The Garden City News (5/5/23)

Speed humps & bump outs: Slowing GC traffic

BY RIKKI MASSAND

The Village of Garden City, led by members of the Traffic Commission, will be trying several remedies to combat speeding vehicles and other traffic issues in the village.

At a special meeting on Thursday April 27 Trustee Charles Kelly, chair of the Traffic Commission, outlined the intent of the special meeting.

“A lot of the traffic calming devices that are proposed apply in particular to village streets we refer to as ‘County-adjacent or parallel’ like Adams, Kilburn and Tanners Pond Road and ‘County-adjacent connectors’ which see a lot of cut through traffic like Wetherill Road and the numbered streets of the Central section. Although these streets seem like natural locations for traffic calming

Village Rec. Comm updated on pool season, projects

BY RIKKI MASSAND

For the first time in several months the Board of Commissioners of Recreational and Cultural Affairs (the village Rec. Commission) met on Wednesday April 26, inside the newly-renovated Garden City Senior Center on Golf Club Lane. The center had been closed

for several months due to damage from a burst pipe in December.

The Commission was updated on plans for this summer’s Garden City Pool season and a number of related capital projects, including a long-term schedule impacting pool assets.

Garden City Recreation and Parks Superintendent

Paul Blake told the Commission about capital projects planned for 2023-2024 and future fiscal years.

The first project planned for the Garden City Pool is over $27,000 for the repair of the pool’s main gutter. Blake said it is a process called “but-

BY RIKKI MASSAND

Several ideas that would allow Garden City to temporarily “try out” traffic control strategies were aired during the special meeting of the village Traffic Commission on Thursday April 27.

devices because they are cut through and cut around streets, we are already aware of opposition to such devices from some residents,” Kelly said.

He added, “To be clear, contrary to installation of traffic calming devices for public safety, as determined by the Garden City Police Department and the Traffic Commission, these device recommendations are not only optional but will require significant support from the residents on each block for the Village of Garden City to begin its work required for their installation. This is an optional program unless it enters the realm of public safety determined with GCPD and Commission deliberations.”

Traffic Calming Master Plan

Michael Amabile, a traffic engiSee page 51

For many years the Commission has heard requests for new traffic control devices, such as stop signs, during its meetings.

There have also been instances where Garden City Police Commissioner Kenneth Jackson has reviewed crash data and other relevant information to advise on potential new traffic calming ideas.

Trustee Kelly provided examples such as the Traffic Commission’s See page 50 See page 50

Trustee Charles Kelly, chair of the Garden City Traffic Commission, explained that the Commission would like to create a protocol for the community’s requests to install traffic control devices.

The Garden City High School Boys Varsity Baseball team had another great week and is undefeated (12-0) in conference play. See page 58.

Photo by Ed Rotondo

As the spring sports season continues we are again receiving a large quantity of stories and photos of our Garden City teams.

We are always glad to publish your material, but in order to have enough space to print all of the items we need to limit the amount of space for each team to about a page a week. That amounts to about five or six photos an about 350 to 500 words.

We may make exceptions to this guideline for special events such as major tournaments - just let us know in advance.

If your favorite team has not been in the paper this season, please feel free to send in material. The deadline is noon on Wednesdays.

On Friday, June 30th we will again be publishing our annual Sports Roundup issue. This special section is printed on durable white paper and features team and action photos of sports from throughout the year.

If you would like to have your favorite team featured, please send in their photos and write-ups to editor@gcnews. com. Please indicate whether the items are for the regular issue or the Sports Roundup.

We would like to offer a huge thank you to all of the parents and coaches who provide the materials to be printed! We wouldn’t be able to print such a dynamic sports section each week without you!

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Casino: Good idea

To the Editor:

The headline in last Friday’s G.C. News (4/28) was “Village Board opposes casino, litigation possible”. Both would be a big mistake.

The reasons the Board, and some letters, gave are meritless, such as it will bring prostitution and sex trafficking to G.C.

The positive arguments are overwhelming: $35M down, $10M annually, $25M additional rent possibly increasing to $50M. Also provided is a $4M fund to be used by neighboring communities, including Garden City. For the most part, the bulk of the traffic to the entertainment complex will not go through Garden City, but will use the parkways.

The project will initially provide hundreds of construction jobs and eventually permanent jobs at the complex.

The attempts to block the deal sponsored by County Executive Blakeman (a Republican) in the Nassau County Legislature (controlled by the Republicans) are fruitless and misguided. The deal is a good one and will be approved.

Any attempt to block the deal by litigation would be a total waste of money.

John Pittoni, Leah Pittoni

Say No to Casino

To the Editor:

Garden City doesn’t need a Sands casino in our back yard and only You can stop it. Whether you live in The Wyndham, Hilton Hall, Cherry Valley, or a single-family home, this is the issue of the year. Garden City will be permanently and negatively impacted if Sands gets away with their plan.

Here are some easy ways to show your opposition immediately:

“Say No to the Casino” by physically attending this meeting! Meet us at Nassau County Building (1550 Franklin Ave.) this Monday May 8th at 12:30 to show the politicians that you oppose the Sands project.

“Say No to the Casino” by email today to LegPublicComment@nassau-

countyny.gov and your opposition will be noted.

Raise your voice and be heard!

Richard Williams, Richard Catalano, Monica Kiely Casinonomics 101

To the Editor:

Recently, Sands signed a draft lease agreement with Bruce Blakeman that is subject to the approval of the majority of the 19 Nassau County Legislators on May 22nd.

The more Garden City residents learn about the proposed casino, the clearer it is that our village has a tremendous amount to lose and a very little to gain.

Let’s start with the average tax savings to village residents:

1) The estimated $60 million that Nassau County will receive in taxes and lease payments represents 1% of the County’s annual budget. Assuming the County passes on the savings, County taxes for village residents should decline by approx. $10 a year.

2) The draft lease states Sands will pay $4 million a year for community benefits. Of that amount, 40% is designated to Uniondale leaving $2.4 million for other surrounding communities. If we assume Garden City gets 10% or $240,000 a year for our schools, this will reduce our school budget by 0.2% or approx. $25 per year for each resident.

So, in exchange for saving $35 per year in real estate taxes, village residents will have to endure the following economic and social harms:

1) Traffic - Significant increase in traffic throughout our village – main roads like Clinton, Washington, Franklin, Old Country, and Stewart – as well as side streets like Wetherill, Meadow, and St. James. Just like many village residents who cut through Floral Park and Elmont to get to the UBS Arena, thousands of vehicles will cut through our village 24 hours a day, 7 days a week and 365 days a year - cars, buses, and commercial vehicles.

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A look at Recreation and Parks capital projects

BY RIKKI MASSAND

On April 26, Superintendent of Recreation and Parks Paul Blake advised the Rec. Commission that the village will be seeking bids to replace the wooden retaining wall at Community Park. Blake said the wall, which is adjacent to Field #4 and the Garden City School District Bus Garage, is “starting to go.” He said the wall was installed in 1983 and will be replaced by a cement wall.

The village has already approved funding for additional capital projects, including renovations at the village’s 18-hole miniature golf course at Community Park. Blake said the project is on track, and out to bid. He said the Rec. Department is waiting for the vendor to get back to staff with insurance and certificates of liability.

“We are still hoping for a mid to late June completion,” he told the Rec. Commission.

Work planned at neighborhood parks

Blake also said the athletic courts at Nassau Haven Park and Tullamore Park are to be renovated this spring and Grove Park during early summer

Joint POA Meeting to highlight update on casino

2024. Hemlock Park and Edgemere Park courts were already completed last fall.

Safety surfaces in Garden City’s local parks include the revamping of the St. Paul’s playground surface, which on track for completion in the coming weeks.

“We are taking out the poured-inplace rubber and we are using the synthetic turf surface we use at Edgemere Park, which residents really love. Turf is now going in at St. Paul’s playground,” Blake noted.

Nassau Haven, then Hemlock and Tullamore playground surfaces are scheduled to be changed to turf. The village will replace them starting with the worst ones first, until all playground surfaces are done.

Another capital project the Recreation and Parks Department has in store includes replacement of all parks’ facility buildings at the small neighborhood parks. Hemlock and Tullamore buildings were built in 1957 and are nearing the end of their useful lives. These two would be in service until 2025, as replacement would start with the one in worst condition. The See page 49

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Garden City’s four Property Owners’ Associations (POAs) will be holding a joint meeting on Wednesday, May 10, at the Senior Center (Golf Club Rd.) at 7:30PM. In case you’re not familiar with them, the POAs are the the Village’s primary civic association, offering information, education and advocacy about all the important issues in Garden City. All residents are welcome to join their respective POAs, which include the Eastern, Central, Estates and Western sections.

The May joint meeting will provide several important updates. This meeting will give you the chance to ask questions, voice your opinions and share your own thoughts with other Village residents. Because this is a joint meeting, with residents from throughout the Village, all our Trustees and the Mayor have been invited to attend.

Some of the important information you will hear includes:

1) Village Board Trustee Ed Finneran

will provide an update on the status of the proposed casino at the Nassau Coliseum. Contrary to some rumors, the casino is very far from being a “done deal”. Information will be provided as to how residents can get involved in the Garden City Coalition of the Say No to the Casino Civic Association.

2) Billy O’Donohue, Board of Education (BOE) Trustee, will provide an update on the BOE activities including the upcoming budget vote on Tuesday, May 16, 2023

3) Presentation by Liz Gaffney who is running for trustee of our Board of Education (BOE). Residents will have an opportunity to ask Liz questions about her candidacy including what she plans to accomplish.

4) Details about other upcoming events, including the June 2 “Drawings and Drinks” with renowned GC artist Michael White.

Mark this date on your calendar now so you can hear all the most recent updates on the Village. Everyone is welcome to attend!

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GC named one of best communities for music education

and schools that demonstrate an exceptionally high commitment and access to music education. This award program recognizes outstanding efforts by teachers, administrators, parents, students and community leaders who have made music education part of a well-rounded education.

Golf Classic sponsor provides surgery for children in need

The Garden City School District has been recognized by the National Association of Music Merchants Foundation as one of the best communities in the nation for music education for the 2023 school year. This is Garden City’s 10th year receiving this recognition.

Designations are made to districts

“I am beyond proud of our students, teachers and the music department as a whole,” said District Coordinator of Music and the Arts Amanda Hauser. “In Garden City, our courses and teachers have not only helped students discover new depths of creativity and technical skills, but our students have also learned the value of collaboration, perseverance, discipline, and teamwork. Garden City is thrilled to be selected as one of the best communities in the nation for music education for the 2023 school year!”

It really does take a village to make good things happen. In this case, the Village of Garden City — its residents and businesses — are supporting the Historical Society’s determination to restore its 1872 original Victorian and continue to expand its educational, cultural programs by sponsoring, golfing, attending the A.T. Stewart Classic at The Cherry Valley Club on May 15.

One of the most heartwarming sponsor partnerships was formed this year: The New York Plastic Surgical group, which has been in Garden City for 75 years, sees their association with The Historical Society’s efforts to preserve and promote the unique and extraordinary history of Garden City as a perfect way to reach potential clients, but importantly to also shine a light on their non-for-profit relationship with ReSurge, a fund dedicated to the late Dr. Vincent DiGregorio.

Dr. DiGregorio was a long-time resident of Garden City. He was part of Long Island Plastic Surgical Group (now New York Plastic Surgical Group) for over 30 years and was the chief of plastic surgery at Winthrop University Hospital at the time of his passing in 2015.

He used his skills as a surgeon and doctor far beyond the operating room. His humanitarian qualities complemented his professional skills and he often gave freely of his talents to support friends and others in need. For many years, Dr. DiGregorio volunteered with ReSurge International to provide surgical care to people living in geographies where there were few surgeons and little or no access to treatment, something the doctors at New York Plastic

Surgical Group continue to do.

Proceeds from the Dr. Vincent DiGregorio Fellowship Fund at ReSurge International will ensure that experienced reconstructive surgeons continue training people in some of the world’s poorest regions.

The A.T. Stewart Classic, named after Alexander Turney and Cornelia Clinch Stewart, the founders of Garden City, is the Historical Society’s major fundraising event of the year: Reservations and more information, go to https://2023atstewartgolfclassic.eventbrite.com, or contact Francine Ryan, francine.ryan@ tgchs.org

Participants will enjoy a great day of competitive golf at the historic 1916 Cherry Valley Club. Cocktails, Barbecue, guarantee an enjoyable day from beginning to end. Fantasy trips/ golf, contests (win a 2023 Range Rover; compete with a PGA pro to win a trip to Pebble Beach) and raffles will contribute to the fun!

NEW: Sponsors’ products and services will be promoted to thousands of the most upscale consumers through A.T. Stewart Golf Classic marketing, advertising, PR before, during and after the event.

During the event, sponsors’ products, messages, logos will be included in the new Golf Genius online scoring system, and in prominent signage and video presentations during the Cocktails and BBQ. Additional opportunities for onsite product placement are also available.

Team, event and course sponsorships are available. Reservations and more information, go to https://2023atstewartgolfclassic.eventbrite.com.

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Liz Gaffney announces run for school board

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Liz Gaffney is running for the vacant School Board position in the May 16 BOE Budget Vote. Liz will be a write-in candidate when you receive your ballot on this year's vote. Voting will be held at Cluett Hall on May 16th from 12 noon to 9 p.m.

Liz Gaffney is a mother of three children who all attend Garden City schools (GC Middle School and GC High School) and thus is well acquainted with our school district. Professionally Liz has a broad range of experience in the education field. She is the current general counsel at Long Island University, having spent most of her legal career in education, first as a litigator for the NYC Department of Education and then with NYU. In addition to teaching and working in education administration, she ran an education foundation founded by NYU President Emeritus John Sexton. Her role as a parent, deep background in education, combined with her experience as the general counsel of a university, gives her a unique skill set to meet some of the challenges facing the school district such as the upcoming teacher contract negotiations as well

as the rising legal expenditures.

As a mother of children who are engaged in academics/sports/other activities, a graduate of Columbia University and Notre Dame Law School, and as a former college soccer player, Liz’s goals are to enable the students of Garden City School District to compete at the highest levels both in the classroom and on the athletic fields.

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Planting a tree of historical significance

A special tree with a presidential lineage was planted at the Ethical Humanist Society of LI in Garden City in observation of Earth Day and Arbor Day. Vinnie Drzewucki, a member of the Ethical Society who is a Cornell University Cooperative Extension of Nassau County Horticulture and Urban Forestry Educator and a Certified Arborist, led the celebration with the planting of a Franklin D. Roosevelt American Chestnut Oak.

“This tree is a perfect addition to our Ethical Society’s recently developed native garden landscape,” says Drzewucki. The American Chestnut Oak is a member of the white oak group of oaks that are native to Long Island, New York State, the Appalachians Mountains and northeast of the U.S. and are well suited to our climate and soils. It’s named Chestnut Oak because the leaves resemble American Chestnut leaves. It will grow about a foot a year, eventually reaching 60-70 feet tall and wide and can easily live to be over 200 years old. “Like all oak trees,” says Drzewucki, “this one will provide lots of environmental economic, social and health benefits for all, including cleaning the air of particulates and pollution, reducing asthma and other respiratory ailments, providing oxygen, absorbing stormwater and keeping bay and ocean waters and seafood free from pollution.”

The actual tree started its life from an acorn collected from President Roosevelt’s Little White House property in Warm Springs, Georgia. It was sprouted and grown at American Heritage Trees’ Tree Farm, Wilson County, Tennessee. https://americanheritagetrees.org/

President Roosevelt loved trees

and identified himself as a “Tree Farmer” when registering to vote. A staunch supporter of protecting the environment, he created and supported numerous conservation projects and policies including adding millions of acres of land to America’s national forests, national parks and wildlife refuges. Through all these projects, President Roosevelt adhered to one overall philosophy: that the nation must be responsible and preserve the world we live in for future generations.

As part of the tree planting ceremony, members wrote wishes for the tree on paper that was included in the planting hole for the tree.

The Ethical Humanist Society is located at 38 Old Country Road (at the western end next to the water tower) in Garden City.

LI Choral Society to perform at GC Community Church

The Long Island Choral Society will perform familiar Broadway show tunes along with much loved choral music from master composer Johannes Brahms during a concert on Sunday, May 7, at 4 p.m. at the Garden City Community Church, 245 Stewart Avenue.

Under the direction of Music Director Michael C. Hagler, the program will include music from long-running smash hits “ Phantom

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RECENT REAL ESTATE SALES IN GARDEN CITY

The information about the homes and the photos were obtained through the Multiple Listing Services of Long Island. The homes presented were selected based solely on the fact that they were recently sold.

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100 Hilton Avenue Unit M12

Date: 4/18/2023

Date: 4/28/2023

Sold price: $1,450,000

4 bedrooms, 2 full baths, 2 half baths

Architectural Style: Ranch

Annual taxes: $36,593

Lot size: 1.15 acre

MLS number: 3393086

The Seller’s Team: Fortune Heaney and Lisa Heaney, Daniel Gale Sotheby’s Intl Realty

The Buyer’s Team: Julie Wicher, Compass Greater NY

Large spacious Ranch with pool/manicured grounds. Over 1 acre of property and great living space. Desirable Central location near to transportation, shops, and restaurants. Office with separate entrance.

331 Harvard Road, Garden City South

Date: 4/28/2023

Sold price: $937,5000

3 beds, 3 full baths, 1 half bath

Style: Condo

Annual taxes:$9,014

Common Charges: $2,702

MLS number: 3435477

The Seller’s Team: Jarad Sarney, Samuel Realty Group LLC

The Buyer’s Team: Patricia Dickson, Daniel Gale Sotheby’s Intl Realty

Welcome to your next home in the luxurious Wyndham Condominium in Garden City. Unit M12, a 3 bedroom duplex-style apartment has the feel of a single family home in a full service, highly amenitized building. Its well thought out floor plan provides useful living and dining space on the main level with spacious eat-in kitchen, formal dining room, formal living room, and the hybrid bedroom/den with full bathroom. Upstairs are 2 generously sized bedrooms, each of which is en-suite with independent full bathrooms. Overall size of the apartment and size of each individual room is rarely found in Long island condominium living. Additional features incl: hardwood floors, outdoor terraces, sub-zero refrigerator, washer/dryer in unit and internal staircase. This unit can be found on the 1st and 2nd floors of the building.

Sold price: $775,000

3 bedrooms, 2 full baths, 1 half bath

Annual Taxes: $12,428

Lot Size: .09

MLS number: 3459777

The Seller’s Team: Stephen and Laura Baymack, Compass Greater New York

The Buyer’s Team: Lisa Koenig, Century 21 Sewanhaka Realty

This beautiful colonial is perfectly situated mid-block on a quiet tree lined street in Garden City South. The home features a gourmet kitchen with sleek cabinetry, stainless steel appliances and an island that is completely open to the dining area and flows nicely into the sun-drenched living room with a fireplace. The second floor boasts a spacious primary bedroom, 2 additional nicely sized bedrooms and a beautiful hall bathroom. The basement offers a recreation area, an office, a bathroom, laundry and storage space. There are 3 zones of heat, 2 zones of central air conditioning and in-ground sprinklers. The home is conveniently located near the school, park, shopping and transportation. The location, overall condition and the low taxes make this home a truly exceptional value!

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Salvation Army Major to Report

Next Tuesday, May 9, The MineolaGarden City Rotary Club will be most honored to welcome as guest speaker the esteemed Major Soo Jung Kim, Nasau County coordinator and Citadel Corps commanding officer of the Salvation Army, Hempstead Corps and Community Center, Greater New York Division.

Major Soo Jung Kim will speak about the range of services provided by the Salvation Army of Nassau County. We also welcome as our guest, her husband, Major Young Sung Kim.

According to its Nassau County brochure, the Salvation Army has remained committed to meeting human needs in all its forms. The organization serves 30 million Americans annually including residents of Nassau County.

Soo Jung Kim is expected to report on how the Salvation Army meets the needs of individuals, children, and families through the areas of recovery from natural disasters; providing a kind presence to comfort the sick and elderly; a wise spirit to support education for all ages; and a giving heart to serve the community wherever there is a need.

The Army’s wide range of programs include emergency assistance, social services, senior services, holiday assistance and youth programs. Additionally, the Salvation Army’s Rehabilitation Center in Hempstead offers treatment for those struggling with substance abuse and alcohol dependency.

Born in South Korea, our guest speaker, Major Soo Jung Kim moved to the United States at age eleven. She went on to enter Parson’s School of Design in New York City with the dream of becoming a designer. Involved with the Campus Ministry at Parsons, she soon received a calling to ministry. After completing her studies at Parsons, she went on to dedicate her life to full-

time ministry as God’s servant in the Salvation Army.

Following many years of ministry, various appointments and training, in 2020, Soo Jung and Young Sung Kim were given a new ministerial opportunity to serve a multicultural congregation of the Salvation Army Hempstead Citadel Church.

Soo serves as the Nassau County coordinator for the Salvation Army, tirelessly offering herself to meet the needs of her community. Young Sung also commits to meeting human needs and living out the message of Christ’s love with a vocational zeal to build the community of shalom.

Soo Jung and Young Sung Kim celebrate 34 years of marriage as well as 26 years of officership. They prayerfully long to serve as responsible followers of Christ to share God’s transforming grace to this wounded world through the ministry of the Salvation Army.

