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Online at www.LongIslanderNews.com VOLUME THIRTEEN, ISSUE 25

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THURSDAY, AUGUST 19, 2010

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$93 Mil Up For Grabs

By Amanda Lindner

alindner@longislandernews.com

Governor David Paterson has a multi-milliondollar decision to make, and it’s about your children’s education.

After huge state budget cuts for Long Island schools, the federal government is stepping in to help save teaching jobs. Congress went into session earlier this month to pass a measure that would give states $10 billion in federal aid from unspent stimulus funds and closed tax loops on foreign companies.

New York State will receive more than $600 million. A portion of that money will go to help Long Island schools keep their teaching positions after $172 million was cut from state school aid two weeks ago. The formula Paterson and Albany lawmakers choose to use will decide exactly how much cushion Nassau and Suffolk schools will get.

“This fall, Long Island kids could show up at schools with fewer teachers and larger class sizes,” Rep. Steve Israel (D – Dix Hills) said. “The repercussions of cuts at schools would be felt for years to come by the schoolchildren shortchanged on a good education. The passage of this legislation protects our teachers, our taxpayers and our kids."

Albany has two choices on how to spend the money. It could follow the Title I Federal formula or use its own state plan. Under the Title I plan, which is part of the No Child Left Behind Act, Long Island could get as little as $7 million in federal aid, since most will benefit New York City schools and larger urban areas that fall within the federal specifications. A state plan however, would give suburban districts a stronger share of the pot – up to $100 million.

“I’m hoping we go with the state plan. If it ends up being Title I, we wouldn’t get anything for our schools,” Assemblyman Andrew Raia (RNorthport) said. “Enough is enough.”

Even with the full amount, the stimulus would be $72 million short of what was cut, but it may help school districts like Harborfields, for example, which had to cut two librarians and two computer teachers last year.

“If we get the money that we’re expecting, it will go to employment,” said Superintendent Frank Carasiti.

State applications for the federal funds are due

by Sept. 9. The Department of Education plans to distribute the money two weeks after the application is received. Despite the rush, the extra money may still come too late.

“The whole point of the money is to help teachers from being laid off, but it’s already so far past the budget planning process, that the districts have already made their cuts for the budget they had available,” Assemblyman Jim Conte (RHuntington Station) said.

Anne Smith with her son, Kevin, who is now seven months sober after battling a four-year heroin addiciton.

Heroin Taking Its Hold Clinical director says opiate overdose kills at least one a day

By Amanda Lindner alindner@longislandernews.com

Another high school student walked into Steve Chassman’s office last week. This time, the teenage girl from Huntington lifted up the sleeve on her college sweatshirt, revealing the bruises her heroin injections have left behind. The sight is no surprise to Chassman, a Northport resident and clinical director at the Long Island Council for Alcoholism and Drug Dependence (LICADD). He said his calls are up by 400 percent since last year, but he is happy she is in his office, standing, breathing and alive.

Anne Smith, who worked at a Melville dental practice for 32 years, said she watched her son, Kevin Smith, 21, “die twice” in one week from heroin overdoses. It was after his second cardiac arrest that she just couldn’t take it anymore, she said. If he wouldn’t give up heroin to save his own life, maybe he would to save hers.

“I found needles in his room after he told me he had stopped. When he was home, I stormed into his room with the needles in my hand and yelled for him to shoot me up too,” Anne said. “I told him that if he died, I’d die too, so

let’s just do it together – that this drug is killing the both of us.”

In an emotional outburst, Kevin grabbed back the syringes and crushed them in his hand, she said. It was the first time in four years he said goodbye to heroin, and actually meant it.

“It was hell. He stole anything worth any value to sell for heroin,” Anne said. “It was destroying us both.”

Using up to 35 bags a day at his worst point, Kevin had stolen his mother’s engagement rings and car. Anne swapped her son’s wooden door for a steel one at their Oakdale home because she found herself having to constantly repair the holes caused by Kevin’s fist punching the door. She even quit her job to stay home and monitor him, but nothing was going to change “unless he wanted to make the change,” she said.

“I hated myself. Heroin ruined my life,” Kevin said. “It turned me into a thief, it made me do grimy things. I was hanging out with gang members.

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Nice Harmonica!

Where’s My Bling?

else suggested the police precinct should move in there. Most recently, I heard someone suggest that the the final concert of the season at Heckscher Park this Paramount Theatre should build a new concert hall Sunday. I had wanted to see blues legend James Cotthere instead of occupying the ton but I was discouraged by old IMAC building. Enough, althe probability of rain. Since IN THE KNOW ready! I for one am looking foropportunities to see some of WITH AUNT ROSIE ward to the day when the neighthese old blues legends are borhood is safe so the students rare enough, and frankly, Mr. Cotton ain’t gettin’ any can move back in. younger. So I went, and boy am I glad I did. I don’t know what this guy to make his harmonica go from No satisfaction here… I stopped by Copenhagen sounding like the kiss of a hummingbird to the blast Bakery the other day for a late morning treat when I of a freight train passing through a tight tunnel, but noticed a man and his best friend relaxing on the it sure had my feet tapping. When he jammed with porch out front. The dog, not small by any imaginaspecial Billy Squier – who I recall as a spike-haired tion, lay asleep on the floor while his human sat readpunkish rocker -- it was like being in a Memphis ing a newspaper. What caught my fancy was the song blues house. They riffed, they rocked and they playing over the radio, “I can’t get no satisfaction” by brought the house down. A hearty thank you to the the Rolling Stones.

Huntington Arts Council and the Town of Huntington for bringing us this and 43 other shows this sumSpeaking of dogs… Trinity Episcopal Church over mer. This was my favorite, but I caught quite a few. in Northport has a clear message for anyone walking Walt Whitman’s reach… How does a 19th-centu- a dog nearby. A small white dog preparing to his business squats eternally in front of the St. Bede’s House, ry literary rebel from Huntington find himself in Los bearing the phrase “NO!” Now I love our furry comAngeles City Hall in 2010? Well, nothing about Walt panions as much as any pet owner, but who can igWhitman surprises me, including the fact that he is nore stepping in dog poop because someone was too somewhat tangentially involved with the proclamalazy to pick it up. Hopefully, for the sake of shoes, tion by the City of Los Angeles of Ray Bradbury pant legs and pride, this is more precautionary than Week in Los Angeles, CA, Aug. 22-28. Mr. Bradbury, reactionary. you see, is to be honored as a champion of literature by the Walt Whitman Birthplace during its annual Conflicting messages… Recently I was walking gala here in Huntington on October 7. And yes, deinto a catering hall and had to pass through the crowd spite the fact that he does not fly, he plans to be here. of people standing around one of those large ashtrays So Walt Whitman Birthplace executive director Cynwith an aluminum bowl of sand on top and a little thia Shor will be in LA this week to speak in support hole for refuse on the side. Beneath that little hole of the city council’s resolution. Hopefully after the was a big white sign with red letters that read “No Aug. 20 meeting, the city council will approve the Smoking” and a graphic of a burning cigarette inside resolution and Mr. Bradbury will have his week. the circle with a slash that means “no.” It just didn’t Then I guess we should start working on Huntington look right.

Town Hall to do the same thing here for that first

Got my blues fix… Almost on a whim, I caught

week in October.

How about a school…? I personally am tired of hearing about all the things we should move into the former Jack Abrams Intermediate School. First folks suggested moving Town Hall there. Then someone

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GPS Stolen From Vehicle Suffolk police were called to a Greenlawn house when electronics were stolen on Aug. 12. The complainant said a GPS and MP3 players were taken from a vehicle parked in front of their home.

Where’s The Boxing Ring?

A Huntington man was arrested by Suffolk County police for attacking his family on Aug. 12. Police said he punched his brother in the face. He was arrested and charged with misdemeanor assault.

Perp Makes Mark On Sign Suffolk police were alerted to new graffiti in Greenlawn on Aug. 11. Someone had damaged the back of a speed sign with graffiti markings.

Tool Makes Off With Others?

Suffolk police responded to a Huntington Station home after someone stole assorted tools on Aug. 11.

The complainant said an unknown person entered their yard, forced open a trailer and completed the theft.

Should We Just Bar Our Windows Up?

Suffolk police arrested a man for assaulting another in front of a Huntington Station car repair shop on Aug. 10. The defendant attacked the victim four times with a machete – twice in the head, once in the left forearm and once in the side. The attack caused minor head bleeding and pain to the left side. The defendant was charged with misdemeanor assault and criminal possession of a weapon.

“It doesn’t matter who you are, what color you are, how broke you may be or how rich you may be, you’re always in a position to help other people.”

Try A Bathroom Next Time Northport police arrested a Huntington man for urinating on the side of the street and along the side of a home just after midnight on Aug. 7. Police issued the defendant an appearance ticket in lieu of an arrest.

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A Huntington homeowner called Suffolk County police about a burglary on Aug. 10. The complainants told police an unknown person went through a window to steal jewelry and laptops.

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TOWN OF HUNTINGTON

More West Nile, More Pesticides As the number of virus positive mosquitoes increase, so does the spraying of chemicals

By Amanda Lindner alindner@longislandernews.com

A total of 87 mosquito samples have tested positive for West Nile virus in Suffolk County, including four new isolations in Huntington, health officials announced Aug. 12. In response, County Vector Control has been spraying pesticide to cut down the mosquito population – and hopefully those insects with the virus.

But just as bugs are exposed to toxic chemicals, so are humans. The pesticide substance is very unlikely to cause people any lasting sickness, but county officials caution residents – particularly children and pregnant women – to avoid being outdoors when spraying is taking place.

Suffolk County uses a pesticide known as Scourge, which contains chemicals that in high dosages may affect the nervous system, causing loss of coordination, tremors or tingling and numbness, according to the New York State Health Department. Other common pesticides used indoors and on school grounds include chemicals linked to cancer, reproductive effects and kidney and liver damage. Since most pesticide is sprayed in low concentrations, few adults will

There are non-toxic alternatives to fighting off mosquitoes as the number of samples positive for West Nile continues to grow. experience any symptoms, but children are particularly sensitive to the chemical effects, state health officials said.

Health issues associated in children with short-term pesticide exposure include headaches, dizziness, nausea, seizures and respiratory problems.

Researchers have also found that pesticide exposure can stimulate a poisoning effect linked to asthma. This year, Gov. David Paterson signed a bill into law banning the use of pesticides at school fields and playgrounds as well as daycare centers starting in May 2011.

“One school supply that schools will

need less of will be toxic pesticides for playing fields, since next year they’ll be prohibited,” said Adrienne Esposito, executive director of the nonprofit Citizens’ Campaign for the Environment.

While children will have to hold out a year to be pesticide-free at school, those who like the idea of being more safe than sorry at home can swap their repellents for organic and non-toxic pesticides, which are gaining popularity on the shelves, according to a report by the Sustainability Institute at Malloy College.

Natural bug spray made from the

leaves, twigs and oils of lemon eucalyptus plants can be found for less than $5 at most Target stores, as well as some Walmart stores. For the yard, garlic juice is an effective mosquito deterrent. Garlic Barrier and Mosquito Barrier products are non-toxic and effective, according to the report.

The application process requires a basic pump sprayer or hose end sprayer.

While the grass may have a slight garlic smell immediately after spraying, the scent fades from human senses within a few minutes, yet it is still strong enough for mosquitoes to want to stay away from the odor. Garlic oil is particularly effective on Anopheles and Culex adult mosquitoes, which carry West Nile virus.

Residents who do not want to have their yards sprayed by vector control can register to be on a “No-Spray” list to avoid the Scourge chemicals. County Health Services recommends people remain inside or avoid the areas spraying takes place for about 30 minutes after, to close windows and doors, and turn off air-conditioning units or close their vents to circulate indoor air before spraying begins. Windows and air-conditioning vents can be reopened about 30 minutes after spraying.

TOWN OF HUNTINGTON

Fighting For 9/11 Benefits Firefighter’s family still wants federal care for WTC responders

By Amanda Lindner alindner@longislandernews.com

As Vincent Albanese, a Sept. 11 FDNY first responder from Huntington Station, was saying his final goodbye to his wife and two daughters, Congress was shooting down a bill that would have secured $7.4 billion in aid to Ground Zero workers.

Albanese, 63, died on July 31 from bladder cancer. The cancer was first discovered during a World Trade Center medical monitoring exam in

2007, and his family believes it was caused by the chemical soup 9/11 responders were exposed to. Now his wife, Christine, and daughters Kelly and Gillian, are sounding off in hopes that Congress will give the bill a second look.

