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Interim pick at Herricks James Ruck, 72, to lead high school By N o a h M a n s k a r The Herricks school board last Wednesday appointed James Ruck, a 48-year educator who has worked in five school districts, as Herricks High School’s interim principal. Photo courtesy of Stolis Hadjicharalambous Ruck has a “wealth of experience” as a teacher, principal and superintendent in Westchester and Suffolk counties and shares many of Herricks’ values, dis“The Last Straw,” the second feature film by Stolis Hadjicharalambous, son of Harry Hadjicharalambous of Harry’s trict Superintendent Fino Celano Hilltop Delicatessen in Williston Park, will premiere Aug. 22 in Bellmore. See story on page 3. said. “Everyone who we’ve spoken to who has worked with him has just praised him for his knowledge, his talent and his ability to work with people — parents and students and teachers,” Celano said. “He really is a caring and child-centered, studentcentered, principal.” Ruck, 72, will officially start building initiatives, some North school district. “... The longer annually, Beattie said. at Herricks Aug. 15, when cur- B y N o a h M a n s k a r Seven North Shore school Shore districts are worried long you wait, the more problematic rent principal Samuel Thompson districts — East Williston, Time is money when it delays in state reviews of their that is.” will leave to become principal of The state Education Depart- Great Neck, Manhasset, Minecomes to construction, local projects could mean they will Farmingdale High School. end up costing more, or require ment on average takes about ola, Port Washington, Roslyn school officials say. Continued on Page 43 As they plan and start large planners to trim them to stay 22 weeks to review school and Sewanhaka — have projbuilding projects, a department ects waiting for state approval, within their budgets. “The biggest issue with spokeswoman, Jeanne Beattie, state records show. Final plans the delay is you estimated said in an email. An influx of for some were submitted as the cost with old money,” projects in recent years has left early as February 2015, records said Michael Nagler, super- the department’s staff of nine show. Continued on Page 44 intendent of the Mineola to review about 2,000 projects
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Reviews raise school project costs State delays linked to lack of staff; 7 N. Shore districts have work pending
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Four North Shore hospitals are among the best for adults in the New York metropolitan area, according to a U.S. News & World Report analysis. Ranked fifth in the region, St. Francis Hospital in Roslyn is the best-ranked Long Island hospital in its 10th straight year on the publication’s 27th annual “Best Hospitals” list. Winthrop-University Hospital in Mineola ranked eighth, Long Island Jewish Medical Center in New Hyde Park ranked ninth and North Shore University Hospital in Manhasset tied for 16th on the list of the top hospitals in New York City, northern New Jersey, Westchester County and Long Island. St. Francis also ranked 16th for cardiology and heart surgery, 19th for gastroenterology and gastrointestinal surgery, and 34th for geriatrics among nearly 5,000 hospitals nationwide that U.S. News & World Report reviews. “We take great pride in receiving this nationwide recognition for the past decade,” said Ruth E. Hennessey, St. Francis’ executive vice president and chief administrative officer, in a statement. “Being consistently ranked in cardiology and heart surgery as well as noncardiac specialties is a true testament to our ongoing mission of providing the very best in patient care.” Winthrop-University Hospital is ranked 49th in the nation for geriatrics and got eight “high-performing” designations for other specialties. NYU Langone Medical Center, with which Winthrop is planning to merge, ranked second in the New York region and 10th overall in the nation. Winthrop’s Children’s Medical Center also
Herricks eyes construction needs By N o a h M a n s k a r
Winthrop-University Hospital is the eighth-best hospital in the New York metropolitan area, according to U.S. News & World Report. ranked nationally in 10 specialties last month on U.S. News & World Report’s similar list of top children’s hospitals. “These impressive rankings, both regional and national, are a testament to the high quality care that is delivered each day across a range of specialties by our superior clinical team,” said John F. Collins, Winthrop’s president and chief executive. Long Island Jewish Medical Center ranked 47th nationally for gynecology and was marked “high-performing” in eight other specialties. North Shore University Hospital got two “highperforming” designations but no national rankings for specialties. The hospitals are run by Northwell Health, which had nine other hospitals get “high-
performing” marks. Its Cohen Children’s Medical Center ranked nationally for seven specialties on last month’s list of children’s hospitals. U.S. News & World Report uses data on patient safety, survival, nurse staffing and other elements to develop its hospital rankings. The list ranks hospitals nationally for certain specialties and specific procedures and also creates a national “honor roll” of 20 outstanding hospitals in addition to its regional and statewide rankings. In addition to NYU Langone’s No. 10 honor roll rank, New York-Presbyterian University Hospital of Columbia and Cornell ranked sixth and Mt. Sinai Hospital ranked 15th in the nation.
Herricks School District administrators want residents to help them decide what should be on a $25 million list of construction projects and how to fund them. Administrators will incorporate their feedback from three Herricks school board meetings in September into a possible December bond referendum, Superintendent Fino Celano said. “We want to be totally transparent about it, have plenty of opportunity for the community to provide input about it,” Celano said. The state-mandated five-year building condition survey the district completed last year created a long list of projects that administrators have said is worth about $70 million. A district committee narrowed that down to a $25 million list of high-priority projects that administrators want parents to help them refine, Celano said. It includes new windows, doors and ventilation systems at the district’s five schools, the Herricks Community Center and the Shelter Rock Academy, as well as over-
hauls to the cafeteria and football stadium at Herricks High School. Herricks may not have to borrow all that money, Celano said — the district has $1.7 million in a capital reserve fund and will determine whether to add more in August. A bond on which residents would vote in December would cover the difference, he said. “As we go through the process of determining or fine-tuning the list and then determining what’s going to be paid for out of this capital reserve and what would be funded through a bond, we would really like to have the community’s input,” Celano said. The district wants to get moving on a bond now because it could be at least two years before any of the work gets done, largely due to a project review backlog in the state Education Department, Celano said. If approved, the bond should not cause property taxes to increase because the district will start borrowing new money as it finishes paying off $23.1 million in existing debt, said Lisa Rutkoske, Herricks’ assistant superintendent for business. Continued on Page 43
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Replacing this wall at Herricks High School will likely be part of a $25 million package of capital projects in the district.
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W.P. deli provides inspiration for film Harry’s deli’s ‘colorful clientele’ find way into Mineola resident’s movie that is set to debut By N o a h M a n s k a r When he was growing up, Stolis Hadjicharalambous spent summers working in Harry’s Hilltop Delicatessen, his father Harry’s Williston Park deli, which has become a mainstay on Hillside Avenue. The 29-year-old Mineola resident still works there part-time when he’s not making corporate films or his own movies under the banner of Hilltop Studios, his film production company named after the deli. “It’s a lot more intense behind the counter than behind the camera, I think, sometimes,” Hadjicharalambous said. The “colorful clientele” Hadjicharalambous met behind that counter influenced “The Last Straw,” his second feature film, which will premiere Aug. 13 at the Bellmore Movies and Showplace in Bellmore. Hadjicharalambous said he incorporated local words and phrases into the script for the film, a high school comedy about a group of teens who try to overthrow their school’s dean. For in-
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Stolis Hadjicharalambous (right) on the set of his second feature film “The Last Straw,” which will premiere Aug. 22 in Bellmore. stance, Hadjicharalambous said he heard “shmegegge,” a Yiddish word for an annoying person, from a Harry’s Hilltop customer and later had one character throw the insult at another. “You can ask anyone that comes to Harry’s Hilltop — it’s filled with characters, so I’d al-
ways keep my ear open for anything funny,” Hadjicharalambous said. “... Plus my dad’s a pretty funny guy, so his sense of humor kind of rubbed off on me.” “The Last Straw” started as Hadjicharalambous’ thesis project at Manhattan’s School for the Visual Arts, he said.
The original short film centered on a dramatic action sequence where the characters shoot spitballs at each other rather than bullets, and “it spitballed from there,” he said. Around that scene he built a full plot in which spitballs become the weapon of choice for
the teens who decide they’ve had enough with their dean’s draconian ways, Hadjicharalambous said. “It’s a light, fun comedy and it’s colorful and it’s goofy and it’s pure entertainment,” he said. A native of Jackson Heights, Queens, Hadjicharalambous shot “The Last Straw” at Monsignor McClancy Memorial High School in East Elmhurst, his alma mater, where he developed his love for film and where he met many of the film’s actors, he said. Filming finished in 2015 and took two years because Hadjicharalambous and his crew were “at the mercy of the actual school schedule” and could only shoot on weekends, holidays and other times when classes weren’t in session, he said. But the school was accommodating, and he wasn’t interested in rushing anyway, he said. “This day and age, you have a good movie, but a great movie is what’s going to get you seen and recognized, so we tried not to settle for anything less than great,” he said. Continued on Page 43
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Suozzi seeks ‘Fix Washington’ line Gets ballot petitions for new party aimed at voters unwilling to vote for a Democrat By N o a h M a n s k a r Democratic congressional candidate Tom Suozzi is trying to run on a “Fix Washington” ballot line to attract 3rd Congressional District voters who won’t want to pull the lever for a Democrat, he announced Monday. Suozzi’s campaign will file a petition with thousands of signatures with the state Board of Elections in Albany to run on the line, which stands for his pledge to find compromise and solve problems in a polarized Congress, he said. Suozzi also slammed as “hypocritical” attacks by the National Republican Congressional Committee and state Sen. Jack Martins, his Republican opponent in the North Shore district, on property tax hikes Suozzi implemented as Nassau County executive. Martins raised Mineola’s property taxes 31 percent as mayor, Suozzi said. “Fighting about who raised property taxes is not the way to fix the problems in Washington, D.C.,” Suozzi said. “It’s a cynical little game by a bunch of phony-baloney
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Democrat Tom Suozzi is pushing for a “Fix Washington” ballot line to appear alongside his Democratic line, an option he said could attract voters who don’t want to vote for a Democrat. hypocrites.” Named after his 2004 “Fix Albany” campaign to reform the state Legislature, the “Fix Washington” line is an effort to attract Republican, Conservative and Independent voters exasperated with a Congress that gets re-elected de-
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spite few results and low approval ratings, Suozzi said. The line will come with policy positions on issues such as campaign finance and congressional redistricting which Suozzi will flesh out in his campaign, he said. Suozzi similarly had a “Team
Glen Cove” line when running for mayor of Glen Cove, his home city. The Board of Elections must find at least 3,500 registered 3rd District voters signed Suozzi’s “Fix Washington” for it to accompany his Democratic line on the Nov. 8 ballot. If it does, Suozzi still will have fewer ballot lines than Martins, of Old Westbury, who will be on the ballot for the Republican, Conservative and Reform parties. Calling him “Taxin’ Tom,” the NRCC and, to a lesser extent, Martins’ campaign have slammed Suozzi in recent weeks for raising property taxes 19.4 percent in 2003 and 3.9 percent in 2005, taking a $65,000 raise and imposing an unpopular 2.5 percent home energy tax during his eight years as county executive. Suozzi called those attacks “sheer, utter hypocrisy” because Martins voted for six property tax increases as mayor of Mineola to rein in the village’s $33 million deficit and voted to increase his mayoral salary 61 percent from $18,000 to $29,000. Suozzi’s tax hikes helped bring
Nassau from the brink of fiscal collapse in the early 2000s and led to 13 bond rating upgrades, he said. “The record’s clear,’’ Suozzi said. “I did the right thing.” But E. O’Brien Murray, Martins’ senior campaign strategist, said higher taxes “did nothing to right the ship in Nassau County.” Martins was re-elected as Mineola’s mayor and as a state senator multiple times, Murray said, while voters “overwhelmingly rejected” Suozzi in 2009 and 2013 after he implemented the home energy tax. “If he can’t fix Nassau County, what makes him think the voters want him to try to fix anything?” Murray said. Chris Pack, an NRCC spokesman, called Suozzi’s bid for a “Fix Washington” line “laughable” and said Suozzi is “trying to deflect from his record of raising taxes on Long Island families.” “There is only one candidate in this race who has cut taxes and that’s Jack Martins,” Pack said in an email, pointing to tax cuts Martins fought for in the state Senate.
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LIRR fare hike planned Don’t punish for for next year, budget says opt-outs: Phillips By N o a h M a n s k a r Riding the Long Island Rail Road will likely get more expensive next year as the Metropolitan Transportation Authority plans a fare hike across its transit systems. The projected 4 percent overall increase follows the MTA’s plan to raise fares and tolls every two years to keep up with inflation and expense increases, according to the 2017 MTA preliminary budget. The authority plans to collect about $737.4 million from LIRR fares next year, about $24.3 million more than expected for 2016. Any hikes would take effect March 1 after public hearings and a final decision by the MTA board, Bob Foran, the MTA’s chief financial officer, said at the July 27 board meeting. “Before we put in place a fare and toll increase, it has to be studied by staff, recommendations made to the board for how it would be structured,” Foran said.
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Proposed LIRR fare hikes will vary for commuters because the railroad charges different rates depending on the time and distance of the trip, the MTA says. The MTA expects to see an extra $50 million in annual savings starting next year and have balanced budgets through 2019, but a $371 million deficit is projected for 2020, the budget says. The authority’s “financial situation will quickly deteriorate” without the planned growth in fare revenue, the budget says. The MTA also gets revenue from taxes and state and local subsidies. The $8.1 billion the MTA plans to collect in fares and tolls next year covers about half its operating costs — nearly $15.7 billion — and about a third of all costs including capital expenses, according to the budget. LIRR trips to the North Fork, Fire Island and the Hamptons will likely get easier in coming years as part of $36 million in new service included in the
MTA’s four-year financial plan. The railroad plans to run weekend trains to the North Fork year-round and will add trains to connect with Fire Island ferries in the summer, an effort to reduce congestion on trains to the Hamptons, the MTA says. The LIRR also plans to repair and replace seat covers on its single- and double-decker trains and speed up the expansion of its West Side train yard, the MTA says. The MTA’s financial plan also estimates a design for the expansion of the LIRR’s Port Washington train yard will be complete by May 2018 at a cost of $500,000. Design work has not yet started for the project, which the LIRR announced in 2013. Reach reporter Noah Manskar by e-mail at nmanskar@ theislandnow.com or by phone at 516.307.1045 x204. Also follow us on Twitter @noahmanskar and Facebook at facebook.com/ theislandnow.
by J oe N i k i c Elaine Phillips, a Republican candidate for the state Senate, on Monday called for the U.S. Department of Education to withdraw a proposed amendment to the Every Student Succeeds Act, which she said would “hurt Long Island’s world-class schools.” The changes, which were proposed by U.S. Education Secretary John King, would penalize schools that did not have at least a 95 percent participation rate on the Common Core English language arts and math exams. “Our children are more than just numbers, and it’s time to let children learn, and let teachers teach,” Phillips said in a letter to King. “We all support higher standards for learning, but your agency needs to take a step back and find better ways that rely less on stressful testing and punishing students, families, schools and entire communities for failing to achieve arbitrary goals.”
She is set to face off in November in the 7th Senate District race against Democrat Adam Haber, a former commodities trader-turned-restaurateur and Roslyn school board trustee, who previously ran for the same seat and lost in 2014 to outgoing state Sen. Jack Martins. Phillips, who is the mayor of the Village of Flower Hill, said that the Education Department should not punish school districts when parents exercise their right to withhold their children from taking standardized tests. According to King’s proposed changes, districts that fail to achieve a 95 percent participation rate on state exams could face receiving a “lower summative” school rating, being assigned the “lowest performance level on the state’s Academic Achievement indicator,” being targeted by the state for support and improvement or “another equally rigorous state-determined action.” Continued on Page 39
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Improve services for vets: Martins Congressional candidate outlines proposals at Williston Park roundtable discussion By N o a h M a n s k a r The federal government should better fund healthcare and other services for veterans and make it easier for them to transition into civilian jobs, Republican congressional candidate Jack Martins said Thursday. At a roundtable discussion in Williston Park with about 20 veterans, Martins said service members should get certificates for skills they learn in the military and advocated more funding and accountability for the Veterans Health Administration hospital system. “The commitment that was made is, you serve your country and these are things that are going to be there when you come home,” said Martins, a state senator from Old Westbury. “They’re non-negotiable.” Martins, running against Democrat Tom Suozzi to replace Rep. Steve Israel in the 3rd Congressional District, expressed skepticism about the finding by the U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness this month that Long Island has essentially eradicated homelessness among veterans. Nassau County’s recent 3.8 percent unemployment rate also “doesn’t reflect what I know,” he said. Giving veterans credentials for skills
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Republican congressional candidate and state Sen. Jack Martins (R-Old Westbury) discussed veterans’ issues with about 20 veterans in Williston Park last Thursday. learned in the military would help fill 100,000 “mid-skill level” jobs in New York and reduce veteran unemployment, Martins said, a cause of homelessness and veterans’ disproportionately high suicide rate. “If you can connect someone to a job,
then so many of the other pressures in life resolve themselves,” Martins said. He also touted his law in the state Senate that gave New Yorkers the option to donate money to combat veteran homlessness when filing their state income tax returns. Congress should also continue to boost funding for Veterans Affairs hospitals and combat veterans’ continued problems navigating the system, Martins said. The Republican-controlled Congress has increased VA funding 20 percent since 2010, Martins said, and more funding could make VA hospitals “every bit as good” as state-of-the-art private hospitals. While Martins said Long Island VA hospitals do not have the huge backlogs that caused a 2014 scandal and subsequent reform bill, veterans told him bureaucratic delays and communication issues still cause some problems. Veterans said there should be measures to ensure VA hospitals meet benchmarks and that doctors are providing quality care. “Those are the challenges — the bureaucracy itself, but also, in keeping with the bureaucratic question is, how do you have a civil service mentality when you’re dealing with people’s lives?” Martins said. About 32,000 veterans live in the 3rd
Congressional District, Martins said, which contains more than 718,000 people and stretches from Whitestone, Queens, to Kings Park in Suffolk County. He met with veterans at American Legion Post 144 in Williston Park — near his hometown of Mineola, where he was mayor — to get perspective on federal issues that affect them, he said, as he has as a state senator. Tony Catalano, a World War II veteran from Mineola who served under U.S. Army Gen. George Patton, said Martins has always shown concern for veterans issues. “It’s nice that they come in and talk to us and find out what our problems are,” he said. “Sometimes they don’t know too much about it, but when they do come in and say something, we appreciate it.” Martins said he is planning similar discussions on other issues throughout the district. Suozzi, a former Nassau County executive, has said he will hold similar events. The two will face off in the Nov. 8 general election. In a statement, Suozzi said he would “help employ and empower our veterans” through job training and healthcare by working with the VA, Department of Defense, private companies and local organizations.
