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Vol. 5, No. 37

GUIDE TO COMPLAINTS GET LOT STREET FAIRS BOOTED FROM SCHOOL

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Curran wins Dem primary

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Beats Maragos by 57 points

BY N O A H M A N S K A R Laura Curran won the Democratic nomination for Nassau County executive on Tuesday, handily defeating a former Republican and turning her attention to that party’s current standard-bearer.

Curran, a county legislator from Baldwin, beat Nassau Comptroller George Maragos 23,093 votes to 6,265, or 78.5 PHOTO BY AMELIA CAMURATI percent to 21.3 percent. About 7.8 percent of registered DemoMembers of the Port Washington Fire Department salute as a member of the Albertson VFW Post 5253 plays during crats voted Tuesday, a smaller the Town of North Hempstead’s 16th annual Sept. 11 memorial service. See story on page 4. turnout than the 2013 Democratic primary for county executive.

Jay Jacobs, the Nassau Democratic chairman, said that Curran had won just after 10 p.m., well before the Nassau Board of Elections published any returns.

The declaration was based on results at several election precincts around the county, Curran’s campaign said.

Russo said throughout the to build a 6,200-square-foot ments to the village code deBY A M E L I A Curran must now run a twovolved Tuesday into screaming meeting that the changes would home, it should look like 6,200 C A M U R AT I month campaign against Jack not affect allowable floor area square feet, not 8,000 square matches between residents.

Martins, the Republican former Michael Russo, an associate ratios already set in the code but feet,” Russo said.

A second East Hills public state senator from Old Westbury, “A lot of this was cleaning up Continued on Page 101 hearing on potential amend- architect at Hawkins Webb and remove loopholes that residents Jaeger, said he began ana- and architects have wiggled the loopholes to cut the fat. They could have a two-story home lyzing the village’s building through in the past.

“There were complaints of with a three-car garage with construction, lighting and zoning codes four years ago ‘the buildings are too big,’ and a second-floor addition above at the behest of trustees and I’m going to say that as a very the garage that is ‘storage,’ and general term. If you’re allowed other village boards.

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E. Hills hearing takes tumultuous turn

Residents argue over proposed building, lighting, zoning code amendments

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Complaints get lot Scholarship holds booted from school coach’s legacy Temporary parking trashed after parent uproar Maureen Timony died on Aug. 10

BY A M E L I A C A M U R AT I After Roslyn school district parents and neighbors complained about a temporary parking lot placed on the Heights School field, officials quickly backpedaled and removed it.

During a Roslyn Board of Education meeting last Thursday, two Heights School parents and a neighbor said they were surprised and unhappy about the new temporary parking lot on Carlyle Place.

“I, like Stephen [Rhine] and many of the people around the school, were dismayed and concerned and honestly very upset about the parking lot put in Labor Day weekend without any notification after four years ago, we were promised there would be no lot there,” Roslyn Heights resident Paula Lester said.

The school’s existing parking lot, also on Carlyle Place, is being repaved.

The approximately 5,000-square-foot temporary lot covered about 20 percent of the grass adjacent to the school playground and was surrounded by temporary construction fencing weighted down by sandbags.

“The plans for the Heights School have been online for some time,” board President Meryl Waxman Ben-Levy said.

“There have had to be some recent adjustments due to emergent circumstances that had to be dealt with immediately to open the school.”

The work on the parking lot was part of the district’s $41.3 million capital plan project approved in 2014.

The district’s statement on the Heights School website read: “Because work is being done in the Carlyle Place parking lot area, a small temporary parking area has been created just

BY A M E L I A C A M U R AT I Maureen Timony, a retired East Hills Elementary School physical education teacher, died Aug. 10 in Las Vegas. She was 58 years old.

Tom Valentino, who worked with Timony for more than 20 years, sharing a gymnasium and teaching side by side, said she had a special affinity for her job and her students.

“First and foremost, she took great pride in teaching physical education, and you saw that in the way she taught and how professional she was,” Valentino said.

PHOTO BY AMELIA CAMURATI “She really took her job seriously, and she really cared about kids.

The Roslyn school district installed a temporary parking lot She truly put her heart and soul in at the Heights School. her profession and wanted to do the best for her kids.”

Valentino hosted a retirement south of the building on part Ben-Levy said the school party at his home for Timony when of the playing fields, in order follows building codes set by she left the district in 2015, a year to keep excess parking off the the New York State Depart- before his own retirement, and street. This parking area will be ment of Education, not any lo- said he was lucky to have spent his surfaced to keep it from getting cal municipality, but could not teaching time alongside Timony. muddy, but it is not permanent; specify how the department “She was a big proponent of when construction is completed defines “temporary.” The Town kids who had disabilities,” Valenit will be removed and the play- of North Hempstead’s building tino said. “We would take students ing fields will be restored to codes says a “temporary struc- to the [Nassau County Empire ture” is for a maximum of six State] Games for the Physically their previous condition.”

When Rhine asked for clari- months and can be renewed for Challenged. She was an excellent fication about how temporary an additional six months. teacher. I was blessed to be able to Requests to the department the lot would be, what it would work with her. I thought we were a be covered with and why the for clarification brought no re- fantastic team, working together.” lot was suddenly installed, Ben- sponse.

While Timony loved teach“I was verbally told 18 Levy and Superintendent Alliing her younger students, she son Brown directed his concerns months is temporary. That’s a also worked with the Roslyn High to Director of Facilities Kevin long time,” Lester, who lives School volleyball players, founding on Carlyle Place, said. “Doing Carpenter. the boys program in 1989. After Carpenter spoke privately it over Labor Day weekend ap- decades of hard work, she took her pears underhanded and sneaky with Rhine, Lester and Roslyn and, to tell you the truth, no 2014 team to the Nassau County Heights resident Victoria Dee afone’s parked in it yet. The park- Class B tournament and earned the ter the meeting, but Rhine and ing on the street has been com- district’s first county win.

Dee both said their concerns “Volleyball was her expertise pletely fine.” were not satisfied.

Dee, who lives across the as far as coaching goes,” Valentino After the meeting, Rhine street from the school, said she said. “She coached a lot of difsaid he asked Carpenter if the was more concerned about the ferent sports over the years, but lot would be gravel, and he said children’s safety than the street mainly the boys and girls volleyCarpenter was unsure but that it ball was something she did for the Continued on Page 27 district for many years. That was could be asphalt.

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Maureen Timony her baby.”

During her last year with the district, Valentino said, Timony bought a house in Las Vegas and was looking forward to moving to the desert to be closer to her family.

Timony was born May 20, 1959, to Maurice and the late Eileen Timony of Merrick. Maureen was one of seven siblings, the sister of Dennis Timony, Joanne Warren, Theresa Hurtado, Michael Timony, Kathleen Timony and Ellen Stayman.

“She still had a house here on Long Island, but she was excited about moving to her new house in Vegas,” Valentino said. “That’s the kind of person she was. She wanted to be there for her family.

She was always a family-oriented person and wanted to do whatever she could do.”

Timony’s brother-in-law Kevin Stayman recently started a GoFundMe campaign to build a Maureen Timony Memorial Scholarship fund for a deserving Roslyn school district student-athlete.

“She always talked fondly of ‘her kids,’ and she cared deeply that they grew to be true team players who knew what it was to focus, work hard and ultimately succeed on the court and in life,” Stayman said. “We ask that in lieu of flowers, you consider making a donation to this scholarship fund in her name.”

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Drucker wins party nod for re-election Beats ex Oyster Bay supervisor Lewis Yevoli in Dem primary for Nassau Legislature seat

BY A M E L I A C A M U R AT I County Legislator Arnold Drucker of Plainview defeated former state Assemblyman Lewis Yevoli for the Democratic bid in the county Legislature’s 16th District.

Drucker pulled in 1,692 votes over Yevoli’s 942, garnering more than 64 percent of the votes in the district’s 74 precincts. Two write-in votes were also cast.

“I am humbled by the support of Nassau County’s Democrats as we continue our drumbeat of cleaning up the corruption and mess left by years of Republican neglect and abuse,” Drucker said in a statement. “Now, we organize to take down the corrupt machine that has wreaked havoc on taxpayer’s wallets for too long.”

Drucker will face Republican candidate Angel Cepeda in the general election in November.

Yevoli screened with the Nassau Democratic leadership last year to run for the seat but

“I am humbled by the support of Nassau County’s Democrats as we continue our drumbeat of cleaning up the corruption and mess left by years of Republican neglect and abuse.”

Arnold Drucker COUNTY LEGISLATOR

the party chose Drucker, a Nassau Community College trustee.

Drucker, the incumbent, was elected during a special election last November after the death of Judy Jacobs.

District 16 includes Plainview, Old Bethpage, Jericho, Syosset, Woodbury, Hicksville, Old Westbury and Roslyn Heights.

Drucker, who garnered a last-minute endorsement from Gov. Andrew Cuomo Sunday afternoon, said he was surprised when Yevoli threw his hat into the ring in May. “Mr. Yevoli has immersed

himself in the culture of Republican corruption in Oyster Bay,” Drucker said of his challenger in an interview with Blank Slate Media. “To me, that is something that is very, very concerning, and it should be concerning to the residents of District 16.

That compromised Democratic values coupled with the fact that he has not been relevant in the political landscape leaves me and I’m hoping the voters in my district to conclude that he’s really not a viable Democratic candidate to challenge me.”

Yevoli was unavailable for comment.

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Legislator Arnold Drucker (D-Plainview)

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Pols vow to keep 9/11 memory alive Town ceremony touts importance of teaching future generations about tragedy of terrorist attacks

BY A M E L I A C A M U R AT I Before the Rev. Victor Lewis became senior pastor at Friendship Baptist Church in Roslyn Heights, he watched Flight 11 and Flight 175 crash into the World Trade Center from his desk at Cantor Fitzgerald Wealth Partners 16 years ago.

“On that day and in the weeks that followed, I saw the best of humanity across this region. I saw the love poured on our city because for a time, everyone was black,” Lewis said.

“When I say everyone was black, I mean it. Everyone who was in that vicinity was black. There was no white, there was no Asian, no European, no African and no Middle Eastern. I am referencing the ashes and the soot that was stuck to the faces of every individual who was down in that vicinity, and they were all black.”

Lewis was not the only civilian-turned-minister at the Town of North Hempstead’s 16th annual Sept. 11 memorial service Monday at Mary Jane Davies

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North Hempstead Town Clerk Wayne Wink said the best way to honor the 56 town residents who died Sept. 11, 2001, is to pass their stories on to the younger generation.

Green in Manhasset.

The Rev. Donna Marie Field of Community Reformed Church in Manhasset was a nurse in 2001.

She had finished a night shift hours before the attack and went

home to sleep. Field said she awoke to 16 voicemails, mostly from her nurse manager begging her to come back to work.

“When I walked back into the hospital, it was a completely and totally different atmo-

sphere,” Field said. “There was no arguing co-worker with coworker. There was no sniping as to who got the best district in the shift. There was no this patient is this or this doctor is that. There was an air of collaboration that

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had a solemnity behind it that I can never, ever, ever describe.”

Speakers at the ceremony stood feet from the town’s permanent memorial, a plaque of the 56 names of those from the town who died in the Twin Towers attacks alongside a piece of twisted metal from one of the towers, moved from its home outside the board room in Town Hall for the occasion.

During the memorial, attended by dozens of people, two moments of silence — one at 8:46 a.m. and one at 9:03 a.m.

— occurred along with a rifle salute from Albertson VFW Post 5253 members and a wreath presentation by the Port Washington Fire Department.

“To me, 16 years feels like yesterday, but 16 years represents nearly an entire generation of Americans, a generation of our children and our grandchildren,” Wink said. “A generation that’s seen more than its share of terror and far too many examples of man’s seemingly endless capacity to inflict inhumanity upon others. For those of us Continued on Page 89

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Town OKs $150K more for elevators Board adds borrowing for repairs at New Hyde Park’s Tully Park, Town Hall

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Town of North Hempstead officials approved a second bond to repair aging elevators at three locations last week, exceeding officials’ original cost estimates.

Town board members voted unanimously to issue $150,000 in new bonds, building upon a $100,000 bond passed earlier this year, toward an elevator repair plan. The town previously approved $406,270 to fix elevators at Town Hall and Michael J. Tully Park in New Hyde Park.

Officials described fixing the Tully Park elevator as pressing, due to its high use and being in and out of service since January. A temporary chairlift has helped ferry people up and down the stairs since then.

“That’s the No. 1 priority,” Carole Trottere, a town spokeswoman, said.

Trottere said that on a typical day, 368 patrons use the park and pool at Michael J.

Tully Park. She also noted that Project Independence, a program by the town’s Department of Services for the Aging, draws 50 to 60 people a day. As a result, that elevator’s average use is 60 to 70 times per day.

Trottere said that all the other elevators are working, but aging. The one at Town Hall in Manhasset, for example, still works but needs upgrades to operate well.

“It’s still operational, but very old, and parts need to be custom made,” Trottere said.

“It’s not like they can just take them off the shelves.”

In addition to rebuilding the elevator cabs in Tully Park and upgrading the Town Hall elevator, the bond money will also go toward fixing the elevator at the town’s public works department building in North New Hyde Park.

Town of North Hempstead Supervisor Judi Bosworth told Newsday that the town needed extra money because costs exceeded expectations.

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Curran, Martins spar on early tax hikes General election exchanges continue on eve of Democrat candidateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s victory in primary

BY N O A H M A N S K A R Two candidates for Nassau County executive slammed each other last Thursday for tax hikes they each approved early in their local government careers.

Jack Martins, a Republican former state senator, said Democrat Laura Curran voted to raise taxes as a Baldwin school board trustee in 2012 and 2013, even after closing two schools and cutting teaching jobs while the district sat on reserves. â&#x20AC;&#x153;And while she was cutting essential services, she added insult to injury by choosing to raise taxes even while sitting on millions of dollars in reserves,â&#x20AC;? Martins said in a statement.

But a spokesman for Curran, a county legislator, countered that Martins voted to give himself a raise as mayor of Mineola after repeatedly raising property taxes, which he said amounted to â&#x20AC;&#x153;self-dealing.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Jack Martins has used his power as an elected oďŹ&#x192;cial to improve his own bottom line, while raising taxes on the residents who had to pay for it,â&#x20AC;? Curranâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s spokesman, Philip Shulman, said in a statement.

The tit-for-tat oďŹ&#x20AC;ers a preview of the general election campaign between Curran and Martins. Curran won Tuesdayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Democratic primary against George Maragos, the formerly Republican county comptroller. Curran had the Nassau Dem-

Jack Martins, a Republican, and Laura Curran, a Democrat, are running for Nassau County executive. ocratic Committeeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s backing.

Martins and Curran are vying to replace Republican County Executive Edward Mangano, who is not seeking a third term after his indictment on federal corruption charges last year.

The Martins campaign criticized Curranâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s vote to close Baldwinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Shubert and Milburn elementary schools in 2012 as the district faced a $4.7 million budget shortfall.

The Shubert School was at only 35 percent capacity and needed renovations, and the Milburn School was at about 50 percent capacity, Newsday reported at the time. The closings were to save $910,000, according to a Newsday report.

The next year, a school budget that would have hiked property taxes 7 percent â&#x20AC;&#x201D; in excess of the districtâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s allowed hike under state law â&#x20AC;&#x201D; only got about 55 percent of the votes when it needed 60,

triggering revisions, Newsday reported then.

In those two years, the district cut about 50 teaching positions and cut sports and music funding, Martinsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; campaign said.

Shulman noted that Curranâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s school board seat was unpaid, unlike Martinsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; mayoral job. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Jack Martins should know local communities decide and vote on the schoolâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s budget priorities,â&#x20AC;? Shulman said.

Martins and the Mineola village board approved raises for their positions in 2009 after a series of village property tax increases. Martinsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; salary as mayor rose to $27,000 from $18,000.

The raises followed a series of property tax hikes, starting with a 13.8 percent increase approved in 2003. The increases were â&#x20AC;&#x153;put in place as a result of restructuringâ&#x20AC;? after Martins inherited a village with no reserves and a debt of more than $30 million, Mollie Fullington, a Martins spokeswoman, said.

Martins voted to increase his salary after the village was back on stable ground, Fullington said, noting that Curran voted in 2015 to increase county legislatorsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; salaries to $75,000 from $39,500. That raise will not take eďŹ&#x20AC;ect until next year. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s like comparing apples to oranges,â&#x20AC;? Fullington said.

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Hilton hotel marks opening in Roslyn

BY A M E L I A C A M U R AT I A new Roslyn hotel celebrated a successful first 90 days with a ribbon cutting and reception Tuesday night.

Town of North Hempstead officials and local community leaders packed the Magnolia Room of the Hilton Garden Inn Roslyn to officially welcome the hotel to the North Shore.

“June 12 was the first day we opened the doors for our guests, and today is Sept. 12, so today is our 90th day,” William Gomez, the general manager, said. “As far as the operation is concerned, we are already No. 1 on TripAdvisor out of all the area hotels.”

According to the site, the hotel on Harbor Park Drive on the border of Roslyn and Port Washington has a 4.5-star rating from 58 reviews in the hotel’s first three months in operation.

Rooms start at $161 per night.

Hotel guests in all 165 rooms and suites have access to amenities like 24-hour fitness and business centers, complimentary WiFi, in-room Keurig coffeemaker, microwave,

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Hilton Garden Inn Roslyn owners, from left, Paul Amoruso, Concord Hospitality CEO Paul Laport and Larry Levine welcomed the crowd to the ribbon cutting Tuesday. mini-refrigerator, and on-site dining and laundry options.

The Hilton Garden Inn Ros-

lyn also features an indoor pool and whirlpool.

Co-owners Larry Levine

and Paul Amoruso thanked the Town of North Hempstead for helping secure the first branded

hotel on the North Shore that Amoruso said strives to work with local companies as much as travelers.

“We’re looking forward to working with all the corporations in the area and seeing how we can accommodate you,” Amoruso said.

The hotel offers more than 6,000 square feet of meeting and event space in both indoor and outdoor spaces, and the new location has been popular with businesses in the neighboring Harbor View Corporate Park.

Concord Hospitality CEO Mark Laport, whose company co-owns the hotel with Levine and Amoruso, said his company has partnered with 95 hotel developments across the country and said he was thrilled to have a stake in the Roslyn community.

“I hope you all will challenge us again and again and stay here or direct folks to stay here, because I think you’ll agree once you’ve experienced this hotel, you’ll say ‘I’m going to come back and I prefer to come back here,'” Laport said.

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Opinion OUR VIEWS

What Amazon says about Nassau

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mazon set off a minor frenzy among states and municipalities last week when the company announced that it planned to build a second headquarters in North America, a huge new development that would cost as much as $5 billion to build and would house as many as 50,000 employees with an average salary of $100,000.

Nassau County Executive Edward Mangano, who abandoned a re-election bid after he was indicted on charges of political corruption, was silent on the opportunity.

But one of the candidates vying to replace Mangano, former state Sen. Jack Martins, announced in a news release that he had contacted Amazon to “suggest” Nassau County would be a great location for its new headquarters, citing an Amazon announcement that it planned to open a fulfillment center in Staten Island.

We are not sure if Martins’ announcement had more to do with his campaign than attracting Amazon. A memo to the Republican candidate: Amazon has fulfillment centers across the country.

We are also concerned that Martins’ tough rhetoric about the country’s immigration and “sanctuary cities,” which at times echoed that of President Donald Trump, is out of step with tech companies like Amazon — a third of whose founders are immigrants.

Amazon was one of several that promised to oppose Trump’s decision to end the DACA program.

But attracting a company like Amazon or — much more likely — a bunch of companies that could add up to one Amazon is a worthy goal, especially for a cash-strapped

county with high taxes like Nassau.

It also raises important issues about Nassau County and its future.

Amazon listed a series of requirements for the new location which, when completed, could span 100 acres with up to eight million square feet of building space. Included was an urban or suburban area, with access to major highways, airports, public transportation and a robust technology workforce.

The new site, the company said, could have a similar layout to its Seattle headquarters, including an urban or downtown campus that allows 55 percent of its employees in Seattle to walk, bike or use mass transit to get to work.

Nassau would have to go a long distance to fulfill those requirements. But there may be a bigger problem.

Amazon’s requirements also have a familiar ring to Nassau County residents.

In 2004, then New York Islanders owner Charles Wang proposed a $3.7 billion plan to transform Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum and the 77 acres that surround it — the most likely location for the type of development Amazon is proposing. Wang envisioned a modern suburban area with houses, offices, restaurants, stores and Long Island’s first five-star hotel — also similar to the downtown campus for which Amazon is calling.

The plan, he said, would generate $71 million in annual tax revenues; others said the plan was needed to keep the Islanders on Long Island.

Spoiler alert: the Islanders no longer play on Long Island.

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Wang’s plan died when the Town of Hempstead and then Town Supervisor Kate Murray backed a zoning plan that cut the density of Wang’s project in half.

Some said Hempstead Republicans were concerned that new housing would bring more younger and minority voters who would threaten their lock on Hempstead politics.

That one of the three towns in Nassau County could kill a deal so important to the county’s future helps explain why, as Martins noted in his release, “there are no Fortune 500 companies based in Nassau County, though there is one based in Suffolk County and 16 in Northern New Jersey.”

Economic development in Nassau is handcuffed by the dozens of government jurisdictions that operate in Nassau County

— from county to town to village — each working independently of each other.

To see how other places do it, just look across the county line to New York City when Michael Bloomberg was mayor of New York City. His administration developed a plan to rezone the city — all five boroughs. The results can be seen in places like Long Island City where a virtual city has risen in the footprint of Bloomberg’s plan for an Olympic village, the extension of Battery Park and the development of downtown Brooklyn, where the Islanders now play.

And guess which city is the engine driving the state’s technology sector?

With the general election campaign for county executive now underway, Martins and Democrat

Laura Curran should be asked how they will handle economic development in general and the hub around the Coliseum in particular.

Will they support development in the hub that makes it the center of Nassau County, and even serve as the county’s downtown?

What will they do about mass transit? How will they handle a town capable of putting the kibosh on any big plans?

There are also questions of how much Nassau would be willing to give in the kind of tax breaks Amazon is seeking that would be paid for at least in part by businesses Amazon is trying to replace.

But most important: what they will do the next time opportunity knocks? Or to create the opportunity when none exists?

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ON THE RIGHT

Will NIFA save Nassau County?

