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Friday, October 26, 2018

Vol. 67, No. 43

ELECTION GUIDE

TOWN SEEKING POLICY ON MEDICAL MARIJUANA

CHARLES WANG DIES

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Phillips touts candidacy in 1-person meet

R A L LY F O R H E A LT H

Warns against 1-party rule in state; Kaplan fails to appear at W.P. event

BY J E D HENDRIXSON State Sen. Elaine Phillips (RFlower Hill) cautioned Williston Park voters on Friday about what happened the last time the state was run by a single party.

“We got $14 billion in new taxes in two years’ time,” Phillips said.

“And took $124 million in school aid and gave it to New York City.”

Phillips was referring to 2009 and 2010, when Democrats won a majority in both the state Senate and Assembly. Phillips also said that Lt. Gov. Kathy Hochul believes Long Island receives too much school aid, and that aid would be moved to the city if Democrats won a majority again.

Currently the state Senate is composed of 32 Democrats and 31 Republicans, but Democratic Sen. Simcha Felder of the 17th District caucuses with the Republicans, giving them a one-seat majority.

Phillips and other candidates

running for office this November introduced themselves and presented their platforms at a meet and greet candidates night hosted by the Williston Park Civic Association.

Phillips’ opponent, North Hempstead Town Councilwoman Anna Kaplan, was slated to attend the candidates night but did not appear.

Also in attendance were Republican incumbent Ed Ra of Assembly District 19 and his Democratic challenger, Billy Carr, United States congressional candidate Dan DeBono and a candidate for Nassau County 3rd District Court judge, Tomasina Cuda Mastroianni.

“It was 42 years ago when I registered and I’m proud to be a Republican, but I never felt myself as Republican,” Phillips said. “I felt I was a working mother.”

“My job is to listen, and to make sure I get your tax dollars back in this Senate district,” she said.

Continued on Page 74

PHOTO BY JED HENDRIXSON

Andrea Miller, president of the National Institute for Reproductive Health, at the podium in front of the Nassau County Legislature. See story on page 23.

Hearing set for 4-story mixed-use plan on Main

BY J E D HENDRIXSON

at 86-88 Main St. on Nov. 12.

Zambrano Architectural Design is seeking 12 variances Village of Mineola trustees through the village code’s inare scheduled to hold a public centive bonus law, according to hearing on an application for a the application.

The code allows the board four-story mixed use building

to permit adjustments to building codes, including height, open space and parking requirements among others.

Efforts to reach company officials were unavailing.

Continued on Page 75

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6th Precinct likely to Dispensary regs make return: Nicolello sought by town Bipartisan support to rebuild absorbed department Would restrict operators’ locations

BY T E R I W EST

November public hearing dates for the amendments at its Thursday meeting.

“These proposed amendments to our Town Code will preserve the quality of life that North Hempstead residents expect and will prevent this area from becoming Nassau County’s future hotspot for retail recreational marijuana, should the state laws change,” said Councilwoman Anna Kaplan. “It will also preclude the clustering of medical marijuana dispensaries to just one small area.”

Councilwoman Dina De Giorgio said she has been researching how other jurisdictions in the country have been addressing marijuana in their local codes for several weeks.

In a memorandum to the Town Board, she wrote that codes typically prohibit dispensaries within a radius of 1,000 feet from “any residences, places of worship, schools, day care facilities and playgrounds.”

“In the last six to eight months there were a lot of smaller governments across the country that are doing it,” she said in an interview.

Continued on Page 74

The North Hempstead Town Board will introduce two amendments to the zoning code that regulate the sale of marijuana, according to town press officials.

One amendment would prevent medical marijuana dispensaries from selling recreational marijuana if the drug is fully legalized in New York. The other would limit where medical marijuana dispensaries can be located.

MedMen, a company registered to sell medical marijuana in New York, is in the process of moving its dispensary in North New Hyde Park to Northern Boulevard in Manhasset.

PHOTO BY JESSICA PARKS Vocal critics in Manhasset have said that it is too close to Nassau County Executive Laura Curran informs civic group members that the 6th Precinct schools and homes, particularly if recreational marijuana is leis not in the 2019 budget. galized in New York and the facility converts into a more genB Y J E S S I C A P A R K S Precinct to cut police costs in Thursday night. eral dispensary.

The main reason for not in2012 under the previous county AND TERI WEST The new legislation is a biexecutive, Edward Mangano. It cluding it in the budget was a partisan effort within the Town Nassau County’s 6th Police did not result in fewer police of- lack of detectives, she said.

Board, said Carole Trottere, the “We do not have enough de- town’s director of communicaPrecinct is likely to make a par- ficers on patrol"in the area, Curtectives to make a full squad,” tions. ran said. tial return in 2019.

This decision made the 3rd Curran said.

Though Nassau County ExThe board planned to set She attributed the shortage ecutive Laura Curran did not Precinct the largest police preto detectives’ salaries being lower include it in next year’s budget, cinct in Nassau County.

Michael Martino, Curran’s than those of regular police offiboth the Legislature’s Republican majority and Democratic minor- director of communications, said cers.

“That is something we can ity have prepared amendments in in an email Curran “will rethat would reintroduce the pre- view the amendments put forth fix with collective bargaining,” by both the Legislative Majority she said. cinct.

The Republican amendment, Should Curran veto the and Minority, including reopenif passed, would" at first partly amendment, that bipartisan sup- ing the 6th and 8th Precincts.”

He explained that the budget reopen the precinct, which Police port makes it likely that there will be sufficient votes to override her she submitted “presents the low- Commissioner Patrick Ryder said veto, said the presiding officer, est deficit the county has faced costs $800,000 to do, Nicolello Legislator Richard Nicolello (R- since 2014,” according to the said.

“The full restoration is goNassau Interim Finance AuthorNew Hyde Park). ing to have to wait until we hire “Since all 19 of us are on ity.

Curran estimated that the additional detectives,” Nicollelo board with this I don’t see any circumstances where we wouldn’t restoration of the 6th Precinct said.

He hopes it would happen in Town of North Hempstead Councilwoman Dina De Giorgio would cost about $2 million at override her veto,” he said.

The 3rd Precinct in Williston the Plandome Heights Civic As- 2020, he said. helped initiate an effort to regulate locations of medical Park absorbed Manhasset’s 6th sociation’s annual meeting last Continued on Page 85 marijuana stores through the zoning code.

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Mobile unit for veterans comes to NHP

Gives former service members in town closer access to medical care than Northport

BY J E D H E N D R I X S ON North Hempstead Town Supervisor Judi Bosworth, local elected officials and veterans cut the ribbon on a new mobile care unit for veterans Monday.

“Our veterans advisory committee,” Bosworth said, “they’ve been the backbone behind this. When we talked about what we needed to see in the Town of North Hempstead they said this was an absolute need.”

The van will be stationed at Clinton G. Martin Park in New Hyde Park three days a week. Mondays will be dedicated to physical therapy, Wednesdays to podiatry and Thursdays will focus on primary care.

Bosworth and other speakers took turns stressing the importance of spreading awareness of the new mobile unit to those in need.

“If you know a veteran or have a family member that is a veteran please let them know about this wonderful opportunity,” Bosworth said. “We’re going to do everything we can to make sure people know about this.”

Bosworth explained that the new mobile unit ties into the town’s Project Independence, a program of the Department of Services for the Aging.

“If you are a member of Project Independence in the town, you get very reduced taxi service rates for medical appointments and

PHOTO BY JED HENDRIXSON

North Hempstead Town Supervisor Judi Bosworth and Councilman Angelo Ferrara among other elected officials and veterans for the ribbon cutting. this qualifies,” Bosworth said. “We have in place a way for our veterans to get here that doesn’t entail family members to take them and gives them a sense of independence that allows them to get the help they deserve.”

“Between Montauk and New York City there is only one VA hospital that services

over 100,000 veterans,” said U.S. Rep. Kathleen Rice (D-Garden City). “Mobile units like this, it is incredibly important that they get used.”

Rice said there is a desire to establish community-based outpatient clinics so veterans do not have to travel hundreds of

miles to the nearest Veterans Affairs hospital.

“If we don’t use this, we’re going to lose it,” Rice said.

“It’s really sad that something like this has taken so long,” Anthony Catalano, of Mineola, said. “But it’s a step in the right direction.”

Catalano, who turned 98 on Tuesday, served in Gen. George Patton’s 3rd Army, 70th Infantry Division in World War II. “A lot of us World War II guys are getting up there in our 80s and 90s,” Catalano said.

“It’s really something that we don’t have to be reliant on our families or others to bring us here now.”

“If there’s one way to get a permanent clinic to be located in the Town of North Hempstead it’s for people to use this van,” U.S. Rep. Tom Suozzi (D-Glen Cove) said.

“When the VA reports back to Washington, D.C., they can show there is a tremendous need for this in the community.”

“I’ve been speaking with the VA since January about permanent clinics and with Northwell Health, and they’ve agreed that they will provide free space in the town of North Hempstead if we can get the VA to place a CBOC in this community,” Suozzi said.

Hours for the VA medical center’s mobile unit are currently unlisted. Appointments and unit hours are available at 631261-4400, ext. 4590.

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Charles Wang, businessman, dies at 74 Former owner of Islanders, philanthropist, sought to redevelop Nassau Coliseum

BY JA N E LL E CL AUSEN Charles Wang, a Long Island icon in business and philanthropy who helped keep the Islanders on the Island, died on Sunday. He was 74.

Wang died in Oyster Bay from lung cancer while surrounded by his family, his attorney John McEntee said via email.

Wang is best known for his ownership of the Islanders hockey team and philanthropy ranging from a $52 million donation to create the Charles B. Wang cultural center at Stony Brook University to providing free cleft palate surgeries to children around the world.

“Charles Wang was a great man,” Lou Lamoriello, the general manager and president of the Islanders, said in a statement. “He always spoke of his love for the Long Island community and the passionate fan base. Long Island would not have a team if it were not for Charles.”

Wang also sought to spearhead redevelopment of Nassau Coliseum starting in 2004, pitch-

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Charles Wang of the New York Islanders poses for a portrait on Sept. 15, 2003, at Nassau Coliseum in Uniondale. ing a $3.74 billion project for the 77-acre property that would have included a revamp of the Coliseum, building a minor league baseball park and more than 2,000 units of residential development.

Voters ultimately rejected a proposal to partly fund the re-

building of the arena through a $400 million bond in 2011. Wang then announced the Islanders would move to the Barclays Center in Brooklyn.

But, according to Newsday, Wang embarked on “behind-thescenes efforts lobbying all parties about the potential” of the Bel-

mont Park area to create a new arena for the Long Islanders – despite the move to Brooklyn in 2015.

“The arena at Belmont Park will be just one of his many legacies left to the team and to Long Island,” Jon Ledecky, a co-owner of the Islanders, said in a statement. “His unique personality, his wonderful sense of humor and his extraordinary wisdom will be greatly missed.”

Wang was born in Shanghai, China, on Aug. 19, 1944. His family moved to Queens, New York, when he was 8 years old.

Wang co-founded the software technology company Computer Associates International, now known as CA Technologies, in 1976 with Russell Artzt. It has become one of the largest software corporations in the world, reporting more than $4.2 billion in revenue in fiscal 2018.

Wang and his business partner Sanjay Kumar bought the Islanders in 2000 for more than $187 million with hopes of revitalizing the team. After purchasing Kumar’s stake in 2004, he became the sole owner of the team.

This lasted until 2016, when a deal transferred majority ownership to Jon Ledecky and Scott Malkin. Wang still held a minority stake.

This rise wasn’t without scandal, however, with the company – and Wang – being the subject of numerous class-action lawsuits.

Ultimately Kumar, once the company’s chief executive, pleaded guilty to securities fraud in a $2.2 billion accounting scheme.

Wang, while named in court filings as being involved, according to CNN, never faced charges.

County Executive Laura Curran described Wang as a man who was dedicated to Long Island.

“Charles was an incredible and influential figure for Long Island, with both the extraordinary growth of Computer Associates and his purchase of the Islanders,” Curran said. “His attempts to keep the Islanders on Long Island will long be remembered.”

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• Judge Scott Fairgrieve is the candidate of the Democratic Party, Independence Party, Working Families Party, Women’s Equality Party, Reform Party • Judge Scott Fairgrieve has served 18 years as a judge of the Nassau County District Court and appointed as an Acting County Court Judge • Authored over 250 published legal decisions • Member of the Board of Directors of the County Seat Kiwanis • Frequent speaker at high schools and community events speaking on the dangers of intoxicated driving, use of false identification documents, speeding and drug use • Adjunct professor at LIU Post teaching business law • Graduate of St. John’s Law School and Adelphi University • Trustee for Nassau County Historical Society • Avid competitive long distance runner • Married to Linda for over 42 years, 2 children, 2 grandchildren and 4 dogs (Sprint, Champ, Beau and Chester)

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Take-home vehicle abuse continued County comptroller finds over 20 percent of Nassau employees with vehicles not in compliance

BY LU K E TORRANCE

Problems surrounding Nassau County’s take-home vehicle policy that were identified in 2015 did not get fixed, according to a new audit from the county comptroller’s office.

According to the audit, the county still does not have a complete and accurate inventory of all take-home vehicle assignments.

Seventy-one vehicles were transferred to an outside contractor, and while the county still owned the vehicles, it did not know who was driving them. Over 20 percent of Nassau employees with take-home vehicles had not complied with the county’s" online motor vehicle policy acknowledgment.

And there is little accountability over the vehicle assignments.

In one example given in the report, a vehicle that was assigned to an employee — since retired — could not be found for weeks.

“A lack of oversight puts taxpayers at real risk, as Nassau is self-insured and would be held li-

addressed.

Schnirman said the audit is proof that the comptroller’s office should continue following up old audits.

“This audit is a great example of why our office set a new policy to always follow-up on audits after six months to see if our recommendations are being followed,” he said. “Government needs to be better — it shouldn’t take two full-blown audits for commonsense changes to be made. Thankfully, after these problems were again brought to light, the new administration has begun taking corrective action.”

The recommendations made Nassau County Comptroller Jack Schnirman in the 2018"audit were similar to able for the actions of individuals leased in 2015 found many of those in the 2015 audit. The rewho could be operating a county- the same problems and recom- port called on Nassau to maintain owned vehicle without autho- mended several solutions. The a countywide master list of aprization or even without a valid 2018"audit examined 11 of those proved take-home vehicles and to license,” Nassau County Comp- suggested solutions and found centralize fleet management. This troller Jack Schnirman said in a that Nassau had only followed centralization would also make statement. “These are problems through on two of them. Issues it easier to ensure that retiring that can be resolved by supervi- such as unauthorized employees employees have returned their sors taking basic measures to hold using vehicles for personal use vehicles. and the need for annual reviews employees accountable.”

It said the county should A previous audit conducted of the need for take-home ve- meet with various departments under George Maragos and re- hicles were among the many not to ensure all employees with ve-

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hicles have a valid driver’s license.

Employees for outside contractors operating county-owned vehicles should be listed and have insurance. Employees who live outside Nassau should have different policies.

The county currently has 363 take-home vehicles, about 20 less than it did in 2015. A majority of these vehicles are used by five departments:" the Police Department, the Public Works Department, the district attorney’s office, the Sheriff/Corrections Department and the Fire Commission.

The findings of the audit were praised by Nassau County Executive Laura Curran.

“Transparency in our government is a priority for my administration,” she said in a statement.

“We must restore faith in government. The efforts of Comptroller Schnirman and his team are an important step towards this goal.”

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Cuomo pledges red, white, blue wave

BY LU K E TORRANCE Gov. Andrew Cuomo pledged on Monday that voters across the state would reject the message of President Donald Trump.

“What [Trump’s administration] is doing is not just repugnant to Democrats, what they are doing is repugnant to any decent, feeling, honorable, virtuous American,”! Cuomo said in a speech at a Democratic Party fundraiser at the Crest Hollow Country Club in Woodbury. “This is not a blue wave, this is a red, white and blue wave, my friends. What they’re doing is not just anti-Democrat or anti-New York, it is anti-American.”

The event — with $450 tickets for individuals, or $4,000 for a table of 10 — was intended to raise money for the Nassau County Democratic Party. Among the prominent Democrats in attendance were Rep. Tom Suozzi, Nassau County Executive Laura Curran, County Comptroller Jack Schnirman, Town of North Hempstead Supervisor Judi Bosworth and Councilwoman Anna Kaplan, and Town of Hempstead Supervisor Laura Gillen.

Cuomo appeared at the fundraiser briefly to tout his accomplish-

PHOTO BY LUKE TORRANCE

Gov. Andrew Cuomo promised a bipartisan rebuke to the president at the annual Nassau County Democrats dinner on Monday at Crest Hollow Country Club in Woodbury. ments and warn Democrats that it could all be undone by the federal government.

“The threat now is Washington, and Washington could wipe away everything that we’ve done,” Cuomo said.

He touted the SAFE Act passed

by New York after the shooting at the Sandy Hook Elementary School

in Newtown, Connecticut, saying it proved that sensible gun control could work. He said New York’s increases in the minimum wage and free tuition to SUNY colleges for New York residents could serve as examples for the rest of the country.

He said that if Democrats wanted to be successful, they had to push for “life-changing” legisla-

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

tion, like that passed under Franklin Roosevelt or Lyndon Johnson.

“That’s when the Democratic! government was at its best,” Cuomo said, mentioning programs like Social Security and Medicare.

“Government that doesn’t make an effect is an impotent government, and I feel like, for too many years, Democrats forgot!that.”

Cuomo was introduced by the county’s Democratic Party chairman, Jay Jacobs. He opened by thanking the many Democrats for attending and reinforced the importance of the 2018!election.

“Two years ago, I would’ve!told you there was no way that Hillary! Clinton would not beat Donald!Trump, and I was wrong,” he said. “And now we see the results of it.”

He said that the Republicans under Trump were “a new and different” party and compared them to the characters of the Wizard of Oz. They were like the Tin Man, who had no brain, because they ignored environmental!issues.

“Who with brains!would deny the science of climate change?” Jacobs asked.

He also said the handling of the migrant crisis, where children were taken from their parents,

showed the Republicans lacked a heart. And the refusal of the rankand-file GOP to stand up to the president showed they lacked courage, he continued.

But unlike the movie, “this is not a bad dream,” he said. “We’re in a new America now. A Trump America. An America that is all about promoting hate and division … this is not the America that our Founding Fathers risked everything to give us.”

After Cuomo spoke, the Democratic candidate for attorney general, Letitia James, made brief remarks. She called the law “her sword and her shield” and promised to fight for the rights of New Yorkers.

“As the next attorney general, I look forward to protecting the environment, protecting women, protecting workers, protecting immigrants, protecting members of the LGBT community, prosecuting polluters from Bethpage to Buffalo, defending the Affordable Care Act, and fighting to protect New Yorkers with pre-existing conditions,” she said.

Over 1,000 people attended the dinner. According to a Newsday report, the dinner raised over $500,000.

REPUBLICAN SENATOR PHILLIPS however:

• Walked out on a vote to take abortion out of the state criminal code •Voted 'no' on sensible gun violence prevention • Voted in favor of funneling public school money to New York City Charter Schools.

With so much on the line, we need Anna Kaplan in Albany.

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Taglio eatery offers what owner calls first Roman-style pizzeria on Long Island

BY J E S S I C A PA R K S Rob Cervoni noticed a pizza shortage in Mineola, so he hoped to deliver.

“The people of Mineola deserve good pizza. They deserve something authentic where I think this town was missing that,” he said.

That’s why he opened what he calls Long Island’s first Roman-style pizzeria, Taglio, at 85 Mineola Blvd. last month.

Pizza al taglio, or pizza “by the cut,” has been gaining popularity across the nation, characterized by the dough’s airiness and its staple technique of being cut with scissors instead of sliced with a pizza cutter.

Cervoni became interested in the Roman street food, which is traditionally sold by weight in Italy, after seeing it on Instagram.

The “weigh and pay” concept was familiar to the 30-year-old entrepreneur, who also owns a 16 Handles in Great Neck.

He opened a store in the popular Manhattan-based frozen yogurt chain in 2011 at the height

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Taglio has a wide variety of roman-style slices, including nutella and marshmallow. of the “fro-yo craze.”

“I am always looking for ways to capitalize on new trends,” Cervoni said.

The pizza’s airy dough can be attributed to its high hydra-

tion and 72-hour fermentation process.

The longer fermentation makes Roman-style pizza easier to digest than its Neopolitan counterpart, he said.

“So you can eat three or four slices and won’t have that heavy gut feeling you get with normal pizza,” he said.

Taglio is serving up all of Long Island’s favorite toppings,

but Cervoni said it does not stop there.

“If you can dream it, we can make it,” he said. “We have even been experimenting with cotton candy.”

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Addiction treatment center gets loan

M&T Bank agrees to lend $47.5 million to partnership between Northwell, Engel Burman

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The facility, called Wellbridge, is estimated to cost $92 million and is under construction in Calverton.

“M&T Bank has a special expertise in lending to health care providers and we work with our clients to support the full range of treatment facilities needed in our communities,” said M&T Bank Long Island market President Jason Lipiec. “We look forward to the completion of this project and hope that Wellbridge will be a beacon of hope for people in need of these services.”

Services at Wellbridge will include detoxification, residential treatment and long-term rehabilitation, Northwell’s senior vice president and chief public rela-

tions officer, Terry Lynam, told Blank Slate Media in March.

“We have worked successfully with M&T Bank to fund some of our senior assistedliving communities in the tristate area and have built a strong relationship with them,” said Engel Burman President Jan Burman. “Their assistance with the right type of financing helped to bring this much-needed addiction treatment and research center to Long Island.”

Construction for Wellbridge began last month, said Michael McCarthy, M&T Bank vice president for commercial real estate and senior relationship manager. It is expected to be complete in late 2019.

The facility is on 95 acres of land and will include six buildings.

One of the buildings will be a research pavilion. Patients at Wellbridge will be part of a long-term study about addiction, Lynam said.

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Opinion

OUR VIEWS

End marijuana madness, part II We are issuing a special alert this week about dozens of facilities across the North Shore distributing opioids – highly addictive, potentially very dangerous drugs that studies show 85 percent of heroin users have begun with.

The use of these dangerous drugs, in forms both legal and illegal, is part of a national epidemic that in 2017 resulted in 72,000 deaths in the United States.

But no one is protesting these facilities, which actually need no special alerts. We all know their name. They are called pharmacies.

That is not the case of a medical marijuana dispensary currently located in North New Hyde that its owners, MedMen, hope to move to a location on a section of Northern Boulevard in Manhasset known as the Miracle Mile.

The proposed move has drawn intense opposition from elected officials, civic association members and residents.

Organizers of a recent protest said large numbers of teenagers in the area will be targeted, claiming the proposed store has been designed similar to Apple stores, better to attract young people.

Others have complained about increased traffic in an area already featuring the Americana shopping center.

An online petition, which has received 1,500 signatures, requests amendments to the town code requiring that marijuana dispensaries be “at least 1,000 feet from any residential property” and a mile from schools, houses of worship and public parks.

And Town Supervisor Judi Bosworth recently sent a letter to New York’s health commissioner expressing concern that all of Nassau County’s current and proposed medical marijuana dispensaries are

in North Hempstead.

The question is why?

Under New York State law, medical marijuana is restricted to sick people. Very sick people.

According to the state Health Department website, to be eligible you must" be diagnosed with one or more of the following “severe debilitating or life-threatening conditions: cancer, HIV infection or AIDS, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, Parkinson’s disease, multiple sclerosis, spinal cord injury with spasticity, epilepsy, inflammatory bowel disease, neuropathy, Huntington’s disease, post-traumatic stress disorder or chronic pain.

“The severe debilitating or lifethreatening condition,” the website continues, “must also be accompanied” by complicating conditions.

And people with these conditions must get a prescription from a doctor registered with the state Health Department.

These are the people we need protection from?

These are the people – people with cancer, AIDS or chronic pain – that we want to banish to some remote part of town to get the medicine they need as if they were criminals or lepers?

For a drug considered safe enough to be legal for recreational use in nine states, the District of Columbia and all of Canada?

Just why should we treat sick people using medical marijuana any different than sick people going to the pharmacy to get opioids or other highly regulated substances?

In fact, why shouldn’t they get the medical marijuana at a pharmacy?

Talk about regulatory overkill.

And this is the place teenagers are going to go to hang out?

We suspect some opponents of the marijuana dispensary continue to share wildly inaccurate infor-

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mation about marijuana turning people into drug-crazed sex fiends made popular in the 1930s by the infamous movie “Reefer Madness” and fostered by the U.S. Treasury Department.

New York City Mayor Fiorella LaGuardia responded by commissioning a study that disproved claims that smoking marijuana causes insanity, damages physical and mental health, assists in criminal behavior, and is a “gateway” drug to more dangerous drugs.

But, until recently, to no avail.

Other opponents of the marijuana dispensary on Northern Boulevard appear to be concerned that it will become a place to buy marijuana if and when recreational use is approved in New York state.

This is not an unfounded concern.

Recreational marijuana has been approved in nine states, including Colorado, Washington and

California, as well as the District of Columbia. And last Wednesday, recreational marijuana was made legal in Canada, a nation of 37 million people.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo commissioned a Health Department study this year that concluded the positive impacts of regulated marijuana use outweigh the potential negatives.

Polls show 62 percent of New Yorkers in favor of legalization of recreational marijuana for people 21 and over and only 28 percent against.

One of the benefits of marijuana legalized for recreational use appears to be financial.

A report from New York City Comptroller Scott Stringer concluded that marijuana legalization could generate as much as $436 million in new tax revenue for our cash-strapped, highly taxed state.

If not banned from commer-

cial areas, this could benefit Main Streets pocked by empty storefronts and the effort to attract young people back home.

This is not to say that marijuana use has no ill effects, just that they can be handled more easily than alcohol, tobacco, opioids or even fast foods, which have contributed mightily to an epidemic of obesity and diabetes.

Want proof?" Check with the other states that have already legalized marijuana starting with Colorado in 2014. Or for that matter with authorities in New York, where criminal sanctions have not prevented many people from using marijuana – without paying taxes.

If this does not ease the concerns of those opposing the medical marijuana dispensaries, we recommend a medically prescribed chill pill.

You can get them at any pharmacy.

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ON THE RIGHT

Hempstead Republicans: more fiscal antics

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t is evident that Hempstead Town Board Republicans have learned nothing from the humiliating defeat of GOP Town Supervisor Anthony Santino to Democrat Laura Gillen in 2017.

Last November, voters clearly expressed their disgust with Republican rule that was more concerned with rewarding favored contractors, campaign contributors and cronies than being the guardian of taxpayers’ interests.

Voter outcry, however, fell on deaf ears.

GOP bosses immediately took care of has-been Santino — at taxpayers’ expense of course. He was appointed a Board of Elections administrative assistant for the ludicrous salary of $160,000 a year.

Councilman Anthony D’Esposito also got a plum, part-time job at the same Board of Elections.

Before Republicans lost control of the Supervisor’s Town Clerk’s offices on Jan. 1, they rammed through resolutions that protected their political lackeys from being fired. Hacks that were at-will employees were reassigned to civil service jobs even though various department budgets could not handle the additional salary expenses.

Since Gillen took office, Republican Town Board members have been obstructionists. They have opposed common sense good government policies solely because they were proposed by Gillen.

These Republicans even blocked Hempstead bonded debt refunds that would have saved several hundred thousand dollars in lower interest costs.

That’s not all.

Now the Republicans are attempting to pass an operating budget for fiscal year 2019 loaded with the same-old “smoke and mirror” gimmicks that have been leading the Township to the edge of the fiscal abyss for years.

First some background.

Inheriting a GOP lard-laden budget when she took office, Gillen devoted her energies to curtailing “skyrocketing costs and the prior administration’s addition of millions of dollars to the Town’s payroll after the adoption of the 2018, budget.”

Rejecting the fiscal antics of her GOP predecessors, Gillen’s 2019 budget was guided by more conservative accounting principles that would lead to a truly balanced budget that did not include long-

GEORGE J. MARLIN On The Right term borrowing to fill in the fiscal holes created when assumed, nonspecific “savings” were not realized.

Gillen’s $444 million budget proposal is a prudent one that calls for a 0.74 percent tax increase, well below the legal 2 percent cap.

Four of the town’s 24 special districts will be hit with tax levy increases to raise $2 million. Overall, Newsday reported about “83 percent of residents will see a tax reduction by about $14, lowering the average residential tax bill from $760 in 2019.”

Gillen conceded that achieving “a fair and balanced budget that

keeps essential services intact [was] no small undertaking.”

That’s because she has no control over “obligatory contractual labor, legal and other noncontrollable increases (i.e., health insurance) that [the Town] must absorb.”

Reacting, unrepentant Republicans not only delayed approving the Gillen proposal, they refused to negotiate a bipartisan plan and proposed instead an alternative sham budget that employs the fiscal sleight of hand illusions that got Santino booted from office.

GOP board members have made the ridiculous claim that their budget is leaner, while protecting the $2 million in holdover patronage employees and beefing up their staff allowances to the tune of $500,000.

The key to this GOP shell game is the assumption that there will be $8 million in savings from 100 retirements.

This claim is a specious one. It does not include the costs of separation and accrued vacation pay, assumes none of the positions will be filled and that 100 people will actually call it quits.

And when the gig is up on their

phony inflated revenue and savings projections, to avoid raising taxes they will drain rainy day funds and issue long-term bonded debt to cover the rest.

In other words, like the poorly exemplary Nassau County before it, Hempstead will claim to balance its budget by counting borrowed money as “revenue”— and we know too well how that approach has worked.

Encumbering present-day taxpayers, as well as their children and grandchildren, with long-term debt to cover current expenses, has been a favored Republican ploy for decades and brought Nassau County to its fiscal knees.

Apparently, the GOP will not be happy until they do the same to the Town of Hempstead.

Supervisor Gillen is attempting to right the “fiscal ship” by eliminating the dishonest and irresponsible practice “that puts millions of dollars on the taxpayers credit card.”

Sadly, like Nero fiddling while Rome burned, Hempstead Republicans are fiddling while taxpayers are forced to pay the highest combined state and local taxes in the nation.

A LOOK ON THE LIGHTER SIDE

What successful people do Monday mornings

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h dear, I’m done for. I’ve just read a study that says that the single most productive time of the entire year is a Monday morning, in October, at 11 a.m.

So here I am, on an October Monday morning, and what have I got to show?

Not much. A few words scribbled on a scrap of paper; some crumpled-up grocery receipts; a rubber band; wrappers from throat lozenges; and no column!

I don’t dispute that October should be a productive month.

It lines up with going “back to school,” and the end of summer.

But what’s with that 11 a.m. thing? Don’t we all reach our peak productivity at different times of day? In fact, a New York Times reporter named Alex Williams earned my gratitude for writing about being an under-appreciated night owl: “I have heard this all my life: Society likes morning people. …

Everyone else is lazy or self-indulgent. But what if they are wrong?

What if night owls are actually the unsung geniuses?”

Some people are natural night owls, he reminds us, and others are natural “larks.” Our body clocks, sleep cycles and body temperatures are hours apart.

