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Vol. 1, No. 34
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ELECTION GUIDE
PORT STUDENT, GIRL FRIEND DENY CHARGES
SUOZZI TOUTS INDEPENDENCE
PAGES 35-46
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LWVNC Voter Guide 2016,
a publication of the League
of Women Voters of Nassau
County. Reprinted with permission.
Never hesitating to help
S C H O O L U N I T Y D AY
Resident volunteers with 8 local groups BY ST E P H E N ROMANO During Superstorm Sandy, Vivian Moy and her family were staying in Queens when she heard an overnight Red Cross shelter was being set up at Paul D. Schreiber High School. Immediately, she said goodbye to her family and returned to Port Washington to help set up the shelter, she said. “I remember sitting there with the lights on, a full stomach, watching television with full access to the Internet,” Moy said. “I said to myself, I can’t just sit here doing nothing when so many people are out of power, so I said goodbye to my family.” Moy didn’t see her family for a week, because she was helping with the shelter, she said. Her experience with Sandy, she said, was one reason she and others formed the Port Washington Crisis Relief Team, which helps Port residents in the event of a disaster — one of the eight organizations she volunteers Continued on Page 23
PHOTO COURTESY OF THE PORT WASHINGTON SCHOOL DISTRICT
Port Washington students walking around the track last year for the district’s annual Unity Day. See page 13.
A one-way street for holiday lights Village passes laws to ease traffic congestion on Sunnyvale Road BY ST E P H E N ROMANO The Village of Flower Hill Board of Trustees on Monday passed a law turning Sunnyvale Road into a one-way street during designated dates and hours
to ease traffic stopping to see a house’s holiday light show. “We walked the route and decided that it’s the most logical way to do it,” Deputy Mayor Robert McNamara said. “We’re going to help move the traffic along.” Sunnyvale Road will turn into a one-way street from Nov. 25 to Jan. 19, between 6 p.m. and 11 p.m. The board also passed laws suspending parking
on Sunnyvale Road, Wood Valley Road and Cherrywood Road and prohibiting right turns when traveling north at the intersection of Wood Valley Road during the same hours. “We worked together with the residents and everyone involved to come up with this schedule and we think it’s best,” Mayor Elaine Phillips said. The three laws are a response to residents’ complaints about the traffic caused by resi-
dent Bob Young’s lighting display at 9 Sunnyvale Road, which he said, attracts around 10,000 visitors every year. Young, who began decorating his house in 1996, continues the tradition to honor his daughter, Marie, who died in 2013. The house features over 250,000 lights synchronized through music and generated with a computer program, Young said. Continued on Page 64
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