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he day of reckoning is upon us. On Sept.15, lame duck County Executive Ed Mangano is bound by law to present to the Nassau Interim Finance Authority, a budget for fiscal 2018 and a four-year financial plan covering 20182021.

To make it easier for the hapless county executive to face fiscal realities, and to help him achieve a budget balanced according to Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP), NIFA hired Capital Market Advisors to produce a “Strategic Reduction Analysis” that identifies doable cost-cutting measures in targeted county departments.

The report concentrated on “government operations (administrative and financially), public safety, correctional, health, social and human services, public works and recreational.”

CMA came up with 38 cost reduction recommendations at the county level totaling $87.7 million — more than enough to eliminate the county’s projected operating deficit for 2018, or at least to reduce it to a level below the 1 percent trigger which neces-

sitates a control period by NIFA. Here are some of big ticket reduction initiatives: • Hiring freeze — $15 million in savings • Privatize ambulance services — $15.5 million in savings • Elimination of crossing guards — $14.5 million in savings • Transfer or elimination of park maintenance — $5.6 million in savings • Elimination of youth services — $5.5 million in savings • Closure of Marine Bureau $3.9 million in savings • Legislative staff reduction $2.7 million in savings • Elimination of mounted police — $585 thousand in savings Do I have high hopes that Mangano will take these reductions seriously?

Will he, unfettered by the proclivities of a candidate seeking to curry favor, finally present to NIFA his first and most responsible budget proposal in eight years? No. Here’s why I’m doubtful: First and foremost, for the past eight years Mangano has been living under the delusion that he has balanced his annual

GEORGE J. MARLIN On The Right budgets.

Year after year, he failed to grasp the basic rule of Municipal Accounting 101, which is that borrowed money does not count as operating budget revenue under GAAP. Hence, taxpayers should be prepared to hear Mangano make an absurd boast on Dec. 31, his last day in office, that the 2017 fiscal year ended with a balanced budget.

Next, Mangano ignored a

2011 report commissioned by NIFA similar to CMA’s study, the 300-page “Fiscal Sustainability Initiative” prepared by Grant Thornton LLP. Because Mangano didn’t possess the political guts to order the cuts suggested by Grant Thornton, I am not inclined to believe he will have a Road to Damascus conversion in the waning months of his administration and include CMA’s most significant recommendations in his final budget.

Finally, I don’t believe the budget process is on Mangano’s front burner. Remember, the indicted county executive’s criminal trial begins shortly after he leaves office.

My guess is that’s foremost on his mind and he’ll be spending ample time, and leftover campaign funds, with his lawyers this fall preparing his defense.

Nevertheless, if Mangano is true to form and proposes another makeshift budget and fiscal plan, NIFA has an incredible opportunity to finally fix the county’s finances.

Under the NIFA statute, after reviewing the Mangano plan, NIFA can send it back demanding

more cuts or revenue enhancements.

But if NIFA is not satisfied with the revised budget that must receive legislative approval

by Oct. 31, NIFA can order the county to formulate a new plan.

If the county fails to do so, NIFA can save the day by imposing a budget of its own.

The timing is perfect for NIFA to exercise the ultimate power granted in the state law that created the authority.

NIFA would not only be doing a great service to long-suffering taxpayers by truly putting the County on the road to fiscal sanity, it would also be doing a great favor for the new County Executive who will be sworn in to office on January 1, 2018.

NIFA can do all the heavy lifting and the new county executive can enter office with a clean slate.

It’s time for NIFA to forsake its previous reliance on the word of the disgraced Ed Mangano and to fill the void itself and act to fix the Mangano mess.

And, if I were a candidate for county executive this year, I’d be cheering NIFA on.

A LOOK ON THE LIGHTER SIDE

The un-curated life is what’s for me

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ust when you think you’ve heard all the foolishness in the world, along comes someone with more.

This time, it’s an envelope of coupons. No, not the coupons themselves, I’m used to dealing with those. (They don’t fool me — I throw them right out before they can do me any damage).

It’s the print on the front, promising “highly curated offerings” within.

“Curated”? Do I run a museum? Do they? No, and no — and yet, everyone has become a “curator,” nowadays.

Just the other day, someone was talking on the radio, all about how she had started “curating my Instagram feed.”

“I bet you don’t even know what that is,” said my husband, listening with me.

“Of course I do,” I replied indignantly. “I’m not an idiot!

Instagram is where everybody posts pictures of their breakfast on the web, for everyone else to see.”

Except no one looks, I want-

ed to add, because they’re all too busy putting up breakfast photos of their own.

Honestly, what good can possibly come from seeing what someone else ate for breakfast?

Unless you’re their dentist, or their nutritionist?

What will you do with that information? If it isn’t an ad for a restaurant I can go to, or an illustration for a recipe I can make — why would I want to see it?

And if you want to make me jealous … well, that’s a lousy thing to want anyway.

What does it take, to be a “curator” of coupons, anyway?

Being a curator used to mean you had acquired a lot of knowledge, about a field, or a culture, or a part of the world.

Now all it means is that you’re a snob.

Maybe there’s somebody sitting at a big desk, somewhere, sorting things into piles: “Hmm. Fuzzy sheets for a dorm bed?

Nope! Dog food that cats won’t eat? Ixnay. Men’s underwear that won’t ride up? Bingo! An-

JUDY EPSTEIN A Look on the Lighter Side other one for the ‘curated’ collection. I sure am glad I went to college for this!”

And you have to wonder, what happens to all the poor coupons that don’t make the cut?

Somewhere, I assume, there’s a giant warehouse for all the rejected coupons…and another, for all the deleted pictures of peoples’ breakfasts.

I can see them now: rows and rows of metal shelving,

stretching farther than you can see, with here a kit to “crochet your own toilet seat cover,” there some pictures of runny eggs and burnt toast. (“Why even take that one, let alone post it?” the curators must be asking each other. “Wait, you have to see this one — it’s breakfast for the goldfish aquarium!”)

As for Facebook — I was going to say, “Don’t get me started,” but it’s too late now!

Expert after expert stresses that the more time people spend looking at Facebook, the more depressed they get. They think they’re depressed because they aren’t “connected” with friends or family, and so they put even more time into “connecting” … on Facebook … growing sadder than ever, because it’s not the connecting that does the damage, it’s comparing yourself to every one and every thing you see.

At least, that’s what Facebook does to me.

But now I know there’s a fix for that — a “cure,” if you will.

I can “curate” too — and for starters, it means throwing out, or ignoring, or deleting, anything that anybody else has “curated.”

I’m not very good at throwing out things, as anyone who reads this column or has met me for ten minutes, will know…but by golly, I will throw out anything and everything that somebody else has “curated.”

Unless they are an actual curator, in an actual, existing bricks-and-mortar museum. And they’d better be “curating” something that goes back a lot longer ago than “look at my gorgeous breakfast.”

Lots of things need “curating,” if you want to get right down to it.

Doesn’t everyone have a few friends who don’t quite “make the grade”? Relatives, even?

Now, you can “curate” them all right out of your life!

Of course, If you haven’t heard from them lately, perhaps they’ve already “curated” you.

Whatever works!

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THE FOGGIEST IDEA

Lessons of Harvey, Irma for L.I.

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he following was first published on The Foggiest Idea on September 5, 2017.

Long before Hurricane Harvey devastated the Houston area, The Texas Tribune and ProPublica partnered in March 2016 to write “Hell and High Water,” a long-term multimedia project about that region’s vulnerabilities to catastrophic flooding and what’s at stake for its refineries and petrochemical storage facilities.

The series was inspired by the widespread destruction of New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina despite years of warnings from scientists and journalists.

This year the project won the prestigious Edward R. Murrow Award in the category of investigative reporting.

As Houston begins to emerge from the receding floodwaters and starts to survey the damage left behind in Harvey’s wake, the story’s words eerily echo like the unheeded prophecies of Cassandra.

“Scientists tell us that it is simply a matter of when, and not if, a monster storm is com-

ing for Houston,” ProPublica’s Scott Klein wrote. “Like the rest of the Gulf Coast, the area is vulnerable to the kinds of strong storms that are becoming more frequent, and a major hurricane here could bring economic and ecological disaster.”

The fiery explosion at the Arkema chemical plant in Crosby, Texas, which lost even its backup generators so it couldn’t keep its volatile chemicals cold, just proves the point.

The sharp rise in gas prices nationwide due to the shutdown of big oil brings it all home.

Long Islanders were warned decades ago about the risks posed by severe storms barreling in from the Atlantic.

In October 1984, the Long Island Regional Planning Board put it bluntly that “Long Island is highly vulnerable to the occurrence of a hurricane disaster of immense proportions,” adding that it had ample data in its Hurricane Damage Mitigation Plan for the South Shore to substantiate its ominous forecast.

Why did Nassau and Suffolk remain so vulnerable?

“Coastal areas on Long Is-

RICHARD MURDOCCO The Foggiest Idea land have experienced dramatic residential and commercial development and change in recent years,” the report explained. “As a result, the Island’s South Shore is far more vulnerable to stormrelated damage and potential loss of life today.”

Our region should have learned from what happened in 1938 when the so-called Long Island Express slammed the East End. Estimated later to be a Category 3 (the Saffir-Simpson scale wasn’t created until the late ’60s), the hurricane brought

lasting changes to Long Island’s geography. But since then, growth has only continued in the coastal floodplain, putting new generations at risk as we saw in 2012 when Superstorm Sandy roared in with its unwelcome wake-up call.

What the LIRPB had warned in 1984 was witnessed firsthand. With a powerful reminder of just how vulnerable Long Island is, municipalities have finally begun stepping up their storm readiness efforts. In the City of Long Beach, long-delayed projects to add protective dunes were given priority.

Elsewhere state and local officials began to push for the elevation of residential units within the coastal floodplains.

If that approach failed, they proposed buyouts of vulnerable parcels.

Efforts are also underway to restore much needed seagrasses, long known for their ability to mitigate erosion, and the recreation of long lost wetlands, which can help blunt the impacts of storm surge. Both were eliminated by the ills of over-development in the region’s fragile

coastal zones, and prescribed to help ease the region’s storm vulnerability decades ago by planners.

The private sector is pitching in as well. In August, Newsday explored the many steps developers are taking to fortify their own waterfront projects to withstand a new normal created by climate change and rising sea levels.

Some, reading the writing on the wall, are spending millions to go above and beyond local requirements for storm readiness.

Ever the pragmatists, though, they’re not exactly performing an act of charity.

“The last person you’re going to talk about being a treehugger is me,” Joe Graziose, senior vice president at RXR, told Newsday’s Maura McDermott.

“This is all about infrastructure.

At the end of the day, you want to build something that’s going to last a long time.”

It is sound planning to anticipate future super storms.

Yet the larger issue is still unaddressed.

Continued on Page 85

PULSE OF THE PENINSULA

Climate disasters, Trump’s tax plan

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urricane Harvey had just devastated Texas, the worst natural disaster up until two weeks later when the entire state of Florida was about to be destroyed by Hurricane Irma, as whole Caribbean island nations as well as the US territory of Puerto Rico had their infrastructure utterly destroyed.

And Hurricane Jose was on Irma’s tail.

Meanwhile, Los Angeles and Oregon were being consumed by record wildfires.

Congress had authorized $15 billion toward Hurricane Harvey relief and to replenish the nearly depleted funds of FEMA. Indeed, in North Dakota on Sept. 6, as Hurricane Irma was barreling toward Florida, Trump, the Tax-Cheat-in-Chief, gave an incoherent speech touting his tax plan that began with his incredulity in discovering that North Dakota was undergoing a massive drought.

He just said to the governor, I didn’t know you had droughts this far north. Guess what?

You have them. But we’re working hard on it and it’ll disappear.

It will all go away.

Accuweather is projecting the cost of Harvey and Irma alone at $290 billion, or 1.5 percent of total GDP, which would erase the growth of the economy through year-end, according to Dr. Joel N. Myers, president and chairman.

That’s also more than onefourth of the $1 trillion that Trump proposed for a 10-year infrastructure plan.

Not to mention the $1 billion Trump is demanding as downpayment on a $70 billion border wall.

Where will the money come from? And if all infrastructure spending has to be directed to Texas and Florida, where does that leave the rest of the country?

Certainly not with money to fund the Gateway Tunnel, so

KAREN RUBIN Pulse of the Peninsula vital to the New York region’s economy.

Does this get you thinking that Trump and his administration, especially EPA head Scott Pruitt, might rethink their selfserving notion of climate change denial? Not likely.

But it should also cause them to rethink their totally corrupt tax plan which is intended to starve the federal government of funds, balloon the budget deficit and national debt, all to shift

more of wealth to the already fabulously wealthy.

Let’s just consider for a moment what taxes are supposed to be for. And yes, a considerable amount goes to pay for interest on bonds, but bonds are what are used to pay for infrastructure, an investment in the future.

And as we are considering how to replace the destroyed and decimated infrastructure, why not build back with sustainability and responsible growth in mind.

Just as in his speech declaring his decision to withdraw the US from the Paris Climate Agreement (forged with U.S. leadership and signed by 195 countries), Trump, who took a $900 million tax deduction on his failed Atlantic City casino and probably has never paid 40 percent tax in his life, lies to rationalize his tax plan, beginning with the lie that the U.S, is the highest taxed nation in the world (not true) and that workers wages will increase if only

shareholders and CEOs and the wealthiest 1 percent could keep an even greater percentage of their money (history shows the opposite).

As Hillary Clinton said of Trump’s tax proposals in the debate, “trickle down on steroids.”

Let’s be reminded: the wealthiest people used to be taxed at 90 percent — that was after World War II when the nation had to rebuild its treasury.

We were able to afford the G.I. Bill which did more to create a middle class than anything since the New Deal. Now the wealthiest pay something between 35 to 40 percent — except that they don’t.

If taxes on those who have the means to pay without disturbing their lifestyle don’t cover the cost of rebuilding climateravaged communities, who does? Ryan and the Republicans love to talk about “sacrifice” but the only ones they demand sacrifices from are not the wealthiest Continued on Page 85

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ALL THINGS POLITICAL

Long past time to stop annoying robocalls

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e are all conditioned to answer the phone when it rings. Nobody wants to miss an important call from family, friends or a business associate.

Unfortunately, Long Islanders and the rest of America have been inundated with mass marketing and scam robocalls, up to a dozen times a day.

These calls are both disruptive and annoying especially when they come from a “spoofed” local number, which often fools you into answering the phone.

“Spoofing” is the practice of using a telephone network to trick the receiver into believing the call is from a station different than the originating station.

For example, if you receive a call with a 516 area code, but it’s really coming from outside that area code, it is spoofed.

Often spoofed scam calls are from overseas and difficult to trace. You can register your phone number at the National Do Not Call Registry, www.

donotcall.gov, to try and stop the annoying robocalls, but often the registry is ignored. There were 226 million phone numbers on the National Do Not Call Registry as of Sept. 30, 2016.

The New York State Do Not Call Law, which became effective in 2001, allows for residents to put their landline and cell phone number in a central Do Not Call database, to try and limit telemarketing calls.

It is also worth noting that the Federal Trade Commission and Federal Communications Commission created their DNC registry in 2003.

Yet, exempted robocalls from political candidates and surveyors, come every election season, along with charities that are also exempt from being blocked.

That explains the legal but ill-advised late night and early morning mass robocalls from one Nassau County Executive candidate, Democrat George Maragos, in mid-July.

Marketers and scammers easily get around blocked num-

ADAM HABER All Things Political bers and the DNC registry by changing where the spoofed calls originate.

What’s incredible is that under the “Truth in Calling Act,” the FCC allows for spoof calling if no harm is intended or caused.

That said, there have been recent waves of spoofed robocall scams from a variety of nefarious operators out to do you harm.

They include fake calls from crooks who claim they are from the IRS, or scams involving ATM

Skimming, E-mail Tax Returns, College Funds, Medical Devices, Craigslist Employment, After Death (“Ghosting”), Online Dating, Jury Duty, Utilities, CardCracking, Funerals, Tax Prep, Post Disaster Organizations, Debt Collection, Airline Tickets and Timeshare Resale.

The most popular nationally spoofed marketing robocalls include free cruises, timeshares, health insurance, air duct cleaning, and pitches to save money on electric bills.

In fact, I just received two of these while writing this article!

According to the website MarketWatch.com Americans receive almost 1,000 robocalls per second, and in July there were a total of 2.64 billion of them.

The state Division of Consumer Protection website states, “Once a consumer’s telephone number has been registered to the DNC registry for 31 days, DNC law prohibits you from calling it. Your business can be fined up to $11,000 per incident by the state Department of State, as

well as by the FTC and the FCC.” I couldn’t find any examples of New York State levying fines or prosecuting robocall operators. State legislators need to pass tougher, enforceable laws against robocallers.

The FCC recently proposed a fine of $120 million to a Miami based timeshare operator who sent out 96 million calls over a three-month period.

They also proposed a fine of $82 million against a North Carolina man who made 21 million illegal calls to sell health insurance.

These proposed fines haven’t deterred the recent wave of marketing and scam robocalls.

In July there was a press release from state Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman, who joined “a bipartisan group of 30 attorneys general…urging the federal government to adopt rules that would allow telephone providers to block illegal robocalls.”

Let’s hope the FCC and FTC are listening.

THE NEW SUBURBANIST

L.I.’s traffic, safety and development needs

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s a new suburbanist, I have much to learn about Long Island.

So I called up Eric Alexander, director of Vision Long Island. He’s been involved in smart growth planning in the region for years. I mainly wanted to find out if he thought the Swedish program “Vision Zero” would work on Long Island and help reduce injuries and deaths.

We ended up discussing many other issues. Here is our conversation, edited for brevity.

Q: Is Long Island part of Vision Zero in either Suffolk or Nassau counties? Would it work here?

A: The answer is no. It’s a New York City initiative. It’s kind of a one-stop shop. Long Island isn’t structured that way.

It would be almost impossible to have a Vision Zero initiative without creating an independent transportation bureaucracy for the region.

On a whole host of levels, it may be very inefficient and bureaucratic and controlling in ways Long Islanders just wouldn’t want… Any initiatives we found that are creative or progressive [must] come from the bottom up – from commu-

nities to the government rather than creating a government entity from the top down.

Q: So where does improved road safety start on Long Island?

A: The roadways maintained by the county governments are the ones that have the highest accident rates. They are the major corridors managed by the states and counties.

So you need states and counties to embrace safer street principles. You can call it any number of things. You can get a number of projects in place to increase safety and reduce speed and prevent fatalities… I’ve learned to believe in local determination…

What I have found about villages is that they are more successful at place making and downtown management than bigger governments.

Q: So we are talking about Jane Jacobs v. Robert Moses applied to Long Island?

A: Totally. Jane gets it. Robert Moses was all about big government.

Q: So what do you make of Gov. Cuomo’s plans to spend billions on rail projects on Long Island?

A: We support all of that.

That’s the right kind of region-

PAUL GLADER The New Suburbanist alism. You’re not going to have the Village of Great Neck Plaza or Valley Stream… doing the regional plans for transportation and regional investments…

Clearly there is a need for third track investments. The third track folks thankfully reached out to third track communities and made sure there were investments in those communities.

We are glad to see that process move forward properly.

Q: What else does Vision Long Island see as next steps for transportation improvement on Long Island?

A: Pedestrian amenities and bus service for poor folks are

kind of getting the short end of the stick here. That’s of deep concern to us and should be to others on Long Island. We desperately need this bus service on Long Island. And we need safe roadways. We have an increasingly walking population because of an aging population and because younger people don’t want to drive as much as older generations.

We have more immigrant families from Queens and Brooklyn moving to Nassau County.

They are used to a walking culture. Our economic development strategy is driven around mass transit and we see the transit improving in places but it is dangerous to walk to the transit. There’s a problem with that equation.

Q: As we develop new transportation infrastructure on Long Island, how do we design better regarding safety and human life? Do we need more speed cameras?

A: Before you get to speed cameras, you need to look at the physical design of the roadway.

If you have designed a road with 13-foot lanes that have a design speed of 45-65 miles an hour and you put up a speed camera, people will speed.

You designed the roadway like a speedway and then you just collect tickets. The posted speed should be in sync with the engineering design speed. That means narrower lanes, medians, countdown timers, crosswalks, roundabouts – all sort of trafficcalming and pedestrian infrastructure. That signals to the driver that this is a place where we slow down.

Q: Can you point to a few leaders or bright spots?

A: There are roughly 100 business districts on Long Island.

Roughly 60 have done some kind of plan… Roughly 40 have approved projects.

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nce again, in her long political/power seeking/wealth producing career, Hillary Clinton is portraying herself as a victim, rather than admitting that she is anything but that.

On Page A14 in today’s Newsday (Sept. 9), you’ve reprinted an Associated Press story about the release of Hillary Clinton’s latest book, “What Happened.”

The AP story says, “In a candid , angry new book, Hillary Clinton relives her defeat to Donald Trump, admitting to mistakes and defending campaign strategy, even as her return to the stage refocuses attention on a race Democrats still can’t believe they lost.”

Some of the factors that Hillary believes contributed to her loss are: interference from “Russian backers,” accusations leveled at her by former FBI Director James Comey, a divisive primary battle with Bernie Sanders and her gender.

She also addresses criticism that she didn’t have a compelling narrative for seeking the presidency.

Each of those factors may have worked, to some extent, against Hillary’s efforts to win the presidency and some may not have been a factor at all, but I believe that none of them, singly or some grouped together, are the reasons for her defeat.

I believe that Hillary lost the election for the following reasons, which she, playing the role of the victim again, neglects to mention: 1. President Barack Obama.

Hillary indicated that her administration would be a continuation of President Obama’s, but during his eight years in office we suffered (a) prolonged wage stagnation, (b) the outsourcing of thousands of American jobs to Mexico and overseas, (c) the flight of a significant number of American companies out of the country, (d) disastrous foreign policy failures, one after the other and (e) as a result of those failures, America’s enemies, Iran, North Korea, China, Russia, ISIS, the Taliban and Radical Islam, became emboldened to step up their threats against the U.S. and our allies.

Also, during the Obama years, new government business regulations ran rampant and loose immigration policies caused serious national problems.

I believe that Hillary’s defeat last November was, to a great extent, a repudiation of the eight years of the Obama presidency 2. Baggage. I don’t believe that any presidential candidate in my lifetime (and I can remember back to Presidents Roosevelt’s 1944 campaign, when I was 10 years old) ever carried the heavy baggage of scandals and borderline criminal goings on, that Hill-

ary still carries to this day.

