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Thanksgiving is a day to recognize the richness in our lives, the beauty all around us and the gratitude in our hearts. I feel truly blessed and thankful to have been able to have worked with so many buyers and sellers in our community for the past 18 years. In giving thanks to all of the wonderful people I have met and have been given the opportunity to work with, a donation has been made to Adventures in Learning which has an after school educational and enrichment program helping the children of Long Island in need.

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Stepping Stones Lighthouse

What is in the future for Great Neck’s historical lighthouse?

AMANDA OLSEN & JULIE PRISCO

The Stepping Stones Lighthouse has been in poor condition and has needed repairs for many years. As an important landmark and part of Great Neck’s history, the restoration of this lighthouse is a concern for many involved parties and residents.

The Stepping Stones Lighthouse is about 1,600 yards off the coast of Kings Point and can be seen from the Throg’s Neck Bridge. The lighthouse was built in 1876 to help ships navigate the Long Island Sound waters and rocky reefs and guard the approach to New York City’s East River. Lighthouse keepers lived in the Stepping Stones Lighthouse when a person needed to manage and maintain the light. Eventually, as technology advanced, it was deemed unnecessary for someone to remain living in the lighthouse because the light could be automatic and maintained without being there in person.

The US Government enacted the National Historic Lighthouse Preservation Act of 2000, which gives away dozens of lighthouses every year to groups willing to preserve them and turn them into public attractions like muse ums. According to a 2012 report from Howard Kroplick, a prior Town of North Hempstead Town Historian, the Stepping Stones Light house was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2005. The lighthouse was offered at no cost to eligible entities, including federal, state, and local agencies, non-profit corporations, and educational organizations. The Town of North Hempstead applied to take over stewardship of Stepping Stones and in 2008, the lighthouse was transferred to the Town of North Hempstead.

Since the Town of North Hempstead gained stewardship of the lighthouse 14 years ago, not much has been done to restore or maintain it. In 2014, North Hempstead part nered with the Great Neck Historical Society and the Great Neck Parks District to raise funds and awareness for the lighthouse. Since Steppingstone Park is the closest land to the lighthouse, the Park District offered staff and facilities to take people back and forth to the lighthouse.

Marc Katz, Vice President of the Great Neck Historical Society, said the town is responsi ble for maintaining the lighthouse, and the Park District and Historical Society have been urging the town to do something about the decay.

The Town Supervisor at the time that the lighthouse was first given to North Hemp stead was Jon Kaiman, followed by Judy Bosworth. During meetings with the Histori cal Society and Parks District, Bosworth was in favor of restoring it. Still, nothing ever came

of it, and now the lighthouse is in worse shape than before due to the wear and tear from storms and other weather conditions.

“In the 14 years [that the town has had stewardship over the lighthouse], the building has been deteriorating,” said Katz. “The out side is fairly firm, but the inside is not; plaster is falling, and it’s not holding up well in the weather.”

Katz shared that about a year ago, North Hempstead took bids to build a dock at the lighthouse so that boats could dock there and unload construction material to repair the lighthouse. This company put pilings in the ground to start a dock and got partially into this project, and the town supervising it said they needed to do a better job and stopped them from completing it.

“The footings and the foundation of a dock is all that’s there,” said Katz.

Bob Muller, President of the United States Lighthouse Society, Long Island Chapter, outlined the next steps to get started with the preservation. “The first steps are very clear and really easy: they need to finish that dock. And that’s, again, all up to the town. And we also need to stabilize that lighthouse to get it watertight.”

In recent months, the Great Neck Historical Society has had private meetings with town board members to talk about the significance of the lighthouse and the process of restoring it.

President of the Huntington Lighthouse Preservation Society, Pam Setchell, joined the Historical Society in a few meetings to dis cuss their work on the Hungtington Harbor Lighthouse.

“[The Huntington Harbor Lighthouse] was turned over to the town, but a non-prof it organization was formed to support the lighthouse,” said Katz. “The restoration was not done through the town government but

through a nonprofit. It’s less expensive to do it that way because town employees have union restrictions in what they can and cannot do.”

“[Setchell] was able to answer their questions and talk about what was done in Huntington,” said Katz. “On Labor Day Weekend, there was a concert with bands at the Huntington Lighthouse. I think I heard over a thousand boats docked in the waters around the Huntington Lighthouse to hear the music and picnic out on their boats. It was a big attraction for Huntington, and we told North Hempstead that there is no reason why the Stepping Stones Lighthouse can’t be an attraction for boaters and people as well.”

“It is really at the entrance to Long Island Sound so what we proposed is that it could be environmentally available and useful to researchers who wanna study pollution and to study the sea life in the Long Island sound,” Katz added.

Katz felt that the town boards’ Democratic majority and Republican minority favor the restoration.

The Great Neck Record spoke with Town of North Hempstead Councilmember for District Four Veronica Lurvey to discuss her feelings toward the lighthouse.

“The town has been supportive and work

ing in tandem with the Historical Society to raise awareness and money. During COVID, many things didn’t happen, but before COVID, we hosted 5K in 2019 with the His torical Society to raise money,” said Coun cilmember Lurvey.

“I think [the lighthouse] is an important part of our history,” said Councilmember Lurvey. “It’s an important marker of the economic

Upclose image of lighthouse conditions. (Photo from steppingstoneslight.com)

Current conditions of the lighthouse. (Photo from Bob Muller)

Inside steps of the lighthouse. (Photo from steppingstoneslight.com)

Coyote Spotted in Manhasset: New Wild Canids Have Made Long Island Their Home

AMANDA OLSEN

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For many people, coyotes go along with windswept desert bluffs, cacti and sagebrush, or cartoon anvils and crafty roadrunners. Picturing them running along the tracks of the LIRR or picking garbage out of a dumpster is unfamiliar at best. But these opportunistic animals, though still rare, have been established on Long Island for at least the last seven years.

The prevailing theory is that these coyotes have split off from a source population in the Bronx, where they have been thriving for more than 30 years. From there, they are either swimming a narrow but swift portion of the East River or following green corridors and bridges. Frank Vicenti, from the Wild Dog Foundation in Mineola, describes some of the potential crossing points. “There is a narrow part of the East River in Northern Queens, that, you know, is a stone’s throw from the Bronx. Animals could certainly get into that at low tide and try to swim it. Now the current is rather strong, but they’re survivors, they could certainly get ashore at some point and make their way onto the train tracks and work their way out (east). We don’t really know for sure how they get

over here, but once they figure it out they’re scent marking.” Other coyotes would then follow these scent trails further out onto Long Island.

In terms of population, western Nassau County has approximately 13 individuals, with three to four in the Manhasset group. The male who was sighted recently is most likely the male from the breeding pair of that group. Other coyotes have been spotted in Searingtown, Great Neck, Oyster Bay, Roslyn and Port Washington. Some of these animals are transitive, where they spend a little time in an area before moving on. In general, though, coyotes are social animals that live

growth of the area. At a time when we’re so fractured on many different issues, uniting around what has made us into a vibrant com munity is important. I think it’s important that we continue to work towards the restoration.”

Town of North Hempstead Supervisor Jennifer DeSena stressed the need for a more concrete number before moving forward. “Preservation is a good thing, but you have to know the price. We don’t, and we don’t have a price. This goes back to supervisor Kaiman. When he entered into this agreement, he said that we would never use taxpayer money on it. So I’m not against preservation. I have no problem with preservation, but there has to be a price, and right now we don’t know that price.”

The federal government can retake the lighthouse if the obligations of stewardship are not upheld. Supervisor DeSena stated that this not the direction the town wants to take.

“I’m not suggesting that we want that,” said Supervisor DeSena. “This originally was supposed to be done with private money. Some sort of private-public partnership. And so, obviously, we need to have a price and then we need to see who is going to come to the table.”

When asked to estimate how long the lighthouse has before the cost of the repairs would make restoration infeasible, Muller was hesitant to answer. “Depends on what your endgame is as to how long it’s going to be. I can’t, I can’t answer. No, you could stabilize. You could get that thing stabilized in a matter of months. I don’t have any doubt about that. And then once it’s stabilized, you can take your time and rebuild, piece by piece by piece by piece.”

There is a sense of urgency when it comes to stabilization. “This lighthouse is offshore, surrounded by wind and waves. It can de grade quickly. Thankfully lighthouses during that period were well-built. So structurally, it’s not going to fall over, but it has fallen apart.

The longer we wait to move on it, the worse it gets, and the more work it’s going to be to try to reverse it. It’s a lot easier to preserve some thing than to restore it. So what we want to do, and the first thing you do in any preservation project, is stabilize it. And stabilization just means basically put it in a situation where it’s not going to get worse.”

In early October WSA Principal Walter Sedovic conducted a site investigation of Step ping Stones Lighthouse. The report presented the condition and rating of restoration priori ty, deeming issues high and low priorities, and listed positive and negative observations.

The restoration of any lighthouse is expensive. There are grants and funds from fundraising events for the lighthouse, but more is needed. According to the Stepping Stones Lighthouse report, the first priority is stabilization and they have estimated that to cost $969,000.

“We’re at a point right now where I think it’s a no-brainer based on the research that’s been done,” said Councilmember Lurvey. “We have money put aside, grant funding, and it’s in the capital plan from last year. Great. I don’t know why we wouldn’t finish [the floating dock], and then all meet together and figure out how to continue through this partnership with the three different entities to put a plan in place.”

Katz and the Historical Society are in the process of planning a meeting with the Great Neck Park District and the Town of North Hempstead to discuss finishing the dock and the next steps toward stabilization.

“But there’s one line that I love in the report that the Great Neck Historical Society commissioned and read that lighthouses are inherently resilient and Stepping Stones embodies a tendency toward self-preser vation,” said Councilmember Lurvey. “And when I read that, I thought, of course, it’s a lighthouse; it’s built to last. So, yes, there are issues with birds nesting and the weathering, but they’re inherently resilient. And you know what? So is Great Neck.”

A recent sighting of a male coyote in a Manhasset yard raises questions about these large, secretive predators.

A coyote on the roadside in California (Photo by Ben Mater on Unsplash)

A coyote spotted in Searingtown (photo submitted by The Wild Dog Foundation)

Original cornerstone of the light house. (Photo from steppingstoneslight.com)

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Manhasset Theatre To Present The Addams Family

uilding on the success of last year’s return to in-person performances with 42nd St., Manhasset High School is preparing to delight a packed house once

This November 17 -20, Manhasset Theatre will roll out its spookiest, kookiest cast for the high school production of macabre comedy Witness the wackiness of this perfectly creepy family as they learn to cope with change. Are they really any

Beloved characters Gomez (senior Henry Keogh), Morticia (split by senior Isabella Bonati and junior Helen Murphy), Uncle Fester (senior Max Jervis) and Pugsley (senior Ella Mineroff) grapple with the reality of Wednesday’s (senior Megan Amato) “nor mal” boyfriend Lucas (split by freshmen John

Murphy and Matteo Sokolof), reminding us what love and acceptance look like and what it means to truly be normal.

Additional cast memebers include Brigid Gawley and Bernadette Holm as Grandma, Eddie Baulch and Senan Marcus as Lurch and Mitchell Jung and Caitlin Fox as Mal and Alice Beineke.

Preparing for the shows is a labor of love involving hundreds of hours spent by student performers, crew members, faculty, volun teers and families. The end result is nothing short of amazing. Support your local talent and enjoy the show in our beautiful theatre at Manhasset High School. Bring the whole family and share the love of theatre and live performance.

Purchase tickets at www.showtix4u.com

—Submitted by Kristen Chambers

The cast of the upoming production of The Addams Family. (Photo submitted by Manhasset Theatre)

Temple Judea of Manhasset to Dedicate Irving Roth Holocaust Resource Center

On Sunday, November 6, Temple Judea honored its beloved teacher and Holocaust Center Director, survivor Irving Roth z”l, by renaming the Center in his memory. The ceremony featured a musical program of Holocaust remembrance by Dr. Elizabeth Glennon and remarks from Dr. Richard Quinlan, Scholar-in-Residence, as well as memories and reflections offered by those who were inspired by and taught by Roth.

Born in 1929 in Czechoslovakia, Roth lived with his parents, grandparents, and brother. In 1942, most of the Jews of Humenne were taken away by the Nazis. Roth’s family then moved to Hungary in 1943 where Jews were still safe. However, two years later, at the age of 14, he was sent to Auschwitz with his family. Roth and his brother were separated from the rest of their family and later learned that they had been murdered in the gas chambers upon arrival. Roth and his brother managed to survive Auschwitz. But, in January 1945, they were forced to march over 500 miles and then

separated upon arrival in Buchenwald. Roth was liberated from Buchenwald on April 11, 1945. He returned to Humenne to find that his parents had both survived, assisted by the kindness of a Christian woman. Sadly, his brother did not survive.

Roth and his family immigrated to the United States in 1951. He earned a degree in electrical engineering, then married and raised two sons in Williston Park.

Temple Judea’s Holocaust Resource Center was established in 1994 by a group of congregants who wanted to honor family members who were Holocaust survivors. The mission of the Center is to educate young and old on the evils of prejudice, teach the lessons of the Holocaust, and combat ignorance, hatred, and violence.

For more information please contact Lauren Resnikoff, Director at (516) 6218049. Temple Judea is located at 333 Searingtown Road in Manhasset at exit 36 off of the LIE.

—Submitted by Temple Judea

in both family bands and looser groups of unrelated individuals in a particular territory.

Even with these sightings, Vicenti said he does not expect a coyote boom on Long Island. “I don’t think we’re ever going to have a lot of coyotes because even the ones that we have here, the growth has been slow as far as breeding goes. We had no pups this year. When the amount of food is limited they just forego breeding. Sometimes distemper wipes out the litters.”

The US government actually funded a campaign to eradicate large canids starting in 1906, mostly due to pressure from the livestock industry. Wolves were depicted to the public as huge, terrifying cow-killers. By the 1920s, the wolf had been extirpated from most of the United States, and the government then turned their attention to the coyote. Between 1947 and 1956, approximately

6.5 million coyotes were killed across the American west, mostly with poison. In the 1970s, wildlife management expanded into a new method: aerial gunning, or shooting animals from low flying aircraft. This method of population control is still in use today.

But coyotes adapted, moving into suburban and urban areas where food sources were abundant and they weren’t being shot, and since the larger apex predators had been removed, they were able to spread throughout the United States. This means that they are not invasive; they are simply filling a niche and expanding their range naturally.

Vicenti sees this as “…something that should be celebrated, in the sense that, Long Island isn’t such an artificial environment. The eagles are coming back, and we have turkey vultures, woodchuck populations are doing good and we might have skunks on the island as well. There are sharks off the

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coast and whales. You have to conserve that as well. But you don’t have to look 4000 miles away on another continent to see the wild, we have it here.”

His advice for learning to live with these new neighbors is simple. “You’re going to have to adjust somewhat, use common sense. You know, don’t feed anything and keep tabs on pets.”

Studies show that coyotes are more likely to subsist in local parks, cemeteries and golf courses. At night, they are known to hunt the city streets for rodents. If you do see a coyote, the best thing is to be loud and frighten them away. Coyotes that lose their fear of people are a danger to themselves. “yell at them, stomp your foot at them, maybe even throw an object towards them. Don’t hit

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A coyote in Searingtown (photo by The Wild Dog Foundation)

A coyote spotted in Roslyn (photo by The Wild Dog Foundation)

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THURSDAY, NOV. 17

Dinosaur Storytime

Join us from 2:15 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. for a special dinosaur storytime! Children will enjoy dinosaur-themed songs, stories, rhymes, and a craft or activity. For ages 35 years. Due to limited capacity each child is limited to one caregiver. Please note that this program will include crafts potentially unsafe for children under the age of 3. Mask wearing is optional but encouraged. Please respect each individual’s decision.

Contact Mary H at (516)627-2300 x301 or mheuman@manhassetlibrary.org.

FRIDAY, NOV. 18

Craft Corner

Kids Start

For ages 18 months - 5 years. Join our friends at A Time For Kids, Inc. From 10:15 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. for crafts, movement activities and songs in this fun interactive class. This program is limited to one caregiver per child. Contact the Children’s Room at (516)627-2300 or mplkids@ manhassetlibrary.org.

Needle Arts

Happy Thanksgiving

Quilting, Needlepoint, Embroidery, Crocheting, Knitting and more...Enjoy this friendly, sharing and socializing community circle of people who enjoy Needle Arts. Bring along a current project, ideas for a group project, and share your skills with others.

Come to the library from 4:15 p.m. to 5 p.m. for a pop-up craft corner. Participants will create and decorate a seasonal gift. For grades 1 through 5. Contact (516)627-2300 or mplkids@manhassetlibrary.org.