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North Shore students who took the English language arts and math Common Core exams in April performed well above the state average for students meeting or exceeding proficiency levels, according to state Department of Education data. Throughout the state, the percentage of students in grades three through eight who met or exceeded proficiency levels on both the ELA and math exams increased. On the ELA exam, 37.9 percent of students reached proficiency levels, up 6.6 percentage points from last year, and on the math exam, 39.1 percent of students reached proficiency levels, up one percentage point from last year. In the Great Neck School District, about 73 percent of students reached proficiency levels on the ELA exam, up about 9 percentage points from last year. The district also saw a gain in students reaching math proficiency levels, with 79 percent of students meeting the standards compared with 2015’s 74 percent. In the East Williston School District, 75 percent of students who took the ELA test reached proficiency levels, up 11 percentage points from last year. Eighty-six percent of students from the district met math proficiency standards, an increase of six percentage points from 2015. The Sewanhaka School District, which educates students from the New Hyde ParkGarden City Park and Floral Park-Bellerose school districts starting in seventh grade, had an 11 percentage point increase in ELA proficiency scores, with about 58 percent of students meeting the standards. The district also saw an increase in students reaching math proficiency scores, as 61 percent met the standards, an increase of about six percentage points from last year. In the Herricks School District, 72 percent of students who took the test reached ELA proficiency levels, an increase of six percentage points from last year. The district also saw an increase in students meeting the math proficiency standards, with 75 percent passing, compared with 72 percent in 2015. The Manhasset School District had 75 percent of students reaching ELA standards, an increase of 11 percentage points from last year. Students in the district meeting math proficiency levels increased four percentage points to 79 percent this year. The Mineola School District saw an increase of nine percentage points in students meeting ELA proficiency standards, with 45 percent of students passing the exam this year. The district saw no change in students reaching math proficiency levels, with 52 percent of students who took the test meeting the standards this year and last year. In the Port Washington School District, 53 percent of students who took the ELA exam reached proficiency levels, up four percentage points from last year. The district had a slight decrease in students reaching math proficiency levels, with
62 percent meeting the standards this year compared with 63 percent last year. The Roslyn School District saw a six percentage point increase in those meeting the ELA proficiency levels, with 67 percent of students who took the exam passing. The district, however, remained even in students meeting the math proficiency standards, with 75 percent of those who took the test passing both this year and last year. Common Core’s biggest flash points for criticism are its standardized tests, which opponents say are unnecessarily tough for students, and the direct link between test scores and teacher evaluations. The standards, first introduced in 2012, are intended to teach conceptual thinking and problem-solving skills at each grade level to prepare students for more complex coursework. This year, the state Board of Regents implemented changes to standardized testing aimed at improving student performance. “Since my first day on the job a little over a year ago, I’ve been listening to parents, teachers, school administrators and the public – seeking their expertise on how we can improve,” state Education Commissioner MaryEllen Elia said. “We’ve taken their advice and made important changes to the exams. It’s an ongoing process, but better standards, better curriculum and better tests will result in better student outcomes.” Changes to the exams include a reduced number of test questions, elimination of the time limit to complete a test, increased teacher support and the early release of test questions to “support teacher instruction,” according to the Department of Education. “The regents, commissioner and I have worked hard to make New York’s assessments the best they can be for our students,” Board of Regents Chancellor Betty A. Rosa said. “I’ve always said that tests must be diagnostic, valid and reliable while providing timely and practical information to parents and teachers.” While test scores have increased statewide from the previous year, officials have said that test scores between this year and last year are not an “apples-to-apples” comparison because of the changes made and increased number of students opting out from the tests. “We made important changes to the assessments this year and we’re going to continue to look at ways to make them even better moving forward,” Rosa said. “While it’s not possible to make direct comparisons of this year’s results to past years, I’m cautiously optimistic the changes we’re making will drive improvements in teaching and learning.” North Shore schools saw an increase in opt-outs this year. But officials have said that the 21 percent statewide opt-out number remained “flat” compared with last year’s 20 percent. The Great Neck, Manhasset, Roslyn, Herricks, Port Washington, Sewanhaka, Mineola and East Williston school districts saw about 24.4 percent of students eligible to take the test opt out of the ELA exam, while about 27.2 percent of students eligible to take the math test opted out.
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he Town of North Hempstead has now joined a long list of North Shore municipalities seeking to protect the public from indoor smoking establishments such as vape shops and hookah bars. In the name of public safety, the Town Board recently introduced legislation aimed at keeping the establishments at least 500 feet from a residential property or home and at least 1,000 feet from any school, place of worship, park, playground or playing field, library or hospital. “The businesses won’t be banned because we really can’t ban the business, but we will be regulating where they will be located,” Town Councilwoman Dina De Giorgio explained. “And they won’t be located in close proximity to schools, churches, playgrounds, places where children congregate.” The question remains why. Are hookah bar and vape shop customers that much less savory than those who frequent bars and other establishments? If so, perhaps they should be located near churches and other religious institutions to increase the chance that someone will minister to the needs of their sinful customers. We’d like to think that the association of hookahs and the Middle East has nothing to do with the legislation. But given the tenor of the current presidential campaign, it would be foolish to rule that out. It certainly can’t be the products they offer. Hookahs — water pipes that are used to smoke specially made tobacco — do carry serious health risks.
But the risk is no different than cigarettes to which 40 million Americans are addicted with an increasingly large percentage of users poor and uneducated. Smoking is also the largest cause of preventable death in the United States with more than 480,000 people a year dying of smoking-related illnesses. But like alcohol — another major source of preventable deaths — it is legal. Vape shops, which are often lumped in with hookahs bars, use a different technology that delivers the nicotine found in cigarettes without the harmful tar and chemicals that cause cancer. The Royal College of Physicians recently concluded that the e-cigarettes used by vape shops offer the best hope in a generation for people addicted to cigarettes. This is not a universally shared conclusion. The federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention maintain that e-cigarettes could be a gateway to that serious health hazard known as traditional cigarettes or that their vapor could turn out to have longterm health risks. But even if that is true, why subject hookah bars and vape shops to regulation and not places that sell cigarettes and alcohol. Or for that matter fast food and soda. Given the high rate of obesity and Type 2 diabetes in this country, you certainly could make the argument that our elected officials could do more to improve the public’s health by banning soda from near our schools than vape shops or hoo-
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kah bars. We’re not even discussing the easy access in too many homes to pharmaceuticals containing opioids. If legislators want to play nanny, why stop with vape shops? Why not restrict places that sell alcohol, cigarettes and processed foods. And after they get
done with them, they could begin addressing bad boyfriends and other things that go wrong in our lives. Legendary Baltimore Sun columnist H.L. Mencken once defined Puritanism as “the haunting fear that someone, somewhere is having a good time.”
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Nassau’s political silly season
t’s that time of year again — British journalist G.K. Chesterton’s “silly season,” when politicians hope that taxpayers are preoccupied with their summer outings and not paying attention to underhanded antics. This year, Nassau Comptroller George Maragos tops the “Silly Season” list. In July, Maragos — who is supposed to be a fiscal watchdog exposing wasteful spending in a county that is on the edge of insolvency — distributed 50,000 copies of a flier, printed and paid for by the county, with his name and picture front and center, listing Nassau’s free summer concerts. Huh? Being a publicity agent is not in the comptroller’s job description. When called on the matter, Maragos made this ridiculous statement: “It didn’t cost anything.” The best reaction to the Maragos rationale was from Nassau County Legislator Judith Jacobs. She said, “Is paper free? Is ink free? Do employees work for
free? I don’t get this. And he is the person who has the financial oversight for the County.” I second those comments and add this: does Maragos value the work of County employees so lowly that he believes the time they spent distributing this wasteful publication was “free,” too? That flier urged county residents to call his office with information on waste, fraud and abuse: I wonder how many calls he got about the wasteful flier. There’s more. On July 13, Maragos announced in a press release that “Audited 2015 County Financials Confirm $28 million GAAP surplus.” That’s absurd! Under “Generally Accepted Accounting Principles,” there was not a surplus, but a deficit of $125.3 million. Although Maragos concedes that the so-called surplus “was achieved primarily through borrowing;” after six and a half years in office he still does not understand that under GAAP, “borrowing” cannot be treated as revenue. Only taxes, aid from federal and state governments and fees
George J. Marlin On The Right (along with less regular activities such as sales of assets) are considered revenue — in other words, items which produce cash for the county but which don’t have to be repaid!. On another front, Newsday columnist Joye Brown recently reported that Maragos appears to “be putting distance between himself and County Executive Ed Mangano.” He has beefed up his Audit
Department with the hiring of former federal prosecutor and failed Democrat DA primary candidate Michael Scotto to head that unit. And there are rumors that Maragos might seek the county executive post in 2017. I suppose Maragos is as qualified as Mangano for the county’s top post. Which isn’t saying much for either of them. Mangano, like Maragos, after almost two terms in office, still believes borrowed money can be used to balance budgets. Speaking of Mangano, he too is guilty of squandering taxpayers’ money on vanity mailings. In a flier I received last week, Mangano boasts that “Nassau County government makes up only 16 percent of your total tax bill, down from 19 percent in 2009.” Meanwhile, between 2009, the year Mangano took office, and 2016, the education portion of our total tax bill has increased from 67 percent to 71 percent. The inference appears to be that during Mangano’s tenure, county taxes have been declining.
But that inference is false. As a percentage of one’s total tax bill, the county portion has declined for two reasons: School taxes have gone up every year and Mangano has not increased county taxes because he has burdened taxpayers with ever increasing long-term debt to fund his annual GAAP budget deficit. In other words, the school districts, towns (with the exception of debt addicted Oyster Bay, perhaps) and villages all balanced their budgets, while Mangano and his team kick the can down the road — a road that is, given his repetition of this action, now practically a highway. Mangano’s tax bill flier is fatally flawed. It compares apples to oranges with both varieties of fruit being, in this case, rotten. Either Mangano is trying to con his constituents or he has not yet mastered simple arithmetic or the accounting understanding expected of college freshmen. Do enjoy your summer. Be assured I will keep you informed of any additional “Silly Season” political follies.
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All stressed up and nowhere to go
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ears ago, my husband and I took a class together in stress management. We thought it would help us learn to relax. But that’s not how it worked out. I kept a diary — here’s how it went: It’s the final night of Stress Management class. Where on earth is the baby sitter? She was due here half an hour ago, so I can give my fiveminute presentation on “Identifying a Major Stress In My Life, and Which Technique I Will Use to Get Rid of It.” I am dressed up for going out in public, and the boys are all set in pajamas, teeth brushed and bed-time stories read — but since my husband is going to class straight from work, I am trapped in my house until the babysitter shows up. There’s nothing I can do, except hyperventilate. Perhaps one of the techniques from class could help: “Relax your body, one muscle group at a time. Breathe in and out very slowly.” For a while there, all my sit-
ters were calling in sick. Or rather, one time the sitter was sick; another time, the sitter’s child was sick; another time, the sitter was fine, and her child was fine, but the little boy she watched during the week was sick with something contagious, and she was still in the incubation period. “Make plans in advance; allow extra time for contingencies.” That would be the time I booked a sitter three months in advance. My best friend was being honored at a dinner dance, and I was giving the speech; but before committing to the major investment of dress, shoes, and purse, I had to know I could go. So I called my sitter— a whole quarter of a year ahead! — to reserve the date. It’s true, that did reduce my stress considerably — until the week before, when I called again as a reminder, only to discover that she had forgotten all about me and booked herself on a cruise. “Don’t be afraid to ask others for help.” Some friends suggested I join
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A Look on the Lighter Side their Babysitting Co-op, and swap babysitting time with other parents. It was a fine idea — except they held their meetings at 8 p.m. on school nights, and since my husband always worked late, I would have needed to hire a sitter just to get to the meetings. “Visualize a successful outcome.” Many people start with younger kids as mother’s helpers, and train them up into being that Holy Grail of sitters, the Reliable Saturday Night.
I thought I’d found just such a prospect, a young girl who came to me every Wednesday afternoon. Until the Wednesday when she arrived at my door and proudly displayed her newest acquisition: a tongue stud! “What’s that you’re saying?” I asked her. “I thaid, ih thtill hurth!” “Whatever you do, do not open your mouth in front of my children till I can get you home!” Thith wathn’t, I mean this wasn’t quite the outcome I had envisioned. Are teenagers really the segment of our population best suited for watching young children? Besides, how do you find one who isn’t busier than you? Because the real problem is that as soon as one of these paragons gets a social life, yours is over. I learned this the hard way with another girl, a college student. She was the answer to my prayers — until the summer all her girlfriends got married. Then I had to arrange my own nights out around a minefield of rehearsal dinners and bachelorette parties.
It all ended the night I dared to get theater tickets, only to have her cancel us for a “tan lines emergency.” Apparently, her newest bridesmaid dress had straps in a different location than her bathing suit’s, and she had gone on an emergency beach weekend to rectify the situation. “Picture yourself in a peaceful place… you have nowhere to go and nothing to do.” The phone is ringing. It’s my sitter — she’s stuck in a 20-mile backup on the Expressway; a fuel truck has overturned and nothing is moving either way. There’s no telling how long she’ll be. There is only one thing to do. “Prioritize; do you really need this in your life?” “Hello, Professor Dharma? I’m sorry, but I won’t be making it to class tonight.” Trying to get out of the house is creating too much stress in my life. Maybe in another 10 years, I can try again; for now, I’ll just have to live without it.
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Criticism of Muslims, Mexicans warranted
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am writing this article in response to a column in the Friday, July 29, 2016 issue of the Roslyn Times. It was composed by Mr. Jerry Kremer. It was highly critical of Donald Trump. Mr. Kremer’s first criticism regards an accusation that Donald Trump is an isolationist, just because his campaign theme is “America First.” At this point in history, I applaud “America First.” I want resistance to the globalist types who want to erase all national borders. This has been explicitly said to be the goal by the Open Society Foundation funded by George Soros. One of the reasons World War I was fought was so various people could have a feeling of nationhood and belonging. They did not want to be some small segment of a larger empire; at that time the Romanov, Austrian, Hohenzollern, and Ottoman empires. Well, I have no interest in being part of some new “globalist new world order” empire either. I think most Americans agree with me. To call this isolationist is mendacious. Mr. Kremer takes umbrage at the fact that Mr. Trump made disparaging remarks about Muslims and Mexicans. To begin with, Mr. Trump is not a politician. He only entered the political arena one year ago. He does not have handlers and advisers who groomed him for decades in the art of the political double speak to hide their true agendas. Mr. Trump may not be that articulate. But not being articulate does not make one wrong or stupid. Whether Mr. Kremer wants to admit it or not, Islam is not just a religion. Like Communism, it is a totalitarian ideology. It seeks to control every aspect of your life i.e. your sex life, the music you listen too, the books you read, etc. Like Communism, it believes the personal is the political.
As someone who has done some serious genealogy, I have come across immigration papers from 100 years ago. One of the questions they asked new immigrants at that time was whether or not they were “anarchists.” If you said “no,” and it was later found out that you were an anarchist, then you would be deported. I want Muslims to be vetted. I want to know if they will violate the civil rights of other groups in the U.S. (like they violated the civil rights of peaceful Christians marching in Flint, Mich.). I want them to answer as to whether or not they believe in Sharia law. Sharia law is incompatible with individual rights and the formation of a Republic. Anyone believing in it should be refused entry to this country. If Mr. Kremer disagrees, then let him explicitly tell us what he would like to do with Sharia Law proponents. As for Mexicans, Mr. Trump is correct as well. Rape is endemic in Mexico. Remember last year, there was this outrageous gang rape in India, where the perpetrators not only raped the girl, but then proceeded to mutilate her. Indian women, as passive as they are, took to the streets in justifiable anger and protest. Well guess what! The rate of rape in Mexico is higher than that of India. Child rape is especially pronounced (see www. anncoulter.com/columns/2015-07-22.html). Latin American girls, trekking through Mexico to reach the U.S. border, take birth control pills as a precaution since they expect to be raped. Rape is not the only crime. Illegal immigrants commit disproportionate levels of homicide, kidnaping and drug dealing. In addition, not allowing border security is a direct attack on the sovereignty of the United States. Does Mr. Kremer believe the U.S. has no right to build
a wall? I should add that I am married to an immigrant. She went through all the proper legal channels. Her fellow immigrant friends were law abiding. When their visas expired, they left the country. This sometimes meant giving up job opportunities or the breaking of romances. Those people that would allow illegal immigration are contemptible. They make saps and suckers out of law abiding people for following the rules. Those who promote sanctuary cities and in state tuition for illegals might have a warped, grandiose, selfimage that they represent some kind of “underground railroad” akin to that during the Civil War. In fact, they are, accessories to criminal acts and cruelly insensitive to the feelings of law abiding people. Mr. Kremer complains that Donald Trump never disavowed the appeal of the Ku Klux Klan. I did not notice any Klan flags at the RNC. In contrast, Hiillary Clinton never disavowed the appeal of Bernie Sanders communists. They paraded at the DNC with the hammer and sickly proudly waving. The communists killed exponentially more people than the Klan ever did. Mr Kremer then proceeds to make the outright lie that coal use is declining throughout the world. This was to mock Trump’s appeal to bring back coal jobs to West Virginia. China has built 155 new coal plants and Japan is in the process of building 43 ( to replace the loss of energy at the Fukushima nuclear plant during the tsunami). The U.S. has built none. If that lie wasn’t big enough, he then proceeds to say that most of the new steel production plants are in the United States. Bullfeathers! Japan produces more steel than we do and China produces about five times as much as what we do. Continued on Page 18
Trump repeatedly proves Town park he is unfit to be president mismanaged
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n this past weeks issue a letter writer wrote that Donald Trump speaks for the people. Lets be clear Trump only speaks for a certain type and segment of the people. They are not and far from the majority of the American population. In the same issue of the paper another letter writer wrote that Trump never lied as an elected or appointed official. Let’s be clear again. Trump has done nothing but lie from the day he first declared his candidacy. He has stated his distorted version of facts and figures geared purely to appeal to the limited number of the people I referred to earlier. It never ceases to amaze me how any thinking supposedly intelligent individual could believe and support this narcissistic self serving person.