Books have been written detailing that baggage.

Was any other candidate for the presidency ever being investigated by the FBI for punishable crimes, while he or she was seeking the office? And to top that off, did the director of the FBI ever say before, about any other candidate, that although he or she, like Hillary, was guilty of breaking an important federal law, that he, the director, was advising the Department of Justice not to prosecute the offender, because like Hillary, he or she really didn’t mean to break the law? It’s too bad that Willy Sutton’s lawyer never thought of that defense.

Poor Willy, he never meant to break the law, after he accidently wandered into the bank.

3. Lack of Accomplishments.

Although Hillary has told us that she is the smartest woman in the world, after spending eight years in the White House as first lady, then eight years as a senator from New York and then four years as Secretary of State for President Obama, it is nearly impossible to find any piece of legislation (federal or state), or any foreign policy accomplishment, tied to her name. (And I won’t mention the Benghazi scandal.)

4. Persona. For millions of voters, it is very difficult to pull down the voting lever for someone who tells them that it is her turn to be the President of the

United States and the leader of the free world, and that no one in her party should dare to oppose her in her quest for the presidency.

While millions of voters crave a strong leader, who promises to do all their thinking for them and to care for them like children, millions of other voters cannot abide such arrogance. I believe that Hillary turned away millions of voters, who were not looking for a “Big Daddy” form of government.

5. Empathy. Early in 2008, when Bill and Hillary were preparing to leave the White House, Hillary announced that they were broke (had no money), that they didn’t own anything and that they owed millions of dollars in legal fees, for services rendered in connection with President Clinton’s impeachment problems and his dalliances with Monica Lewinsky and other women.

During their last few days in the White House, however, President Clinton did earn $2 million to $3 million dollars by selling presidential pardons.

Now, 16years after they left the White House, it’s estimated that Bill and Hillary have a personal net worth of between $150 million and $200 million, after taxes, and that they control and benefit from, a private foundation that has approximately $36 billion (that’s billion, with a “B”) in net assets.

How the Clinton’s managed to amass this fortune is explained in the recent book, “Clinton Cash”, by Peter Schweizer. I urge everyone to read this book.

The Clintons did not amass this fortune from book royalties, or speaking fees. They amassed it from influence peddling, much of it to the detriment of our country.

During this last presidential campaign, Hillary made very strong efforts to capture black and minority voters, and also all voters receiving food stamps and other government support benefits.

She largely succeeded in her efforts, but not completely, because for many voters on the margins of our society, it was hard for them to believe in a woman as hugely wealthy as Hillary is, along with her Wall Street connections.

Only time will tell if Hillary has the resilience to make another run for it in 2020, or if the Democratic Party by then, will have had enough of her pomposity.

I have the feeling that the Republican Party would love her to be the Democratic candidate in 2020, because I think that deflating her then, would be as easy as letting the air out of a child’s balloon.

Joel Katz Port Washington

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r.” Wayne Roth wasted more newsprint with his ignorant ranting in support of racist voter suppression in your Sept. 8 edition.

That it took the verbose right-wing loon, “Dr.” Wayne Roth, over a month to find the courage, and the words, to respond to my letter — and he couldn’t even get my name right, it’s Cashdan! — clearly indicates the absolute paucity of his intellect.

His silly, passionate defense

of lowlife pseudo-journalist James O’keefe says everything one needs to know about this creature of the letters column.

He spews absolute falsities and innuendo as if they were facts in order to buttress his nonsensical blather in support of racist voter suppression.

The good “doctor” should spend his time drilling for the truth, not spewing nonsense.

Eric Cashdan Port Washington

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am writing to express my opposition to the President Trump’s decision to rescind the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) which was initiated by President Obama.

DACA allows children who entered the United States as illegal immigrants to be able to receive a renewable two- year period of deferred action from deportation and eligibility for a work permit.

Many people who came here when they were children grew up to earn a High School diploma and then went on to college and a successful career and many have served in our military and are a valuable fabric our this nation.

They have been contributing to our economy and to the American workforce with their highly needed skills and talents.

Some have started their own businesses which also have helped the local economies.

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I arrived here when I was 21 years old from Formia, Province of Latina in Italy with only eight years of education.

My public service career began in 1971

working for New York City and 30 years later, in 1991, I was elected councilman for the Town of North Hempstead and served at the town for 14 years.

Now I am a New York State Assemblyman of the 16th Assembly District.

America opened its doors, embraced me and gave me opportunities which I did not have before; I would like nothing less for the dreamers.

Instead of deporting these people and depleting our society of good people, we should have more cultural understanding and give them the opportunity to apply for citizenship and allow them to live without fear, to learn, to work freely and to flourish.

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BY JA S ON L E E Village of Roslyn Harbor trustees approved a six-month moratorium on residents’ applications for property partitions and subdivisions Tuesday night after a public hearing.

From now until April 1, the village Planning Board will not accept resident requests to divide properties into smaller pieces and develop new buildings on the subdivided plots. The purpose of the ban is to give an expert consultant, hired by the village, time to assess undeveloped land in the village and make recommendations for updates to the zoning code.

“We looked through the history of the village, and we saw that in the 1970’s there was a proper study done when we first enacted the zoning code,” Mayor Louis Badolato said Tuesday. “We did that study to determine what the appropriate zoning for traffic and the environment was. This was repeated in the late 1980’s, and it has not been addressed since.”

Badolato cited concerns about traffic density in Roslyn Harbor, particularly on Bryant Avenue, and about the village’s compliance with county, state and federal environmental laws to warrant the study.

“We cannot have a proper study if

we have ongoing subdivisions and major construction. It’s not going to affect applications that are already in,” Badolato said.

According to the new law, any application for a subdivision filed before Aug. 1 will not be subject to the moratorium.

Peter MacKinnon, the village attorney, said the law only affects subdivision plans, not building permits.

“If you have an approved lot, you can come into the village, get a permit and build your home,” MacKinnon said.

The board included a provision that allows subdivision applicants to appeal to the board for an exemption in cases in which “it would be onerous to the homeowner to wait the six months,” Bodolato said.

The law also grants the Board of Trustees the ability to terminate the moratorium early or to extend it by 90 days up to two times. That provision is to allow the board to accommodate the consultant, in case he or she finishes early or needs more time to complete the study.

“The planned study is for the future land use development in the village, so they are not going to look to change Bryant Avenue,“ MacKinnon said. “They are Continued on Page 103

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BY A M E L I A C A M U R AT I Harbor Hill students and Roslyn community members should have a number of newly sodded fields to play on next fall, officials said.

The Roslyn Board of Education voted unanimously Thursday to approve a $158,400 change order with Sipala Landscape Services of Dix Hills to have

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Woman accused Harbor Hill field sodded of drunken driving Continued from Page 22 ing sod down at the East Hills school, and what we found is sod takes better, looks better and is more sustainable.”

The entire area on the east side of the campus will be remodeled this year. The tennis court will be removed along with one of the existing baseball diamonds. One of the two baseball fields will be outfitted for softball games along with the planned Little League field.

There will also be a high school-sized lacrosse and soc-

BY A M E L I A C A M U R AT I A Roslyn woman was arrested in Great Neck early Sunday morning and accused of driving while intoxicated with an infant in the back seat.

The Nassau County Police Department said Martha Castro, 32, of Lumber Road in Roslyn, was speeding, swerving and failing to stay in a single lane while driving a 2016 Lexus NX eastbound on Northern Boulevard at Aster Lane. Castro had a female adult passenger as well as a 17-month-old boy in the car at the time.

After stopping the vehicle, an officer said he smelled a strong odor of alcohol on Castro’s breath and said she had glassy eyes and slurred speech, the police said.

The boy was released to his mother, who was in the car at the time.

Castro is charged with driving while intoxicated, aggravated driving while intoxicated with

cer field alongside two U11 soccer fields that could be divided into as many as six fields for smaller children.

The sod will be laid down this fall and will be ready for play in the fall of next year.

Though the space is about 180,000 square feet, Brown said the district plans to sod only about 113,000 square feet.

Brown said the district is also expecting a credit of 18 cents per square foot for the seed, totaling approximate-

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Martha Castro was arrested Sunday morning for driving while intoxicated with an infant in the car. a child under 15 years old under Leandra’s Law, and endangering the welfare of a child as well as multiple driving violations.

Continued from Page 2 parking.

“My concern is the children. That’s my first concern,” Dee said. “That fence is not good enough. Anybody steps on the gas by mistake, they’re going right into that field. It’s not safe for the kids.”

On Monday, a Roslyn school district spokesman, Barry Edelson, emailed a statement on behalf of the district.

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He is, after all, a New York Times bestselling author known for novels that combine crime, intrigue and his signature humor.

While DeMille’s version is also considered off limits (except for the cleaning lady, he says), his private space overlooks the picturesque, leafy village of Garden City, and the only conspiracies going on there are the ones he envisions for his thrilling stories.

With the release next week of his twentieth novel, “The Cuban Affair” (Sept. 19), a suspense set in another forbidden territory, Communist Cuba, the master storyteller took time for an interview in the place where his creative magic happens from the moment his pencil hits the page.

DeMille’s two-story office reflects his distinguished career that has spanned four decades. Here there are framed blow-ups of his bestselling book covers lining the corridors and bookshelves stocked with his novels and other classic tomes.

Also filling his shelves and writing table are photographs of family, fellow writers and other notable people he’s met over the years, including one with John Travolta on the set of the film adaptation of his seventh novel, “The General’s Daughter” (1992).

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Not only a showpiece and great conversation piece, the mural is a handy tool of the trade for someone whose profession is to plot worldwide adventures.

And it is typically a specific part of the world — with its associated culture and conflicts – that is the driving force behind DeMille’s stories.

As far back as his first hardcover novel, “By the Rivers of Babylon” (1978), DeMille had a specific region in mind.

“I wanted to set something in the Middle East,” he said, “… and obviously we’re not talking about wine growing, we’re talking about terrorism, and the whole book took off from there.”

With his second novel, “Cathedral” (1981), DeMille wanted to write about the Irish Republican Army and St. Patrick’s Cathedral. “I wanted to do New York City on St. Patrick’s Day… that was the concept.”

Once he has the core of an idea in place, “the plot will reveal itself and the characters will reveal themselves,” he explained.

DeMille’s subsequent novels are set in more hotbed locales, such as Russia and Yemen, yet the most personal and dangerous place he has stayed and written about is Vietnam, where he served as a lieutenant in the U.S. Army during the Vietnam War from 1966 to ‘69.

His novel, “Word of Honor” (1985), was based on his experiences in the war, and “Up Country” (2002) was inspired by his return to Vietnam in 1997 on the 29th anniversary of the Tet Offensive, one of the largest military campaigns of the Vietnam War. mili “I had been there in ‘68 for the Tet Offensive (so) the last time I saw this place it was ablaze, but now everybody’s at peace so, you know, it’s ery a whole different experience,” Dew Mille Mil said. “It was an emotional trip in many ways, (but) a good trip ultimately.” tim While DeMille says he never wanted to become a Vietnam War wa novelist, “The Cuban Affair” revisits no some of this terrain by introducing so a new character, former U.S. Army combat veteran Daniel “Mac” Macco Cormick.

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Mac is 35 years old and served two tours in Afghanistan, becoming a decorated war veteran with a quick wit, reminiscent of DeMille. Now the captain of his own, 42foot charter boat in Key West, Fla., Mac’s second mate is Jack Colby, a veteran of the Vietnam War — also like DeMille.

When asked about casting versions of himself in his stories and, in the case of “The Cuban Affair,” a famous novelist with a familiar-sounding name, DeMille says that it’s fun and “lightens it up a bit.”

It will take Mac’s military might and Colby’s navigational know-how to accomplish their next assignment on the high seas – a ten-day fishing tournament in Communist-ruled Cuba that lures Mac when he is first approached about the task at his favorite watering hole, Key West’s famous Green Parrot Bar. Despite the dangers involved, Mac agrees to the job once he meets alluring, Cuban-American Sara Ortega and his bounty goes up to two million dollars after she reveals her secret mission – to recover the 60 million dollars her grandfather hid when he fled Fidel Castro’s revolution.

Mac and Ortega’s quest takes them through Havana’s districts, the cultural province of Matanzas, and the fisherman’s paradise, Cayo Guillermo, while dodging government informants and bullets, giving in to their passion amid the steamy nightlife and lush countryside, and exposing a dark chapter in Vietnam War history that involves Cuban rebels and outrunning gunboats to save their lives and precious cargo.

“I always wanted to write about Cuba for a variety of reasons,” DeMille said, recalling New Year’s Day in 1959 when his Uncle Fred, an NYPD detective, couldn’t join a family celebration because he was called to duty the morning after Castro’s rebel forces took hold of the island.

“And the Church in those days… the priests were very conservative — very 1950s — and they would rail against the Communists,” he said when describing Castro’s regime, leading up to the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962. “I was in college at that time and everyone thought World War III was about to start.”

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Ramsey Lewis & John Pizzarelli: Straighten Up and Fly Right, Nat King Cole Tribute

Friday, Sept. 15 at 8 p.m.

Two powerhouse jazz greats present an endearing, yet sizzling tribute to the titan of ‘50s vocal pop, Nat King Cole, whose timeless hits include “Mona Lisa,” “Too Young” (No. 1 song in 1951), and his signature song, “Unforgettable.”

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

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Friday, Sept. 15 and Saturday, Sept. 16 at 8 p.m.

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Roger Waters, co-founder of the renowned rock band Pink Floyd, will bring his new Us + Them tour to NYCB LIVE, home of Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum, for a two-night concert showcasing rock classics like “Money,” “Wish You Were Here,” “Comfortably Numb,” and “Another Brick in the Wall.”

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

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“Rent” in Concert Saturday, Sept. 16 at 7 p.m. and Sunday, Sept. 17 at 2 p.m.

Kicking off their tenth anniversary season, Adelphi PAC presents a concert based on this winner of a Tony Award for Best Musical and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. “Rent” follows a year in the life of a group of impoverished young artists and musicians struggling to survive and create in New York’s Lower East Side and features the memorable song, “Seasons of Love.”

Where: Adelphi University Performing Arts Center, 1 South Ave., Garden City Info & Tickets: (516) 877-4000 • pac.adelphi.edu

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Musical Production: “The Bridges of Madison County”

Saturday, Sept. 16 at 8 p.m. and Sunday, Sept. 17 at 3 p.m. (ongoing performances through Oct. 28) Based on the bestselling novel by Robert James Waller, “The Bridges of Madison County” tells the story of an Iowa housewife and her four-day, whirlwind romance with a traveling photographer.

Where: Theatre Three, 412 Main St. Port Jefferson Info & Tickets: (631) 928-9100 theatrethree.com

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Nassau County Historical Society Presents — “In the Service: Workers on the Grand Estates of Long Island”

Sunday, Sept. 17 at 2 p.m.

This fascinating, illustrated volume by Elly Shodell focuses on Long Island’s fabled Gold Coast estates from a fresh perspective — those who served as butlers, chauffeurs, dairymaids, gardeners, and cooks. Shodell will discuss and sign copies of her book.

Where: The Community Church of East Williston 45 E. Williston Ave., East Williston Info: (516) 742-9690 • nassaucountyhistoricalsociety.org

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John Waite with Ellis Paul in Concert

Sunday, Sept. 17 at 7 p.m.

John Waite’s career includes international chart-toppers, such as “Missing You,” “Change,” “When I See You Smile” and more. Join this intimate night as the legendary singer/songwriter performs with Ellis Paul.

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

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Nelson DeMille with “The Cuban Affair”

Thursday, Sept. 21 at 7 p.m. (Book Revue) and Friday, Sept. 22 at 7 p.m.

(Barnes and Noble) From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of “The Gold Coast,” “Plum Island” and “Night Fall,” Nelson DeMille’s blistering new novel features an exciting new character — U.S. Army combat veteran Daniel “Mac” MacCormick, now a charter boat captain, who is about to set sail on his most dangerous cruise.

Where: Book Revue (Sept. 21) 313 New York Ave. Huntington; (631) 271-1442; bookrevue.com Barnes and Noble (Sept. 22) 91 Old Country Rd. Carle Place; (516) 741-9850 barnesandnoble.com

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Leiber purses, paintings at Art League The Art League of Long Island will present a new exhibit, “Their Passion for Fashion: Of Purses & Paintings” by iconic, Long Island couple, Judith and Gerson Leiber.

The exhibition will be on display from Saturday, Sept. 16 to Friday, Oct. 27.

Judith is the internationally celebrated handbag designer, and Gerson has made his mark as a modernist American artist.

Their talents are strong and singular, but when combined with their unique love story and passion for the arts, it is a match that is legendary.

Together for over 70 years, these two nonagenarians share an unbreakable bond personally and professionally.

The exhibit has something for everyone to enjoy – from the fanciful handbags to the stunning paintings of fashion and flowers, art league officials said.

The story of the Leibers began in Budapest, in the spring of 1945.

Judith, who had grown up in an elegant, Hungarian-Jewish family, had survived the Holocaust after many hardships.

Gerson was a U.S. Army radio operator, who hailed from a small town in Pennsylvania and came to the city to assist in Eastern Europe’s liberation.

The two met serendipitously, fell in love, and eventually left for New York

with big dreams.

Their love of culture and art was mutual, which led them to accomplish great things together.

“It was our promised land,” said Judith of her arrival in New York with Gerson in 1947. “Though we were motivated by a shared desire to be successful, we were driven by sheer fear. It gave us each a tremendous impetus to reach our goals.”

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Along with her treasured tools of the trade, Judith Leiber took with her the skills of a master craftsperson, which were immediately sought after at the top fashion houses, including for Nettie Rosenstein of the LBD (little black dress) fame.

Over the coming decades, her career soared as she designed handbags with exotic skins, leathers, gems and other unique materials.

Her handbags have gloriously passed the test of time and style and are built to last.

Judith later came to invent her signature style of imaginative, bejeweled minaudières in whimsical shapes from colorful animals, fruit and even a peacock.

She produced over 3,500 designs and First Ladies, including Barbara Bush, Mamie Eisenhower and Nancy Reagan, as well as movie stars and celebrities, such as Elizabeth Taylor, Beverly Sills, Jennifer Lopez and Blake Lively, have worn her handbags.

Judith crafts with precision engineering and describes her mission by saying, “I design the shading and highlighting so that every crystal counts. It’s the way to make it perfect.”

These purses are not just for the rich and famous — people all over the world covet her handbags and they are often cherished for special occasions and even passed down as heirlooms.

There are even collectors who specialize in exclusively acquiring Judith Leiber originals.

In addition to running their fashion empire, Gerson pursued his ambitions of being a fine artist, resulting in having his work collected by over 60 museums.

From his modernist style that includes cubism and abstract expressionism, he also explored the art of printmaking and sculpture.

As seen in this exhibition, he used the fashion world as his muse to create images of models on the runway and other glamorous settings that he and Judith encountered along the way.

As stated in one of the Leiber’s catalogues, “Behind and surrounding the accessories… are the party people depicted in the fashion-world paintings, drawings, and prints of Gerson Leiber, which invest these pristine objects with a living spirit. The ghosts of Seventh Avenue in the 1970s, ‘80s and ‘90s rise to gawk, talk, and observe…”

Their palladian-style museum is located on the Leiber property in the East Hampton hamlet of the Springs.

It is situated in the middle of gardens designed by Gerson himself.

His love for nature is evident in his floral, still-life pastel drawings, some on display for the first time ever in this exhibition.

In addition to the exhibit, there will be a special reception at the Art League on Sunday, Oct. 15 as the Leibers and their contributions as artist and artisan will be honored at an afternoon event.

This is the perfect opportunity to enjoy the show in a private atmosphere.

Tickets are $50 per person.

With each ticket purchase, guests are automatically placed in a raffle contest for a unique prize: a private visit with Gerson and Judith Leiber and a VIP curator-led tour of the Leiber Collection in East Hampton.

During the event, guests will have the opportunity to “meet and greet” the Leibers, as well as listen to a talk about their lives and legacy by their museum curator, Ann Fristoe Stewart.

Stewart will also discuss her search for over 3,500 original Leiber handbags for the collection.

As part of the exhibition, the Art League invites handbag owners to pose for a photo holding their Leiber bag (or bring their own photo) to be posted on a “Wall of Fame.”

The Art League of Long Island is located at 107 East Deer Park Road in Dix Hills.

For more information or an invitation to this private reception, contact Bobbie Janowitz, Director of Donor Relations, Events & Membership at 631462-5400 or go to www.artleagueli. net.

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Sea Cliff music fest aims to inspire women Wo r l d - r e n o w n e d country/rock group, Antigone Rising, is known for their Billboard Heatseekers chart-topper, “Don’t Look Back,” and touring alongside the Rolling Stones, Aerosmith, The Allman Brothers Band, Rob Thomas and many other headline performers.

They are currently making history again with their non-profit, Girls Rising, and their BeachFest Weekend.

Now in its fourth year, this musical celebration of the global work of Girls Rising, a certified 501.c.3 non-profit organization started by the band, will once again come to Sea Cliff on Friday, Sept. 15 and Saturday, Sept. 16.

BeachFest is a free event for the community and a trailblazing festival where all the performers are women.

The Youth Spotlight Stage gives up-and-coming female performers a chance to gain experience alongside the Capital One Main Stage, featuring national touring artists.

“The Girls Rising mission is to inspire and elevate girls and women to reach their full potential,” says Antigone Rising.

“Through the power of music and example, we work to build their skills and confidence to excel in life, which in turn builds stronger communities.”

Through engaging conversation about their own experiences as women in the music industry, performance and the power of example, Girls Rising outreach programs aim to entertain, educate, encourage and inspire young women to go beyond the boundaries society places on gender and become game changers.

Antigone Rising believes that girls and young women need to see strong, empowered women succeeding in non-traditional roles.

The Girls Rising outreach programs demonstrate to girls (and boys) that strong women exist

The band, Antigone Rising and have much to contribute to art, culture, sports, finance, business and the world around them.

With BeachFest, this mission is brought to life showcasing the band’s truly inspiring work.

Expected to attract over 4,000 people over the course of two days, the event will have live music performances on two stages and feature national touring female artists, youth performers, a celebrity panel discussion, local artisans and food/ drink vendors.

