Jericho-Syosset News Journal (6/22/18) by Litmor Publishing

Friday, June 22, 2018

Vol. 78, No. 25

Town: Testing starts before development

MUSIC AT THE LIBRARY

On Monday, June 4th, the Friends of the Syosset Library enjoyed a performance by the iSchool of Music and Art. See page 4

Rally against Syosset Park June 26th

The voices of Syosset and Woodbury who turned out in droves at the May 1 Town of Oyster Bay public hearing regarding the Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) for the 93-acre Syosset Park proposal at the old Cerro Wire site, 150 Miller Place in Syosset, will have another opportunity to address the Town Board immediately preceding and inside their Tuesday, June 26th meeting. A citizens’ rally is scheduled for 6pm at the gazebo across the Oyster Bay post office, adja-

cent to the TOBAY headquarters at 54 Audrey Avenue, with the Town Board set to meet right after at 7pm. The rally will come a week after the latest reaction and notice from TOBAY officials, who on Monday asserted their agreement for independent testing of the environmental dangers associated with the site, an unregulated dump for all of the mid-20th century and dating back to military activity pre and post-World War II. “Over the past few months, the

Town Board has listened to concerns voiced by the community in regards to proposed development in Syosset and, in particular, environmental concerns regarding the former Syosset Landfill and Cerro Wire sites. The Town of Oyster Bay will settle for nothing less than independent testing that adheres to established quality control standards, and the methodologies and protocols set forth by the EnvironmenSee page 16

With plans for proposed development before the Town of Oyster Bay, the Town Board has announced it plans to move forward with independent environmental and health testing of the former Syosset Landfill site, Department of Public Works site and former site of Cerro Wire Manufacturing in Syosset. The Town will accept the developer’s offer to fund independent testing and analysis. Town Supervisor Joseph Saladino stated, “Over the past few months, the Town Board has listened to concerns voiced by the community in regards to proposed development in Syosset and, in particular, environmental concerns regarding the former Syosset Landfill and Cerro Wire sites. The Town of Oyster Bay will settle for nothing less than independent testing that adheres to established quality control standards, and the methodologies and protocols set forth by the Environmental Protection Agency, Department of Environmental Conservation and both State and County health departments. Residents deserve to be part of the process, receive precise and verifiable test results, and any independent testing performed must also demonstrate strict compliance with all applicable regulations and industry standards. Irrespective of the extensive historic testing at these sites, the Town’s unwavering commitment to facilitating additional testing will be completed and done so with unprecedented transparency.” New York State General Municipal Law prevents municipalities from issuing a professional services contract without some level of open, public competition. To ensure independence and operate within the law, the Town of Oyster Bay is seeking agreements with the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC), New York State Department of Health and the Nassau County Department of Health to develop and administer a testing program. Such an See page 16

Robins Lane staff recognition luncheon PAGE 18 Crack down on unlicensed contractors PAGE 14

Friday, June 22, 2018

Pedestrian killed on South Service Road

A 32 year-old Roosevelt man was killed while attempting to cross the South Service Road of the Long Island Expressway in Jericho at 9:11pm on Wednesday, June 13th, 2018 According to detectives, Johnathan Ferro attempted to cross the South Service Road of the LIE west of Jericho

Student group helps boost Democratic internship programs

Turnpike when he was struck by an eastbound vehicle. As a result of the collision, Ferro suffered fatal injuries and was pronounced dead at the scene by a Nassau County AMT. The driver of the automobile remained at the scene. The vehicle was impounded for break and safety checks.

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BY GARY SIMEONE When County Legislator Josh Lafazan was on the campaign trail in 2017, he had a lot of help from a dedicated group of student interns. After his recent election, one of those interns took the initiative to start an organization called ‘Move the Future,’ which helps motivate internship programs on the Democratic Party line. “Politics was all new for me when I began working with Josh, and I thought it was such an incredible program,” said Sophie Blumenthal, founder of Move the Future. “During the internship, I gained more knowledge of the political process and made a lot of new friends in the process.” Blumenthal, who is a freshman at North Shore High School, said that the two main goals of her program are to get Democratic candidates elected to office and to get students involved in politics. “Move the Future offers a few basic resources to interns involved in political campaigns, including helping them learn to make phone calls, send letters to editors, and canvass area

neighborhoods. Anything to help get their Democratic candidate elected.” Kieran Kelly, a freshman at Syosset High School, was one of nearly 100 interns who helped get Lafazan elected by a twelve-point margin over incumbent Donald MacKenzie. “The whole internship program was such an inspiring experience and so different than what I had seen and heard before,” said Kelly. “The entire campaign was basically made up of students aged 15-16.” He said that his goal with Move the Future is to replicate the success he had with Josh's campaign to other democrats nationally. “I would like to help other internship programs with their campaigns and give them the necessary resources to help get their candidate elected,” said Kelly. Move the Future currently has 18 other students scattered throughout Long Island helping 13 Democratic campaigns nationwide. More information about the organization can be found on their website, www.MovetheFuture.com

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BY RIKKI N. MASSAND Two weeks after a trespassing incident and the arrest of a former student caused Syosset High School to enter lockdown protocol on Tuesday May 29, a Change.org petition on enhancing security in schools and administrators’ communication with residents has garnered over 850 signatures in Syosset-Woodbury and the local area. This week the school district promptly replied with a thorough presentation on what’s in store for ensuring safety in the large, 10-building public school district on Long Island’s North Shore after school shooting tragedies of Parkland, Florida, Sandy Hook Elementary in Connecticut and examples in other states. On May 29, according to police 19-year-old Ilya Yurchenko was arrested after he entered the high school through the gym and left a piece of luggage on the side of the school building. He had tried to enter the high school’s main entrance and was denied at 4:15pm because he did not have an appointment. Yurchenko is charged with third-degree criminal trespassing.

Board plans security upgrades

At the Syosset Board of Education meeting held Monday, June 11th at South Woods Middle School, Superin-

tendent of Schools Dr. Thomas Rogers detailed all the work planned and underway for the district to beef up security through physical infrastructure and manpower additions. Several items were passed along with the 2018-2019 school year budget in May, as well as the last two referendums; $7.7 million in Phase I capital investments approved by a community vote in spring 2017 (paid for by the district’s capital reserve funds approved in spring 2014) and Phase II approved by a community vote February 13 of this year. The process is lengthy, given state approvals required, but Syosset Schools will start its security projects this summer despite a submission on June 30, 2017, and since then not hearing anything about funding from the New York State Education Department (NYSED) and money to underwrite the costs. The timeframe of summer 2018 with a total of 49 regular work days leaves the district in a pinch to get work complete by the time school starts in September, and Rogers explained district procedures while hoping for no heavy rain that can cause further delays. “It is unfortunate we will not be able to use the state money but we do not want that to cause a delay in security planning moving forward….Everything we do that is a capital project of any

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significance, to change a school and how it is laid out interior or exterior, will require a building permit furnished from Albany at the State Education Department, to us, and not by Town of Oyster Bay. Unfortunately the state has disinvested in the office that does these approvals so there are architects and engineers on staff at NYSED who review projects submitted from every school district in the state (700 districts) except New York City, which has its own office. Approval times continue to slip so we budget 42 weeks for the SED to give us the approval, and that is 10 months from the time our architects finish drawing the plans. Then after NYSED approval is the public bidding process and from time to time we have to reject bids and re-bid some projects,” Dr. Rogers said. He said the security vestibules for all buildings started with Baylis Elementary and South Grove Elementary this week an abatement in the second weekend of June. “We have gotten the bids back and ordered materials, there are materials on site and we have lead time for construction. One of the things delaying the vestibules’ projects was the need for us to do lead paint and asbestos abatement if we encounter them. Before demolition and putting in vestibules, we’d have to do abatement of existing

asbestos and lead. We will be working on all these projects now through June a little and then with great speed during regular daytime hours once the summer recess begins, without students in the buildings. The expectation for all vestibules to be complete, except at Syosset High School, will be by the end of summer,” Rogers said. The district is looking into a temporary vestibule for SHS while the construction takes place, and the new vestibule is expected to be complete by the midwinter recess. “Even the modest project of a temporary vestibule required us to get a permit from NYSED and we’ve asked them for an expedited permit so we can move more quickly,” he said.

New camera system

A new district-wide camera surveillance system (an enterprise class system) plus a new lock system for schools’ interior doors and a door-ajar alert system using wireless and keypads are going to be in place at Syosset school buildings in 2018-2019. During the summer the district will install 136 additional cameras to improve area coverage on school grounds, after the school board approved the purchase last December. And at the high school, starting this fall students will be required to bring IDs See page 16

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Friends of the Syosset Library give gifts, music children ages 2 to 15. These kits are for children to borrow from the library, and are hands-on, fun, educational kits in a box to experience and learn about Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM). As a special treat, at the end of the Friends program, The iSchool of Music + Art presented musical selections featuring talented young performers Phoebe Qian, Tiffany Ren, Allen Zhou, Madison Hatz, and Jacob and Caitlin Lee. These musical artists entertained the audience with a diverse program that was enjoyed by everyone The Friends are a not-for-profit volunteer group of residents who raise funds for the library and are dedicated to furthering community awareness of its functions, resources, services, and needs. Contributions and other fundraising activities and programs sponsored by the Friends will assist them in reaching their goals. For more information about the Friends, go to www.syossetlibrary.org/friends, and for more information about the library and the many resources and activities, go to www.syossetlibrary.org.