So it would stand to reason that we’d have vastly different times for being productive.

Ever since high school, I’ve done better with night-time assignments. I liked the overnight editing shifts when I worked in television.

It was actually a relief when most of the staff went home, and I could hear myself think.

And yet… now that I’m a writer and my schedule’s my own, there does seem something magical about late morning.

One time I hit the wrong button on my computer, and it showed me the times when every single one of my documents had been “saved.” And a shockingly large number of them were at 11 a.m.!

It’s the Monday part of this equation that’s giving me trouble.

Everybody knows that Monday is for starting in on the To Do lists you’ve been making all weekend.

But most of those items have

JUDY EPSTEIN

A Look on the Lighter Side nothing to do with work! They’re all about “Make doctor appointments/Call bank about mystery charges/Start holiday gift shopping/Clean tablecloth for Thanksgiving.”

Personal stuff, is what I’m saying. I don’t know anybody who gets any work of significance done on Monday morning!

Because if you can do that, why aren’t you getting just as much done on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday?

No. Monday is for looking

busy while actually doing something else.

So here I am, with this Monday morning deadline… wondering what a productive person would do?

What, say, would Laura Vanderkam do? She wrote “What The Most Successful People Do At Work.”

Her earlier book was “What the Most Successful People Do Before Breakfast.” At least that one had a picture of a cup of coffee on the cover. I expect we’ll soon see “What the Most Successful People Do In Retirement…” with a picture of some white-haired guy hanggliding off a cliff. “…But Not For Long!”

Ms. Vanderkam is big on To Do lists — for your daily, yearly, and life-time goals. Personal goals, too.

She writes of a business executive who makes notes of such things as “Daughter has big exam today.” That way, when he gets home, he’s all set to ask the daughter how it went. Or he might notice that she’s in her room, sobbing, and ask what’s the matter?

Vanderkam is the kind of per-

son who goes on six-mile runs — even when she’s not in the mood!

— and forces her running partner to help “hash out the outline for this book.”

She wants us to use down times like being online at the grocery store to fire off “Task lists” to other people. I don’t want to be behind that person…or to work for her, either.

Finally, I have found someone to whom I would actually recommend Yoga! Surely they would make Vanderkam turn off her phone, and discourage her from yammering about her next book to the woman innocently attempting “Downward Dog” on the next mat over.

I read this book so you don’t have to.

All you need to do is make detailed To Do Lists; check things off every night; make a new one for tomorrow. And then Do Things!

It’s a wonder I don’t have a million dollars already!

What I do have is a finished column. Just in time to knock off for lunch!

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THE NEW SUBURBANIST

Paint the crosswalk stripes in Great Neck

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ome problems can be solved with a can of paint.

Walking across middle neck road this morning, I stepped into the crosswalk after seeing the walk signal flash.

A split second later, a delivery truck bearing Frito Lay logos cruised through the intersection, running a red light. He swung a left into the back alley of the shopping center on his way to deliver product to Best Market.

Looking across the road, I realized the white stripes of the crosswalk have faded to obscurity.

They are barely visible.

This was the same intersection where Oren B was struck and killed in 2016.

I wish I could tell you this bad driving is an isolated incident. It is not.

Motorists blowing through crosswalks, stop signs and red lights is typical on my walk across Middle Neck road and South Station Plaza Road.

Business owners on Middle Neck road such as Mervyn Trappler of Rothchilds tell me they see the selfish, reckless, bad driving as well. And we know incidents of accidents, death and injury are accumulating, causing studies to flag downtown Great Neck as a dangerous place for pedestrians with Middle Neck Road identified as one of the 16 most dangerous roads in Nassau County.

PAUL GLADER

The New Suburbanist Earlier in the week as I was crossing South Station Road, a delivery truck was stopped by the curb and the driver indicated he saw me, waving me to cross.

I have learned to be a defensive walker.

It was fortunate that I peered around the truck and saw an older driver in a weathered red car trying to pass the truck and motor through the intersection. He only stopped when I glared at him and waved for him to stop. He apparently whined because the delivery driver rolled his window down and yelled at the driver.

“You gotta stop, Man! The crosswalk is for pedestrians.”

“Yeah! Some people don’t know how to drive in this town,”

I yelled to the driver.

The driver puttered away shaking his head.

Meanwhile, the crosswalk at South Station Road is also fading.

On Oct. 7, my family and I ran in the marvelous 5K designed to raise awareness and funds for pedestrian safety and to honor those we have lost in this town by the absence of pedestrian safety.

The morning made us appreciate the sounds of birds, the smells of nature, the sights of joggers and walkers along the 5k route. I appreciated that politicians like Nassau County commissioner Laura Curran and Town of North Hempstead Supervisor Judi Bosworth showed up to say a few words. Words are nice.

But words need to be accompanied by action. And actions should involve finding county or township money to buy some cans of paint and paint the stripes on the crosswalks.

If the county can’t afford paint, local villages should volunteer to paint the crosswalk stripes.

If they won’t do it, citizens should buy brushes and paint the stripes.

In recent months, I have seen cars pull up and stop at the red light on Middle Neck Road, wait for a few seconds while I crossed the street with my child in a stroller before blowing through the intersection disobeying the

red light while I was still crossing the street with a child.

I have seen cars pull over at the same intersection to let an ambulance cruise through a red light. And then the driver of one car thought he could follow the ambulance through the red light.

Are motorists like this stupid? Or are they opportunists? Incompetent? Or incredibly selfish?

Families like mine are considering where to stay long term as we upgrade from apartments to houses. While Great Neck has good schools, has a good train line and proximity to New York, the pedestrian safety element downtown is a major league turnoff.

It presents the facade of a walkable place.

For the high taxes and police salaries in Nassau County and local villages, we deserve more.

We deserve better policing of bad driving. We deserve enforcement cameras at dangerous intersections that mail tickets to incompetent drivers who speed or run red lights (and I say that as a motorist and pedestrian).

And will someone please paint the crosswalk stripes?

Paul Glader is a Great Neck resident and journalism professor at The King’s College in New York City

E A R T H M AT T E R S

An update on Long Island groundwater

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pdate on the LI Groundwater Sustainability Study: The $6 million study announced by Gov. Andrew Cuomo in February 2016 was stalled for 30 months awaiting needed funds to hire well drillers to begin the first phase of the DEC-USGS Long Island Groundwater Sustainability Study.

Nearly $2 million was needed to drill at least 12 new monitoring wells deep into the aquifers on the north and south shores of western Long Island.

On Sept. 21," the state Department of Environmental Conservation announced that the paperwork review and bureaucratic processes were completed at long last.

Well drilling will begin in 2019 and could take approximately one year to complete Phase One. During the time waiting for the drilling funds, the United States

Geological Survey worked on updating the groundwater model to be used in the study and expanding its database on water use.

The USGS has reported that its hydrologic data on deep groundwater conditions have not been updated in nearly 30 years.

The updated information is essential in order to understand current conditions of the deep groundwater system that could affect the long-term sustainability of the Magothy and Lloyd Aquifers.

The study will examine saltwater intrusion risk and predict the adequacy of groundwater supplies across Long Island over the next 30-plus years.

Navy-Grumman Groundwater Plume in Bethpage Update: The clock continues to tick as the massive groundwater plume emanating from the Navy-Grumman site continues to migrate towards Nassau County’s south shore. A variety of meetings on

FRANCINE FURTADO Earth Matters the plume cleanup efforts were held over the past five months, including those sponsored by the state DEC/EPA/Navy-Grumman; Congressman Thomas Suozzi; and Long Island Pure Water.

Following the failure to devise a workable cleanup strategy to stop the plume migration southward by the HDR Consulting firm of Albany in 2016, the NYS DEC again hired

HDR to develop a more focused plan to remediate the worst pollution “hot spots” and contain further migration. The plan is scheduled to be released to the public in October 2018.

In the late spring Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced that New York State would spend $150 million to lead the cleanup of the Bethpage plume, the largest groundwater plume in New York State.

Long Island Pure Water also brought a lawsuit against New York State and Navy-Grumman to fund a study on the presence of radiological contamination and to create a remediation plan specifically for these radioactive materials being detected in wells near the Navy-Grumman facilities.

In a separate lawsuit, 80 residents (or their estates) living in the Bethpage area have sued Northrop Grumman, alleging medical injuries – including death – from contamination originating at the mili-

tary contractor’s facility.

EPA Moves To Weaken Protections To Radiation Exposure: In a related matter, the US EPA is moving ahead to weaken protections and policies intended to prevent human exposure to radioactive materials.

The long-standing policy on radiation exposure has been that any exposure is harmful and a cancer risk.

The new EPA policy proposes that a little radiation damage is a good thing that spurs the immune system and the body’s repair functions.

Critics argue that a weaker exposure standard will put people at risk from workplace exposures and those living near Superfund sites, to name a few.

State Funding to Assist Emerging Contaminant Problems on Long Island: In a new development on Continued on Page 86

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OUT OF LEFT FIELD

U.S. history lens on the 2018 elections

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o know our heritage takes us far toward improving our knowledge of ourselves. And to know ourselves is indispensable if we are to act with understanding and realism in the shaping of our future.”

Acclaimed Columbia historian Richard Hofstadter offered that perspective when I was privileged to study with him during the 1950s.

He later wrote a book that has continuing admonitory relevance for today’s politics: “The Paranoid Style of American Politics.”

This is a dilemma that has occurred in our history. Is it worse now?

Paranoid people are defined as having “an irrational and obsessive distrust of others.” When elected officials and their followers manifest such tendencies, how likely is it that they will “know our heritage” and act on essential American values?

In 1984 George Orwell warned that people in power can use “newspeak” to convey a false message, so that a “Ministry of Truth” in reality is a “Ministry of Lies.” Orwell also shows how paranoid political operatives build support using a “week of hate,” reinforced by daily “two-minutes of hate.”

Orwell wrote before the advent of daily tweets. Are these modern mechanisms serving the undemocratic purposes so power-

fully illustrated earlier in one of the most disturbing books ever written about assaults on human freedom?

This is a worst-case scenario, but it has many folks thinking that the 2018 elections are the most consequential off-presidential year contests of their lives.

What are the prospects that a threshold of Americans can find common ground regarding our heritage?

Another great Columbia historian has addressed this key query, both in terms of our past and continuing challenges.

Henry Steele Commager poses both the obstacles for American unity and prospects for achievements as well. He emphasizes the driving forces of essential U.S. values.

Like other top analysts, Commager finds his major reference point with the establishment of the United States in 1776 – and then he advances the themes into our times.

On the challenges front, Commager emphasizes that Americans from the nation’s 1776 founding have dealt with 1. physical size of the country; 2. a large population; and 3. dramatic diversity of ethnicities and religions.

All three variables make unity and shared “heritage” an ongoing journey. In 1776, the new United States was already physically larger than many European nations.

MICHAEL D’INNOCENZO Out of Left Field Indeed, England then would have fit inside of Pennsylvania.

Now, France would fit inside of Oregon and Italy inside of California.

As early as 1776 the new U.S. population was booming ahead of growth in England and Europe.

Now, with more than 320 million people, the U.S. is the third most populous nation in the world, with as many people as the entire European Union.

Before the American Revolution, the British were properly concerned about the large numbers and percentages of settlers who came from nations other than England. Now, Queens County New York is the most diverse place in the world with more than 160 different nationality groups.

So Commager asked: How can any nation achieve unity and a

shared heritage when it is so physically huge, so numerous and so diverse? Can there be a glue to draw people together in such a context?

Here is where Commager highlights the unique founding principles of the American Revolution. They were often works in progress, but as Lincoln said they were “beacons” constantly summoning Americans to higher standards of freedom, democracy and equality.

How many 2018 voters can summon those essential principles (of true American “exceptionalism”) and keep them alive?

In 1776, Thomas Paine wrote: “We have it in our power to begin the world anew.”

He emphasized that in the Old World the King was the law, “but in America the law was King.”

Princeton scholar R. R. Palmer concluded that never in history had “the people been elevated as the constituent power as they were in the new United States.” Leaders like Jefferson, Franklin, Lincoln and others recognized that “people” would need to be redefined to include women, men without property and people of color.

But the principle that power comes from the many, not the few set a key standard. Critically important were the commitments to individual liberties (the Bill of Rights) and a justice system and educational practices that fostered

equality.

Many Americans celebrated a “contagion of liberty.”

Global analysts recognized that critical differences existed in the new U.S. than any other nation in the history of the world. Frenchman Tocqueville proposed that his stirring book be called “Equality in America.”

Commager celebrated the U.S. as a “protest nation” that could keep striving to fulfill founding principles of democracy and human rights. Indeed, that confidence was a key bond between the historian and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. On April 4, 1967, the two men were key speakers at New York’s Riverside Church where they were joined by freedom-riding rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel.

King epitomized key heritage views when he frequently spoke of his “dream,” always emphasizing: “My dream is deeply rooted in the American Dream.”

These leaders – and others – called on Americans to tap their personal sense of goodness and strive to implement the nation’s noblest principles.

In this election season, how many voters will tap our heritage of inclusion, fairness, informed judgment and human rights – our continuing beacon for the rest of the world?

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Trump gooses up fear to boost GOP candidates The pundits keep saying that the strong economy will keep Republicans from being wiped out in a Blue wave in the midterms 2018.

I don’t know why that would be true when you consider that 2014 was also a strong economy, especially compared to 2008 when Obama came into office as 850,000 people a month were losing their jobs, health insurance, retirement, homes were being foreclosed.

By 2014, jobs had been increasing steadily for four years, incomes were up, people were buying homes. In comparison, the economy was booming, the budget deficit was coming down at record speed.

The current economic growth is basically a continuation of the expansion that began in March 2009, because of all that Obama did to pluck the nation out of the throes of a Great Depression.

What is significant is that Trump has pulled out every tool and lever to artificially juice growth

(4 percent GDP!) as if the economy were in decline instead of at the end of a record-breaking growth cycle, so that when the cycle inevitably reverses, there are no tools or levers to pull.

Tax cuts?

Cutting the corporate rate from a nominal 35 percent (since no one paid that) to 21 percent (without eliminating the loopholes, and in fact continuing to incentivize foreign investment) was a one-shot that instead of triggering new investment and wage increases, only went to a record $800 billion in stock buybacks (that gooses stock prices which Trump boasts about), and another $400 billion in shareholder dividends.

Some 80 percent went to the top 1 percent, with the vast majority of Americans, if they got the one-time “bonus” or even a piddling raise, not getting enough to cover the increase in costs for gas, health care, clothes, appliances, cars,

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homes (and on and on).

Now, because the so-called Tax Reform is being recognized for what it is, a Republican Tax Scam to shift $1.5 trillion into the already swelling pockets of the obscenely rich and corporations, swelling the budget deficit, sending the national debt soaring and prompting the Republicans to promise to do what

they have been salivating to do for decades, cut Social Security and Medicare, Trump is now claiming (lying) to be seeking a 10% tax cut specifically for middle class.

Trump is capitalizing on the strong economy (he didn’t build that) to extort concessions on trading partners, allies and adversaries, alike.

But ultimately, his trade wars will hurt Americans, both economically, and in the broken alliances that have made the US an untrustworthy partner.

His trade wars and tariffs, and the economic cost and uncertainty they present, mean fewer jobs, less purchasing power, driving down consumer demand which accounts for two-thirds of GDP. How else is Trump drying up consumer spending which has been the driving force of the economy? Taking away Medicaid, food stamps (ever SNAP $1 spent generates $1.73 to GDP), the Children’s

Health Insurance Program (CHIP), driving up the cost of health care, ending programs aimed at reducing student debt, taking away consumer protections against predatory lending and abuses by for-profit colleges, sabotaging development of clean, renewable energy which in turn props up prices for fossil fuels.

Even gas prices are rising again, thanks to Trump policies.

And if tax cuts were supposed to put more money in families’ pockets so they could spend more, the Republican tax scheme which eliminated the deductibility of state and local taxes represents tax increases for those (predominantly Blue) states.

The proverbial sh-t won’t hit the fan in time for the midterms but probably by the 2020 presidential campaign but there will not be any levers the government can pull to keep the United States out of another Great Recession, as Obama did.

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Paper’s editorial wrong about G.N. Plaza

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his is a response by the Mayor and Board of Trustees of the Village of Great Neck Plaza to a recent Editorial in your newspaper, “Local Government Needs to Keep Up With Changes in Retail.”

We are shocked and dismayed at the misinformation cited in this piece and the fact that the editor apparently never fact-checked, contacted our village, or even spoke with his own reporter (who covers all of the Village’s Board of Trustees meetings) to confirm the information.

Thus, there were numerous false statements which mischaracterize the actions of this village government and its officials." It is, in our opinion, grossly irresponsible reporting and offensive.

You try to make the argument that local officials are either ignoring the rise in empty storefronts, do not care or about it, or are not taking any actions to prevent this from happening." You cannot be

more wrong.

Several years ago, the Village of Great Neck Plaza hired a marketing specialist to develop an eight-page full-color marketing brochure to be used by landlords and real estate brokers to attract new businesses to our downtown.

This beautiful brochure included a parking pamphlet identifying all our parking lots, descriptions of what the community offered and general information about the Great Neck Peninsula.

We had a meeting, inviting landlords, real estate brokers, the BID and those interested in commercial retail property development, to explain it and hand out multiple copies for their use when it was first launched.

An electronic version in PDF is available on our website." We have sent out the village’s marketing brochure numerous times to attract major chains and restaurants and encouraging them to consider Great Neck Plaza for one of their

new locations.

Trustee Marksheid also handdelivered one to a business in Astoria that was considering expanding.

We have also taken interested parties from other villages and cities on walking tours of the village and made arrangements for them to meet with prospective landlords."

Unfortunately, one interested company was met with unrealistic demands from a landlord and they walked away.

This brings us to another problem that you may be unaware of, i.e. some landlords may not really want or be able to rent their stores at a reasonable rent.

For example, there was a destination restaurant in the village that was successful for decades and a favorite place of many residents and visitors." Due to rent increases and a lack of cooperation from the landlord, it became prohibitive even for this successful restauranteur to keep operating.

Another factor is that some stores are now vacant because the owners, after many years of business, have decided to retire." Some have been in business here for over 50 years and deserve their leisure time.

Before they shuttered down, the mayor went to speak to the owners of several of these store owners about possibly selling their business to a younger entrepreneur but the owners were neither prepared with an exit strategy nor knowledgeable about how to navigate such a venture in that direction.

It’s a real problem, and perhaps our long-time merchants, independent mom and pop stores, need assistance from the BID or Chamber of Commerce on the How To’s of engaging an expert consultant, and developing a plan a few years before they’re ready to retire, to sell their business instead of just shutting down.

You are totally incorrect re-

garding parking in our village.

For 20 years, we have had a 5-minute grace period on the individual meter heads that is added on when the paid-for time expires."

We also have a five-minute free time period before putting in money, which we call “friendly meters” and there’s a note to that effect on the top of each of the green meters explaining that to customers.

There’s a button on the left side and this gives people who are just running into a store for a quick errand, or need to get change for the meter, five free minutes.

You write about our code enforcement officers who are not courteous but do not mention the abuse often heaped upon them when they appropriately issue tickets." They are cursed and yelled at and one officer had his foot intentionally run over.

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G.N. Chinese Association condemns hate speech

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t the Great Neck Street Fair on Oct. 21, 2018, one of our members and her six-year old son were stalked and verbally attacked for several minutes by two individuals with vicious racial and transphobic slurs in front of hundreds attending this family event.

One of them shouted: “No transgenders to Great Neck” and “take that [expletive] to China.”

We, the Board of Great Neck Chinese Association, most strenuously condemn this hate speech on the basis of sexual orientation and ethnicity and the intolerance it betrays.

Such hate speech degrades and intimidates fellow members of the Great Neck community and is the antithesis of the value of empathy, tolerance and equality that we preach to our children every day. This kind of hate speech has no place in Great Neck and must be denounced promptly and forcefully!

Great Neck has always been a community that opens its arms to welcome people from all over the world.

Over the past century, many of our residents and their ancestors sought refuge here from wars, discrimination, persecution and in-

human living conditions from their native countries. Great Neck has long been a safe harbor for those who believe in hard work and seek a better life for their families.

Our children are taught by our excellent schools on the meaning of respect, empathy, kindness, acceptance and tolerance. We should not forget that children may not always listen to us, but they will always watch us, so how we act in front of them still matters.

While civil discourse might be challenging in the polarized world we are living in today, we, as adults, must not allow ourselves to descend into the darkness of

bigotry and hatred due to our passion and fear. We can only hope that the little boy can overcome the trauma he and his mother suffered and not foster any ill will of his own.

We urge all residents of Great Neck to continue demonstrating to our future generations the core values of this wonderful and inclusive town.

We call on all those who believe in promoting equality and social justice to join us in this condemnation of the hate speech and the assault that our member and her young son had to endure and show solidarity with all fellow

members of the Great Neck community targeted for their race, ethnicity, or sexual orientation.

We are facing many challenges in today’s world, and we, the community of Great Neck, can only overcome these difficulties by being united in our efforts to combat bigotry, prejudice and intolerance.

Great Neck Chinese Association GNCA is a non-profit organization and is prohibited by law from participating in any political activity. Accordingly, GNCA does not support or oppose any candidate in any election.

David Zielenziger Vote for Zielenziger cares about library for library trustee

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have known David Zielenziger for over 15 years." I have come to know him as someone who, first and foremost, cares."

He cares about what is best for the village, for the library, for us all."

Zielenziger" is knowledgeable about the workings of institutions like libraries and governments. He lives by the power of words; their importance, their usage, their preservation; that is why he cares so much about what is best for the library."

Zielenziger is a writer who keeps alive the values of scholarship and education;

and he understands the vital role the library plays in these areas, and indeed, village life as a whole.""

If you are looking for a qualified trustee — one who will take political games out of decision making, one who values… books and reading and learning… a trustee who spends his life informing us and working at bettering life on this peninsula — vote David Zielinziger for library board trustee.

Sam Yellis Great Neck

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avid Zielenziger will make a great library trustee. First of all, he reads voluminously and he thinks about what he’s read."

That should be the first requirement of any library official, but sadly it seems those qualities are in very short supply.""

And Zielenziger’s commitment to our community goes well beyond what he reads. He is tireless as both an activist and a keen observer of our society." He will be a great trustee because he will bring all of his best qualities to the job."

I look forward to a library board less concerned with individual aggrandizement" " and more concerned with the needs of our community." Our library has needed someone like Zielenziger for a long time, and now here’s our chance to vote him in on Oct. 29."

Please vote for David Zielenziger.

Elizabeth Allen Great Neck Letters Continued on Page 26

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A celebration of local businesses Nassau council honors businesspersons of the year for local Chambers of Commerce

BY T E R I W EST The Nassau Council of Chambers of Commerce held its annual breakfast Friday honoring one member of each of the 38 county chambers of commerce.

The North Hempstead honorees were Joe Pereira of Memories 2 Bar and Grill for the Willistons, Monica Altmann of Douglas Elliman Real Estate for Floral Park, Patricia Schneider of Patricia Schneider Design Consultants for Great Neck, Richard Guilfoyle of Scott and Guilfoyla CPAs LLP for Greater New Hyde Park, T.J. Costello of Hierarchy Architecture + Design for Manhasset, Linda Doerrbecker formerly of Capital One Bank for Mineola, David Heller of Golden Hands Massage and Aesthetic Therapies for Port Washington and Steven Blank of Blank Slate Media for Roslyn.

Costello, the president of the Manhasset Chamber of Commerce, said that his father influenced his perspective on local businesses.

“My dad years ago was in

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Roslyn Chamber of Commerce attendees at the Nassau Council of Chambers of Commerce breakfast. Top row, from left, Diane Duel, Kathy Wong, Wayne Wink, Jr. and Linda Robinson.

Bottom row: Barbara Kaplan, Steven Blank, Holly Blank, Melissa Spitalnick, Mike Triunfo and Rich Branciforte. politics and one of the things that he always used to say is think globally act locally, which is obviously not my quote, but that’s been one of the guiding principles of how I conduct my

business,” said Costello, who owns an architecture firm.

Local business is the “heartbeat of the economy,” he said.

Altmann said she was honored that the council recognized

someone like her, who supports her chamber from within rather than as a leader “out in front.”

“You don’t have to be the top dog, you just have to get involved and get committed,” she

said.

Chef Tom Schaudel was the event’s keynote speaker, and gave a humorous account of his journey into the business world.

“All of us here who own businesses, we’re like 10 percent of the people of the world,” he said. “We think that we’re better than everyone else, and I was no different. My capacity for self-delusion is wondrous.”

Since opening Panama Hatties, his first restaurant, in 1983, he has run more than 15 Long Island eateries.

“Resiliency is the key to long-term success,” he said, ending his speech with words of advice, and encouraging the audience to embrace mistakes.

County Executive Laura Curran also spoke. The breakfast was held at the Crest Hollow Country Club.

The Nassau Council of Chambers of Commerce is currently running a “SHOP LOCAL” campaign to encourage residents to purchase from county businesses rather than more distant online merchants.

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Phillips touts record serving district, L.I. GOP state senator says she helped bring money back to district, restrain state spending

BY JA N E LL E C L AUS E N State Sen. Elaine Phillips (R-Flower Hill) described herself as a hard worker with a positive but often misrepresented record in a sit-down interview with Blank Slate Media on Thursday.

Phillips, who is seeking her second term as a senator in District 7, said affordability and security are among her top priorities.

“My job as a public servant is to provide security,” she said. “And that security, part of it is financial security and making sure Long Islanders can afford to live here.”

Phillips is facing off against challenger Anna Kaplan, a town councilwoman and Democrat from Great Neck, to represent a district which encompasses the bulk of the Town of North Hempstead and stretches as far south as North Valley Stream and as far east as Hicksville.

Phillips highlighted her support of the 2 percent tax cap, which limits how much municipalities can increase property taxes, and expressed support for making it permanent. She also said she and her Republican colleagues helped prevent nearly $3 billion in new taxes and supported doubling the Child and Dependent Care Tax Credit.

Phillips also emphasized the potential danger of one-party government in New

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State Sen. Elaine Phillips speaks with Blank Slate Media.

York State. She said that in 2009 and 2010, state aid went down $124 million in the district while New York City schools saw an increase.

And, Phillips said, school districts like Westbury, Port Washington and Sewanhaka still haven’t gotten their fair share of foundation aid back.

“We need to go back and look at this foundation aid formula,” Phillips said, add-

ing that there are many districts “desperately in need” of that funding.

Asked about $2.5 million spent on her behalf by charter schools in the 2016 election and that she might support them over public schools, Phillips said she has “zero control” over donations and she hopes “there never will be” a need for charter schools in the district.

Phillips also highlighted negotiating

a $112 million increase in state aid for schools in the district during her term.

“I have never advocated for charter schools,” Phillips said.

Phillips said her record on gun legislation has also been misrepresented.

Phillips said she supports legislation to bar bump stocks, which are devices that can be attached to semi-automatic weapons to make them fire nearly as quickly as fully automatic weapons, and signed onto “red flag” legislation to create extreme risk protection orders to prohibit someone from purchasing or owning a firearm if found to be a danger to themselves or others.

“Senator Kavanagh came to my office when he was elected and we talked about the red flag bill,” Phillips said. “I then did my homework … There was a vote on the red flag bill. I voted for it. Because you know what? It’s good, solid legislation.”

Phillips added that the missing link was a “mental health component” and expressed support for strengthening Kendra’s Law, which requires people with serious mental illness who have had multiple arrests to go through outpatient treatment.

Asked about when she voted against Democratic gun control measures, like longer background checks, a bump stock ban and extreme risk protection orders, Continued on Page 75

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State Senate hopefuls Anna Kaplan and Elaine Phillips# dueled over guns, taxes and the consequences of one-party control at a candidates forum hosted by the Lakeville Estates Civic Association at Manhasset-Lakeville Firehouse No. 5 last Wednesday night.

Civic association members questioned Kaplan, a Democratic town councilwoman, and Phillips, the incumbent Republican state senator in District 7.

Anthony D’Urso, the Democratic assemblyman for District 16, and Republican challenger Byron Divins also attended.

Kaplan took aim at Phillips, who spoke of delivering $112 million more in state aid to schools in the district, over charter schools donating $2.5 million to her 2016 campaign.

“Yes, she has brought in funding, but I don’t understand how you could take millions from charter schools and bring back money,” Kaplan said. “It’s like taking with one hand and giving back with the other hand – these are our own tax dollars. We Long Islanders are some of the highest tax payers in the nation.”

Phillips said Democrats voted on giving money to charter schools and that

when there was one-party government control, public school districts like Westbury lost money.

“I have never advocated more for charters than public schools,” Phillips said. “The fact is I have gotten more school aid for the Senate district than in decades.”

Kaplan also accused Phillips of being against reasonable gun legislation like the “red flag” protection bill, which would allow parents, teachers and police to pursue a court order to take guns from people considered dangerous.

She said Phillips voted against banning bump stocks, expanding background checks, removing guns from domestic abusers, and the red flag bill two weeks after a mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Florida, where 17 died.

“I absolutely support [the red flag legislation] and this will be one of the first bills that I push,” Kaplan said. “It has not been passed because the Republican Senate has stopped it from happening.”

Phillips said, “It is obvious Anna does not understand the procedures,” to which Kaplan shot back, “Oh, I understand it quite well.”

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Castagna Realty appoints new CEO Russell Matthews to head company whose holdings include the Americana Manhasset

BY T E R I W EST Castagna Realty, which owns Americana Manhasset, has named Russell G. Matthews as its new president and CEO after the death of former CEO John Gutleber.

Matthews will be leaving his role as principal and executive vice president of the real estate firm Albanese Organization, where he has worked for over 20 years.

Frank Castagna, a principal at Castagna Realty, has known him the entire time.

“Our longstanding partnership with the Albanese family has always been one based on mutual respect and trust, and Russell Matthews has been an integral part of that collaboration,” Castagna said. “A pillar of both the business and philanthropic communities, as John Gutleber was so notably, Russell has the professional and personal qualities necessary to help steer our company into the future.

He understands the unique, entrepreneurial vision of a family-owned business, and we are proud to welcome him into our organization.”

Matthews led efforts for the Albanese Organization and Castagna Realty to acquire buildings on Franklin Avenue, one of which was the first LEED certified office building on Long Island.

He also served on Garden City’s business planning coalition, where he helped revitalize the Franklin Avenue corridor.

“He is a proven and highly respected leader who will undertake his new role with the utmost of skill and dedication to the Castagna family,” said Russell Albanese, chairman of the Albanese Organization. “While we will dearly miss Russell at [the Albanese Organization], our longstanding partnership with Castagna has just become stronger.”

Before his career at the Albanese Organiza-

tion, which his uncles Vincent and Anthony Albanese founded, Matthews was the Greater New York Savings Bank’s executive vice president and chief lending officer.

In Nassau County, he has served on both business and philanthropic boards.

He was the vice president of the Garden City Chamber of Commerce for over 10 years. He is currently on the board of the Long Island Real Estate Group and the Association for a Better Long Island.

He is on the board for the Mental Health Association of Nassau County and the Safe Center Long Island.

