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Candidates attack each other’s stances on budget, immigration BY LU K E TOR R A N C E U.S. Rep. Tom Suozzi (D-Glen Cove) and his challenger, Republican Dan DeBono, clashed over immigration, tax cuts and the environment Tuesday at their first debate. DeBono had criticized Suozzi for not debating him earlier in the race for the 3rd Congressional District, and both candidates wasted no time attacking each other in the event at Amsterdam at Harborside in Port Washington. “We can all make promises,” Suozzi said in response to a question about fixing the budget. “I’m a Democrat, he’s a Republican, and the Republicans have blown a hole in the deficit with this enormous tax cut.” DeBono, meanwhile, slammed Suozzi for taking money “from corporate interests” and said the country would be harmed by allowing amnesty for illegal immigrants.

“There’s too much immigration,” he said. “We need to put working-class and middle-class Americans first.” Suozzi said that he would support a path to citizenship for “Dreamers,” illegal immigrants who moved to the county before age 16, have no criminal record and a high school degree. He said that “90 percent of Americans support these young kids” and said he would be willing to make a deal increasing border security if “Dreamers” became citizens. Suozzi touted his background in politics as the former mayor of Glen Cove and Nassau County executive. DeBono played up his outsider status, saying this was his first major run for oﬃce and mentioned his service to the country as a former Navy SEAL. The duo did agree in some areas. Both said that too much money was going to people at the top and both were against the Continued on Page 66

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Kaia, Ava and Connor (left to right) Salvaggio, 13-month-old triplets, dressed as dalmations for an impromptu photo shoot at the East Williston Community Church pumpkin patch.

East Williston firefighters to be honored for rescue BY J E D HENDRIXSON

Firefighters from the department and other regional emergency medical services Seven firefighters from the will receive awards for their East Williston Fire Department service at the Nassau Regionwill be honored next week for al EMS Council Awards on Wednesday at the Crest Hollow aiding a resident in 2017.

Country Club in Woodbury. The East Williston Fire Department also recognized the rescue as its ambulance call of the year at the annual awards dinner in April. Continued on Page 67

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Artist’s exhibit a surreal experience NHP painter excited by exhibit space at Shelter Rock

No peace pipe for Manhasset civics Meet fails to convince on dispensary BY T E R I W EST

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“Swinging Streelights,” one of Criss’ paintings. BY J E D HENDRIXSON The surreal works of Katherine Criss, a New Hyde Park artist, are on display at the Shelter Rock Public Library. The exhibit, titled “Surreal Encounters in Paint and Pixels,” features surrealist paintings and photographs. “They called me up and told me they had a space open,” Criss said. “You’ve just got to roll with what comes around sometimes.” Criss praised the recently renovated exhibit space and its lighting. “It’s fabulous,” Criss said. “When you come in for instal-

lation, you worry about how everything will flow and look next to each other and in certain light, but the lighting in there is beautiful and the space as a whole is really something.” She hosted a talk and reception on Oct. 4 for the exhibit, which she describes as a collection of images focused on exploring emotion. “I love surrealism and surreal images,” Criss said. “It’s so interesting to me, finding the emotions that match to the faces I see walking down the street.” Criss was raised to be an artist. When she was growing up in Greenwich Village, her father, Francis Criss, was a well-known

painter during the rise of precisionism in America in the 1930s. “Every day I would come home from high school and go to his studio,” Criss said. “All of the famous painters would come by and know him, and we were really surrounded by the art in the city during that era.” Not one to follow directly in her father’s footsteps, Katherine pursued photography. “I wanted to be an artist, but not a painter,” Criss said. “No one could be as good as daddy,” she joked. Criss had a career as a commercial photographer until 1998. Continued on Page 66

Correction: The Oct. 12 article “E.W. residents describe menacing” misquoted a resident who said he had been harassed. Richard Seixas said he was “punched at.” He did not say he was physically struck.

At a meeting of the Council of Greater Manhasset Civic Associations, MedMen representatives discussed the benefits of medical marijuana and how tightly they run their business last Wednesday. But the civic leaders remained steadfast in their opposition to the company moving into Manhasset. MedMen political aﬀairs manager Landon Dais said that the medical marijuana company’s intended move from an oﬃce complex in Lake Success to 1575 Northern Blvd. in a retail section of Manhasset is to destigmatize the drug and make it more accessible to its Manhasset clientele. In discussion after the MedMen representatives left, civic association members seemed convinced that the company is using the move to position itself should the drug be legalized for recreational use in New York. “They’re not going to invest in this pretty fancy store if it has no potential to be converted,” said civic association secretary Sue Auriemma. When recreational marijuana was legalized in California, Med-

Men’s Beverly Hills’ store clientele grew from about 75 customers per day to 250, Dais said. The Town of North Hempstead should ban the sale of recreational marijuana to exempt it from potential state policy, said Jen DeSena of the North Strathmore Civic Association. Towns in New Jersey have done so in anticipation of their state legalizing the drug, according to NJ.com. Dais emphasized both the medicinal benefits of marijuana and the societal benefits of legalized recreational marijuana during his presentation. He also said that MedMen wants to be a good neighbor, sticks tightly to state regulations and provides extra security measures to ensure customer comfort. MedMen stores have at least two security guards at each store during operating hours, Dais said. Before patients can consult for a purchase, they present their ID and practitioner-approved medical marijuana card and an employee looks them up to verify that they have not exceeded their dosage. Continued on Page 67

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Seeking to be ‘regular person’ in Albany W.P. Trustee William Carr emphasizes record of service, common sense in race with Ra BY J E D H E N D R I X S ON William “Billy” Carr is an electrician in Queens with IBEW Local 3, a CYO volleyball coach and a trustee on the Williston Park village board. This November, he wants to add New York state assemblyman to that list. “My first reaction was why me?” Carr said in a sit-down interview with Blank Slate Media, about being approached to run as a Democrat for the District 19 seat against four-term incumbent Republican Ed Ra. “People have been very supportive, and the campaigns have been run really clean.” Around 128,000 Nassau residents live in the district, and he said it is not as red politically as it appears. “Everybody is surprised,” Carr said. “Thirty-eight percent of voters are registered Republicans, 31 percent Democrat and 25 percent are blank.” The issue is not pure registration, but turnout, Carr said. “Republicans turn out close to 90 percent of their votes, and Democrats turn out around 50 or 60 percent,” Carr said. The polarizing election of President Donald Trump will be a driving force for both parties in the midterm elections, Carr said. “I think there are going to be record numbers in midterm elections this year,”

Carr said. “But it hasn’t even really come up while campaigning. No one has asked me who I voted for last election.” “I’m not here selling my party, I’m selling myself,” Carr said. Carr said that headed into the election, the big issues he is hearing about are property taxes and the opioid epidemic. “It’s one of the most expensive places to live in the county,” Carr said. “I’d like to bring some of that money back to Long Island, and to the schools across the board.” “One of the things I thought about was keeping the schools open,” Carr said about preventing children from falling victim to the opioid epidemic. Long Island has suffered significantly from the abuse of prescription and street painkiller drugs. In July, the Nassau County Police Department made 37 arrests in a four-day period in a crackdown on opioid drug use. “The schools have all of the resources to keep them busy and supervised,” Carr said. “It’s not outlandish. I grew up with a recreation center in Freeport and at any time of year I had a place to go.” On medical marijuana in New York State and the potential legalization of the substance for recreational use, Carr said he would vote to legalize it with proper safety procedures in place. “To turn away that revenue, I can’t understand it,” Carr said. “Why be the last

“I support women’s right for choice,” he said. “It’s their body. I don’t think we have any right to tell them what to do with it.” On corruption in New York government, which has seen the former majority leader of the senate, Dean Skelos, and the former speaker of the assembly, Sheldon Silver, convicted, Carr said he would impose terms limits. “I don’t think anyone should serve forever,” Carr said. “You either get out of the game or run for a diﬀerent oﬃce.” Carr also expressed support for the Child Victims Act, the “red flag” bill, which would create extreme risk protection orders that could take guns away from “extreme risk individuals,”# and a bill that would ban the sale of bump stocks for weapons. Bump PHOTO COURTESY OF BILLY CARR stocks are devices that can be attached to semi-automatic rifles to allow them to fire Democratic state Assembly candinearly as fast as fully automatic weapons. “I’m against any semi-automatic weapdate Billy Carr ons,” Carr said. “You don’t need them to state to do it?” hunt.” Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavana“I’m not looking to take away anyone’s ugh’s appointment has citizens concerned rifles or shotguns. Hunters aren’t the probabout the status of the ruling in Roe v. lem,” Carr said. Wade and women’s rights. In New York, “I’ve served my community for the last the Reproductive Health Act has been ap- seven years as a village trustee,” Carr said. proved by the Assembly, but has failed to “I’ve served my community for the past 20 move through the Senate. Carr said he years in all sorts of capacities, and I just would vote to support the measure. want to bring regular people to Albany.”

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Williston board approves pool request

Williston Park resident assures mayor that pool for his family will be safe, adhere to rules BY J E D HENDRIXSON A public hearing on Monday led to the approval of an application for a Williston Park resident to build a backyard pool. The Cardone family, of 20 Charles St., met with the Board of Trustees before the regularly scheduled meeting for a discussion about the construction. “The Cardones approached the buildings department regarding the installation of an above-ground, semi-in-ground pool in their yard,” village building inspector Kerry Collins said. “It meets all specific criteria in regards to installation of a pool and does not require any other hearing.” The proposed pool will be 15 feet by 26 feet, he said. “My biggest concern is safety issues, especially with young children,” Mayor Paul Ehrbar said. Joseph Cardone, a father of two, assured the mayor that the pool would be safe and that

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Williston Park Mayor Paul Ehrbar (center) at Monday’s meeting. he had already heeded the advice of Collins on an unrelated property adjustment. “We installed springs on the gates to our fence,” Cardone said. Collins recommended that springs be installed to the gates of the Cardones’ sixfoot fence for swifter closing. “That was a good suggestion,

and now the gates close really fast.” Sensors will also be installed in the pool to monitor when someone has entered the water. “We’re members of the village pool as well,” Cardone said, “but we’d like to use our pool for family time.”

The Cardones will begin construction as soon as possible and look to open the pool sometime next summer. In the regularly scheduled meeting, Trustee Billy Carr reported that Village Justice Kevin J. Kylie heard 123 cases in September and collected!$10,407.76 in fines.

Seven residential building applications and nine residential plumbing permits were issued for the month, Collins said. Collins also discussed the extent of home improvements in the village. “You got a lot of people moving into your community, spending big dollars on their homes,” Collins said. “These extensions are up there between $200,000 and $400,000, and these people are here to stay.” Trustee Michael Uttaro reported that the police aided in 26 cases for the month, including one burglary and nine larcenies. He urged the public to take steps to prevent crimes. “Please make sure you lock your doors, don’t leave valuables in sight,” Uttaro said. “Your best line of defense is simply making sure your doors are locked.” “The reality is they don’t break car windows,” Ehrbar said. “They just get the cars that are unlocked and it’s so simple to do.”

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Mailers offer one-sided narratives Independent groups and party committees cast Kaplan, Phillips in starkly different lights BY JA N E LL E CL AUSEN

If voters were to judge state Sen. Elaine Phillips based on the mailers they received in recent weeks, they might see her as a Donald Trump in disguise who “had the chance to prevent the next school shooting,” but “failed us” while giving money away to charter schools. But they might also see her as a fighter for safe drinking water, delivering record community funding to local institutions and “taking on Albany corruption and getting results” for the district. At the same time, they might have also have seen her opponent for state Senate, North Hempstead Town Councilwoman Anna Kaplan, as someone profiting from pollution, willing to raise taxes while giving herself a raise, and dabbling in corruption with party bosses. Or, alternatively, they might see her as a smiling “defender of Long Island taxpayers” willing to hold the line on taxes, strengthen gun laws and protect women’s reproductive rights.

questions on gun violence.” At least two others also seek to draw parallels between Phillips and President Donald Trump, saying that she is on the “wrong side of gun reform,” “threatening the right to choose” to have an abortion, and has supported “Trump and his Education Secretary Betsy DeVos’ agenda of supporting charter schools over our public schools.” Kyle Bragg, a secretary and treasurer for the union, did not respond to requests for comment. Another mailer, paid for by Fighting for Our Future, features a racing school with money flyPHOTOS FROM THE CANDIDATES ing out the windows saying “Albany politician Elaine Phillips is Mailers from independent groups and party committees have cast Elaine Phillips and Anna sending our tax dollars to NYC charter schools.” Kaplan in starkly different lights. It then charges that after These are among the dueling ers as of Oct. 1, according to fleeing from a gunman. charter school backers spent mil“Elaine Phillips had the lions to help her campaign in narratives cast by mailers sent a financial disclosure report out by committees to state Sen- filed!32 days before the general chance to prevent the next 2016, she voted to send more election with the New York state school shooting. But she failed than $22 million in tax dollars to ate District 7 residents. us,” the mailer says on one side, city charter schools. Empire State 32BJ SEIU Board of Elections. Among the mailers are one before saying she “voted against PAC, the political action com“As the mailers are indepenmittee for the Service Employees with stark crimson and black text common sense gun reform,” is dent expenditures, the campaign International Union, invested over a white background, with “against keeping guns oﬀ school does not and cannot coordinate $89,707.50 in anti-Phillips mail- a grainy video showing people grounds” and “runs away from Continued on Page 78

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Town officials talk taxes with budget Supervisor says that regardless of future changes, plan will keep rises below state tax cap BY JA N E LL E CL AUSEN The North Hempstead Town Board discussed its still evolving budget for 2019 at a public hearing last Thursday night, touching on topics like the tax cap and sales tax projections. The $133.3 million budget is composed of the $68.6 million general fund, $37 million town outside village fund (for town services provided outside of village boundaries) and $27.7 million budget for the town’s special districts, which collect taxes only from people serviced by a district. This translates to a roughly 2.9 percent increase over the current budget, which is $129.5 million. Town Supervisor Judi Bosworth described the budget as maintaining current services and as a product of mindful budgeting, but also said it is a “living, breathing document” still open to public input. “Rest assured that no matter what changes are made, the tax levy in the final version of the

North Hempstead 4.65 percent more in sales tax revenue than in 2017 and similar increases have been seen in other municipalities. Following a practice of conservative budgeting and using these recorded numbers, Lamendola said the town is assuming 3.5 percent in growth for 2018 over 2017. “We’re moderately conservative,” Lamendola said. “I think it’s appropriate given our overall revenue mix, our available reserves to offset any sort of significant economic impact.” A preliminary budget hearing will take place on Thursday, Oct. 25, at 7 p.m. at Town Hall. In unrelated business, town officials also accepted a $100,000 grant from the New York Dormitory Authority that will go toward PHOTO BY REBECCA KLAR restoring the Stepping Stones Lighthouse. North Hempstead Town Supervisor Judi Bosworth, as seen at a previous meeting, spoke Board members also apabout the proposed 2019 budget on Thursday. proved a $28,425 agreement with the Long Island Nets, which will allow the basketball team to use budget will remain within the who represents the 4th District, lion. state tax cap,” Bosworth said on asked about the projected sales Jessica Lamendola, the the “Yes We Can” Community Thursday. tax increase from $11.5 million town’s acting comptroller, said Center in New Cassel as its offiCouncilwoman Anna Kaplan, currently budgeted to $12.1 mil- Nassau County has so far given cial practice center.

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With less than a month to go until Election Day, U.S. Rep. Tom Suozzi (DGlen Cove) has continued to grow his fundraising lead over his Republican challenger, Dan DeBono, in the race for the 3rd Congressional District, according to recent campaign filings with the Federal Election Commission. Between the beginning of July and the end of September, Suozzi raised $437,816.32, more than six times as much as the $69,896.88 raised by DeBono over the period. Suozzi raised more over the last three months than DeBono has raised since the beginning of 2017: $381,805.88. Suozzi has raised about $2.5 million since the beginning of 2017 and currently has $1.78 million on hand. DeBono, meanwhile, has $153,794 on hand — less than half of the total he has raised since the start of last year. About three-quarters of Suozzi’s $437,000 intake came from individuals. An additional amount, just short of $100,000, came from political committees like PACs. Of the amount raised, more than $317,000 went toward operating expenditures. About $191,500 went to various consulting services, $13,600 to campaign signs and stickers, $10,000 to printing campaign materials, and $2,000 to robocalls, with much of the rest going to payroll. DeBono, who has touted his unwill-

ingness to take PAC money, received a majority of his almost $70,000 from individual contributions. He did accept $5,000 from the Majority Committee PAC, the leadership PAC for Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), the majority leader in the House of Representatives. DeBono’s operating expenses between July and September were just over $100,000. About $21,000 went to consulting, $12,900 toward yard signs, $9,000 to social media and $4,845 to voter phone calls. Rep. Kathleen Rice (D-Garden City) raised! $126,069 and spent $281,147 in the most recent filing period, and has $695,216 on hand. Her opponent, Republican Ameer Benno, did not have a quarterly report posted on the FEC website. Two Long Island Republicans — Rep. Peter King! of Seaford and Rep. Lee Zeldin! of Shirley were outraised by their Democratic challengers over the last three months.!Liuba Grechen Shirley raised $1.3 million to King’s $203,000 while Democrat Perry Gershon! raised $1.3 million to Zeldin’s $730,000. But both King and Zeldin had significantly more money on hand than their challengers. Zeldin has $1.8 million to Gershon’s $535,000. And the $2.8 million King has one hand is 10 times as much as Shirley’s $274,000. Reach reporter Luke Torrance by email at ltorrance@theislandnow.com, by phone at 516-307-1045, ext. 214, or follow him on Twitter @LukeATorrance.

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Benno touts Trump, blasts Rice in race Says Dem congresswoman absent from district, calls for end of Mueller investigation BY JA N E LL E CL AUSEN Ameer Benno (R-Bellmore) said he is running on the pillars of aﬀordability, security and the U.S. Constitution in a sit-down interview with Blank Slate Media on Friday, asserting that his opponent, Rep. Kathleen Rice (D-Garden City), has only followed the Democratic Party line. Benno, a civil rights attorney involved in civic organizations, said he is “invested in the community,” not “dismissive of the Constitution,” and that Rice – seeking her third term as a U.S. representative for New York’s 4th Congressional District – has put her party first, rather than steering money toward infrastructure and protecting the South Shore. “We need somebody who is willing to step up,” Benno said. The district includes much of southern and central Nassau, including Floral Park, New Hyde Park, Mineola, Westbury, Carle Place, Lynbrook, Freeport, Hempstead, Bellmore and other areas. Benno said one example of

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Ameer Benno, a civil rights attorney from Bellmore, speaks to Blank Slate Media about his congressional bid to unseat Rep. Kathleen Rice. being “dismissive of the Constitution” is her calling all members of the National Rifle Association, which he said defends the Second Amendment right to bear arms, “domestic security threats” and doubling down on it. Benno also called a lawsuit

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Opinion

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School officials flunk test in Roslyn Many Roslyn residents expressed excitement last week that a Hollywood movie about the Roslyn school scandal, starring box office idol Hugh Jackman and written by a former Roslyn resident, would be filming in Roslyn. But Roslyn school officials apparently did not share their excitement. They emailed a letter to parents of students – but not taxpayers who don’t have children in school – announcing that they would not be cooperating in the making of the film. “The media has reported that filming will begin this week,” the email said. “The school district is not associated with the movie or its production, is not participating in this movie in any way, and no filming will be permitted on school grounds.” But just why is it a good idea for school officials to impede a movie retelling the history of what was described as the nation’s largest school system embezzlement? School officials provided an answer in the next paragraph of the email. “While the film is purportedly meant to entertain, it’s important to remember that what occurred in our school district was far from entertaining,” the email continued, citing the harm done – the theft of $11.2 million “meant for our children’s education.” Well, we’ll leave judgment on the entertainment value to the makers of the movie and the public that will be invited to view it. But do Roslyn school officials really believe that movies that deal with dark and even unsettling subjects should not be made?

This would seem to imply that movies such as “Schindler’s List,” “Saving Private Ryan,” “Sophie’s Choice” and a thousand other dramas should not have been made. Movies, and books, often teach important lessons about people and history while also entertaining. We would expect school officials to encourage the telling of the Roslyn school scandal as a teachable moment, not oppose its making. The story of the Roslyn school scandal centers on former Roslyn School Superintendent Frank A. Tassone, a beloved figure who, according to the New York Times, “regularly lunched with high school students, who led a Dickens book group for parents, who brought foreign language education to the elementary school and seemed to relish his personal bonds with the P.T.A. and the school board.” A film website said he sought to make Roslyn High School, already ranked among the nation’s best, the No. 1 high school in the country. But Tassone also wanted the good life and would be convicted of stealing $2.2 million to spend on luxury vacations, gambling junkets, fees for his Upper East Side apartment, dry cleaning bills and a vacation home. No question this is the stuﬀ of literature throughout the ages – as well as stories from federal prisons across the country. Tassone was joined in a scheme to steal money by Pamela Gluckin, the former assistant superintendent for business, other school oﬃcials and their friends

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and family. Combined, they made off with $11.2 million. Then state Comptroller Alan G. Hevesi, who himself would later go to prison on corruption charges, described the Roslyn scandal as “the largest, most remarkable, most extraordinary theft” from a school system in “American history.” What seems clear is that Roslyn school officials’ response in the email sent last week was largely based on concerns about the school district’s reputation and that of its officials, both past and present. If this was actually about protecting students from ugly incidents from the past, American history in Roslyn would be taught without mentioning slavery, the treatment of Native Americans, Jim Crow and Japanese internment camps during World War II. The email continued in both a defense of the district and as a taxpayer-funded plug for board members.

“Since those days, the transformation of Roslyn Public Schools has been nothing short of remarkable,” the district said. “Under the leadership of a new, reform-minded Board of Education, the school district worked tirelessly to recover millions that had been stolen. The nationally-recognized Roslyn Public Schools of 2018 bears no resemblance to the organization as it existed 15 years ago.” This may be true, but in defending their reputation, Roslyn school oﬃcials have missed an important lesson from the school scandal – that truth is more important than reputation. The first indication of wrongdoing in the school district came in 2002 when a Home Depot clerk in Selden reported to the school district that a district credit card had been used to purchase $85,000 worth of construction material for a private contracting company, which it turns out was owned by Gluckin’s son. “But instead of leading directly to a criminal investigation,

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the tip was checked first by the school’s auditor, Andrew Miller,” The New York Times reported. Miller, who would later be charged, reported his findings to Tassone – that the business administrator and her son had stolen $250,000. Tassone, The Times reported, “took the matter to the Roslyn School Board with a dire warning” – that the district’s reputation would suﬀer if the matter became public. Rather than reporting the crime, the school board decided to allow Gluckin and her son to repay $250,000 – a small fraction of the $4 million Gluckin was later found to have stolen – and to resign. The true scope of the embezzlement did not emerge for another two years. Sweeping embarrassing facts about the school district under the carpet is a movie Roslyn oﬃcials have already seen. We would have thought they would have learned something about that the second time around.