On Monday, June 4th, the Friends of the Syosset Library held its annual meeting in the Syosset Library Café. Christine Belling, library director, welcomed the audience and introduced Judy Davidson, president of the Friends. Each year, the Friends hold a contest for the children of the Syosset School District, and this year’s contest was to create a bookmark for the summer reading club, Libraries Rock! There were over 58 artistic entries. The three winners were announced at the meeting: Christopher Chen, Lawrence Hon, and Brynn Schneider. The bookmarks will be available at the library throughout the summer. In addition to the presentation of prizes to the winners, the Friends announced this year’s gifts to the library, made possible by donations to the Friends: the Summer Reading Club closing shows, museum passes to the Long Island Children’s Museum and Nassau County Museum of Art, a revolving book case for board books in the Children’s Playroom at the Library, and, coming soon, a brand new resource at the Library: Make and Learn Kits for

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Syosset Park is actually a mixed use City to be created on two pieces of toxic land located at 305 Robbins Lane and 150 Miller. One piece is the department of public works land which contains a 35 acre hazardous CAPPED TOXIC waste landfill. This landfill was used by Grumman and Hooker Chemical to dump 6.7 MILLION tons of toxic sludge, which is still sitting there today. The adjacent piece of property is the former Cerro Wire site, where a mall was proposed to be built many years ago. Both pieces of land are contaminated.

THIS PROJECT RISKS:

• Contaminating our single source water supply • Releasing toxins into the environment during 7 years of construction and risking the health of everyone in the vicinity, including children at two nearby elementary schools • Increased taxes for Oyster Bay services, i.e. police and firefighters • Overcrowding the Syosset Schools, forcing new schools to be built and/or redistricting • Increasing school taxes to pay for infrastructure and new students. • More TRAFFIC, TRAFFIC, TRAFFIC • More people fighting for seats on the LIRR • 5-7 years of construction with noise and trucks at all hours Etc etc.

This mixed use facility will have 653 residential units and affordable housing. 92% of the units are 2-3 bedrooms. Two hotels, one of which is dedicated to extended stays/ apartments, which could accept low income housing vouchers. The developers also propose a children’s park, to sit atop of the toxic landfill piece of the property.

THIS DEVELOPMENT MUST BE STOPPED!!

We need to fight and continue to demand that the TOB perform true independent testing by community picked environmental experts overseen by geologists.

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2018 Adult Summer Reading Kick-Off Join Mary Hirdt as she moderates a round table discussion of books to read during the summer. You’ll come away with new ideas, reading lists and a starting gift.

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Men (and Women) on the Move motivate business community

Nassau County Judge Rhonda Fishcer, Oyster Bay Councilman Tom Hand, Town of Oyster Bay Supervisor Joseph Saladino and Men on the Move Founder John Beyer celebrate on June 13th at the company's new Woodbury headquarters. BY RIKKI N. MASSAND On Wednesday, June 13th, the Syosset Woodbury Chamber of Commerce celebrated the great move made by one of its members, Men on the Move moving and self-storage, to 150 Crossways Park Drive West in Woodbury as it christened the new 51,000-square-foot building, atop 4.6 acres with a well-attended ribbon-cutting ceremony and reception. Men on the Move was a staple in Floral Park for a quarter-century before acquiring its new Woodbury facility in 2017 for $5.75 million. The 150 Crossways Park Drive site was previously a Cablevision call center. Town of Oyster Bay Supervisor Joseph Saladino attended the ribbon-cutting ceremony last Wednesday along with Councilman Tom Hand, who attended several Syosset Woodbury Chamber of Commerce ceremonies and welcoming events starting a month after his appointment to the Town Board in spring 2017. For the two government officials as well as Nassau County District Court Judge Rhonda Fischer, who also celebrated with the Chamber, business community and 100 members of the public last week, it was apparent that the company’s founders, husband and wife team of John and Amy Beyer, plus the state-of-the-art facility’s architect (Frank G. Relf) and the interior designer of the executive offices, boardroom and well-appointed building Relf’s wife, Beth Donner (Beth Donner Design) are perfect examples of the trend. With high momentum local businesses are seeing in mid-2018 and for the last few years, “Men and Women on the Move” is becoming the best slogan to describe the Town of Oyster Bay, as Supervisor Saladino coins it. “John and Amy, what a pleasure to be here with you. You are examples

of what business success is, and that is about hard work and surrounding yourself with the best people. You are a 35-year business with three locations and there is sacrifice, and listening to each other is a key to your success. Just like you at Men on the Move our Town has surrounded the community with a high-quality and hardworking workforce. There is a reason we can see the motivational statements printed on the walls of this amazing facility -- those statements are real and this business signifies a commitment for doing the best for your workforce, friends and the community,” he said at the opening of the ribbon-cutting ceremony. Next, Saladino turned to Charo Ezdrin, Esq., the innovative president of the Syosset Woodbury Chamber of the Commerce over the last two years, and thanked her for inspirations and bringing unprecedented leadership into the area. “Charo is amazing, she works with such kindness and the Town Board recognizes the dedication. You are a natural born motivator with such acumen and communication skill -- quite frankly the love you have for everyone in the community is evident every day. What the Chamber brings helps so much with our great, growing economy in the Town of Oyster Bay and we are back on track! This Chamber of Commerce is all about hard-working, good people and it stands up for our business community, our workforce and our residents,” Supervisor Saladino said. Chamber President Ezdrin said the facility is incredible and the gala ribbon-cutting event held last Wednesday featured great music, food and spirits and a great turnout from the Town Board, business community as well as a representative, Mariah Dignan, from the office of Congressman Tom Suozzi. Ezdrin offered her special congratu-

Men on the Move founder John Beyer addressed a crowd of 100 that attended the ribbon-cutting ceremony at the new 150 Crossways Park Drive West facility on June 13th. lations to John and Amy Bender and thanked Men on the Move’s marketing officer Geffen Rodik, who has has consistently participated with the Chamber and reached out. “This gathering and its festivities is why we hold monthly ribbon-cuttings and events. Everyone can come in and see what is going on in the town. When I came to Syosset/Woodbury our economy was slowly building back. Now I have watched the change evident in the Town of Oyster Bay and I believe there’s never any coincidences. Supervisor Saladino has promised what he’s going to do for the Town and changes he has made are clear -- the Syosset Woodbury Chamber has now quadrupled its memberships from two years ago. The economy is growing like wildfires. Thank you to Supervisor Saladino, Councilman Hand and all the Town Board for working tirelessly for the residents and business community. This event and Men on the Move’s beautiful facility is solid proof our community and our economy is growing!” Ezdrin told the crowd, eliciting an ovation. Ezdrin also took time to thank Judge Fischer for attending and always supporting the community, and for her 11 years “on the bench.” Founder and owner of Men on the Move John Beyer said the success and vitality of companies like his own and many of their neighbors with offices at Crossways Park Drive, Michael Drive and other retail and corporate centers in Syosset, Woodbury, Jericho, Plainview and other parts of the Town of Oyster Bay serve as a testament to the hard work and dedication put in by the councilmembers on the Town Board, Supervisor Saladino, the entire municipality staff and the TOBAY Building Department. “Our company has done seven proj-

ects involving seven different building departments recently. The Building Department Commissioner Leslie Maccarone and Deputy Commissioner Tim Zike are top notch, it is a terrific experience working with them,” he said. Beyer told the story of the first piece of PPE (property, plant and equipment) purchased to begin Men on the Move’s operations in the late 1980s: a $12,000 forklift, which his wife Amy was not thrilled to learn about as a startup expense. He explained how senior sales and moving consultant Peter DeCarlo, who began his career with Men on the Move 31 years ago, advised his boss to be sure his wife, also his business partner and company controller, was consulted with major company decisions. “Happy wife, happy life!” “I could not tell my wife we had ordered the machine, and the flatbed pulls up with the forklift. Peter was so worried, pacing around, and he told me Amy is going to see what I ordered, then she will see the bills when they start rolling in! But today we have come a long way from that first forklift. We are so proud of what we built here,” John said. He credits Amy for being his family’s rock and the company manager, the leading “Woman on the Move” and for getting more done in a short time than anyone he’s ever met. Amy Beyer calls her husband “the risk taker” with the costly forklift in 1987 as an example, while she monitors money and company finance operations. She says th tandem has worked so well because businesses need that healthy mix. In an interview with Litmor Publishing following the reception, Amy Beyer smiled and spoke about her involvement with her husband’s busiContinued on page 10

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Continued from page 8 ness dream, when they started out over 30 years ago living in Flushing, Queens. Both Amy and John attended Flushing High School. Over the years the business has been central to the work-life balance of the Beyers. Amy has been active with her children’s school district (North Shore) and was a participant with the “triumvirate” of the Garden City, Manhasset and North Shore districts’ Super Legislative Committee, the “Super LAC” which hosted New York State Commissioner of Education MaryEllen Elia in June of 2016. “This (Woodbury) location is perfect as we do lots of work in Nassau, Suffolk and Queens and this is centrally located. Many of our customers are on the North Shore of Long Island so we have a niche here. We needed a lot of space for the trucks and we’ll have expansion. This is a great community and I love it here. We were active with th Floral Park Chamber for many years and here we are too, being active and ready to lend our hands. We like being good community members -- we’re just fortunate people who want to give, help, and be working in and with the community,” she said. The zoning attorney for Men on the Move was a guest at the June 13 ceremony, and he said the Town of Oyster Bay will review an application for its zoning permit to build a 90,000-square-foot addition, for an expected project cost of $20 million. Over two-thirds of the addition for 150 Crossways Park Drive West (67,500 square feet) will become more self-storage while the remainder would be a warehouse for the firm’s moving operations, according to Beyer. DeCarlo led tours of the facility on June 13 and his children attended the ceremony and reception, as he spoke about the family atmosphere the company’s fostered in three decades and in each of its locations. John Beyer thanked Supervisor Saladino for recognizing the effort to create such a nice facility, as well as the

team behind it. “We thank architect Frank Relf, Beth Donner Design. Park East Construction, as each has done such a stellar job under tremendous pressure. This place is something exceptional and I am so proud of it. It feels great to welcome the Syosset Woodbury Chamber of Commerce here and I want the residents to know we always will give back to the community and we’re a charitable organization. We feel the sense of community every time we’re in the room with Chamber members,” he said. Looking ahead just 90 days to the first major community event for downtown Jackson Avenue in two years, the 2018 Syosset StreetFair “back and better than ever” is scheduled for Sunday, September 23. The Syosset Woodbury Chamber of Commerce has met weekly since May to discuss its planning, entertainment and sponsorships. From now through June 30, the Chamber is offering a discount to The Chamber also has several events lined up for the start of summer, as on Thursday June 21 the Chamber held its monthly meeting at Douglas Elliman Real Estate, 6326 Northern Blvd in East Norwich. On Tuesday July 10, monthly networking returns with southern cuisine samplings at Mara’s Homemade, 236 Jericho Turnpike in Syosset. On Thursday, July 19, the Chamber’s monthly meeting will be held at the nonprofit DogAbility on Robbins Lane in Syosset (as reported on in the June 15 Syosset Advance). Founder and Executive Director of DogAbility Sass Levine says there will be topics presented on educating the business community and public about the law and service dog access and requirements, and how merchants can work with special-needs customers or clients that will be aided by a service dog. She is also planning general education topics for the community on dog ownership and social settings involving pet-people interaction. Levine says she will also offer some guidance on pet products.