Art Club

Participants will create a fun piece of artwork, then take it home and enjoy it. All materials will be supplied. No experience is necessary. This program is for students in grades 4 -7 and takes place in person from 4:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. Contact the Children’s Room at (516)627-2300 X 301 or mplkids@ manhassetlibrary.org.

SATURDAY, NOV. 19 Food Drive

The Mary Brennan INN soup kitchen in Hempstead is having its Thanksgiving Food Drive This will be a curbside food drive. Please bring non-perishable food items such as canned vegetables, soups, fruits, tuna and pasta, pasta sauce, cereal. There will be a second Food Drive on Saturday, November 19, from 10 a.m. - 12 p.m, at the Congregational Church of Manhasset, 1845 Northern Blvd. in Manhasset. Please call (516)732-6009 with any questions.

MONDAY NOV. 21

A Time for Kids - Baby Start

Join our friends at A Time For Kids, Inc. from 9:30 a.m. to 10:00 a.m. as we engage our littlest learners in this program designed to introduce your baby to the wonderful world of library programs. Activities include music, movement, finger plays, fine & gross motor development and circle time. For ages 6 months - 17 months. This program is limited to one caregiver per child. Contact the Children’s Room at (516)627-2300 or mplkids@manhassetlibrary.org.

From 11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. This informal group will meet bi-monthly. All levels of skill are welcome but formal lessons are not included. Contact Connie Knies at (516)365-9029 or cdknies@ optonlne.net.

TUESDAY, NOV 22

North Shore Audubon Society: “Hit Us WIth Your Best Shot” Join the North Shore Audubon Society at the Manhasset library at 7 p.m. for an evening of beautiful birds and scenery. Talented member photographers will share their best images of birds and nature. Enjoy the beauty of Long Island and beyond. This meeting is free and will be a hybrid live/ Zoom presentation. All are encouraged to attend in person. You may also register and view the meeting via Zoom: https:// bit.ly/3Nx6y6G. Call (516)627-2300 or visit http://www.northshoreaudubon.org/ for more information.

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THURSDAY, NOV. 24

Happy Thanksgiving!

SATURDAY, NOV 26

Merry Manhasset: Small Business Saturday

From 11:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. on Plandome Road in Manhasset. Sponsored by the Manhasset Chamber of Commerce and Shop Manhasset. There will be photos with Santa, holiday movies, a winter scavenger hunt and more. For the Holiday Shopping Guide and more information, visit https://www.shopmanhasset.com/ merry-little-manhasset.

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Bar Mitzvah Beach Cleanup at Gilgo Beach

On Saturday, Oct. 29, Daniel

Ciccone participated in a beach cleanup at Gilgo Beach in Babylon, NY, as his mitzvah project for his upcoming bar mitzvah in March 2023 at the Reconstructionist Synagogue of the North Shore. The beach cleanup was sponsored by an organization entitled “Save the Great South Bay”, a local 501(c)3 non-profit that advocates for and implements real solutions that will help restore the bay, and with that, strengthen the South Shore communities. The day of the beach clean-up marked the 10-year anniversary of Superstorm Sandy, which had wide-reaching and devastating impacts across the South Shore of Long Island.

Ciccone has always loved beaches and the ocean, and especially family summer trips out to Montauk, so when it came time for him to choose a mitzvah project, he knew right away it would be associat ed with beaches.

Ciccone was accompanied by five of his seventh grade friends from Manhasset Middle school (Kevin Machare, Chris Vatakis, Ivan Bernic, Andrew Tsimikalis, and Jayin Aggarwal), as well as his mom, dad, two brothers Ethan and Justin Ciccone, his dog Jasper, his au pair Vanessa Melia, and Mrs. Alpna Aggarwal. The group was given grabber tools, gloves and large plastic

bags. Their given task was to clean up Gilgo Beach and deposit the collected garbage at the end. They used the Clean Swell app to categorize and record each piece of trash collected. It was a gorgeous sunny day at the beach and each member

of the group participated in a meaningful way, working together as one cohesive team. By the end of the two-hour beach clean-up, the group had walked 1.5 miles and collected 215 items of trash, which totaled 63.7 lbs. With kids having such jam-packed school and sports schedules these days, this beach cleanup represented a chance to disconnect from screens and other demands, and give back to the planet in a hands-on way.

“My hope is that more people become aware of Save the Great South Bay and

other non-profits on Long Island whose missions are to protect our beaches and ocean wildlife,” said Dr. Madeline FersheCiccone, Daniel’s mother.

The group plans to participate in more beach cleanups in the future.

To get involved, visit www.savethegreat southbay.org and Surfrider Foundation of Central Long Island at https://centralli. surfrider.org.

Audrey Flynn Cook

Audrey Flynn Cook passed away peacefully on her 67th birthday, October 22, 2022, in Ocala, Florida. Audrey was born in Manhasset, NY to Robert D. Flynn and Joan F. Flynn. She attended Manhasset High School and graduated from Pine Manor College and the Kathryn Gibbs School. She worked as a legal secretary for many years. Audrey lived in Naples, Florida where her 5 beloved children were born. Audrey moved to Ocala, Florida and was a proli c and accomplished crafter, quilter and sewer. She maintained close ties with her friends in Manhasset. Audrey will be remembered for her love of her beloved children: Timothy Jones (Amanda), Courtney Ward, Chelsea Close (Chris), Erin Jones (Heath), Shelby Curtis (Dan). She was grandmother to 7 grandchildren who were the lights of her life. She is also survived by her husband, Peter Cook of Ocala, mother Joan Flynn, and brother Steve (Marygrace). Audrey was predeceased by her father, Robert D. Flynn and her brothers, Robert C. Flynn, and Scott D. Flynn and, stepfather Robert Kell.

left to right Jayin Aggarwal, Daniel Ciccone, Kevin Machare, Ivan Bernic, Chris Vatakis, and Andrew Tsimikalis. (Photos submitted by Dr. Madeleine Fersh-Ciccone)

Daniel Ciccone at Gilgo Beach.

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A China Century: Ready Or Not

Reviews of: China

Unbound: A New World Disorder, Joanna Chiu; The World According To China, Elizabeth C. Economy.

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Does the 21st century belong to China? Will China, as a British historian enthused, rule the world? Would the average American even notice if they did?

What does China want? In her acclaimed study, Elizabeth Economy lists history-shaking goals:

Xi [Jinping]’s ambition…is to reorder the world order. His call for “the great rejuvenation of the China nation” envisions a China that has regained centrality on the global stage: it has reclaimed contested territory, assumed a position of preeminence in the Asia Pacific, ensured that other countries aligned their political, economic, and security interests with their own, provided the world’s technological infrastructure for the 21st century, and embedded its norms, values, and standards in international laws and institutions.

The number of books on China’s rise represents a growing library, from Henry Kissinger’s historical meditation On China to Martin Jacques’ exuberant When China Rules The World to Graham Allison’s more somber Destined For War: Can America and China Escape Thucydides’ Trap?

The books reviewed here are similar. China, the authors warn, is becoming increasingly despotic at home and aggressive abroad. Hong Kong, which prospered as a British colony, is now firmly under communist control. The persecution of both Muslim and Christian minorities continues. Abroad, China spies on suspected Chinese dissidents. Its ambitious Belt and Road initiative seeks to build railways, factories, office buildings and ports of sea around the planet. When little Greece was tottering on bankruptcy, it was mighty China and not the European Union that swooped in to take charge of its economy. The Greeks didn’t mind at all.

China’s politics of intimidation are working. The most stunning example was a recent vote at the United Nations woefully misnamed Human Rights Council, one that refused to condemn

China for its mistreatment of Muslim Uighur minorities. The Western nations said “yes,” but Beijing had enough clout among Global South nations to prevail.

Both books cite the peculiarities of Chinese culture and the way that history works on the Chinese mind. For China, the past is never dead (it isn’t even past). Its Confucian heritage survived Mao Tse Tung’s brutal cultural revolution of the 1960s. The sayings of Confucius still shape the Chinese mind. As Joanna Chiu states: “[Proper] behavior is dictated by one’s position within hierarchies of superior and subordinate relationships… Children must obey their parents, younger adults must heed their elders and every citizen must be loyal to the emperor.”

This contrasts markedly with the rampant individualism consuming the Western mind unto death.

China’s “century of humiliation” is alien to Americans. However, it animates the Chinese mind decisively. The Opium Wars, the defeat at the hands of the West and Japan in the Boxer Rebellion and the latter nation’s 1931 invasion still sting. When Mao’s Revolutionary Guard took power in 1949, the Communist Party immediately plotted a 100-year plan in that by 2049, China would indeed be the most powerful country on earth.

Both books illustrate American innocence over China, plus arrogance in believing that the latter country would join the family of liberal democracies. When Richard Nixon made his historic opening to China in 1972, he grumbled to aides, “I think we’ve created a monster.” For decades, Democratic and Republican Party administrations all supported Most Favored Nation trade status to China, all with little opposition from Congress. The reasoning was that once China liberalized its economy (which it did), it would liberalize its political system (which it didn’t). American foreign policy makers forgot that China is a civilization 5,000 years old. Their rulers, even when China wallowed in poverty, weren’t going to be impressed by the upstarts from across the Pacific.

Is it too late? Was the United States, since the end of the Cold War and with the onset of the War on Terror, too caught with the goal of a unipolar world dominated by secular democracy to worry about China? For Jacques, the turning point was the 2008 Stock Market crash. Since then, the Western economies have stalled; China has boomed—even

though that boom has cooled off recently. For Allison, 2014 was key. That year, China become the world’s largest economy, at least in terms of purchasing power. The Chinese consumer market is now larger than America’s. China’s citizens have more money to spend than Americans do. If that continues, the Hollywood studios, the NBA and 1,001 other companies worldwide aren’t going to care one iota about Muslim women in the Uighur province being forced to sleep with Chinese men.

Kissinger’s On China was published in 2004, before that county became a global force. With his usual foresight, Kissinger could see that the new century would be a contest between an established superpower and a rising one. Kissinger’s voice remains a plea for understanding: The world must be big enough for different peoples and cultures, even if such nations possess nuclear arsenals. Will the average American even care about China’s rise? Xi Jinping doesn’t speak English nor does he have the desire to do so. Americans, including this reviewer, will continue to purchase Chinese goods in copious amounts. China, we must acknowledge, has its advantages: Family life in that country is secure and well-defined: The family unit is strictly a husband-wife-children arrangement. The country contains great pride in Chinese history and heritage. Up to 90 percent of the population is ethnic Han Chinese, conjuring up an America that once had similar demographics for an entirely different ethnic group. China possesses a cultural unity now long lost in the United States. The collapse of the Mom-Pop-children family unit in the U.S. has resulted in insoluble problems: rampant juvenile crime and a failed public school system. In the 1950s, the U.S. was ranked number one worldwide in reading, math, and science. Today, China rules the roost on all three levels as American scores sink to Third World levels.

The United States still has its powerful military, plus its European allies and those in Asia: Japan, South Korean, Singapore, Vietnam, Australia, and New Zealand. If China really wants to rule the world, then they are buying into lifetimes of headaches galore. Just ask the Brits and the Yanks how that turned out.

This is the biggest player in the history of the world.

Lee Kuan Yew, prime minister of Singapore, 1959-1980

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Dog Abuser Sentenced To Jail Time And 50-Year Animal Ban

Defendant Ellie Knoller killed two puppies and nearly killed a third in 2019

Nassau County District Attorney Anne T. Donnelly announced that an animal abuser was sentenced to one year in jail for killing two puppies and nearly killing a third animal in 2019.

Thirty-two-year-old Ellie Knoller pleaded guilty before Judge Teresa Corrigan to three counts of aggravated cruelty to animals (an E felony) on March 21, 2022. The defendant was sentenced to one year in jail, with five years’ probation and a 50-year ban of owning animals. Under New York State law the defendant’s potential maximum sentence was two years in jail.

“Three defenseless puppies were subjected to extraordinary violence by this defendant,” Donnelly said. “The internal injuries these animals sustained are uncommon—even in animal abuse cases— and are consistent with terrifying blunt force trauma. This case stands apart in the decades of animal crimes this office has prosecuted as one of the worst we’ve seen. New York State’s animal crime laws need to be strengthened and we encourage our legislators to review the horrors associated with this case. I thank our partners at the Nassau County Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals and the local veterinarians who assisted our investigation.”

Donnelly said that on that Feb. 8, 2019, the defendant adopted a 10-12-week-old male Shepherd mix named Tucker from a local shelter, and by Feb. 17, the puppy was dead of a kidney rupture. Knoller inflicted blunt force trauma on the dog that resulted in the kidney rupture, causing the dog to suffer from extensive internal bleeding and die.

Additionally, on or about Feb. 18, 2019, the defendant purchased a 10-12-week-old male brown Goldendoodle puppy named

Cooper from a breeder in Pennsylvania.

On Feb. 20, 2019, Ellie Knoller brought the puppy into Garden City Veterinary Care in cardiac and respiratory arrest.

By the time a veterinarian examined Cooper he had already died. The dog’s cause of death was determined to be from a lacerated liver. Ellie Knoller inflicted blunt force trauma on the dog that resulted in the lacerated liver, causing extensive and ultimately fatal internal bleeding.

The above-listed incidents came to light following an investigation into the defendant after he brought a lethargic and lifeless 11-week-old female brown Goldendoodle puppy named Bella to Veterinary Referral & Emergency Center of Westbury on Feb. 27, 2019.

Upon examination, the veterinarians found Bella to have multiple fractured ribs, bruising on her lungs, bleeding behind her eyes and a broken leg. Bella required surgery, including the insertion of a metal rod to repair her leg and a steel plate to hold the bones in place while they healed. Ellie Knoller inflicted blunt force trauma on the dog that resulted in her injuries. One of Bella’s legs was subsequently amputated.

The defendant received Bella after complaining to the breeder that Cooper had unexpectedly died and she is from the same litter as Cooper.

Bella has been adopted by a family on Long Island and has recovered.

Assistant District Attorney Stephanie Hernan of DA Donnelly’s Animal Crimes Unit is prosecuting this case. Defendant Ellie Knoller is represented by Greg Madey, Esq. —Submitted by the office of the Nassau County District Attorney

COLUMNS

Protesting The Consumption Of Octopus

One of the rights American citizens enjoy is the freedom of expression. You can cheer and support things that you like or choose to peacefully protest things you don’t.

People tend to protest against atrocities affecting their fellow men, like wars or civil injustices. You don’t have to agree with their cause, but they have a right to speak out against them.

That said, this column is not a political commentary on protesters. Frankly, I don’t care if people choose to eat octopus one way or another.

Recently, protesters passionate about the subject gathered at Union Square Park in New York City, chanting and holding signs with pictures of the cephalopods and slogans like “Let’s stop this cruelty!” Their target was a Spanish company called “Nueva Pescanova,” one of the largest seafood distributors in the world. Nueva Pescanova is spending $74 million on the world’s first commercial octopus farm at their research center in Galicia, Spain. The global octopus trade has ballooned to over $2.72 billion in the last 10 years. That’s a lot of tentacles.

Many Long Island restaurants that serve seafood offer some form of an octopus be it as an appetizer or an entrée. Although I’ve seen it on a menu and have Italian family

members who order the disgusting creature, it’s not for me.

So, why the angst against restaurants and supermarkets that sell octopi? Thanks to an Oscarwinning Netflix documentary, My Octopus Teacher, people are beginning to understand more about these strange, alien-looking creatures. The documentary focused on their intelligence and problem-solving abilities, noting their capacity to feel pain and have emotions. They even have longterm memories.

Maybe it’s just me, but I’m not a big fan of eating anything that could kill me. I like things like beef and chicken, salmon and shrimp.

I know people eat bears and snakes or wild exotic animals at a Brazilian BBQ restaurant. Again, it’s just not for me.

I’ve seen enough science fiction movies (and National Geographic

specials) to know I wouldn’t want to encounter an octopus while swimming. If there were ever a creature on Earth that looks and acts like it came from another planet, it’s the octopus. They have no bones and can slink through almost any tiny opening. Think you can kill them by harpooning them in the heart? Think again— they have three of them.

We eat cows and chicken because they taste good. Who’s to say they aren’t intelligent? In this country, we don’t eat dogs. Not because of their intellect, it’s because they are our friends. Louie the Labrador is extremely intelligent. He has feelings, emotions and problem-solving abilities. He knows exactly which one of us to approach if he wants a snack (my wife).

As an Italian kid growing up in Brooklyn in the ‘60s, I suffered through my share of the traditional Christmas Eve “Feast of the Seven Fishes.” When I was ten, my aunts and uncles insisted I “try” octopus for good luck. Of course, I didn’t eat any fish at that age.

