. resilience 3. working under time pressure 4. coping with stress and 5. performing in front of others. These are just a few of the benefits that accrue to the young elite athlete. One of my young patients is a world-class dancer and I remarked how mature and self-possessed she seemed. She quickly responded, “Well I’ve been dancing since I was four and I quickly learned that one must ignore pain and never show tears, fears or weakness.” This is a perfect example of the paradoxical nature of stardom. One does indeed benefit in many ways but one learns how to suﬀer gracefully. But learning how to win, being disciplined, focused, resilient and strong just touch the surface of competitive sports. When I go any studio, gym or rink the

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parents who are sitting on the sidelines will always tell me that the reason they support the kid’s sport or dancing is essential because the child enjoys it. In fact, I have never once in all my years of practice heard one child tell me that they want to stop their sport. Or that they feel forced into it. They may be suﬀering from anxiety, pain or sadness but the compelling joy, thrill and excitement of elite sports always override the pain. In addition, parents tell me that the sport keeps their child out of trouble and allows them to make new friends. But elite sports oﬀer far more than this as well. I have seen that every athlete I work with has gained enormous self-pride and the admiration of their peers. In addition, I have seen young athletes get to see the world whereas if they

did not play sports they would be as community bound as their peers. Elite athletes first begin to see America by traveling to our greatest cities like Philadelphia Penn., Houston Texas, Orlando Fla., Chicago Ill., or San Diego, Calif. And when they achieve greater heights they travel to Paris, London, Seoul, Sydney or Rome. They become truly cosmopolitan citizens of the world. And you only earn that credential by becoming elite in soccer or golf or taekwondo or some other sport. But as I remarked above Dr. Levey Friedman also may have underestimated the level of pain that the truly elite athlete must be prepared for. She discusses the gamesmanship that the young chess players in her study must endure. Yes, indeed things like sabotage, gamesmanship and jealousy expressed by parents do occur. I wished the doctor had called me up before she wrote her book. I could have shared with her the following tidbits that await the elite in any sport. My two favorite stories come from the world of soccer and swimming. One of my patients grew to be No. 3 in the world in soccer but when she was a 10-year-old girl she was already being recognized as a future star

and would regularly dominate games in youth soccer. One day following a game where she scored numerous goals she walked oﬀ the field and a parent from the opposing team came up to her and kicked her in the stomach. Or how about another patient of mine who was a worldclass distance swimmer. When he was just coming up the ranks he was in a big race in Florida against a field with some of his heroes competing. It was an ocean race and as he approached the lead his two heroes were up ahead setting the pace and he decided to swim up between them so they could all swim together. As he came up between them they both elbowed him in the face. Welcome to the big leagues kid. I could go on but I think you get my drift. Youth sports has transformed itself over the years into something far, far beyond the sandlot little league games of my youth. And it has arrived at a place which regularly oﬀers up both glory and pain. I congratulate Dr. Levey Friedman for having the guts to plunge into this crazy, wonderful, wild, painful, glorious world of competitive youth sports. And don’t forget to wear your mouth guard.

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Shooting sparks N. Shore school safety reviews Continued from Page 1 but in light of recent events, we wish to see if there are areas in which improvements may be made.” Brown, a mother herself, also said parents and students can always help with the classic “if you see something, say something” motto. “Whenever school staff learns about students who are at risk, or about any situations that might escalate into something more serious, they intervene immediately,” Brown said. “All information about students remains confidential, but confidentiality does not mean we cannot act to help a student in trouble.” In an email sent to Great Neck school district parents and staff, Assistant Superintendent Jon Powell said that school officials are “evaluating all safety and security procedures currently in place” and “in the process of adding a number of additional measures this week.” Great Neck Superintendent Teresa Prendergast also outlined some of the safety precautions the school district currently has, including student safety personnel who have trained with the police and state Department of Homeland Security, security patrols throughout the district, closed circuit video surveillance and a LobbyGuard Visitor Management System that registers school visitors. Each of the 10 schools in the district also conducts unannounced evacuation and lockdown drills throughout the year, Prendergast said. “We take school safety and security very seriously,” Prendergast said. “The district has been vigilant in its efforts to train all school personnel and to familiarize students with various safety protocols.” Prendergast added the district will continue to “work collaboratively as a school community of administrators, teachers, parents and staff to ensure the safety of our students” and that if anyone sees something that might threaten safety within the schools, it should be reported. Port Washington School Superintendent Kathleen Mooney and Board of Education