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KREMER’S CORNER

Like Lazarus, Affordable Care Act is back

olitics is a business that takes numerous twists and turns. What is unpopular one day can become popular years later. A failed candidate can make a comeback. A winning candidate can turn out to be a loser years later. Of all the ironies in national politics, the health care law has now! risen to the top of the list. A!few short years ago, over 50 Democratic members of Congress went down to defeat because they supported Obamacare, which is properly called the Aﬀordable Care Act.! Voters were told by Republican candidates that the ACA would destroy America and was the closest thing to socialism. Many competent and forward thinking legislators lost their seats because they voted for Obamacare. Now! four years later, like Lazarus, who is reputed to have been brought back from the dead by Jesus, the ACA may

be the main reason Democrats take back the House of Representatives on Nov. 6. Despite the continuous eﬀort by President Trump to wipe out the ACA, it has not only survived, but has become a vital law for millions of Americans. I still vividly remember Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell! pledging to destroy the ACA during his tenure and making it the cornerstone of the Republican agenda. McConnell kept his word and almost passed a Senate bill repealing the ACA until the late Sen. John McCain cast the deciding vote to save the ACA. If! you do a random sampling of Congressional races around the country, one of the key issues in all of those races is the ACA and which party is going to do more to save it. The Republican Party never anticipated that the ACA could become their Achilles heel. To cover their members going into this year’s election, a bill

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was introduced that supposedly keeps coverage alive, but the bill does nothing for people with pre-existing conditions. The! fact that health care, which was once a toxic issue for Democrats has now become its pivotal issue on Election Day is somewhat remarkable but not surprising. Students of politics will remember that House Speaker Thomas “Tip” O’Neill

once advised President Reagan that Social Security and Medicare are the “third rail of politics.” Reagan was being asked by Republican leaders to raise the Social Security age eligibility. Reagan the Republican, paid attention to O’Neill, the Democrat, and resisted doing anything to the program. Fast! forward to President George H.W. Bush. His advisors were urging him to let Social Security recipients make their own decisions on how to invest their moneys following the model of 401-k plans. Bush pushed the idea hard and didn’t understand why the outside world didn’t buy into it. His son, President George H. Bush, promoted the idea of creating 401-k plans out of Social Security moneys and that idea again fell flat. Despite the fact that!health care is now under debate around the country, President Trump is doing everything in his power to destroy the ACA.

His latest ploy is to shut down the ACA website during the upcoming enrollment period in an effort to stop more people from signing up. So oddly, many of the voters who put Trump in office would suffer greatly at the hands of Trump, if any of his plans were successful. Twelve! Republican governors are currently pushing a lawsuit that if successful would find other ways to stop the ACA. They are challenging parts of the law that subsidizes insurance companies for covering people with serious health issues. By early next year, that lawsuit will reach the Supreme Court and no one can predict which way the justices will rule. There!is no doubt that the fate of the ACA will be decided in 2019. If it survives, no politician will have to guts to keep up the effort to destroy it. If it is abolished, it will be fascinating to watch President Trump campaign for re-election in those states that helped elect him.

A LOOK ON THE LIGHTER SIDE

‘First Man’ teaches many lessons

went to see the film “First Man” this weekend, directed by Damien Chazelle and starring Ryan Gosling as Neil Armstrong, the first man to set foot on the moon. It was inspirational on many levels. First, the sheer magnitude of the accomplishments: yes, the film, but even more — as the film reminds us — what we achieved in space. You get an inkling from Chazelle’s very deliberate decisions to give us an astronaut’s-eye view of the program, from incredibly shaky footage, loud and confusing audio, and vistas no better than the astronauts got through tiny windows… until it goes all silent and IMAX when we reach the Moon. You understand how, strapped into tiny capsules atop enormous rockets, our astronauts sometimes felt, as one said,“like a rat being shaken by a very large terrier” — and you can’t help thinking, “These guys were even braver — or crazier — than I thought.” It gives another perspective on what writer Tom Wolfe la-

beled “The Right Stuﬀ ” — stoic and calm in the face of unimaginable danger. The big question of those days is also the big question of the film. As a reporter puts it, at one point: “Do you ever question whether the program is worth the cost, in money or in lives?” Growing up in the suburbs of Washington, D.C., I was 15 when Armstrong became the “First Man” to set foot on the Moon. But that landmark event came just one year after the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., which had touched oﬀ four straight days of rioting, sending blocks of our inner-city up in smoke. So I sympathized with contemporary critics who insisted that our Space Race was costing the nation far too much, using up money that was urgently needed here at home. As an adult, I have begun to reconsider. The Space Race is long since over and done, but we have at least as much misery and poverty as ever. It wasn’t until recently that I realized how completely the

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A Look on the Lighter Side mission to conquer space was woven through the fabric of our daily lives. It was in the TV programs we watched, from “The Jetsons” to “Lost in Space;” it informed our architecture (a public library whose entrance resembled a space ship); it even packaged our junk food (astronaut ice cream!). Nor did I realize how bereft we have been, without it. The loss feels especially poignant here on Long Island, in what inhabitants used to call “NASA County,” where so many of our nation’s aircraft were

designed and built, up to and including the Lunar Excursion Module — the “Eagle” of Armstrong’s proud declaration, “The Eagle has landed.” We need a mission. It can be a Space Race. It could be Martin Luther King, Jr.’s dream of finally “rising up and living out the true meaning of our creed.” It could be starting the equivalent of a Manhattan Project to conquer and reverse climate change. We should do one or all of these things for the same reason President Kennedy started the space program: “We do these things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard.” And because we need them. I believe that something in us curdles when our only mission is just getting through the day. “A woman’s reach should exceed her grasp, or what’s a heaven for?” What happens when we have no big, inspiring mission? Well, look around. What is our President’s biggest goal? Returning to the past! And while there may be

many cultures that are able to live in the shadow of former greatness (Rome; Athens; France)… we are not among them. America has always been about the future. But recently, we seem to have stopped believing. I don’t know whether that’s because of climate change, or the supposed “end” of the white majority — both of which trends are converging now, rather shockingly, on 2040 or 2043 — but it is having terrible eﬀects. Because when you stop believing in the possibility of a better day just over the horizon, you start thinking, “This is all there is.” And the day after that, you are scrabbling, each against all, over who gets how big a slice of the pie. Throwing people out of the lifeboat. As if that will somehow save you from your fate. “First Man” brought me to patriotic tears, because it showed me how starved I am for a mission to believe in, today. Are you listening, contenders for 2020? It’s literally a matter of life and death.

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E A R T H M AT T E R S

How long can we ignore global warming?

atastrophic weather events, mass migrations, crop failures from drought and floods, mudslides, wildfires, dangerous algal blooms, coral reef loss, arctic sea ice loss… these increasingly common events have all seeped into our news headlines and they are here to stay. But like everything in life, the more you hear it, the more you get used to it. Can we risk becoming desensitized? The answer is absolutely not. Last week, leaders from around the world gathered in South Korea to discuss their growing concerns about climate change based on the most recent scientific data. The United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change reported that the pledges made at the Paris Climate Accord in 2015 are no longer enough to limit global warming to 1.5 Celsius. The consensus was that even if we achieved this goal, we should expect to see catastrophic changes in weather, sea level rise and agriculture and natural eco-systems. The oﬃcial report coming out of the conference was written and edited by 91 scientists from 40 countries

who had analyzed more than 6,000 scientific studies. With global emissions currently rising, the IPCC says we will need a 40 to 50 percent reduction in emissions by 2030 and a carbon-neutral world by 2050, a monumental challenge to our scientific communities and to all of us living on this planet. They also say we could reverse a shortfall with new carbon removal techniques. But we need the will to do it. Every nation on the planet must participate. Which brings me to the appalling lack of interest in this global crisis by our leaders in Washington. We have influential, decision-making leaders who are climate change deniers, making snowballs to make their point. Our President has dismissed climate change as a hoax and says it was created “by and for the Chinese.” He has also vowed to increase the burning of coal and intends to withdraw the United States (the second largest producer of greenhouse gases) from the Paris Agreement with its 195 member governments from around the world. None of our climate change deniers in Washington have the academic

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expertise or it seems, the most basic understanding of science, to address this biggest challenge that humanity has ever faced. In normal times, our leaders would defer to the scientific community. These are not normal times. What to do? To start, we can vote for and support leaders that understand the perils of ignoring what is happening before our eyes. They can take immediate action on carbon pricing or taxing, regulate emissions from our fossil fuel-driven power plants and industries, stop burning coal and participate or invest in technologies that can remove atmospheric carbon dioxide.

What to do? To start, we can vote for and support leaders that understand the perils of ignoring what is unfolding before our eyes. They can take immediate action on carbon pricing or taxing, regulate emissions from our fossil fuel- driven power plants and industries, stop burning coal and participate or invest in technologies that can remove atmospheric carbon dioxide. According to the world’s top climate scientists, new technologies must be developed to remove greenhouse gases from the atmosphere in combination with unprecedented aggressive actions to limit the burning of fossil fuels and build out renewable energy sources. Emerging technologies include capture and sequestration (storage) of carbon dioxide, but they are not currently viable economically on a large scale. Another involves burning biomass (like switchgrass and agricultural waste) instead of burning fossil fuels to generate electricity. Today, only about one percent of electricity in the U.S. is generated that way. According to the IPCC report, renewables, which make up about 20 percent of our electricity mix, would have to in-

crease to 67 percent. A serious global eﬀort to increase solar, wind and geothermal installations must be a priority. The urgent message from South Korea is that we have to take action today. We do not have the luxury of waiting. One known low-tech way to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere is to grow more forests. In fact, reforestation was seen as an essential part of the solution outlined this week by the IPCC if the world is to get even close to its newly stated goals. Yes, trees are a critical piece of our global warming solution, but the amount of land needed to grow huge forests is daunting. But everyone of us can plant trees on our own property and encourage our towns and villages to plant them wherever they can. As I look out the window at the wind and rain, the remnants of Hurricane Michael that has destroyed yet another large swath of our country, I wonder what it will take to make our leaders understand the consequences of the warming of our planet. This is about our children and our grandchildren. Is there anything we care more about?

PULSE OF THE PENINSULA

In midterms, vote for climate action

here are many specific issues to drive voting these midterms – health care, gun violence prevention, women’s reproductive rights, immigration reform – arguably the most important elections of our lifetime, but the one that addresses an existential threat to our lives and our planet is climate change. Rather than unify the nation around a disaster, climate catastrophes have become more political than ever. Indeed, we see that some Americans are more valuable to protect and restore than others; depending upon how you voted, you will be more deserving of aid than others. But while the government rushes money to open roads and restore power in precincts that voted the right way, there is no interest, no money, to address the cause of these climate catastrophes or even rebuild for sustainability or mitigation.

Indeed, Republicans are intent on shutting down climate science and doing everything possible to keep an economy running on fossil fuel rather than clean, renewable. Indeed, during that mind-exploding interview with “60 Minutes,” Trump declared he didn’t believe global warming is caused by human activity and that climate change could simply reverse on its own. He knows this because, after all, he has a big brain and scientists who warn of disaster have a political agenda. Those scientists recently came out with a report that gives specifics to the catastrophic impacts of climate change that will be apparent by 2040. But tell that to the people of Puerto Rico, Texas, Florida, the Carolinas, and the people of island nations that are literally drowning today. “It’s telling us we need to reverse emissions trends and turn the world economy on a dime,”

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Pulse of the Peninsula Myles Allen, an Oxford University climate scientist and an author of the United Nations the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report, told the New York Times (Oct. 7, 2018). Donald Trump’s reaction to the report? Well, he’s been so busy holding campaign rallies and attacking “evil” Democrats, who will

turn America into socialist Venezuela if they ever get power, but nothing to say about the national security and public health threats that climate change poses. And this after Hurricane Michael tore through the $3.4 billion Tyndell Air Force Base in Florida. The New York Times in an editorial said governments would literally have to change their fossil-fuel dependent economies dramatically unless the planet’s temperature change so radically by 2040 that human societies and the animal kingdom won’t be able to adapt fast enough. The editorial referred to Trump as an “outlier” among government leaders who, following Obama’s lead, joined the Paris Climate Accord to to mitigate climate change. I would use diﬀerent terms for Trump: “Saboteur.” “Criminal.” Interestingly, even Saudi Arabia, which is holding a “Devos in

the Desert” conference to reduce its economy’s dependency on oil, sees the handwriting on the wall: demand for oil will decrease because 1. fossil fuels are being depleted or too expensive to extract and 2. nations are moving away from fossil fuels to power their society. But Trump? He boasts that the U.S. has become the biggest producer on the planet. Meanwhile, he makes us vulnerable to Saudi Arabia’s threat to push up the price if the US retaliates for murdering Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi. Trump, on the one hand, likes to boast that the U.S. has “led the way” to reduce its carbon emissions. But the statistics are from 2005 to 2017, before Trump and his criminal enterprise at the Environmental Un-Protection Agency reversed course, actually switching the incentives to transition to clean, renewable energy. Continued on Page 61

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Action needed to control drug costs

sserting “disgust” with politics, Jerry Kremer considers the pharmaceutical industry — which leads him (and us) to greater disgust. My stalwart Republican dad used to say, “It’s human to complain. It’s patriotic to act. Think about the Founding Fathers.”! ! We need frank discussion around American health care.!!Think Nov. 6. Kremer bemoans too many drug ads — 771,368 in 2016, up 65 percent from 2012. Unbelievably, U.S. drug marketing exceeds the total cost of U.S. medical education.!! Big Pharma averages 23 percent profit margins. The Fortune 500 averages 7 percent. Of the 15 companies with the greatest dollar profits, 12 are drug companies.! Why so high?! ! Monopolistic pricing.! ! With as many as 3,300 lobbyists spending $1.2 million per day on our 535 members of Congress, our patent laws now protect “me-too” drugs and devices — e.g., re-patented minor changes to asthma injectors raised prices from $15 to $400.! Generics are also being monopolized: Martin Shkreli (in prison for defrauding hedgefund

shareholders, not patients) raised the price of Daraprim (for deadly parasite infections) from $13.50 to $750 per tablet (5,500 percent).! ! Shkreli is hardly alone: just last month, Nirmal Mulye defended raising the price of nitrofurantoin (a WHO “essential” antibiotic) 400 percent because of his “moral requirement” to shareholders “to sell the product at the highest price.”! Why such demand for overpriced drugs?! ! Some save lives.!!Others explain those annoying TV ads. Marketing works — and constitutes 30 percent of pharmaceutical spending. But, but… innovation?! ! Drug companies spend far less on R&D than marketing — and prioritize “me-too” re-patents. Breakthrough medications depend on your and my tax dollars. Every single FDA-approved new drug since 2010 came from NIH-supported research. Of the $100 billion spent by the NIH (2010-2016), $64 billion helped develop 84 first-in-class drugs. Taxes save lives. Who knew? In 1980 the Baye-Dole Act allowed universities and nonprofits to patent medications and devices developed with federal funding — and to sell them to

drug companies.! ! Baye-Dole includes a government “marchin” right should public access be constrained, perhaps by pricegouging. But “marching in” has never happened — even when Abbot Labs raised the price of Norvir (for AIDS) 400 percent for Americans but not foreign countries. Recently, 10 pharmaceuticals spent $9B commercializing cancer drugs, for which they’ve reaped $67 billion in monopoly profits within the U.S.! The low prices they charge across the rest of the world are gravy.! Last spring, a widely quoted Goldman Sachs analyst asked, “Is curing patients a sustainable business model?”! ! His answer: “No!” He cited Gilead’s breakthrough drug for Hepatitis C (a 90 percent cure rate for the previously incurable, at $95K per treatment); 2015 sales of $12.5B plummeted to $4 billion in 2018. Profits require “sustainable” markets, he explained: on-going treatments, not cures. We desperately need new antibiotics to combat resistance — but, because new antibiotics will be used sparingly to maintain their potency, self-respecting drug companies with “moral ob-

ligations” to shareholders ignore our need.!!Ditto for ballyhooed “customized” cancer treatments — how do you sustain even 23 percent average profit in genetically tiny markets achieving cures? “Opportunity cost” means hundreds of essential medications are no longer produced or are perilously unavailable — 90 percent of emergency room physicians describe patients suﬀering from 2018 shortages. The FDA’s response: a taskforce.!! More promising is Civica Rx, a just-founded, non-profit drug manufacturer. Citing danger to patients from 183 activedrug shortages, its large-hospital founders plan priced-at-cost diabetic supplies, asthma medications, and other essential generics in 2019. What can we do to break coercive monopolies that assert the “morality” of extorting abusive profits? We could “march in,” perhaps for a percentage of profits. More easily, like every other developed nation, we can allow our most-trusted health agency (Medicare) to negotiate drug prices.! ! We pay 160 percent to 250 percent more than other wealthy countries do — for

the same drugs, from the same factories.! Americans funded the research for these drugs. We should pay less, not twice as much.! Medicare is projected to spend $1.5 trillion on prescription drugs over the next decade. Imagine saving $750 billion? While that’s unlikely in D.C. anytime soon, New Yorkers have options. Ask your New York Senate candidates whether they support the New York Health Act. Like Medicare, but oﬀering better benefits and covering everyone, the bill will use the clout of 20 million New Yorkers to extract volume discounts from Big Pharma.!!The VA, negotiating for 20 million veterans, saves 40 percent.! ! The Rand Corporation recently concluded that New York Health would save New York money, stimulate our economy, create 180,000 new jobs — and save lives. Greed is disgusting. In health care, it’s deadly.! Vote on Nov. 6, as if your life depends on it — others’ lives will.!! Judith B. Esterquest Manhasset

Walking for cures a dead A plea to save end for health care ills history in G.N.

utumn brings many seasonal traditions, one of which are public “walks” and “runs” to help find cures for diseases. Whether it’s lupus, breast cancer, Alzheimer’s, or other aﬄictions, ordinary citizens pay up for the privilege of participating in these fund raising events. I’ve often thought these affairs were rather odd, simply because of the state of health care and how it’s delivered in this country. For! example, on the Walk to End Lupus website, it states the money collected will “lead special research initiatives, fund innovative studies, and advocate for increased public and private investment in lupus research to advance the science and medicine of lupus.” Which is indeed a noble goal, as ending human suﬀering in any form is. Except there is something very strange about ordinary citizens chipping in their own money

to fund private investment in a cure they will unlikely be able to aﬀord, or be bled dry consuming. And then, as is their custom, the providers of these publicly funded cures, some of it in contributions, some of it in the form of the $100 billion spent on research in the past decade by the National Institute of Health, will lobby Congress to prevent cheaper generic versions of the cures from reaching the market. That’s how we got a shortage of EpiPens right before the school year: Mylan Labs, which owned the patent that allowed them to charge $600 for what is a pair of retractable ball point pens, pretty much owned all of the production available, and prevented any competitors from entering the market they controlled. A generic version is finally on the way, but that’s our system: it puts patent squatting ahead of the public welfare, leaving our children vulnerable. So who would be crazy

enough to take their own money out of their pockets in order to be gouged later? The same ones who allowed a 501(c)3 “non-profit” to create a hospital monopoly in their own backyard, while its management showers itself with eight figure salaries, which requires them to perform all sorts of over-testing, and also has them resorting to fund raising as well. Including, wouldn’t you know it, “walks.” Lenin famously said that the “Capitalists will sell us the rope to hang themselves with.” He didn’t count on Americans being gullible enough to supplying the rope for free, and then getting it sold back to them by capitalists along with a 10,000 percent mark-up and a patientsupplied Range Rover for every practitioner. That’s a “free market economy” for you. Donald Davret Searingtown

ayor Bral, Coming home from a recent trip to Italy, I have heard rumors about the village’s plans to sell Village Hall, and to turn the corner of Piccadilly and Middle Neck Road into apartments.! One of the highlights of traveling in Europe is viewing the antiquities — whether they be Roman ruins, buildings from the Victorian age, or Deco designs.! They are something to treasure. Of course, Great Neck is not that old, but we still have a few remnants of our past that deserve to be preserved and cared for.! The present Village Hall contains the bones of the original Baker farmhouse.! As I am sure you are aware, Mills Baker was one of the prominent early farmers on the peninsula.! And the “wedding cake building,” located at the corner of Piccadilly Road and Middle Neck Road,

constructed in the 1930s as an Oldsmobile dealership and gas station, is unique in design, and has become a landmark in Great Neck. I urge you to protect both of these buildings.! We have so little of our past left in Great Neck, as the homes of our notable former residents are torn down to make way for newer and grander structures, or subdivided to allow for more housing. These are buildings that should be landmarked, not destroyed.! Do you know that Great Neck is one of the very few areas without a local historical museum?! Either of those buildings would be a suitable home for such a museum.! We should not be destroying our community’s past, but honoring it. Alice Kasten Great Neck Historical Society

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A welcome voice Car keying did happen of skepticism I

ust for the record, I look forward to reading Karen Rubin’s column (Viewpoint) each week. She has an excellent understanding of our country’s past and present policies and how they are presenting"a challenge to going forward in a just and productive manner. She presents the laws and their positions in today’s society which bring to light questions regarding the democratic means of ensuring that the rights of the

n response to the article dated 9/25/18, “Great Neck Oﬃcials Tout School Fixes, Residents Blast Parking Lot,” Colleen Bowler, a spokeswoman for the people who make up our coun- Great Neck Public Schools, said try are protected. administrators followed up on Questioning and criticizing these claims and found “no reports actions and decisions of late is of car keying.”" Bowler’s statement contranecessary in order that divisions in our multiethnic population dicts the meeting minutes from and power held by less than a the Shared Decision Committee consensus be called into ques- meeting held on April 13, 2016 tion and examined in order that at Great Neck North High School." decisions can be representative In those meeting minutes, it states that the subject of cars was disof the general public. cussed." Under that heading are Amy Prochaska bullet points: Keying and damagPort Washington" ing, and damaged cars would get spots in the top lot." While this may be embarrassing for the school to admit, this topic was indeed discussed,

but unfortunately, it was only discussed among the school administrators, teachers, and parents of students attending Great Neck North High School in reference to the need for a new, expanded parking lot. " Of note, in the minutes of the Shared Decision Committee meetings over the past few years, no other safety issues leading to the need for an expanded parking lot were recorded." Additionally, the other stakeholders, those living in the environs of the school, were not included or invited to any of the pre-bond proposal parking lot discussions." Thus far there are nearly 600 residents within the Great Neck community who have signed a petition in opposition to this illconceived parking lot." We object

to the parking lot because of the increased traﬃc that will be introduced into an already densely trafficked area, because of the assault on our green space, and because there is an existing, underused parking lot two blocks away that the student drivers could use." The consistent, steady presence of residents in opposition to this line item in the bond at regular Board of Education meetings, as well as the various cogent arguments that have been presented, should give the Board of Education reason to reconsider a more productive use of nearly $700,000 of public funds that will benefit only a small fraction of the district’s students."

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Today, low income school districts get 75 percent or more of the average New York State cost per student while high income school districts get 5 percent or less." Let’s make state aid 15 percent" of average. New York State student costs for higher income school districts and 75 percent of average costs for lower income school districts. The average cost per New York State student, excluding special needs students, is about $20,000." Again, thank you, Sen. Phillips, for your eﬀorts, and I ask Gov. Cuomo to please wake up and make this needed change in New York’s foundation aid formula.

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Sad passing of State aid formula unfair Frank Padavan

t was with great sadness as I read of the passing of former New York state Sen. Frank Padavan at age 83. He was elected to state Senate in 1972 and served for 38 years. Padavan fought hard for residents with mental health issues. He also served 30 years as a colonel in the reserved Army of Engineers. He served the people of Queens and New York state with honor and dedication. He was also on the board of directors of the Queens Village Republican Club where I am also a member. I had worked on some of his campaigns, had posted signs and had written to various newspapers in their letters to the editor in support of Padavan.