In addition to Americana Manhasset, the Castagna Realty owns Wheatley Plaza in Greenvale, the Dealtrack Technologies headquarters in North Hills and an office building in New Hyde Park. It co-owns RFC Realty Co. with Albanese Development Corp.

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Russell G. Matthews worked at Albanese Organization for more than 20 years and will now be the CEO of Castagna Realty.

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A touch of Versailles in Kings Pt. for $50M

BY JA N E LL E C L AUS E N A waterfront home in Kings Point hit the market for $50 million this month, offering a Versailles-style palace of marble, limestone and other materials imported from French estates.

According to the listing, the 26,000-square-foot mansion at Spring Knoll is a fusion of “an authentic Versailles and modern living” situated on three acres

of land overlooking Long Island Sound.

Jason Friedman, a real estate agent with Daniel Gale Sotheby’s International Realty who is selling the home, said the mansion is unique because it features imports from French estates and “everything in it is real.”

Famous French designers also had their hand in crafting the home, Friedman said, which was built in 2002.

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State Senate candidates rally for RHA Gathering at Nassau Legislature to ensure reproductive freedoms: NIRH prez Miller

BY J E D HENDRIXSON Candidates for the New York state Senate rallied in front of the Nassau County Legislature Friday afternoon in support of the Reproductive Health Act. “On November 6th, reproductive health is on the ballot,”!Andrea Miller, president of the National Institute for Reproductive Health Action Fund PAC, said. “We need to ensure that reproductive freedom is protected in New York.”

Senate candidates present at the rally included John Brooks, current Democratic senator of New York’s 8th District, and Democratic challengers Monica

Martinez for the 3rd District, Kathleen Cleary for the 2nd District and Jim Gaughran for the 5th District.

Anna Kaplan, who is opposing incumbent Elaine Phillips for the 7th District, was slated to speak at the event but was not present.

“The appointment and seating of Judge Brett Kavanaugh on the Supreme Court has really honed in for people how important it is that we enshrine protections for abortion rights in our state code,” Miller said.

Miller and the reproductive health institute expressed confidence in the candidates at the rally for their support of the RHA, which has failed to pass in

the Republican-controlled state Senate.

Miller called out Phillips, among others, for her lack of action moving the bill forward.

“Elaine Phillips has been a part of the problem,” Miller said.

In a previous interview with Blank Slate Media, Phillips said she was “pro-choice,” but said that a medical doctor should have to be involved in carrying out abortions, which the RHA does not require. The current state law names medical doctors as abortion providers.

New York’s current abortion law was written and passed in 1970, three years before the Supreme Court ruling in Roe v.

Wade that legalized abortions.

The RHA, a part of Senate Bill S2796, would create a new section of the Public Health Law to regulate abortion. The bill would also expand the qualifications for those who can provide abortions to other qualified medical professionals.

Brette McSweeney, president of Eleanor’s Legacy, said that senators not supporting the bill “are holding New York state back.”

“We have to be able to trust our elected officials to do what is in our best interest,” McSweeney said. “And these are candidates we can trust to move this forward.”

Eleanor’s Legacy recruits, trains and funds Democratic

women in New York state who favor abortion rights.

McSweeney also cited a research study conducted by the NIRH that says “New York is a pro-choice state,” citing 73 percent of residents surveyed identified as “pro-choice.”

“Time and time again our senators go to Albany and fail the states’ women and girls,” McSweeney said.

Assemblyman Chuck Lavine of the 13th District spoke briefly of the example that New York sets when the state moves forward on legislation.

“We must stand strongly in this act,” Lavine said, “as the federal government continues to threaten certain rights.”

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Skelos sentenced to 4 years, 3 months

BY LU K E TORRANCE Former state Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos! was sentenced on Wednesday to four years and three months in prison, according to a report in The New York Times.

Skelos, a Republican who once was one of the most powerful men in Albany, was accused of using his position to secure jobs and fees worth $300,000 for his son, Adam Skelos, from Physicians’ Reciprocal Insurers in Roslyn, New Hyde Park real estate developer Glenwood Management and Arizona-based environmental technology firm AbTech Industries.

Both men were convicted on corruption charges in 2015 with Dean Skelos facing five years in prison and Adam Skelos six and a half.

Those charges were

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Former state Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos overturned late last year following a Supreme Court case that narrowed the definition of what constituted public corruption, but a retrial this summer produced the same result: both were found guilty of corruption.

Before he was sentenced, Dean Skelos asked the judge, Kimba M. Wood of Federal District Court in Manhattan, to consider the impact of a long sentence on his health and his family, according to The Times. He said his dedication to public service

should be!considered. But Wood made it clear she felt Skelos had been corrupted by his power.

“Once you became the Senate majority leader, you began to ignore in part what I have called your moral compass,” she said, according to The Times. “What makes your crimes particularly serious, is you corrupted major governmental processes.”

Skelos was once one of the “three men in a room” who controlled New York politics. Of the three, only Gov. Andrew Cuomo is still in power;!former state Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, a Democrat, was also convicted on corruption charges earlier this year and sentenced to seven years in prison.

By early Wednesday afternoon, a sentence for Adam Skelos had not been announced.

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READERS WRITE

Don’t let Know Nothings steal library election

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igotry and hate are patrolling the streets of Great Neck.

This is new, an ugliness out in the open, no longer sub rosa, as though a license to kill with words has been issued to people with a limited vocabulary.

It started with a behindthe-scenes movement to defeat the public school bond vote in February 2017. It continued as advocacy for Pedram Bral for mayor of the Village of Great Neck in June 2017. Now it emerged in, of all places, the annual trustee election at the Great Neck Library in October 2018.

One of the trustee candidates put on the ballot by the library’s Nominating Committee is Mimi Hu, a thoughtful person we would be lucky to welcome to our library board.

A few weeks ago another Chinese woman who has let it be known the committee turned her down, began to campaign as a write-in against Mimi. The write-in candidate claims she is a Christian with

“family values” that our library needs.

With the coming of the write-in candidate, the intellectually rigid have declared war on the intellectually flexible. The write-in herself uses the word “battle,” and under her banner she united some people who stalked Mimi this past Sunday at the street fair sponsored by the Village of Great Neck Plaza.

There are videos and eyewitnesses of Mersedeh Rofeim, a woman unknown to Mimi, accosting Mimi on the street calling Mimi a “transgender” and telling Mimi to go back to China.

To be clear, a woman with a Middle Eastern accent told the woman with a Far Eastern accent she does not belong here. One might say Rofeim was enjoying the freedoms afforded her by our democracy to speak her mind no matter how bile-filled it is.

As Mimi’s six-year-old son stood frozen by what he now calls a “hater,” Rofeim turned her back on Mimi and bent

over, presenting her backside.

Then she turned and gave Mimi the finger.

Mimi was approached a bit earlier in Starbucks by a man who identified himself as Bob Unger. He asked Mimi if she is the candidate for library trustee. He then asked if she thinks it is normal for a man to marry a man.

Since gay marriage is legal in New York State, and since gay marriage is not remotely an issue for a library election, Unger had simply stalked a stranger in public, a woman with a small child, who was female, gentle, and alone.

There are four seats to fill on the library board, with one of the candidates on the ballot being Chinese, Mimi Hu. The write-in candidate, herself Chinese, has chosen to run against the only Chinese person on the ballot for trustee.

This, in itself, is inexplicable to those of us who are not Chinese. It turns out the write-in is not so much running to be a library trustee; she is running to strike down

Mimi’s progressive thoughts.

Other players are interested in this contest, such as Lucy Lu, a real estate contractor who had her lawyer send a threat in a letter to one of Mimi’s supporters. And then there is Rofeim, parading vulgarity with an unprintable caption.

The write-in candidate, according to her published material, has a degree in library science, and yet she has twice evidenced an absence of knowledge about the way libraries function. She introduced her candidacy with a flyer announcing she was holding a two-hour meeting in a specific room of the library at the end of September — even though she had not made a request to the library to use the room, nor had she inquired if the room was available. Her belated request was denied, for the reason any librarian should have already known.

On Oct. 4, the evening of the forum at the library for candidates on the ballot, the

write-in candidate appeared in the foyer of the library distributing her flyers to people entering the meeting room.

The library director had to be summoned to tell her that her politicking had to be removed from the library. This was the second time in which the Write-in demonstrated a disinterest in, or disregard for our library.

The supporters of the write-in candidate think a free library should not represent freedom, certainly not freedom of thought.

Meanwhile, the supporters of the write-in candidate have effectively hijacked the period of time prior to the election during which there could have been a meaningful, relevant conversation about our library.

Vote for Mimi. Hold back the Huns. Barricade the gates to the coming of a Know Nothing movement. Show up and be counted.

Rebecca Rosenblatt Gilliar Great Neck

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READERS WRITE

Phillips campaign misrepresenting Kaplan votes

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tate Senator Elaine Phillips, in her campaign for re-election, has resorted to the characteristic Republican approach of selecting small snippets out of broader facts, blowing them up as though they constituted a full story, and by doing so completely misrepresenting the entire truth of the matter.!

In television advertising and with glossy mailers, she has contended that Anna Kaplan, her opponent, voted five times for higher North Hempstead taxes while also voting to raise her own salary.!

As a member of the Port Washington Democratic Club and a modestly active supporter of Ms. Kaplan’s current campaign, I felt it

necessary to inform myself of the accuracy of her assertions and to share what I learn with the readers of the Port Washington Times and other Blank Slate Media publications.! Here is what I discovered: 1. Ms. Kaplan was elected to the Town Board in November!2011.!

In each subsequent year, the increase in Town budget expenditures was held to below the statemandated annual cap rate and was roughly in line with the region’s inflation rate.! During that period, the Moody’s bond rating for the town’s debt obligations was raised to AAA, the highest quality rating possible in terms of financial soundness and stability and the best on Long Island.!

Clearly, Ms. Kaplan was not solely responsible for that achievement, but she was one of six Board members (presently including two Republicans), led by Town Supervisor Judi Bosworth, who together demonstrated fiscal responsibility while continuing to provide an excellent record of service to the residents.

2)! The Board members voted in in 2013 to raise their salaries 20 percent to $48,000 –! the first increase since 2005.!

I have been informed that Ms. Kaplan objected to the original proposal, to $55,000 per year, that had been submitted by one of the Republican members. The two Republican members voted against

the revised proposal, one of whom objected because he considered the amount granted to be insufficient.

3.! Notwithstanding that! increase, North Hempstead Board member salaries in 2017 were the lowest of any of the seven Long Island towns of roughly comparable size.!

According to a Newsday survey, the next lowest was Oyster Bay, about 16 percent higher; the highest was Babylon, more than double the North Hempstead rate.!

The data reported by Newsday –! real data, not “fake news” or “alternative facts” – is a clear rebuttal to the insinuation by the Phillips campaign that Ms. Kaplan had enriched herself at the expense of her

district’s taxpayers.

Anna Kaplan was elected to the North Hempstead council in 2011; she was re-elected six years later with 68 percent of the vote.!

It’s virtually self-evident that her constituents believed she had served their interests honorably and well.! As our state senator, she will represent her larger constituency with the same commitment to integrity and to concern for its residents, not only of Senate District 7 but all of Nassau County and the rest of Long Island.!

I urge voters to cast their ballots for Anna Kaplan on November 6.

Robert I. Adler Port Washington

Kristen Gillibrand no supporter of Israel

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nce upon a time, Jews worldwide – including America – were horrified beyond words to learn about Hitler and his henchmen’s savage murder of 6-million innocent Jewish men, women, children, and infants in the Holocaust of World War II, just because they were born Jewish. ! These same Jews exulted when President Harry Truman paved the way for the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948. And they celebrated again when the straggling survivors of the world’s greatest crime against humanity fought back and successfully repelled the genocidal fanatics of the five Jew-hating Arab armies (from Egypt, Jordan, Syria,

Iraq and Lebanon) that attacked the fledgling Jewish state on the very evening it declared its independence, May 14, 1948. ! Again, in June of 1967, the combined armies of Jordan, Egypt, Syria, and Saudi Arabia, attacked Israel in the Six-Day War. And yes, miraculously, the Israeli Army defeated all of them, conquering Judea and Samaria (the West Bank) and Eastern Jerusalem, including the Temple Mount and the Western Wall.

But Israel’s Arab and Muslim enemies were not through. In October of 1973, Egyptian and Syrian armies attacked Israel on Yom Kippur, advancing into the Sinai and the Golan Heights and inflicting grievous casualties.!

Yet in spite of a devastating loss of Jewish life, American Jews started to turn against Israel. They had just successfully protested the Vietnam War and were advertising themselves as all peace and love and social justice.

As long as Israel had a strong military, she was the bad guy and her defeated enemies were the victims.

Now we have New York Senator Kristen Gillibrand running for her second six-year term in a state that boasts the second largest Jewish population in the world.

But the formerly pro-gun, pro-life political conservative from upstate New York is supporting the virulently anti-Semitic, Sharialaw-defending Linda Sarsour, who

has stated publicly that Gillibrand “works for us on the inside.”

Gillibrand supports the “Israel Anti-Boycott Act,” which opposes the anti-Semitic Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions movement targeting Israel.

Gillibrand voted for the nuclear deal with Iran – a state of fanatical anti-Semitism which vows every day to wipe Israel off the map and kill every Jew who walks the earth.

How any Jew can vote for this anti-Israel senator is incomprehensible to me.

On Nov. 6, all right-thinking people have an opportunity to vote for Chele Farley, who has said that Gillibrand is “America’s Neville Chamberlain, a public official who

has betrayed the cause of a strong and free Israel.”

The quite brilliant and credentialed Farley has gone on to say, with 100 percent accuracy, that Gillibrand has “emerged as a leader of the dangerous socialist left of the Democratic Party which has turned its back on Israel.”

Wake up, Long Island!

Here is the perfect opportunity to “do the right thing” by voting against Gillibrand and sending a message to all far-left Democrats that their hate-Israel agenda is exactly what it appears to be – vintage anti-Semitism!

Joan Swirsky Great Neck

Zielenziger Restrict medical marijuana sales right choice D for library

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have known David Zielenziger for over five years. I met him through his activities in local community government.

I am supporting him in his candidacy for the Great Neck Library Board of Trustees because I know he fervently believes in the importance of the Great Neck Library as a community resource and will work diligently to position the library to be named “Library of the Year.”

Marty Markson Great Neck

ear Supervisor Bosworth and Board Members, ! I am writing to share my concerns over the proposed relocation of the MedMen facility in Lake Success to 1575 Northern Blvd. in Manhasset and urge you to take action to protect our community.!

I am aware that you have received many letters from residents sharing the same concerns.! I know that you know the dangers that our community faces with alcohol and substance abuse among our youth and that the addition of a MedMen location would serve to put our community at further risk. !Briefly, I am writing to ask you as the leaders of our Town to do two things: ! 1.! In the short term, the Town of North Hempstead must maintain that medical marijuana facilities belong in spaces zoned for medical use and not in retail space.!

The location at 1575 Northern Blvd. is not an acceptable location for such use especially given its proximity to homes and schools.! Pharmacies sell many other products that allow them to be a retail store.! Filling prescriptions for medical marijuana is not retail use.! !2.! In anticipation of the future, the Town of North Hempstead must make decisions about how to legislate and regulate the sale of recreational use marijuana.!

There is really no good reason not to ban the sale of such products within the town.!

Tax revenue from the sale of recreational marijuana could be a revenue-neutral proposition given the increased education and enforcement needs it creates.!

The Town of North Hempstead stepped up when it came to protecting our youth from vaping and addressed the age to purchase vape products and the locations of such stores.

California has demonstrated that

towns and counties can make the tough decisions necessary to protect their youth.*!

This is a very serious matter that will forever affect our communities and the Town must take a proactive stance, making our youth and their safety and well-being a priority. !I recognize that the Town Board, the Board of Zoning and Appeals, the county and the state all have uniquely defined roles and that their jurisdictions are specific and limited in scope.!

I urge you though to all work together to ensure what is best for our community and the entire Town of North Hempstead.!

We have a chance here to be leaders in making choices that protect our youth and all of our residents.! Let’s make history on this issue!

Susan Auriemma Manhasset

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READERS WRITE

LIU Post’s firing of top prof raises questions

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n open letter to:! The board of trustees, LIU Post The ignominious firing of Hutton House Lecture Series Director, Dr. Kay Sato, on Friday Oct.12, mid-month, midwinter class session, without stated cause, raises many serious questions.

As someone with an advanced degree, teaching experience at the university level, and over three decades in banking finance, I feel qualified to comment that the Hutton House courses I took over the past four years were given at the highest level of teacher and academic excellence.

How Dr. Sato corralled such excellence remains a wonder. It is my deep regard for her and for the program that prompts me to write this letter.

Was Dr. Sato fired for lack of performance? Are there performance reviews to substantiate this?

If there was a restructuring with a reduction in force why has her position been taken by a person with notably less experience in Lifelong Learning?

Did the program lose money for LIU? Last year the enrollment topped 8,400 registrations with expenditure by students averaging $100-$500. The math suggests a

program that is a profit enter, not a losing proposition for the University.

While it is apparent that freshmen enrollments below 600 are a cause for concern and as board members you must be looking for ways to reverse that decline, how can ravaging the Hutton House series by summarily firing its director attract more freshman? Hutton House has won a “Model Program” award and engenders thousands of brand ambassadors praising its excellence. The shameful firing of Dr. Sato can only turn satisfied adult education students into an army of critics.

There’s nothing like injustice to get tongues wagging.

Rumor has it a Veterinary School is planned – if the approximately $50 million can be found somewhere and LIU/POST is deemed more suitable than SUNY Farmingdale. Or, students might be attracted by a degree in communications.

Perhaps the university should start by developing its own communication strategy which, according to many faculty members and administrators, is non-existent.

Certainly, we Hutton House students are eager to hear and understand the reasons for the Uni-

versity’s and president Kim Cline’s action.

This program is a wonderful calling card for LIU/Post, given the high caliber course offerings and content established and monitored

by Dr. Sato.

Why is its future being endangered?

I respectfully request that as board members you fulfill your obligation to investigate this situation and explain your findings to your several constituencies.

Reina Teeger Port Washington

The best way to respond to political bullying

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ecent comments by prominent Democrats erroneously suggest the notion that outraged Democrats are limited to making a false choice between the “go high when they go low” mantra of Michelle Obama, and the “kick them when they go low” mantra put forth by Eric Holder Jr., and seconded by Hillary Clinton.

It is argued that simply complaining about what Republicans are doing invites even worse behavior. The field of assertiveness

training teaches that with aggression, the object of one’s actions is to attack the adversary who is violating your rights.

With assertion, however, the object is to lift oneself up, irrespective of what happens to the adversary. To ridicule opponents or to kick them is to follow the obnoxious, aggressive path that has been used by Trump and his acolytes.

In today’s political environment, where respect for rules and convention is flaunted by those in

power, simple assertiveness has proven to be ineffective. Another kind of response, aggressive assertiveness, is needed.

Rather than state one’s position in an emotionally neutral, and affectively calm manner, the enraged plaintiff should put genuinely felt anger on display, while maintaining a show of respect, even for an adversary who doesn’t seem to merit it.

When Democrats confronted Brett Kavanaugh about his lying under oath, they alluded to specif-

ic lies he uttered, but they did so while suppressing their felt anger.

They failed to stand up and raise their voices to fully reflect the understandable rage that most patriotic Americans experience when they perceive their house being plundered, their democracy being attacked.

At such times, aggressive assertiveness is needed, in the form of unambiguously calling the offender out, and delineating exactly how his words and/or actions constitute an unacceptable attack

on the morays of most Americans.

An assertive display of anger is genuine, emotional and unequivocal. It communicates that the offensive words or behavior will not be tolerated or ignored, and that business, as usual, shall not be conducted until this is corrected.

Leonard T. Gries, Ph .D., Psychologist, Executive Director, Institute for Emotional Health, East Hills

Phillips a pro-life wolf in pro-choice clothing

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epublican Senator Elaine Phillips has to be voted out.

As my state Senator, she has acted cowardly. She lies regularly.

She tries to cozy up to both sides of the aisle while hiding behind Republican majority control.

She is not the women’s rights advocate she professes to be.

She does not support gun reform nor does she protect child abuse victims. She fails her youngest constituents by voting against stricter gun safety regulations and supporting the diversion of funding from public schools towards for-profit charter schools. She has to go.!

On June 6 when Phillips had the chance to be the deciding vote for landmark women’s rights legislation, she walked out of state Senate chambers, effectively killing these bills. The first bill, the Reproductive Health Act, would have written Roe vs. Wade into state law, modernizing New York’s nearly 50-year-old statutes regard-

ing abortion and ensuring that the state law treats abortion as health care, not as a criminal act, putting the focus back on women’s health where it belongs.

The second bill, the Comprehensive Contraceptive Care Act, if enacted, would have required health insurance companies to include coverage of all FDA-approved contraceptive options, as well as contraceptive counseling and services.

Phillips even co-sponsored this bill, a clever strategy to present herself as a supporter but in reality, this was just a tactic to placate both sides of the aisle, knowing full well that she would never really vote for the bill to pass.!

Both women’s rights bills have major support among New York voters, yet have been repeatedly blocked from becoming law by the one seat state Senate Republican majority since they refuse to bring these bills to the floor for a vote and continuously work to kill variations of these bills in committee.!

I spoke to Phillips in her office

last January when I visited with Planned Parenthood.

I told her about my personal traumatic devastation of having to end a much-wanted pregnancy due to medical reasons in 2014.

She acknowledged she was prochoice and seemed sympathetic so I had become cautiously optimistic that despite her Republican Party affiliation, she would vote to protect women’s rights.!

After the recent Oct. 18 public debate in Manhasset, I confronted Phillips and asked her to set the record straight about the June vote.

She gave me a phony story of how June 6!was just a regular day in Albany and nothing special was going on.

She claims she had no knowledge of the RHA or CCCA being voted on that day, but an official Senate video posted to YouTube shows Senator Liz Krueger of Manhattan delivering a five-minute speech on the Senate floor outlining the importance of the RHA/ CCCA and explaining the reason why Senate Democrats were at-

taching a hostile amendment to another bill (S.299) as their only way to get the RHA/CCCA voted on.

I spoke with Sen. Krueger’s staff, who’s office confirmed the sequence of events that day and detailed how Phillips purposely torpedoed the RHA, as well as the CCCA, unbelievably the very own bill she co-sponsored.

To know that she purposefully voted against the RHA and walked out on a vote to pass her CCCA, and then lied about doing both, is a shameful disgrace.!

For these reasons, I will be voting for Democrat candidate Anna Kaplan on Nov. 6! for Nw York State Senator in the 7th District.

Kaplan is a champion for all the issues that are important to me. She puts her money where her mouth is by showing up in person and being on record with her support.!

The most important takeaway is this: District 7 is hailed as the district in New York most likely to change hands in this upcoming

election because there are 25,000 more registered Democrats and because Phillips only won by a 3,000 vote margin in 2016.

I need voters in my area to realize the enormity of their single vote.!

By flipping the state Senate to a Democrat, New York could become a beacon of hope for the rest of the country as other states could look to us as we pass legislation on progressive priorities like the women’s rights agenda, gun safety measures, campaign finance/voting/ethics/criminal justice reforms, an expansion of a free public college tuition program, continuation of 2 percent caps on state spending and property tax increases and new money for workforce training, amongst other important items.

Every. Single. Vote. Matters.

Vote Democrat. Vote Anna Kaplan.

Alethea Shapiro East Hills Letters Continued on Page 68

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‘Tuesdays with Morrie’ author talk Will appear and discuss new book at Temple Beth Shalom

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Author Mitch Albom

est-selling author Mitch Albom, who wrote “Tuesdays With Morrie” and “The Five People You Meet in Heaven,” will discuss the latter book’s long-awaited sequel,! “The Next Person You Meet in Heaven,” at Temple Beth Sholom on Thursday, Nov. 8 at 8 p.m.

In “The Five People You Meet in Heaven,” published 15 years ago,! the world fell in love with Eddie, a grizzled war veteran-turned-amusement park mechanic who died saving the life of a young girl named Annie. Eddie’s journey to heaven taught him that every life matters. Now, in “The Next Person You Meet in Heaven,” Albom reveals Annie’s story.

The accident that killed Eddie left an indelible mark on Annie. It took her left hand, which needed to be surgically reattached. Injured, scarred, and unable to remember why, Annie’s life is forever changed by a guilt-ravaged mother who whisks her away from the world she knew.

Bullied by her peers and haunted by something she cannot recall, Annie struggles to find acceptance as she grows.

When, as a young woman, she reconnects with Paulo, her childhood love, she believes she has finally! found happiness.

As the new novel opens, Annie is marrying Paulo. But when her wedding day ends in an unimaginable accident, Annie finds herself on her own heavenly journey — and an inevitable reunion with Eddie, one of the five people who will show her how her life mattered in ways she could not have fathomed.

Already a No. 1 New York Times bestseller since its Oct. 9th publication, “The Next Person You Meet in Heaven” is filled with unexpected twists, reminding us that not only does every life matter, but every ending is also a beginning — we need only to open our eyes to see it.

Albom was an acclaimed sports broadcaster before becoming a novelist and non-fiction writer focusing on inspirational stories. The event at Temple Beth Sholom is co-sponsored by The Herbert Tarr Institute and The Arthur Goldberg Cultural Arts & Social Action Fund of Temple Beth Sholom.

General admission is $18, but students with a student I.D. will be admitted

for free. Albom will be available to sign his new book at the event’s conclusion.

Books may be pre-ordered for $19.99 or purchased at the event for $23.99.

To pay by PayPal, go to tbsroslyn.org and click on the event title in Upcoming Events in the center of the homepage.

You may also make your check payable to Temple Beth Sholom (earmark for cultural programming) and mail to the synagogue office.

For further information, contact mitchalbom.tbs@gmail. Temple Beth Sholom is located at 401 Roslyn Road in Roslyn Heights. The temple office can be reached at 516-621-2288.

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The 8th annual Gold Coast International Film Festival kicks off on Friday evening, Nov. 2, with the first of more than 80 movie screenings — from documentaries and foreign films, to short and full-length feature films — along with corresponding lectures, culminating in an 11:30 a.m. awards luncheon on Wednesday, Nov. 14 at Neiman Marcus in Garden City, where you can be the first to hear this year’s winners that may become Oscar contenders.

Where: Gold Coast Arts Center, 113 Middle Neck Road, Great Neck; Neiman Marcus, Roosevelt Field Mall, 630 Old Country Road, Garden City Info & Tickets: (516) 829-2570 • goldcoastfilmfestival.org

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Livingston Taylor Friday, Nov. 2 at 8 p.m.

The brother of singer-songwriter James Taylor will showcase music from his own 50-year music career, including his Billboard hits “I Will Be In Love with You,” “First Time Love,” and “I’ll Come Running,” in this performance at the historic music supper club, My Father’s Place.

Where: My Father’s Place at the Roslyn Hotel 1221 Old Northern Blvd., Roslyn Info & Tickets: (516) 413-3535 • myfathersplace.com

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Molloy College 2018 Gala: An Evening of Entertainment with The Midtown Men Friday, Nov. 2 at 9 p.m.

This celebration reunites the four stars from the original Broadway cast of “Jersey Boys,” who will bring their magic to Molloy while singing their favorite ‘60s’ hits from the Beatles, the Rascals, the Turtles, the Four Seasons, Motown and more.

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

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The Country House Conference — Bold and British

Saturday, Nov. 3, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

“Downton Abbey” fans will enjoy this exploration of historic British country houses at Coe Hall, where guests will fully immerse themselves into the world of British nobility with a full day of topics ranging from decorative arts to lost country houses. General admission is $75.

Where: Planting Fields Arboretum Coe Hall, 1395 Planting Fields Road, Oyster Bay Info & Tickets: (516) 922-8678 • plantingfields.org

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Anthony Scaramucci at Book Revue

Sunday, Nov. 4 at 1 p.m.

Financier, entrepreneur, political figure and North Shore resident Anthony Scaramucci will discuss and sign copies of his new book, “Trump: The Blue-Collar President,” in which he shares insights and stories from his long-term relationship with President Trump.

Where: Book Revue, 313 New York Ave., Huntington Info: (631) 271-1442 • bookrevue.com

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Lucia Micarelli Thursday, Nov. 8 at 8 p.m.

A former Juilliard and Manhattan School of Music student who The Wall Street Journal has called “a violinist of heart-melting talent,” Micarelli will showcase her many musical influences — from classical and jazz, to traditional fiddle music and Americana favorites.

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

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Long Island Music Hall of Fame 2018 Induction Awards Gala

Thursday, Nov. 8 at 8:30 p.m.

Long Island has produced many accomplished musicians who have influenced generations of music lovers — from Harry Chapin and Billy Joel, to Joan Jett and Debbie Gibson. Started in 2004, the Long Island Music Hall of Fame serves to recognize and preserve Long Island’s music heritage. This year’s Induction Awards Gala, which begins with Red Carpet arrivals and a dinner party, will feature inductees including alternative rock band Taking Back Sunday, legendary hip hop group EPMD, Woodstock Music and Arts Festival co-creator Michael Lang, and singer-songwriter Jimmy Webb, among others.

Where: The Space at Westbury, 250 Post Ave., Westbury Info & Tickets: (516) 283-5566 • thespaceatwestbury.com

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Honor all who have served our country in this handson, Veteran’s Day-focused workshop. You and your child can build a model military helicopter to spark a conversation with a veteran about fighting large fires, moving troops, getting supplies to ships, and transporting patients. Once the “helo” build is complete, your child can decorate it with paint and stickers.

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There will be more than 70 chocolate exhibits and other delicious foods, handmade crafts, wine and spirits, and live music performed by local entertainers at this sweet event the whole family will enjoy.

Where: Old Bethpage Village Restoration, 1303 Round Swamp Road, Old Bethpage | Info & Tickets: 631-488-0521 or lovechocolatefest.com

igsaw Jones and the Case of the J Class Clown Saturday, Nov. 3, 2 p.m.

There is a practical joker on the loose in Ms. Gleason’s class so it’s up to Jigsaw Jones and his friend Mila to catch the clown. This might be their most slippery case yet, in this live, musical production brimming with charm and humor that is based on the book by author James Preller. !

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

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Saturday, Nov. 3 at 3 p.m. (Tilles Center) and Sunday, Nov. 4 at 3 p.m. (Molloy College)

Families on both the North and South Shores will be amazed by the high-intensity martial arts and breathtaking acrobatics in this show that is set during the Ming Dynasty (1368–1644) and tells the tale of two rival martial arts disciplines competing in the ancient Chinese capital of Peking.

Where: Tilles Center for the Performing Arts, 720 Northern Blvd., Brookville; Madison Theatre at Molloy College, 1000 Hempstead Ave., Rockville Centre | Info & Tickets: 516-299-3100 or tillescenter.org; 516-323-4444 or madisontheatreny.org

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Tuesday, Nov. 6 at 1 p.m. through Monday, Nov. 12 at 12:30 p.m.