President Karen Sloan sent a letter to parents and staff to reassure them in the wake of the tragedy. “These horrific events remain as a constant reminder that our schools must be secure, safe places for teaching and learning,” the letter said. The letter went on to say that the district had expanded its security staff and added full-time trained security guards to all schools within the last year. The district is in the process of installing a state-of-theart security system in all schools (as part of a bond approved by the community in March 2015). Currently, all doors are locked during the day, the elementary schools have a buzzer system, and all visitors must present identification before entering a school. “Security is, without a doubt, given the highest attention and priority in our District,” the letter said. The letter also said that the school was caring for the mental health of students through trained professionals, especially at Carrie Weber Palmer Middle School and Paul D. Schreiber High School. “Sadly, due to participation in summer camps and other associations, several … students and staff know students involved in [the shooting],” the letter said. “This brings the tragedy very close to home.” Manhasset Superintendent Vincent Butera said as the district prepares the budget for the 2018-19 school year, the Board of Education will discuss at the March 8 meeting the state of the district’s facilities and security measures and how those could be upgraded. “Over the past several years, Manhasset Public Schools has been at the forefront of implementing new protocols for security and student safety,” Butera said in a letter to parents on Monday following winter recess. “We have established a strong partnership with police officials from the Third Precinct to review our procedures and discuss best practices.” Butera said in recent years, the district has strengthened protocols for visitor access and added a security checkpoint at the secondary school entrance.

Board of Ed talks budget, security Continued from Page 2 Fla., two weeks ago. She said her son at Paul D. Schreiber High School felt the security there was insuﬃcient. “It’s diﬃcult to say that people should rest assured because there’s really just not any way to ever say that, and I’m very sorry to hear that any student would ever feel that their safety is at risk in our buildings,” Sloan said. She then ran through some of the security measures the district had undertaken, which were mentioned in a letter that she and Mooney sent out to parents the day after the shooting.

She said the district has worked with local police departments to plan in case of an emergency, that a recent bond approved by the community was being used to install state-of-the-art security systems, and that more security staﬀ had been hired. “All of those things being said, it will probably never be enough, and we will always keep looking at everything we do and trying to improve that,” Sloan said. She added that the district was considering additional measures, such as metal detectors. “We have made great strides but we can improve upon that,” Mooney said.

Beyond physical security, Butera said ,the district’s counselors and social workers were available for students to discuss personal problems as well as concerns about other students who exhibit violent or worrisome tendencies. “We recognize the importance of fostering trusted relationships between students and adults,” Butera said. “In the event that a student has knowledge of a potentially harmful situation, we want to ensure that they have a trusted adult to turn to for support.” Sean Adcroft, the director of instructional technology, said the district is always looking for blind spots to fill and has video surveillance both inside and outside the building that is recorded and can be accessed at the Nassau County 3rd Precinct in an emergency. Adcroft said the district is also participating in the Police Department’s Rave Mobile Safety system, which allows administrators to access a smartphone application with five buttons to call emergency services for an active shooter, a fire or a medical emergency. The app can only be used on campus, Adcroft said, to avoid accidental use at home or unauthorized use if the phone is lost or stolen. Adcroft also said the district is looking into replacing the exterior strobe lights on the buildings to warn teachers and students to not come into the school. Herricks Superintendent Fino Celano said in a letter sent to parents that the Florida shooting reminds us “we must always be vigilant and continuously evaluate and strengthen our school safety and security measures.” Celano outlined safety procedures that are in place, and that he said will be reinforced. The middle and elementary schools have a single entry door while school is in session. The high school will have two points of entry, front and rear, with a security guard posted at each entry door, Celano said. Celano said high school students will be asked to carry their ID cards with them at all times.

Celano also noted the recent installation of new electronic staff ID card readers on exterior doors. There is also an installation of new “Smart Locks” on all classroom doors across the district, he said. Celano also said parents should take the opportunity to review the safety measures with their children. “We want our students to know that they should report any concerns they may have to their teachers, administrators and mental health professionals,” Celano said. He added that the district’s counselors, psychologist and social workers “work diligently to support the social and emotional well-being of our students.” Celano also said the district encourages parents to attend the upcoming March 8 Board of Education meeting to address questions. “Working together, we will get through this difficult time with the support of everyone in our caring Herricks school community,” Celano said. In an online statement, East Williston Superintendent Elaine Kanas said the District and Safety Committee regularly reviews and updates the safety plan in light of new data and information. For example, Kanas said, the Nassau County Department of Homeland Security is in the process of completing an updated districtwide security audit that began in late December. In recent years the district also replaced front door monitors with retired police officers and started to require visitors’ appointments be confirmed before they are able to enter the building, Kanas said. “While we fervently hope for not one more school or mass shooting anywhere in the country, when such a horrific event occurs, we consistently look to evaluate our own safety plans in light of what may be learned and our building and district administration is engaged in such a follow up process now with the consult of our safety professionals,” Kanas said.

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