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June 22, 2018

Day 5 of Cycle the Erie BikeTour Offers Deep Dive into The Erie Canal: ‘Mother of Cities’, Empire Builder, Wonder of the World BY KAREN RUBIN, TRAVEL FEATURES SYNDICATE, GOINGPLACESFARANDNEAR.COM Day 5 of our 8-day, 400 mile Parks & Trails NY Cycle the Erie biketour from Buffalo to Albany offers a deep-dive into the history of the Erie Canal, an appreciation for the engineering marvel that it was, and how it changed American culture and society, as our 50-mile ride from Syracuse to Rome today brings us to a sequence of museums and historic sites. We begin the day riding into downtown Syracuse from our campsite at Burnet Park, adjacent to the Rosamond Gifford Zoo (we are so close, some said they could hear the animals during the night). A highlight for the entire trip is visiting the Syracuse Eric Canal Museum, which has opened early, from 7 am, especially for us. It is not to be missed and I plan to spend a couple of hours here. (The museum also was open especially for us last evening, with shuttle bus transportation from our campsite, to accommodate our riders, but I chose to visit the zoo.) The downtown of Syracuse has gone through an amazing renaissance. Erie Canal at one time went through Syracuse but Theodore Roosevelt, then New York Governor (he loved canals and went on to

Riding through Old Erie Canal New York State Park – rural, quaint, with wildlife, five aqueducts, and very flat © Karen Rubin/ goingplacesfarandnear.com champion the building of the Panama Canal), wanted a “modern” canal built which would largely replace the original. Today, in a magnificent plaza there is an impressive Jerry Rescue Monument to William “Jerry” Henry, a freemason taken into custody under Fugitive Slave Act, despite the fact that New York State abolished slavery in 1820. Daniel Webster, who was

secretary of state under President Millard Filmore, came to Syracuse in1851 and declared that Syracuse (which was a stop on the Underground Railroad) was “a laboratory of abolitionism, libel, and treason”. He warned local abolitionists and “abetting slaves” that any violation of the Fugitive Slave Law, which called for returning those in flight into bondage, would be “treason, treason and nothing else.” (This is

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all uncomfortably familiar around today’s issue of forcibly separating children from families seeking asylum.) A few months later, on October 1, a mob stormed a downtown police station, knocked down the doors and freed Jerry, and put him on a carriage traveling toward Canada. See page D2

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Day 5 of Cycle the Erie BikeTour Offers Deep Dive into The Erie Canal: ‘Mother of Cities’, Empire Builder, Wonder of the World Continued from page D1 Syracuse Canal Museum All along our Cycle the Erie route – mostly following the 353-mile long Erie Canalway - we have visited small canal museums and historical societies which each tell a part of the Erie Canal epic drama. At Lockport, which is itself a living-history museum, on the first day of our ride, we saw the astonishing “Flight of Five” locks and its small museum. At Camillus, the half-way mark of our 400-mile ride from Buffalo to Albany, we visited Sims Store, a re-creation of a 19th century general store that would have served the canalboats. Still to come (later today), the Chittenango Landing Boat Museum which offers a look at how the canal boats were built and we get to look inside a reconstruction; Canastota, which offers a delightful Canal Town Museum in a tiny house that was once a bakery. Further on, we will see the Schoharie Crossing State Historic Site, featuring sections of all three alignments of the Erie Canal and a fascinating historic exhibit in a house-turned-museum. But Syracuse is the “official” Erie Canal Museum - it offers the most expansive collection of artifacts, the most comprehensive history, starting the story well before Governor Dewitt Clinton pushed so obsessively for his Ditch. It offers the most sophisticated presentations, including lots of interactive exhibits and opportunities to engage. It is all the more remarkable because it is a maritime museum which is not on the water - indeed, the expanded canal was moved north of the city.

One of the unique features of the Canal Museum – indeed, the “most unique thing about Syracuse” - is the chance to visit the Weighlock Building, built in1850 - the only remaining weighlock building in America. You can walk aboard a replica passenger packet boat in the weighlock and get a real impression of how the Erie Canal transformed culture and society in America. And, as we bike into the downtown historic district, with some magnificent architectural jewels (like the NiagaraMohawk building, an Art Deco palace that is simply breathtaking), what we appreciate most is how the Erie Canal was, in fact, the “Mother of Cities” and how Syracuse is one of her children. A chart in the museum graphs the explosive growth in population of Albany, Syracuse, Buffalo, and even small canaltowns like Lockport because of the Erie Canal, “It was the 8th Wonder of the World, the pathway to an empire and a school of engineering.” Indeed, in 1820, Syracuse was just a swampy settlement on Genesee Turnpike, its primary industry was salt production (a key reason that banks had already established themselves in Syracuse, before the canal). Because of the canal (“The Mother of Cities”) the population of Syracuse swelled 40-fold in just 10 years, from a village of 250 in 1820, to 11,064 in 1830, and by 1920, a city of 171,717. “German masons who came for the canal, stayed to build cobblestone houses, churches. The canal was a whole way of life.” Before the Erie Canal, it would take 6 to 8 weeks for a mule to carry less

Setting up our tents at Fort Stanwix, Rome © Karen Rubin/ goingplacesfarandnear. com

than a ton of feight, versus 6 to8 days to transport up to 200 tons on the canal. The cost dropped to one-tenth, $12 per ton and 60c for barrel of salt. Each day, some 1,800 immigrants would come through Syracuse on the Erie Canal on their way to the west, paying 10c to travel from one town to the next. “Land was free, you just had to get there, settle on it for a number of years. Often pioneers would work on the boat in exchange for transportation,” the notes read. New York State financed the building of the Erie Canal (the federal government refused to help) by selling $7.7 million in bonds; the state earned back revenue from fees on goods shipped and taxes on salt (because salt was brought out of salt springs that were owned by the state). The success of Clinton’s Ditch was quickly apparent and in just 10 years (after paying off the $7.7 million), the Erie Canal had to be rebuilt and expanded to handle all the traffic. There were no real engineers when they began to build the canal. The initial designers were surveyors. “They knew how to do property lines but were not engineers.” The biggest problem was figuring out the elevations. But when they completed the canal, these selftaught engineers started the engineering school, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) in Troy. (And as I learn later, on the Rails-to-Trails Conservancy’s biketour along the Delaware & Lehigh Canal, sparked a major building of a network of canals, America’s first public-works projects.) One of the innovative methods

devised was a stump puller to clear the trees - a contraption that looks like a military armament, but actually had giant wheels to move it and give leverage to pull out stumps. There is so much that is so engaging in the museum - even the walls along the staircase are painted to show the elevations of the different locks along the entire canal, and the elevator has a mural to make you feel you are stepping into a lock, yourself. Indeed, a key message you come away with from the Erie Canal Museum, is how the canal keeps reinventing itself, and with it, the society around it. Peak use of the Erie Canal was 1951, but it was also a time when the canal was fetid with pollution - oil slicks and raw sewage. Then the Clean Water Act of 1972, prohibiting dumping and requiring municipalities to have treatment plants, changed the way shippers and factories could do business. (My suspicion is that environmental and worker protections and not free trade are what led to the demise of American manufacturing.) So, up until the 1980s, the canal was almost exclusively used for commercial traffic and was too polluted, fetid and crowded for the recreational boater or residential buildings anywhere near the canal. That’s all changed. Now, the canal is predominantly used for recreational purposes, there are lovely housing developments along the canal (a source of economic revitalization). But a changing upstate economy is seeing a resurgence of manufacturing and more commercial shipping is coming to the canal, also. There are many other uses of the Erie Canal other than shipping

Cycle the Erie riders stop in at the Syracuse Canal Museum, which opens especially early © Karen Rubin/goingplacesfarandnear.com

and transportation. The canal is the largest source of irrigation for upstate agriculture. People (especially downstate) don’t typically think of New York as agricultural but we rival other states in production of foodstuffs from orchards, vineyards, dairy operations. Riding along the canal trail, you see the white pipes of the irrigation system. The canal also provides for flood control for upstate New York. Many of the dams generate electricity and will figure importantly in the state’s goal of 50% of electricity generated through clean, renewable sources by 2030. Here, I appreciate the ecology of the Erie Canal - not just for the people whose towns, livelihoods and lives revolved around the canal, but how it impacted the environment. And you can see the social ecology as well - as the canal is cleaned up, there are new housing developments that are popping up alongside, as we saw at Rochester, Spencerport, Fairport, changing the economic base for these communities. (They are not intrusive, though - indeed, the entire Barge Canal was just placed on the National Register of Historic Places and is part of New York State’s Heritage

Corridor). The small canaltowns are reinventing themselves - and the structures that had been factories and silos and such in places like Pittsford and Cohoes have been re-purposed for condos and offices, as well as to cater to new manufacturing ventures like manufacturing wind turbines. “Everything reinvents itself – just like the Canal,” says Daniel Ward, who curated the exhibit. “When I was boy, there was no accommodation for pleasure craft, no tie ups. It was a barge canal. Now there is balance. “Often the Erie Canal gets separated in people’s minds from the Port of New York, but New York City is the terminal port of the canal system. Our current work is trying to reconnect idea of New York City - we’re coming up to the bicentennial of the opening of the canal (2025), which was a celebration in New York Harbor.” The museum has a marvelous animated display of Governor Dewitt Clinton sailing into New York City to spill water from Lake Erie into the Hudson River in a ceremony called, “The Wedding of the Waters” with simulated fireworks. (There were cannons set up all along the route and it took hours