“He pulled my mom aside one day and expressed to her that he wanted us to make sure the firefighters and their families are taken care of,” Kelly said. “The fire department was his family too. It was his last wish so we’re taking his spirit and passion and helping other families.”

The bill would have provided up to

Melville

Hotel Smash And Grab Cops searching for man who stole briefcase Whoever broke into a car at Sears in Massapequa and outside the Melville Target in Bay Shore. O’Heir Marriott and made off with said the cards have not been cash and credit cards is still used since. wanted.

The police supervisor said Suffolk police are seeking the car belonged to an outthe public’s help in identifyof-state man and speculated ing and locating the thieves that’s why the vehicle was from a July burglary. targeted. He added that it’s Police say this man Det./Lt. Thomas O’Heir used credit cards not uncommon throughout confirmed that someone that were stolen from the country, and that nobody smashed the vehicle’s win- a car outside the should leave valuables unatdow and grabbed a brief- Melville Marriott in tended in a vehicle. case. The luggage contained July.

Hotel officials could not be $5,000 cash and several reached for comment. credit cards.

Anybody with information about this An unknown black man was witcase is asked to call Crime Stoppers at nessed later using those credit cards.

1-800-220-TIPS. He purchased several thousand dollars —KOEHLER in televisions and assorted electronics

$3.2 billion to cover the medical treatment of people sickened by trade center dust and an additional $4.2 billion for a new fund that would have compensated them for their suffering and lost wages.

“If we can’t honor and take care of those who took care of us during 9/11, then we’ve failed,” Kelly said.

New York's state health department, which tracked fatalities for several years among the roughly 40,000 Ground Zero workers, confirmed at least 250 cancerrelated deaths through June 2009. Links to cancer from Ground Zero toxins are still in their early findings, but in a New York City Department of Health blood analysis of first responders, chemicals with known ties to the disease were found at levels double that of the general population.

“It makes the whole experience more painful knowing that there are other families out there, especially young families going through this,” Kelly said. “My dad had more years to live – there’s nothing I would have liked more than to have him around longer.”

Before he was diagnosed with cancer, Albanese had also suffered from a number of respiratory problems. The rate of asthma is particularly prevalent among first responders who are twice as likely to suffer with the breathing disorder than the average American, according to New York’s Mount Sinai Medical Center where the World Trade Center healthscreening program is held.

Continuing to fight for the bill, the Always-At-Aum Yoga School in West Babylon, where Kelly is an instructor, will be hosting a fundraiser on Sept. 11 from 9 a.m.-1 p.m. for the Uniformed Firefighters Association Widows’ and Children’s Fund at the Hofstra University

Vincent Albanese of Huntington Station died on July 31 of bladder cancer, which his family believes was caused by the “chemical soup” he was exposed to as a first responder on Sept. 11, 2001.

Fieldhouse along Dome Road in Hempstead. Following a yoga session, NFL fans will have an opportunity to meet and have their children run drills with NFL players including Wesley Walker, Bobby Jackson, Bruce Harper, Ken Schroy and Greg Buttle. There is a suggested donation of $25, which will go directly to the fund. Check donations by mail can also be made out to Uniformed Firefighters Association Widows’ and Children’s Fund and sent to Always-AtAum Yoga School, 170 Little East Neck Road, West Babylon, NY 11704. Credit card or PayPal contributions can be made online at http://always-ataum.com/contact.php.

Kelly is setting up meetings with Representative Steve Israel (D-Dix Hills) and County Executive Steve Levy to garner ways to build support for the bill.

“There’s no Democrat or Republican issues when it comes to the bill. It’s a matter of right and wrong and the only right answer is yes,” Kelly said. “In a way my dad’s passing is helping to push this bill along. He would be helping right now if he were here-in a way I think this was his last offering.”

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HUNTINGTON STATION

More Overnight Patrols For Station

By Danny Schrafel

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Police will increase patrols oif Huntington Station through the wee hours of the morning seven days a week as part of a wide reaching plan to fight crime and code violations. And if Legislator Jon Cooper (DHuntington) gets his wish, more cameras and sophisticated gunfire-spotting technology will follow.

The additional patrols are one of the anchors of a plan that county and town officials announced following an Aug. 5 meeting at County Executive Steve Levy’s Hauppauge office with Huntington town board members, county officials and Huntington Housing authority leaders.

Originally, Levy announced on July 13 police would conduct overnight patrols in the area on Fridays and Saturdays up until 2 a.m. Following a shooting on Church Street, which occurred around 2 a.m. on a Wednesday earlier this month, longer overnight patrols will take place every night.

Additional attention will be paid to known drug, gang and gun hotspots, including blocks surrounding the Jack Abrams School, and officers will conduct parkand-walk patrols in area strip malls.

Suffolk County Sheriff ’s Department is also lending a hand and has been conducting patrols in recent weeks, Aug added.

A town-backed Community Outreach Center on Lowndes Avenue is being developed to house the town’s four-member Code Enforcement Task Force and a Suffolk County police officer with a background in Housing and Urban Development (HUD) investigations. An anonymous criminal and code enforcement hotline, (631-424-3658), will also go online.

Supervisor Frank Petrone said the measures “reinforce our commitment to work cooperatively with Suffolk County to combat… the criminal elements who have affected the quality of life for Huntington Station’s

Town, county and Huntington Housing Authority leaders meet on Aug. 5 before announcing a multifaceted plan to push back against violence in Huntington Station. law-abiding residents; Councilman Mark Cuthbertson added that any proposal that would direct public safety resources to Huntington Station “is a good idea” and Mark Mayoka praised the meeting as a “good example of the need for county and town governments to work together in times of crisis.”

Following that meeting, Cooper announced he would push to re-open a police annex in the vicinity of Jack Abrams School. During an Aug. 10 press conference, he also announced legislation that would provide $60,000 for new security cameras, and explore the use of ShotSpotter technology to detect and deter gunfire in Huntington Station and other high-crime pockets. To pay for ShotSpotter, Cooper is exploring the use of federal funding and asset forfeiture funds in the county budget.

Additional cameras seem likely – Levy supports the

proposal, Aug said, and Cooper added that legislators are interested in cameras for their districts. Huntington Housing Authority Director William Spencer said police will have access to 16 high-definition cameras they recently installed at Gateway Gardens.

“We’ve been in this position before, and we have prevailed. We will not be taken over by guns and gang violence. We will stop and we will prevent it,” Spencer said.

With an estimated installation cost of $250,000, ShotSpotter might be a bit of a harder sell. Levy spokesman Dan Aug said the police department is reviewing the program, noting the county is looking for proactive solutions to reduce crime.

“The preliminary report is that this is a reactive system, which may not be as effective as a more proactive approach,” Aug said. “It’s dealing with gunshots after they’ve happened, not as they’re happening.”

Nassau County Police Commissioner Lawrence Mulvey, however, said the program has reduced gun violence and saved lives in Nassau County.

“You get a huge head start on the situation,” he said.

The program is effective in preventing gun violence because criminals know where ShotSpotter is in use and realize the chances of being caught are much higher.

“They know where the zone is and they know the consequences of pulling the trigger and when they squeeze the trigger, they know we’re on the way,” Mulvey said.”

Petrone and Councilwomen Glenda Jackson and Susan Berland praised the initiative as another piece in the puzzle toward securing Huntington Station.

“The three-point plan will work well towards the continued efforts for safety and well-being for all residents in the Town of Huntington and has my full support,” said Jackson.

“It really will show the people that want to do harm to our residents – we will catch you… so go do whatever you’re going to do somewhere else and leave Huntington Station and the Town of Huntington alone,” Berland said.

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Big Results For ‘Leaders’ Teens grow through service and mentoring

Photo by Cheryl Mellina

Young Leaders, from left, Rich Fernandez, Danny Plant, Michael Zaharious and Nick Mendez received proclamations from Congressman Steve Israel for their contributions to community service.

By Danny Schrafel dschrafel@longislandernews.com

In recent months, Huntington Station resident Kevin Thorbourne has “literally been saving one child at a time in the Huntington Station area,” Parents of Huntington leader and community activist Jennifer LaVertu once said.

His Young Leaders program seeks to unite students from all walks of life by offering enrichment, exposure to community service, life skills and peer-topeer mentoring.

Huntington High School Dean of Students and multi-sport coach Ron Wilson recalled one of the group’s first efforts – beautifying Wyandanch High School – and the whirlwind of activity that has since followed.

“He coached a number of these kids when he was younger,” Wilson said. “He rounded up kids in each school district, got together, worked on that beautification program at Wyandanch High School, and that’s how it caught fire.”

With Home Depot and Wells & Wells Bus Co. behind the unified HuntingtonWyandanch team, members of what would soon become Young Leaders planted flowers, power washed and painted the school, making a major difference that was more than cosmetic, Wyandanch Memorial High School Principal Paul Sibblies said.

“It changed the tone of the building because when the students came in, they were talking about how great the outside looked,” the principal said. “So many more wanted to be a part of it and are willing to do more for this upcoming year… to make the building more presentable for learning.”

Thorbourne, who previously owned a recording studio and managed several musicians, said he has been reaching out to youth for “a long time” – he’s coached football and basketball for several years – but has stepped up his efforts in recent months, connecting with Half Hollow Hills West, Walt Whitman, Huntington, Elwood, Harborfields and Wyandanch high schools.

Students are referred to Thorbourne through other members of Young Leaders, teachers and deans of students.

The group’s efforts are focused on students ages 15-17; more recently, however, they have been reaching out to students as young as 10.

“They know I can relate to the student

and they can relate to me. I’m not perfect,” Thorbourne said. “I did bad things in my life. I got in trouble sometimes, but they can learn from my mistakes. I know what they can do to go in the right direction.”

Since beautifying Wyandanch High, Young Leaders has hosted roundtable college prep discussions, welcomed speakers who shared first-hand experience with the perils of drug and alcohol abuse and invited correctional officers to speak to members. They’ve participated in community cleanups, helped about 20 students get summer jobs in a recession economy and awarded scholarships to students at an annual banquet.

Thorbourne has also been a frequent public speaker at Huntington school board meetings and has urged Huntington Station residents to register to vote.

That banquet encouraged Linda Guido, a former Huntington High School teacher’s aide, Huntington school board member and current legislative aide to Jon Cooper (D-Huntington), to sponsor Young Leaders in a Police Athletic League fishing trip through the Daniel J. Guido Memorial Fund.

“I was so impressed… it was a group of young men of all ethnicities from all different schools” she said. “They were coming together on a Saturday afternoon, talking about different activities, and I had a really good feeling about it.”

Along with seeking a permanent home for the Young Leaders, Thorbourne said his group’s next major project is a carnival-style event in Huntington Station’s Manor Park on Sept. 12. Along with games, fun and food, the free event will also boast raffles, music, face painting and cartoon character appearances’, the students will lead the way with adult supervision.

One of the keys to the program, Thorbourne and Wilson agreed, is that students mentor each other. Through that process, many learn they have much more in common than they once thought despite differences in race, religion or economic welfare, and can learn a great deal from each other.

“Learning how to develop a love for others – that’s a key piece, learning how to develop a love for others so you can help someone else,” Wilson said. “It doesn’t matter who you are, what color you are, how broke you may be or how rich you may be, you’re always in a position to help other people.”

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TOWN OF HUNTINGTON

By Kaellen Hessel info@longislandernews.com

As children stepped off a bus into a Commack Target parking lot last week, some looked anxious to meet new people while others were excited to see old friends. But all were happy to leave the city and go on vacation.

Fifty-four inner-city children from all five boroughs of New York City are staying with families in the Huntington area for a one- or two-week retreat this summer as part of the Fresh Air Fund program. The fund, founded in 1877, gives underprivileged kids the opportunity to go to camp or stay with families in rural areas or suburbs.

Although so close to home, Long Island is a place many of the children have never been before.

“There’s no buildings!” exclaimed Christopher Padilla, of the Bronx.

“There’s only trees and houses.”

Padilla, 9, was going on a Fresh Air vacation for the first time and feeling nervous as he waited to meet his host family.

Padilla spoke with excitement about the simple activities he would like to enjoy out on the island, like playing sports, drawing, going to the pool and having fun with his host family.

Padilla said he wanted to come to the suburbs to experience new things and hopefully be asked to visit the same host family next year.