Rotary Announces

2023 Community Service Honorees

Mineola-Garden City Rotary joyfully announces that Dr. and Mrs. Peter O’Neill of Garden City, will receive its Community Service Award at a gala cocktail buffet on July 6, 2023, 6 p.m. at the Stewart Manor Country Club.

Diana O’Neill serves as the vice president of Mineola-Garden City Rotary and as the long-standing executive director of the Long Island Volunteer Center. Dr. Peter O’Neill, a dermatologist practicing in Garden City, is well known for his long-time altruistic endeavors.

Both Diana and Peter signify the spirit of volunteerism and commitment to community and beyond, criteria for this coveted award. For advance reservations to the event and for more information, please email Club President Meg Norris at editor@gcnews.com. Details will be forthcoming.

Majors Soo Jung Kim and Young Sung Kim of the Salvation Army Hempstead Corps and Community Center, Greater New York Division.

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River Birch tree planting to celebrate Arbor Day

Recreation and Parks employee Tom Gordon, Althea Robinson, a longtime member of the Civic Beautification Committee, resident Walter Roller, Recreation and Parks crew member Jessie Lyons, Maureen Lyons, chairperson of the Civic Beautification Committee, Recreation and Parks crew members Tom Armato and Jake Babsin, Village Trustee Lawrence N. Marciano, Jr., Grace Li, a member of the Recreation Commission and Kathleen Auro, another longtime member of the Civic Beautification Committee celebrating Arbor Day on the Village Green.

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Recreation Commissioner Paul Blake looks on as Althea Robinson, a longtime member of the Civic Beautification Committee, Grace Li, a member of the Recreation Commission, and Village Trustee Lawrence N. Marciano, Jr., help plant a River Birch on the Village Green.

Originated by J. Sterling Morton on April 10, 1872, an estimated 1 million trees were planted in Nebraska in recognition of Arbor Day. Several years later, President Theodore Roosevelt issued an Arbor Day proclamation to the school children of the United States about the importance of trees and forestry lessons being taught in U.S. schools.

The Board of Trustees declared Friday, April 28, 2023 as Arbor Day in Garden City. Recreation and Parks Department crew members joined Village Trustee Lawrence N. Marciano, Jr. and members of the

Civic Beautification Committee and the Recreation Commission to celebrate Arbor Day by planting a River Birch behind the Gazebo on the Village Green, not far from a sugar maple planted a few years ago to celebrate Arbor Day.

The Recreation and Parks Department plants two trees for each tree removed in the Village. This spring crews planted 122 trees, and have another 200 scheduled for the late summer/ early fall, according to Paul Blake, chairman of the Board of Commissioners of Cultural and Recreational Affairs.

Save the Date:

LI artist coming to town

You know his name and you have seen his work and on Friday, June 2nd, in a first of its kind exhibition, Michael White will be coming to Garden City.

The Garden City Property Owners Associations and the Garden City Historical Society will jointly host Mr. White at the A.T. Stewart House for an evening of art and history and a walk down memory lane. What better place to explore original pieces of some of

Garden City’s most beautiful homes and landmarks, all while speaking with the artist, than the beautiful home of our town founders? Exhibits will include original pieces and special works from the private collections of Garden City residents kindly on loan for the event.

More details to follow! Mark your calendars for an evening like no other at The Garden City Historical Society.

Photos by Carisa Giardino

Holy Rosary and Presentation of Flowers

On Sunday, May 21, The Church of St. Joseph’s Rosary Altar Society, in celebration of the month of Mary, invites the community to share in a special devotion to Our Blessed Mother. After the 12:30 Mass, everyone will gather outside at Our Lady’s statue for the Holy Rosary and Presentation of Flowers. Opening prayer will begin at approximately 1:30. Some seating will be available. Weather permitting, coffee and refreshments will follow outside. In case of rain, we will meet inside the Church and refreshments will be served in the gym. Please join the Rosary Altar Society as it honors Our Blessed Mother in this traditional May ceremony. As St. Maximilian Kolbe said, “Never be afraid of loving Mary too much, we can never love her more than Jesus did.”

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Call To Action For All Garden City Residents

A proposed lease agreement between Las Vegas Sands and Nassau County goes to the Nassau County Legislature on May 22nd for approval. We need just 10 of the 19 legislators to vote NO to the lease agreement so the proposed casino can be defeated. While emails are helpful, phone calls are more effective.

Please contact each of the 19 legislators below. They need to hear from us so they will have the courage to do the right thing on May 22nd and vote NO to the casino!

❏ RICHARD J. NICOLELLO - 516-571-6209

❏ HOWARD KOPEL - 516-571-6207

❏ DENISE FORD - 516-571-6204

❏ KEVAN ABRAHAMS - 516-571-6201

❏ SIELA A. BYNOE - 516-571-6202

❏ DELIA DERIGGI-WHITTON - 516-571-6211

❏ JAMES D. KENNEDY - 516-571-6212

❏ THOMAS MCKEVITT - 516-571-6213

❏ LAURA SCHAEFER - 516-571-6214

❏ JOHN R. FERRETTI JR. - 516-571-6215

❏ CARRIE SOLAGES - 516-571-6203

❏ DEBRA MULE - 516-571-6205

❏ C. WILLIAM GAYLOR III - 516-571-6206

❏ JOHN J. GIUFFRE - 516-571-6208

❏ MAZI MELESA PILIP - 516-571-6210

❏ ARNOLD W. DRUCKER - 516-571-6216

❏ ROSE MARIE WALKER - 516-571-6217

❏ JOSHUA A. LAFRAZAN - 516-571-6218

❏ MICHAEL J. GIANGREGORIO - 516-571-6219

The traditional May presentation of flowers will take place on May 21.

Stewart School program boosts students’ writing, leadership skills

BY GARY SIMEONE

A couple of times a month, the Stewart School staff puts together fundraisers for students so that the students can help donate proceeds to local charities. The programs are entitled “ Pizza with a Purpose ” and “ Pretzels with a Purpose. ”

Brenda McCarthy, reading specialist and learning coordinator at Stewart School, said the program was started a number of years ago as a way of teaching students to be responsible citizens teach them hands-on service learning and to give back to others in need.

“The way it works is that the students submit a proposal about a charity they ’ re passionate about,” said McCarthy. “Students at all grade levels have the opportunity to choose an organization, then write a letter to the main office explaining what drew them to that charity.”

She said that the organizations and charities that students choose run the gamut from Cancer Research foundations to animal rescue programs and homeless shelters.

One of this past months more notable submissions was written by Nikki Vona, a 3rd grader who talked

about her grandfather ’ s battle with Alzheimer ’ s disease.

“She wrote a beautiful letter about her Nona, who recently passed away after battling Alzheimer ’ s,” said McCarthy. “As a result of her outstanding submission, she was featured on a live-Zoom episode on News12 and was chosen to the morning announcements for a day over the loudspeaker.”

She was also involved with the deliveries of the pretzels to the school

and she and her friends delivered the pretzels to the school ’ s 750 students.

Over $800 was raised for the Alzheimer ’ s Association Long Island chapter as a result of the Pretzels with a Purpose program.

“The program really is a great thing for students in a multitude of ways,” said McCarthy. “Not only does it help them with their overall writing skills particularly the younger students, but it also enhances their leadership and communica -

tion skills as well.”

The Philly Pretzel Factory in Lynbrook and local pizzerias help to provide the goods by selling their products to the school for a lower price.

Order forms are given to parents and staff members, who buy the pretzels and pizza. Funds raised from the in-school sales are then donated to the select charities and organizations.

Photos courtesy of Garden City Public Schools

DAR presents ROTC Medal to Hofstra cadet

The Colonel Aaron Ogden Chapter NSDAR, Carla Hall D ’ Ambra, Regent, was pleased to recognize an outstanding ROTC Student at Hofstra University during a General Award ceremony conducted on April 28. Chapter National Defense Chair Maggie Louise Rider presented a gold medal and award certificate, in addition to a check for $100, to Cadet Nicole Aresta of Malverne. The cadet is part of the Hofstra University ROTC Culper Battalion. Students recommended for this award must be recommended by their commander and exhibit qualities of leadership, patriotism and academic excellence. In addition to balancing the demands of her ROTC program, Aresta is a nursing student at Farmingdale College, where she has maintained a 3.0 GPA over the last three years. At the Hofstra ROTC she currently

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Graduated from school? Have an outstanding GPA?

Made the honor roll or Dean’s List? Scored an internship or study abroad opportunity?

serves as a platoon leader. Lauded for her personal “ grit and determination, ” Arista is considered a “ strong advocate for her fellow cadets and has a passion for helping others. ”

The DAR award presentation to Cadet Aresta from Chairman Rider came during a general award ceremony for the Cadets. The American Legion, VFW, Vietnam Veterans, Jewish War Veterans, AMVETS, Veterans of Foreign Wars, the Military Order of the Purple Heart , and others, were among a dozen or more community organizations who were also present.

Chapter Regent D ’ Ambra, Chairman Rider, and the ladies of the Colonel Aaron Ogden Chapter, National Society Daughters of the American Revolution, congratulate Cadet Aresta on her outstanding effort and achievement, and wish her well in her future endeavors.

We invite you to send details of any of these things and more, along with your name and contact info, to editor@gcnews.com for a chance to be seen in our paper!

Cadet Nicole Aresta receives her award, check and gold medal from DAR National Defense Chair Maggie Louise Rider of Col. Aaron Ogden Chapter NSDAR

From left: Students Gavin Bucci Enya Li Nikki Vona Joey Vona and Adrianna Savarese delivered pretzel donations to their classmates.

Nikki Vona and her brother Joey Vona personally delivered the pretzel donations around Stewart School.

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The New York State Budget

BY BOB MORGAN, JR.

One of the great rituals of New York politics is happening right now in Albany — the annual passage of the state budget.

As this is written, the legislature is in the process of enacting a $229 billion budget.

Basically, the state budget, which in addition to incorporating spending proposals to fund the state government, traditionally also includes numerous substantive proposals that have little to do with money. The budget is supposed to be due on April 1, but lengthy delays, such as the one this year, are not uncommon.

The budget process used to be called “three men in a room”, in recognition of the key role of the governor, the majority leader of the state senate and the speaker of the assembly (then all men) in coming to agreement on the budget. While women have become included as lkey players (the three currently include Governor Kathy Hochul, senate leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins and Speaker Carl E. Heastie), the biggest difference is that in recent years, the negotiations, which were bipartisan for many decades until 2018, are only among Democrats now that the party has control of the governorship and both houses of the legislature. In essence, the policy debate is now between traditional liberals and the more far left members of the Democratic caucus.

This year’s budget includes a number of proposals favored by each of these groups. Apparently stung by last year’s closer than expected gubernatorial election, the legislature did take some action to rein in the controversial cashless bail law, allowing judges to take into account the potential danger posed by a criminal defendant. The downstate minimum wage will rise from $15 to $17 by 2026. Some new funding will be provided for the Metropolitan Transit Authority with a new payroll tax in New York City. A limited number (14) of new charter schools will be permitted. A $455 million loan will be authorized to permit the refurbishment of Belmont Park. There is a ban on the use of natural

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gas in new construction.

Notably, the far left legislative contingent was unsuccessful in enacting a number of its proposals, including even greater increases in the minimum wage, massive new taxes on wealthy taxpayers and major changes in landlord tenant laws.

As for Governor Kathy Hochul, the record was quite mixed. After being rebuffed earlier in the legislative session on her choice for the state’s highest court, she did rebound somewhat. Most notably, she was instrumental in getting the bail law changed in the face of strident progressive opposition. However, a major setback for Ms. Hochul was the legislature’s refusal to move forward on her rather grandiose plan to spur 800,000 new housing units, a goal that would be accomplished in part by forcing cities, town and villages to allow more housing to be built. Not surprisingly, this design was sharply opposed from legislators of both parties on Long Island and Westchester. One political problem for Ms. Hochul is that many of the legislators opposed to the housing bill were the ones who provided the votes to change the bail law.

You do have to ask whether the overall path taken in Albany after all the contentious debates and horse trading is the right one. The big picture is that our state is becoming less important with each decade. When I was growing up, New York had the greatest population of any state, but now we are a distant fourth. Data compiled by the Internal Revenue Service indicates that New York is steadily losing adjusted gross income, which declined by $24.5 billion in 2021. Of course, two of New York’s leading competitors, Florida and Texas, both of which are gaining in adjusted income, have no state income tax, while the New York rates are among the highest in the nation.

So, the state budget will be passed this weeks, with minor victories and defeats for the various political factions. But you do do have to wonder about the big picture.

Sophia was among the Nassau County Girl Scouts who took part in a press conference highlighting “Operation Cookie.”

Above: the Girl Scouts, leaders and senior members of the Nassau County Police Department.

Garden City student and Daisy Girl Scout Sophia Trustey was a part of a press conference for the Girl Scouts of Nassau County, where it was announced that the Girl Scouts are sending 80,000

boxes of Girl Scout cookies to troops overseas as part of “Operation Cookie.” The cookies this year will be sent over to troops in Djibouti, Africa.

CPOA seeks Student Ambassador candidates

Attention current high school sophomores, please consider getting involved in your community!

The GC Central Property Owners Association (CPOA) Student Ambassador Program is a vital part of the CPOA. Started in 1999, the program is an ongoing joint venture between resident Garden City junior/seniors and the CPOA. The Student Ambassadors learn how the Garden City village government operates by attending Village meetings. They are challenged to get involved in important issues facing the Village by committing to a service project and presenting their work at CPOA

meetings.

Applications are being accepted between April 14 – May 20 from current high school sophomores who live in Garden City. The term will be the student’s junior and senior year in high school: 2023–2025. The application can be found on the CPOA website (gccpoa. org). A brief interview with CPOA Directors is required.

Contact Evelyn Fasano (efasano2001@yahoo.com) or Pat Cunningham (cunningham49@verizon.net) with questions and to submit your application.

As I write this column, we await clarification on the cost estimates recently prepared by Westerman Construction, thereby enabling our progress towards the promised vote on the St. Paul’s Main Building. A clear understanding of the history of the Village’s efforts to reach a decision on the St. Paul’s Main Building is critical to constructive community engagement needed for a successful vote.

I recognize that many of our residents, tired of hearing the arguing, are now experiencing what some have called “St. Paul’s Fatigue.” I have reproduced below what I see as the most important details from the St. Paul’s timeline on our Village website, and I hope you take a few minutes to read. It is my sincere hope that with a firm understanding of past efforts and outcomes, we will be able to more forward to a decision that is respected by all residents. We all know the time for a decision is now.

1991

The St. Paul’s School closes. A resolution is passed by the Joint Conference Committee (“JCC”), a group made up of the presidents of the four proper-

ty owners associations, supporting preservation of St. Paul’s.

1993 Village acquires the St. Paul’s property for the stated goal of acquiring the playing fields, with no long-range plan in place for the Main Building.

1994

Chairman of Mayor’s Committee presents reports from two consultants determining that the St. Pauls’ Main Building is structurally sound for relocating Village Hall, Fire, Police, Court and community meeting rooms at a rehabilitation cost in excess of $18 million. Shortly after this presentation, the BOT directed the Mayor’s Committee to explore another appropriate use for the Historic Main Building at St. Paul’s, and the St. Paul’s Committee met with more than 35 parties indicating an interest in the building for commercial, cultural, educational and/or residential uses. Except for assisted living developers, all declined interest in St. Paul’s due

to the high costs to retrofit. At this time the Mayor’s Committee concluded that “market demand-driven” solution is needed for utilization of the Main Building. The Board of Education rejected use of the St. Paul’s Main Building stating “based upon information reported as a result of the architectural and engineering study done for the Village regarding this property, The Board of Education does not view the St. Paul’s facility as an economically feasible answer to our needs.”

1995

The Mayor’s Committee reports that for the past two and a half years they attempted to determine the best use of the Historic Main Building and Ellis Hall and recently concluded that a Continuing Care Retirement Facility is the most compatible use.

1996

The best use determination is challenged by the JCC, and the school

district obtains a feasibility study on moving the GCHS to the St. Paul’s Main Building. The Board of Education ended its consideration of St. Paul’s due to high costs and because state law prohibited spending education funds when the primary purpose is historic preservation. The Board of Education noted that the building could not properly accommodate the mandated space needed for a departmentalized secondary education curriculum.

1997

As the assisted living option is pursued, in December of 1997, two families bring a lawsuit to prevent the Village from leasing the Main Building/tenacre site for a senior assisted living facility. This lawsuit ultimately lead to a court decision restricting the Village from entering into any sale or lease agreement of any portion of the parcel with a private commercial entity without getting approval from Albany.

2001

The Mayor’s Committee is tasked with exploring a use for the History Main Building, and in April 2001 the Mayor’s Committee sends out requests for proposals for a conditions survey and program study of the historic

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Garden City’s Senior Center is now open and all activities have resumed. Please visit the Senior Center Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. for further information on activities and events!

GC Pool Registration Now Begins!

Summer is just around the corner and pool membership registration is underway. The Pool brochure and application can be found by visiting our website, www.gardencityrecreation.org.

This year, residents will have various ways to conveniently register. Residents can download an application and mail it in OR stop by the Recreation Office, 108 Rockaway Ave. Online registration is also available (you must have a password to sign up online, to

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receive a password you must go to the Recreation Office at 108 Rockaway Ave to verify your residency).

Please look through the brochure to see all of the new and exciting things that will be happening at the GC Pool this season. The pool opens on Saturday, June 10, at 12 noon. Hope to see everyone there! For additional information on the pool please visit our website’s Pool page!

Senior Exercise Schedule at the Senior Center

Our Senior Center is back to a “regular” schedule with many classes to tone, strengthen, and stretch your bodies. These classes are open to Garden City residents ages 60 or older. Here are the classes we offer:

Mondays

Chair Exercise with Felicia at 10 a.m.

Tuesdays

Chair Yoga with Maggie at 11:15 a.m.; Line or Chair Dancing with Felicia at 2:30 p.m.

Wednesdays

Chair Exercise with Felicia at 10 a.m.

Thursdays

Yoga with Maggie at 11:15 a.m.; Chi Kung with Andrea at 1:15 p.m.nominal charge

Fridays

Chair Exercise with Felicia at 10 a.m.; Resistance Bands at 11 a.m.

For further information, please contact the Senior Center at 385-8006.

Collecting for veterans

BY KYLE WATSON

My name is Kyle Watson and I am a Junior at Garden City High School. For the past two years, I have been collecting items for the Veterans at Northport VA Medical Center. I am proud to say that both of my grandfathers served in the military. One served in WWII and the other in the Korean

War. It is an honor to give back to the men and women who serve our country.

If you would like to donate to support the Veterans, I will have a bin on my front steps for the month of May. Items on their Wish List include Body Wash, Coffee K-Cups, Flip Flops LG-XL, Hair Brushes and Combs, Laundry Detergent,

Fragrance-Free Lotion, Nail Clippers, Nail Files, Pill Boxes, Plastic Hangers, Razors – Triple Blade, Shampoo, Toothbrushes, Toothpaste, Men’s Sweat Suits LG-3XL, Women’s Sweatpants – assorted sizes-no drawstrings, Men’s Underwear M-3XL and Women’s Underwear Briefs assorted sizes.

In addition, if you would like to donate

Trip to See “Mama Mia” at Elmont Library

Garden City Recreation and Parks will take a trip to Elmont Library’s Theatre on Thursday, May 25 to see Plaza Theatrical Productions’ performance of “Mamma Mia.” The recreation bus will leave from the parking lot across the street from the senior center at 1 p.m. to arrive at the library for a 2 p.m. show. This trip is open to any senior who is a resident of the Village of Garden City.

Tickets can be reserved by visiting the Recreation and Parks Administrative Office at 108 Rockaway Avenue. The cost is $40, checks only, made payable to “Plaza Theatrical Productions.”

money, I will use the money to purchase Stop & Shop gift cards which help support the Hero Hunger Help Project, and Uber gift cards to help Veterans get to and from the VA Medical Center. Venmo can be sent to @Joan-Watson-7. Checks and donations may be dropped off at 14 Chestnut Street GC. Thank you.

Robotic Surgery: Is It Right For You?

Learn more at the Annual Kenneth Whitney Robotic Surgery Symposium 2023

If you or a family member are considering surgery, robotic surgery could help you have a faster recovery with lower risks.

At our symposium, you will:

• Learn about robotic assisted approaches in bariatric, cardiothoracic, complex cancer, gynecologic, hernia, and urological surgery

• Separate myths from facts around robotic surgery

• Take part in demonstrations of the Intuitive Surgical da Vinci® system

• Try your own hand in a robot simulation—a unique opportunity

Date: Saturday, May 6, 2023

Time: 9:00am-1:00pm

Location: NYU Langone Hospital—Long Island

Research & Academic Center 101 Mineola Boulevard, Mineola, NY 11501

Admission is free and open to the public, but you need to register. RSVP by calling Kymona Tracy at 516-663-8300 to reserve your seat. Refreshments will be served.

GC Community Church celebrates Cinco de Mayo and more

The Middle School Youth Group at the Garden City Community Church will be hosting a free family movie night on Saturday, May 6, to screen “Coco.”