His mocking the disabled, his barrage of personal name calling and insults, his record of bankruptcies, his treatment of contractors who worked on his projects, his complete lack of knowledge about the economy, our government and international affairs, and a long litany of other irrational actions which should preclude any person from the presidency. Yes our choice of candidates in this election may not be the ideal for most of us but can you really seriously think about putting the country in the hands of Donald Trump? I for one will be voting for Hillary Clinton because at least I know she is mentally competent. I cannot say the same for Mr. Trump. John F. Nahas Great Neck
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he North Hempstead Beach Park consists of three main parts: the deserted beach to the north which was taken over from Nassau County; the southern portion formerly known as Bar Beach; and the new Nature Trail running south along the shore of Hempstead Harbor. The north end of the beach is essentially deserted with the beach eroded away. It has a huge parking lot which is empty except for parked school busses and an occasional festival or fair. I recently read that the town had received an enormous grant of Sandy money to replace this empty and useless parking lot. This is not a windfall, that Sandy money is our taxpayer dollars. This section of the park also is tainted with an apparent racist
agenda. Formerly, it housed a soccer field which, on the weekend, was heavily used by Hispanic players and their families. This field was replaced by an expensive baseball diamond which draws few users. The Old Bar Beach is unexceptional when compared to the great parks and beaches provided by the Towns of Hempstead and Oyster Bay. The Nature Trail is a delight it was well planned and built. Unfortunately, few people know about and use it. Its use, as well as the entire park, is further hampered by the obscene seasonal daily parking fees charged by the town. Donald S.Hecht Port Washington
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ny MTA LIRR, NYCT bus, subway or MTA bus riders, elected official or transit advocate who opposes potential proposed fare hikes in 2017 missed the reason why fare hikes occur. Prior to 1965, the Long Island Rail Road derived almost 100 percent of its funding for both capital and operating expenses from fares. Chartered by the state Legislature in 1965 as the Metropolitan Commuter Transportation Authority, it was created to purchase and operate the bankrupt LIRR. The MCTA changed its name to the Metropolitan Transportation Authority in 1968 when it took over operations of the New York City Transit Authority. Over the past 52 years, billions of dollars in combined county city, state and federal taxpayers generated dollars have subsidized both the capital and operating costs for the LIRR. For decades, under numerous past MTA Five Year Capital Plans starting in 1981, both the city and state collectively cut billions of their own respective financial contributions. They repeatedly had the MTA refinance or borrow funds to acquire scarce capital funding formerly made up by hard cash from both City Hall and Albany. On a bipartisan basis, this included past governors Mario Cuomo, George Pataki, Elliot Spitzer and David Patterson. Gov. Andrew Cuomo has only made available $1 billion of the $8.3 billion leaving a balance of $7.3 billion he promised toward funding the $27 billion MTA 2015 - 2019 Capital Program Plan. New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio still owes his pledge of $2.5 billion toward the same program. Billions more are still needed from both the state and city to make up for past cuts over previous decades. Everyone insisted that the MTA continue financing more and more of the capital program by borrowing.
As a result, 17 percent of the annual MTA budget goes for covering the costs of debt service payments. By the next MTA 2020-2024 Capital Program Plan, it would not surprise anyone if this continues growing closer to 20 percent. This means less money is available for operations to provide more frequent service to riders. It also means there is less money just to maintain the state of good repair and safety. At the end of the day, the cupboard may be bare for any system expansion. Contrast City Hall and Albany with Washington. Federal support for transportation has remained consistent and growing over past decades. When a crises occurred be it 9-11 in 2001 or Hurricane Sandy in 2012, Washington was there for us. Additional billions in assistance above and beyond yearly formula allocations from the U.S. Department of Transportation Federal Transit Administration was provided. In 2009, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act provided billions more. Most federal transportation grants require a 20 percent hard-cash local share. In many cases, U.S. DOT FTA accepted toll credits instead of hard cash local share. This saved the MTA $1 billion in the previous 20102014 Five Year Capital Program. The same will be true with the 2015-2019 Five Year Capital Program. Fare hikes are periodically required if the MTA and operating agencies such as the LIRR are to provide the services millions of New Yorkers on a daily basis count on. They are inevitable due to inflation along with increasing costs of labor, power, fuel, supplies, materials, routine safety, state of good repair, replacement of worn out rolling stock, upgrades to stations, yards and shops along with system expansion projects necessary to run any transit system.
For those public officials and others who oppose any fare increases and will be quick to demagogue on this issue (for political purposes to win upcoming elections), just how would you assist the MTA in balancing financial shortfalls? Which capital improvement projects would you propose the MTA cancel to help balance the budget and avoid fare increases? Which route(s) would you support service reductions to save operating dollars? Would you volunteer to reduce service, cancel or delay any capital projects benefiting constituents in your district? MTA services continue to be one of the best bargains in town. Since the 1950s, the average cost of riding either the bus, subway or commuter rail has gone up at a lower rate than either the consumer price index or inflation. The Metro Card introduced in 1996 affords a free transfer between bus and subway. Prior to this, riders had to pay two full fares. A majority of residents purchase either a weekly or monthly LIRR pass and or NYC Transit bus/subway Metro Card to further reduces the cost per ride. Many employers offer transit checks, which pay even more of your costs. In the end, quality and frequency of service is dependent upon secure revenue streams. We all will have to contribute — be it at the fare box or tax revenues generated by different levels of government redistributed back to the MTA. TANSTAFFL or “There Ain’t No Such Thing As A Free Lunch” or in this case a free ride. Larry Penner Great Neck (Larry Penner is a transportation historian and advocate who previously worked 31 years for the US Department of Transportation Federal Transit Administration Region 2 NY Office.).
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hope to shed some light on some of the phooey that “journalists” and other oped writers seem to be spewing in editions of this paper about the third track for the main line. It is one thing to have an informed opinion and another to make outlandish, extravagant claims to instill fear where there should be none, which only leads me to believe that the writer has an agenda. It is as if no actual research was done whatsoever since no citations are ever made. I’m writing in to debunk some of those myths that have been circulating, beginning with the ridiculous claim that freight would increase. If you go to your local library, pick up a book on the railroads of Long Island, you will quickly learn that freight railroad used to be a major industry on Long Island. However, once industrial and commercial businesses moved overseas and elsewhere, plus after the strain on resources put on railroads after WW II, freight has nearly come to an irrecoverable, grinding halt in comparison to what it once was. All you have to do is look out the window of an LIRR train today and you will see countless spurs of tracks leading into weeds, long disconnected, never to be re-
installed. Today, most of the freight through Long Island carries away our trash because we filled our own landfills. Long Island has, instead, become a land of service industries, carrying thousands of residents into the city every day. Freight railroad, even if it were to pick up in business a little, would never even begin to catch up to the commuter rail industry we have today. Plus, the LIRR owns the tracks on Long Island and had sold its freight department to New York & Atlantic Railways years ago, meaning LIRR gives its own trains priority over any freight. The LIRR would never allow NYAR to use its tracks when it has its own traffic to deal with. Yes, train traffic exists, too. It’s not just on the LIE. Why? Because the population of Long Island has been exploding, if you haven’t noticed, and LIRR ridership is at an alltime high. To remedy this logistics problem, the LIRR will be opening a new western terminal in Grand Central Terminal in approximately 2023. This will undoubtedly go hand-inhand with a demand for increased service.
How can the LIRR which is already operating at capacity during rush hour possibly run more trains? They may as well hitch them up from Suffolk to Manhattan and pin the doors open so passengers can walk their way through. The trains need a place to go, to change direction and to pass each other. This is only done by adding track. The LIRR is working to add a rail yard in Ronkonkoma and a second track to Ronkonkoma to accommodate increased service. This is all for naught if the busiest section of that main line only has two tracks, servicing four different branches eastbound. Rush hour trains could run on a local track, an express track, and have a 3rd track for the opposite direction. A need for more track was recognized many, many years ago and continuing to stand in the way of this progress is damning to all the businesses LIRR commuters contribute to. As a resident of central, western Nassau County I know that rail expansion in New York is for the greater good. I also know my community likes to shoo away any idea that it could be over-
taken and turned into eastern Queens, but stopping rail expansion will actually back up traffic on the roads and on the rails and will cause a worse reaction in time than if we put in a third track now to alleviate the logistics problem we obviously have. We have put this off for too long. We need not create another Oyster Bay-Rye Bridge cessation, where now, years later, we are looking at spending millions more on a tunnel, instead. Furthermore, the track in Floral Park is already elevated, and has minimal interference with villagers’ lives on the ground. To make claims that quality of life would suffer dramatically with these conditions in place prompts me to draw my bow on the world’s smallest violin. I don’t buy it. For once, the LIRR is actually trying to be a proactive railroad, rather than a reactive one. For once, let it. The endeavor to increase rail service on Long Island is not just a necessary one, it is an inevitable one. This is not a “build it and they will come” scenario. They’re here, and the railroad is already backlogged. Lorena Rea New Hyde Park.
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write in support of the letter from John O’Kelly in the July 29 issue regarding the right to own firearms. Mr. O’Kelly is quite correct in his comments regarding the efforts of some Americans to deprive us of our Second Amendment freedom. The Founding Fathers recognized the need for honest citizens to own arms for self defense and national defense. This civil right has stood well for over 200 years and must be supported vigorously! I urge all readers to ponder Mr. O’Kelly’s cogent comments and support his conclusions! James G. Collins Long Island Director New York State Rifle and Pistol Association Floral Park
o, I’m not going to take a side or endorse a candidate. It’s not my expertise nor is it my role. Rather, I hope to utilize the current political fever to draw your attention to the timeless wisdom in the Torah (Bible). The Bible is G-d’s wisdom. Meaning, it is absolute and perfect truth. Every other wisdom is less than perfect. However, since all wisdoms (as all things) ultimately flow forth from the creator, they all must contain some aspects of truth. The “Torah of Truth” will therefore tend to come down on both sides of every issue.
(Sounds very Jewish, I know... but on the other hand…). Let me illustrate this with a few examples: - The Bible celebrates success and personal responsibility, while it holds compassion and charity as the highest ideals. - The Bible expects the employee to work tirelessly and honestly for the employer, while it demands the boss treat his workers with dignity and respect, to the furthest degree. - The Bible is a tough, demanding Book, with strict law and order and the highest standards of morality and spirituality. At the same time, it is loving and forgiving, constantly
emphasizing it’s never too late to fix mistakes. “For it (the Bible) is your wisdom and knowledge in the eyes of all the nations” (Deut 4:6). (It’s no wonder South Korea made Talmud study mandatory in schools). (Mush please link article to this story) If we’re going to spend time studying the election, it behooves us to spend at least as much time studying Torah. We’ll be much wiser for it because we’ll be going to the source, the original Think Tank from whence all wisdom flows forth! Rabbi Shalom M. Paltiel Chabad of Port Washington
Trump’s criticism is warranted Town ignores noise issues Continued from Page 16 That is where most of the steel making plants are. Besides, steel and coal jobs are not the only losses to our economy. Thousands of other manufacturing facilities in the rust belt states have been lost , i.e. TVs, computers, shoes, garments, etc. I noticed Mr. Kremer avoided addressing these facts. Lastly, Mr.Trump never praised Saddam Hussein. He just acknowledged that he did the world a favor by executing terrorists. I remember a world-wide protest against the war in Iraq that drew about 5 million participants. The marchers thought them-
selves to be “good:” people for opposing the war. But they were trying to preserve the Hussein regime. I wonder if any of the 5 million were Democrats. He also never praised Putin. ISIS was financing its operations by selling the oil it had seized by running oil convoys into Turkey. Trump did acknowledge Putin’s role in stemming the flow with Russian air raids; and that we should be grateful for the help. Our pathetic president refused to bomb the oil convoys at all. I will have more to say about Mr. Trump and Hillary Clinton in future letters. Dr. Wayne Roth Roslyn Heights
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his is in response to the article in the Herald Courier dated July 29, 2016 “Bosworth to FAA: reroute planes” In the article Ms. Bosworth states that the low flying airplanes are “hazardous to our health” and that the constant exposure to this noise can contribute to cardiovascular conditions to people who are exposed to it. I guess these planes are flying too dose to Ms. Bosworth’s neighborhood in Great Neck, which is why she has written these letters to the FAA, because it personally affects her quality of life. Last year, l addressed the Town Board on June 23, 2015 regarding the obnoxious noise being created at Tully Park while the volunteer firemen using taxpayer money to race their (actually our) cars down drag strips creating much louder noise than most of the aircraft above. This is an excerpt of the narrative I gave at that meeting. “My specific reference is with regard to tile noise created by the New Hyde Park, Garden City Park. Manhasset-Lakeville , Port Washing.ton and Westbury Fire Departments drag racing at Tully Park. The race cars and trucks rev their engines as they speed up to the arch at Michael Tully Park to perform tactical maneuvers creating deafening noise. Noise is defined under Chapter 38-2 of the Town of North Hempstead Code as “any sound which annoys or disturbs humans or which causes or tends to cause an adverse psychological or physiological effect of humans.”
I feel the sound of these cars each night definitely affects the quality of life in our neighborhood. I live approximately seven blocks from Tully Park and it sounds like they are racing in my front yard. I honestly do not understand the reasoning behind these maneuvers, but I do know that the noise is unbearable with decibel levels exceeding the range acceptable for a residential area.” Ms.Bosworth supposedly sent someone out to read the decibel levels outside my home, but I do not believe this was ever done as I was home all night the readings were allegedly taken. This is just another example of the politicians doing what’s right for them, when it affects them. Ms. Bosworth doesn’t care about those people who are affected on the smaller scale, just those on a larger scale and especially when they themselves are affected. When it is on a larger scale, they appealing to a larger constituency who will support their next run for office. This is how the political machine works. The politicians cover their eyes and ears when it doesn’t affect them,except during an election year. Then they will yes you to death and do nothing. This is one reason,I am happy to be leaving this town for a more peaceful way of life. I truly hope that those of you who live close to Tully Park continue the fight and get that track moved to Bar Beach as I suggested two years ago. Vincent A. LaPorta New Hyde Park
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he latest theory the democrats have is that the She would be a disaster as a President on that baRussians hacked the DNC computer and ex- sis alone. Morton Perlman posed the “rigging” against Bernie Sanders. Great Neck If, in fact, that is true, it’s almost a sure bet that they hacked Mrs. Clinton’s private server. Letters Continued on Page 45
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he Long Island Puppet Theatre in Hicksville held its grand reopening on Friday, July 29 at 11 a.m., as new owner Anthony A. Labriola preparesd to carry on the legacy of his favorite childhood puppet theatre. The event included a ceremonial ribbon-cutting with Nassau County Executive Ed Mangano, and was followed by a day of entertainment with magician Brandon K. Williams of Suit & Tie Magic, aerialist Veronica Spettmann, Princesses from A Dream Is A Wish Parties party clown Rich Ferber, raffles, a Chinese auction, and more. The grand reopening was held at 10 Heitz Place in Hicksville, and although it’s been in existence since 1998, Labriola said he hopes to continue the art of storytelling by modernizing and updating the venue. The event featured music from children’s musician Keri Wirth as well as from local singer/songwriter Kalene Speranza, and Gabrielle Plaia, Sara Cataldo, Amora Laucella, and Annemarie Levakis.
The Long Island Children’s Museum made a special appearance with a performance of “Mysterious Lake,” and the Long Island Puppet Theatre celebrated the grand reopening with an exciting preview performance of “Alice in Wonderland!” After working on and off at the theater for almost 11 years, Labriola attended The School of Visual Arts with the hopes of combining his passion for film, puppetry, and ultimately, storytelling! Labriola’s hard work paid off when he graduated from SVA in the top 10 percent of his class with a BFA in film and television writing. “As much as the theater has shaped me, my education has played a major role in preparing me for this undertaking,” Labriola said of his time at SVA. Labriola then went on to pitch his own original content to major networks with some promising leads. Now, at 24 years old, Labriola is excited to say that he has become the owner of the very same theater that shaped so much of who he is today. The theatre now offers many different features, and is proud to announce that they will be holding numerous shows, such as “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland,” “Punch & Judy: Birthday Surprise!,” and “Peter Pan.” In addition to these shows, the theatre also offers parties for special occasions, including a Princess and Pirate party, a Rock Star Party, a Super Hero Party, and more! Parents can even create a unique celebration experience for their kids, and with party favors such as inflatable guitars, hula hoops,
candy, and face paint at the ready. The theatre additionally provides a summer camp for schools, scouts, and other kid-friendly organizations- as an upcoming special, all schools, camps, and organizations booked from now until September 1st will receive a discounted ticket rate of $8.50 per ticket, as opposed to the original $10 price! Here, kids can enjoy a dance & sing along, snacks, puppet shows, and more. Although The Long Island Puppet Theatre provides many features and events, the theatre has faced some difficult obstacles over the years that have prevented it from reaching its full potential. The Long Island Puppet Theatre’s museum of puppets from around the world have been damaged, and the established building is in need of an update. In Labriola’s efforts to maintain the theatre, he has created a “Go Fund Me” in the hopes of restoring the theatre further. Through the help of others, Labriola plans to modernize the venue.
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Furman Film Series: “Little Men” Friday, Aug. 12, 7 p.m.
When 13-year-old Jake’s (Theo Taplitz) grandfather dies, his family moves from Manhattan back into his father’s old Brooklyn home. There, Jake befriends the charismatic Tony (Michael Barbieri), whose single mother Leonor (Paulina Garcia), a dressmaker from Chile, runs the shop downstairs. Soon, Jake’s parents Brian (Greg Kinnear) and Kathy (Jennifer Ehle) — one, a struggling actor, the other, a psychotherapist — ask Leonor to sign a new, steeper lease on her store. For Leonor, the proposed new rent is untenable, and a feud ignites between the adults. Where: Gold Coast Arts Center, 113 Middle Neck Road, Great Neck Info: (516) 829-2570 • http://goldcoastarts.org
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The Rising – A Tribute to Bruce Springsteen
Friday, August 12, 8 p.m. The talent is real. There are no prerecorded tracks, or pretend playing. The Rising using its collective power to hold true to the artistic vision of Bruce Springsteen. Where: The Paramount, 370 New York Ave., Huntington (631) 673-7300 ext. 303 • www.paramountny.com
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Friday, Aug. 5, 7 p.m.
Come by for a free, weekly, music series located in The Dolphin Bookshop Cafe. Performances take place every Friday night, and admission is free! Bring the family to listen to Spencer and the Elders, a local Port band playing folk, country, blues and rock Where: 299 Main St., Port Washington Info: (516) 767-2650 • www.thedolphinbookshop.com
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Summer Promenade Friday, August 10, 6:30 - 10:30 p.m.