Knowing most of my uncles were pranksters, I saw them take the tentacle out of the pot and put spaghetti sauce over it. I knew it wasn’t real because it looked like a toy. They were putting sauce on a rubber tentacle as a joke on me. After all, who would eat something as disgusting as this?

Long Island Needs A Leader

It was no secret that the 2022 election was not going to be a good one for the Democratic Party. Unable to get by public unhappiness with the party in power, the Democrats failed to develop a credible campaign even though it had many accomplishments in Washington.

The continued split between the two parties in the nation bodes ill for the next two years when we will have national gridlock, gridlock and more gridlock.

The Long Island political picture is not a happy one. Whether at the state or local level, there are no strong leaders capable of talking sense into both sides of the aisle on any regional issue. Wouldn’t it be wonderful if there were a politician at the top of the ladder who could get the parties to sit down and plan collectively for two years of new accomplishments?

Regrettably, there is no elected official who commands the respect of both parties to craft a wish list of programs that will benefit our local taxpayers in general. Most of our electeds in power are wedded to the party line and are unwilling to cross either side of

the aisle.

Our local needs are no secret. The Island needs more housing that will help keep young people from fleeing to the nearby city. There are ample federal dollars available for rebuilding our roads or bridges, but someone must be the Island’s cheerleader in Washington and Albany.

Drugs continue to flood our streets and kill innocent young people at the earliest stages of their life. The bi-county area needs more dollars to ramp up drug enforcement and save those lives. The public worries about crime throughout the year but it lacks a champion for that crusade.

Our mass transit system is now at the highest level of accomplishments in our region’s history. The Grand Central connection will spread the LIRR commuters to the east side of Manhattan. Other

I played along, ready to tell them how great it was. I even tried to bite into it, knowing my teeth would bounce off it. Then I bit right through, realizing it was real!

I can’t tell you the disgust that overwhelmed me.

So, to all those protesting octopi farms and having the beast removed from restaurant menus, I support your right to protest. However, I don’t believe in depriving people who enjoy those inky mollusks of their right to dine on the eight-legged creatures. It’s a free country, right?

Not on my dinner plate, it’s not…

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The COVID-19 pandemic experience taught us that every regional health system has to be upgraded and needs more funding. Long Island, with a population exceeding three million people, needs to be better funded to meet this challenge. There are no assurances that we will avoid any new COVID-19 outbreaks.

It is time for a champion to emerge who can unite both parties and focus on Long Island’s future. Maybe that champion is right under our noses.

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INSIDE POLITICS

an End to the Bail Reform ‘Debate’

In April of 2019, New York State passed one of the most just bail reform laws in the country. Unfortunately, this law has faced tremendous resistance from New Yorkers, a resistance that has flared up considerably with the 2022 elections.

However, I assure you that these fears, while logical, are unfounded, and are simply a result of politicians trying to manipulate you to vote for them. Don’t fall for it— there’s nothing to debate about New York’s bail reform. But first, what is bail, and what was the law in question?

When you are accused of a crime, you are assigned a court date. However, the question becomes—what if the suspect simply doesn’t show up? It would be quite a hassle to chase down every suspect.

So courts demand those accused to “post bail.” The suspect produces a sum of money, usually a few hundred or few thousand dollars, that is then returned to them after their court hearing, incentivizing them to

show up in court.

But what happens if you can’t post bail? Well, you are thrown in jail without a conviction.

And you can spend a long time there; some spend months or even years awaiting a trial, years and decades of innocent people wasting away in horrid jail facilities simply because they are too poor to post bail.

What ends up happening is that the poor—and by corollary, people of color, who are more

likely to be arrested pre-tri al—often just take a pre-trial sentence regardless of whether they actually committed a crime, to avoid having to wait in jail, leaving them with a criminal record and poor prospects for employment.

The 2019 New York bail reform was meant to address this issue by 1) preventing judges from issuing bail in non-violent misdemeanors and 2) having judges avoid issuing bail unless the suspect is a flight risk.

And it was successful: upon the passage of the law, the prison population in this state was re duced by a whopping 30 percent, allowing innocent people to return to their normal lives and severely reducing the taxpayer burden on Nassau citizens.

Nevertheless, it is under standable why some are hesitant about this law. On its face, it may seem like we’re letting criminals get off the hook, but the reality couldn’t be further from the truth.

It’s important to remember that you are innocent until

proven guilty. So until a proper trial is conducted, we cannot brand people criminals. Further, judges still have tools to restrict the movement of suspects considered a flight risk, like ankle monitors and probation officers.

If an innocent is accused of a violent crime, judges can still issue bail or jail the suspect. Bail was only removed for non-vi olent crimes, like someone trespassing. Do we really need to let such a person rot in prison for months? Are you willing to foot the bill? Because before bail reform, those were the exact “criminals” you were paying to upkeep.

So bail reform is good, actually. Nevertheless, desperate politicians keep trying to whip up fear in the good people of Nassau County. They talk of a “crime wave,” and they blame the bail law. Are they right? Has crime gone up because of bail reform?

No. While crime has gone up in New York and Nassau over the past two years, crime has gone

up nationwide, including in states without bail reform. Most of those released don’t commit crimes. According to the Times Union, 98 percent of suspects released under the bail law did not go on to commit a violent crime before their court appearance. And despite the increase in crime the past two years, we are still living in one of the safest times ever in Nassau County.

Don’t believe the propaganda: bail reform was a good reform. It allowed hundreds of thousands of people to return to a normal, productive life. It preserved justice and the rule of law. And it saved Long Islanders millions in taxpayer dollars. Don’t let politicians trying to manipulate you for your vote convince you otherwise.

Matthew Adarichev is a public policy major at Hofstra University, a political activist and an aspiring journalist whose work has appeared in the Hofstra Chronicle and The Long Island Herald.

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Annual Bethpage Turkey Drive Celebrates Fourteenth Year

Inflation drives up average cost of a Thanksgiving Dinner

Now in its 14th year, the Bethpage Turkey Drive to benefit Island Harvest Food Bank will take place on Friday, Nov. 18 from 7:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. The annual drive, which kicks off the holiday food drive season on Long Island, will include a no-contact donation car drive-through which will enable community residents to remain in their cars while volunteers remove donations from the vehicles.

Long Islanders are asked to donate frozen turkeys, non-perishable food items, supermarket gift cards or monetary donations. These donations will go directly to Island Harvest, which will help supply Thanksgiving meals to the more than 300,000 food-insecure Long Islanders. Its distribution network of more than 400 food pantries, soup kitchens, and other feeding programs on Long Island. Non-perishable food items needed include canned goods, cereal, pasta, rice, boxed juices and shelf-stable milk (please, no glass containers).

The Bethpage Turkey Drive will take place at Bethpage Federal Credit Union’s headquarters located at 899 South Oyster Bay Rd. in Bethpage.

For those unable to make an on-site donation on Nov. 18, most Bethpage branch locations are accepting non-perishable food items through Nov. 18 with the exception of the Bay Shore King Kullen and Chelsea, New York City branches.

Or, if you would rather show your support online, Bethpage is accepting online monetary donations at https://bit.ly/3zDUzyu through Nov. 30. Every gift of $35 will help support a holiday meal for your Long Island neighbors.

“Bethpage is a proud, longtime partner and supporter of Island Harvest and its mission to help end hunger on Long Island,” Chief Strategy & Marketing Officer Linda Armyn said. “I encourage everyone to join us this year by making a donation in whatever form and amount you can. With your help, we will make a difference.”

“So many of our neighbors on Long Island are a paycheck away from disaster, and record inflation and high grocery prices are putting additional burden on families struggling to put food on their tables,” Island Harvest President/CEO Randi Shubin Dresner said. “Fortunately, we have a longtime, valued partner in Bethpage Federal Credit Union helping us provide much-needed supplemental food support to the most vulnerable among us. Their ongoing support and generosity are invaluable in our mission to end hunger and reduce food waste on Long Island.”

Patches will be given to all Girl Scouts and Boy Scouts who make a donation. Troop leaders can make a donation on behalf of troop members and bring back patches for the entire troop.

Since the first Bethpage Turkey Drive was organized in 2009, hundreds of community volunteers have come out to assist in the collection of more than 42,000 turkeys and over 179,000 pounds of food, which were then given to Long Island families facing hardship in time for the holidays. Island Harvest Food Bank has seen an increase in the requests for food and support services among the 400 community-based agencies it serves. About 70,000 individuals receive food assistance from the Island Harvest Food Bank network each week.

—Submitted by Island Harvest Food Bank

Port Holiday Magic Fun And Deals

Shop local this holiday season on Small Business Saturday, Nov. 26

Nov. 26 marks the 12th annual Small Business Saturday – a day to support the local businesses that create jobs, boost the economy and preserve our neighborhoods. Everyone benefits when we remember “BEFORE YOU CLICK AND BUY, GIVE PORT A TRY.”

To make this day extra festive and to kick off the holiday shopping season in a big way, the Greater Port Washington Business Improvement District (BID), the Port Washington Chamber of Commerce, Residents Forward and Landmark on Main Street are celebrating with our own Port Holiday Magic!

Starting at noon, kids of all ages can see Santa ride past on a firetruck. He will travel along Port Washington Boulevard, Main Street, Shore Road and Manorhaven Boulevard.

Stores throughout town will have special holiday offers for shoppers. Some offers will be for the whole holiday season and some stores will arrange for delivery or pick-up. For the latest updates on participating stores’ holiday specials, visit the Events section on the Try Port First mobile app or pwcoc.org.

Shoppers will enjoy live and recorded musical entertainment outside as they stroll from store to store. Entertainers will be at the train station, at Ayhan’s Corner and at other locations on Main Street. There will be a number of holiday themed backgrounds for your perfect holiday selfies, including

an old-fashioned sleigh, an inflatable snowman, and an inflatable tree.

Shop entertainment includes:

Port Summer Show Strolling CarolersBegining at 1 p.m.

LIRR Sidewalk Entertainment- From 1 to 4 p.m. DJ Jerry Laskin will play holiday tunes.

Ayhan’s Corner, 284 Main St.- From 12:30 to 1:30 p.m. is Long Island reSound’s Jingle Bell Performance and from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. the Red Stocking Review singers perform.

Selfie Station Locations: LIRR garden-Olaf & old-fashioned sleigh; Alper’s CornerInflatable Christmas tree; Ayhan’s Corner–Santa blowup and performances; Bill’s Auto–Inflatable snow globe

Port Washington’s shopping districts will look especially festive for the celebration. The BID will install lighted snowflakes on the utility poles and the Chamber will adorn the Main Street lampposts with garlands, lights and red bows. Stores throughout town will be

going all out to win the Port Holiday Magic Window Decorating Contest.

To support both the businesses and shoppers, the Town of North Hempstead is suspending all on-street parking meter fees from Port Holiday Magic on Small Business Saturday to Jan. 1, 2023. The Port Washington Police District will provide extra safety for shoppers at the major crossings.

The event raises awareness of the vital role small businesses play in our community and our economy. This year, more than ever, shopping locally for the holidays is safe, convenient, and easy. You are supporting your local merchants who not only appreciate your business but also pay a large share of property taxes and help maintain the economic stability of our community. They also offer special customer services that the online merchants

and big box stores don’t, offer and they support requests for donations for our community organizations like schools, scouts, religious and civic institutions, and others. Importantly, online shoppers may not realize that for every $100 you spend in your local small businesses, $68 stays in our community through jobs, taxes, contributions to non-profits and more. For every $100 you spend online, $0 stays in our community.

Help strengthen our community by supporting local businesses that support our town. Shop Local on Nov. 26 and throughout the holiday season. Be sure to look for the gold and red bow on the doors of participating businesses and show them your support. All the store specials are available rain, snow or shine!

—Submitted by the Port Washington Chamber of Commerce

3V Dental, 91 Main St.

Anthony’s World of Floors, 49 Manorhaven Blvd.

Impulse Boutique, 29 Main St.

AR Workshop, 273 Main St.

Salem Drugs, 475 Port Washington Blvd.

Massage Envy Spa, 47 Main St.

Painting With Flowers, 298 Main St.

Ayhan’s Mediterranean Market, 293 Main St.

Port Pop-Up Boutique, 142 Main St.

Ayhan’s Shish Kebab, 283 Main St.

The Cooking Lab, 160 Main St.

Port Salt Cave, 403 Main St.

Bach to Rock, 1015 Port Washington Blvd.

Shields Plumbing & Hardware, 267 Main St.

Blue Moon Project, 194 Main St.

Suite 275, 275 Main St.

Bluetique, 25 Main St.

Bubba Brown’s

, 302 Main St.

Falconer Florist, 8 S. Maryland Ave.

Hair Studio, 59 Main St.

Ichiddo Ramen, 983 Port Washington Blvd.

The Wellground, 938 Port Washington Blvd.

White + One, 309 Main St.

wit & whim, 6 Carlton Ave.

Yummy Gyro, 82 Main St.

Santa Claus will take a ride through Port’s shopping district again this year during Port Holiday Magic on Nov. 26 starting at noon!

Port Washington Florist is always in a festive mood during the holiday seasons with lots of unique floral arrangements and gifts for everyone. (Photos by Debbie Greco Cohen)

Treasures

Here are some local Port Washington stores to holiday shop from this year. These stores have participated in the previous Port Holiday Magic by having special sale offers on Small Business Saturday. Sales haven’t been announced yet, but check out the Port Washington Chamber of Commerce app, Try Port First, or the website (pwcoc.org)for updated sales and deals closer to this year’s Small Business Saturday on Nov. 26.

A Merry Little Manhasset

This Holiday Season Manhasset Chamber of Commerce and Shop Manhasset are working on many ways to help our small businesses by encouraging the community to Shop Local, Spend Local, and Eat Local.

The Chamber will be hosting its 2nd Annual “A Merry Little Manhasset” on Nov. 26 on Small Business Saturday, a celebration of small, local, and e-commerce businesses. It falls on the first Saturday after Thanksgiving, the day after Black Friday.

The Chamber will bring festivities to Plandome Road to encourage the community to support small local businesses. Kick-Off will begin at 11:00 a.m. with photos with Santa and Mrs. Claus.

Hierarchy Architecture & Design will once again host a Gingerbread Contest.

Manhasset Chamber will host a toy drive for Adventures in Learning at Santa-land, 346 Plandome Rd. Bring a new unwrapped toy and help a local child, ages 1 to 18.

Thanks to Manhasset Beautification, Plandome Road will be decorated with Holiday Lights on the light posts and planters. To add more holiday cheer throughout the town, the Chamber is encouraging businesses to decorate their

windows and will be hosting a “Holiday Window Display Contest.” Voting will begin Friday, Dec. 2nd, the same day as Christmas Tree Lighting, where the Chamber will announce the winner of the “All Roads Lead Home” poster contest

winners.

While enjoying the festivities, make sure to stroll around town and do some local shopping and grab a bite to eat. Manhasset Chamber of Commerce encourages all to come out and support

our small local businesses.

Make sure to check the “Merry Manhasset” schedule at www.shopmanhasset.com for event details.

—Submitted by the Manhasset Chamber of Commerce

Plandome Road will be festive with holiday lighting and Christmas decorations.

Manhasset Chamber of Commerce set up for 2021 Merry Little Manhasset.

A Merry Little Manhasset tree skirt.

(Contributed by the Manhasset Chamber of Commerce, 2021)

G rateful.

“Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend.”

-Melody Beattie

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T hank you to my clients, colleagues, friends and family for making 2022 an incredible year.

The best part of the season is the opportunity to say thank you to all my clients, customers, colleagues and friends for entrusting me with all your real estate needs throughout the year.

Shopping Local This Holiday Season

BY JULIE PRISCO

Shopping locally is important year-round to keep the local economy and community thriving. When it comes to the holiday season, remember to give your local clothing boutiques, toy shops, and home decor stores some business.

One good way to support local businesses is gift cards. Gift cards are often overlooked when shopping for presents because people feel it is not a personal gift or a lazy way out of shopping. But it can be quite the opposite.

For teens and kids, money is tight. Five dollars for bringing in the trash, or ten hours of minimum wage, often doesn’t leave teens with enough money to go out with friends and shop. A gift certificate to their favorite local clothing store or nail

salon is a great way to give your loved ones some extra spending money.

For the adults, gift cards to the hardware store or a gift card to a home decor store is a good idea. With a gift card to a local home goods store, your family member or friend can finally buy those expensive pots and pans they had their eye on. A gift certificate to a hardware store will allow them

to splurge for an expensive power tool.

It can be hard to support restaurants when shopping locally during the holidays, but gift certificates are an excellent way to help. For the couples in your life, a gift certificate to a local restaurant (plus a promise of free babysitting) gives couples an excuse to set aside a fun night for just the two of them.

Below are some local shops in Port Washington where gifts and gift certificates can be purchased this holiday season.