The 2017 Kick Off Fundraiser, for those donating $75 or more to Girls Rising, will be held Friday, Sept. 15 from 7 to 9 p.m. at the Sea Cliff Firehouse located at 67 Roslyn Ave. in Sea Cliff.

Girls Rising will award the first annual Sheila Primont Scholarship and the Milt Okun Scholarship to two deserving young women from Long Island.

The Sheila Primont Scholarship will be presented by the Broadway star, Linda Eder, who will perform alongside the many talented BeachFest performers in an intimate, acoustic and what is sure to be a collaborative night of music.

Along with live music, there will be an open bar, comedy, raffle and light fare at the Friday night event.

The free, BeachFest festival on Saturday begins at 12 p.m.

In addition to Antigone Rising, the Capital One Main Stage will feature Williams Honor, Garrison Starr, Edie Carey and

Julia Weldon.

The new Youth Spotlight Stage will allow aspiring artists to benefit from a real stage experience alongside main stage national acts.

The outreach workshop and Q&A panel beginning at 2 p.m. will be the centerpiece of the day.

Antigone Rising and selected women across a spectrum of other industries will come together to discuss women in business, gender bias and succeeding in male-dominated industries.

Last year’s panel moderated by Emmy awardwinning TV personality, Carolyn Gusof, was a great success.

This year’s panel will include former New York Liberty and Women’s Basketball Hall of Famer Sue Wicks, among other highprofile women.

Throughout the year, Girls Rising partners with school districts, youth centers, and corporations to create empowering and innovative programming that inspires young girls and women through live performances, presentations and workshops.

BeachFest also serves to raise funds and awareness for these continued efforts.

This year’s BeachFest is sure to bring an educational, informative and rockin’ experience to Sea Cliff this weekend.

For more information on Girls Rising, go to www.GirlsRising.org and for more on Antigone Rising, visit www.AntigoneRising.com.

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Willistons roll out the welcome mat Chamber’s annual street fair an occasion for friends, neighbors to reconnect

BY N O A H M A N S K A R For each of the 39 years it’s existed, the Williston Day Street Fair has been an occasion for neighbors to reconnect.

Williston Park residents say hello after returning from their summer trips, and some who have moved away from the village “just come back to enjoy it,” said Lucille Walters, executive director of the Chamber of Commerce of the Willistons, which sponsors the fair.

The fair’s attractions will be similarly familiar at this year’s fair on Sunday — about 100 local businesses and community organizations will line Hillside Avenue alongside more than 100 other vendors, Walters said in a recent interview. The fair runs from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Hillside Avenue in Williston Park between Willis Avenue and the Long Island Rail Road tracks.

“Over the years we try to add different things to it, so I’m up for suggestions,” Walters said. “I’m beginning to be at a loss for what else to put in there.”

Regardless of what’s new or old, there’s one steady indicator of the fair’s success, Walters said: the weather. Sunny skies and a high in the mid-70s are forecast for Sunday.

“As long as it’s a nice day, people have

a great time,” she said.

Firefighters will grill burgers and hot dogs, and kids can compete in the annual hula hoop contest, one of the fair’s biggest draws.

Walters and her team of about 10 chamber members have created a winning formula over the years that draws hundreds to the Williston Park institution, she said.

The street fair is one of a few on Long Island that is put on by a local chamber rather than an event-planning company, Walters said. The Mineola Street Fair is also locally run, but the New Hyde Park Street Fair and others are at least partly organized by outside contractors.

The fair is a good place for service groups to raise money and for businesses to connect with new customers, Walters

said.

“It’s a great opportunity to showcase your business to the community — even if you’ve been in the community for years and years and years, there’s always new people moving in,” she said.

There will be a wealth of food options from restaurants such as the Spanish eatery Sangria 71 and local mainstay Memories 2. In addition to the hula hoop contest, kids can take in carnival rides, pony rides and a petting zoo.

Among those returning to the fair are 11-year-old Skye Blau and her lemonade stand.

Skye and her father Bill, East Williston residents, first set up the stand in 2014, following her mother’s cancer diagnosis, to raise money for the American Cancer Society. They donated nearly $3,000 to the group last year.

“I think everyone always wants to reach out and help,” said Mary Ann Blau, who is now cancer-free. “And we make good lemonade.”

Walters said the chamber is working on special plans for the street fair’s 40th anniversary next year. She hopes to bring back a farmers market, which was new at the 2016 fair but did not return this year, she said.

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Hawthorne Service Center Hawthorne Service Center is a full-service auto repair shop. Our history has deep roots in the community. Upon returning from the Pacific in 1945, our founder John Berning Sr., began working as an auto mechanic at a car dealer in Mineola. He also worked after hours and on weekends out of his garage while raising four children with his wife Anne. His goal was to open his own shop. Within two years, he opened his first location at the corner of Park Avenue and Hillside Avenue. In 1958, he moved his shop to its current location at the corner of Willis Avenue and Hawthorne Street. So, what makes us different from other shops? The fact that we have such deep roots here is the very reason we care so much about each and every customer. We donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t even like to call them customers, they are our neighbors, people we share our community with. Today John Berning Jr and his wife Lisa Perrotta Berning, both of whom were raised in Mineola and Williston Park respectively, can be found running the shop. The shop is run with the same care and values it began with in 1947. We stand behind everything we do. Our honesty and integrity are second to none. We choose to live and work here, in a community we love. If you need your automobile serviced, then consider stopping in and meeting us. We think you will be pleased with our service.

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22nd fair brings music to NHP’s ears Singers to perform live for first time in more than a decade at annual festival on Jericho

BY N O A H M A N S K A R The New Hyde Park Street Fair will bring the usual swarm of merchants and merrymakers to Jericho Turnpike this weekend, but the event is adding music in its 22nd year..

The 22nd annual fair on Saturday will feature musical performances for the first time in more than a decade, said Janet Bevers, a deputy clerk for the Village of New Hyde Park who helps plan the fair.

The fair runs from 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. between New Hyde Park Road and Covert Avenue.

“Our hope is that it brings more folks down to the west end and provides a new feature,” Bevers said in a recent interview.

Three singers and a band have been booked to play on a mobile stage that will be set up at the corner of Jericho Turnpike and Covert Avenue between noon and 3:45 p.m. next Saturday: Christian Matteo, Zack Reyes, Susan Wendelken and Michael D’Amico and the Witness.

New Hyde Park’s fair, one of the North Shore’s largest, will join fairs in Mineola and Williston Park in offering live music.

The performances could help draw a new crowd, including fans of the performers, to the fair, said Ron Chinesa of

Craft-A-Fair, the Franklin Square-based company that helps organize New Hyde Park’s event. The acts will play for free to get the exposure the fair provides, he said.

“Not everyone has visited the fair — even though they may be a local resident, believe it or not — and this may tend

to enhance the crowd and bring people out,” Chinesa said last week.

Between 20,000 and 30,000 people take over New Hyde Park’s main thoroughfare for the festival, which will feature some 130 local businesses and community organizations alongside about 175 outside merchants, Bevers said.

Though New Hyde Park’s fair draws many merchants and others from outside the village, its location in “the heart of what we would call our Main Street” maintains its local character, Bevers said.

Some new local businesses will be introducing themselves, Bevers said, such as the Olde Trading Post, a recently opened restaurant that will have a barbecue outside its space at 1218 Jericho Turnpike.

Northwell Health, the New Hyde Park-based health care conglomerate, is returning for a third year as the fair’s main sponsor. The company will set up a “Health and Wellness Pavilion” on Lakeville Road north of Jericho Turnpike to showcase its services.

While the music will be new, the Children’s Carnival, a popular attraction, will return to the municipal parking lot between Central Boulevard and New Hyde Park Road.

A petting zoo won’t be returning this year, but the carnival will feature inflatable rides and interactive activities from the New York Lizards lacrosse team and the Long Island Nets basketball team.

“It’s just some more fun-filled events for [children] to enjoy themselves throughout the day,” Chinesa said.

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Jewelry

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Street Fair Sponsored by Northwell Health

Saturday, September 16, 2017 10:00 am – 4:30 pm Raindate: Saturday, September 23

Featuring the Northwell “Health and Wellness Pavilion” On Jericho Turnpike, from New Hyde Park Road to Covert Avenue, Plus Lakeville Road

• Village Merchants and Restaurants • Children’s Carnival in Central Blvd. Parking Lot • Over 200 Specialty Vendors, Crafters and Food Court

AMPLE PARKING ON SIDE STREETS

Promoted by Craft-A-Fair Inc. (516) 330-2044

For the safety of all visitors, SKATEBOARDING and BICYCLE RIDING are prohibited.

For more info, visit vnhp.org or craftafair.com, or call Village Hall at (516) 354-0022.

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A LOOK BACK

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Come visit our “ General store” filled with over 1000 retro candies and toys…and see why we were voted

“ THE BEST” 8 YEARS IN A ROW

Serving the community for over 71 years!

Calling Grandparents…

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With much gratitude we thank you for voting us the Best of the North Shore 2017 in 6 categories

WE PERFORM OIL CHANGES TO ENGINE CHANGES & EVERYTHING IN BETWEEN!

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YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD AUTO REPAIR SHOP SINCE 1946 Our Parents Always Told Us: “ IF YOU GIVE PEOPLE A FAIR DEAL, THEY WILL NOTICE ” Thank you for noticing our hard work, cleanliness, honesty and integrity…

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NE W HY D E PAR K S T R E E T FAI R AMERICAN

JOIN THE ORDER OF SONS OF ITALY

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in celebration of your community spirit Participate in interesting social activities…

Meet new friends # Bowling League # Card Night # Be part of our Annual Italian Festival

ASK ABOUT OUR 7 DAY PASS!

ADULT BALLET CLASSES 10:30-12:00 MON.-SAT.

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INQUIRE ABOUT ADULT TAP & BEGINNER BALLET CLASSES

Opportunities for Lodge and OSIA Student Scholarships Yearly Teen King and Queen Pageant UPCOMING EVENTS: Sat., Oct. 7th: Italian Night Dinner Clinton Martin Park, New Hyde Park Sun. Oct. 8th: Columbian Day Parade in Huntington, NY Sat. Oct. 21st: Halloween Sock Hop featuring the Accords - Clinton Martin Park, New Hyde Park

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Membership applications for Italian and Non Italian (social members) 18 & over available at the NHP Street Fair or by contacting the Cellini Lodge.

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All of our chocolate is all peanut/treenut free!

• Customized Favors and Centerpieces for All Your Special Occasions • Assorted Hand Made Chocolates and Truffles • Chocolate Hand-Dipped Strawberries and other Fruits • Personalized Chocolate Pops, Gifts & Baskets • Merckens Chocolate, Molds and Confectionary Supplies • Gifts for Halloween, Thanksgiving, Hanukah, Christmas and more!

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By Joseph Velotti, Funeral Director Roslyn Heights Funeral Home

Preplanning a funeral is undoubtedly one of the biggest and most important decisions you will make in your lifetime. Whether it is for you or a loved one, the first step is obtaining all the necessary information to make an informed decision. More and more people are choosing to preplan/prepay their funeral and burial expenses. In doing so, they recognize that it is smart financial planning and provides great emotional relief for themselves and their loved ones. Prepaying your funeral will allow you to make your own funeral plans, but, more importantly, preplanning will spare surviving relatives and loved ones from the emotional burden of having to make decisions at a time of great stress and grief. The most common questions people ask when they are considering preplanning their funeral arrangements are: #1. Why Pre Plan at all?

• Allows individuals the opportunity to make personal and specific selections for the funeral service that most closely meets their needs.

• Spares loved ones from having to second-guess the wishes of the deceased at the time of need.

• Allows for time to research funeral homes, burial options, and financial considerations; • Provides an option to set aside funds for final expenses, relieving family members of an unexpected financial burden. #2. Why Pre Pay for my arrangements?

• Placing the cost of the funeral (at today's prices) in an investment vehicle, so that the interest earned will keep pace with inflation to cover the cost of the funeral (at future prices) when the death occurs.

• Prevents life insurance policies from being depleted at the time of a loved one's death.

• Allows individuals to consider options while they are better prepared to make sound, fiscally responsible decisions.

• Spares loved ones the unexpected cost of a funeral during a stressful time.

Roslyn Heights Funeral Home offers price guaranteed pre-arrangement thru PREPLAN a funeral trust pre-funding program backed by the NYS Funeral Directors Association, Inc. call 516-621-4545 for more information.

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Join us for Lunch, Dinner Or a Catered Event!

Outdoor Dining & Bar

Teacher Tuesday 20% Off Wellness Wednesday 20% Off Kids Menu Available

Dinner 6-7:30pm, Reading 7:30-9pm $59 per person + tax gratuity Reservations required

Sunday NFL Packages

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# 50¢ Wings # $3.00 Bud & Coors Draft # $4.50 Blue Moon Draft # $5.00 Coors Light Beer & Burger # All Ladies Get $2.00 Off Any Drink # Tailgate BBQ from 11:30am-4pm All-You-Can-Eat - $14.95

Thursday Beat The Clock Ladies Night 7-9pm $2 on all well drinks 9-10pm $3 on all well drinks 10-11pm $4 on all well drinks 11pm-close $5 on all well drinks

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New Hyde Park, NY 11040 516.492.3195 www.oldetradingpost.com

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The Holocaust Memorial and Tolerance Center of Nassau County Reel Upstanders Film Series will present a screening of the documentary film, “The Celluloid Closet,” on Sunday, Sept. 17 at 1 p.m.

The 1995 film examines the various Hollywood screen depictions of the LGBTQ community and the attitudes behind them throughout the history of North American film.

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Russo wanted his book to be transformed into a documentary film and helped out on the project until he died in 1990.

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Winner of the Tony Award for Best Musical and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, “Rent,” created by Adelphi University graduate Jonathan Larson (’82), has become a pop culture phenomenon.

The Adelphi University Performing Arts Center (PAC) opened its doors in the fall of 2008 with the first college production of this beloved musical.

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“Rent in Concert” will be performed on Saturday, Sept. 16 at 7 p.m. and Sunday, Sept. 17 at 2 p.m. on the Westermann Stage, Concert Hall in the Adelphi PAC, 1 South Ave. in Garden City.

With a band led by the original associate conductor of “Rent,” Daniel Weiss, original Broadway company member of “Rent,” Fredi Walker-Brown, will be joined by Broadway stars Matt Bogart (“Jersey Boys,” “Aida,” “Miss Saigon,” “Smokey Joe’s Cafe,” “The Civil War”), Felicia Boswell (“Shuffle Along,” “Memphis,” “Motown: The Musical”), Sydney James Harcourt (“Hamilton,” “American Idiot,” “Bells Are Ringing”), Lilli Cooper (“SpongeBob SquarePants,” “Wicked,” “Spring Awakening”), Danielle Greaves (“A Streetcar Named Desire,” “Hairspray,” “Rent,” “Showboat,” “Sunset Boulevard”), Douglas Lyons (“Beautiful: The Carole King Musical,” “The Book of Mormon”), M.J. Rodriguez (“Rent” Off-Broadway), and Mike Squillante (NBC’s “The Voice”), among others.

Based loosely on Puccini’s “La Boheme,” Larson’s “Rent” follows a year in the life of a group of impoverished young artists and musicians struggling to survive and create in New York’s Lower East Side, under the shadow of

HIV/AIDS. The physical and emotional complications of the disease pervade the lives of Roger, Mimi, Tom and Angel.

Maureen deals with her chronic infidelity through performance art; her partner, Joanne, wonders if their relationship is worth the trouble.

Benny has sold out his Bohemian ideals in exchange for a hefty income and is on the outs with his former friends.

Mark, an aspiring filmmaker, feels like an outsider to life in general.

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This is theatre at its best – exuberant, passionate and joyous.

The book, music and lyrics of “Rent” were written by Larson (‘82).

“Rent in Concert” is produced and directed by T. Oliver Reed.

Tickets for Saturday night are priced at $100/$60/$55 and tickets for Sunday afternoon at $55/$50.

The $100 VIP tickets include premium seating and an invitation to the post-show reception with the cast to celebrate the kickoff of PAC’s 10th season.

The Adelphi PAC is one of Long Island’s premier cultural arts venues for entertainment of all kinds.

Tickets are currently on sale and discounts are available to seniors, students and alumni.

Information is available at the Lucia and Steven N. Fischer Box Office at 516877-4000 or boxoffice@adelphi.edu.

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“Glamour Icons”: Celebrates fragrances and cosmetic packaging as an art form through the work of award-winning designer Marc Rosen.

Through Sunday, Nov. 5, Tuesday-Saturday screenings at 11 a.m., 12 and 1 p.m.; Sunday screenings at 11 a.m. and 12 p.m.

Film: “Modern Dreams: Art of America” (2011, 50 min. BBC film) THE ART GUILD 200 Port Washington Blvd., Manhasset www.TheArtGuild.org Through Sunday, Oct. 1 Art Exhibition: “Faces & Figures” (reception and award ceremony on Sept. 8, 6-8 p.m.)

Second Thursday, Sept. 14 Sip & Sketch: Live model, no instruction, short and long poses. Bring a snack and/or beverage.

Beginners, 1-4 p.m.; Intermediates, 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.

ART LEAGUE OF LONG ISLAND 107 East Deer Park Road, Dix Hills (631) 462-5400 • www.artleagueli.org Saturday, Sept. 16 through Friday, Oct. 27 Art Exhibit: Their Passion for Fashion: Of Purses & Paintings The Gerson & Judith Leiber Collection SANDS POINT PRESERVE CONSERVANCY 127 Middle Neck Road, Sands Point 516.571.7901 • sandspointpreserve.org Saturday, Sept. 16, 10 a.m.

Seasonal Family Yoga CLARK BOTANIC GARDEN 193 I. U. Willets Road, Albertson

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A&E Calendar cont’d (516) 869-6311 • www.clarkbotanic.org Saturday, Sept. 16, 12-5 p.m.

Kidstock 2017: North Hempstead’s Free Family Music Festival Featuring musical acts, free face-painting, and a circus performance and workshop.

Rock City presented by Bach to Rock will introduce children to musical instruments.

For more information, call 311 or 516-869-6311 Sunday, Sept. 17, 4-8 p.m.

Yoga Under the Stars Featuring Meditation.

Presented by the Town of North Hempstead and the American Association of Physicians of Indian Origin of Queens and Long Island For more information, call 311 or 516-869-6311 Saturday, Sept. 23 at 4 p.m.

Autumn “Sip and Stroll” Wine tasting, refreshments, live music, raffles and a twilight garden tour.

OLD WESTBURY GARDENS 71 Old Westbury Rd., Westbury (516) 333-0048 • www.oldwestburygardens. org Sunday, Sept. 17, 12-4 p.m.

Kidsfest with Tim Kubart & the Space PLANTING FIELDS ARBORETUM Coe Hall Historic House Museum 1395 Planting Fields Road, Oyster Bay (516) 922-9200 • www.plantingfields.org Sunday, Sept. 17, 4-6 p.m.

Great Yachts of Long Island Lecture For more information, contact Jennifer Lavella at (516) 922-8678 or email jlavella@plantingfields.org LONG ISLAND CHILDREN’S MUSEUM 11 Davis Avenue, Garden City (516) 224-5800 • www.licm.org Museum closed Sept. 4-15 Saturday, Sept. 16, 2-4 p.m.

Dale a la Pinata; All ages; Free with museum admission Saturday, Sept. 16 and Sunday, Sept. 17, 3:30-5 p.m.

Messy Afternoons Ages 18 months to 4 years. Free with museum admission.

Friday, Sept. 22, 11:30 a.m.-12 p.m.

Kids in the Kitchen Ages 3-5. Material fee: $5 with museum admission ($4 LICM members) BJ SPOKE GALLERY 229 Main Street, Huntington (631) 549-5106• www.bjspokegallery.com Through Sunday, Oct. 1 Katherine Criss: Solo Exhibit and Window

Installation — Surreal Encounters in paint & Pixels #2 Members Exhibit HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL AND TOLERANCE CENTER OF NASSAU COUNTY 100 Crescent Beach Road, Glen Cove (516) 571-8040 • www.hmtcli.org Sunday, Sept. 17 at 1 p.m.

Film Screening: “The Celluloid Closet” atherine Criss: Solo Exhibit and Window Installation — Surreal Encounters in paint & Pixels #2 Members Exhibi THE DOLPHIN BOOKSHOP & CAFE 299 Main St., Port Washington (516) 767-2650 • www.thedolphinbookshop. com Fridays at 11 a.m.

Music & More: Marilyn & her guitar For children ages 2-4 Fridays, 7-9 p.m.

Cafe Music at The Dolphin. Free admission.

Sunday, Sept. 17 at 11:30 a.m.

Children’s Story Time and Craft: Do Your Know Where the Freckle Goes? by O.J. Zbarsky Through Saturday, Sept. 30 Port Washington artist Jared Udell Exhibit

(516) 869-8455 • www.weddingsalononline. com Friday, Sept. 22 through Sunday, Sept. 24 Styles from the Anne Barge Spring 2018 collection will be featured.

All ages. $15 child; $5 adult; Thursday, Sept. 21, 9:30-10:30 a.m.

Backpacks & Humpbacks Ages 3-5. $12 adult/tot pairing, $4 sibling TEMPLE EMANUEL OF GREAT NECK 150 Hicks Lane, Great Neck (516) 482-5701 • www.emanuelgn.org Friday, Sept. 15 at 7:30 p.m.

Judge Jack B. Weinstein: “A Summing Up: Civil Rights & Civil Liberties in the United States During My 96 Years” Saturday, Sept. 16 at 7 p.m.

Selihot Service with Music RSVP by calling 516-482-5701 ANNE BARGE TRUNK SHOW At the Wedding Salon of Manhasset 1468 Northern Blvd, Manhasset

LONG ISLAND BAROQUE ENSEMBLE 49TH SEASON OF EARLY MUSIC CONCERTS www.libaroque.org Saturday, Oct. 21 at 7:30 p.m.

At St. Andrew’s Lutheran Church, 30 Brooksite Drive, Smithtown Sunday, Oct. 22 at 3 p.m.

At Christ Church, 61 East Main Street, Oyster Bay “Born in 1685: The Legends J.S. Bach, G.F. Handel and D. Scarlatti”

BOOK REVUE 313 New York Avenue, Huntington (631) 271-1442 • www.bookrevue.com Monday, Sept. 18 at 7 p.m.

“And the Sparrow Fell” A Novel” by Robert Mrazek with Steve Israel Tuesday, Sept. 19 at 7 p.m.