Host families participating in the Fresh Air Fund summer program await the arrival of their guests with hugs and colorful signs.

André Davis, of Queens, has been vacationing with the Ward family, of Centerport, for the past six years. According to Dana Ward, his host, Davis keeps in touch with her children throughout the year. Davis, 15, said he likes having the new experiences, having fun and meeting “cool people.”

“It’s nice to get away… from my little brother mostly,” he joked.

The kids are doing things they’ve never done before like swimming, said Russell Gomes, chairperson for the Friendly Town of Huntington, a local division of the Fresh Air Fund that works with families in the area interested in hosting children. Many kids come on these vacations never having swum, but they learn how to do it, he said.

Gomes said the experience opens the

A Fresh Air Fund child hugs a member of her host family. Both children were overjoyed to see each other again. children’s eyes to new physical locations and shows them that they’re not destined to live in the projects. There are other things out there for them.

“It doesn’t take a lot to make a big difference in a kid’s life,” Gomes said.

Half-Hollow Hills photos/Kaellen Hessel

Inner-City Kids Experience The ’Burbs Leave hustle and bustle of New York City for Long Island vacation

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TOWN OF HUNTINGTON

Farm Fresh Finds At The Market Sunday’s farmers’ market, where everyone knows your name, is a hit with residents Half Hollow Hills photos/Amanda Lindner

By Amanda Lindner alindner@longislandernews.com

It’s 6 a.m. Sunday at the Huntington Farmers’ Market and Tim Warner of The Golden Earthworm is unloading crates of freshly picked blackberries, carrots and potatoes. An hour later, the yoga-goers are stocking up on green tea from Nicole Basso at The Tea Plant. By 10 a.m., children are up on their tippy toes, peering into the large wooden barrels at Horman’s Best Pickles as a dozen tail-wagging friends sniff the concrete, hoping the family nearby will drop something from their overflowing basket of goods.

At the Elks Club parking lot along Main Street, recipes, friendships and businesses grow in much the same way as the products – organically.

Brain Gildersleeve’s love for good food started in his days as a baker. When the Golden Earthworm Organic Farm began selling at the farmers’ market, he came on board.

“Every week you see the same happy faces. People tell their friends and then they come too, so it’s just a great meeting place,” he said. “One of my favorite parts is watching the kids grow up. Kids that could barely see over the tables are now heading off to college. It’s fun to see that.”

The Golden Earthworm sells more than 50 kinds of fruits and vegetables and many come in several varieties, all with the dust from the farm still on the stems.

“I love coming here,” said Warner. “It’s rewarding because you get to work the land, watch your plants grow and then see people enjoying them.”

While fresh potatoes and tomatoes are expected sights at a farmers’ market, other vendors present surprising twists on local favorites.

Miss Amy’s, for instance, offers what is likely the most delicious allergy medicine out there – honey. Made from neighborhood bees, a spoonful of honey can help build immunity to local allergens, vendor Nicole Brown said.

“I don’t know any kid who would turn that down,” she boasted. And if you’re ever up for a change of taste, Lavender by the Bay’s lavender honey may be your fix.

“People love it,” Gustavo Acero said. “We even ran out last summer, so we extended the field 3 acres so we could produce more.” The company’s fresh cut lavender is grown in East Marion and comes in French and English varieties.

Fresh fruits and vegetables sell quickly on Sunday mornings at the Huntington Village Farmers’ Market.

If there’s one thing that sets the farmers apart from grocery store clerks, it’s passion for their food. Just ask John Till, head of the Horman’s Best Pickle stand, or simply take a peek at the pickle tattooed on his right arm.

“You can’t find good pickles, or at least that’s what our customers tell me,” Till said. “It’s great coming here and meeting people who love what I love.”

Nick Horman is the founder of Horman’s Best Pickles. A third-generation pickler, his father sells Horman’s New York Deli pickles, which provides pickles to the Boar’s Head company. Horman followed in his family’s footsteps after looking for a way to earn pocket money as a philosophy major in college. Instead, he found the meaning of good food.

“There’s a real connection between art and business – there’s this human to human relationship so it all ties together,” Horman said. “There’s brine in my blood.

Think, question, pickle I say.”

Horman’s Best Pickles offers 13 varieties. Horman’s favorite is the classic dill, but for a twist give the red flannel a try, made from apple cider vinegar, and red and yellow pepper.

To end the trip to the farmers’ market, pick up a bottle of wine from either the Bella Vita or Scarola stands. After all, Long Island is known for its vineyards.

Retired Elwood Middle School principal Pat Scarola runs his family’s stand.

“It’s great to see the parents and old students again. It’s a real family environment,” he said.

Margaret Mezzacapo from Dix Hills has been coming to the market for years. This

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OSIA Awards Scholarship Nicholas Sferrazza, a graduate of Half Hollow Hills West, was one of three to receive a scholarship from the Order Sons of Italy in America (OSIA) Northport-based Perry Como lodge this summer.

Lodge President Gabriel Ciccone presented Sferrazza with a $500 check for college in the fall.

Above: Brian Gildersleeve helps regular customer Meghan Hickey-Pace pick out fresh produce at the Golden Earthworm stand. Right: Organic potatoes and onions are freshly dug and sold at the Golden Earthworm farm stand. week, she carried home a peach plum pie – a new flavor she hadn’t tried.

“I love it because you know exactly what you’re buying. You can ask questions and

learn recipes. I get something new each time,” she said. “It’s celebrating something that’s vanishing. It feels good to be out in the open air instead of a strip mall.”

The farmers’ market is open Sundays from 7 a.m. to noon through November.

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It’s An Epidemic Imagine an epidemic that claimed the help. But many never make that phone lives of more than a person a day. call. Some get caught in a life of desperaYou don’t have to imagine it. It’s here, tion, stealing and robbing to feed their adand kills about 400 Long Islanders a year, diction. Some die. many of them teenagers.

Heroin is no longer a drug for hardened, The “it” is heroin and other opiates that, inner-city users. It’s in our own backyard, according to the Long Island ruining families and destroying Council for Alcoholism and EDITORIAL lives. The good stories are those Drug Dependence (LICADD), of addicts who find their way are causing telephone calls to come in at back. But many don’t make it back. an alarming rate.

Police are answering the call with inHeroin has become cheaply and readily creased enforcement efforts. But the available, and our young people are get- greater answer is in prevention. It’s in edting hooked. It’s a crisis. ucating our youth about the dangers of Fortunately, the 400-percent increase in narcotics addiction, and in giving parents the number of people reaching out to LI- the cold, hard facts about heroin and opiCADD means people are reaching out for ates.

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Public Housing Affords Opportunity

By Dr. William Spencer Not long ago, United States Supreme Court Justice Sonya Sotomayor visited the housing projects in the Bronxdale section of New York where she grew up.

The occasion was a ceremony to rename the complex the Justice Sonya Sotomayor Houses and Justice Sonya Sotomayor Community Center.

That recent day in the Bronx was not unlike one more than 40 years ago when the future Supreme Court justice looked out from a window of her family’s apartment, and saw a great crowd. At the center of that crowd was a reddish-haired man who Justice Sotomayor would later learn was Robert F. Kennedy. In her remarks made at the Bronxdale ceremonies, she said that Kennedy’s visit was the inspiration for her to go into public service.

What timely circumstances they were.

A product of public housing, Justice Sotomayor distinguished herself throughout a career in the law, most recently reaching the pinnacle by becoming the first Hispanic woman appointed

to the Supreme Court.

In short, public housing New York City Housing gives to the disadvantaged just Authority did more than just a few of those things that most put Justice Sotomayor’s name of us take for granted: a place on its 28-building public housto go home to, a kitchen to ing complex. By honoring her, cook in, a place that is safe and it also put a new face on public secure. housing.

Public housing gave Justice Justice Sotomayor does not Sotomayor’s family the leg up it forget where she came from. By needed so that a little girl could forever reminding people flourish in school and dare to greatness can come from such dream big. As chairman of the humble beginnings, the Dr. William Spencer Huntington Housing Authority, I Housing Authority reminds us cannot help but wonder how all that public and subsidized housing is many future success stories are out there about opportunity. today.

Public housing is about putting a roof Huntington Housing Authority owns over a family’s head. It’s the room where a and operates 80 units of public housing future Sonya Sotomayor can have the at its Gateway Gardens and Millennium peace and quiet to concentrate on her Hills complexes, and through its prohomework. It’s a room where a dad who grams provides housing assistance to an works three jobs can enjoy a quiet additional 450-plus families. Additional moment with his wife after the children assistance and training is provided have been tucked into their beds. It’s the through the federally funded Family Self place where a single working mom can Sufficiency program. enjoy with her children a meal she preThrough such programs, the opportupared in her own kitchen. nity afforded by publicly supported hous-

ing, children in our Millennium Hills and Gateways Gardens apartments today can dare to dream. Students whose families rely on Section 8 housing vouchers to pay the rent today can turn opportunity to advantage so that their own children do not have to. In fact, as productive, taxpaying citizens they can have the satisfaction of knowing that the government that their taxes support is helping other families in similar situations.

I take this opportunity to salute Justice Sotomayor, the residents of Bronxdale Houses, the families in Huntington who are residents of programs run by our Huntington Housing Authority and the people of this great land who reach out and provide others who are not as fortunate, with that magic word: opportunity!

Only in America.

William Spencer, MD is chairman of the Huntington Housing Authority Board of Commissioners, a physician in private practice and chief of the Otolaryngology Department at Huntington Hospital.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Support The Paramount Editor’s note: The following is a letter from the Huntington Township Chamber of Commerce to Zoning Board of Appeals Chairman Christopher Modelewski.

DEAR MR. MODELEWSKI AND MEMBERS OF THE BOARD: When the IMAC theatre closed its doors last year, there was immediate

concern among merchants, restaurant and business owners over the economic impact that would result from the loss of the iconic Huntington village concert hall. IMAC brought into town audiences that benefited local businesses, especially restaurants, which are such a critical part of our local economy.

We have met with the principals behind the Paramount and are thrilled with their plans for a world-class, state-of-the-art music venue that will

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bring audiences back to Huntington village. It is our understanding that the occupancy level Paramount is seeking is key to attracting top entertainers.

We urge the board to work diligently – as the applicants have – to accommodate. Their plans for off-site and valet parking are designed to make the experience of visiting Huntington village pleasant and painless for audiences so that they will want to come back.

In addition to the obvious economic benefits, the Paramount Theatre will

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cement Huntington’s status as the culture capital of Long Island. Paramount will be a magnet that attracts other arts groups and strengthens the local arts community. Huntington Township Chamber of Commerce stands solidly behind this application and urges the board to approve it.

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FILM

Covers Pulled Off Real-Life Nightmare Filmmakers bring childhood legend of ‘Cropsey’ to light in award-winning documentry

By Amanda Lindner alindner@longislandernews.com

Born in Seacliff and raised in Staten Island, filmmaker Joshua Zeman grew up hearing the horror tale of Cropsey, a boogey-man type of character legendary for his nightly child-killing sprees who had escaped from the Willowbrook mental institution. Zeman rediscovered the story as an adult; only this time, it was real and captured on film.

Zeman’s documentary, co-produced with fellow Staten Islander, Barbara Brancaccio, explores the real life horror story of Andre Rand, a former employee of the Willowbrook mental institute for children. Rand was convicted of the kidnap and murder of Jennifer Schweiger, a 13-year-old girl with Down syndrome.

The eerie documentary “Cropsey” will be screened at the Cinema Arts Centre in Huntington on Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. and includes a question and answer session with Zeman. The film begins with current and former residents of Staten Island, including the filmmakers, discussing their memories of the chilling tale of the crazed murderer. As the film goes on, five other missing children cases over the course of 10 years are suspiciously linked back to Rand. News footage from

Co-directors Barbara Brancaccio and Joshua Zeman walking through the Willowbrook grounds. the 1970s highlights Geraldo Rivera exposing the horrendous conditions at Willowbrook and the mistreatment of its patients. The film is uncomfortable at times with actual sequence footage of malnourished and abused children living in the grimy soiled institution.

The film, which took 10 years to make, began with a walk down an old bike trail.

Along the, way, the filmmakers found rusted bikes and the old Willowbrook

playground.

“It was amazing to us to see how present these things were 20 years later,” said Zeman. The two exchanged their memories of the Cropsey saga and the film took off when Rand was convicted.