The Wellground, 938 Port Washington Blvd.-The Wellground opened in Port in 2019. The store offers a thoughtfully curated experience that includes clothing, shoes, home, wellness and beauty. The Wellground keeps up with the trending clothing and jewelry styles for girls, teens, and women. Visit thewellground.com to learn more.

Arena Sports, 52 Main St.- Arena Sports sells Port Washington specified merchandise. The store has a variety of ‘PORT’ t-shirts, sweatshirts, shorts, and hats. Buy merchandise specific to the Port Vikings and Manhasset area. Sports equipment like baseball bats, helmets and other sporting accessories are available at Arena Sports. A gift from Arena Sports is perfect for any local sports-loving kid and adult. A ‘PORT’ shot glass or sweatshirt from Arena Sports makes a great remembrance gift for those off to college next fall. Visit arenasportsny.com to browse the merchandise.

Bubba Brown’s Treasures, 302 Main St.- Bubba Brown’s has something for everybody. The store offers everything from one-of-a-kind jewelry to organic soaps, hand creams, and Port Washington themed drinking glasses and hand towels. Browse Bubba Brown’s when shopping for your excentric and decor-obsessed loved ones.

Alper’s True Value Hardware, 81 Main St.For the men in your life, Alper’s Hardware offers all sorts of tools, outdoor appliances, and various work clothing items. Alpers has fire pits, barbeques and grilling utensils for those who enjoy spending time in their backyards. Visit alpershardware.com to check out more products.

Louie’s Prime Steak & Seafood, 395 Main St.- Louie’s has a great lunch, dinner and dessert selection. Its fully stocked bar offers wines, and special cocktails. Call Louie’s at 516-883-4242 to purchase a gift. Visit louiessince1905.com for more information.

Trending Gift Ideas

BY LAUREN FELDMAN

While shopping locally is always encouraged, some cyber Monday deals are too good to resist. This year’s Cyber Monday is on Nov. 28. Below are some fun and trending gift ideas to search for while browsing online sales.

For the chef: Vegetable slicer and dicer ($29.99)

Cooking will be a cinch this holiday season with your very own veggie slicer! Many come with catch-compartments to make prep and cleanup super easy! Different blades let you julienne, chop, slice and dice various foods, including onions, zucchini, potatoes and more. Find this item at fullstar.org

For the car-obsessed: Car trash can ($17.99)

Perhaps an unconventional choice, but a great gift if you know anyone with a car that is not quite spick-and-span. Car trash cans fit most standard models and make keeping clean super easy! Especially in winter, cleaning the car might be a chilly adventure. Great for family vehicles. Find this item at hotorauto.com

For the future beauty influencer: Moisturizer ($54.00)

The It Cosmetics limited-edition holiday set. The Beautiful Together 4-piece Anti-Aging Skincare Gift Set includes a complete day-to-night routine of moisturizing cleanser, hydrating moisturizer, smoothing eye cream, and rejuvenating night cream. Find this item at ulta.com

For the active kids: Indoor trampoline ($99.99)

Stuck inside on a snowy, cold day? Try this trampoline to get your little one’s energy out! Recommended for ages 3-6. Indoor trampolines are a great way to get moving while staying in place. Perfect for homes with limited indoor space as well. Find this item at dickssportingoods.com

For the future scientist: Geode discovery kit ($36.99)

For the curious kid are kits such as these! Help them unlock their inner explorer by opening geodes and discovering their very own crystals! National Geographic has a line of kits that enable kids to create, explore, and destroy, all while learning about nature, animals and more! Recommended for ages 8 and up, these kits are fun for the whole family. Find this item at michaels.com

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Celebrate The Holidays In Port

BY JULIE PRISCO

With the holidays approaching, it’s time to join family and friends to celebrate. Bundle up, grab your loved ones and check out some entertaining and heartwarming winter celebrtations. Here are some holiday events in and around Port that are happening in the upcoming weeks.

Landmark on Main Street

Visit landmarkonmainstreet.org for ticket information.

Judy Collins: Holidays & Hits on Saturday, Dec. 3 at 8:00 p.m. Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter Judy Collins will be performing a Holiday & Hits concert. The Christmas concert series will feature a program of holiday classics, songs from Judy’s latest album, Spellbound—her 55th album and her first ever complete album of originals—and beloved songs culled from her six-decade career.

“Happy Holidays” with The Red Mamas and special guests The Step Sistas on Wednesday, Dec. 7 at 2:00 p.m. The Red Hot Mamas aged 55-85, have been kicking up their heels with Rockette-style tap dancing in the NY area for the past twenty years. The company’s repertoire includes selections from Broadway shows, old time favorites and current popular tunes. Recent performances include Paula Abdul’s “Live To Dance,” The Chapin Stage at Hecksher Park and the Long Island Dance Consortium’s Celebration of Dance. Bookings are available for all special events, including special holiday performances. Free program for seniors.

Glenn Miller Orchestra: In The Christmas Mood on Friday, Dec. 16. The legendary Glenn Miller was one of the most successful of all dance bandleaders back in the Swing Era of the 1930s and 40s. A matchless string of hit records, the constant impact of radio broadcasts and the drawing power at theatres, hotels and dance pavilions, built and sustained the momentum of popularity. Now, over sixty years since the public first embraced the successful Miller Sound, both the legend and the music live on.

The Community Synagogue Visit commsyn.org for more information.

Community Synagogue Lighting on Monday, Dec. 19 at 6p.m. We meet outside of the Synagogue entrance by the Electrical Menorah on top of the building. Latkes and donuts included.

Community Haunkkah Dinner on Friday, Dec. 23 on 6p.m. Everyone is invited. Cost to be determined.

Port Washington Ice Skating Center Visit pwskating.com to make skating reservations.

Weekly Reserved Skating Hours. Saturdays and Sundays from 2:15-3:45 p.m. Mondays and Fridays from 2:30-4:00 p.m. and Wednesdays from 2:30-4:30 p.m. Gather friends and family to spend an afternoon ice skating. Reserved Skating Sessions are for skaters who want to skate for fun. Capacity is limited and reservations and advance online payment is required. Admission to these sessions is $18 per person. Skate rentals can be purchased at the rink when you arrive. The cost is $5.00

Ice Skating Lessons For All. Book a 30-minute private skating lesson or ice hockey lesson for $60. Or book a semi-private 30 minute skatting lesson or a hockey lesson for $36.

The Andrew Stergiopoulos Ice Rink (At the Parkwood Sports Complex) Visit gnparks. org for more information.

Public Skate Sessions. Visit the website for the weekly

hours of the public sessions. Public sessions are open daily to both park district residents and non-residents. Residents must show park pass for the resident admission fees: adult $8, child $6 and seniors $5. Admission fees for non-residents are $14 for adults and $10 for children.

Great Neck Library

Visit greatnecklibrary.org for registration information.

on Tuesday, Dec. 6 at 11 a.m. (Large Multipurpose Room 34, Main Library) Fun storytime celebrating all things winter! We will learn about winter weather, animals

that hibernate and more. This program is suitable for children ages 18 months to 4 years with an accompanying adult. Please note that this program includes class dates on December 6, 13, and 20. Registration begins Nov. 22 at 10 a.m.

Do-It-Yourself Snow Globe on Wednesday, Dec. 21 at 4 p.m. or 7 p.m. (Large Multipurpose Room 34, Main Library) DIY your very own snow globe and hear a great story! This program is suitable for children in grades K-5. Registration begins December 6 at 10 a.m.

Paint & Sip Snowy Scene on Friday, Dec. 23 at 4 p.m. (Main Library Community Room) Join us for a guided painting and some hot cocoa or tea to drink! This program is suitable for children in grades K-6 (ages 5-11).

Registration begins December 9 at 10 a.m.

See The Glenn Miller Orchestra at the Landmark on Main Street. (Photo from The Landmark on Main Street Website)

25th Port Washington Christmas Celebration & Tree Lighting

It is the 25th Anniversary of the Annual Port Washington Christmas Celebration & Tree Lighting. This year’s celebration and lighing will be on Sunday, Dec. 4 starting at 4:30 p.m. in Blumenfeld Park on Main Street in Port Washington. Every year the community gathers to celebrate the Christmas story with music, sweet treats, and mingle with neighbors. A live nativity performance takes place with actors and a narrator to tell the story.

Music performed by the Liquid Bread Brass Band will accompany the Christmas Pageant, and Live Nativity. Immediately following the Pageant this year’s honorees will light up the Christmas Tree. The night’s festivities conclude with the arrival of Santa!

It’s been 25 years-who knows what surprises there might be! Join us, this amazing event is a delightful experience for all.

Wear warm clothing! (Something red, if you have it!)

The Christmas Tree Lighting Committee is made up of Port Washington residents and business owners. See the Port Washington Christmas Tree Facebook page for additional information on the committee and making a donation to sustain this

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BY JULIE PRISCO

With the holiday season approaching, people begin to think about their life and what they are grateful for. Spending time with family, friends and other loved ones helps us realize how lucky many of us are.

The holiday season is also a time for people to give back to the less fortunate in the community. Food, clothing and toy drives begin to pop up across town. Look out for these donation drives in the coming weeks, usually hosted by the town and village governments, local police and fire departments, and charitable groups.

Besides the classic holiday donation drives, many local food and clothing pantries across town are open year-round for people to donate non-perishable food items and old clothing too.

One popular and local food pantry is at Our Lady of Fatima’s OutReach office, located at 10 Cottonwood Rd., Port Washington. They accept donations at church mass and the OutReach office, Mondays through Thursdays from 9 a.m.Noon and 1-5 p.m. Our Lady of Fatima’s Outreach office currently services about 135 families in the Port Washington and Manhasset area.

The pantry is in partnership with Our Harvest and receives meats, poultry and

dairy product based on a percentage of sales in the local area. By purchasing through Our Harvest, you help stock Our Lady of Fatima’s pantry.

The Outreach office works with Plant a Row for the Hungry, The Dodge House, Grassroots and various other Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) groups to provide fresh produce in the Spring, Summer and Fall months.

When fresh produce is scarce in the winter, Our Lady of Fatima could use some extra donations. The Outreach office shared that due to storage issues, they aren’t making up the usual holiday baskets for their families; instead, they are giving out gift cards. The office is accepting the donation of gift cards to food stores such as Stop & Shop or prepaid AMEX cards for the office to give out to families in need.

The food pantry accepts monetary donations to help stock their pantry in addition to taking non-perishable food items. The standard items that the pantry distributes and is in constant need of are: oil, cereal, pasta sauce, peanut butter, jelly,

mac & cheese, rice, pasta, oatmeal, canned tomatoes, canned and dry beans, canned tuna, salmon, and chicken, canned corn, string beans, peas, and beets, canned soup, canned fruits, mayonnaise and ketchup. Visit olfpw.org for more information. With the changing seasons, people are going through their closets to make

room for sweaters and winter coats. When cleaning out your dressers and closets, a large pile of clothes you haven’t worn all year will grow on the floor. We often put those clothes in garbage bags and drop them into the nearest clothing drop bin in a local shopping center. While donating clothes to those bins is excellent, dropping dropping

Complete board game sets are accepted at Twin Pines. (Photos from the Twin Pines Thrift Shop website)

them at a local donation site can help your surrounding community.

Twin Pines Thrift Shop in Port Washington is a non-profit founded in 1972 with a mission to reduce, reuse and recycle. Twin Pines is located at 382 Main St. on the corner of Prospect Avenue and Main Street.

They accept donations on Saturdays from 10 a.m. until their storage has reached maximum capacity. Five bags or boxes are accepted per family per week. They ask that soft goods, such as clothing and tablecloths, be packed separately from hard goods, such as dishes.

Aside from material donations, Twin Pines stocks a food pantry for those in need and always accepts dry and canned goods. Twin Pines shared that while material donations are only accepted on Saturdays, non-perishable food items are accepted any day of the week. Donations of medical supplies are also accepted at Twin Pines, supplies such as canes and walkers.

Twin Pines shares that their most popular items are women’s clothes and kitchenware. Kitchenware includes plates, utensils and small kitchen appliances. Women’s clothing is Twin Pines’ most sold merchandise and it’s most given away inventory. Twin Pines works with a domestic violence safe house, allowing women from their center to come and get free clothing. Right now, fall and winter clothing is among the most needed items at Twin Pines.

In addition to women’s clothing, Twin Pines accepts shoes, children’s and men’s clothing, and maternity clothing. They also take books, board games, athletic equipment, handbags and jewelry.

Some items are not accepted at Twin Pines due to sanitary concerns and storage issues. Items not accepted include stuffed animals, toys, incomplete games, incomplete glass/plate sets, linens/towels, baby clothes (Newborn to 3T), pet food, cassettes/CDs/VHS

tapes, bath mats, towels, sheets, cribs, car seats, helmets, nursing materials, large furniture, computers/printers and any broken/damaged items.

Visit pwtwinpines.com for more information.

A newer program in Port Washington was started by the Port Washington Community Chest during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. In late March 2020, hundreds of volunteers, donors, elected officials, community organizations and businesses worked to help their neighbors. Together they launched the COVID-19 Community Response Fund and established the COVID-19 Community Response Working group to address an evolving list of needs spawned by the pandemic.

According to a press release from the Community Chest, Port Washington volunteers helped out by delivering food and supplies to food pantries and highly vulnerable seniors, making over 2,000 cloth masks and setting up vaccination appointments. The COVID-19 Relief Fund provided over $318,000 to help Port residents who were suddenly unemployed to attain food and other essentials. Over 400 families and 1,400 individuals in Port Washington were helped.

The Community Chest shared that “The Nicholas Center Navigators (young adults on the autism spectrum), who had been instrumental in delivering these items during the pandemic, will launch a new program called Port Provides, Powered by The Nicholas Center to gather, assemble and deliver these supplies to pantries in Port.”

A Go-Fund-Me account has been established to support this important community program. Donations may be made via: Port Provides, Powered by The Nicholas Center at GoFundMe at www. gofundme.com/port-provides-poweredby-the-nicholas-center or by calling: 516-767-7177, ext. 420.

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Holiday Drink Recipes

BY LAUREN FELDMAN

With cold nights approaching, it’s time to curl up with a good book and a tasty drink. Below are some holiday drinks to make for friends and family or bring to the next holiday bash.

Mulled Wine

Mulled Wine is a classic for the Holidays–especially popular in Europe–and super easy, since many families carry red wine already in their homes. One batch is perfect for 2-4 people, and adjustable depending on which spices you enjoy, and just how much you want your wine to pop with festive flavor! Recipe from: cookieandkate. com/classic-mulled-wine-recipe/ Ingredients:

• 2 small oranges or 1 large

• 1 bottle of affordable Merlot, Zinfandel or Garnacha (also called Grenache)

• ¼ cup brandy

• 1 to 2 tablespoons maple syrup or honey, to taste

• 2 whole cinnamon sticks

• 3 star anise

• 4 whole cloves

• Optional garnishes: Fresh whole cranberries (about ¼ cup), cinnamon sticks, additional orange rounds or half moons

Instruction:

• Slice one orange into rounds and slice the other in half. Place the rounds into a medium heavy-bottomed pot. Squeeze the juice from the remaining oranges into the pot.

• Pour the wine into the pot, followed by the brandy. Add 1 tablespoon of the sweetener. Add the cinnamon sticks, star anise and cloves.

• Warm the mixture over medium heat until steaming (about 5 minutes). When you see tiny bubbles at the surface, reduce the heat to low.

• Taste and add another tablespoon of sweetener if needed. If it’s not spicy enough, continue cooking over low heat for 5 to 10 more minutes.

• Serve in mugs with your desired garnishes.

Naughty-or-Nice Cocoa

A cozy hot chocolate recipe perfect for families. Add cocoa cream liqueur and peppermint Schnapp’s for the adults, or swap these out for 3 tablespoons of chocolate syrup and regular peppermint for the kids! Recipe from: kjandcompany. co/santas-cocoa/

Ingredients:

• 3 cups milk

• 1/3 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips or baking bar chopped

• 3/4 cup cocoa cream liqueur

• 1/4 cup to 1/2 cup peppermint Schnapp’s depending on strength desired

• Toppings: Chocolate-rimmed mugs, crushed candy canes or whipped cream

Instructions:

• In a small sauce pan, bring the milk to a low simmer over low heat.

• Whisk in the chocolate chips until smooth.

Naughty-or-Nice Cocoa

• Whisk in the cocoa liqueur and peppermint Schnapp’s and remove from heat.

• Pour the cocoa into your desired mugs, top with whipped cream and crushed candy canes.

