The Garden City News (8/17/18) by Litmor Publishing

Friday, August 17, 2018

Vol. 94, No.48

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Summer enrichment PAGE 46 n Tree removals? PAGE 3

Temporary restraining order issued in firefighter layoffs

SWIM ACROSS GARDEN CITY

By Meg Morgan Norris

The Garden City Pool was recently the site of Garden City's Swim Across America event. Swimmers of all ages enjoyed a fun evening of swimming, music and drinks while raisng funds for charity. See page 42

Village examines benefits for volunteers By Meg Morgan Norris

The Village of Garden City has been examining a possible service award program to members of the volunteer fire department for several months, according to documents the Garden City News acquired via a Freedom of Information Law request. The type of program, known as Length of Service Awards Programs (LOSAP) provide

retirement benefit payments to volunteers in exchange for their years of service. Such a program would have to be approved both by the Board of Trustees and also by Garden City voters at a referendum. There are two main types of LOSAP programs. In both cases benefits would start when a firefighter reaches an entitlement age such as 65, or when they

become disabled or die. In a defined benefit program the volunteer firefighter would receive a monthly benefit dependent on the number of years served. In a defined contribution plan, the volunteer would receive a lump sum at entitlement age depending on years of service. An email from Village See page 37

Six Garden City residents will be going to court next week to attempt to have a judge throw out a decision by the Garden City Board of Trustees to abolish the jobs of all of the Village’s paid firefighters. On Wednesday, New York State Supreme Court Justice R. Bruce Cozzens issued a temporary restraining order against the Village of Garden City which prohibits the Village from taking any action on its resolution to abolish the jobs of the firefighters, pending a court hearing on August 22nd. The six residents, Kathleen Joyce, Meagan Male, T.J. Michon, Kent and Karen Reiter and Robert Wolff, claim that the Village failed to conduct an environmental review of the action; failed to comply with the state’s Open Meetings Law; and failed to comply with conflict of interest rules in the Village’s Ethic’s Code. The action is brought under Article 78 of New York State’s Civil Practice Law and seeks to void the Village’s resolution to abolish the paid fire department, which was passed by the Board of Trustees on July 25th. The petition to the court lays out three courses of action. First, it says that the action of laying off the firefighters is subject to the New York State Environmental Quality Review Act, and that the Village made no determination whether an environmental review was necessary. The second cause of action claims that Trustee Mark Hyer, who voted to abolish the paid department, is himself a volunteer firefighter and should have recused himself from the vote. The third cause of action is whether the Village broke the New York State Open Meetings Law in several aspects. The plaintiffs claim the Village failed to publish a copy of the resolution prior to the meeting, and that the lack of notices “appears to have been calculated to minimize public awareness of a sensitive political decision”

Union makes proposal

Firefighters union president T.J. Michon said the union made a proposal to settle the dispute this week, but have not received a response from the Village as of Wednesday. According to the proposal, which he supplied to the Garden City News, the union would agree to give up having exclusive See page 37

Swim Team "A" wins sixth consecutive championship PAGE 56 History pictured: The Garden City that disappeared PAGES 24-25

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A WORD FROM THE PUBLISHER

It trickles down

This week we join with newspapers across the nation to decry the efforts of the administration to marginalize the news media. With cries of "Fake News" and suggestions that supporters assault reporters during rallies, President Trump has taken our country down a road we should be very afraid of. It may seem that the distrust of the media is only a problem for our big brothers in the national news, but it's not. Even here in Garden City we've encountered echoes of it. At a meeting held by the firefighters union last week, someone made the "Fake News" comment about us. Maybe they were joking, or maybe not. You may not like what we've been

writing about and you may hate the conclusions we've drawn in editorials, (especially in the last couple of weeks) but we're going to continue asking the hard questions of our public officials. That's our job. The tenor of the local debate seems to also reflect the extreme polarization that we've seen nationally, as well. It's not enough to disagree anymore - there's a whole new level of anger that we're seeing about our local issues. It's not enough any more to simply disagree. Now instead of seeking facts we're hurling insults. This is not where we should be going as a Village and not where we should be going as a nation.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Email: Editor@GCNews.com

Hasty decision by Board To the Editor: This letter is to encourage residents to sign the petitions being circulated to insure that there will be a referendum on whether or not to maintain paid fire positions along with volunteers as part of the village Fire Department. Approximately 4000 signatures are needed to qualify for a permissive referendum in the fall. The referendum will allow residents to express by their vote whether to keep a paid force or go to an all volunteer department. Without the required number of resident signatures the referendum will not happen. The referendum is necessary because of the manner in which the paid department was eliminated by a hasty decision by the Mayor and Trustees at a recent Board meeting. This is contrary to the manner in which important decisions are made in our Village. The response time in Garden City to alarms has always been better than other communities with all volunteer departments. I believe we will be sacrificing precious minutes to an alarm without a paid force as part of the department. Several years ago a friend had an alarm at his residence which would have resulted in a very serious fire if not for the quick response time of the paid and volunteers to his house. I live at the Wyndham complex and can vouch for the quick response time we have had to several alarms in our building. I fear we will lose this without a paid force. I urge residents to sign the petitions so that we can have a permissive referendum which will allow residents to vote yes or no on this hasty decision by the Village Board. Peter E. Gall Editor’s note: Mr. Gall is a former mayor of Garden City.

The Mayor responds

To the Editor: I would like to respond to some of the

inaccurate claims I have heard recently regarding the Village Board’s decision to abolish only the paid firefighting component of the Village Fire Department. Remember, over 100 trained volunteer firefighters will continue to protect our residents and businesses as they have done so capably for many years. They answer every call. At the paid firefighters’ recent “information meeting,” Mr. Michon, president of the paid firefighters’ union, avoided answering direct questions from residents. Mr. Michon tried to claim that the paid contingent did not have any issue with volunteers responding to calls ahead of any paid firefighters. He insinuated that the Chiefs, not the paid members, wanted the volunteers to stand down until the paid members respond, and that such practice was approved by the former Village attorney and Board of Trustees. That is absolutely FALSE. FACT: On April 5, 2012, an alarm was received for a location near the Village’s east-side firehouse. A number of volunteers were present at Headquarters when the alarm came in. Seeking to capitalize on their presence, the Chief sent a volunteer to the scene in a ladder truck. A paid firefighter later arrived at Headquarters and drove a second ladder truck to the scene. FACT: On April 10, 2012, the union filed a grievance over the fact that the volunteer-operated ladder truck responded before the paid member-operated ladder truck. According to the union, this violated its “exclusivity over driving and operating all first due apparatus of the Garden City Fire Department.” FACT: The remedy sought by the union in its grievance had nothing to do with public safety. The union wanted the Village to “[i]mmediately cease and desist from assigning bargaining unit work to ‘non bargaining union members’ and make Union members whole for any lost compensation as a result of improper assignment of bargaining See page 40

BY MEG MORGAN NORRIS

Garden City residents who live near the St. Paul’s soccer fields, have asked the Village to reconsider cutting down many large trees on the St. Paul’s Field. According to a resident who contacted the Garden City News, some of the trees that have been marked for removal are large, old trees and predate the soccer fields. Another resident, Jackie Sprotte, reached out to Village officials and asked them to reconsider because removing the trees might cause environmental damage. “I know first hand how St. Paul’s is home for many birds, rabbits and other wildlife. I know taking down that many trees will forever change the character of St. Paul’s,” she said. Ms. Sprotte said after speaking with Village Administrator Ralph Suozzi she believes the Village may reduce the number of trees that will be removed. Reached for comment, Garden City Mayor Brian Daughney said, “As announced in public at Board of Trustee meetings held in June 2018, and as announced publicly in the GC News in the Village weekly columns on June 21, 2018 and June 28, 2018, the Village is undertaking clearing of brush, trees, and overgrowth along the parkland bor-

ders at the St Paul’s field complex. “For the past several years, the Village has spent millions of dollars working to improve the Village’s playing fields. This work has progressed at all parks. The St. Paul’s fields are heavily used for soccer, lacrosse, and other sports. The Village’s Recreation Department, as well as the Commission of Recreation and Cultural Affairs comprised of residents, determined that many of the fields at the St. Paul’s complex could benefit from rotation and a change in location. This clearing will allow fields to be shifted and areas of play to be rested and reseed without interference. For example, there are many areas that are barren because the goal areas have not been changed in years, partly because trees and other vegetation is in the way. In some cases, this will allow the Recreation Department to move fields by some 20 to 30 yards and add needed practice and spectator areas. “Some of this vegetation growth has been ignored for years. In other cases, residents living along the borders have planted trees and hedges and shrubs on public land, sometimes some 20 yards or more onto parkland, We believe that most residents would agree that private parties should not take public land for their own personal benefit and enrich-

Some of the trees at St. Paul’s which have been slated for removal by the Village. ment, and St. Paul’s is a public park intended for use by all. “While the Board understands that the removal of trees can sometimes be a sensitive issue, these trees are not in an arboretum - the land in question is for playing fields and the growth to be removed should never have been allowed to grow where it has. The growth of trees in particular adversely affects the growth of grass on playing fields because of their long and often shallow root systems and the shade that

they cause far away from their trunks. Over the last several years, many of our local golf courses have similarly cleared trees because of their adverse effect on areas of play and the growth of grass. This growth also has negatively impacted our ability to increase the supply of water through our sprinkler systems. “The Village intends on maintaining a large buffer of at least 30 feet along the perimeter of the park and the playing fields. These changes will not impact any private property.”

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Village to begin tracking its vehicles with GPS BY RIKKI N. MASSAND At its meeting on July 25, Garden City’s Village Board of Trustees approved an allocation of $30,830 for the Department of Public Works (DPW) to initiate installations of a GPS tracking system in all village vehicles, from the Building Department and Recreation and Parks to DPW, police and fire. The expense was approved along with a municipal transfer of funds ($30,830) from the village’s ‘Contingent’ budget account into the Central Garage - Contractual Services fund, as the agenda item was explained as a Board of Trustees “Priority Project” published on June 1, 2017, with the GPS tracking ranked then as “Secondary Task and Project.” The initial goal on the Priority List was to have “a plan for implementation, including costs and payment, by September 1, 2017 and to commence installations by December 1, 2017.” A press release from the Village of Garden City, posted on its website on August 13, summarized the intention of the expenditure and the goal put on the Board’s 2017-2018 Priorities List: “At the July 25, 2018 Board meeting, trustees approved funding for the Village to install GPS tracking systems in all village vehicles. According to Public Works Superintendent Joseph

DiFrancisco, investment in this system will give the village the ability to monitor its assets and also maintain efficiency in manpower deployment. In addition, this system will provide new tools and reporting methods to assist in the maintenance and repairs of all Village vehicles. The systems will be installed over the next few months.”

Concern over GCPD vehicles

Trustee Mark Hyer, a retired NYPD detective, immediately asked DiFrancisco about the GPS tracking being installed in the village’s police and fire vehicles. He told his fellow trustees and the village’s executive staff there can be a safety concern if the GCPD vehicles are able to be tracked through GPS. “I don’t want people tracking police department vehicles as to where they are – it’s a safety issue to track the police,” Hyer said. During the July 25 meeting DiFrancisco referred to the Board’s authorization granting DPW the opportunity to install GPS tracking “in any and all village vehicles as we deem necessary.” He answered Trustee Hyer that the funding allocated did allow for all police and fire to be outfitted with the tracking systems. “Whether we pursue this in all police and fire vehicles is a decision that will be made later.” The

official August 13 press release, however, referred to “all village vehicles.” Mayor Brian Daughney stated there wasn’t the potential for a GPS unit to be tracked by the general public. The initial goal and project’s intent, stated on the Board Priorities’ List last year, specified the installation of GPS trackers in village vehicles “to permit Executive Staff to view locations” of the vehicles. In an age of online hacking into sys-

tems and data, Trustee Hyer commented on the tracking system as he wanted to make sure GCPD officers and the community are not vulnerable to any threats the GPS locators in police cruisers could carry. Several navigation systems on the market, and the popular smartphone app Waze for example, alert drivers when a police vehicle is detected on the road they are traveling along.

WPOA plans informational meetings on major issues

The Western Property Owners Association (WPOA) has informational meetings scheduled for its membership covering major issues impacting the Westside. On Tuesday August 21st, at 7pm at the G.C. Library, the WPOA will share any updated information on the firefighters issue and invite all parties for questions and answers. At the meeting, a survey for the WPOA membership will be taken on St Paul’s. On Tuesday, September 4th at 7pm at the Homestead School, the

WPOA will host an informational meeting on the 3rd Track and examine the latest information. LIRR officials will be available for questions. On Wednesday, September 26th, at 7:30pm, also at Homestead School, the WPOA will begin its General Meetings for the 2018-19 year. At any of the upcoming information gatherings, please bring your WPOA 2018 dues if you have not paid. Please call Gerry Kelly at 502-6710 or gerry7th@gmail.com for additional information.

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Vehicle damaged: On August 8th the driver's side of a vehicle parked in Parking Field #11 was found damaged by unknown means. SUV hits overpass: On August 8th a large SUV traveling east on Sixth Street struck the Chestnut Street train overpass. The driver and three passengers were transported to a local hospital for various non-life threatening injuries. The driver, a 39 year old woman, was charged with disregarding bridge clearance signs and uninsured operation. Traffic light fails: On August 9th Garden City Police were assigned to the intersection of Stewart Avenue and Clinton Road for a lengthy traffic light malfunction. Leaving the scene: On August 9th Garden City Detectives arrested a 17 year old Elmont male, for allegedly laving the scene of a two-vehicle accident on Stewart Avenue on July 28. He was also charged with unlicensed operation. Decorating thief? On August 9th money and a set of curtains were reported stolen from a vehicle parked at a Newmarket Road residence. Truck stop: On August 9th a commercial vehicle inspection was conducted by Officers on Clinton Road. Fourteen vehicles were inspected of which ten were placed out of service. Ninety-five tickets were issued for various traffic and safety violations, including ten overweight violations, four defective brake violations, a defective steering violation, two hazardous material violations and three unsecure load violations. In addition, one driver, a 47 year old Shirley man, was charged with aggravated unlicensed operation (suspended license). Handbag stolen: On August 10th a handbag containing personal

papers and other items was reported stolen from a vehicle parked at a Brixton Road residence. Multiple violations: On August 11th a vehicle travelling south on Clinton Road was stopped by an Officer for excessive speed. Upon investigation, the driver, a 24 year old Shirley woman, was arrested for driving with nine license suspensions, unlicensed operation and excessive speed (64 MPH in a 30 MPH zone). DWI accident: On August 13th a Garden City Police officer observed a vehicle travelling west on Stewart Avenue at 85 MPH and passing red traffic lights at Tanners Pond Road, Clinch Avenue and New Hyde Park Road. The vehicle then struck a tree at Covert Avenue. The driver, an 18 year old Floral Park man, was arrested for DWI, excessive speed and passing three red traffic signal lights. Wreaths stolen: On August 13th two wreaths were reported stolen from the front door of a Garden Street home. Another DWI arrest was made on August 14th when a vehicle was stopped for passing a red light on Franklin Avenue at Stewart Avenue. Upon investigation, the driver, 44 year old Hempstead man, was arrested for DWI and passing a red traffic signal light. More vehicles entered: On August 14th two vehicles on Wilson Street were entered during the overnight hours. There is no reported loss at this time.

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Back to School Backpack, Supply Drive at Library Senator Kemp Hannon in conjunction with the Long Island Nets and United Way is sponsoring a Back to School Backpack and Supply Drive. A collection box will be located in the lobby of the Garden City Public Library

throughout the month of August. Supplies needed include backpacks, pens, pencils, rulers, crayons, protractors, lined paper, notebooks, composition paper, folders, binders, basic calculators, glue sticks, and highlighters.

Republicans seek poll workers The Garden City Republican Committee is looking for Election Inspectors and Poll Coordinators for the upcoming Primary Election on Thursday, September 13th, and the General Election on Tuesday, November 6th. The work schedule is from 5:15am to approximately 9:15pm. Pay starts at $180 for the day. The responsibilities are to assist voters at various polling locations in Garden City with the voting process on Election Day. You will be trained

on properly signing voters in, guiding them to the correct voting machine, and ensuring their votes are executed in a private and secure manner. To apply for this position you must be a Registered Republican Voter, a Nassau County resident, and 18 years of age or older. If you are interested in becoming a Republican Election Day Poll Worker and meet the above requirements, please call 516-319-2459.

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GARDEN CITY UPDATE Mayor@gardencityny.net We hope that you and your family are having a fun-filled summer and enjoy any vacation time with your loved ones. The Village does not shut down during summer and we hope that you stay engaged. The Board of Trustees and staff continue to work on numerous projects, including the water tower construction, street and parking lot paving projects, operating the Pool at Community Park and other matters. We also encourage you to attend Village Board of Trustees meetings. See the schedule of meetings on our website. Our next meeting is Thursday, September 20, 2018 at 8:00 p.m. The Board may determine to change the date or hold an additional meeting prior to September 20 in order to address potential bidding matters and projects, and other matters. We will keep you advised.

Vegetation and tree clearing on perimeter of St. Paul's

Notices were hand delivered to homes on the western and northern perimeters of the St. Paul’s Recreation Complex regarding the clearing of vegetation and trees along the Village’s property bordering the playing fields. The Village, together with a third party contractor, will be removing the vegetation and trees, including some unauthorized plantings of various types. For the past several years, the Village has spent millions of dollars working to improve the Village's playing fields. This work has progressed at all parks. The St. Paul's fields are heavily used for soccer, lacrosse and other sports. The Recreation Department, as well as the Commission of Cultural and Recreational Affairs comprised of residents, determined that many of the fields at the St. Paul's complex could benefit from rotation and a change in location. This clearing will allow fields to be shifted and areas of play to be rested and re-seed without interference. For example, there are many areas that are barren because the goal areas have not been changed in years, partly because trees and other vegetation is in the way. In some cases, this will allow the Recreation Department to move fields by some 20 to 30 yards and add needed practice and spectator areas. Some of this vegetation growth has been ignored for years. In other cases, residents living along the borders have planted trees, hedges and shrubs on public land, sometimes some 20 yards or more onto parkland. If you have previously made plantings on Village property, you may remove such plantings and place them onto your property. We believe that most

residents would agree that private parties should not take public land for their own personal benefit and enrichment, and St. Paul's is a public park intended for use by all. While the Board understands that the removal of trees can sometimes be a sensitive issue, these trees are not in an arboretum - the land in question is for playing fields and the growth to be removed should never have been allowed to grow where it has. The growth of trees in particular adversely affects the growth of grass on playing fields because of their long and often shallow root systems and the shade that they cause far away from their trunks. Over the last several years, many of our local golf courses have similarly cleared trees because of their adverse effect on areas of play and the growth of grass. This growth also has negatively impacted our ability to increase the supply of water through our sprinkler systems. The Village intends on maintaining a large buffer of at least 30 feet along the perimeter of the park and the playing fields. These changes will not impact any private property. The clearing will take several weeks. We expect work to begin this week.

in person only). Renewal applications will be mailed on September 18. Applications returned via mail must be updated and contain a copy of a valid registration and check. Non-Resident: The Incorporated Village of Garden City will be selling a limited amount of Railroad Parking Permits for Stewart Manor and Nassau Boulevard Railroad Stations for non-residents. The sale date will be Tuesday, September 18, beginning at 8:30 a.m. at Garden City Village Hall located at 351 Stewart Avenue, Garden City. All sales will be first come, first serve. Details of the sale are listed below: • Must show a valid vehicle registration. • Permit cost is $400 (payment by cash, money order, check payable to the Incorporated Village of Garden City and/or Master Card/ Visa/Discover. • Permits are valid only in Stewart Manor Railroad Station or Nassau Boulevard Railroad Station between Monday, October 1, 2018 and Monday, September 30, 2019. For any questions, please call Garden City Village Hall at 465-4000.