Friday, June 22, 2018

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At the Chittenango Landing Boat Museum, we get to see how the canal boats were built and to look inside a reconstruction of one of the canal boats © Karen Rubin/ goingplacesfarandnear.com for the sound that started in Buffalo to make its way to New York City.) He points to the Mount Vernon Museum, at 421 East 61st Street in

Manhattan, which was a hotel that opened in the 1820s to accommodate

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Prenuptial agreements, FICO scores - and successful marriages BY MARJORIE GOTTLIEB WOLFE

It’s wedding season! A recent study, using data from Equifax, concluded the following: 1. People with good credit scores are more likely to get married. And couples with a good credit score are more likely to stay married. 2. People tend to find partners who have similar credit scores to themselves. 3. Couples with mismatches in their credit scores are more likely to separate. According to Nick Clements, “The stress of living paycheck to paycheck and being unable to pay the bills may lead to missed payments, a deteriorating credit score and ultimately divorce or separation.” Today couples are adding lifestyle clauses or blueprints for behavior to their prenuptial agreements. One Brooklyn woman says seeing her now ex-boyfriend scoop out his bagel was a deal breaker. And The New York Post had a headline that read: BAGEL SCOOPERS ARE RUINING NEW YORK CITY. Shown below are some examples of prenuptial agreements: I, ________________, agree to adhere to the following checked items: • No whoopee before the chupie. • WILL KEEP IN MIND that the average American wedding dress costs about $1,564, plus approximate-

ly another $300 for accessories. (The Knot) • WILL NOT SAY, “I can’t explain why a bride buys her wedding dress, whereas a groom rents his tux.” (Lou Holtz quote) • WILL NOT create a wedding registry at Home Depot or Walmart. • WILL NEVER scoop out a perfectly lovely bagel like those skinny malinks do at Bagel Boss. (FYI: A typical sandwich of a medium bagel with lox and 2 tablespoons of regular cream cheese contain 469 calories.) • WILL NEVER pay $49 annually for a Starbucks credit card…unless it’s used to purchase The Coldbuster (AKA “The Medicine Ball”), which will sooth sore throats and sinuses. • To stress less about the six hours of the wedding and focus more on decades of married life. • To honor my parents by having the band/DJ play “Sunrise/Sunset” (from the original cast of “Fiddler on the Roof”) at the wedding. • To save the shards of glass or light bulb from the wedding ceremony and make them into a Mezuzah for our first home. • WILL NEVER place our marriage announcement in the newspaper’s financial section under “mergers and acquisitions.” • To remember that there are a lot more marital arguments over a wink than a mink. • WILL NEVER say to the hostess

in a restaurant, “Why don’t you show me your SECOND table FIRST and save us both some time • WILL NEVER say, “How ‘bout running it through the food processor just one more time.” • WILL NEVER watch more than one football game on Sundays during football season. • WILL NEVER fax a Big Mac from McDonald’s…and call it dinner. • REMEMBER that the 3 most important words after “I love you” are “Let’s eat out.” • Will invest it a good pillow and a dual-control electric blanket….but NEVER say, “What side of the bed do you want? THAT’S YOUR SIDE FOR LIFE!” (Ray Ramano quote) • WILL NEVER to go to the local bar for some “Quality Time.” • NEVER give a vacuum cleaner as a birthday gift. • ATTEMPT to take the “drag” out of “bag” lunches. • NEVER to sign any application which asks “marital status” with the word “shaky.” • NEVER to appear in Judy Sheindlin’s courtroom with its 10 million viewers a day. • To keep my “knippel” (small emergency fund) separate from regular accounts. • Never to quote cartoonist, Rich Tennan: “Your latkes need work. The children are mistaking them for dreidels.”

• To learn how to spell and pronounce vichyssoise, chipotle, foie gras, gnocchi, quinoa and bouillabaisse. • NEVER eat a Nathan’s hot dog on raisin bread with mayonnaise. (Source: Only in New York, kids, only in New York.) • NEVER to compete with my spouse in the completion of the Saturday New York Times crossword puzzle. • NEVER to say, “I see you’re rerunning last night’s TV dinner.” (The Lockhorns) • NEVER to dye my hair “Manic Panic,” “blue mayhem,” vampire red, atomic pink, or hi octane orange. • NEVER to attend a Money Management lecture when the financial consultant says, “The leading cause of of death in South Florida is exhaustion, caused by house guests from the north.” • NEVER to name a child “Nutella.” Marjorie Gottleib Wolfe never had a prenup. She did find it interesting reading that Roseanne Barr made a dangerous error when she married Tom Arnold. She was so in love with him before their 1990 wedding that she fired her attorney for suggesting she sign a prenup. When the couple divorced four years later, Arnold left with $50 million.

Friday, June 22, 2018

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The Basics of Applying for Social Security Benefits BY TOM MARGENAU I’ve saved up a bunch of questions that have to do with applying for various kinds of Social Security benefits. Frankly, I think of most of them as rather elementary. But then I remind myself that I’ve dealt wi th Social Security issues almost every day of my life for the past 45 years. And most of my readers deal with the program, at least in a major way, only once in their life -- at the time they file for benefits. So I hope those of you pushing Social Security age get something out of this. Q: I want to retire when I am 66 in September. When should I apply for benefits? A: The Social Security Administration recommends that you file three months before your eligibility date. So you could start the ball rolling now already. But there really is no need to rush. Most Social Security retirement claims are very simple and SSA processes them in a matter of days. So you could wait until September if you wanted to and your first check (the check that comes in October) will show up on time. Still, better safe than sorry. So apply sometime this month or next. Q: How do you recommend I file for my Social Security benefits? A: About 95 percent of us have straightforward Social Security claims. In other words, you don’t want to play games trying to beat the system. You just want to file for your retirement benefits. In that case, I strongly recommend you file online at http://www.socialsecurity.gov. It’s simple and easy. I did so a few years back and it probably took me a half-hour to finish the process. If you do have a scenario that you think might be complicated (like trying to get a combination of retirement and spousal benefits), then you should probably do that in person. Call SSA at 800-7721213 and either file by phone or set up an appointment to talk to someone at your local Social Security office. Q: What documents do I need to file for my Social Security benefits? A: It depends on the kind of benefits you are trying to get. Think of it this way: You usually have to provide evidence to support your eligibility. For example, if it’s for a retirement claim, you need to prove you are old enough to qualify. So to do that, you need a birth certificate. If you are filing for spousal benefits, you need to prove not only your age but also that you are married to the person on whose Social Security record you are applying. So that would be a marriage certificate. If you are a divorced spouse, you’d need to provide your divorce papers as well. If you want to apply for widow’s benefits, in addition to proving your age and marriage, you need a death certificate, too. In all cases, SSA wants to see original copies

of these documents, or copies certified by the record holder. Q: I haven’t seen my Social Security card in years. I know it’s buried in the house somewhere, but I just don’t know where. I’m frantically trying to find it now that I am getting ready to file for my Social Security benefits. Do I need my Social Security card to apply? A: Relax and stop looking for your Social Security card. You do not need the card when you sign up for Social Security. Q: I signed up for my Social Security retirement at my local office last week. To be honest, I was a bit leery about the whole process because the clerk I was dealing with was either new at his job or not the brightest bulb in the pack (if you get my drift). I am concerned that he will make mistakes in the calculation of my Social Security checks. What do you recommend I do? A: I recommend you relax. The local representative you talked to has nothing to do with the calculation of your Social Security retirement benefit. That is all done by SSA’s national computer network -- a system that is notoriously accurate when it comes to figuring out how much a person is due from Social Security. Q: I just learned that my ex-husband has died. He was getting Social Security checks and they were much higher than the pittance I get from my own Social Security retirement. We were married more than 10 years. Neither of us ever remarried. I think I might be due divorced widow’s benefits. But here is the problem: I have no record of his Social Security number. A neighbor lady told me that without that number, I could never claim benefits on his record. I’ve looked through all the files that I have and can’t find anything. Now I’m frantic. Is what my neighbor told me true? A: Don’t listen to neighbors about Social Security matters! Or rather, to be fair to her, she is right that you need his Social Security number to claim benefits on his record. But the people at the Social Security Administration will be able to get that number for you. So stop searching and worrying. Q: My ex-husband recently died. He was only 45 years old. His two children, ages 14 and 12, have lived with me since the divorce. I understand they are now eligible for survivor benefits. But I do not have my ex’s Social Security number. How can I possibly file for benefits on his account? A: Your situation is slightly different than the woman who asked the prior question. In her case, her husband was getting retirement benefits, so the Social

Security people have ready access to his records and his number via their beneficiary database. But your husband was young and still working, so his Social Security number is not so readily available. But your local Social Security office will still be able to help you find it. To do so, they will need just a few bits of information I’m sure you

have: his name, his date and place of birth and his parents’ names. Usually with that information, they can find the Social Security number. 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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Day 5 of Cycle the Erie BikeTour Offers Deep Dive into The Erie Canal: ‘Mother of Cities’, Empire Builder, Wonder of the World C ontinued from page D3 visitors who wanted to travel on the Erie Canal on packet boats. Before the Erie Canal, “New York City was an insignificant port city, dwarfed by Boston and Philadelphia, and became a great city, as a result of this engineering.” What I come away with: It wasn’t

that people were different in 1817 when construction of the Erie Canal began, that they had more guts, gumption, daring, pioneering spirit. If anything, what this journey back in time shows is that people are exactly the same Governor DeWitt Clinton was mocked for the project, which was called See page D6

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Day 5 of Cycle the Erie BikeTour Offers Deep Dive into The Erie Canal: ‘Mother of Cities’, Empire Builder, Wonder of the World C ontinued from page D5