Mulled Wine

Jack Frost Cocktail

For the bit more adventurous or the at-home bartender! This fun blue frozen cocktail requires a bit more ingredients, but is worth it for those who want a sweet, slightly tropical drink this holiday season. Also good for those who enjoy a holiday drink but maybe don’t want something hot or warm. Cozy on the outside, cool on the inside! Recipe from: theblondcook.com/ jack-frost-cocktail/

Ingredients:

• Light corn syrup or honey for rimming glasses

• Flaked coconut for rimming glasses

• 8 cups ice (more or less depending on desired consistency)

• 1 cup pineapple juice

• ½ cup blue curacao

• ½ cup vodka or light rum

• ½ cup cream of coconut

Instructions:

• Rim the glasses: Pour a thin layer of corn syrup onto a plate and dip the rims into the corn syrup, then dip in coconut flakes.

• In a blender, blend ice, pineapple juice, blue curacao, vodka and cream of

coconut until desired consistency is reached.

• Pour into glasses and serve immediately.

Smoked Tea Hot Toddy

After a long day out in the elements, nothing drives out the cold quite like a hot toddy. At its most basic, a traditional hot toddy is hot water, whiskey, honey and lemon. It’s steamy, strong, and a little bit sweet. For an exotic twist on this classic chest-warmer, consider brewing a cup of Lapsang Souchong in place of the hot water. This robust tea is smoked over pine boughs, giving it a decidedly festive aroma. Pair with your favorite whiskey (rye is especially flavorful) and maple syrup in place of honey to take the edge off winter’s chill.

Ingredients:

• 1 1/2 ounces Scotch or whiskey

• 3/4 ounce (1 tablespoon) maple syrup

• 1/2 ounce fresh lemon juice

• 3 1/2 ounces boiling water

• 1 Lapsang Souchong tea bag

Instructions:

• Steep tea to desired strength, remove tea bag and discard.

(Photo from Getty Images)

• Add syrup, lemon juice and whiskey.

• Stir, breathe in the smoky goodness, and sip.

—Recipe contirbuted by Amanda Olsen, Manhasset News Editor

Jack Frost Cocktail (Photo from Getty images)

Grandma ChooChoo’s Cookies

BY JULIE PRISCO

Every family has a holiday tradition. Whether wearing matching sweaters or playing card games at the holiday party, every tradition is special and something to look forward to. Growing up, my Grandma ChooChoo (famously nicknamed after the sound a train makes because LIRR tracks ran through her backyard) made delicious cookies from family recipes.

To say Grandma ChooChoo was holiday obsessed is an understatement. Every holiday she decorated her home with those ornate vinyl table clothes, she’d have a themed wreath hanging on the front door and she decorated the mantel above the fireplace with glittery trinkets. Even holidays like St. Patrick’s Day, Valentine’s Day, and Fourth of July had their own special box in the attic with holiday decorations. All the food and dessert at each

celebration were made from scratch; store-bought cookies or cakes were not allowed at Grandma’s house.

After Grandma ChooChoo passed away in 2014, we made a book of all of her cookie recipes for everyone to have. Now at our family’s big Christmas Eve party, everyone makes a special cookie to honor her.

Below are some of the cookie recipes for your family to try out this holiday season:

Rainbow Cookies

Rainbow Cookies are a staple in any local bakery. The layers of tasty cake, almond paste-jelly and chocolate make for a mouthwatering combination.

Ingredients:

• 1 can of 8 ounce almond paste

• 1 ½ cups (three sticks) of softened butter

• 1 cup of granulated sugar

• 4 eggs separated

• 1 teaspoon of almond extract

• 2 cups of sifted floue

• ¼ teaspoon of salt

• 10 drops of green food coloring

• 8 drops of red food coloring

• 1 jar of 12 ounce apricot preserve

• 2 squares of semisweet chocolate

Linzer Tarts

Linzer Tarts are a beauftiful cookie. The two sugar cookies with jelly in between may seem like tricky cookies to make, but they are considered one of the easier cookies to make. These cookies allow room for a creative twist. Some people cut a simple hole out of the top cookie, some cut a heart or star to make them more festive.

Ingredients:

• 2 and 3/4 cups of sifted flour

• 1/2 teaspoon baking powder

• 1 cup softened margarine

• 3 ounces cream cheese softened

• 1 cup granulated sugar

• 1 egg

• 1/2 cup almonds grounds

• 1 grated lemon peel

• 1 jar (12 ounces ) raspberry preserves.

• Confectionary sugar

Oatmeal Lace Cookies

Oatmeal Lace cookies are crispy and delicate. These cookies are simple to make and a favorite among kids and adults. The cookies are a beautiful addition to any dessert spread at your next holiday party.

Ingredients:

• ½ cup of butter

• ¾ cup of white sugar

• 1 egg

• 1 cup of quick-cooking oats

• 3 tablespoons of all-purpose flour

• 1 teaspoon of vanilla extract

• ¼ teaspoon of salt

• ¼ teaspoon of baking powder

• For the chocolate filling- ¾ cup pf semisweet chocolate, melted.

Instructions:

• Grease 3 13x9x2 cookie sheets, line them with wax paper and grease again.

• Break up the almont paste in a large bowl with a fork and add butter, sugar, egg yolks and almond extract. Beat with an electric mixer until light and fluffy (5 minutes)

• Beat in flour and salt. Beat egg whites with mixer until stiff and with a wooden spoon. Stir into almond mixture using a turning motion similar to folding.

• Remove 1 ½ cups of batter and spread evenly into prepared pan.

• Remove another 1 ½ cups of batter and add green food coloring, spread into next pan.

• Add red food coloring into the remaining 1 ½ cups of batter and spread into pan.

• Bake in an oven at 350 degrees for 15

Instructions:

• Sift flour and baking powder onto wax paper.

• Beat butter, cream cheese, sugar, and egg until light and fluffy.

• Add flour mixture blending thoroughly, stir in ground almonds and lemon rind.

• Turn dough out onto wax paper (mixture will be sticky) and shape into a ball to chill over night

• Cut dough in half and roll out dough to a 1/8 inch thickness on a lightly floured cutting board.

• Cut out a 3 inch round with a cookie cutter and place on a cookie sheet.

Instructions:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees and line two baking sheets with parchment paper.

• Melt butter in a microwave and add the sugar; stir to combine. Add beaten egg and mix well.

• Stir in oats, flour, vanilla extract, salt and baking powder.

• Drop teaspoonfuls of dough two inches apart onto the prepared baking sheet.

• Bake in the preheated oven until the edges are golden brown (About 8 minutes)

• Let cook completely before removing from

minutes or until the edges are golden brown. The cake will be ¼ thick.

• Remove from pans immediately onto large wire racks and let cool.

• Heat the apricot preserve and strain it.

• Place the green layer in a pan and spread ½ of the preserve over the green layer.

• Place the yellow layer on top and spread the remaining apricot over, then place the pink layer on top of the yellow.

• Cover with plastic wrap and weigh down with a cutting board. Refrigerate over night.

• Melt chocolate over hot water in a small cup and spread to edges of the cake and let dry for 30 minutes.

• Cut into 1 inch square pieces.

• Repeat with the other half of the dough.

• With a 1/2 inch cutter cut out the cener of each. (Substitute round for a fun shape)

• Bake at 350 degrees for 8 minutes or until lightly brown.

• Heat raspberries and spread each of the solid cookies completely to the edge with a thin layer of hot preserves

• Top each with the cut out cookies.

• Press together gently to make a sandwich then sprinkle with confectionary sugar.

• Spoon a drop of preserves into the opening of each tart and let the preserves set.

the baking sheet.

• To assemble: melt the chocolate in the microwave. Spread a thin layer on a cookie and gently place another cookie on top.

Homemade Rainbow Cookies. (Photo from Julie Prisco)

Linzer Tarts. (Photo from Wikimedia Commons)

Oatmeal Lace Cookies. (Photo from Wikimedia Commons)

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This holiday season I wish to express my gratitude to all those who have continued to support me, allowing me to keep on doing what I love. There is truly nothing like helping my clients through the process of buying or selling their home.

Wishing you the happiest of holidays!

Best,

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HOMES

Recently Sold

This luxurious residence has been totally updated with a decorator touch. Set amid lush landscaping, this beautiful Dale model at 10 The Glen (unit 10) in Glen Head sold on Oct. 10 for $825,000. It boasts a sundrenched entry foyer, a formal living and dining rooms, a classic eat-in-kitchen and sliders that go to a new composite deck. The second floor has an expansive primary bedroom with new bath (radiant heated floors), generous walk-in closets and sliders to the deck. The two secondary bedrooms are very large and have double closets. The lower level is finished and fully carpeted with a huge storage room, temperature-controlled wine storage closet and a large egress window. It has four bathrooms and is truly an inspiring home.

HOME & DESIGN

Replacing Documents After A Natural Disaster

After a natural disaster such as a hurricane, official documents will be essential in helping hurricane survivors rebuild their lives. Survivors who lost vital documents such as birth and marriage certificates, Social Security cards or medical records can get replacements from the following resources.

Federal Documents

Medicare cards

Phone: 800-772-1213 / Live chat available for deaf or hard of hearing Website: www.medicare.gov

Military records

Phone: 866-272-6272 / To access a Video Relay Service (VRS), Dial 711 Website: www.archives.gov/ contact/ Passport

Phone: 877-487-2778 / Call 888874-7793 for TDD Service Website: travel.state.gov

Social Security Card

You may request a reasonable accommodation for an upcoming appointment by calling 800-772-1213. Website: www.ssa.gov

Green Cards

send e-mail: FSInternet@fiscal. treasury.gov Website: www.treasurydirect.gov U.S. Tax Returns

Phone: 800-829-1040 / Telephone assistance for the deaf and hard of hearing is available for individuals with TTY/TDD equipment. TTY/TDD users may call 800-829-4059 to ask tax questions or to order IRS forms and publications.

Website: www.irs.gov

Personal Documents

Real estate and property Contact your municipal government. Credit cards

Contact your credit card company directly.

This elegantly updated ranch at 73 Plymouth Dr. in Glen Head sold on Oct. 11 for $999,000. The living room has a fieldstone fireplace. It has a formal dining room with French doors and an eat-in-kitchen with granite countertops and stainless steel appliances. The family room, master bedroom and master bathroom have radiant heat. There are two additional bedrooms and a den/office that could be a bedroom. The full basement is finished and has a media room, storage and laundry. The mudroom is just off the two-car attached garage. The yard is beautifully landscaped and has a patio and a deck. The home is wired for an in-house sound system, landscaped lighting and an in-ground sprinkler system.

To request large print or braille-related or other accommodations, applicants should call the USCIS Contact Center at 800-375-5283. Use the online accommodations request form in order to request an accommodation at any time during the naturalization process. Website: www.uscis.gov

U.S. Savings Bonds

Phone: 844-284-2676 / For other means of communication,

Credit reports from Equifax, Experian, TransUnion Phone: 877-322-8228 Website: www.annualcreditreport.com Insurance documents

Check with your agent. Medical records

Call your doctor or your medical insurance company; records are tracked electronically.

To apply for FEMA assistance, visit DisasterAssistance.gov or call 800-621-3362. Helpline operators are available from 7 a.m. to 2 a.m. daily. Press 3 for an interpreter who speaks your language.

—FEMA

Homes shown here represent closed sales, sold by a variety of agencies and are selected for their interest to readers by the Anton Media Group editor. Except where noted, data and photos are provided courtesy of Multiple Listing Service of Long Island, Inc. and Zillow.

ENTERTAINMENT & LIFESTYLE

Rupert Holmes’ Fave Theatrical Productions

When the pandemic hit, Tony Award-winning playwright Rupert Holmes saw COVID-19 shut down the theatrical world on a broad scale. Closer to home, productions of his including a West End run Curtains, which was coming off a successful 2019 holiday run, plus worldwide revivals of The Mystery of Edwin Drood, came to a grinding halt. Quarantining at his Westchester home in Cold Spring, Holmes started thinking about how to creatively bounce back from this unprecedented global event. The solution? A one-actor play about tlate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg (RBG).

“I thought if theater was ever going to come back from this abyss, it may be that it has to be with shows that feature one or two actors,” he said. “Some of the most enjoyable plays that I’ve seen have been

one- or two-actor pieces. I thought if we’re going to come back, maybe these will be the first arrows we shoot into the air to get back into the world of theater. I thought who would be a good subject for a one-actor play that would be engrossing, enlightening and human? Almost immediately I thought I had to write a play about [Ruth’s] life. And make her a real human being people can get to know through this play. Anyone can read the rulings. Anyone can read the biographical data and get a feel for what drove her whole life. [I wanted to share] what her loves and passions were and why justice was so important to her.”

Holmes took a year to research and write this play. Actress Michelle Azar (NCIS: Los Angeles; How to Get Away With Murder) was tapped to play RBG. In finding the right format, actress and subject to work with, the former Levittown resident wound up creating a piece that is warm, personal, intimate and focused.

“When I write a play, I want to envision it being performed,” he explained. “I don’t

want to write a play and look at the letters on a page. Unless there’s an audience and a venue, it isn’t a play. This was a play that I could see happening in an intimate setting. I thought for a one-actor play, who better than Ruth Bader Ginsburg in this particular time? It’s a chance to make people understand what her life was about, beyond just the iconic nature of her notoriety and a chance to show that she was more than just the Notorious RBG that had become a catch-phrase; the kind of thing Saturday Night Live would spoof.”

To that end, Holmes was happy to share some of his favorite plays.

All Things Equal: The Life and Trials of Ruth Bader Ginsburg will be running through Nov. 27 at the Bay Street Theater & Sag Harbor Center for the Arts, 1 Bay St., Sag Harbor. For more information, visit www.baystreet.org or call 631-725-9500.

Rupert Holmes (Photo by Barry Gordin)

The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe (1985)

“This Lily Tomlin one-woman performance kind of made me realize that you could go on quite a journey with one person performing a show.”

Say Goodnight Gracie (2002)

“When I wrote Say Goodnight Gracie , George Burns had lived to be 100. I realized that if I wrote the story of his life, I would also be writing a very definitive history of American entertainment. He was in every entertainment form the

United States had. He went from singing on the street for pennies to vaudeville. He was 30 years old when he met Gracie Allen. He had already been in vaudeville more than 15 years. He was a kid in vaudeville. Then they were the toast of vaudeville and then vaudeville started dying. They made the leap very people made from stage to radio. They had one of the most popular radio shows of the time. They became national phenomenons. Gracie Allen ran for president as a joke and got quite a number of votes. They were also making some of the first talkies that were ever made in the early ‘30s. They mad motion pictures with people like Fred Astaire and W.C. Fields. Again, they did a very difficult thing—they went from radio to television. It was an incredible transition. When George and Gracie split up, he was able to leave TV and somehow make a leap to movies. He won an Oscar at age 80 and he even had a hit record on the Top 40 at age 80-something called ‘I Wish I Was Eighteen Again’ in the country category. Outside of having a video made about him, George Burns was the history of American entertainment. You get to travel through that history and the life of a very persistent man. I admired his life and I happened to admire that play.”

What Every Woman Knows (1908)

“What Every Woman Knows was written by James Barrie, who was the author of Peter Pan. He wrote a play that was basically about the woman behind the man. It’s about a young Scottish woman whose brothers are going to get the education in the household. She starts stealing their books and makes sure she reads everything they read. She finally marries a politician and supports him. The politician in the play rises to such heights he feels like he can do without her. He leaves her and suddenly he notices he’s not making any good speeches anymore, because she was supplying him with all his ideas and philosophy from behind the scenes. I happen to love that play quite a big deal because it was an early feminist advocacy play that pointed out that women know very often that when men get good ideas, they’ve often gotten them from their wives and female friends.”

Holiday Mathis

By Holiday Mathis

By Holiday Mathis

ARIES (March 21-April 19). Hanging out by yourself will be fun because you’ll get to enjoy exactly what you want without having to compromise. e food and entertainment is all your choice. Later in the week, you’ll look back fondly on the moments you got to do as you wish. It’s so much easier to be a good friend to others when you’re rst a good friend to yourself.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20). Limitations are actually the best things that could happen to your project. When you have limited time, you’ll get things done quickly. When you have limited money, you’ll do them e ciently, too. Your project might actually turn out much better than it would have if you hadn’t had the parameters. You’re a genius at embracing these realities.

GEMINI (May 21-June 21). Standing where you can see means standing where you can be seen. Do you know what you should expose and what you should pro tect? ere will be decisions to be made in this regard. Maybe you won’t get them all right, but you’ll make them mindfully, which is more than most can claim.

CANCER (June 22-July 22). When you want something objectively, you like the idea of it but may or may not be willing to do the work it takes to make things happen. But when a want is at the level of desire, you’ll put in whatever e ort is necessary. is week, you’re still deciding how much you want a thing, and there’s no need to rush the decision.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). is week brings atypical patterns. Days lled with leisure lead to your most productive cycles. So pace yourself and interrupt periods of hard work with long, lazy stretches of doing nothing at all. In general, there is great freedom to be felt by letting go of what happened or letting go of your story about what should have happened.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). is week is a scavenger hunt. A series of small, easily solvable predicaments will lead you down this winding path. ere may be a prize at the end, but it’s minor compared to the fun and satisfaction of solving each predicament. It’s wonderful to have quality problems to work on!