(see website for a schedule of screenings and locations) The Bryant Library in Roslyn, the Port Washington Library, Soundview Cinemas in Port Washington, and the Cinema Arts Centre in Huntington will host family-friendly films during this 10-day festival, culminating in Family Film Day at the Gold Coast Arts Center on Nov. 14 (Veteran’s Day- schools closed), where children can watch fun short films, join movie-themed art activities, and enjoy free lunch and snacks.

Where: Gold Coast Arts Center, 113 Middle Neck Road, Great Neck Info & Tickets: 516-829-2570 or goldcoastfilmfestival.org

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The Chapin family to perform on 11/3 Tom Chapin and The Chapin Sisters will be the featured artists during the Folk Music Society of Huntington’s monthly First Saturday Concerts’ series on Saturday, Nov. 3.

The 8:30 p.m. concert will take place at the Congregational Church of Huntington at 30 Washington Drive, off Route 25A, in Centerport, and will be preceded by an open mic at 7:30 p.m.

In the long, rich history of family groups in American roots music, the Chapins have a special place. Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter Tom Chapin, who previously performed for the Folk Music Society of Huntington a few years ago, returns to share the stage with The Chapin Sisters — the singersongwriter duo comprised of his daughters Lily and Abigail.

In this rare joint performance, they will sing their own original and traditional songs, as well as classics by Tom’s brother and their uncle, the late Harry Chapin. Selections from their respective recent releases, At The Turning Point and Ferry Boat, will be featured during the evening.

Hailed as “one of the great personalities in contemporary folk music” in The New York Times, Tom Chapin’s career spans five decades, 26 albums and three Grammys. He has covered an incredible amount of creative ground — maintaining two long and productive parallel musical vocations, both as a

respected contemporary folk artist and a pioneer in the field of children’s music. Earlier this year, Tom was named Best Male Artist in the 2018 International Acoustic Music Awards.

Making music that a critic for The New York Times lauded as “tantalizingly close to beauty,” The Chapin Sisters carry on a proud family musical legacy. Since 2005, the sisters have garnered critical acclaim by forging a distinctive musical imprint in which they “wed lilting voices, dynamically complex vocal harmonies, and folk-influenced melodies to dark, wryly sarcastic lyrical content,” notes Amazon. com in an editorial review.

Tickets to the Chapin family concert are priced at $30 ($25 for FMSH members), and may be purchased in advance at www.fmsh. org, using a credit card, or at the door (cash and checks only).

Donations of canned and other non-perishable food items will also be collected for Long Island Cares — The Harry Chapin Food Bank. For more information, visit the FMSH website or call (631) 425-2925."

Now in its 50th year, the Folk Music Society of Huntington presents two monthly concert series, a monthly folk jam, and an annual folk festival in conjunction with the Huntington Arts Council. Its Hard Luck Café series at Huntington’s Cinema Arts Centre will feature touring singer-songwriters Rachael Kilgour and Jesse Terry on Thursday, Nov. 15."

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Wagner tribute kicks off film fest Attributes good fortune to career spanning 70 years alongside many Hollywood icons

BY G R AC E M CQ UA D E The 8th Annual Gold Coast International Film Festival premieres on Nov. 2, but not before a special event that toasts the Golden Age of Hollywood.

The Gold Coast Arts Center’s Oct. 24! benefit, Gala 2018! The Stars Come Out!, pays tribute to a screen legend in order to preserve his or her legacy for future generations of filmgoers.

Selected by the Gold Coast Arts Center and a committee of actors and entertainers, the chosen artist is presented with the Burton Moss Hollywood Golden Era Award.

The first award was bestowed posthumously last year to the late actress Rita Hayworth.

The recipient of the 2018 Burton Moss Golden Era Award is renowned film and television actor Robert Wagner, whose career has spanned nearly 70 years.

“It’s wonderful to be acknowledged,” Wagner said upon arriving in New York for the celebration. “It’s really a very special award for me… To be in (Hayworth’s) company is indeed a big honor.”

The award is named after the Hollywood agent and talent manager Burton Moss, who turned actors into stars of the big and small screens from the 1960s to the ‘80s.

Wagner remembers Moss from an early age.

“Burton Moss and I went to grammar school together,” he said.! “We sat next to each other at a school called Fairburn Avenue in West Los Angeles.”

And in the years that followed, the two shared more than just a schoolroom, as they each pursued their dreams of making it in the movie business.

While Moss worked as a busboy at a café on the Fox studio lot and then at the MGM gas station, servicing cars for people like Gene Kelly and Judy Garland, Wagner golf caddied for Clark Gable at the Bel Air Country Club.

The two eventually made their marks in the entertainment world – Moss behind the scenes and Wagner on screen – making this award night particularly nostalgic for Wagner since Moss will attend to help present the award and film historian Foster Hirsch will moderate a discussion about his storied career.

We asked the venerable actor our own questions about his impressive body of work, which mirrors the evolution of Hollywood, and the people he met along the way who played key roles in his success.

Although Wagner was an uncredited extra in one of his first films, “The Happy Years” (1950), this job gave him his start in the film world.

“It was directed by William Wellmen,” he said. “He knew I wanted to be in the picture business and he put me in it so I could get my Screen Actors Guild card and have a few close-ups.”

After making the rounds of auditions at all the major film studios, Wagner made the cut at 20th Century Fox when he was still just a teenager.

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Robert Wagner Helena Sorell… she saw something in me that would be of value to the studio (so) they signed me at 20th Century Fox. I was there for 12 years,” he said.

These were certainly “happy years” for Wagner, who went on to make more than 10 films during the ‘50s, including the first in which he had star billing, “Halls of Montazuma” (1951) with Richard Widmark, “With a Song in My Heart” (1952) with Susan Hayward, “What Price Glory” (1952) with James Cagney, and “Beneath the 12 Mile Reef” (1953), his first lead role.

“I was so excited,” Wagner recalls.! “I couldn’t believe it. I was all over that studio trying to learn everything I could about the motion picture business… it was a tremendous opportunity.”

While Wagner performed in a number of war films during these post-WWII years, making the Burton Moss Award particularly fitting given that it is designed by artist Edwina Sandys, a grandchild of Winston Churchill, it was a western that he credits for catapulting his acting career at this time.

“I was just up at the Long Pine Film Festival and they ran ‘Broken Lance’ (1954), which is a picture that I did with Spencer Tracy,” Wagner said.! “It was quite emotional because that picture really put my whole career in a different direction.”

Tracy was so fond of Wagner from this film that he managed to pull him away from Fox to Paramount Studios to make a second movie with him entitled “The Mountain” (1956).

“Spencer Tracy gave me co-star billing above the title with him,” Wagner said. “We made it in Europe – it was the first time I went to Europe. That film really changed my whole life.”

20th Century Fox released its own Wagner film the same year that not only cemented his leading man status, but forged two more relationships that propelled his career.! The film was “A Kiss Before Dying” with co-star Joanne Woodward, wife of the late actor Paul Newman.

“Paul and Joanne are two of the most marvelous people,” Wagner said.! “I did three films with Paul, ‘Harper’ (1966), ‘Winning’ (1969) – that was Joanne, Paul and me – and ‘The Towering Inferno’ (1974),” movies that Wagner considers “big breaks” in his career.

By this time, television had entered its Golden Age and Wagner continued to ride the tide.

“Going into the ‘70s, that’s when I was under contract to Universal and Lew Wasserman, who had been my agent, was now the head of the studio. I went into his office one day and he said, ‘I want you to be in this magazine every week,’ and he pulled out TV Guide, saying ‘I think this is the medium for you.’”

Wasserman had read a television script that was written for Wagner called “It Takes a Thief” (1968-70). Although ABC initially passed on the pilot, they bought the series once they saw the movie version.

“Suddenly I was on television,” Wagner said.! “I thought maybe this was the end of my career.! Well, it wasn’t.! The show was a big hit.”

Wagner asked Fred Astaire to play his father in the series that was filmed in Europe and earned him an Emmy nomination for his role as Alexander Mundy.

After starring in the BBC series “Colditz” (1972-74) and then “Switch” (197578), which co-starred Eddie Albert and gave actress Sharon Gless her big break, Wagner began to work with Aaron Spelling, the producer behind many hit television series of the ‘70s, ‘80s and ‘90s.

“Aaron was an actor I had known,” he said. “I met him through Dick Powell.! He was a wonderful man and with Leonard (Goldberg), that combination worked really well.”

Spelling and Goldberg would produce Wagner’s next series, “Hart to Hart” (197984), about a wealthy couple of amateur detectives that was written by Tom Mankiewicz and co-starred Stefanie Powers.

“Tom and I both wanted Stefanie from the very beginning,” Wagner said. “I had worked with her on ‘Switch’… and I felt she was the person to play Jennifer Hart. We held out for it and we got her.”

The chemistry obviously worked because the series lasted for five seasons and has aired in 87 countries.

Jonathan Hart wasn’t the first or the last worldly character Wagner would play.

He would go on to do another Pink Panther film, “Curse of the Pink Panther” (1983), made 20 years after the popular original, and star alongside Audrey Hepburn in “Love Among Thieves” (1987) and Jaclyn Smith in “Windmills of the Gods” (1988), a mini-series based on the Sidney Sheldon novel.

In more recent years, Wagner starred in the “Austin Powers” trilogy (‘97, ‘99, ‘02) as Dr. Evil’s henchman, Number Two, another role written for him – this time by “Saturday Night Live” alum Mike Myers, who Wagner met while making a guest appearance on the late night show.

“We hit it off,” Wagner said after performing in a few of Myers’ skits. “We had a lot of fun together and when he started to write ‘Austin Powers,’ he wrote Number Two for me… I read the script and I thought, ‘Oh my God, this is a great character.’ It opened up a whole new fan base for me.”

Wagner guest starred with his current wife, Jill St. John, in the famous “Yada, Yada” episode of “Seinfeld,” and has had recurring roles on “Two and a Half Men” and the current TV drama, “NCIS.” Among his many accomplishments, Wagner is also a published author of three books, his autobiography, “Pieces of My Heart: A Life” (2008), “You Must Remember This: The Life and Style of Hollywood’s Golden Age” (2014) and “I Loved Her in the Movies: Memories of Hollywood’s Legendary Actresses” (2016), all written with coauthor and book reviewer Scott Eyman.

In his most recent book, Wagner writes about leading ladies who created magic on the screen, including two of the actresses he married, the late Natalie Wood and St. John.

“I always thought that Natalie was a God-given talent because she had such a range and she did so many marvelous films,” Wagner said.! “She was a wonderful actress and people loved her… she was just one of the most special people in the world.”

While they made a few movies together, Wagner said his greatest collaboration with Wood was their marriages.! “I fell madly and passionately in love with her,” he said.

“Fortunately, we got back together and we were married twice… It was a relationship that just was so special.”

Now, three leading ladies in Wagner’s current life – his wife of 28 years, St. John, his youngest daughter Courtney from his marriage with Wood, and his former co-star and close friend, Gless, will join him as he accepts the Burton Moss Hollywood Golden Era Award at the Gold Coast Arts Center in Great Neck.

Looking back, Wagner attributes much of his success to luck, but it has clearly been a combination of talent, charisma and camaraderie with industry colleagues that has made him a Hollywood treasure.

“My life has been so blessed and I’m so fortunate,” he said.! “I say ‘thank you, thank you’ every day.”

For more information about the Gold Arts Center and the Gold Coast International Film Festival, go to www.goldcoastarts.org.

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OUR TOWN

Hope caring for Alzheimer’s sufferers Alzheimer’s is a chronic neurodegenerative disease that afflicts 6 percent of those over the age of 65. It is characterishorttermrt term memory loss, loss of language facility, disorientation, mood swings, loss of motivation and a poor prognosis.

Life expectancy is threenine years after initial diagnosis. Some 60 percent to 70 percent of dementia cases are due to Alzheimer’s and this disease takes a huge toll on the caregivers socially, psychologically and economically.

The cause of this illness is multifactorial. Genetics accounts for about 70 percent of the cases but other risk factors include head injury, depression, gum disease, air pollution, obesity, smoking and hypertension.

Onset is gradual and diagnosis is made with the help of the Mini-Mental Status Exam, imaging and blood work.

Although drug treatment has proved to be largely ineffective there are interventions that have been helpful. These include an emphasis on lifestyle changes to include more

reading, cross words puzzles, increase in exercise or sports participation, more socializing and the use of coffee.

All these activities activate brain segments which delay the onset and progress of the disease. Stimulation with art, music or pets is recommended. Psychological interventions include basic supportive psychotherapy, meditation and Reminiscence Therapy.

Reminiscence Therapy is using discussions and photos from the past to stimulate the patient’s memory.

Perhaps the best demonstration of the use of this type of intervention was seen in the hit “The Notebook” starring Ryan Gosling and Rachel McAdams. The plot of the film is based around the character of an elderly James Garner reading a love story to his wife who is stricken by Alzheimer’s and therefore no longer recognizes him as her loving husband.

She thinks he’s just a nice a man who likes to read her a story out of his notebook.

The story he reads is about

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how two teenagers once met at a carnival and fell in love. The love story he reads is plagued with problems since the boy played by Ryan Gosling is from a poor family and his love interest Rachel McAdams is from a well to do family who are trying to end the relationship.

Although it was not reviewed well when it first came out this film is now widely considered to be one of the great romantic love stories in film history.

For our purposes it demonstrates power of reminiscence therapy by showing how a per-

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And there is one other thing that makes these films seem so moving.

Most great pieces of art are founded upon extreme pain that is faced by the artist and overcome through the making of the artwork. And when that particular artistic triumph relates to the populations shared pain then you have a hit on your hands.

Who among us has not experienced a parent who has slipped into gradual decline and death?

If it has not happened to you yet it will soon enough.

I recall my father when he was in his nineties calling me up from his home in Florida and asking me outlandish questions like who was the Boston Red Sox second basement in 1965.

Or who was the big Detroit Tigers reliever in 1958? He was really nervous about all that because he had a fear that his memory was slipping away.

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The other great film about Alzheimer’s and one which garnered 10 Academy Award nominations was “On Golden Pond” made in 1981.

It starred Henry Fonda, Katharine Hepburn and Jane Fonda and both Fonda and Hepburn won Oscars for their role as an elderly couple facing the grim reality of the first stage of Alzheimer’s.

There is a fact that connects these two great films. The Notebook was directed by Nick Cassavetes who placed his mother Gena Rowlands in the starring role. “On Golden Pond” was initially a Broadway play and Jane Fonda bought the rights of the play in order to make it into a film which her father Henry Fonda could star in.

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Stretching for health and wellness Keeping limber a key to conducting daily life activities especially as people age

BY LY N D A SCHOETTL What we do today clearly affects our tomorrow, especially when it comes to our health.

While the importance of regular cardiovascular exercise is well documented, stretching plays a key role in our ability to conduct the daily activities of life.

Benefits of Stretching Stretching’s benefits include increased range of motion, increased flexibility and better circulation.

As we get older, our muscles become shorter and lose elasticity. This natural process may first slow movements, then weaken the muscles, leading to the eventual loss of the ability to perform daily activities such as reaching for items above you, rising from a chair, even getting in and out of bed.

Now that’s a case to reach for the sky, among other stretches!

Stretching eases tension and stress in the body, prevents ADVERTORIAL

injuries, decreases pain and helps reduce the risk of falls as it improves balance and stability, promotes good posture and alleviates some arthritis symptoms by relieving stiffness.

Rise and Stretch, Full Body Strength and Aqua Tone are my most popular classes at Jefferson’s Ferry. Zumba, Chair Yoga and balance classes continue to grow in popularity.

Simple Daily Stretches Don’t take the effects of aging lying down. To offset the normal decline in the flexibility of your joints – and help you remain active and independent – the following are some stretches that I recommend for the residents at Jefferson’s Ferry Life Plan community.

Tighten your abs and your lower back muscles to help support your back while stretching.

Hold all stretches except the neck stretch for 20-30 seconds each.

Neck Turn neck to one side.

Repeat on opposite side.

Drop ear to shoulder. Repeat

on opposite side. Drop chin to chest. Slightly tilt head back to open throat.

Chest/Shoulder Bring arms, behind your back. Interlace fingers, press arms up to reach towards the ceiling.

Cat/Cow While seated, first drop chin to chest and round your back, then arch back slightly, gazing upwards. Repeat movements three times.

Spinal twist While seated chair, use left hand to grab opposite side of the chair to pull yourself around, gently turning from the waist. Start from the belly and chest and head will follow.

Deepen the twist by gently pressing your hand against your opposite thigh. Repeat on other side.

Side stretch Lift right arm towards ceiling and lean torso to the left, keeping your arm by your ear and reach toward ceiling. Repeat on other side.

Lower back/hamstrings Seated or standing, extend one leg out as straight as possible,

keeping heel on the floor, toe pointing towards the ceiling.

Slide your hands down your leg without rounding your back.

Do one leg at a time or both together.

Hips Seated, cross one foot above the knee and lean forward from hip to deepen stretch. Switch sides. Always gaze straight ahead. If you have had a hip replacement, cross legs at ankle instead.

Inner thighs Sit in a chair with feet apart, rest elbows on thighs, drop head between legs.

Relax.

Quadriceps Using a chair or a wall for support, bend right leg and lift behind, grasping your shin or foot with your right hand. Pull in gently to stretch. Repeat using other leg and hand.

Triceps stretch arm up, bend at elbow to reach back.

Take other hand and gently push arm back.

Ankle/Wrist Point and flex, rotate in circles, reverse direction.

Safety Tips 1. Start slowly. Warm up before stretching by moving around a bit or by walking.

2. Take deep, relaxed breaths while stretching … don’t hold your breath.

3. Be Patient. You may feel stiff and limited at first. It takes time to see an increase in flexibility and range of motion.

4. Drink water before, during and after exercising.

Stretches are most effective when done on a daily basis.

Starting your day with a series of stretches will help you stick to a regular schedule. While we can’t stop the effects of time entirely, we can take the time to take steps to improve our quality of life.

Lynda Schoettl, a certified fitness instructor at Jefferson’s Ferry Life Plan Community, is certified in Senior Nutrition and Personal Training, and is a Fall Proof Balance and Mobility Specialist and a Functional Aging Specialist. www.jeffersonsferry. org.

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Q: What further actions, if any, should be taken regarding gun control in New York State?

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1. Government Reform: I stripped convicted public officials of taxpayer-funded pensions. I fought against special interests by voting to close the LLC loophole and I support a limit on outside income for legislators as well as increased disclosure. I will continue to fight for increased transparency to rid the government of corruption.

2. Healthcare for all: Everyone deserves access to healthcare and to decide what is best for their health. I support comprehensive health coverage for all New Yorkers and have cosponsored the New York Health plan which would include a single payer health system to provide affordable healthcare to all New York State residents.

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3. Environment: As the chair of the Assembly LI Sound Task Force, I have pushed to prohibit the use of improper disposal of dangerous fertilizers, pesticides and emerging contaminants to protect our aquifers and our drinking water. I serve on the Environmental Conservation committee to ensure bills that protect our environment are brought to the floor. New Yorkers can count on me to always protect and preserve our natural resources.

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A: - no responseQ: What is your position on women’s reproductive rights?

A: - no responseQ: What further actions, if any, should be taken regarding gun control in New York State?

A: - no responseQ: Long Island’s drinking water comes from sole-source aquifers, which are threatened by salt-water intrusion, antiquated septic systems, nitrogen runoff and toxic plumes. What should NYS do to address our right to clean and safe drinking water?

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As chair of the Assembly Long Island Sound Task Force I am pushing to prohibit the improper disposal of dangerous fertilizers, pesticides and emerging contaminants. I have also introduced measures that keep our communities environment front and center. I will continue to find ways to preserve the resiliency of our community.

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ELAINE PHILLIPS (REP) elaine@elainephillips.org

Q: What would be your top three priorities if elected?

A: Affordability—Long Island’s high cost of living hurts families, young people and seniors. I was proud to help stop $3 billion in new taxes this year, and champion middle class tax relief. I want to make the property tax cap permanent, and cut state mandates to lower taxes. Protecting our environment— I was proud to support the historic investment to ensure clean drinking water for Long Island’s future, and deliver $12 million to modernize Nassau’s oldest sewage plant to protect our aquifer and the Long Island Sound. I will continue to safeguard our drinking water by standing up to NYC’s efforts to tap unused wells in Queens, which can cause chemical and saltwater contamination.

LIRR Accountability—I’ve championed increased investment in local highway repair and improvements, and am working to hold the MTA accountable for service lapses, delays and commuter safety. I advocated for $8 million in discounts during Penn Station’s “summer of hell” and demanded a fare freeze until service measurably improves.

Q: What reforms would you propose to strengthen New York

State’s ethics and campaign finance laws and enforcement? Please explain your answer.

A: Restoring confidence in government requires a firm commitment to ending corruption. I proudly voted to strip corrupt public officials of their taxpayer-paid pensions, and to put an end to secret taxpayer-funded settlements in sexual harassment cases involving public officials. I am a strong advocate for term limits for state elected officials in order to bring new ideas and fresh leadership to state government at every level. I voted to support a series of ethics reforms that would increase transparency in government contracting and end pay-to-play, including measures that would require certain appointed public officials to be subject to financial disclosure, restoring comptroller oversight of state contracts, prohibiting certain political appointees from making campaign contributions, and creating a database of all state contracts so taxpayers can see where their tax dollars are being spent.

These efforts will help to restore accountability to our government.

Q: New York State has one of the lowest voter participation rates in the country. What election reforms would you support to improve voter participation? Please explain your answer.

A: I support no-excuse absentee ballots to increase voter participation, and providing adequate funding to local Boards of Elections to smooth voting day operations.

Q: What is your position on women’s reproductive rights?

A: I am pro-choice and believe that decisions about women’s reproductive health should be between a woman and her doctor. I am opposed to a radical proposal that

ANNA KAPLAN (DEM) Anna@AnnaforNYSenate.com

Q: What would be your top three priorities if elected?

A: Gun violence prevention.

Reproductive Health Act. Education.

Q: What reforms would you propose to strengthen New York State’s ethics and campaign finance laws and enforcement? Please explain your answer.

A: We need to close the LLC loophole, limit outside income and eliminate the use of campaign funds for criminal defense costs.

Corruption is rampant in New York

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threatens women ‘s health by allowing late term abortions and permitting abortions to be performed by non-doctors.

Q: What further actions, if any, should be taken regarding gun control in New York State?

A: Gun violence is one of the most serious problems of our time, and I support common sense and reasonable restrictions on gun ownership that serve to protect public safety. I sponsored the landmark new law that protects victims of domestic violence by ensuring that abusers do not have access to guns. I voted in favor of “red flag” protections to keep guns away from those who represent extreme risk of violence, and co-sponsor legislation to ban the manufacture, sale and possession on bump stock devices. I support stronger

background checks for the purchase of guns, and believe that the state must invest in improved mental health services at schools and in the community to identify and prevent potentially violent actions.

We also need to provide additional resources for security and safety at schools.

Q: Long Island’s drinking water comes from sole-source aquifers, which are threatened by saltwater intrusion, antiquated septic systems, nitrogen runoff and toxic plumes. What should New York State do to address our right to clean and safe drinking water?

A: I was proud to support historic investment in protecting Long Island’s groundwater through the Clean Water Infrastructure Act. In addition, I was pleased to provide additional funding to modernize

a major wastewater plant in my district to protect the Long Island, other surface water and drinking water supplies from sewage and other contaminant. I led an effort to provide resources to allow a major investigation into groundwater contamination by saltwater intrusion. I was responsible for both Senate recommendations to a new state panel that is studying ways to regulate chemical contamination in our drinking water. I proposed and passed legislation that would prevent NYC from reopening longshuttered wells that rely on Long Island’s groundwater supply, and increase the risk of chemical and other contaminants entering the water supply for Nassau County residents.

and unfortunately, the Ethics Committee, which my opponent chairs, met only once over the past 2 years and not a single reform has been passed by the Senate.

Q: New York State has one of the lowest voter participation rates in the country. What election reforms would you support to improve voter participation? Please explain your answer.

A: The voting laws in New York are abysmal and significant changes need to be made. Noexcuse absentee voting, same day registration and early registration are just part of the way we can improve voter accessibility and efficiency.

Q: What is your position on women’s reproductive rights?

A: I am in support of the Reproductive Health Act and CCCA. Given the threat of a Supreme Court nominee who could overturn or scale back Roe v. Wade, we need to ensure our state laws codify Roe v. Wade and protect New York women’s access to reproductive healthcare.

Q: What further actions, if any, should be taken regarding gun control in New York State?

A: We need to pass the Red Flag bill, ban bump stocks and extend the wait period to seven days.

Aside from that, we really need dedicate funds for a robust study

into gun violence, it’s causes and the best ways to prevent it. Gun violence is a public health issue and needs to be treated as such.

Q: Long Island’s drinking water comes from sole-source aquifers, which are threatened by salt-water intrusion, antiquated septic systems, nitrogen runoff and toxic plumes. What should New York State do to address our right to clean and safe drinking water?

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Simple ways to kick bad habits Educating oneself about the consequences of unhealthy behaviors, such as smoking, may compel people to overcome their bad habits.

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ad habits run the gamut, from the relatively innocuous, such as biting one’s nails, to the potentially deadly, such as smoking tobacco.

As much as people may strive to avoid bad habits, few people may say they don’t have at least one.

A 2015 60 Minutes/ Vanity Fair poll found that people tend to be more judgmental of themselves than others when it comes to bad habits. Nearly seven in

not, having someone along to praise your successes and discourage you from falling back into bad habits can make overcoming certain behaviors that much easier.

10 Americans admitted they judge themselves more than they judge other people. Men and women who are hard on themselves when it comes to their bad habits may want to try some of the following techniques to break those behaviors.

Employ the buddy system. Men and women who aspire to lose weight often stay motivated by exercising alongside a friend or family member and/or encouraging their families to adopt certain dietary changes. The buddy system also can be employed when trying to break bad habits. Whether a partner, family member or friend is trying to break the same bad habit or

Try something new. When trying to quit a bad habit, having something to do in its place can help. For example, men and women who want to spend less time staring at their devices or watching television can benefit from finding something healthy to do in the hours they would normally be spending online or on the couch. For example, adults may find joining a recreational sports league gets them out of the house on weeknights when they would otherwise be sitting at home watching television. Replacing something that’s perceived as a negative habit or behavior with one that’s considered positive can provide the motivation necessary to kick a bad habit.

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Finding hope caring for Reduce exposure Alzheimer’s sufferers to harmful VOCs Continued from Page 38 would see all the lists he made with literally thousands of names of big league players from each team, which position they played and what their batting average was.

That story demonstrated two things.

It shows that we cherish memory a great deal and that we can fool ourselves into thinking we have dementia when in fact we do not.

Our brains are designed to forget about 90 percent of input within 18 seconds. If not for this our minds would become hopelessly jumbled up.

“The Mind of a Mnemonist” by the Russian psychologist A.R. Luria is the story of a man who could not forget anything at all and that this incapacitated him in every way.

Alzheimer’s is a dreadful disease that wreaks havoc on too many families but we at least can find some solace in a few great films that address this illness and show us ways to overcome the suffering.

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Protection Agency warns that VOCs consist of gases discharged from solids or liquids that produce shortand long-term health effects.

Notable items that produce VOCs include treated woods, carpeting, building materials, paints, waxes, fabrics, and varnishes. Since people are constantly breathing in air, and whatever is circulating within it, it’s important for individuals to be conscious of these common offenders.

VOCs can be dangerous because they may cause everything from minor symptoms of headaches, nausea and stuffy noses to more serious conditions like nervous system problems and kidney and liver damage. Some VOCs are known to cause cancer in humans, warns the EPA. To reduce exposure to VOCs, homeowners are advised to take the following steps.

• Read product labels carefully for warnings against VOCs. Whenever possible, select products that do not emit VOCs.

• Invest in alternative products, such as all-natural cleaning solutions.

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• Use an air purifier in conjunction with HVAC systems. Purchase an air purifier that specifically filters out odors and VOCs, which can help people with chemical sensitivities.

• Use a shed rather than an attached garage to store gas cans, pesticides, paint thinners, and other odoriferous materials away from the home. Contact the municipal waste department to learn how to properly dispose of leftover chemical products.

• Rethink flooring materials to include carpeting that is low VOC or alternatives such as washable rugs or hard flooring.

• Don’t forget to fill a home with plenty of live plants. A study from researchers at NASA found that certain indoor plants are effective at naturally purifying air.

• Exercise caution with dry-cleaned clothes. Perchloroethylene is a chemical most widely used in dry cleaning. Air out dry-cleaned clothes before wearing them, particularly if they have strong chemical odors.

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Flowers, nature focus Gibbons brings blues of new art exhibits tour to Huntington November will bring three new exhibitions to the!b. j. spoke gallery in Huntington,!two solo exhibits and a gallery members’ exhibit,! that! will be on display and open to the public from Tuesday, Oct. 30 to Wednesday, Nov. 28. !

Artist J. Lefsky, whose exhibit is called “Floral Abstractions,”! says the following about her work: “I was born and raised in New York City, and painting has always been a very important part of my life. !After making the move from Brooklyn 18 years ago to Long Island, I have found the difference in my environment inspiring.! My paintings, I believe, are powerful expressions of the beauty of my surroundings — closeup and boldly colorful. !I try to fill them with the tremendous joy I feel being able to witness this splendor in the gardens and fields of Long Island.”

About “Delighting in Nature,” the second solo exhibit, photographer Steven Finch said, “Although a musician and conductor by profession, I have another passion — photographing nature.! I have always been fascinated by the relationship between the two art forms: rhythm, color, mood, contrast and meaning. !Being in nature, seeing its movement, its ever-changing light and moods inspires me in much the same way as conducting a great work of music does. The challenge of both is to convey to the viewer or listener the love and delight I have found in both art forms.”!

“The images in this exhibition were taken over the last twenty years,” Finch added.

“They capture Rocky Mountain landscapes and flower close-ups; birds and scenes around a lake in Wisconsin’s north woods; and eastern seaboard locations from Massachusetts, to Long Island and the Georgia coast.”

The third gallery room reflects the remaining cooperative members’ art created in many styles and media. The artists

in this exhibit include:!Richard Anello, archival digital painter;! John A. Bell, found metal constructions;!Phyllis Baron, abstract painter;! Katherine Criss, surreal painter/ photographer;! Lorraine Carol, abstract painter;! Liz Ehrlichman, painter;! Barbara Grey, watercolor painter and collagist;! Chris Greene, realistic painter and cartoonist;! Simon Hickey, wood sculptor and ink drawings;!Karen Kirshner, abstract painter;! Kevin Larkin, abstract painter;! J. Lefsky, abstract painter;!Lee Ann Lindgren, photographer;! Lili Maglione, realistic and abstract paintings;! Dianne Marxe, bronze sculptor;!Nicolette Pach, fabric panels;!Gia Schifano, realistic painter;! Cindy Shechter, landscape painter; and! Constance Wain, painter and printer.

The artists will convene at a reception on Saturday, Nov. 10, from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m., at the!b. j. spoke gallery,!299 Main St. in Huntington.