BY MELVA VICTORINO

Cinco de Mayo is a yearly celebration held on May 5, commemorating the anniversary of Mexico’s victory over the Second French Empire at the Battle of Puebla in 1862, led by General Ignacio Zaragoza. The win over the French army was a morale boost for the Mexicans. Cinco de Mayo is more popular in the United States than in Mexico. It has become associated with celebrating Mexican — American culture. It is NOT Mexico’s Independence Day which is September 16.

In celebrating Cinco de Mayo, the middle school youth group of Garden City Community Church (GCCC) is hosting a Family Movie Night on Saturday, May 6, from 5:00 – 7:00 p.m. in Gardner Hall, free of charge, however, donations of baby diapers/supplies (all sizes) will deeply appreciated. Items will be donated to the Interfaith Nutrition Network (INN.)

“Coco,” the Disney Pixar movie, is a vibrant tale of family, fun, and adventure of an aspiring young musician named Miguel, who embarks on an extraordinary journey to the magical land of his ancestors. The charming trickster Héctor becomes an unexpected friend who helps Miguel uncover the mysteries behind his family’s stories and traditions. Miguel and Hector

encounter extraordinary exploits, waiting for everyone to experience the end of their quest. Come bring your family and friends and follow Miguel on his search for his ancestry. Enjoy snacks, beverages, and a fun filled night.

GCCC has many programs and events which can help everyone enjoy the season and spring into May. Some of them are:

• May 6 at 8:00 a.m. - Men’s Saturday Breakfast at Carle Place Diner at 151 Old Country Rd. in Carle Place: All men can enjoy relaxed fellowship and conversation over a shared meal.

• May 7 at 10:30 a.m.Confirmation Service: Welcome our Confirmation II class as they get confirmed and become new members of our church. Join us for fellowship after the service.

• May 13 from 8 a.m. - Noon Rain or Shine: Plant Sale and Car Wash: - Help support the Summer Youth Mission Trip to Lexington County, South Carolina, by getting your car washed, purchasing beautiful plants and home-baked goods. It’s a One-stop Shopping that can’t be beat!

• May 21 - 10:30 a.m. Sunday Service of Music: Frank Crosio, GCCC Minister of Music, will present his annual Service of Music. The featured

work will be the mass in G by Franz Schubert, sung by the choir, soloists, and chamber orchestra.

We have an on-going food drive to collect non-perishable food items which help support the Long Island Council of Churches Emergency Food Center. The general list of requested items: Dry Cereal (Cold); Hot Cereal (Grits; oatmeal); Vegetables (Canned corn; carrots; spinach, collard and green beans, etc.); Jelly (plastic bottles preferred); Soup (any kind); Pasta (any kind); Pasta Sauce; Rice (1- or 2-pound bags); Shelf stable milk; Canned meats (Chicken; spam; Vienna sausage), Toiletries (Toothpaste; Toothbrushes; soap; deodorant; feminine products; razors; shampoo; conditioner); Baby diapers (All sizes.)

Look at our neighbors and contemplate on what St. Augustine reminds us: “What does love looks like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.”

Our Purpose: Building a community where all are enriched through Christian Love, Service, and Spiritual

Renewal. Our Vision: Faithfully Reaching Out, Inclusively Drawing In. Come and share the wonders of God’s love every day with us. There’s a place for everyone at GCCC.

For information on how to attend our services virtually or in person, please contact the church office at churchoffice@thegccc.org. To get information regarding our other 2023 virtual and in-person worship services and programs, visit our website at www.theGCCC.org.

Whoever you are, wherever you are on your life’s journey, you are welcome at GCCC. We have services, events, and programs for all ages. Our Sunday Worship Service is in-person and livestreamed.

The Garden City Community Church is part of the United Church of Christ. It is an Open and Affirming congregation that welcomes people of all ages, races, gender identities, and sexual orientations to participate in the life of our community. We are at 245 Stewart Avenue between Whitehall Blvd. and Kensington Road. For more information, email churchoffice@thegccc.org or call (516) 746-1700. And as previously mentioned, you may also visit our website, www.theGCCC.org.

Celebrate Cinco de Mayo at the Garden City Community Church.

CULINARY PERFECTION IS COMING TO LONG ISLAND

Where would you like to dine tonight? At one of New York’s trend-setting establishments like Rao’s, Jean-Georges, or estiatorio Milos? Or possibly the culinary creations of celebrity chefs like Lorena Garcia and Tetsuya Wakuda will be more to your palette’s delight. Whatever exceptional culinary experience you can imagine, you’ll find it at the Sands’ planned Long Island destination resort.

Combined with the local restaurant scene, the Sands New York culinary experience will transform dining on Long Island to a must-experience destination. Plus, Sands New York’s five-star concierge service will be directing visitors to local restaurants, bars and attractions, benefitting the entire region. This is just the start. There is much more to come.

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DAR attends Anna Smith Strong Chapter Tea

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John Ellis Kordes

Colonel Aaron Ogden Chapter Regent Carla Hall D’Ambra with Anna Smith Strong Chapter’s MaryAlice Visnefsky.

Members of the Colonel Aaron Ogden Chapter of the National Society Daughters of the American Revolution (NSDAR), led by Regent Carla Hall D'Ambra, traveled from Garden City to Setauket on April 22 to support an Afternoon Tea event held by the Anna Smith Strong Chapter.

The Tea took place in the Fellowship Hall of the Setauket Presbyterian Church, and was chaired by their Regent, Dr. Suzanne Velazquez. The food at the event featured a selection of flavored teas, and a delicious variety of fingertip sandwiches, scones and sweets. In addition, a “Fancy and Fun” Ladies' Hat Parade and contest was held.

Members of the U.S. Naval Cadet Corps, New York LPD--21 Division, Northport, New York, (USNSCC) a Navy connected program for young people aged 10 through high school, were in attendance. They were introduced by LTJG Tanya Krien, who spoke about

service and also the fact that parts of the USS New York were made of steel from the World Trade Towers, which were destroyed in a terrorist attack in 2001.

The cadets, dressed in uniform, escorted guests to their tables and later presented the colors prior to the Pledge of Allegiance. In addition, these young people offered their service to assist with many physical tasks during the course of the event, which considerably lightened the load of the DAR women charged with running the Tea.

The funds raised by the DAR ladies during this gathering go to benefit local DAR projects, including educational scholarships and service to Veterans.

The women of the Colonel Aaron Ogden Chapter were happy to support their sisters in the Anna Smith Strong Chapter in this worthy effort. The NSDAR is a nationwide women's service organization headquartered in Washington DC.

This is a photo I took in February of 1999 at the Garden City Hotel. The guy in the photo is comedian Jackie “The Jokeman” Martling. You may remember him from the Howard Stern radio show among other places. I was actually upstairs at the hotel photographing an event in one of the ballrooms and stepped out to change my film. Jackie was just sitting there and I recognized him and said “how about a photo?” He said, “You don’t want my ugly face in a picture.” I said “You’re right” and I turned to this pretty girl nearby and asked her to be in the photo. She said, “sure” and sat on his lap (her idea) and there you go — she made him look better!

As a photographer, often when I am at an event there are other events at the same venue. Once I was out in Huntington to photograph an insurance agents dinner. When I walked in, the receptionist inquired which event I was there for. She said, “The lawyers dinner is upstairs, the insurance agents dinner is in the main ballroom and we have a real estate agents seminar downstairs.” I looked at her and said, “Excuse me, I didn’t see the sign on the door... am I in Hell?!”

IN MEMORIAM

Carolyn L. Kast

Carolyn L. Kast, the beloved wife of the deceased George R. Kast and adoring mother passed away peacefully on April 20, 2023, after a courageous battle with Parkinson’s Disease. Carolyn is survived by her devoted children George Robert Kast Jr. (Jennifer), Christina Kast Mitcherling (Scott), and Lauren Kast Yohe (Brett); cherished grandchildren Eleanor Kast, Campbell Kast,

Nathan Mitcherling, Avery Mitcherling, Jackson Yohe, and Quinn Yohe; loving sisters, Elaine Barbagallo and Victoria Jutkiewicz (Christopher) and brother-inlaw Donald Kast (Valarie) as well as many nieces, nephews, and friends.

In lieu of flowers, the family is asking those who are wishing to make a memorial contribution to please direct donations to www.parkinson.org or give.michaeljfox. org If you would like

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Garden Manor Nursery Art Show Fundraiser

Students proudly show off with their art.

After a three year hiatus, Garden Manor Nursery School was so excited to be able to hold its annual Art Show Fundraiser on the evening of Friday, March 31.

Parents, caregivers, grandparents, teachers and staff came together in a fun filled event to support the mission of Garden Manor Nursery School. The main attraction of the evening was, of course, the students’ amazing art work.

In the weeks leading up to the event, the children, with the help of

Having fun!

their teachers, excitedly prepared their art projects. The students’ art was displayed proudly in each classroom for their parents and special guests to see.

No fundraiser is complete without raffle prizes. In addition to a wonderful selection of raffles, this year, Garden Manor was lucky enough to have an amazing Grand Prize Raffle donated to the event by a school family. In addition to the beautiful art and awesome raffles, guests were treated to light snacks and drinks, but most

Doing the honors — picking a winner!

important were able to come together as a school community to support the students of Garden Manor! The school is already looking forward to the 2024 Art Show Fundraiser.

Garden Manor Nursery School at Christ Episcopal Church is located

at 33 Jefferson St. in Garden City. It is currently accepting registrations for the 2023–2024 school year. If you’d like to learn more about the school please visit www.GMNS.org. Tours are available by appointment.

Two wonderful Garden Manor teachers.

Love to write?

Garden Manor parents having a fun night out.

We’re looking for writers in our community to compose ar ticles on local topics, opinions, reviews, worthy places to visit on Long Island, and even pieces of fiction. We aim to feature at least one new article and writer each week in our Discovery magazine section.

Email submissions: editor@gcnews.com

• Attach article and any photos (1MB), along with your name and contact info.

• Articles must be between 1,500 - 3,000 words. • Each writer will be reimbursed a stipend of $25.⁰⁰

The A.T. Stewart Exchange Consignment & Gift Shop

BY MELISSA JAEGER

Cinco de Mayo! What a fun time!! Commemorates the anniversary of Mexico’s victory over the French on May 5, 1862! More popular a celebration in the U.S. than Mexico, it has become associated with the celebration of Mexican American culture. Celebrations first started in the U.S. in 1863 in California and have grown incredibly. I first met my husband at a Cinco de Mayo party 38 years ago! Today, Cinco de Mayo beer sales are on par with those of the Super Bowl. That’s a whole lot of beer — and Margaritas — being consumed.

We are celebrating the fact that our A.T. Stewart Market is less than one month away! It will be on Saturday, June 3, from 11:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. on the front lawn of The Garden City Historical Society (TGCHS) Museum with approximately 10 vendors. Vendors include

• Pat Schweitzer and her decorative painted items, including small pieces of furniture, hats, towels, canvases and clam shells

• Christine’s Garden Ornaments – Hand-crafted ornaments made from vintage crystal and china

• Pat Schweitzer and her decorative painted items

• Hawk Girl Photography –Beautiful note and greeting cards of local Long Island scenes

• The Andy Foundation – with a variety of home décor and tabletop items

• Scout & Cellar -- A Spanish company that makes environmentally friendly olive oils and balsamic vinegar and wines

• The Town of Hempstead Animal Shelter will also be there with its animal adoption vehicle.

• Several vendors with vintage items (furniture, tabletop, jewelry)

• “Cornelia’s Courtyard Sale,” where you’re sure to find some excellent bargains – cut glass, china, furniture, jewelry and much, much more

• AND the Exchange will be

OPEN.

At the Exchange, we have a good assortment of beer steins, pilsner glasses and martini glasses. Check out these beautiful towels – imported from Italy. We have so much merchandise that it takes several laps around the shop to take it all in. As one of our volunteers said, “Come in as a customer and leave as a friend.”

About Us

• The Exchange Consignment Shop is housed in The Garden City Historical Society (TGCHS) Museum on 109 Eleventh Street (in the basement of the building).

• All the proceeds from the Shop sales directly benefit TGCHS.

• Shop 24/7 online at atstewartexchange.org and pick up your purchases at the Exchange.

• Follow and Like Us on the AT Stewart Exchange Facebook and on the AT Stewart Exchange Instagram pages. We sure do get around!

Consigning

• Our best sellers — jewelry (costume and fine), lamps, mirrors, and crystal (Waterford, Baccarat, Tiffany)

• We take/accept silver, pocketbooks, china, furniture, artwork, and collectibles. All items are in new or nearly new condition.

• Sorry — no clothing, except for furs during the cold months, or shoes. And no appliances.

• Consignments are done Wednesday through Friday, 11:00, a.m. – 2:00 p.m., by appointment ONLY. Appointments keep down the numbers of people in the Shop and reduce waittimes to consign.

• Please call (516)746-8900 to set up an appointment.

• Unsure if your items are appropriate to consign? Email photos to store@atstewartexchange.org and be sure to include sizing info. You will generally receive a response the same day.

Can I donate? YES! We love donations! PLEASE don’t leave donated

items outside the shop when we are closed. We want your items, but we don’t want them to get ruined, especially during inclement weather. Email me at store@atstewartexchange.org and I will work with you to arrange a drop-off time. I check the email every day, even when we’re closed.

Remember: Shop 24/7 online at www.atstewartexchange.org and pick up your purchases at the Exchange. Follow and Like Us on the AT Stewart Exchange Facebook and on the AT Stewart Exchange Instagram pages. We sure do get around!

Check out our new paint job! Thanks to your generous support, Old World

Quality is working to repair and re-paint the back of the Museum and will soon start working on the last side of the house! We remain open throughout this process and precautions are taken to protect customers entering the Shop.

The shop is located at 109 Eleventh Street.

Shop Hours:

Mon – Fri: 10–4 p.m., (Wednesdays until 6 p.m.) Sat: Noon–4 p.m.

For more information please call (516) 746-8900.

The Welcoming Club of Garden City

The group enjoyed four rounds of trivia.

What’s New Final Answer: Trivia Night Was a Great Night!

The Welcoming Club hosted a couples trivia night on Saturday, April 29, and survey says: it was a great evening! Couples enjoyed food and drinks while participating in four lively rounds of brain-bending trivia. A wonderful time was had by all!

Upcoming Events

Spring Fling!

Skip the Welcoming Club's Ladies Spring Fling?! Ugh, as if!

Please save the date for our Ladies Spring Fling: Underground 90s Edition! Dinner, drinks, raffles and live 90s dance music!

When: May 18, 7–10 p.m.

Where: The Orchid, Garden City

Why: To raise money for the Long Island Alzheimer's & Dementia Center and to have a great time!

Cost: $85

Guests: Welcome! Feel free to come rollin’ with your homies

Tickets are on sale now! We’re totally buggin!

BenAnna Band is Back!

The beloved BenAnna Band will be back for a kid-friendly concert on Friday, May 19th at 9:30am. If you are interested in attending with your little one, please bring a blanket to sit on, as well as

$10 per family. Please contact Heather Cavanagh to RSVP and for location at Welcomingclubtoddleractivities@ gmail.com

Book Club – New Date!

Our May book will be “A Gentleman in Moscow” by Amor Towles. The Book Club will meet on Tuesday, May 9, at 7:30 p.m. To RSVP and get meeting location details, please contact Welcomingclubbookclub@gmail.com. We hope you can join us!

Seeking Sponsors

The Welcoming Club is actively seeking local businesses and merchants to sponsor the 2023 season. Sponsorships start at just $250 for the year and are a great way to promote your business across Welcoming Club social media channels and at our events throughout the year. Sponsorship donations are tax deductible and 100% of the sponsorship fee goes directly to this year’s chosen charity, Long Island Alzheimer’s & Dementia Center. For more information, please email Philanthropic Chair Lindsay Weber at GCPhilanthropic@gmail.com.

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Instagram: @gcwelcomingclub

Join A Group Book Club

Enjoy a good book amongst friends.

Everyone had a great time at the Welcoming Club trivia night.

The book club meets every 6 weeks to discuss the page-turner of choice. For upcoming book club events, please email WelcomingClubBookClub@ gmail.com.

Craft Club

The craft club is a great way to meet with friends and get crafty. No experience necessary. We meet every few months to create a seasonal craft. If you are interested in joining, please email GCCraftClub@gmail.com.

Supper Club

Bring your significant others out for this one! This is a great way to make new friends as a couple. You will be paired up with 3-4 other couples to set up a rotation of dinner events. Host your new friends at home or head out to try local restaurants. Please email GCSupper@gmail.com for more information.

Bowling Club

No experience necessary! We are looking for new faces to join our Wednesday league. Occasional pacers are welcome. If interested, please contact Ellen (Diller05@aol.com), Carol (santa060@yahoo.com), or Liz (mcdea@

aol.com).

Bunco

This simple dice game is usually played in a group of 12. It is a great way to meet people and make new friends. The game is easy to learn and fun to play. If you are interested, please contact WelcomingClubBunco@gmail.com.

Toddler Activities

A great way for you and your little ones to make new friends. Activities include stroller walks each week around our beautiful village and a visit to the park. We also set up playgroups with kids of similar age. Please email welcomingclubtoddleractivities@ gmail.com for more information.

Come join the fun and make a difference! We invite you to join the club! For just $50 a year, you will have access to lots of great events and many fun members-only clubs and events. Complete the easy online membership form today at www.thegardencitywelcomingclub. org in the “Join” section of the website. While you are there, browse the site for lots of great information about the club.

During National Nurses Week, we recognize you for all you do.

At Mount Sinai South Nassau, we know that our nurses make the di erence for our patients and their loved ones. During Nurses Week and all year round, we appreciate all you do.

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News from the Garden City Public Library

ing weeks for more information about upcoming programs.

Library Friends Book Sale

Saturday, May 6, 10 a.m.–3 p.m., and Sunday, May 7, 1 p.m.–3 p.m.

The Friends of the Garden City Public Library are having their Spring Book Sale on Saturday, May 6, from 10 a.m.–3 p.m. and Sunday, May 7, from 1 p.m.–3 p.m. downstairs at the Library.

Long Island Reads Book Discussion“A Speck in the Sea: A Story of Survival & Rescue”by John Aldrige & Anthony Sosinski

Tuesday, May 9, 7:00–8:00 p.m.

Two veteran sailors who co-own and operate a Montauk lobster boat recount the 2013 search-and-rescue mission for co-author John Aldridge, describing how his partner, their families, the local fishing community, and the U.S. Coast Guard in three states mobilized an unprecedented and ultimately successful operation.

The film "Top Gun Maverick" (2022) will be screended on May 8.

Monday Movies Presented by the Friends of the Garden City Library

Mondays at 1:30 p.m.

May 8: “Top Gun Maverick” (2022) 130 Mins.

May 15: “Analyze That” (2002) 96 Mins.

May 22: “Elvis” (2022) 160 Mins.

Spring Programs

Information about spring programs is listed below. Check out our website (www.gardencitypl.org) in the com-

Registration began Monday, April 24, on Eventkeeper (www.gardencitypl.org).

Contact Adult Services (516)742-8405 ext. 5236. Email: Speakingofbooks@ gardencitypl.org

Books available at the Reference Desk.

History Lecture with James Coll

*Tuesday, May 9, 1:00–2:30 p.m.

James Coll of History Lectures returns to the Garden City Public Library for his lecture entitled, “The Opinion of the Court: Understanding

News from the Children’s Room

Construction and the Children’s Room

Construction continues! The Children’s Room has relocated temporarily near the Periodical Room with materials on the first floor and the second floor. Come by to say hello and scope out the new location!

Spring Programs

Monthly LEGO Club

Wednesday, May 10

This fun STEM program is for children in Grades K–5 only.

No registration is necessary. Seating is on a first-come, first-served basis.

Garden City Library Board to meet

There will be a Regular Meeting of the Board of Library Trustees on Monday, May 8, at 7:30 p.m. at the Garden City Public Library in the small meeting room on the lower level.

Further details about the meeting will be posted when available on the Library’s website: www.gardencitypl. org.

the Second Amendment.” For more than 200 years, the Supreme Court has remained largely silent in interpreting whether the 27 words below provide an individual or collective right to own a gun. The Court has attempted to resolve some questions relating to the Second Amendment with two recent decisions. In this lecture, the discussion will include the impact of these cases, the role of the legislative initiative at the state and federal levels and the evolving status of this debate.

Registration began Monday, April 24, on Eventkeeper (www.gardencitypl. org)

Contact Adult Services (516)742-8405 ext. 5236. Email: Speakingofbooks@ gardencitypl.org

“A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed”

*This program is sponsored by the Friends of the Garden City Public Library.

Empire Safety Council Defensive Driving

Saturday, May 13, 10:00 a.m.–4:00 p.m.

Receive 10% reduction on automobile/liability insurance and qualify for a license point reduction.

Registration in person at the Garden City Public Library began on Monday, April 17. Space is limited, so check with the Reference Department for availability.

The first two weeks of registration are limited to Garden City Public Library cardholders only. Those with-

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out a Garden City Public Library card can begin registering on Monday, May 1, 2023. Register separately for each person.

Proper ID is required when registering an absentee party. You must bring a $30 check made payable to ‘Empire Safety Council’ and current Library card with you to register.