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). Even though you’ll be turning in work to someone else this week, the truth is that you are ultimately running your own business. You’re the one who knows the investment and how it moves your goals along or doesn’t. Carve out your own opportunities. Life isn’t about getting a chance; it’s about taking a chance.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). People involved in today’s interactions will have di erent wants and interests from yours. If you’re to get to common ground, bridges must rst be built. Stay lighthearted and playful. ings will get complicated, but deliciously so because you keep approaching them from the perspective of fun and games.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21). Everyone is multidimensional. You learned long ago not to underestimate those around you or assume you know their next move. Now you can apply that lesson to yourself. You are capable of more than you think. ere’s much more to you than you are currently aware of, but you’ll learn it as the week unfolds.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19). ere are overly practical types who are so focused on pro t that they do not understand e orts made for other reasons. You’ll educate them as you spend time on an impractical endeavor that makes you feel connected, peaceful and part of something indescribable.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18). Disregard the competition and any limits that might seem to be in play. Yes, abilities and situations have rules, but they are often far less stringent than the ones you’d assume. Pretend you didn’t know any better. What would you focus on then? What can you see yourself do?

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). is week’s dance will be restrained and elegant, giving you a chance to catch your breath. Small, interpersonal dramas will be part of the experience. You might have forgotten exactly what you told someone, but the other person hasn’t. Ask questions and get everyone on the same page. Good communication is a saving grace.

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Who’s who in sport

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help each other during the ensuing play.

Today’s deal shows how good defensive teamwork can solve a dif ficult problem. West led the ace of clubs, on which East played the nine. Had East not played the nine, West would have had a difficult

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choice as to whether to shift to a spade or a heart. As it was, though, West had no problem.

East’s play of the nine was an obvious suit-preference signal. Considering the club strength visi ble in dummy, East could hardly be signaling for a club continuation, so the nine could be interpreted only as directing a shift to the higher-ranking of the two side suits (spades and hearts). Had East pre ferred a heart return because he had no hearts or had the ace, he would have played his lowest club on the ace to ask for the lowerranking suit to be returned.

Accordingly, West led a spade at trick two. But in order to convince East that he wanted a club return at trick three, he led the queen instead of his fourth-best spade. Had West led the seven, East might have won with the ace and been tempted to return a spade, hoping West had the king.

East had no trouble reading the situation correctly. He took the queen of spades with the ace and returned a club. South now could not avoid going down one, and when in practice he tried to make the contract by ruffing with the jack, he was overruffed by the queen and later lost another

Solution:

Weekly Sudoku Puzzle

Enter digits from 1 to 9 into the blank spaces. Every row must contain one of each digit. So must every column, as must every 3x3 square.

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American Legion Auxillary President Patricia O’Brien Honored With Award

On October 11th, Joe Sledge and Rich Kitson attended Manhasset’s Fall Auxiliary meeting and presented Manhasset American Legion Auxiliary President Patricia O’Brien with the 2022 Center for Development and Civic Engagement American Spirit and Excellence Award. This honor was previously accepted on behalf of O’Brien by Kitson and Sledge at the National Advisory meeting that was held in Denver on April 27 to the 29th.

Northport VA Medical Center nominated Ms. Patricia “Pat” O’Brien of the Manhasset American Legion Auxiliary for the 2021 CDCE American Spirit and Excellence Award in recognition of her countless, extraordinary acts of kindness and generosity toward U.S.veterans and their families, especially those struggling to achieve wellness, financial and housing stability, and a renewed sense of belonging.

Millions of selfless women and men partner with VA to bring healing and hope to veterans, but Pat’s work on behalf of those making the often-difficult journey back to civilian life must be noted and celebrated. She seeks no recognition for her efforts and thwarts any effort to thank her. Helping veterans is her “small way” of acknowledging their service and sacrifices.

For over a decade, Pat and the American Legion Auxiliary have actively participated in all the traditional and treasured VA volunteer roles, but they have also sought to partner with VA on new ways of healing and recognition. Since learning about Northport VA Medical Center’s Hero Hunger Help Project (HHHP), which involves VA social

workers screening veterans for food insecurity and temporarily providing them with donated grocery store gift cards (among other resources); O’Brien has become the programs staunchest advocate. Each year, she helps raise the community’s awareness of veteran food insecurity and invites others to donate to CDCE to help end it. As a result, Northport’s HHHP has remained funded and effective for years.

O’Brien’s support of Northport VA Medical Center’s Secret Soldier Santa Program (SSSP), which involves the community pro viding gifts to the children of veterans under VA’s care, has never been more important than during the COVID19 pandemic.

When the pandemic struck and traditional shopping methods and gift giving - not to

mention volunteer networking - were greatly impacted, Using Zoom video connections, O’Brien rallied auxiliary members, civic and religious groups, family and friends to donate department store gift cards that would be given to veterans participating in the SSSP. This allowed them to make online purchases for their children at the holidays. O’Brien’s efforts ensured in 135 children receiving over $150 each in gift cards.

“The Spirit of Excellence cannot be a personal award. The title itself is awesome and awe inspiring. It isn’t something given to a person. It’s a combination of qualities and actions. The Spirit of Excellence is the heart and soul of the country we know and love. It’s the love of freedom that brought people here from other shores. It’s the spirit

that said evil can never triumph over good during World War II. It’s the same spirit we see today in Ukraine. It’s the spirit of our first responders rushing into burning buildings, the police officers protecting the vulnerable, the health care workers putting themselves at risk during a pandemic. It’s the teacher who sees the spark of light in a student’s eyes and helps that spark become a flame,” said O’Brien in her acceptance speech.

—Submitted by the American Legion Auxillary

Make The Holidays Brighter For Our Veterans –Become A Secret Soldier Santa

This year has continued to be difficult for many of those Veterans who either live or receive treatment at the Northport VA Medical Center (NVAMC). Due to ongoing concerns for their health and safety, veterans will again not be permitted to receive traditional gifts items this holiday season.

For two years the American Legion Auxillary has reached out for support of their Secret Soldier Santa program at the NVAMC. The program now enters its third year.

While the Legion cannot do their clothing gift bag program, they still plan to honor veterans and help bring them some holiday cheer. The Secret Soldier Santa Program will not have a party hosted by Santa,and actual gifts are not permitted, so gift cards (which can be sanitized) will be distributed to our veterans for use in purchasing gifts

for their children. This empowerment to purchase the gift items their children would love to receive is one of the greatest gifts the veterans can receive. The Legion is working to raise money to purchase these gift cards from major stores and donations will help make this happen.

On Saturday, Nov. 19, from 9:30 a.m. until 4:30 p.m, the Junior Auxiliary members and Scouts will be in the back outdoor section of Raindew in Manhasset accepting monetary donations in a contactless manner. Safe distancing and safety measures will be followed.

Post 304 of the Manhasset American Legion, 27 Bayview Ave., will also be open on Saturday, Nov. 19, from 9:30 a.m. until 4:30 p.m., to accept donations. There will be a totally contactless “Drive-By Donation” site

in the parking lot and a “Walk-By Donation” site at the front door.

Donations may be made in cash, by check, or by credit card. Checks should be made payable to American Legion Auxiliary and may be dropped off on Nov. 19 or mailed to American Legion Auxiliary, 27 Bayview Ave., Manhasset, NY 11030.

American Legion Auxiliary Manhasset Unit 304 is a 501(c)(19) tax exempt organization. All donations are tax deductible as permitted by law.

For additional information, please feel free to contact Pat O’Brien at 516-850-5702 or patobrien17@msn.com.

—Submitted by Patricia O’Brien, President, American Legion Auxiliary Manhasset Unit 304

Poster honoring Pat O’Brien at the National Advisory Meeting. (Photo submitted by the American Legion Auxillary)

The ladies of the American Legion Auxillary post #304. Pat O’Brien is on the far right. (Photo submitted by the American Legion Auxillary)

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Manhasset Freshman Dives Into First Place And Qualifies For States

Victoria Wang, a freshman from Manhasset Secondary School, has just added one more accolade to her impressive list of diving achievements. She took home her second consecutive win at the Nassau County Diving Championships on Nov. 2 at the Nassau County Aquatic Center.

Wang came in first place with a score of 604.35 which is a new Nassau County record and qualifies her for the New York State Diving Championships on Nov. 18 at the Webster Aquatic Center. Last year as an eighth grader, she competed at the state championships and earned second place, finishing two points behind the leader. Wang is currently the top ranked diver in New York State.

On Oct. 25, she competed in the Division Championships and finished first in her divi sion and first overall in Nassau County. At the time, Wang’s score of 580.85 was a new county record. She broke the county record for the first time as an eighth grader at the Nassau County Championship, scoring 562.55. The previous record was held by Victoria Zazzaro of Wantagh in 2014.

Wang has been diving since she was young and has been on the high school swimming and diving team since she was in seventh grade. She also dives on a year-round team which her high school coach Matthew McGrane credits for her success. However, he also works with her on finding the right mindset.

“Our approach is to stay even-keeled with our emotions and stay in the moment,” said McGrane. “Complete a dive, do a quick review and move onto the next dive. We work on her mindset being the same with a championship event. She won; it was exhilarating and rewarding for her. Enjoy the moment, celebrate for a day and then move on mentally to preparing for the next competition.”

The Manhasset Public Schools congratulates Wang on this outstanding achievement and wishes her the best of luck as she prepares to compete at the state level this month.

—Submitted by Manhasset Public Schools

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Manhasset freshman Victoria Wang won her second consecutive win at the Nassau County Diving Championships on Nov. 2. (Photos submitted by Manhasset Public Schools)

Victoria Wang and Coach Matthew McGrane (Photo submitted by Manhasset Public Schools)

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Town of North Hempstead to Offer 4-Week Lifeguard Training Course

North Hempstead Supervisor Jennifer DeSena and the Town Board have announced that a 4-week lifeguard certification course will be held at Michael J. Tully Park beginning November 28. Classes, which are geared toward adults, will be held on Mondays and Wednesdays from 6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. with special training on Saturday, December 3 and Saturday, December 17 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. and a special deep-water skills test at Eisenhower Park

on Thursday, December 15 from 7:30 p.m. to 9 p.m.

Individuals ages 25 and older can sign up for the American Red Cross Blended Lifeguard Training Course. Those who register must pass the pre-test require ments to participate in the class, which will take place on Monday, November 14 or Monday, November 21 from 6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.

Admission will be on a first come, first serve basis. After passing the pre-test,

participants must pay a $325 fee to cover the course, book, and class materials. No absences are permitted.

Upon the conclusion of the course, participants will have the opportunity to register and take the Nassau County Lifeguard Certification Test.

For more information on pre-test requirements or the course, please call 516-739-3055.

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Plandome Heights Women’s Club Begins Fall Season Of Meetings

The Plandome Heights Women’s Club recently kicked off the new fall season with their annual membership luncheon at Publicans. It was a beautiful afternoon catching up with friends & neighbors while supporting our local gastropub. The 2022-2023 board and committee officers were installed and look forward to a very productive and fun year. Town of North Hempstead’s Supervisor Jennifer Desena shared her well-wishes and the latest information impacting the Village.

Founded in 1975, the purpose of the Club is to create social ability, to promote cultural interests and to serve philanthropically. If you are interested in becoming a member, go to www.plandomeheightswomensclub.com for online registration.

Manhasset Board of Education Celebrates Outstanding Social Studies Teacher

During the Manhasset Public Schools’ Board of Education meeting on Nov. 3, the Board honored social studies teacher Christopher Keen from Manhasset Secondary School. Mr. Keen was recently recognized by BlankSlate Media as one of Nassau County’s 40 Under 40 honorees.

Last spring, Mr. Keen was nominated by North Hempstead Town Supervisor Jennifer DeSena to receive the 40 Under 40 Award from the Long Island Press. Award recipients were selected for their impact in their respective field.

District Coordinator of Social Studies Margaret Ronai praised Mr. Keen during the board meeting for being an outstanding member of the social studies department. Since coming to Manhasset

in 2007, he has been a warm and energetic teacher, coach and mentor to Manhasset high school students.

“In the last 15 years, Mr. Keen’s outstanding leadership and the impact he has had on so many students at Manhasset High School, as a teacher of AP Psychology, as a coach of both the varsity girls soccer and varsity boys baseball teams and for his advocacy work with the Manhasset Coalition Against Substance Abuse, earned him this award,” Ms. Ronai said.

She also noted that Mr. Keen was the only educator within the group of 40 honorees who were formally recognized in September. The Manhasset Public Schools congratulates Mr. Keen on this well-deserved recognition.

—Submitted by Manhasset Public Schools

A lifeguard station. (Photo by Tu Trinh on Unsplash)

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—Submitted by the Plandome Heights Women’s Club

Plandome Heights Women’s Club members gathered at their luncheon to begin the fall season. (Photo submitted by the Plandome Heights Women’s Club)

Manhasset Secondary School teacher Christopher Keen (middle) was honored during the Manhasset Public Schools’ Board of Education meeting on Nov. 3. (Photo submitted by Manhasset Public Schools)

Not ‘Feline’ The Love In North Hempstead A

crusade to improve conditions for feral cats

FRANK RIZZO

frizzo@antonmediagroup.com

Stuart Kroll of Great Neck is an unabashed cat lover. He has appeared numerous times before the Town of North Hempstead Town Board over the past several years to urge trustees to do more for the growing feral cat population.

“The Town of North Hempstead is the only one on Long Island that does not have a shelter for cats,” Kroll charged during public comment earlier this year. “If someone sees a [loose] dog in the street, they can call 311 and that is handled. It’s a matter of public safety. If you see a cat in the street and you call 311, they say, ‘Sorry, we can’t help you. Maybe you can get it yourself and bring it to our TNR (trap, neuter and release) clinic once a month.’ ”

The town’s animal shelter is part of the public safety department and is located in Port Washington. Its operations will cost taxpayers about $869,000 in the 2023 adopted budget, an increase of $34,000 from the 2022 spending plan. There was no line in the budget on the cost of the TNR program, but Mark Albarano, deputy commissioner for public safety. mentioned a figure of $60 thousand to $70 thousand when he appeared before the board at an Oct. 6 budget workshop.

The town contracts with a part-time trapper to help homeowners deal with feral cats, but Kroll dismissed the efforts as “a drop in the bucket.”

He went on to note that he joined with other volunteers and a nonprofit, All About Cats in Freeport, “that expend an enormous amount of time and money to try to alleviate the suffering of these animals. This is truly a public health issue. Cats are being born and dying in the street.”

Kroll related that people regularly contact him to handle feral cats and he detailed some of his efforts, calling them, “one tiny little microcosm of what goes on in the town.”

He noted that more than 20 years earlier, then-Supervisor Jon Kaiman made a prom ise to open a cat shelter and ground was broken, but nothing came of it.

“I would like to see some action on the part of the town to alleviate the suffering of these animals that did not ask to be born in this way,” he said. “I really wish that people would take this seriously. This is an ongoing

problem. If you look at any other town on Long Island—Oyster Bay, Hempstead, Smithtown, Brookhaven—they’ve got an animal shelter that takes dogs and cats. We are the anomaly.”

He added, “The town’s own feasibility study showed that 33 cats could be housed at the dog shelter and that’s far better than we have now, which is absolutely nothing. This town has the worst conditions for cats of any town on Long Island, with no cat shelter and a pathetic TNR program. I personally have two spots coming up for the [TNR] clinic on Aug. 13. I normally get five. There’s nowhere for these female cats to go to recover after being spayed. Normally, it’s a two-day medically necessary recovery. To throw these cats right back out on the street is medically dangerous and cruel.”

Again drawing an invidious comparison, he noted that in the Town of Hempstead’s TNR program, town residents can poten tially process dozens of cats by themselves there, thanks to a weekly clinic.

“Five cats here is just beyond pathetic,” he observed. “Nothing has been done regard ing the situation and apparently nothing is going to be done. We live in a very wealthy town and there’s no reason for this heinous suffering of cats to occur. Cats are not wild

animals like raccoons or skunks. They’re basically domestic animals. It’s uncon scionable that private individuals that are empathetic to their plight are forced to do the heartbreaking work themselves and pay for everything out of their own pocket.”

In addition, the way the town’s TNR program operates makes it difficult for cat lovers, because the uncooperative felines need to be captured the night before the clinic. A portion of the animal shelter is used for the operation and then the person who dropped off the cats is called hours later to pick them up and return them to the place where they were trapped.