“Discovering the Healer Within” by Anysia Marcell Kiel Thursday, Sept. 21 at 7 p.m.

“The Cuban Affair” by Nelson DeMille COLD SPRING HARBOR FISH HATCHERY & AQUARIUM 1660 Rte. 25A, Cold Spring Harbor (516) 692-6768 www.cshfishhatchery.org Wednesdays and Thursdays beginning Sept. 27, 10-11 a.m.

Pollywog Adventures for Pre-Schoolers: Kids of all ages learn about the natural world.

Free with museum admission.

THE WHALING MUSEUM & EDUCATION CENTER 279 Main Street, Cold Spring Harbor (631) 367-3418 • www.cshwhalingmuseum.org Sunday, Sept. 17, 11 a.m.-3 p.m.

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Forbidden spaces inspire DeMille Continued from Page 29 Even later, when he was in the Army, DeMille had two company commanders, captains who were both captured at the Bay of Pigs and released in the ransom program “where we gave the Cubans trucks and they let Bay of Pigs POWs go,” he said.

Remembering this era so vividly, DeMille said that Cuba, despite its strained relationship with the U.S., is part of his childhood, his generation and his history.

So when his son Alex, a Yale graduate, passed along an invitation to join a university-sponsored tour of the country, DeMille enlisted a close friend, a fellow Yale alum who was a college roommate of John Kerry, Secretary of State at the time, to not only accompany him on the trip along with their wives, but also to line up a meeting with the acting U.S. Ambassador to Cuba.

DeMille embarked on the tour in October 2015 on the heels of President Obama formally restoring U.S. diplomatic relations with Cuba in July of that year, a big step in the process known as the Cuban Thaw.

“I was a little apprehensive because it’s a police state. It doesn’t matter if it’s Communists or fascists, any police state is tricky,” DeMille said about the trip, with one major difference.

“I had been to Moscow and Leningrad (where) you knew you were in a police state,” he said, describing these bleak environments.

But in Havana, the culture is so much different. “It’s kind of like Communism with rum and coke… (It) looks like any tropical paradise, but it’s not,” DeMille said when talking about the birthplace of mojitos and daiquiris that now has its locals living on rice and beans.

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Nelson DeMille’s photo on the set of “The General’s Daughter.”

“You expect a city of two million people to be vibrant… it comes alive at night, but during the day I don’t know if it’s the heat or people just have nothing to do (but) the whole central city… is dead,” he said.

And many tourists don’t realize that most of the bars and restaurants in Cuba are government-controlled, DeMille added, because these places seem like a party with the fruity cocktails, Cuban music and dancing, and all of the tributes to American author Ernest Hemingway, including a lifelike, bronze replica of the literary icon seated at the bar in Havana’s historic Floridita restaurant and lounge.

DeMille got to see this statue of one of his favorite authors during his trip, as well as visit Finca Vigia, the hilltop villa east of Havana where Hemingway lived for more than two decades, from 1939 to 1960.

During these years, Hemingway spent his time fishing, meeting Castro on one occasion at a marlin fishing tournament, and

writing “Islands in the Stream,” a sea-trilogy ending with a shootout in the channels of Cayo Guillermo that was posthumously published after his death in 1961.

Given the travel restrictions imposed on Americans, DeMille didn’t get to visit these outlying parts of Cuba and said he would like to go back one day – that is, if he isn’t banned for writing his Cuban caper.

“You can see it’s a big island, an amazing place, if you can just get in a car and travel the island,” DeMille said, noting that private money from Miami is coming into the country to restore certain areas. “So it’s definitely a place in transition,” perhaps signaling a brighter future for the island nation.

When it comes to Mac, “The Cuban Affair” leaves him contemplating a return to his home state of Maine. “I can see Mac in Maine,” DeMille admits. “I can see Mac as a sequel; I can’t see it as a series.”

DeMille shared his thoughts on character series, saying “As

much as I love Agatha Christie and Poirot books with Miss Marple, you say, ‘How can so much happen to one little old lady in a small village?’”

The same can be said for Mac, who may be better suited for the big screen, with “The Cuban Affair” currently making the rounds in Hollywood.

DeMille’s series featuring FBI Anti-Terrorist Task Force expert John Corey, however, continues to be a success, with ABC Television currently developing the novels into a primetime drama.

As for DeMille’s Long Islandset novels, the author who grew up in Elmont, graduated from Hofstra University, and has lived in Garden City since 1975, hasn’t forgotten his roots and local fans.

His beloved classic and personal favorite of his books, “The Gold Coast,” was recently reissued in paperback, with a stately new, white-and-gold cover, for a new generation of fans to enjoy.

Described by DeMille as “The Godfather” meets “The Great

Gatsby,” the story about the North Shore’s old money colliding with the mafia barons of the 1980s became an instant success when published in 1990, ushering in more of DeMille’s bestsellers and earning him the distinction of being widely regarded as Long Island’s foremost author.

Nelson DeMille will participate in six events on Long Island this fall as follows: Book Revue in Huntington on Thursday, Sept.

21 at 7 p.m.; Barnes and Noble in Carle Place on Friday, Sept. 22 at 7 p.m.; Long Island Lit Fest at the Cinema Arts Centre in Huntington on Tuesday, Oct. 10 at 7:30 p.m.; Turn of the Corkscrew Books and Wine at the Madison Theatre at Molloy College on Friday, Oct. 13 at 7:30 p.m.; Longwood Public Library in Middle Island on Saturday, Oct. 14 at 6 p.m., and the Sid Jacobson JCC in East Hills on Tuesday, Oct. 24 at 7:30 p.m.

For more information, you can visit each venue’s website or go to www.nelsondemille.net or www.simonandschuster.com.

Community Calendar MORNING BEACH YOGA At Robert Moses State Park, Field 2 Info.: (516) 983-1227 Every Saturday and Sunday, 7-8 a.m. through Sept. 16.

Cost: $5. Start your weekend with peaceful morning yoga flow. Bring your own mat.

Suitable for all levels.

2017 FARMERS MARKET AT LI WELCOME CENTER Rest Area at Dix Hills (between Exit 51 & 52) Eastbound on LIE, Dix Hills Info.: (516) 543-6033 Every Friday, Saturday and Sunday through Sept. 30.

This is a rotating Farmers’ Market featurig Long Island food producers, growers and artisans.

From fruits and vegetables, to olive oils and fresh roasted coffee, this Farmers Market has a diverse selection of items.

GARDEN CITY FARMERS MARKET 2017 Behind Supreme Court, 101 County Seat Drive in Mineola Info.: (631) 323-3653 Every Tuesday, 7 a.m.-1 p.m., through Nov. 21.

Head to the Garden City Center Fair for fruits, vegetables, nuts, oils and more.

WESTBURY MARKET FAIR & FLEA MARKET The NYCB Theatre parking lot at 960 Brush Hollow Road, Westbury Info.: (516) 669-7541; www.westburymarketfair.com Every Saturday and Sunday through Nov. 30.

Free event. Find discounts on cosmetics, watches, fashions, shoes, jewelry, antiques and more!

ROSLYN FARMERS MARKET 2017 At Christopher Morley Park, 500 Searingtown Road, Roslyn Info.: (631) 323-3653 Every Wednesday, 7 a.m.-1 p.m., through Nov. 22.

ST. PETER OF ALCANTARA WITH OUR LADY OF FATIMA PARISH

1321 Port Washington Blvd., Port Washington Info.: (516) 627-883-4817 or (516) 883-2607 Friday evenings at 8 p.m.

Bereavement Support Group: open to the general public.

For more information, contact Yvonne at 516-883-4817 or Rose 516-883-2607 JOIN THE BOCCE GAME! At Thomas H. Wilson Park, 211 Westbury Ave. in Mineola Every Tuesday and Thursday, 5:30-10 p.m.

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Bryant Library BUILD A BETTER WORLD CHILDREN’S PROGRAMS: For independent readers in grades K & up.

Each week there will be a unique opportunity to create, build and explore. Stop in any time to build with Keva blocks, Magna Tiles, Smart Max, and Squigz.

ADULT PROGRAMS: BRAINS FOR BETTER CLUB Friday, Sept. 15, 22, 29, Oct. 6, 13, 20, 27 at 3 p.m. Brains for Better is a non-profit that provides aspiring scientists the opportunity to learn about the vast intricacies of the brain.

BUILD A BETTER WORLD TOGETHER... READ-TO-ME PROGRAM For ages 3 1/2 - 6. Engage your littlest learner and read together.

You are their key to literacy. Read together often and come to the library!

BABY SIGN LANGUAGE 3-18 months. Saturdays, Sept. 16, 23, 9:30-10:15 a.m. or 10:30-11:15 a.m. Wouldn’t it be nice to know your baby’s thoughts and needs?

Baby sign language makes it possible to communicate with babies.

Join certified specialist, Elaine Langsan, for this introduction to signing with your little one. A parent or guardian must accompany the child to each class.

STRETCHING & TONING Wednesday, Sept. 20 at 10 a.m.

Would you like to feel stronger, more flexible and fit overall? This exciting summer class features stretching and toning exercises for a full-body workout.

GIGGLES & WIGGLES: For ages 12-17 mos. Mondays, Sept. 18, 25, Oct. 2 and Tuesdays, Sept. 19, 26 and Oct. 3, 9:45-10:15 a.m.

GIGGLES & WIGGLES For ages 12-17 mos. Mondays, Sept. 18, 25, Oct. 2 and Tuesdays, Sept. 19, 26 and Oct. 3, 9:45-10:15 a.m. Music, fingerplays, toys & simple stories to develop early literacy skills.

LITTLE SPROUTS For ages 18-23 mos. Mondays, Sept. 18, 25 and Oct. 2 or Tuesdays, Sept. 12, 19, 26 and Oct. 3, 11-11:30 a.m. Toys, books and fun.

TODDLER STORYTIME For ages 2-3 1/2 years. Fridays,

Oct. 6, 13, 20, 27 (Series I) or Nov. 3, 10, 17, and Dec. 1 (Series II), 11 a.m or 2 p.m. An enjoyable introduction to storytime. Child must be 2 years old by Oct. 1 for Series I, and 2 years old by Nov. 1 for Series II. A parent or guardian must accompany the child to each class.

THE BRYANT WRITER’S GROUP Thursday, Sept. 14, 21, 28 and Oct. 5, 12, 19, 7-8 p.m. Bring your fiction, non-fiction or poetry. The group will discuss current projects in a supportive environment.

ASL FOR ALL Monday, Sept. 25, Oct. 2, 9, 24, 31 at 7 p.m.

Free sign language class.

Roslyn Community Calendar SUNDAY MORNING SOFTBALL IN EAST HILLS PARK The weekly East Hills pick up softball game is looking for a few good men.

Games are every Sunday, weather permitting, from 8:30-11:30 at the park in East Hills, off Harbor Hill Road. We have guys who have been playing in this game since the 80s, but it’s been going on even longer than that! Any men interested in helping continue this thirty plus year tradition are encouraged to attend. Contacts: William Gavin, East Hills Park Director 516 484 9800; Steward Faden 516 410 6666; Peter Wagner 516 527-1200.

ACBL BRIDGE ACBL sanctioned Bridge games take place in the Nursery School Atrium every Wednesday evening at 7 p.m. and Thursday afternoon at 12:30 p.m. in the main building at Shelter Rock Jewish Center, 272 Shelter Rock Rd., Roslyn.

Call 917-658-5991 to make a reservation.

TUESDAY NIGHT BINGO Veterans of Foreign Wars Post #5253 will host bingo on Tuesday nights from 7 to 11 p.m. The top prize is $1,500 with additional cash prizes totaling $1,700.

Admission is $4 at the post, 155 Searingtown Road.

SUFFERERS OF ARTHRITIS Glen Cove Hospital offers a free, weekly class for people with arthritis on an ongoing basis every Thursday, 10:30

to 11:30 a.m. in the hospital’s 1 South Dining Room, 101 St. Andrew’s Lane, Glen Cove. The class is taught by Merav deGuzman, the hospital’s recreational therapy supervisor, who is also certified by the Arthritis Foundation. The lowimpact exercises are designed to reduce joint pain and decrease stiffness. The program is open to the community. For more information or to reserve a place in the arthritis class (limited space available), please contact Merav deGuzman at Glen Cove Hospital at: 516-674-7696.

TBS Sisterhood Adult Education Classes Open to the Community Temple Beth Sholom offers an array of classes in Hebrew, Bible study, Torah cantillation, Jewish thinkers, prayer, and parenting through a Jewish lens. These day and evening classes are open to all adults – women, men, including those

who aren’t temple members -- although there is a registration fee for some of the courses. Many of the courses begin in Sept.

There is a Tuesday morning series of classes taught by Zahavah Rosenfeld, a highly experienced Hebrew and Jewish studies teacher, and a monthly “Lunch and Learn” program with guest speakers.

For further information, please download the brochure from the temple website: www.tbsroslyn.org under the Community heading, the under Sisterhood, then click on the Adult Education brochure link. Or pick up a brochure at the temple office, 401 Roslyn Rd., Roslyn Heights, NY 11577; or call 516-621-2288.

The Samuel Field Y weekday programs for preschool children (ages

3-5) with developmental disabilities and their families On Wednesdays 3 p.m. to 4:30 p.m., there is Gym and Creative Exploration at the Little Neck Site: 58-20 Little Neck Parkway. Little Neck.

We also have our Sunday Fun Day program 10:30 a.m. to 12 p.m. at our Little Neck Site. Programs are $5.00 per family. Snack will be served Programs are ongoing and may be joined at any time.

This program is made possible by a grant from the NYS Office for People with Developmental Disabilities – Queens DDSO For further info and to RSVP, contact Amanda at 718 423-6111 ext 242 or e mail asmith@sfy.org Kindergarten Registration for Roslyn Public Schools The registration period for students entering the Roslyn Public Schools in September of 2017 will be the weeks of Feb. 6, 2017 through Feb. 10, 2017 and March 6, 2017 through March 10, 2017.

All children entering Kindergarten must be 5 years old by December 1, 2017.

If your child does NOT attend a local nursery school, please call the Heights School office at (516) 801-5500 to place your child on the registration list.

The Heights faculty and staff are eager to welcome you and your youngster!

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E.W. scores remain near top in Nassau District No. 2 in county on state math, English exams, despite some drops in pass rates

BY N O A H M A N S K A R The East Williston school district’s passing rates on state tests remained among the best in Nassau County this year, despite drops in several grade levels compared with last year.

Third- through eighth-graders in East Williston on average got the second-best passing rate in Nassau County on this spring’s English language arts and mathematics exams, Danielle Gately, the district’s assistant superintendent for instruction and personnel, said last Wednesday.

Passing rates fell from 2016 levels for two of the six grades on the English test and for four grades on the math tests, district data shows.

But East Williston in all cases outpaced the Nassau County average, which never pierced 60 percent for any grade level on either test.

The state Education Department has said this year’s results are directly comparable to last year’s because there were no “significant changes” to the tests. But Gately said this year’s exams were

Danielle Gately much shorter, making such comparisons difficult.

District officials attributed students’ continued success to recent efforts to strengthen the district’s curriculum, making it more interactive and adjusting it to the state’s shifting standards.

“We do so in a way that really works to educate the whole child, so that we aren’t just doing a program created around assess-

ments,” Gately said at Wednesday’s school board meeting.

On average, 77.5 percent East Williston’s third- through eighthgraders got “proficient” scores on this year’s English test, up from 75 percent last year.

Some 71.5 percent on average were proficient on the math test, down from 74.1 percent last year.

The scores followed targeted

efforts to boost literacy in kindergarten and first grade and to use more hands-on, “project-based” approaches to teaching math, administrators said.

The district has dedicated more staff to teaching reading and literacy at the elementary level, including an in-house literacy consultant, administrators said. At the secondary level, teachers are using longer periods to give students more flexibility in developing their reading and writing skills.

“We are well exceeding … the state level and even the Nassau County level, and that’s something that we really do feel is a testament to the work that has been put into our literacy curriculum over the years,” Christine Dragone, the assistant principal at the elementary North Side School, said.

Math teachers have sought to more closely track where students need help using in-class tests and to incorporate activities that make abstract concepts, such as algebra, easier to understand, administrators said.

Middle school teachers are creating lessons that teach math

like science, allowing students to do experiment-like activities, said Robert Teseo, the district’s secondary mathematics curriculum chair.

Administrators stressed that the state tests are a “snapshot” of student performance, and are among many measures the district uses to assess where students are.

Teachers and administrators often feel like they are “building the aircraft in the air” because the state’s curriculum standards have changed so much in recent years, Teseo said.

Once the standards stabilize in the coming years and the state tests get more consistent, it will be easier to track test score trends over time, Superintendent Elaine Kanas said.

Mike Guglielmo, a district resident, said it would be valuable for parents to see such comparisons.

Administrators did not include state test passing rates for prior years in Wednesday night’s presentation, as they had previously.

“It’s wonderful to show us a chart comparing Nassau County and New York State, but we always crush those numbers,” Guglielmo said.

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East Hills man shares story of 9/11 hero

BY A M E L I A C A M U R AT I When Matthew Weiss of East Hills heard about the story of Welles Crowther, he wanted everyone to hear it.

“I’m a lawyer, and I’ve never made a film. I never took a film class. I never even had a bucket list item to make a film,” Weiss said. “I figured it out because I wanted people to hear this story and be inspired to do great things and be inspired to be better.”

From this drive and six years of writing, researching and interviewing came “Man in Red Bandana,” a documentary film about Crowther and his final hours inside the World Trade Center.

Crowther, 24, of Upper Nyack, New York, worked on the 104th floor of the south World Trade Center tower in 2001

as an equities trader. When United Airlines Flight 175 hit floors 75 to 85 a little after 9 a.m. on Sept. 11, Crowther quickly called his parents and left a voicemail that he was OK. That was the last phone call Crowther ever made to his family, but it isn’t the end of the story.

Weiss interviewed Crowther’s parents, Jefferson and Alison, for the documentary, where Jefferson talks about teaching his son that the handkerchief in his breast pocket is for show, “but the red one is for blow,” and gave him his first red bandanna while his father always used blue.

“The story takes an amazing turn because eight months later, The New York Times wrote an article with different survivor accounts — what people saw and

how they got out,” Weiss said. “Among this group of people were two survivors who said they were led up and out by a man who had a red bandanna on his face.

When Alison read that, she knew instantly it was her son because her son, from age 8, always carried a red bandanna. It was a habit he got into, his friends teased him about it, but he always had it.”

After the article, the survivors saved by the man in the red bandanna looked at photos to identify Crowther as the man who saved them and were invited to the Crowther family home to help his parents piece together their son’s final hours. “[Ling Young], too, said she had been steered by the man in the red bandanna, hearing him call out: ‘This way to the stairs,'” The New York Times reported.

“He trailed her down the stairs. Ms.

Young said she soon noticed that he was carrying a woman on his back. Once they reached clearer air, he put her down and went back up.”

Survivors told the Crowthers their son went back up the stairs to save more people at least twice, and according to survivor accounts, Crowther saved as many as 18 people after the attack on the South Tower.

“You can imagine for the family, their perception shifts when they learn how their son died that day a hero,” Weiss said. “Obviously they still cry for him and their hearts break every day, there is no closure, but it did give them some peace of mind … It’s a tremendous story of courage and sacrifice and selflessness.”

The documentary is screening through Thursday at the Bellmore Playhouse, 525 Bedford Ave. in Bellmore, and the JJ Elwood Cinemas, 1950 Jericho Turnpike in East Northport. Screenings are at 1:30 and 7 p.m. daily.

Once the run ends, Weiss said viewers can download the movie on Amazon or iTunes.

“I feel in this world, there’s not enough giving and selflessness, and I feel we also could be better people,” Weiss said. “I know I could be a better person, and Welles is a reminder to me to be a little more selfless, whether it’s giving up my seat on a bus or holding a door for someone who’s trailing me.”

Women artists plan Searingtown School Manhasset exhibit gets interim principal

BY A M B E R TON G What did Eleanor Roosevelt, Georgia O’Keefe and Helen Keller have in common? They were all members of the National League of American Pen Women.

The Long Island branch of the organization is hosting a monthlong exhibition at the Shelter Rock Art Gallery

in Manhasset, starting with an artist reception on Sept. 24. Sponsored by the Unitarian Universalist Congregation at Shelter Rock, the show is free and open to the public.

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The National League of American Pen Women Long Island Branch will open its art exhibit on Sept. 24 at the Shelter Rock Art Gallery in Manhasset.

BY N O A H M A N S K A R One of the Herricks school district’s three elementary schools has started the school year with a new principal.

Robert Neufeld, a retired elementary educator with more than 40 years of experience, started Aug. 28 as the Searingtown School’s interim principal for the 2017-18 year. He is the temporary replacement for K. Elizabeth Guercin, who started as Herricks’ assistant superintendent for curriculum and instruction on Sept. 1.

Neufeld’s “very caring and compassionate” character and “wealth of experience” pushed him to the top of a field of 10 candidates district officials considered, Superintendent Fino Celano said.

“He has an outstanding reputation of being an excellent educator,” Celano said.

Neufeld retired three years ago from the Sachem Central School District in Suffolk County, where he worked in three junior high schools and four elementary schools starting in 1974. He started working as a principal in 2000 and once served as co-president of the

PHOTO COURTESY OF HERRICKS SCHOOL DISTRICT

Robert Neufeld started Aug. 28 as the interim principal at the Searingtown School.

Suffolk County Elementary Principals’ Association.

Neufeld worked as an interim principal in Sachem after his retirement, Celano said.

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COMMUNITY NEWS

Walk-a-thon It’s time to get to Kidstock to aid children Children’s Hope India, a Searingtown-based organization dedicated to helping underprivileged children progress from poverty to prosperity, giving them a chance for a brighter future, will hold its annual Walk-a-Thon on Sunday, Sept.

17 at 10 a.m. at Eisenhower Park in East Meadow.

The walk is sponsored by CH3, the next generation of philanthropic leaders.

Join the CH3 teens as walk to raise funds to send underprivileged kids from shelters to summer camp. The event will kick off with DJ Sharad and celebrity MC Gino Carpio.

Come early for a dance

North Hempstead Town Supervisor Judi Bosworth and the Town Board have announced the lineup for this year’s children’s music festival, KidStock.

The festival will be held on Saturday, Sept. 16 from 12 to 5 p.m. at Clark Botanic Garden.