When I was first Grand Knight of St. Anastasia Knights of Columbus in Douglaston, I had him speak at our installations of oﬃcers on issues that concern the many in our community. Whenever I had a problem, I would write to him for help and he would respond and try to do what he could for me. Padavan truly has cared for the concerns of the middle class. We in Queens and in this great state of New York have been truly blessed to of had Padavan as our state Senator. Padavan, may you rest in peace for you’ve done good. Frederick R. Bedell Jr. Mineola

ost Long Island residents are unaware of the major flaw in New York’s state aid formula, which gives some Long Island and other New York State students $11,000 and more in foundation aid, while other school districts, such as Port Washington, get less than $1000 per student." In total state aid, some school districts get close to $20,000 per student in overall state aid, while others, like Port Washington, get less than $2,000 per student. The key part of state aid is Foundation Aid using a formula based upon average resident income, not median resident income. School districts with a few multi-millionaires have much higher average resident income than other school districts" while the typical (i.e., median or middle) resident income diﬀerence is far

In fairness, the formula should be based upon median incomes, not average incomes greatly aﬀected by a few very wealthy residents." But Gov. Cuomo has failed to take meaningful action to correct this indisputable unfairness in the state aid formula. However, I do want to thank our Sen. Elaine Phillips for trying to address this problem, but without success because of other opposing politicians. Yes, low-income school districts" should definitely get more state aid per student than higher income school districts. But the diﬀerence should not be 10 to 1 or higher, but rather 5 to 1." In other words, the higher income school districts" should get at least one-fifth as much per student as the lower income school districts.

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n Thursday, Nov. 22, Thanksgiving Day, we will be preparing and delivering hot meals to homebound senior citizens, coordinating this program from our home." Last year we provided over 450 meals and we expect to be doing the same this year. We are in need of donations of desserts, individual non-carbonated beverages, mini loaves of bread or dinner rolls, turkeys, and cash in order to complete the meals." " These items can be dropped oﬀ at our home at" 35 Maxwell Road, Garden

City." " Please call us as soon as possible to coordinate a convenient drop oﬀ time. All deliveries will begin at 12 noon on Thanksgiving Day.""Each delivery is accompanied by a visit, if so welcomed by the recipient.""We deliver to between 35 and 40 diﬀerent towns within" Nassau" County; please call us if you are able to help with the delivery of the meals. This year will be the 23rd" year we have coordinated this project. "It is a special part of our family tradition, and we invite you to make it part of yours, as

well." " Your generous donations of food, money, and time have made the deliveries a tremendous success each year." " With your help, we can continue to bring a meal and a smile to those who are alone on the holiday. Feel free to contact us at 516746-8331 regarding any part of this program. We thank you all for your continued support each year. Melinda and John Alford Garden City Letters Continued on Page 59

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Legislature questions assessment plan Republicans, Democrats concerned new executive order could raise home values too quickly BY LU K E TORRANCE Both Republicans and Democrats in the Nassau County Legislature expressed concern this week over County Executive Laura Curran’s plan to fix the assessment system. “I do support correcting the assessment system,” said Delia DeRiggi-Whitton (D-Glen Cove), noting that the county’s assessment rolls have not been updated in seven years. “But I think the trepidation!comes from the fact that we haven’t seen firsthand data yet … maybe [Curran] should consider slowing down the process.” On Monday, Nassau County Assessor David Moog went before the Nassau Legislature to testify about the eﬀects of Curran’s recently implemented executive order. The executive order would!set the class one level of assessment — which covers one-, two-, and three-family homes — at 0.1 percent of market value. That was a drop from 0.25 percent, which was set when Cur-

ran signed an executive order in March to restart the tax rolls. But the administration decided to change course after!research showed that it would be diﬃcult for the county to win assessment challenges against wealthy homeowners under that plan. The tax rolls have not been updated since 2011, and as a result the tax burden has shifted from Nassau residents who challenged their assessments to residents who did not. County legislators are worried that the new plan could cause property taxes to rise too suddenly for some homeowners, rather than gradually rising to the appropriate level. On Monday, Moog warned that without state legislation spreading the assessment increases over a fiveyear period, some homeowners could see their property tax bills increase by 20 percent. Both Curran and the Legislature want state legislation to spread out the increases, but Presiding Oﬃcer Rich Nicolello (R-New Hyde Park) said it was a mistake to leave that to the “poli-

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earlier agreements,” he said. “Homeowners will have the opportunity to look at this, and express … what their feelings are for the whole process.” They will be able to do that because the Legislature unanimously approved a bill that would require the assessor’s office to send notices by Nov. 15 to Nassau homeowners notifying them of the potential impact. “[The assessor’s oﬃce] is sending out notices on Nov. 1 that show the fair value and assessed value, but!won’t say what the tax impacts are,” Nicolello said.! PHOTO BY DANTD VIA WIKIMEDIA COMMONS And that confusion about the tax impact extends to the Nassau legislators. The Nassau County Legislative and Executive Building is “I! don’t know what impact seen in Mineola. it will have on people’s home cumvented the tax cap” with the values, and I don’t feel good tics of Albany.” “Whether that [legislation] new 0.1 percent increase, which about approving this without comes to pass is an open ques- could lead to an increase “all at that information,” said DeRiggiWhitton. tion,” he said, adding that the once.” He also said there was nothstate Legislature would not look Reach reporter Luke Torrance ing the Nassau Legislature could at it until January. Nicolello said he agreed do to stop Curran from going by email at ltorrance@theislandnow.com, by phone at 516-307to the plan in March that Cur- ahead with the plan. “She has the power, so we 1045, ext. 214, or follow him on ran eventually abandoned in September. He said Curran “cir- can’t make her go back to the Twitter @LukeATorrance.

pledges to: • Remove abortion from the state criminal code • Keep firearms from high-risk individuals • Never fund charter schools with public school money

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157 Wheatley students AP Scholars BY J E D H E N D R I X S ON Wheatley School Principal Dr. Sean Feeney announced that a record 157 students from the 2017-18 school year earned recognition as AP Scholars. “This is an extraordinary achievement,” Feeney said at an East Williston Board of Education meeting last Wednesday. He presented data from last year’s Advance Placement exams and the New York State Regents Exams. “These kinds of numbers are exemplary of our teaching and program we have moved towards,” Feeney said. The Wheatley School has an open enrollment policy for advanced placement classes. Many schools only allow students in the top percentile of their

class to qualify and register for AP classes. Wheatley’s policy has encouraged all students to challenge themselves and enroll, Feeney said. The College Board recognizes scholars based on several levels of achievement based on students’ exam performance. Overall, 829 AP exams were given at Wheatley last year. Eighty percent of students scored a three or higher on a fivepoint scale. Additionally, 22 students qualified for the National AP Scholar Award by earning an average grade of four or higher on a five-point scale on all AP exams taken. Improvements came on the calculus AB, calculus BC, statistics and chemistry exams, among others. Dips in scores

compared with last year’s exams came on the psychology, physics 1 and 12th grade English literature exams. Board President Mark Kamberg expressed gratitude to Feeney, and gave a shoutout to the math teachers in the school, but also said there is room for improvement in areas where scores fell oﬀ. “We have made great adjustments over the year through what I consider a great leadership team,” Kamberg said. “Obviously there’s going to be some dips in there.” “I think it’s clear that some of the areas do still need work,” he said. “Targeted professional development has been mentioned and I don’t know if this is something of use in these areas, but I

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think the board would appreciate some sort of action plan back in that particular area because we’ve seen the results from others.” Alan Yu, CPA, a partner at Cullen & Danowski LLP, the board’s independent external auditor, presented findings from the audit of the school’s finances. “I have always said this and it remains to be true,” Yu said. “Your district has one of the most robust audit committees that I have ever dealt with, and I have been doing school district auditing since 1990.” Yu reported the issuing of an unmodified auditor’s opinion to the board, the best assurance an auditor can give, he said. “The district’s financial statements have been prepared in accordance with general accepted accounting principles and they are free of material misstatements,” Yu said. “Unlike other school districts where they were heavily criticized by the state comptroller’s oﬃce for having too much fund balance, too much reserves and unreasonably budgeting this district did not have any of those findings,” he said. “It is a testament to the direction this board has always taken.” The board also approved a resolution to apply $1.2 million in revenue from the 2017-18 end of year unreserved fund into the Capital Reserve Fund.

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Ra topping Carr in campaign fundraising BY J E D H E N D R I X S ON New York Assemblyman Ed Ra has spent 10 times as much as his opponent, Billy Carr, in the race for the District 19 seat in recent months. Newly released campaign filings from July and from 32 days before the general election show that Ra, a Republican, spent a total of $46,271. Carr’s campaign filed a “no activity statement” for July and listed spending of $4,249 in the later report.

According to the reports, Ra received over $58,000 in contributions compared with Carr’s $11,500. Of Carr’s $4,249, almost all was spent on design consultants and the printing of signs for campaigning. Ra’s expenditures include numerous donations and contributions to the Garden City Chamber of Commerce, New York Republican Assembly Campaign Committee and the!Nassau County Republican Committee, Continued on Page 28

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A great debate over ‘The Great Gatsby’ Authors making case that Westport, not Great Neck, was bigger influencer of American novel BY JA N E LL E CL AUSEN

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The Great Neck Historical Society will host a presentation that may challenge long held assumptions about ‘The Great Gatsby’ and F. Scott Fitzgerald.

Many in Great Neck have claimed “Great Gatsby” author F. Scott Fitzgerald as a native son, assuming that when Jay Gatsby stares across the sound toward the green light, he’s peering from West Egg – or Great Neck – over toward Sands Point, or East Egg. But filmmakers Richard Webb and Robert Steven Williams will be challenging this at a presentation hosted by the Great Neck Historical Society at the Great Neck Library on Sunday at 1:30 p.m. suggesting that Westport, Connecticut, might better fit the bill for inspiring the iconic book. “They truly have done an amazing amount of research,” Alice Kasten, president of the Great Neck Historical Society, said last Thursday. “This is not a fly-bynight kind of eﬀort.” Webb and Williams have been working on a film for many years, Kasten said, interviewing Fitzgerald’s family members, scholars and traveling around the country to visit sites that may

have influenced the author – including some on the North Shore. Kasten recalled taking the duo around Great Neck and the North Shore, including the Hempstead House in Sands Point, and said they have since kept in touch. “They have done a huge, huge, huge amount of research on Fitzgerald,” Kasten said. Much of that research appears in “Boats Against the Current: The Honeymoon Summer of Scott and Zelda,” the main subject of the talk, which Webb wrote as an accompaniment to the not-yet-released documentary he is producing with Williams. The book recalls the fivemonth honeymoon of Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald in Westport, Connecticut, in 1920, where the couple was enjoying the success of Fitzgerald’s novel “This Side of Paradise.” They “lived a wild life of drinking, driving and endless partying” there, the book says, and suggests that the town might have been a larger influence for “The Great Gatsby” than Great Neck. Continued on Page 28

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A parent’s grief reaches Congress

House passes resolution sought by Manhasset mom whose daughter died at father’s hands BY LU K E TORRANCE On July! 27, 2016, Kyra Franchetti was killed by her father at his home in Virginia. She was shot twice in the back before her father set the house on fire and killed himself. Kyra was 2 years old. Kyra’s mother,! Jacqueline Franchetti, was born and raised in Manhasset and works in Port Washington. Since her daughter’s death, she has dedicated as much time as possible to ensure that this does not happen to another child. “My daughter’s case is not an isolated incident,” Franchetti said. “This is an issue nationwide.” Franchetti’s eﬀorts to make this a national eﬀort showed a major sign of success last month when the U.S. House of Representatives passed Resolution 72, which stresses that child safety should take priority in parent custody disputes. “This is the first time in 30 years that [Congress] has addressed the family court system,”

was suicidal, that he had anger issues, I was told to grow up.” The forensic evaluator, a mental health professional, recommended that Kyra’s parents should have joint custody. Child Protective Services deemed her case as low risk because the father “hadn’t hit [Kyra].” Even when the father refused to follow court orders on medical directives, Franchetti said the attorney assigned to the case “refused to get involved.” Following Kyra’s death, Franchetti has spent most of her time outside of Franchetti Communications — where she works as the chief marketing oﬃcer and leader trainer — to improving child safety in custody cases. That is what drew her to PHOTO COURTESY OF THE KYRA FRANCHETTI FOUNDATION House Resolution 72, which was introduced almost a year to the Jacqueline Franchetti with U.S. Rep. Tom Suozzi (D-Glen day after Kyra was killed. Rep. Cove). Suozzi was among the Long Island congressmen to Pete Sessions (R-Texas) was support the legislation. the resolution’s sponsor, and its introduction in the House was she said. more than two years ago. spearheaded by Joan Meier, a Franchetti said that Child “It wasn’t one person who law professor specializing in Protective Services did not take failed, it was the institution,” she domestic abuse at George Washher seriously when she was fight- said. “So many things were oﬀ ington University in Washington, ing for custody of her daughter … the fact that [Kyra’s father] D.C. Other groups and people

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Authors question G.N. influence for ‘Gatsby’ Continued from Page 22 “The geography of the green light and Daisy’s house and Gatsby’s house apparently fits Westport really well, according to them,” Kasten said, adding that it doesn’t necessarily discount any influence from Great Neck. This will mark their first Long Island book talk, the Great Neck Historical Society and Great Neck Library said, and will

feature pieces of the film. And, Kasten said, she expects a lot of interest in the program. “We booked it in the library because we feel there should be more people than are able to be seated in the Great Neck House where [we usually do presentations] and because they need more technology for their talk than we can provide at Great Neck House,” she said.

Ra outspends Carr 10:1 Continued from Page 21 among others. Ra also spent around $6,700 on fundraising, professional services and lawn signs from CCC Enterprises. Blank Slate Media has previously reported that CCC Enterprises is a company based in a residential home, 324 West 19th St. in Deer Park, with little known about it. In total, CCC Enterprises has received $397,780.32 from various Republican campaigns, like Ra’s, New York state Senator Elaine Phillips and fellow Assemblymen John Mikulin of District 17 and Brian Curran of District 21. However, the overwhelm-

ing majority of the contributions have come from the New York State Senate Republican Campaign Committee. A limited liability company named CCC Consulting Group is run from the same location as CCC Enterprises and is registered to Christopher Cianciulli. Ra identified Cianciulli as someone he has used for all of his past elections, and that he grew up knowing in the area. “I can’t speak for the party but he has done work for me this election and in the past,” Ra said. “Design work, lawn signs and consultations mostly.” Eﬀorts to contact Cianciulli were unavailing.

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he Gold Coast International Film Festival will offer an array of films touching on everything from baseball in Israel to a humorous twist on chronic back pain. More than 80 movies will be offered over 10 days in the Soundview Cinema of Port Washington and the Bowtie theaters in Manhasset, Roslyn and Great Neck, according to the festival’s website, along with special guests and talks after certain films. There will be dozens of documentaries, foreign films from 22 countries, dramas, family programs, comedies and short films ranging from four to 30 minutes each. Caroline Sorokoff, the festival director, said it will feature award-winning movies and include dramas that are making premieres either on Long Island or

New York. B u t what stands out in particular this year is the sheer number of visits and question and answer sessions with people involved in the film industry, Sorokoﬀ said. “It’s really all about great films you can’t see anywhere else and insider Q&As,” Sorokoﬀ said. “That’s really why people come to us and why people have been calling us already asking, ‘When’s the schedule going to be released?’” The Gold Coast International Film Festival will launch with a night of Beatlemania on Friday, Nov. 2, at 7 p.m. in the Bowtie Great Neck Squire Cinemas. It will feature the Long Island premiere of “Deconstructing the Beatles: Magical Mystery Tour,” a live performance by tribute band Penny Lane!, and a visit from musicologist and Beatles expert Scott Freiman, who created the “Deconstructing the Beatles” series. Another of the films on the schedule is “Bathtubs over Broadway,” a documentary focusing on so-called Broadway-style “industrial musicals” and “Late Show with David Letterman” comedy writer Steve Young’s journey through a world of corporate song and dance. Young will be available for a Q&A session after the film, which will play on Saturday, Nov. 10, at 7 p.m. in Port Washington’s Soundview Cinema. There will also be an underdog sports story, “Heading Home: The Tale of Team Israel,” making its Long Island premiere

on Sunday, Nov. 11, at 4:30 p.m. at the Bowtie Great Neck Squire Cinemas and a visit from Jeremy Newberger, one of its directors. The film chronicles Israel’s national baseball team’s unexpected victory at the 2017 World Baseball Classic, its battles against other national teams, and explorations of the team members’ Jewish identities. Another film set to premiere on Long Island is “Yellow Is Forbidden,” which follows Chinese designer Guo Pei and captures her rise to the international scene as she faces challenges from various forces like tradition, prejudice and the pressure China’s economic rise puts on artists. That film will be shown on Friday, Nov. 9, at 7:30 p.m. in the Bowtie Great Neck Squire Cinemas. “Diane,” deemed the best narrative film at the Tribeca Film Festival and produced by Martin Scorsese, will also be shown at the Soundview Cinema in Port Washington on Thursday, Nov. 8, at 7:30 p.m. The event will also feature a Q&A with Matt Prigge, a New York University professor and film critic, who worked as film editor for Metro and written for publications like The Village Voice, Philadelphia Weekly and Nashville Scene. Sorokoﬀ also highlighted Making Memories, a special program for people with memory loss and their caregivers, which will include clips from military themed films and a sing-along led by musician Roberta Fabiano. This will take place on Tuesday, Nov.

6, at 11:30 a.m. in the Gold Coast Arts Center. There will also be a set of family film days, including on Monday, Nov. 12, starting at 12:30 p.m. at the Gold Coast Arts Center with handpicked films for a family audience, Sorokoff said. “Song of Back and Neck,” a romantic comedy, tells the tale of Fred, a paralegal who suffers from immobilizing back pain. He meets a client going through divorce proceedings – which not only sparks a romance, but unconventional acupuncture treatment for his back. Paul Lieberstein, the director, producer and screenwriter of the film, will appear via Skype from Los Angeles to field questions from audience members at the film’s screening at the Soundview Cinema in Port Washington on Saturday, Nov. 10, at 7:30 p.m. “It’s a really quirky, fun, romantic comedy,” Sorokoff said. Sorokoff also said the film “Happy,” which documents how people around the world find happiness despite their living conditions, as well as the panel featuring Katz Institute for Women’s Health experts and Roko Belic, the film’s director, is particularly relevant for today. The film will be shown on Sunday, Nov. 11, at 11 a.m. in the Soundview Cinema of Port Washington. “It’s just kind of a nice way to remind people to take a step back and take care of themselves,” Sorokoff said. A full list of offerings can be found at the Gold Coast International Film Festival’s website. Tickets are now on sale.

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Whoopi Goldberg Friday, Oct. 26 at 8 p.m.

Oscar-winning actress, comedienne, author, and television host of the ABC daytime talk show, “The View,” Whoopi Goldberg will take the stage in Westbury, sharing her humor, stories and insights on the world today.

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Hofstra University Presents: “Into the Woods”

Friday, Oct. 26 and Saturday, Oct. 27 at 8 p.m., and Sunday, Oct. 28 at 2 p.m. (ongoing performances through Nov. 4) “Into the Woods” weaves the classic stories of “Little Red Riding Hood,” “Jack and the Beanstalk,” “Cinderella,” and “Rapunzel” around the tale of a baker and his wife who learn that they are childless because of a witch’s curse. Where: Sosnoff Theater at the John Cranford Adams Playhouse, Hofstra University, Hempstead Info & Tickets: (516) 463-6644 • events.hofstra.edu

”Nine: The Musical”

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This Tony award-winning musical is based on Federico Fellini’s semi-autobiographical film, “8½,” about a famous Italian film director who has turned 40 and faces double crises: he has to shoot a film for which he can’t write the script, and his wife of 20 years may be about to leave him. Where: Madison Theatre at Molloy College, 1000 Hempstead Ave., Rockville Centre Info & Tickets: (516) 323-4444 • madisontheatreny.org

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The Halloween Ball includes blood-thirst-quenching cocktails in the Vampyres’ Lair, a gory dinner (for meat eaters and vegetarians alike), and entertainment fit for the most daring night creature. Throughout the week, you can pay a visit to the Vampyres’ Lair, a fun and terrifying experience. Where: Sands Point Preserve Conservancy, Hempstead House, 127 Middle Neck Road, Sands Point Info & Tickets: (516) 571-7901 • sandspointpreserveconservancy.org

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Author Alice McDermott with “The Ninth Hour”

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Sunday, Oct. 28 at 1 p.m. Join this afternoon event with bestselling and award-winning author Alice McDermott as she speaks and signs copies of her novel, “The Ninth Hour.” In Catholic Brooklyn during the early part of the 20th century, a man’s suicide reverberates through many lives. Where: Book Revue, 313 New York Ave., Huntington Info: (631) 271-1442 • bookrevue.com

The Rimers of Eldritch by Lanford Wilson

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Tuesday, Oct. 30 through Sunday, Nov. 4 (check venue website for daily show times) This play by Lanford Wilson is set in the mid-20th century in Eldritch, Missouri, a decaying Bible Belt town that once was a prosperous coal mining community, and focuses on the murder of an aging local hermit. Where: Adelphi University Performing Arts Center, 1 South Ave., Garden City Info: (516) 877-4000 • pac.adelphi.edu

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Little River Band Thursday, Nov. 1 at 8 p.m.

Through the 1970’s and ‘80’s, the Little River Band enjoyed success with multi-platinum albums and chart-topping hits like “Reminiscing,” “Help Is on Its Way,” “Lady,” and “It’s A Long Way There.” Where: The Paramount, 370 New York Ave., Huntington Info & Tickets: (631) 673-7300 • paramountny.com

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Friday, Oct. 26 and Saturday, Oct. 27, 6:30 p.m. to 9: 30 p.m. (Spooky Walk) and Sunday, Oct. 28, 12 p.m to 4 p.m. (Not-So-Spooky Walk)

Clark Botanic Garden transforms into a haunted maze with goblins, ghosts, zombies and more. Minors must be accompanied by an adult at the Spooky Walk. Younger children will enjoy fun-filled activities at the Sunday celebration. Both events are $5 per person.

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This day will be full of family activities — from pumpkin picking and decorating, to mask making and trick-or-treating — and includes a haunted house, food trucks, bounce houses, live entertainment and more. Wear a Halloween costume to enter the costume contest and walk in the Halloween parade.

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

aunted House and Children’s Fall Festival

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Saturday, Oct. 27, 1 p.m. to 7 p.m. (Haunted House) and Sunday, Oct. 28, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. (Fall Festival)

Children ages 6 to 12 can get into the Halloween spirit at the Haunted House. The following day, the whole family can dress in costumes for this fall celebration for kids that will include live country music, hayrides, pony rides and a seasonal petting zoo. !

Where: Queens County Farm Museum, 73-50 Little Neck Parkway, Floral Park / Info & Tickets: 718-347-3276 or queensfarm.org

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Kids can join this night at the museum to celebrate Halloween in a safe and spooky way. They can show oﬀ their costumes, decorate a goody bag, go trick-or-treating in the gallery, get their faces painted, listen to eerie music, make cool and creepy craft projects, and enjoy a bubble show extravaganza.

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

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This Halloween party for young children will feature adorable woodland plush animals celebrating Halloween in a charming display complete with fairy cottages and sparkle lights. Children can come in costume — and bring pets in their costumes, too. Members: $10 per car; non-members: $20 per car.

Where: Sands Point Preserve Conservancy, Hempstead House, 127 Middle Neck Road, Sands Point Info: 516-571-7901 or sandspointpreserveconservancy.org

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Town of North Hempstead Supervisor Judi Bosworth & the Town Board dare you to join us at Clark Botanic Garden:

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Council Member, Dist. 4 Anna M. Kaplan

Council Member, Dist. 5 Lee R. Seeman

Council Member, Dist. 6 Dina M. De Giorgio

Town Clerk Wayne H. Wink, Jr.