For more information about the exhibitions and event, call the gallery at 631-5495106 or go to www.bjspokegallery.org.

a vocalist, his down and dirty growl is unmistakable; he sounds ominous and mirthful at the same time, as in hits such as “La Grange,” “Sharp Dressed Man” and “Cheap Sunglasses.”!

Gibbons, along with! Matt Sorum, a drummer, percussionist and former member of Guns N’ Roses, and musician Austin Hanks, will take the stage at The Paramount on Sunday, Oct. 28 at 8 p.m., with their “Big Bad Blues Tour.”

Fans can get tickets by going to www. paramountny.com.

The Paramount is located at 370 New York Ave. in Huntington.

‘Grey Gardens’ returns to Cinema Arts Centre Jerry Torre, author of “The Marble Faun of Grey Gardens: A Memoir of the Beales, the Maysles Brothers, and Jacqueline Kennedy,” will return to the Cinema Arts Centre on Monday, Oct. 29 at 7 p.m., to discuss his book along with!a special screening of “That Summer,” the prequel to the Maysles brothers’ iconic documentary, “Grey Gardens.”

In the summer of 1972, Lee Radziwill, socialite and sister of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, asked photographer Peter Beard to help her make a film about her childhood on Long Island. Radziwill’s eccentric cousins, Edith Bouvier Beale and her mother Edith Ewing Bouvier, then became the focus of the project.

Three years before the Maysles’ landConcertos inspired the 1938 composi- mark documentary introduced the world to tion, commissioned in celebration of the the Beales, the mother-daughter duo living 30th anniversary of Robert and Mildred in a decaying dream world on Long Island, Beard chronicled life at their crumbling esBill.

The performance will begin at 8 p.m. tate.

This long-lost footage, featuring glimpson the Westermann Stage in the Concert Hall at Adelphi’s Performing Arts Center. es of luminaries like Andy Warhol, Mick Tickets are on sale for $25. Discounts Jagger, and Truman Capote, is assembled available to seniors, students and alumni. into “That Summer,” a one-of-a-kind family Information is available at the Lucia portrait bursting with the loving squabbles, and Steven N. Fischer Box Office at 516- quotable bon mots, and impromptu musi877-4000. Regular box office hours are cal numbers that would make Big and Little Tuesday through Friday, from 1 to 6 p.m. Edie beloved cultural icons.

In “The Marble Faun of Grey Gardens,” The box office is also open two hours before most scheduled performances. Torre writes about his teenage days as careTicket sales and additional information taker of Grey Gardens, the now-celebrated mansion chronicled in these documentaries are also available online.

Adelphi Orchestra to perform on Oct. 26 Adelphi University’s Symphony Orchestra, under the direction of Christopher Lyndon Gee, brings to the stage Haydn’s trio of linked Symphonies Nos. 6-8, subtitled “Morning,” “Noon,” and “Evening,” on Friday, Oct. 26.

These works, written during first days of his employment by the Esterhazy court in 1761, provide for a stunningly virtuosic experience for both the audience and the performers, as Haydn has composed music in the Baroque style that features virtually all of the sections of the orchestra.

The program is rounded out by a remarkable contrasting work, Strawinksy’s Dumbarton Oaks. Bach’s Brandenburg

With his signature beard and African headgear, Billy Gibbons is instantly recognizable. He’s best known as the centerpiece and one third of ZZ Top, the band that came together in 1969 and has stayed part of the American musical landscape ever since — the longest running major rock band still composed of its original members. !

Gibbons and bandmates Dusty Hill and Frank Beard were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2004, most appropriately by longtime friend Keith Richards of the Rolling Stones.

His!singular look notwithstanding, Gibbons is even more notable for having been recognized as one of the most inventive and dexterous guitarists of the rock era. He is widely regarded as one of the world’s finest guitarists working in the blues-rock realm.

ZZ Top’s sound owes much to his uncanny knack to squeeze unheard of sounds out of the electric guitar that resonate with the blues, pop, R&B, country, gospel, western, hillbilly and West African influences that coalesced when rock and roll was born.

Gibbons’ almost subconscious awareness of this heritage makes his an approach that is, at once, innovative and authentic. As

and two feature-length films, including the HBO drama starring Drew Barrymore and Jessica Lange.

The book, co-written with film historian Tony Maietta, is a behind-the-scenes look at the Beales and their bizarre and reclusive life of squalor amidst the tremendous wealth of East Hampton, the family bond Torre developed with the Beales, and the day everything was turned upside down forever with the arrival of documentary filmmakers Albert and David Maysles.

The screening of “That Summer” and! reception with Torre and Maietta, which includes a signed copy of their book, are part of the Cinema Art Centre’s Real to Reel series. ! Tickets are $40 for members and $50 for the general public.

To purchase tickets in advance, go to www.cinemaartscentre.org.

The Cinema Arts Centre is located at 423 Park Ave. in Huntington.

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THE CULINARY ARCHITECT

Making my favorite birthday meal If I had a dollar for every time someone asks me, “What is your favorite meal?”… This year for my birthday, I decided that instead of going out, I would make my own favorite meal.

Considering that all the work would be done by me, I also took into account a few shortcuts.

Starting off the meal with a platter of mozzarella, burratta and proscuitto is easy, make-ahead ready, and a delicious way to start off the evening.

Speaking of mozzarella and burrata, I just adore the freshness and creaminess of Maplebrook Farm’s cheeses from Bennington, Vt. Contact them at www.maplebrookvt.com, 802-440-9950. Follow this with My Favorite Baked Artichokes, a take-off of one of Frank Sinatra’s favorite dishes.

From the time I was 8 years old, Zuppa de Clams has always been my most requested dish growing up. Knowing that not everyone likes clams, I make my homemade turkey “meat” sauce and serve both — the clams as one choice and the “meat” sauce as another with linguini on the side.

Finish off the meal with bread to soak up all the deliciousness.

What would be a celebration without a cake? Just add a store bought favorite cake and you have

a feast. Make one or all of these dishes and you are going to enjoy a delectable meal whether you are celebrating or just enjoying a delicious meal with friends and family.

Menu (Serves 6) Mozzarella, burratta and proscuitto* My Favorite Artichokes Zuppa de Clams Turkey “meat” sauce* Linguini* Bread* Cake* *Recipe Not Given My Favorite Artichokes 3 large artichokes, cleaned, trimmed and rubbed with lemon to prevent discoloration 1 lemon, halved 1 1/2 cups homemade bread crumbs or store bought Italian 1/2 cup plus 1/4 cup grated parmesan cheese (a total of 3/4 of cheese) Salt and pepper to taste Drizzle fine quality olive oil 1. Put 1-inch of water in a heavybottomed casserole, enough to hold the artichokes in a single layer. Add the artichokes, stem side down, drizzle with oil.

2. Equally disperse bread crumbs between the three artichokes.

Sprinkle with 1/2 cup of cheese.

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3. Cover and bring to a simmer over high heat. Lower heat and allow artichokes to gently steam for about 45 minutes or until the artichoke bottoms are soft when pierced with a sharp knife.

4. Using tongs, carefully remove artichokes from water, reserving pan juices. Pour pan juices into six individual ramekins. (These will be used for dipping when eating the artichoke leaves.)

5. Place artichokes on a pan and sprinkle remaining 1/4 cup of parmesan cheese on artichokes.

Place artichokes under a broiler set to the highest temperature and broil until golden brown. (Do not walk away as all broilers are different and you do not want to burn the artichokes.) Serve on a platter with ramekins of broth for dipping on the side.

Zuppa de Clams (Adapted from my childhood memories) 1/8 cup best quality olive oil 6 garlic cloves, peeled and smashed 1/2 onion, finely chopped 2 anchovies, chopped (this adds a special depth to the sauce, but may be omitted) 8 oz. clam stock (homemade or store bought) 8 oz. white wine 1 25 oz. can crushed tomatoes 4 dozen clams, scrubbed and cleaned 1. In a Dutch oven pot, heat olive oil over medium heat. Add garlic and onion and saute until soft, approximately 5-10 minutes. Add anchovies and continue sauteing for 5 minutes.

2. Add white wine, clam stock and tomatoes, stir to combine. Bring to a boil, then turn down to a simmer. (You may simmer this for

10 minutes to 1 hour, depending on how much time you have. The more it simmers, the more intense the flavor becomes.)

3. Ten minutes before serving, add the clams, toss, cover and cook on medium heat until the clams open.

4. Discard any clams that do not open.

5. I like to serve the clams and sauce by ladling it into soup plates from the pot at the table. Serve bread alongside to soak up all the sauce.

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Classic country comes to Albertson The classic country music of the 1920s through the 1950s — the music of Hank Williams, Jimmie Rodgers, the Carter Family, Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson and more — will be coming to the Shelter Rock Public

Library on Sunday, Nov. 4 at 3 p.m.

Tennessee Walt’s The Other Great American Songbook is a one-man concert featuring two dozen songs from country’s greatest songwriters, the likes of

Kris Kristofferson, Ernest Tubb, Loretta Lynn and Hank Williams, arranged for voice and piano. It’s also an intriguing, factfilled look into what has made country music — and its most prominent descendant, rock

and roll — popular throughout America and beyond.

“Think of it as a cabaret show, except that, instead of voice and piano versions of Tin Pan Alley songs from the 1920s through 1950s, these are Music Row songs of the same period,” said Gayden Wren, the musicaltheater veteran who performs as Tennessee Walt. “From those two streets have come the lion’s share of America’s greatest songs. Both streets were originally dedicated to pop music, music made for a buck, but in the past 20 or 30 years we’ve come to realize the classical aspects of the songs of Jerome Kern, George Gershwin and Rodgers & Hart. I think it’s time we recognized that there’s that same classical essence in the greatest country songs.”

“This isn’t what people may think of when they hear the words `country music,’” Wren

said. “It’s voice and piano, not fiddles and steel guitars, and I won’t be yodeling. And this isn’t the country of Toby Keith or Carrie Underwood — it’s the older, purer country music that inspired them and everybody from Chuck Berry, Buddy Holly and Elvis Presley, to Woody Guthrie, Bob Dylan and Ringo Starr. Anyone who comes to this show will learn some things they never knew about America’s musical heritage, and they’ll hear some of the funniest, most moving and most musically engaging songs ever written.”

The Shelter Rock Public Library is located at 165 Searingtown Road in Albertson.

Admission is free. For further information, call 516-248-7363 or visit www.srpl.org.

For more information on Tennessee Walt’s The Other Great American Songbook, visit tennesseewalt.com.

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Survivor’s account from Port resident The Holocaust Memorial and Tolerance Center of Nassau County will present a program, “From Home to Home to Home: The Courageous Rescue of a Hidden Child,” a book

by Holocaust survivor Gloria Glantz, on Sunday, Oct. 28 at 2 p.m.

Born in Wegrow, Poland in 1939, Glantz had a large, loving family, which included many aunts, uncles, cousins, two older brothers, and grandparents. To save her life, her parents enlisted the help of a simple, righteous Christian family.

In her lifetime, Glantz has lived in four countries and on two continents, so her journey to America was a very circuitous and unusual one. In her professional life as a teacher, she has made it a mission to see that the Holocaust is not forgotten.

A Port Washing-

ton resident and former teacher at the Shelter Rock School in Manhasset, Glantz is the winner of a fellowship from the American Gathering of Jewish Holocaust Survivors, American Federation of Teachers, and Jewish Labor Committee to study the Holocaust and Resistance. She is also the 2002 recipient of The Spirit of Anne Frank Outstanding Educator Award.

The event will take

place on the same day as the Holocaust Museum and Tolerance Center’s 2nd Annual Walk the Tall walkathon, which kicks off on the grounds of Welwyn Preserve at 10:30 a.m. on Oct. 28.

New York State Assemblyman Tony D’Urso will be in attendance with his family as the" Grand Marshal for rescuing a Jewish family in Italy during the Holocaust.

There is a $10 suggested donation to attend “From Home to Home to Home: The Courageous Rescue of a Hidden Child.” Seats are limited so reservations are strongly recommended.

The Holocaust Memorial and Tolerance Center, Welwyn Preserve, is located at 100 Crescent Beach Road in Glen Cove.

To RSVP, call 516-5718040 x107 or email info@ hmtcli.org.

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41. Naturally occurring solid material 42. Promotional material 43. Beer mug 44. Nostrils 46. Very rich 49. Atomic number 10 50. Not even 51. Pulls apart 55. City in western Finland 58. Wing shaped 59. Paddling 60. Player 64. Japanese classical theater 65. S-shaped lines 66. Coined for one occasion 67. Pitching stat 68. “M” actor 69. Some are noble 70. Lair

1. Places to eat 2. Marketplace 3. Unoriginality 4. Administrative officials 5. Female sheep and a loch in Scotland 6. Something to drill for 7. Midway between north and northeast 8. Cassia tree 9. Founder of medical pathology 10. Long-legged wading bird 11. __ and goers 12. Go quickly 13. Used to cut and shape wood 19. Small island (British) 21. Dry or withered 24. “Last of the Mohicans” actress 25. Manufacturers need one 26. Tidal bore 27. Makes free of moisture

31. Semitic titles 32. Inappropriate 34. Gregory __, US dancer 35. -__, denotes past 36. Makes nicer 40. Indicates position 41. Made a priest 45. Sixth month of Jewish calendar 47. One who refrains 48. Type of top 52. Pay increase 53. Curved shape 54. Keeping down 56. Sleep sound 57. Tiny Iranian village 59. Only one time 60. Elected official 61. Before the present 62. Genus of grasses 63. Autonomic nervous system

NYCB THEATRE AT WESTBURY 960 Brush Hollow Road, Westbury (516) 247-5205 • www.thetheatreatwestbury.com Friday, Oct. 26, 8 p.m.

Whoopie Goldberg Saturday, Oct. 27, 8 p.m.

Take Me to the River Live with the Dirty Dozen Brass Band and More THE PARAMOUNT 370 New York Ave., Huntington (631) 673-7300 • www.paramountny.com Friday, Oct. 26, 8 p.m.

Rumours of Fleetwood Mac — 40 Years of Rumours Sunday, Oct. 28, 8 p.m.

Billy Gibbons Wednesday, Oct. 31, 8 p.m.

Machine Head Thursday, Nov. 1, 8 p.m.

Little River Band THE SPACE AT WESTBURY 250 Post Ave., Westbury (516) 283-5566 • www.thespaceatwestbury.com Friday, Oct. 26, 8 p.m.

The Allmost Brothers Band: Allman Brothers Tribute and Half Step: Grateful Dead Tribute Sunday, Oct. 27, 9 p.m.

Haunted Halloween Party Thursday, Oct. Nov. 1, 8 p.m.

The Wood Brothers with special guest Nicole Atkins MY FATHERS PLACE AT THE ROSLYN HOTEL 1221 Old Northern Blvd., Roslyn (516) 413-3535 • www.myfathersplace.com Friday, Oct. 26, 8 p.m.

Richie Furay Saturday, Oct. 27, 8 p.m.

Stanton Anderson Band Sunday, Oct. 28, 3 p.m.

Broadway Brunch LANDMARK ON MAIN STREET 232 Main St., Port Washington (516) 767-1384 • www.landmarkonmainstreet.co Friday, Oct. 26, 8 p.m.

Parsonsfield & Sawyer Fredericks Monday, Oct. 29, 7 p.m.

HEARTS Master Class Series GOLD COAST ARTS CENTER 113 Middle Neck Road, Great Neck (516) 829-2570 • www.goldcoastarts.org 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. 27, 2 p.m.

Children’s Theatre: “The Rainbow Fish” Sunday, Oct. 28, 3 p.m.

The Knights: Leonard Bernstein and Walt Whitman, American Originals ADELPHI UNIVERSITY PERFORMING ARTS CENTER 1 South Ave., Garden City (516) 877-4000 • www.pacadelphi.edu Friday, Oct. 26, 8 p.m.

Adelphi Symphony Orchestra Sunday, Oct. 28, 3 p.m.

Greater Nassau Chorus Tuesday, Oct. 30 through Sunday, Nov. 4 (check website for daily showtimes) “The Rimers of Eldritch” by Lanford Wilson MADISON THEATRE AT MOLLOY COLLEGE 1000 Hempstead Ave., Rockville Centre (516) 323-4444 • www.madisontheatreny. com Saturday, Oct. 27, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Halloween Family Fun Fest Saturday, Oct. 27, 2 p.m. and 8 p.m. and Sunday, Oct. 28 at 3 p.m.

“Nine: The Musical” HOFSTRA UNIVERSITY 1000 Fulton Ave., Hempstead (800) 463-7872 • www.hofstra.edu Friday, Oct. 26 and Saturday, Oct. 27, 8 p.m., and Sunday, Oct. 28, 2 p.m. (same times Nov. 2 through 4) “Into the Woods” At the Joan and Donald Schaeffer Black Box Theater, Joseph G. Shapiro Family Hall, South Campus. Ongoing performances through Oct. 14. For tickets, go to university website or call number above.

NASSAU COUNTY MUSEUM OF ART 1 Museum Drive, Roslyn Harbor (516) 484-9338 • www.nassaumuseum.org Sunday, Oct. 28, 1 p.m. to 4 p.m.

Family Sundays at the Museum: Super Family Sunday — Enchanted Forest Sunday, Oct. 28, 4 p.m.

The Sound of Color iSchool Chamber Symphony led by maestro Yi Qian SANDS POINT PRESERVE CONSERVANCY/HEMPSTEAD HOUSE 127 Middle Neck Road, Sands Point (516) 571-7901 • www.sandspointpreserve. org Friday, Oct. 26 through Wednesday, Oct. 31, 7 p.m. to 10:30 p.m.

Hempstead House Haunt: Vampyres’ Lair Saturday, Oct. 27, 7 p.m. to 11:55 p.m.

The Halloween Ball Sunday, Oct. 28, 2 p.m. to 4 p.m.

Family Halloween Party LONG ISLAND CHILDREN’S MUSEUM 11 Davis Ave., Garden City (516) 224-5800 • www.licm.org Friday, Oct. 26, 11:30 a.m. to 12 p.m.

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A&E Calendar cont’d Children ages 3 to 5. Fee: $5 with museum admission ($4 LICM members).

Saturday, Oct. 27, 6 p.m. to 9 p.m.

Ghostly Gala: Costumes, goody bags, trick-or-treating, face painting, eerie music, creepy crafts and Bubble Trouble performances at 6:15, 7 and 7:45 p.m.

For children of all ages. Ghostly Gala admission: $12; $10 LICM members.

Additional feel for Bubble Trouble show ($4 with Ghostly Gala admission; $3 LICM members with Ghostly Gala admission).

CINEMA ARTS CENTRE 423 Park Ave., Huntington (631) 423-7611 • www.cinemaartscentre.org Wednesday, Oct. 31, 7 p.m.; film screening, 7:30 p.m.

Free Halloween Party and Screening of John Carpenter’s “Halloween” BOOK REVUE 313 New York Ave., Huntington (631) 271-1442 • www.bookrevue.com Sunday, Oct. 28, 1 p.m.

Author Alice McDermott, “The Ninth Hour” Monday, Oct. 29, 7 p.m.

Author Marie Unanue, “The Adventures of Phatty and Payaso” Tuesday, Oct. 30, 7 p.m.

Authors Jason Segel and Kirsten Miller, “OtherEarth” THE DOLPHIN BOOKSHOP AND CAFE 299 Main St., Port Washington (516) 767-2650 • www.thedolphinbookshop.com Friday, Oct. 26, 7 p.m. to 9 p.m.

Cafe Music at the Dolphin Saturday, Oct. 28, 11:30 a.m.

Children’s Story Time and Craft, “How to Scare a Ghost” BARNES AND NOBLE 1542 Northern Blvd., Manhasset and 91 Old Country Road, Carle Place (516) 365-6723 (Manhasset); (516) 7419850 (Carle place) • www.barnesandnoble.com Saturday, Oct. 27, 11 a.m.

“How to Scare a Ghost” Story Time TURN OF THE CORKSCREW BOOKS AND WINE 110 N. Park Ave., Rockville Centre

(516) 764-6000 • www.turnofthecorkscrew.com Monday, Oct. 29, 7 p.m. to 9 p.m.

Author Tzivia Gover, “The Mindful Way to a Good Night’s Sleep: Discover How to Use Dreamwork, Meditation, and Journaling to Sleep Deeply and Wake Up Well” 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”

COLD SPRING HARBOR FISH HATCHERY & AQUARIUM 1660 Rte. 25A, Cold Spring Harbor (516) 692-6768 • www.cshfishhatchery. org Saturday, Oct. 27, 2 p.m. to 5 p.m.

Haunted Hatchery Join this Halloween celebration, wear a costume and receive a trick or treat. $6 adults; $4 kids ages 3 to 12 and seniors 65 and up; under age 3 and members are free.

AMERICAN AIRPOWER MUSEUM 1230 New Highway, Farmingdale (631) 293-6398 • www.americanairpowermuseum.org

Sunday, Oct. 28, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Haunted Hangar!

There will be a scavenger hunt with treats, a Best Costume contest, Haunted Bomber tours, rides on the Travesty Tram, face painting, ghosts and ghouls. $12 adults; $10 kids ages 5 to 12, seniors an veterans.

CRADLE OF AVIATION MUSEUM Charles Lindbergh Blvd, Garden City, (516) 572-4111 • www.cradleofaviation.org Monday, Oct. 29, 7 p.m.

Science Night Live: Film screening of “2001: A Space Odyssey” (1968) and discussion with producer Jan Harlan This event is free, but seating is limited.

HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL AND TOLERANCE CENTER OF NASSAU COUNTY 100 Crescent Beach Road, Glen Cove (516) 571-8040 • www.hmtcli.org Sunday, Oct. 28, 9:30 a.m.

2nd Annual Walk the Talk Sunday, Oct. 28, 2 p.m.

Author Talk: “From Home to Home: The Courageous Rescue of a Hidden Child”

by Gloria Glantz PLANTING FIELDS ARBORETUM 1395 Planting Fields Road, Oyster Bay (516) 922-8678 • www.plantingfields.org Friday, Oct. 26 and Saturday, Oct. 27, 7 p.m. to 9:30 p.m.

Haunted Halloween Nights at Coe Hall Saturday, Oct. 27 and Sunday, Oct. 28, 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 Sunday, Oct. 28, 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Haunted Wail-ing Boo-seum For all ages. $12 per adult/$6 per child.

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Howling good time at Ghostly gala

‘Music of the Night’ The seventh season of Stephen C. Widom Cultural Arts at Emanuel continues on Tuesday, Oct. 30 at 7:30 p.m., when Thomas Stallone and Janice Weir offer songs from “Phantom of the Opera” and “Les Miserable,” in addition to many other Broadway, opera and operetta favorites.

Admission is free; donations are welcome. Call 516-482-5701 for further information, to receive the 2018-19 SCW Cultural Arts booklet, and to learn about discounts for the SCW Sunday subscription series.

Temple Emanuel of Great Neck is located at 150 Hicks Lane in Great Neck.

Vampires in bubbles? Football players in a tool box? A flock of fairy princess in Feast for Beasts? What’s going on?

It’s Halloween at the Long Island Children’s Museum, with the 17th annual Ghostly Gala set to take place on Saturday, Oct. 27 from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m., a special after-hours event.

Children of all ages — and accompanying adults, too — can enjoy a night at the museum in their!most creative and dazzling costumes and celebrate Halloween in a fun, safe and spooky (but not scary) way.

The mood will be just right for gallery trick-or-treating, as creepy music plays throughout the museum and children decorate their own scaredy cat treat bags.

During the night, visitors can get their faces painted, make spooky craft projects like a ghost rocket, mummy necklace, and a witchy broomstick puppet.

Kids will be spellbound in the Witch’s Kitchen, as they touch and guess the contents in each of the witch’s creepy caul-

drons. They will also make a silly themed snack to end their night.

As a special treat, master bubbleologist Jeff Boyer will create mesmerizing creations including a bubble volcano and bubble roller coaster.

Boyer will take bubbles to a Halloween max in this one-man bubble extravaganza. Separate theater tickets are required for his Bubble Trouble show and are priced at $4 ($3 for LICM members).

Showtimes are 6:15 p.m., 7 p.m., 7:45 p.m. and 8:30 p.m.

Tickets for the Ghostly Gala are $12 for the general public and $10 for LICM members and can be purchased online at www.licm.org/ghostly!or at the museum box office.

The Long Island Children’s Museum is located at 11 Davis Ave. in Garden City.

For the safety of visitors, adults are not permitted in the museum without children, and museum visitors under 18 years of age must be accompanied by an adult at all times.

For additional information, contact 516-224-5800.

Community Calendar UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST CONGREGATION AT SHELTER ROCK 48 Shelter Rock Road, Manhasset (516) 627-6560 • www.uucsr.org Thursdays, 6 p.m. to 7 p.m.

Yo Fit Seniors! Fitness and Yoga Inspired Group Exercise Every Thursday this season except Nov. 22 and Dec. 27. Members: $5 per class; nonmembers: $7 per class) Sunday, Oct. 28, 1 p.m. to 2:30 p.m.

Fall Newcomer Orientation Wednesday, Oct. 31, 7:30 p.m.

Inisfada Zen Sitting Meditation 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.corpuschristi-mineola.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.

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

His Boy Elroy Saturday, Oct. 27, 7 p.m.

Los Bad Hombres 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.

TEMPLE BETH SHOLOM 401 Roslyn Road, Roslyn Heights (516) 621-2288 • www.tbsroslyn.org Saturday, Oct. 27, 10:45 a.m.

Mini Minyan CAUMSETT STATE HISTORIC PARK PRESERVE 25 Lloyd Harbor Road, Huntington (631) 423-1770 Saturday, Oct. 27, 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Fall Seasonal Stroll On this approximately 1.5-mile walk, you will observe seasonal changes and savor autumn’s colorful splendor. Bring drinking water. Admission is $4. Reservations are required by calling 631-423-1770.

NORTHWELL’S CENTER FOR WELLNESS AND INTEGRATIVE MEDICINE 1500 Old Northern Blvd., Roslyn (516) 858-3095 • www.northwellhealth.edu/ integrativemedicine Saturday, Oct. 27 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.

Thursday, Nov. 1, 7 p.m. to 9:30 p.m.

Remembrance Ceremony: Honoring and Remembering Those Who Have Passed Join together to co-create a meaningful opportunity to grieve, celebrate and remember our loved ones. $60; $50 for Northwell exployees. Register online at www.northwell. edu/integrativemedicine.

HARRY CHAPIN LAKESIDE THEATRE AT EISENHOWER PARK Stewart and Merrick Aves., Field 6/6A, East Meadow (631) 423-1770 Saturday, Oct. 27, 1 p.m. to 4 p.m.

Nassau Barkfest: L.I.’s Free Pet Costume Contest and Parade BROOKVILLE CHURCH AND MULTIFAITH CAMPUS 2 Brookville Road, Glen Head (516) 626-0414 • www.brookvillechurch.com Saturday, Oct. 27, 4 p.m. to 6:30 p.m.

Kids 4 Kids Coffeehouse Concert: “Brookville’s Broadway” Youth will cook, serve a 6-course dinner, and provide entertainment. There is no admission fee; funds will be raised from a silent auction, raffles and food sales to send under-served kids to an 8-week summer camp in Glen Cove.

FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH 182 First St., Mineola

Saturday, Oct. 27, 7 p.m.

Michael English in Concert Refreshments will be served, 6 to 7 p.m. Concert starts promptly at 7 p.m. Tickets are $35 per person by going to www.michaelenglish. brownpapertickets.com.

LAMOTTA’S DOCKSIDE RESTAURANT AND BAR 10 Matinecock Ave., Port Washington (516) 944-7900 • www.lamottas.net Saturday, Oct. 27 and Sunday, Oct. 28, 7:30 p.m. to 12 a.m.

Halloween State Park WINTHROP WELLNESS PAVILION 1300 Franklin Ave., Suite ML-5, Garden City (516) 663-3916 • www.parks.ny.gov Wednesday, Oct. 31, 1 p.m. to 3 p.m.

Breastfeeding Support Group Sessions are free, but pre-registration is required by calling 516-663-2556.

Friday, Nov. 9, 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.

NYU WINTHROP RESEARCH & ACADEMIC CENTER 101 Mineola Blvd., Mineola (866) 946-8476 • www.nyuwinthrop.org Thursday, Nov. 1, 7 p.m.

Perspectives in Health: Help with GERD (Acid Reflux) — Medical and Surgical Options Session is free, but registration is required by calling 516-663-3916.

Saturday, Nov. 3, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Cancer Awareness and Education Day Sessions are free, but registration is required by calling 516-663-8300 or going to www. nyulangone.org/cancerrsvp.

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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:

Transcription by Kate Atkinson Summer at the Garden Cafe

by Felicity Hayes-McCoy Golden State by Lydia Kiesling Every Day is Extra by John Kerry Fear by Bob Woodward

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.

HAPPY HALLOWEEN FOR CHILDREN 1 1/2 TO 5 YEARS OLD Monday, Oct. 31, 1:30 p.m. In the Assembly Room of Village Hall.

Sign up at the Circulation Desk.

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

HALLOWEEN MOVIE, CRAFT AND SNACK Wednesday, Oct. 31 at 11 a.m.

Wear your Halloween costume.

PINKALICIOUS THE MUSICAL Saturday, Oct. 27 at 2 p.m.

Sign up your family at the library.

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.

NOTARY 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 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 Wiz-

ard, 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.

THEATRICAL PERFORMANCE: “ANY FRIEND OF PERCY D’ANGELINO IS A FRIEND OF MINE” Saturday, Oct. 27, 2 p.m.

This side-splitting comedy begins with a mysterious stranger arriving at the Long Island estate owned by a renowned mob boss.

Why is “Tony” there? Hilarious

antics lead to the discovery that he is a soap opera star signed to play Frankie in a feature film.

Laughs abound as he coaches Tony on how to play him. Fully staged with scripts in hand. Starring John Torres, Alexandra Thomas & Peter Goike III. EastLine Abroad Library Productions.

Written by Jason Milligan.

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 supplies 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 techniques 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.

HEALTHY LIVING FOR YOUR BRAIN AND BODY Wednesday, Nov. 7, 11:30 a.m.

Learn how to delay the onset of cognitive decline and have your brain and body age well.

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

Wheatley entrepreneur meets with CVS One of the priorities identified by the East Williston School District community for the next Five Year Strategic Plan is real world learning. As they begin to work on action plans to translate this priority into program implementation, ideas that have been discussed include guest speakers from the professional world, internships, and class and student projects that involve students applying the skills they learn to authentic projects.

Manan Shukla is not only a Wheatley senior who has participated in the Business Entre-

preneurship class and Capstone Research project, he is an entrepreneur who has filed several patents for his five inventions and created a startup company, Adherety, that he hopes will improve health outcomes across the country.

Manan identified a significant problem found in the current healthcare system: physicians cannot treat their patients most effectively because they lack accurate patient information to make proper decisions.

This manifests itself in particular with patients who do not ac-

curately report their medication intake. More specifically, Manan’s device tackles the problem in which patients do not take their medication—something that results in over $300 billion dollars in healthcare waste and millions of patients entering the emergency rooms due to avoidable life-threatening complications.