The 7th Annual KidStock is a free outdoor family music festival, which stars nationally-acclaimed musical entertainment including Grammy-award winning artists.

“Music is transformative and can turn an ordinary summer day into a fun-filled celebration for the entire family,” said Bosworth “and that is exactly what Kidstock delivers among the beautiful backdrop of our Clark Botanic Garden. I hope everyone will come out to enjoy a music-filled day at the garden with, crafts, games and more.”

The performance lineup consists of KidStock favorite Alex and the Kaleidoscope band, Dirty Sock Funtime Band and Joanie Leeds and the Nightlights.

Bach to Rock Port Washington will have hands-on and interactive opportunities for children

warm-up, free swag and raffles.

With a “cradle to career” approach, CHI partners with local organizations in India and the New York metro area that improve access to education, medical care, shelter, social services and job skills training.

With a mandate of “children helping children” and armed with new ideas and an awareness of global issues, CH3 wants to give back and share consciousness with peers and local communities.

The event will take place at the Dogwood Picnic Area, Parking Field No.1 off Merrick Avenue.

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Town Clerk Wayne Wink, Supervisor Judi Bosworth and Council Member Peter Zuckerman with performers from the National Circus Project who performed at last year’s KidStock. to explore musical instruments.

All the festival acts will inspire and encourage children to celebrate and learn through the power of music and creativity.

There will be additional activities, including a performance

by National Circus Project and

free face painting.

Bring your own picnic blankets and/or beach chairs.

Clark Botanic Garden is located at 193 I.U. Willets Road in Albertson.

For more information please call 311 or 516-869-6311.

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Pols visit Italian Feast

From left, front row: Cellini Lodge Past President Grace Ferrara, Cellini Lodge 2nd Vice President Maria D’Urso, Council Member Peter Zuckerman, Assemblyman and Cellini Past President Tony D’Urso, Cellini Lodge President Mark Ventimiglia, Town Supervisor Judi Bosworth, Cellini Lodge 1st Vice President and Feast Chairperson Anthony Calabro, Cellini Lodge Immediate Past President Alfonso Squillante, Gidio Dragone and Emilia Chimienti. Back row: Anthony J. Pallisco and Anthony P. Pallisco.

State Assemblyman Anthony D’Urso (D-Port Washington) did volunteer work at the Annual Cellini Lodge No. 2206 Order Sons of Italy Feast Italian Feast, which was held at the Michael J. Tully Park in New Hyde Park from Aug. 24 to 27.

D’Urso and a few of his friends at the lodge founded this feast in 1984; this year they celebrated the feast’s 33rd anniversary.

The feast, as it has done for 33 years, had food, games, rides, musical entertainment and fireworks. It has always been a place where families and neighbors got together.

The funds they raised will be used to support a very ambitious charitable program and also a generous scholarship.

“It brings me joy to work here and feel that

this is important for me to help with this festival as it brings people together,” D’Urso said. “This feast is no longer just an ‘Italian Feast,’ over the years the residents look forward to coming out here to celebrate as another town program.”

North Hempstead Town Supervisor Judi Bosworth, Town Clerk Wayne Wink and Councilman Peter Zuckerman (D-East Hills) also attended the feast on Friday, Aug. 25.

Bosworth, Zuckerman and Wink helped serve Italian fare to attendees and met with residents attending the festival.

Proceeds from the event will provide approximately 80 percent of the Lodge’s revenue for the year and help to support local scholarships and national charities.

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Kooks with nukes, Dreamers, storms

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irst, Donald Trump invited Xi Jinping, the Chinese leader, to Mara-Lago to urge him to rein in the North Korean nuclear program.

That didn’t work out very well, so he threatened Kim Jong-un, the North Korean leader, with “fire and fury” if North Korea continued to threaten the United States.

That threat wasn’t effective either, as North Korea called Mr. Trump’s bluff and conducted the sixth and most explosive test of its nuclear weapons while continuing to test ICBMs. So a clearly frustrated Mr. Trump turned to threatening South Korea, accusing Seoul of appeasement and demanding an overhaul of South Korean trade practices.

Memo to Donald Trump: South Korea is an ally, not an enemy.

In yet another display of his lack of understanding of the consequences of his threats, Mr. Trump has threatened to stop all trade with countries doing business in North Korea.

Although this could spell catastrophe for North Korea, it would also mean economic disaster for the United States.

North Korea is dependent on China for about 80 percent of its trade and China helps with the North’s critical fuel, food and other needs.

But, at the same time, China is also the largest trading partner of the United States.

Cutting off all of our trade with China

is simply a non-starter.

Just another empty bluff from the tweeter-in-chief.

As for North Korea, a famine that killed around 10 percent of its population did not bring about the country’s collapse, so cutting off trade with the North won’t stop Kim Jong-un.

If a nuclear standoff with North Korea is not enough, Mr. Trump is also threatening the Iranian nuclear agreement which has halted Iran’s nuclear weapons program and without which we and the rest of the world would be facing yet another nuclear armed nation.

What’s clear from all of this is that Mr. Trump, who was so critical of prior administrations for failing to stop the North Koreans, hasn’t the slightest idea of how to manage the situation either.

But, it seems equally clear that attacking one of our allies is not the answer.

Not only does that raise questions in the mind of South Korea as to our willingness to honor our promise to defend them, but it raises the specter among our other allies, including Japan and the NATO countries, that our promises to defend them are nothing but empty pieces of paper.

In short, by undermining the philosophy of collective defense that has sustained us since the end of World War II, Mr. Trump endangers our national security.

Who knew the North Korean situation

could be so complicated.

On the other hand, the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program is not complicated.

All Mr. Trump, who wiped away crocodile tears while professing his “love” for the Dreamers, had to do was say that he was leaving the existing program in place.

But, on an issue crying out for leadership, Mr. Trump punted.

No profile in courage in the Oval Office. After all, he had election promises to his anti-immigrant base to keep.

Rather than stand up for the Dreamers, around 800,000 people brought to the United States as minors, Mr. Trump’s answer was to kick the can down the road to Congress, leaving their fate in doubt.

Unwilling to do the right thing, he asked Congress to “do something and do it right.”

“Not my problem,” he said to the Dreamers he was abandoning.

Memo to Mr. Trump: Congress hasn’t acted on immigration for years. Do you really expect them to act now?

I guess not. Mr. Trump now says he’ll act if Congress doesn’t act.

Why wait? Why toy with the Dreamers, leaving the lives of 800,000 law-abiding and tax paying people pursuing their education and job opportunities in a state of suspension?

Mr. Trump professed concern for “the millions of [native-born] Americans victimized by this unfair system.”

Despite the absence of any evidence to support his claim, Mr. Trump said that DACA denies jobs “to hundreds of thousands of Americans by allowing those same illegal aliens to take those jobs.”

More than 400 American business leaders had urged Mr. Trump to permit the program to continue.

To end the program is, in the words of one executive, “self-defeating.”

“Why would you take people out of the work force, who are part of the system and paying taxes?” he asked.

Mr. Trump didn’t even have the courage to make the announcement himself, leaving it to the immigrant-despising Attorney General Jeff Sessions to do the dirty work.

And just in case you haven’t noticed, the next once-in-500-year storm, Hurricane Irma, arrived just two weeks after the last one.

As I write, Hurricane Jose is moving closer and the hurricane season is far from over.

Still don’t believe in climate change?

Still think that there’s nothing we can do except contribute to relief efforts for Harvey’s and Irma’s victims while waiting for the next storm?

Still think we shouldn’t be doing anything to address global warming?

Jay N. Feldman Port Washington

Martins’ dishonest Amazon claim

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s Election Day draws closer, Republican candidate for Nassau County executive Jack “Honest Leadership” Martins continues to court undecided voters with lazy sleight-of-hand tactics.

Martins’ campaign issued a formal press release last week, claiming that he had “contacted Amazon officials to suggest that Nassau County would be a great location for Amazon’s second headquarters in North America.”

At first glance, this sounds impressive. However, there are several things provably dishonest about this announcement.

To begin with, the language in Martins’ announcement is deliberately vague.

Martins didn’t claim that he had a dialogue with any particular member of Amazon’s management team or even that he spoke directly to anyone working for Amazon. Martins merely claimed he “contacted Amazon officials.”

Martins could have done something as simple as sending an email, saying, “Come to Nassau County, Amazon,” and still claim that he “contacted Amazon officials.” There is no reason for Martins to be so vague other than to inflate the importance of such a contact.

While this may seem like semantic nitpicking, all one need do is examine Amazon’s official eight-page proposal guide to see just how wantonly deceitful Jack Martins and his campaign staff are being.

1. A formal proposal is required for any locality vying for this new facility. Calling up or emailing Amazon and going, “Come to Nassau County. We’re great,” won’t cut it.

2. The proposal must suggest a specific existing building or, failing that, a specific building site. Martins has not indicated any such site he considers appropriate.

3. Amazon considers “incentives,” such as “tax credits/exemptions, relocation grants, workforce grants, utility incentives/grants and permitting and fee reductions,” an important factor in its decision.

As Martins is not currently an elected or appointed government official, he has no authority to offer any such incentives or even submit a proposal on Nassau County’s behalf.

4. The deadline for the submission of a proposal is Oct. 19, 2017. Even if Martins wins the election and gains the power to submit a proposal or offer incentives on Nassau County’s behalf, it

will be too late for him to do so.

It’s also hypocritical of Martins to champion Nassau County as the perfect business environment, when he’s spent the last several months defaming it as a gang-ridden hellscape.

Further, Amazon indicates that the new facility will require the hiring of up to 50,000 employees. If Amazon were to choose Nassau County, the usual NIMBY protesters would come out of the woodwork to forcefully oppose the project.

Given Martins’ recent behavior (e.g., opposing the sorely needed Long Island Rail Road third track project on behalf of the NIMBY contingent), it’s hard to believe he wouldn’t side with the protesters and try to sink such a huge economic opportunity.

Alas, if Nassau County wanted to put itself in serious contention for this project, it would be up to current County Executive Ed Mangano.

However, he’s too busy preparing for his corruption trial and counting down his final days in office to spearhead such a massive project.

Perhaps local towns or villages within Nassau County, such as the Town of North Hempstead, could submit their own proposals.

As for Martins, his suggestion that he’s working to win Nassau County the project is a pure, unadulterated lie and an insult to the voters of Nassau County.

Matthew Zeidman New Hyde Park

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Make Congress feel budget pain

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here are always two sides to every story concerning President Trump and Congress agreeing to raise the debt ceiling as a method to fund $15 billion in Hurricane Harvey and Irma relief and to keep the federal government open until Dec. 15.

President Trump and Congress, on a bipartisan basis, are in denial by not acknowledging the relationship between funding the relief effort and the ongoing financial budget crises.

Everyone agrees that there is justification for appropriating a down payment of $8 billion toward Hurricane Harvey relief effort.

It was a question of finding $8 billion within a $3.7 trillion dollar budget.

It has been a 100-year tradition to authorize and appropriate emergency funding under extraordinary circumstances without looking for set asides

from existing funding to pay for it.

Both President Trump and Congress continue to ignore our national debt, which is now $20 trillion.

This averages $61,325 per citizen or $165,805 per taxpayer. (Source: National Debt Clock).

Our legal debt limit of $20 trillion will officially run out at the end of September, due to our excessive current rate of spending.

There are thousands of employees who are familiar with the details of our federal budget.

How difficult can it be to find $8 billion in savings? This represents a fraction of 1 percent in the overall $3.7 trillion budget which could have provided funding today without raising the debt ceiling.

Millions of Americans cut far more out of their household budgets monthly to make ends

meet.

Our national unemployment rate still averages 5 percent.

This does not count the 5 percent more who have given up looking and the millions more who are working part time.

Many working at minimum wage or slightly above or part time desire a better paying full time job. There is clearly less disposable income for residents of Nassau County and other neighbors to spend.

Many former two-income households have to live on one pay check.

Some face both wage earners out of work. Don’t forget those who have exhausted their unemployment insurance and savings.

All of the above has resulted in far tighter family budgets.

This translates to eating out less frequently or dining at less expensive restaurants.

Repairing and making due

with existing clothing, appliances, furniture, household items and automobiles rather than buying new has become a regular part of life.

People are postponing major house renovations such as painting, siding, roof shingles, bathroom and other major upgrades.

People are foregoing nonessential pampering.

This has a ripple effect, as people who provide these services have less work.

Isn’t it time for Washington to live within its available existing revenues without excessive borrowing, just like millions of ordinary citizens?.

The President and Congress have forgotten the old saying — a penny saved is a penny earned.

Perhaps Americans should send both a penny to remind them that it is not a sin to save.

There was a time when Congress held budget hearings

for each department during the summer.

A real balanced budget was adopted during an open process.

The public, watchdog groups and media were afforded sufficient time to understand the full contents prior to adoption.

Full federal budgets were adopted on time prior to the start of any new federal fiscal year on Oct. 1.

We need new incentives for the President and Congress to do their jobs on time.

Let us propose we dock them a day’s pay for each day a complete balanced budget for Federal Fiscal Year 2018 is not adopted by Sept. 30.

The results will be different when any delay comes out of their pockets instead of taxpayers.

Larry Penner Great Neck

Working hard and thankful Lighthouse race

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’ve have just read an article in The Tablet by Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio of the Queens-Brooklyn Diocese.

The title was,” Work is an invitation from God.” In the article he said,” We must look at the work we do as an invitation from the creator to engage in completing the work God has begun.”

I whole heartily agree.

I am reminded as Labor Day has just passed that it is a time to be thankful for how far we have come. It is also a time to remember and to look back of all the fathers and mothers who worked hard long hours and who have fought for decent wages and hours so they could better provide for their families.

My grandfather — as told to me by my father — worked hard long hours in the 1890s and early 1900s, earned only $2 a day.

Things were so bad back than that my father was taken out of third grade at the age of 9 in 1899 and had to go to work.

My father was one of 13 children in this poor family.

As for myself I’ve been working since I was 17 and am still working at age 68.

And I have been working for the same company which is North East Plumbing in Mineola for over 36 years.

Truly as a nation we have come a long way due to those who have paved a better way of life for many of us today.

So please say a prayer of thankfulness to our creator who guided us along the way.

Frederick R. Bedell Jr. Mineola

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gains backers

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n behalf of the Great Neck Historical Society, I would like to thank the businesses and individuals who have come forward so far to help to sponsor our Oct. 22 5K Walk/Run to Help Save Stepping Stones Lighthouse.

The Lighthouse, a landmark in our community and an important aid to navigation has fallen upon hard times.

Various engineers have estimated the cost of needed repairs — fixing foundation, roofing, masonry work, complete interior work, installation of windows, installing a heating system to prevent ice damage, etc –—in the millions.

The goal of the Historical Society is to be able to welcome tours to the lighthouse so that everyone will better understand the life of the lighthouse keepers, and the role that Stepping Stones played and continues to play so close to our shore.

The following have taken the lead in supporting our fundraising run, and we are so appreciative: Andrew Hotel Blank Slate Media (Great Neck News)

FCE Group Ira D. Ganzfried, CPA, PC Great Neck Chamber of Commerce Great Neck Diner Harras Bloom & Archer LLP Inn of Great Neck Edna Mashaal Realty Hoosang Nematzadeh Norman Collision Works North Shore Prosthodontic Associates Taiming Perlman (KW Realty) Rotary Club of Great Neck Saltlife Marine Services LLC/ NEFCU Systematic Control Elona & Richard Weiner, Kensington There is still time for you or your business to join the list of Lighthouse supporters.

Besides monetary support, our runners would appreciate donations of cases of water, fruit and other snacks.

Please contact us at greatneckhistorical@gmail.com, or give us a call at 516-288-6124.

Alice Kasten President, Great Neck Historical Society

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Keep 2-year term for Manorhaven mayor

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n Tuesday Oct. 3, there will be a referendum for the registered voters of Manorhaven.

This referendum authorized by the Village of Manorhaven Trustees, seeks to change the two-year term of office for the Mayor, beginning with the June 2018 election, to a four-year term.

The current mayor, Jim Avena, has stated that campaigning for re-election, after fulfilling the office after 20 months would be a burden.

He also stated that a four-year term would provide continuity for completions of longer term projects.

I ask the voters of Manorhaven to reject this proposal by voting no on Oct. 3.

First I want to say that this is not a reflection of Mayor Jim Avena’s current term of office.

Only that you keep in mind the im-

pact of a 4 year term of office for all future mayoral candidates.

Let me share some perspectives with you for your consideration.

There will be no accountability to the residents from the mayor after 2 years or an opportunity to evaluate the mayor’s performances at the end of two years.

If performances are negative, we would have to tolerate an ineffective mayor for two more years for a total of four years.

Accountability is indeed a very important factor and to be denied that right is contrary to effective communication to the residents.

Evaluation of job performance at the end of two years is standard in government for certain elected official.

Our state senators and state assemblyman must prove to their constituents

after two years that they are worthy of re-election.

Their campaign for re-election is the method of communicating and being evaluated by the constituents. Positive performance begets re-election.

Why not continue with the two-year term limit that has been in effect since the beginning of incorporation of the Village of Manorhaven in 1930.

It has worked all these years, why change now?

Do you have any idea now what future candidates for the office of mayor will posses in character, integrity and abilities?

Why would you want to commit to an unknown a four-year term? That is what you would be doing if the term limit is changed to four years.

How many times have you listened

to candidates for office make promises for change to get elected?

If your expectations are not met from the candidate, you will have to wait four years to vote the mayor out of office.

That is not very wise!

Campaigning to seek re-election is an excellent opportunity for the mayor to go out and meet the residents of the village after two years and share with them their objectives.

It also gives the residents a chance to express their views and concerns. There is nothing better than face to face.

Please come out to vote on Tuesday Oct. 3 and vote no that will keep the term limit for mayor to a two-year term.

Rudy Santo Port Washington

THE FOGGIEST IDEA

Lessons of Harvey, Irma for L.I. Continued from Page 16 Why do localities continue to let developers build in environmentally sensitive areas that could blunt a hurricane’s impacts?

When it comes to preventing acts of God like Sandy and Harvey, government can do little in the short run.

But natural disasters like them highlight the inherit dangers of ignoring longterm trends when crafting local policies regarding land use and development.

Townships can directly influence the creation of sound coastal practices because these entities have the principal power of zoning.

A large-scale reclamation of wetlands, marshes and other natural barriers to storm surge should either replace

coastal projects on Long Island, or become their anchoring feature — and townships should take the lead to make it happen with federal and state support.

Let’s hope that in handling Harvey’s awful aftermath the Federal Emergency Management Agency will not repeat how badly it botched its Katrina efforts and this time be able to help those most in need quickly and efficiently.

On the legislative side, the response must be swift. New York’s congressional delegation has pointedly said that they won’t repeat the actions of Texas’s senators, now desperately seeking Washington’s assistance for their ailing constituents in the Lone Star State, who readily voted against providing Sandy aid to the stricken Northeast and delayed its pas-

sage for several months on Capitol Hill.

This spirit of cooperation is a good start. Ideally it will inspire future actions of doing the right thing.

There is not much room for error.

As Hurricane Irma, one of the most powerful storms in recorded history, threatens Puerto Rico and Florida mere days after the floodwaters in Houston began to recede, the stakes are becoming higher with each hurricane season.

Years ago, New Orleans was hit.

Then, it was Texas forced to bear the brunt of the storm. Next is Miami.

Here, it’s inevitable that Long Island will someday all too soon be slammed by another horrendous hurricane.

For now, we must help our fellow Americans in Houston rebuild and re-

sume their normal lives.

But we must also heed the lessons of this storm.

Collaboration of all levels of policymaking will be the key to our region’s survival. It is our only chance if we are to be adequately prepared when our own Harvey or Irma rumbles up the coast.

Richard Murdocco regularly writes and speaks on Long Island’s real estate development issues. He is the founder and publisher of The Foggiest Idea, an awardwinning public resource for land use in the New York metro region. More of his views can be found on www.TheFoggiestIdea.org or follow him on Twitter @TheFoggiestIdea. You can email Murdocco at Rich@ TheFoggiestIdea.org.

PULSE OF THE PENINSULA

Climate disasters, Trump’s tax plan Continued from Page 16 or the corporations, but Social Security and Medicare recipients, struggling middle class kids who need to take out loans to pay for college.

The Trump/Ryan tax “plan” necessitates a federal budget that slashes spending for infrastructure, for research and development, for education, for environmental protection, even slashing spending for diplomacy and foreign aid (Mexico offered to help Texas, until the country suffered an 8.0 earthquake).

It depends on slashing Medicaid and the subsidies that keep health insurance affordable (that’s why they are so desperate to repeal Obamacare even if they would leave 32 million without health insurance). Their concept is to take money out of the consumer economy, which starts a downward unvirtuous cycle of economic contraction.

It slashes the tax rate for corporations which already do not pay the nominal 35 percent rate.

Many highly profitable corporations – including General Electric, Pep-

co Holdings, PG&E Corp., Priceline and Duke Energy – paid nothing into federal coffers from 2008-2015 yet benefit from all the services the government provides including roads, public safety, an educated workforce, mass transit, a military to defend their shipping.

To get to a tax cut without obscenely increasing the national debt, the Republicans say they will get rid of “loopholes” like the mortgage credit and property taxes — that would only complete the decimation of the Middle Class and destroy any semblance of an

American Dream (why not just get rid of deductions for vacation homes?)

– but not the loopholes that let fund managers shield all but a fraction of their income from tax.

People remark that the devastation in their neighborhoods from these massive climate disasters is like a bomb went off. Well, in wartime, taxes are raised. This is wartime. This nation has to rebuild, sustainably and responsibly.

We need to invest in 21st and 22nd century technologies, to keep the United States a global leader.

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Business&RealEstate How hurricane-proof is your home?

What the weather has shown us on the news the last two weeks has been absolutely devastating to people and their possessions.

We know people have died, which is very sad, but nature deals us a deck of cards that cannot always be dealt with, especially with catastrophic Hurricane Harvey, as well as Irma.

Now a third major Hurricane, Jose, which at the time of this column, is barreling its way towards the Caribbean (which has already been devastated) and the U.S., which may or many not spare the inhabitants along its path There was not much one could do from the excessive damage caused by the flooding from Hurricane Harvey in Houston, Beaumont and many other surrounding areas in Texas.

Who could predict 50” of rainfall?