“Clinton’s Folly” and “Clinton’s Ditch”; President James Madison refused to give federal funding, questioning the role of the federal government. “Farmers didn’t want to give right of way,” Ward tells me, “they didn’t envision a global economy. It turned out to be great for them. They went from local subsistence economy to global. When the Erie Canal was built, it was the wave of future.” So many morals to be drawn to today. You can easily spend two to three hours at the Erie Canal Museum, which I happily do, even with 50 more miles to travel today. (Erie Canal Museum, 318 Erie Boulevard East, Syracuse, NY 13202, 315.471.0593, eriecanalmuseum.org.) Chittenango to Canastota My deep dive into the Erie Canal’s history continues on this day’s ride. I am fairly amazed to find some of the cyclists (there are 750 of us on the Cycle the Erie ride) still at the morning rest stop when I arrive at Chittenango Landing Boat Museum, which, through preservation, reproduction, construction, and interpretation of the Chittenango Landing industrial complex, instructs about the construction and repair of canal boats and the social history of the Erie Canal era. There are people in period dress and it looks like a historic village. Here, I get to poke inside a re-creation of a canalboat, and see where the mules would have been housed on the boat

with the family. (7010 Lakeport Rd, Chittenango, NY 13037, 315-687-3801, clcbm.org/) Chittenango is also the birthplace of L. Frank Blum who wrote “Wizard of Oz” (his mother-in-law, Melinda Gates, was the mother of the Women’s Rights movement), and I am told the village has a yellow-brick road. Once again, I am determined not to miss the things that I missed on my first Cycle the Erie ride two years before. I ride up the main street looking for evidence of Frank Blum – I find the yellow brick sidewalk, but before I can get to the All Things Oz Museum, which has family photos, early posters from musicals and movies before the 1939 MGM film, collectibles, it starts to rain. (Open year-round or by appointment, 219 Genesee St., Chittenango, NY 13037, 315-687-7772, allthingsoz.org). And rain. And rain. It is a drenching rain by the time I get to Canastota, where I remember there is a delightful Canal Town Museum which I visited on my first Cycle the Erie ride. Inside, I find other Erie Canal cyclists huddled together in the back, happily watching a video while they get warm. Housed in a former bakery and residence dating from 1873, Canastota Canal Town Museum is a major surprise. From the outside, you wouldn’t think much at all of the tiny frame structure, but once inside, it’s like a Harry Potter experience - the rooms are chockablock full of fascinating artifacts and portraits that make the inside seem enormous. It is a surprisingly fine museum, which adds pieces of understanding to the historic

Getting a tour inside the packet boat in the Syracuse Canal Museum © Karen Rubin/goingplacesfarandnear.com

puzzle of the Erie Canal and the rise of the United States. Here the focus is on people - including important people who contributed to building the canal, like Nathan Roberts (a Canastota native who devised the ingenious “Flight of Five” Locks in Lockport which we saw on our first day of the ride); there is a portrait of him by an important 19th century artist, Frederick R. Spencer, and portraits of others who owned the very existence of their town to the canal. In addition to the ingenious engineering of Nathan Roberts’ lock system, I realize an amazing array of inventions came out of this tiny village: it was the birthplace of the American Microscope Industry and early movie and projection film industry. I spot a photo on the wall referring to a action-adventure-comedy, “The Great Race” (1965), and only in that moment realize the movie was based on an actual event: the 1908 automobile race from New York to Paris, by way of Albany, Chicago, San Francisco, Seattle, Valdez Alaska, Japan, Vladivostok, Omsk, Moscow, St. Petersburg, Berlin and finally Paris. I learn that it was only made possible because of an innovation by Weed Chains of Canastota that enabled a car to drive across frozen Siberia. The 1908 Race was won by George Schuster Sr. of Buffalo, NY who drove an American Thomas Flyer. There is even a connection between Amelia Earhart and Canastota’s Airport opening in 1928. I am dazzled and warmed. (Canastota Canal Town Museum, 122 Canal St., Canastota, NY 13032, 315-6975002, www.canastota-canal.com) Of the 50 miles between Syracuse and Rome that we ride today, 36 miles

are in the Old Erie Canal New York State Park - rural, quaint, with wildlife, five aqueducts, and very flat. This is where the Erie Canal building began, in the “Long Level”. And just outside of our destination for today’s ride, Fort Stanwix in the center of Rome, we come to the historic marker where the very first shovel to dig the canal went into the ground on July 4, 1817. It is pouring rain and I am trying to slog through. Mercifully, just as I ride into Rome, the rain stops, and I am able to set up my tent right outside Fort Stanwix, take a shower at the shower truck, change into dry clothes, and rush over to the Fort where they have arranged for guided tours (by costumed rangers) until 9 pm. I am literally the last one out of the Fort at closing. I walk a couple of blocks to a pizza shop for dinner (this is one of two nights that we are on our own for dinner). The National Park Rangers keep the Visitor Center open for us all night long, and I love to really linger over the exhibits. The 20th Annual Cycle the Erie Canal ride is scheduled July 8 – 15, 2018 (www.ptny.org/canaltour). In the meantime, you can cycle the trail on your own - detailed info and interactive map is at the ptny.org site (www.ptny. org/bikecanal), including suggested lodgings. For more information on Cycle the Erie Canal, contact Parks & Trails New York at 518-434-1583 or visit www. ptny.org. The entire Erie Canal corridor has been designated the Erie Canalway National Heritage Corridor, Waterford, NY 12188, 518-237-7000, www. eriecanalway.org.

Motion picture cameras on view at Canastota Canal Town Museum; Canastota was home to early movie and projection film industry © Karen Rubin/ goingplacesfarandnear.com

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16 Ways to Chop Your Food Bill BY MARY HUNT

Need a foolproof way to cut your food/grocery expenses by 25 percent this month? Announce to your family that there will be a complete ban on the consumption of food during the first week of every month. There. That should do it! Twenty-five percent right off the top. What?! Don’t think you can pull that off? Me either, but not to worry. Here are some less painful -- and, I hope, more realistic -- ways to chop the high cost of food. Create your shopping list at home when you are hungry. You will be more creative and thorough. But never shop when hungry. You will be compelled to buy everything in sight regardless of what’s on your list. Leave the kids at home. You will stick to your shopping list with much less frustration and stress if you fly solo. Don’t shop at convenience or specialty stores. You won’t find many bargains there. Groceries online. Online grocery shopping is the latest and greatest for many (me!). It keeps me out of the supermarket, where even with a list, I’m an impulsive disaster just waiting to happen. I shop at King Soopers (part of the Kroger Family of stores) and pay a flat fee of $4.95 per order for its ClickList service. Online grocery orders with free same-day store pickup are now available at hundreds of Walmart stores nationwide. Walmart does not charge a pickup fee but has a minimum order requirement of $30. Stretch fruit juice. Make a 50-50 mix of generic brand club soda or seltzer. If the juice is concentrated, always add 1 can of water more than instructions state. You will be pleasantly surprised when you detect little difference, if any. Drink water. Your doctor will love you, and so will your food bill. Keep a pitcher of chilled water in the fridge. Rave about its wonderful qualities to

your young children. They’ll think it’s a treat if you are convincing enough. Eliminate choices at meals. Stick to your plan and let your family know that from now on there will be only two choices: take it or leave it. Learn to make homemade snacks. Popcorn is easy to make and usually inexpensive if you buy the kernels and pop it yourself from scratch. Buy in bulk. This will cut down your trips to the grocery store and often save as much as 50 percent of the unit cost. Reorganize your kitchen and pantry. Find places outside of the kitchen to store dry and canned goods. Repackage large amounts into small quantities. Consider generic and store brands. Some generic items are awful, and others are exactly the same product as the name brand. Do some experimenting, especially if your store offers satisfaction guaranteed! If you don’t like it, get a refund or exchange it. Shop the perimeter of the supermarket. This is where you will typically find the produce, meat and dairy. The center aisles are the prepackaged and processed high-priced items, a.k.a. the danger zone. Keep a price book. Start keeping a notebook that lists the prices of regularly purchased items at various stores. Keep it with you so that as you see specials or ads you’ll be able to determine whether they are really a bargain or not. Shop midweek. According to studies, on Wednesdays, most supermarkets reduce prices on food that is about to expire. This is also the day that the majority of stores start their new sales. Shop the sales. Check grocery ads for specials, and then base your week’s meals on what is on sale. The closer you can stick to buying only what’s on sale, the more you’ll cut your costs. Weigh all produce, even if it is priced per item. You won’t believe the difference in weight of the prebagged carrots, for instance. Even with a weight printed

on the bag, the real weight may be quite different (and it can be, provided it is not less than printed). Heads of lettuce priced individually can differ in weight by as much as half a pound. Mary invites questions, comments and tips at mary@everydaycheapskate. com, or c/o Everyday Cheapskate, 12340 Seal Beach Blvd., Suite B-416, Seal

Beach, CA 90740. This column will answer questions of general interest, but letters cannot be answered individually. Mary Hunt is the founder of www.DebtProofLiving.com, a personal finance member website and the author of “DebtProof Living,” released in 2014. . COPYRIGHT 2018 CREATORS.COM

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JAMESPORT Sunday June 24 1:00 pm—3:00 pm 92 Vista Ct 2 Story Expanded Cape on 1/2 acre. 4 BRs, 2.5 Baths, LR/Fireplace, EIK, Dining Area, Unfinished Bonus Room, Full Basement w/Outside Entrance, 2 Car Garage, New Roof. All This & Close to the Beach! $525,000 Colony Realty, Dolores Peterson 631-413-7572

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LAUREL Sunday 6/24 1:00pm to 3:00pm 2780 Peconic Bay Blvd 2 STORY W/ BAY VIEWS 200’ to Deeded Sandy Bay Beach. 4 BRs, 3.5 Baths. LR/Fireplace, Family Room/Fireplace, FDR & Kitchen. Full Basement, 2 Car Garage, HW Floors & CAC. New Roof, Heat, Hot Water Heater & Newly Painted Exterior. $899,000 Colony Realty, Carll Austin 516-658-2623