Enjoy a final promenade on middle neck road between grace avenue and maple drive from 6:30 p.m. to 10:30 p.m. The event is open to all residents from Great Neck as well as neighboring communities. Come and listen to the country sounds of Savannah Sky while enjoying the town’s fine dining options in a unique outdoor cafe environment under the stars. Where: Great Neck Plaza, Great Neck Info: (516) 829-1301
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The message of "Goldfish From Pluto" focuses on environmental education, anti-bullying through positive relationships, and healthy living to combat and prevent childhood obesity. The cast of lively characters, along with an engaging storyline, focuses on its mission to save the earth and their home planet. Key elements include: environmental education, teamwork, inclusiveness and active lifestyles. The goal of the festival is to bring our characters and their ideals to life through live performances with original songs, dynamic group activities, and hands-on educational opportunities and community building. There will be live performances from the Goldfish From Pluto Band, along with lots of fun activities like puppet shows, magic shows, slides, bouncers, face painting and much more! Check website for ticket pricing. Where: Eisenhower Park, 1899 Hempstead Turnpike, East Meadow Info: 516-572-0348 | www. Goldfishfrompluto.com
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ational S’mores Day with the Girl Scouts
Wednesday, August 10, 11:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m. Celebrate National S’mores day with the Girl Scouts in the park! Everyone knows how good those great tasting marshmallow-chocolate treats are! Come to the park and make a s’more as well as an arts and crafts project. Plus it is a great opportunity to learn more about the Girl Scouts! Where: Cantiague Park, Picnic Areas A1 and A2 480 W John Street, Hicksville | www.gsnc.org
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arvies Point Day Saturday, August 6, 10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
There will be programs, films and crafts! Stay the day for nature walks, insect studies, butterfly and bird garden tours, a wildlife presentation from the Tackapausha Museum, bird watching with the North Shore Audubon, Native American exhibits and nature trails, face painting in the Woodland Village, and an Open House with the Nassau Mineral Club. Only $5 per person! Where: Garvies Point Museum and Preserve, 50 Barry Drive, Glen Cove Info: 516-571-8010 | www.garviespointmuseum.com
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Bring a blanket and snacks and sit back and enjoy the show! This is a Plaza Theatrical Production that will sure to entertain all ages. In the event of inclement weather, the show will moved to the William Gill Theatre, 2nd Floor of Village Hall (1420 Jericho Turnpike, New Hyde Park). Admission is free. Where: Memorial Park Info: 516-354-0022 | www.vnhp.org
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agical History Tours of Port Washington
Saturdays and Sundays through October The Cow Neck Peninsula Historical Society invites you to join us on The Magical History Tour - 90-minute, docent-led, narrated walking tours along Port Washington’s Historic Bay Walk. Tours are happening now through the end of October on the first Saturday and first Sunday of the month. Tours will start at the Town Dock and end at the Port North dock, across the street from Stop & Shop. Local history of the Port Washington peninsula will include the shell fishing industry, sand mining, local aviation (and the first commercial flights to Europe) as well as the development of the local waterfront. See Port Washington as you never have before! Reservations are required, and may be made online at Cow Neck’s website or Facebook page. Group size limited to 15 and the fee is $8 for adults, $5 for seniors (65+) and kids are just $1 (12 and under). Children in strollers or backpacks are free. Please wear comfortable shoes for the 1-mile tour. Walk-ins will be accommodated if the group size has not been met (please bring cash or check only on the day of the tour). Where: Cow Neck Historical Society 336 Port Washington Boulevard, Port Washington Info: 516-365-9074 | www. cowneck.org
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Sunday, August 7, 10:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. A lot of science goes into outdoor fun. Learn by doing during this workshop where families will make a magnetic compass; learn the aerodynamics of flying a Frisbee; formulate the correct surface tension for blowing the best bubbles; and investigate the features needed for the kite you create. Members $10, Non-Members $20. Summer Family Yoga Sunday, August 14, 11:00 a.m. – 11:45 a.m. Experience the wonderful benefits of yoga with family and friends. Yoga practice aligns naturally with children’s imaginations as they create the shapes of animals and plants using their bodies. They stretch, bend, reach, and balance to become trees, turtles, and more. Bring a mat for each person, and wear comfortable clothing. Members: $5 per car Non-Members: $15 per car. Where: Sands Point Preserve, 127 Middle Neck Road, Sands Point Info: 516-571-7901 | www.thesandspointpreserve.com
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A summer afternoon hors d’oeuvres party Summer is a wonderful time to celebrate warm weather and longer days. This time of year is perfect for an afternoon hors d’oeuvres party! The bulk of the following menu may be prepared ahead of time, leaving last minute preparation to a minimum and time to enjoy your guests to a maximum. Make the bar “help yourself” service, by making the drinks ahead of time and putting them on an attractive tray. Place all of the foods listed here on a buffet table or a cocktail table with napkins and cocktail size plates,(feel free to add a few store bought nibbles too!) Then sit back and relax! Be a guest at your own party. Menu Serves 12 The great thing about this drink is you can get it set up a few hours ahead of time and leave it in the refrigerator until serving Mint Julep
Sundried Tomato & Roasted Pepper Dip
Pita Crisps Your Favorite Dip and other Nibbles* Sun dried Tomato and Roasted Red Pepper Dip Cheese Straws *recipe not given Mint Julep 1 quart bourbon 1 cup sugar 1 cup water or club soda 24 sprigs of fresh mint crushed or shaved ice In a Cuisinart, fitted with a steel blade, puree sugar, water and 12 mint sprigs. Divide mint mixture into 12 thoroughly frosted collins glass or mugs and pack with ice. Add club soda or water, add bourbon and stir. Garnish with remaining mint and serve. Pita Crisps 1 package of Pita bread 1 can spray olive oil Seasoning: Seasoned Salt or preferred seasoning
1 jar roasted red peppers 3 cloves garlic, peeled 1/4 cup oil-packed sundried tomatoes, chopped (or use tomatoes marinated in grape seed oil) 1 tsp. balsamic vinegar Dash cayenne pepper Salt & Pepper to taste
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In a food processor, combine peppers, garlic, tomatoes, vinegar, cayenne, Process until smooth. Taste. Add salt and pepper if needed. This can be made up to 3 days in advance and stored tightly closed in the refrigerator. (I use a canning jar)
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Split 6 pita breads and cut each into 8 wedges. Place on a baking sheet in a single layer. Spray lightly with olive oil Cheese Straws and sprinkle with your favorite (NOTE: Each whole sheet seasoning. Bake for 20 minutes makes approximately 45-50 pieces) until crisp. These can be made up 1/2 cup grated Parmesan to two days in advance and stored Cheese in a tightly sealed container. (I use a 1 sheet Homemade Puff Tupperware® container) pastry Dough (Available a Serve in a basket with your favorite dip, ie hummus and Sundried Culinary Architect Tomato and Roasted Pepper Dip 516-484-7431) or in the
freezer section of most supermarkets Pepper to taste Egg Wash (1 egg, mixed with 1 tablespoon heavy cream) Extra flour for dusting Dust a marble urface or cutting board with flour. Roll out dough. Brush with egg wash. Sprinkle with pepper and cheese. Cut dough into strips with a pizza wheel. Freeze until cooking. To bake, preheat oven to 375 degrees. Place straws on a parchment-lined baking sheet, or Silpat lined baking sheet. Bake until done. Lightly golden in approximately 10-15 minutes. Serve warm or room temperature. Alexandra Troy is owner of Culinary Architect Catering, a 33year old Greenvale-based company, specializing in private, corporate and promotional parties. For more photos and presentation follow Culinary Architect Catering on Facebook.
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Arts & Entertainment Calendar GOLD COAST ARTS CENTER 113 Middle Neck Road, Great Neck (516) 829-2570 • http://goldcoastarts.org Furman Film Series: “Little Men” Friday, Aug. 12, 7 p.m. - 9 p.m. Gold Coast Arts Center Paint Night Wednesday, Aug. 17, 7:30 p.m The People Vs. Fritz Bauer Wednesday, Aug. 31 7:30 p.m. The 50+ Comedy Tour Saturday, Sept. 17, 8:30 p.m. The Front Page on Broadway Tuesday, Sept. 27, 8:00 p.m. Natasha, Pieree & the Great Comet of 1812 on Broadway Wednesday, Oct. 26, 8:00 p.m. Gold Coast International Film Festival Opening Night Gala Thursday, Nov. 10
NIKON AT JONES BEACH THEATRE 1000 Ocean Parkway, Wantagh 516-221-1000 • www.jonesbeach.com Tuesday, August 9, 7 p.m. Snoop Dogg and Wiz Khalifa Friday, August 12, 7 p.m. Goo Goo Dolls Saturday, August 13, 7 p.m. Blink 182 with A Day To Remember and All Time Low Wednesday, August 17, 7:30 p.m. Black Sabbath Saturday, August 20, 3:59 p.m. through Sunday, August 21, 11:59 p.m. 2016 Billboard Hot 100 Music Festival Thursday, August 25, 8 p.m. Jimmy Buffet Thursday, September 1, 7 p.m. Rascal Flatts
NYCB Theatre at Westbury 960 Brush Hollow Road, Westbury (516) 247-5200 www.thetheatreatwestbury.com Alice in Wonderland Friday, August 5, 8 p.m. Legends of Rock: Jefferson Starship, Mark Farner, Rick Derringer, Mitch LANDMARK ON MAIN STREET Ryder & The Detroit Wheels 232 Main Street, Suite 1 Saturday, August 6, 8 p.m. Port Washington YES: The Album Series (516) 767-1384 ext. 101 Tuesday, August 9, 11 a.m. www.landmarkonmainstreet.org Peter Pan August 10, 2 p.m. Afternoon T.E.A. Cary Grant mini-series Thursday, August 11, 8 p.m. MY2K Tour: 98 Degrees, O-Town, – Film: His Girl Friday Dream, and Ryan Cabrera Wednesday, August 10 – September 4 My Mother’s Italian, My Father’s Jewish Saturday, August 13, 8 p.m. Neil Sedaka & I’m in Therapy! Monday, August 15, 8 p.m. Wednesday, August 31, 2:00 p.m. Bonnie Raitt Film: To Catch a Thief Tuesday, August 16, 6:30 p.m. Saturday, September 10, 8:00 p.m. The Wizard of Oz Donovan -- The Sunshine Superman Friday August 19, 8 p.m. Fiftieth Anniversary North American Elvis Tribute Artist Spectacular with Tour Shawn Klush, Cody Ray Slaughter, DJ Fontana, and The Sweet Inspirations LONG ISLAND CHILDREN’S MUSEUM Saturday, Aug. 20, 8 p.m. 11 Davis Avenue, Garden City Air Supply 516-224-5800 • www.licm.org Friday, Sept. 16, 8 p.m. Monday, August 8-11, 10:30 a.m. - 12 p.m. So You Wanna Be a Puppeteer: Learning Charlie Daniels Band Saturday, Nov. 19, 8 p.m. the Skills of Hand Puppets Monday, August 8 through Friday, August 12 Joe Bonamassa from 11a.m. to 3 p.m. The Space at Westbury Energy Week 250 Post Ave., Westbury Tuesday, August 9 from 1-1:30 p.m. (516) 283.5566 stART (Story + Art) Wednesday, August 10 from 11:30 a.m. – noon www.thespaceatwestbury.com Friday, Aug. 12, 8 p.m. and Friday, August 12 from 1-1:30 p.m. The Wailers Music and Movement Wednesday, Oct. 26, 8 p.m. Wednesday, August 10 from 2 to 4 p.m. Henry Rollins Art & Soul Friday, August 12 from 11:30 a.m. to noon NORTH SHORE POPS ORCHESTRA Kids in the Kitchen (Family Series) PO Box 920, Huntington Saturday, August 13 and Sunday, August 14 (516) 574-3059 • www.northshoreat 11:30 a.m. and 2 p.m. pops.org Plaza Theatrical presents “Disney’s THE HARRY CHAPIN Aladdin JR” LAKESIDE THEATRE Through Sunday, September 4 Eisenhower Park Traveling Exhibit - The Art of Andy Saturday, Aug. 6, 8 p.m. Warhol Irish American Night GARVIES POINT MUSEUM 50 Barry Dr. in Glen Cove (516) 571-8010/11 • www.garviespointmuseum.com Garvies Point Day Saturday, Aug. 6, 10 a.m. - 4 p.m.
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Community Calendar Project Independence Support & Social Group The Town of North Hempstead’s Project Independence is reminding residents that they offer free support and social groups. Call 311 or (516) 869-6311 for more information. Parents of Millennials Group Join us for our first meeting as we explore ways to help our 18-30 year olds move on to independence and pursue the life they want. 7pm - 8pm at the New Hyde Park Diner 160 Hillside Avenue, New Hyde Park, NY 11040. For more information please visit: meetup.com
Trivia Challenge Come see how much you know. Match wits with other great minds. You may win a prize! Last Wednesday of every month at 7 p.m. Havana Central Restaurant Roosevelt Field, Garden City. For more info, call (516) 676- 1976. Singles Association Of L.I. For information on events, please call (516) 825-0633 or (516) 333-2851 or email singlesassociationofli@yahoo.com. Your Widowed Social Group The group meets on the third Wednesday of the each month (except July and August) from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. at St. Joseph’s R.C. Church on Franklin Ave. and Fifth Street, Garden City. There is a $5 fee for members and a $8 fee for non-members. For additional information, please call (516) 481-9280. Area Cyclists Unite There are several area cyclists & cycling groups that ride before or after work on Weekdays. Let’s Ride Together !! A bigger group is more fun and a
better work out. I invite you to join the areas longest running Weekday cycling group. When: Weekdays before work or after work Where: parking lot across from Great Neck Diner, Corner of Bond Street and Grace Avenue. Description of ride : About 15 miles in about one hour, 20 minutes (Non stop) We start and finish at the same location. Routes and speeds vary depending on the group. Ride is canceled if the roads are wet or temperature is below 40 degrees. Free parking in the lot till 9 a.m. and after 6 p.m. Helmets and road bikes mandatory. Beginners welcome. Ride at your own risk. April to November. Come & meet others who are interested in your sport, you may even pick up a pointer or two from one of the veteran cyclists. Contact David (Speedy) Emanuel at speedyemanuel@optonline.net or 516840-9370 or 516-487-8065 before 9:45 p.m. for schedule and to confirm your participation.
additional information, should call: (516) 227-7071. WHEN: 2:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. on Wednesday, August 17, 2016. WHERE: Shelter Rock Public Library, 165 Searingtown Road, Albertson, Senior Citizen Activities FRANKLIN SQUARE SENIOR COMMUNITY SERVICE CENTER Enjoy a wide variety of senior activities at the Franklin Square Senior Community Center, located at 1182 Martha Place, Franklin Square, NY. Those interested in more information can call
516-328-3010. Tai Chi On Wednesdays, August 3, 10, 17, 24, 31 at 10:30 a.m. Presented by Pat Goia. Funded by the Nassau County Office for the Aging. Live Band On Wednesdays, August 4, 11, 18, 25 at 10:30 a.m., presented by Wayne Weiner. Funded by the Nassau County Office for the Aging. Chair Yoga On Fridays, August 5, 12, 19, 26 at presented by Isabel Tiffin. Funded by the Nassau County Office for the Aging.
Oktoberfest Join us for Oktoberfest on Saturday September 24, 2016 from 7 PM to 11 PM at the Knights of Columbus Hall located at 186 Jericho Turnpike in Mineola. $50/person includes live band, German food, German beer, open bar, coffee, dessert. Reservations only. Please Contact Tom Kelly 516 414 2229 kellyofmineola@earthlink.net Caregiver Support Group Meetings are held every month and are open to residents of Nassau County. This support group will provide an opportunity for participants to share experiences and help one another. The group is led by Marguerite Dilimetin, LCSW, CASAC, Support Group Facilitator. Persons interested in attending for the first time, or in need of
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Exhibit promotes ‘curiosity, surprise’ Huntington Arts Council presents show shared by small group of local artists By N e g l a h S h a r m a New projects at the Main Street Gallery’s “Curiosity & Surprise” exhibition series this summer will include works by Michael Braceland, Rondi Casey, Deborah Katz, and Lisa J. Petker-Mintz. The collaborative exhibit, curated by Invitational Shows Chairperson Linda Lewis, will be on display through Aug. 13 as a part of the Invitation Gallery Shows, an opportunity for small groups of artists to participate in a shared exhibit, presented by the Huntington Arts Council. Hungtington resident and sculpture artist Rondi Casey’s three-dimensional sculptures are inspired by ethical, spiritual, and literary themes, and she creates them using clay and “found objects,” some of which eerily hang from strings, according to the gallery. “We have within us the freedom and passion to inspire and create and yet all of us are in some way bound by the subtle
threads/strings of our gender, culture, religion, relationships to one another and our vision, said educator, Rondi Casey. “We move our bodies, our minds, our art ….our hope,” Casey said. As one of the featured artists, Patchogue resident Michael Braceland’s rustic and refined mixed media of wall canvas, kinetic design and sculpture are a byproduct of his background in carpentry, wood, and a “yogacentric” background, the gallery said. “I forage in the woods for materials in Patchoge, I beg for materials on social media,” Braceland said, adding that he is also inspired by the different colors of “chakras,” also known as centers of spiritual power in the human body of vedic origins. “Chakras have different colors, I make stuff relative to the yoga-world,” Braceland said. Mobiles entranced Braceland, he said after once taking a trip to the Guggenheim back in the ‘70s. Recently, the Long Island resident has
been focused on creating optical illusions or ‘confusions’ using nature’s repurposed materials and scraps. Native Long Islander Deborah Katz’s visual and cultural arts background lead her to create abstract works, interplaying color and shape along with movement and harmony. “[The works are] representational, referencing nature, the process becomes more of a state of mind,” Katz said, whose work consists of oil pastels, and water color, on canvas. Katz studied under Eleanore Dragonette, Betty Holliday, and Stan Brodsky, after completing her studies at SUNY Stony Brook University. Autobiographical artist Lisa J. PetkerMintz, a graduate of Parsons School of Design, exhibited extensively in the Metropolitan Long Island Area. Petker-Mintz’s work focuses on places, people and experiences in her life while reflecting personal yet universally recognized themes of death, love and children.
“I need to make beautiful, cohesive and entertaining paintings. I am always challenging myself with the work, seeking new ways to express my ideas…,” said PetkerMintz, who’s primary medium is acrylic and mixed media, incorporating acetate and printed paper. The group of artists were selected through other exhibitions, said Florence Dallari, Assistant Director at the gallery. “Our curator, Linda Lewis goes out in to the community and discovers artists,” Dallari said, “sometimes they will request the opportunity to be featured” Dallari said that although artists aren’t required to be from Long Island, most of them are, “as a result of proximity.” “Petker-Mintz’s artwork, the chadelier, the staircase, they all speak to the title,” Dallari said, “they all compliment each other.” The gallery held the artist opening was held on Friday, July 29, 6-8 p.m. at the Main Street Gallery at 213 Main St. in Huntington.
Clockwise from top left: Artwork by Lisa Petker-Mintz, Rondi Casey, Michael Braceland, Rondi Casey, Deborah Katz, Deborah Katz and Lisa Petker-Mintz
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Summer fest features diverse music By N e g l a h Sharma The sixth week of the Annual Huntington Summer Arts Festival, spanning from Tuesday Aug. 2 through Sunday, Aug. 7, spotlights upcoming acts, urban folk soul artist Jen Chapin, jazz funk and pop band, Ladies Drink Free, and The BroadHollow Theatre Company, to stage “Sondheim by Sondheim.” The shows, which are held at the Chapin Rainbow Stage, Heckscher Park, offer free admission for all, and is held each night at 8:30 p.m., except Tuesday Night Family Series, which begins at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Aug. 5, Jen Chapin, daughter of music icon, Harry
Chapin, returns with her urban folk soul tunes. Her songs, like stories, search for community and shared meaning, powered by the funk and improvisation of the city. No stranger to Huntington audiences, Jen was raised locally, and has performed numerous times on the Chapin Rainbow Stage with her Trio and with The Chapin Family. The evening will also celebrate WHY Hunger, and fans are asked to bring canned & non-perishable food items for Long Island Cares, Inc./The Harry Chapin Food Bank. Both organizations were founded by Harry Chapin and continue the fight against hunger. Tunes of Doo Wop, shows, pa-
triotic themes, jazz, spirituals and old-fashioned love songs radiated through the evening of Wednesday, Aug. 3, by The Island Hills Chorus, Twin Shore Chorus, and the Sweet Adelines, acts which are dedicated to preserving the art of American acapella harmony. The BroadHollow Theatre Company stages the musical comedy “Sondheim On Sondheim” on Saturday, Aug. 6. Hailed as a “revelatory revue full of wonderful moments” and a “funny, affectionate and revealing tribute to musical theater’s greatest living composer and lyricist ‘Sondheim On Sondheim’ is an intimate portrait of the famed songwriter in his own words... and music. Long Island’s, “Ladies Drink Free” will perform on Sunday,
Aug. 7. Ladies Drink Free is a collective ensemble that blends a gumbo of gritty funk, jazz, modern pop, sultry R&B, arena rock and world rhythms into a melting pot of “danceable” feel-good grooves. Formed in Huntington in the summer of 2011, the band is composed of friends that have been playing together since their middle school days. The deep history among the band’s lineup is the key to their tightness as a group, and their rich, layered sound. Ladies Drink Free combines hard grooves, lush keys, and crisp horn licks to create a sonic elixir that combines the essence of old school rare grooves with the sensibilities of modern rock and
dance music. The initial performances for week six included a nostalgic appearances ventriloquist Mallory Lewis and her sock puppet “Lamb Chop,” who has been actively performing since 1957, and former star of the ‘90s children’s show, “Lamb Chop’s Play Along,” an Emmy-Award winner of five consecutive years. The Summer Arts Festival is produced by the Town of Huntington and presented by the Huntington Arts Council. For more information and to download a full calendar of the Festival performances go to www. huntingtonarts.org or call 631271-8423. The festival runs through Aug. 14.