Bring your valid New York State driver's license and a pen to class.

Contact Adult Services (516)742-8405 ext. 5236. Email: Speakingofbooks@ gardencitypl.org

Narcan Training

Tuesday, May 16, 6:00 p.m.–8:00 p.m.

Narcan Training sponsored by the Office of Councilman Thomas Muscarella. Contact Councilman Muscarella’s office at (516)812-3179 to register.

New Beginnings with Marla Matthews

Thursday, May 23, 7 p.m.–8:30 p.m.

Find new friends and hope for a new beginning during the program “New Beginnings: Singles Discussion/Support Group.” The program will be facilitated by Marla Matthews, a social worker, life coach, and TV talk-show host.

This will be a supportive, compassionate discussion for those that are widowed and divorced, and is for patrons ages 45 and older.

No registration required, but seating is on a first come, first served basis.

Contact Adult Services (516)742-8405 ext. 5236. Email: Speakingofbooks@ gardencitypl.org

It’s What’s Happening for Young Adults Through the Library

Egg Scavenger Hunt Winner

Congratulations to this year’s Egg Scavenger Hunt winner, Tenley Babinsky!

Patrons of all ages searched the Library for painted foam eggs, painted by teen volunteers. There were 74 eggs painted by 59 teen volunteers and 90 participants in the scavenger hunt. The Egg Scavenger Hunt took place in the Library between April 17–May 1. This program has been funded by the Friends of the Garden City Public Library. Congratulations again to Tenley and thanks to all the teen volunteers who made the eggs and to the patrons who participated in the scavenger hunt!

Teen Advisory Board: Friends of the Garden City Public Library Spring Bake Sale

Volunteer to help at the Teen Advisory Board's Friends of the Garden City Public Library Fall Bake Sale, which will be held Saturday, May 6, 11 a.m.–2 p.m. Volunteers can sign up to bake, help at the table the day of the Bake Sale, or both! Volunteers who help at the table should arrive beginning at 10 a.m. to help set-up the table and plan to stay until 2:30 p.m. to clean up. Volunteers who bake must bake at least 2 dozen items, must individually wrap items, and must include a list of ingredients. Volunteers who bake are not required to attend the Bake Sale, but must arrange in advance with the Young Adult Department when they are dropping off their baked goods. Volunteers will earn community service credit. Registration for volunteering began Tuesday, April 25, online via Eventkeeper (www.gardencitypl.org). Volunteers must be in Grades 6–12. Space to volunteer is limited, so check Eventkeeper for availability. This program has been funded by the Friends of the Garden City Public Library.

Teen Advisory Board Meeting

The next meeting of the Teen Advisory Board will be held on Tuesday, May 16, at 4 p.m. Registration begins Tuesday, May 9, at 10 a.m. online via Eventkeeper (www.gardencitypl.org). The meeting is for tweens and teens in Grades 6–12. If you are interested in helping to come up with programming ideas, volunteer ideas, or social media outreach ideas for tweens and teens in Grades 6–12, consider joining the Teen Advisory Board. Online applications are available at https://www.gardencitypl.org/teen-advisory-board-application/ Applicants should be in Grades 6–12.

Tree Ornaments for Community Service: Shell Ornaments

Earn community service by painting ornaments for the Garden City Public Library’s Tweens and Teens Department’s Ornament Tree! Each volunteer will receive three ornaments and a set of

paint pens to decorate their ornaments at home. Paint pens must be returned to the Library. These ornaments will be used to decorate our new ornament tree each month!

For the month of May, ornaments will be shells, which will be used to decorate the Tweens and Teens Ornament Tree in June. Registration begins Tuesday, May 9, at 10 a.m. online via Eventkeeper (www. gardencitypl.org). Completed ornaments must be returned by Thursday, May 18 to the Library.

Registrants will be asked to pick up their ornaments at the Library in order to participate in this community service program. Volunteers must return three decorated ornaments and their set of paint pens in order to receive community service. Volunteers will receive two hours for every three ornaments they submit, at the discretion of the Tweens and Teens Department. This program has been funded by the Friends of the Garden City Public Library.

Volunteers Needed: LEGO Club

Volunteer to help children Grades K–5 during the monthly Children's program LEGO Club! The May session will be held on Wednesday, May 10. The LEGO Club program runs from 4 p.m.–4:45 p.m. Volunteers are asked to arrive at 3:30 p.m. to help set-up before the start of the program and stay after to help clean up until 5:15 p.m. Volunteers must be in Grades 6–12 only. Registration to volunteer began Tuesday, May 2, online via Eventkeeper (www.gardencitypl.org). This program has been funded by the Friends of the Garden City Public Library.

Tweens and Teens Dungeons and Dragons

Join us for Tweens and Teens Dungeons and Dragons and learn how to play the fantasy role-playing game Dungeons and Dragons by participating in one of our monthly Dungeons and Dragons meetups! Beginners are welcome! Each meet-up will feature a new self-contained, one-shot adventure and players will be assigned premade characters to play. Please register via Eventkeeper (www.gardencitypl. org) to participate in this program. The May session will be held Thursday, May 18, at 4 p.m. Registration begins Tuesday, May 9, online via Eventkeeper. Space is limited, so check Eventkeeper for availability. Teens who complete an online survey after the program can receive community service for participating in this program.

Teen Gamers

Kick off the weekend with our new Teen Gamers program! We will have our Nintendo Switch consoles for teens to use as well as tabletop board games and Magic: The Gathering cards for teens to

play with. This program is for tweens and teens in Grades 6–12. The May session will be held Friday, May 19, at 3:30 p.m. Registration begins Tuesday, May 9, online via Eventkeeper (www.gardencitypl.org). Space is limited, so check Eventkeeper for availability. Teens who complete an online survey after the program can receive community service for participating in this program. This program has been funded by the Friends of the Garden City Public Library.

Bookmarks for Community Service

Earn community service by creating bookmarks for Garden City Public Library patrons! Each volunteer will receive 10 bookmarks to color, decorate, and write positive or library/book themed messages. These bookmarks will be placed in books throughout the Library in order to brighten the day of the patrons who check them out. Bookmarks will be placed in books in all three departments, including Children’s, Tweens and Teens, and Adult Reference.

Space is limited, so check Eventkeeper for availability. The winter–spring session of the program will run for 10 weeks.While the first nine weeks of the program is over, the final week is as follows:

• Registration Week Ten: Monday, May 8 at 10 a.m. to Friday, May 12 at 4 p.m.

Bookmarks should be returned no later than Wednesday, May 31.

Registrants will be asked to pick up their bookmarks at the Library in order to participate in this community service program. Volunteers must return 10 completed bookmarks in order to receive community service. Volunteers will receive two hours for every 10 bookmarks they submit, at the discretion of the Tweens and Teens Department. This program has been funded by the Friends of the Garden City Public Library.

GCPL Tweens and Teens Best Books 2023 Committee: Volunteers Needed!

The Tweens and Teens Department is looking for tweens and teens in Grades 6–12 to volunteer to provide feedback on recently published Young Adult books as part of our Tweens and Teens Best Books 2023 Committee! Eligible books are those published between October 1, 2022 and December 5, 2023 and aimed at tweens and teens in Grades 6–12.

Volunteers will be asked to read books on the Tweens and Teens Department’s monthly reading lists beginning with December 2022 and then write a 300-word review. Volunteers can also nominate a book not on our lists as long as it’s published between October 1, 2022 and December 5, 2022 and the Library owns a physical copy in the Young Adult collection. Volunteers will earn community service credit.

Credit for both reading and writing reviews on new books in the Library’s Young Adult Collection. The feedback used throughout the year will help the Young Adult Librarians compile the Best Books list for the year in December 2023.

There are no requirements on how many books a volunteer must read and volunteers can read however many new books they are able to throughout the year. Volunteers can get credit for books they do not finish, as long as they provide 300-word feedback as to why they chose not to finish the book. The committee may meet throughout the year if there is interest, but volunteers are not required to attend meetings and can still participate by reading and providing feedback on recent young adult books.

If interested, please sign-up to join the committee by visiting Garden City Public Library’s website at https:// www.gardencitypl.org/tweens-teensbest-books-2023-committee/ or for more information, please contact the Young Adult Department at https://www.gardencitypl.org/young-adult-department/ contact-the-young-adult-tweens-teens-department/.

Follow Tweens and Teens on Facebook and Instagram

Follow Garden City Library’s Tweens and Teens on Facebook and Instagram! The Young Adult Department uses both social media platforms as a tool to post updates and announcements about upcoming Library programs and community service opportunities.

Here are the Facebook and Instagram pages for the Garden City Public Library Tweens and Teens Department: Facebook: www.facebook.com/ GCPLTweensTeens

Instagram: www.instagram.com/ GCPLTweensTeens

If you’re interested in participating and want to learn when events will be happening for tweens and teens (Grades 6–12), or if you have any questions, email Young Adult Librarian Laura Giunta at https://www.gardencitypl.org/ young-adult-department/contact-theyoung-adult-tweens-teens-department/ .

Teen Advisory Board Applications Now Available Online

If you are interested in helping to come up with programming ideas or social media outreach ideas for tweens and teens in Grades 6–12, consider joining the Teen Advisory Board. Online applications are available at https://www.gardencitypl.org/teen-advisory-board-application/ Applicants should be in Grades 6–12. Email Young Adult Librarian Laura Giunta at https://www.gardencitypl.org/ young-adult-department/contact-theyoung-adult-tweens-teens-department/ if you have any questions.

Books, baked goods and baskets at Library sale

There ’ s something for everyone at the library Book and Bake sale May 6 and 7. There are books for cooks, history buffs, gardeners, decorators, mystery solvers, art lovers, travelers, young adults and children. For those with a sweet tooth there will be the famous Young Adult Bake Sale (Saturday, 10 a.m.–1 p.m.). And treasure seekers will delight in our 18 raffle baskets filled with items for the beach, high tea, entertaining, making beer, relaxing, cooking and going on a picnic! Silent Auction bids have started at the library as pictured below along with a photo of the Dinosaur Basket.

The Friends of the Library also would like to thank the many local businesses who donated gift cards and/ or merchandise: Andy Foundation, Coquette, Garden City Pizza, Garden City Wines & Spirits, Madison's Niche, Dr. M,, Nassau Nails, Pizzeria G, Prime Catering, Rustica Pizzeria & Ristorante,

GC Library Lego Club

Seventh St Cafe, Seventh St Gourmet Deli and the Wine Gallery on Nassau Boulevard.

Children play with LEGO as a teen volunteer helps them find the pieces they need during the Children’s Department’s monthly LEGO Club meeting. The April meeting was held on Wednesday, April 19, at the Library and the May meeting will be held on Wednesday, May 10.

Lightsaber Training at the Library

Children pose with Jedi and Sith after learning how to use a lightsaber during Family Lightsaber Training with Saber Guild: Endor Temple, the Long Island chapter of Saber Guild International, which is an international Lucasfilmrecognized, not-for-profit, charity costuming organization. The program was held Saturday, April 22, at the Library.

Silent auction raffle basket bids are open and available at the library.

A Dinosaur Raffle Basket, one of the 18 raffle baskets to choose from.

Stratford students build birthday boxes for kids in need

As part of their April service-learning project, Stratford School fifth graders donated birthday supplies to the Birthday Wishes organization in Hicksville. The organization’s Birthdayin-a-Box Program provides a party box and birthday gifts to families of homeless children on Long Island. The mission of Birthday Wishes is to improve and empower the lives of homeless children by providing joy, play and hope through the magic of a birthday party.

For their boxes, each class collected supplies geared toward a designated theme, including “sports,” “emojis,” “Legos,” “superheroes,” “Hawaiian luau” and more. Students donated paper plates, napkins, juice boxes, birthday banners, party hats, birthday candles, and icing amongst various other birthday-related items.

Each fifth grade class had two student representatives who collected, organized and sorted all of the supplies. Fifth grader Aiden Schmidt spoke on behalf of his entire class, saying, “It felt good to donate to kids who need help.” In total, all seven fifth grade classes were able to create 17 birthday boxes. Photos courtesy of Garden City Public Schools

From left: Bridget Psaki, Harlyn Ellis, Gianna Garufi, Adriana Fusco and Amelia Takvor packed and wrapped a number of birthday boxes for the Birthday Wishes organization.

From left: Students Sarina Pariti, Bella Mai, Nora Loeven, Charles Bayduss and Luke Padala gathered and packed supplies for the Birthday-in-a-Box program.

From left: Fifth graders Nina Wunsch, Alexis Gibbons and Evan Persaud packed a birthday box.

From

Main Building (100,000 square foot area above ground level). In November there is a report by Einhorn Yafee Prescott (“EYP”) on the Main Building at St. Paul’s.

2002

EYP recommends preservation of the Main Historic Building and demolition of Ellis Hall and the cottages. It supports the phased development for use of the Historic Main Building which includes relocation of Village Hall functions and an appointment of a “St. Paul’s Conservancy” Committee to promote increased use of interior space by residents. Later in 2002, the BOT abandons the idea of converting the building to a Village Hall after the preparation of more detailed cost estimates of the expenses involved. Focus turns to taking steps to prevent further deterioration of the building. In December 2002, the Mayor appoints a committee to review all ideas relating to the future of the Main Building such as public sector development as a public library/ community center, private sector development as multi-family residential or assisted living, and demolition as a final resort.

2003

Consultants were hired who estimated the cost of moving the Garden City Public Library into 50,000 square feet of the building at $26.6 million. The following month, the GC Chamber of Commerce urged the Board of Trustees to consider residential use or assisted living to preserve the building and general tax dollars. In May 2003 the Mayor’s Committee submitted a report on three alternatives to the Mayor, and the following September a Request for Information was issued by the BOT to private developers. Presentations on Public and Private Uses at a Public Forum in November and December 2003. In December 2003, the BOT passed a resolution to utilize the St. Paul’s Historic Main Building as a library and community center.

2004

In June, a POA sponsored village wide opinion survey tabulated by Adelphi University regarding St. Paul’s was submitted to the Village. In December 2004, St. Paul’s property was dedicated as parkland by vote of the Village Board of Trustees.

2005

In another Village Board of Trustees vote taken in February, St. Paul’s property was again dedicated as parkland. In December 2005, cost estimates were obtained of $15 to $16 million to stabilize St Paul’s Main Building, $32-$33 million for minimal public use, and $5-6 million for demolition.

2006

The Mayor provided residents with updates on a real estate consultant

hired and findings on potential uses of the building, and the following month a Request for Proposals was issued by the Village seeking private developers for the site.

2008

In February, the Village entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with AvalonBay with regard to the St. Paul’s Property, but a village-wide vote on December 2, 2008 resulted in only 873 votes of the total 5,020 votes in favor of the AvalonBay Development. 2,272 residents voted for demolition and 1,875 residents voted for mothballing. The Village voted to cancel the MOU with AvalonBay.

2009

The Village sought legal advice on demolition culminating in the acceptance of Final Scoping Document with regard to the Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) for the Proposed St. Paul’s School Demolition for Additional Open Space.

2010

A public hearing was held at Village Hall to accept oral testimony on the DEIS, and Notice of Completion and Draft Environmental Impact Statement and Public Hearing was published in the Nassau Edition of Newsday and the Garden City News. Days later, a Special Board of Trustees Meeting was held at which the Committee to Save St. Paul’s gave a formal presentation of their proposed program regarding the preservation of the Historic Main Building at St. Paul’s.

2011

The Village accepted the Final Environmental Impact Statement (FEIS) with regard to ST. Paul’s School Demolition for Additional Open Space in February, and on 4/27/2011 a Village-wide vote on the St. Paul’s Bond Resolution to finance the demolition of the St. Paul’s Main Building and Ellis Hall did not pass (Vote: Ayes1,121, Noes-3,290). In July, the Mayor appointed a “Mayor’s Committee to Save St. Paul’s” to review any new proposals received for the use of the St. Paul’s Main Building, including the proposal from the Committee to Save St. Paul’s. In October, the Committee to Save St. Paul’s presented their proposal for St. Paul’s, “A Comprehensive Plan for the Restoration of St. Paul’s and Community Center Development” dated 10/6/11. Later in October, President of the St. Paul’s Conservancy Corp. (Committee to Save St. Paul’s) submitted a letter stating they would be updating their proposal and will resubmit to the Board within 45 days. The following month, Erwin & Bielinski was retained to review proposals by the Committee to Save St. Paul’s.

2012

A report of Erwin & Bielinski was accepted December 20, 2012 after a presentation was made, and the BOT

voted to reject the plan submitted by the Committee to Save St. Paul’s and the Garden City Historical Society dated 6/29/10 and amended 10/6/11 including in its resolution language criticizing the plan.

2014

BOT approved a bond for the demolition of Ellis Hall on the Campus of the Former St. Paul’s School.

2017

Funding was approved to engage Beyer, Blinder, Belle, Thornton Tomasetti and Eight, Inc. to provide preliminary drawing, roof of concert, construction plan outlines and related materials with respect to developing the former St. Paul’s Building, cottages, and surrounding area into a recreation based facility including indoor fields and other amenities.

2018

Village engaged Beyer, Blinder, Belle for development of concept plan and public presentations. The Sports Facilities Advisory Company was engaged to assist with gathering public input, preparing use and programming information and financial projections, potential retention of architects and structural engineers and construction management professionals, as well as other matters related to continued development of the previously announced related St. Paul’s Concept Plan for creating a cultural and recreational based facility at the former St. Paul’s School.

2019

Board Resolution seeking a viable use of the St. Paul’s buildings and to preserve significant portions of the exterior and interior structures. Sports Facilities Advisory conducts public meetings to gather information for a Concept Plan for St. Paul’s. Village retains construction manager for stabilization and planning related to development of a potential St. Paul’s Concert Plan and approved erection of a temporary construction fence at St. Paul’s. MIR Appraisal Services retained to appraise the nine stained-glass windows in the St. Paul’s School Chapel.

2021

Mayor announces formation of St. Paul’s Committee.

2022

Funding approved for St. Paul’s Committee social media campaign. Funding approved for clean-up services for portions of the interior of the St. Paul’s Main Building. Town Hall Meetings held and Westerman Construction Co. engaged to provide cost estimates and a comparative analysis on adaptive reuse, facadism and demolition.

The present Board of Trustees has worked together to compile a list of questions we have presented to Westerman Construction to clarify what we know now about options the Village has, and

what they will cost. You will hear more shortly about the next steps on this important issue.

Temporary Speed Humps

Temporary speed humps have been delivered to the Village and are ready for installation on Fourth Street. The proposed location on Fourth Street, between Hilton and Franklin avenues, was subject to approval at this week’s Traffic Commission meeting. The humps are for experimental use throughout the Village in order to test implementation of recommendations in the Traffic Studies performed by Creighton Manning.

7th Street Crosswalk Improvement

Design plans are completed and the Village Engineering Department has created a bid package for the Seventh Street Crosswalk Improvement Project. The project will be put out to bid as soon as possible, according to Public Works Superintendent John Borroni. The speed hump will run south from Dunkin’ Donuts (approximately 25 feet wide) with bump outs of the adjoining curbs to meet the speed hump and extend east at a reasonable distance. The crosswalk and its entrances will be designed to be handicapped accessible. This recommendation was presented in Creighton Manning’s Traffic Study on Numbered Streets. The Village engaged Nelson and Pope Engineering, Architecture and Land Surveying, PLLC, of Melville, to provide design development and the construction documents needed to bid, construct and execute the improvement.

Friday Night Promenades

Friday Night Promenades kick off Friday, June 9 and continue June 23, July 7, July 21, August 4, August 18, September 1 and September 15, 2023. Seventh Street will close between Franklin and Hilton avenues from 6:00 to 11:00 p.m. The 2023 promenade themes are as follows:

• June 9: Belmont Stakes Promenade (Rain date 6/16)

• June 23: TBD

• July 7: Red, White and Blue

• July 21: Christmas in July

• August 4: Summer Breeze

• August 18: TBD

• September 1: TBD

• September 15: The BIG Pineapple Circus

Happening This Week in Garden City

Here are some events and meetings taking place this week in Garden City:

Tuesday - Thursday, May 9-11 10:00 a.m. Senior Exercise with Felicia at the Garden City Senior Center. Call 516-385-8006 for schedule

Tuesday - Friday May 9-12

THE OFFICE CAT

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Failure to obey

A Stewart Avenue motorist allegedly disregarded a Garden City Police officer’s traffic directions at an accident scene and was charged with failure to obey a lawful order.

False alarms

GCFD and GCPD responded to two residences for fire calls on April 30th and determined they were both false alarms.

Package thefts

A male subject was observed on surveillance cameras taking packages from a Hilton Avenue porch and an 11th Street porch on May 1st.

36 suspensions

A Stewart Avenue truck driver was arrested for driving with 36 license suspensions and unsecured cargo on May 1st.

Items damaged

Sprinklers and statues were found damaged on a Roxbury Road lawn on May 1st.

Leaving the scene

A vehicle was observed leaving the scene after colliding into and damaging an unoccupied auto parked at Adelphi University on May 1st.

Hazardous materials

A Stewart Avenue truck driver was charged with unlicensed operation and unsecured hazardous materials on May 1st.