Receiver of Taxes Charles Berman

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Celebrating Life One Nibble At A Time! Nicole Meyer is a Cookbook Author, Food Personality & Founder of Nibbles By Nic Culinary Events. Nibbles By Nic offers private cooking parties, corporate lunch & learns, holiday workshops and meal planning boot camps series for busy people who want to boost their confidence in the kitchen. WHAT’S ON OUR

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Direct from Broadway to Port’s Landmark Bobby Conte Thornton isn’t actually referring to his own life story with the title of his solo cabaret show. The 25-year-old’s “Blame It on My Youth” debuted to critical acclaim at the historic Venetian Room in the Fairmont San Francisco before coming home to sell out at Manhattan’s Feinstein’s/54 Below, with a set list that takes him from Nat King Cole to Alan Mencken to Pasek and Paul. Now, direct from his highly praised Broadway debut as Calogero, the lead role in Chazz Palminteri’s hit musical “A Bronx Tale,” Thornton is now bringing!“Blame It On My Youth” to!Landmark on Main Street on Friday, Oct. 19 at 8 p.m. In addition to the full concert with a four piece band, Thornton sits down with Palminteri on stage to talk about their unique collaboration of working together on his life story. Steve Barnes of the Albany Times-Union says Thornton delivers, “a polished, impassioned set with a musical and emotional maturity beyond his 25 years. He’s still plenty youthful, prone to stomping on the stage or leaping on the piano or kicking out

his long, lanky legs like a thoroughbred colt, and he exudes a young person’s idealism. But his musical choices and the interpretive intelligence behind the way he uses his supple, powerful tenor suggest an older, wiser performer.” A 2015 graduate of the University of Michigan, Thornton starred in “Grease” at the Paper Mill Playhouse in! Millburn, NJ,!and “Les Miserables” at the Muny in St. Louis while pursuing his BFA. His New York theater credits include “My Fair Lady,” directed by Richard Maltby Jr. Thornton has also starred regionally in Two River Theater’s all-male “A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum,” and the world premiere of Ken Ludwig’s “A Comedy of Tenors.” His television credits include “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt,” “Madam Secretary,” and the upcoming CBS military legal drama

“The Code.” The audience can expect a lively crowd at this show given that Thornton has deep roots in the community around Landmark. “After college, Bobby came to live with us in Manhasset while he auditioned for Broadway,” says his grandmother Helen “Mimi” Conte.! “He got to spend a lot of time with his ‘Pappy’ Anthony, listening to the stories Anthony had heard from his father, a first generation immigrant from Italy, and of course I stuﬀed him full of homemade raviolis and Italian family values. So when he went to audition for ‘A Bronx Tale,’ he was a natural for the part that Chazz Palminteri had written about his own life growing up in the Bronx.” Tickets to the performance are available through Landmark’s Box Oﬃce, 516-767-6444 and online at www.landmarkonmainstreet.org.

Tesla returns to rock The Paramount It’s been said that lightning never strikes the same place twice. However, it does in the case of the band Tesla, who will return to The Paramount on Thursday,!Oct. 25 at 8 p.m. Over the course of their 30-year career, the

hard rock quintet that hails from Sacramento, Calif., has sold more than 25 million albums and performed to sold-out crowds across the world. Comprised of Frank Hannon and Dave Rude on guitar, Brian Wheat

on bass, Troy Luccketta on drums, and Jeﬀ Keith as lead vocalist, the band’s! journey kicked oﬀ with 1986’s platinum-certified debut, Mechanical Resonance, which solidified them as a household name and yielded signature anthems, such as “Modern Day Cowboy” and “Love Song.” Tesla’s musical road continues with this upcoming concert, sure to entertain their many fans. The Paramount is located at 370 New York Ave. in Huntington. To purchase tickets to the show, go to www.paramountny.com.

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Rock music photo gems focus of exhibit Photographer Mick Rock, who was instrumental in creating some of the most iconic images in rock music history, will be the focus of a retrospective that!will be held on Saturday, Oct. 20, from 6 to 10 p.m., and Sunday, Oct. 21, from 1 to 6 p.m., at The Jewelry Studio, located at 1107 Old Country Road in Plainview. This unique gallery experience will include a collection of limited edition photographic pieces that will be on sale to the public, along with wearable jewelry art designed by The Jewelry Studio founder, Robert Pepkin. The artworks that will be on display range from classic portrait pieces of Long Island natives like Joan Jett and Lou Reed, to Rock’s quintessential album covers from the late ’60s through today, including Lou Reed’s Transformer, Iggy Pop’s Raw Power, The Ramones’ End of the Century,!and works from his creative partnership with David Bowie. With the upcoming release of Queen’s biopic, “Bohemian Rhapsody,” arriving in theaters this November, the collection will include some of Rock’s timeless works with the band including their Queen II and Sheer Heart Attack!album covers. Rock is often referred to as “the man who shot the ’70s,” for his images of! Syd Barrett (Pink Floyd),! David Bowie,! Lou Reed,! Iggy Pop,! Queen, the!Sex Pistols, the Ramones,!Blondie and many more. London born, he has resided in New York for the past 35 years, and has! shot more than 100 album covers.!His recent subjects include!Snoop Dogg, Lenny Kravitz, Janelle Monáe, Alicia Keys, Daft Punk, Rufus Wainwright,!Kings of Leon. Rock recently shot special stills for the new TV version of “The Rocky Horror Picture Show,” featuring the transgender actress Laverne Cox as Frank N. Furter. He also produced and!directed seminal music videos for Bowie, including “John, I’m Only Dancing,” “Jean Genie,” “Space Oddity,” and “Life On Mars.” At the event, Rock will autograph the new trade edition of his publication, “Mick Rock: The Rise of David

Bowie, 1972-1973,” a limited-edition book that sold out just before Bowie’s death. A documentary about Rock’s career, entitled “SHOT!,” launched at the Tribeca Film Festival in April 2016 and released theatrically in 2017. “I’ve never felt like a voyeur, although I’ve certainly done plenty of looking,” Rock was quoted as saying!in the London Times. ! “I work from the inside out. Like a cook, I gather all the ingredients and keep mixing and stirring and tasting until the kind of effluvia starts to rise, then I’m oﬀ to the races. It’s an addictive kind of a feeling that I need a regular shot of otherwise I don’t feel right.” A Long Island native, Pepkin attended the Pratt Institute for Fine Art before working with fine jewelry artist Marla Mencher. He found inspiration in a new kind of art that people could wear.! After a chance meeting with Francis Ford Coppola’s father Carmine, he was hired to work on the set design of their production of “Opera on the Sound.”! Pepkin continued to get more involved in the design and creation of jewelry and eventually opened The Jewelry Studio. During his 40 year career as an artist and jeweler, he has been inspired by countless artists both inside and outside his field. ! Pepkin first met Rock more than 30 years ago and is excited to collaborate with him in their upcoming gallery exhibit. “The attraction to Mick’s work for me comes from the many theatrical undertones, from the drama behind the legendary black and white Queen II album cover to capturing the dramatic poses of Iggy Pop on stage,” Pepkin says. “All of his shots capture the spirit of the artist or band he works with. The same has gone for me when trying to create something that someone will wear. You have to capture their spirit because the pieces become part of them and part of their own history.” Through David Glicker, a mutual friend and promoter, the two artists have reconnected to collaborate on this special gallery show that runs through January.

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A talk about warbler watching this fall The North Shore Audubon Society will present a talk, “Fall Warblers on Long Island,” delivered by Joe Giunta on!Tuesday, Oct. 23 at 7 p.m. The event will take place at the Manhasset Public Library at 30 Onderdonk Ave. Giunta, a native New Yorker, has been an avid birder in the region for nearly 30 years. He is the birding instructor for the Brooklyn Botanic Garden and has led bird

walks for many organizations, including The Nature Conservancy, New York City Audubon, the Brooklyn Bird Club, and several for the North Shore Audubon Society. Giunta’s program will highlight warblers in their fall plumages so bird watchers can better identify them in the fall foliage. The talk is free and open to the general public. For more information, go to www. northshoreaudubon.org.

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G.N. street fest fans community flair Annual autofest and street festival in Great Neck Plaza to feature contests, local talent BY JA N E LL E CL AUSEN The annual Great Neck Plaza Street Festival and AutoFest will showcase the talents of local students in addition to cars and restaurants on Sunday, a move aimed at making the event more “community oriented.” This year will feature two stages for musical and dance performances by Great Neck children at both ends of Bond Street, as well as a karaoke contest for 11-to-18-year-olds and more than 50 pieces of art on display and a variety of contests. In addition, Great Neck South High School’s robotics team will showcase its creations. “We wanted to create an event that would give the Great Neck community more reasons to come out and enjoy a festive day with family and friends,” said Ron Edelson, executive director of the Great Neck Plaza Business Improvement District. “Building our entertainment

around the awesome talent of the youth in this community seemed to be the perfect way to re-energize the festival.”

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Student art focus of Halloween exhibit The Huntington Arts Council!invited students in grades!6 through 12!to create and submit art inspired by the theme of Halloween. The result is the exhibit, Nightmare on Main Street, which will be on display from Friday, Oct. 19 through Saturday, Nov. 3. “I love spooky, but not horror,” said the show’s juror, Jessica Valentin. ! “I blend my work with spooky themes, color, and sweetness so I can deal with the things that scare me. How do you face the things that scare you?”! A costume reception will take place on Friday, Oct. 26, from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. at the Main Street Gallery, 213 Main St. in Huntington, where prizes will be awarded in two categories, grades 6 to 8 and 9 to 12. The students who were accepted into the show include:! Olivia Belluomo, Brooke Blumberg, Sage Boiko, Grace Burkart, Giavanna Castro, Ziqian Chen, Maxwell DeFalco, Alysse Fazal, Gloria Gang, Rachel Taylor Goldsmith, Elizabeth Gordin, Jenna Hart, Zoe Hartmann, Morgan Hlaing, Jiayi Huo, Evelyn Johnson, Aya Karimealaoui, Evgenia Kennedy, Anna Laimo, Siyu Lei, Juliette Liberatoscioli, Angelina Lomangino, Jessica Lyle, Sara Madsen, Chase McGill, Madalyn Metzger, Frida Misko, Benjamin Pollard, Sophia Polizzi, Dylan Roca, Matthew Rubenfeld, Jessica Rush, Mehr Sharma, Martina Simone, Juliah Triana, Leia Ulrich, Anna Vig, Emily Villavicen-

cio, Isabelle Waldorf, Hephzibah Yoo and Ida Zuo. “Nightmare on Main Street is in its seventh year and continues to receive a strong response from the student artists who enter the show as well as the surrounding community,” said Huntington Arts Council Executive Director Marc Courtade. “With over 85 pieces submitted and 41 artists chosen from across Nassau and Suﬀolk Counties, the artwork featured in this exhibit reflects an incredible level of talent. We are always thrilled to see the work of young adults in our gallery. Please join us for our costume reception on the 26th, where awards will be presented to select artists in the grade 6 to 8 and 9 to 12 categories, as well as prizes for best costume. Its a fun evening, everyone is welcome.” “I was honored and excited to be chosen as a juror. It was surprising; the layered complexity, and the technical skill of these young artists. I love the places that they took the theme.! It was hard. There was lots of good work to choose from,” added Valentin. Known for her heartbreaking pop style, Valentin works in the digital and collage realms. Her art has graced gallery and street walls from Long Island to Manhattan. Her latest project, Muñeca Arthouse, is a unique gallery space in Patchogue. This is a free event, and all are welcome to attend. Refreshments will be served.

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from “Chicago” (1975), began to realize just “Sweeney Todd” how much time and (1979), “Shenandoah” eﬀort is put into a pro(1975), “Phantom of duction like this even the Opera” (1988),” Anthough it will only run nie: (1977), “Grease” for three days. (1971) and “Little Shop After our chat I of Horrors” (1986.) returned to my oﬃce I wondered why where I planned on they chose to review investigating the songs the ’70s and ’80s and they chose and what DR. TOM FERRARO she told me “those these songs would say Our Town were much simpler about the 1970’s and times back then where the 1980’s. the country still had hope and a brightThe first song I researched was Mr. ness to it. The fashion colors were gay Cellophane from the play Chicago. and bold with lots of oranges and pinks This will be the revues second numand bright blues. In the ’70s we still had ber and was memorably performed on some flower children around, the Ameri- Broadway by Joel Grey and by John C. can dream was still alive and we felt Reilly in the film version. The song is maybe we could bring back some of that about schlubby pushover Amos Hart brightness.” who expresses what it feels like to be I thought that was well put. And invisible and ignored by the woman he soon enough we were joined the co-pro- loves. In the film version, it was done ducer Lisa Simon-Weitz and costume de- like a fantasy piece with John C. Reilly signer/ actress Maura Calio along with dressed like a tramp clown reminiscent director Susan Weber via the phone. of Charlie Chaplin or Emmett Kelly. It is They have a cast and crew of 45 in- worth noting that Reilly came up with cluding musicians and child actors and his own choreography for the piece. as I was shown around the backstage I As a psychoanalyst, we are trained to analyze the cultural zeitgeist. The 1970s was the birth of the feminist movement ANIMAL LEAGUE AMERICA and I thought this song was a true symbol of the embattled and weakened and even castrated male of the 1970s who seemed rather confused as to what to do about female power. And the Me Too movement of today attests to the fact that this issue has not been adequately resolved in any way. The second song from the show I chose to analyze was “Somewhere That’s Green” from the comedy horror musical “Little Shop of Horrors” (1986.) In thisheart-rendingg number Audrey sings of her sweet desire to have a simple

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Arts & Entertainment Calendar NYCB LIVE, HOME OF NASSAU VETERANS MEMORIAL COLISEUM 1255 Hempstead Turnpike, Uniondale (516) 794-9300 • www.nycblive.com Saturday, Oct. 20, 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. Long Island Whiskey Fest Through Saturday, Nov. 3 (check website for daily times) Blood Manor Presents Crypts of the Coliseum NYCB THEATRE AT WESTBURY 960 Brush Hollow Road, Westbury (516) 247-5205 • www.thetheatreatwestbury.com Friday, Oct. 19, 8 p.m. Arlo Guthrie: “Alice’s Restaurant Back By Popular Demand” Saturday, Oct. 20, 7:30 p.m. Monsters of Freestyle with TKA, Rob Base, Expose and many more! THE PARAMOUNT 370 New York Ave., Huntington (631) 673-7300 • www.paramountny.com Friday, Oct. 19, 8 p.m. Back to the ‘80s Show with Jessie’s Girl Saturday, Oct. 20, 8 p.m. Comedian Billy Gardell Thursday, Oct. 25, 8 p.m. Tesla THE SPACE AT WESTBURY 250 Post Ave., Westbury (516) 283-5566 • www.thespaceatwestbury.com Friday, Oct. 19, 8 p.m. Los Lobos Sunday, Oct. 21, 8 p.m. So You Think You Can Dance Live! 2018 MY FATHERS PLACE AT THE ROSLYN HOTEL 1221 Old Northern Blvd., Roslyn (516) 413-3535 • www.myfathersplace. com Friday, Oct. 19, 8 p.m. The Loser’s Lounge: Midler vs. Manilow — Battle of the Bands Thursday, Oct. 25, 8 p.m. Richie Furay LANDMARK ON MAIN STREET 232 Main St., Port Washington (516) 767-1384 • www.landmarkonmainstreet.co Friday, Oct. 19, 8 p.m. Blame it on my Youth: An evening with “A Bronx Tale’s” Bobby Conte Thornton and special guest Chazz Palminteri Saturday, Oct. 20, 7:30 p.m. Port’s Got Talent: A Night of Entertainment Wednesday, Oct. 24, 7 p.m. Film Screening and Discussion: “Power & Control: Domestic Violence in America” GOLD COAST ARTS CENTER 113 Middle Neck Road, Great Neck (516) 829-2570 • www.goldcoastarts.org Wednesday, Oct. 24, 6:30 p.m. to 10:30 p.m. The Stars Come Out! A Gala Event to

Benefit the Gold Coast Arts Center & Gold Coast International Film Festival Through Dec. 15 Exhibit: Storytelling Through the Lens TILLES CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS 720 Northern Boulevard, Brookville (516) 299-3100 • www.tillescenter.org Saturday, Oct. 20, 8 p.m. Rocktopia – Featuring Dee Snider from Twisted Sister Sunday, Oct. 21, 7 p.m. Tower of Power and Average White Band Tuesday, Oct. 23, 7:30 p.m. Batboy: A Yankee Miracle Thursday, Oct. 25, 7 p.m. George W. Bush, 43rd President of the United States and Founder of the George W. Bush Presidential Center ADELPHI UNIVERSITY PERFORMING ARTS CENTER 1 South Ave., Garden City (516) 877-4000 • www.pacadelphi.edu Friday, Oct. 19, 7:30 p.m. The Sounds of Cinema Saturday, Oct. 20, 11 a.m. A Musical Morning with Dr. Brent Talbot: Children’s Songs and Games from Bali Sunday, Oct. 21, 2 p.m. Verdi’s Rigoletto Wednesday, Oct. 24, 1 p.m. Student Recital MADISON THEATRE AT MOLLOY COLLEGE 1000 Hempstead Ave., Rockville Centre (516) 323-4444 • www.madisontheatreny. com Saturday, Oct. 20, 8 p.m. Candy Dulfer NASSAU COUNTY MUSEUM OF ART 1 Museum Drive, Roslyn Harbor (516) 484-9338 • www.nassaumuseum.org Sunday, Oct. 21, 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. Family Sundays at the Museum Sunday, Oct. 21, 3 p.m. Artist in the Gallerty: Scott McIntire (free with museum admission) SANDS POINT PRESERVE CONSERVANCY/HEMPSTEAD HOUSE 127 Middle Neck Road, Sands Point (516) 571-7901 • www.sandspointpreserve. org Saturday, Oct. 20, 8 p.m. to 10 p.m. PUSH Physical Theatre’s “Dracula” Wednesday, Oct. 24, 11 a.m. to 12 p.m. Just Moms Discussion Group LONG ISLAND CHILDRENS MUSEUM 11 Davis Ave., Garden City (516) 224-5800 • www.licm.org Friday, Oct. 19, 11:30 a.m. to 12 p.m. Kids in the Kitchen: Stacked Taco Children ages 3 to 5. Fee: $5 with museum admission ($4 LICM members). Saturday, Oct. 20 and Sunday, Oct. 21, 3:30 p.m. to 5 p.m. Messy Afternoons Children ages 18 months to 4 years will be up to their elbows in mud and slime. Free with museum admission.

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A&E Calendar cont’d BARNES AND NOBLE 1542 Northern Blvd., Manhasset and 91 Old Country Road, Carle Place (516) 365-6723 (Manhasset); (516) 741-9850 (Carle place) • www.barnesandnoble.com Saturday, Oct. 20, 11 a.m. “Elbow Grease” Story Time Wednesday, Oct. 24, 7 p.m. Barnes and Noble Book Club: “An Absolutely Remarkable Thing: A Novel” by Hank Green CINEMA ARTS CENTRE 423 Park Ave., Huntington (631) 423-7611 • www.cinemaartscentre.org Monday, Oct. 22, 8 p.m. Movie Trivia Night BOOK REVUE 313 New York Ave., Huntington (631) 271-1442 • www.bookrevue.com Friday, Oct. 19, 7 p.m. Author Dina Santorelli, “Baby Carter” Tuesday, Oct. 23, 7 p.m. Author Ellie Kemper, “My Squirrel Days” Thursday, Oct. 25, 7 p.m. Author Amy Giles, “That Night” THE DOLPHIN BOOKSHOP AND CAFE 299 Main St., Port Washington (516) 767-2650 • www.thedolphinbookshop. com Friday, Oct. 19, 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. Cafe Music at the Dolphin Saturday, Oct. 20, 12 p.m. to 2 p.m. Author Martin Brown, “Chuckanut Dreams” TURN OF THE CORKSCREW BOOKS AND WINE 110 N. Park Ave., Rockville Centre (516) 764-6000 • www.turnofthecorkscrew. com Saturday, Oct. 20, 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. Author Teddy Crawford, “Right Foot First: A Practical Guide to Self Safety, Wellness, Awareness and Keeping Fit for Life” ART LEAGUE OF LONG ISLAND JEANIE TENGELSEN GALLERY 107 E. Deer Park Road, Dix Hills (631) 462-5400 • www.artleagueli.org Through Sunday, Oct. 28 Exhibit: Alex Ferrone Gallery Presents — “Eclecticism” PLANTING FIELDS ARBORETUM 1395 Planting Fields Road, Oyster Bay (516) 922-8678 • www.plantingfields.org Friday, Oct. 19 and Saturday, Oct. 20, 7 p.m. to 9:30 p.m.

Haunted Halloween Nights at Coe Hall Saturday, Oct. 20 and Sunday, Oct. 21, 2 p.m. to 3 p.m. Frankenstein: Little Mary’s Monster Radio Drama OLD WESTBURY GARDENS 71 Old Westbury Road, Old Westbury (516) 333-0048 • www.oldwestburygardens. org Through Monday, Oct. 29 (see website for daily hours and ticket info.) Rise of the Jack O’Lanterns THE WHALING MUSEUM AND EDUCATION CENTER 279 Main St., Cold Spring Harbor (631) 367-3418 • www.cshwhalingmuseum. org Saturday, Oct. 20, 4:30 p.m. and 6 p.m. Harbor Haunts Walking Tour! (6 p.m. is the spookier session) For ages 10 to adult. $12 per adult/$8 per child. Spots are limited.

Community Calendar PORT WASHINGTON POLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE At Sunset Park, 325 Main St., Port Washington (516) 965-9883 • www.pwpal.org Friday, Oct. 19, 5:30 p.m. to 10 p.m. 5th Annual College Coaches Clinic Pitchers and catchers report at 5:30 p.m., all others at 6:30 p.m. Fee: $125. Go to www.pwpal.org for details and to register. UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST CONGREGATION AT SHELTER ROCK 48 Shelter Rock Road, Manhasset (516) 627-6560 • www.uucsr.org Friday, Oct. 19, 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.

Soulful Songs & Stories Friday, Oct. 19, 7:30 p.m. Women’s Group Book Club: “Killers of the Flower Moon” by David Grann Wednesday, Oct. 24, 7:30 p.m. Inisfada Zen Sitting Meditation ST. STEPHEN’S EPISCOPAL CHURCH (516) 767-0363 • www.ststephenspw.org 9 Carlton Ave., Port Washington Saturday, Oct. 20, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Annual Fall Fair Petting zoo and pony rides from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., music and dancing from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m., children’s carnival, lunch and baked goods, handmade quilt raffle, Continued on Page 50

WALT WHITMAN BIRTHPLACE AND HISTORIC SITE 246 Old Walt Whitman Road, Huntington Station (631) 427-5240 • www.waltwhitman.org Sunday, Oct. 21, 1 p.m. Halloween Family Day with Magic Mike There will be magic, face painting, spooky (not scary) games, Halloween crafts, a prize for Best Costume, guided tours and more fun for all ages. COLD SPRING HARBOR FISH HATCHERY & AQUARIUM 1660 Rte. 25A, Cold Spring Harbor (516) 692-6768 • www.cshfishhatchery.org Saturday, Oct. 20 and Sunday, Oct. 21, 1 p.m. and 3 p.m. Egg Taking Demonstrations Learn the century’s old process of trout egg taking and rearing. $6 adults; $4 kids ages 3 to 12 and seniors 65 and up; under age 3 and members are free. LONG ISLAND BAROQUE ENSEMBLE: “A BAROQUE BASH — CELEBRATING THE MUSIC OF THE ERA” www.libaroque.org Saturday, Oct. 20, 7:30 p.m. St. Andrew’s Lutheran Church, 30 Brooksite Drive, Smithtown Sunday, Oct. 21, 3 p.m. Christ Church, 61 Main St., Oyster Bay

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His Boy Elroy Saturday, Oct. 27, 7 p.m. Los Bad Hombres

gift basket chances, country store, organ demonstrations, trash and treasure, holiday goods, plants and more. Admission is free.