By piecing Rand’s story together, Zeman and Brancaccio begin to scratch the surface on their hometown’s underbelly secrets, including devil worshiping cults and underground tunnels. The film also

tells the history of Pilgrim State Hospital in Brentwood, which plays a pivotal role in the movie’s plot. The truly terrifying film isn’t scary for its legend, but for its reality and the truth that dark, horrible things lurk under suburbia’s manicured lawns and picket-fenced homes.

“As we made the movie, things just seemed to get creepier,” said Zeman.

“When you see the conditions of the place, you can understand how someone would go insane there. That is true horror.

There’s no script, this was their real life nightmare and I think the fact that it’s real is what makes the film so disturbing.”

It is difficult to balance the urban legend and the story, Zeman said, which is why he and Brancaccio decided to include themselves in the piece – “to show the cross-section between the story and the reality.”

The film had a successful run at Tribeca, Fantastic Fest film festival, and was named one of the "Best Undistributed Documentaries"" of the year in an IndieWire, and independent and documentary film festival.

Tickets can be purchased for $10, $6 for members, online at www.CinemaArts Centre.org, at the box office during theatre hours or by calling Brown Paper Tickets toll free at 1-800-838-3006.

PHOTOGRAPHY

Drag Takes Center Stage At Ripe Gallery Rick Odell’s photographs of Long Island’s dynamic divas opening in Greenlawn Photo by Rick Odell

By Danny Schrafel dschrafel@longislandernews.com

There’s a lot more to being a fabulous drag queen than slapping on a dress and wig, striking a pose and calling it a day.

Drag queens sing and lip-synch, dance, do stand-up comedy and harness the presence they need to keep the spotlight firmly on them. Many do their own makeup and hair, are their own promoters and have to be ready with a razor-sharp retort at all times.

With the help of nearly two dozen of these multitalented performers, a photographer has captured their indelible presence in a unique collection of photographs, which will be on display at the Ripe Gallery in Greenlawn starting this Saturday.

Photographer Rick Odell has been working on “My Better Half ” since pursuing it as a thesis project during his graduate studies at Long Island University’s C.W. Post campus.

“I worked on it for almost three semesters – about half of my time at Post,” he said. “I did 10-12 total by the time I graduated, and I recently started working on it again.”

“My Better Half ” features 17 images of each drag queen interacting with their non-drag self. Odell accomplished this by staging one shot of the drag artist in full regalia followed by a second shot out of drag. Odell then merges the two together, making precision for both the photographer and the performer a must.

“The shoots are long and they’re a little difficult – for

John Hanauer feeds drag alter-ego Madison Mansfield a candy in one of 17 images included in Rick Odell’s “My Better Half” exhibit. A reception for the Ripe Art Gallery in Greenlawn is scheduled for Aug. 21. them, too, because they’re playing off of no one,” Odell said of his subjects. “When they make the faces they’re making, they have to imagine [what they’re interacting with].”

Prior to beginning the photography series, Odell said he had very limited experience with drag artists: he’s

been to one show on Fire Island at an Ocean Beach bar, and had a roommate who would do it occasionally as a lark during his fraternity-sorority days. But the subject matter has piqued his interest so profoundly that he’s working on making “My Better Half ” a book, complete with interviews and biographical sketches of the featured artists and their creators.

Starting by posting Craigslist ads, the project began slowly. However, many of the initial participants would bring a fellow drag artist with them to the shoot, and Odell would end up making arrangements to include them in the collection.

Bay Shore’s John Hanauer, who has performed as “Madison Mansfield” for nearly 10 years and has a repertoire ranging from Madonna to songs from the musical “Wicked,” said Odell contacted him “out of the blue” to participate in the feature. About a month after the shoot, Hanauer received the finished image in which he dotingly feeds the glamorous Mansfield a chocolate.

“It was a lot of fun, and it was the most different of all the photo shoots I’ve ever done,” Hanauer said. “I’ve never done one where I was out of the dress before; I’ve always kept that separate.”

Ripe Art Gallery owner Cherie Via said she is eagerly awaiting the opening night.

“I’m hoping some of the girls will come down for the opening,” she added.

The opening reception at the Ripe Art Gallery stats at 4 p.m. on Aug. 21, and the show runs through September. The gallery is located at 67A Broadway in Greenlawn; for more information, call 631-239-1805.

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At Nisen Sushi, Food Is Art Foodie SECTION The

Nisen owner/president Tom Lam with the Omasake, an artistic creation of the chef’s selection of sushi and sashimi.

At Nisen in Commack, booths are encased in an open eggshell-like border, creating an intimate dining experience.

Foodie photos/Luann Dallojacono

In the Crispy Spicy Tuna Gyoza, front, spicy tuna is wrapped in a crispy shell. The soft shell crab, back, sits in an intoxicating garlic butter sauce.

By Luann Dallojacono foodie@longislandernews.com

If food is art, then Nisen Sushi may as well be the MOMA. Don’t just take our word for it. Our recent meal featured a towering sculpture of sashimi that was so impressive, it prompted one passerby to remark, “You can’t eat that, it’s art!”

At this modern, sleek and contemporary sushi restaurant in Commack, dishes are presented with such flair, attention to detail and artistic value, it’s a shame the chef isn’t allowed to sign his name on his masterpieces.

Approaching its 10th anniversary, which it is celebrating with a party on Saturday, Nisen, featuring award-winning design by Horst Design International in Cold Spring Harbor, seems almost out of place in the shopping center at the intersection of Jericho Turnpike and Larkfield Road, with Trader Joe’s, Dollar Tree and T.J. Maxx.

The unassuming storefront comes alive at night with dramatic, inverted backlit acrylic cones and up-lighting from the pavement. Inside, the restau-

rant boasts nearly all black and white materials set off by ornate light fixtures and splashes of colorful lighting. The result is a hip, glitzy interior, with a modern dining area of tables and individual booths surrounded by an open eggshelllike border, a sleek sushi bar and spacious alcohol bar.

Nisen’s history dates back to humble beginnings in 2000 when owner/president Tom Lam opened a small Japanese sushi restaurant in East Northport. In a few years, Nisen moved to Commack, proving so successful that another location opened in Woodbury in 2007, with Horst Design on board. Last summer, the company was brought on for the Commack location’s renovation and expansion, which closed the restaurant for three months but gave it new life as a thriving hotspot.

The menu is rife with variety and specialty appetizers, sashimi, sushi rolls and entrees, and the specials are always enticing. The lounge menu boasts delicacies like Rock Shrimp Tempura and Oyster Yaki in garlic butter sauce, alongside an adventurous and flirtatious martini menu.

In the Lobster Taco, a crisp mini-shell is layered with tasty, fresh lobster ceviche, aged feta, jalapeño and a black olive.

Lobster Taco ($14) and the Yellowtail Jalapeño ($15) are standout appetizers from the regular menu. In the taco, a crisp mini-shell is layered with tasty, fresh lobster ceviche, aged feta, jalapeño and a black olive to make for an exquisite combination of flavors. The Yellowtail, which sits in a delicate, slightly citruslike yuzu dressing, is sliced thin and topped with a jalapeño and cilantro for a spicy kick.

Off the specials menu, the Cajun Chilean Sea Bass Skewers ($10) are out of this world, tender and cooked just right, served with a sweet wasabi aioli.

Fresh soft shell crab ($12) is served in an incredible yaki garlic butter sauce – its scent wafts toward you as soon as the dish hits the table, and you can’t pick up your fork fast enough. Nisen excels at spicy tuna anything, and the Crispy Spicy Tuna Gyoza ($12), served with guacamole, spicy aioli and truffle oil is no exception to that rule. A fun, adventurous sushi roll is the Rock N Roll ($14), a cajun-seasoned whitefish and asparagus roll in light tempura batter with marinated rock shrimp, black and yuzu tobiko and capers.

Then came the pinnacle of our meal, the artistic creation that is the Omakase ($75-$200), a massive platter featuring the chef ’s selection of sushi and sashimi cascading down a delicate bed of ice. The dish – which, on the night of our visit, featured live scallop, O-Toro (fatty tuna), Sockeye salmon, Aji tuna, California uni (sea urchin), Kumamoto oyster, yellowtail, king crab, Japanese madai and hiramasa – is a magnificent display, accented by a glowing blue light that illuminates under the ice and tree branches for decoration.

Even dessert was impressive.

Chocolate Soufflé Cake ($10) is warm and moist, and banana and apple fritters ($8), though fried crisp in a flaky dough on the outside, stay warm and moist on

the inside. A must-have are the Oreos friend in funnel cake batter served with creamy vanilla Tahitian ice cream ($10).

Get a taste of Nisen at their 10th anniversary “White Party” on Saturday in Commack, beginning at 6 p.m. A platinum ticket (6 p.m. to closing, $110 presale, $120 at the door) gets you top shelf open bar, hors d’oeuvres, sushi and hot foot stations. With a gold ticket (10 p.m. to closing, $40 pre-sale, $50 at the door), enjoy the house open bar and hors d’oeuvres. Featuring live entertainment and music by Tempo, a portion of the proceeds goes to the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society. Don’t forget to wear white.

In addition, enjoy 10th anniversary specials at both locations running until Sept. 15 – take 15 percent off your take out, delivery or walk-in order, or 15 percent off your dining room check Sunday through Wednesday.

Happy Hour specials boast half-price appetizers and drink specials Monday through Friday from 5-7 p.m. Geisha Mondays in Commack will give a kick to your work week starting in mid-to-lateSeptember. With music by Nisen’s house DJ, ladies enjoy a house open bar from 9 to 10 p.m. and the first five groups of six or more ladies get a free bottle of vodka.

Woodbury offers a similar deal on Thursdays.

Or, bring the sushi bar to you. The restaurant will cater at your home or corporate event. They also do on-premise catering for parties.

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By Pete & Mike

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SOME BEANS: Ever wonder what a $10 cup of coffee tastes like? Get yourself to Georgio’s Coffee Roasters (146 West Jericho Tpke.

Huntington 631-470-7797 www.georgioscoffee.com) and try a cup of their newest arrival, Panama Esmeralda Gesha (some spell it Geisha) coffee.

The flavor is wonderful vanilla with peach notes followed by a lingering clean finish, says Georgio. The Peterson Estate produces about 6,000 lbs of this single origin bean; Georgio has about 1% of the crop. It sold out last year and will sell out again this year. Price is (are you sitting down?) $100 lb or $10 for a 12oz cup, siphoned. Great!

BBQ THROWDOWN: Long Islander Foodie Peter Sloggatt will be one of the judges for a BBQ Throwdown (We’re guessing Bobby Flay couldn’t make it.) at the Fountainhead Congregation church (782 Larkfield Rd., East Northport 631-4625048). Three of Long Island’s top barbeque restaurants will be going head-tohead for best ribs, best pulled pork, best chicken and best brisket. It’s going to be a battle. The competitors are Smokin’ Sloe’s of Northport, Armadillo Grille of Babylon and Glen Cove’s Big Apple BBQ, the new home of local rib legend Poppa Rick. (Poppa Rick’s ramshackle eatery, opposite the entrance to Oheka Castle, had a strong following, but the rib master fell off the radar after the town of Oys-

ter Bay shut him down several years ago.)

The event is a fundraiser to help Fountainhead Congregation complete a parking lot paving project. Dinner tickets are $11 per person and includes Smokin’ Sloe’s pulled pork, BBQ chicken or beef brisket with two sides. The family fun day also includes musical entertainment, rides, raffles and more. Order tickets at 631-462-5048.

Roger Montague, at the smoker in Smokin’ Sloe’s, and Poppa Rick, now of Big Apple BBQ, are part of a battle of BBQ giants this Saturday.

PERFECTO MUNDO: Just in time for Dine Huntington Restaurant Week in October, Chef Steve Del Lima, previously of Wild Fin and Black and Blue, is set to open a place of his own. Del Lima’s Perfecto Mundo will be a Latin fusion bistro with an emphasis on seafood. It’s located at the former Maize Cantina, 1141-1 Jericho Turnpike, Commack, in the Northgate Shopping Center. Welcome back, Steve.

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MELVILLE

Bowling Center Strike Paydirt 300 Long Island offers bowlers menu by executive chef in nightclub atmosphere Spotlight On

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By Mike Koehler mkoehler@longislandernews.com

There are only nine AMF bowling centers across America with the style of a nightclub and menu of a restaurant. One of them happens to be in Melville.

General Manager Henry Jimenez said 300 Long Island is more than just a bowling alley. It’s an “entertainment center.”