Changes to Pool Hours

Volunteering on Village Boards and Commissions

Please note that Garden City Pool hours will change beginning the week of August 20. Below are the hours for the remainder of the season: • August 20-24 12 p.m. to 8 p.m. • August 25-26 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. • August 27-31 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. • September 1-3 10 a.m. to 9p.m. • September 4-9 12 p.m. to 6 p.m.

Recycling Reminders

Residents are reminded that their recycling needs to be sorted. Paper placed out for recycling needs to be secured and tied and should not be mixed with plastic or metal items. It should also not be placed in plastic bags, according to Public Works Superintendent Joseph DiFrancisco. “Our recycling vendors won’t accept intermingled recycling materials. The Village incurs additional costs due to recycling materials not being sorted,” he said. “Please adhere to the rules specified in the Sanitation Guidelines to ensure lower sanitation costs.”

Resident and Non-resident Railroad Parking Permits

Resident: Annual Resident Parking Permits for the Railroad Parking Fields will be on sale at Village Hall beginning Wednesday, September 19. Permit cost is $150 (payment by cash, money order, check payable to the Incorporated Village of Garden City and/or Master Card/Visa/Discover,

At the July 25, 2018 Board meeting, two residents were reappointed and two residents were appointed to the Village’s Planning Commission. Keith Galanti and Craig Biscone were both reappointed; Mr. Galanti’s and Mr. Biscone’s terms will expire April 5, 2021. Further, Patrick J. Ward, who is replacing William Bellmer, and Allyson Murray, who is replacing Neal Sweeney, were both appointed. Mr. Ward’s and Ms. Murray’s terms will expire April 5, 2021. The Village depends upon its residents to function and perform many

valuable services. The four Property Owners’ Associations help identify candidates and positions are allocated among residents from the four sections of the Village, with additional positions at large. If interested, please contact your POA president or Village Clerk Karen Altman. Submit a resume or similar information describing your interest and qualifications for a particular Board or Commission. Visit www.gardencityny.net to review the nature of each Board or Commission.

Best wishes to college bound students

Throughout the next two to three weeks, many of our young people will be leaving for college. Some will leave for the first time; others will leave to conclude course requirements that will lead to undergraduate and graduate degrees. The Village Board wishes them a safe journey and a most productive year. We are very proud of the accomplishments of our young people and look to them as our ambassadors to the many cities, towns and villages throughout the country that will be their temporary homes.

Welcome Adelphi Students

This month marks the arrival of Adelphi’s Class of 2019 onto the Garden City campus. We’d like to welcome the students and to compliment them on choosing Adelphi. The Board of Trustees wishes President Riordan, her faculty and staff as well as the Class of 2019 and all students a most productive year. The Village wants you to consider Garden City your home away from home during the next four years. We also invite you to visit our shopping areas and many fine restaurants on Seventh Street, Franklin Avenue and New Hyde Park Road. Bring your friends and family, all are welcome.

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At the Wednesday, July 25 meeting the Board of Trustees approved a one year extension to the existing license agreement with Cathedral Nursery School for use of the cottages behind the St. Paul’s main building. Residents have questioned the future of the school and cottages as the concept for a stateof-the-art sports, recreation and cultural facility at St. Paul’s campus includes an area extending north to the current location of the cottages, which would likely be gone from the campus if the proposed plans develop. A Garden City mom in attendance for the July 26 presentation on the St. Paul’s concept directly asked Trustee Louis Minuto about the school’s future, as her child now attends Cathedral. His children attended the same nursery, and the trustee answered her inquiry by noting the inclusion of “un-pro-

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grammed flexible space inside the new building concept.” “If we feel like that is something that’s important to the village, and Cathedral Nursery School wants to rent a space in there as they do rent from the village today, I think nobody has a problem with it. No one wants to be the guys to tell the nursery school not to go there. But the issue becomes in the current structure – those cottages – is in the worst possible place in terms of parking. If we do have a shot of fulfilling the parking needs for this concept we will need that parking area in the back. We do not want to infringe on the playing fields, so the option is just the area from the corral of parking in the back of cottages and towards the main building,” Minuto said. The new terms the Board approved a day earlier and which were agreed to by the nursery school carries the use agree-

Cornelius P. “Neil” McGroary

Cornelius P. “Neil” McGroary of Duxbury, MA, formerly of Garden City, NY, passed away peacefully on August 4, 2018 surrounded by his family and his dog Nellie. Neil was born in Far Rockaway, NY to the late Cornelius and Margaret (Dunnion) McGroary. The love of Neil’s life, Joan (Pescatore) was taken from him much too soon in 2000. Their love was a love

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Are you a Great American Reader?

Come to the Garden City Public Library to view The Great American Read list and a display of America’s 100 most-loved books located near the Circulation Desk. Then cast your vote for your favorite book from list. A ballot box is located in the Reference Department. Louise Hess is pictured casting her vote. The Library’s staff will also be picking their favorite books. Voting will continue until October 18th. Which book will be the favorite book of the residents of Garden City?

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Which is your most loved book? Come to the Garden City Public Library to view The Great American Read list and a display of America’s 100 mostloved books located near the Circulation Desk. Then cast your vote for your favorite book from The Great American Read list. A ballot box is located in the Reference Department. Voting will continue until October 18th. Which book will be the favorite book of the residents of Garden City? The Great American Read is an eight-part television series on PBS that explores and celebrates the power of reading, told through America’s 100 best-loved novels as chosen in a national survey. The series is the centerpiece of a digital, educational and community outreach campaign designed to get the country reading and passionately talking about books. The 100 best-loved book list contains

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News from the Children’s Room

The Summer Reading Club for 2018 finished with our annual Festival on Wednesday, August 1st, and was attended by approximately 150 people! The grand prizes were drawn from the book review boxes – one for grades K-2, one for grades 3-5, and one for pre-school. The grand prizes this year were underwater cameras for grades K-5 and a set of instruments for preschool! Below are the names of the three lucky winners: Pre-School Tommy Bayduss – Age 4 Grades K-2 Emilia Parisi - Kindergarten Grades 3-5 Emily Dombrowski – 3rd Grade As a reminder, Summer Reading Club prizes will be available until the end of August. We enjoyed the program and hope you and your children did as well!

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The month of August is often known as the “dog days of summer”. Where this nickname comes from and why is this so? Many people believe the phrase “dog days of summer” stems from the fact that dogs tend to be a bit on the lazy side during the hottest days of summer. Of course, who can blame them? With that much fur, dogs that exercise during the hot days of summer can overheat easily. However, the phrase doesn’t stem from lazy dogs lying around on hot and humid days. Instead, to find the answer, we only need to look to the summer sky. The ancient Romans called the hottest, most humid days of summer “dies caniculares” or “dog days.” The name came about because they associated the hottest days of summer with the star Sirius. Sirius was known as the “Dog Star” because it was the brightest star in the constellation Canis Major (Large Dog). Sirius also happens to be the brightest star in the night sky. Sirius is so bright that the ancient Romans thought it radiated extra heat toward Earth. During the summer, when Sirius rises and sets with the sun, they thought Sirius added

heat to the sun’s heat to cause hotter summer temperatures. For the ancient Romans, the dog days of summer occurred from about July 24th to around August 24th. Over time, though, the constellations have drifted somewhat. Today, The Old Farmer’s Almanac lists the traditional timing of the dog days of summer as being from July 3rd until August 11th. Whichever date you choose, it is the Dog Days of Summer! The tilt of the earth explains why these days tend to be the summer’s hottest. During summer in the Northern Hemisphere, the tilt of the earth causes the sun’s light to hit the Northern Hemisphere at a more direct angle, and for a longer period of time throughout the day. This means longer, hotter days during the summer. That being said, come to the Children’s Room and check out some books about summer and dogs!

School Summer Reading Books

Children’s Librarians have also set aside summer reading books required by the Garden City School District. This includes Stewart, Stratford, Hemlock, Homestead, Locust, and St. Joseph’s. Remember you can read anywhere! It doesn’t have to be at the Library – read at the beach, read at the pool, read in your backyard – you pick where you want to read, just read! These books are very popular so come in and get your copy today!

What’s Happening in the Fall

Planning for the fall is now in full swing. The schedule of storytimes and programs will be available towards the end of August. Registration will begin on Monday, September 17th at 9:30am. Please check the Library website www.gardencitypl.org for upcoming events and registration dates. *Funding for these programs has been provided by the Friends of the Garden City Public Library. Priority for registration and participation is given to children who are Garden City Public Library cardholders.

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Let your voice be heard on public safety issues Over the next few weeks, citizens of Garden City will be asked to sign a petition that will allow our community to have a say in the level of safety it is provided.

Why You Should Support a Petition to Save Your Professional Fire Fighters â&#x20AC;˘ Important safety decisions that affect the families and businesses of our community should be decided by our community through a village-wide vote. â&#x20AC;˘ A petition will not double the amount of paid fire fighters in our community. It will give you a voice when it comes to the level of safety provided to our community. The GCPFFA has this week presented village leaders with a proposal to have no more than 10 full time fire fighters to continue the GUARANTEED emergency response that has been provided for 90 years.

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Coffee & Tea by the Book Kahoot Trivia Challenge for YAs

The Masterpiece by Fiona Davis Garden City Public Library Tuesday, September 18th at 9:30am A special Coffee & Tea by the Book will be held on Tuesday, September 18th at 9:30 AM. Librarians Laura Flanagan and Ann Garnett will moderate a discussion of The Masterpiece by Fiona Davis. At this book discussion, there will be a question and answer period with the author via Skype. In her latest captivating new novel, The Masterpiece, Fiona Davis takes readers into the world of the glamorous lost art school within Grand Central Terminal, where two very different women strive to make their mark on a world set against them. It is 1928 and twenty-five-year-old Clara Darden is teaching at the lauded Grand Central School of Art. A talented illustrator, she has dreams of creating cover art for

Vogue, but not even the prestige of the school can override the public’s disdain for a “woman artist.” Nearly fifty years later, the once luminous terminal is full of grime and danger, and its very existence is threatened by developers who seek to construct a skyscraper in its place. Virginia Clay, a former socialite forced to take a job in the information booth, stumbles upon the abandoned art school in the terminal and is drawn into the battle to save Grand Central Terminal. Registration begins in person at the Reference Desk on Wednesday, August 29th at 9:30am and is limited to Garden City Public Library cardholders. You may pick up a copy of the book at registration. Non-Garden City Library cardholders may register in person beginning September 10th if space is available.

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Young adults use the Library’s iPads to play Kahoot during the Library’s Kahoot Trivia Challenge, which was held on Wednesday, July 25th at the Garden City Public Library.

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GArdEn City VoluntEEr firE dEpArtmEnt August 2018 An Open Letter to our Friends & Neighbors: As past Chiefs of the Garden City Fire Department, we are writing this letter to support the resolution by the Village’s Board of Trustees to abolish the positions of the Village’s eleven active paid firefighters. We further recommend that residents do not sign any petitions from the Paid Firefighters’ Union (Garden City Professional Firefighters Local 1588). There are not many residents who have had the honor and privilege of serving as Chief of the Department, and each of us have been affected by the actions of the members of the paid firefighter’s union.

The volunteer members of the GCFD have proudly served our Village for almost 100 years and are more committed than ever. Our dedicated volunteers respond to hundreds of alarms each year and log hundreds of hours during department training sessions. We anticipate an increase in enrollment following the Board’s decision, and at our August department meeting five members of our community began the process to join our Department. While it is unfortunate that these 11 active positions are being eliminated, 7 of these members can retire and collect their earned pension like all other retirees. Those who have not completed the necessary time in service to retire (20 years) are nonetheless all vested in the pension system.

We can say that each of us, along with the many members of the Village Board and Administration, have done their due diligence to try and protect the system of both career and volunteer firefighters within the Village. The Union has not. The Department can no longer efficiently and effectively provide the services our residents deserve with our paid contingent of firefighters. The union continues to challenge operational decisions which directly affect how you, our friends and neighbors, receive a department response. Just like each of our fellow volunteer firefighters, we took an oath to protect your lives and property to the best of our ability. We, as your volunteer firefighters, continue to live up to that oath, however we are handicapped by the union firefighters constantly arguing that they must be the first to respond. For many years, the union has tried to decrease the role of the volunteer firefighter in Garden City. In the past, volunteers were denied access to apparatus, equipment and technology. When a new tower ladder was delivered in 2001, volunteers were forbidden to drive or operate the new piece of equipment until an arbitrator ruled the volunteers can operate the turntable. Overtime has been used excessively during weather emergencies despite large number of volunteers available and on stand-by at fire headquarters. The department’s overtime budget swelled to over $300K in 2012.

Each one of us during our tenure in the Chief’s office looked to make productive changes to the Department’s daily operations. The Union consistently challenged these changes. For the most part, our operational policies and procedures had been in existence and remained unchanged for 30+ years. What other organization has not made effective changes to their operation in order to bring it in to the modern world?

Finally, volunteer members of our department, who were also career members of the FDNY, were forced to resign from the GCFD because of union work rules. In addition, in the past we have had a number of members who were first members of the Garden City Fire Department and were then forced to resign upon appointment to the FDNY, another tool to marginalize volunteer service of Garden City. Along with our Board of Trustees, we also live in this community, we have friends and family in this community and would never jeopardize their safety and recommend changes which are detrimental to our great Village. We thank you for your continued support of the Garden City Volunteer Fire Department and we urge you not to sign any petition that you may see regarding a referendum to overturn the Village Board’s decision. Sincerely yours, EX-CHIEF’S OF GARDEN CITY FIRE DEPARTMENT Ex-Chief John Casey Ex-Chief Richard Chiarello Ex-Chief Bill Graham Ex-Chief Jim Meehan Ex-Chief Larry Nedelka

Ex-Chief Bill Castoro Ex-Chief J. Walsh Culkin Ex-Chief Donald P. Jenkins Ex-Chief Ed Moran Ex-Chief Brian Ridgway

Ex-Chief Charles Cavarra Ex-Chief Tom Foley Ex-Chief Andrew McCaffrey Ex-Chief Joe Nadolny Ex-Chief Lenny Rivera

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It’s What’s Happening for Young Adults at the Library Summer Reading Club: Fourth Week Bonus Prize Winners

For the month of July, registrants for the Tweens and Teens Summer Reading Club will be eligible to win bonus prizes. Each Thursday in July, we pulled five winners from those who have submitted book review cards to select a signed book or signed advanced reader copy. Books and advanced reader copies must be picked up by winners at the Library and are chosen on a first-come, firstserved basis. Below are the Fourth Week Bonus Prize Winners: 1. Charlotte Jackson, Grade 6 2. Mackenzie Wehrum, Grade 8 3. Sofia Garguilo, Grade 9 4. Bianca Trunfio, Grade 9 5. Yu Jun Lin, Grade 6 Registration for the Tweens and Teens Summer Reading Club ended on August 7th with book review card submissions ending on August 8th, and the raffle winners for the grand prizes announced on August 9th at the End of Summer Murder Mystery Pizza Party. The Tweens and Teens Summer Reading Club was for tweens and teens entering Grades 6-12 in Fall 2018.

First LEGO League Sixth Grade Robotics Team

First LEGO League Sixth Grade Robotics Team: The Garden City Public Library is proud to be running its First LEGO League Robotics Team for sixth graders for a second year. Registration is required and begins Monday, September 10th at 9:30am online via Eventkeeper (www.gardencitypl.org ). As per First LEGO League rules, there is a limit of 10 members per team, and therefore registration is limited to the first 10 sixth-graders who sign up. The team will meet after school weekly and on some Saturdays beginning in October and running through January. A schedule of meeting dates will be available in the Tweens and Teens Room by the end of August. Thanks to the Garden City Friends of STEM for their ongoing help in the formation of a First LEGO League

Robotics team at the Library. Please contact Young Adult Librarian Laura Giunta via email at laurag@gardencitypl.org or via phone at 516-742-8405 x242 for questions.

Mentors for First LEGO League Sixth Grade Robotics Team

If you will be a high school student (Grades 9-12) in Fall 2018 with FLL Robotics experience interested in earning volunteer hours by mentoring the team, please contact Young Adult Librarian Laura Giunta via email at laurag@gardencitypl.org or via phone at 516-742-8405 x242 for questions.

Children’s LEGO Club – Tween and Teen Volunteers Needed

Earn volunteer hours by helping out with the Children’s Department’s LEGO Club. The LEGO Club is an hour program for children in Grades K-5 and meets monthly. Registration to volunteer begins Monday, September 10th at 9:30am online via Eventkeeper (www. gardencitypl.org ). Volunteers must be in Grades 6-12 in Fall 2018 and will be asked to help with set-up and clean-up before and after the program. Please note that there is limited availability to volunteer. This program has been funded by the Friends of the Garden City Public Library. Volunteers can sign-up for the following Thursdays, 3:30pm-5:30pm: • Thursday, September 13th • Thursday, October 11th • Thursday, November 1st • Thursday, December 6th

Babysitting Workshop

This is a two-part workshop for tweens and teens entering Grades 6-12 in Fall 2018. Registrants are required to attend both sessions to receive a certificate. Registration begins Monday, September 10th online via Eventkeeper (www.gardencitypl.org ). This program has been funded by the Friends of the Garden City Public Library. • Tuesday, September 18th, 3:45pm-5:00pm – Safety Session Steve Espey of Garden City Recreation

Department and Detective Richard Pedone of the Youth Bureau of the Garden City Police Department will be at the library to facilitate the second part of the Babysitting Workshop. • Tuesday, September 25th, 3:45pm-6:00pm – First Aid Session The First Aid Session, conducted by JoAnn Tanck, RN and Georgette Basso, RN focuses on the care and health of young children. Participants are asked to bring a doll so they may practice the proper ways to hold a baby while feeding or diapering.

Tween Night – Game Night

Monday, September 17th, 7pm-8pm Tweens in Grades 4-7 in Fall 2018 are invited to join us for our first Tween Night of the year, Game Night, which will be held on Monday, September 17th, 7pm-8pm! Pizza and drinks will be served and we will be playing board games as well as Mario Kart and Super Smash Brothers on the Wii U and Nintendo Switch. Registration is required and begins Monday, September 10 at 9:30am online via Eventkeeper (www.gardencitypl.org). This program has been funded by the Friends of the Garden City Public Library and is joint program with the Young Adult and Children’s Departments.

VolunTeens

If you are looking to volunteer at the Library, volunteer hours are posted each month in the Tweens and Teens Department; tweens and teens entering Grades 6-12 in Fall 2018 can register for volunteer hours on the last day of the month for the upcoming month online via Eventkeeper (www.gardencitypl.org). Please note there is limited availability for volunteers. Beginning in September, volunteers will be limited to signing-up for two sessions per month; volunteers can sign-up for additional sessions if there is still availability left 24 hours before the start of the session.

Book Buddies/Homework Helpers

Become a volunteer for the pilot Book Buddies/Homework Helper program.

Volunteers must be entering Grades 6-12 in Fall 2018 and will help elementary age children with homework as well as read to or with them. Volunteer spots are limited. The program will be held on Tuesdays, 3:30pm-5pm, for the following two 4-week sessions: • Session 1: October 9, 16, 23, 30 • Session 2: November 6, 13, 20, 27 Applications to volunteer are available in the Young Adult Room and online on the Library’s website (www. gardencitypl.org) beginning at the end of August and are due September 14th. Volunteers must also submit two letters of recommendation from teachers indicating their ability to assist children Grades K-5 with homework. Applications are due by Friday, September 14th. Submitting an application does not guarantee your acceptance into the program. Volunteers may only sign-up for one 4-week session and must commit to doing all four days of their assigned session. Volunteers for both sessions must attend a mandatory training session on Tuesday, October 1st, 3:30pm-5pm in order to volunteer.