Island Hills Chorus
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Mallory Lewis and Lamb Chop
Town to present free concerts in parks The Town of North Hempstead announced Monday a weekend of free concerts from Friday, Aug. 5 to Sunday, Aug. 7 at Clinton G. Martin Park in New Hyde Park and North Hempstead Beach Park in Port Washington. On Friday, Aug. 5 at 7:30
p.m. the Rod Rock Experience will be performing at Clinton G. Martin Park in New Hyde Park. The Rod Rock Experience is a world-class Rod Stewart tribute band starring Rick St. James. The concert is sponsored by Dime Bank.
On Saturday, Aug. 6, Babs Winn and the Kickin’ Boogie band will be performing at North Hempstead Beach Park at 1 p.m. The concert will feature country favorites with country line dancing. On Sunday, Aug. 7, the 1910
Fruitgum Company will be performing at 1 p.m. at North Hempstead Beach Park. The 1910 Fruitgum Company will be playing their hits “Simon Says,” “Yummy, Yummy,” “1, 2, 3 Red Light” and covering hits of ‘60s and ‘70s.
Bring a chair, a snack and enjoy the shows! Parking fees apply for concerts at North Hempstead Beach Park. The parking fee is $10 for cash and $7 for credit/debit. For more information, please call 311 or (516) 869-6311.
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One lawsuit remains Leading the fight in Roslyn club dispute against child abuse B Y CHRIS ADA M S The decade-long legal dispute over the Roslyn Country Club is down to one lawsuit, according to lawyers for both sides. The lawsuit dating back to 2006 reached the Nassau County Supreme Court for jury selection, the furthest in the legal process the case has been. “This is the end of the line,” said lawyer Elizabeth Eilender, of Jaroslawicz & Jaros PLC., who represents country club owner Manouchehr Malekan. The litigation has blocked a plan by the Town of North Hempstead to purchase the country club from Malekan, renovate the park facilities and create a park district for residents. Since the case has gone back-and-forth for years without results, it was moved that the case be brought to a judge to fashion a solution that will “automatically dismiss all counterclaims with prejudice without costs,” according to court documents. The legal dispute involves an easement which dictated that residents surrounding the Roslyn Country Club site would have access to the amenities for an annual fee. After Manouchehr Malekan took ownership of the club property under his company Corona Realty Holdings, he brought a suit against residents in an attempt to extinguish their rights to the club, which was eventually thrown out. The club was then shuttered by Malekan in 2008. In response to the closure, hundreds of residents countersued Malekan for damages, including the one case currently pending by Andrew Rothstein, a Roslyn Heights resident and lawyer. The counterclaims sought monetary compensation for the closure and the decrease of home values due to the lack of recreational facilities. In 2011, the Town of North Hempstead stepped in by attempting to broker a $7 million deal with Malekan to purchase the property. A contract was submitted to the court promising the deal would go through on the condition that all of the suing residents dropped their cases. Malekan’s attorneys submitted a notice of issue, which requires both parties in each case to exchange information from the discovery process for the trial to move forward.
Only two of the hundreds of residents involved in the suit responded, effectively dismissing the other cases, Eilender said. Eventually one of the cases was thrown out after the resident didn’t show up to court, and the single suit left was the one currently pending by Rothstein. He said he is still in litigation because he hasn’t seen the contract promising the sale of the land, and believes it is no longer valid. “I know there had been a contingent contract years ago, but my understanding is that the contract expired,” Rothstein said. “It’s my belief that Corona wants to have the lawsuit dropped and has no intention of selling the property,” he said. Malekan would have no obligation to sell without an active contract, and Rothstein said that is why he continues to hold out in court. “It’s amazing to me in this day and age that one person can clog up the works for an entire community,” Eilender said. “If I was living in this town I would be furious.” Eilender has been on the case as counsel to Malekan for nearly eight years, she said. “No one else was in court today. No one else has come to court to try and block him,” Eilender said. “Perhaps he knows something that these hundreds of other families don’t.” A town spokeswoman, Carole Trottere, issued a statement about the contract saying, “The contract has not been terminated, although the closing deadlines have passed.” The Roslyn Country Club is a housing development created by Levitt and Sons in the 1940s. The development offered amenities like a pool and tennis courts, for which the easement came about guaranteeing resident use. Since Malekan closed the club, the pool and courts have fallen into disrepair. If the club is reopened, neighborhood residents would have first access to membership. If a membership cap isn’t reached, membership would then be open to residents from neighboring communities, according to officials of the Roslyn Country Club Civic Association. Attempts to reach Malekan were unavailing.
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by G a b r i e l l e D e o n at h When they joined to create Child Abuse Prevention Services in 1982, the Junior League of Long Island and the National Council of Jewish Women chose Alane Fagin to be the first executive director of the organization. Thirty-four years later, Fagin has maintained her position as executive director and continues to work to educate Long Island children through workshops on abuse prevention and emotional and physical safety. “In many ways, I have to say that this has been my life’s work,” said Fagin. “It’s been an incredible experience working with schools and the community on keeping kids safe.” Child Abuse Prevention Services (CAPS) is a small nonprofit organization based in Roslyn that aims to educate Long Island students from kindergarten to grade 12 on online safety and prevention of bullying, child abuse, sexual harassment and date rape. CAPS recruits volunteers from across Long Island and provides them with training in conducting workshops in Long Island schools. “When we first started, we were working primarily with high schools and offered programs on child abuse prevention,” Fagin said. “In the early '80s, child abuse was not discussed publicly, especially not in schools, so we wanted to provide students with information on child abuse so that if they were being abused without realizing it, they could get help before they became parents.” With only six staff members, CAPS is largely volunteer based. Today, the organization has recruited around 130 volunteers across Long Island. Instead of solely focusing on child abuse, CAPS staff members developed additional programs after realizing that abuse takes place in many forms, Fagin said. This is the point when programs promoting bullying prevention, online safety, date rape prevention and sexual harassment education were created, with each program targeting different grade levels. After the volunteers are trained, they are sent to schools where they conduct workshops in for small groups. “The students are much more open in these situations to a friendly stranger, as we
volunteers are, than to an adult they have a close relationship with because they know that we are professionals steering them toward help,” said a volunteer, Teddy Emmanuel. “Many kids will quietly pull you aside saying that these things have happened and ask for guidance on what to do.” Workshops can last one to three days, and CAPS provides schools that participate in the workshops with all educational materials. CAPS programs, since the inception of the organization, have been free. This year, CAPS instituted a membership program, but after a nominal fee of $250, there is no further cost for participating schools. CAPS has been used in around 150 to 200 Long Island schools and reaches about 1,000 classrooms per year. Fagin said that many schools contact CAPS every year, inviting the group back to conduct workshops. “The fact that we are institutionalized, so to speak, in these schools speaks volumes to the success of the program,” Fagin added. The demand for CAPS workshops has become so great that more volunteers are needed. “Even though 130 volunteers seems like a lot – because of the range of programs, the different age groups and the vast area we cover, we need a lot more volunteers,” Fagin said. In addition to the school workshops and volunteer training, CAPS also holds staff development training for educators, school administrators and social workers, as well as many other types of professionals. In 2010, CAPS launched a bullying prevention center, which includes the CAPS Bully Helpline, available on the group’s website, capsli.org. Fagin said that those who use this helpline are children or parents of children who have been seriously bullied in school or online and are looking for guidance. The emails sent to the helpline are answered by professionals that walk the students and parents through the steps necessary to solve the issue. Fagin said, “To know that this organization has such a positive impact on keeping kids safe at home, in school, online and in the community makes this work worthwhile.”
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Northwell to study East Williston library home-based rehab receives state grant By J oe N i k i c
Northwell Health announced Friday that the Feinstein Institute for Medical Research received a $1.5 million grant to study if home-based pulmonary rehabilitation can improve the quality of life and decrease hospitalization of Hispanic patients with moderate to severe chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, or COPD. “Re-hospitalization is a huge burden for COPD patients and their families,” said Dr. Negin Hajizadeh, the principal investigator of the study, who is an associate professor of medicine at Hofstra Northwell School of Medicine and is in the division of pulmonary, critical care and sleep medicine at North Shore University Hospital. “We want to find a way to bring a therapy we know works — pulmonary rehabilitation — to COPD patients who are most in need.” COPD, which includes diseases like chronic bronchitis and emphysema, causes blocked airflow and makes it difficult to breathe. Hajizadeh and Dr. Renee Pekmezaris, who is the co-principal investigator in the study, are looking to register 276 Hispanic COPD patients for the study, Northwell officials said. Half of the patients will receive standard pulmonary rehabilitation treatment at a hospital, while the other half will receive pulmonary rehabilitation by “telehealth” at their home. Officials said that the telehealth portion of the study will include an exercise bike and computer tablet for patients’ online rehab sessions with a Spanishspeaking respiratory therapist. The mission of the study, officials said, is to determine if telehealth rehabilitation can lead to better outcomes than traditional rehab programs, which patients have limited access to because of a lack of insurance or money to make copayments. “There is a great disparity in the services that are offered and utilized by Hispanic patients with COPD,” said Pekmezaris, who is vice president of community health and health services research at Northwell Health and an associate professor of medicine and population health at the Hofstra Northwell School of Medicine. “It is difficult for Hispanic patients to gain access to pulmonary rehabilitation, which has shown to be critical for strengthening breathing muscles, learning how to manage the disease and enhancing quality of life.” “A growing number of studies have suggested that rehab reduces hospitalizations for pulmonary problems,” she said. Officials said Northwell researchers worked with a Hispanic couple with COPD, an expert in outreach and community health, pulmonologists, a respi-
Dr. Renee Pekmezaris, vice president of community health and health services research at Northwell Health, an associate professor of medicine and population health at the Hofstra Northwell School of Medicine and the co-principal investigator of the study. ratory therapist, a senior biostatistician, a qualitative researcher and members of a Queens-based community organization, El Poder de Decidir, that helps Hispanic people make informed healthcare decisions to develop the study. “Working with patients and community leaders who have personal experience with managing COPD in the Hispanic community will ensure that the design is practical and acceptable to the people whose lives we are aiming to improve” Hajizadeh said. “We are excited to continue working with these partners as we now implement our study design.” The $1.5 million grant was awarded by the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute, or PCORI, which is a Congress-authorized nonprofit organization that funds research to help provide patients, caregivers and clinicians with evidence-based information to make better healthcare decisions. “This project was selected for PCORI funding not only for its scientific merit and commitment to engaging patients and other stakeholders, but also for its potential to fill an important gap in our health knowledge and give people information to help them weigh the effectiveness of their care options,” said Dr. Joe Selby, executive director of the institute. “We look forward to following the study’s progress and working with the Feinstein Institute of Medicine at Northwell Health to share the results.” Reach reporter Joe Nikic by e-mail at jnikic@theislandnow.com, by phone at 516.307.1045 x203. Also follow us on Twitter @joenikic and Facebook at facebook.com/theislandnow.
State Sen. Jack Martins (R-Old Westbury) has secured state funding for the East Williston Library to enhance its technology and services. The library is utilizing the $10,000 in state funding to purchase new computers for use by patrons and staff. Additionally, the library will also be introducing a series of courses to teach community residents about computer literacy, resume writing and job searching. “The East Williston Library is providing the community with two important benefits through this funding; new technology and new training opportunities to help improve residents’ chances of obtaining employment,” Martins said. “In the digital age, where computer skills and access are absolutely essential, these are very necessary services. I’m pleased to help the library enhance the services it provides to the East Williston community.” “The East Williston Library is grateful for the support that Senator Martins
Senator Jack Martins has given to our library,” East Williston Library Director Susan Corsello said. “We are excited to enhance our offerings to our patrons.”
Martins sponsoring legal services program State Sen. Jack Martins (R-Old Westbury) will be sponsoring a program in Williston Park to provide free legal services to those in need. Martins has arranged to bring the Mobile Legal Help Center to the Williston Park Library at 494 Willis Avenue on Wednesday, Aug. 17 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. The Mobile Legal Help Center, which is a partnership between the New York Legal Assistance Group (NYLAG) and the New York State Office of Court Administration, brings free, civil legal services directly into communities. NYLAG staff will be available to provide free legal assistance to local
residents on issues related to domestic violence, family law, healthcare and disability benefits, housing (tenants only), identity theft and consumer credit issues, and advance planning. Individuals should bring with them any documentation related to their situation that may be useful to the NYLAG staff in providing assistance. Appointments are highly recommended but walk-ins will be accepted and served if time permits. Residents who would like more information about the free legal services program on Aug. 17 or would like to make an appointment should call Martins’ office at 516-746-5924.
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LIU V.P. to take reins at Manhattan museum By J oe N i k i c Michael Glickman, a vice president at Long Island University and a Great Neck Plaza resident, is taking the next step in his professional career but returning to a field that he has served in the past: Jewish history. Glickman, who has worked at LIU for a little over two years, will begin his new post as president of the Museum of Jewish Heritage in Manhattan on Sept. 1. “I am eager to jump in and really help reintroduce this institution to the New York community and beyond and continue moving forward in the way this terrific staff and outstanding board have been working for so long,” he said. “It’s really a question of how we can continue to move the museum to do more and have more of a role in cultural life in New York.” The position overseeing LIU’s Department of Strategic Partnerships and University Advancement was not Glickman’s first at the university. He was named the director of C.W. Post’s alumni affairs office after graduating from the school in 1999 with a bachelor’s degree in political science. Following a second graduation from C.W. Post in 2001, when he obtained a
Michael Glickman master’s degree in political science, Glickman worked as a media relations agent for New York City. Glickman then began to work for the Center for Jewish History in Manhattan, a historical institution that has thousands of documents on Jewish history, in 2002, where he worked for 12 and a half months, eventually becoming the chief operating officer.
He said that serving at Long Island University was a “great opportunity” to reintroduce the school to its alumni base and that he created “so many” memories since he took the position in June 2014. “I think I would say I enjoyed everything from being able to bring in the NBA to host the fan all-star events back in 2015 on our Brooklyn campus to the ability to introduce the new ‘An Evening at Merriweather’ community event to really being able to help our massive alumni base understand the role they play in this community,” Glickman said. While he said he would miss LIU, he said the opportunity at the Museum of Jewish Heritage was difficult to pass up. Glickman said the museum was searching for a new president and their “paths crossed.” “I think in one’s career, certainly in mine, there have been pivotal moments where an opportunity comes about,” he said. “When you look at an institution like the Museum of Jewish Heritage, this is one of the most important roles one can play in New York and especially in the Jewish community.” Glickman said the museum aims to educate the public about 20th and 21st century Jewish history and provide un-
derstanding of the periods before and after the Holocaust. “Having such a spectacular institution that really sort of takes this notion of ‘remember and never forget’ and puts it onto a public platform and gives people the opportunity to experience that dialogue and experience exhibitions that tell the stories, it’s something you don’t find at many places,” he said. Having been a Gold Coast Arts Center board member for the past nine years and serving as its president for the past two and a half years, Glickman said he would remain as the board’s president. “From the standpoint of the community, Great Neck is my home,” he said. “It’s something that I think is truly important for the Great Neck community and the North Shore of Long Island to continue rallying around. I’m happy to continue my role there.” Glickman said he wanted the museum to continue attracting Long Island residents, as it has done in the past. “The museum is a place that sees good traffic coming from North Shore and we want to continue to be an entity that welcomes that and looks forward to welcoming those through the doors of this museum,” he said.
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Local Dems take convention in Philadelphia
Democratic State Committeewoman Lee Seeman and U.S. Rep. Steve Israel at the Democratic National Convention.
Democratic State Committeewoman Lee Seeman at the Democratic National Convention with Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli (at right) and National Democratic Committeeman Robert Zimmerman (at left).
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Mill River Club distinguished by diversity Third in a series The Mill River Club has been noted in the Congressional Record and recognized by the National Conference of Christians and Jews for its unique stance on diversity and its endeavor to establish brotherhood. This club’s position should be the norm for every club on Long Island. It was conceived and founded in 1964 by attorney William Roach, who wanted a “truly balanced and nonsectarian club.” They purchased the Henry Davison II Appledore mansion and estate in Upper Brookville which is located on a hill overlooking gentle rolling hills and adjacent to the Planting Fields Arboretum. The landscape designer of the Appledore estate was Frederick Law Olmsted who also designed Central Park. Since its inception the club has had Jim Turnesa and Mark Mielke as golf professionals and now employs Jason Caron and his wife Liz who happens to be an LPGA tour player as well. You get to Mill River Club by going north on Mill River Road and when you make that left through the entrance you go up a long hill that leads to their 47 room ivy covered Tudor mansion. The clubhouse takes you back to England of the 1500s with arched doorways, half-timbering, brick work, sloping roof, huge fireplaces and casement windows with small panes. The golf course was designed by Gerald Roby and I’ve been lucky enough to have played Mill River in the past with Mark Mielke but today was not a day for golf.
I was here to celebrate the opening of its new pool house and café. I was greeted at the door of the clubhouse by Alan Morris one of the board of directors. Alan is an affable and likeable gentleman who gave me a tour of the main house then escorted me onto the terrace where members were lunching in the shade of the giant oak trees and enjoying the view of the course’s 18th hole. We then walked past the tennis courts to the pool. Everyone loves pools. To hang out on the deck of a light blue pool with a nice shaded veranda attached to a café is one of life’s greatest pleasures. I have seen two of the world’s greatest pools. The prettiest was the pool at the Ville D’Este Hotel in Lake Como where George Clooney and Madonna like to hang out. Two months ago I swam in the Beverly Hills Hotel pool, the
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most romantic pool on earth and the place where Marilyn Monroe, Frank Sinatra, Lauren Bacall and the Beatles used to swim. The Mill River Club had just built a new Tudor style pool house and added a snack bar café in the shade as well. The feeling of their pool setting is English and reflects the architecture of their clubhouse. I had a snack there with Alan Morris and their club manager, Az-Dine Boucetta.