“People leave the center wanting to come back. It’s funny; I never thought bowling would do that,” Jimenez said.

300 bowling centers are owned by AMF, the same company that employs 16,000 people at bowling alleys across the globe. Like “traditional” centers, the manager said, 300 centers offer more than just bowling.

Step inside any 300 center and someone will greet you and assign you to a lane. Inside the building, the lights are dimmed and music is always being piped through speakers. There are 40 lanes available to the general public, in addition to nine more in the private suite.

The suite is a separate area closed off by doors. Video screens on the walls are always active and the area has its own bar.

Jimenez said 300 Long Island is the only

300 center with a private suite available.

“It’s a good way for everyone to enjoy themselves and to keep track of guests,” he said.

But regardless if you’re in the suite or at a regular lane, every 300 center patron has access to the wait staff. They’re always around, available to place an order for a drink or bite to eat. And the food, Jimenez boasted, is several steps up from regular bowling food, as they employ an executive chef and do catering as well.

“The 300 separates itself by the food. A lot of our stuff is cooked fresh, not frozen,” he said. “That’s not to say the food on the other side isn’t good, but ours is fresh.”

Similar to the video screens in the suite, the manager added that video screens will be added to the end of each lane during ongoing renovations.

Of course, 300 Long Island is also dedicated to bowlers. The more trendy bowling centers were initially designed to be used for corporate events, but the 300 centers eschewed that policy in favor of opening more business to individuals.

Prices, he said, are 50-75 cents more per game than traditional bowling. According to their website, game rates range between $4.25 and $7.25 depending on hours and days. The center also hosts special events, like $10 all-youcan-bowl on Sunday and Monday nights.

“We think we’re worth it,” Jimenez said.

300 Long Island hosts a few leagues, as

Forty lanes line Melville’s 300 Long Island, along with nine private lanes in the private suite. well as St. Anthony High School. Gym classes visit the center at 8 a.m. during the school year.

The alley is located on Route 110 just north of the Northern State and two miles away from the Long Island Expressway. But for Jimenez, the best part of their location is access to the Huntington Township Chamber of Commerce and Melville Chamber of Commerce. He praised both groups for actively trying to help each other.

“I’ve worked in other areas and as far as a business in this area, there’s a lot of support,” he said.

The Melville chamber, for example, is

hosting a scavenger hunt in September for its young professionals. While they will be visiting all the local businesses, the hunt will start and end at 300 Long Island. All funds raised will go towards Cystic Fibrosis research.

300 Long Island is also getting charity involved in their re-grand opening.

Scheduled for Oct. 7 once renovations are finished, customers are invited to visit the bowling center on Facebook and vote for which one of five charities should win a party. 300 Long Island pledged to drop $20,000 for the victor’s party.

“The charities get to give back to their members,” Jimenez said.

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Fundraiser To Mop Up Oil Spill Group of Long Island Musicians Play Benefit Concert for Gulf Coast

By Alessandra Malito amalito@longislandernews.com

While the oil spill problem in the Gulf Coast seems to be improving lately, there’s always a little room for more awareness.

With that in mind, Long Island musicians, many from Huntington, will be performing to support the Gulf Coast Oil Spill Fund. Suite 13 Music and Excess DB are presenting “A Night to Aid the Gulf Coast” on Saturday at Webster Hall in New York City, with its proceeds going to the fund.

“We’re up in New York where we’re not seeing or being affected by the oil,” said event promoter Jesse Savran, of Huntington. “All the money you give goes straight to charity. We’re going to raise a lot of money, so I’m pretty happy about that.”

There will be raffles – including gift certificates to Jay Z’s 40/40 Club – whose proceeds go to the charity, along with gift cards to Sam Ash Music Stores, Dangerfield’s Comedy Club, The Downtown Café in Glen Cove and other giveaways from two Long Island businesses, Pirates Booty and Peace Soap.

The event’s emcee, Jake Freeman, is a Huntington resident and drummer for Long Island band Let Me Crazy. He is also a bartender at Mary Caroll’s on Main Street in Huntington village. Josh Freeman, who offered his photography services for free, also lives in Huntington and works at Lensington Design.

For the past two years, Savran and

“A Night to Aid the Gulf Coast” headliner Greg Raposo plays an acoustic performance at Irving Plaza in New York City. show headliner Greg Raposo have been going to Costa Rica on a “Rainforest Aid” tour, which features seven bands from the United States, Mexico, Costa Rica and Venezuela. Raposo has become quite influential in the music scene, having sold over one million CDs and playing in national areas such as Jones Beach Amphitheater and Nassau Coliseum.

“I can’t wait,” Raposo said in anticipation of the oil spill fundraiser. “Pretty much this whole vision behind the show is people coming together for a great cause.”

The musician, along with other acts such as friends Mia Koo and James Johnson, and sisters Nicole and Daniela Raposo, will be singing covers from Michael

Jackson to Lady Gaga, Journey and others. Alternative Outfit, Wired, Bryce Larsen, Mary Catherine Green, Ali Kramer, Matt Minchew and other special guests will also perform.

“This is to come out and hear all of your favorite songs,” said Raposo. “It’s a great cause and a good time, and it’s going to be a lot of fun for everyone and anyone to come. They’ll be able to rock out and have a lot of fun.”

It will also bring more awareness to the oil spill, which is a situation that is slowly improving. On April 20, the explosion of Deepwater Horizon, an offshore oil drilling rig owned by Transocean which was under lease by BP, an energy compa-

Huntington residents Jake Freeman and Jesse Savran are part of a concert fundraiser on Saturday to benefit the Gulf Coast Oil Spill Fund. ny, left 11 people dead, 17 injured, and an oil spill that has affected the Gulf Coast.

After more than 100 days and 206 million gallons of oil leaking into the water, a temporary cap was placed on the broken well. The need for a relief well still remains, as do risks to the environment and health of residents and crew members who have been trying to resolve the issue.

Tickets are $10 or $12 at the door. Admission is only available to those 19 and over, and drinking for 21 and up. Doors open at 7:15 p.m. For more information, or to donate, Savran can be reached at suite13mgmt@gmail.com.

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By Catherine Toor info@longislandernews.com

As summer winds down and the kids conclude their daily visits to camp, many families, continuing to feel financial struggles, have opted to spend the last two weeks in August before school starts on a family “staycation,” rather than a vacation.

Some families turn their own home into a vacation spot, where they take one night a week to relax.

“Fridays are our movie nights with popcorn,” said Huntington resident Kristin Costa, who has two children, Giovanna, 3, and Dominic, 18 months. “We sit on the couch and watch movies together.”

Others define a staycation as enjoying local activites.

“Just play-dates and gymnastics class,” said Centerport’s Janis Solotoff, describing the family’s plans for the rest of the summer. Solotoff ’s children, Andrew, 1, and Sierra, 2, had been enrolled in camp, which ended earlier this month.

“We’ve been on a lot of play-dates, and have visited places like the firehouse in Huntington,” Solotoff said, naming Heckscher Park as another place she’s taken her kids throughout the summer.

Some families have found that what Huntington has to offer has occupied most of the summer.

“The whole summer has been a staycation,” said Deanna Darcy, who just moved into a Huntington home with her family, including 1-year-old Isabella. They’ve spent the summer exploring the town at beaches and parks, she said.

Still, while they admit the financial struggles have made things difficult, some are thankful for the excess time

with their family.

“We’ve done a lot of social things,” Edward Roller said of his summer with his daughter, 3-year-old Raina. The Huntington resident works in publishing, an industry which has been hit hard by both the economy and current technology.

“It’s has been hit bad all around,” he said.

“The whole summer has been a staycation.”

— DEANNA DARCY, Huntington Resident Yet, Roller looked on the bright side of the situation.

“It’s good because I have some days to hangout with [Raina],” he said, describing their time spent at Heckscher Park.

While the family has taken trips to Sesame Place past summers, Roller said that this summer they’ve continued to cut back, planning to spend the rest of Raina’s time off hanging out at local spots. However, the family was able to get away to Montauk in June, “before the rates went up,” Roller said.

According to Elena Meehan, a travel agent at CD Travel Planners, Inc. in Cold Spring Harbor, the overall number of families that have taken summer vacations has decreased since last year.

“It gets better, and then slows down again,” she said. “It’s almost like a false solution – it doesn’t maintain.”

She estimated that a Disney vacation (Continued on page A15)

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Even so, Huntington families have not let the lack of a foreign, national or international vacation get them down. Other

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Preschoolers at Rainbow Chimes in Huntington received a special story-time visit last Wednesday from Nassau police officers who visited the school to stress the importance of high-quality early education programs.

Hempstead Chief of Police Joseph Wing, Port Washington Chief of police William Kilfoil and Glen Cove Chief of Police Bill Whitton, members of the Fight Crime: Invest in Kids New York nonprofit organization, visited Rainbow Chimes, urged elected officials to enact legislation that will improve the quality of New York’s early childhood programs.

Officials say high-quality pre-kindergarten programs – which include clean and well-organized environments, adequate staffing, appropriate play time, social interaction and one-on-one attention from teachers – not only prepares children to succeed in school, but also prevents crime and saves New York taxpayers money.

“Early education is an investment in crime prevention. It sends kids to school ready and eager to learn,” Kilfoil said.

“When kids succeed in their classrooms, we keep them out of our patrol cars, courtrooms and jails.”

Fight Crime: Invest in Kids is an organization that was established in 1999. It is a statewide, bipartisan, nonprofit that consists of more than 300 police chiefs, sheriffs, prosecutors and survivors of violence.

The New York division is part of a national organization headquartered in Wash-

ington, D.C., which has more than 3,000 members.

The organization’s mission is to use research to develop programs like child abuse and neglect prevention, early care and education programs and high-quality after-school programs, to get kids off to the right start in life.

“We know that high-quality early care and education gets our kids on the right track and prevents crime,” Wing said. “We also know that when we prevent crime, we save tax dollars. But we will only get these benefits if we invest in quality programs.

Our kids and our communities deserve nothing less!’’

The New York State Office for Children and Family Services (OCFS) is currently field testing a Quality Rating Improvement System (QRIS) called QUALITYstarsNY that would ensure early education programs are high quality. Kilfoil, Wing and Whitton urged leaders to enact legislation to implement QUALITYstarsNY as the state’s quality system for all early childhood programs, since New York State currently lacks one, they said.

Witton expressed concern regarding New York State’s lack of a statewide, standardized system that would assess quality of the state’s early education system and raise those standards if necessary.

“We know that if we do early care and education right that there is no greater long-term investment we can make in keeping our communities safe,” Whitton said. “Enacting quality standards like QUALITYstarsNY will ensure that we are reaping the benefits from our early childhood investments and doing right by our

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Above: Port Washington Chief of Police William Kilfoil, Glen Cove Chief of Police Bill Whitton, Hempstead Chief of Police Joseph Wing and Officer Tara Comiskey read to the preschoolers at Rainbow Chimes. Right: Wing ties the shoe of Ronnie after a line from the book the officers read to the children stressed, “Remember to always tie your shoe.” kids, our families and our communities.”

While in Rainbow Chimes preschool, the law enforcement leaders sat down with a class of preschoolers ages 4-5 and read them the story “Officer Buckle and Gloria.” The book’s humorous safety tips had children, law enforcement officials and teachers laughing aloud together.

Fight Crime: Invest in Kids New York State Director Meredith Wiley said that the field testing quality for QUALITYs-

tarsNY is expected to finish this fall and then will go through a thorough analysis period.

“By December, we will be counting on the support of the legislature to help design legislation that would roll-out QUALITYstarsNY statewide,” Wiley said. “Our children and families are counting on it.”

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Beatles Rock The Cinema For Third Time Arts Center once again offers more rare footage, including Shea Stadium show

By Alessandra Malito amalito@longislandernews.com

Yet another show of extremely rare footage of The Beatles will be at fans’ fingertips on Tuesday as Bill Shelley brings to the silver screen a set of clips to make their mouths water at the Cinema Arts Centre.

“These are extremely rare concerts you probably won’t see anywhere else,” said Dylan Skolnick, Cinema Arts Centre (CAC) co-director. “Bill always puts on a fantastic show. His collection is amazing.”

Bill Shelley, a music archivist, comes to the theatre every month with new sets of clips of famous rock bands as part of the series “Rock Legends Live!”

“It’s important because we have to save film history,” Shelley said. “I look at these films and they’re starting to rot literally – shrinking and the images are crackling off the film. We’re losing all the history.”