As a result, Manan created a smart pill dispenser that uses IoT cloud connectivity to not only quantify patient behaviors and determine medication usage, but can also send this in-

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Manan Shukla with his smart pill dispenser

formation to their physician so that patient treatment is based on objective data rather than inaccurate reporting. What makes his technology novel is that it costs less than a quarter, making it affordable for all patients.

This past summer, Manan was invited to meet the CEO of CVS to present his healthcare technology to the executive board of CVS Health. In addition, he will be meeting the COO of Walgreens and has garnered interest by Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway, and JP Morgan’s health initiative.

Herricks tackles leukemia

Meadow Dr. raises $2,800 for JDRF The Meadow Drive School community, part of the Mineola Union Free School District, raised more than $2,800 this fall for JDRF Walk to Cure Diabetes. The JDRF walk is held annually and has become an in-

ternational effort, raising nearly $5 billion for researching a cure and supporting the Type 1 Diabetes community. Several Meadow staff members and students participated in the official JDRF walk in October.

Herricks Football and Youth Against Cancer joined together to battle Leukemia. Together they raised $1,809 for Memorial Sloan Kettering’s Pediatric Cancer Division. The event, Herricks Tackles Leukemia, took place at the home football game versus MacArthur High School on Saturday, Oct. 13. The students sold orange bracelets throughout the week, Youth Against Cancer ran a bake sale and the Herricks Athletic Boosters donated all of their concession stand money to support the cause. Searingtown student Anjali Kumar served as an honorary captain for the game.

Inspiration served at Herricks

Mineola Chamber hosts Messina The Mineola Chamber of Commerce was proud to have Maggie Messina, President of USA Tae Cole TaeKwanDo, Inc., Author and Entrepreneur at the October 2018 dinner meeting. ! Maggie is the owner of Taecole Tae Kwon Do and Fitness in Albertson. She’s passionate about creating a safe haven where people can learn martial arts and instilling in children values of selfconfidence and hard work.!

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Tuesday evening for dinner at Piccola Bussola Restaurante in Mineola at 6:30. For information on joining, events and upcoming dinner meetings visit the website ay!www.mineolachamber.com

The Herricks Girls Varsity Volleyball Team invited eighth grade girl volleyball players to watch their match against Westbury.

The Herricks Girls Varsity Volleyball Team hosted its inaugural Future Highlander night on Oct. 3, when they invited the eighth-grade girls volleyball players to visit and watch their dou-

ble-header match against Westbury High School. The objective of this opportunity was to get the younger girls excited about playing at the high school and provide them with a firsthand look

at some of the skills that it takes to compete at the next level.

The varsity team had shirts made and had a serving competition as well as a trivia contest. They set a soaring example for their younger peers, taking victories in both matches with scores of 3-0 and 3-1. The team, coached by Tara Krinsky, is currently 9-1 and hoping to take the conference this year.

On Oct. 22 both the girls and boys volleyball teams will be hosting their annual Dig Pink Match to raise funds for the Side Out Foundation; a non-profit organization that aims to research and hopefully cure breast cancer.

The boys team will play Garden City at 4:30 p.m. and the girls will take on Manhasset at 6:30 p.m. There will be baked goods, t-shirts and other items for sale.! For more information, please visit https://giving.sideout.org/campaigns/14990#/

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Winthrop Cancer Center less scary The Cancer Center for Kids at NYU Winthrop Hospital was a spooky place this week as Spirit Halloween, a specialty retailer, hosted a Halloween party for pediatric cancer patients and their families. Costumes, games and crafts were part of the magic to help children transcend above challenging situations for a day of scary fun.

The “Spirit of Children” party was among nearly 100 Halloween parties hosted by Spirit Halloween at pediatric hospitals across the country. The Spirit of Children program also raises funds through customer donations at local stores and online, in addition to contributions from vendors and business partners.

To date, the program has raised more than $510,000 for the Child Life program at the Cancer Center for Kids at NYU Winthrop Hospital. The program is dedicated to helping children understand and cope with the hospital experience including through therapeutic play, arts and crafts, entertainment and other diversions.

“As our young patients face complex challenges, we strive to provide a nurturing environment that promotes healing,” said Mark Weinblatt, MD, Chief of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology at NYU Winthrop and Director of the CCFK. “The Spirit of Children party helped serve that purpose, providing children a wonderful diversion from the rigors of medical treatments.”

Spirit Halloween store volunteers were on hand to stir up a stormy brew of amusing entertainment, which included a ring toss on to a large witch’s hat, pumpkin painting, mask decorating, picking out costumes to don and much more. During the Halloween season in Spirit Halloween stores, customers

ring an iconic purple cowbell each time a donation is made to Spirit of Children as part of its #MoreCowbell initiative.

“We see first-hand how our parties create magic that transcends the kids’ difficult situations and provides a sense of normalcy as families navigate through challenging and heart-wrenching medical situations,” added Steven Silverstein, President and CEO of Spirit Halloween. “Every child should be able to experience the joy of Halloween.”

The Cancer Center for Kids at NYU Winthrop Hospital offers a range of early detection, diagnostic, intervention and treatment services, both inpatient and outpatient, for children’s cancers and blood disorders. Dramatic improvements have been made in pediatric cancer patient survival, with nearly 80 percent of children cured of their malignan-

cies. Conditions treated at the Center include leukemia and lymphomas; bone, soft tissue and brain tumors; hemophilia; sickle cell disease and more.

Spirit Halloween is the largest Halloween specialty retailer in the country with over 1,325 locations in strip centers and malls across North America. Celebrating 35 years of business, Spirit is the premier destination for all things Halloween, offering one-stop shopping for everything from costumes to décor and party goods to accessories.

In addition to being a fun and interactive event for shoppers, Spirit stores offer complete selections of costumes and accessories for infants/toddlers, children, ‘tweens, teens, and adults along with exclusive decor you won’t find anywhere else. For more information, please visit SpiritHalloween.com.

At the heart of Spirit Halloween is Spirit of Children, a program which focuses on making hospitals less scary for kids and their families. Since its inception in 2006, Spirit of Children has raised over $45 million for the Child Life department at hospitals across the country. Donations to Spirit of Children stay within local communities, with 100% of funds going toward a child’s life. For the 2018 Halloween season, Spirit of Children will be supporting 140 partner hospitals across the country, with a goal to raise $9 million.

Spirit encourages customers to help make a difference in a child’s life this Halloween season by donating at their local Spirit Halloween store or spreading awareness via Facebook and Instagram by using #SpiritofChildren and #MoreCowbell in their photos.

For more information, please visit SpiritOfChildren.com.

NYU Winthrop is the Long Island affiliate of NYU Langone Health and is ranked by U.S. News & World Report as one of the top-10 New York metro-area hospitals. The hospital was founded in 1896 by local physicians and concerned citizens and is now a 591-bed medical center and ACS Level 1 Trauma Center. The Hospital features more than 75 divisions of specialty care, offering comprehensive inpatient and outpatient programs and services to address every stage of life. NYU Winthrop also has a Research Institute that conducts robust research and studies that are helping to shape the future of medicine. The Hospital, with ties to New York University, blends the progressive philosophy and advances of a teaching and research institution with a personal approach to patient care that is the cornerstone of the organization.

Institute’s diabetes care program succeeds Parker Jewish Institute’s comprehensive Diabetes Care Program is based on three fundamental principles: educating patients about how to pursue a healthy lifestyle; teaching patients how to follow a diabetic diet; helping patients comply with strict medication schedules from their physicians.

All these principles come together through a system of interdisciplinary collaboration amongst Parker’s team members, resulting in outcomes well above national statistics.

“What distinguishes Parker’s approach to caring for patients with diabetes, is a formalized, interdisciplinary collaborative system,” stated Michael N. Rosenblut, President and CEO of Parker Jewish Institute.

“We have standardized ‘change of shift’ reporting, when Clinical Staff, RNs, Certified Nursing Assistants, Patient Care Technicians and Social Workers, brief their replacements during morning rounds, discussing each patient’s status during the previous night and day,” he added. The latest Electronic Medical Records also allow easy access to patients’ ongoing health histories.

Individualized treatment plans are created, depending on the type of diabetes.

Type 2 Diabetes, occurring later in life, is usually managed with oral medications.

Type 1 Diabetes, afflicting younger patients from infants to pre-teens, requires insulin supplementation because their bodies have

ceased producing insulin. Education is key to each treatment plan’s success.

A person recently diagnosed with diabetes may not be familiar with blood testing. If a rehab patient at Parker is being discharged home, they must be educated to manage blood sugar on their own. The good news is modern diabetes devices and medications have revolutionized self-treatment. Some glucometers are designed for those with visual impairment.

Other user-friendly insulin devices look and work like pens, unlike your standard hypodermic needles. In some cases, injectables and oral doses may only have to be taken once a week.

“Our goal is always self-care and selfmanagement of diabetes,” said Igor Israel, MD, Parker’s Medical Director. “We educate each individual in accordance with their ability. Some have to rely on family members or a care giver, so we teach them as well.” It’s not just checking blood sugar, it’s also learning how to administer insulin; an RN always shows how to properly use a syringe. “They can only be discharged once we feel the patient or care giver is competent enough to draw insulin and inject it safely,” said Susan Costella, RN, Clinical Director of Nursing.

There are other options available, especially for elderly patients at home and unable to care for themselves. Parker At

Home is a new program that dispatches Physicians to assist with ongoing management of diabetes. In addition, AgeWell New York, Parker’s affiliate, arranges for Certified Home Health Aides to visit patients at home for better management of their diabetes, as well as other health care concerns.

Some types of diabetes can be controlled with proper diet and exercise alone.

Initially, Parker tries non-restrictive diets for newly diagnosed patients, which focus on quality of food and overall nutrition, versus strict glycemic control. “Health and wellness of our patients, and/or residents, is a top priority,” said Joy Licata, RD, MS, CDE, Parker’s Director of Clinical Nutrition.

“Dietary management and meal planning requires that we eliminate simple sugars and focus on complex carbohydrates and smaller portions. We use healthy vegetables and fruits, and special cultural or religious foods for those wanting Kosher, and for Indian Americans who are vegetarians,” Licata added.

Teaching patients how to self-manage diabetes is a critical part of Parker’s program. Parker receives many new admissions that were recently diagnosed with diabetes.

This is a life-changing experience for such individuals. The staff at Parker are proficient at teaching that they’ve got to make major lifestyle changes, including diet and selfadministration of medication, if they want

to get better.

Before leaving Parker, the team always gives discharge instructions to each patient, so they understand their responsibilities.

Parker always suggests seeing a community physician a week after discharge, to review their instructions. Of course, some patients will need follow-up with specialists, i.e., an Endocrinologist, Cardiologist, Ophthalmologist and Podiatrist.

The ultimate goal of Parker’s interdisciplinary team approach is to properly manage patients with diabetes. It takes all team members working together, to create an effective plan for each patient. Each discipline conducts their individual assessments of patients and residents. From those assessments, they collaborate on a plan of care with person-centered goals, one that each and every patient can achieve.

Parker conducts diabetes outreach events each year in the community, and also at their New Hyde Park headquarters, located next to Long Island Jewish Hospital right off Lakeville Road. The next Diabetes Health Fair at Parker is on Wednesday, November 7, 2018, 11:30 to 3:30 p.m. Susan Costella, RN, and Joy Licata, RD, MS, CDE, will be there with other team members to answer your questions. The public is welcome to attend.

Contact: Lina Scacco, (718) 289-2212, or lscacco@parkerinstitute.org.

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THE BEST OF NORTH SHORE RECEPTION & NETWORKING EVENT

Blank Slate Media honors winners On Thursday, October 11, Blank Slate Media hosted the 4th annual Best of the North Shore Contest Winner’s Reception and Networking Event at The Royalton Mansion at The Roslyn Country Club.

This event recognized the winners of 172 different categories representing Arts and Entertainment, Food and Drink, Health/Wellness and Beauty, School and Camp, Services, Shopping, Sports and Recreation. Members of the local chambers of commerce

had the opportunity to meet and mingle with business owners and professionals representing Great Neck, Manhasset, New Hyde Park, Port Washington, Roslyn and Williston Park.

The contest, sponsored by Northwell Health, PSEG Long Island, Sid Jacobson JCC, Land Rover Freeport, Douglas Elliman, Men On The Move and Parker Jewish Institute, generated over 29,000 votes.

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Stringer’s proposal on fares poses problems

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emember the introduction of the Long Island Rail Road’s “Atlantic Ticket” discount program as a response to the New York City Council’s! “Commuter Rail Fare Equalization Proposal” for southeast Queens residents several months ago?!

This plan allows a discounted rush hour ticket of $5 versus $10.25 peak and $7.25 off peak.

There is also a weekly, seven-day combined LIRR and NYC Transit subway pass for $60 versus $104.25.!

These reduced fares will be available for those who travel from Atlantic Avenue Brooklyn LIRR Terminal to stations in southeast Queens. Now we have NYC comptroller and 2021 mayoral wannabe Scott Stringer raising the ante.!

He proposes a $2.75 fare for NYC residents to ride either Long Island and Metro North Rail Road. This could have disastrous consequences to Port Washington and other LIRR branches riders, if adopted.! There are still significant unresolved financial and peak service capacity issues.!

Existing Port Washington branch! trains that serve Little

Neck, Douglaston, Bayside, Auburdale, Broadway, Murray Hill and Flushing on the Port Washington branch might be able to accommodate one to 2,000 new riders spread out over the morning and evening rush hours trains.!

Many would have to stand, if they are! lucky enough to be able to board.!!There are few open seats west of Flushing.!

Imagine the crowds,!if thousands of the daily 66,000 NYC Transit subway riders who utilize the Flushing Main Street No. 7 station switch to the! LIRR?!

How do you find space for riders (plus luggage) attempting to use the Port Washington branch LIRR connecting with the future LaGuardia Air Train Mets Willets Point station?!

What about others attempting to board at Woodside and future Elmhurst station? There is no way existing Port Washington branch rush hour service! could accommodate thousands of more new Queens customers, without adding additional trains. It costs several million per car.!

Between design, engineering, procurement,! construction, delivery along with inspection and acceptance,!it can take five

years before the LIRR can acquire additional rolling stock.!

The LIRR!also!needs additional maintenance and storage capacity for fleet expansion.!

We are all aware of service disruptions due to equipment malfunction, inclement weather, switching or crossing gate!problems on the LIRR.! There continues to be major service disruptions due to storm and signal problems in the East River tunnels.

Problems also occur between the tunnel portals and Harold Interlockings, west of the Woodside station.! This results in canceled and combined trains.! People are standing in the aisles with conductors unable to check tickets.

Train trips take longer as more time is needed at stations for riders entering and exiting.!

At Penn Station, more time is needed before everyone can depart the train.! Imagine the chaos with thousands of additional daily riders.

There is no room to run additional trains in or out of Penn Station during rush hours via the East River tunnels. Three of four tunnels running inbound during a.m. and outbound p.m. rush

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

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

Penn Station operates at 100 percent capacity during rush hours.

If one of the four tunnels is temporarily out of service, the result is numerous delays and cancellation and consolidation of trains.!

NYC Comptroller Stringer also wants his proposed $2.75 fare to offer a free transfer to the NYC Transit subway.! ! Obviously he has never! traveled through! either Grand Central Terminal or Penn Station during rush hours.!

Both the East Side No. 4, 5, and 6 subway lines and the West Side No. 1, 2, and 3 subway lines are! already operating at! or above capacity.! Many! wait for a second subway train to arrive before being able to board.!

The same is true to a lesser extent for the Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn station travelers who attempt to access subway lines.! ! There is little! room

for! new riders who might want to take advantage of a free commuter rail to subway transfer.! If offered, there are thousands of NYC residents already riding the LIRR and Metro North, who would also want the same free transfer.!!!

Stringer’s $50 million dollar estimated cost for a discounted fare for all trips for residents within NYC riding on either LIRR and Metro North was just a guess.!

It was not based upon any concrete data. Nobody knows if the cost!could easily be $100 to $200 million or more in direct farebox revenue losses for the LIRR, Metro North and NYC Transit.!

The MTA has!no surplus operating dollars available to cover these costs.! Both Gov. Cuomo’s $168 billion and NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio’s budgets include no funding to cover these costs. Just how will the MTA make up these lost revenues?!!

Larry Penner (Larry Penner is a transportation historian and advocate who previously worked 31 years for the U.S. Department of Transportation Federal Transit Administration.)

Pols pander about medical marijuana

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t looks like Sen. Elaine Phillips has found a new group of NIMBYs to pander to.!

As John Nugent reported, Phillips showed up to a rally on Oct. 14 opposing the relocation of a medical marijuana dispensary to a retail storefront in Manhasset.

According to Phillips, “Neighbors and residents have raised legitimate concerns and need answers.”! Well, let’s examine these so-called “legitimate concerns.”

Firstly, for those who are unfamiliar with New York’s medical marijuana program, it allows doctors enrolled in the program to prescribe marijuana to treat the following conditions: cancer, HIV/AIDS, ALS, Parkinson’s disease, MS, spinal cord injury with spasticity, epilepsy, IBD, neuropathy, Huntington’s disease, PTSD, chronic pain and any condition for which an opioid could be prescribed.

These are, obviously, serious

conditions, and patients suffering from them (or their caregivers) may choose to try marijuana as a course of treatment to improve their quality of life.!

That decision is and should be between said patients (or their caregivers) and their doctors. ! From what I gather from Nugent’s article, as well as Teri West’s recent article about a meeting of the Council of Greater Manhasset Civic Associations, the primary stated concern of those opposed to the move is that the presence of the dispensary would glamorize marijuana, encouraging its use by local school-age children.!

Some protestors even claimed the dispensary would sell marijuana to children. ! This is absolutely ridiculous.!

The dispensary is essentially a highly secured pharmacy that only dispenses non-smokable, non-edible forms of marijuana to patients suffering from these

debilitating conditions.! It is not some garish local hangout for children to marvel at, wander into or shop in.

Similar concerns were raised when the dispensary moved into its current location in North New Hyde Park.! At the time, I remember one local resident quoted by Blank Slate Media expressing her concern that the dispensary was within walking distance of a local baseball field. !Well, like now, local politicians beat their fists and swore that they would prevent any marijuana dispensary from moving into North New Hyde Park.! Predictably, since local politicians had no authority to block it, the dispensary moved in, and (surprise, surprise) the sky didn’t fall. !Phillips and the other leaders quoted by Nugent and West have clearly taken the time to meet with the small group of self-righteous drug warriors

that were at that rally on Oct. 14.! My question to them would be, have you met with even a single patient or caregiver who utilizes the current facility in North New Hyde Park or any other existing dispensary? !Have you asked them what their opinion is on the proposed change in location?! Have you asked them if relocating the dispensary would be more or less convenient or if it would create or alleviate a hardship?! Have you asked them what barriers to access they’ve faced in the past or are facing now? ! My guess is, Phillips and the rest have not met with or asked any of these questions to any local patient or caregiver.!

This is likely because the social stigma associated with medical marijuana makes it difficult for patients or caregivers to come forward and advocate for themselves. ! My advice to these politicians and other leaders, which

I’m sure they won’t take, is to carefully consider the needs and preferences of local residents whose lives are or would be substantially improved by the presence of the dispensary.! If they can’t come to your office to discuss the matter or feel uncomfortable doing so, offer to meet with them in their homes or over the phone. ! As for the sign-waving busybodies who think it’s someone else’s responsibility to teach their children not to abuse marijuana, a good politician would still hear them out, but wouldn’t let them dictate policy. !While going the fist-banging, NIMBY-pleasing route may be the more tempting and politically expedient path (especially right before an election), it’s not the mark of a politician who truly cares about her constituents.!

Matthew Zeidman New Hyde Park

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Nicolello sleepwalking through public service

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n your article, of Oct. 17, “Legislators concerned about Curran’s assessment plan,”!you report: “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 five-year 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 ‘politics of Albany.’”

This is an example of a man sleepwalking through his political career.

Yes, it certainly is a “mistake” for someone like Assemblyman Michael J. Norris of Clarence, N.Y. (population 30,673) or state Assemblyman Ken Blankenbush of Carthage (population 3,747) having a say in the internal finances of a county with 1.3 million residents and a $3 billion budget.

The question he should be asking is “why is this allowed?” And the answer for him is, like every other anachronism in our government structure, it’s just the way things are, and these “elected rep-

resentatives” pretend they lack the agency to do anything about it.

Which is certainly true if no one tries, or bothers sponsoring legislation to change this.

Does it ever occur to any one of these people to actually question why we surrender our fiscal sovereignty to those who have no constituency here, or have the slightest familiarity with our local issues?

Well, according to Nicolello, that’s just the “politics of Albany,” and that settles the matter.

What a brave stand.

Of course, Curran, having already decided to mire her stewardship of the executive’s office in mediocrity, is asleep herself. Does she,

or anyone else who knows the history of real property assessment as it practiced in Nassau, really believe we’re going to re-assess our way out of inequity? Again, Curran?

Each and every one of her predecessors in recent history has attempted this and failed. And Curran’s effort is doomed to failure as well, simply because of the stubborn reality that there is no way on God’s green earth to “accurately” assess the relative valuation of hundreds of thousands of dwellings, in which no two are alike. It’s a preposterous undertaking, one that will only trigger another avalanche of protests, just as all the others did.

But what are ya gonna do,

huh? That’s the “politics of Nassau” and just because the assessment structure we live with predates Hitler’s invasion of Poland, that’s just the way things are, and no one’s going to lift a finger to address it. So, we’ll just keep our dysfunctional revenue stack in place in perpetuity, where one successful lawsuit against the County throws its budget into chaos, and our “Interim” finance authority can commence its third decade of operations.

Carry on. Please let us know when you wake up.

Donald Davret Searingtown

The Right Stuff: Zielenziger and Mimi Hu

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ime has come for the Great Neck community to choose their candidates for the Library Trustee Board.

Some (perhaps many) of us think that this election is not important as compared to the school budget and board vote, especially since the library budget is not even being voted on in this case.

This is a common misconception as the Library Board sets the direction on how the library budget (that is, your tax dollars) is spent.

Almost every one of us in the community has enjoyed the vast resources provided by the Great

Neck library, from an information source to cultural activities, and yes, a place to hang out.

To ensure our library remains a model of excellence, I want to endorse David Zielenziger and Liman Mimi Hu for the library trustee positions.

I had the good fortune of meeting David Zielenziger years ago when I ran for the Great Neck school board.

He was a fellow alumnus from Princeton and I soon found out, an excellent writer, who helped me with some of my campaign materials.

Besides his obvious intellect

and love for words and books, what I admire most about David is his passion for the community.!

Having lived in Great Neck for 37 years, David genuinely cares about our town.

He is involved in many civic activities, voicing his opinions and challenging (school, village, you name it) administration about the decisions that they are making.!

You may not always agree with his position, but you cannot deny that he constantly keeps our elected officials on their toes.

I cannot think of a better person who will make sure that our library trustees make careful delib-

erations for the good of our community.

Unless of course, her name is Mimi Hu, who has dedicated herself to being a conduit of the burgeoning Chinese community and other Great Neck residents.

Being the communications chair of Great Neck Chinese Association, she has tirelessly made herself available for cultural interactions among many diverse groups within Great Neck.! In addition, she is involved in the school PTA and shared decision making.! And most importantly, she recognizes the role of the library in our community and has the vision to evolve

it to meet the needs of many ethnic groups.

At the same time, she wants our library to continue to be the foundation from which residents of different background can find materials that reflect their own identities as well as other cultures.

In doing so, she will make sure our library remains the basis of our future American value.

Hence, please vote on Oct. 29 and cast your ballot for David and Mimi.

Dr. Chris Huang Great Neck

The importance of kindness often overlooked

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any years ago, I was fortunate enough to be introduced to an older woman named Essie Chasin. !She lived in Great Neck, not far from the Great Neck Synagogue of which she was a member. !Essie was a lifelong student of all religions and gave classes in her home to groups of people who highly valued her knowledge and teaching abilities.

When I first met Essie, she

lived alone and told me she was starting to need some help. ! I promised to look for a part-time assistant for her and was fortunate enough to find someone in a few days who worked out well for her.

To thank me, Essie took me out to lunch in a Chinese restaurant on Middle Neck Road. !We were talking about various things and I asked her, “What is the single most important thing in

the Jewish religion?” ! Without pausing, Essie replied, “Kindness to others.”

Over the next 20 years or so, I asked many people this question and received many different responses, ranging from guesses to puzzled silence to assertions of a totally different answer. !Only two people of the perhaps 40 or 50 I asked over the years gave me the same answer as Essie had, each without a moment’s pause. !

One was an Orthodox dentist who said he had been taught this when he was young and studying in the Yeshivah; he said he was made to repeat it over and over in both English and Hebrew, and he said it for me in Hebrew. !The second was a woman on line behind me in the Everfresh market who was with her two young sons and told me that she learned it from helping her boys with their Yeshivah studies.

I have been deeply impressed by what Essie taught me so long ago. !Like my parents before me, I endeavor to be kind and help others whenever possible. ! And like them, if I have been less than kind to anyone, I endeavor to somehow find a way to make it right.

Diane Coffield Great Neck

With much at stake, seniors should vote

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lection day is Tuesday, Nov. 6 And it is a time for all registered voters to do our civic duty and vote.

There are many issues out there and demand our concern and attention. Remember what our elected officials do effects

all of us. Especially our senior citizens like myself, who worry about our benefits being reduced.

According to the AARP, Social Security will fall short in 2034, if that happens benefits will drop by 20 percent.

Also prescriptions drug costs

are increasing at the rate faster than inflation. And added to all that the Medicare trust fund will fall short by 2026.

These are important issues for all of our seniors to worry about. That is why I call upon seniors to get out and vote for

those candidates who will work hard for these senior citizen issues.

Do some research and find out who they are and vote. So get your walkers, canes and wheelchairs and vote and let our elected officials know that we are

an important voting block. Remember this: our senior citizens made this great nation what it is today.

Frederick R. Bedell Jr. Mineola

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READERS WRITE

Fairgrieve: A judge, a community asset

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cott Fairgrieve isn’t just a district court judge; he’s been a community asset for his entire adult life.

Fairgrieve is running on Nov. 6 for a fourth six-year term in the Town of North Hempstead’s Third District.

He’s doing it, he says, because he loves his job, loves giving back – as he does in many ways.

“I feel my personality is wellsuited to [being a judge], because I can listen to both sides, be fair and impartial, and come to a fair and equitable resolution,” he said.

Fairgrieve handles civil, criminal and landlord-tenant cases. He said he has had more than 300 decisions published in law journals and has trained more than 50 interns since he first was elected in 2000.

He is well-known locally for

his philanthropy. Fairgrieve helped organize and fund-raised for the Mustang Run for more than 20 years to benefit Mineola community organizations. He has lectured for free on the evils of driving while drunk at dozens of high schools and colleges.

He has been an active member of the County Seat Kiwanis Club, the Mineola-Garden City Rotary Club, the New Hyde Park Runners Club and the Mineola Chamber of Commerce. He was a Mineola Village Trustee from 1982-94.

“I give back to the community in many ways,” said Fairgrieve, who has been married to wife Linda for 42 years. The couple has two children, two grandchildren and four dogs.

The Fairgrieves are avid Yankees fans. Scott doesn’t drink

alcohol and takes the DWI issue seriously.

“I try to keep teenagers out of trouble and avoid getting killed,” he said. “When I hear of a young life lost, it really upsets me. A DWI sometimes is just a matter of poor judgment. I just want to make them more conscious of it. I also talk about hit-and-runs, the morality of it. I tell them they have a moral responsibility to stop and call for help. A lot of kids are afraid to do that because of the consequences of being arrested.”

Fairgrieve was raised in Garden City. He graduated from St. Anne’s Grammar School, Garden City High, Adelphi University and St. John’s Law School. He has taught business law as an adjunct professor at LIU Post and is past president of the Nassau County District Court Judges’ Association.

He is on the boards of the Mineola Historical Society and the Greater Long Island Running Club.

He runs six times a week and does a couple of half-marathons a year. He also plays golf twice a week in the summer at Harbor Links in Port Washington and Cantiague Park in Hicksville in groups he organized. His office is in Hempstead.

“I’m real good at settling cases,” Fairgrieve said. “I’m known for that. I love what I do. I work hard and I’m conscientious. I think I’m effective and I still want to accomplish things, write more legal decisions. They [decisions] help lawyers understand what the law is and help litigants chart their courses.”

Fairgrieve has the Democratic, Independence, Working Families, Reform and Women’s Equality

party lines. He has been endorsed by the Nassau County Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association, the Nassau Superior Officers Association, the Nassau Detectives’ Association, and the Communications Workers of America. Pete Peterson, legislative chairman of the PBA, which represents 5,000 active and retired police officers, said in an endorsement letter to Fairgrieve, “Our association wishes you the best of luck. We look forward to working with you in the years ahead.”

“You have to run [for office] through political parties,” Fairgrieve said, “but once you get on the bench, you have to be nonpolitical.” Fairgrieve has been – for 18 years.

Jim Smith Port Washington

Liberal propaganda and its advocates

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ell, here we go again.

Radical-leftist Karen Rubin’s latest rant in the Oct. 19 issue continues her tradition of anti-American viewpoints, whereby she urges other countries to impose a tax on imports from the United States or (worse yet), ban American products entirely. #But Rubin goes further, urging both Indonesia and the Philippines to “sue the United States for relief”.

For a person who seems to pride herself on her “liberal compassion”, she certainly doesn’t seem to have any of it for her fellow American workers who would

be economically devastated by her utopian viewpoints. Just think about how many millions of Americans might lose their jobs because of Rubin’s inflexibly antagonistic position towards America and capitalism. #But Rubin doesn’t care about her fellow citizens-unless they are liberal Democrats like herself.

Her hatred of President Trump is so extreme that she is willing to do anything possible to kick him out of office.

Yet in true liberal fashion, she will not address challenges to her extreme positions, as she is isolated from them in her ivory tower.# Rubin’s extremism has blinded

her from the realities of the world.

She simply spews forth more radical propaganda and ignores those of us, such as myself, who recently challenged her in a letter published in the Oct. 12 issue.

And she is joined in that effort

by Hal Sobel with his breathtakingly-hyperbolic article entitled “Fascism is coming to America.”

Sobel asserts that our President ignores the rule of law and “colluded” with the Russians in the 2016 election, yet offers no concrete evidence to bolster those preposterous claims. Typical liberal tactic-using alarming rhetoric to mobilize the liberal zealots.

For Sobel to equate our Presi-

dent with Nazi Germany, calling him the worst president in our history, is not only inaccurate but nothing more than his own viewpoint.

And to say that Roe v. Wade’s fate has been “sealed” with the confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court, when he himself during his testimony under oath upheld the validity of the ruling, is nothing more than cheap, transparent attempt to garner the women’s vote. # But that’s what leftists dothey divide people by race, ethnicity, religion, gender and class;# because they are the party of special interests.

#And one final point for Rubindoes she think that the so-called “Paris Climate#Accord” was fair to the United States in allowing both India and China to continue building and operating coal-fired power plants for decades into the future?