Fallen limb

Garden City Police safeguarded Rockaway Avenue for a fallen tree limb blocking traffic on May 1st. It was removed by the Parks personnel.

Excessive speed

On May 1st a Clinton Road motorist was charged with excessive speed and an unregistered vehicle.

Unrestrained child

A motorist on Stewart Avenue and Edgemere Road on May 1st was charged with driving while on a cell phone, and a child under seven was not properly restrained in a car seat.

Grand larceny

On May 2nd Garden City Detectives arrested a 37-year-old woman for entering a local bank and allegedly withdrawing $106,000 from a victim’s account without authorization. She was charged with grand larceny.

Loyalty points stolen

On May 2nd Garden City Police received a report of the theft of loyalty points from a victim’s airline credit card account.

Catalytic converter stolen

A catalytic converter was reported stolen from a work van parked in Clinton Parking Field on May 2nd.

False alarm

On May 2nd Garden City Firefighters and Police responded to a residential fire alarm and determined the cause to be construction on the premises.

THE MAYOR’S UPDATE

mcarterflanagan@gardencityny.net

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at the Field House

Through May 31

Enter your artwork into the Garden City Historical Society’s Children’s Art Show

Saturday, May 6 11:00 a.m. Teen Advisory Board’s Friends of the Garden City Public Library bake sale at the Garden City Public Library

Saturday - Sunday, May 6-7 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. (Saturday) and 1-3 p.m. (Sunday) Friends of the Garden City Public Library semi-annual book

GCHS German students connect with seniors

sale at the Library

Monday, May 8 1:30 p.m. Monday Movie Matinee, Top Gun Maverick at the Library

Monday, May 8 7:30 p.m. Library Board of Trustees Meeting at the Library

Tuesday, May 9 1:00 p.m. History Lecture with James Coll at the Garden City Public Library

Saturday, May 13 10:00 a.m. Defensive Driving Course at the Garden City Library

Monday, May 15 11:00 a.m. 3rd Annual A.T. Stewart Golf Classic at the Cherry Valley Club

Students in Garden City High School’s German Honor Society shared stories with Plattduetsche’s seniors in their native language of German.

On April 20, Garden City High School’s German Honor Society made a special visit to Plattduetsche Home Society, a senior living community in Franklin Square.

The students spoke in German to residents who immigrated from Germanspeaking countries. It was an extraordinary learning experience for students, getting to hear firsthand what life was like immigrating to the United States.

Photos courtesy of Garden City Public Schools

Students also carried on conversations with residents about their past professions and personal experiences while sharing their own post-graduation plans.

German Honor Society students have been visiting Plattduetsche and its residents for the past two years and hope to continue this tradition of meaningful connection.

Author, disability advocate shares book with Stratford students

Author and Garden City parent Neha Bajaj visited teacher Leigh Dowden’s class at Stratford Avenue School for a readaloud of her new book, “Noah’s Intense Day,” and to share an important message with students.

Neha Bajaj is a writer and disability advocate. Neha’s journey with disabilities began when her older son was diagnosed with autism in 2014. Since then, she has advocated for better access to education for students with autism.

In her book, the main character Noah has always wanted to be like his older

brother, Shaun, who seems to consistently get extra attention. One day, Noah gets his wish to walk in Shaun’s shoes, but it’s not at all what he expected. He deals with glaring sunlight, unbearable itchiness, piercing sounds and more.

After a day full of intense sights and sounds, Noah wonders, “What if every day felt like this?” His experience leads him to make a heartfelt discovery about his brother, Shaun.

“My purpose for writing the book was to increase awareness of sensory challenges and to help people under-

stand that kids who struggle with sensory challenges are no different from us, they just take the world in differently. I also wanted people to notice when they are extra sensitive to the world around them. I wanted readers to put themselves in the shoes of my characters and think about how it would feel if each day was filled with these sensory challenges,” said Neha.

After learning of the story and message behind it, Mrs. Dowden knew it was important to share with her fifth grade class. Students left the reading with a better understanding for what others may be going through.

Author, Garden City parent and disability advocate Neha Bajaj read her book “Noah’s Intense Day” to Mrs. Dowden’s fifth grade class at Stratford Avenue School.

Photos courtesy of Garden City Public Schools

Mrs. Dowden’s fifth grade class posed with author Neha Bajaj after she shared her book, “Noah’s Intense Day.”

Stratford Avenue School fifth grade students posed with author Neha Bajaj and Garden City Director of Literacy K–12 Lauren Kaufman after the special readaloud of “Noah’s Intense Day”.

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Broadway, concert stars pay tribute to Jerry Herman

NASSAU COUNTY BIDS

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Notice is hereby given that bids for the following will be received at the Garden City Union Free School District, 56 Cathedral Avenue, Garden City, NY 11530 until 10:30 am on Wednesday, June 7, 2023 at which time and place bids will be opened and read aloud.

PRINTING OF VARIOUS        PUBLICATIONS 2023-2024

The life of a Broadway icon, legendary composer and lyricist of American musical theatre will be celebrated in “Jerry Herman: The Broadway Legacy Concert” at the Adelphi University Performing Arts Center (PAC) on Saturday, May 13, at 8 p.m. Herman’s great musical legacy includes “Hello, Dolly!,” “Mame,” “La Cage Aux Folles,” “Mack and Mabel,” and more.

and stories of one of the true giants of theater will include Scott Coulter, Jason Graae, Debbie Gravitte (Tony Award Winner), and Ron Raines (Tony and Grammy Award nominee), and more.

NASSAU COUNTY BIDS

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Notice is hereby given that bids for the following will be received at the Garden City Union Free School District, 56 Cathedral Avenue, Garden City, NY 11530 until 10:30 am on Tuesday, June 6, 2023 at which time and place the bid will be opened and read aloud.

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Garden City Union Free School District

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May

also have Ibuprofin with me.

The day after we cross over Dead Woman’s Pass at 13,829 feet above sea level on the Inca Trail and the day before reaching Machu Picchu - the destination of this Alpaca Expeditions four-day/three-night trek - I celebrate my 71st birthday. I say this because I am not a habitual hiker or climber, am reasonably but not especially fit and live at sea level. So I had been really, really anxious for weeks about whether or not Dead Woman’s Pass, named for its shape, would take on literal meaning.

And while age would normally be a private matter, I say this because if I could do it, anyone who is determined (it is mostly about mind over matter) can do it too.

But my success (and yes, I do considerate it a major life accomplishment, if only to overcome fear and go outside my comfort zone to take on the challenge) has a lot to do with how well Alpaca Expeditions, the tour operator, runs this trip –all that our guides do to make the trek as comfortable and enjoyable as possible; how the porters (who are carrying our gear) all line up to applaud and cheer us when we come in from that day’s hike; the quality of the camping and trekking equipment; the incredible food, snacks and teas (tea time!) that Chef Mario serves that are not only the quality of a fine restaurant but seem perfect for the task; providing basins of hot water and soap and delivering hot coca tea as our wake up call. (The

On Alpaca Expeditions’ Inca Trail Trek to Machu Picchu, imagining the people who laid these stone steps, carved the trail, and the pilgrims who used it to trek to Machu Picchu 600 years ago © Karen Rubin/goingplacesfarandnear.com

private porto-potty tent, and an actual “sanitation engineer” assigned to keep it functioning, is also extremely appreciated.)

The hike itself – 26 miles with some fairly steep ups and downs – is actually considered moderate difficulty, along a trail of stones, albeit some high (especially for someone like me with short legs), some narrow, and some that can be slick.

The main problem comes from the altitude. And my great fear that inhabits my mind with each step as I try to prepare myself by walking up and down the steepest hill in my neighborhood for an hour (fortunately, it is on my corner) is Day 2, when we climb not one but two mountain passes - the first to Dead Woman’s Pass at 13779 ft., which will take four hours, and the second, Runkuracay, at 13020 ft, for a total of 10 miles and 10 hours hiking. I calculate the amount of sunlight in the day and am concerned it will take me 12 hours

and I won’t get into camp before dark.

I console myself by giving myself an escape plan: I figure that if I have difficulty on Day 1 (actually, the second toughest day) when the hike is 8.7 miles taking 7 hours to get to the campsite at 10,827 feet elevation, I can decide to simply walk back to the start. (I believe the tour operator also has this as a plan; in fact, we ask what happens if somebody is injured along the way and we are told that the porters, who carry huge loads, would carry the person on their back.) It is also a comfort to know the guides carry satellite phones which they can use for an emergency. I also pack my headlamp in my daypack. Just in case.

And I prepare myself for altitude sickness – not having any alcohol before the trek, taking Sorojchi pills (mainly aspirin and caffeine, sold over the counter in Cuzco) and drinking plenty of water (which works!). I

GOING PLACES NEAR AND FAR

Our guide, Lizandro Aranzabal Huaman, cleverly stops at opportune times to talk to us about plants, insects (used for medicine as well as for dyes, cactus for rope for bridges and to haul stones), the tribal people who still inhabit the mountain villages where he grew up, the Incan sites along the trail, the history, culture and legacy of the Inca Empire. This not only enhances the experience as our imagination fills the images of what we see, but (cleverly) gives us time to rest and acclimate to the higher and higher altitudes, get back our legs and our fortitude, drink water, and get revitalized for the next stage.

And on Day 2, on one of these stops, Lizandro takes out a bag of coca leaves and shows us how to pack it into a cheek and let the juice mix with saliva to help avert altitude sickness. Then, before we are about to ascend the stage to Dead Woman’s Pass, he whips out a vial of an oil, like eucalyptus, which he puts into our palms, tells us to clap three times, then inhale the vapors to open our nasal passages and make our breathing more efficient. That really helps too.

But we also go at our own pace –our guide, Georgio, typically stays in the back of the pack, so we can stop as often as we need and admire the view, take a photo, take some extra breaths.

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Alpaca Expeditions’ Inca Trail Trek to Machu Picchu is Personal Test of Mind Over Matter

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trail, laid the stones that line the entire trail, built the fortresses, enclaves, resting places for pilgrims and nobility on their way to Machu Picchu.

You feel a oneness with the pilgrims as you walk in their footsteps. It all becomes a matter of personal challenge and self-discipline, mind over matter, just as it would have been for the pilgrims 600 years ago when these sites were built. Each step engages you with the human dimension in time, space and substance.

And I can’t stop thinking about the people who actually built all of this.

Our voyage in the Galapagos, where we had just traveled, was about natural selection, survival of the fittest and the ecosystems in the natural world. Here, trekking on the Inca Trail, going from site to site, we learn about the human ecology. I can only wonder as I plod up these trails, what was involved to hoist those multi-ton boulders and set them in place to build these structures, the amount of food production that must have been required to sustain a population with the numbers of laborers and soldiers to build, expand and secure the Empire, and the calorie count to create and sustain all of this, without the benefit of draft animals, the wheel, iron tools, written language.

So much surprises me about the Inca Trail trek, but most of all is the number

BY JEFF RUGG

Tomatoes, peppers and a few other vegetables are planted in every garden. Try to find at least one new vegetable for your garden each year. You may find a new favorite.

For instance, you could try a melon that looks and tastes like a cucumber. It may even be better than a cucumber for the garden since the plant survives heat very well. The Armenian cucumber fruit is pale green and can grow three feet long. They begin producing just two months after planting. The fruit grows straight when the vine grows on a trellis or twisted when growing on the ground.

Speaking of melons, how about growing a watermelon that you can eat whole in one bite? The Cucamelon looks like a mini-watermelon on the outside but tastes like a cucumber. The fruit are only an inch or two long. The inside is white with small seeds. They grow on vines that can grow six to eight feet tall.

Both melons are available at botanicalinterests.com.

Let’s go the other way for the next

of Inca sites – resting places along the pilgrimage route, defensive forts built by Pachacuti Inca Yupanqui, the ninth ruler of the Inca, in the mid-1400s in support of Machu Picchu his most monumental project– that we encounter. Like Machu Picchu, they were reclaimed from the overgrowth after 400 years being abandoned to Nature. How meticulously they were restored (not rebuilt) by the government– so that we could better appreciate the society, the culture and the history in their context.

They were built to accommodate people making a once-in-a-lifetime pilgrimage. This is once-in-a-lifetime for me, as well, or as I tell myself, “now or never” as the window of opportunity closes for me. So seize the day, which is my motto.

You read about these sites, see photographs (indeed, the photos archaeologist Hiram Bingham published of Machu Picchu, “The Lost City of the Inca”, is what inspired the excavations and spurred this multi-million dollar tourism industry that supports preservation and conservation). But it is only when you are physically here, climbing the steep stone steps, seeing how they are built into these mountains, the scale and the precision with which they were built 600 years ago, feeling the stone, that you can understand and can appreciate this achievement of human endeavor.

The story unfolds as we haul our-

selves up the heights, over mountain passes and down onto plateaus.

Lizandro says, “Okay, team.” Giorgio calls us “Family” and we are off and in no time at all, we are a family as we set out on the Inca Trail.

Tips to prepare: Comfortable hiking boots are essential. After several trials and errors, I was exceedingly happy with the Altra lone peak all-weather mid (wide) hiking boots I bought at REI. Hiking poles are essential (you can rent from Alpaca Expeditions). They provide the tents but you rent the sleeping bag and mat.

Bring power bank to recharge your phone and camera batteries (no place to plug in for four days; bring extra, charged batteries for camera). Bring a light, compact camera, like a point-andshoot, to hike with (I packed my Nikon Z5 in Sarah’s duffel but hiked with it the last – easiest - day into Machu Picchu).

Bring two water bottles (they provide boiled drinking water to fill). Bring layers and hats for cold and warm weather; expect rain or mist – the first two nights camping are likely to be cold – the sleeping bags are excellent quality winter grade but I was thrilled with the warm knee-high alpaca wool socks I bought for $4 at the shop just before starting the hike). A headlamp is a must (I loved the Black Diamond Astro 300 lumens from REI).

Bring altitude sickness medicine

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(there is a prescription medicine, but I was happy with the Sorojchi Pills you can purchase over-the-counter in Cuzco), also people bring coca leaves or candy; have ibuprofen on hand.

Definitely do what you can to prepare yourself physically (and mentally). As I was walking up/down the hill for an hour, I was contemplating doing this for 9 more hours and it wasn’t a pleasant thought. I resigned myself to feeling very uncomfortable for 12 hours, and that in itself was comforting.

The permits to do the Inca Trail trek are limited to 500 a day (just 200 trekkers plus 300 for porters, guides and support staff) for all the trekking companies and get booked up months in advance.

More information: Alpaca Expeditions, USA Phone: (202)-550-8534, info@alpacaexpeditions.com, raulmanager@alpacaexpeditions.com, https:// www.alpacaexpeditions.com/

Check with the US State Department to get the latest information on travel to Peru: https://travel.state.gov/ content/travel/en/international-travel/International-Travel-CountryInformation-Pages/Peru.html

Next: Setting Out on the Inca Trail

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vegetable you should try. The yardlong pole bean is a green bean type of plant with seed pods that can grow to three feet long. The whole vine may only grow to six feet tall.

There are many varieties of your favorite garden vegetable. Try a new one to see if you like the different colors or tastes. You might find one that grows more fruit or is hardier in your garden soil or climate. Try new varieties that are insect or disease resistant so you can use fewer pesticides.

Q: My family knows I love popcorn, so I was given a few ears of novelty popcorn. They are about three inches long and you are supposed to pop them on the cob. I am wondering if I can plant them to grow my own popcorn. I have grown sweet corn in the garden. Is there any difference in growing popcorn?

A: You can grow popcorn in your garden. Popcorn is one of the four kinds of corn. The others are sweet, dent and flint. Popcorn comes in two groups. Miniature cobs like yours are about three

inches long and grow on four-foot-tall stalks. The other kind grows seven-inch cobs on eight-foot stalks.

Popcorn needs warm soil of at least 60 degrees to germinate, so don’t plant the seeds too early. Plant the corn in square blocks and not in long rows because they are wind pollinated. The closer the plants are to each other the better the pollination will be. Don’t plant popcorn and other corn types near each other. The popcorn seeds will not pop well if cross-pollinated and sweet corn will not be as good either. If the two corn types must be planted near each other, plant the popcorn three weeks earlier to prevent contamination.

Corn is a grass, and it grows better with plenty of water and fertilizer. Add compost to the soil before planting. Supplement rain to at least an inch of water per week. Popcorn will continue growing in very hot weather if given enough water.

It does take a long time for the popcorn to mature. They may take four months to mature, which is four to six weeks longer than sweet corn. Popcorn

is left on the stalk until it is dry.

Like with any corn, deer and raccoons are problems. The long growing and drying time can make it hard to protect popcorn from pests.

Email questions to Jeff Rugg at info@ greenerview.com.

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On Mother’s Day We Thank All Moms

BY CLAIRE LYNCH

Mother’s Day is on Sunday, May 14, and this year one actress in particular stands out in my mind for speaking publicly about the joys of motherhood. Kristen Bell is someone who embraces her career and her family and she does her best to keep things balanced.

Actress and singer Kristen Anne Bell was born on July 18, 1980, in Huntington Woods, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit. She is the daughter of Lorelei Bell, a registered nurse, and Tom Bell, a TV news director. Kristen Bell went to her first audition in 1992 and won a role in “Raggedy Ann and Andy.” She has said that at an early age she was drawn to entertainment.

Before she was 13, Bell’s mother got her an agent and she was cast in newspaper advertisements and TV commercials. At this time she began private acting lessons. Bell had an uncredited role in the film “Polish Wedding” which came out in 1998.

Kristen Bell attended Shrine Catholic High School where she took part in the drama and music clubs. She won the starring role of Dorothy in her high school’s production of “The Wizard of Oz” and also played Daisy in her high school production of “Lady Be Good.”

After graduating in 1998 Bell moved to NYC and attended New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts where she studied Musical Theater. She left NYU in 2001 to play the role of Becky in “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.” That same year, she made her first credited debut in “Pootie Tang” which came out in 2001. Her name is listed in the credits. In 2002, Bell appeared in the Broadway revival of “The Crucible.” She then moved to Los Angeles, Calif., and appeared in a few TV shows as a special guest.

In 2004, Bell appeared in the Lifetime’s TV film, “Gracie’s Choice,” which received high ratings. Bell won the title role in “Veronica Mars” when she was age 24 and that started broadcasting in the fall of 2004. Bell starred as a 17-yearold detective, which put her alongside actor Enrico Colantoni who played her father in the role of Keith Mars. This series received very positive reviews and Bell received much attention for her performance.

In 2005, Bell starred in “Reefer Madness: The Movie Musical” where she

played Mary Lane. The Showtime network aired “Reefer Madness” on April 16, 2005. The following year, Bell won the Saturn Award for “Best Actress on Television” for her performance in “Veronica Mars.”

In 2013, Bell was the voice for the main character, Princess Anna of Arendelle, in the Walt Disney Pictures animated movie, “Frozen,” which received the best animated feature award at the 86th Academy Awards. She performed the songs “For the First Time in Forever,” “Love is an Open Door” and “Do You Want to Build a Snowman.” Bell also voiced Anna in “Frozen 2,” out in 2019.

In 2007, Kristen Bell and actor Dax Shepard, who’s also from Metro Detroit, met at a mutual friend’s dinner party. They began dating on and off and were engaged in 2009. Kristen Bell and Dax Shepard co-starred in the 2010 film, the romantic comedy “When in Rome,” the 2012 film, “Hit and Run” and the 2017 film, “CHiPs.” They were married at the Beverly Hills County Clerk’s Office on October 16, 2013. They have two daughters, Lincoln and Delta, who were born in 2013 and 2014. Son Simon was born in 2018.

Asked whether “Frozen 2” and her star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame were more signs she’s “made it,” Bell answered that, while she’s proud of the movie’s success, her true measure of success is the health and happiness of her family.

The family lives in Los Angeles but they go home to Michigan each summer to vacation on a lake. It’s the couple’s home state and that is where they unwind. Bell has said she’s learned more about her husband as they both shared stories about things they did growing up.

Dax Shepard is an actor, comedian, filmmaker and podcast host. Since 2018, he has hosted Armchair Expert, a podcast that interviews celebrities, journalists and academics about their lives.

Kristen Bell’s success has given her more opportunities to choose the projects she wants to work on. Last year on Netflix Bell did “The Woman in the House Across the Street from the Girl in the Window.” This show - one year with eight episodes - is a thriller.

Constantly seeking a balance between her family life and her career, to reduce stress Bell likes to exercise. She finds walking a quick and easy way to get some exercise.

About motherhood Kristen Bell has said:

“What I love the most is how much kids right-size your problems. You don’t

really care as much. They just make everything better. So all the things you used to worry about just sort of disintegrate.”

“I still want a career. My kids will always be number one, but I think if you cut that cord of obsessiveness, then you can work and be a good mother and wife.”

“I am a parent that actually loves to hear advice from other mothers. I don’t care if your filter is judgmental or altruistic - I still want to hear it because it may be valuable to me.”

“I never understood my mom until I had kids. When she would look at me like I was the first drop of water she’d seen at the end of a desert trip and go, ‘You will never understand how much I love you,’ I would go, ‘God, get away! Enough!’ Even in my 20s, I just thought, ‘You’re so dramatic and overly sentimental.’ Now I look at my kids that way and think, ‘Wow, this is a cycle.’ Lincoln won’t understand it until she decides to have kids … that’s just the way it’s supposed to be.”