This third set of Beatles clips will feature never-before-seen footage of them performing around the world, new promotional films that were found and never shown, and films of them working in the studio with George Martin. There will also be several interviews and a few more surprises.

The event will also highlight the 45th anniversary of the famous Shea Stadium concert they had; a film of the entire concert will be shown.

“I grew up when they were very popular in the ’60s,” Shelley said. “Boy, there was nothing better than The Beatles, and there was a lot of music out there, but they were right on top there.”

The show they put on in August of 1965 at Shea Stadium was also a memorable one for many people.

“It really invented stadium rock,” said Dave Schwensen, an author who is currently writing a book about The Beatles’ Shea Stadium concert. “Nothing was like this before. There were 56,000 fans. The Beatles changed everything.”

Not only did they change music, but they changed “fashion, attitudes and political awareness,” he added.

Past events on The Beatles at the CAC, which were in June and December of last year, included footage of them performing from the beginning to the end of their careers together, in both color and black and white.

“Beatles fans are so passionate and they want more, so we’re going to give them more,” Skolnick said.

The Beatles event will be at 7:30 p.m.

Tickets are $9 for members and $13 for the public, which includes a reception.

Shelley will be the guest speaker. For more information, visit www.cinemaartscentre.org. For more information on the Beatles at Shea Stadium book, you can visit www.beatlessheastadium.com.

In addition to showing rare footage of the beloved Beatles, Tuesday’s event at the Cinema Arts Centre will highlight the 45th anniversary of the group’s famous Shea Stadium concert.

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want to go back.”

Kevin went through outpatient treatment and today he is seven months sober.

“I’m happy to wake up now,” he said.

Unfortunately, not everyone experiences such a turnaround. About 400 Long Islanders lose their loved ones to opiate and heroin overdoses each year, according to the Centers for Disease Control. In Suffolk County alone, heroin and prescription drug overdoses kill more people than alcohol and cocaine combined.

“It’s more than one person a day,” said Jeffrey Reynolds, director of LICADD, located in Williston Park. “There is no way to overstate the magnitude of this crisis.

Our kids are dying.”

Priced less than a pack of beer, the drug is affordable, accessible and highly addictive. A bag can cost as little as $5 in some parts of the city or for about $15 on Long Island, and finding it is as effortless as a trade in a high school bathroom, Kevin said.

In the height of a health care crisis and recession, heroin and prescription drug abuse is thriving. While parents are working two jobs, teenagers are spending more time at home with access to medicine cabinets and looking for immediate fixes to emotional pain, Chassman said. Once a person is hooked on prescription opiates, highly addictive drugs such as Vicodin and oxycodone, he explained, the next step is to move on to a much stronger opiate – like heroin.

“Everything moves so fast for young people. They don’t have time to learn how to deal with adolescence and its emotional struggles in a healthy way. Instead, they’re given powder, potion and pills,” he said. “No one just wakes up one day and says ‘I think I’ll try heroin today’ – they all are taking several different kinds of drugs, usually prescriptions.”

Teri Kroll, who graduated from Huntington High School, lost her son, Tim Kroll, to a drug overdose when he got hooked on oxycodone, a highly addictive prescription opiate used as a pain killer, in 2005. After an unsuccessful search to help her son deal with painful migraines caused by depression, Teri was recommended to a doctor of internal medicine located just steps away from Tim’s high school. Tim was prescribed five different types of drugs within five months. At 19, he was dependent on the drug, his mother said, and after four hellish years of life as an addict, Tim died in his bed at age 23. A few months after his death, Tim’s doctor was arrested and charged with illegally selling prescriptions for cash.

That doctor is not alone. On Aug. 12, nine suspected pill-pushing physicians were federally charged. According to New York State police, a doctor-led drug ring allegedly distributed approximately 11,000 oxycodone pills purchased with close to $1 million in Medicaid funds.

The Kroll family feels that even legitimate doctors are over-prescribing addictive pain killers.

“I can’t refill my blood pressure medication a day early, yet, I had to actually go down to the pharmacy and ask them to stop filling pain killer prescriptions for Tim when he had already passed,” Teri said. “Something’s just not right with this and parents need to know.”

As Anne and Teri experienced, when a child is hooked on drugs, the addiction becomes the whole family’s disease. This is why Suffolk County introduced Clean Connections, a family recovery program for heroin and opiate addicts ages 16 - 19.

“Families facing the crisis of addiction often don’t know where to turn," Suffolk

“I can’t refill my blood pressure medication a day early, yet, I had to actually go down to the pharmacy and ask them to stop filling pain killer prescriptions for Tim when he had already passed.

Something’s just not right with this and parents need to know.”

— TERI KROLL County Executive Steve Levy said. "Clean Connections connects families with professionals who can help them navigate and determine which option can help them best. And we’ll be there to help them get back on track if they encounter any unexpected roadblocks along the way."

The outpatient program, located in Hauppauge and Farmingville, combines counseling with medical treatment to achieve abstinence within six to nine months. Once admitted to the program, a set of goals is decided and the adolescent is placed on Suboxone, a prescription drug that reduces withdrawal symptoms.

Participants are required to attend biweekly individual, group and family therapy sessions. The medication is gradually reduced over the months until it is no longer needed.

Representatives from Clean Connections say Medicaid and most insurance companies cover its treatment, but even if unaffordable to some families, no one will be turned away.

Mental health experts say treatment programs are key to recovery, but they can’t do much to stop the use of heroin or prescription drug abuse in the first place.

By senior year, one in 10 high school students admit to abusing powerful prescription painkillers, according to the Drug Enforcement Agency, and many of those teenagers have moved on to heroin as well.

Suffolk County and nonprofit educational programs such as those through LICADD are often seen as part of the solution. The Suffolk Heroin and Opiate Epidemic Advisory Panel initiated a heroin task force with 37 officers and detectives in July and heroin arrests in the county are up 30 percent from last year and 355 percent from 2003, according to the county police commissioner.

The task force is also establishing an anti-drug school program. Reynolds believes drug education needs to start as early as kindergarten to reach kids before they are exposed to addictive substantives.

“Parents and schools are starting to realize that heroin isn’t just for city kids.

While we were taking comfort in our stereotypes, heroin was having its way with our children…Now we’re playing catch up,” said Reynolds.

With arrest numbers up, LICADD, Anne and Kevin Smith, Terri Kroll and New York State Senator Tom Duane (DManhattan) and Assemblyman Richard Gottfried (D-Manhattan) are calling for a Good Samaritan bill for low-level possession. The bill would mean that if someone calls 911 to help a person in need of medical attention due to a druginduced condition, the caller wouldn’t be arrested if he or she has a small amount of an illegal substance. The idea is that more people will call for help if they know they won’t be in trouble, and more lives will be saved.

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A20 • THE HALF HOLLOW HILLS NEWSPAPER • AUGUST 19, 2010 THURSDAY History Comes Alive On the third Thursday of the month, Long Islanders wishing to share their interest in local history can meet at a local historic site for light refreshments and stimulating conversation. On Aug. 19, join the Silas Wood Society from 5:30-8 p.m. at the Walt Whitman Birthplace, 246 Old Walt Whitman Road, West Hills. $10.

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Love to quilt? Join the quilting group at Old First Church to make quilts for cancer patients, every Thursday at 9:30 a.m. 631-427-2101.

FRIDAY Red Is For Passion Love the color red and enjoy living it up? The Red Hat women are looking for new members who enjoy going places and making new friends. Their motto: Fun, Frolic and Friendship. 631-271-6470 or flarpp@yahoo.com.

Listen to Long Island’s best singers at Opera Night at 7:30 p.m. on Sept. 3., St. Paul’s United Methodist Church, 270 Main St., Northport. $7 suggested donation. http://isabellajohnson.blogspot.com. 631-261-8808.

Watch as barbeque masters Smoking Sloe’s of Northport, Armadillo Grille of Babylon Village and Big Apple BBQ of Glen Cove battle it out for bragging rights on Aug. 21, 2-9 p.m. at Fountainhead Congregation, 782 Larkfield Road, East Northport. Concert, blow-up rides, raffle and more. $11 per person, includes pulled pork, BBQ chicken or beef brisket with two sides. Order tickets by Aug. 16, 631-4625048.

New Tunes For A ‘New Day’ Hear the latest tunes from TransJazz as they perform songs from their latest CD “New Day” on Aug. 21, 8 p.m., at Samantha’s Lil Bit of Heaven, 287 Larkfield Road, East Northport.

Vanessa Daley-Johnson is the featured singer of this eight-member intergenerational and interdenominational band, whose new tunes revolve around the theme of hope. $15 donation, advance reservations required. Visit samanthaslilbitofheaven.org; www.myspace.com/transjazz.

SUNDAY

Classic Car Show The MG Car Club–Long Island Centre’s 30th annual Concours Sanitaire on Aug. 22 will display American cars and British makes, including Jaguar, Lotus, Bentley and Austin-Healey, on Aug. 22 at the Vanderbilt Museum, 180 Little Neck Road, Centerport. Rain date Aug. 29. In a “sanitaire” show, cars are judged by how they look, paint condition and overall cleanliness. All participants must register before the event and pay the $30 entry fee. To register, contact Steve Becker at 516-485-8830 or by email: mygti@optonline.net. Or visit www.mgcars.org.uk/mgcclic/.

Difference” for grades 4-5: Aug. 23-27, 9-11 a.m. Session on “Teaching the Future Philanthropists” for grades 6-8: Aug. 23-27, 2-4 p.m. $100 suggested donation. 631-651-8113 or amndphilanthrophycenter@gmail.com to register.

Movies In The Park Bring the family down for a treat on the big screen at the Town of Huntington’s Movies on the Lawn Program. Next on Aug. 25 at Crab Meadow Beach: “Harry Potter and the HalfBlood Prince.” Bring lawn chairs, blankets or picnic dinner. Movies begin at dark. In inclement weather, movies will be shown at Elwood Middle School, 478 Elwood Road, Elwood. Free. 631-351-3112.

TUESDAY

Coins, Stamps and More Long Island’s longest-running coin, stamp and collectibles show will be held 8 a.m.-3 p.m. on Aug. 22 at the Catapano Engineering Hall, 585 Broadhollow Road, Melville. Buy, sell and trade collectibles as well as have them appraised for free. Contact show manager George Schultheis at 516-557-7096.

Shoepallooza A family concert by Lee Knight will be held Aug. 29, 3-4:30 p.m. at Trinity Episcopal Church, 130 Main St., Northport. Donation requested to benefit children from Habitat for Humanity to purchase new shoes for September. Children of all ages are invited to wear their favorite shoes and dance and sing along. Concessions and a guitar raffle will also be available. 631-261-7670.

Glimpse The Light Hop a boat and take a guided tour of the Huntington Lighthouse on Aug. 22, 11 a.m.- 3 p.m., leaving from Gold Star Beach. Tours are first-come, first-served if weather permits.

Sneakers or other flat-soled, rubber shoes required. Suggested donation: $10 adults, $8 seniors, $5 children ages 5-12 or $20 for fourperson family. No children under 5 permitted.

631-421-1985.

MONDAY Philanthropy Classes Northport nonprofit A Midwinter Night’s Dream, an ALS organization, is hosting classes on the principles and techniques of fundraising at its new Philanthropy Center, 155 Main St., Northport. Session on “The Art of Helping Others” for grades 1-3: Aug. 23-27, 11:30 a.m1:30 p.m. Session on “Taking Steps to Make a

Harborfields Public Library

Huntington Public Library

Opera Night

BBQ Throw Down

Dix Hills Branch: 55 Vanderbilt Parkway. 631421-4530; Melville: 510 Sweet Hollow Road.

631-421-4535. hhhl.suffolk.lib.ny.us • Practice your chess moves in Dix Hills on Monday, Aug. 23, 2-5 p.m. Bring your games.

• Build strength, flexibility and stamina with exercise geared towards those with arthritis on Wednesday, Aug. 25, noon-1 p.m. In person registration only. $15.

31 Broadway, Greenlawn. 631-757-4200. harb.suffolk.lib.ny.us • Let your children be dazzled by the juggling and magic of Jester Jim on Tuesday, Aug. 24, 7 p.m.

• Learn the moves you’ve always wanted to master at free folk dancing lessons and group dancing, sponsored by Annie’s Folk Dance Cooperative, on Wedneday, Aug. 25, 6:30 p.m.