Have you not seen pictures of the hazy skies in Beijing and the ever-present air-quality alerts issued by the Chinese government because of these power plants?

Just asking. # Perhaps Indonesia and the Philippines should sue China instead of the United States.

Paul Giarmo Carle Place####

An open letter to Anna Kaplan on guns Dear Ms. Kaplan, As Election Day draws near, campaigns become more aggressive and candidates challenge each other with an ever-increasing number of accusations and negative comments.# However, being from a part of the voter base that is turned off by demagoguery or insults, I prefer to gather real facts to formulate my own judgment of the slate of candidates.

One of the issues in the forefront is a rather broad topic called ‘gun control’ for lack of a better term.

As I hear it expressed by many who are ignorant of firearm technology and shooting in general, their stands might be

better be collectively expressed as ‘gun banning’, the outright removal of our Second Amendment rights.

Gun control laws are already enacted and in place, and I fully agree that existing laws, already sufficiently tough, should simply be enforced.# There are a few viable amendments to the law that I can agree with: 1. Banning of bump stocks.# This device is completely unnecessary to any law-abiding gun owner as it is simply designed to convert a semi-automatic rifle to a pseudo-automatic rifle.# No respectable gun owner (yes, I said respectable!) would sacrifice accuracy and safety simply to burn through excessive

rounds of expensive ammunition.# This is anathema to sane gun ownership.

2. Keeping guns out of the hands of violent offenders –# physical abusers, molesters, and the mentally ill (let the courts and the medical teams make those determinations).

3. Gun-free zones have been shown to be a criminal’s chosen area of operation.# Just look at Chicago, for example. The murder rate there tops that of the rest of our country-it’s more like a third world country.# Yet, in areas where concealed- or opencarry is permitted, the shootings are practically non-existent.# Simple fact.

Now that I have taken the

time to express my views, I would really appreciate a concise plan of how you would approach that, as you call it, “gun control.”

From all I have read in your press releases and heard at candidate forums, your comments have been mostly generalizations and expressions of your own personal feelings, but I need something more concrete if I am to consider whether you should succeed our present New York State senator from our district.

Surely you have a plan that is acceptable to the voters that is logical and realistic, and you need to present that plan for the voters’ consideration and evalu-

ation.

So far, until quite recently, the campaign was pleasant, but as we know, the last couple of weeks before the election generally bring out the worst in campaigns and candidates, something I am very familiar with having been involved in the process for more than a decade.

Please present your specific steps and the reasoning behind them. That would be most appreciated prior to this critical election.# Generalizations and rhetoric don’t work anymore.

Eric Spinner New Hyde Park

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Election Endorsing write-in candidate Zhang conduct I wrong

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n behalf of myself, individually and as president of the Great Neck Library Board of Trustees, and on behalf of the Board of Trustees of the Great Neck Library, we denounce the reprehensible conduct that has occurred in connection with the upcoming Library Election.

The Library is the cultural center of the community and is open to all. We are aware of and condemn such behavior which abridges our civil liberties.

Robert M. Schaufeld, Esq. President Board of Trustees Great Neck Library

t is with much enthusiasm that I would like to endorse Dr. Qiping Zhang as a writein candidate for the Great Neck Library trustee position.

My family just moved to Great Neck from New York City a couple years ago.

The library has been a fun place for my family. While my kids have their own corner, and my parents stay upstairs to read their own books, I have a quiet moment for myself.

It is through the library that my parents and I got to know many neighbors and make new friends. That makes us feel more socially connected with this community. We started to love to go to our public library.

My parents started to attend the library English classes and made many friends coming from all over the world. They shared their own stories in the class, watch movies together in

the library, and met outside the library to have some fun.

My parents have been so much happier and engaged in the community events ever since then.

Earlier this year, my child was struggling with making a decision whether or not she should continue with one of her honor classes in the school.

She and I had different opinions and could not make a mutually agreed decision.

One day, a friend that I met in the library shared her experiences and suggested me to talk to Qiping because of the following reasons: 1. Qiping’s child was happened to be in the same program with my child; 2. She had a master’s degree in psychology and a PhD degree in Library & Information Science; 3. She has helped many families with different issues and is very well respected in this com-

munity.

From the first time I met with Qiping, we had a very thorough discussion about kid’s education, communication and the resources from the library.

First, she shared her experiences as being a leader for psychology counseling program for college students and explained the importance of knowing, evaluating and guiding students’ stress management. This reminded me how to access my child’s stress level and help her with the coping.

Second, Qiping introduced her child to my child. The two of them were able to discuss the class, share their own experiences with difficulties, challenges, and time management.

With her child’s help, my child was able to have a much more comprehensive understanding of the program: the pros and cons, and the challenges and

benefits.

Third, Qiping provided some suggestions about how to utilize resources and technologies from the library that can help my kid to obtain adequate and accurate information for the study.

Those were something that we had never known before. We always thought that a library is only a place for books but it actually had a lot more resources could be explored and utilized.

My child took her advice and had obtained whatever information she needed for her study. Now she really enjoyed this honor class and doing very well.

Ever since then, Qiping still followed up with me and my child and see if we had any new problems coming up. Now, my child really enjoys the study of this class and is doing great. I Continued on Page 76

Paper’s editorial wrong about G.N. Plaza Continued from Page 18 holidays, which are listed on the meters.! We also offer free parking days in our lots (four-hour maximum) during the year-end holidays to encourage shopping at this peak time of year to assist our merchants.

The reason we cannot do this more often is that people going into Manhattan or taking the train to other points from Great Neck would take advantage and try and park all day. This would impact our stores and restaurants, as patrons would not be able to find parking and drive to some other areas.

There are villages, such as Roslyn, Mineola, Huntington, Patchogue, and others that charge more for parking ($1 per hour), including Saturdays and Sundays, and for longer hours, extending the time patrons are required to pay until 10:00 P.M. The village also has a parking brochure, which is available online on the village’s and BID’s websites.!

Hard copies are located in holders in our lots to let patrons know where our parking facilities are located, what times parking meters and muni-meters are in effect, and where they can park for free after 5 p.m., 6 p.m. and on weekends and holidays.

It also explains our optional mobile app, Parkmobile, and how they can pay electronically via their smartphones.

Persons frequenting our restaurants for dinner indeed can find

free parking in this village, and can park overnight, on-street, in our lots, and parking garages provided they’re out by 8:30 a.m. to 9:00 a.m. when permits and meters go into effect.

For a downtown village, Great Neck Plaza does have a very flexible parking system, with more parking than many other Long Island communities with a central business district and one of the least expensive parking rates.

We do have enough parking for visitors, but they have to sometimes be willing to walk a block or two and not expect to always park right in front of their destination.

You indicate that few village governments can afford consultants, but we have found the money for this when necessary.! We feel it’s important to have empirical data on parking utilization and turnover, which is essential before coming up with a proper plan to address it.

In 2015, we hired Level G, a parking consultant to many Long Island communities, that came up with a parking plan and suggestions, many of which we adopted, including increasing our parking rate from $ 0.25 per hour to $ 0.50 per hour to encourage turnover and provide the village with additional revenues to maintain our lots and incorporate technology, such as a smartphone parking app.

In 2017, we invested in 225 new Duncan meter mechanisms for our individual meter heads

and rotated out the oldest ones to improve meter reliability, and purchased 4 new muni-meters for the Gussack Plaza and Maple Drive lots.! We receive fewer complaints now about failed meters.

You raise the issue of valet parking and even suggest that voters remember this issue when it is time to vote.! We find this offensive.

Our village is the commercial hub of the peninsula and we have issues that none of the other peninsula villages have.! The buses and railroad that benefits all the villages are located here.

With them being here, there are constant traffic issues that would be made more dangerous with valet parking.! We have had pedestrians hit by cars whose drivers do not obey the traffic laws.!

They speed, make illegal U-turns, go through stop lights, roll through stop signs and double park, creating dangerous situations.

Unfortunately, our code enforcement officers cannot issue moving violations and have to rely on the Nassau County Police Department for traffic enforcement.!

But when we did allow valet parking, these dangerous situations became worse.! Our responsibility to our residents is to provide a safe downtown.

Furthermore, valet parking requires that there be available space in nearby parking lots to park the cars.

While the Great Neck Park

District’s three commuter lots, which are all located in the Plaza, sit largely empty in the evenings, the park district has been unwilling to make them available for use by customers of businesses in the village even though this would be a great benefit to small retail businesses, and especially new restaurants that are not yet established.

The village will continue to work with the Park District to develop a pilot attendant parking program to assist our merchants (restaurants and eateries) south of the LIRR tracks where parking is more difficult and further away from our municipal lots and garages.

You briefly mention the change in demographics in the Great Neck peninsula villages.!

This is not something that only has a minor impact.

Residents are not visiting, dining and buying from local stores as they used to, despite ongoing marketing campaigns by the BID and Chamber of Commerce encouraging the community to shop locally.

Add to that, the impact of online shopping, and we see a major effect, not only here in Great Neck, but stores such as Sears, Macy’s, JC Penny, K Mart and Toys R Us are closing.! Recent newspaper stories of vacant stores on Fifth Avenue and in other areas of Manhattan demonstrate that this is not a problem confined to our area.

Finally, you take issue with the permit approval process saying

that we should streamline it.

In fact, however, developers have told us that our Village is the easiest to work with and the most helpful.

Conditional-use permits required for new restaurants and eateries are often approved after a single Board of Trustees meeting, and the board meets twice a month so new applicants don’t have to wait long to be in front of Village government for their approval.

While delays may be caused by other governmental agencies, they are not caused by our Board of Trustees or Building Department.

We hope that in the future the Editor of the Great Neck News will do a better job of reaching out to local officials and more fully vet readers’ letters, editorials, and opinion pieces before they are published.

Mayor Jean Celender and Trustees Gerald Schneiderman, Pamela Marksheid and Lawrence Katz of the Village of Great Neck Plaza Editors Note: As reflected in the headline,” Local Government Needs to Keep Up With Changes in Retail,” the recommendations in the editorial were addressed to local governments across our readership area – not just the Village of Great Neck Plaza. Issues with Great Neck Plaza were addressed specifically to Great Neck Plaza.

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Business&RealEstate

Before you reconsider purchasing Let’s take a look at the market and see what might be in your best interest as a purchaser. If you are in a rental at the moment, have you calculated the cost of staying where you are?

Are your investments paying you more than 3-5 percent per annum and at the same time, providing you viable tax deductions? When the market was a disaster 10 years ago, those who could keep their houses and condos and rent them did so.

But today, do you feel secure, that the landlord will not consider selling and cashing out in this current, still fairly strong market?

From my experience, I have found as landlords grow older, their patience grows thinner and they want to reduce their responsibilities and not have to deal with tenants and the required maintenance; so that is when they consider selling.

I am personally selling a two family in New Hyde Park because of the latter reasons.

A few years ago, I had lined up an excellent buyer, for this property; while advising the owner to do a 1031 deferred tax exchange, so he wouldn’t have to pay capital gains for the foreseeable future.

I was unaware at the time that he hadn’t secured a contract for the exchange, so he lost the deal and we couldn’t close on the property here.

A small down payment and a contract would have secured the property and the transaction would have gone smoothly.

Moreover, the tenants were a bit shaken at the time, knowing that we were selling. I say, “live and learn.”

This time around we prepared the tenants way in advance; but it was still upsetting to them, since they had been there for many years.

But they were all able to find places, so it should be smooth sailing to the closing. Now he just wants to sell and take his proceeds down to Florida, where he currently resides.

He is resigned to the fact that he will have to pay capital gains. G_d only knows the U.S. government needs the money!

So as a tenant, you have to be aware and cognizant of the landlords plans and maybe you may want to make him or her aware of the fact, that you might consider purchasing the two family, single family or whatever you are living in by having a “right of first refusal” as part of the lease.

There are ways to structure the purchase, so it can be a win/win situation for both tenant and landlord. I have been involved in a number of transactions over the years structuring these type of sales.

So if you are contemplating or are already renting, you should

PHILIP A. RAICES Real Estate Watch

analyze the long-term effect (15-20 years) of ownership to determine the benefits and any detriments versus renting. Those that still decide to rent, will never experience a stable monthly cost as a mortgage will provide.

Although there are costs to ownership, taxes, maintenance; the landlord has the same costs and he or she over the years will pass those costs on to you as increases in rent, while at the same time, you paying down his/her mortgage.

Also, as the demand for rentals increase for those who choose that path, it’s a supply and demand economics environment, and rents over the long run, will never go down, but continue to increase.

However, a mortgage is what I call a fixed lease for 30 years. How comfortable would you feel if you knew your landlord would keep your rent fixed for that length of time? I imagine you would probably be pretty ecstatic about that, right?

But, here the banks are offering you this situation and I don’t totally understand why more renters, don’t become purchasers. Maybe, some cannot afford to buy here, so I say, “move out of New York to a place where you can afford to purchase.

There are plenty of states where prices and real estate taxes are considerably lower. It all depends on what you qualify for; so you should be talking with a lender (we can help you to relocate and with a lender too).

Yes, I know family, job and other reasons might be keeping you here; but realize your financial future in creating wealth over your working years (and having an enjoyable retirement) will be reduced, by forking over your hard earned dollars to someone else, increasing their bank account and not yours!

Even if you have to live with relatives to save a bit more for your down payment to leave your rental, do it! You will not regret it! There are always cycles in real estate and we are seeing a little bit of softening in the market, so prices will not be

increasing at the same pace and will become somewhat more normalized.

However, if you can purchase now, grab the lower interest rates, for they will continue to increase over the next 2 years and the cost of waiting will be greater, than even if prices were to decrease, where you think you will save; but I don’t see that happening for many years, until we have over seven-plus months of inventory.

Lastly, when George Washington was president an average home was about a $1,000, that same house today is $1,000,000-plus depending on its location.

Although that was 242 years ago, things have multiplied at a quicker progression over the last 30 years. Can you imagine prices doubling in another 30 years? The jury is out and only time will tell!

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: (516) 647-4289.

COMMUNITY NEWS

G.N. sewer district hosting ‘Shed the Meds’ The Great Neck Water Pollution Control District will hold its third Shed the Meds event on Sunday, Oct. 28 from 10:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.

As part of the event, the District will open its free medication disposal drive-thru to all Town of North Hempstead residents so they can safely and properly dispose of unused or expired medications.

The event is intended to raise awareness of the dangers flushing medications down the toilet pose to the community’s water supply and environment. Residents are encouraged to drop off expired and unused medications to District headquarters at 236 East Shore Road via a drive-thru process that is quick and ensures that the pharmaceutical waste is disposed of safely.

“Flushing pharmaceuticals down the toilet, a far too common practice, is extremely harmful to the environment as water filtration facilities are unable to

remove the chemical compounds from the water supply,” Great Neck Water Pollution Control District Commissioner Steve Reiter said. “Once again, we are happy to offer local taxpayers this additional service as an alternative to dispose pharmaceuticals in an environmentally-conscious manner—protecting the water supply while still removing these items from household medicine cabinets.”

Since this Shed the Meds’ inception, the Great Neck Water Pollution Control District has collected over 600 pounds of pharmaceutical waste. The community event is hosted in partnership with Reach Out America, the Great Neck Breast Cancer Coalition, North Shore Action, the Nassau County Police Department, Northwell Health and the Boy Scouts.

“We look forward to another successful event of collecting pharmaceuticals and informing residents of the different ways

they can play a proactive role in protecting the local water supply,” Great Neck Water Pollution Control District Commissioner Patty Katz said. “Together, through continuing to invest in environmentally-conscious infrastructure and developing measures for residents to help in the process, we can preserve and protect the local environment for future generations.”

The Shed the Meds event will be held on the same weekend as the annual Drug Enforcement Administration’s National Prescription Drug Take Back Day, which aims to provide a safe, convenient, and responsible means of disposing of prescription drugs.

For additional information and updates about the Great Neck Water Pollution Control District, please visit the website at www.gnwpcd.net or call the office at 516-482-0238.

The district has provided sewage services for the Great Neck area since 1914, and cur-

PHOTO COURTESY OF THE GREAT NECK WATER POLLUTION CONTROL DISTRICT

Great Neck Water Pollution Control District Commissioner Patty Katz and Reach Out America President Rita Hall collect expired and unused medications at the District’s recent Shed the Meds in June. rently serves more than 25,000 residents and businesses in the villages of Great Neck, Saddle Rock, Kensington, and those parts of Thomaston and Great Neck

Plaza east of Middle Neck Road, as well as all unincorporated areas north of the Long Island Rail Road and a part of Manhasset.

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Recent Real Estate

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

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154 Evelyn Road, Mineola Sold Price: $517,000 Date: 08/28/2018 4 beds, 2 Full baths Style: Cape # of Families: 1 Lot Size: 40x100 Schools: Mineola Total Taxes: $9,250 MLS# 3050360

46 Berkley Road, Mineola Sold Price: $690,000 Date: 08/28/2018 3 beds, 2 Full/1 Half baths Style: Tudor # of Families: 1 Lot Size: 57x90 Schools: Mineola Total Taxes: $11,503 MLS# 3036424

144 Broad Street, Williston Park Sold Price: $790,000 Date: 09/06/2018 3 beds, 2 Full/1 Half baths Style: Colonial # of Families: 1 Lot Size: 42x100 Schools: Mineola Total Taxes: $9,528 MLS# 3042599

197 Sheridan Blvd, Mineola Sold Price: $650,000 Date: 06/29/2018 4 beds, 3 Full baths Style: Cape # of Families: 1 Lot Size: 40x100 Schools: Mineola Total Taxes: $12,092 MLS# 3007817

Editorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;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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Phillips cautions about Dem majority Continued from Page 1 Phillips said she has fought back on billions in tax increases proposed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo, helped increase school aid for her Senate district by $112 million and secured a $300,000 state grant for the Williston Park Fire Department.

Phillips also said she was in favor of “common sense gun control.”

“I’m a firm believer in the Second Amendment, so we need to find a middle ground,” Phillips said. “So much of this violence in our schools comes down to mental health.”

Phillips said she was pro-choice during a question and answer segment, but was not in favor of the Reproductive Health Act. “What I’m not for is doing late-term partial birth abortions and non doctors,” Phillips said. “The Reproductive Health Act allows a woman, through a licensed health care provider, to opt to get an abortion up to 40 weeks, and I’m not a believer in that.”

“If Roe v. Wade ever needed to be codified in New York state, which I don’t think it ever will, I would support that legislation,” Phillips said.

Mastroianni, currently a support magistrate of Nassau County Family Court, is a lifelong resident of Carle Place and says she “will dispense equal justice to all that come before her,” and champion community involvement.

“I’m here because it’s important that you know who is running for judge,” Mastroianni said. “We don’t get to campaign the same as all the other candidates.”

Former state Sen. Jack Martins expressed confidence in endorsing Mastroianni.

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American Legion Post 144 Banquet Master Bob Guastella questioning candidates.

“I’ve known her and her family and we’ve practiced together many years ago on several issues,” Martins said. “You want to make sure that the judge is someone you can trust and is going to be fair to everybody, and this is the person we can trust.”

In addition to her position at Family Court, Mastroianni works as a Hempstead public school mentor through the Nassau County Bar Association.

“It’s very rewarding but difficult,” Mastroianni said. “I get back a lot more from it than anything.”

DeBono, a Republican running against Rep. Tom Suozzi for New York’s 3rd Congressional District, spoke at length about his plans to strengthen the middle class

economy.

“What’s happened to Long Island over the past 20 years is wages have been stagnant,” DeBono said. “At the same time, we’ve seen our taxes increase 2 to 5 percent per year. We’re all getting squeezed.”

He said that developments in technology and trends of globalization have eliminated a lot of jobs on Long Island. DeBono also said that if elected to Congress, he wants to “back up” and support President Donald Trump’s trade negotiations.

“How do you feel about anti-trust laws being applied to Silicon Valley?” Williston Park Mayor Paul Ehrbar asked DeBono.

“I think we need to break up Google and break up Amazon,” DeBono said. “We need

to keep a close eye on Facebook and Apple.

You cannot have a representative democracy when there are trillion dollar companies with more power than 95 percent of the nations on Earth.”

Carr, the Democratic candidate for Assembly District 19, said the issues that he would focus on if elected were school funding, LIRR construction and combating the opioid epidemic.

“I’ll fight for the middle class,” he said.

“I’m a working class man, and I’ll never be a career politician.”

“What I’d like to fight for is to bring back tax dollars to our schools,” Carr said.

Ed Ra, Carr’s opponent and the District 19 incumbent, said his work in the Assembly over the last eight years has supported the district and he would continue to work on bipartisan issues with the Democratic majority.

“When we actually come together, we start to move in the right direction,” Ra said.

“We need to continue to do things like that and especially need to do things in a transparent manner.”

Ra also stressed the importance of introducing independent oversight in local government to combat corruption and empowering the “rank and file” of the Assembly.

“There is far too much power centralized in one person in the Assembly, the speaker,” Ra said. “I think that’s not just a good government thing, but an ethics solution as well.”

“We need to get more serious about having oversight of the entire Legislature, an ethical body and a truly independent entity that when something comes before them they investigate and weed out corruption,” Ra said.

Town seeks to regulate marijuana dispensaries Continued from Page 2 In addition to hearing about local concerns through a petition and protest, De Giorgio said that Munsey Park Mayor Frank DeMento and Plandome Manor Mayor Barbara Donno reached out to her with concerns.

She also met with a concerned resident, De Giorgio said.

A public hearing will provide the community an opportunity to contribute a variety of perspectives on the issue, she said.

Though it is partly in response to MedMen’s building application, new legislation may or may not affect it since the code was not in place when the application was submitted, De Giorgio said.

The location at 1575 Northern Blvd. is about half a mile from Munsey Park Elementary School. There are neighborhood homes behind it.

“I’m very encouraged by the town’s positive signals that timely action is going to be taken on that legislation,” said

Richard Bentley, president of the Council of Greater Manhasset Civic Associations, which has been in contact with MedMen and the town for weeks with concerns about the company’s planned move. “It appears to have unanimous if not full majority support, and we’re hoping that it gets approved as quickly as physically possible.”

De Giorgio said she is fine with marijuana used for medicinal purposes but is against the legalization of recreational

marijuana.

She said she sees MedMen, which is currently located in a North New Hyde Park office building, as seeking a prime retail location that would benefit it should recreational marijuana be legalized.

“They’re promoting the use of marijuana, so that’s the issue,” De Giorgio said.

“I think that suburban communities don’t want these retailers in their neighborhoods and they certainly don’t want them near residencies, churches, schools.”

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NEFCU ranked No. 1 among credit unions In a national ranking of credit unions that provide the most value to members, Long Island’s NEFCU was rated highest in New York State, according to the independent research firm Callahan & Associates.

NEFCU received a “Return of Member” score of 96.41, which placed it ahead of all other local Long Island and New York State credit unions. NEFCU scored 96.41 out of a possible 100.

In computing each credit union’s score, Callahan & Associates measures all aspects of a member’s relationship with the credit union. ROM captures a comprehensive view of member value by considering aspects such as how its rates compare with its competitors, how many products and services it offers, and how many members use these products.

“It’s a thrill to be ranked the top

credit union in the state, especially by the metrics of how we return value to our members,” said Ed Paternostro, president and CEO of NEFCU. “Convenience, great products, superb service and appealing rates all combine to benefit our members, which, in turn, leads them to be more engaged, active – and satisfied – with NEFCU. We’re clearly fulfilling the credit union mission.”

For more than two decades, Callahan & Associates has been measuring ROM among credit unions.

The comprehensive metric uses savings, lending and product usage to quantify member value and assign a score to more than 6,000 credit unions across the country. The ROM offers a way to demonstrate the tangible benefits of credit union participation and ownership.

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Hearing set for 4-story Main St. proposal Continued from Page 1 The plans for 86-88 Main St. were originally submitted for the incentive plan, then changed to go before the zoning board, then again changed back to the incentive plan, a representative from the village Building Department said.

A document from the department initially denied the plans on the grounds of the variances.

The building plan would combine 86 and 88 Main St., demolishing the vacant one-and-a-half-story building that formerly housed Buccelli Uomo.

A four-story, mixed use building with a restaurant on the ground floor and apartments on the second, third and fourth floor are part of the proposed plans available at the Building Department.

Joseph Puccio, of Wyckoff, New Jersey, is listed as the property owner for the proposed lots.

“There probably won’t be a restaurant there,” Puccio said. “I don’t know what

will go there because it hasn’t been approved yet.”

The building variances requested for the combined lots regarding parking include zero proposed space where nine feet by 20 feet is required, zero proposed parking spaces where one is required per 200 square feet for restaurants and zero proposed parking spots where two are required per apartment unit.

Additional variances include the minimum area for two combined lots, which is 4,463.63 square feet as compared with the required 6,000 square feet, the proposed four stories being taller than the village two-story height regulation, zero feet of proposed front yard set back where five feet is required and five variances for development height, width and depth requirements.

The public hearing will start at 6:30 p.m. following another public hearing for the establishment of an art instructional school at 270 Jericho Turnpike.

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The lot at 88 Main Street, and next door Buccelli Uomo at 86 Main Street.

Phillips touts record in seeking second term Continued from Page 20 she said she would have voted for them if they were germane to the legislation they were being attached to.

Phillips said there are many pieces of anti-bump stock legislation, but she has found the one sponsored by state Sen. Andrew Lanza the most comprehensive.

She also said she supports a ban of guns on school grounds.

“Why have guns on school grounds for goodness’ sake?” she said.

“There is literature that is saying Elaine Phillips is supported by the NRA. The fact is Elaine Phillips has never spoken to the NRA

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and in fact the NRA just put out their publication of grades – I got an F,” Phillips said.

“I got an F because [of] my gun legislation, the first piece of gun legislation in five years and since the SAFE Act was approved.”

When asked if she would support the Child Victims Act, which would extend the civil statute of limitations to 50 years old and the criminal to 28 years old, she said she supported a Republican version of the legislation.

That bill would eliminate the criminal statute of limitations and establish a $300 million fund for victims stemming from forfeited assets.

Phillips also said the Child Victims Act,

in its current form, would only help 10 to 20 percent of victims and the other 80 percent wouldn’t get any benefits.

“If there are aspects of CVA and the Child Victims Fund, let’s figure it out, let’s put them together,” Phillips said. “But the fact is the CVA does not give anything to 80 percent of all victims.”

She said she would be open to putting beneficial aspects of the bills together.

Asked about medical marijuana, Phillips said she supports it but that she needs to! see more specifics.

Regarding corruption in Albany, Phillips said she supports closing the LLC loophole, which allows people to form multiple

limited liability corporations and donate to campaigns as if they were individuals, and instituting 12-year term limits.

She also said “pay-to-play” needs to be brought under control and the comptroller needs more power to do so.

Phillips, when asked about Republicans refusing to bring an online sales tax to the Senate floor because of opposition to raising taxes, said not having such a tax is a “huge disservice to businesses” and local downtowns.

Phillips said the legislation “needs to come to a vote.”

“We have to make it even,” Phillips said.

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Endorsing write-in candidate Zhang Continued from Page 71 also got to know a library is much more than just a collection of books. It is a bridge that inspires families to connect, learn and grow closer together in fun and meaningful ways!

It is October now, the season for the annual election for our Great Neck Library board of trustees again.

I was thrilled to know that Qiping announced her decision to be a write-in candidate for one of the four-year position. “With technology and social media permeating all aspects of family life, we need libraries more than ever as sanctuary spaces for intellectual inquiry and interactive community bonding”.

In the past five weeks, Qiping has hosted several seminars/lectures to serve our community including: 1. How to communicate with children effectively; 2. How the public library helped my kids grow; 3. Effective Community ser-

vices story sharing (for her more than 10 years of community service); 4. South High School reading club lecture for high school students; and 5. Qiping’s Time (Q&A section to interact with people from our community).

Qiping’s curriculum vita illustrates the wonders of her achievements, but her commitment goes well beyond the print. It is remarkable that so many families that were touched through her help in Great Neck community.

Dr. Qiping Zhang is a candidate that I strongly recommend. She vows to devote herself to the library’s future vision and core community values: Inspiration, Education and Connection. Let our family go back to the library! Hence, please go to vote on October 29, 2018 and write down “Qiping Zhang” in the bottom of the first column of your ballot!

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INSURANCE Floral Park Agency Now Hiring For (2) Excellent Openings • PART TIME FILING & DATA ENTRY

Must have own tools.

Experienced w/NYS Inspection License. Nassau location.

Call Devin

516-432-6581

• PERSONAL LINES ASSISTANT

JOB OPPORTUNITY

JOB OPPORTUNITY: $17/hr NYC $14.50/hr LIIf 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 347-565-6200

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

INSIDE SALES

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

516-829-8083

We Have Openings for School Bus Drivers

AUTO MECHANIC/ TECHNICIAN

DRIVERS WANTED: Must be flexible & professional, sign on bonus, CDL & NYCTLC A PLUS Seniors/ Veterans offered discount. Call 516861-2043 or email: DR@DELUXETRANSPORTATION.COM

Some customer service, phones, no students

Join A Growing Team That Values Your Experience…..

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.

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Don’t miss an opportunity for a great job where you can serve your community and make good money too.

• Training provided to obtain your commercial drivers license

WE OFFER: • Flexible hours • 401K plans with matching funds • Health & Life insurance • Emergency family leave • Safety and attendance bonus twice a year RETIREES WELCOME! Easy to drive vans - CDL training (We will train for the road test) CALL TODAY!

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

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mechanics and bus attendants

Positions available for Nassau & Suffolk

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CAREER TRAINING

NOVENAS/PRAYERS

P/T CAREGIVER NEEDED Loving GC family seeks caregiver/driver 3 afternoons a week for 3 self-sufficient HS/MS age children. Perfect for college student or empty nester interested in earning money while having a few laughs. Please call Lisa 516-509-0663

AIRLINE CAREERS Start here.

Get trained as FAA certified Aviation Technician. Financial aid for qualified students. Job placement assistance. Call AIM for free information 866-296-7094

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

ADDICTION HELP Struggling with DRUGS or ALCOHOL? Addicted to PILLS? Talk to someone who cares. Call The Addiction Hope & Help Line for a free assessment.

1-855-995-2069

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 Mary Mother of God, Queen of Heaven and Earth I beseech thee from the bottom of my heart to succor me this necessity (make request). 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. (J.N.)

PROCUREMENT SPECIALIST wanted for Garden City, NY aerospace/military defense company.

Procure military supplies for resale through life-cycle. Source suppliers for quality, price, availability, technical support to negotiate contracts.

Analyze and coordinate procurement policies, supply chains, quality control etc. Manage compliance with technical requirements, export /import regulations etc. Evaluate /report procurement strategies, resolve issues and facilitate operations. Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration and 2-year experience required.Send resume to: NorcaTec LLC Patricia Waters, Office Manager 100 Garden City Plaza Suite 530 Garden City, NY 11530 TAX PREPARER PART TIMEin Franklin Square. Experience needed. Retirees welcome.

Call 516-358-9455 Fax resume 516-358-9483 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

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LOST & FOUND ** REWARD ** LOST BIRD COCKATIEL In Garden City Female named Chirpie yellow, grey and white.