“The town tried to negotiate with private shelters [to keep cats],” Kroll affirmed. “The only problem was they offered nothing—no resources, no money, no medicine, no food, absolutely nothing. So obviously, there’s no reason for them to partner with the town in any way.”

Kroll promised to continue to advocate for animals before the board, pointedly warning trustees that he will work to make it an election issue.

At the Sept. 1 meeting, the advocate returned again to the cost borne by private citizens, especially when they took home less sick cats to emergency veterinarian services.

“This is a matter of basic morality and decency. This problem should be dealt with expeditiously and fully; half-hearted measures are simply not acceptable. We are now taking all possible steps, and I mean all

possible steps, so that as many as citizens that we can reach become informed that our town allows its suffering to occur,” Kroll said, before reminding Supervisor Jennifer DeSena that they had spoken at length about the issue during her campaign, and she signed a petition along with 2,000 other citizens asking that a cat shelter be built.

“Until now you have done absolutely nothing to help the situation,” he told the supervisor. “Your office doesn’t return phone calls. Vacuous campaign promises don’t do it for me.”

Asked earlier this year by the Manhasset Press about a possible cat shelter, DeSena replied, “It’s a big ticket item. We’re going through the budget process right now and there are a lot of things that people want. There might be other, more cost-effective ways to deal with cats.”

Wendy Bonczek of Roslyn Heights also spoke at the September meeting and said she trapped cats once a month, just before the TNR clinic. She pleaded for North Hempstead to increase the fre quency of the TNR program, adding praise for Lisa Cioffi, the town’s animal shelter director.

“The sad thing is, you see all the baby kittens and young kittens, they’re lying in the street, they’ve been run over. And this could be avoided if we could get all these cats neutered,” she said.

Bonczek added that once the cat popu lation has been brought under control, the TNR clinic can go back to once a month.

The Town of North Hempstead Animal Shelter is located at 75 Marino Ave, Port Washington. (Google Maps)

This town has the worst conditions for cats of any town on Long Island, with no cat shelter and a pathetic [trap, neuter and release] program.

—Stuart Kroll of Great Neck

Stuart Kroll of Great Neck has been a fierce advocate for the humane treat ment of feral cats, as well as building a cat shelter in the Town of North Hempstead. (Photo by Frank Rizzo)

MANHASSET

LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE OF SPECIAL DISTRICT MEETING OF THE MANHASSET UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT, IN THE COUNTY OF NASSAU, NEW YORK

NOTICE IS HEREBY

GIVEN that pursuant to a resolution of the Board of Education of the Manhasset Union Free School District, in the County of Nassau, New York, adopted on October 6, 2022, a Special District Meeting of the qualified voters of said School District will be held on Thursday, December 8, 2022 from 7:00 A.M. to 9:00 P.M. (Prevailing Time) at: SECONDARY SCHOOL 200 MEMORIAL PLACE MANHASSET, NEW YORK for the purpose of voting upon the following Bond Proposition: BOND PROPOSITION RESOLVED:

(a) That the Board of Education of the Manhasset Union Free School District, in the County of Nassau, New York, (the “District”), is hereby authorized to construct improvements and alterations to all District school buildings and the sites thereof (the “Project”), substantially as described in a plan prepared for the District by John A. Grillo Architect, P.C., Port Jefferson, New York, which plan is on file and available for public inspection at the office of the District Clerk, including (as and where necessary): reconstruction and reconfiguration of interior space to provide for auditorium, theater, instructional, social studies, library, lavatory and other space; improvements to heating, ventilation, air conditioning, fire alarm, electrical, plumbing, and security systems; roof reconstruction and/or replacement; door, ceiling and floor replacement; exterior masonry improvements; roadway, parking lot, sidewalk and pavement improvements; and athletic and recreation improvements, including installation and/or replacement of turf fields, reconstruction of the baseball field, bleacher upgrades, tennis court reconstruction, and other athletic facilities enhancements; all of the foregoing to include the original furnishings, equipment, machinery, apparatus and ancillary or related site, demolition and other work required in connection therewith; and to expend therefor, including preliminary costs and costs incidental thereto and to the financing thereof, an amount not to exceed the estimated total cost of $43,996,484; provided that the estimated costs of the components of the Project as set forth in the plan may be

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reallocated among such components if the Board of Education shall determine that such reallocation is in the best interest of the District;

(b) that donated funds in the amount of $70,000 expected to be received by the District are hereby authorized to be expended to pay a part of the cost of the Munsey Park pavement project;

(c) that a tax is hereby voted in the aggregate amount of not to exceed $43,926,484 to finance the balance of the cost of the Project, such tax to be levied by and collected in installments in such years and in such amounts as may be determined by said Board of Education; and

(d) that in anticipation of said tax, bonds of the District are hereby authorized to be issued in the aggregate principal amount of not to exceed $43,926,484 and a tax is hereby voted to pay the interest on said bonds as the same shall become due and payable.

Such Bond Proposition shall appear on the ballot used for voting at said Special District Meeting in substantially the following form:

BOND PROPOSITION YES NO RESOLVED:

(a) That the Board of Education of the Manhasset Union Free School District, in the County of Nassau, New York, is hereby authorized to construct improvements and alterations to all District school buildings and the sites thereof (the “Project”), all in accordance with a plan prepared for the District by John A. Grillo Architect, P.C., Port Jefferson, New York, and to expend not to exceed $43,996,484; (b) that donated funds in the amount of $70,000 expected to be received by the District are hereby authorized to be expended to pay a part of the cost of the Munsey Park pavement project; (c) that a tax is hereby voted in the aggregate amount of not to exceed $43,926,484 to finance the balance of the cost of the Project, such tax to be levied by and collected in installments in such years and in such amounts as may be determined by said Board of Education; and (d) that in anticipation of said tax, bonds of the District are hereby authorized to be issued in the aggregate principal amount of not to exceed $43,926,484 and a tax is hereby voted to pay the interest on said bonds as the same shall become due and payable.

The voting will be conducted by ballot o.n voting machines or paper ballot as provided in the Education Law and the polls will remain open from 7:00 A.M. to 9:00 P.M. (Prevailing Time) and as much longer as may be necessary to enable the voters then present to cast their ballots.

FURTHER NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that pursuant to Education Law 2014, personal registration of voters is required for the Special

District Meeting, and no person shall be entitled to vote at the Special District Meeting whose name does not appear on the register of the District. The names of those persons who have: (a) registered to vote with the County Board of Elections and voted at least once in any local, state or national election within the last four calendar years, or (b) registered to vote with the District’s Board of Registration, or (c) voters permanently registered with the Nassau County Board of Elections are contained on the District’s register. Registration will be conducted from 8:00 A.M. to 4:00 P.M. (Prevailing Time) on days when school is in session in the District Clerk’s office up to and including December 3, 2022, by appointment only due to the District’s visitor’s policy by contacting the District Clerk by telephone: 516-267-7724 facsimile: 516-627-1618 email: districtclerk@manhassetschools.org. The register will be filed in the District Clerk’s office and will be open for inspection by any qualified voter of the District on each of the five (5) days prior to the day set for the Special District Meeting from 9:00 A.M. to 3:00 P.M. (Prevailing Time), except Sundays, and by appointment on the Saturday before the Special District Meeting.

FURTHER NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that applications for absentee ballots for the Special District Meeting are to be completed on a form prescribed by the State Board of Elections and may be obtained by visiting the New York State Education Department’s Website: English: http://www.coun sel.nysed.gov/common/ counsel/files/absenteeballot-applicationand-instructions-english.pdf Spanish: http://www.counsel. nysed.gov/common/counsel/ files/absentee-ballot-application-and-instructions-spanish. pdf or by contacting the District Clerk by email districtclerk@manhassetschools. org or phone 516-267-7724. Completed applications must be received at least seven (7) days before the Special District Meeting if the ballot is to be mailed to the applicant, or the day before the Special District Meeting if the ballot is to be delivered personally to the applicant or to his or her designated agent. Absentee ballot applications will not be accepted by the District Clerk before November 8, 2022. Further, no absentee voter’s ballot shall be canvassed unless it has been received at the District Clerk’s office by 5:00 P.M. (Prevailing Time) on the date of the Special District Meeting. A list of all persons to whom absentee ballots shall have been issued will be available during regular office hours in the District Clerk’s office on each of the five (5) days prior to the day of the Special Dis-

trict Meeting, except Sunday, and Saturday by appointment only. Any qualified voter may upon examination of such list, file a written challenge of the qualifications as a voter of any person whose name appears on such list, stating the reasons for such challenge, prior to such ballots being canvassed.

FURTHER NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that pursuant to Education Law §2018-d, any person serving in the military, including spouses and dependents, may register to vote in the Special District Meeting. A military voter who is a qualified voter of the school district may obtain a registration form by contacting the District Clerk by telephone: 516-267-7724 facsimile: 516-627-1618 email: districtclerk@manhassetschools. org or mail: District Clerk, Manhasset Union Free School District, 200 Memorial Place, Manhasset, New York 11030, or in person by appointment only due to the District’s visitor policy (during regular office hours of 8:00 A.M.4:00 P.M. (Prevailing Time)). A military voter who is duly registered may apply for a military ballot by requesting an application form from the District Clerk. Completed applications must be personally delivered or mailed to the District Clerk and received no later than 5:00 P.M. (Prevailing Time) on November 14, 2022. Military ballots must be received by 5:00 P.M. (Prevailing Time) on December 8, 2022 if signed and dated by the military voter and one witness thereto with a date which is not later than the day before the Special District Meeting, or not later than the close of the polls on December 8, 2022 if showing a cancellation mark of the United States postal service or a foreign country’s postal service or showing a dated endorsement of receipt by another agency of the United States government. A military voter may designate a preference to receive a military voter registration form, military ballot application or military ballot by mail, facsimile or electronic mail in the request for such registration, ballot application, or ballot.

FURTHER NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that this Board shall convene a special meeting thereof within 24 hours after the filing with the District Clerk of a written report of the results of the ballot for the purpose of examining and tabulating said reports of the result of the ballot and declaring the result of the ballot; that the Board hereby designates itself to be a set of poll clerks to cast and canvass ballots pursuant to Education Law §2019-a(2)(b) at said special meeting of the Board.

Only qualified voters who are registered to vote will be permitted to vote.

BY THE ORDER OF THE BOARD OF EDUCATION

Dated: October 6, 2022 Christine N. Michelen, District Clerk 11-30-16-2; 10-19-2022-4T#235391-MAN

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NOTIFICACIÓN SOBRE LA REUNIÓN EXTRAORDINARIA DE DISTRITO DEL DISTRITO ESCOLAR MANHASSET UNION FREE EN EL CONDADO DE NASSAU, NUEVA YORK POR LA PRESENTE, SE NOTIFICA que, de conformidad con una resolución de la Junta de Educación del Distrito Escolar Manhasset Union Free, en el condado de Nassau, Nueva York, adoptada el 6 de octubre de 2022, se celebrará una reunión extraordinaria de distrito de los votantes calificados de dicho Distrito Escolar el Jueves, 8 de diciembre de 2022 desde las 7:00 a. m. hasta las 9:00 p. m. (hora vigente) en:

SECONDARY SCHOOL 200 MEMORIAL PLACE MANHASSET, NEW YORK con el propósito de votar sobre la siguiente propuesta de bono:

PROPUESTA DE BONO SE RESUELVE: (a) Que, por la presente, se autoriza a la Junta de Educación del Distrito Escolar Manhasset Union Free, en el condado de Nassau, Nueva York, (el “Distrito”), a realizar mejoras y modificaciones a todos los edificios escolares del Distrito y sus espacios (el “Proyecto”), sustancialmente como se describe en un plan preparado para el Distrito por el arquitecto John A. Grillo, P.C., Port Jefferson, Nueva York, cuyo plan está archivado y disponible para su inspección pública en la oficina de la Secretaria del Distrito, incluida (como y donde sea necesario) la reconstrucción y reconfiguración del espacio interior para proporcionar un auditorio, teatro, sala de instrucción, sala de estudios sociales, biblioteca, baños y otros espacios; mejoras en los sistemas de calefacción, ventilación, aire acondicionado, alarma contra incendios, electricidad, plomería y seguridad; reconstrucción y/o reemplazo del techo; reemplazo de puertas, techos y pisos; mejoras en la mampostería exteriores; mejoras en la calzada, el estacionamiento, la acera y el pavimento; y mejoras en las áreas de atletismo y recreativas, incluida la instalación y/o el reemplazo de los campos de césped, la reconstrucción del campo de béisbol, mejoras en las gradas, la reconstrucción de las canchas de tenis y otras mejoras en las instalaciones de atletismo; todo lo anterior para incluir el mobiliario original, el equipo, la maquinaria, los aparatos y el espacio auxiliar o relacionado, la demolición

u otro trabajo requerido en conexión con ellos; y para ese propósito se invertirá, incluidos los costos preliminares y adicionales a ello y para su financiación, un monto que no exceda el costo total estimado de $43,996,484; siempre y cuando los costos estimados de los componentes del Proyecto establecidos en la presente y enumerados en el Plan puedan reasignarse entre dichos componentes si la Junta de Educación determina que tal reasignación obrará en favor de los intereses del distrito; (b) que, mediante este acto, se autorice el gasto de los fondos donados por un valor de $70,000 previstos para el Distrito con el fin de abonar una parte del costo del proyecto de pavimentación del Parque Munsey; (c) que, por la presente, se vota un gravamen por un monto que no excederá los $43,926,484 para financiar el saldo de ese costo del Proyecto, y ese gravamen se exigirá y cobrará en cuotas en la cantidad de años y en las sumas que determine dicha Junta de Educación, y (d) que, en previsión de dicho gravamen, por la presente se autoriza la emisión de bonos del Distrito por un monto total de capital que no debe exceder los $43,926,484, y por la presente se vota un gravamen para pagar el interés sobre dichos bonos en el momento de su vencimiento y exigibilidad.

Dicha propuesta de bono aparecerá en la boleta electoral usada para votar en la Reunión extraordinaria de distrito antes mencionada sustancialmente de la siguiente forma:

PROPUESTA DE BONO SÍ NO SE RESUELVE: (a) Que, por la presente, se autoriza a la Junta de Educación del Distrito Escolar Manhasset Union Free, en el condado de Nassau, Nueva York, a realizar mejoras y modificaciones a todos los edificios escolares del Distrito y sus espacios (el “Proyecto”), todo de acuerdo con un plan preparado para el Distrito por el arquitecto John A. Grillo, P.C., Port Jefferson, Nueva York, y a gastar una cantidad que no exceda los $43,996,484; (b) que los fondos donados por la cantidad de $70,000 que se espera que reciba el Distrito son por la presente autorizados a ser gastados para pagar una parte del costo del proyecto de pavimentación del Parque Munsey; (c) que, por la presente, se vota un gravamen por un monto total que no exceda los $43,926,484 para financiar el saldo del costo del Proyecto, dicho gravamen será recaudado en cuotas en los años y montos que determine dicha Junta de Educación; y (d) que, en previsión de dicho gravamen, se autoriza por la presente la emisión de bonos del Distrito por un importe principal total que

no supere los $43,926,484, y por la presente, se vota un gravamen para pagar el interés sobre dichos bonos en el momento de su vencimiento y exigibilidad.

La votación se realizará mediante boleta electoral en máquinas de votación o boletas físicas, según lo estipulado en la Ley de Educación, y se podrá votar de 7:00 a. m. a 9:00 p. m. (hora vigente) durante el tiempo que sea necesario para que los votantes presentes puedan emitir sus votos.

ADEMÁS SE NOTIFICA QUE, conforme a la Ley de Educación 2014, se exige que los votantes se inscriban de forma personal para la Reunión extraordinaria de distrito, y ninguna persona cuyo nombre no figure en los registros del Distrito tendrá derecho a votar en la Reunión extraordinaria de distrito. Los nombres de las personas que (a) se hayan inscrito para votar ante la Junta de Elecciones del condado y hayan votado al menos una vez en cualquier elección local, estatal o nacional en el período de los últimos cuatro años calendario, (b) se hayan inscrito para votar ante la Junta de Inscripciones del Distrito, o bien (c) sean votantes inscritos de forma permanente ante la Junta del Elecciones del condado de Nassau figuran en los registros del Distrito. La inscripción se realizará desde las 8:00 a. m. hasta las 4:00 p. m. (hora vigente), en los días en que la escuela esté en sesión en la Secretaría del Distrito hasta el 3 de diciembre de 2022 inclusive, solamente con cita previa debido a la política de visitantes del Distrito, mediante comunicación telefónica con la Secretaria del Distrito al: 516-267-7724, por fax al 516627-1618, correo electrónico: districtclerk@manhassetschools.org. El registro se archivará en la Secretaría del Distrito y permanecerán abierto para inspección de cualquier votante calificado del Distrito en cada uno de los cinco (5) días previos al día establecido para la reunión extraordinaria de distrito, de 9:00 a. m. a 3:00 p. m. (hora vigente), excepto los domingos, y con cita previa el sábado anterior a la Reunión Especial del Distrito.