Happy Mother’s Day to one and all!

Little Green Martians and Social Security

BY TOM MARGENAU

I was looking through some old columns of mine and I found one from about 15 years ago with an intriguing headline: “Little Green Martians and Social Security.” I wrote that column in reaction to a news story that was running in media outlets around the country based on a poll of young people that asked a question that went something like this: “Do you believe you will have a better chance of seeing a Social Security check someday or of seeing Martians land on Earth?” And guess what? Most people answered that they figured they’d be more likely to see little green men from outer space than their promised Social Security benefits.

I wasn’t surprised by those poll results. I’ve been listening to Social Security skeptics for a half-century. I remember way back in 1973 when I was sent out as a relatively new Social Security Administration spokesperson to deliver my first speech on the topic. Hardly before I had a chance to introduce myself, some guy in the audience who appeared to be around 40 years old jumped up and said, “I don’t know why we should listen to anything you have to say. We all know Social Security will go belly up long before we ever have a chance to collect a dime out of the system!”

Well, of course, if that guy is still alive, he’d be pushing 90 now and will have been collecting many millions of dimes in the form of Social Security checks, month in and month out, for about 30 years now. I’ve often wondered if he ever looked back and regretted his rude interruption of that neophyte Social Security rep’s maiden Social Security presentation. At least I hope he accepted the fact that he was wrong.

And that story always reminds me of something I learned from one of my mentors when I started working for the Social Security Administration. He was a fairly high-placed official within the agency who started working for the SSA shortly after it was created in 1936. And he told me that way back then, many members of the public were telling him that the Social Security program was doomed to failure.

Well, those doomsayers in 1936 were wrong about the future of Social Security. And that rude audience member who interrupted me in 1973 was wrong about the future of Social Security. And those poll respondents from about 20 years ago who said they’d see Martians from space before they’d see Social Security benefits were wrong about the future of Social Security. And so too are the people I still hear from today who tell me that Social Security is destined to fail.

I mean, come one folks! The Social Security program is almost 90 years old now. It has been paying monthly benefits over those years without fail to hundreds of millions of people. How long must the

program be around before people accept the fact that it is here to stay?

But of course, I’m not naive. I know what fuels people’s recent skepticism about the future of the program. You can hardly go a week without seeing some newspaper report or some internet story predicting Social Security’s demise.

Some of the headlines like this one: “Social Security going broke in 2034” are just outright false. Some of the headlines like this one: “Social Security benefits to be cut 20% in 2034” are misleading. And of course, none of the headlines tell the whole story.

If you go beyond the headlines and read the rest of the story, you will see a statement similar to this one: “By 2034, Social Security will only have enough cash reserves to pay 80% of promised benefits IF NO CHANGES ARE MADE TO THE SYSTEM BY THEN.”

I added the emphasis to the “if no changes are made” part of that sentence because it is the key. The Social Security program will never reach the point where future benefits will have to be cut by 20% because there is absolutely no question that the system will be reformed before we reach the 2034 crunch date.

How do I know that? Well, for one thing, it’s just common sense. No member of Congress, no president, no government official is going to let the Social Security program go belly up. You can be as cynical as you want about the state of politics and about the lack of bipartisanship in our country today. But I can assure you that no politician is going to say to their elderly constituents: “Sorry, Grandma, because I’m bickering with my colleagues across the aisle and can’t get anything done, I’m going to just forget about reforming Social Security and cut your Social Security checks by 20%!” (OK, maybe there are a few rogue members of Congress out there who might say that. But certainly nowhere near a majority.

How else do I know that Social Security will not go belly up by 2034? Well, history is on my side. Throughout its history, the program has been reformed many times to keep it relevant and to keep it financially secure. The last time that happened in a big way was the early 1980s. At that point, the Social Security system was about five years away from going in the red. Back then, President Ronald Reagan appointed the National Commission on Social Security Reform, made up of a bipartisan coalition of senators, members of Congress and other experts. They proposed, and Congress eventually passed, a series of relatively modest tax increases and benefit cuts that kept the system solvent for the next 50 years.

And that’s what’s going to happen again. I’m betting there will be another commission established that will suggest relatively modest reforms that will keep the program solvent for the next half-century.

Before I close, I must make this point. I get dozens of emails from readers who tell me that the aforementioned Social Security headlines scare them, so they are choosing to take early (and reduced) benefits now so that they can get “grandfathered in” to the current system before benefits are cut. My advice to them is always the same: DO NOT make Social Security decisions based on politics. Make decisions based on your own personal economic situation. And I say that because I can guarantee that you will have a better chance of seeing little green men

from outer space than you will of seeing the Social Security program go belly up now or anytime in the future.

If you have a Social Security question, Tom Margenau has two books with all the answers. One is called “Social Security -- Simple and Smart: 10 Easy-to-Understand Fact Sheets That Will Answer All Your Questions About Social Security.” The other is “Social Security: 100 Myths and 100 Facts.” You can find the books at Amazon.com or other book outlets.

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How is the real estate market doing so far in 2023

BY PHILIP A. RAICES

It sure does appear that our market is still moving expeditiously along; although in some areas a bit slower depending on the listing price, type of property, location and school district and the negotiability of the sellers today and going forward during 2023. There are still those who qualify for a mortgage and are putting down either 20% out of pocket with 700+% credit scores and low debt/income ratios up to more than 30+% making them easier to qualify for their financing.

Then again, there are those who are purchasing for cash and buying outright without any financing. This appears to be relevant and apparent in those states and locations where a majority of purchasers have moved from higher priced States. The top 10 States who have had losses in population in 2022-2023, (and some over the last 10 years), as per the Census Bureau were, New York, Illinois, Hawaii, California, Louisiana, Massachusetts, West Virginia, Mississippi, Pennsylvania and Michigan and New Jersey was the 11th.

There are some obvious reasons for the loss of population in those states. The first is the cost of living and real estate and state taxes, for those not earning an adequate income. Possibly, many are and have been laid off and there will continue to be more let go over the next 6-36 months. Major corporations, like Amazon whose who had doubled the number of employees as the headcount peaked in 2021 with 1,608,000 full-time and part-time employees, not contacting external contractors. However, in 2022, layoffs reduced that number to 1,541,000 employees from the start of the Pandemic through 2022.

More important layoffs have continued as an additional 27,000 have been let go. Sales have drastically retreated in many industries, creating the immediate need to cut expenses and that means more layoffs. Many hi-tech company’s sales have been reduced as more individuals have made the decision to work remotely and companies are cutting back their budgets and buying less equipment and technology. Layoffs will continue as long as there is pressure on company sales and profits, reflecting the impact that our Pandemic has dealt to a multitude of companies and our economy.

As layoffs continue there will be a lag affect in the way that foreclosures and short sales will occur. For those whose businesses have failed or who have lost their jobs and are currently homeowners, it would be prudent today to take advantage of the higher prices and plan ahead and consider selling and cashing out, while you have

substantial equity that you have gained over the last few years. This is an opportune time to get out so you will leave with a greater sum of money in your pocket, than waiting until prices moderate lower in the future.

Long Island has seen strength in the market with buyers still out trying to find their “next place to call home.” However, there are those that have hopped back on the fence to wait until rates go lower; as that may take a few years based on where our economy and inflation is currently.

According to Lawrence Yun, our economist for the National Association of Realtors researched and found that the statistics showed that those who live out west where 5 out of 10 of the most expensive cities are in California have seen the greatest price reductions. San Jose, California was the most expensive place to purchase a home in the U.S. in the 4th quarter of 2022 as the median price was $1,577,500 and is now down 5.8% from a year ago; and prices there have already dropped 17% from the peak of $1,900,000 median price in the 2nd quarter of 2022, according to N.A.R. San Francisco had the largest price drop in the country, year over year, last quarter, with the median price of $1,230,000 down 6.1% from a year ago. Homes there are already down 21% in the 4th quarter of 2022 from the peak median price of $1,550,000 in the 2nd quarter. Other cities where prices are down are Los Angeles, California, Boulder, Colorado, Boise, Idaho and others. Prices have increased in many areas as much as 42% over the last 3 years,” said Yun,

noting that the swelling of prices have far surpassed wage increases and consumer price inflation since 2019.

You can see from the graphs below that single and multi-family homes have still increased, although at a much slower pace than in the last 2 years. However, co-ops have done extremely well and have increased, I believe due to the lower price points and being much more affordable, compared to condos and homes allowing those entering the market to become homeowners.

As you can see, our areas are still doing quite well; even though interest rates have increased, there is still sufficient demand by cash purchasers, who are still buying. Market activity is still strong, and inventory is still at historic lows. If one prices their homes, condos, and co-ops in a certain creative and “out of box” fashion, making demand occur and leading to a potential bidding war, then a successful outcome can be accomplished. However, no one has a crystal ball or become a “Nostradamus” to predict the future. With more banks potentially failing, and our stubborn inflation contributing to either a soft or hard landing recession in our economy, the continuing Ukraine situation, tensions with the U.S. and China over Taiwan and most critical our gun violence and gun laws in our country and other factors will set the general psychology and future mood. Over time these components will be determinant in either a very positive or negative outcome of where our real estate market and economy will be heading in the future.

Philip A. Raices is the owner/Broker of Turn Key Real Estate at 3 Grace Ave Suite 180 in Great Neck. He has 40 years experience in the Real Estate industry and has earned designations as a Graduate of the Realtor Institute (G.R.I.) and also as a Certified International Property Specialist (C.I.P.S.) and in 2022 has earned his National Association of Realtors “Green Industry designation for eco-friendly construction. He will provide you with “free” regular updates of sold and new homes in your town via the Multiple Listing Service of Long Island (MLSLI) or go to https://WWW. Li-RealEstate.Com and you can “do it yourself (DYI) and search on your own. For a “FREE” `15 minute consultation, as well as well as a “FREE printout or digital value analysis of what your home might sell for in today’s market without any obligation or “strings” attached. He can also provide a copy of “Unlocking the Secrets of Real Estate’s New Market Reality, and our Seller’s and Buyer’s Guides for “Things to Consider when Selling, investing or Purchasing your Home.

You can email or snail mail (regular mail) him with your request or ideas, suggestions or interview you for a specific topic and a Q & A for a future column with your name, email and cell number. He will email or call you back and respond to your request ASAP as long as he has your complete name, cell, email and/or full home or business address. Again, for a “FREE” 15 minute consultation, he can also be reached by cell: (516) 647-4289 or by email: Phil@ TurnKeyRealEstate.Com to answer any of your questions and concerns in selling, investing, purchasing, or leasing residential or commercial property.

BY DENNIS MAMMANA

Week of May 7-13, 2023

Just about every indigenous culture on Earth developed a set of constellations in their sky. Those that we in the West recognize today are mostly those created by the ancient Greek and early European explorers. These cover the entire celestial sphere and represent objects, animals and people from mythological stories.

Occasionally, however, we encounter a constellation that’s associated with a real person, and if we look skyward shortly after dark this week we can see one such example.

High in the northeastern sky you’ll easily spot the Big Dipper, itself not a constellation, but rather an “asterism” -- a group of stars that looks like something familiar. Follow the Dipper’s handle away from its bowl, and you will encounter the bright yellowish-orange star Arcturus and, eventually, the bluish-white star Spica in the southeast.

It is within the arc formed by these three celestial points that we find the small faint constellation known as Coma Berenices, which represents the beautiful amber hair of the ancient Egyptian Queen Berenice II, the wife of Ptolemy III (also known as Ptolemy Euergetes).

The story of Coma Berenices tells that Ptolemy waged a long war against the Assyrians to avenge the murder of his sister. To honor his safe return,

Berenice’s Stellar Hair

Ptolemy’s wife Berenice had her beautiful tresses ceremoniously clipped and laid out on the temple altar to present to Aphrodite, the Greek goddess of love and beauty (now seen in the western evening sky as the glistening planet Venus).

Later that evening, however, someone discovered that the hair was missing. To prevent a terrible panic, the astronomer Conon of Samos proclaimed that Aphrodite had graciously accepted the gift and that she had honored the beautiful hair with a place in the heavens.

And, sure enough, we can now see it there in the sky -- right where Aphrodite placed it so many centuries ago.

While the story of Berenice’s hair is old, the constellation itself is relatively new; in fact, it wasn’t even created until the 16th-century Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe sketched it on his sky maps.

The brightest star in this constellation is known as Beta Comae, about 1.5 times larger, and more than three times more luminous than our sun. It appears quite faint in our sky, however, since it lies nearly 30 light years away.

Today, astronomers recognize that Coma Berenices contains a star cluster visible as a hazy cloud of stars. If you have a dark, un-light-polluted sky, aim binoculars in its direction and you’ll easily see more than three dozen stars making up the beautiful open cluster known as the Coma Star Cluster. At a distance of 270 light years, this swarm is one of the nearest to Earth.

Though the constellation is small and faint, it is quite a fertile region for stargazers with optical help. At least eight galaxies beyond our own Milky Way appear in this direction, and all are well within range of small backyard telescopes.

During the next month or so, Coma

Shaking in My Shoes

BY TRACY BECKERMAN

When I found the boots, it was love at first footwear.

They were a unicorn, or in this case, a shoenicorn. The designer only made one pair in each size and after each pair was sold, that was it. Gone. Dunzo. No-shoe-nus, no-more-nus.

I quickly snapped them up but realized I was going to have to treasure and protect these shoes because once they were gone, they could not be replaced. I could get a new husband if I wanted, but I couldn’t get a new pair of these boots.

But as is wont to happen when you wear the same shoes every day, over time, my boots eventually got scuffed and worn down. It happened slowly, subtly, kind of like when the shine wears off a new car and it loses that new car smell and routinely looks like you rear-ended your garage refrigerator backing in. Not that I ever did that

(more than five times).

So, one day I woke up, looked at my beloved boots with clear eyes and exclaimed:

“Yikes!”

“What’s wrong?” asked my husband.

“My boots need a makeover,” I said.

“You can’t just bring them to a shoe repair shop?”

I looked at him, aghast. “I can’t bring these to just any old shoe shop. These are my BBFs!”

“BBFs?”

“Best Boots Forever.”

He examined the boots I held gingerly in my hands.

“They just need to be shined.”

I shook my head. “No, you shine regular boots. BBFs have to go to a special boot wizard who is a master in the art of boot refurbishment, having studied under another master for 360 hours and then passed a series of tests meant to weed out the true boot captains from

the mere boot mortals. Only a crazy person would send their boots to a regular shoe shop.”

“Well, honey, if the shoe fits...”

I glared at him and began my quest to find a local boot wizard. Fortunately, where I live, there are a lot of boot repair shops. Unfortunately, there are not a lot of good ones. I read the reviews, and stories of bootastrophes and sudden shoe death swam before me. One wrong move by a bad shoemaker and -- BAM! -- your boots aren’t made for walking anymore.

Unwilling to take a chance on just a so-so shoe shop, I started asking around. And that’s when I found...

“Geppetto’s!” I announced when I got home after dropping off my boots.

“What’s Geppetto’s?” asked my husband.

“Only the premier shoe repair shop in the city. I mean, with a name like Geppetto, he has to be great, right?”

Berenices will appear higher in the early evening sky, so be sure to get out and search for this delicate and beautiful stellar tribute to Egypt’s Queen Berenice II!

Visit Dennis Mammana at dennismammana.com.

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“Why is that?”

“Because Geppetto was a famous shoemaker.”

“No, he wasn’t,” said my husband. “He was a woodmaker.”

“What?”

“A WOODMAKER. That’s why he was able to make Pinocchio. You’re getting your fairy tales mixed up. You’re thinking of the story with the shoemaker and the elves.”

“Was he married to the old woman who lived in the shoe?” I wondered.

“No,” he said. “But apparently, I am.”

Tracy Beckerman is the author of the Amazon Bestseller, “Barking at the Moon: A Story of Life, Love, and Kibble,” available on Amazon and Barnes and Noble online! You can visit her at www. tracybeckerman.com.

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Garden City residents have the opportunity to vote on the upcoming school year’s budget on Tuesday, May 16, from 6 a.m. until 9 p.m. at the Garden City High School. The PTA supports the budget, and you can find our official statement on the proposal on our website at www.gardencitypta.org/ advocacy. We hope to see all community members there to cast their votes!

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

From page 2

2) Crime - Crime could increase in our village. As Warren Buffet says, addiction produces crime. More stolen packages, car break-ins, stolen bikes, and burglaries. In addition, more DWIs in our village as gamblers drive home after a night of gambling and drinking.

3) Addiction - An increase in gambling addictions across Long Island including among the 30,000 students attending nearby colleges as well as our own Garden City students.

4) Pollution - Environment impact from the increased vehicle traffic and unknown impact on our groundwater supply.

5) Local Business - Our local restaurants and Garden City Hotel could suffer due to the billions of discretionary dollars that would be wasted gambling at this casino.

6) Your Home Value - Home values in a four-mile radius of a suburban casino historically drop by up to 10% within 3 years of opening. What could that mean to Garden City residents in real dollars? The fair value of the 8,603 properties in Garden City is approximately $7.3 billion. Assuming 90% is residential real estate, a reduction of 10% equates to a potential $650,000,000 wealth transfer from Garden City residents to the Las Vegas Sands. Can you imagine even a 2% or 5% reduction in your home value because of this casino? Our home values, along with the homes in other surrounding communities, could potentially go down by millions while the value of Las Vegas Sands stock will go up by billions.

The Sands is spending millions of dollars for consultants, lobbyists, and famous soccer players to try to sell us on an awful idea that is simply not in our economic best interests, will diminish our quality of life in so many ways and potentially harm so many Long Islanders.

We need every Garden City resident to call each of the 19 legislators to tell them to vote NO on the lease transfer. That will kill this casino proposal in its tracks. Send an email to GCsaynotocasino@gmail.com to get a list of the 19 legislators and their phone numbers or check our ad in today’s paper. You can also visit this website for the phone numbers and email linkshttps://www.nassaucountyny.gov/504/ Legislators

Rich Catalano, Say No to the Casino Civic Association, Garden City Coalition

Elections matter

To the Editor:

I read with interest the overwhelming opposition to The Sands casino, which our County Executive Bruce Blakeman is supporting. I also am opposed to the building of a Casino right on our Village border. It makes no sense for our community, or any community in the County.

What really irritates me is that our Village decisively voted for the Republican Mr. Blakeman (more than 60% of the vote). He apparently feels no responsibility to heed our concerns. There is no accountability for the Republican Party in Nassau County. Basic government functions such as correctly assessing our property are completely ignored, whilst they cheerlead this new unwanted Casino. Makes no sense to me.

Every election is important. It appears that we are going to pay a severe price for the 2021 Nassau County Executive election. Can only hope that going forward, voters take their votes seriously and educate themselves before the election.

Glenn Aldridge

What a disappointment!

To the Editor:

I was shocked and disgusted when I observed that Mr. “Nobility” our County Executive, was not fighting against the pox of a casino in our area.

What could cause anyone to agree to this ghoulish enterprise in our area?

I’m sure that our Executive is aware of the situation, so why would he be so weak? What a disappointment.

The Village Board opposes the casino... Bravo!

The publisher of the Garden City News is also against this horror... Bravo!

Angelo DiPippo

Know when to fold ‘em

To the Editor:

In 1968, when CBS Evening News anchor Walter Cronkite declared that the Vietnam War was unwinnable, President Lyndon B. Johnson knew that he had lost the support of middle America. He subsequently announced that he would not run or accept his party’s nomination for a second term. The New York Times and many media commentators across the political spectrum have questioned President Joe Biden’s announcement of a re-election bid for a second term. He should head the words of Kenny Rodgers in the Gambler, “You’ve got to know when to hold’em, know when to fold them, know when to walk away and know when to run.”

Larry Penner

A look at Recreation and Parks capital projects

From page 3

next set would be the buildings at Grove Park and Edgemere Park, which were built in 1963.

The building at Nassau Haven Park was built in 1974, and it will be the last one to be replaced – well past 50 years of use by then.

For the St. Paul’s Fieldhouse, capital projects are planned starting in 2025 at the earliest. The Fieldhouse windows would be replaced and the restrooms would be renovated. He budgeted for the projects a few years away, pending any action for a decision and site plan of St. Paul’s.

“That can be pushed back or moved up if need be,” Blake said.

Funds have been budgeted to replace the fabric “skin dome” of the Garden City Tennis bubble facility, which was put up in 2001. The cost would be approximately $1.3 million.

Blake said the material had a 12-year warranty but has been in good condition for the village to “get more out of it.”

The project is in design by the village engineers, and the work is anticipated to be done in July and August.

Rec. Commission member Bill Garry asked if the tennis courts’ surface would be replaced, and Blake clarified that $125,000 in renovations to regrade the

tennis courts has been allocated.

Inside the tennis facility the LED bulbs will be replaced with brighter lights, and a replacement bulb was identified to simply be changed in fixtures. That lighting upgrade will be completed when the fabric is replaced.

Tree planting program well-funded

Blake shared that for Garden City’s tree planting program there is currently about $82,000 available and the Board of Trustees have approved another $75,000 for the upcoming budget year, with a total of $157,000 becoming available as of June 1. Garden City has plans to maintain its coveted “Tree City USA” status with new plantings.