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SITUATION WANTED

NOVENAS/PRAYERS

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)

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)

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 Woman seeking position to care for the elderly. 40 years experiences with excellent references. Please call 516-6884322 or 516-299-6548 ELDER CARE: Woman seeking position to care for the elderly. Live in, full time, prepare meals, many years experience. Please call 917-828-2809

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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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 Mary Mother of God, Queen of Heaven and Earth I beseech thee from the bottom of my heart to succor me this necessity (make request). 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. (M.F.)

PRAYER TO THE HOLY SPIRIT Holy Spirit thou who made me see everything and showed me the way to reach my ideals. Thou who gave me the divine gift to forgive and forget the wrong that is done to me, and thou who art in all instances of my life with me. I thank thee for everything and confirm once more that I never want to be separated from you no matter how great material desire may be, I want to be with thee and my loved ones in Your perpetual glory. Thank You for your love towards me and my loved ones. Pray this prayer for 3 consecutive days. After 3rd day your wish will be granted no matter how difficult it may be. Promise to publish this dialogue as soon as your favor has been granted. ( J.N.)

MARKETPLACE

ALWAYS BUYING Old Mirrors, Lamps, Clocks, Watches, Furniture, Glass-Ware, Military Items, China, Anything Old or Unusal.

LICENSED & BONDED

Call 516-344-9032 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: 516279-6378 to schedule a consultation or receive more information. www.invitedsales.com

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

BUBBA BROWN’S TREASURES 302 Main St., Port Washington, NY 516-767-6200

WANTED TO BUY LOOKING TO BUY! Oriental items, clothing, art, old & modern furniture, estates, jewelry, silver, glassware, dishes, old photos, coins & stamps, flatware. Call George 718-386-1104 or 917-775-3048 TOP CASH PAID: JEWELRY, Furniture, Art, etc. Please call 718598-3045 or 516-270-2128. www. iBuyAntiquesNYC.com

TAG SALE *BROWSE *SHOP *CONSIGN A.T. STEWART EXCHANGE CONSIGNMENT SHOP China, Silver, Crystal, Jewelry, Artwork, Furniture, Antiques, Collectibles Tues-Fri 10-4 Sat 12-4 Every Tuesday: 10% Senior Citizen Discount.

All proceeds benefit The Garden City Historical Society 109 Eleventh Street Garden City 11530 516-746-8900 email: store@atstewartexchange.org www.gardencityhistoricalsociety. org

GARAGE SALE GARDEN CITY FAMOUS SALE Friday & Saturday 10/26 & 10/27 9am4pm 58 Washington Ave Decorator Show House Furniture, Custom Draperies, Custom Bedding, Lamps, Rugs, Pillows, Linens, Towels, Home Accessories.

Designer Men’s Suits, Ties, Clothing. Designer Women’s Clothing, Handbags, Shoes & Boots. Leather Jackets. Iron Large Dog Bed & Accessories. Toys, Crafts, Gardening, Holiday Decorations, Books, Baskets.

EVERYTHING LIKE NEW GARDEN CITY MOVING SALE Saturday Oct 27 10am to 3pm 33 Pell Terrace Treadmill, Traditional Living Room Ethan Allen Sofa & Loveseat. Queen Ann chair, Sewing Machine/Cabinet, furniture, lamps, cookware, art, books, tables, tv, mirror, 3 drawer bureau, fan, gowns & MUCH MORE! *RAIN DATE 11/3* GARDEN CITY Saturday 10/27 9am to 5pm 38 Kensington Rd Kitchen Aid Mixer, rug, artwork, quality bric-a-brac, collectibles, furniture, holiday decor, china dolls, dartboard, clothing, decorative pieces.

GARDEN CITY Saturday, November 3 10am to 4pm 70 Brook St. Tables, lamps, pet equipment, cages, aquariums, outdoor equipment, glassware, etc.

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 DONATE YOUR CAR to Wheels For Wishes, benefitting Make-aWish. We offer free towing and your donation is 100% tax deductible.

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REAL ESTATE FOR RENT

APARTMENT FOR RENT GARDEN CITY BORDER APARTMENT: Huge, bright 1 bedroom, new kitchen and bath $1,725 AND studio $1,385, 1 bath, dining area, gated parking, laundry, A/C. NO BROKER FEE, near LIRR. rentals@gardencityborder.com or 516524-6965 (text or voice)

OFFICE SPACE GARDEN CITY 1565 FRANKLIN AVE Large Windowed Offices in newly built professional suite. Conference room, reception, copier, pantry included. Ample parking available. Call 516-248-3048 GARDEN CITY SOUTH PROFESSIONAL BUILDING 1st Floor Mint35 x 15 $1,750/month Available Now! Must See! Owner 516-538-7474

REAL ESTATE FOR SALE

OPEN HOUSE GARDEN CITY CONDO FOR SALE BY OWNER Saturday & Sunday 10/27 & 10/28 1pm to 4pm 222 7th Street #2G Large One Bedroom Condo in the heart of downtown Garden City.

This 800 sq ft Condo boasts newly finished Hardwood Floors, Dining Room, brand new Bathroom & Kitchen with d/w. Low maintenance & taxes.

By owner - no broker. $499,995 Call: 646-499-1684

HOMES FOR SALE GARDEN CITY Impeccably maintained Expanded Split in the Estates. Center of block. Close to Stratford School & LIRR. LR, DR, EIK, large Den. Oversized MBR w/ Walk in Closets & updated Bath.

Two additional BRs & Fam Bath.

Lower level FR/Office w/Bath. CAC, Gas Heat, new HW heater, new 200 amp service. 2 car garage, private back yard. Room to expand. Low taxes. $989,900. Principals Only.

Call 516-747-1024

LOTS FOR SALE DOCKABLE LAKE LOTS FOR SALE! Lake Hickory, North Carolina. Gated community in western N.C. Offering underground utilities, fishing, boating, swimming & more. Call now! 828-312-3765 www.lakesvip.com

OUT OF TOWN REAL ESTATE LAND AUCTION: MT. POCONO, PA. 110+ acres w/1000’ frontage Route 611. Sells at/above $1.5M. Formerly golf. Near major attractions and employers. Highway access. High visibility. *Preview: 10/28. * Auction: 11/17. Legacy Auction & Realty, AY002051.

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SERVICE DIRECTORY

SERVICES EARTHLINK HIGH SPEED INTERNET as low as $14.95/month (for the first 3 months). Reliable High Speed Fiber Optic Technology. Stream Videos, Music and More! Call Earthlink today 1-855-970-1623.

Guaranteed Life Insurance! (Ages 50 to 80). No medical exam. Affordable premiums never increase.

Benefits never decrease. Policy will only be cancelled for non payment.

855-686-5879

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COMPUTERS COMPUTER ISSUES? FREE DIAGNOSIS by GEEKS ON SITE! Virus removal, data recovery! 24/7 Emergency Service, in home repair /on line solutions. $20 off any service! 844-892-3990

DIGITAL MEDIA SERVICES MULTI MEDIA DIGITAL TRANSFERS: videos, pictures, negatives, 35mm, slides, Films: 8mm, Super8, 16mm. Audio: Reel to reel tapes, cassette tapes, LP records: 33, 45 and 78, 15% discount with ad. 718-835-2595. savethememoriesnewyork.com

HOME IMPROVEMENTS AMBIANCE PROFESSIONAL SERVICES *Handyman & Remodeling *Kitchen Installations *Furniture Assembly *Finish Carpentry *Minor Electrical & Plumbing 25 year GC Resident Lic & Ins H18E2170000 Call BOB 516-741-2154 AQUATEC LAWN SPRINKLERS Fall Drain Outs Backflow Device Tests Free Estimates Installation Service/Repairs Joe Barbato 516-775-1199 BATHROOM RENOVATIONS EASY, ONE DAY updates! We specialize in safe bathing. Grab bars, no slip flooring & seated showers.

Call for a free in home consultation: 888-657-9488

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HOME IMPROVEMENTS CJM CONTRACTING, INC. Chris Mullins. Specializing in general contracting including churches and cathedrals. All renovations, expert leak repairs, dormers/extensions, bathrooms, kitchens, basements, carpentry, roofing, flat shingle, attics, masonry, stoops, brickwork, waterproofing, pointing, windows, power washing, plumbing, electric. Small jobs welcome. Free estimates. Licensed/insured #H18C6020000.

516-428-5777 LAMPS FIXED $65 In home service. Handy Howard. 646-996-7628 MASONRY All types of stonework Pavers, Retaining Walls, Belgium Block Patios, Foundations, Seal coating, Concrete and Asphalt driveways, Sidewalks, Steps. Free Estimates Fully Licensed & Insured #H2219010000 Boceski Masonry Louie 516-850-4886 ROOF LEAKS REPAIRED All types Roofing & flashing repairs, aluminum trim work and Gutter Clean Outs. Nassau Lic# H1859520000.

B.C. Roofing & Siding, Inc. Text or call: 516-983-0860 SAFE BATHROOM RENOVATIONS in just one day! Update to safety now. Grab bars, no slip flooring & seated showers. Call for a free in home consultation 844-782-7096 SKY CLEAR WINDOW INC. Window Restorations, Outdated Hardware, skylights, Andersen Sashes, new storm windows, wood windows, chain/rope repairs, falling windows, fogged panes, mechanical repairs, wood repairs, restorations, all brands. Call Mr. Fagan, 45 years experience. 631-3857975 www.skyclearwindow.com rob@skyclearwindow.com

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MATH, SAT, ACT TUTOR: Algebra, Geometry, Algebra 2 plus Trig, Pre-Calc, AP Calculus. Norm 625-3314

PRIVATE SPANISH TUTOR: Let me help fill the learning gap that hinders your child’s success in Spanish. William Cullen, M.A. Spanish.

Cell/text 516-509-8174. Email: wdctutor@aol.com

PRIVATE TUTORING FOR GRADES K-6 Give your child a helping hand! Licensed NYC/NYS Dept of Education teacher available to tutor students grades K-6.

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PAINTING & PAPERHANGING INTERIOR & EXTERIOR PAINTING Plastering, Taping, Sheetrock Skim Cutting, Old Wood Refinish, Staining, Wallpaper Removal & Hanging, Paint Removal, Power Washing, Wood Replacement JOHN MIGLIACCIO Licensed & Insured #80422100000 Call John anytime: 516-901-9398 (Cell) 516483-3669 (Office) JV PAINT HANDYMAN SERVICES Interior-Exterior Specialist Painting, Wallpapering, Plastering, Spackling, Staining, Power Washing.

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ENGLISH, ACT, SAT TUTOR: 25+ year experience Critical Reading, Writing, Grammar, Essays. Lynne 625-3314

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PARTY HELP LADIES & GENTLEMEN RELAX & ENJOY Your Next Party! Catering and Experienced Professional Services for Assisting with Preparation, Serving and Clean Up Before, During and After Your Party Bartenders Available. Call Kate at 516-248-1545

TUTORING MATHEMATICS TUTOR: MATHEMATICS PROFESSOR Geometry, Trigonometry, Algebra, Statistics, Calculus, SAT. Call: 516-741-1762

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WILSON CERTIFIED tutor available to motivate and work with your elementary-middle school aged child. Reading, math, writing, executive functioning (study/organizational)skills. 30+ years special education experience. Contact Michelle at shellycotter112@gmail. com or 516-428-1427

HIGH QUALITY SERVICE, reliable, own transportation with great references. Please call Mirian at 516-642-6624

College Advisory Services, Inc. College Counseling. College selection, application and resume preparation, essay development, application submission, financial aid consultation. 30+ years experience. Art Mandel, former Director of Guidance, Roslyn Schools. 516-643-4345 collegeadvisor1@gmail.com

INSTRUCTION CLARINET, SAXOPHONE AND FLUTE LESSONS: Professional musician NYSSMA Adjudicator, motivating lessons in your home.

All ages, beginner to advanced.

NYSSMA Prep. Bernie Rose,Ph.D. 646-662-9373 PIANO LESSONS By Ira Baslow.

Experience the joy of playing the piano. Private lessons in your home, free no-obligation piano lesson, all levels, all styles, all ages. Beginners a specialty. 516-312-1054 www.iwantmypianolessons.com

CLEANING

HOUSE CLEANING: Excellent service, with great references, reliable, own transportation, English speaking. Call Selma 516-690-3550 HOUSEKEEPING AVAILABLE Young Polish woman available for housekeeping. Trustworthy, friendly and highly reliable, value for impeccable standards in maintaining a clean and pleasant environment for clients. Excellent references.

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STRONG ARM CLEANING: Residential and commercial cleaning specialist, post construction clean ups, shipping and waxing floors, move ins and move outs. Free estimates. Bonded and insured.

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1-866-We Junk It: All phases of rubbish removal & demolition.

Residential, commercial, construction sites, kitchens, bathrooms, clean-ups, attics, basements, floods, fires.

All size dumpsters. Same day service. Fully insured. Bob Cat Service. www.1866wejunkit.com 516-541-1557

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CLEANING AVAILABLE EXPERIENCED POLISH HOUSE CLEANER Good references, ability. Very honest, reliable, responsible and hard working. Own transportation.

English speaking. Flexible days and hours. Reasonable rates.

I will do a good job. Call or text 516-589-5640 CLEANING AVAILABLE Houses and Apartments. Flexible days and hours. Experienced, reasonable prices. Very good references.

Own transportation. Please call 516-272-5154

COLLEGE ARTS ADMISSIONS: College Counseling in the Visual and Performing Arts. Dance, Musical Theatre & Drama. Film, Instrumental & Vocal Music. Audio Recording & Production. Theatre Technology & Production. Visual & Graphic Arts. Resume, Essays, Repertoire Lists. Michele Zimmerman. 516-353-6255 CollegeArtsAdmissions@gmail.com www.

CollegeArtsAdmissions.com COMPLETE JUNK REMOVAL/ DEMOLITION SERVICE: Strong Arm Contracting Inc. We haul anything and everything. Entire contents of home or office. We clean it up and take it away. Residential/ Commercial. Bonded/Insured. Free estimates. 516-538-1125 NATURAL STONE RESTORATION & MAINTENANCE: Granite, marble, limestone, other natural stones; repair cracks & chips, remove stains & scratches, cleaning, polishing. Licensed/ insured. Marlon 516-205-9635 www.naturalstonerandm.com naturalstonerestoration19@gmail. com NEAT FREAKS: Your organizing Gurus! Voted 2018 North Shore’s #1 Organizer. Home or office.

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A & J MOVING & STORAGE: Established 1971. Long Island and New York State specialists.

Residential, Commercial, Piano & Organ experts. Boxes available.

Free estimates. www.ajmoving. com 516-741-2657 114 Jericho Tpk, Mineola NYDOT# 10405

Cuomo to buy ads for Senate races

BY LU K E TOR R A N C E Gov. Andrew Cuomo is entering the New York Senate race.

No, he is not leaving his post as the head of the state. But with more than $9 million cash on hand — far more than the $210,000 of his Republican challenger, Mike Molinaro — Cuomo has started throwing his excess campaign money into the state Senate races.

Cuomo announced last week that he will kick off a $2 million TV and digital ad campaign for state Senate candidates through the state Democratic Committee. The first ad is in support of two Long Island Democrats: James Gaughran and Town of North Hempstead Councilwoman"Anna Kaplan, who is challenging Elaine Phillips (R-Flower Hill).

The ad warns that Republicans want to roll back gun safety laws, keep the cap on state and local tax deductions and take away a woman’s right to choose abortion.

“Governor Cuomo needs Democrats like Jim Gaughran and Anna Kaplan in

the State Senate, because the choice is clear,” the ad says. “For Long Islanders, it’s not red or blue, it’s right and wrong.”

According to a report in the New York Daily News, some Senate Democrats had complained that the governor and the Democratic Committee he controls had spent almost nothing on the campaigns.

But a source in the Cuomo administration said the Kaplan/Gaughran ad was just the beginning, and that the governor would play a bigger role in key races throughout the final three weeks of the campaigns.

Currently, the state Senate has 31 Republicans and 32 Democrats, with one Democrat caucusing with Republicans, giving them control. Republicans have controlled the state Senate since 2014; should the Democrats take the majority this election, they would control the state Assembly, state Senate and the governorship.

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Bipartisan support to reinstitute 6th Continued from Page 2 Since the merger of the two precincts, there have been a number of calls by residents and local officials to bring the Manhassetbased precinct back. Republican legislators in Nassau sent Curran a letter urging its reopening.

Manhasset is now part of the 3rd Precinct North Subdivision, which also includes Great Neck and Roslyn.

“The rudiments of services that the 3rd Precinct North is providing has not necessarily been problematic, but a full-fledged

precinct gives us the maximum service to cover the wide area that the 3rd Precinct North currently covers,” said Richard Bentley, president of the Council of Greater Manhasset Civic Associations.

The former headquarters of the 6th Precinct, located at 100 Community Drive in Manhasset, now functions as a 24/7 community policing center.

The center is staffed by two problem-oriented police officers who try to assist residents in quality of life problems.

“Following the closure of the

Sixth Precinct, the facility has been minimally staffed and at times fallen into extensive disrepair, resulting in unnecessary overtime and repair expenses,”# Legislator Ellen Birnbaum (DGreat Neck) said in a statement.

“This is contrary to the initially stated goal of achieving millions in annual savings through a precinct consolidation plan that was never fully executed.”

Chuck McCarthy, president of the Plandome Heights Civic Association, is an advocate for the return of the 6th Precinct.

“It is a part of the fabric of our village,” he said.

He added that the 6th Precinct facility was donated to the village by the Whitney family, which was prominent in Manhasset in the early 1900s and donated a number of village institutions.

“If you have just a 3rd# Precinct open, it covers a tremendous area and the supervisors have to do twice as much,” Nicolello said.

“If you separate them, there’s more direct supervision for each officer.”

COMMUNITY NEWS

Northwell invests in AI-enabled platform Gauss Surgical, an AI-driven healthcare technology company, raised $20 million in Series C funding from Northwell Health and SoftBank Ventures Korea, the global early-stage venture capital arm of SoftBank Group, as well as from the LS Polaris Innovation Fund and seven other leading U.S. health systems. The proceeds of the round will be used to accelerate the adoption of its Triton platform in hospitals and to develop new AI-driven applications for the operating room.

The company’s flagship product, Triton, monitors surgical blood loss in real time using digital imaging and machine learning on the iPad. It has received de novo approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and a European CE mark. It is in increasingly widespread use in hospitals across the United States; so far, Triton has been adopted by 50 hospitals which perform more than 200,000 infant deliveries each year.

Doctors have traditionally relied on their own subjective

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Triton estimates blood loss in real time by analyzing images of surgical sponges and canisters taken with an iPad in the operating room. visual estimates of blood loss by eyeballing the surgical field. This practice is notoriously inaccurate.# Triton captures rapid scans of blood-containing sponges and canisters and uses computer vision and machine learning to estimate blood loss with significantly higher accuracy and precision.

According to a recent study of

2,781 caesarean section patients published in the American Journal of Perinatology, implementing Triton was associated with significant increases in recognition of maternal hemorrhage and significant decreases in blood product transfusions and hospital length of stay.

“The practical application

of AI in hospitals will be a major growth driver in the medical technology industry, especially in addressing high-cost, high-impact unmet clinical needs,” said Siddarth Satish, founder and Chief Executive Officer of Gauss. “We are pleased to be strategically aligned with investors who bring significant operational experience both in AI-enabled services and in healthcare as we scale our platform.”

Like several of the healthcare systems investing in this round, Northwell Health is already using Triton in its hospital delivery rooms.# “Gauss has shown a real impact in improved quantification of blood loss in our obstetrical patients and helps refine our treatment approach to maternal hemorrhage,” said Michael Nimaroff, Senior Vice President of OB-GYN Services at Northwell Health. “Reducing maternal mortality and morbidly has become a major patient safety priority at Northwell and at hospitals around the nation.”

Tickle named to Buckley’s board Buckley Country Day School is proud to announce that Plandome resident Gary Tickle has been named to its Board of Trustees.

Tickle is currently the CEO of Hain Celestial, North America — a leading natural and organic food company based in Lake Success.

He is an Australian by birth and a dual citizen of Australia and New Zealand. Tickle has over two decades of diverse experience in the consumer pack-

aged goods industry across the globe.

He was previously with Nestle, as CEO of Nestle New Zealand, regional business head of South Asia based in India, and Global Strategic Business Unit Head based in Switzerland, before coming to the US to be President and CEO of Nestle Nutrition North America.

Over the course of his career, Tickle has held a number of board positions including

Chairman of the Board of the Infant Nutrition Council of America and vice chair of the Food and Grocery Council of New Zealand.

He holds an MBA from Deakin University in Australia, a BBus in Operations Management, and post-graduate degree in Finance.

In his travels, Tickle has furthered his education at London Business School and IMD, Switzerland. He and his wife, Megan, have two children.

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LIU soccer season nearing conclusion

BY S A M A N T H A S A M A N T The LIU Post men’s and women’s soccer teams are wrapping up their regular seasons.

The men’s team has a season overall record of 9-4-0, and the women’s overall record is 9-2-3.

The season goals for the men’s team, according to Coach Michael Mordocco, have been to place “in the top four in the league and host the conference game.” Mordocco had his team take it “game by game” during the fall 2018 season.

“It’s been a pleasure working with these guys,” Mordocco said, expressing the high level of work his team has done this season, as well as the high level of maturity of his players. Lukas Ostermann, a graduate student from Germany, has scored 13 goals this season, Mordocco said, about one of his key players.

But, he commended all of his players,

noting that team work is extremely important and that “all the returners have been a great asset on our team,” trying “to improve every day.”

Mordocco is hopeful that his team will go to NEC and DII championships. “I think we have the talent, motivation and the team to strive towards it. We are just focusing on game by game, trying to win our regular season. We will see what happens from there.

Anything that happens after is a bonus.”

The men’s team plays Jefferson University on Wednesday, Oct. 24 and NYIT Saturday, Oct. 27 to finish its regular season. The women’s team plays Jefferson University on Monday, Oct. 22 and Stonehill College on Saturday, Oct. 27 to finish its season.

This article was originally published in the Pioneer, the award-winning student newspaper of LIU Post, www.liupostpioneer.com, and is republished here by Blank Slate Media with the permission of the Pioneer.

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Continued from Page 16 groundwater contamination problems, New York State announced on October 2, 2018, that it will provide $14.25 million to mitigate water quality problems caused by emerging contaminants, chemicals being detected in wells and groundwater, but are not yet regulated by state or federal drinking water standards.

Three communities will receive funds.

Wainscott will receive $9.7 million to extend public water supply mains to residents not yet connected to a public water system.

South Huntington Water District will receive $3 million to remove 1,4-dioxane from a water supply well. Bethpage Water District will receive $1.65 million to treat 1,4-dioxane.

LICAP Renewed For Another 5-year Term: The Long Island Commission for Aquifer Protection received approval from Suffolk and Nassau County legislatures to continue in operation for another 5-year period.

LICAP was scheduled to sunset in December 2018.

Even though LICAP has not completed four of the eight direct mandates given to it when it was formed in 2013, LICAP’s term was extended.

In each county, the legislative members became involved in serious and heartfelt debates on the work and value of LICAP. The inherent conflict of interest at LICAP was a major point of debate. The principle

leadership of LICAP is made up of the Suffolk County Water Authority, and two other water-supplier professional associations.

SCWA boasted to county legislators that it drafted the authorizing ordinances that created LICAP. Even though LICAP has received $450,000 from New York State, it asked and was granted an additional $100,000 per year for the next five years from the two counties.

This would bring the total funding promised to LICAP to nearly $1 million. Yet, LICAP has failed to complete a groundwater protection strategy or propose a regional management entity (which LICAP refuses to do). Water for Long Island and a number of other groups and members of the public spoke against the effort to reauthorize LICAP. Glen Cove Nears a Fix for Freon Contamination in Its Drinking Water: Of the six drinking water wells serving the city of Glen Cove, three have been affected by high Freon 22 levels.

The city has closed wells on and off as the Freon 22 levels have fluctuated. The city decided, as an interim measure, to purchase and install components of an unused air stripping system that could more quickly be made functional. This would return the affected well to service sooner while awaiting a custom-designed air stripping system to be constructed.

The city expects the interim air stripper to receive final approval for use in October 2018.

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There won’t be money for stimulus, paying for infrastructure or keeping teachers and police employed; interest rates are already pretty much as low as they can go (Trump is attacking the Fed chair for daring to raise interest rates to stem inflation); and economies around the globe, also straining, will not be inclined to help the United States.

Certainly, China won’t be buying up U.S. treasuries.

Trump could care less, though. He anticipates leaving the White House the multibillion dollar man, with lots of deals in the works. But millions of Americans will find their retirement, their college fund, their hope for owning a home dashed. Again.

Trump should have used the economic boom to pay down the deficit, forge publicprivate partnerships to rebuild infrastructure for the 21st century, invest in precision medicine and a health care system that actually works, instead of chalking up an $800 billion deficit this year, rising to $2 trillion in the next few years, and sending the national debt soaring – something that Republicans only obsess about when a Democrat is in the White House.

He doesn’t care because if the Democrats retake the House in the midterms, he will have Democrats to blame.

Trump knows people vote their outrage.

To the extent people feel more secure economically, they become complacent.

Only 12 percent of Americans say the economy is their biggest issue.

Most say health care – and the prospect of losing coverage for pre-existing conditions – is their greatest concern, which is why Trump and the Republicans have been lying about caring to preserve this part of Obamacare, and goosing up fears about aliens invading the border.

Indeed, turnout will turn on which side is angrier: Republicans have already gotten what they wanted: a partisan hack on the Supreme Court for decades to come who will continue to strip away voting rights, workers rights, environmental protection and protect Trump from prosecution.

Democrats should be incensed at how Republican control of Congress has basically disenfranchised two thirds of America and that with Republicans in power is states, voter suppression has revived the tactics of Jim Crow.

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Kaplan, Phillips battle at candidates night Continued from Page 20 Bill Cutrone, president of the Lakeville Estates Civic Association, asked the candidates to keep personal comments to themselves.

Democrats sought to attach those bills to unrelated legislation focusing on hunters registering to become organ donors when applying for a license, according to the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle. The state Senate voted to remove the amendments, finding them not germane.

Phillips highlighted her support of legislation passed earlier this year barring convicted domestic abusers from owning guns.

“It is the first piece of gun legislation that has passed in New York state in five years,” Phillips said. “I also voted for the red flag bill in the Judiciary Committee so all you have to do, please, is check my voting record, because I am honestly tired of people misrepresenting where I stand on guns.”

On taxes, Phillips said she supports making the 2 percent tax cap permanent and said only Democrats in the state Senate voted against it “This really is a key difference between us: as a mayor, as senator, I have cut taxes, I have made it more affordable to live on Long Island,” Phillips, a former mayor of Flower Hill, said.

“My opponent has raised taxes, raised taxes five of the six times and even voted to override the property tax cap.”

Phillips also said that Democrats like New York Mayor Bill De Blasio and Lt. Gov. Kathy Hochul have said “one of the best things that could happen for New York City” is a Democraticcontrolled Senate.

Kaplan said that after overriding the tax cap, she listened to residents and understood “it was the wrong thing to do.” The town budget has since remained within the tax cap for four straight years, she said, and the town plans to extend that streak to five.

“And not only that, we’ve increased our rating from AA+ to AAA; we are the best government-run town in all of Long Island,” Kaplan said. “We have the highest rating that any municipality could receive. I think that’s the result of my hard work, with the administration and the supervisor.”

She said the 2 percent tax cap will remain.

“I’m a Long Islander, my home is in Long Island, my family is in Long Island, I will always protect Long Island,” Kaplan said. “Don’t group me with anybody. Judge me based on me and what I’ve done and my record in Town Hall.”

Phillips said her commitment to reducing taxes testifies to her dedication to affordability. She also said she pushed for protections on the Belmont development project.

Kaplan expressed support for “more affordable housing” and state help in making it happen through tax credits. She cited the Town Board’s approv-

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Anna Kaplan and Elaine Phillips defended their respective records last Wednesday night, tackling issues like guns, taxes and one party control. ing the cleanup of a brownfield site and using it to create affordable housing for seniors as an example.

“We need to do a similar thing for our younger generation,” Kaplan said, adding the funding is available from the state.

Both Phillips and Kaplan highlighted Project Independence in North Hempstead, which offers services to seniors.

Kaplan said it should be a model for a statewide program.

The candidates were also asked about the Child Victims Act, which would extend the civil statute of limitations age to 50, the criminal statute of limitations to 28, and feature a oneyear look back window.

Phillips said “there is nothing more horrible than to steal the innocence of a child.” That’s why Republicans supported cre-

ating a $300 million child victims fund and eliminating the criminal statute of limitations, she said, which will aid the vast majority of victims.

“We didn’t just throw out the issue for political gain,” Phillips said. “We came up with a common sense solution.”

Phillips added, “It’s going to take people sitting down at a table” to fully solve the issue.

Kaplan said she wants to pass “sensible laws which will deter people” from committing such a crime and that" public funds shouldn’t be the sole source used to benefit the victims.

“We need to hold people who have done the wrong to be held responsible,” Kaplan said.

“It’s about time for us to pass this law.”

Asked about legislation to legalize recreational marijuana,

Phillips said the governor had set up a task force on the issue.

She then discussed where her “efforts have been” – the heroin and opioid epidemic – and said there have been hearings all around the state and $247 million in “record funding” delivered to combat it.

Kaplan agreed that it is an epidemic and expressed support to help addicts, but said the question was about marijuana.

Kaplan then said she would review the results of the task force and that, even though she comes from a “very conservative family” and wouldn’t personally advocate for marijuana, there would be public forums should legislation arise to get public input on the issue.

There was less debate between D’Urso and Divins, who at times shared laughs or – literally – patted each other on the back.

D’Urso expressed support for affordable housing, walkable cities, maintaining the 2 percent tax cap, passing the Child Victims Act, and getting public input on whether or not to legalize marijuana.

Divins emphasized increasing tax deductions for infrastructure improvements for seniors, making caregiver expenses deductible, the establishment of the child victims fund, maintaining the 2 percent property tax cap and opposition to legalizing marijuana.

Both candidates underscored the importance of addressing climate change.

A touch of Versailles in Kings Pt. for $50M Continued from Page 22 “The level of quality and detail is something personally I have not seen in any of the houses I’ve been in on Long Island,” Friedman said.

Among its features are a

marble fountain imported from the Rothschild Estate in France, parquet de Versailles flooring, boiserie from centuries-old French chateaus, Verre Églomisé mirrors, pietre dure floors of highly polished marble and a

limestone exterior.

The gated property also has an outdoor stone deck, a personal dock, library, an indoor movie theater, a workout area with a waterfront view, a blue marble pool, six bedrooms, 17

bathrooms, nine fireplaces and elevators.

The home was originally listed for $35 million. The price increased to $50 million on Oct. 2.

While Kings Point is no stranger to high-end homes, the

$50 million price tag makes it the most expensive house currently for sale on the Great Neck peninsula, according to listings from realtor.com.

Annual property taxes on the home amount to $101,868.

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