CONGREGATION TIFERETH ISRAEL 40 Hill St., Glen Cove (516) 676-5080 • www.ctionline.org Saturday, Oct. 20, 7:30 p.m. Dance Party/Concert: Spontaneous Combustion Performs Admission is $20 for adults; $25 at the door; $10 for those 18 and under. Reserve by phone at 516-676-5080 or via email at office@ctionline.org. Sunday, Oct. 21, 10 a.m. Free Story Time Sunday (for children ages 1 to 4)

NORTHWELL’S CENTER FOR WELLNESS AND INTEGRATIVE MEDICINE 1500 Old Northern Blvd., Roslyn (516) 858-3095 • www.northwellhealth. edu/integrativemedicine Saturday, Oct. 20 through Nov. 10, 12:30 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. Girl Scout Mother Daughter Yoga Learn the benefits of yoga in a parent/ daughter combined practice that will gradually increase the level of difficulty at your own pace each Saturday. $80 for each mother/daughter pair; $10 additional for siblings. Register online at www.northwell.edu/integrativemedicine. Saturday, Oct. 20, 1 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. Yoga for the Broken-Hearted A healing context for individuals who have experienced loss of all types using Kundalini Kriya’s meditations and specific mantra. $50 in advance; $60 at the door. Register online at www.northwell.edu/ integrativemedicine.

JONES BEACH STATE PARK Ocean Parkway, Field 5, Wantaugh (631) 300-3212 • www.mainacsevents.org Sunday, Oct. 21, 7:30 a.m. American Cancer Society Making Strides Against Breast Cancer Walk Sign up online for easy check-in the day of the walk. Check-In officially opens at 7 a.m. — you can visit the Field 5 or West Bathhouse check-in tents. CAUMSETT STATE HISTORIC PARK PRESERVE 25 Lloyd Harbor Road, Huntington (631) 423-1770 Sunday, Oct. 21, 9:45 a.m. to 1 p.m. Salt Marsh Special Join this slow, approximately five-mile

OLDE TRADING POST 1218 Jericho Turnpike, New Hyde Park (516) 492-3195 • www.oldetradingpost. com Saturday, Oct. 20, 7 p.m. Music: Dan Readon Friday, Oct. 26, 7 p.m.

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WINTHROP WELLNESS PAVILION 1300 Franklin Ave., Suite ML-5, Garden City (516) 663-3916 • www.parks.ny.gov Wednesday, Oct. 24, 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. Breastfeeding Support Group Sessions are free, but pre-registration is required by calling 516-663-2556. Friday, Oct. 26, 2:30 p.m. to 4 p.m. Breast Cancer Support Group for the Newly Diagnosed Patient Sessions are free, but pre-registration is required by calling 516-663-2556.

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ST. ALOYSIUS SOCIABLES MONTHLY LUNCHEON At the Jolly Fisherman, 25 Main St., Roslyn (516) 482-3795 Wednesday, Oct. 24, 12:30 p.m. Cost: Price of your meal. Call John Hyland (516-482-3795) for reservations.

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MONTHLY TRIVIA CHALLENGE At Greenville Townhouse, 49 Glen Cove Road, Greenvale Wednesday, Oct. 24, 6 p.m. For more information, call 516-625-8804.

NASSAU COUNTY BAR ASSOCIATION 15th and West Sts., Mineola (516) 747-4079 • www.nassaubar.org Thursday, Oct. 25, 3 p.m. Free Legal Consultations at Bar Association You must register in advance by calling 516-747-4070. NYU WINTHROP RESEARCH & ACADEMIC CENTER 101 Mineola Blvd., Mineola (866) 946-8476 • www.nyuwinthrop.org Thursday, Oct. 25, 7 p.m. Inspiring Women: Breast Cancer — Reduce your Risk: What You Can Do Session is free, but registration is required by calling 516-663-3916 or emailing inspiringwomen@nyilangone.org. CLARK BOTANIC GARDEN 193 I U Willets Road, Albertson (516) 484-2208 • www.clarkbotanic.org Friday, Oct. 26 and Saturday, Oct. 27, 6:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. (Spooky Walk) and Sunday, Oct. 28, 12 p.m. to 4 p.m. (Not-So-Spooky Walk) Spooky Walk and Not-So-Spooky Walk Clark Botanic Garden will transform into a haunted maze with goblins, ghosts, zombie and more. Both events are $5 per person. CORPUS CHRISTI CHURCH In Fitzgerald Hall, 155 Garfield Ave., Mineola (516) 294-6379 • www.corpuschristimineola.net Friday, Oct. 26, 7 p.m. Oktoberfest sponsored by the Catholic Daughters of Corpus Christi Join this fun-filled evening of music and dancing, German food and dessert. Tickets are $35. For reservations, call Jill Begg, 516-294-6379. HERRICKS COMMUNITY CENTER THEATRE 999 Herricks Road, New Hyde Park (516) 742-1926 Friday, Oct. 26 and Saturday, Oct. 27, 8 p.m., and Sunday, Oct. 28, 3 p.m. Herricks to Broadway: A Musical Revue — Celebrating Broadway 1970s and ‘80s The performance will include songs from “Grease,” “Annie,” “Dream Girls” and more. Tickets: $25 adults; $22 senior/ child. To order tockets, call 516-742-1926.

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Williston Park Library Williston Park Library is at 494 Willis Ave., Williston Park 516-742-1820; www.willistonparklibrary.com NEW TITLES ADDED:

Arthur Ashe: A Life by Raymond Arsenault Every Day is Extra by John Kerry Fabulous Bouvier Sisters by Sam Kashner In Pieces by Sally Field

ADULT BOOK DISCUSSION Wednesday, Oct. 24, 7 p.m. In the Assembly Room of Village Hall. Copies of “The Handmaid’s Tale” are available at the circulation desk.

KNITTING CIRCLE Thursday, Oct. 25, Nov. 8, 29 and Dec. 13 and 27, 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the Assembly Room of Village Hall.

CERAMIC THANKSGIVING CRAFT Tuesday, Oct. 30, 6 p.m. in the Library. There is a $20 nonrefundable fee due at registration. Sign up at the circulation desk.

East Williston Library East Williston Public Library 2 Prospect St., East Williston (516) 741-1213; www.ewlibrary.org Hours: Monday through Wednesday, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.; Thursday, 10 a.m. to 7:30 p.m.; Saturday, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Register at the library for all programs by phone at 516-741-1213, email to ewpl@ewlibrary.org, or via www.ewlibrary.org. MOVIE: “MAMMA MIA! HERE WE GO AGAIN Wednesday, Oct. 24 at 1 p.m. Join the movie.

PINKALICIOUS THE MUSICAL Saturday, Oct. 27 at 2 p.m. Sign up your family at the library. HALLOWEEN MOVIE, CRAFT AND SNACK Wednesday, Oct. 31 at 11 a.m. Wear your Halloween costume.

PRE-SCHOOL STORY TIME WITH MISS STEPH Thursdays at 10:30 a.m. or 1 p.m. For children ages 3 to 5. Books, stories, crafts and songs. TODDLER STORY TIME WITH MISS DEE Fridays at 10:30 a.m.

For children ages 1 1/2 to 3 years. Have fun with books, stories and songs. N0TARY PUBLIC: Notary services are available. Call the library to confirm a notary is available.

Mineola Library Mineola Library 195 Marcellus Road, Mineola; 516-746-8488 www.mineolalibrary.info HALLOWEEN SCIENCE Monday, Oct. 22, 5 p.m. to 6 p.m. For children in grades 1 and up. Instructor Chris Buchman will show the wonders of dry ice, including how to make ghost

bubbles, floating bubbles and screaming balloons! Register in the Children’s Room, or by calling 516-746-8488 ext 1, or emailing childrensmineola@nassaulibrary. org

looks like a “sweet treat” with 2D paint. Come dressed for a mess. Register in the Children’s Room, by calling 516-746-8488 ext 1, or emailing childrensmineola@nassaulibrary.org.

SWEET TREAT SQUISHIES Tuesday, Oct. 23, 4:30 p.m. Children in grades 1 and upcan decorate a squishy key chain that

CREATURES IN THE SONIC SLIME! Friday, Oct. 26, 4 p.m. to 5 p.m. For children in grades 1 and up.

Anthony Abbate, the Science Wizard, will show kids how to make the most gooey “oobleck” slime, and make it move, coming alive with sound waves. Take home your slime after the program. Register in the Children’s Room, by calling 516-746-8488 ext 1, or emailing childrensmineola@nassaulibrary.org.

SPOOKTACULAR BINGO! Saturday, Oct. 27, 11 a.m. to 12 p.m. Children ages 3 and up (with adult caregiver) can win frightfully-good prizes during this Halloween themed Bingo event. Please register in the Children’s Room, by calling 516-746-8488 ext 1, or emailing childrensmineola@nassaulibrary.org.

Shelter Rock Library Shelter Rock Library 165 Searingtown Road South, Albertson; 516-248-7363; www.srpl.org. CREATIVE NEEDLES AND THE ART OF COLORING Friday, Oct. 26 and Nov. 9, 12:30 p.m. Bring your projects and sup-

plies to cross-stitch, knit, crochet, needlepoint, or embroider in the company of other needlecraft lovers. If you prefer to relax by coloring, spend some time with crayons, colored pencils, and coloring pages supplied by the library. A time for conversation, crafting and simply sharing tips and tech-

niques while “the needles fly” and “the pictures come to life”. AARP SMART DRIVER’S COURSE Saturday, Oct. 27, 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Pick up a registration form at the Reference Desk. FALL ART EXHIBIT

Through Oct. 28. Surreal Encounters in Paint and Pixels by local artist Katherine Criss. PLAY MAH JONGG Tuesday, Oct. 30 and Nov. 13, 1 p.m. Join others in playing a game that has fascinated people for so many years with its strategies and

combinations. SENIOR RAP GROUP Monday, Nov. 5, 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. For the 55+ set who have a lifetime of experiences to share. This group discussion is led by longtime group member David Marx.

Williston Park Community Calendar VILLAGE OF WILLISTON PARK HISTORICAL COMMITTEE The Committee meets monthly at Village Hall to inventory Village data gathered from residents. Village residents are encouraged to share or donate

old photos and data to the committee. Resident collections of historical data are on display in in historical cabinets in the main Village Hall during office hours, Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.

HOMETOWN HERO BANNER PROGRAM If you are a member or a family member of someone presently serving active duty in the United States Armed Services and would like them to be considered for the

Hometown Hero Banner program, go to www.VillageofWillistonPark. org. to submit an application with an original 8x10 color photograph of member in full uniform.

IRISH AMERICAN SOCIETY OF NASSAU, SUFFOLK AND QUEENS 297 Willis Ave., Mineola (516) 746-9392. For a full listing of monthly events, go to www. irishamericansoc.com.

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COMMUNITY & SCHOOL NEWS

Albertson civic to host Mineola announces candidates Oct. 23 school’s top 25 students The Albertson Square Civic Association will hold our “Meet the Candidates Night” on Tuesday, October 23 at 7:30 p.m. The meeting will be held at the Albertson Fire House located at 100 I.U. Willets Road, 2nd Floor. Some of the candidates that will be in attendance are: Senator Elaine Phillips and candidate Councilwoman Anna Kaplan running for State Senator, Assemblyman Anthony D’Urso and

candidate Byron Divins running for Assemblyman for District 16, Assemblyman Ed Ra and candidate William Carr running for Assemblyman for District 19, Congressman Thomas Suozzi and candidate Dan DeBono running for 3rd Congressional District Seat, Thomasina Mastroianni for District Court Judge and Catherine Rizzo running for County Court Judge.

Mineola High School has announced the valedictorian, salutatorian and top 25 academic students for the Class of 2019. These students will lead the entire class

of graduates to the stage at the Tilles Center to receive their diplomas in June. The Mineola district congratulates the students on this achievement.

Runners club rewards Boy Scout troop Members of the New Hyde Park-Mineola Runner’s Club met with Boy Scout Troop 544 at the Manor Oaks Elementary School and rewarded the troop for their support at the club’s 41st annual U.S.A. Long Island Division Championship 8k race and community event of June 3 at the Denton Avenue School. Troop 544 managed one of the water stations at the race and provided other critical support. The troops’ help contributed to making this year’s race/community event the most successful ever. The runners club looks forward to helping sponsor the troop’s projects in the coming year. Proceeds from NHP-Mineola Running Club’s annual race/community event help to sponsor local community organizations. The runners’ main charity is the Nassau County Firefighter’s Operation Wounded Warrior program, which provides benefits and services to wounded

Long Island veterans above and beyond what the VA provides, including to veterans living in greater New Hyde ParkMineola area. Supported organizations include Boy Scout Troop 298 in Williston Park, Troop 544 in NHP, and the Garden City Park Ambulance Corps. The runners also helped sponsor an Eagle Scout’s 9/11 memorial monument that was recently dedicated during an official ceremony next to the Stewart Manor Fire Department. The runners club’s 42nd annual championship 8k race community event is anticipated to be in early June 2019 at the Denton Avenue School. For information on how to become a sponsor, volunteer, and learn about the club, contact Harold Axelrod the club president at bcshja@msn.com or Stephen Cipot at Stephenjcipot@hotmail.com. Visit the club’s website at https://www.newhydeparkrunners.com.

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JCC 5K benefits cancer center

Sid Jacobson JCC recently hosted its annual “Stronger Than Cancer 5K” on Sunday, Oct. 7. The annual event had a turnout of over 600 participants including runners, walkers, volunteers and vendors. All funds raised will directly benefit the JCC’s Nancy Marx Cancer Wellness Center and its programs.

The center supports muchneeded programming, most of which are free to the community; including exercise classes, discussion groups, counseling services, an after-school program for children whose parent or sibling has been diagnosed, and more. Programs are open to those living with cancer

throughout all stages of treatment and survivorship while helping participants feel active, resilient and empowered in body, mind and spirit. Hal Fuchs, a member of the “Stronger Than Cancer 5K” committee, like many, has been personally touched by cancer. His wife is a cancer survivor who

attended Sunday’s race, along with many of Fuchs’ family and friends. “It makes me proud to be part of such an impactful organization that provides free services and programs to the community, and doesn’t ask for anything in return,” says Fuchs. “It’s a great feeling to know that Sid Jacobson JCC members’ an-

nual dues go towards programs like this that are positively impacting the lives of so many.” Randy Hight, director of the JCC’s Nancy Marx Cancer Wellness Center, has seen the “Stronger Than Cancer 5K” grow over the years and is pleased that it has become a community event that highlights the importance of compassionate and holistic services for all cancer survivors. “We are grateful for the funds raised that benefit the Nancy Marx Cancer Wellness Center,” says Hight. “They enable us to continue to provide cutting edge and comprehensive programming for cancer survivors and their families in the community.” Upcoming programs for cancer survivors include “Exercise for Cancer Survivors in Their 20s, 30s & 40s” beginning Tuesday, Oct. 30, “Breast Cancer Gentle Yoga” beginning Sunday, Oct. 28, and more.! Ongoing support programs, like the “Male Cancer Survivors’ Discussion Group,” “We’ve Got Your Back – Family Cancer Support,” and more, are oﬀered on a monthly basis. To enroll yourself or a loved one in a program oﬀered at the Nancy Marx Cancer Wellness Center, contact Randy Hight, 516-484-1545 ext. 213, rhight@ sjjcc.org. To make a donation to the Nancy Marx Cancer Wellness Center, visit www.sjjcc.org/5K.

PATV covered gun violence panel

Apple fest draws thousands More than 15 thousand visitors jumped into the fall season at Mill Neck Family’s Annual Apple Festival on Oct. 6 and 7. A longstanding tradition in the Long Island community since 1957, this year’s festival, which fully benefits deaf children and adults, featured a variety of new activities, rides and delicious food options for its attendees. Located on Mill Neck’s 86-acre campus, home to the Mill Neck Family of Organizations —committed to creating a world in which deaf and hard-of-hearing individuals are included, empow-

ered and embraced as equals through quality educational, employment, audiological and spiritual programs and services — the Apple Festival was one to remember. Boasting 12 diﬀerent varieties of apples, tours of the historic Mill Neck Manor, Karl Ehmer specialty meats, carnival rides and games, raﬄes and prizes, free hearing testing from the Center for Hearing Health, trolley rides, a pie eating contest and more, this special event raises funds to support the deaf community locally and worldwide.

PATV will cablecast this month on Wednesdays at 3 p.m. and Thursdays at 8 p.m. Channels 20 (Altice/Optimum) and 37 (Verizon Fios) streamed at patv. org/livestream the filmed event held at the Great Neck Library: “Preventing Gun Violence in Our Communities” with Assemblyman Anthony D’Urso and panel-

ists: Avalon Fenster, Sergio Argueta, Shenee Johnson and Nassau County District AttorneyMadeline Singas. The program can also be viewed on the YouTube channel: PATV Long Island. Tune in to hear all the information regarding securing our communities from gun violence.

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New classes at Art Guild The Art Guild of Port Washington has welcomed artist and educator Antonia Fthanikis to its staﬀ to teach Empowering the Teen Artist for Middle & High School Students. This eight-week class will take place on Thursdays from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. beginning on Oct. 25. Students will be encouraged to investigate the principles and elements of design, make cultural connections and integrate influences across-borders while advancing their artistic expertise. Subject matter will include realistic and abstracted: still life, landscape and portraiture. Students will gain exposure to a variety of media in order to produce a varied portfolio that demonstrates technical skill as well as creativity and conceptual skills." In addition, students will learn how to create their own painting and drawing mediums from natural materials, using centuries-old techniques such

as: egg tempera, used by Renaissance artists and modern masters; Sumi ink, a signature technique of Asian art and culture; charcoal, possibly mankind’s earliest art material; and watercolor, natural pigments from our gardens and yards replicate materials used for thousands of years. Fthenakis is a Parsons School of Design graduate, a" Bank Street educator" and a" teacher of children and young adults with special needs," teaching studio arts and the art of traditional skills in NYC" public school for 17 years." Currently based in Port Washington, cocreating" and" oﬀering teachings" inspired by the natural world,"Waldorf philosophy, integrative"holistic wellness and the Reiki healing arts." Classes for children and adults run year-round. The last workshop planned for this year: Simple and Sophisticated Relief Printmaking with Stephanie

Navon-Jacobson, Nov. 10-11 is now registering. Workshops for 2019 include, Seascapes and Winter Scenes in Pastel with Lana Ballot in March, Painting the Figure from Photographs in Watercolor with Ted Nuttall in June, and Painting in Colored Pencil with Cynthia Knox in July. More workshops are being added. Fall classes for adults are now open for registration: Fundamentals of Drawing with Greg Follender on Monday evenings begins Oct. 22, and Get Sharper with Stephanie Navon-Jacobson on Monday afternoons begins Oct. 15. Check The Art Guild website and Facebook page throughout the year for information about their programs and events. The Art Guild is located at Elderfields Preserve, 200 Port Washington Blvd. in Manhasset. To register or for more information, call 516-304-5797, visit www. TheArtGuild.org or email info@ theartguild.org.

Women of Distinction Awards North Hempstead Town Supervisor Judi Bosworth attended state Assemblyman Ed Ra’s Sixth Annual Women of Distinction Awards on Saturday, Oct. 6 at the Westbury Library." The event celebrated the accomplishments of extraordinary women who have made a positive impact on the local community. Bosworth presented all the honorees with citations in recognition of their accomplishments." This year’s honorees included Mary Maguire" of Garden City, Susan Sohmer of Mineola, Theresa Leno of West Hemp-

stead, Karen Signoracci Suero of Mineola, Marianne Russo of Glen Head, Tara McCarton of Garden City, Ann Forster of Gar-

den City and Marlene Botta of Franklin Square." Emily Kille, of Mineola, was presented with the Emerging Leader Award.

Breast cancer awareness

North Hempstead Town Supervisor Judi Bosworth and Council Member Anna Kaplan

Island Women’s Aﬀairs’ “A Walk to Remember” event at Clark Botanic Garden in Albertson." The event was designed to raise awareness and educate people about breast cancer and featured speakers and uplifting music and dance performances." Bosworth and Kaplan presented proclamations to the association’s president, Dr. Jagdish Gupta, in recognition of her recently attended the American work on the event as well as Dr. Association of Physicians of In- Ajay Lodha in recognition of bedian Origin Queens and Long ing honored at the event."

Suozzi aids Helen Keller funding Congressman Tom Suozzi (D-Glen Cove), since arriving in Congress, has secured a total of $3.5 million increase in annual appropriations for the Helen Keller National Center for Deaf-Blind Youths and Adults (HKNC). When combined with 2018, this increases the center’s funding by 31 percent"and will result in expanded services to individuals who are deaf-blind. “HKNC does work that represents miracles in people’s lives,” Suozzi said. “It is an honor to have this national institution, headquartered in Sands Point, in the congressional district that I serve. I am proud that I could negotiate this increase in funding that will go a long way in helping these truly exceptional people continue to do remarkable work.” " Suozzi was thanked by" HKNC Executive Director Susan Ruzenski. “From day one, Tom Suozzi has been our biggest supporter,” she said. “He has always worked and advocated on our behalf. We were the first place he visited after his election to Con-

gress and he has delivered on every promise, before or since. Congressman Suozzi is the best champion we have, and we are eternally grateful to him for his consistent, considerable support of HKNC.” Joseph Bruno, Helen Keller Services (HKS) President and CEO, also thanked Suozzi. “Congressman Suozzi’s extraordinary role in championing the need for expanded HKNC services benefits deaf-blind individuals, their families, and service providers here on Long Island and across the United States,” he said. “Everyone at Helen Keller Services joins me in thanking him for his steadfast commitment to our mission.”" HKNC is a division of Helen Keller Services (HKS) and was established as an Act of Congress in 1967. The center provides comprehensive vocational and independent living training to youths and adults who are deaf-blind and is the only national comprehensive program working exclusively with youth and adults with a combined vision and hearing loss.