POR MEDIO DEL PRESENTE, TAMBIÉN SE NOTIFICA que las solicitudes de boleta electoral por ausencia para la reunión extraordinaria de distrito se deben completar en un formulario elaborado por la Junta de Elecciones del estado, el cual puede obtenerse en el sitio web del Departamento de Educación del Estado de Nueva York: Inglés: http://www.counsel. nysed.gov/common/counsel/ files/absentee-ballot-application-and-instructions-english. pdf Español: http://www. counsel.nysed.gov/common/ counsel/files/absentee-bal-

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lot-application-and-instruc tions-spanish.pdf o ponién dose en contacto con la Secretaria del distrito medi ante el correo electrónico districtclerk@manhassetschools. org o por teléfono al 516267-7724. Las solicitudes completas deben recibirse al menos siete (7) días antes de la Reunión extraordinaria de distrito si la boleta electoral se enviará por correo al solic itante o hasta el día anterior a la Reunión extraordinaria de distrito si la boleta electoral se entregará personalmente al solicitante o a la persona que designe. La Secretaría del Distrito no aceptará so licitudes de voto por ausen cia antes del 8 denoviembre de 2022. Además, las boletas electorales por ausencia no serán escrutadas, a menos que se hayan recibido en la Secre taría del Distrito antes de las 5:00p. m. (hora vigente) en la fecha de la reunión extraordi naria de distrito. En la Secre taría del Distrito, se pondrá a disposición una lista de todas las personas para las que se hayan emitido boletas elec torales por ausencia durante cada uno de los (5) cinco días previos al día de la Reunión Especial del distrito, excep to los domingos, y el sábado solamente con cita. Todo votante calificado podrá, tras haber examinado la lista, pre sentar una impugnación por escrito de las calificaciones como votante de cualquier persona cuyo nombre figure en la lista, para lo cual deberá indicar los motivos para tal impugnación, antes de que se haga el escrutinio de dichos votos.

POR MEDIO DEL PRE SENTE SE NOTIFICA que, conforme al artículo 2018-d de la Ley de Educación, toda persona que esté cumpliendo el servicio militar, incluidos los cónyuges y dependientes, pueden inscribirse para votar en la Reunión extraordinaria de distrito. Los votantes mil itares que sean votantes cali ficados del Distrito Escolar pueden obtener un formulario de inscripción comunicán dose con la Secretaría del Distrito por teléfono al 516267-7724, por fax al 516-6271618, por correo electrónico a districtclerk@manhassetschools.org o por correo post al a la siguiente dirección: Secretaría del Distrito, Distri to Escolar Manhasset Union Free, 200 Memorial Place, Manhasset, New York 11030, o en persona solamente con cita previa debido a la política de visitas del Distrito (durante el horario de atención habitu al de 8:00 a. m. a 4:00 p.m. (hora vigente)). Los votantes militares que estén debida mente registrados pueden so licitar la boleta electoral mil itar mediante un formulario de solicitud proporcionado por la Secretaria del distrito. Las solicitudes completadas se deben entregar en perso na o por correo postal en la Secretaría del Distrito, y se deben recibir antes de las 5:00p. m. (hora vigente), el 14 de noviembre de 2022.

Las boletas electorales mil itares se recibirán antes de las 5:00 p. m. (hora vigente), el 8de diciembre de 2022 si están firmadas y fechadas por el votante militar y un testigo con una fecha que no sea pos terior al día anterior a la Re unión extraordinaria de dis trito o no más tarde del cierre de las urnas el 8de diciembre de 2022 si muestran una mar ca de cancelación del servicio postal de los Estados Unidos o del servicio postal de un país extranjero o muestran un endoso fechado de recepción por otra agencia del gobierno de los EstadosUnidos. Los votantes militares pueden decidir si prefieren recibir un formulario de registro para votantes militares, una solic itud de boleta electoral militar o una boleta electoral militar por correo, fax o correo elec trónico en su solicitud para dicho registro, solicitud de boleta electoral o boleta elec toral.

POR EL PRESENTE, TAMBIÉN SE NOTIFICA que esta Junta organizará una reunión extraordinaria en un plazo de 24horas con poste rioridad a la presentación ante la Secretaría del distrito de un informe por escrito con los resultados de la votación con el objeto de evaluar y tabular dichos informes del resulta do de la votación y declarar su resultados; que la Junta, por el presente, se designa a sí misma como un grupo de presidentes de mesa para emitir y escrutar los votos en virtud del artículo 2019-a(2) (b) de la Ley de Educación en la reunión extraordinaria de la Junta.

Solo podrán votar los votantes calificados que est n registrados para votar.

POR ORDEN DE LA JUNTA DE EDUCACIÓN

Fecha: 6 de octubre de 2022 Christine N. Michelen, Secretaria del distrito 11-30-16-2; 10-19-20224T-#235392-MAN

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SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF NASSAU INDEX NO: 609827/2021

DATE FILED: 8/3/2021

SUMMONS

L&L ASSOCIATES HOLDING CORP.

Plaintiff, -againstALVIN WONG, if he be living, if he be dead, his re spective heirs-at-law, next of kin, distributees, executors, administrators, trustees, devi sees, legatees, assignees, lien ors, creditors, and successors in interest, and generally all persons having or claiming under, by, or through ALVIN WONG, if he be dead, wheth er by purchase, inheritance, lien or otherwise, including any right, title or interest in and to the real property described in the complaint herein, all of who and whose names and places of residence are unknown to plaintiff, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA; NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT OF TAXATION AND FINANCE; NAS-

SAU COUNTY TREASUR ER, “JOHN DOE #1” through “JOHN DOE #12”, the last twelve names being fictitious and unknown to plaintiff, the persons or parties intended being the tenants, occupants, persons or corporations, if any, having or claiming an interest in or lien upon the premises, described in the complaint, Defendants.

TO THE ABOVE NAMED DEFENDANTS:

YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to answer the com plaint in this action, to serve a copy of your answer, or, if the complaint is not served with the summons, to serve notice of appearance, on the plaintiff’s attorney within twenty (20) days after the service of this summons, ex clusive of the date of service (or within thirty (30) days after the service is complete if this summons is not person ally delivered to you within the State of New York), and in case of failure to appear or answer, judgment will be taken against you by default for the relief demanded in the complaint.

TO THE ABOVE NAMED DEFENDANTS; The forego ing Summons is served upon you by publication pursuant to an Order of the Hon. Da vid P. Sullivan, a Justice of the Supreme Court, Nassau County, entered November 1, 2022 and filed with the complaint and other papers in the Nassau County Clerk’s Office.

THE OBJECT OF THE ACTION is to foreclose a tax lien and to recover the amount of the tax lien and all of the interest, penalties, addi tions and expenses thereon to premises k/a Section 3, Block 222, Lot 25.

Plaintiff designates Nassau County as the place of trial. The basis of venue is the lo cation of the subject property.

NOTICE

YOU ARE IN DANGER OF LOSING YOUR HOME

If you do not respond to this summons and complaint by serving a copy of the an swer on the attorney for the tax lien holder who filed this foreclosure proceeding against you and filing the an swer with the court, a default judgment may be entered and you can lose your home.

Speak to an attorney or go to the court where your case is pending for further infor mation on how to answer the summons and protect your property.

Sending a payment to the tax lien holder will not stop this foreclosure action.

YOU MUST RESPOND BY SERVING A COPY OF THE ANSWER ON THE AT TORNEY FOR THE PLAIN TIFF (TAX LIEN HOLDER) AND FILING THE AN SWER WITH THE COURT.

Dated: July 31, 2021

LEVY LEVY

Attorneys for Plaintiff 12 12 Tulip Drive Great Neck, NY 11021 (516) 487-6655

BY: JOSHUA LEVY, ESQ.

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11-30-23-16-9-2022-4T#235744-MAN

LEGAL NOTICE

Incorporated Village of Plandome Heights

PLEASE TAKE NOTICE

THAT the Board of Trustees of the Inc. Village of Plan dome Heights at a regular meeting of the Board held on November 7, 2022, duly adopted a resolution appro priating the sum not to exceed $60,000, from the Village’s Capital Reserve Fund, to be applied to a project en compassing the digitizing of village records including related matters of software, equipment, layout and other related items, which resolu tion is subject to permissive referendum pursuant to the provisions of the General Mu nicipal Law.

BY ORDER OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES

Arlene Drucker

Village Clerk-Treasurer November 7, 2022 11-16-2022-1T-#235802MAN

LEGAL NOTICE INCORPORATED VILLAGE OF FLOWER HILL GENERAL VILLAGE ELECTION

PLEASE TAKE NOTICE

THAT a General Election of the Incorporated Village of Flower Hill will be held on Tuesday, March 21, 2023.

TAKE FURTHER NOTICE T AT the Offices to be filled at said General Election are:

OFFICE TERM

3 Trustees Two Years Incorporated Village of Flower Hill

Ronnie Shatzkamer Village Administrator Dated: 11/16/22 11-16-2022-1T-#235843MAN

AVISO LEGAL PUEBLO INCORPORADO DE FLOWER HILL ELECCIÓN GENERAL DE PUEBLO 2023

POR FAVOR TENGA EN CUENTA QUE una elección general del pueblo Incorpora do de Flower Hill se llevará a cabo el Martes 21 de Marzo, 2023.

TENGA AVISO ADICION AL DE QUE Los cargos por llenar son: Fidelcomisario (3) Dos Anos Ronnie Shatzkamer Pueblo Administrada Director del Elecciones 16 Noviembre, 2022 11-16-2022-1T-#235846MAN

may properly be heard by said Board, and will hold a public hearing on said date to consider applications and appeals.

The following cases will be called at said public hearing starting at 10:00am.

APPEAL #21312 Zeg na; 2024 Northern Blvd., Manhasset, Section 3, Block 183, Lot 12; Zoned Busi ness-A/Parking District Variances from 70-196.J(1) and 70-196.J(1)(a) to con struct canopy signs that do not face a street or parking

area, and a second canopy sign (more than one sign) fac ing the street.

Plans are available for pub lic viewing at https://northhempsteadny.gov/bza. Per sons interested in viewing the full file may do so by any time before the scheduled hearing by contacting the BZA department via e-mail at BZAdept@northhempsteadny.gov. Additionally, the public may view the live stream of this meeting at https:// northhempsteadny.gov/

townboardlive. Any member of the public is able to attend and participate in a BZA hearing by appear ing on the scheduled date and time. Comments are limit ed to 3 minutes per speaker. Written comments are accept ed by email up to 60 minutes prior to the hearing. Timely comment submissions will be made part of the record.

DAVID MAMMINA, R.A., Chairman; Board of Zoning Appeals 11-16-2022-1T-#235892MAN

LEGAL

NOTICE NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING Town of North HempsteadBoard of Zoning Appeals Pursuant to the provisions of the Code of the Town of North Hempstead, NO TICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Board of Zoning Appeals of said Town will meet at Town Hall, 220 Plandome Road, Manhas set, New York, on Wednes day, November 30, 2022 to consider any matters that

Port Provides, Powered By The Nicholas Center

Young adults with autism launch food bank delivery program

JULIE PRISCO

The Nicholas Center is launching a food pantry delivery program, Port Provides, Powered by The Nicholas Center. The Nicholas Center, located in Port Washington, is a non-profit dedicated to providing meaningful work and volunteer opportunities for adults with autism who have aged out of school. In addition to supporting young adults with autism, The Nicholas Center is always contributing its time to help the community thrive. The Port Provides program is another way The Nicholas Center can be active in strengthening our community.

Port Provides was created as a COVID-19 response effort by the Port Washington Community Chest (PWCOC) to provide household necessities and food for over 1,400 Port Washington families, children and seniors. The Nicholas Center partnered with the PWCOC to assist in the COVID-19 relief program around July 2020.

After months of quarantine, The Nicholas Center wanted to get back involved with the commu nity. Brook Mellet, The Nicholas Center Program Director in Port Washington, approached the PW COC and asked how they could help. The Nicholas Center and PWCOC have a strong profession al relationship, so the Commu nity Chest welcomed their help during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The PWCOC has a ‘Port Pantry Supply Squad’ that went around to get necessities such as paper towels, toilet paper, dish soap, and hygiene products like toothpaste and toothbrushes. The Supply Squad would then deliver these items to local pantries throughout the community.

“COVID-19 has died down, but the need has remained and grown,” said Lee Anne Vetrone, The Nicholas Center Director of Development.

According to the Health and Welfare Council of Long Island, “the poverty rate on Long Island is the highest it has been in more than 50 years. With approximately 197,000 people living below

the national poverty line… [and] 268,000 additional households with incomes… that fall below the budget calculated to account for basic needs here.”

About five months ago, the Community Chest began conversing with The Nicholas Center about passing the program over to their control. The Nicholas Center took the opportunity to take the existing program to continue the work and expand.

“We’re combining the two populations, the in-need in our community, with the disabled population who want to work and contribute to their community. It’s a win-win,” said Vetrone.

In a press release from The Nicholas Center, Co-founder and Executive Director of The Nicholas Center Nichole Sugrue explained that “Port Provides brings together Port Washington’s most vulnerable citizens. Our participants, who are all adults on the Autism Spectrum, are too often isolated from meaningful work and volunteer opportunities. But now, as they secure and deliver vital goods for their neighbors in need, they have developed immense pride in their work and deep connections to people in the community. The idea of raising each other up, with neighbor helping neighbor, is precisely the idea behind The Nicholas Center. There are no better solutions for our biggest

challenges than those we find in our own backyards.”

The Port Provides’ team of volunteers procures food, diapers and wipes, feminine products and other household necessities and delivers them weekly to local food pantries and community organizations.

One of the pantries Port Provides will deliver to, The Lutheran Church, is lending The Nicholas Center space in their basement to create the donation bags to deliver.

“We get in all of the supplies and items, then we have to unbox them, and we set them up on tables so we can pack bags in an assembly line formation,” said Mellet. “Everything is laid out and labeled for the participant to pack in the bags. After the bags are packed, we have a spreadsheet that tells us how many bags go to which pantries and we deliver them. We do it all from beginning to end.”

To start, Port Provides delivers to six different local pantries, including (but not limited to) Our Lady of Fatima, The Littig House, the Community Action Council (CAC), St. Peters, The Parent Resource Center (PRC) and The Lutheran Church of Port Washington.

“Once we set up in Port Washington and we’re running like a well-oiled machine, we’d like to expand neighboring communities because there’s no reason why

we can’t do this in places like Great Neck and Manhasset,” said Vetrone.

While some of the young adults with autism at The Nicholas Center work at Spectrum Designs, Spectrum Suds, Spectrum Bakes and other jobs in the community, there is always time to volunteer with Port Provides.

“Everybody gets to work on this program at one point because their schedule switches every day,” said Mellet. “Ideally, everybody gets an opportunity to help out.”

“It’s just a simple program for all our individuals participating,” said Mellet. “They feel a sense of community and connection. Because they are dropping off the donation bags, they directly see what comes from their hard work and get to know the pantry staff.”

“And that’s the whole goal of The Nicholas Center,” added Vetrone.”The individuals we serve are folded into all aspects of life in their community, living and learning and working, and connecting with the people in the community.”

Port Provides is another way the individuals participating in The Nicholas Center are “living the mission,” as Mellet and her co-workers like to say.

Community participation is key in helping this program thrive and serve individuals, families, children and seniors in need. According to

a press release from The Nicholas Center, “Port Provides has some items donated, but they purchase a good deal of the products needed, with costs running at approximate ly $25,000 a month.” Port Pro vides is seeking grants and other donations to offset the costs of this important program and to ensure that Port Provides for its own.

Port Provides, Powered by The Nicholas Center invites the community to participate by donating to the GoFundMe www.gofundme. com/port-provides-powered-bythe-nicholas-center

They welcome mitzvah projects, food drives, and other community efforts to support this work. Please contact Brooke Mellet at 516-767 7177 ext. 412 to arrange deliveries of goods or to make donations other than through the GoFundMe Campaign. The Pantries working with Port Provides stock their pantries with certain necessities and give Port Provides a list of those specific needs. Monetary donations and drives organized in collaboration with Port Provides are the most encouraged way to help. When donating physical goods, remember that diapers in all sizes, wipes, personal care items like toothbrushes and toothpaste and cleaning supplies are the most needed items.

Visit TNCnewyork.org to learn more about The Nicholas Center and Port Provides.

Packing bags with toilet paper, dish soap and toothpaste.

Bags stocked with household necessities to be delivered. (Photos provided by the Nicholas Center)

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