ABUTS STATE LAND — 75 acres $159,900. Woods, views, pond, great hunting area. 100% buildable. Terms avail with a min of 20% down. Call 888-9058847 ATTN: HUNTERS 85 acres $129,900. Prime whitetail area. Hardwoods & evergreens. Walk to State land. G’teed buildable. Owner fin avail with min of 20% down. Call 888-479-3394

OPEN HOUSE CATHEDRAL GARDENS TUDOR Saturday, June 23 1:00pm to 3:00pm 61 Stevens Ave Hempstead West Hempstead School District Well maintained 3 BR, 1.5 Bath updated, LR/fireplace, FDR, EIK, Screened in Porch, Attic w/4th BR /O ffice plus storage, newly landscaped w/IGS. $599,000 For Sale By Owner 516-538-1423 JAMESPORT Sunday June 24 11:00 am—1:00 pm 703 Herricks Lane Stunning 3500sf Victorian. Private landscaped setting on 1 acre. 4 BRs & 3.5 Baths. 2 Master Bedroom Suites. Large EIK, Formal LR, Formal DR, Family Room/fireplace. Geothermal Heat, Central Air and Solar panels. Finished Basement. 3 Car Garage. Must See! $949,000. Colony Realty, Carll Austin 516-658-2623

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ORIENT VILLAGE Saturday, June 23 10am—2pm 385 Oyster Ponds Lane 4 BR, 1.5 Bath, LR w/Fireplace, DR, Large Kitchen, Oversized 2 Car Garage w/Bonus Space and 2nd Story. For Sale By Owner $995,000. Contact: 401-932-0668

OUT OF TOWN REAL ESTATE JAMESPORT: 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

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LADIES & GENTLEMEN RELAX & ENJOY Your Next Party! Catering and Experienced Professional Services for Assisting with Preparation, Serving and Clean Up Before, During and After Your Party Bartenders Available. Call Kate at 516-248-1545

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A & J MOVING & STORAGE: Established 1971. Long Island and New York State specialists. Residential, Commercial, Piano & Organ experts. Boxes available. Free estimates. www. ajmoving.com 516-741-2657 114 Jericho Tpk, Mineola NYDOT# 10405

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SERVICES COMPLETE JUNK REMOVAL/DEMOLITION SERVICE: Strong Arm Contracting Inc. We haul anything and everything. Entire contents of home or office. We clean it up and take it away. Residential/Commercial. Bonded/Insured. Free estimates. 516-538-1125 OLD VILLAGE TREE SERVICE: Owner operated since 1989. 24 hour emergency service. Licensed/insured. Free estimates, member LI Arborist Assoc. Please call 516-466-9220

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Last Hope Part of the Chewy.com Rescue Program

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

SHOPPING FOR SUPPORT

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!

Kitten/Cat New Volunteer Orientation Schedule-Next on Wednesday, July 11th Volunteers for our cat program are always greatly needed. There are openings on shifts for weekdays and weekends that accommodate any schedule. Please attend our next kitten/cat volunteer orientation being held Wednesday, July 11th at 7:00 PM. All orientations are held at our adoption center located at 3300 Beltagh Avenue in Wantagh. Learn more about our cat program, tour the adoption center and find out how rewarding the volunteer experience can be. Volunteer orientations are typically held the second Sunday of each month with exceptions for holidays. The next orientation dates are:

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Incidents that have occurred recently in the local area include: n

On May 31st at 10:57am, a 27-yearold man from Freeport was arrested and was charged with Shoplifting at the Target on Corporate Drive in Westbury. n

Unlawful Possession of Marijuana was the charge brought against a 48-year-old man from Hempstead, when he was arrested on Taylor Avenue in Westbury at 4:45pm on May 31st. n

At the intersection of Old Northern Boulevard and Northern Boulevard in Roslyn, a 38-year-old woman from Westbury was arrested at 2:25am on June 1st. She was charged with Driving While Intoxicated. n

A victim has reported that at 11:05am on June 1st, an unknown mail subject removed 70 blank money orders from the United States Post Office on Mineola Avenue in Roslyn Heights. n

While driving on the Long Island Expressway at Exit 33 in North Hills, a 32-year-ld man from Uniondale was arrested and was charged with Driving While Intoxicated on June 2nd at 4:02am. n

A victim has reported that the passenger-side window of his vehicle was shattered sometime between 10 and 10:35am on June 2nd while parked at the Walmart located on Hempstead Turnpike in East Meadow. n

At the Sears located on Union Turnpike in North New Hyde Park, a victim has reported that her unattended pocketbook had been removed sometime between 1:45 and 2:50pm on June 2nd. n

A Garmin GPS was removed from an unlocked vehicle while it was parked on St. Paul’s Place in West Hempstead. The incident occurred between 4pm on June 2nd and 10am the next morning. n

At Sephora on Old Country Road in East Garden City, a 25-year-old woman from Brooklyn was arrested. She was charged with Shoplifting at 6:58pm on June 2nd.

A 28-year-old woman from East Elmhurst was arrested at Walmart on Old Country Road in Westbury and was charged with Shoplifting. The crime occurred sometime between 7:09 and 9:25pm on June 2nd.

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A Diamondback Tess bicycle was stolen from a location on 7th Avenue in Garden City Park at 7:31pm on June 2nd. n

At 12th Avenue in Sea Cliff, a victim’s parked car was scratched sometime between 8pm on June 2nd and 3:30pm on June 3rd. n

At the Lowe’s on Corporate Drive in Westbury, a victim has reported that unknown subject broke the passenger-side window of his vehicle while parked between 9 and 9:45pm on June 2nd. n

A vehicle that was parked on Buckingham Road in West Hempstead was reportedly broken into between 12 midnight and 9am on June 3rd. The subjects removed a GPS from the vehicle. n

A 21-year-old woman from Hempstead was arrested and charged with Shoplifting at Sephora on Old Country Road in East Garden City on June 3rd at 1:10pm. n

At 4:48pm on June 4th, it has been reported that a male subject did not return his $550 in U.S. currency in exchange for an Apple Mac laptop at Prospect Park on Bernard Street and Harton Avenue in East Meadow. n

At the Miami Car Wash on Hempstead Turnpike in East Meadow, a victim has reported that an unknown subject did not pay for services rendered at the car wash, sometime between 5:45 and 7:06pm on June 4th. n

A 34-year-old woman from Port Washington was arrested at 11:25pm on June 4th and was charged with Driving While Intoxicated at the corner of Allen Drive South and Northern Boulevard in Manhasset.

Supervisor Saladino, joined by Town officials and Nassau Suffolk Landscape Grounds Association President Evan Dackow, announce an intensified enforcement initiative aimed at unlicensed and uninsured landscapers operating across local communities. The Town of Oyster Bay plans an intensified enforcement initiative aimed at unlicensed and uninsured landscaping operating in the town. Through this new initiative spearheaded by the Town Quality of Life Task Force, the Departments of Planning and Development, Public Safety and Sanitation have partnered to issue Notices of Violation and Summons against illegal operations in the Town. In the past two weeks, the town has issued over 100 notices of violation and eleven criminal court appearance tickets. According to the town, its permitting process assures residents that the contractor is accountable. Residents can identify a Town-licensed landscaper by the identification decal affixed to the driver’s side door of each vehicle and to the left rear bumper of any trailer used in the course of business. Contractors are also required to carry the license or a photocopy signed by the licensee at all times. Town Supervisor Joseph Saladino

said, “It’s easy to forget to ask if the person caring for your lawn is licensed and insured, but it’s even easier to forget how much liability can be created if they get hurt on the job while working at your home. Without a license and the proper insurance, you could suddenly be on the hook for injuries. We remind residents to always ask landscapers for up-to-date business licenses, worker’s compensation insurance, and general liability insurance. The good ones will produce those items without question.” Officials are also enforcing Town Code which limits landscapers’ ability to perform work during the following hours: Monday through Friday, 8:00am to 7:30pm; and Saturday, 9:00am to 7:00pm; with no work permitted on Sunday. Upon receiving notice of violation from the Town of Oyster Bay, responsible individuals in violation of Town Code may face court-imposed fines for each violation, and could ultimately face revocation or suspension of their license.

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LEGAL NOTICES NOTICE OF SALE Supreme Court County Of Nassau U.S. Bank, National Association as Trustee for WAMU Mortgage Pass Through Certificate for WMALT Series 2007-OA3 Trust, Plaintiff against Tho Nguyen, et al Defendants Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale Entered November 29, 2017 I will sell at Public Auction to the highest bidder at the Calendar Control Part (CCP) 100 Supreme Court Drive, Mineola, New York, 11501 on July 10, 2018 at 11:30 AM. Premises known as 318 Syosset Woodbury Road a/k/a, 318 Woodbury Road, Woodbury, NY 11797. Sec 14. Block D Lot 779. All that certain plot, piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements thereon erected, situate, lying and being in Syosset, in the Town of Oyster Bay, Nassau County, State of New York. Approximate Amount of Judgment is $2,501,078.64 plus interest and costs. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index No 000354/13. Alexandria Kaminski, Esq., Referee SPSNY304 Attorney for Plaintiff(s): Fein Such & Crane, LLP 1400 Old Country Road, Suite C103, Westbury, NY, 11590 SYO 4189 4X 06/08,15,22,29 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF DEALER FLEET SOLUTION, LLC. Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State of New York SSNY on April 26, 2018. Office location: Nassau County. SSNY is designated for service of process. SSNY shall mail copy of any process served against the LLC to 217 Woodbury Road #310, Woodbury, NY, 11797. Purpose: any lawful purpose. SYO 4191 6X 06/15,22,29,07/06,13,20 NOTICE OF SALE Supreme Court County Of Nassau U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, AS TRUSTEE, SUCCESSOR IN INTEREST TO BANK OF AMERICA, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION AS TRUSTEE AS SUCCESSOR BY MERGER TO LASALLE BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION AS TRUSTEE FOR WAMU MORTGAGE PASS-THROUGH