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Monday, September 17th, 7pm Join us on Monday, September 17 at 7pm for the workshop Maximizing Your College Financial Aid with Long Island Funding for Education. This program is for college-bound students and parents. Registration begins Monday, September 10 at 9:30am online via Eventkeeper (www.gardencitypl.org ).

College Essay Writing Workshop

Monday, September 24th, 7pm-8:30pm Review your college application essay with college admission consultant Kelly Chester during the College Essay Writing Workshop on Monday, September 24, 7pm-8:30pm. Registrants should sign up for one 10-minute timeslot within the one and half hour session. Essays or essay outlines should be submitted in advance prior to the Continued on page 26

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The Garden City that disappeared BY JOHN ELLIS KORDES

Over the last 150 years, Garden City has evolved and changed. Sometimes the change occurs quickly but usually it happens over a long period and is often not noticed while it is happening. In recent years, we have seen our business district change, personnel changes in our Village operations, the sale of the G.C. Hotel, new leadership at Adelphi University and the Cathedral of the Incarnation and so on. Change is inevitable and sometimes it’s good and sometimes it’s not. Time will tell as it always does. However, when a building is removed from our historic landscape it is gone forever. As we continue to stare at the empty St. Paul’s building for the last 27 years (27 years!!), I thought it would be interesting to look at what we have lost over the last 150 years recalling a Garden City that disappeared.

Perhaps the most famous building to be lost in Garden City (so far). This was the third Garden City Hotel (1901-1973) designed by Stanford White. The first Garden City Hotel opened in 1874 and in 1895 remodeled and expanded into the second Garden City Hotel which then burned down in 1899. Today’s “modern” hotel opened in 1983.

This was the first Garden City Railroad Station built in 1873 directly opposite the first Garden City Hotel. It was torn down in 1898 when today’s Garden City Railroad Station was built slightly to the west.

This was St. Mary’s School for girls along the east side of Cathedral Ave. between Fourth Street and Fifth Street. The right hand side was constructed in 1892 and the left tower side constructed in 1902. (A house located there had to be moved across Fifth Street in 1902 and it was moved again in 1988 to Eleventh Street.) The school began in 1877 along with St. Paul’s for boys in houses until their respective buildings were ready. The schools merged and then closed forever in 1991. The St. Mary’s building was torn down in 2001. Today, houses occupy the site.

This building was built in 1875 slightly to the northwest of the original Garden City Railroad Station. It served as the “Estate Office” where visitors would be welcomed and shown real estate. It contained all the early records, maps and blue prints of the early buildings. It burned to the ground in 1911 and all records were lost.

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This was the building that replaced the “Estate Office” after the 1911 fire. It was built in 1912 just east of the railroad station and served as the Garden City Company offices. In 1956, it was deeded to the Village and it became the Garden City Public Library. (The Library had begun in 1952 in a small house at the far east end of Seventh Street). In 1973, this pale yellow brick building was torn down and today’s library was built slightly to the east and this site became a parking lot.

This was the original St. Joseph’s Catholic Church built in 1903 along Franklin Ave. by 5th Street. It was torn down in the early 1950’s to make room for today’s larger St. Joseph’s Church built on the same location. This is the only church to be torn down in Garden City’s history.

This was Garden City’s first village hall after the Village incorporated in 1919. It is actually the Garden City Stables built in the 1870’s. During the early 1920’s it was remodeled into this building along the south side of Seventh Street just east of Hilton Ave. In 1953, it was torn down as a new modern Village Hall was constructed on the north side of Eighth Street (Stewart Ave).

This was Garden City’s first Fire Department building built in 1909 along Seventh Street west of the horse stables which became Garden City’s first Village Hall in the early 1920’s. When the new Village Hall opened in 1953 this building, along with the original Village Hall to its left, was torn down.

This was the Garden City Garage built in 1907 as a large steel and glass structure. It housed the new automobiles that were appearing at the Garden City Hotel. Eventually the building was cemented over as a Gulf gas station and just after this photo was taken in the 1960’s, it was torn down. It was replaced by a Texaco station and in 2007 that was torn down and replaced by a modern three story building. This location is the NW corner of Seventh St. and Franklin Ave.

This was the very first house built in Garden City in 1870. It was the headquarters for architect John Kellum who was laying out Garden City. It was located on the SW corner of Rockaway Ave. and First Street. It was torn down in the early 1960’s and replaced by modern houses. (Many other houses in Garden City over the last century have been torn down and are too numerous to list here.)

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It’s What’s Happening for Tween Camp Halfblood Party Young Adults at the Library

Continued from page 22 review session. Registration begins Monday, September 10 at 9:30am online via Eventkeeper (www.gardencitypl.org).

Teen Advisory Board

The Library is looking for tweens and teens who would like to take on an active leadership role to help advise Young Adult Librarian Laura Giunta on what they want to see for their library by joining the Library’s Teen Advisory Board. Applications to serve as an advisor or junior advisor on the Library’s Teen Advisory Board (September 2018-August 2019) are available in the Young Adult room as well as online via our website here: https://www.gardencitypl.org/teen-advisory-board-application/ . Applications are due by

Friday, September 21st.

Volunteer Teen Reviewers Needed

Would you like to be a reviewer for the Library? Need community service hours? Then become a Volunteer Teen Reviewer! This program is for tweens and teens entering Grades 6-12 in Fall 2018. Reviews will be used to update the Tweens and Teens Library Review Page (https://www.gardencitypl.org/ category/teen-reviews/). Reviews can be submitted via our online submission form, which can be found here: https:// www.gardencitypl.org/submit-a-teenreview/. Reviews are subject to approval by the Young Adult Librarian. Please make sure to follow the guidelines for reviews in order for the review to count toward community service.

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Tweens play a game of “Hot Lightning Bolt,” a twist on “Hot Potato,” during the Tween Camp Halfblood Party to celebrate Rick Riordan’s Percy Jackson series. The program was held on Thursday, August 2nd at the Garden City Public Library and was a joint program with the Young Adult and Children’s Departments.

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Tweens and teens swap book titles at GC Library

Tweens and teens designed their own bookends using acrylic paint after talking about books during the program “Yak and Snack Book Club: Teen Title Swap”, which was held on Wednesday, August 8th at the Garden City Public Library.

Tween Quidditch Tournament

Tweens run after the snitch during a game of Quidditch during the Tween Quidditch Tournament, which was held on Thursday, July 26th at the Garden City Public Library on Library Grounds. This program was a joint program with the Young Adult and Children’s Departments.

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At the September 13th lunch meeting of the Mineola-Garden City Rotary Club at the Garden City Hotel, Rotarians welcomed back NYS Assemblyman Ed Ra. Ed had visited the Club twice in the past, offering his insights about issues that impact Long Islanders along with his efforts to help put an end to corruption and to establish a more honest and trustworthy government. Assemlyman Ra spoke of the New York government’s tax code structure, efforts to establish better control on spending policies along with cuts across the board. He said corruption has plagued our government long enough, and that he has supported bills that will help to put an end to corruption in New York. Assemblyman Ra holds several committee appointments and chairmanships, including those of Deputy Minority Whip and Chair of the Assesmbly Minority Review Committee. This past December, he was appointed Assistant Minority Leader ProTempore. Fielding a series of questions from Rotarians, and guests, Assemblyman

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Ed Ra was warmly welcomed to return in the future for an updated review of upstate issues, along with efforts to do away with corruption in New York. Rotary meets on the 2nd and 4th Mondays of the month throughout the year at the Garden City Hotel. To register for any lunch meeting, or for information about Rotary, please call Joanne Meyer-Jendras, Club president.

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August 27th – Rotary Youth Leadership Awards (RYLA) representatives speak September 10th – Long Island Breakfast Club al/President/Author, Valentina Janek speaks September 24th – Mary Ellen Polit speaks on Mercy Medical Center’s Hospice Project October 8th – Pending October 22nd – Dr. Joseph Greco, Chief Medical Officer, NYU Winthrop Hospital reports on expansion pla November (Date to be announced) – Fellowship Dinner at Piccolo La Bussa December 7th/8th – Rotarians ring the bell for the Salvation Army at Kings December 10th – Holiday Fellowship Luncheon – Garden City Hotel, Noon

Longtime village business sells specialized smoke detectors BY GARY SIMEONE

There is a new type of smoke detector on the market, thanks to a Garden City-based business called Smoke Alarm Monitoring Inc. The device is the latest technology in its field, with an ingrained cellular photoelectric smoke detector that notifies the homeowner of a possible fire emergency and calls out to a live dispatch center. Jack Mara, VP of the company, said the device is called a SAM Smart Detector, and that it uses cellular networks to connect with emergency operators when it senses smoke. “When the device goes off, it notifies a live 24/7 dispatch center, who immediately gets in contact with the fire department,” said Mara. “It also sends a text or email to the homeowner or anyone who happens to be in the house at the time.” Mara works under the wing of his father, Ken, who opened the business as Garden City Alarm in 1979. The company than changed its name to Worldwide Security Group, before officially open-

ing in 2016 as Smoke Alarm Monitoring Inc. Mara said that a lot of people are not aware that their smoke alarms are very outdated and that they’re in need of an upgrade. “The older alarms are wired to a panel in the home, whereas our detectors have all the technology built into them. The photoelectric element allows them to react much quicker in case of an emergency than an ionization detector does.” Mara said a lot of pet owners are interested in these types of detectors because of their ability to elicit a quick response time from emergency personnel. “Pets are members of the family, and when there is a fire, there’s not much they can do,” said Mara. “Unlike people, who can put out the fire themselves or call the fire department, pets are left to their own devices. With these types of smoke detectors, the response time is much quicker, so lives are more likely to be saved.”

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This isn’t really intended to be a sequel to last week’s birthday column, but here are a few thoughts related to the aging of the United States population and parental care. The percentage of Americans 65 and older has risen quickly in recent years and is expected to increase further in future years. According to the Census Bureau, the over 65 cohort represented 12.4 percent of the population in 2000, but rose to 15.2 percent in 2016. By 2030, this percentage is expected to rise to 20 percent. By 2035, the number of people over 65 for the first time will exceed the number under 18. And an increasing number of the elderly are living to be very old. In 2010, the Census Bureau reported that the number of individuals age 90 and above had tripled in the preceding 30 years, and further projected that this population would again quadruple by 2050. Beyond the statistics, this aging of the population personally affects a very wide swath of the population, far beyond those who are actually members of the higher age groups. It seems like many if not most people I know who are in their forties through sixties have been heavily involved in the personal care of an aging parent or spouse’s parent. This didn’t happen to me because (sadly) both of my parents died suddenly at ages 69 and 70 (and my late wife’s parents had passed away before I met her), but rarely a week goes by when I don’t discuss this situation with someone I know. In such parental care situations, the providing of help to a parent may give rise to some bonding between parent and adult child, and perhaps a sense that child is repaying the parent for past years of loving care. But not to put too fine a point on it, parental care can be hard and sometimes thankless work, especially when the son or daughter providing the care is attempting to balance the parental care obligation with his or her own family and career obligations. Many chronic medical conditions only get worse over time

despite the best care. Parental care can lead to discord among siblings as to who is doing enough to help; female or single members of the family often believe, frequently with justification, that they bear a disproportionate burden. And caregivers may find that the parent is far too stubborn or obstreperous, for example by declining to allow outside caregivers. And of course, many parents are eventually subject to memory loss, dementia or Alzheimer’s disease, making their children feel like they are dealing with a different person than they knew growing up. Substantial governmental resources are obviously involved in providing care to the elderly, through Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security, among others, and suggesting a new entitlement to help children care for their parents is not prudent. Indeed, there already are substantial questions about the financial stability of both the Social Security and Medicare programs in the long term. Parental care will continue to be an area where families need to work together closely. Parents who can afford it should consider purchasing long term care insurance, which can at least ease financial burdens on children and provide more option. Still, one possible cost-effective initiative that been suggested is allowing individuals desiring paid family leave, which would include leave to care for elderly relatives, to receive some Social Security benefits during the caregiving time, in exchange for a deferral of the starting date for retirement benefits and/ or lower monthly benefits. This is obviously not a panacea for caregivers, who would have lower overall retirement benefits. From the Social Security program’s point of view, it would be important for financial stability that the benefit reductions actually be enforced. Nevertheless, and despite these issues, parental caregiving is a serious issue for many people and creative, financially responsible ideas are always welcome and useful.

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Garden City Jewish Center Religious School starts soon

Students try their luck with blasting real shofars during Rosh Hashanah Children’s Service

Two students listen to a Chanukah story time by candlelight

The Garden City Jewish Center is excited at the approach of a new year! The first session for school is Sunday, September 16th. The Sundays-only religious school starts each session with a weekly service, during which every child participates and gets hands-on experience conducting the rituals, singing, and chanting Hebrew and English prayers. This gets the students ready to conduct their own Bar or Bat Mitzvah service in a fairly easy and “painless” way, by gaining confidence and experience over the course of several years. Students are then placed in age appropriate groups and travel with their peers to short Hebrew, history, and Bible studies classes. The final, most popular class of the day is a multi-age session of a Jewish cultural experience that the students and teachers find interesting, fun, and educational! This year’s theme will be the concept of tikkun olam – repairing the world. This year, as always, free Children’s Services and activities are held on Rosh Hashanah (Monday, September 10th from 10:30am – 12pm), and Yom Kippur (Wednesday, September 19th from

Always a favorite - Purim Carnival donut on a string game

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10:30am – 12:30pm). Other holiday services and celebrations are held throughout the year, including the Simchat Torah pizza party, Chanukah latke and dessert party, Purim pizza party & carnival, and the Lag B’Omer game day. Each third Friday of the month features a family-friendly 7pm start time to an abbreviated Shabbat Service. The school program is run by an experienced, certified volunteer teaching staff, directed by Carolyn Hoera, Rabbi Stephen Goodman, and Student Cantor Amelia Lavranchuk. Join the Garden City Jewish Center for a New Member Open House on Friday, September 7th at 7:00pm starting with a pot luck dinner, followed by Shabbat Services at 8:00pm. Just drop us a note at info@gardencityjewishcenter.org to RSVP. The Garden City Jewish Center is a warm and friendly Reform congregation where everyone is welcome – Jews of all denominations, dual-faith families, singles and students. Please go to www. gardencityjewishcenter.org for more information!

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L E G A L NOTICE OF SALE Supreme Court County Of Nassau GLOBE TRADE CAPITAL LLC, Plaintiff v. THOMAS J. HOEY, JR., ET AL., Defendants. Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale dated August 10, 2017 and duly entered on September 5, 2017, I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction at the First Floor, CCP Courtroom of the Nassau County Courthouse located at 100 SUPREME COURT DRIVE, MINEOLA, NEW YORK 11501, in the County of Nassau, on Tuesday, August 21, 2018 at 11:30 a.m., premises known as 176 Brixton Road, Garden City, New York 11530. All that certain plot, piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements thereon erected, situate, lying and being in the Incorporated Village of Garden City, Town of Hempstead, County of Nassau and State of New York known as and by Lot 54 to 57 both inclusive in Block 24, will be sold subject to the provisions of the Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale dated August 10, 2017 and entered September 5, 2017, in action titled Globe Trade Capital, LLC v. Thomas J. Hoey, Jr., et al., Supreme Court, County of Nassau Index No. 008495/2014, with approximate amount of judgment being $1,413,372.70 plus interest and costs. Joseph Capobianco, Esq., Referee We are debt collector attempting to collect a debt. Any information obtained will be used for that purpose. Meyer, Suozzi, English & Klein, P.C., 990 Stewart Avenue, Garden City, New York, 11530. Tel.: (516) 741-6565. Attorneys for Plaintiff. GC 0832

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5X 07/20,27,08/03,10,17 NOTICE OF SALE Supreme Court County Of Nassau BANK OF AMERICA, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, Plaintiff AGAINST LUIS E. ROBAYO, JR., et al., Defendant(s) Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale duly dated November 28, 2017 I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction at the Calendar Control Part (CCP) Courtroom of the Supreme Court, 100 Supreme Court Drive, Mineola, NY 11501, on September 11, 2018 at 11:30AM, premises known as 135 SECOND STREET, GARDEN CITY, NY 11530. All that certain plot piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements erected, situate, lying and being in the Village of Garden City, Town of Hempstead, County of Nassau and State of New York, SECTION 34, BLOCK 147, LOT 248. Approximate amount of judgment $1,261,858.05 plus interest and costs. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment for Index# 11479/09. ALEXANDRA HENNESSY, ESQ., Referee Gross Polowy, LLC Attorney for Plaintiff 1775 Wehrle Drive, Suite 100 Williamsville, NY 14221 GC 0836 4X 08/10,17,24,31 NOTICE OF SALE Supreme Court County Of Nassau U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, AS TRUSTEE, SUCCESSOR IN INTEREST TO WACHOVIA BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, AS TRUSTEE FOR GSR MORTGAGE LOAN TRUST 2004-15F, MORTGAGE PASSTHROUGH CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2004-15F,

V. MOHAMMED K. SHAIKH A/K/A MOHAMMD SHAIKH, ET. AL. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN pursuant to a Final Judgment of Foreclosure dated June 11, 2018, and entered in the Office of the Clerk of the County of Nassau, wherein U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, AS TRUSTEE, SUCCESSOR IN INTEREST TO WACHOVIA BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, AS TRUSTEE FOR GSR MORTGAGE LOAN TRUST 2004-15F, MORTGAGE PASSTHROUGH CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2004-15F is the Plaintiff and MOHAMMED K. SHAIKH A/K/A MOHAMMD SHAIKH, ET AL. are the Defendant(s). I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction at the Nassau Supreme Court, 100 Supreme Court Drive, Calendar Control Part, Mineola, NY 11501, on September 11, 2018 at 11:30AM, premises known as 105 JEFFERSON STREET, GARDEN CITY, NY 11530: Section 33, Block 209, Lot 37, Lot Group 37-40: ALL THAT CERTAIN PLOT, PIECE OR PARCEL OF LAND WITH THE BUILDINGS AND IMPROVEMENTS THEREON ERECTED, SITUATE, LYING AND BEING IN THE INCORPORATED VILLAGE OF GARDEN CITY, TOWN OF HEMPSTEAD, COUNTY OF NASSAU AND STATE OF NEW YORK Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index # 5263/2016.

SCOPE seeking qualified child care providers for child care program BY RENEE MERCER, SCOPE SCOPE Education Services (SCOPE) is pleased to have been selected by the Garden City School District to provide a Before and After School Child Care Program in the district’s three primary and two elementary schools. SCOPE is a notfor-profit organization, permanently chartered by the NYS Board of Regents to provide services to public schools in New York State. SCOPE has been assisting school districts on Long Island since 1964 and currently offers child care programs in 39 school districts. All SCOPE Before and After School Programs are licensed by the New York State Office of Children and Family Services

and comply with all required State regulations. Children attending these programs are provided with a safe, fun and enriching age-appropriate experience. SCOPE is currently seeking qualified candidates to work in the district’s Before and After School Programs. SCOPE will be hosting a Job Fair on August 20th, 2018 from 10am to 2pm in Room 131 at Stewart School, 501 Stewart Avenue, Garden City, NY 11530. Interested applicants should bring an updated resume, photo ID, and will be interviewed on the spot. Questions regarding employment? Please call Renee Mercer, Assistant Director of Recruitment, at (631) 881-9632.

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From page 1 rights to drive the trucks from headquarters, although it would have exclusivity over one engine each at the two outlying fire houses. The union would want a guarantee of at least two firefighters per shift. The union would also agree to end all

outstanding litigation “except for pending interest arbitration”. This would include working out a settlement of the layoffs “in conjunction with retirements of current career staff so that career staff doesn not have to exceed more than ten career firefighters (including Lieutenants)” according to the proposal.