We had a wide ranging conversation and they both emphasized that the issue of diversity was not really an issue at all. It’s true they have balanced membership with a host of nationalities including Asians and Indians and Egyptians. However they added that Mill River is extremely familycentric which includes a children’s high end playground which is fully shaded and immediately adjacent to the pool area. They both remarked that Mill River was nothing more than a mirror of Long Island society which was a true melting pot which a mix of every nationality on earth. Alan also mentioned that a recent study by the MGA stated that the No. 1 asset of a country club was that it must offer a family life style which includes pool, tennis and gym. Country clubs are now eight years beyond the 2008 financial
Mill River, a perfect example of the new family-centric country club.
collapse which impacted many Long Island clubs. To survive and to grow a club must now be a full service facility which provides quality golf but also offer tennis, a pleasant pool life and is family friendly. It looks to me that the Mill River Club has a knack of being ahead of its time. They were the first to establish a policy of diversity way back in 1964 and now are smart enough to adapt to a changing and demanding economic environment. On the drive back home after my meeting with Alan I thought to myself how lucky I have been that I was introduced to the world of golf by my Italian American father. To grow up Italian on Long Island means I have been called dago, wop, guido, ginzo, fonzie and guinea. I remember even wanting to change my last name out of shame and embarrassment. It’s no wonder that I gravitated to my country club to avoid all those slurs. Who hasn’t been subjected to racial epithets? All that is so very painful and racial hatreds die hard. So it’s worth some precious space in this column to commend Mill River Club for having the humanity and heart and good will and courage to actually do something about all that. Country club life is filled with great privilege, wealth, beauty, safety, good manners, good service and wonderful sports like golf and tennis and swimming. And now we can say country club life is also filled with an elevated sense of ethics and morality thanks to places like the Mill River Club.
Don’t punish schools for opt-outs: Phillips Continued from Page 8 About 44 percent of Nassau County students opted out of the English language arts Common Core exam, while about 46 percent of students in the county opted out of the math test. Phillips said that school districts could suffer from a loss of state aid due to poor performance ratings. “Every parent should be concerned by unspecified additional state penalties, which could include the loss of education fund-
ing, could compound the problems facing our schools which already struggle to provide sufficient local funding without breaking the backs of taxpayers,” she said. Phillips also said that the penalties could impact property values in the affected school districts. “Labeling schools as underperforming simply because parents have taken actions that they feel are in the best interests of their children’s educations could
also have the perverse effect of lowering property values, since they are so often tied to measures of school quality,” she said. A Haber campaign spokesman, Jonathan Heppner, said that the Democratic candidate opposes penalties on school districts for opting out. “Adam Haber, an elected member of the Roslyn School Board, believes school districts should not be punished for having students opt out when the implementation of Common
Core has been so disastrous,” Heppner said. He also slammed Phillips and the Republican Party for her comments. “The idea that the handpicked candidate of the Albany Republican majority who brought us Common Core is standing against it now is ridiculous,” Heppner said. “Further, the Albany Republicans running her campaign are financially backed by pro-Common Core New York City private charter
school super PACs who have recently spent millions in negative ads on Long Island.” “As state senator, Adam will only be obligated to continue his strong advocacy for our schools, children and parents here on Long Island,” he added. Reach reporter Joe Nikic by e-mail at jnikic@theislandnow. com, by phone at 516.307.1045 x203. Also follow us on Twitter @joenikic and Facebook at facebook.com/theislandnow.
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Government facing staffing problems The greying of the federal-government workforce could soon create a hiring crisis as a large swath of older workers retires in the coming years and a new generation declines to fill the breach. Simply put, most young people who are in jobsearch mode tend to look elsewhere, finding no motivation to vie for federal government positions that may strike them as more dreary than dazzling. “Millennials want to work some place that seems cool, like Google, or at least for a company with a recognizable name,” says Ann Vanderslice (www.annvanderslice.com), president and CEO of Retirement Planning Strategies, which specializes in advising federal workers about their benefits. “Not that the federal government isn’t a recognizable name. But it just seems bureaucratic to them, with lots of rules and structures.” The nonprofit group Partnership for Public Service reports that just 7 percent of federal government jobs are held by Millennials, even though they account for 23 percent of the overall U.S. workforce.
In addition to preferring less-bureaucratic employers, Millennials also are dissuaded by the online system for applying for federal employment, a website called USAJobs. Vanderslice describes USAJobs as a “hornets nest” of an application system. “It’s very cumbersome,” she says. “They get lost in it. And then, if you do finish the application, it can take six to nine months for the hiring process to play out. Most of them find other jobs in the meantime.” But if they’re willing to persist, Millennials could find that employment with the federal government is more desirable than they realize, Vanderslice said. Some reasons include: • Advancement opportunities. Federal jobs come with an enormous potential to move up quickly because about 30 percent of federal employees are eligible to retire right now, and likely will be retiring in the next three to five years. They are holding higher positions that will suddenly open up, Vanderslice said. That means some young people who start at one of the entry-level positions could be making more than
$80,000 in just three to five years. • Benefits. Federal employees enjoy exceptional benefits compared to many other workers. Not only do they have health benefits and paid holidays, they also have both the Thrift Savings Plan, a 401(K)-style plan, and a pension, something few private companies offer anymore. “Millennials, unfortunately, often don’t understand the value of that,” Vanderslice says. • Having an impact. Studies have shown that Millennials prefer jobs with a purpose beyond making money. Employment with the federal government can provide just the opportunity they are looking for to make a positive difference in people’s lives. “Not only would Millennials benefit from joining the federal government labor pool, but the government would benefit, too,” Vanderslice said. “Millennials could bring with them some of that youthful enthusiasm. They also tend to be technologically savvy. This is a potential match that would work well for both the employee and the employer.”
Dayne, Money to play at county concert CBS’s “Saturday in the Park” Featuring Taylor Dayne and Eddie Money Nassau County Executive Edward P. Mangano announced Thursday that Nassau County will host CBS Presents “Saturday in the Park” featuring Taylor Dayne and Eddie Money on Saturday, August 13th at the Harry Chapin Lakeside Theatre in Eisenhower Park. The show will begin at 8:00 p.m.; admission is free. Taylor Dayne stands out as one of music’s most dynamic artists of all time. Her unique vocal style has earned her numerous best-selling gold and platinum albums, which produced seventeen Top 20 singles, among them number one hits such as “Tell It To My Heart,” “Love Will Lead You Back” and “Prove Your Love To Me.” During the course of her career, Taylor has sold more than 75 million albums and singles worldwide, garnered three Grammy nominations and appeared in many film, television, and Broadway stage roles such as Elton John’s, Aida. After signing a recording contract with Columbia Records, Eddie Money burst onto the scene with his eponymous debut album in 1977. Fans immediately fell in love with Money’s sound, and the album, which went double platinum, featured hits like “Baby Hold On” and “Two Tickets to Paradise.” Money followed the success of his debut album with a stream of Top 40 hits, as well as some of the era’s most creative videos for songs like “Think I’m in Love” and “Shakin.” In 1986, Money released Can’t Hold Back, which featured the classic, Grammy-Nominated duet with Ronnie Spector, “Take Me Home Tonight.”
The song reached number 4 on the Billboard Hot 100. The album went platinum and also featured the hit “I Wanna Go Back.” Much of the Nassau County Parks Department programming for July, August and September is funded through the Nassau County Hotel/Motel Proceeds Grant. These funds are made available to us through proceeds from taxes on hotel and motel rooms in Nassau County. Since 2006, Nassau County has received over ten million dollars from this grant, and it has assisted in historic building restoration and other cultural enhancements. The concert is free of charge and will take place at the Harry Chapin Lakeside Theatre, near Parking Fields 6 and 6A. Special accommodations are available for persons with disabilities, including reserved parking, accessible restrooms, and a convenient reserved location on the hill. Assistive hearing devices will be available free of charge for the hearing impaired. There is no formal seating at Lakeside, so concertgoers are urged to bring folding chairs or blankets. If weather conditions are doubtful, call (516) 572-0200 after 6:30 p.m. for updated performance information. Eisenhower Park is located in East Meadow, with entrances on Hempstead Turnpike at East Meadow Avenue and at the intersection of Stewart and Merrick Avenues. For further information, please call the Nassau County Parks, Recreation and Museums Department at: (516) 5720200, or visit the website at: www.nassaucountyny.gov/parks.
Jill Weber, Parks and Recreation Commissioner, Vicky Shorodinsky, Intern at Cornell Cooperative Extension and Megan Fastuca, Intern at Cornell Cooperative Extension Town Supervisor Judi Bosworth and Bonnie Klein, Horticulturalist at Clark Botanic Garden in Albertson.
Bosworth meets with students at Clark North Hempstead Town Supervisor Judi Bosworth attended Clark Botanic Garden on July 20 to meet with instructors and interns from Nassau County Cornell Cooperative Extension who are working with BOCES Regent High School Students on a summer project hosted at Clark Botanic Garden. The BOCES students are learning garden design and will be working on a reconstruction of Clark’s butterfly garden. Once complete, the butterfly garden will include flowers and plants that attract but-
terflies and other pollinators. Some of the plants to be included will be prairie blazing Star, purple cone flowers, butterfly milkweed, bee balm and black-eyed susans. The Fanny Dwight Clark Memorial Garden Inc., will be helping to fund this program with a $500 grant from the Scott’s Foundation. Not pictured is Jennifer Cappello-Ruggiero, Cornell Cooperative Extension 4-H Educator Nassau County.
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Recent RE Sales in the Williston Area Williston Park Real Estate Market Conditions Median sales price $560,000 Demographics near Williston Park, NY Population Population Density Median Age People per Household Median Household Income Average Income per Capita
City 7,264 11,604 43.9 2.8 107,622 43,205
County 1,338,712 4,702 41.2 3 97,049 42,286
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189 William Street, Williston Park Sold Price: $560,000 Date: 04/13/2016 4 beds, 2 Full/1 Half baths Style: Cape # of Families: 1 Lot Size: 50x219.54 Schools: Herricks Total Taxes: $12,304 MLS# 2781312
173 Schley Avenue, Alberston Sold Price: $742,000 Date: 06/10/2016 3 beds, 2 Full baths Style: Hi Ranch # of Families: 1 Lot Size: 48x123 Schools: Herricks Total Taxes: $13,200 MLS# 2825496
116 Searingtown Road, Sold Price: $850,000 Date: 06/10/2016 4 beds, 3 Full/1 Half baths Style: Colonial # of Families: 1 Lot Size: 74x165 Schools: Herricks Total Taxes: $23,708 MLS# 2673365
71 Chaffee Avenue, Albertson Sold Price: $555,000 Date: 07/06/2016 3 beds, 1 Full baths Style: Ranch # of Families: 1 Lot Size: 48x100 Schools: Herricks Total Taxes: $11,075 MLS# 2804030
Editor’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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Where will prices go with inventory low? The market is zooming along and sellers are receiving excellent prices and interest rates are still below 4 percent! Will the market continue its upswing? This author believes it will as long as interest rates stay within a reasonable range 4-6 percent, which I believe they will and no major catastrophic events occur that would affect our economy. Jobs are being created on average of 269,000 per month over the last 12 months (Bureau of Labor Statistics April 2015). Unemployment in 2009 was around 10 percent and now it is steady at 5.5 percent, so things have greatly improved (Bureau of Labor Statistics May 2015. This will only continue to enhance our real estate market. The Millenials and Genera-
tion Xer’s will be growing the demand by leaps and bounds over the 1-5 years (42 percent of Millennials want to buy compared with 31% of Generation Xer’s). There are 87 million Millenials (ages 23-34, born 19811992) will over take the Generation Xer’s (ages 35-50, born 1965-1980) and are the largest group ever to enter the market second to the 76 Million baby boomers, after WW II. (U.S. News & World Report Dec 2014 & Stan Humphries, chief economist at Zillow) The individuals and families that are able to stay local within the New York region will do so, because their earnings warrant it. Many builders throughout the country are building lower cost homes that are more afford-
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able to attract the large groups of potential purchasers. Long Island tends to have a higher cost factor for housing, which is driving many to leave New York (we have lost over 3 million residents to other states
from 2000-2010, Forbes Magazine Jan. 2015) for other lower cost regions in the southern, central and western regions. The brain drain has been occurring for many, many years, due to the high cost of housing and the only way to slow it down is to have that lower cost housing in downtowns and areas where smaller and lower cost homes can be constructed, with government assistance, which in some situations is happening. Will the no taxes for 10 years plan by Cuomo help reduce this exodus and bring more businesses and residents here? Time will tell. Bonus Information for our Readers: If you would like to receive
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Ruck named interim principal at Herricks H.S. Continued from Page 1 He comes to Herricks from Elwood-John H. Glenn High School in Suffolk County, where he was principal for two years. He also spent 24 years — including 13 as superintendent — in the 15,500-student Sachem Central School District, the largest suburban school district in the state. There he managed a $242.7 million budget and oversaw a $228 million capital projects referendum. Ruck knew little about Herricks before he met Celano and other district administrators on July 25, but found he and Celano share a strong focus on students’ social and emotional well-being,
he said. He is not “turning the place over” at Herricks High, he said, but aims to support the school’s high academic performance, “rich” curriculum and diverse extracurricular activities. He’ll also continue his practice of eating lunch with students in the cafeteria, he said. “I know what good high schools are all about, and it’s about everybody having a niche, and you want to create niches for people, kids and teachers,” said Ruck, a lifelong Northport resident. Ruck will be Herricks High School’s third principal in three years as he takes over for Thomp-
James Ruck son, who is leaving Herricks after a year to return to Farmingdale, where he was an assistant principal for eight years.
The situation is familiar to Ruck, he said. In 2006, he was supposed to serve a six-month stint as the interim principal at Harrison High School in Westchester County, which had gone through five principals in 10 years. He ended up staying for seven years before leaving in 2013. Despite the turnover, Celano said Herricks High School’s strong core of teachers and departmental leaders, as well as the school board, are a force for stability. “While there’s a change in leadership, the vision will remain the same,” Celano said. The fact that Ruck shares the
district’s goals eases the transition as Herricks also works to create an Advanced Placement capstone course for seniors and expand its classroom technology, Celano said. The district will conduct a full search for a permanent principal in the spring, a process that takes about three months, Celano said. Asked if he would consider taking that job, Ruck said, “It’ll have to be a match.” “Too soon to say that, but would I say impossible?” he said. “I would have said impossible when I went to Harrison and stayed for seven years.”
Herricks seeks input on construction plan Continued from Page 2 Work would likely start by the summer of 2018, so there would be some overlap in the borrowing, Rutkoske said. In that case, the district would cut
other capital expenses to keep the new debt tax-neutral, she said. “We would be looking to phase it in over the next four to five years so that by the time we
get to the end of the projects, the old debt is falling off,” Rutkoske said. Herricks budgeted for $400,900 in bond payments this year, down from $419,338 last
year. The budget also includes a $200,000 boost to the district’s capital projects fund. Herricks residents can attend talks about the capital plan at school board meetings Sept. 1
and 15 at Herricks Community Center, and at a special informational meeting Sept. 27 at Herricks High School. All meetings start at 7:30 p.m.
Harry’s Hilltop provides inspiration for film Continued from Page 3 “The Last Straw” was admitted to the 34th annual Long Island Film Festival, based in Bellmore, and the all-online Fan Boy Film Festival. Hadjicharalambous said he’s work-
ing to get it into about a dozen more festivals so as many people can see it as possible. In addition to “The Last Straw,” Hadjicharalambous has made dozens of short films and one other feature film, titled
“Crossed,” he said. He also does freelance corporate filmmaking and video editing, he said. Even when he’s hit roadblocks in his career, filmmaking has taught Hadjicharalambous
many lessons and made him feel most like himself, he said. “I feel like my strengths come out and my personality comes out and I’m just fascinated with the whole process of telling stories through film,”
he said. “The Last Straw” will premiere at 9 p.m. Aug. 13 at the Bellmore Movies and Showplace, located at 222 Pettit Ave. in Bellmore. Tickets are free.
Williston Times Community 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, please click on link below fill out and submit with an original 8x10 color photograph of member in full uniform. Hometown Hero Banner Program Application can be found online at the village website, www.VillageofWillistonPark.org. SUMMER CONCERT: Three Sheets August 19, 2016 at 7:30pm at Kelleher Field. Brought to you buy the Williston Park Recreation Committee.
ANNUAL GOLF OUTING September 16, 2016 11:30 am Check In Golf Outing Flyer brought to you by the Williston Park Recreation Committee. Nassau County Mortgage Foreclosure Clinics Monday, August 8 and Monday, August 22, 3 - 6 p.m Nassau residents who are struggling with the prospect of losing their homes in mortgage foreclosure, or still have issues resulting from Superstorm Sandy, are invited to come for help from volunteer attorneys at the Nassau County Bar Association’s Free Mortgage Foreclosure/Sandy Recovery Legal Consultation Clinics. The next
two clinics are scheduled for Monday, August 8 and Monday, August 22, 3 - 6 p.m, at the Nassau County Bar Association, located on 15th Street at the corner of West Street, Mineola, two blocks south of the bus and train stations. NCBA’s clinics allow homeowners concerned about foreclosure matters or who are already in the foreclosure process involving property in Nassau County, to meet one-on-one with a volunteer attorney for a free consultation. Homeowners then may be directed for additional help with mortgage modifications, loan restructuring, bankruptcy, financial planning assistance, services for lower income households and emotional support. Many of these resources
and agencies are available immediately in the same room. Clinic volunteers include dozens of attorneys trained in mortgage foreclosure issues, bankruptcy attorneys, HUD-certified housing counselors from Community Development Corporation of Long Island, Hispanic Brotherhood of Rockville Centre and American Debt Resources. There are no income restrictions to attend the clinics. Since 2009, NCBA has held more than 140 clinics assisting more than 10,000 Nassau families in distress. Currently, each clinic averages 50 homeowners, signifying that mortgage foreclosure continues to be prevalent in Nassau. Volunteer attorneys also answer Sandy victims’ questions regarding homeown-
er, flood, property damage and automobile insurance claims; FEMA, debt deferral, and consumer protection issues. Bi-lingual attorneys fluent in Spanish are on site, and attorneys bi-lingual in other languages, including Russian, Haitian Creole, Korean, Chinese, Hindi and American Sign Language, may be requested when making reservations. To make an appointment for the next clinic, call the Bar Association at 516-747-4070. Attendees are asked to bring their mortgage documents or other important papers and correspondence with them. This program is funded through the NYS Attorney General Homeownership Protection Program (known as HOPP).