“That amount is enough with current prices to plant about 400 trees. We are up to between 175 and 200 and we’ll continue in the fall,” he said.

Another unique Rec. capital project will bring three new pieces of exercise equipment to the Garden City Senior Center, in the courtyard outside. The machines will help seniors develop mobility and balance.

“It is a terrific little setup which will help people avoid falling and injuring themselves. The specs are just about written by the engineers and the project should be completed, hopefully, by this fall,” Blake noted.

Village Rec. Comm updated on pool season, projects

From page 1

tering the gutter” and waterproofing it.

“They climb in the gutter and smear this thick paste all around the walls to keep it leak-proof,” he said. Blake also told the Rec. Commission that as of last December, the new pool liner for the big pool (Pool No. 1) was fully installed and functional.

Capital projects at pool

Future capital projects at the pool include replacement of the large, popular water slide which was originally installed in 1994. Blake said the useful life for the slide was expected to be 20 years, but due to excellent maintenance, including the use of carnauba wax on the slide bed, Garden City pool-goers have enjoyed that slide for close to 30 summers and counting. It will be scheduled for replacement during the 20242025 fiscal year, with the new slide to be in place for the June 2025 opening of pool season.

“We have gotten a lot more years out of it because of the aggressive maintenance we have done on it. We started waxing that slide bed a month after it was in place and that has really kept it in good shape, plus we had it recoated and polished one time,” he explained.

The slide replacement project, which will include new steel infrastructure supporting it, could cost $380,000 or more. As the potential price recently increased, the new total is not yet included in the Rec. Department’s fiveyear capital projects’ budget.

The pool’s dry playground equip-

ment, which is nearly 25 years old now, is on track to be replaced during the 2025-2026 budget year.

In response to comments made that claimed the Pool Enterprise Fund had a deficit several years, Blake explained that in fact the Garden City Pool has been a cash-positive operation for the past few years. Most notably, he said, the Pool has a lower membership cost with continued excellent service and amenities.

For a moment Blake stepped back to review some of the pitfalls of capital projects paid back over time once they were bonded for, during the 2000s and early 2010s.

Blake, who originally started working for the Recreation Department in 1971, left the department in 2001 after rising to the level of Superintendent of Recreation. After a second career of being self-employed in the recreation field, he returned to Garden City in 2019 as Superintendent.

“When I left a position in the village in 2001 we had a very healthy surplus fund and we had a reasonable five-year capital plan. Unfortunately the Recreation and Parks management then kept budgeting for years with more capital projects because the Pool as an enterprise revenue fund has to pay the depreciation over years, every time something was constructed. Too many renovations and capital projects happened too close together and the pool was covering its operating expenses but the depreciation was hovering above.

Now we turned the tide, and we are getting close to not having to take any money from the village,” Blake noted.

Garden City Pool Director Steve Espey explained that the 3% increases across the board for 2023 season pool memberships break down as $525 for a family; $365 for a family of two people, $335 for a senior citizen couple, $293 for an individual; $252 for a non-resident caregiver and $221 for individual senior citizens. A school district, non-village resident family membership costs $623. Blake commented that each category rose a flat 3% from 2022 rates.

Commission member Judy Courtney requested that the soap dispensers at the pool be fixed or replaced to include one side for shampoos and the other for body soap instead of “unilateral military soap for both hair and skin.” Blake replied that the Rec. Department can look into this.

Another idea Courtney presented was for the garbage cans to be covered with lids, to not attract bees. Pool Director Espey commented that during the pandemic summers of 2020 and 2021 the idea of keeping the cans out without lids was brought up to avoid everyone touching them to throw away trash. Commission member Michael Ryder joked that an alternative would be “putting up a big sign, ‘NO BEES ALLOWED.” The Commission was sure the bees would not stop to read it.

With a note about 2023 Pool operations, Espey remains head pool director and will be in charge for the season

but former assistant pool director Tom McGerty has moved down to Atlanta.

Suggestion: Indoor Pool Facility

At the April 26 Rec. Commission meeting a resident presented information and advocated for an indoor swimming pool facility to be built in Garden City, possibly as part of a reimagined St. Paul’s complex. He said the indoor swimming pool could benefit every village resident from two to 102 years old.

Part of the support for the indoor swimming facility comes from the president of USA Swimming, who has provided a letter addressed to the village stating the benefits including health and fitness and lifesaving swim skills that could be brought to residents and their children.

The resident thanked Blake for his efforts in responding with information and continued interest in such a project. Superintendent Blake noted that for the 18 years he was not a village employee he worked in the swimming pool industry. He added that he maintains many great contacts, including at Counsilman-Hunsaker which is the largest aquatics facility design and building firm in the country.

The resident shared with the Rec. Commission that though the indoor swimming pool facility would be a high cost, it will have a high return on the investment. Their advocacy efforts will continue with the Village Board and as decision-making on St. Paul’s unfolds.

Traffic Comm: Process needed for choosing solutions

approval of a request for a traffic light to go in at Garden Street and Hilton Avenue. That request was supported by the GCPD and forwarded to Nassau County but now there is opposition to the new light from local residents.

“Obviously when we formulate our Traffic Control Device Request protocols, we will request there to be some showing of support from the community. Ironically when we put in stop signs at Hilton Avenue and Fourth Street, that was over the objections of local residents for public safety reasons. But based on my interviews with residents of Fourth Street, done in April, they strongly support the stop signs for the positive effects they have had. In contrast, the stop signs we put in on First Street and Mayfair Avenue, which were requested by the neighborhood, have not served that neighborhood well – I found that out by interviewing residents at their homes over the weekend. It creates enormous backups in traffic – this is an unintended consequence of using a traffic control device (stop sign)

for traffic calming.”

Kelly added, “The real complaint on First Street was the vehicles’ speeds and the concept people had of it being a fourlane road instead of a two-lane road, which lends itself more to re-striping and we are working on that with our Department of Public Works.”.

For this reason, an item on the Traffic Commission’s May 4 agenda was the removal of the stop signs at First Street.

“The unintended consequences of that have not been helpful to the neighborhood which was almost but not totally opposed to continuation of these stop signs. They did not help in terms of driveways being blocked, so on and so forth,” Trustee Kelly said.

The Commission wants to create consistency in the way traffic control and traffic calming devices are installed. Evidence of evidence of public support would be a key factor for any determinations that are not safety decisions.

An example of such an administrative-level decision would be the stop signs installed at Fourth Street and

Hilton Avenue.

“That presents a different category where we address a place which has seen a high number of accidents and we want to do something to mitigate that,” Kelly said.

“There will be a process that residents can bring forward for traffic calming initiatives, whether it’s for temporary road treatments or pilot treatments, or potential new roadway infrastructure,” Amabile said last Thursday night at the special meeting of the Traffic Commission.

In one of the early consulting meetings, Garden City’s new superintendent of Public Works John Borroni brought up the potential use of flexible bollards, flexible delineators and “candlesticks” or paint on the roads to create an impermanent bump-out (curb extension).

“They may not be as aesthetically nice as other treatments but they can be quite effective. For now the village is looking at temporary speed humps, but even if the community would like to try out a temporary measure there still

would need to be a formal request protocol. After that temporary treatment is put in place, ideally there would be an observation and evaluation period to find out if it was effective, plus another chance for residents’ feedback and/or support on the impacts,” Amabile said.

The Traffic Commission would then review and possibly approve the temporary traffic calming measure and the rubber speed humps, for example, might become part of the roadway grading (during any future milling and paving project) as permanent speed humps could be installed.

“No matter at what stage the village would be entertaining the requests, there will be a process and protocol standardized. We reassure everyone, we (Creighton Manning LLP) recommend and the village is committed to having a process by which these measures would be discussed, reviewed and approved before they just happen on the local roads and impact the community,” Amabile explained.

Speed humps & bump outs: Slowing GC traffic

neering consultant from firm Creighton Manning, delivered the firm’s presentation on a traffic calming Master Plan.

Mayor Mary Carter Flanagan explained that as Creighton Manning worked on traffic calming surveys of the Central section, there were many complaints about speeding from across Garden City.

“We hired the firm to study the other three village sections and the plans at the end of this is for a village-wide traffic plan to be developed,” she noted.

Proposals for improving safety on Garden City’s own streets such as speed hump and bump-out (curb extension) were examined, although nothing proposed will be formalized immediately.

Such proposals would only be for Garden City’s own roadways and not for Nassau County roads including Franklin Avenue, Stewart Avenue and Cathedral Avenue.

Amabile said that the goal of traffic calming is to reduce vehicles’ speeds and volumes.

“It is intended to make community streets a safe environment for all users, especially the vulnerable ones from pedestrians to cyclists, and older and younger users. Traffic calming is often thought of in the context of a neighborhood-focused initiative, which is how the village came to the idea of a satellite study through identifying the subsets of neighborhoods in Garden City with a lot of cut through traffic and speeding. The goal is to implement solutions in systems and networks,” he said.

Amabile added, “As part of traffic calming we present the three E’s – Education, Enforcement and the one we are most focused on tonight, Engineering and planning. Leading to what we present tonight was a high-level suitability analysis, taking guidance from the Federal Highway Administration and other traffic engineering guidelines around where traffic calming devices are suitable in terms of the volume, posted speed limits, grade and curvature of roads and the lane width,” he noted. Garden City has the classic linear, grid-like road conditions in many areas, though not all locations.”

Amabile was careful to note that as conditions on certain streets may not make a specific road treatment workable.

The satellite study involving the Estates, East and West portions of Garden City were centered around various hubs and each had a local school and/or park, as those assets are considered key generators of pedestrian traffic.

“The plan is not to come up with a solution for the entire village right away but to come up with typical or sample locations, to propose methods based on a variety of data points, and hopefully

test out some of the treatments and see how receptive the community may be. We would then continue to use them and roll them out elsewhere in the village,” he said.

Speed humps vs Bump outs

“Speed humps,” a vertical traffic calming measure, are the most common traffic calming device used in the United States. The contrast with “bump outs” is for narrower space to make it likely a driver will not feel comfortable going fast. Amabile said both methods can calm traffic. Bump-outs narrow the road by bringing the curb into the roadway and speed humps, which are about 12 feet long, raise the roadbed three or four inches.

“This exercise in every community is about compromises and tradeoffs. People want things to change but don’t necessarily want to have to deal with some of the impacts. People may talk about not liking the way speed humps or bump outs look, or having the extra signage along roads. There is a tradeoff but I can say I have never heard of speed humps being installed and them not being effective at slowing down traffic,” he told the Traffic Commission.

One example of a location for traffic calming was Chestnut, east of Clinton Road in the village’s east, as well as in the west on Tanners Pond Road north of Newmarket, heading towards the Denton Avenue LIRR bridge.

“Speed humps are often implemented in areas that already have stop signs. One of the things we heard in Garden City was that nobody pays attention to stop signs. We also heard people want more stop signs to go up. The Federal Highway Administration is very clear that stop signs are not traffic calming devices; they are traffic control devices intended to help control operations of traffic and who goes when. Speed humps are traffic calming devices and they can work in tandem, for example on a long corridor in the village. When implemented in a system these treatments can be even more effective,” Amabile said.

Deterring “cut through” traffic

In the west the consultants commented on a concept of adding speed humps on Princeton Street, so people cutting on Edgemere to get to New Hyde Park Road as a shortcut would then be diverted. They say drivers could then turn to Harvard Street and use that as a cut through. The choice of one village street over another is something they wish to avoid.

“The intention is to try and strategically deploy road treatments in a way that they would deter cutting through on a number of streets in the specific neighborhood. That seems to generally be an effective strategy,” Amabile said.

For bump outs and “chokers” the

idea is to narrow the roadway to slow down vehicles. The criteria for their use is rough; Creighton Manning explained AADT - Average Annual Daily Traffic which is used to measure how busy a road is. The formula is taking the total volume of vehicle traffic on a highway or road (both directions) for a year divided by 365 days. The AADT can be adjusted for seasons and it is used to determine what treatment can be suitable for different roadway types.

“Narrowing the roadway in strategic locations usually forces drivers to slow down. When employed at corners or even at corners of residential streets it can really force cars to go slower when making turns – that is a key factor to consider. But major bus routes or other locations need to be checked,” Amabile said.

Another aspect of bump outs is narrowing the crossing distance for a street, which helps pedestrians and especially the elderly or disabled.

Seventh Street pedestrian crossings

Trustee Charles Kelly explained that this is very important as a plan for 7th Street, to include a bump out at the midpoint of the business district. He noted that because in so many instances people have illegally parked blocking the crosswalk and curb cut, the bump out going in will help make pedestrians visible to those driving on 7th.

Amabile showed an example of a traffic calming measure for the Stratford Avenue area, because the wider roadway allows drivers to feel comfortable going a bit too fast.

“The idea of a bump out here will at a minimum narrow the roadway at the corners, where nobody should be parking anyway, and shorten the crossing distance while forcing some slowing down through the intersections without taking away any of the curb space that we know is used and in high demand for students’ pickup and drop-off,” he explained.

Throughout the process of meetings with residents and officials, concerns for speeding on Wetherill Road from Old Country Road to Stewart Avenue were brought forward. Amabile said a number of treatments are recommended for different parts of Wetherill, including strategic placements of bump outs all throughout the roadway to slow down traffic.

Bump outs were also proposed for Tanners Pond Road by Newmarket Road and Fenimore Avenue, in addition to speed humps for Tanners Pond.

A concept raised with a reference

to Stewart Avenue was increasing the number of median islands, to separate the directions of traffic.

“Median island and bump outs are opposite ends of the same principle of narrowing the roadway. One sticks something in the middle of the road, the other bumps the curbs out to narrow the road. The bump outs and islands can be more landscaped than they usually appear with use of a decorative or stamped concrete and areas in the middle could be filled or landscaped. The Village of Garden City is beautiful and designs of public infrastructure should match it,” he said.

Creighton Manning also presented a concept for “normalizing” the crosswalk from Homestead School in the west, with adding two bump outs to shorten it. That would involve keeping the parking areas where students are dropped off and picked up.

“Nobody should be parking in crosswalks so taking space away from vehicles should not really be an issue,” Amabile said.

Another area traffic calming was discussed for is on South Avenue, near the Adelphi University campus entrance as the narrow road with higher vehicle speeds has been a site of several accidents.

Resident Steve Ilardi asked about the considerations of Garden City’s emergency response teams about the installations of any speed humps, islands or the extensions to curbs with bump-outs. He said those traffic calming measures were previously noted to have potential for causing a slight delay in response times. He also asked about the impacts for snow plowing service on local village roads, as snow plows would need to raise the plows at any locations with the humps or bump-outs.

Creighton Manning team members responded that there is a road treatment called a speed cushion, with use of rubber speed humps which are designed with openings for wider-gauge vehicles. Any emergency service trucks and vans, sanitation or plowing vehicles and others could go through the humps unimpeded and without a harsh impact to shocks. The consultants also noted that GCFD apparatus for example would more often be running routes on the same “primary” roads in order to get to every village residence, and those main routes would be highlighted for such adaptable traffic-calming treatments. They mentioned discussion on these aspects with the DPW Superintendent John Borroni and Police Commissioner Jackson.

GCMS Miracle Club collects lollipops for cancer patients

Garden City sophomores place at Envirothon

Garden City Middle School’s Miracle Club collected more than 40,000 lollipops for the NYU Langone Cancer Center for Kids.

Garden City Middle School’s Miracle Club collected more than 40,000 lollipops for children with cancer and delivered them to NYU Langone Cancer Center for Kids in Mineola.

Years ago, a Garden City Middle School student was treated at the center and shared with other students that treatment can leave a bad taste in one’s mouth. Because of this, the cancer center likes to always have lollipops avail-

From left: Hunter Maguire, Simone Oustacher, Annika Margolies and Madeleine McCarthy came in second overall at the Long Island Regional Envirothon.

On April 26, Garden City High School sophomores Madeleine McCarthy, Jeffrey Li, Hunter Maguire, Annika Margolies and Simone Oustacher placed second overall in the Long Island Regional Envirothon at the Usdan Summer Camp for the Arts. They competed against 28 teams from Nassau and Suffolk counties.

The Envirothon is a hands-on environmental education competition, testing knowledge and understanding of New York state’s natural resources. It

is based on five subject areas: aquatics, forestry, soils, wildlife and a current issue, which changes annually. The team gave a nine-minute presentation on the current issue prompt of, “adapting to climate change.”

Envirothon is administered by the Nassau and Suffolk County Soil & Water Conservation District. The Garden City School District congratulates the team on their ingenuity and success at the Envirothon.

able for patients and students decided this would be the perfect item to collect for patients in need.

After two weeks of collecting, Mrs. Castoro’s class collected the most lollipops for one class, totaling 6,641. Overall, the Miracle Club’s whopping donation of more than 40,000 lollipops hopes to ease the treatment process for as many patients as possible.

Mrs. Costoro’s class singlehandedly collected the most lollipops of any class at Garden City Middle School with a total of 6,641.

Photos courtesy of Garden City Public Schools

Photo courtesy of Garden City Public Schools

Garden City Girls Lacrosse keeps momentum going

The Garden City Girls Varsity Team entered Week 5 of its season on April 25 with a home game against Syosset. Garden City came out really strong the first half both on the offensive and defensive ends! The draw circle was dominated by our midfielders Kendal Morris, Marie Cacciabuado, Tori Ottomanelli, and Regan Backer. Senior captain Grace Hopkins got two early goals for the Trojans in the first half. The first half showcased a score of 7-3 in favor of the Trojans. Syosset tried to get back into the game, but defenders Mabel Overbeck, Ariana Bransfield, Kathryn Monaco, and Emily Romeo, played fan-

tasticly! Katie Gaven and Kyle Finell both racked up four points this game contributing to the offense. Junior goalie Niamh Pffaf totaled seven saves for this game. Garden City gained another win for their record with a 10-8 victory over Syosset!

The Garden City Trojans faced off against South Side on April 27. At halftime, South Side was leading 6-3 against the Trojans. However, the Trojans regrouped during halftime, coming out fierce during the second half. With less than a minute left in the second half, the Trojans were trailing 7-8. Sophomore attacker Kyle Finnell scored the tying

goal, forcing the game into overtime. Garden City had been in the same situation less than a week before when they played against Wantagh, so the girls knew how to handle the pressure. South Side won the draw and had the first possession of overtime. However, junior defender Emily Romeo forced a turnover and got the ball to Garden City's offense. Mauren Arendt then took her defender one-on-one and scored the game-winning goal! Garden City won 9-8 against South Side in a thrilling overtime victory. This game showcased the Trojans' resilience and determination to never give up. The Garden City

Trojans have once again proved why they are a force to be reckoned with!

Following another successful week, the Garden City Trojans are gearing up for their upcoming matches against Cold Spring Harbor and Manhasset. The Trojans are scheduled to take on Cold Spring Harbor on May 2 at 5 p.m on their home turf. The Girls Woodstick Classic will be held at Garden City High School on Saturday, May 6, facing off against Manhasset at 1 p.m. The team is excited and prepared for the upcoming challenges as it continues to be successful and improves on its record!

Freshman Avery Smith pushing the ball to the offense.

Freshman LeLe Gaffney looking to pass it around the offense.

Freshman Ashley Clark driving to goal.

Sophomore Meghan Lynch carrying the ball to the offense.

Junior Emily Romeo playing tight defense.

Photos by Ed Rotondo

GC Pool Registration Now Begins!

Summer is just around the corner and pool membership registration is underway. The Pool brochure and application can be found by visiting our website, www.gardencityrecreation.org.

This year, residents will have various ways to conveniently register. Residents can download an application and mail it in OR stop by the Recreation Office, 108 Rockaway Ave. Online registration is also available (you must have a password to sign up online, to receive a password you must go to the Recreation Office at 108 Rockaway Ave to verify your residency).

Please look through the brochure to see all of the new and exciting things that will be happening at the GC Pool this season. The pool opens on Saturday, June 10, at 12 noon. Hope to see everyone there! For additional information on the pool please visit our website’s Pool page!

Summer Chess Wizards Camps Announced

Garden City Recreation and Parks has again partnered with the very popular “Chess Wizards” to offer after school programs for Garden City children ages 5 through 12 who want to learn the game of chess!

Chess Wizards is a fun way to have kids experience the excitement of chess. Kids will play in mini tournaments, have interactive lessons with chess pros and play cool chess variants like bug house. It is proven that chess enhances cognitive development in children, improves both verbal and mathematical skills, and increases all levels of academic performance! Playing chess stimulates the mind and helps children strengthen skills such as focusing, visualizing goals, abstract thinking, and forming concrete opinions.

Instructors (who are called "Wizards") provide all the materials necessary for your child to participate in the class and no additional purchase is required to attend. All students will receive a trophy, puzzle folder and wizards t-shirt. Come join the fun!!!

Two weeks of camp will be offered for this program:

• July 24–28 from 9 a.m. to noon OR noon to 3 p.m.

• August 14–18 from 9 a.m. to noon OR noon to 3 p.m.

All classes will be held in St. Paul’s Cottages.

The cost of each 5-day, 3-hour camp is $220. Your child may register for a full day and bring lunch at a cost of $320.