Village examines benefits for volunteer firefighters From page 1 Administrator Ralph Suozzi to Trustee John Delaney on June 27, 2018, included a LOSAP proposal by a benefits administrator company. “Attached is an Executive Summary of the LOSAP program. When the Board authorized to pursue this information I met with our insurance providers and they introduced me to VFIS. VFIS was supplied demographic information used by the GCFD in previous analysis of LOSAP Programs that they initiated.” VFIS is a division of Glatfelter Insurance Group. According to the VFIS illustration, the cost to the Village could vary from $145,477 to $285,426 depending on the maximum benefits allowed. The maximum benefits in the illustrations were from $400 to $600 in the monthly. VFIS says that a LOSAP program can “assist emergency service organizations recruit, retain and reward their volunteer personnel.” In an email on July 6th, also to Trustee Delaney, Administrator Suozzi says, “The leaders of the membership have already decided the version of LOSAP that they want implemented and the vendor also.” He goes on to say, “I believe whatever decision the Board ultimately makes should be guided by Labor Counsel since there is history of layoffs, potential additional layoffs and outstanding litigation as a backdrop to all this. Just my suggestion.” Also on July 6th, the Village lost an arbitration decision with its paid firefighters union. In that case the arbitrator ruled that the Village violated a collective bargaining agreement by

transferring work done by the professional firefighters to members of the volunteer fire department. On July 25th the Board of Trustees voted to abolish the paid fire department, and instead rely solely on volunteer firefighters. Volunteer Fire Chief Brian Gallo declined to comment on the proposal. “That issue is for the Board’s consideration and decision,” he said. “To clarify the board is not discussing it at this time,” he added. Garden City Mayor Brian Daughney said, “LOSAP programs are utilized throughout the State of New York to assist municipalities attract and retain volunteers for volunteer fire departments. The State Legislature in Albany established them to be available on a statewide basis for local government to adopt them. Individual trustees over the years have from time to time questioned whether the Village should implement a LOSAP program. The Village Administrator was engaged in gathering information about these programs. The Village Board of Trustees has not reviewed or discussed the information and no action of any kind has been taken. The Village vehemently denies any suggestion that possible future consideration of institution of a LOSAP program has anything to do with the determination to abolish the paid contingent. The volunteers have been volunteers for decades. These residents volunteer because they want to help their community and fellow neighbors, a fact that the GC News keeps ignoring. The GC News is irresponsible in suggesting a connection and shows its bias in this entire matter in suggesting such a connection.”

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Summer is coming to a close and LICM is helping families squeeze all the fun out of this last vacation week. Visitors this week can take one last ride on the “wild hogs” in the HandsOn Harley-Davidson™ exhibit, settle in for the final performances of Mo Willems’ “Elephant & Piggie” in the LICM Theater, make a splash in the waterplay area before it closes for the season and create some abstract art. Note: The Museum will close for its annual Fall Fix-Up from September 3-14. The Museum will re-open to the public on Saturday, September 15 and will and resume its Tuesday – Sunday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. schedule for the school year.

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Monday, August 27 to Friday, August 31 from 1 to 3:30 p.m. Do you have sweet dreams of lollipops, soccer or butterflies? Join us for a unique workshop as you design your own pillowcase using fabric paint, markers and stamps. Listen to lullabies from around the world as you create the masterpiece of your dreams! To ensure that visitors have ample time to create their pillowcases, timed tickets will be issued for this program. Ages: 3 and up. Fee: $5 with museum admission ($4 LICM members).

Speak Up … Confidently

Monday, August 27 from 2 to 4 p.m. It's never too early to encourage kids to stand up in front of people and talk. Katie Crawford and other members of Girl Scout Troop 3271 will share some confidence boosting activities including breathing and stretching techniques and speaking exercises to help develop this important life skill. (Grownups will receive tips to improve their public speaking skills, as well.) After, decorate your own small megaphone to take home as reminder that you are ready to Speak Up! Ages: 3 and up. Free with museum admission.

Zooming with Color and Friction

Tuesday, August 28 at 2 p.m. Join us as we explore friction, the force that resists motion between two objects when they come in contact with one another. Using ramps, different textures and rolling objects, experiment to see how friction works. Then, using paint and a variety of different sized balls, use friction to create your own work of art to take home. Ages: 5 and up. Fee:$4 with museum admission ($3 LICM members).

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Tuesday, August 28 and Thursday, August 30 from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Explore the worlds of science and nature with the Green Teens this summer in Our Backyard! Each week, dig deeper into the unknown through hands-on learning experiences on alternative energy, water, habitats, and more. This program is made possible with the support of National Grid. Ages: 3 and up. Free with museum admission.

stART (Story + Art)

Tuesday, August 28 and Thursday, August 30 from 1-1:30 p.m. Join us each week as we read childhood classics and introduce new favorites; followed by a take-home, book-inspired craft. This week in stART we will be reading “Maisy Goes Camping” by Lucy Cousins. After the story, create a picture of a starry campsite for Maisy! Ages: 3-5. Fee: $4 with museum admission ($3 LICM members).

Citizen Science: Monarch Larva Monitoring Project

Wednesday, August 29 from 11 a.m. to noon Become a citizen scientist and study monarch butterflies in LICM’s Milkweed Garden. By measuring plants, rainfall and monarch eggs you will be collecting real data that scientists at the University of Minnesota Monarch Lab can analyze! Your data will help them understand butterfly migration and will help conserve this threatened species. Each Wednesday, take a walk through this garden and see how the plants grow and are able to be a habitat for visiting monarchs. This program is made possible with the support of the Rob and Melani Walton Sustainability Solutions Initiatives at Arizona State University. Ages: 4 and up. Free with museum admission. All activities are held at the Long Island Children’s Museum, 11 Davis Avenue, East Garden City, NY. For the safety of our visitors, Adults are not permitted in the Museum without children; Museum visitors under 18 years of age must be accompanied by an adult at all times. Museum Hours: Monday-Sunday from 10 am.-5 p.m. and most school holidays. Museum admission: $14 for adults and children over 1 year old, $13 seniors, FREE to museum members and children under 1 year old. Additional fees for theater and special programs may apply. For additional information, contact 516-224-5800.

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This rare aerial view shows the “Mott” section under development. The date of the photo is August 30, 1936. The view is looking south with Washington Ave. on the right, Lefferts Rd. in the middle and Wetherill Rd. on the left all running north to south. In the top part of the photo are the large more established houses dating from 1910 to the 1930’s. However, it would be the Mott brothers’ development that would be Garden City’s first mass development of smaller houses. After World War II, that trend would continue with split-levels, ranches and capes covering suburbia. The long u-shaped road across the top half of the photo is Osborne Rd. then below that Huntington Rd., then Wyatt Rd., then Kingsbury Rd. with Kenwood Rd. and Claydon Rd. not there yet. The house at the far right at the corner of Osborne Rd. and Washington Ave. was the headquarters and model house for the project. Houses ranged from $9,000 to $13,000 and from the beginning these curved streets formed a section known as “Mott” but its official name (on the deeds) is “Country Life Development.”

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Jacqueline C. Barnum, USMC, a member of the Garden City based Colonel Aaron Ogden Chapter of the National Society, Daughters of the American Revolution, has recently been promoted to the rank of Captain. She is the niece of the current Regent of the chapter, Leslie Barnum Dimmling. Capt. Barnum is a 2014 graduate of the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland. After serving two years as a logistics officer at the Marine Corps base in Okinawa, Japan, Capt. Barnum was promoted to the rank of Captain and Company Commander of the Combat Service Support Company for the First Marine Expeditionary Force, Support Battalion, 1 MEF Information Group at Camp Pendleton, California.

In this position, Capt. Barnum commands the activities of 140 Marines who provide logistical support consisting of three platoons, motor transportation, engineers and field mess marines. Capt. Barnum’s unit provides First Expeditionary Force as needed for deployments and exercises off Camp Pendleton and outside the continental United States. Capt. Barnum’s command is also responsible for maintaining over 200 military vehicles and engineering equipment at a high state of readiness to be quickly deployed as a unit. At age 25, Capt. Barnum is among the youngest in her Naval Academy graduating class to achieve the rank of Captain, and among the earliest in her class to be assigned a command position in the United States Marine Corps. She is the daughter of attorney Randal Barnum of Benicia, California, and his wife Christine. Captain Barnum is a direct descendant of Edward Fuller, a signatory of the Mayflower Compact, signed in 1620 upon the landing of the Pilgrims in Cape Cod. In addition, she is a descendant of 3 Revolutionary War soldiers, Stephen Barnum, who saw the surrender of British troops at Yorktown in spite of a chest wound, Israel Leadbetter who served at Fort Ticonderoga, and Colonel Aaron Rowley, who served in many notable battles, including the Battle of Bunker Hill. Colonel Rowley was wounded in the leg toward the end of the War at the Battle of Johnstown, New York, in an action which helped defeat the British. Members of the Colonel Aaron Ogden Chapter offer their congratulations to Captain Barnum on her promotion, and are proud to count her as a member of their chapter!!

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Email: Editor@GCNews.com From page 2 unit work to ‘non bargaining union members.’” Money. The union wanted money for its members because the Village sent a volunteer to the scene of a call first. FACT: The arbitrator, incredibly, sided with the union! Since then, ready and able volunteers are required to stand down until paid firefighters are deployed in first line apparatus. This is not what you are NOW being told by the union. When asked about this grievance at the “information meeting,” Mr. Michon stated that, by reducing staffing and laying off firefighters, the Village created a situation where it was violating the practice described above. However, the union filed that grievance in April of 2012 and the layoffs did not occur until April of 2013, so the grievance could not have been caused by the layoffs. This is yet another example of inaccurate information being provided by the union. Mr. Michon also made false statements about the Stewart Manor Fire Department prompting members of the audience (including a former Chief of that Department) to stand up and correct him. FACT: When, in 2014, the Fire Chiefs tried to implement a new deployment/ operational model that would comply with the outrageous 2012 arbitration referred to above, the union grieved again. Not enough. That case will be going to hearing in the Fall. FACT: When, in 2017, the Fire Chiefs tried to implement a cost-savings operational policy that resulted in volunteers driving a piece of apparatus in limited circumstances – the union grieved again. FACT: Below is unfiltered and unedited language from the July 6, 2018 arbitration decision in this latest case: The essence of the instant dispute as formulated by the Union is “whether the Village of Garden City violated the parties’ Collective Bargaining Agreement by transferring bargaining unit work from the paid career Fire Fighter represented by the Union to volunteer fire fighters outside of the bargaining unit in violation of the Union’s exclusive jurisdiction over the operation of the first line response fire apparatus, including the operation of the first line ladder truck. . . .” (emphasis added) [. . .] The essence of the matter is the Union’s exclusive jurisdiction over first line service apparatus. The paid members continue to demand that they, and they alone, operate 5 pieces of Fire Department apparatus, and that the volunteers not respond to a call until the paid members respond first in their apparatus. That is what “exclusive jurisdiction over first line service apparatus” means to Mr.

Michon and the union. According to the union, this must happen regardless of whether the volunteers are ready to go first; regardless of the circumstances. Mr. Michon knows this – he has been the union president for several years. Go ahead – ask. Listen carefully to the answer and what you do, and do not, hear. FACT: Here is more from the arbitrator in the July 6th decision: The Union argues that this matter is an attempt by the Village to usurp the Union’s exclusive jurisdiction over first line service apparatus; an attempt, it argues, that the Village has tried frequently to obtain at the bargaining table, without success. […] The record in this proceeding establishes that the Village has tried, unsuccessfully, to persuade the Union to give up exclusivity without success. In successive contract negotiations sessions over the years, management has asked for this concession, and never gotten it. FACT: Incredibly – the arbitrator issued the following order – again, this is his exact language: It [the Village] shall cease and desist from any further such transference of bargaining unit work. Volunteers may continue to be called but only after paid career firefighters are called. Look at that last sentence. The Village and its Fire Chiefs cannot live with that threat to public safety, good order and Fire Department operations. Can you? Such an order, and the ones it was built upon, recently resulted in the following true story – a Fire Chief was out on the road in a Village fire truck (not at a call), when a new call came in. The call was for an address just a couple blocks away. The Fire Chief could have immediately responded. Instead, he had to pull over – and stop – and wait – and wait until he heard a paid member radio that the paid member left the fire station to respond, and THEN – and only then – could the Fire Chief continue to respond to the call. Of course, he made it there first, but he could have made it there faster. Is that how the Village residents want their fire operations to work? The Fire Chiefs cannot support that structure. The Village Board cannot support that structure. While Mr. Michon states – in carefully parsed words – that there is no “work rule” in effect about hiring more firefighters, he conveniently avoids the fact that in a meeting with the Village following the latest arbitration, Mr. Michon set forth his position on the impact of the arbitration award and the union’s other litigation. The fact is – that impact would require the Village to employ enough paid members to operate three (3) engines, a ladder and an SUV. The Village estimates that this would require it to hire at least 10 – 20

new paid members. Just ask Mr. Michon or any other paid member the following direct question - What is you position on how many paid members the Fire Department is required to have? If you get a direct and truthful answer to your direct question, I can assure you, the answer will not be 11 or anywhere close to that. FACT: The union continues to pursue the reinstatement of the 6 paid members that were laid off by the Village in the Spring of 2013 – over 5 years ago! – at arbitration. The case is scheduled for hearing again in the Fall. FACT: The Union talks about the Village’s alleged failure to live up to various “side agreements” (none of which were ever approved by any Village Board or Mayor), but it has failed to inform the public that the collective bargaining agreement expressly allows the Village to lay off its firefighters. The Village has been forced to litigate over an issue that the Union and the Board expressly agreed to and ratified in compliance with the law. If Mr. Michon and the rest of the 11 active paid firefighters are so concerned about your safety - why not let any qualified firefighter – volunteer or paid – get on the trucks and roll to the emergency scene as fast as possible? Why do the paid members insist on this ridiculous procedure? There is no logical public safety reason. For Mr. Michon and the paid members, this is about job protection. Mr. Michon believes that if the paid members get to go first – regardless of whether they can do so before the volunteers – then the Village can never get rid of the union jobs. Mr. Michon said it himself at the July 25th Board meeting – this is about preventing a “rogue” Board of Trustees from eliminating their jobs. It is about nothing else for the paid members. Mr. Michon is wrong. For the Fire Chiefs, the volunteers, and the Board of Trustees – it is about everything else and most importantly safety of resdients – and it should be for the residents as well. Brian C. Daughney Mayor Village of Garden City

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To the Editor: Garden City’s professional fire fighters are saddened and shocked by the negative attacks on us by the members of the Garden City Volunteer Fire Department. The intense level of effort they are using to get this information out is not good for public safety in our community. For almost 100 years, the volunteers and paid/career fire fighters have worked side by side to provide the resi-

dents of Garden City with the quickest most efficient emergency response on Long Island. Every fire fighter had a role. And because of that, fires and other emergencies were taken care of quickly with little impact to the occupants and structure. Our members - the paid/career fire fighters - have always looked out for our brother volunteers during emergency situations and on numerous occasions, have gone above and beyond in ensuring that every fire fighter on scene returns to their family safe and unharmed upon finishing their service to their community. It is disheartening to see a group of individuals, many who we considered friends, expending so much energy trying to destroy the reputation of fire fighters who have had their back in so many dangerous and life-threatening situations. These are fire fighters who were hired by our Village to serve and protect its residents and have done so diligently and with honor for so many years. All have stellar records and have had numerous letters of thanks from the many residents we have helped through our careers. Garden City’s full time professional fire fighters have been an important fabric of our community for several generations. We have taught your children the importance of fire safety while at the same time making their trip to the firehouse fun and exciting. We have maintained the trucks and equipment as to ensure that they were ready to provide that guaranteed immediate response this community has come to expect. This includes trucks and equipment used by our brother volunteers. We were always willing to pass our extensive experience and knowledge on to the young volunteers to help them stay safe and become the best fire fighter they can be. We all need to work together when an emergency happens and the better prepared we are makes sure the job gets done safely. These last few weeks have been difficult for our members. However, given the way the Mayor and Trustees have handled many of the village issues the past few years it is not a total surprise that they choose to handle this the same way. What has totally blindsided us is the response from our brother volunteer fire fighters, who have sworn an oath to protect this village, yet somehow agree that lessening the safety levels that keep our community safe is a good thing. Again, we are saddened, not only for ourselves, but for the families and businesses who became less safe on the morning of July 26 with the elimination of a guaranteed response. T.J. Michon, President, Garden City Professional Fire Fighters and Members

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Ex-Chiefs support Board

To the Editor: As past Chiefs of the Garden City Fire Department, we are writing this letter to support the resolution by the Village’s Board of Trustees to abolish the positions of the Village’s eleven active paid firefighters. We further recommend that residents do not sign any petitions from the Paid Firefighters’ Union (Garden City Professional Firefighters Local 1588). There are not many residents who have had the honor and privilege of serving as Chief of the Department, and each of us have been affected by the actions of the members of the paid firefighter’s union. The volunteer members of the GCFD have proudly served our Village for almost 100 years and are more committed than ever. Our dedicated volunteers respond to hundreds of alarms each year and log hundreds of hours during department training sessions. We anticipate an increase in enrollment following the Board’s decision, and at our August department meeting five members of our community began the process to join our Department. While it is unfortunate that these 11 active positions are being eliminated, 7 of these members can retire and collect their earned pension like all other retirees. Those who have not completed the necessary time in service to retire (20 years) are nonetheless all vested in the pension system. We can say that each of us, along with the many members of the Village Board and Administration, have done their due diligence to try and protect the system of both career and volunteer firefighters within the Village. The Union has not. The Department can no longer efficiently and effectively provide the services our residents deserve with our paid contingent of firefighters. The union continues to challenge operational decisions which directly affect how you, our friends and neighbors, receive a department response. Just like each of our fellow volunteer firefighters, we took an oath to protect your lives and property to the best of our ability. We, as your volunteer firefighters, continue to live up to that oath, however we are handicapped by the union firefighters constantly arguing that they must be the first to respond. For many years, the union has tried to decrease the role of the volunteer firefighter in Garden City. In the past, volunteers were denied access to apparatus, equipment and technology. When a new tower ladder was delivered in 2001, volunteers were forbidden to drive or operate the new piece of equipment until an arbitrator ruled the volunteers can operate the turntable. Overtime has been used excessively during weather emergencies despite large number of

volunteers available and on stand-by at fire headquarters. The department’s overtime budget swelled to over $300K in 2012. Each one of us during our tenure in the Chief’s office looked to make productive changes to the Department’s daily operations. The Union consistently challenged these changes. For the most part, our operational policies and procedures had been in existence and remained unchanged for 30+ years. What other organization has not made effective changes to their operation in order to bring it in to the modern world? Finally, volunteer members of our department, who were also career members of the FDNY, were forced to resign from the GCFD because of union work rules. In addition, in the past we have had a number of members who were first members of the Garden City Fire Department and were then forced to resign upon appointment to the FDNY, another tool to marginalize volunteer service of Garden City. Along with our Board of Trustees, we also live in this community, we have friends and family in this community and would never jeopardize their safety and recommend changes which are detrimental to our great Village. We thank you for your continued support of the Garden City Volunteer Fire Department and we urge you not to sign any petition that you may see regarding a referendum to overturn the Village Board’s decision. Ex-Chiefs of the Garden City Fire Department: Ex-Chief John Casey Ex-Chief Bill Castoro Ex-Chief Charles Cavarra Ex-Chief Richard Chiarello Ex-Chief J. Walsh Culkin Ex-Chief Tom Foley Ex-Chief Bill Graham Ex-Chief Donald P. Jenkins Ex-Chief Andrew McCaffrey Ex-Chief Jim Meehan Ex-Chief Ed Moran Ex-Chief Joe Nadolny Ex-Chief Larry Nedelka Ex-Chief Brian Ridgway Ex-Chief Lenny Rivera

Penny wise, pound foolish To the Editor: I was shocked and appalled by the decision of the Board of Garden City to eliminate the professional firefighters. It was arrogant and a foolish statement to state that last year there were only three fires. If a fire happens in any of the condo or cooperative buildings it would be a horrible tragedy. Or in any of the high rise buildings on Franklin Avenue. To be ready to spend over seven-

ty-dive million dollars or more to re-build St. Paul’s (which would include an indoor ice skating ring) and disregard the safety of the residents of Garden City is appalling and reckless. Yet we are told the $2.3 million to keep professional firefighters is too much!!!? Let the people of Garden City go to the polls and cast their vote.