The real problem is that many homes and developments are being built in locations that make no sense whatsoever, even with much, much less rainfall occurring.

Many rivers and reservoirs are too close to those locations, but the construction continues,

regardless, and some developers are more interested in making money than the well-being of the people who purchase and are living there.

The local governments are also lax in allowing these developments to be constructed.

Up here in Long Island, we have previously experienced our own Hurricane disasters of Sandy and Irene, and many of us were also not prepared, especially on the South Shore of Long Island.

Question is what can you do to prepare and mitigate issues in advance of a hurricane?

1. Updated windows and doors with protective shutters will protect you from excessive winds and damaging debris.

2. Make sure everything on the outside is secured or preferably stored away.

3. Large trees that are leaning should be checked out by an arborist to determine the threat of falling.

Those that can be pruned away from your home or building should be addressed in advance of Hurricane season.

4. How strong and secure is your roof and is it up to code, especially if your home is in a

PHILIP A. RAICES Real Estate Watch very windy or turbulent location. Maybe you will need some type of fastening system, as needed, to prevent it from coming apart 5. Another area of weakness is your garage door, so make sure it is absolutely secure, so the turbulent wind will not violate the interior of you home and cause major damage.

6. Keep your gutters and leaders clear of debris, so water will not back up into your roof or attic and will flow freely away from your home. Remember water is the major issue that does the most harm to people and property.

7. If you are in a low lying location, you should have a proper drainage/sump pump system in your basement to keep it as dry as possible, probably tied into a battery backup system, in the event of the loss of electricity. There are also new systems that will alleviate the water and the pressure it creates in basements, by allowing the water to escape through release hatches that are constructed.

8. Many homeowners are opting for a natural gas (or gasoline) generator to keep the home functioning, but depending on your location, it might have to be 10 feet off the ground to prevent it from being rendered inoperable in times of flooding.

9. Do you have sufficient supplies, water, food, candles and batteries. Federal Emergency Management Agency has designed an emergency kit that you can put together, which you can find online.

10. Do you have a land line besides your cell phone? You might want to consider having one just in case, as a backup.

11. Have a battery operated radio or TV available, to stay connected.

Also have extra batteries for whatever devices you have, to keep you going.

Having a home or property that is elevated, as is required by code in many coastal areas on Long Island, will be your best bet at surviving a Hurricane.

However, if Hurricane Harvey or one with similar rain fall, had hit Long Island, would it have made a difference with the amount of rainfall?

Probably not, unless your property was sufficiently elevated, and its location.

But we hope that doesn’t happen in the future, but one never knows with Global Warming and the severity of the storms that have been occurring. Just be as prepared as possible, for the “What If.” Phil Raices is the owner/ broker of Turn Key Real Estate at 7 Bond St. in Great Neck. He has earned designations as a Graduate Realtor Institute and Certified International Property Specialist.

He can be reached by email: Phil@TurnkeyRealEstate.Com or by cell (516) 647-4289 to answer any of your questions or article suggestions.

Get familiar with Social Security now

BY D I A N E BRANGMAN Social Security District Manager in Mineola Social Security touches the lives of nearly every American.

We’ve been with you from day one, when your parents applied for your Social Security number, and we are with you from your first job through your retirement party and beyond.

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Recent Real Estate Sales in Roslyn Roslyn Real Estate Market Conditions MEDIAN SALES PRICE $913,750 Demographics near Roslyn, NY City 2,795 4,331 43.7 2.2 87,961 66,626

Population Population Density Median Age People per Household Median Household Income Average Income per Capita

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

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32 Pool Drive, Roslyn Sold Price: $980,000 Date: 08/18/2017 3 beds, 2 Full baths Style: Ranch # of Families: 1 Lot Size: 100 X 134 Ir Schools: Roslyn Total Taxes: $23,110 MLS# 2939674

24 Greenway, Roslyn Sold Price: $1,925,000 Date: 08/02/2017 6 beds, 6 Full/1 Half baths Style: Colonial # of Families: 1 Lot Size: 104x130 Schools: Roslyn MLS# 2939153

85 Harbor Lane, Roslyn Harbor 155 Redwood Drive, East Hills Sold Price: $1,550,000 Date: 08/17/2017 5 beds, 3 Full/1 Half baths Style: Colonial # of Families: 1 Lot Size: 0.62 Schools: Roslyn Total Taxes: $28,948 MLS# 2940148

Sold Price: $1,975,000 Date: 08/15/2017 5 beds, 3 Full/1 Half baths Style: Colonial # of Families: 1 Lot Size: 1.09 Schools: Roslyn Total Taxes: $28,604 MLS# 2938774

Editorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s note: Homes shown here were recently sold in Roslyn, Roslyn Heights and Old Westbury 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 Roslyn, Roslyn Heights and Old Westbury and are believed by Blank Slate Media to be of interest to our readers.

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East Hills hosts Wellness Day held poolside ‘Green Day’ A special day for East Hills – “Green Day” – was held on Aug. 26 from noon to 4 p.m. poolside at the Park. Green Day was designed help residents protect and promote the environment.

Vendors sold products that are environmentally friendly and prevent pollution and save energy. After several years of a successful program, this event has become a tradition for the Village. Green Day featured informational resource materials and experts, as well as vendors with “green” products.

The event featured hybrid cars to handbags sold by vendors made with materials which

prevent pollution. Trustee Clara Pomerantz planned, setup and oversaw the Green Day Festivities.

Specifically, vendors included Roslyn Water District, You Save Green with Dave Magid, the Town of North Hempstead, Do terra, NYS Public Works, Arbonne with Megan Gomez, Harvest Power, and more. Whole Foods had a gift basket donation for a raffle and Rallye Motors, Acura, BMW, and Lexus energy efficient cars were there. Chloe Siegel had a Donation for Shoes table.

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The day after Green Day, Wellness Day was held poolside Aug. 27 at the Park.

Organized by Trustee, Clara Pomerantz, Wellness Day was designed to help provide information, products and services on how residents can lead healthier, happier and better lives. Nutritionists and fitness instructors, among many others, were available to meet with residents between the hours of noon and 4 p.m.

Vendors included Equinox, DoTerra, an Ora Sucov certified yoga instructor, Serenity Beautique, Aulterra with Marc Lebensfeld, Licensed Clinical Psychologist Dr. Alison Gilbert, Clinical Assistant Professor Department of Psychiatry Hofstra Northwell School of Medicine, Long Island Transplant Recipient Organization Chairman Mel Lerner, Arbonne with Megan Gomez.

JCC Barracuda Tri-athalon Team and Bike Club and others.

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Organized by Village of East Hills Trustee Clara Pomerantz and held Aug. 27, Wellness Day is designed to help provide information, products and services on how residents can lead healthier, happier and better lives.

Roslyn hires 12 teachers The Roslyn Public Schools is pleased to welcome new members to the faculty for the start of the 2017-18 school year. New teachers participated in an intensive, four-day orientation program during the week before school.

Our new teachers are: Cindy Bloom, Special Education, High School Christina Commons, 5th grade, East Hills Nicole Corradengo, Special Education, Harbor Hill/Heights Erin DiGiuseppe, Spanish,

Middle/High School Catherine Elorriaga, Social Studies, Middle School Kandisse Kis, Spanish, Middle/High School Rudolf Lanzillotta, Physical Education, Middle School Natalie Melaniff, Math, Middle School Ryan Occena, Music, High School Kaitlin Pollin, Kindergarten, Heights Michelle Pope, 5th grade, Harbor Hill Brian Schoenfelder, Special Education, Middle School

Roslyn hires new director PHOTO COURTESY OF MINEOLA SCHOOL DISTRICT

Knox Pace is pictured with Meadow Drive School principal SueCaryl Fleischmann and Superintendent Michael Nagler.

Knox Pace, an incoming second-grader at Meadow Drive School in the Mineola school district, served as “Superintendent for a Day.” As part of his duties on June 15, he toured the school, created a growth mindset video with the actual Superintendent Michael Nagler and even crafted a proposal to add a bike rack to the grounds at Meadow Drive.

Nagler took Knox’s proposal under consideration and this summer a bike rack was installed at Meadow Drive to accommodate those students who prefer to bike or scooter to school each day.

The Roslyn Public Schools is very pleased to welcome Greg Wasserman as the district’s new Director of Guidance K-12. He had worked in the East Williston School District from 2009, first as a school counselor and, since 2014, as Director of Guidance. As the administrative leader of his department, he has been responsible for overseeing the complete range of counseling functions, including college applications, scheduling and course selection. During his years in East Williston, he was also engaged in many districtwide initiatives in areas such as health, home-school communications, and technology, as well as in the community coalition between the East Williston and Roslyn school districts that encompasses substance abuse awareness and the Parent University program.

PHOTO COURTESY OF ROSLYN SCHOOL DISTRICT

Greg Wasserman was hired as the Roslyn school district’s new director of guidance.

“Greg stood out among all candidates not only for the breadth of his knowledge and experience, but especially for his highly thoughtful and sensitive approach to serving the needs of students,” Superintendent Allison Brown said. “I believe we are very fortunate to have found an educator of his unique abilities for this very important position.”

Earlier in his career, Greg served as Assistant Director of Admissions at the Cooper Union, Associate Director Admissions at Adelphi University, College Counselor at Yeshivah of Flatbush, and Associate Director of College Counseling at Lycée Francais de New York. He is a graduate of SUNY Albany, with a master’s degree from Alfred University and an administrative certificate from the College of St. Rose.

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Pols vow to keep 9/11 memory alive Continued from Page 4 who relive the shock and pain of Sept.

11 when we join together at ceremonies like this, we strive to come to term with our memories, but for an ever increasing number of Americans, Sept. 11 is not a memory — it’s history.”

Town Supervisor Judi Bosworth echoed Wink’s message, weaving pieces of former U.S. Poet Laureate Billy Collins’ “The Names,” written in 2002 about the 2,753 Americans who died in the attacks in Manhattan, Washington, D.C., and Pennsylvania.

Wink said though younger Americans have no memories of the attacks, many of their lives have been shaped by the history.

“Sept. 11 is a part of everyone who is among this newest generation of Americans, but not because it changed them in some ways like it changed all of us, but rather Sept. 11 has defined the world that they came into, the world they find themselves in today,” Wink said. “It’s incumbent upon us to help this generation understand how Sept. 11, 2001, came to define their world. Not in an effort to foment hate, but to recommit to persevering in the face of hate.

“In the end, remembering those we lost and how we continue on in their memories may be the greatest legacy that we can bestow on this next generation and on future generations to come.”

PHOTO BY AMELIA CAMURATI

Members of the Albertson VFW Post 5253 and Port Washington Fire Department pause during a moment of silence at 8:46 a.m., marking when American Airlines Flight 11 crashed into the North Tower.

Searingtown gets interim principal Continued from Page 80 Neufeld could not be reached because he is on a previously planned vacation in Europe until Sept. 27. But in a message to parents and students posted to the district’s website, Neufeld said it is “an honor” to work at Searingtown.

“It is more important than ever that our students grow up to be contributing members of a democratic society,” Neufeld wrote. “Important values of respect, compassion, responsibility and good citizenship are key qualities of our school.”

Linda McElroy, the Searingtown

School’s lead teacher, said Guercin helped Neufeld get acquainted with the school before she started her new post, to which she was appointed in mid-August.

“He’s gotten involved in knowing the children and knowing the parents, so it’s been, I would say, as smooth as we could make it,” McElroy said.

Celano said Herricks officials will start searching in March for a permanent replacement for Guercin, who was the Searingtown School principal for nine years. Another search will start around the same time for a permanent Herricks High School principal, Celano said. James

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Ruck, the interim principal who started in 2016, agreed to stay on for a second year.

“It makes much more sense to not rush to get someone in when it’s such an important position,” McElroy said.

The transitions to permanent principals at Searingtown and the high school will come after several staff changes in Herricks’ central administration. Guercin was the third new top administrator to start in three years, following Celano in 2015 and Lisa Rutkoske, the assistant superintendent for business, in 2016.

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Roslyn Landing hosts fall festival Roslyn Landing Fall Fest at 1407 Old Northern Blvd. is taking place this Sept. 17 from noon to 3 p.m., where you will be one of the first to get a glimpse of the new model home and first phase of completed units.

The festival is open to the public and will include BBQ, music, cotton candy, snow cones, children’s activities such as a bounce house, balloon animals and more!

For more information, visit roslynlanding. com, email info@roslynlanding.com or call 516299-8525.

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Women artists in spotlight Continued from Page 80 composed of sculptors, painters, writers, photographers, musicians and various other artists.

Founded in 1953, the Long Island group follows the mission of the national league, which was established in the 19th century: to foster the production of professional creative work in art, letters and music.

Becoming a pen woman is a selective process that requires proving one’s artistic merit and gaining approval from existing members.

“So our members are really pretty darn good artists, if I say so myself,” said Phyllis Coniglio, the membership chair of the league’s Long Island branch.

Dolores Caporale, the branch’s secretary, is showing two “fantasy collages.” Instead of searching for pieces in magazines or other sources, she looks to her own unsuccessful paintings for material.

She describes the process of cutting and repurposing painted papers as inspirational and imaginative — and she hopes viewers come away from her work with some sort of feeling.

“It’s always wonderful to have your work seen, have your work viewed by others, particularly people who are not artists,” said Caporale, who has been in the league for 30 years.

Coniglio is also contributing two paintings to the exhibition. She said the group is looking forward to showing in the Shelter Rock gallery because the venue is beautiful, with its high ceiling, wall space and lights.

The exhibition is one of two to three that the Long Island NLAPW tries to host every year. In addition, the group meets regularly for luncheons, demonstrations, lectures and art-making sessions.

“We do say that we are so fortunate to be painters and to be able to paint together,” Caporale said.

An artist reception will take place Sept. 24, the day the exhibit opens, from 1 to 3 p.m. The exhibition runs until Oct. 24 at 48 Shelter Rock Road in Manhasset.

The gallery is open seven days a week from 9 a.m. to 10 p.m.

Because the Unitarian Universalist Congregation hosts multiple other events, visitors are advised to call ahead to arrange for the best time. For more information, call 516-627-6560, ext. 2933.

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• We haul anything & everything • Entire contents of home and/or office • We clean it up and take it away

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Residential - Commercial Bonded Insured / Free Estimates

• Residential • Commercial • Piano & Organ Experts • Boxes Available

STRONG ARM CONTRACTING, INC.

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Serving the community for over 40 yrs

MOVING & STORAGE INC.

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114 Jericho Tpke.

Mineola, NY 11501

MOVERS One Piece to a Household/ Household Rearranging FREE ESTIMATES

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Interior and Exterior • Plaster/Spackle Light Carpentry • Decorative Moldings Power Washing

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BUYER’S GUIDE ▼ TREE SERVICE

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FREE ESTIMATES Member L.I. Arborist Assoc.

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HELP WANTED 12 GRADE HIGH SCHOOL OR COLLEGE STUDENT WANTED: Looking for 12th grade H.S. or College student proficient in Pre-Calculus and guidance on study skills.

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BABYSITTER WANTED: Looking for a babysitter for both mornings and afternoons, approximately 2x a week. Helping get three children (10,8,6) off to school, driven to sports, picked up off bus, dinner, etc.

Please call Jennifer 917-282-4723 F/T DENTAL RECEPTIONIST Busy, private FFS, multi-specialty dental office. Minimum 1 year experience, Dentrix knowledge a plus. North Shore/Port Washington, near LIRR. Call 516-883-1234

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SITUATION WANTED ELDER CARE/CARE FOR THE SICK; honest, dependable, hard working and patient. Excellent references. Serious persons please call Miss Eugene at 917-658-6095 ELSAâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S HOUSE CLEANING If youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re in need of house cleaning please call 516-406-5687. Free estimate! Own transportation. References available upon request.

HOME HEALTH AIDE Ukrainian woman (previously Physical Therapist in Ukraine) seeking live in position of home health aide. Overnights no charge. Excellent cook also!

Excellent references. Please call 516-294-9519

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MEDICAL ASSISTANT/RECEPTIONIST: Part time for busy practice. Experience preferred but will train. Great personality, work ethic. Fax resume 516-767-8961 or email healthykidspediatrics@ gmail.com JOB OPPORTUNITY $13.20 PER HOUR If you currently care for your relatives or friends who have Medicaid or Medicare, you may be eligible to start working for them as a personal assistant.

No CertiďŹ cates needed

(347) 462-2610 (347) 565-6200

OFFICE ASSISTANT PETSCHAUER INSURANCE in Garden City is looking for Office Assistant to manage front desk and assist all departments. Must be professional and personable with excellent communication, organizational, customer service and computer skills. Full time. Email resume to: rw@jpins.com or call 516-419-4261

SITUATION WANTED AIDE/CARE GIVER: CARING, EFFICIENT, RELIABLE Available Mon-Fri live in to care for your sick or elderly loved one. Cooking, light housework, personal grooming, administer medications . 14 years experience. Just ended 7 years with previous patient. References available. Please Call 516-448-0502 AIDE/COMPANION With a sunny personality seeking position to care for the elderly. Experience with dementia, alzheimers, recovering stroke patients and sundown syndrome. Excellent references available upon request. Call Marcia 347551-1720 CERTIFIED HHA, PCA seeks weekday position Monday through Friday, live in or live out. 17 years experience with Parkinsons, Alzheimers, dementia, cancer patients. References available upon request. Call Doreen 516-302-7564 CERTIFIED NURSES AIDE experienced 20 years. Honest and reliable seeking home care position. Available Part Time, Evening, Weekends, Nights & Overnight. Licensed driver w/car. Please contact Barbara 516734-1165

ROUTE DRIVERS, attendants, warehouse workers. Full time, benefits. Champion-Canteen â&#x20AC;&#x153;A Division of the Compass Groupâ&#x20AC;?

800-558-5450 or 718-788-9439

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CLEANING AVAILABLE EXPERIENCE POLISH HOUSE CLEANER Good references, ability. Very honest, reliable, responsible and hard working. Own transportation. English speaking. Flexible days and hours.

Reasonable rates. I will do a good job. Call or text 516-589-5640 CLEANING WOMAN AVAILABLE: English speaking Polish woman with years of experience, hardworking & responsible is available to clean your home or office. Reasonable rates, excellent references. Please call 516-564-0139

HOUSEKEEPING, ELDER CARE OR BABYSITTING: Full time or weekends, 20 years experience.

Own transportation. Please call 516236-1711 IRISH MATURE WOMAN looking for part time position with elderly. 2 days per week, no weekends. Reference upon request. 516 382 6204.

Please leave number when calling.

NANNY AVAILABLE Hi.. my name is Linda. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m a very reliable and humble nanny with over 23 years of experience! Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m CPR CERTIFIED and a Licensed Driver. ready, willing and able to work ASAP. Please give me a call: 917-723-5789 NANNY/ BABYSITTER Experienced Babysitter available FT/PT. Trustworthy, responsible, active, creative and fun! Child development background. Excellent references.

Licensed driver. Call Doris 516-3300230 or email: dorischris910@gmail. com SENIOR HOME COMPANION: reliable, native educated English speaker seeking part time work, flexible hours, mature man, experienced, excellent references. Errands, doctor appointments, recreational activities.

Leave message. Ed 917-226-5343

CAREER TRAINING AIRLINE CAREERS Start here. Get trained as FAA certified Aviation Technician. Financial aid for qualified students. Job placement assistance. Call AIM for free information 866-296-7094

MARKETPLACE

ANTIQUES WANTED GREAT PRICES PAID Bronzes, Paintings, Sterling Silver, Rugs & All Contents

917-817-3928

MARKETPLACE GARAGE SALE GARDEN CITY Saturday 9/16 9am-4pm 109 Jackson Street Variety of household, yard, holiday items, clothing, shoes.

Lots of stuffsomething for everyone!

INVITED ESTATE SALES BY TRACY JORDAN Estate & Tag Sales Online & Live Auctions Cleanout & Moving Services Home Staging Services Appraisals 516-279-6378 www.invitedsales. com Email: tracyjordan@invitedsales.com PRIVACY HEDGES FALL BLOW OUT SALE. 6â&#x20AC;&#x2122; Arborvitae (cedar) reg. $149 NOW $75. Beautiful, nursery grown. FREE installation/ FREE delivery. Limited supply! ORDER NOW! 518-536-1367 www.lowcosttrees.com

WANTED TO BUY LOOKING TO BUY! Oriental items, clothing, art, old & modern furniture, estates, jewelry, silver, glassware, dishes, old photos, coins & stamps, flatware. Call George 718-386-1104 or 917-775-3048 TOP CASH PAID: JEWELRY, Furniture, Art, etc. Please call 718598-3045 or 516-270-2128. www. iBuyAntiquesNYC.com

TAG SALE *BROWSE *SHOP *CONSIGN A.T. STEWART EXCHANGE CONSIGNMENT SHOP China, Silver, Crystal, Jewelry, Artwork, Furniture, Antiques, Collectibles Tues-Fri 10-4 Sat 12-4 Every Tuesday: 10% Senior Citizen Discount All proceeds benefit The Garden City Historical Society 109 Eleventh Street Garden City 11530 516-746-8900 email: store@ atstewartexchange.org www.gardencityhistoricalsociety. org GARDEN CITY MULTI FAMILY Saturday 9/16 9am-1pm (rain date 9/23) 14 Prescott Street Furniture, menâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s suits, designer clothes and shoes, toys, books, home furnishings. Something for everyone. No Early Birds!

INVITED ESTATE SALES BY TRACY JORDAN Monday, September 18 9:30 a.m. 81 Harbor Acres Road Sands Point, NY 11050 Crafts, buttons, sewing materials, furniture, shed, pool house, garage, pottery, household items....Visit www. invitedsales.com for pictures and details !

INVITED ESTATE SALES BY TRACY JORDAN Tuesday, September 19 9:30 a.m. 65 Nassau Road Great Neck, NY 11021 Furniture, collections, garage, attic, records, basement, barware, housewares...Visit www.invitedsales.com for pictures and details !

TAG SALE INVITED ESTATE SALES BY TRACY JORDAN Wednesday, September 20 9:30 a.m.2 Fair Court Garden City, NY 11530 Living room, dining room, bedroom, den furniture, 1980â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s items, lots of crafts, basement and garage....Visit www. invitedsales.com for pictures and details !