CERTIFICATES SERIES 2007HY6 TRUST, Plaintiff AGAINST ANGELO OLIVERI, HARRIET OLIVERI, et al., Defendant(s) Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale duly dated April 13, 2018 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 July 24, 2018 at 11:30AM, premises known as 3 SKYVIEW COURT, SYOSSET, NY 11791. All that certain plot piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements erected, situate, lying and being in the Village of Oyster Bay Cove, County of Nassau and State of New York, SECTION 25, LOT 680. Approximate amount of judgment $2,621,693.64 plus interest and costs. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment for Index# 14-006868. Janine T. Lynam, Esq., Referee Gross Polowy, LLC Attorney for Plaintiff 1775 Wehrle Drive, Suite 100 Williamsville, NY, 14221 SYO 4192 4X 06/22,29,07/06,13 NOTICE OF SALE Supreme Court County Of Nassau U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, AS TRUSTEE FOR ADJUSTABLE RATE MORTGAGE TRUST 20044, ADJUSTABLE RATE MORTGAGE BACKED PASS THROUGH CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2004-4, Plaintiff AGAINST SHAHLA SABETI, et al., Defendant(s) Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale duly dated August 30, 2017 I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction at the Calendar Control Part (CCP) Courtroom of the Nassau County Supreme Court, 100 Supreme Court Drive, Mineola, NY 11501, on July 24, 2018 at 11:30AM, premises known as 5 PINE DRIVE, WOODBURY, NY 11797. All that certain plot piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements erected, situate, lying and being in the Town of Oyster Bay, County of Nassau and State of New York, 14-17-4. Approximate amount of judg-

ment $1,090,871.44 plus interest and costs. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment for Index# 7064/12. Tarsha C. Smith, Esq., Referee Gross Polowy, LLC Attorney for Plaintiff 1775 Wehrle Drive, Suite 100 Williamsville, NY 14221 SYO 4193 4X 06/22,29,07/06,13 NOTICE OF NAME CHANGE “Notice is hereby given that an order granted by the Supreme Court, Nassau County, on the 30th day of May, 2018, bearing Index Number 18-000597, a copy of which may be examined at the office of the clerk, located at 240 Old Country Road, Mineola, New York grants me the right to assume the name Dianna Gayle Fiebert Stein. The city and state of my present address are Syosset, NY; the month and year of my birth are October, 1974; the place of my birth is Manhasset, New York; my present name is Dianna Gayle Stein, aka Dianna Gayle Fiebert, aka Dianna Gayle Fiebert-Stein.” SYO 4194 1X 06/22 NOTICE OF SALE Supreme Court County Of Nassau EMIGRANT BANK (FORMERLY KNOWN AS EMIGRANT SAVINGS BANK AND NEW YORK PRIVATE BANK & TRUST), Plaintiff -againstCAROLINE ARONSON, et al Defendant(s). Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered herein on April 12, 2017, I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction at (CCP) Calendar Control Part Court

Room of the Nassau Supreme Court, 100 Supreme Court Dr., Mineola, NY on July 24, 2018 at 11:30 a.m. ALL that certain plot, piece or parcel of land, situate, lying and being at Syosset, Town of Oyster Bay, County of Nassau and State of New York, known and designated as Section 25 Block 54 and Lot 16 Said premises known as 52 STRATFORD PLACE, SYOSSET, NY Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment and Terms of Sale. We are a debt collector attempting to collect a debt. Any information obtained will be used for that purpose. Index Number 13660/2012. JAMES PANOS, ESQ., Referee STAGG, TERENZI, CONFUSIONE & WABNIK, LLP Attorney(s) for Plaintiff 401 Franklin Avenue, Suite 300, Garden City, NY 11530 SYO 4195 4X 06/22,29,07/06,13 NOTICE OF POSTPONEMENT OF SALE Supreme Court County Of Nassau DEUTSCHE BANK NATIONAL TRUST COMPANY, AS TRUSTEE FOR MORGAN STANLEY ABS CAPITAL I INC. TRUST 2004-NC8 MORTGAGE PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2004NC8, Plaintiff, Against CHETAN SATI, ET AL., Defendant(s). Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale, duly entered on 3/12/2018, I, the undersigned Referee, will sell at public auction, in the Calendar Control Part (CCP) Courtroom of the Nassau County Supreme

Court, 100 Supreme Court Dr., Mineola, NY 11501, on 7/3/2018 at 11:30 am, premises known as 2 Michael Road, Syosset, NY 11791, and described as follows: ALL that certain plot, piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements thereon erected, situate, lying and being near Hicksville, Town of Oyster Bay, County of Nassau and State of New York, Section 12 Block 445 Lot 11 The approximate amount of the current Judgment lien is $884,612.75 plus interest and costs. The Premises will be sold subject to provisions of the aforesaid Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale; Index # 3204/2015. Original sale date 6/5/2018 at the same time and location. If the sale is set aside for any reason, the Purchaser at the sale shall be entitled only to a return of the deposit paid. The purchaser shall have no further recourse against the Mortgagor, the Mortgagee or the Mortgagee’s attorney. Index No.: 3204/2015 Janine Lynam, Esq., Referee. Leopold & Associates, PLLC, 80 Business Park Drive, Suite 110, Armonk, NY, 10504 Dated: 6/6/2018 PB SYO 4196 1X 06/22 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF GREEN SOLAR, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 5/24/18. Office: Nassau County. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC, 17 Magnolia Ln Jericho NY 11753. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. JNJ 7883 6X 06/01,08,15,22,29,07/06

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Syosset Schools outline summer of security upgrades From page 3 which will be scanned on a card reader, showing a headshot picture of students on-screen.

New Director of Security

On Monday night, Rogers introduced retired Sergeant Ray Farrell, a 28-year veteran of the NYPD, as the new Director of Security for Syosset Schools. The increased security presence in schools as part of the Phase I projects is on target for the fall too, as Dr. Rogers said the force of security guards doubles from 17 in February to 34 by later this month. An evening shift was added at Syosset High School in February and the school board asked the administration to do an RFP for an after-hours security shift. Starting this month, firm Wisdom Security replaces Summit Security as the supplier of guards to Syosset Central School District. “We have put a lot of pressure on the pool of security guards and that becomes more for us and our security contractor to manage. Our expectation is always excellence and we work closely with them to make sure we have the right guards and the right fit because in the end it is a specialized assignment in a school environment, requiring an amount of nuance. The training that Mr. Farrell has in dealing with our staff will be key,” Rogers said. Security considerations for the capital plans in Phase II includes enclosing the exposed student walkways at South Grove Elementary School and at Syosset High School, creating a parent drop-off loop and visitor parking at SHS, and replacing the temporary structure that houses the SHS weight room with a separate structure that by-design can be used as an emergency shelter. Due to the lengthy state approval process of at least 10 months, the district will likely start Phase II projects in the summer of 2019. Wendy Levitt, who ran for the Syosset Board of Education this spring,said her fellow parents are excited to help Syosset Schools create a board-community partnership that becomes the new paradigm and model for Long Island. Levitt has made rounds in the community and talked with school families about the security upgrades and some social emotional learning components that the district can benefit from having. “The second half of our petition calls for increased community participation for the district-wide security team and specific follow up in regards to students’ mental health and other initiatives. We found that 90% of survey respondents want more parent participation in the community, 84% want more Syosset teacher involvement and 77% want to make sure the Nassau County Police are more heavily involved with our security,”she said.

Levitt spoke about three specific security initiatives for Syosset Schools: prevention and stopping any form of violence before an incident can take shape; the second is response and giving the student body and district staff tools to work with in the event of an emergency, and the third is control and containmentment. “If the worst were to happen here, how could we neutralize the threat.” She told the board while the infrastructure investments to boost security are great, the response from fellow parents and residents may be lukewarm. She says for example the perimeter fencing around district schools are not opposed, but she gets a sense that isn’t viewed as the top priority the district should be working on. Levitt told the board 81% of people she’s surveyed want to see the bus aides, lunch aides and playground aides trained to identify and address bullying. She says another 80% of community members want the district to use both an anonymous tip hotline as well as a crisis intervention hotline. During his presentation, Dr. Rogers explained challenges in manpower and technical support, including identification challenges for the district to begin any form of social media monitoring. However Levitt said 79% of people she’s surveyed would like to see Syosset Schools taking the proactive step of finding any warning signs and imminent threats students and their peers can put online. Dr. Rogers said the district would not have the type of investigative tools the police would. Syosset Schools would be facing a slew of new liabilities with social media monitoring as well as “looking into capabilities we don’t have.” “Monitoring systems only monitor public sites and in the district, we’ve told kids to make their sites private because we wouldn’t want them exposed on the internet. We are telling them do their work in places we’d not be able to scan it, and some parents have complained about privacy intrusions in other places that implemented social media monitoring. Nassau County Police do monitor social media and national hotlines are staffed 24/7. If police get something worrisome from a user they have tools to follow up and we would essentially dead-end, because we would not know who any anonymous account belongs to or to do anything with it,” Rogers said Levitt also cited a course at Yale University to encourage students to discuss and work with others on happiness and fulfilling careers. Levitt told the board of education it would be great if Syosset Schools can implement a similar program here. The groundbreaking Yale course, titled “Psychology and the Good Life” saw an enrollment of 1,200, one-quarter of Yale’s student body in spring 2018. Yale professor Laurie Santos offers an expanded version of the

happiness course for free, online on Coursera. Levitt’s daughter Sarah, a current Syosset High School student, was the next speaker during public comments. She says the administration and board need to do a better job of taking feedback from students and communicating the latest concepts for security on school grounds. “Obviously students have a lot to be worried about and unfortunately, now they have to worry about where and how our school can be safe. In Syosset High School we recently talked about the student lobby and the window sidings are made entirely out of glass, so some students see it as a problem. But moreover many students at SHS feel that they don’t get a voice and this is the place we will spend six, seven, even eight hours before we even get into extracurricular activities. We spend a good portion of our day here and we can’t say we feel safe. We don’t feel like we are being heard by our teachers, the administration or the board of education. We just want the voices of the student body to be heard, especially in our high school, as opposed to just one or two people who are very involved with the district,” Levitt said.