(Professionals stationed at the fire house with the equipment, and Volunteers in their own cars, all driving directly to the fire) my home would have indeed been “up” in flames.

Patricia C. Donnelly

To the Editor: I find it necessary to write my opinion on this matter. I have lived in this town for over 35 years and raised my family here. The timing of this action is not acceptable nor is the way we discharged these employees of our town , this action and several other bad decisions have cost us plenty. Maybe what is necessary is to change the way this town is governed. How can we treat those who protected us for all these years so poorly. This should have been done after a town meeting in September or October and if we decided on eliminating them then we should have offered a proper severance since after having them set their careers we decided to change them . Thumbs down to our Mayor and his hired guns.

Supports professional firefighters To the Editor: I resided in Garden City from 1990 to 2006, and I write in support of retaining the professional force of the Garden City Fire Department. My family suffered an electrical fire at our home on Stewart Ave in March 2001. Fire trucks and personnel arrived almost instantly. Approximately 30 Volunteers arrived at our home directly in their own cars. The fire was extinguished with damage confined solely to the basement. I then overheard a young volunteer say to several of his cohorts: “Another 7 or 8 minutes and this place would have been up!” I was convinced then, and remain so today, that without the incredibly fast response provided by the entire GCFD

John Pascale

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Swim Across America at the GC Pool a success!

On Monday, August 6th, race directors Ken Aneser (GC Turkey Trot), Kerry Calvert (GC for a Cure), and Dr. Mike Spinelli (Run for Tomorrowâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Hope) hosted their first kick off of Swim Across America! Participants had a fun evening of swimming, music,

and drinks to raise money for Swim Across America at the Garden City Pool. Swimmers of all different levels and ages participated in this special event. Proceeds from the swim will support immunotherapy research at the Swim Across America Laboratory at

Kerry Calvert, swimmer Sarah Bonnie, and Ken Aneser

Swimmers Kaitlyn Gebhard, Madelyn Gebhard, and Kathryn Tavella

Cousins of the Aneser/Paisley Family swim together to make a difference in the fight against cancer!

the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, lung cancer clinical trials at the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, pediatric brain cancer research at the Feinstein Institute of North Shore, and pediatric oncology at the University of Texas MD Anderson Childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Cancer

Hospital. A very special thank you to John Parks (D & J Refreshments) for providing the water and Powerade to all of the participants. Thank you swimmers and to all of the volunteers! See you next year!

The youngest swimmer about to jump in!

Organizers Ken Aneser, Kerry Calvert, and Mike Spinelli

The Spinelli sisters and friends

Swimmer Emily Metz

Swimmers!

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Endlessly Fascinating, Newport RI, Playground for the Rich, Makes Its Attractions Accessible BY KAREN RUBIN & MARTIN D. RUBIN TRAVEL FEATURES SYNDICATE GOINGPLACESFARANDNEAR.COM Each time I visit Newport, Rhode Island, the guided tours of these Gilded Age mansions get better and better, more immersive into the lives upstairs and downstairs, more intriguing, and the relevance to society today more apparent. The gap between rich and poor hasn’t been this great since Cornelius Vanderbilt II built his palatial summer “cottage,” The Breakers. Newport is still a playground for the rich – it is the reason it is the home to the International Tennis Hall of Fame and considered the sailing capital of the country, and why it is so associated with classic cars - but the interesting thing is you don’t have to be rich to play, too. This most recent visit to Newport comes as a port of call on the second day of Blount Small Ship Adventures’ week-long voyage to New England islands. We have a full day to explore, and sailing in gives a very different perspective. We also are able to experience Newport from the perspective of how well the destination accommodates visitors with mobility issues. Our ship, Grand Caribe, docks at Fort Adams State Park, “America’s largest coastal fortification,” which is fun to explore and is also the

The Breakers’ Grand Staircase – the steps were made two inches shorter so the debutantes would not trip on their gowns © Karen Rubin/goingplacesfarandnear.com venue for such major events as the Newport Jazz Festival. It is a short stroll to a launch or a water taxi to the “downtown”. Many of our fellow passengers are taking the island tour that the

ship offers, which will include a stop at The Breakers, and the cruiseline had also arranged a 2-hour sail aboard an America’s Cup classic yacht (which had to be canceled because of weather). But I have

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Endlessly Fascinating, Newport RI, Playground for the Rich, Makes its Attractions Accessible

Continued from page D1 organized an itinerary to maximize our time. She gives us our own island tour (as well as the gossip of which tech billionaire has just bought which house, and how Jay Leno, who visited and has attended events at the new Audrain Automobile Museum (which we will visit), passed an oceanfront mansion he liked and bought it on the spot, and now is one of Newport’s many celebrities seen regularly tooling around. We drive along the magnificent 10mile long Ocean Drive with its scenic views and rocky shore, and pass the

driveway into Hammersmith Farm, the Auchincloss estate where Jackie married John Kennedy. It used to be open to the public with a fantastic exhibit of the Kennedys but was acquired by Peter Kiernan (notable for the Robin Hood Foundation, funded by John Jr.), and is no longer open. We pass Beechwood, a mansion once owned by the Astors and for many years, where actors played their parts in period dress. It is now owned by Larry Ellison (Oracle), who, we are told, is planning to open part of the mansion as an art museum.

The Breakers, the 70-room summer “cottage” built by Cornelius Vanderbilt II in 1895 © Karen Rubin/goingplacesfarandnear.com

The grass tennis court at the International Tennis Hall of Fame in Newport, where the first US Open tournaments were played. The hall of fame honors tennis champions © Karen Rubin/goingplacesfarandnear.com

We pass Belcourt, once owned by Oliver H. P. Belmont (who became the second husband of Alva Vanderbilt, as we will soon learn), which was purchased in 2012, by Carolyn Rafaelian, who has spent a considerable sum on a multi-year restoration and has reopened it for public tours. The Breakers We arrive at The Breakers, probably the most famous (and emblematic) of the Newport Gilded Age mansions that line Bellevue Avenue. It has a new visitor center which is really well done – barely visible from the street, it blends in wonderfully architecturally while affording a very comfortable (air conditioned) place to pick up tickets (take advantage of the multi-ticket options offered by The Preservation Society, which operates 10 of these glittering Newport Mansions, each with special exhibitions and presentations (see NewportMansions.org), refresh at a delightful café (sandwiches, $9.95), and utilize accessible restrooms (before, it was difficult for people with mobility issues to access a bathroom on property). Each time I visit, I find new things to appreciate and understand– audioguides, for example, which replace the scheduled docent-led tours so let you tour at your own pace, are endlessly fascinating with opportunities to click on specialized topics. (A free app, Newport Mansions, let you download the commentary on a smart phone even when you aren’t touring the property.)

Built by Cornelius Vanderbilt II (the grandson of “The Commodore,” the founder of the fortune, who turned a ferry boat into a shipping empire into a railroad empire), this breathtakingly grand, eye-popping, 70-room Italian Renaissance “cottage,” designed by Richard Morris Hunt, replaced a wooden structure that burned down. This was 1895, and the United States was jockeying for a position as an industrial power on the global stage. Hunt, the commentary relates, had a vision for an architecture expressing an American Renaissance, one that was classic, grand in scale, but that which reflected the hope and optimism of America. It is mind-boggling to recall when you see the gilding, the carefully carved wood, the marble, the artwork, that this palace (they called it a “cottage”) was only used about eight weeks of the year, during “the season.” The Breakers would have had 40 staff in summer (Newport had 2,000 servants, mostly immigrants). The Breakers is as much an architectural and artistic treasure as a touchstone to social, cultural and political currents of the Gilded Age. (The audio-guide lets you know that people who can’t climb the stairs can ask a docent to escort them upstairs in an elevator.) We learn about the family and the social structure of Newport: Mrs. Alice Claypoole Gwynne Vanderbilt’s bedroom, for example, also functioned as an office from which she ran the home. Newport was actually run by

Audrain Automobile Museum offers regularly changing exhibits based on its private collection of 250 cars; here some of the micro cars produced after World War II that are more like an airplane cockpit (and made from airplane parts) © Karen Rubin/ goingplacesfarandnear.com

women, we learn, who otherwise had no power in politics or business. These grand homes were designed to present their wealthy daughters (heiresses) to be snapped up for a favorable marriage. Dressing was important. Women would have to change something like seven times a day (a riding habit, tea gown, bathing outfit, tennis, golf, sailing). Newport was the first place women played outdoor sports; whole new fashions were created. The Breakers had 15 bedrooms and 20 bathrooms (we see one bathtub, carved from a single block of marble that was so cold, it had to be fully filled and drained several times before it would be warm enough to bathe in). We see the servants corridors, hidden closets and back stairs. “Female servants were invisible.” When we arrive in daughter Gertrude Vanderbilt’s bedroom, we learn that she was not happy to be an heiress. She preferred to be an artist, and became a sculptor, an art collector and patron and, in 1931, founded the Whitney Museum. (Here, I click the audio guide for more detail on specific things: Gertrude was on the forefront of the New Woman, an educated girl. The idea to become an artist came to her in a dream.) We come to the mezzanine overlooking the grand staircase. “Gilded Age Newport was built, managed, and maintained by women. It was the backdrop for the presentation of women” at a time when a woman’s fortune depended upon making a favorable marriage. We learn that the grand staircase stairs were built (and even rebuilt) to

be two inches shorter, so the young debutantes could be presented in their gowns more gracefully. At this portion of the tour, you can click on the audio guide to hear more detail about how the Vanderbilt’s attained such wealth and privilege (but it is really, really hard to keep the players straight without a scorecard – so many have the same name like British royalty). The Commodore left the vast majority of his enormous fortune to his eldest son, William Henry Vanderbilt (“Any fool can make a fortune; it takes a man of brains to hold onto it,” Cornelius Vanderbilt said.) Though William outlived his father by just eight years, in that time he doubled the Vanderbilt fortune from $100 million to $200 million. In the oddest quote on the audioguide, William Henry Vanderbilt explains why he sold controlling stock of the Vanderbilt empire to a syndicate headed by JP Morgan: “The care of $200 million is too great a load for any brain or back to bear. It is enough to kill a man. I have no son whom I am willing to afflict with the terrible burden.” The commentary adds, “Without a single visionary leader like the Commodore, there was no one to invest in the next new technology. Automobiles and airplanes replaced the railroads, the once vast fortune was split and shared among generations of descendants.” When we visit the kitchen, we get to appreciate some of the modern innovations of the house. The first Breakers burned down so when Cornelius II rebuilt it, he had the kitchen separated from house and no

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The Gold Room at Alva Vanderbilt’s Marble House in Newport, Rhode Island, epitomizes the Gilded Age © Karen Rubin/goingplacesfarandnear.com burners. Zinc, the stainless steel of its day, covered the worktable. There was a separate, smaller room which could be kept cool, for preparing pastry. It is worthwhile to appreciate that as we see the trappings of obscene wealth, privilege and power, we also get to appreciate that the servants – who were mainly immigrants – saw their position in these mansions as improvements, and many were able to embrace the American Dream and move up in station and class. The Breakers’ chef, we learn, started as a kitchen boy and became known as the Omelette King. The Butler’s pantry, a two-story affair, had a safe for the butler to lock the silver away. The butler, we are told, was like the captain of ship. Leaving The Breakers, we walk

down to the Cliff Walk, the most visited attraction in Rhode Island, and for good reason. This is a delightful walkway along the cliffs (mostly paved and accessible for someone who uses a cane or, as I urge instead, hiking sticks), behind the grand mansions such as The Breakers, and free to enjoy. It extends 3.5 miles all the way to Doris Duke’s Rough Point (where the walkway becomes more scrappy). Today, we only get a taste of it, in order to conserve time and energy. Marble House If The Breakers is about patriarchal wealth, power and privilege, Marble House, built before The Breakers See page D5

W R I T E R’S C O R N E R

As I See It

BY LOU THEODORE

On Purely Chaste, Pristine Random Thoughts XXVII I can’t believe there have already been 26 of these. Here is another set (20) of my thoughts on a host of topics. Hopefully, the reader will not find any of the comments below offensive. • Any of the readers familiar with my books? A “fan” recently emailed me on my new book: I’ll waste no time reading it.” • I’m working on two processes to get safe drinking water from the sea. Sounds simple. All you have to do is separate out the salt. • Anyone ever think of starting a business that would provide a service of placing your pet(s) while one is away with others who have pets at a nominal fee (I would call it Vacation Exchange of Pets, VEP). • Just finished reading O’Reilly’s

“Killing the Rising Sun”. The fanatical conduct of not only the Japanese leaders and military, but also those at home during the war was unforgiveable. I’m going to have trouble buying Japanese products from now on. I can also understand the logic behind the unfortunate interning of Japanese-Americans. • Are the Democrats or the Republicans in Nassau County more corrupt? I think it’s a tie. They have all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire. • Trump truly has many attributes. But, at times, he ought to give some thought to the gift of silence. • I still can’t believe the number of walks given up by major league pitchers. The key to being a great pitcher is to not walk batters. • I also still can’t believe that batters don’t run out ground balls and fly balls. • The key to good health is walking and drinking water. • Just published my 115th book. This one’s titled “Introduction

to Mathematical Methods for Environmental Engineers and Scientists.” It was coauthored by Chuck Prochaska, a graduate student at Manhattan College. • Kelly Behan, a junior structural engineering student studied at Buffalo and a resident of Mineola, is the coauthor of our soon to be released book “Introduction to Optimization for Environmental and Chemical Engineers.” Kelly is presently interning with Turner Construction and previously served as the editorial manager on my “Basketball Coaching 101” book. • I still maintain that environmentalists have become a liability to our society. Their fanatical conduct is simply not acceptable. • The Queen and I received a standing ovation at the recent annual Air and Waste Management Association awards luncheon in Hartford, Connecticut. • I can’t believe the widespread hatred for our spoiled egomaniac billionaire playboy president. It just

doesn’t make sense, given what he has accomplished in 18 months. • Dining out has become ridiculously expensive. The tax and tip increases your bill by approximately 30%. • Dining out? Be prepared to get ripped off if you “drink.” Two bloody Marys at Morton’s cost $33…and that doesn’t include the tax and tip. • I keep hoping things will be “resolved” in Noko, Iran, Israel, Syria, China and Russia. Am I asking and hoping for too much? • What happened to our Mets? • The New York Giants are doomed with Manning. • I’m planning to do another edition (IV) on Great Eats. The next one will key on casinos. That’s it, folks. I’ll be back with another “random” in 6 months. Visit the author at: www.theodorenewsletter.com or on his Facebook page at Basketball Coaching 101

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Senior Citizens Who Never Signed Up for Social Security BY TOM MARGENAU

Q: I am 73 years old. I never signed up for Social Security, because I just never needed it. I am fortunate enough to be independently wealthy. I inherited a multimillion-dollar business from my father, who had inherited it from his father. We have way more than enough money to live comfortably for the rest of our lives, and to provide nest eggs for our children and grandchildren. So again, I just don’t need the money. However, my wife keeps encouraging me to file for my Social Security. But my thinking is that since we don’t need the money, I should let it stay in the Social Security funds and it can be of more use for other less fortunate Social Security recipients. I’d like your take on this. A: That certainly is noble thinking on your part. But honestly, it’s just a little misguided. Your monthly Social Security benefit would be about $3,000 per month. That’s a lot of money. But it’s dwarfed by the magnitude of the trillion-dollar Social Security trust funds. Your benefits are such a teeny tiny drop in the Social Security bucket that letting your money remain in those funds really has no effect and does nothing “for other less fortunate Social Security recipients.” Throughout my 40-plus years of working on Social Security issues, I’ve run into about a half-dozen other folks in your situation. And I’ll recommend to you the same thing I recommended to them. Sign up for your Social Security benefits, and once the checks start rolling in, do something creative with the money. Maybe send a monthly check to your favorite charity. Or perhaps you could put a large chunk of money in your church’s collection plate once a month. I know of one guy who takes his Social Security check each month and buys a saving bond and gives it to one of his many grandkids. Or do what another fortunate soul like you is doing. He wrote to me about 10 years ago with a similar story, and I suggested the same advice. Ever since, he’s used the money to fund a scholarship that he hands out to lucky high school seniors in his town. Or of course you could just keep the money yourself and do whatever millionaires do with a $3,000 per month bit of throwaway money! Q: My dad is 85 years old. He never signed up for Social Security. He worked for the VA and gets a government pension and he also gets free medical care from the VA. So he doesn’t need Medicare. Before and after his VA career, he worked at jobs covered by Social Security, so he has his 40 quarters. He says he doesn’t need Social Security. But I think he should sign up. Is it too late for him to apply? If it isn’t, can he get retroactive benefits? And what about Medicare?