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Supreme Court should become boring

ince 2010, the Supreme Court has delved into some the most contentious issues in American politics — from upholding gay marriage and the Aﬀordable Care Act, to striking down campaign contribution limits and a portion of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.! On these subjects, the Supreme Court splits along party lines. It recognized a constitutional right to gay marriage by a vote of 5 to 4.! It sustained Obamacare by a vote of 5 to 4 (and then 6 to 3).! It decided Citizens United 5 to 4. And it modified the Voting Rights Act 5 to 4.! Without knowing the legal questions being decided, most observers could predict how nearly every Justice decided nearly every one of these cases.! This is not a helpful scenario for an institution whose legitimacy is based upon the premise that laws ascend over politics rather than politics ascending over laws. The Brett Kavanaugh hearings accelerated these concerns. But approaching the abyss, the Supreme Court has one workable solution to its legitimacy crisis: it can slow down. For the near-term, the Justices should decline review — or deny “certiorari” — over the nation’s most polarizing political questions unless and until the legal questions themselves become time sensitive. The first reason why the Court should

exercise this restraint is because the proposed goal is already within reach. Contrary to what the headlines suggest, highly politicized cases are the exception rather than the rule. Observers can predict how most Justices would view a case about gun rights or abortion, for example, but ask those same people to guess the outcome of a case concerning civil procedure or patent law.! The truth is, the Justices agree more than they disagree.! In the most recent term, they split 5 to 4 less than half as often as they decided cases unanimously.! And unanimity has proven a more frequent phenomenon than 5 to 4 splits for every iteration of the Court for more than 30 years.!! Second, docket-restraint will serve the interests of both the left and right sides of the political spectrum. This point is straightforward for Democrats. Delaying action on major social questions will mean at least short-term preservation of the status quo.! This is not ideal, but better than the alternative results that liberals are likely to receive with Justice Kavanaugh replacing Justice Kennedy.! Yet docket-restraint will also serve the interests of those who want Kavanaugh to usher in a dominance of conservative ideology.! While the left and right both want their views to prevail, they also want legal victories to endure.! This is possible when the

country has faith in its judicial institutions.! But if the Court emerges as a mini-Congress, subject to whichever way the political winds are blowing, then Americans will lose faith that Supreme Court doctrines are lasting.! Perhaps the Court will one day overturn Roe v. Wade or deem aﬃrmative action a violation of the Equal Protection clause.! But on the heels of the most fraught confirmation process in a generation, if the Court sprinted toward these lightning rods while polarization still boiled, then these decisions would appear illegitimate to half the country. Moves to pack the Court with more than nine Justices would become a genuine possibility. Third, docket-restraint is flexible enough to welcome politically charged cases when time is of the essence.! Bush v. Gore is a good example.! If the next presidential election were to hinge on a complex question of law, the case would of course shoulder immense political pressure.! But because the legal question itself would be time-sensitive, as it would in a variety of other imaginable scenarios, restraint would give way to finality.! In these types of cases, the Court will have no choice but to appear political.! But the Court will preserve more slack if it has otherwise proven reluctant — rather than eager — to decide highly charged political questions.

With all of this said, docket-restraint carries downsides.! Every litigant seeking review from the Supreme Court has real concerns with often major stakes.! Denying review of their cases will have consequences for them.! Sometimes, these consequences will bleed into other geographic areas, where the same types of legal questions will garner diﬀerent treatment in different courts.! These splits are the type of problem that having one Supreme Court can help resolve—and which a policy of docketrestraint will occasionally leave percolating.! However, there is no shortage of litigants seeking review from our nation’s highest court.! The vast majority of their certiorari applications — typically more than 95 percent of them— get denied.! These cases, too, involve real litigants with real concerns, and many of them also involve geographic legal splits that the Supreme Court nevertheless leaves intact.! Welcoming more of these bland cases to the docket in lieu of fraught political questions might make the legal news less interesting.! But it will aid the healing process for one of the nation’s most important institutions.!!!! Alexander Klein Attorney at Barket Epstein Kearon Aldea & LoTurco, LLP in Garden City

Cuomo’s plans to upgrade Kennedy

omething was missing from Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s announcement of his $13 billion Kennedy Airport upgrade project.! Did he forget his 2017 State of the State speech at the Regional Plan Association in calling for a one seat ride on public transportation for those traveling to and from Kennedy Airport?! Has he given up on the idea because the concept is not financially or technically feasible? This idea is nothing new and has been! periodically studied before going back to the 1960s by various other agencies including the Metropolitan Transportation Authority Oﬃce of Planning, Long Island Rail Road, NYCDOT, NYC Department of Planning Transportation Division, NYC Economic Development Corporation and New York Metropolitan Transportation Council. ! They all died due to priority given other competing projects for funding, lack of local consensus among elected oﬃcials, various transportation operating agencies along with potential city, state and federal funding agencies. !No one can spare several billion dollars to make this happen.! ! In 1999, the Regional Plan Association proposed a new subway service route. !It would have operated from Manhattan on to!Brooklyn via the Montague Street Tunnel (currently used by the R line) and on to Jamaica via the! LIRR! Atlantic Branch (Flatbush Avenue Brooklyn to Jamaica which would have to be converted to subway useage ending commuter rail) and on

to Kennedy Airport via the Air Train. This idea was never supported by most elected officials or the MTA. Former Gov. Pataki was also big advocate for a one seat ride from the World Trade Center to Kennedy airport promoting some of the same concepts as RPA back in the 1990s. !In 2004, the MTA, Port Authority of NY and NJ, Lower Manhattan Development Corporation and NYC Economic Development Corporation, at the request of Pataki, completed a study which looked at several of the same five options proposed by RPA in 2017. !These ideas were also never really supported by most elected officials or the MTA. Transportation history has a habit of repeating itself, and will probably do so again with this latest round of RPA proposals. ! Each generation of elected officials, transportation planners and transportation agencies frequently recycles the same old concepts which never see the light of day. It is a safe bet that there never has been and or will be a real one seat ride. !Creating a one-seat ride from Penn Station to JFK by extending either the LIRR using Air Train tracks or extending the Air Train using LIRR tracks will not work. LIRR and Air Train equipment are not compatible. The only exception is one-stop express shuttle bus services from either Grand Central Terminal, Penn Station or World Trade Center directly to Kennedy Airport. ! These existing services could be ex-

panded with additional operating and capital subsidies to the current private bus operator. !Most travelers who want to reach Kennedy Airport via public transportation will always have to transfer from either the!LIRR, subway or bus to the Air Train at Jamaica or subway to the Air Train at Howard Beach. ! The best course of action is to make this transfer as easy as possible. Increasing the frequency of Air Train service would help. Lengthening each Air Train from two to either three or four cars might make it more attractive. Building the existing Air Train north via the Van Wyck Expressway to LaGuardia Airport, which was the original concept decades ago with one intermediate stop at the Shea Stadium No. 7 subway and Port Washington branch LIRR station(s) might be a better investment than any of the Regional Plan Association proposals. !! Everyone missed the most obvious option which exists today. ! Kennedy Airport travelers in the know including many from other states and nations transfer from the A train at Howard Beach to the Air Train. The A train provides excellent connections to downtown Brooklyn, Wall Street, Penn Station and Port Authority 42nd Street bus terminal. (You can transfer at the Fulton Street downtown Manhattan subway station to the Lexington Avenue subway for direct access to Grand Central Terminal, West Fourth Street to the various subway lines running up Sixth Avenue including

the F line to 63rd Street with a direct across the platform connection to the Q Second Avenue uptown east side Manhattan line or Eighth Avenue 42nd Street via No. 7 Flushing line two stops to Grand Central Terminal.) Many are too young to remember!that up until the!1970s, NYC Transit!extended E line service which ran express in Brooklyn providing supplemental service to the A line during rush hours to the Rockaways. ! This included a stop at Howard Beach prior to construction of the Air Train. !Why not bring back this service? There is existing subway capacity and equipment to increase the frequency of service on the A line oﬀ peak, evenings, overnight and on weekends. !This might make it more attractive to both existing subway riders and Kennedy Airport customers. !Rockaway riders would benefit by shorter waits between trains. ! The lower level of the Eighth Avenue 42nd Street Station in midtown Manhattan was once used in the 1960s for service directly to Aqueduct Race Track known as the Aqueduct Special. It could once again be used to provide additional service to Kennedy Airport Larry Penner (Larry Penner is a transportation historian, advocate and writer who previously worked!31 years fo the U.S. Department of Transportation Federal Transit Administration Region 2 NY Oﬃce)

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Fascism is coming to America I

n “This is How Democracies Die,” Daniel Ziblatt and Steven Labitsky write: “Because there is no single moment — no coup, declaration of martial law — in which the regime obviously ‘crosses the line’ into dictatorship, nothing may set oﬀ the alarm bells… Democracy’s erosion is… almost imperceptible.” I believe that this is precisely what we are experiencing in America today. This thesis may be considered radical hyperbole, but I view it is a reasonable hypothesis. What evidence exists that President Trump is leading this nation down the road to fascism? Trump has ignored the rule of law which is a foundational principle of our democracy. He has labeled our free press as “the enemy of the people” yet it is one of the bulwarks of any democracy. He has appointed cabinet heads who oppose the very goals of the agencies they lead. He has reversed decades of foreign policy achievements by calling African nations “s***hole countries,” saying immigrants

“infest” our country and alienating close allies like England, France, Germany, Mexico and Canada. Leaving himself open to charges of treason he has “cozied up” to dictators like Putin, Kim Jong-un and Turkish President Erdogan. He has used executive orders to undermine the legislative branch of government. He has purged the words “climate crisis” and “global warming” from all government documents in a move which flies in the face of science and suggests thought control. He colluded with the Russians to aﬀect results in his 2016 election. He has made every eﬀort to undermine the Mueller investigation including the firing of the FBI director and repeated threats against his Attorney General. According to the Washington Post"“fact checker” as of Sept. 12, 2018, Trump lied or made false statements to his fellow Americans — 5001 times. In violation of human rights, he has closed the door to asylum seekers and put their children in cages.

The “Gag Rule” cuts oﬀ all federal spending for overseas family planning and maternal health services. Trump re-imposed it causing untold suﬀering and death in Third World nations. By appointing Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court, Trump has sealed the fate of Roe v. Wade. Women will die when they resort to “back alley” abortions and other vain attempts to end unwanted pregnancies. In a New York Times investigative report which was over a year in the making, the authors concluded that there was massive tax fraud, the creation of “shell” companies, undervaluing of properties and the avoidance of inheritance taxes. Finally, David Rosen writing in Public Citizen News states: “The country never before has confronted the reality of a president who owns a complex business empire and seems uninterested in avoiding conflicts of interest.” If ever the emoluments clause of the Constitution seemed applicable, this is the time. The alleged violations of our Constitution cited above do not even scratch the

surface. When Republicans are aghast that anti-Trumpers are so relentless in their attacks upon a “duly elected president” they need to look at the record. What they don’t take into account is that Trump is the worst president in our nation’s history and also the most mentally unstable. Germany was the most literate and cultured of nations yet they gave the world the Nazi Party. In 2016, America was fed up with “the swamp” in Washington and they gave us Donald Trump. It can happen here. In fact, it has. Will our fragile democracy survive? Former Supreme Court Justice William Brennan believed it would. He wrote: “The Constitution will endure as a vital charter of human liberty…” but this was before Trump, McConnell and Ryan. This was before a reconstituted Supreme Court with Gorsuch and Kavanaugh. Bobby Kennedy wrote about a revolution which “would be peaceful if we are wise enough, humane if we care enough; successful if we are fortunate enough. Viva la revolucion!! Hal Sobel Great Neck

Elaine Phillips passive on gun control

ho can ever forget Newtown and other school shootings plus the recent Parkland, Florida school murders? For any parent, this latest horror has hit an emotional cord once again. Where has Elaine Phillips been in this time of tragedy on the gun control issue? Shortly after Parkland, over 900 people who reside in the 7th State Senate District gathered at Ielpi Park in Great Neck for the Anti-Gun Rally. While many elected oﬃcials came to express support for anti-gun legislation,

including Town Councilwoman Anna Kaplan, Sen. Phillips did not show up. Was she too busy or too afraid? Why does she blindly accept the National Rifle Association’s PAC money that the state Republican Committee piles up in its coﬀers to dole out to its state Republican legislators so that they will continue to support the NRA? Has she ever joined her constituents at an anti-gun violence rally or reached out to such gun safety organizations as Everytown for Gun Safety and New Yorkers Against Gun Violence?

Has she ever held a Town Hall meeting to address gun violence, for that matter? Has she ever spoken with survivors of gun violence or consulted with physicians and psychologists about its physical and mental eﬀects upon victims? Kaplan has been in the forefront advocating for anti-gun legislation. She has heard the survivors’ and victims’ stories. Kaplan cannot be bought by the NRA. Never. She will always be transparent about where she stands on this issue. There is no more time to waste wait-

ing for the Republicans to pass anti-gun legislation in the Senate, so that the governor will then sign as he has promised. No more children can die. Therefore, we must do the right thing and replace Phillips so that New York state can finally enact the legal protections against gun violence sorely needed. I urge all residents to vote for Kaplan on Row A as your new state Senator in the 7th"District on Election Day, Nov. 6. Sandra Yousefzadeh Great Neck

Where did American measurements go?

on’t we in the United States use the American System of Measurements… which includes spoonfuls and tablespoonfuls?" Why, then, are pharmacies dispensing medicines with directions only in milliliters and other metric system measure-

ments?" Why are Americans being forced to follow the foreign metric system when taking medicines?" When I asked a local CVS pharmacist this question last Saturday, she told me it’s because the measurement syringes and cups have metric mea-

surements." Why, then, doesn’t CVS and, other pharmacies, purchase syringes and cups with only ounces or teaspoonful measurements?" Is big business manufacturing only metric system syringes and cups?" Is big business socially en-

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gineering the acceptance of metric system-use in the United States to comply with foreign countries’ measurements… rather than vice-versa… because big business can make bigger profits by selling onefits-all" cups and syringes to foreign countries, too? I thought our American system of using teaspoonfuls and tablespoonfuls was our oﬃcial measurement system… not the metric system of measurements. Is there some subtle, profit scheme afoot to convert our American, traditional, avoirdupois-based ounces, pounds,

teaspoons, and tablespoons to metric system measurements in pharmacies? I hope not. To my knowledge, the adopted American System of Measurements is not the metric system." If there was an oﬃcial changeover in the United States from our avoirdupoisbased measurement system to the metric system, I would like to know… perhaps, I missed something in the recent decade. Kathy Rittel East Williston

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Support Zielenziger Many thanks to Great for library trustee Neck school board

avid Zielenziger has been an asset to all aspects of the Great Neck community for decades. His dedication of time and eﬀort to make ours a better community is apparent to anyone who talks to him.

iving a huge thank you to the I support!Zielenziger for Great Neck Great Neck Public Schools Board Library Trustee and believe that he will of Education President Barbara beam with pride in this role.! Vote for Berkowitz, Vice President Donald him on Monday, Oct. 29. Ashkenase, Trustee Donna Peirez, Trustee Robert Aizer Rebecca Sassouni, and Trustee Jeﬀrey Shi Great Neck for their dedication and outstanding service to the Great Neck community. In conjunction with celebrating School Board Recognition Week in New York State, we acknowledge our board’s unwavering commitment to educational excellence. “Education is a once in a lifetime opportunity to open children’s hearts and

Zielenziger deserves spot on library board

lease vote David Zielenziger for Great Neck Public Library trustee.! Zielenziger is the person who regularly attends public meetings to keep me informed of the operations of our local government, and he frequently exposes waste, fraud, and abuse.! He is a journalist, scholar, and historian, and as such he will act as a watchdog over our library tax dollars and preserve the library as a depository for our printed and electronic resources.!!

Zielenziger provides religious education at his Temple, but at the same time he acts as a zealous guardian of the rights and liberties of all in our community, regardless of race, religion, or ethnicity.! We do not have a more dedicated and qualified person than Zielenziger to help run our public library for ourselves and our children. !!!! Dan Capruso Great Neck

In midterms, vote for climate action Continued from Page 16 He canceled the Coal Power Plan, gave extensions to coal-fired plants, reversed fuel economy standards, said it’s A-OK for coal plants to spew methane and by the way, a little radiation is good for you. This wasn’t always a partisan issue (remember Newt Gingrich and Nancy Pelosi commercial together?) until the Republicans, bought by the fossil fuel industry declared climate change a hoax perpetrated by the Chinese to weaken the US economy. They cast climate action as “socialist” (as they do on Medicare, Social Security, Obamacare) and a betrayal of America’s sovereignty (America First!) What is so conveniently ignored by Republicans (who claim to worship capitalism) are the costs to the economy by failing to address climate change. Count the billions in disaster relief and add the billions to rebuild infrastructure, lost productivity because people can’t work or their workplaces are destroyed. And maybe calculate the cost of lives destroyed by health problems, injuries and premature death. Put a dollar figure on that. The

Trump Administration won’t. But since trade (cash on the barrel) is the only foreign policy Trump seems to care about, the 194 other countries who signed the Paris Climate Accord should strike back. President Emmanuel Macron of France at the United Nations suggested that France either would not forge a trade agreement with a country that was not part of the Paris Climate Accord, or it would require mitigation. “That means there is no comprehensive agreement if [the nation is] not in line with Paris … France continues to spearhead this global fight against climate change…In the G7, I will work to see the Paris obligations increased.” Other countries should impose a tax on imports from the United States, or ban American products entirely. And these small island nations, like Indonesia and the Philippines, that are being inundated by rising sea levels, should sue the United States for relief. It is crucial for voters need to elect representatives at every level of government, local, state and federal, who acknowledge this existential threat and vow to take climate action.

minds to the unbelievable wonder of the universe.” – Sir Anthony Seldon. The countless hours they have all spent in helping our schools provide an exemplary education to our community at large does not go unnoticed and is so greatly appreciated. We look forward to continued strength and unity in our district with their guidance and leadership. Michelle Ahdoot President, United Parent-Teacher Council Great Neck Public Schools

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Robotic pancreatic cancer surgery at LIJ Emma Barros, who originally hails from Ecuador and now resides in Brentwood, reached a milestone that she feared she’d never live to see — the celebration of her 40th birthday with her loving husband and daughter, and 10 of her closest family members. Joining in the family celebration at Long Island Jewish Medical Center was Dr. Gary Deutsch, the innovative surgeon who realized that Barros was the perfect candidate for a complex surgery known as the Whipple procedure to cure pancreatic cancer. The challenge arose from Deutsch’s decision to utilize the da Vinci robot to remove a large tumor instead of going with traditional laparoscopic surgery. Earlier this year, Barros visited her doctor complaining of severe stomach pain that, she learned, was caused by gallstones. Even after having them removed surgically in March, the pain returned with new symptoms — Barros turned a yellow hue from jaundice and suﬀered terrible itching. Speaking through an interpreter, Barros said, “I didn’t want to believe anything was wrong. My husband told me I was turning yellow and I didn’t want to believe. I even asked my daughter and she told me it was

true.” Barros returned to the emergency department at LIJ and learned that a gallstone was stuck in her bile duct, causing a blockage. Her doctors hoped to remove the gallstone endoscopically and, to their surprise, Barros was found to have a large mass in the first part of the intestine. This unexpected finding was biopsied and revealed that Barros had pancreatic cancer. At this point, Barros met Deutsch, a surgical oncologist who decided that the robotic Whipple procedure (named after the surgeon who pioneered its use) was a better way to go. “The reasons for using da Vinci were many,” said Deutsch. “By operating robotically, we have better visualization with a high-definition 3D camera and more freedom of movement and dexterity. Also, such major abdominal surgeries traditionally resulted in longer incisions, more pain and scarring, and more recuperation time for the patient than da Vinci surgery. For Ms. Barros, we only needed to make five small incisions that are less than one centimeter in length. And, she was able to go home in four days.” On Sept. 21, Deutsch performed the complex, 10-

hour surgery — also called a pancreaticoduodenectomy — which involved the removal of the right side of the pancreas gland along with some of the surrounding intestine and a portion of the bile duct. She was back at home in less than a week, and was finally able to look forward to her 40th birthday. Surrounded by her loving family and her surgeon, giant balloons and a birthday cake, Barros said simply, “It is such a blessing to be with my family today. This is a very special birthday.”

Parker opens new palliative care unit

Parker Jewish Institute for Health Care and Rehabilitation has opened a new eighth floor, six-bed Palliative Care Unit, dedicated to providing relief from the symptoms and stress of debilitating and serious illnesses. Parker’s program expands their existing palliative services and delivers unitbased, coordinated care to patients with advanced pain treatments and expert management of disease symptoms, with the goal of improving their quality of life. The new unit was made possible by a grant from the UJA-Federation of New York. “Parker’s team of medical professionals provides personalized palliative care for patients, when they suﬀer with pain, stress or other symptoms from a serious illness. Palliative care can be provided at any stage of an illness, and alongside treatments designed to cure a patient,” said Michael N. Rosenblut, president and CEO of Parker Jewish Institute. “It’s about

providing compassionate care for a serious illness, including end of life care, and even the grieving process for one’s family members.” Highly trained in palliative medicine, Parker’s team includes: skilled palliative care nurses; physician services; physical, occupational and speech therapy; pastoral care; home health aides; short term inpatient/respite care; medical equipment and medications; social work services; bereavement counseling; hospice trained volunteers; and 24-hour on-call services. “Parker’s Palliative Care Unit was created with a goal of providing comfort and compassion to patients, a commitment to help patients and families deal with the challenge of a serious illness, and to live each day to the fullest,” said Aida Cabrera-Moro, RN, Palliative Care Nursing Director. Some of the serious illnesses treated by Parker’s Palliative Care Unit include: cancer; heart, lung and kidney disease; Alzheimer’s; HIV/AIDS; ALS; multiple sclerosis; Parkinson’s and more. If a patient’s illness does not improve, Parker respects their wishes and honors their dignity in making end of life decisions. Most importantly, such patients have access to Parker’s onsite Hospice Program. According to the Hospice and Palliative Care Association of New York State, Parker has one of the state’s premier hospice services. Medicare, Medicaid and many private insurance plans are accepted. Advisors are available to answer your questions about insurance. Call 516-586-1575 or 718-289-2800 to learn more about Palliative and Hospice Care at Parker Jewish Institute.

Northwell aneurysm walk raises $90,000 Approximately 1,000 walkers raised $90,000 at Jones Beach State Park at Long Island’s 10th annual Brain Aneurysm Awareness Walk, hosted by Northwell Health’s Brain Aneurysm Center and the Brain Aneurysm Foundation. Proceeds from the walk will go to support essential research at the two organizations. The walk has raised more than $700,000 since its inception. “This year’s walk was a tremendous success,” said Dr. David Chalif, director of Northwell Health’s Brain Aneurysm Center. “Every year at this event, as I look over the crowd filled with hundreds of patients we have treated, I realize that when we treat a patient with a brain aneurysm, we are taking care of not only the patient, but their whole family. It is a very profound feeling and something we do not take for granted.” Brain aneurysm survivors, their families and friends attended the mile-

stone event on Sept. 22, led by survivors Steve Calzolano, 59, of Levittown, Tricia Mallardi, 55, of Oyster Bay and Rich Salgado, 52, of New Hyde Park, who each shared their stories. They were joined on stage by Nassau County Executive Laura Curran, who spoke about the shock and pain of losing a family friend to a brain aneurysm as well as a colleague who survived their health scare. “It is time to get out of the shadows and help bring awareness,” Curran told the crowd. Walk participants were reminded of the warning signs of a brain aneurysm: severe headache, nausea, blurred or double vision, stiﬀ neck or neck pain, pain above or behind the eye and loss of sensation. But with so many survivors among the walkers, it’s clear that fast medical intervention can make all the diﬀerence.

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Phillips gets support of women’s group Continued from Page 25 The club’s policy, first reported by the New York Daily News, drew swift condemnation from several local women’s groups, such as the! National Organization for Women in Nassau. But Phillips said in a statement that she was unaware of the policy. “This event was booked not by my campaign, but by a longtime member of that club who was unaware that, while

it DOES admit women members, certain membership levels are not available to women,” Phillips said.! “Once I learned of this fact, I asked the club to change its policy and informed them that I would not participate in future events until it did so.” Reach reporter Luke Torrance by email at ltorrance@theislandnow.com, by phone at 516-307-1045, ext. 214, or follow him on Twitter @LukeATorrance.