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State reviews raise school project costs Continued from Page 1 Helped by extra funds, the department has hired outside engineers to help and taken other steps to cut the wait time from nearly 11 months earlier this year, Beattie said. About 440 projects are awaiting reviews, according to the department’s facilities planning office. But construction gets more expensive as districts wait, meaning they must build financial cushions into their multimilliondollar capital plans, superintendents said. “Not only is it a delay in seeing these projects come to fruition, but it may end up costing districts more money in the end because of the fact that the cost of construction is escalating,” said the Herricks school superintendent, Fino Celano. Projects awaiting final state approvals include repairs at eight Port Washington buildings, electrical work throughout the Great Neck district and $5 million worth of work at Mineola’s Hampton Street School. The Education Department reviews all projects for safety and compliance with codes and regulations, Beattie has said. Once it’s submitted to the state, each project must get approvals for project management, architecture and
engineering, she has said. The first two can take between a day and a week to complete depending on the complexity of the project, Beattie said. Engineering reviews — the source of the backlog — closely examine electrical systems, ventilation, plumbing, lighting and other details, a more complex process that generally takes a week or more, Beattie said. Herricks administrators must consider the delay as they plan $25 million worth of work across the district’s seven buildings, Celano said. They want to hold a bond referendum in December but don’t expect any projects to be done until at least 2018, he said. Costs for materials, wages and pensions rise regularly, so project budgets can be right one year and off base the next as districts wait for approval, said Mitchell Pally, chief executive officer of the Long Island Builders Institute. “There is no question that in many cases in a construction environment, the longer you wait to build, the more expensive it will be,” Pally said. One architect told Celano construction costs are rising as much as 10 percent annually, so administrators have accounted
for cost increases in the $25 million plan, he said. The Mineola School District is waiting for the start of the engineering review for the Hampton Street School projects, which includes an overhaul of the athletic field where Mineola High School’s football team plays. The district also submitted plans in May for air conditioning in classrooms at Jackson Avenue School and the expansion of classrooms at Meadow Drive School, funded by Mineola’s 2016-2017 budget. Construction costs have increased since the district first submitted plans for the work at Hampton Street, which voters approved in November 2015, Nagler said. It may have to trim parts of the project to fit its budget when it asks builders for bids in the fall, Nagler said. Asking contractors to bid on a base package of work that must be done and separate optional pieces called “add-alternates” can help districts keep to their budgets, said Ralph Ferrie, superintendent of the Sewanhaka Central High School District. Sewanhaka did that for the third phase of an $86.6 million capital initiative, which includes auditorium renovations at three of its five schools and an addition to Sewanhaka High School.
“You have to make some decisions in order to build what you said you were going to build,” Ferrie said. “It’s almost like when you go in and buy a car — if you want to have every single upgrade on the car or you want to start paring back. The car will still get you where you need to get.” While school construction projects are generally smaller in scale and require fewer workers than they used to, Pally said, the state backlog could have an impact on construction jobs. The industry accounts for about 10 percent of Long Island’s gross domestic product, Pally said. State labor statistics show it added about 3,200 jobs on Long Island between June 2015 and June 2016, but it has seen “up and down” employment patterns in recent years, Pally said. “When these jobs don’t start, that would keep some people off the unemployment rolls,” said Richard O’Kane, president of the Nassau-Suffolk Building Trades Council. “If you have a couple of hundred [people] working on a school project, think about maybe 50 or 60 or 100 have to stay out of work longer because they couldn’t get on that job.” Long Island superintendents’ groups have suggested the state let districts pay a fee to get proj-
ects into a special expedited queue, Nagler said. It could also let districts hire their own engineers to do reviews, Ferrie said. The Education Department’s project review staff is about half what it was a decade ago, Carl Thurnau, the state’s director of facilities planning, told the New York State School Boards Association in an April 2015 article. The department has hired nine outside engineering firms to help with project reviews and is in the process of hiring more permanent staff using a combined $1.6 million boost in the past two state budgets, said Beattie, the department spokeswoman. The state also speeds up reviews for certain emergency projects and has streamlined reviews for simple work, such as replacing equipment, so it can get approved within a few weeks. School districts should make sure they submit complete plans so the process runs as smoothly as possible, Thurnau wrote in a January newsletter. “We are aware of the practice of submitting incomplete work as placeholders due to the backlog, and we understand the backlog has made this situation worse,” he wrote. “However, it is unproductive for everyone involved.”
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READERS WRITE
G.N. villages should unite Kings Point Park
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am writing to aggravate the natives. They do not walk, and do not talk ,and certainly do not listen. I suggested that the various villages unite. They meet but do not greet, and certainly are not great. Only the mayor of Saddle Rock is alert, but alone. Dan Levy probably lives furthest from the center of activity. These mayors have regular meetings. Do they have more than coffee? Then there are the buses. Who really needs them? The residents drive and never use their front door. The housekeepers arrive and use the back door. The employees of the various businesses, which our neighbors do not patronize, arrive by bus. Who cares. If the buses collide serves them
right. Poor planning! Who listens to Muriel Pfeifer? She only lives close by. Paul Glader thinks that the adults of the community will bike to the station. The last time I biked (30 years ago) I fell off of it and required a few days in the hospital. I did not even leave our community. Larry Penner, whom I respect, wants new buses, and we have some. Dump the buses and see how our neighbors, who do not ride them, will scream because help usually arrives on those buses. Who cares about their condition or safety or cleanliness. Norman Roland Great Neck
Pope’s trip to death camp
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ope Francis is on five-day trip to Poland for events including Catholics’ World Youth Day. Regarding World Youth Day there are about 2.5 million young people expected to be there who are there to profess their faith and hopefully to have lasting effects on their lives. At Our Lady of the Snows Parish in North Floral Park, Father Jeremy Cana traveled with a group of pilgrims for this important event. As reported two of these young people are Rony Moozhayil age 18 and Tashila Pere age 19, who are part of this pilgrimage. I hope their experiences lead them to dedicate themselves to volunteer to help in the church,community and those in need as I hope the
many at this event are inspired to do the same as well. As a Catholic and Grand Knight of St. Anastasia’s Knights of Columbus, I would also like to applaud Pope Francis for his visit to the AuschwitzBirkenau Nazi death camp. As such I think his visit is sending a message to the world that the killing of over 6 million Jews must never occur again and to any other people. In the guest book he signed he wrote begging God forgiveness for so much cruelty. In closing let me say that Pope Francis be blessed for all the good he is trying to do for humanity.
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y name is Ray- scouting groups, athletic mond Gresalfi teams, and social action and I am a resi- movements. dent of Lake SucToo much news these cess. days are gloomy and are I am a scout in Boy not the type of news that Scout Troop 544 based makes people feel good. out of Notre Dame in New I feel like there should Hyde Park. I often read be less stress about the reyour newspapers and I ports on detriments to our find that there is a large community, while having amount of articles and a brighter outlook on the passages about negative events that take place. events and news that hapThank you for your pen in New Hyde Park. consideration and openIn my opinion, there ness to opinion. should be a larger amount of uplifting articles about Raymond Gresalfi local community orgaGreat Neck nizations such as local
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Address empty stores
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hy on earth has it taken so long for the Great Neck authorities to show concern to the alarming increase in store closures in Great Neck? Hardly a day passes without another store closing. Even many of the stores still in business are advertising huge sale discounts in a desperate attempt to survive. Among the reasons being touted for this alarming trend are frequent unaffordable rent increases, tax hikes and tightening parking restrictions. The Great Neck villages have to address this alarming trend without further delay before Great Neck turns into a ghost town. Michael Ellis Great Neck
law cheats locals
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ow that Gov. Cuomo has signed S7999, the Kings Point Park “alienation” law, our local environment is in danger. Kings Point is about to about to despoil that park with a giant and unnecessary municipal garage, which could easily have been built on the site of the old village hall on Sunset Road. Moreover, thanks to its sneaky legal maneuver to score an end run around the Court of Appeals, it’s now set a dangerous precedent. What happens next year when that village decides to build a swimming pool in the park? Another new law, steal away another 10 acres? Tennis courts in five years? Another 10 acres. Then how about a municipal golf course? Time to cut down all the trees for 150 acres. Shame on local Great Neck officials, starting with the entire Kings Point Village Board, as well as for its associates: state Assemblywoman Michelle Schimel, who never once responded to resident concerns, and especially state Sen. Jack Martins, who betrayed a year-old promise to prevent any park alienation bill from passing in the Senate! Shame on the three Great Neck park commissioners who did nothing for years when the Kings Point Park garage plan first surfaced, leaving it to four courageous residents to sue Kings Point in New York Supreme Court and win all the way to the Court of Appeals. Did the commissioners join the case, mobilize citizens to bom-
bard Kings Point village officials or Schimel and Martins with messages to preserve the park? Did they consider firing their general counsel, who is law partner of the Kings Point village attorney? Clearly, they are more interested in bronze plaques containing their names on unneeded new buildings, like the $1.3 million “Park District Plaza” at 5 Beach Road, than in old-growth trees in Kings Point Park. No thanks to the Great Neck News, either. Here was a great story of community concern, development in a park protected by a 50-year-old state law, citizens suing the village and winning, and then doubletalking politicians sneaking a law through the Legislature in the last minute of the 2016 session, an example of Albany at its most corrupt. You could have run news stories and editorials for weeks that would have shined light on this sneaky tactic and forthcoming disaster and might even have won some recognition. Too difficult, I guess. At least let’s give credit to the four Great Neck citizens who mounted the battle by themselves and won — only to lose when they were cheated by the political Establishment. They are Elizabeth Allen, Alan Berkower, Dan Capruso and the late Julian Kane. Kudos to them. Shame on the rest of us. David Zielenziger Great Neck
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Help Wanted ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT/ BOOKKEEPER: Optec Communications, Inc. is located in Mineola, NY. Great opportunity for retirees or experienced workers seeking part time and flexible work schedule. Excellent organizational and interpersonal skills; excellent clerical and writing skills; must be computer literate with knowledge of MS Word & Excel. Knowledge of ACT Database a plus. Tasks will include invoicing, filing, bookkeeping, telephone answering, data entry, etc. Attention to detail is critical in this position. Applicants should have reliable transportation. Casual work environment. Qualified candidates should e-email your resume to aleong@optec.net ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT: Lake Success, NY. Excellent organization, multi-tasking and interpersonal skills. Data entry, answer phones, coordinate trade shows, some collections. Knowledge of MS Word, Excel and Power Point. Qualified candidates should email their resume to: tkerls@escalonmed.com BOOKKEEPER: Experienced, 10 hours per week. $15 per hour, flexible hours, credit card, bank statement, A/R &A/P reconciliation, monthly profit and loss statement. Quickbooks a must. Please call Debbie 917-204-9964 CLERICAL PART TIME Sunday Front Desk Position Busy Real Estate Office. Computer knowledge necessary, phone etiquette important. Good opportunity for someone returning to work force. Call for an appointment 516-248-9494
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DELIVERY DRIVER WANTED For a busy Garden City Pizza establishment. P/T hours great for student. Sundays a must. Good pay. Call 516-228-4300
NON ADMINISTRATIVE PERSONAL ASSISTANT needed. $17/hour, $430/week Monday through Friday. Contact timara_m@hotmail.com
DRIVER WANTED: Early mornings. ASAP. Please call 516-248-6618 DISPLAY ACCOUNT EXECUTIVE: Blank Slate Media, a fast growing chain of 6 award winning weekly newspapers and website, is looking for an energetic, service oriented professional with good communication skills to sell display, web and email advertising. Earn up to $60,000 in the first year representing 6 Blank Slate Media publications and website as well as 5 publications and 1 website owned by Blank Slate Media’s partner, Litmor Publications.We are looking for an enthusiastic and service oriented sales professional with good communication skills. Requirements: minimum 2 years outside sales experience. Newspaper sales experience a plus. Must have your own car. Exclusive protected territory. Opportunity to sell both print and online programs. A collegial, supportive sales team. Award-winning editorial coverage. A separate newspaper for each community allowing advertisers to target their markets. And you to provide the most cost-effective way to advertise. Represent media that produce superior response for clients. Compensation: Salary plus commission, health. To apply please email resume and cover letter to sblank@ theislandnow.com or call Steven Blank at 516-307-1045 ext 201
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516 328-7126 Agency seeks experienced workers who love working with the elderly. P/T and F/T hours Drivers preferred
FRONT DESK HEALTH CARE ASSISTANT P/T Floral Park Ophthalmology Practice seeking individual to work P/T in a team environment providing optimal patient experience in busy medical office. Experience preferred includes good communication/phone skills, multitasking, processing of patients, utilization of office software & other office computer programs, electronic billing, insurance. Please email cover letter & resume to: Reception@drjindra.com PART TIME SELF-STORAGE ASSOCIATE wanted. Good people skills, computer literate. Self-starter, detail-oriented a plus! Will train. Friendly, comfortable work environment. Please send resume to: sg.storage123@yahoo.com TEACHER ASSISTANTS: Full time and part time. Fast hire. Will train. Expanding established prestigious Nassau County Preschool. Email resume to J10291@aol.com or call 516-625-9080. Large growth potential for warm, loving, creative individuals.
Situation Wanted AIDE AVAILABLE: Kind, Compassionate HHA working with sick, elderly and newborn care seeking FT/PT position on weekdays, weekends or overnight. 25+ years experience. References available. Call Liz 516-590-5338
Situation Wanted Situation Wanted AIDE/CARE GIVER: CARING, EFFICIENT, RELIABLE Available Mon-Fri live in to care for your sick or elderly loved one. Cooking, light housework, bathing, administer medications. References available. Call 516-448-0502 BABYSITTER AVAILABLE: Responsible, loving caretaker to watch your baby or child in my home. Former Teacher’s Aide. Experienced with autistic children. References available. Monday through Friday. Call 516-244-2170 CERTIFIED HOME HEALTH aide seeking employment as companion, house cleaner, housekeeper. Full time/part time. Available 7 days /week. Experience with references. Driver with car. Please call 631-5226170 CLEANING available for Office & Home. Good references. Free estimates. Call Vanessa 516-451-8330 or 516-451-2446 CNA CERTIFIED EXPERIENCED over 10 years in both nursing homes and private cases. Highly recommended with excellent references. Responsible for, but not limited to performing the following: feeding, bathing, dressing, grooming, moving patients and changing linens. Please feel free to contact with serious inquiries only: Call 862-2410883
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COMPANION/HOME HEALTH AIDE With 20 years experience in home care & nursing homes seeking position to care for the sick/elderly. Experience with Parkinsons, Alzheimers, Dementia, Stroke. Licensed driver able to transport to appointments, etc. References available. English speaking. Please call 347-546-4133 ELDER CARE COMPANION Experienced, reliable & energetic woman with own car available to take you anywhere you need to go and also do cooking, cleaning and much more! Please give me a call. Doris 516-280-5833 EXPERIENCED NURSING AIDE seeking position to take care of elderly. Evenings or weekends. Own car and good references. Please 917-796-5917 HAMPTONS BABYSITTERS 2 Garden City College students, with cars available for babysitting in the Hamptons. Call or text: 516-4585061 or 516-307-7701 HOME HEALTH AIDE/COMPANION AVAILABLE: I am a certified Home Health Aide dedicated and responsible towards extending care for the elderly. I have experience with Dementia, Alzheimers cases, prepare meals, showers, bathing, laundry, dressing, doctor appointments. Licensed driver. References available. Contact Victoria: 516-2635860 HOUSEKEEPER / COOK / ELDER CARE: Experienced woman seeking position in the field of household cook, housekeeper, elder care. Honest & hardworking with excellent references. Please call 718-896-0203 NANNY F/T with 15 years experience seeking position to care for your newborn & older children. References available. Trustworthy, loving, reliable. 15 years with 3 Garden City families. Driver’s license. Call 516-972-6877 NURSING ASSISTANT/ HOME CARE ATTENDANT Nurse’s assistant available to care for the elderly. Live in or live out. Offering compassionate home care full time or part time. Available for overnight also. Please call 347-543-5960
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▼ marketplace, real estate, service directory Marketplace OFFICE EQUIPMENT FOR SALE GARDEN CITY: HON (600 Series) Lateral File Cabinet 42”W x 19 1/4” D x 53 1/4”H $250 BROTHER IntelliFax 4100E High Speed Business Class Laser Fax $100 Pickup only. CASH only.Call 516-489-2891 (leave msg) or: email: nlzcas@yahoo.com
Wanted to Buy ABE BUYS ANTIQUES:Silver, paintings, rugs and all contents. All Cash! 917-817-3928 CASH FOR DIABETIC TEST STRIPS Up to $35 /Box! Sealed and Unexpired. Payment made SAME DAY. Highest prices paid! Call JENNI today! 800-413-3479 www. cashforyourteststrips.com LOOK! Old clocks and watches wanted by collector regardless of condition. Highest prices paid. 917748-7225 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 INVITED SALES BY TRACY JORDAN Wednesday, August 10 10:00 am 45 Riverside Drive Rockville Centre, NY 11570 PACKED HOUSE AND BARN, Tons of vintage and collectibles, walking sticks, large dining table and chairs, glassware, china, Beleek, sectional couch, large TV, audio, rockers, holiday, copper, crocks, tools, filing cabinets, old stereos, freezer, cranberry glass, bar, books, fish tank, elliptical, mirrors, desks, chairs, jewelry, dry sink, drafting table, task chairs, bedding, benches, clothing, Superhero pinball machine, dolls!, cradles, lighting, chiminea, outdoor table and chair, stackable outdoor chairs, outdoor tools, wheelbarrow, lawnmower...Visit www.invitedsales. com for pictures and details !
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INVITED SALES BY TRACY JORDAN Monday August 8 9:30 am 26 Kennedy Avenue Elmont, NY 11003 Rattan furniture, armoire, glass coffee table, large farm table, mission china cabinet, costume jewelry, bedroom furniture, ladies clothing and accessories, vintage toys, decorative home goods....Visit www.invitedsales.com for pictures and details !
Yard Sale GARDEN CITY Friday 8/12 10am6pm Saturday 8/13 10am-6pm 37 Mulberry Ave Household items, miscellaneous kitchen appliances including rice cooker, blender, George Forman grill, baby items including stroller & pack n play, jewelry, books, picture frames, clothing, holiday items, tools, Civil War sculptures.... and much more!