A: It’s never too late to apply for Social Security. So your dad can, and he definitely should, sign up for benefits as soon as possible. Based on what you said about his working career, he won’t be due much from Social Security. My guess is maybe about $200 per month. But still, $200 is way better than nothing. Sadly, he’s already thrown away thousands of dollars. And every month he waits, he’s throwing more money away. The most he can get in retroactive benefits is six month’s worth. As far as Medicare, your dad has been taking a chance all these years by never applying for the program. I understand he gets his free medical care from the VA. But if he is ever in a place or a situation where he needs medical care and a VA hospital or clinic isn’t available, he’s out of luck. Still, it would be prohibitively expensive for him to apply for Part B Medicare now. (That’s the part that pays for doctor’s visits, lab work, and all other non-hospital expenses.) He’d have to pay a 10 percent per year compounded monthly premium penalty for each of the last 20 years. That would make Part B just way to expensive for him. But Part A coverage is free. (That’s the part that pays inpatient hospital bills.) He should sign up for Part A at the same time he applies for his Social Security benefits. That way, if he ever needs hospitalization and can’t get to a VA hospital, he will be covered by Medicare. Q: There is an 88-year-old lady at our church whom I just met. She is living on a rather small Social Security check because she never worked very much outside the home. Her husband died about 15 years ago. She said after he died, she got the burial benefit from Social Security and nothing else. She claims she thought she was also filing for widow’s benefits, but nothing ever came of it. She never followed up on this and has been content living on her meager Social Security check. Is it too late to file for widow’s benefits? Can she get any back pay? A: As I said in the answer to the last question, it’s really never too late to file for any kind of Social Security benefit. So even though she should have filed for widow’s benefits 15 years ago, she certainly can still do so now. Assuming she is eligible for those benefits, she will be able to claim six months’ worth of retroactive benefits. Any Social Security claim filed after age 66 comes with that back pay guarantee. And normally, that six-month check would be all she gets. But if she can show that the Social Security Administration made a mistake by not paying her widow’s benefits that she was due, she could possibly collect 15 years worth of retroactive benefits. Showing that SSA made a mistake is normally hard to do. Lots of times it’s a “he said, she said” situation that’s almost impossible to prove. In other words, had she merely inquired about widow’s ben-

efits and claims she was told she was not eligible for such benefits, it would be hard for her to prove she actually got misinformation. But her situation is different. In sounds like she filed a formal claim for the little $255 death benefit. By doing so, it would have been SSA’s job to explore her eligi-

bility for widow’s benefits. If they dropped the ball on that claim, that proves the agency made a mistake and she should be able to get 15 years of back pay. If you have a Social Security question, Tom Margenau has the answer. Contact him at thomas.margenau@comcast.net. COPYRIGHT 2018 CREATORS.COM

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goddesses representing beauty, wealth and power. She wove into the frame and the fabric of the room images of women’s accomplishment – women holding a quill pen, Cleo, the Greek muse of history, female images of learning and the arts – the four corners showing (mythical) women in chemistry, botany, astronomy. “In education, women have made tremendous strides,” she said. “It is not so long since women freed themselves from their man-made belief that it was See page D6

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unwomanly for a woman to have an idea of her own.” She also said, “A man’s brain is not half a brain and we are the other half. Blending of the two will make a better whole.” Her bedroom also was a display of the power she coveted - a bed on a thronelike platform, below images of Athena, goddess of wisdom and war. In this period, though, she saw social standing - that is, marriage - as a woman’s only means to power and independence. She applied this to her daughter, Consuelo. Consuelo seems to have been Alva’s obsessive focus. You hear how she was groomed to be married off to European royalty –from childhood she was forced to wear a steel rod from her neck to waist with a strap around her shoulders, to make her to sit up straight and have elegant bearing. From her quotes, Consuelo seems to be fully aware of how she was being dominated by her mother, yet was a dutiful daughter, very close to her mother and understanding. We visit her austere room decorated by her mother which, she says, “reflected in my mother’s love of me.” We see the guest room – the only one in this fabulous mansion – decorated in rose silk, with an 18th century bed. The most famous guest was, of course, the 9th Duke of Marlborough, Consuelo’s intended. We learn there is only one guest room in the house because people who would visit the house either had their own “cottage,” rented someone

else’s for the season or stayed in a hotel. “Marble House is built for the family.” Consuelo “reluctantly accepted a proposal from the Duke of Marlborough.” She was one of the “Dollar Princesses,” American heiresses who married foreign royalty.”Consuelo Vanderbilt not the first or the last, but she was the best known.” These marriages, “were a melding of the old world and the new world. They enabled royalty to maintain property and palaces for another generation.” Indeed, the Gilded Salon – literally painted in 22 carat gold, the very epitome of Gilded Age – had a featured role in Duke’s marriage proposal. But after Consuelo was married off to British royalty, Alva acted for herself, divorcing William K in 1895. My favorite quote from the audio guide, “I was the first of my set to marry a Vanderbilt and the first to get divorced – but not the last.” Alva Erskine Smith of Alabama felt herself a pioneer for her class, a female knight reassuring others. “Mine was the first, but the first of many.” She ditched William K. Vanderbilt to marry her husband’s best friend, Oliver H.P. Belmont, moving down the street to Belcourt. After Belmont’s death, Alva reopened Marble House and had a Chinese Tea House built on the seaside cliffs. She became active and a major donor to the Women’s Suffrage Movement, holding rallies in 1909 at Marble House. She raised money for the cause by opening Marble House to the public: “Shop girls could mingle with socialites”

Of the $11 million spent to build Marble House was built for Alva Vanderbilt, $7 million was spent on 500,000 cubic feet of marble © Karen Rubin/goingplacesfarandnear.com

for the price of a $5 ticket (which would have been equivalent to $500 in today’s money). Alva insisted, “Women shouldn’t marry until we get vote,” a pronouncement considered hypocritical for a twice-married woman. Following her mother’s example, after 26 years as Duchess of Marlborough living in Blenheim Palace, Consuelo ended her loveless marriage in 1921, giving him $2.5 million a year, and married “for love” a French aviator, Jacques Balsan. (More about these personal relationships in a fantastic photo gallery in the basement.) In stark contrast to the grand (albeit austere) bedroom that Consuelo occupied, her brothers’ rooms were tiny and spartan; Willy K Jr.’s room was occupied by Marble House superintendent, William Gilmour, who joined the household when he was 16 to be Willy K’s companion. We visit a trophy room (that had been converted from two dressing rooms that were between Alva’s bedroom and Consuelo’s), that recognizes sons William K., Jr.’s role in pioneering the sport of auto racing in America (he created the Vanderbilt Cup auto races and built the Vanderbilt Parkway which starts across from where he had a home in Lake Success); and Harold Stirling, one of the finest yachtsmen of his era who successfully defended the America’s Cup three times and invented the game of contract bridge. Notably, as chairman of the board of Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Harold supported integration.”He wanted to be associated

with positive, progressive thinking.” In the basement kitchen (capable of feeding 100), we see yet another side of Alva in a quoted segment complaining “how the rich are exploited. When a shopkeeper learned my address, he said he made mistake of the price and added 50%.” This at a time when she paid a French chef (after all, you had to have a French chef), the massive sum of $10,000 (equivalent to $250,000 today). We see in the cupboard silver trays etched with the children’s names and china made with “Vote for Women.” In Marble House, too, people who have difficulty climbing stairs can ask to use an elevator, and the docents will find a place to sit and rest, as necessary. In summer, the Preservation Society has 10 properties open, all with distinctive presentations and exhibits. Rosecliff, the 1902 “fantasy in terra-cotta”, is presenting “Bohemian Beauty” celebrating the ideals of the Aesthetic Movement, personified by Oscar Wilde who visited Newport twice, with furniture, ceramics, wallpaper, glass, silver, paintings and clothing (thru Nov 4). (Plan your visit in advance at The Preservation Society of Newport County, 424 Bellevue Avenue, Newport, RI 02840, 401-847-1000, info@newportmansions.org, www. newportmansions.org.) In addition, there are the homes and heritage sites operated by Newport Restoration Foundation including Rough Point and Whitehorne Museum (51 Touro St., Newport, RI 02840, 401– 849–7300, newportrestoration.org).

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Art enriches lives and can be used to connect people from all walks of life. Among the many additional benefits of art is its effects on young people and the development of their brains. The American Association of School Administrators notes that neuroscience research has shown that the effects of the arts on a young brain’s cognitive, social and emotional development can be profound. • Art helps to wire the brain. The AASA notes that especially young children spend much of their time playing, and that play often includes forms of art such as singing, drawing and dancing. These artistic activities engage various senses and help to wire the brain so it can learn. As children age, these seemingly basic activities remain essential for young brains. • Art helps children develop their motor skills. Dancing and other movements that might be prompted by exposure to art help children develop motor skills. Motor skills are necessary for kids to perform important and necessary daily tasks while also promoting independence. • Art helps kids learn to think. The AASA notes that art can be a valuable tool in instilling essential thinking tools in children, including the ability to rec-

ognize and develop patterns, the ability to form mental representations of what is observed or imagined, and the ability to observe the world around them. • Art can improve memory and focus. The AASA cites studies that listening to music can stimulate parts of the brain responsible for memory recall and visual imagery. In addition, background music played in a classroom has been shown to help students remain focused while completing certain learning tasks. • Art can positively affect how students approach other courses. Studies have shown that incorporating arts into core curriculums can have a number of positive effects on students’ overall academic performance and benefit students socially. Studies indicate that students involved in such integrative programs are more emotionally invested in their classes and work more diligently than those not studying in such conditions. In addition, students may learn more from one another when the arts are integrated into core curriculums than when they are not. Art is often mistakenly seen as a strictly fun component of children’s education. But the effects of art on young brains is considerable, helping young people develop in ways that may surprise many men and women.

How to find the right school fundraiser for you The school year is in full swing, and parents of school-aged kids have no doubt been involved in at least one fundraiser already. Fundraisers help schools raise money for supplies or special activities that may not have been included in the budgets established by the local school district. Parent participation is essential for school fundraisers to be successful. Though requests to join in a school’s fundraising efforts can be overwhelming at times, rather than avoiding fundraisers completely, parents should research the fundraisers to determine which fundraising efforts best suit their schedules and interests. Parent-teacher organizations or the fundraising committees are great sources of information for inquisitive parents. Such groups may already have a schedule of fundraisers that you can peruse to find a match. If a fundraiser seems particularly attractive, you can mark your calendar to participate. Attend PTA meetings to learn how fundraising dollars are being spent. This can make it easier to find a fundraising activity to support, as you are more likely to participate in activities when you know just where the fruits of your labors will be going once the event has come and gone. It’s also important for parents to understand the rate of return on fundraisers. Schools and other organizations

receive a percentage of return on a fundraiser. It may be 50 percent, less or more. Aim to participate in fundraisers that provide schools with the best return on their investments. Purchasing a T-shirt for $15, $10 of which will go directly to the school, is more effective than participating in several fundraisers that only offer marginal returns. Another way to ensure your participation will yield results is to choose fundraisers that are being operated in conjunction with companies that have a long-standing record of success. When choosing a school fundraiser to pitch in with, ask the school if its efforts are being made in conjunction with a local business. If so, ask about the school’s track record with this particular business. If the results are good, you might feel better about offering your help. Don’t be afraid to offer your opinions if you feel a fundraiser is not being run as efficiently or smoothly as you think it could be. Speak up at a PTA meeting or volunteer your services to a committee. Other volunteers may just need a push in a new direction or some fresh ideas to make fundraising efforts more effective. Schools often offset miscellaneous costs by soliciting communities and parents of their students for assistance through fundraisers. People can select the fundraisers that interest them and offer the best return on investment to the school.

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The dawn of a new school year requires restocking school supplies. But for some kids, the most important part of returning to school is making sure they look good walking through the door on the first day of school — and each day thereafter. The National Retail Federation says the average family with school-aged kids expects to spend $630 this year on school supplies. A large percentage of that money will be spent on clothing. Naturally, parents want their children to have clothing they’ll love and feel comfortable wearing, but do not want to break the bank buying wardrobes for their youngsters. But parents can employ various strategies to ensure kids look good without Mom and Dad going broke. • Invest in few essential clothing items. Ask children what they are most interested in buying. One or two trendy shirts or an expensive pair of sneakers can be paired with seasonal pieces. The result is a trendy, affordable look. • Shop discount retailers. Stores like TJ Maxx and Marshalls offer many brand-name items at a discount over department store prices. While these stores customarily stock items that may be a season or two out of date, they can help budget-conscious families nab some key clothing items at affordable prices. • See if replicas will fit the bill. Girls

may be enamored with an oversized hair accessory dubbed the JoJo Bow, an accessory popularized by celebrity Joelle Joni “JoJo” Siwa. They’re big and colorful, but the name-brand, authentic hair bows may be beyond some parents’ budgets. However, there are plenty of bows that can achieve the same look at a fraction of the cost of the JoJo Bow. Parents also may find more affordable alternatives to other trendy items. • Choose a size larger. Children grow very fast, so it may be well worth the investment to purchase trendy items one size larger so kids can get more use out of the item. However, this likely won’t be possible with footwear. • Share clothes. Savvy bargain-hunters can swap gently worn shoes or clothing with other families when kids outgrow items. • Spread out purchases. To make purchasing easier on the wallet, grab items here and there throughout the year and put them toward school wardrobe essentials, rather than cramming in shopping right before the school year begins. This approach also helps families shop sales and maintain a variety of pieces that make it easier to transitions kids’ wardrobes throughout the year. School clothes can make up a large chunk of back-to-school shopping budgets. Smart choices help families save money.

Good schools help to harbor a strong sense of community. Children often make their first friends at school, and parents often meet their neighbors through school-sponsored activities. Students and school districts face a new set of challenges each year. Many of them can be remedied or made less daunting with the help of volunteers. Here are some of the many ways men and women can support the schools in their communities. • Practice open communication. Parents of children in the school should become familiar with teachers and the staff in the school. Find a balance between being involved and being intrusive. Joining the PTA is one way to be active in the goings-on of the school. When the opportunity arises, exercise your right vote on proposed policy changes and programs. Show an interest in your children’s assignments and ask to meet with teachers if the need arises. Doing so illustrates to the teacher that there is a connection at home and they’re not alone in the journey. • Participate in school fundraisers. Schools may not have enough money to cover all of their needs, and fundraisers are vital to the success of many schools. Fundraisers may provide money for the entire school or be collected for particular efforts, such as new technology or athletic uniforms. While you don’t have to get behind every fundraiser, participating in just a few can help the school raise needed funds.

• Keep a clean campus. Students and parents can work together to keep the school and surrounding areas clean. Organize trash pickup days when participants gather and dispose of litter. Parents also can pitch in to make school grounds more aesthetically appealing. Donate and plant flowers or trees, and encourage groups that meet at the school, such as Boy and Girl Scout troops, to donate their time and effort as well. • Donate books to the library. Members of the community can ensure students have plenty of reading materials available to them by donating used books in good condition to the school library. If you can afford it, purchase new books on summer reading lists and donate them to the school library. Schools also may appreciate donated subscriptions to magazines, newspapers and other periodicals. • Send in complete supplies. Teachers often ask parents to supplement supplies for their classrooms. Remember to send in what is requested when school supply lists are given to students. This helps classrooms run more efficiently and may reduce out-of-pocket expenditures for teachers. Schools are an integral part of many communities. Explore the many ways to support schools with donations, volunteerism and more.

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Being the new kid in school can be a tall order for youngsters. Children who change schools may face a host of challenges that studies suggest can affect both their social and academic development.

new job or those who may need to relocate for financial reasons may want to delay moving until the current school year has ended. Moving between school years gives families time to acclimate to their new communities. That means kids will get time to make new friends. Some familiar faces on the first day at a new school can go a long way toward alleviating the fears children may have.

In a 2010 study that followed students who entered kindergarten in 1998 through 2007, the Government Accountability Office found that 13 percent of students changed schools four or more times by the end of eighth grade. Such mobility can adversely affect students, as a study of 13,000 students in the city of Chicago found that children who had changed schools four or more times by the sixth grade were roughly a year behind their classmates. In addition to the toll transferring schools can take on their academic performance, students also may experience difficulty assimilating into their new schools. Though there’s no formula to make such transitions easier, parents can try various strategies to help their kids successfully adjust to new schools. • Speak with children about the transition. Pathways.org, a not-for-profit organization devoted to providing free child development information to parents and health professionals, recommends parents speak with their children about transitioning to a new school. En-

courage children to share what excites and worries them about the transition. The way parents discuss transitions can go a long way toward shaping how kids view the change. • Stay true to your routine. Pathways also recommends parents of students who are transitioning to a new school do their best to replicate first day of school routines from years past. Some famil-

iar traditions might help calm kids’ concerns about their first day in a new school. • Assimilate into a new community before the school year begins. The education resource Edweek.org notes that the most common causes of students changing schools are residential moves related to parents’ jobs or financial instability. Parents on the lookout for a

• Volunteer at your child’s new school. Parental involvement at school can have a profound impact on children. The National Education Association notes that children whose parents are involved at school are more likely to perform academically than students whose parents are uninvolved. In addition, such students are more likely to have good attendance and exhibit stronger social skills than children whose parents do not involve themselves in their children’s school. It stands to reason that students transferring to a new school may benefit from parental involvement even more than other students, as seeing their parents approach a new school with excitement and energy may inspire children to follow suit. Transitioning to a new school is not easy for many students. But parents can help smooth that transition in various ways.

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want. Going it alone with very little structure may put students in compromising, unsafe situations, a potentially dangerous course for students who have spent their lives within the often protective confines of school and family. Where do I want to be, and what do I want to do?

A lack of purpose or direction during a gap year will not provide students with much insight into themselves and the world. Students should determine where they want to be and what they want to do (i.e., volunteer, teach, etc.) before deciding to take a gap year. What is my budget? Gap years can be enlightening, but they also can be expensive. Students should figure out how they’re going to finance their gap years in advance. Students who will need to work during their gap years should make sure work does not take up so much time that the goal of their gap year, namely learning about oneself, is compromised.

High school seniors are on the cusp of significant change as they begin their final year of secondary school. As students try to decide what to do after high school, many will be preoccupied with applying to college and exploring their interests in the hopes of finding the right subject to study upon enrolling in college or university. Students consider those weighty decisions while simultaneously preparing to leave home for the first time and focusing on their schoolwork. While the vast majority of high school seniors will enroll in a college or university in the fall after they earn their high school diplomas, a small but growing number of teenagers are taking gap years. A gap year is a year away from the classroom between high school and college that students use to gain more life experience as they try to decide what they want to do with the rest of their lives. The Gap Year Association notes that gap year planning should be conducted with purpose and intent. While the gap year need not be as structured as a typical school year, a year entirely free of structure might not provide the insight students are hoping for. In fact, the Gap Year Association recommends students answer the following questions before taking a gap year so they can be sure they’re making the best decision possible. How can I make college possible after my gap year? The Gap Year Association recommends students confirm whether they

need to defer, take a leave of absence or arrange for a Consortium Agreement in order to enroll in college after their gap years. Make a note of all deadlines, including when tuition deposits are due, before taking a gap year so your enrollment is not jeopardized.

lightening as students hope. In addition, students must consider safety concerns when deciding how much structure they

Gap years can help students learn about themselves. But like many of the other decisions facing teenagers as they prepare to graduate high school, the decision to take a gap year requires careful consideration of a host of factors.

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How to make applying to college less stressful Applying to colleges is exciting for many high school students. But that excitement is sometimes tempered by anxiety. The college application process can affect students’ lives for years to come, so it’s understandable why some teenagers might feel stressed as they apply to college. The National Center for Educational Statistics says 69 percent of high school graduates in the United States enroll in college the fall after graduating from high school. Many students begin applying to college before entering their senior year of high school. Students can employ various strategies to make applying to college less stressful. Create an inventory of student experiences and awards When completing their college applications, students submit a variety of materials. In addition to students’ track records in the classroom, schools will be interested in kids’ extracurricular activities, hobbies, volunteer work, and even things they do during their free time. Parents and students can work together to develop a master list that

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schools they have no intention of attending, and that only adds to the stress of meeting deadlines. Narrow down the possibilities to a handful of favorite schools and go from there. Use the resources at your disposal Students who have access to guidance counselors, mentors, college centers, or even teachers who are willing to help with the application process should use these resources wisely. In addition, iPhone and Android apps can help streamline the college application process.

Investigate the Common Application The Common Application began as a niche program for select private liberal arts colleges, but now has grown into an organization that services more than 750 schools. The organization enables students to create an account and complete one basic form that will be accepted by all institutions who are members. The CA helps students streamline the college application process and reduce redundancy. An alert system also helps applicants manage application deadlines.

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INVITED ESTATE SALES BY TRACY JORDAN Monday, August 20, 2018 9:30 a.m. 34 Earle Avenue Lynbrook, NY 11563 PACKED! Digger filled with items from the 1930’s including vintage, china, decorative, furniture, jewelry, lighting and outdoor items.....Visit www.invitedsales.com for pictures and details ! INVITED ESTATE SALES BY TRACY JORDAN Thursday, August 23, 2018 9:30 a.m. 146 Wellington Road Garden City, NY 11530 Furniture, Collectibles, Decorative, Vintage, Garage and Basement..... Visit www.invitedsales.com for pictures and details ! INVITED ESTATE SALES BY TRACY JORDAN Friday, August 24, 2018 9:30 a.m. 83 Kensington Rd South West Hempstead, NY 11552 Sewing supplies, furniture, vintage items, tools, collectibles, costume jewelry, old toys, china, garage, basement....Visit www.invitedsales.com for pictures and details !