INVITED ESTATE SALES BY TRACY JORDAN Thursday, September 21 9:30 a.m. 133-23 115th Street South Ozone Park, NY 11420 Vintage clothes and costumes, crafts and teacher supplies, furniture, collectibles, records, books, rugs, housewares....Visit www.invitedsales.com for pictures and details !

PETS

PET SERVICES A GARDEN CITY ANIMAL LOVER doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want to leave your precious pooch or fantastic feline alone all day. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m reliable, dependable and will walk and feed your pet while you work or travel. Please call Cheryl at 516-971-3242 DO YOU HATE KENNELS? OR STRANGERS IN YOUR HOUSE? HOME AWAY FROM HOME will care for your dog in my Garden City home while you are away.

Dog walking also available. Pet CPR & first Aid Certified. Numerous referrals and references. Limited availability. Book early! Annmarie 516-775-4256 MYAâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S K9 CAMP Full Service Pet Care Professional Dog Grooming Training Boarding Walking EFT Pet Therapy Therapeutic Healing GC Resident 516-382-5553

AUTOMOTIVE

AUTOS WANTED DONATE YOUR CAR to Wheels For Wishes, benefitting Make-aWish. We offer free towing and your donation is 100% tax deductible.

Call 631-317-2014 Today!

REAL ESTATE FOR RENT

APARTMENT FOR RENT FLORAL PARK VILLAGE Nov 1st occupancy. 1st floor, 4.5 rooms completely renovated. Includes Kitchen & Dining Area w/ SS appliances, granite counters, dishwasher, Living Room, 2 nice size Bedrooms and new full Bath.

Tenants also have use of finished basement with washer/dryer, yard and 1 car garage. Hardwood floors throughout. Located in SD #22. $2,500/month. For more information, please call Rose, Ford Realty, 516-655-7501

APARTMENT FOR RENT GARDEN CITY BORDER APARTMENT: Huge bright 2 bedroom, 1 bath with dining area, gated parking, laundry, A/C, hardwood floors, NO BROKER FEE, near LIRR. $1,685 + electric. rentals@gardencityborder. com or 516-524-6965 (text or voice) GARDEN CITY RENTAL Three rooms, 1 Bed, EIK, A/C, $2,100 Four rooms, 1 Bed, DR, parking $2,200 Two-Three Bedrooms, New Kitchen & Bath $3,350 up Garden City Properties (516)746-1563 (516)313-8504

GARAGE/PARKING SPACE FOR RENT COMMUTER PARKING AVAILABLE: 2 blocks from Port Washington Railroad. 516-883-3200

OFFICE SPACE GARDEN CITY 1565 FRANKLIN AVE Large Windowed Offices in newly built professional suite. Conference room, reception, copier, pantry included. Call 516-248-3048 WILLISTON PARK 1300sf. office space avail on Hillside Ave. Prof building, parking lot, close to RR & parkways. Full commission paid.

Call Tony 516-248-4080.

WOODBURY, NY CROSSWAYS INDUSTRIAL PARK Available Immediately. Unfurnished and/or furnished windowed office available.

Luxury building in prominent location. Reception, conference, room, WI-FI, photocopy and furnished secretarial stations available. Coffee Shop, highway access, parking.

Contact for details 516-224-5100 or email: jmn@jnovicklaw.com

VACATION RENTAL NORTH FORK FALL RENTAL Jamesport gem available for fall weekly or weekend rental. House boasts large L-shaped in-ground pool (eco-friendly fresh water); large hot tub; outdoor shower; multi-level deck; BBQ; fire pit; beautifully appointed interior with 3 bedrooms; 3 full baths; central air; finished basement; sunroom; resort-like setting with farm views; short distance to Iron Pier Beach; close proximity to vineyards and farms for fall fun. Text or call 516-314-8978 for further information.

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OPEN HOUSE BAITING HOLLOW Sunday 9/17 1:00pm-3:00pm 701 Bluffs Drive Soundfront Condo w/ panoramic views. Amazing sunsets. Fully furnished. 2016 total renovation heat, new windows, granite kitchen, insulation, CAC, Baths & hardwood floors. 2 BRs, 2 Baths. Amenities Pool, Tennis & Beach. $575,000 MLS#2956222 Colony Realty, Carll Austin 516-658-2623

TRUMBULL

HISTORIC NICHOLS, Area/Trumbull.

4 BR, 3 Bth, 3,500 sq ft. Home. Features 2 Fireplaces, Dedicated OfďŹ ce, Hwd Flrs, 3 Car Gar, Manicured Landscaping & Gardens, Large Yd (1.1 acres) w/Inground Pool & Waterfall. Loc Near Excellent Schools & Route 95/Merritt Pkwy &OR #ONVENIENT #OMMUTING s -,3 .O

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203-258-3274 OUT OF TOWN REAL ESTATE AUCTION REAL PROPERTY TAX FORECLOSURES DUTCHESS COUNTY. Selling properties October 4 @11am. The Poughkeepsie Grand Hotel, Poughkeepsie, NY 800-243-0061 AAR, Inc. & HAR, Inc. Free brochure: www.NYSAUCTIONS.com JAMESPORT 375â&#x20AC;&#x2122; of Waterfront.

Location! Location! Spectacular Views. 140â&#x20AC;&#x2122; of sandy bay beach.

Boat dock on property. Cape with 3 BRs. Living Room w/Stone Fireplace. Bring your architect. $ 2,100,000. Colony Realty, Carll Austin 516-658-2623

OUT OF TOWN REAL ESTATE JAMESPORT Privacy with a view!

Adirondack Contemporary on 1.5 acres set amongst the treetops.

Borders preserved land in the back and pond in front. 3 BRs, 2.5 Baths.

Stone fireplace, CAC, HW floors, 10â&#x20AC;&#x2122; ceilings. 30x24 detached garage /workshop with 8â&#x20AC;&#x2122; overhead door.

Close to Jitney stop & town. Must See! Reduced! $749,900 Colony Realty, Carll Austin 516-658-2623 LAKEFRONT LAND LIQUIDATION15 lakefront lots discounted for one weekend only. September 16th & 17th. Sample Offers: 2 acres w/463â&#x20AC;&#x2122; lakefront $49,900; 8 acres w/600â&#x20AC;&#x2122; lakefront $89,900. Unspoiled lake, woods, views, perfect for getaway cabin! 3 hrs NYC! Wine Country! EZ Terms! 888-905-8847 NewYorkLandandLakes.com LAUREL Custom 3000 sf Brick Ranch with deeded beach rights!

This home features LR, FDR, Family Room, EIK, MBR w/Bath and additional 3 BRs and Bath. Large laundry room. Walk up attic. $799,000 MLS #2939085 Colony Realty, Carll Austin 516-658-2623 REAL ESTATE AUCTION ROCHESTER, VERMONT 3BR/3BA executive home on 65+ acres w/horse barn, stunning mountain views, 2 ponds, plus 230+ acre parcel. Auction: Oct 8 @12pm. THCAuction. com 800-634-7653 RIVERHEAD Rolling Woods.

Beautiful home in Beach Community. Grand entrance, LR, DR, Great Rm/Fireplace, Large EIK, 4 BRs, 4 Baths, MBR w/Ensuite & WIC, unfinished bonus room, 2.5 car garage, full basement/workshop & outside entrance, CAC. Parklike grounds. Deeded beach. $740,000.

Colony Realty, Dolores Peterson 631-413-7572

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Wanted REAL ESTATE

PAINTING & PAPERHANGING

FOR SALE

HOMES WANTED GARDEN CITY couple recently retired and scaling down wish to purchase cape or ranch in GC for all cash. Move at your convenience.

Principals: 516-747-1024

SERVICE DIRECTORY

HOME IMPROVEMENTS AMBIANCE PROFESSIONAL SERVICES *Handyman & Remodeling *Kitchen Installations *Furniture Assembly *Finish Carpentry *Minor Electrical & Plumbing 25 year GC Resident Lic & Ins H18E2170000 Call BOB 516-741-2154 GEM BASEMENT DOCTOR: One stop for all your home improvement needs! Basement, bathroom & kitchen remodeling, carpentry, crown, wainscoting molding, closets, doors, windows, sheetrock, painting, siding, decks power washed, stained and built. 516-623-9822 LAMPS FIXED $65 In home service. Handy Howard. 646-996-7628 MASONRY All types of stonework Pavers, Retaining Walls, Belgium Block Patios, Foundations, Seal coating, Concrete and Asphalt driveways, Sidewalks, Steps. Free Estimates Fully Licensed & Insured #H2219010000 Boceski Masonry Louie 516-850-4886 SKY CLEAR WINDOW and Restorations Inc. Window Restorations, Outdated Hardware, skylights, Andersen Sashes, new storm windows, wood windows, chain/rope repairs, falling windows, fogged panes, mechanical repairs, wood repairs, restorations, all brands. Call Mr. Fagan, 32 years experience.

631-385-7975 www.skyclearwindow.com

JV PAINT HANDYMAN SERVICES Interior-Exterior Specialist Painting, Wallpapering, Plastering, Spackling, Staining, Power Washing. Nassau Lic#H3814310000 fully Insured Call John 516-741-5378

PARTY HELP LADIES & GENTLEMEN RELAX & ENJOYYour Next Party! Catering and Experienced Professional Services for Assisting with Preparation, Serving and Clean Up Before, During and After Your Party Bartenders Available. Call Kate at 516-248-1545

TUTORING AP BIOLOGY tutor using the Campbell or Sadava books. I use the test banks to show you what you are weak in. Will test you on each chapter or topic and review results with you. If you read the chapters and review with me, this is a pathway to a 5! Ephraim Himelstein. 516-3849865. ephraimhimelstein@gmail. com COLLEGE ESSAYS: Make your application stand above the rest. Call Jonathan, 516-669-0587or ifixessays@gmail.com, an Ivy League PhD with proven Ivy League results.

ENGLISH TUTOR: Diane Gottlieb M.Ed., M.S.W. SAT/ACT, College Essays, AP, Regents, ELA Test Prep, Reading comprehension and writing proficiency. 917-599-8007 or email: dianegot@gmail.com LongIslandEnglishTutor.com Providing one-on-one professional support to build confidence, knowledge and skills in every student.

MATH TUTOR Middle School Math Teacher at a local district available to tutor your child at reasonable rates in all Math through Algebra CC. A Garden City resident who has enjoyed working with children for many years. Flexible scheduling and location. Please call 516-3955280

Advertising Sales Executive Blank Slate Media Blank Slate Media, a fast-growing chain of 6 award-winning weekly newspapers and website, is looking for an energetic, service-oriented professional with good communications skills to sell display, web and email advertising.

Earn up to $60,000 in the first-year representing the 6 Blank Slate Media publications and website as well the 5 publications and 1 website owned by Blank Slateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s sales partner, Litmor Publications.

We are looking for an enthusiastic and service-oriented sales professional with good communication skills.

SERVICES

MATH, SAT, ACT TUTOR: Algebra, Geometry, Algebra 2 plus Trig, PreCalc, AP Calculus. Norm 625-3314

1-866-We Junk It: All phases of rubbish removal & demolition. Residential, commercial, construction sites, kitchens, bathrooms, cleanups, attics, basements, floods, fires. All size dumpsters. Same day service. Fully insured. Bob Cat Service. www.1866wejunkit.com 516-541-1557

ENGLISH, ACT, SAT TUTOR: 25+ year experience Critical Reading, Writing, Grammar, Essays. Lynne 625-3314 SPANISH TUTOR: There is a difference. Over 30 years of teaching and tutoring all levels, flexible scheduling, periodic contact with childâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s teacher if required. Experienced, dedicated, flexible, collaborative, William Cullen, M.A. Spanish. Call/text 516-5098174 wdctutor@aol.com

INSTRUCTION PIANO LESSONS By Ira Baslow.

Experience the joy of playing the piano. Private lessons in your home, free no-obligation piano lesson, all levels, all styles, all ages. Beginners a specialty. 516-312-1054 www.iwantmypianolessons.com POPPAâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S MUSIC: Back to School instrument rentals. 20% off with ad on already low priced school rental rates! Offer expires 9/30/17. Affordable, high quality rentals for all band and orchestra instruments. 168 Jericho Tpke., Mineola. Email allan@ poppasmusic.com 516-747-5107

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Curran wins county executive primary Continued from Page 1 as the Democrats try to take control of the county seat following the indictment last year of Republican County Executive Edward Mangano.

“We are facing a political machine that has proven it knows how to win,” Curran told about 150 supporters Tuesday night at a restaurant on the Nautical Mile in Freeport. “But we know all too well what the reality of those victories have been: corruption scandal after corruption scandal.”

Curran’s victory makes her the first woman to ever win a major party nomination for County executive, a year after Hillary Clinton became the first woman to win a major party’s presidential nomination.

Her running mates, Jack Schnirman for comptroller and Dean Bennett for county clerk, also defeated their respective Maragos-backed challengers, Ama Yawson and Carl DeHaney.

But Yawson and DeHaney both got more votes than Maragos. Schnirman, the Long Beach city manager, defeated Yawson, a Freeport entrepreneur, 15,751 votes to 11,945, or 56.7 percent to 43 percent. Bennett had a larger margin of victory over DeHaney, winning with 17,075 votes to 9,239, or 65 percent to 35 percent.

Maragos ran an unrelenting anti-establishment campaign after switching parties a year ago and winning two elections alongside Mangano as a Republican. But ultimately the primary was not the “historic” rebuke of local party rule that he promised.

Maragos conceded the race about 90 minutes after Curran declared victory. He pledged to support her in the Nov. 7 general election.

“I think she’s committed to ending corruption and pay-toplay, and to that extent I will be very supportive,” Maragos said, flanked by supporters at a Garden City restaurant.

Jacobs endorsed Curran in January. State Assemblyman Charles Lavine was also a Democratic candidate at the time, but he later dropped out and endorsed Curran.

Curran ran as the primary’s “real Democrat,” touting an anticorruption message and tying Maragos to Mangano’s scandalscarred administration. Maragos countered that Curran was a “puppet” of the Nassau Democratic machine, and that only he, a wealthy former finance executive who funded his own campaign, would be free from the influence of special interests.

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County Legislator Laura Curran declares victory in the Democratic primary for Nassau County executive on Tuesday. dent inspector general to oversee county contracts — but had substantive differences on others.

Maragos, for example, reassessing property values yearly based on market values. Curran said that would be too expensive and instead proposed a three-to-fiveyear cycle and more staff for the Assessment Department.

Curran called Maragos a “Tea Party conservative” who once opposed abortion rights, samesex marriage and the Affordable Care Act. But Maragos said he “evolved” on those issues and left the Nassau GOP because it was ignoring the needs of minority communities.

Maragos campaigned heavily in those communities and won the support of African-American pastors and other leaders. Most of those cheering him at a debate last week were people of color.

Curran, a two-term county legislator, now leads the Nassau Democrats’ bid to seize on public frustration with corruption, nepotism and high taxes and take the county’s top office from Republicans for only the third time in history. Once a little-known lawmaker who broke ranks with her party caucus, she now has the support of officials including Gov. Andrew Cuomo and more than 40 labor unions.

“Laura Curran made the case to the public what this election is all about, and it is about changing the culture of corruption that is so pervasive in Nassau County and is costing the taxpayers money each and every year,” Jacobs said Tuesday.

Mangano is not seeking his third term this year following his not-guilty plea last fall to charges stemming from an alleged bribery and kickback scheme involving county contracts. His wife and the former Republican Oyster Bay town supervisor, John Venditto, was indicted alongside him. And his chief deputy, Rob Walker, is reportedly under federal investigation related to another county contract.

Curran is a political neophyte compared to Martins, who served for six years in the state Senate after eight years as mayor of Mineola.

It’s an identity Curran has embraced — she often says on the stump that she is “not a career politician.” But she now faces a candidate who has stayed largely above the fray of corruption scandals, and GOP machine that has shown no resignation in the wake of the indictments.

Martins was among the first Republicans to call for Mangano’s resignation. He has proposed his own anti-corruption reforms, in-

cluding a measure to remove a sitting county executive from office.

“This election is about the future of Nassau County, and electing someone with the experience and qualifications to deal with the challenges that face us,” Martins said in a statement. “Laura Curran wants to make this about the past, but we must look ahead.”

The GOP had a rare primary on Tuesday in the 15th Legislative District that quickly turned dramatic.

Party-backed candidate John R. Ferretti Jr., the chief deputy county clerk, defeated challenger James Coll, an NYPD cop, 626 votes to 273.

Ferretti’s campaign got Coll knocked off the ballot when a Republican judge threw out his nominating petition because it said he was running for “15th District Nassau County Legislature” rather than for county “legislator.”

A state appellate court overturned that ruling Monday, and the Board of Elections distributed paper ballots in the district. But Coll alleged that some sample ballots suggested voting for Ferretti by showing the circle next to his name filled in.

The Nassau district attorney’s office is reviewing a complaint about the incident, a spokeswoman said.

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NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING Town of North Hempstead— Board of Zoning Appeals Pursuant to the provisions of the Code of the Town of North Hempstead, NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Board of Zoning Appeals of said Town will meet at Town Hall, 220 Plandome Road, Manhasset, New York, on Wednesday, September 27, 2017, to consider any matters that may properly be heard by said Board, and will hold a public hearing on said date to consider applications and appeals.

The following cases will be called at said public hearing starting at 10:00 a.m.

APPEAL #20406—JDN Properties of Long Island, renewal of conditional use 70-139.A, for the outdoor storage of vehicles; SE/cor./of Mineola Ave. and Warner Ave., Roslyn Heights, Sec. 7, Blk. 24, Lots 27 & 69, B-B/R-B Districts.

The full list of cases for this calendar may be obtained at www.northhempsteadny.gov.

All interested persons should appear and will be given an opportunity to be heard at such meeting and/or hearing.

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E. Hills hearing takes tumultuous turn Continued from Page 1 when you walk into it, it’s as big as a great room. What that does is from a community planning standpoint, that 6,200-squarefoot house looks too big.”

Russo presented 14 amendments to the original proposed changes, based on residents’ comments made at the first public hearing and written to the village after Mayor Michael Koblenz extended the deadline, and said many of the amendments were for clarification.

All proposed changes, which have not been approved by a board vote, will likely be approved at the next public hearing and will take effect Jan. 1, Koblenz said. Written comments about the proposed amendments are still being accepted at Village Hall.

All changes will only be applied to new construction or homes that are “substantially renovated,” or a renovation where the cost of improvement equals 50 percent or more of the home’s pre-construction market value.

A section used to calculate

the maximum impervious yard coverage was modified to “the linear measurement along the rear lot line of the property multiplied by the actual distance to the closest part of the dwelling.”

Impervious items, Russo said, are anything that does not grow, including concrete and gravel. Koblenz said the village is trying to cut down on run-off that sometimes floods roads during heavy rains.

Basements have also been an issue in East Hills, Russo said, when some residents built basements that extended beyond the footprint of the first floor. In the proposed changes, any part of a basement extending beyond the width and length of the home will be included in the floor area ratio.

One of the most discussed proposed changes is when, where and why a second-floor setback could be required. In the R-2 district, one of the four residential zoning districts in East Hills, the additional side-yard setback for a second story was amended from six feet to five

feet from the first floor wall.

If the amendments are approved, satellite dish antennas will not be allowed on the ground or a front-facing roof, and house numbers will be forced into compliance with the state’s International Fire Code regulations.

After more than half a dozen people spoke about specific situations, including architects with plans for homes as well as residents looking to possibly renovate, the crowd grew unruly after East Hills resident Ramin Emouna asked trustees why no letters were sent to residents about the public hearing.

Village Attorney Bill Burton said the village did everything legally required to advertise the public hearing, including publishing advertisements in multiple newspapers, as well as listing the meeting and all related documents on the village website. Burton said mailings to all village residents cost $2,000 and also said the four-year project cost about $100,000.

As residents began scream-

ing at each other during the hearing, mainly about whether they had been properly informed about the hearing, Koblenz initially tried to close the session.

“It’s baffling listening to this.

Things are not changing that will disturb a person living here or moving here,” Koblenz said.

“What is disturbing is we’re trying to close some loopholes, and one of those loopholes was this attic crap where people and architects tried to put rooms up there claiming it was an attic and expanded the house hundreds of square feet. We’re closing the abuses. That’s all we’re doing.

“If you can’t submit your plans that meet the criteria, then you’re going to be rejected.

You’ve got to put the right square footage in, you’ve got to add it properly. It’s simple stuff. It’s a joke listening to this.”

Architectural Review Board Chairman Spencer Kanis, an East Hills resident of 35 years, saved his comments for last and said the proposed changes are the result of thousands of com-

Roslyn Heights approves moratorium Continued from Page 22 going to look to see how the village should be focusing on its zoning code for future development. Traffic will be an issue, and how future development will affect ground water and other environmental assets is an issue.”

Badolato said he wouldn’t know what specific zoning changes the board will pursue until after the study is complete.

However, trustees said they

want the study to address traffic problems in the village.

“Logically, if you subdivide there are more homes which would mean more traffic,” Trustee Sandy Quentzel said. “If you subdivide a property that is five acres and you make it oneacre pieces there are going to bring five or more cars.”

Despite the concerns with village density, the village clerk, Marla Wolfson, said the board is not looking to make a ban on

subdivisions permanent.

“We don’t have that much open space. They are just looking to do what is environmentally correct,” Wolfson said.

Now that the ban is in effect, the next step is for the board to hire an expert consultant with “the appropriate qualifications and experience to do the study,” MacKinnon said. The village has received three proposals for the project.

“Cost is an issue, but it isn’t

similar to bidding out a driveway because of the professional expertise that is needed,” MacKinnon said.

Badolato said he tried to get other North Shore villages involved in the study, but none wanted to pursue a moratorium now.

“We decided to move forward and get it done ourselves because it is important,” he said.

ments over a decade.

“We went over a lot of things tonight about what brought on these changes, but the one thing that didn’t come out is this is all the village boards’ reaction to 10 years of having an Architectural Review Board,” Kanis said.

“On average, there’s 40 people a month that come before the board — those are the applicants and those are the neighbors.

That’s about 4,800 people from this community. What you’re hearing tonight is a reaction to 4,800 people.

“This has nothing to do with a one-foot reduction on secondstory setbacks. That is the smallest part of all the changes. This is about clarifying a code that is quite thick, and there have been problems with the residents and professionals both understanding and interpreting what’s in the code. This is the Board of Trustees doing what we vote them in to do, to react to our needs so the community can move forward and property values can continue to be enjoyed by every one of us in this room.”

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