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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 516-505-9717 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
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GARDEN CITY/HEMPSTEAD BORDER ATRIUM TOWNHOUSE Immaculate. COMPLETELY UPDATED. 2 Bedrooms, 2.5 Baths, 1800sf. Granite Kitchen, Updated Baths, CAC/VAC, 23 x 17 Great Room, Patio 8 x 18, Underground Parking, Great Storage. $380K 516-993-6407 or 516-747-3036
Homes for Sale GARDEN CITY GREAT NEIGHBORHOOD 5 Bedrooms, 2.5 Baths Living Room w/fireplace Dining Room Large Den w/fireplace Finished Basement, new Garage, Large Yard w/patio, IGS, CAC, Electric dog fence Near Nassau Haven Park and LIRR. Asking $1,150,000 Call 917-859-4809
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ABANDONED FARM LIQUIDATION SALE August 6th3 HOURS NYC! 7 acres, $19,900, 10 acres, $24,900, 20 acres, $39,900, 30 acres, 59,900 Parcels being SOLD OFF! Terms avail! Call to register 888-905-8847 Virtual tour: NewYorkandLakes.com
GARDEN CITY Large 3 rooms, 1 Bedroom, updated Kitchen & Baths. Immed occupancy $2,100 up Five rooms, 2 Bedrooms, 2 Baths, FDR, modern Kitchen, wood floors. $3,200 Six room apt. 3 Bedrooms, 2 new Baths, updated EIK, No Pets. Elevator. $3,800 up Garden City Properties 516-746-1563/516-313-8504
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DEVLIN BUILDERS Since 1979. We do all types of improvements including HANDYMAN REPAIRS. No job too small. Bob Devlin 516-3656685. Insured License H18C730000 LAMPS FIXED $65 In home service. Handy Howard. 646-996-7628
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Community Meetings Village of East Hills Architectural Review Board Meeting
Village of Manorhaven Board of Zoning and Appeals Meeting
Village of Old Westbury Board of Zoning and Appeals Meeting
Village of Roslyn Estates Board of Trustees Meeting
Monday, August 8 @ 8:00 p.m. Village Hall 209 Harbor Hill Road East Hills (516) 621-0368
Tuesday, August 9 @ 7:00 p.m. Village Hall 33 Manorhaven Blvd. Port Washington (516) 883-7000
Monday, August 8 @ 7:30 p.m. Village Hall 1 Stone Hill Road Old Westbury (516) 626-0800
Village of East Williston Board of Trustees Meeting
Village of Mineola Board of Trustees Meeting
Village of Plandome Heights Architectural Review Board Meeting
Monday, August 8 @ 7:30 p.m. Village Hall 2 Prospect Street East Williston (516) 746-0782
Wednesday, August 10 @ 6:30 p.m. Village Hall 155 Washington Avenue Mineola (516) 746-0750
East Williston School District Board of Education Meeting
Mineola School District Board of Education Meeting
Thursday, August 11 @ 7:30 p.m. Wheatley School 11 Bacon Road Old Westbury (516) 333-7804 Village of Great Neck A rchitectural Review Board Meeting
Tuesday, August 9 @ 7:30 p.m. Village Hall 61 Baker Hill Road Great Neck (516) 482-0019
Thursday, August 11 @ 7:00 p.m. Willis Avenue School 121 Jackson Avenue Mineola (516) 237-2000
Village of Munsey Park Building Advisory Committee Meeting
New Hyde Park-Garden City Park School District Board of Education Meeting
Village of Great Neck Plaza Board of Zoning and Appeals Meeting
Village of New Hyde Park Board of Zoning and Appeals
Wednesday, August 10 @ 7:30 p.m. Village Hall 1420 Jericho Turnpike New Hyde Park (516) 354-0022
Great Neck Water Pollution Control District Board of Commissioners Meeting
Village of North Hills Planning Meeting
Village of Lake Success Board of Trustees Meeting
Monday, August 8 @ 7:30 p.m. Village Hall 318 Lakeville Road Lake Success (516) 482-4411 Village of Lake Success Board of Zoning and Appeals Meeting
Monday, August 8 @ 8:00 p.m. Village Hall 318 Lakeville Road Lake Success (516) 482-4411
Monday, August 8 @ 7:30 p.m. Village Hall, 25 The Tulips Roslyn Estates (516) 621-3541
Monday, August 8 @ 7:30 p.m. Village Hall 100 East Shore Road Great Neck (516) 482-3110
Roslyn School District Board of Education Meeting
Village of Williston Park Board of Zoning and Appeals Meeting
Thursday, August 11 @ 7:00 p.m. Roslyn High School 475 Round Hill Road Roslyn Heights (516) 801-5100 Shelter Rock Library Board of Trustees Meeting
Wednesday, August 10 @ 7:30 p.m. 165 Searingtown Road Albertson (516) 248-7363
Monday, August 8 @ 8:00 p.m. Village Hall 494 Willis Avenue Williston Park (516) 746-2193 Meetings are held at the respective Village Halls except where noted. All meetings, dates and times are subject to change.
Wednesday, August 10 @ 7:30 p.m. 1 Library Drive Blank Slate Media welcomes your submissions. Port Washington Please e-mail them9:33 to news@theislandnow.com Condo 4.313x5.6875 Hiram Cohen_Layout 1 7/3/13 AM Page 1 (516) 883-4400
Monday, August 8 @ 8:00 p.m. Manor Oaks School 1950 Hillside Avenue New Hyde Park (516) 434-2350
Wednesday, August 10 @ 8:00 p.m. Village Hall 2 Gussack Plaza Great Neck (516) 482-4500
Thursday, August 11 @ 8:30 a.m. District Office 236 E Shore Rd Great Neck (516) 482-0238
Port Washington Public Library Board of Trustees Work Session/Regular Meeting
Village of Thomaston Board of Trustees Meeting
Wednesday, August 10 @ 7:30 p.m. Village Hall 1777 Northern Blvd. Manhasset (516) 365-7790
Village of Great Neck Estates Board of Trustees Meeting
Monday, August 8 @ 8:00 p.m. Village Hall, Atwater Plaza/4 Gateway Drive Great Neck (516) 482-8283
Tuesday, August 9 @ 8:00 p.m. Village Hall 37 Orchard Street Manhasset (516) 627-1136
Wednesday, August 10 @ 7:30 p.m. Village Hall 1 Shelter Rock Road North Hills (516) 627-3451 Village of North Hills Board of Zoning and Appeals Meeting
Tuesday, August 9 @ 7:30 p.m. Village Hall 1 Shelter Rock Road North Hills (516) 627-3451
North Hempstead Town Board/ Solid Waste Management Authority Capital Plan Working Session
Tuesday, August 9 @ 7:30 p.m. North Hempstead Town Hall 220 Plandome Road Manhasset (516) 869-6311
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▼ LEGALS Legal Notice File No.2014-380721/A CITATION SURROGATE’S COURT, NASSAU COUNTY THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, By the Grace of God Free and Independent TO: Winifred T. Lee Maureen Griffith John J. Noon Michael Lee,Jr. James Howard Noon Martin Lee Michael Lee Mary K. Grimes Sara Lee Green Seamus Lee a/k/a James Joseph Lee Tom Lee Peter Carson Rita Flood Shea AKA Marguerita Flood Shea Raymond Flood Kathleen Ruland Elizabeth B. Ehmann James B. Byrne, Jr. Mary Pat Vitelli Richard J. Byrne SureTec Insurance Company Attorney General of the State of New York and any and all unknown persons whose names or parts of whose names and whose place or places of residence are unknown and cannot after diligent inquiry be ascertained, distributees, heirs-at-law and next-ofkin of the said ROBERT E. LEE, deceased, and if any of the said distributees named specifically or as a class be dead, their legal representatives, their husbands or wives, if any, distributees and successors in interest whose names and/or places of residence and post office addresses are unknown and cannot after diligent inquiry be ascertained. A petition having been duly filed by Public Administrator of Nassau County, who is domiciled at 240 Old Country Road,Mineola, New York 11501,United States. YOU ARE HEREBY CITED TO SHOW CAUSE before the Surrogate’s Court, Nassau County, at 262 Old Country Road, Mineola, New York, on OCTOBER 5, 2016, at 9:30 o’clock in the fore noon of that day, why the account of Public Administrator of Nassau County, a summary of which has been served herewith, as Administrator of the estate of Robert E. Lee, should not be judicially settled. (X) Further relief sought (if any): 1. Releasing and discharging the Petitioner from all liability, responsibility and accountability as to all matters set forth in the account of proceedings; 2. Allowing the commissions of the Petitioner in the amount of $ 17,830.36 pursuant to 2307( 1) and the reasonable and necessary expenses of the office in the amount of $4,610.12 pursuant to SCPA 1207(4 3. Fixing and determining the attorney’s fees of Mahon, Mahon, Kerins & O’Brien, LLC attorney for petitioner in the amount of $27,657.93 of which $9,957.93 has been paid and $17,700.00 is unpaid; 4. Fixing and determining the accounting fees of Grassi & Co, CPA’s, PC in the amount of $1,900.00 of which $650.00 has been paid and $1,250.00 is unpaid; 5. Releasing and discharging the surety; 6. Directing the net estate be paid to the New York State Comptroller on account for the unknown next of kin of ROBERT E. LEE, decedent; 7. Granting such other and further relief as to the Court is just and proper. Dated, Attested, and Sealed, JULY 1, 2016 Seal
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HON. MARGARET C. REILLY SURROGATES/ Michael J. Murphy Michael J Murphy, Chief Clerk Richard T. Kerins, Esq. Mahon, Mahon, Kerins & O’Brien, LLC (516) 538-1111 254 Nassau Blvd., Garden City South, New York 11530 NOTE: This citation is served upon you as required by law. You are not required to appear. If you fail to appear it will be assumed that you do not object to the relief requested. You have a right to have an attorney appear for you, and you or your attorney may request a copy of the full account from the petitioner or petitioner’s attorney. WT 143895 4x 7/15, 22, 29, 8/05 #143895
Notice of Formation of Goldilocks Real Estate LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 07/01/2016. Office location: Nassau County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 96 Willis Avenue, 2nd Floor, Mineola, NY 11501. Purpose: any lawful purpose. WT 143872 6x 7/08, 15, 22, 29, 8/05, 12, 2016 #143872
NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT NASSAU COUNTY JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, Plaintiff against ANTHONY DUNCAN ,et al Defendants Attorney for Plaintiff(s) Fein, Such & Crane LLP, 1400 Old Country Road, Suite C103, Westbury, New York 11590, Attorney(s) for Plaintiff(s). Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale Entered SEPTEMBER 11, 2014 I will sell at Public Auction to the highest bidder at the CCP (CALENDAR CONTROL PART COURTROOM) IN THE NASSAU SUPREME COURT, 100 SUPREME COURT DRIVE, MINEOLA, NY 11501 on AUGUST 16, 2016 at 11:30 A.M.. Premises known as 11706 240TH STREET, ELMONT, NY 11003. Sec 32 Block 638 Lot 114 & 313. ALL that certain plot, piece or parcel of land, with the buidings and improvements thereon erected, situate, lying and being in the Town of Hempstead, County of Nassau and State of New York. Approximate Amount of Judgment is $460,796.97 plus interest and costs. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index No 4879/13 . ANTHONY FRANCIS IOVINO, ESQ., Referee WT 143888 4x 7/15, 22, 29, 8/05, 2016 #143888
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Shelter Rock Library Continued from Page 35 sation, crafting and creativity while “the needles fly” and “the pictures come to life”. PLAY MAH JONGG Tuesdays, August 9, 16, 23 at 1 P.M. Join others in playing the game that has fascinated people for so many years with its strategies, sequences and combinations. Bring a team, a friend or come by yourself and enjoy the game. Limited materials will be available, so if you own a set, please feel free to bring it with you. Registration is not required. ADULT SUMMER READING PROGRAM AND EXERCISE YOUR MIND! Consider reading a new genre or books with different points of view or anything that will stimulate your imagination. Participants may begin registering by joining us on June 11 at 10 a.m. in the Community Room. If you can’t join us at that time, simply register by July 1 at the Adult Reference Desk. Materials will be provided at the time of registration. While registering, consider selecting a “mystery book” to “exercise your mind” and later share about the book at a June 11 to August 13 Book Swap with other participants on Saturday, July 9 at 10 AM. If you aren’t up to the challenge of a “mystery book” share about a recent or favorite book you’ve read. Over the course of the program, participants are encouraged to submit reviews of the books read. Reviews submitted will be entries for raffle prizes to be given out on the final day of the program, August 13 at 10 a.m. EXERCISE YOUR MIND, READ Through August 13 Have you joined our Adult Summer Reading Program yet? Participants can still select a “mystery book” to “exercise their mind” and share about the book at a Book Swap with other participants on Saturday, July 9 at 10 AM. Join us! AARP SMART DRIVER COURSE Saturday, August 6 from 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Please pick up a registration form at the Reference Desk or download from the Library website www.srpl. org Non-residents may register on July 20 if space allows. See flyer for details. AARP SMART DRIVER COURSE Saturday, August 6, 2016 AARP sponsored defen-
sive driving courses will be given this April. Class sizes are limited and registration priority will be given to Shelter Rock cardholders. For more information and to register, click on the attachment below. Saturday, August 6th from 9:30 AM to 4:30 PM. Registration in effect. BOARD MEETING Wednesday, August 10, 2016, 07:30pm The Library Board of Trustees will meet tonight Board Meeting Agenda Location : Library Community Room Contact : 248-7363 ext. 240 for more information
TEEN TECH TUTORS WANTED TO HELP ADULTS USE TECHNOLOGY Topics may include e-mail, searching for websites, writing & saving documents or finding apps for a smartphone. Sessions will be in the Conference Room Saturdays, July 23 and August 6 from 10 to 10:45 a.m., 11 to 11:45 p.m. or Thursdays, August 4 and 18 from 4 to 4:45 p.m., 5 to 5:45 p.m. training session is recommended July 18 from 7 to 8 p.m. in the community room Register for up to 3 programs beginning Friday, July 1 at the Reference Desk.
CAREGIVER SUPPORT GROUP Wednesday, August 17, 2016, 02:00pm - 04:00pm For caregivers. This support group is designed for all caregivers. It provides an opportunity for participants to share experiences and help one another. No one should be alone! First time attendees or for additional information, please call 516-227-7055. With Marguerite Dilimetin, Group Facilitator, Nassau County Office of Human Services of Mental Health
TODDLER STORYTIMES Designed for toddlers 2 – 3 1⁄2 with a parent or caregiver as a program of stories, simple songs, fingerplays and rhymes with other toddlers and their parents. Choose one of the following sessions: Session One Tuesdays at 10:15 AM July 5 – August 9 Session Two Wednesdays at 11:15 AM July 6 – August 10 Session Three Thursdays at 10:15 AM July 7 – August 11
THURSDAY MOVIE: EDDIE THE EAGLE Thursday, August 18, 2016, 02:00pm Directed by Dexter Fletcher 2016, Rated PG-13, 106 Minutes Cast: Taron Egerton, Hugh Jackman, Jim Broadbent, Christopher Walken Inspired by true events, this is a feelgood story about Michael “Eddie” Edwards, a very unlikely but courageous British skijumper who drew the world’s attention at the 1988 Calgary Winter Olympics. He never stops believing in himself as his rebellious and disgraced coach (a fictional character played by Jackman) puts him through his often disastrous paces- and he wins the hearts of sports fans around the world.
PRESCHOOL STORYTIMES Designed for children ages 3 – 5, this is a program of stories, simple songs, fingerplays and rhymes with other preschoolers. Choose one of the following sessions: Session One Tuesdays at 1:30 PM July 5 – August 9 Session Two Fridays at 10:15 AM July 8 – August 12 Tuesday session is children only. Parent/caregiver must stay in library. Friday session is children and parent/caregiver.
CHILDREN/ YOUNG ADULT PREESCHOOL STORYTIME Designed for children ages 3-5, this is a program of stories, simple songs, fingerplays and rhymes with other preschoolers. Toddler storytime. Choose one of the following sessions: Session Two, Fridays, 10:15 AM; July 8 - August 12. Registration began Tuesday, June 21.
LIBRARY OBSTACLE COURSE Join us for a fun obstacle course at the library, walk the line, hula hoop, park the cars, ring toss, number stack, marshmallow tower and other fun challenges. Registration begins Monday, August 1. For children ages 3 to 5 (Not Yet Entering Kindergarten) with a caregiver. Monday, August 15 at 10:30 a.m. For grades K to 5 (As of September) no parents/ caregivers in the room. Monday, August 15 at 2:30 p.m. CREATIVE NEEDLES & THE ART OF COLORING Friday, August 05, 2016, 01:30pm. 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”. Registration is not required. TEEN JEOPARDY Tuesday, August 9. 6pm Join our Teen Advisory Board & YA Librarian and play a Jeopardy Game they developed. Refreshments will be available. Registration began. TAB MEETING FOR REGISTERED MEMBERS Thursday, August 11, 2016, 05:00pm - 06:00pm tab4TAB is a volunteer group that consists of teens who work together with the YA Librarian to improve library services for teens. Location :Community Room. SPANISH STORYTIME Tuesday, August 16, 2016, 10:15am - 11:00am hora de cuentos imageChildren in grades K-2 are welcome to join Mrs. McCarthy from Denton Avenue School for stories and songs in Spanish Registration begins Monday, August 1st. NASSAU COUNTY DEPT OF ASSESSMENT Tuesday, August 16, 2016, 01:00pm - 02:30pm Property Tax Bill Appeal The Department of Assessment office operations will be at the SRPL to assist in property tax exemptions on-site. Any homeowners who would like to file for the Veterans, Senior Citizen, Cold War Veterans, Volunteer Firefighters and Ambulance Workers, Limited Income Disability, Home Improvement or (for homeowners already in the STAR Program) the Enhanced STAR. Make copies of your 2015 Federal and State Income Tax Forms, Driver’s License and any other documentation that is required prior to the workshop. Requirements can be viewed on the application available on the Department of Assessment website at www.mynassauproperty.com Nassau County Executive Edward Magnago with Legislator Richard Nicolello.
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BABYSITTING & FIRST-AID WORKSHOP Tuesday, August 16, 2016, 02:00pm - 04:00pm First aid: Learn babysitting and first aid skills. Bring a doll or stuffed animal for demonstration. Certificates will be awarded to those who complete the program. You may also look at our “Parents seeking Babysitters” cards. Note: Parents who seek babysitters are welcome to fill out a card in the Teen Room, so our babysitters can contact them. Registration begins on August 2nd With nurses JoAnn Tanck and Georgette Basso, Maternal Care Unit of Winthrop University Hospital. (registration began Aug 2).
COLLEGE ESSAY REVIEW August 16, 2016, 06:30pm 08:30pm college essaySchedule a 15 minute appointment with our expert to review your essay for college admissions. You must bring a completed draft essay on one of the essay topics on the Common Applica-
tion. Your copy should be a first draft which is typed and double spaced. The Essay Question should be typed on the top of the essay page and exactly worded as it is on the Common Application. Barbara will offer her knowledge and suggestions. Essay Questions will be available at sign up. Registration begins August 1st at the Reference Desk or call Cathy Loechner at 248-7363 ext.239 (registration began Aug 1).
ELECTRIC SAFETY TOWN Wednesday, August 17, 2016 11:30am - 12:15pm. This is an interactive display of a small town. Principles of electric safety are illustrated in a fun and engaging way, using real world examples of potential hazards. This program is presented by PSEG Long Island employees experienced in working with electrical hazards. Designed for grades 3-5. Registration begins Wednesday, August 3rd. (Registration began Aug 3).
BOOK SCAVENGER HUNT Wednesday, August 17, 2016, 01:00pm - 04:00pm Bookshelf Scavenger HuntChildren in grades 2-5 can participate in a Book Scavenger Hunt in the Children’s Room. There will be two hunts to participate in and a small prize for all children who join! Registration begins Wednesday, August 3rd. (registration began Aug 3)
YA BOOK DISCUSSION Wednesday, August 17, 2016, 05:00pm - 06:00pm Dairy Queen by Catherine Gilbert Murdock cow2After spending her summer running the family farm and training the quarterback for her school’s rival football team, 16 year old DJ decides to go out for the sport herself, not anticipating the reactions of those around her. We’ll make football ice cream snack too! Register and pick up book starting July 27th. registration began July 27).
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