Love In Every Stitch

SATURDAY

Half Hollow Hills Library

Telling Herstory Every Tuesday, join Herstory writers group “Black, Brown & White” for a bridge-building women’s guided memoir writing workshop taught by Lonnie Mathis at the Huntington Station Enrichment Center, 1264 New York Ave., 7-9 p.m. $35 per class with monthly discounts. Newcomers welcome. 631-676-7395.

Children’s Story Time Children of all ages can enjoy stories read by a member of Barnes & Noble’s staff every Tuesday and Thursday from 10:30-11 a.m.

Barnes & Noble, 4000 E. Jericho Turnpike, East Northport. Free. 631-462-0208.

WEDNESDAY Classic Chrome Beauties Marvel over the polished lines of classic cars every Wednesday evening at the Huntington Station Business Improvement District’s Classic Car Show, from 5-9 p.m. in the municipal parking lot at the corner of New York Avenue and Church Street. Cars on display have included a 1926 Ford Model T, a 1963 Chevrolet Impala and 1965 Ford Mustang.

Free for car owners and the public.

Business Breakfast Pull on your power suit and join other business professionals at BNI Executive Referral Exchange’s breakfast networking meeting every Wednesday, 7-8:30 a.m. at the Dix Hills Diner, 1800 Jericho Turnpike, Dix Hills. 800-853-9356.

Help For Kids Of Divorcees Children in grades 3-5 can find support at a new separation/divorce group hosted by Family

Service League on Wednesday nights, 5:306:30 p.m. at 790 Park Ave., Huntington. 631427-3700.

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Tee off at the second annual Order Sons of Italy in America Perry Como Lodge Golf Outing on Sept. 22 at Crab Meadow Golf Course, 220 Waterside Ave., Northport. Registration at 11 a.m., lunch at noon, shotgun start at 1:30 p.m. $170 per golfer (all-inclusive); dinner only, $70.

Contact Rick Annichiarico at 631-724-3697 for more information. Tee sponsorships available.

AT THE LIBRARIES Cold Spring Harbor Library 95 Harbor Road, Cold Spring Harbor. 631-6926820. cshlibrary.org.

• In the gallery through August, Monica Agosta’s “Reflections” express the artist’s love of her art. She had received numerous awards and has served on juries and panels on Long Island and in New York.

Commack Public Library 18 Hauppauge Road, Commack. 631-4990888. commack.suffolk.lib.ny.us • Put your smoothie craving to good use at Friends of the Library’s fundraiser on Aug. 19 at Tropical Smoothie Café on Larkfield Road.

Mention the Friends and a portion of the sales will be donated to the library.

• Nothing cures the summertime blues like relaxing with a good book. Water your mind with the Adult Summer Reading Club through Aug. 27. Win something just for signing up!

Email bonelli@suffolk.lib.ny.us.

Deer Park Public Library 44 Lake Ave., Deer Park. 631-586-3000. deerpark.suffolk.lib.ny.us • Make Thursday night movie night on Aug. 19 with “The Lovely Bones” (PG-13).

Elwood Public Library3027 Jericho Turnpike, Elwood. 631-499-3722. www.elwoodlibrary.org.

• Zoe wants a baby, but has a problem letting anyone get close to her. The perfect solution is to become artificially inseminated. Shortly after she conceives twins, she finally meets the man of her dreams. Watch “The Backup Plan” (PG-13) starring Jennifer Lopez on Friday, Aug. 20, 1 p.m.

• Eileen Keller will share pictures and stories from her trip to Gwangju, South Korea with Rotary International’s Group Study Exchange Program on Monday, Aug. 23, 7 p.m.

Main Branch: 338 Main St., Huntington. 631427-5165. Station Branch: 1335 New York Ave., Huntington Station. 631-421-5053. hpl.suffolk.lib.ny.us • Learn everything you need to know about the social networking website Facebook in a lecture and demo class on Saturday, Aug. 21, 10 a.m.-noon in the Station branch’s community room. Registration required, Huntington cardholders only.

• Artist Richard Drouin’s oil paintings, “The Pull Of The Universe,” which deals with the ideas of the cosmic forces, will be on display until Aug. 31.

• In “Impetuous Paintings II,” Yankee Peddler artist Gretchen Fuss creates unique and distinctive, abstract and semi-abstract landscapes in acrylic on canvas, on display through Aug. 30.

Northport-East Northport Public Library 151 Laurel Ave., Northport. 631-261-6930. 185 Larkfield Road, East Northport. 631-261-2313. www.nenpl.org.

• Tina Fey and Steve Carell light up the screen in “Date Night” (PG-13), a comedy about a couple whose evening turns into a wild ride they’ll never forget. Showing at the East Northport branch on Friday, Aug. 20, 10:30 a.m. and at the Northport branch on Friday, Aug. 27, 1:30 p.m.

• In the Northport art gallery in August: “Adventures in Art” land and seascapes as well as dance abstracts by Frank Ohman, who began his critically acclaimed ballet career with the San Francisco Ballet. While performing and then eventually teaching dance as director of the New York Dance Theatre and the Ohman School of Ballet in Commack, he painted in his spare time.

South Huntington Public Library 145 Pigeon Hill Road, Huntington Station. 631549-4411. www.shpl.info.

• Winner of the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature, “The Cove” (PG-13) explores the underground world of dolphin hunting off the coast of Japan. Enjoy a screening of it on Wednesday, Aug. 25, 7 p.m. as part of the Academy Award series.

THEATER and FILM Arena Players Children’s Theatre 294 Route 109, East Farmingdale. 516-2930674.

• Explore the world of “Alice in Wonderland” as it takes the stage at the Vanderbilt Museum Carriage House through Aug. 29.

Performances are Saturdays and Sundays, 2 p.m. $10.

Arena Players Repertory Theatre 296 Route 109, East Farmingdale. 516-2930674.

• “Ancient History” by David Ives is a humorous battle of the sexes in which Ruth and Jack believe themselves to be perfectly suited for one another until one of them suddenly mentions marriage and they both take a closer look at their relationship. Now showing on the main stage.

Cinema Arts Centre 423 Park Ave., Huntington. www.cinemaartscentre.org. 631-423-7611.

• Don’t be scared to enjoy double features in 35mm every Saturday night through August at Brett Sherris’ Summer Camp Cinema. On Aug. 21, the science fiction cult classic “The Rocky Horror Picture Show” featuring the Unconventional Conventionalists shadowcast is back by popular demand at 11:45 p.m. Visit

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• Master music archivist Bill Shelley returns on Tuesday, Aug. 24, 7:30 p.m., with a third, allnew program of rare concerts and promotional clips of The Beatles. Footage includes performances from the Hollywood Bowl and Shea Stadium, plus eye-opening rehearsal footage. $9 members/$13 public, includes reception.

• The Cinema presents the sixth annual “All Nite Pay-To-Get-Out Horror Marathon” on Saturday, Aug 28. Five 35mm films with vintage horror film trailers start at 11 p.m. and continue until dawn. This year’s lineup: Nobuhiko Obayashi’s “Hausu,” Mario Bava’s “Black Sunday,” Dario Argento’s “Inferno,” Kevin Connor’s “Motel Hell” and a fifth mystery film.

• Enjoy live music that will not only lift your spirits, but just may transport you to new dimensions of mind through the marriage of sound and image, on Friday, Aug. 20 at 8 p.m. with “Buddha on Mars,” a multimedia/multi-instrumental concert featuring Edgar Paterson Mills of Huntington, Premik Russell Tubbs, Larry LeMasters of Huntington and Steve Finkelstein of Westbury. $15 members/$20 public/$10 kids (16 and under).

Dix Hills Center For The Performing Arts Five Towns College, 305 N. Service Road, Dix Hills. Box Office: 631-656-2148. www.dhpac.org • Rock out during a tribute to the Eagles with Desert Highway on Friday, Sept. 10, 7:30 p.m. $25.

The Minstrel Players Of Northport Performing at Houghton Hall theatre at Trinity Episcopal Church 130 Main St., Northport Village. 631-732-2926, www.minstrelplayers.org.

John W. Engeman Theater At Northport 350 Main St., Northport. www.johnwengemantheater.com. 631-261-2900.

• “Damn Yankees,” based on the book by George Abbott and Douglass Wallop about a man tired of watching his favorite baseball team lose to the New York Yankees who trades his soul to become a star baseball player, eventually leading to a showdown in a musical comedy, will run through Aug. 29.

Performances are 2 p.m. and 8 p.m.

Thursdays, 8 p.m. Fridays, 3 p.m. and 8 p.m. on Saturdays, 2 p.m. and, on select dates 7 p.m., on Sundays. $60.

Star Playhouse At the Suffolk Y JCC, 74 Hauppauge Road, Commack. 631-462-9800 ext. 136.

Tilles Center For Performing Arts 720 Northern Blvd., Brookville. www.tillescenter.org. 516-299-3100.

• Tickets on sale for Diana Ross’ “More Today Than Yesterday: The Greatest Hits Tour” on Sept 14, and Idina Menzel on Oct. 2.

• Vendors are now being accepted for the annual Fine Arts and Craft Fall Spectacular Sept. 12, featuring artists, photographers, jewelry, potters, crafters and more. Contact Terry at 516-221-6593 or mcmullenpro33@yahoo.com

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Movies In The Park Bring the family down for a treat on the big screen at the Town of Huntington’s Movies on the Lawn Program. Next on Aug. 25 at Crab Meadow Beach: “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.” Bring lawn chairs, blankets or picnic dinner.

Movies begin at dark. In inclement weather, movies will be shown at Elwood Middle School, 478 Elwood Road, Elwood. Free. 631-351-3112.

Walt Whitman Birthplace Art League of Long Island 107 East Deer Park Road, Dix Hills. Gallery hours: 9 a.m.-4 p.m. weekdays; 11 a.m.-4 p.m. weekends. 631-462-5400. www.ArtLeagueLI.net.

• In “Making Waves,” the Art League’s faculty shows what they’re made of. On display through Sept. 12.

b.j. spoke gallery 299 Main St., Huntington. Gallery hours: Monday-Sunday, 11 a.m.-5 p.m., until 9 p.m. on Friday and Saturday. 631-549-5106.

• Paperworks 2010 Winners Show is here.

MOMA’s juror, Elenore Hugendule, has selected 27 artists to display their works now through Aug. 20.

Cold Spring Harbor Fish Hatchery 1660 Route 25A, Cold Spring Harbor. Open seven days a week, 10 a.m.-5 p.m., Saturday and Sundays until 6 p.m.: $6 adults; $4 children 3-12 and seniors over 65; members and children under 3 are free. 516-692-6768. http://www.cshfha.org/ • The Hatchery’s trout are always hungry.

Watch fish-feeding demonstrations on Saturdays and Sundays at 1 and 3 p.m., and Wednesdays and Thursdays 1-4 p.m. on the hour through the end of October.

• Summer Enrichment programs are offered for children in grades kindergarten and older starting in July and August including “Close Encounters of the Natural Kind” and “Nature Photography.” For detailed information on various programs, visit the website.

• The Hatchery holds the largest living collection of New York State freshwater reptiles, fish and amphibians. Visitors can tour two aquarium buildings and eight outdoor ponds, feed the hungry trout or try the “Catch & Keep Fishing” program.

fotofoto Gallery 372 New York Ave., Huntington. Gallery hours: Friday 5-8 p.m., Saturday 12-8 p.m., Sunday 12-4 p.m. 631-549-0448. www.fotofotogallery.com.

• The IN Show: An Invitational Exhibition showing now through Sept. 12.

Greenlawn-Centerport Historical Association

over 250 entries by Dr. Isabelle Dervaux through Sept. 26. Visit to vote for people’s choice award.

Huntington Historical Society Main office/library: 209 Main St., Huntington.

Museums: Conklin House, 2 High St. Kissam • House/Museum Shop, 434 Park Ave. 631427-7045, ext. 401. http://www.huntingtonhistoricalsociety.org/ • “From House Calls to Hospitals” featuring Dr. Samuel Teich’s 1940s-era office and life, is on display at the Conklin House.

Joseph Lloyd Manor House

Seeking Strings The Northport Symphony Orchestra (formerly the Northport Community Orchestra) is seeking new members in all sections. Rehearsals are Wednesday evenings. 631-462-6617. northportorchestra.org.

Cloggers Wanted The Bruce Spruce Cloggers Dance Company is seeking dancers for future shows on Long Island. Dance background wanted; preferably experience in tap, clog or Irish-step dancing.