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THE ANDY FOUNDATION YARD SALE SHOP An eclectic selection of furniture, home decor, jewelry, china, artwork, antiques, housewares. New donations daily 195 Herricks Rd Garden City Park, NY 11040 Tues—Sat 10am-4pm 516-739-1717 info@theandyfoundation.org Proceeds benefit The Andy Foundation

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JAMESPORT Sunday 8/19 1:00pm—3:00pm 10 Morningside Ave 375’ of Waterfront. Location! Location! Spectacular Views. 140’ of Sandy Bay Beach. Boat Dock on Property. Cape with 3 BRs. Living Room with Stone Fireplace. $1,995,000. Colony Realty, Carll Austin 516-6582623

HOMES FOR SALE GARDEN CITY STUNNING MOTT COLONIAL Quiet area, 3 spacious bedrooms, 2 1/2 baths, Jacuzzi, walk-in closets, den, fireplace, very large kitchen, ss appliances, CAC, basement playroom, patio, many extras. NO BROKERS. $1,100,000 Call 516-739-3907

LOTS FOR SALE FARM LIQUIDATION! 42 acres, abuts state land—$69,900. 3 hrs NYC. Big views, woods, pond, meadows! Town rd, utils. Owner terms. 888-701-1864 NewYorkLandandLakes.com

OPEN HOUSE AQUEBOGUE Sunday, 8/19 1:00pm—3:00pm 87 Foxglove Row The Highlands. Stunning One of a Kind 2 story nestled amidst the golf courses & vineyards. 4 BRs, 3.5 Baths, gourmet Kitchen, FDR, LR, Study, Great Room/G as Fireplace set in stone wall, Sunroom, Loft, Sitting Room, Garage & Basement. Master Suite on 1st floor. Must see! $729,000 Colony Realty, Dolores Peterson 631-413-7572 JAMESPORT Saturday 8/18 11:00am—1:00pm 873 Sound Shore Rd. COUNTRY RANCH with Deeded Private Beach. Very short distance to the Sound. Great year round or vacation home. 3+BRs, 1.5 Baths, LR/Fireplace, Kitchen, Dining Area, Porch, Deck, Outside Shower & Shed. Reduced! $499,000 Colony Realty, Carll Austin 516-658-2623

OUT OF TOWN REAL ESTATE JAMESPORT Elegant Custom Contemporary in Sea Cove Estates. Bay Beach Community. 3 BRs, 4 Baths, Spacious Open Floor Plan. Vaulted Ceilings, HW Floors, Fireplace, Screened in Porch & ING Pool. Celebrate the beauty of the North Fork here with Friends & Family. Reduced! $779,000. Colony Realty, Valerie Goode, 516-319-0106

OUT OF TOWN REAL ESTATE VERMONT 75’ Lakefront year round home on Lake Bomoseen, Vt (3/4 acre plot). Two story, 2 bedrooms, kitchen dinette, full bath, wrap around porch. Lower level-family room, king size sofa bed, work room, heater room. Large dock with boat and motor. $210,000. Call Bill Gilbert 802-265-8838

REAL ESTATE WANTED LAND WANTED SEEKING LARGE ACREAGE Serious cash buyer seeks large acreage 200 acres and up in the Central / F inger Lakes / S o. Tier & Catskills Regions of NY State. Brokers welcome. For prompt, courteous, confidential response, call 607-353-8068 or email Info@newyorklandandlakes.com

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Clipping pet item coupons for Last Hope is a great and easy way to give your support. Every coupon we receive helps to defray our costs, particularly for dog and cat food. They can either be dropped off at our adoption center at 3300 Beltagh Avenue in Wantagh, or mailed to Last Hope, PO Box 7025, Wantagh 11793. Please share our need with your friends and family. Thank you! Visit http://lasthopeanimalrescue.org to read about Last Hope’s programs and to see the fabulous array of fantastic felines eagerly awaiting adoption into their forever homes!

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If you haven’t tried Chewy.com yet for your pet food and supply purchases, this is a great time to check them out. Last Hope is now part of their rescue program. For each new customer that makes a purchase, Last Hope will receive a $20 donation. Click on the ad below or go directly to the Last Hope page at https://www.chewy.com/rp/5941

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GCPS’s Summer Enrichment Program tops 800 enrollment

Enrollment in Garden City Public School’s Summer Enrichment Program (SEP) topped 800 rising pre-K through 12 students over the program’s fourweek operation this July. Held at Stratford Avenue, students filled classrooms to immerse themselves in STEM-

related projects (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics), woodworking, arts & crafts, music, and even college essay-writing for rising high school seniors wanting to get a jumpstart on the college application process. Some SEP weeks offered over 25

New this summer, music teacher Andrew Albani taught strings during SEP.

different activities. And, not only did the District’s program offer a wealth of learning opportunities for attending students, the program accepted 200 student volunteers over the course of the July 2nd - 27th program to assist in classrooms with the various age groups:

a win-win-win for parents, students, and instructors alike! Many thanks to SEP administrators Joe Papa, Virginia McCavera, and student volunteer coordinator Pat Lupo for making this summer’s program such a success!

In photography class, students took a photo of themselves being photographed for this article on iPads.

Programming “Dash” robots using iPads was a popular activity in this summer’s SEP.

Yum – SEP students taking cooking classes made (and enjoyed) a variety of goodies.

Rising seniors had the opportunity to jumpstart the college application process by writing their college essays.

Younger SEP students could paint, cut, glue, and assemble in arts & crafts.

Teams of students worked together to build and program small robots during SEP’s Robotics classes.

Always a popular class at SEP, a volunteer assists a student with the drill press during woodworking.

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Start your day with low impact exercise! Joy Cody has set a program with our senior and beginner population in mind! Classes will take place on your choice of Tuesdays or Thursdays at 9am at the Senior Center. The one-hour class will run for 10 weeks at a cost of $60. This program is open to any resident of the Inc. Village of Garden City. Classes begin the week of September 18th. To register, please visit the Recreation Office at 108 Rockaway Avenue.

Adult Yoga on Wednesday Mornings

Connie McKnight, our certified yoga instructor, has designed adult yoga classes with all ages in mind. Our yoga class will be offered on Wednesday mornings at 9am at Garden City’s Senior Center. This 10-week program will begin on Wednesday, September 5. The cost of this class will be $95. To register, please visit the Recreation Office at 108 Rockaway Avenue.

Adult Art Classes at Cluett Hall

Beginning September 14th, Recreation and Parks will again offer an adult pastel class taught by Arleen Ruth Urban. This class is open to adult residents of the Inc. Village of Garden City. Our classes will be held from 9:00 a.m. to 11:30am each Friday in Cluett Hall at St. Paul’s. The cost of the 10 week program will be $140 (Supplies are bought on your own- a supply list will be handed out at the first class). This program will teach the beginner as well as advanced student the art of painting portraits and landscapes/ still-life in pastels from photographs. Students will be given the option of dividing each three hour session between portrait or landscape, or they may concentrate solely on the subject of their choice. Demonstrations will be available as needed throughout the program. Each student will receive the individual attention required to work at their own pace and level of expertise.

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Arleen Ruth Urban, the instructor for this program, is a signature member of the Pastel Society of America. A winner of numerous awards, her commissioned portraits hang in the many Garden City homes. To register for our Pastel Class, please visit the Recreation Office at 108 Rockaway Ave.

“Zumba Gold" Exercise Classes

Our Thursday session of our “Zumba Gold” fitness will be held in on Thursday afternoons at 2:15pm at The Senior Center. Each 45 minute class, teaching the basics of “Zumba” exercise, is led by Felicia Lovaglio, our certified Zumba exercise instructor. This class is geared for seniors or the beginner adult. The ten week session will begin Thursday, September 13th. The price for the session is $60. To register this class, please visit the Recreation and Parks Office at 108 Rockaway Avenue.

Beginner Mah Jongg

Garden City Recreation and Parks is pleased to offer beginner Mah Jongg lessons to our seniors. This eight week course will cover the basics of the game and the rules so you can enjoy playing. The class will meet every Monday from 10 am to noon beginning Monday, September 10. The cost of this eight week class will be $80 and space is limited. Checks should be made payable to the Village of Garden City. To register for this class, please visit the Recreation and Parks Office at 108 Rockaway Avenue. Applications will be accepted until all 16 spots are filled. PLEASE NOTE – an additional $10 supply fee will be payable to the instructor at the first class.

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Thursday, August 16 at 10am – Computer Workshop – “Microsoft Word, Tips and Tricks” Learn how to better use this program for your daily and special needs. You should be comfortable using a computer for this workshop. Tuesday, August 21 at noon - Hot

GC Retired Men’s Club Events Schedule of Events

Monday, August 20th - Noon Sandwiches and 105th Birthday Celebration for Ed Palkot. Lunch will be free to members, but you must sign up in advance. Monday, August 27th - Pizza 12:30pm September 3rd -- NO MEETING Labor Day Poker players: check with John Marino at 248-1770. We welcome bridge, and especially non-bridge, players, in order to expand the variety of our activities. Some suggestions: poker, chess, backgammon,

other card games, cribbage and billiards. Also you may come for just conversation, camaraderie, and to make new friends. Lunch is served roughly twice a month.

About the GC Retired Men’s Club

All Garden City men, 55 years and older, are eligible for membership. Annual dues are a very “expensive” $10. Meetings are on Mondays, and a less busy meeting is on Thursdays. Both begin at noon and end at 4:00pm. Check with the GCNews RMC schedule re upcoming meetings. In good weather we offer BBQ, bocce, and shuffleboard.

Luncheon. $8 per person. Reservations are necessary by visiting the Recreation and Parks Office at 108 Rockaway Avenue.

Upcoming Fall Trips for Seniors

Here Garden City Recreation and Parks’ fall trip list for seniors who are residents of the Inc. Village of Garden City. If you would like to register for any of our trips, please visit the Recreation and Parks Office at 108 Rockaway Avenue. Payment must accompany registrations. Other trips will be added in the upcoming weeks. Thursday, September 13th Rock the Boat with Spirit Cruises We will travel by coach bus to the city where we will join Rendezvous travel and board our boat for a lunch buffet while we dance our way around the island of Manhattan. The price per person will be $85, checks only made payable to Rendezvous Travel. Monday, October 1st Trip to the Metropolitan Opera to see “Samson and Delilah”. We will travel by coach bus to the Opera House where we will see the 7:30 pm performance. You will have time to eat on your own before the show. We will return to Garden City after the performance. Tickets will be $85, checks only made payable to the Village of Garden City. PLEASE NOTE, THIS TRIP IS NOW FILLED Tuesday, October 16th at noon Westbury Manor for Lunch and a Performance of “Gypsy” We will travel by recreation bus for this trip. Tickets are $40, checks only, made payable to Plaza Theatrical Productions. Tuesday, November 13th at 2pm Trip to NYCB Theatre in Westbury for “United We Sing” This tribute show will showcase melodies from three of the biggest icons in popular music history – Frank Sinatra, Elvis Presley, and Neil Diamond! We will travel by recreation bus for this trip. Tickets are $40, checks only made

payable to Rendezvous Travel. Wednesday, December 5th Dyker Heights Christmas Lights and Dinner at Colandrea New Corner Restaurant We will travel by coach bus, have dinner first, and then enjoy the spectacle Dyker Heights has to offer. When we are done, we will take a quick ride to see the Rockefeller Centre Christmas tree. Walking is involved in this trip. . The price per person will be $90, checks only made payable to Rendezvous Travel. Wednesday, March 6 Trip to the Metropolitan Opera to see “Rigoletto”. We will travel by coach bus to the Opera House where we will see the 7:30 pm performance. You will have time to eat on your own before the show. We will return to Garden City after the permformance. Tickets will be $75, checks only made payable to the Village of Garden City.

Exercise for Seniors

Recreation and Parks is offering the following exercise classes for seniors at The Senior Center on Golf Club Lane. Classes are open to all seniors ages 60 and older who are residents of the Inc. Village of Garden City. Classes might be cancelled due to a special event or trip so please check the bulletin board at The Senior Center for updates. MONDAYS Exercise with Felicia at 10am Tai Chi with Connie at 1pm Meditation with Connie at 2pm TUESDAYS Yoga for all Levels with Allie at 1:30pm Chair Dancing with Felicia at 2:30pm WEDNESDAY Exercise with Felicia at 10am Chair Yoga with Connie at 11am THURSDAY Yoga for all Levels with Allie at 11:15am Meditation with Allie at 12:25pm FRIDAY Exercise with Felicia at 10am Resistance Bands with Felicia at 10:45am Meditation with Connie at noon Tai Chi with Connie at 1pm

GC Senior Bridge Results On August 13th, there were seven tables playing. The results: North/South 1--Athena Philippides & Dede Hirsch 2--Joan Cowie & Grace Basile 3--Claire Burns & Joan Kiernan

East/West 1--Charlotte & Mike Curan 2--Maureen Minnion & Judy Cashman 3--Jo Keller & Fran Flaherty

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From page 12 ment for one additional year, until June 30, 2020, but terminate this agreement effective on that date, “subject to written agreement by the school confirming the June 30, 2020 termination date of the license, its lack of entitlement to any presence at the site after such date, and the School’s agreement in writing not to seek any further extensions or any new or similar license for the current site or any other Village-owned facilities,” as stated on the trustees’ meeting agenda last month. In a statement from the village published in the News in June of 2017 on fees paid by nonprofits in Garden City, the village noted that the Cathedral Nursery School paid its own renovation and operations costs. “The Nursery School rent was not increased this year, as it has been steadily paying increases of between 5 and 10 percent every year over the last 5 or so years. Currently, the Nursery School pays approximately $2,600 per month,” the village noted 14 month ago.

Parking plans considered

Nearly two years ago, at the September 2016 meeting of the Western Property Owners’ Association at Homestead School, Trustee Robert Bolebruch considered parking plans for St. Paul’s including the cottages’ location very far ahead of the village’s engaging three Manhattan consulting firms last fall and presenting their concept this summer. At the time and without the proper scale for a major parking project to go with the new sports and recreation concept, Trustee Bolebruch described a logical place to put parking as northeast of the existing fields, from Rockaway Avenue “near where the cottages sit.” “There’s a large distance between the road and the cottages on the right. We can basically put in a row of about 15 parking spaces from halfway down that stretch and Rockaway Avenue. The existing fence can be pushed a little closer to the cottages. It does not infringe upon the fields’ space and it would not be that much closer to the building, plus we don’t have to cut down any trees there or anything else,” Bolebruch said, reported in The Garden City News on October 7, 2016. At its meeting on Wednesday July 25, the Village Board of Trustees also approved a professional services contract of $4,000 with CBRE-Tri State, a firm based on Manhattan’s Park Avenue, for “Facility Condition Assessment Services.” Funds for the contract came from the 2018-2019 Village of Garden City Operating Budget as Superintendent of Public Works Joseph DiFrancisco explained a need for evaluating the municipality’s capital and physical plant needs. “This study was a Board of Trustees

Priorities’ List item from a little over a year ago. We would like to use the consultants to help us evaluate the facilities and buildings in the village, starting with some of the larger ones – Village Hall, the DPW Yard, our Water Works facility and some other facilities. This will give us a baseline on where we will need to focus our resources and in which areas we’ll need to better budget for Garden City’s future to maintain village buildings and facilities,” DiFrancisco said on July 25. The meeting agenda for the CBRE contract also listed the Garden City Public Library building on Seventh Street as another facility for review, although DiFrancisco didn’t state it at the meeting. The village owns the library building and provides for its maintenance, mechanical supplies, staffing and more in the annual budget, while the Library Board of Trustees primarily manages and oversees the GCPL’s policies, programming and operational side. A question that has repeatedly come up with the debate over the future use of the main building of the former St. Paul’s private school, the largest Garden City building listed on the National Register of Historic Places, has circulated an idea of relocating either the library or Village Hall offices into St. Paul’s. During the concept presentations for the sports and recreation-centric “Centre at St. Paul’s” unveiled to the residents at the Garden City Casino on both July 17 and 26, the same theory was proposed by people in the audience. To each, Garden City Mayor Brian Daughney responded by asking what would the village do with existing facilities such as the DPW Yard, the library or Village Hall if one or more of those functions were to move into St. Paul’s. Resident and CPOA director Pat DiMattia spoke at the July 26 presentation and suggested the St. Paul’s concept be centered on education instead of athletics, and that the village “sell that library (GCPL) building on Seventh Street because there will be a buyer.” She said options include ownership of the Garden City Hotel or the Long Island Rail Road as it is just north of the tracks. The nonprofit Preservation Long Island (formerly SPLIA, the Society of Preservation of Long Island Antiquities) concurred that there would be significantly less cost and less intervention into the infrastructure and historic fabric of the St. Paul’s building if it were re-purposed as a community library with a mix of municipal office space, or a similar combination. DiMattia told the mayor and her fellow residents that the hockey rink and multipurpose sports and soccer field “are so over the top and unnecessary,” and the Board should be cautious about investing in infrastructure to a large scale. She said the Golf Club Lane

senior center – about three years old – is not a strong indication of a community amenity as from her conversations with seniors, “it’s a disaster.” “There are still viable ideas, so let’s make St. Paul’s a state-of-the-art library and information center. I do want to preserve the façade of St. Paul’s and it still is a beautiful building. I am very concerned that this concept is way over the top and residents will not buy into it because of that,” she said. The mayor told residents the Centre at St. Paul’s concept released in July represents far more “than just a sports place.” “There is a lot of space we can do other space with – we’ve incorporated a whole flexible space. Plus we still have Cluett Hall. We are envisioning cleaning up Cluett Hall, insulating it and putting air conditioning in it. Tonight and last week (July 17) we had to hold the presentations here at the Casino, but we would rather have this at Cluett Hall. We need to insulate that building and add in air conditioning, make Cluett Hall a performance space or a dance space, whatever use it may be – it is perfect for that. The existing St. Paul’s Fieldhouse is just a cinder-block building and its windows are horrible. So let’s spend some money to fix that building too, and we will have a real campus. This concept represents much more than a multipurpose field and hockey rink as we envision all the other complimentary stuff, and multiple uses,” Daughney explained. Meanwhile Trustee Minuto said the strategy of starting with a hockey arena was to generate revenues for the village, as “ice time is very expensive” and not so many suitable venues exist for market demand. He added that the sustainability of the project would be inclusive of “upkeep of the building” and maintenance in various forms, but the Board and the village’s consultants were cognizant of minimizing the burden on taxpayers.

Reasoning on hockey rink, field

“The reason we put the two things in there, an ice hockey rink and the multipurpose field, is because they are components that will generate revenues. The idea is to not only have a capital project but to have it pay for itself and take care of itself over time – the way the pool does and the way the other amenities in town do. In the early studies that we saw, ice and a multipurpose field make lots of money. We are open to other revenue-generating plans. As we develop the concept into an operational project, we have to say ‘what is the cost of an amenity, and ‘what are yearly returns towards the upkeep of the building.’ We have heard about including a pool, which would likely be a very expensive component, and a S.T.E.M. lab is another idea to consider as we know Chaminade just built a $26 million

S.T.E.M. facility that considers the jobs and training of the future… Garden City High School kids will not have access to it. But with St. Paul’s we can’t work with nice-to-haves that will not really fund a return on the investment,” Minuto said. He added that athletic uses and facilities could generate monies to pay for educational uses and programming in the proposed flexible space. Aside from facility and sports venue management companies the village has contacted and targeted, the mayor mentioned potential for Garden City to partner with Adelphi University of Hofstra to offset costs of building the facility and share revenues.