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It’s all about relationship with client I have done a lot of reading and research over the last year or two and have seen over the years how our real estate market has drastically changed. It has gone from a fairly personal interaction between the real estate person and his or her customers to a “lead generation and lead capture” type environment. It is not unusual to see many agents spend exorbitant sums of money on gathering buyer and some seller leads through various online sources. Many of these leads could be derived from many other sources at a more reduced cost. Developing rapport and relationships is an “old-fashion” method that has always worked for those who practiced it. Yes, it does take time to develop, but one cements a solid connection to that person or couple in a much diﬀerent fashion than just getting a cold lead from an outside source and then one must begin to develop and mold a relationship. However, there are connections that we all have from past jobs, businesses, networking,

neighbors, former customers and clients, places you shop on a consistent basis, parties, etc. that hopefully, you can build upon. People do business they like and that’s a good portion of the battle in building your current and future book of business. Many agents are out of touch with the most crucial and important groups that they have not stayed in touch with to develop a continued conversation. I have spoken to many homeowners and had asked who sold them their home and a great percentage said that either there was no contact, they couldn’t remember or they wouldn’t necessarily use them again. The number one source for new business is referrals from past clients; assuming that you have stayed in touch with them. The National Association of Realtors had previously completed a comprehensive survey in 2017 about how realtors go out and searched for new business. The thing that was found

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after interviewing thousands of homeowners throughout the country was that the vast majority of agents, 80 percent, never stayed in touch with past customers, who had completed a transaction with them. They collected their checks at the closing, maybe visited once and that was it! I believe, it would be a logical conclusion, that this would be the easiest way to gather new business, but it wasn’t. Referrals are the “lifeblood” of all new business, but surprisingly, it seems to be the most challenging for the ma-

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jority to do. Today, spending enormous sums of money to attract new business seems to be the norm and is easy, and is the path of least resistance in securing new business. You spend your money, put yourself in front of thousands of listings, whether they’re yours or someone else’s and presto, your phone rings with an inquiry. For new agents, this may be the way to go, if they haven’t figured out their current or past spheres of influence. But as the market changes, I believe rekindling and building relationships will always be a more solid, longer lasting, more rewarding experience and path to pursue; and the expenditure will be the agent’s time, eﬀort and discipline to contact and speak with those who are currently doing business with you, as well as those in the past. Even if it were other business outside of real estate, it would be another avenue to pursue and focus on. There are times when some of your best and closest friends, who were former clients; and by staying in touch with them, they become your most solid advocates for new business. Receiving reviews and testimonials for the good job that you have done in securing a purchase, sale or investment opportunity, is also extremely important to allow your buyers, sellers and investors to do a little bragging for you. As a broker, when I have done what was needed and necessary to do from helping

with mortgage referrals, house inspectors, contractors, cable and utility companies, filling out applications and whatever other critical services that might be needed prior to and after someone moves in, from start to finish; I have always asked for a review and truly appreciate and consider a positive one, as a testimonial to my business in continuing to “pay it forward.” More than 60 percent of sellers and buyers will search out an agent on the internet, before even calling, to see what consumers say and have experienced in their dealings with a realtor. My first sale, 25 years ago was with a family and I had stayed in touch with them, in various ways. This year became my client seller and we just closed a few weeks ago. Staying in touch will always benefit you as well as your sellers because nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care! Philp A. Raices is the owner/ broker of Turn Key Real Estate at 3 Grace Ave. Suite 180 Great Neck. He has earned designations as a graduate of the Realtor Institute and a Certified International Property Specialist. Receive regular free updates of sold homes in your area and what your home would sell for in today’s market or search on: WWW.Li-RealEstate.Com He can be reached by email, at: Phil@TurnKeyRealEstate.Com, or by cell (if you need advice): (516) 647-4289.

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Sales in the Williston Area Williston Park Real Estate Market Conditions MEDIAN SALES PRICE $615,000 Demographics near Williston Park, NY Population Population Density Median Age People per Household Median Household Income Average Income per Capita

City 7,331 11,692 42.7 2.8 101,921 42,231

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

81 Hilldale Road, Albertson Sold Price: $780,000 Date: 08/30/2018 3 beds, 2 Full baths Style: Exp Cape # of Families: 1 Lot Size: 60x125 Schools: East Williston Total Taxes: $8,504 MLS# 3035423

36 Croyden Court, Albertson Sold Price: $773,000 Date: 09/07/2018 3 beds, 1 Full/1 Half baths Style: Colonial # of Families: 1 Lot Size: 70x151 Schools: East Williston Total Taxes: $11,219 MLS# 3029777

255 I U Willets Road, Albertson Sold Price: $740,800 Date: 08/30/2018 4 beds, 2 Full/1 Half baths Style: Colonial # of Families: 1 Lot Size: 60X100 Irr Schools: East Williston Total Taxes: $9,976 MLS# 3034035

96 Lipton Lane, Williston Park Sold Price: $615,000 Date: 08/27/2018 3 beds, 2 Full baths Style: Cape # of Families: 1 Lot Size: 50x100 Schools: Herricks Total Taxes: $12,533 MLS# 3035279

Editorâ€™s note: Homes shown here were recently sold in the Willistons, Mineola and surrounding areas 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 the Willistons, Mineola and surrounding areas and are believed by Blank Slate Media to be of interest to our readers.

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Suozzi, DeBono clash for first time in Port Continued from Page 1 tax cuts passed by Republicans and President Donald Trump. DeBono did say that Trump had helped the economy grow, while Suozzi called the tax cuts a “sugar jolt” to the wealthiest Americans that increased the deficit. Suozzi said he would support a carbon tax, while DeBono said residents already paid too many taxes. Their exchanges served as a stark contrast to the other two debates, which lacked the hostile back-and-forth. The candidates for state Assembly, incumbent Democrat Anthony D’Urso and Republican challenger Byron Divins, generally got along and agreed on many policies. Only one candidate for the state Senate — Democrat Anna Kaplan," a member of the North Hempstead Town Board — showed up. State Sen. Elaine Phillips (R-Flower Hill) could not make the debate, as she was attending an" award ceremony hon-

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Republican candidate for Congrees Dan DeBono shakes hands with a resident after a debate Tuesday at the Amsterdam at Harborside in Port Washington. oring her daughter at Cornell University. “It’s a balancing act between politics and family, and" sometimes family has to win,” said Town of North Hempstead

Councilman Angelo Ferrara, who read a statement on Phillips’ behalf. “But she very much wanted to be here.” Ferrara touted Phillips’ accomplishments in securing

school security"funding, money for a shuttle bus to the Amsterdam, tax credits and protections for Long Island drinking water. “Some people get into politics for the power or glory or the money, and other people get into it to make life better for the residents they serve,” he said. “She truly works for the people.” After the statement it was all Kaplan, as Ferrara did not answer questions on Phillips’ behalf or respond to her opponent’s attacks. Kaplan said that as an immigrant, she would stand up for fellow immigrants, and said that Phillips was not strong enough on gun control, handling corruption and protecting the environment. Kaplan said she would support the New York Health Act, which would provide health care to every state resident, and also supported increased funding for public transportation (residents of the Amsterdam are currently petitioning for a Nassau bus route on West Shore

Road). There was little criticism directed toward either state Assembly candidate. Both D’Urso and Divins touted their immigrant backgrounds and their love of the United States. Both agreed that state protections should be put in place to keep abortion legal in New York. And both supported the New York Health Act. Just about the only diﬀerence was on gun control. Both said they supported the Second Amendment. But while D’Urso said he supported “every piece of [gun control] legislation that’s come before me,” Divins said that further regulations were unnecessary. “We have to enforce the laws that we have now,” he said. “I don’t think we need more.” Reach reporter Luke Torrance by email at ltorrance@theislandnow.com, by phone at 516307-1045, ext. 214, or follow him on Twitter @LukeATorrance.

NHP artist brings surrealism to library exhibit Continued from Page 2 “Then I decided I wanted to pursue my dream,” Criss said. “To use the medium of photography as a painter uses paints and canvas.” Criss began working on layered photography: placing one image over another another to

create a third, surreal image unachievable by conventional photography. Criss said that her objective is to make viewers look beyond what is concrete and interpret the image on multiple levels. “I really enjoyed beginning to shoot slides and kind of putting them together,” Criss said.

“With the idea that one image plus a second would make a third, entirely new photograph.” But Criss said that her love for layered photography was slightly diminished by the advent of and improvements in digital photography. “It brought me out of the

dark room and hunched over a computer,” Criss said. “I desired a tactile feeling from that image creation, and the digital editing took away from that.” As a result, Criss returned to painting, reconnecting with surrealism through brush strokes. Criss is also a founding and

contributing member of the ongoing “artist circle” group that meets regularly at B.J. Spoke gallery in Huntington. “It’s really just a gathering of minds that have being creative in common,” Criss said. Criss’ exhibit will on view until Oct. 29 at the library.

Benno blasts Rice, defends Trump in race Continued from Page 11 “I will not put my party ahead of my district,” Benno said. Asked about the deficits resulting from the tax bill, he said cost reductions are needed and “we have to rein in spending.” Benno also subscribed to giving more power to the states, citing the 10th Amendment’s provision that powers not delegated to the federal government belong to the states, in areas like Medicaid and environmental protections.

In the case of Medicaid, a joint federal and state medical program geared toward low-income and disabled Americans, Benno expressed support for block grants for state governments so they can do what’s best. He also said governments should not be forced to buy brand name drugs and that the state should be allowed to negotiate prices. Regarding Medicare, he said there should be stronger enforcement against fraud and abuse, or false claims and medical professionals “upbilling” and said there should be

income-adjusted vouchers, giving people an option to opt out in favor of private insurance. As for Social Security, Benno said he’d want to retain the “status quo” for people nearing retirement, but get rid of the “retirement earning test” and tie cost of living adjustments to the consumer price index for middle-class residents. Regarding the Mueller investigation, Benno said it should have been “a year tops,” asserted that Trump is not the focus of the investigation and that the “Clintons always seem to skate out” of being pros-

ecuted. When indictments of Paul Manafort, Trump’s former campaign manager, and other associates were raised, Benno said there is “no guilt by association” in the American legal system. Benno also said he supported the decision to exit the Paris climate accord, as well as pulling out of the United Nations Human Rights Commission, saying it favors anti-Zionist and anti-Semitic viewpoints. Additionally, in the realm of safety, Benno said he supports defunding “sanctuary

cities,” erecting a wall on portions of the United States-Mexico border to try deterring fentanyl traﬃcking, and deporting illegal immigrants found to have a gang aﬃliation. Benno also said he supported the confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh to the U.S. Supreme Court and defended his temperament, saying he was “accused in front of the world” of sexual assault – while his daughters were watching – and that he “wasn’t presiding over a case.” “You don’t want a judge who’s a robot,” he said.

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East Williston firefighters to be honored Continued from Page 1 Department Chief Patrick Theodore and Jonathan Viola are being named the Basic Life Support Provider of the Year. “It’s an honor to be recognized,” Theodore said. “Everybody did a great job that day and it was a phenomenal team eﬀort.” David Black, Vincent Delgatto, Nicholas DiPasquale, Kevin O’Donnell and Cesar Romero have also received honorable mention for the award. On July 15, 2017, police arrived at a home on Fairview Avenue in East Williston where a 45-year-old

woman was found unresponsive. Oﬃcers began to administer CPR and an automated external defibrillator was set up as Theodore arrived. Soon after the department’s response unit 812 arrived with the rest of those recognized. CPR was continued as the patient was loaded into a Williston Park Fire Department ambulance for transport to Winthrop University Hospital. After a few weeks in the hospital, the woman was able to resume her normal life. “We’re all very happy she’s alive today and with her family,” Theodore said.

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MedMen, civic leaders’ disagreement remains Continued from Page 2 Dais said that the company’s upscale branding fits in with the other retail stores in Manhasset. The branding is intended to destigmatize medical marijuana, Dais said, considering that the drug has historically been criminalized and is still illegal for medical use in many states. But later, civic group members said they wondered whether the branding was intended to destigmatize the drug or to glamorize it. At the end of the meeting, Richard Bentley, president of the Council of Greater Manhasset Civic Associations, presented photographs he was sent of MedMen’s Fifth Avenue store that showed clothing for sale visible through the window that had large images of cannabis leaves. He and other council members expressed concern that such merchandise indicated a type of branding uncharacteristic of a company oﬀering medicinal products. Many of the clients of the Lake Success store are middle-aged or elderly, the

store’s lead pharmacist, Gagan Puar, said. Dais suggested that a dispensary is similar to an eyeglass store, which provides health services but is placed among retail stores. Such a mindset can help destigmatize the drug, Dias said, which is one reason to locate it in a retail area. The Northern Boulevard building has a parking variance that allows retail facilities to operate with its 16 parking spaces, but the town has classified MedMen’s planned store as a medical facility, said lawyer Kathleen Deegan Dickson, who is assisting MedMen with its land use and zoning applications for the new location. A medical facility would require 11 more parking spaces, Deegan Dickson said. MedMen plans to apply for a parking variance for its medical oﬃce and to appeal to the town to be considered a retail site. It has a letter from the state Department of Health supporting that it is retail, she said. The North New Hyde Park location that it is moving from was classified as medical, she said. The company wants to be involved

with governors’ task forces pursuing legislation to legalize recreational use, said Rob Esparza, MedMen’s director of global security, who serves as a public safety liaison and is based in Los Angeles. He detailed how the company demonstrated its security practices to New York police oﬃcials when it opened its Manhattan location. “I’m concerned because here you are making an application here in Manhasset and I spoke with the commanding oﬃcer of the 3rd Precinct today and he had absolutely no awareness of who MedMen was or what they do,” Bentley said. Esparza said that he has a contact with the Police Department whom he plans to reach out to. “I assure you we will have a working relationship with the Nassau County Police Department here and they will understand what we’re all about because we’re going to make the time to go out and see them, introduce ourselves here, let them see our security plans,” he said. Dais said his mother, who has breast cancer, is an example of someone who

has found relief from medical marijuana. He also emphasized the social benefits of regulating rather than criminalizing marijuana. Criminalization has not stopped marijuana use, he said, but has instead created unstandardized black market production. When he smoked in college, he never thought about who was growing it or what their process was, Dais said. “What pesticides did they use on that marijuana?” he said. “I know in our facility in Utica, New York, we’re not allowed to use any pesticides … it’s a process, it’s clean, we know exactly what it is.” On Thursday, MedMen announced that it has signed an agreement to acquire PharmaCann LLC, according to Business Wire. The acquisition, valued at $682 million, will make MedMen the largest marijuana company in the country, said CEO Adam Bierman. PharmaCann has four dispensaries in New York, and the closest to Long Island is in the Bronx.

A mother’s grief reaches Congress Continued from Page 24 concern in custody decisions. It says that evidence of abuse can only be submitted by an approved fee-paid professional, that states should have clear standards for the professionals and that courts should consider paying these professionals. It also calls for hear-

ings on the practices of family courts. The resolution will now move to the Senate. In the meantime, Franchetti is working to get similar legislation in New York state. Through the Kyra Franchetti Foundation, she is raising money to help raise awareness of the issue.

“I want to see things change inside and outside of the court system,” she said. It is an issue she continues to chip away at every day. She said that she thinks about her daughter all the time. “She used to go to the park in Manhasset across from the train station, and she loved

to go on the swings near Landmark on Main Street” in Port Washington, Franchetti recalled. “She was very happy, energetic, bubbly toddler … and she deserved so much. If legislation like this came along#earlier, my child may be alive, and I don’t want this to happen to somebody else’s child.”

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This celebration centers on the ceremony of reading the last words of the last book of the Torah, Deuteronomy, and then immediately reading the first words of the first book, Genesis, symbolizing the neverending nature of the Torah. ! The Torah was unscrolled to the first book, Genesis, from the first words, B’Rasheet.! “In the beginning—-“ !to the last words of Deuteronomy, the fifth and last book of the Torah. Rabbi Chizner captured the symbolism perfectly by chanting the last words of Deuteronomy and then Student Cantor Mariel Guarrera-Ashkenazy immediately read the first words of Genesis. The Rabbi pointed out the Torah’s beauty and complexity and he answered questions from the assembled congregants.! The evening concluded with each person taking home some sweets, reminding us that our greatest sweetness in life is learning.! Temple Judea welcomes new members.! To reach us: 333 Searingtown Road, Manhasset 11030 (oﬀ exit 36 on LIE); email www. temple-judea.com; phone: 516 621-049.

PROFESSIONAL DIRECTORY

Sport Psychology Dr. Tom Ferraro

has specialized in sport psychology for 20 years and works in the fields of golf, tennis, soccer, baseball, football, wrestling, lacrosse, figure skating, gymnastics, softball, fencing and more. He has helped professional teams, Olympians and elite young athletes learn how to manage the intense pressure of competitive sports. He appears on both TV and radio and has sport psychology columns in 5 different newspapers and has been featured in The New York Times, Wall street Journal and the London Times. Golf Digest includes him in their list of top mental game gurus in America. For a consultation see below: Williston Park Professional Center 2 Hillside Ave, Suite E. Williston Park NY 11596 (building parallel to E. Williston railroad station)

drtomferraro.com drtferraro@aol.com

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PROFESSIONAL GUIDE ▼ ACUPUNCTURING & HERBALIST ▼

COLLEGE COUNSELING ▼

DIGITAL MEDIA SERVICES ▼

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NYS Licensed Acupuncturist / M.D. China U.S. National Board Certified Herbalist 103 South Middle Neck Road Great Neck, NY 11021 Tel: 516-809-8999 AcuHerbZhou@gmail.com

Insurance accepted

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(516) 248-9323

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College Selection, application and resume preparation, essay development, application submission, financial aid consultation. 30+ years experience.

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Private / Small Group Tutoring Available

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Audrey Sullivan M.S.Ed. Educator

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BUYER’S GUIDE ▼ MOVING

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Serving the community for over 40 yrs

BRIAN CLINTON

MOVERS

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PAINTING

STRONG ARM CLEANING

PAINTING & WALLPAPER

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est. 1978

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STONE RESTORATION

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COIN SHOP

We Buy It All Coins, Paper Money, Stamps, Jewelry, Diamonds, Sports Memorabilia, Comic Books, Antique Guns, and many more

PMJ Coin LLC Premium Quaility Certified Coins

2127 Hillside Ave. New Hyde Park, NY 11040 (516) 741-3330 - Ask for Paul

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Substitute Teachers, Substitute Teacher Aides, Substitute Nurses

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Submit resumes and salary requirements to: Empire State Medical, Scientific & Educational Foundation Human Resources Department e-mail chunt@mssny.org • Fax: (1-516) 282-7110 Equal Oppty Employer M/F

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We Have Openings for School Bus Drivers

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SIGN ON BONUS $2,500 FOR CDL DRIVERS Bus & Van $500 For Non CDL Drivers Will train qualified applicants

NEW STARTING SALARIES FOR SEPTEMBER • BIG BUS: $20.73 hr. Benefit rate • BIG BUS: $22.73 hr. *Non-Benefit rate • VAN: $17.96 hr. Benefit rate Positions • VAN: $19.96 hr. *Non-Benefit rate available for *available after 90 days

EDUCATIONAL BUS TRANSPORTATION 516.454.2300

ELECTION INSPECTORS Syosset-Woodbury Area to work on ELECTION DAY November 6th, 2018 5:30am to 9:00pm Earn $180 for the day & up No experience required Call Gerry Klingler 516-921-6982 Must be a registered voter

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FT CAREGIVER NEEDED Loving family is looking for a caregiver who is energetic, caring, has strong values, great communication skills and appreciates good nutrition for a 5 yr old Diabetic. The person will need to be able to administer medication, prepare meals and assist with other errands on an as needed basis. Driving is a must. Please call 516-978-6842

JOB OPPORTUNITY: $17/hr NYC $14.50/hr LI 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 Certificates needed. 347-462-2610 or 347-5656200

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LUNCH MONITORS, SUBSTITUTE BUS DRIVERS, SUBSTITUTE CLERICALS

Substitute bus drivers must have CDL license and be 21 years of age Interested bus drivers please call Mr. David Murphy at (516) 483-9297. Substitute clericals and lunch monitors 6 : )*--(#.$(45&+"$&&(123)$(*#(6789:(;<=>8?;?

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INSURANCE Floral Park Agency Now Hiring For (2) Excellent Openings • PART TIME FILING & DATA ENTRY Some customer service, phones, no students

• PERSONAL LINES ASSISTANT

JOB OPPORTUNITY

INSIDE SALES

Established Mineola company Salary plus commission Full or part time Earn while you learn

516-829-8083

TAX PREPARER PART TIME in Franklin Square. Experience needed. Retirees welcome. Call 516-358-9455 Fax resume 516-358-9483

Experience in TAM required Email resume to: Lucy@harrygottlieb.com or fax to: 516-358-0143

WEEKEND CONCIERGE Upscale Community in Port Washington. Sat /Sun 7:00am-3:00pm. Must drive and be capable to lift up to 50lbs. $13/hour salary. Please email resume to: sgaddison@gmail.com

NOW HIRING CERTIFIED PCAs & HHAs! Part-Time; Full-Time, Live-In Assignments. Great Benefits including medical and 401k. Openings in Westbury, Huntington Station, Bronx, Queens. Call 516-433-4095. Email: myjob@ucicare.com Learn more at www.unlimitedcare.com

SITUATION WANTED

PART TIME MEDICAL TECHNICIAN needed for a local Ophthalmology office. Fast paced medical practice. On the job training. Experience with Word & Excel would be helpful. Please email your resume and cover letter to: Office_mgr@drjindra.com ROSLYN CHILD CARE CENTER is growing! Positions available for Director (requires combination of early childhood education experience & supervision). Head Teachers & Assistant Teachers, with morning & afternoon shifts. Great opportunity to work in a beautiful setting with competitive pay scale. Please send resume to: trinityroslynjobs@gmail.com (Please do not call or post Facebook message)

AIDE/COMPANION FOR THE ELDERLY: Mature Irish woman seeking part time position as an aide/companion to the elderly. Flexible part time hours available. References upon request. Please call 516-248-0105 (Please leave message) CARE GIVER: NEED A COMPANION or nursing assistant for your loved ones at home or in a health care facility? Call 516-410-9943 for a NY State certified nursing assistant with excellent references ! COMPANION AVAILABLE Available full time. Looking for someone to take care of your elderly parents in the comfort of your own home for peace and tranquility? 18 yrs. experience, references, driver w/ reliable vehicle. Please call 516-410-1892 or 516-967-1130 ELDER CARE Seeking position to take care of the elderly. Live in or Live out. Please call 347-891-2955

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▼ EMPLOYMENT, SITUATION WANTED, MARKETPLACE, AUTO HELP WANTED

HELP WANTED

MARKETPLACE Vintage Posters, Lithographs, English Ladies Fashion Prints, Etchings, Watercolors, Architectural Designs, Redoute Roses

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SITUATION WANTED

COMPANION/HOME HEALTH AIDE With 20 years experience in home care & nursing h o m e s seeking position to care for the sick /elderly. Experience with Parkinsons, Alzheimers, Dementia, Stroke. References available. English speaking. Please call 347546-4133

MATURE CARING WOMAN seeks position in child care, elder care, housekeeping. Available full time, part time, live in, live out. Excellent references. Please call 516-565-4802

ELDER CARE Woman seeking position to care for the elderly. 40 years experiences with excellent references. Please call 516-6884322 or 516-299-6548 ELDER CARE: trained to care for patients with various illnesses. Over 12 years experience. Prepare nutritious and appetizing meals, light housekeeping, live in or out. Excellent references. Please call Faith 347-898-5804 ELDER CARE: Woman seeking position to care for the elderly. Live in, full time, prepare meals, many years experience. Please call 917-828-2809 HOME HEALTH AIDE will take care of your loved one in their home. Experienced & honest. Licensed driver with own transportation. Call Flo 352-262-6970 SOFTWARE DEVELOPER needed to develop, create and modify computer applications software or specialized utility programs. Analyze user needs and develop software solutions and design and architect mobile application framework and develop company’s primary iOS application. Develop server modules, design service architecture for mobile/web client and implement service modules using Swift, Xcode and ObjectiveC. Work location is in Jericho, NY. Send Resume to: MMR Digital LLC, Attn: HR, 500 North Broadway, Ste 233, Jericho, NY 11753. Resume must specifically identify all education and skills relevant to job offered.

BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES HAVE AN IDEA FOR AN INVENTION/NEW PRODUCT? We help everyday inventors try to patent and submit their ideas to companies! Call InventHelp, FREE INFORMATION! 888-487-7074

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ANNOUNCEMENTS REVERSE MORTGAGE: Homeowners age 62+ turn your home equity into tax free cash! Speak with an expert today and receive a free booklet 1-877-580-3720

INVITED ESTATE SALES BY TRACY JORDAN Looking to sell items from your home? Consider doing an Online Auction! Online Auctions reach more interested buyers than tag sales and can often sell for more than what you would make at an estate or tag sale. Invited Estate Sales by Tracy Jordan can do both! You can sell your items online reaching potential buyers locally or globally as well as hosting a private sale from your home! Let us guide you on what items to put in auction including furniture, housewares, decorative items, jewelry, collectibles, coins, artwork and anything else you may no longer want or need. Our services can help you to maximize your selling experience whether you are selling 1 item or 500 items. We are a one stop service for all your needs when you are moving or selling a property! Selling, donating, discarding and cleaning out services can be done to meet your time frame with minimal stress. Estate and Tag Sales Online Auctions Cleanout and Moving Services Home Staging Services Appraisals Contact for more info: info@invitedsales.com or Call: 516-279-6378 to schedule a consultation or receive more information. www.invitedsales.com

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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

TOP CASH PAID: JEWELRY, Furniture, Art, etc. Please call 718-598-3045 or 516-270-2128. www.iBuyAntiquesNYC.com

GARAGE SALE GARDEN CIT Saturday 10/20 9:00am to 3:00pm 35 Chestnut St. RELOCATING !! Everything must go !! Surfboards, Pre-Lit 7’ Christmas Tree in perfect condition, Linens, Tools, Dehumidifier, Clothing, Miscellaneous Household items & Much More !! NO EARLY BIRDS! GARDEN CITY Saturday, 10/20 9am Rain or Shine 39 Maple St (Cross street Old Country Rd) SOMETHING FOR EVERYONE!

PETS

PET SERVICES A GARDEN CITY ANIMAL LOVER doesn’t want to leave your precious pooch or fantastic feline alone all day. I’m reliable, dependable and will walk and feed your pet while you work or travel. Please call Cheryl at 516-971-3242 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

AUTOMOTIVE

AUTO SERVICES CAR DETAILING done at your home, includes cleaning of interior, vacuuming. Very reasonable. Please call 516-373-5928

AUTOS WANTED

NOVENAS/PRAYERS PRAYER TO THE BLESSED VIRGIN (Never known to fail). Oh Most Beautiful Flower of Mount Carmel, Fruitful Vine of Splendor of Heaven, Blessed Mother of the Son of God, Immaculate Virgin assist me in this necessity. Oh Star of the Sea help me and show herein you are my Mother. Oh Holy Mary Mother of God, Queen of Heaven and Earth I humbly beseech thee from the bottom of my heart to succor me this necessity (mention your request here). There are none that can withstand your power. Oh show me herein you are my mother. Oh, Mary, conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to Thee (three times). Oh Holy Mary I place this cause in your hands (three times). Thank you for your mercy to me and mine. Amen. This prayer must be said for three days and after three days your request will be granted. The prayer must be published. Grateful thanks,(MAK)

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New assessment website Nassau County Executive Laura Curran announced the launch of www.AsktheCountyAssessor.com, a website which will provide answers and allow questions regarding the County Executive’s reassessment initiative. “This new assessment process will bring about many changes and a lot of questions. We are here to provide the answers. We will make every effort to provide full transparency on an interactive website,” said Curran. The website will offer a complete customer service outreach portal with all the information Nassau’s property owners will need, including options for individuals to look up specific reassessment home values. The website will feature ongoing updates and frequently asked questions. Residents will have the ability to submit questions directly to the Department of Assessment. In the coming weeks, additional functions will be added, including a feature allowing property owners to schedule appointments at either the Department of Assessment in Mineola or one of four mobile offices.

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Residents will also be able to access a report generated by Prognose, a program that provides a full picture of a resident’s property assessment, comparable sales in their area and other important information. The website will be an important resource as Nassau County Assessor David Moog moves to re-staﬀ the Department of Assessment. Over 100 employees were lost when the prior administration froze the roll in 2011. Moog has provided the levels of assessment for the tentative roll for tax year 2020/2021. Based on his professional responsibility and expertise, and the results of an expert analysis, he has set the new class one level of assessment at .10 percent and has set the levels of assessment for property classes two, three and four at 1 percent. This initiative will create an accurate assessment roll for the first time since the roll was frozen. “This is step one of a new customerfriendly Department of Assessment,” said Curran. “We are staﬃng up to respond to our residents. And while our telephone system is still being set up, property owners can use this new website. Our residents are the customer, and they will come first.” Curran continues to encourage residents to make sure their property assessments are accurate. “Property owners will absolutely keep their right to grieve their assessments,” said Curran. “Property owners, however, shouldn’t have to file a claim to be treated fairly. That’s our job. A correct, defensible assessment roll accomplishes that goal.”

Andrea and Michael Leeds and Americana Manhasset’s Champions for Charity® will be the honorees at North Shore Child & Family Guidance Center’s 65th Sapphire Anniversary Gala, which will take place Oct. 25 at the Garden City Hotel. Andrea Leeds has been a board member at the Guidance Center for more than 20 years. She and her husband Michael have taken a leadership role in philanthropy and have been passionate, dedicated and committed supporters of the Long Island community. Every holiday season, Americana Manhasset supports more than 100 notfor-profit organizations during its annual Champions for Charity® holiday shopping benefit, which this year takes place from Nov. 29 through Dec. 2. (Visit championsforcharity.org for free registration.) Since its inception in 1996, Champions for Charity® has raised nearly $12 million. The co-chairs for this year’s gala are

Matilde and Cliff Broder and Rosemarie and Mitchell Klipper. Journal co-chairs are JoEllen Hazan and the recently deceased John Gutleber, who passed away unexpectedly in September. Auction co-chairs are Deirdre Costa Major and Charles Chan. The Mistress of Ceremonies is News 12 Long Island’s Carol Silva. The gala will feature delicious food, live music, dancing and auction and raffle prizes. The speaker will be Linda Beigel Schulman, whose son Scott Beigel was murdered during the Parkland, Fla. tragedy. “For 65 years, the Guidance Center has been committed to providing essential mental health services to all children and families, regardless of their ability to pay,” says Executive Director Andrew Malekoff. “The generous support of our honorees, donors and sponsors at the gala will help us maintain the highest standard and quality of care to our community.” All proceeds will benefit the Guidance Center. To learn more about becoming a sponsor or an underwriter or purchasing tickets, visit www.northshorechildguidance. org/events, call 516)-626-1971 ext. 337 or email development@northshorechildguidance.org.

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Students embark on medical careers Nearly 100 first-year students of the Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell were presented with short white coats at a special ceremony held at the John Cranford Adams Playhouse at Hofstra University on Oct. 12. This year marks the eighth class from the Zucker School of Medicine to embark on a traditional rite of passage that recognizes the beginning of a career in medicine.! The White Coat Ceremony is celebrated at medical schools across the nation annually and holds a diﬀerent meaning for every new student in training. For some it is a moment that represents the next step toward fulfilling the American dream. “My parents came to this country from the Ukraine and Belarus nearly 40 years ago for a better life, my brother and I were born in the United States,” said first-year medical student, Aaron Burshtein, who is taking the professional journey with his twin brother, Joshua, at the Zucker School of Medicine.! “We grew up with the awareness and appreciation that we have been aﬀorded a tremendous opportunity to be able to pursue interests and work that is meaningful — for us that is medicine.” The Zucker School of Medicine Class of 2022 hails from various regions, social and cultural backgrounds, including more than ten first-generation college graduates and newcomers like Clinton Ehidom who

emigrated to the U.S. from Nigeria just eight years ago. Ehidom seized the opportunity by becoming a college valedictorian at age 19 and receiving acceptances to seven medical schools. He chose the Zucker School of Medicine. “Receiving my white coat not only serves as a formal welcome into the practice of medicine, but it also motivates me to learn more and be the best possible physician because people’s lives depend on it,” said Ehidom, now 20-years-old. “It also serves as reassurance that hard

work pays oﬀ as I have dreamt of this moment for a long time. I truly believe that I made the best decision by attending this medical school.” Both Burshtein and Ehidom are among the first 36 recipients of a scholarship provided byDonald and Barbara Zucker who gifted $50 million last year to the medical school, renamed in their honor, to create a permanent endowment exclusively for students in financial need.! Scholarship recipients also include two alumni from the Zucker School of Medicine’s

highly successful Medical Scholars Pipeline Program, an initiative designed to expose underserved youths to careers in the medical field.! “The Zuckers’ generosity and understanding of the socioeconomic barriers to education and career will further guarantee that our students have the chance to achieve their dream to become a physician without financial burden,” said Zucker School of Medicine dean, Dr. Lawrence Smith. At the Zucker School of Medicine, the white coat is

presented to first-year students during later weeks of training instead of at the initial start like other institutions to recognize the students as not just new learners but colleagues in medicine. Leading up to the White Coat Ceremony, Zucker School of Medicine students learn and understand how to perform complete histories and physicals, study the scientific principles of disease, and become certified EMTs licensed by the state of New York. They already see the world through the eyes of both patient and caregiver. “My experience at the medical school has been thrilling. It is humbling to be able to interact with patients and even influence their medical treatment at such an early point in my career,” said Ehidom.! His classmate couldn’t agree more.! “I worked with Zucker School of Medicine graduates during a summer research opportunity while in college. Their approach to care, expertise, and enthusiasm for the education they received helped me to choose Zucker as the school that aligned most with my goals and values,” said Burshtein. “I have experienced and learned more in a few weeks than I ever thought possible and have connected closely with my classmates. I am excited for what is ahead.” For more information about the Zucker School of Medicine, visit medicine.hofstra.edu.

Holocaust Memorial tribute dinner The Holocaust Memorial and Tolerance Center of Nassau County will host their 26th Annual Tribute Dinner on Wednesday, Nov. 14, at 6 p.m., at the Woodbury Jewish Center, 200 S. Woods Road in Woodbury. Honorees this year are Susan and Mark Stumer; Keith and Samantha Gutstein; and Lila Alexander and Sid Waxman.! Individual tickets are $450 a person. Young professionals (age 21-36) are $250 a person. Sponsorship packages are also available. All proceeds from the dinner go to support the center’s anti-bias, tolerance and anti-bullying programming. This year’s recipients of the public service award are the Stumers of Great Neck. Mark Stumer is a founding principal at Mojo Stumer Associates Architects and one of the most foremost architects on Long Island. He is widely recognized for his charitable work and has been hon-

ored at events of organizations including the Tilles Center and Temple Beth El. Susan Stumer, a graduate of Syracuse University and The Julliard School, regularly sings in numerous languages at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center and City Center with the Ontario Society of New York.! The Gutsteins of Hewlett,! both grandchildren of Holocaust survivors, will receive the Legacy Award.! Each learned at an early age from their respective families the catastrophic impact of intolerance and antisemitism. These lessons ultimately led Keith to join the Board of Directors at the Holocaust Memorial and Tolerance Center, where he has played an increasingly important leadership role. Keith and Samantha note that their involvement with the Center is a way for them and their family to honor the memories of their respective grandparents who survived concentration camps.

Co-recipients of the Bruce Morrell Education Award will be Alexander of Merrick and Waxman of Oceanside. Alexander is the child of immigrants who came from Poland; she is the niece of a Holocaust survivor and the granddaughter of a victim who is listed at Yad Vashem.!As a sixth grade teacher for 26 years, she taught her students about the Holocaust and went on to become a volunteer docent at HMTC after her retirement. Waxman is the child of Holocaust survivors; he was born in a displaced-persons camp in Feldafing, Germany. He is currently the facilitator of the South Shore Second Generation Group and is also a volunteer, docent, and educator at HMTC.! For tickets and more information, visit http://www.hmtcli.org/tribute,!call 516-571-8040 or email dlom@hmtcli. org.!

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Mailers deliver one-sided narratives in district Continued from Page 6 with the groups sending them out,” Kaplan campaign spokeswoman Tess McRae said. “Instead, we are focused on electing Democrat Anna Kaplan to the State Senate so that she can pass desperately needed and long overdue legislation such as the Reproductive Health Act and common-sense gun violence prevention once and for all.” There are also mailers being sent out from the respective party committees. The New York State Democratic Senate Campaign Committee is sending out mailers touting Kaplan

as someone who would be “a defender of Long Island taxpayers,” for example, and “fight for what’s right” in protecting women’s reproductive rights and strengthening gun violence prevention laws. Meanwhile, one mailer from the New York Republican Senate Campaign Committee features an image of “the proverbial smoke-filled back room,” where “party bosses and politicians cut deals to enrich themselves at our expense.” It seeks to link former North Hempstead Democratic Party head Gerard Terry, who was sentenced for tax fraud and eva-

sion, with!Kaplan, alleging that she “rewards her political boss” with two taxpayer-financed jobs. It then goes on to say she voted to raise property taxes while giving herself a raise. “We’ve had enough corruption in Nassau County,” it reads. “The last thing we need is politician Anna Kaplan in Albany.” Another Republican mailer focuses more on property taxes and the raise and says,! “Anna Kaplan loves taking money from your family!” Two other mailers also call Phillips a fighter, including one saying that she has fought against corruption in Albany

and is “getting real results, real reform.” A representative for the New York Republican Senate Campaign Committee could not be reached for comment. Chris McKenna, a spokesman for the Phillips campaign, said the campaign is showing the state senator’s “record of delivering and standing up for Long Island and this Senate district.” McKenna also said the campaign intends to “share factbased information about her opponent’s record of repeatedly raising taxes, while increasing her own pay” and the dangers

of “single-party state government that her opponent champions.” “By contrast, her opponent’s supporters have made no secret of their plans to run an ‘entirely negative’ campaign that has made outrageous claims about votes that never happened, and positions that the Senator has never held or supported,” McKenna said. “We trust that voters can tell the diﬀerence, and when they weigh their choices for State Senate will understand that re-electing Senator Phillips will continue to move Long Island forward and protect our communities and way of life.”

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Donate an organ and give the gift of life The numbers are staggering: heart failure aﬀects about five million Americans with almost one million new cases diagnosed each year. What makes this even more frightening is that there just aren’t enough healthy hearts to go around for transplant. In fact, New York State is last nationally in terms of organ donation. Much of the same can be said about people in dire need of a new kidney. There are hundreds of New Yorkers currently on the kidney transplant waiting list — and many people wait at least five years (sometimes 10) for a kidney from a deceased donor. The waiting list has doubled in size over the last decade. In an eﬀort to turn the desperation of patients awaiting organ transplants into renewed hope, Helen Irving, president and CEO, LiveOnNY, joined two patients awaiting new organs and their doctors in an urgent plea to New Yorkers to “have a heart” and become organ donors. During his opening remarks, Dr. Lewis Teperman, director of transplant services at Northwell, explained how dire the situation in the United States truly is. “There are currently over 120,000 people waiting for organ transplants in the United States,” said Teperman, “and only 18,000 deceased donors. What that means, quite simply, is that we don’t have enough organs to fill the need. We know that transplantation works, but we need the donors. It’s as simple as that.” Dr. David Majure, who is! medical director of Northwell’s mechanical circulatory support program, noted that the goal of heart transplantation is to get people back to their roles in society and fully able to participate in the ac-

tivities they love. “Heart transplantation can really change the course of a patient’s life,” he said. “Organ shortages such as we continue to experience severely limits our ability to transform a patient’s life.” Dr. Elliot Grodstein, a surgical oncologist at Northwell, echoed these sentiments. “We see so many terrible things in the news these days,” he said. “The best part of my job is seeing people who make the decision to donate in order to help save a life. I consider doing this work with such fine people to be a great honor.” Simone Tibbets, 40, of Bellmore, is in desperate need of a healthy kidney. Diagnosed with lupus three months after giving birth in 2008, Tibbets underwent several hospital vis-

its because she just wasn’t feeling well. In early 2009, after a battery of tests because of excruciating pain, it was revealed that Tibbets was in renal failure. She has been on dialysis since 2011, and on the kidney transplant list since 2015. “I’m hopeful that one day the phone will ring and that there will be a kidney for me,” Tibbets said. “Saving a life is a tremendous act of kindness. You can make such a diﬀerence when you gift of gift of life. I’m here today to encourage everyone to get on the list. Sign the organ donor card… so much depends on this.” Virginia Spolan, 69, of Forest Hills, suﬀered a heart attack in December 2016. The event was so traumatic that she can’t remember any details. All she knows is that she was taken to LIJ Forest Hills and woke up two months later — after having been placed in a medically-induced coma — at North Shore University Hospital in Manhasset. In December 2017, Spolan underwent Left Ventricular Assisted Device surgery, which is keeping her alive. She hopes that people will be moved by her story and become organ donors. When asked about the significance of Organ Donor Enrollment Day on Oct. 10, Spolan said simply, “I hope everyone who hears this will sign the organ donor card. I just want my life back.” Speaking on behalf of LivOnNY, Irving said, “We need the support from our community. We urge you to make a selfless gift and sign the organ donation card. We can only help our fellow New Yorkers when we work together as a community.” To sign on to become an organ donor, please visit LongLiveNY.org.

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Roslyn boxing studio aims to be a knockout Continued from Page 12 almost entirely on his own and is the motivating and challenging trainer whom participants keep coming back for. He oﬀers group boxing classes and one-on-one sessions meant to be adaptable for participants of all ages and skill levels. BOUT Boxing doesn’t train for combat, and the space on Lumber Road is meant to be “the least intimidating place you could ever go to,” he said. “I wanted to create a class where someone who’s never done it before and myself I could do it and still get a good workout out of it,” Kucich said. “I worked with a sport scientist, someone who focuses on how the body works, and I was working with other trainers and just going to every gym I could think of so I could take bits and pieces of it.” Workouts are based on timed intervals rather than a set number of repetitions, he said. Rounds of three minutes include four 45-second sets that alternate between boxing combinations and body weight exercises, such as squats or push-ups. Kucich capitalized on his experi-

ence with boxing training and a growing popularity of the sport to found the business. He started boxing in college, where he practiced daily, competed in fights and trained others. “When I got done in school, I graduated with a criminal justice degree. I didn’t really know what I wanted to do, but I knew I didn’t want to work a normal 9-to-5 job,” Kucich said. But he did at first, at a baseball gear brand’s New York City oﬃce. Discontented, he started brainstorming his own business, which quickly transitioned into serious planning. First he talked to his parents. Then he talked to friends with business backgrounds. Soon he was doing financial calculations, and they were coming back positive. “That was probably around April or late March, and that was when it became kind of real,” Kucich said. BOUT had its grand opening Sept. 15 and has grown since then, mostly through word-of-mouth, he said. “He’s great,” said Paige Terryberry, who said she goes to BOUT Boxing

about twice a week. “He’s very encouraging. The workouts are really dynamic. He works one on one with people if you need it. He’s very positive.” Friends are telling friends, and parents who participate have started bringing their children, Kucich said. On a quiet Monday afternoon, “I Just Can’t Wait to Be King” from “The Lion King” is echoing from the speakers as Kucich trains 6-year-old Anthony Vennera, one of his youngest clients. Kucich decides they’ll each do a few push-ups before running across the room, doing a few more and running back. Vennera does about half a pushup on the far side before deciding that beating Kucich is worth more than strictly following his request. “That was cheating!” Kucich says. “I’m going to let that go though.” Boxing began skyrocketing in popularity as a fitness routine in the U.S. last year, Kucich said, and he has pinned down the reasons. One, people found out that models and celebrities were doing it, he said. “In 2018 it grew even more, and that’s just because the celebrities that

didn’t know about it are doing it,” Kucich said. But it’s also popular because of the nature of the exercise, he said. It demands your full body, every session is diﬀerent and it’s fun to punch stuﬀ. “There’s nothing like hitting something, and the sound that the gloves make when you hit a bag or hit a pad perfectly,” he said. Terryberry started with kickboxing before switching to boxing. She knows the sport is currently trendy but thinks it “has the potential to stick around long term just because it’s such a wellrounded workout.” Kucich is finding that people don’t want to punch each other but do want to give boxing a try, and that’s exactly where a tough but welcoming space like BOUT Boxing comes in. “People come in here and they’ve never done something like this, and then you are able to work these people out so hard and push them, making them uncomfortable,” Kucich said. “At the end they thank you and then they keep coming back because they enjoy it. I think that’s something I haven’t really gotten over yet.”

COMMUNITY NEWS

Katz Institute fundraises for women’s health Northwell Health and the Americana Manhasset raised more than $900,000 for women’s health at the 26th Annual Katz Institute foe Women’s Health Luncheon and Fashion Show featuring four designers: alice + olivia, Bandier, Theory and Zimmermann. Ten patients of event honoree, Dr. Karen Kostroff, chief of breast surgery at Northwell Health Cancer Institute, took the stage at Old Westbury Gardens to share their personal stories of how breast cancer has impacted their lives and their gratitude for the exceptional care they received. “Karen Kostroff is an extraordinary breast cancer surgeon who has dedicated herself to our patients for more than 26 years and we are proud to have her as Northwell’s first physician honoree,” said Dr. Stacey Rosen, Northwell Health’s vice president of women’s health. “The outpouring of patients in the room as well as on stage speaks to not only her clinical excellence but the compassionate care she provides.” Gina Samet was seven months pregnant with her son when she got the shocking diagnosis of invasive breast cancer. Kostroff laid out a treatment plan and timeline for Samet and her baby. Her son Luke was delivered successfully at Katz Women’s Hospital at LIJ Medical Center. Today, Samet is a 35-year-old breast cancer survivor with a happy four year old. The luncheon and fashion show supports critical women’s health program-

ming at the Katz Institute for Women’s Health and was presented by the Partners Council for Women’s Health. The event was co-hosted by Rosanna Scotto, co-anchor of Fox 5’s “Good Day New York,” and Dr. Neil Tanna, associate director of plastic surgery at Northwell Health. This year’s funds will also support the development of a new Women’s Imaging Center at the Center for Advanced Medicine in New Hyde Park.

“Our Imaging Center is going to be something so different and special, and our goal is not just to provide the most advanced imaging tests but also to have the best patient experience that anyone offers in our area,” said Dr. Nina Vincoff, chief of breast imaging at Northwell Health.# “Donor support is critical for us to be able to achieve our mission and it would not be possible for us to do the things we do every day for our community without the

people who come out and support our events and support our health system.” To date, the Katz Institute Luncheon and Fashion show has raised more than $10.2 million in support of women’s health. A luncheon sponsor since its inception, Americana Manhasset is integral to the success of the event. Visit the Northwell Health Foundation website for additional information. #FashionForKatz #SupportNorthwell.

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