631-476-1228.

MUSEUMS & EXHIBITS Alfred Van Leon Gallery 145 Pidgeon Hill Road. Huntington Station.

631-549-4411 • Mon., Tues., Thurs., Fri. 9 a.m.-9 p.m. Wed. 10 a.m.-9 p.m., Sat. 9 a.m.-5 p.m., Sun. 1-6 p.m.

Alpan Gallery 2 West Carver St., Huntington. Gallery hours: Wednesday-Saturday 11:30 a.m.-5 p.m. 631423-4433. www.alpangallery.com.

• See new works by artist Jae Hi Ahn in the gallery starting in August.

Huntington Arts Council Main Street Petite Gallery: 213 Main St., Huntington. Gallery hours: Monday - Friday 9 a.m.-5 p.m.; Art in the Art-trium: 25 Melville Park Road, Melville. Gallery Hours: Monday Friday 7 a.m.-7 p.m. 631-271-8423. www.huntingtonarts.org.

• Enjoy a scenic view of the Juried Landscape exhibit with works selected by juror Bill Christ on display through Sept. 7.

• Artists can receive practical and professional advice in individual consultation sessions with NYFA MARK alumna Linda Lee Nicholas and Naomi Grossman. Appointments ($10 for 20 minutes, two-appointment limit) are being scheduled from 6-9 p.m. on Tuesday, Sept.

21 at the arts council’s Main Street office.

Call Assistant Director Florence Dallari at 631-271-8423 x12 or e-mail fdallari@huntingtonarts.org.

Heckscher Museum Of Art 2 Prime Ave., Huntington. Museum hours: Wednesday - Friday from 10 a.m.-4 p.m., first Fridays from 4-8:30 p.m., Saturday and Sunday from 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Admission $68/adults, $4-6/seniors, and $4-5/children; members and children under 10 free. 631-351-3250.

• Long Island Biennial 2010 opens for its inaugural presentation of 44 paintings, sculptures, drawings, prints and photographs by professional artists on Long Island selected from

246 Old Walt Whitman Rd, Huntington Station.

Hours: Wednesday-Friday, 1-4 p.m.; Saturdays and Sundays, 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Admission: $5 adults, $4 seniors/students, and children under 5 are free. 631-427-5240. www.waltwhitman.org

The Whaling Museum Main Street, Cold Spring Harbor. Museum hours: Tuesday-Sunday, 11 a.m.-5 p.m. $4 adults, $3 seniors, $3 students 5 -18, family $12; military and children under 5 are free.

631-367-3418. www.cshwhalingmuseum.org.

• “Tales & Treasure: From the Attic & Archive,” an exhibition exploring the 1800s through artifacts and stories, is on display through Labor Day 2010.

Lloyd Lane and Lloyd Harbor Road, Lloyd Neck Saturday-Sunday 1-5 p.m. (last tour at 4:30). Adults $3, Children 7 -14, $2, groups by appointment only. 631-692-4664. www.splia.org.

• Now through January 2011, “Romantic Long Island: 19th Century Images” celebrates its artists’ recognition of their surroundings as a place apart with its own pictorial vocabulary and aesthetic dimensions. $1 admission.

Wilkes Gallery

LaMantia Gallery

Ridotto, Concerts with a Touch of Class

127 Main St., East Northport. 631-754-8414. www.lamantiagallery.com.

• “Spain and Its People: As seen through the eyes of its artists,” a comprehensive show of Spain’s top artists including landscapes, still life and figurative paintings, will open Aug. 21.

Martin Lerman Gallery 716 New York Ave., Huntington. 631-421-0258.

Www.martinlermangallery.com Hours: Monday - Friday, 9 a.m.-5 p.m.

• See where art meets technology as John Bechtold and Saul Umanzer put their artwork on display through August.

Northport Historical Society Museum 215 Main St., Northport. Museum hours: Tuesday - Sunday, 1-4:30 p.m. 631-757-9859. www.Northporthistorical.org.

• “Recording Memories, a Historic Overview: Over 150 Years of Scrapbooking, Journaling, Photo Albums and more” is an exhibition sponsored by Not Just a Scrap of Centerport, on display in the main gallery. $3 suggested donation.

P.O. Box 354, Greenlawn. 631-754-1180.

CASTING CALLS

including Jaguar, Lotus, Bentley and AustinHealey. Rain date Aug. 29. In a “sanitaire” show, cars are judged by how they look, paint condition and overall cleanliness. All participants must register before the event and pay the $30 entry fee. To register, contact Steve Becker at 516-485-8830 or by email: mygti@optonline.net. Or visit www.mgcars.org.uk/mgcclic/.

• William Kissam Vanderbilt II, great-grandson of the railroad and shipping magnate Cornelius Vanderbilt and one of the wealthiest men of his time, has fascinated museum trustee Steven Gittelman for decades. On Wednesday, Aug. 25, Gittelman celebrates the publication of his biography of “Willie K.” with a book signing and discussion. RSVP by Tuesday, Aug. 24, to 631-854-5579.

Ripe Art Gallery 67 Broadway, Greenlawn. 631-807-5296.

Gallery hours: Tuesday - Thursday 11 a.m.-6 p.m., Friday 2-9 p.m., Saturday 11 a.m.-5 p.m. www.ripeartgal.com.

• “Original Owner,” showing automobile-related photography by the working team of Cliff Gardiner and John Keller, is on display.

• The third annual Homegrown Film Festival continues with “A Night of Shorts” featuring all short films by a group of local film makers on Aug. 20; and “Lebowski Fest,” a special screening and celebration of “The Big Lebowski” on Aug. 27.

Suffolk Y JCC 74 Hauppauge Road, Commack. 631-4629800, ext. 140. Tuesday 1-4 p.m. Admission: $5 per person, $18 per family. Special group programs available.

91 Main St., Northport. 631-261-4007. www.wilkes-gallery.com • Artist Arlene Paternayan will show her work through Aug. 25. She received her master’s from Long Island University’s C.W. Post campus and works in a variety of styles.

MUSIC & DANCE At Old First Church, Route 25A in Huntington.

631-385-0373. www.Ridotto.org.

MEETINGS Pantry Seeks Volunteers Farmingdale- based Hope for the Future Ministries’ food pantry is seeking volunteers to help prepare for it’s grand re-opening. The food pantry burned down last year, and volunteers are desperately needed in the office, warehouse, kitchen, etc. 631-752-5771. www.hopeforthefuture.com.

Voice For The Children Parents for Megan’s Law and the Crime Victims Center are seeking volunteers to assist with general office duties during daytime hours.

Candidates should be positive, energetic and professional with good communication skills.

Resume and three references required. 631689-2672 or fax resume to 631-751-1695.

Helping Furry Friends Little Shelter Animal Rescue and Adoption Center is looking for volunteers who want to make a difference in the lives of companion animals. In addition to volunteering to be hands on with our cats and dogs, there are other opportunities available in the offices, at events, satellite adoption locations and fundraisers. Visit www.littleshelter.com or contact Anne Ryan, anne@littleshelter.com, 631368-8770 ext. 204.

A Loving Touch The Hospice Care Network is seeking licensed massage therapists who are passionate and committed to making a difference for their new complementary therapy program, which will provide services at Franklin Medical Center in Valley Stream, Peninsula Hospital Center in Far Rockaway and the Hospice Inn in Melville.

Two-day training course provided by the organization. ependleton@hospicecarenetwork.org or 516-832-7100.

Vanderbilt Museum and Planetarium 180 Little Neck Road, Centerport. Museum hours: Tuesday - Friday, 12-4 p.m., Saturdays, Sundays and holidays, 12-5 p.m.; closed Mondays except for holiday weeks. Grounds admission: $7 adults, $6 seniors, students, and $3 children under 12. Museum tour, add $5 per person. 631-854-5555. www.vanderbiltmuseum.org.

• The MG Car Club–Long Island Centre’s 30th annual Concours Sanitaire on Aug. 22 will display American cars and British makes

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22nd Annual ‘One Big Family’ Game Second Precinct squad holds off Huntington Manor team 24-17 in charity match-up

By Mike Koehler mkoehler@longislandernews.com

A few showers fell Sunday evening, but it wasn’t enough to scare off Suffolk County’s bravest and finest.

Suffolk police officers from the Second Precinct defeated a contingent from the Huntington Manor Fire Department, 24-17, in their 22nd annual charity softball match.

The slow-pitch softball game lasted nine innings. Mike Pastore, skipper for the Huntington Manor team, said his players were in most of the game.

“We had two bad innings with some errors, otherwise we’d have been in the game,” Pastore said.

The police also led the series, although manager Tommy Paolicelli downplayed the actual competition.

“The game is just a formality at this point. It’s about the fellowship between the cops and the firemen,” Paolicelli said.

Pastore called both departments “one big family.”

“You always bring in the new guys.

You make new friendships and catch up on the old ones,” the Huntington Manor commissioner said.

He added that he had about 14 players

on his roster, although the police officer said his numbers were down a little. The game had been originally scheduled for July 18 but was postponed due to rain.

The problem with the new date, Paolicelli said, is that it’s vacation season.

“That’s why we were a little light this year,” he said. “We try not to let it wait this long.”

Apparently the community did not care when they played. Both managers said they had great turnout, one of the best in years. They also left their normal venue at Peter Nelson Park in favor of St. Anthony’s High School. Pastore said school officials invited them to play on their turf field.

“We decided to make the change this year,” he said.

And with the community’s help, both teams raised about $2,000 for local charities. Some of the money will be gifted to a police officer whose son recently underwent serious surgery. The rest will be saved for other uses, like giving out gifts during the holiday season.

Both teams sold T-shirts and raffles to raise the money. Prizes were donated by local merchants, in addition to tickets and autographed merchandise provided

by the Long Island Ducks and New York Islanders.

Paolicelli offered his appreciation to the community for their participation.

“We’re just like everybody else. Get

up, go to work. We have families, our kids get sick. We’re out there to serve you,” he said.

RUNNING

Local Runners Make Tracks In Annual Women’s Run Town has strong showing in 27th annual Arrow 5K competition When it came time for the women to take the stage, Huntington’s own wasted no time racing to a top finish.

Heather Williams of Centerport, Dolores Doman of Dix Hills, Elaine Gilmartin Tardo of Greenlawn, and Eve Volonakis of Huntington won awards in the 27th annual Arrow Exterminating Long Island Women’s 5 Kilometer Run on July 17.

Williams finished the 3.107-mile course in 18 minutes and 51 seconds, scoring in fourth place overall and first in the 35-39 age group. Doman finished in 22:09 to earn the first place award in the 50-54 age group. Tardo clocked in at 22:16, taking third-place honors in the 40-44 age group. Volonakis finished in 25:12 to take home the second place award in the 55-59 age group.

The overall winner was 27-year-old Leonora Joy Petrina of Bayport, who finished in 16:40, scoring a 41-second

victory over defending champion Katie DiCamillo. Petrina also won the Paula Wunderlich Memorial Award as the first member of the Greater Long Island Running Club to finish.

This was Petrina’s first race since she was the overall winner – beating all the men as well as all the women – in the July 4 Bellmore 4 Mile Run, and she certainly hadn’t lost her edge.

This year’s run was once again conducted by the Greater Long Island Running Club, with Jackie Grabin, Debby Tappan and others at Arrow Exterminating, which returned as the title sponsor, Bob Cook and his staff at The Runner’s Edge, the Glen Cove family law firm of Mejias, Milgrim & Alvarado, and New York Sports Clubs. New sponsors Banfi and Harbor Lights came on board as well.

Debbie Blair directed the event again, with “Aunt” Amy Goldstein handling the

Women’s Fun Run, Carl Grossbard coordinating volunteers, Fred von der Heydt heading up course and finish line logistics with Ryan Fitzpatrick, and Terry Bisogno as the finish line and awards announcer.

Part of the Grand Prix of Long Island Road Races and conducted under the auspices of Long Island Track & Field, the run was the 2010 Long Island Track & Field Women’s Championship event.

It was geared to support the fight against gynecological cancers, with a substantial portion of the proceeds going to Long Island Oceans (Ovarian Cancer Education, Advocacy, Networking and Support) – bringing light to all gynecological cancers – and, new this year, The Opening Word, an education program sponsored by the Dominican Sisters aimed at giving poor, uneducated women the tools they need to become productive members of society.

Top local finisher Heather Williams, of Centerport, heads for the finish line.

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