Cutting trees, vegetation at St. Paul’s

On Wednesday August 8 the Village of Garden City and its Recreation and Parks division delivered notice to residents living adjacent to the St. Paul’s campus, specifically at its north and west borders, on clearing some vegetation and trees lining the village property, a designated parkland that has become the focal point for a large-scale sports and recreational infrastructure plan with the historic structure unveiled in July. A letter to area residents dated Tuesday, August 7, relayed the planning and intentions of the Department of Recreation and Parks and authorization from the Board of Trustees: “Over the past three years the Village Board has, along with the Recreation and Cultural Affairs Commission, made considerable effort, at much expense, to improve all our parks and playing fields. This undertaking at St. Paul’s is necessary to allow for additional playing field space and to also allow our recreation department to initiate a field rotation program for the purpose of renovation.” The removal program will last several weeks, likely into September, and will be centered on the west and north sides of the St. Paul’s complex. Residents were made aware that this would encompass vegetation and trees “including some unauthorized plantings of various types” on the village property. The letter last week suggested that any resident who “previously made plantings on village property to remove them and place them on their own property.” Letters and notice of this month’s plant and tree removals were delivered in person at each home in the vicinity last week. Work was expected to begin by August 15 and involve clearing plant materials approximately 20 to 30 off the outside village property line, the letter stated. During a meeting of the Board of Commissioners of Recreation and Cultural Affairs (Rec. Commission) in mid-May, the concept of realignment with some of the St. Paul’s fields was See page 51

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From page 49 discussed as 90 feet of space had been identified for the fall sports season. Rec. Commission chairman and head of the village’s Recreation and Parks department, Kevin Ocker, explained the plan in May and said some field space at St. Paul’s would be taken out of rotation immediately. That impacted area would be the soccer fields only this fall, not impacting lacrosse. “If you took a walk along the soccer fields at St. Paul’s and go off the playing surface, you can see what is achievable,” he told the Commission. The goal for accommodating fall sports includes picking up another 90 feet while leaving the lacrosse fields towards the west part of St. Paul’s. Recreation and Parks works within a strategy of keeping a minimum of 45 feet away from one field’s sidelines to the next adjacent field. When the idea was presented to the Commission after a Rec. department discussion with the GC Centennials three months ago, Ocker specified the significant border of green space that would be left for homes in the adjacent part of the Estates to the west of St. Paul’s. “We may be removing some of the old trees on the line, pines and some shrub materials that stick out onto the field space,” he said in May. Rec. Commission member Walter McKenna said he was in touch with lacrosse groups in the village and issues became evident with wear and tear on the back fields due to the north-south configurations for soccer. “From what I understand, sometimes Recreation can turn fields facing the other way to accommodate sports. The lacrosse and soccer fields are used to the east of that, and when they are done we then shift them,” McKenna said. Ocker explained the conditions of the grounds surrounding St. Paul’s St. Paul’s, telling the Commission that by May some fields were “worn down and in desperate need of aerating, slice-seeding and fertilization.” Senior groundskeeper of the Recreation and Parks Department Tim Messner explained the layout of two lacrosse fields perpendicular to Stewart Avenue, and those fields could not be rotated during spring. He said there wasn’t a way to fit nine fields at St. Paul’s other than keeping the two fields as they are or shifting them further to the west border of the St. Paul’ property. “We have talked about the spring and fall layouts at St. Paul’s over time. One issue we’d have with moving the fields is putting those lacrosse fields on the east end, closer to the playground, if we created another space on the west end. The lacrosse fields would not be

shooting in the direction of the playground but we do not want a safety concern with lacrosse balls flying in, as we still have the issue of soccer balls going into the playground area,” he said.

Bathrooms at St. Paul’s

The Board of Trustees addressed interior needs of the St. Paul’s Comfort Station (restrooms) at their July 10 meeting, which Kevin Ocker described as the most heavily used comfort station facilities in the entire Garden City Recreation and Parks system. The Board approved a $27,000 contract for architectural and engineering Services from Woodbury-based consultants Cameron Engineering & Associates. As part of the Village’s Capital Improvement Plan, the St. Paul’s comfort station is to be renovated as a capital project. “As an aside to this we’ve taken steps to retain a company to renovate the exterior of the St. Paul’s Comfort Station. With plumbing work, new tiles, fixtures and restroom partitions will be done by the fall,” Ocker told the Board of Trustees. Also in July, the Village Board approved a $93,000 contract for Cameron Engineering to oversee and ascertain specifications on various infrastructure improvements at the Garden City Pool as another capital project. Ocker says Cameron Engineering will first complete its survey work before the construction sequence begins. Roof replacements, ventilation in the pool’s restrooms replacing a trench drain around the main pool, substantial work in the pool’s filter room, and addressing ADA compliance for the ramp to the lower pool deck area will be included in the project. After Trustee Mark Hyer asked Ocker to explain the ventilation needs at the pool, he said the ventilation work was tied to the roofing at the facility. Mayor Daughney said one challenge for municipalities such as Garden City that drives the costs of capital projects up is the Prevailing Wage requirement under New York State law. “A lot of states have it and although citizens can hire a contractor to do a bathroom for $68,000 it would cost us as a village $130,000. We have to deal with it all the time an in our budgets. And this type of project (the St. Paul’s Comfort Station) is something normally done to address wear and tear and maintenance. We try to stay on top of things, and our goal as a Board is making sure we do projects and investments right and get them done well the first time so we know they will last,” the mayor said.

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With the success of our summer program, we will be holding six 90-minute sessions for boys and girls on Monday and Wednesday nights 6:00pm – 7:30pm starting in September at the St. Paul’s Fieldhouse. Registration is $200. Dates are scheduled to be September 10th, 12th, 17th, 19th, 24th, and 26th. The format of the program is similar to that of a high school, college, or travel team practice. The focus is on skills, drills, speed, & agility and half court game time. Registration is OPEN online at www. gardencitybasketball.org Paper applications may be submitted. We are limiting the number of participants so that we can maintain a good

coaching-to-player ratio and provide a higher quality program. The coaches are former high school varsity players, college players and/or AAU travel coaches. If you have a child in K and feel that they would enjoy this type of format, then please register. We are placing players at age appropriate non-rotating half court sessions. Registration will be open until August 31stm, but again will close once we fill the roster. Registration is also open for our nationally recognized WINTER preKK-1st and 2nd grade clinic. The winter program runs 10 sessions on Sundays in early December through early March. The registration fee for this clinic is $150. Information about Garden City Basketball and this program are on our website or you may email jskramko@ live.com

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Youth Fall Roller Hockey Programs

The Garden City Recreation & Parks Department will once again offer various roller hockey programs this fall for children who reside in the Inc. Village of Garden City. Whether you played in the past or looking to get involved, there is no better time to sign up and experience all the fun. All programs take place at the roller rink located at Community Park. PLEASE PAY CAREFUL ATTENTION AS OUR OFFERINGS ARE SLIGHTLY DIFFERENT THEN IN THE PAST. Each participant is required to wear full equipment at all times. This includes hockey helmet with a cage, hockey gloves, shin pads, elbow pads, roller blades, hockey stick, long pants, and a protective cup. A description of each program we will offer is as follows: PEE WEE BEGINNER CLINIC: (Open to Kindergarten & 1st Grade) No experience is required in hockey or roller skating. This hour long clinic will introduce the sport of roller hockey and all the basic fundamentals in a fun & safe environment. The program will take place Sunday afternoons at 1:30pm beginning September 16th at a cost of $105.00. SQUIRTS BEGINNER + CLINIC: (Open to Kindergarten & 1st Clinic) This beginner program will continue to develop our young players through drills and scrimmages. This hour long program will take place Sunday afternoons at 3:00pm beginning September 16th at a cost of $105. 2ND & 3RD GRADE MITES DIVISION: Games will take place on Friday afternoons with either a 4:00pm or 5:30pm game time depending on your child’s team schedule. Season begins

on September 14th at a cost of $105. 4TH & 5th GRADE JUNIOR DIVISION: Games will take place on Sunday late afternoons with either a 4:30pm or 5:45pm game time depending on your child’s team schedule. Season begins on September 16th at a cost of $105.00. 6TH, 7TH, & 8TH GRADE SENIOR DIVISION: Games will take place on Friday evenings with either a 6:45pm or 8:00pm game time depending on your child’s team schedule. Season begins on September 14th at a cost of $105. To register, please visit our office at 108 Rockaway Avenue, or, if you have a password you can register online at www.gcreconline.gardencityny. net. For questions, please contact Andrew Karen by email at akaren@ gardencityny.net.

Adult Fall Roller Hockey

The Garden City Recreation & Parks Department will offer its roller hockey program at Community Park this fall. This program will be open to residents of the Village of Garden City ages 30 & over according to the following schedule: Sundays beginning Sunday, September 16th @ 7:00pm Games are in “pick up” format. The price for this program will be $90.00. All participants are required to wear the following equipment at all times: Hockey Helmet with cage, hockey gloves, shin pads, elbow pads, roller blades, protective cup, & hockey stick. To register, please visit the Recreation and Parks office at 108 Rockaway Avenue, or, if you have password you may register online at www.gcreconline.gardencityny.net.

for this program, is a signature member of the Pastel Society of America. A winner of numerous awards, her commissioned portraits hang in the many Garden City homes. To register for our Pastel Class, please visit the Recreation Office at 108 Rockaway Ave.

Motor Mania with Legos at St. Paul’s Cluett Hall!

Bricks4Kidz classes build on the popular “LEGO” bricks to deliver high-quality educational play. Each hour-long class is an engaging experience for your child with a new project each week. In this session children will make motorized models of a wide variety of sports, including Basketball, Soccer, Gymnastics and Mini-Golf using LEGO®Technic bricks and our own Bricks 4 Kidz design instructions. Learn how to use gears and axles, pulleys and levers to create amazing and fun motorized moving parts as we "get into gear" for spring training. Please note, participates will not bring home the model. Classes will be held on Wednesdays for Grades 1-4 beginning September 26th in St. Paul’s Cluett Hall. Classes are from 4:00-5:00pm and the cost is $135 per child for six week class.

To register for this program, please visit the Garden City Recreation and Parks’ Administrative Office at 108 Rockaway Ave. Please make checks payable to Bricks 4 Kidz. Registration is limited.

Amusement Park Tickets Available

The Garden City Recreation Department will this year again be offering discount tickets to area amusement parks. Tickets can be purchased at the Recreation Office at 108 Rockaway Avenue. Cash or check will be accepted for payment. These very popular discounted tickets are for: Gate Discounted Price Price Splish Splash Water Park 43.99 $37.00 Splish Splash - under 48 inches 33.99 $30.00 Six Flags Great Adventure And Safari (Jackson, NJ) 85.29 $41.45 Hershey Park – ages 9 – 54 67.80 $53.50 Hershey Park – ages 3 – 8 45.80 $41.50 Dorney Park – 48 inches or over 61.95 $45.00 Mountain Creek – Vernon, NJ 45.99 $35.00 Only cash or check will be accepted for payment.

Adult Art Classes at Cluett Hall

Beginning September 14th, Recreation and Parks will again offer an adult pastel class taught by Arleen Ruth Urban. This class is open to adult residents of the Inc. Village of Garden City. Our classes will be held from 9:00am to 11:30am each Friday in Cluett Hall at St. Paul’s. The cost of the 10 week program will be $140 (Supplies are bought on your own- a supply list will be handed out at the first class). This program will teach the beginner as well as advanced student the art of painting portraits and landscapes/ still-life in pastels from photographs. Students will be given the option of dividing each three hour session between portrait or landscape, or they may concentrate solely on the subject of their choice. Demonstrations will be available as needed throughout the program. Each student will receive the individual attention required to work at their own pace and level of expertise. Arleen Ruth Urban, the instructor

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Hempstead Town Receiver of Taxes Don Clavin (2nd left) posed with Garden City girls at the Lacrosse Event at Hofstra University on July 21st.

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Members of the Garden City High School Varsity Lacrosse team enjoyed one last team meal together, compliments of Revel. Just when the victory dust has settled and the daily chatter of the “Big Win” has become a fond memory, the owners of a local restaurant invited the Garden City High School Varsity Lacrosse team and coaches for one last celebration for winning the New York State Championship title. Jimmy and Francine Doukas, the owners of Revel, approached the team only a week after the victory, express-

ing their congratulations and support with a team meal. On August 7th, during a torrential rain that soaked Long Island, the team dined on a delicious meal and reminisced about the amazing season and unforgettable State win. This night also served as a farewell to the seniors, as they are beginning to leave for college. Thank you, Revel, for your support and the awesome opportunity!

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Garden City girls at Lacrosse Event GCHS Varsity Lacrosse team

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Garden City “B” Swimmers take third place

Garden City’s “B” swim team took third place in the Division 1 Champs swim meet held on Thursday, August 9th. Congratulations to all!

Some members of the team.

Dean Trapani

Cousins Taylor Antico and Lulu Caldara

It’s the last year on the team for these awesome swimmers: Grant Krawiec, Dean Trapani, Coach Steve Oleksiw, Coach Candace Hall, Gianna Buckley, Audra Fitzgerald, JP Berkeley.

Coaches Steve Oleksiw and Candace Hall

Cousins John Luca Antico and Lulu Caldara

Kathlyn Pomeroy, Abigail Halloran, Lulu Caldara

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Garden City Pool News

A sunny day at the Garden City Pool Special thanks to Huntington Learning Center for sponsoring our Pool Enrichment Program at the Garden City Pool!

Tuesday Movie Night!

Our NYU Winthrop Hospital Summer Movie Series concludes this week, Tuesday, August 21st at 8:15pm. Come enjoy Disney’s A Wrinkle in Time in the Picnic Area and watch as, after the disappearance of her scientist father, three peculiar beings send Meg, her brother, and her friend to space in order to find him....Admission: $1 Members; $2 Guests of Members.

Trivia Night for Adults

Enjoy a fun Saturday night (8/18) here

at the Garden City Pool and test your trivia skills.

Sundays @2 Returns

Enjoy a fun Sunday with us at the Pool! This Sunday (8/19), we welcome “Pete’s One Man Band” for poolside music at 2pm.

Hours Change

Please note that the Pool hours will change beginning the week of August 20th. Below are the hours for the remainder of the season: 8/20 – 8/24: 12p – 8p 8/25 – 8/26: 10a – 9p 8/27 – 8/31: 10a – 9p 9/1 – 9/3: 10a – 9p 9/4 – 9/9: 12p – 6p

Music Make Up Date

Due to the inclement weather last Sunday, we are happy to announce that the “Country Line Band” will be playing poolside on Saturday, September 1st for a special 2pm performance.

Swim Lesson Passing Cards

Any young member who passed their American Red Cross swim test can pick up their passing card at the Pool Office. Congratulations to all those that passed!

Guest Pass Booklet Policy

Just a reminder that this seasons guest booklets DO NOT carry over into the 2019 pool season. The last day to use your guest passes is September 9th. When using the booklets, guests must be accompanied by members for admittance to the pool. Guest passes in the booklets can be used for residents and non-residents.

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GC Summer “A” Swim’s 6th Consecutive Division I Championships Congratulations to the Garden City “A” Summer Swim Team’s 6th consecutive Division I championships win against worthy competitors such as Long Beach and Forest City! Additionally, congratulations to the “B” team for placing 3rd! Boys and girls

between the ages of 6-16 competed and supported one another in the final event of the summer, showcasing the team’s cooperation, effort, and determination. What a wonderful way to end a successful and fun season full of swimming!

Your 2018 Garden City “A” Summer Swim team!

GC Summer Swim team coaches: Matthew Giordano, 9-10 Swim Coach; Caitlin Powderly, 6-8 Swim Coach; and Andrew Salecker, 11-16 Swim Coach

Coach Andrew Salecker and senior team member Jake Newmark upon winning the meet and breaking the Nassau Municipal Swim Conference record!

Katie Lew going for the record in the 100 butterfly!

Senior team members posing with their coach (left to right): Heather Fanning, Trey Pryor, Jake Newmark, Bridget O’Connor, Abby Brita, Elizabeth Fetherston, and Coach Andrew Salecker

Andrew Salusto breaking the GC record in the 100 breaststroke.

Bridget O’Connor, senior team member, in the 100 backstroke.

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Winning boy’s medley relay winners--Jake Newmark, George Arianis, Andrew Salusto, and Aidan Gaffney. Jake Newmark, senior team member, off the block to win the 100 butterfly and break the record.

Girls from the “A” and “B” teams cheering for team members.

Young team members getting ready for their races!

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UNDER CONTRACT

Garden City, NY 4-bedroom, 2.5-bath SD #18. MLS# 3050208. $729,000.

UNDER CONTRACT

Garden City, NY 3-bedroom, 2-bath. SD #18. MLS# 3047412. $785,000.

Garden City, NY 3-bedroom, 2-bath. SD #18. MLS# 3026166. $810,000.

UNDER CONTRACT

Garden City, NY 3-bedroom, 2-bath. SD #18. MLS# 3046605. $899,000.

Garden City, NY 3-bedroom, 1.5-bath. SD #18. MLS# 3049641. $825,000.

UNDER CONTRACT

Garden City, NY 3-bedroom, 2-bath. SD #18. MLS# 3034065. $959,000.

Garden City, NY 4-bedroom, 2.5-bath. SD #18. MLS# 3048234. $879,000.

UNDER CONTRACT

Garden City, NY 4-bedroom, 2.5-bath. SD #18. MLS# 3044113. $999,000.

Garden City, NY 4-bedroom, 2.5-bath. SD #18. MLS# 3028920. $1,049,000.

Garden City, NY 4-bedroom, 1.5-bath. SD #18. MLS# 3031377. $999,000.

UNDER CONTRACT

Garden City, NY 4-bedroom, 3.5-bath. SD #18. MLS# 3041907. $1,149,000.

Garden City, NY 5-bedroom, 4.5-bath. SD #18. MLS# 3043241. $1,349,000.

Garden City, NY 4-bedroom, 2.55-bath. SD #18. MLS# 3034878. $1,399,000.

Garden City, NY 5-bedroom, 3.5-bath. SD #18. MLS# 3014073. $1,450,000.

Garden City, NY 5-bedroom, 3-bath. SD #18. MLS# 3046433. $1,449,000.

Garden City, NY 5-bedroom, 3.5-bath. SD #18. MLS# 3034447. $1,499,000.

Garden City, NY 6-bedroom, 4.5-bath. SD #18. MLS# 2929647. $1,849,000.

Garden City, NY 6-bedroom, 4.55-bath. SD #18. MLS# 3046406. $2,295,000.

Garden City, NY 6-bedroom, 3.5-bath. SD #18. MLS# 3016811. $2,495,000.

Garden City, NY 8-bedroom, 4.55-bath. SD #18. MLS# 3031581. $4,175,000.

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Out of Town Listings

Garden City South, NY 5-bedroom, 2-bath. SD #17. MLS# 3048514. $699,000.

Hempstead, NY 2-bedroom, 1-bath SD #1. MLS# 3051571. $185,000.

Mineola, NY 1-bedroom, 1-bath SD #10. MLS# 3055673. $199,000.

Franklin Square, NY 3-bedroom, 2-bath. SD #13. MLS# 3047662. $549,000.

Floral Park, NY 4-bedroom, 1-bath SD #22. MLS# 3054571. $615,000.

New Hyde Park, NY 3-bedroom, 2.5-bath. SD #5. MLS# 3047360. $749,000.

East Meadow, NY 5-bedroom, 3-bath. SD #3. MLS# 3042616. $769,000.

Long Beach, NY 4-bedroom, 3.5-bath. SD #28. MLS# 3020216. $849,000.

Bellerose, NY 3-bedroom, 2-bath. SD #26. MLS# 3054945. $948,000.

Rentals Roslyn, NY 5-bedroom, 4.5-bath. SD #3. MLS# 3022054. $1,995,000.

Forest Hills, NY 5-bedroom, 3.5-bath. SD #28. MLS# 3031847. $2,398,000.

12 Hamilton Place Garden City, NY 2-bedroom, 1-bath. SD #18. MLS# 3052235. $3,200.

Manhasset, NY 5-bedroom, 2.5-bath. SD #6. MLS# 3025533. $2,650,000.

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The Wyndham 111 Cherry Valley Avenue, Unit M-8 Garden City, NY 1-bedroom, 1.5-bath. SD #18. MLS# 3047116. $634,999.

200 Hilton Ave, Unit 6 Hempstead, NY 2-bedroom, 2.5-bath. SD #1. MLS# 3054113. $3,800.

111 Cherry Valley Avenue, Unit 602 Garden City, NY 2-bedroom, 2.5-bath. SD #18. MLS# 3048529. $1,300,000.

100 Hilton Ave, Unit 410 Garden City, NY 3-bedroom, 2.5-bath. SD #18. MLS# 3034870. $2,700,000.

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