Survey at Syosset HS

She distributed a survey at SHS and of the 129 students who responded, 61% said they did not feel safe with the district’s current lockdown procedure. Levitt says no one knows SHS better than current students and their opinions should be sought after. Metal detectors for Syosset schools was another security topic for Monday night’s board meeting. School Board Trustee Susan Parker asked Rogers how they will work scanning cell phones, laptops and other electronic items. Board Trustee Carol Cheng said she visited Uniondale schools for an event recently, and she was satisfied with their current use of metal detectors at entrances. Cheng noted that the size of that district is comparable to Syosset. Dr. Rogers told the board and audience that the expectation is to move kids through the metal detectors in mornings at a speed of five to six students per-minute maximum, and bags will be checked by hand, similar to the entrances of concerts and professional sporting events. The first parent to speak during public comments said his two daughters graduated from Syosset High School and his son currently attends, but the text message he sent from the school on May 29th about lockdown procedure and the possibility of an active shooter at the campus left the family “feeling paralyzed.” The hire of Sgt. Farrell drew praise and the parent called for the district to allow his role to be expanded to a hiring capacity, so more trained and possibly armed professionals can be

present in the Syosset schools in case an emergency occurs. The resident told the school board, “we want to protect our loved ones, but in a second instance you’ll make your own luck.” Another father at Monday’s meeting challenged the board and administration on their basis to hire an ex-NYPD sergeant and director of schools’ security, as he said expects Farrell to be the first person out of a group of qualified people who can be armed and protect the schools from within. For that parent, armed and trained teachers -- “concealed- carry armed teachers” -- was the next step he brought up for the school board, saying it would be a cost-effective form of protecting the students and faculty. The resident said the district can achieve a relaxed environment for students and staff while being assured in the case of an emergency “that person with a concealed weapon can stand up to fight against a shooter.” Fred Gang, a Syosset resident for over 50 years, told the school board and administration the students in local schools today are much safer than their predecessors in each building, and the evidence of a successful form of security was presented to the public through the achievements of many Syosset High students. The meeting began with accolades and announcements of academic and athletic highlights of the school year, spring semester in particular. Gang says he listened to all that was going so well with the students and how the high school kids are excelling, and he told the school board and administrators “these children did not grow up in a bubble.” Gang urges the district to continue its infrastructure and capital plans for security including the new locks and vestibules, as he is happy these items are being addressed, but he warned against giving in to “nervous and paranoid parents” who call for arming teachers or more police presence. “I can tell you without a doubt that this community is more secure now than it ever was, the crime rate in this area is lower now than it ever was -- if you check Nassau County’s police statistics you will find that. These successful high school students were not brought up in a bubble yet I heard from many parents here ‘let’s build up a wall’ or put up more fences. For every system you might devise, whether metal detectors or new locks, maybe kids can devise plastic weapons. They are ways to get around it. We do not face these problems here because we have very good administrators, well-trained teachers, follow up for children experiencing guidance problems and we just stated the new agreement with Nassau County Police. Many people may not believe this, but the amount of violence in schools in this country has actually gone down drastically in the past 30 years,” Gang said.

From page 1 tal Protection Agency, Department of Environmental Conservation and both State and County health departments. Residents deserve to be part of the process, receive precise and verifiable test results, and any independent testing performed must also demonstrate strict compliance with all applicable regulations and industry standards. Irrespective of the extensive historic testing at these sites, the Town’s unwavering commitment to facilitating additional testing will be completed and done so with unprecedented transparency.” “New York State General Municipal Law prevents municipalities from issuing a professional services contract without some level of open, public competition. To ensure independence and operate within the law, the Town of Oyster Bay is seeking agreements with the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC), New York State Department of Health and the Nassau County Department of Health to develop and administer a testing program. Such an agreement will allow for the payment of services to be provided through funds supplied by the developer to offset costs associated with the additional independent testing and analysis. All regulatory agencies will be requested to review and approve work plans developed for this testing program as they promulgate testing standards and sampling procedures based on professional experience of experts, available technology and public input. The very objective of the independent testing is reliability, transparency and the inherent ability to withstand verification tests and scrutiny.” “The Town is eager to accomplish the objectives requested by our residents,

and we hope that elected government officials offer a similar commitment to developing this independent testing plan and ensuring all environmental and health regulatory agencies play an integral role in this intricate process. Similar partnerships between regulatory monitoring agencies have helped protect our residents for decades and this concerted effort will help ensure thorough and comprehensive testing of potential hazards,” Supervisor Saladino stated in the June 18th press release. Organizers of the June 26th rally include Kevin McKenna of Syosset, who reacted to the June 18th announcement from Town Supervisor Joseph Saladino while spreading emails carrying signage about the rally: “We do not believe Supervisor Saladino. His words have proven to be just that - words. We are not waiting for testing before development- We need it now. People are in danger. Our ‘Syosset No City’ group which filled the Syosset High School auditorium is now called “SAVE OUR SYOSSET” and a group from Woodbury called “No Syosset Park” has joined us to discuss citizens’ planning,” he said in an email to the Advance and News Journal. An online petition against Syosset Park, started by McKenna, has been signed by members of the community, environmentalists and people with ties to the area -- it now has collected over 1,500 signatures. On June 11th, several residents of Syosset and Woodbury received a strange email message “Supervisor Saladino Wants to Hear from You!” which has led to a some backlash against the Town, as it appeared from the email the project was being carried through behind closed doors. The email to residents, sent from SyossetPark proponents with an email address of syosset-

Town: Testing starts before development From page 1

agreement will allow for the payment of services to be provided through funds supplied by the developer to offset costs associated with the additional independent testing and analysis. All regulatory agencies will be requested to review and approve work plans developed for this testing program as they promulgate testing standards and sampling procedures based on professional experience of experts, available technology and public input. The very objective of the independent testing is reliability, transparency and the inherent ability to withstand verification tests and scru-

tiny. “The Town is eager to accomplish the objectives requested by our residents, and we hope that elected government officials offer a similar commitment to developing this independent testing plan and ensuring all environmental and health regulatory agencies play an integral role in this intricate process. Similar partnerships between regulatory monitoring agencies have helped protect our residents for decades and this concerted effort will help ensure thorough and comprehensive testing of potential hazards,” added Saladino.

park@syossetpark.emailnb.com, contained the following: “A pivotal part of the Syosset Park approval process is ensuring that the Town Board hears from community members like you! Please click to send an e-mail to Town of Oyster Bay Supervisor Joseph S. Saladino to let him know that you support the Syosset Park project!...Together, we can ensure that Syosset Park reinvigorates the former Cerro Wire property and Oyster Bay public works facility and becomes a vibrant and dynamic mixed-use community open to everyone!” On June 13th, Town of Oyster Bay Receiver of Taxes James (Jim) Stefanich responded via email to residents’ concerns over the email and the need for the environmental testing Syosset/ Woodbury and neighboring communities have demanded. “Your input and those of residents surrounding the immediate area and possible other impacted neighborhoods are critical in evaluating the go-ahead for this major development project. Your participation in the public review process is critical to our community’s future. When I received the email, I had the same thought. Is this a Town endorsement? I can assure you that it is not. The Town’s Administration is keeping an open mind, with the objective of evaluation all information and concerns of our residents, during the project proposal process,” Stefanich wrote to residents. But five days later on June 18th, the press release from the Town Board stated “The Town will accept the developer’s offer to fund independent testing and analysis.” Also on Wednesday, June 13th, two days after the school board last met, Syosset Schools’ Trustee Carol Cheng advised her neighbors and other res-

Friday, June 22, 2018

Rally against Syosset Park June 26th

idents that unfortunately most board members would be at another event June 26th, therefore unable to watch the Town Board’s discussions in person. “There will be a school board event the same evening, but I hope many of you could attend the Town Board meeting (June 26th) to voice your opinion on this,” she wrote via email. Wendy Levitt, who ran for a seat on the Syosset Board of Education this spring, provided the following take on the need for independent testing: “Syosset Park’s position, while encouraging, isn’t enough to clear the way for development. Before we consider any new development, we need to address the health risks that already appear to effect homes close to the Syosset Park property. I would be happy to listen to anything the Syosset Park developers might propose to remediate the existing issues that are already plaguing our residents. My willingness to listen to development proposals would be contingent on successful remediation of current environmental and health issues.” Another former board of education candidate, Dr. Uzma Syed, said “I’m glad to see they (developers) are endorsing independent testing of the land. The residents of Syosset made their stance loud and clear at the May 1 hearing. We need unbiased data derived from independent testing to have all the credible facts for the project and our community.” At the June 11th Board of Education meeting, one resident and parent advised trustees and district administration that they must remain proactive advocates for the best interest of Syosset students and future students, as he told them participating in front of the Town Board and being vocal against this major development is a necessity.

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Friday, June 22, 2018

Robbins Lane Staff Recognition Luncheon

It's been a wonderful year

Great friends, great food!

Part of an amazing team!

The Robbins Lane Staff Recognition Luncheon was held on Wednesday, May 23rd, 2018. Teachers, aides, tutors, specialty staff, administration, custodial & office staff, and Board of Education members all came to enjoy a fabulous lunch sponsored by the Robbins Lane PTA families. There were also donations from local businesses, including Mother Kelly's, Bagel Master, and Sara Tara Events. This was a time for the families

to show appreciation for the hard work and dedication that the staff at Robbins Lane show to their children on a daily basis. Two of Robbins Lane's beloved teachers who will be retiring at the end of the year, Ms. Ettinger and Ms. Caifa, received the Distinguished Service Award, and Ms. Lori-Ann Pizzarelli and Ms. Phyllis Tombrello were given the Honorary Life Membership Award. It was a wonderful day had by all!

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