To register for this program please visit the Chess Wizards website at www. chesswizards.com.

Incrediflix Filmaking Camps for Ages 7–13

Incrediflix is back! This very popular film making camp guides children through the aspects of this great hobby.

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Children will work in age appropriate groups to create and make their own short film. Topics are listed below. Lunch supervision is included for any child who would like to stay for both sessions of that week’s camp. All flix will be professionally edited and will be downloadable within a month after camp ends.

Where: Community Park Tennis Hut

Cost: $205 for each ½ day session, or $385 if you register for both sessions in the same week, bring your lunch, stay for two classes

Topics are:

Week of July 17–20:

Live Action Flix

9:00 a.m. to moon

Discover your filmmaking talents! You don’t have to be an actor to take part, as we'll guide you through the Hollywood process to create, direct, film, act, and more. You won't just make an incredible movie, you'll have the skills to make your own movies with friends.

Claymation Flix

1:00 to 4:00 p.m.

Join us as we make our own Claymation movie! You will create your own clay character to star in a movie you will film, direct, and voice over in small groups!

Week of July 31 – August 3

Action Movie Flix

9:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m

There is no limits in your action packed movie when using a green screen and camera tricks. You will collaborate to write, act and direct in this stunt packed moved where you will be taught action choreography to thrill an audience!

Action Stop Motion Flix

1:00 to 4:00 pm

Use stop motion tricks to create fires, explosions, and even floods as your characters battle it out or work together to save the day in the action packed stop motion class. You will work in small groups to storyboard, create the action and film these exciting movies.

To register, please visit the Recreation and Parks Office at 108 Rockaway Avenue. Checks only please, made payable to Incrediflix.

Girls’ Softball Camp for Grades 2–5

Recreation and Parks’ softball camp will teach young aspiring players entering grades 2 through 5 the basic skills of softball. Every aspect of the game will be covered including hitting, fielding, base running, pitching, and more. Team play will be emphasized. The goal of this camp is for young athletes to improve their overall self confidence and knowledge of the game.

When: July 10 – July 13

Time: 9 – 11:30 a.m.

Where: Community Park Softball

Field Cost: $ 130

To register, please visit the Recreation and Parks office at 108 Rockaway Avenue or, if you have a password you can register online at www.gcreconline.gardencityny.net.

Recreation’s Youth Basketball Camp

The Garden City Recreation Department will be conducting a Youth Basketball Camp for boys and girls entering 1st through 5th grades in September who are residents of the Inc. Village of Garden City. Come join us and learn what it takes to pass, dribble and shoot in this camp. The purpose of this program is to provide instruction in self-improvement, basketball fundamentals, team play, group cooperation, and most important of all, FUN!

When: Monday June 26 through Thursday, June 29

Where: St. Paul’s Field House

Time: 9 – 11:30 a.m.

Fee: $ 130 each week

To register, please visit the Recreation and Parks office at 108 Rockaway Avenue or, if you have a password you can register online at www.gcreconline.gardencityny.net.

Youth Baseball Camp at Community Park

Recreation and Parks will again conduct a Summer Baseball Camp for boys and girls that are residents of the Village of Garden City and entering 1st through 5th grades in September.

This instructional program is offered for boys and girls entering 1st through 5th grades. The camp will focus on individual skill development, and the importance of playing together as a team.

Youngsters in each age category will be divided into appropriate skill levels and will receive group instruction.

EQUIPMENT NEEDED: Baseball glove, sneakers or rubber cleats

When: Week of July 17–20

Where: Community Park’s Baseball Fields

Time: 9 – 11:30 a.m.

Fee: $ 130 each week

To register, please visit the Recreation and Parks office at 108 Rockaway Avenue or, if you have a password you can register online at www.gcreconline.gardencityny.net.

Instructional Pickleball Camp for Grades 5 to 8

Garden City Recreation and Parks will offer 4 days of beginner pickleball lessons to children in grade 5–8 who are residents of the Village of Garden City.

This program will provide an opportunity to learn every aspect of this fast growing sport. Explanation of the court, game rules, and court etiquette will be taught while playing. This program will be administered by

Jackie Flynn, Recreation leader and phys. ed. teacher.

The 4 day session will begin on Monday, July 3 and run from 9 to 11:30 a.m. There will be no class on July 4. Paddles will be provided. The cost of this program will be $99. Please visit our Recreation and Parks office at 108 Rockaway Avenue to register or, if you have a password you can register online at www.gcreconline.gardencityny.net.

Get a Jump on the Summer

US Sports and Garden City Recreation have again joined up to run our very popular summer sports programs at Community Park and St. Paul’s. Weekly summer programs include soccer, multisport, flag football, field hockey, lacrosse, and golf. They also offer Parent and Me classes as well as 3 to 5-year-old Squirt programs!

These programs are open to Village residents ages 2 to 11 years. To see what is offered and to register, please visit US Sports website at www.usasportgroup.com and look for Garden City.

GC Recreation & Parks Presents Mad Science Summer Camp

Mad Science of Long Island is a company who provides a wonderful learning experience in a camp setting. Residents of the Village of Garden City entering grades 1–5 are encouraged to attend. The topics and details for each camp are listed below.

For any Science Camp, all checks should be made payable to LI Steam Group. To register, please visit the Recreation and Parks office at 108 Rockaway Avenue.

FOR ALL WEEKS:

Where: St. Paul’s Center

Time: 9 a.m. to 12 p.m

Fee: $350, checks only made payable to LI Steam Group

Weekly topics are:

July 10–14

Topic: Flight Academy for Entering Grades 1–5

Birds, kites, planes and rockets—if it flies we will explore it in this camp! All week long campers will build various flying machines, explore space, and learn about Newton’s laws of motion in the fun camp!

July 17–21

Topic: Brixology for Entering Grades 2–5

Using Lego bricks, kids build a different engineering themed project in each class! They explore different engineering fields while using critical thinking and creative problem solving to improve their creations!

July 24–28

Topic: Ready to ROBOT for Entering Grades 2–5 ($25 additional fee during

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the first day of class)

Children will learn the uses of robots in our world and spend time experimenting with them in this fun session! Participants will build their own working robot to take home with them at the end of the camp.

July 31–August 4 & 5

Topic: Motion Madness for Entering Grades 1–5

Science and engineering go hand in hand as we explore what machines and nature have in common. Campers will build various structures as they learn the FUN-damental forces that affect motion.

August 7–11

Topic: BOTS Lab

($30 additional fee during the first day of class)

Explore the world of robotics in the hands on class! Campers take home awesome daily science projects and will complete a robot that they will take home at the end of the camp!

August 21–25

Topic: Crazy Chemworks for Entering Grades 2–5

Participants will learn real lab techniques and safety procedures while using these throughout the week making crazy concoctions and chemical combinations. Glow in the dark, potions, slime and other projects with be introduced.

Imagine Arts Academy Summer Camp

For Entering Grades 1–5

Recreation and Parks will offer the following summer art camps for Garden City residents entering grades 1–5 in the cottages at St. Paul’s. Each session is one week long and runs from 9 a.m. to noon. The subjects of each camp and the dates are as follows:

Crayola® Artist’s Passport (June 26–30) - Embark on an “around the world” cultural adventure! Explore far off places and learn about the people who live here while experimenting with Crayola® products! We will “travel” from the Americas to Polynesia while trying art techniques developed by local artisans. Each day we will make a unique creation while learning about the different cultures.

Crayola® Artblazers (August 14–18) – Participants discover inspiring masterpieces and artists who have changed the world of art. They will experiment with different techniques and use Crayola® art materials to express their ideas. They design a unique, artist inspired creation in each class.

The fee for each week will be $ 350, checks only made payable to LI Steam Group. To register, please visit the Recreation and Parks Office at 108 Rockaway Avenue.

Community Park Summer Tennis Camps for Ages 4-15

Recreation and Parks’ Tennis Camp program offers children ages 4 through 15 an opportunity to learn or advance their tennis skills while working with experienced tennis pros in a fun setting. Our camps are set by age and children will be grouped according to ability within their camp. All sessions are held at the Community Park Tennis Center. The age of the child at the start of the session will determine which session the child may attend and proof of age may be required. Please read the information below to determine which camp your child is eligible to attend.

Equipment needed: flat soled sneakers and a tennis racket. Please note that rackets are provided for the peewee level.

All Camps will follow the same session dates:

SESSIONS:

A - June 26 – 29

B - July 3 – 6 (No class July 4)

C - July 10 – 13

D - July 17 – 20

PEEWEE CAMP – For ages 4 – 6. For the beginner child, tennis skills will be learned by fun and easy to do drills taught by our tennis staff.

Time: 9 a.m. to 10 a.m., Cost: $75

NOVICE CAMP – For ages 6 and 7. This camp will teach serving, rallying, and the basics of a tennis game, keeping it fun for the younger tennis set.

Time: 9 a.m. to 10 a.m. Cost: $ 75

JUNIOR CAMP – For ages 8 – 11. For all levels of experience, this camp will group players by ability so that everyone can move to the next level.

Time: 10 a.m. – Noon. Cost: $ 125

JUNIOR ADVANCED CAMP - For children ages 8 to 11.

Time: 12:30 to 2:30 p.m. Cost: $125

SENIOR CAMP - For ages 12 to 16. For all levels of experience.

Time: 12:30 to 2:30 p.m. Cost: $125

SENIOR ADVANCED CAMP - For children ages 12 to 15.

Time: 12:30 to 2:30 p.m. Cost: $125

To register, please visit the Recreation and Parks office at 108 Rockaway Avenue or, if you have a password you can register online at www.gcreconline.gardencityny.net.

The Community Garden is Open This year!

Recreation and Parks is happy to announce that our Community Garden will be open to plant this year. Residents wishing to obtain a plot should call our office at 465-4075.

Participants are responsible for the needs of their plot including planting, weeding, and harvesting.

Space is limited and will be given out on a first come, first served basis.

GCHS Boys Lacrosse Game, Woodstick Recap

Garden City 14, Roslyn 5

In a dominant display, Garden City Boys lacrosse defeated Roslyn 14-5 on GC’s Senior Day Celebrations. Senior Mathew Heaney led the way with a goal, while goals by senior Henry Gibbons (3), senior Jack Archer (2), Andrew Ottomanelli (2), senior James Paisley (2) and senior Stevie Finnell (2) kept the scoreboard ticking. Goals by senior Brandon Rosenblatt and Cooper Kraus ensured a comfortable victory for Garden City, which improved its record to 7-3 on the year.

The team's offense was firing on all cylinders, and its defense was equally impressive in holding Roslyn to just five goals. The win was a fitting way to celebrate the contributions of the team's seniors, who have all been instrumental in the program's success. Additional seniors are Matt Suba, Thomas Walker, Kevin Roberti, Gabe Psilakis, Matthew Mehling, Brian Berkery, Rocco D’Amelio, Sawyer Olson, Bryan Boccafola, Ryan Krieg, Tristan Mullahey, Owen Parini, Kevin Dealey, Mason Cincotta, Cole Webber, Patrick Blum, Hayden Minuto, and RJ Votruba. Garden City will look to build on this victory as it continues its season.

The 139th Woodstick Classic

On the 139th meeting of the Woodstick Classic lacrosse game, Garden City faced off against Manhasset in a highly anticipated match-up. Despite being considered the clear underdog based on national polls, the Trojans were fired up and determined to battle the highly ranked Manhasset Indians. Prior to the game, Garden City's players were locked-in with the fierce look of determination on their faces.

The game began with Garden City's defense locking down Manhasset while

the offense unloaded five straight goals in the first half. Manhasset would get one before the half, but Garden City was in control, leading 5-1. On the back of Manhasset's Fogo, who would win 19straight face-offs, the Indians were able to dominate the possession game in the second half and battle back to tie and eventually take a two-goal lead of 8 to 6 late in the fourth quarter.

The Garden City players with steely eyed determination never quit. Like the Trojans of Homer’s Iliad, the GC Trojans heroically battled to take back the game. As Manhasset tried to stall and play keep-away, Garden City's defense executed a critical take-away and the GC offense turned it into a goal, making it a one-goal game. With under two minutes to go, the GC defense took the ball away from Manhasset again and put it in the sure hands of its offense. After a time-out, GC moved the ball around to set up their play. With a sweeping topside dodge, Stevie Finnell split two defenders and ripped the back of the net to tie the game with under a minute to play– and the game headed to overtime.

In overtime Manhasset was able to ride their Fogo again to gain possession and turn an unsettled situation into a transition goal. The Garden City players collapsed on the field in disappointment, but they should be proud of their effort. Despite losing all 19 face-offs in thegame, Garden City took the #3 team in the country to overtime. These boys left it all on the field Saturday, and should be proud of their chapter in this 139th meeting of the Woodstick.

The final score was 9-8 in favor of Manhasset. Garden City's record falls to 7-4 on the season, with all four losses to top national teams, and all four losses by a single goal.

GC for a Cure Run/Walk raises $15K for charity

The 14th annual “Garden City Teachers’ Association event, a 5K timed Race, and a 1-mile Fun Run/Walk”, held on Saturday, April 29, was a huge success, despite the stormy weather. This annual event that attracted 150 participants and 50+ volunteers raised approximately $15,000 for the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society, Ronald McDonald House N.Y. Metro, Kids Need More, and the Michele White Scholarship Fund.

The event began when teachers, students, parents, community members and local merchants poured into the

Garden City High School cafeteria on Friday, April 28, bringing with them more than 60 raffle baskets, each valued at well over $50. Excited volunteers began registration and distributed race t-shirts. Middle School students aggressively and successfully sold scrumptious baked goods and candy bags that were created from the students’ donations. While decorations were going up, delicious pre-race pasta meals were sold to all participants, courtesy of La Bottega with 100% of the proceeds going directly to the race.

Saturday, soon after daybreak, energetic and enthusiastic volunteers con-

tinued to implement the well-organized plans of the “GC for a Cure” Committee leaders: Kerry Calvert (race director), Emily Ribeiro (assistant director), Melissa Coyne, Jeanne Colwell, Katie Forte, Ali Wiener, and Susanna Sheehan. Cheerful helpers hung signs and kites, assembled the start/finish lines, displayed balloons and organized the food, raffle and awards tables. Mike Riccio of Mr. DJ Entertainment played race-pumping music for all to enjoy. Four Seasons Realty donated bagels for the event, Daniel Gale/Sothebys donated delicious, ripe bananas, and Pizzeria G supplied pizza after the race. Emma

Harty, a junior at GC High School, sang the national anthem, and Troop 322 led the participants in the Pledge of Allegiance.

Although every participant was considered a winner at this spectacular event, special congratulations go to 1st Place Male- Ryan McAlea (17:31), 2nd Place Male- Daniel Butt (18:01) and 3rd Place Male-Tyler McAlea (19:33), and to 1st Place Female- Samantha Siler (18:23), 2nd Place Female-Abigail Tedesco (21:14) and 3rd Place FemaleTaylor Maguire (21:14).

This event wouldn’t have been possible without the help and support of all

Middle School Principal Matthew Samuelson and Middle School teacher Katie Flannery.

5K runners crossing the finish line.

Teacher Kristie Orrego, Race Director Kerry Calvert, Assistant Race Director Emily Ribeiro.

Sponsor Community Care Home Health Services.

GC for a Cure Run/Walk raises $15K for charity

Sponsor Four Seasons Realty.

those who participated and volunteered throughout the year with planning, preparation, advertising, and fundraising. Thank you to our dedicated sponsors: Garden City SEPTA, Garden City PTA, The Founders Group at Morgan Stanley, La Bottega, Doc O'Grady's, Daniel Gale-Sotheby’s, Four Seasons Realty, Team Calvert, Park Place, Mr. DJ Entertainment, Walter Levchuck, Crossfit Garden City, Stewart Manor Country Club, Patriot Supply, Garden City Dental, Island Aquascape Inc., Leo’s Tavern, Pizzeria G, Community Care Home Health Services, and The

Jamie and Paige Malone Foundation.

The GCTA would also like to thank local business owners who donated raffle items and gift cards. (Coquette, Madison Taylor Salon, Revel, Calogero’s Italian Restaurant, Grimaldi’s Pizzeria, Kinha Sushi, Burger Spot, ITA Kitchen, Nassau Nails, Avellino’s, Avo Taco, Luigi’s, Food for Thought, Edible Arrangements, Baya Bar, Greek City, Madison Taylor, Orangetheory, Go Greek, Dawn at The Bagel Store, Adelphi Deli, Garden City Wines & Spirits, Garden City Bistro, Waterzooi, RUSE, Dave & Busters, My 3 Sons,

Mesita, Madison’s Niche, and Prime Catering)

The annual event would not be possible without the continued support from the Garden City Public School District, The Village of Garden City, The Garden City Police Department, NYU Langone, Elitefeats, The National Charity League, and the GREAC. The National Charity League manned the Mile 2 water station, and the GREAC manned the Mile 1 water station. Thank you to the Garden City Turkey Trot Directors for their assistance. Special appreciation goes out to all those who

live on the racecourse for their continued support.

A very special thank you go to Garden City SEPTA for being this year’s Top Sponsor and to Walter Levchuck for being the Top Fundraiser!

The overwhelming generosity and participation of the Garden City Community members made this event a huge success. All were united to support great causes that will make a difference in the fight against cancer. For those who were not able to make it to the event and would like to contribute, please visit www.gcforacure.com.

Sponsor Daniel Gale Sotheby’s.

Garden City Varsity Baseball 12-0 in conference play

The Garden City High School Varsity Baseball team had another big week sweeping Roslyn High School in all three Conference games this week. The boys are now 12-0 on the season in conference play. The team keeps rolling, and key contributions are coming from up and down the lineup.

On Monday, April 24, Garden City traveled to Roslyn to win by a score of 14-0. Gabe Beschloss continued his dominant pitching season by throwing a complete game shutout, 8 strikeouts, 4 hit performance. Key contributions

were from Danny Psaki (3 hits, 4 runs, 1 RBI), Evan Cabral (2 hits, 5 RBIs, 1 run), and Braden Soutar (1 hit, 2 RBIs). Other key contributions came from Matt Guida (2 runs, 1 RBI), and Matt Liberopolous (2 runs), as they both scored two times each.

In the 2nd game of the series, Tuesday April 25, Roslyn traveled to Garden City, where our boys won 9-4. Evan Cabral earned the win pitching 6 innings with 10 strikeouts. Danny Psaki continued his torrid hitting pace leading the way with 4 hits, 2 RBIs, 2 stolen bases and 2

runs scored. Other offensive highlights included Matthew Tusiani-Eng (2 hits, 3 RBIs, 1 SB) and Evan Cabral (2 hits, 1 RBI, 1 run). Derek Santeramo (1 hit, 2 runs, 1 SB), and Braden Soutar (2 runs), both also logged 2 runs scored and a stolen base each in this contest. Brady Karol came on to close out a final scoreless inning for the win.

The third and final game was on Thursday, April 27, back at Roslyn High School. Garden City won 13-6 in this final game. Roslyn sensing their final chance to salvage the series, came out

swinging and jumped out to an early 5-0 lead over the first two innings. Garden city roared back with 6 runs in the third inning and never gave up the lead again after that. Josh Cohen came on to earn the win, throwing 3 2/3 innings and giving up only 2 hits, with 3 strikeouts. Big offensive support came from Jack Fanning who had 3 doubles on the day (3 hits, 4 RBIs, 2R, 1 SB), Evan Cabral (2 hits, 2 runs, 1 RBI). Other offensive contributions came from Danny Psaki (1 hit, 1 run), Matt Tusiani-Eng (1 hit, 2 runs), Stamati Makrinos (1 hit, 1 run), Gabe Beschloss (1 hit, 3 RBIs, 1 run), Tyler Gorman (1 hit, 2 runs, 1 RBI), and Sean Leanardo (1 hit, 2 RBIs). Matt Liberopolous came on to pitch the final inning to put an exclamation point on the sweep.

The GC Trojans will continue in Conference Play vs. Glen Cove. By the time you read this article, the team will have completed the Glen Cove Series. Upcoming games will be Saturday, May 6, at Port Washington, 10:00 a.m. Then 3 games vs. the Southside Cyclones. The boys will play home games on Monday May 8th and Weds May 10, at 4:45 p.m. They will travel to Southside (Rockville Centre) for the May 9th contest. The boys' undefeated conference play record remains intact at 12-0. Their final nonleague game is Thursday, May 11, @ 4:45 p.m. vs. Oceanside. This home game will be “Senior Day”. Come on down and cheer the team on. They are playing an exciting brand of baseball for Garden City and love the continued support. Let’s go Trojans! Photos by Ed Rotondo

Danny Psaki beats the throw.

Tyler Gorman receives congrats from Coach Chaputian.

Matt Liberopolous with the circus catch to save a run. Evan Cabral flashing the power. Josh Cohen’s dealing vs. Roslyn.

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The 2022 Thunder 9s are ready for the 10-year-old division.

Registration for the 2023 Garden City Thunder season is now open. Please visit GCThunder.com for online registration. Thunder Football is open to boys ages 7–11 (next year’s 2nd through 6th grade) who live in Garden City and

want to compete against other towns in Nassau County. The teams are coached by volunteers who teach the boys the fundamentals of football, sportsmanship and how to be good teammates.

Registration ends May 31.

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